14 TUB OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1903. 5 TliE Omaiia Sunday Ber B. ROSETWATSn. EDITOR. rVBLISIIED EVEHT MORNING, TEH Ma OT BUBSmiPTION, Pnlly pea (without Piindar), On Taf .W WJ I'Blljr Hoe and Sunday, One Tear.,,... J 04 Illustrated Jle, On Year,..., J Sunnily lra. On Tear ? tHnti.fh,cSMurn; TSmX'fini'Y. ioo DELIVERED JBY CARRIER. Pally na (without pundsy), P eepr.. Illy lie (without Bundayi. per tMll PaJlr Jio (Wludlns Sunday), per weok.ljo nunnay Jlee, per copy Fvanln He without Sunday), per week So Bveslna 11m (innludlna- HundaV). pes waak , Wo Complaints ft irrei-ulsrltles tn delivery Should ha addressed to City Circulation De- aarvmoni. OTTETPEH Omaha Th Pro Building, . South Omaha City Hall Building, Twen. ty-flfth and M streets, Counnll nitifTa 10 Jer1 P treat, Chleas-o 1840 UnUv BulldlnF, New York SS5 rnrfc How BuHdtng. Washington nt Fourteenth Street CORRKBPONDENCB. r?ommitnlBftAia rAlnttn o news And edl terlal matter ahnuld ba addressed! 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The Nebraska qatnpalga of 1003 will pass down aa enu ef the tamest In the atate'a palltlcal hltitery, Ooed morning, Mr, Bob White, Keep a watchout for the festive sportsman celebrating the advent of the open sea son. The general wno-treat law" has been a dead letter ever since It was enacted, anil tha "candidates no-treat" law Is as near a dead letter as It possibly can be. 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. Tho arbitrators are busy trying to Bet tie tha controversy that Is stagnating Montana's mining Industry. If over there were need of speedy and effective action here la tha call for It If yon have neglected to register for the coming election you must consider yourself selNHsfrancblsed. Don't bob up afterwards with any complaint about tha wrong men being elevated to office. If Governor Mickey wants to keep his hand In at manual labor he need not go out In the fields to help reduce a wheat stack. There are a few holes left in Omaha pavements where his work might tell. , Congress will be asked to provide 8,000,000 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. The newly appointed British ambuBsa- dor to the United States expresses bis pleasurable anticipation at being trans ferred to Washington. That is the kind of foreign representatives the American people like to receive. 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 as it is. Remember that the county assessor to be elected next Tuesday will inaugurate assessments under the new revenue law in Douglas county. Remember, too, that Harry D. Reed, the republican nominee, Is by experience and fitness the ideal man for the place. ' It ought nut to be hard for the Ne braska exposition commission to get corn for the state's exhibit at St Louis. .With more than 213,000,000 bushels of the yellow ears raised In this state a few hundred or a few thousand bushels of prima grade will not be iulsued. i . Sutton is being sandbuggod because he would not allow himself to be held up by South Omuha grafters, and Rears is being sandbagged because he would not How himself to be bulldozed Into voting 41. M. Hitchcock's preference for United fjtates senator. Hence these steers. Senator Gorman would like to force ft political duel between himself and Jresldent Roosevelt We do not believe the president would be averse, but Gor man has several competitors In his own democratic ramp who would Insist that be la not the right man to go to the front as the party's representative. Friends of President Roosevelt In Ne braska who want to discourage ruont ef fectively the plots of his enemies to pre vent his nomination and election next year cun do htm no greater service than to help roll up a decisive republican ma jority In this state at Tuesday's polls as an emphatic endorsement of bis adtalaU- tTaUoa Ouni 6. Tunhuob. aacratary of The Bee of colored voters and u ubllshlna Company, belns uy a worn, poncy 0f social equality aya thai tba artual number or ru.in i,fh . .-,,, w k RtTiritiQ OLD l&SVt. The ieches recently delivered In Maryland by Benator Oonnon forcibly recall the adage "Scratch a Russian find a Tartar." Transposed Into south- ern chivalry dialect and applied to exist- lng political conditions the terse Pa poleonle epigram would read, "Turn the radium llirht uion a southern democrat nd And a galvanized pro-slavery -wash buckler." In his polished but virulent address delivered at Baltimore the senator Is Quoted as saying: I regret that tho race Ihsuo baa been raised, but It not raised by the dem ocratic party. The slaves were elevated and educated by bMng- the slaves of a whlta race, and all over the Inhabited Slob the negroes, when they are under subjugation and guidance of white men, ara honest and thrifty, but otherwise tney are degenerate and un progressive. All thoughtful men In the south, except a few politicians, and every thoughtful man in the north have arrived at tha 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 caar, who aends for hie leaders and orders them to do as he says. He tells them. "Bring your men into line, wheel up your thousands pport me in my for the negro, both nows that colored men ara 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 lie declares that the race Issue was not raised by the demo cratic party he insults popular intelll gence. Every school boy north and south familiar with current political his tory knows that up to the election of McKlnley 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 negrophobla. 