Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1902, Page 14

14 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1902 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEr E. ROBEWATER, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. y Bee (without SBunday), One Year..$4.00 Bee ana sunday, Une ¥ s Une ¥ Yea: Bdturday bee, X “Aweatleth Century Farmer, Une Yea DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ily Bee (without SBunday), per copy... 3¢ MBeo (without Bunaay), per weex...lic y‘:n, bee une’srrau" unday), per week..lic Lvening Isee LwIthout Bunday), per week 3 e "(ncluding Surday) 2 e e larities in deliver: to City Clreulation 1 adaressea OFFICES. sonny—’nx Bee Bullding, uth Omaha—_ity Hall Buflding, Twen- ty-Aith and M Council Isluits—10 Pearl Street. &mcuo—lm Unity Bullaing. sh be Dvl;:un- Streets. ew York—Temple Court. ashington—awl Kourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to and edl- torlal_matter should be addressed: Umaha Mee, Baitorial Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: ‘Lhe Hee Publishing Lom- pany, Umi REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, paysvle to The Bee Publishing Company. nly Z-cent Stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Fersonai checks, except on WmahA or eastern exchanges, not acceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s Jeorge B. Taachick, secretary of r Publ ing Company, says that the actual number of fuil und complete coples of The Laily, Mornin Evening aud Sunday Hee printed duri y 3 3 Bee being duly sworn, month of July, 103, was as iollows: EEERNRREEREESES GEO. Subseribed in sence and & betore me this nn-'u'"‘ st gy 4, 1 s { ‘Notary Pubile. E——eey Theodore, jr., must have ambition to be something of a Nimrod himself. e From external signs the caal trust ap- pears to be determived to revive the popularity of the backyard woodpile. Ohicago puplls required lo-clrry bolled drinking water to school with. them will be acquiring the bottle habit early. e * @Governor Savage might learn a lesson from the parrot that achieved wisdom svhen it discovered that it talked too much. ¥ The only thing missing at the Jack- sonlan outdoor blowout seems to have been the presence of Saint Jackson him- self, Before many days the foot ball will ‘be inviting both the golf stick and the tenuis racquet to go way back and sit down. King Corn may be a trifle backward, but he may be depended on to push his way to the front before Jack Frost gets too lively, aE————— No well-behaved oyster that observes calendar etiquette will make his debut ‘before tomerrow ushers in the month of September. e—mE— Those naval sham battles are great things for war correspondents, who were on the verge of losing their places n the public eye. S e—— With men azain trying to swim the British chaunnel, we may expect soon a few more foolhardy attempts to shoot over Nlagara falls. e An asbestos mine has been discovered in Michigan. It should be at once transplanted to the viclnity of Pelee it 1t is to be put ‘to its fullest usefulness. = In his quest of rest from worry Steel Magnate Schwab has immolated himself in the quletude of Paris, When he wants rest from Parisian diversion, he ‘will eome home. — 1t s asserted that the striking anthra- tite coal miners can hold out all winter, But what about the consumers of an- thracite coal? How many of them can withstand an all-winter siege? Governor Savage says the tempter wrote on the paper pad $7,500 as an offer for four police commission appoint- ments. The governor must be mistaken. The figures plainly mean $75.00. Spme—eaasemys Henry Watterson has now gotten mround to the point In the democratic game where he is calling for a new deal and a new deck, on the ground “ghat the old cards are thumbmarked. 1t ex-Senal tor David B. HIll is really the whole thing In the New York state democratic machine this year, New Hork will not be found on the 1002 map carried by Golonel Wil- Wem J. Bryan. Ene——— exacting indemnity from the for damages indlicted on Ameri- missionartes, the United States can iguore the complaints of mis- treatment of Chinese subjects in this The golden rule is the basic of international relations. e ! of the glassware combine by finishiug up her jellles and preserves before the LIFT THAT CleAR BUX LID. During the criminal trial of former State Treasurer Joseph 8. Bartley it was brought out in the testimony that Bart- Jey kept in a cigar box a large number of uncollectible notes, due bills and 1. 