Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1900, Page 26

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OVEMBER 25, 1900, ~ THE OMAHA SUNDAY BER _er ROSEWAT 'l’l. % E CRY .\lnn.\'l:\'u TERMS OF SUBZCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6.09 Dally Bee and funday, One Year. b%-4 llustrated Beo, One Year, 20 unday Bee Ofo Year S 2.0 0 sditor, PUBLISHED gaturday Boe, One Year. eekly Bee, One Year..... ks OFFICES, maha: The Bes Bullding, South Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- By Afth and N Streets, Councll Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street. [ 1840 Unity Building. Temple C i, 801 Fourteenth Street. v: 611 Park Street g CORRESPONDENCE. mmunications relating to news and edi- matter should be addressed: Omaha Editorial Department. BUBINESS LETTERS Iness letters and remittances should addressed: The Bee Publishing vom- pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The flee Publishing Compaiy, July 2-cent stamps accepted in payment «f mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, ot i d THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO! Btate of Nebraka, Douglas County. George schuck, secretary of Publishing’ Company, betng auly sa t the actual number of fuil gcomplete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October. 1900, was as follows: 27,470 27,670 9. 10. 1 12, 1 M 16 26,720 27,460 mEzmazRrs: 0,980 Total ", o NNZT10 Less unsold and returned coples. Not totai sales Net daily average GEORGE B, T Bubscribed In my presence and sworn befors me this first da’/ of Novs D. 1900, B HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Publie. to A To the uninitiated it would appear that chasing the plgskin was the surest way to capture the sheepskin, Yale blue files above Harvard erim- sgon—the most momentous achievement of the year in the college world. The foot ball season will be over within a week and the annual inven- tory of gridiron casualties may soon be expected. If the czar of Russia has all the com- plaints which he is credited with noth- tng short of some good Amerlcan patent wedicine will curé him. Statisticlans say over half the people of the world are ruled by women, and even this caleulation does not take into account the married men. Thursday is expected to witness the culmination of foot ball and the turkey for this season, though both will be talked about for some time to come, Rumor has it that General Buller Is to be made a peer and assume the title of Lord Buller of Ladysmith. Pretoria was a little too far away for the gen- eral to claim it. Richard Croker s sald to look tired as a result of the late campaign, The vote in New York had a tendency to give the entire democratic party a dose of that tired feellng. — The Turkish government has denied an exequator to an American consul at Harpoot. The port Is not likely, how- ever, to refuse an exequator to the bat- tleship Kentucky, which 18 soon to visit Smyrn —_— A mortgage has just been recorded in New York showing Joe Jefferson to have lonned $40,000 on a piece of prop- erty. Mr. Jefferson has long been known as unique among the dramatio profession, Californla's celery-growers are en- deavoring to form a combine in order to hold up the price of their product. Should they succeed the average patron of the metropolitan restaurant will have to strike celery off the list of his slde dishes. — Chicago newspapers are advocating the voting machine as a device to avold errors in the count, the officlal canvass of the votes there disclosing innumer- able errors due to neglect and Incom- petency, If machines were in use all complaints could be directed to clogs in the wheels, The natlve Hawallan delegate to ton- gress promises to occupy the place of honor a8 the most striking character to be pointed out by guldes to visitors and sightseers. (It Is the Hawalian's mis- fortune that he will be deprived of the companionship of sockless Simpson to share the notorlety. —— The Irrigation congress may pass resolutions and adopt memorials, but the congress sitting at Washington will have to take action before the plans for federal reclamation of arld lands can be put in force. It will take sev- eral pipe lines to get congress to act on Irrigation measures at the short ses- sion. Six-day races are pernicious at best. They are destructive to health and tests of physical endurance without any com- pensating benefits, even when par- ticipated In by men. Such spectacles as the women's six-day bicycle race, which Is progressing in New York, are oftensive in every respect and should not be tolerated. The classification which put It in as sport 1s erroncous. ] The reception accorded Kruger in France I8 certalnly flattering to him personally and may be some consolation for the Boers as @ whole. That it will result in