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TilKicr. is only ono tiling that is
iintl liottor than the SaUirday Unu , anil
that is Tin : SUNDAY I5in :
will lie roinpinbmvil for its
Biiceussful introduction of tlm roiu'on-
trntoil o-- once of wialof into the westurn
cliiniito.
Aiinxc the wonders of the nsjo must
bo recorded the fact that two Nebraska
pDstuiasturs huvo rosiynod in the last
two \vooks.
IT IK stated that Itouhuijrcr hns boon
joined la ISru.ssola by a mysterious
wotimm. Mysturiotis wom ui are about
all that is loft of the frothy Houltingi&ts.
Tin : lohhyints have bomi ordered oft"
the tloor of the houio tit r/mcoln. Now
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lot somebody order thorn olT the grounds.
Their services are not ncodod this year.
TIUUK : is no reason in the world why
confederate votoram should not attend
the world's fair in a body , nruvidod they
don't forgot to dioor for the union and
otherwise boliavo themsclvui.
BY A typoyraphieal error the news re
ports have slated that "tho vacancy
caused ly Vamlorvoort'n rei.iyuatioa lias
boea filled. " There is no vacancy. It
was the vacancy that resigned.
IT IK vi-ry late in the day to talk about
fiujiorlluoiin otajiloyi'S in this legislature.
The hope of reform in leirishitivo ex
penses lins boon refer rod to the twenty-
second session , which meets in lSKt. !
Tun president has bottled the Boston
poslaiastorbhip at last by rejecting all
the applicants with fervid recommenda
tions and appointing a man that nobody
asked for. Ilo la a man perfectly com
petent , however , having jubt served two
terms as mayor of Huston.
An'Kit searching the records from ono
end of the state to the other Detective
Johnson , alias Dean anil half a dozen
other aliases claims to have discovered
liscropancies in three precincts outside
of Douglas county against the prohibi
tion amoiulmont. This startling revela
tion is immediately followed by another
demand for a recount of the whole state.
Si.VATOii : CAISKY of Wyoming testi
fied at the woman's congress In "Wash
ington thut female snflYngo was a monumental
mental SIKCOI-S in his stato. Of course ,
Senator L'aroy ' would have hard sledding
horoaflor , in a state whom women vote
for members of the legislaluro , if ho tes
tified to anything olso. Ho is about as
unprejudiced a witness as a man who
ehouUl testify in his own behalf wh oa on
trial for his life.
SUSAN n. ANTHONY ami the fourth
party proj-idontlal candidate , Mrs. Dolva
Lockwood , will henceforth not speak as
they nass. The plumoloss knight of
woman rights who has long shico dis
carded fashion's foibles touched a most
sensitive chord when she declared at
the woman's national council that she
could conitoao Uolva's aristocratic dress
but when she wont so far as to bleach
her hair and paint her face , Susan foil
herself bound to cut her acquaintance.
IT IS proposed to put reciprocity with
Brazil to a practical test by sending
three American steamships to that coun
try loaded with samples of almost every
known product of this country. A score
of Boston capitalists arc Ititorostoil in
the scheme , which is said to have an-
-suiDoilJatgo proportions. The de.stga is
to start the expedition the latter part of
April or early in May , and arrangements -
monts are being made to rent storehouses
in Hto for exhibiting the samples. The
plan is a good ono and If carried out
ought to have very beneficial results.
All Kurojwan countries having trade
with South America display samples of
goods in the principal commercial cities ,
and in order to compote the manufactur
ers and merchants of the United States
must do the same. The disposition
shown by the Boston merchants to take
hold of the opportunity now offered in a
thoroughly business-liko way is most
commendable , and it is to bo expected
that their example will bo emulated by
the merchants of other seaport cities , aj
it certainly will be should it provo asuc-
CO3S.
Tit \in \ si mini s
! ' > ' i n mtiii'i1 of JIIIM .clwo'j pro-
\ ( lit jn I'fUftt in in the nuHnii'iits ' of
\ irio.IH iii'-i ' iiiiimvti lr.uli'8 haut boon in
miivp fui opcHilioti In Now VorU 1'itj.
When first e Uiblifhod them M'hools
( Miommtored n great diml of opposition ,
hut their enlorprHiig ( omulor , appro-
elating the urgent and growing noccMlty
for such ItHtltutloiH to moot an over In
creasing donmiul which could not bo pro
vided for in any other way , purrovoreil
in the umlurluklng. The schools grow
Ktemllly In pnblli.1 favor from your to
year , tnc alteiidnnro rapidly Incrwcd ,
and the record of the work done
in starting young men on the way lobo-
come sUillod artisans long ago most
amply justified the enterprise. Hun
dreds of youth who without this oppor
tunity would never ha\o ui'tpilrod the
practlfiil knowledge es-tontlal to an
honorable and independent self-support ,
have bi'i'omo skilled workmnn In the
trades to which they were bint tiduplod ,
conunaiidlng the best wajios , with their
services constantly In demand. The
rolls of those who have gone through
those schools contain the niuno * of many
who afterwards attained to position1 * of
control and responsibility , and not a
few have bo01110 employer- * . The
success of the NVw Vork .schools has
led to the establishment of similur in
stitution1 * elsewhere , with mint satisfac
tory results. It is doubtless a question
of time only when the trade school will
bo found in os'ory eonsldorablo city of
the country.
