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THE IOWA'S LAST BATTLE.
In writing of the Iowa, once proud vessel of the
I nited States navy, it might he permitted to quote
end paiaphrase a line from Stevenson’s own epitaph:
"Here she lies where she longed to be."
I he Iowa was 011c of that insignificant little
group of warships at which a haughty European
monarch sneered when the war with Spain broke
out. What the European experts failed to count
upon was the soul .that was as much part of the ships
, 'is of the men who rode them. When the Maine
1 went down in Havana harbor* a thrill went through
the nation, the shock and the reaction. War was as
certain as the passing of the days, and on sea as on
land, for our foe was to be met on both sides of '
the world by army and navy.
Roosevelt, as assistant secretary of the navy in
McKinley’s cabinet, sent an order to Dewey at Hong
Kong that proved how fully the situation was vis
ioned at Washington. When the Olympic had
stearped under the guns at C'orregidor and Montojo's
fleet had not only been found but destroyed, in lit
eral compliance with that order, the stage was fully
set and the curtain up on the action of the drama.
If-Luba was to be relieved, then it was essential
that Ccrvcra make his way across the Atlantic and
engage the fleet under Sampson. The Battle of the
Captains took place on July fl, 1898, ami it was
here the Iowa won distinction that never will be for
gotten. Into the thickest of the light she was driven
by Robley D. Evans, intrepid and impulsive, who
sought and found the hottest berth of all. To the
end the Iowa carried the scars of that engagement.
But the Iowa had made no spectacular race
round half the world, as did the Oregon, nor docs
the state for which she was named possess a deep
water harbor, in which to shelter the gallant craft.
Within six years the Iowa was out of the first line.
When the Nebraska went into commission, less than
ten years after the Battle of Santiago, she could
have engaged and defeated every vessel of both
navies present at that fight and never have been
within range of their strongest guns. And now- the
Nebraska has been scrapped as obselete. Thus does
the science of gunnery and naval architecture pro
gress.
So the Iowa has sunk in the waters where she
did hrr greatest service, a test for the destructive
capacity of the present day boats. It was mpet and
fitting that she should have the president's salute a:
she sunk. Officers and men, lining the rail and
•landing at attention, must have recalled H-elmcs'
lines, written for ‘‘Old Ironsides:’’
"Nall to Hip mart her holy flag.
Set every threadbare sail.
And cive her to the god of storm*
The lightning and the gale."
WHEN BILLION MEETS BILLION.
Henry lord has just told a waiting world that
within twenty years a great Ford plant, in which
10,000 men are employed, turning out raw material
to be fabricated into Henry's principal output, will
be looked upon as a small concern. In fhet, he says
the era of big business is just beginning. Under
the new era articles the people need will be pro
duced at prices the people can afford to pay.
This, wc take it, will include automobiles. Speed
the day! Yet a fly remains in the ointment. No
body has as yet received an intimation that “John
D.” is contemplating abdication. 1 tit.l the Standard
Oil can be induced to make some concession, the
first cost of the auto is sure to be overshadowed
by the upkeep. And that opens a field for specula
tion.
Suppose Mr. Ford, who has just dehorned.the
coal trust, the transportation trust, the steel trust,
and the lumber trust, by setting qp railroads, coal
mine . saw mills and blast furnaces of his own, be
induced to buy or bore a few oil wells of his own,
and from them send forth such a flow of “gas a'<
will make the octopus tremble, and trembling loosen
( its hold upon the public. Even if Mr. Ford restricted
the privilege of purchasing his brand of fuel to
those who drive his make of car. it would be a boon,
for more of the precious fuel is used to make fliv
vers rattle than for any other known purpose.
It would be a spectacle to invite attention even
from Olympus, which has not noted another such
struggle since the Titans were put down. Let bil
lion meet billion in the open field, the test being
service to mankind in the way of lowering the cost
of two great household necessities (gas buggies and
the gas to drive them), and the guerdon the ap
proval of their fellow men. It will be worth while,
if only it can.be properly staged.