practical Intervention, how- ever, no one for a moment belleves. Europe has more troubles than It knows what to do with at present and nelther France nor any other country 18 at all likely to take any steps which will add to the present burden. = WILL PROSPERITY BE LASTING? Doubtless many capitalists and bus- Iness men are asking th Ives this question. A prominent eastern financler #ald a few days ago that the result of natiohal clection has given every- ¢ confidence to go ahead and he ex ssed the opinfon that the country Is going to have enlarging prosperity, He pointed to the fact that the balance of trade In favor of the United States for ten months of this year has been $500, 000,000-and that on top of an equal amount In each of the preceding two years, The money fn elrculation 18 now above $2,000,000,000, all made secure beyond question by the election. The increase in exports, the great increase in rallroad ings and the main tenance of industrial profits have gone beyond the caleulations of everybody. This Is evider «ald the finnncier, “of a force which must be recognized. It looks to me lke a gigantic impulse, the ‘ects of which no man can fore- o I ‘e Indications favorable to an In creased prosperity are abundant. All industries bave awakened together, The demand for labor in the anthracite coal regions exceeds the supply. There 1s lack of labor in the iron Industry of western Pennsylvania, Bullding has revived o Chicago. New England woolen and cotton mills, Interrupted in September and October, are again run- ning on full time, New enterprises are belng started and projected. Caplital and labor are occupled as they have not been for over a year. The first two weeks of the second series of “McKin ley prosperity,” remuarks the Philadel phia Press, points to records in business, product and profits, in employment for labor and return for capital, which will outdo the past three and onc-half yeors, What are the grounds for this coofi- dence? In the first place the assur ance of the absolute security of the cur- rency for at least five years. Whatever monetary legislation may be enacted within that time, the gold standard is safe. In the second place the certainty that the policy of protection will not be ruthlessly assailed. The next congress may deem It expedient to modify the tariff and we think it altogether proba- ble that this will be done, but it Is need- less to say that a republican congress will not sacrifice protection. Thus the capital that Is golng Into new Indus trial plants and enlarging those already established is assured that for at least five years the policy under which our vast industrial system has been built up will not be abandoned. In the third place there is an abundant supply of money and it is steadily Increasing. Finally, there is opening before us the possibllities of a forelgn trade with in- definite limits of expansion, which will enable us to pour the surplus products of our enterprise and Industry Into world-wide markets, preventing over- production and the reaction which that is liable to occaslon. Existing conditlons, therefore, are as favorable and promising for an increase of prosperity as could be desired and there appears no reason to think that it will not have a long continuance. e————— LOOPHOLES IN BAR ADMISSION. The report of the bar examining com- mission, filed with the supreme court last week, glves gratifying evidence of a disposition on the part of the mem- bers of the legal profession to ralse the standard of practice in Nebraska. The uniform bar examination has for the most part worked satisfactorily and come up to the expectations of Its promoters. The cases in which ap- plicants have been ruled out because of Ineligibllity or insufficient legal training show that the line has been strictly drawn, but they also Indicate several weak points which should yet be strengthened. Principal among these 18 the pro- vision by which graduates of the law school of the State university are ad- mitted to practice on thelr diplomas, while graduates of other schools of law, equally efficient and exacting in thelr courses of study, are required to undergo the regular examination. There Is no good reason why any dis- crimination should be made between the graduates of different law schools or between them and law office stu- dents. The diploma granted by a law school ought to represent not only the ability to pass the examination set for others who have not had the advantage of a law school training, but an addi- tional and broader knowledge of legal principles and legal history. Tustances are on record where would- be lawyers, after failing In the ex- amination set by the bar commission, have entered the university law school, and, after a brief attendance upon its lecture courses, secured admission to practice by diploma as a substitute for the certificate of the commlssion. This s susceptible of but one of two in terpretatiops: Either an evasion of the inteut of the law, or the operation of the law to force students futo a particu- lar school.