Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1902, Page 18

| v ~-= S ntbin B RODI"KTE’I. EDITOR. PU'LI!I{ID I\EI\Y IuRthQ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION -Aly Bee (without lumn. One Year. . y Bee and Sunday Bt 7, ée, One Twenuieth Century Farme DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ly Bee (without SBunday), per copy.. ly Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..l i, Dog Uncluding Bunday), per weel i unaay vening nmn. Bee, per cop Bee Bwithout Sund B.C (ncluding l!mnu'o( irregularities in delivery addressed to City Circulation rtment. orn(,Ea Soiaha-The Bee Bulldin th Omlh-—mty ‘Hall "Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Str um:fl Blufl.—l‘) Purl Street. Unity Bullding. tw ork—Temple Court. ashingt Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. s Oommunlumm- [siating to news and edl- id_be addressed: rial matter shoi OUmaha o orial Department. BU!]VESB LETTERS. letters and remittances should The Bee Publishing Com- REMITTANCES. Remit by ft, express or Xy drllb'.p Publishing postal order, able to The shing Company, ted In yment o ersonal un.m.“‘.mp: an l;Ull‘l.l IEO COMPA. 1g.q “TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION of Nebrasks, Douglas County B. Taschuck, ..mun o 'rhe Bee Quly sworn, ai plete coples of The D.uy Morning, vening and Sunday Bee printed during month of July, 104, was as follows: 20,530 29,570 20,540 20,5620 29,520 29,560 29,510 PBUU!I&!IHHIE:; THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OVERDUING THEIR JOB. When the allied mailroads - placed $30,000 at the disposal of the tax bureau for the purpose of disseminating mis information among the people of Ne- braska concerning taxation In general and raflroad taxation in particular, it was expected that the tax agents would try hard to outdo themselves. In this instance, however, the truth of the old adage that “you ean fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time,” Is again forcibly exemplified by the four latest bulleting, which, instead of en- lightening the people, in reality try to make “confusion worse confounded.” Taking as their text the census re- ports for 1900 relative to the: condition of manufactures in Nebraska, the-rail- road tax agents bulld up a pyramid of meaningless figures for the purpo: proving that the manufacturers of braska pay only 1.2 per cent of their net earnings for taxation, while the railroads are taxed 10 per cent of their net earnings. While this comparison of net profits is positively irrelevant and immaterial to the issue, the figures bear on their face the stamp of fiction and false deduction. Every school boy knows that taxation in Nebraska is not assessed agalnst in- come, but on property value, and it would not matter a scintifla whether the mills, factories and packing houses of Nebraska earned billions and trillions for their owners, or whether they were idle or running at a loss. The taxes are levied not on the profits of the mill and factory, but upon the packing house, the mill, the factory and the plant. Millions of bushels of wheat or corn pass through a grain elevator, but the owner of the elevator pays taxes only on value of the structure and machinery. To compare the profits of factories and mills with railroad earnings would be about as rational as would be to tax the railroads on the value of all the merchandise and products they trans- 9,626 | port. A sample brick of the confound- et dally average. B. T bscribed in my presence and sworn to Sul ’bmm e this 18t .&_ol July, A, D, 1902, I-ENOATH. o ‘Notary Pubile. m— e ‘When it comes to breaking records King Corn proposes to' be In at the finish himself. A —— - It takes the old settlers’ picnic to dis- ‘close how prolific of old settlers a young state like Nebraska can be. mE——— Never worry. The Omaha base ball team will be back soon, to give the local \fans a chance to show how they feel wbout it e | The next time the Board of Review to assess Omaha corporations it mw just what the street rallway is worth, based on its selling ! The crown mat Germany may mu‘neflnn‘m.bmmtu Aweriean girl should American girl is lquunmhorovmn‘ht_ i [+ < nmnfiumifimm-l gled pretty soon it will succeed admir- ably in arraying the farmers and wage- The dispatches say that the Elks have left Balt Lake Olty. The inhabitants iwill doubtless be duly thankful that the city is left to them, in addition to the memory of a hot old time. E—— Jim Hill insists that he will put into effect his promised reduction in grain rates on his northwestern roads within & week. It is noticeable that the re- duction of grain rates for the benefit of the farmers Is not yet contagious on the other rallroads. S —— For the 'steenth time Colonel William J. Bryan declares