THE COURIER.
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ila policy 'of Spain. la theaecoiid
place I know" of no 'foreign country
which would change its policy on ao
count'of an example furnished, by the
t V" United" States. The eyes of Emperor
Wilhelm s ancestors could not be
effected by a quixotic gift of island
from the United States to an Euro
pean country and as the emperor
is guided by his ancestor's eyes, Ger
many will g 'on grabWag peninsulas
and archipelagoes tram China as long
as China permits. England's' territo
rial policy is hundreds' of years old
and too well defined to be changed
by an American example. Austra- and
"Russia, France and all Latin peoples
nas well as the Semitic races of the
Orient affect to despise America and
"would not emulate us. These are the
nations of the world. When profes
sors, magazine writers and the pro
fessional theorists gel up a glow by
"expatiating on what an "opportunity
"the present war affords-to teach the
world" a lesson they forget one of the
first lessons' taught Jhem in infancy
viz.f that the world, is composed of
'Europe, Asia, Africa', North and South
America -and Australia, that the conti
nents are devided up into nations oc
cupied by the "aforementioned .peo
ples, whose relations to each other
are decided by the size of the army
each can put into the field and by the
-vitality of the citizanship and not at
all by "examples" of more or less
foolish conduct furnished by other
nations.
Admiral Dewey is a silent ohl sea
dog of the kind it is not safe to tease
or bait. He is also careful and good
tempered as admirals go. The Ger
man captains in and out of the har
bor and occasionally landing food for
' the Spaniards may have carefully
graduated" their impertinent aggres
siveness "by "their knowledge of juat
how much;Uncle Sam and his nephew
Dewey will take from Emperor Wil-
- helm's brother. Germany woukl not
- be quite so cocky with -the United
t, States if the alliance with England
' were concluded. Little Willie knows
that his grandmother has a temper
but he thinks Uncle Samuel is long
i suffering in dealing with an anointed.
k" ? king: But if Prince Henry gets be-
. tween our guns and Manilla when"
Dewey is firing them therll be no
high balls to avoid hitting the sacred
person of his royal -highness.
t- t Nominations hae been taken be
"" -. fore this as a sign of the supremacy
of the boodling element. Elections
are a more; trustworthy Indication of
. the tendency of puolic opinion. The
Hamilton club and the sturdy unfet
tered republicanism which it repre--
sents, is not dead but sleeping. When
. the time comes for a revolt that
: , means defeat to the machine which
- - is destroyiafr the reputation of Lin-
. coin the organization will doubtless
; be -found as effective as when it
effected the defeat of George Woods.
The Tost, which under its new man
. agement is vigorous and breezy, in
. timates that Mayor Graham and his
associateaiave downed the clean, re
spectableTbrtion of the republican
oartv.- Thlu'ost is unaware that that
. particular body of men represents
i the concentrated disgust and revolt
, of a body of voters in this city, strong
( enough to sweep the few men who
live by the sweat of their fellow citi;
zens, forever out of itheir way. This
' .year- the people are not going to vote
1 the republican ticket or any other.
ticket because it has -the endorsement
'. of "a convention. The Hamilton club
is a power because behind it are the
republican voters of Lincoln who will
no longer be bamboozled. They
showed' their strength last fall. They
. will show it again this fall. It is a
IP:
'vote whichis not much in evidence
at conventions. It -is busy between
times with other matters, but this
fall if the boodle element does what
it pleases with the nominations The
Courier wijl be congratulated again
on "the reliability of the prophesying
department of this paper.
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t Some time during "the week a poor
silly old woman, weak from lack of
food, stumbled while crossing an al
ley on one of the streets of this city
and fell fainting to the ground. She
was carried into a nearby store-room
.and laid upon the floor. Some one
telephoned for the patrol wagon and
it came clattering down the street
,and backed noisily up to the curb.
