Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1901, Page 26

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1901. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE E EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, ROSEWATER, RIPTIO! ay), One Year $6.9 Year . 8.00 0 2.0 TERMS OF Dally Bee (without Laily Bee and Sunday, On illustrated Bee, One Year.. Hunday Bee, One Year saturday F ne Year ‘Twentleth Century Farme DELIVERED BY Dally Bee, without Sur Lally Bes, without Sunc 8U CARRI y, per copy . ¥, per week ¥, per week Sur per copy . wvening Bee, without 8unday, Evening Bee, Includ'g Sunday, Complaints of frregularitics £hould be addressed to Clty Circulation De- partment. OFFICES, Omaha: The Bee Butlding Bouth Omaha’ City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-ftth and M Streets Counetl Lluffs: 10 Chicago: 164 Unity B New York: > Washinglon: %1 Fourteenih Street, CORRESPONDENCE Communications relat torial_matter should b Bee, Editorlal Depattment BUSINESS LETTER! Business letters and remittanc 11d be addressed: The Bee Publishing Company, Umaha. REMITTANC Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bes hing Compuny Only 2-cent stamps accepted in puyment mall accounts. Personal checks. exc Umaha or eastern ex 1 Street, iding : Omaha STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. 88! ge B, Tzschick, sccretary of ‘ihe lea Publishing’ Company, being duly ~sworn, #ays that the actual number oi full and complete coples of The Dally, Morniug, Evening and Bunday Hee printed during the month of August, 191, was as follo 1 2 L.25,410 20,680 280 otal . Less unsold and returned coples TN, L. 25,021 CHUCHK ice and sworn to t August, A, D. B, HUNGAT Notary Pub Net total sales Net dally avera GE Subscribed fn my p! before me this st day 1901 M The cup ¢ name-—Shamrock 11, el o) Here's to Captain Barr, his the good ship Columbia. At the rate n; 3 en ness of holding American mission for ransom is a decidedly profitable one, 1 1t can be made to work, The South Dakota raflroads have re duced ordinary passenger fares from 4 to 3 cents per mile. Politicians con- tinue to ride at the same old rate, is living up to its rew and el the busi The financial reports of the rallroads which tap Omala and the surrounding ‘\tvrrnnry explaln why it Is other roads are deslrous of getting into the fleld. —_— This country is willing to do most anything to please Sir Thomas Lipton, for he I8 really a good fellow, but that i(‘np has been over here so long that we cannot part with it. —_— The most picturesque portion of the Bantiago campaign has not been touched upon by the Schley inquiry. The pub- le’ has heard nothing of the “heav cannonading in the Windward Passage The health of the sultan of Turkey is said to be failing. The task of sup- porting his large fumily and keeping peace with his numerous creditors Is enough to break the health of any man, It 18 a good thing to have a good rep utation, but like other blessings it ha its drawbacks. Every swindler who at tempts to work the unsophisticated in other citles asserts he lives in Omaha. October 3 is the day to put Nebraskans off at Buffalo. It is a long journey, but all who Intend to make it should be there on that occasion, just to show the eastern people that the state is still coming. In ex-Senator Allen's county the dem- ocrats were generous enough to give the populists the candidate for county super- intendent of public instruction. Demo- cratic generosity s likely to baukrupt the party in that coun Prominent South Americans dislike to be sent as delegates to the Pan-Ameri- can congress or any other duty which takes them away from hom The are likely to miss two or three revolu tlons during a few months' vacation, General Gasalee, who commanded the British troops in China, has nothing but words of pralse for the American sol- dlers, officers and men, who served In the Pekin campaign. The Yankee sol dler “makes good” wherever you him, Automobiles are to be tried in the mall delivery service in Minneapolis, The faithful horse has seen many inno- vations which were expected to make him a back number, but has held his own and is lkely to for some time to come. President Roosevelt has commenced to collect the material for his first mes sage to congress. Before the president gets a fair start the mind readers who represent the yellow journals at the na tional capital will deliver it to congress and the American people, — A Cass county man thinks he struck ofl on his farm. Every one would refolee with him if It should prove true, but the Nebraska man who uses the plow and the cultivator can readily buy all the oil he needs if the find should not prove genuin has With Seth Low B. B and as mayor of Greater Odell in the gov Theodore Roosevelt oceupying mansion, the Empire state would have a trio of emi pent cltizens in positions of eminence Bot to be matched anywlere, | roads, the Ilinois senator will be more | potential | his assc put | | the field f PUSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Among the important twentleth cen- tury reforms pressing to the front Is the estabilshiment of postal savings ban Postal savings banks are by no means an untried experiment. They have been established for years in European coun- tries, notably in England, Austria