Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1902 — Page 4

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THE INDIAIS^APOLIS NEWS, SATUHDAT, APEIL 2<?, 1902.

He INDIANAPOLIS NEWS number »f the fcsJ-Uhe flwt place, he Irailate that It la un* * I dent freeholder* on the street or alley to j just to judae American iteerspapens as a a* isBsraseswT wwifas** | improved *• Jn the present case all t whole toy the extreme types that exist In

that the petIUohm asked for was that j some of o«r larger cities — a caution that I the words “pitch lake’* 1>« left out of ils not suflicicntly ob8«r\ed ky our fastldl' the spedflcatlon*. This would still per-| 0U8*frleiMis But taking e\en the worst of nrit Hie trust to Wd, but would not require j them thwe are encouraging symptoms all the bidders to use the trust asphalt. 1 We quote from Mr. Clark's article:

PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON

(sacarr sexeav)

At Ttkf News Building, Nos. 12 and West Washington Street

as fiecood class liattsr.

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eatcTed St th* PoettHBc# at ladtaaapelis, lad.. The guarantee and all of the details of |

th»~specltlcatlons were to remiUn un-1 ebaaged The board ought to do what It can to smash a combination that Is forcing up the price of paving in this city. It la openly charged by the independent eompanies that Indianapolis 1* paying more than other cities. We should open

tnc specifications to competliitm.

Kgn tORKOFriCB - rMicAi;SO opricB - - WAgHiie^ToN orrics

'Minin* Building • Bore* Bunding - Post Building

TBtBPHONl! CALtS. -

Old C^pany. No*, ill, ftt, f7 and ITil.

flew Company, V7 and tfl

egg say of thc*« numbeni, or stinply THE KBWg, sad ask for th* department you wsat

GlNSRAl SMITHES ORDER.

It will be remembered that when Major waller was on trial before a court-mar-tial lor the illegal klUIng of natives, he iwtifled that Ji* acted under the orders of General Smith, who commanded him to iLiU all the people tn Bamar above ten yedia of age who were caimbie of bearing jtfaoa. and to nudee the province a howling ^tpfiSsrness This was so horrible that were reluctant or unwilling to be.It But now the thing Is admitted rday before the court-martial that la^^^ng Genwral Smith, bia counsel. Col ^Saaie* A. Woodruff, said that In order

proceeding* he was willing

J^llf^Bdinit that General Smith did give Waller tluj^specifled ord<^. We can see no reason for proceeding further with the trial, unless ft Is technlcalfy necessary hat has already been admitted,

bn whlrh Smith la being

is the one the tifoth of which haa

i«<ittdy been confessed.

We can not believe that tWsre will be

diMense of this policy. Very many have BO far kept silent because felt that the chat^ against General could not be true But with the Ion that has been made, what has bem a reason for silence is a reason for indignant protest. A who could, under any stress of dr-

glva sucb an order as that

nh General Smith gave is not fit to land in a campaign conducted in the |g||ase and by the authority of a civilised Christian people. There Is not a rting American anywhere who will feel a sense of personal shame at the Hg^t tliat there is one oSlcer in the can a I my who could Issue such an

fl« Major Waller received.

CASE AND COnnENT

think: the ekperimenl would fumbh In-1 Progretiion. formation that would be of value In future t season* of scaroity. The Tribune thinks i NotWus wnn* Jo

. . ... _ ..I Can h*'e wurtn wr but alonithat, whatever may be the offenses of theJ it lead* snd tend# to further aveetaass. beef trust. It Is manifest that the scarcity E'uller, higher, deeper than its own

of meat, due to the insufficient supply of, gprnig's real gjorj dwell* nta in the meaning. * deal of glorification of what seems to be

there has been of recent years a good

It is also to be kept in mind that many critic* of “yellow journalism.” who are too much disgusted with it* repulsive outside to carry their examination further, are wrong in supposing that it h altogether and Irredaemablj* bad. nr that

