Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, ... NEBRASKA.
Children and Stars.
«
Nature study, which has been trans
formed in a majority of cases into na
ture recreation, has extended to a
great variety of subjects, but bar
treated one important branch with
curious neglect Birds and butterflies
trees, flowers, mushrooms, ferns and
shells have their enthusiastic admlr
ers everywhere; but a question as to
the summer constellations, or tbi»
planets which are the morning and
evening stars of the month, reveals
the fact that 19 persons out of 20
can barely recognize the Milky Way
and the Great Dipper. Yet what a
door here stands open to the thought
ful mind! Night after night, over city
roofs, the great procession passes;
one need go but to the street or the
window to watch. What child whe
has been taken out into the whisper
ing darkness of a summer night or
the splendid silver beauty of a win
ter evening for a star talk has ever
forgotten it? The names may slip
away, perhaps, but something—e
sense of beauty, of mystery, of the
unspeakable wonder of the universe—
remains unforgetably. There have
been children with other star memo
Ties One of the prettiest pictures in
biography, remarks the Youth's Com
panion, is that of Lyman Beecher’s
children watching for the end of the
long Puritan Sabbath and the release
from constraint "when three stars
came out.” What friendly aspect the
early stars must have worn to them
all their lives, with the memory ol
their playtime signal! Nathaniel Bow
ditch, the mathematician, had othei
devices. His son says that the fa
ther's reward for good behavior was
to draw one of the constellations, in
dots of ink, upon the child’s hand
Happy children, so to learn the stars
in shining hours! Happy stars to be
so linked with radiant memories!
Doubtless the stars may be learned
from books or named from a pro
fessor’s chair, but the parent who
teaches his boy or girl even a little
of the beauty and the glory of the
heavens—who puts the sky into his
childhood—gives him a memory be
yond all price.
F~ Good-By to the Cowboys.
Land office officials tell us that the
young farmers of Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri and Illinois are do
ing most of the homeseeking these
days. Many of them have gont
through hard apprenticeship as “hired
men” and they are tired of working
for wages. They want to get land
of their own, and, what is more, they
can tell good land when they see it
They know the value of land that will
raise three crops of alfalfa and that
will turn ou£ enormous crops of al
most anything under the magic touch
of water. In many cases the man
who has lived for years in the far
west doesn't realize sharply enough
the remarkable capabilities of the
land. He is looking for a “snap”—
something that can be watered with
little expense. But the eastern farm
er is quick to see that almost any of
such productive land is a “snap,”
even if the question of water is going
to be troublesome for a year or two.
So it is the man from the middle west
who is settling up the Rocky Moun
tain states. In a few years, says
the Denver Republican, the care
less cowpunchers and sheep herders,
who missed their opportunities, will
be working for the man from the mid
dle west and wondering why Oppor
tunity passed them by for some one
else.
) Places for the Graduates.
About 40,000 young men and women
just graduated from the universities
and colleges of the country are now
confronted with the question, “What
are we to do in life? Quite apart
from the three old-time "learned pro
fessions” are new fields constantly be
ing opened by science and industrial
developments. It will one day be
found that scientific farming has at
tractions for the educated man and
country boys who have received a col
lege education will not all rush to the
cities as they do now. Homely advice
to the beginner, but advice approved
by the test of time, Bays the New
York Herald, is: Choose the occupa
tion for which you have a natural
bent, or if you cannot discover this
an occupation that at any rate is not
distasteful, and be prepared to win
your way by probity and hard work.
There is no other sure road to genu
ine success.
An English periodical, the Bystand
er, says-New York’s “Four Hundred”
is made up of people who lack refine
ment and adds that there is no such
thing as culture in America. How ou>
English cousins do love us—when they
can use us for their own profit.
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' King Edward has declined with
thanks an invitation to visit Canada
Is Edward to be numbered among
those people who are afraid thgt il
they take vacations their jobs will not
be there when they get back home?
The man who said the more be saw
of men the better he thought of dogs
must have been greatly pleased tc
read the story about the Newfound
land dog that swam out to where two
boys were drowning a day or two age
and, letting each of them take hold
of his collar on one side, swam with
them to shore, nearly perishing him
self before he accomplished it
i King Alfonso is a good deal of a pe
destrian. That is, he can walk Spaa
A FOOL FOR LOVE
By FRANCIS LYNDE
AUTHOR OF "THE GRAFTERS." BTC.