The Omaha delegates who attended
the national convention of the Builders'
and Traders' association , recently hold
in New Vork , were most favorably itn-
pressed with what they saw and learned
of the trade .schools , and some of tliem are
seriously considering the question of es
tablishing such a school in this
city. Jt is not to bo doubted that
it would provo to bo a grati
fy ing HUCCOSS. There Is a , largo number
of youth in Onvihii and other towns of
Nebraska who would irladlv avail them
selves of such an institution to get u
knowledge of the elementary require
ments of a trade , and who unJor present
circumstances have very small chance
of gratifying tlioir df.siro to Iweotno me
chanics , it should bo undorstoo 1 that it
is not the aim of the trade school to turn
out fullllodgi'dvorkinon. . The student
Is merely instructed in first principles ,
but siu-h instruction as ho iccoives is
thorough and induces pructlc'il thinking - ,
ing as wnll as work. What he
la required to do must ha well
done , and ho guts an idea at once of the
most expedition- the most econom
ical way to do a certain work. Thus
equipped ho is prepared to go into the
shop and become from the start a useful
anil profitable employe , giving com-
> arativoly little trouble in the matter of
nstructlon to his superior , and the ox-
lerienco is that these who go from the
school to the shop generally make more
npld progress than those who start in
the shop. As a rule the lad who goes to
i tr.ulo among journeymen without any
uwious instruction lab irs under great
lisadv Ullages. Thoinonaro notdispo&ed
to show him oven the simplest thlnirs ,
mil the omplover or foreman rarely 1ms
my time to spare for bis instruction. In
nosl cases the matter of starling in a
-ratio is a discouraging undertaking ,
rho youth who has had the advantage
of a trade school avoids tlii.s experience.
The old apprenticeship systum lias
assed away and in all probability will
icver bo revived. Uut tnoro is still a
lemnnd for skilled workmen in all
jraiiches of industry , and the question
-hat becomes every jour more urgent is ,
low are they to bo sociired ? Shall wo
continue to depend on Kuropo for
them , or shall a way bo pro
vided to enable American boys
lo bccomo competent meclrmies
and learn to respect such employment.
The professions are overflowing , and
while there is always room at the top
there are extremely few who have the
ibility to reach It. Women are con
tending for a place in all the lighter
classes of employment , and with marked
success. What are the tons of thousands
of young men who every year stop into
the arena to battle for existence to do if
they are not pormiltod to learn useful
trades ? The question , as men everywhere -
whore who fltul the light for subsistence
hard and uncertain will attest , is a most
borioiH and imoortant one. anil it is
growing more so year by year. The
idea of establishing a trade school in
Omaha should bo encouraged.
A moirtr
There is a class of working men , wo
men and children in Now York city
whoso condition justifies the phrase ,
modern barbarism. They are the vic
tims of what is known as "tho sweater
system. " Ciowde.d Into wretched tone-
meat houses , they work from daylight
to midnight in the manufacture of cheap
clothing , and receive for their pay a
pittance that barely sustains a precari
ous existence. What they sweat is
human blood.
Now Vork philnnthopUls have tried
unsuccessfully to mitigate their wretch-
edness. which has long boon well known
to the public. It now looks as if relief
would come , but , strangely enough , not
from the capital of Now Vork , but from
the governor and legislature of Massa
chusetts. A commission recently ap
pointed by that stilt" renders a report
that roads llko a chapter from "Daruost
Kngland. " It shows that the life and
health of men , women and children is
being worn away on the merciless- grind
stone of poverty in the tonomonl cloth
ing shops of Now York. It demostratos
that the product of this miserable labor
IB impregnated with the germs of con-
tagioiH dlso-tsos anil is therefore dan
gerous to theoutsido public. It Is proba
ble that as a result of this Investigation
Massachusetts will forbid the shipment
of Now York sweater clothing Into her
territory , and thus strike n tolling blow
at the manufacturers who pander to
their greed by employing sweater labor
and paying BHeater urices.
It is a humiliating rollectlon on our
civilization that such a stop should bo
necessary , especially in a land where
most classes of labor tire well paid and
where wo legislate against the pauper
labor of other countries. It is also a
striking instance ot the public spirit of
Massachnsotts that she should go outside
of her own domain to lift the crushing
In rileti front the worklngmen nnil woituii
t f ii'inth r t it slu his fostered h r
own Indus'rl'il ' Intcro ts att.l thrown |
i-vorj cnfi gunr 1 aviniinl her Inlicm-rs
Sli- MOW applies her tlillmvii" til II
brouliM1 field and bogtUdiv movement Iw-
fnro Which thn crunl tenement system
> f N'ew Vork must in the end ho swept
away.
This is an. ago of progress. The nodal
movement Hews over upward and on
ward in it cin-ronl which grows daily
stronger , Ulna wonder that this bar
barism has stood so long and eousplcu-
oinly against the spirit of the age.
Ttnxr\--i'nrii : \ n.ut.s or sr.i
Today Is the twenty-fourth annivers
ary of Nebraska's statehood. On Muroh
1 , 1SH7 , 1'rosUlent Andrew Johnson Is
sued the proclamation which invested
the territory with the powers and dig
nity of a sovereign stato. Ono day Inter
the now commonwealth , in the person of
Hon. T. M. Marquott. took her seat in
congress and cast her maiden veto for
the famous actnf reconstruction. These
events marked the dawn of a now era of
political history and material develop
ment , and saw Nobr.isk v fairly
launched on the tide of progress.
