Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1902, Page 14

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Within the past twenty days the rail- road tax bureau has flooded the state with a perfect shower of bulletine to dispel the Impression that the Nebraska railronds are not bearing their due share of the burden of taxation. Instead of convincing the people that the rallroads are overtaxed, the bureau has succeeded In arousing public attention to the fact that the rallroad corporations are up againet 't and are sparring hard for wind. The array of figures projected into the bulletins and press advertisements do not refuté the specific complaint that the state board has refused to assess the franchises of the railroads, which con- stitute the most valuable asset of these corporations. The ingenious and mis- leading pleas advanced on behalf of the rallroads fall to justify the flagrant dis- erimination in the assessment of rail- roads as compared with other classes of property. Up to this time the bulletin throwers have failed to convince the people of Ne braska that if 5,465 miles of railroad with inferfor rolling stock and inferior roadbed and rails were worth §29,339,081 in the year 1802, 5,704 miles of road with double the equipment, a vastly im- proved trackage and euormously valua- ble terminal facilities are worth only $26,580,502 this year. In other words, the tax bureau cannot convince the peo- ple of Nebraska that the rallroads with their enormously increaséd earnings and that have doubled their market value of ten years ago should be assessed nearly three millions less, notwithstanding the Increase to thelr main lne mileage by 289 miles. All the bulletins the tax bureau has yet issued have falled to show why the assessed valuation of rallroads In Doug- 1a8 county, Including théir terminal fa- cilities, right-of-way, depots and depot grounds and the west half of the Union Pacific bridge, should be assessed for $38,000 less in 1002 than they were as- sessed in 1891 without the bridge, with- out the costly passenger depots and without millions of dollars expended for improvements in Omaha and South Omaha within the past ten years. The tax bureau bulletins have utterly failed to explain why the east half of the Union Pacific bridge should be as- sessed for $84,000 in lowa, while the west balf Is assessed only at $1,568 in Nebraska. In contrast with this scan- The auditorlum cornerstone s laid. The capstone laylag will Le still wore impressive, A statistical compilation of what it costs to celebrate would be au instruct- ive exhibit. Emms———— With the invasion of the teachers this ‘week Minneapolis ought to rise percep- tibly on the scale of literacy. Watch those London hostelries and shops try to make up for lost time when ‘the deferred coromation is really pulled oft. July 4 is fast becoming an interna- tional holiday. No country of the world is without Americans to keep up the celebration. If there is a fatted calf anywhere in sight it should be butchered and broiled at once. Our Dave is coming home to stay until the day after election. | Congressman Boutell declares in an in- térview that the best republican cam- paign document is the country’s pros- perity. That 1s where Mr. Boutell's héad is level. EpESeRe— If St. Louis succeeds in landing the democratic national convention for 1004, as It has set out to do, it will have a midway feature sure to furnish unex- celled amusement as an exposition side show, It is now up to the Filipinos who reap the benefit of the prestdent’s amnesty proclamation to show by acts rather than words that they appreciate the more than generous treatment accorded them by the American natlon. — e It 1s beginning to be suspected that the special embassy of the United States to the coronation of King Edward VII is getting its money’'s worth in free adver- tising If not In parading the streets of London with the king and participating in medieval mummery at Westminster Abbey. o President Roosevelt has struck the keynote of genuine reform when he de- clared in his Pittsburg Fourth of July oration that what' counts most for good government is character, and what we need most Is honesty and resolute cour- age in men who fill the positions of honor and trust. e Louisiana has put a 1aw on its statuteés forbidding the use of any school history n that state that does not give Admiral Schley full credit for destroying Cer vera's fleet That will not feaze the #chool book publishers. They will be pleased to prépare and fyrnish textbooks dalous attempt to defeat fair taxation s the notorfous fact that one-half mile of Union Pacific rallroad in Jackson county, Missouri, situated within the limits of Kansas City, is assessed for $100,449, exclusite of bulldings, while the Uniou Pacific is assessed for the same distance at Omaha at §4,000. But that is not all. The Missouri state board assessed the franchise of the Unlon Pa- cific for the one-half