Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1903, Page 4

4 _————— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1903, THE 6MAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Beo (without Sunday), One Yeor..$4. Dally Bee und Sunday, One Year. .8 Diustrated Bee, On Year.. . Bunday Bee, One Year wea Baturday Bee, One Year..... . Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bes (without Sunday), per copy.... ally Bes (without Bunday), per week ally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. Bunday Bee, per copy * % & Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. Evenlng Hee (including Sunday), per o Gelivars ‘omplainis’ of irreguiarities in delivery shouid be addressed 16 City Cireulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Hee Buildin Bouth Omaha-ICity Hall ty-fAfth and M Streets Councll Blufts--10 Pear] Street. Chicago—i840 Unity Bullding New York—2% Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Edllnru‘l’)nparlmcnh EMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, gayable to The Bee Publishing Company, n) { 2-cent stamps acceptea in payment of Aaccounts. ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING' COMPANY, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 88.: George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full an complete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1008, was as follows 00 00 2.00 2.00 1.50 100 Funding, Twen- CEEENEREBREEBERS Net total sdles. Net aver sales. . GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 8ist du‘ut May, A. D, 1908. . B. HUNGATE, Notary Publi —_—_— It is not always the horse carrying the smallest odds that is carried by the fastest feet. In the interval the prudent Nebraska farmer has been planting corn and at- tending strictly to busines Tom Johnson should be reminded to bring bis circus tent along to Colonel Bryan’s Fourth of July pienie. 4 e Property owners on North Sixteenth street had better fall in line with Gen- eral Manderson and sign the petition for repaving. Next play in the water works purchase game will be the selection of the third appraiser. The third appraiser is the Joker that emlg the winning point. The orators of the High school grad- uating class of 1903 have settled all the important problems of the hour and the earth may n¢ rotate on its axis with- out further fi n or digturbance. Nebraska's ting debt apptoximates $2,500,000, whereas the constitution ex- y forbids an indebtedness in excess of §100,000 {n'times of peace. But then, ‘what is the constitution between friends? BEvery ominous fire that is extin- gulshed with comparatively small loss is added proof that no mistake was made when Ohief Salter was put in the place formerly occupied by Chief Re- dell. emmmp—— Nobody seems to think it worth while to discuss the chances of Chairman James K. Jones for being retzined at the head of the democratic national committee through another presidential campalign. 81X Omaha milkmen are being prose- cuted for mixing formaldehyde with their milk. The dealers have none but themselves to blame. Nobody will sym- pathize with people who mix Graeco- Welsh words with Anglo-Saxon. Nebraska is ripe for a system of inter- urban electric lines that will afford bet- ter facilities for soclal and commercial intercourse of the rural population with the principal towns and cities during all hours of the day. Government by injunction has struck a snag at Richmond, Va., but Uncle Sam's crulser s bound to get out of dry dock as soon as it has put on its war paint notwithstanding the extra judicial dead rest mandate. ‘With what has been accomplished in the way of tax reform in Omaha be- fore them, the people of South Omaha will have only themselves to blame if they stand for continued corporate tax shirking that makes low tax ratgs im- possible. Members of the police force ard grad- ually discovering that to resign from the department requires the assent of the police board. In the past police of- ficers have been allowed to resign as a matter of course to keep thelr records clear when other measures of discipline would be more in. order. aa———e—— In trying to banish the dope fiend from Omaha, Chlef of Police Donahue has tackled a heavier task than he has ever undertaken Dbefore., Confirmed mor- phine eaters do not all live in the Third ward any more than the confirmed drunkards all byy their rum in the sa- loons. eep——— The only way to get results in adver- tising is fo select the medium that reaches the largest number of regular paying subscribers. Experienced busi- ness men are not caught by fake cir- culation claims in redy or in black. The proof of the pudding isdn the eating. The mock auction advertising fakirs only ecatch the credulous gudgeon who snaps at the tempting baits offered as special {nducements. CUNGRESS TO MEET IN NOVEMBER. Announcement is again made that President Roosevelt intends to call con- gress in extra session in November, The chief purpose In view Is to secure ac tion on the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but other matters may be considered, perhaps a cufency bill if the sub-com- mittee of the senate finance committee should have a measure ready by No vember. Tt thus appears that the presi- dent Is as earnest as ever in the desire to estublish closer commercial relations between Cuba and the United States