Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 15, 1903, Page 24

THE OMAHA SUNDAY Bee B, ROREWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING THRMS OF Dally Pes (with Dally Bee and 8 Tlustrated Hee, One Year Hundny Ree, One Year nturdny Hee, One Year wentleth Century Farmer, O DELIVERED BY CARRIER. i:-u\ Hee (without Bunday), per copy. 8. & HURACRIPTION, Rundn nday, One Year 20 2m Jally Hea (without Sunday). per week ally Beg noluding Bunday), per week unday Bee, per copy Bvaniag Fac Iwithont Sundgy), per week Evening Hes (Including Bunday), per week . Complaints of irreguinrities in deilvery should he addressed to City Clreulation De- artment s OFFICES Omaha—The Hee Bulldin Bouth Omaha—Clty Hall ty-Nfth and M Htreets Counell Blufte 10 Pear] Btreet Chicago— 1640 Unity Hullding New York—228 Park Row Hullding Washington th Btree CORRBAPON Cormninieations relating t torial_matter hould be addressed Bee, Bltorial Department HEMITTANC emit by draft, express or postal order, cepted in payment checks, except & r Bullding, Twen o news and edi Omaha f n not accepted Y Omaha or eastern exchanges Wil BEE PURLIBHING COMPA OF CIRCULATION Douglas County. #e.: crotary of The Bes belng duly sworn, cetual_number of full and of The Dally, Morning Jny Bee printed during the v, 1008, was as follows: . 20,220 21,880 BTATEMENT aska, 20,400 20,670 20,650 20,200 50,010 20,800 20,052 20,640 80,040 80,670 Less unsold and returned coples Net total snles Net average sales GRORGE B, Bubroribed In my presency before me (his 28th day of i and sworn to sbruary, A D. . HUNGA'TE Notary Publle. Weather predictions for the lnst ha of thls week —clear and calm. Senator Morgan's cave of winds will be pad- locked day after tomorrow. Kansas lawmakers exceeded the pay day period by ten days. Not much dan ), One Year 8.0 | 600 ‘| would leave the fixing of salaries to the ger of Nebraska lawmakers matching this generosity with thelr time. ] Comimerclal agency reports say avery thing gives promise of brisk spring trade. The redemption of the promise means continued prosperity. m——— Not having followed Mr. Vest's lead- orship when he was still a senator the democracy I8 not likely to follow the Missouri statesman's advice now that he has been retired to private life. —e Investigations into the minutia of the Bartley pardon papers disclose the fact that Nebraska is provided with two great seals of state, and that one of the great seals (& greater than the other. —— In the discussion of the race problem all trace seems to have been lost of the fntelligent contraband, whe figured so conspienonsly in all the operations of the unpleasantness of forty years ago. From later developments the contest for the speakership at the opening of the legislature was a fight to determine not so much whether the railroads should control as which railroad should control. . — The Panama treaty will be voted on next Tuesday. On the news of its rati- fication there ought to be something do- ing speedily among the small army ot applicants for appointment as members of the canal commission. —_— 1f all the water carrying ruin and de- struction in its wake through overflown streams could only be stored for frri- gation purposes, there would be no chance for drouth. Tt is just possible sclence may some day find the way. epm—— It does not appear that any one class of Nebraska legislators ride on passes different from those carried hy aay other Mass, but the sense of obligation to the road issuing the passes is more keenly developed In some than in others. The recent court decision holding that pedestrians, vehicles and electric cars have equal rights In the streets and no one of them priority over the other rele gates the man who insists on hogging | the whele rightof-way to the alrship route. Qhey are still debating down in Del- aware which of the two opposing fac- tions in the recent senatorial deadlock won out over the other. That is usu ally what happens when a dark horse comes in &s a compromise-no one I8 completely satisfied ——— Unele Joe Cannon Is not worrying whether an extra session of the house 1s called or mot. He can be ready, if necessary, at an hour's notice to take up the gavel and make the proper ac knowledgents to his fellow members for the honor thus imposed upon him. —— Notwithstanding the bombardment leveled at him from the senate, Con- gressman Cannon has not seen it to re tract or withdraw the term “legislat- tive blackmall” with which he charac terized the methods of the senatorial end of the congressional lawmaking combination. — “Strict obedience to the anti-rebate GROUP THE AMENDMBNTS. The concluslons embodied by Gov ernof Mickey in his recommendations for the submission of a series of con sthutional amendments for ratification at the general election of\ 1004 seem to have beem concurred in by the great najority of the members of both houses of the leglalature. A bill requir ing the printing of all constitutional amendmeng propositions on the top of the ballot has alrendy passed one house and will doubtless reach the governor for his mpproval during the coming week, There appears to be, however, no con cert of nction regarding the scope of amendments to be submitted, and un- less some nctlon ls taken to prevent it there 18 a possibility of the passage