mile in Kansas City at $50,000, while in Omaha the Union Pacific franchise is not assessed for a penny. ‘While the rallroad bulletins persi: ently deny that the $15,000,000 terminals, depot and bridge properties in Omaha have been gulped down by the raflroad whale without showlng .he slightest sigu of expansion of its digestive ap- paratus, no bulletin has yet pointed out where any county, town or city along the line of the Union Pacific has been benefited one penny by the so-called dis- tribution. Nor has any bulletin yet eu- lightened us as to the whereabouts of the new Burlington depot and its valua- ble terminal facilities In the assessment of the Omaha & Southwestern, which Is assessed at $6,500 a mile in 1002, as against $6,800 a mile ten years ago. These are hard puts to crack for the bureau and there will be a great many others harder still when comparisous are instituted between the fast and loose methods of rallroad assessment in Ne- braska and the precise &nd compre- hensive systems that are in vogue In other states. THE MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEMS. In his address at Pittsburg, President Roosevelt spoke of the concemntration of great individual and corporate fortunes as presenting especially difficult prob- lems. This wealth, rightly used, he sald s for the interests of the country, but when not used right it becomes a menace and a danger. 'In order to meet these problems there must be new meth- ods and instruments. He believed there will_be need of new legislation, but it mugt be conceived “in no radical or revo- lutionary spirit, but In a spirit of com- mon sense, common honesty and a reso- lute desire to face facts as they are. That is a position which will be ap- proved by intelligent publie opinion, Reckless railing against combinations of wealth and demagogic demands for im- practicable or impossible wmethods of meeting the problems presented by such combinations no longer have the serious attention of thoughtful and conservative men. These know, as was sald by the president, that the problems must be solved by degrees, that “if we recklessly try without proper thought, without proper caution, to do too much we shall do nothing, or else we shall work ruln that to conform to their patrons’ ideas. . —— Ak-Bar-Ben need not worry over the kind of reception that will be expected by President Roosevelt when he comes 10 visit Omaha in the fall. A good old- fashioned democratic reception that will ebable everyone who wishes to show his personal respect and patriotic enthu- slasm for the chief executive of theda- tion will fill the bill. In union there is strength. Combina’ tion 1s the order of the day. During the coming week Kansas farmers propose 0 hold a convention with a view to or- ghnizing the milling and grain shipping industry of Kansas for the purpose of marketing their products at higher rates by reducing the cost of ‘transportation and squeezing out the speculator. This scheme I8 by no means wild-eyed or vi- slonary. If successful, it will doubtless ‘be emulated by producers of other states where Lke conditions exist, will be felt most acutely among those of our citizens who are most helpless.” ‘While seeking remedies for the abuses and objectionable practices of the in- dustrial combinations it 1s necessary to consider what the effect of proposed measures might be upon the Independent industries. For example, If the tariff should be taken off all articles manu- factured by the combinations, would not the effect be damaging to those indus- tries that are outside of and competing with the combinations? Not all the iron and steel manufacturers are in the trust and so with other industries. There are many ndependent companies producing the sawme articles as the combinations and we ecannot strike at the latter through the tari® without bitting the former. Another thing to be gonsidered is the Interests of labor. Drastic meas- ures for the suppression of the industrial combinations, If they could be enforced, would operate injuriously to hundreds ot thousands of people employed by the combinations. It may be said that this labor would find employment in inde- pendent Industries, but it could not do %0 at once. The resulting industrial and business disturbance would preclude this. Another matter for consideration is the possible effect of the policy some propose upon our foreign commerce. It will not be questioned that the Industrial combinations have had much to do with the extension qf our foreign trade. Their destruction, it is therefore reasonable to assume, would result in more or less injury to the country in this direction. *Much can be done along the lines of supervision and regulation of the great industrial combinations which have be- come #o marked a factor in our eiviliza- tion,” said Mr. Roosevelt, but to deal with them “in a spirit of envy and hatred and malice would be to Invite disaster—a disaster which would be so