Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 18

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SmpE— Those fighting elevator conductors of Chicago have struck a deadly blow at sky scrapers. Climbing sixteen or eight- een storles takes one's breath away. e British military authorities are mak- ing much ado over the hazing of junior ‘officers who happen to be heirs to lordly titles. As if hazing were any respecter of persons. Usual dividends of $2 a share, 'both preferred and common, have been an- nounced by the Union Pacific. But why shouldn’t it distribute big dividends when its earnings are swelled by evaded taxes? 3 S——— ‘While the college professors are de- ‘bating what the colleges can do for the business man, the college presidents are busy telling the business man what he can do for the college and strenu- ously urging him to do it. — It seems that the emissaries from the Winnebago land ring who went to Washington to show Secretary Hitch- ‘cock the error of his ways in his ruling on the Indian heirship lands found that the secretary hailed from Missourl. E—— That new ocean cable to Hawall has not been working extra hours at any time since It was laid. After all, very Jittle news transpires in Hawall of im- portance enough to the outside world to justify paying cable tolls on its ‘transwmission. e——— _Betore the republican members of the . Nebraska legislature reconvene after thelr recess, they would do well again "o read over the platform upon which they were elected. In that platform _the party made several distinct pledges " which republican legislators are ex- pected to redeem. E——sy— . ' One of the saddest features of the “fast approaching end of congress s the fmpending eclipse of that great states- man-politiclan James K. Jones, who will retire from the senate to Arkansas, carrylng nothing with bim except the chairmanship of the democratic na- tional committee. The president of the Carnegie institu- tion has made a report on what the Institution has accomplished in the first year of its existence, which/fills a big fat volume. At this rate it will take a whole library for each annual report when the institution really gets to the point of really doing something. It is reported that the publicity re- quirements of the senate trust bill are pot objectionable to Mr. Morgan and Mr. HiIll. But suppose they were ob- Jectionable to these great werger mag pates, there would be no reason why their objections should govern as against the almost unanimous demand of the general public —_— The late Senator Dawes of Massachu- setts counted as one of his greatest achlevements having moved {n congress the first appropriatien for the weather bureau. Certainly its originators bad no 'adequate idea of the proportions to “which the weather bureau would grow or the practical work it would accom- _plish. The accuracy and usefulness of ‘the weather forecast, however, is sure “%o he developed much further time oes on and its Importance to be much more fully realized. In emphasizing the .part he had in its inception, Senator Pawes only. displayed his own farsight- ediicss. THE COLURADO PLAN. The disgraceful struggle that pre ceded the re-election of Henry M. Teller to the United States senate in Colo- rado has aroused intense disgust with the present method of electing United States senators, and men of all parties in the Centennial state uow favor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The change demanded, however, can- not be effected without an amendment of the federal coustitution. As the next best thing it is proposed to give the voters of Colorado the right to express their senatorial preferences through the ballot box. With this end In view a bill just introduced in the Colorado legislature provides that at the general election preceding the time for the elec- tion of a United States senator the political parties may place on a ballot the names of five or less candidates for the senatorship and binds members of the legislature under penalty of ex- pulsion to vote for the candidate of their respective party indicated by pop- ular vote. The Colorado plan doubtless has some merit, but we fear it will work no bet- ter than the Nebraska plan adopted back in 1875, which has proven a most lamentable faflure. The Colorado plan may be an improvement on the Ne- braska plan in authorizing political parties to restrict the legislature in its cholee to five or less candidates, while the Nebraska plan does not contemplate nominations by party, but gives any candidate endorsed by 5,000 or more electors the right to have his name printed on the official ballot. When it comes to the practical test the members of the legislature who are disposed to sell out will violate instruc- tjons and pledges. The menace of ex- pulsion will have no more effect upon boodlers than the menace of a pail of hot water would have on a mangy cur. The only effective way of dealing with such scoundrels would be a trial by vigilance committee and an elevation on a telegraph pole. The representative who betrays the people for money or place is a traitor and merits the penalty imposed on traitors. Such doubtless would be the punishment meted out to a bribed pres- idential elector, and there is preclous little difference between an elector who defeats the choice of the people for pres- ident and the reprobate who