publicly that he ls to enforce a draft, however, he wants it known that he will not hide behind the door. Af Mr. Mercer that The desist tion and his fool friends Bee will slacken its in its opposition to his because the democrats put up with anything like what they to submit to when Spain ran their postoffices for thew. e——— The latest agricultural implement P.nln.h-lhnnadwlththlwvd ‘purpose to protect the American farmer from paylng Digher prices for farm ‘machinery by reason of the increase in wages and cost of materlals. It is doubtful, however, whether the Ameri- Straws that indicate material mn- 40 the direction of a meat packers' com- ‘pihe seem to be visible at several points _An architect is to be sent all the way b-thhennryb(}lllu. presumably sure that the plans for the of the American embassy at properly drawn and executed, to see to it that the eyclone cellar Is sclentifically located to be of ready servige next time the Boxers Jay slege to the foreign minlsters. ing tax bureau figures is reported in their estimate of the earnings of news- papers in this state. According to bulletin No. 42, the value of the prod- uct of the newspapers in Nebraska. in 1000 was $2,553,051, the cost of produc- tion $1,871,549 and the net profit $681,- 502. With such a showing the tax agents figure that Nebraska newspapers are paying only 1.4 per cent of their net profits for the maintenance of state, county and municipal government. As § matter of fact, a high estimate of the value of the products of all the news- papers of Nebraska in 1900, exclusive of job work, does not exceed $1,500,000, and their aggregate net profits, instead of being $681,502, have -clrcely reached $100,000 in any owe of the last three years, The last double-shotted volley fired by the raflroad commando is directed at the Nebraska bankers and money lenders. According to the tax bureaucrats, the Nebraska bankers are the worst tax shirkers of them all. With a capital apd surplus of more than $22,000,000 and deposits of over $70,000,000, the bankers are .charged with returning puly 4 per cent of their capital for taxa- tlon and with being taxed on an'in- finitesimal fraction of 1 pér cent on thelr credits. ;l‘o make it more specific, the bureau has figured it out that the banks pay 2.2 per cent of their net earn- ings in taxes, while the railroads pay 10 per cent of their net earnings for taxes. ‘Without attempting to analyze the calculation by which this conclusion is reached, it should be noted that a large percentage of the bank deposits consist of public money deposited by state, county and municipal treasurers, postmasters, customs officers, paymas- ters, etc., that are by law exempt from taxation. Much of the capital of the banks is also in the form of national bonds, that are not taxable. But if the startling figures of the tax bureau were absolutely correct, how would that fact justify the state board In refusing to add the value of the rallroad fran- chises to the value of the tangible prop- erty in making tholr assessment? The natural inference to be drawn from the latest railroad bulletins is that the dust throwers and fog distributers are trying to frighten the bankers and manufacturers into making common cause with the rallroads against equi- table taxation, but we apprehend their bombshell will prove a boomerang. e UUB WINANCIAL EXPANSION. The proposition to make New York the distributing point, the open market for an entire issue of Russian government bonds, amounting to hundreds of mil- lions of dollars, is strikingly suggestive of the financial expansion of the United States. It is an acknowledgment by one of the most powerful nations in the world of American pre-eminence, or at least equality, as a financial power. , It .will probably be followed by the plac- ing upon the list of securities permis- sible to be traded in upon the New York Stock exchange the obligations of other governments. This will tend, says the New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, to confirm the view of those who have held for some time that the specula- tive and Investment markets of the United States are speedily to be the theater of very impressive changes. Heretofore the rallway securities domt- nated, at times to the exclusion of every other security, these markets. The rail- ways themselves are undergoing some marvelous transformations as to own- ership and as to financial characteristics and their future relations to the stock market cannot be foreseen with abso- lute certalnty. The most important fact disclosed in connection with the Rus- sian bonds is that New York Is becom- ing, If it is not already, the financial center of the world. The daily bank clearings and the enormous fimancial transactions at that city show