THE COURIER.
does night after night, read I tig or
writing, when I feel lie Is not pru
dent according to my standpoints, I
make myself quiet and not nag him
witli advice to go to bed and I try not
to worry him about his particular
extravagances or economics. 1 try
not to worry him with any of the
tiresome domestic problems, that arc
continually arising.' This woman
1 have quoted from, has so much and
such rare sense, such a christian sym
pathy for a man who has competed
and used Ills magnetic Influence upon
other men all day for her sake, until
his one man power is exhausted, that
it is perhaps useless to hold her up
as an example. Men learn insight
and tact earlier in life than women,
because its posession and constant
exercise means a good position, the
confidence and good will of the head
of the tlrm thej work for as young
men, and finally a fortune. The
small horizons and alTaiis of women
narrow their sympathies and frc
quently blind them to the real
needs of those they love and would
serve. While not desiring the ex
pansion of the female horizon, for
even the best men are Turks, when
all women learn in the same school
of the world where men are taught
sense and perception by hard knocks,
the married man of the future will
find ids wife keeping her troubles to
herself and treating him and ills
nervous exhaustion, after a day's
labor, with healing doses of silence
that is the most medicinal of all
treatment.
Literature and Art.
Israel Zangwill the champion
novelist and Pedlar Palmer the cham
pion bantam weight English boxer
who is to box Billy McGovern, the
American champion on the first of
September, arrived on the Campania
last Saturday. It has always been a
question until this date as to whether
our impressionable people preferred
literature or. art. In the American
cosmopolls where there are more men
creating literature and more artists
painting pictures, making statues and
building beautiful churches and
houses than in any other city in this
country, this question was finally
answered by the simultaneous arrival
of Israel Zangwill and Pedlar Palmer.
The former with his overcoat over his
arm and his bag in his literary hand,
was free to get into any of the wait
ing cabs and be driven to his hotel.
It was not so with Pedlar. A dozen
open barouches were in waiting for
him. He chose only om and the rest
followed after as his retinue. They
were tilled with distinguished mem
bers of the profession and patrons of
art. Among them were Billy Gray,
Martin Dowllng, Fred Block, Sam
Fltzpatrlck, Jeff Thorne, MattClune,
Martin Co, van, Eddy Kennedy and
Joe Humphreys. When Palmer
started to leave the steamer the brass
band of sixteen pieces which these
generous patrons and lovers of art
had hired for the occasion, played,
'See the Conquering Hero Comes,"
and "Hall to the Chief,' and the
cheers were as loud and as heartfelt
as when Roosevelt landed. Even the
man of teeth and glasses received no
more convincing proofs from Ameri
can throats than that which greeted
Pedlar Palmer. Meanwhile the
cheers were growing fainter to Zang
will in his lonesome cab as he rode
further and further away from the
hero and his ovation. The novelist
said to a reporter who finally noticed
him: "There must be some mistake,
I should have thought the band would
.have nlayed those airs for Tod Sloan,
the American Jockey, instead of for
he English pugilist, but 1 am glad to
know that true art is recognized in
America, no matter whence it conxjs."
Insularity.
It is Inconsistent to blame Mr. As
tor for becoming a naturalized Eng
lishman. We encourage, and have
for two hundred years and more, emi
gration to this country. The gov
eminent, not so many years ago of
fered the best land in tlio state to
settlers who would plant trees or
otherwise cultivate and improve it.
Much of the prosperity and Increased
rainfall we owe to emigrants. Bo
hemian, Dutch', Swedish, Russian,
wnom the offers made oy the United
States, readied in their native land.
If Russia and Germany, countries
which we are accustomed to charge
withalhin and adulterated kind of
freedom, allowed us to place our ad
vertisements of cheap land, greater
freedom and a more exalted social
position in a country where overyman
is just as good as another and a little
better, before their citizens, and then
allowed those citizens to pack up
their household goods and take their
lusty sons and accept our invitation,
it ill becomes us, to charge Mr. Astor
with treason and very bad tas'e be
cause lie prefers England to America.
