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THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 18, 1903. B 'Tiie Omaha Sunday Deb FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBKWATER VICTOR ROBETWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Rr (without Sunday), ono yoar..W Dally ll and Sunday, one year t-00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..lRc Dally Bee (without Sunday), per weeli...lOo Evening Beo (without Sunday), per week o i ewening Bee (with Sunday), per wsea...iuo 1 Sunday Bee, one year IM , Saturday Bee, one year 1W Address all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. i Omaha, Th Bee Building. '..South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. , Council Bluff a 15 Scott Street. . Chicago 1648 Marquette Building. rtvw ion-Rooms 1101-UOZ, jno. a vymi Thirty-third Htrm-t Waahlngton-T2S Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new. and editorial matter should be addressed: , Omaha Bee, Editorial Department I REMITTANCES. ' Remit by draft, express or portal order payabt to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamp received In payment ot mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btaia of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.i 1 Oaorge B. Tsachuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly won, aays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed ; during tha month of September, 1908, was follows: as, 000 S. 17,B0 .,. S4.MO M.8M 'nini 3a,140 '... M.T0O ae.no 1T. 3300 II..... 3a,340 It 36,370 10. 80,000 11. ...... 30,630 tl 38,830 It S8,0 14..... '. 38,680 II 38,480 ! 36,490 ST 37,700 II... 38,440 It.... 86,490 SO 88,700 T ,S30 10. S4vS10 " in, . 1. 8,0 12. 34,500 H ... ss,aoo ! aetata Totals ...... 1 Lesa unsold and returned copies, .1,096,390 8,437 Hat total. v . . . . . . . Daily average OBORQB B 1,06.9 S3 86,333 TESCKUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to fcefora m this 1st day of October, 19C8. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WHsir otjt or town. I BaWcrlkers ltavlag the city tem erarllr skoal aave Tha Be availed te them. Address will be ' chavad sub eftea aa reqaaated. 1 Time to begin planning for a safe nd sane Hallowe'en. 1 ! There seems to be bent pins in most ot the royal chalra of Europe. I They seem to be short of Carusoa In the conoert of the powers. Ontario reports rich deposits of gold In Sturgeon lake. A fish story T. Nat Goodwin la seeking a new play, Nat shines best In domestic comedy. The southerners are showing that they lite Mr.- Taft's kind ot a man whether they vote for him or not. -X. good-bye kiss 1b a little thing," says Andrew Lang. Records In breach of promise suits ahow the contrary. If there are to be any fireworks In the Mediterranean the American fleet may decide to wait and see the fun. The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises should have a word of commendation for the silent vote. Most of the European rulers eeem to be looking upon the Dardanelles as a fine place for the next naval maneuvers. J. Ham Lewis says that everything looks rosy for Bryan. J. Ham must have been gazing at the reflection from bis whiskers. Mr Bryan la beginning to have his doubts about any of the western states being in doubt any, more than they were In 1904. , uuuea Duties senators win aououess feel more comfortable if Mr. Hearst agrees to quit reading telltale letters after election. If you are not Interested in politics you may escape a lot of worry and noise by doing your Christmas shop ping before November 3. 1 The Lucky Rich" 1b the title of a new story. The lucky rich are the rich who have not allowed any of their letters to fall Into Mr. Hearst's hands. ( Mrs. Howard Gould says her hus- band tried to starve her by cutting her allowance aown 10 sou.uuo a year. How would you like to be starved that wayt l The man who served as chief assas sin for the Turkish court has been thrown out of employment. He might more to Kentucky and Join the Night Riders. Mr. Rockefeller's new home In the Pontlco hills is said to be surrounded by a labyrinth of blind passages, but even at that it will be difficult to lose Mr. Rockefeller. Mrs. Russell Sage has contributed IJ.060 to the republican campaign fund. It Mrs. Hetty Green has con trtbuted . to either fund she has done bo under an alias. General Grosvenor la preparing to make his .regular periodical forecast of the result. Figures that do not agree with the general's predictions may as well be destroyed. 