Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 18

18 THE OMAHA DAILY BEHR: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1902, e e e e e ——————————Y “LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT." President McKinley’s Favorite Hymn. By Cardinal Newman. Lead, kindly Light! amid the encireling gloom, Lead thou me on; “The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on; Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for we. THE OMAm SUNDAY Bm l. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), Une Year..§.0 Daily Bee ana sunuay, Ui liustrated bee, Une Y ear. Bsunaay bee, Une Year Baturday Bee, Une Year, ‘T'wentieth Century rarme DELIVERED BY ¥ ARKIEK. Dally Bee (without Bunday), per copy. Dally Bee (Without Bunday), per week. .12 Daiiy Bee (ncluaing sutiuuy), per week. .lic Bunday Bee, per copy ... Evening Bee (withcu Bee [ ‘el Week b per e inday Kvenin Uncidaing Bunday), wnk . of irreguiariiigs In deiivery ahouid b ‘aadressed 1o vity &rcm.uon De- riment. o OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. 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Taschiick, secretary of Bee Pul g Company, being duly sworr, Gays that the actuil number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, 1002, was as follows: } G 28,000 | 28,820 20,350 | .. 89,770 | 30,380 | i 00 | 30,610 28,785 | lnd returned copiet . Net total sales. Net dally averag GEO. B. TZS8CHUCK. bscribed in my presence and sworn to this 1st da; c( !e Iembfl'. A. D, (Seal.) huury Publiz. Omaba people will show thelr colors | during the president’s visit. i Bryan democrats will readily credit the reports of a killing frost in Iowa. Revolutions seem to have no effect toward repressing ambitious aspiranty for the presidency in Haytl. \ 1t is not for hauling democratic pros- ‘perity that the railroads are ordering new locomotives by the hundred. | An expert advocates fire insurance for automobiles. Cyclone Insurance, we think, would be more appropriate. | Malne went not only republican but also prohibition. There is no necessary ‘ of the renomination of | most precious herituge of connection, however, between the two. By all means control evil-doing trusts and combinations) but it is not neces- sary or wise to smash universal indus- try. il No wonder President Roosevelt likens the trusts to the Mississippi river. He recalls the amount of water some of them contain. lowa democracy refused to have a silver resolution on the ground that it is a dead issue, and yet they put a Boer plank into their platform. 1t s worth poting that no sham battles are fought on the political fleld. In this country we bave the real thing often enough to keep in practice. e——— The Cuban legislature is going right ahead to authorize that issue of $35,- 000,000 of bonds. But the little detail of floating them may not be so easy. E———— ‘Wisconsin democrats in their platform pitch into Governor La Follette just the same as if they had not been con- stantly showering bouquets upon him the last two years. . The JIowa republican papers have wisely concluded to quit wrangling about the tariff at least till after a re- publican congress has been elected to deal with the matter. ii——— Everybody will approve of Colonel Bryan golng to Texas to hunt wildcats. That is better than the political wildcat schemes he has been exploiting in all the other states for yea If all the natural gas emitted by those West Indlan volcanoes had only been saved, to be served up for consumption as needed for winter warmth, the pros- pective coal famine would not appear so Wlscomforting. e The democratic committee in the Eleventh Towa district, after sweating over it for two weeks, Is still without & candidate for congress, and the legal time has nearly expired for filing nomi- nations. Nobody will consent to the sacrifice. e Colopel Bryan thinks Tom Johnson would be about right if he were ouly a little more staunch on the question of 16 to 1 free coinage. 1If pressed for an AN APPEAL TU BREAD WINNERS. The pressure which the allied rallroad corporations are bringing to bear upon wage workers, who are carried on their payroll, and the influence they are ex- erting upon heavy shippers to bring pressure upon their employes in support Congressman Mercer warrants an appeal to republican | bread winners. When a man hires out for so much a day or so much a month his employer recelves full value for his wages in mus- cle and brain power. In other words, the toller who works for wages barters ! away his time and labor, but he does not barter away his soul. The greatest insult that can be offered to the bread winner by the employer is a command to do violehce to his own conscience in the exercise of the elective franchise. In the dark ages when the tollers were the vassals of the landlord they were frequently asked the question, “Whose man are you,” but no American citizen will allow such a question to be asked without feeling