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Tiie Omaiia Sunday Beb rofNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WAT IS K. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Kntered at Omaha postofflee aa second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday) on year.. 14 00 I'aily H and Sunday. one year 6.0) OEUVERED BY CARRIER, rally H (Including Hunday), per week. .If Dally Bee (without Sunday), per wk..ld Evening Be (without 8'inday). per week c Evening Ilea (with Sunday), per week. 1 riunday Re, one year II W Saturday Hee, ont year IK) Addrena all cutnplalnts of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluff a IS Scott 8treet. Lincoln Ml Little Building. Chicago 1M Marquette Building. Naw York Roomi 1101-1102 No. 14 Waal Thirty-third Street. Waahlngton 72S Fourteenth Street, W. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ahotild be addreased: Omaha Baa, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only i-cent stamps receded In payment of mall account Personal cheeks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglaa County, aa. : George B. Tsnchnck. treasurer of The Bee Publtahlng Company, being duly sworn, eay that the actual number of full and complete enplee nf The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of June. linn. wa aa followa: 1 41.370 17 41.880 1 41.880 It 41,80 S 41.980 1 41 880 4 41,160 tO 40,000 1 41.890 tl 41,740 t S8.80O 89 41,870 T 41.480 98 41,800 t 41,840 84 41,790 41,910 35 44.840 10 41,880 It 41,890 11 41,830 97 40,030 19 49,040 90 41 790 13 40,300 89 41,790 14 48.970 80 41870 15 41,940 It 4140 Total. .1,847,300 Returned Coplea 9.930 Nat Total 1,838,080 Dally Average 41,909 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me thla lat day of July. 1909. (Seal) M. P. WALKER. Notary Public Subscribers leaving the city tarn porarlly saoald have The Baa mailed to them. Adareaa will ba cbaaged aa aftea aa reqaeated. Raising the lid when President Taft 6its on it is proving a hard task. Follow the leader is the game at Washington, and the leader's name Is spelled Taft. Man is not so impotent, after all, if Galve&ton's sea wall saved the city from the ocean's fury. President Eliot's new religion has one advantage every man can build it to suit bis own ideas. The young king of Spain has again demonstrated that he is decidedly hu man by assisting a royal relative to elope. It is really cruel of. congress to vote the president $25,000 for traveling ex pends and then keep him tied down in Washington. Ex-Presiilent Roosevelt and party have already collected 2,000 specimens for the Smithsonian institute. No nature fatting there. , A man of science claims to have dis covered the bacillus of beauty. There are a Tew folks who would spurn the thougDt of being Innoculated with it. Still, the editor of the Houston Post will be forced to admit that the meteor ological conditions have changed some in Texas since the Garden of Eden was locale 1 there. Another double of W. J. Bryan has been discovered, but notice Is served that there is only one of him when It comes to running for president on the democratic ticket. The Georgia legislature has passed ii law compelling . hotels to furnish each guest with mosquito bars, but Hint Is the only kind of bars permitted under the Georgia law. The Whitla kidnaping case Is but a memory, but the courts are now trying to decide who Is entitled to the reward. The contest is fully as strenuous as the hunt for the kMnapers. The government has finally settled some Indian war claims sixty years old. Tf Uncle Sam does not look out ha will be quoted in the commercial reports as "slow, but will pay." The first anniversary of the Turkish constitution was celebrated in Con stantinople on the Hill of Liberty. The name sounds good, but most of us will accept it with a question mark. It is proposed to keep up i section of Improved roads made by Grover Cleveland as a memorial to the late president. No more fitting memorial could be designed for a practical man than good roads. Tht replica of Henry Hudson's Half Moon has arrived In New York, but Is not attracting so much attention. Too many New Yorkers have seen two full moons at one time since Hudson made his first trip up the bay. It cost Walker Weston $2,000 to tramp from New York to San Fran cisco. Aa an economic proposition the trip can hardly be pronounced a suc cess, for tht Pullman porter would havt let him off easier than that. A Chicago university professor In sists that tht children of savages art bttttr ralsad than tht average Amer ican child of today. It Is really too bad that tht Chicago professor has pot tht time to undertakt tbt bringing up of ail our children. s . ... i Orer-reaching Lawmaker. Every