that more business is now being done there than in Tondon and there appears m.h- no reason to doubt that this position will be maintained. There are of course some who take a pessimistic view of the matter and profess apprehension that our financial expansion has been too rapid and that there is danger of & sudden reaction, but generally the feeling Is that of confidence. At all events, the United States is now in the front rank if not at the head of the money powers and is exerting a most potent influence in the fina 1 world. ~LOOK TO THE LEGISLATURE. The legislature of 1008 will be the most important body that has been called upon to enact laws for the people of Nebraska within a quarter of a cen- tury. The two previous legislatures were torn up and distracted by sena- torial contests, that continued prac- tically during the entire session. The coming legislature will deal simply with issues that have no political sig- nificance, but concern all of the peo- ple, regardless of politics. The most important duty of the next legislature will be the submission of much-needed constitutional amendments and the revision of our revenue laws. On those issues no political lines can be drawn, and every candidate for the legislature should be compelled to pub- licly declare himself. The people of Nebraska have a right to demand pledges from every candidate for the legislature for specific reforms in our system of assessment and taxation. Costly experience has taught the people that glittering generalities and platform platitudes cannot be depended upon to remedy flagrant abuses. The taxpayers of Nebraska have pald dearly for gross negligence and down- right corruption of shifty and venal lawmakers who allow themselves to be manipulated by corporation lobbies and jobbers. The people have been fooled too many times to allow them- selves to be fooled again. They need not only able, broad-minded men in the legislature, but men of known integrity and homor, who will not barter away the people's rights for a mess of pottage or a rallroad pass. The people want men not only to hold up their hands and pledge their sacred honor, but also to sign a pledge that they will vote and work for a law that will prohibit any state officer from so- Neiting or accepting corporation bribes in the shape of palace car junkets from Lincoln to Denver, California or Mexico under any pretext, but will make ap- propriation of a reasonable sum to re- pay state ofilccrl money expended for legitimate expenlu while traveling on public business. The people of Nebraska have a right to exact a pledge from every candidate for the legislature that he will work for and support a bill to ‘prohibit members islature from soliciting or ac- cepting free transportation, telegraph and telephone franks or any other com- plimentary gift from any railroad cor- poration, telegraph, telephone, express or palace car company for himself, his family or any of his friends. The people have a right to demand that every candidate for the coming legislature shall pledge: himself open and above board te vote for and support a bill to tax express companies and other public carriers enjoying valuable franchises which pay taxes in every other state except Nebraska, The People of Nebraska have a right to, demand that every candidate for the legislature be pledged to support and vote for a bill to remedy any defects that may be found in the revenue laws that prevent a just distribution of the public burdens, not only in state and county taxes, but also in municipal tax- ation, and every candidate who declines to make these pledges should be given to understand that he will forfeit any claim he may bave on the support of the people by reason of party affillation. The next legislature should represent the people. It should enact laws for all classes of citizens and property own- ers without favoritism or discrimination. i SOLVING THE NEGRO PROBLEM. The policy declared by the recent negro conpwention at Atlanta is practical and sound and If faithfully followed will go far toward solving the problem confronting the colored race. It con- templates the uplifting of the negro through education and labor. The reso- lutions adopted say among other things: “To promote our material interests and increase our opportunities for a lvell- hood we, earnestly recommend to our people lhmngh the country that they teach their children the dignity and value of manual labor and give them an industrial education which will enable them to enter the world's induptries with as much knowledge, skill and dex- terity as members of other races pos- sess. To secure competent men and women to lead the race in its struggle upward, we must encourage the higher education of our boys and girls.” ‘This is wise