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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
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