LORD CURZON'S TURN NOW
Charles Evans Hughes has done a very graceful
thing, the one wholly in keeping with the traditions
of “shirt sleeve" diplomacy. He found he had
wrongly charged Great Britain with a breach of the
naval compact. Convinced that he was wrong, our
secretary of state publicly and frankly admits his
error and officially apologizes to the British govern
ment.
This is not usual, but it is decent. No pride is
humbled, no humiliation is felt, and a probable cause
for irritation is removed, because the American sec
retary of state follows what is characteristic of the
1 oreign relations of our country and squarely ad
mits a mistake. His course is in distinct contrast
with that pursued by Lord Curzon, at this time for
eign secretary in the Konar Law cabinet.
On representations from British vessel owners,
the British foreign ofTice some months ago with
drew official recognition of the American consul and
vice consul at Newcastle. Secretary Hughes found
the charges to he without substance, and ordered
the consular offices at Newcastle to 1>" closed. Lord
Curzon, although apprised of the truth in the mat
ter, stubbornly persists in h s course, and British
shippers are greatly ineorivcnionred thereby.
Mr. Hughes has set, an example which Lord Cur
son may well follow. If the friendly relations of
such long standing as between the United State- and
the British empire are to lie maintained, .t will he
only through absolute frankness and fairness in nli
official dealings ) . # ,
WHEN A RACE COMES OF AGE.
A rood thing for Americans to think about now
and then is the question of what shall be done with
the Philippines. Without doubt the meshes of trade
and commerce are binding the business interests of
the islands and this continent closer together each
year. There is, however, no similarity of race or
nature between Americans and the people.of the
Asian possession. It is to be expected that they will
some day call for the redemption of the pledge first
made by President McKinley and ask definitely for
independence.
From a Nebraska farm a schoolboy writes for in
formation on this question, which has arisen in a
class debate. It is easy enough to tind books and
articles by American observers who believe that the
time has not yet come, and some who doubt if it
ever will come, for the freeing of this dependency.
The other side is presented in a speech of Jaime C.
Veyra. resident commissioner from the Philippine
islands to the United States. It was delivered in
congress last month, and is available as a govern
ment document. Others than schoolboys may find
interest in this expression of opinion.
Commissioner Veyra asserts that the Filipino
people consider that the holding of a constitutional
convention is the next logical step to be taken in
advance of their promised complete independence,
lie expresses gratitude for the benefits conferred
by American educators, doctors and administrators
and declares his belief that the people arc fitted for
self-rule. Americans, he says, have no conception
of the passionate yearning of the Filipino people for
independence.
Doubtless there are m^ry Americans who on
business or military grounds would always oppose
Filipino independence. But for the American peo
ple as a whole, it wall only he necessary to prove
the desire for separation and the capability for main
taining an independent democratic government in
order to win the Filipinos the right to call a constitu
tional convention of their own.
HENCE THE TERM, "PIGEON WING,
Is there no limit to the machinations of the liquor
interests? Yesterday's dispatches carried a story
of a pigeon which fell upon the deck of a liner far
out at sea. The steward gave the bird a drink of 1
whisky, which soon revived it and it flew away. Sev- 1
era! hundred miles further on the same bird again
appeared end fell, apparently exhausted, upon the ;
deck of tho same ship. And again it was revived
by the steward—with whisky, the vessel being still 1
well outside the three-mile limit.
We protest -and we trust the Anti-Saloon league
and the Pigeon Fanciers’ association will join us
we protest against this attempted glorification of
Liquor at the expanse of the reputation of one of
the most useful and law-abiding birds.
The insinuation is plain, that this pigc"n, hav
ing tasted the hootch, liked it and chased the ship
several hundred miles and then deliberately "framed
up" a second drop on the deck in order thereby to
get another drink.
How far the liquor interests will go wo tremble
to think. We are expecting any day to see dis
patches stating that large flocks of pigeons are
waiting, just outside the three mile limit, ready to
fall, apparently exhausted, on the decks of vessels
and get their sips of hootch.
