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RRM ITTANCKP. rtemlt by draft, exprrss of postal order, payable to The' Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps received In payment, of mail accounts. I-ersonal checka except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted JANUARY CIRCULATION. 45,826 fiiete of Nebraska, County of Douglas, as: Dwight Wllllaitia, circulation manager of The Bra Fubllshlng compuny, belni; duly sworn, say that the average dally cir culation, tors spoiled, unused and returned copies, for the month of Janrarv, in: I. win 4i..t DWIOUT W1UJAM.S, Circulation Manager, Kubsciibcd In my presence and aworn to before me this lat cfav of February, liill. (Steals KUHIlRT H UN I CR Notary Public. abarrlbera Iravlna the city tem porarily should have The Bra mailed td throi. Adrraa mill be The third alarm has been turned in againxt "lioag'l Cox. Fire! Speaking of a safe and sane Fourth, Milch do "ou rtiean. March or July? We are beginning to fear for the reputation of out friendt the ground- bog. " ' ' ' Stili tbe railroads bavi not ac cepted the service of that lawyer who offered to sate'theta $1,000,000 a day In expenses. ?:. . , 11 , ' ' IOxtra salon'Sr not, the president must remember ttat the Chautauqua season is not far off. Opportunity,' they say, knocks "once" at every man's door. How unlike the bill collector The best proof that Japan will not send her coolies over here is the fact that she is not doing it. Talking about a busy lawyer, none of them can keep in print as con stantly as John O. Yelser. It cannot be proved, however, that Joe Bailey is a descendant of the boy who stood on the burning deck. , ,'lf Champ Clark handles the gavel as carelessly as his. tongue tie la liable to mash his own fingers some day. Because Colonel Roosevelt has come out flat-footed for woman's suffrage is still no reason for calling him a lady'a man." Some of our lama ducks, might find employment by applying to France, which is looking for a new set of .cabi net ministers. What a pity that freight rate de cision had to come now, when w had Just got Mr. Hill lulled into a tolera bly opUmlstlo humor... Uncle Sam is a pretty big man to go up against,, as all the postal employes Involved 1n the postmaster's ' shake down doubtless realize. The attendance has been so- small at Juares for U last week that fight ing has been suspended. Why not try the advertising columns? As yet Hoke Smith has not bought a summer home on the strength of Mr. Bryan's endorsement of him for the democratic presidential nominee. The city building inspector has topped work on twenty buildings In the course of construction without permits. How did they ever get started? . . ' As if the Nw York deadlock were not enough, we are now threatened with a Joint debate between Mr. Shep ard and ."Boss" Murphy as to whose fault It js. . More sensitive ' legislatures than Missouri might have taken the burn ing of 1t building as a hint to ad journ, but;jou still have to "show" those Missouri statesmen. TbV Nevada legislature killed the bill ealuculaUd to restrict operations of the divorce mill and "Reno Is Jubi lant." .Every, state should conserve its own natural resources. With so many other city hall offl clala riding around in autos provided by tha city, no wonder the political doctors In the health department feel envious and discriminated against. Tha Houston Post suggests that It Congressman Macon of Arkansas would wear a wet towel around his head while the house la In session it might help some. Yes, or around his face. a Ou Omaha Water board has a pe vullaf habit, whenever an election Is impending, of announcing coming events that never happen. The noise made by the Water board on the eve of tha election in Dundee to vote water bonds is what elicits this remark. A 8ubtantial Vi;tory. ' Though defeated, the champions In the senate of direct election of sena tors have much to enrourag them In the result of yesterday'a vote on the resolution. They required a to thlrda majority of those voting to carry their proposition 'and fame within tour vptts of petting that num ber. Thpy came lthin seven votes of mustering a two-thirds majority of the entire membership. As the oppo- j sltlon will lose several members in the i next congress and the advocates of j popular election w 111 gain several j the exact number of the latter proba- j biy cannot now be determined the I adyocates are not indulging vain hopes' of winning out la the next session. j As The Bee, which has for years ad- j vocated this reform has previously af- i firmed, popular election of