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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1895)
m-jm ""i"" ii "a. i ' J-' y 4 W!MWU---uf ..-1..,,'r THE COURIER. I Highest of all in LcaTening Power- Latest U. S. Gov't Report Rol. Baking Powder AB6QEVTEMX PCJBE Several chapters of the unwritten history are open for Inspection in the cheap eating house around town. Eating ib not a romantic occupation, but it is rather necessary, even to the roost romantic people. It is amusing to watch the fellows who were in a box party last night crawl upon those high stools and meekly orders a sausage and a doughnut for breakfast, while the man who sal in his shirt sleeves in the gallery ordered a whole boiled dinner to begin the day on. One morning I saw a young swell who does the elegant on no visible resources sit staring sadly at his sand wich and coffee while he chewed the stem of a sunset rose he had worn to a party the night before. I suppose he was meditating upon the vanities of life and about how in the evening man cometh up as a flower and in the mor ning he is cut down to reversed cuffs and sandwiches. Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? I met Professor Neil Johnson, the new superintendent of the Institution for the Blind on Monday. When questioned about the report circulated by the Journal and Bee that he had made a clean sweep on going into the institu tion and turned away all the old in et'uctore and assistants he said, "As yet I have not dismissed one person from the institution. But on the first day that I took charge, seven persons, five instructors and two menials, withdrew without any explanation or without offering to Btay until their places wtre filled. Ihe only one among those who had a sufficient sense of her obligation to the institution to offer to remain until other help was secured and her place well filled was a chamber maid. The others withdrew without warning or explanation." When I heard the ladies of the Woman's Federation of Clubs talking and I muBt say talking, eloquently and well, about the influence of wives and mothers, I could not help thinkirg how funny it would be to hear a lot of men talking about the inflcence of hus bands and fathers. And jet after all husbands and fathers are rather nee ceesary articles. It would be hard to run society without them. When 1 see the terrible strain of labor that goes on in the world, when I see men of cheerful, pleasure loving instincts quietly con sign themselves to a business life that is toilsome, har rasing aud exhausting, all to keep up their establishments and give their family what the world ca'ls a good living, then I think that in a quiet sort of way they sacrifice about as much as women. They don't talk about it or write books upon a father's influence nor any such stuff. They just grind awayat the tread mill day in and day out and keep a stiff upper lip and a brave face and never even afford themselves the luxury of being sentimental over it. They are so cheerful and manly about it that our fathers grow to be broken old men before we realize that we have imply taken their lives and possibilities and used them to feed our own. It's terrible, anyway, the sacrifice that every generation makes that the ant nay live aad work. But in the leaguna I asa iacliaed to think that Iks men, the poor, simple, practical awe, who don't assemble in each others homes and read Browning and The Holy Roman Empire, men despised of woman's, clubs do their part. A mother's influence would not amount to much without a father's energy, and if the mamma furnishes the sentiment and moralizing the papa puts up the bicycles and the hard cash and that counts in this world, even with cherubs. Forty widowers of Fairburry who say they will not marry again and eighty bachelors who swear they will never marry! Fairbury is a small place too. One hundred and twenty men eo homely and bad and Bhiftless that they can find no one who will marry them. If I had not seen it in the press I should not have believed it. It is harder to make people believe in excellence if discovered at home than in that reported from a distance. Why is it so impossible, absurd, for gold-bearing soil to have been found in Milford? Because our vacation feet have walked its golden street? That is no reason; the near may be as precious as the far though men may never believe it. Paris and a large portion of France have been without rain for eight weeks. There has scarcely been a cloudy day in that time. Is has been hotter and drier than it has been for COO years. In Paris the leaves on the trees scorched, the grass died, and the city became a a smoking furnace. The heat was greater than it was in North Africa, along the desert of Sahara. In the country the rivers are drying up and water is scarce. Great injury has been done the vineyards in the provinces. Aud yet in it all