of amendments that will conflict in essen- tinl particulars., Tt seems to us that the proper course for the leglslature to pursue {8 to have all coustitutional amendments submitted to a joint com- mittee that will eapefully compare and digest all amendments Introduced and select therefrom such as are most im- peratively demanded and will com- mend themeelves generally to all classes of the people. There are, for example, amendments proposing fixed salarles for state offi- cers and judges and amendments that discretion of the legislature of 1905 and the legislatures under certain restric- tions. There are amendments proposed that place n Umitation upon the number of executive officers and judges, and amendments designed to lmpart elas- tleity to the constitution by leaving the Increase or decrease in the number of officers of the executive department to the discretion of legislatures under re- strictions Imposed by the constitution. All these amendments should be care- fully scrutinized and revised o as to prevent clashing and fnsure harmony of all parts of the constitution when amended. Tn making these suggestions we do not desire to be Yinderstood ns recommending the suppression of any amendment by a joint committee, Every pending proposition to amend the constitution should have a fair hearing before enach of the legislative bodles ®o that meritorlous nmendments shall not be strangled before they have been glven an impartial hearing. PROTECTING INSULAR POSSESSIONS, The United States will have to ex- pend many milllons of dollars in pro- viding for the protection of its Insular possessions, in all of which there must be established fortifications and more or less extensive coast defenses. Ad- miral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipmept, has made an outline of a comprehensive plan for the protection of our islands. This contemplates de- feneive works for coaling stations suffi- clent to stand off a4 squadron of ordi- nary size. The scheme of fortification begins with Sitka and Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where there will be large stores of coal, and.extends next to the defense of Honoluln, which is an im- portant strategle point and will also be a cable station. Strong works are rec- ommended by Admiral Bradford for Guam, which is to be made an Impor- tant naval base. Particular attention will of course be given to the Philip- pines, there being a mumber of coaling stations in the archipelago and a naval rendezvous has been planned. It Is ob- viously necessary to make the Philip. pines as secure as possible against at- tack from a hostile fleet and while the Spanish forts at Manila are in good condition other fortifications will doubt- less have to be established. In Porto Rico the Spanish fortifications will have to be rebuilt. How great the expenditure for all this will be cannot now be estimated with accuracy, but that it will be large is apparent, and moreover the manning and malutenance of these fortifications will call for an annual outlay to a considerable amount. It may be neces- sary to somewhat increase the army in onler to garrison them effectively. The question will continue to be asked whether these insular possessions, or the more remote of them, will ever repay thelr cost. Perhaps they will not, but we have them and must make needed provision for holding and pro- tecting them. . INFLATION OF CREDIT. An eminent French economist, writ- ing on conditions in this country, says | there are some symptoms which pru- dent Americans ought to watch carve fully, chief among them the persistent strain on credit. He regards this as proving that the market's floating eapi- tal has been almost wholly converted into fixed capital, which he says is a sign that often precedes a crash. But he thinks Americans are warranted in believing that no crash will occur this year, though “they will end by meeting 1t, for all that, and it will be a rough shock, taking the market's juflation of credit as it stands.” In refernce to this an eastern finan- clal paper observes that it would be extremely difficult to discover exactly how much of our so-called “floating™ capital has gone Into what we term permanent investment in recent years and months. “That an enormous amount of it has been absorbed by our great industrial enterprises - Is well enough known and it is tied up In large volume in numerout other chanmels as well, but it is obviously too muck to say that It has been almost wholly converted Into fixed capital. There is stlll an ample margin of the country's business—including its vast speculative operetions—that is not done on bor Jaw will increase the receipts of the rallroad companies,” declares a sympa- thetle commentator on the new meas- ure. We may, then, look for a show of obedience on the part of the rail roads except where they are convinced that it will pay them better to wink the other ey - rowed money.” Nevertheless there s a persistent strain on credit and the very pertinent question s as to how much longer this can go one without some- thing glving way. As we have heretofore noted there is &t present a very comservative ten- dency In the matter of credits. It ap- OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU MARCH 15 pears that the banks are giving as ittle