Its frequent «sr^«rd of No wonder the grain markets arc erand even of the decencies tj pines its at- .. titude throughout The cheap newspaper >'atlc if they are trying to follow th

marketable lattle. Is partly responsible for the increase of prlcea It thinks, therefore, that the thing to do Is to suspend the duties for the time This is Intfecd a ginger y way of handling the subject. Why not repeal the duties? The next Congress can restore them if neces-

sarj

--BOP

A PHILIPPINE JUDGE. will be somg. interest to know more Odltfl, the judge presiding at the of a Manila editor for sedition As is known here, the offense of the tn question was tn reprinting an ie from an American periodical, to he added remark* of his own cen-, the Philippine commission. We adcourse. that tn the present condlthings tn the Philippines it is 'ily necessary to put some llmitaon the freedom of speech In the courj;* **t the present trial, the Attomeyiifi^^'ls r^Mirted to have got very anK said that the civil government Islands wanted to know where it the law passed, and It wpeMited to knew “whether auch unttnteibcMa wiU be allowed ” he added the auggestion that ir% knows the wishes of th* govht, ami It t'«i to bp presumed that ft Itt own rules ’ Ai which m'>st unite remark J^gr taiiin showed his He »*td b* the Attorney-General; jcbkji will determine the case acta iair. Thp court wants you to th# tt believes individuals ag well a* governments.

MACARTHUR AND THE ARSENAL General MacArthur. It 1* said, under whose command the Indianapolis Arsenal will pass the SOtb of June, when he takes charge of the Department of the Lakes, Is not In accord with the desire of Secretary Root to sell the Arsenal here and wrlth the proci^^ purchase an army post near the city. He declares that tha Arsenal is a fine place and can be made into a battalion post at a coet of gSO.WO to MO.000 General MacArthur's views differ from those of Major Shaler, and there can hardly be a doubt that Major Shaler's views ought to carry the more weight He is an officer of wide experience and by long reMdence here knows the condltfona thoroughly. Moreover, his view coincides with the view of those that live in indlanapolla It is felt by all such that the Arsenal here Is too small for a good battalion post. Its location in the heart of the "city makes it undesirable both from the point of view of the Govern-

ment and the city.

There are certain inevitable accompaniments to a military post and these are no less unwelcome to _the~ discipline of the post than to the city. We are not arguing the case for the city We believe that full Information and dispassionate judgment will agree that Secretary Root's conclusion is the wiser. We trust that whatever influence Indienapolis and the Indiana delegation In Congress may have will be given for Secretary Root’s proposition. Not merely will this be better for Indlencpolls and for the Goternment, but it will be better for Indiana In having a regimental post located here, for If a battalion poet le established here. Indiana would have small chance for a regimental post.

GOOD CHEER IN JOURNALISM.

Such is the title of an exceedingly hopeful and thoughtful article In a recent number of the Congregatlonalist from the pen of Mr. K P. Clark, of the New York Evening Post. Few men in the country are better qualified than Mr. Clark to write on the business of making newspapers Not only has he had a long ap> H-enUceshlp, but he has served under men of the highest and noblest ideals. Who were also masters of the craft — the late Samuel Bowies, of the Springfield Republican, and Mr. E. L. Godktn, late editor of the New York Evening Post. One mlilit naturally expect that a man brought up In auch a school — excellent as it Is —would-be narrowly and pessimistically critical. But It is not so in this case. For Mr. Clark has apparently got all the good out of It that there was In U. and hss escaped the limiting effects which an excessive devotion to'the Work of criticism is usually supposed to carry with It. He writes as a broad-minded, tolerant man, who, though he sees the weaknesses and follies, tn our political life, and appreciates to the full the dangerous tendencies in modem journalism, is yet able to sie the good that is being done even byr those newspapers which

uMwer hs tn line with the best

Of a kberty-lovlng bench Oncethoughtful men must dislike, and which

tin ja% teve It stated, as it has been kRitad many tiiaag the great judges England tn dsepotte ttmee, that it is ^jiot the busla^ of murts to convict bents want conviction, and law, and not the whim of a iust be the rule of action. “In^e rights «B '1^11 as govern“It ha* Wten hunSheds and thouof year# to estahlish that greatprin--But It has beep established, and : got^ to aimy establtshed. And now. Jttt oh the frantier, in the mldsl of dlssidar and eoaftaion incident to gofi the setting up of a new regime, ivs B judge who bravely stands for 'Irule. The Manila editor may be ly to blame He may be a worthnjui even despipabte obaraetcr. We know nothing about that. The man may be guilty, and he may have'-been unwise tr^ 1# crlttclhm of men who were trying thetr duty But all this hss noth do with the case, W'e now know M hb is convicted, it will be, not beef th* «d*hak of the government, ths taw requires it

rmNERS AND Asphalt trust.

of Public Wprka has declined asphalt specllicatlons. ignorIims that hav* been proxented ease # Ptee stieet, which tq {Niv« from \iivlnia iglts^avenii*, a petition of all proiwrty holders was pre-

^-^dVking that the sptc^oattons he

ae to admit of competition,

ease of West stzwsi, it was reprebefoce the board that forty-ftv* alxiy-elght ititenwied property had pMRianed for the thang*.

