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who till the soil intelligently and per
sistently will find therein a mine that
will never lose its "pay dirt,"aminethat
in the end will out-valu any bonanza
gold mine ever discovered.
The receipts of the C, B. & Q. road in
Missouri have increased five thousand
dollars a day for the last two weeks. All
crops in that state have never been so
large. Fruits, grains, vegetables are be
ing' transported into other states and
the railroad man is ready to shout
"Long live Missouri."
The Chicago Institute of Fine Arts
sends out a prospectus of the year's ex
hibitions. The most interesting one
will probably occur in February. It
will contain a collection of pictures
made by Anders L. Zorn of the works
of living Swedish artistB. The names of
the artists represented include all or
nearly all of the numrs signed on the
moat excellent pictures at the World's
Fair!
Is the use of I an egotism? Formerly
all editors said we; many writers of the
present day use one or you. It is neces
sary id writing editorials or observa
tions to express one's own opinions or at
least to make the opinions sound gen
uine and sincere. Thn point of view is
that of only one person from one pair of
eyes, and for that very reason is likely
to bo prejudiced. Therefore it should
not be laid on to the shoulders of the
public by the use of you, nor Include
more than one writer on the paper by
the use of we. Nor should the" opinion
of one meek human being be thrown
into the form of an 'absolute assertion
as this is so when it is only I think eo
The Germans' use man, the French on.
Unfortunately the English has no equiv.
alent this side of apparent egotism.
I bear that some one is pained at some
things I have said. I am sorry. There
is pain enough in this world, my friend,
without reading the newspapers for it.
You must be greedy of paid it you re
sort to such methods to get it. Just re
member that a newspaper has to say
soBwthing, and it what it says is not ab
solutely offensive and you are not abso
lutely sure it was meant for you, why be
generous and give if the benefit of the
doubt. But the worst part of an offense
of that kind is that one can never prove
it false. If any one chooses to miscon
strue a paragraph, the writer of the par
agraph is defenseless. He k at the
mercy of the public and they can paint
him as black as they please. He is for
ever doomed. Things done in print
stay by one. They have a happy faculty
that way. Printer's ink is a fast color,
and as for the follies that are done in
type, all the blood of all the gods can
not wash them out.
The end of the century has not reached
Lincoln. It will arrive here about 1950
A. D. And it has by no means reached
the Lincoln High school, which is par
ticularly difficult of access to anything
new and has a double guard always on
duty least an idea might slip in like a
thief in the night This decorous village
was chocked to its suburbs, grieved
from the packing house to the power
house, and shaken to its very center
last week by the report that one of the
High school teachers had been riding to
school on her wheel and appearing in
the slender costume of Rosalind before
her classes. Now the truth is simply
this: Miss McDowell had been advised
by her physician to take more exercise.
Any one who has had any experience in
the toilsome drudgery of school teach
ing knows how much time a teacher has
for exercise. So Miss McDowell de
cided to ride her wheel to school, I
have seen her on her wheel and in her
class room. She wears bloomers and
over them a most modest and decoious
skirt. It is simply impossible for a
woman to bicycle at all in this windy
west unless she wears bloomers under
her skirts, for she knows not at what
moment her Bkirt may be blown about
her head. The principal and superin
tendent decided against Miss McDowell
and severely censured her. I hear that
the principal even burst out into verse
and said dramatically:
"Be not t'ifi first by whom the now is tried.
Nor yeP.he last to lay tbe old aside,"
I hive my opinion of anyone who
would quote Pope in this day and gen
eration upon any provocation whatso
ever. Did I say the Lincoln High school
had not reached the end ot the century?
Why it has no even got beyond Pope as
yet "She teaches in bloomers!' cry the
horrified school officials. Yes, but I in
sist that she wears a skirt over her
bloomers. Is it the principal's or super
intendent's or any one's else business
what Miss McDowell wears under her
skirts? That's her own affair. The
teachers in Minneapolis and St Paul
teach all day in bloomers untrammelled
by even the suggestion of skirts. But
no matter about that The standards
ot lotty Lincoln must be preserved, and
the classic love of the antique must be
humored, even if the school mam's have
to wear Elizabethian run's and Roman
togas.
