Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1902, Page 15

PEOPLE OF MODERN CREECE Enterprising and Thrifty Desosndants of the Ancient Hellenio Race. UP TO DATE IN ALL ESSENTIAL REGARDS United States Minister Fra of te Country to Which He is Acercdited Whi in Om The first Anglo-Saxon who ever wrots a history of the world gave Greece nearly the whole front of the book, then re- pented of his generosity and gave It not even “honorable mention” thereafter. And Practically avery other writer after him did the same. The High school puplil, after spending the first half of Beptem- ber In mutinous dread and the latter half in old Bgypt, is detained in Hellas through October, led to Rome in November, spends Christmas with Charlemagne, and catches & glimpse of the land of myths and deities n only in his April cruise homeward past the scene of the Armenian massac At one time or another he may hear some- thing about “the glory that vhs Greeco, and the grandeur that was Rome;” or somebody with a good memory and an @cquaintance with Byron may refer to those fsles— “Where Phoebus dwelt and Hellas And burning Sappho loved and sung.” but that's all. The isle-surrounded little peninsula that is neither so wide nor so long as Nebraska, having ceased to war or to polson learned gentlemen with peb- bles In their mouths, was relegated for the younger actors and for long hi dwelt only in memory and the novels that con- cern themselves with remantic people who e:u‘t love properly in the modern atmos- phere. New Life im the Country. Now,, however, there is Greece may get back into the book. Its people have commenced to wear etore clothes aftd to beat Yankees at their own favorite game of making money. Charles 8. Francis, who for two years past h been United States minister to Greece, Roumania and Ser and who goes back there this week, was in Omaha lagt Wednesday and told of the interesting changes e notes between the Greece of today and the Greece of thirty years ago when he was there as secretary to his father, them minister. Because of his diplomatic responsibilities he did not talk of things political, but he spoke treely of manners and customs, saying: “When I was first there nearly every Greek wore the fustinella, that garb of loose blouse and short skirt and sandals that has changed little since the time of Pericles, nearly 500 years before Christ, but now only the very old men or those natives far inland cling to it. The rest dress much as do Buropeans and Americans and the change I attribute to thelr mingling with the latter. Greeks wre traveling more than formerly and are, I belleve, more refined and more engaging as a result of this and of the imvasion of Athens each winter by 4,000 or 5,000 of Americans and a lesser number from ‘various European nations. Belleve in Baths, “Every summer many of the wealthler Greeks go to the continent—usually to the baths, for they are still sticklers for hygiene and firm bellevers in the efficacy of water as a beautifying agent. Every Yyear, too, many of those who went to America in previous years return to Greece to visit old friends and old haunts, though rarely to remain. They stay by the country of their adoption. ; “The wealthy Greek is not the product of generations, but frequently of one generation. Their business ability is e: ceptional and some from small beginnings amass fortunes in time to enjoy the benefits in old age. It {sn't much of a place for agriculture, but the little shops where the wines and grapes are accumulated for ex- portation and the imported manufactures for sale are veritable hives of industry. Some of the fortunes are home grown, but more frequently ralsed on foreign soll. “Yet with this commercial spirit so well developed and business Instinct so keen, the Greek remains artistic in his instincts and passing fond of his antiquiti The ruins of old grandeur are cherished as zealously as they are guarded. New finds are being made every little while, but a special law has been enacted to prohibit amy antiquity belng taken out of the country. Work of Ame: Delvers. “The excavating is done largely by the visiting sclentists and archaeologists. The American school, supported as a sort of post-graduate institution by a dozen or fifteen universities and colleges of the United States, doing splendid and effective work under Prof. Rufus B. Rich- ardson, formerly of Yale, who is mow at Corinth with discoveries in prospect that will be of special interest. “Dr. Schliemann's discovery of the ruins of Illum or old Troy in 1869-73 has ceased to be discounted anywhere and is proving helpful in other work. It is an interesting fact not generally known, I believe, that Mme. Schiiemann, bhis wife, although a native Greek, is an American eltiz reason of the doctor having take GIRL WOMEN. The general standard of measurement for womanhood h“g-n—-p—um' ‘When a girl is emanci from school and arrives at the di ity of trailin skirts and elaborate dressing she hope anew. Talks| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1902. Loafing Around Hotels | “l wiah you would have some new pens put