Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1903, Page 14

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Communications relating to news and edi- torial_matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order yable to The iee Publishing Compiny, nly 2-cent stampe accepted in payment of mall ageounts, Personal checks, except on Omahr{jr eastern exchanges, not accepted THY BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. EDITOR 10e | STATEMENT OF CIRC! Btate of Nebraska, Dougias County, 8. George B. Tzechuck, secretary of The Bee | Publishing Company, being duly 8worn, says that the actual number of full an complete coples of The Dally Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 193, was as fol- lows 1 29,120 20,270 20,870 sERNEREE Less unsold and returned copl Net total Net average Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this Sih day of Beptember, A. D. i%08. M B, HUNGATE, (8eal.) Notary Publio. [ e —— ————— ) That annual famine must be about due. 4 pemeem——— Young Tillman may now join old Till- man in pltchforking exclusively with his tongue. e Tammany came bravely to the sup- port of Bryan in 1900, so why shouldn't Bryan come to the rescue of Tammany in 19037 car —— It silver bullion will only go high enough it may take all the profit out of the business of counterfeiting full weight sliver dollars. Bids for entertaining the great na- tional nominating conventions will soon be opened. Citiés ambitious to compete for the privilege wiil take due notice. Emre— Governor Cummins is losing no sleep over his commission for a second term in the executive office of lowa. It's only a question of how big a majority. —_— Senator Gorman does not like the way President Roosevelt mixes in politics, In all probability President Roosevelt does not like the way Henator Gorman mixes in politics, Er— Nebragka's new revenue law ls about to have its first round in the courts. It will take several rounds, however, to determine whether it can stand up against all comers. Had the postottice been allowed to operate a parcels post, interruption of cexpress traffic . by striking employes would not assume a very serlous ns- pect to our business interests, —— With so many blg bankers \-ongren'- ting 8t Ban Francisco there is grave dan- ger that the seat of the dread money power may ,be temporarily removed from the Atflntic to the Pacific const. —— New York does mot seem to appre- ciate the cowpliment in the visit of Dowie's host, lwplying that It is sadly in need of regeneration, which can be accomplished only on the wholesale' plan, Charles M. Behwab might achieve new Rmotorlety by turnlug over a few of his | remaining millions to one of the big uni- versities as the foundation fur a school of iustruction in trust management and financing. EEt— Those advance tips on the Alaska boundary arbitration award are so well Justiied by the evidence produced to! make good the conflicting clalins that the British and Cavadians are ready to admit that they will get the worst of it. Grover Cleveland seems to have kept his promise not to tatk politics during Lis visit to Chicago. 1f sowe other dis- | lent PEBIAG SUPERVISION IMPERATIVE. Within the past twenty-two issues of corporate securi ties quoted on the New York Stock exchange have shrunk $1,308,000,000. This tremendous contraction values is the natural sequance of the fraudu- and fictitious capitalization so strikingly exhibited in the recent dis closures concerning the organization of the dofunet Shipbuilding trust. The recklexs audacity and shameless dis honesty with which the promters of the Shipbuilding trust injected more than £50,000.000 of water into the con cern and the imposture practiced upon unsuspecting investors through rain- bow prospectuses, backed by captains of industry of the first magnitude, are by no means an exceptional instance of dangerous trust methods. On the contrary, they find a parailel in the most gigantic of all trusts--the Amer- jcan Steel trust—capitalized at $1,500,- 000,000 four years ago and whose stock has been distributed to more than 100,000 persgons by holding out prom- fses which its promoters must have known could never be fulfilled. Fortunately for the country, a disas- twelve months in by the general prosperity and enormous productive capacity of the American people. of stocks taken place in years of de- pression it would have wrought stagna- tion and ruin to commerce and industry and brought disaster to millions of people. Now that nearly a billion and a balf of water has been wrung out of overvalued corporate securities in the shape of stocks and bonds, the question s, Wil the captains of industry and raflway magnates rest content with leaving the water wrung out, or will they concentrate all their power to pump the water back into their depre- clated stocks? Will the country be compelled to face the menace