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X-SENATOR INGALLS Brilliant Kansan Disonsses the Restrio- tions of Immigration, OUNCES THE TREATMENT OF CHINESE ty Dread of Chinese Contamination Makes the Whole World Grin. PEOPLES MAY FIND HARBOR HERE tend Time for Naturalization and Pre- soribe Educational Qualifications, OREIGNERS HAVE DEFENDED AMERICA Obsoene Harpies Defilo the Banquet of Liberty They AreNot Unbidden Guests.” REAM OF A CONTINENJAL REPUBLIC Fixed Principles of Amorioan Govern- ment Are Contaglous and Threaten to Revolationize the World—What the Next Century Will Witness. [Copyrighted, 1893.] Nations are not extemporized, Great men, jeroic passions and a heritage of vlory are pdispensable. These are the product of nturies. There must be a past that stim- tes, a future that inspires, deep answer- fog unto deep, to constitute the sentiment ot tlonality. A community of traditions and orifices, unity of purpose and identity of Hestiny are the essential ingredients of this jublime principle with which antiquity was oot acquainted. Patriotism, citizouship ana bhe fatherland are modern definitions con- sributed by the Germanic races to the ver- asular of mankind. Concomitants of lib- riy. fraternity, individualism and the sov- eignty of the people. The anclent empires were herds of men, human menageries, armies organized for con- quest, serfs and then masters, tyrants and their victims, History records the amnals of tribes, republics, confederations, mon- larchies and despotisms, but the nation is a distinct development and outgrowth of mod- ern citilization, Tt is a moral being with distinguishing characteristics and not to be onfounded with the government, the people or the state, Its existence does not depend upon purity Jof race nor common origin, for the most [powerful nations are composite and have been assembled from many sources, There are noraces absolutely pure and ethnogra- phy does not concern politics. The English, Amproperly called the Anglo-Saxon type, is meither Briton nor Jute, nor Dane, nor Nor- man, but the admixture of all. The French- man is neither Gaul, nor Frank, nor Celt, ‘but an alloy of these eloments. The Anglo- American represents the fusion of every ocognate race into a type whose differentia- tlon from all others is marked and pro- nounced. While no blood poison is so fatal as race adulteration, the mongrel possesses the vices and defects of both ancestors and the virtues of neither. So from the colition of kindred bloods comes energy, ambition, courage, invention, genius and capacity for ' gonquest. This is the inheritance of the mited States from the combinations to its nationality from every branch of the Cau- oasian family. As the nation does not proceed from race {dentity, neither is unity of language, re- Klon or interest required, nor are bounda- fes, frontiers and areas of consequence e nation is independent of these. It may continue o exist after its name and bounda. ries have disappeared from the map, if the desire for endurance remains, When the Natlon Was Born, The birth of the United States as a nation dates from the first blood shed of the revolu- tion. its progress from colonial dependence ‘was slow and doubtful. Ittrod the pathway to nationality with hesitating footsteps tiil the great uprising of the people in April, 1861, against the armed attempt to destroy the union. From that hour the existence and supremacy of the nation were established. The people of all the states, different in ori- gin, religion, pursuits, interests, language d race aro penetrated by a profound na- fonal sentiment manifested on all occasions in the observance of patriotic anniversaries, respect aud honor to the chief magistrate, e in the achievements of the past; exult- ng anticipation of great glory yet to come. d the civil war brought no other result jhan *the indissoluble union of indestructi- ble states,” it would have been worth all that it cost in gold and blood. It is cortain that the exiles of Jamestown and Plymouth did not contemplate the stu- ndous consequence of their experiment. Ray had no conception of the energy and power of the social and political ideas which they brought to Virginia and Massachusetts as the foundation stones of their system of government, Fatigued with priviloge, caste and prerogative, wearied with monarchs and les, taught the brotherhood of man by heir faith in the fatherhood of God, they nnounced the equality of man as their po- tical creed and the sovereignty of the peo- ple as the basis of the state, The Rock on Which the Natlon Stands. Individuatism, freedom of conscience, thought and action, justice as the funda: : tal rule of conduct, the equality of all n before the law, and an equal chance for @very man in the struggle for existence were their platform. Formulated eventually iu the declaration of independence, maintained inst foreign armies. savage foes, the ob- :gclo- of nature and civil war, these ideas at last ure immovably established, and their eonuflon threatens to revolutionize the po- litical world. ‘We should not forget, in our sudden frenzy inst the dangers of foreign immigration, :g: tremendous influence which foreigners exerted in bringing about the nationalization of the United States at our historical cris| Of the millions thus added to our poru a- tion before 1860 the major part intuitively avoided the south, where labor was de- graded, and confined itself to the regions