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VOb. 10, NO. 46 PRICE FIVE 3 .NTS (fQ . v VmMf . - . . fi. . -- kkki B-.s'ciyNjTpv?? tKBt grT-jjri3cJjBB k kLLLr " 5? LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 1895. ' " " I fc 3p BH2SllywpCMMXt UtrHiVKsFrdtJ I - UIDIUi I IIIIIT 1111 I IIHI I11IU in. --. . . would say they know umnbed after its tin, - . fi. "Y TV Wa" a now ehaucellor, a 1 believe to be an One institution that i, , ', .. 7 . " r'""' T CIlarminK Rentleman who L-nnn- .11 !. r .1... :..,... ---.--...,, was mucli received. Then thora me same senses. like environ- like iimn: to hnv ..-,--- . . " " tW r . ...... "imui.o,iuruuuur nnTlnna tr o,w. I 11 ... sikk : ri1!!- :n ,uanin- t ..!.- it i8 ot .,,, ; rz rr, I .D, ovD wuiitB, meraiure, science romance or tragedy, t is a nluin nun. .;m- 1 . .. i- i3 and art ;.., o... i:i.. v. . L i.:u, 11 ih a piain. pure siblo scandals which n n .i;.,i - teiuerewo laci mat must bo faced and not feared. i. h:.i . .""'" -4SSV - diverge, w.dely, irreconcilably. We are Mr. Newbranch sneaks of , is- . ..."; -1 ...' "e rBP"". Then both in earnest, both sincere. Vet they triumph. Will Mr. NewbranM, .1,-- Z. '" , . T. rrtncd not with believe that true which I know to 1 an m in Bii i,: .:.,.... ,."T .""" "'rauie jealousy and turmoil. r. i . at -- i i i r. -i ? i- k k ii -tr t ivr-ni .- .--.. .---- as 8eco.viclass matter absurdity. They . that to be true which - -.. ,-..--. -.. absurditv. Thuv A VU.J. 1.V14U1 tJAlUnU.il - "" .m.oct ,,uo LlUllU. UI1U llirill mm Warn 41 Bt know of Siberia with its awful horrors has survived after all truth and poetry letters that imvUrZ? an?nymU,3 and unjust sufferings; know of vice and had gone out from it? iti,Kn ,mPlcatod people with TIE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. VeTuT, and, '"umphant!: know T , mat, " - -ek a'dt of virtue squalid and in rags; they see Last Saturday the AVim published day Finallv nLl .1 Office 217 North Eleventh St. wrong conquer good, falsehood subdue the "official" report of Prof Hartlett ,nn r 1 Un",U 8e"' TWnKnno VU. A ,ng and knowing all they the "chemist inn ochre plant I In-' TeZo thZJJT 7 7 "f Telephone 384 can 8av, .AItogether ju8t antl righteou8 diano,a on tne 1 m" v-t se, 1 th. , m .,. of Lln , are thy ways, Lord God Almighty.' ford. Prior to reading Prof. Bartletfs yot l isnot half through Wht "n W.MORTOX SMITH Editor and Manawr report 1 was prenared to beliovB that nf !, "... 7 B hat w, SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor Thnf :,, ,- ,. , ... H .- . ... , l,e,,ove tnat not the winter bring forth? Let them WILLACATHER Associate Editor Tnat s the offending article, which the sensational Milford affair might come the faster thT bettor ,, seems to me inoffensive and childish really have some reasonable foundation, lifotimo anyway If we can't 1 '" t" Subscription Rates-In Advance. Ugh- only redeeming feature is I was prepared to hear on well authen- or rich or Intellectual or a gold" centre lts earnestness. Its worst fault is its ticated authority that thero is cold in w mn , ioof 1 . ."" tenire gfSSt fjJS gratuitousness. Declarations of that this region in paying qu.ntSy.iS ZeUe lntetBUn"- "" '" Three months 50 frt are so utterly uncalled for. There since the chemist in the ochre plant at One month 20 is no one tearing about the university Indianola made his report I have lost A number of people have gone from Single copies 5 awaiting to slay unbelievers. It is better confidence in the Milford gold fields. LncoIn to Denver to test the healing - than what young poets write on spring, The report was about the most unecien- lwerof tho man Schlatter. Some of but it is just as impracticable. It is tific thing I eersaw, It stamped its bem havo returned professing to have bitter with the bitterness of youth and author as a charlatan, and gave tho een benefitted by tho laying on of ORFRVATFON 'Snorance. When a man is young and whole affair an air of unreliability that nands. Others cannot see that their UDO-KVAl IU1N 6elt-important he delights to thin must be discouiaging to those persons "8 oro affected in any way by thiB that life is a tragedy. When he is older who are trying to find out the truth u,an wno claims power from God. Many 'BBBBHB,, and humbler ho is very content to think There may Le gold in the Milford fields; t'mes in tho last 50 years, or for that An article entitled "Wayside Fan- it a comedy not rightly understood. Can but Prof. Bartletfs report does not niatter the past 200 years, there have cies," printed in the Hesperian of Nov. Mr. Newbranch prove to us that the strengthen the belief that there ib. Ex- appeared at different places men who 1st, has called forth considerable com- world is all wrong? Can he answer that perts do not go into ecstatica and su- bave claimed the Christ like power to ment upon the author, the magazine and oldest of queries and tell us "what is perlatives. If the owners of the alleged curo tno 'ame, tho halt and tho blind, the university, I am glad that it is pos- truth?' Perhaps after all this life is the gold-bearing property want to inspire b tne mer0 'aying on of hands or tho Bible for a student to write such an arti- best life, this woi Id a good world, only the public with confidence in their en- utterance of prayer. These men have cle unmolested and without fear. It we cannot read it so. Mr. Xewbranch terprise they should get a more temper- worked