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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1897)
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MMM Is the BEST to reach the " iEW GOLD FIELDS in the . BLACK HILLS, i . Call at office for valuable "information. A. S. Fielding, City Ticket Ag-t,. 117 So. 10th St., Lincoln, Keb. . iM0MOM0tO0 0M0l0000tOO0OOOj : : Our spring" styles of ; ; ; shoes and Oxfords are in, ' : : black and all shades of : ': : colors, We want your : ; trade and will give you : the best goods for )our ' money. : WEBSTER 5 ROGERS, 1043 0 STREEL too OlOHMCOKtlf 0M but man has been eoual to the occasion. Artificial light and heat of most sub tle sorts have taken Its place. Vast regions beneath the earth's surface I am not a prophet nor the m of a have been made to yield the'r share of prophet, but In these days one need be life-sustaining products. Blossoming neither In order to prophecy. All that Islands cover the surface of the sea. Is necessary Is a correct equation of Mountain ranges are leveled with the scientific facts and due care in the sub- Plains that they may not obstruct ag stitution of values, and the future ap- rlculture. The icy regions of the north pears as inevitably as If the equation aml south are as prolific as the tropics, were in truth algebraic. So it happens for human ingenuity has vaporized that nowadays we laugh the long- tneIr congealed moVture and It Is held haired, wild-eyed sons of the wilder- ,n sreat clouds in the air ready to be ness, who go about In our midst cry- bIown to an desired point by artificial Ing "Woe, Woe!" back Into their native air-currents, there to descend as rain. Kansas deserts. We know all about Man nas Invaded, too. the kingdom of the "woe" ourselves, and we haven't tne ain There are his cities, for he hnd to become barbarians In order to muaJ- utilize each precious Inch of find It out either. earth for grain. Kven In the atmos There Is one of these scientific equa- Phere are floated gardens which give tlons whose working out Is to speculat- a PrtIon to his support. ive folk with whom I must acknowl- sul1 tne race Increases, slowly, stead edge fellowship as fascinating as the "J"' But human invention Is exhaust- cntiiiWn. tf tA nimin I. 't..-.!,! i ed. The nrnl no In tr mnintv ff thf among mathematicians. I allude to the earth is (axed to Its utmost, to more mtwry 01 involution, as applied to the """ i ausiain. ivnu as me years human family to what might perhaps J183 !t bfgins to fail, be termed the problem "of life. It Is Finally the food supply for each Is not with evolution as a theory of the limited to fixed rations. Stead ly there genesis of -the race that I am Interest- ,s an Increase of consumers; steadily a ed. The nature of the events which In- decrease In allowance. But animals duced some meditative anthropoid to cannot fully develop without sufflclen discard his tall and set a new fash on cy of fo0t3' So ,n thtse days with the that ended in revolutionizing society or gradual decrease of food supply come the exact time at which the forerun- a corresponding decrease of physical vl ners of our forefathers literally de- tallt" and mental power. At last mental scended from their ancestral tree and retrogression reaches a stage In which took "squatter's cla'm on some primitive ,l ls Impossible for the degenerate off quarter section, are matters of small sPrinS f the noble race of former days moment to me. They may Interest to mahitaln Its conquests. Dominion Darw.nlans and others addicted to an- is lost over the aIr Tne ice asaln oc tlquarian research; for myself, I am cuP'es Its old place at the poles and not yet an antlquarln. What evolution encroaches ever farther and farther to has done Is Interesting In Its way an ward tne trPlcs. slaying the millions everyday sort of interest; but what it In ,ts patn with its deadly chill. Appa ls going to do that is the question. ratus for light and heat In underground There are three facts of scl.tice, three reSions becomes deranged never to be main terms In the equation which leads rePaIred by the starving wretches who io a solution or this problem. The '"'" " muusunus in mose gioomy first of these is the gradual dying of dePths- Tha ocean waves, released, the sun's heat. Whether that heat is dasn to PIeces their island load. Only du9 to combustion of the sun's elements aIonS the equator Is a narrow strip or to contraction of Its mass or to both where a few Pr creatures survive on combined, matters little. The fact re- tne scanty vegetation that is sustained mains that it is lessening century by by tne littIe neat given forth from the century and must eventually