The pathway by which Nebraska
found the door to the union was not
strewn with iwos. It was marked with
bitter struggles all along the line , and
the object was finally attained only when
successive obstacles had bcon overcome ,
both at home mid at Washington. The
campaign which ended In ( lie adoption
of the first constitution in 1MUI was as
bard fought us any political battles
which have occurred In thn subsequent
history of the stato. Nebraska was a
prliufor which the friends and enemies of
the quasi-republican in the white house
competed with de.sperato energy. The
long litrlit for statehood hail three singes.
Tito first was the contest over the con
stitution , which carried only by a beg
garly majority of00. . The second was
the struggle for the spoils of ollico ,
which narrowly missed wrecking the vic
tory whicli had been so gallantly won.
The third was to obtain the consent of
congress and the president to the final
admission of the stale. Once the bill
was allowed to die in Anily .lohnsou's
pocket. Again he vetoed it , and at last
Nebraska H'ltled into port en a two-thirds
majority of both branches of congress ,
over the head of the unwilling presi
dent.
dent.The
The growth of Nebraska since her ad
mission to the union has more than justi
fied the hopes of her people. It can boat
be shown at a glance by comparing the
popular vote in ISliO and in 1S)0 ! ) , as
there wro no accurate statistics of pop
ulation in the former year. In 'SOU the
'
total vote polled was' 8.011. In 1S)0 ! ) it
vas " 11SOI , nearly 'M times as groat.
This extraordinary increase in the pop
ular vote tells in a word the story of No-
brasica's growth in i2l yoarsof statehood.
The increase of population in the last
three decades makes a marvelous ex
hibit of strong and oven prosperity :
Census of IbOO .JsSll
Census of ls.70 41i-J.l'.ii ' :
Census of ISM ) i.V.V.I'.J
Cotiius of 1VJU l.O.ili.OOO .
These figured truthfully represent the
development of the state from the time
of its settlement. It has bc'on a story ot
unbroken progress. Undoubtedly state
hood was the greatest single impulse
to growth which it ever received. Until
that was achieved no large town could
bo said with certainty to have been
founded. Htiilrond building had scarcely
begun. Agricultural conditions beyond
the valley of the Missouri were uncertain -
tain and for the most part untried. The
vast proportion of the territory was a
virgin wilderness , prolific only in savages
and liiitTalo. Omaha was on the outer
fringe of civilisation.
-Tho state entered the union with a
rich patrimony of public land , which
speedily became the basis for a school
system of unrivaled excellence. Having
no historv and no tradition , and , there
fore , neither Puritan nor Cavalier , she
started without distinctions of wo-ilUi ,
class or race , and with a constitution
that guaranteed equal privileges and
opportunities to all comers. With these
fortunate conditions , to which must bo
added the advantages of a rich soil and
a superb climate , it is little wonder that
Nebraska has obtained a largo share of
the mighty tide of immi < rralion that has
swept across the Missouri in the last 21
years and has become a model common
wealth.
la spite of occasional reverses and
somewhat violent political disturbance- ) ,
the state of Nebraska preronts a very
pleasant picture to the world on her
iMthbh'thuay.
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The present congress will not
appropriate as imieh for fnilian schools
iis the commissioner of Indian affairs
has iisked forbut while this will prevent
such an extension of the educational
work of the bureau as IH to bo desired ,
tlioro in reason to expect considerable
progress hi the work ( luring the year ,
which , if reali/.ed , may have the effect
to Induce the next congress to bo more
liberal in thin matter.
Congressman Taylor of Ohio , in a
speech in the house of ropresc > ntatlvos a
few days ago , voiced the intelligent sen
timent of the country when ho said that
the most otl'eelivo remedy for Indian
conflicts would be found in educating
all of the Indians at the same time and
in the same way. JIo urged that they
should bo educated in the English lan
guage and in the various industrial pur
suits which will enable thorn to support
themselves and provide for their fami
lies. In order to do thi * he would carry
the schools to the Indians and not the
Indians to the schools , except In cases
where an advanced education is content-
plnled. Out * " public schools should bo
the model for the Indian schools. The
education of the Indian children should
not bo done piecemeal , but all of them
as they arrive at school ago should bo
given an opportunity to acquire an
education nna compelled to take
advantage of it. To educate one-
fourth , or one-half , or three-fourths of
the Indian children , said Congressman
Taylor , will not solve the problem or
lift the Indians above their dependence
upon the government. It IB doubtful If
any great good will result from oducnt-
ing a pirt only of the Indian boys and
girls If they are permitted to return to
their tribes , but if they are all educated
at the ( "JimiATnie. " mid In the wimownyl
Mi , \ would usl i in ono another j
riitu It tlu policy which Indian Com- (
mission'11 ! Morgan would inaugurate If
prnuitti'd to , and it Is unfortunate that
emigre's shMU4a illfpoillton to restrict
him In a , work that is domimd-
ed by every oonMdonitlou of
justice , humanity and the public inter-
oat. It Is optima ted that the number of
Indian children now of school ago Is
10,000 , only about onel-hlrd of whom at
tend school , principally for the reason
that the government has not provided
schools enough. This Is a reproach to
the nation which ought not to bo | ior-
milled to stand. There are still people
who believe It Is a waste of time and
money to attempt tooducatoaiid clvlll/o
the Indian , but the results of wisely di
rected olTtM't show that this Is not so.
The general p'iblie sentiment un
questionably Is that It is the
duly of the government to do.nl
justly and generously with the
Indians to the full measure of esery ob
ligation assumed , among which Is that
of making aihqimto provision for the
education of their children.
