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8 THE COURIER, i a 15 til Iclfi i ?i II !d m ,ai ! 9 I?' m The Negro Question. A Comunication. Republicans feel that they owe much to the negroes, and that the negro vote ir worth conciliating and cultivating; therefore, every republican administra tion civee Eome offices to negroes. I do notobjeet to this; victors --'an divide the spoils as they please, but 1 think that it would be fairer to select the offices for negroes in republican dis tricts, instead f offending the southern people by putting black officials among them. The crucial test of an old aboli titionist was, "Would you allow your daughter to marry a black man?" I never happened to know one republican leader that would stand this test. How should we like to have negro judges, tax collectors, postmasters, mayors and governors? Could any negro be elected to public office in New York? The south once had to endure negro legislators and congressmen and cow the McKinley administration is shly appointing ne groes to federal offices in the southern states. It would he wiser to educate ourselves first, and then attempt to abolish the color line in the former slave states gradually; but I notice that whenever a republican decides to inject the black virus, be selects a democratic community for the experiment. Then comes a popular protest, and then the accusations that the south is still stubborn and disloyal, and refused to accept the lessons 'of war. Human nature cannot be changed by legislation; the people of this country must be edu cated up to the absolute social end po litical equality of races, and the best place to begin this education is in dis tricts where the republicans are largely in the majority, and their doctrine that the black man is equal to the white man in every respect iB held as an indis putable truth. "Physician, heal thy Belf !" is a fair rile. Let us give negro officials a trial in the northern states before imposing them upon the south. Although negroes are entitled to eaual rights uuder the amended constitution, most of these rights continue to be de nied to them in conEequence of popular prejudice. In Georgia the white depu ties cave refused to serve under a negro collector of internal revenue, and the white women in the mills have refused to work with negro women; in New York last week, a crowd on the sidewalk in front of a prominent hotel watched and applauded while the waiters refused to serve a negro man and woman in the public restaurant. The law impose8 heavy penalties for such refusals, but 'the higher law,' "to which the abo litionists ured to appeal, is now against the negroes. The prejudice against them is not sectional; it iB as strong in the north as in the south. Cosmopolitan To the Editor of The Cocriek: Your "unknown correspondent" wishes to rush into print just once more, and this time for quite different reasons. First, to thank you for your amiable reception of my letter about the Administration Arch, and fo the flattering tone of your reference to it. Second, to remove the impression you have formed of your correspondent's calling, attainments and sex. I am not Walker & Kimball, nor either one of them. , I am obliged to you for finding my chirography "sym metrical and distinct' but ah, it is not that of an architect! I am not technic ally wise. I am not a citizen of Omaha. I am not even a man! Dear Editor, your experiences should have shown jou the feminine quality of your un known asrailant's communication, if not of her handwriting! And when you stop to think of it, you will see that the architects in-chief of an enterprise such as is now taking shape, could have neither time nor disposition to go into letter writing in defense of their build ings, even if defense were needed. Also, you can't seriously think they would fall to admiring their own work in public, after the manner of my very outspoken letter. Nc, I am sure they leave all that to such onlookers .19 may h'ave leisure and inclination for it. As for me. I don't recall anything very technical in my bit of writing. The examples I gave were mostly recol lections of travel, verified by sketch books, and one of the examples is ex tremely like the Omaha arch, propor tion, shapo and roof and alL If you have "never seen anythicg like the top of the Arch," I would like to remind you that novelty is usually a desideratum for exposition architecture, provided it does not fail in beauty. And in support of thie last remark, I can't let you off without quoting what I have heard given as the opinion of one of the mofat gifted architects in this country, i.e., that the building we are now dis- First publication August 7, 897. S. L. GEISTHARDT. Attorney. ORDER ON ABSENT DEFENDANTS In the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Nebraska. At a session of the circuit court of the United States, for the District of Ne braska, continued and held pursuant to adjournment, at the United States court room in the city of Omaha, on the 29th day of July. 1897, the Hon. W. H. Mun- ger, judge, being present and presiding in said court, the following, among other proceedings, were had and done, to-wit: Charles Jorn, as executor of the last will and testament of John Jorn, de ceased, complainant, vs. David House, et al., defendants No. 182 "S," in chanrery, order on absent defendants. And now, on tbis 29. b day of July, A. D.. 1897, being at the may term, A. D., 1897, of the said court, it having beea made to appear to the satisfaction of the said court tbat thi is a suit commenced to enforce a mortgage held by comp'ain 'ant a lien upon real property within the said district, and that John M. Sharon, David B. Welch, Charles A. Hanna and the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, O., a corporation. Defendants herein are not inhabitants of, and have not been found within the said district, and have not voluntarily appeared in th's suit, on motion of complainant's solici tor, S. L. Geisthardt, solicitor for the said complainant, it is considered by the court and ordered that the said defend ants above named, be and are nereby directed to appear and plead, answer or demur to the complainant s amended bill of cotnplaint. on or before first Mon day in October, 1897, and that in default thereof, an order be entered in this