wupport as possible to speculation and the exploitation of tions has about come to a halt. This ¢ to some extent reassuring, but there still geoma to be reason for apprehend Ing that the legitimate business of the conntry may during the coming spring and summer be unfavorably affected from lack of currency. There Is in the «xisting situation nothing to indf cate that a crash Is imminent, but some curtallment of Industrial and commer- clal activity, before the close of the yeur, 18 ‘quite possible, e———— PROMINENTLY MENTIONED. Nebraska's spectacular statesman out of a job 18 looming up on'the horizon as a high-class promoter and artistic advertiser, With the possible excep- tion of Phineas T. Barnum, no Amer fean showman has surpassed the re- tired Nebraskan in the clever use of printers’ ink. The spuntaneous appear- ance of halftone portraits of the re tired Nebrasken In the leading dailles of the principal cities with a compli- mentary forecast of his contemplated promotion to some lucrative federal po- sition will create no surprise In these parts and would searcely provoke com- ment were it not for the grotesque blographlcal accompaniments. For ex- ample, the Chlcago Record-Herald of the 12th prints under the portrait of the “prominently mentioned” the fol- lowing digpatch: WASHINGTON, March 11.—David H. Mer- cer, who ls prominently mentioned for ap- pointment as director bf the census In place of Willlam R. Merriam, s a well- known lawyer of Omaha, and has just ro- tired from his seat in congress, where for five terms he has reprosented the Second district of Omaha. Mr. Mercer s a native of lowa, a former resident of Tllinols, and has lived in Nebraska practically since the close of the clvil war, in which ho fought on the union side. He has been prominent for twenty yea There 18 a trifling discrepancy be- tween this pleturesque prospectus and the truth of history. It is true that “Our Dave” has lived in Nebraska since the close of the civil war, but as he had barely emerged from his swaddling clothes when Lee capitulated to Grant under that Appomattox apple tree, the fighting he had done on “the union side” must bave been with his Baby fist on the cradle pillow. It Is true that “Our Dave” had his name painted on a shingle, coupled with the title “Attorney at Law,” but no- body In Omaha or Nebraska has ever heard of his law practice. Twenty years ago “Our Dave" was unknown in Ne- braska except to his family and thelr nelghbors. He was first “prominently mentioned” on pages 1263 and 1338 of the report of the testimony taken by the Unlon Pacific Raillway commission. In that officlal document Mercer was introduced to public notice as a mem- ber of the paid legislative lobby of the Unicn Paclfic rallway, whose function it was to sidetrack and defeat bills designed to curb the rapacity of the raflroads and smother measares that would compel them to bear their share of the burdens of taxation. Out of the railroad lobby “Our Dave" gradu- ated to a federal deputy marshalship, from which position he was bodily transplanted into the lower house of congress, From that time to this “Our Dave" has never lost an opportunity to get himself “prominently mentioned.” When the late Thomas B. Reed an- nounced his retirement from the speak- ership the modest rustler from the See- ond district, although only serving in his third term, had the sublime conceit to have himself advertised as the cholce of a very larg® number of his colleagues for the vacant speakerahip when, as a matter of fact, nobody in or out of congress, except himself, viewed his candidacy even as a remote possibility. In the spring of 1800 “Our Dave” modestly permitted his name to be mentioned as a possible candidate for vice president of the United States, snd but for the intrusion of an ohscure per- son by the name of Theodore Roose- velt he might today have been the oo cupant of the White Cottage, which he has of late been so persistently bom- barding. After the election of 1900 “Our Dave” was again spontareously mentioned as a candidate for United States senator by nearly all the members of the legis- lature, but for some inexplicable rea- son not & solitary vote was cast for him in joint convention on any of the forty-two days of senatorial balloting. It is not to be denied, however, that within the past few weeks “Our Dave" has been the most “proainently men- tioned” man west of the Mississippl. During the holiday recess last winter 1t was given out cold by his press bu- reau that President Roosevelt was sorely perplexed over the deelining health of Postmaster General Payne and after looking about him for a po- litical guide, philosopher and friend singled out the spontaneous Nebruskan for that most Intimate and delicate post, and with this end in view he had politely requested Fourth Assistant Postmaster General RBristow to turn over his quarters to thc originator of omnibus building bills. That' fake had scarcely heen ex- ploited and_ exploded when the py- rotechnie place bunter had him- self “prominently mentioned” as the coming secretary of com merce In recognition of services ren- dered to the nation through promiscu- ous construction of public’ buildings. The appointment of George RB. Cor telyou as secretary of commerce effect ually pricked that bubble, but