Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 1, 1903, Page 14

14 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE l, ROSEWATER, EDITOR. L —— - PUBLISHED :vn:nv Monwwo — i TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION, ily Bes (without Bunday), One Ye: ally Hoa and Synday, One Y fustrated Hios, Ono- Yoar da; One Year,, One Yeas, wentlath Contury Tarmsh, Oiie Dlmv:mm NY CARRIER, oo’ fwithout Sunday), per eopy.. o -! thout mq.y\ r woel .no meluding Bunday), per wee ny Poe, per oop: vening withoul Kur I Bu( (neluding 8 a arites in ' delivery lhflullp ln Mdnn.fl:“cny Cireulation De- partmont. h OFFICER ol n Gmn aa .‘;‘Ad Bulldlnl Twen. )l m.h IQM "l’:l““ H!‘l‘:o" ity B Ml g g ny fk—l’gn i g ulfllnl. llmnmen—fifl Fnunun' Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and edl- al_matter should be addressed| Omaha , Bditorial Department, REMITTANCES, Romjt by aun "‘i, w3 or pestal erder uf EH to blishing Company, ‘{ ant nnm orbonn ted In payment \iooounts, oneckn, exoept on sqn 8 0F eastern 8, not nooe BEE POBLISHING COMPA ATATEMENT OF mnnn.Aflo-f ugias Count ,. ng duly mworn, -auuf numvm- o of Dally Morning, untay Bea printed during of Beptember, was as r 28,030 28,00 an,424 nmnon B, 'FZACHUCK, Rubsoribed | &:&, m- mw 'r‘w.'.‘;?" '. Pty Publln. The Nebraska eampaign of 1903 will pass down as ene of the tamest in the state’s pelitical histery, L ] Good morning, Mr, Bob White, Keep |, & watchout for the festive sportsman edlebrating the advent of the open sea- son, SE—————— The general “no-treat law” has been a @dead letter ever since it was enacted, and the “candidates no-treat” law is as noar a dead letter as it possibly can be. e When it comes to seeking the best market for his wares this year, the American manufacturer will not be likely to overloook the Nebraska farmer with his full bins and barns, SEER———— The arbitrators are busy trying to set- tlé the controversy that is stagnating Montdna’s mining Industry. If ever there were need of speedy and effective action here is the call for it e If you have neglected to register for the coming electlon you must consider yourself self-disfranchised. Don't bob up afterwards with any complaint about the wrong men being elevated to office. —aa———— If Governor Mickey wants to keep his hand in at manual labor he need not go out In the flelds to help reduce a wheat stack, There are a few holes left in Omaba pavements where his work might tell, Congress will be asked to provide $6,000,000 for the Agriculture depart- ment for the next fiscal year. The next task is to persuade congress that the people will get their full money's ‘worth. Co—e——— The newly appointed British ambassa- dor to the United States expresses his pleasurable anticipation at belng trans- ferred to Washington. That is the kind of forelgn representatives the American people like to recelve. eE———— It will not be fair to charge up the frightful accident to the fated foot ball train to the gridiron casualty list, al- though without the foot ball fever the catastrophe would not have happened. The list of foot ball fatalities is long lenough s It is. ——— Remember that the county assessor to be elected next Tuesday will inaugurate assessments under the new revenue law in Douglas county. Remewber, too, that Harry D. Reed, the republican nominee, is by experience and fitness the ldeal man for the place. E—— It ought not to be hard for the Ne- braska exposition commission to get corn for the state's exhibit at 8t. Louls. With more than 213,000,000 bushels of the yellow ears ralsed in this state a few hundred or a few thousand bushels of prime grade will not be wlssed. Sutton 18 belng sandbagged because he swould not allow himself to be held up by Bouth Omaha grafters, and Bears is belng sandbagged because he would not aliow himself to be bulldozed into voting 4G. M. Hitcheock's preference for United Btates senator. Hence these steers, e Benator Gorman would like to force & political duel between himself and President Roosevelt. We do not belleve the president would be averse, but Gor- auan has several competitors in his own democratic eamp who would insist that he 1s not the right man to go to the front ms the party's representative, ————a Friends of President Roosevelt in Ne- Draska who waunt to discourage most ef- fectively the plots of his enemies to pre- wvent his nomination and election next year can do him no greater service than to belp roll up & decisive republican ma- Jority in this state at Tuesday’s polls as an emphatic endorsement of Lis adminls- REVIVING OLD ISSURS. The speeches recently delivered in Maryland by Senator Gorman forcibly recail the ndage “Scratch a Russian— find a Tartar.” Transposed into south- ern chivalry dialect and applied to exist- ing political conditions the terse Na- poleonie eplgram would read, “Turn the radium light upon a southern democrut and find a galvanized pro-slavery swasi- buckler.” In his polished but virulent address delivered at Baltimore the senator is quoted as saying: I regret that the race lssue has been raised, but it was not raised by the dem- ocratic party. The slaves were