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The age-herald., 1902-02-20
Louis Driver.

Opeika. February 19.-(Special.) = MT. Louis Driver died here today of paraly- sis. He leaves a wife and family He was a brother of MT. George F. Driver. vice president of the Shapard Bank and Mayor pro tenn. of this city.
The age-herald., 1902-02-20
ALABAMA WEDDINGS.
Drake-EIIiott. Sublett-Campbell.

Gurley, February 19.-(Special )-Mr Emmett Drake and Miss Nellie FL liott were married here Tuesday-on the same day MT. Rhea Sublett was mar ried to Miss Dora Campbell. Both cere- monies were performed by the Rev. J. H Leslie.
The age-herald., 1902-02-20
Mrs. Thomas Barnes.

Mrs. Barnes, wife of Mir. Thomas Barnes died Tuesady at her home near town. She had been i'll for several months with consumption. She was buried in the City cemetery today
The age-herald., 1902-02-20
Joseph Martin.

Huntsville, February 19.-(Special.) J. Joseph Martin. a well-known citizen and assistant tax commissioner, died very suddenly this afternoon of congestion. A wife and two children survive him.
The age-herald., 1902-02-20
EXTRA0RDlRY MERIT
Of a New catarrh Cure.

Physicians are slow to take up new and untried remedies, until their value has been established by actual experi- ment, and they are naturally skeptical of the many new preparations constantly appearing and of which extravagant clilns are made.
 The most liberal and enlighted physi- ciaEs are always ready, however, to make a fair trial of any new specific and get at its true medical value
The age-herald., 1902-02-20

For a clear complexion. bright sparkling eye and vigorous digestion, take Prickly Ash Bitters. It puts the system in perfect order.
The age-herald., 1902-02-20

Planting Time.-Seed Pcs tatOes, Garden Seed, Fielu Seeds. J. H. McCary Go.
The age-herald., 1902-02-20

Illustrate your advertisements. The 1-ge-Herald Engraving Go. makes cuts. Both line cuts and half tones.
The age-herald., 1902-02-20
FOR SALE.

Saw dust delivered in wagon lots. Kennedy Slave & Cooperage Co.,, Peoples Phone llz
The age-herald., 1902-02-20
Handles Much Cotton.

The cotton market here is one of the best in the State. The prices paid are always high owing to the competition for
 trade by the local merchants, who do
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
IRRELEvArr STRIKE rEsrlMoEY Y.

Those who have followed closely the
chairman of the anthracite strike COM
mission, that nothing adduced has yet
borne directly ON the vital points at
issue. Those points raise questions of
fact on which witnesses should be called
to testify from their own knowledge. But
when President Mitchell took the wit
ness chair he was led over a vast field
Of topics by nterminable interroga-
tories regarding his own opinions and
his views of other peoples opinions,
most Of them related only remotely or
indirectly to the question in hand and
shedding no light for the commission in
deciding It, Practically all the state
ments made by him during the three
days he was led by his cross-examiners
would under the rules Of evidence in
courts OF law be summarily excluded as
irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial,
The arbitrator are doubtless em
barrassed by the extraordinary circum-
stances which led to their selection and
by the absence of any legally enforceable
jurisdiction and powers in dealing de
cisively with the witnesses and the
representatives of the parties to the
dispute. Wishing TO maintain the APP.
pearance of fairness, they have been
constrained to let the proceedings run
far aheld. But it is already obvious
that on this basis the Investigation will
be almost interminable. 1t might turn
out to be but little less burdensome to al
directly involved and to the general pub
lie as the original controversy out OF
which 1t grew.
Nevertheless. IL the embarrassment
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
THE END OF THE HARVEST.

