THE COURIER.
oil, on the condition of streets and
alleys, on vacant lots foul with stag
nant water after every rain, on other
lots where rubbish is dumped and left,
on the largo sheets of bill-board
paper torn from the bill boards and
left where the wind deserted It, com
mittees to confer with Indifferent
householders whose carelessness neu.
trallzed the societies' efforts, commit
tees to Interest the school children
and to solicit their aid were appointed
and the effect was Immediately ap
parent. More weeds have been up
rooted, more rubbish has been burnt,
more scavengers have been exhorted
and In consequence have made more
trips In the last five years than In any
other fifteen.
Women in clubs have not confined
their attention to exterior housekeep
ing by any moans. Most womens'
clubs have a domestic science or
household economics' department
which is studying, not by the use of
books butby means of original investi
gation and experiment, domestic
problems, which perplex and confound
the great majority of women. An oc
caslonal woman having the diplomacy
and tact of a statesman, the health of
r. ploughman and large common sense
and executive ability enough to make
a good lawyer, a good doctor, a good
minister, and a superb cook is occasi
onally found and serves as an example
to all the other less richly endowed
women in the neighborhood whose
husbands observing the consequences
of marrying a paragon are continually
comparing her to their own overwork
ed helpmeets The latter has struggled
with indifferent success to teach the
ignorant foreigners who came to this
country with the purpose of hiring
themselves as cooks, housemaids and
laundresses. The fact that they know
nothing about cooking keeping a
house clean or fine laundry work docs
not embarrass them or prevent them
from getting good places, so great is
the demand for such service. Study
of the servants and their duties as
well as the dutjes of mistresses to
maids may after years of study and
trial improve both mistresses and
maids, and the quality of the service.
The New York State Household Eco
nomic Association has opened a bureau
which amounts tp a new and improv
ed intelligence office. Its prospectus
announces that ty will supply patrons
only with capable servants. To fulfil
this advertisement every applicant
for a cook's place must pass an ele
mentary examination in cooking, a
second girl in dusting, sweeping, the
care of brlc-a brae, waiting at table,
making beds, etc., and a nurse maid
will be put through a much more
rigid examination in the care and
treatment of children. The associa
tion which has lately been incorporat
ed at Albany hopes to establish a
school of domestic science which will
be of great usefulness to mistress and
maid.
The First's Welcome.
Soldiers received a welcome from
the whole stato when they entered it
on Monday. Every little town was
at its station when the three trains
loaded with Nebraska's pride passed.
By the time the soldiers arrived in
Lincoln they were accustomed to the
wild shrieks or delight the cheering,
the cannonading, whistling and ex
plosions that marked their arrival at
every town, and roost of them re-'
ceived the adulation with a good
humoured toleration.
I think the people in the towns
were a trifle disappointed at the sang
froid the ' Idols displayed while re
ceiving their worship. But lrapas
slvlty and unresponsiveness Is a
characteristic of idols the world over.
They cannot permit themselves to
express the emotions of gratitude
they must occasionally feel, because
the worshipers arc so many and tho
worship so fervid. A response to ono
Involves a recognition of all and that
Is, of course, Impossible. It Is equally
impossible for Nebraska to express by
guns, Hags, bunting, cheers and re
ceptions to the First, our pride In
tho regiment and our joy over Its
return. We are proud of the unique
record It made in the Fillplnes, and
In getting our own back again, our
gratitude to Providence is unspeak
able. It shines In every mother's
eyes and is expressed by tho fathers
in handshaking and by trembling
voices. On Tuesday when the sol
diers were expected at every hour
between six o'clock In the morning
and nine at night, the city was filled
with country folk with glorified faces,
albeit as the day wore on and the boys
did not come the faces grew anxious.
When the thrco trains finally ar
rived at the station here and the
boys tumbled off the cars into the
arms stretched out to meet them the
scenes were indescribable and even
beyond the power or the desire of the
reporters.to describe.