senators is Inevitable and it Is noteworthy thst i the effective opposition to it Is fasi crumbling. The roll call, which showed j fifty-five for and thirty-three against j the proposltlqn. was. we believe, signif icant of a new era in American politics, an era of expanding popular rights and rule. It is only fair to observe that even the slight margin by which the resolution was defeated was due, no doubt, to the confusing of the main Issue by the Sutherland amendment, bringing up the question of federal or state control of elections, which served as an excuse for some southern senators to vote agafnst the proposi tion. The Lumber Situation. A Glasgow, Scotland, lumberman who has been procuring lumber from the United States for thirty years, snd who has Just made a tour of 18.0SI0 miles tn buying up material for export over here, says the lumber situation with us is improving, though far from satisfactory. This, of course, Amer icans who have looked into the sub ject realize, also. They have felt it in the excessive demand and ail-but-prohibitive prices of late. So they have come to understand the impera tive necessity for reforestation and conservation of our timber resources. But Americans can scarcely have their attention called to this subject too often. As our Scottish critic says, we have been prodigal in our waste of ! timber. He says that if the Scotch men cut their timber as we do ours, even in this day, they would soon have none left, and yet, with all their care in cutting, the Scotchmen are con stantly planting. We in the United States, whether we be engaged In tim ber culture or selling lumber, might afford to practice the old" Scottish motto, "I be stlckln' in the tree, Jock; it'll be growln' while ye are sleepin. " When lumber dealers have to Jour ney all over this continent and Eu rope and the orient in search of lum ber to supply demands it Is needless to say imber culture should be a profitable business. The United States government is doing something to relieve the situation, but it could do more, and individual citizen could do a great deal. ' Perhaps pur Arbor day movement has proceeded too much along sentimental lines to bring us the greatest results. Possibly il the, financial side were made mere conspicuous it would be better. At any rate, we have a wonderful oppor tunity in this cbuntry, with what tim ber we possess and what we might possess, to command one of the great est of modern, industries. Russia's Bad Faith With Us. Acting for the several national Jewish organizations, Congressman Parsons of New York has urged con gress to call for the termination ol our principal treaty with Russia, pro viding for reciprocal liberty of com merce and mutual freedom of citizens In each country, because Russia has persistently violated the agreement. This treaty, made in 1832, provides: The inhabitants of their respective slates shall mutually have liberty to enter the porta, places and rivers of the territory of each party wherever foreign commerce Is I ermltted and shall be at liberty to sojourn and reside In all parts whatsoever of said territories in order to attend to their af fairs, and they shall enjoy to that effect the same security and protection aa natrves of the country wherein they reside, on condition of their submitting te the laws and ordinances there prevailing and par ticularly to the regulations in force con cerning' commerce. Despite this plain provision, Russia has gone on for years shamefully per secuting American citizens of a certain race, not ouly denying them the rights to which, under this treaty they are entitled, but either expelling them from the empire entirely, or subject ing them to cruel indignities and often physical pain if they remained. Rus sia makes no pretens? of keeping faith with the United States as pledged in this treaty. She denies ad mission to ber ports of American citi zens, who happen to be Jews, while at the same time demanding full rights under the treaty for Russians in this country. It is doubtful If mod ern history holds a counterpart for the conduct of the Russian government In this cane. This arbitrary course by Russia has become historic. As far back as 1880, Secretary of State Evarts, in communi cation with our minister to Russia on the subject, urged him to Impress ou Russia that this country., never in quires the religious belief of people entitled to Its protection and does not propose to have such a test exacted of its citizens abroad. Secretary of State liiaine wrote to our minister: I need hardly enlarge on the point that the government of the United States con