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THE HKK: OMAHA. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1000. The Omaha" Daily Bee FOUNDF.D BY EDWARD ROUE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDlTOR. Entered at Omaha postofflre aa second clan matter. TEIIM8 OF Pl"B3 'RIPTION. Dally B.-e (without Sunday i, ore yrtT,.KW Dally Bee and fiu.nisy one year 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally B (Including Sunday), per week, lie Dally Be (without Sunday, per week . 1' Evening Hee (without Sunday. P'r week. ? Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week.. loc Sunday Bee. one year 12 W Saturday Bee, one year II. 80 Addreea all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OrFtCES. Omaha The Bee Hulldlng South Orr.a ha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffa 15 Scott Hlreet. Lincoln KI Little Building. Chicago IMA Marquette Building. New Vork Rooma 1101-11OJ No. S4 Weat Thirty-third street. Washington Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edl torlul matter should he addreiaed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Tzscbuck, treaaurer of The Bee Publishing . Company, being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete ccpl-e of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Res printed during the month of April, 1901, was as follow; 1 at.MO IT 41,0 I S.050 . IS 37,10 (.......... M,4M II 404M ST.BOO tO 0,30 uoo ' ii o,4io M.MO it 40, M0 t 41400 II J... 4sa9 1 41,460 14 40,440 t. ......... 41,080 tl 40440 10 41,400 2 45480 11 T 400 IT 46,50 11 4140O IS 40464 II 41.440.' II, .....t,.. 48,30 14 40400 10 S4Q J 1 40400 . 1 404M Total.. 1430,410 Returned coplsa 11403 Net total..... 1435407 Dally average... 40440 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my preaence and sworn to befora me this lat day of May. IK. M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. WHEJT OUT OF TOWX. Subscribers leaving tha city tern-' porarlljr ahoaJd have The Bee mailed to tkeaa. A4rees will be than aa often aa reqneate. The tariff On pumice stone has been saved. Who says Nebraska will not get its share? As interpreted by . Mr. Bailey of Texas senatorial courtesy Is not broad enough to take in the press gallery. The Dahlman Democracy will hold a ptcntc. Wo can name at least six so called democrats who will not be in vited. Editor Stead's latest Is the tele graph line to the spirit world. He has not yet announced whether he will put In a distance tariff or a flat rate. Seventeen pairs "ritBhoes hare been ordered for the royal'babe of Holland. Evidently the pleasures of running around barefoot are not for royalty. Mayor "Jim" has reduced his list of councilmanio traitors from four to three, but the suspicion lurks that the fourth Is still kept on his suspect list. Admiral Dewey is on record as say ing that the American navy is the best on earth. Is the admiral trying to make John Bull have another fit? The World-Herald wants it distinctly understood while It is opposed to any republican getting any office. It is op posed to some republicans more than to others. Between, hunting and denouncing fake correspondents Theodore Roose velt Is finding time to write a book. That African climate is not so bad as it is painted. One of the big New York hotels has provided a tennis court on the roof for the benefit of its guests. A golf course In the basement would com plete the job. The Brooklyn Eagle laments that the time was when the governor of the state of New York had respect for the legislature. Luckily the governor is not blamed for the changed condl tlon. Secretary of War Dickinson aava that on his recent trip he saw Cuba only through the do rt hole of the shin That is not an uncommon experience for people taking their first ocean voyage. The Presbyterian assembly settled one thing at least that a person may play tennis and be a good church mem ber. A few years more and all these fine doctrinal points will be dis posed of. ,. t v If the usual experience in suet cases is repeated some of the unouutt en closed In those stolen registered letters will have increased wonderfully from the time they were mailed to the time of making the claim for reimburse ment. The Charleston Post says that "a democrat believes . ia - certain estab lished principles of government." In view of the late developments it might help some in answering the query, "What Is a democrat?" If the Post would clearly define those principles. The legislative sponsor- of the de posit' guaranty law appears to be eur prised that Nebraska bankers of the state are pot more prompt la sending In contributions to contest the ex pected attack upon the law's validity. Perhaps the bankers would not feel sorry If the law were lost in the shut' fie of the court. ' Tariff and Traits. The persistently cultivated , Bryan te doctrine that the tariff Is the hother or trusts and that all that Is necessary to kill off the trusts is to put trust-made products on the free ntt Is being rudely Jolted in the de velopments of me Urilf revision In ritgrens In Washington. We n-ar so much of a sugar trust that it I fs!r a Kumption tliat by far the larser part of the sugar tinfle In thia country Is controlled by one l ig corporation. And yet the development of the beet sugar industry