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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1902)
-9 t f'AV ' - - THSOOtritltfE' cr :v fo.vt' -l. .,, ).- J V J.C SBttfcTM In. this zrwUrrli" fie. religious humlHtr,Jbr -rich patient's rathe vettelww Feftert-' 'tunity to caBct therefore concluded -that Ms ttoMl . and -religious humility. er -rich patient's death was .. the opper- tsneoUiywsthe vemehew fefert- tunlty to caBcel the debts of a hundred Ism is the rhythm. The excessive km- 'or More boot patients. To he sure the "' - mlHty is out:qf style.-tand that whleV theirs are disputing the blH, and It Is -" ft J"i tyle.ki grotesque la Hterature fa question of the charitably disposed -as weu-as.Ui costumes, la spite of. the payeiciaa caa get his MUs settled tn difference ia the 'styles of the twea- J this way. The heirs object to the tlethand of the.seventeenth centary.-m amount of his bill, and if he has givea the last part,ot which Watt began 'to ?away flM.07v of doctoring to the Fhlla- write, he is "stUl the master, ot .English delphia poor, they eoasider that he hymnody, aad congregations stilf.siag must stand the less. I suppose the ! " - v- - nis hymns far more than ibese'jsYaay otBerautaor. He dieain TL746aiia the .14 years which have intervened "smceaia death' no other hymn writer ? A , rivaled -Ms popularity.-,-. ? .' stray hymn it great- beauty and power occasionally finds a peiaiaacnt place in the hymn books. But ao eth er author is at oace so versatile aad so prolific. Watts has written hymas for all occasions presided over aad admin--hrtered by a priest; there are songs far weddings, 'funerals, baptisms, for all assemblies- where people formally aad ceremoniously worship God, as well as, for the ptous man in" the moments when he" withdraws hlroselffrom the world. Watts; hymns have. beeamur raured by the dying; the puritan bride hums them as she prepares" herself for the bridegroom, and ttwmothers .of the race have chanted r them over our cradles. The English "of ; the hymas Is strong and plain. The short, tuneful lines do not flatter humanity, but like a good aad undeceived preacher they straltly y ten the truth about .man and each ' ? sinrer confesses their pertiaeacy. though he may smile at lines like; , "Father, and shall we ever live at this i poor. -dying., rater or "Look how we grovel here below." 4 - ) FeV Valve Rscahrea Business men lose efcertake per cent of their invested capital la bad debt J every year. Theyeontlnually endeav ;or to make this loss smaller. They 4 never .reduce It altogether. Theever reautteaeftaa defeats his own purpose JA?buetaeW is a risk, and ia order to make more than three or four per cent, the investor must TiaVe faith in tht weather.ln the Integrity-'of his fellow men aad la their, future ability to pay what they' borrow from him el the in goods or money. Doctors and lawyer, of aM professional men, lose the largest per cent of their Investment of educa tion,! skill and labor. No one expects a shopkeeper to give' away his goods for the sake of friendship, lawyers are despoiled of. their opinions lor charity and -for friendship every day. A good lawyer's opinions, founded on years of study and experience,. are his stock in trade, yet a man who would feel Insulted if a-merchant i prince ot silk and cotton offered -him a bolt of velvet, will nonchalantly request a law yer or a doctor for opinions wii03t preparation has cost more than th.j manufacture of the velvet. The codes of the doctor seem to the outside world peculiar: Merchants have a price list, publishers have a card of advertising rates more or less loosely adhered to, but it Is at least a standard rand is based on -circulation; brokers charge a certain' per "cent for their services, bankers charge a vary ing rate- X Or money, a. laborer's fee is fixed by the union to whicn he belongs or by the current local standard. In all these cases it is comparatively easy to find out beforehand just what cer tain services will cost. Doctors are called in emergencies, and as la the case of President Mc Kinley there is often no stipulation as to the price of the services. When life Is balanced against money, the latter is for the only time forgotten. Dr. W. C. Browning of. Philadelphia Is suing the estate of millionaire Magee. for pro fessional services during a long illness, for 1190,070. The sum seems a very large one, but perhaps the doctor be lieves with Robin Hood that it is nec essary '-tO'take from the rich la order to give to the 0001. He may have been treating; the poor for years without rec ompense except his conscience, aad that wIH buy neither coal 'or. his house aor J. aw" frocksr'for "the" baby. rich travelers when Robia Heed or dered at the spear's point to stand aad deliver, felt the same' way. But Robia Hood was much more sure of his plun der than Dr. Browning is. . 