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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1895)
Eif?rVEil rev. 5JJ - , J3V' - "- " " ' "Vfc T"-".Mi-4 " - " fiiwr - 7 . ' ;?v ;iiP' & . v ?- Br : 7t k LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1895. ENTERED IX THE POST OFFICE AT LINCOLN AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO. Office 217 North Elerenth St. Jelephorve 384 W. MORTON SMITH SARAH B. HARRIS WILLA CATHER 1 I don't doubt that it isathfngof beau ty, this golden tiara with the real dia monds anc the real pearls, which is, to be the reward of the beautiful and the meed of the fair, but I should hate to be in the sandals of that daring youth who is going to bestow it. Not even a throne would tempt me. It recalls the story of another golden trinket which was thrown at a fete and it, too, was "for the most beautiful." Now that was claimed by only three women, yet it cost the donor his lif. and his broth ere', lives, there were some fifty of them I believe, and various other of his rela tives, and caused his city to be burned with tire. This gilden ornament is claimed by thirty women, and what the result will be, heaven alone knows. If the rage of nine and twenty disap pointed women cannot seal one youth's doom and "burn the topless towers of Omaha" I don't know what can. If that youth wre wise, on the night of that carnival he would betake himself to his Tyrian galley or his trap or his bicycle or any other mole of locomo tion that was handy and put spao ba tween him and the court ball with its Mr. Flint's audacious insolence in using his audiem-e to amuso his audience. When the great rck is placed on Miss. Flint's delicate body and the sledge is raised to strike, a thrill passes like that when the black cap is drawn owr the murderer'n face. If bull and prize fights are suppressed then the Flints' show should be. Public hangings and bull fights are made illegal, not through con sideration for the murderer or the bull but b):uii s utTering. made a show of. deadens sensibilities which it has been the effort of the age to cultivate. I be lieve the breaking of the rock does not the people; but all tho noiso that ema nates from tho steaming gubernatorial office fails to impress a cold public with bifl sincerity. There is a widely pre valent feeling that a properly restrained enthusiasm coupled with a simple hon est desire to enforce the law would accomplish more than tho spectacular flourish that has thus far been Gov ernor Holcomb's rulo'of conduct. The governor is doing jooman's service in contributing to the burden of opprob rium resting on the populist paity. It was a mistake for tho populists to ever permit any of their candidates to be elected to otnee. Editor and Manager Associate Editor Associate Editor Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum 82.00 Six months 1.00 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 5 )oooo309ooooo o ooooooo: OBSERVATIONS. oo Omaha isgrowingrecklessand intends to blow herself. The society people of that town are already girding them selves for their carnival at which the chosen beauties of the stato are to sit for several hours in an opera box be neath the critical gaze of the Omaha populace and under a heavy fire of opera glasses, until the king selects the fairest and claims her for his own. On this occasion His Royal Highness will present the favored maiden with a tiara and conduct her to her throne. The Omaha people lay grea' stress upon the fact that this tiara is to be of "real gold,set with a ruby and an emerald and a topaz, surmounted by a star of real pearls in the center of which sparkles a real diamond, and that the lady who re ceives it will be allowed to keep it." Alas, what bootless extravagance! I am worried about Omaha. I fear that as a result o'f this mad fete many of those mighty pacKing houses which are Omaha's pride and joy will bow their lofty heads in the dust before the month is over. tix .SB - ' ftl' UuViuAlkWiB BB dfiKl jr v , -. " t i -a 1 . pfflgwQvwRri mBBStm HjB Vi.: HiB iRB iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiB i.BlBF9!-' 1 B .ifiiH A thirty palpitating beauties, that tho lasting wrath of nine and twenty cruel Junos may not be visited upon himself and his descendents. It is a question if a performance such as the Flints give is not wholly brutaliz ing. The hypnotist amuses hi3 au.li ence by making fools of a part of it. His dupes do and say comic things. The things are funny enough to dull the all-the-time present consciousness of hurt Miss. Flint. But why is it done then? It is dangerous to expend sym pathy for the Bake or amusement. We are not jet far enough away from the brute to be carelessly extravagant with our emotions, lhe law should protect the populace from the robbery of its finest instincts the gift of the ages. Governor Holcomb has much success ic remaining the center of turmoil. The governor is somewhat bjstencal in his pretended anxiety for the welfare of Governor Hol comb in his various public utterances anent the peniten tiary matter, has re peatedly taken the position that tho Contract system, is expensive to the state. He claims that the state could much bettor afford to take caro of tho convicts than to pay a con tractor. It may bo interesting in this connection to refer to Governor Gar ber's message to the legislature of 1879. At this time the state authori ties were consider ing the matter of entering into a con tract with W. II. B Stout for the main tenance of convicts. The governor, in discussing the pro posed prison con tract said there were 123 prisoners in the pn Nbv embsr 30, 1878. The average cost to the state was 31.25 per day for each convict. The contract sjs tem is open to many objections. The principle i3 wrong But in this state, in recent j ears, the convicts have had good care under it, and while the contractor has doubtless made a good deal of money the cost to the state has been small, 10 cents per day for each convict as against 1.25 per aay in 1878 when there was no con tract. There is no reason why the state cannot run the penitentiary as econom ically as a contractor, but the state does not always do the best it can do. Under the contract with Mr. Beemer by which all profits in excess of 33.000 are turned over to the state, the state will really run