| Show c TALKS c TIIMELY TOfillCS r BY THE MAN IN A CLUB WINDOW EXArOR HOAR In his speech on SENATOR trusts expressed anxiety on uc count of the tendency of great fortunes to accumulate on the snowball principle princi-ple He Is alarmed because the smaJl fortune of yesterday t has grown to be the large fortune of today and he look forward with dismay to the time when there shall be no moderately wealthy class but when nil the money In the country will be held or controlled by a small handful of billionaires The way things arc going there really seems to be some foundation for the Senators alarm It Is perfectly true that what used to be known as the moderately wealthy class hue been steadily dwind ling of late years having been absorbed or driven out of the field by the men of enormous wealth At t the same time there Is a ray of comfort for Senator Hoar and those who think with him and it Is reflected from the very snow ball to which he makes such skilful al lusion No snowball Is everlasting un less It be so high In the clouds as to possess no Interest for sublunary mortals mor-tals The fate of ordinary snowballs Is to melt away In time and In like manner man-ner It Is In accordance with history and everyday experience for huge fortunes to become dissipated after they have reached a certain degree of unwIeldiness unwIeldi-ness The moneygrubbing accumulator dies and not being able to take his wealth along with him leaves It to the tender mercies of extravagant and even spendthrift heirs There Is no law of entail and I primogeniture In this country coun-try and safeguard property by will or trust deeds as he may the mighty multimillionaire mul-timillionaire has no security that his immense bulk of wealth will not be scattered to the four wind before the passing of one or two generations The money itself will not nerlsh but It will lost Its I coherence and become disintegrated disinte-grated l 11IE legislation proposed by Senator Hoar for restricting and curbingP the power of trusts Includes some sensIble sensI-ble provisions such as insuring publicity 10 the conduct of their business the power to close up the business until the enactments of Congress are complied wIth and the Inlllctlon of penalties on members and officers who violate the laws Of course these three clauses would need much elaboration before they would be In proper form for the stralute book The demand for publlc ty proper as it Is within due bounds should not be permitted to disregard the private rights of all persons engaged In business whether as Individuals or associated together The proposition contained In the fourth clause of Senator Sena-tor Hoars remedial measures Is however how-ever so radical as to excite question as to Its constitutionality The claim that Congress has the right to make directors direct-ors ofllcers and agents personally liable for all debts obligations and wrongdo f ugs unless the Jaws are fully complied with seems out of accord with repub Ican Ideas and more In keeping with the spirit of paternal government 1 savors too much of the plan of keeping the whole school in because of the ails demeanor of one pupil Every boy and girl knows very well that such a mode of punishment Is very convenient for the teacher but In general Ii most un just to the scholars All the members of a trust may not be responsible fort for-t of law Some line of conduct may be decided upon by the vote of a majority of directors and rwJorl nnt against the positive wishes of the minority but according ac-cording to Senator Hoar all the directors direct-ors are to be punished without distinction distinc-tion I Is easy 10 explain that IL Is 1 the direct act of lawbreaking which Is 1 to be punished not the mere passage of resolutions but In the case of officials and agents who have nothing to do with the executive action and are simply trying to do their duty loyally to their employers the provision appears harsh and unjust I TJIE country has been favored the J past week by some notable exprcn fclons of opinion on subjects or vital Interest In-terest at the present time Among those are Senator Hoar and AttorneyGeneral 1 Knox on trusts and Gov Odell of New York on unlawful restrictions placed on necessaries of life and the unpatriotic attitude of certain citizens toward the National Guard The tremendous power and influence exorcised by the trusts and the real peril which may yet 1t be incurred from their unchecked growth have set some of the ablest men In the country thinking and It may hopefully be expected that as the result of a symposium whose contributors bear the names of Roosevelt Knox and Hoar with u host o lesser lights some effective remedy Is bound to be evolved t Gov Odell neatly and briefly gave expression ex-pression to one of the I highest lawn of mans gregarious nature when he said that wherever the necessaries of life are involved In dispute power should lo