Those of us who are the maddest at
Mr. Astor never lived in England.
We would not know it from France
or Spain and perhaps not from Ger
many, if a genii should pick us up
and set us down in the land of the
Queen, part of whose dominions are
always in daylight. It is said in
deed by the English and by Ameri
cans who have traveled enough to
lose the first agressive patriotism of
a mountaineer or some other kind of
a stationary human being, that Eng
land is a pleasant place to live In; a
country of green lanes, of fragrant
wild flowers, of larks, of clear lakes
and with traditlous of poets who
lived and loved and wrote beside
them, with old Roman roads over
which our own ancestors tramped and
fought, where Scot and Briton met in
obstinate contest time and again,
where are the bones of Shakspere and
Ann Hathaway's cottage, and where
Chaucer,Mllton, Tennyson,Thackeray
sleep. There surely it is good to live
and It is mean and insular of us to
call a man a traitor and to burn him
in effigy for that he chooses to live in
England. Even though when he left
America and rejected the example of
the Puritans it was not because he
preferred the English landscape, Eng
lish birds, English flowers and would
breathe the air that Chaucer, Shaks
dere. Milton, Tennyson and Thack
eray breathed. If he prefer the so
ciety of lords and ladies to New
York's best, well, he has his reasons,
which, for all we know, may be
creditable to him and very hard on
New York society.
Captain Dryfus.
Suffocation, silence, and isolation
from his kind were some of the tor
tures to which the prisoner was sub
jected for Ave years in the hope of de
stroylng his life. Having observed
that a wan smile sometimes lighted
the captain's face as he watched the
sea from his little window, his jailors
built a high board fence across the
view and roofed it in leaving only a
narrow strip between the roof and the
sldewalls for the ingress of air and
light. IMs not surprising that the
captain is cowed and hopeless. Five
years of modern torture of this kind,
since the rack is forbidden by the law
of nations, would have killed any man
that was not brave and had not the
endurance derived from innocence and
the Inextinguishable hope of Justice
belore death made a retrial impossible.
Mme. Dreyfus, however, had not an
ticipated such a change in her hus
band and the shock and disappoint
ment is cruel. As the trial develops
the treatment to which the prisoner
was subjected appears to have been so
revolting nd inexcusable, even If
Captain Dreyfus was guilty, that even
the antl Dreyfusards must feel that
their vengeance and hatred has been
sated. It is little more than a dead
man who appears against the Repub
lic of France. The joy of life and
love of it lias been killed- Reinstate
ment to his rank will not recall his
spirit. The gay young officer looks
upon the crowds at the trial as one In
a dream nor understands that it is
not he but the department heads of
the French army that are on trial.
Southern Education.
"i shall not stultify myself 'said the
lion..). L. M. Curry In his address be
fore the educational conference at
Capon Springs, W. Va, on June 122,
"by any fresli argument in favor of
negro education, but I must be par
doned for emphasizing the fact that
there is greater need for the educa
tion of the other race." Dr. Curry's
words are from a southern man and
scholar and a distinguished statesman
of the confederacy, who was one of
the framers of the constitution of the
Confederate States. Dr Curry has
for some years been the active repre
sentative of the trustees of the "Pea
body Educational Fund. The Re
view of Reviews says that his knowl
edge of educational affairs and condi
tions in the south is at once compre
hensive and encyclopedic. When he
says that the whites need education
and amelioration he knows whereof
he speaks. At the opening of the war
the educational institutions of the
south were equal to those of the north.
