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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. MAY 17, 1900. The Omaha' Daily Bee, FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROBE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha pottoffflc second eiaas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally R (without Sunday), on year.. 14 00 Dally Bee and Suiday one year -00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Rea (inrtudlng Sunday), per week. .10 I'a'ly B (wlthoui Sunday), per week.. 10c Evening Bee (without Sunday). per week Evening Be (with Sunday), per week We. Kunday Bee, on year U W Saturday Bee. one year Address all complaint, of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. dmer.B. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-Twenty-fourth and N. Counrll Bin f fa IS Scott Street Lincoln &U L)ttle Building. Cbtcagf-1R4 Marquette Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1102 No. 84 Weat Thirty-third Street. Washington 73 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE Communlcstlons relating to newa and edl torlal matter should' be addreaaed: Omaha IW. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to If lore ma .tola t day of May, Hot. M. P. WALKER, , Notary Fubllo. W1IKI OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers' leaving tha'rlty tern. Iiorartly ahoald knv Tha Bee mailed to . them. Address will ba changed oftn aa rejaeteo. Up to tho preaent no one has thought to call Speaker Cannon tbe -Crime of 78." The average dally (Ire loss in tho United States is $800,000. This great country has money to burn. Even the policemen In Lincoln must get on tbe water wagon. That town Is certainly going to be dry. A Russian prince is said to be a clown In an American circus. If he is a good clown tho public will forgive him I Europe complains that the Wright brothers are failures socially. They are something of, highfliers for all that. A movement has been started in Cincinnati to commence the work day earlier. More time wanted "Over the Rhine." The records of our county court show that lots of defeated candidates have started contest cases, but that .none of them ever won out. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt says half the men she knows are lobsters and the other half are shrimps. Mr. Catt evidently has been rriisbranded. An arbitration board to adjust tbe difference between the Omaha bank ers and the South, Omaha bankers could be kept real busy right now. The sugar trust has discharged the weighers who defrauded tbe govern nient out of 12,000,000. Uncle Sam probably will furnish them a job. Mayor Jim wants to keep his ap pointive Hat under the bat as long as possible. The "lngrates" who are on the black list know It without waiting to be told. Automobile men paid 1109,000 in taxes into the New Jersey treasury since the first of the year. When It conies to being thrifty New Jersey takes- the lead. . . - . Tha State Board. of Assessment. Is again discovering that all the Ne biafcka .railroads are paying taxes on assessments far in excess of the valua tions put on them by their tax agents. Strange! The government at Washington is going Into tbe ice making business From the chunks banded out there, in the past, officeseekers are inclined to the opinion the supply has always been ample. Thomas L. Hfsgen, the late candi date for president, has proclaimed the fact that the Independence league is dead. The Infant mortality rate la al ways high, and this child never waa strong except in lung power. It hss been found necessary to dis charge another grand jury investlgst tng Governor Haskell and tho alleged land frauds. For a man so anxious to meet tbe issue the governor is dec-id idly lax In keeping appointments. Since we have been' disillusioned by being, told that the letroyet gnal corps balloon can be' replaced for $2,000, we do not see how tho airship can ever supplant tbe automobile. It the automobile Is to be put off watch it will have to b by some locomotion device that Is more expensive. Railroad Eegrilatiori. Most railroad men have arrived at he point where they are willing to admit that government regulation Is not only a necessity but also not an nmixed blessing to the roads them selves. Few in high places among railroad managers and owners remain ho can see nothing but evil In re straints placed upon them. Yet Presi dent Ripley of the Santa Fe in a re cent Interview in Chicago is quoted as follows: The railroads of the weat have but one thing to fear, and that la meddlesome and malicious Interference In the conduct of their business In legislatures and com missions having ho Interest In the prop- rty and no knowledge of railroad mat ters; elected, not to do juatlce, hut for the sole purpose of getting as much as possible out of the corporations tn in creased service and reduced rates. I think that public sentiment has changed slightly and la leas tolerant