elevated and educated by being the slaves of A white race, and all over the Inhabited globe the negroes, when they are under subjugation and guidance of white men, are honest and thrifty, but otherwise they are degenerate and unprogressive. * * * All thoughtful men in the south, except a few politiclans, and every thoughtful man in the north have arrived at the con- clusion that no greater crime has ever been committed against the business in- terests of the south and the safety and honor of the women of the south than the enfranchisement of the negroes by consti- tutional amendment. * * * We have now in Washington an emperor, a czar, who sénds for hie leaders and orders them to do as he says. He tells them, “Bring your men into lne, wheel up your thousands of colored voters and support me in my policy of social equality for the negro, both north and south.” He knows that colored men are being brought into West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware to give the re- publicans control of these states. West Virginia is almost beyond redemption, and Delaware, that gas-ridden state, has gone down. Senator Gorman is presumed to be fairly well informed in political history, and especially the political issues that have divided the parties within the past forty years. When he declares that the race issue wag not raised by the demo- cratic party he insults popular intelll- gence. Every school boy north and gouth familiar with eurrent political his- tory knows that up to the election of McKinley the south was kept solidly democratic by the constant agitation of the race issue. Even in Maryland the children of democrats have been fed on race prejudices and inoculated on both arms with negrophobia. In the palmiest days of southern negro slavery no fire-eater from William Yan- cey to Bob Toombs went further than does Senator Gorman when he asserts that the negroes were elevated and edu- ‘cated by being the slaves of the white race, and can be made honest and thriftly only under the subjugation of the white man. A fitting climax to Sen- ator Gorman's pro-slavery ebullitions is his assumption that all thoughtful men north and south have arrived at the conclusion that the greatest crime com- mitted against the business interesty of the south and the safety and honor of southern women was the adoption of the fourteenth amendment to the constitu- tion of the United States by which the negro was enfranchised. If Senator Gorman hailed from the Catskill mountains we might be led to imagine that he had spent the last thirty years in a Rip Van Winkle state of blesged obliviousness in Sleepy Hollow. BSurely, no man endowed with lucid per- ceptions could possibly labor under the delusion that any considerable number of men or women, north or south, de- plore the abolition of slavery, or would favor the return of the negro to a state of serfdom. Perhaps Senator Gorman Is oblivious of the fact that the enfran- chisement of the negro went hand in hand with the amnesty extended to the confederate leaders, who had forfeited their citizenship by levying war upon the government that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and more than a bil- lion of treasure. Probably Senator Gor- man has forgotten also that the com- pact for confederate amnesty and negro enfranchisement was regarded by repre- sentative southerners and the masses of the southern people as a magnanimous concession, instead of a great crime, How the honor or safety of the women of the south has been endangered by the enfranchisement of the negro, peo- ple in this section of the country will not be able to comprehend. The greatest crime perpetrated against the white men and women of the south was committed by their ancestors when they dragged the poor, ignorant negro from his home in Africa and brought him in chains to slave it and wear his life out in southern rice flelds and cotton plantations, in keep- ing his masters in affiuence and idleness. If the south has paid the penalty for this crime against humanity, it must lay the blame where it properly belongs—on the blue-blooded cavaliers who made the in- scription on thie liberty bell that was suspended over Independence hall a sham. . Senator Gorman’s bugbear of social equality with the negro will not frighten any rational person either south or north, It 18 slmply re-echolng the ex- ploded ridiculous question, “Do you want your daughter to marry a negro?”’ There 18 no such thing as social equality among white men, and nobody knows this better than Senator Gorman. The broad line of demarcation that separates the classes from the masses is nowhere more pronounced than it is in the great American citles, including Baltimore. The multi-millionaires do not meet the willionaires on a social equality, and the doors of the millionalres are hermetic- ally closed against the people who have no bank account. The only place where there 18 social equality among white men {8 in the penitentlary, and even there the bank wreckers, treasury em- bezzlers and trust promoters hold up their noses when brought in contact with common horse thieves and burg- lars, It is slmply amazing that the coming leader of the democracy in the United Btates senate should indulge in such dlatribes against the president as has Senator Gorman. Theodore Roosevelt is the last man on earth to assume the role of a czar, or the airs of an em- peror. There is no American so thor- oughly democrutic and so outspoken wall for the loss © the democracy of THE OMAHA DAILY BE NOVEMBER 1, 1903. West Virginia and Delaware confirms the impression that the senator has been out of politics for a humber of years. West Virginia came into the re- publican column not because of negro colonization, but by reason of the popu- lar conviction that West Virginia's in- dustrial resources could be developed only through a protective tariff that would keep its mills in active operation. His reference to Delaware gas reflects seriously upon the Delaware democracy. If the democrats of that diminutive state have been hynotized by gas boodle they are made of very vulnerable stuff, The truth is, that Delaware has ceased to be a southern state either in interest or in sympathy. Its prosperity is bound up with its progressive neighbors, Penn- sylvania and New Jersey, and it is not likely to be frightened back into the democratic fold by the negro social equality bugbear. THE RIGRT OF APPRAL. A short time ago Associate Justice Brewer of the supreme court of the United States sald in a public address that the right of appeal should be taken awny as one means of checking the Iynching evil. This from so distin- guished a jurist naturally attracted a great deal of attention and was sub Jected to much criticism. The very gen- eral opinion expressed was that Justice Brewer had taken a mistaken if not an indefensible position, for which it would be utterly impossible to secure the sup- port of any considerable number of the American people. Criticism and objection, however, have not in the least dismayed Justice Brewer, who manifests his earnest faith in the wisdom of his contention by re- turning to its discussion and urging his view with no less vigor and plausibility than marked his first presentation of it. In a published article he says that ‘what is meant by the right of appeal is practically a claim of a right to two trials. It is neither a natural right nor one guaranteed by the federal constitu- tion, but simply a statutory privilege which the state may give and which it may take away. In regard to the effects of the unrestricted right of appeal, especially in criminal cases, Justice Brewer points out that it tends to prevent the punishment of crime, which is unquestionable, How it operates in this way is clearly set forth, the chief point being the delay that is caused, out of whi¢h grow conditions that make against the proper adminis- tration of justice.. As a consequence it too often happens that the guilty escape punishment, a result ‘which Justice Brewer remarks is a tacit admission that something is radically wrong in our present modes of criminal procedure. He points out that it also works injus- tice to both the trial and appellate courts, to the injury of the community. The position of the trial courts is be- littled, tending to create a feeling of indifference in both judge and jury, while there is injustice to the appellate courts in the fact that their dockets are so crowded that long delays are inevitable. Moreover, the multitude of “cases taken to the appellate courts so burden them that they are unable to give that full consideration to each case which it de- serves. Justice Brewer says he believes in granting full power to appellate courts to review the judgments of trial courts, but what he objects to is the right of the party defeated in one court to com- pel such review in the other. “The judg- ment of a trial court should remain final unless on application to an =appellate court, or some judge thereof, it or he shall certify that there is probable rea- son to believe that injustice has been done. The whole control of appellate proceedings ought to be in the appellate court.” There is undeniably much force in Justice Brewer's arguments and they will commend themselves especially to those who understand to how great a degree the law's delay is responsible for crime, particularly that of lynching. But the right of appeal has been so long recognized and is so firmly established that any interference with it would un- doubtedly encounter an overwhelming popular opposition. The subject is cer- tainly a most interesting ohe and well worthy of the widest consideration, WHAT IS THE MINISTER'S DUTY? How far should the minister of the gospel go to prevent the remarriage of divorced persons? This question re- celved an emphatic answer last week in the general convention of the Univer- salist church in session at Washington, which among other things embodied in its resolutions enjoined on the minister of the church the utmost care In per- forming the marriage ceremony and a rigid investigation into the proposed re- marriage of any divorced person “in or- der that none but the innocent should have the service of the ministry.” The evident sentiment intended to be conveyed