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1 1 ii .1 iiiiwwJiwMMMWMiMBiSto , jaaafcc-w )' i' V ilkfcTWHW- nGuAJC THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. only not varnished with quite so line a polish. The present Legislature Is Just entering upon Its work. Wo nro unnblo to say what they can or will do. But without Intending to Hatter that august body, wo will say that appearances are In their fa vor. Tho majority of the members arc young men who seem gifted with an av ernge share of intelligence iuuIw'm. As we scan their countenances wo ob serve the evidences of more culture than heretofore. "We like young men we are n young man oursolf old men, too, for that matter; but we are a grasping, dash ing, impetuous state, plunging ahead, not "with progressive strides," but at a hand gallop; (By the way, our galloping, in tho way of enticing and rushing in ami. grants, and running into debt to build railroads and school houses, has come pretty near breaking the western end of our precious neck.) Therefore, to meet and make them open their eyes with won der. Wo win do It if we try. Shall Nebraska be Ignored in this grand jubilee? No Slate will have more reason to rejoice, and feel selfcoinplaisant than ours. It will be the nnnlvorsnrv of ournn lion's hundreth blithday: many states have been adding to their wealth,' power and greatness, for nearly half a century, and right gloriously do the results beartcstimo. ny. But Nebraska lias lived and achieved for only eight years, and for scarcely a decade have her beautiful prairies been wrested from the desert, and the hand of the red man. Let m then make a display, not that will make our elder sisters blush, but that will make them look upon us with sisterly love, and fond admiration. Let our University be represented there. It is now time for the authorities to be looking around, in order to prepare something that will do us honor. Our material interests and resources will lie well represented nev the emergency, we must not only have er fear. Let our educational progress also thinking men, but those imbued with a be represented. little of tho spirit of "young America" to Lot drawings and sketches of our school keep up sulllciont steam to prevent the houses, our academies, our Normal Sehnol people from running ahead of the Stale, mm University, llnd a place in the Art Gal and yet sustain the pressure. We do not know what the present Leg islature will accomplish, but we do know that never in our history have there been so many duties of vital importance to perform. This Legislature has an oppor tunity to immortalize itself. A man must be chosen to represeut the State in our national councils; our finances ie quire grave legislation; important nicas ures for' improving our Common School System must be considered ; the Univer sity and the State Normal School must be looked after; besides all this, starvation must be driven from the very doors of ten thousand sufferers, and new confidence in Nebraska's resources inspired in ihe minds of the people at homo and abroad. Surely no legislative body in the States has greater responsibilities, or moro im perative incentives to action. Tho mind could not wish grander themes tor oiirn est thought, nor the heart more stirring appeals, for eloquence. Wo are willing to trust the present legislation. We are or tliodox and faith comes oiuy to us. lery. W elaborate statements, reports and histories of all that we have accomplished in the Intellectual life of our Slate be for warded to Philadelphia. We are young as a Stale, but let us have assurance and "cheek" sulllciont to claim our due share of the honors, and shout our full share of rejoicing. Lei us play Young America a little. The name be comes us well. AX INCIDENT. While strolling along one of the streets of this city a few weeks ago, we witnessed a little incident that left a deep Impression on our mind. It was one of those chance occurrences that momentarily snatch away the vail from the inner sanctuary of (lie heart's temple, and reveal it to us naked and undisguised. Very frequently we may learn in this manner that the emotions and the all'ections which warm the bosom even of the most lowly and despised are as noble and ingenuous as those which struggle in the hearts of queens and princes. It was one of those lowering days when the chill October wind sobs and mourns through the streets, and the cold, penotrat- Wohave before us the (iienl.n-s ,,r iim '" "rUwimgnilii inaKcsono teel spitefully Bureau of Education relative to the Inler- ",8C"iibIe mid out of sorts, and venomous national Centennial Exhibition to be held ,0Wrtrd vr.Voly- This we were n Philadelphia from April tilth to October """' oymeui, even lor us. wo ui- TllB CENTENNIAL. lllth, 1870. The main buildiiu: in which this great exposition Is to take place is 1BS0 feet in length, and -KM feet in breadth. The foundations consists of piers of mason ry; the superstructure of wrought iron columns, which support wrought iron voiced mental anathemas upon all mankind We complained that the world was utterly heartless that there remained no generous passions in the hearts of men. Soon we found ourselves pausing at the corner ol one of our large business houses, boy, yet very tenderly, and said, "Bless ye, mo darlln',good by." And she said, as a tear rolled down either worn cheek, "Take care o' yerself, Jimmle." Ah I what a world of womanly tender ncss and enduring mith were expressed In that homely adieu, "Tako care o ycr self, Jimmle I" And wo thought, can it bo that only the gentle and favored of for tunc possess unselfish affections and gen erous motives V This poor woman has a heart moro firm and more faithful than the haughty daughter or Fortune . This despised laborer has affections as tender, and a heart more true than many a proud son of gentle blood! Pause before you denounce tho whole world as selfish. Start out to morrow. Watch carefully the scenes passing around you. Make up your mind that you will like humanity, and I think, with me, you wi 1 say "Each day brings new assuranco that others arc less selfish than 1." The world uses most of us better than wo use ourselves or It. Be not too hasty to judge. Here is a man who, you say, has no motive but self; lie is cold, imperious, and devoid of a tender or generous passion. Have you ever seen him tried? You have never dreamed what a wealth of affection, what gentle emotions, what noble impulses, are hi'Ulen beneath that cold and passive ex terior. The man or the woman of tho llnest