and it is regarded as highly probable that the treaty which has been negoti- ated will be ratified by congress. Meanwhile it is gaid that the business men of Cuba have become quite indif- ferent in regard to the reciprocity treaty. The opinion appears to have obtained among the industrial and com- mercial interests of the island that they would derive no substantial benefit from the small concession in tae tariff on Cuban products, er that any material difference would occur in the course of importations, It is sald that manufac- tured goods would still come chiefly from Great Britain, Germany and Spain, and even sugar machinery would be brought from Scotland. About the only increase from the United States would be in grain and provisions and Cuba is likely to become tolerably capable of feeding herself. An eastern paper re- marks that when the treaty comes up in congress it appears as iIf the Oubans, outside of the official class, will care little about what becomes of it. This view is based upon the observations of some representatives of American busi- ness interests who have recently visited Cuba. Whether or not the view be cor- rect, it is a fact that so far as predent trade conditions are concerned this country is not enjoying any such ad- vantages in the Cuban market as It might reasonably be expected, for obvi- ous reasons, to'have. The island con- tinues to import liberally from European countries, thus giving renewed demon- stration of the fact that sentiment plays a very small part in business affairs, Under a reciprocity arrangement, how- ever, even with the small tariff conces- slon contemplated it I8 not to be doubted that exports from the United States to Cuba would be quite ma- terially increased, though probably not to the extent that some of the more ardent advocates of reciprocity have predicted. CAN'T SQUARE THE WRONG. The mere fact that the assessors in five or six of the ninety counties of Nebrasks have listed lands and chattels at a lower valuation for 1903 than they had been listed -at for the preceding year is projected to the front as a justi- fication of the favor of the State Board of Assessors to raise the assessments of rallroads to & fair proportion with the valuation placed on all other classes of property. ) There 18 an adage that one swallow does not make summer, and five or six counties, representing possibly 5 per cent of the grand assessment roll of the state, should not be taken as the stand- ard of valuation for the assessment of the entire state. Take, for exaiaple, the assessment of Douglas county, which aggregates about $25,000,000, or nearly one-sixth of the total valuation of all property in the state, exclusive of rafl- roads. The ratio in Douglas county to actual value is one-sixth, or fully 16 per cent, and that is the ratio in fifteen or twenty other counties in the most densely set- tled portion of the state. It is a mat- ter of fact, also, that in some of the western counties the ratio of assessed value to actual value is from one-fourth to one-fifth, or from 20 to 25 per cent. Taken as a whole the grand assess- ment roll, exclusive of raflroad prop- erty, represents a ratio of from one- seventh to one-eighth, or from 121% to 14 per cent of the actual value, while the rallroads are assessed at from one- twelfth to one-thirteenth of their true value, or from 7% to 8 per cent of their actual value. These are stubborn facts which no amount of sophistry or juggling with figures can disprove. The worst of the thing is that while the State Board of Equalization may at its coming meet- ing in July equalize in a measure the burden imposed in the shape of state taxes upon the respective counties, it cannot undo the rark injustice that it has perpetrated in the assessment of the rallroads by undervaluation in the face of the increased earnings and in- creased valuations of those properties over what they had been during preced- ing years. FOR ELASTIC CURRENCY. In & recent address Mr. Ridgdly, comp- troller of the currency, urged that there should be greater elasticity in bank note currency and explained how he thought this could best be accomplished. He sald that the most conservative and practical suggestion seems to be to make no change in the present bank ecircula- tion, but to allow the banks to issue in addition to the present notes a certain percentage of notes uncovered hy any bond deposit, but against which the banks should be required to hold in gold or {ta’ equivalent the same reserves as against deposits, and .. the same time to so add to the laws and regulations in regard to redemption as to provide very ample requirements and weans for re- demption and retirement. The redemp- tion machinery should be made so com plete and effective as to insure its con- stant application. A part of his plan is to provide a guaranty fund for the uncovered gold reserve notes, each bank being required to pay into this fund & per cent of its uncovered notes before they are lssued, the fund to be main- tained by a tax on this circulation. He thought that the proportion of uncovered ¥old reserve notes could be permitted to the »xtent of 5O per cent with safety, but 25 per cent is enough to supply a considerable element of elasticity and it would be well to begin with the smaller amount. In regard to the view that uncovered gold reserve notes would lead to a great