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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER- 19. 1900. B The OmaiuSunday Ita FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATiCR. VICTOK ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Umthi postoffice as aecond ciass mailer. V TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Re (without Sunday) on ar..l'jO Lally be and Sunday, on year -M DELIVERED BY CAKKIKK. Dally Bee (Inrludlnc Su dav). per wtk..ti: laily bee (mlthoal Bumlavi. per wrek..lOc Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 'k fcvening bee. (with Sunday;, per week. .lc Hunday Bee. on year : ! Saturday Bee, nna year Address all romplalnta of lrr gularllle la delivery to City Circulation Depariuicnu OFFICES Omaha-The Be Building. Bouth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Fluffs 16 Peott Street Lincoln 618 Utile Hulldlng. Chicago IMS Marquette Huildtng. New York K. o m 1101-1101 No. U Weat Thirty-third Street. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omana bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 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WALKER, Notary Public. porarlly sasjtd have Tk Be ssalle4 tm these. Address will b !' m oftea as reeaested. It la still a race between the ban quets and the president's throat and digestion. Peary needs practice In simplifying his Issues. The Annotok food supply depot will keep him busy for a few weeks. Charleston sees a great seaport at the end of the Burlington extension. Rice and wonderberries have fine pos sibilities of barter. Bankers are turning radical by a re Terse process. They are making it certain that the country must have postal savings banks just to show them. Governor Cotton of Porto Rico haa been a real cowboy in Nebraska and a dividend-paying banker in Manila. He will get no exercise at all in the little Island. Peary drew the color line against the whites. He let Henson go along and a few Eskimos, but no white man needed to apply. Peary's Cookophobia was never missing. It Is announced that auother out break of fool phllanthrophy Is due. Is It because so many people are going to the aviation shows this fall that they forget to feed the horses? - It Is heartless to tell the city-bred that they have neither the brains nor the money to go to the farm. Will James J. Hill elucidate along that line and announce another address? Shortage of timber for ties stirs the souls of railroad managers. The white oaks of the Appalachian range need as much attention as the water power of Montana or the coal of Alaska. - When the Association of Master Bakers was in session the papers for got to obtain opinions on hoe-cake and fried chicken as a substitute for wheat when the population overruns the foodstuff supply., From the besn democratic authority we learn that the accursed robber tariff Is responsible for the high prices of flour, meat, butter, eggs and tur keys. It's a beastly shame, almost as maddening as the crime of '73. Among the- fall publications Is an nounced the "Confession of a Bandit." The name of the author is not Impor tant, but his residence is supposed to be on the Congressional limited, be tween Washington and New York. Kansas, ever earnest over the up ward and onward, is yet struggling with the hygienic drinking cup. Are there none left of those old beer bot tles and mugs which used to decorate the streets of Leavenworth, Topeka and Wichita? If Mr. Lovett of the Union Pacific Is bashful he will need a strong tonic for his nerve when he "meets up" with Morgan, Rockefeller and Kuhn, Loeb V Co. is daily converse. It Is swift company even for a Texas man who once knew Ben Thompson and Billy the Kid. The south clamors for a great bank and trust company to finance the cot ton crops. The hot-blooded south Is so domesticated by sordid commerce that it eats out of the hand of the wealthy classes. The only real cham pion of Jarksonlan democracy left is farming in Nebraska, and he la count ing up his money at the close of the CbauuuQ.ua season, Taft in the West. President Taft's review of the tariff law at Winona will be the basis of all party discussion of the subject during the campaign of 1910. It sets forth the republican position authoritatively. The position is that while the party majority in some details, particularly the woolen schedule, did not reduce the rates as much as they might safely have been reduced, In the general handling the lates were reduced equitably. If the bill had been vetoed or lost by one vote, the president's judgment Is that It would have been an unwise sacrifice of the business in terests. of the country. Speaking of .'the party's duif and Interests, he said that It would hsve been also a sscrlfice of the solidarity, efficiency and promise-performing power of the party to have projected Into the next session another long tariff discussion and thereby probably delayed or de feated other legislation of the first rank In value to the country. Mr. Taft expressed gratification that the republican members of congress who voted against the bill are seeking further action within the party and not breaking away from It to give aid and countenance to a party which does