in which the stigma of inferiority did not exist. To the Germans, the Irish and the Scandinavians the states were insigmficant. ‘They migrated not to New York or Massa- usetts, or Kansas, but to the United tatos, and in defonse of its sovereignty they hurried to battle as men rush to nfl‘m- uet. There was no fleld from Bull Run to ppomattox that was not illustrated by their valor and crimsoned by their blood. The politiciaus of the north wero pro: dly ignorant of the energy of the na- tional spirit. The pusillanimous, time-sery- ing timidity of northern representatives in the Thirty-sixth congress, the protest of Horace Greeley against a union pinned to- gether with bayonets and hisdesire that the wayward sisters should depart in peace, ' found no respouse 1 the hearts of tho masses of the people outside the slave | states, where from econowic causes particu- g hrln:n retarded the growth of the national 1 A Coutinental American Repubiic, }' The destruction of slavery enulwudnud . . the whites no less than the blacks, and re- moved the last obstacle to the oreation of o continental Awmerican republic, which is the ‘ mf the future. This is the ‘‘Monroe " which, though uot written mn statute book, & law that no nation is strong enough to disregard andbabathe o o o g firat lesson in geography is the unifica: North Ame: omy ‘v- Iuv.- :n in- satial hunger for horizons. The Indian, $he Spaniard, the Frenchman, the Mexican, Dltch aud the English hive seais oot ‘ our inexorable march to the southern f and western sea. Our halt is but a ~ bivouac for the night. We have abstained - from conquest for fifty years, not because - the passion was extinct, but because for the ‘ ¢ wo have enough. The unconquered ~ Dats, with recruits and rein forcements from rostines 0 ad- vance. Canada and Mexico are American provinces. Before another centennial anni- | versary the wavesof the Polar sea will wash our northern boundary. The Isthmus canal, that maritime highway which is to change the current of commerce and the fortunes of nations, will be our southern frontier, The Inflax of Foreigne! At last our public domain, which to our last generation seewnad so far and so measure- less, is exhausted. The romance of the bor- der has disappeared. The “Great Plains"” and the remote valleys of inysterious and unexplored rivers have all been surveyed and settled, largely by immigrants from Great Britain and northern Enrope. In five years more not an acre of that vast area known as the public domain, upon which wheat, corn, vegetables and fruit can be raised without irrigation, will remain sub- ject to homestead or pre-emption entry. At- tracted by the milder sky and richer soil of the prairie, the native population of the northern seaboard has flowed wost- ward. The ancestral farms of the Puritans are in many piaces abandoned or tilled by alions. The French Canadians and the Irish have invaded New England, displacing the descendants of the pilgrims in the shops and factories, ignorant of the tradition of its so- ciety and indifferent to the instructions of its history. Lowell, Fall River, New Bed- ford and ovher great manufacturing centers are foreign communities, and Boston is under the dominion of strangers to the blood of 1ts founders. Population is congested in cities ruled by majoritiesof foreign birth or parentage. A comparatively small fraction of the inhabitants of Chicago are native born. aid that in New York there are moro Irish than in any city of Ireland except Dublin, and more Germans than in any German city except Berlin. In Wisconsin and other states of the northwest arc settle- ments in which the second generation, born on the soil, can_neither speak, write nor un- derstand the Inglish tongue. As competi- tion becomes fiercer and the struggle for life more bitter, we are confronted in an indus- triul system by an immense and multiplying surplus of unskilled labor, accustomed to lower standards of wages and living than ours; in many cases ignorant, squalid, de- ‘aded, superstitious and disqualified for the unctions of self government. The depend- ent and criminal classes are reinforced by constant importations, and the industrial crisis is rendered more formidable by the in- troduction of elements incompatible with social order and national prosperity. Thoughtful and conservative men have be- come suddenlf sensitive to the dangers of unrestricted immigration and demand meth- ods of limitation and restraint, They Come by Invitation, Any consideration of this subject would be defective which did not recognize that for the deluge of social feculence that 1s now en- riching the compost heaps of the United States we are ourselves primarily responsi- ble. The evils we suffer are our own seek- ing. We have importuned, begged, bribed and bullied for a century, making every day on the calendar Fourth of July, overy tuno in the repertory ‘‘Hail, Columbia,” and vo- ciferously announcing to the ‘‘offete nations of the old world" that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave. We have broken down all barriers, removed all obstacles and opened the dikes to the breach and mundation of the seas. We have offered sanctuary to the fugitive, asylum to the o[» P pressed, land to the mendicants, citizensh! to the serf and the ballot to multitudes hav- ing no more conception of intelligent suffrage than an infant has of geometrical properties of the blocks with which he plays. Other