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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
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Mgr. FnnLo Opera House.
bushels of December corn at Monday's
price, or it would build and equip from
one to two miles of steam railroad. Mr.
Dorgan might go in with the European
bond syndicate and use his money to
keep up the gold reserve in the United
States treasury. He might loan his
money on chattels at something like the
prevailing rate of interest and receive
an income providing the interest is
paid of 810.000 per year- He might
buy lottery tickets or go in for a sure
thing and put in a stock of postage
stamps. Mr. Dorgan might open a dry
goods store or start a savings bank or
endow a church. 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
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