inflation of the currency, the comp- troller said that the change in our cur- rency laws which the plan he advo- cated would require will introduce more factors which lead to contraction than to expansion. Bank notes, bLe said, should never be used for reserves, their true use being for current cash business only. Bank reserves should be gold, or some paper certificates which can be quickly converted into gold. He ex- pressed the opinfon that “a currency not available for reserves and protected by gold reserves and ample facilities for redemption would not be made the basis for undue Inflation of credits or used for speculation. It would only be used for those legitimate enterpriseu which have a proper basis of credit, and only to furnish the cash as long as it was needed for cash trangactions.” Of course the plan for providing a more elastic currency advocated by Mr, Rlidgely is not altogether new. Its more prominent features are famillar to those who hive given attention to the subject. But his presentation of it is a valuable contribution to the discussion of a ques- tion in which the financial and business interests are very much concerned and which will be prominent in the atten- tlon of the next congress. The plan contemplates no very radical changes and would probably secure the desired elasticity without in the least impairing the safety of the bank currency. There is no question but what the rural free delivery business has been played beyond the limit In some direc- tions, but there 48 also danger that the present reaction may carry the pendulum Just as far on the other side. Rural free delivery is deservedly popular and can be made a successful adjunct of the postal system by liberal yet not ex- travagant administration, while hard and fast narrowing of its scope may destroy its usefulness altogether. Becretary Shaw in addressing a grad- uating class at Clilcago drew on the impending Derby for an example of careful preparation for achleving suc- cess and declared that if it was worth while to go to so much trouble and ex- pense to train a horse that might win, the educational training of our young people for the race for success could not be too carefully performed. It's dollars to doughnuts that this illustra- tion did not go over his auditors’ heads. It's all In the point of view. It is generally known that President Roose- velt pxpects to have the ticket in 1904 rounded out with a western man for vice president, but here {8 U. 8. Grant of California pleading guilty to an am- bition to run for the vice presidency but expressing the apprehension that an eastern man will be honored. A west- ern man for a New Yorker may be an eastern man to a Californian. E——————— Governor Bailey declares that Kansas is still in need of aid for its flood snf- ferers, but he carefully confined his call for an extra session of the legislature to providing for the rebullding of de- stroyed bridges. When Nebraska was sorely afflicted with drouth the legis- lature appropriated $250,000 as a relief fund, although the state had to borrow the money. Ex-President Cleveland in denouncing an interview credited to him as un- authorized, explains that he never talks for publication unless he requires the reporter to reduce his words to writing at once and submit them to him for verification. This is a commendable precaution on the part of an ex-presi- dent. It prevents him from talking too much. Two-thirds of the paving demanded would be avolded if the public service corporations that cut the pave- ments lived up to their obligation to re- store the pavement in as good condition as before. For repairs that come under this category these corporations should foot the bills. EEE—— Speaker-to-be C(annon intimates that if necessary he might take the chairman- ship of the house postoffice committee himself. It won't be necessary, but Speaker Cannon could do worse without trying. Just te Cheer Him On, Chicago Record-Herald, When Sir Thomas Lipton started for America the band played “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow,” probably just to remind him ot the headache he has coming. F Worse Than War, New York World, According to estimates made fin the weather bureau at Washington, the lives lost by flood and tornado in this country thus far In the present year number at least 1,%0. Natural forces, therefore, have destroyed within a perfod a little longer than that of our struggle with Spain more than four times as many Americans as were killed in the batties of thaf war. ——— Whe Oan Answer for Him? Portland Oregonian. Ex-Representative Cobb of Alabama, who died recently, left behind him a record of having enriched the English language and adding to the galety of nations. He It was whd halted in debate when a member of the house of representatives and Inquired: ‘Where am I at?’ Such as he had, gave he unto the world. Hence he should be held in grateful remembrance. Nature' Recalling the Good 0ld Way. Chicago Chronicle. Nowadays when a young hopeful is taken by the collar and gebtly shaken by a school teacher his fond parents first havé nervous prosiration and then rush off and have the pedagogue arrested. Yet men who are scarcely middle aged can remember when the boy who came home from school howl- ing that he had been whipped was very likely to be taken to the cellar for a repeti- tion of the dose on general principles—it being argued that if he was licked at school he deserved it and probably did not get licked enough. Probably all this was very wrong, but We cannot forget that there was not one juvenile “tough” in thoss days to & score In this era of moral suasion. The switch sesmed o have & desirable effect FADS IN PURLIC SCHOO! Visfonary Experimenting by Enthu- siastie Theorista. Minneapolls Tribune, It 1s not easy to trace the process by which the American public schools have become full of fads. The truth is, Amer- fcans have taken the excellence of their public schools too much for granted and have paid too little attention to the meth- ods of teaching. This has given too much opportunity for visionary experimenting by enthusiastic theorists. The mischief could €0 on for many years without detection, because the fact that chiidren were not taught the elements of education was not discovered until they came out of school and tried to make a Hving. For another thing, childrer. of educated families pick up a good deal of elementary knowledge before they g0 to school and absorb a good deal at home afterwards; so that educational defects do not appear to those who would be first to notice them. The main sufferers have been the children of immigrants, themselves without much education, who fondly dreamed that thelr children were getting an education to fit them for American citizenship when they were in fact learning to weave Chippewa baskets and cut out paper dolls. This is what makes the matter most deplorable. No one but the faddists could tell ex- actly how the schools became honeycombed with fads, and probably they won't. 8o far as outsiders can see, it was through a combination of natural ignorance on the part, of school boards and misdirected en- thusiasm on the part of pedagogic specia fsts, We cannot expect to get persons of high culture on school boards by the method of popular election that prevalis in most cities. We eannot even expect to get persons of high culture for superintendents of sehools, since these positions exact rather adniinistrative power and a talent for polit- feal manipulations, Therefore both school boards and super- intendents have been an easy mark for ed- ucational theorists, eager to try new ex- periments on the infant mind. These have banded together in a kind of fad trades unfon, have held impressive conventions and have gradually expanded a new theory of education, evolved out of their own un- easy minds. This seems to have been adopted by the plain persons elected to be school directors and superintendents, under the mistaken impression that the educa- tion theorists know better than themselves. It is undenfable that the change has been helped along by persons of real education in the colleges, who ought to know better. These have been influenced by their oager desire to convert the schools of the people into preparatory schools for the colleges. Thelr wish to get large classes out of the public schools has led them to encourage overwhelming ambition for higher educa- tion, and has led to, the sacrifice of solid fundamental education to a hasty and su- perficlal acquirement of college learning. There begin to.be plain signs that these persons realize thelr error, and are pre- paring to retrieve it. There is increasing demand for sounder ‘elementary oducation from all the colleges of the ocountry, en- forced in many cases by refusing to re- ceive matriculates without it. Of course reform from this quarter will reach only a small part of the evil. The rest must be attacked directly by the general public, which, after all, is the greatest sufferer, — e WHAT 1S SUCCESS? andard Raised by Current of Great Business Men. American Banker. What g nolsy gospel.is that of “success’ and how many self-satisfled evangelists are enlisted n its service! Pulpits, books, pamphlots and periodicals overflow with its catchwords, its affiorfsms, its molern instances. In shops and offices, inspired by the propaganda of this glittering lore, the young men are brooding. Bank clerks Join the American institute, dfligently read the “Bulletin,” and procurs instruction from the correspondence school in quest of this elusive, precious, capriclous thing—suc- coss. The literary hack ransacks the ca- reers of conspicuous personages for the secret and method of success. He finds the exceptional and strikihg incldent, extracts it from the commonplace by which it is surrounded and sets it in a dramatic relief, The successful man {s a player strutting upon a stage. He moves to a triumphant cljmax. At a given conjuncture he will exhibit & supernal power of decision, of preternatural judgment, of clairvoyant vision, of titanic iridustry and thenceforth his ultimate triumph becomes inevitable. In other words, the successful man as he 1s portrayed in current literature is an optical {llusion, a chimera of the literary faddist. But all of us; unless we are poor trash indeed, have moments of upusual power, acuteness and diligence. This is the common lot. Yet only a few of us that share the common lot are destined to ac- cumulate great wealth, or achleve con- splcuous stations. The number of such stations and the chances for such accumu- lations mever Ald correspond, and never will, to the number of energetic, ambitious and capable men which is hopetul of achleving them, This unpalatable truth