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 thrlftly 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 interests 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 blessed obliviousness in Sleepy Hollow, Surely, 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. Ferbaps 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 Hon 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 ruiiBusrim ujr 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 fields and cotton plantations, in keep ing his masters in affluence 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 scrlptlon on the liberty bell that was suspended over independence hail a sham. Senator Gorman's bugbear of social equullt with the negro will not frighten any rational person either south or north. It is simply re-echoing the ex plodcd ridiculous question, "Do you want your daughter to marry a negro?" There is 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 la in the great American cities, including Baltimore. The multi-millionaires do not meet the millionaires on a social equality, and the doors of the millionaires are hermetic ally closed against the people who have no bank account' The only place where there is social equality among white men la in the penitentiary, and even there the bank wreckers, treasury em bezzlers ana trust promoters bold op their noses when brought In contact with common horse thieves and burg lars. It Is simply amazing that the coming leader of the democracy in the United States senate should lndalge In such diatribes sgainst the president as has Senator Gorman. Theodore RooBevelt 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 democrat!, and bo outspoken against political coercion. The senator's wail fot the loaa t)j the democracy of West Virginia and Delaware con Ann 8 the Impression that the senator has boon out of politics for a number of years. Went Virginia came Into tne re publican column not because of negro colonisation, 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 lta 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 lias 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. TUB RIUMT OF APPKAL. A short time ago Associate Justice Brewer of the supreme court or the United States said in a public address that the right of appeal should be taken away as one means or cnecamg iue lynching 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 bis 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 'Whlf'h rniw ennrlltlnna that mak agftIngt thj proper admlnls. tratlon 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 bo 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 eppellate court, or some Judge thereof, it or ho shall certify thnt there is probable rea son to believe that Injustice has been done. The whole control of anDellate proceedings ought to be In the appellate court." There is undeniably mnch force In Justice Brewer's arguments and they Will commend themselves especially to those who understand to hnw crtnr dogree the ,aw. de,ny re8ponsIbIe for rrm, r.rHciilnrl bf f lv,i- . m " ak ux-Maaaa A V the right of appeal has been so long recognized and Is so firmly established that any ,nterference with it would un aoubtedly encounter an overwhelming popular opposition. The subject is cer tainly a most Interesting one and well worthy of the widest ' consideration, WBAT JS THK M1J1STMITS DUTY1 How tar 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 Uulver 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 tier forming the marriage ceremony and 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 Unlversallst convention ls tIlat no minister should under any con 'on perrorm me 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 vust mujorlty comply unhesitatingly with a requisition for offlclatlon at mar riage with no other preliminary than a assurance 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 leas scruples win be found to render the desired service. And this assumption la undoubtedly correct unless all the ministers of all churches should become imbued at the same time with compunctions against marrying dl vorced persona and even then the pleni