by the Univérsalist convention is that no minister should under any con- dition perform the marriage ceremony for anyone divorced for cause arising from his or her own misconduct. That there are some ministers in different churches who follow this rule goes with- out saying, but it is notorious that the vast majority comply unhesitatingly with a requisition for officiation at mar- riage with no other preliminary than an essurauce that the technical require- ments of the law with respect to en- trance into the marriage contract have been observed. They follow this course on the theory that the marriage service constitutes a lucrative and legitimate foundation for ministerial perquisites and that if they refuse to respond some other minister with less scruples will be found to render the desired service. And this assumption is undoubtedly correct unless all the ministers of all churches should become imbued at the same time with compunctions against marrying di- vorced persons and even then the pleni- tude of civil officers authorized to legal- ize the marrfage covenant would still afford 8 way out not likely to be ignored. Summed up in & few words, it devolves upon each minfstér of the ehurch '.‘fnmmnm«l by that committee was by shoulder his own responsibility, If he or his church professes uncompromising opposition to the remarriage of divorced persons it 1l befits him to continue to perform the marriage service within the objectionable lines even though con- vinced that his refusal to officiate will prove no insuperable bar. It is the old precept of pfacticing what one preaches and the preacher is the first one to whom it applies. T9 denounce diverce from the pulpit and to scarify the remarriage of divorced persons, while at the same time stimulating the divorce industry by lending active ald to the consummation of its objects, is hypocrisy pure and simple. CANADIAN NATIONALITY, That the question of Canadian nation- ality is being very seriously considered by the people of the Dominion is plainly shown In the expressions of leading newspapers of that country, some of which are the acknowledged organs of prominent politicians. The utterances of some of these papers are unqualified in favor of action that will give Canada a larger measure of power in dealing with other countries and if this be in- consistent with the fmperial relations of the Dominion that stepg be taken to sever those relations. Perhaps never before was resentment there so strong and general as it is at present and as yet there is no indication of its abate- ment. We have lieretofore noted the remark- able speech of Premier Laurier, in which he expressed regret that Canada has not the treaty-making power. In that same utterance he said: “The difficulty, as I conceive it to be, is that so long as Canada remains a dependency of the British crown the present powers that we have are not sufficient for the main- tenance of our rights, It is important that we ask the British Parliament for more extensive power, so that if ever we have to deal with matters of a sim- flar nature again we shall deal with them in our own way, in our own fash- fon, according to the best light we have.” It is easy to understand that this attitude of Canada’s most distin- guished liberal statesman has made a very decided impression upon the popu- lar mind. In regard to the prevalling sentiment a “Canadian” writes as fol- lows to the New York Sun: “To grant the Canadian demands will be to open a rift between the metropolitan and co- lonial states, and to withhold compli- ance will be dangerous. In any case, the recent decision (Alaska boundary) has given an immense impetus to the idea of independence, which first took definite shape some seven years ago, at the time of the Venezuelan dispute. At no distant date—perhaps, indeed, very much sooner than we expect—the ques- tion will come up for decision, and the term ‘nation,’ now applied somewhat illogically to Canada, will become an es- tablished fact.” The situation s of very great interest to Americans, and particularly those Americans who believe that it is the destiny of Canada to become a part of the United States. These will see, not unreasonably, in a movement for Cana- dian independence the initlal step to- ward annexation to this country. With the Dominion separated from Great Britain and her people freed from the influence of the imperialistic idea, noth- ing would be more likely than the crea- tion of a formidable party favoring an- nexation to the United States and doubt- less such a party would receive a great deal of encouragement and support from this side. DO AMERICANS BAT TUO MUCH? According to Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, who has been conducting an investigation to determine what preservatives are harm- ful to the human system, the American people eat too much. He says they give their kidneys more work to do than they can possibly perform, resulting in Bright's disease, which is more preva- lent in this country than in any other. “The Americans are better feeders,” says Dr. Wiley, “than those of any other nation, with the possible