uPn the credulity of their showB that the university has not been looks over the world and 6ajs, "Behold, ate and conservative expert. fellow beings, and it is a fact that growing and working, nor the state pay- it is very bad." So a Hottentot might thousands or persons who h ave taken ing taxes in vain these last twenty look over a copy of Shakespeare or hear One thing is sure, that while other treatment at their hands have believed years. Fifteen years ago, in the "Dark a socata of Beethoven's and twirling his cities in the state were momentarily themselves to have been greatly Ages" the faculty would have risen like brass nose ring remark with conscious frightened by an earthquake last week benefitted or entirely cured. There are one man against any student who would pride at his own pessimism, "It is non- Lincoln escaped unscathed and naught weI1 authenticated cases where genuine have dared express an opinion approach- sense." occurred to disturb the peaceful slum- suffererehave been relieved after the ing agnosticism and he would have been ber of thu righteous. I have heard tho application of tho treatment given by shown the door. But today more know- It is really very difficult to make a final theory advanced that Lincoln escaped tn.e8e B-calIed Divine healers. The ing men greet this sort of youthful cyn- decision as to the merits of creation and because or its superior virtue, and was wsl' s a potent influence in tho restor icism with the patience and amusement the meaning of the universe. Difficult spared because ten righteous men left ation of health, and many of these which it deserves, knowing that such even for a university student. over from Mayor Weir s administration PP10 who bave thought they were things are mere boy's fancies, the result were found therein, while her besotted cured bv the healers were in reality of a little too much Renan and Voltaire, Truly, Mr. Newbranch is young, sisters, the cities of the plain, were turn- healed by the exercise of their own will and that self-sufficiency and vain con- When he is a little older he will see that bled unceremoniously out of their beds Pwer in the determination to be re ceit, which is the most pathetic thing these appearances and conditions he re- by an avenging deity. Mjseir 1 am in- beved. Then it is a well known fact about being young. The faculty have fers to do not matter much. That they clined to think that we had the earth- that a very ,arce percentage of the ceased trying to break butterflies and do not impeach the justice of God nor quake, but that the recent social sensa- people who believe themselves to be ill juniors on a wheel. Its undignified and the dignitv of man. He will learn that tion had so hardened us to shocks of all bave no real complaint, other than a hard on the wheel. Junior agnosticism it affects virtue very little that it is in kinds that wo were unable to feel it. disturbed imagination. Itis not much of is as necessary as junior poetics, and as rays, benefits vice very little that it is Shocks are only comparative anyway, a ."C , to work on tho credulity of soon outgrown. triumphant. The curse of vice is that and are noticeable only because they de- ? cIa89 aud affect a cure. In it isnot virtue, the happiness of virtue stroy the accustomed composure of eighteen centuries there has been only "They grasped me by the arm and that it is not vice. Virtue, starved and things, and it has been so long since ne . ""J- Sincf. hf da9 when said, 'Come up to the daily prayer desolate and with barren years and "the push" or this town has known any Ch"8t and h'8 d'f'P's walked the meeting, come along.' And their invi- empty hands whispers of vice with composure of any sort that I doubt if a !ftn "efe nave been no miracles, tation was earnest and sincere. To secret envy "It is happy." Vice, weary volcano, vomuing fire and hot tamalas Since Christ, no man has had the power them prayer means something; they of its roses and raptures, cheated of the in the middle of O street, would make Jo heal by the mere touch of a hand or know a God who sits up somewhere on shadow it has pursued through a life any impression. the offering or a prayer And ,t seems a throne in boundless space-a God who time says or Virtue, "It has sacrificed. m!TE ilr .1 ? T7u answers prayer-somotimes. To me and it is happy." Both of them lie, and For really Lincoln has outdone her- are W,II,DK b'eve that what has not prayer meane nothing-and I know no it is rather pitiful. It is too late to be- seir in the sensational line this season a. ,.ne Bmc.e the beS,nnnS of the God. So I did not go. To them I am gin to look Tor happiness. It is only an and whatever else it may have been it .'l " ln. ? age a an object of pity-genuine pity. For ideal, anyway, a chimera that the world has been interesting. In the first place JJT Utf "flatter has the power they believe their God will damn mo, pursued in the golden days or its jouth. there were a number or little afiairs in . , . 8 . , 'then thf,day ot because I do not know him. It all It is not Tor us. We are "born too late which two or three-generally two t'LTV ' J ! Tf' seems so strange; we are constituted unto a world too old." There is left us popular young people-were gathered S tX Jlid very much alike, they and I. We have only honor. To live like men and to die together and their friends were pretty rock.rait. called down from the heavens, 1 i. 1