and through it all I have not yet noticed condemnations of Paris and France by Parisians and Frenchmen. There has been no moving away. The drouth and hot weather were probably infinitely worse than anything we have experienced in Ne braska. In France the people regret, but go on persistently. In Nebraska they abuse this state and, many of them, pull up and go away. A little old country persistence aud patience would be a good thing in Nebraska. There have been more failures in Omaha. Another large dry goods houee follows Morse. Thest business troubles are unfortunate, and Lincoln ran sympathise with Omaha. A fellow feeling, etc Perhaps Omaha will re ceive kindly the suggestion that now that Morse and Falconer are gone, the people of the metropolis would do well to come to Lincoln to do their shopping. This is no jest. The biggest and best dry goods stoies in Nebraska are in Lincoln and the people of Omaha will find here an assortment of goods that will dazzle their eyes. I have no doubt but that Herpolsheim er & Co., Sharp, Miller & Paine, Nisei ey & Co., and the rest will offer inducements to Omaha purchasers. The latter could save much more than their railroad fare, have the advantage of selecting from a stock such as they have never seen in Omaha, and have a good time seeing the city. The Journal refers to The Courier when it must speak of it, (it never speaks to it), as "The Press." This is extremely gratifying to The Courier. "The Press" means all other newspapers. We would not have dared awume that com prehensive title ourselves, but as long as it has been bestowed upon us by so sin cere and admiring a contemporary as the P. O. J. we can only accept it and be thankful, m There was a rather interesting discus sion of the recent gold discoveries in the vicinity of Lincoln in last Sunday's Journal. Of course it was not written by anybody connected with the Jour nal. It was an expression by "a Color ado mining man." The article quoted Solomon as saying: "Silver ie found in veins and g.ld is where you find it " The quotation came- in aptly enough; but it was incorrect. Solomon never said what the "Colorado mining man" said he said. In Job there is something like it. But it is not by any means cer tain that Solomon co-laborated in the writing of Job. Asa matter of fact Sol omon and the writing of Job were not contemporaneous. The quotation is: "Surely there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. Fining and finding are two different things. Since the Woman's Federation meel ing Mr. Bixby has assumed an entirely different tone in speaking of woman's clubs. Ihe women were here in such numbers, they are so intelligent, gentle and womanly; more than all they con trol such a large number of subscrip tions, that orders went out from the Journal counting room that no more funny verses on club women must ap lar on the editorial page. So when Mr. Bixby must express bis real scorn of the woman who wants to know he puts it in another column and signs it "Cy clops" and uses an entirely different metre. But clubs and other educational institutions have made women hard to fool and they know the wolf through his lamb-skin covering. It is interesting to read in the Journal about Professor Jenks' endowed news paper scheme. What does the Journal know of the "fugitive and cloistered virtue" of independence or the state of not being bought? It has a literary acquaintance with sincerity and a sneering knowledge of reform. It has no experience of actions influenced by a sincere desire to change badness into goodness. The comic is made up of star tling contrast. What could be funnier than the Journal as an endowed news paper and the Journal of to-day? Lee Richards, "Premier bicyclist of the world,' and by the way, why "Pre mier?' is a neat looking little fellow with an intelligent face and a rather military air. He can do the bicycle act, there is no doubt of that, he is one with his bicycle and he controls it as a man controls his own body. People who know him say he is a clever fellow to talk and on the whole very much of a gentleman. S IM-.0 ISt&w JViem H THE NEW MAN mmmmTLmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ammmmmmV HAS GOOD HORSE SENSE The new man has quit buying shoddy; pure wool, fresh from the sheep, woven by the beat looms of England and America is within his reach. We are showing a magnificent line of men's fine wool suits in black ami colors at $10.00 a small price but the suits will surprise you. Fit and workmanship remarkably good. With about 500 men's and boy's suits we will give reliable time keeping watches. This splendid offer is only good until Nov. 1 I until isov. l it TMSHlJe 104108NIOth st g S6 99 fill FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. Absolutely guaranteed by P. S. Johnson & Co. 8. M. MILLS 229 S. Ninth Sreet. Manager. LINCOLN .A. I I? I m i C5S33K2E38S.?'