countries have contended that allegiance was reciprocal and that the subject could not renounce without the consent of the power to which it was due. They insist upon the application of the foudal maxim, nemo potest patriam exuere, but we have been instant in season and out of season in asserting that the determination of alle- glance rested solely with the citizen and not with the state, Expatriation an Inherent Right, After a diplomatic juncture with Great Britain, congress peremptorily declared by solemn and formal uct in 1868 that *‘expatria- tion is u natural and inherent right of all peovle. indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and pronounced any declaration putting this in questvion to be ‘“‘inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the re- public.” To this emphatic formula all civilized powers have now assented and the absolute right of free migration in practice, if'not in theory, is uniformly conceded to be an inherent and inalienable right that can be exercised at will by all human beings—ex- cept the Chinese. Here we stand. If ob- scene harpies defile the banquet of liberty they are not unbidden guests. If a poisoned chalice is commended to our lips we have stirred the ingredients, If the knavish ep. gineer is hoisted, it is by his own petard. f( the proud bird of freedom is to be stretched along the plain no more through rolling clouds to soar again, his last moment may be consoled by the reflection that he nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, Treatment of the Chinese. TLe indefensible absurdity of the dogma of expatriation appears in our treatment of the Chinese, which forms one of the most shameful and humiliating episodes in the history of any veople, e have eaten our own words, broken plighted faith, shed inno- cent blood, violated the comity of nations, offended against human and divine law upon cowardly and hypocritical pretexts that are as discreditable to the honor as to the judg- ment of those by whom they are affirmed. To those familiar with the standards of Anglo-Saxon morality, revealed by the story of Sarah Althea Hill'and the other heroines of the divorce courts of the Pacific coast, the lofty and seusitive dread of Chinese contam- ination is the one touch of humor that makes the whole world grin. The patriarchial empire of China is the oldest on earth. It was coeval with Babylon, Egyptand Assyria, monarchies so long dead that history has forgotten their epitaphs. 1t had existed for alongerinterval than that which elapsed from the birth of Christ to the discovery of America when Romulus built on Palatine Hill that fortress whose founda- tion stones are yvet shown among the ruins of the Eternal city. It was in the maturity of power when our savage ancestors, clad in skins and living by the chase, wandered in the gloomy forests of the Drwids in Britain. It has survived the contemporaries of its youth and remains permanent among the mutations of history, immovable amid vicis- situdes, and after forty-five centuries of po- litical existence, inconceivably ancient, but without decrepitude or lnflrmu‘w Its sub- Jjects number one-fourth part of the human race, and its boundaries include one-tenth of the land surface of the globe. Such longev- ity is incompatible with physical inferiority and moral decay. These pagans possess a secret with whose rudiments we are unac- quainted, and In their dealings with other powers the followers of Confucius have ex- hibited a morality which those who oall themselves Christians have neglected to ob- serve. China Compelled to Fraternize, The turpitude of our conduct is increased by the fact that China did not volunturily enter into the companionship of nations, Content with their isolation, seif contained, incurious, satisfied with their institutions, they reject,as they had a right to do, all overtures for fraternity. Great Britain, Frauce, Russia and the United States, Christian nations, combined to force an odious trafic upon a lmuoerul and reluctant people and to compel them to open thelr tmrl.l to the cupidity of foreign adventurers n the name of justice and religion. They have honorably observed the treaties they were compelled to make under the duress of pillage and bombardments and refrained rom retaliation for lnufifnlllel and wrongs, atrocious, inhuman, and indefensible, They came to this country by invitation, where they have been inaustrious, docile and obedi- ent to law, inoffensive, content with small Wi for arduous labor, They have dug and ditched, toiled on the farm and in menial svocations. The brutality of their treat- ment has not resulted from race antagonism, for they manifest no desire for amalgama- tion. Nor from political hostility, for they ask neither suffrage nor citizenship, Nor from social position, for they are gregarious. The truth is that they will do more work for less money than any other class of laborers. The Work of Professional Agitators, On this account they have aroused the enmity of professional agitators, who by a) to pu{w.lhxe and ignorance have been able to control votes enough to compel the leaders of both political mnl.u in ress 10 excel each other in servility and to for their support by ihe most™ extraordinary ation ever written upon the statute books of a civilized peo) They are so ple. sh N"flm the public couscience, so offe aive Lo the seuse of justice, so d"::;::ou as precedents, so insulting to a rnu friondly