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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1895)
THE COURIER 2 tt" " ENTERED AT THE LINCOLN POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MATTES. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY. OFFICE 217 North Eleventh St. TELEPHONE 90 W. MORTON 8MITH, Editor. LUTE II. MORSE, ... Business Manaoee. Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum $200 1 Three months 50c. Six months 100 Ono month 20c. Single copies Fire cents. For salo at all news stands in this city and Omaha and on all trains. A limited number of advertisements will bo inserted. Rates made known on application. Lincoln, Nebraska, March 30, 1S94. Eggs are plenty and cheap and now is the time to pack away for future use as the hens will soon begin to get tired. Here in Lincoln a few old hens have already got Broody and are expecting to hatch out a mayor. Sam Jones in a recent sermon said that as pastor and sinner he had never seen a respectable, earnest Christian man or woman on a dancing floor. Sain, as pastor and sinner, probably went to just one kind of dances. In one of his letters to Wilson, pending action on the tariff bill in the house, the president said there was danger of the idea becom ing prevalent amoi.g the people that the democratic party was incapable of carrying on the government. Grover was a prophet the idea become prevalent and its prevalency has been growing ever since. The postofllce department, in answer to petitions, has established two new postoffices, one in Franklin county, Ohio; and the other iu Schuyler county. 111., each bearing the name of Trilby. Jt has been suggested that fools will soon be clamoring to have postoflices named Dodo and Isben or Kreutzer Sonata. The Green Carnation would make a striking name. . When "the honest citizen"' realizes his privileges and responsibili ties and attends caucuses and primary elections there will then bo some hope for improvement in politics; but so long as "the honest citizen" stays away, as he quite often does, from all political meet ings and elections, and confines his protestation to a fuming indig nationafter the nominations have been made, and the candidates elected, just so long will party politics be manipulated by "practical politicans" and rogues. The women of Lincoln will give the people of this city another exhibition of their adaptability and enterprise in the edition of the Call which they will get out. Great things are expected of this women's exploit into journalism. The principal danger is that the contents will be too learned for the male portion of the CalVs read ers who can scarcely measure up to the wisdom displayed by the women in their women's clubs. If the women keep the paper down to man's level we predict that it will be a distinguished success. A portrait of the president of the United States was hissed in this city Thursday night at the Lansing theatre. Mr. Cleveland is a democrat and as such is open to objection; but hisses should be reserved for those whose offenses have exceeded Mr. Cleveland's. In fact just at the present timo tho president and his republican sec rotary of state are doing valiant and patriotic service in tho cause of Americanism, and there should have been plaudits instead of jeers for this president whose administration b today not only asserting at Madrid tho rights of this country, but is standing up for Ameri can principles at the count of St. James. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Rosewater and the puck of hounds he turned loo6e on tho state university did not prevent tho legislature from doing its duty by that institution. Evon tho pub lication of a salary list containing the names of instructors who have not been connected witk the university for more than a year a list that was otherwise full of glaring errors, did not avail. Un just restrictions as to the expenditure of the money appropriated have always been imposed by the legislature, and there is no depart ure from precedent this session; but tho amount of money placed and to bo placed at the disposal of the management of the univer sity will enable the institution to continue the progressive movement that dates from the installation of Chancellor Canfield. NOTES. Written for The Courier. Those who read tbe Sunday Journal missed the dramatic criti cisms from Miss Cather in last Sunday's paper. Many of us read her columns first and always with pleasure, though sometimes we do not agree with her, which is of little consequence. Her style is brave and sweet and full of individuality. The day will come, if tho child-heart faint not, when Miss Cather's name will hold an honored place in American literature. She iB recovering rapidly from her illness and in another week will fill her space in the paper and in the world again. -)(- The streets are now made beautiful and fragrant by the bi-daily passage through them of the florists' carts filled with the tall easter lillies. The florist shops are in town, their hot houses in tho country. So this largess is a neccessity of the trade we profit by. -)(- Madrigals for the living. Dirges for the dead. The dead have not the suffrage. Therefore more madrigals. -)(- Young poets write such melancholy verses. They are so seldom cheerful. Occasionally, they write of violets and sunshine but more often of the tomb, of famine and desolation. People read tho flower lyrics,and quote them into their local life, for a day or so at least. The tomb pieces are snubbed immediately into oblivion. It is doubtless much harder to be cheerful, sunny, simple than to be misanthropic, gloomy and metaphysical; but the former pays better. When the poet sings of "Violets in her velvet eyes' a thousand lovers' hearts respond. Their ladies eyes are five hundred different colors but each lover has seen violets there. Only he waited for the poet to name the delightful shade. William Cullen Bryant saw in this world only an immense tomb. He described the world-tomb in Thanatopsis when he was sixteen years old. His subsequent poems repeat the same theme. It iB necessary to reflect upon the shortness of life in order not to waste it. But when the mind dwells upon mortality continuously the im pressions are apt to be lugubrious rather than solemn. -)(- Therefore young poet look up ! The green grass will be growing all around soon. If it grow from dead men's bones enjoy it none the less. We will pay our debt to the millions that succeed a3 they are paying now. Why mourn for them or for ourselves? Now is the time to laugh and look and love. It is forever too late when we shall have become fertilizers. Other people will be taking our turn then. Sarah B. Harris. la iwiuiwi i