Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 14

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEm E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS (witho ¥ SUBACRIPTION Bunday), One Year.$6 unday, Otie 'Year........ 3 e Year... ... Eunday Hee Yo wturdny Bee, (ne Year ‘eckly Bee, Une Y o OFF malia: The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha; City Hali Bullding, Twen- ‘Y"Hh)l and N Streets, Council Blufts: 10 Pear] Street. Chicago: 1640 Unity Building. New Temple Court. %01 Fourteenth Street. 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editortal Department BUSINESS LETTERS Iness letters and remittances should be addressed: The Dee Publishing vom: bany, Omaha. i REMITTANCES. " emit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The fles Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stampa accepted in payment ct mail accounts. Bersonal checks. except on ©Omauha or Eastern exchanges, nut accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Georgs B, Tzschick, secretary of The Bee FPublishing mpany, being duly sworn, snys t the actual number of full and compete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1900, was as follows: 1 Ohe 27 970 27 420 2N 220 28,410 27 000 27,620 47,740 L MTTT0 27,608 140,760 24,400 29,200 28 040 28 680 28,650 .06, 40 1,08 Total . Less unsold and returned coples Net total sale Net daily average, GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. ubscribed In my presence and sworn to ore me this 1st day of December, A HUNGATE, Notary _Pubile. »y The Boers still continue to be a live tente in the British capital. Now look out for a windfall of poems dedicated to the dylng century. Now that Thanksgiving Is over there is to be no more “rupture with Turkey.” When the American warship Ken- tucky steamed Into Smyrna the crew found no dificulty in getting dates ashore. The newspapers still keep talking about Bryan, but who has heard of Coin Harvey and his schoot of finance of late? Is there gold enough In this country to do the business? Inquire of the keeper of Uncle Sam's strong box at ‘Washington. C————— Another actress has lost a $10,000 necklace and gained $25,000 worth of free advertising. This time the distress- ing event occurred at London. One thing Americans should be thankfu! for, after Thanksgiving, Is that the foot ball season is closed and the slaughter of the Inuocents has ceased. New York servant girls are holding commiseration sessions to share one an- other's woes. The mistresses of the houschold will meet later to exchange thelr sad experience, ————— English papers are beginning to com- plain of the great cost of carrying on the war in South Africa. The Boers are perfectly willing the English should quit any time they get ready. Outgolng fusion officials at Lincoln glve it out they have had all the office- holding they desire. The voters of | Nebraska will see to it that no further sacritices be required of them. A French englueer has concelved a plan for a double tunnel under Gibral tar without the ald or consent of the | British. It 18 apprehended that for | some time to come the plan will remain on paper. A Lake Geneva preacher has given it as his opinion that a busy man {8 justi- fied In fishing on Sunday. If he can only Insure the anglers that the tish will bite, next season will witness a great rush to that resort. A treaty with Nlcaragua has been signed which does away with the in- ternational difficulties in constructing the big canal. The matter of & hundred milllon or so of ready cash is all that prevents the digging of the ditch, Turkey has decided it will not run the risk of having its wings clipped and a few tail feathers pulled out and has therefore promised again to pay the lit- tlo bill which has been placed in the hands of Uncle Sam for collection, — The assessors are waking life a bur- den for Richard Croker during his stay n Eugland. To one who has fattened | off the public it Is a new revelation to Oroker to pay taxes. His “pull” evl dently failed when he crossed the water, Enterprising Wisconsin and Michigan capitalists have projected the erectlon of six new paper mills in the nelghbor hood of Appleton, Wis, but will the price of paper be reduced to publishers or will we have another paper mill trust? A Chicago man and woman who met for the first time on a lightning express train fell in love before their journey was completed and were marrled on | reaching their destination, all in less than elght hours, Now will New York be good! — The Minnesota legislature will also have the privilege of electing two United States senators this winter, but as the republicans have a majority of ninety on joint ballot, the ratlo of = | toast to Pr INTERNATIONAL AMITY. The observance of Thanksgiving day | by Americans in London and Berlin was arked by the usual expressions of International amity and good will. At the London dinner the speaker of the House of Commons, in proposing the ident MceKinley, expressed the hope “that the two countries may be bound together forever” and the response of Ambassador Cloate was in | u like spirit. At terlin banquet | Ambassador White proposed three cheers for President McKinley and Em peror William, which the dispatches stute were heartily given. In his ad dress the American ambassador characterized as excellent the relations between the United States and