in the west snd the protection of the cane grow- ng Interests In the south are respon sible for tho demand for the retention Of ssfelr protective duties in the sugar schedule. Ther insist that put ting sujsr on the free list would not only fail to extinguish the sugar I rust but by leaving Its competitors unpro tected would weaken them. If not kill them off. and without their rivalry the sugar trust would be more firmly entrenched than ever. In the matter of the oil schedule, a similar situation Is presented, the clamorous objections to removing the tariff from crude and refined oil com- ng not from the Standard Oil, but from the Independents who declare that such a course would be ruinous to them. It has been charged that these independent producers are merely masked agents of the Standard Oil, but the refutation comes from a source that will hardly be questioned. A let ter written by Ida M. Tarbell Is quoted in Collier's as follows: There Is no question In my mind of the entire Independence of the oil producers nd the oil refiners who are now In Wash ington petitioning congress for a duty on crude oil. I have known many of them all my llf and am more or less familiar with their business careers. As to their contention that free erode oil would be a serious handicap to them In their. competi tion with the Standard Oil company and an advantage to the Standard, they are un doubtedly right. If Mexico turns out the tremendous oil producer that oil men are predicting. If the field does not develop as they seem to think It will, there Is nothing In the world for them to fear from crude oil. As you know. I am, myself, a thor ough believer In free raw materials. In cluding oil, and I wish that the Independent oil men felt that they were In a strong enough poaltlon to risk free crude 'oil. The oil trust, like the sugar trust, Is plainly less concerned with tariff charges than are the independent pro ducers, who now have all they can do to hold their own and with free oil would have to meet a bUII cheaper source of supply. The' democratic platform promise of free trade In trust controlled pro ducts is plainly demonstrated to be In adequate as a remedy for trust evils, and it Is not to be wondered that the democrat in congress have not even proposed to apply It. As Collier's in timates, In its comment on the Tarbell letter, "there should be some more direct means of dealing with monopoly than through the tariff." It must be remembered, too, that enormoas trade combines operate In fields that have nothing whatever to do with tariff du ties. The problems of the trust are not to be solved simply by tearing down all tariff barriers. A Broadguage President. It Is nothing strange that President Taft In an address in a Jewish syna gogue in Pittsburg should take occas ion to express his views on religious tolerance and bigotry.. The president has been a broadguage man with ideas reaching beyond the horizon of little ness. Some of his political opponents have not been of this mould and his. words can be taken to ha vev particular application. The president said: I am not a preacher and not In the habit of appearing In pulpits. I never had done so until I went to the Philippines where I stood flrat In a Presbyterian pulpit and then In an Episcopalian. Re turning to thla country I have appeared In the pulpit of my own church, the Unitarian, and now I ain . In a Jewish tabernacle. That Is a round which I think Justifies me in saying that I .hope to be the president of all the people and hope to have your support, as you have given It to my predecessors, without stint ana wun every desire to make this a truly good and great country. Both In his words and in his pres ence at the Jewish synagogue Mr. Taft cautioned those who would have this a government of class or sect. He recognizes the fact that our citizenship is cosmopolitan and that all who comport themselves in obedience to law are entitled alike to the rights. immunities and privileges of American citizenship, irrespective of religious belief. It is the true ideal of Ameri canism that no man has the right to challenge his neighbor because he attends a different church or springs from a different race. As a candidate before the people Mr. Taft made no appeal to class, race or creed and he Is proceeding to demonstrate that he is the chief execu tlve of the whole country and all Its Inhabitants. A Good Job. ine apprehension or three men strongly suspected of being the bandits who held up the Overland Limited on the ou'-klrts of Omaha a week ago and the recovery of a large part of the stolen plunder will be applauded as a good job. The fact that the moat Im portant clues by which the holdup men were trapped were uncovered acci dentally by bright school boys does not detract from the promptness with which they were followed up by the officers. It la always amazing that criminals clever enough to plan out and execute a train robbery should bungle what is to them still more important, namely, the means of getting away with the loot and their own successful escape. If, as now seems probable, the bandfu caught here have been making a pro fession of crime aad have been Impll cated In a series of train robberlea of the ssme daring kind as that of the Overland, their apprehension Is of much