of a panic in times of commercial depression? In a word, will the American people re- main indifferent and unconcerned in the face of the danger that threatens their future well-being when they have it within their power to avert a national calamity by providing safeguards agninst a recurrence of excessive stock and bond issues, dummy directors and ground (\oor confidence games? The condition in which the country finds itself today was not unforeseen. In an address dellvered before the national conference on trusts four years ago the editor of The Bee pointed ont the dangers of overcapitalization in this language: Within the past decade the trusts have degenerated into combinations for stock Jobbing. Nearly every trust recently or- ganized had its incentive In the frresistible temptation held out by the professional promoter to capitalize competing plants cnormously In excess of their actual value. This flctitious capitalization constitutes the most dangerous element of the modern trust. It has been asserted from this plat- form that fraudulent capitalisation is an evil that will cure itself, and at the very worst concerns only the stock speculators who voluntarily assume the risk of Invest- ment in overvalued trust securities. Hx- perience has exploded this delusive theory. Nearly all the so-called industrials are on thé markets and the owners of the over- valued plants either dispose of their hold- ings or place them in banks as collateral for “loans negotiated for .speculative schemes financiered on the balloon plan. The inevitable outcome in case of money stringency or panic is shrinkage and col- lapse of the concerns involved. Banks rarely loan their own money, but | that of depositors, and wheh the banks go to the wall the whole commercial fabric i» involved in wreck and ryin. This means the destruction of confidence and wide- spread distress to the tollers in every fleld of Industry. Fraudulent capitalization is. moreover, not merely a wmenace to the wall-being of the present generation, but also endangers the futures of generations yet unborn. It is an open secret that life Insurance funds held in trust for the widows and orphans of policy holders are Invested in Industrial securities resting on a foundation of sand and water. The Im- perative duty of this conference is to devise measures that will make the trust harmless. With this end in view it should recommend: i. The oreation by gct of congress of a bureau of supervision and control of cor- porations engaged in Intérstate commerce with powers for its chief similar to those exerclsed by the comptroiler of the cur- rency over national banks. g 2 Legislation to enforce such publicity as will effectually prevent dishonest meth- ods of accounting and restrict traffic and competition within legitimate bounds, 8. The creation of an Interstate commerce | court with exclusive jurisdiction in all eases arising out of the violation of inter- | state commerce laws. ! The last congress took the Inltintiy for making the trusts harmless in the act creating the Departent of Com- merce, but that act does unot go far enough. Tt Is the lmperative duty of the coming congress to endow a burean | in the Department of Commerce with sufficient powers to enable the national | government to exercise such supervision and control over Interstate commerce corporntions as will effectively prevent overvaluation and evercapitalization STUDYING AMERICAN EDUCATION tinguished democrats would makg siml lar promises nnd keep thew there might be more ‘unanimity of action among the democratie leaders, If King Victor Hmmanue! only ex tends his stay in France long cnough he may be loaded down with presents and souvenirs enough to compensate for the Italfan art treasuves and other loot scattered all over France as the trophles of the French invasions of Italy frow wedleval tities down to poleon. e The Ohlo State Board of Health pro poses to tuke eteps for the suppres of the toy pistel und othy: July explosives, whichi are said 1o have been responsible for the maiming and on killing of 1,700 chidren within the pasi | year In the Buckeye state. The exper! ment of the Ohlo Btate Bourd of Health will b watched with a good n- terest fo évery section of the country. The vietims of the toy pletel and dyna mite cracker are fur gredler every year than the victims of the most dreaded B R . ) ] be supposed that The commission from | came to this country | stady our | undoubtedly find much to Interest them, but whether they will learn anything | to the benetit of their own institytions of leurning will depend a wood denl {upon the spirft and the wisdom with | which their investigation here is con | ducted. ‘e United States presents, unquestionably, a most attractive study in its educational characteristics and { methods for the students of education Lin the old world, but the trouble Is that | they come here