'Tain't right, friends, 'tain't right
LIKE A SKYROCKET
There arc two sides to everything—the inside
and the outside. To one who believes in the "live
and-let-live'' principles of democracy, the exterior
of the Ku Klux Klan has no attraction. How
much worse it Is on the interior may be judged by
the inside story, "The Ku Klux' Hubble,’ which is
being published serially in i he Omaha Evening Her.
Great movements invariably have great men at
their head. An intimate view of the leaders of the
klan shows only mediocre ability. Despite all the
high 'professions of the mysterious figure' at head
quarters in Atlanta, this peep behind the scenes
shows them to have been lacking utterly in vision
and apostles of nothing but prejudice.
The danger in this was that isolated units of
tho hooded order descended to violence in enforcing
their particular code of conduct. The men at the
-head of the klan were not big enough to hold their
subjects in control. The evil thoughts once started
on their way scattered and grew into actual of
fenses which, instead of building up Americanism,
tore at its foundations There is much to interest
readers in this revelation of the klan, which shot
across the midnight ,»ky like a fiery rocket, and
which now seems to have fallen, burned out and
spent.
And again the people might have more re..pert
for law and order and entertain n higher opinion of
the police force if the warring factions in the city
hall would patch up a trin e.
The Fremont youngster who caused the sound
ing of the whistle to declare off school for one day
ia at least entitled to recognition for his enterprise.
What some enthusiastic supporters of an alliance
with Europe find difficulty in explaining is how
prosperity returns without the "foreign market.
One thing is missing in connection with the
Piute uprising: None of the ranchers out there
have any hay to sell to the cavalry.
No, dear, an ice jam is nothing like strawberry
; jam.
Homespun Verse
Hy Robert Worthington Dai ie
TIME TO GO TO BED
i an you vividly remember when at twilight father said.
' It la time for I it t Ir* folk* ♦ •» be n hikin’ off to bed
You obeyed your dad * instructions with impulsiveness
and dread.
For of nil the hours the retest seemed to he at i lose of
day
When you really were rm hunted hy the revelry of play,
And you hated—you detected to he told to hit the liay.
Gloom of morn and noon was rapture in the quirt ness
of night.
Thing* at other times prosaic brought unparalleled dr
light.—
Ton believed your dud was unking you t lie bondsman
of his spite.
All hut joyful you responded to the call youi father gave,
t'p the -tail you sulked in anger a* you could and yet
behave
! An abused and solemn youngster- in ' our own belief s
slave.
Hut tonight your children heat it You are In vour
fat her h stead
And perh»?*s they feel as you felt when your wise old
d*dd> said
It IS time fur llJUc folks to be a lukln oft to bert. ’
refore reaching the Musselshell the party were driven to shore by a
storm, and when the storm had passed the river was frozen solid as the land.
So the trappers cached half their goods, and. carrying the rest upon their
backs, reached the village of the Bloods after two days' journey through the
snow, and the net was cast. lor
There was a woman
What enchantment falls
Upon that fm off revel! How the din
Of jangling voices, chaffering to win
The lesser values, hushes at the words
As ilies the dissonance of brawling
birds
Upon a calm before ihe storm is
hurled!
I,o. down the age long readies of the
world
What rosehreatht wind of ghostly
music creeps!
And was she fan—this woman?
Legend keeps
So answer; v et we know that she was
\ oung.
If truly comes the tale by many a
tons ue
That one of Red Hair's party fathered
her.
What need to know her features as
t hev were ’
Was site not lovely as her lovers
thought.
And beautiful as that wild lose she
wrought
Was fatal? Vessel of the world's de
sire,
Did she not glow with that mysterious
fire
That kghts the liear’-h or burns the
roofireo down?
What fare wa« hers who made the
timeless town
A baleful torch forever? Hera who
v ailed
Upon the altai when the four winds
failed
A: Anils? What the image that looked
up
On 1-=. dt from the contemplated cup
Of everlasting thirst'.' What wondrous
face*
Abov< the countless ' radios of the
race
Makes sudden heaven for the blinking
ryPS ?