copyrighted, 1902, by Grace Dufie Boylan1
Now, humbled by the steel, the ripened
grains
Lie prone upon the fields Of yesterday,
And summer, like a spirit free from chaini
And careless of old pledges, flies away.
With slumbrous eyes and features lily pal,
n pulse unquickened by the world'a
Life sits apart, within a hallowed vale,
And clasps her gathered roses in hsr
arms.
Oh, season Of completed joy and woe.
on harvest moon, when those who SOW
must reap;
Or, basely meek, in stranger meadows go
keep!
Who chooses, now the day is past and done,
To take what is his need and make no
moan, De- r -,
1 hold as nobler, drawer than the one
Who bends to CLEAN where wiser men
have sown.
Let him who sows the whirlwind take tn,
For seasons upon seasons wax and wane
And who shall say that in a tare-set field
There may not wave a yellow sea OF
grain?
Shall God, the Master of the harvest, lend
With hand impartial all that we must
n find no pity for us in the end.
When blighted seeds ave failed to spring
and grow?
In ZONE the weevil Of dead years lies deep;
And some are empty husks of rust and
mold;
In some forgotten wrongs have lain asleep,
A heritage of evil manifold.
Let him who sows his portion take the yield
And, patient, grind his bitter bread alone.
And undiscovered, In dishonored field,
Refuse to CLEAN an acre not his own!
GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23

arising out Of the work Of the arbitrat-
ing commission shall move the parties
to grapple with and settle the dispute
outside OF its bar without further ado
the commission Will have served a use
full purpose and the result will be a
signal v%indication Of the sagacity Of
President Roosevelt. II will be no less
impressive as an admonition hereafter
to all, in differences between great
bodies Of organized labor and on
federated corporations, Of the wisdom Of
mutual concession and friendly adjust
ment. If, however. the effort for i'm
mediate settlement outside OF the COM
mission should fail, that tribunal would
still remain to go on with the investiga-
ton, although it may have to enforce
s%tricter rules Of evidence to hasten its
conclusion.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
THE TREND TOWARD PEACE.

The declaration recently made by
President Roosevelt, that the trend Of
the modern spirit is ever stronger toward
peace, not war, toward friendship, not
hostility, as the normal international at
titude," is supported by clearly defined
conditions. The leading nations are
striving to maintain and cultivate
friendly relations as never before.
While commercial rivalry is strong be-
tween them and on this account peoples
sometimes manifest a hostile disposi-
ton, rulers and statesmen are earnestly
directing their efforts to strengthening
and making more secure the bonds of
international amity.
A striking example of this is seen
in the cordial relations between Great
Britain and Germany. the powers that
exert a preponderating influence In
European affairs. There is more or less
popular un~friendliness in each nation
toward the other, but the men who gov
ern do not share in or countenance this,
but on the contrary manifest a con-
spicuous anxiety to show to the world
that the governments are on the most
friendly terms and desire to remain so.
Another significant fact is the evidence
OF a permanent and mutually ~satisfac-
tory arrangement being reached by
Russia and Great Britain affecting their
respective interests wherever they come
in contact with one another. 1t has
recently been reported that the Russian
minister Of foreign affairs has under
taken the task of improving the i'm
perIal relations with England, Austria
and Turkey to remove the friction in the
Balkans and in China. Such an under
standing would contribute powerfully to
the preservation Of peace, Among the
other European countries the sentiment
for the maintenance Of peace is strong,
How much the United States has had
to do with promoting this trend toward
peace 1t is not possible to say. but that
II has exerted an influence is not to be
doubted. The attitude and policy of
this country in regard to China I'M
a~uestionably averted a friction among
the powers that might have had most
| serious consequences, while the entire
course OF American foreign policy dur
ing the last few years has been dis
tinctly in the interest OF the worlds
peace. II has been a policy Of fair
ness, justice and Cancellation, the wis
dom Of which has everywhere been ae-
k~nowledged. Having taken a recog-
nized place In international councils. the
United States has not hesitated to
clearly define it's position and the effect
has been most %salutary.
While It is true that the nations go
on building navies and maintaining
armies, there is in this really nc menace
to peace. THE voice OF the weakling
or the craven counts for nothing when
he clamors for peace" said President
Roosevelt "but the voice OF the Just
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23

