Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1902, Page 18

18 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 29, TTHE OMAHA SUNDAY Big B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, t PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. , TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION: ly g: (without Sunday), One Y and Sunday, Une Year trated Bee, One Ye I ) DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Y Bee (without Sunday), per copy..de Hn (without Bunday), per weel Bee (ncluding Sunday). pee (T n‘. Bee, . bo ning Bec (withour Sunday). per week.lo nll‘:ll Bee (Including Sunday), per llln of " Irreguiarities in_ deiivery bS8 addressed "to City * Circulation oFrILEs lhl—The Bee Bul n om-h-—cuy it ullding, Twen- u@nrk 4 Unity’ Bullding. —Temple Court nlhulon—ul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 'omimunications relating to news lnd to; matter should be addre Bee, Editorial Department. BUB[“EBB LETTERS. 'w.ll lolle‘rl remittances should e "Bes “ Publisning Com: pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. lluL by ant express or postal order, e Publishing Company, )-ml ted in payment of al checks, except vn eastern exchange, not uccepted. E BEE Puuuluma COMPANY. Blate of Nlm 3«» sohiick, secr £y of ..ui!' hing Compuy actual being duly iworn‘, total sales. Nn Idly average. 20,31 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Sublscribed in my Fesence and sworn to %m this 8ist da. o llu L A 1901, NGATE, Bt ry Publle. ‘ June insists on again vindicating its récord as the month of weddings, Paradoxically the commencement sea- #on ends as soon as it commences. Pelee might have waited till the Fourth of July before firing its salute. Little Alfonso of Spain appears to bave had his coronation more success- fully managed. That coal strike will strike home about the time the balance is struck on next winter's coal bill. atehood-seeking territories will have to walt a while, but their patience will be eventually rewarded. Nebraska cornfields never presented ®o Inviting an attraction to tempt the rays of the summer sun. : emp———— _ Nothing compares with the sudden subsidence of the wireless telegraphy ex- cltement unless it is the more sudden collapse of the alrship air-currents. —_— Strange the popocratic press has not yet denounced President Roosevelt for expressing sympathy for Britain's stricken monarch without first asking Congress for its consent. — Home rule in municipal government is one of the pledges in the Missouri re- publican platform. Municipal home rule ‘4 one of the coming issues in every progressive state in the union. Keep the railroad tax figures before the people. The more they are studied the more thoroughly convinced the peo- ple will become that railroads have over- reached themselves in the evasion of thelr taxes. Give our late fusion conventions at least one credit mark. They observed the proprieties for once to refrain from wuttering the usual dismal lament of e ity and denial that the prevailing ity 18 the real thing. o e JIf Mr. Bryan redeems his promise to Bold himself at the command of the Ne- praska campalgn committee from now til election, he must be satisfied that services in other states are not nearly imperative to his cause as right here #t home. H | g et % Richard Mansfield at all events has our 'I titude for devising a method of pre- #nfln. newspaper discussion without | to the time-frayed fakes of cheap stage mouther., When Mr. ansfield consents to public interviews imparts a few ideas of his own with- sorving as a phonograph for mana- operators. = 1 Unfortunately the postponement of the coronation failed to come soon enough to Intercept the coronation ode which Poet Laureate Alfred Austin felt obli- gated to contribute to the solemnity of the occasion. It is less to add that the Austinian ode is hors concours ex- cept with other poetical effusions of the #ame laureated singer. £ eEEEspps—— The outcome of the fight for the com- _mittee chalrmanship of the Illinols de- mocracy leaves little from which the The ‘rnnltu can draw consolation. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE. While the tax bureau bunco steerers of “the rallronds of Nebraska" are try- ing to befog the public mind, a few salient facts should be kept before the people. Keep it before the people that, while the value of railroad properties on the market has almost doubled within the past decade, thelr assessment for taxa- tion In Nebraska in 1901 is less by sev- eral millions than it was in 1801, Keep it before the people that 5,418.15 miles of railrond were listed for taxa- tion in Nebraska in 1801 at $20,265917, while in 1001 5652.33 miles were listed Cor only $2 46 ; In other words, while the mileage has been increased by 234.18 miles, the assessment has been reduced by $2,919,182, Keep it before the people that under the flimsy pretense of distribution among the counties traversed by the line, the costly Missourl river bridges, valuable depots, depot grounds, yard age, right-of-way and terminal facilities in Omaha, worth millions of dollars, are completely absorbed and sequestered and pay no taxes whatever to any public treasury anywhere. Keep it before the people that under the pretense of distribution taxation has not only heen evaded on all these valuable terminals, but the assessments have been actually reduced throughout the various counties below what they were before all these costly improve- ments were made. Keep it before the people that the railronds of Nebraska have plenty of money tosspend on oil room lobbies, tax bureau appendages and political favor- ites, but make it good by forcing the less powerful taxpayers to bear their tax burdens for them in addition to their own, Keep it before the people that the only way to secure equity and justice in railroad taxation Is through an aroused public sentiment that will hold to strict accountability the public officers charged with the duty of fixing railroad as: ments. TENDENCIES IN CO-EDU The subject of collegiate co-education as distinguished from equal but sep- arate education of young men and women, which has been exciting con- siderable discussion, has elicited a very common-sense expression from Presl- dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum- bia university. President Butler insists that the question is not one of educa- tional policy that would discriminate be- tween the sexes in facilities for their instruction, but simply one of practice determined largely by local custom and prejudice. He calls attention to the fact that the eastern colleges maintain sep- arate Institutions as a rule, although often under the same direction, and that in this they simply follow the organiza- tion of the public school system there, which pravides for separate boys' and girls' schools. In the west, on the other hand, where a more democratic spirit has pervaded the schools, the boys and girls are taught in the same classes, the state universities are almost all co-edu- cational, with few, if any, hard and fast lines drawn between different ele- ments of the student body. President Butler expresses the opinion that these two different practices will continue as long as public sentiment east and west forms the separating basis and hesitates to say which he thinks will eventually yleld to the other. The suggestion comes, however, from several sources that for the pres- ent the plan most likely to find favor Is that which separates the boys and girls in their elementary and secondary edu- cation and through their strictly college courses, bringing them together when they shall have arrived at the point of entering on real university work. If this proves to be the common ground it will mean & compromise between the co-education of the west and the equal education of the east. As most pro- gressive movements take the form of compromise, this suggestion appears quite plausible. — AMERICAN PRODUCTS IN GERMANY, The agrarian party in Germany is de- termined that American products shall cease to compete successfully with the products of Germany In her own markets. The league, which has the support of the entire agricultural com- munity, will apparently accept nothing short of prohibitive duties on all food- | stufts which Germany can produce. Al- | ready an embargo. has been placed upon our meats and lron and steel manu- factures are threatened with prohibitive dutles. It has even heen proposed that American coal oll shall be shut out of the German markets. Fortuuately there are two partles to | the contention and the agriculturists are opposed by the manufacturers, who represent the great body of consumers, 80 far as food products are concerned Discussion of the government tariff bill in Germany appears to have settled down to a contest between the dwellers of the towns and the dwellers.of the country. A short time ago a conven- tion was held in Berlin, where 700 mu niclpal officials, representing communi ties in all the German states and Prussian provinces, met and unani- mously declared against every increase in the duties on the necessaries of life. Those who addressed the convention ex- pressed the opinion that the passage of the government tariff bill would most certainly be detrimental to the interests of the wage-earning classes, as It would increase the price of material, send down wages and drive German capital abroad. It was further