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Uai .yja. gv MtMAaW -J '- The-Nebraskan-Hesperian m r --- Rote8 anb Comments THOUGHTS ON THE ELECTION. Wo mado arrangements over a week ago with a candidate for tho athletic board for an article entitled "Signifi cance; of tho Election." The candidate failed to make con nections, but he wrote tile article. It would scarcely do to print. We put it over our young peas Sunday night to keep the frost off. They grew six inches before 8 o'clock the next morning, it was so warm. The election Is over, the fires are out and the political pot has ceased to boil. Those who were scalded while it boiled still aunoint tho places with Pond's extract. The election was very quiet in spite of the excitement. No serious fights occurred, though some soreness re sulted. Tho perfect weather, together with the large number of candidates, brought out an unusually large num ber of voters. Woman's suffrage also had much to do with the large vote cast. Industrious workers succeeded in arousing tho interest of the girls. "Now, who shall I vote for?" a S. T. would say. Tho worker would name his ticket "But I havo never met Mr. . I would rather vote for Mr. ." "My dear Miss Whateverhername hapenedtobe, I have paid for you and you oughkto vote as I say." "Oh! do you have to pay to vote? I didn't know that." And she made the little crosses as he pointed out the names. Sometime we will discuss this meth od of obtaining votes and its relation to tho campaign cigar. THE TANDEM TROLLEY SYSTEM And now we come to the most inter esting and puzzling subject of the year, to-wit: The Lincoln Traction Company. ,A man stopped me on the street the other day. "I beg your pardon," sezee, "Don't they have street cars in this town? I am a stranger here.." "O, yes, kind sir," quoth I, "we have electric trolley cars in this charming and thriving city." "Where do they run at?" inquired the stranger. "I have been standing here for forty-seven and one-third minutes by the clock, and have not yet saw the slightest vestige of a street car." "If you will but compobo your soul In patience, the entire rolling stock of the Lincoln Traction Company will pass along the street in grand revJew." I -went into Miller & Paine's and bought a paper of pins and some rib bon. The clerks made out and filed tho necessary vouchers, certificates and warrants with the proper officials, and in the course of timo I received the packago and my change. From this it will readily bo seen that a long interval of time elapsed before I again saw tho stranger. He was still standing at tho corner, peering wearily up and down tho street. Ho looked at mo as though ho had caught me in a lie. "Couldn't you catch your car?" I inquired. "Every one was going tho other way. I counted nearly fifteen of them, all in a string. That was almost an hour ago, and they haven't como back yet. This is the worst town I ever struck." My civic pride 'roso up within me. "You'll find very few towns which can show a larger number of cars on the street at tho same time." Lincoln has many interesting sights, but none other can compare with a procession of trolley cars coming down O street. Did you ever want to go somewhere, kind reader? Did you ever yearn to annihilate space Q. E. D.? Did you ever have two heavy jrripa and a framed picture to carry? Then you know how it feels to watch the long procession move past In the wrong direction. Then, you know tho impatlenco with which you decide not to wait any longer, and start to walk ft. Like wise you know the emotion with which you see the cars overtake you when it isn't worth while climbing on any more. Wo have all experienced this experi ence not once, nor twice, nor even half a dozen times, but at least five nunareu times m the course of a year. One ought to expect to wait a short time for a penitentiary car, but to have to wait half an hour for p, car from the postoflice to the Rock Island depot is another, proposition. What has been said has been said in a spirit of kindness, and the company should strive to profit by the lessons werein contained. I do not wish to do the street car company any injustice. It has always treated me with the utmost courtesy, if a car is labeled "Havelock," you may depend upon it that it will not change its mind and go to College View. I do not wish to do the com pany any dirt, nor injure its business by arousing the ill-will of the people of Lincoln but the truth must be told. What is said here is not the en tiro case against the street car people. If-they would rather have the rest re main unsaid, an annual pass sent in care of the business office will reach tho writer. This will be taken as an indication that the necessary reforms will be inaugurated. The Onjaha Medical College, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. "ar' rs A THE LINCOLN ACADEMY An Accredited School to the University of Nebraska, also to the State University of Iowa zxm STRICTLY four -year cears Medical College, tbe require menu of wlilctt are fully up those of the American Associa tion of Medical Colleges, and ths laws of the different states. Ths ' r.ev bu.'ldlng furnishes the most perfect laboratory rooms In thr West. Most excellent clinics arc held by the professors of the College In flvef the si Onahs Hospitals. Por tflformaUea address, DR. EWING BROWN, " SEfiRcTTARY OMAHA. KEB The school prepares pup'ls for the Leading Colleges and Universities. Students of the School are given the opportunity of advancing as rap idly as possible; but thoroughness will not be sacrificed to speed. Students may, at any time, enter cl sses for which they are prepired. Students only partially prepared to enter the State University have the privilege, at the Academy, of making up the work in which they are deficient. At lenst three-fourths of those now in attendance are preparing to enter the State University. Summer School Opens June 14 The First Semester of University Year 1901-1902 Opens September 17 Alfred H. Wilson, Ph.D. Yale, Principal w lf.l-a .IT i : i im rurc3j: pamts ww A NEW LINE JUST IN If- THE B. L. PHINE eLCTHING STORE wk I "7 Good Place to Buy Good Clothes" S UbR jGla 31 YIJ3IT -- Imm Wfr women I I 4JP& STYLISH 2P; "The Latest" $32 Shoe i i ) Ha!I&) PERKINS & SHELDON CO. ( ,1 1129 0 Street . T 1 vim Mention The Hesperian !; M jfBi Kodaks, Cameras, MatflHihiiU I r crtDDt rca I Hi amumin . - - reggk I 111 r OFF on HI R flsH'llllJi 5 Premos and Pocos ,S $' tm 1 kUw D. E. De Putron. II MSlaBBBBWS .0WP.AA.A OMAHA.WEB gg If , Morth Eleventh SI. OppotiU KManU BUA. ' Jt W iHrial , " v. mvf"tyt " - - -tM i JF "" . 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