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STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, js ,
Oeorg II. Tischuck. treasurer of i ne
B-e Publishing Company, being duly w"li
says that the actual numner of full ana
complete copies of The Pally. MornlH.
Evening and Snndsy Bee printed during me
.month of June. 1SW. was as follows:
1 41.370 17
41,380 18 41,050
8 41,880 18 41,880
. 41,850 SO 40,000
41,890
39,800
T 41,480
41,840
t 41,830
10 41,880
11 41,830
13 43,040
13 40,300
14 42.870
81 41,780
sa ' 41,570
23. 41,850
S4 41.730
05 44,840
g 41,830
B7 40.030
88 41,790
89 41,780
30 41,870
18 41,840
18 41,840 Total.. 1,347,300
Returned Copies 8,320
Net Total 1,330,080
tally Average 41,289
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
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Nebraska republicans got their
declaration on the tariff there first.
Omaha must hold a good many
eligibles for Carnegie hero medals.
At any rate President Taft has
demonstrated that he Is a bigger man
than ex-Congressman Llttauer.
It may not have been a steam roller,
but It smoothed out the tariff wrinkles
Just the same.
Senator Bailey undoubtedly feels
easier now that Mr. Bryan denies posi
tively that he is going to move to
Texas.
It has been demonstrated that fleas
cannot see, but. for all that they ap
pear to have some infallible means of
locating their victims.
The figureheads are being removed
from all the warships, but there Is
every reason to believe some of fhera
will be continued In congress.
The Oldest Inhabitant could save
his reputation if he would consult the
weather bureau records before he per
mits himself to be interviewed.
Traffic on the Great Lakes shows an
Increase of 33 per cent over last year,
which would indicate that that section
ia keeping up with the rest of the
country.
If Jeffries fails to make good with
his talk of meeting Jack Johnson, per
haps Senator Stone of Missouri might
be induced to sustain the reputation of
the white race.
The Georgia legislature proposes to
put a prohibitive tax on soda water.
When they get through about the only
thirst dispenser left in business will be
the town pump.
A Kentucky clergyman asserts that
whisky Is the greatest mistake ever in
flicted upon the human race. Still, a
lot of men have been putting in their
time rectifying the mistake.
Mexico is the latest to Buffer from
a serious earthquake. The comet, or
whatever it is, that is causing these
disturbances will be granted an indefi
nite vacation on application.
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Those German universities are cer
tainly slow. The University of Lelpstc
Is getting ready to celebrate its five
hundredth anniversary and never yet
won a foot ball championship.
Texas may console Itself that it is
to have Mr. Bryan two or three months
of the year, which is more than Ne
braska has bad of him since the Chau
tauqua booking agent put him on his
list.
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If a Jack rabbit hunt has been ar
ranged for President Taft's visit to
Texas the committee in charge should
remember that the president is enti
tled to a handicap in chasing Jack
rabbits.
Tbe Colombian Chamber has voted
to punish ex-President Reyes for
jumping his Job without notice. The
Chamber should recall Uncle Remus'
recipe for cooking a rabbit, "da fust
ting am to koch de rabbit." .
Dr. Hyslop has announced he will
cot remarry until the shade of bis de
ceased wife picks out a second mats
(or htm. The second sight professor
might as well make up his mind right
now to recant or remain single.
Education and the Farm.
A letter printed In the current num
ber of the Outlook, over the name of
a Nebraska contributor, raises anew
some of the old questions relating to
the effect of education on the boys and
girls on the farm. The writer de
clares: I can see no more reason why the country
child should be tuught agriculture than
why the city child should be taught how
to run a bank or be prepared In the public
school for any one of the professions. It
is not Uie tun I iiens of the public school to
prepare Its pupils for the farm any more
than for any other work In Ufa. But,
granting that It Is, why not prepare the
city child as well aa the country child?
There ks no more reason why a farmer's
child should become a farmer or receive
Instruction In farming than why a law
yer's child should become a lawyer and
receive Instruction In the law In tbe pub
lic school.
