Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1902, Page 18

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It seems to be quite the fashion Just now “to beef.” Emte— Between its wheat and its meat, Ne- braska is holding the attention of the market men pretty well, No one doubts that the weather man can raise the wind if he wants to. Ocular demonstration is not insisted on. The next Nebraska legislature ghould not meet with so many of the usual obstructions that have heretofore stood in the way of tax reform Senator Hernando De Soto Mgney will soon discover that Washington street car conductors have some rights that Misslssippl swashbucklers must respect. e Congress 1s good for a sesslon lasting well Into July. The backwoods mem- bers do not propose to go home until they have had at leasc a taste of the base ball season. ety No United States senator should allow himself to be caught in a pinch armed only with a penknife. Nothing short of a pitchfork s commensurate with senatorlal dignity Seap——— Colonel Bryan will attend the Inaugu- ration of President Palma of Cuba in the capacity of a newspaper representa- tive. With Colonel Bryan the pen is mightier than the sword. S Officers of the local franchised cor- porations need not send cards when they call on the city council. All that the etiquette established by the su- preme court requires is that they bring thelr books with them. ———— If the French people do not take care the Belglans will wrest from them their reputation as the most effervescent and excitable portion of the race. But then they are all found to be of one and the same family, without going very far back at that. g A religious perfodical welcomes back Miss Stone, with an expression of re- gret that she feels it necessary to enter DOBS REGULATION REGULATE? The discussion of the trust problem has developed a marked divergence of views as to. the most effective remedy for the abuses and evils that grow out of combination and monopoly First come the advocates of the de structive policy, who insist that the de struction of the trusts is the only salva tion for the protection of the people Next are those who recognize in trusts the natural product of the industrial revolution that has followed the ap. pliance of labor saving machinery in all branches of industry and the concentra- tlon of capital for the most economic and efficlent employment of machinery in the production of manufactured com- modities. The assumption of this class Is that the trusts have come to stay and their power for evil and mischief must be curbed and checked by public- ity, supervision and regulation. And lastly, we have the advocates of he let-alone policy, who contend that all of the ills of the body politic will heal themselves in the long run through the operation of the natural laws of supply and demand. The two extremes--those who advo- cate the destruction of the trusts, and those who are opposed to all Interfer- ence with the trusts—insist that regula tion does not regulate, and, therefore, all legislation short of annihilation, or un- restricted combination will prove abor- tive. Yet the most conclusive proof that reg- ulation does regulate may be found on every highway of the world's progress. Ameriean cities regulate the rates charged for public carrlage hire, and drayage and express charges. They regulate the speed at which vehicles may traverse the public thoroughfares, They regulate the price of gas and elec- tric lights supplied through private cor- porations, They regulate pawn shops, auctioneers and varlous other occupa- tions. They regulate each individual house owner in depositing and dispos- ing of garbage. State laws have reg- ulated the loaning and collection of money and the general conduct of banking concerns. The state laws pro- vide for the inspection of {lluminating oils, dairy products, the storage and marketing of grain, and these laws have effectively checked abuses In most instances. The most striking practical effect of regulation found in the restriction of railway rates. The Burlington railway for many years owned and controlled two parallel railroads running down the Missourl valley from Omaha and Coun- cil Bluffs to 8t. Joseph. One of these roads was on the west bank of the Mis- sour! in Nebraska, and the other on the east bunk of the Missouri in the state of Towa. en or twelve years ago the local passenger rate on the Nebraska road was five cents per mile, while the rate on the opposite side of the river was three cents per mile. This marked divergence of passenger rates was kept | up until the Nebraska legislature enacted a law restricting the rate over any rallroad within the state to three cents per mile. Ever since that law went into effect the Burlington line in Nebraska has charged the same rate as that previously charged on the Iowa line. Did not regulation regulate in that instance. Had the destruction- ists' policy been pursued Nebraska would have been compelled to confis- cate and operate the rallroads. Had the let-aloue policy prevalled the five cent per mile rate ullgh( still be In forcd. Twenty-five years ago the legal inter- est rate in Nebraska was twelve per .cent, but when the legislature reduced it to ten per cent money lenders cut