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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1902)
GALENA-SIGNAL OIL COMPANY , FRANKLIN , PENNA. SUCCESSOR TO GALENA OIL COMPANY AND SIGNAL OIL COMPANY , SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED Galena Coach , Engine and Car Oils and Sibley's Perfection Valve and Signal Oils. CHARLES MILLER , President. JOHN P. IRISH. B. T. Tillinghast's Washington let ter in the Davenport Democrat : the 1st of January Fifty-nine years ago , - ' uary , at Iowa City , John P. Irish was | . born and though he has roamed wide ly , he has never been untrue to the i state of his nativity. I met Mr. Irish at his hotel in Washington one night this week after he had delivered his i ; closing argument for the claimant in I . the case of Salvador or rather the i _ Salvador Commercial Company against 1 - the United States , before the inter national arbitration court , composed of three arbitrators ; one from Canada , one from Salvador and Hon. Don M. j , Dickinson , of Michigan. The amount ( -1 involved is about half a million del lars. Mr. Irish is read in the law of nations , as in almost everything else , L and his eloquence goes with logic. He has been in Washington two ; ' ' , mouths attending to this question and I * . . doing it with a singleness of purpose. , " ' , < . , - . Ho will get hack to San Francisco , ' : ; \ , where lie is'naval officer of the port , ij X i" a few days. ' ' $ : $ ' - Mr. Irish lives at Oakland some of , " * - the time , but in his log house upon his ranch 150 miles from 'Frisco whenever he can. Ho calls the house a hut , but it is an ideal home with books , art treasures , and better than those a wife , a son 21 and a daughter a little older. The sou stands 6 feet 2 , a chip out of the old tree. Mr. Irish carries with him an album showing the rooms of his cabin , pic tures of his family and a photograph of the boy yearly from the time he was six. The pony and the cart are pictured too and the growing fruits. CHEERFUL KANSAS. The word "gold" always makes a white man prick up his ears. Gold is the first metal mentioned in the Bible ; on the second page of the holy scriptures , it is. spoken of with a simple comment of approval ; it is said to be " good. ' ' This tenet has been religiously adhered to by Jews and Christians alike ever since. For a year or two past , stories of gold in western Kansas have been circu lated. It is said that there is an ap preciable trace of the metal in the shales of that flattest country on earth. Some have believed , others have doubted. The aged and wise1 Atohison Globe , usually prompt to denounce anything new as a fake , has seemed to hover on the verge of credulity. Now we are told that careful and long-continued tests show gold to the amount of $1.20 to $6.75 per ton in this shale , averaging $2.80 , which would mean a profit of 80 cents per ton. So now we may ex pect to see the Kansas farmers beat their plowshares into rockers , and their pruning hooks into picks. As for Nebraska , wo hope she will con tinue to raise more corn and less hell every year. We are used to seeing surprising discoveries made over the fence on the south. RELIGION AND SCHOOLS. At the meeting of the Baptist minis ters this week in the Fine Arts building , observes the Chicago Chronicle , Kev. D. B. Cheney denounced the exclusion of bible study from the curriculum of the public schools , and deplored the at titude of the civil authorities in refus ing to let the influence of the bible permeate the education of the Ameri can youth. Mr. Cheney does not seem to under stand that the constitution of the United States permits each individual his own religious rites , in his own way , pro vided they do not interfere with the rights of his neighbor. It would be unfair to the Jew to com pel his children to study the New Testa ment. It would be unfair to the Chi nese to force upon him a bible which was not acceptable to him. The agnostic would be right in protesting against re ligious instruction for his children which to him seemed false. But the influence of the bible does permeate the education of most Ameri can youth , for the chiiroh and the home furnish its teachings in most American families. Confusion and discord would be the result of any attempt to put the bible into our public schools. The Califor- nian.