Then she was lifted by policemen into
the malefactor's wagon and driven
off. The wagon is not covered and
the poor starvling, who this time was
guilty only of fainting, was exposed
to the curiosity of the street and the
burning-rays of the sun. There is
not a day that the patrol wagon does
not dash noisily through the streets
with one or two disordily or shock
ing occupants. When the patrol
wagon arrived in the city it had a
cover but it was torn off when the
horses ran away on the occasion of
the fire in the C. C. Burr house an
it has not been replaced. The police
men do not find the cover convenient,
but for the sake of the seemliness of
our streets,for the sake of the wonder
ing little children who walk them,
for the sake of women and the un
born, these hideous and painful ar
rests should be put into a closed
wagon. It is the immediate duty of
the city council to direct that the
cover be fastened on to the patrol
wagon.
The man whose face has been de
stroyed should not be allowed to ex
hibit himself on the streets. There
is an ordinance forbidding any such
horror a permanent station on the
streets, yet this man frightens women
and children and gives a bad half
hour to everyone who chances to
glance at him. For obvious reasons
the presence of such a man on the
streets of a city can do incalculable
harm. The community could better
afford to be taxed to support him in
luxury and isolation than to have
him on the streets. His case is pitia
ble but the community should hide
from the sight of the ignorant and
innocent such hideous effects of
disease.
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The successes of the navy have sur
prised Americans as well as foreign
ers. Yet since the time when Ave first
set up housekeeping for ourselves, we
have had brilliant naval commanders"
who hae accomplished immortal
fame for themselves if they have not
succeeded in securing a naval repu
tation, for their country. Times hae
changed since the war of 1S12 and so
hae ships and their armament, but
the superior markmanship, the Yan
kee cleverness, the inspiration to
shoot at the right time and place re
main the same. Unprejudiced Euro
pean cities are now giving the credit
for the victories at Manilla and San-,
tiago not to Dewey and Sampson
alone, but to the peculiar American
genius which grows only on this side
of the .ocean between the forty-fifth
and twenty-fifth parallels. As every
country has its distinguishing fauna
and flora so every land has its special,
human variety not duplicated in any
other country. The remarkable .vie
tories of Sampson and Dewey are not
isolated examples of naval genius,,
but good manifestatios of American
maritine ability connecting these
commanders and the officers and sail
ors under them with Jean Paul Jones
and the captains of the colonial pe
riod..
The navy of the United States has
given Americans a new pride in their
country, a new reason for staying at
home, a new reason for af riot ism,
and a new reason for extending
American institutions. The dangers
and discomforts of democracy which
manifest themselves in every munici
pality in this country are as the local
inflamntion of inoculation to the
spreading sores of small pox.
The one is temporary und discipli
nary, and the other threatens the life
Absolutism does the thinking as well
as the ordering" and hundreds of
years of such n regime produces a
people incapable of self-government.
Another effect, of the naval victo
ries and of adverse European crit
icism of American policy is mani
fested in the staying at home of the
rich Americans, who heretofore have
spent. one hundren million dollars per
annum in foreign countries. The
league of opulent American women
who have agreed not to buy French
Irannets or gowns is founded on pa
triotism and resentment for imperti
nent and undeserved criticism from
the French who reward a generous
patronage by abuse. This action of
millionaires wives in refusng to buy
French importations and of the mll
ionaires themsehes in" staying at
home are only two instances of the
flood of patriotism set free by our sol
diers and sailors and European crit
icism of them.
JOTTINGS.
By William Reed Dusroy.)
But there are some people of noble
mind and broad liberality in Hucky
dory; people who eee the wide world as
it is, spread out before them, and do not
let the confines of their little town cir
cumscribe them. They see even be
yond the rim of the Lorizon, or the tops
of the larch trees that fence their homes.
One noble woman I met there, whose
life has been shadowed and shaded with
many sorrows. But a year ago her son,
bright in his young manhood, noble and
as handsome as a Greek god with his
golden hair, was crashed into an almost
unrecognizable macs by some farm ma
chinery. He was taken away to a hospi
tal and all was done for him tait sci
ence and tender care could do, but he
slipped out of this life icto the great be
yond, and left his widowed mother com
fortless. And then it was her occupa
tion to forget. She went into the kit
chen of her great home and did the
work of a servant that she might forget,
her Bufferings.