1 . ' "Let's talk business from now to November S," Bays the Washington soon be felt upon the general co miner Herald. Mr. Bryan declares that any cial and industrial world. The money attempt to talk business and business recovery, la "a ..transparent, political FOUNDS LIKE OLD TIMES. Concluding hi three dart' cultiva tion of his home state, William J. Bryan has given out this statement through the press associations: My trip throughout the mate .was not planned because there was any floubt about Nebraska. It was because these Nebraska democrats have bwn so loyal to me that I was nut willing to let the campaign pass without visiting them. The trip, however, has led us to raise our estimates on the size of the majority Nebraska will give. In no campaign In this state have I en countered such large and enthualastla au diences. This has a familiar ring which, sounds very much like old times. Mr. Bryan and his political mouthpieces in Nebraska have been accustomed to in dulge in this sort of talk as a harmless pastime on the eve of every election Qn NovemDer 5 1900, the day before ....... , M , . oaiioung. wr. uryan is quoiea oy the democratic World-Herald as saving publicly: Tho fight has been made and won. Money and coercion robbed us of a victory In 1896, but I believe they will be powerless to change the result this time. The next day he discovered that he had been beaten -worse than ever be fore. In the same issue ot the same paper Mr. Bryan's special plenipoten tiary, "Jim" Dahlman, is reported to have declared: From the talks I have had with the dem ocratic leaders In the state of New Tork t am satisfied that we will carry the state by at least &0.000. The enthuslssm In the state of New York is greater than anything we have ever had In Nebraska. My Judg ment Is that we will carry New Tork, New Jersey, Maryland, Kentucky and In diana. The lesson of 1900 was evidently poorly learned. Mr. Bryan in 1904 made a special trip through Nebraska Just before election appealing to his friends to vote for Judge Parker, whom he had previously denounced as a Wall street tool. He tried to im press his hearers with his own confi dence in Parker's success and in re sponse to bis pleas 52,921 votes out of a total of 232,000 in Nebraska were cast for Parker, leaving him only 85,000 behind Roosevelt. The next year Mr. Bryan's caution led him to let his brother-in-law, as chairman of the democratic state com mittee, speak for him. In the World Herald November 4,' 1905, may be found this proclamation from Brother-ln-Law "Tom," based on observation from another rear-end tour ot Ne braska by Mr. Bryan: You may say that we expect to win this year. Our committee Is not giving out any figures because figures only represent the guess of tha party giving them. But we expect to win because the people of all po. Utical partlea throughout the state believe that the declaration of the republican party In Its platform doesn't mean anything. One year later found Mr. Bryan touring Nebraska once more after his return from his triumphal round-the- world trip and once more greeted by greater crowds and greater enthusiasm than ever, under whose spell Brother-in-Law "Tom" once more proclaims through the same World-Herald ot November 6, 1906: You may say the democratic and populist state ticket will be elected. You may also say that we will elect a majority of the legislature and that our prospects In the congressional districts are very encourag ing. I make this statement advisedly and I base It upon two things: First, the re publicans admit that we will win, and, sec ond, the figures show It, Last year Mr. Bryan made another whirlwind flight across Nebraska, mak ing a speech depicted by the World Herald as "his masterpiece" before audiences that had to be warned to keep quiet for fear of breaking down me crowaea galleries, once more Brother-in-Law "Tom" came to the front as the official forecaster in this modest item, under date of November 4, 1907 Chairman Allen for the democrats said the fusion ticket would win. He gave no figures. Mr. Bryan has by his own personal efforts carried Nebraska In his before- electlon claims annually for fusion for the last eight years, only to wake up the day after to face a substantial re- publican majority 77E PROSPEROUS WEST. The New York Journal of Commerce has been receiving reports from bank ers ,n the Breat "ra,n be,t wcst of tne Misslssippl with special reference to the condition of the money market, the amount that, will be required to move the crops and the financial condition of the merchants and farmers In the different sections. The returns are unanimously pleasing, the general re ports being that the west will need no money from New York this year for crop moving purposes; that the farm' ers are out of debt and have money to loan; that the merchants have been keeping their stocks down and will now begin buying heavily, and that the banks have no difficulty In making collections and have all of the money needed for legitimate business pur poses. , Much of this condition is due to ex ceptionally good crops and the prevail ing high prices for both grain and live stock. One Kansas banker, for ex ample, reports that farmers of the state have not only paid off their raort gages, but have money for investment, adding, "Our bank has sold over $1,000,000 worth of bonds In the last four years, most of them of Kansas Issues, and nearly all of them have been taken bv Kansas farmers for in vestment." Similar reports were made