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cause the pungent phrase of Omur
sticks in the mind of a commercial
traveler, even as in the mind of Lang,
who fancies that he likes it because
lie is Lang, and not because he is
human like Omar and the men he
addresses.
The Anew-Had.
The Arrow-Head isltn illustrated"
fortnightly published by students of
the university. Mr. Johnson, the
illustrator, is an original draughts
nan, with a talent for catching a
likeness whkk makes the labels super
4kiou8,that all cartoonists tack on
their models. This is a busy world,
iM it takes so little tlmeto get the
meaning of a page of pictures, that
letter-press is takiog a more and
mece inconspicuous place. The Ar-rew-Head's
models are members of
the faculty, doubtless unwillingly,
JMtt the students are more interested
in them than they are in the presi
dent's cabinet, in Bryan, Croker or
any other professional model of the
winute. Therefore a college maga
zlae illustrator's models are liuited
to the faculty and bis topics to those
discussed,,, on the campus.- -To. those
jwho know the university professors
aad undergraduates, the Arrow-Head
4s interesting. The effort of the
publishers to get out a breezy, pointed
periodical is very evident and they
demonstrate their success.
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A Study of Commerce
Tie Parceb Part.
1 have received a pamphlet contain
ing the two addresses whose titles are
printed at the head of this paragraph.
'A Study of Commerce' was delivered
hj Mr. J. C. Stubbs before the Na
tional Association of Merchants and
Travelers, in Chicago, on August 21,
1900. Mr. Stubbs shows that Ameri
can enterprise stops short on the
coast. We trade with other countries,
but foreign ships carry oar imports
and exports. Americans are keen
enough to carry on any business in
which there is profit. Only large sub
sidies from the American people, to ;
ship owners can develop United
States ship tonnage. Js it worth a
subsidy? Under the present condi
tions the United States is not a rival
of England, Germany or France in the
ocean freighting business.
In 1807 our foreign commerce was
valued at 248,843.000, ninety-two per
cent of wbidnwas-carriedjin Ameri--;
can vessels. In 1811, through the dep
redations of British and French cruis
.ers, it bad fallen away to $114,716,800,
and the proportion carried in Ameri
can ships was reduced to eighty eight
per cent. In 1814, the last year of
the war, the value of our foreign com
nerce shrank to 120,000,000 and Amer
ican ships carried only fifty-four per
cent of it. In 183S our foreign-corn
raerce, for the first time, reached the
volume of 1807. Since then the ton
nage has not equaled the 1807 mark,
except for two years. England, which
continues the greatest maritime pow
er in the world, developed it, in the
irst place, by navigation acts, grant
ing subsidies to ship owners. "But,
one by one," Mr. Stubbs says, "the
protection laws of Great Britain were
modified or revoked, in consideration
of 8imUar-legIsat4ons by. the United
States." Thus EnglaWre-estaWlshed
teer prestige -which the American suc
cesses in the war of 1813 had threat
'ened by demonstrating the. superior
seamanship and marksmanship of the
American masters and sailors.
' There is no question that the great
aations of the past, as Mr. Stubbs
ays, have commanded the sea. Marl
'time supremacy was attained by the
Babylonians, who were surpassed by
the Phoenicians, whom Carthage
rivalled and excelled. After the dark
ages, wherein men ceased to travel
and trade across seas, Venice and Gen
oa were the harbors of the Mediter
ranean. Then Holland, Spain and
Portugal controlled the seas. From
the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, Engiand has, with occasional
threats, done the-bulkof the water-
way business. Mr." Stubbs believes'
that the people of the United States
should encourage American foreign
commerce by passing law which will
entitle the American ship-owner to a
subsidy, which will make up to him
for going to sea in competition with
the English or German sea captains.
If the English can do business at a
profit with protected America, there
issometbingdeticientin the American
captain or ship-owner if he cannot
trade, and make money by it, with
free-trade England. Subsidies, where
the whole people get under one man
or corporation and boost, are increas
ingly repugnant to the American
mind. If the ocean carrying business
cannot be carried on by Americans,
unassisted by their countrymen, as
the Englishman is unassisted by bis
coujntrymen,vI hope the latter will
continue to do the business, as he de
serves to.