of persecution of railroads, but thers are yet some politic ians who have not found thia out. No one of Intelligence has any de re to cripple the railroads in the ex ercise of their legitimate functions, to hamper their growth or to make their peration unprofitable. Tho railroads represent millions upon millions of nvested capital on which their owners re entitled to fair returns But the confiscation of railroad Investments Is not now and never has been demanded. The Issue has been to compel the rail roads to cease known abuses exces- ve charges, discriminations, building up a favored few at the expense of the many, Inadequate service, and reck less exposure of life and limb. In the field of national legislation both tho test of practical operation nd the adjudication of the courts has sustained, almost without exception, 88 reasonable, the restraints placed pon the roads and the majority of state Iswo have also vindicated tham selves. What have our law makers one, as examples of what Mr. .Ripley might term meddlesome legislation? Congress has enacted a law forcing the roads to equip trains with air brakes and safety couplers for. the protection f the life and limbs of passengers and railroad employes. It was necessary to compel the roads by law to cease employing boys and girls to handle messages on which the safety of train operation depended. It was necessary by law to force the roads to cease working employes excessive hours until physical exhaustion not only threat ened their health, but endangered the lives entrusted to their care. Laws had to be passed to stop rebates and to prevent discrimination between ahlp pers and localities. Laws had to be passed to abollBh the wholesale bilb- ery of legislators and the subversion of public sentiment by means of passes. In the field of state legislation and commission rulings there are other Just as pertinent instances. It required government interference to compel the roads to provide depot facilities de nmijded bj common deceit, to main tain stations wbere business requirea it, to furnish ears to shippers when needed and to respond to numerous other reasonable demands for the ac commodation of the public, aside from the matter of fixing rates. Does Mr. Ripley consider all these laws "meddlesome and malicious in terference" or ''intolerant persecu tion?" Does Mr. Ripley think the pub lie will sanction any . backward step along these lines or regulations of tbe roads? If he does he is alone among railroad men and doomed to disap pointment. Applying Business Methods. The report of the commission to investigate departmental methods has brought prominently to lightJVsome wasteful practices in the purchase of supplies. The system in vogue, was the gradual growth of the yeara since the government was founded. Each department has always purchased for itself and the result haa inevitably been, If not extravagance, at least lack of economy In purchases, president Taft proposes to remedy this If possi ble by the establishment of a single nurrhaalnar department, such as is maintained by all large private cor poratlons, which shall do the buying and contracting for staple artlcloa for all the departments. The Inauguration of this plan, which means such a revolution of methods 111 necessitate legislation, but with out It the efficiency of the principle can be tried out by means of co-operation between the . various depart ments in the purchase of the class of suppUes used in . common by them. Probably no reform In purely admin istrative methods to compare with this in msgnltude or Importance has1 been discussed, and if a practical trial shall prove It to be effective It will mean the saving of many thousands of the taxpayers' money. It Is In such things as this Mr. Taft Is demonstrating what he means by a business administra tion. One Ship'i Queer Cargo. The steamer Berlin arrived In New York last week with one of the most cosmopolitan cargoes ever landed In that port. In addition to tbe average run of overy-day passengers an un usually large number of couples were returning from bridal tours, and to make things seem natural to them there was also on board a consignment of 20,000 canaries. In addition tho ship carried 5,000 frogs. 200 snakes. 