with strong and possi L bly immeovable prejudices in regard to | their o v und it is hardly to these will be ma- terially changéd or wodified by what | they shall see here, | This is naturally suggested by the {fact that the commissions that have come from Kogland to Investigate the indusirial conditions and the business | methods in the Unlted States have quite England that last week 1 systen heavy baggage allowance. | labor has reference to the rights of un- 10 | league educational conditions will has not been the unqualified and uni- expression. There have been among the investigators some who were free to say that this country is infi- nitely In advance of England in all in dustrial and commercial respects, but these were the few who evidently put practical above patriotic considerations, who were willing to say to their coun trymen that they were really falling behind in the great industrial and com mwercial race and that they must adopt a new course if they would not be ut- terly distanced and left behind by American energy and enterprise. We shall not be surprised if the in- vestigators of our educational institu- tions come to the decision that in the main those of England are superior, and yet it is probable that some con- cessions will be made to the great Amer- lean universities. How can it be other- wise? admit that in some important respects the great schools of learning in England are superior to ours, but may we not at the same time justly claim that we also have merits which are nowhere excelled. At all events we welcome these British investigators and trust trous financial panic has been avertéd | that their observations and counclusions cepted as, trustwortby, that the danger will be to the benefit of both countries. Had the tremendous collapse | PITY THE POOR BAGGAGE SMASHER |& conflict between Russia and Japau. The eyes of the country are fixed on the much abused baggageman. Year in and year out for a whole generation he has been lampooned and carieatured as a fiend and cursed at wholesale and re- tail by tourists, drummers and theai- rical troops. But even the worm will sometimes turn. The woes and wrongs of the weak baggage smasher have at last been patbetieally portrayed before the Association of General Bagguge Agents that convened at New Orleans a few days ago. It must have taken & mwan of nerve to champion the cause of the American baggage smasher, but such a man was found in the person of H. I. Deering, general baggage agent of the Michigan Central railroad, “The baggagemen,” declared Mr, Deering, “are tired of bear- ing the brunt of public complaint when the railroads should be blamed for more than 80 per cent of the damage done to the owners of luggage and baggage.” The indictments brought against the railronds by Mr. Deering summed up in a nutshell are: 1. Underpaid help. No opportunity for promotion. 3. Instead of a commo- dious car for baggage the railroads provide oné-half a car in which the baggageman is compelled at the risk of his life to pile trunks to the roof and raise sheol with their contents when they are dragged out. 4. Jack of time in which to handle baggage. 5. A too In plain English the baggage service offers but few positions worth striving for and the kicks and knocks showered upon the average baggageman not only make him tired but exasperate his ten- der sensibilities to such a degree that the only relief within his reach is to punch and knock the round-backed dressing cases that contain the bridal wardrobes, wring the handles from the flat-bed steamer trunks of prima donnas and splll on the rallroad platform all the knick-knacks and bric-a-brac gath- ered by the schoolma’ams during their vacation trips. Pity the poor baggnge smasher. His lot ig not to he envied even if he ocea- slonaily pockets a tip from an apprecia- tive dog fancier or a shamefaced rabbit shooter. FREEDOM OF LABOR. ivery intelligent reader of current events must have realized that the labor question has recently assumed a new phase, so that now the cardinal point in the controversy between capital and organized labor. This is the paramount question before the Clvic Federation, the discussion of which is of the great- est possible interest. It is not to be doubted that since the | anthracite strike cominission rendered its decision, in which it sustained the proposition of free labor, holding that | every man had the right to control his labor as he pleased, there has been n growing’ sentiment in support of this view, It is safe o say that the idea of “free lubor” is more generally accepted at this time than ever before in the | last quarter of a century and it Is al- together prohable that it will grow. A very lmportant decision bearing upon this was vendered a few days ago by the supreme court of Pennsylvania, which Is certain to attract a great deal of attention. The case before the court was