Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 14

14 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEg E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SUBSCRIPTION ¥ Year TERME y Bee (with Daily Bee and Sunday Llustrated Bee, One ¥ Bunday Ohe Ye Buturday Bee, One Year " Tentieth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week Daily Ber (Ineluding Sunday), per week Bunday Hee, per copy Evening Bee (without Sunday) Byening Bee (ncluding Sunday), week Complaints or st Sunday mne ar 100 per weck b per 10¢ in delivery of irregularities #hould be addressed to City Circulation De- | rtment b OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha—City Hall Building, Twen-| fth and M Streets | t '('u\ln\” Blufte—10 Pearl Streat Chicago—164 Unity Bullding New York—23% Park Row Bullding Washington—01 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating ts news and ed- ftorial matter ghould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, se. George B. Taschiick, secretary of The Bee duly sworn, says Publishing company, bein vetunt num full and complete that the actual numbcr of coples of The Daily, Morning. Bunday Bee printed during December, 192, was as follow! 082,280 1T 81,130 18 21,470 e month of 80,820 30,610 80,880 30,780 EEERURREREEES Total .. Less unsold and return total sa Net average GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my ‘prl‘n‘nc~' and sworn to before me this 3t day of December, A. D, 902 M. B. HUNGATE (Beal) Notary Public. —_— The campalgn for tax reform in Ne- braska s on and it will continue until the glaring inequalities are remedied. e r——— The Fowler currency bill has been put to sleep and the Bryanite organ of these parts will box up its bugbear until the next campaign. T —— It's easy to give up something you do not have, 'That may have something to do with the reported purpose of the crown prince of Saxony to renounce his right to succession to the throne. In Nebraska lawmakers are entitled to draw pay for sixty days' session. No one need imagine final adjournment will come sooner, no matter how many days are adjourned over in the interval. — By the way, what has become of the hobgoblin of militarism that was going to subject us all to rule by court-martial if the reins of government were not im- mediately turned over to the democratic party? In his signed communications it used to be W. R. Hearst. Then It became Willlam R. Hearst. Now the signature is Willlam Randolph Hearst. That js the way the climb up the political lad- der 1s made, According to Willlam E. Curtis, the story of the street rallway franchise of New York Is full of comedy, tragedy, Intrigue, romance, dishonesty, bribery, blackmail and crime. This Is slzing it up in a nutshell. Perhaps the proposed new department of commerce might have been called the department of industry but for the reflection such deslgnation might cast upon the fudustrious employes of the other departments. e Books embodylng the results of sclen- tific Investigation of the Pelee eruptions are belng thrown out on the market. The chances are, however, that it will take another volcanle outbreak to send the demaund for them up high. A commiission of learned German phy- slelans has come to the conclusion, after exhaustive investigation and experi- ment, that hypnotism Is not to be relied upon as a curative agency for disease. In other words, they are decidedly op- posed to losing any of their patients by the hypnotic route. Ere—————— We have not heard anything definite yet of Wu Ting Fang's dolngs since his return to his mother country. Unless the former Chinese minister speedily sets some American ideas in motion to stir up backward China we will be tempted to believe that his experience among us Is not belng utillzed to its fullest by him. The spreading conviction that United States senators must be elected by di- rect vote of the people Is In evidence more and mo S a ‘magazine or perfodical devoted to the discussion of current toples but what Is giving space right along to the discussion of this steadlly growing question. 1s equally to the point is the fact thg the great majority of the writers not only support the demand for direct pop- ular election, but see that it has be- come an lmperative necessity, -—r The attorney general of New York has written an infon In which he holds that the offering of a railroad pass or a Pullman sleeper pass 18 a wisdemeanor on the part of the rallroad official or employe who makes the tender and that its acceptance by & member of the legislature would subject him to for- feiture of hig office. That this princi- ple applies with ecual foree to the giv- ing and accepting of passes In Ne braska there Is no question But if every member of the Nebraska legisla- ture who has accepted passes forfeited his oftice, re world