power, that President Cleveland, doubtiesy with the concurrence of his cabinat, has folt it to be his duty, by the exercise of a ques. tionable prerogative, to suspend their opers tion and to appeal to state executives to pro- tect the Chinese from lynch law and mob violence pondlnr farther investigation. Itis true that they do not assimilate and becoma American citizens. Neither do mules, steam engines and electric motors. They return to China, taking their earnings with them, but tnn?' leave an equivalent {n labor or commod- ity for all that they acquire. If the people among whom they reside would not employ them nor buy their wares they would not remain, for they could not subsist. Any community that does not desire Chinese laborers can exclude them by giving them no occupation, A Soctal Problem. They come because they are wantod and because they bring comfort,convenience and luxury to many families of modest means who could not otherwise afford them. Their employment as gardners, hostlers, cooks, iaundrymen and house servants opened wider ~ opportunities for white men and women in the higher activities of intellec- tuallife. The affected terror lest this conti- nent m? become Mongolian is diverting. The Anglo-Saxon has always had subordi- nate and inferior races to perform its menial service, and always will. One of the great Erohlem! of modern times is domestic house- eeping, In many localities home life is be- coming impossible from the aifficulty of ob- taining servants. No American women will cook, wash, iron, sew or sweep for others excopt upon compulsion, They want to be stenographers, typewriters, clerks and teachers. The American boy refuses to remain on the farm or at the forge. He re- coils from the dull m‘u\ge 'y and narrow monotony of manual toil and aspires to com- merce or the professions, The negro is rap- idly becoming unavailable, and if the combi- nations that will neither work themselves nor permit others to work can exclude cheap labor and prevent the use of lnbor-sn\'ln% machinery the triumph of agrarianism would be complete. All Have a Right to Come, Prof. Draper says that there are forces in politics which render promises and guaran- tees, no matter in what good faith they may have been given, of no avail and which make charters and coustitutions obsolete. So far, therefore, as expatriation 1s essential to our welfare 1t was an inalienable right. When it becomes detrimental it is no longer in- dispensable to the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But in the discussion of tho restriction of immigration it cannot be denied that as law and usage and international comity now stand ‘“all people have an absolute and inalienable rl%l}t to come here, and being here, to remain. No man who comes with the purpose of being an American can be properly called a foreigner except by way of description. The Intest_steerage passenger who landed at New York has precisely as much legal and constitutional right to be here as the de- scendant of the Cavaliers of Virginia, or tho Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. The United States is legally his country as it is the country of the Yankee or the Knickerbocker, and in the determination of its p(llh‘a’ upon immigration and all other questious, domes- tic and foreign, he is to be taken into the account and will undoubtedly be heard. All political parties want the *‘foreign vote" and therefore no modufication of existing condi- tions offensive to this element will be seri- ously entertained. The debate is as old as the government and though sometimes heated and irrational has always been benefi- cent, because m’b has served to di- rect public attention constantly to the conditions of national safety. The movement of forty years ago was born of hostility to Irish immigration which is now rogarded with high favor comd[mred with that from Hungary, Russia and Italy, com- posed of men as destitute of patriotic senti- ment as of political principle, whose concep- tion of the value of suffrage is based upon the market price of votes on election day. Exlsting Restriotions Kigid Enough, We have proceeded so far that it may per- haps be rogarded as a fundamen! docttine in our politics that no elemont incompatible with national existence of with development along the well defined lines of our theories of liberty and self government will be re- eeive«i, and that no element consistent with these will be rejected. Existing re- strictions are as rigid as public opinion will sustain. Idiots, incurable in- valids, paupers and those likely to become such, convicts, polygamists and contract laborers are now excluded. One of the last acts approved by President Harrison rolated to this subject and conferred upon the secre- tary of the treasury and the commissioners of immigration extraordinary powers in de- termining the eligibility of emigrants for ad- mission to the United States. Itis to bere- gretted that the very valuable and salutary amendments proposed by the house of rep reséntatives were abandoned. Anarchists, nihilists, members of the Mafla and other societies that favor the unlawful destruotion of life and property as political remedios are the incorrigible enemies of clvil liberty, Diverse Eloements Have Blended, ‘The common school, the jury box, univer- sal suffrage and a free press have sufficed thus far td fuse and blend the diverse ele- ments of our population into an intenser, rig- orous