not one between capital and labor, but befween organizations of labor, In- volving the right of one to interfere with the work of members of the other, there being no affiliation between them. Briefly stated, meunhers of the organiza tlon of bullding trades (n Philadeiphia refused te work with members of the of plumbers, resulting in discharge of the latter by the tractors. Thereupon the Plumbers' {league appealed to the courts apd the action of the building trades was de- red fo bhe unlawful, Iu an elaborate decision the supreme rt of Penunsylvania declared, among other things, that while it is the right of mewmbers of a trade union to refuse to k with nonunion men, or with men of other organizations not affiliated, they are pot justified in using Intimida- tion or other coerclve means to prevent those to whom they arc opposed from working. The court said: “The right to the free use of his hauds is the work- wman's property as much as the rieh man’s right to the undisturbed Income from his factory, houses and lands. This right of acquiring property Is an the con- | \ | SATURDAY, men in organized labor will do well to consider thoughtfully this judicial view of the limitation which the law imposes upon the trades unjons and the rights which under our constitution are guar anteed to every man in the matter of disposing of his labor, both as to the choice of employers and the price that he shall ask for his labor. The discussion of the labor problem before the Natienal Civie Federation pretty plainly indicates that new ideas are gaining ground which organized la- bor cannot afford to ignore. Indeed, it is becoming apparent that the more ad- vanced lend of organized labor are becoming convinced that there must be greater conservatismm on the part of trades unions and a better disposition to use all proper means to conserve industrial peace. Freedom of labor” I8 a shibboleth that appeals very OCTOBER 17, 1903. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISK. Senator Platt 1s safely out of the woods At last accounts the London artillerists have had no regrets to report about thelr engagements in Boston and vieinity. The seal for learning s smashing the record. Five thousand books have been stolen from the New York public library in one year. The price of dlamonds have been boosted several pege. Now more than ever before It requires big money to shine in this world of ours. Down in Philadelphia policemen are so busy that professional thieves complain they cannot make a living. The cops want all there s in sight Washington astronomers report that the apots on the sun are growing in size. There 18 no cause for alarm, however. Congress will get busy presently. Toledo proposes to for 330 for each offense. The penalty is a misfit. A more effective treatment would soak its mastor We are ourselves prepared to |strongly to all right-minded Amerfcans. [ the files at them. STILL PURTENTOUS. ‘The far eastern war cloud has not yet been wholly dispelled. In spite of re- cent intimations of a more or less re- assuring nature, the fact remains, if the most recent advices are to be ac has not entirely passed and that there is still even more than a possibility of As we pointed out some days ago, the Russian policy, ag evidenced In the con- tinuance of warlike preparations of thy power, is not conducive to peace. On the contrary, whether so intengded or not, it is very distinetly contributive to war. That war would be the out come of present conditions If Japan could De assured of any substantial support from any other country may be regarded as abeolutely certain. There s, however, no assurance and even no probability that should Japan go to war with Russia she would have anything more than the moral support of any other nation and from this she would derive no benefit. In an unaided conflict with Russia it is not to be doubted that Japan would eventually be beaten. Her wiser statesmen un- derstand this and are evidently doing all in thelr power for an amicable ad- Jjustment of what Is a most perplexing and dangerous problem, in respect of which Russin unmistakably has the ad- vantage. BEAUTIFYING THE CITY. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. The organized movement for making Omaha beautiful merits encouragement. It 18 to be hoped, however, that the effort to beautify the city will not stop with the planting of shade trees, the laying out of parks and grass plots, the culttvation of flowers, the erection of public fountains and the cleaning of streets, The artistic ideal must be em bodled in our architecture, in the erec- tion of public buildings, school houses, theaters, office buildings, business blocks, residences and dwellings. We should not permit the erection of unsightly sky-scrapers, fire-trap hotel and brick boxes with big smokestacks that disfigure our principal thorough- fares. Last, but not least, we