the literature of success abhors. The normal service of an able and faith- ful man has no place in the literature of success, Why? Because such a service has nothing plcturesque about it—it 1s too common; {s wanting n the melodramatic pitch. Besides it 1s so common, in fact, that we may identify it with countless in- dividuals, whosa achievements, measured by these Mmelight standards, are of uo account whatsoever. The successful man has never made a mistake, never taken a arink, never missed a cue, never told a lle, 1s never weary, plans and plots incessantly and probably never sleeps at all! And above all things he always reaches the top and invariably possesses a heavy bank account, The greater this bank account the more wonderful the business and pro- tessional powers of this astonishing indi- vidual seems to be He Is always more faithful, more vigilant, more Industrious, more efficient than other men. But this confuses the issue and debases the stand- ard of success. Browning said that the emphasis of success should be laid upon endeavor. The man who is true to himself, faithtul to the trust reposed in him, em- ploying his resources to the fullest, allow- ing for human endurance as well as weak- ness i3 a successful man. His material reward may be modest. but he is doing a part of the indispensable work of the world, doing it steadily amd well—is not this also success and success of a high order? To the literary perverts who write pithy and snappy articles how success |s achieved In this dull world such & man fs & mere cumberer of the ground. some one stands higher, this man is held to be outclassed and out qualified. He simply not in the race. on Because 1s Stretehing the COh ity of Hellef. Washington Post, . It requires considerable charity to be. lleve it is a pure coincidence that so many places in the employ of goverument con- tractors are filled by sons and relatives of officials who pass upon the contracts. The Road Roller of Thought. Philadelphia Ledger. Senator Beveridge of Indiana says: “The cosmic lessons of nature should be the decalogue of natjonal living and doing.' We object 10 that man even for vice presi- dent. TALK OF THE STATE FPRESS, Toblas Express: The people of western New York are looking for a rainmaker. What's the matter with Rainmaker Wright of Nebraska? We can spare him for a few days. Holdrege Citizen It is not likely that any more officeseekers who want a position under Governor Mickey will attempt to get it by improper means. People have learned that Governor Mickey is & man as well as governor and that they must govern them- selves accordingly. Kearney News: It s no more apparent now than ever that there is no better place to live than central Nebraska. Other sections have had floods, drouths and fires, while the worst that befalls us is an occa- sional dry spell. A soaking serles of rains like weo have had this spring only makes us thrive, Creighton Courfer: The largest alfalfa field In the world—comprising over 6,000 acres—is in Nebraska; the largest barn in America 1s in Dodge county, this stat the largest county in any state is in Nebraska and no state has as many miles of any one river as Nebraska has in the Platte, Fremont Tribune: The governor has a vacancy to fill on the State Normal board, which board is committed to the task of locating the new normal school the sta will bulld. The board is supposed to be about tled on location, so that the new appointee is likely to prove the determin- ing factor in the matter. Naturally there 18 a good deal of politics involved, and the interests of a good many ambitious towns anxious to be the center of the distribution of state funds. Norfolk News: The fusionists forgot all about the desirability of a nonpartisan su- preme court when they were in power, but now that the state has returned to its good old-time republican majorities and with a fusion majority in the court, they are most solicitous over the indication that the court may assume a partisan basis, or, more accurately, they fear that there will be a republican majority in the court, elected by the republican majority of the state. The republicans, however, seem to Dbe able to detect the real sentiment that inspires the agitation and will me~. it in the manner that will insure republican suc- coss, Central City Nonparell: It is with consid- erable pain that we observe that a large number of towns over the state are pro- ceeding with thelr pfeparations for a Fourth of July celebration, regardless of the prophecy made by Mr. Bryan during the last presidential campalgn to the effeot that if McKinley were elected there would be no more celebrations. Some people seem to have no regard for the proprieti Norfolk Leader: A nonpartisan judiclary has many advantages, but any plan where- by the party with a majority in the state has less than a majority on the supreme bench will not be favorably recelved or adopted. In other words, a strictly non- partisan judiclary is all wrong, but minor- ity representation on the supreme bench is all right. Norfolk Press: There is a systematic at- tempt being made to minimize the offénse of the people who violate the game and fish laws, and this attempt should be frowned down by every good and decent cltizen. The safety of Amerfoan institu- tions depends wholly on respect for and obedience to the law. The man who kn~w- ingly