0. U.s for cash advanced to various parties of more or less prominence in politieal and business circles, who had borrowed from him money taken out of funds belonging to the state. For some reason never yet explained, the names of these parties and the amounts they respectively owed to Bartley, or rather to the state, have never been divulged. It is an open secret, however, that Bartley while in prison threatened from time to time to take the lid off that cigar box unless he was granted a pardon, It is to be presumed, of course, that this historie cigar box was In some safe hid- Ing place up to the time Governor Sav- age gave him an unconditional pardon, but whether Bartley was liberated on condition that he would burn up or tear up the telltale notes, due bills or L O. J.s in consideration of his liberation is still a state secret. The only man besides Bartley who claims to know positively that this box contains damaging proofs of ecriminal colluelon with the great embezzler is Ezra P. S8avage, governor of the state of Nebraska. In the letter recently ad- dressed to the editor of The Bee Gov- ernor Savage says: There are many skeletons in that much mooted clgar box that may at some future time cause feelings such as some people experience while walking through a grave- yard at the dead hour ‘of the night. Now, inasmuch as Governor Savage has proclaimed to all the world over his signature as chief executlve of this staie, that he knows the contents of the “mooted cigar box,” which would cause such fright to some men as would the apparition of a ghost when graveyards yawn, the people of this state have a right to demand that the governor take the lid off that box so that they may know the contents and the prosecuting officers of the state may have the oppor- tunity to institute proceedings for the recovery of the lost money from such of the beneficiaries of Bartley's embezzle- ment as are able to pay and bring to Justice through criminal prosecution such others as have been In collusion with the embesngler. Of all the officers in the state who are expected to enforce the rights of the state against beneficlaries of defaulters and embezzlers, and who is in duty bound to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law men gullty of this crime, is the chiet executive, who 1s sworn to ex- ecute the law et ihe axe fail where it may. If Governor Bavage wilfully con- ceals the truth from the people and has purposely and deliberately entered into a compact with anybody to suppress the truth concerning the beneficlaries of state embezzlement he Is equally culpa- ble with them. Such conduct constitutes an impeachable offense that also would subject him to be brought before the bar of justice as an accessory to the erime. While Ezra P. Savage will cease to occupy the executive chair by the time the next legislature convenes be is nev- ertheless impeachable for misdemeanors in office, and the penalty of removal from office, which is the maln object of the impeachment, could not be Inflicted, the second penalty, of perpetual disfran- chisement, can be Imposed so that an ex- ample may be set for the coming genera- tion that no man occupying the high po- sitioi of governor shall dare to disregard the sacred obligations imposed upon the chief maglstrate of a great common- wealth, LABOR HERE AND ABROAD. Mr. James R. Keene. the well known finavcier, who bas just returned from an extended visit to Europe, says the condition of the laboring classes In Huu- gary, Austria and part of Germany s really pitiful. The rate of wages barely admits of existence and when he saw tbe workmen in those countries he wondered what we would do without a tariff, = “America is the paradise of earth,” declared Mr. Keene. “Here is the greatest return offered to the man who has muscle or brain to market. Here 18 the place for the man of ambi- tion to discover that energy and worth find their way to the top more suddenly than anywhere else on earth.” This statement of a man of large and careful observation should command tlc attention of Amwmerican workingmen. The more intelligent of them of course know that labor is better rewarded u the United States than in any other country. They know that the wage worket has greater respect here than in any other land. But do they generally appreciate why this 1s so? ' Forty-ive years ago labor in this country was in about the condition that labor is now in most of the countries of Europe. It was not steadily employed and it was poorly paild. In 1835 Horace Greeley wrote: “The cry of hard thmes reaches us from every part of the country. The making of roads is stopped, factories are closed and houses and ships are no longer being bullt. Factory hands, rondmakers, carpenters, bricklayers and laborers are idle and paralysis 18 rap- idly embraciug every pursuit in the country. The cause of all this stop- page of girculation is to be found in the steady outflow of gold to pay foreign laborers- for the cloth, the shoes, the iron and the other things that conld be produced by American labor, but which cannot be so produced under our pres- ent revenue system.” Then the country had a “tariff for revenue only,” which not only falled to yleld suficient revenue to meet the ox- penditures of the government, but