■ (Copyright, 1906, by J. P. Lipptnoott Co.)
(CHAPTER III.—Continued.
I “Why, my dear Virginia—the idea!
Tou don’t know in the least what you
re talking about. I have been read
ng in the papers about these right-of
way troubles, and they are perfectly
terrible. One report said they were
arming the laboring men, and another
said the militia might have to be called
out."
^ "Well, what of it?" said Virginia,
with ail the hardihood of youth and
unknowledge. “It’s something like a
burning building; one doesn’t want to
be hard-hearted and rejoice over other
people's misfortunes; but then, if it
has to burn, one would like to be
there to see."
Miss Bessie put a stray lock of the
flaxen hair up under its proper comb.
“I’m sure 1 prefer California and the
orange groves and peace,” she asserted.
"Don’t you, Cousin Billy?”
What Mr. Calvert would have replied
is no matter for this history, since at
this precise moment the rajah came
in, "coruscating,” as Virginia put it,
from his late encounter with the su
perintendent’s chief clerk.
“Give them the word to go, Jastrow,
and let’s get out of heah,” he com
manded. And when the secretary had
vanished the Rajah made his explana
tions to all and sundry. “I’ve been
obliged in a manneh to change ouh
itinerary. Anotheh company is trying
to fault us up in Qua’tz Creek canyon,
and I am in a meashuh compelled to
be on the ground. We shall be delayed
only a few> days, I hope; at the worst
only until the first snowstorm comes;
and, in the meantime, Califo'nia won’t
run away.”
Virginia linked arms with Bessie the
flaxen-haired when the wheels began
to turn.
"We are off,” she said. "Let’s go out
on the platform and see the last of
Denver.”
It was while they were clinging to
the hand-rail and looking back upon
the jumble of railway activities out of
which they had just emerged that the
Rosemary, gaining headway, overtook
another moving train running smooth
ly on a track parallel to that upon
which the private car was speeding. It
was the narrow-gauge mountain con
nection of the Utah line, and Winton
and Adams were on the rear platform
of the last car. So it chanced that the
four of them were presently waving
their adieux across the wind-blown in
terspace. In the midst of it, or rather
at the moment when the Rosemary,
gathering speed as the lighter of the
two trains, forged ahead, the Rajah
came out to light his cigar.
He took in the little tableau of the
rear platforms at a glance, and when
the slower train was left behind asked
a question of Virginia.
“Ah—wasn't one of those two the
young gentleman who called on you
yestehday afternoon, my deah?”
Virginia admitted it
"Could you faveh me with his
name?”
"He is Mr. Morton P. Adams, of Bos
ton.”
"Ah-h; and his friend—the young
gentleman who laid his hand to ouh
plow and put the engine on the track
last night?”
“He is Mr. Winton—a— an artist, I
believe; at least, that is what I gath
ered from what Mr. Adams said of
him.'' •
Mr. Somerville Darrah laughed, a
slow litle jaugh deep in his throat.
"Bless your innocent soul—he a pic
chuh-painteh? Not in a thousand
yeahs, my deah Virginia. He is a rail
road man, and a righ good one at that.
Faveh me with the name again; Win
teh, did you say?”
"No; Winton—Mr. John Winton.”
“D-d-devil!’ gritted the Rajah, smit
ing the hand-rail with his clenched list.
"Hah! I beg your pahdon, my deahs—
a meah slip of the tongue.” And then,
to the full as savagely, “By heaven, I
hope that train will fly the track and
ditch him before ever he comes within
ordering distance of the work in
Qua’fz Creek canyon!”
"Why, Uncle Somerville—how vin
dictive!” cried Virginia. "Who is he,
and what has he done?”
"He is Misteh John Wirton, as you
Informed me just now; one of the
brainiest constructing engineers in this
entiah country, and the hardest man in
this or any otheh country to down in
a right-of-way figbt—that’s who he is.
And it's not what he’s done, my deah
Virginia, it’s what he is going to do.
