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of buys in large, quantities in- Boston, front the east'
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The Idea has been en- let that little matter go for the time
and the goods are all sent by water to t'ertained here that the eastrby .raying being.
M. Raymond -of Lincoln has been Galveston and there loaded on trains the word, could make the west shut-up.
for Colorado. Money isaaved,by this, shop and go out of business.
ia New York city several days.- He
gave- some laterftnx facta about the
new way in which 'the west is showing
her independence of the east. He said:
"'New York has of late manifested
a disposition to sever her connection
with the west. That is all right, but I
wonder if New York understands the
Magnitude of the recent movement on
the part of the kwest to divert traffic
from this city to Galveston. New Or
leans and other southern parts?
"I do not mean to say,", continued
Mr. Raymond, "that the recent loss of
western commerce by New York is the
operation. This is the way southern
seaport trade is being developed. It
might pay New" York to give a little
serious attention to this subject.
"The policy that the east has lately
adopted in its relations with the west
is (he best thing that could have hap
pened to the west The east has said
to Nebraska, 'We do not want to lend
you any money.' Nebraska has ac
cepted the ultimatum, and set about
the task of working out her own salva
tion. Our people are fast getting to
the point where we are ready to say.
W..MORTON-SMITH.
STORIES IN PASSING.
There is an old carriage in Lincoln
that appears to have wandered out of
place and lost itself. It is an old, one- coatless man stood leaning against the
-That night about 1 o'clock the doctor
was5 awakened by a terrible poundirig
at his door.
"Doctor! Doctor!"- a man's voice
was calling..
He dragged on his clothes, seized his
medicine case, and hat. and rushed out
upon the porch. A large, bare-headed.
resHlt of the refusal on the part of We don't & ay ' Ja money.
eastern financiers to give further credit
te the west, particularly to Kansas
mad Nebraska. The primary reason is
the fact that the west has suddenly
discovered that the south has deep
water harbor facilities that are unsur
passed anywhere, and from Nebraska
and Kansas the rates to the shipping
paints in the south are muck more fa
vorable than- the rates to New York.
I fcave jwt been making a tour of the
smth. having visited Galveston, New
Orleans and other seaport towns. We
ef the west have known for some
thne that there is.a-growlagtendency-te
send grain and provisions to these
parts instead of to New York, but I was
aprepared to find that 90 large a pro
pertioa of western products intended
far export and for points in the south
is unloaded at these harbors.
"The receipts at Galveston and New
Orleans have doubled and trebled in
the. last year or two, and from what
I coald see they are steadily gaining.
Beth ports have magnificent facilities
for handling products of any kind in
large quantities. There is deep water
that will take ships of almost any draft
and the wharfage, especially at New
Orleans, is better than can be had in
this city. There are great elevators
and storehouses capable of receiving
shipments of any magnitude. At New
Orleans the biggest ships can be seen
ia the harbor, and there are plenty of
them. I noticed the battle ships Texas
and Maine at anchor while I was there.
"I believe it is safe to say that
three-feurths of the grain and other
predicts that have lately gone out of
Nebraska and Kansas have gone to '
these southern ports, and it would be
strange If we did not take advantage
ef the opportunities we enjoy. The
farmer in Nebraska who sends his corn'
te Galveston gets two cents more a
beshel than he would get if it went
east. There are several competing
lines of railroad that go south from the
corn-protacing states, and the rate is
lew. The Missouri Pacific is an impor
tant factor in this movement, and there
are independent roads that make live
competition. There is now building a
ney road from Kansas City to Port Ar
thur that will be just 750 miles long.the
shortest route to the seaport This
road, the Kansas City and Gulf, is an
Keep it and put it in your real estate
booms.' Nebraska is rirh enough to
stand upon its own bottom, and
soon our farmers and business men
will be independent It is possible to
find the way to prosperity without as
sistance. "There has been a great deal of talk
about the hard times in the west, the
failures and the 'inability to pay ail
obligations as they become due. Sup
pose that there should be an attempt
to collect every mortgage and note in
horsed, single-seated affair whose sides
are mud-stained and paint-worn. The
curtains are faded, the glass cracked
and rusty, the cushions torn and but
tonless. The horse is an uncouth, raw
boned specimen of twenty-seven years'
service. And the driver a lean, sharp
faced, ragged Individual with a delight
fully cockney accent is even poorer
than his carriage.
house, half sobbing to himself.
"Well, what's the matter? Quick,
man! What's wrong?"
"Oh, doctor, doctor," the man with
a little lurch toward the. mayor blub
bered out. "I'm drunk, dead drunk
wife's waiting for me want to go
home drunk."
And in lieu of the absent night watch
the doctor was forced to lay aside his
This poor, old. heavy-wheeled, slow- professional life and for thirty minutes
poking vehicle no more belongs in Lin
coln than a gondola. Its home is Lon
don the London of Dickens and
Thackeray. Even in this western town
it goes creeping along as if picking Its
way through the narrow, dirty streets
of that foggy place, and recognizing
nothing in common but the uneven
pavements.
I first found this London-lost car-
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DIONE.
"T other of Kypris cruel Dione,
Beautiful-slayer, fairer thou than she;
With beauty of the stars, and violets sweet,
Half-hid by mosses at .the myrtle's feet.
Is it that Hera swept thee from thy place
Queen-regnant o'er the gods of Kronos' race
That thou art foe of man his murderer thou.
By passion-darted shafts from thy cold-brow.
