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people and they are ailed upon to
manage and direct its workings.
Dr B L. Paine one of the pioneer
church workers of Lincoln, is presi
dent of the league. B. A. Woodard
Is vice president and Mrs Dora Doyle
Is second vice president The two
other vice presidencies are held by
Peter McXIchoI and Bertha Brown.
Alva Townsend Is secretary and Dan
DePutron treasurer
Other church societies are numerous
and In flourishing condition. Mrs. H.
E. Harvey Is the chairman of the Pro
gressive circle, the Central is presided
over by Mrs. Dr Finney and the Ken
sington by Mrs Charles Bobbins Mrs.
E. B. Kellogg Is chairman of th
South Side circle ami Mrs. Frank Gra
ham of the North Side. East Lincoln
circle is in charge of Mrs E. W. Allen.
Star circle by Mrs. B. O. Wilson and
the social afternoon organization by
Mrs. Frank Lahr.
B. L. Paine is superintendent of the
Sunday school C. H. Gordon is assist
ant superintendent. B. S. Hunt, super
visor of the Junior department, Anna
Hawes. supervisor of the intermediate
department, Mrs. Leila Adams, super
visor of the primary department and
Will B. Byons secretary. W. W.
Woods Is treasurer and E. B. Wood
ward librarian. J. S. Leonhardt is
chorister and Alice B. White organist.
There is a missionary society for for
eign work and home labor directed by
women and also two corresponding
organizations where the young ladles
have charge of the work. In addition
there is a Mite society.
The young men and the young wo
men each have a club. C. H. Gordon
is president of the male organization.
I. J. Ayers secretary and C. A. Mussel
white treasurer. Mrs. L. C. Richards
is president of the young women's club.
The committee which has superin
tended the finances of the church has
had an arduous task. The committer
consists of A. R. Talbot. J. T. Mastin.
M. A. Warren. E. H. Steckley. II. A.
Tebbetts. C. W. Bleger and E. M. Cof
fin. The building committee is now al
most relieved from duty. The mem
bers who directed the construction of
the church are: J. E. Miller. George
A. Adams. L. C. Richards. H. K. Bur
ket and B. L. Paine.
"While Horsa
There Is a very old custom or game
or incantation played by generation
after generation of high school girls.
It Is called "counting white horses."
The rule is to count white horses, not
counting the same one twice In the
same day. until the counter has re
corded ninety-nine. The girl who
counts must touch her right fore
finger to her lips, then to the palm of
her left hand, and then strike her fists
together, little finger end to thumb end.
AfUr ninety-nine white horses have
been seen and recorded thus caballsti
cally. one white mule must be counted
Defore the tale is complete. After these
ceremonies have been performed, and
the white mule recorded with an espe
cial ceremony, the first unmarried man
that the irl who has made her tally,
meets, is to be her husband. Well, a
group of half a dozen high school girls
had completed the course of ninety
nine horses, but the old span of white
mules that used to tug stone on a low
hurg stone-wagon seems to have dis
appeared from the streets of Lincoln.
The girls watched for the White mule
for weeks, but without finding one.
But passing by the postoffice one day
on her way to school one of the girls
discovered the fabled magic beast. She
hurried to the high-school and got
there a few moments before school
time. She gasped the news and the
other girls seized their "things" and
ran down to the squrre where the poor
old mule was hitched. They stayed
only long enough to perform the cere
mony, but they were late. The teams
ter looked upon the mule with a new
sense of his preclousness after the girls
had left.
H- H- -
Why will you persist In leading a
life of crime?
I am afraid It's heredity. Judge: my
grandfather was a minister's son.
OBSERVATIONS
BY SARAH B. HARRIS
A Fusion Victory
MR SETH LOW'S plurality over
Mr Shepard. Tammany candi
date for mayor of Xew York. Is
about thirty thousand votes. Mr. Bry
an's plurality in Xew York in 1900 was
about thirty-five thousand votes. Con
sequently the new mayor of New York
owes his election as much to demo
cratic votes as to republican.
For once reform energy was com
pletely fused. The women of Xew York
had much to do with Mr. Low's elec
tion. The revelations made by the
Mazet committee appointed by the Xew
York state legislature, by the press, the
City Vigilance League, the Society for
the Prevention of Crime, the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, the church
es and the settlements upon the East
side, by the Committee of Fifteen, and
by the ministers, convinced most of the
decent men of Xew York that national
politics had very little to do with the
administration of the business of a
city: and Seth Low got a plurality of
thirty thousand democratic and repub
lican votes.