cludes its treaties with foreign states for equal protection of all classes of American ellisens. It can make absolutely no die crimination between them, whatever be their origin or creed. Yet we permit and have for these years permitted Russia to make dis tinctions and discriminations, which Till: HKE: OMAHA, WEDNKSDAY. MAWll we. ourselves, will not make. Con gressman Parsons puts it mildly enough when he declares: This treaty must be terminated If we are to be true to the fundtmental principle that the rights" of American cltHens exist without regard to their religious beliefs. If the conditions were reversed and the dominant clas of the czar's sub jects were being compelled to submit to such denial of rights In the United States, we would expect to encountei something more forceful than polite diplomatic notes. Old West Not All Gone. Every now and then we hear the. wail about the ultimate passing of the old west. Truly, the sweep of modern progress has been wide and has ef faced most, of the features of frontier times, but it has not, manifestly, been complete. Witness this telegraphic item: rtKNO. Nev., Feb. 27 In a battle yes terday, sixty miles west of Tuscsrora, eight lndlun were killed and the balance cap tured. One member of the police, was killed. The battle took place at Kelly Creek, Humboldt county, about twenty-five miles from Qolconda In a northerly dlreo tl m. The Indians commenced the battle, which started at noon and lasted three hours. Their squaws were armed with bows and arrows. A steel-tipped arrow struck one of the posse In the chest. This despatch from the remote re cesses of Nevada is enough to assure us that, the old west is not all gone and no one who has ever visited that portion of the country about Tuscarora or Golconda, Is likely to believe that all the old west is going any time soon. We are apt to hear of the bow and the arrow out there for a long time to come. And such little misunder standings as this one that has oc curred between the state officers and the Indians are Uable-to happen most any time, though, of course, these things are not among the primitive milestones to which we love to cling in our passion for the romantic west. They have formed a part, however, of that section since the days of GlaA and other Mark Twain heroes, or vil lains, as the point of view may be, and until Xevade, Itself, does more than it has done to shake them off, they will exist in some degree or other. Not a Patronage Squabble. A political sorehead located at Lin coln who has access as a penny-a-liner to the editorial columns of the Sioux City Tribune loses no occasion through that paper to blackguard Governor Aldrich and the editor of The Bee. His animosity toward Governor Al drich is easily explained because the governor failed to appoint him to an office which he sought with great per sistence. But why he should, in season and out, misrepresent and V ti ll fy the editor of The Bee is not so plainly apparent. Just now he is try ing to make out that the protest lodged against the appointment to a high federal office of a notoriously, un fit and undeserving man is merely an effort on the part of fhe editor of The Bee to dictate patronage which be longs to the United States senators. Lest some people might believe un contradicted misstatements, it should be known that the question of dic tating patronage is In no way involved In this controversy; that the editor of The Bee has not urged or recom mended anyone for the appointment in .question, but has made his stand on the proposition that the standard of public service should not be de graded by co'errlng honors upon a man 'whose unpaid creditors, number ing into the hundreds, are convinced that he got away with their hard- earned savings by trickery and fraud. If dishonest men are to have official preferment over honest men, every movement for clean government would have to be abandoned. If one political party, despite its fine professions, fills the public offices with thieves and crooks the people may get the Idea that the only way to turn the rascals out is to vote another political party into power. The editor of The Bee, In his devotion to republican princi ples, believes that if the republican party lp to command public confidence It must not only stand for right doc trines and policies, but must also hold to a high standard of public office as an example of civic honor and a stimu lus to individual honesty. Blesting-a in Disguise. The Lincoln Star offers consolation to adjacent property owners bewailing the prospective transfer of the uni versity campus by advancing