by bankers in Interior towns of Ne- braska, one ot them stating that forty automobiles bad been bought by farm ers within a radius of six miles of his town within the last year and that farmers were investing their surplus money In lands and securities. The effect ot this condition must to be released with the movement o the grain and live stock to market I will be ready for Investment In other. enterprises and will quicken the re turn ot normal conditions in the indus tries. Underlying conditions are good and the country is now apparently only waiting for the election when, with republican success at the polls, there will be practically an immediate resumption of business on normal lines. DIPLOMACY AND INDIGESTION. Men with much information and misinformation about affairs in Tur key, Austria and the Balkan states have been exceedingly busy telling a busy world about the significance of that Bulgarian incident. From these learned disquisitions we gather that the entente cordlale has some sand in its spark arrester, the pour parlers need repainting and that the accompli fait has a Ty Cobb batting average: likewise that a crisis is imminent and that conditions are critical. All the cupboards and closets of history have been dusted In the search for Informa tion about the Balkans, Mrs. Balkans and all the little Balkans and volumes of speculation have been written about what will happen if the Balkans re fuse to return to their reservation. But in only a casual way has-cogniz- nce been given of the fact that the bole trouble is due to a case of diplo matic Indigestion. It appears that Tewfik Pasha, the minister of foreign affairs in the cabi net of Abdul the damned, gave a din ner not long ago In honor of the sul tan's birthday. It was an elaborate dinner, served with the sauce of mal ice, the salad of envy and the choice cuts of hate, on which diplomats fat ten and all the representatives ot the powers, with one exception, were In vited. The, exception was M. Gueshoff, the Bulgarian diplomatic agent at Con stantinople. Being a practical man, with a touch of liver trouble, M. Gues hoff wanted to know about it. He was Informed that since the sultan had got new constitution he was not recog nizing 2x4 countries, and, besides, that he had a tip from the cook that the upply of unpolsoned fodder on hand would not be large enough to meet the probable demands and that Gues hoff could take his chances at the sec ond table or go down to the restaurant for his goulash. M. Gueshoff emulated the example of Mr. Merkle of New York and, in stead of going the route, dropped out at first base and made for the club house, where he 'phoned the prince of Bulgaria about the slight that had been placed upon him. Being a dead game sport, Ferdinand promptly de clared that he would not sign a con tract for another year with the Turk ish Crescents, but would Jump to the outlaw league rather than submit to a foul decision. What the outcome of the trouble may be is still problematical, since all the powers have taken a hand n the scrimmage, but it is Just as well to have history straight and the public properly made wise to the origin of the present row. ' THE PARTIES OF DISCONTENT. The organization of the national lib eral party at Atlanta the other day, with the nomination of a candidate for the presidency, increases the list of national parties, so-called, to nine, and gives the voters a wide choice. The list as now made up Includes repub lican, democratic, prohibition, socialist, socialist labor, populist, independence, national liberal and the Christian union. Of these the Christian union was the first in the field, with a ticket named at a convention at Rock Island, al though It has attracted practically no attention and is usually omitted in references to the number ot presiden tial nominees. Indications are that a similar fate awaits the national lib eral party and the socialist labor party, which bo far forgot Itself as to nominate for president a man serving a term in the penitentiary, will hardly cut figure enough in the result to war rant printing the names on the ballots. The other lesser parties, however, promise to play a more than usually important part In the campaign. Of course, none of these minor parties will carry any state, but the older par ties will be Interested deeply in the vote in certain states, as it is quite possible that the number of votes given to these minor divisions may have a decided Influence on tho result. Ferhaps the chief concern will be felt over the socialist vote, as it is generally admitted to be the vote ot working classes, for which both of the older parties are making a strong bid. The socialist party is the successor of the labor party, which polled 146,483 votes In 1888 and then became the so cialist labor party, polling about 30,000 votes In each presidential elec tion since that time. The socialist party, proper, has grown rapidly. It polled 92,000 votes in 1900, with Debs as its candidate, and increased Its vote