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THE PROPHETS

The beginning of the year is always
fruitful season for those men and
women whose profession is the reading
of the future. Generally they take a
gloomy view of coming events, SO the
new years horoscope is seldom reas-
surfing. A New York soothsayer has
already started in to predict disaster
He clings as closely to generalities as
did the Delphian oracle, but after one
has read the few particulars that he
mentions, one feels rather glad that he
has not been more specific. What he
says is unpleasant enough.
But aside from the fact that pessi-
mistic prophecies do not make at
tractive reading, they are powerless to
affect the public. The modern prophet
is without honor not only in his own
country but in all countries. His loose
hit or miss method has nothing in it
to commend it to the intelligence of
today. He utters numerous prophecies,
hoping in his heart that one, at least,
out of so many shall prove true. But
if the one does come true. the public
calls it a coincidence and is quite will
ing to let it go at that.
When all men faced the future with
fear in their hearts, the soothsayers
grew fat and sleek Then dreams were
omens, a prophecy an utterance to be
remembered and regarded. The present
age has its superstitions When salt
is split, a pinch is frequently thrown
over the shoulder; no one willingly
sits down to a table at which twelve
are already seated unless thirteen hap
pens to be his lucky number; and
many people are prejudiced against
Friday as day for beginning new en-
terprises. But no support is given
those individuals who indulge in secu-
lar prophecy. They are compelled to
earn their living by some other means.
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Lincoln park zoo, He has not, SO far
as has been reported, done anything to
arouse the ire of his former fellow
citizens and he was happy in his fate
of living and dying fugitive from the
justice of the Lake Michigan town.
Bue his dream of Omar Khayyamish
joy in foreign desert has been dis
pelled- He is to return to Chicago.
Inspired by jealousy because a single
embezzler had escaped and was no
longer compelled to live at home the
Chicagoese have asked the states at
torney to nolle pros. the Indictment
against Graham and he must return
or be branded deserter from his own
fireside
Of course he will obey the behest OF
Chicago. His years Of freedom have
taught him what it is to live-to really
live-to be free of the odor of pigs, the
riversand gold bricks. But these things
he must forget and go back to take up
his burden. His lot is cruel one and,
being in foreign parts, he might ap-
peal to The Hague tribunal if he did
not have the Chicago virus in him.
Civic pride will compel him to take his
medicine and he will go back and get
into his class.
Nevertheless If A.. co,,atJ,i,,r Il, III.
line of cruel and inhuman punishment
to compel an embezzler who has tasted
the sweets of life as fugitive from
justice to go back to Chicago.
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THE STATE OF INDIANA

Gov Dufbin, of Indiana, in his vale
dlctory message to the legislature de-
clares that what his state needs is an
awakening of the public conscience 10
the enormity of the crime Of bribery
as practiced in elections. He urges
the legislature to pass drastic laws, so
framed as to meet the present condi-
tions and arouse public feeling.
We knew there was something the
matter with Indiana, but were not
quite clear as to the nature of the trou-
BILE. 1t might have been poets. The
1oosier state has been turning out
poets at an unconscionable rate for
several years, and there has been a
feeling that the Hoosiers were trying
to digest the native output of verse
and suffering from indigestion
Or 1t might have been the prose au-
thors. Since the writer's of Indiana
caught the modern spirit and have. been
engaged in exploiting Indiana hunor
In character stories we have all been
more or less nauseated and it was pos
sible that the Hoosier stomach rebelled
at its prose literary dietary. The au-
thors Of Indiana have frequently chaI-
lenged the world to show their like and
the world has persistently refused to
accept the challenge. being satisfied to
let well enough alone For if all the
world could marshal ten thousand
Laura Jean Lfbbys, led by thousand
Marie Corellis on white elephants the
pageant would be as tallow candle
compared to a 2.0eo-eandle power arc
light when Indiana paraded its literary
cohorts.
Or it might have been the natural
gas belt which no longer has gas and
is trying to survive on wind.
Any or all of these things might
have been the trouble with Indiana.
Therefore it is with a feeling of relief
that we find that it is only political
corruption. For if the intelligence of
Indiana has developed to stage where
it is keen enough to become politically
corrupt there is hope for its further de-
velopment and ultimate regeneration.
Gov. Durbin's discovery will go far to-
ward establishing Indiana in it's proper
place in the sisterhood of states. A
commonwealth that has strength
enough to digest the literary product
of its native sons, when those sons are
as garrulous and impotent as are the
literatteurs of Indiana, has nothing to
fear from a little thing like political
corruption.
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HUMAN COUNT cAssiNl