and many, to encourage thrift and econ- omy among wage-workers and safe- guard thelr hard-earned savings. Inei- dentally they have also proved to be an incentive to patriotism In giving each depositor a direct personal Interest in the preservation of the national eredit and the stability of government President McKinley's first postmaster | general, Mr , who was the familiar with savings banks, manag under private ownership and control, dorsed the postal savings bank system | as among the most desirable adjuncts of the Postoflice tment. The 'niis- | position of congress to carry out his| recommendations is chiefly due to the | influence exerted by interests that fear steh banks would transfer a large vol ume of private savings bank deposits to the government deposifories. Among the most earnest champions of savings banks is Senator Willlam 5. Mason of Ilinols, who has endeay- ored during ral sessions o secure fuvorable consideration of a bill looking to the y Inauguration of a postal | savings bank system in this country and who can be depended on to press for- | ward the measure in the coming con gress with bis usual vigor. During the coming session, as chairman of the sen te committee on postoffices and post sev in lates. such great how popular are not to be t the first ons securing attention among | innovations, no matter | s fmperatively demanded, arrled through congress . but require persistent and steady effort by which alone the objections and barriers ralsed ean be overcome. Fortunately for the friends of the postal savings bank, they have in Senator Mason a champion possessed of indomitable conrage and ess activ- ity, who it prope ted will keep up the fight until success erowns his effort, AN AMERICAN MERCHANT MARL Noxt In advantage to having the thing to sell is to have the convenience to carry it to the buyer. We must en- cournge our merchant marine. We must have more ships, They must be under the Amerlean flag, built and manned and owned by Americans. These will not only be profitable in a commerclial sense; they will be, messen- gors of peace and unity wherever they £0.” This was said by the late President MeKinley in his address at Buffalo, in which he also urged that there should be direct commercial lines from our vast fields of production to the fields of consumption that we have but bavely touched. ¥ ident Roosevelt is in favor of this policy, but there is uncertainty regard- ing his position toward the subsidy plan. As to this he has not placed himself on record and perhaps will not do so before sending his message to congress in December. The Washing- ton correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says there seems authority for the statement that the president favors the proposition of his predecessor that direct commercial lines should be established between the east- ern const of the United States and the ports in South America, and the Pacific coast ports and Central America, South America and Mexico. There seems equally good authority for the state- ment that Mr. Roosevelt believes in the encourag! the merchant marine, as urged by Mr. McKinle But how he stands in regard to the subsidy propo- sition has not been disclosed and the advocates of that policy are sald to he somewhat anxious respecting the presi- dent's attitude. If it should transpire that he is not in favor of subsidies it will be quite useless to renew the ef- fort to pass what I8 known as the Payne-Hanna bill, unless the president should signify his willingness to accept the action of congress in the matter. There is probably no doubt that the house will pass the measure, even if 1t should be found that the president is not in favor of subsidies, but executive opposition would make it extremely dif- ficult to get the bill through the senate. While there is no doubt that had the subsidy DIl been passed by the last congress Mr. McKinley would have ap- proved it, it is a fact that he made no distinet declaration in favor of subsi- dies, In his last annual mes he sald: “Awmerican vessels during the past three years have carried about 9 per cent of our exports and imports. Forelgn ships should carry the least, not the greatest, part of Ameriean trade, The remarkable growth of our steel in dustries, the progress of shipbuilding for the domestic trade and our steadily | maintalned expenditures for the' navy | have created an opportunity to pl the United States in the first rank of commerclal. maritime powers, Besides | realizing a proper national aspiration | this will mean the establishment and | lealthy growth along our coasts of a| distinetive national industry, expanding ¢ the profitable employment | of labor and capital. It will increase | the transportation facilities and reduce | freight charges on the yast volume of products brought from the interior to | the seaboard for export and will strengthen an arm of the national de fense upon which the founders of the government and thelr su sors have fed.” He urged immediate action by CONEress on measures to promote Amer- fean shipping and forelgn trade and ve ferred to his annual message of 1899, in which he satd he was satistied “the Judgment of the country favors the poliey of aid to our merchant marine,” it is fairly to be inferved from this that Mr, McKinley was favorable to