widespread that this country would rock to its foundations.” This is the ratlonal view, the position of sound statesman- ship, with which there is no doubt the most futelligent and conservative opin- fon of the counfry is in accord. tm———— A PURE FUUD PROPOGANDA. There was recently Incorporated an assoclation of the manufacturers and distributors of food products, the object of which I8 to seek national legislation in the passage of a pure food law by congress. There is to be a convention under the ausplces of the association the latter part of the present month, which will be attended by delegates from all the large cities of the country and at which/ national legislation for purity in food products will be dis- cussed. This subject has frequently been be- fore congress, a bill having been intro- duced at the last session, but falled of passage. This measwre, which may be considered at the next session, permits the president of the United States to appoint a certain number of army and navy officers, with whom the chief of the chemical division In the Agricul- tural department way consult on tech- nical sanitary problems. It also pro- vides that the chief chemist of that de- partment may appoint consultants of this character and gives him the power to fix standards of purity for the manu- facture of drugs and foods in this coun- try. It was objected to this measure that it gives too much power to the chief chemist of the Department of Ag- riculture and it was also urged that that is not the proper department to bhave charge of such a matter, but this ob- jection is not particularly important. 1f natlonal legislation for pure food is de- sirable it would undoubtedly be as well enforced by the Agricultural as by the Treasury department, Nineteen states have pure food laws and they also have nineteen commis- sioners or boards to enforce them. Con- sequently there is a good deal of dis- cord in legislation and in legal construc- tion and as foods are largely produced in one state and shipped into many others there is an Inconvenlence to deal- ers In some of the states that has cre- ated a considerable dewand for na- tional legislation. It is to support and strengthen this demand that the associa- tion of manufacturers and distributors of food bas been formed and it will probably have a strong popular backing, since it must be presumed that every- body wants pure food. e sy PRESIDENT AND MINERS' >TRIKE. A congressman whose district includes many of the striking anthracite miners appealed to President Roosevelt to take gome #ction with a view to ending the strike and in reply the president said he hoped such a result would be accom- plished before long. Another reassur- ing statement by the president was that bhe is considering all the propositions made to him on the subject which might enable him to act intelligently in the event of an occaslon arising where In- terference should become necessary. There {8 no doubt that President Roosevelt 18 taking a very great interest in this matter and would be glad to do something to terminate the contest, but it is a matter which requires the most careful congideration. There is in some quarters a disposition to find fault with the president for not proceeding against the coal combine, in view of the patent fact that the anthracite coal rallroads are combined. It is asserted by these critics that the course of the rallroads which control nearly all of the anthra- cite mines i clearly in violation of the federal antl-trust law and that ¢riminal proceedings under that law would be justifiable. The president, however, cannot act upon assumption that the law is being violated. He must have sub- stantial ground for action and the un- any time, with most of their old men, but they show no disposition to do so. Of course the miners deny this. It is not improbable, however, that there will be & change in the near future. e ape— HIGH AND LUW WATER MARKS. There Is one unwritten law no con- gress or legislature can amend or abro- gate and no combine or trust can per- manently suspend, and that s the in- exorable law of supply and demand. Bpeculators and combines may occasion- ally create an artificial demand, or they may, by obtaining control of the bulk of any given commodity, curtall the avail- able supply and for a brief period ralee prices in the markets of the world. In the long run, however, the law of supply and demand asserts itself and overturns all artificial barriers. This fact 1s strikingly illustrated by the prevailing high prices of grain, live stock and the by-products of the mill and packing house. All the beef pack- ers of thé country who constitute the so-called beef trust have been unable to repress the persistent rise in the price of cattle, sheep and hogs. All the grain gamblers have been unable to materially advance the price of wheat or keep down the price of corn and oats in conformity with the available supply, Immediate demand and prospective harvest. A glance at the following table affords ir- refutable proof for any rational person: AVERAGE CHICAGO PRICES. Beef Year. Wheat. Corn. Oats. Steers. Hogs. 1898 . 