down gracefully and stopped charging twelve per cent. While usurious rates may have been charged from time to time by private money lenders and some unscrupulous bankers, the reputa- ble money lenders, which means the instance of the may be great majority of bankers in the state, have obeyed the law. The regulation and supervision of national banks has long since passed the experimental stage. In fact, it has peen the safety valve of our national king system., No rational person would contend that national banks must be destroyed because some evils have grown out of the system, nor would any advocate of the let-alone policy dare contend that it would be safe to abol- the lecture fleld to repay those whode money secured her ransom from the Bulgarian brigands. The general pub- lic shares in this regret. S— No question but what President Roose- velt is sincere in his determination to execute far as possible the policy of President McKinley, but the trouble Is to tell just what McKinley would do under present conditions, that have changed more or less since his policies were formulated. e Congress 1s still grinding out special pension bills by the thousand for men and women who have no standing on the penslon rolls under present laws, which provide very liberally for nearly every deserving case. Last Friday 145 private pension bills were passed by the house, among these belng one for the widow of Parson Brownlow of Tennessee, whose son is and has for years been a mem- ber of congress, with a $5,000-a-year salay. The late parson never served in the army, but was reconstruction governor of Tennessee after the war, EmE———— When the World:-Herald gets through propounding questions to Dr. Miller it might be appropriate for that sham re- former to ask the four fusion members of congress from Nebraska to explain their position in opposing the abolition of the duties on imported live stock. Dr. Miller is not in position to grant reliet to the consumers of meat products, but igh all restrictions and safeguards for American baunking institutions. What is true of rallroads and banks applies with greater force to trusts, The destruction of the trusts would simply mean industrial anarchy and commer- elal ‘chaos. It would precipitate the closing down of hundreds of mills and factories and throw out of employment hundreds of thousands, if not several sillions of wage workers. It would be about as rational as would be the de- struction of all labor saving machines and the pulling up of all railroad tracks. The rational and safe course in dealing with the trusts is to make thew harmless by restricting their powers and subjecting them to close’ supervis- fon and governmental control. While clawing the alr and howliing themselves hoarse about the trusts, démocratic orgaus and leaders exhibit keen relish over the campaign inaugur- ated by President Roosevelt agalnst the trusts from which the democrats hope to reap substantial bLenefit. The lead- ing democratic organ of Chicago points with delight at the breach betweer President Roosevelt and the corporation representatives In congress. President Roosevelt, says the dewocratic oracle, s “plunging deeper and deeper Into assaults upon privileges. He has broken up traffic agreements between the rail roads, smashed their pooling arrange- ments and driven some of thelr officers to the extremity of refusing to carry out operations which had been In vogue these gentlemen are, if the theory of the World-Herald is correct. If the shawn reform organ s howling agalnst the Beef trust merely as a part of its grand- stand play it had befter quit and come off the perch v B e ——— B A s for many years. He is looking over the fleld of industrial combinations with a how far the president is likely to go im his pursuit of the trusts.” In the very same breath the mgppublican party Is arraigned for its subserviency to the trusts and Roosevelt 18 pitehforked for having placed in his cabinet in the position of attorney general one of the eminent attorneys of a great corpora- tion In the meantime the American people are watching the progress of President Roosevelt's anti-trust cam algn with satisfaction. They propose to judge him by his acts and not in the light in which his political enemies seek to place him. SOME STRIKING FIGURES, In his epeech at the Indiana repub lican state conver.on Senator Bever- fdge presented some striking figures, undoubtedly obtained from official sources, showing the material progress and prosperity of the last few years. He said the farmers of the country are worth $1,220,000,000 more today than before the war with Spain, that the manufacturers have increased their productive investments over $500,000,- 000 since that war began, and that the workingmen in factories alone are earn- ing $500,000,000 more wages every year than before the period of expansion. He poloted out that American work- men have on deposit in savings banks today over $2,600,000,000, that where 4,251,613 wage-earners were employed in manufacture ten years ago, nearly 6,000,000 workingmen are earning higher wages now in the single occupa- tion of manufacture alone. He stated that American farmers in the last six years have paid mortgages on their farms to the amount of $300,000,000, “and