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16 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT APRIL IS, 107. s ci Edward Everett Hale Now York Times: , Another of those young octogenarians is the Rev. Rr. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the United States senate, whose eighty fifth birthday comes next week. Alert and active, he is as busy today as he ever was, and the back room on the second floor of his "Washington house, which he ases as his workshop, bears all tho looks of one. Octogenarian as ho Is, he is not white-haired. His hair and beard are iron gray. The hair is retreating over Jils massive head, but there is plenty of it, enough to make many a man of .forty envy him. Under his big dome of a forehead his large light eyes look out keenly, and twinkle at a joke. lie talk! in a rapid, easy-running flow. So he talked last week to the Wash ington correspondent of the Times; looked back over his eighty-five years and reviewed them, with suggestions for the youngr generation, drawn from that experience. Ills talk abounded in warnings against provin cialism, which he seems to consider one of (ho besetting sins of tho nation. That tV.is is a big country, worth knowing, - nd that its citizens do not take '.he trouble to acquaint them selves with those portions of it in which they do not live, is the burden of a good deal of what he has to say. New York he considers a main offender in this way; it isa provincial town, lie says, and its , provincialism is re llocted in its papers. He was driven to subscribe to a Chicago paper to get a wider a lew. He commends the London Times for its wide view of the earth, and subscribes to it for the sake of ita large amount of space given to .nat ters not local. "In-a book called 'A New England Boyhood,' " said Dr. Hale, "I have given quite a full account of my early training. My school education was conducted at the Boston Latin school, which takes pride in its history be cause it dates back to an earlier tcr iod than any other school now exist ing in America. From that school I went to Harvard college, and in 'A New England Boyhood' are my impres sions in some detail as to the college life of that time. Unfortunately for me," added Dr. Hale laughingly, "the day that the 'New England Boyhood' was to be 'published was'' the day' in which the head of the publishing firm disappeared with the funds of the arm, and in point of fact my poor little bio graphy of myself was never really published until it appeared in the standard edition of my works. 'Trobably of more importance in the make-up of rry life afterward was my rood fortune that I was cradled in the sheets of a newspaper. My father, who was the proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser for half a century, conducted through much of that time the largest printing house in Boston. In the office, therefore, I was able before I was twelve years old to learn how to set type, how to make up a form, and how to work the hand press of that day. I am rather proud now to say that I could earn my living as a journeyman in some country of fice where they have not yet intro duced the modern improvements." And he looks as if he could. The brightness of his eye and the rapidity of his talk and the general alertness of the man suggest that if he ever went buck to the case in that country office the i younger printers would have to look alive. 'VMoro than this, ana neuer man this." continued Dr. Hale, "I was traflied in the newspaper work of that day. This involved shorthand among other things, which the young gentle men of thK feneration are apt to de-fptsi-. luu which I have always found a great convenience in active life." Dr. K;il in fact, has no patience with the modem reporter who looks down in shorthand. Whenever he finds on of t.iese the reporter Is treated to a piece of hi mind. He callti it the first requl lie of the newspaper busi ness to be aldo to make quick and ac eurntrt iU;.t, and Is scornful' of the contention f tho latter-day reporter tl .it he .an he quick unci accurate wlihoti. a knowledge of stenography. "Thix. Iiottevtr," ho rc.-umed, "Is only oio d.