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Those Sunday afternoon concerts at
the Universalist church are really great
things for the community, for they give
people an opportunity to hear good
music who never could hear it inany
other way. There is juEt one objection
able feature, and that is the singing of
those dire and swful heathenish hymns.
Hymns are bad enough under any cir
cumstances, but right after Schumann,
Bach, and Beethoven they are particu
larly awful. They sound like the Mex
ican band after a symphony, like the
beating of savage torn tome after a son
ata, the dulcet Btrains of Midway Plais
ance after an oratorio.' Now 'why do
they sing them? They play the music
of the masters for the world, I suppose,
and those heathenish chants for God.
God is certainly merciful and long suf
fering since he endures it. I should
Ihink on such occasions he would be
glad "that heaven is a good ways from
earth. Why is it thatwe always give
the worst of everything to God and are
sacriligions enougb. to- suppose he en
joys it? And that, too, when his own
word is so perfect, art absolute. Even
the Hebrews knew that all perfect
work was holy. They gave even their
love songs to God when they were beau
tiful enough, and that most perfect love
song of all the world, that glorious Song
of Songs, they made one of their sacred
books.
A few days ago there was a dreadful
play produced on-a local stage. It was
called "The Defaulter." There .was
something about a bank defalcation, and
the able and discerning editor of the
News immediately saw a similarity be
tween the incidents ot the play and the
wrecking of the Capital National bank
in this city. Possibiy Mr. Mosher would
give me credit for ha7ing said some
pretty hard things about him; but I
never said anything half so heartless as
this. Imagine comparing Charley
Mosher to tb'etl.OO a day villain in Lin
coln J. Carter's play! This is really too
much. Mosher has small claim upon
the consideration or indulgence of this
community, but I for one am ready to
object to this latest degradation. Mr.
Mosher was at all times interesting
Mr. Carter's defaulter was nauseating
In addition to "robbing widows and
orphans ot their small holdings," the
collapse ot the Capital National bank
destroyed forever the equanimity ot tho
News oJitor, and this list while not
so serious as the loss sustained by the
widows and orphans, is tough on that
part ot the public that reads the after
noon paper.
I cannot express my joy upon learning
that the chancellor and faculty will be
at home once a month to tbe students.
The social side of student, life has never
received any official recognition in the
University of Nebraska. Either they
were supposed to have no need for social
existence or they were supposed to
make it for themselves, and if they of
ten made a sorry mess of it, it was" not
altogether their fault. If they have re
sorted to cane rushes, shaving each
other's heads, class wars and stealing
the viands at banquets, it 'was simply
because they did not know any better.
A lot of raw boys and girls from the
provinces and the small towns come up
to the university every year with very
great purposes and the kind of hope that
we only know just once in a lite. They
mean to do the heavy intellectual, to be
martyrs to the faith, to "follow knowl
edge like a sinking star beyond the
utmost bound ot human thought," and
all that sort of thing. They mean it,
the spirit is willing enough, but the
flesh is weak. The first time they hear
dance music they forget about the sink
ing star. Youth is youth, and heaven
be thanked paradigms of Greek verbs
cannot entirely satisfy it. After all it is
homo turn, worse than that, it issuer
turn. Students are only mortal and
they must have social diversions of some
sort, and this is the only college town I
knor that does not furnish it. They
are not, for very good reasons, taken up
by Lincoln society, there are too mauy
ot them and they are too young. There
if no standard of social life at the uni
versity, so the Btudents make their own.
Left iO themselves these young bar
barians J?vise strange and wonderful
diversions. ''-They amuse themselves as
awkwardly as" the wonderful grazing
bears, whom tourists say are wont to
gambol in the sylvan shades ot Yellow
stone. They shave each othor's heads
and steal each other's hats and think its
very funny. I remember being present
at a festive student banquet once where
the young ladies and gentlemen actu
ally threw bananas and apples and
finally whole pies at each other. The
occasion waB euphoniously called a
Feast of PieB, but it was a cake walk.
The conduct was something terrible.
"Dragons in their prime that tear each
other in the slime" were mellow music
matched with it.
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