- A most feasible way to obviate these palpable objections, without even modi- fying the law governing admission to practice, would be to require students in the law school, as a prerequisite to graduation, to produce a certificate showing that they hLad successfully passed the examination of the bar com- misslon, In order to make the work of the law school and the demands of the commission examination corre- spond within general lines, the supreme court could, with propriety, appoint one of the university professors ou the ex- amining commission, and thus, In sub- stance, make only a single entrance for legal practitioners to go before our courts, This should work no hardship upon the law school or its studeuts, because the latter should be abtwe to do as well, at least, at the bar examination as the young man who has been educating himself outside of a school. 1f any one Is to be barred from practicing as an «ttorney because of inability to stand the examluation test, he cer- talnly should be barred, trrespective of the source of his deficlent knowledge, and If he cannot stand that test he certalnly has no claim to a law school diploma. Still auother loophole that should be stopped 18 that by which attorneys hailing from other states are admitted to practice In Nebraska, on mere mo- tion, because of thefr previous admis- slon to the bar of some other state which recognizes diploma-mill sheep- skins or prescribes mere nominal ex- amination which any one can pass with- out even having peered into a law book. It is to be hoped the new state bar assoclation will look Into these fea- tures of the system of admission now prevalling fn Nebraska and exert its influence to apply the remedy. ENGLAND MAY NOT ASSENT. The last note of Secretary Iay to the powers In regard to the Chinese situa- tion, it is said, may not cive the as- sent of the British government. Ac- cording to a London dispatch, our gov- ernment simply points out that the difficulties of getting Chiva to execute the punishments desired by the powers are so great as to make this way of solving the crisis almost impracticable. No definite substitute is proposed, but the note suggests an exchange of views, whereby the powers can arrive at a better way of treating China. It was unnecessary, of course, for the United States to make any definite pro- posal. The character of the note suffi- clently indicates the view of this gov- ernment, so far as the question of pun- fshment is concerndd. This country canuot join with those who demand the sumwary execution of princes and oth ers charged with baving encouraged the anti-forelgn movement in China. It does not regard this sort of thing as wise, expedient, or In accord with civil- tzation. To be strictly just, such a policy should include the dowager em- press, but no government has ventured to demand that she, upon whom un- doubtedly the chief responsibility rests, shall be punished. The assent of the British government to the American position Is to be de sired, but if it cannot be had, the United States must still adhere to the reasona- ble, just and humane attitude it has taken. PENSION LEGISLATION. It 18 expected that there will be a good deal of pressure for private pen- sion bills at the coming session of con gress. Business was not very brisk in this line lust session, although much was really done. It is said that there will be an average of about three spe- clal pension bills to each senator and representative. It Is thought that the demand for & service penslon law will not be given a show, owing to other matters of urgent importance that will require attentlon, 1t would seem to be time that the an- nual crop of private pension bills should dtminish, but the outlook for the ap- proaching session indicates that It Is growing. It was during the last ses- slon of congress, If we are not mistaken, that Senator Gallinger,, chairman of the senate committee on pensions, called attention to the large number of private pension bills and urged greater care on the part of senators in ascertaining the merits of claimants before introducing such bills, There is a great deal of lookeness in this respect and while some of the private pension bills are meri- torlous, not a few of the claims pre- sented In them are utterly unworthy, yet the latter do not always fail. Of the prospective 1,200 or more pri- vate pension bills which 1t 18 expected will be introduced at the coming s sion, It Is safe to say that at least oue halt will be without merit. Yet the pension committees must take the same care in investigatiug the clalms of the unworthy as of the