just resentment. Omaha wage workers, whether they toil in the factory, packing house, machine shop or at headquarters are by rights entitled to exercise an untrammeled elective franchise in the interest of the state and in the interest of the masses of which they are an Integral part. The man who would allow himself to be coerced into voting against bis own consclentious convictions is no better than a slave. No greater calamity could befall the republic than the enslavement of the toilers by their taskmasters. The American freemen is the right to participate on rms with the richest man in the cholce of public servants from constable to congressman, and from assessor to governor, We feel sure that Omaha workingmen | will not ullow themselves to be driven | by corporate slave drivers into voting into office men who have nothing in common with the common people. . The crucial test of the courage and patri- otism of Omaha wage workers will come next Friday, when they are com- manded to fall into line for the renomi- nation of David H. Mercer, who has rendered invaluable service to the cor- porations and may be depended upon to represent them in the future as in the past regardless of the interests of the bread winners. e——— NATURAL LAW AS A TRUST REMEDY. Harper's Weekly, which is justly re- garded as an exponent of monopolistic theorles, jolns issue with President Roosevelt's notable pronouncement on trusts. The essence of the president's views, which e bus pressed upon pub- lic attention with such cogency and vigor in recent speeches in New Eng- land and elsewhere, 18 the need of na- tional supervision of overgrown and transgressing trade combinations, by act of congress, if that may be suffi- ctent, or by amendment of the consti- tution if necessary. And he therein em- phasizes with great impressiveness the duty to coerce, by national power and authority, such trusts and combinations as violate the rights of individuals or contravene the public good. For this Harper's Weekly stigmatizes the president advocating “state .in- terference with “the laws of nature, state opposition to a natural economic development,” and as endeavoring “to interfere with the laws of production and distribution.” It is always some other kind of a law than the law of the land that has charms for the champlon of lawless monopoly and the unre- strained power of wealth. Laws of na- ture are invoked. What natural law warrants or breathes life into a cor- poration? For it is out of corporations or combinations of corporations that arise the evils which the president is bravely and seriously challenging effort to rem- edy. A corporation is a purely artifi- clal body, the creature of legislation, every faculty and power of which origi- nates In explicit grant from the state— that is to say, in this country, at least, from the sovereign people. What kind of philosophy teaches that natural persons, every individual citizen, shall be hedged about and rigorously subjected to the rule of the state wherever his action infringes the rights of his fellows, but which would make a big corporation or that wmore refined artificlality known as the trust superior to or free from law- ful comtrol, or, to use the language of Harper's Weekly, relegate It to ‘“‘the laws of nature?’ ‘The argument is neither consistent nor honest. It is not by natural law, but by & speclally conferred right of emi- nent domain, that a railway corporation | 18 clothed with the power of takiug the property of citizens for right of way on the plea that public Interest requires it. Why should not the public Interest be supreme over the same rallway corpora- tion either by itself or in combination with other like corporations, if it puts itself in position to abolish competition and arbitrarily tax the whole commu- nity through the rate making power? That point, fudeed, has. been settled, although in the teeth of identically the same argument to which Harper's, Weekly now resorts against President Roosevelt. The hard, Indisputable fact that looms up and cannot be evaded is this: That gigantic corporations and combinations, whose management Is centralized in the hands of a few men, have actually got into position In many cases to control arbitrarily trans- portation, natural resources and even whole groups of industries beyond rellef upon them supervigion and publicity and always keeping them directly responsi- ble at short intervals to the people. The very point and pith of the trust question is the practical power of gigantic com- binations and trusts to put rough hands down into the pockets of the people a thousand times more deeply than the government itself Is permitted to do To say that such combinations, repre- senting hundreds of millions or a Billion of capital, whose operations cover per- haps a dozen states, or even reach out into the international field, shall be left to “natural law" is to make them supreme over all law. No one, not