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6 THE INTER OCEAN, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1908. The Inter Ocean DAILY AND SUNDAY. GEORGE WHEELER HINMAN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dally, delivered by cents per week Dally and Sunday, cents per week TERMS BY MAIL, POSTAGE PAID.

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The President and the Kishenev Horror. President Roosevelt doubtless acted on a noble impulse when he decided to send the petition of the United Hebrew Congregations to the Russian government. He also to a universal sentiment responded. Kishenev horror outraged American public opinion. It met with unsparing condemnation from all Americans, without distinction of religious belief, racial descent, or party affiliation.

The sympathy of the American people was with the persecuted Russian Jews. This sympathy was expressed in a way to leave no doubt as to the intensity of feeling in this country. The government, however, in accordance with the international custom, remained passive. Many persons, outside of. official life, then asked the President to depart from the historie policy of the United States and present international usage and to send a petition and protest, signed by American citizens, to the Czar.

The President Anally has been persuaded to do this. And yet, the burden of the Kishenev horror is on the Russian government. We cannot share the burden. cannot divide the responsibility. We cannot devise or administer punishment to the mob.

The massacre was an incident of the internal policy of Russia and no sovereign European nation will permit foreign interference with its domestic affairs. Russia has notified all the powers that no interference be tolerated in this case, and yet the President has decided to send a petition which the Russian government has officially declared it will not receive. This raises an issue of the gravest import. Among all the nations of the world the United States will stand alone as favoring a new policy of intervention in the domestic affairs of a sovereign power. By the same sign the Catholics of the United States might have asked the interference of the President years ago between the Pope and the government in Italy, or his protest against the way in which the monastic orders were treated in Mexico, or, at a later date, in The President, as usual, has decided on a courageous course.

As an individual, he is right; as the head of the government, he is wrong. As Long as the Sun Shines. Various scientific speculators have amused themselves with conjecturing what would become of the human race when it should finally exhaust the coal deposits of the earth. Although peat beds show us coal in the making, their product is so small and imperfect that it is practically negligible in considering the general problem. We are continually using our stores of coal without power to renew them, so that the day must ultimately come when there will be no more.

Yet coal is becoming increasingly a necessary of life to civilized men. What shall we do when there is no more coal? How shall we get heat and power? There are, of course, the streams and the winds, whose flowing and blowing give power that may be converted into heat. Then the sunlight may be used directly in various ways to generate power and heat more concentrated than its own. These things, already done in comparatively small ways, may be done in large ways when the coal is gone. Then forests may be systematically eultivated and their wood used for fuel.

Observations and experiments made by D. E. Hutehins and Sir A. Brandis of Cape Colony and recorded in a recent issue of Nature indicate possibilities in the last-named method of obtaining substitutes for coal not hitherto understood. All trees and plants store the sun's energy.

The heat and power we get by burning wood and coal are simply the stored energy of the sun. When it comes to growing wood to supply the lack of coal it becomes important to find the tree that will store the greatest amount of the solar energy in the shortest time. The South African experimenters bring forward the eucalyptus as meeting these conditions. They declare that in regions of tropical sun and abundant rainfall the eucalyptus stores about 1 per cent of the sun's energy and produces fuel of heating power equal to common coal at the rate of twenty tons an acre each year. The rainfall maps of the world show that these conditions of production are met by nearly one-fourth of its land surface, or about eight billion acres.

Onehalf of this under eucalyptus forest would produce annually eighty billion tons of wood, or more than 140 times the world's present annual consumption of coal. Nor would devoting so much of the earth's surface to fuel-growing crowd its people more than they are now. Onefourth of the area of Germany is still covered with forest. Yet, although Germany is a thickly populated country, its people do not emigrate merely because they are so crowded that they can no longer live there. They go chiefly because they believe they can live more easily elsewhere.

Furthermore, it is believed that by selection and cultivation the timber yield per acre can be doubled, thus requiring less area to be set aside for fuel growing. In this connection it may be mentioned that in some parts of South Africa it is deemed cheaper to plow land and plant -growing trees for fuel than to import coal. And in Southern California people are beginning, though in a comparatively small way as yet, to plant eucalyptus trees for the sole purpose of raising wood to burn. Thus in scientific forestry would appear to be the remedy for the ultimate exhaustion of the coal deposits. And it remedy that will not fail as long as the sun sheds its rays upon the earth.