the sug gestion that the abandoned grounds might be used for union depot pur poses or by industrial and commercial enterprises that would be glad to es tablish themselves In the big buildings and grow into a potential business community. This is the most sensible emanation we have seen in this connection from that source. It is an admission that business and railroad trackage are crowding the university off the present campus, which would undoubtedly provide a fine site for a union depot or for Jobbing houses and factories, but will become less suitable as the home of a great university year by year. Blessings sometimes come tn dis guise, and we have no doubt that the transfer of the campus will eventually be a blessing to the very people who now, for selfish interests, are object ing the most. Our amiable democratic contem porary wants the investigation into the charges preferred against Post master Thomas, accused of shaking down subordinates for political con trlbutions in violation of federal stat utes, to proceed' by public hearings. That would, indeed, be One, but we fear is not. in conformity 'with the practice of th Civil Service commis sion. The preliminary inquiry is made In the nature of a grand jury in vestigation with prosecution In public to follow only In case an Indictment Is brought on the strength of informa tion warranting a reasonable! suspi cion. The facts will come out, and be made public in due time, never fear. The continuation of the medical de partment of the State university is Just as Important as the continuation of the law department or the engineer ing department; In fact, medicine was one of the branches of instruction enumerated In the original charter of the university. And If the university is to teach medicine, all are agreed that the only place where adequate In struction er.i be given is in Omaha, where th necessary clinical and hos pltsl facilities are alone available. By turning applications for county poor relief over to the Associated Charities for investigation numerous Instances of flagrant Imposition on the taxpayers have been disclosed. The needy end the suffering who cannot help themselves are entitled to as sistance, but professionals and Impos tors should be cut off without com punction. Colonel Bryan proposes to bring Senator Kern out to Fairvlew before he goes to Washington to begin his term and instruct him in the art of being a real senator. Pretty good start for that school of political science. Perhaps our friend, Judge Shoe maker, is going at the work of lld llftlng the wrong way. Why not pre pare a bill regulating the clocks in Ne braska so that the hands will not point to 8 until midnight has arrived? Mrs. Sage proposes to give $25,000 toward beautifying New York. When we recall that it took $300,000 to re move one snow in 1910, we can read ily approximate the proportions of Mrs. Sage's gift. Science of Wolf ('basin. Brooklyn Eagle. A thousand Nebraska people took part lu a wolf hunt the other day. But Mr. Bryan has discovered a way of keeping the wolf from the door that requires no such display of strenuous energy. A Spar to Action. Kansas City Times. Railroad attorneys favor an appeal from the Interstate Commerce commission's decision in the freight rate case. The threatened "'economy," they fear, might be made to apply to the somewhat over burdened legal department. I, Slamanlaat the Hobaoa Spook. Pittsburg Dispatch. Five thousand Japanese Joined In a lan tern celebration of Washington's birthday at Honolulu. At nearly the same time Mr. Hobson was reviving the spook of Japan's fell designs on this country, for the purpose of eliciting more super dreadnaughts from the congressional appropriation. - "Stealing: Dryao'a Clothes." New York World. - In view of Mr. Roosevelt's sympathetic attitude toward the Initiative, the refer endum and the recall, we hasten to send our condolences to Mr. Bryan. Another political Jewel la about to be snatched from his Jeffersonian bosom. The only para mount Issue that Mr. Roosevelt has now left to Mr. Bryan Is that of county option, and we advise him to lock It In a safety deposit vault before the colonel begins to warm southward In March. A FIGHT THAT FAILED. Philadelphia Record: Membership In the Ananias club Is not accepted clamly in the house of representatives. When the "shorter and uglier word" Is used the friends of both parties have to exert them selves to prevent a mill In which no atten tion would be paid to the Marquis of Queensbury rules. , New York Tribune. In describing a re cent collision or near collision In the house of