J. A. SIMPSON
The words did not startle the Editor. They came into his consciousness with all the quiet movement of a flowing tide. He did not even look up.
"Well, mother, I should like to know why?" another voice answered.
"Well, because, now the strike's on, father is likely to be out of work for some time."
"He isn't out of work now?" "Yes he is too."
The Editor looked up. He saw before him two women, apparently mother and daughter. He knew he had never seen or heard of them before, and yet, he read their history in one glance. The girl was Charlotte O'Connoly, the oldest child of Jim O'Connoly, a workman in the railroad shops. She had been fairly well educated, had graduated from the High School of the small town in which she lived. That was two years before; she had since then become engaged to a young mechanic, had taught two years in a district school, and had saved one hundred dollars with which to defray her wedding expenses.
Her father, Jim O'Connolly, was an irishman by descent, not birth. He had been educated after the manner of Irish immigrants' children—had earned the merest rudiments of the three "R's," and then turned into the shop, to help support "Dad." He was an honest, hardworking man, a diligent reader of the newspapers, and an ardent politician. His wife belonged, like kinship, to the working class of people. She was a neat and economical banskeeper, a good mother to her four little boys and had an earnest desire to see them as well educated as Charlotte. She had to use a great deal of tact not to let this desire have too great a prominence, as her lord and master was not in sympathy with it. His boys didn't need so much education, ought to be learning a trade, ought to work at a trade by the time they were sixteen, that their father might get some good out of their money before they came of age. Charlotte had gone to school until she was eighteen, and had claimed as her own, the money she had earned since her graduation. Her father, in consequence, had never felt fully repaid for raising her. But Charlotte's mother felt that, in Charlotte, she was justly rewarded for the hard work she had undergone in order to educate her. She had practiced the most rigid economy, as she was still doing for the sake of the younger students, and kept up a cheerful manner through it all, that her husband might not suspect how much pinching it took to let him have his "pin money." as she and Charlotte laughingly called it. She had done all this with good result in Charlotte's case, and with good prospects for her boys, and now—the strike.
The strike—the Editor tried to think what it was, it seemed so long ago. He knew, though, that not a month had past since the newspapers were full of it, and every one was excited about it. The great strike—first a strike for higher wages for a few workmen, and the sympathetic strike, general all over the country, the attempt of the unions to stop all the locomotive machinery of the government. It began to come back to the Editor now. He remembered that he was at that time very busily engaged in preparing a paper on Browning, and that the stoppage of the mails had greatly annoyed him by keeping away some books he had ordered. He remembered, too, the great discussions there had been at his boarding club; the enthusiastic young man who championed the striker's cause, declaring that unions, and strikes—yes, sympathetic strikes, too—were the laboring man's only means of defense, that it was necessary to stop the traffic of the country, and seriously discompose a great many innocent people. In order to get their wrongs corrected. The Editor had thoroughly disagreed with the young man, but had refrain
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ed from argument with him, not liking his heat.
And charlotte O'Connolly, and Mrs. O'Connoly, and the four little O'Connoly's—what of them. A few of the discomposed innocents? The boys will have to stop their schooling and go to work to support "Dad," as their father did before them. And Charlotte will have to postpone her happiness for a year or two. The one hundred dollars saved for her wedding expenses will come in very handy in supplying the necessities of life. Her father will not demand it of her, but she cannot keep it when the family is in want. If pressed to it of course, Mrs O'Connoly can take in washing, but 'Dad' will stand on the street corner with a crowd of his compatriots and talk in glowing terms of the stride betw en labor and capital, and the great mission of the working man to overcome the wicked capitalists. Increasing work and bitterness brought to six people, because of the rights of one!
Psahw! a sentimental consideration, not of a father's weight of importance in the grand sweep of civilization. A sentimental consideration doubtless, but the real position is this; Jim O'Connolly, and he is but a representative of a large number of our working men, is an Irishman, and uneducated; and can, therefore, have no great conception of the principles of the American government. Shall he be allowed the privilege of violating the laws American born citizens have made? of thus encouraging lawlessness and riots in the restless, immigrant element of the country? of taking his children out of school and placing them at a tender age in surroundings wretchedly fitted to make of them good men and good citizens?