it aia not discourage the man of density. The bare intimation that Census Di- rector Merriam might resign was promptly followed by a spontaneous procession to and bombariment of the White House. To make assurance doudly sure it was announced I o chorus by press specialists that Mercer was the only man recommended for the Merriam vacancy, and while he had not Intimated that he would accept, the president with his usual strenuousness would thrust (he office upon him, will ing or unwilling. The American people and all the clv ilized world are now . impatiently look ing for (he next prondnent mention. —r— A PARAMOUNT PROBLEM. Thoughtful men recognize the fact that there Is no problem confronting the Amerlean people of greater impor- tance than that of the relations between capital and Iabor. Always a question of commanding interest, the industrial growth and the prosperity of the coun- try during the last few years have given it a prominence and an, importance greater than It ever before possessed. This country has made wonderful strides in material progress during the last half a dozen years. There has been a great development of industries and of both internal and forelgn com- merce. Today the United States holds first place among the manufacturing nations, It stands second among ex- porting nations while its domestic trade far surpasses in amount that of any other country, being estimated to ex- ceed the forelgn commerde of all other nations, ~ In order to maintain this position and to make further progress toward su- premacy in the world's business there is nothing so essentlal as industrial peace. Widespread conflicts between capital and labor must inevitably retard our advance industrially and commercially and impair our prosperity. This has been the experlence of other countries and it will certainly be ours if such conflicts oceur, How may they be ed? Manifestly by fair and rea- sonable concessions on hoth sides. It 18 equally the duty of capital and the duty of labor to put no obstacle In the way of the nation's material progress, to do nothing which will put a check upon prosperity. All are allke con- cerned In promoting Industrial and commercial advancement. That means profitable employment for both capital and labor. It means better conditions for all the people. It 18 undoubtedly true that in some branches of industry labor s not re- celving a fair remuneration and there- fore has good reason for complalnt. There should be no hesitation on the part of capital in remedying this. On the other hand, labor that is well paid should be satisfied and not attempt to exact more upon the assumption that capital Is getting more than it is en- titled to, or because labor In that par- ticular industry s In a position to make'| exactions. What is needed in the in- terest of Industrial peace is the sense of fairness and justice on both sides, a willingness on each side to recognize and concede what properly belongs to the other. If such a spirit should prevall there would be no need of arbitration boards, or of appeal to the courts, or of any sort of legal machinery for ad- Justing differences between employers and employed. It may be admitted that there s little prospect of such a spirit obtalning, but it is none the less to be persistently and patiently worked for. At present antagonism between labor and eapital seems to be growing and intensifying. It Is a condition to be deplored, for if mot changed it is certain to do great harm to both. There are mutual Interests between capital and labor, there are duties and obligations which each owes to the community at large. An intelligent un- derstanding of these would go far to avert conflicts and promote industrial Ppeace. BUREAU OF CORPURATIONS. The bureau of corporations will be one of the most important in the govern- ment and the commissioner will have an authority not exceeded by any other fed- eral official. Mr. Garfield is empow- ered by the law to investigate any cor- poration, joint stock company, or cor- porate combination engaged in inter- state commerce, and in order to ac- complish this purpose he is given the right to subpoena and compel the testi- mony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence. He also is empowered to Investigate insurance companies. The commissioner may summon to Washington the heads of the great combingtions and call upon them for such information as he may require. Tt 18 the understanding that there will be considerable co-operation between the bureau of corporations and the De- partment of Justice. Should the bureau, after an investigation of the conduct of one of the so-called trusts, conclude that it is violating the anti-trust law, It will lay its taformation before the legal department of the government, where it will be made the basis of clvi] and possibly criminal action. It is plain that the mew bureau will have an abundance of work to do and the next congress will need to be more lberal than the last ome In providing the bureau of corporations with the means to carry on Its important functions, the results of which &re expected to be of great value to the public — Announcements of real estate brokers take up a large part of this issue of The Bee ard will well repay careful perusal Experience has proved over and over again