kept the industries prostrated. In his mes- sage to congress In 1857 President Bu- chanan thus presented the situation: “With unsurpassed plenty in all the productions and all the elements of natural wealth our manufacturers have suspended, our public works are re- tarded, our private enterprises of dif- ferent kinds are al and thou- sands of useful laborers are thrown out of ewployment and reduced to waut. We have possessed all these elements of material wealth in rich abpndance, and yot, notwithstanding all these ad- vantages, our country, in Its monetary Interests, is in a deplorable condition.” One of the severest panics the country ever experienced was in 1857 and it was particularly disastrous to labor. There were bread riots in New York and some other cities and destitution and suffer- ing among the laboring classes was general. A change came with the Inauguration of the economic poliey of the republican party and it Is needless to point out what has been accomplished under the operation of that policy for American industries and American labor. All In- telligent men are familiar with it and it is this which the wage workers need to bear in mind when they are appealed to to strike down or serlously impair that policy. Labor conditions In the United States may not be In all cases what could be desired. Improvement in some respects is to be wished for. But on the whole American labor Is vastly better off In every way than is labor In any other part of the world and this is one of the beneficent results of the policy which has made the United States first among the industrial nations. SEWING MACHINES, PLANUS, WATCHKS. The brilliant genluses who constitute the rdilroad tax bureau have thrown out a paralyzer in Bulletin No. 45, which embodies an exhibit of the ridiculously low assessment of certaln classes of personal property, including sewing ma- chines, planos and melodeons, watches and clocks and billlard tables. Taking the returns for the year 1900 and the assessment for that year, the bureaucrats call attention to the fact that the total assessment of all sewing machines aggregated only $200,314, each sewing machine belng assessed at $2.82, while the aggregate assessment of planos was $281,666, or $22.16 per plano; the aggregate assessment of melodeons and organs was $141,986, or $5.82 each, and the aggregate assessment of watches and clocks was $120,833, or $1.76 each; 'billlard tables, $9,506, or $12.08 each. These figures would seem ridiculously low at first sight, but upon close in- spection they afford no proof of the alle- gation that the ratio of assessment of these articles Is from one-fifteenth to one-twentleth of their actual value. At the ratio of one-sixth, sewing machines assessed for $2.82 are presumed to have an average actual value of $16.92. Planos assessed for $22.16 have an average value of $122.06, mslodeons as- sessed for $5.82 have an average value of $20.10, watches and clocks assessed at §1.76 an average value of $10.56, and billiard tables assessed at $12.08 would be presumed to have an average value of $72.36. Now remember that all these articles are second-hand, many of them almost used up and worthless except for what they would bring as old metal or kindling wood. We venture to assert that the sewing machines appraised for an average of $16.19 can be replaced at that price new, if purchased at the fac- tory at wholesale. We venture to sert that a public sale of the second- hand planos in this state would come nowhere near bringing $132.96 aplece, nor would second-hand melodeons sell for $20.10, on the average. As to watches and clocks, there are thousands in this state that were bought by thelr owners at retail for a good deal less than $10.56. The very best of clocks can be bought at from $3 to §6 aplece, and, while $10.56 would not buy a gold watch with a Howard movement, it will buy half a dozen ‘Waterbury nickel case watches or brass watches dipped in gilding fluid. To the rallroad tax agent $72.36 may appear ridiculously low for a billlard table, but if all the billard tables in Nebraska were put up at auction we doubt very much whether the bureau- crats would be willing to buy them in for $50 aplece. It the theory of the rallroad tax jugglers s correct, how- ever, all of these commodities are as- sessed at only one-tenth of their actual value, which would make the purchase price of second-hand sewing machines $28.20, the average of second-hand planos $221.80, the average of secoud- hand organs and melodeons $52.50, the average value of second-hand billfard tables §120.60 and the average value of second-hand clocks and watches $17.60. Just advertise, if you please, that the rallroads will buy up all the second-hand watches and clocks, sewing wachines, billiard tables, planos and melodeons in Nebraska at that price, and ‘we ven- ture to assert that all the empty ware- houses In