time some law enacted In tht hurry and scurry of the closing days of a legislature collides with the con stitution, and Is declared void by the courts, we get hysterical cries about "the Judicial dagger" and exclama tions about the usurpation of author ity by tht courts. Courts sometimes make mistakes, and some of their decisions are Justly open to criticism and dissent, but In most cases the complaint should be directed not to the courts, but to the over-reaching lawmakers. A writer in a current review sets out a tabular exhibit of Judicial de cisions voiding laws for unconstitu tionality, which shows that the num ber of such decisions has largely In creased in recent years, and the con clusion is Immediately drawn that the courts have been exceeding their legitimate bounds in ruling as uncon stitutional what to tht Judges ap pears undesirable, in spite of the fact that the lawmakers have given It their Indorsement. The facte as set forth are beycad question, but the conclusion does nbt necessarily follow, because the In creasing number of laws knocked out by the courts in part reflects merely the Increase In the total volume of legislation, whose annual output has become something appalling, and fur ther attests the carelessness, if not Incompetence, of our lawmakers in enacting measures known to be of doubtful constitutionality on the haz ard that they may possibly run the gauntlet of Judicial review success fully. Frequently we hear the demand that the Judges should give their opinions on the constitutionality of proposed measures before they are en acted, so as to Insure against nullifica tion later. This Is merely a con fession that the lawmakers lack con fidence In their own ability to frame and enact legislation that squares with constitutional requirements. The courts Invariably refuse to give such opinions, reserving their decisions for actual cases as they arise, but that does not relieve the lawmakers from their responsibility, or justify them in loading down the statute books with acts which serve chiefly to multiply litigation. If the lawmakers would do their task better there Is no doubt that the courts would have very much less call to undo the work of the legislatures by declaring laws unconstitutional. Money to Move the Crops. Eastern financiers are already busy figuring how much money it will take to move the crops of this year and have arrived at tht conclusion that, owing to the increased price of wheat and cotton and the prospective larger corn yield, $561,000,000 more than last year will be needed for fine sta ple crops. The financiers are need lessly worried, as their calculations are plainly defective in several re spects. In the first place, the entire crop is not going on the market as soon as harvested and, ln""the second place, the money paid for the part that Is marketed Is not destroyed or retired from circulation. Payment for crops simply works a change of ownership of the money, which again finds its way into the banks. What the New Yorkers are really worried about Is that a large amount of money to pay for crops will go west and be removed from speculative channels. In time most of it will fil ter back to its source, but In the mean time it will have accomplished a much more useful purpose by passing through the legitimate channels of trade. Large crops and good prices mean that the west will have money to buy manufactured commodities, and even now the effect of this pros pect is manifest In the manufacturing sections of the east. The point which interests the west and south most Is that If the statis ticians art correct, five leading crops will bring over $500,000,000 more this year than last year and the total farm production, including meats and wool, will bring $1,000,000,000 more this year than last year. This immense additional sum, poured Into trade channels, the west and south absorb ing the most of It, will not only en able tht country to keep up, but ac celerate the present pace. Automobiles for Mail Service. Automobiles have been tried in five American cities for the collection and transportation of mall to trains and the experiment has proved so success ful that tht Postofflee department con templates extending the service. The towns selected for the experiment were widely separated, with different conditions to be met and range in size from Doston to one much smaller than On aha. A surprising feature of the experiment is that the automobile service costs little or no more than the former horse service, one automobile accomplishing so much more than a horse and wagon, owing to tht in creased speed. Tht most Important advantage of the automobile lies in expediting tht service. The saving of five minutes in tbt time it takes