knoBB ttiai (he mtphalt igust

all of tha aaphalt that comes Mti SQ>cwltsd Trinidad “pitch take” thoF Bgrmudea ffcld. it was tong ago ted. aa wo Gdhk the Board of Bkfortta could fgsHy find out, that quality e»f asi^lt comes from kd outside of the trust’s so-called l“ — wMch is «i art* of a few acres that which the trust offers. Alt outside orbits little area has been by the trust “overflow aaphalt “ lather words, ail on one side of a feace h the real tMog because it belongs !t::%ia the trust, and all on (h« other side a, rHor refuse because the trust doos 'is# 'Own it Elev-au y^trs ago Indtaiiapo}fa paved Delaware north from MassachuBCiks avenue with the “overflew a&phait ”

with It* Immense circulation always beais ! the weapon of publicity, and, while it ! sometimes slashes right and left without any sense of rcsponaibllity. it wields this l^wer in the majority of cases against rascals and steal# Corporations which try to secure public franchises for a mere fraction of their value “dread the cheap press, and with good reason, for they can seldom secure Us help In polltf«i also the journals which reach the masses are throwing the weight of their influence more and more strongly on the side of good government The campaign waged last fall by the most widely circulated dailies In New York against Mayor Van Wyck as an unfit candidate for the bench, produced an effect which was plainly traceable In the election returns, and which must serve as a warning to political managers in the future Moreover. the editorial articles In such newspapers generally give excellent advlca regarding the moral* of everyday life. It was notable that during the recent dlscus*»on of Sunday liquor selling in New York city, while teachers of ethical culture and evangelical clergymen advocated a relaxation of the law, tn order that the laborer might enjoy “the poor man's club” on hi* day of rest, a newspaper which enter* a host of poor homes earnestly opposed the scheme, on the ground that Sunday opening of saloons would be a blow at that family life which is the only

sound baalB of society-

Mr. Clark sees much hope for the fu ture The worst feature of the papers is. as he thinks, their untrustwortblnesa in the matter of new*, but he thlfiks that It will be p<Ss8ible “to revive the ancient sense of responsibility without sacrificing what is good in modern ‘enterprise ’ ” As far as moral standards are concerned he holds that the tsndency plainly Is In ths right direction. Never, he points out, was the independent treatment of political questions so general Even the commercialisation of the press will, he thinks, work its own cure, “since the journal obviously published for the sole purpose of making money must ultimately lose credit, and so profitableness ” The popular pres* to-day is In reality the voice of that great body of the people which formally had no voice at all — people who were the dumb prey of their masters and “superiors ” If the voice is sometime* harsh, rough, and even blasphemous, it 1* bettet than silence. And it will get more melodious as time goes by. The elegant critic* of our newspapers could not do better than read this singularly hopeful and broad-minded discussion

REFORM IN TAXATION.

Ohio has adopted a principle of taxation that commends itself. JTlvate corporations formed for profit are to pay onetenth of one per cent on their capital stock, while quasi-public corporations are to pay one per cent, on thslr gross Income. The two sources of revenue will furnish nearly $2,000,009 a year to the State, end to that extent the general property tax for State purposes will be decreased. Another law levies two and a half per cent, on the premiums of foreign insurance companies doing business in the State, and from this source about $800,000 a year te expected The purpose Is to divorce entirely State and local taxation Then real and personal property will be left exclusively to the counties and municipalities, while the State will obtain its revenue from general sources such as have been cited. When this shall have been accomplished the State Board of Ektuatlzatlon will be abolished Commenting on this change, the Chicago Tribune notes that the sources from which Ohio is to obtain its State revenue are to be found in Illinois and that they are ample to supply the State with all It needs, and that such a tax could be collected more rapidly and at less coat than the State revenue derived from general

property taxes It adds.

It (8 as desirable In Illinois as it Is in OWo to get rid of the State Board of Equalization with Us power to raise or lower local assessments, and thus to Interfere with local taxation There has been for the last thirty years almost continual friction between the State board apd Cook county. There always will be friction There always will be dl'«satlsfactlon on the part of the property owners and the municipal authorities of th*

City and county.

The words might be applied to Indiana In any case, the principle Involved, namely, the separation of State and local taxation. Is one that Interests every property owner, and is one for which the argument It seems to us is prepoiiderat

changes In the weather.

are, of course, extremely offensive to Mr,

Clark.