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Tomorrow will IK > the ono hundredth
anniversary of the death of ono of the
most romurkublo men in church history
.lohn Wesley , the founder of Method
ism. It will bo commemorated by the
various Methodist bodies everywhere ,
and In Knglnnd especially great prepara
tions have bujit nuido for appropriately
celebrating the occasion. Among the
evontsof the day wllfbothe unveiling of
tin Imposing bron/.o statue \Vosloyin
London , whore hundreds of Wo-lr > ynn
preachers have congregated to partici
pate in the ceroinonloi and pay
homage to the memory of the
great divine , whoso zeal and
devotion have boon a shining light to
all who have come after him , and whoso
heroic labors founded a church that
counts a greater number of communi
cants in the various branches than any
other Protestant denomination but ono ,
and continues to have a tnoro rapid
growth than any other. When "Wesley
died , on March li , ] " ! ) ! , the denomina
tion he founded hud a momliorship of
110,000. ministered to by nbout five
hundred and fifty itinerant and imny
thousand local preachers. At this
time the nngllsh-sponking Metho
dists of all description number
17,000,000 , , of which the communi
cants in the United .States number
0,000,000 , with about , 3:2,000 : ministor.s.
The great success of the church which
Wesley founded.lias attested his thor
ough mastery of methods , and it has been
justly said of him that while not omnis
cient no man in t ho history of religious
work attempted as much and ma-lo as
few mistakes. When the time canto for
him to desist from his labors ho left his
spiritual estate in a state of thorough au-
justment.
.lohn Wesley was born in 1701 ? , Flo ac
quired extraordinary proficiency in all
kinds of learning and tit an early ago en
tered the aorvieo of the English church.
Ilo was oao of , a group of
notable churchmen , among thorn the
distinguished Oorgo Wh'itoflold , his
friend and co-laborqr , who , because of
their methodical lives and strict per
formance of religious tlutio-i , were de
risively called "Methodists. ' ' In 173-1
Wesley came to America with the inten
tion of doing missionary work among
the Indians , but the way not bcine1 opsn
for this labor and the rigid , asm tic dis
cipline which ho wished lo onfo.-eo not
being accjptaWo to the c.ilonUts , after
a sojourn of three you'd ho rol'irnod ' to
England. In 17I5S he formal the tlrat
Methodist society in Ijondon , an.l hav
ing soon thereafter boon excluded from
the established churches ho bjgiiu
preaching in the lloldj and in privnt i
houses , wherever ocsasion served , lu
179 ! ! the foundation stone of his first
chapel was laid in Bristol , and from that
time to the close of his life , a puriol of
th'in half ho incessantly
more a century , was
santly engaged in preaching , forming
societies , governing them and providing
them with spiritual help. Ho was an
untiring wo.-kor , and a propagandist
whoso powers and success huvo never
been surpassed. Wesley never desired
tosop irate himoolf from the church of
England , and to the lust ho regarded him
self as of membership , yet ho was. .
driven by porducntlon to army n as
which were not consistent with his feilly
tollto lor.l bishops , and logically pived
the way for that total withdrawal on the
part of his followers which verbally he
discouraged. Ho imdo aspoaiul ICpisco-
pal organition ! for America , which is
regarded as the crowning act of his life.
tJliurch historians generally estimate
the Methodist revival of the last century
as only second in importance to the Lu
theran rofornritlon. The wonderful re
sults of \ Vo.loy's work assuredly entitle
his name to the pltu'o of eminence it oe-
cupios among the world's greatest re
ligious leaders.
tirKii.iri'iin nf rnr XK '
There Is a now west with a local
flavor , a landscapu mid a social life as
distinctively ohur'Wloristlo as tho-so of
any country ofIui'0 ) | > u , or as New Hng-
lund , the middle slates and the south.
But it has no liU > r.iry ; prophets. It lias ,
not produced a single immortal po > m.
tin enduring work of fiction , nor u b.iolc
of history or biography worthy to rank
with the clttsslo" pf other countries , or
other sot-lions of < jnr own land. Wo refer
to iho now west tjjat occupies ono-thlrd
of the contimnli between the Missouri
river and the Hio'rru ' Nevada.
The gonlus of IIawlhorno has lin-
mortali/.ud the 'oilrly ' legends of Now
England. 1 Vwtji have nuido UH seenory
as familiar to IJ/mipoan / eyes us Hums
and Moore have made Scot hind's and
Ireland's familiar to American. His
torians and biographers have given Its'
annals us rich a literary setting as the
masters of the old world llter.ituro have
given to the story of the full of Homo ,
the rise of the Dutch republic and the
French revolution. Graceful wri
ters of fiction , like Louisa Alcott ,
KlUaboth St tart I'holps and
Karah Ornno .lowelt , have portrayed its
social life in wholesome novels that all
the world has re vd. The sculptor and
the painter huvo preserved the form and
natures of its historic men.
In the last ton yours the literary pos
sibilities of the south have received
marked attention at the handy of pub
lishers and magazines , The quaint life ,
the odd dialects and the plcluresiUo |
laniUc ipo of the southern st ites luuo
boon put before the world with a vividness -
ness and atlriicllvonnm Mint must bo
very gratifying to the people
of Unit section. "Clmrlos Hghort
rrnddock" has exploited the boun
ties of the Teime.ssL'o mountains.
George W. Cublo has lnloro teul the
world in Iho Creole life of l.imis.tiuv.