exception of England. Their dietaries are far larger than those of the Itallan or the French or the German, and the result {s found in the numerous cases of broken down kidneys.” He expressed the opinion that our people could cut down their rations by one-fourth or one-fifth and be better for it in every way. It is perhaps true that the American people as a whole eat more than is nec- essary. The opinfon that such is the case is not original with Dr. Wiley, but has been expressed by many others, That, however, is not the only trouble, the manner of our eating generally be ing in no small degree responsible for kidney allments. The average Ameri- can eats In a hurry and therefore does not properly masticate his food. In this way the digestive organs are unduly taxed and the effect in time 18 necessar- fly bad. But it is to little purpose to give advice on the subject, however Ligh the authority. The hustling American will continue to eat as he has béen do- ing and take the chances and he can point to the fact that withal our people are as healthy and as vigorous as those of any other mation. —_—— According to the bogus reform organ that portion of the judicial ticket which is not also a portion of the bar ticket is a, partisan ticket. This is decidedly rich. Suppose Judge Dickinson had suc- ceeded in getting the nomination at the republican eonvention, would he still be a nonpartisan? BSuppose Judges Baxter, Estelle and Day had been defeated at the republican convention, would they have ceased to be partisans? Does the organ of sham reform take all the people for fools? According to the World-Herald, Mr. Sears’ work as a member of the joint revenue committee of the last legislature bas suddenly made him a bold, bud man. 1t is needless to add that the measure unanimous action of its members, among whom were Senator Charles L. SBaunders of this city and Representative George L. Loomis, the democratic house leader. In fact, the democrats did not discover that they wanted to oppose the revenue bill until it came up for final action in the house. We can say without fear of refu tation that were it not for Mr. Sears' firm stand in a number of vital matters the law would have been more inequi- table than it is. Trend of Maritime Law. Baltimore American. The supreme court has decided that in matters of federal jurisdiction canal boats are ships. The navy is quaking for fear the next step will be to declare that sea dogs are barks, Strenuons Pace in Winter, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. There is hardly a probability that the public will lack for excitement during the approaching winter. By the time the foot ball season shall close the women's euchre clubs will be in active operation. Menace of School Fads. Buffalo Express. The school system is not one of those institutions which can do without the necessarles of life if they can have the luxuries. Simplicity in the curriculum and soundness in elementary studies rather than a superfluity is what the public need demands. Widows on the Pension Roll. New York Tribune. It is an interesting fact that the name of a single survivor of the war of 1812 now appears on the pensfon rolls, that of Hiram Cronk of Onelda county, in this state, who is 103 years of age. But no fewer than 1,115 widows of the soldiers in our second war with Great Britain are still getting money from the federal treasury. Young women who are willing o marry aged war- riors with the hope of pensions are plenti- ful. Long after every man who bore arms in the Mexican war, the civil war and the Spanish war has drawn his last breath there will be a host of widows still obtain- ing pensions. RETURN OF NORMAL CONDITIONS. Good Reasons Why We Will Not Have Hard Times. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is undeniable that business conditions in the last six mcnths have not changed for the better. It must be admitted that there is depression In certain industries and that there has been, at times, a lack of confi- dence in financlal circles that under favor- able conditions would have bred panics. It is true that merchants are talking of dull trade, and manufacturers of the natural de- pression that follows a period of abnormal activity and overproduction. It ls not true, however, that these things are necessarily the forerunners of a pertod of downright hard times. A period of depression does not lead, necessarily, to hard times. It does not fol- low that because' some manufacturing plants have been closed, and because trade is not as active as it was three years ago, and because the stock market Is subject to greater fluctuations than it was a year ago, that all mills are to close; that hundreds of thousands of workingmen are to be thrown out of employment; that trade fs to be paralyzed, and that the conditions of the hard times of 1894 and 189 are to prevail this year or next year. Actual conditions in the country are against the return of hard times. We have more producers’ and moge consumers. In the last seven years our population has in- creased from 70,254,000 to 79,000,000 There are in round numbers 10,000,000 more