on the writing table,” siid a well dressel man to the clerk of an uptown hotel. “Certainly. Front!” and a boy was called and instructed to attend to the matter. “Now, wouldn't you think that he was our star guest?' asked the clerk, quoted by the New York Tribune. “It yéu did think #e you wowid be wrong, for he mever tpent a cent in this house. He livea quite & distance from here, but comés in &8 reg- ularly #s the day, reads his papets here, writes his letters at our desks and receives his caliers In our reception rooms. He is rot alone in his class. There are hundreds of men just like him. They are respecta- ble and in no way offensive, but théy enjoy a 1ot of hotel privileges for nothing so long that they finally look upon them a8 vested rights.” The clerk told about the varfous kinds of “Bo pay guests” to be seen in all hotels and sald that they were a source of expense to the hotels, but that they helped to d tribute the hotel stationery and oecasion- ally some of thelr friends left & dollar there. ‘The man with the long hair oveér there,” sald the clerk, pointing to a distingulshed looking man who lolled In an ehsy chair with an air of proprietorship, “Is' éne of our ‘regular’ guests. His specialty ia news- Coffee Trade Secrets | It was the old coffee expert who spoke —a man of thirty years' experience fn the tradc—and he spoke with the ferver and conviction of one who know 1 “The way in which the retai) consumer 1s charged for coffee is a veritable swindle,” ho sald to a New York Post reporter. “One, of the worst swindles, I shotld say, that any trade can show. Coftée still brings as much at retall as it did when the green beriies cost twice as much as they do now. It all comes, of course, from the habit' of grocers and the like to exact big profits on tea aid coffee, while selling staples like flour and sugar close at cost. For their best coffee—for the commodity they always call ‘Java and Mocha'—the corner grocer charges 30 to 35 cents a pound. It costs them &t the outside, roasted, 16 to 20 cents & pound. Only lately have the depArtment stores and one or two of thé great gro- cery houses cut loose from this practice. They are selling just as good an' article— trequently, indeed, much better a coffee than the common run of grocers keep—for 20 to 2 cents a pound. Considering the amounts they ose of, they are making enormous profits at. that. “Here, you understand, I am talking of the trade In the east, the better class of trade. In the eastern states ally the consimers demand a better grade of cof- fee than is drunk in the south and west, though the latter sections show a'larger consumption, in proportion tb population, than ‘does the east. Here a mild coffee is preferred; there the taste runs to the stronger grades. There, in other words, Brazil coffees are the sorts chiefly in de- mand; they are the strougest, as ‘théy are the cheapest. Then cheapness, further- more; prompts the use of the Brazil growths by those who prepare the so-called ‘package’ coffees, which cost about cenits” green, lose about 10 per cént roasting and cost the proprietors of the brands ,about 7 cents a pound ready for the retall market, in which they sell for about 10 cents a pound. “Ingluding all the grades sent from that countiy, the coffees of Brazil form about 75 per cent of the total imports of the berry into the United States. The bulk of the trade in thls growth, however, is in coffes somewhat better than that used for the ‘package’ brands, coffees costing, say.10 to 12 cenls & pound, roasted, or a littie lese green, for when not glazed or roasted in large quantities the raw commodity suffers a shrinkage of about 16 per ceat, miere or in preparation for the mill. Of Bra- the Santos coffee form about 60 per cent of the total brought into this country, the Rio 20 per cent, the Bahias 15 per. cent and the Victorias perhaps 6 per cent. papers. He has his breakfast at a coffee and cakes place near by and comes early every morning. He sits about with his eyes halt closed, apparently oblivious to all around bim, until some one lays down a paper and walks away. Then he will jump tor the piper quick as a flash and begin to read. While he is reading he keeps an eye on the others In the room, and as papers are cast aaide he adds to his store, but when he has finished reading he leaves the papers in the reading room and some of his fellow ‘regulars’ earry them away. At the writing desks our expense for station- ery s looked upon as legitimate, but thers 1s one feature that goes a little beyond the Iimit and is rather exasperating. That is the plitering. “Penholders, with pens and without' pens, pens new and old and blotters in all stages, are carried away in great quan- tities. A man who is known as “the pro- fessor” in the hotels in this melghborhood, probably because he was once a school teacher, used to sit around &' writing table for a long time every day, pretending to read, but he really watched for an oppor- tunity fo conceal & new biotter In the folds of his paper. When this had been accom- plished he folded up the paper and walked out. What he