One face in truth' And once in Tara
fl 15 ^
Kach man s!.dl stray unwittingly,
and sc"—
In s>.me unearth'." valley where the
T ree
Wit!) golden fruitage perilously
fraught
Still tTui' d. that image of God - after
i.hought *
Then shall Die worid t„rn wonderful
anil strange;
Who knows hom tame the miracle of
i bango
'i'y Fink at las'? For he was not of
such
\s tend to'priee e-ne woman overmuch:
And legend lias It that, from I’.ttsburg
flow a
To Damn Rouge, in many tb river
town
Some blow - Ariadne pined for .Mike
"It is me rule to love 'em all alike.”
He often said, with slow, omniscient
w ink.
When just the proper quantity of
drink
Had made him philosophic; "Class or
gourd.
Sliure. now they're sll wan liquor
whin thej re poured!
Aye, rum is rum, my b y!"
Alas the tongue!
How glib!.' are Its easy gue-se* filing
Against the knowing reti ence of
yea rs.
I. iter n tl time of tears
Raw gusts of mocking merriment that
stings!
Some logic in the seeming ruck of
things
Inscrutably confutes u«’
Now had rnrr.e
The time when turn no longer should
he rum.
F'.ut witi hw ine sweet with per.!. I*
In this win- insofar s« tongue may
tell
Anil tongues repeat tile lrtlle eyes may
guess
nf 'hat may happen in that wilder
ness
Tlie human heart. There dwelt a
mighty man
Among the 1 Hoods, a leader of his
elan.
Around whose l.f» were , entered many
lives.
Fur many suns had lie of many w u p
And also he was rich In pony herds
\\ fierefop the; say men searehrd
his lightest words
For hidden things. sin e anyone
might see
That none had stronger medicine then
he
To siiape aright the ruhbern stuff of
life.
Among the wom»n that he had to
W ife
Was she who knew the white man
when the hand
of fled 1 In r made surh marvel in the
land.
She imlng younger then and little
wise.
lint In that She was pleasing to the
eves
And kept her flngeis busy for her
child
4nd bore a silent tongue, th» great
man smiled
t'pon tile woman called her to his fl-e
And IVlie t.ie l.ong Knife’s girl s
foster sire
So that her maidenhood was never
•r.1 n.
Hut 1.1 .e a pasture that is ever g-men
Plr'anse > feels s mountain s sunny
."ank.,
Now In the senon when tin pale sun
shrank
K.ir southward, like another kind e.
moon.
And dawns were laggard and the dark
came soon.
rt pleased the urea’ man s whim to
irjve n *e;«et.
Is.1", the da>s after Carpenter went
east
| with elaht stout ponies and a hand or
three
j ro life the cache • fact that n rll
might he
Sly father to the gtent mins re*ti\c
mood—
V wistfully prospective gratitude.
Antic.pitting charity!
It chanced
That while the women sing nn<1 the
young men danced
I _ -
About the drummers, and the p'Pe
went round,
And ever 'twtxt the songs arose the
sound
Of fat dog stewing. Kink, with mourn
ful eyes
And pious mien, lamented the demise
Of "pore owld Fido." till his com
rades choked
With stifled laughter: solidly invoked
The plopping_ stew ("Down, Rover!
Down, me lad!"):
Discussed the many wives the old man
had
In language moie expressive than
polite.
So, last of all his merry nights, that
night
Fink clowned it little dream.ng lie
was doomed
To wear that mask of sorrow he as
sumed
In comic mood, thenceforward to the
last.
For evtn as he joked, the net was
cast
About him. and the myst.c change
had come,
And he had looked on rum that was
not rum—
The Long Knife's daughter!
Stooped beneath a pack
Of bundled twig*. she pushed the
lodge.flap back
And entered lightly : placed her load
of wood
Beside the lire: then straightened up
and stood
One moment there a shapely girl and
tall.
TIk-h wnsn t an: diama: that was all
But when she left the wit had dird
in Fink.
He seemed a man who takes one more
drink
That spoils 111e fun. relaxes jaw and
jowl
And makes the p st"r. l|ke a suns' ru< k
owl
Stare eedemniy at nothing.