not believe in protection. This posi tion is Impregnable as a choice of tactics In party leadership. If the party has passed a bill fair toward the various elements of American popula tion and necessary to uphold the wage paying manufactures it has met the convictions of the party and conserved its welfare. The party, east and west, north and south, cart ask or expect no more. The party voters will be pleased with the president's exposition of party duties. They will sustain the party majority and keep It in power. The republican party did not promise to reduce the tariff to the point of intro ducing foreign Importations that would demoralize the business of American factories. What It did promise It per formed after full Investigation and fair discussion before public opinion. For himself In signing the bill and for the majority In passing it. It was a suf ficient justification that the choice was between maintaining party solidarity on a good bill and breaking it Into fragments on minor contentions over unessential points. Mr. Taft has come Into the west, as he said he would, without subterfuge or evasion. In plain terms and with an honest mind he has told his thoughts on the tariff and laid down his future policies. There is not a doubt that his constructive, definite, moderate views, contrasted with the demoralizing, vindictive, upsetting purpose of the opposing democratic organization, embody the preference of the average American voter. By pur Suing this course Mr. Taft will have persuaded and conquered republican opinion In the west. Why Leave the Farms t James J. Hill's sobering belief that there will soon be a shortage of wheat In America and his appeal to people to apply their energies to renewing the fertility of the farms direct attention once mores to the rapid change from farming to urban life in our country. Ex-President Roosevelt's Commission on Country Life made no tangible progress toward a solution of the enigma, made no explanation of how to be happy though farming. It would not pay the nation to offer sufficient cash in prizes to transfer capable men from factory or office to agriculture. Of Incapables there are too many al ready on farms as In other places. If all our intelligence needs Is the answer to Mr. Hill's question as to why the urban population has grown out of Its old relative proportion the task is easy. A railroad civilization and an Industrial civilization apply irresistible forces to the making of villages into towns and towns into cities. If rates were on a rigid mileage basis the large centers would still have advantages which would make them larger. The basis of rates In practice operates to accelerate the change from large to larger towns. Comfort is a stronger attraction than money to the family. It Is not certain that the average man might not prefer farm life to town life. But the farmer's wife and children are at a disadvantage in all the activities that appeal to them. Company, clothes, school, amusements, so phistication, a doctor around the cor ner and a church in the next block are compared with scanty visiting, long trips to school and church, unceas ing work over the bare act of satisfy ing appetite and unceasing anxiety over the accidents and dangers of ill ness, and few mothers or daughters would hesitate. . A man Individually needs not to feel discontent. There is no other occupation in which a man can obtain as much for his exertion. He has a secure livelihood, food and warmth. Sustenance comes almost without thought, certainly without doubt or worry. A little energy and study increase his accumulations from year to year. More than all, the land owner's ability to be his own master has a fascination for a man of a spark of character. City growth, say what we will, unavoidably tends to a rela tion of master and servant. Not only In the kitchens and stables does the relation tend to multiply, but In mer cantile and professional life there Is a progressive disappearance of personal kindliness and a progressing indiffer ence which soon becomes insolence and cruelty on one side and shiftlesness on the other. Men feel these things; that is, men who have grown up nat urally. They prefer the standing that every farmer has in his community to any amount of earnings, luxuries or amusements. It is not the man, but the boy who haa abandoned the farm tor tb city, and ovary, oat of us Knows why. It Is Idle to go over that story again. That abandonment always was under way and it Is safe to say that It always will be. The congestion of poor foreigners in the large cities Is another regrettable feature of Mr H Ill's account which has no remedy. If they had the skill and the incllna tlon these people could not obtain farms. Nor could they gradually climb up to ownership by way of farm labor. Yet there are disadvantages In the large towns which might be expected to drive people to the more secure life on the farms. The endurance of in solence and harshness Is mortifying. The living from hand to mouth among the best paid wage earners and the consciousness that the power to work hangs on the turn of business which opens or shuts the factory or shop door are depressing to manhood and well-nigh