con- consumers and producers, more workers and purchasers, than there were seven years ago. In five years the wealth of the nation has increased from $77,000,000,000 to $94,000,000,000. In the same time the money In the country has Increased from $1,506,434,000 to $2,249,390,- 00. This is money on a gold basis, subject to no discount. A dollar s a dollar to every man. No depreciation is possible. In seven years our exports have increased from $882,606,000 to $1,381,719,000. This indi- cates a constantly Increasing forelgn de- mand for our manufacturing and farm products. In ten years our farms have In- créased in number from 4,564,641 to 5,739,657, and the farm products have increased in value from $2.460,107.000 to $3,764,177,000. As long as there s a foreign demand for our products, with a constantly increasing home consumption, there must be profitable employment for workers, activity in manu- facturing, opportunity for safe Investment and general conditions absolutely prohibi- tive of downright hard times. THE RISE IN DIAMONDS, Syndicate Gems Going Up While Syn- dleate Jims Are Going Down, Philadelphia Record. The large crop of millionaires created by the prosperity of the last five or six years, and by the avidity with which the inex- perienced bought shares from 1899 to 1902, will be gratified to learn that diamonds are going up. They have bought their gems, and with the stock market going down and dlamonds golng up, not many other people will indulge in “sparklers,” 8o that the dis- tinction of the persons who have gathered in their piles and secured their diamonds will not be obscured by an additional heavy production of stock market princes and common share barons and captains of other people's industry. It is 0dd that dlamonds should be going up. When the Boer war broke out they went up because their production was re- stricted. It was predicted that they would g0 very high, because predictions of that sort impelled people to buy. They had an idea that diamonds were good investments, and they could wear them while they were rising, which could not be done with shares. But the Boer war is over, and instead of going down, diamonds are again going up. Advances of § per cent on small and 10 per cent on large stones have just been made, and in two years the advances have been 20 to 25 per cent. One explanation of this is that the mines are giving out and the De Beers syndicate, which controls 9 per cent of the world's production of diamonds, is determined to follow the example of Mr. Brown, of cotton fame, and anticipate a scarcity price. Of course, there may be something In this, but it sounds too much like storles of & faflure of the corn crop whick are cireu- lated around the exchanges at times when it seems to some persons desirable to send corn up or rallway shares down. We not impressed by this story of the ap- proaching exhaustion of the Kimberley mines. The probable sause of the advance is not decreased production but Increased consumption. Americans have been wearing dlamonds lately to an extent that has oc- casioned & remarkable increase In imports. The importation of uncut dlamonds has been nearly $3,000,000, against something over $4.000.000 fn the sxme part of last year. The gentlemen who promoted trusts, the underwriters of fndustrial syndicates, the talented financiers who were able to sell nothing for something, have bought dia- monds until the price has very naturally sdvanced. But damonds will be cheaper: many of these rentlemen will be unlnedlne Chicago Post: Somebody should tell Pope Pius X, that “America” means the United States and nothing else. The idea of his using the term to include Brazil! 8t. Louls Republi¢: Dowle may not agres with clergymen in their declarations that more preachers are needed Dowleism, or Dowle, may be different Philadelphia Press: A New has' been censured for selling beer at a church fair. He might have saved himself trouble by getting incorporated and hiring a dummy bartender, Baltimore American: A Kansas professor is Invelghing against ragtime music in churches. If not stopped in time, this revo- lutionary reformer may go to abolish sen- sationalism {h sermons. Cleveland Plain Demlor: A Chicago pro- fessor—the Chicago is scarcely necessary— s that he belleves prayer meetings should be enlivened now and then by a lively college yell. Let the professor carry out his idea at the next prayer mecting he attends—and then watch the enlivening process. New York Times: Now, Dowle isn't a prophet of God. He Is a vulgar mounte- bank; he is a swaggering, self-indulgent, ostentatious, coarse-mouthed humbug; he hasn't a glimmer of an idea with which to enlighten the world. Divine wisdom may overrule his puerflities, his horse- play, his egotistical bombast and his in- decent vituperation to the edification of hearers, but divine wisdom never chose him for a messenger. It would have con- verted him before it sent him out. There have been plenty of uncouth prophets, but there was never one so supremely selfish and hopelessly vulgar as J. A. Dowle. Philadelphia Prcss: Church unity was the subject of liberal action by the Pan-Ameri- can conference of Protestant Episcopal bishops which has been in session at Wash- ington. A resolution was adopted asking the Presbyterian and Methodist bodies to consider serfously the subject of church unity, with a view of “arriving at inter- communion and possible union of them and us." The enthusiasm shown when this matter was referred speaks well for the Protestant Eplscopal church. If there could be union it would greatly promote the missionary and other work now carrled on by all and would enable small churches to be supplied with more efficlent minis- ters. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, As soon as the majordomo of Zion passed the hat in Gotham every native yelled Doughle. Senator Stewart did not waste much time in ocourting. When a man reaches 76 he hasn't much time to burn. After all, the open door in China has its uses. Empress An may extract some pleas- ure from mankind's interest in her age. The speed performances of the battleship Missourl is pronounced “out of sight” A fitting supplement to the native run for 0ld Mexico. The National Spellbinders' assoclation is bestirring itself for 194 By the time con- gress adjourns it will be in shape to launch a hot alr trust. “My soul gropes sadly, searching in a mental fog,” exclaims Czar Nicholas. It has been suspected for some time that the czar anxiously awaited a little sonshine, A New Jersey jury awarded a lawyer damages in a sult over the “loss of his nerve.” The jury showed a discriminating sense of duty to a man thus maimed for lite. Another symposium of advice to young men by Chauncey Depew appears in the Sunday papers. The season is pecullarly suited to a wor& plcture of the joys of chestnut gathering. Bright, balmy, smiling October! The “rare duys of June,” of which the poet sang, have no greater charms of sunshine and cheer as the tenth month of 1%8 put up. No wonder it shed tears on going. A Brooklyn man with a grievance rivals Dowle in throwing vulgar epithets at news- papers and newspaper men, both declaring that “Hades is yawning for editors and re- porters.” The familiarity of con men with the tropical hereafter implies friendly re- lations with the boss fireman. When all Jersey pastor | m of the tribes gather on their favorite reservation editors and reporters, will, out of their abundant charity, fold nbers | thetr wirigs and forget ‘em The nut crop along the Minnecadusa ls said to be especially heavy and t rels are laying by a large supply, which | regarded as an unfalling slgn of a hard The needs of winter, The goosebone prophet of Saddie Creek declares the goosebone points unerr- ingly to a mild, open winter. Meanwhile the offclal weather clerk hands oit his daily bunch of dead sure predictions, as though the ancient seers had not made the Job superfluous. DOMESTIO PLEASANTRIES. Hila fou can't tell whether you want to_marry her or not Ruper{--No; I've ‘Hed fifty tmes_to tell her, but sho won't let me.~Chicago Record Herald Edmonla married life, Tustacia—Yes; one who b making up. Have )ou any rules in your Fustace insists that the 8 the quarrel must begin the etroit ¥Free Press. Wederly—Why don't you get marrled? Singleton—I can't afford it. Wederly—Can't affordgit! ~ Why, when I was your age I was 80 poor that'I bad to marry.—Chicago News. “ARt sighed Miss Antique, with a lan- uishing glance in the direction of Mr. Old- . had been born in the days of he said, as he scratched the bald spot on the top of his head, “you ocame protty near it.’'—New Yorker. “I hate to seo a big woman and & little man mated,” “So do L' “A man oy he_ mnrrh\ ht to be taller than the girl glse he ought to bave a Jot of money.” v—(‘hll'flg\- Post. Mr. Hunnijar—Why fsn't this hat good enough to wear to the horse show, I'd like to_know! Mre. Hunnijar—Becauso it's old fashioned and a fright. It will make people tatk Mr. Hunnijar—Not if you get started to talking first.—Philadelphla Press. “Would you asked the duke. “I'm sorry—really I am—but Miss Billyuns over there proposed to me half an hour ago and 1 was foolish enough to say yes. She's 8o much homelier than you are, ton! Why didn't you speak earlier?’—Chicago Record-Herald. A SONG OF THE RACE. marry for money?' she P, L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution, Its @ gallop, my hearty, the lfe-race to But-what does it mean when the racers are in? Through the night and the blast We rode far and rode fast, But what means the race 1o the raceia at” last? The rider is weary— ) The Dark whispers “Rest! Stlence and dreams, And a rose for his breast. It's a gallop, my hearty—the life-race that seems An echo of Phantoms that race through wild dream: And the racers that ride O'er_the track dim and wide, Beluvld not the pale, phantom-hosts at their The hosts that, grown weary, Heard Night whisper, “Rest!" And reaped from the rsce But a rose for the breast! It's a gallop, my hearty!—Break bolts— shatter bars On the track where we trample the dust of dead stars! Ho! Night comes apace— Take the rose for the race, And the rhadows fall soft ‘on each still dreaming face! 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