In the flrs^ place, he recognizes that much of tht evil is the natural result of changed conditions The vuli^rizaUon which men so much deplore Is the inevitable consequence of the audden democratization of any institution A few years ago comparatively few pdople read newspapers. Now everjbody reads them.

The writer says.

Newspapers were formerly made for a limited class with considerable money and culture; now they go everywhere among “the 1 masses " Nobody can comprehend the irevolutUm that ha* occurred who does not realize the significance of the fundamental fact that now. In the Lnited States, for the first time In history anywhere. the balk of the people read newjipahers, and consequently have newspaper* made for their reading. This democratization of the press, propcrlv appreciated, explains the startling phenomena In Its recent development. A fierce competition for the vast field of possible patronage which Journalists of the, old school had left untouched, drove the makers of newspapers to cheap price* for their wares and cheaper methods fc selling them. • • • Everybody knew

that the masse* were not caUlvate^:n . ingiy in the affirmative. Why shduld Lake aiur matter* of taste, th© sensational i . , , - . . JodrniUlat Iwlleved that they would be ex«mple. derive lobost pleased with the extravagant, the cal benefit from a great number of railgrotesque. the coarse, the vulgar. A new roads when It is simply the necessity of market of Immense proportions had been icomoel* them to n*j.« revealed —a market utterly disregarded ease that comi^is them to pass

by the Greeley* and the Ravtnonds. and ' ’

Us first exploiters were the Pulitzer*

and the Hearsts.

Boy orators should bear tn mind that no man can be eloquent or even successfully oratorical unles* he really has something

to say

Certainly a public officer, csiieclally charged with the enforcement of law, should himself be law-abiding Mr. Bryson. of the Board of Safety, ha* violated i a law specifically made as to that office, by being a delegate to a political convention A moment's reflection will approve the wisdom of such a law, for we all know that the bane of municipal administration is politic* It Is almost Impossible here to get consideration of any public question apart from political bearings More than this the danger that public service Incurs both here and In every city, constantly is Its misuse In the Intel est of politics Only recently we hail a decision from our Supreme Court, rebuking an abuse of power by our Board of Safety Lndoubledly Mr Bryson should be punished for vloK-itlng,

the law

Gracloo* though It be. of her Wu* hours; But is hidden in her tender leaning To the •ummer* richer wealth of flowers. Dawn is fair because the mists fade slowly Into day, which floods the world with light Twilight s niysterv Is so sweet and holy Just because It end# In starry night. • •••••• Life Is only bHght when It proceedeth Towards a truer, deeper life above

Human love is sweetest when It leadeth l To a more divine and perfect love f

I,.eam the mystery of Progresshvn dulv. Do not call each glorious change. Decav, But know we only hold,out treasures truly, When It seems as If they passed away.

Nor dare to Maine GesI s gift# for tncompJele-

nes«.

In that want their beautv He# they roll Towards some inflnite depth of lovo and sweet

ness

Bearing onward man's reluctant aoul

—.idelalde Anne Procter

To His Delaying Soul. Now doth the sun appear. The mountain snows decav

Crowned with frail flowers forth comee the baby

year.

My soul, time poets away, And thou >'et in that fro*t

Which flower and fruit hath float. " As If ail here ttnmortal were, dost stay

For shame’ thy powers awake,

Look lo that Heaven which never night makes

black.

An^ there at that ImmorUl sun’s bright rays. Eteck thee with flowers which fear not rage of day* —Drummond of Hawlhornden

European mothers will yet use Morgan s name to frighten their children Into obedience.

If Senator Clark is to speed his automobile with Impunity he should keep off the Capitol ground*. He might run over some Senators

AH over the country Democrat* are coming together again after the schism of 1896, and with few exceptions they are glad to get together again The movement Is one that ought to be encouraged. Yet Bryan never loses an occasion to discourage and discredit It No Democrat, whether he was with or against Bryan four years ago, can speak a word In favor of harmony or of any of the old leaders, such as Cleveland, Hili and Watteraon, without bringing on himself the wrath of the Nebraska editor Of course, every one sees that the party is fast moving away from Bryan and his views, and that Is well. Mr. Bryan sees It, too, and that is what distresses and angeis him _But he has some capacity even yet for making trouble This being the case. It seems fitting that all Democrats should understand just what la going on, and should realize that the man for whom the party has made sucb tremendous sacrifices In the past Is at the present moment doing everything In his power to prevent It from ever winning a political battle in his owu lifetime.

The unanimity with which the rebuke of Funston is approved is remarkable.