counsel, pointing the only way in which the colored race can achieve the place which its more sa- gacious leaders are seeking for ft. The race has made progress. The experience of the institutions devoted to the educa- tion of the negro shows that it 1s pos- sible to instill the American idea of the dignity of labor and the value of thrift and forehandedness into at least se- lected specimens of the colored race. It bas shown this so conclusively that other solutions of the negro problem are falling into the background. While the material growth of the race has not been as marked as the numerical in- crease, yet the results are encouraging. Many negroes are property owners and successful business men and as was sald at the Atlanta convention they raise more cotton under freedom than under slavery. The foremost leader of the colored race, Booker Washington, has for years told them that theirs is an industrial and not a soclal nor a political problem. On an industrial basis there is a pos- sibility of adjusting both races to it in the course of time. If the negroes throughont the conntry and es pecially in the southern states can be taught to take the view ol Boonr Washington and adopt the course rec- ommended by the Atlanta convention, the result will be a great Improvement in their material condition and their betterment In other respects. —_— DEPENDENCE UPUN AMERICA. The dependence of the United King- dom wupon other countries and princl- pally the Umnited' States, 18 shown in the statistics of Its imports just com- piled by the chief of the division of forelgn markets in the Department of Agriculture. It appears from these that the United Kingdom imported in 1900 agricultural products valued at $1,578,- 000,000, about one-third of which was supplied by this country. But while the United States exports to that coun- try enormous food supplies, selling there more than balf of the surplus produc- tion of American farps, there seems to be opportunity for increasing the trade in some directions, The report shows that we have the bulk of the trade in lard, hams, tobacco, wheat flour, fresh beef, raw cotton, cat tle, canned corn and bacon, but send scarcely any butter, eggs or potatoes, articles that the United Kingdom im- ports to the extent of many millions of dollars annually. The chief of the di- vision of foreign markets predicts that the greatest future in the development of trade in the British market may be expected in perishable products, expor- tation of which is made possible by modern transportation methods. He re- marks that while other countries are the chief contributors of luxuries, the United States 1s the source from which the British people procure in large meas- ure the staple food products that are absolutely necessary to the maintenance of life. This causes the dependence of the United Kingdom on American sources of supply. This dependence is not likely to be less in the future, so that it will con- tinue to be a very powerful influence for the maintenance of friendly rela- tions between the two countries. The mutual interests of Great Britain and the United States are so great that neither will easily be induced to do anything to seriously lwpalr interna- tional friendship. The people of the United Kingdom must have our food- stuffs. Nowhere else can they obtain a sufficlent supply of these. We, on the other hand, want to retain this large trade, amounting annually to more than $500,000,000, and if possible increase it. As by far the best customer for our agricultural products there is the most substantial reason why this country should be disposed to cultivate the friendliest relations with Great Britain. The necessity of importing the greater part of Its foodstuffs makes it most im- probable tiat the United Kingdom will permanently maintain the tax on grain. That policy, forced by heavy war ex- penditures, and there is no doubt it will be aban- doned just as soon as it Is found prac- ticable to do so. Popular hostility to it has already been shown in Parlia- mentary elections and is certain to be- come more general and pronounced. The United States has no trade more gecure against tariffs or any form of discrimination than that with the United Kingdom and there is good rea- son to expect that it will continue to grow. Chicago authorities are starting a campaign against the use of colored net- ting over baskets containing fruit, om the pretense that the colored covering is a cloak to palm off unripe or over- ripe specimens on an unsuspecting pub- lic. But is this not going a trifie too far? If the pink tarlatan that makes green peaches glow like a blushing malden’s cheek is to be tabooed, where will this invasion of the frult stand man's rights cease? Will not the in- spector