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TJXDAY MORNING. THE PITTSBURGH" POST. SEPTE3IBER 1G, 1900. When Work-Gives Place to PrayerBy Rev. Morgan m.

sheedy. THE, PITTSBURGH POST ESTABLISHED IMS. POST PVBLISHIXO 003IPAWY. ALBERT" J. BARR President FRANCIS X.

5ARR Secretary. FRED M. PCRDT Treasurer. JOSEPH S. MYERS Editor JOUN H.

DAI LET Managin Editor. Address aU communication to Poet Publishing Company. Post Building. Liberty ave. and Wood Pittsburgh, Ps-VOLUME NUMBER.

6. THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC DAILY PAPER I PITTSBURGH. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. THE CUBAN CACTUS, WITH much reason what is assumed to be a majority of Americans indulge; high hopes of the success of Secretary" Taft's mission to It is 'expected that his geniality and conciliatory disposition may work wonder3 with the truculent Insurgents. No difficulty will arise in quieting the Palma contingent.

They are already willing to take a prolonged siesta. But if Mr. Taft scores his first failure, what then? Are marines to fight the BO-called rebels and protect the unstable and confessedly fraudulent Palma government? True, it is de facto, and must be recognized by all nations, including this. But must It be kept in the executive palace by force of American arms? Discounting for fervid Latin imagination, still it is manifest that the rebellion in Cuba is of large dimensions and num- bers among its forces some of the ablest states- rest is doing nothing, lying under the as to the fact. Perhaps your business shadow of a tree and idling away the nas not prospered, you have not succeed- day.

Their idea of rest is the repose of ed according to your hopes; things have a cemetery. gone against you. You have struggled hard to support your family and hav "Tired and overweighted is another -worked as faithfull yas you know how. meaning of these words and, while phys- Your religious beliefs may be many or ical troubles are not alone or even chief- few. perhaps you have never formulated ly intended, it would be a mistake to them very clearly in your own mind, suppose them to be excluded.

Our dif- That is notf howeVer. the important point Acuities are often very complex in their in regard to this invitation; it is this origin and we do not always know from you are discouraged. The call makes no what source they arise. There is a form exceptions. It does not read, -Come, ye of soul weariness which arises from a discouraged Christians," or "Come ye deep sense of failure.

No matter what faithful disciples." It's a broader call a man's religious creed, provided it is than that. The Invitation includes you. a creed and not a mere catalogue of Gr perhaps health, has failed and you opinions, he will find it no easy matter nave Decome disqualified for work. You to live up to it. cannot dig, and you are, of course.

To many this is a discouraging fact, ashamed to beg. Possibly you have aland the conviction of failure is one of most reached to point when you feel "Come unto. Me, all ye that labor and re heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 28. LIKE the silver tones of an evening Angelus sounding the hour when work shall give place to prayer falls this restful call on the ears of the world's workers, telling them that the time for struggle and toil has passed and the time for prayer and peace has come. From the minaret of his own experience the Divine Watcher sees a world engaged in labors from whose dreary monotony there is no release.

"Come unto me, all euch," is the Invitation, "and I will give you rest." How urgently the world of to-day, in Its mad hurry and haste and superficial rest, needs to heed this call! It is re Is the cost of an auto to decrease so that it -might be said to be "horse and Then the arro-gation of the roads by the new method of flying might excused. But meanwhile, and if this exclusivencs3 of ownership is to continue long, ought not roads be built for the auto speeders so as to give the old family horse hi3 accustomed exercise? ATTACK ON COUNT WITTE. THAT peculiar institution, the Russian student, resumed his study of the "Fine Art of Murder" yesterday by making an attack on Count Witte at a'-watering place in Prussia. The insensate wretch was caught by the detectives before he could throw the bomb. That.

a Russian assassin had traveled to Wiesbaden upon the trail of the invalid ex-premier shows how perfectly, the schemers of "Underground Russia" have arranged' their plans. It is mani-3 fest that the list of those marked for "removal" is a Jong one, and each murderer assigned to the Class Matter at Pittsburgh, Pa. DAILY POST. with Sunday .26 with Sunday 45 Entered as Second THE By carrier, 1 year By carrier, 1 month By mall 1 year By mall. 1 month 3.00 with Sunday 5.D0 .45 .25 -with Sunday THE ST5DAT POST.

