Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1902, Page 14

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Business letters and remittances ghould be addressed: The Hee Pubishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft express or postal order, aveble to The Bee Pubiishing Company, 2-cent stamps accepted in payment (24 mA accounts. ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acce !ld. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA! STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglne County, George B. Tascauck, secratary of ln: Company, belng uulv sworn, ! the ual_number full an coJ,m o rhe Daily, Morni Bunday Bee printed durin the month of June, 1902, was as follows: 20,460 S SUBSERPENNBEESE Total Less unsold Net total sal Net dally avera, GEO. B. TZSCHUC! Subscribed in my presence And lwom ‘to betore me this 2tk day of Jung Beal.) Wb HonG Th Nonrv .—— Unless all signs fall, the friars will eventually have to go. g No more doctor’s bulletins on the con- dition of King Edward till Monday. The patient must be improving. ] It 1s to be hoped the raflroad tax bu- reau is not getting tired. The people of Nebraska are just beginning to have a real gest for the educational part of the campalign for tax reform. emm——— The Lincoln Journal has been careful not to repeat its assertion that market wvalue is the true standard for assessing rallroad property for taxation.’ It must have heard from headquarters. Those people along the Puget sound country who see Tracy, the escaped con- viet, every time they turn a corner must be the same people who were seeing air- ships every night in this vicinity only a few years ago. SEm—— The freedom of St. Andrews has been conferred on Andrew Carnegle In recog- nition of his generosity to the Scottish university. He can doubtless have the freedom of all the great universities at the same price. That Swedish military man who falled to keep his duel appointment evidently prefers to run away before fighting rather than to fight and run away. There 18 certainly more safety in his re- vised version of the old saw, essm———— SBomebody called for three cheers the other day for David B. Hill “the next president of the United States.” Here is the chance for Mr. Bryan to get in an- other fine stroke by recalling that the same kind of a salute has often been d to him, but without any tangible results. e More than 1,000 Spaniards are re- rorded among the immigrants coming to this country during the first six months of this year. No unhealed breach cre- ated by the war with Spain seems to preveut subjects of the Spanish king from joining in this peaceful invasion of America. — Perusal of the stiff sentences imposed on the directors of the Prussian {mort- gage bank convicted of falsifyinf the records of the institution for fraudulent purposes should afford convincing proof that bank-wrecking is a far safer bus! ness to pursue in this country than it is in Germany, and more especially at Berlin. " —— It 1s asserted with the air of complaint that nearly all of the great promoters of corporate combinations and stock ma- slpulators on Wall street are recruits from the west. The way for the east to et even Is to send out west its surplus population to belp develop the natural gesources on which continued prosperity depends. =i Cuban government has already been recognized as that of an independ- ent nation by nine of the principal in- ternational powers, lucluding Spain, to which it was formerly attached as a de- pendency. Let the Cubans ask them- selves how long they would have had to wait to attain this position without the unbought and unpurchasable ald of the United States. i ooo———— A university lecturer over at Chicago endeavored to startle his audience last week by declaring that the aversion to labor is growing along with the desire to attain wealt™ without working for It. But is there anything new ubout this? Does not the preference to enjoy ua- earned wealth date from the cradle of mankind? Is there any prospect of the race ever outgrowing it? the fallure of twelve banks in the United dency, would bave been followed within * The same logic that would ascribe the CLUSING ARGUMENT IN RAILROAD TAX CASE. With this issue we conclude publica- tion of the stenographic report of the testimony and arguments in the rall- {md tax case heard before the supreme court, on which the court bas reserved decision until its session in Beptember. In conformity with our policy of ab- solute impartiality, we have given space not only to the arguments urged by the attorneys in behalf bf the people for whom this suit was instituted by the editor of The Bee, but have also printed in full the pleas of the rallroad attor- neys for a continuance of the present evasion of taxes by those corporations, notwithstanding the fact that the argu- ments of these rallroad attorneys are directly at varlance with the ideas and convictions of The Bee. 