The question Of the future OF values
Is interesting because Of its bearing upon
the question OF prosperity and also upon
that Of wages, the latter being just now
prominent I'm popular attention. While
there are many who hold the optimistic
view that there is not likely to be any
material change from prevailing values
for a considerable time, there are others
whose study OF the conditions leads
them to the conclusion that a readjust-
ment to a lower plane of prices for most
commodities is inevitable in the near
future.
One of the leading financial journals
Of the country, of conservative tenden-
cies, says that while there may be room
for a variety Of opinions regarding the
method by which a readjustment Of the
situation to a lower level Of values is TO
be accomplished, there can be no ques-
ton in rational minds that the time for
readjustment has about arrived. 1t
urges that the only thing hat can aver
~ 10 a ENhCAaA A6t III "obSo oho noA
aries throughout the land. Average in
come must increase. or average price
must decrease. 1.-THE nation has appar-
emily reached the point which, for sew
eral years past, we have known it must
inevitably reach, namely, the point
where the cost of living SO far outstrips
the purchasing power of the people as to
necessitate drastic measures. Prices
have risen unduly in comparison with
incomes-even when full allowance is
made for the steadier employment of
labor in recent years-and the people
have had n strain imposed upon them
which it will be impossible to stand up
under much longer"
1t is true that wages have not kept
pace with the rise in commodities-a
not exceptional experience-but the ten
dency is now toward equalization. The
very general advance in wages made
by the railroad companies will possibly
be followed by increased pay in other
directions, at least wherever labor is in
position to enforce a demand for an In
crease of pay. In this event the effect
reasonably to be expected would be the
maintenance of the prices Of commodi-
ties because of the enlarged cOnsump-
ton. A full equalization of wages with
present commodity prices, however, is
hardly to be expected, and therefore a
readjustment of prices to a lower level
must, it would seem. come sooner or
later. Looking at the situation conserva-
lively there appears to be no reason to
expect any sudden lowering of values,
other than those Of a speculative char
acter, the decline of which would not
injuriously affect prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
A PROBLEM IN SANITATION.