If I can’t get him killed up out of ouh
way,—” but here Mr. Darrah saw the
growing terror in two pairs of eyes,
and realizing that he was committing
himself before an unsympathetic au
dience, beat a hasty retreat to his
stronghold at the other end of the
Rosemary.
"Well!” said the flaxen-haired Bes
sie, catcheing her breath. But Vir
ginia laughed.
“I’m glad I’m not Mr. Winton,” she
said.
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CHAPTER IV.
Morning in the highest highlands of
the Rockies, a morning clear, cold and
tense, with a bell-iike quality in the
frosty air to make the cracking of a
snow-laden fir bough resound like a
pistol shot. For Denver and the dwell
ers on' the eastern plain the sun is an
hour high; but the hamlet mining
camp of Argentine, with its dovecote
railway station and two-pronged sid
ing, still lies in the steel blue depths
of the canyon shadow.
. In a scanty widening of the main
canyon a few hundred yards below the
station a graders’ camp of rude slab
shelters is turning out its horde of
wild-looking Italians; and on a
crooked spur track fronting the shan
ties blue wood smoke is curling lazily
upward from the kitchen car of a con
struction train.
All night long the Rosemary, drawn
by the speediest of mountain-climbing
locomotives, bad stormed onward and
upward from the valley, of the Grand,
through black defiles and around the
shrugged shoulders of the mighty
peaks to find a resting-place in the
white-robed dawn on the siding at Ar
gentine. The lightest of sleepers, Vir
ginia had awakened when the special
was passing through Carbonate; and
drawing the berth curtain she had lain
for hours watching the solemn proces
sion of cliffs and peaks wheeling in
stately and orderly array against the
inky background of sky. Now, in the
steel-blue dawn, she was—or thought
she was—the first member of the par
ty to dress and steal out upon the
railed platform to look abroad upon
the wondrous scene in the canyon.
But her reverie, trance-like in its
wordless enthusiasm, was presently
broken by a voice behind her—the
voice, namely, of Mr. Arthur Jastrow.
“What a howling wilderness, to be
sure, isn’t it ?” said the secretary,
twirling his eye-glasses by the cord
and looking, as he felt, interminably
bored.
Ino, indeed; anything but that,”
she retorted, warmly. “It is grander
than anything I ever imagined. I wish
there were a piano in the car. It
makes me fairly ache to set it in some
form of expression, and music is the
only form I know.”
“I’m glad it it doesn’t bore you,” he
rejoined, willing to agree with her for
the sake of prolonging the interview.
“But to me it is nothing more than a
dreary wilderness, as 1 say; a barren,
rock-ribbed gulch affording an indif
ferent right-of-way for two railroads.”
“For one,” she corrected, in a quick
upflash of loyalty for her kin.
The secretary shifted his gaze from
the mountains to the maiden and
smiled. She was exceedingly good to
look past the car and the dovecote sta
tion, shading her eyes to shut out the
snow-blink from the sun-fired peaks.
“Why, they are soldiers!’’ she ex
claimed. “At least, some of them have
guns on their shoulders. And see—t
they are forming in line!”
The secretary adjusted his eye-i
glasses.
“By Jove! you are right; they have
armed the track force! The new chief
of construction doesn’t mean to take
any chances of being shaken loose by
force. Here they come.”
The end of track of the new line
was diagonally across the creek from
the Rosemary's berth and a short
pistol shot farther down stream. But
to advance it to a point opposite the
private car, and to gain the altitude of
the high embankment directly across
from the station, the new line turned
short out of the main canyon at the
mouth of the intersecting gorge, de
scribing a long, U-shaped curve around
the head of the lateral ravine and
doubling back upon itself to reenter
the canyon proper at the higher ele
vation.
The curve which was the beginning
of this U-shaped loop was the morn
ing's scene of action, and the Utah
track layers, 200 strong, moved to the
front in orderly array, with armed
guards as lankers for the hand-car
load of railt which the men were push
ing up the grade.
Jastrow darted into the car, and a
moment later his place on the observa
tion platform was taken by a wrath
ful industry colonel fresh from his
dressing-room—so fresh, indeed, that
he was coatless, hatless, and collarless,
and with the dripping bath sponge
clutched like a missile to hurl at the
impudent invaders on the opposite side
of the canyon.