the American farmer could today with his live stock alone pay the entire national debts of England and Germany and still have over $520,000,000 left. In regard to the foreign commerce of the country he showed that during the period from March 1, 18967, until March 1, 1902, five years, the Amerlean people sold to the rest of the world $6,680,- 034,462 and bought $3,922,923,566. In these five years the balance of trade in favor of the United States reached $2,708,010,006—a favorable balance of trade larger than in the entire history of the republic before. “In spite of the hundreds of millions of war expenses,” sald Mr. Beveridge, “in spite of other millions expended in laying the foundation of future wealth, in our dependencies, republican admin- istration has paid it all, and in addi- tion, and at the same time actually re. duced the nation’s debt $10,000,000, and 80 refunded the remainder that today the American people pay $7,000,000 less interest annually that we paid before the war with Spain began—and, in ad- dition, still and at the same time, ac- cumulated the heaviest surplus in our treasuty of any nation in the world.” These are most interesting and in- structive facts which may well com- mand the attention of the people, and particularly those who are wont to speak sneeringly and disparagingly of repub- lican prosperity. c— INTERSTATE COMMERCE LEGISLATION. The prospect for legislation to strengthen the interstate commerce act 1s not favorable, although the advocates of such legislation are pressing the mat- ter. The bill introduced by Senator Elkins has been referred to the Inter- state Commerce commisso. for a report on its provisions and considerable inter- est is felt In regard to the reply the commission will make. It is expected that the measure will be approved In part, but an objection to it is looked for because not enough power 'is pro- vided for the commission. The Elkins bill provides for giving the Interstate Commerce commission au- thority under certain conditions to fix rallroad rates, legalizing pooling and abolishing imprisonment as a method of punishing offenses against the law. The provision with reference to the fixing of rates authorizes the commission to hear complaints of discrimination made against common earriers and directs that any definite order made by the commission after such hearing, declar- ing a rate regulation or practice to be Just and reasonable, shall become oper- ative and be observed by the party or parties against whom it {s made within thirty days after notice. The section in regard to pooling provii:s that it shall be lawful for any two or more common carriers to arrange between and among themselves for the establish- ment of or maintenance of rates and it also shall be lawful for such carriers to agree by contract In writing filed with the commission upon the division of thelr trafic or earnings, or both. Authority is given the commission to hear complaints against the falrness of such pooling arrangements and to make an order annulling the contract in the respects found to be unjust and un- lawful. The meagure bhas encountered a num- ber of objections, the c¢hief of which Is to the pooling provision, the unpopular- ity of the legalized pooling proposition being apparently as general and strong now as It has ever been. The hearings before the house committee on Inter- state and forelgn commerce have de- veloped the usual diversity of opinions, the tendency of which Is to confuse and thus necessarlly to impair the chances of legislation. It s stated that Chair- man Knapp of the Interstate Commerce commission is rather pessimistic about the prospect of securing radical awend- ments to the interstate act and thinks that it is wiser to ask for such changes as will make the provisions of the act operative. This feeling on the part of the chairman of the cowmmission was disclosed 1n the views he gave to the house committee, which it has been sald did not produce an altogether fa- vorable impression. Of course If all that may be necessary to make the law more effective cannot be obtained at once It would not be wise to refuse view to instituting proceedings which may result in the men responsible for them belng prosecuted under the Bher- man anti-trust law, and nobedy kuows such changes as can be secured, but the advocates of strengthening the law shoujd not weaken or abate their efforts so loug as there appears to be & ¢hance L] of getting what they belleve to be es sentlal. They should find encourage ment in the fact that they are supported by a stronger public sentiment than ever before since the policy of rallway regulation was instituted PRAISE FOR AMER] CIBNTISIS The eminent English sclentist, Lord Kelvin, now in this country, In an ad dress on the occasion of a reception glven him a few days ago, took Issue with those who have been asserting that in thoroughness as well as in cre ative force the American sclentists do not match those of England or those of the continent of Europe. After re- ferring to the achievements of the engt neers who worked out the problem of the deposit on the ocean’s bed of a transatlantic cable, Lord Kelvin cawme to recent achlevements and spoke of the trlumphs of Edison and of Tesla. He referred