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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA. Immigrants Enslaved. The Italian immigrants and other la borers sent to the south and west by New York padrones are the victims of cruel treatment and repression is one of the statements made by License Commissioner John N. Pogart in the annual report of the work of his of fice, which he submitted to-day to Mayor McClellan. Mr. Bogart reported: "The Italian immigrants are too gen erally the victims of the padrone. It is characteristic of the Italian immi grant that he looks with suspicion on everybody but his own countryman, and in him he puts a confidence that is almost incredible. The padrone has practically instituted slave system among his countrymen. He hires the immigrants by the hundred to go out of the city to work on contracts and obtains from the employing corpora tion what is known as the commissary privileges; that is, he furnishes the workmen with food and lodging, de ducting the cost from their wages. As the padrone is the sole arbitrator of the cost of these necessaries, it can be imagined how much the ignorant im migrant obtains as the n U result of his labor. In recent cases brought to the attention of the commiss.oner of li censes it was shown that hundreds of Italian immigrants who believed they were going to Philadelphia or Pitts burg were really landed in the swamps of Florida and the wilds of North Car olina, where they were kept on rail road construction work under the sur veillance of armed guards until they became too sick to be of value, when they were turned loose to make their way back to New York as best they could.” Value of Services. ' It only remains to decide who shall determine the value of the individual’s service in industry. Shall it be de termined by public officials who have no direct interest in the matter, or shall it be left to the judgment of those who receive the service? As to which is the safer method, says an Atlantic writer, there can scarcely be a moment’s doubt. Granting all that may be said about the depravity of popular tastes and the whimsicalities of fashion, of the maltreatment of the genius and the prosperity of the time server, all this and more may be said about the insolence of office, and the arbitrariness and stupidity of public officials, elective as well as hereditary. Obviously, no one is in so good a po sition to appraise the value of a serv ice as the one who is to receive it. His judgment or his taste may be perverted, but the same is equally likely in the case of any functionary to w-hom it may be entrusted. If the individual is to be left free to pursue his own interest in the way of per forming service, it seems to follow necessarily that he must also be left free to pursue his own interest in the way of securing the services of others. “Shape” Bars from Job. Shape counts for more than scientific knowledge as a qualification with the civil service commission, according to the assertions of Miss Dana L. May, a comely miss from Mulligan. Miss May is in Washington camping on the trail of the commissione-s. She is a graduate of Ann Arbor high school and the state normal school at Ypsi lanti, Mich. She brings documentary proof to show that on her mental ex amination she made a string of 100s in every branch except two or three. The result of her physical examination was a disappointment, anl when she sought explanation she was informed, she says, that she was net tall enough in proportion to her width. Miss May confesses she is in tho ‘ short and stout” class. “If I were a society miss with a wealthy father 1 suppose I would be called ‘petite,’ ” said she. (‘‘As it is I am short and stout.” 1 While John D. Rockefeller is enjoy ing life abroad the manager of his ’huge estate in the Pocaiuico hills is paying 25 cents each fcr all snakes killed on the property. This disburse ment is at the request of Rockefeller, .who is mortally afraid of snakes. They 'abound in the Buttermilk hill section and the oil king never sets foot on the ground there, always having a car riage. He also offers two dollars for every dog killed on the estate, though he had some difficulty with neighbors on this account. His offer for the ex termination of snake3 has, however, been welcomed by everybody in the neighborhood. It would not be advisable for the average man to follow the example of Gabriele D’Annunzio in the matter of traveling outfit Recently on a Jour ney D'Annunzio took 14 trunks and an Italian newspaper had the enterprise to make an inventory of their com mts with the following result in part: Seventy-two shirts, 144 pairs of plain socks, 24 pairs of silk socks, 48 pairs of day gloves, 24 pairs of evening gloves, eight silk mufflers, eight violet umbrellas, ten green parasols, 20 dozen handkerchiefs and 100 colored cravats. Joe Tung Lee, a Chinese junior in New York university, took second prize at an "oratorical contest” there. A young Jerseyman named Limonze took first; he Is a licensed Methodist preacher and is working his way through. 