68 28 a8 3 .70 1897 g M ptl 4.30 4.10 1808 . .00 82 .28 4.20 8.80 1899 L I TR ) 410 3.00 1800 5 28 5.06 5.80 1901 L0 6 8 5.10 6.15 1902 Bt 172 L 6.60 7.8 It will be noted that while the price of wheat this year is only slightly above the price that prevailed six years ago, it is more than 30 per cemt below the price at which wheat sold four years ago. Corn and oats have nearly trebled in price within six years, while cattle and hogs have fully doubled within that period. Had it been possible for the beef combine to control absolutely prices of live stock, it goes without saying that it would not have paid 100 per cent more for cattle, hogs and sheep in 1902 than was paid in 1896. It is as plain as the nose on a man's face that the high price of the foodstuffs required in the production of meat has forced up the price of live stock and is consequently the chief factor in the rise of the price of meat and the by-products of the pack- ing houses. That the increase In the price of meat and meat products may be out of pro- portion to the raw material on the hoof by reason of A combination among the buyers and packers nobody will attempt .to galnsay, but it must be patent to everybody that the so-called beef trust has not been able to suspend the laws of supply and demand by compelling the cattle ralser to sell at low water mark prices, while the packers and butchers are marketing thelr products at high water mark. m—termes—— UNTIMELY ANNEXATION TALK. The speech of Senator Elkins of West Virginia, made just before the adjoutrn- ment of congress, iu regard to Cuban annexation, has been considerably com- mented upon and with very few ex- ceptions the comment has been adverse. Representative Newlands of Nevada is another advocate of annexation, though he thinks there ought to be no pressure on the part of this country to bring it about, but on the contrary that any proposition for annexation should come from Cuba. He is also In favor of doing something for the island, wlhiereas Mr. BElkins 18 opposed to this. 1t is sald that the subject of Cuban annexation is likely to be seriously con- sidered at the next session of congress, but this may be doubted, for public oplnion here, we belleve it safe to say, s very largely opposed to the annexa- tion of Cuba with the condition that It should become a state, and the Cubans would not wish to be annexed without that condition. If ever Cuba asks to become a part of the United Btates she will require statehood, of course upon equal terms with the existing states. This we have no doubt an overwhelm- ing majority of the American people would refuse. Unquestionably Senator Platt of Connecticut was right ln say- ing that Mr. Elkins does not, in this matter, represent any considerable por- tion of the people of the Uniied States, as he also was in pointing out the un- timeliness of presenting and advocating an anpexation resolution in the senate s0 soon after the new government of Cuba had been installed. It was a pro- ceeding very likely to cause a feeling derstanding is that the attorney general | of distrust among the Cubans, which of the United States, by direction of | (5,4 be unfortunate at this time. the president, is investigating the situa- tion with a view to ascertaining whether the coal roads are amenable to the fed- eral statute. Ko far the nature of the issue be- tween the operators and the miners is concerned, the president has full infor- mation in the report of Labor Commis- sloner Wright, but it cannot be deter- mined from that whether the law is be- ing violated. - Admitting there s a combination of roads, and we belleve this is not denled, the guestion ls, as we have heretofore pointed out, whether this combination operates in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states. If it can be shown that it does then it is certainly in violation of the law, but otherwise It cannot be held amenable to the federal statute. Itisa matter as to which the federal authori- ties caunot afford to take hasty action and however anxious President Roose- velt may be for the termination ot the strike, the projougation of which would be dMwiaging to the business interests of the country and might have other seri- ous consequences, he can be depended upon to take no action that is not justl- fied by sound and sufficlent reasous. Meanwhile the gtrike situation ap- pears to have undérgone no lmportant change. Some of the operators clain that they could resume production at emy— Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansag has written to President Roosevelt, protest- ing against the reported consideration of Benator James K. Jones for a place on the canal commission. In words more foreible than polite Governor Davis calls attention to the fact that Jones has