the sub- sidy bill and undoubtedly would have approved it had it been passed by con- BrOss The very important question of build ing up an American merchant marine, in which every section of the country is interested, should be determined by the Fifty-seveuth congress. It Is a ques. tion which in its relation to the expan- slon of our forelgn commerce is second to none other. ONE PAYING EXPOSITION. Has any great fair in the United States ever pald directly? We can recall o such incident. Ask the men who put up funds for the Philadelphia Centennial, the Chi- cago Columbian, or any other of the inter- national expositions, and they will report that, so far as direct and immediate re- sults were concerned, all were failures Chicago 18 still suffering from the effects of her stupendous achievement.—~Washing- ton Post, At least one great fair in the United States has paid both directly and indi- The one great fair that stands out above all others as successful from a financial as well as from other stand- points i1s the Transmississippl exposition held at Omaha in 1808, While that exposition did not attaln to the stupendous proportions of the World’s Columblian fair, it I8 conceded to have excelled in many features the greatest expositions previously held in this country. It enjoyed active particl- pation by thirty-three states and its government exhibit surpassed all those ®een in expositions up to that time. It 18 the only great exposition up to date financed without a bond issue and paylng back over 90 per cent of the money contributed by stock subseribers, There is no truth whatever in the assertion that Chicago Is still suffering from the effects of its great achievement of 1808, The World's Columbian fair transformed Chieago from a provincial to & world city. Its permanent popula- tion was lucreased by more than 500,000 through the lmpetus given to public im- provements and private enterprise, It held Chicago up against the terrific cy- clone of panic and depression that swept the continent from ocean to ocean by pouring more than $100,000,000 into its commercial arterfes. Without the exposition Chicago would have been erippled almost beyond recovery and fallen bebind in the race for metropol- itan ,supremacy. The temporary re- action caused by the closing of the F¢ of the exposition was of com- paratively no moment. While Omaba’s exposition did not have to face a panie, it bad to go through the trying ordeal of the Spau- iIsh war, which monopolized popular attention and deprived it of patronage it would have had in a year of peace, Those who have glven the subject more than passing thought will agree with us that great expositions can be made to pay if properly planned aud man- aged on business principles. ENGLAND'S NEW TROUBLE. England has another trcuble on her hands, this time with Turkey, and it is quite possibie that it will assume a very grave character. The issue grows out of certaln aggressive movements on the part of the Turkish government which threaten British interests in southern Asia and on the Persian gulf and the fact that British war vessels are being sent to the gulf indicates that the sit- uation 1s regarded as serious. Of course Turkey professes not to have any de- signs agaiust British interests in that quarter, but b wilita operations seem to discredit such profession and at any rate Great Britain could not afford to take no notice of such opera- tions and permit Turkey to gain a posi- tion which would place British interests in peril. It is quite possible, also, that Turkey's, course in this may be inspired by other powers. It is not easy to be- lieve that Russia would enter into any sort of an understanding or arrangement with Turkey Inlimical to British inter- ests, yet It is not lmpossible In view of Russia’s well known desire to secure a port on the Perslan gulf. Moreover that power is not incapable of making an alliance even with Turkey If it should deen it to be to its advantage to do so. A London correspondent sald In a re- cent letter that the jsolation of Britain grows apace as problems of ever-in- creasing complexity press upon the at- tention of her rulers. The new element of disturbance in the Persian gulf may cause Great Britain a great deal of trou- ble. For some months past rumor has been busy on the subject of Russian ambitions In that quarter of the world and i1t appears evident that the rivalry of Russia, which has been so successful in China In the teeth of treaty engage- ments, 18 about to enter a domain which has hitherto been regarded as a British interest. If, as is possible, however Im- probable it may seem, Russia has in- spired the Turkish movement, it will not be abandoned and England may have a serlous contlict with Turkey on her hands. If there is no such understand- ing, on the other hand, it Is not likely that Turksy will offer any very obstinate resistance to Great Britain's demands, since she Is In no condition to carry on unaided a conflict with Great Britain, England's new difficulty may be speed ily settled, Perhaps it is not so serlous as apy on the surface, or as Is naturally to be inf 1 from the fact that a strong naval force Is being con centrated in the Persian gulf, suggests that there are perlls be: Great Britain's world-wide interests which eall for her utmost