Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 19

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REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, avante t3 The Bee Publishing Company dnly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, Personal checks except, on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accs e L BTSN G COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 88.: George B, Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing’ Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning. ivening and Sunday Bee printed durlng the month of February, 1903, was as follc . 29,160 FRRRRESEEDE returned coples. Net total sales. .. Net average sales. CORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my' presence und sworn Lo elore this 28th da: [ [Pebruary, . D. Taggore me this b 98F B, HUNGA'TE: lm:ffiell.) tary Public. More signs of spring—the thickening base ball talk. em— 1f expedition of business is wanted, all the sessions of the senate should be extra sesslons. On the succession to the office of dis- trict attorney Senator Millard is paired with his colleague, Senator Dietrich. iy President Roosevelt will spend one Sunday in Nebraska. He will find he is in God's own country on God's own day. With northern capital fast developing the rice industry in Texas, we will eventually have to export rice to China if we cannot import the Chinamen to consume the rice here. e—— Pres:dent Francis of the St. Louis ex- position will now have to send abroad for a few crowned heads to enable him to enjoy a dinner on this side of the Atlantic now and then. The revenue bill has moved up from the house to the senate. It will be well, however, for everyone to keep a close eye on it at every stage. The tricks of the lobby are numerous and nimble. —— March railroad earnings were 14.6 per cent greater than for the same month of 1902. But the rallroads are still too poor to pay taxes on their property on the same basis as other property owners. ———— Those Michigan university students who sheared half the head of the toast- master of the freshman banquet must be preparing for *a business career among the lawabs of the stock exchange. — A few more fines of 000 apiece levied on the great meat packing houses for violating anmti-trust laws, as im- posed In Missouri, and we may look to see the price of beefsteak breaking the high-vaulting recerd. Susan B. Authony is still on deck ae the leader of the woman suffragists in their aunual national convention at New Orleans. BEven the most confirmed op- ponents of woman suffrage will concede to her the place of the grand old woman of the movement for the emancipation of the sex. e According to Governor Garvin of Rhode Island the average price of votes in towss In that state where there is ne contest is only $2. It must be an aw- fully slow election in Rhode Island when they can't manage to work up a contest that will force prices up over this low-water mark. e If the example of the Missourl legis- lators becomes countagious in submitting & constitutional amendment compelling the railroads to carry public officials free, the favorite way to connect with a rallway pass will be by getting into some sinecure state office created spe- clally for the purpose with no other emolument but the honor. — 4 The werst thing brought up against Judge Parker is the reswrrection of an old letter purporting to prove conclu- sively that he voted for Bryan In 1806, Bryan evidently was not aware that he had such eminent support in the Em- pire state. The double-barreled ques- tlon suggests itselt Was Parker try- ing to fool Hill then or is he trylug to fool Bryan now? Kausas City happens to be having a little bout with the telephoue company there for lower rates, although the Kan- sas City tariff is really lower than that of Omsha. With half agaln as many 'phones in the exchauge, the Kansas City companies’ highest charge 1s 96 a year, ag against 90 in Omaha, while its lowest charge for party, Mne service is about the same as In this city. If Kan- sas City is entitled w0 a reduction of telephone rates Omaba certaluly is also. REPUR coal COAL STRIKE COMMISSION The report of the anthracite strike commission is on the whole fa- vorable to the miners and if acquiesced in by the operators, as it is presumed it will be, will improve conditions in the anthracite region and perhaps avert in future such conflicts as that of last year. The commission finds in favor of an Increase of wages and some re duction in time, deciding In these re- spects in favor of the contention of the miners, There is no doubt that in this the commission is entirely fair and just. The evidence presented proved conclusively that the miners are en- titled to better compensation than tl had been recelving, while as to the hours of labor they were in respect to a very large number of employes exces- sive. This was not the case with all of them, but the aim of the commis- slon s to equalize the work and the propriety and justice of this