Not quite a third of tho men were
Induced to go to Omaha. Only a few,
comparatively speaking outside of the
Thurston Rifles went to the recep
tion there. Those who accepted had
no near relations or were lacking in
natural affecUon, and there were very
few waifs in the regiment and very
few heartless. Men who could resist
a mother's entreaties after sixteen
months separation are not the kind of
men that make good soldiers, and the
First Nebraska has gained the reputa
tion of containing the best soldiers
there are.
The reception to bo given the First
is offered in gratitude and has no
designs upon the boy's pocket money.
Before that time arrives they will
have had an opportunity to spend it
in their home towns and for the Dene
fit of their families and themselves.
Those who choose to accept the in
vitation which Lincoln and the sur
rounding country extends, to come
and be feasted and honored and
cheered and thanked will be very
welcome and Lincoln will be over
paid in seeing the First Nebraska
something which does not now exist
march on- the streets of Lincoln
even as on the hills and through the
rice-fields of Luzon. By that time
the boys will think of their trials
with pleasurable toleration as old
soldiers and be ready for a reunion
and company drill again.
Dewey Sense.
The horse has monopolized the kind
of sense we all admire and that is
much rarer than the use of it Indicates
longenough. Admiral Dewey has had
such unusual opportunities to say
foolish things and has, Instead re
plied to his tempters with so much
discretion, that his name should en
ter the language. Dewey means to
the American people, discretion,
bravery, frankness, reserve, modesty,
manliness and patriotism. The civil
war added two words to the language,
shoddy and loco. If this little war
should bring to the language an adjec
tive so rich in meaning as Dewey
even the anti-expansionists and antl
administratlonists can have no plausi
ble objections.
sent to the chief of police of each
city in America. Doubtless many an
Innocent man has been under suspi
cion and doubtless his picture Is oc
cupying a place In tho rogues' album
in several hundred police stations.
Tho injustico of such a lasting pil
lory is apparent. Just how far society
has tho right to go in prosecuting tho
suspected In order to make certain
the guilty do not escapo is a question
upon which there is much debate.
Professor Tlcdeman in his "Llmltu
tlons of Police Power," says: "An
other phase of polico supervision Is
that of photographing criminals and
sending copies of the photographs to
all detective bureaus. If tills be di
rected by law as a punishment for a
crime of which the criminal stands
convicted, or if the man Is, In fact a
criminal, there can bo no constitu
tional or legal objection to the act,
for no right lias been violated."
The Dreyfus Melodrama.
M. Sardou Mdlle. Bernhardt and
Mdlle. Rejano In interviews with
newspaper corrcssondents speak of tho
Dreyfus trial and maitre Labori's as
sassination as a drama of exceeding
subtlety and power. M.Sardou says no
man over wrote a play with sucli fine
situations and sustained interest. It
is a pity though, that Frenchmen seem
unable to conduct themselves In
a court of law as reasonable human
beings who have adopted cortain legal
conventions for settling disputes.
The dramatic character of the French
court Is increased by the confronta
tions between opposing witnesses who
are not so much witnesses in the
American sense as advocates whom
the judge allows to argue tho Jury,
and revile or compliment the prisoner
at the bar. The playwright and the
actresses who have expressed their
opinion of the trial as the finest play
they ever saw, have expressed the
opinion of Frenchmen and men of
other nations. Until the French
take themselves, serlouoly nobody
else will. Until they do, It does not
matter much whether they have a
republic or a monarchy. Both arc
farcical as French Institutions,
though the Anglo Saxon fought, and
fought steadily for hundreds of years
for his constitutional monarchy and
the world never smiled, nor thought
of smiling as it looked on.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
The Young Woman's Christian As
sociation has a friend who volunteer
ed to teach any members of the asso
ciation who wish to learn the art of
making paper flowers. The flowers
thus made to be donated to the asso
ciation which will All orders for
paper flowers for use in the street fair.
The flowers are on exhibition at the
rooms and at Sandersons store on O.
street. The association will be glad
to receive orders.
