Arizona republican., 1892-12-02


 first to go out to battle under that ban ner. An old soldier says he thinks there ought to be stars and stripes celebra- ton of scme kind every year, to keep alive in all our hearts the love of coun- try So there ought, with patriotic music, flags, historic and heroic tableaux and all that nobly stirs the soul and kindles the imagination.
 Mere display of bunting is not dec pration The Columbus celebrations developed the fact, however, that this is the American idea of it. A hundred yards of muslin stamped in red, white and blue hnd stretched across the front of build ing is showy lt IS likewise patriotic, hnd therefore we respect the motive of the one who puts it there but it is not decorative. E.
 | In the older countries public adorn- lnenis on festal occasions are the object lsf serious care and attention, The best artists are secured tp plan the window displays. the triumphal arches and the marches The result is all artistic dis play which fingers in memory like a dream of beauty We want some of these dreams of beauty for America. Nothing is too good for us.
 Enormous size. lavish abundance, is the American idea of the right thing on all occasions. Even if we wish to praise Enthusiastically play. a ball, a church ceremonial we involuntarily say it was "big thing" That is the highest praise i've can bestow, but mere size and abun dance is not artistic of itself American cities during the Columbus celebrations looked sks kaleidoscope spectacle in color without the beautiful kaleidoscope figures. The most artistically decorated buildings were perhaps the great dry goods stores. The artists who arrange the shop windows had been employed here with fine effect.
 A historic movement has been proceed ing so quietly for the past ten years tha few have noticed it at sll. This is tn, return of the Jews to Palestine. SC many have gone thither that it begins tc look almost as if the Bible prophecy were to be fulfilled The ancient land now contains more than 100, 900 of tho chosen people. One of the first effects of this movement is an upward tendency in the Jerusalem real estate market. The country is being irrigated and cultivated waterworks of an improved pattern are being constructed, and electric lights ol the Yankee type are already fiickerine from the street corners of the Holy City. Railways will soon crisscross Palestine like spider webs, and the improved sys. tenn of agriculture which the wide awake lsraelite immigrants have already introduced will give them business. There is no more hopeful sign on the whole horizon of civilization than this new movement of the Jews to Palestine.
 The Norwegian claim to priority of discovery in case of America is undoubt- edly true There is reasonable evidence that some Norsemen under Jeff Ericson sailed westward from their far northern shores to Iceland and Greenland, and that they came as far as Labrador. It is believed, too, that they set foot on the soil of Massachusetts But whenl Tho nearest historians can come at it is that Eric visited America some years before the Norman conquest William the Con queror took possession of the English crown in l066. What rousing celebra- tion we would give the old heather Norsemen if we could only find out when they touched our shoresl Nor wegians claim that it was in 1000. If so, then Jeff Ericson's turn will come in the year 2000
 The number of acres which will be open to settlement under the recent agree ment with the Comanche. Kiowa and Apache Indians is nearly 3,000,000 1t Is situated in the southwestern corner of Indian Territory For this land the government paid the Indians S2,0OO, ,000. The members Of the three tribes named will take lands III severalty. and the