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mates thut agricultural rather than
political matters funned the burden of
tho conversation. Mr. liar wood ulvvnys
was interested in agriculture, and I can
imagine those two farmers, Morton and
Harwood, just revelling in seeds and
pictures of garden sass and those beauti
ful catalogues that Mr. Morton's depait
ment emits every now and then. I
asked Mr. Harwood "What about the
Morton presidential boom?" He replied:
"Nothing was said about tho talk of Mr.
Morton as u candidate for president;
but 1 can say that Mr. Morton is not in
any sense a candidate. Any talk that
theie may have been is not with his
sanction." Mr. Harwood, besides meet
ing Mr. Morton and President Cleve
land, saw Chancellor Canfield in Columbus.
Col. Jerusalem Gustavus Perse
verance Hildebracd in his es
teemed Herald calls tho dear
Journal bide bound and malignant.
Everybody knows that something is tho
matter with the morning piper, and
perhaps Jerusalem Gustavus Perse
verance has correctly diagnoeed the
case. And speaking of the Journal I
am reminded of something funny. Some
months ago tho chubby little protoge of
Mr. Gero who for some years past has
been editorial office boy and general
whipper-in for the Journal took um
brage at what I said about his
monumental assininity in writing that
fool testimonial for "dear Mr. Groan"
and did a little truth twisting about
The Courier and its editor for the
purpose of, as he said, "getting even."
It was about this time that Mr. Jones
for that is the name of the chubby
little man issued a formal order that
nobody must mention The Courier
in any way in the Journafs columns.
The order of the chubby little man has
been religiously obeyed. F.r a couple
of months or more there has been no
mention of this paper in the Journal.
Perhaps the chubby little man fails to
sea the funny side of all this. Perhaps
be doesn't realize the implied flattery
in his policy. The Courier rather
enjoys the distinction the chubby
little man gives it. There are many
good things, even virtue itself, that are
ignored by the Journal, and it is some
satisfaction to be in this class.
M. Pasteur who died last week was
(alas that we must write teas) one or the
greatest men of the nineteenth century.
The whole world is in his debt and the
world shuuld stop its mad rush around
the sun long enough to show its grati
tade to the great physician. He dis
covered a cure for hydrophobia and
diphtheria. Many who never heard his
name will owe their lives to him.
Children wit! have to learn his name as
they do Harvey's. He was a great man.
As all great men do he gave his life for
others. The first blow he struck for
humanity was against a worm a real
worm that was destroying the grape
vines of France. For three years the
peasants, the hard working French
peasants, had had no grapes from their
vines because of the vine worm, and
bow the vines themselves were dying.
Dr. Pasteur went to work on a poison
for the worm and he succeeded. The
worms died and the vines lived. The
next year the vinUge was the largest
Franco had evor known. Now his body
lies in a small, low ceiled room ovor a
stable where a hundred horses are kept
for inoculation with the diphtheria
serum. His bands aro clasped around
a crucitix that his wife placed there
when he was dying. All the furniture
in tho room is plain. There is nothing
to take away the attention from tho
beautiful good face of tho dead man.
1 heard the other day a most unjust
accusation, and one that ought to be
resented and refuted and denied with
scorn. 1 heard a university magnate
say that Lincoln society was snobbish
and exclusive. Now, whatever may bo
tho weaknesses of that part of Lincoln
which calls itself ''society" snobbishness
is not one of them. Its motto has long
been that whosoever would and had a
dress suit might come. Exclusive! As
though Lincoln could be anything so
cruel! There is indeed a rumor of
a Dictator who was deposed, but I have
always thought that ho grew tired of
the cares of state and vacated very
willirgly, which hurt the feelings of his
prime ministers so much that they
slaughtered him. With few exceptions
whoever smiled and said "pretty please"
was welcomed into tho ranks of the
elect. Lincoln society is not 6nobbi6h.
