The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, October 26, 1895, Image 3
Aa re ms -M Highest of aU in Leavening Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking: Powder ABSOLUTELY PUBE vm 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. m 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. 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