conferred upon those affected to ap I ply to the courts for relief that no power should be possessed by either capital or labor to deprive the people J of that which Is necessary for their welfare and that disputes whenever they nriso should not he permitted to Interfere with those right which are lanunount and necessary for the well being of the people T rHI3 I gist of Gov OdoHs remarks la that no person or act of persona has the right for the sake of forwarding some selfish scheme to restrict the supply sup-ply or retard the distribution of the necessaries nec-essaries 0 life No one has the right to create an artificial famine In those nec es aries and no matter what disputes may occur between vArious bodies of men In the relations of employer and employed those disputes must be set Lied In some way which will not work hardship to the general public The Governors observation regarding the unpatriotic not to say disloyal spirit shown toward the National Guard are ilso 1 worthy of careful attention When it comes to this that employers discharge dis-charge employees and labor unions deny privileges because of membership In the Guard It is time to take official notice of condition which are responsible for conduct so subversive of the public wel fare If young men rt to be discouraged discour-aged from Joining the National Guard and m membership Is to be made not only unpopular but positively detrimental to the prospects of members all to suit the t selfishness or lawlessness of I small minority then the sooner the law Is I made explicit enough and strong enough to protect the Guard from Its detractors the bettor for the country at large npHE good people of Indlanoln MIsH must be getting enough of their selfwilled opposition to jwstolficc regulations They undertook to dictate to the Government In the mater of the appointment 0 postmaster To be sure their Interference came rather lute In the t day since Mrs 1 Cos had filled the position under two other Republican Hfpubl < lU Presidents for n total period of nine I years before the opposition became eo fierce that she was driven to resign Most people arc aware that the Federal i Government cannot be corcced In the I mot < I of appointments Petitions sometimes i some-times have n good effect If reasonable I In request and respectful In < anc Jcipectf11 tone but I a threatening manner Is the most fool ish of all attitudes for anyone who wishes to gain consideration from the Government to assume Jndlanoln Is a I small place according to the Century Dictionary alias Its population Is only H but the people evidently make up I in excitability what they lack In numerical nu-merical strength Why the hostility to I Mrs Cox should become so pronounced just now Is not clearly Ilronounccc Is i described as being a most respectable person and a courteous and efficient postmlHtress Regrettable as it must room when the feelings o the Indian olnns are considered she 10 cOlulccd continues to he colored as she hag been any lime tmo since 1SS9 when ahe was first appointed under President Harrison To a man up u tree It looks as if some white person were after the Job notwithstanding Intense i feeling of I large portion of the tiny community on the color ques ton Whatever the real cause of an tagonism mn be It may appears that the business of the place Is paralyzed as apparently It well deserves to be l and the Inhabitants are making what arrangement ar-rangement they can to get their mall hauled by mule teams over the corduroy road from Greenville some twentyfive miles distant i NLY the other day word was ONLY cuj received re-ceived by the PostmasterGeneral Hint I negro mal carrier had been assailed as-sailed by a posse of white citizens at a place called Lone River In Louisiana and ordered under penalty o death tp return to the place he hailed from and to desist from carrying the cmiat fom United States mall In future The only reason assigned by this precious posse was rlHson the carriers color Bone River may be a place + of considerable Importance In Us own estimation but It Isnt big enough to be Included l in the 170000 names given in the alas and It may be safely conceded that It Isnt big enough to buck very long against the Poslofilce department in Washington The influ ential citizens who composed the posse can now arrange among themselves nee as tunonE them8ells to who shall ride to the nearest railroad nelcst station for the mail Intended for offices which will have to be closed for oIces want of a Government messenger V O I PHILIP SOUSA Is In London with his band and he tried lo do I smart thing but failed He thought he would get the audience mostly English of course on Its feet by playing God Save the King and keep It there while whie pawning on quickly to the StarSpan glee Banner The people stood for the first number as they always do but the majority of them subsided for the I second There Is