Ghulam Ahmad's Challenge. The Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, Punjab, India, who proclaims himself "the promised Messiah" and claims already 100,000 followers, has been greatly stirred by the recent prediction of John Alexander Dowie that, when the Messiah appears, all Mohammedans are to perish. Therefore he proposes a prayer duel to settle whether Dowie is really "Elijah the Restorer," as he says, and whether Ghulam Ahmad is really "the Messiah," as he says. "Whether the God of the Mohammedans or the God of Dowie is the true God," writes Ghulam Ahmad in his organ, the Guardaspur Review of Religions, "may 1 be settled without the loss of millions of lives which Dr. Dowie's prediction would involve.

He should choose me as his opponent and pray that of us two whoever is the liar may perish first. He should publish the proposed prayer with the signatures of at least 1,000 men affixed. Upon receiving it, I should address the same prayer to Almighty God, and publish it, with the signatures of the same number of witnesses. If Dr. Dowie has the courage to accept this challenge, he will thereby open a way for all other Christians to the acceptance of truth." As far as known Dowie has not yet accepted Ghulam Ahmad's challenge.

In view of the pictures of the self-proclaimed Mohammedan Messiah, Dowie -might properly to its terms. Ghulam Ahmad appears to be a much younger man than Dowie. Hence, in settling the question as to which should die "first," Ghulam Ahmad would appear to have the advantage. Therefore it would seem proper for Dowie to insist upon a change in the terms, to the purport that whichever is the liar shall die immediately. From such a prayer duel, if it had any result, something of value might be determined.

Oyster Bay's First Citizens. If there are any inconspicuous zens in Oyster Bay, L. and, therefore, any citizens who are not members of either of the Presidential reception committees, and, therefore, any citizens who are looking around for sympathy in the present annoying crisis, they will not be disappointed should they turn in our direction. The Presidential reception committees, though rivals, are both striving to do honor to the distinguished resident of Oyster Bay who, as chief magistrate of the republic, will spend his summer. vacation in his own home.

Probably there would have been no trouble had there been enough places of prominence in one committee to provide for all the prominent citizens of Oyster Bay. It appears, however, that it requires two committees to care for all of those prominent citizens of Oyster Bay who desire to ride ahead of the procession or to occupy front seats in the Presidential carriage. The result is that both committees will march to the station: next Saturday morning, each headed by prominent citizens and a brass band, and the fear is entertained by the inconspicuous citizens of the place that the spokesmen of both committees will try to read their addresses, and that the bands of both committees will attempt to play welcoming airs at the same time. At last accounts it was hoped by the optimistic residents of Oyster Bay who have not been assigned to prominent positions on either committee that the dissension might be smoothed over so that nothing unseemly would occur to mar the pleasure of the ordinary people of the town on the occasion of the President's arrival; but there are pessimists who predict that, while one band is playing "Hail to the Chief," the other, representing the less conservative element, will be playing "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," thereby causing not only confusion and discord in a musical sense, but, perhaps, an outbreak of popular feeling which will be as disagreeable to the executive as it must be disgraceful to Oyster Bay. If Chicago were asked to give its advice in the emergency, it would suggest that still another Presidential committee for be the organized at rival once, as a present committees, duty it would be to meet the President with carriages a few miles outside the town, and drive him quietly to his residence by way of untraveled roads and back streets.

This committee would be none the less agreeable to the chief magistrate, we dare say, were it composed exclusively of proper elty officials, policemen in plain clothes, and representatives of the leading livery stables. If the prominent citizens in silk hats and frock coats are left at the station to quarrel with each other over the ancient question "Who shall be first?" it will do Oyster Bay no particular harm, while it may do other places where prominent citizens are too numerous a great deal of good. Public-School Graduates. The grammar schools of Chicago send out this year 7,962 graduates, and the high schools 1,260. Of the high-school graduates, probably 30 per cent, or 370, will enter college.

In 1896 21 per cent of the high-school graduates' entered college; in 1897, 24 per cent; in 1898, 25 per cent; in 1899, 24 per cent, and in 1900, 28 per cent. Of the grammar-school graduates not more than 60 per cent enter the high school, and as a rule not more than 35 per cent of those entering the high school complete the course. For example, only 3,551 of the 5,584 grammarschool graduates in June, 1896, entered the high school in September of the same year. Of those entering only 1,249 graduated four years later. The full term in the public schools from first grade to graduation in the high school is twelve years.

Not more than 28 per cent of those who enter the primary class remain in school through the eight grades, and not more than 15 per cent of the original class enter high school, and only 9 per cent continue through the second year of high school. In other words, half the children enterthe public schools leave the classes at the fifth grade and only one in every seven enters the high school. The conclusion is that fully one-half the pupils in the public school drop out at 12 or 13 years of age, with only an elementary education. Therefore, it follows that these lower grades should be kept at the highest possible standard of practical education. Many of those who complete the grammar-school course go from the schoolroom into industrial and business employments.