to get a letter from tht mail box to tht postofflee and of another five minutes in getting it to the train does not appear to be much, but tbt ten minutes mean often a day saved In reaching destination. With tht exception of the routing of tht malls no other ont subject con nected with tht postal service has been given so much thought aa the lessen ing of time between the last collection of mails and tht departure of trains and every minute saved means much to the business world of large cities and their correspondents scattered all over the country. If the automobile can save an appreciable amount of time, particularly If the Increase In cost is not great, It will not be long before every large city will be de manding the service, particularly where the postofflee and depots are separated by considerable distances. It Is altogether probable the next let ting of contracts for transporting mails will witness a great extension of the automobile service, and even in advance of that there is no reason why It cannot be adopted In many cities by arrangements with present contractors. Effective Chanty. The Bee's recent discussion of county charities emphasizing the need of a comprehensive plan to work to suggests a further need of co-ordinating all our charities with a view to greater efficiency. There are many benevolent people In this, as in every community, who are eager to do their share toward relieving distress and helping the unfortunate, but there is no question that a great deal of money and effort devoted to that purpose goes amiss because of lack of intelligent direction. We have a host of charita ble Institutions, of various kinds, es tablished with the best Intentions, and generally doing good work, but cover ing a field already occupied In whole or In part, thus entailing unnecessary expense by duplication and appealing constantly to the same sources for financial support. To make our charities efficient we ought to have the line more distinctly drawn between the relief and correc tional work, which properly belongs to the state, county or city, and that which should be provided for by pri vate charities and privately supported Institutions. The mere multiplication of homes, institutes, hospitals and schools because someone is willing to, give the money for a start and devolve upon the community the perpetual burden of maintenance Is not in the true Interest of those intended to be benefited any more than it Is to the Interest of the community as a whole. If the state has assumed the responsi bility for the care of a particular class of unfortunates or defectives the county should not take up the same work unless It is neceesary to supple ment it to meet local necessities. Like wise, if the county undertakes to ad minister relief to the poor it should not have competition from private in stitutions, but there should be co operation and a division of labor. Applying this to our own case here In Omaha and Douglaa county, it seems to us that our charities have been carried along bo far in a hap hazard, hit-or-mlss fashion without due regard to their relation to one an other. If we are to make the money devoted to charity go the farthest and accomplish the most all these institu tions should be readjusted to fit In with some sort of a complete plan, and to avoid in the future the difficulties which we have pointed out. Two Presidents to Meet. 'It is announced that arrangements have been made Insuring the meeting of President Taft and President Diaz of Mexico during Mr. Taft's comTng western trip. Such a meeting would have no significance other than a sen timental one, at neither Is charged with the duty of negotiating treaties or agreements, but for all that there Is reason to believe it would be fol lowed by good results. The two gov ernments have been for years on steadily increasing terms of amity and tht United States has done much to assist and develop Its sister republic. The attitude of the United States made possible the overthrow of Maxl mllllan and from that time on our country has lent Mexico moral and material assistance. Large amounts of United States capital are Invested in Mexico In mines and other Indus tries, and an American company is now putting under ditch In that coun try the largest single tract of Irrigated land In the world. American en gineers and American money built Mexico's railroads, but these ventures have not been without their draw backs. There baa developed of late a hostile sentiment among the more Ignorant Mexicans against citizens of the United States and their enter prises. The more Ignorant Mexicans set foreigners reaping rich rewards from Mexican resources which they had neither the means nor the Initia tive to improve and