must hew down the forest of posts that dis- figure our streets and make telegraph, telephone and lighting companies bury their wires under ground, and compel trolley lines to substitute ornawental fron poles of uniform helght for the present wooden stumips of variegated lheights and sizes. “Are we becoming a nation of fia(l dwellers? That s a question pro-| pounded before the Illinois Building Assoclation league at its annual conven- tion at Chicago. With equal propriety the question might have been pro- pounded, whether we are becowming a nation of skyscraper eclimbers. The twelve-story flat loeated in the heart of the city with its modern conveniences of steam heat, electric light. clevators, restaurants and sodn water stands is more attractive for a large class of city dwellers than love in a cottage in the distant suburbs without water, gas or furnace. Every one of the republican nominees for diserict jwdge in this district has been tried in positions of public trust before. Their vecords are open, but the opposition contents itself with vague generalities ahout Incompetency and untrustworthiness. If there were anything in the records discreditable to the men the demoerats are trying to hammer down, he sure they would be out with specific charges. Joys of Teavel Multiply, Chicago News. Another of the joys of travel the two-mile-a-minute trolley car will the tagcinations of speculating ac to whether or not one is going to come out of the experience alive on be and New Prometers. Finanoier. Mississippi bubble avold the e ora New York John law's fled to Pari itfons which his excited | human nature has not ged, e B ropean vacation season ought to open soon and with n rush. When burst he cha 1 Population. Kansas City Journal Nature seems to have intended that the densest agricultural population in the world should live in the United States. No country of equal size is Iutersected by 80 many brooks, creeks and small and great rivers whose waters are available for Irrigating. We may be sure that when the time comes for the American people to take advantage of these im- mense natural resources they will not be slow to do o Irrigation an New Idea in Refo Baltimore American. A new idea in the reformation of crim- inals has sprung up. It is foreshudowed in # report that & noted forger will be pen- inherent, indefensible right of the work- man. To exercise it he must have the unrestricted privilege of working for generally concluded that things were not & ly so much superior here that it advisable for the British to follow our example. Of coprse this wages as he chooses to accept. This s a right which the law of no trade union can take from him.” lotelligent such employer as he choosos, at suct | sioned to keep him from forging abhead in his nefarious little plans. A pension | system for veterans of the army of crime novel as It is viciows, and it is to be hoped that the reformation fad, be to consign them to the docks and let The poison squad of the Agricultural department which successfully withstood a feed of salyellic acld, Ie going agalnst the real thing now. The members are up against breakfast food. They deserve a better fate. Seattle bachelors have sent eastward a loud cry for more women matrimonially inclined. Here is the chance of a lifetime for the surplus of eastern maids to spurn aged ghosts and buckie up with real live people of the webfoot tribe Charley Bookwalter was defeated for re- election as mayor of Indianapolis. Charley was a typo in hie brighter days. Politics turned him from pathe ©f righteousness end usefulness and a good printer was spolled to make a poor politiclan A Chicago philosopher, member of the ity councll, fathers this solid truth: “E: cuses are the veils of cowardice. Square men stand their ground and face the music.” It {e probable he was squinting toward his Omaha brethren at the time. A New York man started out with a lamp to find a leak in a gaspipe. The pre- sumption fs that he found it, for his re- SECULAR SHOTS AT TME PULPIT. Philadelphia Press well fed by his own Chicago T¥ibune that fifty years ago. {lles of Methodist preachers up and move to some other year? Eljah 111" 1 ravings Do as a being remember the you rule had town fam- pack every Brooklyn Eagle: Oh, horrorsa! more on chewing gum than on Ah, but by keeping xome jaws busy erwise than in talk, we do the best of mission work N Boston Globe We spend kind A Georgla gentleman, defending Rev. Sam Jones, who is charged with being too pugllistic, quotes John vi, 20, as follows: ‘“Hit his eye! Be not afrald!” Which only shows how Serip- ture can be perverted Chicago Post: “You money life, but In any event your war cry startle and money your is the with which the hosts of Zion will Gotham. Dowle has with much street will understand. Oklahoma Ledger: The following motto in a local church stands out In bold re- lief done in cardboard