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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1895)
THE COURIER. Highest of all in Leavening Power- Latest U.S. Gov't Report Drft&tl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE but little better than suspected crim inula when under examination, and the certainty that, if finally accepted after a microscopic examination of their record by detectives, they will have to endure the inconveniencies incident to a long trial, naturally increases their aversion to the task. Another important reason for the disinclinaion to serve is that arbitrary und unjust rule govering ex emptions. So many large classes of the community have, in one way or another, secured exemption that the remainder protest against the discrimination. Why should all lawyers, physicians, editors, clergymen, and other cultivated and re sponsible classea be relieved from jury duty? The pretexts and excuses are many, but few will bear looking into. Individuals might be exempted for special reasons properly shown to the court, but to exempt whole classes is unjust and wholly unnecessary." CYCLING ENDORSED. "Do I believe in bicycling for women?'' I believe in anything for a woman that a women can do or be without losing her own self-respect; and how a bicycle can eradicate that sentiment I am not able to understand. I can understand that some women may not want to ride bicycles Some men do not. Some women do not want to climb mountains or cross the ocean or get married, but a woman may do any one of these and be a woman still. When I was a child I climbed trees and played ball and did a great many other things that the boys did, and never wished that I was a boy. As I grew older I found there was a good deal of work and play allowed to the boys that I, because I was a girl, was not supposed to undertake. And yet I did not wish to be a boy. Still older I could not do many things I would liked to have done because I was a woman; and seeing that med, some men, did ever so many things I did not want to do, I ptill did not wish to be a man. Older now, I do what I like, it I can, and am still glad I am a woman. Nor shall the bicycle have power to take from me this satisfaction. That the expectation of many that bicycles will be cheaper next year is without foundation will be readily recognized when an investigation is made. The reported assertion of the Studebacker Wagon Co., that they will place upon the market in '96 a high grade wheel for 825.00 is the veriest of bosh. If for no other reason, the rise in prices on drawn steel and the in evitable advance in rubber will in no small degree tend to hold prices where they are. But more than all this will be the effect of the unprecedented de mand for the wheel. Whoever heard of an article decreasing in value so long as HOOFS AND HORNS, Among the reforms proposed are: the atwlition of the requirement of unani mity in jury verdicts and the substitu tion of a majority verdict; the doing away of the examination of talesmen as to their "opinions"' about the case; the abatement of the exemption abuse; and the improvement of the methods of selecting and drawing names for the jury lists. The jury system as practiced in Nebraska is susceptible of vast improvement. If the drouth in Nebraska had its full crop of lugubrious writers, the rainy season has more than its share of would bo cheerful poets anJ singers. The rhyming dictionary is brought out and every word that can be made to rhyme with "rain"' is utilized. Ever body that has ever strung together rhymes, now pours out a song about good crops, plentiful rains and so on ad infinitum. Perhaps these poets ar.d singers are helping things, there is no telling. It may be that the very sky is weeping at the efforts put forth by the writers to 6ing the praises of Nebraska. The rains are welcome, if they do not come too often, but the songs, well, one thing is certain they will soon be a thing of the past. Speaking of the drouth reminds me of what I overheard a man from Holt county say the other day. He was talk ing to a man at the dinner table and he said: "We got along out in Holt county better last year than any other year since I have been there. The relief bureau furnished us with plenty to eat and good clothes and the state gave us seed for this year's crop. I tell you that we have had a snap." The South Omaha Press club has got well organized and is located in fine rooms on the main street of the city. Brussels carpet, fine pictures and high art cuspidors make the rooms look home like and comfortable. The business men of the city are taking quite an interest in the club and a large number have joined the club