-tall. I regard the habit of thtnklnir while you write and writing while you think n a very Important ju,t,it. It t.ut hardly bo acquired In any other v, iv s mirely an it 1 ac quited when yu are writing lit at t.Uht with a boy wItir for your h. .'H of ofv wtnVb y n ar never to In a.hUi otin tl'ii.MiifM I nut pi t U i '. oi t form lh habit of fyf ;ii:l- ic imi-r Hitr. .. thn t I., th,. b u st .f thtnktn up"" oir feet j.od U oih i t. it.lt or wrttln quite fi ., o Mlv for the For they ran critic I their " W whn thy ha Hit : down bl U Uh to say better than any other person can criticise it, unless iryjeed they are fools. - ., "I would be sorry not to be remem bered first as a minister of the gospel. I was ordained to my profession in the city of "Worcester before it was a city, in the year 1846, and remained there as minister of the church of the unity for ten years. I then rernoved to Boston, where I have been ever since" the min ister of the south Congregational church. Both of these are Unitarian bodies. "I" have always been glad that I chose my profession as I did, and haye always been glad to welcorne into it young gentlemen of spirit who want to be of service In the world. Indeed, I should never have tried my hand i.i national or social reform as much as I havo done in later years but for tLe necessities brcught upon every man of spirit by the civil var. I was Inti mately engaged in provision for the great immigration which began with the Irish famine in 1815 and 1846. I was afterward clcsely connected with the work of the New England emigration aid society in colonizing Kansas aftar 1854, and after .the war came every earnest man's life every day was filled with duties forced upon him by the ex igencies of the time. "I advise all youag men to do what I was forced to do in those days of trial and to acquai;.:; themselves as largely as they can with the condition of every part of the country. I ha.e always attempted to keep up my corre spondence and friendship with the Pa cific coast and with the great interior states, as with the region of hte Atlan tic in which I was born. This is more and more easy to do. every day r iw, whe n San Francisco Is close to New York and Alaska is no longer an unknown region. "I am fond of citing Dr. And ;w Peabjdy, who said in a public address some sixty years ago that every man, besides his vocation, should have an avocation. To which Instructions it would be well to add that every man should havo 'a third. s "In my case my cation, first, sec ond, and last, is that of a minister : the gospel. My avocn'.lon has been lit erature. I have always tried to write on ' Subjects' "or"- whicH "I' knew some thins, and I have the greatest scorn for what i- called literature where the writer throws himself into the field as a fencing master might do, or any sol dier of fortune; where the writer knows how to write and has nothing to writ j about; where, in short, he has nothing to say. But to say wl.Jit a man has to say, to tell what he has men, that is the real province of litera ture. "There'ore I have always main tained as close a connection as a pro fessional man in other lines caa main tain with the periodical press. At this moment I furnish a weekly article for the Christian Register and ev .y month furnish a leading article for the Woman's Home Companion. I thin'.: that the correspondence with the whole country which these engagements give me becomes an element of good train ing. "No one can read the work of what j is called literature, whether in newspa pers or magazines, without being an noyed by " a certain provincialism. I am qnlte conscious of such provincial ism In my own work, but there is dan ger in it which is to be avoided if a man wants to do the duty of a man, and I am very glad to be on intimate relations with people in all parts of this country, and indeed in all parts of the world. "There is a special satisfaction In the duty of chaplain of the United States senate, because it brinps me into com munication, not simply with the con gress of tho United States, but with intelligent men and women from every part of the world who find it agreeatM to spend a shorter or longer time In th city of Washington." That last if mark Is characteristic of Dr. Dale. There have ben many Ben at chaplains; it it doubtful if there have been many who valued their of fice because of the opportunity It gave them for learning thing, for broaden ing their views by contact with tran ters, and for overcoming tnat tendency to provincialism which Dr. Hale no heartily hat. Ulfhty-flve yearn old, ho It still learning; his thirst for nw knowledge anil new viewpoint Is un sitUted und Insatiable, It N not every man of rlghty-tlv who value new experiences for th 'training" they may glvp him. Henry It. Rjffr. of th standard Od oi'i.pinv N injruln of n rontinu anc of prosperity In this country, if th people it not Interfere with th men who pm ft lh author of th present Srt"". t !!", To wbuld country, hfl CUBAN MINISTERS (J.S. Recommends Pe-ru-na. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States, is an orator born. In an artiple in The Outlook for July, 1899, by George Kennan, who heard Quesada speak at the Esteban Theater, Matanzas, Cuba, he said : "I have seen many aud iences under the spell of eloquent speech and in the grip of strong emotional ex citement; but I hre rarely witnessed such a scene as at the close of Quesada's eulogy upon the dead patriot, Marti." In a letter to The Peruna Medicine Com pany, written from Washington, D. C, Senor Quesada says: "Peruna I can recommend as a very good medi cine. It is an excellent strengthening tonic, and it i's aiso an efficacious cure for the almost universal complaint of catarrh. "Gonzalo De Quesada. In hot countries as well as cold conn- j tries catarrh is an omnipresent scourge. Catarrh afflicts the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the lowly and tho famous. ' ' Nearly everybody has catarrh at some time in life. It is the general preval ence of catarrhal diseases that has brought Perunain to such fame through out the world. Peruna ha3 been used as. a catarrh remedy so long thatit is regarded every explains "has had a taste of the bles sings o prosperity, and in a provid ential sort of way I believe the peo ple are going to eliminate the factors that would stand in the way of con tinued prosperity. Continued agita tion, the people will see, unsettles con ditions. You cannot move loads with a team that won't haul with horses or mules that will not pull together. The people must see that settled con ditions are necessary for progress and development, and I believe that the sentiment of the country will have ko crystallized within a few months that there will be a practically united de mand for the strongest conservatism inl the conduct of the government. We must havo settled conditions, and 1 believe we will havo them." If he means that men of the llarri man typo are to be allowed to balloon railroads and contribute for tho buy ing of elections forever he is douimtd to disappointment. . If he moans the conservatism of a strong and square man like Roosevelt, he is righi in his prediction, With piano players as with any other new matidne, tho period of de velopment is a trying ono t the economical buyer. He has no as surance that the machine he buys to day 4 id not be superseded U Wffk benco with one so much better that hi is useless, rifteen year ? peo ple who valued Ktylo at all had tn buy n new bicyeM every year. Now they rlda a whl till it wear out with nevr a nub from tin critical mall boy. Automobile buyers nre In much th am case now, Tb owner of piano plavcrs if laet year mk,- nr deprived of the device for mibordtnnt Ing chord to air which Roe wSih th tateat machine-. Now It Is announced, a wsu bMVlUbte from th t!mt, that where as a standard remedy for catarrh in all forms. Mr. Theodore Lang,Dalton,Ga.,form erly Commander of the G. A. R. of the State of Maryland, writes: "It is a special pleasure tome to rec ommend Peruna to all who may' be af flicted with that most annoying and dangerous disease, catarrh. I have taken six bottles of Teruna, and I confidently believe my cure is permanent." a new invention puts the labor of pedalling upon an electric motor at tached to an electric light wire, leaving the player entirely free to devote him self to the interpretation of the music ho plays. In this machine the notes are struck by the attraction of a magnet instead of the force of an air current. - . - . Japanese exclusion under the new law promises to be not less trouble some and difficult than Chinese exclu sion has been. The ? Japs are pressing for admission In considerable number along the Mexican border, and sub mit to their rejection with bad grace. When these return to Japan to dissemi nate their feelings there will be in creasing opposition to .the United States, for there is such a thing as "public clamor" there. The clamor, as a mutter of fact, is already in evidence. A member of the Jttpaneso parliament wrote recently to the foreign minister suggesting that there would be no such thing as nntl-Japancse sentiment in the United States If only Japanese wer permitted to bo naturalized. Ho meant, no doubt, that political parties would be too eager for the Japanese vote 'o breathe of Japanese exclusion. This aj sumptlon I not born out In the case of the negroes, but the comparison Is not an exact one. Tho negroe hav sacrificed much of their political in fluence by their free adherent tj a stnglu patty. PURE II0IIEY From Producer to Consumer On or mor Jo-lb, tun, 4 00 each, l our or wore lHb. cna,I 0C cnu-h. Addif: Alto Apiarjr Supptita. F, A. SNELL, Catalog Tim. MJlUdfs? 111 r