nothing whatever sig nificant In the action of thin average English audience l except to furnish an 11 example of John Bull Ingrained din like of being trapped 1 Into doing sonic thing lie doesnt want to do or what amounts to the name thing with him 11m something he hadnt thought of himself For John really scents to have none but lut kind feeling for JomUhan and would nearly na soon titnml up for our national air as his own In fact he his done no before now spontaneously and without suggestion It was the sudden merging of ono r air Into I the other mcrull giving John I chance to do the handsome of lilt own accord that probably aroused the old bulldog Jiplrlt of conlrnleiy VVTIIHJN VV the King of England travelu he rides sleeps and oath on his own special train It In his very own not merely equipped for time occasion ctulpJel occlUlon by some obsequlouH railroad company to he lined afterward JIM n valuable nil ver tisement hit retained by the King aa his personal to be 11110111 properly employed In no other service than that of transport lag the Sovereign and his family and suite l lnC Edward POBHCSHOH three or four of these royal trains which are put In commission several tl mel I year on aa many lending English lines olr of railway In this country of republican simplicity we havent got an lCIUhIcan IU per c1ollIY0iI0c specials for our Presi dents although to all intents and pur pose a train which is specially provided pro-vided and fitted up for the President and his party Is as much hln for the nonce as If he bought and paid for It Time llme was when Presidents were perforce con lent with a private car attached to nn ordinary train With the growth of lux ury and refinement the conditions of travel have Improved for all classes so 11 thai It is l far cry from the humble sad dlehome which wnjj considered good enough style In Andrew fuckaonx day 10 tie tmmpiuoiiH vesiiuuieullnmeu which is none too good for plain every day travelers but scarcely prlvitte enough for the Chief Executive of the Nation > n EN BOOTHS remedy for vice and 1 crime Is the power and the mercy of God Yes but the power and the mercy so far as the rescue of sinners and the uplifting of the rnco Is concerned con-cerned has been delegated to human agents This lit no age of miracle Wo need look for no unusual 1 or dramatic Interference of divine dmmnlo rhl I word < 1 of mercy has been spoken the power to help has been conferred once for all nml those who would stretch forth a helping hand to the sinning the vicious rind the unfortunate need wait for no further commission than was given by one who pointed the moral of a story about a good Samaritan A Sod and A URn who fell Among thieves by the simple direction Go and do thou likewise wise and scathingly rebuked 1 self rlghleous Pharisee with the words He that Is I without sin among you let him first cut a stone at her The power and mercy needed to Me the fallen are set forth In the wonderful discourse known as the Sermon on the Mount and shine through the dally life of lUll IF wouldbe reformers are In earnest In their professions of sympnthyand solicitude In behalf I of the erring they will not allow personal liken and dislikes to Influence their actions They will not stand on one aide and prate loudly of what ought to be done by someone JlCone else while the only consider their own comfort and refined tatg They will wi be ready and willing to go Into the highway and byways In search of the lost and despised and when they have found them they will extend to them gladly I the helping hand of 1 brother or a sister Jt Is no UN to try t Influence fellowcreature mink In depravity bywords by-words of patronage no use to scold or threaten There must be genuine sympathy sym-pathy divested of till pride and superior Ity There must be no compromise with sin but there must be an utter absence of condescension eondelenslon toward the sinner It Is a difilcult IcjFon for some to loarn how to sponk plain tnilhu about nln without ofTftinlve patronage and self onncloiiH mipcilority but I I munt be done If any good is to be effected hero may be Home c udeneus and want of tact oluervnblc in the methods of the Salvation Sal-vation Army but they seem at all event to have mastered lhc great se clot 0 how lo warn the wicked with out Incurring the chargo of haughtiness Inc nelfirlghleouanesH IT I in quite true that punishment will not reform tit the General of the Salvation Army puts IU That fn pun ishmont of itself IH not to be depended upon to work reform In the character land l-and d IHoll lon The Idea of punish ment IH Inseparable from vlndlctlvonesH and Omen not convey notion Ill any noton of I mercy old kliHlneyy Doubtleus to the Initiated those who have taken the higher degrees In the flplrltunl life there troy bo a semblance of logic In the argument ar-gument propounded from swrent flOfOI11cc 1101 many pulpllii that punishment IH