The Committee of Fifteen, composed
of prominent business men, lawyers
and labor leaders, was appointed by
the Chamber of Commerce. Members
of the committee raided gambling
house after gambling house in districts
where the police asserted there was not
a single one. Absolute and indisput
able evidence showing the existence of
collusion between the gamblers and
Chief of Police Devery was secured.
The committee was greatly assisted by
Justice Jerome of the Court of Special
Sessions. His assistance was invalu
able, especially as the courts were filled
by Tammanyltes anxious to block by
legal conventionalities the operations
of the committee, by releasing prisoners
and in other subtle ways known and
practiced by Tammany Judges.
But with Jerome's aid, and in spite
of the sympathy of the Judges with the
law-breakers, a number of convictions
were secured and other prisoners
Jumped their bail rather than stand
trial for the crimes charged against
them. The most Important conviction
was that of Wardman Bissert, who
was sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary for blackmailing a prostitute.
Some of the richest and most Infiu
ential women In Xew York women
who are supposed not to possess any
Ideas or wishes about politics or muni
cipal business were Intensely Inter
ested in this election. Rich or poor,
aristocratic or plebeian, women in
business and in society are in
tensely and vitally interested in
goodness and in the suppression
of crimes and opportunities for crime
against their sex. There was not
a disinterested good woman in Xew
York from Helen Gould to the poorest
shop girl and each one of these women
has her sphere of Influence upon which
the other does not Intrude who was not
anxious to help suppress the infamous
"cadet" system. All these women wre
against Croker. Some thought that
Shepard alone, on a ticket otherwise
made up of Tammany men, would be
enough to enforce the laws and punish
the men who have established, devel
oped and are still carrying on the
"cadet" business with the knowledge
and under the protection of the police.
The rich women contributed nearly
fifty thousand dollars to the anti-Tammany
campaign. The efforts of hum
bler women were Just as constant and
were directed by the indignation fem
inine, which is a motor of unmeasured
but occasionally demonstrated power.
The wrongs of the hundreds of young
girls sacrificed to Tammany made fu
ries of women whom poverty or friend
lessness had not abandoned to Its
greed. Rich and poor united to Influ
ence men who never voted anything
but the democratic ticket, to vote
against Tammany. This republican and
democratic fusion success in an over
whelmingly democratic city is due to
the aroused indignation and hatred of
the men and women of Xew York. A
large majority of the people love honor
and decency. Most of the people are
honest, and their regard for integrity
overbalances party affiliations. A
democrat's love for his party and Its
principles Is tenacious In the extreme,
but a fortnight ago thirty thousand
democrats in Xew York renounced
their life-long preference for demo
cratic candidates In order to rebuke
the most Infamous political organiza
tion in the world. The spectacle Is a
credit to the citizenship of Xew York.
If non-partisan citizenship can be or
ganized into a body with correlated
functions while it has the chance un
der Low's administration, Tammany
will stay beaten. Otherwise Tammany's
retirement from power will be only
temporary.
Seth Low
An opinion of Mayor-elect Low by a
former chancellor of the Xebraska
university, iir. James H. canneld. ap-
greatly impressed by Ms
and wisdom. Although Gen
was always a modest man
time he was the most talked .w
courted of any man in 'h
Queen Victoria and the ,,-ss-archs
of Europe were eclipse.)
effulgence of the great Ameri. i
eral Grant had accomplished r
est military success of the
we leave Xapoleon out of the
And Europe worships milita'
An hereditary, dlvlne-right ,u
pies the centre of the stage n i
cynosure of all eyes until ,
genius like Xapoleon, Weihr-
Grant comes into the neignb .
then there is a glory between
and the people that obscures
Even a modest man. like liur.'
shipped by commoner and king
grow to regard himself as m
When asked for his opinion
Hung Chang, after Chang
talned him at his countrv
presented him with . osth
Grant said that Li was one . f
greatest men In the world
two were Beaconstield and T ,i
By later units of measure ..
Chang rates higher than i"
these men. Beaconstield died
having accomplished anything
manent value to his nation
and left only a brilliant
Tolstoy has ignored his up- -gift
of telling a story well r.
preferred to become an n 1 ff
economist and interpreter of "i, -tures.