8o confident are we that our position on this all- important question is right that we are perfectly satisfied to have our readers presented with both sides of the contro- versy and placed in position to sift the testimony and weigh the arguments pro and con, so as to form their own judg- ment. We venture to add in passing that the address of John D. Howe, closing the case, {8 last, but by no means least, as a lucid and convinelng statement of the points at issue, and should be carefully read by every taxpayer in the state, and more particularly by every taxpayer in Omaha, South Omaha and Lincoln, where the inequity of the exemption of rallway property from municipal taxa- tion coustitutes the most flagrant abuse in the municipal body politic. e——————— LABOR STRIKES AND PRUSPERITY. Six weeks after the first election of William McKinley to the presidency Willlam Jennings Bryan declared that States since the presidential election afforded striking proof of the disastrous consequences of the gold standard. Mr. Bryan did not seem to realize that the menace of free and unlimited coinage, Intensified by his election to the presi- sixty days by a crash that would have closed more than 12,000 banks, In fact, every bank in the country. fallure of twelve banks, following on the heels of the national election of 1896, to the evil effects of the gold standard would doubtless regard the labor strikes of 1902 as the natural consequence of the policies pursued by President Roose- velt and the republican majority dom- inant in congress. As a matter of fact, the labor dls- turbances In American industrial cen- ters are the natural outcome of pros- perity. In times of commerclal depres- slon prices are invariably low gnd labor superabundant. In hard times the con- flict between labor and capital always turns on the pivot of wage reduction, or for reduced hours of labor and more general distribution of the opportunity of employment. The advent of prosperous times brings with It increased industrial activity, a greater demand for the products of labor and higher prices. With the avenues of employment thrown open to the army of unemployed labor there comes in- creased consumption, and that in turn causes still higher prices. The general rise in the price of all articles of ne- cessity, higher-priced food, higher-priced fuel and higher rents forces the bread winner to demand higher wages and that brings on the irrepressible conflict be- tween the employer and the employed. Colossal industpial concerns, like the Steel trust or Standard Oil trust, whose profits are proportionately greater by reason of the special advantages they enjoy In the purchase of the raw ma- terials and distribution of finished prod- ucts, are in better position to raise wages than are thelr less fortunate competi- tors, and especially the owners of small mills and factories. The glant trusts have almost a monopoly of production, by controlling the markets, and are able to grant reasonable advances to their employes without the threat of a strike, while their less fortunate com- petitors, the owners of the small fac- torfes and mills, whose profits would be eaten up by any material advance in wages, are frequently foiced lnto the conflict which they would very much prefer to avo'd. The resistance to the just demands of labor on the part of the anthracite coal operators and managers of rallway cor- porations is inspired by a desire to ralse dividends and decrease operating ex- penses. An advance of b cents a day to the wan who Is the employer of a dozen wage-workers amounts to §187.20 a year, but 5 cents a day added to the pay roll of the employer of 1,000 men amounts to $300 a week, or $15,600 a year. 'The rallroad that carries 20,000 workingmen on its pay roll would in- crease its operating expenses by more than $300,000 a year on an advance of only 5 cents per day per man, which would represent only a 2% per cent in- crease on a $2 per day wage. An ad- vance of 10 cents to 20,000 workingmen would be equal to $624,000 a year, or 4 per cent on $15,600,000 of capital or water. In the face of a rise of 25 per cent in the price of all things that the wage- worker wears, eats and drinks, a ralse of 10 cents a day can scarcely be re- garded as his full share in the general vise of prices. Under such conditions it is to be expected that organized labor would exert all the pressure at its com- mand for a general advance in wages and It is not in the least surprising that this pressure should take the shape of strikes at the points where their griev- ances are greatest, or where the supply of labor is not equal to the demand. To the partisan demagogues, the labor strikes are proof positive that prosperity is either a sham or a curse. Why should the tollers bless prosperity If they have to strike for better pay? ‘What good is prosperity anyhow if the wage-worker caunot buy all he wants with the money he is able to earn? Would it