TH1 COUftlBlL
atrocities, they can show it
by agreeing upon a Russian
uperintendant in the Levant who shall
represent England. Russia, France, Ger
many, Italy and Spain. These, powers
are of one mind concerning the Armen
ian cruelties, and only suspicion of each
otbei keeps them from concerted action.
If England voluntarily gives up the
euperintendancy to another nation it
will convince thut nation and the others
that she has no aggressive designs on
Turkish territory. If England should
give up the point it would be liko tho
old woman and her pig. Russia would
also concede a point or two and Franco
and Germany would fall in line behind
Russia and the Armenians would begin
rug weaving, and attar of rose distilling
with a certainty of life and of reaping
the rewards of their own industry.
As the society artist of Punch. Du
Maarier studied statesmen, peers, pro-
fessjonal beauties, dowagers, bishops,
"sweet girls," the children of the
wealthy and noble parents, for thirty
six years. He observed them until he
bad enough types with individual pe
culiarities to make half a hundred books
the size of Trilby. His head was full of
plots and persons even of personages.
He had not to wait for inspiration.
"Tell us another story please;' and he
began. He hid but began to distribute
the treasure, atoring since his youth,
when ho died. Not a very good
draughtsman, hk pictures make up for
the lack of sweep and dash in line by
literary qualities; pungent satire and
story telling characters.
DuMaurier'a third and last novel "The
Martian," was finished before his fatal
illness attacked him. For many years
he had suffered from heart trouble
which was aggravated by the excite
ment incidental to the popularity of
Trilby. Having reached so high a
standard tho effort not to fall below it
was too much for him. So toward the
ad of September tin news came that
Du Maurier was ill, and when October
8 we heard that he had passed quietly
away, we all felt that another member
et the great brotherhood of English
aatbors, to which Dickens and Thack
eray belonged, whose task it was to
teach tm to bury our prejudices, to con
qaar oar Pharisaism, and to learn that
wherever there is a human heart there
is a chance of goodness another of this
fraternity laid to rest, and we felt that
were an epitaph needed for his tomb
stone, we might borrow from thehiero
' glyphics of the Egyptian kings the
three little silhouettes we find at tho
loaf rehearsals of their dignified titles;
which being interpreted is: "Widening
hie heart."
Mrs. Acaaaa Cobb, who died on last
Saturday was one of a steadily decreas
ing number of residents who came here
in. the early seventies.
Bereavement and illness destroyed in
the last few months the eager interest
ahehaa always shown in the people
aboat her and in passing events. Before
time one of tie chief pleasures cf life
was to hear Mrs. Cobb characterize
people and things by a sentence or two
of unconsciously trenchant observation.
She was without affectation of speech
or feeling. Her loyally to her friends
aad her pleasure in seeing them, her
love for her children and her grand
children, she showed by her actions,
rarely in words. Hers wu a puritan
spirit which never seemed quits at home
.. ia the west. Nevertheless she has en
riched tradition here. What Mrs. Cobb
aid in regard to the various situations
life which have occurred from thj be
ginning of time and will recur to the
ad of time have passeJ into local his
tory aad will bs repeated until this gen
eration is gone. To the small circle here
. .who hare known her for twenty three
jaarsherleve ia irreparable. To the
, grave white-bearded old soldier whore
comrade she has been for so long, they
extend their sympathy.
Ian McLaren is not the popular than
that he was among all the literary "fel
lers of the east Crossing the ocean a
passenger asked him whom ho consid
ered the best writer in America, he an
swered that he thought there were two;
Howells and Cable. When Mr. Watson
landed and his opinion was printed tho
members of the literary coterie, which
New York Is accustomed to regard as
the galaxy of the United States, dis
sented and gave Mr. Watson a cooler
welcome than they had planned. In
the south Mr. Cable is very unpopular
because he has at various times con
ceded that in the struggle between the
north and tho south the former was
right. In the north Mr. Howells' views
on socialism has made him unpopular
with most of the people who buy novels
for their bindings and to have something
to t&lk about at parties. Therefore Mr.