1 ————— Judge McVey of the district court at Des Moines Las ruled that a man who smoker cigarettes is not a fit person to bare the care and custody of a child. Some of these district judges know what’s what LOVE, HOPE AND WORK How Lina Cavalieri, “Most Beautiful Woman of Europe/’ Has Won Her Way to Fame and Fortune by Hard Work. IS AIDED BY HER SISTER’S DEVOTION Love Affair with Prince Alexander Baratinski the Begin ning of Resolve to Give Up Easy Life and Fit Herself for the Trying Roles Written by the Most Fa mous Masters of Music--Now the Idol of Adoring Paris. Paris.—That the most heautitui woman of Europe,” may be discontent ed with her job is shown by the ex traordinary case of Lina Cavalieri. As a music hall star of the first magnitude she was flattered and feted. She had but to show her beautiful per son and warble a few ditties to earn heavy money. The world had prac tically told her that her loveliness was all-sufficient without talent. • Lina Cavalieri tossed aside the bril liant sinecure and plodded the hard road leading to grand opera. When Parisians learned it they shrugged at the unpractical choice and as good as forgot her. Now she has just given them a might}’ jolt by coming back as a grand opera star, with a rumored engagement at the Paris opera itself; and furthermore she has just bought a splendid mansion in the Avenue de Messine. But why she grew discon tented with being “the most beautiful woman of Europe,” and how she threw up the music hall sinecure on the off chance of succeeding in grand opera remains a secret. The secret spring of Lina's change of base began with a great hope, con tinued through a great despair and ended in a great devotion. The hope and the despair were those of worldly love. But the devotion was that of a sister. Nothing could be more striking than the contrast between the lives chosen by the two girls. When their widowed mother died ill Rome in 1889 Ada was 15 years of age and Lina 17. As there were no relatives and the property was small, friends put them in a convent school of aristocratic connections, whose side specialty was the edu siderable Russian house and a young inan about Paris. Prince Alexander came to have im mense admiration for the talent, the voice, the beauty and the goodness of the girl. “You must cultivate that voice,” he told her. "You are wasting yourseit on the music hall stage, which is not worthy of you. Take up opera!” he advised her. On Road to Grand Opera. Like the camel that is being loaded, Lina groaned in spirit. Like the I camel, she was slow in getting started. I But, still like that reliable creature, ; once started, she kept going. In 1896-7 | the music halls saw no more of Lina ; Cavalieri: and it became known that 1 she was diligently cultivating her voice under Mine. Mariani-Masi. Three years passed in work and love and hope. Then Lina's chance came in 1900, when she was allowed to make her debut at no less a musical center | than the Theater Royal of Lisbon as Nedda in “Pagliacci.” Unhappily, the Lisbon public is a hard one. When it pays for grand opera it insists on having something near perfection. The debutante was young, exceedingly lovely, with a sweet voice; but she showed inexperi ence. Did she not aiso display nerv ousness due to emotion over some lov ers’ misunderstanding? One would prefer to think so—for the judging of Prince Alexander! The first night the Lisbon public made no sign. The second night it simply chased the whole company from the stage of the Theater Royal. Alas for work, for hope, for love! There was riot in front of the curtain \ThpPKWC£ W/tS pevoT^D rove# //£/? D£Bl/r/.VC/MM QPfM tm /TM//M M/lMPf cation of poor girls of good family for governesses and companions. Has World at Her Feet. On account of her age, Lina’s time in the school was short. Once in the world, it did not take her long to de cide against the teaching career. Be sides her beautiful person, she had a pretty voice; and even had the voice been less her first appearance on the music hall stage left no doubt as to the kind of success