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farmers not far fioni Nebraska City , and
it is said that they contemplate going
into the grain-buying businsbs.
These two waifs from the Egean
claim that their language is the same as
it has always been. They admit that
they themselves speak a mixture , shock
ingly compounded with Italian words and
elements from every Mediterranean sea
port , but they distinguish this from
"real Greek , " which to their adoring
minds is still the same as when the loft
iest thoughts that human minds had
framed were uttered in it. They are
Greeks , still handing down the tongue
in which the gods of Olympus loved and
quarreled ; the rest of mankind still cap
able of nothing much more intelligible
than "bar bar , " and hence barbarians.
As with the Greeks , so with the Jews.
After twenty centuries of dispersion and
persecution , a Jew is still a Jew ; scat
tered through every country of the
globe , they are everywhere a distinct
people ; a descendant of Abraham no
more combines with the community in
which ho finds himself than a bullet
with the snowbank into which it is
dropped ; he is always , first and fore
most , a Hebrew.
In view of the astonishing persistence
of these two ancient races , may we
not suppose that we have something of
the same faculty in ourselves ; that we
are neither the one nor the other of
them , but Teutons , from time immem
orial ; with souls forged of different
metal from theirs , and tempered in the
shadow of hoary German forests and the
cold waters of the northern ocean 'i
Some years ago a melody called Ta-ra-
rn Boom-do-ay was in everybody's ears ,
because one Lottie Collins , by dint of
free use of her legs and lungs in connec
tion with it , had made it popular in the
city of London. Now she has been try
ing to kill herself with a razor , out of
regret , as wo may suppose ; whereas
Colonel John Hay , who also sinned in
his youth , has been forgiven it and promoted
meted to honor. But then Colonel Hay
only made songs , and did not dance to
them ; if ho had danced ' 'Little Breeches' '
and ' 'Jim Bludso" around the country ,
ho would never have been secretary of
state.
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fact , discovered in
this year 1898 , that England and Amer
ica are not only near relations but good
friends as well , seems to have put things
in a new light to many a wise head
around the world ; and from all accounts ,
it has aroused frantic enthusiasm in
both England and Canada. It is said
that the Prince of Wales wears a Dewey
button , and Sir Wilfrid Laurier one for
Sampson ; while as for Mr. E.T. Hooley ,
ho carries a small American flag in his
pocket , and often takes it out to look at
it ; and they do not understand why the
delightful idea has not gone to our heads
in the same manner. Travelers return
ing fronu the old country wonder at
finding us still enjoying life temper
ately ; is it , they suggest , that wo are a
less emotional people than the English ?
Thoiactis , that the illumination of
reason in question showed us a number
of equally positive relationships , all just
about as desirable as that one ; the
English are our cousins , but that is not
the whole story ; so are the Irish , the
Scotch , the big white-haired men from
the Scandinavian peninsula , and a good
number of the North Germans. These
have all done about as much for us as
have the English , and are about as good
Mends to keep ; we may be the only
cousin John Bull has , but he is only one
among many to us.
Till : DENISON IIOUSi :
The Denison House , the Women's
College settlement of Boston , was
started in December , 1892. In its five
years of life it has doubled in size , and
now occupies two houses and is reach
ing out to a third. The aim of the
house has been by unobtrusive friendli
ness to become firmly established in the
affections of the neighborhood and to
develop wider forms of collective ser
vice , gradually and naturally , from the
personal relations established. In the
second year the great industrial distress
of the winter , 1898-1894 , led to the
opening of a workshop for women out
of employment. Three hundred and
twenty-four women wore given work
and § 0,000 was paid out in wages. Com
petition with regular goods was avoided
by not selling in the open market , but
by bending the goods manufactured to
the Red Cross Society or to hospitals
and to similar associations. Clubs and
domestic training for mothers and little
girls try to help them towards those
higher standards of homo life possible
even to very poor people. College ex
tension classes , in which certificates are
given out at the end of the year , offei
to workiugwomeu some of the privileges
of pleasant and interesting study in lit
erature and art. Industrial training
for boys in various handicrafts is just
started. The most spacious and beauti
ful room in the house is put daily at the
disposal of a city kindergarten.
During four summers Denison House ,
in connection with the Associated Char
ities , has conducted a vacation school.
Here , the public school instruction oi
the winter is supplemented by the train
ing of hand and eye through bloyd , color-
work , observation of animals , etc. Very
interesting results are reached with the
children. The tie between the settle
ment and educational activities in the
neighborhood is strengthened through a
largo club for public-school teachers ,
which meets at Donisou House and lim
its its membership , perforce , to one hun
dred , because of the capacity of
the room. In the winter of 189J ! ,
through the effort of the house mid
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a neighboring boys' , -
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room was opened on Harrisoif 'A veriuq *
and a station of the public librnVyy'/v
placed there. In duo time this statioir > f > / > IN
was removed to some little distance. /
Through the desire of the Denison
House Dramatic Club , composed of
young men and boys , a reading room ,
next door to the settlement , has now
been secured and will bo opened the
current month , to prove , we hope , per
manent.
The house stands for no one religious
creed , no orgnni'/ed religious work , and
for no organized political or reform plat
form , but as Christians and good citi
zens , the residents try to help in bring
ing about better conditions materially ,
morally , and spiritually in the commun
ity in which they live. The settlement
residents believe that the bonds iiniting
all good people , rich and poor , are much
more numerous than the differences
separating them. Municipal Affairs.
Some of the republican papers are
sadly confused over the possible effects
of annexation upon American industries.
The Los Angeles Times is one of these.
It is especially concerned about beet
sugar. Learning that Cuban sugar can
bo laid down in New York free of duty
at 1 % cents a pound , and be refined
there for three-fourths of a cent , making
the total cost 2 % cents , whereas beet
sugar cannot be made in this country
for less than three cents a pound , the
Times wants to know what would become -
come of tl'o beet sugar industry if Cuba
were annexed. From the protection
point of view that is a pertinent ques
tion. But what about American sugar
eaters ? Must they bo compelled to pay
unnecessarily high prices for their sugar
so as to foster the beet sugar industry ?
Something like § 200,000,000 annually ,
the Times estimates , would bo lost to
the American beet sugar industries if
they were destroyed by cheap cane sugar
from our now colonies , It neglects to
observe that all that was so lost , and
more too , would bo saved to American
sugar eaters. Still , the Times does not
oppose the policy of ultimate annexa
tion. That would be contrary to the
Hanna-McKinloy-Elkins policy , and
therefore tinpatriotic. So it urges the
imposition of a protective tariff upon
goods from our colonies. Think of that !
A tariff upon goods from territory over
which our own flag floats ! Could pro
tective tariff madness go further ? The
Public.
Nearly every week wo take pleasure
in copying some short article from THE
CONSERVATIVE , a newspaper edited by
ex-Secretary J. Sterling Morton. His
opinions on political and other questions'
will not bo in accordance with the be
liefs of some of our readers , but they
cannot fail to admire the clearness and
elegance with which ho expresses him
self. Poncu Journal.