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A recent visitor
TRAMPS AND
STREETS. iu California found
the streets of Los
Angeles being kept clean by chained
gangs of tramps , the tramp being do
nned as the "unemployed who is deter
mined to continue out of employmout. "
This is a neat definition and wo agree
with him that the dirty streets of Ne
braska City might bo carried far toward
cleanliness if the wilfully indolent were
compelled to use the hoe for their meals ,
and the helpless unemployed , the man
who wants work but cannot get it ,
should always find an honorable job on
the streets at minimum compensation ,
so that ho could always earn something
and avoid beggary while waiting , hunt
ing and making the better chance. If
wo could only put a per ceutago of
sense into our sentimentality , things
would go better.
THE " .19 EXPOSITION' AT OMAHA.
The many friends of Dr. George L.
Miller who reside in Nebraska and a
great throng of admirers outside of this
state will rejoice in the complete success
of the Greater America Exposition.
It will bo entirely original and alto
gether unprecedented in very many
ways and may be visited as a means of
education to the visitor , in regard to
Cuba and the Philippine islands.
The antagonism which has prevailed
as to certain retail mercantile establish
ments and various saloons and hotels h
Omaha will , no doubt , die out ; and the
merchants and traders iu other towns
will proclaim that Omaha retailers cannot -
not successfully compete for any patron
ngo at their respective localities. Al
free traders will admit the right to buy
iu Omaha. But nobody will bo compelled
to buy there.
TUE CONSERVATIVE wishes all con
cerued in the exposition a complete and
satisfactory outcome of the enterprise
notwithstanding the fact that it was un
dertakeu in opposition to most of the
newspapers , published in Nebraska , out
side of Omaha.
"HIGH-HANDED TREASON" IN IOWA
The attention of the president of tin
United States and his cabinet adviser
will no doubt bo called to the traitorous
and treasonable utterances of ex-Gov.
"William Larrabee. It is possible that
severe punishment awaits the chairman
of the state board of control. It may bo
that Governor Shaw will convene the
general assembly in special and extra
ordinary session for the purpose of de
posing an official who is engaged in the
work of preventing enlistments iu the
regular army. At any rate the open act
of antagonizing the government in time
of war cannot be passed unnoticed by
the federal authorities. , While Otis ,
Lawtou , MaoArthur , and the rest of
them are heroically fighting to subdue
the Filipinos and take possession of their
islands , an ex governor of Iowa is spread
ing dissent and questioning the wiedoni
of the government's policy. Ho may be ,
in the eyes of some , actually inciting
trouble by his rebellious utterances.
The use of the mails has been denied
the seditious circulars of Edward Atkin
son and others because they are calcu
lated to prejudice the success of the ad
ministration in the Philippines , and
"loyal" papers all over the land are
loudly calling for summary execution of
this Boston rebel. But is Edward At
kinson any worse than William Larra
bee ? In fact , is not the crime of this
prominent citizen of Iowa more rank
hail that of the Massachusetts essayist ?
Before the students of a public iustitu-
ioii of learning , the State University of
Iowa itself , Governor Larrabee has said
that the Philippine islands "afford a field
for adventurers only. " He has averred
that the expense of keeping these islands
will be far more than they are worth.
Ho has declared that the peace commis
sion made a bad blunder , and that the
administration was a party to this blun
der. What does the government pro
pose to do about this ? Davenport ( la. )
Democrat.
MARIA LIFE OF .JOHN JACOH ASTOlt.
My great grandfather , writes Hon.
William Waldorf Astor in the June
Pull Mall Magazine , was born in a peas
ant's cottage in the village of Waldorf
or WaldDorf , "the village in a wood , '
near Heidelberg , on July 17 , 176 ! $ . Ho
received the usual parish school educa
tion , and at the ago of sixteen left home
to escape a stepmother's ill usage. He
set out on foot for the Ithine , and paus
ing for a last look at the familiar scones
ho was to behold no more for many
years , made three valuable resolves to
which he adhered through life to be
honest , to be industrious , and never to
gamble. Arrived in London lie lodged
for four years at the house of an elder
brother , and having during that inter
val acquired the English language , em
barked for the New World , toward :
whose broadening field of opportunity
he felt himself irresistibly attracted , auc !
where he had the premonition of grea
fortune.
Upon reaching New York ho at once
busied himself in the fur trade , to whose
vast developments his thoughtful atten
tion had been directed by a fellow-coun
tryman , and wherein immense profits
were being realized. lie entered upon
this occupation with unremitting vigor ,
and in a dozen years had diverted some
of the most profitable markets from his
competitors , and was at the head of a
business branching to Albany , Buffalo ,
Plattsburg and Detroit. lie established
his central office at New York , whore
he diligently cultivated a merchant's
habits in regularity and method , in the
knowledge of accounts , and iu the mas-
tory of the minutest details of his
affairs. He rose early , lived frugally ,
labored with indefatigable activity , and
soon had considerable means at com
mand. He was a keen judge of the
men employed either at his countiug-
room , or as traders with the Indians ,
and himself the most painstaking of
them all required from each the best
of which he was capable.
OUIVIRA.
per s contains an
article by Mr. James Mooney , of the
bureau of ethnology , on the niucb-
[ liscussed city of Quivira , the half-
nythical city located somewhere in this
inarter of the continent , of which the
Spanish invaders of Now Mexico heard
from the Indians , and which several of
them claimed to have reached. Their
larratives differ greatly , but agree in
saying that the city when found , was
most unsatisfactory , containing no more
; old than we may suppose an Indian en-
ampmeut of those times would have
contained. Mr. Moouoy identifies Qui
vira with some settlement of the Wich
ita Indians between the Great Bend of
the Arkansas and the present city of
Wichita.
The late Judge Savage of Omaha lo
cated Quivira at the Loup Fork of the
Platte , maintaining his position in sev
eral scholarly papers , which appear in
the publications of the State Historical
society. He depended mainly on the
narrative of one Penalosa , who made
the journey from Santa Fo in 1632 ,
whereas Mr. Moonoy's Quivira is that of
Coronado , who visited it in 1540. Ac
cording to one view , the inhabitants of
the "city" were Pawnees , by the other
they wore Wiohitas.
Where experts disagree , THE CONSER
VATIVE would not presume to rush in ;
but it seems possible that both these
theories may bo correct , and that vil
lages on both the Arkansas and the
Platte may have boon visited by early
Spanish parties. It would not be strange
if two explorers , eighty years apart ,
thought they had found the same city ,
especially if the two towns were known
by the same name to the roving Coinau-
ches of the southwest , who had no towns
nor pottery of their own ; for the Paw
nees and Wichitas were closely related
and resemble each other greatly to this
day in language and customs. The
many-storied houses that Penalosa found
in his Quivira are a great puzzle , if one
gives his story any credence ; Coroiiado's
city contained houses of grass , and one
of these , built by the Wichita Indians
in the northeast corner of the grounds
at the Omaha exposition , was described
in detail in THE CONSERVATIVE last fall.
It would be interesting to know what
Mr. 0. F. Lummis and the Landmarks
Club think of the Spanish explorers and
their Quivira.