Ulelmrd Malcolm Juhn ioii. M''Hihir ' -
ton Harrison , Amollo Klves , Hop-
klnion ; Smith and others have wi'llton
scores of novel1 ! and short stories dealing
with the life of Virginia and the south
Atlantic stales.Mlhin the pist : two
mouths two prominent imgav.lno.s have
began lo develop a line of California
literature , which hud already been 11-
liiminatod by tne tlctlon of Hrel Hirto ;
and Jonquin Miller , ami the s'tiorb |
histories of II. II. Hancroft. Thus
far , However , there bus been
no movement to glvo the same opportu
nities to the prairie hind and the beauti
fied inter-mountain region comprised in
the new west.
The characteristic literature of this
section may bo summed up In si few
sweeping .sentences. 10. W. Howe , the
philosopher and humorist of the Atchison -
son ( ilohr , has written three novels that
smack of the prairie soil. "Tho Story of
a Country Town , " ' "Tho Mystery of the
Locks" and "A Moonlight loy" ! areas
distinctively western in tone andscono a.s
"Tho Scarlet Letter" is redolent
of New Kngland , or "Tliofirnndls-imus' '
of Louisiana. Thosuuo may he said of
Mary llallock Footo's "Lcd-Horso
Claim , " of Helen Hunt's "Kiimomi , "
and of several of Captain Charles
ICing's and Octavo Tlmnet's romances.
There is scarcely anything more to mid
to Iho list of important tictlon. Of
poetry there is lit tie , andlhtit little Is
promise rather than performance. Min
nie ( iilmore's " 1'ipjs from 1'rairio
L-iiiil1 Kugeno Ware's "Rhymes of
Ironrpiill , " and the fugitive versos
of T. Hrowor Pea oek cover
nearly all the noteworthy achieve
ment in the way of western poetry.
Aside from a few creditable local
sketches , there is absolutely nothing to
chronicle in the way of history and bi
ography. It is therefore very plain that
the literary product of the new west ,
when compared with that of olhor soc-
tloin , is very deficient.
It is true that much of this shortcom
ing is due to hick of age , bul much is
also duo to lack of proper effort and on-
couraucmcnt. Wo huvo not the same
literary atmosphere that pervades Now
ICnirlnnd and the olu world , and that is
beginning to rise , like a purple ha/.o
on a sutiimiH' afternoon , over the recon
structed social Ufa of the south. The
publishers and inaga/ines , as well as tins
colleges and schools , can do much to develop -
volop our literary rczouiccs.
Perhaps no land is naturally richer
in such possibilities. The now west has
had a history unlike ttiat of any other
part of the world. Its population is
more cosmopolitan than either the easter
or south. Its early days wore full of
the romance of pioneer life.
Us cities have sprung from the
wilderness almost lilco magic.
Men have come from poverty or failure :
elsewhere to lead lives full of strange
adventure and miraculous successes. A
pirusal of the two volumes of pioneer
history issued by the Nebraska histor
ical society will reveal at a glimce the
opportunities which the umiak-of this
stale alone offer to the poet , historian
and novelist.
The dny will surely come when Iho
new went will have a literature as uniques
and absorbing us that of any olhor
country , but how much longer must wo
patiently ahido its coming ?
Tui'.iti : is plenty of tittio in which to
consider the propriety and expediency
of a reunion of confederate and union
soldiers during the Columbian exposi
tion , but at first thought it would scorn
to bean altogether proper and desirable
thing to do. The purpose of the exposi
tion is to celebrate what all people agree
lo have been the most important event
in human history , the discovery of
America , and it will therefore he pecu
liarly an occasion for the b'roadeat ex
pression of patriotism on the part of all
American citizens , sineo all will bo
equally idmitillcd with it in interest.
All the influences of that event , it is rea
sonably to bo expected , will have the
effect of druwimr closer all sections of
Iho country nnil strengthening the bond
of union , and it would seem that nothing
would bo more likely to contribute to
tliis than a reunion of the veterans of
the northern and southern armies. Such
a meeting , with the whole world to wit
ness it , ought to inspire in both the
strongest feeling of patriotic fraternity ,
while it would attest , as nothing else
could , the abounding vitality and power
of our republican system.
Tin : lower house of the iogl sluturo has
passed the bill which enables county
boards to.is.sito bonds to the amount of
W0t)0. ) ) to provide feood and food for des
titute farmers The measure is care
fully drawn to prevent fraud and care-
IcHstiess. Bonds can ho issued only upon
petition of a majority of Ilio electors.
The oecl will be sold to farmers actually
in need for cost , plus 10 pur cent which
is added to defray Iho expense to the
county. Notes running five years will
l/o accepted in payment , but heavy pnu-
allies are provided to pruvmit the sale of
t cod so obtained , The bill is drawn
with the commendable object of allow
ing Iho counties to tuko care of thuin-
sulvcsnnd thereby to prevent furthot
damaging appeals to the outside public.
It is to bo hoped that it may spuodily ho-
eomo a law , and placed to the credit of
Nebraska , as It deserves to be.
MiN'iHTKit HI.AIU to the otnporor of
Cliinu : "Allow mo to call to your atten
tion a little measure for the odii > uilion
of the masses at national expense. II
an enlightened kingdom llko ( 'hinu
adopts it now a benighted republic like
the United St-.Uos may want to follow
its example later. "
Tin : international copyright hill \\lll
probably bo among the measures that
will fail to pass in the present con
gress. The bill that wont through tin
house and was expected by Its supporters
to bo promptly pissed by the semite , was
subjected to several vurj important
tiicndmonls In the latter , the ntvopt-
incc of which thuhotrus . 1 doubtful.