more than local Importance and will probably Interrupt a career of crime on the part of the gang sure to have cost human life. It goes without saying that If the prisoners shsll be duly convicted by the evidence, the community will con sider no punishment too severe. When at bis work the train holdup must be ready to kill all the time, and It is only a chance that murder is not laid at his door. Our laws have been properly made to define train robbery an a fel ony secondary only to homicide and the best preventive will he the swift and sure limit of the law. Frosecutingr Land Frauds. Attorney General Wickersham re cently declared In a public speech that "obedience to law Is the price of peace," and he Is proceeding to demon strate that these were not Idle words. The prosecution of land frauds, com menced under the Roosevelt adminis tration is being continued without In terruption. Another bunch of coal land grabbers were not long ago Indicted in Wyoming and now a number of the same class In Colorado are being forced to answer In court. These men are not poor settlers, but men of standing charged with Illegally appro priating valuable coal deposits. While the question of guilty re mains for the court the fact that in dictments have been brought proves that the government will not permit such questionable transactions to go unchallenged. That the public do main has been ruthlessly plundered In the past is patent to all familiar with the history of the west. A part of what has been done cannot be undone, but what remains of the public domain can be saved by those who are en titled to it. With the development of the western states these coal deposits will become a material factor to their prosperity. It would be a calamity if a few unscrupulous speculators were permitted to seize them and use them to pile up immense fortunes, at the expense of other industries. Whatever may be lawfully accomplished in this direction depends on the legislation. but the administration will meet Its responsibilities by seeing that no fraud is perpetrated to evade the law. Hindrances to Economy. It Is a condition and not a theory which confronts the national adminis tration in its desire to Institute economical reforms Into government affairs. Habit is one of the most diffi cult things to combat; it Is not amen able to ordinary processes of reason ing. The means by which the estimates of g overnment expenditures are ar rived at are tortuous and the totals go up through a chain of bureau chiefs and subordinates. Necessarily the cabinet officers cannot know of the In finite details of the various bureaus of their departments and likewise the bureau chiefs are in turn dependent upon their subordinates.. Much of the work is beyond the personal knowl edge of any single Individual. Through a long series of years it has been the practice of everyone in the federal service to secure as large an appropriation as possible for the work In which he was personally In terested. The money secured is not permitted to lapse If the officials in charge can prevent It, for such a con dition might result in cutting down future appropriations. Added to the pressure of officials in the executive branch of the government is the log rolling of congressmen and senators to secure something for their constituen cies and the appropriations pile up in spite of the best intentions of the pres ident and it requires courage and per sistence for department heads to send back estimates and Insist on reduction. It Is a great task which the adminis tration has set for itself in holding down the scale of expenditures which has obtained during the years of treas ury surpluses, but the high officials are going about it in a manner which promises at least a fair measure of success. , The will of the late H. H. Rogers provides that the cost of any litigation over It shsll be deducted from the be quest made to the person starting the suit. If there were a clause like this in every will several Omaha lawyers who ride in autos would still be walk ing. Another American Invasion of Eng land la impending. An American firm proposes to introduce the 10-cent store idea into that country. The Ameri can department store has made good and if the invasion keeps up Brother John will have to wake up or retaliate. The storm harvest of death appears to be unusually large this year. While there have been no great disasters, al most every day chronicles some in which a few lives are lost. Human in genuity has not yet been able to cope with the giant forces of nature. Finding that lta meeting dates con flict with Ak-Sar-Ben s initiations the police board is figuring on changing the time for its sessions. As between King Ak-Se.J-Hec and any mere city official there in no question which is paramount. If our amiable democratic contempo rary, the World-Herald, tan not dic tate the appointments of the demo cratic mayor whom it helped to elect, It still wants to dictate to the repub lican council men whom it tried its best to beat. All the members of the fire and po lice department have agreed to forego the increased salaries which tha legis- lature injected Into the new charter without making provision for raising the money to pay them. By so doing the departments will be enabled to go along with