not be a com - poral's guard left on the legislative pay | uated by a sense of fairness and jus- roll. Evening and | THE O LINCOLN, LEE AND JEFFERSON DAVIS Within the lifetime of a generation that still connts milllons of survivors, a glgantic treasonable conspiracy at- tempted the overthrow of the great American republic. At the sacrifice of millions of treasure and rivers of blood poured out by p the rebellion rlotie sons of freedom was supy and the {unfon saved and preserved for all fu [ture generations. The survivors of the blue and the gray have fraternized and fought battles under the Stars and Stripes, and the memory of the brave ! men who fell in the war of the rebellion | will be cherished on both sides without resentment by either, There is, however, a broad line of de- marcation that cannot and should not be wiped out. The American tory never will stand on the same plane In history with the American patriot of revolu tlonary days. The memory of Benedict Arnold, wio rendered valiant service in [the enrly stages of the revolutionary struggle, cannot be linked with that of George Washingtc For the same reason every attempt to link the name of Abraham Lincoln with that of Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee I8 a sacrilege that must shock the moral sentiment of every true lover of liberty. The emotional outburst at the American metropolis a few «days ngo at which Charles Francls Adams eulogized Robert E. Lee, Henry Watter- son pald a warm tribute to Abraham Lincoln, and Willlam Hepburn Russell lauded Jefferson Davis to the skies has the tendency to place these men before the new generation of Amerieans on an equal plane, when in fact they repre sent principles as far apart as the poles. Lincoln, Lee and Davis were southern men by birth and this is all they had in common. Davis and Lee were born in affluence and were both educated at the West Polnt Military academy at the ex- pense of the nation. Abraham Lincoln wag born In poverty and educated by his own toil. * Both Davis and Lee had been dedicated by their military tralning to the defense of the flag and when they raised their arms against that emblem of glory and organized armies to destroy the government they bad sworn to de- {fend and protect ihey were gullty of the highest crime an American citizen can commit. Thelr treasonable course may be forgiven, but it cannot and should not be glorifled by speech, or by monument. At the outbreak of the clvil war, Lee was colonel of the Second United States alry. Had he been imbued with the highest ideal of the American soldier he would have rallled with General Scott under the flag of the union rather than with Jefferson Davis under the flag of disunion. He would hive emu- lated the course pursued by that loyal and gallant Virginian, General Thomas, or that loyal son of Tennessee, the in- vincible Farragut. If he entertained conscientious scruples against fighting his native state he should have broken his sword Across his knee and retired to private lfe. The beatlfication of Jefferson Davis by men who wore the blue borders on blas- phemy. It I8 an insult to the memory of thousands of brave men who were subjected to the horrors of Anderson- ville and other confederate prisons with the full knowledge and consent of Jeff- erson Davis. It is a monstrous reflac- tlon upon the memory of Abraham Lin- coln, for whose assassination Jefferson Davis was indirectly if not directly re- sponsible. It Is a matter of recorded history that Davls encouraged and ap- proved the plot for the abduction of Lincoln from Washington to Richmond, which was the prelude to Wilkes Booth’s dastardly crime. And it is also a matter of history that Davis and his cablnet approved the plot to scatter yel- low fever infection in New York and other northern cities whose population during the war was chiefly made up of defenseless women and children. Is it not amazing that Americans who revere the memory of Lincoln should be carried away by sentimental gush over Davis or Lee when if Davis and Lee had had their way the American union would bave been dismembered and slavery enthroned and perpetuated? Had Lincold been forced to capitulate trea- son would have been triumphant, loy alty humiliated and the march of prog- ress and clvilization in America turned back for centuries. If Davis and Lee had succeeded, the disunited states would have been Mexicanlzed and Mex- ico imperialized. If Davis and Lee had triumphed no single Amerlean republic would have counted for more among the nations of the world than does Ven- ezuela today. The cause represented by Lincoln was humanity and civillzation. T tyred emancipator needs no monument. Lee and Davis deserve none at the nds of a nation dedicated to freedom and free institutions, essed mar. NOT SATISFACTOKY. The treaty providing