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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1895)
rr n-. THE COURIER. THROUGH COLORED GLASSES I saw her In Chicago, In a Clark tlce in denouncing might give some street dive. She had induced a stranger skill in remedying. But It does not. to order two beers, and she was happy. And the simple reason is, loth though She was a young girl, and would have we may be to admit it, that the evil we been good looking but for the hollows deplore is due to us who condemn it, under her eyes, the wrinkles at the cor- and the remedy lies In the hands of bo ners of her mouth, and the paint upon ciety, not in the power of the law. her face. Her eyes were shifty and For this hard and bitter fact presses wavering; her voice was low, gutteral home; Immorality is the price of mor and "beery." She was laughing and talk- ality. The "reservation" Is the sacrifice lng with the stranger, and her talk that lust offers upon the altar of chas was a compound of oaths, slang and tity. And the lepers at whom we cry shamelessness. "unclean! unclean! are the victims. It was the Influence of this construc tive iconoclasm that Swinburne wrote: "By thy name that in hell tire was writ ten, and burned at the point of thy sword. Thou art smitten, thou God, thou art smitten; thy death Is upon thee, O Lord, And the love song of earth as thou dlest, resounds through the wind of her wings. Glory to man In the highest! For man Is the master of things." This may seem sacrillgious and athe istic, but It Is not. It is a declaration that God is not one personal being, but "hfutntoIonnthTunlonora-GnCat Rock IHlCl ROlltC torical contest at the state university Runs their last Saturday night Is a significant Time Reduced tameiessness. unciean: unciean: are me victims, - - " . . rtt.Mi:.... Etiim... T..mn Suddenly she folded her arms upon not of their own nature's, but of socle- 8traw showing which way the wind IJlHlpS tfllllm.in NUlI'OIl the table, and lay her head upon them; ty's selfishness. They are the antitypes then she raised It. and her eyes were of chastity and purity, filled with tears. She drew a soiled and And yet reverend gentlemen will stand faded old tin type from the folds of her in their pulpits and bang the altars and dress, kissed it and fondled it, and said, all to herself: "Dear Jim; dear old Jim; he's coming back to me." Then to the stranger: "He's in London now, Jim Is; been gone more'n three years." Then she shame-facedly wiped the tears away, and said: denounce the result. "Why do they not devote a part of their time and their eloquence to a consideration of the cause? Because, in the natural order of things, the cause lies nearer home and there is danger in denouncing It. And so those poor victims who al ready pay the price of the brutality blows. It was an attempt to prove the absurdity of Deism and the necessity for Pantheism. And so it seems that orthodoxy's hold on the university Is becoming shaky. At Union college they still use the Bible as the only scientific text book; but Union college is not a great university. Cars to I "Reckon he'll hardly know me when and savagery innate In man, must cow- The vulture is getting fat. His prey is becoming so numerous, the beasts, great and small, fall so rapidly on every on their fast trains. Examine cards and see that we are nearly TWO HOUR time he gets back. eh? my duckey. But er before the altar and hear themselves nanu- ,nal ne I,n1H ,l aimosi impossioie quicker than any other route Chicago what'n h 1 do I care?" condemned, while the causes of their to nit from carcass to carcass to bury to Los Angeles -and she leaned over and peered lur- degeneration sit In Immaculate broad- n? Bat bloody beak In the still qulv- phni:n(, ,..,:., are nonular ii,. i ,i ,.. om... u .. . Mth on.i ,..,afii ni, oiio.,.i.. ii erlng flesh. Up and down O street he la nillipe excursions are popular. Into his face. lay, face downward, on the table. Did It ever strike you, gentle reader, as just barely possible, after all, that the magnificent attempt made by the last generation to reclaim the Great American Desert might prove a failure? A half century ago scientists would have laughed at the dream of a million people. In Nebraska. in the chorus and wondering that such flaPs h,s m omened wings, now feasting He has carried over 125,000 patronB in evils can be. Through the dense fogs that encom pass the English universities we can dimly discern the gleaming of armor and the flashing of swords, while to our ears comes faintly the sound of clang- here, now there, swelling and croaking the past Fifteen years, and a comforta- In his repletion. From afar off he spied b, trf t CQ fftto .g Buaranteed,and the coming carnival, and with shrill, . . r , , .. nu-n irreedv cries came hurrvlne from the the fast time now made puts the I hill- southward. Oh; a right merry feast is ips-Rock Island Excursions at the top. his! II. E. NEWBRANCH. ing blows. For indeed there Is war and For here drouth and sand, the coyote savage strife raging tumultously about and the buzzard reigned over a region of almost primordial solitude and desolation. Then came the hardy pion eer; he drove out the coyote and the buzzard, outlived the drouth and scout ed the sand and the scientists were nonplussed. The desert blossomed as the rose. Men "tickled it with the hoe and it laughed with a harvest." But Its laugh has degenerated Into a sickly grin. For two summers the hot winds have blown. The sand has been drifting and flying and shifting as of yore. The skies, which, through the long summer, were brazen and cloudless are cloudless still. The streams are low and their waters stagnate in frozen pools. And the prairie schooners have kept up a steady procession eastward. Even those institutes of learning. And It is all over an Innocent little ar ticle which a certain Rev. Anthony C. Deane, theretofore unknown to fame, contributed to the October Nineteenth Century. 