declared that ATION. candidate supported by Ben Cable, who | the passage of the tariff bill would pre- #s actively identified with the national | clude the possibility of renewing the {¥eorganizers, won out, which must be | commercial treaties, which faflure would taken to meau that the silver element 18 | exclude Germany from the markets of Mosing its grip in Bryan's native state. #'be death of Altgeld and several other the world. It appears that these expressions bhave Wt champions of the Bryanite wing [ not been without influence with the has apparently made things y for the | government, Count von Buelow having and the transfer of Llinols | openly rebuked the Prussian agrarians Jrom the one side to the other In demo- for their extravagant tariff demands eratic councils is likely to exert an infiu- | and for opposition to pending commercial ence (pat may prove decisive. 2 treatles. lu view of the fact that the KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE With Over 234 Miles More Lines and Vastly Improved Terminals and Equipment Almost Doubling the Value of Their Property on the Market, the Railroads of Nebraska Pay Taxes on an Assessment Nearly $3,000,000 Less Than Ten Years Ago. Name of Railroad. Burlington & Missouri River. .. Owmaha & Southwestern..... Nebraska Railroad Republican Valley Atchison & Nebraska. . Lincoln & Northwestern Nebraska & Colorado. .. Chicago, Nebraska & Kansas. Unlon Pacific . icoossivicss Omaha & Republican Valley. . Kansas City & Omaha. . o Missouri Pacific Missouri Pacific (Crete Branch).. Pacific Railway Company in Nebraska. \fissourl Pacific 1hpnnw1wh] and l’lplllmn 8t. Jose ph & Grand Island. Sioux City & Pacific. Chicago, 8t. Paul, Minneapolis & Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska (C., Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. . Republican V Omaha & North Platte. . Lincoln & Black Hills. .. Oxford & Kansas............ Kearney & Black Hills..... Republican Valley & W, yoming. alley, Kansas & Southwest chie Grand Island & Wyoming Central. Miles of Track L191.51 H Valua per 5,000 000 4. 4,000 1,000 . 11, A11 45 193.68 18 o9 ! T.8% Fremont, Elkhorn & \hsmnn \alh»v Omaha. RL&P) .16 .28 54.63 8.50 352.64 : vey S0LT8 . +...157.88 59.61 65.73 Kansas City & Beatrice (K. C. & N. W, Nebraska & Western....... Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. .. .129.16 3.99 O, R. I. & P. (St. Joseph Branch)..... C., R. I. & P. (Nelson Branch).... Sioux City, O'Neill & Western Missouri Pacific (Omaha Belt Line). Missouri Pacific (Weeping Water Bran Missouri Pacific (Lincoln Branch)........ Total 1891 —— 1.500 1,000 000 4,600 £.000 4,000 3,500 3.000 Total A snmnm'l $2.250.8 345,7 l:.'. 722,655 2,761,750 537950 329,085 Miles of Track. 191.51 50.88 136. 64 551, 107. (N 430. 5. 467, 114, 193.¢ 92. 58, 1. tion Va Mile, 00 21.120 5.344.996 1.865.025 74720 ORT,615 203,630 249,270 27,580 618,915 150,920 4.903.650 1.300.800 (49,888 218,520 34,000 140 100 176 208,635 59. 197,190 65. 49. 72,100 20.10 BRT.480 90.56 16,100 (9. 86 51.53 129.16 16.54 64,88 45.39 g .. $29,265,917 .\(m_.» 3 per $10,580 ST —— luation Mile. Total Assessm't. $2,026,175 334281 (28,4 2,483,775 Decrease in Assessm't. $233,643 11,431 094,157 277,975 41,840 64, 284, 6,670 4,600 1,500 1,600 00 3.340 3.600 9.800 3,500 3.500 000 3.540 3,290 3.050 5.000 5.000 2 (i}t 112 766,240 414,485 97,800 14,957 3.548 56,265 16,170 1,361,430 *109,232 649,888 *526,620 8,160 124,054 S13 '.H.lLH H62.650 134.750 3.542.220 1,410,032 6.000 3,040 3,150 6. 3.040 3,540 3.000 3.040 3,050 2,000 4.500 3.500 3.000 6.200 000 5.000 211,019 197.220 149,476 61,305 181,120 '!143:0 180,355 JRTAR0 102,548 324,400 226,950 16,100 *314.370 *180,355 *3R7.480 *102.548 *124.400 *226.950 $5,211,373 $26.346,753 * Increase. " Net decrease. .$2.919.164 Why Should the Railroads Pay Less Taxes in 1901 Than in 1891" German chancellor has for months been laboring to conciliate the agrarians and to bring ahout a compromise of the differences of the two opposing forces, his present position marks a complete change, which it is sald was ordered by the emperor himself, a not incredible statement when it is remembered that the emperor has never heen in hearty accord with the agrarian policy. What favor he has shown to the demands of that element was due to the fact that he needed its support for eertain gov- ernmental plans, chief among them being naval extension, that he was seel ing to carry out. The vigorous oppos tion to the agrarian polic howeve seems to have convinced Emperor Wil- liam that it cannot safely be adopted. It is quite possible that the appre- hension of some sort of allatory policy on the part of the United States has exerted an influence upon the German