willfully defeats the cholce of the people for United States senator. ANOTHER TRANSPORTATION MERGER. Announcement s made of a projected merger of lake fleets, which if effected will place most of the lake shipping, outside of that under Canadian control, in the hands of eastern rallroad inter- ests. The Cleveland Leader says that plans are developing for the consolida- tion of all the package freight handling boat lines on the lakes, embracing seven companfes owning In the- aggregate sixty-one steamers. It is understood that the combination will be capitalized at $10,000,000 and the purpose is to se- cure as complete control as possible of the package freight business of the lakes. . If this project should be consummated there will of course be an end to com- petition Dbetween rallroad and lake transportation, which will mean higher rates on grain and other products going to fhe seaboard and also doubtless on goods coming westward. The Vander- bilt and Pennsylvania railroads, which are sald to be concerned in the scheme, if they shall secure practical control of lake transportation, will of course regulate rates so as to insure liberal profit both for thelr vesséls and their roads. Moreover they would be in a position to repress competition and mo- nopolize the trade from the lake ports, except what is carried fn Canadian ves- sels, and it is quite possible that even these will be absorbed In the merger. It is stated that the deal is one of the most complete that has ever been at- tempted and as J. P. Morgan figures in it its success is probable. —— A GROUNDLESS FEAR. Senator Morgan of Alabama, a per- sistent opponent of the Panama canal, has discovered a new danger in the proposed purchase and construction of that waterway by the United States. He fears war between this country and Colomblia, indeed declared that it s in- evitable If the United States continues its policy with refercuce to the con- struction of an fsthmian canal. The venerable senator was doubtless serious in stating his apprehension, but it is not at all probable that it will have any effect upon the senate or the coun- try. Mr. Morgan has found so many troubles and difficulties in connection with the Panama route, most of which were shown to have little or no founda- tlon, that there is a natural disposition not to regard seriously anything he now says on this subject. His devotion to the Nicaragua route is so profound and all-engrossing that he 1s simply in- capable of accepting anything favora- ble to the other route, however strongly supported by expert opinfon. Still it would be interesting to know what reason the Alabama senator has for thinking that the policy of the gov- ernment regarding the Panama canal may cause a war. We are not aware of anything in connection with the course pursued by the United States that has not been perfectly fair and stralghtforward. There has heen no effort made to force any concession from Colombia, but on the contrary our government has shown a desire to meet any reasonable views of that country. The disposition of the Washington ad- ministration has been liberal and no attempt has been made to get any ad- vantage of Colombia. It was of course necessary to let the Colomblan govern- ment understand that we would not submit to any sort of exactiop, which that government seemed inclined to make, but there was In this nothing to | glve reasonable offense. Benator Mor- gan evidently intends to do all he can to prevent the ratification of the treaty, which has been favorably reported to the senate, but it is bellewed le will not succeed in his purpose. The odds agalnet bim are too great and the pressure of public sentiment for early action Is too strenuous and Insistent. Shouid he, however, be sble to prevent ratification at this session there 18 no doubt that an extra sescion of the sen- ate will be called by the president to act upon the treaty. WOMAN IN RCH AND STATE. The advent of the twentleth century woman on the political rostrum, in the halls of legislation and in the pulpit is in accord with the natural trend of modern civilization. Within the past quarter of a century women have wedged their way into the learned professions and are gradually taking places as med- jeal practitioners, dentists, teachers of music and teachers of the higher edu- cational branches in colleges and uni- versities formerly monopolized by men. It will not be in the least surprising if the Irrepressible twentieth century woman in the po distant future becomes a menace to men of the cloth. Last Sunday Rev. Annle Ford Bast- man astonished the members of the Congregational society of Brooklyn by declaring that “the profession of the Christian ministry is becoming the most undesirable calling for men.” “In the days of simple Christlanity,” said Rev. Mrs. Eastman, “men and women worked together on terms of perfect equality. When the church became rich and pow- erful it silenced the volce of women in its ministry, although they continued to preach until the latter part of the fif- teenth century. It would seem, there- fore, that the church needs women in its ministry when it 1s poor and weak. This is their call today. Ministers are slaves of boards of trustees and ves- tries. Mountebankery and buffoonery must be depended upon to attract crowds 1nto the clturches, so that money may be obtained to carry on the good work. A