Ger- many, saying that during the whole series of operations in China the most kindly feelings have prevalled between the two countries and sull prevail. “In all the discussions,” sald Mr. White, “which have tuken place between the two powers regarding the best method of restoring that peace which shall be the begiuning of a great ern for China and the world, each of these two powers bas shown itself not only anxious to do what Is really the best thing to be done, but also pertectly friendly and concillatory. It is to be supposed that all falr wminded and unprejudiced Americans will be pleased with these expressions and assurances of Internationul friend #hip and will desire the maintenance of the relations they denote. If there are people here who object to our diplomatic representative at London courtevusly acknowledging a sentiment of good will from a British officlal, or who think that Amel ns should not cheer the emperor of Germany, we are quite sure they are not In accord with true Ameri- can feeling. We belleve that a very large majority of our people find gratification in the fact that the United | States is on good terms with all other nations and wish it to cultivate such relations. We bave ud alliances und want none, but our interests dictate that we pursue toward all nutions an amica- ble, fair and honorable course, showing no discrimivation or partiality in our relations with any of them. In the presidential campalgn there was a persistent effort made to create fecling against the administration by charging that It had a secret alliance with England. The reprebensible appeal to prejudice falled to produce the de- sired effect. It was rejected by the common sense of the country. Such will be the case with all attempts that | may be made to create here an un- warranted seutimeut of hostility to foreign nations. The Ununeda States, as one of the great powers of e world, exercising a more commanding influence than ever before and reaching out for a larger share In the world's trade, has stronger reasons than at any other time in its history for malutaining the most friendly relations and cultivating the most cordial intercourse with the rest of the world. A DEPAKTMENT OF COMMERCE. There 18 a bill In congress for the creation of a department of commerce and Industry, with a secretary who shall be a member of the cabinet. The manufacturing interests of the country have for several years, through thelr national assoclations, urged that such a department be established and the proposition has earnest supporters in congress, The advocates of a new de- partment contend that 1t Is required to glve proper attention to our vast com werclal and industrial interests. They also say that it 1s needed to relleve | one or two of the existing depart-| ments, particularly the treasury. There are several bureaus in the latter de- partment, it is pointed out, which do not in any way relate to the finances of the government ana could much bet ter come under the head of a depart- ment of commerce. The same I8 true of the Department of the Interior. It is contemplated to place the consular service under the control of the new artment should it ve organized. When the bill was introduced we ex- pressed the opinion that inasmuch as all interests were belng well cared for by the existing departments there seemed to be no necessity for creating another and thereby adding to the ex- penses of the government. We still think that there is no urgent require- ment for a department of commerce | and Industry, but we are disposed to | give very respectful conslderation to the judgment of the practical men en- gaged In manufacturing and commerce who believe that the proposed depart- ment would be highly valuable in pro- motiug the great luterests they repre sent. If such a department would, as they afirm, materially ald in the ex- tension of American trade, it should be established. The bill will doubtless be taken up at the coming session and fa- vorable action upon it ls regarded as probable, e— FOREST PRESERVATION, Not the least interesting feature of the annual report of the secretary of | agriculture is that which relates to the growth of forestry wol This, the r port says, continues to thoroughly practical and direct, The relations of the forestry divislon of the department with practical lumbermen and tree planters have become closer and more useful during the past year than ever aud Secretary Wilson notes a great increase in the demand, both pub lic and private, for the services of the division in all parts of the United States. I'hese demnnds have not beeo fully wet through lack of resources, thus hindering the progress of practical forestry in the country The secretary says: “Public Interest in forest matters is Just now not ouly keener and wider than at any time here. but it is growing with a rapldity her without precedent. To fall to use this unequaled opportunity the protection and preservation of our forests would, 1 belleve, be of the na- ture of a real misfortune.”” The expe- diency of promoting this public interest be | treaty does not prohibit the fortitication for dolng this, T question of protecting and preserving the forests has been agltated for years, with the result of | fiually arousing a general r nition of its great lmportance. This should uot be permitted to decline, bat rather should be further stimulated wnd