the hardest burdens to carry. But this jt is better for you to die than to live. not tne mgnesi iorm oi reugion wmcn xou "have never subscribed to any peated in scripture in many forms, but ls is By carrier. 1 year 60.. mall .65..

by mall makes us satisfied with ourselves: indeed, creed." you sav. Well, none the less, the 1 so. to dignify them, in the By carrier. 3 months remittances must be made by P. O.

Money Order, Registered these revolutionists, like In the 'days of '76, are able to install a stable government, why not let them alone in the effort? Peace in Cuba is the prime desideratum. Armed Letter or New Torn urait. TELEPHONES: Port private C. D. P.

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iws ri 1556 Grant. Editorial Rooms. 1106 Main. the burden of its cry is always "Come." Here is no vague invitation. "Come now" is the plain meaning and rest is immediately given.

No one can doubt the sincerity of such an invitation. There is a constraining power in its tenderness that appeals to the "weary and heavy laden," to whom it is extended. In these days of tremendous strife and struggle, of tremendous business competition, when we can hardly wait for an answer on the telephone, when we cannot wait for a street car to stop, when we want the fastest express trains, there-is a crying need of rest. The Master's idea of rest is antagonistic to the oriental rest notions. The oriental idea of SUNDAY.

SEPTEMBER 18. 1906. a certain self-dlssatisfactlon will alone invitation is for you. Often death visits furnish us with incentive to attempt to the home. The son is trying to supply the better our past.

The creed that a man piace of the father or the daughter of can live up to, and that without half try- the mother. Duties are many and oner- ing, is not worth the having. It is not ous, vexations frequent and not always the satisfied conviction, "I have reached trivial. The burden is heavy on your my ideal," that gives us peace, but shoulders; it is certain the invitation i3 rather the thought, "I am nearer to it for you. than I was a while ago." The knowledge Many hear this Angelus call who do not that in spite of mistakes we are making stop their work to pray.

Perhaps you progress means tranquillity. "I will think you have no time. Try it. See if give you rest" means "I will teach you He will not give you rest. After all It Is how to succeed." not so much what God gives you as what However unable we may be to diagnose He is to you that means rest to the dis-our disease, we are always sufficiently couraged heart.

In its fullest meaning-aware of the symptoms. Why we are the Angelus is this "Come unto me, all tired and overweighted we may not al- ye discouraged ones, and I will be your ways know, but we are never in doubt rest," intervention there should be postponed until the very latest moment, for impetuous action; plays only Into the hands of the plantation owners, who would reap millions by knitting any the more closely the bonds between this Nation and the sugar island. Our relation to It now is a virtual protectorate. Annexation is evidently the scheme of the fomentors of this discord, which was easily aroused by refreshing memories of election frauds and autocratic arrests. Let the Cubans fight it out.

Why prate about the Piatt amendment imposing any obligation upon the United States to do anything? Its language reads that the Cubans "consent" that this Republic may intervene for specified purposes. The option Is ours. The sagacity and policy belong in an emergency at Oyster Bay, and ultimately bloody act awaits but opportunity to fulfill his vow. But why Count Witte should be selected by the student section of the Terrorists is not at once apparent. In former years these attendants at the universities had many grievances, and Sipiaguine paid In part the penalty of repressing their freedom of speech and assemblage.

The execrated Von Plehve also might naturally have met death by the collegiate cult of assas- sins. But Witte has been a pacificator. Had it been a peasant who tried to throw the bomb some consistency of thought could be detected. If the benighted tiller of the Russian soil has one idea penetrate his brain it is that Witte Ignored the agrarian problem when minister of finance and sought solely to build up an industrial fabric, which tottered and brought ruin because of his extravagance. But the external world views Witte as the greatest of Russians.

