The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-09-02

COu, WuOB0 borl00 OF 0OC10Il0tlC 0CuOl06.
THE Workers" published in Scribner's
Magazine aroused 90 much discussion,
made q conscientious tour into this
Darkest Africa, and slept in unpleasant
places and ate ill-tasting food and in.
hailed unsavory odors for q worthy
object His observations will be valua.
BILE to sociologists. but when all is said
they are but stiff-necked, colorless re.
ports, thorough and conscientious. but
with no moro life or color in them than
statistics for college thesis. Like Mr..
Richard Harding Davis account Of the
Cuban war, they have the supercilious
attitude Of the man who s.ood afar of
aud watched the battle and suffered
because his linen was not clean. This
may be because Mr.. Wycof is student
and q sociologist and not a poet, and
because he receives his Impressions
solely through his cerebral apparatus.
Nobody ever yet acquired any wisdom
worth the having through study alone,
much less is one able to impart knowl-
edge to others by purely intellectual
process. To know anything about any
class OF people, one must ascertain how
those people regard the great issues of
lie. how and what they feel. And to do
that, 1t is necessary to feel ones self.
aud that's what it never occurred to
Prot. Walter Wycoff to do. The sculp.
tured figures on the old Egyptian monu.
ments Of the slaves who drew the water
aud fed the oxen and plowed the rice
fields and quarried sandstone, six thous.
and years ago are quite az much alive
az Mr.. Wycoff's workers" But Rich
ard Whiting has learned to feel with
his head and think with his heart. In
Number 5, John street." We enter no
lecture room, but an actual world,
world that comes very close to us and
seems very real, because man who has
that touch Of nature which makes the
whole world kin. reveals it to US. And
he speaks in no dry scientific phrase.
ology, but in the common language of
pain and pleasure and love and sorfow,
which is the same in John street and in
Piccadilly.
After divesting ourselves of Mr.. Wy.
COTS statistics and memoranda, it is
good to step into John street and laugh
and toll and live with men again. It 10
q world Of outcast men, it is true. mon
with the gypsy thirst for pleasure ready.
made and the gypsy trick Of incom-
petence and inability to stick to any.
thing, but Mr.. Whiting must have q
little Of that rsstlessness in his own
blood, and he knows and loves that
Submerged Tenth" Of which he writes.
He says:
"There is John street 10 every shin.
ing city OF civilization-in New York,
Chicago, Boston; in Rome. st. Peters
hurg, Vienna. Madrid. There is a sort
OF liberty in John street, and q fellow.
ship ct blood and gln-flre. II the
Tzzgany from Budapest walked Ia here
ut Number 5. we should know him for
brother, though he wore bandans in
lieu Of q cap. He would be as greasy as
we are. He would Itch with another
kind OF vermin. that is all. The chill
dren would pelt him for time, because
they are silly enough to think that
strange boots makes strange man.
But their seniors, as soon as they had
taken their stock, In one swift glance,
OF the holes In his uppers and the devil
In his eye. would yield him his ap-
pointed place without a word. Every
village in the land, IL it has not its