even Harper's Weekly, pretends that they are free from wrongs of grave and far- reaching effect, and its coutention, in final analysis, is simply that they should be left to right themselves without other protection or remedy. This is not the American view. Presi- dent Roosevelt expresses the growing national conviction when he declares that “the first thing is to give the na- tional government the power” 0 make big corporations, as well as swall ones, obey the law. AN MAMORIAM, One year ago today the nation mourned in deepest sorrow the death of Willlam McKinley. On this first anniversary of that great bereavement the American people render affectionate tribute to the memory of the martyr president. From thousands of pulpits will be delivered eulogles updn his illus- trious life and character. From myriad choirs will be chanted the solemuly im- pressive music of his favorite hymns. Again tbe thoughts of the people will be directed to the contemplation of the great career, the splendid service to his country, the beautiful domestic devo- tion, the blameless life and the calm Christian resignation in the face of death of Willlam McKinley. A people who cherish and honor the memory of those who have given an example of true citizenship, of lofty ideals, of fidelity to duty, of a constant aim to elevate thelx fellow men and of patriotic self-sacrifice—such a people cannot wander far from their duty and their obligations to their country and to mankind. The American people wmore than any other cherish and honor the memory of their illustrious countrymen. Washington, Jefferson, Jacksom, Lin- coln, Garfield, Grant are revered by the nation and their example as citizens and statesmen and patriots is constantly cited for the guidance of their country- men. The name of Willlam McKinley is assoclated with those whose memory the people most honor and in whose lives they find the highest inspiration o dutiful citizenship, to earnest patriotism and to upright conduct in all the rela- tions and affairs of life. The character of McKinley merits the highest admira- tion. His career can be commended to the youth of America as worthy of emulation. He was true and loyal In every relation. He was faithful to every trust, public and private. He had faith in the people and he never be- trayed the confidence they reposed in him. His highest purpose as a public man was to increase the power and pro- mote the welfare of his country and how well he succeeded in this our posi- tion among the nations of the earth at- tests. Of kindly and gentle nature and never intolerant, he was yet a man of strong and earnest convictions, for which he contended firmly and per- sistently. His amlable and sincere way of dealing with men won him the re- spect and esteem of political opponents and the affection and confidence of po- litical associates. The Christlan side of Willlam McKinley's character was fully shown in his last recorded words: “It is God's way; His will, not ours, be The career of Willlam McKinley is dn imperishable part of American history. His service to the country as a states- man was unsurpassed. To his wisdom and foresight is very largely due the commanding position of the United Btates among the powers of the earth. It is well, therefore, to pay loving tribute to the memory of this illustrious man, to point to' his character as a Christian and a citizen and to invoke his example for the emulation of Ameri- can youth, — AMERICAN INVASION UF CANADA. Nearly 20,000 persons went from the United States to Manitoba and other northwestern Canadian territory in the year ending with last June and this American invasion of the Dominion still continues. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from Winni- peg, says that in point of desirability, if not indeed in actual numbers, the United States immigrants into the Ca- nadian west are now by far the most lm- portant class. There can be no doubt of this in view of the fact that they have taken a great deal of money Into that country and most of them buy their lands outright and proceed at once to fmprove them on & scale hitherto quite unknown there. The natural effect has been to materially increase the value of the land, which has more than doubled in price within the last two years, although still relatively cheap In com- parison with productive land in the unorthwest of this country, The reasons for the influx of settlers from the United States are sald by the Post's, correspondent to be both sentl- mental and practical. A considerable number of those who have gone fo Can- ada are French Canadians wio came te either by competition or by ordinary ' the United States years ago and who answer, Colonel Bryan would probably admit that he knows but one other dem- ocrat who cowes closer to his ideal than Tow Johuson. E—————— “Apples this season are of a finer quality than for several years and the price is within the range of every pock- ethook,” se