vigilance and the maintenance of her fighting power at the highest standard, ars etting HELPING THE CUBANS. It 18 understood to be the intention of the administration to endeavor to es tablish reciprocity between the United States and Cuba prior to the inaugura tion of an independent government in the island. Of course no commercial treaty can be made with Cuba until a nment shall have been established which will not be for elght or uine months and possibly a longer time, But 1t is pointed out that there can be reciprocity in advance of the island hay ing its own government if cong disposed to grant it. So far as the Cuban customs regulations are con cerned, the War department, under the military itrol, can make them what it pleases, but it cannot alter the tarift duties of the United States on Cuban oducts coming here, hat lies alto r with congress, posed to do Is to ask congress to modify the duties on Cuban sugar and tobacco and with this In but | view the officlals of the War depart- ment are gathering statistics to be sub- mitted to congress. It is announced that there will be ready by the time con gress meets in December a complete statement of the articles of American manafacture used in Cuba, so that an estimate can be made of the advantages reduction of duties upon them would give. The probable increase in the consumption of these articles, if a redue- tion in the Cuban tariff is mad will be estimated and used in the argument for a reciprocal reduction of duties upon Cuban sugar and tobacco in the United States. It will be wurged that the United States will stand in its own light if reciprocal trade arrangements are not immediately made and will run the risk of losing the Cuban trade which of right belongs to it. The Interesting fact in this s that the administration is favorable to some thing being done to help the Cubans and is preparing to exert its influence to this end. There Is no intimation as to what the administration regards as necessary or expedient in the matter of tariff concessions, but they considerable If it favors the suggestions made by the representatives of the Cuban interests. It is probably safe to assume that congress will not be willing to go as far as this. That some tariff concession will be made to Cuban sugar and tobacco 18 doubtless ussured, but it will be regulated with reference to retaining such protection for the do- mestic sugar and tobacco Interests as shall be necessary to save them from ruin. This Is a matter to be dealt with in an entirely practical way, unin- fluenced by any sentimental considera- tlons. As we have saild hertofore, while there Is a general desire that Cuba shall develop and prosper, we are not called upon by any duty obligation to better the condition of the Cubans at the expense of our own peo- ple. Americans who are engaged in the sugar and tobacco Industries are entitled to consideration and we do not doubt they will receive it from a re- publican congress. THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. The ticket nominat by the repub- lican county convention will commend itself to the support of all loyal re- publicans. The candidates are nearly all well kunown by all classes of our citizens and it will not be necessary to introduce them individually to the voters of Doug- las county. Geographically the ticket could not have been better distributed. The various elements and factions are recognized by representative men whose services to the party constitute a pass- port to promotion and reward, With the general drift of republicanism in thefr favor thelr election may be regarded as fairly assured. o Nothing more handsome,in the form of a special newspaper edition has ever been issued than the jubilee number of the New York Times, commemorat- Ing {ts fiftleth anniversary. Aside from external appearance and typographical beauty the souvenir is replete with a most interesting historical review of a fifty years' honorable and active career of that progressive journal. The very fact that it has been accorded public patronage through a perlod of half a century attests not only the stability and substantial foundation of the Times, but the ability and honesty with which it has been steadfastly con- dueted. The Boers have appealed to The Hague peace tribunal for arbitration of their differences with Great Britain, The world at large would certainly like to see arbitration for humanity's sa but the chances are remote. After the blood and treasure that Great Britain has expended it 1s not likely to sacrifice prestige by indirectly conceding its in- ability to accomplish Its often an- nounced purpose of carrying the war forward to a conclusion. Citizens of an Oklahoma town have combined to drive the negroes out of the place. Denunciation of anarchists 18 impotent when people who would re- sent it if told they were not good citi- law in this manner. The crime of the anarchist who commits murder and that of the man who denies to his fellow man the same end. Mr. Bryan says he fs opposed to any limitation on the freedom of speech as a ewre for anarchy. Mr. Bryan shoulil zet in touch with his democratic friends in Virginia, who have stricken the guar- anty ot free spoech out of thelr state constitntion ,in a moment of heedless ness. If an's influence with the Virginla