that redl estate offers the safest aud surest field of investment, and no- where are hetter opportunities for real | estate investments presented than right here in Nebraska and lowa farm lands and in Omaha city property. Another thing that should count with investors ‘s the fact that Omaha bas the most wide- awake and active bunch of real estate | brokers to be found on the map, and they always manage to find bargains for their clients long as there is a bargain to be had. What the Real Es- tate exchange has accomplished an orgsnization in the direction of a more equitable distribution of taxes In Omaha, relleving local real estate of wsive burdens, Is sure to exert a fa vorable Influence on the realty market. Wihat Is as much to the polnt, with vo slgn of flagging Interest visible, it 1s falr to rely on the continuance of this vigllance and the permanency of the results already achieved. ex Harper's Weekly Intimates that Pres ident Roosevelt may have to fight for the delegates to the republican national convention from New York, his own state. In saying this it is plainly re- flecting the sentiment of the trust mag- nates and merger manipulators who Gentleness is the dlstinguishing grace of greatne Nothing cools the church like scolding from the desk. The hypoorite will be condemned on the evidence of his own pretenses. The best place to criticle your neighbor 18 In tront of your own mirror. Each day will be bright it we take it as It comes new from God's hand. Culture without common sense e a dan- gerous thing in the hands of & fool. There is more hope of a selt-convicted sinner than of a self-concelted saint. The untulfilled ideals of this life may be the designs on which we shall work in an- other. . a hot make Wall street their headquarters. It Is just as possible and more probable that President Roosevelt will not need the New York votes for his nomina- tion. When it comes down to business, hotwever, the Wall street junta will be likely to find that the rank and file of the Empire state republicans will manage to have a delegation to execute thelr wishes. Milliners in convention at Chicago have proclalmed ‘that the secret of beauty lies In the appropriate selec- tion of the hat and that no woman, however sliffited by nature in the dis- tribution: of fine facial features, need despair so long as an up-to-date scien- tific milliner's shop Is accessible. Whether the dimensions of the bill are to be ganged according to the amount of beautifying to be done I8 unfortu- nately not clearly stated, but we pro- sume that with the advent of Easter lusbands blessed with homely wives will be privileged to Inform themselves on that most important polnt. e—— ntitled to a Prize. » Kansas City Star. 1t I8 certain now, since the czar of Russta has prodlaimed religlous liberty through- out his empire, that -he is deserving of a boy baby. . Effect. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The fact has been disclosed that Dr. Lorenz missed the bolled beef and sauer- kraut of his nstive land when he was board- ing round on this side of the water, and that omission fully accounts for his sta ment that American women can't cook. Bryant's Patriotic Pro Washington Star. It would seem that William Cullen Bryant was gifted with the vision of a prophet as well as the tongue of a poet when on reads, in the light of current events, the following stanzas, taken from his poem entitled “The Lapse of Time,” written at Great Barrington, Mass., in 1825: The years that o'er each sister land Shall lift the country of my birth And nurse her strength till she shall stand he pride and pattern of the earth; Till younger commonweaiths, for ald, Shall cling about her amplc robe, And from her frown shall shrink atraid, The crowned oppressors of the globe. Women 1§ " Life. Brooklyn Bagle. One of the humors—or tragedies, it you please—of the higher education of women bas been that where women have fitted themselves with great labor for the law or medicine or the ministry most of them have had to be content with the small in- comes at tha bottom of those professions, while men have jumped into the naturally feminine business of dress making and cooking and have absorbed the cre No mére man has ever been able to say anything one-half so derogatory to the capacity of women in business as is the fact that there are men who earn $10,- 000 & year as cooks, while women in bus! ness who earn even $2,000 in that busine are scarce. Agriculture 1a . Mexico. W. H. Verity in Conkey's Home Journal. I have made a careful study of the sub- ject of tropical agriculture in Mexico, in connection with other gentlemen who be- came Interested with me in a plantation there. I have often been asked whether 1 would advise a man to go to Mexico and establish a plantation for himself. Un- less he has & large amount of time, cap- ital and a readiness to undertake a new business under new conditions of language, methods, legal procedure, handling of labor, etc., he will find his best opportunity by buying stock in a reliable company or- ganized and equipped for the special busi- scale large enough to avoid the s of the small farmer. Mexico is no place for the small farmer or man of small raeans. Good tropical lands have been so much in demand for the last two years that there