representatives "The Congressional Rec ord" said: "Menacing actions took place between Mr. Wickersham and Mr. MonSell." "The Record" . can always be depended upon tor a thoroughly composed and Judi cial review of the proceedings which some times enliven the exchanges of high thought on the floor of the senate and the house of representatives. Official Report in Congressional Reoord: Mr. Mondell (from his seat' Ha Is a liar; that is all. Mr. Wickersham You are a liar, if you say that; that Is all. (Menacing actions took place between Mr. Wickersham and Mr. Mondell.) The Speaker Pro Tempore -The sergeant- st-arms will preserve order. (The eergeant-at-arms. bearing the mace. appeared.) Mr. Wickersham Mr. Speaker. I want the reoord to show that I apologise to the house. I wsa called a liar. The Speaker Pro Tempore The house will be In order. All gentiemep will be seated. People Talked About John Q. Mllburn has made It clear to the codes committee of the New York legislature that stockbrokers ara not gam blers; they deal In sura things. President Baehr of the Reading railroad hopes with divine sustenance to become reconciled with the freight rate decision. Should his hopes vanish he can readily shift the deficit to the hard coal bill. In an interview in the New York World Speaker Cannon expresses the opinion that Oliver P. Morton, war governor of Indiana, and Joseph W. Bailey, senator from Texas, are the most notable statesmen he has ever known since LJncoIn's time. There were others with whom Uncle Joe did not get acquainted. The honeymoon of Mr. and Mrs. Oay El Sharp, married laat week in Oklahoma City, will be spent on a horseback ride to Seattle, Wash., and return. Mrs. ?hai. formerly . Wynona Allen, Is an ex pert horsewoman and her husband is also a good rider. Neither ever having had aa much of this fun as they desired, they deckled to combine the longest horseback ride on record with their honeymoon. For the benefit of agitated railroad of ficials unfeeling newspapers In New York reproduce the heartrending roar ucard In the metropolis when the gaa company was ordered to reduce the price to 80 cents. "Confiscation" and "ruin" were common words of the gaseous sob squad. After fighting the reduction In the courts and meeting defeat, the company settled down to business. Introduced economies and Is sow earning ( per cent dividends. 1. Army Gossip Matters of Tn teres en and Back f the riling X.tce Gleaned frosa the Army and ITavy egister. The moement to abolish the means of communication between the army and the navy, now little used the Meyer code--having successfully run the gauntlet of the general staff and the office of the chief algnal officer of the army. Is now renting in the office of the aid for opera tions of the navy. It has been there for several clays, and It Is learned that favor able action by the navy Is dependent upon a report fronj the signal officer of the fleet recommending its abolition. There seems to be some opposition to this In the Navy department, but this opposition. It Is understood. Is not shared by the officers of the fleet having to do with signaling. The military authorities have again un der consideration the extension of the period of duty In the tropics. This sub ject has come 'up at this time In connec tion with the assignment of troops to duty on the Isthmus tf Panama. There will be a heavy draft upon the army for this purpose, the present plans contemplating a permanent military force of four regi ments of Infantry, one squadron of cavalry, three batteries of field artillery and twelve companies of coast artillery. This means a total garrison of about 6.3UO of which the mobile army will supply 5,0nO. Added to this demand for troops, the department Is confronted with the problem of placing six regliirents of Infantry In the Hawaiian Is lands, while maintaining the present en listed strength of the military representa tion In the Philippines. An Investigation Is being conducted by the army quartermasters into the advis ability of adopting canvas buckets and can vas basins, .recommended by the board of officers which had to do with revision of the equipment of the Infantry. Articles of this material will represent a saving In weight carried and In space occupied In transportation. The sampies submitted are being tested at the Philadelphia depot of the quartermaster's department In order to ascertain tf It Is possible to obtain a water tight utensil and on that Is Suffl cfently durable to stand the wear and tear of service In the field. It Is not so essential to get a basin that la water tight ai to obtain a