tude of elvfl officers authorized to legal lse the marriage covenant would still afford a way out not likely to be Ignored. Summed up la a few. word a. It devolve upon each minister of the church to shoulder his own resiHinslbillly. If he or his church professes uncompromising opposition to the remarriage of divorced persons It 111 lKnts him to continue to jerforiu the marriage service within the bjectlonable lines even though con vinced that his refusal to officiate will prove no insuperable bar. It Is the old precept of practicing what one preaches nd the preacher Is the first one to whom it applies. T denounce divorce from the pulpit and to scarify the remarriage of divorced persons, while at the same time stimulating the divorce industry by lending active aid to the consummation of its objects, is hypocrisy pure and simple. CANADIAN RATIVKALtTr. That the question of Canadian natlon- llty 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 larger measure of power In dealing with other countries and if this be in consistent with the Imperial relations of the Dominion that step be taken to sever those relations. Ferhaps 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 heretofore noted the remark able speech of Premier Laurler, 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 bo 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 Blni llar nature again we shall deal with them in our own way. In our own fash ion, according to the best light we have." It Is easy to understand that this attitude of Canada's most dlstln gulshcd liberal statesman has made a very decided impression upon the popu lar mind. In regard to the prevailing 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 conipll 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 llloglcally to Canada, will become an es tablished fact" The situation Is 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 Initial Btep 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 nexatlon to the United States and doubt less such a party would receive a great deal of encouragement and support from this side. DO AMERICANS MAT TOO MVCB1 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 saya they give their kidneys more work to do than they can possibly perform, resulting in Brlght'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 Italian or the French or the German, and the result Is 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 pcoplo as a whole eat more than is nec essary. The opinion 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 ailments. The average Ameri can eats In a hurry and therefore does not properly masticate his food. In this way the digestive organa are unduly taxed and the effect in time Is necessar ily bad. But it is to little purpose to give advice on the subject however high the authority. The hustling American will continue to eat as he has been do ing and take the chances and he can point to the fact that withal our peop) are as healthy and as vigorous as thoso of any other nation. According to the bogus reform orga that portion of the judicial ticket which ia not also a portion of the bar ticket la a, partisan ticket This is decidedly rich. Suppose Judge Dickinson had suc ceeded In getting the nomination at the republican convention, would be still be a nonpartisan? Suppose Judges Baxter, Ka telle and Day had been defeated at the republican convention, would they have ceased to be partisans? Does the organ ef sham reform take all the people for fools? According to the World-Herald. Mr, Bears' work aa a member of the joint revenue committee of the last legislature baa suddenly made him a bold, bud man. It ia needless to add that tha measure formulated by that committee was by itanlinous action of Its members, among hoin were Senator Charles I Saunders f 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. Tread of Maritime I.avr. 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, . Strenaons Pace la Winter. St. Louis 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 Kadi. Buffalo Express. The school system Is not one of those Institutions which can do without the necessaries of life If they can have the luxuries. Simplicity In the curriculum ana soundness In elementary studies rather than a superfluity Is what the publlo need demands. Widows on the Peaatoa Roll. New York Tribune. It Is an Interesting fact that the name of a single survivor of the war of 181Z now appears on the pension rolls, that of Hiram Cronk of Oneida county. In this state, who Is 103 years of age. But no fewer than 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 "to 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 OK NORMAL CONDITIONS. Good Reasona Why We Will Not Have Hard Times. Chicago Inter Ocean. It Is undeniable that business conditions in the last six months 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 financial 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 Is not true, however, that these things are necessarily the forerunners of a period of downright hard times. . period of depression does not lead, necessarily, to hard times. It does not fol low that because' soma 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 Is to be paralyzed, and that the conditions of the hard times of 1894 and 1896 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 more 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 177,000,000,000 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.. 