minister’s pay is poor, and when he is old and past the age of use- fulness he should not be permitted to live any longer.” Such talk in the City of Churches, where Henry Ward Beecher electrified the multitudes only a few years ago by his fervent pulpit oratory, ouly re- echoes the recent assertion of Rev. C. M Sheldon, formerly of XKansas, that “churches are pow attended almost ex- clusively by the well-to-do—the persons who have comfortable or palatial homes. They have come to regard membership in a church as a sort of social distine- tion—as an investment of capital on which they will secure dividends in the hereafter.” ‘Whether this sordid spirit can be eliminated by women preachers hurling Elfjah thunderbolts from the pulpit, no prophet or revelator can” predict with any degree of safety. e— THAE SUUTHEAN RACE PROBLEM. Becretary of War Root, in an address before the Union League, of New York Friday evening, referred to the race question in the south as presenting a problem the solution of which will take the greatest thought of the greatest minds in the country. In regard to the outery that has been made against the appointment of colored persons to fed- eral offices In the south, Mr. Root pointed out that President Roosevelt has appointed fewer black men then Presi- dent McKinley did and there are today fewer black men holding office than ‘when McKinley died. He said that un- der all the presidents back, to Hayes more colored men were appointed to office than under the present administra- tion and nothing was said. * The ebullition, therefore, of southern wrath toward President Roosevelt is slmply because he has followed in the course of his predecessors and because he has shown that he belleves a colored man who {s capable and of good char- acter is entitled to consideration, should be accorded the same rights as other citizens and should not be excluded from the public service on account of his race. Had the president gnlarged the policy of his predecessors In this matter, or manifested a deliberate pur pose to antagonize southern sentiment, some excuse might be urged for the out- cry that has been raised, but he has not done these things. On the contrary, he has been conservative, but he has re- fused to yleld to that sentiment which would exclude all colored men in the south, no matter how capable and worthy, from serving the government in any public capacity. Having in a num- ber of states taken from colored citizens the right of suffrage, it is now de- manded that they be denfed the privi- lege of holding office under the federal government. These colored citizens fig ure in the ratio of southern representa- tion In congress, not less than forty representatives from that section being based on the colored population, yet while recognizing those people as a basis of representation In congress and the electoral college, they are denied the suffrage and it Is sought to shut them opt of the public service even in com- munities where they are in the major- ity. The Injustice of this is obvious and indisputable, Secretary Root sald: “In a short time the white man will succeed in excluding the black man from all offices in the southern states. We can never throw off the responsibi)ity that rests on our people for the welfare of these black people that we held in slavery for so many generations.” That undoubtedly reflects the general feeling among the people of the north. The improvement and uplifting of the colored race Is an fmperative duty which must not be neg- lected. Some of the wiser leaders of the race urge that the colored man in the south should keep out of politics and apply bimself to intellectual ad- vancement and the acquirement of kunowledge and skill in the industries. It 18 sound advice and is having good results. It remains true, however, that the colored man has the same right as every other citizen to aspire to and seek public office and this right should not be denied him. It cannot be without violating a cardinal and vital principle of our republican institutions. THE POWER OF THE SBNATE. In a current magasine there is an article on fe United States senate in which the writer presents some facts respecting the relations of that body to national legislation and polnts out the overshadowing power of the senate. Re- ferring to the article an eastern paper observes that the majority of the senate “can bully the president and every mem- ber of his cabinet by threatening to defeat legislation in which he or they may be warmly Interested, and may even belleve to be essential to the publie welfare, unless the demands of leading senators are complied with. The body is, In fact, a huge, tyrannical, unscrupu- lous and entrenched trades union.” An- other paper remarks that while the gen- eral observer may have been ignorant as to details and known little about the arbitrariness and subtlety of the methods employed, “every citizen who takes even a moderate interest in na- tional affairs must have noticed at how many points the senate has been an obstructive and unresponsive body and has thwarted or stified legislation that the country much desired. It scems to be no longer a conservative body in the best sense of the term. Its conservatism is that of sullen inertia or repression, a disinclination to answer the demands of changed conditions and the mighty im- pulses of progress