to the latter's share in the development of Niagara's power so that it would be of commercial utility and then paid tribute to Edison, emphat- ically acknowledging his claim to dis- tinction as the inventor of apparatys that made of commerelal utility for lighting purposes the electric current. He also spoke of the revolutionary in- vention of Bell. Here were three American achievements in the most beneficlal way revolutionary, observes the New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, which had created millions of new wealth and had been of inestimable service in the advancement of comfort and prosperity, whose pre- eminent importance the eminent English scientist sketched. In a subsequent interview Lord Kelvin said that the most wonderful progress made in this country has been in the practical use of electricity, stating that in this re- spect we are much in advance of Eng- land. In the use of electricity as an illuminating power, he sald, London is stlll very far behind New York, while electric lighting 18 not used on the Eng- lish railroads except in the Pullman cars. There is doubtless some truth in the assertion that American scientists as a whole are somewhat less thorough than ‘those of Europe, but it will not be ad- mitted that they are inferfor to the Europeans in creative force, while as to thoroughness certainly some of our sci- entlsts are excelled by those of no other country. Unquestionably American sci- entists can learn. much of Europeans, but It is also,true that the latter are acquiring. knowledge from the Amer- icans. Under a decision just rendered by one of theehigher courts of the state of New York, school teachers become re- sponsible for assault and battery when they administer corporeal punishment. The doctrine lald down by the court is that when a boy pays his tultion fee at a school he enters into a contract relation and may not be expelled by his teachers when his conduct appears to them prejudicial to the welfare of the #chool, nor has the teacher the right to punish the boy for mishehavior or gis- obedience. This is all very well for the boy who pays his tuition fee, but how about the boy who misbehaves in a free public school? Does the pay- ment of tuition exempt the rich man's boy by buying him immunity from pun- ishment for misbebavior, whi the poor man's boy is liable to such punishment without redress? Another polnt sug- gested by the New York Tribune Iis, does the schoolmaster or the court keep school? Is the power of discipline so far handed over to the judges that the teacher, like the police commissioner, cannot expel an unruly or untrust- worthy person from the body under his control without the commission of a crime? If so, thé bad boy has reason to rejolce. If he keeps within the letter of previously established rules and does not tell any lles that can be proved agalnst him in a court of justice he is safe. Even if he is finally brought to books he can for weeks shake an in- junction in the schoolmaster’'s face and pose as a hero before the other boys. p— Wealthy men who get into trouble raising the dust by racing their auto- moblles at a speed In excess of that prescribed by law and ordinance should devote their money and bend their euorgles to the early perfection of the flying machine. When they are able to make tracks through the atmosphere they will certainly be under no injunc- tions to look out for pedestrians, baby carriages, bicycles or trolley cars. To be sure, the aerial vehicles may possibly become in time so numerous that reg- ular paths of locomotion will have to be blocked out and the turning points on the charts located by floating buoys of some sort, but the speed limit can be shoved up almost indefinitely. Scorching will never be an unalloyed pleasure until the airship opens up the full possibilities of double-quick nav- igation. Representative 8ims of Tennessee has introduced a bill in the house abol ishing the duties on beef, mutton, pork and veal, It is to be hoped Speaker Henderson and the committee on rules will expedite this bill and force it to a vote, so that we may see just how many democrats in the cattle-ralsing states from Texas to Montana are willing ‘to go on record in favor of bringing Amer- fcan cattle fnto competition with live stock imported from Canada and Mex- ico. We apprebend the Tennessee states man would find the democrats who are howling for free beef getting under the benches or scurrying out of the chamber as the roll is called. They know enough to know that the farmers enjoy thelr slice of protected prosperity and will not voluntarily cousent to part with it —_— Parties to the complaints lodged against our American method of in- specting the baggage of homecoming tourists are profusely dilating on the tender carelessness with which baggage inspection is conducted Ly custom: officials abroad. No one is likely to e —— L St venture a contradiction, but foreign methods of collecting dutles can hardly be introduced on this side as long as American tariffs are bullt on differ ent lines. More considerate politeness toward the public will not hutt any public officlal, but the fearless dis charge of duty cannot be suspended just because the enforcement of the law threatens to hurt some one's