000. This is money on a gold basis, subject to no discount. A dollar la 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 lndl cates a constantly Increasing foreign de mand for our manufacturing and farm products. In ten years our farms have In crtased In number from 4,664,641 to 6,739.667, and the farm products have Increased in value from $!.4UO7.000 to $3,764,177,000. As long as there is 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 prohlbl tlve of downright hard times. THE RISE IN DIAMONDS. Syndicate Gems Going lTp While Syn dleato Jims Are Golnsr 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 lnet perlenced bought shares from 1899 to 1902, will be gratlrted to learn that diamonds are going up. They have bought their gems, and with the stock market going down and diamonds going up, not many other people will Indulge In "sparklers," so 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 odd that diamonds 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 go 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 1s that the mines are giving out and tha De Beers syndicate, which controls 93 per cent of the world's production of diamonds, la determined to follow the example of Mr. Brown, of cotton fame, snd anticipate a scarcity price. Of course, there may be something In this, but It sounds too much like stories of a failure of the com crop which are circu lated around the exchanges at times when it seems to some persons desirable to send corn up or railway shares down. We sre not Impressed by this story of the ap proaching exhaustion of the Klmberley mines. The probable aause of the advance la not decreased production but Increased consumption. Americana hare been wearing diamonds lately to an extent that has oc casioned a remarkable increase In Imports. The Importation of uncut diamonds has been nearly $S.flno.0O0, against something over $4,000,009 fn the same part of last yesr. The gentlemen who promoted traats, the underwriters of Industrial syndicates, the talented financiers who were able to sell nothing for somethtng. bars bought dia monds ontll the price naa wry natnraTry advanced. Fnt dTainonda wTfl be cheer-, many ef tnes rnt!erits wTH be tmlnailtna their diamonds If tby dfd not gwt an their , stocks sold before tha slump ta Wan street BKCIXAR SHOTS AT THR Pfl.PlT. Chicago Post: SomclHHly should tell Tope 'lug X, that "America-' means the l'nlt-d States and nothing else. The Idea of his using the term to Include Brazil! 8t. Louis Republic': Dowle may not seree with clergymen In their declarations that more preachers are needed. The needs of Dowlelsm, or Dowle, may be different. Philadelphia I'ress: A New Jersey pastor 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 inveighing against ragtime music in churches. If not stopped in time, this revo lutionary reformer may go to abolish Sen sationalism in sermons. Cleveland Plain Dertlor: A Chicago pro fessorthe Chicago Is scarcely necessary says that be believes prayer meetings should be enlivened now and then by a lively college yell. Let the professor carry out his idea at the next prayer meeting 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 puerilities, his horse play, his egotistical bombast and his in decent vituperation to tho 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 Press: Church unity was the subject of liberal action by the Pan-Ameri can conference of Protestant Eplacopal bishops which has been In session at Wash ington. A resolution was adopted asking the Presbyterian and Methodist bodies to consider seriously 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 Episcopal church. If there could be union it would greatly promote the missionary and other work now carried on by all and would enable small churches to be supplied with more efficient minis ters. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. As soon as the majordomo of Zlon passed the hat In Gotham every native yelled Doughle. Senator Stewart did not waste much time in courting. 