been repudiated by Arkansas democrats, who turned down with a thud his application for a re-election to the senate, and inslsts that their desire I8 to have Jones retired td private life as soon as his present term expires. It will of course be a great hardship on Jones to be dislodiged from official position, but other states- men of equal prominence have had to endure the same experience. President Roosevelt is not afraid that the credit attaching to his administra- tion may be shared by his assoclates. On the contrary, be goes out of his way to give eredit to his cabinet officers and other subordinates for the lmportant work they perform even where the In- spiration has emanated from himself. esap——— Full particulars about the driving of the first rivet In the keel of the Nebruska by Governor Savage and Governor Mc- Bride have reached us by telegraph, but what the governor of Nebraska sald to the first rivet had been driven has not yet transpired. It would not take a long: distance mind reader to condense the mutual expressions of the Interstate comity Into these words, “It is a long time between drinks.” GEEse—— Conrtesions of W, Chicago Record-Herald. Dewey says he killed a few people at Manila to please the Spanish commander. There s nothing Itke being accommodating in these little matters. Unseason e Statistios. Baltimore American. Now comies forward an expert to prove from statistics how few people are ever struck by lightning. This intelligence, however, will be anything but reassuring in political circles just now. Don't T Brookiyn Eagle. The modest girl, the prudent wife and the careful matron are much more service- able in lite than petticonted philosophe blustering heroines or virago queens. Now, don’'t throw miselles this way. Oliver Goldsmith sald that. Shocking Brutality of Lawyers. New York Sun. Whenever a woman is acquitted of charges of matrimonial misconduct there are always those who sneer at the weak- ness of the law, at least toward women. This apparent partiality ecould be ex- plained fn a number of recent sults which have come under our observation by the extraordinary brutality and coarseness with which the opposing counsel have at- tacked the women in the case, even though there was a fairly even balance between the evidence of innocence and of guilt. — A Plea for More Laughter. Toledo Blade. Are American young women really se- rlous—more so than those of any other country? It seems bardly creditable. It is a serlous matter If American women are forgetting to laugh. It ay defer the wrinkles, @ minor matter after all, for they are the character lines of the face. Or they may wish to avold the consequences of lalighing and growing However, it it is becoming characteristic of American women to be serfous, it is a deplorable condition of womankind. It Ameriea i still too homogeneous for a characteristic type of beauty it may be too much so for any sort of a characteristic type. “Long live the merry, merry heart that laughs from morn till night'-—the Amer- ican heakrt. One Month's Work in Cuba. Havana Post. The republic of Cuba has completed its first month of existence. For some of the things that have happened during that time she is undoubtedly to be congratulated, while for others she must be blamed for but lack of energ side from some few positions and creating a good many others, nothing particular has been done. The people in the rural districts are complaining of the lack of security of lite and property, and the working classes ars still asking what they are to do during the summer months in order to make a living. In addition to this we are beginning to hear of the Increase of smuggling, and even of piratical acts that are being committed every day. Cuba is beginning to find out it a great deal easler to criticise and to run & country theoretically than it is to do it tn practice. ‘WASTE PLACE MADE VALUABLE. Positive Henefits of Irrigation to the Whole Country. Minneapolls Times. The new irrigation law will probably, in time, disposes forevef of the question of our arid lands, and at the same time begln to convince us that while we are still rich enough to give a farm to most of the peo- ple who are wanting farms at present, there will come 4 time when the es will be divided up and we must make the best of what we have: There is no reason why we of this gen- eration should worry our heads greatly over that, however. Another 75,000,000 of people could filnd homes in the west without our bothering about even our childre: chile dren; for t! irrigated lands yied gri returning crops than the farms which rely upon the natural rainfall. - The provislon which limits the farms to 160 acres to any one person in one tract gives the new set- tlers confidence that the possession by one man of large acreage will not prejudice their future content or security. One hun- dred and sixty acres of land is more than the aver: size of farms in this country, which was