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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1905-02-24
Au,trIan Old Aae PensIons.

Under the Austrian poor law every
man 60 years old is entitled to a pen.
sion equal to one,thlrd the amount per
day which he has earned during his
working days,
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1905-02-24
TEA

We drink it for drink; for
the taste, for the after glow
agood deal of taste and long
time glow for the money.
Your grocer returns your money fySa dsar
me sohrnnga best,
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.


Chicago Record-Herald An Ohio bishop
advises preachers to wear red coats in
their pulpits II by doing so they can get
people to go to church. Why red coats 2
Wouldn't green or blue or yellow do2
Fashion DEGREES that red coats should be
worn only on golf courses.
Baltimore American: Mr.. Rockefeller
predicts church trust governed by the
methods of the Oil trust. With a corner
In religion, there can be no further talk
Of tainted money, but a Standard OIL
church is rather move Of magnificent
audacity In imagination even for the ad-
vanced business progress of the times.
Chicago Tribune: let everybody either
come inside or go home" said the Rev.
Sam Jones in beginning recent sermon.
Don't sit out there and yawp like u lot
of buzzards. Those that have any sense
will come In and find seats The idiots
will please get or the grounds" II this
gentle admonition didn't bring the yuwp-
ers inside nothing could have done it.
Chicago Chronicle: Behold how great a
matter a little fire kindleth. Here is the
GLADDEN. Rockefeller blaze becoming "a roar
ing conflagrauon, the flames of which are
fed by most of the Congregational preach
ers in the country. II half the eccleslas-
tical energy wasted in this matter were
devoted to the saving of souls the devil
would have the llveliest time he has had
for many a day.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Maine observed Arbor day last week. The
sawmills and pulpmils ran full time.
The weather clerk might issue a rain
check to King Corn and redeem 1t later on.
The glories OF springtime cannot be
measured rightly until the straw hat bursts
upon the scene
George Ade says that every Indiana man
who can spell thinks himself an author.
Those who cannot spell get the money.
Lillian Russell tells in a magazine How
to Keep Husbands" Lillian experimental
with three and ought to know a thing or
two.
The end-seat porker Is getting his dues
early in the sunny season. Chicago
justice touched one of the tribe for $50 and
costs.
The report that Maine man killed three
bears with pocketknlfe is pretty strong
evidence that Neal Dow's law prohibits in
spots
Circumstantial reports of the Beef trust
investigation gives the impression that the
grand juries strike a new scent almost
daily.
The retirement from the stage of Pugilist
Jefferles leaves a copious hole in the center
through which a few more might drop
without being missed.
Philadelphias threat to issue a new
declaration of independence on the Fourth
of July would, if carried out be appre-
ciated by a community hankering for
cheaper gas.
The sorest bunch of summer butterflies
on the Atlantic coast IS futterlng around
Newport, r. I. A perniciously active tax
assessor got in his work and the bunch
is booked to pay up on $4,000, 900 of per-
sonal property.
New Workers of fashionable bent are IN
able to determine whether Tim Woodruffs
sunset vest or Jim Hyde's knee breeches
sheds the most glory on the town. Having
nothing else to do the Johnnies are still
guessing.
Philadelphia papers are jumping on Sec
retary Paul Morton because the latter
recommended Annapolis as the proper
burial place for the remains of Captain
John Paul Jones. The Quaker City should
not take failure so much to heart. While
the country recognizes the city's superior
advantages for cemetery purposes, 1t should
not strive to monopolize the business.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21