bucket possessing that quality, of course. There Is a prospect that the quar termasters will be able to select articles of this character answering the purpose desired and fulfilling all the requirements. The attention of the military authorities has lately been directed to the case of an army officer who claims to have served In the civil war and to be, consequently, en titled to the civil war badge. The general staff reported that there wa nothing on the records of the War department to enow that the officers' service was with an organisation of the United States in any part of tho period of the civil war. Further inquiry divulged the fact that the officer seived with a state organisation that at no time in Its existence received recognition by the United States. It is held that the rule may be deemed esetabllshed that no man or organisation should be considered to have entered the United Stales service unless some note of such entry or such service, subsequent to such entry and dependent thereon, appears on the records of the War department. In the absence of such record the strictest proof would be necessary to establish1 Ahe fact of service and such proof would amount. In the end. to a correction of error In the War department records. In this particular case, it was decided that the applicant for the badge Is not entitled to the emblem. In view of the fact that fclS.OOO of the (125,000 carried by the army appropriation bill for the acquirement, maintenance and operation of aeroplanes has been made Immediately available upon the president's approval of the bill, the chief signal officer of the army is preparing to purchase a least three machines at. once. Satisfactory offers for Immediate delivery of aeroplanes have been received from the Wrights, Cur- tlss and other aeroplane manufacturers. A Wright machine will be placed In use at San Antonio, Tex., a Curtlss at San Diego, Cal., and probably a Wright machine at College Park, near Washington. It Is ex pected that the machine to be sent to Col lege Park will be In operation In about a month. A large number of applications for assignment to aeronautical work have been received from officers, but the chief of staff has as yet not decided to whom will be given this duty. In the meantime, Mr. Olenn Curtlss la Instructing army of ficers In seroplane work at San Diego; First lieutenant Paul W. Beck of ihe signal corps and Lieutenants George E. M. Kelly. Thirtieth Infantry, and John C. Walker, Jr., Eighth Infantry, being engged In the practice. Mr. Parmalee, one of the Wright operators, hss arrived at San An tonio, Tex., with a Wright aeroplane fur nished by a New Yorker, and thla machine will be sent to the Mexican border for scouting purposes, accompanied by First Lieutenant Benjamin D. Foulola, signal corps, and his aeronautic detachment. OMAHA FB0M THE OUTSIDE. Florence Tribune: A pastor of an Omaha church has resigned to go farming. He probably can do as much good In his new field as In his old. Hartington Herald: The Omaha papers are boosting for the parcels poet and think it would be a fine thing. Yes. It would be a fine thing, a very fine thing for Omaha. 1-exlngton Pioneer: The Omaha Bee de clares that a pipe line to conduct oil from the Wyoming fields to Omaha la bound to come. It will receive the hearty endorse ment of every town between Omaha and the oil fields. Kearney Hub: The sudden fear that has developed in Lincoln that Grand Island will be the capital" In case of removal and that the development of a business rival In cen tral Nebraska would work to the Injury of Omaha Is at least lugubrious. Aurora Republican: The legislative com mittee appointed to Investigate the charge made by Governor Aldrtoh that gross elec tion frauds were practiced In Omaha last fall has already uncovered enough evidence to convince any fair-minded person that the governor was right when he made the charge. Now the people are wondering If the legislature will enact a law as sug gested by the governor which will prevent a repetition of ballot box debauchery In the metropolis. Don't stake too much that it will. Loup City Times-Independent: One of the things we are not capable of understanding is why the legislature spends aoVnuch time In passing and repealing laws for Omaha. One of the latest acrapa was the repealing of the office of fire warden. Why can't Omaha have Ita own laws In this respect and govern Its own people? What business la It to the reet of the state whether Omaha has a fire warden or who appoints hlmT We may be wrong, but believe that the metropolis should have borne rule to the