not be far better for us to go back to those blessed times of low THE OMAHA prices and cheap things, when the dol- lar was as big as a cartwheel and work- Ingmen were scrambling to get a chance to earn 1t? Would it not be better to close half of the factories, or all of the factories, for awhile and give the work- ing people a holiday? What advantage would it be to the laborer If he could buy meat for a penny & pound, If he did not have a penny to buyt with or the chance to earn the penny? Grant that labor dis- turbances are the natural sequence of prosperity, how would general hard times, low prices and cheap things afford the desired rellef? Would the condition of the wage-workers of Amer- fea be improved by a return to the good old times when soup houses had to be opened in every large city and hundreds of thousands of men and women would have been glad to toil from morning till night for a bare sub- sistence? Surely the great mass of American workingmen would prefer to battle for their right to earn living wages In an era of prosperity and high prices than to struggle against famine and starvation in times of general de- pression. S — 18 OUR PROGRESS TOU RAPID! The former finance minister of Japan, regarded in his own country as a man of great ability, recently visited the United States and made a careful study of financlal and commercial conditions here. While he was necessarily im- pressed with our energy and commercial development the effect of his observa- tions was to make him somewhat pessi- mistic regarding the near future. In an interview he expressed apprehension that the “too rapid progress of the United States is likely to experience a serious setback in the near future.” He thought too much business has been done on borrowed capital, which coupled with the magnitude of the commercial operations common in the United States, “will probably lead to a panic at the first untoward circumstances, such as a bad harvest or similar misfortune.” ‘While there is at present no apparent danger of financial or business disaster, but on the contrary most favorable promise of an indefinite coutinuance of prosperity and material progress, the fear expressed by the Japanese financier may well command the attention of men in this country who are largely engaged in financial and commercial affairs. The United States has been advancing com- merclally at a pace which If not already too rapid for safety may become go un- lesy more conservative methods are adopted, particularly by the great finan- clal institutions of the country. It s probably true that most of the great banks of the country have been lending too much to ald business enterprises, or have not been sufficlently careful and circumspect in regard to the character of the enterprises alded. It is certainly a fact that there has been more or less recklessness on the part of banks in ald- ing industrial combinations whose soundness was not established. At pres- ent financial institutions generally are exercising more care In alding business enterprises, but it is impossible to tell how long this conservatism will con- tinue. In the main the business of the coun- try seems to be on a sound basis and ‘whether or not too much has been done on borrowed capital it is of course im- possible to determine. If such is the fact it 18 of course a dangerous condi- tion. - The real danger, however, as everybody who has given the matter in- telligent consideration understands, is in the greatly overcapitalized combinations. It is the possible collapse of some of these, which may come at any time, that gives reason for apprehension. Not a few of these are mow, it is not to be doubted, in a condition bordering upon collapse and would go down before the slightest ldvem clrcumstance. But for this there would be no substantial ground for fearing financial or business disaster. ————— OBJECTIONS TU ANNEXATION. A movement is sald to have been started by the sugar planters of Cuba in behalf of annexation. There is an as- sociation of these planters and according to report it proposes to inaugurate in the island an annexation propaganda, for which it would doubtless find more or less support from those in this coun- try who want Cuba to be made Ameri- can territory and given participation as a state in this government. Referring to this the New York Trib- une says it may as well be understood plainly at both Havana and Washington that the United Btates does not desire the annexation of Cuba. “Its reasons therefor are sound and comvincing and are not derogatory to Cuba,” says that paper. “For one thing, it does not want a detached or insular state. This is a continental union, the United States of North America, and not of America and the islands of the sea. The best states- manship and the best popular thought strongly incline toward keeping it so. ‘Whatever outlylng possessions we may have, the union of states Is to be confined to contiguous