Many rateIn'he brtot time of this
oiijiros. * . with innro urgent mat tors to
bo dlspiwd of It Is ( iiiestliiimbicvhcthor
here will bo nil opportunity to give the
oqulrod attention to the copyright bill ,
'ho failure of this monsiiro will cause
omc criticism of congres's ' at homo and
nero abroad , hut the sharper the hit tor
nay bo the more likely \\lll the majority
> f the American people ho to conclude
hat perhaps wu h a law Is not n good
hing forthum. Ono thing is tolerably
ortnin , if international copyilght fails
n Ihis congress It will Imvolltllo c'linnco
) f succeeding for some years to come.
Tilt : nnnounccment tint Iho senate
ommtttecon forolgn relations will not
urtlior press Ilio Nicaragua cantvl bond
> lll nt this time , ami that It , will bo til-
owed totalcelts plnco on the calendar ,
nay bo regarded a-t a virtual abandon-
neiit of that measure for the present
ongro.su , Th decision of t.ho commit-
eo was said to have been prompted by
he Htntu of public biislnoM , but IIH i
natter of fact it is probable that public
ipinlon had much more to ilo with it.
When the coinnilttco ruported tinanl-
nomly infavnrof tho-fjovowmuiit guiir-
mteeing $100,000,000 of canal bonds the
ouiilry was surprised. There hud boon
mrdly more than tinIntinrition thntsuoh
i schema was contemplated. Hut public
sentiment was not long in pronouncing
igninst it in such volume that the oom-
nittce could not ignore it. Ttwas plutn
hat no such scheme to involve the gov
ernment could possibly got throuyh con
gress , mid therefore It indecently pushed
isido in a way not to relied harshly upon
, ho commlttoo responsible for it. The
ircuinstaneo has not been without value ,
since it has given opportunity for a very
jotioral and vigorous expression of pub-
io hostility to loaning Iho o "oil it of the
government to any corporation. The
country bus had quite enough experi
ence of that kind.
lot'ie Population.
AVidlot ( f.iU lliniia.
" \\oroncratuliito tlui editor of the Ausa
Cows , who lius recently given birth to twins ,
i uoynnd ngirl. It is uunecussurv , wo pre
sume , to ntuioutico by tlio way oT explanation
that tlio editor of the News Is the nccoiu-
ilished Mrs. Bently of CSlondora.
- - -
.lust aSi'nsililc. .
ir/i < M/li / ( ; tnt < lll jrnrer.
Ono of tlio queerest petitions : cvrrpre-
sontoil to conprcss was that from the "wage-
workers' nlliunce , " praying that laws be
j.assod to "free the people from debt. " It
will next belli order for some ono to aslc
onirross to prohibit people from contracting
lotus.
_
Cotil Soil ( if ItlufT.
A \yashingtoii \ state JjJ o is nbout to be
tnpcaclicd by tholu Ulituiii because of MH
partiality for the pin no of faro. Tlio tittor-
ic.V , ivlio is conducting the defense bjforo
the legislature , stliinatl/od the impeachment
iroccediiigsiis an exhibition of tenderfeet
seutimentalisia , wholly at variance with
western ideas.
ilnvon'l the Nerve.
Jiflmlt ncr I'ICH.
A Mexican cavalry captain , who became a
rcneK.iUo , taught the Apache Indians all the
cavalry tactics , and as thev galloped forward
to the charge tnny .scemcil irresistible. When
tested in actual warfare -'OJ of thorn uoro
stopped and routed by forty United States
infantry. The I.oivl made aredslitn to Unlit
from behind a rock.
Anv Moililv < : Him ?
.Mirnttcn ( S. /.i Xtieg.
it isrelntot of a certain citi/.on of a , nelgh-
borhif ; town that ko wu * recently roquoileJ
ni'Bcil , in fart to pay a note which had
boi-n due for some time. Ilo succeeded in
put tint ; his creditor off by saying lie was
uliout to go to MiuUIgan mi a tisg lns errand
for the destitute and would be able to talco
up the note on his return.
.Mormons Can Go.
A contemporary succsts ) that the gentiles
of Idaho should contemplate Iho possibility
of one-third of the population of thatst'ito
imllinir up stakes uud loavinjj. We do not
know , but wo think we could safely assert
that if that one-third would aproo to po , tlie
other two-thirds would pa ; them full price
for all their possessions in that state.
Q
It. C.'H" Ghost ol' a Chance.
AVir I'mSun. / .
Kan as City is ploied because she has
vlsitiin , ' Khosts of much activity- . Ono of
them is somewhat ijivon to osculation , but
can punch a boil upon provoc-Uiou. The
other spool ; whistles through its tooth.
Without nuking any hirsh criticism of the
tastoofiiRlmstthat insists upon
to Kansas City , wo must respectfully
out tli.it a ( { host with the hnblt of whistlinj ;
tliroURh its teeth cannot bo tolerated.Vhcro
Is the for ' - .
Society I'&j-chle.il KescMicli ?
Wheie are the police *
i'il tn I'odlin L ; .
.S'llll 1't'IIK 1.1'U Cllllllltclf.
Them Is n iiiiot | little attempt tic-ing mviu
In conijress to Icjjvluo poolinp. The : iffii-
ini-ntsm favor of Iho svstcin liave bcun so
siioclously iirii.sentud that some hitherto
btrcnuous ndvocntut of the necessity of piac-
h\X \ a restraint upjii thoU'iitleucy of railroads
to unilo to llocc-o the people have boon lulled
into quiutnoss His not prolublo that the
measure will bo imuiKht up at tills bua-slou ,
but If it should lie the propo.sltjuii ouiht ; to
bo considered in all its bcnrmi ! * and tbu people -
plo bo apprised 01 Ihe fai-t t lint tticy nrn to bo
liniuid hand and foot and turned over to the
lender mercies of Iho corporations.