die out d,nP sun- Poor old dame nature, ever eniireiy. me second term in our set- JV,"U, uu,- ier ut io cioine mese, ner entitle problsm is what is known as the Malthugan theory that the grad ual increasejof the human race must 'eventually exhaust the life-sustaining last children, with the warm coat which they have no skill to provide for them selves. The tropical zone has an al most arctic cl mate and arctic vegeta- reiources of Mother Earth. Our last tton, as we know". ls stunted and cllng- ferm is somewhat Itss obvious than the ,nff cIose to earth- Habitually in a preceding, yet the student of human bendI"g posture to procure this scanty progress must be forced to concede it foo3, thesa Iast representatives of our It is the doctrine of the final unity of race become nable to stand erect, the race. Intercommunicafon b:tween Cont,nual hunger and search for food all the branches of the human family Produces a reassertlon of purely ani ls already beginning to frame the unl- mal characteristics. The skull changes. versal civilization. Common clvillza- he forehnd lowering and receding, the tion means similar environment h Jaws Protruding more and more. And .... SO. finallv. reDresentlnir the tnniuut D. G. VAN DUyN; iGOIIIuSIONIERCHJINI In grain PROVISIONS, IL?and 2 JiHD 3 BROWNELl BIOGK, PHONE Y66. Correspondent F. G. Logan. Member Chicago Board of Trade and New York Stock Exchange. TTada? saw maaai MEECHANTS, HOTEL OMAHA, NEBR. " FAXTOIT, MTTTXTT DATKNTOBT, riwyrtoten. attMttea to jtata tnU, imM urt tnnlm. rarmam atoMt aiMMt vr- tkafeMfeaaJ boat all riaafwf round, the perfected product of evolu tion exists a dying race having all the characteristics of ape?, but with tha pedigree of man. Under the lea of a great rock, near world over, and this must shape sm liar devtlopment The tendency of gov ernment is toward some form which shall as nearly as possible place all men under equal conditions. What government fails to accomplish inven- , ..,, . , . . . -" "- "" - (.'mi xi;n, near ion will achieve. Absolute homogenei- the head of the Pergfan ty must be. the final outcome the world mUe flickerinff fire the ' men Men will in truth be cosmopoli- human IntlIiRence. Crouchlnff around tan-cltzens of the world. ,t pVesslnff c,ose to each other Taking these terms together. I see but are flve emaciated. severing one natural solution, and on it base my mue creatures-earth's last inhabit-prophecy-not at all. let it be under- ant, Are they numan? j. stood after the manner of the Kansas Ual skulls, thrtr verj- attitude de prop ets. noting only the animal, they look far Ages will have passed away. Man has more like apes. Yet In the eye there reached a state of perfection never is a. gleam of intelligence. And see! on 3 dreamed of by his primitive nineteenth seeks wIth hig own tQ centum- ne.-to. Distinctions of neighbor from the cold. Surely that race, of Individual even, have largely denotes affection and self-sacrifice. And dsappeared. But mankind has steadily then there Is the fire. Did any but Increased in numbers until he fills ev- man ever kindle a fire' ery corner of the globe. Tha product- it k n,M.i. ., . . fveness of the earth has been increased coal ls the sun!a- Ju JJ fh ,1 netd,a,thr?nld' LnS8lnCe at from a dying ember, no percepti the light and heat given forth by the We heat. Yet such It may be for cen sun would have failed to eustain life, turles. Low on the horizon Is a bank of dark, gray clouds. Fleecy fragments break off and are carried swiftly by the ley wind across the sky. The snow Hakes begin falling at first a few are blow.i past, then they come thickly, swiftly. The light of the! sun grows indistinct. A moment later it is shut out altogeth er to shine no more on living creature. A fierce Icy gust sweeps around tho rock, the little flame Is extinguished. A few moments the last representat ves of animal life shiver and chatter. Then they are silence! forever. The elements are wildly astir. Cha otic confusion reigns. Shtleklng, curs ing, mocking the ghosts of dead in telligences chase each other hurl each other through their vast tomb. Again all Is s lent. And the earth sweeps swiftly onward onward, to be, perhaps, some time swallowed up In one of the giant fireballs (lying through space. ALEX. r 4piCTOV Actual time traveling. 31 hours to Salt Lake. Cl hours to San Francisco. GS hours to Portland. 77 hours to Los Angeles. FROM LINCOLN, NIB City office, 1W1 O street. Free AclveiTtlssiMLg Whit a lot of free ad vertising the Burlington must iceive if it is true, as some people siy that "a pleased piseenper is a railroad's best advertise ment!" 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