worthy. Thus a great deal of time is consumed by these committees which could be saved If greater care in ascertaning the fucts were taken by those who introduce the bills. This s a duty which both houses should insist upon, but unfortunately are not likely to. It 1s Impossible to foresee when this sort of legislation will come to an end. It may not be for a generation yet. But some reswriction may be put upon it and greater care taken to prevent unmerited demands upon the national treasury. A SEVERE INDICTMENT. Allegations of barbarism and cruelty against the British in South Africa have been numerous, but these have not commanded the attention that will be glven to the statement of Mr. Kruger. He said at Marseliles: ‘he war waged upon the two republies reached the last limits of barbarism. During my life T have had to fight many times the savages of the tribes of Africa, but the barbarians we have to fight now worse than the others. They even urge the Kaftis against us. hey burn the farms we worked so havd to construct and they drive out our women and children, whose brothers and husbands they have killed or tuken prisoners, 1 roofless and often without bread to eat.” This is a severe indictment and un- less the British commanders shall he able to successfully refute it they wll be placed In a most uncnviable position in the public oplulon of the clvilized world. a banquet in London Thursday, fended the Britlsh army against the charges of assaults upon wowen and of barbarous treatment of Boers, de- claving all of them to be false, There Lad been a few cases of assaults on women brought to his attention, but they were not committed by British goldiers. “No army ever behaved bet ter,” declared Buller This will un- doubtedly be satisfactory to the minds of Englishmen, but further testimony will be necessary to convince the rest of the world that the arralgmment made by the former president of the Trans vaal republic 1s witheut justification. It would seem that the British govern- ment, If it desires to relleve its army in South Africa from the stigma and reproach brought upon it by these charges, would promptly order an in- vestigation, Very llkely at the ap- General Buller, in a speech at | de- | proaching meeting of Parliament t government will be Interrogated in re gard to the allegations and it should be prepared to make an explicit and unqualified statement. More or less of cruelty and barbarism is inseparable from war, but it is diffi- cult to belleve that soldiers like Roberts and Buller would countenance or tol- erate atrocities which Kruger says even the savage tribes which he has fought were Incapable of. The military ca- reer of neither of those commanders has been marked by escessive cruelty even in carrying on war against uncivilized people. That they have been gullty of more than savage barbarism in the treatment of civilized white men, women aud children ls, therefore, hard concelvable. Yet the statement of Mr. Kruger will be widely accepted as true and its tendency must be to strengthen sympathy for the Boers and intensify, In some quarters, hatred of the British, Furthermore the policy which General Kitchener Is said to have been ordered to put Into effect, of depopulating the towns and concentrating the people on the seacoast—a policy that brings to mind that of Weyler in Cuba—is cal- culated to induce many to give full cr dence to the allegations of Kruger. The British government should lose no time in meeting and, if possible, refuting these charges, made upon the authority of & man geuerally esteemed as honor- able and truthful. Tne honor of the British army is at stake. —_— MORE TROUBLE WITH TURKEY. The Turkish government has not yet paid to the United States the indemuity of $00,000 which the sultan promised a year or two ago should be pald and there appears to be no prospect of its dolng s0. The battleship Kentucky is now ou the way to Smyrna, presumably for the purpose of impressing upon the sultan the fact that our government really intends to collect its claim and is tired of Turkish trifiing. But a new trouble has arisen which may still further complicate the situa- tion. Turkey has refused to allow an American consulate to be established at Harpoot and will not issue an exe- quator to our consul. This Is regarded at Washington as a violation of the treaty between the two countries and the consul has been ordered to procecd to Harpoot and establish a consulate. This decisive actlon on the part of the United States way bring Turkey to terms, especlally as she has allowed Great Britain a consul at Harpoot, but if she should continue to refuse like consideration to the United States, what then? Shall this government under- take to force compliance with its de- | mund? That would seem to be implied in the order to the consul to go to his | belleve, post. There is no doubt, we that the Turkish government 1s well within its rights in this matter., If it does not desire an American consulate established at Harpoot It 18 its privilege to refuse the request of the United States. It may be a mistake for it to do 80, but we think that is a matter for | the exclusive determination of the Turkish governwent. Its right to de- cide the question as it pleases is, it secms to us, unquestionable. The sultan professes a very cordial friendship for the United States, but he does .not attest it in acts, Our gover ment should insist upon the early puy- ment of the indemnity, but it cadnot properly undertake to force Turkey to recognize an Amerlcan consul or to per- mit the establishment of a consulate where it does not want one. A peculiar plea Is made by a delega- tlon representing eastern fire insurance and casualty companies urglng upon the congressional committee at Washington a reduction of the tax on policles upon the ground that the in- creased prosperity of tne country has caused the companies unusual loss, The route by which this conclusion Is reached 1s that factories and mills running overtime have noticeably in- creased the number of fires and othei casualties. One thing which the dy gution, doubtless, forgot to mentlon was that restored prosperity also en- abled people to pay premiums upon in- surance policies which In hard times were scaled down to the lowest possi- ble limit. It is safe to say that the insurance men prefes good times, ac- companied by policy taxes, to bad times with no policles at all, 1t is only right for the public which has been regaled with sermons editorinl und lay on the freedom of tenching with the dismissal of Prof. Ross from Le- land Stanford university as the text to know that as usual there are two sides to the case. While the friends of the unhorsed professor insist that the of the displeasure brought upon him comes from his freely-expressed views on importation of coolie labor and on trusts, the friends of Mr plain that the offense consisted in op- probrious comments on the character (and standing and source of wealth of ving them unprotected and | yer jato Lusband, the founder of the | If the latter version Is ac- of freedom of Institution. cepted, the question | tenching would scarcely enter into the | controvers) Another notorlous. pension fraud has been convicted in Wisconsin after im personating a veteran of the war for fifteen years and defrauding the gov ernment by drawing the pension earned by snother man. The lmpostor will get little sywpatby for taking advan tage of the generosity of the nation In | such despicable way and earn for him | nothing but contempt. The case, how ever, deserves widespread publicity as a warning to others who might be tempted to try a similar masquerade, PR ——— Even in this sordid old world there ceastonully comes to light acts of un- selfishness and self-denial which com pel people to stop for a moment in the pursult of their own plensure or profit, A case in point I8 the departure from San Francisco of a number of women who will devote the remainder of thelr lives to teaching the unfortunates of the leper settlement in the Hawallan fusurance | Stanford cx- | el Forbidding The unanimity with which the committee of twelve appolnted two years ago by the Protestant Episcopal convention has agreed on its report affords considerable reason to belleve that it will be adopted. It ought, however, to be very serigusly con- sidered before it is made the law of the church, . The vital—or deadly—section of the pro- posed canon is the followin “Section 4—No minister shall solemnize marriage between any two persons unless, nor untll, by inquiry he shall have satisfied himself that neither person has been, or is, the husband or the wife of any person living, unless the former marriage was annulled by decree of some court of com- petent Jurisdiction for cause existing be- fore such former marriage. This section forbids marriage in the Protestant Episcopal church to any per- son who has been divorced legally, no matter for what cause, no matter whether tho innocent party or mot, so long as the other party is living. Of course this rule s more stringent than the law of any of our states, or of any civilized nation. This fact does not cogdemn it, but It does offer a presump~ tion against it. The civil law Is the product of the popular sense of right, but it does mot reach absolute right, which is the aim of the teaching and rules of the church. At the same time the church has often made very unjust rules and has had to be set right by the state. Ono of the great dangers of the church 1s to make rules too stringent. It Is the outworking of the spirit of careful exact- ness in obedlence to formal commands and 1s best exhibited in the “fencing of the