All of which has tho merit of frank
ness and inspires Interest in the per
sonality of the contributor, on which
he himself throws this much light:
I am a farmer and live In the country;
I nave no children, but I very strongly
object to forcing a boy or girl to farm,
or live on a farm. If he or she objects
to farm life. I believe that the farm Is
able to take care of Itself. When farming
becomes so pleasant and attractive and
profitable that It , attracts, then people
will begin to come from the city to the
farm,
Herbert Bpencer objected to the
public school system altogether on the
ground that It waa none of the busi
ness of society to provide for the
training and education of the Indi
vidual, but the Spencerlan Idea never
secured much following, and it la be
lieved that oven Spencer himself held
to it less tenaciously, if at all, in his
later years.
The Justification of the public
schools is that through this agency so
ciety protects itself against ignorance.
In teaching the boy or girl to become
a useful citizen, instruction which
alms first at mental discipline may be
made a valuable ground work for a
future career. Theoretically, there is
no more reason why a1 country child
should be taught agriculture than why
the city child should be taught agri
culture, and yet the chances are, as
experience proves, that a preponder
ance of the country children will be
come farmers, but not of the city chil
dren. Reversing the proposition, there
is no more reason why the public
school should, by its teaching, take
children from the farm who would
naturally stay there than it should try
to send city children to the farm who
would otherwise not go there.
The child should be helped along in
the direction which promises most for
its future usefulness. While many
children would, in 1 all probability,
make the same success or failure, no
matter what bent it should follow, it
is still the province of those in con
trol of the child's education to de
velop the faculties in the best man
ner. Agriculture has unquestionably
been retarded because the tendency of
the public schools and of institutions
of higher education has been to take
the best talent away from tbe farm,
and few will dissent from the declara
tion that the farm should not con
tinue to suffer this handicap.
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Great Britain and Gold Supply.
Great Britain's strong financial po
sition is made apparent by the state
ment of the year's gold production.
More than 60 per cent of all the gold
produced In the world comes from
British territory Africa, Australasia,
Canada and India being the great
sources. In fact, outside of the United
States, no other nation except Great
Britain ranks as a great gold pro
ducer, though practically every nation
adds some each year to tbe world's
supply. Several policies of Great Brit
ain never change, no matter what
party is in power, -and among them la
the persistent effort to secure posses
sion of every discovered gold field.
So long as gold is the basis of the
world's money, and there is no present
indication of a change, Great Britain's
control of so large a percentage of the
production is bound to keep It a com
manding factor in the financial world.
The gold poured into Spain by its
American possessions was chiefly in
strumental in making it the richest
and one of the most powerful nations
of the world. It is estimated that the
entire gold production of the world
for the 200 years following the discov
ery of America was $964,000,000, of
which a greater portion went to Spain,
along with vast quantities of other
valuables. Yet South Africa alone is
sending to Great Britain yearly from
$125,000,000 to $140,000,000 of gold,
or more in a decade than the world
produced in 200 years of Spain's
ascendency.
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Viewing- Reclamation Work.
Members of the senate committee
on public lands, accompanied by a
number of other senators Interested in
reclamation and conservation work,
will make a tour of tbe west in Sep
tember inspecting the work already
done, in progress and projected im
provements. If the eastern senators,
who have heretofore had little faith,
would accompany the party It would
serve a still more useful purpose. It
has been extremely difficult to con
vince them the money expended on
reclamation is a good investment, not
only for the sections immediately con
cerned, but for the nation at large.
The benefits already derived are, how
ever, so apparent that many doubting
ones have been converted by tbe ob
ject lesson.
Irrigation is tbe one great national
Improvement which asks nothing of
the general government except to be
given a start, the money all being
ultimately returned to the treasury
when the irrigated lands are sold and
paid for. The tracts already opened
have found ready, market and the set-
tiers are doing so well financially that
payment is reasonably certain. If all
could see for themselves what has been
accomplished and what remains to be
done, there would be little or no diffi
culty in securing appropriations up to
the treasury limitations, for, aside
from the fact that the improvements
ultimately reimburse the government,
the consumers of the east are directly
interested in Increasing agricultural
production. Several uncompleted irri
gation projects are now halted for lack
of money to continue the work, and
others are dragging slowly, when they
should be expedited. Personal inspec
tion by the senators ought to bring the
legislation needed to make the bene
fits more quickly available.