Has the course of study been arranged with this in mind? The high schools send out boys and girls well equipped for the ordinary work of life or well prepared for college. For two-thirds of them the high-school term completes their education. Getting Together. The joint board of conciliation of the al mine operators and miners directed to be established by the national strike commission organized at Wilkesbarre on Thursday. A number of unsettled questions are to come before the board, but the feeling is that all will be adjusted amicably, and that it will not be necessary to call in the umpire provided for in case of disagreement tween the representatives of the miners and the operators.

In this connection it is interesting to note that the representatives of the operators declared that had not the slightest objection to Mitchell, they, head of the miners' union, appearing before the board on behalf of the mine workers. Yet it was only a few months ago that the mine operators were calling high heaven to witness that they would never confer with this "outsider" with regard to the hard-coal mining business. The hard-coal operators have evidently learned a great deal in the last few months. They have learned, slowly and reluctantly in. many cases, but still they have learned.

They learned that to go on with their business and avoid overwhelming public wrath they must get together with their employes and deal fairly and with common sense as men with men, They are getting together. And it is well for them, and well for the whole country, that they have learned these things and are so getting together. A Frank. Acknowledgment. The following is an extract from an interview with Mayor Harrison in the Evening Post of last.

Thursday: President Roosevelt, who stands before the public as one of the foremost proponents of civil service, is to be severely criticised for the appointment of a politician pure and simple at the head of the Postoffice Department. I refer to Mr. Payne, who was appointed for the purpose of doing politics and nothing else, When. we consider the attitude which the Hon. Carter H.

Harrison has assumed toward the merit system since his induction into office over six years ago -when we recall how he has used the civil-service commission and the civil-service pay roll and the civi ice employes of the municipality, openly, brazenly, and scandalously, to forward his personal political ends, and as adjuncts of his personal political machine- we are forced to the admission that this utterance proves Carter H. Harrison to be something more than a mere man of talent. Only a genius could make a statement so unblushingly and unconscionably impudent as to silence all comment. In the presence of this exhibition of Carter H. Harrison's gall we cheerfully confess that we hare, not heretofore understood or appreciated him for his true worth.

Germany's Political Progress. The second ballots, on Thursday, in those German congressional distriets which failed to give majorities on June 16 showed further gains for the Socialists, and made more distinct the evolution of German politics from the group toward the party system. On the first ballots the National Liberals, who had 47 members in the last Reichstag, succeeded in electing but 5. The three groups of Radicals (Richter, Barth, and South German) did not elect of a single member. Messrs.

Barth and it Richter have succeeded in getting seats on the second ballots, but will have few followers. The Agrarian group has practically disappeared. The Center, or Clerical party, which is the backbone of conservative sentiment, has held its own, with about 100 seats. The Socialists, with only 57 seats in the last House, will have from 80 to 85 in the new. The petty mugwump factions are being wiped out and a distinct party alignment of Socialists on the one side and Clerical-Conservatives on the other begins to be visible.

There is as yet no dominant party balanced by an opposition almost equally to powerful. Neither the Clericals nor the Socialists alone have more than one- of fourth of the Reichstag. The monarchy cannot yet reckon with any fixed party majority. But progress toward that desirable situation evidently has been made. With 85 members and one-fourth to one-third the popular vote behind them, upholding definite policies, the Socialists are plainly.

a factor that must be considered. But there is no prospect at present of the German empire's becoming socialistic. As the Socialists grow more powerful they become more moderate. And then, in politics as in nature, the German saying holds trees do not grow into the heavens." There is a prospect, however, that Germany may slowly approximate more to the British type of government- -may become a country in which great parties, successfully appealing to the people upon definite principles, formulate policies which the executive will be he bound to carry out. At present the executive formulates policies and then enlists support for them in the Reichstag.

In a word, there is a prospect that Germany, by evolving a real two-party system, will become in due time more distinctively a government of the people and by the people, as well as for the people. The American girls who have been advised by Mrs. Campbell to marry millionaires are waiting for further particulars before acting upon the advice. This is praiseworthy. The marriage relation is too sacred to be entered upon hurriedly, even with millionaires.

The license fees which the Democratic saloon-keepers do not pay would go far toward removing the garbage. But to compel the Democratic saloon-keepers to pay their license fees might imperil the business administration, and that would be little short of a calamity, of course. It is significant that the independent Democratic press, which insists that Deneen is the man for Governor, also insists that Carter Harrison is the man for Vice President. But there is nothing strange in this. If instead of quarreling with her benefactor, St.

