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The Omaha papers are begiDBing to
refer with pride to the traoa-Miasieaippi
UKMitioa to be held there in 1996. It
k aittie CBrtoua, when" their depend
ence oirthe atate is as near as 1896 that
the papers iu that Chinese city do not
see the necessity ot'11 tDe reet or
the state with cordianty. A part is not When alone, in the white of the whirl-
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as large as me waoie, nowpver targe me -- ,; . .
., ., , .. m0 T. t The grey wolt walks the storm,
part be swelled. The Chicago "great " '
dailies" have treated the Illinois roun-
v mmm mn rn;n-aiv anil mnwi. Secretary Morton has been attacked
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Now God be good
reet.
On the saow-bliud swirling way,
Shall meet the blaze of his hungry
gaze.
And the snarling fangs that slay.
And happy he who sits at home
Wheie tne corn-tire smoulders warm.
appreci-v
atively that when Chicago went to
Washington to get the World's fair lo
cated there Illinois went too. Mr. Rose
water is arrogant, selfish, short-sighted,
albeit he has the Semitic faculty of
making money. He has gazed at himself
so long that he has lost the faculty of
comparison always imperfectly devel
oped in people of his tribe. He lookB
to himself like a large impressive man
and his sons inherit their father's
myope. Although Mr. Hitchcock would
not consciously imitate the Bee, the
latter paper sets the newspaper pace in
Omaha and Mr. Hitchcock can see no
further than Mr. Rosewat er's nose will
allow him to. The country papeiB are
centres of small circles made up of
voters who are influenced by any preju
dice which the editor can prove well
founded. When it comes to a conces
sion from the state to Omaha, Omaha's
airs will be remembered against her. A
crowd of people are not Liliputian when
ita members have the suffrage. The
citizens of Omaha are clever and public
spirited. If the newspapers do lotget
in the way they will make a success of
the trans-Mississippi exposition as they
did of the circus and the Ak-Sar-Ben
festival. If Mr. Robert W. Patrick's
speech at the banquet of the Sons of
Omaha represents the sentiments of the
Omaha young men the city's future is
assured. Mr. Patrick said: "Now. boys
of Omaha, shall we have less coarage,
leas self-confidence, lees truBt in God
than our aires had before us? Shall we
admit that, where success came to them
under the circumstances, we, with the
foundation laid, the plans and specifica
tions prepared, the material on hand,,
mast fail in the completion of the edi
fice? We owe it 10 ourselves, we owe it
to our parents whose great love sur
rounds us, we owe it to the rever
ence in which we hold them to take up
the work so nobly begun and carry it
vigorously onward to full and complete
fruition. And in conclusion he said:
"Let it be done in such a manner that
' it shall be attributed to the 'boys of
Omaha.'' Bere k an ezalt'tion of
spirit, a buoyant hope and an energy
that vitalizes whatever organic thing
it touches.
The following poem, taken from the
Chap-Book of February, is by Prof.
Herbert Bates of the state university. It
is vivid, lyric Euphony pervades it,
dramatic feeling strengthens it and
local color makes it, if possible, more
lovely:
THE GIANT WOLF.
3 be giant wolf, the woodland wolf,
8trode southward down the wind,
And the gale yelled keen, and the moon
gleamed green.
And the little stars blinked blind.
The seething enow-snakes twined be
fore And hissed through the knotted grass,
ABd he heard overhead the sheeted
dead.
That dance in the whirlwind pass.
His shag grey locks roughed with the
gale,
His white teeth fanged with wrath.
Now God be good to the man, whose
He Maella before his path!
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by the pack at Washington for wolfish
reasons, entirely intelligible and satis,
factory to wolves. The matter of seed
dktributionbas been an object of ridi
cule for years. The supply of rare seeds
suitable for this climate is exhausted.
There is no ceed of spending the ap
priation. But because it is there the
pack inskt on his buying seeds with it
that it may send them to constituents
who do not need them. There are not
offices enough to go around in the spoils
system. But the d isappointees used to
be cajoled into voting the name ticket
again by a little bag of seeds. In this
way the congressman's own pocket was
saved. Why the whole should be taxed
for a part, especially, when the part
does not need it, is a question that Sen
ator Vest and Congressmen Moses and
Livingston have bawled themselves
hoarse over. But the tumult is not so
great as it was when Speaker Reed, of
Maine, ruled that all members whom he
could see on the floor should be counted
as present whether they answered roll
call or not. If this were a day of swords
and pistols instead of steel throats and
leather lungs Mr. Reed had lost his life
a dozen times. Nothing occurred that
hktory writes down The vituperation
pattering all about Mr. Morton will not
hurt him. Everybody knows he has
done the right thing and in a year or
two republicans will admit the integrity
and wisdom of hk conduct just as the
democrats have adopted "Czar'' Reed's
procedure.
"My Skter Henrietta" k an estimate
and memorial of his skter by the author
of the Vie de Jesu. Henrietta Renan
waa the most dearly beloved of sisters
and Ernest Renan was the most beloved
of brothers. They lived together hi en
tire bympathy and understanding.
Renan says: In all moral matters we
had come to see with the same eyes and
to feel with the same heart. She, was
so familiar with my order of. thought
that she almost al way knew beforehand
what I was about to say, the idea dawn
ing upon her and upon roe at the same
moment. In spiritual things I was still
seeking material for interesting essays
or artistic studies; with her nothing
marred the purity of her intimate com -munion
with the good. Her religion of
the true could not bear the least dis
cordant note. One thing that wounded
her in my writings was a touch of irony
which possessed me, and which I
mingled with the best things. I had
never suffered and I found a certain
philosophy in the dkcreet smile pro
voked by human weakness or vanity.
Thk trick wounded her, and I gradu
ally gave it up for her sake. 1 now
know how right she was. The rood
should be simply good; any touch of r J. II
mockery implies a remnant of vanity TOF COtllllOnS
and of personal challenge which ends
by being in bad taste." The story of
her life shows Mdlle. Renan a rare
woman, although she had critical ability
as delicate and accurate as her brother,
her charm more than anything else lay
in her womanliness. When Ernest was
a very small boy hk father died and
left the family very poor. Henrietta
taught echool and aided her young
brother to get that education which he
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