democrats is still potent per haps he can persuade them to restore the free speech clause, —_— The ranking admiral of the Spanish navy has advised the government to either appropriate a large sum of money for that branch of the service or abolish it entire A large portion of the navy was “abolished” at Manila and Santiago and the remainder contd easily have been disposed of if it had not re mained so near home, Stories are afloat that the community- of-interest deal between railroads, under the lead of the Harriman syndicate, will abolish ely. The politician who has this story before and continued to ride free with each re- | curring year will wink the other eye | and borrow no trouble, | pusses et heard delgian glass workers are leaving that country in such large numbers and | coming to this country as to seriously wenace the Industry in Belglum, This is bad for Belgium, but the workingmen cannot be blamed for desiring to secure the better wages of the protected Amer- fean workman, Towa democracy is certainly in hard lines. As if a 60,000 adverse majority were not enough of a handicap, the candidates and the state central com wittee are at outs, the candidates be- would be | zens to set an example of deflance ol'I the rights which the law gives him | differs only In degree and both lead to | ing gold men and the committee free silver. Unless the animale can be trained to sleep peacefully in the same cage they will present a sorry on election night Aatamn Coura speeta Baltimore American Some people continue to wear their straw hats because of moral courage, and others wear them for another reason, which 1s not fair to mention. Works Both Ways, Washington Post Somebody has said that a summer vaca tion is the cocktail for the winter. Then there are some who mak it the katzenjammer of the preceding win tor. Valldity of Some On New York Trigune The legality of an oath tiken by tel phone is i dispute. Concerning the vigor and emphasis of some of the oaths pro- voked by dilatory ‘“central” there is room for question, no A Matter of Pradence Inat; country napolie Journal The anxfously hopes that the president will exercise the utmost caution | to the end that his life mav not be taken | It is not a question of but a mere matter ot by an assassin. personal courage, prud Looking Over the B Baltim A lost men rlean Germany and about 000,000 in China and has thus far nothing | to show for either men or monmey but a controversy over ceremonial, in which the kaiser lost, an explatory monument Ip Pekin and loot in Berli The oOld Portland Oregonian Mrs. Roosevelt will, it scems, be con tronted with a problem familiar fo plo neers of the log cabin era when it comes to stowing her family comfortably in the White House. Simply stated, there are elght in the new president's famil but five sleeping rooms in the hou looks lke resort will have to be m the old-fashioned “‘shake-down” when (he unexpected guest drops in. me Standby. Investing In Blind Pools. Springfield Republican One result of these frequent revelations of weakness in the affairs of trusts and combinations must and should be a stronger demand than ever for such public regulation as shall at least compel full publicity in their operations and reports, and full adequacy of statement In setting forth their financial condition. Investors should insist upon it for their own sakes, as the general public should lnsist upon it as a measure of restraint upon trust ex- tortion. As matters stand, the person with money who buys into a trust buys into a blind pool, about which he can know prac- tically mothing. His Investment {s wholly At the mercy of a management operating in the dark, and not always, so far as he can tell, possessed of interests in harmony with his own. Senator Hanna and the President. Kansas City Star. Senator Hanna has given his unqualified endorsement of President Roosevelt's policy since the death of President McKinley. He expresses absolute confidence in the new executive and declares that he belleves that both the republican party and the nation as a whole have great faith in him. This opinion is important. Mr. Hanna had not been friendly to the political ambitions of Mr. Roosevelt. That was well understood. As chairman of the republican national committee it would have been possible for him to alienate from Mr. Roosevelt the sup- port of certain party leaders. He has risen, however, to the occasion, and his attitude bespeaks the harmonious promotion of the Roosevelt administration by the whole re- publican organization. ROOSEVELT'S SUCCESS RECIPE. Advice the President Once Gave to a Young Law Student. New York Commerclal Advertiser. President Roosevelt gave some advice a few years ago “How to Get On in Life" to a young law student, which is so char- acteristic of the soldler-statesman and so pertinent that It s worth reproducing now. This is what the strenuous Roosevelt ad- vised the wavering young lawyer to do: “If 1 were you I would hang out my shingle and get a case. I don't care how you get it. Your own wits ought to find one case at least which no other lawyer has. I wouldn't take a justice shop case, either. I'd find a cese that was right up in fhe regular courts and which possessed some merit. 