to 4 02,150 In 1904. Debs, a third time candidate, claims a round 1,000,000 votes this year. His party has gained largely In the Rocky mountain mining states and the fact that audiences of from 5.000 to 7000 pay to hear him speak in cities like Philadelphia and Boston carries some warrant for his faith in the support he Is to receive this year. Republicans are convinced that this vote will come largely from the demo crats. This Is admittedly true in Col orado, Idaho and Montana, where the working miners, who supported Bryan on the free sliver issue, are now openly for Debs and socialism. The prohibitionists have been figur ing la national politics since 1872, Lwhen their presidential candidate re ceived 5,608 votes. This was In creased to 10,000 in 1880, to 150,369 In 1884 and to 346,876 In 1888, when many democrats voted the ticket rather than support Mr. Cleveland. The pro hibition candidates polled 253,550 votes In 1904. The prohibition move ment has taken a new turn In the last few years, being now generally consid ered a state rather than a national Is sue. The greenback party, which ran through three presidential campaigns, beginning with 1876, was succeeded by the populist party, which received 1,040,886 votes in 1892 and was merged In Bryanism In 1896. Tom Watson, the populist candidate this year, received 113,259 votes in 1904, with prospect of but little, If any, In crease over that figure In the present year, hl followers In the northern states having been Inveigled into fu sion with the democrats and placed In position where they cannot vote for him If they so desire. The other side issue parties in the field cannot hope to poll more than a few thousand votes. Most of them have little excuse for existence except adherence to some impracticable re form proposal that seldom lasts more than 'one campaign. Rarely does a party of discontent command sufficient persistent following to force final recognition by the larger parties. So far as the demands of these organiza tions are rational they will eventually bo met by the older parties. THE OWNERS OF CORPORATIONS. The corporation has few friends, particularly In political years, when party spellbinders apparently strive to strengthen the too prevalent opinion that there is a vast difference between corporate wealth and individual wealth. The average spellbinder would have you believe that the corporation Is entirely distinct from the Individual and that corporation property has really no standing in law or equity with the property of the Individual. In contradiction to this general im pression statistics recently compiled concerning the ownership of the great corporations of the country are timely, instructive and interesting. According to this compilation, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Hill and Mr. Harrlman do not own the railroads of the country. There are 500,000 shareholders in the railroad corpora tions and 32,000,000,000 worth of railroad bonds and stocks are owned by banks, trust companies and Insur ance companies which in turn are owned by some 25,000,000 depositors and policyholders. There are over 2,1)00,000 stockholders ot record in the big Industrial companies of the coun try. Mr. Harrlman has 30.000 part ners In the railroads he directs and the records show that in eleven leading railroad companies there are 353,600 shareholders. The significant feature of the ex hibit Is the gain in the number of in dividual shareholders In big' corpora tions in the last few years. The in crease in the eleven railroads men tioned ha' s been 57 per cent since 1904. In the Harrlman companies the number of stockholders has Increased by 12, 000 In the last three years. There has been a steady progress on the part of the people toward ownership of the corporations, emphasizing the difficulty of attempting to separate the property of the individual from the property of the corporation. The record Indicates a strong popular participation in cor poration ownership which, in Itself, is the safest assurance against monop ollstic oppression. THE PANIC AND AFTER. It was but a few days more than a year ago that the country awoke one morning to realize that something tragic had happened in the financial world. No one seemed to understand at the outset Just what had taken place and no one seemed to have any definite idea of how long or what effect. The dispatches told about men in New York who were losing millions every minute and the biggest and best part of the country the regions west of the Allegheny mountains was at first disposed to look upon the matter as something of a Joke. Even now, after the passing of twelve months, it Is not easy to explain just what happened. why it happened and what the actual net result has been: The trouble dated from the first week In October, when reports of financial embarrassment in certain big eastern concerns became current. On October 17 came the Heinze collapse and then the country rapidly learned of the system of inflation and specula' tion