Daily Prayer |
Thr* iha 1 prosper ths!o- • Thee Ts
• j. i
Our Heavenly Father, we would
humbly bow before Thee and in
acknowledgment of Th> goodness
would confess Thee to be our God. We
thank Thee for Thy manifold rr.‘rocs
and continued lo\ e and rare to u«, so
unwopth^ f t a: ; of Thv blessings
V> confeae out pin*, and piav that
for the sake of Christ Thou wouldst
forgive us and help u« to *>■» live that
everywhere we may carry the Spirit
and the life of the Master v :»h us.
Grant that we may have that purity
of heart b> which we may be alwa: *
j hie to see Thee.
M.i wo gee our opportunities every
• La* . and help us to use them that wo
may best minister to our fellow men.
and bring gb#ry to Ths great r»nd holy
Name Lead us day by day. May we
f ’
Thy Will, and seek so to fxpn'*s the
love of Christ that other* will b* led
to accept Jesuf as Savior and I*ord,
while Thy believing followers may the
b*-tter b< established in the faith lie
gracious to all in sadnens and diffi
cult’-. Help them to fully trust in
Ther. an 1 realize ever Thy presence
wii. them.
Vo ask this ail in the name of
Jesus Christ, Thy f*on, our Savior.
Amen /
r o wow lks. p \ up,
North He". CifCsrjo, Car
Kin.l Words for ljunft Ducks.
Fm:-j th« Florida T '*'• t’nbn
The "lame duck" discussion is al*
w ivs conducted lightly though it is A
serious matter. The people bk* the
men til v elect to office or the' would
not elect them, but the> treat the
political good or bad fortune of their
leaders lightly, and a man may still
he a leadei even though 1 ' s ti I
in the flippant language of the para
graphers a "lame duck There is 1 jt
tie difference between the temporary
popularity of a candidate who is
e!e. ted 1'\* a small malmfty a* d Ot.e
who is deflated by a i m w marg.n.
but the successful candidate. e\en if
successful by on\y a dor.cn \oti*s is
ai claimed a popular favorite and the
unsuccessful one is classed as repudi
ated
Men who aie recognis'd as at m
the greatest statesmen of the country
the day before the election ha'e been
classed with th* "lame ducks the
da' after And yet there was no
deterioration in a day They wr e as
capable after defeat as before- as p.i
triotio as ever.
“The People's
▼ 7 * 11
v oice
Cditnrlali from reader* of lb* Morglnf B»»
Feadrra of The Morning Bee are invited to
(tie fM! column freely tor «xpr«*non tn
Matter! of public Ictereef.
From a BryAn Supporter.
Geneva. Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: It begins tto look like
Speaker Mathers and some other re
publicans in the house are right when
they say that*they did n^t promise
anything, in the compagn last fall if
elected, in regard to the code and
taxes.
Perhaps it is just a> well that they
did not. for any of us can see by their
filibustering that they are more in
terested in preventing the p«*ppl€ from
getting what the great majority of
the voters of the state voted for. It
means that the taxpayers will have
to pay the expenses <.f this session «-f
the staff* legislature aid wait until
the next election tr. g*-t what they
want, the pode repealed and the other
things Governor Bryan want" Th*
• on e of the people i* might; when
they speak, and in If4?4 they will apeak
so loud that a few nv i n the lrgisla
ture hot*,' will know iif t!don't unit
fooling around and ur’ behind Gov
ei nor Bryan and put through his pro
gram) that there are •■ntej-s and tax
payers in the state bes’des those in
Scottsbluff, ITunklin and t'la « oun
ces.
Mr. Voter, what are you getting
from this legislature’’ Answer Tax'
more taxes Mid filibustering
B. F WALTON.
Music and tin* '■M hoids.
Omaha.—To The Bditor of The
Omaha Bee: Prudenc* *s Bante
says, is one of the four cardinal \.r
'tues. Ma Iinduec the general public
through a few fact? to e ve the move
ment of fofftf ring • 1 •• nil I. • y
orchestra, oil energetic >alutev lu
this plan, through it«* variety ; id
lies mt
future and rc-it po- ibilitjr* of - rr
civic standards, clean recreation, in
t easing! f:\endl; human coma,
and rv»»r deepening in. rest i? the
irt? The plan a? .? > • • .-i * muly
thought of. i? not a very «I ff.• m 11 or
expensive undertaking. VotJ know it
will sustain its* If after a slvut
• •hance. Q»ve the •• iv f music for
opt ' ite the
er\ 1-ect f yeji. are f.iade < f Mi
that we may ter; per onr*rlves as »n
audienr» to nifre intimate rcBt*
«hip« and r.**ur -h a more co-op
erate friendliness * it.r ugiiout Oreater
Omaha.