their resentment has several times found expression In violence. This sentiment, unless checked, may ultimately result in a se rious misunderstanding. The intelli gent Mexicans and officials, with the exception of a few scheming poli ticians, have no sympathy with the anti-foreign feeling, but restraining tht turbulent classes Is not so easy. President Diai has a wonderful hold upon the people of Mexico, from the highest to the lowest, and a friendly meeting between the two presidents should help eradicate the hostility and hold in check the flames of prejudice. Shipping of the World. The annual report of Lloyd's Register presents a complete review of the world's shipping, and incidentally shows why Great Britain is so keenly alive to the necessity of naval suprem acy. Of tht world's shipping almost one-half carries tht British flag and of tht ntw tonnage last year one-third of it was British. Practically all tht British tonnage Is oceangoing, as it has comparatively llttlt Inland waterway navigation. A gratifying featura of tbt report Is tht showing that tht United States Is second among tht nations In tonnagt. though having only about one-fifth THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY that of Great Britain. These figures, however, are somewhat misleading In their application to world commerce in which the United States cuts a sorry figure. A large part of the American tonnage Is on the great lakes and moat of the remainder engaged In coastwise trade, from which other nations are debarred by law. In International water tonnage the United States Is ex ceeded by Germany, France, Norway, Japan, Holland, Italy, 8weden, Russia and Spain In the order named, the lat ter being the only great shipping na tion to show a loss of tonnage during the year. In per cent of increase Oermany leads all other nations In the world and In actual amount of new tonnage runs Great Britain a close second, even lead ing that nation in the number of large liners launched and building. The United States during the year did not add a single large ship engaged In In ternational trade, which does not speak well for a nation which furnishes more tons of ship cargoes than any country except Great Britain. Distribution of Population. The census bureau gives out some in teresting figures on the estimated dis tribution of the population of the United States, showing that one-third are In the thirteen original states and another one-third In territory formerly belonging to the original states but now erected into thirteen additional ones. The remaining third is scattered over Florida, the Louisiana purchase, Texas, Washington and Oregon and the lands secured from Mexico as an out come of the war with that nation. These figures give some Idea of the immense development of which our country Is still capable. Even suppos ing the original states were supporting their maximum of population, which older nations show is not the fact, there is room for millions more in the states cut off from them and the sus taining capacity of the great west which has come to the nation since Its birth is many times that of the origi nal colonies because greater both in area and natural resources. The ag ricultural and industrial possibilities of the west have only been scratched. This is the answer to the query what the nation is going to do with the mil lions of immigrants coming to our shores yearly. It is not a question of a place for them, but of inducing them to seek the proper place. Dr. Eliot's New Religion. It was not to be expected that on retiring from the presidency of Har vard university one who had led so active a life as Dr. Eliot would be idle. He has, In fact, been unusually busy. He constructed a five-foot book shelf and told us what to put on It to begin a liberal education aud now he has given us what might be termed a five-foot-shelf of religion. Unlike his book collection, the latter Is not the work of the old masters. He sees a new religion, consecrated not so much to the future life as to the well-being of the living, free from dogmas and su perstitions and with nothing of the supernatural. There can be no denying the fact that modern religious thought la drift ing away from dogmatic creeds and tending to reconcile religion with known and demonstrable scientific facts. This is true particularly In re ligions derived from the Bible and to a lesser degree to all religions. It Is undoubtedly true, however, that more people in the world today believe Im plicitly In a future state than ever be fore in history. It would be a wiser man even than Dr. Eliot who could say whether this belief will continue to grow or perish, but It requires no prophetic vision to see that the aban donment of such