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PRAYER FOR THE RED MESSIAH.
[ Two Indian apostles have boon preaching anew
now religion to their brethren and have caused
much trouble. They toll the savages thntja
great Messiah will como in a short time ,
bringing with him all the Indians that over
died , and they will then swoop every white
man off the continent.'As soon as the last
white man is dead the earth will bo covered
with four feet of new dirt , bringing back the
original prairies , the forests , the buffalo and
the deer. ]
Better prairies , virgin soil ,
Trees , grass , antelope and deer ,
Quails , coyotes , and flowers ,
The surging herds of buffalo ;
Hazel brush and scrubby oaks ,
Sweet-smelling plum thickets
Where the birds nest and sing ;
< Cool , shady , linwood groves ,
Tall walnuts , near the streams ,
Mossy banks and spreading elms ,
"Wolves in the deep ravines ,
Turkeys in the tangled woods ,
Bears where the berries are ,
Ponds where the grass hangs over
Looking in the depths beneath ;
And the only path or trail
Is where the deer comes to drink.
Better these than stinking towns ,
Polluted pools and drunken men ;
Foul creeping things that shirk and lie
Out and wound with forked tongues ,
And yet beneath the ulcer eats ;
Where children beg and cry for meat
That hangs in plenty beyond their reach ;
Where scoundrels thrive , and liars eat ,
And babes are blue and pinched with cold ;
Where idler's reap the toiler's grain ,
And stalwart men cringe and fawn ,
And gold is God )
Rain down the dirfc , Ol Lord of all !
Four feet above their highest spires ;
And on the top the mellow soil
The black and fruitful loam I
Bring forth the grass !
Ol send the buffalo !
O ! give us back our dead I
With these our Christ !
Bo long delayed.
Capt. Sam. B. Evans , in the Ottumwa Sun.
Nebraska can , if
OUR CHANCE , it chooses , stand
of the exhibiting- states at
the St. Louis Exposition. If it
limits its display to patchwork
quilts , hams and ears of corn , the
wearied visitors will pass it by and
lump it in his mind with a dozen
other agricultural states ; but a visitor
who came to the fair and discovered'it
to be an epitome of the history of' the
great West , would feel intelligently
grateful to Nebraska if he found in
our display a continuous story of the
last century's development. We have
been in it all. The navigators of the
great mountain highway , who went
up stream by paddle , cordelle or
steam , all passed by our front door
the Indian tribes that the explorers
first came in contact with were for
the most part residents of Nebraska
The Astorians , the fur traders , the
Mormons , the soldiers , the gold hunt
ers all traversed our state. Is there
not material here for a display sucl
as no other state can make ?
As soon as it is com-
THE HOUSE THAT pleted by a compe-
GAB BUILT. tent architect of
versification , The
Conservative will publish with illus
trations "The House That Gab Built. "
Two architects only have been con
sidered for this entertaining and in
structive work : Eugene F. Ware , of
Topeka , Kansas , and E. F. Warren , of
Nebraska Oity.
"Tho House'That Gab Built" will
figure prominently in the politics of the
near future.
Everything is white
THE NEW and still. The snow
SNOW. has ceased and the
sun shines brightly
from a clear sky. The fresh
snowfall is yet undisturbed ; it lies
thick in the branches of the ever
greens and is hardly tracked in the
street. It is attacked only where men
pass ; in our travel we tramp under
foot the purest thing on earth. It is
too pure ; it can not last that way in
men's world. It comes from some
high and remote region , where there
is nothing to soil its whiteness , and
brings its own atmosphere with it. It
is not an earthly atmospherehowever ,
and it does not belong in the real
world of life. There is no life where
everything is so pure and cold. As the
sun shines on it and men hurry over
it , it takes on the character of the
place it has come to , and presently it
is nolonger snow , but mud and slush.
But the next snow will be just as pure
and white again.
It seems to us that
THE ST. LOUIS the state of Nebraska
FAIR. will make a mis
take and miss a
fine opportunity as well if it merely
follows in the established rut in its
display at the St. Louis exposition.
There will be state' buildings enough ,
and exhibits enough of raw and man
ufactured products of all sorts ; but
who will be the wiser ? At the Chicago
cage fair nearly every state had its
building ; but they and their contents
were so much alike that nobody re
members one from another today.
Now this St. Louis exposition was
intended primarily as a historical
affair. It commemorates the Louisi
ana purchase and the following de
velopment < of the West. Statues of
early explorers and missionaries are
to be erected , and the historical idea
is to be kept conspicuous. If Nebraska
will suffer its corn and cattle to be
taken for granted and devote itself to
showing up its share of the history of
the territory , we have an idea that our
display will bo received much more
warmly by the governors of the fair ,
and remembered much longer by the
visitors.
The Omaha Ex-
TO BE EXcelsior makes a
PLICIT. spirited assault up
on The Conservative
n its last issue. We have offended tins
excellent society journal in two points ;
we have likened it to a lady , and wo
lave said that Omaha evaded the pay
ment of her just debts. The Excelsior
feels the first injustice to the depths
of its excelsior bosom ; and indeed wo
will not offend in that manner again.
As to the second matter , we see no
objection to being explicit , if Omaha
does not mind. We know of cases ,
and so do a number of other people in
different parts of the country , where
the city of Omaha lias , in effect , issued
checks for value received upon banks
where she had no funds. Some of the
holders of these documents live in Ne
braska City ; that is how we come to
know of it. These holders , after wait
ing several years , took their case to
the courts , which promptly gave
judgment against the city. A judg
ment of the district court requires
satisfaction ; how do the officials of
Omaha undertake to meet this judg
ment ?
Actually , by issuing a new set of
identical checks upon the same bank ,
so to speak , where they had no funds.
Is it straining probability to say
that such incidents as this , becoming
known , may weaken people's belief in
the integrity of the city government
of Omaha ?
There is a story
ON ENGAGING of a journeyman
FRANKNESS. printer who a p -
peared in an office ,
and in the course of the first- forenoon
took occasion to introduce himself to
his fellow workmen. "My name is
Harris , " he said , "and any man that
calls me Ginger is going to get
licked. " This tale is told in news
paper offices to illustrate a danger
some people fall into of saying more
than they need to say. If this man
had not suggested it , nobody would
ever have thought of calling him
Ginger which of course they all did
from that hour.
The editor of the Omaha Excelsior ,
in reviewing a complimentary notice
that we recently gave him , says that
criticism of his publication is invari
ably confined to one of two lines ; people
ple either call him "she" or "Clem
entina' ' which would appear to us to
be much the same thing. We called
him she in entire innocence , having no
suspicion that we were following a
beaten path ; we thought maybe he
would like it.
But "Clementina" would never
have occurred to-us of our own un
aided imagination. Now that it has
been suggested , however , we must ad
mit that it may be difficult to dissoci
ate it from tne Excelsior infuture. .
But we think it is a real pretty name.