violates the law is an enemy to his country. The man who has no respect for the law is an anarchist, pure and simple. It matters not whether a law is good or bad it is entitled to enforcement and obedience. The officer who is charged with the enforcement of a law and fails to do so is gullty of as great or greater crime as the man who violated it. The Press favors the punishment of the vio- lators of the game and fish laws because it wants every law respected and obeyed. It doesn’t belleve in a false sentiment in tavor of violation of any law. ‘Wilber Democrat: Upon request, F. J. Sadilek, register of deeds, compiled from the official records the following statement of real estate mortgages filed for record and released for the first three months of the years 1901, 1002, 1%08: ¥iled. $158,085 201,284 216,617 Totals . Lonadens o SOW, 6 738,473 or $138,487 more released than filed. Com- paring this with the figures of nine years ago, when the mortgage indebtedness rec- ord was first started, for the same period of the first three months of the years 1892, 188 and 18, the amount of filings was $521,186, and releases $43,006. Ten years ago land was selling at a little over one- half than is readily realized now. Loans are being paid off before maturity and the mortgages filed during the last year rep- resent, with few exceptions, indebtedness imourred for the purchase of more land and improvements. Released. $275,081 249,078 204,314 A' JOY OF JOURNALISM, A few days ago Colonel Alexander K McClure, the veteran editor and Nestor of the Philadelphia Press, said that the hap- plest days of his journalistic career were those in which he was “the editor of a country weekly paper in W estern Pennsyl- vanial” There are thousands of the older men in the profession today who can heartlly say “Amen!” to Colonel McClure's experience. They remember those joyous old days in some ramshackle print shop in a country town; the old Washington press; the roller boy; the roller mold and the casting of a new roller; the sitting up at night to mail the edition of 600—that 600 more formidable over public affairs and world Interests than the charge made at Balaklava by that other 600 of old England! The country editor—who 18 his peer? He writes and the people hardly contain thelr patience a week to know “what he has wrote” on the burn- ing lssues of the day! He gets mvitations to all functions, free passes to all shows, appointed on &ll sorts of commissions where there is no pay, gets cake from the wed- aing, cord wood for subscriptions and, oc- caslonally, “gets it in the neck” from a con- temporary. The country press 18 an inseparable fac- tor from the forces that make up our cfv- flization. Tt is on and of the soll. Tt is the mirror of the human problems of its en vironment. It ie more nearly the organ of | public opinfon than the mammoth journals whose strongest purposes are commercial Any historian who would write knowingly and truthfully the history of these times must get the bulk of his material from the country newspapers. They are the busy bees who gather the pollen of all the in- digenous blossoms of thelr habitat und compress these Into the columns from which the honey of true human history is extracted. Every community owes the prime duty of support to its local press. Tf a man can afford to take only one paper he should take his home paper. If he can go further and take a dafly, let that be but the sup- plement to his country paper. The old Greek adage. ‘“know thyself.” should be expanded into “know thy neighbors,” and the way to do that is to support vour home paper. There is no hetter or more helpful asset to any county than a good newspaper filled with neighborhood news. and deal- jngs with all lssues of common Interest a8 the weekly press usually does—fairly and honestly. QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE, An insurance adjuster in St. Louls tells of a new expedient of the incendfary. A man's store had burned, and he had half admitted setting it off to a friend who wanted full particulars with a view to sin:tlar practices. “I tell you,” sald rats gnawed matches and set it going." “How do you know? Did you see them?" “No, I didn't ses them, but I know 1 rubbed matches in the llmburger cheese before I threw them on the cellar floor." the proprietor, “the Jonathan Lefevre of Salt Lake City is 91 years old, h buried eight wives and has just married a ninth, Mrs. Mary Kersen, a widow of 4. Five generations of his descendants were present to wish the couple happiness. By his eight wives Lefevre had thirty-one children and all of them were born within a period of ten years. Mr. Lefevre was one of Brigham Youug's councilors during Utah's stormy times. He is a devout bellever in Pres dent Roosevelt's race suicide argument and the president's recent speeches on that toplc o impressed Mr. Lefevre that he de- clded to marry agaln. Mr. Lefevre ls ‘wealthy and one of the most respected men in Utah. Father W. G. Miller of 8t. Joseph's ohurch, Waukesha, Wis, has caused a sensation by preaching against open lace apparel, low neck dresses and lace shirt- waists. At all masses on last Sunday he denounced this style of apparel, terming 1t “peekaboo” dress, and charging his flock not to indulge In it. He spoke scathingly of the present modes of feminine dress, and especlally censured the young women who