Louis had been ordinarily grateful Chicago, she might now, like toward, port, New Orleans, be putting in an $18,000,000 water and sewer system. Before we ask the owners of vehicles to go to the expense of providing wide tires for the protection of our streets, let us do something toward constructing streets that are worth protecting. Manifestly, everything possible is being done in advance to extract the bitterness from Sir Thomas Lipton's third disappointment. We shall probably never learn the exact language which the Czar will use when he receives that protest. STOPS WORK ON "BUG HOUSE." Halt Called at University of Chicago Until Permit Is Secured.

The University of Chicago wanted to segregate all the tadpoles, garter snakes, crawfish, turtles, and water bugs required by the department of zoology for experimental purposes, so work on big open-air aquarium was begun in Hull court on the campus. The aquarium was to cost about $6,000 and was to be the most complete of Its kind in the country. Work progressed rapidly for several days and then the city building commissioner found that no building permit had been taken out by the university. The proper authorities were notified, but still no one put in appearance at the city hall to take out the necessary permit. Early yesterday afternoon a big policeman from the Hyde Park station appeared in Hull court and ordered the fitteen workmen who were busy putting in the cement walls of the basin to show a building permit or stop work.

Not having the license, the workmen had nothing to do but take a rest. The officer sat down on a neighboring bench and acted as boss of the "rest He kept them resting all the afternoon and promised them similar duties for today. unless the necessary permit could be shown. CO-EDS MUST PAY UP OR WALK. No Credit for Bonbons, Elther-Merchants to Keep Blacklist.

"Send a carriage to the X. Y. Z. fraternity house." "Sorry, but your name is on the blacklist. You failed to pay for the last cab." The above conversation, or something similar to it, may become common between Northwestern students and Evanston liverymen over the telephone in the university suburb next: fall.

Fifty merchants of Evanston, who declare they are obliged to take such means to detend themselves from co-eds and young men who dodge their bills, have formed the Bustness Men's Protective Association of Evanston. The organization is the sequel to the fallure of a number of students to pay their bills this spring. "Bach and every student," said Justice Boyer yesterday, who has been arbiter between the merchants and the delinquents, be looked up and his standing made known to the merchants. No student who is not responsible will be able to obtain credit, and the system that has lost so much money for the merchants will go out of TEETOTALERS AID BREWERIES. Soft Drinks By-Product of Beer -Sales Increase Profits.

"When you drink a pint of soda water," said Dean Alexander Smith in a lecture at the University of Chicago yesterday afternoon, "you drink three pints of carbon dioxide, and that accounts for the full, comfortable feeling you have. "Carbon dioxide is a by-product of the brewery. It is by a sort of even-handed that the chemist is able to take sugar and yeast and make therefrom beer for the drinker and soda water for the imbiber of soft drinks a at one and the same time. "It ought to be a serious question for the total abstainer whether he would drink soda water, for in doing so he uses the by-product of breweries and thus greatly increases the dividends of the brewing companies, making it passible for them to lower the price of beer." ARREST CLIMAX OF "H00D00." Pinch of Salt Causes Disastrous Day and a $2 Fine. It costs much money to get rid of a "hoodoo." Charles Gregory, colored, of 3026 La Salle street found that out yesterday, when Justice Prindiville charged him $2 and costs for lifting a particularly troublesome Gregory claimed that a woman in the same building with him threw salt in front of his door, which created the "hoodoo." After beIng harassed by the "hoodoo" all day, Gregory came home in the evening and proceeded to raise a great disturbance in the building, after accusing the woman of being the cause of his troubles.

He annoyed the woman so much that she had him arrested. DELAWARE'S LYNCHING BEE. We trust Russia will not protest to our State Department against the Wilmington -Philadelphia Ledger. All offers from the Czar to swap Kishenev for Delaware should be promptly and firmly turned down. We need it in our peach New York Mall and Express.

This burning at the stake in Delaware makes even Addicksism look like a comparatively small daub. -Boston Herald. Down in Delaware there is a clergyman who preached the doctrine of lynching from the pulpit and then a mob of 4,000 burned negro at the stake. Let's see- -what are some of those things that we were saying about Journal. The negro clergyman in Chicago who appealed to negroes to buy guns is the natural corollary of the white clergyman WIlmington, who upheld -Buffalo Express.

That Delaware preacher who helped to incite lynching can name his own salary it he will accept a call to Alabama or -Buffalo Courier. Those burnings at the stake throw much light on the so-called barbarity of the dark ages. -Baltimore American. It Is evident that the whipping post has not exercised the civilizing Influence in Delaware that its admirers hoped -WashIngton Star. It is feared that the Czar will be highly edified when Count Cassini gives him an idea of the extent and details of our lynching Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Delaware is a little state, but in view of recent events her ablilty to create a tion is just as large as Atlanta Journal. NEWS OF THE THEATER. Protest of Creator's Luders Opera- Gossip. A letter from the Messrs. Howard Pew and Frank Gerth, who have the honor of managing the eccentric bandmaster, Creatore, denies most emphatically that that gentleman is out of a job, or that he is likely to be, asmuch as the managers mentioned say they took the precaution to seize Time and Creatore by the forelock and secure the Italian's signature to a six- contract.

