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ROC KEF ELLER'S QIFT
A great many people "will be sur
prised to learn that Chancellor An
drews of the Nebraska state univer
sity takes kindly to the offer to the
university o $100,000 made by John
D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil mag
nate. There are many people who have
not yet forgotten that in 189G Chan
cellor Andrews was at the head of a
university ov'er which, by reason of
his contributions, Mr. Rockefeller ex
erted undue influence. Mr. Andrews
undertook to entertain opinions of
his own and he was even bold enough
to express those opinions. They were
not agreeable to John D. Rockefeller
and Mr. Andrews soon found himself
out of a job.
It is to be hoped that the effort of
this trust magnate to lay his foul
hands upon the Nebraska state uni
versity will not succeed. That great.
Institution needs none of his ill-gotten
funds. The people of this Btate
very well know that any contribution
which John D. .Rockefeller would
make, would come out of the people's
..pocket, while among those who close
their eyes to the methods of the trust
magnate Mr. Rockefeller would be
building up an undeserved reputation
for' philanthropy.
Contributions such as Rockefeller
proposes to make Ho ' the Nebraska
university are not offered with a
really good motive. They do not-even
risetb the dignity of gifts to the con
science fund. They are made for the
purpose of creating, in the minds of
unthinking men, the notion that
there is really something great and
noble in men who on the one hand
corrupt the public service, dobauch
political parties and exact' at tho
hands of its official representatives
undue and unfair privileges undor the
law, while on tho other hand, in
seemingly generous sums and yet In
comparatively small amounts, they
contribute to educational institutions.
If at any time these men exper
ience a genuine awakening of con
science, let them use, not by the
thousands, but by the millions, their
ill-gotten wealth for the purpose of
erecting homes for the aged. In those
homes could be housed men and wo
men who by reason of tho greed, tho
avarice and tho wrong-doing of the
Rockefellers have been 'denied tho
privilege of living and working under
that equitable system whereby they"
could acquire a competency to protect
them In their declining years. Let
them erect homes for the children for
whose condition of orphanage they
have, in many instances, been re
sponsible. But let it not bo said that
the malign influence of the Rockefel
lers has been established in an insti
tution of learning supported by tho
taxpayers of a great and growing
state like Nebraska.
A plague upon your contributions,
Mr. Rockefeller. For her institutions
Nebraska wants none of them until
you are willing to offer them as a
contribution to the conscience fund
a fund to Which you and the other
trust magnates, of thiB day are large
ly indebted. Omaha '"World-Herald.
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JD'hnso
N ? S " "V I C T G R
v- A republican newspaper; comment
ing upon the Cleveland action, an
nounces, gravely thnt Tom L. Johnson
has succeeded in "cramming his. hum
bugs down the throats of the people,"
and also refers to the "fakir's evan
escent popularity." v
Without desiring to enter into any"
political argument or to discuss John
son's future, it seems to the News
that Jts contemporary ife unfair to the
Cleveland man. The "ttimbugs" that
the 'fearless Cleveland inayor has
crammed down the throats, of the,
people are the beliefs that it is un-
' tair for a; man with, $500,000' Woith of
-property to .pay taxes on one-tenth
that valuation,' while the man with
Z7Z77ryFKn.
ra $z,uuu nouse- pays taxes on two-
thirds, , and ' that . traction companies
have not tberight to charge a flve
cent.'faro when they can make a rea
sonable profit on a three-cent basis.
Briefly stated-, these are the "hum
bugs" .responsible for Johnson's
"eyanesjjenb-popularity." Other rea.
'sons are bis courage, Lis-trugged hon
esty, his b'usiness ability, and, what
is rar& s in, '.politics Jiis ..belief that
promises &?$" made to b6kept '
' Bui this talk 6t "humbug" is rot
on its"face?7'-There js not a man liv
,ing who fy "humbugging" could be
elected maybrthree times In a city
the size of Cleveland. The people are
ljbt $oeagy, as" all that. "Wheeling
News; ';,''' V. . . ' ,
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.WISDOM OF K E E P I N G , Y Q U N G
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shako It in a most enthusiastic man
ner. "Suddenly ho became grave and
Stared at the picture in a mystiflod
way. Ho looked and looked and then
peered around at the back of tho can
vas. He seemed horrified beyond ex
pression. " ;What Ib it?' I Inquired.
41 'You havo not put in my jade or
nament said ho in despair.
"I had painted his portrait full face,
and as tho Koreans have the stranga
habit of putting small buttons of gold,
silver, Jade or amber behind tho left
ear, these, of course, did not appear.
"My explanation did not satisfy
the prince, so I did a rapid sketch of
him in profile, bringing in tho Jade
ornament
"'That is all very well,' said he;
'but now where is tho other eye?' "
New York Press.
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Still young is description of the
'blessed condition w.hcndiie.ts.Tiead,Is
grey and one's neart green, it cnar
acterizes the , man whd Is younger
than his years. The wotld agGs rap
idly. As leaves ' slip from autumn
trees thus the years fall into the ash-
heap of yesterday. Weeed to know
how to grow old gracefully. Better,
we need to know the art of remaining
still young. Old, ago is 'worse than a
blunder; to bdrrbw an expression
from ' the great First Cdnsulr 4t Js, a
crime. No-man has a nioral right to'
growold, andjio woman tpermijLs her
self to do 'so without protest. rVThere
Is. of course, no reference .here to. age
as measured by the calculations the J
calendar. We . cannot remain young
) in years. The parent often endeav
ors to keep his children babies but al
ways fails. There is no fountain of
perpetual youth. Humanity must con
tinue to walk up the hill and then
walk down upon the other side. The
thought is not in this particular of
age. which days and months and de
ca'des bring. This' age may be youth.
Some go so far backward in feeling
and behavior as. they, go forward in
years that -flnaify ;they Btumble over
info seponlT childhood. , This is the
extreme. "The man who'is still young
4s r not childish, y He- merely keeps the
frost .out pf - hla 'heart. . He does not
permit rheumatism to attack his
spiritHWalteifjWUHanis, in Columbia
(Mo.) -Herald.
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Difficult to Please, r, .
A well known New York-artist?, who'
f has just returned from an extende'd'
i. journey In: the far; east:611s how, he
attemHreVTtb paint ' the portrait of a
'rtnimve"ptfhWItf K6reV" - "
Jj'fcor moTa" than.J'three hours the
'prinqe.sat.mottonleia ,and, without a
I "tola him at last, and he jumped up
llikp'achilaand ran over to see tho
Wont.- xllb UUllgUL waa uuuuuuucu,
and lie seized my hand and began to
Old Age in Denmark.
"In Denmark no respectable old
man or woman need ever becomo a
pauper; no respectable old man or
woman ever crosses the threshold of
a work house," writes Miss Edith Sel
lers In Tho Nineteenth Century and
After, London. "Should a man or a
woman who has completed his six
tieth year, find himself without tho
wherewithal on which to live, he ap
plies to tho local authorities not for
pauper relief, but for old-age relief;
and this, by the law of 1891, they are
bound to grant him, providing he can
provo no only that his destitution in
owing to no fault of his own, but that
he has led a decent life, has worked
hard and been thrifty; and that, dur
ing the ten previous years, he has
neither received a single penny as
poor-relief, nor been guilty of vag
rancy, nor of begging."
Sioux City Journal: In connection
with the recent merger decision it is
recalled that the Standard Oil con
cern, as at first organized, was de
clared an illegal combination.
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