Tieing- Them Down.
As some of the democratic senators and
congressmen have questioned the binding
force of platforms, every platform next
year Bhould contain the following dec
laration: "We believe platforms are
binding, and we pledge our candidates to
carry out this platform In letter and In
spirit." Mr. Bryan's Commoner.
This is a new way of making plat
forms binding. The democratic sena
tors and congressmen who repudiate
their party's platform pledges Justify
their course by asserting that these
pledges are not binding upon them.
Mr. Bryan would have each platform
recite that it is binding, but how a
platform with this recital would "have
any more binding force than a plat
form without it will not be visible
without a diagram.
This suggestion of Air. Bryan's,
through the Commoner, is calculated
to arouse suspicion that he is trying
to open a door of retreat through
which he may find a way to support
for re-election the very senators and
representatives whom he has accused
of repudiating solemn and binding
platform pledges. If these democratic
turn-coats will next time stand on a
platform reciting among its declara
tions that it is binding, then they may
look to Mr. Bryan to get in line and
vouch for them with appeals to the
public to reinstate them in confidence.
Incldently, w may here have an
explanation of an Incident in Mr. Bry
an's own career that has never been
satisfactorily cleared up. It is well
known that Mr. Bryan was elected to
congress In 1892 on the same platform
on which Grover Cleveland was elected
to the presidency, which platform
promised to repeal the Sherman silver
purchase law, and also the 10 per cent
tax on state bank issues, and that, in
spite of these platform pledges, Mr.
Bryan recorded his vote the other way.
The reason the democratic platform
of 1892 was unable to hold Mr. Bryan
to its redemption must have been its
inexcusable failure to declare that
"platforms are binding," and to pledge
all the candidates running upon it to
carry it out "in letter and in spirit."
Nation Turns to Sports.
No people In the world pay more at
tention to sports than those of the
United States and not even in Eng
land, long noted as a nation of sports
men, Is the Indulgence so universal or
does it embrace such a variety of di
versions. While base ball is justly
called our national game and draws
its thousands every day, it Is far from
standing alone in lla class. The sport
ing pages of the newspapers are the
best evidence of the Intense and prac
tically universal interest taken In
sporting events. Newspapers do not
publish such quantities of matter on
sports or any other topic except in
response to popular demand. Like the
department store, the newspapers aim
to offer the sort of news that the pub
lic wants to buy.
The increasing interest in sports in
this country is a natural reflection of
the life of the people. There must be
some foil for tbe Intensity of our busi
ness life, and everyday habit cannot
find It in listless idling, but rather in
changing temporarily the direction of
our activities.
Agents of Universal Peace.
Eleven years ago the people of the
United States found themselves con
fronted with a strange and novel prob
lem. A "colonial" policy had sud
denly been thrust upon them, and,
whether they liked it or not, they
were required to take up the burden
of carrying western civilization into
the obscurest of eastern lives. The
undertaking was pursued with a stead
fast purpose, experimentally, perhaps,
but with a prudence that has proven
little short of inspiration in its gen
eral effect. Today the work then be
gun is bearing fruit that means more
for universal peace than many confer
ences of the powers at The Hague.
.A concrete Illustration of the new
Idea is found in tho presence of Amer
lean agricultural experts in Manchuria,
at the invitation of the Chinese gov
ernment, giving Instruction to Tartar
youths in the most approved methods
of advanced agriculture. Tbe means
that have served to put America in the
front rank of the world's phalanx of
producers are being provided there, so
that the barbarians who cringed be
fore the Russian aggressors but a few
months ago will become in time, and
the Indications suggest a very short
time, masters of civilized ways of pro
duction at least. The Importance of
this is beyond immediate computation,
but Its bearing on the general trend
of world events Is direct and certain
Advance In agricultural methods is
sure to be followed by an advance in
other ways. It is not impossible, but
very probable, that the tale of Japan's
experience in industrial and commer
cial development will be repeated
among the Mancbua, and the effect on
China is hard to foresee, but is sure
to be for good.