cannot reasonably be questioned. The commission recommends arbitra- tion of any difficulty or disagreement arising under its award and suggests a plan for this that ought to be accept able to both parties. This contemplates a board of conciliation consisting of three representatives of the miners and three of the operators. If these fail to agree the matter of disagreement shall be referred to an umpire to be ap- pointed by a judge of the Third judicial circuit of the United States, whose de- eision shall be final and binding in the premises. This also is a proposition that should be acceptable to both par- ties. It is suggested that this board shall at all times be kept complete and that pending the adjudication of any matter before it there shall be no sus- pension of work by lockout or strike, Another fmportant recommendation is in regard to a sliding scale of wages, to be regulated by the price charged for coal in specified markets and deter- mined by an accountant or commissioner named by one of the circuit judges of the Third judicial circuit of the United States. Not the least interesting and significant clause in the report is this: “No person shall be refused employ- ment or in any way discriminated against on account of membership or non-membership in any labor organiza- tion, and there shall be no discrimina- tion against or interference with any employe who Is not a member of any labor organization by members of such organization.” The acceptance of this wlill require that on the one hand oper- ators shall not refuse work to men -be- cause they are members of the miners’ organization and that on the other hand union miners shall not interfere with nonunion workers. The principle em- braced in this will doubtless be quite generally recognized as sound, but it cannot be confidently predicted that it will prove satisfactory to either the operators or the miners. “The commission is said to take a de- cided position against compulsory arbi- tration and In this it is in accord with general public sentlment. It is a well established fact that the principle of compulsory arbitration has very little support in this country, both employers and organized labor being with practi- cal unanimity opposed to it. The state- ment that - the constitution of the United Mine Workers of America “does not present the most inviting induce- ments to the operators to enter into contract relations with 1t" is very likely to cause some resentment on the part of that organization, but it should suggest to it the expediency of making some changes iu that instrument. In regard to the conditions of the mine workers the report says that they do not justify, “to their full extent,” the adverse criticlsms made by their rep- resentatives and that the average dally rate of earnings In the anthracite re- glons does not compare unfavorably with that In other industries. That portion of the report which deals with the relation of employer and employed and speaks for the independence of nonunion labor is especially interesting. It will not be questioned that the in- quiry made by the commission was most thorough and we think it will be very generally admitted that it has been impartfal In its conclusions. If ts recommendations are heeded there should be prolonged peace In the an- thracite coal reglon. ——————— PROGRESS OF NAVAL ARMAMENT. The effort of the emperor of Russla to induce the nations to curtail their exnendl_lurel for npaval and wilitary armament has not only been unheeded, but there is belug a steady increase in the bullding up of the sea power of the great nations and there is no promise of abatement in this direction in the near future. Great Britain was never more progressive in this respect than at present. The navy estimates of that country for the ensulng year provide for an expenditure of over $179,000,000 and in explaining this the admiralty sec- retary: sald that while the estimates were unparalleled in time of peace or war, the great competition and rivalry in the matter of naval armaments con- tinued to make this enormous and un- productive expenditure necessary. By the begiuning of next month there will be under construction for the British navy the total of seventy-one vessels, including eleven battleships and nine- teen armored cruisers, besides other war vessels. It is not dificult to understand why Great Britain is making this enormous addition to its sea power. It is due to the general policy of the maritime na- tions of Europe in this particular. All of them are most actively engaged In strengthening thelr navies and Great Britain cannot lag behind. Iudeed it has hecome a settled conviction in Eng- land that that power wust not only be equal on the sea to the next two strong- est naval nations, but to any three of them. With Germany, France and Rus- sia ppshing forward iu this direction it is maunifest that Britlsh security re- quires that there shall be no abatement of effort to keep its sea power up to a standard that will not only insure pro tection