causs, taking the said bill pro confesso. Jt is further ordered by tne court that at least twenty days before the said first Monday in October, 1897, a copy of this order be served upon said John M. Sharon, David B. Welch. Charles A. Hanna, and the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, O., a corporation. The said defendants, wherever found, if practic able, and also upon the person or per sons in possesion or charge of the real property described in complainant's bil of complaint, if any there be; or in lieu thereo" a copy of this order be published for six consscutive wejks in The Couk iek of Lincoln, a newspaper published and in general circulation insaiddisttict of Nebraska. signed W. H. Munoer. Judge. The United States of America ) District of Nebraska. E8 I, Oscar B. Hillis, clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the dis cussing was the most praiseworthy de o; f ll 1 :: ..r, ..wuii. u. mo uimcu 01 a ,- - Is,l",u BrouD- beauty trict of Nebraska, do hereby certify that onu D.U1J.I11..1V ire one most true ineaDoveanu loregoing is a true copy Of all the architectural of an orJer entered upoa the journal of sometimes! styles nowever, what seems to you be3t suited to festal occasions? The severely classic? You can't think so! Fancy a set of strijtly Ionic exposition buildings, for instance. The effect would be heart breaking. But make them Oriental or Moorish, say have a riot of orna ment, color, even bizarre effects and you have architecture suited to a frolicsome season, to the "come-and-go" in which the Frenchman delights. There is a case where beauty should not be fettered by simplicity, tne proceed 1 nes of said court in the causa thetein entitled; that I have com pared the same with the original entry of said order, and it is a true transcript therefrom, and of the whole thereof. Witness my official signature and the seal of laid court, at Omaha, in said district this fifth day of August, A. D. 1897. Seal Oscar B. Hilus, , Clerk. Endorsed: Filed July 29, 1897, Oscar u. units, cleric, s-11 fTfirtTAritia ennthot-n liu,41!. i New York has only three reputable f X "" . , " . uesigneu hotels in wnich negroes are received on Pirct. 'Plllilir.jtinn 1 nmiAf T ICflT Think of the New England Loan and Trust Company Irian ,lor.: 1 .. Tl,. l ' JUUUiptiUU. in tne Moorish manner by some of our 10 Anmo -itts and William Pitts, her equal terms with other guests, and all three hotels arc kept by foreigners. But the prejudice is confined to the United States; it does not extend to any part of Europe nor to Mexico and South Ameri ca. On the continent there is no color line, and in England negroes are re garded with special favor, probably on account of their rarity. There is no reasonable explanation of our popular antipathy. It has nothing to do with slavery, because slavery wa6 abolished a generation ago, and because there is no discrimination between negroes that may have been slaves and the freeborn, educated, wealthy negroes that come from the West India islands. It baa litde to do with co'or, because there is no popular objection to the jellow Hongolians and Japanese, the copper Indians, the dark skinned Mexicans, Brrzilians and South Americans, who can dine anywhere, be received every where and marry anjbody, if they have money enough. It is not inherited, for our children are as fond of their black nurse sb some of us used to be of our great New York architects; how fit they are in me tropical place, and how dis mal would bo the result if they had been treated in a "columnar" style, like the railway station which jou justly approve, and which is most lit in its place. You will think I am loo tedious to live. Pardon me once more and believe me an appreciative and wholly feminine reader, and in good faith a Sojourner. August lGth, 1897. and you'll be happy, my "Bo good daughter. "Isn't there any easier way, ma?" At 117 so. Tenth. husband, Philip K. Ketrick and Prank S. Bolar non-resideLt defendants: You and each of you are hereby notified that on August 5, 1897, New PJngland Loan and Trust Company, an lowa corporation, as plaintiff, be gan an action against you and other defendants in the dmtrirr. mnrt r Linc-iiter county, Nebraska, the cb- jeci or. wnicn is to foreclose a certain mortgage on the following land in said county, to wit: the south west quarter ol : section number 21, in town number 12 north of range number 5 eist or thoGth Principal Meridian, made by James Thompson, and Sarah Ellen Thorn p?on tc Now England Loan land Trust Company, dated April 25th 1887, to secure the payment of promissory notes of said James Thompson, to said ISew En gland Loan and Trust Company for 81G2TK) on which there is now duo &0M with interest from may 1ST, ltvt, at ten per cent per an- slare "mammies.' THESAUNfERER. western line-the greatest railroad 'and to satisfy said liens as aforesaid, system touching Lincoln, with shortest foF. deficiency judgement and General ,.., ou aro "quired to answer plaintiff's petition on or before the 27th day of September, 1897. New England Loan &. Trust Company, Plaintiff. " a 3 By s-L- Geisthardt, Attorney. mileage to Chicago and St. Paul and making quickest time. Get our low ates to tourist points before buying tickets. A. S. Fielding, C. P. & T. A Lincoln, Neb. Pree Aclveirti ISins. What a lot of fr.p ad vertising the Burlington must roceivo if it is true as some people hJ Umt "a pleased passenger ia a railroad's best advertise ment!" To all points east, west north and south, th. Bur lington has well equipped and unparalleled sen ice. George W". Bonneii, AMERICAN EXGHANGF NATIONAL BANK. LINCOLN, NED. S.H. Bl'RXIIAM, President. D. G. Wing, A. J. S w ei:. Vice president Cashier CAPITAL S2.-,0,C0O. Directors A. J. Sawyer. S. H. Hum ham. E. Finney, J. A. Lancaster. Lea is Gregory, N. Z. Snell, G. M. Lambert son, O. G Wing, S. W. Burnham. a SPICTO Actual time traveling. .'11 hours to Salt Lake. Gl hours to San Francisco. G3 hours to Portland. 77 hours to Los Angeles. FROM- LINCOLN, NEB. HfHMpnyfjfiWP IX THE OBIT M ROUTE 10 THE SOBIH Gome and See . O. TOWMSEND. F. D. CoKNtlU G. P. 4 T. Agt. C. P. '' .AJft. IlOJi v m ST- Louis. Ma WARD'S PERFUMED FOOT POWDER CUBES Corn. Ijunlon'i l.iJr, SnoMtn FOR Perspiration i ol Feet and 'strmpiu. l.l.WIEBA r XOBlS f hirago, JE-OK HA tB1 fttt. Illinois.