is hardly any real good Jand on the market now, and there is no good land which can be purchased in small tracts. . OUR STARS AND OUR SHIPS. rty Stat Represented Naval Rush Line. New York Times Vermont, Tansas, Minnesota, Mississipp! and 1daho are to be the names of the five battleships provided for by the last con- gress. This makes thirty states repre- sented in the naval rush live, counting in the stoutly armored and powerfully armed cruisers Maryland, California, Colo- rado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and South Dakota. Looking at the stars o the flag, we see that there are niches for fiteen more ships One of the most energetically debated questions in the matter of battleships since the Spanish war bas been that of the double turret. Kentucky and Kearsarge, the initial experiments in this device, were followed by two successive groups of three without it; * first, Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin, and then Maine, Missourl srd ! Ohio. in the In these six not only the double | turret disappeared, but with it the elght- | ineh gun. In the mext five, Georgia, Ne- | braska, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vir- | ginia, the double turret reappeared, and by means of an additional turret om either | beam the eight eight-inch guns of In- | diana were restored. In the Dext eclass, Compecticut and Louisiana, of 16,000 ton: the double turret was discarded & second time. Four eight-inch turrets were lo. cated as in lowa, snd the siz-inch guns were replaced by seven-inch The new 16,000-tonmers can scarcely be plapned without & fight over the double turret again. The revival of the issue may find each party to it as strong in its con- victions and its infuence as ever. Possibly the later experience of Kentucky and Kear- sarge may bave afforded new data for ar- gument, for or agalnst. We suggest, bow- ever, to the opponents of the double turret, if they be fnally in control, that no settle- ment be made without an exhaustive con- sideration of the question whether & lighter gun than the present eight-iach may mot “ The man who ia always sure that he s sound In the faith {s almost sure to be sound eop during the sermon. Some sermons are prepared by mixing a drop of sense in a gallon of sentiment; and applied by leaving out the sen . BACK TO THE TALL GRASS, Marked Tendency to Move From the Orowded Marts of Trade. Saturday Evening Post. The cities are growing more and more crowded every year as people are attracted to them from the country, and year by year men are learning better and better the truth that it is in the country that one can live the sanest life. Thus we can account for the remarkable exodus of city people to the country and the tremendous influx of country people to the city. Brooklyn, for instance, was never 80 populous as now, and there are whole Jersey suburbs made up to the last man of people who have fled from Brooklyn and fts confinements to breathe the fresh air of the Oranges. It is easy to wnderstand why this is so. The eity holds out Inducements to the country boy that own environment will never yleld him, and he comes to the metropolls, works at his business as few ecity boys can work, and in course of time he marries a girl who has also come in from the country to earn her living and they settle down in & cosy flat up in Har- lem or out in Brooklyn, and when his means at last permit he bullds himeelf & house on Riverside Drive or the Park Slope and {s happy. His children have all the advantages of the city that were denled him when he was a small boy, and if they do mot grow up to ae lusty a man- hood as his, if they do not amount to as much as he did, there are two reasons for 1 hey have a rich father and he did not, y were born In the city. Now, it is undeniable fact that few city men rise high in the councils of the natfon. If a' great man s wise he s born in the coun- try. Yes it is easy to understand why there hes been such an exodus to the country. The city boy, born and brought up in brick-walled dwellings, getting a smell of the lite. all too short vacation, envies his country cousin who can breathe ozone round and who has all outdoors for his playground, and he determines to go to the country to live efyer it becomes possible. To be sure he is only a clerk and promotfon {s likely to stop when he bas reached a certain point, but perhaps he can get an ideal little house not too far from the cfty and lead there an ideal life—and perhaps an ideal girl. In course of time he meets and marries the latter, also a city denizen, but with longings for the country. For the first months, or perhaps years, they must put up with a cramped city flat, although her father owns his nouse in the vicinity of Washington square. But In course of time children come to them and then they see the ebsurdity, the criminality of bringing up children in the city. They remember their own childhood wnd how physically dwarfing it wr, and they go a-househunts ing in the suburbs and at last find a cosy little house, not so far from New York but that he can commute, and they move out there, and he raises his own vegetables and she goes in for chickens and becomes something of a botanist, and her sons grow up lusty and broad-minded. And the end of it all is that when