a much needed dis cipline designed to leach l and train and mould but to the unlearned multitudes In the outer court all Much idle In I mimes nhtglpns Punishment in Itself Is cruel and usually worse than Ineffectual Ineffect-ual Whatever good comes of punish ment Is due not lo the mere act of chastisement but to sonic reformative mensures associated with It Indeed the term Is often sadly misapplied and what IH meant to denote such correction and Instruction na may lead to reforma lou of life Is loosely Interchanged with the notion of mere punishment To bring about reform temporary restraints are needed while the will gains strength ChlUlMIHnpnt and the bettor ull way is taught Vindictive r I VI HI unln words and harsh treatment will Inrh llflnent wi never wean shiners nway from vicious course or lead thorn to appreciate the beauty of n life of purity A SIGHT calculated to make angels weep was the spectacle of u society so-ciety girl In WashIngton deserting her Invited guests and hastening to the While House in obedience to 1 supposed command from the Presidents frm Proldent5 daughter daugh-ter I would seem that there are per sons endeavoring to set up in this coun try n state of feudalism compared with which the relics still lingering In Eu hope under the name of royal etiquette etquete are a harmless shadow Even Kings Ing and Emperors do out make formal de nuinda of a social character on their loyal subjects without giving such am pie notice that other engagements can be avoided enlrngerent or easily postponed Mrs Pocllethwalte apparently Is not aware that even reigning monarchs rellnln ronKrha do not play wild pranks with established eti ttnbllhecl quetle Involving sudden el Invollnr suedn disappoint meats and breaches of politeness among less hurryup exalted Informal folk Such n thing Inonl summons to R host ess Just UI her guest were hOlt guet Hitting down to dinner would be considered preposterous and Impossible In any for olgn court But 0111 to the vanity of a plain American citizens wife the bus A hus mand tle mutt Importance for of a supposed com her daughter to appear In stanter at the Presidents palace ap pealed with Irresistible force In all the whole foolish business RJ CoJh Imne no blame can attach to Alfs Roosevelt or her parent The daughter of Theodore Roosevelt can safely be trusted to do the right thing at ail rimes The young lady who responded no promptly to the com mand is not much to blame or cm she acted In obedience to her mothers in Htrucllons and having probably alien ated I some friends she has troubles of sIC Iu trouble her own The vain and silly conduct nf the mother who ought to have known better will however be the subject of laughter at thousands of American and European firesides TVTHILE W Marconi Is I busy perfecting his wireless telegraphy Invention und others are engaged In developing the application of electricity to pur Jlr poKes of locomotion the cenlusoH 1 Interested Inter-ested In aerial navigation have tU 01 nlIJatlol not re mained idle Two Inventors natives of Different parts of the world and work lag alolJ different lines have just announced an-nounced that they will soon be ready to astonish the waiting public with nllnl pUhlc their achievement Dr Alexander Graham Bell IH at work on a monster kite HO planned that 11 In believed It will be capable of carrying an engine to propel It and at least one piujacngor Dr Bell IB noncommittal and doesnt care to talk much about his machine Utie Jur until it in completed Prof Carl Myers of Frank fort Is said to have ejnilructcd an electrical elec-trical aerial I torpedo which Ics like a thing of life according to the enthUHi aallc report nt out from Utica N Y whciu presumably the profeunor has his workshop I In not stated by the way whether Prof Myers hnlln from Frank fortonlheMaln or Frnnkforlonlhc Oder but he is a German anyway and moreover Heemn pretty sure of himself Ills machine has aluminum screw hlndcH aeroplanes to act tin rudders In every conceivable direction and fU else trio motor to tlr proncl Evidently some body In going to 1 HIol drop one of these fine days f o THE bacteria huntcrn are losing none of their zest but scorn to gain In cnthuMlatmi with every 1 new discovery dis-covery In the microbe kingdom Bacilli I and bacteria are weighed measured and classified their habits watched their peculiarities noted and their friendli ness or hostility to the human fl system < specially observed Their span of exist ence It known nM aluo the various exlll nllnr cies which 1 are I antagonistic to each n LICI 19 care ULOrlC 1001 fully studied with a view probably to successfully starving them out when they effect a lodgment In the body It hams always been 1 nlwts known that kissing IB a particularly objectionable pastime tme which Is dotiltlcta why so many people practice it It being well understood by scientific men that the BclcmtHc popularity of