“Hah! wouldn’t wait until a man
could get into his clothes!” he rasped,
apostrophizing the Utah’s new chief
of construction. “Jastrow! Faveh me
instantly, seh! Hustle up to the camp
there and turn out the constable, town
marshal, or whatever he is. Tell him
I have a writ for him to serve. Run,
seh!”
The secretary appeared and disap
peared like a marionette when the
string has been jerked by a vigorous
hand, and Virginia smiled—this with
out prejudice to a very acute appre
ciation of the grave possibilities which
were preparing themselves. But hav
ing her share of the militant quality
READING THE WARRANT.
look upon—high-bred, queenly and
just now with the fine fire of enthu
siasm to quicken her pulses and to
send the rare flush to neck and cheek.
Jastrow, the cold-eyed, the business
automaton set to go off with a click at
Mr. Somerville Darrah’s touch, had
ambitions not automatic. Some day
he meant to put the world of business
under foot as a conqueror, standing
triumphant on the apex of that pyra
mid of success which the Mr. Somer
ville Darrahs were so successfully up
rearing. When that day should come,
there would need to be an establish
ment, a menage, a queen for the king
dom of success. Summing her up for
the hundredth time since the begin
ning of the westward flight, he thought
Miss Carteret would fill the require
ments passing well.
But this was a divagation, and he
pulled himself back to the askings of
the moment, agreeing with her again
without reference to his private con
victions.
‘‘For one, .1 should have said,” he
amended. “We mean to have it that
way, though an unprejudiced onlooker
might be foolish enough to say that
there is a pretty good present pros
pect of two.”
But Miss Carteret was in a contra
dictory rnobd. Moreover, she was a
woman, and the way to a woman’s
confidence does not lie through the
neutral country of easy compliance.
"If you won’t take the other side. I
will,” sh4 said. “There will be two.”
Jastrow acquiesced a second time.
“I shouldn't wonder. Our compet
itor’s road seems to be only a ques
tion of time—a very short time, judg
ing from the number of men turning
out in the track gang down yonder.”
Virginia leaned over the railing to
which made her uncle what he is, she
stood her ground.
“Aren't you afraid you will take cold,
Uncle Somerville?” she asked, archly;
and the Rajah came suddenly to a
sense of his incompleteness and went
in to finish his ablutions against the
opening of the battle actual.
At first. Virginia thought she would
follow him. When Mercury Jastrow
should return with the officer of the
law there would be trouble of some
sort, and the woman in her shrank
from the witnessing of it. But at the
same instant the blood of the fighting
Carterets asserted itself and she re
solved to stay.
"I wonder what uncle hopes to be
able to do?” she mused. “Will a little
town constable with a bit of signed
paper from some justice of the peace
be mighty enough to stop all that fu
rious activity over there? It’s more
than incredible.”
From that she fell to watching the
activity and the orderly purpose of it.
A length of steel, with men clustering
like bees upon it, would slide from its
place on the hand-car to fall with a
frosty clang on the cross ties. In
stantly the hammermen would pounce
upon it. One would fall upon hands
and knees to “sight" it into place; two
others would slide the squeaking track
gauge along its inner edge; a quar
tette, working like the component
parts of a faultless mechanism, would
tap the fixing spikes into the wood;
and then at a signal a dozen of the
heavy pointed hammers swung aloft
and a rhythmic volley of resounding
blows clamped the rail into perma
nence on its wooden bed.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
LINCOLN'S
"He that is slow to anger,” says the
proverb, “is better than the mighty,
and he that ruleth his spirit than be
that taketh a city.” Great as was his
self-control in other matters, nowhere
did Mr. Lincoln's slowness to anger
and nobility of spirit show itself more
than in his dealings with the generals
of the civil war. He had been elected
president. Congress had given him
power far exceeding that which any
president hajl ever exercised before.
As president he was also commander
in-chief of the army and navy of the
NOBILITY,
United States. By proclamation he
could call forth great armies; and he
could order those armies to go wher
ever he chose to send them; hut even
he had no power ’to make generals with
the genius and the training necessary
to lead them instantly to success. He
had to work with the materials at
hand, and one by one he tried the men
who teemed best fitted for the task,
giving each his fullest trust and every
aid in his power. They were as eager
for victory and as earnest of purpose
as himself. <
AN OLD PAINTER’S IDEAS.