territory om the malnland of the North American con- tinent. The United States wants no de- tached members.” Another reason agalost aupexing Cuba Is that her peo- ple are aliens in blood, speech, tradi- tions, customs and iostitutions and would not for many years, if ever, form a homogeneous part of this union. They would remain an alien community. Still another reason why Cuba is not wanted as American territory is “because her entry would increase, intensify and com- plicate the race problem, which is al- ready serious enough to absorb our best attention.” These are objections to annexing Cuba that ought to be quite sufficlent, but they are not all that can be urged agalnst the proposition. It Is dificult to understand how any American can seriously advocate giving the Cuban peo- ple, who bave not yet shown that they are capable of self-government, repre- sentation in congress and In the electoral college, as is proposed in the DAILY BEE: Eikins resolution, which it is expected will be pressed at the next session of congress. There are many who believe that Cuba is destined to be ours, but if she should become American territory it will not be as a state, participating equally in the government with existing states. That, we confidently belleve, a majority of the American people will not assent to. Spe——— “CORNERS" IN GRAIN. The recent corn “cormer” at Chicago has led to an effort on the part of mem- bers of the Board of Trade to bave that body amend Its rules so as to prevent a recurrence of this form of speculation. 1t 1s proposed to make a rule that when- ever the price of corn is fictitious, “Not in line with the price in other markets and above its legitimate and actual value,” the board of directors shall, upon petition of twenty-five members, deter- mine the actual and legitimate value of “contract corn” and provide that deliv- ery may be made of a lower grade on payment of the difference between the price of that grade and the price fixed for that contracted for. It is also asked that the same method be applied in con- tracts for the sale of wheat and oats under like circumstances and conditions. In referring to this the New York Mall and Express observes that it is long since any attempt was made to cormer grain on the New York Produce ex- change. It is apparently prevented by a simple rulé that In case of failure to de- liver on maturity of a contract, the com- mittee on grain shall buy for the account of the person in default, “but no unrea- sonable price shall be paid, arising from manipulated or fictitious markets, or un- usual detention In transportation.” As this takes the pressure for delivery from the person who made the contract and throwns it upon the exchange it renders the working of corners impracticable. “If in agy case it should prove ineffectual,” says/the Mall and Express, “it would be an easy matter to adapt the rules to a complete prevention of efforts to control the market supply of any important product for the purpose of forcing up the price on those who have sold for future delivery.” The effort of members of the Chicago Board of Trade to do away with the practice of cornering grain ought to be successful. It is utterly indefensible, having, as our New York contemporary remarks, not even the merit of fair gam- bling, “for it attempts to defeat calcula- tion and block the working of chance at the same time, in order to squeeze money out of those caught at a disad- vantage.” Such an operation is un- known on foreign exchanges and should not be permitted here. There are forms of speculation which perhaps cannot be done away with and which it is claimed by some not only do no harm but serve a useful purpose. There is nothing, however, to be sald In defense or justifi- cation of the “corner.” EDUCATION CHINA'S HOPE. In an interview prompted by his recall to his own country, Wu Ting Fang, who a8 Chinese minister to this country has distinguished himself for his rare per- spicuity and sober common sense, de- clared a few days ago with reference to China's needs: There are three important things for China. They are education, rallways and newspapers. I would like to see China im- prove in these things, because China has d of good men, and way to get good men is to have good education. We ought to have more schools in China and more young men studying In Europe and the United States. I should like to have schools In China as you have in your country. We ought to have a system of popular education, so that everyone can be educated. We want our people edu- cated. Then we want more raflroads. Rallroads are the means of education also. They al- low people to travel and allow those of one town to come in contact with people of other towns. That is education. The third of the pre-eminently Important things is the newspapers. We want high- ¢lass newspapers in China, That is an- other form of education. They must be conducted in & proper way. Bolled down, the