Omaba could not hold the §0ods that would be at the disposal of the rallroads at those prices. But the railroads, instead of belng assessed at one-sixth or one-tenth of their actual value, are assessed at about one-thir- teenth of thelr actual value, And this s why the state board of raliroad assessment should be recon- vened to do justice to the taxpayers, who are overtaxed for the benefit of the rallroads whose property has been out- rageously undervalued by it. e ———————— SEERING SELK-PRUTECTION. There appears to be no doubt that the British government s most earnestly seeking a plan to protect its shipping luterests in the Atlantic trade against the operations of the Morgan combine. It is manifestly not an easy problem, but there seems to be a profound con- viction that it is absolutely necessary to find some solution and the govern- ment is sald to be bending all its ener- gles to this end. According to the latest advices there is intense interest in the question and a disposition is being shown among those most directly con- cerned and whose irfiuence Is undoubt- edly great to adopt an aggressive policy toward the American combine. The threat is even made of golug so far as to make a commercial war against this country, but it is not at all probable that the British government can be Induced to go to any such extreme as that, so dependent 1s the United Kingdom npon this country for its foodstuffs. The plans of the British government in the matter are not yet perfected, but the expectation is that they speedily will be and when ready they will be an- nounced to Parllament. There will be hardly less futerest In their character here than in England, since it is quite possible that they will necessitate some radical changes in the policy of the At- lantie shipping combine. Meanwhile there 18 no reason to apprehend anything that might serfously disturb commercial relations between Great Britain and the United States. e——— ALFRED D. JONES. The death of Alfred D. Jones, although stayed untll he had reached a ripe old age, far in excess of the allotted three- score years and ten, is an event of more than passing moment In the current his- tory of Omaha's progress. In the birth of the city Alfred D. Jones towered above all others. As the engineer who staked out the lines for the townsite that was to become the future metropolls of Nebraska, he builded far better than be knew. While much importance has been attached to the fact that he was Omaha's first post- master and literally carried the post- office about with him in the lining of his hat, It was as one of the sturdy ploneers who lald the foundations of the preseni city that his chiet glory redounds. Mr. Jones must have had an almost prophetic vision of the twentleth cen- tury city when he made a first map and labeled it Omaba City. Streets 100 feet wide to accommodate the rushing traf- fic of busy marts of commerce, blocks divided into lots of liberal dimensions, affording room for commodious store buildings and dwellings, public squares conspicuously reserved for public build- ings and centrally located parks for beauty and recreation—all platted on the treeless prairie before a single white inhabitant was on the ground—what could better {llustrate the broad ideas and expansive projects of the builders of our city? That Mr. Jones should have lived to see so much of his early vislon realized in the creation of the Omaha of today must have been his life’s greatest satis- faction. The high esteem in which he has always been held by the community and the honor paid him by his associ- ates in those ploneer undertakings, most of whom have preceded him to the great beyond, are tributes to his worth ren- dered while he was living which cannot be enhanced now that he is dead. Suf- fice it to say, the nama of Alfred T Jones will always be inseparably inter- woven with the history of Omal in which it plays a most notable part. E————— THE AMERICAN FARMER. Addressing the :armers of Maine President Roosevelt sald that while as a necessary effect of the growth of indus- trialism the cities and towns have in- creased in population more rapldly than the country districts, “yet it remains true now, as it has always been, that in the last resort the country districts are those in which we are surest to find the old American spirit; the old American habits of thought and ways of living.” He sald that almost all of our presidents have been brought up in the country and that the forces which made these farm-bred boys leaders of men when they had come to their full man- hood are still at work in our country districts, There has been change and progress in farming and farm life. The farmers of the country have grown more and more to realize new conditions and farming has, tended more and more to take its place as an applied sclence, “but after all this has been sald,” declared Mr. Roosevelt, “it