Mr. Lewis B. Boswell of Quincy,
Illinois, delivered an address on "The
Parcels Post" before this same associ
ation. There is no parcels post, prop
er, in tli is country, though small
-bundles, weighing less than four
pounds, at rate and of restricted size
and cuntentr-are carried-by the postal
service. In England and Germany the
rates and admissable packages are as
follows:
For parcels not exceeding
1 pound in weight 6 cents
5 " " 8cents
3 " " lOcents
4 " ' IScents
f " " 14 cents
6 " " 16cents
7 " " IScents
8 " " .aocents
22 npntH
11 " ?t cents
In the German Empire the domes
tic rates and weights applying to Par
cels' Post are as follows:
For parcels not exceeding 5 kilogram!)
( 1 kilogram equals 2 lbs. 2 oz.) or 11
pounds for distances not exceeding
10 geographical miles, 25 pfenning
or 6H cents
Parcels not exceeding 11 pounds in
weight, for distances exceeding 10
geographical miles 12J4 cents
Parcels exceeding 11 pounds and not
. exceeding 110 pounds:
For the first 11 pounds, 10 miles . ... 6J cents
For every additional 2 lbs. 3 oz. or
fraction not exceeding 10 geograph-
""lcal miles. in cents
From 10 to 20 geographical miles 2J4 cents
20 to 50 ' 5 cents
SO to 100 " " 7tf cents
100 to ISO " 10 cents
Orer 150 ,l " 12J4 cents
The prospect of getting and sending
bundles from distant parts of the
country so cheaply is fascinating.
But, after all, we should pay.the bill.
According to the annual report of
the Postmaster-General for 1899, the
excess of expenditures over receipts
was W.610,776. The Parcels Post,
therefore, "besides 'bankrupting the
express companies, would not pay the
government. The small stores in
every small town would have to com
pete still more directly with city de
partment stores.
It is curious - that these two ad
dresses should be bound together, the
first one advocating subsidies and the
second one denouncing a plan which
involves the application of the same
principle.
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The State Feieratioo.
The program of the Federation
amounts to a discussion of how to get,
and help others get, the most out of
life, by the most practical women of
the state the club women. I look in
vain for essays and papers concerning
the rise and fall off the Roman Em
pire, for essays with titles derived
from the abstract virtues, for purely
literary discussions that are much
better left to doctors of literature or
to professional essayists. The mem-
for this year when he wrote the letter.
It is a disappointment to find anyone
so sure of himself and his sound and
exalted Americanism, so conclusively
inconsistent. The party, Mr. Olney
says, is worth the immolation, and it
is not impossible that the sacrifice
may be remembered at an opportune
time. A man can do more than die
bersof-the State Federation. are as- for a cause."He-can make-hmtself
sembllng- to 'hear reports of a - year's 'ridiculous which is much more than
work, and to talk over the prospects dying, and takes more grit.
and plans of life in Nebraska. An
evening is devoted to pottery and to
the pictures of the Paris exposition,
with illustrations, the latter by Mrs.
F. to. Hall, who has just returned
from Paris. One afternoon has been
divided into musical moments, and
talented musicianTf rbm Plattsmouth,
York, Omaha and Lincoln will demon
strate bow they have made life me
lodious in those cities. On Thursday,
the discussions are about woman's
work in cooking, home-making, home
ethics, and about the school laws of
Nebraska. And Miss Alice French's
lecture will conclude the Thursday
daylight session. On Thursday eve
ning, industrial economics will still
be the topic, and on this occasion
Mrs .Decker of Denver will speak on
"Club Revolution."
The good will and sympathy en
gendered by a state meeting for dis
cussion of ways and means of making
life more worth while, and less a
drudgery, and in the aesthetic possi
bilities of music and art in the home
is the most important consequence
and pleasure of such a gathering. If
the. papers read andjectures delivered
were upon recent discoveries in Pom
peii or speculations on the lost arms
of the Yenus found upon the Island
of Milo, the largest part of the value
of the meeting would still be pre
served. By the perpetual wind that
roughens and darkens our skin, by the
sun that shines forever in Nebraska,
and by the corn that rustles all sum
mer and gives a dash of cribbed lemon
yellow to all the stations in Nebraska,
we are citizens of the same state.