next insist on banishing the berry box with a sky-scraper bottom and require all apple barrels to be packed with as good specimens in the center as at the ends? What chance ‘will we have to acquire cholera morbus at cheap prices if the pyivilege of pur- chasing melons without first plugging them is denled? Why, before we know it some exacting and over-officious offi- cer will demand of the banana peddler that he give bonds that his yellow bunches shall not turn brown when ex- posed to the summer sun. What next? - —— Democrats profess to be greatly cha- grined because Lewis Nixon, late head boss of Tammany hall and now treas- urer of the democratic national congres- slonal committee, is the leading figure in a trust consolidation of shipbuilding concerns into a corporation with $45,- 000,000 capitalization. But they need have no great concern. The people do not take the democratic anti-trust talk seriously. The democrats ran one plu- tocratic shipbullder on the same ticket with Bryan in 1896, and they bad an object in making another plutocratic shipbuilder chief financier of this year's campalgn. To bulld a political craft that can run the blockade of popular distrust is the alm and object of the democratic managers, who think they need the aid of experienced shipbullders to score success. e “The plan to have the Indlans work for a living 1s a good one,” Indian Com- missioner Jones is quoted as saying, nd I am golng to use every effort to encourage it.” The revised version of the Indian agent at the Omaha and Winnebago reservation would read: “The plan to hdve the Indians worked by land ring despoilers is a good one, and 1 am using every effort to encour- age it.” err—— According to credible authority, the American skyscraper is about to gain a foothold in Paris. This is to be con- strued into the startling Intelligence that the innovation-shunning Europeans are almost reconciled to using an ele- vator instead of a lift. Intimation is had from Washington {hat Senator Jones of Arkansas will be given & place by appointment of Presi- {8 exceedingly unpopular AUGUST 17, 1902. dent Roosevelt on the Isthmian Canal commission. It will be remembered that Jones Is chairman of the demo- cratic pational committee. But that would not prevent the democratic chatr- man accepting a lucrative position at the hands of a republican president. Instead of redeeming his boast te fiy across New York City, his flightiness, Santos-Dumont, has taken occasion to fly off the handle and fly the track back home. Shoo fiy! Seg— Busy Times in Sig Boston Globe. With prospective crops of' 2,661,490,000 bushels of corn and 616,611,000 bushels of wheat, according to government official es- timates, the farmers are evidently going to have money to go shopping with next wiater. t. Where Did He Get Them? Indianapolis Journal. Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews says the greatest foe of marriage is the loose divorce laws. Surely he never got that idea during his stay in Chicago, where one divorce is always followed by two mar- riages. Hay Boys, O Up. Baltimore American. There is rejolcing in the bay fever dis- tricts, as It is claimed that the heavy rains have washed the pollen from the ragweed, and the annoying disease is not to appear this summer. If ragweed pollen is the cause of the trouble, it might be a £00d idea to apply the hoe early in the spring and take no chances on rain: Where They Brooklyn Bagle. There have been a number of cases lately where young women have distinguished themselves by saving the lives of men. Things have certalnly changed since the days when it was considered highly unlady- like for a woman to know how to take care even of herself. Fragility and faint- ing fits were thought much more proper than ability to plunge Into the surf and bring a drowning man ashore, which shows how life has altered since the time when knighthood was in flower. Times and Typos Have Changed. Boston Transcript. It is worthy of notice that many women are in attendance upon the forty-eighth an- nual convention of the International Typo- graphical union in Cincinnati. - Time was when the union printers were deadly op- posed to female compositors, and doubts less many will remember when the men undertook to protect themsel t female competition by grossly in: Well. unpleasant as possible. to have moved a little since those days, and (to have taken the typog- raphists along with it. Civie Pride in Children. Municipal Affatrs. Our public schools stand as high as any in the world. All that can be done along the lines for which they were intended is well and completely doue. W, childrea between the ages of 7 and 14 years are compelled to attend school daily. It is possible, therefore, to lay here foundations for an interest in the aesthetics of lite, to greate a widespread intereat in all that concerns the construction and decoration of the city, and to cultivate and arouse civic pride, which is of paramount {m- portance in all communities. Qur publie school buildings should be made veritable temples in all that goes to influence the sensitive minds of children. 