Shortly after the fall of Port Arthur
the Russian ambassador met the Japa-
nese minister at a reception and passed
him by without speaking. His train
ing in diplomacy saved him from Civ.
ing the mikado's representative the cut
direct, but he showed his feelings
plainly nevertheless. Count Cassini
has been accused of being the most
diplomatic of diplomats. 1t has been
declared of him that his tongue is oiled
to utter pleasant untruths; that the
old cynicism that language was given
to conceal thoughts is accepted as an
aphorism by him.
But Port Arthur fell and his feelings
got the better of him. He saw in the
Japanese minister not fellow diplo-
mat enjoying hospitality in a neutral
city, but the enemy of his country and
he passed him by. Doubtless he would
have liked to express himself in more
pronounced way. Possibly he would
have been glad of an opportunity to
thrust his fist in the eye of the little
brown man. It may be that he would
have risked the jiu jftsu for a chance
at the first japanese in Washington.
But the amenities of social life forced
him to content himself with merely ig-
noring the mikado's minister.
No one will criticise the Russian
ambassador for this expression of his
feelings. Nogi and Stoessel may greet
each other as brothers, for each real
ICES that he has done his best for his
country and each has been close
enough to the other to appreciate his
fighting qualities. But Count Cassini
was not able to relieve his nervous
tension in action. He had to smile and
wait. 1t is no wonder, therefore, that
when the fortress finally fell, he sue
cumbed, as much as diplomat can
succumb, to the strain. He forgot to be
polite He was merely human.
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A CENSOR OF MORALS

Bishop Lawrence, Of Massac chusetts,
spoke what seems to us a much needed
word in his sermon last Sunday at
Trinity church, Boston. He took up
the subject of the ightness with which
certain crimes are now regarded, and
placed a part Of the responsibility
where it belongs. The offense of the
state, in as far as corruption is winked
at or entirely eondoned, we know too
well. The offense of the churches is
less frequently recognized, although
it is all the greater, inasInuch as they
are especially to be regarded as the
conservators of public morals. It is the
church that should set the example Of
punishment and keep the standard
high. The following from Bishop Law
rence's sermon forces home a truth all
too much unregarded:
Ecclesiastical discipline is out of
date. 1t is no easier for the church. to
prove moral delinquency than for the
state Most of the lawless are left by
the church as well as the courts to
roam at large. Communicates of the
church today men and women. who
in business and social life are guilty Of
acts. against moral and civil law and
the healthy conventionalities of So
ciety and are scandal to people of no
faith, are dragging the Christian faith
in he'dust."
Here is where the churches lie, open
to some censure. It is the old story of
the outside of the cup and the platter.
If a Christian church has mission on
earth it is to see that life is kept pure.
1t may not be able to cleanse the great
sweeping tide of humanity without its
doors, but it can see that within them
no foulness remains. It is an open se-
cret today that in many of the
churches well known faults or even
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crimes, not established by law, are
overlooked in powerful Individual
members of congregations. It is well
known fact, to give practical exam-
pie, that the agitation for stricter laws
reinforced by the state to lessen or to
prevent certain moral evils has been
conducted by clergymen under whose
authority many persons guilty of those
very offenses sit in their pews without
ostracism and without rebule.
Bishop Lawrence has a better and
higher and holier idea of the place and
duty of the church. He sees it as an
institution which, by example as well
as by precept, must work out the re-
generation of the world. He under
stands that it is less important to have
great congregations, wealthy church
members, beautiful buildings and ex-
quisite music than it is to have men
and women of ideal Christian lives.
He sees that in these days, when COM
mercialism rears so high its powerful
head, the church at least should be
proved innocent, should denounce evil
as evil wherever it may be found, and
should be the candle that throws it's
beams afar to light naughty world.
For ideals the world has looked and
always must look to religion It is bad
enough if commercial and political life
become touched with vice and crime,
but it is worse if the religious life is
subject to the same evil influences or
suspicion. That comes when wrong
doing, according to either social or
legal regulations, is tolerated by any
religious denomination without disci-
pline ending in either conviction and
repentance or expulsion. Let all the
churches look to it that their records
be made and kept clean and their bor-
ders fair.
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at every turn, to rescue in the nick of
time the widowed and the fatheriess
such inducements must surely repre-
sent an irresistible temptation to the
author of sFrenzied Finance,
AS for the play itself, if the dram
atist does his duty it cannot fail to be
wildly exciting. Mysterious rendez-
vouses, wild Journeys at midnight in
hanson cabs, hair raising scenes be-
tween victims and villains, lurid at
tempts at revenge-these are the con-
comitants of our best melodrama, and
they will not be lacking in this newest
one If the dramatist sticks to the text.
1t will probably be the one play where
every scene depicted by the posters is
enacted.
Col Bill Greene's erstwhile sspaP' will de-
generate into mere matinee idol, 'sa
fatal fascinator of the female matinee
fend." He may become intoxicated by
the applause and cease to sigh for more
systems to expose. The stage may prove
his undoing. But we have faith in the
Boston gentleman and believe he will
not fall a victim to the worst failing
of the profession. Between acts he
can tilt at the theatrical trust, and this
will keep his hand in so that when his
acting days are over he can resume
his important task of writing frenzied
literature about frenzied finance.
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Contemporary Comment
Senator pepew.