that are hurrying the country forward Abundant facts could be adduced in support of these views of the upper branch of congress, which has aptly been designated the “American House of Lords.” It not uncommonly disregards or treats with indifference the recom- mendations of presidents and the sug- gestions of cabinet officlals. Recently a distinguished senator took the president to task for expressing his opinfon re- garding proposed legislation, lecturing him upon what the senator deemed the impropriety of thg chief executive ex- pressing himself, even to congressmen, in regard to measures before congress. The country is now being given an object lesson {n senate fillbustering and obstruction which threatens to leave unacted upon, by this congress most important and urgent questions. There being no restriction upon debate in that body, weeks have‘been consumed by the opponents of the statehood bill fn discussing that measure, with the avowed intention of talking it to death. Matters of great interest to the general public are awaiting consideration, but with only four weeks of the session re- malning it fs highly probable that some of these matters will have to go over. Thus & minority of semators, under the antiquated rules of that body, dre nble to prevent legislation which the admin- istration has urged and the people de- elre, The power of the senate and the arrogance with which it asserts that power justifies the unfavorable popular opinion of that body. There will, hotv- ever, be no change so long as United States senators are chosen as at present. Until senators are elected by direct vote of the people the traditional practices and methods of the senate will be adhered to and the abuses incident to these will continue. Not even the British House of Lords is less susceptible to the popu- lar will and influence than 1s the American senate. — WOMAN'S PROPERTY RIGRTS. ‘The agitation for a change in the law of decedents to estates which has been promoted largely through the women's clubs throughout Nebraska, while per- haps tending in the right direction, has by misuse of the phrase “woman’s prop- erty rights” given rise to much misap- prehension of the real situation. It s a fact which should not be forgotten that Nebraska is at the very forefront in ac- cording to women rights over property that place them on complete equality with men. By statute enacted over fifteen years ago women have been given in Ne- braska the same right after marriage to hold and dispose of property acquired in their separate capacity as enjoyed by thein before marriage. The married woman 18 privileged to go into business regardless of her domestic status, make contracts, bring sunit in court, perform any labor or services on her sole account and use or invest in her own name all the earnings arising out of her separate property or individual business or sery- ices. If she was married in any state which gives her additional property rights, she retains those when she re. moves to Nebraska besides aecquiring the privileges of our law It is therefore only with reference to ! the property that consists of the estate of a deceased husband that women in Nebraska find fault with the existing law, which in this respect is substan tlally a statutory enactment of commor law usages. The purpose of the pro posed changes is to give the heirs an estate in fee fnstead of nditional life estate, while properiy devised by wiil remalins unaffected. To this change there 1s no serlor tion—in fact, it has had legislative sanction before—but s0 far as the result is concerned its im portance to 0 greatly exaggers a o seems have A writer in one of the current feals defines coeducation s the admis- slon of girls to boys' schools. The pith of his characterization Is the intimation that the movement for coeducation has not brought about the admission of boys to girls' schools, nor even a demand for that kind of equality. The suggestion that Vassar should open its doors to young men would doubtless be resented on the ground that the young women ] ought to have some Institutions of higher learning devoted exclusively to them just as the young men enjoy the privileges of universities that bar young women, Yet that is no good reason why there should not be coeducational instl- tutions aleo as at present in which both can meet on common ground so far as thay are disposed to do so. In its demand for legislation against parents who desert thelr families, the State Board of Charities and Corrections has embodied Into Its resolutions the proper princlple making no distinction in culpability on the part of fathet or mother. The desertion of husband and children by the wife 1s morally and In its disastrous results just as much of an offense agalnst soclety as desertion by the husband. The real reason for inter- ference of the law is the protection of the dependent members of the family, and in the case of young children the dependence 1s as much If not more upon the mother as upon the father. If pen- alties are to be placed upon wife deser- tion they should also apply to the de- sertion of minor children by either parent. E——— The campaign for tax reform comes right home to every citizen, because there I8 no one who escapes paying taxes In one form or another. When the great tax-shirking corporations evade their share of the burdens of government, they simply shift them onto the less-favored Mmdividuals who have no way of escaping payment not only of the part that belongs to them, but also of the part that the rallroads should bear. The milk In the cocoanut of the naval appropriation bill Is the appointment of two additional midshipmen for each member of the senate and house. With this little bit of patronage thrown in to make it Interesting, the bill ought to slide through as smoothly as a newly launched battleship glides Into the ‘water. The Country is Safe. Chicazo News. Now that it has been officially settled that the American ambassador at St. Pe- tersburg ia to wear gold braid on his clothes, the nation should feel encouraged to go ahead with some of the less momen- tous affairs of state. The Better Way. Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat. The New York Central railroad will have a staff of sixty surgeons located along its lines and each of its passenger trains will carry a kit of surgeon's tools. English railroads beat that idea last year. No pas- senger was killed In thelr operation. Consider the Risk. Boston Transcript. The miners earn more than the average workman, so testifies a statictican before the coal strike commission. Well, they ought to. The element of risk in thelr calling makes their services worth more than the labor of farm hands or mill op- eratives. ‘What of the Future, Governor? i Philadelphia Press The bachelor governor of Kansas is will- ing to give the women every chance ex- cept the one to marry him. He is in favor of woman suftrage. Perhaps he doesn't re- alize that when women get the right to vote there will be no more bachelor gov- ernors. Another Verbal Outcast. Minneapolls Times. Let us discard the term ‘gentle sex.” The athletic girl bids us forget it. When e plays & game calling for strength of arm, swiftness of foot, push, pugnacity and persistence she does not play it gently. There's basket ball, for example. Girls play that game, and when it is played right it 1s rough in spots. Why should it be played gently? Wouldn’t we laugh at the girls if they did play it in an Alphonse- Gaston manner? When Adam Ralses Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Philadelphia Telegraph somewhat sarcastically remarks that President Eliot of Harvard has been pleased to class archi- tects, engineers, electriclans and landscape gardeners as profeseional men, and their eallings are hereafter to be included among the learned professions. The Telegraph adds that with all due respect to President Eliot 1t can be safely averred that archi- tecture was a learned profession thousands of years before colleges were dreamed of. No doubt that's true. But, let's see, BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Public sins need public cemsure. Fear makes & man his own foe. Rhetoric cannot produce a revival in re- Ngion. There is no power sufficlent to make a man out of putty. To see & purpose in our pain s & step | toward finding peace. Greed and not goodness is the modern world's condition of greatness. Bnvy loses the flavor of its own joys in | abusing the form of another's. It makes all tho differcnce whether the shepherd loves the fleece or the flock It's no use for a man to pray to his Father so long as he preys on his brother, He only really aspires to the heights of ‘wasn't landscape gardening the very first profession of all? ANTIQUATED REVENUE SYSTEMS, What Makes Tax Reform of Spec Importance to the Western State Victor Rosewater in February Booklovers Magazine. The American people everywhere, but more particularly in the western states, becoming restless under the burdens of unequal taxation. This Inequality springs from antiquated revenue systems, devised at a time when the distinction be- tween individual and corporate wealth had not yet been accentuated, and the vast and valuable Intangible properties in the nature of tranchises and credits had not developed to notable proportions. That the most productive corporate fran- chises, out of which the biggest fortunes of our multi-millionaires have grown, have, {up to the present, almost entirely escaped | proportionate taxation ~an be readily veri- | fled. The extent to which the inequality is belng Intensified by twentleth century industrialiem 18, however, scarcely yet rea- lized. By taking the maximum current revenue | as the basis of capitalization in the newest | merger schemes—revenues swelled by tax | evasion—the corporate property is being plastered with bonds representing capital ized unpald taxes on which interest is to be earned in the future as part of the fixed charges. When the demand is later made | of the merger railroads, ‘or example, for | these corporations to. pay into the public | treasury money justly due as taxes, but ! now diverted to payment of interest or divi | dends, the retort will come that they are being overburdened with taxes, whe in fact, they have, without right or excuse, | overburdened themselves with obligations resting on an unjust evasion of public dues. In this way the concentration of industry through community of interest schemes or outright consolidation i bound to force the question of tax reform conspicuously to the front—not so much the reform of national ation, but rather the reform of state and local taxation, which, after all, Is felt more keenly and comes home more closely 1o the people. The