. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . April day there was The openinga strange scene acted on the border of the new territory. Thou-sands of men had gathered together from all parts of the at noon a bugle sounded; men ran, horses galloped, wagonsswayed wildly to and fro. Everybody was frantically strugglingto get possession of abit of land, for the gov-ernment had agreedthat whoever was firston a lot might have itfor his own on pay-ment of a small sum,much less than theland was worth. Thiswas so unfair a wayto grant property thatwhen the time cameto o
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . April day there was The openinga strange scene acted on the border of the new territory. Thou-sands of men had gathered together from all parts of the at noon a bugle sounded; men ran, horses galloped, wagonsswayed wildly to and fro. Everybody was frantically strugglingto get possession of abit of land, for the gov-ernment had agreedthat whoever was firston a lot might have itfor his own on pay-ment of a small sum,much less than theland was worth. Thiswas so unfair a wayto grant property thatwhen the time cameto open another terri- arapahoi: , inuiax tkimmtuhv tory to settlers, the plan was tried of allowing them to draw lotsfor the pieces of land. After Harrisons term of office was over, Cleveland was againelected. In his first term he had done all that he could to help Civil Serviceon Civil Service Reform, and during this second term he sue- ^^^^^ceeded in putting many more offices under the merit system. Before Clevelands second election there was much discussion. 240 OUR COUNTRYS STORY The Colum- about the best way to celebrate the four hundredth anniversarybian Exposi- ^^ ^^^ landing of Columbus. In 187G the Centennial had cele-brated the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration ofIndependence, and it was now decided to hold an exposition inChicago. The buildings of the exposition were exceedingly beau-tiful. So many of them were white that they Avere known asthe White City. In Chicago there were more than a mil-lion inhabitants, but many a man went to the Columbian Ex-position, as it was called, who could remember when the cityconsisted of a fort and a few Uttle huts. The celebration shouldhave been held just four hundred years after the coming of Columbus, but theplan was not madeearly enough, andthe doors couldnot be opened un-til 1893. When peoplewere calling Co-lumbus the crazyman, how sur-prised he wouldhave been if someone had whis-pered, Four hun-dred years henceth
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