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record can not, bo wild to deserve it.
While tho suspicion of having he
tray od the trust which coufidiiiK de
positors had placed in him as a d I roc
tor of tlio bank in which they had
deposited their saving, rests upon
Mr. Thompson, it Is inexpedient for
the republican party to elect him to
the highest position in the gift of the
stale. The state lost by the failure of
the Capital National hank SUM, 000.
If the man who is now asking the
legislature loappoint nitn to represent
Nobra?ka in the United States senate,
lias the foresight lie is credited with,
tlio patrlotiHin he assumes, and tho
business ability lie has s Ills claims
upon to any consideration at all,
would he not, when lie Is thought, to
have learned the tuio condition of tlio
hank, Insteiid of secretly selling his
own stock and that owned by fie in
surance company lie is president of,
and withdrawing from the directorate,
have put Ills shoulder to the wheel,
for the good of the stato and the two
thousand iieponitots, many of whom
placed their money in tlio bank be
cause they had f..lth in ills sagacity?
If, as a director of the bank, ho found
out that it was on the verge or insolv
ency and simply took measures to save
his own property, leaving his personal
friends, business associates and the
helpless and ignorant depositors to be
ruined when the bank should fail, ho
if- not to be trusted to guard a still
larger and more important and public
trust. While the suspicion rests upon
him of having been faithless to a trust
and of having loft the weak to their
fate when he might have helped them,
lie Is not eligible to tho place of
United States senator. Perhaps the
average man would have dono as lie
is suspected of having done, but sena
tors have boon in the past men of
lioroic; mould who, in tlio event of
danger, wyuld stand by till the weak
were saved. Average meu.among whom
it lias not been proven Mr. iliomp
son luiH no right to be included, have
not been of much service in tho United
States senate. Wo want a man who
can read ills title clear, who has been
faithful to tho charge committed to
him. who lias shown a not wholly
mercenary and sollish interest in pub
lic affairs, a man whom, abo'vo all, the
community trusts, and harbors no
dark suspicion against.
It is thought at this date (.January
LM) that Mayor tJraham will veto the
city ordinance reducing the price of
gas, passed by the council at their last
meeting. Yet everybody who lias
da red to express his opinion of the
ordinance, approves it. It is not to bo
expected that merchants of whom tho
president of the gas company buys
goods, will allow themselves to bo
(looted in the newspapers with the
revolutionists who have had the hero
ism to say that two dollars a thousand
feet for gas is an excessive charge.
Pari of Mr. Thompson's "influence"
consists in his habit of taking quick
commercial revenge on anyone who
ventures to criticize his political
methods, or fails to perform the
services ho is prone to ask of
his friends. Through tlio cat
Iny houses he controls, by means of
tho gas company and insurance com
pany, Mr. Thompson wields a large
patronage which he uses whiles scduc
lively and whiles as a club of punish
ment for those who have things to
sell. Considering tills influence, the
council which contains reputable mer
chants, as well as professional men,
have shown courage and devotion in
voting for the gas reduction ordinance.
Because the public is so timid itsolf
it is not a sign that it does not appre
ciate strength of will in others, and
many a citizen of Lincoln has said to
his wife after the doors have been
locked at night and the children are
asleep, that ho approves of tho new
gas ordinance.
Apropos of the timidity, which Ib so
striking (i feature of tills village, I
hope the legislature will not interfere
witli the Australian ballot. Under
this system dealers in commodities
clerks In stores and in ollices, and all
kinds of employes, arc able to express
afreoand unhampered choice once or
twice a vear, as the case may bo. If
it wore not for this secret exorcise
taken twice a year the American vot
ers' freedom would bo in danger of
atrophy from lack of use. It is all
very well to say that the voter ought
to be willing to have his vote known.
So long as men are iiotcrcalcd free and
equal and inasmuch as every year in
creases the Inequality and whereas,
there are employers who assume a
right to influence the vote of their
employes, it is in the interest of free
dom and democracy that every man
should bo allowed to cast his vote in
secret. This legislature, which has
shown such great caution in the elec
tion of a senator, is not likely to rash
ly destroy any sort of a safeguard,
even one, which, like the Australian
ballot system, is tho invention of an
Englishman.
The testimony of tho eulistrd men
in Colonel Stotzen burg's regiment re
garding the charges which have been
made against him Is conflicting. Some
of the soldiers who have spent most
of their time in tlio guardhouse are
very emphatic in the expression of
thoir conviction that Colonel Stotzen
burg is unduly severe with his men
and careless of their comfort. While
the good soldiers who accepted army
discipline as a matter of course, testify
that Colonel Stotzenburg is a good
ofliccr who endeavors to do his duty.