for the appoint- | ment of a commission of jurists to set- |tle the Alaskan boumdary question is not satisfactory to the Canadians. They appear to be apprehensive that they will lose their case. This is indicated in the statement of one of the leading men in the Dominion, Sir Charles Tupper, wh sald that the treaty means that the United States will euchre Canada out of its rights. He declared that Great Britaln will not fight the United States for one inch of Canadian territory, add ing that the United States knew what it was doing when it agreed to a com- mission of three on each side. Promi- nent Canadian newspapers convince the the Canadian claim ble. the result, If the British jurists dre act have ex- pressed themselves in a similar way, showing a fear that we shall be able to British jurists that our contentlon I8 the correct one and tLat is utterly untena- It is highly probable that this will be regardicss of the facts and the of the treaty between Russia and Britain, which were more than half a century. The truth is that the Canadians know they » not |8 good case and hence thelr dissatisfac terms ireat unquestioned for tion with the proposed comm!ssion, but | It would seem that they should be will Ing to trust British jurists to do what is fair and just in the matter. Ameri- cans have no doubt that the representa- | tives of this country would decided nc- | cording to their convietion of what is right SNUBOCRATIC AMERICAN AMBASS ADORS | When Benjamin Franklin presented hig credentinls as envoy of the Ameri- can republic at the court of Louls XVI, clad in a suit of Pennsylvania home- spun, he created a decided sensation among the regally caparisoned, be wigged and bepowdered seions of French nobility and especially the superbly uni- formed diplomatie representatives of all the nations. But the shocking simplic- ity of the American philosopher-states- man was no impediment’ to his mission and did pot detract from his influence and fame. Even today the bust of Ben- jamin Franklin eccuples a conspleuous place with the galaxy of great men, whose anonuments and portrafts are pre- | servéd at the royal palace at Versallles, The example of republican simplicity set by Ben Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the early days has been followed by American ministers forelgn countries for more than a century. The list incladed in our own days such eminent Americans as Bayard Taylor, James Russell Lowell, John La- throp Motley, Thomas F. Bayard and last, but not least, John Hay and An- drew D. White, All these distinguished Americans were content to appear at the fmperial and royal courts of Europe in plain evening dress, and this simplic- ity was more Impressive because these men were the envoys of the world's greatest republic and one of the great est natlons on the earth. We seem now to have reached the parting of the ways. The tremendous impetus given to snobocracy by the nc- quisition of colossal fortunes appears to have turned the heads of some of America’s diplomatic representatives at the capitals of Europe. Cable advices from Paris announce, for example, that Ambassador McCormick has invested in a dazzling court dress that will eclipse In spangles, gold braid and gilt kice the most fantastic suit ever worn by a Per- slan shah or Indian maharajah. This example of American snobocratic mum- mery is liable to become epidemic among American ministers afflicted with van- ity and we should not be surprised if America would outdo all the effete mon- archles of Europe in vulgar display of laced coats, emerald buttons and buck- les and other gearing that distinguishes titled forelgners. ‘Whether the State department will finally be compelled to prescribe a dis. tinctive American court dress for Amer- lcan diplomatic representatives, corres- ponding with the number of millions at their command individually, remains for the future. It would be in accord with the eternal fitness of things for snobo- cratic American diplomats to invest thelr surplus not only in flashing liv- ery, but in genuine titles of nobility that will place them on an equal footing with the descendants of the robber barons of Germany and the robber knights of It- aly, France and Austria. to THE PRESIDENTIAL SALARY. Thirty years ago the salary of the president of the United States was in- creased from $205,000, which had been the compensation since the organiza- tion of the government, to $50,000, When the question of raising the presi- dential salary and also the pay of members of congress was before the Forty-second congress there was a strong popular opposition, but the law was passed. Subsequently the portion of the act providing an increase In the pay of congressmen was repealed. It was then thought by very many that the compensation of the president, which had been satisfactory