Mr.. Depew is ~unauestionably the
choice of the great body of the Repub-
means OF New York to represent their
majestic state in the federal senate
certainly as between him and the man
put forward by anoxious a and an OBJ
noxious political machine.
He has rendered long and great serv-
Ices to his party. He has always been
on hand to Champion It and defend it,
even when it went wrong. He is a
happy and gracious presence. He is in
the full vigor of health. His stories
are fresher than they are made out to
be by irreverent newspapers wits. He
has hosts of friends and no enemies
that we know of.
Long and prosperous may be the
career of Chauncey Mitchell Depew.-
New York Sun.
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iunorino the South

With the exception of the time Of the
two Cleveland administra tions federal
of1iceholders in the South have never
been selected from the great body of
its best citizenship. OF course there
have been Individual exceptions, but as
a rule the body of the Southern white
people have been treated as if they
had no part Or parcel in the federal
rnment.-Raltimore Sun.
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SUNDAY. JAN. 8, 1905
AN UNKNOWN WORLD

The purveyors of news evidently
considered the declaration of Rev. r.
Heher Newton concerning telepathy,
clairvoyance and kindred subjects
either SO important or so novel that it
deserved special mention. Articles Of
considerable length have been trans
mitted through the press dispatches to
make known to the public the fact that
Mr.. Newton, In an address delivered
at a meeting of the American Institute
for Scientific Research, declared that
telepathy was a power possessed by
many men and women; that cIairvoy-
ance was an established scientific fact;
that the spirits of the dead communi-
cate with the living; that a large va
riety of beliefs regarded by mankind
In general as superstitions can be dem
onstrated as truths.
There is nothing whatever novel in
any portion of this announcement, and
only one part of it really debatable.
That spirits of the dead communicate
with the living is still unestablished,
por is there any evidence strictly
worthy of credence in the scientific
sense that this has ever occurred
Telepathy and clairyoyance, however,
area well established facts in a scien-
tific way, we viii not say merely as
hypnotism, but as the laws of chem
istry or of falling bodies. All this is
a very old story to those who have
followed with either interest or care
the progress of thought and of psychi-
cal Investigation during the last twenty
years.
1t seems almost incredible now to
think that ever since the scientific
method came into vogue. ever since men
ceased to look at the world through
the spectacles of miracle, and began
to investigate it dispassionately with a
view to discovering facts and ascer-
tanning laws, down to a very recent
period that portion of it which deals
with mental and spiritual life was ex-
cepted. Science, so-called, busted it,
self with every form and law of mat
ter. No labor was too arduous and no
sacrifice too great to place these upon
a demonstrated basis. The molecule
and the atom, the elusive forces by
which these separate or unite to bring
about all material phenomena. have
been pursued increasingly. No one
would decry the Importance of this
work, but it is little short of mar
velous that the scientific spirit should
be satisfied with a field so limited. 1T is
as if those who had discovered gold in
great quantities in some new land
should carefully draw an imaginary
line down the middle of the rich field
and, while unearthing precious metal
everywhere on one side, should refuse
TO step foot across to the equally
rich and perhaps more abundant de-
posits on the other.
Mental energy and spiritual energy
are Just as truly facts, just as truly
worthy of scientific investigation, just
as attractive and> promising in the
results as is electricity. Investiga-
ton may be very difficult, but so much
greater the charm to the truly scientific
spirit Yet the problems OF matter have
absorbed the attention of the great in
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-08