wanted the paper for I don’t know, because he did all his writing here. One day I call him aside and told “The mild coftees, coffees which have mere or less body and the fimer fiavors, distinguished from the Braszil coffees, of which the chief characteristic is strength, are of varlous kinds. First, perhaps, one must_cite the Javas; then, with compara- tive indifterence as to order, the Maracal- bos Guatemalas, Costa Ricos, Porto Ricos, Mexicans, Bogotas and Mochas. Of Javas not nearly so much comes to this country in times past, while Bogotas and Mexicans are in growing demand. Porto Rico coffee is ccming Into wider favor, too, while the im- potis of Mocha show some falling off. “The mere recital of the qualities of these coffees and the prices at which they sell at wholesale green will be enough, probably, te bear out the contentlon that the consumer who buya at retail buys his coffee much too dear. Take Javas, for instance. Generally speaking, the brew from that berry lacks body, though it has a delicate flavor. Java must be mixed with Mocha to give the de- coction sufficlent body. The two together make a blend pleasing to the palate of the aweller in the rn states, and hence, from the time that much more Java Wi brought than now, there has survived the tradition, hallowed for every grocery man's heart, that the best coffee is Java and Mocha. What the ordinary grocer sells for this, however, is far more likely to be Mar- acaibo, a nice ordinary coftes from Vel 2uela, of fair flavor and body, which sells green at f-om § to 10% cents a pound. “If one is to buy real Java, he must pay for the green berry between 15 and 29 cents a pound, the latter being the price for fancy grades, some of them from the Dutch government plantations, or from well-kcown private estates. New York experts are inclined to think the higher values are ‘all in the name,’ that the coffee {tself hasn't thé merit to warrant the price. ““The quantity of Mocha used here is also small. Little of the wild coffee of Arabia leaves the port of Yemen for the United States, and even such importations as there e made are being cut down by an in- creased use of Bourbon Santos coffee, grown from Mocha seed planted in Santo and generally esteemed as good as Mocha, while costing considerably less. “Of the other mild coffees, the Bogotas from the Magdalene river valley of Colom- bia, and the Porto Ricos, both have a flavor which is fine, although positive, and at the same time that body which coffee drinkers in this section of the country require. Bach of these is growing In favor at the expense of Java coffee, although the Bo- gotas, so far, have come into wider use than the Porto Ricos. Of Porto Rico cof No-Pay Guests Who Make Themselves at Home. him that he must stay away. He asked no questions, but he understood why. I am sure, however, that his place as a blotter pliterer has been filled.” In the winter tpese hotel loungers make the publie rooms their club, and in warm weather they cannot be distinguished from the real guests in the fresh air parts of the hotels. “Ot course,” sald the clerk, “it we would allow every one to make our house his headquarters we would soon have no room for our guests, but we do not. Our ‘sit- ters’ are reputable people, who have no business to occupy their time; old men whose day has passed or men who are wait- ing for something to turn up, and I am sure that they are all honest people, even if they do occasionally take a few pens and other articles of stationery or the daily papers. “This class belongs to a hotel as much as that other class which consists of men who stand around the ticker all day figuring how much meney could have been made if & certaln amount had peen invested on a certain stock. These people never spec- ulate, because they have no money, but they haunt the hotel ticker, and live in hopes some day to play the game again which they understand so much better now than they did when they played it be- fove.” Exorbitant Prices Maintained. only the better sorts come to the United States; the lower grades are sold to Cuba. The kinds America buys at cents a pound have an unusually heavy body, and on that account seem destined to popularity. “Another of the heavy-bodied coffees, Costa Rico, is sold in larger quantities to Germany and to England than to this country. The low grades bring something like 6% cents a pound green; the better qualities up to 12 cents. By American users they seem to be less liked than the Mexicans, and they fetch a lower price. Even low-grade unwashed Mexican coffees sell for 10 cents & pound, while the fine sorts command as much as 14 and 14% cents. Mexican coffee growers seem to be galning a better foothold in all markets, their recent progress in the preparation and curing of the berry being especially marked. “Here in the east only small quantities of the only other important Central Amei fcan coffee, the Guatemala growth, are used. The bulk of coffee imported from that country is received at San Francisco. Much of it is used at the port of entr: little of what comes overland is sent ‘be- yond Chicago