law" by the Pharisees. If a command forblds o much, Pharisaism forbids little more, 80 as to be on the safe side; It a command allows so much, it will allow a little less. If only forty stripes were allowed the strict legalist will in- fiict but thirty, since he “feaces the law." There seems to be something of (his spirit in the proposed canon. Our Lord allowed diverco for unfaithfulness to the mars |riage vow, of course with the right of remarrfage; but this canon adds to the strictness by allowing only separation, with no remarriage for either an innocent |or a guilty party. In this it assumes to fence the law in the interest of the sanc- tity of marriage. Where Christ was strin- ent the canon adds to the stringency. The fact that the canon is more stringent than the law of Christ does not necessarily condemn it. There may be development of the ethical sense since our Lord talked to His disciples. We have since then made |a stringent law against polygamy and |against slavery. Yet a very good reason would be required for increased strin- genoy. There 1 no such reason. The reason 1s all on the other side. It 1s not merely & question of whether our Lord allowed New York Ind to Remarry endent full divorce for unfaithfulness, and St Paul added to it the occasion of deser- tion, altbough the the r allowed them divorce and remarriage for these two causes still obtain, then the ap- plication continues; and it the reason and principles seem to include other offemses as ground for divorce, with right of re. marriage, then these offenses glve right to remarry, no matter it our Lord or Paul did not happen to mention them. Let us think and speak clearly on this subject. What is the object of marriage’ It is to provide for the constitution of pure family, It {8 to secure conditions in which the parties to marriage can live chastely and bring up children for whom their parents shall be responsible. The vow of marriage s a vow of falthfulness to each other, as against the promiscuity of fllicit relations. It is universally ad- mitted that upfaithfulness—at least, of the wife—justifies If not requires final ation. allows remarriage, at cent party. Why Is it allowed? Sim- ply ‘because {t is Dbetter and safer for saclety that people should be married The existence of a considerable body of un- married people, espectally of a leisured cass, 1s soclally dangerous. When Paul al- lowed remarriage to a deserted husband or wife, he sald nothing of unfaithfulness, but he knew that in his times the deserting party might be properly assumed to be un- faithtul, and now we may assume nothing better of one who has no more consclence than to forsake his partner. Marriage is the patural and decent state for a man and woman, marriage is the great conservatol of virtue, ‘““Therefore, forbldding to marry" 1s @ sign of moral and spiritual decay. In any case in which marriage Is justi- fiably dissolved, whether for unfaithfulness, desertion, Intolerable cruelty or any other cause which makes it impossible for the parties to live together In marriage, the sume reason which makes it proper that any other persons should marry makes it proper that the innocent party should re- marry. We do not say the gullty party, though there may be exceptions, but one who nas proved himself unworthy of mar- riage, who has been unfalthful to its vows, should, as a rule, be no more allowed to remarry than cne who is a tramp or an eplleptic, or insane or a jailbird. For such a person the vows of marriage have been proved a mockery; an innocent person should be protected against him. Marriage 1s to such an one no hond of purity. But 10 forbid homorable marringe to the inno- cent party is to make virtue harder and to forbid the life which is natural and chaste. The proposed canon punishes the innocent, while it adds no terror to the guilty; it 1s opposed to the principles of morality; it 1s unjust, tyrannical and wholly vicious and we hope it will be rejected by the con- vention, least of the Inno- islands. These are not the first who have dedicated their lives to work among these unfortunates, although the fate of ‘their predecessors alone would be sufficlent to deter most of humanity from following In such a work. Not only the people ministered to, but the whole world, are better for such examples of self-sacrifice, Board of trade speculators are putting up jobs to corner corn, but the corn raised by farmers in the corn belt Is not sold on margins and is affected only Ineldentally by the speculative rise and fall. A large part of the corn crop in Nebraska is being travsformed into meat by the cattle-feeding process and when it goes on the market it will not find an outlet to the board or rrade at all. Thankfuluess Between Washington Star. The perifod of Thanksgiving is so ar- ranged as 1o fall between the close of the