Incidentally, they object to the inference contained in a recent paragraph in this column that their charge is "daffy." And they are not to be blamed for their objection. No man likes to be called, in fact no man should be called, insane, so long as he can prove an alibi. We are not to blame for this slip, however. It came over the pulsating wires. It appeared in the telegraph dispatches.

It may have been the invention of a press agent, but having seen Creatore perform we doubted it. Still the telegraph correspondents should be careful. If Creatore was not non compos mentis they should not have said so. It creates a wrong impression. It isn't good advertisement.

There is naught the trouble with Creatore, Messrs. Pew and Gerth declare, except restlessness brought on by overwork. It is true, as we sald, that Creatore and his band are to leave the St. Nicholas gardens in New York. They are going to play in a fine new band stand on the seashore.

Afterward they are again going en tour, and will likely play in the Auditorium here in November. We have also received from the managers of Creatore two column and a half criticism concerning his playing. Thanks. Have not read it, it looks good. According to the list of copyrighted play titles in Washington the new Ade-Luders comic opera will be called "'The It will evidently deal, therefore, with life in Corea, and, in this respect, follow the style "The Sultan of Sulu.

The Sho-Gun was the name of the ancient ruler of this ancient country. American visitors, foreign Totties, chaperoned Dotties, and a comedy ruler sound very comic-operaish, to be sure. Sara Crewe will say good with two performances today. The little Princess and all her friends, including the squeaky rats, will pack up or be packed up, and depart for Broadway. Next season there will likely be three "Little Princess" companies traveling wherever the Gerry society does not operate.

Miss James will head the first company, and other small and talented little women of the stage will be placed at the head of the other two companies. Five weeks of the Princess in have been the genuinely pleasing novelty of the nearly summer season. Mrs. Burnett's children are less artificial than those that generally creep out before the footlights, and consequently more interesting. The story of a little mite's human love and the romance of her childhood, Illogical though it is at basis, is still interesting and prettily told.

Miss James possesses many of the gifts that make for great artists and are frequently grouped under the mystifying yet satisfying term of genius. Her wee voice rings down to the bottom of receptive hearts, and the virtues of earnestness and sincerity shine through all that she does. There should be great things awaiting this talented little actress for the very practical reason that she is in a class all by herself, and it is a most likable class. Before a gathering of those interested in a national art theater in New York recently, Miss Blanche Walsh made an address. She spoke with considerable authority concerning.

the obstacles that must be overcome before the project will assume even feasible form, Inasmuch as a year or so ago Miss Walsh tried to popularize an endless letter chain in favor of a similar movement. Among other things she said: To No work tor sell is to work for dieappointment. national theater can be a success in this country unless we in the profession are ready to shelve our conceit and our self-seeking for the general good of art. The rock upon which we must inevitably founder is that of our professional human nature. No national theater is possible as long as all crave or upon being stars.

How many of you are insist prepared to work for a national theater without enough having of an ax to be grind? How many are large whole soul to willing to be merged into a to be known as a national theater? It these questions can be answered satistactorily we is can go ahead. It silence is the answer the outlook while ominous. The star system is vicious. and it lasts the great American play will never be written. And now, ladies and gentlemen, those among you most anxious to "shelve your conceit and self-seeking" will kindly step forward and sign the roll.

Not so fast, please. Take your places in line. There is plenty of time. And now we can expect a new lot of stories from prince of entertainers and the entertainer of princes," Marshall P. Wilder.

Having joined the ranks of the married men on Wednesday it is not to be doubted that his sense of humor will find many new things alongside the hearth and in the kitchen with which to regale his audiences, for it is not at all likely that Wilder will leave the profession just because he married out of it. Mrs. Wilder that is, Miss Sophia Cornell Hanks, daughter of a Brooklyn physician, that was, has been the small humorist's Ideal for a long time. They were the attendants at the wedding of mutual friends three months ago, but Mr. Wilder declares that he fell In love with Miss Hanks when she was a little tot of 9 years, and determined then to wait for her until she grew up and to win her if he could.

He has waited thirteen years and won, and his mail will be heavy with congratulations. Maude Adams is home from her tour of the old world in search of health, a feature of which was six weeks of camp life in the shadows of the pyramids of Egypt. The actress will return to the stage of the Empire theater. New York, this fall in 8 new play. It will be written for her by either Mrs.