undiminished numbers. This is the right spirit and the men should have credit for taking the common-sense view of the situation. After all his hiding behind technicali ties Governor Haskell of Oklahoma will have an opportunity to face his ac cusers In court. Whether he will again seek vindication by the demurrer routi Is not yet disclosed. Of Lincoln's new chief of police It is said that "It has been years since he hss tasted liquor." If he has to fur nish the evidence himself against all the blind pigs he will not be able to keep up this record. ' Information Robbed In. New Vork World. The director of the census bureau thought he was not responsible to the secretary of commerce and labor. He knows better now. Sympathy with flah. Baltimore American. The middle west has been shaken by an earthquake shock. It serves that section right for the warm waves it manufactures and then gets rid. of to the rest of the country. Political Snrsrerr. Chicago Record-Herald. Governor Hughea of New York has suc ceeded In cutting more than $4,000,000 out of the state's expense budget. That man seems to have absolutely no mercy for the political grafters. A rriMde Worth While. San Francisco Chronicle. Los Angeles' crusade against billboards, which, under the terms of an anti-billboard law that has Just become effective. Is now being carried on by tearing down patnte.1 signs along the streets and highways, should be emulated by other cities. The prevalence of billboards, with their offense against art and usually also against the English language, Is a public nuisance which si ould be abated. MKht on Swahlll l.lngo. Philadelphia Record. It Is explained by one who claims to be versed In Swahill nomenclature that the name "Bwano Tumbo," given to our fauna! naturalist by the natives of east Africa, would be correctly translated as "MlBter Stomach." Swahill names always have reference to some striking personal characteristic, and the rotund front of the American "mister" seems to have hit the native fancy. "Bwano Tumbo" would pos sibly sound more polite In French, as "Monsieur Embonpoint." Doings In Wireless War. St. Paul Pioneer Press. With a hall at Omaha actually lighted up by 4.000 'ncanJescent lamps, kept In a bril liant, steady glow by a wireless current from a plant five miles away; with elec tricians prodding the Navy department for permission to install a wireless apparatus which shall propel Its warships, anywhere on the Atlantic, by ' currents produced in Washington; and with others offering to run railroad trains In the same manner without wires eurely we are on the eve of tremendous doing In the "wireless" way. What must be the effect pf these Inventions on the development of the water-power of the country? If that power can be trans mitted for long distances without wires, It would seem that the cost of utilizing It must be very considerably reduced. A BETRAYED PARTY. Democratic , Senators Repudiate the Denver Platform. New York World (dem.). The democratic national platform Jast year contained these sentences; "We welcome the belated promise of tariff reform now affected by the repub lican party, but the people cannot safely trust the execution of this Important work to a party which Is so deeply obli gated to the highly protected Interests. We favor Immediate revision of the tariff by the reduction of Import duties. Articles entering Into competition with trust-controlled products should he placed upon the free list. We demand the Immediate repeal of the tariff on pulp, print paper, lumber, timber and logs." In the house of representatives a month ago forty democrats voted against free lumber. In the senate this week seventeen democrats did the same. Thus a specific demand of the democratic platform was defeated by democratic votes. Democratic votes also defeated free hides and free Iron. For the first time In fifty years democrats this spring have had an opportunity, with the aid of progressive republicans, to give effect to their pretense of principle. This shameful record showr how basely they have acquitted tuemselves. HARD WOK K, Basis of S access In Every Line of Hainan Endeavor. Washington Post. When somebody asked Henry H. Rogers, Just dead In New York, to what he at tributed his Immense success In the busi ness world, he answered, "I have worked as hard as any man ever worked," and that Is the secret of good fortune In more than nine prosperous careers of every ten. But there Is such a thing aa luck, aa one may be convinced who will read Thackeray's admirable chapter on chance In one of his most engaging novels, "Catherine," where he accounta it pure chance that the apple fell on Newton's nose and Napoleon ate too much mut ton at Lelpslc. It la related that soon after the discov ery of gold In California a miner, without a cent and very hungry, asked credit for breakfast at a tent 'hotel" In the tented oamp of Coloma. and was refused. He took his pick and shovel and entered a claim abandoned in despair , by its recent owner and after a dozen strokes brought to the surface a nugget that yielded him $2,000 a few momenta later. That was success, and It may be claimed that It was due to labor, for had he not delved he would have gone breakfastless that day and perhapa many subsequent days, but most of us unthinking will