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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. His few companions, with all
their worldly possessions, again sought
more civilized regions, and darkness
again fell upon the land of Quivera
(Nebraska), for a period of nearly 200
years.
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