what ever additional the forestry divisiou of the Agricultural department may require in order to foster this in terest 1t should given, The secre tary wakes no specific recommenda tions in his report, but will doubtless in due time submit to congress the needs of the division, The government can aord to be as liberal in this matter as are forelgn governments that provide for the prc tection and preservation of forests and every dollar judiciously expended in this way will be mapy tinies repald The west is peculiarly interested In this subject and the representatives in con- gress of this section should give it thetr earuest attentlon. resources ATION. The announcement of the retirement of President D. C. Gilman of Johns Hop- kins university 18 awakening general ex- pressions of regret at the close of a ca- reer that has contributed so much to the educational development of the United States. Dr. Gllman's presidency of the institution dates from {ts inception, mo than a quarter of a century back, and his management has made the name of Johns Hopkins synonymous everywhere for thorough scholarship and liberal Ideas, The influence of the work of Johns Hopkins university, under the direction of President Gilman, is felt In all our Institutions of higher learning, and will be a potent factor for years to come in thelr growth and development. Adapt- lug from European universities those methods and plans of organization that secmied suitable to our conditions, Johns Hopkins university has combined them with American progressiveness, produc- Ing a system stamped with truly Ameri- can character, While making use of every legitimate means of bringing the university to the attention of the publie, President Gilman made it his practice to avoid educational novelties, too frequently taken up as ex pertments for the sake of the advertising in it, and to confine himeself to building from the ground up. It was not mere numbers or colossal classes that he sought, but rather earnest, conscientious and ambitious students, who could be relied upon to make the most of the ad- vantages at their disposal and who would later carry the light of learning forth to others and spread its rays broad- cast throughout the land. For a long time it was the boast of Johus Hopkins that Its graduates contributed more members to the teaching staff of Amerl- can colleges and universities than any three other American Institutions, al- though most of the larger universities were older and better endowed. The misfortune of Johns Hopkins has been that for more than ten years it has labored under financial difficulties which only the administrative abllity of Presl- dent Gilman has enabled it to weather, yet preventing him from devoting his attention, as he would have liked, to the sclentific side of the work and pursuing a policy of educational expansion which would have kept the Institution far In the forefront of the untversity world, The retirement of President Gilman by no means indicates that the lesson of Johns Hopkins 18 lost or its Influence fmpaired, because it will continue to go forward under Lis successor, whoever he may be, standing forth as an example for the lesser colleges of what can be accomplished-—-not by nolsy self-lauda- tion, but by careful, ceaseless work. OBSTACLE TU CANAL BILL. The Nicaragua canal bill is the spe- cial order in the senate for December 10 and it is the understanding that its supporters will Insist upon having it continued as the unfinished business | until dispesed of. The obstacle in the way of the prompt passage of the meas- | ure is the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It that were out of the way there is no doubt that the canal bill, favored as It 1s by both parties, would be promptly passed. Senator Morgan, chawman of the committee which favorably reported the Nicaragua canal bill, has expressed the opinion that the question of fortify ing the canal 18 ope or the least im- portant in connection with the entire subject. He said the Hay-Pauncefote of the canal, neither does the Hepburn bill, now on the senate calendar. The latter provides that fortifications might, It necessary, be placed upon the line of the canal. He doubted the useful- ness of fortifications, however, and did not think they would be bullt. “The question of fortitications along the canal,”” sald the Alabawma senator, “ls one which has more iuterest for the countries of Nicaragua and Costa Rica than for the United Ntates, Those countries own the ground and ought to have a right to say Just what they want in that direction." It is understood to be the view of the administration that the question of fortifications s of prime fmportance and the Hay-Pauncefote tre; in effect prohibits them by providing for the ab- solute neutralization of the proposed cunal In peuce and in war. It Is also the understanding that the adwministra- tion will urge the ratification of the treaty as a necessary preliminary to| anal leglslation, If this 1s the posi- tlon of the administration it is not probable t republican senators will antagonize it, but they have not the two-thirds majority required for the ratification of a treaty and it is que tlonable whether enough democratie votes @an be sccured to. ratify the Hay-Pauncefote convention, at least In its present form. If amended it Is to be doubted whether the Hritish ernment would agree to