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all of a certain kind of offenders "prominent membera of society."
This inclination on the part of the newspaper men is on a parity
with the attempt that is usually made to make absconding bankers
and embezzlers appear as leaders in church work without regard to
their actual position in the church. Society has enough to answer
for without being made responsible for the misdeeds of people who
-cannot appropriately or truthfully be described as even hangers on
in the fringe of society.
The article in last week's Courier concerning the A. P. A. and its
purposes proved interesting to a great many people whose curiosity
has been aroused by the activity of this organization. It was an
accurate presentation of the oaths and purposes of the order, and
was accepted as such.
LINCOLN LIGHT INFANTRY.
If we could only have some art cufolios of the minstrel show, how
they would be prized. Just think of the' fond recollections such
pictures would ensure. There's Bostrum with his presence, Frank
Burr with his bones, Outhwaite with his tambo and Chris Camp's
olid tones, ha! ha! For such a reminder we'd clip coupons by the
score.
Ross declares he never could spin a tambourine anyway.
Bostrum "Say Hade, where did Chris put those bottles?"
Dr. Victor will go fishing as soonas the weather clerk reports a
propitious day. But he wont walk.
Moore wants a job driving btakes. He's got a little hammer just
suited for the business.
And did'nt Wilson look Bmooth though? We told you he was all
O. K. '
O'Sbea says the rubber broke, but declares it will never happen
vgain. Billy is now training his white rabbit to keep still and not
kick when squeezed up under his arm.
I opine that at our next regular meeting there will be a discussion
on the question of joining the national guard. Governor Crounse
and staff attended the banquet at the close of the minstrel perform
ance, and the entire part, together with the Omaha boys present,
advocated the amalgamation. Captain Campbell is heartily in favor
of the idea, having served five years in the national guard, and now
says he is ready to 6erve twenty five more. This subject was brought
up for discussion about three months ago, but no definite decision
was reached. Tinker.
SPRING STYLES IN HATS.
The critical observer may note
in this spring's Dunlaps an un
usual conservatism as to shape.
There is nothing unconventional
in the shape of the derby cr the
silK hat; but both are gracefully
outlined, and it is believed that
the new styles are as attractive
as any ever originated by Dunlap.
A pronounced departure in the
style means that a great many
people are compelled to wear
hats that are unbecoming, while
modest shapes such as the ones
designed for this season, look well
on everybody. The new silk hat
is -regarded as the prettiest form
in recent rears. The silk hat, by
the way, is gaining in popularity
lithe west. It is predicted that
"they "will be more generally worn next season than ever be
fore. A noticeable departure this season is the popularity of
caps. They aremade in light colors and weights, and will to a con
siderable extent, take the plaee of straw hats this summer.
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Blakeslee, Herpolsheimer & Co.'s dressmaker, fine work,
xeasonable prices. Aceorileon plaiting in all widths.
HE GOMES TOO LATE.
&.EX. JAMES B. WEAVER has delivered two speeches in Ne
VS braska and promises to do so again if the people will lend him .
f their ears. Weaver will find wherever he goes in this state a
courteous and thoughtful class of people, men who do not throw,
eggs at those who hold opiaions at variance with their own; but he
might as well understand first as last that he is fooling away his
time. The masses haven't faith in a man who could poll but 20,000
votes, as a candidate Tor president, in a state where he has lived and
labored more than forty years. Jim Weaver's heart is in the right
place, but his head is not. He has always been a man of hobbies
and whims. Full of zeal for the good of his fellowmen, he has
dreamed all sorts of dreams and fancied all manner of fancies for es
tablishing a system of government that would measure out the bene
fits of industry equally to all. He reasons from false premises. He
seems to take it for granted that all men are born free and equal in
fact as well as in law. He traces to wrong economic conditions the
suffering and privation duo to individual heedlessness, where profli
gacy loses and prudence wins just as naturally as sliding down hill.
His own life furnishes an example of how a man with all the oppor
tunities for amassing a competency can remain poor by failing to
take care of what he has. The time for building up populist senti
ment in Nebraska has slipped away. The party is on the down
grade and all the oratory of pop's creation will not check itaxertain .
decay.
It is very improbable that a man who has inured himself to hu
man misery by officiating at divers judicial hangings could be moved
to tears by the presentation of an army of 10,000 men whose only
complaint is that they are hungry and naked and want something
to do.
It should not be construed that the decision of .the supreme court
of Colorado, sustaining the governor in his action for the removal of
Orr and Martin from office is a vindication of his bad break in call
ing out the militia. But for the restraining influence of the few
men of sense in his party, the city hall would now have been a mass
of ruins and the men who guarded it, a band of angels -with harps
instead of a gang of ex-policemen looking for work.
In the lamented campaign of 1892 the democratic orators could
not find in the dictionary words strong enough to express the
depth of their detestation for Czar Reed and his rulings as speaker
of the house. "When," as Matt Gering remarked in one of his elo
quent perorations, "liberty is pried loose from its fastenings, and
thrown prostrate upon the insensate soil when, I say, the right of a
man to be absent when he is present; when the right of a dignified
minority is spat upon by the irresponsible head of a rabble majority,
then, fellow countrymen, I say it is time to kick. The occasion has
arisen when nothing less than a change of administration goes!
And I say it deliberately, feeling a calm, self-satisfying, complacent
and comprehensive assurance that I voice the sentiments, convic
tions, hopes, aspirations and expectations of ninety per cent (voice
in the audience make it ninety-five) of ninety per cent of the edu
cated voters of this proud republic. Fellow citizens, I denounce
Thos. B. Reed as a tyrant!" applause in one corner. But the
change came and all know the result. The democrats have now
gone farther than Reed dared to go. They have outheroded Herod,
outrode Reed, if the term may be used, and the ghost will rise up in .
the next campaign to haunt every democratic speaker who has gall
enough to lift his voice in defense of the present weak and wobbly
administration. Bix.
When the hair begins to fall out or turn gray, the scalp needs doc
toring, and we know of no better specific than Hall's Vegetable
Sicilian Hair Renewer.
Take your boy down to Herpolsheimer fc Co.'s clothing and waist
sale Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They are going to sell some
good goods cheap.
The Cockier secures Mr. Bixby's contributions through special
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