THE MONITOR
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ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE $
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I! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged £
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!! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the |
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! erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person •{.
|; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
NEIGHBORLINESS
TVEIGHBORLINESS is always a most
' valuable asset for any individual.
Man is a social being and he who
thinks he can get along without his
fellowman has made a great mistake.
That “no man liveth unto himself and
no man dieth unto himself”, is not
merely a commonplace of Holy Scirp
ture but the statement of a social
fact. Neighborliness and friendliness
which are virtually words of the same
meaning, or synonymous, to express
it in one word, is the acknowledge
ment of this mutual relationship of
depedence of one upon another. Neigh
bor, as you doubtless know, means one
who dwells near or nigh another. Its
derivation is quite significant ^pd
throws a flood of light upon primitive
life and man's association with the
tilling of the ground. Neih, near;
gebhur, husbandman or tiller of the
soil. Hence my near husbandman or
tiller of the ground. My fellowtoiler,
if you please, who like myself is try
ing to earn his living by honest toil,
therefore under the same law of labor
aB myself, subjected, primarily to like
conditions. The root idea is a near
fellow tiller of the soil, implying mu
tual helpfullness between toiler and
toiler. Complexity of modern life and
the diversity of occupations do not
alter this primal duty of mutual help
fulness. While neighborliness applies
first to those who live near one, it is
very plain that it should not be lim
ited to those. Friendliness and neigh
borliness are traits of character which
it is well to cultivate and encourage.
SCHOOL DAYS AGAIN
TVEXT WEEK the public schools of
our city and state and throughout
the land will be reopening their doors
to receive the vast army of American
boys and girls whose great privilege
it is to have most excellent opportuni
ties of receiving an education. Happy
indeed should the people be who are
in such a state. The present genera
tion does not realize what wonderful
advantages are theirs as compared
with those a few generations ago.
We of the West and North have wotf
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derful opportunities. This is pre
eminently true of Nebraska, where not
only the most modern and up-to-date
buildings are provided, but school
books are provided free for the chil
dren. There is therefore no excuse
for ignorance. Moreover education in
this state is compulsory. Parents are
compelled to send their children to
school. The children of eur group
here are taking advantage of these
opportunities. The Monitor would
suggest hearty co-operation upon the
part of parents with their children’s
teachers. They should visit the
school, learn how their children
are doing, and encourage them to
do their best. We hope that our boys
and girls will be filled with laudable
ambition to be the best in their re
spective classes, letting none exceed
them in cleanliness, neatness, conduct
or scholarship. School days are here.
Make good use of them. They will
pass all too soon.
ACUTE INDIGESTION
rJ'HE FREQUENCY with which death
occurs among the American peo
ple from acute indigestion shows that
proper food and proper methods of
eating are indespensible to good
health. There is a great deal of care
lessness in this matter among our
group. As a rule we are great eaters.
We love to eat. Instead of eating to
live many apparently live to eat. Eat
ing rich food irregularly and at all
hours is responsible for Impaired in
digestion which frequently results m
sudden death. One should be careful
as to the quality, kind and quantity of
food he eats. Acute indigestion we
are informed by a successful physi
cian claims_many victims.
GENTLEMEN NOT BULLIES
QMAHA’s police officers have the
reputation of being considerate
and gentlemanly men, as a class.
There are apparently, however, a few
sluggers on the force who should re
ceive attention. Police officers should
be gentlemen, not bullies and slug
gers.
IToOTIOTEsTri
AFRICAN HISTORY |
(By the Hamitic League)
HANNIBAL
Hannibal was the son of Mailcar of
Carthage, and a cullud buddy who
traced his ancestry back to Ilido, the
little coffee brown beauty who made
her getaway from Phonecia and built
herself a bungalow on the site of the
future Carthage.
At the time Hannibal was bom,
Carthage was handling the trade of
the world and Rome wanted to break
up her picnic. His dad, Hamilcar,
fought Rome to a standstill and when
the kid was only knee high to a duck,
dad made him swear never to stop
fighting Rome until the latter was
non est.