This admiration arises not wholly from his adroit diplomacy at Portsmouth, but because of his remarkable financiering, even when the czar's resources seemed pawned to the utmost. Then he left the impression during the preliminary dock's Music Too Precise Democratic politics In New York are veering around toward a safe and sane, party direction. The candidacy of Congressman Sulzer, which at first seemed rather hopeless, has. suddenly received large accretions of strength, and he is now likely to he nominated. Such a'- result would cancel the idiocy of placing District Attorney Jerome upon a ticket which he once spurned, and the chief nominee on which for a municipal office he did his uTmost to defeat.

Since it has become apparent to' all candid men that Mayor McCIellan is of finer caliber in his position than the truckling Jerome: If the district attorney did not recognize himself his waning prestige he would again attempt the spectacular act of exalt By Jennie Irene Mix. THE THEODORE THOMAS ORCHES- this precision. The attack is, at times, so When Mr. Stock was put at the head of TRA, Frederick A. Stock conductor, sure it is harsh.

In orchestral playing this organization everyone was glad, for closed its week's engagement at the Ex- Precision should be so natural that it is it seemed only fair that he should be position last evening. Twenty-four fine aI1 not thought of by the listener. Mr. given a chance to show what he could do. the Exposition, the heaviest programs Take the climax in "The Ride of the KtVhefo? tte drew the largest audiences IST Technically.

was well-nigh greatest conductors. It is the corner-stone At nearly every concert given by the perfec but one was conscious every mo- of orchestral history in America, and orchestra the audience was a iypu.ii. lIle music is should grow greater with each succeeding position one rather than a gathering or 1 enaing or IL i itv the Tannhauser Overture." And this the musical patrons the city which atlff preclse abg0 ruined seemed strange considering the fact that the Strauss walt2es heard during the so celebrated a body of men were giving week. In everything the orchestra played the programs. Just why thi3 was so it all the requisite gradations of tone were would be difficult to say.

One of the there, and Mr. Stock judges the value of year. When the baton dropped from the fcand of Theodore Thomas it should have been put into that of a man equally as strong, and, if possible, stronger. And now Just a word about all the concerts at the exposition. Each year they are enjoyed more than the year before.

This season the audiences pay closer attention and move about less than they did last year. Isn't it about time that a rule is adopted whereby it will be Impos- ereatest factors in the erowth of musical mese graaauons in a masterly manner. In this respect his lights and shades are those of an artist. But it takes more than this to make music. taste in a city is the opportunity to hear different organizations.

Attending the concerts given by the Thomas orchestra rouses all the more interest in those with Congress. If we emerge from this "imbroglio," and we presume it is such or will soon reach that newspaper linguistic stage, it will be time to discuss the peculiar awkwardness in international relations which was foreseen to flow from the foolish Piatt annex. Cuba is not free. We tied a string to her. She is our ward, and this fact may cost the American treasury dearly, for foreign nations may hold accountable the guardian of the ward for all her acts of destruction.

Are we to muster marines to keep intact a puny executive control from whose very weakness claims may arise in behalf of other countries? It would be better to run a pencil line across this intervention clause of the amendment. Some items forbidding foreign alliances and contracting debts, are wiser. Our attitude should be to let Cuba alone. We do not need to cite the abominable amendment to find basis for protecting lives and property. That is the law of nations.

We do not need it to warrant resistance to any European power which might seek to seize Cuba. We have the Monroe doctrine. Every right musical tiprfnrmsnrs during the preformance of number? To given by the flttsburgn orcnesua, anu hy the same tokn those given by our have in it a quality that marks that one tIilurce lms rule would a simple matter own orchestra should rouse livelier in- performance as distinct from any other. when tale inn5 consideration the terest in those given by outside organ- Call it inspiration, emotion, temperament, amount money that is spent to make izations. or what you will.

Its presence is in- these concerts possible. The request at During the past week some people stantly felt by all who listen. Its absence the head of each Program that people do seemed to think that the Theodore is noticeable equally as well. not Iave the hall during the performance Thomas orchestra was such only in name. When this quality is too pronounced of a number undoubtedly has much to do But that was nonsense.