sgjution of the problem, which can be reachq.ouly sradually, calls for the best thought f our most practical economists and mos. Astule statesimen, holiness who walks in the depths of hu- mility. When you are only skim milk fn ethies you cannot make up for it by being cream L AND OTHERWT A Chicago babe is struggiing along under the name Theodore Roosevelt Stanislaus Spyschalki. Mulal Abdul gave the protender to the throne of Morocco a solar plexus greeting. For the present he will remain the Sultan Azts, E The manipulator of the whiskbroom in a New York restaurant died recently, leaving # fortune of $45,000. The tipping system is & olnch for the tipped There are nearly 11,000,000 people in this country avallable for military duty. All are not cracksmen, but those who are mot tamiliar with & gun can be relied on to shoot off their mouths in any emergency. In declaring constitutional the state tax on clgarette dealors the Towa supreme court was animated by humane considera- tions. Rolling cigarettes gives their de- votees sufficlent exercise to keep them awake. The governor of Georgia has attached nearly 200 colonels to his official staff. Next to a circus parade, there is no more entrancing spectacle than a governor's staft in regalia. Doubtless the governor of Georgia thinks an executive cannot over- work a good thing. A Cleveland brido 'confesses to having assisted her husoand in burglarising apart- ment houses. When a woman voluntarily promises to obey her husband and gets into trouble she cannot shift the blame. That privilege has been man's exclusively since the days of Adam. “The harp that once through Tara’s hall the soul of music shed” has been shelved for many a year, but the Hill of Tara re- mains and is about to be sold at auction. Here 1s an opportunity for the descendant of Brian Boru to back sentiment with coin and convert the shrine Into a musical con- servatory. Trust managers are mot as inconsolable as some critics imagine. One of them is cheering the mourners, if any there be, by esserting that while the human body is composed of 90 per cent of water, no cor- porate body carries more than 58 per cent of that fluld. The discoverer deserves an advance in salary. REAL JOY OF LIVING, Philosophy of Living for Something Higher and Better Than Self. New York Mall and Express, Those of us who are plodding along through life in a narrow, and, therefore, selfish way, would do ‘well to look ourselves over every mow and then and question whether there is as great satisfaction in Iiving only, for ourselves as there might be in taking ‘others into our lives. Bach of us owes something to those near and dear to us, and to the world. There is a com- munity of interest between all mankind that no one of us can jgnore and end our days In satisfaction. No man who lived solely for himselt ever went to his grave feeling that he would be lonelier coffined in that narrow strip of earth than he had been while above it. If the fundsmentals of his character were human, he looked back on his past with keenest regret that he could not live it over again and be of the world; if they were not—if he was without that ‘“one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin"—he lacked the capacity to realize what he had missed in isolating himselt from the friendships, the handgrasps and the love that make life worth living. He knew that he had missed something that had rounded out other lives better than his, but he did not know just what it was. Fortunately fow men are of that type. Most of.us have & sunny, genial side to our nature, even though it is often concealed or roughened by the cares of business or the sorrows of affiiction. Yet it we would only stop to think how much we might help others to bear their burden by brightening up ourselves, by inspiring others with good cheer and cordial feelings, it is certain that each of us In his way could contribute more than we do toward the happiness and contentment of all. It should be left to selfish men to hoard all tho sunshine as a miser does his gold— SECULAR SHOTS AT THR PULPIT. Cleveland Leader: Cardinal Gibbons sounds a timely warning against the growth of the divorce evil. But tho attitude of the Catholic church has always been Sos- tile to dtvoree, and the words of the car- dinal will not have the effoct on those out- side of his church which they should have. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: Dr. Park- hurst proposes to establish an “ideal daily newspaper” in New York Ofty. The world | will walt to see it the ideal is good and it it can be realized. The doctor unquestion- ably grasps one part of ‘the problem in a practical way. Ho oxpects to be backed by a number of milllonaires. Philadelphia Record: Clergymen of sev- eral denominations are engaged in a con- certed effort to make it more difficult to obtain divorce. Bvery divorce is an evil, but it there were no divorce at all marital unhappiness would not bo diminished and characters would not be improved. On the other hand, the improvement of character would diminish marital unhappiness as well as divorce. It Is not so important to sup- press the symptoms as it is to eradicate the cause of a disease. Kansas City Star: The efforts of tirw Cathalle church to discourage divorce are wholesomo in their effect on & much too marked tendency toward domestic disrup- tion, but they