5y —_—— Gladstone’s Interesting Propheoy. 8t. James Review. Prophecies even when the prophets are politiclans sometimes come true. Here is & notable Giadstone utterance which we can now look back upon as quite prophetic. Speaking or writing twenty-five years ago, of the ‘‘menace which, in the prospective development of her resources, America offers to the commercial pre-eminence of England,” the Grand Old Man predicted that America, and America alone, “can and probably will wrest from us that com- mercial primacy. We have no title. I have no fnclination to murmur at the prospect. - If she acquires it she will make the acquisition by the right of t! trong- est, but, in this instance, the strongest means the best. BShe will probably be- come what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the world, the employer of all employed; because her service will be the most and ablest. We have no more title against her than or Genos, or Holland bas had against us. HATLESS WOMEN IN CHURCH. Outburst of a Bishop More. Oftensive Than the Act Rebuked. Chicago Tribune. Last Sunday the Episcopal bishop of Dela- ware rebuked some young women who left their hats behind them when they went to church. The bishep told them thelr conduct ‘was unscriptural and ungodly, and that it looked worse for them to attend divine service with uncovered heads than for men to do so without their coats. Naturally the young women were much mortified. It is not pleasant to be told in public in a place where one cannot answer back that ome's conduct is unscriptural and ungodly. The girls meant no offense. They went bonnet- less to church because it was warm weather and they would be more comfortable with nothing on their heads. ‘When 8t. Paul told the women of Corinth to have their heads cdvered when praylng or prophesying he gave them advice which may have been excellent advice for the untrained, uneducated, uncivilized women to whom it was given, and yet be advice un. suited to the women of this age. “They didn’'t know everything down in Judee.™ St. Paul ocould not prescribe the godly church dress of the women of the twentieth century. Purthermore, wke'. Paul asctually ssid was that the woman should do her pray- ing and prophesying h her head' velled. Bo if one of the yo women who were reproved at Rehoboth by the Bpiscopal bishop had been hatless, but velled, sl would have been acting in strict obedien: to the commends of the apostle. The Corinthian women did not have the elab- orate headgear of modern women. ‘When St. Paul insisted on veils he prob. ably did so because he thought It was decorous and decent for women to have their faces covered in church. He may bave belleved that the spectacle of many women with uncovered faces would dis- tract the attention of the men of the con- gregation. Doubtless it did, for even now the eyes that should be devoutly fixed on the occupant of the pulpit are often de- voutly fixed on the face of some fair girl. An intelligent bishop knows where Paul was talking for all time and where he was talking for his own age only, and will act accordingly. The sight of hatless women in & church will not seem to such & bishop an ungodly sight. He will rejoice in it a5 an indication that his women hesrers cannot gaze enviously at hats handsomer than their own or be filled with fears as to ‘whether their own are on just right, and hence are able to pay much closer stteation to the service and the sermon. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. No ofie can wound the Father Ilke the child. No words are great unless they have been deeds. The best denial of a lle is the doing of the truth. Man cannot be renovated; he must be re- generated. Evil is real, but temporal; good i real, but eternal. You cannot judge the house by one sheet of its plans. Sincere consecration never produces self- complacency. Lite cannot be all sunshine if it would be of any service. @Gtd 1ifts up the heavy-hearted by meana of human hands. The greatest truths are powerless without the living teacher, 1t 1s no proot of courage to dig up & dead heresy so as to kill it again. Active service saves many & man frem foolish fears and speculations. The ncblest worker is he who does the lowlfest work In the loftiest spirit. —_— SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Washington Star: The archbishop of Canterbury made a mistake in not supplying himself with an extra strong pair of speq; tacles for the coronation services. Chicago Chronicle: The bishop of Dela- ware. inelsts that women shall wear their hats or bonnets in church according to the anclent injunction. Fortunately the juris- diction of his grace does not extend to the theaters. Washington Post: Elder Dowle has com- plated an elaborate scheme for his fall col- leotions. He will son be able to regain tha financial point from which that deubting brother-in-law hurled him. Loutsville Courler-Journal: When Rev. Dr. Wilson arose before an Ocean Grove Sunday school last week and asked, ““What is the best thing in the world?’ he was astonished at a unanimous chorls of the youngsters, who shouted out, “Money!” But why should he have been astonished? Many a teacher of Sunday schools acts as if he belleved, it he does not openly avow, that the best thing 1o the world ls money. imore American: It is probable that a majority of the intelligent members of the’ Church of England would welcome separa- tion of church and state were it not for the temporary storm it would cause. With separation there would come to the church the vitality and vigor which it now lacks and which every other church in the United Kingdom possesses. True religion does not need the favor of princes. Its strength resta in the hearts of the worshipers. MODERN CONVENIENCES. ffeot of Tel ural Mail and Trolley Lines on Villages. Indianapolis Journal. Telephones, rural mail routes, interurban and trolley lines have had the effeot, it is said, of making small villages more quiet than formerly. A little cross-roads sett ment, with a general store, a postoffice, & blackemith mm and a doctor’s office as its chlst iz mot at any time a very nv.ly center, but. the coming and going of the persons with affairs to transact at these places create whatever stir there is and at timés bring about the ap- pearance of considerable activity. But now that the farm telephone has come into use its owner does not “‘hitch up” and go t6 the village as formerly to do his errands. He telephones to the storekeeper his order for goods and asks him to send them out by trolley or by the first man traveling that way; he consults the doctor over the telephone and talks with his friend in the village in the same. way. brought to his gate, and thus relie; of the mecessity of a daly trip. lations with the blacksmith remain un- changed, for no way has been yet devised whereby that useful personage can shoe & horse or mend a wagon without having horse and vehicle present. But these needs are mot of dally occurrence, and so it hap- pens that the little street or opem square which was wont to seem almost crowded with horses and vehicles at certaln hours every day or on certain days in the week now often wears a deserted look and the residents are consclous of a sense of loneli- ness. They say, too, that when once & man gets on a trolley car with intent to make & purchase he passes by the little country store and goes to & larger town, and that this is particularly true of his wife or daughter on similiar errand. All this is & natural but rather curious de- velopment following the extended use of modern conveniences, and what remedy the village has is not pl Its only hope is apparently to establish attractions of & soclal or educational nature that will off- set the' loss in other directions and will draw its rural neighbors there far amuse- ment and entertainment. KINDLINESS OF NEWSPAPERS. Forbearing Courtesy Exemplified in e News Columnas. 8t. Louls Republic. “It sounds a thunderin’ sight bigger,” reniarks the sage of the Albany (Mo.) Ledger, “to say that ‘Mr. So-and-So ac- copted a position,’ than to say he nearly ran his legs off and told forty lHes to- get it.” Ia this reflection is truth of a kind so homely that it cannot fail to approve itselt to the average man. When we come to think of it, this trick of tactful expression is & great thing in the world. It is more largely instrumental fin the making of reputations than any other ome influence, perhaps; especially in the case of those who are mot really forceful persons, bul who have the knaok of keeping themselv: in the public eye by conventional methods: In no department of the world's work does this truth more vividly impress itself upon the observant mind than in that of the daily newspaper, which ia commonly be- Meved to be & cynical sert of institution, wearfed of life's humbugs and disposed to distllusionment. Yet it is the forbearing courtesy of the daily newspaper which fs peculiarly and logically responsible for making the reputstion of thousands who would otherwise have lived unknown and, justly er unjustly, obscure. The further truth is due to the fact of the frequency with which personal mention of the most casual description is