or St. Louls. New York ex- perts do not esteem it much more highly than they do the Costa Rico product. It bas about the same characteristics and it sells for much the same price—10 to 14 cents. “Of the most expensive coffees this coun- try gets practically none. Take the Guade- loupe coffee, worth 40 to 50 cents a pound green, for example. It is all sent to France. Or, again, the fancy Blue mountain Ja- maica; that is all contracted for in London at 35 to 40 cents a pound a year or two before it has been grown. I was down in Jamalica not long ago and besought the planters of this variety to let me have a Mttle. They would not sell enough even to fill me a barrel. “The American consumption, it thus ap- pears, 18 supplied from coffees which fetch in their unroasted condition mot more than 14 or 156 cents a pound wholesale at best. It is no far cry then to the conclusion that retail prices at 30 to 35 cents a pound for ‘best roasted coffees’ are so excessive as to ‘warrant the most vehement demand for re form. Were much of the higher qualities or the more expensive grades of Java brought into the country the apologists of such prices might cite these importations in defense. But, as a matter of fact, the quantity of which fancy Javas imported is extremely small—too small to make a scant tenth of the amount sold at retail under that mame.” e o —— 3 naturalization papers in thls country be- fore golng to Greece, and she is intensely proud of the fact. Their son, now 33 years old, has at his mother's urgest solicita- tion been in America to take out similar papers. His name s Agamemnon, sug- gestive of the old tale of Paris’ theft of Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of" Sparta, and the battles that ensued betweén the King's brother, Agamemnon, and the Hectos forces, wherein Achilles and Ulysses' horse later figure at the gates of Troy. Womuan's Wonderful Memory. “Mme. Schliemann, it s a fact, realized the doctor's wish for a wife Who could repeat the Illad word for word—the most remarkable feat of memorizing thet 1 ever heard of. The doctor would suggest a line or two of Homer, selected at tafdom, uud she ocould procced to the end without re- ferring to the book. She lives dow in the palace provided by the doctor, aud s one of the wealthlest women in Greécs. She 18, too, stil] beautiful. Beauty fever éeases to be a princlpal object there &nd comely face and figure are always préserved care- fully asd artfully—not by women alone, for Alciblades, the ancient dandy, 18 not with- out sucocessors. ’ “There are, I learn, three Greek lan- guages. First, that employed ‘b ofdinary conversation; second, that uséd By the newspapers, and, third, that used iin the tribune, or Chamber of Deputles. . There are expressions In each that are never used in the others, - the last mention: béing most like the Greek of the anclents. “And the first is something of a conc slon to those of other tongues,” WAN suj gested by the interviewer. B “Well, the Greek would bardly concede that,” ‘replied Mr. Francis. *‘He comsiders his lenguage the best of all Ages, past or presént. He is proud of it and of all his history, and cherishes every reminder of the past. Interest in Europe. “Lively interest is taken |8 European affaire, partly, perbaps, because of the re- lationship existing between the royal fami- es. King George of Greece i8 the son of Christian of Denmark, bis Sister is Quéen Alexandra of England, his son mar< ried Bmperor Willlam's eister, his. sister is the wife of the czar and his Wite is the daughter of the dowager czarink. Although 1 was Bot in Greece at the time, I kno the {liness of King Edward must have been & most absorbing tople. “The Ellen Stone incident created much comment, but as the brigands méver got into our territory we were not directly iavelved. Roumania and Servia. “In Roumania the most interesting topic &L _present is the success of the plan of Prime Minister Bturdza to wipe out the indeébtedness to Germany and some other pations. He bas made & systemstic out in the salaries of all officials, from highest to lowest, on & per cént basis. I feared it would arouse feeling against him, but the taxpayers are overjoyed, and as the tax- payers are in & majority the plan is work- ing out admirably. “Servia is the storm center of European politics. I cannot enter into a discussion of all the conditions, but I may say at least that King Alexander is possessed of re. markable ability and stands successfully against all dissenting or disaffected ele- PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. “Well, boys,” said the Sunday school teacher, addressing the juvenile class, *‘what can, you tell me about Elijah?"’ “He was the feller what turned his horseless chariot into an airship,” replied the small boy at the foot. “‘Grandma,” sald little 5-year-old Tommy, with slate apd pcnell in bhand, “please get down on your hands and kn ““What for, dear?” asked the old lady. “’'Cause I want to draw & elephant,” replied the youthful artist. “Were you ever baptized?” asked the Sunday school teacher of a little girl pupll. “Yes, ma'am,” she replied, “two tim “How did . that happen?’ asked the teacher. 'Cause it didn't take the first time,” was the reply. A school teacher in one of the charming rural suburbs of' Philadelphia, where tancy gardening and the raising of “‘Philadelphia fowl” are general among the residen recited to the class the story of the log of the Pligrims, and, as the children bad been taking up the work, she re- quested each scholar to try and draw from ation & pleture of the Plymouth Then it was that the little feliow 80t up and raised his hand: “Well, Willle, what is it teacher. Please, ma'am, do you want & hen or a rooster drawn?" came the unexpected re- ply. asked the As there guests for dinner that evening and & storm was raging, Miss Dorothy, aged 4, objected to being left alone upstairs in the nursery. 'She finally succumbed, however, to the tempting bribe of & new doll that ceuld “do stunts,” gad all went well for the first’ two courses. But & vicious clap of thunder provéd too much for Dorothy's endurance, and she bounded inte the dining room in terror. Her mother, taking her gently aside, ex- plained that there was nothing to feay, since God was with her iu the nursery, and she sbould put her faith in Him. Dorothy went upstairs ag:.a, but a few minutes later the house was again shaken by a| volley of heavenly musketry. The panic-) stricken child reappeared and ran up to) ber mother's chair. With a tremble in her “olce she pleaded: You g0 upstairs, mamma, and stay with God = little while.” They both stayed dowa. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Two hundred bonfires are to be lighted on the hills and mountaing of New Hamp- shire on the opening night of Old Home week in the middle of August. Perry Rodgers of Bardstown, Ky. has in his possession the bugle that called the continental army to battle in many of the principal engagements for American inde- pendence. The Wardwell family of Detroit com- prises a mother ard sixteen brothers and sisters, all resident fn that city except a brother, who is in the Klondike, and a sister. 'The oldest is 7, the youngest 45 years old. There has néver been a death among the brothers and sisters in the family. New York and Philadelphia are squal bling § ver which town possess: “America's fustest author.” Philadelphla romancer who has turned out 433.500 in seven months, whil: New York rd a ‘“lady novelist” with the ing “done” in the same period Reform school lads make good fighting material, as England has discovered re- cently. Lord Leigh says that in the South African war soldlers who graduated from reform schools won three Victoria crosses, ten distinguished service medals (D. 8. 0.), two promotions to commercial rank and four mentions in dlspatch * For nearly thirty-five years Senator Jacob H. Gallinger of New Hampshire practised as hysiclan ‘In Concord.- Even after nto politics he worked at his pro- jon for twelve years, only retiring when _he was first elected congressman in 1884. Dr. Gallinger has attalned prominence in several medical socleties and numerous valuable treatises from hid pen have been added to medical lterature, Delaware courts have treated some cor- poration officials to a somewhat disagree- able surprise. About three years ago the Thomas & Davis Wall Paper company .was formed. John Thomas, the general man- ager. was voted a salary of §10,000 a year by the directors, other-officlals also geiting handsome figures. Dissatisfied stockholders ined against such ex- travagant and now the courts have decided that" Mr. Thomas s to have 31,600 a year, other salaries being cut in proportion. As the Johnstown mining horror w'll naturally set many persons asking about the Johnstown flood, and comparing the two disasters. it is timely to publish the data of the calamity of May 31, 188. In that flood 2,42 persons perished, 124 wives were made widows and %65 children were rendered orphans er half orphans. The Johnstown relisf fund aggresated $2,912,346, of which 3259296 was dis'ributed to the sufferers in the Conemaugh valley alone, the balance going to the rellef of districts immediately contiguous to ft. “In 1606, says the Four Track News, “Henry Hudson urged his little Dutch boat, Haalve Maan, up the rivei that the Tro- Quols had christened the ‘Cohatatea,’ but which the English afterward rechristened the ‘Hudson.' He courted the favoring w'nds until he anchored the ‘Half Moon' off the bank, near where now stands the city of Albany. Others had discovered the river before his day, for French, Portu- guese and Dutch had pushed the prows of Their hoats Inte the lower stream as early a8 15624-30. but to Hudson belonged the honor of navigating the stream for any consider- able distance. And so it is conceded that the name of that early navizator has been justly ~bestowed upon “the Amsrican Rhine.' The movement to celebrate the tri- centennial of the coming of Henry Hudson is now tdking tangible form, though the a-nlun!' of the observance is as yet unde- 11 to 143 ‘Grand Lodge Meeting B.P.0.E. Tar NEBRASKA SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Omaha at 11.30 