Frances Hodgson Burnett or J. M. Barrie. On Monday night Miss Estelle Wentworth will retire from the cast of Chinese Honeymoon," in which she is singing the role of the Princess. Soo-Soo.

Miss Mary Conwell will replace' her. Miss Conwell was last year the Letitia of "'Dolly and has recently been singing the boy's role In "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." B. M. DRUMMER BOY OF SHILOH. Identity of Lieutenant Colonel Clem of ington Post.

Desperate Effort. the Quartermaster's Department. "An item in the Post, mentioning the presence in the eity of Lieutenant Colonel John L. Clem of the quartermaster's department, United States army," said a veteran of the civil war, "brings to mind his first appearance on the military stage as the 'Drummer Boy of At the age of 12 he was drummer in the Twenty-Second regiment, Michigan infantry, and his extreme youthfulness, with his bravery under fire at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, interested a number of officers, and at the close of the war he was educated under their auspices and a commission secured for him in the resular army- a fact. that the general public long ago lost sight of, for, though the newspapers made frequent mention of it thirty years ago, I have not seen a reference to it in many years.

the battle a General of brigade saw the little tellow in the thickest of the fight, and he called an aid. See what that child is doing there on the Aring Ine' -Clem was a little fellow, even for his age and send him to the rear. "The order was obeyed, but Johnny could not be kept at the rear, and he was soon again in the thickest of the fight, and having abandoned his drum and secured a mosket he was doing his best with a gun that weighed almost as much as he -Wash- Colonel J. W. F.

Hughes has the following advertisement in a Topeka (Kan.) paper: "Wanted, a girl for housework. No washing; small family; good pay; hot and cold water bathroom; horse and buggy; both telephones; piano." STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE. Not a Diet. Senator "Joe" Hawley has a collection of dog stortes any one of which wins friends and votes. He was taking a constitutional in a Western New York village on a pleasant summer's day.

While passing a cottage he was approached by its tenant, who looked like a panhandler. "Can't you help me, sir?" said the man. You can't need returned the Senator. "You have four or five dogs around the place, my man." "That's true, was the reply, "but can't compel my family to eat dogs. New.

York Times. Lesson the Bishop Needed. Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee has story of personal experience to tell to those who seem swamped in worries. It happened during the first years of his ministry, when he was rector of a Philadelphia church. The parish matters, social and financial, were in a bad way, and straightening them out was slow work.

He was distinctly discouraged one day when, having gone to New York on business, he stopped to look at the Brooklyn bridge, then building. A man, covered with dirt, was working on the abutments. "That's pretty dirty work you are engaged in," said the Bishop. "Well, yes," answered the laborer, "but somehow we don't think of the dirt, but of the beauty which is to come out of our work." "It was the lesson I needed, and I went back to Philadelphia the better for it," said Bishop -Milwaukee Journal. Catering to the Women.

At the Whitettiars' club, in London, Ambassador Choate proposed a tosst to "Sovran Woman" at a recent ladies' banquet, and to this toast Sarah Grand replied. Her reply was witty. Among other things she said: "It is good of you to set apart, as you do here, one day a year for women. It is also wise of you to do this. To cater to the ladies is never a waste of time.

"However, there is such a thing offensive and inapt catering to the ladles, and I recall a case in point. There were two rival churches in a small inland town, and what- ever one church did, the other endeavored to surpass. Both were in course of renovation one summer, and, as the work went on, they watched each other anxiously, to escape being outdone. spies from the first church, visiting the second as the renovations neared their end, saw painted above the chancel the motto, 'Good will to they said, 'this won't do. We have no motto over our chancel.

We must get one, and one that beats our neighbor's "Accordingly they placed above their own chancel the words. "Good will to women. And that was a case of catering to the ladies which was hardly -Detroit News- Tribune. True to His Colors. Patrick had worked hard all his days, but his sons had spent his money, and when he was too old for active work he was offered the position of crossing-tender at a small railroad station, near Philadelphia.

He looked dubious as the duties were explained to him, and the meaning of the various flags was clearly stated. "In case of danger, with a train coming, of course you wave the red said his friend, proceeding with his explanation. A hard old hand grasped his arm. "Man, dear, It'll never do," said Patrick, shaking his head solemnly. "I could never trust mesilt to remimber to wave a red flag whin there was a green wan handy." -Phila- delphia Ledger.

The Minister's Text. In Chillicothe they are telling a good story on a young man who holds a humble position in a printing office. The young man is very fond of the daughter of a minister, but his devotion for her is comparatively new. The other Sunday he went to church to hear the father of his inamorata preach, and unfor-tunately sat down where everybody could see him. The text was, "My daughter is grievously tormented with a devil." Kansas City soo se 91ed KING PETER OF SERVIA.