government. The emperor and his ad- visers are quite aware of the fact that there is a strong sentiment in this coun- try in favor of resenting any discrimina- tion against American products deemed to be unjust, as in the case of the em- bargo upon our meat and the prepara- tions thereof, and they perhaps realize that further steps in this direction would be pretty certain to be met by a policy of reprisal on the part of this country that would be severely felt by Germany. The present indications, therefore, are that the agrarians will not succeed in having their extreme de- mands complied with and that the Ger- man tariff will be so adjusted us not to serlously interfere with our trade with that country. FAITHFUL PUBLIC SERVANTS. In his address at Harvard, President Roosevelt paid a tribute to the public services of Secretary Root, General | Wood and Governor Taft which we think will have the approbation of all fair-minded men. He pointed out that all of these men had performed their duties with absolute fidelity, honesty and courage. In regard to Secretary Root, the president said that he had accepted the position at a personal sac- | rifice and it is to be presumed that no | one will question this. The- office of secretary of war pays but 4 small frac tion of what a lawyer like Elihu Root | can command and at much less labor, yet he accepted that arduous position and is still there from a sense of patri- otic duty to the government. The same is tiue of Governor Taft, When he was appointed to the Philip- plue commission by President McKin ley, who knew of his great ability and ) worth, he beld a federal judicial posi tion that gave him an opportunity to| sometime be a member of the supreme court of the United States. He yielded to the solicitation of the late president to take up the work of establishing civil government in the Philippines and how well he has performed the duties there devolved upon him the record am{}y at- tests. From the very outset Judge Taft has justified the confidence reposed in bim by President McKinley and has commended himself not only to the con- fidence of his own countrymen, but also to the respect and esteem of the more intelligent of the Filipino people. And what did this man, eager with the am bition to do something for the benefit | of a foreign people and the glory of his | country, say to the suggestion that he | might have the greatest judicial posi- tion in his government. On the author- ity of the president of the United States he said that if a justiceship in that great tribunal were offered him and congress should take off his salary as governor of the Philippines, he would neverthe- less go back to the islands, because he thought the Filipino people needed and expected him back and would not desert them. He s going back to the continuance of that great duty which he believes to be impera- tive and In the performance of which he | concelves to be the glory and the honor | of his country. Who ean doubt that he 1s inspired by the right spirit? And what of General Wood, who at the beginning of the war with Spain was known only to a very limited mil- ttary circle and only as a medical of- ficer, with no marked claim to distine- tion even in that capacity? The Span- ish war gave him an opportunity and his record since is before the world. Who has made a record more worthy of commendation? He went into that war at the head of a regiment, ap- proved himself a gallant soldier, took up the work of administration after the war and demonstrated extraordinary qualities, carried out with most re- markable success the work which had been committed to his care and left it without a flaw. It Is a record of good conduct and of honorable achievement that merits all the commendation which the president bestowed upon it. The list of faithful public servants could be extended almost Indefinitely Those referred to by President Roose- velt in his Harvard address constitute a very small minority of the men, { equally worthy; who are entitled to the respect and honor of their countrymen. In the history that this republic las made in the last four years there figures a multitude of men who are entitled to lmperishable fame for their faithful performance of duty Virginia’s constitutional convention, which has at last adjourned after ses- slons more or less interrupted extending , cost the taxpayers of that state $176,000, and at that the document was not submitted for ratification by the voters under excuse that such an election would add needless expense. The principal work of the body has been the engrafting of a provision de- signed to disfranchise the blacks without interfering with the whites, and for this wonderful achlevement