the modifica- tion. The treaty is therefore an obstacle to the passage of the Nlcaragua canal in forestry is so obvious as not to re- prizes in the federal patronage grab- bag will be very much smaller, quire any argument and liberal pro- | measure at the coming session, lurlu‘llm- patriot has been living lo luxury . { American clalm for indemnity, but this | support the United States consul in de- | punies which make no distinction of sex | limit on the sum for which the policy | nounces that the Filipinos will keep up T ] | viston should be made by congress for|it for the next congress, when the | gives out he will probably be willing te republican Jority tot will have the atifying the tr TURKEY CONCILIATORY The latest advices from Constantino ple state that there was no foundation for the previous report that n ruptur of diplomatic relations with the United States had tnken place, On the contrary, it 1s sald that the diplomatic representa tive of the United States 1s on the very best of terms with the sultan and that the visit of the battleship Kentucky to Smyrna has had no effect upon the re lations of the two countrles. It has simply caused the Turkish government to take a little livelier Interest in the quired ma aty will perhaps subside now that the bat tleship has been ordered to Morocco to mauding an lndewnity from that coun- try. The porte, however, still declines to grant an exequatur to Consul Nor- ton at Harpoot. There appears to be no probability that anything more serious than a more or less prolonged diplomatic con troversy will grow out of the fssues with Turkey. The latter will provide for the Indemnity in some roundabout way and the consular question will be amicably settled. Turkish diplomatic methods, however, are very irritating SEX IN INSURANC A writer upon insurance calls atten- tion to the factthat the old extra on female lives Is now quite largely abolished, although not yet by all com- panies. He mentions a list of twelve of the principal old-line life tusurance com- in fssulng policles, either s to extra charge or physical condition. Other companles accept risks on women, with will be written, and exclude them from certaln plans of cheap Insurance, the dlsposition belng to compel them to take out what Is kuown as whole life or en- dowment contracts, Where the extra payment plan is retained the amount varies from $2.50 to $5 per $1,000, while one company inserts a proviso that In apportioning the surplus “regard may be had to any excess of mortality loss on female lives over the rate experienced on male lives in the same class and sveral keep separa unt of female ubers in order to form the ground- work for mortality tables speclally ap- plicable to women, The change that has of recent years come about in the treatment of women by insurance companies s explained in many ways. Some Insist that it is sim- ply the result of the so-called emancipa- tion of woman and her entrance Into the various walks of life. Others assert that the sclentitic data is only recently at hand by which accurate statistics can be complled essential to sound insurance financlering. The growth of women's o = 1900, | quit and will lose interest In the fate the deluded insurrectionists in thelr | hopeless struggle ——— Towa republicans profess to thiuk it | | strange that their Nebraska brothers are | still - celebrating the nt victory. | They should remember republican ma Joritles have not been so common in | Nebraska of lnte years as they have | been on the cast bank of the Missouri, | but they should be from now on. Phillips, the g man who showed all the old-timers in Chiengo a few tricks on the manipulation of the corn market, cleaned up $300,000 on the deal and now announces he will take a va- catlon. The victims will probably keep an eye out for his return, —_—— Lord Roberts has turned over the British command in South Africa to General Kitchener, but the latter can- not take from Roberts the credit of having rescued the British military reputation when It was in grave dan- ger from the Boer. SE— “Russia is backing the sultan,” is the counstruction put by Kuropean observers on the Turkish attitude. If Russia would back him to the point of liquidat- ing his debts the United States might reap substantial benefit from the al- liance, Loulsville Journal. Some people pray every morning: ug this day our daily bread,” and then grumble all day long because it lsn't cake. Progressive D Washington When an American girl begine to admire English bull pups, it is an ecasy matter for her to make up her mind to marry a bankrupt title, ey, Bxpunding ilip-Pocket Persaasion, New York Tribune. That civilization sometimes uses a pow- der cart as a vehicle of progression has long been proverblal. It may also be ob- served that peaceful diplomatic processes are sometimes mightily faclitated by the opportuie appearance of a first-class wal ship. Civilization in Alnska. Philadelphia Record. According to Governor Hrady of Alaska tho advent of the white man with the arts of civilization—accomplisbments of Sodom and Gomorrah, the governor calls them— already threatens to destroy the native ele- ment. The Esquimaux perishes under the ordeal of initlation Into the vices of a higher social orde: Wise Thing to Do, Philadelphia Press, The man who has a fortune to bequeath and who distributes it before his death is wise beyond his day and