national campalgn and the opening of con- sress. roubles, Embarrassment Removed, ashington Post. The republicans will have a majority ot nine in the Nebraska legislature, thus re- Meving the democrats of the embarrass- ment of forcing Mr. Bryan to come to the United States senate. Courage of Their Conversation, New York Tribune. | Weyler now says that he could have driven the American troops into the sea had he been allowed to retatn the captain- generalship of Cuba, Was It the arch- bishop of Santiago who declared that Span- 1sh soldiers landed on American soil could sweop everything before them and overrun |the District of Columbla? The great com- manders who conquer with thelr tongues ifllh-d the air with their boastings long before the era of Tiglath-Pileser. Pointing the Mural. Minneapolis Times, Evidently we baven't learned how to | preserve records as the anclents did. St | Peter's Catholic church, an old bullding in | Reading was torn down the other da; | In tho center of the cornerstone was found an old piece of parchment, with the | writing obllterated, while the Reading newspaper of May 3, 1846, contdining an secount of the laying of the cornerstone, was perfectly legible. Moral: Don't try |any old ways of spreading the news, but |stick to the modern and always reliable newspaper. | DELIVERY, | An of Great Value to the | Farmerns, | Cleveland The postmaster general will ask of con- | gress at its coming session an appropria- tion of $3,500,000 for the maintenance of the [tree rural delivery 'of mail, and the appro- priation should be granted if possible. Wherever free rural delivery has been |tried it has proved & pronounced success, and the people are so well pleased with it that they would not consent o a return to the old order of things. As a matter of fact, the farmers are as much entitled to the free delivery of their mall once or [twice a week, or dally, for that matter, |as the people in the citles are to two, three and four deliveries a day, and such an extension of the dellvery system should be provided for as rapldly as possible. Everything possible should be donme to bring the population of the rural districts |into closer touch with the cities, The suburban electric rallways have done much to bring about that result, and the tele- phone Is also an important factor. The | country 1s far less remote from the centers [ of population now than it was ten or fif- |teen years ago. Throughout some por- tions of northern Ohlo, for Instance, farm- houses are connected by telephone with swall villages, and they in turn with the | county seat, 8o that time and distance have both been annihilated. The free delivery | of mail matter to the tarmers will complete |the work that has been begun by the su- burban railroad and the telephone, and in yime the farm will be in close touch with urban lite in every way, and that will be a good thing not only for the farmer, but tor the dweller in the clty, Congress should not hesitate to grant the appropriation which Postmaster Gen- eral Smith will ask for, SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Brooklyn Eagle: One church has just appropriated over $116,000 for the coutin- uance of missionary work fn China. It is heped that this will not entall the expendi- ture of $116,000,000 by the United States to protect the missionaries. Minneapolis Journal: Bishop Earl Crans- ton, who has just returned from Manil in & speech to the Methodist missionary committee, objected to the usual pronuncia- tion of the word “Philippine’ omisl He pronounced it as “Philippyne.” Good- ness! Boston Globe: That Washington min- Ister wiil not have to defend a suit for dam- oges brought by Olga Nethersole for defa- mation of character, having publicly de- clared that she is a womar worthy of re- spect, but he will undoubtedly be more careful hereaiter as to what he says fo the pulpit about actresses. Chicago Post: Is not the readiness of Rev. Dr. Sheldon to speak for the deity be- gInning to verge rather closely on the sacri- legious? His motives may be of the best, but an atteropt ‘to decide whether Christ would play foot ball seems like making a burlesque of a subject that above all things should be treated reverently. At the very least it shows that the Topeka clergyman Incks dfgnity. Philadelphia Record: Rev. Dr. Park- hurst says that when he reads the London Times he feels that he is reading what is true. It he should read the reports of the patent office he might have the same feel- ing, and the matter would be almost & newsy as are the ordinary contents of the London newspaper. When the “Thunderer” undertakes to be enterprising, however, it gets as far from the truth as do any of the desplsed New York journals, as it proved in the case of the Parnell sensation. Springfield Republican: Perhaps the mosf astonishing utterance