wore light walsts with an abundance of open work. These grments, he sald, were altogether too previous and allowed young men too falr a view of pretty shoulders. The rebuke was so pointed that many young women who heard it criticised the priest after the service. A Maine country doctor tells this story on himself: He responded one night to a note left at his door by a farmer asking him to go as soon as possible to see his littls boy, who was ill with a very bad cold. The doctor gave one look at the ohild and asked severely: “Don’t you know that your boy is coming down with the measlea?" ‘“Yes,” replied the wife. “I knowed it." ““Then what in the world did you mean by saying he had a bad cold?” asked the doctor. The woman hesitated a moment; then, looking at her husband, she said, hesi- tatingly: “Neither me or him knowed how to spell measles. The luxury of grief is indulged in by all ages, but it Is doubtful if it is ever agaln #0 much enjoyed as in childhood, accord- ing to the Boston Transcript. Perhaps, it our memorfes could take us back to the very earllest days of Infancy, we should find that we were often revelling In delight when we were sympathetically supposed to be writhing with stomach ache— ~—and with no language but a cry. A little girl of most angelic disposition has just given the whole thing away. She had fallen on a brick walk and barked her knees and bumped her chin. To her next door neighbor, who inquired from the window some time afterward If she had hurt herself very badly, the sufferer re- plled with a quivering lip: “Oh, yes; I ought to be in the house crying now.” Owing to the fact that the assistant man- e ———— PERSONAL NOTES. It has just been discovered that Emer- son found his greatest inspiration in the warm glow of a cranberry pif. For 100 years Spain tried in vain to sub due the Moros. Under American manage ment they walk right up to the trough three times a day. Robert B. Scott, a clerk in a Pittsburg hotel, is a joint helr with President Roose- Velt to the Vermilye estats in New York. His share will be but one-seventeenth part of the whole property, but as the property 1s valued at several millions of dollars he finds himselt comfortably situated. Ambassador Meyer is receiving the un- flattering attention of the daily press in Rome for the alleged recklessness with which he speeds his automobile through the streets. 11 Popolo Romano suggests that the ambassador persists i1 his course because, being unable to read Italian, he does not know what the papers are saying about him, Miss Bessle Johnson, whose father, Tom L., 1s mayor of Cleveland, Is to marry John L. Dudley, jr., a New Yorker, The announcem :nt of the engagement was made on the day Mark Hanna's daughter mar- rled Mr. McCormick. Miss Besslo i dashing girl, as full of energy and novel ideas as is her father Richard C. Morse, for thirty-three years general secretary of the international com- mittes of the Young Men's Christian asso- clation, has just completed a tour of the world, fn which he has visited the asso olations which have grown up under his eye and care until they now numbor 6,500 organizations, with 600,00 members. In delivering the founders' day a.dress at the commencement exercises In a school at Lawrencevills, N. J., Bishop Potter of New York had this to say among other things: “We are getting to be in such & hurry in America that the ordinary ofvili tles are disappearing out of our education and our life. When you have dismissed £00d manners out of soclety you have dis missed that beneficent and kindly instinet toward your fellow man of which good manners ought always to be the expression No one who is conscious of the social and industrial situation can be unconscious of the fact that the classes have drifted away from the masses. And it is surprising how large a proportion of them you find dis ;ole‘d n:hme beilef that in order to har onize the differenc rpeli i © the use of force is tha — LAUGHING REMARKS, “Life,", satd Wooden ‘Indian, continuous that they cuse Herald. the Tobacconist to the I8, for most people, a [rocess of getting used to things aven't been expecting.'-Syra- Miss Frances--Don't you should be n tax on bachelors? Mr. Muchlywed—I'd gladly pa privilege of being one.—lllustrate think there for the Bits. Thesplan—How does that new role of his? Manager- me old way kindly advance me a five? Journal. Stroller strike you in “Won't you —Kansas City “He sald some that he was the tamily." ne told him yesterdny Andsomest man in his Belle—Married next week? Why : , you us you were booked for 4 personally con. UMC:!‘gor:Ouyrn:V"R a !mfill, select party. —Yes, dear. persona! conductor -’lnd“t""laeo(r: select party.