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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1895)
aa: i?Z 'f1 - mt' "- i ; -if? -., ."--; THE COURIER. ; Highest of all in Leavening Power. Late U. S. Gov't Report DrftrXl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Holding a flaming ton h that one may see the paths that lead to hell, is not exactly in line with what Phillips Brooks conceived a preacher's duty to be. Ex-Mayor Weir also had a part in this meeting for "men only.' He said that the newspapers had not treated him fairly, and complained that The Courieb did not do him full justice in stating that under his administration the evils complained of were "somewhat abated. At the same time Mr. Weir admitted, as wa6.Eaid in these columns, that the two evils were practiced under cover while he was mayor. For Mr. Weir's special benefit I will now say that during the last year of his admin istration the practice of the twin social evils was minimized. They were not suppressed, but the vices were lees gen erally practiced than ever before. Fitful and sensational diatribes against the evil in question will not avail The vice is too firmly entrenched to be de disturbed by the loud voice of Byron Bealls. If it is to be properly met and checked an entirely different kind of effort must be put forth. It is too serious a matter to be left with reckless-tongued speakers. Talk can not cope with it. There ought to be a censor for the daily newspaper press of this city. Both evening papers of Monday should have been suppressed. Mr. Hardy has a pretty good idea of what is the matter with this western country. He says the farmers want to ride through their fields instead of working with their hands. This fact has been pointed out before. But the costly lessons taught by failure on the farm have had, apparently, little or no result. Hoes are still left standing in the barn gathering rust, while the farm er is in town talking politics and pro claiming that he won't get more than half a crop, and the weeds in the field are running a neck and neck race with the corn. A ride of five miles through the part of Nebraska where the land is cultivated will demonstrate the fact that much of the loss of which farmers complain is chargeable, not to the weather, but to themselves. Side by side, on the same land, are two fields of corn, worked by different farmere. In one the ground was properly worked, the grain was properly planted and the growing crop properly worked. There are no weeds, and the corn is in fine condition. In the other the crop has been neglected, and the weeds are vieing with the corn, and the crop is poor. Just a difference in the working that is all. Even the Germans and Russians, Mr. Hardy says, are soon affected by this easy going way of doing things that is the practice in the west, and after a Geason or two sugar beet culture and all kinds of the more laborious farm labor are carefully avoided for the other kind of farming. This is true. It is well that Mr. Hardy is not running fur office now. The farmers would resent his saying that they do not work as they ought to, and the other fellow would get all the votes. It is dangerous, this criticizing the farmer. What is the actual condition of the corn crop in Lancaster county and vicin ity? This is a question in which the people of Lincoln have a vital interest. During the put week I have conversed with farmers from all parts of the coun ty and I am satisfied that an estimate of a half crop throughout the county is very conservative. With a little more rain there would probably be a three fourths crop. The early corn has suf fered severely, but the late corn is generally in good condition. By a half crop is meant half of the maximum pro duction in the county, and that means a pretty good crop. Recently Seventh Day Adventisls in different parts of the country have been prosecuted for following their usual vocations on Sunday, and there is a considerable discussion of this subject in the daily newspapers. The New Orleans Times-Democrat after pointing out that the Seventh Day Adventists are as upright, religious and moral as the members of any other religious sect, says: "These men prefer to obey what they honestly believe to bo the voice of God than to obey human injunction to the contrary, The Almighty in days of old gave this command to his chosen people: 'Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh is the Sabbath cf the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work; and this command was included in what was known as the 'Decalog' or 'Moral Law' a body of divine commands which is still inculcated by the various Christian sects. The Christian sects obey the whole moral law, just as it was received by Moses from Johovah on Mount Sinai, with the one ex ception of the command' in question. After the resurection of Christ on the first lay of the week, they changed the Christian Sabbath from the seventh day on which Jehovah fixed it, to the first day of the week to be commenor ative (f Christ's resurection. But the change was made, :is far as we have heard, without divine authority; and those, therefore, Jews or Christians, who are strict constructionists of