Works are the best words.
Prejudice puts the heart in prison.
Faith is turning the face toward God
He who makes friends makes fortune.
The best biographies are those on two
feet
Little courtesles are the wayside flowers
Of life.
There's more religion in whistle than
in a whine.
Virtue becomes a vice as soon as you are
vain OF Il.
Education Is more than a preparation for
life Il is a life
The torch OF truth wanes dim when the
winds Of opposition die
The cloth may make the clergy, but tho
man makes the minister.
A failure at practicng Is often construed
as q call to go preaching.
one mans salvation can never depend on
another mans shlbboleth.
Sanctifcation IS more than sorrow that
others are not as good as you are.
You cannot tell whether man is humble
In heart until you see him with his interiors
In station.
Many men are sure they would set to
heaven II only they might die in their Sun
day suits.
Make home heaven and the children
will take your word for It as to the
heavenly homo.
Instead of real love being such ladylike
thing, Il often has blsters on its feet, corns
on its hands and back that aches with
loads OF others.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21

At the recent annual meeting Of the
Civil Service Reform association Bishop
Potter arraigned the men in the Amer
lean consular service. who came under
his observation during his trip around
the world, as almost uniformly incompe-
tent and generally unfit for their posi-
tions. He cited circumstances in JUS
tifcatiou of the charge he made and
said that when seeking information he
was forced to turn to the American rep
resentatives OF commercial interests, not
being able to get it from the consuls
Allegations Of this kind by Americans
travelling, abroad are not infrequent, so
that there can be no doubt that some
of the men in consular positions are in
competent, or at any rate do not keep
themselves as well informed as they
should be. These are the men who have
secured places in the service as the re-
ward of political work.
Such persons, however, are not so
numerous at present as in former years
and they are being gradually weeded
out of the consular service and replaced
by better class of men. There Is
good reason to believe that long before
the end of the present administration
there will be no incompetent or unfit
consular representatives and that very
important part of the public service will
be placed on a perfectly sound basis,
entrance to which will be possible only
to those who can show that they have
the proper and necessary ability and
qualifications. 1t would be unjust to
assume, however, as is likely to be done
from such a statement as that of Bishop
| Potter, that American consuls generally
are Ignorant and incapable. As a mat
ter of fact most of them are men of
| good ability and are faithful and eff
cient in the performance of their du-
| ties. The service can undoubtedly be
| improved, as was said by President
Roosevelt in his last annual message,
! but on the whole it compares favorably
with the service of other countries and
has been cordially commended by Brit
ish and German officials who have OBJ
| served the work of our consular repre-
sentatlves Mr.. Roosevelt has shown n
most earnest desire TO improve the serv-
ice and has accomplished much in this
direction, but congressional action Is
necessary to bring about all the required
reforms.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21

GOVERNOR La FOLLETTES TRIUMPH.
The passage of the railroad commits
sion and rate bill by the Wisconsin leg
lslature completes the chain of reform
measures with which the name of Rob
ert NJ. La Toilette will be identified for
all time to come in the annals of his
state No man who has ever occupied
an executive chair in any state in this
union has exhibited more unyielding de-
votion in the cause Of popular self-gov-
and no man in public life has overcome
greater obstacles and achieved such a
measure of success.
From the outset of his public career
La Toilette has been compelled to grap-
pie and battle with the organized forces
of the allied corporations, who con-
tested with him step by step and inch
by inch on the battle-ground. The sub
stantial benefits which the people of
Wisconsin will derive from La Follette's
campaign for railway regulation and
railway taxation can scarcely be com
puted. The beneficent effect which the
direct primary nomination law, cham
pioned and successfully forced through
the Legislature by him. will have upon
the purgation of all parties from politi-
cal corruption and the emancipation of
Wisconsin from corporate domination,
cannot be estimated.
No public man in America, excepting
possibly Theodore Roosevelt, would have
had the nerve to bid defiance to the cor
porate hosts that were arrayed against
| him In solid phalanx, and no man, not
excepting Theodore Roosevelt, could
have so successfully withstood their
onset. When Governor La Toilette was
elected United States senator after the
most brilliant and exciting campaign
this country has seen in many years, it
was expected and predicted that he
would leave the field and assign to his
successor in the governors chair the
! task which be had set himself to ac-
complish. It goes without saying that
Governor La Follette's withdrawal at
that critical juncture would have proved
| fatal to the success of the reforms he
had championed and pledged himself to
inaugurate. Instead of vacating the
governors chair for the cushioned seat
in the senate Governor La Toilette re.
mained at his post of duty to fulfill the
pledges he had made to the people of
| Wisconsin.
With the redemption of these pledges
Governor La Toilette is set free to ac-
cept the promotion which he has so
richly earned. The people of Wiscon-
sin, regardless of party have reason to
point with pride to their future tribune
in the national Legislature, and the
American people generally will con
gratulate themselves upon the advent of
a man in the senate who has the coura ge
or His convictions and knows no such
thing as retreat.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
NO FEAR OF YELLOW PERIL.