and evergreen “Look Up; Lift Cp." On occasions of an unusually long serman the would quite likely be pleased to add, ‘“Let up” to the couplet Chicago Inter-Ocean: A minister in this city received a letter from a member of his congregation calling his attention to the fact that the Lord never rode in an automobile. from the pulpit and remarked: “If the writer will come to me next Sunday prop- erly saddled and bridled, T will gladly fol- Jow the Lord's example and chureh the Lord entered Jerusalem. DOMESTIC P She—Ther goes the American snubbed a prince. He—The prince was already presume.New York Weekly Nell--8o the engagement 8 broken off? Bello--Yes. It weems she told him one evening that she wasn't thalf beautiful mmough to be his wife, and he didn't deny her statement quick enough to suit girl who 1 married, malins were discovered in the cellar when the fire was put out. Mention is made of thie melancholy incldent merely to show that the green things of Gotham may be scorched by other methods than those em- ployed by Charley Schaub and Plerp Morgan, BABIES IN THE BANANA DE| acions Tips from a Heal States- man in North Dakote. New York Sun. Lieutenant Governor Bartlett of North | Dakota is a sagacious statesman. He has foresight. He is a member of the World's | Fair Commission of hie state. What con- | stitutes a state? Not merely women and | men, high minded men, but babes, fat| checked and heaithy babes. It is Mr. Bart. | lett's riotic beltef that the North Da- | kota babies, kissed by the zephyrs and| the candidater of {he banana belt, are the | most beautiful, vigorous and active in the | world, “Give me the North Dakota babies," | says he, “and 1 care not who has the rest | of the vote." ¥ | To show the world at St. Louls what the North Dakota climate and baby are, Mr. Burtlett means to have a full photographic parade of that infantry. All North Daketa pafents blessed with scions between 1 and 3 will please send photographs of the same to the lieutenant governor. “What a nice man Mr. Bartlett {s! What a sensible man! What a good judge of state products and legitimate state pride!” Eo cry the proud mothers, the equaily proud though wholly unimportant fathers. Is there not the making of a governor, o senator, who knows what elee of great, in this ingenious lleutenant governor? He takes the grand issue and makes It his, CONTEMPT OF COURT IN MISSOURL Efforts of the State Justify Judiclal Tyranny. St. Louls Globe-Democrat, Nothing just like the full opinion of the Missouri supreme court on constructive coutempt has been seen since the gov- ernment of (he United States was formed, The case, as Is well known, was vne in which a republican editor of Warrensburg | (Mo.) wus cited before the state supreme | court for charging the court with corrup- tion in repeatediy affirming and then re-| versing a judgment for dnmages awardid | a railroud man crippled for life in a wreck | in which, it was claimed, a decayed, un- | inspected car caused the accid: [ also remembered that the edMor, when ar- | raigned before the state supreme co.rt, was | denfed a triaj by jury, and, within u few | hours, was fined $0 for comstructive con- | tempt. The fine was pald, spoutaneously und without regard to party lines, by the fellow citigens of (he editor, whose neigh bors may be presumed to know more about | the case, with its ten years of complicated ! delays, than the residents of any other part of tae state. \What liabllity i (ncur- red by Missourlans who voluntarily came { forward to pay & fine impored by the state supreme court for constructive contempt, 0 that the defendant himself does not puy @ cent, Is & branch of the matter not as yet brought lo Issue. But if A fines B for constructive contempt and C presents himself, not only’ veluntarily. but gladiy, 1o pay the fine, it would scem that C par- ticipates In the contempt as well us dis. charges thé entire penaity. In its full opinion on constructive con- tempt, which has been in preparation three months, the Missourli supreme court goes back to the time of the Roman emperors, and to (deas on sedi‘ion in the former gov- | ament vf England and the English colon- ies. No doubt there as something akin (0 constructive contempt, sccording to Eng- sh judicial opinion, in the olondal ceedings of George Washington, Benjamin Fravklin, Thomas Jefferson and all the signers of the declaration, yet American clitizens are scarcely prepared to be dealt | with in courts of today on the English | basis of the elghteenth or earlier centuries. One of the English precedents cited beurs the of year 17%. A well-known royal personage, George 111, was on the Engiish throne at that In the same period 180 different ctimes, Including theft of five shillings, were punishable by doath. It was & hanging affalr then to counterfeit the stamps on perfumery or hair powder, 10 rob & rabbit-warren or cut down & tree. Many