to the in- cumbents of that great office for more than elghty years, was ample for the chief executive of this republic. The government provides him with a resi- dence furnished at the public expense and pays at least in part for the sery- fce necessary in the White House. The opposition to increasing the salary urged that it was not required and was not desirable that the president of the United States should imitate for- elgn rulers in making lavish expendi- ture for entertainments and other pub- lic display. Some outlay in this direc- tion is essential, but it should be on a scale consistent with republican ideas and not fashioned after that of Euro pean royalty. A DIl has just been congress proposing the presidential salary, making it $100, 000. That public sentiment will be yery strongly agalust this it is entirely safe to assume. There is no good rea son for increasing the compensation of the president. Fifty thousand dollars a year 1= a very liberal income. No | president who has received it has found it inadequate. On the contrary all of them have been able to meet every so- clal requirement of the gosition and have semething left of the salary at |the end of their terms. There was no more generous entertalner than Presi dent Arthur, yet he did not find it necessary to spend all his salary. Mr. Cleveland saved a portion of his and so aid Mr. MeKinle: of whom neglected any soclal duty or lived other- wise than as befitted the dignity and the proper demands of the position. The office of president of the United States is not only of highest honor in this republic, but In the world. Emoluments |can add nothing to Its distinction. These should be sufficient to meet the introduced in again lucrease | | ve tice, rather than by an unalterable pur- | legitimate requirements of the position MAHA DAILY BEE: pose to stand by the claims of Canada (.m.l that Is now the ¢ The fact thit enormous salaries are being paid to men who administer t affalrs of porations and trusts Is no argument favor of Increasing the presidential salary. What the head of a & bination Is paid, for instance, bas n proper bearing upon the question of the compensation of the chief executive of the nation. There 18 a tendency to the salaries of public officfals which should not be encouraged. A Dill has passed el com increase congress to increase the salaries of the | federal judges. Perhaps this is justifi able, although we shall get better Judges by reason of it. A few days ago a prominent member of the of representatives said that the pay of congressmen I8 too small and ought to be increased. This shows the trend and If there Is public indifference re- garding it there is likely to be within a few years a keneral advance in the compensation of public officials that will add millions to the annual ex- penses of the govermment, without se- curing any greater faithfulness or effi- clency in the public serv house COLORADO AND NEBRASKA The recent senatorial election In Colo- rado, resulting, after a brief but turbu lent legislative contest, In the aban- donment of the field by the republ candidates to Senator Teller as democratic cholce, stands out by con- trast in bold rellef with the protracted struggle for the senatorships In Ne- braska two years ago. Colorado went republican In the last election, and without question an hon- est count of the legal votes cast would have given a republican majority in the legislature on joint ballot and in- sured the return of a republican to rep- resent the Centennlal state in the upper house of congress for the next six years The competing aspirants within the party, however, finding their ambitions blocked between themselves, notwith- standing the vantage point enjoyed by the party through the possession of all the machinery of the state government, by which the regularity of their pro- cedure would be insured, threw up the sponge when the eritical emergency was reached and rather than yleld to some republican leader who might command the party support, stood by and even lent assistance to the success of the democratic candidate. Had Colorado republicans enjoyed unfaltering and un- selfish leadership, who could doubt that they would have now regained the seat in the senate lost by the back- sliding of 18967 In Nebraska two years ago the sena- torinl fight was more hotly pressed, though less turbulently waged. For three successive months, day after day and week after week, the fruitless bal- lots in joint sesslon and in caucus marked a stubborn deadlock that grew apparently steadily more impenetrable, 8o narrow were the party majorities in the two houses and 8o pecullar the con- ditions afforded by the fact that two senators were to be chosen, that had either of the principal candidates been willing to trade off the interest of the party In the