feelings and the most royal nature does not ofion draw aside the curtain of his heart his "Holy of Holies" to gratify the idle curiosity of the world. Yet unlike the anciont shrine of Jeho vah, none so humble, if truly worthy, tliat may not enter there and find untold wealth and peace. roof trusses. Gr..nd preparations are being , in whose shelter stood a poor son and made by every department of the general i daughter of Erin. They belonged to the government, and aldo by the state govern. menls, to make this exhibition worthy of the occasion. Never before has the world been called upon to celebrate the auniver wary of so groat an event. The victories and successes which have produced the gorgeous triumphs of kings and conquer ors sink into insignificance when com pared with tho birth of American liberty. Let us then show the Old World on this occasion that wo have reached our full majority and mean to tako our lawful seat at the head of nations. Let tho evidences of our mighty resources, tho specimens of our genius, our intellectual progress, our art, manufactures and com, merce, astonish tho denizens of the St most humble ranks. The man was a com moil repair hand on one of our railroads; his wife a washerwoman. Ho was about to seek new employment, to bn gone sev eral months. He had nothing to leave for his wife's sustenance, except what she her self possessed a hand willing to work, and a heart with fortitude to sustain her. Sho nnmed over her little store of provisions and mentioned the prospects for work, assuring her husband, while a smile of affection overspread her wrinkled features, that "ye'll not have ony fear for mo ; I'll not be sufferin' for onything." When they parted there was no dramatic display of grief; no profusion of elegant affection, Ho took her hand awkwardly as a school CRITIQUES AND CRITICISMS. The DenUon Collegian has a good open ing article on "A False Maxim," but what if(i the matter with "Omicron" was he in love? Tho Niagara Index asks, "How do wo look on tinted paper?" Wo are con strained to roplj', "Very well, indeed I" The Imh:v is one of tho spiciest papers wo recicvo and contains somo well writ ten articles. Wo would like to say something in fa vorof this same X)Mo us j'c Gazette but if it will persist in inserting in its columns such miserable attempts at pootry and such dry disquisitions on uninteresting subjects as it does wo must give it up in despair. "A Fow Words about Nature" is the only readable article and tho iiithor of that is too prejudiced to view tho othor side lairly. We must confess that wo expected moro from Hillsdale College than wc find in the Ctmrciit. The typographical work is nearly faultless and tho matter Is well ar. ranged but tho articles nro too short. Tho only poem which It contains is a beauti ful piece of word painting and the motro is almost perfect, which is more than can be said of most collego poetry. Tho ar ticlo on "Co-Disclpllno" is good and an example of tho fact that "thoro's many a true word spoken In jest." We have an idea that tho author of "Froe Thought" is young, and have no doubt that when ho grows older he will not "pitch in" quite so extensively but will tako things a lit tle more moderately and charitably. Frco thinkers are not all such dreadful creatures. We do not agree entirely with the edl tor In his conception of a college paper. It ought to be tho exponontof the thought of a College, not of the gossip. Locals, items of news, notes, &c. arc interesting and amusing, of course, but it is hardly worth while to carry on a periodical for their sake, or oven to make thorn a prln oipal part of tho paper. Tho OHo Is also cngagod in tho discus slon of tho question of Compulsory Church Attendance. Why do not some of our college papers carry on a regular discussion of some such question among themselves? There can something bo said in opposition to every position taken on every subject and thcro are many things that might bo written up in a sc ries of articles botweon two or moro pa pers. The Lawrence Oollcgian always has plenty of "fun" In its pases. Most too much of it, perhaps, for a model Colletm journal. There is a lack of solid rend. ing matter such as wo naturally expect to find in a paper of its size. This num. bur contains an article on tho German School System which gives some interest- ing iniormatiou. Ye editor bids adieu to '7-t in "now departure" trom tho usual style. Wo agree with him when he says "ho will promlso next year to do better, if tho year will do the same." The tepidus JSTo tus that sweeps over Nebraska prairies Is hardly conducive to the highest moral de velopment. Tho College Olio opon3 with a good arti clo on "Independence," from which we extract a few pregnant sentences. A man of character "wishes his con duct to coincide with people's ideas of right, but he does what ho thinks is right, if ho does not meet with approbation." "Tho truo man thinks and arranges, and when all points are well propared puis mom forth." "Independence is strength without vio lence; is tho fitting of one's self to cir cumstances, and not permitting them to run away witli hun. It is a character in love with itself sutllciontly to bo fitted to move in life as if fitted to its sphere." The High School for January is among tho first received of our exchanges. If wo might bo allowed to criticize anything that comes from Omaha, wc would sug gest to the writer of the leading article that tho address "Mr. Editor" and the in troduction which follows Is not exactly appropriate in the style of writing which sue uses. If she wore a correspondent of the papor, writing upon persons and tilings, such a beginning would be ad missible, but is in bad taste in any other case. Tho editorial on tho "Real Cause," has hardly, to our ears, tho right ring. To "applaud tho action of the plucky south ern belles," shows quite as low a standard of manhood as of the womanhood which was evidenced by the fifty New Orleans girls who loft thoir High School because colored pupils wero admitted to the class. Talk about tho impossibility of "suppress, ing our natural convictions" as much as you may, the fact still remains that in or der to aid tho upward development of tho world these "natural convictions," if natural they bo, must bo suppressed or what is hotter worn away. The least of actions has its influence. We will have to bo educated up to an appreciation of tho truth that wo must got oursolvos, our prejudices and our convictions out of the way of tho march of tho race and uqt ro il gillMWlinini
