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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1896)
- -&?.. k 5t " i -as-tf-as:' ;. - v.:- ' a -. - vfflyL 'V-. , "1Ks 8"" j I? -muhVt!" - - VOL 11. NO 21 t '- ' r BP .- 'J.V- " bSTABLISHBD IN 18SG PRICE FIVB CBNTh ir --.? "Mg f --s?t , -33" ;f LINCOLN NEB., SATURDAY, MAY 23 I89G CS-aptMC- sun, the drouth, dieappointmeut. fail- . uio on iucdd aio iciriuit;, auu iucj ij true. But they are not all. This is not Nebraska, as the capual and uninformed reader of Mrs. Peattie's volume might imagine. And the material which the entered in the rosT OFricE at LINCOLN writer has used is not any more pro- second-class matter ductive than that which she disdains. PUBLISHED EVEBY SATURDAY The gl sunshine, the pure, invig orating air, the unexplainable exhiler- BI ation, wide prairies and undulating ex- THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO pause, the rich soil.the prosperous and Offlc.217KorthEIet.nU.St. hapP? l h.Pefu,nefB and promise all these are inseparably eon- j elephorve Oo4 nected with the very name Nebraska, and who will say that an artist cannot MPkT&KbI? ""XJS&SSBS take these bright colors of truth and .weave a romance quite as valuable and Subscription Rates In Advance. striking as the web of the dark shades Per annum 12.00 of sorrow aid failure? Nebraska cuts Six months 1.00 a sorry figure in these stories, and it is Three months 50 tQQ bad For there .g gladnes3 and One month -W . . "f Single copies 5 happiness and success in the land, and these are entitled to a hearing. But all of this has nothing to do with HDCPDAMTIHWC ine 1,lerarJ vaiue or tne siories. xurs. s) Mrs. Feattie carries the journalistic instinct into literature. When she writes 6tories she deals largely in local color. She writes of what she knows. If she lived in New England her stories would be permeated by ocean breezes, dotted with protruding rocks, peopled with determined, quiet, resourceful men and women. Living in Nebraska she puts tne strong navor oi tne 6ou in jriggs; jgi- nearlv all that she writes. Tne rteoras- VBLr:KL.-i ka prairies are her background; the wind and the heat and the blizzard the matariul IwmnlomAnt rtf tlAl- utnrv. "A mountain women, iier laiebi uwn, vHr was not written for circulation in Ne hHPHBRS2 ViwobL-o T4- II not Via nnnnlar finrn It mWkm--mV$Mm3-M?"AcJ' will be rudely criticized and condemned as jarring upon the patriotic sentiment "Stand up for Nebraka." But Mrs, Mammoth Hot Springs Peattie will not be annoyed. She has (Yellowstone Park.) seldom wiitten to tickle the public fancy. Peattie has a deft touch. She is clever at characterization. She is sympa thetic, imaginative. Her stories have a live, flesh and blood quality that in sures readers. Her book will be read. (Si w (2 vyuoisii T ni iviiu oi several sMes of the water, intimates that The Coukiek, or rather the letters written from Omaha, are vulgar and. sensational. Elevating his finely chiseled and rather pretty chin, Mr. Chase sniffs the air, and declares that The Courier is engaged in an effort to get subscribers in Omaha. Our disappointment in falling under the displeasure of Mr. Chase is poig nant. We hardly dared to hope for the commendation of the great man who is recognized as, intellectually and facially, the peer of all journalists either east or west of the Missouri river whose slightest word is an irrevocable dictum in the art galleries, five o'clock tea rooms and tailor shops of Omaha. But we did hope to be permitted to get along Bomehow without calling out the blasting, withering, conclusive denun ciation which the beautiful editor, the hero of that eventful journey to Cali fornia In The Same Car With Mrs. Helena Modjeska and Mr. Helena Mod jeska, has seen fit to heap upon us. Was ever the lot of aspiring, modest endeavor m&k$i I MLiBHIaMaaaaHIH mjHH kW Ti Mima I MfflTl i - vSE B 'BfaTP E-1Bi MMW' wp " I HH rjr v? so unfortunate? Could any newspaper enterprise be more unlucky? The new volume is a collection of short stories, many of which have been print ed in the magazines. It contains "Jim Lancey's Waterloo," the Cosmoplitan story of Nebraska that caused so much comment in this state. In this and other stories are given graphic descript ions of conditions that in certain local ities and under certain circumstances, have obtained in Nebraska. There is pathetic truth in what she has written, truth that gives an impressiveness to the stories. The hardships undergone by some of our people in the last two or three years afford a rich field for a clev er, feeling, writer like Mrs. Peattie. And she has used her material to ttre end that her stories