and hanroniouu nationality. Our co- hesion is complete. There are no indications of cleavage or want of assimilation, The authority of the government is recognized and revered, although sustained by no power but the invisible majesty of law. Immi- grants have built the railroads and tele- graphs, through which the remotest members of the republic are animated by a vitality as vigotous as that which throbs at the mighty heart. Immigrants laid the foundations of the nfaryelous *Empire of the West," felled its forasts, plowed its prairies, delved in its quarriés and mines, conquered its deserts and abolished its frontiers. Attracted by tho fertile soll and salutary climate, the op- portunity for sccumulation and advancement and by the sublime influence of liberty they have created states in the desert, where the name of Lincoln is as sacred as in Illinows and the fame of Washington as revered as in Virginia. Proud of their states, they are prouder of their country, its honor, its flag, its destiny. Emancipated from the neces- sity of unending toll by the bounty of nature, they have been enabled to pursue a higher range of activity. Labor has become more renumerative, and the flood of wealth has ralsed the poor to comfort and the mid- dle class to affiuence. With prosperity has attended leisure, books, travel, schools and intellectual effort has become wider and more daring. The children of immigrants have emerged from the degredation and obscurity to which monarchies would have consigned them. They have nssumed the leadership in politics, business and society. The verned have become the rulers, The subjects are the kings. They invent sys- tems, make laws and establish literatures. They have given convincing proof of theix capacity for self-government, Motter Qualifications for Cltizenship, It in addition to existing restrictions upon immigration the time for naturalization could be extended and educational qualifica- tions prescribed for suffrage, the most seri- ous dangers to our institutions would be averted. Cougress is empowered under tne constitution “'to establish a uniform rule of naturalization,” aud since 1790 this has been regarded as another inalienable right not to be desired to any person complying with the conditions. Our statutes are based upon the theory that the foreigner who comes here to remain becomes by that act a member of the state and is entitled to admission to the body politic. 1t seoms illogical thata spualid stranger to our institutions, ignorant of our laws and language, and unfamiliar with our history, should, after the brief interval pre- soribed, be elevated to the civil and political status of a native born citizen. In our great cities the experiment of unqualified suffrage has resulted in many instances in corrupt magistrates, insecurity of life and property, and degraded administration, Not » Right, but a Privilege, n Suffrage is not a right but a privilege con- ferred by law, and its qualification or de- nial is the prerogative of the state, The man who cannot take care of his own affairs has no right 1o take care of the affairs of ul.hm‘. l‘h:b pauper D‘I‘ll'l\l not z:" decide the rate of taxation upen incomes ai roperty, The illiterate and the vicious lhuulfir ns: d{- termine the functions of society. The ideal voter should be able to read and write, capa- ble of self-support, & taxpayer and habitu- ally obedient to law. But the tendency is toward extension rather than curtailment of suffrage. The demooratic spirlt does not retrace its footsteps, nulla vestigia retror- sum. And fu suy event whatever changes or modifications occur will not come through ress, for the right of citizens ol'fin United States to vote even for representa- tives and presidential electors is nob con- the constitution :.‘"h they reside. e fl/’( 1 . forred by the nation, lmé and laws of the states Ay il / . THE THEATERS, This week the theat#éfl season practi- cally oloses in Omaha. most important events that will come at.vhe end are the ap- pearance of Miss Marie Wainwright at the Boyd on Friday and Satupday and the pre- sentation of Mr. Lewis Morrison's “Faust" every evening during the week at the Iar- nam. Both engagements are notadle and worthy of popular appreciation. Balfe's lwronnlully popular, as all things beautiful in form or sound are popular, “The Bohemian Girl.” will be given tonight at the Boyd by the Calhoun Opera company,closing the engagement of that company. The peo- ple of Omaha who know and love this per- Tect example of ballad opera will be justified in expecting a_perfectly pleasing and thor- oroughly effective performance, for the com- pany s quite capablo of' doing full justice to the work. There are no superstollar vooalists in the company, but it possesses an all round excollence in volce and expression that is eminently sat- isfying. Mr, Martin Pache is a tenor of more than average power, and his singing of Thaddeus may be looked ' forward to with anticipatory pleasure. ~ Mr. Leoni, too, will make a strong count. The ladies are sure to acquit themselves well, The chorus is equal to a good, honest forciful rendering of the work assigned it, andail in all tonight's performance should prove an entirely enjoy- able one. The prices are lowered to the “‘popular” level, Mr. Lewis Morrison’s company prosents his elaborate scenic and dramatic production of “Faust” at the Farnam Street theater at today’s matinoe and continmng all week. This