three things sug- gested by Minister Wu as most lm- portant for China resolve themselves each into education, or rather a dif- ferent method of achleving popular edu- cation. Carefully dtilizing his oppor- tunities of observation during his mis- sions abroad at the capitals of various European countries as well as of our own he has had it impressed upon him that the handicap under which China labor and has labored for centuries as com- pared with the more civilized nations is the lack of universal education among the common people. The thrift, frugal- ity, energy and integrity of the Chinese by the side of other Orlentals is con- ceded, but their Inability to turn these praiseworthy national traits to best ad- vantage arises from want of knowing how. ‘What makes American labor superior in efficiency and more versatile in ap- plication to ever-changing conditions is its superior education. What has made America lead the world In inventions and practical scientific discoveries is the general diffusion of intelligence through its public schools and educa- tional institutions. What has made the American army and navy invincible has been competent direction by trained of- ficers specially educated for the pur- pose at West Point and Ann Arbor. Minister Wu expresses the wish that more young men from OChina could study In the United States because he knows our universities and colleges are unexcelled both in equipment and teach- ing force and that Chinese students can learn more there than they can at home. He wants more rallroads in China be- cause he has seen the enlightening ef- fect of ¢lose contact between people and commuanities produced by constant in- terchange of travel and trafic. He wants more newspapers in China be- cause he has had proof in America of the powerful influences wielded by an enterprising and untrammeled press for the moral and intellectual uplifting of the entire people. China’'s bope unquestionably lies in ed- SUNDAY J'ULY 20, 1909 neation—in education that will bridge the chasm of medievalism, separatiog it from the Twentleth century conditiong now surrounding it. For this great task every tried educational agency will have to be called into requisition, but when once the re-awakening is accomplished, the movement will go on irresistibly by its own momentum. Stpmeepeiu——" It is interesting to note that one of the weekly trade reviews {ssued by the great commercial agencies incorporates Infor- matlon relating to “summer resort busi- ness,” which is reported below expecta- tions with few exceptions. This means that the summer resorts have now at- tained to the status of a business whose pulse is felt in the arteries of trade in the same manner as other businesses. This is of course a result df the tre- mendous expansion experienced by the summer resorts during the last few years and the introduction at the same time of business methods in their man- agement. A serlous mention of the sum- mer resort business even ten years ago would have elicited merely a smile from most mtglllpnt people. Predictions are ventured by men who have reputations at stake on them that this year's corn crop will exceed any previous crop produeed by this country. What greater tribute could be paid to the efficlency of the American farmer working with the most modern machin- ery on the most prolific soil kuown to the world. Coal from Newecastle. Baltimore American. Four thousand tons of coal imported to this country for transatlantic steamers is an evidence of the effect of the strike. A Point to Be Kept in View. Chicago Post, Fgod prices continue to soar, which agaln reminds us that in most of the open wars between capital and labor It is the public that pays the biggest Trimmings. Boston Globe. A million dollars a month fs the esti- mate made by the bureau of statistics of the present value of the market, which “trozen Alaska’ offers the producers and manufacturers of the United States. And yet people stay around here and swelter in the heat. Right Sanctioned by Law. Denver Post. Thé decision of a Bt. Louls judge that a wife has a perfect right to go through her husband's pockets in search of small change —larger discoveries not neglected—may be based on & realization of the fact that it is impossible to stop her from doing 1t, anyway. Good C for Alarm. Brooklyn Eagle. No wonder the sultan Is afrald that things will bappen it he allows the new rallroad to be put through to Mecca. There is ca for alarm if Turkish trein crews are anything like the American, for our brakemen would swear the halo off from Mahomet's reputation in no time. No More Boys in Blue. Indianapolis News. One of the most sensible moves in con- nectin with the army is the proposed change in uniforms. Kbakl bas been found by British experfence in South Africa to be too light, so the proposition is to dress our soldiers In a working garb of oll drab that, is hard to distinguish at a 4 tance from their