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W. MORTON SMITH Editor and Manager
SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor
W1LLA CATHER Associate Editor
Andrew Jackson Sawyer, and the re
mainder of a select coterie, for the po
litical principles that were turned down
with so much force and unanimity in
this country, the first Tuesday in No
vember. This enthusiasm, this loyalty
to the great American dictator. Grover
Cleveland, can find expression in one
way only. It cannot jubilate in office,
for the only federal office In this city
worth having is in the hands of a gen
tleman whose democracy after much
straining Is yet far from being simon
pure, and Is altogether unfit for assimi
lation with the original brand. It can
only make itself known through the
medium of the press. So, each week,
Mr. Harwood and Mr. Sawyer and the
other dyed-in-the-wools get together
politics. He disappeared one day peace
to his ashes. He left his name behind
and Mr. Hurwood used It to start his
newspaper with. The Herald comes to
The Courier office every Saturday and
Mr. Harwood's publication is greatly
enjoyed. This gentleman has shown
rare erhatillty probably this quality
was first noticed when he suddenly
changed his politics. He was a large
and conspicuous success as a lawyer,
and later when lie was made president
of a bank the whole city cried "Eureka."
But his achievements In politics and law
and banking are as nothing compared
to his brilliant demonstration in jour
nalism. He Is more than doing credit
to the memory of the departed Hlide
brand. Under the freedom-of his nom-
tlon society were shocked. He slung in
some cheerful expressions, such as:
"Keep up the fire, boys." "Straight
democracy will win." Last week there
was something really Important In the
paper. Mr. Hnrwooil, as Is well known.
Is an Intimate friend and counsellor of
Secretary J. Sterling Morton'. Under the
circumstances his declaration In his own
newspaper that "Sterling Morton, as a
presidential candidate, will be a win
ner." may be viewed In the light of an
official and authorized announcement
of Mr. Morton's candidacy. Up to the
time of this statement In the Herald
Mr. Morton had maintained a discreet
and diplomatic silence as to his inten
tions. The Herald Is brimful of Inter
esting things, but I do not think Mr.
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People who are fond of erotic discus
sions may find entertainment in a con
sideration of the problem In Sardou's
play, "Helena," produced In this city
last Saturday. The play is suggestive
of "Romeo and Juliet." It is more som
bre. Instead of the Montagues and
Capulets there are the Guelphs and the
Ghibellines. Helena, a patrician, is
made a captive by Orso, chief of an op
posing tribe and outraged. She escapes
a very tigress in fury. She goes out
for vengeance and tries to kill her be
trayer. The very minute Orso falls to
the ground her loathing and passionate
hatred leave her. Thinking he is dead
she prays for him. He breathes and she
loves him. She nurses him back to life
and marries him. the outrager of her
honor, the enemy of all her people, a
plebeian of plebeians. The one strong
thing In "Helena" Is the sudden revul
sion from violent hate to violent love,
It was dramatic to a degree. Was It
natural? Could such a thing have hap
pened? Who can tell? If there is one
thing that we know absolutely nothing
about it is the human heart. Italians in
the Fourteenth century did strange
things tho' no stranger than the people
of our own time. Sardou could have
made Helena relent inch by inch; but
that would not have been dramatic.
And it may be that it would not have
been more real. The majority of peo
ple think the act forced and improbable.
Sardou has made a study of the pas
sionsand he thought it probable.
"Helena" will be remembered for that
one scene.
A few people in Lincoln receive once
each weelC renewed evidence of the en
thusiasm of Mr. N. S. Harwood and Mr.
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and get out a newspaper of their own.
For the benefit of many who may never
have seen or heard of Mr. Harwood's
newspaper, it Is well to tay that it is
called the Herald, the name Major J. D.
Calhoun's brilliant half-breed sheet was
known by, and, as I have said once be
fore, in these columns, Mr. Harwood,
who is the editor-in-chief, sees fit to Is
sue it under the nom-de-plume of J. G.
P. Hildebrand. There used to be a man
named Hildebrand. He may be remem
bered by a few people in Lincoln and
Nebraska. Col. Jerusalem Gustavus
Perseverance Hildebrand was a pretty
decent sort of a fellow, though rather
given to the unholy pastime known as
de-plume he writes things that Hilde
brand at his best could not have equal
ed. Mr. Harwood is doing what has.
perhaps, never been done before. He is
running a newspaper without subscrib
ers, without advertising patrons. But
then he has his law firm and the bank
and the pockets of other easy-conditioned
dyed-in-the-wools to draw from, and
it is said that a pay day is never miss
ed in the He.-ald office.
Two weeXs ago, after election, Mr.
Harwood got a bit excited and remark
ed In the Herald: "It went L bent."
This was a good deal like swearing, and
some members of the charity organlza-
Harwood was justified by the facts In
saying that "Schlatter skipped out be
cause there were too many republican
leg-pullers after him. " Mr. Harwood,
as editor, should be careful to preserve
that dignity that marked him as a law
yer and Lanker.
A couple of weeks ago In discussing
the Tale of a Button, a romance that
is now almost as widely read as "Be
side the Bonnie Briar Bush" I said it
was tlie little things that cause the big
ges-t rumpuses. A woman in New
Haven made a little remark a few
weeks ago that is causing quite as
much discussion as the Incident of the