Secretary Metcalf of the Department
of Commerce and Labor is a Californian,
but he is not in sympathy with the people
there who fear an invasion of japanese
when the far eastern war is ended and
are agitating for legislation to exclude
laborers from Japan. Mr. Metcalf is re-
ported as saying that he takes no stock
in the yellow peril cry, declaring that the
main trouble is with the white man. He
thinks If the latter were willing to work
in the fruit districts they could have all
the employment they desire and there
would be no reason for the complaint
that they are being deprived of work by
the orientals.
This view Of California's representative
in the cabinet is undoubtedly correct,
speaking as he does from a thorough
knowledge of the situation. Doubtless
Mr. Metcalf also realizes that the adop-
ton of exclusion regarding the Japanese
would be a very serious matter for our
commercial interests and would prove
rather more injurious to the Pacific coast
than to any other section of the country
Already there is threatened from China
boycott of American goods and Chinese
merchants are said to be organizing with
this in view, as retaliation for our policy
OF exclusion toward the people of that
empire. If we extend this policy to the
japanese 1t can be very confidently as
| fbot thau would paf,,Sa 20, traHn
with us and moreover would exert their
influence to induce other eastern peoples
to have no commercial intercourse with
us. We should certainly encounter a
much stronger manifestation of resent
ment on the part of the japanese than
has been shown by the Chinese. The
practical question is whether we can af-
ford to risk the loss of our Asiatic trade,
upon which our manufacturers and mer-
chants have been counting 50 hopefully,
few thousand Orientals
AS we have heretofore said in relation
to this matter, so far as the Japanese are
concerned 1t is not at all probable that
any considerable number of them will
ever come TO this country. The few now
here is warrant for this opinion and after
the war ends Japan will want all her
remaining able-bodied men mt home and
undoubtedly there viii be liberal induce
ments to keep them there, The develop
ment Of Industries and commerce will be
vigorously pushed in Japan after peace
is restored and with an active demand
for labor the japanese will stay i'm theil
own country. There is no danger that
the United States will be overrun by
cheap japanese labor and the professet
fear of this Is utterly unreasonable.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
THE MEN OF OLD,
Richard Monckton Milni

Richard Monckton Mines.
l know not that the men Of old
Were better than men now,
Or heart more kind, of hand more bold
OF more ingenious brow:
1 heed not those who pine for force
A ghost of time to raise,
AS II they thus could check the course
Ot these appointed days.
Still it is true, and overture,
That delight to close
This book or life self-wise and new,
And let my thoughts repose
On all that humble happiness
The world has since foregone-
The daylight of contentedness
That on these faces shone
With rights. though not too closely
Enjoyed as far as known.
Win viii by no reverse unmannered,
With pulse of even tone,
They from today, and from tonight,
Expected nothing more
Had proffered them before.
To them was life a simple art
or duties to be done,
A game where each man took his part,
A race where all must run.
A battle whose great scheme and scope
They little care to know,
Content, as men at arms, to cope
Each with his fronting foe.
Man now his virtues diadem
Puts on and proudly wears
Great thoughts, great feelings, came TO
them
Like Instincts unawares;
Blending their souls sublimest needs
With tasks of every day,
They went about their gravest deeds
AS noble boys at play.
And what If natures fearful wound
They did not probe and bare,
| For that their spirits never swooned
To watch the misery there
For that their love but flowed more fast,
! Their charities more free,
I Not conscious that QrODg they cast
Into the evil sea.
A mans best things are nearest him,
! Lie close about his feet;
| 1t is the distant and the dim
That we are sick to greet;
| For flowers that grow our hands beneath
We struggle and aspire
! Our hearts must die, except they breathe
The air of fresh desire.
| Yet brothers, who UP reasons hill
| Advance with hopeful cheer
/ Oh, lOiter not, those nights are chill,
| As chill as they are clear;
| And still restrain your naughty gaze
The iofter that We go,
Remembering distance leaves haze
| On all that lies below
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
SAID TO FA VOR RETALIATION.