If the United States constructs the
Panama canal not the least difficult of
the problems to be dealt with is that of
sanitation. This the French company
paid very little attention to and the NOR
tally among those 1t employed on the
canal was very great. OF course our
government would give the most careful
and thorough attention to the sanitary
question and 1t would be found no easy
task to rid that region of the sources of
the numerous diseases that render it one
of the most unhealthful places In this
hemisphere.
A report made to the secretary of the
navy by Medical Inspector SimOns
notes the many diseases that prevail on
the isthmus and says that the task of
sanitary policing the route of the Pan
ama canal will be no light undertaking.
At present the towns of Colon and Pan
mi are in q wretched condition and
DIR. Simons recommends that our gov
eminent obtain control of a strip at
least three miles wide on each side of
the canal and including Colon and Pan
anna and the lesser towns along the
route, in order to carry out necessary
sanitary improvements. He say the
acclimated men now there should be
employed to do the cleaning. Perhaps
the problem on the isthmus, however,
will be no more difficult than was pre-
scented in Cuba, which was so success
fully handled that the island is now
comparatively free from the diseases
that formerly prevailed there. Equally
successful have been the sanitary opera
tons at Manila, which was in very bad
condition when the Americans went
there. These experiences will help ma.
terially in dealing with the sanitation
problem in connection with the construc.
ton of the Panama canal.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Good mornlngl Have you seen the cold
wave?
The country might. IL put to the test,
get along all winter without experiencing
winter.
The president did not get any bear at
Smedes, but he got something just as good
at Smemphis.
Minister WI is homeward bound. taking
his queue with him, but leaving a bouquet
Of cues for future use.
A noted American heiress caught a burg
lar in Paris. Lucky woman! She could
have gone further and Jared worse.
There is a CLEAN of hope for the century
when a Montana man spurns a bride large
enough to jar the foothills Of Anaconda.
1t should not be forgotten that the law
yers for the coal barons must, for APP
pearance sake, make a stagger at earning
their salaries.
Grasping coal dealers Of New York are
having their wings clipped. Mining COM
panies are establishing yards to sell the
goods themselves.
The professional base ball man who lost
an arm in a railroad accident can easily
prove his means Of earning a livelihood
have been seriously impaired.
An irrigation convention in a downpour
Of rain is one OF the fall delights of Ore
gon. 1t is characteristic OF the state. There
the weather weeps whenever a woman
opens an umbrella.
Crooks are operating successfully in som
Of the police stations in Philadelphia and
approaching so near the city hall that the
frightened inmates are discussing ways and
means to suppress unofficial competition.
To test the knightly qualities as well
as the strength of her steady, a Chicago
girl made her sutton carry her up nineteen
stories in the Masonic temple. That I'M
fortunate earned the right to carry a load
through life.
Apropos Of Lord Kelvin's assertion that
in 400 years the coal Of the world will be
used up, NJ. Cartleux, chief engineer Of the
Northern railway of France, says that in
ten years, between petroleum and alcohol,
coal mining will not pay.
True economy is not always appreciated
by those it is intended to- benefit. In
order to save the cost Of an alarm clock
a Rochester (N.Y.) mar taught the family
parrot to say, Darn you, get up" and now
the ungrateful woman is suing for di-
vorce.
In a recent decision involving magnetic
healing and absent treatment. the federal
supreme court intimated there was no law
constituting the Postofice department an
ofhcial fool killer. Too bad to throw an
institution out OF a job when there is an
abundance of tempting material to work on.
A piece Of pie is the foundation OF a
divorce suit in Indiana. This is not as
surprising as IL looks, inasmuch as Indiana
pies, used as clay pigeons, have dehed the
best endeavors of irst-class marksmen.
When a famous CONNECTION turns shot aside
It is no wonder Hoosiers smother their feel
ings and beg for liberty instead Of death.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Chicago Record Herald. One Of the Chi
cago churches is TO have a brass band
to help at the regular services. II is TO be
hoped that the trombone artist will be
careful never to let the congregation, In
an outburst OF enthusiasm. mistake his
efforts for those Of Gabriel.
Philadelphia Ledger: Bishop Potter re-
funds to the Duluth people $3.50 paid
him for a lecture because OF the criticisms
OF the townspeople. They we're dissatisfied
because the lecture was only thlrty-hve
minutes long. II It's length they want there
are over a million people who could meet
their wants ably.
Chicago Chronicle: Having previously
consigned to eternal perdition the doctors,
the druggists, the lawyers, the preachers
and the reporters. Brother Dowie has now
put General Booth and the Salvation Army
on the blacklist. II all the people whom
Brother Dowie proscribes are really lost
forever paradise will be so ~sparsely popu-
lated that "zion's general manager will
have flats to rent IN the heavenly man
sions.
New York outlook: We do not advise
our ministerial readers to lecture in the
pulpit on economics. The minister rarely
knows more about economics than the
better informed in his congregation, and
often not as much. What he knows he has
probably gathered from books or news.
papers, and the man OF affairs listens with
either an i~rritated OF an amused contempt
to what he regards as a purely academic
discourse. The man OF affairs may be
wrong and the preacher may be right,
but though right he is not effectual.
Baltimore American: ''Sin in rags is
harmless; It is the gilded vice that is
dangerous to humanity" says DR.. Park
hurst. Taking this dictum literally. It
would follow that morality is a question
Of wearing apparel. to be shifted at pleas
ure. But such conclusion was not intended
by the eminent preacher. He simply
wished to emphasize that the chief danger
Of vice is its attractiveness, and not the
innate tendency OF man to sin. II is by
making immortality so repugnant and ugly
that we can hope for any amelioration of
the conditions so apparent in certain
places,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
VERMONT FOR HIGH LICENSE.