The country will have to object to^ Gen. Smith’s methods, even if It does "lend aid and encouragement to the Fttlplnos ” The celebration of Grant’s birthday at the Columbia Cluj? to-night, at which distinguished public men will speak, promises to be a notable event Every occurrence of this kind emphasizes the value of live* that are much a part 'of the history at their times People In cherishing the memory of their own great men, of those that have helped to make life better and fuller, are quickened to higher ideals The confession of General Smith, fortunately. did not come In time to be used In the "keynote” speech.

to have worn as weU a* the of the other atreeta awd better ttgny of them. New York ha* used of the so-called "overftow’ asphalt •«Be of it* heat strc'et# disregarding the petitioner*, who hop© Mcure coo^etlthm. ai^ «>» are anaf towttr pridHi b) 8o-call«d tndeeotopanlcs That wish to bid on k. and that wee zhut ont under the

tha hoard Igtiored

and overkKiked a seotloB of fter which provide* that the board frattt potHloh* upon which are the

through the counties? The real prosperiiv of the roads depends as much on tht'r passage through the rest of the State as through the counties In whltli they happen to he concentrated. The principle of separating local from general taxation I* sound, and tt Is growing. We hope It mzy not be long before It makes headway

in Indiana,

It Is cheerful news that comes from Chicago concerning certain railways It Is that these roads have Issued orders that hereafter the rough handling of baggage will not be tolerated. Trunks that are to be conveyed a considerable distance must be placed on a truck and the truck must have a pad of felt to prevent damage. There Is to be no throwing of trunks on end from a car, no bumping them along a platform from corner to corner In short, trunks are to be handled in a decent, common sense manner. Thus passes another pioneer phase and attribute of wild and woolly Americanism. Undoubtedly other roads will follow this good example.

God’s Weapons.

»iur fathers to their graxea hsve gon# Their strife Is past- their triumph won.

But sterner trial# wait the nu'S

v\ hich rlw?# in thetr honored place—

A moral warfare w,lth the cr.tne And folly of ait evil time

go let U be In God's own might

W e gird us for the coming light.

And, strong in Him whose cause is ours.

In conflict with unholy powera

We grasp the weapons He has given— The light and truth and love of heaven

—John Greenleaf Whittier

SCRAPS.

(Chinese troops arc using modern gum, It Is a slgnlflcaiit fact for those nations that are still bent on China’s partition

Mr. Clark Is too good a demoerat to believfi that this condition of things is permanent But that it had to be is clear. Democracy has its rough edges, and its coarsenees, but tt constantly tend* toward finer and nobler things, and It will be so in this case *J|heT things co-oper-attni with already spoken of are the chtmpenlQg In the cost of white paper, the deve)o}>ment of advertising and the lessening of the cost of publishing gen-

erally. Bo the trouble haa come In the • J- Pl«rpont Morgan Is to organize Scot work of developing the new field, and then i companies If they do not know

ill supplying it But we do not always re

April is fooling us this time.

The trusts are hard propositions,

they may yield to Knox.

but

member that the field had to be developed. and tl»t It was right that it should be developed and euppHed. AH this Mr. Clark makee very clear He does not regard the present condition* as permanent. There are, as he point* out, Mgns of bettfment even in the worst SMipera. The proprietor* who once gloried In thetr vulgarity eeem to have developed a sense of ehame, and their aim now seems to be to malm their papers not a* bad a* they can, but a* good aa they dare Perhaps the results are not strikingly t^vioua yet, but Ifc aeems to be true that there Is a reaction against the old extravagance. The case of the New York Times is cited m t%gt of a cheap metro poUtap newspaper Hkthh maae* money and whRdt yet mainfalna a high standard. Mr. Ciarit think* that "it la safe to say that no oihei development of joumaltom in recent yeaiwtias *0 profoundly Impresoed newifiMtper kM'kers a* this stgnlflcant fact.” But the otoet cheering thing about Mr Clark’s articlw. is that he !a able te see good even Ui “yeliow jouniaiism.” In

how to organise trusts abroad Morgan

will show them

The bird killers are In Omaha this week Th© man that can kill the most birds, as they emerge from a cage, weakened and intimidated by confinement, is to receive a cast-iron medal, the symbol of th© world’s championship. Now, if he could only be compelled to wear this medal around his neck all his life, so that people would know that he la the man that attained the bad eminence In bird ktliing, the lesson would not be lost. Hailstones In Nebraska killed chickens Presumably, then, the hailstones were as large aa hen's eggs The Indiana Medical College has graduated the largest class that has ever received degrees in medicine at one time in Hid’ vn The faculty rejoices over this ,*1 u ‘ tnc more because the students at the college every year com© to it better prepared Many tif them have already received a college education, so that it is practically university work that this medical school Is doing

There are l^ts of people who will not be able* to fathom Captain Clark’s declination of a chance to go to the coronation.