And Hannibal sure did try it. He
had Rome so nervous that she went
into hysterics every time somebody
started to utter a word that started
with the letter H.
Several times Hannibal started
with armies to go after Rome, but
fortune was kind of hard on him. But
the last time he got his bunch to^
gether, he almost made a go of it.
He carried his army through Spain
and over the Alps. Hannibal was the
first bird who ever earned an army
across the Alps without flying. Na
poleon did it centuries after, but the
cullud lad was first.
Finally the army reached the Val
ley of the Po and gazed on Rome. It
was then that his judgement took a
scoot and never scooted back. In
stead of jumping on Rome as soon as
he arrived and had her scared stiff,
his army hung around hobnobbing
with the country folks and eating
chicken dinners.
If he had whipped Rome imme
diately, the history of the world
would have been changed, but evi
dently history didn’t want any
change. Hasdrubal, Hannibal’s broth
er, wandered Romeward with a small
army and got captured. Then the Ro
mans cut off his head and tossed it
into Hannibal’s camp.
When the great chocolate colored
soldier saw the head of his brother,
he sort of lost interest in the fight
and it wasn’t long before he beat it
back to Carthage.
Rome followed and offered a zil
lion beans for . anybody who would
bring Hannibal in alive, but his sol
i diers stuck. When Rome finally cor
nered him and he found out that he
couldn’t get away, he killed himself
and sent Rome a note of regret that
he wasn’t able to knock her block off.
(Next week, Antar of Arabia).
PEOPLES' DRUG STOKE
MOVES INTO OWN BUILDING
The Peoples’ Drug store which has
been located on South Fourteenth
street for several years haa moved into
Its own building at Twenty-fourth and
Erskine street which has been re
modeled and enlarged. An addition
has been built on Erskine street which
is occupied by the shining parlor and
newsstand of Frank Douglas, formerly
located in the front of the building
on the corner. The Peoples’ Drug
store has beautiful and commodious
quarters handsomely fitted up. The
formal opening will be held in about
ten days.
The Monitor notes with pleasure the
improved lighting on North Twenty
fourth street. Keep up the good work.
“Do the day’s work. If it be to
protect the rights of the weak, who
ever objects, do it.”—Coolidge.
Don't BORROW your neighbor’s
Monitor, become a subscriber your
self or buy one at the newsstand.
Nebraska Civil Rights Bill
Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights.
Enacted in 1898.
Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall
be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan
tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances,
barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the
conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every
person.
Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who
shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for
reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the
accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the
foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each
offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than
, twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs
of the prosecution.
“The original act was held valid as to dtisens; barber shops can not l
discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State,
26 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 688.”
”A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with re
freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other rea^n **»»»
that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting
a table in smnre private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich.
868; N. W. 718."
sfPSY DANCES WORTH WHILE
teally Interesting, According tb
Trsvelbr In Qrsnada—Women Ex
pert With the Castanets.
It was Interesting going to see thb
gypsy dances while in Granada. Rain
..ad caused the bullfight to be post
poned, so we drove in a horse cab
out to the suburb where the tzlganes
ive in their caves carved in the rocky
iiliside. You get a guide and agree
o pay the gypsies 50 pesetas. There
are about eight women who dance
mil two men who play gultara.
Some of the women dance well, bet
ter than most stage dancers, and all
are experts at rattling the castanets,
in the low-vaulted cave the clacking
■ t eight pairs of castanets produces an
overpowering rhythm that penetrate#
and pervades one’s whole conscloub
□ess, bringing realization of the
-l range, vivid, restless, colorful gen
ius of the ancient gypsy race.
ltut when a number Is finished and
the dancers stop to rest they are
merely gypsies again. They look at
their guests Inquiringly and make
gestures of drinking. "They want
you to buy them a bottle of wine,’’
the guide explains. So you order a
bottle sent In from the little bar next
door (which Is doubtless under the
same management). Soon, however,
they want another bottle. (£ut yon
tell the guide that you have come to
-ee them dance, not drink. He ex
plains It to the gypsies, and they
laugh and go on with the dancing.