Mr Nlehardt fur p-t aurm*e
spoke after having heard me play,
of hoc mils’• in spies hint tint a ha
should and must have it* f m
bolicaU d-pparafu? 'f emM'or.il ro
tentment. thr Omaha S niphonv or
chestra. now growing. It 5? not i’i
cones:*.-able that "( American* can
have an orchestra in ev^r* larger city
over JO*.000 people, and we have fc-»
of such .tie -. Mmol • er’ 1 < > 2r
city ; Kurope hs* one, and the aver
age American musician has mort
style and m* re pep than the for
e.gne- prolrfibly r.ot *. r hulted
schooling A meric • s fir *• :? i *h
and she i? getting to h*e a prolife*
musical meadow. Wo need more
warmtl h it <rt,f «’ ' ' * .e? like
Syracuse f»rand • i - Sh ii 1
I^off A g*-1f?. San Fra <
t *it > St I.»uis, (’Imago. Boston N’pw
V< ; • • i tl,
land. Ruffaln. efr ha\»* good city or
chest raa and get to heat the grandest
creations an.l moods *>yr>r written for
any combination by * at ion w ide
reputed composers in their happiest
moments, such a- Liszt. Reethoven,
Wagner, R:msky-Koi «ak"W Tohab
kowskv. Scriabin a Hf rel*r • ' M m
JViweli. Klgar. Carpenter powerby.
Grieg. Debussy and Richard S'r.mss
Let us be equally blessed
The'■a j« room for^.1 ■ it; *; ?,v. .*
in Omaha. The t’niversal Concert
bureau s business way of doing is
original The; MO-d i th*‘ papers
their s mphi-ny « • c r*. f* a? unrg
- . v •
be th' ' ill- s\mpht*i * i! Ajt , f the
season. It :« their first concert this
season. Tlie Omaha * inphony i* go
ing to give its second concert which
w ill probably be _ . n before that
managements firs* concert Our
first f-ncert f th« season was g \»»n
highly successful)* before *a inter
cst»d public on thanksgl\ mg.
Let us .all be merry lioy.< and girls
iga Mu* - a 1 • Pit fill fasc.nat
ing subject and a vocation. a hobbv,
a relaxation f r ladies and gentle
men. If you study musm. * ou will
( arr wat • - l ■ re • f the -•. (♦ . b
jecti*. * * of .a true education .1 a
little s?ot. a dear sweet, flaxen
haired gild f a better fv * * ked
courage. ambition and enthusiasm.
She took » p the >!udv of piano One
da v playing - ■mp.-miim r* s f<*r
herself on th* piano, she discov
ered through her experimenting
that she projovsrd flex, hie \o;e
Site was sent to New Y i k to have
that vo;< e trained at d toda> we
sea* in her n remarkable ppeclmcn
10 USED PIANOS
will lie sold at the Oak ford Music Stove at give
away prices, and they will be snapped up
quickly by shrewd buyers.
Here They Are
J. & C. Fischer Sterling Steger
Cable Wellington Peerless
Hackley Singer Hospe Player
and Kurtzmann Player
PrlCM $95 $135 $165 $185 E,c
Now is the time for the wise buyer to act.
CMBSSPit
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“From Slate and Nation”
-—Editorials from Othvr ISeus/Hii^ers—
t\ hat Is a IH. talor?
f rom Tha Nebraska City I’rsrs,
Governor Bryan has preached
against the "special Interests until
it has become an obsission with him,
yet he has not put his finger on a
single ogre that is about to devour
the unsuspecting people of his state.