continue to ascribe that man's "success' to luck rather than to labor. The dews of heaven fall on the worthy and the un worthy alike, and the element of chance is the biggest aort of a factor In the af fairs of men. All the work In the world will not grow a crop of corn in parched Sahara. But wa must admit that labor la the antecedent of success, as will is the an tecedent of labor. "All the wishes that men can fancy all) not fill tha Arno, nor turn a plum into an orange." Thomas Jef ferson was a successful man, and hU con fidential agent of forty yea-ra declared that never but twice had he keen Mr. JefferituR when ha was nut at work. Happy is he that loirs his job and lo whom hard woik U a iuauiy aa well aa a neevsbity. N Washington Life President Taft, as a Jolly Cupid posed in the Bllllken attitude, his face wreathed In smiles, his eyes twinkling with Joyous satisfaction, and his empty quiver slung recklessly over the corner of his throne, Is the masterpiece to the book of reminis cences prepared by the men and women who, In his secretarial days, followed Wil liam Howard Taft half way around the globe. Prostrate before him, making obeisance for their marital happiness, are Representative and Mrs. Longworth. Mr, and Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran, and Repre sentative and Mrs. Swager Pherley, whose courtship and marriage were a direct out come of the famous tour of the Taft party to the Philippines. The unique volume, says the Washing ton Herald, consists of a collection of con gratulatory sketches. Inscription ! and epigrams contributed by tl.. . Inllp pines on the occasion of the dinner they gave for the president laat March on the eve of his inauguration. The text. In scribed on post octavo vellum of exquisite quality, Is hand written and signed by the several members of the party, to each of whom at least one leaf Is devoted. The book Is hand bound, and the full crushed levant cover of dark red Is beautifully tooled In a special design worked out by Mrs. Ward Brown, to whom the work was Intrusted. Following the title page Is the leaf given over to the signatures of Representative and Mrs. Longworth, Representative and Mrs. Pherley, and Mr. and Mrs. Bourke Cockran. At the top of the page is the sentiment evolved by Bourke Cockran: "The happiness of the matrimonial tin Ions he has promoted argues boundless happiness tor the political union he la to maintain." For additional decoration the page has a border drawn by Mrs. Cockran. A noticeable coincidence Is the similarity of the signatures of Mr. and Mrs. Long worth, Mr. and Mrs. Sherley, and Mr. and Mrs. Cockran, respectively with a Chlrog- raphy so similar, one to the other, as to leave no doubt of their being "soul mates." Among the Inscriptions, which ranged from a mere autograph to ambitious ex amples of verse, Is Senator Warren's parody on "Evangeline," dubbed "The Tafters," which winds up with And we who know well of his patience, his kind and cheerful forbearance. Who know that his heart is attuned to his country's welfare, Confident, look to the future and see there A happy and prosperous nation of 80,000,004 ; 01 Tatters. The sentiment, "Reflect how mortified we Filipinos would have been had we allowed Mm to take the veil and be burled in the supreme court," bears the Imperial signature "Edwards." Fred H. Gillette sings: We were Tafters; Pome said grafters; Some said missionaries to the Philippines. We lived in palaces; Made love to Alices; Our business was In matrimonial lines. "What, need have women folk to vote when' men can choose so well?" is a contribution from Mary Hopkins Clark, of Hartford, Conn. The book, which has ' several hundred pages, concludes with a poem, "L'Envol," written by Miss Boardman, under whose direction the work of binding and Illu minating was conducted. "One of the bravest men I ever saw In battle." said a retired colonel In the United States army, quoted by the Philadelphia Record, "was a native of Ireland who had serve,! In the British army and was cap tain of the United States volunteers dur ing the war with Spain. After that scrim mage he settled down to business In Washington, D. C. That this man, whose name I wi:i not mention, could be brave on all occasions was proved by an episode In a leading restaurant on F street, at the capital, one day. "There waa a big bully, an ex-prise fighter, as big as Jim Jeffries, who, when In his cups, hao" the cheerful habit of shaking hands with a man In a friendly way, and, at the name' time, smashing him In the Jaw with his left. He pulled off this trick one afternoon upon a friend of my army acquaintance Captain Smith, we ll call him and the bully's victim, on the way to the hospital, ran Into Smith. A few minutes later Smith entered the restaurant. Nodding to some acquain tances, he pushed his way through the crowd and walked straight up to Mr. Bully, who weighed 100 pounds more than Smith. " 'Hello, Smith, shake hands, said the big man. " 'Yea, I'll shake hands with you,' re plied Smith, his steely eyes glittering dan gerously, -but If you try that stunt that you did to .a friend of mine a while ago I'll go home and get my big gun and I'll kill you. You wouldn't be here when I came bock, because you are a coward, a cur and a bully, but ZM n you, any