That charge is rank slander. It
recognizes the dignity of labor, and be
etows its brightest smile upon the
active. We all remember the golden
days when "Bobby" Richter lead the
giddy bocial caravan, ind when his per
fect bows and still more perfect trousers
were the standards whereby we Bwore,
and his elegance was a thing which
tilled the hearts of maidens with admir
ation and the breasts of youths with
burning ambition. In New York a
tailor might le an Apollo, but he would
be a tailor still. Lincoln believes in
the equality of man. The butcher, the
baker, the candlestick maker, they are
all with us and we are Droud of it.
We don't ask a man who his father is,
nor who his brother and sister are. We
discreetly refrain from asking him who
he is himself. We say like the Arab,
"He is a man, therefore he is my
brother," or with Portia, "God made
him, therefore let him pass for a man."
I notice Mr. Bixby this we k says
something about a "prince of good
fellows." I don't know who he was
talking about, but the phrase hits
"Bix" himself a little better than any
one else I know. Even by a stretch of
imagination one could not exactly call
"Bix" himself pricnely in appearance,
but he wears the purple inside all
right, and his hair is as red as the red
Rudolph of Kuritania. As a rule poets
are agreeable only at a great distance,
the further off the better. But "Bix"'
will stand close acquaintance. The fel
lows who have seen hard luck can tell
you so. If there ever was a man who
could be a good fellow in the better
sense of the term on a newspaper
salary, the red headed poet is he. He
was never known to refuse money or
gooJ cheer to a person who needed it,
and he is no blooming Vunderbilt
either. Neither is he a saint, but a
thoroughly good fellow who manages
to grind out cheerful lyrics three hun
dred "nd sixty five days out of the year,
and to say a good word for and give a
strong hand to the weakest of his
fellow mortals three hundred and sixty
six days out of tho three hundred and
sixty five.
THE UNIVERSITY ELEVEN
Charlie Thomas sends the following
concerning the state university eleven
to the Bee: Foot ball prospects at
tho University of Nebraska wero never
brighter at this season of tho y ear than
at present. Many of the eld players
have returned many new players aro on
the campus, the students are all en
thusiastic, and what is better than all,
the boys aro to have the active co-opo'-ation
of the faculty this fall. The new
chancellor is heartily in favor of the
game and in conversation with him yes
terday, he said: "We think it bene
ficial to tho interests of the school to
have a good foot ball team in the field
and will give it whatev.r encourage
ment is within our power. When you
take short trips I will excuse the boys
from recitations which they misB in
consequence thereof, and they will not
have to make up the time lost as in
former years, but simply bo responsible
to each professor for the work under
him, and if the work is kept up to a
good standard everything will be satis
factory." Although the chancellor has
probably been the busiest man in Ne
braska for the past three weeks, ho has
taken time to study and inquire into
the rules and amendments as adopted
by the different colleges and univer
sities so SB to give his opinion in pur
suance of a request from the east. The
old men who have returned and who
bavo appeared on the campus aro
Whippie, Shue, Hayward, Fair and
Jones. The old men who are at present
in college, but do not expect to play,
are Oury, Spooner, Packard and Pace
while tho promising new men aro Shcda
of Ashland, Jones and Cameron of the
second eleven last year. King, who was
formerly captain of tho Grfnnell college
team, and several others. The weather
is pretty warm to work very bard, so
that the time is put in in punting, fall
ing on the ball, passing, etc. Tho team
has completed arrangements to go to
Butto in the middle of October, which
is an extra inducement to the boys to
work hard, as all know what an enjoy
able trip it is. The management has
wisely furnished a complete new outfit
of suits, heavily padded, to do away as
far as possible with auy chance of
injury to the boys, which is more apt to
occur at the beginning of the season
when the pNyers are soft. To show
how the popularity of tho game is
increasing I will relate to you a little
incident which occured on the campus
yesterday. A well-to-do gentleman was
hero to place his sou, a strong, healthy
boy, in college. One of the students
was helping him to arrange his work
When it came to the matter of exercise
the student said: "I suppose you want
to take up the military drill for exer
cise?" "No," replied tho father, "I
want him to take up foot ball."
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