a custom Is often proportioned Inversely l to Its danger Long before the time of Pasteur Koch Lister Behring and other pioneers in the field of germ dis coveries many persons were found who objected to kissing the Bible In court when talcing an oath Some doubtless had a notion that 11 they douht klfs the book they could lie without commit ting perjury while more were deterred by the known filthy condition tlterrn of the cover of the Judicial copy of holy writ T WO bills aimed against kissing have been introduced in the Virginia Vir-ginia Legislature One Is to prohibit the kissing of the court Bible which really Is no more than a legal abandonment abandon-ment of an obsolete and unsanitary practice The other bill Introduced by Dr R B Ware la Intended to forbid promiscuous kissing by all sorts and condllions of men and women Na turally the young men and mt helms of kissable age are much Incensed against I the learned and zealous physician who notwithstanding threats affecting his practice and social prclce position refuses to rcu give up the fight How his bill trill fare In the House of Delegates and tin Senate of Virginia may well be fore seen rt Is > not likely that a m lkely n mtasure no unusual and even quixotic will pass on the occasion of Its first Introduction frst introducton es pecially with public feeling running high The bill running bl Itself from a nnllarj j point of view baa much In the way of sound wisdom to recommend it Bac teria of the worst kind can be and are trannmlied by kissing and common prudence might suggest the unhealth illness of the practice when carried 01 promiscuously Nine times out of ten kissing Is I I silly and Insincere 1 Inc Inlllctre custom and as n measure of the participants liking for urtch t other utterly valueless At the sane time It Is 10 be feared that thn special legislation even when backed by the exhibition of culture plates mflrmlnir with bacteria derived rom 0 the lips of pretty girls will have htllt Influence wi 1nl ltte r n Inlwnc In breaking up a habit so ven erable HO universal and HO human lO Public opinion may however nJml In inarvolfi time and which fashion may accomplish change science and sews combined are powerless common to brlna about at present brlJi t p VJ5RTJJODY knows the professional J opt mntnt tho cheerful liar who Is I alwayn loudly proclaiming that f thnt every thing Is all 1er I right ni meaning he Ls nil i right IUd no ono else has 10 eile hn any cause to complain If you meet the professional optimist on the street and remark on i forms the weather being l cold he gravely In forr you that he doennt thlnlc It IH any colder than at the jsime time In mun tmu 11Qt 1 year and nul certainly not nearly j told a5 it hi In Dakota 1 it IH w t nnl I muddy dont say HO for 1ny you will be shut 1 le up with the obHcrvatlon that we cant set too much moisture in thin set ton and as for stud well really r fm that weI Is l small thing to kick realy nurh a thing could I I happen that miow would fall until you had to climb fno unt out of clmh your house by the irecondstory windows the cheerful professional would look you r calmly In the eye and toll you to a dot how many million and odd dollars It anl dOlnrH sru worth WUJ to Utah Are you step Dont tel the optl7nlt o I he m will re mind you of that time last winter when r IH was much sicker than you are and no one over heard him complain No S air that Isnt his way Should you hite yot Jtc met with financial reverses brware how you tell your troubles to your op timistic tlnhetc friend He never mad any mistakes In that line always found people straight thinks there must be nenntl t ll IIJJ I wrong vl Iti fillra who mlst gJum poor judgment that IH l believe In the honesty of others and get generally left In their deals He will scncrnlh deal wi 91al you on the back hid you cheer up and lake pattern by him If you wish to succeed and he will move away whistling but wouldnt lend you a dollar to save you from starvation He will Just the same contrive lo always put you In the wrong and make s you feel I cheap THE professional optimist Is nn arrant e ar-rant liar and braggart Ills pretensions pre-tensions t to superior cheerfulness nre all on the surface Deep dawn in his moan I little soul he Is a dissatisfied envious 1 malcontent He assumes the role of i optimist because he thinks It gives him a footing among better men but he really rejoices In the troubles of others and rarely utters a word with that artificially breezy manner of his which e Is not skillfully designed to wound his victim where It will hurt most He claims to be sympathizing but will tear your tenderest feelings to shreds and cheerfully slab you In n vital spot There Is no quarrel with n genuine op hint who makes no pretension but Is full of ready sympathy and kindness 4I It Is the bogus inflated bOtus selflaudatory article riably bated that is soon detected and Inl tor t f |