the well known apple dealer is quoted. That offers a great big hunk of consolation for those who bave been contemplating the sky- scraper figures to which too mauy arti- cles of food have been marked up, process of law. It Is such combinations and trusts as are themselves suspend- ing “the laws of production and distri- bution” that President Roosevelt pro- poses to subject to efficient restraint and supervision under national author- ity as the only power big enough to dedl with them." The power of taxation is a power as dangerous as it is imperial. We do pot permit the agents of the government It- selfl to exercise that soverelgn power, save under most drastic comstitutional and legislative Umitations, enforclug are influenced to a certain degree by sentimental considerations, but the prac- tical fuct that land is to be had so much cheaper in northwestern Canada than in motive. vasion will ultimately bave in a political way 18 of course a question of some in- terest, but there are not likely to be any very lmportant developwents in this di- rection for some years. It Is naturally assumed that these American settlers iu the Dominion will favor closer trade relations with the United States. That this country is of course the controllin | would obviously be in their interest and they may be expected to join those who desire that the Ameriean market shall be opened to the free admission of the natural products of Canada. It is very fmprobable, however, that this element will exert wuch influence upon the reciprocity question, although they may be backed by certain Interests here which would be benefited by reciprocity. It is impossible to say with any de- gree of certainty how long this emigra- tion from the United States to the Do- minion will continue. It is quite active at present, but it seems a reasonable conclusion that the movement must come to an end within a few years. As yet there is no indication that this loss of population to our northwest is serl- ously felt. RAILWAY KATE CUTTING It is an interesting fact that some of the leading railronds of the country bave been investigating rate cutting by smaller roads, with the result that trafiic officlals of the Wisconsin Central and the Aun Arbor raiiroud compamies b been indictbd. It is stated that ever since a number of the most prominent roads had been enjoined from making | rebates their officials have kept a watch on the roads that hud not been reached by the courts and succeeded in securing enough material to have the oflicials of the roads accused of making brought before the courts. A uispatch says that as all the leading roads ave living up to their tariffs it is the intention of the officers to make all Mnes, either east or west of Chicago, do the same. It is the first instance of the railroads giving support to the In- terstate Commerce commission in this direction, the roads having done all the investigating, and it is to be hoped there is substantial foundation for the state- meunt that it is the inteution of the lead- ing companies to bave the practice of wmaking out false way bills and the graut- ing of rebates absolutely stopped. There 1s no doubt that they can accomplish this it they earnestly desire to and it is manifestly in their interest, as well as in the interest of the great majority of shippers, that they should do so. The announcement 'of such a policy on the part of the leading rallrouds will of it- self go far to put a stop to the unlaw- ful practices. The action of the Inter- state Comumerce commission against some of the most prominent roads ap- pears to have bad a salutary effect and suggests that the course pursued is the one which should have been employed from the beginning to compel obedieuce to the law. CNe———— GERMANS AND AMERICANS. Emperor William bhas treated his American military visitors with marked courtesy and cordiality. They bhave been given every opportunity that could properly be accorded to officers of a for- eign army to witness the maneuvers of the German army and have in other respects been treated with notable con- sideration. On taking leave of the em- peror he expressed himself as having enjoyed thelr visit and spoke of his re- gard for President Roosevelt, whose versatility and courage the kaiser espe- clally admires. It is not to be doubted that Emperor William has a very friendly feeling to- ward the United States and this Is prob- ably more generally shared at present by the German people than for many years. There has recently been criti- clsm of Americans in some of the Ger- man newspapers, with particular refer- ence to our “arrogance,” but this is not to be taken as indicating a general sen- timent. It must be admitted, however, that the criticism is not wholly unwar- rauted. A few American public men have talked Indiscreetly regarding the possibllity of a future disturbance of triendly relations between this country and Germany, growing out of