1 srLesmas J Loquacious individuals announce that .England has lest prestige by the war "in South Africa. After a thing has been said a certain number ot times k ' Is accepted as truth; aad If facta con tradict the saying, it Is true anyway, and the chatterers reiterate it more volubly. It la true that the world is round, though It seems fiat. It is Just as true ''that the war ia South-Africa was not f England's seeking, that the Boers fared ea English troops first and that previously to that time it was Kruger, whe cut short the deliberations and or 'dered the commandos into the field. All these facts do not make any im prtssion upon the people who make up their minds upon subjects without in vestigation; aad when contrary to their wishes a collection of facts is brought te their attention, they dismiss them as kings do unpopular courtiers, with 'a wave of the hand and a sentence of exile. England did not persecute the "Boer farmers or drive them Into war. Kruger got angry aad ordered out his troops which he had been for years arming with the best guns bought with the money obtained from the out landers. Kruger himself Is a sly. un truthful, greedy and short-sighted old maa whose obstinacy and lack of busi ness foresight has deprived his country erantoaoray. 1 e - It is not true that the English array has lost its prestige by means of the war aad Its terrible losses. If there Is one supreme lesson of the war it is that the cost of final victory is too great for any nation to go to war over a trifle or even to .right a great Injustice. A small determined army, like the Boer army, can defeat an In vading force many times its size by means of long range arms and a na tive's knowledge of topography. We knew before the war that the Englishman was not facile or versatile or 'quick to change tactics which he had'Jseen taught are conventional and the beat possible in a campaign. De feat after defeat left the Englishmen who were noC killed on the battlefield, still unconvinced that there was any thing the matter with their way of meeting the enemy. The -English sol diers in Africa fought with the same dogged bravery that Washington ob served and admired. They fought, as they will fight again, without the in spiration of the moment and its indi cation. They fought as they would fight 'on a plain or in a hilly country. To the Englishman, fighting Is fight ing, whether the opponents are North American Indians, or the French, or Boer sharpshooters hidden behind rocks six feet thick. The Englishman is the same yesterday, today and forever. Tet ia spite of his slowness and Inability to 'take suggestions from the topog raphy or from the enemy as to the disposition of his forces, in spite of his invulnerability to any suggestion from whatever source, history records that the Englishman finally wins. Victory has been won at a terrible cost of men anil treasure in South Af rica, but the Englishman has won In the interests of civilization and truth. Americans began to study the Eng lish at the time of the Revolution. Washington's summary of the English officer's character, hie predisposi tion to blundering, his haughtiness, and withal his bravery, is as charac teristic of the English fighting mentOH day as it was in 1778. t It Is most likely that the rigors, if there are, rigs rs, ef government wM be softened. It Is a Jong time since the BagM people has had a cetoalal war with white fern. The Indian mutiny was aa oriental ex plosion aad was finished m the Mate of aa explosion. The MngHsh have not had what sportsmen caM a real fight siaee the American Revetutien. uatM they met the Transvaal Dutch men. One lesson of the war la that neither combatant will want te fight again for a century at least. Europe has ceased to scon at the Csar's peaee protocol. , The children of men ten years, after, a war, begin to think of Its grandeurs and Its glory. The sickening smell of split blood and of festering wounds has been taken up by the air of heav en, the veterans are, telling the stories of the war and the buglers play the warlike Betes at Bight to the children around the cottage door. The eruelty, the brutality, the vices of war are ob scured by the ways ot peace. All that la left Is the memory of heroic deeds aad the comradeship of the camp and battle-field. Veteraas tales fire the hearts of the youngsters who Hstea to them, and they long for another war. But the object lesson la South Africa has strengthened the walls and the liberties of every small country which the powers covet. A good long distance title in the hands of one man in am bush who caa hit what he aisaa at, to worth twenty men ia the open. Rich Uttle countries like Switzerland aad Holland are ao longer afraid of covet