100 monkeys and a miscellaneous col lection of other animals. The personal belongings of return ing travelers are generally known to contain among tho mrios collected on trips abroad all kinds of queer things, but nothing except tbo scanning of a cargo list of any of the great ahips will give an idea of tbe many and strsage things which come in as an interchange of commerce between the nations, this consignment simply being an illustration. The fact la too com mon to attract attention among the regular visitors to the wharves or the customs officials and except In the case of a large Importation like the one ar riving last week never known to the public. The complexity and scope of a tariff bill is also brought forcibly to mind by such importations, for nearly all the articles mentioned In this cargo are dutiable at rates provided for tn tho pending bill as well as in its predeces sors, so if you think you are wise enough to frame such a measure, just take a look at the ramifications of the field you must cover. A Lesion from Galveston. Outside of the appointive commis sion which has jurisdiction over the city of Washington, the commission which governs Galveston Is commonly regarded as the original type of the commission plan of city government in this country of which the other com mission plans have been imitations or adaptations. The commission plan of city government has been advocated wherever It has been adopted chiefly by the so-called reform elements and too often hailed as a Utopian scheme equivalent to a perpetual guaranty of high standard and efficient administra tion of municipal affairs. The city election Just held In Gal veston, however, discloses the fact that the reformers are no more cer tain to control under a commission form of government than under any other form. In the Galveston election the whole board of city commissioners aspired to re-election, but the mayor, who was the head and front of the re form program, was defeated by a candidate of the reactionaries running on an independent ticket. It la even hinted that the outgoing mayor-com missioner stood as a strict construe- tionist, while his successful competitor rallied the liberal vote made up largely of the classes who prefer a more free and easy management of the city. Gal veston's mayor-elect, by the way, Is also a lawyer, contradicting the im pression that popular prejudice against lawyers Is an insuperable bar to a law yer landing in a mayoralty chair. The Galveston election does not con demn the commission plan of city government, but It does re-lnforce what The Bee has several times said with reference to It, that the success or failure of municipal government de pends entirely upon the character of the men put Into municipal office irre spective whether they are called commissioners" or merely "mayors" and "councllmen." If there Is real call for reformers they can be elected just easily under one plan as under another, and if the reform element is in the minority the adoption of the commission plan of government .will not by Itself cure all the evils or put tbe reformers In the saddle. Influence of the Democratic Party. Mr. Bryan at a banquet in Col um bus, O., declares that never in the history of the world had a political party exercised a greater influence in national affairs than the democratic party during the past twelve years. By what process of reasoning Mr Bryan arrives at this conclusion is even more mysterious than his "mys tery of 1908." During the twelve years mentioned the party has not been in a position to place upon the statute books of the nation a single law or put Into operation a single pre cept of its creed. Commencing with 1896 It has gone down -to humiliating defeat as regularly as election time came around. From a strong and com pact minority able to exercise a salu tary check upon the majority it has deteriorated until even this function Is lost to It, as Is made only too plain In the present session of congress. In the house organisation the party dl vlded. and in the senate, when some republicans objected to certain sched ules of the tariff bill, the proffer of assistance from the democrats to change them was. of no service be cause the democrats were hopelessly divided. Looking to the future, Mr. Bryan himself has been kept busy declar ing that many of the men who have been elected as democrats are not en titled to wear the party label and his opponents Just as vociferously pro claim that Mr. Bryan is not a demo crat. If there Is any rule by which i genuine democrat can be distinguished It is yet to find acceptance. The fac tions rather than the party are organ lzlng and lining up for the control of the next democratic national conven t'ion, with every Indication that the contest will be a bitter one between hopelessly divided elements. How democracy in an Impotent mi nority and rent by internal dissension tan have been the vital force In the affairs of the nation during the past twelve years no one but Mr. Bryan can Bee. Lincoln may have to have a special election to straighten out the kinks In an issue of high school bonds recently voted on which the election officers failed to make proper canvass and certification of the returns. A law requiring civil aervice examination for election officers will be the next thing in order. For some reason or other the dem ocratic organs are not wildly excited over the refusal of the supreme court to seat the Shallenberger judicial ap pointees. Apparently this Is a case of fishing In the political pond trom which the democrats hoped for little and expected less. It turns out that the Juror who tried to borrow