designs of the latter in this hemisphere, while some of our naval officers and news- papers have encouraged this sort of talk, Then it s charged, perhaps not unjustly, that some of the Americans who visit Germany talk too Dbig and boast too much. Al lthis is naturally offensive to & people who are justly proud of their country, thelr prowess and their attain- wents and it is not surprising that they manifest & little resentment. Still there 18 no doubt that the United States has at least as large a measure of German friendship as any other country and there Is good reason to think that this will continue to be so as long as the influence of Emperor Willlam dominates the German people. NATIONAL INCORPURATION. Mr. Roberts, director of the mint, dis- cussing the question of government con- trol of corporations, expressed the opin- fon that if theré was a national incor- poration act, under which business en- terprises could voluntarily incorporate and thus place themselves under na- tional supervision, the companies that desire to place thelr stock on the market would probably be compelled by public sentiment to organize under it. In- vestors, he thought, would give a de- cided preference to the shares of such corporations. “The prestige of the na- tional banking system,” said Mr. Rob- rts, “Is due to the fact that it is under pational supervision. Although every state walntains a system of supervision over banks incorporated under its own laws, It Is well known that the general public has a preference for banks on the national system.” It is the opinion of some of the ablest and wost experienced corporation law- yers that if there was a national cor- poration law the companies that desire to place their stock on the market would avail themselves of it. They would de so for self-protection, as it Is quite neces- What effect this Awerican in- | gary for sound corporations to create a public distinction between themselves and those who are following in their wake and Attempting to lmitate their standing and position. In the next place financial interests would favor it. Then corporations would avall themselves of the law &% & protection against the varied, diverse and incousistent laws of rebates | various states. It is urged in behalf of such a law that no corporation en- gaged in interstate commerce, no cor- poration desiring to do business through out the length and breadth of the coun- try, could afford to be other than a na- tional organization. President Roosevelt is understood to favor some such corporation law as that of Massachusetts, which has worked very well, though not entirely without defects. Its chief merit appears to be in the protection it gives the public against fraudulent capitalization. The question of national incorporation s cer- with the subject of governmental regu- lation and supervision of the corpora- it Is quite probable that it will receive attention at the next session of congress The elections in Vermont and Maine having been held, democratic news. papers are engaged in their usual pas- time of wrguing (hat the returns have 1o signidcance, Why Not Try Hobby Horsest | New York World The record of soldiers disabled by Presi- dent Roosevelt's rough ride at Chicka- mauga warrants tie suggcsilon that future escorts be mounted on trolley cars Many Are Horn, & Few Die. Kunsas City Star. The present season shows & record of sixty-three fatalities among Alpine climi- ers. This is not so many when ope re-| calls the old saying that a fool is born into this world every minute. Settling an Old Score. Indianapolis Journul mr. bryan would put all who own sharc. in manufacturing combinations in stripes By so doing Mr. Bryan doubtless thinks he would get rid of a large number of democrats who aid not vote for him. Don’t Forget Ping Pong. Brooklyn Eagle. With war games in the sound, games of politics In all the towns, shady games in Saratoga, golf and temnis in Brooklyn and progressive euchre at the sewing circle, it must be confessed that we have become & sporting nation. Looks that Way. Buffalo Express. Five of the anthracite coal carrying rail- roads report net earnings of $898,494 for July, as compared with $2,041,508 in July, 1901. Will the losses for the entire strike season be shifted to the coal consumers in the form of higher prices for fuel in the uext few years? ion. Reversing the Inv Boston Transcript. Hundreds of thousands of tons of coal have been bought from English mines to be shipped to the United States. orders for steel and iron are aiso being placed there by firms who want orders filled at once. The American “invasion” is not without alleviations for the aggrieved Briton. Manhood and Citizenship. Philadelphia Record. President Roosevelt believes in labor or- ganizations and that men should stand to- gether, but he evidently thinks it more important that each man should stand for himself in order that there may be estab- lished higher average