The charges are too much mixed up
with the names or Major Scharman,
whose military experience was thought
by Governor Ilolcomb to be of too
superficial a character to warrant a
commission when he first applied for
It, nnd of Captain Colton.over whom
Colonel Stotzenburg was promoted, to
be considered on its merits. If Colonel
Stotzenburg has been guiliy of con
duct unbecoming an officer, the fact of
Major Scliarinann's aspirations and
disappointment and of Captain Col
ton's pique has nothing to do with it
and ought not to influence the depart
ment which tlio complaints will
finally reach. Governor Poynter has
requested that the charges against
Colonel Stotzenburg be put in writing
and when this is done uch irrelevant
matter must be eliminated.
The scene in the house when the
senate files in at noon to vote for
United States senator is impressive.
The house rises as the sergeant-at-anns
announces tho approach of the
senate, for whom the central front
chairs have been loft vacant. After
the senate and tho house are seated
the roll of both bodies is called by the
clerk, whose resonant voice fills tbe
room. Then the names of tho mem
bers, with the counties which sent
them there, are called and they re
spond with their choice for United
States senator, in some cases with' a
proud emphasis on the initials of the
name and a lifting of the head as if in
dotlance of a hopeless minority, and
in others, as in tlio case of the Lan
caster delegation, tlio voice is lowered,
the eyes study tho pattern of tlio car
pet, and for the leonine Bspect, so be
coming to tho supporters of William
H. Allen, tlio Lancaster delegation
substitutes a domestic feline expres
sion not calculated to make the resi
dents of Lancaster, among the audi
ence, proud of their delegation. It is
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curious that tho supporters of Senator
A 1 loll ntn tilniul'so tlio Wllll'iiM mi tlni O
Hpurtori.is name. When they roach 'THE PASSING SHOW t
ins suinuinc. liio nro una commence W I LLA GATHER
and pride nave left tiioir voices and g
they pronounce It with an Indifferent
reserve as though their whole duty "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
had been done on the Initials. Tho Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
fr 04&
mannerism Is of no consequence and
is only worth remark because it is
characteristic of all the populists
Mr Hay ward's vote is concerned only
with Ills last name and they pro
nounce it with unction and confidence.
Mr. Lambertsons, Mr. Field's and
Mr. Weston's votes are as positive and
confident as any or the others and
seem to bo for the men rather than
for their initials.
Anglo-Saxon Superiorly : to what
it is duo is the title of a book by Ed
moiid Dcinollns translated from the
tenth French edition by HertLavigne.
M. Doinolins accepts without race
prejudice the superiority or tho Anglo
Saxon race over all others A map on
the til le page illustrates the extra
ordinary power of expansion of that
race which seems destined to succeed
Rough winds do shake the
darling duos 0t ivny
And summer's lease hath all too short a datel
Shakspere's Sonnets.
Old, cost uiicltcve, uneJievc d'nmour,
that lt'ojiilind of Julia Marlowe's.
Shakspero dreamed I or, and lb it dieatn
presented her. 'i ho very title suggests
that, "As You Like It," as you would
have it, if dieams ctuno true. Leigh
Hunt, in a volunio of tho host dramatic
essays over written in English, saB I hat
Rosalind was Shakspere's ideal n.intiess
and that ho put into her mouth tho
words ho would have had his ideal mis
tress Bpnnk, made up for himBelf tho
swoothourt that naturo wus not doft
enough to make for him and gavo to her
all tho attributes that Anno Hathaway
and Mary Filton lacked. And us a
dream Miss Marlowo plays her, scarcely
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sungioio anu eariniy onouui to On a
the Roman Empire in the government thing of flesh. For tho bimplo sutisfy
oi tno world. The Anglo-Saxon parts
of tlio map or the world are all or
North America except Mexico and
Central America, nearly hair or South
America, the southern hair or Africa,
in Asia India, Australia, tho British
Isles and Nova Scotia, as well as the
numerous small Islands or the sea
controlled by England. All this won
derful vitality and power of coloniza
tion is in the descendants of the Sax
oris who settled in Great Britain in the
lirth century, principally south of the
Thames, where they spread their own
name: Wessex, Sussex, Essex. The
Saxon, unlike the Colt, is a born far
mer, thanks to the geographical con
ditions of his previous abode. He
settles firmly on tlio soil. Uis Ideal is
the foundation of a rural estate on
which the Individual Is perfectly in
dependent of his neighbors and of the
political chiefs. The authority of the
Saxon chiefs is purely temporary and
elective. Here we have the first mani
festation of self government and even
an embryo parliament In the reunions
or the people (Folkmot) and gather
lugs of the wisomen (Wltenagomot.)