The splendidly cither chaos or maudlin sentiment is the with keeP'nS the polple in their seats, but body of men spoke for them- result. There must be a happy medium Such a reo-uest ls not sufficient as long as selves. The beautiful tone quality, ap- To carefully, even reverently work out other Peple are allowed to enter the hall parent even in the atrocious acoustic an interpretation of some composition "whlle the music is being rendered. then. drill the men under him until the; un- uuun.

rroauce that interpretation th.v slaved all snoke oi uui. it ouea nappens that people enter SULUle a sausiactory orchestral leader during the last part of the ist w. that orchestra which for many years had rv. at its head a martinet in discipline unless into eacn individual performance on the program. They don't know how of that work he can make his men put far along the concert is and so pnfr ing his horns above "all parties.

In the depth 01 his degradation and exposure he plays prodigal. Ben Butterworth once told in Congress with much embellishment a story about one of those indolent gentlemen who would rather ride on a freight than walk. He was allowed to enter the caboose, as the train was a special one carrying a State exhibit of corn, and everybody aboard felt proud. Just as the next station was coming in sight, where the genial one expected to feed, if possible, he suddenly mounted to the roof, ran across the cars to the engine, planted himself on the pilot of the locomotive, and, as the train whizzed into the town, he rose to his full stature and yelled: "Here we are!" Mr. Stuart's spasmodic love of the reform legislative bills with which he had nothing to do might resemble the sudden enthusiasm of the dusty traveler.

"The Post" begs to acknowledge the receipt of the green leather-bound report of the War Finance of Japan. It-is in English, with its monetary marks also expressed in British money, and hence its circulation here is to allay any anxiety regarding American holdings of Japanese bonds. We are not much interested in the fluctuations of the interest rate in the Nippon Ginko, nor do we care for the receipts from the tobacco monopoly, an arrant trust maintained by the empire, but the fact that the war cost up until March, 1900, one bil-'lion and a third yen is worth noting. We have become somewhat accustomed to hearing of billions in this country in connection with Congress and the steel trust. Still a yen is just about half a dollar, and so we are back again in the millions.

The report is elaborate and very interesting. It proves the financial acuteness of the Jap, and even J. P. Morgan would better use specs in deal- ing with the minister of finance or discounting a note at the Nippon Ginko. Every good citizen of Pittsburgh and- Allegheny should avail himself of the second opportunity to register next Tuesday.

But one day more is allotted, and it is in October. If the present chance is neglected, something may happen to prevent registration on that last day. It sounds, of course, flat to repeat these adjurations so often to voters, but perhaps the reminders may be worth while if only a dozen citizens be moved to obey the dictates of true citizenship and prepare themselves to cast a ballot for the ticket and poll- cies of their choice. "The Post" abates nothing There is a certain restful satisfaction in Possibly this walk all about the hall, especially across hoarins such technically true playing as tt thCy finally get a seat- that done by this orchestra. Whether it eCutiL Tf fo ln fwd hW rprised they are when be in the crash of a ciimar or in the S' then let them be sacn" they find the concert is over! They should delicate passages liarht as tha thistle ti not have been allowed to enter and dis- Mown on the breeze, the men play with tlU; -never, aJIows JWs sacrifice to turb the hundreds of people, to say much freedom and purity of intonation.

De ae- fs work is as clear and precise nothing of the players. i copybook' and after There is always plenty of tim between f0r Xh "legible the numbers for people to come ST scrawl of the genius. The tears in his why should that not suffice? The com music are all of filtered water, clear as fort of the majority should be considered crystal; the battles are all fought by at such a time. Even if the rule wert Occasionally in the Wagner numbers the brass overwhelmed the strings, as is the case with orchestras. But the men all played as though they knew the notes so well that, were they suddenly stricken Hllnrl rind fU af thv r-inlld Still fin- days of the duma of striving sincerely to preserve some of the old order and yet accept the practical portions of the demanded program.

Like his successor, Goremykin, he quit office in disgust over a vacillating emperor and an intractable assembly. What progress is noticeable in Russia? It seems to be a case of drifting, while the murderer throws his bomb when he can. SEEING BY ELECTRICITY. AGAIN announcement has been made that a device has been constructed which enables a person to see the face and figure of the one to whom he is talking over the telephone. The alleged inventor is the city electrician of Richmond, Va.

