a VOL 12 NO 20 ESTABLISHED IN 1SSG PRICE FIVE CENTS SM'f LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY. JUNE 20, 1807. nrtntoR wnoiu AMKUtolV-CLAMUATtWm rUBLUHXD KYttY lATCBSAT etna raiuiH ui munm 11 Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. SARAH l'. HARRIS. DORA BACHELLER Editorr Bosiness Manager Subscription Rates In Advance Per annum 82 00 Six months 1 00 Three months... 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 1 OBSERVATIONS. : t Rev. Byron Beall, in a letter to a Lin coln newspaper commends the work of Evangelist Suaday. Both of these men advertise sensational subjects, use in temperate and 'profane language, and shock and frighten children and women without hesitation, in order to get an audience, in order to be talked about on the street3. Mr. Sunday claims that he left the bass ball profession to become a preacher bscause he thought he wsb converted and he wanted everybody else to be. In point of fact the large salar ies of ten years age attracted so many to the diamond that the price of players dropped below the sum that Pitcher Sunday considered his talents worth and he began to look about him for a paying job. His flexible, though not especially choice vocabulary and the practice he had in long distance shout ing and shearing in the constantly re curring decisive moments on the bate ball field, together with his personal ex- psrience of low life, led him to believe' that he could pose as a brand snatched from the burning for about four hund red dollars a month. In this venture he is constantly helped by the natural re spect that everybody instinctively feels for a preacher. A true Christian would hesitate to make his former wickedness or his self announced goodness his only stock in trade. Real convert to all re ligions are humble and ready to learn of the regular teachers. Pitcher Sunday defies and denounces the church. With the egotism of a nature essentially arse he is unably to comprehend that he is speaking to an audience much higher in the grade of morals tnnn he was in the dajs Lefore the profession of Christianity made it necessary for him to be anything but tricky, profane and lustful.. Goodness i9 always unsuspi cious and accuses no mie of that which it is itself incapable of. Tho best preacher that ever lived was crucified eighteen hundred and ninety-seven years ago. He told a story of a publican and a sinner. The publican Etood confident'- near tho altar and proclaimed his own goodness and attempted to draw the attention of the deity to the faults of other men. The real penitent stood afar en and confessed his s'ns. In modern times Phillips Brooks has helped humanity more than any other preacher. When he died the business of the town where he lived was suspend ed for a day. Everybody who came in to his presence wan'ed to be good. His life was, humanly speaking, spotless. He never asked for an endorsement, ho never needed one. When little children heard him they wanted to wait and speak to him. Tho purity and unfit ness attracted them when they did not understand his words, which, gentle as they were, threw a white light on the conscience of the grown up people who listened to him and which made them loathe themselves of an hour ago. There were no ejaculations and no groaning among the men and women he talked to, but when they left him there was a firmer set to the shoulders of the men and the lips cf the women; there was a kindly giving a in the crowds which had pushed themselves in. In thus comparing Bishop Brooks with a man who takes his cheap goods and talk from town to town, there is an absurdity. I do so only becaure in deciding upon a counterfeit it is necessary to know the ring and the stamp of the coin. Measur ing with such a standard doss not ex clude poor and ignorant workers like those of the Salvation and Volunteer ar mies. If the motive which animates a man is to be good in order to help tho world, the newspapers will not hinder his work with denunciations, nor will the pure in heart shrink from his words; but if he is working for himself by pre tending to pious indignation of sin, he can not deceive the people for long. Mr. Sunday complains of the news paper?, wherever he goes. But they axe unable to give a veibatim report of his speeches without breaking postal regulations. The reporters listen to him at first with enrne admiration for his loquacity, but after they have heard fuurtei u of his twenty eight speeches the Verdict is that he is unworthy to tase the name be uses so frequently. The papers of all denominations, re publican, as well as democratic and pop. uliit, express the hope that the able lawyers for the defense in the Bartley trial will not be able to mix things up so that the efforts of the jury to apply the law to the particular case of em bezzlement with which the treasurer is accused will not be effectual. While the case is being tried it is enough for the daily nowspapers to report the pro ceedings of the i:ourt which is trying him. The jury is composed of twelve men of average honesty and intelligence. The claims of the stati are presented by able lawyers