According to the census of 18(10, when
the north had a population of 19,000,
000 and the south had 8,000,000; the
north had 203 colleges, 1,407 professors
and 29,044 students, the south had 202
colleges, 1,488 professors and 27,055
students; the north expended for col
leges and academies per annum $0,178,
437, the south $5,090,540. The war Im
poverished the south and the schools
have never since then been able to
compete with northern schools. Sta
tistics from the bureau of education
show that the colleges of the north
now have in productive funds $102,721,
451, while the south, exclusive of the
District of Columbia, reports $15,741,
000. Dr. Curry shows clearly that the
Caucasians of the south need educa
tion. They are at least a third of a
century educationally Dehind the
north. There is the opportunity for
the next millionaire who wishes to
spend his money where it will do the
most good.
A university with an endowment of
millions enougli to support a school
the size of Chicago university, might
disseminate enough light to destroy
the passion for lynching in a large ter
ritory. Tiie Increasing number of
murders and lynching in the south in
dicatethat savagery is gaining and
that the educational and refining in
fluences are not keeping even with the
Increase of population. In whole
communities, like that of Tallulah
not one white man can bo found who
will condemn the murder of the Ital
ians. Such a dead level of sentiment
can not be matched by any northern
community, whore in every frontier
town there are doctors or lawyers or
ministers or even miners who oppose,
and dare to say so, mob violence.
When a member of the old confeder
acy and a f rattier of the confederate
constitution says that the whites need
educating It is time to heed the cry
and send the next educational millions
southward.
Employment for the Volunteers.
The World Herald has undertaken
to arouse public sentiment in favor of
giving the boys who return from Lu
zon employment. Many of the boys
gave up good positions to enlist.
Doubtless their military life has, to a
degree, unfitted them for steady in
door work as cashiers, accountants,
clerks, etc. But the same persever
ance and energy that kept the First
Nebraska on the firing line, will aid
the members of the regiment to event
ually fulfill the duties of civil life
which they must assume again.
Patience on the part of employers will
be rewarded by diligence and a faith
fulness which faltered not before
trenches filled with armed savages.
The high average of the regiment
makes it certain that there are few
men in it unworthy of trust or irre
sponsive to orders. The habits of
obedience, order, promptness and
tacit compliance with rules which
military service teaches, are,of course,
valuable qualities in all employes.
The World Herald's appreciation that
in a short time six or seven hundred
young men will return to Nebraska
and be looking about for a job is
timely. General Shafter is reported
by one of the men returned from San
Francisco to have said that the Pay
master would pay off the Nebraska
troops after they had embarked on the
cars for home. Thus they will bring
back with tbem about $200,000. They
will not be destitu-e, but a willingness
on the part of former employers to
hire them again will be only what the
boys deserve considering their service
to the country.
The Omaha Exposition.
The great buildings with the stair
pealing off from them are empty of
exhibits.. Practically the show con
sist of landscape gardening very
effective, and clever electric lighting.
Tiie midway shows are coarse, vulgar,
and depressing The people of the
state realize that the show is not
worth much and the midway is de
moralizing and they are staying away
from it. The railroads have put on
no extra cars and travel maintained
its July average with no appreciable
Increase. Last year at this time ex
tra cars hardly kept the trains from
being crowded, and the midnight and
six o'clock trains from Omaha were
filled with families returning to
Lincoln after a day at the exposition.
Degeneration of Spirits.
The everlasting criticism of the
unbeliever that spirits whose fleshly
tongues talked sense in good English
after death talk only the jargon we
hear from the medium when she does
not profess to be in a trance. Is an
swered, not by the mediums for thoy
being Incessant talkers of nonsenco
and worse, can not appreciate the
force of the complaint, but by those
who humbly believe what the stupid
mediums tell them. These believers
say that it Is unjust to expect Jlnger
soll to talk gramatically, wittily, or
eloquently now that he is dead, bo
cause death is like a blow on the head
or a severe sickness and shatters the
accumulated knowledge of a lifetime,
as well ua the. habits of speech. That a
spirit has, in effect, begun a new exist
ance as a babe and carries not much
more into his new existencethan the
baby does into the world of matter. If
this be so there is less reason than be
fore why reHned loving relatives should
seek to communicate with the dead
through a medium whose tongue is the
tongue of the ignorant.
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