of the United Kingdom, but safety for all the vast outlying British empire, The power of Great Britain being wholly In its navy, that cannot be permitted to deteriorate. This growth in naval armament seems likely to go on indefinitely, for it Is quite impossible to foresee a limit to the competition and rivalry in this re- spect between the great powers of the world What must be the position of the United States in this regard? When | tuls country shall have completed the navy for which provision has already been made it will rank fourth among the naval powers. The question whether that is a safe position is one for serl ous consideration, in view of the greatly enlarged interests and responsibilities which have come to the United States within the last few years. NEBRASKA AT THE EXPOSITION. The Kansas legislature has voted $£125,000 to be expended in advertising the resources of the Sunflower state at the 8t. Louis fair, and some people can- not comprehend why Nebraska should not do likewise. Nebraska is not in condition to expend $125,000, or one-half of that sum for the big St. Louis show. Nebraska is more than two millions In debt, while Kansas is practically out of debt. Nebraska has quite recently ad- vertised its resources very extensively through an exposition of its own and would not be justified in taxing its peo- ple $125,000 for exposition advertising even If it had positive assurance that it would be a paying investment. In fact Nebraska would not be justified in following the example of Kansas even if it had money to burn. The great majority, if not two-thirds, of the attendance at the Louisiana Pur- chase exposition will be drawn from the region commercially tributary to St. Louis—Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. There is no immediate or re- mote prospect of migration from those states to Nebraska, and for that matter very poor prospect for any considerable number of people from that section mi- grating to Kansas. Nebraska must in the future as in the past re-enforce its population from New England, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and the coun- tries on the other side of the Atlantie. The people hailing from those states are generally hardy and adapted to the Ne- braska climate. Costly experience has taught Ne- braska that one-half of the appropria- tions for expositions are absorbed by ple-biters, their familles and near rela- tives, and barnacles that subsist on fairs at the public expense. The Bee does not, however, contend that Ne- braska should be unrepresented at the St. Louls exposition. As one of the states within the territory that consti- tuted the Louisiana purchase It is in honor bound to make a creditable ex- hibit of its resources side by side with the other states in the Mississippi val- ley. Such an exhibit can be made with an appropriation of $25,000, omitting, of course, the erectlon of a state building, which is superfluous. mr— THE LEGISLATURE SHOULD RESCIND. In the adoption of the concurrent res- olution petitioning congress against the passage of the Dietrich land lease bill, the legislature has unconsciously made a deplorable mistake. The original land lease bill, known as the “Bower- sock bill,” was doubtless framed up in the interest of the cattle barons and calculated to create land monopoly in its worst form. The Bowersock bill embraced in its scope all vacant public lands west of the 100th meridian to the Pacific coast. Leases of such lands were not to be subject to competitive bids, but a uni- form rental of 2 cents per acre per an- num was to be exacted from the lessees. All leases were to run ten years, with the privilege of renewal for a second term of ten years, the first lessee hav- Ing the preference for such second term, whith was tantamount te a twenty- year lease. The Dietrich bill was carefully framed on lines that would overcome the objections raised against the Bow- ersock bill and was fully concurred in by Congressmam Lacey, chairman of the house committee .on public lands, who bad made the public land laws a life study, and is a recognized cham plon of the western homesteader, It was an umfortunate clrcumstance that Governor Mickey was not in pos- session of the full text of the Dietrich bill when he sent, his special message condemning this measure to the legisla- ture. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the antagonism which this measure en- countered would have taken the form of a legislative remonstrance to congress had its provisions and the conditions under which it had been introduced been fully understood. The full text of the Dietrich bill is as follows: Be in enacted by the senate and bouse of representatives of the United States of America fn congress assembled. That the secretary of the interier is hereby authorized, im his discretion, to lease for live stock grazing purposes, for such advance amnual remtal, upom such terms, with such restrictions, in such quan- tities, not exceeding twenty sections in any single lease, and for such time, not ex- ceeding a period of ten.years, as to him shall seom reasomable, such of the public lands within the state of Nebraska as are in their matural condition valuable only for live stock grazing purposes and are not eapable of irrigation. Not more than ene lease shall be, directly or indirectly, made to or held by the same person, and ne lease shall be transferable, except with the ap. proval of the secretary of the interior. So far as practicable, ectual and bona fide homestead settlers and owners of private lands shall have a preference in leasing the adjoining public lands, and where two or more such homestead settlers or private owners are desirous of leasing the same adjoining public lands, the latter shall be equitably apportioned among them. So long as any lessee fully complies with the terms of bis lease, but not beyond the term for which the lease is given, be may in- | close the land embraced in his lease and shall be entitled to the exclusive use thereot for live stock grazing purposes; but the lands embraced in any lease shall notwithstanding the le continue to be subject to settlement, entry and acquisi- tion by qualified persoms who in good faith %0 upon such lands for the purpose of mak- ing actual settlement and maintaining ac- tual residence thereon, as is required by sections 2289, 2200, 2291, 2304, 2307 of the revised statutes of the United States. Every lessee and every tramsferee of any lease shall, as a condition precedent to obtaining or holding such lease or transfer, be required to agree in writing, that he will not, during the continuance of the lease, in any manner, directly or indirec late &ny of the provisions of the act of con- gress entitled, “An act to prevent unlawful occupancy of the public lands,” approved February 25, 1885, The rentals of lands lease hereon, after deducting the expenses of administering this act, shall be annually disposed of, un- der the direction of the secretary of the in- terior, as follows: One-fourth shall be paid to the state of Nebraska, one-fourth shall be pald to the county in which the leased land lies, and one-half shall be credited in the trensury of the United States to the reclamation fund established under an act of congress entitled, “An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” approved June 17, 1902, The purpose of this act is to provide for the economic use of public lands in the state of Nebraska which are adapted only to grazing purposes; to encourage the im- provement, use and protection of the grass thereon and to determine whether a system of leasing public lands of this character may be justly and advantageously inaugu- rated and maintained. The enactment of such a law could not possibly have been injurious to the interests of the people of Nebraska or detrimental to the homeseekers who might desire to locate in the semi-arid scetion of the state. The bill embodies all reasonable safeguards against land monopoly. Its enactment would assist materially In the much-desired recla- mation of arid lands by irrigation. It seems to us that even at this late day it would not be inappropriate for the legislature to rescind its action and re- verse its course with regard to the Diet- rich land lease bill. IRRIGATION WORK. Five projects for artificial frrij ha been approved by the Interior de- partment and orders {ssued for the elaboration of plans and the prepara- tion of everything required for actual operations. These projects are scat- tered through the states of Arizona, Col- orado, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming and it Is estimated that their cost will be §7,000,000. Predictions as to the amount of land that will be improved by them vary, running from 20,000,000 to 100,000,000 acres. o] It is wot surprising to hear that com- plaints are reaching the authorities at Washington in regard to the proposed plans of irrigation work. This was to have been expected, because each lo- cality naturally desires to receive first attention. A Washington dispatch says that the ery has gone up from thous- ands of western farmers that the frri- gation funds are being used for the benefit of land in which certain United States senators are interested. It Is needless to say that there is no evi- dence in support of this charge, which i is safe to say is entirely unwarranted. The prosecution of Irrigation work, there is every reason to belleve, will be carried on under the present adminis- tration impartially and with a view to the best results, and it Is safe to dis- credit all reports to the contrary. The constitution of the United States lodges the treaty-making power in the president, subject to the concurrence of two-thirds of the senate, while It places the law-making power with con- gress subject to approval of the presi- dent. The constitution goes further and places certain limitations on the various parties to the making of laws, the prin- cipal one being that revenue measures must originate in the lower house, and it also makes