remains true that the countryman, the man on the farm, mors than any other of our citizens today, is called upon continually to exercise the qualities which we like to think of as typieal of the United States throughout its history—the qualities of rugged in- dependence, masterful resolution and in- dividual energy and resourcefulness.” The life of the farmer I8 passed in healthy surroundings, which tend to de- velop a high type of citisenship, and moreover in the country the conditions are such as to allow a closer touch be- tween man aud man than i found to be the case in the city—'‘men feel move vividly the underlying sense of brother- hood, of community of interest.” This recognition of the qualities and character of the farmers of America s entirely correct. As a whole they pre- sent a type of citizenship which is ad- mirable and unquestionably exerts a wholesome influence. In loyalty and pa- triotism the people of the country dis- tricts are at least equal to the people of the cities and towns, while in Integrity and the other virtues they are on the whole superior. There is far more in- telligence, also, among the people in the country than they are commonly cred- ited with and the farming communities are steadily progressing in this respect. As agriculture is the basis of prosperity, 80 Is it true that the agricultural pro- ducers are & most potent factor in American citizenship and their influence is largely for what is best in citizenship —a due respect for law, performance of the duties and obligations of the citizen, devotion to the government and a care- ful regard for those principles which are essential to right soclal conditions. e——————— The bald assertion is made that more than 20 per cent of the teachers in the Chieago public schools are incompetent and should be dismissed from the serv- ice. The Omaha plan of planting sis- ters, cousins and dependents of board members and people with a pull must prevall, only t6 & much more extensive degree, over in Chicage. ] Superintendent Machen of the rural free delivery division of the Postoffice department declares that he can pee no Hmit to the extension of the delivery sys- tem until the entire rural population within reach of a general postofiice re- celves its bepefits. The persistent de- mand for rural free delivery in all parts of the country Is the distinguishing mark of the present era of postal prog- ress. Just as the rate of postage has never been raised again after reduction, 80 the area of free postal delivery Is bound to keep on enlarging and never contracting. Here Is a prescription for success given by George W. Perkins, now one of the head partners in the J. Plerpont Morgan firm, who a few years ago was visiting Omaba as the western repre- sentative of a big Insurance company: Too many young men in this country do not want to work hard. They prefer to take things easy—stay up too la: d e abed too late in t They never can get ahead in that w Times and ¢onditions may change, but the old rule remains, that there is no success without everlastingly keeping at it The young man who has allowed him- self to be persuaded that all the op- portunities to rise in the world have been blocked by modern industrial de- velopment will profit by reading this ovér several times and pondering on it. Putting it on Providence. Baltimore American. The coal mines, be it known, 14 by divine right. This puts the increased coal bill in such a light that it may be called a dispensation of Providence. Advantage of Knowing How. Saturday Evening Post. Spitting on the bait don't catch bass if you dan't know how to cast; and spitting on your hands won't make money {f you don't know how to use them. Royal Ro Precaution. Chicago Chronicle. King Kewanika of Basutoland has gone home from the coronation, taking with him six plug hats. His experience in London with what Dr. E. njamin Andrews calls “nights of hilarity” has no doubt inspired his majesty with the desire to have a varied collection of headgear for next morn- ing's wear. Science Scores Again. Baltimore American. Great are the triumphs of science! By removing the goat's horns set on silver plates in & man's head a wild monster was transformed into a most peaceable and elv- 1lized being. It may be incidentally men- tioned that the wild man had already ad- vanced sufficiently to eivilization to make a fortune out of his artificlally produced borns. s of Crowns. It seems that King Edward was eo un- accustomed to wearing a crown that he bumped It pretty hard when getting Into a carriage on the day of the coromation, and it is now being repaired. If the crown never gets any worse bumps than that the king wiii be iucky. Before ihie of the present tury quite a number o crowns are likely to be bumped out of ex- istence. “Eeonomics” that Me: ‘Washington Star. ‘The beef trust declares that the distrid- uting compapy about to be