The line is not merely political; sun,
wind, prairie, the corn crop, citizen
ship and membership. in thesame-or,-ganization.
make Nebraska women
members of one family. If they did
not meet occasionally, they might
forget their essential identity, and
Omaha and Lincoln might develop a
misunderstanding and antagonisms.
Therefore, women of Omaha, Grand
Island, Tork and the other duchies
of the state, remember that we meet
together in October to recognize our
points of contact and to enlarge their
number, to deepen our fellowship and
strengthen it by new evidence.
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Mr. OlnevV' Reason."
Mr. Richard Olney said in a letter
to'his interested countrymen, explain
ing why he-had made up his mind to
vote for Bryan, that "If one citizen
may properly withhold his vote, all
may, and all the wheels of govern
ment be stopped," and that "to de
cline voting because practically as
sured that others will vote, is but to
give the latter an undue share of
political power and toforrelt the right
to complain of any abuse." He said,
besides, that "The obligations of citi
zenship are avoided, not performed,
by standing neutral in an election,"
and that "The voting power is a trust
which calls for use. and is violated by
the neglect to use."
All this sounds very high-minded
and patriotic, but just aa soon as it
was in print, busybodies (ttfere are so
many busybodies looking up a man's
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Tke Stotsenburg Fund.
I have received from Mr. Rudge,
treasurer of G. A. R. fund, 836.55,
which is the unexpended surplus from
the reunion, contributed by Messrs.
John B. Wright. O. J. King, Bayard &
Guerin, Buckstaff Bros.,L. A. Ksensky,
B. Wittmann & Co., and Lincoln
Drug Co. Contributors by letters are
Mr. Charles B. Lewis, late First Lieu
tenant, First Colorado Volunteers;
Mrs O. E.Miller, Lincoln; Laura Cars
tensen, Leigh, Nebr.; Claude Shank
land, Aurora, Nebr, C. A. Phillips,
Second Lieutenant, Co. H. Second
Regiment, N. N. G., Aurora; Tim F.
McCarthy, Aurora; Blanche Marble,
Hampton; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lin
coln 139.25; total collected, 3936.44.
Correspondents who have received
letters concerning this fund are urged
to respond immediatedly. It is only
procrastination, and no lack of gen
erosity on the part of Nebraskans,
that 'delays the remittance of a
worthy sum to Mrs. Stotscnburg, the
widow of the man who made the name
of the First Nebraska an inspiration
to all soldiers.
A Big Banquet
President Loubet's banquet to
22.000 mayors of France was a success.
Its overseer was a woman. In the
land of chefs and caterers, a woman
was selected to see that 22.000 men
were waited on properly by 20.000
waiters, and that the 4,000 other men,
coffee boilersand messengers, respond
ed to the demands of the occasion.
Not a French mayor waited for his
course, but the eieven miles of guests
were served simultaneously, and with
out an accident or omission, the
courses prepared for them by the Re
public of France. Behind each table
was erected a series of five shelves, and
each shelf held a course. Coffee was
served hot. Of necessity, everything
else was cold. It has long been a re
proach, that mankind has not hesi
tated to address to the sex, that the
best dressmakers, the best cooks, the
best caterers were men. Surely the
president of France resides in the city
of mast distinguished caterers. With
out regard to sex or politics, he select
ed the individual who could be en
trusted with the preparation and serv
ing of a banquet to 22,000 people.
This individual chanced to be a wo
man, and the finish and smoothness
of her performance has excited the
admiration of at least two continents.
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The Absconding Kruger.
Paul Kruger has gone to Europe,
taking the money of the Transvaal re
public with him. A fugitive is never
heroic, but when he flees with money
belonging to a bank or to a people, he
is inglorious. Quotations from the
Psalms canmo longer-5 attract sympa
thy to Kruger. The Boer soldiers,
privates and generals, have fought
with true patriotism and admirable
bravery. But their heroism is not to
be confused with Kruger's discretion.
Joubert.Crooje and De Wet are heroes.
record about election; time) found-out- They are great generals whose ability
that Mr. Richard Olney was not a reg? is recognized by soldiers the world
istered voter from 1896 to 1899, inclu- over. But this is Kruger's war. If
sive, and that he had not registered he had not been blind to expediency
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