In which Wall street was involved. It was shown that In an effort to keep pace and take advantage of the get- rich-quick opportunities offered by the abnormal activities of the country, pro moters had floated millions of indi gestible securities, had made reckless loans, organized unsafe, pools and syn dlcates and when settlement day came nasienea Dy tne nrst scare, were caught short ot money. Shares went tumbling, gold became scarce, depos itors withdrew their accounts and the banks and trust companies, holding more than $100,000,000, closed, while clearing house certificates took the place of money. The panic became nation-wide and then spread through out the world. The Intervening months have illus trated the remarkable capacity of the American people tor adjusting them selves to conditions. With a serene faith in the future, money began to flow back to the banks. Luxuries were abandoned and retrenchment adopted in all directions. As a result there was greatly reduced consumption and consequent depression in Industry and commerce. Reduced buying naturally reacted and production was curtailed throwing men out of employment or placing them on short time. A taking of stock now a year later shows that the country has not suffered seriously. Every dollar tied up In the New York banks has been returned and every big financial Institution that became In volved In the panic has resumed busi ness. The savings banks have more depositors than they had a year ago and larger deposits. Business transac tions will total almost as much as a year ago and they are growing every day. Banking and Investments are on safer and surer basis than In years. The country has caught its breath and nless reopened by new disturbances the panic belongs to the past. THE AMEER S EXAMPLE. American manufacturers have been notified that the ameer of Afghanistan has Issued a decree prohibiting the im portation of gold lace. The ameer was formerly a saucy ruler, who Issued his decrees and haughtily declined to offer explanations, but in this case he has nbended sufficiently to explain that the poorer among his subjects have a weakness for "display and, If given halt chance, will bankrupt themselves In buying gold lace, even If they have to live at the public soup houses all win ter. The ameer has accordingly de cided to remove his subjects from temptation and relieve the drain on the resources of the Afghanistan Char ity society. The ameer's example ought to fur- ish a hint to Mr. Bryan for his cam paign of 1912. If he will put govern ment ownership into the discard along with free silver, Imperialism, 50 per cent anti-trust remedy and other two- pot paramounts and go before the peo ple on a platform demanding a federal law regulating fashions it will be all over but counting the size of tho ma- ority. Let the next democratic plat form demand the retirement of the Merry Widow hat, the ostrich plumes, the sable boas, all the befrllled and furbelowed lingerie and the prospect of the money to be saved for cigar and Juleps and draw will give him the upport of men who would not recog nize his other paramounts it they met them In the road. The Servian king explains to some of his hot-headed subjects that he can not go to war without ammunition and that he can buyno ammunition, as he spent all of the army budget in the purchase of uniforms for his staff. Servia will therefore continue to fight Its battles with typewriters. Cables bring the cheering informa tion that the "Austrian troops have been withdrawn from the snadjak ot NoviSazar." ' We are more interested Governor Magoon's . plan of with drawing the American troops from the snadjak of Cuba. Ontclaaaesd. Philadelphia Ledger la the matter of land grabbing Austria really seems able to give a few points to the enterprising cattle barons of this coun try. Enough to Uo Aronnd. Boston Herald. Our 688.000,000 bushels wheat crop should be enough to go round and enable us to cast out surplus bread upon the waters with the usual recompense. e Unity with a Dirk.. Chicago Tribune. The Fee rl S3 -Leader says his party enters the campuign this year more united than It has been s'nee 1S!J. What of his populist and other Heaibtwhlle allies? Uood Bualnria Policy. Baltimore American. A noted author has been telling students of a Pennsylvania university always In their practical business lives to put honor before wealth. This seems as good a way as any of averting disastrous financial panics. SERMONS ROILED DOWN. He Is the greatest who gives himself to men. Most men have charity enough to cover their own sins. 1 Tha touch of tears is often the closest cement of hearts. Tact Is simply taking pains to keep In touch with people. F-tylng the price of purity is tha best prayer for paradise. Following your appetites is turning your back on your ambitions. No man ascends to heaven on whom heaven has not descended. The best legacy any man can leava his children Is willingness to work. There are a lot ot people trying to light tha world by painting their lanterns. The dead man has a great advantage over a lazy one, because he eats nothing. The saddest thing about soma la that they never are touched by the sorrow of others. Lots of sour people would be tolerable if they did not prate so much about their honey. You can teach a congregation to enjoy sermons of nothing but wind, but they will die of their education. Chicago Tribune. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT Baltimore American: A Brooklyn minister astonished his congregation by declaring that selfish people ought to commit suicide. But he suggested an anomaly when he ex pects selfish people publicly to declare themselves such, even If they recognize It themselves. Minneapolis Journal: In Taylorvllle, 111., the Rev. Charles E. Campbell has decided to add vaudeville to his Sunday evening services, in hope of attracting a larger audience. The service must be quite un interesting when such - violent efforts to sweeten it up are made. Springfield (Mass.) Republican: It Is a singular altuation If a clergyman elected a bishop finds that he cannot accept the place because, like American ambassadorships abroad. It requires an Income far In excess of the salary to maintain on a suitable scale. Reports from Boston and Washing ton make out such a situation In the case of the bishopric of Washington, which has been offered to Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann ot Trinity church in Boston. It Is stated that the late Bishop Batteries was ac customed to spend his entire prlvat In come of tjO.OuO a year to keep up the of fice, his salary being $S 000 a year. Bishop Batteries was a rich man and could keep up an establishment on a great scale, but undoubtedly much of his income was spent on work In the Interests of ths Episcopal church for which funds could not have been found easily In any other way. Washing ton, however. Is on of tha most expensive cities in ths world to Uva io. ml m ail f Most Women Would Jump A DOLLAR OR TWO SILVERWARE, GOLD JEWELRY, TABLEWARE, DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CUT GLASS, Make Ideal Gifts for Weddings and nirtlidays. Everything sold for cash or on easy payments. Your credit Is good. lfriij.11111111111.11 nmianni.,iiaisiu.t n w.w.'.wsiiwijiii,)Ii,i.uy. fi.iiaii,uuiiHn isW DOMESTIC PLEA SAX TRIES. Stella Did you accept JackT Bella Yes. but I endorsed Tom at the same time.. Harpers Bazar. Muriel Would you marry for money? Oarsons Not I; I want brains. Muriel Tes. I should think so, if -you don't want to marry for money. Brooklyn Life. "Orlando, mamma says you mustn't come to see me any more" "Gracious heaven, Dora! What have I "Than four times a week, hereafter. Quit that, Orlando! Let me alone!" Chicago Tribune. "There Is one good thing about these heath gowns." 'What's that?" 'They enable the women to get at their money easier." Cleveland Plain-Dealer. "Wait a year," she said, "and then you can ask me again." "Ah," he complained, "you are cruel. What could I do In the meantime." "Well, if you don't mind, you might go on making love to me." Chicago Record-Herald. "Mabel. I'm surnrlsed at you. cutting out your tongue at people." "It was all rignt, roomer; 11 was mo uoc tor going past." Harper's Bazar. "Well," said Cadley, scornfully, "I'll bet you didn't do the proposing. It's a safe bet your wife asked you to marry her." "No," replied Henpeck, "you're wrong." "O! Come now, be honest!" "No. she didn't ask me, she told me to." 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The RIGHT tJOODS at the RIGHT PRICKS com bined with LI UK HAL TRKATMKNT In fvery re spect, make my customers my friends for all time. The list is constantly Increasing. Let me add YOU. A WEEK WILL DO Weren't you dreadfully bored with each other? Kthel Oh. we managed to squeeze through the summer. Boston Transcript. Mrs. Merker Oh, doctor, my husband seems to be wundering in his mind this morning. Doctor Don't let that worry you; he can t go very far. Chicago News. fpgardson Where di.es all this smoke come, from? Atom What a fool ciueetlm! II- conn's from ttie burning campaign issues. Chicago Tnbunt. "It looks to me," said the ar?l)ltecl to an exacting patron, "Uiat you want t!i earth." "You look at II about right," . rejoin 'd tho E. P. "I have no Intention of build ing a castle in the clr." Chicago News. IP 1 CAN I.I V E. Helen Hunt Jackson, if I can live To make some pale face brighter, and to give A second luster to sirm tpar-dlmmed eyj. Or e'en to Impart . . . One throb of comfort to an nclilng heart. Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by; If I can lend A strong hand to the fallen or defend The right agalnnt a s'nglf envious strain, My life, though bare. Perhaps of much that scemwh dear and fair To us of earth, will- not have been in v'n. The purest joy. Most near to heaven, far from- eartlifs alloy. 1 Is bidding cloud give v. ay to sun and shine; And 'twill be well, if on that day of days the Hnaols tell Of me, she did her best for one of Thine. -X- NED.