version of Goethe's “Faust' is an effec- tive play. The language is generally spirited and the piece ranks favorably with the creditable attompts that have beon made to give the great German's poem an English stage setting. The effort may be praised cordlally for its strong artistic qualities and for its broad and picturesque effectiveness. The piece will be staged in a very effective manner. The costumes are appropriate, and the groupings, for which an awmple share of auxiliaries will be provided, are arranged with much skill and judgment. The scenery, all of which is carried by the company, is sald to be very fine, especially in the Brocken scene with its rain of fire :mX its weird, un- canny effects. There is some excellent muslc.in which large demands are made upon Gounod’s “‘Faust.” Ladies matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Minstrelsy is a_purely American form of entertainment, and Primrose & West are its recognized exponents. They appear here at Boyd’s theater on Thursday evening next, for one night only, and it goes without say- ing that they will be greetea by an audience commensurate with the assured worth of their brilliant performance. Next Wodnes- day morning sale opens of seats. The last dramatic engagement of the season at Boyd's theater/will be played by Marie Wainwright and her excellent com- wn,v on Friday and Sagurday next. Miss ainwright will open with Sheridan’s masterpiece, “The School for Scandal.” At the Saturday matinee harnew play entitled “The Social Swim,”" wrif tap by Clyde Fetch, will be the bill. The engazement will close Saturday evening with Shakespeare's ‘‘As You Like It.” Noxt month Matlo \Vn‘nclxright will closo her season and her public ¢areer at the same time. Her retirement, it/is daid, will be per- manent, and she will thereafter devote her- solf to tho educatién of her girls. When Marie Wainwright leaves'the stage it will be ‘deprived of the active service of one of the best Shakespearian comediennes it pos- sesses today, In high comedy she is equally admirable, This geason'sté has made “The School for Scandal” the leading play in her repertoire; that is, mote care hias been exer- cised on casting and sAttinF it than on her other plays, Her production of Sheridan's masterpiece, and & master creation among the comedies of all time, is said to be sump- tuous in the extreme. Omaha has oppor- Lunn{y of judging for itselt on Friday evenfig. Miss Wainwright's latest success, Clyde Fitch’s “The Social Swim,” is a society comedy drama dealing with latest day fashionable life in New York and gives ample oncasion for the display of tho orea- tions of noted Parisian sartorial architects, and occasion 8aid to be thoroughly improved bytthe ladies of the comgany. ‘‘The Social Swim” is the matinee bill for nex{ Saturday. Miss Woipwright makes her last appearance on the Omaha stage as Rosalind on Satur- day evening, —_— Jubilee Festival and Conoert. Rooxk Istaxp, Ill, May 20.—The prepara- tions for the great jubilee festival and con- cert at Augustana college, Rock Island, Til., are nearing completion. An enormous tent, 220 by 130 feet, with a seating capacity of over 6,000, has been ordered and will be erected on the university grounds. Three thousand chairs, 2,500 of which are for re- served seats, will occupy the central portion of the inclosed space, while the rest of the seats will consist of wooden benches. The platform for the musicians, speakers and guests of honor will seat 600. A second tent nearly as large as the first is to be erected close by the other and so arranged that the two, in case of emergency, can be thrown into one, thus making room’ for at least 10, 000 persons. In this tent on Friday, June 9, will be held the great jubilee festival, commemorating the decree of Upsala, 1503, In this same tent on the evening of the same day will be held the grand jubilee concert, which will undoubtedly be the grandest musical triumph ever attempted in this vicinity, Toward this the plans and efforts of the year have been directed, and 1!] l\vill 'here be the crownin, will be rendere event of the season. three cantatas, viz: “Zion,” Cowen's *Song of giving,” and Dr. Stolpe's lee Cantata,” composed for the occasion. In addition to these cantatas theré will be sung three numbers, viz.: 38, 44 and 56 from Handel's “Messiah,” and = Wennerberg's Hundred and Fiftieth Psalm of David. The choruses will be sung by several hundred thoroughly trained voices, ac- companied by a very powerful pipe organ built for that special occasion, at which Clarence Eddy of Chicago, the greatest organist in Amerioa, will preside. In addition to the organ there will be a double orchestral accompaniment by Stras- ser's orchestra of Davenport and Bethany orchestra of Lindsborg college, Kan. Mr. Eddy will also play severitl ‘organ solos. It will be, indeed, a rare troat to hear this dis- tinguished master of the royal pipe organ, who has won a national "reputation. The concert will begin at 8f'clock. For the space of an hour beforehand, as a signal for the multitudes to glu’har and a fitting prelude to the great musica] feast, Augustana Suver Cornet band and 'Bethany College band will play alternato pumbers from the lofty dome of the coliege pnlldinx. All that labor and protessional skill'can do will com- bine to make this song feast a grand success. Thousands from far and,ncar are laying their plans to avail themselves of the oppor- tunity