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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1895)
VOL.. 10, NO 37. ESTABLISHED IN 1SS6, s SOTclAJL PRK5E FIVE CE.VTX. J ' rSurpc r c LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 1S95. ENTEKED IX THE TOST OFFICE AT LftCOLX AS SECOVD-CL VSS M VTTER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY u THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO. O0!co217 North Eleventh St. Telephone 384 W. MORTON SMITH Editor and ManaKer SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor WIIiLA CATHER Associate Editor Subscription Bates In Advance. Per annum 82.00 Six months LOO Three months ; 50 One month 20 Single copies 5 9 uuoLUTniiwiio OBSERVATIONS Bill Dorgan always was a rather interesting person. Just now he is unusually interesting. He has 833,000 in ready money or its equivalent. I understand Mr. Dorgan is unable to make up his mind as to what to do with the 833,000. Within the past ten days dirers persons hare offered to minimize Mr. Dorgan's embarrassment by sug gesting that he transfer to them various amounts of money in exchange for highly decorative I. O. IFs. At Mr. Dorgan's elbow there has frequently been a cheerful Mulberry Sellers to point out the way to fabulous wealth by the investment of a few thousands. Still the 833,000 and Mr. Dorgan have remained in close communion; albeit the erstwhile placid contentment pictured on the glowing Dorgan countenance has been displaced by a worried look. The problem is becoming almost too much for the possessor of the 833,000. In the first jlace 833,000 in cash, all in one lump, is a good deal of money these times. No wonder its possession is a Bource of annoyance and anxiety, 'tho a great many people would like to be similarly annoyed and anxious. Then Mr. Dorgan iB probably not unmindful of the fact that there isn't any more money, for him at least, where that came from, and that is a good reason for care in its disposition. The wisest economy is not in not spending money, but in spending it well, and Mr. Dorgan will doubtless be wisely economical. Young Mr. Wanamaker recently gave a dinner party in Paris that coat 120,000. That was what might be called high living. Mr. Dorgan might be as ex travagant as Wanamaker and give a 820,000 dinner, and yet be economical enough to save eullicient money to buy himself a breakfast. A 820,000 dinner in Lincoln would be somewhat of a novelty and would give Mr Dorgan great distinction. But there are oilier ways of disposing of the S.'tf.OOO A quick and effective way of getting rid of the whole amount would be the starting of a newspaper There would be glory and perquisites in this while the money was a-spending. Perhaps I could find one or two openings for Mr. Dorgan in this line. The sum of money in Mr. Dorgan's possession would buy GGO.OOO drinks of beer, or more than 219,780 drinks of fifteen cent whiskey. It would buy and wholly pay for 1PG.2U0 lie have frequently been a subject of dipcut-sion in the newspapeis and else where. Joe Jefferson criticised the theatre-goers of Omaha, on the occasion of Ins last appearance in that city, fur their lack of appreciation. He said they laughed when they ought to have cried and cried when they ought to have laughed. Last winter the musical critic of the World-Herald, Mr. Kelly, berated the people of the city wherein is tho "pride or two continents" for their be havior at musical entertainments. He said they were rude. They were loudly and inartistically demonstrative when they should have been silently apprecia tive, and they demanded encores with a selfish disregard for the performer's feelings or condition. And now they sFC "..-" -h flBHssVaajsjpjflSajsw'" p"crarjBBBBBBBBBM sBVBBBBBBBa5SiBwo- sv5: BVBBBBBBBVdfcsBVBBBBBBBB)ftBfBy'w. 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He might do what ho probably will do, wait for something to turn up. The manners ot Omaha people in pub- are catching it again from their own newspapers. "The Masqueraders," the play with which the Creighton theatre was opened, contained, as indicated in last week's CocRiER,some highly dramat ic and affectirg incidents times when tears should have coursed down the Omaha cheek, and handkerchiefs should have fluttered. Instead a considerable portion of the audience set up a loud and unseemly guffaw, thereby causing Henry Miller to say things through his teeth, and Miss Viola Allen to remark in dulcet tones "ditto." Thb Bee says the Omaha people disgraced themselves. There isn't any doubt of it. There is something radically wrong with the Omaha people. They are either unduly influenced by Council Bluffsor too much bound up in packing house etiquette which M. Blouet would describe as outre. Somebody ought to take them in hand. Clement Chuse might under take the job. It might pay to open a school of manners where people of both sexes would bo taught "How to Con duct Theimalvos in Public." Thon again the managers of the theatres might arrange a series of changeable signs before the audience, such as: "Laugh Hero," "This Is the Placo to Cry," "Applaud Softly," 'Give Three Cheers and a Tiger for the Hero," "Hiss the Villain," "Call out the Leading Lady," "Now Go Home Quietly." Here in Lincoln they Jo not always laugh when they ought to cry, but whenever there is a particularly attest ing passage somebody invariably lets a Beat drop, and the anxiety of the peoplo to get homo to the babies I can't imagine what else it is causes them to make a break for tho door ten minntes before the curtain falls. Very few Lincoln people over heard the last five hundred words of a play, or saw tho curtain drop on the last act. As Patrick O'Shaughnessy would say, the theatrical companies might just as well omit the last ten minutes, The News, as might have been expected, takes exception to my 're marks concerning its editorial policy, but admits that the criticism that it "has at all times been tinctured with demagogy and its much vaunted inde pendance has sustained too close a re semblance to Bosewaterism to commend it to favor," is "doubtless well meant and is evidently honest." The News says "We have yet to learn exactly what is meant by the term Bosewaterism,'' and continues, "We have carved oat a policy entirely independent of the Omaha editor, and the only approach to a resemblance between the two has been their absolute independence of the political dictations of the railroad and machine politicians. Possibly in retaliating the Neics may have done injustice to Borne men, but while that is to be deplored we do not think that we have done more of this than has been done to us. The News is per fectly aware that there are many hon est men in public life, and it does not believe all men are rascals. It harshly criticised gome bodies where distinctions ought doubtless to have been made, but so closely are men in bodies like the council bound by hidden ties of party, relationship, business, self-interest, that is impossible to make these distinctions at times, although we venture to say the public has been fairly well enlight ened on which of its public officers it can place dependence when public and private interests clash. Meanwhile we would be obliged if our contemporary would kindly define what it means by Bosewaterism, and where the News is tinctured with it." TheA'etrin this instance is ingen uous and courteous; and if I am able, in answer to its inquiries, to satisfactorily c Is li.i Pl