and they are met by representa tives of the law, who havo won more hopeless cases than this one of ex Auditor Bartley, who, if ho bo innocent, resorted to the artifices and expedients of dis honesty to conceal conduct which on this date, June 21st, judge and jury are debating the legality of. When tho jury has finished its work, the people of the state, through the newspapers, will approve or disapprove according to tho unobscured principles of justice which inhere in all the people as a unit. If the decision is not coincident with the opin ion of the intelligent, commonplace men and women who read the testimony as it is presented to the court from day to day, their disapproval will react upon the party which elected Mr. Bartley. Taking out of account the popular clamor f.r a victim when a crime has been committed, these who do not join in it are willing to wait the verdict of the court. When it is recdered if justice seems to have been defeated it is time to protest. The republican party all over the state has drawn a breath of relief since tho Wednesday papers printed the news of Mr. Bartley 8 conviction. Judge Baker showed an uncompromising front to tho defense throughout the trial. To all appearances he was anxious that the jury should get the unobscured facts. They got them and rendered a verdict that the whole state is sat is tied with. Mrs. Annie Besant, the theosophist who lectured to a large audience on Sunday night and to a larger one en Monday in the Universalist church, is a woman of medium pize, with deep set eyes and a low pitched, somewhat hoarse voice. She wore a costume of China silk with a long broad scarf of the same material swathed from her Kft shoulder to the right hip where the two ends were mysteriously draped and fell to the hem of the skirt. The c stume was a very warm one, considering the night, and not exactly graceful, but it was made in England and worn by an Englishwoman and it looked as though it would last a long time. Mrs. Besant spoke clearly and slowly without jestures except as the regular leaning forward of the body and emphatic jounco upon the heels at the end of a Beries of sentences or phrases can be called jesturing. The thick folds of silk laid diagonally across the torso un fortunately emphasized round shoulders and a hollow chest, which in a different costume would not have been noticeable. Swathed in white silk, made like the dress of a ghost or a mahatma, which hung in full, straight folds like tho drap ery of a caryatid, with glistening, thick, white hair, drawn smoothly back to a knot in her nectc, and with the deep.glow ing eyes of a mystic, Mrs. Besant kept tho usua ly restless summer night audi ence still. She said that there wero three worlds, this one, the astral, and the heaven!. She knew their geo graphy, climate and conditions beoause she had traveled in every one of them. Then she Baid that each one of tho im mortal souls who listened to her could at will travel in them it they would get into the vehicles of transportation suit able to the medium it was made to travel in or over; as in this world we use the steam cars for land travel, tho steam propeller for water travel and the balloon and airship for air travel, eo to get into tho other two places she used the discoveries of prophets and masters who died thousands of years ago and found that she could get into these other two place with quickness and ease. But like the patent memory man, who related the miraculous deeds, bis pupils accomplished, she did not tell the audi ence where the station to the astral world is, or how to get transportation there. When questioned, after the lecture, she said that it would not do to tell an uninformed audience how to travel. But she gave me a little pamph let which tells what tbeosophy is and prints on the last page a list of bookB .for a course in tbeosophy, elementary advanced and ethical, consisting of twenty-nine books, fifteen of which she is the author, and five by H. P. BlavaS sky. Several years ago I bought for five dollars the six little pamphlets which the patent memory man said would give faithful students a memory as good as Macaulay's, but they did not. Now this course in theosophy costs 137 GT, which is cheap enough for a ticket to the astral world and return. Especially if while in that world we learn enough to help us to live the rest of our lives mora worthily in this one. But the very warm weather and the labor of speaking in to many plpces between San Francis. co and Ne.v Yark, together with the ex periences of the patent memory "pro fessor," m ike it probable that Mrs. Be sant advertises her bosks as well as at tempting to lift humanity from the gutter that it is too slowly crawling out of. Madam Blavatsky's book. ''The Secret Doctrine," costs. $12.50, which, 1 repeat, is cheap enough if it tells how to get safely out of this and return if we are not 6uited. It is unfair to treat the lecture of so Ieatned and so keenly in telligent a woman as Mrs. Annie Besant with a Jack of seriousness. If it were the first time thatgifted talkers had bull ed unknown stocks she would be treated