other senatorship, he could have effected his own election In com- bination with' a democrat or a populist. But no thought of achieving personal ambition by such a course was ever seric entertained, The deadlock d to the last hour of the last legislative session, but when the supreme moment arrived patriotic devotion to party overcame all obstacles and the leaders whose efforts. had car- ried Nebraska for McKinley and repub- licanism and made it possible for the state to be represented in the senate by republicans stepped voluntarily aside to make way for men upon whom the party strength could be united. Nebraska's two seats in the United States senate are filled by two repub- licans—Colorado’s two seats by two democrats, although Colorado is now almost as strongly republican as Ne- braska. With the facts in view, the reasons for this contrast are not hard to find. CONNECTING THE CONTINENTS. Now that there is a favorable pros- pect for the construction of an isthmian canal, it 18 said that interest has re- vived in the project for connecting the continents by a raillway system. The International American congress that met In the City of Mexico last winter adopted a resolution favoring the con struction of an intercontinental rallway and made provision for keeping up in terest in the matter in the interval be fore the assembling of the next confer. ence. This was done by authorizing the president of the congress to appoint an international commlttee, which he did, the Ame members being ex-Sen ator Davis of West Virginia ‘and Mr. Andrew Carnegle, both of whom have taken great inferest in the pan-Amer! can railway 1de The proposition s to build a rallway line connecting the systems of the United States and Mexico on the north with those of several countries on the south, traversing all of the Central American republics and all of those in South America which fouch the Pacific with branch lines into Venezuela and Brazil. The proposed route has been surveyed, under the direction of the International Rallway commission, and the project is sald to be practicable from an eng standpoint and that the cost of construction would not be excessive. It contemplated to send a commissioner, to be appointed by the international committee, to Cen. tral and South Awmerica to report the commercial aspects, the resources of the country to be traversed and other matters, and if these should be found satisfactory it 1s thought an effort will be made to push the project, which it Is expected will get ald from the countries through which the lue would pass. The coustruction of such & rallway can some 'NDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1903. would be a vast undertaking, involving in estimated expenditure of $200,000, 000, but in this era of great enterprises it is by aus improbable that the plan of connecting the nortbern and uthern continents by rall will be an | accomplished fact within a generation It 1s not much if any greater project than was the building of our first trans continental rallrond or the construetion of the Siberian railway by Russia. If 1t is practicable, of which there scems to be no doubt, and the commerelal pos- sibilities are such as to warrant its con struction » will be no difficulty in ital. With no m securing the 3 the Panama canal built and an interna tional rallway connecting the systems of this country with those of the coun tries south of us, the problem of com- mercial relations bLetweem the United States and the southern continent would be solved and a unity of Interesi and cordiality of friendship be firmly estab lished. necess The clet Nebras ate bas accumulated a roomful relics, weapons, tools, pictures, reminiscent of territorfal Whether the collection of these me mentoes was made with a design or merely incidental to the organization and purposes of the historical soclety has not transpired. Sufficeth to say, however, that the aggregation of ploneer day bric-a-brac affords a plausible basis for asking the legislature for an appro- priation of $85,000, to be cxpended in the comstruction of a fireproof mu- seum exclusively devoted to housing these curios. It is presumed that the possession of a Museum at the state capital would necessitate appropriations for a bullding, superintendent and jan!