Tn the sixth century the Angles ar
rived fromSchleswig and after a cen
tury and a half wore conquered and
absorbed by the Angles. 'J hen the
Banes came and settled in tho little
island, a lordly lot who had no idea of
working fora living. Their plan was
to subjugate hii ULMlcultu'-al people
and force them to contribute part of
their labor to their lord's subsistence.
The Saxons raid the invaders a Dane
gelt until the peasant uprising, when
the Danes were driven back to their
own country. 1 hen the indomitable
peasants "Immediately and solemnly
reasserted their favorite form of self
government and defined it by drawing
up the Saxon customs in all their
purity: this was tlio famous cyinmun
law. It affirmed the narrow limita
tions of tlio public powers by ensur
ing Individual liberty and bv the in
stitution of the jury The Normans
conquered tlio Saxons but tho Saxon
conquest negan just as soon as tho
ing effect of boauty, of lyric lovolinoKK. I
know of nothing now on tho stage lik'o
her Rosalind. If sho has not onsnaied
the very dream of Shakspere, then I
think, had ho seen her play it, ho wi uld
have forgot tho dreum.
I have seen her now three times in tho
past, and I begin to think that sho could
not play it badly if sho tried. I also
begin to dietru&t that legend always
whispered behind tho scenes when her
name is mentioned, that Ada Djw
drilled her in all her Shaksperian partB
bo thoroughly that sho is absolutely
bound to tho letter of Ada Dow's teach
ing, that her every intonation is but tho
echo of another woman's intelligence
and that this beautiful Miss Marlowe 'Is
but a fair mouthpiece Tor another wo
man's eoul. I do not believo it. I have
watched her reading too closely to bo
further doluded by any such spiteful
myth. Anyway, tho story iB usually
told by jealous ladies whoso husbands
havo managed Miss Marlowo or played
with Miss Marlowe. Ta'o Rosalind's
first scene wlthiColia and Orlando at tho
duke's court. I havo yot to Beo her play
that twico alike. When Celia, after
Orlando goes out, crosses to hor at tho
sundial and asks her if all her melan
choly is for hor banished father and
Rosalind replieB, "No, some of it is for
my father's child.'' Last jear Bho read
that lino with a droll affectation of
melancholy, this year she road it with
frank gaity. Tho lino spoken when sho
giveB Orlando tlio token, "Sir. you havo
wrestled well, and overthrown more than
your enomies." Last yoHr sho spoko it
timidly, with tho deeper meaning in hor
oyes. This year sho spoko it archly
merrily, with a challenging dn8h Df
coquetry, and either way it was equally
charming. On my life, I could nofc
chooso between two m,ioV i -i. .
liL'lltinir Was OVer. Thn lnst.ltnVli.no Incr nnH lintli , .wi!.i. . .. w,lcn-
and the language or tho conquerors of the character Ton - n noP,rit
and the conquered are today English ,5 , M. t , lou 8eo- ling Rosa
and not Norman. M. Demollns says ,' Ml68 Ml""lowo can afford to bo
In his very Interesting treatise that ruther fro n hor reading, that is w
tho Anglo-Saxon has expanded until tho point; sho speaks shodnUnli f
he occupies all the points of vantage it B the innZZ ',, , e8 not road'
because lie attaches himself to the , , '"nguago of lyric youth, tho
cr.ll llr,l lm,,.n 11,1 ,. V, U,M: lOVfllV tnncrim A 1 '.
u..u ji.-n jjuubii-B wi Liiouonarid :. "' mwuy, not elocution,
because of the reliance of every Anglo- Why, she speaks all that blank versa ,
Saxon man upon himself rather than thouuh sho mn-nf i i i , ,
upon his family or upon the com- Sh i- . ?, ,loVed ifc. 'ved it.
niunlty. The society is partleularlsMo V nofc afraid of " bauBB it is
rather than communistic. Students Shaksporo. There is not a line of the
V? Jit L8c,cnc? cannot dc,,i' tht M. Pfty into which she does not infusn ll
Demolln's conclusions are In accord- and wit nnd vn,fi V
unco with the history of t o peon lo T0t L . , harm' and Bho
who. from the southern fourth , of , not nfu8f to much, she
England, have expanded until they c,oeB not overdraw the color of Rosalind'
occupy controling the situation in flvb Passion, she does not makehnr Zn u
of the six cont nents. M. Demolln's a. thlnn- of u 1 , ? r to much
admirable freedom from race pr2?d Ice half i!a fn , f bl0(i' Bhe ,eavea
and philosophic advice to the mem- " Mnd, oamld. where ehe should he.
brs of His own romance race Is r t Aft wltneeeing Ada Rent's rJuiZ
thcHeast remarkable feature of the hot-headed tom-boy of a ZaZ what
a joy to b00 again thia poetic creation, as
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