environment of tre baze and earth. The change proposed is practical and businesslike, but, alas! what ‘becomes of “‘the boys in blde Train’s Forthcom New York Pres: A rare, rich book will be George Francis Train's autoblography. Francis Whiting Halsey, for twenty-two years literary critic on the New York Times, now with the Ap- pletons, sends his stenog: in the Mills palace to take the dictation. The volume will “Friends 1 Have Met." itizen's" be entitled, Mr. Train depends entirely on his memory, which 1s about the most tenaclous, recollective faculty you ever |dreamed of. Incidents of balf a centry agn are as fresh in his mental consclol as it they happened yesterday. If this grand old man will unbosom we shall have some surprising revelations. PASSING OF THE BLUB. Color I tified with the Army from the Beginning. New York Tribune, The final passing away, for practical purposes, of the famous old “army blue” is an incident of much sentimental and bistorical interest. The blue uniform has been identified with our army from th beglfining. It dates back beyond the ma- tion ftself to colonial timés. We might oven trace it as far as the civil war in England. Certainly to the present genera- tion it seems almost inseparable from the army; absolutely Inseparable from the his- tory of the army and of the nation. Half 1s tinctured bave for many & year been as much a household word as the “Red, White and Blue” of the flag under which they serve. To abandon the historlc blue for what s described as ‘greenish yellow"—happlly, not quite greenery yallery”—is nothing short of revolution, The change 1s also of intensely practioal significance as well as sentimental, and affects the present and future even more than our memories of the past. It means that henceforth the “pomp and efreum- stance” of war are to give place to busi- ness considerations. Effectiveness, mnot sentiment or aesthetics, will rule. For whatever reasons—and they are plenty as blackberries—blue was adopted for ouy army, and red for the Englieh, and white for the Austrian, practical effective was certainly not included among In the substitution of Kk ordinating sentiment to sense and aesthef fes to utility. The British did it a lttle ) BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Some men are born with a reverse gear and nothing else. The true servant is dlscovered master's absemce. It Is better to miss being rich than to make others poor. The world is profited pleasure-seeking life. No man ean both measure his work and do it at the same time. | Not the things we endure but those we miss make life's tragedy. When laws and legislators are respect- able they will be respected. It is ot our fault if temptations call on ue; but it is if we entertain them. A man's desire for religious truth s not shown by his despising all other truth. in his nothing by the PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, There is but one specific for vacationitis, A vacation will cure it. Outlaw Tracy's remarkable curves ought to bring him a steady job as a base ball pitcher. Those monkey dinners at Newport are an Interesting modern Instance of aping sim- lan anoestry. Talk about shipping coals to Newcastle. The old s cracked. Chicago is sending welnerwurst to Austria. Although the reporters have not succeeded in interviewing him, all chroniclers of the chase agree that the elusive Tracy wears a hunted look. Henry E, Dosch, manager of the Oregon exhibit at the Transmississippl and other expositions, has been chosen exgcutive head of the Lewls and Clark exposition which Portland will pull off in 1905, Horace White, editor of the New York Evening Post, has been made a trustee of Beloit college. He graduated from that institution, soon afterward going to Chicago to engage In newspaper work. A Chicago school teacher demands dam- ages to the amount of $50,000 for an alleged empt to kies her. These lofty Ngures measure the distance between the ecstacy of success and polgnant griet of fallure. Plous old Boston has sent another cargo of New England rum to cheer the savage breast in South Africa. Boston's efforts in behalf of civilization in the dark continent are a shining example of unselfish misston- ary zeal. Two young men in St. Louls have been fined $10 each for making goo-goo eyes. This is part of the plan to make the fair city a model one for 1804, but an extra good reputation will not swell the crowd at the box office. The importation of snakes from the Phil- ippines into Hawall has been checked by the authorities. It Is confidently believed the mainland can eupply all reasonable de- mands in that line, not only for snake-bite, but also enable the native to see wri without stirring the grass. The board of review of tax assessments in Chicago le suffering from an acute at- tack of nmervous prostration. One of the McCormicks dropped in on the board, un- announced, one day last week and asked to have his personal assessment raised from $250,000 to $475,402. May his tribe increase. 