the bill of ex- penses Is considered moderate. Is it any wonder that Nebraskans have fought shy so long of proposals of a conven- tion to revise their constitution when it can be amended so much more cheaply by legislative initiative? ———— That the St. Louls exposition must ex- perience for itself all the troublesome in- cldents that have beset its predecessors goes without saying. Just now the problem pressing upon the management is that of getting in the money due on stock subscriptions, which appear to have been taken with the customary in- discriminateness and usual disfegard of serious intentions on the part of the sub- scribers. While past due assessments Lave Dot yet been covered in on a large believed he | portion of the shares, appeal is made to | PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. | those in posftion to do so to pay up in| advance the unmatured parts of their subseriptions in order to help out the treasury with needed ready cash. Im- posing lists of names on paper are not necessarfly good working capital for a great world’s fair. St. Louis will haye to discount some of the promises on which it has been banking just as & every other great exposition undertak- ing, but with its almost inexhaustible resources and liberal government appro- priation it is bound to come out all right in the end. The Indiana sup that the good will of a business estab. lishment is altogether different from a | franchise and that while franchises con- stitute taxable property, what Is known as good will is not property at all. This is a pofnter, however, that will not be relished by our friends of the tax bu- reau of “the rallroads of Nebraska.” What We Are Coming To. Chicago Record-Herald. A Frenchman has completed an invention which does away with the flash, the smoke and the sound when a cannon is fired. Now if they will get rid of the bullet war will be perfectly lovely. No Difference In the Cut. Indianapolls News. The difference between perityphlitis and appendicitis seems to be that one is of a little older fashion than the other. The knife used in the cure is equally sharp in both ca: “A Vindieation Minneapolis Times. The Nebraska democrats reaffirmed the immortal utterances of 1896 and 1900 any- bow, and Mr. Bryan feels that he has re- celved a vindication at home even though the brethren in Indiana and Illinois did sidestep and duck. Some Additions Chicago Chronicle. Jewels ere not wearing apparel, according to a recent decision of the United States court. The average soclety leader, whose full dress costume consists mainly of a tiara, a diamond necklace and a string of pearls, will kindly take notice and put ou some clothe: Neoessnry. Cherishing Vain Hop: 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Several democratic papers proposing Mr. Cleveland for a third term. This sug- gestion is being attacked by other demo- , but the excitement which is shown is unnecessary. The democrats have not the faintest chance of carrying the coun- try ‘n 1904 under any candidate whom they can pame. Is There to Be a Change? Washington Post. It s the business of a political fakir to impose upon the party with which he chooses to be identified. It is the business of a political party to keep its affairs out of the clutches of the fakirs. Mr. Bryan has been attending to business and the democratic party has not. Is there to be @ change? Factors Modern Progress. Philadelphla Record The official returns of immigration show that the number of arrivals Is not nearly e now as it was thirty years ago, when the population of the United States was not much more than half as large as at present. Formerly very few immigrants returned to their native homes even to make a visit. Now nearly every outgolng steamer carries back immigrants eitber for a temporary visit or permanent stay. In this facility of locomotion is one of the great factors of modern progress. ” Inanimate things often display human fn- telligence of a high order. The appendix is destined to be a notable chapter in King Edward's history. Panama hats with sealskin earflaps are the favorite headwear in Chicago, these “rare June days.” The most perplexing question in New York at present is whether the local Chollys will carry imitation to the limit of perityphilitis. The combine formed to market the goobher crop innocently declare prices will not be raised. This is another way of say- ing that consumers will shell cut. It was fortunate for the British empire that our own Dr. Chauncey Depew was on the ground when trouble began. He sald the king would recover. That settled it. A recent visitor to Yellowstone park re- ports having “a nice qulet time.” He was chased around a mountain peak by a hungry bear and slid down a steep incline, seriously rupturing his clothes. 