- tors, as well as for the heating and lighting, and also for a custodian of the venerated collection from now on and forever. Whether the present gen- eration of taxpayers should be com- pelled to shoulder this expense for the edification of future generations Is a question for the legislature to solve. Just now the people of Nebraska are praylng and hoping for a reduction of taxes, even if they have to forego the exhibition of historic relics at the state capital in a fireproof museum. Historical so of ete. da; The terrible Southern Pacific wreck in Arizona develops anew a condition too often presented by such disasters, in which the rallway employes all have their mouths sealed by their superiors to prevent them from giving any infor- mation to the public until after they have been posted as to what storles they shall tell before the coroner's jury. The object, of course, is to protect the railroad from admisslons of culpable negligence that would run up the dam- age clalms, but in the interval people whose relatives or friends have been maimed or killed are kept In ignorance and suspense, anxious for the detailed circumstances. The idea that seems to imbue some railrond officials that a dis- astrous wreck, carrying with it the destruction of innocent lives, is a purely private matter for the road, is viclous and untenable and action on that the- ory ought not to be tolerated for a mo- ment in a free country. The compiled statistics for the cal- endar year 1902 indicate that the ex- ports of the United States to foreign countries exceeded our imports from abroad by nearly $400,000,000, If our political economists of today revolved their science about the balance of trade theory, as in the days before Adam Smith, how they would rejolce at such a showing and count the coin sent qver to extinguish the debt. But happlly the favorable balance of trade as the basis of national prosperity has long ago lost the commanding pluce it en- Joyed in the books on pelitical economy. It 1s estimated that 4,000,000 people in the United States are supplied with gas for light and fuel from natural gas wells. This must be as good as laugh- ing gas for them when they contemplate the gymnastics of the coal dealer’s price schedule. The Supreme Test, Milwaukee Sentinel. Among the first names transmitted by the Hawailan cable were J. Kalanianaole and D. Kawawanakoa. Now what could Marconi do in a case like that? The Strenuous Pace. Brooklyn Eagle They are about to shorten the train time between London and Pekin to fifteen da: Jules Verne will need to rewrite his book.' ldeas are going to escape into China by the fast malls. ous and Businesslike, Baltimore American By arranging to hold on Sundays the memorials for deceased members congress has acted wisely. In that way the time of the sessions may the more generally devoted to the business of practical fm- portance. Deco orked Both Way Washinzton Post It seems that the government {s still paying a special attorney to look after the cases of Greene and Gaynor. In the mean- the late associates of former Cap- | tain Carter are resting comfortably in Canada and spending the money they lifted | trom the government. Uncle Sam is being worked both ways from the middle, but it is not a new experlence for him. After-Dinner Orntory. W. D. Howells in Harper's. The fake-humorous speaker has on e carcer than even the fake-eloquent > Yet at any givep dinner the ora- tor who passes out meie elocution to his | hearers has a success almosi as instant and splendld as his clowning brather. At {s amazing what things people will ap- plaud when they have the courage of each other's ineptitude. They will listen, after dinner, to anything but reason. They pre- | ter also the old speaker to new ones; they | Mke the familiar taps of humor, of elo- | quence; it they have tasted the brew beiore | they know what they are golng to get | The note of thelr mood is tolerance, but | tolerance of the accustomed, the expected; | not telerance of the novel, the surprising They wish to be at rest, and what taxes their minds molests their intellectual re- pose. They do not wish to climb any great heights to reach the level of the orator. time, BLASTS FROM R Great s always gentle. Envy cats out its own heart To surrender Is often to win Falth overcomes many fallures. A teacher is not a taskmastet Paint ke a rainter. Mercy 18 the badge Self-denial fe the secret of delight The truly humble hide their humility Labor {s for man and not man for labor, To support a delusion is to court defeat The angry man belongs to his passions Divine pity alone meets human pathos. The poor In spirit are rich in possibill tles. Hypocrites' cloaks may be cut in the style of heaven, but they are woven of the cotton of earth, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISK, doos not of majesty. The sultan of Sulu may enjoy the rare distinction of reading his own obituaries A Michigan man has developed a taste for cating money. No wonder his helrs pronounce him crazy. Twelve hundred biscuitmakers are on a strike in Chicago. As long as buckwheat cakes are abundant the people can pull through by a seratch. The manager of a Canadian railroad pro- tests vigorously against subsidies to rail- roads because they are burdensome to tax- payers. Wouldn't that jar you? The attorney general of Ohlo is up against the real thing now. He is asked to decido whether or not a handsome young woman Is subject to arrest for wearing a stuffed humming bird on her hat. The efforts of Colonel A. K. McClure to induce the legislature of Pennsylvania to appropriate money for a monument to Gen- eral Robert E. Lee on the Gettysburg bat- tlefleld provokes a blast of wrath very much like that of Senator Foraker regard- ing battle flags. One fire-eater denounces the proposition as an attempt “‘to exalt treason and honor a traitor to his oath.’ John Newdick of Kokomo, Ind, a man of muscular plety, objected to his unre- generate wife mixing the family dough when the hour for prayer arrived. As she persisted in the unholy work, John aroes In righteous wrath and thrashed her to a finish, and then proceeded with prayer. At last accounts the plous slugger was pray- ing for some friend to lend him $25 and costs which an irreligious court assessed. A Minnesota lawmaker comes to the front as a genulue promoter of home in- Qustry. He wants state subsid for parents of singles, twins, triplet and quar- tets. The top limit 1s $2,000 for four babes in a bunch. The Minnesoia scheme is an Improvement on that of the Chicago woman who would have the state pension wives. As both reformers are unmarried, they manifest suspicious sympathy for the tied. Major Church Howe of Nemaha, United States conoul at Sheffield, England, 1s cn- Joying the fat of the land as well as South- down mutton. No banquet fn the locality 1s a banquet without him, and his brilliant conversational powers lends to every feast a plquancy altogether bewitching. The major attended the annual banquet of the Sheffleld Golf club January 10, and con- versed coplously. The Sheffeld Telegraph says he was “in excellent humor,” which means that the major jollied the crowd with expressions of cousinly esteem. That is the major's Prince Albert. JOURNALISTIC PROPHECY, It appears to give pleasure to eminent divines to define from time to time, ac- cording to their light, the function and sphere of the dally newspaper. So long as they limit themselves to the statement of safe and generally accepted ethical propo- sitions they are on solid ground and may boldly defy intelligent contradiction; but they do not seem to find that area large enough to hold them comfortably. Dr. Ly- man Abbott is the latest to tell, a waltlug public what a dally newspapers should and should not be, and what he says is inter- esting. After explaining that it is the duty of a newspaper to give all the news tha fit to print, truthfully and impartially, he 80es on to say: “The daily press should be more than a reporter. It should be an interpreter. The tendency of human life is development of justice, merey, kindness, reverence and love. We have a right to ask the press to interpret all events In relation to this progress. We want to know what s the significance, for example, of this great struggle between the coal miners and oper- ators. Does it forecast a better organiza- tion of labor? Does it look toward a bet- ter organization of capital, toward a better understanding between the two? Is it a movement toward more clearly defined classes? And are we to prepare ourselves for & war between labor and capital, a war botween classes as there was a war be- tween sections?” The editor of a newspaper who should conform to Dr. Abbott's standard of quall- flcations by answering authoritatively all the questions which a man of his intelli- gence, would like to have answered would be a very capable prophet—more capable, we imagine, than any now in the busines of journalism, and possibly a better all- round prophet than some of those whose generalizations from the law of probabili- ties have puzzled the theologians under- taking to interpret them. In discussing daily journalism it {s well not to fix the standard at unattainable helghts. Editors are human. They know a great deal, no doubt, but they are not in- errant, and perhaps they are not perfectly sure on @ great many subjects conccrning which they would like to forecast the fu- ture. It might very well be that they do the best they can with the problems which constantly confront them, but that they can ofter authoritative solutioas of questions concerning which wide differences of opin- fon exist among thoughtful students of events is too much to expect of men who live on a whirlwind of news and whose NI M DIVORCE nized Movem fous Denomin jew York World. In the inatter of uniform marriage and divorce laws strong church movement 1s well under way. Commitiees have been ! appotnted resresenting the Protestant Epls- copal, Preshyterian and Methodist organ- izations. These have already held a meet- ing In this city. It Is hoped to interest the other Protestant denominations and | the Roman Catholics as well, though the | ehureh of Rome does