of indiyidual citi- zenship.” To use his own phi , he wants & citizenship with no yellow streaks in it. Object of Patriotic Interest. Boston Transeript. The purchase of the ancestral “home of the Washington family in England by & wealthy American is an event which should be regarded with approval by the people of both naticns. It ought to be fitted to be- come a center of patriotic interest for all Americans who visit England and for all Englishmen who regard with pride the | achlevements of the children of her sturdy eivilization in other lands. Warm Bert! Reserve. Baitimore American. In that land of shadows where men are supposed to repent the wrong deeds done in this life some obscure corner will doubt- less be re red for those who have been ‘worse than sinners in that they were blun- derers. There will meet the trolley man who did not notice, the boy who left the door of tke elevator open, the man who tailnly an interesting one in connection | tions engaged in Interstate business and | 1 was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou Shouldst lead me on; 1 loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead thou me on; I loved the garish day, and spite of fears, Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years. So long thy power has blessed me sure it still Will lead me on O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone; And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile! a function or affair there will probably be the legend “it is to dance.” To those who would know something about the amount of exercise inclyded in an evening, or a part of an evening, devoted to dancing It may be said that four walizes equal just about two miles of good brisk walking in | their ability to stir the blood and clear the mind of worrylng thoughts. Perhaps, it dancing is really taken up seriously as A phase of physical culture we shall see put down on every dance card the esti- mated equivalent of each dance in smart walking on a smooth road. TOO MANY DOCTORS, Aud Not a Few Medicut Wo ‘ollegen Are e Than Werthile , Detroit Journal. The decision of the faculty of the Cincin- nati College of Medicine not to reopen the doors of the college this fall marks the way that a great number of medical colleges will doubtless be forced to walk within the next few years, The faculty gives as the reason for its action that the attemdance bas fallen off so much since the enactment of the state law requiring rigid entrance examinations that it no fonger pald to run the college. It is cstimated that 6,000 doctors are graduated cach year in the United States. rocked the boat and the individual who did not know It was loaded. Doubtless, too, this will be one of the most unhappy groups among the multitudes. Swell Fronts Out of Fashion. Chicago Record-Herald. The announcement that stomachs will not be in vogue in the smart circles this fall and winter will be distressing news to those ladies who have been carelessly permitting nature to take its course in the matter of embonpoint. But this is the edict of the autocrats of fashi and ladies who per- sist In wearing stomachs cannot hop~ to pass muster In the smart set. “Stralght fronts or nothing” is the decree of the Na- tional Dressmakers’ assoclation. The stom- ach s no longer in style. TO DANCE OR NOT TO DANCE. Assent—Wall Flowers the Exercise. Boston Transcript Is it to be a dancing winter? From various signs of the times the natural conclusion is that things in the dance line will look up as they have mot done for several seasons. There are two or three reasons which may be discovered for this it one cares to know them, but the most ng seeme to be found in the gen- or that is bestowed upon all ex Th dancing, 1f indulged 1 perately, sets the blood to circulating healtbfully thore is no doubt, and since every man, woman and child nowadays does dally perform certaln stunts recommended for that pur- pose, a duty or as a pleasure, it is quite to be expected that in the list of beneficial exercises dancing will have a place. Looking at the recreation in this way it 1s easy to see how men and women who have hesitated to join in dancing because of @ certain maturity of years and of figure will throw aside all fear of what young persons may say of their attempts to renew their youth, and go on with the dance on the plea that they need the exer- cise, and forget those troublesome re- minders of the passing of time called “birthda: This attitude, then, coming to be gemerally accepted, we shall expect to see all kinds of affairs ending with a dance or two. Meetings of women's clubs at which mem will be admitted will be more frequent; indeed, the “annual gen- tleman's night” which all clubs observe may be changed to read “the fortnightly gentleman's night,” and men's clubs will nerous sprinkling of in order dancing Youth Nods ery card that one receives them to Taking this as a basis, it is not a difficult problem in