Eyes calmly-lucent, and a voice sweet-sad.
Low-singing1 love-hymns, should be, are not glad?
Whence-coming men know nothing, thou art here,
Quitting no victim until on ' his bier.
About thy head the sacred pigeons fly.
Before thy steps brute-creatures are not shy;
Yet, else companionless, though men bow-down;
Offer thee soul-gifts, wither at thy frown;
Then, hence-departing, stately, over sea.
Mock-making in Magasrai-threnody.
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New York: city as it falls due for the
next two or three years? I imagine
that New York would then find out
what hard times are."
Mr. Raymond's views are particular
ly interesting at this time, when the
assumed the duty of his newly-elected
responsibility a 3 protector of the peace
and father cf the community.
They used to call him the "old
woman" of the crowd, for a more fussy,
touchy, old-maidish fellow never lived.
He was always in a stew with the
other roomers on the same floor. If
one left the "old woman's" door open an
inch, he would go bawling all over the
building for that fellow to come back
and shut that door. If a hat or a'book--tfr
a shoe was left in his room, he
tossed it into the room across the hall.
He did this until one day the other-fel-lows
half filled his room with boxes,
trunks, tables, shoes and a thou
sand smaller articles, such as box
ing gloves, Indian clubs, blacking
brushes and- the like. It took him half
a day to clean the place out, and that
broke him of throwing unclaimed ar
ticles into the room across the way.
He took the hall instead. His room
was too much like a front parlor in the
country for civilized students to resort
to," the fellows said. Everything Just so
made them feel uneasy. They wanted to
hurl a shoe through the mirror just
to see what the "old woman" would do.
It was such fun to hear him sputter.
He was always hanging onto things
(he said they would come useful some
day) and had his closet' crammed with
old papers, clothes and "Btuff" he had
picked, up at auctions, but everything
was in the neatest order, tied up and
labeled with gum stickers as they do in
a wholesale house. When the fellows
had all this rubbish down the well he
threatened to leave the crowd, and it
was quickly brought ts sight again.
Well, he was married the other day and
went back east to live. And he took
his second-hand store with him in
four-great boxes. Two freshmen have
moved into the room, and it is now the
worst den In the house.
It was while I was page in the senate
ten years ago. The business of the day
had just commenced when a loud re
port was heard in the lower hall.
"Dynamite! shouted a member.
riage one damp, drizzling night in
September. It stood all alone down in
front of the postoffice. which In itself springing from his chair, and the whole
showed that the driver had nnt vt chamber went pouring pell-mell into
learned western ways. The mist -was
Even the
people of New York are beginning to
independent concern and it is likely to be concerned in the city's loss of com
give a better rate than that now in m'erce. The interstate commerce com-
forr-e. It could afford to do so. Rail
road building is cheaper now than it
has been for years, and it is said the
road is being economically built It
will not have to earn interest on such
a large capital as the other roads.
"Swift the packer, recently sent a
targe consignment of canned goods for
expert from his houses in
Omaha and Kansas City to the south
en seaport a great many carloads in
all. and it ia a common thing now for
big shipments from points on the At
lantic coast designed for the Pacific
towns, to be sent by boat to Gal-
and New Organs, there to be
transferred to the railroad. A large
wholesale house in Denver that I know
mission has lately held an important
session here considering the question
cf rates from- Chicago to New York,
and the city merchants are complain
ing bitterly that trade that used to
come here is now going south. It is
not unlikely that there will be a ma
terial reduction in eastern freights, so
the corridors to see about it.
Vi aril alrt rlAonrtnil
dripping from the old white cab and the There was a crowd about the west
roof of the. carriage. The lights cast entrance. The treasurer's office was
faint glimmering streaks through the guarded and a policeman was handcuf-
atmosphere. The driver stood at his flng, p,!80nP,rl Lman w? standllJS
agaiuoi, luc nan wiku a DWUHIU5 &uu lit
horse's head. lost in a leaky rubber coat
and hat It was as .near London as I
could get I hailed the carriage and
for two hours drove about the city with
clospd eyes, living a bit of that dream
life that is ever with me.
The approaching municipal elections
over the state call up a sory- of
his hands. Just outside the steps a
dark-faced man was stretched full
length, a stream a blood dripping down
from his thigh over the stones. A
money tray had fallen to the ground
with gold coins scattered about The
patrol was just turning the corner.
"Gosh durn that old plug, there he
goes again. Jim Jim. you skin right
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Chicago, as to enable New York to compete with a certain doctor who is nayor of one fla Drute' to break out o this lot and
southern points. or me smaller towns near Lincoln. He he always heads for that church- yard.
What Mr. Raymond says about Ne- had been installed in office and had ap- Not that that grass over there's any
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hraska. nbutdinc on her own bottom ia nointed all of his tinder official nront ueer n oer nere. uui every aay reg-
night watch. The former night watch
had gone away on a visit and the doc
tor was waiting to see if he would ac
cept the oflce a second time. So, al-
what nearly every business man from
Nebraska and Kansas who comes to
New York says. It is something of a
surprise to eastern financiers to be told
by Kasaaas and Nebraskaas that these though the town was quite defenseless,
states can get along without assistance the new mayor, much to hia sorrow.
ular he gets out and walks over there.
Likes stolen fruits, same as people.
"Got him, Jim? Well, put him back
in the lot And say, Jim, ye might
put 'nother piece o' leather on that
gate. It's been hanging rottin' for the
past twe-months."
HARRY GRAVES SHEDD.
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