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THB GOUKIUK.
She urged each ono present who
thought of any thing thut could bo bet
tered in tho way of council work o
epouk. So the apoakois were mode to
feel that while they had no vota in I ho
council procoediugs they had a largo
place in the recognition of tho president.
From an international standpoint this
may bo considered as ono of tho moat
Bigniticant meetings of tho Council, for
tho tactfulncBB of tho hostess ro doub
did much to overcomo much of tho un
pleasantness which occurred in tLo
general sessions of tho Council.
A special telegram from London by
Henry Norman to tho New York Timos
sums up tho value of tho woman's con
gross in a few words, which I think
should he ta':on with a fow graitiB of
allowance. HoBa)s:
"Anything more futile or purposeless
has seldom boon Bion in this city than
tho woman's internat'onal congress. At
Woatminstor Town Hall, where it was
held, tho noise of tho underground
trains and the cries of echo d childron
outside mado most of tho speakers in
audiblo. The audience arrived indf
ferontly, and tno incessant coming and
going of weirdly-clad delegates wus over
un interruption. Except in tho case of
actresses, tho voices, diction and do
livery of most of the speakers were bad.
No one was allowed to speak for more
than ton minutes. The bell wiB rung
inexorably to close each paper. Ap
parently no delegate bad rehearsed her
paper beforehand with a stop watch,
therefore most of them wcro arrested
whilo they had still pageB to read. Tho
effect of a speaker sitting down in the
middle of a paragraph, with the wboln
of her piint left out, may be imagined.
In many cases there was no discussion
after the papers, which were simply rat
tled off, one after another, like eo many
shots from a cannon. Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Stetson, who said simo tren
chant tbirga, appalled her English
hoarers by advocating highly trained,
well-paid women aa substitutes fjr
mothers. English women of advanced
views who attended aro askirg was it
wor'ih whilo gathering women together
from the ends of the earth to gabblo
platitudes of precisely ten minutes'
duration. The effects of tho congrtflj
upon the public opinion hero is nil."
The portraits of five American women
in bass relief are to be placed on the
western Btaircase of the cipitol at Al
banyHarriot Beecber Stowp, Captain
Molly Pi' cher, Susan B. Anthony Fran
ces A. Willard and Clara Batton. We
uro cony to chronic e that none of them
are to be pictured young. Mrs. Stowo
is represented ub an old lady, with
whitened hair, and )et, Mrs. Stowe
wrote the story which made her famous
when she was but a little over forty, and
did nothing to equal it in her after
writings.
Francep Willard was not an old lady
when bhe died only about Bixty, and
the labors which brought her world
wide reputation wore all begun vhile
she was yet a youLg woman. It seems
u pity 6&ys Harper's Baair, that tho
mobt important memorials of men and
women who have attained to eminence
should be presented te us in portraits
destined for posterity bb old persons,
with their life work done and the rec
ordsof its struggles not the glow of
their youthful promise written on
their faces. We know Gladstone best
after bis battles wero all won and the
queen us she Bits almost helpless with
no trace in her face of the girl who
promised no more than she fulfilled and
who became at once tho inspiration of
her subjects. Our bjst known portraite
of Lincoln wero taken when his power
was proved. Suppose wo had never
known Mrs. Ballingtun Booth in tho
dujB of her wonderful beauty, but
waited to boo her pictured as an old
person with glares! All that tho latter
years hnve prove I in ovory ono of thoao
!BseB was in them when young, undo
volopod to be sure, but then). It is apt
to have a discouraging (-Hoot upon tho
young, this disregard of tho jouthful
promiBo wilh the prescription only of
its attainments in old ugo mid tho culti
vation of this d.Bregurd creates almost
unconeciouply k certain scepticism
among us, Mo-t of ub huvo bean
taught to bssoclato wisdom with years
and sincerity f purpose ot.ly wilh its
fulfilment.
My Dear Mis. Riuki ttt-:
In view of complying with jour re
quest in Tho Unurior of July 1st, I am
making an i Hurt to form un opinion on
tho reorgan'. ition queeti ii us applied
to the General Federation. 1 lind I
havo no copy pf tho present constitu
tion and not suffhiont Knowledge of iho
presont conditions and the working dif
ficulties to form an intelligent opinion.
Realizing that "I never will bo missed."
I forboar diBJUPsing that concerning
which I am ignorant, butsend you these
linoB that you may know I did not over
look tho matter. Is not tbo diH'rict idea
suggested in lust Satutday's Courier u
goad one? However, tbo more remVo
tho relationship between tbo G. F. W.
0. and its individual membership, the
less influence will tho former huvo and
tho more will it become a posing place
for profeBeionuli-m us opposod to
altruism.