"No!" thundered he Editor, and jumped up, startled at the sound of his own voice. He had thought there were voices in the room, but his own sound like a cannon blasts in comparison. He glanced at the window; Charlotte and her mother faded into clear blue sky and green stretches of land. The Editor drew his hand confusedly across his forehead, and turned around just in time to realize that Sam, the hall boy, was saying: "A lady to see you sir."
The Bismarck Fair.
Everything is booming this year. The University is starting out with a rush that contrasts most favorably with the spirit of the last few years. The same spirit is to be seen about Lawrence. Bismarck Fair which will be held at Bismarck Grove from the 24th to the 29th of this month is a fit representative of the returning good times.
In fact we believe our students will think it fortunate that they came to Lawrence, if only to attend this Fair, Admission is twenty-five cents. Bismarck Grove is reached by the Lawrence Street Car Line, and is one of the most beautiful natural forests in Kansas.
The enterprise of the management is shown by the many special features that will be added to the regular ones. Besides the farm, stock and machinery exhibits which are seen at all fair, there will be fine speed ring. On the political days, the students will have the opportunity of hearing the foremost representatives of the different political parties of Kansas. The men who will speak are orators of fine reputation such as the Hon. David Qymeyer, and the Hon. J. R. Burton. The military battalions of Haskell Institute will be in camp during the Fair, and show what good soldiers the red-skins are. The Lawrence Cycling Club, whose members belong to the National League of American Wheelmen, have arranged for a series of bicycle races, and fast men have already made known their intention of entering.
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FOUGHT HIS BROTHER
Rev. Hector Cowan has a Terrific Encoura-
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Rev. Hector Cowan, the University athletic instructor, is spending the summer vacation at his old home near Hobort. N. Y. A few nights ago he was awakened by a noise which he thought came from burglars and he started to investigate it. His brother Henry arrose for the same mission.
Henry was the first in the room whence the noise seemed to come, and on his hands and knees he was cautiously working his way up to the window when he was suddenly pounced upon by Hector, who had stolen noiselessly behind and mistook Henry for a burglar. Henry is several years younger than his brother, who from earliest boyhood until within the last fey years, has made an improvised foot ball of him whenever the big Princetonian felt the need of vigorous exercise. But Henry has added pounds of flesh and muscle since those old days, and Heeter Cowan found at once he had his hands full. The room was dark and a terrible struggle for mastery began. They roiled over and over on the floor, smashing furniture and upsetting stands. First one would be on top, only to be clked against the wall by the other. They choked and hammered each other until they clinched for a final fall near the window; and then both stopped in astonishment at recognizing each other.
When a light was brought and the new thoroughly aroused household looked at the wrecked room and the battered athletes, there was a hearty laugh all around, and any amount of ridicule heaped upon the mistaken combatants by the inmates of the household. The brothers were laid up with their bites and stiffness the next day, but both were devoutly thankful that neither was armed, as they acknowledge the encounter would probably have had a fatal termination. -Lawrence Gazette.
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Prof. Dyke in a Shipwreck.
News has been received that the Virunda, the ship upon which, Dr. F. A. Cook's Arctic excursion party took passage, has been wrecked on a sunken reef. August 9, off the west coast of Greenland.
The party were all rescued by the schooner Rigel of Gloucester, ten days after the Miranda struck the reef.
Perhaps the fluest collection ever secured in Greenland, of ethnological and botanical specimens with photographs taken by the party, were lost with the Miranda.
The passengers lost everything except the clothing they wore. Many lost valuable scientific instrument and hunting equipments.
Shortly after the Rigel rescued the party, the Miranda which had been kept afloat with great difficulty, sank. Nothing was saved from the Mirada except the sailors' clothing.
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The young women who came back to the State University will be gladened by the sight of Prof. Franklin back from Johns Hopkins with a Ph.D. and a Van Dyke brace and bicycle legs like a katyldie. —Kansas City Star
Last Wednesday morning, Mrs. Dykea received a despatch sent from North Sidney, Nova Scotia, stating that the Miranda had been wrecked and that a schooner had rescued the party. She expects to receive a letter from the professor in a few days, and thinks he will be home in a short time.
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