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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1899)
the Conservative. 11 r A FAIR LITTLE WORLD OP MY OWN. I've a fair little world of my own , A plnco wlioro I outer uloiui With Fancy to stray O'er her beautiful way And list to her musical tone. O , she shows mo such wonderful dreams And I see such radiant gleams Of all that is bright And all that is right ; We drift over wandering streams , Over streams with a murmur so sweet No one can their music ropcat. I find not a word To tell what I've heard From voices whoso echoes were fleet. And so oft when with Fancy I flee I turn to look backward and see The charm that she lends To faces of friends Who live not in visions with me. A charm from the flashing in sipht Of thoughts that with love are alight , Like halos they fall With grnco over all And linger with tenderness bright. Away from the tumult and drone , From throngs in which one is alone , The shadows uplift And restful tides drift In that fair little world of my own. MAUY FiiENon MORTON. AN HONORED NAME. The widow of a mnn who was iii bus iness in Nebraska before Fremont , the Pathfinder , set his foot on its soil , has just died in Kansas City ; so short has been the time since those things hap peued which seem to us already ancient history. This was Mrs. Mary Chouteau , the wife of Pierre M. Chouteau , who was a nephew of Frederick and Cyprian Ohouteau , all three being members and officers in the American Fur Company of St. Louis in the early part of this century. Fremont made one of their advanced posts his starting-point for both of his expeditions. In the early part of June , 1842 , "I proceeded in steamboat , " he says , "to Chouteau's landing , about 400 miles by water from St. Louis , and near the mouth of the Kansas river , whence we proceeded twelve miles to Mr. Cyprian Chouteau's trading-house * * * * * to whose kindness , during our stay at his house we were much indebted. " One year later settlement seems already to have made some progress. "On the 17th of May (1848) ( ) I arrived at the little town of Kansas , on the Missouri frontier , neai the junction of the Kansas river witl the Missouri. " The lauding place mus have been Kansas City ; the warehouse a now forsaken spot near the little town of Turner , in Kansas. The American Fur Company's re cords appear never to have been pub lished ; it was still in existence in 1842 for Fremont met one of its parties abou where Kearney now stands , vainly en deavoringto get their season's catcl down the Platte ; but it seems to have been dissolved soon after that , and to have been succeeded by individual traders. This is a point , however , on vhich the writer has not been able to atisfy himself. A book published in 854 speaks of Buford , North Dakota , as "Fort Union , the principal fort of , he American Fur Company , " but a lit- ; lo further along mentions a treaty made , 'several years since , " between the Blackfeet Indians and Messrs. Pierre ihouteau , Jr. , & Co. Though this woman was only seventy ears old when she died , it is related hat no steamboat had ever navigated he Missouri when she first ascended it , , vith her husband and a party of French rappers. It was practically an uu- irokeu wilderness that they traversed ; > ut it did not long remain so. The Mormon migration , the Mexican war and the gold discoveries followed close upon one another , and the process of settlement was in full swing. Pierre houteau got him a steamboat , which lie operated to and from St. Louis until after the civil war ; then he retired to Kansas City , and , like his wife , ended iis days in the great city they had seen grow up from a simple jumpiug-off place under a hill. The name of this family has left its impress here and there on the map ; it is borne by towns in Kansas , Indian Ter ritory and Montana , and by counties in Montana and South Dakota , though the last two states have marred the effect of their tribute by spelling the name im properly. The trading operations of the Chouteaus were carried on almost wholly in Nebraska ( which was bigger then than it is now ) ; but our state has es tablished no memorial of any kind to the men whose explorations and enter prise did so much to favor its develop ment. It is a pity that this is so ; it would be no more than right to give their name to the next county we give birth to , taking pains while we are about it to spell it correctly. The railroad em CORPORATE pioyees of the * EMPLOYMENT. \ . , country are to be congratulated on the establishment of a railway correspondence school under the able management of Mr. Geo. H. Baker an experienced and careful student o railroad affairs. The Railroad Educational Association with headquarters at No. 1 Madison avenue , Chicago , 111. , is Mr. Baker's in stitution and is now supplying scholar ships to locomotive engineers , firemen trainmen , as well as trackmen and shop men. Enployees wishing to make their ser vices invaluable to their cornpanie should apply for scholarships , and young men who are ambitious to enter the rail road service will find it much easier to obtain employment if they secure diplo mas from the railway correspoudenc school. Full information can be obtained by addressing Mr. Baker. A LEADERS. . bor of The ugton Post has an editorial upon leader- hip which is rather amusing because of its Baron Muuclmusenisni. It eulo gizes without stint the leadership which lumped democracy into defeat and dis- olutiou in 1890 , and denounces that of Grover Cleveland which advanced it to victory in 1884 and in 1892. The Post eves the leader who can assure dis aster and damns the one who gained . A NEW CREED. A correspondent of The Outlook asks for space for the following creed , which says seems to bo held by President McKiuloy and his political advisers : I. I believe in keeping up the old war raxes to prevent trade with Europe and now war taxes to force trade with Asia. II. I believe in the exclusion of ig norant Europeans and the inclusion of more ignorant Asiatics. III. I believe in a protective tariff where farmers would trade abroad , but in free trade where manufacturers seek a market. IV. I believe the public can not man age monopolies at home , but can man age subject races on the other side of the globe. V. I believe in home-rule for Ireland , but in alien rule for the Spanish islands. VI. I believe in a Monroe doctrine , which forbids Europe to interfere with self-government in America , but per mits America to interfere with self- government in Asia. VII. I believe the Spanish islanders are unable to govern themselves , but will bo fit to help govern us. VIII. I believe the blacks have a right to govern themselves , but that whites and blacks have a right to gov ern yellows. IX. I believe that taxation without representation is tyranny when applied to us , but philanthropy when applied by us. us.X. X. I believe that governments get their just powers from the consent of the governed in America , but from the conscious superiority of the governors in Asia. XI. I believe that militarism and foreign broils are the refuge of despot ism in Europe and of republicanism in America. XIL I believe that American policies have made a little America and that European policies will make a greater America. Every democrat who has faith in the founders of democracy and holds honest money necessary to the body politic , as is pure blood to the individual organ ism , will continue to antagonize Bryan- archy and all that the term implies.