KCCJ rotary roster ami Kihor.
The able guessers are at wuik upon Secre
tary rostur's opinion ) about silver nnd
ttiinrs. His record wliilo n member of tlio
Imuso .1 do/en j O.IM ago Is paraded to puivo
thut ho favors fivu coinan > v No account it.
taken of the fact that conditions have
chunked. The ste.uly dechtio la the value ol
silver the wo : hi over U a matter of i niport-
an'ce ; and tills iirob.thlv has n bonriiiB upon
Iho views of Mr. Foster nnd many othorr
who nl ouo time h.iw no objection to free coin-
af'u of the tl1. " j BMin ilullnr. It Is a fair pro-
iiinipllon tli.U Puulilent Iliirrison has plaeoO
at the liua'l uf tlio treasury a mini whom ho
found to bo in clo o ajrrc'cinont with him on
the money questions of toJuy.
ls on the Slope.
/hit/iiml / a tit i T Imniin.
Wo resent tliu Inslnuutlnu that the stand
ard of olllclal integrity is lower on the I 'ai-illc
Mope than elsewhere. The moral ntinoiplioro
ul IhUscctiua is ni pumas 0.111 Uo luutul in
the o-isturii statos. A tinu iloimiH h.ivo . to
lie so upright us to bond toward I'liarisoolsni
in ordur to hold ortlco in tills ixiiiiitry , but ho
has rot U > have a .souse of tlio ordinary do-
rcncios. ] f liu doesn't altogether ubitnln
fruinovll , ho aunt at lout lvo ttiu upimir-
nncci of doiiiKsohiluhe oucuples a public
Mat Inn. It I * tna fiviaient a huliit uniontr j
our eastern IriuniU to construe wiMoru ill ) '
cnihty Into unwurrnntxnl license Anil hcnco
the idiia prevails abroad that wo are
open people out here on the coa < l ( I l.n < m
nortimt tlutt wonhmtld tnko nompt Mop )
: ountornct tlu > so XVI-OIIJT tnipnv uotm
I'IS\S/W. ' iff.'MIV ,
t'lio form which , Indistinct ami dim , xve si t
f mm far iiwny.
Are lint Ilio fonii < : of Miiiunur ( } lrN
for the Iniy.
As the Irl htniin Huld of our
\Vntn \ Ivor It trlts In tlio wityof shtorttiln'
this year , not n lilt o' dry wither will u-o KII
is lo'n j M tlie wet spell howlds. "
I'ost-Uisiiatcli HI ? fcild
Kocbcsler - : tin1
t tin Jprini ! bonnet tlilf year Mill pcllitfo tin1
of the im'vloiij $ eii onf. It Kcnerally tin. .
i o to tlio head.
Ynnlu'W Stnlcsnuii ! Yeast 1 titnlcr tn 1 1
ihubuU.in always makes Ids wlfo carry Hi. .
loail.
I'rltnsonbuitk - Yes , he doiw unless ho hi.
t > pen liiiliilciiii : In too much Ilro wilier , m i
tlion ho nirriiM It blnisolf.
ItinKlianitoitUepuhllcan : Kuto 1 woiulM
If.lnclt will call tonlubtl
.lonnio-Vesi I beaid him say at the tnii
ttiut bo hud a piusslii ) , ' engiiK'onient tl ,
Yoiilccr.s Statesman : When a man bu
and dances you can conclude thnt t o i hnpi
- -unions It chances to bo that ho 1ms tu
stepped on tbuhoavcii-liiullnod end of u to. .
New York llernliii Some tncn never Ictn
wliea the ) are well olT , hut them who ti\\ i
ride a mustang are not ninony tliiiin.
YoultcrsStato.stnati : Ye.ist ftlio borroxvi i
Don't ymi think n dollar fees as far uow -
it ever did I
Criinsonbealt ( the louder ) Well , Juilgin.
from the length of time it takes It to f
buck , I .should say yen.
New York Herald ; ( Jtirzler-Doyou Icin
r think dilnUinn liquor is niootl deal llko fa ,
inn oil uliutiHOl
Huor HoivsoJ
( ! u/k'r-Llccau.so It's the stopping tl >
liuru.
Kate Field's Washington : .A usoil-tip j >
itici.m is called in Wisconsin a "nino-npoi
on the groutui , as c.viihilncd by a conirre
man from Hint state , that "he unoltlirr bU'1
low nor Jaelc , mid isn't ' woith u continent
for
St. .to Nexvsi Tlio titan who Incautious \
l > uts Ins hand nunr the hiishiCsK end of i
\vn p , knows how dungcroiis it Is tocnu
to extremes.
If lit o Kii'Iu's Washington : "John , John
tbul.nidloril sajs that If you don't pay 1m
tomorrow Ins will raise tlio rent. "
"Well , 1 hope ho will ; 1 can't. "
New York World : Ohlsoltliurspassnxvm
l > tit fieiierils Ilcnu regard and llnrly mo ati.i
hi the lottery of life.
Yankee Hlado. First Illrycllst How fin *
tb is road stn ! < j on i
Sciiiiul liicyclist ( tiikinj ; a hcauer , fnun
Lbowiocltof tlio machine ) Quito forcibly.