Along with these teachers of agri
culture are other teachers, equally
busy in Imparting to the eastern mind
the essence at least of western Ideas
and western manners, and the exist
ence of schools and colleges, hospitals
and similar institutions afford ample
proof that the Instruction is being as
similated. Ethnological differences
will not be obliterated by these ef
forts, but a better understanding be
tween the different divisions of the
great human family must follow the
spread of enlightenment, and with this
newer realization of the relations be
tween men will come relief from the
ordinary causes of racial friction that
tend toward war. It Is too much to
hope that the efforts of American
scholars and instructors in the east
will do away with war altogether, but
the lessons of the schoolmaster are far
more potent and lasting than those of
the drlllmaster. In teaching the
young Tartars how to farm Americans
are doing much to push the likelihood
of war further back into the remote
realm of the Improbable.
Stopping- Fraudulent Exploitation.
Congressman Parsons of New York
has introduced a bill punishing by fine
and imprisonment the circulation
through the mails of untrue advertise
ments of bonds, stocks or other se
curities. The proposed law is de
signed to check or eradicate a recog
nized evil,' whereby getrrlch-quick
schemers annually reap a rich harvest
from the gullible. Under existing law
the postal authorities have authority
to hold up the mail of swindlers, even
though they have not circulated their
advertisements through the malls, and
the criminal code renders the operators
liable under the general provisions
against frauds. So far as can be seen,
failure to stop the practice Is not due
to any weakness In existing law, ,but
because some men will always take a
chance to make "easy money," and
only in rare instance is the fraud dis
covered soon enough to save the vic
tims. If the penalties for fraud are
insufficient they could easily be made
greater without changing the scope of
existing laws.
Tho proposed bill is so sweeping in
its provisions that newspaper and mag
azine publishers would be held re
sponsible criminally for the good faith
of advertisers of whose personal re
sponsibility or of whose hidden
schemes tbey could know little or noth
ing. Reputable newspapers do not
knowingly publish advertisements of
swindling schemes and they do not
even draw the line, as does the Parsons
bill, in favor of fake stocks and bonds.
Many swindles bear on their face the
marks of fraud, but more often noth
ing but a thorough examination by
experts would disclose their fraudu
lent nature. Any effort to hold parties
responsible who are not knowing par
ticipants in the fraud would be wrong
in principle and harmful in practice.
The effective way to stop such
swindles would be by the states tak
ing them at the source. Severe re
strictions upon stock and bond issues
would prevent the floating of securi
ties on a hot-air basis, but unfortu
nately state regulation of corporations,
as a rule, means only the imposition
of fees or licenses proportioned to the
capitalization, with no protection to
the public who may be Invited to buy
the securities.
State or Federal Conservation.
The controversy between Congress
man Tawney and President Van Hise
of Wisconsin university over the con
servation policy brings out strongly
the question of state or federal control
bf the work. Where the work is to
be done on the public domain or for
the improvement of public lands there
can be no controversy over the policy
of federal control. Some of the great
est conservation works, however, ben
efit solely lands and sections where
the general government has no direct
interest Yet the benefits are, with
few exceptions, interstate and in many
Instances the work to be done Ilea
wholly within one state while the ben
efits accrue almost entirely in another,
Manifestly, in cases of this kind the
work must be done by the federal
government. If done at all. The state
Interested has no authority to go be
yond its borders and the other is not
likely to spend money to benefit resi
dents of another state. Protection of
watersheds of rivers in almost every
Instance embraces interstate advan
tages. State co-operatlon in such
work is possible, but experience has
shown it to be difficult and generally
impracticable.
With few exceptions the problems
Involved In the conservation of natural
resources are large and the larger or
federal power can deal most effectively
with them. There is much which the
state can and should do to supplement
the federal plans, but the really great
problems are national and not state,
and some of them are international.