8. R. Taber of Lake Forest, Ill, comes out with a warm démand for reform in Fourth of July observance. He wants to before us. But then agalp we did it be- fore them, with our green-clad rifi o the Revolution. Far back of that while as yet the Anglo-Saxon race was un- divided, in the “Linceln gree: of Robin Hood and his merry men. The results of the change, which bids fair to extend throughout the armies of all the worid, will probably be compl and may be somewhat surprisipg. Doubt- less khaki-clad troops will bé more offi- clent. They will be leas readily disceral- ble and therefore less subject to fire at long range. But their identity will be less distinguishable, and it will cult to tell friend from foe: fore we may expest much confusion whea hostile armies meet clad alik Nor should we overlook the possible effect of making war so intensely practical and businessilke. It may be that thus it will fall into discredit and be abolished al- together, The suggestion s not fantastie. check the appalling waste of good money and stop the‘noise. All the old boys will second the motlon, but before putting it to & vote it would be well to consult the small boys. VACATION HABIT IN AMERICA. Chicago Tribune, Not many years ago if a man who could not number himself among the great ones of the earth fell into the habit of taking vacations he was likely to be regarded as either a trifier or a valetudinarian. Now almost everybody has a few days off at some time during the year. 1t is not difcult to understand why there should have been such a growth of senti- ment In this matter. Not only have more people come to be able to afford vacations, but the character of modern life has made vacations almost inevitable. One cannot keep pace with the city all the year round. After traveling under high. pressure for eleven months, one needs to travel under low pressure for the twelfth. One overdoes and then recuperates. It may be that this is not a judicious mode of life. One can {hink of objections to it. All objectlons break down, however, before the impact of business necessity. No matter how much a man may rebel against it, he ends by fall- ing in with his fellows and keeping up with the procession. Them about the 15th of July he drags himself off to a shady tree and tells himself that he will never agaln get himself so near nervous prostration. For these two reasons, therefore—greater necessity and greater opportunity—the va- cation habit has become established. It h: further become established that the vaci tion shall occur in summer. To our for fathers, who lived when the country wa. almost totally agricultural, this would have seemed midsummer madness. One needed the summer then for work. The winter was the time for whatever play was possi- ble. Today the case is altered for a large part of our population. Winter means steady grinding. Summer means a little relaxation. Bven for those who are in abject poverty something fs done. Here, theretore, Is a wish for & vacation for everybody, and as lon, one as possi- ble. The tion means change and rest. Change and rest meens Increased powers. OUT ON THE ROLLING DEEP. Shore Duty Naval Ofcers Ordered to Try Their Seal Philadelphia Press. disposition his popularity in the department, ought to win for him public approval. He thinks that naval officers should spend a good part of thelr tim there are alto- gether too in our navy de- talled for shore work. He has sent out a letter addressed to naval officers in Wash- ington and elsewhere on shore duty asking each one for his opinion as to the neces- sity of detailing a naval officer for the work the one addressed is engaged In. ‘The questions ed appeal to the honesty of every man and no doubt will receive honest replies. But a man holding a de- sirable position on shore may not be able to see quite s well as some other person that & civillan could perform the duty just as well and thus enable the officer to go to sea. Not all of these officers on shore duty can be spared for sea duty, but there are a good many of them that can be sent to sea with advantage to the mavy and to the ves. The are altogether officers on shore dut: In no other navy in the world, it is sald, is thero such a large percentage of officers detalled to shore duty. As there is a lack of officers to man the ships SBecretary Moody's policy of substituting civilians for shore duty that can be done well as not and of consolidating offices in other cases Is & good one. He is deserving of the thanks of the public for taking bold of this matter in & courageous manner, with & view of stopping an abuse. too many naval SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Chicago Tribune: Bishop Potter should meditate before entering the marriage state. But why give advice? Youth Is forever headstrong Chicago Post: There is profound interest In the action of the vatican in welectl Archbishop