When the show Is over they want
to tell your fortune, and then all the
neighboring gypsies flock In, carry
ing their babies In their arms. Each
baby wants a penny. When you run
out of penitles they will accept dg
arets.—Chicago Evening Post.
AWARDED HIM ROYAL HONORS
American Visitor in Europe Mistaken
ly Accorded Deference That Is
Reserved for Rulers.
A visitor to one of the hotels at
Carlsbad tells the story of a man to
whom the servants and the proprietor
paid the most profound attention. He
was royally treated, rather to the
neglect of the rest of the guest“.
Every time he came out of the hotel
door a strip of green carpet would be
rolled down In front of him and the
attendants would take off their caps
ard bow In the most deferential and
obsequious manner. Neither the visitor
thus so strangely honored nor the
other guests could make out what this
deference meant.
At last some one looked In the
printed register. There was the entry:
“James the 1st. king of Buffalo, N.
Y."
It was the native printer’s render
tug of the American's name—James
I. King, Buffalo, N. Y.—Kansas City
Star.
Explaining Mississippi’* Flow.
Motion “up” or “down" properly de
lined, refers to movements against the
attraction of gravity or to those act
ing with It. Water acted upon by
gravity alone always flows down hill
and the Mississippi river, which rises
at a point about 1,500 feet above the
level of the sea. Is not an exception
to the rule. The statement that the
Mississippi flows up hill Is based on
the Idea that “up” Is always from the
center of the earth and “down" to
ward It If these were the only mean
ings of the words then It might be
said that the Mississippi river flow*
up hill, for the polar radius of the
earth Is over twelve miles shorter than
the equatorial radius and as the Mis
sissippi river extends over 18 degree*
of latitude, Its proper proportion of
this difference amounts to more than
four miles, the river's sourc4 being
that much nearer the center of the
earth than Its mouth.
Why He Selected Motto.
A man walked intq-a sign-palntlng
establishment and asked: “Can you
fix up a sort of placard or house mot
to for me?"
“Certainly,” said the painter.
“I'ut a border around It and beauti
fy It a little?"
“We can do all that,” the proprietor
assured him.
“Make it as pretty as you like."
“What Is the wording to be?”
“It’s a quotation from Shukespeare.
You remember Puck says: “I’ll put a
girdle around the earth In forty min
utes.’ ”
Seeing that the sign painter looked
puzzled, he added: “I want it as a
gentle reminder to place on my wife’s
dressing table.”
Then He Kicked Himeelf.
Last year I moved from my farm to
another farm five miles south of It,
writes a correspondent. As the roads
were bad, I left my cur until the road
dried. One evening my son took me to
the place where I left the car, and
then came home. It was dark when I
went out to get the car. The man
who had my farm and I tried to crank
the car, but weren’t successful. Then
we tied It on behind his car and
[lulled It for a long distance. As we
found It Impossible to start It, I
walked home. The next morning I
went buck to locate the trouble. I
found I did not have the switch turned
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Power of Custom.
"You have succeeded in remaining
In ofllce a great many years; you must
have pleased some folks."
“I don’t know us I always pleased
them,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I
just kind of got to be a habit with
them."
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TRAITOR TO IIS OWN KIND
Frigate Bird la Wall Described When
it le Called a Feathered Villain,
Saya Writer.
The frigate bird of the South sea la
a thief and a traitor. Figuratively
speaking, he flies prettjt low. He
robs the poor sea gulls of their flsh,
and, not content with doing that, he
lures them and many other birds Into
the hands of the natives. The greatest
ambition of a native of Nauru island,
says a writer In the Bulletin of the
Fan-Amerlcan Union, is to own more
frigate birds than anyone else in his
village. Nauru, by the way, is a
mere dot of land between the Marshall
and the Solomon islands. It hus a na
tive population of some two thou
sand persons.