afforded to be pfesent at this very rare occasion, for they know that those who have this feast in chargg paver do anything only half way. —ida Are You Thinking Of what you ought to take,.with you when you go to the World's fair? Your outfit will notv be complete without a bottle of Cham- cerlam's Colic, Cholera’ and Diarrhee Remedy. The change of water and dies, fa- tigue and irregular habits during you u-ls are almost certain to produce diarrheea, ane a dose or two of this remedy may sive you serious sickuess aud perhaps much expense, Procure it before leaving home. —— ueor&e“umlu and Mrs. Lizotte, the Jat- teran ofi Justice Harlau, have been on & wedding tour ever since their marriage, in June, 1801. They like the life, and say they may continue it as as they live. Thus far they have traveled 57,000 miles, and have visited almost ry town of any size in North America, There are three ttangs worth saving— Time, Trouble snd money—and Do Wiit's Little Early Risers will save them for you. These little pills will save you time, as_they actpromptly, They will save you trouble us they cause no pain. They will save you money as they economize doctor’s bills. MONDAY Our Voting Contest. D. W. TILLOTSON. Letter Carrior, LEADS THIS WEEK. Silk Mitts—Special sale for Mon- day at 19¢, 250, 850, 50c, 750 and $1 lvcr pair. We lead the day with teynier celebrated Kid gloves at $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2 25 and $2.50, R e 1. D. W. Tilloteon, ¢ 2. Rev. T. J. Mackey, m 3. Roso.Brady, t 4. R, C. Davis, ¢ 5 Alfred Clark, ¢ 6. May Hogan, t 7. Rev. 8. M. Frankiin, m 8. Auna Foos, t 9. Rev. F. Crane, m 10. Rev. J. P. D. Loyd, m 11. Iidw Hampshire, f 12. M. Coffey. ¢ 18. Miss E. A, Alexander, t 14. Miss M. Lehmer. t 15. Mr. Anderson, 16. Julia Newcomb, t Men’s Furnishings One case of French Bal- briggan, such as you pay $1 for, Monday price 50c. 17. Ada Hopper, t 8. P. J. Corcoran, ¢ 19. 20. Rev. 8. W. Butler, m J. Cook, ¢ 21. Rev. J. Wiliiams, m 22. Thomas Croft, ¢ . Rev. Turkle, m 24, R. Stein, ¢ 25. Rev. W. P. Helling, m 26. P. F. Hansen, ¢ 27. Rev. T. E. Cramblett, m 28. Father MecCarthy, m 20. Clara Elder, t 30. J. Woodruff, ¢ 31. Mary Alter, t 82. Rev. Murray, m — Ladies’ fine gauze combi- nation suits with fancy yokes at special prices for Monday, both inlisle thread and all silk, 38. H. C. Gunner, ¢ Rev. Paske, m Rev. Duryea, m Dean Gardner, m T. Jorgensen, ¢ J. Stone, ¢ M. C. Tracy, ¢ E. L. Hoag, o Miss L. M. Brunner, ¢ Rev. C. N. Dawson, m Miss A. Witman, t Charles Nelson, ¢ William Owens, ¢ 46. Rev. W. E. Kimball, m C. Rose. ¢ . H. H. Reed, ¢ Rev, S. M. Ware, m Ed Bowies, ¢ 34 35, Avreyou going cn a trip? If 30 you may need a travelingbag or valise, of which we have a beau- tiful line, all grades and sizes, an at prices that are tempting. Call and examine our stock before buy- ing. Shoe Dep’t We carry the best and latest styles and give you better value for your money than any regular shoe store can do. Laces One more gala week of lace trade. Our lace department is replete with all the novelties in cotton, linen and silk lace and drapery nets; all new goods and at remarkably low prices. THE LITTLE ARM OHAIR. Margaret E Sangster in Harper's Bazar, Nobody sits in the little arm chair; It stands in the corner dim, But & white-haired mother gezing there, And yearningly thinking of him, Sees through the dusk of the long ago The bloom of her boy's sweet face, As he rocks so merrily to and fro, With a laugh that cheers the place, Sometimes he holds a book in his hand, Sometimes a pencil and slate, And the lesson is hard to understand, And the figures hard to mute; But she sees the nod of bis father's head, S0 proud of the little son, And she hears the word so often sald, “No fear for our little one.’ T)mr{ wero wonderful days, the dear sweet 1y, nys, When & child with sunny hair Wus hors to scold, to kiss and to praise At her knee in the little chafr. She lost him back In the busy yoars, When tho great world caught tho an, And he strode away past hopes and fears To his place In thie battle's viu. But now and then in a wistful d=cam, Like a picture out of dite, Bho seos i head with » goldén gleaw ent over o pencil and slate. And she lives again the happy day, Tho day of her young Lfo's spring, When thie small’arm chair stood just in the way, The cénter.of everything. IMPIETIES, San Francisco Examiner: A marrled woman whose lover was abou’ to reform by the way of Ogden and Omaha procured & pistol and shot him dead. “Why did you do that, madam?"’ inquired a policeman, saunteriug by. “‘Because,” roplied the married woman, “he was & wicked man and had purchased a ticket to Chicago.” ““My sister,” said an adjacent man of God, solemnly, “you cannot stop the wicked from going to Chi 0 by kl&lilfl them.” e St. Paul Globe: A Embler went to morn- ing services at one of the prominent churches of Minnesota a few Sundays ago. and as & deacon passed the basket to him for a contri- bution he handed out a poker ohip, whisper- ing to the deacon that {t was worth $50 would be cashed at a certain place. ‘‘All right,” said the deacon, ‘‘we'll convert it to the service of the Lon&," . Eastern Churchmai-~Well. I must say I am suprised to hear that you don't like Dr. Boanerges. Here in the he always been cousiderea very Western Churchman—Tha trouble; he is all sound, " LEARN I crt%s WHERE gzms To SPEND YOUR MONEY T0 THE BEST ADVANTAGE Learn where you can supply your wants most