—Chi '‘ago Journal. Mrs. Upjohn—Did you noties e fi‘lfi‘lil!lmllr‘:-mhmllnken the prluldm::‘;'"nfmrwa vancement y it an elephant on her hands . ©he ! fnd ager of Columbia Gardens, a pleasure re- sort of Butte, Mont, has trained the swans in the little artificial lake to bring to the shore articles thrown Into the water, iittle Gertrude O'Nell owes her life. When the child fell into the water and was in danger of drowning, as no help was near at the time, the great birds seized the little one by her clothing and dragged her to the shore, pulling her up high and dry on the bank. The spectacle was wit- nessed by several hundred men and women from the plazza of the pavilion, several hundred feet away, and when they reached the edge of the lake the child was safe, while the swans were standing around, walting to be fed. SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES, How Charley Schwab Grabbed Chance for a Milllon or Two. Chicago Record-Herald. The statement fssued by Charles M. Schwab concerning his connection with the United States Shipbullding company gives a pleasing glimpse of a few of the opportu- nitles that have come to one Industrious young man within the present generation. Mr. Schwab, who has Sust turned 41, was invited into the company soon after it was projected, and owing to his previous op- portunities he was able to make a subscrip- tion of $500,000. A little later the corpora- tion wanted to secure control of the Bethle- hem Steel company, and Schwab under- took to manage the deal, on the under- standing that he was to furnish the neces sary cash requirements and to receive 51,500,000 accumulated earnings of the Bethlehem Steel company and $10,000,000 in bonds and $10,000,000-in both kinds of stock. 1t appears, however, that his Interest in the steel company was complicated with the interest of J. P. Morgan, and that Mor- gan demarided % per cent of both kinds of stock In addition to the cash inves od as payment for the Bethiehem stock. A sci- tlement was made on these terms, and Schwab claims that his direct financial in- terest in the transaction ggregated over 9,000,000 besides his subscription of $%0,- 000 to the two first mortgage bond syndi- cates These figures dazzle the uninitiated who are neither captains of industry nor Na- poleons of finance, and {t seems that there was some difference of opinion even among the initiated, some of whom estimated M- Schwab's direct financial Interest at | $3,000,000 onjy. It seems also that the lat est syndicate In the fleld proposes to reduce the capitalization of the shipbullding com- pany from $09,000,000 to $43,000,000. It is tm- possible, therefore, to know just what dollars mean when the Napoleons get to playing with the multiplication table and the words “stocks’ and “bonds N Nevertheless it will be generally admitted that Mr. Schwab has done remarkably well for a young man, considering that the Iit- tle affalr was but a side {ssue after all, and apparently his future is secure if he can escape drowning. Mrs, Nextdore—Well, her hanus are big enough " to ma . knowa.—Chicago Tribune. L& #opdnass “Yes, Professor Hypothenuse, brafst,' made an uddress before tia Mathe: matical soclety last night on ““The Pro. fonderance of Probability in the Tare and “Gee! 1 wonder if he meant ft?" “Think not. I imagine what he only a flgure of specch. —Baltimors. News ©Well, then, what is your | mfi;{:n e between & Addjer ::3 :'\'lho' “A flddler s one who plays the fid dle a violinist 1s one who kn v the fddie.”~Philadeiphin Tress " 0 PN “If you refi o st use me [ shall “Well, pa here."—New commit sui- says you k Bun. What are the wild waves sayin As on the sands thay play’ Do they sing of the white s Ever 80 far away-— The lands where love goes Maying-- JLands of an orient ra ' Nay. Ever the waves ar Board, six dollars a ¢ can't hang around y? hips straying saying: Constitution. — OME 8. E. Kiser in tho Record-Herald. At first the maiden Bkipping the rope and nursing dolls, Or “climbing trees and sitting straddle On top of fences. Sticking out her tongue And making ugly fuces at the boys Who stop to tease her. Then the graduate, Arrayed in fluffy stuff and looking sweef And ‘innocent despite the big, long worde Bhe thinks show forth her knowledge. Next ..., the bridesmald With flowers in her hand, and full of ho As with the handsome usher proudly Moves down the aisle behind e one wno ns clinging confidence upon the Fourth stage, herself a bride. With eyes downcast, 8he leans upon her sturdy father's arm And wonders why he {sn't slim and tall Like John. 8he sees her mother drenched in tears, And cries a litile bit herself, mayhap, But proudly notes that ail the town s thera And knows the presents will be beautiful— Bo, radiant, she passes from the scene, Then the young mother, leaning down To count each several eyelash resting on The tiny cheek; her heart so full Qf love and oy’ that all the harpy day She babbles incoherently and dreams At night of troops of angels and can hear The w':unnu of their wings arouid hey oom. Next, the mother-in-law, weeping coplous]: While John, so siim and knl.‘myw onee, grown stout And swkward, trudges down the lengthy alsle, ! Grim-visaged, with their daughter. There she sits And, with a sinking heart, gives up her ol b Knows (hat the man can't be half good enou To merit the sweet treasure he E And blubbers 50 she cannot hear mm- That once, as falling on her willing ears, Were o delictous. Tast scene of &l The grandma, fondly dandling up and down The crowing littls one. Half aft with Joy. Stewing the catnip tea and giving fo A thousand lessons from her own experi- ence: Jealous of every touch and each caress That careless, bold Intruders would bestow, Talks baby talk and thinks it understands; In second-childishness she coos and croons, Bans common sense, sans everything but love. Waltham Watches The last word! * The Perfected American of inferesting information free cpon request. Watch,” an Wlsstrated book about watches, will be send American Waltham Watch Company, | Waltham, Mass.