feel ings. The omnibus building bill, which is nearly ready for passage in the house, contains an appropriation of $300,000 for the construction of the Lincoln post- office bullding. A more sensible and practical thing would have been to make the appropriation for the construction of an entirely new building and the taking down of the unsightly old stone pile that has served its day and purpose. In- cidentally, it should not be forgotten that under the very pecullar system of public bullding construction about $30,- 000 of the $300,000 appropriated will be absorbed by the architect's office at Washington for plans, supervision and disbursement of money. e Lends Ench Chicago News. Most of us would rather be looking at the traln through a telescope when it was breaking a world's speed record tham be riding on it. Game Two Can Play At. Philadelphia Record. Falr play is a jewel. “What if the ex- clusion - of Chinese immigrants from the United States should be met with a de- mand for the exclusion of American mis- slonaries from China? Embowering the Home, Brooklyn Fagle. It adds to the homelike character of a city to embower its houses in maples and elms, to give hiding places for the birds, and it adds to coolness and salubrity as well as beauty to provide shade against the blistering days of summer. Pen Men at the Helm. Chicago Record-Herald, With Historian Roosevelt in the White House, Poet Hay at the head of the State department, Poet Ware in charge of the pension bureau amd Novellst Tarkington in congress, it will begin to look as it “them d—d literary fellers™ were just about running this government. Public Taste and the Stage. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It must be admitted that Actor Joseph Jefferson hit the nail very squarely on the head when he sald in & recent Interview that “The state of the stage depends’ véry nearly as much on the public teste as it does on the efforts of us poor actor folk.” And that was drawing It a little mild, too. Life's Ups and Downs. St. Paul Ploneer-Press. One of the newest occupations for women {s running elevators, a fact which induced someone to remark that it was an appropriate activity for women, since they are maturally an elevating force. He evidently forgot that no woman can regu- larly run an elevator without lowering herself. Strenuous Life on Raflroads. New York Tribune. Reoent experiments on important raflroad lines in this country encourage the hope that, with the abolition of grade crossin the laying down of the heaviest and strong: est of steel rails and the improvement of signals and of rolling stock, express trains in the United States will reach an average speed of at least seventy-five miles an hour long before the first quarter of this century s ended. What a welcome saving of valu- able time will then be accomplished. DEMAND FOR YOUNG BLOOD. Two Remarkable Movements in B nel Education. Saturday Evening Post. Two very remarkable movements are dls- cernible in the business and the education of the times; and yet, when we come to ex- amine them, we find that the tendencles have been clearly in view for more than a decade. Six years ago the present writer went to the president of one of the large corporations of this country and asked him to give employment to a man who had turned his 48th year. There weére per- sonal reasons why he should grant such a request and the person for whom the place was sought was entirely accepta- ble in character, ability and health. The president replied: “I want to do this, but it is impossible. The age of the young man is crowding upon modern business so fi that he will soon monopolize it. We no one who has passed 45—we cannot ford to do it. But I will tell you what I will do. If this man has a son anywhere from 15 to 25 years old I'll find a position for him at once. So far has this tend- ency already gone that the problem of getting rid of employes above a certain age s now under'discussion, and so great h been the uneasiness that several of the large concerns have lssued statements that the old men will not be discharged. At the same time practically all of them are taking on only young men, and the de- mand has made a profound impression upon the highest colleges and universities of the country. It has been shown that if a student goes through all the courses to tl post-graduate specializations he is about 30 before he gets into active life—and mod- ern business needs him before that time. It is ment but a real conviction which contends that the years lost from work Dbetween 20 and 30 are In a measure stolen from the lves of the students. This may be an ex- treme view, but many if nmot most of our leaders in industry and In the professions believe it is true. That there will come change—a compromise, perhaps—seems to be one of the certainties of the near fu- ture. Along with the increasing hold of the young men comes the problem of caring for those who have passed into what sweepingly called old age. It is not fair to set limits on any individual. 