1t is serfously proposed by the common council of Chicago to acquire street rail- ways to refund fares to passengers when the road Is blocked. It is presumed the managers will accept the hint and make an early call on the indignant city ofl- clals, VICE OF MONEY BORROWING, Efforts to Clip the Claws of Modern Shylocks. San Francisco Chronicle. The Western Union company has adopted a drastic remedy in New York for the cur- ing of the borrowing habit among iis em- ployes and the suppression of the usurious money lenders who encourage the vice for self gain. Operators who are addicted to borrowing and patronize the Shylocks are being weeded out of the service. The practice of paying orders for salaries given to the money lenders as security for the loans grew into an intolerable nuisance. It is assumed that the dischargé of the borrowers will drive the usurers out of business. It may have this result, but it is doubtful. The only effect it will probably have will be to discontinue the use of the cashler's office as a collection agency, for money lending on these lines is too profit- able to be easily relinquished by the men engaged in it It would doubtless be a great boon to every large corporation in the country if the habit of borrowing by its employes could be permanently abolished. The cor- porations doing business in this city are affiicted by the practice. The usurious Shylock 18 in evidence in the neighborhood of the cashier's window every pay day to collect his “pound of flesh.” And the war- rant shaver is the curse of the city hall, where the vice of borrowing from profe slonal money lenders who carry their offic in their pockets has grown to emormous proportions. If the history of many of the defalca- tions and embezzlements in private and pub- lic service could be fairly followed in nine cases out of ten probably the foundation for the crime would be traced to the act of borrowlng from one of these accommodating money lenders to meet what may seem an urgent necessity at an outrageous rate of interest and the embarrassments which the act subsequently entalled. There are times in the career of most wage earners when BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. No truth can bo oxpressed by the tongue alone. There are no pure lives without pure bearts. The richest promises aro for the poorost people. Don't trim your lamp so zealously as ‘o extinguish it. Character is the Lest commercial asset in the world. The world needs a pure-thought crusade more than one for pure food. A great mauy are living in hopes there will be no collectionin heaven. The more personal you make preaching the plainer it will be. It's of no use for your lips to be talking of grace unless your life tastes of ft. Our thoughts In time are weaving the garments we must wear in eternity. The man who gives to advertise his char- ity has no charity worth advertising. The eloquence of the preacher cannot take the place of the influence of the par- ent. your The wisest sympathy will not sing our dirge with us, but it strikes a note of God's anthem in harmony with our SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. New York World: It remained for a Cleveland (0.) preacher to declare St. Peter a victim to the fisherman's traditional vice of overstatement. Chicago Record-Herald: A Oleveland preacher has won fame by saying St. Peter was a lying old fisherman. He might have written books all bis life and never been known outside of his own ward. Washington Star: Church-goers are sometimes put into a difficult position. Those who give liberally are accused of worldly display; those who do not are charged with indifference or parsimony. Chicago Chronicle: Among other inter- esting local intelligence is the discovery by Rev. George Whiteside that the devil has established his headquarters in Evans- ton. There has been a suspicion to that effect since another Evanston divine de- clared that the game of golf as played by the people of that town was a direct per- sonal invitation to his satanic majesty. We may assume that the invitation has been accepted. New York Sun: Of the six composers of the mass which is to be sung in the Roman Catholic cathedral at Newark, one 18 a Presbyterian and two are Episcopal clergymen. In churches of the ritualistic school of Episcopalianism the first prayer book of Edward VI is looked on as the true standard and accordingly the term mass is used by them invariably and the doctrine of transubstantiation is taught with some slight attempts at variation. That two Epis- copal ministers, therefore, should assist in writing a mass is not surprising, but that they