p. m., August 1oth, and will be ac- companied by the famous United States 22d Infantry Regi- mental ‘Band. The train will carry the the members of Omaha, Plattsmouth, Lincoln, Beatrice, Hastings and Grand Island and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and other prominent lodges. as $25 OFFICIAL ROUTE. alt " Lake City, Aug. 12-14 The Union Pacific has, by reason of its advantages as to time and distance, (being 204 miles shorter and 12 hours quicker than any other line,) been selected as the Official Route by nearly all of the prominent B. P. O. E. lodges throughout United States. In a letter announcing this fact, CHAS. E. PICK- ETT, Grand Exalted Ruler, says: "The Board of Grand Trus- tees of the B.P.0, Elks, at a meeting recently held in the Clty of Chicago, decided to use the Union Pacific to S8alt Lake City for the Grand Lodge Reunion in August. "The action of the above officers in thus recognizing your road was prompted in part by the position taken by the Union Pacific in se- curing the reasonable rates now announced." - TICKETS Allegheny, Pa., Bal- Chey- timore, Md., enne, Wyo,, Cincine nati, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, Denver, Colo., Detroit, Mich., and St. Paul, Minn.,, are among the leading lodges which will send large delegations to the Salt Lake con- vention via the Union Pacific Railroad. Round Trip On Sale August 7-8-9-10. Elks and others wishing to take advantage of this low ra { ] should apply for tickets and reservations at CITY TICKET OFFICE 1324 FARNAM ST., TEL. 316. PLEADS FOR THE PIONEERS Major John M. Burke Talks of Things Now Fast Disappearing, HISTORY DESERVES BETTER RECOGNITION Men Who Made Nebraska Habitable Ought to Have Larger Place in Consideration of the Public. “In the parks of every city of the west there should be either a log or sod house, whichever most accurately typifies the p: condition of that particular section, and sirrounding that house should be the humble, crude possessions that were con- spicuous in the unboundaried back yard and front yard primeval,” is the declara- tioh of Major John M. Burke. Major Burke is, as every newspaper man and a great many other people know, the John the Baptist of Nebraska's Buffalo Bill, and In that capacity has circulated pretty generally among the English speak- ing pooples. The rest of the globe he has trotted im private capacity, taking time to observe what the ages have done for each nation, or rather what each na- ti8n has done for itself in the ages, and he has advanced té that point where a man begins to spare time from observation for contemplation—to look once at a con- dition, but think twice of its significance. “I am not talking shop,” he sald in on interview given The Bee during his visit in Omaha last week, “when I say that if Buffalo Bill didn't come to Omaha oc- casionally your younger generation here wouldn't have any way of getting a clear conception of the very things that were part and whole of their granddaddies’ life. 1 came up here from St. Louls by boat in 1865. Leavenworth was then the great trélghting point, Kansas City was a weakly infant, Council Bluffs had a prospect of & raliroad and a future that should make it the rival of Chicago, London and Pekin. The cub, Om: prawled out from the bank of the river with nothing in this world to commerd it but its spunk, and bulldings where your Fourteenth street botels mow are would then have been as far rémoved from the life cemter of the community as s the modern seminary. Nebraska Was Wild West. ““The territory of Nebraska just those few yoars ago was the wild west Today the children in many towns of the state stand in open-mouthed amazement at sight of a real Indian and know so little of sod houses that they wonder how often the walls have to be mowed. The reservations and the newer sections of the state, which are redlly the older sections, still preserve some of the ploneer aspect, but children areé not sent to Indian reservations to spend their tions nor permitted to ramble into unraliroaded sections. College graduates, having learned from books every- thing that there is to know on this side of the water, are sent over to Paris to study art, or to Germany to study musle, or to England to study manners, and, perha) Y few to Greece and Rome to study the his- tory of a people who are now out of the running. How many of these young people can tell when Nebraska was admitted to the union of states? How many know when the first permanent settlement of whites was made? How many know of the incep- tion and history of the western rallroads— & factor in the nation's affairs since the very first? How many can name the tribes that originally held this territory and tell which were friendly, which ugly. How many of those who are famillar with the mythical achievements of ancient impos- sible gods are acquainted with the actual deeds of the men who made the habitation of Nebraska possible? How many can master and ride a horse? How many have #chooled themselves to hold directions HEARTBURN PBloated fecling after eating, Coated tongue, Bad breath, Dissziness, Poor