treaties as binding as any law of the land. But where the treaty- making power stops or crosses Into the realm of the law-making power is no- where defined and the margin where the two are apt to conflict Is so broad that the only wonder is we have not had more serious controversies over it The last striking example was when Hawali was annexed by majority vote of the two houses after an annexation treaty had been unable to muster the necessury two-thirds in the senate, and now we see the Cuban treaty, although ratified by an overwhelming majority, made to wait upon legislation of both houses, first to delay its enforcement, and second, to shift part of the respen- sibility on the representatives in the house. If the house were opposed to a treaty, this would be an effectual way of hanging it up in the alr indefinitely. - The new 2-cent adhesive postage stawp bearing a portralt of Washington that had to be labeled for identification drew upon it & downpour of expletives as seon as it showed Its head, but the adhesive stamp proves to be a work of art beside the new stamped envelope of the 2-cent denomination that bas now made its appearance. The em- bossed imprint on the envelope for the first time gets away from the customary oval and is encased In a rectangular frame with rounded corners while the bust of Washington has flutings around the back of, the neck resembling the rough side of a wash board. If Wash- ington is to remain first in the bearts of his countrymen these new postal pie- tures will have to ‘be called in. The school board's rule against the use of the public schools to promote projects of a private character is again being too laxly enforced. The children in the public schools should be pro tected not only against forced eontribu tions, but also against impressment in money-making entertainments without regard to the worthiness of the cause in whose name they are undertaken. For what is doue by promoters outside of vio- | the schdols the board is not responsible but it owes it to the public to see to it that the schools are not used In any way to bolster up private ventures. ——— J. Plerpont Morgan expresses himself as decidedly dissatisfied with the tariff that imposes a duty of more than 50 per cent on foreign works of art which he has purchased. On the other hand, some other tariff schedules are doubt- less collecting for him more money than the duties of his art collection would put iuto the national treasury The government might call it an offset if he prefers it by that name. One of the visiting delegates to the dressmakers’ convention at Chicago de- clared that Chicago women have fig. ures more symmetrical, graceful and beautiful than those possessed by the women of any other city in ,America Just when this form expert contem plates locating in Chieago is not stated. An Odious Comparison, Philadelphia Ledger. Some' people are inclined to place no more faith in the czar's proclamation than in a platform adopted by one of our na- tlonal conventions. Shelving the Bombs. Brooklyn Eagle. The grant of Increased liberty In Russia will check bomb throwing till the realiza- tion of still greater liberty arrives. Some people never get enough of anything. A Doubting Thomas. Chicago Post. Still we hesitate to take as fresh news the statement of the dressmakers that “figures are made, not born.” Nature has never been guilty of making a ‘“straight front." Let Us Be Thankful. Baltimore American When one reads of flerce battles over theological bills in the British Parlia- ment, one utters a thanksgiving that there are some things, ®t least, which, in our own congress, we are spared. Flight of a Carpetbagger, Washington Post. The Hawailan commissioner of agricul- ture and forestry has departed far an un- known destination and left a deficit in his | accounts. Since the completion of the Pa- cific cable we have been able to get a great many fresh items of this sort. Striking Evidence of Prosperity. Philadelphia Record. A summary of the life insurance com- panies in the United States prepared by The Spectator, shows assets on January 1 aggregating $2,100,138,473—an increase for the year of $18 198—and the surplus Boston Transeript: The Change of Seasons— from winter to spring are more marked than the great change of prices. If you are interested in new up to date house furnish- ings our change of policy to a one price basis you. should interest Our reduction of 10 to 40 per cemt on every piece of furniture in our store should interest you still more. Price and quality hand in hand convincing argument, in our Carpet and Drapery De- partment is inspection. Baker Furniture Co. Formerly Shiverick Furniture Co. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. He who will not lift up the world will be dragged down with it. Preaching of itself will no more save than a preseription will cure. The true reformer not only destroys the evil, but he also builds the good. He does not care for his character whe 's not careful as to his companions. When a man is willing to go to heaven alone he must surely be mistaken as to his destination. You can kmow that a man has received free salvation by the fact that he gives tree service. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Those who brought over all liabilities amounted to $295,629,768. the charges against Bishop Moreland of The payments to policy holders were very | Playing tennis ought mot to have forgotten nearly $200,000,000, and the total amou; of insurance in force was not much le than $9,000,000,000, an, increase of near! $1,000,000,000 during the year. In the la: five years the amount in force has increased 53 per cent. figures relate to ordinary business. The Indu trial insurance in force January 1 amourted Cincinnati Inquirer: an increase of 64 per cent 6 These figures are striking | 8reat soclal revolutiop is impending. But to $1,305,164,072, in five years. evidences of prosperity. KEEP A CHEERFUL MIND. Optimism Under Adverse Conditio Sign of High Character. Milwaukee Journal. To be cheerful when the world is going The well with you is 1o great Wirtue. of life insurance 't | that the great Joseyh used to serve in the g | courts of Pharaoh. ly| Milwaukee Journal: At the First Metho- dist church next Sunday evening Rev. Frank Pease will speak on the subject, “Hell: se|What is It? Who Gets There?’ Seats s- | free. Cordial invitations to all. Rev. Vandyke of hicago may be right when he says that a he should take a more hopeful view of the situation. Social revolutions do not neces- sarily involve havoc and disaster. At this stage of the world they may be wrought by peaceful ‘procest Kansas City Star: A Missodri preacher has declared that hereafter he will tell tho truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in delivering funeral sermons. thing 18 to be cheerful under disadvan- |t is suspected that this clergyman does not tageous circumstances. It one has lo money, 1t business prospects fail, it ene- | Services, anyway. if thero is sick- mies appear triumphant, ness of sel? or those dear to one, then it indeed a virtue to be cheerful. ‘When poverty pinches day after day, month after st | care very much about officiating at funeral At least his calls, after this declaration, are likely to be few and 1s | not close together. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, month or through the years as they pass, | and one has ever to deny self of every| little longed-for luxury, and the puzzle ot how to make ome dollar do the work for two has to be solved, then the man who can still be cheerful is a here. He s a the cannon's mouth, Such cheerfulness ie To acquire this self-command, we need to think of many things. We need to guard against giving way to irritation about lit- tle things. If we can maintain self-control | in small matters, we shall have less difi- culty in maintaining it when great matters are to be met. If we meet with irreparable losses wo must readjust our lives to fit the new conditions. There is no great evil | €0 bad but that it might have been worse. | Let us congratulate ourselves that the worst is not yet! There is truth in the saying that “every gloud has a silver lin- ing.”" Though it may_for a time look so | dark we can see no glint of the silver, yet tucky whisky. business sagacity grows greater hero than the soldier who taces | °f D¢ Toval thirst comes int | Philadelphia is again striving to enferce the kind that we need to cultivate. |Sunday biue laws & cestury old. tivities that disturb the olumbers of the Quakers should be strong club. Let the sleepy sloep on. It Las been discovered that several New Yorkers sentenced to Sing Sing for seques trating other people’s money, connect with traveling mighty dificult on ofled roads. It cost a Chicago rallroad men of tve disposition just $75 to attempt & flir- tation with & woman in New Orleans. incident is an instructive illustration of Crescent City talent In separating visitors from thelr money. the prison. Bince the date of his coromation King Edward has ordered four barrels of Ken- Admiration for the king’ the dimeusior: view. Any ac- suppressed with a failed to Justice finds ort- The we know it is there. SWEET BOON OF WORK. I1deal Conditions Rarely Experienced |Melancholy and water his by the Multitpde. Indlanapolis News. President Eliot of Harvard, who recently sounded the praises of hard work, h: A Jerseyman possessing an uncommonly trustful mature applied to the health de- partment of Newark for a permit to kill bimself. He was advised to merge i ock. Sure cure for the blues. According to the dectsion of the supreme court of the District ot Columbla, wemen clerks employed By the government have since had his opinfons enthusiastically sup- | @0 Inallenable right to exchange gossip, ported by Bishop Potter. other day sald to them: *I ding, “Happy nationm, The bishop re- gards labor as a sweet boon, amd In ad- dressing an audience of working women the hope you recognize the great privilege of toll,” ad- | happy men and women who bave work