With acclaim the Servians greet Their new ruler, Monarch PetePete the First, to sit and reign Where a King and Queen were slain. To a bloodstained throne he goes, And his peril well he knows. For there treachery and hate Sealed his predecessor's fate. There are shadows round the throne Up to which King Pete is shown; Knowing not what they may hide, Fears are sapping kingly pride. Though to him the courtiers bow Care is written on his brow.

And his nerves are quivering Though he sits there as the King. -Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. King Peter has a fete day this week, but it is hard to see how he can feel like celebrating it. Buffalo News. King Peter had a great send-off at Belgrade yesterday.

Later on his head may have a great -Pittsburg Gazette. Servia will please notice that even San Domingo has been able to effect a change of rulers without -Philadelphia Inquirer. Owing largely to circumstances, the present King of Servia is one of the most polite and obliging potentates in existence. -Washington Star. But what will Peter care for recognition of the powers while cashier recognizes his signature for his -Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

The sound of the curfew is not likely to be needed to remind King Peter I. of Servia that it is safer for him to be in before dark.Buffalo Courier. Several of the representatives of other nations are giving King Peter of Servia the cold shoulder. He may have reason to regret that he ever ascended so dangerous a royal seat. -New York Tribune.

It is announced that the foreign Ministers in Belgrade administered a crushing rebuke to King Peter by going to meet him in frock coats Instead of uniforms. Thus does shocked and indignant civilization express its Detroit News. BOUND TO HAVE THEIR LIQUOR. Kansans Organize a Burying Club to Satisfy the Thirsty, All sorts of subterfuges have been resorted to by the Kansas people in evading the prohibition law, but the most extraordinary one so far heard of is reported here, where there has been for some time an organization known as the German Burial association. To all appearances this society has been engaged only in the work of caring for the dead after the fashion of burial associations everywhere.

The surprise of the people may be appreciated, therefore, when the sheriff swooped down on the association's rooms, arrested the association officials, and captured a large amount of liquor. The chief official pleaded guilty and was fined $100, and the liquors were destroyed by the order of the court, after it had been determined that the association was in realIty nothing but a drinking club. The manner in which the character of the place became known to the officials is rather interesting. One of the members of the association had broken one of its rules and the board had fined him $25. For this sum he gave his note, but when it fell due he tailed to pay it.

Thereupon the association garnisheed his wages, and, made angry by this proceeding, he went to the county attorney and revealed the secrets of the order. The Newton Kansan. The Lawyer's Rule. "Ever since beginning the practice of law," said a Detroit lawyer, who begged that his name be suppressed, "I have made it a rule not to take cases in which I could not promise my client a percentage of gain over my fees. One day not long ago a business man came to me with a request to sue a debtor.

I found it would cost far more than could be recovered, and told him so. He was indignant, and left vowing to get a lawyer to press the case regardless of expenses. "A few weeks later he came to me again. said he, 'I took your advice and saved $250 by It. Now I want you to take charge of all legal matters affecting the Blank corporation.

Your retainer will be $2,000 per I took It, it is needless to say." -Detroit News THE WHIRL OF SOCIETY. More aud more maids made matrons and bachelors benedicts- -such a boom as we are having just now in matrimony! It is plain to be seen that the fair young woman with the orange blossoms relinquishes reluctantly her place in the calcium of Vanity Fair to her younger sister with the commencement essay. There is room to chronicle the momentous undertakings of both on June's calendar, however- here's looking at both of 'em. A wedding of especial Interest to Oak Park is announced for Tuesday evening, June 30, at the First Congregational church, Oak Park. Jessica Lorette Warner, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William C. Warner, 428 North Grove avenue, is to be the bride, and Roy I. Zorn of Chicago the groom. The services will be at 8:30 o'clock by the Rev.

William E. Barton, pastor of the First Congregational church. Mildred Rogers is to be maid of honor, and the bridesmaids the Misses Grace Wilson and Julia Malone of Oak Park and Florence Herrick of Bloomington. The flower girls will be Caroline and Ada Zorn, sisters of the groom, and his brother, Frank Zorn, will be best man. Herbert Johnson, John Griffin, William Williams, G.

Troup, Carlisle Craig, and William Jonson will be ushers. Mr. and Mrs. William Amerson, 410 North Central avenue, Austin, announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Miss Lucie Amerson, to Roscoe Conkling Jenkins, 317 North Central avenue, Austin. The marriage will take place next fall.

Both are prominent in Austin society. The marriage of Miss Isabel Salsich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E.

Salsich, to Earle E. Conway will take place this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents in Hartland, Wis. Mr. Emil Llebling will play the Lohengrin wedding march. Dr.