she might expect. It was at this time that Lina Cavalierl gave her friendship to Prince Alexan der Baratinski, second son of a con and panic and recriminations behind it, and in a row that would not have been out of place in a Latin quarter cafe Lina Cavalieri and Alexander Baratin ski spoke their parting words. We know no more than this. Was it one of love's hateful treasons? Was it desertion in the hour of need? The girl had worked and slaved to please him. The world would have liked to see him stand manfully by her in her hour of failure. That Lina has never accused him proves nothing. She may have been too proud—or she may have been in the wrong. And, note, that Baratinsld never defended himself proves nothing. He may have been too chivalrous or ho may have had no excuse. Barntinskl fled to his yacht. Simply that. Cavalierl moved with dignity to the railway station. On her lonely trip from Lisbon to Paris by the Sud Ex press, accompanied only by a faithful maid, the company disbanded—who knows what hitter thoughts may have been hers? Ah, work that had all gone for nothing! Henlly, 1 know of no more pathetic figure than that of the disabused and lonely girl returning to Paris. A few weeks later in Paris she learned that Prince Alexander had al lowed his Paris apartment to be sold out by the sheriff. The young folks never met again. Prince Alexander shortly afterward married the young Princess Yourievski, morganatic daughter of the deceased Czar Alexan der II., living with her mother in high Parisian society. And Lina Cavalieri , remained "the most beautiful woman of Europe!” lime. Mariani-llasi she began to hope And when at last Lina was to make hei debut in grand opera at Lisbon she was waiting anxiously to learn the re sult. When she learned the pitiful result Ada Cavalieri took a great decision. Quitting her place at Genoa she hurried to Paris. She settled down beside her wound ed and reckless sister. Did she try to comfort her? How could the born old maid comfort her? But it is certain that the frigid Ada wrestled with th< fiery Lina seven days—and triumphed! Groaning in spirit like the camel, Lina again renounced the easy life and money of the music halls. Again she took up the burden of grand opera. Love, with great shining eyes, no long er beckoned her. But on and on she bore the burden, with her sister always by her. How she finally succeeded is well known. In 1901 she was singing the principal part of Mimi in Puccini's “Vie de Boheme’’ at no less an opera house than the San Carlo of Naples. Next she secured a brilliant engagement for an entire season at the Imperial theater of Warsaw—singing Violetta in “Trav iata,” Marguerite in “Faust,” Mimi in "Vie de Boheme”—and taking fine re venge on the cruel Lisbon public by an overwhelming triumph as Nedda. — 1 ■■ pit-——- ' ■—, y\—i Am/wA/ow# (-MP, Here the devoted sister intervened with force front her humble empioy : ment at Genoa. Too Beautiful for Governess. On leaving the Roman convent school three years after her elder sis 1 ter had quitted it, Ada Cavalieri (to 1 give her the family name adopted and j made famous by the other) had to face the same hard proposition that con ' fronted Lina. She was quite as beautiful as Lina. Indeed—as you shall learn, if you have not already heard it—the sisters d*ok so much alike that photographs, of one have been mistaken for the other. Also, she had a voice. Yet she never hesitated. She had been educated for , a governess. It was correct and hon orable to be a governess. And a gov ! erness she would be. Even after she had lost her first three places by a strange and unique fault she never wavered. Surely, it was a unique fault. ‘ This young girl is too beautiful to be a governess,” wrote her first em ployer to the superioress of the school as she returned her. ‘'Her conduct has been irreproachable. She is goodness itself, intelligent, patient and with a talent for teaching. Yet I will not keep her. Her presence cannot but prove a danger in a household.” At last a good and generous lady— beautiful enough herself not to be jeal ous of another's beauty—took the per secuted Signorina Ada as teacher for her two small children. I may not give her name; she was the wife of a foreign consul. Ada Cavalieri had watched her bril liant sister's triumphs with uneasy wonderment that grew to terror. She had fought with Lina lo give up the music hail career. She had never ceased bombarding her with letters of expostulation. Later on she compro mised. Urged Sister Onward. “If you will not give up the stage, be a real