arithmetic to discover that the number of doctors Is out of all preportion to the number of possible patients. The number, however, is not so great an evil as the {ll-preparcd condition in which BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. The bright preacher does not always make the shining church. The money-seeking church is not con- cerned with man-saving. The worship of material success is likely to work the spiritual fallure of America. You may try to do many a day's worry, but you can only do one day's work at & time. God did not design the church to be & mere lylng-in hospital, but a recruiting office for God's soldiers. The Great Physiclan never lacks patience and He knows that the bitterest medicine often cures the quickest. True education looks to the strengthen- ing of the hull of the ship rather than to the gilding of the figurehead. ‘When we get so selfish that we want the earth we are not likely to give much some of these young medics are turned out | to practice. Many colleges take men who lack entirely the education necessary to fit them for the study of medicine. These col- leges run their students through a two, three or four years' course of study and then let them loose on a long-suffering Heavy | Public. A Iaw, therefore, which shall provide that men graduated from a medical college must be thoroughly qualified to practice medi- cine according to the most enlightened and Lumane methods is a public benefaction. A summary of the expression of the opinions of many eminent doctors, as published in a current medical journal, shows that the method most favored is that of rigid en- trance requirements.. New York has led the way in establishing a uniform entrance ex- amination and in that state no one can study to be a doctor without first passing such an examination. Ohio followed last year and it is in consequence of this act that the Cincinnati college has closed its doors. Minnesota has fallen into line and, to a certain extent, Pennsylvania, also. Illinols has passed a similar law, which will come into force mext January. There 18 a proposition to establish a simi- Jar law in Michigan. There are six medical colleges this state—two fn Ann Arbor, one in £ tinaw and three in Detroit. Each college _as its own standard of entrance. With the competition that ‘must exist in the presence of so many unendowed colleges, since they must pay expenses, too high a standard cannot be maintained. It is also obviously impossible to provide all the new and costly experimental apparatus for o many laboratories or to find first-class professors for so many positions. A common sense view of the situation must make it clear that the day of the many medical colley has set; that the day of the few cholce ones has dawned. With fewer colleges and fewer and more thoroughly prepared men studying medi- cine the profession will at once reach a higher level and will be able to exceed greatly the large measure of good which it is even now rendering to mankind. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The Grand Island Independent sarcas- tically suggests that the Omaha base ball team tackle ping pong. Go to! As the season and the prices advance the coal question provokes considerable heat. Unfortunately, the heat cannot be utilized. A Missouri doctor promounc diet of onlons and whisky & sure cure for malaria. He neglects to state what be- comes of the patlent. Milwaukee has safely passed through a week of “Jahrmarkt.” It should be ex- plained that a Jahrmarkt is ome of things that help to make Milwaukee famous The youngest bicycle rider In the world, an Indiana product, is dead at the advanced age of 3 rs. He made a record whem only 2 years old and at once began to grow ‘wings. Tom Taggart of Indlanapolis is support- ing the revised democratic platform so cors dlally as to give rise to the suspicion that he has given Bryan the melancholy tip, “Stop my paper.” New York is about to introduce perfume concerts “to cultivate the olfactory nerves by artistic manipulation of aesthetic scents.”” No doubt many New Yorkers would be improved by coplous spraying. Since the two-hat plan of assuaging a thirst has been suppressed by Secretary [ g mary Shaw the tablold high ball comes to the re- 1ief of treasury clerks. After all, the up-to- date Inventor s the genulne Johnny-on-the- spot for suffering mankind. Papers from SheMeld, England, announce that Major Church Howe, chief consul, has been glven an assistant by the government and at his & tion one Colonel Hugbes, secretary of hefield Chamber of Com- merce, was appointed tg the post. When the Danish literary expedition of Greenland reached the capital of that country they found that Greenland for a year had been without & physiclan, where- fore Dr. most welcome member of the expedition. A Philadelphia man has been making & fine living by falling off street cars and collecting damages. But his presence of mind falled him on the