He calls his apparatus the teleone. "Tele' figures in all these far-off devices, like the telephone, telescope, and it is simply Greek for "afar." This Virginia claim induced a writer in the "Electrician and Mechanic" to collate the previous assertions that this problem of seeing by electricity had been solved. Borrowing from the condensation of his article made by the "Literary Digest." it appears that an Austrian Pole several years ago promised to exhibit at the Paris exposition such an apparatus. The newspapers were permitted to describe It in ouuine. It involved the use of selenium, an element employed in all these attempts to transmit over a wire the lineaments of a person.

But he did not exhibit. Then a Belgian engineer tried to realize the process of observing persons afar off. Still another inventor is an American dentist, named Syivestre, in Paris, who confesses he is "no scientist," but made his discovery by accident. But the conclusion of the story is its most amusing part. Prof.

Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone, is interviewed as to the possibility of this seeing by electricity. He recapitulates all the efforts, and while not daring to doubt the ultimate achievement of the act, he scouts its immediate realisation. Then he recounts how he himself started the idea of seeing by telephone. Early in 18S0 he made an. important invention, called the photophone, which was based on the of transmitting sound by the agency of a beam of the remarkable property of selenium, whose electric resistance is varied by the action of light.

The papers took up the matter, and out of this grew the story of seeing by telephone. Scientific papers discussed it, and he was much abused for claiming something he never presumed to have done. Finally, he sums up that nobody yet has seen by electricity people far off. men iryCK coats. forrpd that v.

i ciiLn 1 the number they'd begun. This fa- Anct 11 strange that while Mr. Stock -but not take seats during the playing of mlliarfty was particularly noticeable in never withholds the volume of tone in a a number matters would be much im- me nan iring the playing of rould be much im- the wood-wind. There was no hesitancy. -umn, jti nis cumaxes never thnil; that, proved.

no gasping, no evidence of stiff lips. raak orchestra play The expositlon is doin such truW Trills and runs ana staccato notes sun- uewcat-y, me piaying still lacks nificent wnrk tv, -T, ,7 grace. to Ui LliO city, is such an inestimable educational ply flowed from these instruments in delicious ease. Under the baton of Mr. Stock the or fnptAr a wfiH ot.

At, ulceus or pure en- sno.Uia De D1S- joyment to the tens of thousands chestra has lost none oi tne precision ser man any man ln his orchestra. He neonle M-Prv Mt iD which it cained undr Theodore Thomas, must be the unit that inspire the try making this little improvement in the In fact Mr. Stock has rather exaggerated whole. concerts. The Fine Point off Wit.

COON MUSIC IS SCOTCH? EVER since Dvorak affirmed that the only national music in the United States was that of the negroes, the "domestic" critics have been engaged in confuting the idea. It was quite plausible, for in this cosmopolitan population other music is assuredly a hodgepodge from all nations. "Finally a writer in "Musical America" advances the theory that even the ragtime and coon songs that move the feet and catch the average ear of harmony lovers are Scotch in origin, and not African at all. He makes a strong case, and no reason exists why any son of old Scotia should get mad. It is not like when a noted minister some years ago asserted that St.

Patrick was a Baptist. Nor Is it parallel with that other announcement of an eminent Englishman that Robert Burns thought was English and not indigenous to the soil he plowed. This coon music proposition is milder and les3 exasperating. The argument simply is that the negroes never had any harmony of their own, but by long enslavement under or near the Scotch settlers in the Southern States they learned he melodies of the land of the thistle and adapted them to their own passion for music. This is a taking theory.

The Scotch did people the early colonics in the South. The African in his native abode knows no noise, except some rude tempestuous drum beats sounding like a Wagnerian ensemble. The writer in "Musical America" grows technical and we are led into a bog. He asserts that "If we trace the source of these slave songs we find the pentatonic scale used for many of the major, and the minor scale with a minor seventh for many of the minor, songs. The Scotch music is also constructed upon these scales." We pass this branch of the subject up to the conservatoires de musique.