would be still more effectivs ut for the extremes to which some of the dignitaries Cardinal Gibbons s quoted a8 saylng: “I can concelve uo scene more pathetlo than the contemplation of & child merging Into the years of discretion seeing her father and mother estranged from each other.” The distinguished churchman be- lioves that there should be no divoroe. Yet there are estrangements—irreconcilable es- trangements—between husbands and wives, and thero will be just as long as human na- ture is frail. And when they occur be- cause of the error of the one and in spite of the fortitude and rectitude of the other, the child in question would better witness the separation than be made to contemplate from day to day the unholy and pitiful al- Mance. DOMESTIO LEASANTRIES. Bhe (at ribbon counter)—I want to get & nice bow. Clerk—Yes? How would I do for that— She—No, 1 want a big red one, not an in- glgnificant little green one.—Fhiladeiphia Press. 01d Gentleman—8o you think my daughter loves you. sir, and you wish to marry her? Dudielgh t's what 1 called to see you Is there any Insanity in your 2 Old " Gentleman—No, sir! and there's not goIng to be any.—Medical Record. His Wite—Josh Backiot, be yew loony? What yew paintin’ Tabbex yaller fer? Josh (the gulde)—Tew let her loose in the North Fork woods. Thet eity chap what I'm guldin’ offered me $10 extra if he shot a mounting lion, an’ 1 need the money.— Judge. Mrs. A.—~When I was engaged to my hus- band he was the very light of my exist- ence. Miss D—And now—? Mrs. A.—The light goes out every night.— Brooklyn Life. He—What makes you smack your lips in that pecullar manner? She—If you don't like the way I smack my lips perhaps you had better smack them yourself.—Chicago News. Kidder—So you really love the girl? Does she return your affection? Biddle—That's just what's the matter, confound it! She returned it Immediately, saying she had no possible use for it.— Boston Transcript. ““You know that Griggs and 1 both love you, Can't you make a choice today?" “A choice, indeed! When I do make a choice you can rest assured that it will not interest you!" “Thanks. I'll tell Plain Dealer. Griggs."—Cleveland “How td you ever manage to get on the good side of that crusty old unecle of Yours?" asked Fan. “Fed him the things he llked when he came to visit us,” replied Nan. “The good gide of any man is his inside." "Tribune. BY THEIR DEEDS, W. D. Nesbit In Chicago Tribune, A tattered beggar in the street Sang always some old crooning hymn, And held to those whom he might meet His hat, with ragged, greasy brim. men—two mighty men—came b Two honored leaders of the town; Came t00, & dame of repute high— Each passed the beggar with a fapwn. Byt still the beggar sang away, With awkward music in each word; And through the balance of that day The three that chanting echo heurd They heard, and held the fading strains As memories of things that bless, And added to their 0!:0? gains ‘The golden one of kindliness. Now, by some careless prank of fate, These four met an the Way of Death, And journeyed to the Joyous Gate ‘Where but the perfect entereth. The warder halted them, and told How all who entered must be known By, oodly deeds—by deeds af gold— y helptul actions all their own. The honored men explained that they Had given of their earthly wealth To help their fellows on the way To knowledge. peacefulness and health The woman told of visits made, The suffering and poor to greei— All three told how the world had laid Tts laureled tributes at their feet. and to live long enough to know the bitter Qisappointments that come to those who have made their own way in the world re- gardless of others. We should realize, be- fore it is too late, what an invaluable pos- session a host of friendsbips are—growing more preclous with each year. They can- not be formed at the close of lite. The day to make them is mot after the cares of life are almost over, but while we are in the midst of the struggle, when the sced of good fellowship sinks deep and takes root in fertile, earthy ground, then it is that we can prepare the harvest of priceless recollections we are to reap in later life. “DIa anyone ever call him Tom?" asked a philosopher the other day, speaking of a man of great wealth “No—no one ever knew him well enough | for that,” was the reply. | “Then I'm sorrow for him. He'll be a lonely man when he most needs company.” And so it will be for those of us who think we must trudge along tbrough the world by ourselves—that the path lsn't wide enough for company by our side, to share the joys of comradeship. | ous troubles, “You may go in,"” the warder smiled “Although your fame we did not know, A_cup of water to a child 1s more than all the passing show.” The beggar turned to take his way With humbled mien and drooping head. The warder called to him to stay, . “Come in! We've heard you sing!” he sald NERVE FORGCE. Nerve force 1s saved when proper glasses are worn. The eyes control one-tenth part of the body's nerve supply, and when de- fects exist are a terrible drain upon the nervous system. There may be no out- ward sign of error, no pain, no seeming lack of good vision, yet, if you have nery- indigestion or headaches they are likely caused through consumption of nerve force by the eyes and can mever be relieved except by glasses, J. C. 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