The meter question should be decided by facts and not by partisan arguments Natural gas has no political predilections — none In iheuworld

Members of the alleged beef trust are reivorted to have said that they would welcome the proposed legal inquiry. They think they will be able to disprove any unlawful tombinatlon, and able to prove the scarcity' of live stock. It would not be surprising if this should turn out to be true. Manifestly the direct and easy way of relief la to repoal the tanff duties 0.1 meat and poultry. A resolution to this effect haa been offered in the House of Representative*. But of course the reso* iullon will be killed unless the people make it their cause We find In the prpss a growing inclination to oonatder such a remedy. If not as a permanent thing, at irast a* a tenmorary relief. The Chi* ca,to Tribune ask* what objection a fair proUstlonlst can raise to the ouspenslon of duGc* while domestic producers are unabk to meet domestic needs While Ihe fD'c admission of cattle for a few month:, might not accotnpltsh the good that many

The Chicago clerks that have been making a tampaign for early closing were preparing lo follow this with a campaign for a minimum wage scale. Coincident with this mM’cbants are showing signs of yielding to the shorter hour mov'ement, and now the clerks fear that this is a strategic step to forestall action for a minimum wage In the down-town business part of Chicago several of the | large department stores have changed t their opening hour from 8 to 8 30. and where two shifts of clerks are employed the clerks report at SJO and 9. la the outlying stores that have been accustomed to keep open every night there t* a noticeable change to closing three nigbis in the week, and several of these stores have also changed their opening hour to *40. Proprietors in other uarU of the city ar© likewise preparing to shorten the hours

of business

The Sentinel is entirely mistaken. The News has not aivologized for Mr, Bryspn’s violation of the charter. Ther* " apology or defense for hts conduct

^ \

Kf" w

W« think the people of the city and ths members of the Council will make a serious mistake If they think that the officers of the Indianapolis Gas Company am “bluffing” when they announce their intention of quitting th© business of supplying natural gas tn this city under

present condkloiw.

Hierary obscurity for the sake of obscurity.

So great a poet as

Th© 'Vip© Browning has suf-

na *** *'*'’■”*

UDSCUnty Jdolatry of those who

persist In considering

j * bat are his gra’s est faults as his chtefesi I virtues feonethlng of the same kind has I happened in regard t<t George Meredith I arid Henry James. And there is a feeling which Is held by many of the elect that the less easy a man la to understand the greater he is. Therefore, It is interesting to»g€t the opinicn of one of the greatest and sanest men of antiquity on this interesting subject Tn discussing the question, Epictetus says: “When a man la proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chryslppus, say to yourself. If Chryslppus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of ” r>oe8 not that tell the whole story? The ability to understand things which It would not have be«o difficult to understand If they had been stated plainly does not seem to be anything to be greatly proud of. Chryslppus was a man of much vogue in the time of Epictetus. and fhe philosopher seems to have thought highly of him ~ but In spite of his defects rather than because of them it was Chryslppus who said that ”noth-i li,g is more foolish than the opinions of j those w ho think that good could have! existed without evil” He was also the I author pf a profound work of which one l ot the .most d<stingui8hed tianslators of, Epictetus says “The Pseudomenos was a , famous problem among the Stoics, and It is this’ When a person says I He, doth he He or doth he not?. If he lies, he speaks truth; if he speaks ’truth, he lies The philoBoithers composed many books on this ; difllculty. Chryslppus wrote six " It is j not difficult to Imagine what sort of man this distinguished author must have been.! But that is not now a matter of Importance What is of importance is that one of the wisest and most sensible men of his time saw through the folly of those who preened themselves on understanding w'hat perhaps could have been understood by anyone If It had been written in language "underatanded of the people ” The moral Is one that has a wide application. For inost of us are fond of reverencing what w’e can not quite understand There is a humility* tn many men that leads them to suspect their own powers when they find themselv’es puzzled by anything In life or literature So, It is well for us not to be too huMble In such matters It is net well to assume that the statesman w’ho does something that seems inexplicable Is governed by motives of which the ordinary man knows nothing In religion the same rule holds Admitting that religion has and must have, its mysteries, it is not wise to yield to those who seek to exaggerate the mysterious and to lift religion above the comprehension of the humble souls that are trying to get some comfort and inspiration out of It. The worship of the obscure Is not to be encouragefi The presumption ought to be against a man who can not make his cause “clear as the noonday." Epictetus was right. The man whose distinction depends on his ability to Interpret things which are needlessly obscure is not one who ought to command our special regard. To be sure, there must be interpreters, and he who deals with high things can not always make them clear to the unlettered and unlearned But even here the fault is usually with the writer Nothing cen be profounder than the gospel of Christ, and yet it Is clothed In language so simple as totbe within the comprehension of all. tv hen one really thinks deeply and soberly of the question of race or nationality, one must be greatly amused—or