The environment theory, or rather the application of it, is fetching. The Southern darkey is an imitative fellow. Instance, Blind Tom. Perhaps we will hereafter be obliged to request her to play a little colored Scotch tune. This is only pastime for me.

I could eat and do this. This is joy! Perfect bliss! I could keep this up all day-Two days at a pinch. It's a shame to take money for this. Say! This is a cinch! The Modern Lochlnvar. W'hen young Lochinvar rode out from ths West, He claimed that his automobile was the best; It was painted dark red and it brilliantly shone.

He went like a streak and he rode all alone; He shot over the ruts with a zlpp and a jar. And people fled madly from young Loch invar. With a whirr of his wheels and a hum of A Literary Picnic. I've always been a careful bard, Working hard And tried to saw My lines in proper lengths, y'know. But, pshaw: Also pish! Likewise tush! I am a fool.

I should have joined the Lampton school, Which lias no rule Except to go as you darn please. In short, along to plow Unto the end Just as I'm doing now. You comprehend? This isn't labor. Gee! His Little Joke. "Yes," remarked the editor of the New York paper, "we print ail of the news that's lit to print, and quite a good deal Here he was compelled to smile at his own humor "or" the news that Isn't." THE SOLEMN MAN.

his cogs He knocked down the children and ran over dogs; He frightened the horses and laughed aC their pranks. And men who got angry he looked on aa cranks; He gave her the very last notch on the bar, And a cloud of dust followed the gay; Lochinvar. He stayed not at bridges, he stopped not for stone, He calmly took all of the roads as his own. Till he came to a crossing and smashed through a gate And endeavored to butt through a train-load of freight They searched, and at- last, lying under a car, They found a few chunks of the bold Lochinvar. Bmiinig, the Idol, at any time in its undeviating adherence to the fusion ticket, but it does not confine its request to register merely to those who will support it.

No fear is felt of possible defeat of that reform combination, but if it so occur more satisfaction would be enjoyed by everybody if it were accomplished by a full vote, and not solely by the hucksters of politics determining the result. Remember, day after to-morrow, Tuesday. secretary Shaw, by some violent perversion of his imagination, selected himself to try to answer at Memphis last night the Bryan Madison Square Garden speech. It is quite phenomenal to note the fluttering in the dovecotes caused by Mr. Bryan's discourse on many subjects of polity as suggested by his globe trotting, and no single one of which is apt to be mentioned in the Democratic National platform of 1908.

Mr. Shaw thought himself sarcastic about some possible constitutional changes Mr. Bryan noted without advising. But Mr. Shaw knows that changes require submission to the people.

So long as Mr. Bryan's amendments are not even pending, is not the greater danger with the repudiated Shaw, who has individually altered a law to accept unauthorized securities for bank loans, and who conceives his great department is merely an adjunct of Wall street? Then he talked about continuing representative government. Was that a rebuke to Foraker? That puissant corporation tool defies his constituency while trying to make people think he only disobeys the Song of Twilight. to come home once more, when the duck Oh. In a large and gaudy temple on the isle of Zanzibar at an extra-holy idol.

Bung, the god of peace and war; And before him was an altar wrought of imitation gems, China beads ond cut-glass rubies, and real tinfoil diadems. To the blue of brazen trumpets came a sunburnt native throng, Slngins praises to their idol in a fierce, barbaric song. When, behold: a mighty miracle occurred ere one could think For the eye of Bung was puckered to a most ungodly wink! Not the slightest trace of anger on that kiln-baked lace was seen Nay, he sat the same as ever, noncommittal and serene. But the superstitious natives, who had seen that mystic blink. Asked, in whispers, as they left him, "Why did Bung, the idol, wink?" One fine day there came a scholar from a less provincial tribe; Such a scientific native space forbids me to describe.

He had gone abroad to study, and had sought renown to win As a graduate optician both of Paris and normal optic state; Then he went before the monarch and discreetly said. "I think I can solve the vexing question. 'Why did Bung, the idol, I examined both his pupils, and observed. to my surprise. An advanced astigmatism in the god's celestial eyes.