how.' "Declining to drink with the pug, Smith nonchalantly walked to the other end of the bar to Join a party of friends, while the alleged terror of F street, who al ways went armed, humiliated by this call down before about thirty men. slunk out of the place and wasn't seen In Washing ton for about three months." The senate has a mystery, tinged with romance. Nearly every day a smartly dressed woman walks Into the diplomatic gallery and takes a seat in the first row. There she sits, gaslng with absorbing In terest upon the statesmen below. It Is, In deed, a dull, dreary debate which drives the fair listener away. She Is the most faithful attendant the senate has. Khe rarely mtssea a day and alwaya obcuples the same seat. Many a curious glance haa been sent from the floor to the diplomatic, gallery, with the mental query of what it la that Is responsible for the dally visits of the stylish, good looking woman. Efforts have been made to locate the object of her Interest by a close watch upon her eyes. Thus far she has baffled the watchful sleuths. Her Interest la general, while Intense. "President Taft haa a mighty peraiatent fashion of getting hia own way In spite of that calm, obligating disposition of hie," said a republican United States senator quoted by the Brooklyn Eagle correspond ent. "He listens very patiently to what you have to say about appointments. He will smile and nod hia nead and appar ently agree with you that your man is Juat the fellow for the Job. Just aa you think It la all fixed up he will suggest a man you didn't think be had aver heard about. He generally makes up hia mind about the type of man he wants to fill a certain of fice and will keep hunting until he finds the fellow he la after. In spite of hia calm, Judicial temperament, he sticks to his own Ideaa with almost ai much pertinacity aa did his atrenuoua predecessor." Will Palrvlew Tellr Washington Post. Was there a brick concealed In the bou quet which Senator Stone tossed to the Peerleea Nebraskanf "OOni.KSS" I IVKHtTIF. Iteftertleaa of a Preacher Shewn tn Be Raeeleea. Kansas City Journal. Matters relating to e Preebyttrian Board of Education seems tn toe In a mther bad way 1f one may Judge by the remarks of Dr. Joseph W. Cochran, secre tary of the board, who addressed the cen tral assembly of the Presbyterian church at Denver upetn the subject of religious Instruction. Dr. Cochran complained that his chuich couldn't get young men to study for the ministry. And In answer to his own query as to the cause he asked: "Does the boy go In for education In a Christian school? A Presbyterian school? No. He goes to a Godlesa state univer sity, and when he returns to his home town he puts religion at low ebb." It ,ls a regrettable fact, no doubt, from the standpoint of Dr. Cochran, that the state universities do not teach Presby terian theology, but the minister ha taken an extreme view when he refeis to them as "Godless state universities." Per haps In his own experience he ha 10; had the opportunity of an intimate ac quaintance with state universities, and the fact that so few young men are prepar ing for the Presbyterian ministry may have Irritated him to say things that in a quieter moment he would not have said. There Is probably not a single "Godless'" state university In the United Stales. We are a Christian people, but the church and the state are separated In this country. Probably M per cent of the heads of our great state universities are professed Christians and It would be a libel upon them to say that they would lend their aid to promote the Interests of a "Godless" Institution of learning. It is quite true that state universities do not teach theology, for the very good and sufficient reason that such schools are for people of all de nominations. The e'ate university recog nises no religious creed, caste or class. It Is as Ideal a democracy as the state itself. But the majority of the state univer sities not only recognise the Fatherhood of God, but they have chapel exercises of worship, and exert all proper Influences to secure the attendance of the students. State universities encourage the formation of religious societies In the student body, of representatives of all denominations. Members of stato university faculties, as a rule, are 1 worthy examples of manly Christianity and lose no appropriate op portunity to Instill In the minds of the students the dignity and the beauty of re ligion, in view of these facts. Dr. Coch ran's arraignment of state universities as being "Godless'.' Is highly Improper and does a grave Injustice to many devout and conscientious Christian instructors. "AMERICANS ARB JII8T LOVELY' War-Searred Britons Toealna; Bonqet Across the Sea. Baltimore American. A wAve of enthusiasm for America seems 10 oe sweeping over England. It Is borne in tne snadow of the mailed hmn rn, some time the nervous Britona have been disturbed with nightmare apparitions of uerman airships sklrtlna the British ..t It would not have surprised the nervous element or the population if they had awak ened to read a scare-head In the most se date of their newspapers to the effect thiu the Teutons were raining bombs upon the coast cities, in the House of Common, hi. eusslons Involving the budget involve io me country's policy toward the iTm.