last fall and the ‘wheels hered in two legs. As a conse- quence the unfortunate 1s not in posjticn to kick hard. A Chicago woman who bas had only one pair of shoes In seven years, instead of get- ting ber picture in the papers at the head of & testimonial for the manufacturer, did the unromantic thing of sulng for 1 vorce. Some women are as bard te please &8 the average man, thought to the world to come. Supposing God demanded His share of the profits arising from your use of the life He has lent you, what would you have left? Man cannot do without a creed! He must have a backbone, but that is only a part of him. If he is all backbone, we should call him a post, with no backbone, a jelly fish. —_— SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Baltimore American: In Ohio a preacher s running for office, and his pulpit will be occupled by politiclans while he is on th stump. This may make better men of t politicia; but we fear the effect upon the preacher. Brooklyn Eagle: Father Mary, one of the truly herofc souls of Martinique, is dead, a fullle sacrifice. He insisted on staying at Morne Rouge to minister to a company too lazy or too foolish to walk a couple ot miles to & safe district. Chicago Chromicle: "“Blos, Dowle, “will win by lov proceeds to address the ransomed sinner as a swine-eating leper, a tobacco-chewing hyena and a monster of iniquity who ought to be in jall. Brother Dowie evidently be= lieves that Zion loveth whom it chasteneth. Buffalo Express: Missionary Stone feels that the public did not grow sufficlently enthuslastic over her lecture tour. With all the respect in the world for Miss Stone, . Horace, 1 never think of it broad grin. Bertheisen found himself the | the American pointed out some months ago that she did not possees the necessary vaudeville accomplishments which would have made her lectures popular. New York Tribune: Traders’ Polnt, a vile lage ten miles from Indianapolis, is greatly excited over the proposed bringing of an organ into the church at that place, and the trouble has resulted in the destruction of property, personal encounters and various appeals to law which are destined to keep the bitterness alive and permas nently estrange many who have been life« long friends. Whitecap notices have been freely distributed, and many farmers are housing their stock at night and sleeping with loaded guns within reach or are em= ploylng men to stand guard over thelr property. Boston Transcript: Surely the.world does move and must move, but its progress sometimes makes the head swim and the footing unsteady for honest believers in what they have always been told. Accords ing to a New York telegram, Rev. Dr. R. B MacArther, pastor of Calvary Baptist church in that city, declared that “the dropping of water on an infant at birth was heathenism, and that the i that God would forever condemn an innos cent but unbaptized babe makes him a tyrant, a momster and a demon.” Very few persons, perhaps, will disagres with Dr, MacArthur in this declaration, but the time is not far away when infant damna. tion was a dootrine viewed with com. placency by hundreds of thousands of ex« cellent and amiable Christians, and when baptism was regarded not merely as @& symbol but as a sovereign remedy for ine herited sin. When a Baptist minister openly asserts that “baptiem never saved » buman soul,” the effect must be stagger- ing to the few who still cling to the tradi« tlons of & gloomy past, but to most persons it will be received as ap evangel of & better and brighter future for Christianity. . DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. llrl Homelbwhll da ’t l wrho(!y !ovnl‘ bought our cago News: Boston Transcript: you give me any hnxnf smile upon my suit? She—Will 1 ever He—Constance, can Will you' ever n it? Why, ut I'm on the nll-d-lphln Pres “What is ‘Platonio me f:ehn[ oung grass widow mirer enos wille ile they've -nun. 15 Bor aivorcs 1o w York Weekly: = Mr. onmp-— voy will Dever be ‘Sood Tor lny(l!nl' inat u 1 = R ol the hlbllmrhmlin. around the house. Ohlo Btate Journal: “Do_you take this 'omull for better or for worse—"' began lergyman, but before he could proceed fipther e wa interrupted. “It's too ell'l)" to tell 1y 'wered have to'give me & fow the groom; “yoi weeks' time, s Baltimore News “l(ul Bklly. pleaded he kneeilng youth, “tell me, s there any ——t the poetical girl n rl; ol camd fay ropied the pastion el however. Puck: “Dat's it, Mnm- You kin see his pettin’ and spollin’” Bim way Gl he its 'pose he'll go along dal - Y he 't hardly ki “Yes, n he won't hardly know struck B g Chicago Poat: “Do _you believe that ‘women -houldayronou ell, thi . Depends on W “ on wi iht 'omlll in ques- tion Is Ilfl’lcflv. 0 make & man pose.” Judge: lolher—wnnl do you want He's poorer than Jol' im for? frkey ! Dnu.hur—- But I love him, beart and soul and ming, = "' all m *Mother— Fudxe, my child. Don't nu K love like .m;' ov-l that can’t possibly live