unendurable when there are wife and children to provide for. Taking it In the bulk as we know It we give up the hope that there will be for many years, if ever, a reversal of the current. Many men make money on farms, live in abundance, increase the productiveness and have wealth to leave to their children. There are more of them than the philosophers imagine, but not enough to meet Mr. Hill's requirements. There is no recipe for providing enough. If the public authority could create fondness for farm life, could Implant it in the characters of boyB and girls, could call forth energy and ability to Improve farm productiveness, the balance might be restored. Dependent as it is on the Inclinations of human be ings, the predestined change appar ently Is in one direction. If we perish we perish. t rrrr Do They Need a Newspaper? Discussing, in the Independent, the activity of the new converts to woman suffrage among the women of the 400 and the suffrage meetings held In the marble palaces at Newport, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper concludes that the greatest need of the movement Just now Is "a live, aggressive suffrage newspaper, published in New York, free from all control except that of the national association," and that If this should materialize as the direct result of the newly acquired influence It would be ample justification. There doubtless exists, among both advocates and opponents of woman suffrage, a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes Its greatest need, and no great unanimity on Mrs. Harper's no tion that a dally newspaper organ is the chief lacking element. No one would have any serious ob jections to the woman suffrage folks having a mouthpiece of their own In New York, just as the Christian Sci ence folks have established . one in Boston. It might be a money-making venture then, again, it might be a money loser from the start. It would doubtless give the women a vent for a great deal of at present pent-up emo tion. But so far as assisting mate rially in the propaganda Is concerned there Is room for doubt. None of the newspapers run by mere men fence out the doings of the suffragettes, but, on the contrary, most of them treat the suffrage movement, along with other oddities, as special features and give their meetings, parades, speeches and demonstrations even more space than would be accorded the same events revolving around actors of the male sex. The suffragettes command special attention right now, because they are women, which they might not have if they had newspapers of their own at their call. If acquiring a daily news paper all to themselves were to work out to put women suffrage on the same level in the other newspapers with the male suffragists it might be a loss in stead of a gain. Railroad Damage Claims. Some figures put out on behalf of the railroads exposing the tremendous Increase in the amounts paid out for loss and damage to goods transported and Injury to persons during the last ten years are expected to elicit a sym pathetic response. According to these figures, which no doubt have been carefully and accurately compiled, it cost the railroads of the United States last year $56,700,000 to meet damage claims, as against 147,258,587 in 1907 and $12,182,003 in 1898. Payments on account of injuries to person in creased 25 4 per cent in a decade and on account of loss and damage to property 437 per cent. During the same time It Is further represented that the gross earnings of all the rail roads Increased only 130 per cent. On the face of It this looks like a very bad showing, and it would be a de cided reflection on American railroad management were there no other con siderations entering in. First and foremost, the volume of traffic has increased tremendously In the last decade, even though the gross earnings in money may not have grown at the same percentage rate. To produce the same revenue, for ex ample, three passengers must now be hauled at 2 cents a mile for every two that were formerly hauled at 3 cents a mile, and similarly on freight wher ever rates have been reduced. In other words, reduction of revenue does not necessarily reduce .liability for damage. In the second place, the abolition of the free pass and the stoppage of the rebate have undoubtedly had much to do with Increasing damage claims. A man with a pass in his pocket was not likely to ask for compensation for some minor accident or inconvenience. The shipper who was getting rebates regularly would not be apt to put in a claim on the slightest pretext. With paw and rebate favors cut off it is natural that the railroads should be called on to relieve every grlpvance with a cash indemnity. The figures do not reflect altogether an Increase of damage claims, but rather the change by which compensation is made in money Instead of in free passes and re bates. But allowing for all exaggeration, there is no good reason why the dis proportional amount of loss, to our railroads, by injury to person and property, could not be materially re duced by the exercise of greater pre caution, not only on the side of the railroads and their employes, but also on the side of the passengers and ship pers. Safety