Ab a model for effect' vo organization
I ahvajB turn to the Roman Calhilic.
church. Jf one h le mastered tho princi
ples thht i;uide her, she has the key to
the organiz itiou question. Whether it
is possible to u ply tho principles with
out the dogma" ic authority to enforce
discipline is a question. I doubt the per
manent effect. ventEB of any organiza
tion wheieindiv.dualiem is eo fostered
as it is in our club lifo and I doubt tho
wisdom of substituting party discipline
for individual free thinking. Doubt
los3 the able w.imon in oharge will
settle the question wisely and Bee thoir
way cleur through whut seems to mo
il dilemma. I'm glad indeed that I don't
huvo to do it.
Grace M. Wheoler.
To the Fortnightly Club of Ottumwa,
Iowa, b longs tho distinction of being
the first club in thut city to iesue a ss.
tomatic program of its work and mhke
use of a year book; this although three
or four-clubs were in existence tbore at
the time of the Fortnightly's organiza
tion, December, 1804 While small in
numbers, the membership being limited
to thirty, the club haB carried on impres
sive work on literary Yuhb, aud bus also
done a valuable purt in the altruistio
work of tho community. At its moot
ing are presented varied and interesting
programs mado up of quotations, ad
dresses, papers, reading, and music. A
Pronunciation Box is an occasional fea
ture of the programs thut is found of
value. At the 'eluse of its first club
yoar tho Fortnightly held an interesting
symposium, in which mon took part in
tho discussions. During its third year
in addition to its regular work tho club
instituted a sorieB of loctares upon the
important questions of tho day, tho ad
drosses being delivered by prominent
men of tho city. Kb altruistic work has
been varied. It is interested in the
library of tho Y. W. C. A., contributing
volumes constantly, and undertaking the
repairing und renovation of the rooms
a? needed. A ' Fortnightly" room in
the city hospital is furnished and kept
up by the club. Its interest in the City
Improvement Association has been ac
tive from the beginning of tha society,
which Ib now in its third seaeonof work.
That tLo purely literary work of tbo
club is of a high character is shown
from tho fact that no lees than twnlvo
papers havo Ik on called out from tho
club by tho Statu Reciprocity Buronu.
This showing in a club membership of
thirty is ono in which tbo society tako
just prido. Mrs. Catherine. Tu) lor is tho
president of tho club, un oflice which bIw
has ucceptubly filled for several years.
Tho Bazar.
NEBRASKA'S ASIIPILE.
I'KOM A OAK WINDOW.
The geologists aro all wrong. Whon
Nature, set herself at V work of link
ing Nebraska sho did not begin and
Hiuojth tilings down fruit Iho wo t to
tho old Missouri. .It it her. 1 think eho
ewopt our Holds and valleys prettily all
tho way from east to wost and thr-n left
her old rubbish h-up very untidily away
off ic tbo northwest corner; Perhaps
sho thought that cleau white people
would never roam this way, that sho hud
given them all they i e u'd deBiro in the
land towuids the suuriso. ButBhodidn't
knov about railroads und sho didn't
under.-und the hunkering of, mankind
for seeing what is in his neighbor's yard
even if he must needs clamber over his
ovn ush-pilo to do it. Wyoming and the
grout north-west is too tempting. Sund
bills, bid-lands, puncuko plains and all
tho variations of our back-yard regions
cannot keep ub away.
Tno train on which I left. Lincoln,
owing to u lute start, wash -outs, and a
twenty mile Btretch through a terrific
Fourth-of July celebration in tbo skies,
cruwled into Alliance two hours behind
linio. Anyone who has travelled on tho
Billiugs line will know what that means.
It means that when jou look out in tbo
first uncanny gray of the morning you
find yourself somewhere in the Band
hills I judge it mutters little just where,
or whether it is ono daik red station or
another thut you pase first in the grow
ing ligh. You uro impressed by the
grout gruy hulks which loom up on both
sides of tho truck. They seem like the
remains of some giants' early play
ground where- they sported, before their
hands were strong enough to sling rocks.
The groat, sm o'bed off shapes are just
green enough now lo ren.ind you of the
lumpy, camel-like scenery in "oil paint
ings ' m de by John's cousin's brother's
wife, sacredly framed in gilt and hung
in the best room. That everlasting
sinootbed- ffness Ib unbearably ugly un
covered ub it ie by any trees. You ride
on and on among these bills,-careless of
geology and the making of worldp, won'
dering how the unbeuutiful things got.
there and what they are good for. It
you are wise jou will not get u ranch
nun started on this u' joct especially
if you have vegetarian predilections.