recently estimated at about 136 acres. It we add to the unknown value of the to-be-Irrigated lands the unknown value of the vast region of cut-over pine of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan—of all the states which have n left to the res toration of nature by the departure of the lumberman—we can find plenty of hope for the return to the soil of all those who long for some life outside of the city. From the commercial, the agrieultural, the social and the manufacturing sides the matter of irrigation in the west will return And it it benefits ‘to the whole country. will also enforce upon us th conserving and restoring t left behind us, or which lie at our own doors, it will do an even greater good. COMPLETING THE HOPKINS FUNDS, Baltimore's Fi University Se- cures Necessary Endowment. New York Times. It will be good news to the friends of sound and progressive scholarship in the United Btates and throughout the eivilized world that the endowment fund which was regarded as necessary to the continuance of the work of Johns Hopkins university has been completed. The sum was not ge, a8 such things g0 at the present time and in this country, omly $1,000,000, and the slowness with which it was gathered has seemed a little puszling to those who have understood the value of the usiver- #ity and the pecullar distinetion it ocon- ferred on the city where it was situated. The work of Johns Hopkins s known the world over. Under the highly intelligent guidance of its former president, Dr. Gil- man, it has from time to time secured the enthusiastic service of some of the most learned and eficient men in their respective lines, d It has succeeded | students with fervor and thorough study and inquiry that have made tbe proportion among them of distinguished names very remarkable. The university bas united courage and sound conservatis; sought to t while holding fast to that which has been #hown to be good in the past to seek safely and surely all practicable acquisitions in the realm of knowledge and thought. There has been no (nstitution for the higher edu- cation in this country that has been more completely and characteristically Amer! ¢an, and none that has done more to bring our country into harmony with the world's the governor of Wasbingion state After | movement of civilisatian, BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Men do not stumble on salvation. Moral exerclae makes moral athletes. All great work consiata of amall desds. Hard living does not make easy dying. Growing and giving are the best evidences of lving. The heart makes a good engine, but & poor rudder. Yesterday's success may be the secret of today's fallure. God can give us patience, But Ha oannot give ua practice. Religlous teachers count for more than re- ligious teachings. Sponges gather easlly, quickly wrung dry. It 18 better to be saved in a storm than drowned in a calm. The edifice of character cannot be bullt without an architect. The first effect of knowledge is the con- sclousness of ignorance. but they are PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Senator Beveridge denies that he got it in the rubber, 4 Misneapolls rejoices because its juries have the courage of thelr convictions. Denver has a slight touch of the exposi- tion fever. Detter walt until St. Louls can measure its defleit. Old Mother Necessity is wise in her day. Observe how charming the jeweled pins in the back hair keep the rubber taut. Ohio's funded debt will be wiped out dur- Ing the present year. In the hands of men fairly gréat, republican policies work that way. ¢ A census bulletin tells of the production of needles and plus in this country, but does not tell what becomes of them. That's the sticking point, It is sad to think, after our outburst of joy at the launching, that the kaiser's yacht, Meteor, should come in second best at the Kiel races. Alice, alack! It is announced in advance that Presi- dent Roosevelt will dispense with hand- shaking on his caming tour of the country. That “shake” will soon be shaken In the west. If all the vagaries of summer weather are chargeable to the eruption, Mont lée has a proud record in some respect It has strangled the reputation of weather prophets. 