1t Is reported from Washington that
President Roosevelt has informed men,
bers of his cabinet and few others
in his confidence that, he Is In favor of
an amendment to the tariff law which
will enable the United States to re-
taliate against those countries which dis
cTiminate against us In their tariff sched-
ules or reciprocity treaties. 1t is said
to be not unlikely that the president
will go so far as to advocate in q mes
sage to congress bill already prepared
for introduction at the next session
adopting Il maximum and minimum tar
iff system, 1t being stated that Mr..
Roosevelt and some of his chief advis-
ers believe there is nothing unsound in
this policy and that such course would
be entirely consistent with the protec-
ZIONIST doctrine and other policies. The
bill which 1t is proposed to intro
duce at the next session of congress
Is said to provide that in the case of
any country which imposes higher du-
ties on American products than it i'm
poses ON the merchandise OF any other
nation an additional duty shall be i'm
posed by the United States at least equal
to the amount Of the discrimination ex-
ercised against us.
Several OF the European countries,
among them Germany and France, have
maximum and minimum tariff rates, the
latter being accorded to those countries
which enter into reciprocal trade agree
ments. 1t has been the policy of the
! United States to make its tariff rates
uniform, applying equally to all coun-
tries, though In the tariff law of 1890
and in the present law provision
was made for reciprocity treaties, un-
der which concessions may be made
to the products OF countries entering
into such agreements with us. We
have such n treaty with Cuba and also
an arrangement with Germany, which
will terminate early next year. Reel
procity treaties We're negotiated with
several other countries, which the SEN
ate failed TO ratify.
The question of adopting maximum
and minimum tariff rates has been more
or less discussed, but IL has never found
very extensive advocacy or received any
special attention In congress II has
seemed TO be the very general feeling that
such departure from the established
course Of our government IS neither
necessary nor desirable. Yet some very
good reasons can be urged in sunDort
of the proposition and now that the mat
ter of meeting the discrimination against
American products involved in the new
German tariff policy is presented il IS
quite probable that strong sentiment
may be created here favorable TO maxi
mum and minimum tariff rates. Thai
such system, made operative by execu
tive action, would he most influential II
preventing discrimination against oul
3 products in foreign markets is not n
= be doubted. II our tariff was so ar
ranged now it is altogether improbabl,
that Germany would have taken IN.
= course hostile TO our trade which tina
+ country has adopted. 1t would hardl,
have invited retaliation, the effect o
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
4 HANDICAP ON STATE UNIVERSITIES,