pained, as the case may

Ra(!© and h* — at the comments

made by one people on an-

HUmiUlty other. Of course, there

are great differences of

race, and even people of the same race stock, but of different nationality, differ greatly, 'rhea© facts ar© obvious to all and are admitted by all. But it seems as though we tend to magnify the differences. and to overlook altogether the resemblances between people. Why should an Englishman, for example, expect to find any great difference between the Americans and the English’ Why is It necessary for each people to look on the other as quite out of the ordinary — as a phenomenon to be explained? In •plte of The tremendous infusion of non-English stock In oilr civilization, we are still In many respects English What does it matter if we pronounce the language differently, omit the much-talked-of "u” in certain worlds, drink Ice water and keep our homes warm in cold weather? These things ar© merely accidental and Incidental Our moral standards are the same, our religion is not greatly different, we read the same authors, have the same law, and look at political questions in the same way. How absurd It Is, therefore, for certain English papers to denounce the Americans ifor all sorts of crimes when as a matter of fact the Americans are most astonishingly like the English But the purpose now in view is something different from this. Taking people of the moat diverse races — the Americans and the Chinese, say — and admitting the most that can be said by way of emphasizing their dissimilarity, it Is still true that the likenesses between them, if not numerous, are of very great Importance The trouble with us Is that we have somehow got out of the way of looking on men and women as human beings, and so as bound together by the old. God-created tie of their common humanity. It is well to recur to this view occaslonally, and so to get the Inspiration that

thK^'SeapHe the'g^^t outlayln wnnel:-j must c-ome from the thought of the unity tjon with the sulti-, is said to have In-; of tne human race It la never wise, ex-

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1 ©torrori’ecil Rhodes Is related by!;®'' Purposes, to magnify .Hfthe daughter of a well-known portmlt ferences among men. Thongh the line painter. Mr Rhodes was In the artist a between goodness and badness must ever

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disguised anxiety. Before the artist could, remember that there is no such dlatlncremy, Mr. Rhodes added, determinedly. | tion even between good and bad people.

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The vineyards of France cover 4,388

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The ratio In Great Britain of children per marrlasre lias fallen from 4 36 in 1884

to J 63 in 1900

Mexican aervanta are said to be almost wofthleae, judged by the American standard of good service. The ratio of newspapers issued In the United States and Canada is as 44 to 1, while the population is only 16 to 1. The Japan current is about 600 mile* wide off Japan M'hen It passes San Francisco, It haa widened to 1,000 miles Sir Henry M Stanley Is now devoting himself almost exclusively to country life, and developing into a gentleman farmer. I ©SUV lus ha* taken to emitting vapor saturated with hydrochloric add. which, falling as “rain,” has done grave damage

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Of the fourteen ladies who took doctors’ degrees at one or the other of the German universities last year eight were Americans and only six Germans ,y A I’hlcago woman has declined a proffered nomination for schpol trustee on th© ground that her two-year-old baby re-

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Foreman—Where shall I put this item about the retirement of Alderman Soaker from public life’ Editor—Put it under

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Lord Roberts exhibits few signs of the wear and tear of his busy life, but It Is said that the strain of the last two years has told very considerably on him. There are to-day In Canada some 3.000 cheese factories, with an annual aggregate output of 180,000,000 pound* of cheese, or an average of about 60,000 pounds per

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The Music Teacher—Johnnv Is Improving dally in his violin-playing. Johnny’* Mother (gratlfled)—Is that so’ We didn’t know whether he was Improving or we were just getting more used to it —Judge. A new law In England requires that all dogs brought from abroad shall be kept In quarantine for six months at such place as may be provided by the British authorities. but at the expense of the owner Foote Uighte—Is the manager up-to-dale’ Sue Brette—Sure; hes just introduced a game of ping-pong In the balcony scene In “Romeo and Juliet ’’—Yonkers

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A small hoy In London was asked *o give the various meanings of the expression “bulls eye” Having written down all the ordinary meanings quite accurately, he continued. “There is yet another bull’s eye, as when you go up In a balloon you are stild to have a bull’s eye