artiste!” was her final appeal. When Lina had begun studying with Succeeding years confirmed this suc cess, and artistic and social satisfac tions of grand opera ceased to cost her anything financially. Or. the contrary, she had never done so well in the halls. At the Theater of Ravenna, at the Grand Theater of Palermo, at the Opera of St. Petersburg, and notably at the ultra-artistic Casino-Theater at Monte Carlo she has had repeated en gagements. In Russia she is all the rage. Her own country of Italy has taken her to its heart. And she has bought a mansion in the Avenue de Mecsine for her Paris resi dence! During her present summer vacation she will furnish it herselt—a work of peaceful satisfaction. Beautiful Old Maid. It is a quiet street and rich—the Avenue de Messine. It is a short street of only 34 numbers, running from the statue of William Shake speare in the little square of the Boule vard Haussmann to the delightful Parc Monceau, surrounded by its palaces. It is a street of the newly rich, per haps: few great titied families live in it. But those who inhabit it are snug and at peace with the world. Well, among all, there will be none more snug than a most glorious old maid. You know who it is. There can be but one such—“the most beautiful old maid in the world!” In her own way she is happy. Is it not strange Here is beauty gone to waste, you will say. Well, judge for yourself. Some time ago the somber sister had a skittish moment. It in cited her to prove her equal beauty. How she dressed in one of Lina’s gowns and posed to one of the first Paris photographers as her famous sis ter is a tale that has been more than once told. For a time the counterfeit present ments circulated in commerce, being practically undistinguishable from pho tographs of Lina Cavalieri. Nowaday.* they scarcely exist. She Pare of the “(three W&” in Hiuhent lEimratum By WILLIAM H. MAXWELL. Superintendent of New York City Schools. HE public schools have been a good deal criticised for what is said to be a neglect of the “Three R's’’ and the tendency to special courses. As a matter of fact, the so-called “Three R's” have probably never been more carefully taught than now. I know that there are many people who would return to the barren instruction of 60 years ago, despite modern educational methods. It is said that children to-day do not spell and cipher as well as those of half a century ago, and great has been the lamentation over the change. But the facts are quite different. It is not generally known that actual tests have been made by submitting the examination questions of 60 years ago to the children of to-day in similar grades. In the test made in Springfield Mass., it was found that whereas in 1846 there 40^ per cent, jwho spelled in the test correctly, in 1905 there was 51 per cent. In arithmetic the contrast was even more remarkable. Sixty years ago 29 per cent, of the class had solved the problems correctly, while in 1906 65 per cent, were correct. So much for Springfield. The tests made in Brooklyn, N. Y., were even more striking. The questions were given to boys and girls in the eighth year of the elementary schools, where the children were much younger than in the tests made in 1846. The percentage of cor rect answers at that time had been 29, while in Brooklyn it was 71 per cent. In the arithmetical tests in 1846 the percentage of pupils who received 70 per cent, or more was 17, while in Brooklyn it was 35. Six ty years ago more than two per cent, missed every word and more than ten per cent, spelled but one word correctly. In the Brooklyn test there was not a pupil who missed every word nor one who spelled but one word correctly. Again, in the test in 1846 some 27 per cent, missed 17 words or more, while in the Brooklyn test but a trifle more than one per cent, spelled so badly. The figures speak for themselves. Very positive conclusions may be drawn from these figures. In stead of neglecting the three R’s, it will be seen that our pupils are twice as proficient as were the children of 60 years ago, for all their oldtime brain tiring and uninteresting drill. Meanwhile our modern course has been extended to include execution and expression in im proving those attainments that depend chiefly on judgment and mem ory. The acquisition of skill in any intellectual or bodily function de velops a reserve of intellectual power to be drawn upon when occasion requires. The work is becoming less theoretical and more practical along all lines. - - Girl Eorsebreaker. 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