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LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY. JANUARY 9, 1897
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If 2,000,000 people v'bU the Trans
Mississippi Exposition, and spend only
ten dollars apiece, which is a low esti
mate in view of the history of expo
eition visitors, and their expenditures,
it will put into circulation 20.000,000 dol
lars in this and surrounding states.
-Omaha after all is only fifty miles
away and the circulator system would
bring it to Lincoln and the towns west
before they had time to become jealous
of the metropolis.
There is no doubt that the tidal wave
of migration which turned westward in
the TO'b was induced by railway adver
tising in Europe and England. That
the railroads appreciate this is shown
by their large subscriptions of which
the Burlington's is the largest, amount
jug to 830,000.
The president of the United States is
about to issue his proclamation announc
ing to the world that the Transraiss
issippi and International Exposition is
to be held in the city of Omaha between
the 1st day of June and the 1st day of
November, 1893. This Exposition is
designed to afford an opportunity for
the states west of the Mississippi to
make an exhibit of their resources and
productive industries. Twenty states
and four territories are embraced as the
Trans-mississippi region. These Btates
and territories cover an area of more
than .two and a half million square
miles, with an aggregate population of
nearly 25,000.000. They represent fully
twenty billions of wealth. They are
the great granary of America, and con
tain within their boundaries practically
all the gold and silver mines of the
United States, besides deposits of iron,
copper, lead, zinc and other minerals of
incalculable vJume and value.. ,They
embrace, furthermore,' the greatest
bodies of timber on the North American
continent, as well as a large portion of
the cotton belt, and ali of the sugar
producing lands within the boundaries
of tho union. The railroads within tho
Trans mississippi stairs aggregate G3,C00
miles and the ravigable waterways in
clude the greatest of American rivers
the Mississippi, Missouri and the
Columbia.
In the World's Columbian Exposition
of 1893 the exhibits of tho Trans missis
ippi states were overshadowed by the
exhibits of foreign countries. Of tho
millions who passed through its gates,
comparatively few carried away with
them a distinct impression of tho pro
ductive resources of that vast empire.
The purpose of tho projectors of the
Trans missis&ippi Exposition is to ac.
quaint the nation and visitors from
other countries with the fabulous wealth
and stupendous possibilities of the
greater west.
Those who have nothing to do but to
amuse themselves get very tired of
functions, the theatre and tho opera,
even of sports, though the last remain
a pleasure long after functions are dead
and buried deep under fathoms of ennui.
Artists, since time was, have been favor
ites in society, though frequently poor
and of middlecldEs origin the latter a
felony even greater than poverty. But
they oro able to originate new amuse
ments for the Johnnies who have nothing
but a cane and a wicked reputation to
make life worth living. Therefore a
studio invitation is never answered with
"regrets" by tho most bored of the men
and women of the world who make
society in any of the large cities. In
Paris the annual artist's ball is at once
the wildest and the most celebrated
revelry of the year. The dancers aro
masked and in fancy costume. When
the inhabitant or the Latin Quartier is
too poor to buy a costume he paints one
using his old clothes or hie skin as he
pleases. The police in Paris know their
place and only interfere when a frolic
becomes a misdemeanor.
Anthony Comstockand tho president
of the society for the prevention of
cruelty to children have taught the
police of New York to insist, with the
alternative of arrest, on sober and un
exhilerated conduct at all times. This
is all very well, if policemen were able to
discriminate between spirituous intox
ication and that produced by gaiety and
congenial company. For instance the
wickedest, most fascinating atmosphere
or mist envelopes Mr. Breese's studio.
Yet so far as the millions who are crazy
to know the doings of the 400 can
find out Mr. Breese has only had
a number of fancy dress parties in his
studio and has offered his guests a
Dutch lunch as the night wore on. At
a recent jollification the light dress of
one of the ladies caught on fire and
there being no water handy it was put
out .with champagne. The morning
papers were shocked and said so. Marie
Antoinetto'was not more severely con
demned for enquiring why the peasantry
did not eat cake then, when she was
told that they had no bread, which re
calls the American lady at tho Cast el
lane garden fete, who used two loavs of
bread to keep her feet dry when tho
waiters could not find her a footstool
Both of theso women will go down in
history as heartless jades careless of a
people's misery. The papers who rep
rimand the "Carbonites," as tho habi
tues of the Breese studio are called, for
putting out a tire with champagne, for
get that it whs to save a human life that
the precious liquid was poured out so
freely. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Beckwith
have just sent out invitations to a
party which state that only in
fants and children under ten
aro expected, which,' being in
terpreted, means that the same party of
well known people who assembled in
Mr. Breese's studio two weeks ago will
repair to tho Beckwith studio attired as
infants or as little boys and girle. Mr.
