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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1895)
VOL,. 10, NO 36. ESTABLISHED IN 18S6, PRIGE FIVE CENTS -pSr-C s I LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 1895. ENTERED IX THE POST OFFICE AT LIXCOLX AS SECOXD-CLASS MATTES. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT THE COURIER PRINTING AKD PUBLISHING GO. Office 217 North Etorenth St. Telephone 384 W. MORTON SMITH SARAH B. HARRIS WILLA CATHER Editor and Manager Associate Editor Associate Editor Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum ?2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months 50 Onemonth 20 Single copies 5 (Kcccccccccccccccp V t OBSERVATIONS Lincoln may yet rise triumphant from the doldrums and dumps of depression and assert herself in the certain and ex ultant tones of the victor. Out of the quiescense and desuetude of a half de cade, during which the state fair and other lively and useful institutions de parted from us, there may yet come a compensating spirit of achievement. It is within the range of possibility that Lincoln may, in the near future, secure two or three enterprises that will more than offset those we have lost. Should the endeavor to give the city a place in the racing ciicuit be successful and it depends solely on the business men of the town there will be secured a per manent institution worth in dollars and cents much more than the lamented state fair. The state fair was a good thing. It brought thousands of people to Lincoln and stimulated local trade in many ways. But, as we all know, the great majority of the state fair visitors brought no money into the city. They came provided with return transportation, and a basket full of cold chicken and pie. They stayed in Lincoln from 1 to 10 hours and gave us their company and the debris from their lunch baskets. They did not remain over night, and none of their money was covered into local tills. Now the class attracted to a great Morse race is of an altogether different .aort. A horse race means the expendi ture and circulation of a large sum of money. Men do not go to horse races with empty pockets and dine out of shoe boxes. They are, as a rule, men who have money and it is a pleasure for them tospenJ it Ten thousand people attracted to Lincoln by races such as it is proposed to give would be of more benefit in a financial way and this is the desideratum than fifty thousand people of the average fair visitor type. Moreover, the races would bo held two or more times each year. Lincoln is in sad need of a shaking up. These races would do the shaking, and business men who are interested in drawing outside people and outside money int the city cannot well afford to let this opportunity go by without offering some assistance. Another prospective acquisition is a big beet sugar factory. The fate of Nebraska has for years been anchored in the corn fields. I believe it will edge toward the beet sugar fields and factor ies and finally rest jointly upon corn and sugar. Ane erection or a large factory in Lincoln would give great impetus to the beet sugar industry; and energy should be put forth with a view to get ting a factory here. I am in receipt of an illuminated prospectus of the Conservatory and College of Music of the University of Denver, the institution which Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Howell and son recently took under their flapping wings. The pros pectus is illustrated. There are three illustrations. One is of Oliver B. Howell, dean. One is of Mrs. Oliver B. Howell, preceptress. The other is of Roy Chester Howell, secretary. There are other people in the conservatory; but they are evidently not of sufficient importance to rank with the Howell family, and their portraits are not given. Mr. Howell's portrait is decidedly familiar. It is the one showing the fur coat. It is in reality a picture of Mr. Howell's fur coat and white tie. with just a little of the Howell physiognomy to fill up. The dean has a sort of would-be-Paderewski expression; but some how I am reminded of Buffalo Bill by the picture. If long hair and a fur coat make a musician then Dean Howell is a musician. But with the long hair and fur coat there is much to be desired in this enterprising black smith and undeitaker, as the people who own the Denver conservatory may find out. The portrait of Mrs. Howell does not flatter that energetic lady. Roy Chester Howell is shown in all the glory of evening dress. By the way, I have learned some things from the Howellesque prospec tus. For instance, I find that "Mr. How ell's services were in constant demand throughout eastern and middle states as conductor of music festivals, in which he was remarkably successful." The information is also vouchsafed that Mr. Howell's conservatory in this city "soon outgrew tho city and locality." It is said in the prospectus that the concerts of the "famous Mendelssohn concert orchestra were the leading musical events in the state.' Passing over the somewhat remarkable early history of Mrs. Howell, I notice that the brilliant son of a brilliant