the sons are of an age to take up business they go Into the city with a country education and they take the prizes from under the very noses of the city-bred children whose country-bred father won the prizes of his generation before, and so the city and the country are changing Inhabitants all the time, and who shall say that it is not for the best? But he is wisest who, having fled from the city as soon as he was able, ki his children in the country, the: and die. try the city wowld be a very good place iIn which to live because there would be plenty of room. Pending that time it were better for all city people to live in the there. No Time for Semtiment. Indianapolls Journal. After serving twenty-four years in the United States senate, during two-thirds of which time his party was in & micerity, Senator Vest of Missour! retires from public life an optimist. He does Dot be- lleve the senate a decadent body in point of intellect or morals. “Our people,” he says in & published interview, “are just honest and patriotic as in the days of the revolution, and are as willing to make as many sacrifices for the country. But they are too busy to spend much time with the heroic and sentimental.” The ex-senator is probably right. Every great crisis proves that the American people are as patriotic as ever, and there is Do rea- som to believe they are not as honest. Hardest Blow to Co-Edueatio) Brooklyn Eagle. If statistics are true, which they often in co-ed. colleges do not pros- in the obtaining of husbands as salesladies and wafhladies do. Onmly & third of their number marry. This is the bardest blow at co-education that has ever been dealt. But perhaps less than a third need to or have to. ERSONAL AND OT The original of the charaeter, of ‘‘Uncle Tom' is dead, but his cabin is moving on Waterbury is wound up for the present but ia lablo to slip a cog any dark hour | Advices from Calgarry and Nedicine Hat | Indicate that the backbone of winter Is | doingsbusiness at the old stand The extra seasion of the senate is in fact an extraordinary one. It is the first held since the abolition of the “cold tea dispensary. Tuesday is the favorite day for the 17th | of ‘Ireland this century. The date strikes Tuesday every fifth year during the next sixty years. The project to place a statue of Generai Lee in Statuary hall of the national cnp ital stands a first class chance of being Gettysburged. Much against his will a New York judge reversed himself one day last week. He threw too much weight on the judictal chair and his heels appeared suddenly where his head was. Pope Leo refuses to obey the injuncii of his physicians to stay in bed. Probr he realizes the truth of Mark Twaln's remark that more people dle in bed than | any other place. A Kansas City clergyman is authority the statement that profanity is increas alarmingly in that eity. People who have n't the price to get away must express their regrets in some way. ‘When the ice man reaches the center of the stage by and by, it fs probable the popular coneeption of the coal man's cinch will undergo a change for the better A cinch in action mellows the memory of one past. Two hundred tubs of microbes were, as a test, dumped into the Chicago and arrived in 8t. Louls without the loss of a feather. Chicago's kindness towarl 8t. Louis 1s one of the wonders of mu niclpal lfte. A New. Jersey clergyman proposes ic demonstrate for the edification of mankind that St. Patrick was a full-fledged Baptist The basis of the claim fs that St. Patrick baptized by immersion. If the Jerseyman succeeds in attaching the famous saint (o the Baptist denomination clergymen of the WIsE. canal mother church who bear the name of Pa: rick will be obliged to forsake the pat- ronoymic and forswear allegiance to Noew Jersey. e DOMESTIO PLEASANTRIES. Phamliman—Yes, marrfed at Baster. Ascum—Everything's settled, eh? Phamliman—Not by a jugful You don't catch me paying in advance.—Philadelphia my daughter's to be Parishioner—Doctor, why don't preach_occasionally on heaven or hell? The Rev. Dr. Lastly—Half my congrega- tion feels sure of the one, and half doesn't belleve In the other.—Chicago Tribune. He—1 hope you didn't belleve what they sald about me. jhe—1 make it a point mever to belleve more than half I hear. He—But the trouble is you women gen. er:lly belleve the wrong half.—Brooklyn Life. you Sibyl—How did you come to accept Jack? I the t you sald “no’’ once. Becyl—Se § id; then he groposed again an sald “no” a second time. 1—Well? ryl—He asked me to name the da saying that in school he had been taught that two lml'.lvu make an affirmative Baltimore Herald. Sarcastic Relative—Weren't you rather late In the day in Ketting martled? Blushing Bride of Forty-seven—Oh, no. ;V. were wedded at high noon—Somerville ournal. Mrs. Jagsby—My husband told the truth for once when he came home at 3 o'clock the other morning and I asked him where hi b pfien—Tndeed. What 2 he say? Mrs. Jw-ul sald he 4Mdn’t know. Chicago Newa. “Now, President Roosevelt's letter,” re- marked the Womanly Woman, “should make us think." “Yes,” replied the self-centered mtly woman, “I've been thinking how it 'o\lldbolr'.mulflmfl‘l‘mluflve- ment to make storks able for hat trimmings.”—Philadelphia Press. 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