to do, and do it!" | promised This is all very well in its way, but such but they must mot rush into print to dls- cuss family affairy 4 The long-distance kicking belt has been awarded to a Pennsylvania mule which scored a reach of 250 feet. The animal en- deavored to caress an officesecker who to redeem all his pledges. Though & fallure, the effort was herolc and remarks from such men can really 'have | the motive admirable. but little influence on the people who do work in making them regard their tofl as blessed Every mature person of common The marvelous nerve and self-polse of young America was strikingly sho¥n by a girl of 16, who testified in a recent murder sense knows it to be true that work, es- pectally congenial work, is a thing to be welcomed for many reasons other than the 1s a worker, and Bishop Potter, who alse works, knew this. With all due respect to them, however, they and their kind do mot work as men and women do whose daily bread depends upon their constant toll, and, therefore, thelr sense of work's blessedness is not likely to be appreciated by the mul- titude of tollers. Few persons who labor complain of their toil because it is tofl: they accept it as & matter of course, as & part of what lite deals out to them. It they are unable to feel the bishop's enthu- slasm it is because they are not free to vary thelr work, they are tied to it year in and year out; they canmot escape from it except at the risk of pinching poverty to themselves and their families. There are no summer vacations for them, B0 trips south in winter, no tours of Europe, no running away to springs or seashore “for a little rest.” President Ellot may work sixteen hours a day, as he says, but he does not do it of necessity 300 days iu the year. Nor does Bishop Potter. When either of them is worn or weary, be calls a halt and | recuperates. It is the ability to do ihis, | the certaluty that they can do this without | loss to themselves or others, that causes | the work they like to seem 80 blessed. It is this lack of freedom to move about and to emjoy repose when repose would be wel- come, this necessity of working when work is & burden, that !s the chief sting of pov- erty, and nothing the volunteer worker, as he might be called, may say to the toller from Decessity can alter this fact or make upremitting labor scem & joy and a privilege. calmly wate: monetary recompense President Eliot, who | atory, sample case tha she did mot go to the reom in which her father's body lay, but instead the plants 1n the conserv- breakfast other household duties ummoved tnd un- | vexed by the shadow of a crime. devotion® und performed As a it will be | fortunate if the country mever hears of its like again, DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Mrs. Featherly—I mean to get well, doc- tor. I am going to throw all my will power into the effort. Dr. Pompous—That will be vain and use- less, madame. You are w in my charge.— Kansas City Journa Ascum—How are the plans for your new houss coming along? Bubbubs—8plendidly. My wife has finally 1aid out all the closets she wants and now all the architecy’s got to do Is to bulld the house around them.—Philadelphia Press. “What can I preach about next Sunday that will please the entire congregation®" asked the new minister. “Preach about the evils of riches,' re- miea the old deacon. “There isn't a mem- or of the congregation that is worth over $2,000."—Chicago News. “Why does Mrs. Dinsmore hate Mr. Tem- pleton so relentlessly ?"" asked Hojack. “He once alluded to her as a well pre- served woman, and some one reported it to her,"” replied Tomdik.—Detroit Free Press. He—Will you marry me? Bhe—No, He—Well, will you be a bridesmaid at the wedding when I marry Miss Wilkinson? I am lofil over to propose to her now.— Somerville Journal. Shopper—I want to get & vase that doesn't_cost t0o— Floorwalker—Yes, department, fourth ‘madam. aisle Chinaware in the base- ment. Second Shopper—Where did you say the “vawses" are to be found? Floorwalker—Art department, madam; second floor, front. Philadelphia’ Press. “Yes, he proposed.’ Miss Passay con- tinued blushing, “‘and when papa came into the room he found me in Mr. Huggins' , now 1 see,” exclaimed Miss Speitz “1 wondered what your father meant today when I hen:d him telling my father that Mr. Huggins had an old head on young shoulders.'—Philadelphia Press. ekt el POPE LEO'S LAST PRAYER. As part of his own contribution to the cclentation of his ninety-third birthday and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his election as pope. Leo XIII wrote'a Latin paem. which has been translated by Dr. William H. Ward for the current number of the Independent, It is explained that no at- tempt has been made to follow the metre of the original. The translation follows: Leo, now sets thy sun; pale is its dying ray; Black night succeeds thy day. Black night for thee; wasted thy frame; life's flood sustains No more thy shrunken veins. 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