After an experience of exactly fifty
years Vermont has just repealed its pro-
hibitory liquor law and enacted in Its
place a measure for high license com-
forming to the practice that obtains in
all our progressive states. The removal
Of Vermont from the prohibition column
takes away from the advocates of con-
stitutional and statutory prohibition n
of the principal examples to which they
have been accustomed to point as an
object lesson for other communities.
The law absolutely prohibiting the
sale of liquor within the boundaries Of
Vermont was enacted in 1852 and has
stood unchanged on the statute books
during the whole period which has
elapsed since that time. Vermont, there
fore, has the record of clinging stead
tasty to prohibition longer than any
other state in the union. AS a matter
Of fact, of course, prohibition has been
no more effective in Vermont than it
has been in other prohibition states and
it could, no doubt, be demonstrated that
as much, If not more, liquor has been
consumed In Vermont In a year under
prohibition as in other states with APP
proximate population In which regula-
ton by license prevails. For years it
has been just as easy to procure liquor
in Vermont, Notwithstanding the prOhi-
bition legislation, as 1t has been to pro-
cure it In Iowa or Kansas, where it is
VIGOROUSLY obtainable by anyone who
really wants to get 1t.
The repeal Of the prohibition law in
Vermont, therefore, simply registers
anew the verdict that has been repeat
eddy rendered in every state In the union,
with but two exceptions, in which it has
been tried or proposed. If anyone were
convinced that absolute prohibition is
the only solution Of the liquor problem
this would indeed be discouraging to
him, but proof is at hand that far better
results are achieved for the suppression
of intemperance with regulation through
local option laws, which at the same
time throw salutary restrictions about
the sale Of liquor and yet avoid the Gre
alton of an outlaw business.
1t is to be hoped that the action of
Vermont may also bring Kansas to a ra-
tional condition and make way for the
obliteration there Of the last vestige of
prohibition fanaticism in the states Dor
dering on Nebraska, where once 1t was
80 firmly imbedded.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
U~NVERACIOUs EULOGY.
Move to Check Undeserved Tributes
to Passing MOrtaIs.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
Cynics have declared that tombstones
are the greatest liars in the world. This
is only another way of saying that the
ancient maxim Tell nothing save good
of the dead is respected everywhere.
Humanity agrees that anger, malice and
hatred should stop at the grave. Hence
the gravestone ~recites only the virtues of
him who sleeps beneath 1t and says moth
ing of his feelings and weaknesses.
1t must be admitted, however, that in
some cases charity is heavily drawn upon
In the effort to find virtues to ascribe to
the deceased, and 1t is this consideration,
undoubtedly, which has influenced the
clergymen of Hamilton, o., to declare by
a unanimous vote that they will no longer
preach funeral sermons save in cases where
they can conscientlously ascribe to the
dead merits warranting eulogy. They de-
cline any longer to compete with the
tombstones in indiscriminate praise OF peo-
pie simply because those people are dead.
There is something to be said for this
attitude Of the Ohio clergymen. A phi
losopher once put the case thus: A dead
rascal is no more admirable thai a live
rascal save that he is incapable of further
rascality. Why, therefore, should he be
SulOBlLeus
This statement Of the proposition appears
logical and 1t no doubt appeals with par
ticular force to c~lergymen, who, from their
very profession, may be supposed to dep
recate any departure from the truth even in
Difference to the tradition de mortuis nil
nlsi bonum."
Whatever license In elegaic matters may
be permitted to tombstones or even to
men not in holy orders, it must be conceded
that silence is after an the highest char
ity which may reasonably be expected OF
a preacher.
The clerics Of Hamilton, o., have done
wisely and seemingly in resolving to leave
post mortem e~ulogies of doubtful veracity
to the tombstones. Heaven lies about us
In our infancy, but the clergymen cannot
aford to lie about us when we are dead.
The stored urn must do that.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
TOO Much MlNAeEMENT.

In her recent lecture in Omaha Jane
Adams, replying to q question, gave as
one explanation as responsible in a large
Measure for the great success of one Of
the societies operating as an adjunct to
Hull House the fact that it had no board
Of management and was not stlied by
too much outside supervision and direc-
ton. The point is well taken not only
for the case under discussion, but for
many everyday undertakings, which are
retarded by an excess Of government.
1t should be kept in mind every time 1t
is proposed to create a new public office
for any purpose by adding useless sine
cures to the payroll or paying two Off
GERS for work that one could do, which
is merely an extension Of the practice
Of too much management. For some
reason or other 1t seems that the women
are too easily enlisted behind PROPOSE
tons to create all sorts of new offices Of
an experimental character which when
once created will never be abolished.
The moral contained in Miss Adams
suggestion should not be overlooked.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
Gentle Indian summer.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

Enllauelpnla RECORD.
Native poets accustomed to sing paeans
to Indian summer may tune their Tyres
this year with right good will. Never be-
fore, perhaps, was this mild, belated season
so timely or SO benehcent. With all kinds
Of fuel at famine prices, and the supply
inexorably limited by conditions beyond
private or public control, the chill blasts of
winter cannot be too long postponed. When
tempests rage transportation is impeded or
checked-a p%ortentous consideration for
the eastern public. in view of the absolute
dependence Of our great manufacturing
communities upon the existing enforced
hand-to-mouth system of fuel supply. The
huge winter stocks of coal usually accumu-
lated during the summer season are lack
ing, and when the pinch shall come, later
in the stormy months, it must be patiently
endured.