ous neighbors like Germany since the demonstration In South Africa. Em peror William would like to absorb Holland. but not at such a coat. He would pay la men aad money much more than Holland la worth to Germany if he went to war to get it. England has made a generous , peace with the Beers as a result ot the brav ery and the magnanimity and the te nacity ot the farmers. The world con gratulates them both, aad rejoices at the peace that Kitchener has conclud ed. TfceCaisne The chime of bells which Lincoln has dedicated to the memory of President McKlnley, has been set up ia the towei of the Methodist church. Some com plaints were made because the bells vibrated, and the vibrations ot one bell or note continued and lapped over onto the sound of the next bell. They are not out of tune. When the scale from A to G Is struck, each note rlngz true. Tested by ear or by a tuning fork or by a violin or by any instru ment in tune itself, each bell sounds the note It was made to sound. The bell responds with a full, round, mel low tone and the musicians who say that the bells are out of tune need to have their ears tuned. Tested by otber Instruments the bells Justify. To be sure they are bells and nothing more. When they ring the sound Is not like an organ, neither Is It like a brass band. The sound Is made by the Impact of an Iron clapper against a cylinder, open at one end and closed at the other. The ridge of the open end is moulded to a fine edge. When the clapper strikes it the bell expands and contracts. You can feel the vi brations as well as hear them, it you are near enough, by placing your hand on the bell. If the bell should not vibrate when it is struck by the clap per It would not be a bell. The vibra tions are the bell character. There may be delicately tuned Individuals in Lincoln who do not like bells. There are people who do not like olives and can not be reasoned into a taste for them, but they can not prove to the rest of us that they are not a delicious food. There is no proving tastes. But the perfect tone ot each bell may be tested by any musician who cares to listen while the bell-ringer plays the scale. The bells are made of fine copper and tin. and when the musical ear of Lin coln grows accustomed to the vibra tions and when we can intellectually admit that vibration is what happens when the clapper (or what answers for 1 clapper) strikes the he, we wM 'cease te complain and begin te eajey the great mellow round tones that may be heard three aad a halt mMes frees u Lincoln. The chime Is set in- the round dome of the Methodist church. The bens are suspended from a great square made of thick beams. Three bells are suspended en one side of the square; the other three sides contain two bens apiece. The big bell Is suspended above them. The belMst stands en the landing beneath before a poHehed oak case with the handles whlphmove the stoppers of the ten bens projecting from the case. When he plays "X presses these handles down and theN beautiful hens above respond te his nervous, delicate touch as the chords of the piano respond to the player's fingers. The sound is the sound of a beH. Remember that. aM ye good peo ple ti be have apparently expected a beH te be an organ or a wind instru ment, and that it will not vibrate when the iron clapper strikes it a blow that would knock a piano string; out ot the case or a maa on! his horse. A beH rings, or vibrates, when it is struck, aad there are no beH moulders on earth who can change this law of matter to accommodate the people who believe that It Is the function of a bell to do something else, heaven knows what, when it is struck. ..- CONTENTED TO QUI 1 SB?? J ' BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBVjBSBkBBBK JbSbBBbSbK w$t j --: Be? UavnH IMNaiPiBsSSSBSBBSsi BSjT"SssBiBWasallW Clara Bloodgood. the well known beautiful American society woman actress, whose marriage to Wil liam Lalmbeer. a wealthy New York clubman, was recently an nounced, is very happy In the change- of her condition. Mr. Lalmbeer Is the famous beauty's third husband. Mrs. Lalmbeer's success on the stage as Clara Bloodgood was so marked that Clyde Fitch had written for her a play called "The Grass Widow,' In which she was to appear at the Savoy next year. Jasper I see that another society woman Is going on the stage. I won der what could Induce her to do that? Jumpuppe Perhaps she was crowd ed out by women of the stage who have gone Into society. Clara Jack played a mean trick on May. Belle What did he do? Clara Led her into a dark, corner and then said "April Fool!" Bllm What Is Speeder doing now? Blum He's Interested in a get-rich-qulck scheme. Bllm You don't say so. Blum Yes; he is courting an heiress. The Maid In Shekaggy. 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