money from the lawyer in tbe case be as hearing is himself lawyer. That makes his error of Judgment all the more Inexcusable. A lawyer ought to know the difficulty of borrowing money from a lawyer. Latest reports Indlcste, as careful observers expected, that the estimate of Armenian victims of the Turkish uprising had been exaggerated. Ten thousand Is now said to be the num ber. The deliberate murder of this large nvmber Is beyond the compre hension of peoples of other lands and emphasizes the necessity of the powers holding the Turk to a more strict ac countability for his doings. The proposition for a free bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs tarts out on the theory that Douglas county is to pay three-fourths of the cost and Pottawattamie county one- fourth. That Is where the hitch, If any, Is likely to be. Japan has given another indication that it is awake and keeping abreast the times. Without making any fuss about what It waa doing it Is now nnounced that a Jap army officer has nvented a safe and easily managed lrshlp. President Roosevelt haa taken a rest from his hunting and commenced work on his typewriter. This will af ford the taxidermists an opportunity to catch up. Room at the Top. , Washington Post. The United States hnnota the return of the Wrlphts by presenting to them the freedom of the air, and they can go as far a they like. I'nholdlnsj Written Law. New 'York Sun. To the twelve men of the Jury In the Halna case are due the admiration and the gratitude of every citlsen who desires that tha written law and not the unwritten law shall continue to be the law of this land. A Success, aa Baratlngs Go. 8t. Paul Pioneer Press. . Lieutenant Ware, who made the flight In the army balloon at Fort Omaha, de- la red that, "aside from the bursting of the gas bag, the flight was an entire suc cess." Inasmuch aa the bag burst just aa the balloon reached the ground It would seem to the layman that the bursting also might be classed aa a great auccess, as buratlnga go. Roosevelt and Hla Halda. Brooklvn Eagle. There la a conviction In some minds that ex-Preeldent Roosevelt may not have fired gun since his arrival In Africa. He probably haa. but the very readable ac counts of hla raids on wild animate lack, In the opinion of a correspondent, that 'verisimilitude of detail which tends to dis establish credulity in reticulated intellectu ality." When our correspondent's mean ing shall have wrought Ita way to sim plicity, Mr. Roosevelt will be en route for home. No Opposition Party. Indianapolis News. The democratic" party haa of late years been through many' trials and tribulations. But nothing has' done so much to weaken It as this revelation of Its Inefficiency. Tariff reformers tho belong to no party, but whose only purpose Is to get rid of protection, will not find It easy to work with the democratic party in the future. It will be Impossible to feel that even the best platform means anything, Impossible to have much faith in the professions of the men who seem to have marched straight Into the Aldrich camp. Verily, we need an opposition party. But where arc we to get it? Snapping Political Ties. New York Post. Westerners are snapping party tlea on the question of the tariff, partly because they resent its burdens and Injustices, but more because they are Jealous of Nw Eng land wealth and of the capital of New York and the myidle states, which appear tgthem to be using Senator Aldrich as an amanuensis to writs our tariff dictation. The revolt la really that of the radical west and south against the conservative eaat. It waa no causal thing that western senators pointed out and denounced the dominance of New England senators In the finance committee of the senate, and In other powerful committee of that body. There spoke a sectional distrust and dislike which may be prophetic of a sweeping readjustment of parties before many years have passed. AM EHHOH OP POLICY. Effect of Congressional Limitations on Secret Service. New York Tribune. Some significant testimony bearing on the merits of the dispute laat winter be tween President Koosevelt and the house of representatives over the employment of the secret service has been given by H. L. Stimson, former t'nlted Statea district at torney for this district, who has bt en en gaged In prosecuting the sugar neighing fraud rases. Mr. Stimson says that the government haa been greatly hampered in bringing to justice the authors of those frauds because congress perslated In limit ing the functions and activities of the fed eral secret service. Trained detectives were needed In these prosecutions, but the secret service men who should have been vallable were not allowed by congress to be detailed for work outside the limited province of pursuing and auppresslng counterfeiting. The house of representa tives mlatakenly Insisted laat winter that the scope of the activities of the govern ment's only trained force