should write it for a Roman Catholic church is rather remarkable. That a Pres- byterlan minister should be a colleague in the production is very remarkable. A gen- eration ago such a circumstance would have struck Protestants with amazement. Now it 1s likely to pass without any very serious comment or, at least, any bitter yebuke. Washington Post: Rev. Dr. L. W. Munhall 1s quoted by the Chicago Inter Ocean thus: 0 Methodist may dance or play cards without perjuring himself.” ‘‘Perjury” means false swearing—the wickedness of all lying; an offense which, under certain con- ditions, is defined and punished as a fel- ony. We do not imagine that Dr. Mun- hall intended to apply the brand of crim- inal to dancing or card-playing Methodists, for he must know there are thousands of excellent young men and pure-minded young women in the Methodist church who occaslonally take a hand at whist, eughye, old sledge, high five, casino or some other game. Nor is it reasonably presumable that Dr. Munhall is ignorant of the fact that there are many young Methodists who sometimes dance. And the felicity with which they move their feet in saltatorial exercise is positive proof that they are not welghed down with a load of conscious sin. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Judge: family ? i nnl) want the girl “Are you sure you can support a they must borrow to bridge over perfods of financlal distress. This s ordinarily the professional usurer's opportunity and he seizes it with avidity. Once hie prey is in his net he keeps him there as long as he can continue to collect his victim's wages. The latter is seldom allowed to escape and each month makes it more difficult to get out of the tolls which are constamtly tightening around him. If this kind of borrowing and money lending could be effectually stopped it would be & blessing to soclety and it would doubtless remove one of the chlef sources of anxiety of employers regarding those occupying positions of trust in their establishments. It would certalnly go far toward elevating the standard of hovesty in the public service, ¥ Brooklyn Life: ushers haven't with the family. Other Bridesmald (slater to the bride)— No, she sent only a pickle fork Blonde Bridesmald—The seated your Aunt Maria Chicago Post elderly woman, “In that ¢ woman prompt romance spoiled.’’ “Matrimony,” mused the ‘spolls many a romance.’ se,” replied the younger “I would like to have a Smart Set: Mrs, Bliss (reading paper)— Dearest, T sec marriage licenses aro only 32, While divorce papers cost $50; why is it? Mr. Bliss (also reading)—Worth more. Plain Dealer: “DId the old man seem to hesitate when you asked him for Laura?”’ “Not a bit of it. He sald the caterer and the florist owed him a lot of money and it 'rv.ould be a good way to get even with them. Cleveland Philadelphta Press: “T don't see ference between the soclety woman's lete gown and the costiimo of a ballet 8] “The only difference is that one's too far from the ceiling and the other too far from the floor. Chicago Tribune: Mre. Chugwater—T'a be ashamed to sleep in church the way you Mr. Chugwater—I can't help it. only way I know how to sleep. Chicago Tribune: Raynor—Yes, T be. lleve in ghosts. I have seen at least o in_my 1 ife. Bhyne—Well, I have never seen any. You shade ‘the best of me. It's the have & Detrolt Free Press: He—I love you, darl- Ing. I swear it by those lofty elms in yon- der park. She—Don't swear by those, Reginald. He—Why not? Bhe—Because elnis. Chicago Tribune: “Nellle, pered the Washington youth. mother and those trees are slippery dear,” whis- “1'see my yours are in_earnest conver- 1 wonder what they're Maybe," the Washington mald with a bright blush, “they think th holding a steering committee meeting. eere— FROM ONE LONG DEAD, Egbert Brid, What! You here In the moonlight and thinking of me? Is it you O my omrade, who laughed at y Jes But uu et when I told you I longed to And you mourned for a while when they lald me at rest I've been dead all these years! and tonight in your heart Thero's a stir of emotion, ulip: 1vs my a vision that ce in the moonlight that gives yo tart, ve my name that in joy rushes up to your lips! Yes, I'm young, O 20 youn, and so little 1 A merr mna that is learning to walk and While' I ‘grasp at the shedows that wave to and fro 1 am dazzied a bit by the light of the sun. 1 am learniog the lesson, I try to grow wis But &t nl,h! 1 am bafed and worn by the stri 1amh to And's voice whispers, “Onward and This is Life wisk bled',and then there's an impulse And the Force that4s drawi: e Heliht 21 A paa o That inspires me and thrills a new birth. i “Let thers s the Force that (0 Chaos sald, And It gave us sweet siim of xh pses of Heaven