The autumn season is coming more
and more to be recognized as a most
suitable time for housepainting. There
is no frost deep in the wood to make
trouble for even the best job of paint
ing, nnd the general seasoning of the
summer has put the wood into good
condition in every way. The weather,
moreover, is more likely to be settled
for the necessary length of time to
allow all the coats to thoroughly dry, a
very important precaution. An oldi
and successful painter said to the
writer the other day: “House owners
would get more for their money if they,
would allow their painters to take
more time, especially between coats.
Instead of allowing barely time for the
surface to get dry enough not to be
‘tacky,’ several days (weeks would
not be too much) should be allowed
so that the coat might set through
and through. It is inconvenient, of
course, but, if one would suffer this
slight inconvenience, it would add two
or three years to the life of the paint.”
All this Is assuming, of course, that
the paint used is the very best to
be had. The purest of white lead and
the purest of linseed oil unmixed with
any cheaper of the cheap mixtures,
often known as “White Lead,” and oil
which has been doctored with fish oil,
benzine, corn oil or other of the
adulterants known to the trade are
used, all the precautions of the skilled
painter are useless to prevent the
cracking and peeling which make
houses unsightly in a year or so and
therefore, make painting bills too fre
quent and costly. House owner
should have his painter bring the in
gredients to the premises separately,
white lead of some well known relia
ble brand and linseed oil of equal qual
ity and mix the paint just before ap
plying it. Painting need not be ex
pensive and unsatisfactory if the old
painter’s suggestions are followed.
NEAR DEATH THROUGH SNAKE
Sleeper Awoke to Find Monster Coiled
Around His Neck.
F. E. Feve, an employe of the
Northern Electric, had a thrilling ex
perience with a snake Tuesday morn
ing. Feve with two companions occu
pies a tent made out of gunny sacks
in the western portion of Oroville.
He was awakened by a feeling of
strangulation. He attempted to cry
out, but so tightly was his throat
bound that he could make no sound.
As he became fully awake he realized
that something must be done or he
would choke. He grabbed frantically
for his throat and his hand slipped
over the scales of a huge snake which
had coiled itself around bis neck. He
frantically pulled the coils loose, the
reptile resisting him and biting him
in the cheek.
His two companions, awakened by
the noise, came to Feve's rescue. The
two pulled the snake away and threw
it to the floor, where it glided away
while the men attended to Mr. Feve's
wound. The reptile was a gopher
dnake.—Redding Correspondence San
Francsco Call.
Convenient English.
“We become accustomed to a
phrase,” observed an educator at a
teachers’ convention, “but when we
introduce a new one along exactly
the same lines, it startles the hearer.
“A number of ladies were seated in
a hotel parlor, and one of them, com
menting on a woman who was stand
ing in the hallway, said:
“ ‘Mrs. Loraine seems unusually hap
py this morning.*
“ ‘Yes,’ answered a companion,
knowingly, the ladies of Newark gave
a tea in her honor yesterday. But
doesn't her husband look gloomy and
dejected?’
“ That is true.’ admitted the first
speaker. ‘I presume the gentlemen
of Newark gave a beer in his honor
last night.’ ”
Preach from Automobiles.
A novel method of preaching tb®
gospel was recently tried in France
with striking success. Pastor Delat
tre from Roame (Reformed church),
in company with Pastor Sainton, of
the Baptist church, in Paris, visited
with an automobile the departments
of Loire, Rhone, Alier, Saone et Loire,
within a radius of about 90 miles.
Pastor Delattre writes: “During near
ly two months, from our automobile,
we have been able to preach the
gospel on market places, from fair to
fair, distributing thousands of tracts
and selling no less than 2.600 copies
of the New Testament.”
AN OLD TIMER.
Has Had Experiences.
A woman who has used Postum
Food Coffee since it came upon the
market 8 years ago knows from ex
perience the necessity of using Pos
tum in place of coffee if one values
health and a steady brain.
She says: "At the time Postum was
first put on the market 1 was suffer
ing from nervous dyspepsia and my
physician had repeatedly told me not
to use tea or coffee. Finally I de
cided to take his advice and try
Postum, and got a sample and had it
carefully prepared, finding it deli
cious to the taste. So I continued
Its use and very soon its beneficial ef
fects convinced me of its value, for
I got well of my nervousness and dys
pepsia.