Tho association has reserved space
for a booth at the street fair. It will
be an' undertaking of some magnitude
and will require much work on tho
part of the members. It is tioped
that all who can will report to the
secretary at once and recei vo an assign
ment of duties.
Tho regulardevotional meeting will
he held on' Sunday afternoon at four
o'clock. All young women are cordi
ally Invited. Special music Is prom
ised for next Sunday.
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The Right to Photograph.
Suspected of crime, a man when ar
rested in certain cities of this country
has his photograph taken with or
without his consent. Frequently
when a man who is suspected of a
crimo cannot be found, his picture is
Gillilan can assist you in finding a de
sirable home. It you intend moving
call at his ground floor office 119 south
12th street.
When love goes out at the window
these days, divorce drives up to the
porto cochere in a four in-hand.
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fTHE PASSING SHOW
J W I LLA GATHER
I should call Richard Waiting's work
"Number 5, John streot" the most en
during book of the year. All writers
today are, for tho most part, aflllctod by
restloBsnosB and tho t'lsoase of their
generation, hurry. Tbey have an idea,
or borrow an idea, and procood to got it
into literary form and rush it off to tho
publishers. Tho idea may be a good
one, the troatmont skillful and felici
tous, but somohow thoso stories lack
conviction, power, solidity. Thoy did
not Ho long onough in tho author's mind
to absorb much of his personality, and
he never put much brain stuff into
them, because usually, cleverness sells
junt as well as earnestness. Now "Num
ber 5, John street" is the reverse of all
this. It is the second book that Rich
ard Whiting has written, and he is now
a man of fifty. He has boen a journalist
all bis life, and Iibb writton for years on
social questions and on tho life and
conduct of tho London poor for the
"TlmeB." Into "Number 5, John
streot," and his former book, "The Isl
and," Mr. Whiting haB put tho result
and the net gain of all bis thirty years'
study of how tho other half lives.
There Ib not a line of padding in the
book, and there is not a page that does
not bear the stamp of a thinker. Yet
with all this, it is so interesting that a
foolish man might road it merely for
thn thread of the story, and so simple
that who runs may read,'
Socialistic studies in the guise of
fiction are usually unattractive, not
infrequently dishonest, and almost
never have they anything new to say.
If I must bear grewsome statistics and
particulars as to sanitation and the
death rato of infante, I prefer to get it
as bluntly and brutally hb possible, and
not disguised behind a feeble love story
or sugared over with pretly phrases.
But Mr. Whiting seems not to have
sought for a convenient mould into
which to run live facts and figures. His
booku.ust have come to him in very
nearly the form in which he published
it, you cannot imagine it being written
in any other way. Mr. Whiting, like
Mr. Jacob Riis of New York, has lived
among the people of whom be writes, to
be puts his hero In very much his own
place. The story is written in the form
of a personal narrative, told by a young
man of the fashionable world of Lon
don, who voluntarily accepts the life of
a wage-earner in the world of the ex
tremely poor in the heart of the great
metropolis. The hero, after he takes
up bis abode iu John street, lives the
life of John street, leaving his chambers
and servants behind him, he enters a
factory as a workman and subsists on
the wages he earns by the work of his
hand He lives with the people. He
cultivates them in a kindlier and morn
human sense than as mere sociological
studies, he draws them close to him
until they become to him and to his
readers, not studies, but folk of the real
world, of the realest of worlds, with a
convincing antualness of speech and
manner and the blessed warmth of
blood in their veins Mr. Whiting does
not merely "handle" these types of the
London poor, he thinks of them, feels
for them, knows them and .lives with
them, gets their attitude toward all the
great questions of life, their purpose in
work, their tastes in recreation, their
notion of pleasure. One feels that here
is an explorer who has gone into that
dark interior where dwells the lost halt
of civilization who did not leave his
heart behind. He tabulates not at all;
gives no statistics, makes no cold
blooded observations, offers no theories
draws no conclusions. Mr. Walter Wy