father, Roy Chester Howell, "was raised in a musical atmos phere," which being interperted would no doubt be found to mean, "in the im mediate vicinity of Mr. and Mrs. How ell." The Howell catalogue is great, though I doubt if it will be appreciated in this city where we are so wofully lacking in musical culture. Marshall dishing, editor of the Wash ington Capitol, has an article in Netcn paperilom on the weekly newspaDer. Mr. Cushing's statement that there is a demand for the weekly paper "because the dailies are dull, padded out. filled with crime and ?loppy" suggests the thought that he may have an intimate acquaintance with The Courier's di urnal contemporaries in this city, the Journal, the ATeics and the Call. There is in Lincoln, as elsewhere, an "unques tioned desire of many newspaper read ers for something eleaner and more careful." There is, after all, something more interesting than the details of divorce cases, the disgusting police court recitals, and the general unclean and unreliable quasi information with which the daily newspapers are largely filled. The temptations that beset the daily newspapers are many, and if the readers of these papers are to be pitied, as indeed they are, a measure of consid eration should be accorded the pub lishers. Competition seems to force them to be sensational, and they havn't time to be accurate and painstaking. By the way, the Netcs is preparing to put forth greater effort in the immed iate future. This paper will put in typesetting machines and add to its editorial and reportorial force, and make a strong demand for increased patron age. The Neics has had eceptional success, and having firmly established itself, it will doubtless find it profitable to make these expensive improvements. Whatever its editorial policy may have been this paper has had wise business management, and it is not by any means a small achievement that II. T. West erman has to his credit in the Aero upbuilding. He has succeeded where many men have failed. The editorial policy has at times been tinctured with demagogy, and its much vaunted independance has sustained too close a resemblance to Rosewaterism to com mend it to favor. But the paper has always been snappy, and it is a fact that those who hate t moat read it regularly. Of course it is a daily newspaper and neccessarily sloppy and sensational; but there seems to be no way of getting rid of the daily newspapers, and hero's to the iYetrs! Let me add just a word of advice: Don't go on the assumption that all men are tascals; don't think there is nothing but rascality in the world. Keep up the detective instinct if you will, and do not hesitate to scourge when you are certain a scourging is deserved; but remember there is some good in men, and be a little more careful in drawing distinc tions. Be honest, or as honest as you can, in your editorial expressions. Don't imitato tho World HemM's demagogy or tho Beei's vicious policy of persecution. Prom the east oomes information of a new industry: "To her question, 'What shall I do with my husband?' a storage warehouse for husbands has bepn es tablUhed in Boston by a 'refined widow lady,' who offers to contract with wives about to depart for the seashore or the mountains, to store their husbands dur ing their absence, and return them in as good condition as when received, at the end of the season. Her establish ment has some slight resemblance, it must be confessed, to the ordinary boarding house of commerce, but the resemblance is only superficial. The great feature of her plan is constant supervision of her charges. Every care will be taken to interest and amuse them, but the strictest discipline will be maintained. No latch keys will bo allowed, an efficient corps of stalwart assistants or keepers will be employed, and, in the terse and significant lan guage of the prospectus, no 'funny business' will be allowed. There may be some difficulty in luring a husband into this asylum, but once she has got him there his wife may depart for her journey with a mind free from anxiety as to his safety." Mr. He! wig, from Ohio, has been sup plying the pulpit of the First Presby terian church. He is a minister of the old school, with a gentle, kindly voice, a sweet, strong face and a commanding figure. He uses simple language and he preaches the gospel. His words push his audience upward. He has lived his life as a guide and he leads the way by the "green pastures and the still wat ers." He knows where the morass is but he does not hold up his hands dripping with its slime to prove that it is there. Instead he leads the travelers away from it. The little children and the maidens need not fear to soil their gar ments. Mr. Pearse, the young man who recent ly contracted to exchange his $1,100 position in Beatrice for a 1,000 or $3,600 position in Omaha, is coming in for a good deal of abuse, particularly at the hands of Mr. Rosewater, and to the usual difficulties which confront a new superintendent of schools, there will be added in Mr. Pearse's case, a prejudice on the part of the public that he will M i I r ii VI W i ii 1 1 i 4 . -Jnii tW- .