"My husband had been drinking cof
fee all his life until it had affected
his nerves terribly. I persuaded him
to shift to Postum and it was easy to
get him to make the change for the
Postum is delicious. It certainly
worked wonders for him.
“We soon learned that Postum does
not exhilarate or depress and does not
stimulate, but steadily and honestly
strengthens the nerves and the stom
ach. To make « long story short our
entire family have now used Postum
for eight years with completely sat
isfying results, as shown in our fine
condition of health and we have no
ticed a rather unexpected improve
ment in brain and nerve power."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Increased brain and nerve power al
ways follow the use of Postum in
place of coffee, sometimes in a very
marked manner.
Look in pkgs. for “The Road to
Wellvllle.”
Gossip from the Capital
GATHERED BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Interesting Chatter of Men and Events at Washington—Secretarj
Root’s Tour of South American Countries—Annual Hsusecleaa
ing at the White House—Other Things.
WASHINGTON.—The reception accorded Sec
retary of State Root at the Pan-American •
gress at Rio Janeiro and the cordiality exhibited
wherever he has landed in South America are
regarded as omens of success for his unprr* *•
dented tour. Never before has the premier f
this government undertaken a similar missmr
and it is unusual for such a high official of on
government personally to visit the capita.- f
other governments and by plain, frank inter
course endeavor to establish firmer re.ation# h<
tween great powers. Mr. Root has as the obje< .
of his South American tour the correction of a i
erroneous idea and prejudice that exists th#
against the United States.
The people of this country are virtually un
known in South America. The United State# h
no steamship connection with that section to
speak of and our trade cannot compare with ’hat
or Europe. Unfortunately, the type of Americans with which the u* ;n
Americans have become acquainted is largely that of the adventurer. A dis
like has grown up because of this and also because our language, eu.-' m
and ideas are all different from theirs. It is to correct this idea that M •
Root is visiting the Latin-American republics and also with the idea >f
strengthening the time-honored Monrce doctrine and perhaps to lay the
foundation for a still stronger bond between the nations of the Western Hem
isphere as against the encroachment, commercially and politically, of foreign
powers.
Mr. Root will call to the attention of these South American courr ri- •
the fact that from the time of their great wars for independence, the
States has protected the southern continent from political aggiession 1
will endeavor to show that it is to the advantage of these people to '
closer commercial union with the United States and that, when an unit
standing is effected, they will find American goods superior to those impor.i .
from Europe.
FROM THIS THE PRESIDENT ESCAPES.
The annua] house cleaning is now in progress
at the White House. It would require an expert
mathematician to figure out just how many
coats of paint, how many yards of plastering and
how much expenditure of money there have been
lavished upon this historic old building. Every
year the interior is gone over and every year the
outside is either painted or washed, so that the
glistening whiteness may be retained.
The decorations of the executive mansion
need careful attention always, and the paint and
enamel work has to be kept clean and free from
all marks and scratches. The multitude of pil
grims who annually visit this building is disposed
to be critical, and if any dirt or any defacement
of decorations or walls is discovered, there is
sure to be something ugly said about it. The
hard wood floors have to .be cared for whenever
a flaw is seen in their finish
rWHITCHtH^E ,
The ceiling and wood work of the East Room is being gone over and the
Green Room and Red Room have both been overhauled. A good deal of at
tention has to be given to the magnificent State dining-room. Minor repairs
are being made in the private dining-room and the columns in the corridor
are being refinished.
As the abode of the president, and as the place where the official fuuc
tions occur, an army of artisans is rquired every summer to overhaul it. Las;
year there were given three state dinners, five musicales. eight receptions and
one lecture, besides almost daily semi-official functions bv the president or
Mrs. Roosevelt.
STANFORD WHITE AND THE WHITE HOUSE.
The recent tragic death of Architect White,
who was shot by Harry K. Thaw, attracted un
usual attention in Washington because he was
of the firm of architects that made the plans for
the renovation of the old White House r „ the
construction of the executive office buildings.