organized will save hundreds of thousands of dollars an- nually by abolishing branch houses. If the public shared in the benefit of this ar- rangement it might be regarded with more favor. As it is, the beef trust's saving must be regarded as less important than the losses of the people who will be thrown out of business. A PATHETIC TABLEAU. Losses. Historic Episodes Reproduced in Mock Naval War. Philadelphla North American. It must be left to the military experts to explain the lessons of the mimic naval operations on the New England ¢oast. The problems involved are necessarily too pro- found and complex for the migd of the layman. In due time the techniclans will let in the light so that even the untrained eye may see. But in the meantime there is one inci- dent that must appeal irresistibly to the 76,000,000 and odd throbbing hearts of the American people. In the whole history of this great free natfon there i nothing finer, It is the scene at the surremder of Commander Pillsbury to Admiral Higgin- son. This is the way it is described by one who survived to tell the story: “Commander Pillsbury, after he had sig- naled his surrender, passed In from Prairie, walked up the gangway of Kearsarge and offered his sword to Admiral Higginson. * ‘Keep your sword, sir,’ sald the senlor officer, his voice quavering a bit in spite of himself. ‘I would not accept the sword from so gallant a foe.' “‘And I, sir,’ responded Pillsbury, with dignity, ‘could not surrender to a mobler or better officer, sir.’” Here met two Americans. Note the tremolo in the victorious admiral's volce #s he chivalrously refuses to mccept the sword of Pilisbury, still proud and im- perturbable In defeat. This is, indeed, the tragedy of opera bouffe war. NEWSPAPER GROWTH. es Reveal the Changed Ci tions of Fifty Years. Weed, Raymond—the grand “‘w school—were in & small gompany when Bennett, * of the old they virtually ruled public opinfon. There wi only 254 dally papers in existence in 1860. Today they are 3,226, 850 the combined circulation of the papers was 768,464, while In 1900 the cireulation of the 2,226 was 15,102,166, The aggregate num- ber of coples lssued dufing the year 1850 was 426,409, while in 1900 it was 8,168, - 148,749, It st be admitted that this th in eireulation tollowed & dn of the newspaper. A half century ago no states- man felt secure unless he had the ed- itorial support of the papers. The press @14 not then, now, express and lead public opini ut formed it. Today the highest calling of the newspaper is to truthtully furnish the news. No dally can make editorial expression the leading fea- ture and survive. Rallroad, telegraph cable have made communication so easy that the desire of the people for the latest of the bet- With the betterm tacllities the weekly press has falled to keep pace with the dally. From 1880 to 1590 the jncrease in the dally was 25.9 per cent, while the increase in weekly circula- nt between last tion dropped from 26.7 per d 1800 to 14.7 per cemt was §192,443,708 invested in Dews- papers and periodicals in 1900. They had 27579 salaried employes, who received $27,015,791, and 94,604 wage earners, who received 350,833,061. Materisl cost $50, 214,004 and the money value of the prod- ucts $222,982.669. There I8 no way of computing the actual value of the product in promoting advancement and saving the cost of mistakes which ighorance makes at every turm. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Chieago Chronie! A Cleveland clergy- man who declines a nomination for con- gress undoubtedly Je Inspired by the well- founded apprehension that there i not! enough saving grace in stook to carry him through a political campaign. Brooklyn Eagle: Out in Indla they do not | Iike missionaries, It is learned, because the | natives think Christianity is something that | destroys, In view of ovents In China and | of the conduct of Christian hunters in India | and overywhere else, 1s It any wonder they think that? Indianapolis Journal: 'There was enough truth In the temen of a preacher at Winona lake to set peaple thinking, at lqast He sald: “The way to get rid of gamble; drunkards and dudes is not to raise them, and that “Anarchy is not born In Hay- market square, but in the houses in which boys are not taught to obey their parent There may be something in parental influ- ences, but a vast majority of criminals be- come 80 through bad environments and bad training. . St. Louls Globe-Democrat: It wasn't a bromide, or a tonle, or ‘“cucumbers,” or “ stion,” or anythingat all that Is usually alleged, that was the matter with Rev. Sam Small at Brattleboro, Vt., and Rev. Sam Small bravely, frankly and hon- estly says It wasn't, for which at least let us give him the credit of manliness. Be sure that In looking upon the highball when it giveth Its color in the cup your sin wiil find you out, espectally If you are a minis- ter