the law and are from strong religious' con victions punctilious about such matters, and who keep the Sabbath on the seventh day as it was originally or dained have at least as ample justifica--tion for their seventh day observances as the great body of Christians have for their first day observances." The Seventh Day Adventists in this cjty are particularly quiet and peaceable people, the settlement at Union College being noted for its high standard of morality and law and order, and there is 6mall danger of any attempt to interfere with them. There is now on exhibition in Omaha the Montana silver statue, modeled after the actress, Ada Rehan. In the statue is G4,S00 worth of silver and 8224,030 worth of gold. Augustin Daly, Mies Rehan's manager, is known to hold the opinion that the actress is worth her weight in gold, and if Mr. Daly's opinion is accepted, a fairly accurate idea of Miss Rehan's exact pecuniary worth may be formed by those figures, the gold and silver- combined representing a value of nearly $300,000. The statue is a representation of Justice, in the form of a beautiful woman, poised on a globe with extended sword and scales. Many objections have been raised to this Montana exploitation. It has been con tended that Miss Rehan is not beauti ful; that Montana had no right to use a New York actress as a model; that a beautiful woman is never just, and that, therefore the statue is a false symbol. This last objection is of no force, for it has been the custom for ages to repre sent justice by a beautiful woman. People in Omaha who have gazed at the statue have wondered by what right Montana has taken Justice for its figure, and I understand suggestions have been offered as to the proper form of a Mon tana statue, the predominating opinion being that Montana sholld have been represented by a cow puncher astride a bucking broncho, with Indians and sol diers in the background. Mr. Bryan has bad but little to say of the glitter ing statue in his paper, the World-Her-aid, and it is known that he discount enanced it as a gold-bug manifestation. Although the ratio of silver to gold is good deal better than 16 to 1 there being about 3 times more gold, in value, than of silver in the statue, he is not satisfied, and he maintains that Ada's nose is crooked and Ada's foot is not shapely. The triumphal procession of King Tartarrax, sovereign of the Seven Cities of Cibola, which took place in this city several years ago, will have its counterpart in the culminating feature of the Feast of Mondamin which will be celebrated in Omaha, in connection with the state fair, commencing Tuesday, September 17. Thursday, the 10th, the Knights of Ak-sar-ben will hold carnival, the festivities concluding with a fancy ball at Boyd's opera houre. The his tory of the Knights of Ak-sar-ben is thus explained: To the Knights of Ak-sar-ben: Sirs -l in reply to your letter of inquiry regard ing the Ancient Order of the Knights of Ak-sar-ben, I beg to state briefly as follows: In the year 1510 the Knights of Ak sar-ben set out from Mexico in quest of the Seven Cities of Cibola and the Kingdom of Quivera (Nebraska) of which the reigning king at that time was Tartarrax. This ex pedition reached the southern bound aries of this state somewhere between the counties of Gage and Furnas. Father Padilla was with the expedition, and after the Knights of Ak-sar-ben had set but upon their return to Mexico, re mained to preach the doctrines of Christianity to the natives. This event took place eighty years before the land iug of the Pilgrims, sixty-eight years before the discovery of the Hudson, sixty-six years before John Smith sailed up the river that bears the name of James I of England, twenty-three years before the birth of Shakespeare. Queen Elizabeth was yet a little girl and the thrones of Spain and Germany were oc cupied by Charles V. The country through which the honorable knights traveled was teeming with interest, and, according to history, fabulous wealth was found within its borders, There are now in existence in Nebraska very rare and precious relics of the expedition of the Knights of Ak-sar-ben, found in the western part of the state. There is a sword and other relics in the library of the Nebraska State Historical society, found about thirty-five miles northwest from McCook in this state. From what is known, Father Padilla was put to death while attempting to preach the gospel to the natives of Nebraska with in the present territory of iho county of Franklin, and probably there his grave will yet be found. To again verify the above, I am at liberty, to quote a pas sage from one of the earl., historians, viz.: 'One of the discoverers of Quivera (Nebraska), however, linger n ithin our gaze a short time longer. A twanciscan friar, John of Padilla, who accompanied the Knights of Ak-sar-ben on that memorable expedition, away back in 1510, announced his intention of remain ing in the land of Quivera to teach the natives the doctrine of Christ in a more humane fashion, and thereafter devoted his life to his work, and finally met his death at the bands of those whom he sought to enlighten in the cause of Christ. 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