Conservative.
vntion of the public health by distribut
ing gratuitous ! } ' vaccine points under
congressional franks and by govern
ment money all over the United States ?
Arc plain carrots , beets , turnips and
beans a greater boon than exemption
from smallpox ? Why not have a cowpox -
pox culture section in the bureau of ani
mal industry and thence distribute vac
cine points all over the United States as
a reminder of statesmen and the pa
ternal character of this government ?
CONGKESSIS The delicately
SENSITIVE , sensitive morality
of the average
American congressman is already hys
terically shrinking from the possibility
of fraternal association with the Hon.
Briglmm Young Roberts , who has been
elected from Utah to the Fifty-sixth
Congress. But long ago there were
delegates in congress , from Utah , under
the system of protection for "the infant
industry" of matrimony , established by
the Mormon religion , who had been
multi-married.
Particularly prominent among polyg
amous delegates was the Hon. George
Q. Cannon , father of the present U. S.
Senator Cannon of Utah ; and it is only
fair to say that a more exemplary , dig
nified , temperate and conscientious
member of congress at that time , or
since , would be hard to find.
It is difficult to determine why there
should bo such intense nervousness at
this late day about polygamous congress
men.
men.Mr.
Mr. Roberts has not as many wives as
had some of his predecessors from Utah
and aside from his marital relations
there is nothing in his personal charac
ter or reputation to criticise. His fidel
ity to four wives has never been ques
tioned. And possibly if-nil those in. c.'s
who each have only one wife make as
good a record and reputation for fidelity
to marriage vows , the next congress
will be no worse than some of its prede-
cessors.
UNCL.E TIIOIAN. . , . ,
a colored states
man. Seeing a small dog with a bone ,
pounced upon by a bigger dog which
whipped the diminutive cur and took
the bone in less than sixty seconds , this
ebony philosopher remarked :
"These yar dawgs is playin' filantropy
jis' like white folks. That yar small
dawg is Spain , and de big one am der
United States an' do bone what de big
one annexed t' hisself am Cuba. De
big dawg was moved by sympathy to
help do bone.
"An * its jis' that er way in taking
them yer islan' scraps an' bones over in
yer Percifik. Do big dawg don't want
'em , but ho feers dat do small dawg
mout hurt "em scraps an' bones. Dat
'cites his humanity and 'rouses his
piousness to prey.
. If lmS neV01 < boC11
; i.'vr < i twit .
a rare thing for
somebody to imagine that ho could put
the Bible into language that would be
more popularly read and understood. A
London publisher has just brought out a
new translation of the Greek scriptures ,
which he calls ' 'The Twentieth Century
New Testament. " We have not seen
the work , but from some quoted selec
tions we judge that the translator has
met with difficulties in avoiding the vo
cabulary of the standard version. Ex
pressions occur which sound awkward ,
and it strikes one that another word
would have been better in that place ;
and then it turns out that the form you
prefer is also the one that King James'
translators chose. The fact is that the
old English Bible contains the best pos
sible English ; like Shakespeare and
Bunyan , it is quite out of the reach of
imitators. Whether the language made
the Bible , or the Bible made the lan
guage , no man's knowledge of either is
very complete without a good acquaint
ance with the other.
NEllltASKA STATE HISTORICAL.
SOCIETY.
The annual meeting of the Nebraska
State Historical Society for 1899 will be
held at the chapel of the State Univer
sity on the evenings of January 10 and
11 , at 7:45 : o'clock with the following
program :
TUESDAY , .lANUAKY 10.
President's Annual Address , "My Last Buf
falo Hunt. "
.T. Sterling Morton , Nebraska City.
'A Nebraska Episode of the Wyoming Cattle
War. "
A. E. Sheldon , Lincoln.
"Sonic Peculiar Features of the Nebraska
Constitution. "
C. S. Lobingier , Omaha
Headings from the Biography of Judge Elmer
S. Dandy
Written by Edwin S. Towle , Falls City
Business Meeting
WEDNESDAY , .fAMTAKY 11.
"Ex-Senator Thomas W. Tipton and the Tip-
ton Manuscripts. "
.T. Sterling Morton , Nebraska City
"The Mormon Settlements in the Missouri
Valley. "
Clyde B. Aitohison , Council Bluffs.
"My First Trip from Salt Basin to Omaha. "
W. W. Cox , Sowurd
"Early Nebraska Keminibcenees. "
Written by Mr. and Mrs.C. Irvine , Oregon.Mo.
"The Gilmore Reminiscences , Chilcott Diary ,
and Other New Material.
Jay Amos Barrett
FA KM SCHOOLS FOK FJMI'INOS.
Secretary Wilson of the agricultural
department is planning the establish
ment of agricultural schools in the Phil
ippines. This is for the purpose of mak
ing them more efficient competitors of
an over-prosperous agriculture in the
United States. Springfield Republican.
The Springfield Republican forgets ,
while the resources of the United
States are unlimited , and the skill of it
artisans unsurpassed , that protectionists
have always insisted that "the panper- |
sm and ignorance" of foreign laborers
were too much for American compoti-
: ion.
The great strength of foreign competi
tion , according to McKinley , Dingley ,
.ind other trade observers and fore
casters , rested in its poverty and ignor
ance. Holding that orthodox view
Secretary Wilson proposes by education
; o bring down the Filipinos to the level
of the intelligent agriculturists of the
United States.
TIIK UNITED STATES WEATHEK
IJUUEAU.
The Reporter , published at Whitney's
Point , New York , in its issue of Decem
ber 22 , 1898 , compliments Professor
Moore and the work of the United
States weather bureau as follows :
"The efficiency of the weather bureau
is largely due to the energy and execu
tive ability of its present chief , Prof.
Willis L. Moore , who.has been connected
with the service about twenty years , and
lias risen through successive grades
until he has reached through merit and
ability the highest place in the service.
Professor Moore administers the affairs
of the bureau at Washington , gives the
service his whole time , and the result *
show that , T. Sterling Morton made no
mistake when he selected Mr. Moore for
the head of the national weather bureau ,
which has surpassed that of any other
country , and is now the wonder of the
meteorologists of the Old World. "
The reason which caused the selection
of Professor Moore was that , then ,
places were given and promotions made
iu the department of agriculture upon
the merit basis and not to please politi
cians. The civil service law was then
in full vigor and efficiency , and there
fore Professor Moore , though a repub
lican of the most fervid type , received
his promotion.
MODEST
MENDICANT ,
to the cause of the
free coinage of silver with legal tender
endowment in unlimited quantities at
the ratio of sixteen to one. But he desires -
sires the disciples to drop in only one
dollar a mouth , each , for twenty-four
months , which will bring us to the cam
paign of 1900.
This money is to be used to make the
majority of the American people believe
that the photograph of a fat turkey on
Thanksgiving day , will bo just as satis
fying and nourishing as the real roasted
bird itself.
In other words this money is to bo
used for fooling the voters of the United
States into that financial faith which
declares that forty cents worth of silver
is equal to a hundred cents worth of
gold.
This contributed cash is foi the specific
purpose of propagating an economic
heresy and for paying the prophets of a