This was unobserved of mortals, till that day with horror fraught W'hen a sudden, blinding glory made him wink before he thought" "Pray, explain; what was that glory?" asked the king, with bland grimace; 'Twas the gloiy," said the stranger, "of your radiant, royal face!" Tis recorded that the monarch waited not to hear the rest. But with sudden-born compassion drew the scholar to his breast. Gave him all the royal offices left vacant by decease, Became a vegetarian and lived a life of peace. But among the Zanzibarites there's a common question still, "When an edible explorer comes, a long-felt want; to till. And they spring the fatal riddle never give him time to think LIST! THE SIRENS' SONG.

READERS have doubtless noted with what extreme care "The Post" has avoided the faintest allusion to the most shredded idea that Mr. Roosevelt could possibly accept another presidential nomination. This awful restraint, this constant abstention from discoursing upon a subject so worthy of comment, was due primarily to the fact that his party press announced, and did it ex cathedra, that it would be an insult to the chief magistrate of the Nation to indulge in the quietest meditation, or the most secret contemplation, of the President recanting his solemn league and covenant made with the people after his last election. Now that the chief organ of the Penrose ring In Pennsylvania openly discusses the question of Mr. Roosevelt again becoming the party candidate, surely "The Post" is absolved from all dictates of etiquet, from all fears of insulting the chief magistrate aforesaid.

How seductively, when one blast upon the trumpet of Rhoderlc Dhu Roosevelt would be worth thousands of votes to the Penrose gang, this organ affirms that if his party calls he must succumb. How adroitly it tosses before him the lure of ambition. Have you read the Greek legend "of the sirens? It could be easily transcribed to fit the case, except for one obstruction. Ulysses was a far-traveled hero, like our own Teddy. The sirens were sea maidens, with voices of such ineffable sweetness that all who heard were drawn on their Island only to meet death.

It was strewn with bones is fal To see the nursery lighted and the children's table spread; Mother, mother, mother!" the eaer voices oaliinp, "The baby was so sleepy that he had to go to bed." Oh. to come home once more and see the smilhiff faces. Dark head, bright head, clustered at tha pane; Much the years have taken, when tlie heart its path retraces. But until time is not for me that image will remain. Men and women now they are, standing straisrht and steady.

Grave heart, gay heart, fit for life's em- prise; Shoulder set to shoulder, how Bhould they le but ready! The future shines before them with the light of their own eyes. Sti'J each answer to my call; no good has been denied me. My burdens have been fitted to th little that's mine. Beauty, pride and peace have walked by day beside me. The evenir.K closes gently In, and iiovr can I repine? But.

oh. to see once more, when the early dusk is fallin(r. The nursery windows glowing and the chil drn's table spread; Berlin; First he visited the temple where the pla- As they drag hini to the slaughter. "Why cid idol sate. Did Bung, the Idol, Made some secret observations on his Wallace Irwin in Success.

FARM AND ROAD DANGERS. DWELLERS in cities by exercise of unflagging caution, by being always alert and aware of the multharious dangers which beset the pedestrian, or even the quiet inmate of his home, do not appreciate the many menaces to life which have appeared In the country. The daughter of the President was thrown from her buggy yesterday because an automobile frightened her horse. Happily she escaped injurj But the accident has had its many repetitions on various county roads in all the States. It is said that on the splendidly graveled and beveled pikes of Ohio, where the farmer has driven for years like a magnate in his private car, he now dares not hitch his horses to the carriage, for the road is no longer his.

However acute may be his vision, and though some cloud of dust might announce the approach of a flying auto-mcbile, the demon is sure either to wreck his vehicle or cause a runaway with possibly fatal result. The auto on the country road is a rampant nuisance. What is the remedy? It is presumed that' this new mode of transportation and transit has its rights. It may be a modern benefit and in time displace the horse. That intelligent animal, generally mere sensible than the average honker, may have to become accustomed to the snorting and whlz-z'rg of the demons.