appliances and efficient service by the railroads will not alto gether offset carelessness of shippers and recklessness of passengers. Much of this loss Is preventable and most of it economic waste, and It can be, and should be, avoided. Kennan on Tolstoi. George Kennan's estimate of Tolstoi in relation to Theodore Roosevelt's criticism of the first Duma completely sustains the Roosevelt judgment and Americans are forced to conclude that the philosophy of the Russian Intel lectual leader Is founded on a wretch edly insufficient basis of knowledge, thought and experience. Mr. Kennan ascribes the deficiency In Tolstoi and in the Duma to the re pressive system of surveillance pur sued by the Russian authorities. If Tolstoi knew less of science than an English schoolboy it was because the possession and reading of current and elementary works on science, books of authors like Darwin, Lubbock, Lecky, Huxley and Spencer, were on the forbidden list. Of the Duma Mr. Kennan says that its incapacity was due to a despotic system of restriction arid repression which had always pre vented the members from learning to think straight, judge aright and de velop the power for practical common sense work. The Duma, according to Mr. Ken nan, would have developed the power for practical work if it bad been allowed freedom to try experi ments and observe results. But when ever the members attempted to move In any direction they either tripped over a ministerial prohibition or ran against the Chinese wall of "funda mental laws' with which the czar has guarded his autocratic power. Mr. Kennan quotes Andrew D. White, who set it down that of all the dis tinguished men he had ever met Tolstoi seems to him most in need of that enlargement of view and health ful modification of opinion which come from observing men and com paring opinions in different lands and under different conditions. Among the whole hundred and twenty millions of Russian people there Is no public body in which the discussion of large public questions is allowed. Such in dulgent favor and kindness as the court and the nobles extend to Tolstoi Is because he preaches a doctrine of non-resistance and peace even under injustice. Kennan, from the view point of friendliness and apology, in effect upholds the criticism of Roose velt on the Incapacity of the Duma and the debilitating effect of Tolstoi's teaching. If we follow Mr. Kennan we rate both the czar and Tolstoi as in knowledge about on a level with the late emperor of China, with less study of history and less sympathy toward self-governing institutions. Modern scientific enlightenment, un der the ban In Russia, produced an immense amount of solitary thinking "which often became visionary and fantastic simply because It could not be discussed or tried In life." This is the end to which Mr. Kennan's review of Roosevelt on Tolstoi always comes. Tolstoi and the Duma debated incon sequentially because they bad never had a chance to learn better. Tolstoi's private life was inconsistent because it was poorly trained. Roosevelt's Judgment was in the main straight and right, Kennan In effect concedes, but the restrictions of Russia, not Innate lack of capacity, is responsible. The Tolstoi message to Russia and to the world Is pretty In some details, but in applicable in principle and deteriora tion in practice. Mr. Roosevelt needs no further vindication than Mr. Ken nan's apology. Cost of Living. Market experts mention a law of commodity prices under which a re duction may be looked for when an old maximum has been reached in a rise. In other words, commodity prices are rising toward the highest recent record in March, 1907. The advice of these authorities Is that while we might begin to look for lowering prices the outlook is that the causes of ad vances have not yet exhausted them selves and that commodities have not yet felt the full effect of expanding demand. More income has been put into consumers' pockets in industrial centers. Losses from disease have been partly responsible for the shrink age in the hog supply. Drouths and condemnations of dairy herds have in part caused Increased cost of prices In dairy products and provisions. Re vival of building operations explains enlarged incomes in some industrial classes, Including those connected with hardware materials, tools and other iron and steel articles. The peculiar so-called law of the oscillation from a former maximum level of prices does not work with cer tainty, according to this analysis. The obvious cauaes of high prices remain until they are naturally removed. The supplies of meat-producing animals have shrunk and there are few indi cations of enlargement. For fifteen months there have been practically continuous advance In commodities which go to make up what Is called the cost of living. In due course of calculating from market experience signs of coming reduction ought to ap pear, but the practical and unchange able forces of expanding demand are working toward higher cost. It is prospect of prosperity to producers and of higher expenses to family life The authorities even predict that by the close of the current year the prices of commodities will reach those of the high tide