8o long he is able to do his work and do it ac- ceptably he s entitled to every opportunity and advantage. We do not refer, of course, to the old men of signal ability and sue- cess, for the grave is the only stop to their BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Narrow thoughts are never high. They only rule who scorn all ridicule. No man can beceme greater than own heart He multiplies his troubles who runs fo meet them. It takes a very small great folly. Forbearance forgiveness. God can only in the light The selt-satisfied man s pleased with a very little. A father's love is the best part of child's inheritance The guldes to darkness find to their own element. A man has never failed utterly so long 8 he has friends left him, You cannot expect God to honor your drafts when you refuse Him your deposits, A sermon on our duty to God will not be accepted as a substitute for doing our duty to ma Tho fool Who burles his head in the dust has usually the impudence to declare that there can be nothing divine his fool to commit is sometimes nobler than lead as long as we walk thelr way PERSONAL AND OTH The time is fairly* ripe to plant shirt- walsts. If this weather keeps up 1902 will go down in history as the year of “the blg wind.” Carlcaturists are contributing to galety of the nation by handing a cholce “cuts” to the Beef trust. The price of beef sandwiches has been boosted 6 cents per in the congressional festaurants. Now, look out for trouble. So long as Delaware brides are content with wedding breakfasts of smoked her- ring, cheese and crackers, the perpetuity of American institutions js reasonably se- cure, It the edltors of the Congressional Record are really anxious to give the old sheet an atmosphere of popularity, they should insert a few bunches of base ball news. The marriage in St. Louls of Miss Lulu Silence and Mr. John W. Gabb suggests a troop of painful thoughts. But the story wears patriarchal whiskers which forbid levity. Editor Bryan declares that his blooded helfer did not cost half what the papers sald it cost. Of course this correction has no relation to the spring tour of the tax assessor. Editorfal writers on the Chicago Tribune are to be placed in the new bullding any- where from twelye to seventeen stories above the street. This will preserve the light and airy character of the editorial page. “The worm will turn.” Colonel Abe Slupsky of St. Louls, joshed to the Iimit of patience, turned upon his tormentors re- cently and whaled them hip and thigh and jawbone. Dink Botts and Hinky Dink may take courage from Slupsky's valorous example. Much space in print is given to the life story of one Joslah Lynn, who is spend- ing the evening of his life in a New Jersey poorhouse. Joslah's chlef claim to fame is that he was once a partner of Jay Gould. But he could not keep the pace and now “lags euperfluous on the stage.” While Omaha merchants are making their spring tour of interior towns, it be- hooves the several mayors to brush up their keynotes and place on the municipal counter a fetching stock of welcoming speeches. A Kentucky peroratlon, de- livered on a like occasion, is commended for its brevity and enthusiasm. “For a rollicking, high old time," exclaimed the mayor, ‘“‘seasoned with innocency and un- tainted with sin, I Invoke the prayers of the preachers, the songs of the saints, the music of the musiclans and the ald of everybody.” That will serve for a social emergency. 3 AN EMBARRASSING THEME, the few Nerve of the Nebraskan Who Wrote His Own Funeral Sermon. Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Nebraska man wrote his own funeral sermon, and, as the modesty of the avera Nebraska man is well known, it may be assumed that he treated his subject in an impersonal and extremely delicate fashion. And yet it Is dificult to imagine a more embarrassing theme under the circum- stances. The tendency to overpraise might not be strong, and yet there would surely be a desire to set one's self in as good & 1ight as possible at this last appearance on any stage. Nevertheless, it can scarcely be imagined that the maker of the sermon could have any desire to imitate the effort of that clergyman who paid’'a wonderfully flattering tribute to & man who had made | sEcvLAR smors AT THE PrLPIT, | v e Somerville Journal: The wise ministe | always keeps his eye on the clock when h 1s preaching Cleveland Plain Dealer ing mow that the late Dr a great preacher when judged by intel lectual standards, but there is no doub at all that he was a great preacher fror the standard of successful results The Presbyterians haw the desire for wealth amnv for having ®ood time militates agains the growth and success of the churcha today The money changers and the pub licans appear to have got right into th temple agaln, and there is no one wit) courage enough to wield a whip of cords. Indianapolis Journal: Two young Presby terians who aspired to be preachers haw | een refused licenses by the New Yor! Presbytery because they believe that Adar |and Eve are mythical characters. Thi | New York presbytery is fixitk things s that young men and women who might by Presbyterfans will turn their feet towar | & more liberal and more modernized chutch | Boston Globe: The young applicant fo | theological honors in New York who boldi; told an examining committee of the Ney York presbytery that he regarded Adan not as an historical character, but as | myth, will not preach in any Presbyteria pulpit right