a belief is very far in the future, If It ever comes. Modern efforts to Christianize other peoples and past efforts to enforce new re ligions upon conquered races have demonstrated how strong a hold in herited religious beliefs have. This is a practical age and all ten dencies are to reduce every agency to practical benefits and religion has not escaped the movement. Bad Roads Expensive. The Interstate Commerce commis sion furnishes some startling figures I of the immense waste in the United States chargeable to bad country roads. The railroads haul on the average each year 165,000,000 tons of farm produce, which of necessity comes to the railroads over the wagon roads. In addition millions of tons are hauled to towns and consumed there without being shipped on railroads and other millions are hauled from one farm to another. There is no way of ascertain ing the amount of tht latter two classes, but common observation Indi cates that they are great. There is also a large tonnage hauled from the railroads to the farms. According to the commission, the average cost of wagon haul in the United States Is 13 cents per ton per milt and the average haul nine miles, while in Europe the same haul costs from 7 to 9 cents per ton per mile. Assuming these figures to be correct, this represents a difference on the amount of farm produce hauled by the railroads of tht enormous sum of $333,900,000, which, with tht added cost of other wagon road transporta tion, Is a direct charge against the pub lic highway differences in the two sec tions of the world. The accuracy of estimates of the cost of highway trans portation, of course. Is open to chal lenge, aa means for computing it are limited, but it is a fair presumption that tht commission has at least approximated the correct result. It would, of course, be unreasonable to expect a country of such great 25. 1909. dimensions as the United States and so young In development, to equal the roads of Europe, where nations cover less area, population Is more dense and the existing roadways are the evolu tion of centuries, but it is notorious that American highways receive little attention and much of that not Intelli gently directed. Even with the means and money at hand a great Improve ment could be made and additional In vestments in highway betterment would be most profitable to almost every community. The king of Great Britain Is to visit Ambassador Ield and It is stated It will be the first time a king has ever stayed In the ancient house In which the ambassador lives. There are probably a lot of other old houses In England which have never received a royal visit and never will. Ex-President Roosevelt Is again be ing pushed forward as an anti-Tammany candidate for mayor in New York. No word comes from Africa as to what the ex-president thinks about It, but everybody else will agree that If he should run thure would be a "corking time." Governor Deneen of Illinois Is to call a special session of the legislature to pass another primary law. The governor Is bound to keep the supreme court busy. If the West Point cadets are bb per sistent in good works after graduation as they are In hazing before gradua tion they will certainly accomplish something. Hereafter it will cost a man $10 to call another delegate in the Western Federation of Miners' convention a liar. But sometimes it is worth the price. Mutations of Proitreaa. Baltimore American. Man has burrowed In the earth like a mole, raced like a deer, awam like a fish, and now wants to fly like a bird. Is the natural accomplishment of walking lo time to become extinct? A State-Wide t tearing; House. Boston Transcript. Nebraska banks have decided upon a state-wide clearing house that shall guar antee the deposits In all affliated Institu tions. This is an Interesting variant of Mr. Bryan's state guarantee. Confirmation for llellef. Indianapolis News. Another advantage In the president's visiting this great middle west is that he would have hla belief that tha people were demanding downward revision at tha laat election unequivocally confirmed. Who Will I'krrr Them Oaf Indianapolis News. The National Association of Manufac turers may ba surprised to learn how few people there are who will work themselvea Into a state of writer's cramp urging their representatives In congress to vota for a tax of one-eighth of 1 per cent on all In comes, however email. Fiction Outclassed. New Tork Tribune. Mr. Latham, sitting high and dry on hla airship In the middle of the British channel. smoking a cigarette while waiting for a boat to come and take him ashore, did his beat to emulate the heroes of Jules Verne's "Trip to the Moon," who when picked up in mldocean in their monster rifle ahell ware found to ba merrily playing dorainoa. A World of Klddlea. Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Hisgen, who Is said to have been a recent nominee lor tha presidency py the Independence party, la now quoted as declaring that the Independence party la a "dead one." Thla haa a tendency te revive the old puzile, What la life? Waa tha Independence party ever alive T And if ao, when and how did Its life begin, how far did It develop, and when did tha spark go out 7 Truly It la a world of riddles. GREATEST FACT OF HISTORY. Tha Jewish Rella-lon and Its Domi nant Offahoota. Portland Oregonlan. In tha Jewish Tribune (Portland) we have an article by Dr. Frederick Cohn, Rabbi Temple Israel, Omaha, bearing the title, "Why am I a Jew." He begins by saying: "I am a Jew first of all, because I was born one." It la a sufficient reason; there could be no better reason. What one of ua can be other than that which our race, our ancestry, our education, our environment, have made us 7 JiabDl conn thus proceeds: 'All students of history know that all Judaism Is the mother-faith, that Christ ianity and Mohammedanism are the two daughter religions, the one born about 1.900, the other about 1.300 years ago. Leav ing now Mohammedanism out of account, aa not of Immediate interest, and consider ing only Christianity, tha dominant re ligion, It must ba frankly stated that. In my view, Christianity la but Imperfect Judaism, Judaism as adopted and adapted by the heaten world, Judaism with a vast mass of pagan elements mingled and In corporated with It. Christianity la aotually and historically a mixture of Judaism (Hebraism, Matthew Arnold called It) and Hellenism, the latter being, roughly, the Ideas and the practices of the dreoo- Roman world, that highly Interesting, yet pagan civilization that was widespread over the ancient world Just before, during, and after the Roman empire." A world of historical truth here; and yet, eome moamcaiion oi jewien pruu ularism was necessary, for tha growtfh of a world-wide religion. Upon thla necessity Christianity and Mahometanism have grown, and they, too,, aa well aa the devel opment of the rationalistic spirit, have been lnstrumenta in the progress or change of the religion of Israel, or rather of 1U adaptions to the conditions of the newer or modern world. Hebraism or Judaism, as the religion of the race, Is too exclusive for a norld religion; henre ita great off ahoota. whoae growth ao much exceeds that of the parent stock. It Is not ao much the barrier of re llglon that separates the Jews from other peoplea. It la the racial and social bar riers which the Jews see fit to maintain of which their religion Is a part. This ex clusiveneas suits the genius of the race; It la tha basis of Its life; it has come down from the must ancient timea; and be cause all ran't be Jews, the Jewish re ligion, admirably aa lta ethical content tb. and adaptable as tha kernel of Its spiritual Idea is to propagation of other religions, haa failed to conquer tha world In Itself or by ttaelf. yet has dona ao through Its off-ahoots. But isn't It honor enough for Israel to be. even If Indirectly, tha great eat fore of all timea? It Is tha ehlefest ft el human hUiac SERMONS IN SHORT METER. Nothing la saved that la withheld In eel flshness. No Ufa I hopeleas so long aa It gives othera happlne.s. The Borrows of earth cannot b cured by slghlns for heaven. Nothing can make up for tha looses that come for self love. A good deal of rellgloua fog la due to evaporated enthusiasm. Being forward may ba tha beat kind of faith In the right fight. Of all promises the worst to break are the onea wa make ourselves. A man may cover up his sins, but he cannot escape from the sinner. A great man never has time to wait for an audience and he never needs to. He who carries his Idol before him ua- ually blames It for leading him astray. Let your religion make good and you will not need to worry about making othera good. When a man la waiting on the Lord he la moat likely to ba working for aoma of hla children. Too many put their hands to their heads when they want to know whether their hearta are soft. Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Kurope'B growing crop of ex-monarchs Is not considered a factor In the price of necessarlea. The curfew whistle would he on to Ita Job If It piped the crowd to roost at S o'clock Instead of 9 p. m. The Chicago Jury which told the girl In the case, "Oo back to your home and be a good girl," knew Chicago from II rand Crossing to Evanston. Barney Oldfleld knows how It feels to collide with a Joy wagon. One of the atter caught Barney on Michigan avenue. Chicago, and Bent him to the hospital. Chicago biographers of Mr. Crane, the proposed minister to China, candidly ad mit he could not read a celestial laundry check at first eight. But he can afford an Interpreter. A real peach of a hat, resembling a pot of Towers, rested on the porch balustrade of an Arkansas villa. A fool gardener turned the rose on It and drowned $0 with one copious squirt. He is looking for a new Job. Candidates who remember hearing on election night tha hurrahs at the oppo sition headquarters will appreciate the wisdom of the shah In refusing to have the news officially broken to him. Such formalities are as agreeable as ragtime musio at a funeral. Kentucklans send out warnings to hotels and liquor dealers against one H. E. Wright, who, with the aid of a bogus business card, biased a trail of swindles from the Pacific coast to Kentucky. He la said to have scored victims In Nebraska and Iowa who are particularly anxious to boost him over tha road. Atlantic City, the salt water show place of Philadelphia, boasts of sheath gown bathing suits bo snugly encasing "forms divine" that one writer describes the spec tacle, aa "animated sausages on the beach." When one of the sheathed apparition nears the water a sobbing wave dashes Its crest on the sands and scoots for tha ocean bed. BEHIND Til El PRESIDENT. Popular Support of tha Poller of Re vision Downward. New Tork Tribune. The response of the country to President Taffa Interpretation of republican duty la Inspiring. We have never doubted that the great mass of tha voters, republican aa well aa democratic would welcome a change In tha methods by which recent tariffs have been made and a return to first principles In tha application of tha protective policy. Tha country haa grown weary of tha program followed In congress that of allowing sectional and local in terests having tha ear of representatives and senators to frame a log-rolling meas ure under whose provisions each paid for taking what It could by giving what the others aaked. Unfair and excessive protec tion was bound to result from such an Interchange of courtesies, because protec tion waa often given without Justification, and tha inflated demands of the less de serving claimants determined tha measure of assistance allotted to all. The true aim of the protective system was lost sight of In a scramble for the distribution of favors among interests convinced that they were entitled to such favora Independently of their value In working out a balanced schema of national development. Prcaldent Taft, with the trua Instinct of national leadership, has ranged himself with tha great mass of tha people who earnestly eupport tha protective theory, but want to see It rationally applied. Tha "stand-patters" In tha house and the Ben ate know that they cannot make out a case against him with the voters. LESSO.V OF A DISASTER. Loss af Life Awakens a Jersey Com inanity. Springfield Republican. It took an especially disastrous Fourth of July to persuade Trenton, N. J., aa Cleveland, O., waa persuaded last year, that radical restrictions need to be placed upon the sale and use of explosives. In the capital of New Jersey on Independence day this year a little girl waa burned to death, two men had handa blown off, two children were maimed for life, and there waa tha usual assortment of other casualties. Vhen Trenton realized the in Jury which had come to It, the morning following thla old-fashioned celebration, the city council aaaembled and put on the calendar for aotlon at the next meeting an ordinance Imposing heavy penalties upon tha sale or use of explosives there. It la to ba expected that this ordinance will, In due courae, be adopted, and If so the terrible lesson of tha Fourth of July, 1908, will have been put to the only good use that la now possible. The Philadelphia Record, noting the sentiment In the New Jersey city, thus comments: "In thla city we had elghty-alx alarma of fire, five deaths occurred Immediately, and a few persons have died since of Injuries. The persons Injured numbered 400 or (00. It seems to ba Intended that we shall have the same kind of celebration on the next Fourth of July, for no move has been mads yet to prohibit tha use of explosives Inside tha city." 24tl"i and jFnrritim MEAT AND GROCERY OFFERINGS FOR MONDAY. Pork Choi, per lb 12VzO No. 1. Pork Ix)in, p r lb I2V2C No. 1 Hams, per lb 15o Freeh Eggs, per dozen 20c Quality first and always is our motto. You always get the best here. Phones, BeU D. 1511, Ind. A-2511. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIlj w-.t.in.inn ii.rsi.l' A Cincinnati mini".. ler has secured several canary birds hcln out the choir." We suspect this rl i itr I something of a yellow bird rl self. Chlcaso Tribune: The church Is ful lng one of Its true missions when a prl as thnt at tiutler. Pa., Intervenes li dangerous strike and settles It to tha i Isfacllon of all the parties concerned. Brooklyn i:Kle: 1 he parents ef fort Supreme Court Justice Henry B. Bntf did not tell Mm that "Christ waa 1 idealist." but that He was tha 8on of Cj the Saviour of men and would ba i final Judge. Cardinal Gibbons i courteously rubs in the teaching wl Judge Brown received, but w hich tht J ter has softened Into euphemisms wl incite not at all to reverence and little to fear or to faith. 1 Louisville Courier-Journal: S.mne of j most prominent Pan-I'resbyterlan delegj boldly commend Calvin's action In bi lng Kervetus at the stake for the cri as one of them put It. of being "the f Unitarian." Need there be surprise? ' world has moved some during the turles Binca the time of Ualvtn Kervetus. but even now there are mJ "heirs of all the ages" In civilisation enlightenment, who would burn a n.ai th. .tuke for thinking for himself holding oplniona which they do not prove. Knrincrfeld (Mull Republican) Tnft'a rtastor In Beverly haa eotpreaaed opinion that a good way to apend Sun' Is to attend "some good, unaogTni church" (he is a Vnlvcrsallst) in tha me lng and "then go home and read, or g the beach, or play bane ball, croquet. nls or golf and be Just aa happy as po ble." "Sunday," he oplnea, "Is tht sal valvo of the clvlllxed world." It seem be tha tendency. Tha Roman chureh always thought so. and so did Mai Luther. The American idea haa tilth followed the Puritan example. Il It I on tha verge of change? ! DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. ; "Jack gave me the loveliest blrthi present." "Oh! What was It?" "He returned my photograph'-Cleray Leader. I "T-ti v. v T was lantern-tawed?" "Not In those words, but It meant pi tlcally that." i . T-, 1 1 m. ,iv vhil he said!" "He said your face, lighted up when proposed to you. Houston troeu "You are al! the world to ma," said .nA Ktt.n (wlm. rilvnreed. mm' wuu " " J" ' ' ' ' j "Yes." replied the'pratty grass wld "ana If I marnea you n wuumu i u . v...... vr.it urnnM he lonklnr around new worlds to conquer." Chicago Reel Herald. "Bo you think that woman's first huaW treated her badly? "I should say bo." answered Mrs. PI gilt. "He employed lawyers to cut do her alimony In a way that wa poalth niggardly." Washington Star. "Your daughter, madam, Is suffering fl a bad attack of constitutional Inertia." "There, ma! And you declared I simply lazy!" Baltimore American. She Marry you! Didn't you hear mt that I wouldn't marry tha beat man earth? He That's all right. Wa can ba marl up in a balloon Boston Transcript. jack I can't tell you how much I 1 you! Nelle Can't you? Well, perhaps ifs J as well. You aee, I'm engaged to Dial Chicago Nawa. "Anyway." aha said, "your heart Is the right place." "Well, I hope it is." ha rejoined. " the way, where did you put It?" Boa Transcript. "But sometimes It's right to tell wt lie, isn't It?" "Perhaps. But I notice that when a n geta that idea onoe, It isn't long tilt ha cornea color blind." Cleveland Leader. "Do you believe In long engagements? "Not in the summer time. I never aoo the proposal of any man whose vacatl laata longer than two weeka." Detroit Fl Press. THE TWO MYSTERIES. Mary Mapea Dodge. i Ya know not what It la, dear, thla aleep deep aud Blill, Tha folded hands, the awful calm, I cheek so pale and chill; The lids that will not lift again, though e may call and call, Tha atrange white solitude of peace tt , settles over all. Wa know not what It means, dear, this d olate heart-pain, This dread to take our dally way and wl In It again; Wa know not to what other sphere t loved who leave ua go, Nor why we're left to wonder still, r why, we do not know. But this wa know, our loved and dead, they should oome this day Should come and ask us "What 1b llfef I one of ua could say; Life is a mystery as deep as aver das can be. Yet, oh! how sweet It la to us, thla life live and aee. Then might they say these vanished en and blessed be tha thought. "So death Ik sweet to ua. beloved, thou we may tell ye naught; We may not tell It to tha qulok, this mj tery of death Ya may not tell us, If you would, tha m; tery of breath." The child who enters life comes not w knowledge or Intent, So. those who enter death, must go as I tie children Bent; Nothing Is known, yet I believe that Oo4 overhead. And ' to tha living, so death Is the dead. .rJIXI3 SALT SULPHUR WATER also tht "Crystal Lithium" wattr fro Excelsior Springs, Mo.. In 6-galli sealed jugs. B-gallon Jug Crystal Llthla Wattr. . B-gallon Jug Salt-Sulphur wattr 3.1 Buy at either store. We sell over 1( kinds mineral water. Sherman & McConnell Drug Ci Sixteenth and Dotigt St. Owl Drug Go. 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