Men who are number-i
second or third great of a entj"
generation, counting in. .is 'lit
in'
at
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di
ail nations, must in their Hfet it.- j.
affected humanity. leaving i si
pears In the current number of the Vtnelr lstence tor at least -
ation. it is only about tnent -since
Beaconstield died, and ".-
are smooth. There is no ign -
Rex-lew of Reviews.
The Roosevelt type is repeated in Mr.
Low. Direct, scholarlv. forcible able. m
with executive and oolitlcal ahilitv the5eonce passed lhls wa'- " 13
latest ..vnintim, f A0.-io ,i,"to torm an" judgment about "
and the strenuous life is of a quality;
and even of a frequency which should
convince Americans especially of the
truths of evolution and of the certain
improvement of political conditions.
Mr. Low is fifty years old, but he has
tne vigor ana tne entnusiasms or a
young man.
Mr. Canfleld expresses his entire be
lief in the new creed that citizens are
partners in the business of running a
city. He says that "The newer and
clearer and more practical thought In'
public affairs is that any unit of civic!
life Is nothing more or less than a bus
iness corporation, a very practical and
successful co-operative scheme. A
city charter and Its accompanying or
dinances are a necessary expansion
and enlargement of the constitution
and by-laws of every four-corners de
bating club or high school literary
society or labor union, since each
simply determines the ways and means
of best accomplishing the objects of.
the organization." "For more
than twenty years Mr. Low has stood
squarely and Insistently and unselfish
ly and fearlessly for this theory of
business principles and non-partisan'
"rcuiuiis in mcai auairs. cur
ing his mayoralty the public affairs of
Brooklyn became as though they were '
his own private business, and as far '
as possible were administered nnnn
precisely the same basis. He tried to
save money for the people precisely
as he would have tried to make money
for himself. He regarded taxes paid
by citizens as a definite Investment
for a definite purpose, and he was as
eager to realize upon the investment
as though it had been made by or for
a corporation of which he was a direc
tor or the president. He made char
acter and efficiency the sole test for
appointment to public sen-ice and the
sole assurance of continued tenure.
He carried municipal administration
to the highest point of efficiency ever
reacneu in tnts country. This is why
uie nour or their supreme need of
in
honest, competent, fearless administra
tion ot civic affairs, hundreds of thou
sands of our citizens have Instinctively
and confidently turned to Seth Low."
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Li Hung Chang
When General Grant on his trip
around the world met Earl LI. he was
He may modify the institutions
country, but it is doubtful. H
enough of a politician. He s
tent to keep just a little ahea i
people. He soars and expects -
follow his flight as well as r. j
with their eyes and perhaps
themselves. The feet of the IjJ
cling to the ground, and they juj
Tolstoy and wonder what he s -to
do.
Grant also compared Li Hung '
to Gambetta and to Bismarck.
gard to this John Russell s-ajJ
hind kvestern statesmen were - -
llshed civilizations, the for es - -vanced
empires. They did not "
but carried out what was begun
marck was the successor of F--u
the Great, Gambetta of Mir-i -.
while Lord Beaconstield .ou. l
have found his ideal in the rni
soul of Chatham. Li Hung "iarf,
alone with his problem. Historv j.
him no precedent. The outsid
had no sympathy for him Tr
ern nations looked upon nira
carnivorous eyes. He accepted
palling duties before him. He
nothing. He had breadth. i"i '
niscience. He meant that Chira i
grow, broaden, rise. He i k
the Chinese people with an rt
'and courage that must forew
him as one of the world s
men of this age Yet Li. uith
'greatness, was still a Chinam.i
established the China Merchant
pany and brought his commcp
the Hag of China, but he was,
to his native ways in matter--llgion.
His superstition or ift
what the mass of the people
in was profound. He would rr
Inch from his cue nor let fuz
on his foretop. He worslut
dead ancestors with all the ft r
true Chinaman."
Considering these qualities t
ily comprehended why Li Hur
in spite of the Japanese del' i
he was premier, never lost a
larity with the people, and
Dowager Empress never dared
ish him severely for anything
ard Croker's political doom
when he transferred his resul
Wantage, England. Read '!
of the leaders of Tammany Hu
these men going to b bossea
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