of the gospel. Those who undertake to teach morals as a profossion must stand unshielded in the white light. Chicago Record-Herald: Kansas is now producing some of the most wonderful preachers that over hurled a varled assort- ment of Englieh from the pulpit. One of these expounders of the word recently en- deavared to give his hearers &n jdea of the length of eternity, and this is the way he did it: “If a llttle sparrow were to dip its bill in the Atlantic ocean and take one drop of water and then take one hop a day across the country and put that drop in the Pacific ocean, and then hop back to the Atlantic, one hop a day, until the Atlantic was dry as a bonme, It wouldn’t be sun-up in hell.” It may be possible that some irreverent people will decline to accept the Kansas preacher as an authority on eter- nity, but we must admit that he helps us to & realization of the fact that time can keep going a long while without coming to stop, once it has got fairly started. Still, it 1s hard to belleve that the bird would hold out under the conditions named. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, 1If the coal trust leaves any spare change about the household this fall, the broom trust just organized will sweep it up. cause At & time of mad Infatuation the help Jess man agrees to take the woman for be ter or worse, belleving there can be | worse. The ‘complete bearings of this declsion ean only be fully realized when it fs con- sidered that the court makes no reservation and lays down no limitation. It coldly tells the husband he took the wife for better or ftor woree and without any conditions either way. It she is all “better,” that is bis good fortune and what he bar- galned for. If she Is 'worse,” that s his misfortune, but still he gets what he bargained for. This being the legal view of the situa- ton in New York, young persons in that state contemplating marriage should give the matter serious consideration, especially young men of a thrifty and economical dis- position, lest “the evil days come,” when ave no pleasure in them. ible to devise reg- ular business contracts which should defiue Just what degrees of “worse' the man muat but up with. Hard times are coming for the tyrant man. DOMESTIO PLEASANTRIES, Harper's Bazar: The Old Man—Young man, Wwhen you take my dwughter, T trust ou with the dearest treasure of my life. 0, 1 couldn't lend you m‘ auto for a little spin. 1 valye it too highly to risk it in strange hands. Judge: Mrs. Doreas—Winy is Mrs. Garsby #0_glad she hasn't any cufidren? Dorcas—It gives her more time to attend those mothers’ mgetings. trolt Free Press: He-Her rich uncle give (hem & magnificent wedding present She—What was it? He—A ton of coal. Phllndelplhla Lads at a bargain sale today. Belle—Did you see anything that looked 1 cheap? TN el Yes; several men waiting for thelr wives. Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘‘Yes, I'm en- couraging my daughter to keep company with that Arctlc explorer.” “What's the reason “He'll be able to stand it in the parlor without any fire next winter. sston Transcript: Harry—To tell the truth, T don't belleve Allce ever cared for Nell-1 stopped in e. mllnrrlel—Non:vnne! What put that idea into your head? iy 1 know what I'm talking about. How otherwise do you account for it that she remembers everywhere we went on our honeymoon? Baltimore America all business cares for the future, n""‘fl'l‘fi“[“l’tnr that I have not yet accumu- lated sufficient money,” protests the muiti- ™ Why, sy dear sir. you have enough money fo pay physiclans’ fees for the rest of your life!” Brooklyn Life: “Really, Louise, this bill Is outrageous ~You musint try to dress onalre e '"-‘~'m‘y""ifi.'r“ Ned, control yourself. I'm A Massachusetts woman wants $100,000 from a Chicago man for breach of promise. The Chicago gallant must have broken off @ large chunk of the ice. The old Mississippl is low at one point and high at another. As the game pro- ceeds people look on with fear and sorrow, but are unable to change the déck. Grand Duke Boris. a recent aristacratio . visitor to Chicago, utilized a chorus girl's slipper for a wine glass. A tub could not be had, and the ducal thirst would not brook delay. i A fish made of feathers is the latest mil- linery adornment. When women take to fish stories, it behooves the disciples of ‘Walton to forsake the purling brook and scoot for timber. It is somewhat ungallant to intimate that the fair ones are charged with hot alr, but the way they melt ice cream these glorious evenings gives the affirma. tive side several laps the best of the argu- ment. The elegantly appolnted office of the Bank- ers’ trust of Chicago are In charge of the sheriff. The company by some means scooped in $120,000 trom gullible people and burned most of it. The officers have joined the host of mysterious disappearances. { Bastern papers are making much noise