There has always been a diversity of opinion as
to whether the expenditures, amounting to about
a quarter of a million dollars, in restoring the
White House to its original design, were justified.
In the opinion of those of artistic taste, it was
money well spent, although the general public does
not appreciate what was done. The original design
of the White House contemplated a terrace on
each side of the main building. This had never
been fully carried out, a huge conservatory on
the west, an ugly structure of glass, wood and
iron, taking the place of the terrace. This was
removed and the extensions on either side are
now in accordance with the original monel.
The executive office building is a very unattractive, homely structure,
although it did cost $68,000. There was method in the work of the architects
in producing this barn-like structure. For many years past congress has
been asked to provide a proper building for the president and his executive
force, where the business of his office could be transacted and where proper
salons and halls could be located in which important official functions, like
the signing of treaties, the reception, of foreign ambassadors and other affairs
of that sort could be conducted. Congress has never seen fit to appropriate
the money for such a building, and when the presidential offices were erected,
it was supposed that nothing more would be needed. These offices are so
ugly and excite so much contempt in the public eye and mind that the pres
sure is growing stronger every year to have a decent executive buildicg. one
that will comport with the dignity of the nation, erected.
THE NUMBER OF ANARCHISTS INCREASING.
Considerable alarm is felt in official circles
over the rapidly increasing number of anarchists
that are finding their way to the United States.
The immigration authorities are of the opinion
that unless something is done by treaty or other
wise, the United States will soon be overrun by
this undesirable class. In the naturalization law
recently passed, there is a restriction on giving
citizenship to anarchists and regulations are now
being formulated to make this effective. That,
however, does not prevent anarchists coining to
this country and preaching their doctrine. It is
a comparatively easy thing for this disorderly
element to obtain admission to this country, and
congress will be asked to consider more drastic
regulations regarding them.
An immigration official in discussing the
increase of immigrants of anarchistic tendencies
said the other day:
It would be impossible to say with any degree of accuracy how many
anarchists are in this country at this time. Without data as to their antece
dents, it is impossible as a general rule to spot them. The man with whom
you sat at dinner at your restaurant last evening may have been one. In a
word, there is no way now by which you can tell an anarchist unless there
is a falling out among the craft. We have no means of picking them out at
the ports and turning them back. Here comes a man down the plank who
gives a name that might fit any one of 100,000 ordinary persons. He fulfills
all the requirements of admission. He says he Is a tailor and in he comes.
That man may be one of the most noted anarchists, and yet we are absolutely
powerless to keep him out.”
The immigration officials believe that the United States government
should lose no time in making treaties with foreign nations, by which this
government will be fully informed as to the movements of anarchists. With
the liberal use of the cable, the United States could keep out many bomb
throwers who gain easy admittance under our present system.
ONE OF UNCLE SAM’S FAITHFUL EMPLOYES.
Uncle Sam has in his employ a landscape gar
dener who, for 35 years, has been engaged in
beautifying the public parks and reservations in
Washington. In the recent report of the Super
intendent of Public Buildings and Grounds Brom
well, this faithful servitor is recommended for a
promotion in the point of salary. The superin
tendent asked for an increase of $400 a year aud
says: "The gentleman who occupies this posi
tion has held it for 35 years and has had charge
almost from the beginning, of the park system of
Washington. He is constantly receiving offers
of an increase of salary from outside parties but
prefers to stay here.”
The extent to which Uncle Sam indulges in
flowers in the national capital is shown by the
fact that last year there were planted 23,000 pan
sies and 31,000 flowering bulbs for early bloom.
There were planted in beds and vases 972,520 bed
ding and tropical plants for summer aecorauon. j ne nower bees on the ter
race esplanade of the capitol grounds were furnished with 16,000 bedding
plants, bulbs, etc. In addition, 642 ornamental dwarf evergreen trees, 1,162
flowering shrubs, and a number of oak trees were planted there.
In the propagating gardens more than 1.000,000 plants were propagated
and 6,751 trees and 3.145 shrubs were planted in the various parks. Fifteen
thousand plants were distributed to hospitals and government offices. No
one, not even the most economic congressman, begrudges the money spent
in flowers and plants in the capital city. This method of beautifying the
national capital meets with popular support, and is a source of great pleasure
to the hundreds of thousands of visitors during the year.