Regulation of the cutting of timber
and replacing of trees cut down could
be largely dealt with by the states,
but If reforestation of the denuded
Appalachian mountains, for example,
which run through several states and
embrace many -watersheds, is ever to
be accomplished it would be Idle to
wait for action either by the individual
states or through agreement of the in
terested states. National conservation
plans are as clearly within the scope
of federal control as other national
subjects.
The city council la at last giving se
rious consideration to an ordinance re
stricting the use of the streets and side
walk space by building contractors
along lines several times urged by The
Bee. No one in Omaha wants to 1
to ltd
ins In
i, but,
terpose unnecessary obstructions
th way of building operations
on the contrary, every one interested
Jin the growth of the city la ready, to
undergo temporary Inconvenience to
help along building projects. And yet
there are limitations against street
encroachments which should be main
tained. By the proposed ordinance
Omaha will follow in the footsteps of
other largo cities which require con
tractors to keep thoroughfares open
and safeguard pedestrians by the erec
tion of temporary sidewalks, with
cover protection and enclosed with
fences. The ordinance as drawn Is
defective, however, In falling to pro
vide against the billboard nuisance.
Whether or not billboard signs are tol
erated on private property, they
should not be permitted on fences
erected in the streets just because the
contractor may recoup on space rental.
The city council should not give the
billboard nuisance any more leeway.
A South Dakota man, whose cu
pidity got the better of his common
sense, has bad his money saved for
him by a Spanish official who headed
off the remittance sent to the swin
dlers. If every newspaper in the
country should keep standing a list of
the moss-covered swindles there would
still be suckers who would bite.
When airships become common will
the rule of jurisdiction three miles
from shore which prevails on the sea
obtain in aerial navigation T There
may bo no hurry about settling this
thing, but it is always well to be pre
pared for emergencies.
Those who were inclined to criticise
the Wright brothers for biding their
time to make the final test of their
aeroplane will now please take off
their hats to the men whose pluck and
skill have set a new record for avia
tion.
It is proposed to use the power of
the water rushing through the famous
Hell Gate to generate electricity. The
power is there all right, as has often
been demonstrated, but controlling it
has been a difficult thing In the past.
No Dodging; Life's Lemoi,
Baltimore American.
Fruit, It Is said, retards the hardening
of the tissues and thus conduces to the
preservation of youthfulness. Yet age Is
Itself a lemon banded out by life to youth
and beauty.
Privilege of Judges.
Kansas City Btar.
Justice Gaynor of New York said In a
public address the other day that "the
law's delays are scandalous." A Judge can
criticise the courts with entire safety, but
It Is somewhat risky for outsiders.
Is It Worth Whllef
Philadelphia Press.
The United States had practically Bo
trade ten years ago with the Philippines,
Porto Rloo, Ouam and the rest of our
insular brio-a-brac. Last flsoal year, end
ing In June, thla country shipped to them
$36,000,000 of merchandise and received $34,
000,000. Let the Head Heat.
New York Times.
Let us encourage the aviators all we
can. Let us glorify their triumphs as nav
igators of the air. They are the forerun
ners of a new era of great human achieve
ment. But, O brothers of newspaperdom,
let us stop likening them to Darius Oreen
and Icarus!
"Grraalna; the Kat Sow."
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Some land along the Jersey coast, for
which Mr. Harrlman has been contesting
for a number of years, has Just been ad
Judged to him after winds and waves have
added immensely to Its slie and value.
Greasing the fat sow Is as natural now
asi in Biblical times, although Mr. Harrl
man Is not of that gender. Never mind the
species.
Will Colorado Stand for Itf
Bt. Louis Republic.
"Only the dregs of womankind vote In
Colorado," declared the Rev. Chancellor
Ex-Governor Buchtel In New York the
other day. And he Is going back to
Colorado to live, too! If the Denver suf
ragettes have half the vim and vinegar
of their London sisters, he should receive
a Carnegie hero medal, made, like Mac
Gregor's famous cloak, six Inches larger
than the largest slse.
Slab for the Mia- Stick.
Chicago Record-Herald.