Duncan Cameron who impersonated
the "Yellow Kid" at the Breese affair is
expected to repeat his success at the
Beckwiths. Tho looker-on at such
gayeties and gambols is apt to be led
into sneers at frivolous society people.
Yet if the looker-on had nothing to do
and plenty of money he would do as
they do. Still the fear of gossip re
strains excess so the carping critic has a
negative mission that keeps the 6ociai
order from assassinating him.
Tho Governor's oflico is a pathetic
sight these days. Around it sit men
and women who hae reason to hope
that on account of relationship, parti
zanship or influence they, their sons or
their daughters will be appointed or
selected to a clerkship or to something
else as remunerative and easy. They
arrive before the governor's office is un
locked in the morning and when his
ponderously solemn tread is heard ap
proaching tho expressions and attitudes
of the waiting company is as interesting
as the modern realistic novel. The pie
is large hut it can not be cut into
enough pieces to go around. Those
who it about the room with expectations
founded on their need will go hungry
after all.
Nebraska is as New York was in the
das of Tilden when the sage sat in his
library and dictated the policy of his
party and designated places and those
who should fill them. Yet if anyone
asked him for that which he did not
care to grant ho sent him off 'with the
answer that he was not in a place to do
anything for auy one however much ho
might wish to.
To applicants who have been turned
down or who are going to be turned
down Mr. Bryan sajs he has nothing to
do with picking out the state's hired
men, that he is very busy on an auto
biography, that be is friendly to every
one and partial to none and that the ap
plicant would better Bee Governor Hoi
comb oi tho legislators who have ap
pointments to burn. Then is the office
seeker warmed by tho transfigured,
illuminating smile and hypnotized into
leaving. Not until ho la a block away
from the people's shrino on D street has
ho a suspicion that the prophet of tho
Poor, the Jeremiah of tho Rich, the Sin
cere, the Disinterested, tho Inspired,
may bavo told him only a literal truth.
And just at that time Mr. Bryan loses
popularity in an area largo enough to
contain one populist.
Tho national recuperation which bd
parently sat in when McKinley was
elected has given way to a sickness,
partially caused by tho Cameron
resolutions and tho sentiment of
the Jingo clement in regard to
Cuba, and prolonged by the
failure of tho National Bank of Illinois,
and tho suspension of the St. Paul Bank
of Minnesota. The Chicago institution
was ruined by reckless lending and
could not have lasted much longer in
good times, while the St. Paul institu
tion althoug the ol lest bank in Minne
sota, relying upon its age and reputa
tion for business, was attacked by dry
rot and fell to pieces. Containing within
themselves the elements of dtkitegra
tion their passing is of no especnl sig
nifiganco to finance. In Nebraska we
aro inoccuous having had our blood
thinned by a four years plague and
famine. We aro convalescent and in
oculated against any disajtercausod by
over-confidence. We understand tho
cry of distress in the east. We know
what ails them but we can not help
them any until they are willing to take
the medicine which the country will
have to swallow to be well again.
The Courier has received from the
agricultural experiment station at Fort
Collins, Colorado, a buleltin on alfalfa
with eighteen pljtes showing the ex
ceedingly tough long roots and the
stocky plant. Also analyses of the
value of alfalfa as a fodder and the
manurial value of the stubble. Dr. Wm.
P. lleadden who is tho author of the
bulletin under consideration Bays that
he has given the general results of his
study of tho alfalfa plant, mostly in
numbers based upon hay. The plates
are remarkably clear and show the size
and character of the plant above and
beneath the ground in tho various soils
of Colorado.
Among the friends of the University
in the present legislature there is none
stronger than Edson Rich of Doug'aj
county who was graduated from the Uni
versity in 1833. A'ter which he took a two
years course in Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, selecting the course in economics,
to which he had paid especial attention
in the University. When his days as a
student were past be was admitted to
tho bar. In 1890 he moved to Omaha
where his career has been marked wiAk
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