should be so lim ited, although President Koosevelt pointed out that the secret service could do val uable work In helping to expose land frauds and crimes in general against the govern ment, and had done auch ork with marked success and to the great advantage of tha public. The Tribune criticlaed the house of repre sentatives for Its shortsightedness In crip pling the secret service, the mora so 'hat no satisfactory reason waa ever given for limiting the work which it should do. Mr. Stimson shows how great a handicap was thus put upon the government in combat ing crime and fraud. Ha says: "There are many men in the secret serv ice with broad experience whij would be of Invaluable aervice to ua In tha weighing fraud Investigations. But we cannot use them. Here Is one of the most Important cases the government has prosecuted in years, and we are hampered by the lack of Investigators. A lot of special treasury agents have been assigned to help, and they ar working hard and with some results, u . n u b . . u u . u li.lv ..... w ul L..W U IbU well In the old service, men who havs woiked on similar case In the past and who know ho to get at things." Congreaa at its next sesalon should take note of the situation which It created and repair an obvious blunder. The executive department ahould be aided, not hindered, in Its efforts to enforce the lan a Roosevelt Tha Outlook, May 15. One of the comic fertures of the political difwdful evlla which do In fact share In campaign last fall was the letter which hla denunclatton of and attack upon both Count Tolstoy wrote on behalf of Mr. ood "n(1 vl1 ,r uully not Rrv.n t.. .I.,. . are of much moment among ua. cm trie eaten . W tter Count Tolstoy advo- otnpr h,n(, r , aW, t0 c,aln iVn a .1 Mr' nn'"n " 'he nf wickedness which thers la real ground that he Was the representative of f,r nf wrln inculcating: for It la ine party of peace, of antl-mllltarlsm. a himnt.ible fact that, aa la so often the r rom the point of view of. American poll- c with a certain tvne of mystical sealot. tlca. the Incident possetsed no importance there la In him a dark streak which tells beyond furnishing material for the humor- of moral rerverslon. That side of his teach ous columns of the newspapers. Hut It hud a certain real Interest aa Indlcatlna Count Tolstoys worth as a moral guide. Me advo- cated Mr. Rryan on the theory that Mr. Bryan represented peace and antl-rallltar- Ism. Now there was but one point In the platform of either politics! party In 1? which contained any elen. -nt of menace to the peace of the world. This was the Plank In the Bryanlte platform which de- mamled the Immediate exijuslon by law of all Asiatic laborera. and therefor of the Japanese. Coupled with It was the utterly meaningless plank about the navy, which waa, however, Intended to convey the lm- preralon that we ought to have a "navy only for the defense of our coasts that Is. a merely "defensive" navy, or. In other wirds, a quite worthless navy. Now I have shown In a preceding editorial that at this present tlme there Is neither Justification ,.- cuse fur such s law and this wholly with- by one nf Tolstoy's theories which has out regard to what the future may ahow. nr pcsjible bearing upon American life. The exclusion plank In Mr. Bryan's plat- Militarism la a ral factor for good or for form represented merely an Idle threat, a evl1 'n most European countries. In Amer wanton Insult, ind It was coupled with lea It has not the Smallest effect one way what was Intended to be a declaration that or ,he "then It Is a negligible quantity, the policy of upbuilding the navy, which There are undoubtedly states of society haa been to successfully carried on during Where militarism la a grave evil, and there the last Kiien yeara, would h abandoned, are plenty of circumstances In which the Any man of common sense, therefore, prime duty of man may be to strive against ought to perceive the self-evident fact that It- But U ' not righteous war, not even the only menace to peace which wna ton- war itself, which Is the absoljte evil, the talned In any possible action by the Amerl- evil which Is evil always and under all can republic was that contained In the circumstances. Militarism which takea the election of Mr. Bryan and the attempt to form of a police force, municipal or na put Into effect hla platform. That Count tlonal. may be the prime factor for up Tolstoy did not see this affords a curious holding peace nnd righteousness. Militarism Illustration of hla complete Inability to Is to be condemned or not. purely accord race facta; of his readlnesa to turn aside Ing to the conditions. So eating horse rrom the truth In the purault of any meat Is In Itself a mere matter of taate; pnantom however foolish; and of the utter but the early Christian missionaries In rih h thie Wh tre,t hlm tts a PhlloW- Scandinavia found that aerloua evil sprang pner. whose philosophy ahould be, or could from the custom