hy nt of the Missourl stream. Yet the old Muddy is not convulsed by the news. It meanders now very much as it did for cen- turies, only that its romantic banks are| eir attractions for the federal “‘pork bar’l. There are occaslons when money talks without results. “I will pay $100,000 to any one who can save my life,” exclaimed & man mortally injured by a rallroad train Pittsburg. The doctors rolled up their vés and worked as never before, but in vain. The grim reaper refused to honor the draft. ™ 7o A floating financier with an abundance of nerve for capital camped in a small town in Indiana, opened up a savings bank with an eloquent sign and a coplous safe. The townspeople were greatly pleased by the enterprise of the stranger, took him to ir bosoms, #o to speak, and opened their safety deposit socks. They fell over each other to get their money in the pri- vate bank. As soon as the mew banker recovered from the rush of business he emptied the contents of the safe into a gripsack and started on a vacation. He is vacstioning yet. Meanwhile the plucked Hooslers are exuding sufficient caloric to ripen the corn crop. FOR BETTER OR WORSE. “Hard Times Are Coming for the Tyrant Man.” Chicago Tribune A decision has just been handed down in the appellate division of the New York su- preme court which declares in effect that gross extravagance and even forgery com- mitted by a wife to raise money do not con- stitute cause for a limited divorce even in In discussing the case, Justice Spring said: “A husband takes a wite for better or worse, and because she does not conform her expenditures to his notions of economy is not & ground for casting her from hi Several other sigmificant decisions have fecently been made in that state. One firmed the right of the wife to open and read her husband's letters. Another justified her in taking snakes to bed with her. Still another was that & husband must put up ith & singing servant girl if his wite made complalnt. And it was only the other y that a judge promounced the husband bad no right to spank his wife when she misbebaved. In the case first mentioned the highest tribunal in the state for the first time has opened wide the doors of domestic unhappiness and discord, and Invited the wite to go in and do her worst, merely be- only trying to appear as well dressed &s the shop girls.” Philadelphia Anne Teek (blushing) to put his arm under float in the surf today, wouldn't hear of it Miss Somergal—Nonsense! too old to learn. Cathollc_ Standard: Miss Mr, Strong offered e_and teach me to of course, I One is never Chicagn Poet: “Are vou wolng to marry 7' asked the girl in white. g dn:’l knnw."‘lnlwered the girl in pink, “It would be dreadful if T married him and then found that that detestable Minnie Wiikins never really wanted him. 1| Jout One way for the oy man to et Tich Ia. to save money. 1 whose ————— FRIENDS—AND FRIENDSHIP. Arthur Chamberlain. Once on & tlme—xuhl Hurou: Alrrc‘hr: rII: (g~ ted each other af {uB:nhd. famed throu.g:\n the state. “Oh, friend,” the first exclaimed, “‘now, say Why sleam your eves 80 bright ‘today, While mine are filled with tears thi my beard amon a friend most dear many a year, Ir Kandal Who now has come my lot to share, My thoughts, my house, my work, “Ay " cried the first, “‘my friend has gone, ose tace I've dally lookea Forever from my sight he's Across Arabia's desert vast! Just then they heard the muezsin's call: “"Come, comc ‘o prayer!" from turret tall, And each, with ciosed ears and bowed head, “Allah il 'Allah! Kismet!" safd, Then parted; one with filying feef His thoughts on Intercour The other, slow. with stified g To muse upon his friend, alone, When some ten years had passed away The two men met again, one day; The solitary man seemed glad; The other, downcast, tired and sad. "Oh, friend,”” the first one cried, "I fear Ycu've lost the one you hold so dear! What else cpuld chance your joy to mar Ir. him, who came from Kandahar? “Alas!” the other cried, “‘we still Abide together and fulfiil The treadmill round of daily life; There is no bickering nor strife, All's courteous, civil, decent—yet 1 feel, deep down, a keen regret; He shares my house, my work, my fare, But In my thoughts he % ! You're glad today—your friend’s returned From o'er the desert?” “Nay, 1 yearned To see him; but I might not see; Yet well I knew his love for me And would not shame that love. To llve as though he stood beside To warn, to comfort and to bless; 8o grows our friendship more, not less." The other answered with ll‘lh. Just then, from out a turret high, The mueszin's volce rose clear and loud: "Combe. c:’me to praye Each head was owed, 1 tried And as the sun set, round and red, “Aliah {1 Allah! Kismet!" sald. Oh heed the moral weil, I pray! A friend AT §350d friendship atey, o) riendship fi ay. “Allah il Allah! Kisme! 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