When the var broke out she was all.
interest. She thought then of her dead
son and knew that if he were alive ho
would be one of the first to march away,
dressed in the bine, beneath the flag she
loved. But, alas, be was lying in a
grass-covered grave, and did not hear
the call to arms, nor heed the tramp of
feet, or the floating Hags. No sound of
the buglecall came to his earth-filled
ears. But his mother saw many another
brave young man march away, and. in
memory of her dead boy her heart went
out to them. She did what she could to
encourage them, she did what she couli
to make them comfortable. And when
.they marched away couth and were in.
camp the news caaie back that many
were sick, and without the means to
make them comfortable. Then she went
upstairs to the room her son used to oc
cupy. Then she knelt- down before a
chest where she kept the priceless me
mentoes of, the one she loved, and took"
therefrom the pillows that had eased his
last hours. There were many of th m
as she had them made especially for his
broken and tortured body. And these
she sent away to the boys in blue. They
were worth more to her- than their
weight io gold, yet she took then and
gave them willingly for humanity aad
her country. Hobson was brave; the
almost unknown mea who wat with
him on his terrible errand ware htave;
but are there not weak women at home
who would shriek at the sound of a gun,
almojt, if not quite as brave? Brave
men aad tender women are nerJed in
wjr, and who shall say that the tender
women are not of as muih moment as
the brave men?
In Hunk dory there lives another
woman, brave andswet. Foryeaisand
years her body has been wracked with
sicknes and the four walls of her li tie
home have been the limits of her lire.
She has sometimes b en able to go into
the garden where th.9 pansiea grow and
sometimes has go' j to gather the fruit
that bangs so tempticgly, bat much of
the time he has been on a bed of suffer
ing. But through it all her brave spirit
laughs and loves and tboeo about her
hear no useless complaints. Her tome
never changes. The same pieceeof fur
niture are in the fame places tbey were
fifteen years ago and even thirty years
ago. There is no wear, nothing .seems
to grow old or change. Little trinkets
made by loved Jones many years 8go,
yet hang on the walls. No jpeck of cirt
ever intrudes into this immaculate
bouse. Everything is woll ordered.
There" is no excitiment and no rush. It
giveB one a feeling of als-.lute rest to go
there. It is like stepping into another
world. Above the lowly roof the tall
maple leaves quiver and the sunlight
pours its golden blecsing. Peace seems
to hover over the place. Rett has taken
up its abode there with this woman who
has come out from the sufferings of life,
sweeter and better, a character carved
from the rough marble by rough tool,
now a perfect and shining figure, flaw
less as Carara marble.
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On one of the back streets of the little
town there stands the old brick school
house. The bell has been taken from
the tottering tower and the walls are
falling to decay. The doorstep over
which once trooped a crew of frolicsome
boys and girls is now but a place where
lizards task in the summer sun The
windows are like the hollow orbs of a
skull thet onee held laughing eyes. The
spiders hare flung their filmy curtains
from the sagging eaves and the weeds
have grown tall about the door. The
pupils who learned their first lessons at
those old benches are scattered far and
wide over the world. Some are in
foreign lands, some buried in the sea,
and eome in lands remote. And some
lie back of the old school house in the
acre of God that joins tbe old chool
grounds. The marks of change are
everywhere around the old place. The
years have claimed it as their own. And
it belongs to the past
Tor sale, or will exchange for a first
class Nebraska farm, a number of choice
residence Iota in the city of Hmnibal,
Mo. These lots are in the line of future
improvement and are only about fifteen
minutes walk from the United States
post office and district court building;
the trade will be made on a cash valua
tion. For particulars writs George D.
Clayton & Co., real estate dealers, Han
nibal, Mo.
REDUCED RATES TO GRAND EN
CAMPMENT MINING DISTRICT,
WYO.
The Union Pacific will sell tickets at
one fare for the round trip, plus 23.00,
from all points in Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado and Utah to Rawlins, Wyo.
Dates on which tickets will be sold are
1st and 3rd Tuesdays in June, July,
Aug., Sept., Oct. and Nov. Stage line
daily except Sunday each way between
Rawlins and Grand Encampment.
For full information call on or address
E. B. Slosso;.
General Agent.