of eating horse meat In be, translated Into action. Count Tolstoi la a man of genius, a great T .l8': W"r n,i Fc' " K.re nlna, "The Cosaacks," "Sebaato,;-,!." are great books. As a novelist he haa added umirrmiiy i0 the Sur afinM .lln. , genoiatlon. Aa a nrnfnuinn.i v,n i hi ue nrooucnon or nia and moralist I doubt If his Influence has oeen very extensive among men of sctlon; of course it has a certain weight among men who live only in the closet, in the library; and among the high-minded T , ' (vr"'' who' "Veause of their sheltered lives, naturally reject what Is Im moral, and do not have to deal with what is fantastic. In Tolstoy's teachings. It la probable that the really lofty side of these teachings gives them a certain sense of spiritual exaltation. But I have no ques- tlon that whatever little Influence Tolstoy haa exerted among men of action haa told on ine whole, for evil. I do not think his Influence over men of action haa been great, for I think he haa swayed or doml- nated only the feeble folk and the fantaatlc o man who possesses both robust common sense and high Ideals, and who atrlves to spply both In sctual living. Is affected by Tolstoy's teachings, save as he la affected by the teachings of hun dreds of other men In whose writings there are occasional truths mixed with masses of what is commonnlare nr mn,,. Strong men may gain something from Tol stoy a moral teachings, but only on condi tion that they are strong enough and iwne enough to be repelled by those parts of his teachings which are foolish or Immoral. Weak persons are hurt hv tha iuhinM Dim I think that the mere fact that these weak persons are influenced sufficiently to e marrea means that there wab not In them a very great quantity of potential usefulness to mar. In the Cnlted Statea we suffer from, grave moral dangers; but they are for the most part dangers which Tolstoy would neither rercelve nor know how to combat. Moreover, the real and WOMK MISTAKES Of MR, BR YAM Hnlea of Action nf Party Representa tives Considered. Charleston News and Courier (dem.). In his letter to the Florida legislature. Mr. Bryaq exposes his want of accurals understanding of democratic principles. Mr. Bryan Is quite miataken when he de clarea that "there are two schools of thought In regard to the duty of an of ficial; the aristocratic theory Is that the people elect representatives to think for them; the democratic theory Is, on the contrary, that the people think for them selves and elect representatives to give legal expression to their thoughts and to voice their sentiments." There are no such "two schools." Such a division la physically Impossible In this republic. A candidate and the people are parties to a contract. The candidate expresses his views and pledges himself to a course of action. He Is bound by Implication to sup port the demands of Ms party platform, unless he put the people on notice before election that ha is out of sympathy with It. In whole or In part. If he be a party candi date, he premises thereby to submit to pirty authority, which, in congress, Is the cau cus. Mr. Bryan's theory Is that a public offi cial should be the people's puppet, that when he accepts office he effaces himself as a free agent, and that he reserves to himself only the function of registering what he conceives to be the people's will, t'ntll the "initiative and referendum" ex pedient shall become a feature of our gov ernmental system, Mr. Bryan's theory is Impractical and contradictory. That this expedient has not been adopted Implies that ,the people delegate to their representative full freedom of action aa to all questions arising during his term nf office, except those in regard to which he haa voluntarily defined and limited his course before elec tion. The anxiety of offlolala lest they be defeated for re-election probably Induces them to suppress their convictions more than they should In the hope of conciliating the electorate. The fact that the people ahould bear In mind la that a representa tive wjhn would he dlahnnegt with himself In order to propitiate them, would be none too good to sell himself to a third party. Moreover, Mr. Bryan betrays an habit ual and fatal bent towarda demagogy when he speaks nf 'the aristocratic theory." H knows that this country has no "aristo crats." If he mean that tha rich constitute a caste he should speak of tfcem as "the rich" and not attempt to turn againat them a prejudice which la cherished In old coun tries towards a class of hereditary noblea. Granting, for the aake of the argument only, that tha rich In Arti-rlra constitute a separate class, and one out of sympathy With me ueinm-rais, tne trutn remains that the rich are In nr aense "arlatocrata." but rather a more common and vulgar crew than ar th plain farmers, lawyers, doctors and ahop-keepers. "Captain Kldd" was a great pirate and amassed wealth, but he waa not an aristocrat; no more la the trj.t magnate who robs