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 Missouri Is pronounced "out of sight." A fitting supplement to the native run for Old Mexico. The National Spellbinders' association Is bestirring itself for 1904. By the time con gress adjourns It will be In shape to launch hot air trust. "My soul gropes sadly, searching ,ln a mental fog," exclaims Csar Nicholas. It has been suspected for some time that the czar anxiously awaited a little sonshlne. I New Jersey Jury awarded a lawyer damages in a suit over the "loss of his nerve." The Jury showed a discriminating sense of duty to a man thus maimed for life. Another symposium of advice to young men by Chauncey Depew appears in the Sunday papers. The season is 'peculiarly suited to a wore: picture of the joys of chestnut gathering. Bright, balmy, smiling Octoberl The rare days of June," of which the poet sang, nave no greater cnarms or sunsnine and cheer as the tenth month of 1903 put up. No wonder it snea 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 "Defter Bo Safe Order now. Don't put Also Cherokee, Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania hard coal, semi-anthracite and steam, Hand screened,, free de livery and city scale ticket. Victor White Coal Co., 1605 Faruam. Tel. 127. ovey & Stone Furniture Co. 1115-17 Farnam Street. LEADING FURNITURE HOUSE IN THE WEST. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Dressers, at from Chiffoniers, at from Dressing Tables, at from China Cases, at from Extension Tables, at from Buffets, at from...'. Call ltd inspect the finest lint of Furniture la toe West. Dewey & Stone Furniture Company, 1115-17 Farnam Street. Has members of the tribes gather on their favorite reservation editors and reporters. will, out of their abundant charity, fold their wings and forget 'em. The nut crop along the Mlnnecadusa Is said to be especially heavy and the squlr rels are laying by a large supply, which is regarded s an unfailing slpn of a hard winter. The goo.iebone prophet of Saddle Creek declim-s the goosebone points unerr ingly to a mild, open winter. Meanwhile the official weather clerk hands out his daily bunch of dead sure predictions, as though the ancient seers had not made the Job superfluous. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES Hilary You can't tell whether you want to marry her or not? Rupert No; I've tried flftv times to tell her, but she won't let me. Chicago Record Herald. Eilmonln Have you any rules In your mnrilfil life? , Eostuela Yes: Eustace Insists that the one who begins the quarrel must butrtn the making up. Detroit Free ITeaa. Wederly Why don't you get married ? Hlngleton I can't afford It. Wederly Can't affonkjltl Why, when I wan your age I was so poor that I bad to marry. Chicago News, "Ah!" slRhed Miss Antique, with a lan guishing glance In the direction of Mr. Old boy, "If I had been born In the days ef chivalry!" i "Well," he Sttirt, s be scratched the bsld spot on the top ef his heart, "you earn pretty near It.'1 New Yorker. "I hate to see a big woman and a little man mated." "So do I." I "A man ought to be taller than the girl , he marries." , "Or else be ought to hare a lot Of , money." Chicago Post Mr. Hunnljar Why Isn't this hat grod enough to wear to the horse show, I'd like j to know! ... t. m I Mrs. Hunnijar Because It's old fashioned and a friaht It will make people talk. ! Mr. Hunnljnr Not if you get swted, to ; , talking first.-Philadelphia Presa. "Would you marry for money?" she ' asked the duke. , . , "I'm sorry really I am but Miss Plllyuns , over there proposed to me half an hour ago and I was foolish enough to say yes. ; Bhe's so much homelier than you are. too! Why didn't you speak earlier?" Chicago ; Record-Herald. j A SONG Of THE RACK, F. I Stanton In Atlanta Constitution. It's a gallop, my hearty, the llfe-raoe to But what docs It mean when the racers are in? . Through the night and the blast i We rode far and rode fast, . , But what means the race to the raceu at f last? , j The rider Is weary . j The Dark whispers "Rest!" 1 Silence 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 dreams 1 And the racers that ride O'er the track dim and wide, Behold not the pale, phantom-hosts at their sldel The hosts that, grown weary. Heard Night whisper, "Rest!" And reaped from the ree But a rose for the breast! It's a gallop, my hearty! Break bolts- rhatter bars On the track where we trample the dust of dead stars! Ho! Night comes apace Take the rose for the race, And the shadows fall soft on each still dreaming face! The rider Is weary Keen thorns at his breast; God's stars light him home Where the Silence sings "Rest!" Proper Glasses cost very little more money than Improper ones. They certainly cost much les eye strain. And the satisfaction of KNOWING you have the RIGHT ones Is more than worth the money difference. HUTESON OPTICAL CO., 213 South lth Street, - - rYxtsa Week. Than Sorry." it off another day The largest portion of our purchase for fall baa Just been received. 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