We have heard of ethical codes, good
resolutions, solemn legal dissertations in
favor of dignity and high seriousness In
the courts. We have failed to observe any
tendency toward actual Improvement of
the moraia and manners of the offending
attorneys. The use of the big stick In a
few flagrant cases could do more to
change the atmosphere of the courts than
a thousand codes and appeals to the
"Ideals of the profession."
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Observe how carefully Ratsull ducks
the mixup at Melllla.
July has Its faults. What month hasn't?
But it stuck to Its task of boosting the
crop and multiplying vacationists.
Embattled farmers of Missouri vetoed a
rural hike of twenty miles by state troops
and the gallant soldiers retreated to
their tents in good order,
James Creelman sends word from Asia
Minor that the Turks have reformed.
They have to take a day off occasionally
to whet their sclmetars and permit burial
of the dead.
The Russian turban a foot and a half
high Is to succeed the peach basket hat
a yard wide. These turbans will be "aw
fully sweet" waste baskets for orna
mental libraries.
Railroad baggagem&sters have formed
an organization for mutual protection and
benefit. It is understood that if trouble
develops they will take It out of their
trunk lines as heretofore.
According to an upward revision of the
custom house rules, rich globe trotters
entering the port of New York must pay
the full duty on the goods they carry.
Your uncle needs the money.
It can be gathered from the various ac
counts of the Incident that Senator Stone
slammed the waiter because the "chaser"
was shy a few fingers. I'erhaps the Mis
souri marines will swallow that.
Out of 400 cluster of San Francisco
searched by the lawyers In the case, not
one had sufficient mental density to fol
low the sinuosities of graft charged In
the Calhoun case and sit In the jury box.
The attempt to tie a can on Alfonso
and chase bun from tbe major to the
minor leagues seems to be a ftszle. In
such cases a king has a distinct advan
tage in having a host of assistant knock
ers In the grandstand, f
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
Where a man's life does not preach his
preaching cannot live.
The man who buries his talent usually
gets busy sowing Ma vices.
A small life often takes all Its time wait
ing for a chance at a big Job.
It Is better to be regarded as a prude than
to rot as a mental garbage can.
He who misses the spirit of the law
always makes most of the letter.
Half of the business of lifting people up
Is a matter of cheering them up.
The empty head Is easily wrinkled Into
furrows that look like deep thought.
A man never has much Interest In tho
church until he has some principal there.
Cynicism Is a pain duo to attempting to
eat all life's fruit too early In the season.
The prayer that rises in the henrt always
works a way out to the feet and the ftneters.
People who think they were born to regu
late the world are always afraid they will
die from being overrighteous.
Some of the folks who have done most of
tho fanning will be surprised to find life
tested by the hits they have made.
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT
Washington Herald: Rev. Len O. Itrough
ton of Atlanta. In the course of ,..nt
sermon, advised the Georgia legislature to
a law retiring women to know how
to cook." It probablv wmiM
live as a statute requiring' Kev. Len G.
"'"""on W know how to preach.
New York Post: That rr trit.w. .iit.,
of Joy springs not merely from the reason
..., seen oy noticing what happens in
any gathering of sDont.mm,i ..ki..
people. All is joy and gayety and dancing
ana music. w hen you get salvation," said
the Rer. Kent White, preacher in the Pen
tecostal Union, "you feel so happv and Il
luminated that you can turn handsprlnso
all the way down the Milky Way."
San Francisco Chronicle: In th Uvin.
of the corner-stone in Washington of a
cnurch which has for a part of Its eouln-
mcnt a gymnasium, a swimming pool, bowl
ing alleys and clubrooms, a step In the right
direction has been taken toward bringing
tho churches and the people doner together.
There Is a well-reasoned purpose in this
Washington innovation which la lackln In
some other methods adopted for popalar-
tzing tne churches, such as tho courting
room which a Chicago clergyman fitted up
some time ago.
Boston Herald: The death'of the Rev. Dr.