years of 1908 and 1907. The suggestion creates hopefulness and confidence among producers and deal ers and some doubt and apprehension in the army of householders. China and Its scholars can tell the rules of morality belonging to the problems of the awakening, but they are not up on the fighting habit. Hence Japan does as it pleases in Manchuria and Europe plays a sort of poker game to divide railroad contracts In the Hankow trade territory. We hesitate to advise, but a little tincture of the joy of battle for the ashes of our sires would not hurt. A writer of some ability says that the supreme test of social life Is eating an egg of the soft-boiled grade. He or she further says that if ever there Is a war with Britain It will be caused by the dislike of a well-raised English man for an American's chopping and punching at eggs. We are glad to be informed. Mayo W. Hazeltlne cannot die for gotten of the cub element In newspaper offices. At one time he bad the repute of receiving the largest salary paid to a regular writer in the country. In that day $7,600 looked like support ing a wife. The figures have since grown with the beefsteak and butter market. Among South American affairs report on bee culture In Chill la con sidered readable literature. For suf fragettes In crowded cities where visi ble male support Is running short the authors think that it may prove bene ficial. It supplies the three eternal wants of flowers, pets and gentle ex ercise. Prosperity bobs up in the most un expected places. Four professors have resigned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to accept higher sala ries elsewhere. The professor's busi ness seems to be on the rise. How ever, tbe quotations do not Include metaphysics and mesapotamian art. Construction Is progressing on the Boston opera house. Are not these Chicago and Boston art culturlsts afraid that the public will balk and cause trouble over the golden-throated sybarites of the stage who are accus tomed to imported macaroni and Mil waukee beer every day? Here's Hoping;. Washington Herald. Let us ,ope that Mr. Fruit, who is run ning for jfflce out in Nebraska, has passed the gr:..rt stage, anyhow. Already Hitched. Chlengo Post. "Nebraska's handsomest man Is not to marry." Certainly not. Has he not been the bridegroom of Democracy, lo, these many years? No Room for Sectarianism. St. Louis Times. President Taft sounds a vital note when he Iterates that there Is no longer section alism In this land. We have a big coun try, but It Is homogenous In Its Interests, and all of us belong to all of It. Speed on the Home Stretch. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Without prejudice for or against either Dr. Took or Commander Peary, it may be truthfully said that the former seems to have a little more speed than the latter, and speed Is a big factor In modern life. Old Mysteries BolTed. St. Paul Dispatch. The man who struck Billy Patterson has been Identified and Mrs. Anne Besant declares that Ann Is 12.000 years old. That seems to solve all the mysteries except the disappearance of former Senator For aker. ABSTINENCE AND TEMPERANCE. Words That Are All Too Frequently Misapplied. Dr. Abbott In the Outlook. Total abstinence Is not a synonym for temperance. Temperance lu the control or the appetites so that they shall serve their lcgltlmat purpose, which Is to keep the body In good condition for the work the spirit haa for It to do. To drink too much coffee may be as intemperate aa to drink too much beer. I have been told of a Christaln man who was Informed by his doctor that he had a serious and insidious disease, and that his health demanded of him that he discontinue the use of moat. He went straightaway home and ordered and ate a large ateak, a food of which he was Inordinately fond. He was as truly Intemperate aa If he had drunk a quart of whisky. Intemperance Is not confined to the saloon nor to the homea of the poor. Our extravagant and prolonged dinnere are no less a form of Intemperance. The modern habit of making the dinner table an occasion for public speaking Is an ex cellent habit. What la not excellent is our custom of eating so much before the speaking that the orators are unfitted to speak and the audience is ill fitted to listen. I have attended many publlo din ners. A happy accident gave me the only one I ever attended which I thought was truly hyKlnle. When I reached the club house I was met with the Information that the steward had mistaken the date and no dinner was prepared. The efficient committee scurried around, found In the larder of the club enough wholesome food to satisfy all reasonable appetites, and we sat down to a dinner of four courses soup, beef, Balad, and Ice cream and had a delightful evening for the social speaking, and got to bed about the time tocial speaking generally begins. We hold up our hands In horror at the excesses of the ancients, who ate until they could eat no more, and the rest for halfan hour after meals which the cigar required. N4 rational driver thinks of feeding his horse immediately on stabling after a hard morn ng's drive; nor will he start him out fur an afternoon's drive with the oats still undigested. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE rULFTT. Bsltlmore American: The Pennsylvania pastor who rromlsed the girls of his congre Ration boxes of candy If they brought young men to church now aays that he was merely Joking. This loks aa If the girls had been entirely too successful In their sweet mission. Chicago Inter Ocean: The churches are crying for more ministers, more young men of brain and heart, hope and apirlt for their valiant enterprise. Therefore we believe the public should be made to re a lixe that with the demands of the day for efficient service and the Increase In the cost of living especially In our large cities the aalarles of theae self-sacrificing men, who are ever willing to aerve to the ut most, should be raised to a more than liv ing scale and be paid as promptly as any other business obligation. Charleston News and Courier: A priest has suggested that the entire question of suffrage should be settled In a new way. He denies that women have any Inherent right to vote, or men. His idea la that only married people ahould have any say in the government of the country, that votes should be by families, and that the number of votes which each family should have should depend on the number of liv ing children, the number of votes Increas ing in more Uian simple ratio, aocordina to the number of children. If this sugges tion were adopted Utah oould outvote the rest of the Union. New Tor It World : The closing of a home for disabled clergymen near Philadelphia is ascribed to the prohibition of the use of tobacco by its inmates. In accordance with a stipulation to that effect in . the founder's will Prlets and ministers of all denominations smoke. The long-stemmed clay "churchwarden" pipes testify by their name to old eoclealaallcal sanction erf the praotioe. Smoking If a form of aelf-lndul- gence. But Is the habit of sufficient moral seriousness to be viewed aa a Ques tion of conscience with a man of religious vocation, or a matter of taste merely T For decayed clergymen whose life-work Is over, smoking would appear to be aa Innocuous morally as for mariners In a snug har bor. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE No matter how partisans feel about It, there Is some gain In having a new trail added to the Cook tours. Methuselah's astounding age of S69 al leged years has been revised down to that of an ordinary piker of 78 years and 9 months. Henry Watterson and his "star-eyed goddess" are touching elbows with dukes and duchesses In London, and doesn't care who knows It Jersey justice again vindicates itself. For one woman to call another "rubberneck" does not constitute ground for legal action In New Jersey. Tourists bound for Alaska might as well leave their small change. Nothing less than two bits is recognized In that fringe of the continent A polar controversy between two men and a mountain climbing controversy be tween two women promises to keep the country awake for awhile. President Taft's remarks on postal sav ings banks make the deliverance of tho Bankers' association look like a mermaid without a leg to stand on. Senator Tillman Is thundering with un common fervor on the southern Chautau qua circuit at the usual rates. Box of fice returns do not indicate a howling suc cess. . Assurances are given out with the usual solemnity In New Tork that hotel rates will be stationary for the crowd expected at the Hudson-Fulton festivities. All you nave to ao is to take the elevator to reach them. If the newspaper men of the country could cut loose from party ties and boost just once for the profession, Governor Johnson of Minnesota would have a walk away for any office In sight. Besides himself there are fourteen members of the fourth estate" quartered In the state house at St. Paul. A group of monuments In the Kenosha (Wis.) City cemetery, erected by an ag nostic thirty years ago, each of which bore Inscriptions flouting religion and Im mortality, are to be taken down and de stroyed. Surviving members of the ag nostic's family are not In sympathy with his graven sentiments. METHLSULAH PUSHED OFF. Venerable Ancient Shorn of His Distinction. New York World. Time Is not alone In the business of teailng the years away from men. There is also the higher criticism which in a London paper argues that Methuselah, In stead of being a seasoned veteran of 8C9, was merely a fine elderly gentleman a shade undor 79. The year of ancient reckon ing, we are told, was a moon cycle, or a month of about twenty-nine and a half days. By this token Adam lied at about 76. Later there seems to have been a read justment, placing five lunar months to the year, by which means the 175 years of Abraham become 72 of our oommon twelvemonths, while the 180-year-old Isaac of Biblical times would be 74 today. For most of ua the shock of such age trimming calculation will center about the diminished Methuselah. Here stood a fig ure which had represented to the races of men, almost since history began, the maxi mum and the supreme marvel of human endurance. "Aa old as Methuselah" Is a venerable byword. Yet if ten higher critic fas right, the old man. of the Bible was at his death still In the mellow years of one who might serve In the United