The clocks were on the stroke of twelve.
The night was bitter cold,
/ saw upon the avenue
A figure gray and old;
An ancient man with silver hair
Who carried on his back,
Bent double with the weight of age,
A lean and empty pack.
But even as he passed away
Across the frozen snow,
youth came striding into view,
His smooth young checks aglow
His shoulders bore bulging sack,
And music box as well
I hailed him as he hurried by
Pray tell me what you sell?'
He smiled and sent the answer back
Along the snowy street
"Blue yiolets and daffodiis
And apple blossoms sweet.
And all the songs of happy birds
That ever charmed the ear,
And perfumes from thousand fields
I am the glad New Year"
-Leslie's Weekly.
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For a Republican Mayor

1t seems that some of Gov. Oden's
supporters in the game of politics are
nursing the notion that he can redeem
himself from the discredit of his fall
ure to get back Mr.. Black into the SEN
ate by electing a Republican mayor of
this city this year. This would, if it
We're possible at all, be brought about
by the kind of combination in which
Mr.. Odell is not an adept.-New York
Times.
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compensations

''Uncle Ephraim, what do you do for
living?"
II breaches an I raises punkins, boss
(Which pays you the better?"
..Well, o. co'se, I gifts mo- money out'n
de punkins, but I gifts huff distinction
out'n de preachin' to make up de diff
funce, boss. Chicago Tribune.
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And Knows Whereof He Speaks

.Perdicaris living" says that Raj
suli not dead is the man to WELD the
big stick of reform in Morocco Per-
dicaris has seen the stick In action
New York World.
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AGAIN THE WHIPPING POST

The whipping post for wife beaters
seems to be growing in favor. A bill
has been introduced to put it into op-
Grafton in the District Of Columbia, it
is in considerable favor in Minnesota,
and probably in the majority of states
some effort will be made to provide
this form Of punishment for this Of
fense. h e lilo b e has long been Of
the opinion that corporal punishment
might be used to good effect upon a
considerable class of offenders. If any
criticism is to be passed upon the pres
ent movement it is that it's scope is not
wide enough. Before rushing through
any legislation along these lines, let
us see if we cannot make out list of
cases which such punishment would fit.
There was reported, for example, in
the news Of yesterday hfdeous crime
for which nothing else that the law al
lows would be adequate. The offense
was mother beating instead Of wife
beating; and il it be possible to dis
criminate between two acts, both so
base, the former is the worse. Men
lowest in the scale of humanity seldom
lose some reverence for the sacred name
of mother. Here was a brute, a young
and able bodied looking fellow, who
has been supported for years by an
aged mother, who compelled her to
wait upon and serve him when she
should have been the subject Of his ten
der care, and who afterwards knocked
her down and inflicted bodily injury
upon her just to crafty his devilis1
caprice. The judge who sentenced him
stated that he himself was familiar
with the main circumstances; yet this
beast can have 40 heavier punishment
than a couple of months in the work.
house, from which he will emerge to
play once more upon mothers affec-
tion and prolong his own vile life at
her expense.
If ever there was a case for the
whipping post this is one. 1t is a. great
pity that public sentiment does not
permit the application of capital pun
ishment in such case as this. Public
sentiment is at fault in that it does not.
The world would be better off if a good
| many beings in human form, who are
different from the brute only in that
they possess a little higher intelli-
gence and a good deal lower instincts
were wiped from the face of the earth.
A man who could be guilty of the act
here referred to has no business to live.
He is incapable of improvement, and
the world is worse because he is in it.
If we are not sufficiently advanced to
apply the sterner and better law of
an older time we ought at leastSto sub
stitute something reasonably appropri-
ate
Sixty days in the workhouse is no
| punishment for this fellow. Sixty LASH
es laid on his bare back with all the
vigor of good stout arm would be in
fnitely better. If this punishment
were applied. the offense would not be
| repeated. No man can follow the pro-
ceedings of any police court with any
care without becoming soon convinced
that the whipping post is urgently
needed not only for wife beaters, but for
many other classes of Offenders; of
whom the man that abuses his mother
is perhaps the worst.
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caustic