th people by using (alt weights on Tolstoy Ings which 1a partially manifested In the revolting "Kreutier Ronala" em do ex- ceedlngly little damage In America, for It would appeal only to decadents: exactly aa It could have come only from man who. however high he may stand In cer- t"11 respects, has In him certain dreidful qualities of the moral pervert, , Th U'"J", pffect of t,r,,lorl,',t n1 lva Indulgence In Tolstoylsm on Amer- ,0Bn nl'"0,n,,'" rr,m' rather than serious. n of these dls. Iples. for Instance, not ,nn wrote a book on American mu- brP"l problems, which ascribed oir eth- ,cl,, "ni1 so1'"1 shortcomings In municipal matters In part to the s'n of "militarism." Now the mind of this particular writer In making auch atstement was Influenced not 1,1 """" what had actually oc- curred rr was occurring In our cities, but honor of Odin. It Is literally true that our very grave municipal problema In New Tork or Chicago have no more to do with militarism than with eating Hie meat of horses that have been sacrificed to pagan deities; and a crusade against one habit. - - - ... , i , ..... aii an rillieiil III mumciiiHi iviui ill, ! juai ... ... hdoui as rations as wouia oe a crusane against the other. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that It hud taken a centjry to re move tha lark from American literature; because the poets insisted upon writing, not about the birds they saw, but about the blrda they had read of In the writings of other poets. Militarism aa an evil In our social life Is as purely a figment of the manlnatlon as the skylark In our Uteia ture. Moreover, the fact that in spite of ,n'" ,otal brnce cf militarism thers is so much that is evil In our life, so much need t0T reform, ought to show persons whi tnlnk ,ht the destruction of militarism would bring about the millennium how completely they lack tho sense of perspec- tive. To minimize the chance of anything but willful misunderstanding, let me repeat that Tolatoy is a great writer, a great novelist; that the unconscious Influence of his novels la probably, on the whole, good, even disregarding their standing as works of art; that even as a professional moralist and philosophical adviser of man kind In religious matters he has some ex cellent theories and on some points de velops a noble snd elevating teaching; but that taken aa a whole, and if generally dlffu"d- hl moral and philosophical teach ings, so tar as tney unci any mnuence at all, would have an Influence for bad; partly because on certain points they teach down right Immorality, hut much more because they tend to be both foolish and fantastic, and h logically applied would mean the extinction of humanity tn a generation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. st the custom house. But Mr. Bryan, re solved to instigate popular malice against tha wealthy, deliberately appropriates a term which has nothing to do with wealth, snd applies It because It Is effective for his purpose. It Is In little ways of this kind that Mr. Bryan haa exposed his dema gogic predilections .ever since he has been In public life. He can't conceal them. Blsr Opening for Nerve Tonic. Chicago Record-Herald. During the Oerman navy maneuver which ar to be held before long In the Baltic sea the most powerful fleet ever assembled under one flag will, It is re ported, be visible. Anyone who has a good nerve tonic ought to be Kble to do a big business In England while the maneuvers ar in progress. Tactic of a Model Bryanlte. Kansas City Journal. Oklahoma will feel deeply humiliated, of course. If Governor Ha'kell should be found guilty of fraud by a jury of his fellow citl sens. But, after all, o nvlctlon would not be very much worae than exhausting th legal technicalities In an effort to escape trial on the merits of the case. Married Misery People often rely on nature unaided to correct evil but it doesn't. One aim of corrective medicine should be to do away with married unhappiness. At the bottom of' a deal of misery is found lack of cheerful yielding. Mean self ishness is as surely due to ill-health as famine is to failure. Ungovernable tern-per-r-a third fault is largely the outcome of stomach disorder. All these causes disappear when stomach and liver are keyed to a finely balanced tone. The first sign of on-coming Bilious ness, Indigestion or Headache, should suggest old Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. No other known medicine contains so complete a curtnr-pouer for disordered stomach and torpid liver 'Twill avert many a conflict between man and woman. Tako pains, howvr, not to Insist too strongly on naving1 your own way except with tli draggUt insist that h glv you Dr. Piarss's GoUJca Msdisal DUscvsry. Constipation is always aggravating. A costive person is hardly fit to associate with while free and easy bowel action tends to make the grouchy grumbler a cheerful optimist, lovable and full of hope. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, taken now and then, move bowels gently once a day. That's enough. PERSONAL .NOTES. Csrrie Chapman Cart remarks that hall the men slie knows are lobsters ami ti e rest are shrimps. There Is much nm fur s Improvement In Carrie's taste In thr selec tion of male acquaintances. The eai-h-bsket bat has proved thit II subserves a useful purpose. A young woman In New York, thrown through the glans lnd shield of a taxlcab. was protected ly her voluminous headgear from being cut by the flying splinters. It Is stranae that an American should he the only woman member of the Royal Geo graphical society of England. Mrs. French Sheldon, formerly of New Orleans, occu pies this singular position. She It not alone the only female "fellow." but the last. osrar Scelcy. a civil war veteran, who had authentic records to show that he was the first to enlist In New York state ".hen the first rail for volunteers tas sent out, died at Muskegon, Mich., from an old gun shot wound received at the battle of Shlloh. Long la the list of waifs who have be come famous. lt Includes Sir Henry M. Stanley, Queen Catherine the Oond. Alex ander Hamilton, Kosa Honlieur, Kdgsr Al len Poe, Rachel, Leonardo da V'.ncl, and dates back as fsr as Moses. All these were homeless children. Mrs. Oertrude Bsrney. the pretty widow and telephone operator the Montgomery (Mo.) authorities refused tn seat as city collector when she was sleeted to that office last November, because, as a woman. she was Inelticlble, waa married to her man ager in thl campaign, E. H. Ham. county republican chairman and atate food in spector. WHKHK MII.I.IOINM ARK WASTED Had Roads Impose Heavy Tax on Prodoeta of the Soil. Kansas City Times. The cost of bad roads In America, ac cording to a recent statement from the Agricultural department was IIS9.0OO.O0O lapt year, as compared to the cost of transport Ing the same tonnage of crops in France. These figures apply merely to the hauling of the principal crops. This Is only an estimate of the partial loss to the farmers, because it embodies only a part of the products hauied over the public highways. The average haul In this country Is 9.4 miles. H costs 24 cents a mile for wagon transportation. In France the cost Is 13 cents a mile, or only one-half the cost In the t'nlted Statea. The tremendous drain of bad roads on the resources of the agricultural districts Is startling. It falls with more weight, of course, upon the strictly agricultural states, such as Kansaa an5 Missouri. No other In dustry could stand this persistent drain upon Its profits.' It Is endured by the farmers, however, because this country has never had any other kind of roads. Tne mere fact that the American farm ers have become accustomed to had roads does not change the facts. Neither does It excuse the policy of neglecting to save the millions now wasted by bad roads. WHITTLED TO A POINT. "My wife and I never argue we get along beautifully." "How do you work It?" "When anythlng's wrong I always figure that It's my fault and she never disagrees with me." Cleveland Leader. "What part of a railway tra'n do you regard aa the most dangerous i ' Inquired the nervous man. "The dining car." answered tha dyspeptic. Washington Star. "My wife Is a very optimistic woman." "It. deed, she is." "Noticed It. have you" "Yes, wlieu I,wa talking) with her yester day she said 'that If' you ever died hj would marry again, because she felt sure that she could do better next time. "Hous ton Post. "Yes, rrwny thousand Immigrants come to America every year." "What assimilates them Into good Amer ican cltiiens?" "Base ball." Ixulsvtlle Courier-Journal. She (indignantly) Vou had no business to kiss me! He Rut it wasn't business; It was pleas ure. Detroit News-Trlhiine. Pessimist Don't you think this season frown the drama has a tendency down wtid? Realist I have m tlce.1 that more people are buying setts In the orchestra. Balti more American. "I suppose you know, bsrber." snld Percy, with a wink at the man In the other chair, "trat the hair on a mtn'a head grows at the rate of three-mllllonths of a yard In a second." "No, I never heard that before," sold the barber, beating a tattoo on the strop with his razor, "hut I kn'-w there'a a spot on th back of your head where the hair wouldn't grow a much as that In a million years." Chicago Tribune. LET OUT A WHOOP. St. Louis Republic. If you're feeling dull and blue. There Is Joy In life for you. Cheer up! Cheer up! Do not sit and mourn and mope, I'on t go looking tor a rope. Don't forget with life there's hope. Cheer up! Do not let your spirits droop, Cheer up! Swing your hat, let out a whoop Cheer up! Do not get dleconaolste, You will win the smiles of Fate, If ou only work and wait. Do not go around depressed, Live your life, enjoy Its sest, Cheer up! Cheer up! Cheer up! Whv he a-loomv? Whv renlne? S'op your broortlna-. cesse to whine. Soon you will he feeling fine, Cher up!