appetite and constipation, quickly re- moved by using Prickly Ash Bitters No other remedy does so much to put the digestive organs, liver and bowels they can eat b eartily without juconvenience, é1s in good condition. People who have used it say ‘where, before they tried it the most healthful food seemed to get them out of fix. Sold at Drug Stores. PRICE, $1.00. without a compass? Isn't it true that from those rugged ploneers who fought the In- dians at their own game just a generation ago have sprung descendants that if sud- denly thrown into battle today would have to line up with golf clubs and employ tac- tics of Miltiades? Not the Youngsters' Fault, “And if the answers to all these ques- tions be disappointing, dare we blame the young people? Isn't it the fault of the older heads that they have given no atten- tion to preserving, either in substance or thought, the things that were? Our park boards vote liberal sums for pavillons imitation of Swiss eliff houses or Engli hunting lodges, but never a dollar for log cabins or sod dobes. They buy statues of our old friends, the dismembered Venus. deflant Afax and Winged Victory, but where has anyone encountered in the west- ern pleasure places the heroc figure of the American ploneer or the Indian brave dome in marble or bronze? Men of grander pro- portions than these never were seen, nor men with faces the lines of which told a more wondrous story of daring amd de- termination. Some Typleal Uioneers. “I knew John W. Mackay well, and, like every other man ‘who knew him or who knew some one else who knew him, or even who knew some one who knew some one who knew him—for his reputation traveled as the ripples on the surface of deep, clear lake—I loved him. When the papers printed his eulogy they remarked fornla gold flelds. 1 was pleased at the mention made, but I was reminded that before him were the ploneers—the scouts | who blazed the way for bim and for all those others who journeyed to the Golden Gate in the humble -prairie schooner. Wherever clvilization has gone in this country the scout has preceded it. The Danfel Boones, Davey Crockets, Kit Carsons snd Bill Codys have ever shown Progress its lne of march afd kept to the front to bear the brunt of the dangers that threat- ened at every hand. Today Nebraska is the i home of more of those Listoric plainsmen than any other patch of God's earth, but #0 fast is the commercial spirit taking hold that transformations absorb our whole at- tention and we forget to preserve, while it | is still possible, the things that made our history as glorious and inspiring as it was | bumble and strenuous. Cody, a& the origi nal expansionist, took his exhibition—not his ‘show,’ please—to Burope to teach them over there the things tiu have learned from books. He has been "honored and feted in nearly every city of any size on two continents and yet today the proudest thought that ever enters his | proud head is that at home, here in what was the Wild Wes is loved and honored for the deeds that were his and the | remain the simple plainsman, frequently upon his beginnings in Cali- | they mever vould | $ MONTH Specialist In oll DISEASES snd DISORDERS CK- ,_safest and m method thal yet been discovere Boon every sign and tom m‘pl ely and forever. o "B | OUT" ot (h‘.diulli on the skin or fi | A cure that s guaranteed to be permanen: Rt i permanent oure guarantesd. WEAK MEN from Eqoesses or Viotime to Igrv s Deblility or“l austion, W ‘ante hc‘ with Fa: gt R B » -«-fim:na Forgans {mpaired and w STRICTURE cured with o new Homq pal o nat by N wit wor Dr. Searles & Searles, Omaha, Neb osity that he still shows. ‘When ho leaves 7Omaha the last of this month it will be to g0 along the Pacific coast, even to Yuma, and clo in Kentucky, to take ship to Europe again, but wherever he is he will courteous and considerate, but conceding nothing that will tend to disparage his own country and his own people. Cody's Work tor Civilisation. “And that's the spirit that I wish all might always show. His example in this, s in many things else, is admirable. When he looks back and sees the daring ri be made for Sheridan as chief of scouts, the protection he afforded the pony express at a time when that humble carrier was, &s the knowing old Alexander Majors told them here at the exposition on Cody's day, the thing that saved the uninformed Pacifie coast people to the union; the battles that he fought with Miles and the innumerable councile that he swayed for peace, he thinks not of the deed but of its resultant effect on history and of the perfection that it helped to bring out of lmperfection; the homestead it provided for the struggling | poor of all the world. “‘But the civilization that he and others of his type fed from the hand and pro- tecled iu ils iulsucy Les bad such iusiy growth that in apother half-cemtury all trace of its glorious beginning will be gone and with it the only men who can tell the true story. What pity then if, before it becomes eternally too late, better and more lasting record be not made of the west's rious, lmportant and unparalleled past!™