necessary, and to the solicitude with which a news- paper every individual in the best possible Mght before ita readers. In this polite treatment of the averdge citizen by the average newspaper lies the secret of the vast majority of established reputations In every community. These thoughts are respectfully sub- mitted to the attention of that Illogical olass 0. prone to the fallacy of abusing the dally press for alleged cyuiclsm and indifference to worthy achlevement. A newspaper is not only invariably glad to acclaim such achievement, but errs, it anything, on the side of kindly mention of the most ordinary effort. The plain truth is that the dally press is good-natured and charitable beyond the usual run of things. ‘Without exception, save where its duty demands the harsher method in protecting the public ifrom intentional imposture, it prefers to record that “Mr. So-and-So sccepted & position” rather tham te pro- claim the bald truth that “he mearly ram his logs off snd told forty lles to get it* PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The redsheaded girl and the white auto« mobile have made their appearance in the east. They are conceded to be a warm pair, Milwaukee pays & tender two-column to the growth of the schooner, t it the schooner that made Mil- waukee famous? n Money Is so plentiful in Cleveland that solled bills are spurned. Fastidious peo- ple who are in the swim very properly in- sist on clean currency. Prayer might have had something to do with It, but prayeriess newspapers give antiseptic surgery the credit for making the coronation possible. ‘There is compemsation for the hard coal pinch hereabouts in the fact that Jersey people are now paying $9 a tom for it The coal trust started in New Jersey. A full-blooded Sloux Indian, formerly of North Dakota, has been chosen leader of a white man's band at Carlisle, Pa. Once more poor Lo is in position to give poetlo license the hoarse toot. A Texas woman with a grievance says she will shoot Gemeral Chaffee as soon as can draw a bead on him. Meanwhile promises to keep her hand In by ooting off her mouth." A trust has been formed to control the output and the price of stogles and cheroots. | If the worst comes, communi- th can vigorously enforce the laws t smoke nulsances. Menelek, king of Abyssinta, is about ta start on & tour of Europe and Intends visite ing every ccurt on the coptinent if the gov- ernment of Great Britain, to which he owes allegidnce, will permit him. A man who claims to be 104 years of age says that outdoor life and freedom from worry constitute the recipe for long life. It is an easy as well as pleasant task to give advice after one has hobbled over the rockiest part of the road. General Manager Schwab bought an in- dependent steel company for $7,500,000 the other day and then watered the plant to the tune of $26,000,000, Perhaps Mr. Schwab could be Induced to try his marvelous talent as an Irrigator om the semi-arid Chicago Tribune. ‘‘Gone over to thi Seventh Day Mvcnmu. have you? Swhat 1s Your resson for that? word il it gives ma tn:o Ssbbaths in the and you can't have ons ¥ e too much of a Puck: Hcr lolhn—-!eu must’ be pa- vent with him The I know it will take tims far Bith 1o 505 that e van's have his own way. - New York Sun: Harry—Don't you re- member that when we were engaged last summer we cut our Initials on that tree Marjorie—Oh, that's a chestnut. - Mintie—I'l she marri er. Douol Free Pross: bet ayme s sorry airead that llltt Iplndlln' floorwal lie—Wh: Hlnuo—l.oo‘ at his delicate little hlndl What use 'll he when it comes to screwin’ up tnllt Jul bave a baby now, udh. fil h( b:r.llr can fi fll a g en_some, one Daby; he's welcome Yo all he can Phlladelphia Preu “ll ou refuse me," fead. M9, g{ not Tive withe lth b o g - va oul "Wll t‘o I' llmgly 3'\4:- iy g ork, 0d position there?" ad when I saw him last. hammock with the daughir of A Briggs—What sort of a fellow is Puck: Wéllovlnlp?‘ & x ~ on t I\fl'- 've o pe him when he FADING LIGHT OF DAY, ' Marion Harmon 1n Boston Transcript. “Jenny, gather up the scraps, and Heity, SA.IIy. D\X‘h fll. ullh back and tidy up the No'l Ih. time, ‘twixt day and dark, to e the movn meks Tesdy by the ‘make lght of day. ooy b¥ tading “Come, my boys, bring in the split ) klndllnf Rotod \and some water from ‘the spring and feed the walting kine Y“’“ not need the 1!!!(!“1, lads, the twi- e ma. Clear -"r;dn[r aste and you wi nish the fadl, 8 ehnd yeu Py the fading Thus the dear housemother spake, still ‘busy all the while, Helping 'x!rln snd cheering boys with gentle and smile, ™ the s were ended and the sons L d.ulhun ol A ered round lace b; s 2P e ¥ the fading leln.rod. scattered, fa d wide 3 *'lands, and deadl . 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