extent of any other city la the state. Tho Beo's Letter Box Contributions en Timely tnbjeeta JTo Baeeedlnr Two Hasdred Wards Are Invited troaa On fteaders- tfter IX-aih Whatr NKW TOFtK, Feb. K -To the Uditor of The llee: The Interview with Thouta A Kdlson on Immortality Is still awskenlng much Interest, even In fnr-sav countrvs. "No soul": "death ends all"; "the brain a piece of meat mechanism'' that prodjoea thought as the liver secretes bile, having an Individuality only as has New York City with Its s.000.000 of human brains, each brain a combination of millions of cells; when New York City disintegrates, its In dividuality Is gone; when our brain dies. that ends us. Mr. Edison Is right in this-none of cur five senses, nor all combined, can reveal Immortality, much less demonstrate It. The ear can not see. the eye can not hear. Magnify light a million times, yet the ear could not hear It. Every sense Is shut .p absolutely In Its own realm, but he Is a bold scientist who would say that tliore Sre no realms other than those covered by these five sensea. There may be lo.foa other groups of five or more senses each. Why not? Does Mr. Kdlson say I am guessing In this? I might reply with equal reason thst he la guessing when he denies It; and were these two guesses precisely equal. Is It not more natural, If not more scientific, ta choose the optimistic one? But they are not equal. There are channels of knowledge other than these five senses. Beethoven, stone deaf, heard magnificent music which he wrote down In great oratorios that have stood the test of time. There Is a whole range of spiritual senses each of which takes In knowledge up to the level of Its development. There Is a beauty which the eye can not aee; a music which the ear can not hear. Would Mr. Kdlson deny this? The brutal son can have no conception o' a mother's love although his five senses ire Perfect. He has eyea and ears but sees and hesrs not what many other men see and hear clearly. Conceptions of right and wrong are absolutely real, but real onlv to conscience. The pure In heart see Clod, and others can not. When Bishop Brooke spoke of God to deaf and blind Helen Keller he was not surprised. She said thst she leng knew there must be ome one. By ome channel other than the five senses this thought had got Into her mind. Hut waa a profound utterance of Jesus, that If a man do right he would know. To 1o Is to exercise, and to exercise 1s to grow. The exercise of a faculty develops that faculty, and then up to its level it will know truth. Mr. Kdlson is sure the brain Is not an organ of thought as the piano Is an orgin of the musk- It conveys to our ears frun the.oul of s Hnfmsn; but Edison saye the brain Is a machine that creates thought. End the brain machine, he tells us. and you end the man: some bias, he admits. Is given by heredity, for In some way In the catacombs of the brain cells our ancestors He entombed. But what of the countless millions of thoughts that control the uni versethoughts that are other than man ? Whence come these thoughts? Where is the "brain box" of the universe? Herbert Spencer, the chlefest thinker of modern times, closes his system of philosophy wl'h the thought that there Is In the universe a power other than man thst makes for righteousness. If there can be no thought without a brain machine, where It the brain machine of this power other than man's? Where Is the brain power that Is In control of the universe? If, on the other hand, there can be thought without brain, what becomes of Mr. Edison's argument that the destruction of the brain ends man? Is not his con clusion the baseless fabric of an unscien tific theory? He has wandered all too fsr from the "watchfires of the tribes." But the pity of It la. hi words do not hit upon rock, but upon palpitating heart and brain. There are 1.700.000.000 people on earth today, every one of whom Is under the sen tence of death, and can be lifted above the slime and briar and rock of the valley nnd shadow only upon the wings of faith and hrpe. Will not the pitiful man. if he is wise, seek In every way to strengthen those wings and In no wsy break one of the least of them, unless impelled by abso lute certainty? Lightning Is logic; yes. but at times there re other far more effective way of reach ing truth than by pure logic. I. K. FUNK. A MASSAC II I SETTS IDKA. Proitaed Laws fop Proving Wills Be fore Death. Chicago Record-Herald. A bill Is now before the Massachusetts legislature according to the terms of which any will or codicil may, at the option of the testator, be offered for proof during his