12 Conservative.
A FLUTTER OP WINGS.
The orchard is shining and glowing to-dny
With butterfly wings that nro ceaseless at
lilny.
There's yellow above and there's yellow below
And flitting about of a glimmer of snow ;
Amidst the green tangle of tall heads of grass
The radiant flashings of red gleamings pass.
The boughs of the trees are low bending to
hold
The ripe harvest apples just turning to gold.
And downward from branches the butterflies
sweep ,
Like leaves of the autumn that fall to their
bleep.
O hither and yon , as if blown by a sprite ,
The delicate wings rise and droop in their
flight.
Just poised for a moment their airy wave
stops
To linger and sway o'er the pink clover tops.
A stray humming bird with a flash passes by ,
The noisy black bee with its buzzing comes
nigh ;
Uplifted the wings that the fragile forms bear ,
Like bits of a rainbow they shino.in the air.
With darting and flitting the orchard is gay
While sunbeams and butterflies silently play.
MAUY FiiENcn MOHTON.
The Louisville ( Ky. ) Evening Post
( dem. ) objects to Mr. Bryan's utterances
concerning the auti-Goebel movement
among the Kentucky democrats , and
Bays : "Has not Mr. Bryan , in attempt
ing to instruct on issues about which he
confesses he is not informed , acted un
wisely , and indiscreetly , and precipi
tately ? His best friends in Kentucky
feel that he has so acted , and instead of
endorsing Mr. Goebel they intend to
apply to the situation reasoning from
Mr. Bryan's Chicago speech , and to put
a new ticket in the field , and to follow
it fearlessly to defeat or to a triumphant
victoi-y. "
IJKOADKNING A GUILD'S MINI ) .
Expand the child's mind by showing
him from time to time scenes from all
sides of life. Take him today to stud
ios and let him see how pictures are
made ; next week to silk factories , to
learn the poetry of labor and afterward
to a brick yard and an iron foundry ,
not forgetting the claims of great chur
ches and monuments upon an elevating
education. The alternation of city and
country is a delightful stimulant. When
travel is possible we should give the child
glimpses of mountains and sights of the
sea , and let him become acquainted with
mountaineers and fishermen , even as he
ought in town to know something of
the ways and thoughts of the workmen ,
so that he may come to feel sympathy
with all sorts of people and understand
the merit of labor. Actual experience
of this land is worth infinitely more
than the theorizing in schoolbooks. It is
not particularly interesting to a child to
read that he should bo grateful to all
the people who supply him with his
daily comforts ; to the farmer , the baker ,
the manufacturer , the builder. But
when ho sees how grain grows and is
converted into flour ; how furniture is
wrought from blocks of wood , and
threads woven into cloth , the whole his
tory of the objects about him is re
vealed. The different parts of life be
come connected and ho gets a sense of
the thread of harmony that runs
through it all. And ho has a moment
of satisfaction , coming through a feel
ing of kinship with the world , which is
more useful than gratitude upon gen
eral principles. Woman's Home Com
panion.
SOME HINTS roil IIOME-KUILDING.
In considering the interior of a house ,
those portions of it which moot the vital
needs of the family , the kitchen and bed
rooms , are of first importance. The
kitchen should be small enough for con
venience and large enough , if possible ,
for comfort in warm weather. An
oblong shape seems desirable , a short
distance between the range and the
serving-table , a long distance stretching
between two windows for good ventila
tion. The kitchen should be so placed
that the prevailing winds will blow the
fumes from the house and not into the
living-rooms. If the plan for the cost
and size will admit , other windows may
be set above a line of shelves , where
they will admit sun and air and yet not
occupy wall-space needed for furniture.
A kitchen porch should be added where
vessels can be sunned , and where butch
er and baker can deposit their wares and
leave the kitchen floor clean and the
cook's temper consequently unruffled.
Between the kitchen and the body of
the house there should be a passage-way
with openings opposite each other. This
is another insurance policy against
kitchen odors , which , however clean and
proper in the kitchen , do not belong in
the other part of the house. Wo know
that cooking and cleaning must go on in
our homes , but it is a part of the house
keeper's art to hide the machinery and
show only the charming results. As we
go towards the front of the house we
must pass , not through the dining-room
and pantries , as in so many houses , but
through a side passage , small but well
lighted , and cut off from the kitchen
and pantries by a door. Good House
keeping.
PAUKS. Nebraska City
should have better
care taken of all its paries. The van
dals who destroy trees , break fountains
and mutilate seats in the beautiful city
park around which are the spacious and
elegant homes of Colonel Wilson , Messrs.
Zimmerer , Rolfe , Butts , Cottou/Weber-
iug and others ought to be discovered ,
arrested and punished severely. It is
possible that the parks must bo policed
night and day during summer ?
Morton park , with its twenty-three
acres of beautiful woodland and delight
ful foliage and cool shades , is becoming
more and more an attractive resort.
The pavilion , however , is , from time to
time , splintered , chopped and battered
into a state of tumbledowuuess by bad
boys. These miscreants should bo
caught and jailed. Morton park is , by
deed of gift , for the use of Nebraska
City and all its inhabitants upon certain
named conditions. It is sincerely hoped
that nothing in the way of noncompliance
pliance with the covenants will ever
alienate this pleasure ground from the
city.
The feeling among the volunteers who
have been serving in the Philippines is
made clear enough when a detachment
of them escapes the region where the
censorship prevails and reaches this
country , as did the Nebraska regiment
and the Utah artillery yesterday. All
of the despatches from Sau Francisco
agree that the soldiers express the great
est dissatisfaction with the management
of the campaign by General Otis , and
the warmest satisfaction at escaping
from further service in the war of con
quest. Colonel Mulford , commander of
the Nebraska troops , is quoted as saying
that "just one man in the entire regi
ment reeulisted , " while Lieutenant-
Colonel Eager of the same regiment is
represented as believing that "it will
take at least twenty years to pacify the
Filipinos , " and as stating that "all the
men think the price wo are paying for
our new possessions is far in excess of
what they are worth. " It is a serious
matter for the administration when each
returning regiment distributes in a host
of communities men who know from ex
perience what the war in the Philippines
really is , and who hold such views as
these about it. New York Evening
Post , July 81 , 1899.
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