Frigate birds, uninteresting and al
ways apparently asleep on the roost,
are capable of almost human cunning
when trained as decoys to capture
other birds. On festival days in
Nauru whole villages meet to contest
the supremacy of their decoy birds.
The king of the Island presides over
the tournament.
Sometimes when the decoys are set
free not a wild bird can be seen or
heard. Up soar the decoys until lost
to sight. Then presently the screums
of wild birds rend the air, und Hocks
of them appear and In the company of
the decoys approach the roosts that
the natives have built for them. Soon,
however, the wild birds become sus
picious and try to soar away. Then
the real labor begins. With open bills
and widespread wings the frigate
birds attack their victims, bar their
way, head them oft and circle round
and above them until they have driven
them, bullied and exhausted, to the
roosts.
At the end of the tournament a
count Is made, and the village und the
villager with the largest number of
captive birds to their credit are public
ly praised by the king. Thereupon
feasting and dancing begin.
THANKS IN WRONG QUARTER
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Llttl* Marie Gave Altogether Undue
Credit to the Dignified Head
of the Flock.
A nursery governess tells of two
children, once In her care, who never
forgot to be polite.
An amusing feature of their walks
was Willie’s trouble with his over
shoes. They were of a size out of all
proportion to his feet, and hampered
his movements greatly. He was con
tinually taking headers, but wus usu
ally laughing when the governess
picked him up. Then the little fellow
would carefully brush the snow from
the bottom of her skirt with his red
mittens.
Marie, as well as Willie, showed the
Instinctive courtesy of a kind nature.
She had Impressed on her the propri
ety of thanking everyone who did her
a kindness, and Marie always tried to
comply. They had on one occasion
talked of the various farm animals,
and of how much we owed to them.
At dinner Marie looked at her egg for
some moments without eating It, and
then slipped quietly from her chair.
"Where are you going?’’ she was
asked.
"I am going to thank Mr. Booster
for laying me this nice egg," ex
plained Marie.—Exchange.
Increases Perfume of Flowers.
A process, the Invention of M. Dan
iel, professor of botany at Itennes, by
which the perfume of flowers Is great
ly Increased, has been explained be
fore the Academie des Sciences in
Paris. By taking twov plants of
the same species and grafting one
on the other—notably a Wormwood
on a chrysanthemum—he found not
only that the grafted wormwood de
veloped remarkably, but its flower
gave forth a perfume much more pow
erful than that of the original plant.
Moreover the chrysanthemum had giv
en to the wormwood flower something
of its own perfume. The professor
collected the seeds of the grafted
wormwood and the following year ob
tained from them some ftne plants.
They had this peculiar feature—that
while the flowers of some of the plants
emitted a perfume similar to those of
the original graft, others were abso
lutely without odor.
Ravages of Man-Eater*.
India Is not the only country afflicted
with the man-eater. In Uganda In one
year lions killed as many as 22 Euro
peans, 12 Hindus and 107 natives
while employed In the construction of
a railway. These figures do not In
clude such natives as were not In the
employment of the railway; a local
administrator estimated the loss of
life in their case at something over
500.
In a single year the lions of
Rhodesia are reported to have claimed
110 victims; those of West Portuguese
Africa accounted for more than 200
people, Including three European
hunters.
Those Fast Drivers.
The road being uurrow and danger
ous, the guest was overjoyed to find
his host a careful driver. As they
gingerly climbed a treacherous lncflne
another car shot by. The guest shiv
ered.
"How foolish that man wus to pass
us on this precipice.”
"Wasn’t he?"
"Why did he risk his life like that?"
“Just wanted to show us he hud a
fast car,” responded the careful driv
er. "Hut I'll show him.”
And he proceeded to step on it.
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