J. W. Conley of Omaha, assisted by the Rev. R. F.

Ketcher of Hartland, will officiate. Miss Helen Salsich, sister of the bride, will be maid of honor, and Eugene H. Heald of Oak Park best man. The wedding of Miss Birdye Weber and W. Ray Cole will take place Tuesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. N. H. Weber, 5617 Prairie avenue. Dr.

Emil G. Hirsch will officiate. Miss Helene Well will be the bride's only attendant, and James H. Graves will be best man. A dinner for the family and bridal party, followed by a reception for friends, will be given after the ceremony.

Mr. and Mrs. Cole will go on a wedding journey of a month and will be at home after Sept. 1 at 5617 Prairie avenue. The marriage of Miss Bess Lorena Lloyd, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Lloyd, 712 West Adams street, to Albert Mason Hildebrandt will take place Tuesday evening at the home of the bride's parents at 8 o'clock. Miss Emma A. Lloyd is to be maid of honor and Mrs. William Linn MacBride matron of honor.

Miss Grace Lucile Lloyd will be bridesmaid. The best man will be Dr. William Linn MacBride. There will be 110 ushers. Miss Henrietta Page and Master J.

C. McMullin, both of Highland Park, will stretch the ribbons. Miss Elizabeth Hildebrandt will serve as flower maiden. A pretty suburban wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. McKee, St. Louis avenue and -Second place, Thursday evening, when their daughter, Miss Mary McKee, was united in marriage to Fred C. Cardy.

The Rev. J. E. Ross officiated. The maid of honor was Miss Hazel McKee, sister of the bride, and William R.

McCardy, brother of the groom, was best man. Miss Doratta V. Larkin was married last. evening to Ray C. Caldwell, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. M. H. Larkin, at Maywood, Ill. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.

Mr. Dunn of Rivert Forest, Ill. The bride wore a crepe de chene costume over taffeta, trimmed with Irish point lace, with pearis. The home was decorated with palms and roses. The couple will take a tour of the East, to include Boston, New York, and Niagara Falls.

Mr. and Mrs. John Chislett of Greenwood avenue have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mabel Claire Chislett, to Mr. Francis P. Collins, formerly of St.

Paul. The wedding will take place in November. The members of the Mont Clare Musical and Literary club will give their annual garden party and fete of nations July 2, on the grounds of their president, Mrs. John H. Valk.

Among the attractive features this year will be an Indian wigwam, a gipsy camp, and an English Maypole, and other national dances. A luncheon of the national dishes of ten nations will be served by the hostesses in peasant garb. About thirty-five Caicago clubs will be represented among the guests. Mrs. A.

Berwanger, 4747 St. Lawrence avenue, announces the engagement of her daughter, Hattie, to Joseph Baer. fAt home on Sunday, July 12. Mrs. M.

Kavin, 4117 Lake avenue, and her daughter, Miss Evelyn Bemson, will be at home Wednesday evening, July 1, for Miss Rae Cohen of Milwaukee and her dance, Sigmund Ruscha. Mrs. John W. Hertz, 630 Rockwell street, and her two children, John and Mary, have left Chicago to spend the summer in Europe. Miss Olivia M.

Taft of Palos Park and Miss Imogene Kean of Evanston have gone to. Europe to spend the summer. The Ogden Alumni association held its annual entertainment and dance last evening at the Lincoln Cycling club hall, 394 Dearborn avenue. The Colonial club will give an informal reception and dancing party on Tuesday evening, June 30, at the clubhouse on Grand boulevard. Mrs.

Mary E. Foley, 84 Whipple street, announces the engagement of her daughter, Ida Hayes, to Fred Curtis Todd. Dr. and Mrs. S.

Lewis and son Charles of 6501 Harvard avenue, sailed yesterday on the Deutschland for an extended tour abroad. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Farr, 4737 Woodlawn avenue, leave today for their summer home at Onekama, Mich.

Mrs. John F. Wallace, who for several weeks has been at her country place at Flossmoor, left yesterday to join Mr. Wallace in New York and will return with him in about week. Mrs.

Edward F. Lawrence, 57 Lake Shore drive, has gone to Harbor Point, to spend several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Lawrence. Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. Loose will spend the Fourth of July as the guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Leslie Peck. Miss Edith Counselman went East with Miss Carrie B. Neely for the tennis tournament at Philadelphia. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority took lunch at the Marshall Fleld tearooms at noon yesterday. Mrs.

P. H. Clears, 3151 Prairie avenue, and her sister, Mrs. Charles P. Caldwell, 4425 Michigan avenue, leave for New York next Saturday and will sall July 7 for Europe, where they will spend two months.

WILLIE DEARBORN..