Watson could have made no more un
popular remark. With both the north and
south suspicious of his judgment there
is only California and the middle west
left. To be sure in the west Howells
should be growing in popular favor, if
the late populist victory is any test of a
people's literarv taste. After his in
quisitor was through with him Mr. Wat
son volunteered the information that
tho books of Harold Frederic were more
read in England than those of any other
American author. He said that the
English consider Mr. Frederic's boos
"The Damnation of Theron Ware," the
strongest book of the year. "The Book
man" says in regard to this opinion that
"it is only to be explained by the law of
contrast that the genial, sympathetic
optimistic preacher should be 60 strong
ly attracted by a work that is decidedly
depressing and pessimistic in tone and
belonging in its treatment of realism to
the literature of disillusion.' But its
another case of Stephen Crane. Mr.
Crane is young and callow but he writes
of the war bloodily enough to deceive
militia or Budge and Toddie who want
theirs "all bluggy." As a general thing
the younger, fresher, vealier, a man .is
the more sanguinary and ferocious his
imagination.
Authorities on finance, credit and the
Lest places to borrow money spent their
breath warning Nebraska not to vote
for Bryan lest the east should be fright
ened at our wooly ways and lock up
both kinds of money where no wes'.ern
state can get at it. In spite of the
prophets the state has cast itself down
where there is none to loan her or go on
her paper. And nobody on Will atieet
cares whether Nebraska goes out of
business or not. If the nation had gone
democratic the mining states would
have had money to loan and Colorado
in the abundance of gratitude for assist
aace in the nick of time might have
loaned us soma ore; Aait is now our
exposed position between a huffy east
and a busted west k chilly and ex
tremely uncomfortable.
When the largest crop ever raised in
the state begins to move, eastern capital
may lose ita timidity at the sight'ot the
golden promise and come west again,
and thk is our only hope.
W. MORTON SMITH'S LETTER.
The election of McKinley charges the
republ ican party with a fearful respon
sibility. The only thing that endan
gered McKinley s election was the in
disputable fact that many undemocratic
influences were at work in bis behalf.
The mass of what Mr. Bryan is pleased
to call "the common people,'' did not
bother their heads about the intricacies
of the silver question. Silver and gold
were names merely. A very large num
ber of those who voted for Mr. Bryan
did so, not because they believe in the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, but because, as .they
understood it, capital was arrayed
against them. They claimed that Mc
Kinley was the candidate of the rich
men, and that his success only meant
their increased supremacy. The fact
that the silver trust, the most gigantic
and far reaching of all trusts, was be
hind the "common people's" candidate,
did not make any difference. Brvan
was an idol, the leader of the poor
against tho rich.
The issue raised by Mr. Bryan has
not been settled. It is in the power of
the republican party to avert a far
more serious clash in the future by
taking up this question of trusts and
dealing with it, not in a spirit of dema
gogy, but in a spirit of justice. Very
important k it to the welfare of the
nation that thk question of the un
lawful combinations of capital should be
frartowly acted upon. If the republi
' ays tary will prove equal to the emer
gency, it will be a great boon to the
country, and the party will be materi
ally strengthened. If nothing is done,
there is trouble in store.
Evils exist, but they have been greatly
exaggerated. There are fewer trusts
than people imsgine. In some cases
they operate for the good of the people
rather than for harm. But there is a
growing tendency that must be checked.
The democratic sentiment of the Amer
ican people will not countenance any
seeming abridgement of the people's
rights and the trust idea k hateful in
the popular mind, The danger in the
present situation is apparent in the ad
mission which most sensible people are
ready to make that Bryan would have
been elected had there been no anarchy
in the Chicago platform, and had the
candidate taken a conservative position
in antagonism to monopolies and trusts.
Will the leaders of the party, mindful
of the danger that is ahead, be brave
enough to grapple with the question
that proved too much in Mr.C.'eveland's
administration? Major McKinley k an
intelligent, broad minded, patriotic man.
He knows the danger, and despite the
assertion that he k the representative o
the trusts and capitalists, he will, ia all
likelihood, meet, the issue. Should he
act, itwould not be as a demagogue.but .
as a patriotic statesman.
COURIER PR ZB CONTEST.
A number of Etoriee have been sent to
'The Courier' and entered in the com
petition for the prize. The editor re
serves the right to print any or allot the
stories sent in whether they receive the
prize or not. This notice will bo printed
in the paper until the announcement of
the prizes. Any who may object to the
stipulation may withdraw his story from
competition at any time before No
vember 30.
The Judges are John H. Ames, W. F.
Summers and the Rev. H. Percy Silver.
The manuscripts are to be handed to
the judges without any names written
upon them and the prizes will be
awarded to a letter or to a number.
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