generatfon. At least this {s tho conviction that will be forced upon thousands who read the har- rowing detalls of domestic wretchedne: and mental decay that e dally belng dragged out of witnesses in disputed will cases before our courts. lodges and fraternal socleties and the establishment of fraternals for the ex- clusive benefit of women have also doubtless bad much to do with opening the doors of the old-line companles to women. What has probably been more potent in this direction has been the tremen- dous enlargement of the scope of insur- ance by which the risk Is sprend over an immensely larger field. When the number of policies was comparatively small the risk of iusuring women had to be distributed among a smaller number, whereas now the proportion of women, although constantly increasing, is still extremely low. The tendency of the time s clearly In the direction of placing women on the same insurance plane as men, taking into acceunt physical con- ditions, aud it will not be surprising if eventually the distinction of sex disap- pears entirely from insurance, The United States treasury now con- tains $474,108336 of gold. The hold: ings have steadlly increased during the year and are now larger than at any | time in the history of the country. The | amount of gold coin In the country has | Increased over $400,000,000 during the pust four years and in spite of the im- mense increase in business the repub- lican policy has produced sufficient money to carry on that business and protect the credit of the country with- out borrowing or resorting to the popo- cratle remedy of free coinage of silver. The many heavy bank defalecations which have cowe to light recently em- phasize the fact that the best thing which ean happen to any man having the custody of funds belonging to other individuals or the public is a strict sys- tem of checks which render stealing practically lmpossible. Many & man has been rulned by the temptations which the implicit confidence of others place in his way. The German agrarians appear to be agitated by the novelty of a German loan negotiated In America, and the ex planation that the money was borrowed where it was most cheap and plentiful does not seem to allay the dissatisfac tlon, The wention of America to a German agrarvian operates like a red rag exbibited to a bull. The Chicago building Inspection de- partwent is endeavoring to stop the overcrowding of theaters in that clty, A more rigld enforcement of the or-| dinance on that subject in Omaha might prevent a disastrous catastrophe sure to follow the stampeding of an audience hemmed in with blocked aisles, Emperor Willinw does not appear to be so anxious to embrace Oom Paul as was President Loubet. The German emperor 1s in sympathy with the South African lon, but his ardor has been chilled by the enthusiastic demonstea- tions and effusive ovations tendered by his traditional enemies—the French, —— Agoneillo, the Filipino representative who has been in France ever since this government refused to recelve him, an- the fight and that they still have plenty of money. When the money on which bill which may prevent action on the The ‘“get-rich-quick” New York stock broker who has landed {n jail prot grievous walls that his troubles are his enemles. As his arrest was caused by @ client who wanted her money back, it follows that the broker regards as unkind and hostile any effort to secure money that has been intrusted to his care. The attitude {8 not exactly novel among swind- lers, but it 1s seldom stated so clearly, Three Rules of Life, Boston Globe, Dr. Hale's rules of life are well worth re- membering. Here they are 1. Live as much as possible in the open alr. 2. Touch elbows with the rank and file. 8. Talk every day with & man who Is your superior. It is well for a man to talk every day, too, with a woman who is his superior— and he can generally find one without look- ing very long. WANTED—SOME Short Sermon on the of Chila Minneapolis Tim, Some parents, remember! ents. Various recent occurrences so shock- ng to arouse universal repulsion and Lorror, seem to indicate that there is a Not all par- laws of the country or in the moral con- stitution of society. Such things don't happen all at once. They come from grad- ual causes and from an increasing care- lessness In the ordinary safeguards to de- cent living. If morality 1s the product of evolution, as the sclent y, we seem yet to be a long way from the perfect product. Pes- sibly, 1f we were to try the evolutionary theory of extinction of the unfit, we might find & considerable weeding out of parents to bo a help in the solution. The Greeks bad thelr convenient way of disposing of useless people, but the Greek way seems to us llke the worst sort of savagery. It had an clement of modern force, however. How would it do to try state management for the families of the parents who cannot marage to keep thelr children at home nights—or, keeping them there, cannot w&page to make them happy there? How about the parents who don't even try and who have no more idea of systematic train- ing io morality than they have of the world-wide economic value of the “ounce of prevention?" The modern method of bringing up chil- dren s getting to be Increasingly on the theory that “knowledge 1s power;'* that the more children can gather of the life of the streets and the life of the world the