1 wouldnt take it for nothing. elther, or on a contingency. I would have & decent fee attached to it. In other words, 1 would have as many respectable features attached to the case as possible under the circumstances. “Having got that case.” continued Roose- velt, “I would try it as if it were the last case I ever expected to have or which would ever be in the courts. | would not make a nuisance of myself. fou know enmough to void that, but you can be so Insistent that yow will win the respect of evervone who in any way comes Into conrect\on with the trial. Put all of yourself in the case. Get every side of it and above all things ham- | { mer it into your client by the force of vour actlons that proach. “When you get done with that case vou will have a reputation that many lawyers devote vears in other ways trylng to ob- tain. You will find that a second case is cortain to come to you, whether you lose or win the first one. “I would treat the second case.”” he con tinued, “just as I did the first one. Live and act as if there was never such a case in existence before and master it fust as you are required to master your studies at the law school. If you find yourself weak ening at all use the spur and the whip un- til you have created an enthusiasm in your work that fmparts itselt to client. court and jury and results fn your victory.” The young law student’s timidity began to diminish from that moment. He had ab- sorbed some of Roosevelt’s courage and in- domitable energy. But he wanted more. “How about the third case?" he asked. “Go at it In the same way.” was the re- ply. “And for that matter, as your patronage increases give the same treat- ment to all your cases. You will create a confidence fn yourself that will insure vou a constant practice and your clients omce secured will never leave vou “Enthusiasm in work s the best antidote for no patronage that I know of for any professional man. In fact, the rule ap- plies to every walk of lite. If your heart 18 In what you have to do, no matter how small the undertaking, the greater things are certaln to come to you, and In rich reward."” It 80 happened that the first case which this young man tried involved at the time a technical point, not first noticed by him, which 1t would necessitate the United States supreme court to pass upon. He put what he called “Roosevelt’s enthu- slasm” into the case, found the tech- nicality, carrfed it through all the courts of the state, took it to the highest tribunal and won. The case made his reputation and fortune. It earned for him, also, the name of being the most disagreeable, per sistent lawyer thdt the old bar had yet encountered He wi one of our presl- dent's strenuous men. your Integrity is above re- approaching | FEARING THE WORST, of Morrowing motes Fal 0. & Warden in Success, One o1 the worst habits formed early in life fs that of borrowing trouble, of looking |on the black side of things. ensfer to talk down than to talk up. We ave, naturally, pessimistic. One of the best ot succeas helps is to acquire early in youth a habit of thinking that the best, not the worst, whl happen; that we are not poor, miserable creatures, hounded on every hand by the enemies of our Iifa and happiness, but that we were made to be happy. to be free from harassing cares, anxieties, forebodings; that were not made to worry of to project black pictures, [ but to create bright and cheerful ones. We should no more allow a discordant or |or a dark pleture in the mind than we would allow a thiet in our home. We should remember that euch thoughts are worsge than thieves, because they steal away our comfort, our happiness, our content- ment. These black cnemies, these dis- cordant guests, leave their scare and stains | and slimes upon the house that is beautitul | within. It is almost impossible to exclude | them when they once enter, but it Is com- paratively easy to keep them out when we once learn the secret of excluding them. | We ehould learn that these enemies have | no right to Intrude themselves upon our | consclousness. Treat them as trespassers, Trouble Pro- [ nante [ . | to paint their black images upon the mind | Do not allow yourselt to read, to hear, * to wee anything which will produce dis- cord or disturb your peace of mind and harmony. A famous Englishman sald that a habit of looking on the bright side of lite 18 worth | @ thousand pounds a year. It is worth in- | fintely more than can be measured by | pounds, dollars or cents, for it means peace of mind, contentment, happiness, consclous power and the beauty and sweetness of 1ifo Everything has a bright side 1t we know how to see it. —— THE® IELOR AS A FAMILY, An Interesting Addition to the Glows of Legal Definitions. New York Times. The conclusion of Maglstrate Pool, after patiently listening to arguments on both 8ides, that “a bachelor is not a family,” and that because of the exemption of his domies- tic organization, which may include a valet cook and servant, from the legal classific tlon which makes him the tenant of a tene- ment when he lives in a multiple apart- ment building and has his meals cooked at home, & bachelor apartment house may be bullt fn violation of the provisions of the law relating to tenements, Is an interesting addition to the glossary of legal definitions. What s a family? Obviously, a man and his wife and thelr children, together