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of removal interferes materially with the efficiency of the teachers'
work. School matters in every department are demoralized for at
least two months. The clash between the incoming members and
the old board, which inevitably comes,only emphasizes this demoral
ization. This year there has been, if anything, more uneasiness on
account of the election of new members of the board, and many of
the teachers will be very much disturbed untill the new board is
finally installed and matters have settled down once more.
It seems that there could easily be am improvement in the present
system of employing teachers. There is no real necessity for having
to go through the formality of hireing every teacher in the city over
again once a year, and thus putting the teachers to a severe nervous
strain. Why would it not be practicable for the board of education
to hire teachers, no, for one year, but until removal for cause? No
teacher in fear of momentary dismissal can do good work and the
demoralization under the present system comes at a very critical
time in the spring, when examinations are held. It is believed that
if teachers were hired on this proposed plan and the board would
make careful investigations and keep itself apprized of the work
being done in the different schools and order removals from time to
time and only for cause, that the general efficiency of the educa
tional work being done in Lincoln would be materially improved.
Major J. D. Calhoun, over the familiar signature, Peter Doubt
Young, had a very interesting article "On to the Southland," the
first of a series we hope, in last Sunday's Journal. Calhoun is one
of the daintiest writers Nebraska has known, and his friends in this
state will bo much pleased to hear from the "exile' frequently.
That there is a vast amount of difference between tweedle dee and.
tweedle dum has been demonstrated many times. A few weeks ago
Adam McMulIen, a student in the University of Nebraska, was
charged with having attempted to procure an oration, which he was
to have delivered as his own. There was an immense hullaballo.
Mr. McMullen's case was allowed to go before a mob meeting of
students and he was publicly branded as a scoundrel, and his char
acter was further smirched by a resolution adopted by the faculty
of the institution. Apparently there was no punishmnet too severe
for Mr. McMulIen. The other day another student of the university
offended. He opened a letter addressed to a fellow student and ex
tracted a draft for 825, presented it to the First National bank and
received the money. This man stole 825. McMuilen was charged
with having attempted to do a dishonorable thing. McMulIen was
disgraced. The man who stole the draft escapes scot free. Despite
the fact that the case was promptly brought to the attention
of the university authorities, there was no attempt made
to discover the guilty person; in fact the offence seems to have been
regarded in a particularly light manner. The bank officials were
told that thefts of this kind were a matter of ordinary occurence in
large institutions, and it would be impossible to discover the culprit.
The additional excuse was made that students have frequently been
notified to have no mail left at the university, and that the institu
tios has repeatedly disclaimed any responsibility for mail matter sent
to the building.
It would seem to an unprejudiced observer that the man who
secured the 825 intended for another student committed a far
greater offense than that with which McMulIen was publicly charg
ed, and that the university should have made some attempt to in
vestigate the matter and punish the thief. If matters of this kind
are common occurences at the State University it is time that steps
'were taken to prevent the same. A good deal has been heard in the
last year or two about the discipline at this institution. The draft
.case, it would seem, and by the way. there are two of these cases of
recent occurence, furnishes excellent opportunity for that much
wanted dicipline to assert itself, but it is altogether probable that
nothing will be done. Adam McMulIen has been publicly branded
and the rightous indignation of the university authorities seems to
be entirely satisfied.
There are Bome men who are not suffering from hard times. The
removal of Rev. Mr. Patterson, pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in Omaha to Detroit, called thither by a more flattering
offer, serves to empathize the fact that the lines of many ministers
fall in pleasant placee. Mr. Patterson came to Omaha a year ago,
succeeding Dr. Harsha. H was given a Balary of 85000; and we be
lieve a parsonage, office rooms in tho New York Life building, and
the services of a stenographer, in return for which he was to preach
two sermons a week, attend one prayer meeting and make the usual
social "calls upon the members of his congregation. But this
apparently, was not rich enough for Mr. Patterson. He probably
wanted a larger salary, a handsomer parsonage, a larger office and
two or three stenographers; so he serves formal notice upon the con
gregation, quits Omaha, and goes to Detroit. Not many men these
times throw up 85000 jobs with attractive side inducements, but
ministers of city churches have got used to soft snaps. One of the
alleged reasons why Mr. Patterson left Omaha was that the trustees
would not agree to build a new church. It is asserted by those who
are in a position to know that the present structure is entirely
edequate to meet all the demands made upon it through the
eloquence of the retiring pastor.
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A HINT TO THE BASSO.
The lot of the singer in a church choir in Brooklyn, when he con
sents to take up his abode in a boarding house, is not always one of
peace, especially when he is detected in mispronouncing a word in
his rendering of a set piece. Mr. Henry Brown, of the Holy Trinity
church on the Heights, learned this recently, when he found on his
breakfast plate a few days ago a card with this legend on:
There was a young fellow named Brown,
Who was the best basso in town;
But he would say Apos-tle,
The mistake was colos-tle;
This remarkable singer named Brcwn.
Mr. Brown now sings Apostle with the correct pronunciation
Apossle.
AN EXALTED GALLING.
"Your business is that of a disreputable cheat," remonstrated tho
forger.
"Maybe it is," replied the professional check raiser, "but no one
can deny that it is an elevating occupation."
NOT SO BAD.
Hicks By the way, you remember Jennie Draddles? Well, she
has been traveling about the country under an assumed name, and
with a married man, too.
Wicks The deuce! You don't mean it? Who was the man?
Hicks The man? Oh, yes! He is her husoand. Itwashisname
she assumed before starting out.
Bad management.
"And you are giving up your plans for going on the stage?"
"Yes," she replied with a sob.
"It's too bad. The drama was the ambition of your life."
"It was. But I am obliged to relinquish it."
"What is the trouble?'
"The evidence in my divorce suit didn't appeal to the popular
taste."
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