3100 DOLLARS REWARD 9100 The readers of this paper will ho pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science haB been able to euro in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is Post yourself for a California trip be fore deciding, and write me for explicit information. Address, JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. "The Religion of the Undergraduate." the oniv positive cure now known to For, be it known, the reverend gentle- .. V , . . n u .: man's article reached this awful con- the med,cal fl.itern.ty. "h be,nB elusion:. a constitutional disease, requires a "With sorrow and reluctance it must constitutional treatenient. Hall's be confessed that the majority of Ox- Catarrh Cure is taken internally. ford and Cambridge undergraduates are without, or at least profess to be without, any religious beliefs at all." Agnosticism, says the article, Is pre dominant In these schools. And then Rome howled. An hundred contributors in a score of periodicals thus early next year promises nothing denied and abused and bewailed and The proprietors have so much faith in cting adircctly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the syEtem, thereby destroying the foundation of the disea se, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work but gloom and added disappointment. The once mighty empire of Babylon is today a desert of shifting sand; shall it, one day, revive shall it glow and glory in the fountain of rejuvenation and shall our own great empire be the desert furnish the ruins of the future? its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testi monals. Address, P. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo OIiio. Sold by druggists, 75 cents. They are telling a story on Superin tendent Abbott of the asylum that is too good to be lost. As everybody knows Dr. Abbott is from Fremont, and in that venerable burg Is still regarded as the Nestor of his profession. Well, a certain callow Fremont practitioner had administered too much of a wrong dose, and killed his patient. The sorrowing relations discovering the fact that death had been due to the doctor's mistake, brought suit. And Dr. Abbott was put on the stand as an ex perthis testimony was "expert testi mony." "Now. doctor," said the lawyer for the plaintiff, "do you consider such a dose good practice?" "Yes," said the doctor; "it Is good practice." And nothing could budge the expert from that position, so the prisoner at the bar was acquitted. "Now, doctor, really, do you consider such a dose good practice." some one asked the present superintendent, when the next trial was on. "Yes," gravely replied the doctor; "yes, it was good practice, but," and he winked, "I'll bet you the drinks the d fool won't do it again!" What Is more appropriate and useful for a Christmas present that a nice piece of furniture and the only place In the city to get the new styles is at Rudge & Morris Co. condemned. And the conflict might have ended there, and the world Jogged along unheeding, only unlucky mis chance! a couple of divinity students stationed, the one at Oxford and the other at Cambridge, thought it would be a grand and glorious thing to anni hilate the Rev. Deane with a reply. So they replied. But alas, and alack a day! Their "replies" only made confus ion worse confounded. For the Cam bridge doctor of divinity In embryo openly admits the overwhelming pre dominance of agnosticism at that school, but explains that it Is not of the "flippant," but of the "sincere" kind, which must be truly consoling to the church! And the Oxford co-respondent, while "denying" the prevalence of agnosticism asserts that "indifferent ism (as to religion) pervades the whole body academic, from top to bottom." And there you are. It is charged by the church that agnosticism Is the pre dominant cast of mind of the English undergraduate. And it Is urged in re- Purple Pansy, Her Majesty7 Per- ply. also by the church, that If there fme, has that delicate, yet rejinetl and be agnosticism It is "sincere"-and , ,. , ft d imJ b thc coni there Is no agnosticism anyhow; "in- . ., . . , . . , difTerentism" Is all that is the matter. turner. ltiggs, the Druggist, is head- Lost in this confusion the good old quarters for all the latest Toilet art- orthodox Christian, with mouth agape. cles, corner Twelfth and Ostreets. asKs wnat tne worm is coming to. Canon City coal at the WbUebreast Coal and Lime Co. "We have 300 dozen pocket knives for the holiday trade and our 23c and 50c cases have some rare bargains. Rudge & Morris Co. Purple Pansy, Her Majesty's Per fume, is the gentlemen's favorite amongst the latest odors. At -Riggs Pharmacy, corner Twelfth and O street. For the English universities are not alone In their glory. Right here in our own state university, agnosticism and in differentism are abroad, and between them control the religion of hundreds of our undergraduates. Despite the Herculanean efforts of Chancellor MacLean and a few mem- bers of the faculty chapel attendance The periodical recurrence of the cru- and religious enthusiasm are falling off. sade against "the social evil" is upon both In quality and quantity, us once more and sermons will be The whole trend of higher education nreached and resolutions resolved ad is anti-orthodox. Whether or not it Is in finitum and then da capo. anti-religious is another question. But It is to be regretted that blessed as this much certainly is true. 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