not as yet recognize divoree. While the churches will exert a powerful influence toward the end in view. the es. ! tablishment of uniform laws must inevit- ably tend toward the further secularis tlon of the marriage rite. As the laws stand, not all the states demand marriage Iicenses, only half of them forbld ma riages of whites and vegroes, in threa states and a territory (Arizona) whites and Indlans cannot wed, and in four states and | the same territory the union of whites and Chinese in forbidden. Differing bars of blood relationship are raised in different states and the lawful age for marriage likewise varies Most of these restrictions and regula- tions have bearings on the divoree que tion, The differences must be reconctled by statutes firm enough to hold every- where, yet 50 wisely drawn as to discour- age the legitimate marriage intent no- where, Among Relig- DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. H";A woman alway or. y Yes, and a man goes out between the acts o look for him.—Detrolt Fres >res: looks under the Clara—Mr. Sweetser is quite attentive to me. Wonder it he thinks of proposiug? Constance—Shouldn't wondes verybo save he {8 a man of the strangest tastel Boston Transeript. “I don’t seem to make any. impression on your father, Maude. And i've done my best fo get on 'his right side." “Try his left side, George. He hears bet- ter on that side.’Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Jenner Lee Ondego—Your church is becoming dissatisfied with the pastor? Why is that? He has been preaching for you fifteen years, hasn't he? Mrs. ~Selldom-Holme — Yes. trouble. He has begun now.—Chicago Tribune. That's the to preach at us, 0 you belleve In long engagements? ot too long. 1f we are married in it will be all right.—Somerville Jour- “How do you like your new servant? That {an't the question at all," anewered young Mrs. Torking. “We are trying to find out how she likes us.”—~Washington ar. Dinah—Look hyar, Sam. we done bin married fo' or five' days now; doan' yo' reckon yo' bettah go out an' look fo' some wuck? Sam—Nebah mind ‘bout dat, yit. I'll find some wuck fo' yo' time 'nough, but I doan' want ye' ter tink ob washin' an' ironin e honeymoon am past.—Philadelphia Pres Insurance Adjuster—Do have placed a rather hi the articles destroyed? Now, I'm |IY\‘!|" Wi fot could be duplicated ter of that sum. Policy Holder—I gave you just what the things cost, not a cent more. 1 bought them all at our last church fatr.—Boston Transcript THE LITTLE CHURCH BACK HOME, 't you think you h estimate upon ‘our total is $1,00. canvinced the entire for less than a quar- Lesile's Weekly. When the big pipe organ‘s swellin' an’ the clty cholr sings, An’' you almas' hear the swishin' of the ovin' angels’ wings, An’ the congregation's musin' on the prone- ness for to sin, Bort o' leanin’, listless, for the preacher to' begin waltin® An' agal of savin' grace A throne that wasn't nestlin' ‘neath a spire or a dome, But the sinners sought their Savior in that little church back home. When we had protracted meetin's, why, *twould done you good to hear The congregation singin' with a blend o' volces clear, How the “Rock o' Ages” towered like a shelt'rin’ sort o' ‘wall, An' our souls soared up fo glory since the rock was cleft far all. Ev'ry face was wreathed with sweetne an' we always had a smile For the nger, saint or sinner, In the pew across the aisle; For a diamond’s often gathered from the commonest of Joam, An' we didn’t mind the settin' in the little church back home. There were weddin's where the neighbors athered In from far an’ wide, An' the boys looked on in envy while their sisters kissed the bride; There were fun'rals, 100, where enighbors idn't feel ashamed fo cry When they 'ald to rest the sleeper in the little yard close by. | g Each pew seems sort o' sacred, an’' the lowly pulpit there ‘Pears like & holy gateway to a firmament that's fair; Where the sweet, supernal sunshine softly acatters worrow's gloam An’ lets us enter heaven from the little church back home. The city cholr's volces risa in cadences #o sweet As they sing about the river where the safnted ones shall meet, { An' the preacher's voice Is' pleadin’ as he asks us, soft an’ low, To treat all men as brothers in this weary vale of This city (“I\I L4 b egation’s 3 The preachers doin' fobly with his heaven- seekin’ charge; The cholr's swellin’ anthems soar to heaven through the dome, But my old heart |8 sighin' for (he little church back home. ——————————— h s handsome an’ the con- OUR SUCCESS 18 due, In a measure, to the fact that we embrace every meritarious idea. We con- stantly seek to originate new methods of excellence that will fn any way aid us in the practice of Atting glasses. J. C. HUTESON & CO., 16th Street. 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