Brooklyn Life : Tlryson-Wi-11 , Doc , 1 boa
von opened a drug store lit PtaMolucs , in
Doctor Yesanil t nin ninkliiclt pay. t <
M.v receipts one day lust wee ic amounted I
iivcrllti ) , and that didn't include the 75 ceii's '
worlli of dtUKsl bold.
Klmlra Garotte : "Ko you want a ratlron
posltmn " iiuiscd t'io '
, superintendent , l'i
you tblnlc yon rould civoan intelligent a. .
count of an necidcntf" ' 'Ye.s , sir , I'm sun' I
could. " "Then I tnink wo have no place tui
you. "
Philadelphia Tiuics : "That man Hvi"-
splnididly on his ri'lations. " "Shouldn '
think tliuy'tl stand It.1 "Ob , es ; you see ,
lie's a writer of stories. "
American fJiocor : Daircott Hreijory ii
v r.rilosc , isn't hoi ( Jntliny I don't aw
liow that can be. Ilo's nl\\avs \ been pretty V
well otr.
Yankee lllnde : Will Ooinjf to Ret mar
ried , eh ? What's your wife's naino ? Jiill-l
ha\en't any uifo. Think I'm a Mormon !
HcpuDliciin : 'I'ho latest from
Sonator-eleet 1'elTi-U tlinthu
- ! wears plaitinl
blurt tronts. Is the alliance Koinjj to null
niidruin ? Hero is Uuia-aii ot Huukiti inrtiii > ;
his hair in ttie middle , while .Jerry Slmpsu ! .
nas bOBun tove.ir soclts.
IMcayuno : Kiittiudiasin is llko jion beer. If
it does not bur.it uui and run over it BOM fur
nothing' , belay ll.it , stale and unprofitable tn
Iho owner.
Philadclphiii f.cd ur : Some time there ma >
bo added ono inoro to the Seven Atres , but it
will not bo unlimited .silver coinage just yi't
AVashinston I'ont : A Chieazo society
vvonaii has wrllluu a play. As her husband
recently nude a neut deal in the wheat inni-
ket , the production will undoubtedly uloaso
the critics.
Pitlshure dispatchC.isob.ill . inanato ; ; ?
nnd pluyers , judged by their hatred of peao , -
would timk'j oed citizens fora South AUIL-II- *
cau republic. r
Vnlo Hccnrd1 Mr. IJrown : "You are Into
nsniu. Have 1 not told you that punctuality
was the soul of business j" Mr. Cluck : "Y > ,
sir ; and sol thought it was iniinatcrlal.
T owell Courier : In Lawrence tlie board nf
health have declared .iL'abist tlio use of Mer
riniac river ice. This ice is , boivnver , ii.vi
Meiritiiac river water , perfectly snfo to lisa
when it has been boiled Jiftcun niiuutoj.
emus / .
lintf 1'irW * 1l"ii 'illi'flli ' ( ,
Whnt matter- , mv neighbor ,
Thai wo be not a.-reed !
The Master counts tlio labor
And levi ) inoiv tlian ths creed.
And if , Cod's word ubejiujr ,
JCaclioiu ; lus own way chojie ,
Not li-ss I Io he.ir.soiir pr.iyiii ) , ' ,
\Vliiiteverfut-iii\ve ise. :
Thouch wo inav sln - Ills jiralnoa
In the Te Denm's strains ,
The ii.Mini our biinher ials > os
As hind a lieariiiK : iin ;
And under lofty mvliu ? ,
Or on tin1 n.iknd sod ,
"l'i-4 on" process ion tuarclie.i
Up to tl o throne of Cod. !
For you may find the le.wen
\Vticre J should never cpuivh ,
Without my irniilntu Hv von ,
Our Holy Mother L'liiiivh.
Mon , drawinc frun ! c-ueli other ,
Their temples build ap.irt.
What profits it. nn brotliorl
's clmri'h is in the heart 1
I.Vwl .S.I.S CM TV ,
rath.
Our life , our life is HUe a narrow rafo
Alluat upon Iho hungry tea ;
iloreonis but littluspace ,
And till inoii , caper lor n ulacc ,
Do thrust cadi other in the sea.
And u.ii'li inni. tiapar fora plnro ,
Does thrust his brotbi-rin t IIP sea.
And so our life Is wan with fean ,
And so thu sea is suit with tears.
Ah , well fur thee , ttiou itrlaileon )
Ah , well tor thee , ttiou nrt iislooiil
Our life , our life is like a curious phy ,
Wlierocach man lildeth from himself ,
"l.rt us lie npi'ii as the d.iv . , "
Ono musk ilexto iho otlier f.ay ,
Wluiu ho would deeper hide hiaisclf ;
"Let us be open as tlio dav , "
Thut tin may better bide himself.
A tin so t lie world tocs round and round ,
Until onr lifu with rest Is crowned ,
Ah , well for tlioe , thoti art nsloupl
Ah , well lor thee , thmi art a
7.U' . * .
Tin *
And made in tlmiprinij !
It scwcs on this bleak and snllon tliini ?
I'lilli'd Miurli. anil sou !
Itlinil skies , faint odon. as of sinuwrlnir
'
llowoi-s ,
Piilnt bird soncH in iho howors.
A soft south wind , nun , cradled in iho i\o \ nl ,
AsHivootas woiuiinhood ,
As shy us any imddon luriKl bv love ,
I'ho dimly flushed arbutus bloom | IOTK ,
The harsh cnrtii will boon bo poor ,
And API I u r , be hero I