better. In fact, the bellef in knowledge aloi the bane of the day. We have manual training and physical training and athletic training, but the finest training of all—the training of the home—is slighted. To give boys and girls sound, whole- some bodles is a fine thing; perhaps it is even finer than to give them well-trained brains, but finest of all 1s It to make them of pure heart and clean speech. To im- plant fn a child that instinctive dislike of ccarseness and grossness which shall be liko the spear of Ithurlel to detect the weakness and falsity of evil suggestions, even though masked under the hood of truth—this {s a function which belongs first of all to the parent. No other human being can do it. The school can glve us many things. It can give us boys and girls of intelli- genco and physical soundness. It can in- struct our children in their duties as citi- zens. It can even glve them the surface seemings of ethical instruction, but the parent and the home alone glve them char- acter, The finest department of ethics that a boy can graduate from is that which opens when his own door is reached. If he doesn't find ethics there and fiud them in his early days he is pretty apt never to get the genuine thing. And some fi morning his parents wake up to see their son's name figuring In some such tragedies as have come to shock public knowledge lately—and will keep on coming, doubtless, world realizes m forcibl what a tremendous need there is of fathe: and mothers nowadays, AR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Minneapolfs Times: A Lendon pastor en- tices people to church by giving them the monsterphione and the stereopticon on the slde. Onco there was a conflict between sclenco and religlon, but now they g hand in hand San Francisco Call: One of the leading American missionary socleties has made a oSt material reduction in its provision for | foreign missionary work. It begins to look as it wo intended to spend our useless money | At home for the conversion and improve- | ment of our own pagans. Brooklyn Eagle: A Methodist minfster Wwho jolned a gang of tramps at New York In order to study the trump problem at first hand, found himselt in the Cortland | Jall on Thursday. The judge discharged | him, whereunon as a farewoll remem- brance he gave the judge a tract. Probably this minister will not be much nearer the solution of his problem when gets through, but it is safe to say that he should be & better preacher for his experience. Indlanapolls Journal: 1In addressiog A Methodlst assemblage 1n Boston Bishop Cranston gave his program for the settle- ment of the Chinese question as follows: ‘Rotire the guns, reform diplomacy, let every guilty leader bo punished; let the nations give back what they have stolen; #0p the oplum trade and restors and pro- tect the emperor.” The bishop evidently thinks that with these things accomplished efforts to christianize China could bo con- tinued safely. Indianapolis Press: of the Papal consistory at Rome revives the rumor that some American prelates may receive cardinalates, and among those men- tioned 1s Archbishop Ireland. Bishop Ire- land 1 one of the leaders ot the Roman church in this country, and his ability an orator, his liberality of mind and his ardent patriotism have made him especially popular with the American people, both in and out of tho Roman communion. Prob- ably more people would rejolco in his eleva- tion to the office of cardinal than in the samo action of the Pope toward any other Amerlean prelate, and that any honor con- ferred upon Archbishop Ireland would be worthily bestowed goes without saying. bl dadihudinitnid PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, When the weather clerk s good he's awful good. The policy of the open door s an ac- tuality in China just now. Not only the door but the hinges are gone. Corn King Phillips cleaned up $300,000 by his recent performance in the bears’ deu. Mr. Phillips established his reputation as & squeezer. The hoots and yells of the Minnesota rubbers at Lincoln had one beneficial effect They overwhelmed the wails of the los! on Salt river, As long as New York fosters familles ylelding four sets of twins in succession its title of Empire state is beyond the reach of rivals. The name of Miss Peachy Grubb fre- quently graces the soclety columns of the Wellsville ( Va.) papers. Cream must be scarce in that locality. The newly discovered goldfields in In- dlana gives color to the suspleton that con- eiderable political usufruct remained um- expended when the polls closed. It {8 now proposed to reproduce the Dewey aroh in terra cotta, but the genmerous pa triots of Gotham object to the cost of the ‘whitewash needed to give the marble effect. As an example of sublime faith or nerve the contemplated contest of a Philadelphia mocrat for a seat in the next house of representatives deserves the honor of a passing paragraph. When a lawyer as referee cuts a prof slonal brother's blll from $17,000 to a measly $300, such as happened in New York recently, it is evident the principles of fraternal regard are an unstudled art in legal circles. The abllity of Buffalo to stand the strain of the Pan-American multitude may be questioned when the keeper of a gamin house squeals becau he lost 32400 at one eession. An infusion of red sporting blood 1# needed there before the gates open. A Kansas City judge is drafting an ordi- nonce providing for a whipping-post for wife-beaters. Frequent poultices of the cat or a stout club on calloused hides have a tendency of reviving fond recollections of youth, besides giving the victim an impressive dose of his own medicine. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease is schedulod for a performance in the divorce courts. Charley Lease does not object. The trouble goes away back. Mr. Lease operated a drug store In Kansas and Mrs. Lease en- tertalned some strong notions on the sub- Ject of temperance. The result is set forth in the bill for divorce. A great streak of luck bas befallen a varlety troupe traveling in Michigan. The advance posters were of what 1s called the “‘warm’ variety and when put on the bill- boards in Grand Rapids aroused the moral Indignution of a Baptist preacher. Next Sunday he preached a sermon attacking the posters, which next day were covered up by order of the mayor. Public curlosity was of course aroused and when the show arrived it “turned 'em away,” as they have it in professional circles —_—— ROOM AT THE TOI Cincinnatl Tribune: Senator Davis almost reached the top and he started at the foot of a steep, hard ladder to climb. In bis lite, a8 in the lives of tens of thousa: of other distinguished Americans, there is encouragement for ambitious boys. Baltimore Sun: The senator's career {l- lustrates the lai possibilities of Amer| can life. Endowed with Industry, energy and public spirit, the senator a from an obscure position to & post of the great- onsibility and homor, setting an Minneapolis Times: The care man K. D tion of the fact that America is & land of opportunities, when the individual has the inclination and the ability to discover them and improve them. While afforded the advantages of college and university train- ing, Senator Davis began life in very mod- erate financial circumstances, and without the ald of position or influence. He pos- sessed that, however, which was better than either or both—a brilllant mind, a high smbition and unflagging energy and industry. | churches are successtul The near approach | BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Don't make meal of your seed-corn Blgotry pluces opinion before truth, Religlon 1s a reality, not & rhapsody. Spirituality {8 not a matter of spasms. ‘The fruit that ripens earliest rots Nrst No man s great whose aims are small. The skeptic stands on his head and says: “See me hold‘up the world." Innocence may be but ignorance, virtue wins victory after strife, Some methods of ralsing money for only in raising but mammon. When & man blushes for hard drinking the effort concentrates itselt in the middle of his face. No man has the right to say: got 10 live:" he must live to say: got to do right.” “1 have “I bave @eeccccsecsococrces WELL-POSTED AND COMPETENT Juniata Herald, Whatever may be sald of B. Rosewater, the fact remains that he is an fntelligent, well-posted and competent man, and if he should be fortunate enough to carry off the senatorial plum Ne- braska would certainly not take a back seat in the deliberations of the senate. seescscssssccccs DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Chicago Times h Hor, don’t you hit the na timen?" “1 do, ald: “My de why il on the head some- Look at my thumb.* Dolly—You used to rry @ man who could Indianapolis Jours #ay you wanted to m | form your mind, Polly Polly—Yes, but, honestly, Dolly, tha only men who ever tried to form my mind wero 80 awfully homely. Chicago Record: * sho kaves my “How's that “She won't let me go hunting." My wife asserts that fe at least once every year.' Philadelphia Press: ment is off? Je \'teflu he declares she was simply In- o 8o the engage- able, ‘@us—I should think it was rather a strain on his knees. She's no sylph, certainly. Brooklyn Life: Katierine—I detest that Mr. Tiffington Margarei—Why, Katherine? “Oh, he's the kind of man who always calls when you are expecting somebody else who doesn't come." Pittsburg Chronicle: “Mr. Homewood Qropowed “to “me last night" sald Mis Northside to her dearest girl friend, Miss Maghester, ““He lost an election bet, I suppose, the latter's comment. L Detrolt Free Pross: married! Ah, wel #pot In my heart e—Indeed! | was Ho—And so she's wiywed--The cook refuses recommend. . Newlywed (savagely)—Oh, well, I'll glve her one Mra. Newlywed—But that would be un- truthful. Mr. Newlywed—-Well, y but I'd sooner become a liar than a murderer, Chicago Tribune: 1 wish I could think of some new and unusual Christmas p t to surprise mamma with this vear,” said Miss de Mulr, wrinkling her fair brow in perplexity. “How do you think she'd like a son-i Iaw?" " hoarsely whispered Spoon more, falling readily into the only line of thought that s ed to suggest itself. Puck: Mrs. N to_leave with THE COMING MAN. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ch, not for the great departed ‘Who framed our countrx' And not for the braves rted Who dled In freedom’ And not for some living he To whom all bend the knee, My muse would ralse her song of praise— ut for the man to be. For out of the strife which woman Is passing through {oday A man that {s more than human Bhall vet be born, 1 say. A man in whose pure spirit No drosn of self will Turk; A man who s strong to cope with wrong, A man who 1s prod to work. 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