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8 OBSERVATIONS.
The appointment of ex Governor
James W. Dawes of Crete as paymaster
in the army is commended by all who
know the man or his record. The
position requires scrupulous exactness
and attention to duty. Heroic virtues
are required only once or twice in a
lifetime and when a great occasion
arrives it stimulates the actors so that
characterless men and women occa
sionally do themselves credit and are
rewarded by a distinction not really
deserved. But those who have had
occasion to search for a man, scrupu
lously honest, exact, and with a record
fordoing his duty 365 days in the year
have been humiliated to find like
Diogenes, that it would take a long
time and a far Journey. The depart
ment which recognized the fitness of
Mr, Dawes for a position of trust is to
be congratulated on its discrimination.
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The Presbyterian assemblies, which
at this time of the year are struggling
with questions of Sabbath observance,
verbal inspiration and the proper
length of the tether which attaches
professors of theology to the cata
clnsm, are survivals of the diets and
synods which used to meet and settle
(or rather crystallize) questions con
cerning the relation between the
members of the Trinity. The priests
and fathers of the church in the early
centuries when they met in diets
stopped discussion. Their conclusions
could divide the Christian church
into a Greek and a Roman church.
But the Protestant reformation has
changed all that. It stopped discus
sion in the Catholic church altogether
and has made the conclusions of a
synod or convocation of no more
weight than the opinions of any body
expressing its mind on professional
matters.
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Sunday laws should not interfere
with the quiet recreations of those
who do not care to go to church and
who would not be benefited by being
made to go. The new Testament is
singularly reticent on questions con
cerning the observance of the Sabbath
Christ himself on several occasions
criticised the Pharisees who had made
a fetich of the observation of certain
forms on Sunday. Libraries, exhibi
tions like the Trans-Mississippi, as
well as all forms of similar recreation,
ought lot to be closed by the dictum
of those who know a better way to
spend Sunday. The people who are
shut up in factories, stores and offices
have a right to decide for themselves
how they will spend their one day of
freedom. If they are tired of every
thing human even a heavenly mes
sage delivered by the voice of a
preacher is a part of what they wish
to flee from. For these the country,
birds and trees. There are many more
who crave movement and bustle; for
these, an exposition and streets. It is
not for one part of us to say how the
other shall take its religion. It is
better religion to put oursacreligious
hands in our pockets.
Mocket is reduced to calling names
and his sewer is disposed of for one
more week. Let those citizens who
think the sewer is needed: examine
the proposed location aftera heavy
rain storm and the perfectly drained
street will convince them that Mr.
Mockett's plan for building a storm
sewer there is for some other reason
than that the people need it.
Those. members of the councilwho
pay taxes and have done their part
without complaint for years towards
paying for the common necessities of
city existence, are opposed to spend
ing money where it is not needed, and
for the sole purpose of assisting Mr.
Mocketttoa reputation amonghis con
stituents for great activity. The occa
sion has been approaching for years
and now. is when the credit of the city
is as low as that of any city in the
country of the same size. The result
lias been accomplished by an irrespon
sible council voting for this and that
when there was not money enough in
the treasurer's hands to pay for either.
A contin nance of such a policy is
driving the wealth of Lincoln, in the
shape of good citizens, out of it. Their
protests have been unheeded by those
who find it easy to vote taxes on other
people's property. The opposition to
the Mockett sewer is by good citizens
of the class aforesaid who are tired of
being taxed for the trimmings on anv
councilman's ward reputation.. They
have determined to enjoin the "build
ing of the sewer even if it be finally
reapproved by the council, which at
the present time seems very doubtful.
before. The current long story of
Lippincoti's is by Mrs. Pool. "Mere
Folly" was probably the last story sho
wrote before her death The heroine
is the same fascinating flirt with an
uncontrollable desire for something
which belongs to another woman,
which in this case happens to be her
cousin's sweetheart. On the bride
groom's wedding night he casts oir a
little sailboat and is blown out into
the ocean before he discovers that
Trudence FfolHott, who had jilted
him for a lord and been jilted by
him in return, is in the cabin. Sho
wiles him into running away with her
and they are married and live miser
ably ever after, or until she runs away
with the aforementioned lord on a
bicycle and is killed in a collision
caused by her inability to steer. The
miserable bridegroom goes back to the
girl he deserted. She loves him and
will mairy him, without doubt, but
fortunately the story ends before the
wedding.
"We could have better missed abetter
writer for whatever her faults of
style Mrs Pool is not tiresoie. Her
stories have the quality of readable
ness which more distinguished novel
ists unfortunately for reviewers, are
apt to ignore.
The sewer contemplated by Coun
cilman Mockett is still of the stuff
that dreams are made of. Between
Mondays Mr. Mockett can see it
stretching its bricky length on Vine
street, but when Monday comes and
Councilman Webster turns the light
of common sense on to the sewer Mr.
Lydia Maria Pool, who has just
died, was a New England story writer
of ability. Her stories deal with the
mystery of good and evil as expressed
in women. In "The Two Salomes''
the New England heroine with Span
ish blood in her veins is transplanted
from her home to Florida and the
semi-tropical clmiate develops the
graces, inaccuracies and lax "ntegrity
of her Spanish grandfather. The
conflict always growing weaker be
tween the inheritance from a Puritan
ancestry and a Spanisli one, when the
latter is cultivated in a sympathetic
climate, is the groundwork of the plot.
The sequels to "The Two Salomes"
and several other stories by Mrs. Pool
are based on the Dr. Jekyl and Mr.
Hyde problem. The' are not tire
some, the action is rapid and the char,
acters are interesting if a trifle vague.
But as indicated Mrs. Pool lacked ver
satility. Her women have the name
less charm which makes some women
belles. They are frank, cruel, beauti
f ui.butespecially frank. However they
are too much alike to be a problem to
the novel reader who has read her
DMr. Bryan was enabled to convince
many of those who listened to him in
the last campaign that he was the
very latest and most accomplished
apostle of the poor and the oppressed.
He defied monopolies and corporations
and all forms of aggregate power.
They worked an Injustice, he said, to
the individual, who was not able to
compete with composite and influen
tial capital. Mr. Bryan himself has
acquired political capital. In his
own party I am not sure just
what that is, but it is not republican
and is anyone of the five or six organ
izations outside that party he is a
dictator. To revert to Mr. Bryan's
speeches and the feeling he aroused
among a mob of people against the
rich, banks, railroads, manufacturers,
etc., the point of his remarks was that
plutocrats used the power of wealth
for their own comfort and use. As an
anarchist who inherits money is
thereafter found among the most con
servative upholders of the rights of
property, so the man who in the last
campaign insisted in identifying him
self with humble people byalways rid
ing in a day coach, wearing shabby
clothes and stopping at third rate ho
tels, uses his political power for the ad
vancement of his own ambitious hopes.
Mr. "Whitmore, though young and of
no especial political significance, holds
a commission from the Cnited States
government granted for four year's