batisfactorill ad Beonomi cally Our Great May Sale A lesson in economy teach- ing ladies who live and shop in Omaha that they can find here at all times the best of everything at our Money-Saving Prices, That we have and sell what we advertise. That here, mlsc, you-(m find what you want and Save Dress Goods. Wa hiave gone through our dross goods stock. praninz knlfe in hand, We have declded to close out all Lroken lots of spring dress goods, and here 1s your op- portunity, They are divided Into 5 Lots, and go on sale Monday, If you are going to need a dress within 6 months be sure and attend this sale, Lot | embraces the balance of our nnl“{ng chevlots and auitings of all wool aond '3 W 00l ‘ronds which have been sell- at 25c. 35¢ and 50c. We bunch them all for this sale at J—>19c. Lot 2 embraces some choloe all wool 8cotoh ohoviots und fancy mixturey which nre reduced to half prices and sin gle dress patterns. We wish to close them outquickly, and huve cut them from 75 and 31.00 to ¥—>50c. Lot 3 embraces soma very cholce ef- foots n high grade goods In spring color- ings and novelbios, A DAttern or two of o style. not a thing marked less than $1.%. To close them out, M—>75c¢. Lot 4—35 pleces of assorted goods In Jacquard - offoote, . plaids. - vesourois mixtures, crepons and noveltes, goods that sold for 8150 and 817, To oclose them out. . —>81.00. 513 pleces of elegant spring quit- Silic and tvorsted 6ffects xna neat pialds. a fabrio thut brings €200, Prioe tooloke for this shle, —> 81.25, We ask our frlond‘_g to reme m ber these values and take ad= vantage of thém. Silks. Chlon and Japan have poured their treasuresof fine silks {nto our store at brices thav oannot fail to please and colorings and designs that are vory new and desirable at this season. VIsit our stlk counter and be convinced, We would like toshow you our wonderful World's Fair Waterproof silks. They are guaran= teed not to show rain spots. Mcnday wo will put on sale wash silks at popujar prices, We have ubout a bunared de- signs to select from, Ladies’ Jackets and Capes. No stagnant spots In that great collec- tion, When a garment begins to lose step it Zets a price whaek that sets it jumping. The cloak man doesn't often walt for a sort to lag; be swings the blue pen- efl very much as a good driver the whip—and off they go. That 1s what our cloak man has done for Monday, Ladles' jackets, with and without the butterfly capes, all wool materials and in the newest styles and shapes, £3.00 jacket, actually worth $7.50. aoket, uctually worth 810,00, 80,08 Jaoket, actually worth $15.00, 813,00 jJacket, actually worth 815.00, 818.00 Jackot, notually worth §25.00 8200 jucket, actually worth 3 £.00 capes, uctually worth #8.00, 810.00 capes, wotually worth $1K.00. #15.00 cabes, actually worth 82,00, Laales' Eton and blazer suits, materiul all wool serge, in navys, blacks, brow; greens and mixed goods. For 87.30, suit actually worth 810 00. For 88.00, sult aotunlly worth 812,00, For 810,00, sult actually worth 814.00. For 81500, suft actually wort mw. For 125,00, sult actually werth $35.00, Our Grand Vollog Gonteg, Have you voted? You can vote with every purchase of ¢, Send your favor- fteon a free trip to the World's falr at our expense, A 16th and Farnam. ot ln%s in Momey . MONDAY Our Voting Contest. Rev.T. J. MACKEY, Roctor All Salnts Episcopal Church, Second. Kid Gloves Special Sale B-hook Gloves, 97ec. Charles Bloom, p Miss N. Powers, t Rev. . Wheoler, m G. Kleffner, ¢ Miss Streer, t I'ather Janett, m . Mr. Drummy, p Miss 12. M. Hartman, ¢ . N. A. Lundbery, ¢ Rev. P. Mathews, m James Clark, ¢ Id Fisher, o . Rev. F. IMoster, m Nora Lemon, t . Kate Hungerford, ¢ J. W. Maher, ¢ e ————— Muslin Underwear The grandest sale of theso goods ever held in Omaha now going on inour underwear department. As you are out for n walk see the mag- nificent display and prices in our 16th stroet window. 7. J. Dailey, t H. C. Cook, p W. Wiison, m larvey, p Bishop Worthington, m . Ed Kelly, ¢ Rev. H. Sharply, m Rev. I Ross, m Miss O. Tool, t Hattie Crane, t T. W. Schellington, a J. Michuelsen, ¢ g Agnes McDonald, t Rev. Suvage. m Charles Bird, [ Ella Thorngate, t At 49¢ A lotof Strausky steel woar, just received in tea and coffee pots, wash pans, milk pans, k. ettles, ete., etc. A saving of 15 to 80 cents on each article. . Rev. D, K. Tindal, m . Chas. Remillard, ¢ Miss B, Burkett, t Miss . Carney, t J. M. Stafford, ¢ Miss G. Garrett, ¢ Miss F'. Butterfield, t . Rev. J. Gordon, m Alice Fawcett, t Rev. Father Fitzpatrick, m Emma Whitmore, t Miss S P. Pitman, t Rev. Detweiler, m 96. Rev. T.J. Hillman, m . Chiet Cu,lllgnn,n}‘l Miss A. Hansen, t 99. Anna Withrow, ¢ 100. Rev. Treden, m Boys' Black Sateen Waists, the regular soc quality, for Monday 38c. Boys’ Suits About 100 boys’ suits that have have been selling for from !'h to $10.00. only two or three of kind; price for Monday, $5.00. Basement—A 50-cent sale of Japanese novelties. We have hup- dreds of plates, cups and saucers, vases, bonbons, salads, trays, bowles, crumb brushes and trays, etc., etc.; not an article but that would be cheap at 76 cents, and gome that are worth $1.25 each, New Woolens, just in. E_’x',YLFA FINISH, SECOND NONE, THE AMERICAN TAILORS Paxton Hote! Bullding. Farnam St., Omaha. HIGH CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY, AT POPULAR PRICES, 813-3156-317 South 15th Stwest, OMAHA.

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