- mates, some or our nervous couslni in the British statesman class nec.iare th. h. Germanic wave threatens to sweep over r-nmana ana Dreak lueir. upon the Ameri can continent. In this bit of allegory is hidden a warning that German aggression ccntemplatea nothing short of aobblln nn a few tasty morsels in the shape of some or the South American republics. emperor William Is looked upon as ihe bogy man by these timid folk. It Is to he hoped, however, that the epldetr.ie of ter ror that seems to have England in Its grip will not be communicated to the United States. As a matter of fact. Germany Is now making every effort to strengthen re lations with this country. It has no more design upon South America than It has upon the north pole. Consequently, there Is no reason for the United States to enter tain the picturesque, though not novel, sug gestion to have England unite with It tn tne ratification or the Monroe doctrine, to be thrown Into the teeth of the kaiser. It is amusing to find advocates of the plan for England to observe an America day. In return for this compliment the United States would be expected to ohserva Empire day. thus showing to the world mat Anglo-Saxon blood is thicker than water. Nevertheless, water does count in any such fraternal plan. There are some thousands or miles of water between the United States and England, and this ex panse makes all the difference In the world between a friendly sentiment for a people having a common derlvlty and the pursuit of a common policy and common antago nisms. 'The United States Is commercially healthy, has maritime vigor, lta resource are ample for every crisis, its traditional position represented by the Monroe doc trine is generally respected, so that It has r.o reason to be nervous over anything. "LET II REASON TOGETHER." A Time for Action by Genuine Friends of World Peace. New York Evening Post. This year's peace conference at Mohonk took a higher tone than the last one on the folly and peril of great and needless armamenta. The swift development of the big navy mania, with lta Inevitable accom paniments of suspicion, Jealousy and hate, during the past twelvemonth, fairly com pelled this. Genuine friends of peace can not tilt by in Silence when the air Is filled with clamors about the need of Christian nations taxing themselves to the point of exhaustion in order to become each an armed camp against the other. Never did the argument that great navies sre the surest guaranty of peace appear more hol low than In this present year of grace and madness. If something is not done to fore stall thla wicked crate, an explosion will follow that will shake the world. The Mo honk conference appealed to President Taft to take the Initiative In calling an Interna tional congress to work for general dis armament. Our neutral position certainly would enable us to make such advances without exposing ourselves to the charge of selfish motives. Mr. .Taft must person ally sympathize with the objects aimed at by the Mohonk delegates, though it will take time, and be a matter of delicacy, to make the diplomatic approaches neoessary, But the need of applying reason to a wholly Irrational state of affairs Is urgent. A move for disarmament now would be on a par with President Roosevelt's Intervention In order to bring about peace between Japan and Russia, and would be as heart ily applauded by civilised nations. Ws greatly hope, therefore, that President Taft may soon undertake negotiations. One English speaker at Mohonk expressed the desire that the United States government might give Germany a good scolding! That Is a fine illustration of the precise dlseaae to be cured a blind antagonism and un willingness to see that anybody Is at fault except foreigners. The movement for con ciliation and for laying down arms and cutting down war taxes must be taken up. If at all, only in the broadest spirit, and with the tacit confession by all concerned that they have been miserable sinners. PERSONAL NOTES. A German Inventor announces the com pletion of a phonograph which ran be heard for several miles. Here Is another Item to add to the terrors of the English war scare. If that kana linotype operator who refused to be married unless the wedding certificate bore the union lahel will insist that his wife work no more than eight hours a day for six days, with a Saturday half-holiday and overtime for Punday work, the country will be content. An ardent advocate of equal euffiage, the late Charles C. M.!ilir, left fcl.WV) to the CarneKle library f Pittsburg. The provision attached to this leiest Is that the annual Income from the money hall be used to purchase hunks relating to women considered ph sic ally. Intellectually and histoi d ally. Edwin A. Brown, a il'-h Denver man wh Is devoting his time and foiume to the Investigation of the conditions of i!ie poor, says Washington has the cim municipal lodging house In the l'r.!tii ,M,.u lie has Just returned home from the acl'ftl. where he spent seveul d.ivs I'fim'iiim v o the conditions of the "duwu aml n'it ' e ment. r'annle. a pet doc, i bencliutl ... te will of her inlstreess. . Mir. .ima i:. t!er of North Tonau nnda. By, the. 1 iiiitlUng of the instrument the whole .vna.e l. le-t 111 trust to Nora ltohlnson ond.Mtrv . 