0 18 struggling bravely to protect In three months four unscrupulous lawyers have been pinched for plugging justice in the Jury room. Notwithtanding the closure afnounced some moons former Secretary Long I8 talking in the magazines about the bat- tle of Bantiago. It 18 & question who will get the last word. A “beauty doctor” in Chicago, who doped the complexion of a patient, causing death, managed to elude indictment by producing a diversity of medical opinion on the cause of death. Expert evidence is fine shelter in & storm. A strange {liness, so-called, has assumed the proportions of an epidemic in New York parks. Young women are the chief victims. The symptoms are faintness and swooning. In every case where the sweet- heart {8 on to his job, recovery is prompt. The generosity of congress in handing Buffalo a bunch of $500,000 to apply on its deficit is mighty pleasing to the town. None of the money goes to exposition stockholders and bondholders, or for ground The beneficlaries are the contractors who bullt the exposition. After this money is distributed there will still remain a deficit of $2,317,863.25, consisting of—stock payments, $1,642,884.25; second mortgage bonds, $500,000; balance on first mortgage, $174,079. Like all men prominent in Wall str James R. Keene is continually being asked for tips on the market. The other day an impecunious friend sald to him insinuat- ingly: “Are you a bull ora bear, Mr. Keene?' Rather curtly came the reply: 'm nothing “But maybe you'll recover; maybe you're mot incurable,” was his cal- ler's droll remark. It ticked Mr. Keene, who sald, with a grim smile, “Come in and see meé tomorrow,” and they do say that the impecunious man's quick retort was worth money to him. SILLY FAULT-FINDERS, 4 Objections to Education of the Children of Alle Baltimore American. That philosophy which did not look too far ioto the future to be uncomfortable, and which held that the evil of the day sufficed therefore, is contemptuously flung aside, and that of today is exercising all its efforts, apparently, to bring out one more danger to add to the many in the midst of whieh we e been neediessly walking all these years. One of the Iatest of these additlons is the fear that the beneficial philosophy which would hasten as much as possible the development, through the children, of the allen races pouring upon our shores mistaken 4 mischievous one. It 18 claimed that the Americanizing of the younger generation proceeds too rapidly: that the children of the Immigrant classes absord too readily the ideas, habits and customs of the mew home to which they have been brought; that these ideas and customs are supplied their receptive minds too liberally, and that the result is the virtual separation of children and parents. The children are taught higher standards of living; they imbibe finer ideals; they g brought into a wider range of though they are urged to grasp better industrial sdvantages; they exercise more liberty and quickly learn thefr ri dividual in- dependence, and all this, it is d, creates gulf between the old and the young gen- erations, and tends to break up homes. There are the grains of truth in this presentation of the case which are just large enough and numerous enough to be irritating. With the old, milation of new ideas and pew habits is diffeult, in SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Prooklyn Bagle: The minister who from his pulpit last Sunday told his congre- gation that his family was starving would have aroused more sympathy it he bad met taken a trip to Europe lai ummer. Chicago Chronicle: Respect for dlvide™ meroy and the deductions of common sense | Alike commend the definition of & léeal man who declares that “It s what not where he s, that man's heaven or hie hell." Th sition never has been put more tersely And logleally. Washington Por One editor is engaged in finding tault with Bishop Potter because he made use of the adjective “braimy” in epeaking of the late Archbishop Corrigas. But 18 not an up-to-date prelate like Bishop - Potter to be permitted a few special privi- 1 in his vocabulary department, even it the various institutions of learniog have strung about ail the letters o bet from the rear plaza of his n: Detroit Free Press: Even salvation has been unionized. Nearly 300 members of the United Mine Work church at Olyphant, P day morning because the priest would mot ask a nonunion man to leave the chureh. It is apparent, of courss, that it would never do for unions to permit the saving df souls. Heaven I8 supposed to be a state of perfect bliss, and there can be no perfect blies where all the souls do not have union cards and an \ eight-hour day for the glorification of their Maker. New York World: Rev. Fatber White of Little Falls appears to have & héad on his shoulders and a heart in his bosom. Dee clining an appeal to joln in & erusade againet base ball games on Sunday, the b good priest sald: I belleve that people should go to church and worship &8 God intended, but that does not, in my opinion, mean that the rest of the day should bdé spent in solitude and with drawn curtaine.” And he added that he saw no objection to “an orderly game of base ball on Sunday afternoon, providing that the peace of wo- body is disturbed. There are many evils worse than base ball requiring the attem- tion of strict moraliets. Working people need some recreation, and it is better te play or watch base ball than to pass the day in the saloo: DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Detrcit Free Pres: \ He—-My di can’'t marry until I know how our is_to be pald. She—If you really loved me you wouldn't be bothering about board. " T her hofln{ lu:m Puck: The Adnfln‘ M —How plajn the darling speaks! Jus to him calling brother Freddie fn yMm Friend—Er-er—what 18 he calling Philadelphia Bulletin: “He has a pleture of his sweetheart inside his wateh.' “\Indesd!” Well, He locks so happy lataly. 