with such dependent poor relations as may be domiciled with them and such servants as they may employ. As to the legal status of such a unit of soclal organization there can be no doubt, But let us follow it through the usual course of evolutionary develop- ment and natural change. The wife dies, as good women sometimes do, and the husband becomes construcively a bachelor in that he {s unmarried and has the legal status of one who has never married, 8o far as wo- menkind are concerned. The children grow up and leave home and their place in the organization is taken by others—wards, it may be, or persons acceptable for compan- fonship. When does such an organization cease to be a family? To dissolve the fam- tly it 1s necessary that the head of it shall £o off by himself and live alone. The best definition of a family of which we have knowledge, with exact reference to its ety- mology, {s an organlzation of persons under one head who live in one house. A bachelor, man or woman, who maintains a servant (famulus) and lives in a house (faama) is the head of a family and the more servants he maintains the larger his family. It 18 not profitable, however, to split hairs in reviewing a ruling of his homor, Mr. Maglstrate Pool. But it may be pertinent to ask what the tenement house law is for —why it prescribes certain conditions as necessary in a dwelling designed for a mul- tiple tenancy and whether bachelors and their families need less air and light for health and comfort than other people do. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Tom Lipton’s chances of winning went glimmering when he scraped off the green paint. Carrle to settle ehade of hatchet galety town. Tom L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, continues climbing the heights of tame. His name and phiz have reached the 5-cent clgar stage. The high price of potatoes imposes & cruel burden upon those unfortunates who use tho festive tuber as a pocket pleco to ward off rheumatism. The Chicago man who Is bullding a boat to navigate Niagara named the craft “A Fool-Killer" It Is confidently believed the boat will justify its name. One of Chicago's flock of Reubens made a distinct improvement on the customary plan of blowing out the gas. He slipped his | boot over the jet and rolled in. The doc- | tors hope to save him. The elopement of a Massachusetts woman | | with a boy of 18 is rightly classed as & se of kidnaping. The preponderance of women over men in the Bay state forces the falr sex to take desperate chances. It looks 1ike & touch of democracy in | nigh places when Kaiser Wilhelm makes | to Russian peasants, and the | duke and duchess of York break bread with | the men of a Canadian lumber camp. 8t. Louls falr people boast they will have one-third more space under roof than at the World's falr. At present there is a great | deal of space In the fair treasury anxlously | walting for a substantial response to the call for 20 per cent on stock subscribed. A touching scene ot animal gratilude was observed In Colorado recently. An eagle, | having made three unsuccessful ewoops on a yearling calf, was chased away by a dea- con. The grateful calf rushed Yo embrace its deliverer, overturned him, fell on his neck and bellowed forth its oy as only a calt can. The deacon's response to the | greeting was placed In cold etorage for the present, The Temple of Musie s the chief attrac- tlon for all visitors to the Pan-American exposition. The spot where President Me- Kinley stood when mortally wounded by the assassin has been marked and sur- rounded by a ralling. It is expected the people of Buffalo will eventually mark the site of the lamentable tragedy with an en- during memorial and annex the site to Lin- coln park, which it now adjolns. The Cleveland Leader makes an inter esting calculation on the report that Ken- tueky will restrict the output on whisky to 27,600,000 barrels next year. With expert knowledge the Leader shows that the aver- age drick is a gill, or slxty-four drinks to the gallon, so that the restricted output means 1,760,000,000 drinks, an average of ninety drinks for every man in the country. The Leader expert Is not wholly cast down Nation is sald to have declded fa New York City and lend a tc the etald old 1t {8 much | eject them instantly and do not allow them | BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. —— ‘ When faith fails selfishness provails. Righteousness s the richest reward of the right. Where God s least wanted is where He fs most needed. Every home hallowad by an altar becomes & harbor for the heart The force of gravity fs surpassed only that of happiness. The church does not keap men wholesome by the refrigerator method. The miracles that men demand would a mMost always be catastrophes. No man knows the reality of 1ife till h recognizes the unreality of the world The importance of a thing Is to be moeas ured by its power for business rather than by its bulk by It 15 a good deal easter to forget what e ought to kiow than it 18 to €mow whit we ought to forget There are those who think that it the brand of soap had been known the worll would have been cleansed without & floo ———— SECULAR SHOTS AT B PULPIT. Washington Post: The New York preacher who speculated fn stocks has bee censired by his congregation. As he