at this strange meet- ing of the disciples of Jesus and Wesley wa that of Bishop Charles H, Fowler, when he said: tian history are the labors of §t. Paul, the firing on Fort Sumter and the hlowing up of the Maine” And this man is one of’the most prominent and oldest overseers of the great Methodist Episeopal body! Can it be possible that a man capable of a speech 80 imbecile as that should have a hearer so stupid as not to see how ludicrous it 1s? Where There's a Will There' Clncinnatl Tribune, Governor-olect Dietrich of Nebraska Is « widower and a boarder. Of course, then, Lo has no use for the governor's mansion, lately erected by the state, though you can't tell. He doesn't have to remain a widower, " Way. facts are clear; for It on, principles and condition Which The law calls it divorce and | ““The three greatest.events in Chris- || Patriotism {s based on principles That only Is done which the heart does. No furnace can ever burn out the gold To take up a cross is to lay down a care Courtesy is never costly, yet never cheap When heaven is (u the heart heresies are kept out of the head No man was ever healed of disense by reading a medical book alone. Good things are alw beautiful things are not always good. The indiscrimi lash will drive devils Into a boy for one it drives out The prescription for salvation must have an application as well as an understanding before healing is found The difficulty that the Bible presents to many skeptics {8 not that it will not stand deep and rational examination, but that it will not etand superficlal examination beautiftul, but ten | 1C PLEASANTRIES, | }'u‘l.nn-] VY:II:’V\('I‘(:"?‘\;\IHI.N Sister's New Beau Well, Freddy, ho you like my looks ¥, how do ddy—Oh, yer long halr makes y' look awful stily—but meb ain't ,‘!l"('trnu .l‘ 1 l'rnu] Bride (formerly a dow)—Oh, Harry, what would 1 do 1t yo nh'niuld die? g 3 i arry (@oubttully)—1 don't know, dear, but I think I can guess. " Chicago Post: “In your cried, “my heart falls me. my_love.’ “Why not put it in writing businessiike girl. “That would anyway. Buffalo ¥ heaven's gate, young man No,” murmured the girl, to stand a presence,” he 1 cannot speak kod the Le safer Walt for me at sung the silllily sentimental 1 a nd outside forever. ‘t wart Chicago ‘Tribune: Mr. the purticipants in the d sonal)—1 a thur YOUu Lo marry m Skimmerhorn— Skimmerhorn (as ate became per- ng fool when I ell, you looked it, Philadeiphia Press: Toss—8he'n just the tuckiest girl Bhe's got a lovely ‘engage- . other girls have lovely engage- Tess—Yen, but very f. the ring off like sh. an show Philadelphia Press about decollote “gown any Mo exireme as Mrs. Jess—No, they are rather extreme. Tess—1 should think she'd catch death of cold Jess—~Oh! there's no danger. She's "0 completely wrapped up in her own conoeit Chicago man,” she asserted “Why do you say tha est friend “He asked me to marry him and 1 sald ‘No' and the mean thing never asked me again, Gioodness! Did you eve Galley's? ons her s A most unreliable asked her de: Pittsburg Chronfcle: “I belleve in the next world we shall follow the same pur- sufts as in this " VIS that is true, old Jim Kusser will be at luck. watchman in a cold stor- age warehouse. BE CHEERFU , fer the gay old world ise fer you Ef your chin's dropped down and you sham- :»:n- atong with a look ‘at’'s glum and blue, And never a_smile on your face at all, er never a kindly word, And you don't want to 'do any gooc know, ef the doin’ can be defer) Ef you never hold out & helpin’ hand er try to lighten the load ‘At your friend may have ez he trudges along on the earth’s drear, lonesomo road, The world won't look on with approvin' smile, you'll be short when it comes to friends, vou won't realize till it's 'way too late t's time you should make amends. Be joyous, my boy, ez you go along—don't worry er try to paint Your life ez black ez you think it is, fer, nine out o ten, it ain't; We all have our troubles and griefs, it's true, but bear ‘em with zeal and zest— A man ain’t kicked' cause he's down when it's knowed he's doin’ his level best, The world ain't fickle ez some folks claims, It wants you (o puh along: A man I8 lifted to lofty heights by the ald of a simple song. p your head, my boy, ‘cause the world won't have any e for you Ef you go through life with a hang-dog look and a manner 'at's glum and blue, Omaha. CLARENCE P, M'DONALD. A Snap Shot at the winter's Camera trade. Mon. and Tuss., Nov, 26-7 Only PREMO AND PDCO Cameras 50 Per Cent Discount Regular Bpecial Price. Price. [ 2 B e e sbo e 4oc n ol you And Lamps ... Lamps .. Drying Racks../ Stanley Plates, bx7. Stanley Plates,” 3%4x3% Zastman Plates, 6x7....... stman Plates, 8i4x4%.. Cramer Crown, 84x4%. —a— J. C. Huteson & Co. Consulting Opticians 1520 Douglas Street. 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