1 r.ni of Buffalo, piovlded they uuiee 10 J;,e care of her dA und ii n a 1hic on the animal. The two heir will i.ai : agree to this before the ui iosale. Former Senator A. W. Claik uf 1.1 1.1a does some good tlilnK with ni i,v: :. He has been fotemoxt In pionHl:n h. in ternational Conservaiury of Muc c v. hti h haa been opened In -furl ur!ei t..e' ua ploes of the most eminent uru;cin .mu sicians. The list of teaoluiH I a coi.ipitent one, snd the artistic 'irctor Is IM.pi. F snk Dessert, an American. Tneie t ill be ih.ee scholarships for Amerlcann and rliioc tor other nationalities. Winners of (cliolar shlps are guaranteed enynncment-. e.i or In Germany or Italy, t!:e kadi.i.. 1 in . ., . managers of those countms l;tn i .... to this program. IS IT O.M.V A FA.., Mentnl uaacatlun no IV .i.,n i , Some (hnrrhei Lenlle's V cekly Psychotherapy, or mental a .. tl healing, has become so nii.n. :.. .a modern times that some bratch.w ot i.ie Christian church have tnk:i It ut n::d ;ue practicing It. The "Emmanuel .iiuve.nen.." which alms to cure certain .Im'ims through mental UKeHt!nii, had it- 0:1. In with Rev. Dr. Wurrexter. an 1 n.oml rector in Boston, It in claimed that m tm sctor in Boston, It in claimed that nuny ft sons suffering from iicivoi.h noui.tsf ave been benefited by ti,r neu:iri?in .if-' pC hav .uiucu inriii uy in, a uieiiion. 1 Here air, however, plenty of duubiers i f the cffnauy and the witdom of thla form of ci.u.ih ac tivity. At the recent Naironiil :;i..ipil congress In B0M011 the hmu.aiMcl 111 v. inent was thoroughly discussed.' iio-ti ,n.nt among the speaUeis teltM t iiat ub e aid level-headed physician. Ir. Thumbs I 'itr llngton, commissioner uf health In N ;v York City. Dr. Darlington pointed out .he danger to the church In this movement. He declared that Dr. Worce ter a:.d his assoclateH were practicing a lira 10I1 of medicine, snd while pliys1c!a:i!t and .a tors might well he co-mnkiis. their pro fessions should forever re naln hcp trate. While gHIng due welqht to the koocI ef fect of optimism and peiMiuxi.ni to f titli In God by a pastor In the ilck room, he fA-A-J 1 . . , . , - . held that the pastor who hus not studied medicine would do wtoiik to attempt ex tended practice as a hraler. The church, he said, had at many times In tho past suffered from quackery. He maintained that if psychothetapy should become a function of the church the opportunities of deceivers would be multiplied. Eveiy intelligent person who ha looked at all into, the subject of mental and spiritual healing fully realizes that the doctors warning Is timely. POINTED PLEASANTRIES. 'He Is a lovely Judge!" 'I'll bet 1 know the answer." Well?" 'He did not ask you how old y n w ; 1 ." 'Yes he Htd Inn- hA naUcA ..... I. I . ,j 21!" Houston Post. "The old man told me If I w.i..n in marry his daughter, 1 would la. 1 . 'o to work." "Well, did you work?" "You bet I did. I worked hi a. 1.1 .1- more American. 'Old boy, that oration of o.n wa, a. peach." It wasn t so had. 1 hid-criiiiiti.il it down till it was Just about the i iuht .ii. " Chicago Tribune. Ted I hear he's civina a lecture on "Hnw to Live en Fifteen Cents a Dav." la ha doing well with It? Ned Fine. 1 met him In a restaurant after the lecture and ho was eatlnu a 12 dinner. Puck. v "I don't know how to refuse him." "Then let him down easy, 7 "How can 1?" "Accept him, start a fllrta'lon with S'i- othsr fellow and when your fianct ge; mal creak orr the engagement. Lmlsvi ie Courier-Journal. 'I have a theory that their choii e of flowers and plants are Indications of "per sons' characters. What do you think of It?" It may be. There Is Mrs. UadrllnK. who Is Intensely curious about her neighbors' business. Well, her house Is full pf rubber plants." Baltimore American. Mrs. Ferguaon George, yoki needn't look so suspiciously at that cold mrat All It needs Is a little garnishing. Mr. Ferguson Great Peter. lama: is a legal process necessary in orrtei t- ",e It off the table! Chicago Tribune 0US VOLUNTEERS. William Everett Jiilyon Leaving home and peace and p!a Father, mother, brother, friend Mai china- to the drumbeat's nuam: . . onward to tne oiooay enet, Volunteers" In name and Si tio Ready ever, brave and true. Fearing no rebellious faction Southward moved the boys in bh' Four long years of warfare weal-. leare or pain and deadly strife. In the swamps and thickets dreaiv Fought they for the nation a llf Many fell on field of battle. Facea set againat the foe. Requiem aad the musket's rattle, boom of cannon deep and low. Others died from forced starvation Died from alckneas, prison-crime, Volunteers, they gave the nation All of life, a gift sublime. Others still, the warfare ended, Aa the years have since gone by, "Mustered out," have homeward wended. Joined the G. A. R. on high. On the hillsides they are sleeping In the city of the dead, Paat the auff'rlng and the weeping Angel guards and God o'erhead. Oft la found some headstone nameless, "Unknown" la the title mere, Yet the hero Ilea not tameless Known to all a volunteer. I.et us cull a floral offering Lay it on their resting place, Well-won tribute gently proffring To the noblest ot our race. Gloried be these heroes loyal. Well the battle they have fought: Privileged we with task nnl royal. Honoring- thus what they Jiave .wrought. I V V