William R. Huntington, rector of n
church, New York City, for over a quarter
oi a century, takes from the ranks of
American Protestantism a leader In '.he
cause of church unity whose fame will bulk
largo when that Ideal Is accomplished and
the htstoryof the movement comes to be
written." Dr. Huntington was an admitted
leader In shaping both the doctrinal devel
opment and Industrial adjustments of the
Protestant Episcopal church. He had few
peers and no superiors In the lower house
of the general convention. But his Influ
ence, both in the metropolis and In the
country at large, was wider and deeper
than that of a mere adherent and cham
pion of one division of the church.
LEAKING nACKWARDS.
Attitude of Interstate Commerce
Commission on Children's nates.
BoBton Herald.
The Interstate Commerce commission is
standing so straight In the matter of
equality in railroad fares that It Is leaning
backwards and Is Inviting a fall. The com
mission has Just decided that the estab
lished custom of reduced fares for school
children is a discrimination prohibited by
the law. If an age limit is established and
all children under such an age are given
reduced rates, the law will approve, but a
child going to work Is entitled to the same
fare privilege given a child going to school.
A child going to play has similar rights,
we suppose. Fortunately the authority of
the Interstate Commerce commission over
school children's fares is very limited, and
most state commissions have adopted the
common-sense ruling that the school fare
Is a Just discrimination and a public bene
faction on the part of the railroads.
Wit
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- DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
He I'erhaps you noticed that Kate Gan
nett Wells has advised girls to marry an
ordinal v young man.
She Krar me, this is so sudden l-Cleve-land
Plain l'ealer.
The man ennaned In warring upon the,
"peek-a-boo" Mt was observed taking
si.apshms of offending women.
"In this manner." he explained. I am
able to get horrible details that escape the
naked eye." ,
Then thev broke the camera over his
head. Philadelphia Ledger.
"8nv. Hobhv." whispered Frits, "was your
sister flensed to learn that I hod called
upon her?" .
"Vi'S, Indeed." replied Hobby. "When
mother told her that Mr. Frits had called
while she was out, she said, 'Thank
heaven:' "Kansas City Journal.
"I told my husband all the mean things
Mary told me about her husband."
"Wasn't he tUkled?"
"I should say not. He's mad because I
won't tell him the mean things I said to
Mary about him." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Crawford -You must love your hus
band very dearly If you save all the letters
he sends you while you're In the country.
Mrs. Crabshaw I'm keeping them for
comparison, my desr. I ra sure to catch
him In a lie. Judge.
He There is everything In the power of
suggestion.
She lo you think so? Oh, to change th
subject, have you noticed how many Ice
cream saloons there seem to be In this
neighborhood? Baltimore American.
"Ma, what are the folks In our church!
getttn' up a subscription for?"
"To send our minister on a vacation to
Europe this summer."
"yon't there be no church sorvloes whils
he's gone?"
"No, dear."
"Ma, I got 113 in my bank can X glrs)
that r' Cleveland Loader.
Doctor Did you give your husband the)
powder I left, Mrs. Mulligan?
Mrs. Mulligan Indade Ol did eor. Alf
he's been blow In' me up Ivtr since. Judge.
TRAGEDY OP THE FLAMES.
Henry James.
Grim city walls that towered cheer and
high.
A dusty stretch of pavement hot between,
And In a window, set to please the eye,
A vlsta rich with blooms and dewy green.
The weary soul that saw the crystal glass
Would pause to vl8y the beauties it re
vealed. Then on the street, with smile and gladness
pass.
As though some Inward bruise were newly
healed.
A butterfly came radiant on Its way
Rare messenger of country's vernal
mead
M'ith liidesoent wing that fluttered gay,
Until it seemed a flower given speed.
It paused before the feast of beauty
spread.
And poised with pretty tremor, as It
thought
A maglo wand some airy sprite had sped.
That for its Joy this fairy garden wrought.
Then darted blithely at the shining plate,
To be among the flowers ranged behind.
It struck the unseen glass, and that was
fate;
For love had been the guide, and love Is
blind.
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No other flight that butterfly may know,'
A stricken beauty,' lifeless on the pare;
Because It loved the green and Towers so,
It had a life to give, and this it gave.
Oh butterfly, so careless and so bold,
Thut to its death it dashed against the
pnne;
It Is as though a human tale were told
Of love that lost and strivings all In vain.
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