The eaod hills would bo much im
proved it i hey weie pHrtly covered with
trees. I im told that there are trees in
thut region, but all I saw was the ugly
hills, uln ost as bare as Naturo leftthem
The old tri e claim Lw came as the voice
of civilization and suggested the wear
ing of clotbep, so there are trees inspolB
My hostess tells a etoiy of a Sunday
school lud who grappled wilh the prob
lom of Moses and the Luring bush in
real sand-bill fashion. "Well," he Fuid
Moses must huvo lived on a tioeclaim
'cause thera ain't any buBbes anywhere'
elso.'' Perhup', utter all, we ahull find
that our fellow-plainsman, J. Sterling
Morton, got his Arbor Day idea from the
Bible.
I think this country will be different
some day. That trees will grow where
water Hows and water will come where
trees grow is a common notion. In parte'
of this country, at Iea6t, all you have
to do to get water is tu go out after
supper, put down a sand-point or dig a
hole, and set up your windmill. Further,
my own observation is that about all
youjnecd to set your windmill on ia four
clothes pins. While it must be con
fessed that the country does not look
as if it would bo necessary to build
dykos to keep tho dampnesa off, tho low
windmills suggoat Holland. You easily
guoss thut thoro must bo plenty of wind
hero. If It should overfall it seems
that tho windmill might bo reached
and turnod by hand.
Tho Band hills nro only Iojv, bluish
humps on an otherwise poifectly
straight boriz in, when (you roach Al
linjico und thn puncuka pluin. Hero tho
wind blown all tho time, though it
blows through no troop, und 'you can
buo day after tomorrow coming up hciohb
tho plain' ue a western writer has Bald.
This would bo a grout placo for font
ball. You could mirk out your giidin n
unywhoro. Tho hard, level floor stro'ch
cb on and on in l llnitoly. Indeed, tho
intorea.iug thing about it is th indefin
ite no.ifl. A lirol traveler making bin
first trip hero wilt try to keep awake
just to eoo how long tho tSing koepi up
anyway. Aftor that first trip howevor
you hope that the train will run on its
judiciously scheduled time.
Fiom tho car window Crawford seems
to bo tho pivotal point of tho ush pile.
Thoro aro bud laudBin front of it unit
inoro and woreo bad landsbehind i
The pancake, trnnlois plain breaki up
reluctantly, but it is a Hiiro indicHt'o i
that the mountains huvo gaino I tho
victory when j oucoinot) tho first craggy
hillside adorned with a few acattrul
pines eo scattered und an straight that
they loik, for all the worl I, iike N nh'a
Ark forestry hauled e u and at sifTly,
aro-jnd o a rod blocks. Soon you rutuh
a country whore th pines are raa-sed
with Bom" dignity in tin can-ins and on
tho mountain-like peaks. Tho ra Ir.iud
windB tortuojBly through this p'uee a?d
you get a little foretaste of moun'ain
engineering. Thid, I tak-) it, mus' be
tha most interesting part of the aph pile
to be seen from the car window. One
would liko to stay the train at Crf r I
and get out and poke aiotii.d uwLilo.
There aro curious old: relics hidden
there, we havo long been-told.
Beyond Crawford mcr bad landp, e.ot
mountainous, but suggtvtive of grnat
eaten out si res in tLo' earth. 1 hen the
sagebrush country and a corner of Da
kotayou Bo the yellow tumble-weed
all along under the wiro fences the
cactus now in blossom, thn lind of irri
gating ditches and real hill-. You aro
in your neighbor yi rd at lust.
The aph pile iB nt beautiful, but it is
curious in prope rtion to ita ugliness,
and the rincb men say it is the greatest
cattle country you can find except
Woming.
Florae Bullock,
M bar-K Ranch, aUamr Canon,
Tfeffcastle, Wyo.
NATIONAL EDUCATION VL AS'J
CI ATI ON.
Chicago, Rock Island & Paciflj Railway.
In the lovely city of Lot Angeles, Cal
ifornia, the abote ,jfemed organization
will hold its founeaotb annual meeting,
July 11th to Htb, 1890.
The Great Rock Island Rout-i baa is
sued a handsome booic containing views
and necessary information as to trains,
rat and routes' and this will be sent
to you by addreuing with postal card or
letter.
E. W. Thomiww, a. G. P, a.,
Topeka. Kan,
John Skuastjan, G. P. A ., Chicago.
"Have you ever been engaged before?'
he asked of the summer girl.
"Not this season, I only got here tbia
morning.
ON BOARD THE MAYFLOWER.
Captain The ship ia Hating to port
What's the cause?
, Mate Tbo ancestors have shifted, Sir!
Hair Dressing, Shampooing Scalp
Treatment, Manicuring, and 8wltcl,
iM" E0,1??" and ABDeB flings
143 South 12th street.