have distinct in dividuality. They are vivid, real, strorcj. But we cannot but regret that she nas taken all the sombre hues that the local fields afford and in the weav ing used none of the bright colors we know so well. The blasting hot wind, .the devastated fields, the scorching, hot If readers of The Courier observe a lack of sprightliness in this paper this week they may set it down as the result of the depression caused by the unkind remarks of that journalistic sage and calf skin litterateur, Mr. Clement Cbase of Omaha, editor of the tinted and lachrymose Excelsior of that city. Mr. Chase, than whom there is no more learned or prodigious authority on this swelling continent, says The Courier has given displeasure to the people of Omaha by the manner in which tha gifted w riter, "Miss Penelope," treats of persons and things in the big city; and Mr. Chase, with that exquisite dis cretion and fine discrimination for which, equally with his acquaintance with Madam Modjeski and her grizzly husband, Count Bozenta, he is noted Had the condemnation of The Courier's course come from any one of the small fry editors in Omaha we would not take it so much to heart. If, for instance, Mr. Rose water, or Mr Bryan, or Mr. Hitchcock who are con nected with more or less obscure pap ers, had said what Mr. Chase said, we wouldn't care a farthing's worth. But when Mr. Chase himself turns his reproving glance in our direction, then the situation is indeed serious. Mr. Chase may not be properly appreciated in Omaha. Great men frequently have to travel to the next town to get credit. But here in Lin colc we know how good and great and powerful and beautiful he is, and that's what depresses us so. Never a tennis ball flies across a court in Omaha but Mr. Chase is there to direct its course Great artists cringe at his dainty feet. Buds and anxious mammas fight for a mere nod, a single Chased smile. Five o'clock tea is never sipped until ho gives the word. The great city of Omaha is ruled and Bwayed by Mr. Chase. The very elements wait on his pleasure. When he smiles the sun nhines. When he makes his appearance on upper Farnam street and commen ces to strut his lordly strut tho gilded youth fall in behind him. and, locking step, follow the sand-hill Brummel. Tho ladies thrji7hini' kisses and call him, "dear Clementina," and the com mon people salute him. There is only one Clement Chase, and he has set him against us. Tuff luck. The natural thing for us to do, after Mr. Chase has declared himself is to poison "Penelope' and withdraw from the Omaha field. But, on thinking the matter over, we have decided to nerve ourselves to the task of continuing our course as we have begun, the beau-sage notwithstanding. Having Mr. Chase's disapprobation already we have nothing more to lose, and we will endeavor to live down the present disgrace. Mr. Bushnell and Mr. Kennard and Mr. Gere and Mr. Lindsey and Mr. At kinson and the 1C97 other patriotic republicans of Lancaster county who expect a lucrative appointment at the hands of President McKinley are no doubt much disturbed by the recent action of Mr. Cleveland, placing some 30,000 offices under the civil service rules. But these gentlemen should not get too excited in their grief. Mr. Mc Kinley will not feel bound to abide by this eleventh hour reform of the foxiest president this country ever had. This new order will probably be one of the first relics of the democratic adminis tration to be kicked out of doors after the 4th of March next. Mr. Cleveland has given the people a touch of high life in many different ways in his seven years of duck shoot ing, but this effort to embarrass his successor is the greatest piece of impu dence in the whole impudent Cleve land administrarion. It out-Clevelands Cleveland. Civil service reform as it is practiced in this country is the most fantastically absurd piece of govern mental bric-a-brac ever produced by fecund Mugwumps, and if Mr. Mc Kinley is the man the people take him to be he will not hesitate to smash some of this decorative folderol when he shall take the place made vacant by the fat man and his guns. The members of the general confer ence of the Methodist church, now in session In Cleveland, are only human, and it is probably demanding too much to ask them to be consistent. Human nature, whether Presbyterian, Episco palian, Methodist or agnostic, is weak and variable. When a man shows signs of becoming consistent he Is called up higher, and the Job is com pleted in the company of the saints. It was not surprising that members of the conference ridiculed the young people's society of Christian endeavor ii -fe 1 iJMto-iii