lifetime. The older snd richer the com munity, the more value such a piece, of leg islation would be found to possess. II llnols, growing older and richer, may soon find as much advantage In It as Massa chusetts. Assurance oY the sanity of a testator and of his freedom from undue Influence may more easily be arrived at whue he Is still within reach of legal Snd medical au thority than after he la dead. The adoption of a bill like that described would do much to obviate wrangling among helrs-at-law and next to kin and to minimis the litiga tion which Is often so protracted, so ex pensive and so detrimental to family peace. Spring Hats and Caps 4 1 Are Now Ready Call and Inipect the Best Hat on the Market Browning, King 'BrovninalCing & Cq g j( clothing, y FIFTEENTH R. S. WILCOX. Ji. ....... ...... ... ! . .. SMILING LINES. Wife- I icilly believe Hint thst Mrs Net (lore has the most coiitmt) nature f an . oiiihii on raith. 1 1 n I ti.otmti nature" Wh. tf (Tit nman fasted Im u get fat Huston ii ni sci Ipt "Your lfc insists on bring allowed tn vol " es." replied Mr. MecMon. ' She's nut cttiUnt wild having the hist w m1 in a. political in -giimcri. Mif ant l " t'i ili polls nnil put In ft postrtipt. 'Washing, tun Star. Mr. TikMw ml tiotrox gave me cigar tctHv He miokes the kind that cost a dollar. Mr. Tightwad- Well, with h II hl money I should think tic could nfford better nnr. ThHt Nix I save you at t hrlstinas cost in i'htladelphla Itecord. "Ara tliitrA -a1Iv anih thlnffi as athletiai pains?" 41 "Uosh, man! lld oii never hear tell of jt a Jumping toothache'.'"- Baltimore Ameri can. . . "My doctor mi I must sleep out-of-doors," fatd the mnn who H not strong. "Well." replied the friend who makes painful efforts to cheer up. "It's bII right nu long as your landlord doesn't say It. ChlcaKo Hecord-llerald. "Man's a funny proposition." "What now?" "When he reads a medical book lie fan cies he has every dlseaMe described: but let him read the work of a moralist and all the faults pointed out he sees not In himself but In his neighbor." Huston Transcript. Is that man a good weather prophet?' "1 should say he Is," replied I'aursr J v. Corntossel. "Sometimes his weather is a. few days ahead of time or a few daya behindhand. But It alwsrs gets hers.'' Washington Star. "Squire." asked the visiting friend, ' how do von manage to occupy your time in tins little village'.'" The only Justice of the peace In Skednnk leisurely bit off a Iar;e chunk of plug to bacco anil chewed II In Mlctiue a few mo ments. "Hill." he said, with judicial solemnity, "1 can beat any man In six counties pitch In' horseshoes." ChlcaKo Tribune. THE MODERN BLACKSMITH. W. D. Xesblt In Chicago Tost. Under s costly canopy The vllliige blacksmith sits; . Before him Is a touring cur Broken to little bits. And the owner, and the chauffeur, toe. Have almost lost their wits. The village blacksmith smiles with g'se As he llehts his tat duar. He tells his helpers what to do t ' To straighten up the ear. And the owner, and the chauffeur, to, WnnJ humbly where they are. The village blacksmith puffs his weed And smiles a smile of cheer The while his helpers pump the tires And monkey with the gear And the owner and the chauffeur, too. Stand reverently near. Beh'nd the village blacksmith Is The portal ot tils shop; The shop Is very large In size, With a tiled roof on top And the owner, and the chauffeur, toss, At Is were glad to stop. , The children going home from school Look at the open door; They like to see him muke his bills And hear the owners roar. And the chauffeurs weep as they declar They ne er pHld that berore. He goes each morning tn the bank And salts away his cash: A high silk hat and long frock coat Help him to cut a dash But the owner, and the chauffeur, too, Their teeth all vainly gnash. The chestnut tree long since has died, The smith does not repine; His humhle shop has grown Into A building big and fine. And it bears "Oarage" above the door On a huge electric sign. Gold Dust Makes Hard Water Soft By the use of GOLD DU ST you can at all times have nice. " r. : l - uil rainwater ngiu at your r -11 . 1 tT T j cioow ior inc asKing. imaey ine what a help this vvoirfd be for washing clothes, and for all cleansing purposesl Just a little GOLD DUST added to any water 6oftens it, 1 "f takes out the mineral sub stances and brings out the greatest cleansing value. GOLD DUST dissolve! dirt and grease, works like lightning, and relieves house work of all its drudgery. For your poor back's sake,' don't try to keep house with out GOLD DUT. 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