States sen ate or In a ticklish year be nominated for the vice presidency. We have centenarians who can give scriptural longevity a handi cap of a score of years. Capering "Undo Joe" Cannon Is less than six years behind the Methuselah mark as revised down ward. KRANICH-OACH KRAKAUER KIMBALL DUSH-LANE CADLE-NELSON HALLET-DAVIS H08PE BURTAM CRAMER TKRMS CASH OR TIME $ 10.00 Takes One Home, lUlaaee to Suit. A tMQPr PR it. iiuui ft. uu,, iuiu uuuyiii s SERMONS IN SHORT METER. Putterers usually want to be pronioien of piety. ricking flaws we are almost sure to nil-s essential facts. The poorest way to mike up your mln.l Is to lock It up. When a man Is hungry for praise h usually needs criticism. Service for an honest race means prog, ress in the heavenly race. Our personal aystems of ethics usually are determined by our appetites. No one Is ready for living without a mo tive that drives them to loving. Most men could be fairly good If they did not have to live with neighbors. Many who pray In publlo would have us think that they practice In private. When religion la only an exercise Instead of a life folks do not ork at It much. No wonder many pray for a hr,, heaven when they bave ao much of hell at home. The only way to have the consoleec. ready for emergencies Is to exercise it . all times. You cannot get children to revarenn . a God whom you do not represent as r.. apectable. Tour theory of the divine fatherhood ha. no value without your practice of the brotherhood. Many preachers are trying to .duct. tho taUenders and leaving the leaders to their own ways.-Chloago Tr!une. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "I'm sura" ao,tri the bride, "that Gwl0DlX mV"r'ed nie for u,y "wney." think soT" ' ""u'0 0" "lie brought company home for dinner last night and refused to wipe the dishes for me." Detroit Free Press. Cella Her hair turned perfectly white In one night from trouble. the"trloubr,,'"yT What " th na,ur o Cella Chemical Judge Library. T,rl90n m. Dr- NtIv. htit It la simply preposterous for jou to want to marry my oUas'she u ' mn tha" lw,c" " i'.'y-' d?aP te" me7 nat woman ouehter git married. She needs a man to manuje her interests." Washington lieruld. Artist You know, mv love. I nuo v gowns to have character about them. Now that dress you have on has not a bit of Wife (eagerly) You know 1 love to please you dear. I ll have my dressmaker trim it with that kind of lace tomonow. Baltiuiore American. Maisle Whv Is hla mimiirh, ,-., .t.n. his hair Is blackT " " Ualsle lie exercises ht r.,n,,,i. than his head. Woman's Home Com panion. "I think the little one Is going to bear resemblance to his father." "Well." answered Mr Is the case 1 hope the child wll'l learn to y' wim puiicnce una courage. Wash ington Star. ' . "D.ld J.ho minister say anything rum. rortlng? asked the tieiRhbor of the widow recently bereaved. "Indeed, he didn't." was the quick reply lie said my husband was better off." Judge. Mayme--I want you to meet my fiance. He s everything that's nice. Kdyth I'm so glad, dear. 1 always said that people should marry their opposite, you know. Boston Herald. Mrs. Crawford You say It Is impossible to get any money out of your husband. Have you gone about it the lilit way Mrs. Crabshaw I've tried everything, mv dear, except sendinir him a i,iu,Lr i....i iciiar. DruuKiyn Ijlie. THE SACRIFICE OF AUTUMN. Metropolitan Magasine. The thickets open now to view, Their russet curtain rent and woi n, And now the gaunt white llmba know through The scuriet remnants that the trees, Like outcast kiiiRs, across the breeze Flaunt in the hoyden Autumn's wusting mofn. The blue smoke of the hillside fires ' Drift out by circles, ring on ring. And fleets of cloud, like spent desires. Sail up along the west and south Gray argosies; but Autumn's mouth Tastes richer Juices than these galleons bring. Her hair blows loose, her gipsy gown ' The briers have shredded, and her breast Gleams bare; now stained with red and brown. Her eaer hands, too full lo hold, Still gather from the Rorgeons wold The mellow burden of her wandering quest. So over vine-land, moor and dale She runs, the earth-lust In her eyes, And scatters far along her trail Crushed fruits ami yellow, ripened grain. And splashing vintages that stain Her careless feet with gold and purple dyes. Before her now tho sheer cliffs fall To desolate reaches of the deep; ' She hears the wintry sea-bird's call; She pauses, dreaming; down the stone Her gathered sacrifice Is blown; And round her beat tho misty wings of Sleep. IMPORTED and AMERICAN MINERAL WATEKS. Obtained as direct shipments from the springs as importer. Case 13 H-gallo"" Boro-Llthla Water, for 86.00 West Baden Spandel Water, case of i dozen quarts 88.50 B-gallon Jug Crystal Llthia Water. .$3 6-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water $2.3 Buy at either store. We sell over 100 kinds mineral water. Sherman &. McConnQll Drug Go. Sixteenth and IXMlgu Sts. Owl Drug Co. Sixteenth and Harney (Sts. 7 i GRAND PIANOS $550 UP On EAST PATMIKT8. UPRIGHT PIANOS The Best, $300 Up EAST PATMEHTS. UPRIGHT PIANOS Medium Grade, S225 Up BAST riTHEHTS. UPRIGHT PIANOS Cheapest Grade, $139 Up CAST PATMEH1S. flnnnho Qf 1 v . K X I