During threshing time the moving of the big machine often scares horses, but these threshers are few; their location at any one time is known; aimers desert the road when they are moved to the next farm. The auto drives in from anywhere and at reckless speed, and the lives of families behind the jogging horse are endangered. Mutuality of regard for the safety of the occupants of the carriage and the auto would obviate much, but the chauffeur is not often educated to the highest conception of social life the use of your owa so as not to injure not kegs Postmarks, the high chili "Mother, mother, mother!" voices caHiing, wonder," eh? Oh, feed him General Wood is coming o'er to return "It -is to thistles. to Cuba. Before he arrives quiet will come and he can resume the game of jal allai.

Rarely has so attenuated an issue been anxiously magnified by the distressed Republicans, not only in this State, but in others, as the Bryan tentative proposition of governmental ownership. Mr. has explained that he does not contend for its immediate trial, nor does he support it at all except as a heroic remedy when the present rate regulation law may fail of its purpose. But the Republicans, whose souls are possessed In anguish and agony, in arranged accord persist In foisting the question upon the Democracy. Even so reputable a paper as the New York "Tribune" thinks that Mr.

Bryan, if elected, would force the subject. How far? Upon Congress, possibly, like Mr. Roosevelt forced some Democratic measures upon Congress, and with the aid of Democrats, and Republicans not daring to brook his displeasure, he had some enacted. But why? Because the people stood back of the Democratic Ideas and Mr. Roosevelt, their belated exponent and borrower.

Whenever the people demand governmental ownership of railways it will come and never before, Mr. Bryan elected or not, and a Congress of his own kind, or not. Why insult the ordinary intelligence of people by talking of forcing things by a President, if the people are not behind pushing? Let's eliminate the tommyrot and pettifogging from the campaign. "He couldn't stay awake for you; he had to go to bed." Scribner's MagazUws, i i Game of Life. Life's a game of eo and hustle, life's a thing of rush and bustle.

Life's a play of brain and muscle, life't all jump and buzz and whirr; Life's a game at whose beginning all" the world is set a-spinning. That the very thought of winning lm Itse'f a splendid spur. Maidens wise and maidens witty. maidni beautiful and pretty, Painted women oh. the pity! always changing yet the same; Thing of low and high endeavor, thing of DUEh and pull forever.

Game for dolts and players clever, thing of love end glee and shame. Anarchists were after Fallleres, Stolypin and Witte, and all the other notables kept duelling. Heavy fighting reported at El Cano. Fat Falstaff must have his army in the bushes. They will have to hold the office open late to allow filing of the district attorney nomination papers.

It would be awful if Perdicarls should get abducted again with the fleet at The frenzied finance at the Harrisburg capjtol made the pink fall out of Torn Lawson's lapel, i We are still in suspense about whether old Grimes is dead or not. But he was a good old man. Diligent search reveals that Ned Stuart once made a trolley line pave a street. Then he rested on his laurels. and corpses.

But Circe advises Ulysses to lash himself to the mast as he passes the lovely island and to fill his sailors' cars with wax. You can find the bones and corpses strewn all over the political bank portions of Pennsylvania, and you might mistake the pirates and buccaneers that have scuttled the ship of state for the sea maidens. But how about their being "beautiful and However, the ban has been removed from discussion of another term and the Penrose gang have notified Mr. Roosevelt that he is theirs, or they are his, providing, etc. But, as the organ concludes.

"It is premature to discuss this subject in the large." We do not think Mr. Roosevelt will lash himself to the mast to avoid the Penrose plaintive wail. He would prefer to give battle The Cuban congress is quite willing that But it left Palma fight, and he would rather smoke a cigaret, Stuart says bossism is dead, him as a legacy. Eut who plays the game a-loving, lifting. helping, never shoving.

Laughing, singing, turtle-doving throush its jars and outs and ins. With a wife and littla laddie or vn lias ta call him daduie. We have a new lieutenant general about At the present rate the Republican or-every month now and still the roster of gans will have Brvan elected next No- to tnis criminal organization masquerading in the chip Doesn do so very badly, he's th wh.o txub wins. name of his party. eligibles is not exhausted- wember.

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