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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1897)
Til K U HS P 10 R 1 AN M p?t gallery row. They all sal, still. Tho minister talked on a Wont tho "young si ml." And tins was the gospel of Him 'who, put to death ,'H a malefactor, answered not a "word ! illVom. the mosaic of the high, round window, the grant white sunlight dropped 'in sickly greens and reds over the heads 'o'f'lihe worshipers, t blurred iny eyes and made figures on the snow as 1 went out and passed the slcy-blne young wo man on thp poster, looking straight at the sun. .X. Character- murder. Wp think il a strangp and solemn thing to die; thorp is a wonderful mystery in Uhis sudden cutting away -of all things earthly, a blind awful ness. "We shudder atlhe thought of murder; we cannot un derstand how anv maiiciui kill his sister or Ihis father. How terrible the remorse 'he must suffer! His inhumanity! IBut liow infinitely more inhuman il is to 'kill with deliberation. And it is just this which most of us. oven we who have Written 1ml a little, have done again -and again. Tn half of our stories some ohar .aeterdies, usuallvthe hero or heroine., and 'sometimes, 'very often, both... Of course it is not unnatur,althat sometimes -our heroes should ,dio., not at all. What ismnnatural, and what we cry against, is that they should .die unnecessarily. A terrible sorrow falls upon our hero; ilie sueounibs .toil,; in short, wo kill him. That is whore our gn ill, comes in. Wo nave not g'rven our hero his just right to conquer his sorrows, his perplexities; we have not permitted him to prrvvohisin etfpaoity; we have not even g'rven him till ft opportunity to prove that he can fail. !l)f we would only ilet .our characters Hive, woishould ifradHshal their lives 'would have aigreat deal unore reality ;amd interest than their deaths. "What, indeed, is our excuse for ihis wholesale murder? An excuse so shallow as to brand us more criminal than the basest cutthroat. He kills for a purse of coins; we, from utter laziness. We an cowards; in order to extricate our hero from the complexity of life-action into which we have drawn him, Ave areoblitfwl in 'Order to save ourselves-the selfish shame of it- to escape by the one broad way open the death of this troublesome hero, his death without vindication. A. V. B. Merchant's Barber Shop. Good work guaranteed. Brace Block. Superintendent Todd of the Beatrix schools was in the city this week. Ben. Mathews is again manager of tin North Eleventh street boarding club Clod TJoed, a Beatrice high school stu dent, was a caller at the university this week. The general astronomy class has been doing a good deal of "star-gazing" the past week while learning 'the constella tions. 'ID. T. .'Smith, jeweler M4(M) street, 'gives a liberal disoo'mit -to a'11 students trading with him. Watch repairs a specialty.. The senior class held a meeting Tues day and discussed theimportanl question of invitations, pictures, and the senior promenade. The March rvoviewof Ooviews contains a reproduction of the 'eleven western college presidents who recently convened at Madison, Wis. The likenesses of Ex 'Ohanoollor Cunfiold and 'Oban col lor Mn" Loan are excellent. Saturday evening the !U. IB. (D. C. de bate the question, resolved ""That tli State-Script bill recently passed by the House of Representatives is inexpedient'' Affirmative, Meier and Archer; negative Rhodes and Brookings.