things have ehanged in the legal and Judicial framework in the ycars between the England of 1786 and the United States (ncluding Missourl) of 1903 Another striking feature of the construc- tive contempt decision of (he Missourl su- preme court s its profuse quotations from the bible. As to the practical application of & seriptural text to a particular case in court, judges and lawyers would be more in agreement than are & large number of denominational bodies iny their creedal po- sitions. The bible also contains passages on unjust, venal and fals: judges, concerns ing the application of which there would be & wide divergence of views. It is remarked by the state supreme court of the article published by the Warrensburg editor that it “attacks the honesty, integrity and pur- ity of every branch of the state govern- ment, and of the several officers, and then attacks (he degaocratic nominating conven- ton of 1¥ It is our opinion that that convention of deepseated, long-existing reme Court to pro- time, fun mud, has not conceived so wild an idea us this. It seems absurd on the face of it, but then fads flourish on absurdities 4 oo & natural dies party corruption, was the worst conglom- erate of crime and fraud ever known in the history of politics In asy state of the American ublog. Chicago Tribune. He- Let's form n socie miration. 1, for insta beautiful eyes. And wha me? She—Your good taste.—Household Ledger for mutual e, admire d0 you admire 8he—-Candidly, do you cave a rap whether | 1 appear well or not? He (cautiously)—What kind of & wrap?— Detroit Free Pre Mre. Muggins—My husband alw: a duv off when he has o birthday Mrs. Buggine—And when you have one 1 suppose vou take a couple of years off Philadelphia Record Mother—1f_you hadn't enconraged young man he wouldn't have kissed you Daughter--O! mother, [ told him to the | | g0 |awa Mother—You Ald? Daughter—Yes, 1_said, “Now. vou go | ‘way” every time —Philadelphla Press. “ | Are vour intentions serfous demanddd | the father, who had come suddenly Into the | durkened ‘Berlous!” whe his kn ™ b epeated the youth, holding a pound maiden on “Well, 1 should say so. Why, trainifig for thiz."~Chicago Post “Minnle, can you trust yourself to me? Will you let me be your shield amid the storms and tempests of—'" “George, vou poor dear. how can a man who weighs only 113 pounds be even a wind shield?"—~Chis Tribune. He—1 understand that you are to be con- gratulated. T o engagem Fat T 8he—No. He—That Is wi WHEN IS THE TIME TO DIE? Journal. Amanda M. Edmonds. 1 asked a glad and happy child, Whose hands were fliled with flowers, ‘Whose silvery laugh rang tree and wild, Among_ tHe vine-wreathed powers, 1 crossed her path and cried, “‘When 1s the time to die “Not yet! Not yet!' the ch And swiftly Lounded by. ve n ent §s broken off. heard.—Somerviile d replied, 1 asked a maiden, back she flung ‘he tresses of lier hair; A _whispered name was on her Whoge memory hover'd there. A flush passed o'er her lily brow, L cgught her spirit's sigh; “No: now," she cried no, Youth i§ no élme to die.” tungue, | not now! I asked a mother as Bhe pressed Her first born in her arms, A8 gently on her tender breast She hush'd lier babe's alarms In_quivering tones her answer came, Her eyes were dim with tears: “My boy his mother's life must claim For many, many years!' 1 questioned one In manhood's prime, Of proud and feariess air, His brow was furrowed not by Or dimmed by woe and care. in ungry acceuts he repliod And gleamed with scorn hix ey 1k not to me of death.” he cried, “For only age should die, tme, I questioned Age: for him, the tomb Had long been all prepared, But death, who withers youth and bloom, This man of years had spared. Ongce more his nature's dying fire Flashed high, as thus he cried: “Life, on'y life, is my desir Then gusped and groaned and died. 1 asked o Christian: “Answer thou, When Is the hour of death?' . A holy calm was on his brow. And peaceful was his breath; And swoetly o'er hix features stole A smile, a light divine; He xpako the langunge of his soul, “My Master's time I mine! 1 Glusses would The minister read the letter | her.— misstons! | oth- | cleverness selected a slogan which Wall | congregation | CLOTHES DE LUXE describes the luxurious Fall Suits and Waistcoats bearing | BENJAMIN Fall Suits incheviots, cassimeres, serges, thibets, vicunas, unfinished worsteds: 4-button, single-breasted, nar- row lapels; 3-button, double- breasted, wide Is. BEN- JAMIN White and Fancy Waist- coats; single-breasted, t h e 6-button, with or without col- lar; double-breasted, 4-button, with large collar. BENJAMIN Suits and Waistcoats are hand- shaped and hand-tailored. el s fomgiece This Is where you them-— nvhnndu.y > GUARANTEE CLO. CO. 1519-21 Douglas Street ys takes | Hundred ngs to Mats that tily with them, the best workmanship. 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