Feehan's successor. Bisl Spalding of Peoria Is a leading candi and he probably has more admirers friends in Chieago than any other of those “prominently mentioned.” Boston Giobe: One of the dreams of Bd- ward Bellamy has been realized In Wash. ington. Last Sunday every church in city had a télephonic connection so that |patrons could remain at their homes and |lleten to the services instead of golag through the heat to the church. Atlanta Constitution: The whistling wo- man has appeared in a New York ehureh cholr. She did her turn during the offertory. It s now in order for some rival paster to {ntroduce the female high-wi Iste doing a stunt between the front gallery and the pulpit desk. The gospel must be made attractive! Philadelphia Press: A Boston clergyman has discovered that Masons, Odd Fellows, Elks, Red Men and secret socleties gen- erally are the “wolves in sheeps’ clothing" referied to in the scriptures. We always suspscted that thelr goat-riding bu would get secret wocleties Into trow sooner or later Chicago News: It would be difcult to fix limite defining the extent of the Influence exerted upon this community by Archbishop Feehan during bis long and useful life. The vital factors in the soclal or religtous lution of a people are frequently tho which ara not most conspicuous. Archbishop Feehan scemed to shun the public promi- nence which naturally would have been his bhad he chosen to play a positive part in the more obvious and superficlal concerns of public life. Personally of a retiring dispo- sition, he lived the life of the churchman and of a kindly benefactor of his fellow- men, performing his countless good deeds in a way to escape notice. Boston Transcript: The popular cant about the supremacy of the devil during the heated period when the clergy take their vacations is being more and more disproved each year. Not only do the summer meet Ings of varlous denominations quicken the spiritual life and ostablish that tolerance which makes for culture, but the growing custom of business men to leave thelr stern and unrelenting strife for wealth and pow d go out with wife and children to th ehadows of forest and the cool, clean touch of great waters is of itself an uplift to the world, The days spent in simple, loving lite are more than sermone and theology to an overtired and tempted soul. The hills at twilight and the starlit sea are full of healing and real religion for all who come to them for re DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Detroit Free Press: Bess—What's your tdeal of a man? Jess—A man who h: both sand and dust. Chicago Tribune: Scolding Wife—You wish 1 were at the antipodes, don't you? Patient Husband—No, my dear. 1 think your proper place would be the Xantip- pedes. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Do you con- llder Plnucrh) ln!elleclul-l “1 g His wife belongs to two clubs‘and his daughter 1s Koing 16 marry a book agen Chicago Post: “But why did you en- courage him if you didn't want him to propose?” ecause just at that time there wasn't any one elseé to encour: Detrolt Free Pres; gxpect to your sister to the e fiae s vary . Younger Sister—You'd make [most, of that trip, “because You'll never lead her any furthi New York Sun: Miss Beers say to off the engagement? Miss Gunbusta—She sald there's as lobsters in the sea as ever were caugh Philadelphia Press: Miss Prim (severely) ~Married womewv above all others, have no busine iss De Style—~What did arley when he broke good to —Bullnul? Of course, not; it's a pleasu Chicago Tribune: “That text of g sald the critical deacon, "-houl d have o e(dndot :he left hand know what the r:hz " replied the new minister. “Yes, and what you said ahe right hand know what the 1m h-nd oet! *Well, but I'm lett-handed, you know." BLINDFOLDED AND ALONE I STAND, Helen Hunt Jackson. Blindtolded and alone I » With unknown t! The darkness d Afraid to fear, 2R one thing T loarn &'\mow Each day more surely as 1 go, at doors are opened ways are made, ‘Burdens are 1itted or are o By some great law unseen Unathomed purpose to tall. tas I wil." Blindfolded and alone lfirll: #s seems too bitter, galn too laf burdens In the - ‘ew helpers on tl lnd l'rief “ and da: { Ye( this one thing £ lurn o Bach day m ll,llrely 00 heav, And too Ana Joy is we road; strong, 80 lonfs Know 00d and i1l e ordered st T will." By changeles “Not as he sound grows sweet Egch um. m un. hcqwar s repeat. the darkness ‘o ors “sade ‘n Eht when this thought 1 klka whispered volee to calm and bless I unrest'and all lonelines s 0 “Not as cause the One Whe loved ‘un ret and Best 1s gone Before us on the road, For us must all His Iovl fu\nn “'Not as we will." It Pays to Trade With Us ‘Monday Morning We will place on sule 100 pairs Rope Portieres worth $2.50 for 98¢. 100 pairs of fine Irish Point Curtains, worth #7-50 pair, for $3.98, the sample furni- s ‘oniy"one place to Shiverick Furniture Go. We Close Saturday at | p, m. it t