The governor hates distators, oppres
sors and ogres, yet, on occasion, he
seems to employ the methods lie pro
fesses to so much despise, lie is un
willing for his people, for instance to
know the "insid*- of the rapitol con
troversy and newspaper men have
been sharply rebuffed by tills n»w
the people • if Nc i ■ rn aka
liave set up in the executive office at
Lincoln. \V‘- are beginning to fear
that Mr Bryan is not sincere in some
of his crusades: that he is a self-seek
er first and a seeker gifti r the public
' ist. Am
how icing it will take the people of
Nebraska to realize that they ha\»
elected a ' dictator" to run the state,
i mat. who would alolish the legisia
ture, make every state employed of
nf womanhood, and not the little
peevish and ani^mc looking daughter
of p* fore. This lady is now ambitious,
ready to r]o things and be somebodv.
I was told by a teacher after having
played for one of the lads of a grade
school, who was utterly calloused to
fore, now f
mal of delight and enjoyment in
f •
alone mstifies mv playing for him,
and how many mote such Impressions
the young lad going to enjoy ever
afterwards!
To make America a musical nation.
T think it is of utmost necessity to
teach mu>io seriously to c hildren dur
;ng their formative ohi>. that is in
the grade schools, as the s* chools are
sucre* -fully endeavoring to do at.
present giving tie mu*ic memory
contests, supported by the generous
co-operation of the Omaha mush
Hiri'-c only about 2“ per cent of tin
fccholars attend universities and
r- adein e? th remaining *'■ per cent
muy got their minds and hearts full
».f tht** intellectual moral er y * mod
' af
f
music should put pep and punch i1 *o
education and into man and woman
hood arid be a benediction to the
***'“ STANLEY J. LETOVSKT.
'fno ho* a Mandate or a vrt.irv • -f ’he
executive and every citizen truckle to
the big •stick ?
\ Place for Neihaidt
Fr m the P^ottsbluff New*.
N‘*ihardt, Nebraska's poet laureate,
has been offered a place on the facul
ty of a comparatively insignificant
! college, and. a* a result the demand
has b fen widely voic'd throughout
the state that tlie* I'r.vcr ty of Ne
braska secure him.
Why not? Where should a poet,
of mu' h striking g . . i' r-■ ognized,
if • his ow people? He haa
d»Oi" more to ad . a r < *■ N'-bra Mka'B
reputation. in h. ow field of labor,
than any other poj>< Hi** song*
ar<- - daw. . p< N- or.ask a hiZ*
t»*ry and Nebraska i»!.v • for their
:hrme. II* h*. g pf-'-f *hn* the
p. Si a* an pi «Ju genius He is
. of l,” . n ..V e prom
i«o of placing 1 rn among the ever
immortal bards. Why should r<*t Ne
braska secure him for ih own sfit*
university. mo that he may g:v<j some
of the fire of his g- r ius to the younger
generation ?
batejJ. It will be urged pro and con.
It v ;1 v.e written about. studied « >#•
fit* slept I,V‘ r ght up d,
ed, praised, assailed, and maybe, by
the time the state has decided to
offer bim a post, Xeihardt, w ho must
f ■ - ■ ■ ' 1
f
parativfdy insignificant college and
ha\ t goii
Ah, but v. e hoj r t!
e may b<
over la*e«. tliat th're may l*e a ceas
ing of debate over partisan quarrels
he* wren f lover nor T>ryan and the leg
islature that there may come a s*r*p
to the ifs, and ands. and huts that «o
strangely disturb us—a stop long
enough to give for the moment,
recognition to a poet, one who rnar
t of
found doubt, dread, fear, hatred and
v* . w .pi; - * - ' ' - . - f * • ge
■ f;i • f :!. frue ar d good. Nebraska
t reds Ncih.irdt men more than they
need .Nebraska.
Ixt Them Hate It.
V • tic tr knowledge of chemistry,
•;.r, (Jr-rm i» w ho are said to he buy*
ing < *1 n this country might be able
• . rr.nx fire out of the fire proof '3*
i;ety —Mr’ c* 'id Republican.
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We sell the famous Hirsh,
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are hand-made. Conservative as
well as ultra Models here in a
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$40 to $60
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