away. “What!" exclatmed on ¢ his thunder-struck examiners. ‘““The) you must have come to the conclusion thai St. Paul did not know what he was talking about!" Philadelphia Press: The Board of Indial Commisaloners, to which the president hai appointed Archbishop Ryan, has a mislead ing title, as the head of the office of India affairs in the Interfor department is alse entitled commissioner, though his dutier are quite apart from those of the Board ol Indian Commissioners. The latter s a non. salaried body chosen from men “eminen: for fintelligence and philanthropy,” whos: general duty it s to see that the Indiat wards of the nation are treated justly an humanely by the agents of the federal government. Since the creation of thit board in 1869, and mo doubt because of it scandals in connection with the adminis. tration of Indian affairs have declined ir frequency and flagrancy. Archbishop Ryas fills in abundant measure the qualifications for the cffice as laid down in the etatute creating the office. The president could noi well have filled the position more wisely o1 acceptably. They are claim Talmage was no Chicago Post concluded that a DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Press: She—Wh: Philadelphia 1 you 1t ‘you were the lasi wouldn't_marry man on earth. He—Quite s0. wite then. I could get a handsome Mre. am one New York Sun: pand says that thousand Mrs, Doyle—Aren't nine hundred and nine Hoyle—My hus- woman In a you jealous of the ty-nine. Somerville Journ: She—Sometimes 1 think you don't love me any more He (reproachfully)—How could I you any more? love Detroit Free Pro McCorkle—Before you married Miss Dumplin you used ta say she had great questioning eves, McCrackle—Yes, but now she questions me with her vocal organs. Ohlo State Journal: “I marry your daughter, sir,” said tive young man to the father. golng _to e posi- well, iy Chicago Post: “I \still hope," nounced when she refused him for third time, ‘80 do I, she returned. vhat do you hope?” he asked. 1 hope you'll get tired,” she answered. Jo8 don't need to come to me for replied the father; ‘I have of my own he an. the ‘Washington Star: “Is your wife one ot these women who look at thelr husband an ‘I have made a man of him? asked 3The tmpertinent. friend “'No,” answered Mr. Meekton, “Henri- etta {8 very unassuming. She merely says she has done her best. Chicago Tribune: “Does it offend you, dear," he whispered, “to be told that we are descended from a race of barbarians and are barbarians to some extent our- selves?” “Not at all, Harold,"” she said. And he promptly slipped a rellc of bare barism on her walting finger. THE VALLEY OF UNREST. Stanton In Atlanta Constitution, L This is the valley of sweet unrest, Where we dru\m the dreams that we love the best, ‘Neath a "3{"' gun in 4 darkening west; And after the drea We wake In rln, And pray to Go To dream again In the dim, deep \llley of sweet unrestl 1L This is the valley of sweet unres The child, in & dream, seeks the thothers t of Frank L. Love to our lips ares~. press And we wake and weep That the dreams are vain, himselt notorlous by his parsimony and by his entire lack of sympathy for his fellow men. The dead man's partner in business was present at the services and during the sermon was observed to rise and step for- ward to the casket. Somebody asked him later what prompted him to do this. “Why,” he replied, “I was d T had made & mistake and got into the wrong house.” And ery to God To dream again In the desolate valley of sweet unrestl I, Alay, for the valley of sweet unrest! To live for a dream in a dream unblest— The locks of Love by a dream caressed! Never the dew f the bloom to drain, Famished for sunlight d starved for rain, sigh of eternity—“God knows Gustomers Throng The new store, taking advantage of the lew prices we are making on brand new goods. Remember this s west and the stock was bought expressly for this season's trade. thing new. Vehicles me low prices and a large assort- meat o ehodse Trom. Think this over. u Runabouts, from $50 to §225. Surreys, from 375 to $300. flll"huw Buckboard; tons and all the novelties A full line of Top and Open Dellvery Wagons and a variety of sizes in everything from the smallest Rig to the Heavy Teaming Truck. Automeobiles With elther steam, gasoline or elec- tric motor power, from $600 to §2,000. energies and usefulness, and it would be easy to fill many columns with names of those who are past 70 who are holding their own with the best that the younger generation can show. But there is an wrmy of millions of wrinkled and white-haired veterans who have tolled faithtully and well all their lives, and upon whom others are dependent. Thelr welfare brings into prominence the system of old- sge pensions which has been pursued in Germany more successfully than anywhere else, and which bas been introduced by several of the important corporations in the United States. This may be the solu- tion of the other end of the problem, while the young men keep on crowding into the offices and workshops and accomplishing AUTO STABLES—A novelty in the the largest store of the kind in the Every- Phonographs Columbia, Edison and Vlrtn 3 (h- ones, ran 8o . "X wnrmumbu Sc. 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