Mr.. Snappe-I don't see why you can't
decide about the matter at once
Mrs. Snappe-Well, it takes me soire
Mr. Snappe-i don't see why it should.
You haven't much material to work upon.
-Philadelphia Ledger.
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The Chadwick Case Jared Him

What's become of Andrew Carnegie
It's been at least three weeks since he
bobbed up with a proposal to give
away. bunch of money.-Milwaukee
News. srst
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Best Not to Be Too Prseipitaae

We judge that Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew can now think UP funny story
to illustrate the political situation. But
he may regard it as discreet to keep 1t
back until the vote Is safely cast
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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To Sir Howard Vincent

Sir Howard Vincent should be given
to understand that there are hundreds
of ragtime songs that we would be
willing to lose entire rather than touch
one verse of 1.-THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner.'-Denver Republican
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And Ohio Bows Her Thanks

The most promising, candidates for
the 1908 Republican presidential stakes
are Root, Fairbanks. Aldrich and Taft.
and to our mind Taft is the best of the
bunch.-Nashville News.
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Anyway, It Cost Enouut

DR.. Chadwick.s part in the financial
operations of his wife is said to have
been only passive" Work out the Ie-
gal significance of this for yourself
Atlanta Constitution.
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Deprivina Theodore Of All Credit

A Roosevelt button in his pocket
turned a bullet and saved the life of
Michigan hunter. Still, Populist
button, bearing Tom Tibble's picture,
would have turned that bullet much
eaSier.-Denyer Republican.
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Can Fire When He Is Ready

Senator Depew need no longer prac-
tice self-repression when he feels q
funny story sensation creeping over
asllington Post.
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Hence His Woe

Don't feel SO cut up about it, Mr.
Skemer,'' said Miss RoXley, after reject
ing him I'm not the first girl you ever
loved. nor, venture to say, am likely
to be the last
mo" he sighed, disconsolateIy, "but
you're the richest. st.''-PhiIadelphi Ledger.
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Too Easily Moved

Newman said the editor, "win never
do as a critic"
"No?" queried his assistant
sNo. saw him last night at the pre-
mier performance of that new comedy.
and he actually smiled three or four
times. Philadelphia Ledger.
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MIR. D. 3. Hill

There is a general supposition that
David B.. Hill will be able to pass out
of public life without noticing the diff
fefence.-Chicago Record Herald.
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This VIII Make Joe Cannon LAUGH

Chaplain Hale presented each mem
Der of the senate with a copy of his
prayers in book form, a book with
which they will never become as IA
m1l1ar as they are with ..Hoyle's
GameS.'-Denver Post,
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Prof. Perrien. who has discovered
Jupiter,s sixth satellite, might be em-
ployed to discover the Van SAINT vote
for senator.
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Among the Merrymakers
The Wish He Doesn't Crafty

"You told me that when we were mar
ried you would see that my every wish
was gratified," remarked the bride of a
few weeks.
''Wen?" replied her husband, rather
curtly.
ssWen. wish 1 was single again.
Philadelphia Press.
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Alliance for Peace

We can imagine no International
agreement more useful to both of the
parties and better calculated to assure
universal peace upon the ocean than
defensive alliance between the United
States and England, for which reason
II would not surprise us if the expe-
diency of such a league should come
into the foreground of discussion DUR
ing the coming twelvemonth.-Ne
York Sun