1 thought there’ must be & woman in the case. Chicago News: Artist—Yes, I've given this picture of a pretty young widow & sors | of horticultural nag ‘rle; ndeed! Wi aid ouwcul 1te Artist—"A Daisy Beneath the Weeds." Philadelphia Press: ‘‘Not mueh | life,” continued the ehronic Kicker, A0 much for me. Rverybody sise T kagw to, long. but I'm lett out tn ¢ o|n!t" & won't happen to yo) t life t come," ‘remArKe. the -lyy Mr. 2 prey. etroit Free Prei r—This 5 :’rfl l;lll me very nie at mm erma Landlady—You take it by the weel and it y:gkdun't pay my son .takes you\y i neck. New Orleans Times: “If only ambass t th e nister woul 8008 _enou rgzund the demure maiden. . ‘Herbert!" And 8o they were married. icago Post: ‘‘Bhe has ug?' 76 commented ROy ted. “Apparently,” repiled her rival spitefully,” ¢but whenever I see anvone admly u'fi 1 e prin- 8. d feel like r.un, Mnu&r: 10 o ire of some advertisemen P¥nat s that o “ ‘Beware of Imitatio: SHAKE HAN WITH FATE. Regina Armetrong in Leslie's Weekly, 'Tis & #ad old world and a bad old world, I¢ 18 scarce worin white Bt &t Ita sortows cling and, its trlendsaips stings And even 1ts joys will But dear s life for all its strite, il fud o grace in the auriest wll find a grace in rlie It you Just Shake hands With fate " With light In your glance end right im) your glance, And your Tips in a gueve to the sky, ‘{ A'epring in your walk and a ring in yous ure, hobe will not ou by, 0 rnh that you wilt i ovgr a hiy, But it leads to &n open 8o trill you ong to lure love ak And Just shake hands with fate o 'Tis In yourself is the demon elf, “Tin in vourself Is God; And you'll never stray from yourself away— wiod's light or the Jevit's prog, 4 Vhatever your mind you'll meet in And what Ix yourselt create: g The world will View what Is really vou= Therefore, shake hands with fate! e —— ] PIANO LEADERS Artest the Attention of the Publle The Beautiful Stock of Pianos now Ex hibited and for Sale at Hospe's . Music Rooms Creates Most = Favorablo Comment, KNABE Planos In Art cases, i ffe walout, in mahogany and rosewood cases. KRANICH & BACH Planos in most e quisite veneers, butternut, French walout and shaded mabogany cases. KIMBALL Planos in the handsomest quarter sawed oak, French walsut finieh and Cuban mahogany. SCHUMANN Planos with beautiful carved cases; Krell Planos, all the new styles are works of art and bring ready buyers, as many cases impossible. But clinglug, as they do, to old ideals, the parents of our future cftizens have confessedly left their homes to “better” themselves and thetr children, and they are by no means slow to clalm for their children the benefit of our schools and other institutions. Bven it they tried to form colonies among thes selves, they could mot by any means In their power keep young, plastic minds from ylelding to the influences of such a strong atmosphere as surrounds them here. But, as & matter of fact, they want their chil- dren to be Americans, snd enjoy all the advantages of American lite, and to this they trequently bend all their energles. That children should be superior in fn- telligence, in culture and in position to their parents no doubt brings about cer- tain undesirable conditions, but ' there are few parents who do not desire for ren something better than they bave enjoyed themselves, and If the le of the latter is to be preserved throu & false sentiment, development of & ra or 8 class is at an end. It is the pride an1 boast of many a prominest man today that his parents toiled, and tolled hard, to give him the educstion snd advantages they had pot themselves, and that they lived to be proud of him—that his position was Bt accident, but wrested from fate. The parents will hardly indorse this latest stand of thelr pessimistic and un- called-fas champlons. the prices bave been reduced from $50 to 475 on every instrument, efther for cash or on small monthly payments. THE NEW HOSPE Plado is also made in faney cases and fancy woods. This same instrument has been reduced to prices that will interest the buyer. The many other makes that are represented by this house, including Mathushek,, Sterling, MoPhail, Whitaey, Hinze, Tiffany, Boothe Bros., and others, that are regularly sold for $360, we are selling from $185 wp. Buys & good cheap eastern make payments. This seme piano s sold where for $200, Bave yourself headaches and regrets looking Into this line. Get prices n:: : terms, which we tee to be mot less | | than $60 cheaper than the same quality can J ‘ be purchased for elsewhere. Our guarsa- 1 tes accompanies every instrument. { Investigate our Plano Players. We beat { the world $50 on each instrument. 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