4 HANDICAP ON STATE UNIVERSITIES,
In response to The Bees remonstrance
to the discrimination against the state
universities embodied in the terms of
the Carnegie foundation for pensloning
superannuated college professors, the
New York Independent repeats that it
has no disapproyal for the rule Of eX-
clusion and reiterates that this rule
puts it up" to those Institutions to In
crease salaries so as to equalize their
offers to teachers. 1t intimates that the
state universities have no better claim
to participation in the pension fund than
the sectarian colleges and that If they
can not compete In salaries and pen
sions they will have the advantage Of
securing younger teachers, the ones
with ambition to make a reputation,
the kind of men, we have been told,
who do the best work before they are
40, and who when old and lazy will
be taken into easy berths in the pen
stoned colleges
If 1t is IAN advantage" to be COM
PEELED to run a training school for in
experienced professors who are to trans
fer themselves elsewhere as soon as
they develop ability and prestige, the
wonder is that the great endowed prt-
vate universities do not take this 'ad-
vantage" themselves and refuse to share
in Mr.. Canegies beneficence for fear
H., 1No
tage" should be worth fighting for and
surely eagerly seized when it can be
had so simply and so easily.
The Independent certainly should
know better than to put the state uni
versties and the sectarian colleges in
the same class. The former are pub
lie and popular institutions in every
sense of the word, while the latter are
private and class institutions. AS Il
matter of fact, the big private universi-
ties favored by Mr.. Carnegie are more
akin to sectarian colleges-nearly all Of
them are outgrowths of sectarian insti-
tutions-than to the state universities
which have never drawn the line at
race, creed or color. The same religious
zeal that brings them students, will pro-
tect the sectarian colleges in their sup
ply of teachers The state universities,
on the other hand can hold out nothing
except the pecuniary reward.
Mr.. Carnegie may not care to have
his money used to promote sectarlan
propaganda and he has the right to say
| bounty, but he will defeat his own ex-
pressed purpose to strengthen the cause
of higher education if in attempting to
do so, his efforts operate to cripple the
great state universities and handicap
them in the good work they have been
doing.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
OLD SONGS ARE BEST.
| Melodies which Stir the Tender
Tendrils of Memory.
Kansas City Journal
o, Genevieve, sweet Genevieve.

o, Genevieve, sweet Genevieve.
The days may come, the days may co.
But still the hands of mem'ry weave
The blissful dreams of long ago,
Jessie Bartlett Davis owed her best en-
gagements, and thus her great success, to
one song Sweet Genevieve." It is an old
ballad of a type that has long since gone
out of fashion, yet nothing more beautiful
has survived the period when songs We're
written with the purpose OF appealing 10
the hearts of the hearers and not to their
heads or their heels, is the custom now
adays.
Sweet Genevieve." What tender ten
drills of memory cling to this old song, con-
Juring out of the forgotten years the faces
OF friends and the perfumes Of old fash
ioned gardens. How many are the men and
women carried like drift upon the hurrying
tide OF this modern life whose eyes grow
moist and hearts soften the words and
melody OF Sweet GeIevieve" give them a
far glimpse through the vista of separating
years Benevolent gentlemen in gold bows
and CATERS nod in dreamy reverie of the
morning OF life that glowed fair and hope
ful. And these dear old gentlemen will
step over to the easy chairs Of dear old
nodding grandmothers and pressing back
the whitening curls from angelic brows,
transform by the alchemy of love the faces
below into those OF the fair brides who
were wooed and won under the mystic spell
OF Sweet Genevieve."
The old songs are best, for they carry us
back 10 the days that were radiant with
sentiment when we were part of poetry
and romance. They stir our natures in
their profoundest depths and. reaching
below the callous OF our petrescent hearts.
play strange aocompaniments upon the
long disused strings OF our remembrance.
Who can resist the subtle potency OF those
old songs that stop the world in tear
smiles that we may wave a salutation back
through rift In the storm OF years 10 the
youth and maiden OF the long ago?
That the old songs are best has been
shown by the perennial popularity OF
PATHS "Home, Sweet Home" Emma Alb
bott's Annie Laurie" Jennie Llnd's
Kathleen Mavourneen," Christine Nell
sons WAY Down Upon the Suwanee
River" and Melba's Coming Thro' the
Rye" We do not always associate these
immorta! songs with the great singers who
have included them In their concerts. but
tho singers are often remembered because
| OF the songs themselves, There are few
who can remember the many acrobatlc
arias of the splendid vocal artists who have
commanded almost fabulous sums for their
| singing, but no one can forget when they
yielded to popular demand for the old
songs. Patti or sembrich or Melba or
Calve never had more sincere appreciation
| In the supremest moments OF her triumphs
than when she descended for the time from
| the classical OF foreign composers and
sang the simple love ballads that sent
thrills through world-weary hearts and
caused withered palms 70 stir IN tremulous
| applause