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Itou frequently find women In Damascus doing the hardest kind of manual labor, as in Bohemia and Hungarv They carry the hod. they dig ditches, thev haul cart*

good and no people are wholly bad. They are all alike tn being a compound of good and evlL And sometimes it seems as though people were more closely dmwn together by their infirmities and weaknesses than by their virtues. But the point is that the really essential thing in human nature Is Its humanity. For it is out of that that all else grows. The soul, the essence of personality, the humanity — these are more important than the mere accidents of race, color, nationality or anything else. One may at times get a sense of power —at least the power that -flows from sympathy — from this way of looking at one’s fellows. At any rate it

clplee, as well a* our religlou* falthr pledge and bind u* to the theory of the

essential oneness of man.

Probably no preacher ever lived who did not often find that his sermons, no matter how plainly put. were often fooHahly

and sometimes dlsastrous-

SinCfirC misapplied. Th* *x- _ , perlence t», of course, unHCSiring avoidable, but it 1*

nevertheless always dis-

couraging and disheartenlnil. It is iio| simply that people so often refuse to make the application to them*elve*r-hut that they make ft to others for whom it was not intended A man that is guiltless of the sin denounced — gulltlee* usually because he feels no temptation tn that particular direction — tak«i great credit to himself from the preacher's de. nunclations, whan he himaglf may be guilty of thinge far worse. And In his eagernes* to help in tha application of the scourge to guilty backs, he almost invariably lay* it on people who were not In the preacheF* mind at all 8o it Is dangeroim — though necessary — to talk of particular sins, because those not guilty of them take a perilou* comfort In their own tm-

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Is the right way of looking at them. And

with the increasingly close contact be- munlty, and also misjudge their brethren,

H is becoming more and more im-jsume that they can not U o/the

aeries and other charactertstl© merchan- portant for all men to realize St. Paul's .Mns into which the rich men are drawn.

statement that God “hath made of one j To some extent thl* 1* true. But ofteh it blood all nations of men for to dwell on: Is because the poorer men have not the all the face of the earth ” On the reallga- 'opportunity which wealth gives, and are tion of this view largely depends the ',uc-' not subject to the temptations which It

cess of the American people in the ^reat' carri«« with It Yet rich and poor are I for the hearer fa to assume thairU', work of diffusing liberty and derjocrocy alike men, and they share many sins in j guilty a* tboee to whom Ois throughout the world And It ojqrht not (common Both may be greedy, enrfouz, | seems specially to apply. Firsts $|

iksPtious. hcarttegi^' and ’ nature of man t^dlier thm la

’Series and ^ ^ dlse of the country is produced, women wrGsts work side bv side with men, producing similar result*, but receiving only half a* much wage* Such is the rule the world over. No matter whether a woman works in Chicago or Damascus, in Fall River or Constantinople. In Sweden or tn Spain. In Japan or Bolivia, she 1* never mW more than half as much a# men reedv# for ibe same kind of work,—W. E Curtto. in Chicago Record-HeraltL

cruet So in discussing th* fashionable world, it should never be forgotten that many of those who delight In the castigations that are administered to it would give alt that they possessod to be aiimit- J led into Its sacred precinct*, and that oth- * ers who are pleased with seinnonB sgsin.'^t fashion gre pleased simply becau^d) they themsetres have no drawing In that dire* tfon. Of course, ther* I* no morid to all this, further than that 4hs preacher, whether clerical or lay. ou|:ht to be very careful fn^hls use .of language, and to strive ever to make himself exactly understood. Th* evil that I* now being considered is simply a neceekary partjQf our human nature. From our ear Heat childhood w* are dlspossd to rejoice' In th* misfortunes of others, and to pfsen ourselves OB our own virtue merely because we manage to escape punishment. The trait la not a pleasimt one. but it Is certainty plainly marked in ail of us. To it more than to anything else is due the 1m©ffectlvenesa of so much of our preaching 'The Jews of the olden time thought that they were to escape puntehment. They are represented aa saying' "If we had been In the day* of out fathere. we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the pcsaihet#'* Hare M G' answer they received. “WHer^oto ye b' witnesses unto yourselves, (bat yasB* U children of them which kffia* the prophets. Fill ye up then th© Swaatg# or your fathers T* aerpenth, yW-gCfieeiHoR of \iper*.''4o*rcaB y* est^pe tls fisatoatlon of hitli” We need good iNBf^ jta well aa goo^ preachers, and ths «$*r pit

to be furgutten that our pol^kai prin-{intempeiat^