as honorary mem bers. Bloomers have not as yet appeared on the streets of South Omaha to any great extent. One or two young ladies from Omaha ventured through the city but they were so completely stared at that they were not as comfortable as they looked. Speaking of bloomers makes me think that perhaps when the enormous sleeves go out of style that they may be utilized for bloomers. In this way a great saving of cloth may be accomplished. About the only thing done at the university this year that thp Omaha people know anything about, is the fam ous night-shirt parade that took place at the end of the semester. The average Omahan could understand that, but classics and "eich" oh dear no! The ratio of 16 to 1 holds good in South Omaha, 16 saloons to 1 church. William Reed Dcnroy. A DAY WILL, COME A day will come to you and me Whose evening we shall never sec. The sun will p-uso mid-way tho skies And lose, it glory to our eyes. The task half finished we shall leave. The unknown guerdon to receive. The shuttle with its thread of cold Will fall from out our lifeless hold. Perchance we'll carry in our hands The threads to other, fairer lands. And weave a pittern grander jet Where suns shall never rise or set. Is uif.l, Riciiet. THE CYCLE CONTEST. the demand was so great as to utterly swamp present manufacturers with orders which they cannot till and in which factories are started with orders enough on hand to cover the first year's output? And this is the exact condition of the cycle traJe. A VEIL BEFORE THE FUTURE LIES A veil before tho future lies Its mjsteries I cannot know 1 have no prophet who can show Its secrets to my Ioukhik ejes. But all the past is mine, no one Can take its sweetness from my heart, I hold it of m self a part A priceless heritage all, my own. More precious than tho richest gold The memory of tho days cone by. And every day, a miser I Count o'er the preciou- days of old. The past is mine, tho futun gives Hut promises that may not bo Fnllfilled, but 'tis enough for me To find today the past still lives. William ReeoDcxeov STRICTLY BUSINESS. "George," said thb beautiful girl, as she nestled close to him, "the last time you called you proposed," she went on in a more businesslike way, "I havo some thing of the business instinct of the new woman in me, and and I shall have to ask you to repeat the propose! again to night The last time you called it was Sunday, and contracts made on that day, I learn, are not legaly binding." ... .... - i "Shogo" Hour makes good bread. When the ice man comes be sure the LINCOLN ICE CO'S name is on the wagon. 1040 O street. They have no pond ice. Following this article will be found tA-o coupons with which the voting will be carried on. No one in any way con nected with The Courier will bo al lowed to become a contestant. Remember, this is not merely a voting contest, but a contest in which tho con testant must prove his or her popularity by the number of bona fide paid sub scriptions ho or she can succeed in plac ing on the books of TheI'ourier by 6 p. m. Sept. 14th, 1893. Also remember that each contestant must be a member of some bicycle organization in this city. LADY'S COUPON. Courier Cycle Con.;. Prize Syracuse 95 Lady's Wheel. The Cockier Box 1506. Enclosed find Dollars and cents, for which send The Courier to No Street For months And credit votes toM as the most popular lady cyclist in the city. MEN'S COUPON. Courier C;yole Contesti Prize Victor -95 Gent's Wheel. The Courier Box 1506. Enclosed find Dollars and cents, for which send The Courier to No street For months and credit votes to Mr as the most popular gentleman cyclist in the city. F. S. Johuson's XXX family Hour makes good pastry. ;ooooooo Sisle:rs lee Cream. has for years been noted .r iU purity and smoothness. WEDDINGS ICES, SHERBETS AND AND CREAMS ENTERTAINMENTS AT SHORT NOTICE. A Specialty. PICNICS SUPPLIED. 138 So. Tvelftli Phone GSO. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ( 300CO' Browning King & Co. LEADING CLOTHIERS MEN'S AND BOY'S FURNISHERS. "THE LATEST' IS OTJR MOTTO. THE MiiftGE S 0RS. IS SJBIEIVGx 20 lbs Brown sugar 8 100 20 lbs best granulated sugar. ... 1 00 4 cans finest blackberries 25 3 cans rasberries 25 4 cans Seward sugar corn. 4 cans Baltimore tomatoes. 1 can fine peeled peaches... 3 cans best apples 1 gallon best apples 8 loaves best bread 3 loaves best bread . 23 10 25 25 25 10 COOPER'S ICE WAGONS are the only ice wagons haudling GENUINE BLUE RIVER ICE. Telephones 5S3 and 5S4. THE FLOUR SALE STILL CONTINUES. One Sack Bakery Patent 8 80 One Sack Straight Patent 1 00 One Sack Cream Patent I 10 SAME GRADE AND QUALITY AS VICTOR Tvrsr it. J. W. HARTLEY, with j. w. mussetter.