Aidy lose, the case is a strange one. Perhaja [ he made the mistake of not letting | members fn on his good thing. Boston Globe: A glrl of 20, reared in (h« city of Baltimore, said in court Friday that «he did not understand the mature . an oath, had never been to a church or Sunday school, had never heard of God or heaven and did not know of the promi of immortality. How much did Baltimors last year for the support of forelgn missions? Chicago Post: 1In Frankfort, Ky., the burning question now is whether an Afefean Baptist church shall ba allowed to face the capitol. Governor Beckham threatens to move the state bullding it the house of worship goes up. If the church can with stand the Influence of the capitol, tha lat- ter should be willing to get along with the religlous structure. From what we know of capltols our sympathies are all with the church, Buffalo Express: The councll of tha Protestant Episcopal diocese of Milwaukes has voted in favor of changing the name of the church to the “American Cathollc Church fn the United States.” There Is a more or less strong move nt among Epi copalians throughout the country to make the change and the matter will come fore the congress to held next m tn San Francisco. As no practical be can follow such a change it fs not app that it would be wise to make it New York World: The Amerlean delo- gates to the Ecumenical Methodist con ference, which has just been sitting in London, found wine and beer served on the tables of English Wesleyan minfsters. To the remarks which some of them mads on the matter the Rev. John Bond, secre- tary of the conference, replied: “My an swer {8 that this {s a free country. Amer- fca 18 mot. We reserve the right to drink alcoholie lquors in moderation if we wish The American dictum would be ruled out by Wosley, who drank wine to the end of his 1ife.” Mr. Bond's response is not a spectal plea for wine and beer at the table it 18 a protest against church command ments which, as he shows by the cited example of Wesley, may be bluer than the edicts and practices of the church fathers themselves. In a broader way it s a pro- test against the tyranny of seeking to erimp the wills and tastes of all men to a pat- tern declded upon by a few. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Mrs. difference does it make You wouldn't spell it the Brooklyn TLife: Benham—How d0 you spell Benham—What how 1 spell 1t? same way. Chicago Tribune: Examining Physiclan (to applicant for insurance)—H'm! Young man, there is something the matter with your heart ¥ Pplicant—Your daughter found that out along time ago, doctor. ‘When a young ‘V‘W‘ln 'k girl to clip a thi off his necktle, and there is nobody else around, whe may be excusea for being disappointed if that is all that happ Judge: Wife (revisitl betrothal)—I remembe when you proposed to me, embarrassed_you were, Algernon—Yes, dear well_how kind and « and ho Somerville Journal: g the scene of her Algernon, so well how ‘painfully and 1 _remember 80 uraging it for mi here they Ko, the fond mamma, exultantly, a8 daughter and the count strolled away down rk. “Two souls with but a single aght Denver Times 4 ‘ sald papa, who wasn't so fmpres sfonable, "I think you've just about hit thelr mental caliber. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “DId you ask the old man for his daughter “Not ¥ 2 “Why not ‘m going to walt until he begins to feel the benefit of his fall advertising.” Brooklyn Eagle: Mrs. Naggs-1 grow to belleve more and more in the saying: he way to & man's heart is through his stom- i “Vrs. Chatterton (weartly)-8o do I _About the only bargains Henry takes any interest in in the department store advertisements are those in the grocery department. New York Weekly: Father—Cooking schools are of some use after all. This cake is deliclous. Daughter- 15 1t? T thought 1t would be a. terrible fi re. “Why s0 “I told Bridget exactly how to make it and she went and made it some other way " A MAN'S LAST WORD, Bliss Carmen. eath sald to me, D hrme things T sk of thee; And thy reply | Shall make thee or undo thes presently.” 1 satd, “Say on, Lord Death, thy will be done. One answers now g o bribe and fear indifferent as thou He sald, “Behold, My power 1s from of old The drunken sea % Is but a henchman and & serf to me. “Hunger and war My fireless sleuthhounds are, Refore my nod The quatling nations have no help but God. “What hast thou found, In one life’s little round, onger than these? ko B e Tittle hand-touch o Marie's He sald: “Again Of all hrave sighis to men— The glittering rain, Atowertng iy in"an autumn platn, “An eagle’s fight A beacon fire at night, The harvest moon. The burnish of & marching host at noon— “What hast thou seen In one )ife's small demesne, Fatrer than these?" . [ gald: “That supple body of Marie's He sald: “Once more Of all men labor for, tattle and yearn, e gend their’ blessed dnys withant re- turn, “Lelsure or wealth, e o gn-tanned health, A bruited name, Or the sad solace of a little fame— t thou known, In one life's narrow zone Searer than these Poarer Wite Tithe 1ove kiss of Marte’ “What h The fact that Kentucky ls not the only pro. Aucer gives the prospect a mellow, three fiuger tone, d then Death sald, AMoany among the dead Thou shalt go down, And with the wise receive thy just remown." r’