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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1897)
THE COURIER. the jest of their acquaintances. The laws regulating the saloon in regard to the time of closing at night and on Sunday are not enforced.. The curfew ordinance is a dead letter. The hoys were afraid of it for a while and scaniered home when the whistle blew, but nobody was ever arrested and now the streets are as full of urchins nftcr as before nine o'clock. The city government, costs a lot of money winch might as well be back in the taxpayer's pocket. His children arc the prey of the vicious. His property is assessed at an increasing valuation every year, when its real value is declining, to pay the sa'ary of a mayor who farms out the city offices, or a chief of police who holds his place at the good pleasure of that same mayor, of a police whom wise citizens securely lock their doors against, of a city council which for twelve years has been experimenting with water in a salt deposit and of a sheriff who refuses to icrform his duty when confronted with criminals that the law says he must arrest. These are plain words on threadbare subject but there are enough good people in Lincoln to change the situ ation if they are once convinced that a continuance of the present regime threatens the well-being of their own families. The new scholarships offered by the Haydon Art club are being secured by those wno appreciate the advantages offered for so very small a sum. For five dollars the purchaser will receive a ticket entitling him to a lesson a week throughout the school year and to all the -privilege.- of the Haydon Art club besides, which include ad mission to all lectures and exhibits and .-ocial reunions of the club. Some of tho.se who wish to purchase the-c live dollar scholarships met with Miss Parker last Thursday evening in the university atelier. Hereafter the in struction evenings will be on even Tuesday evening of the school year at the university. J The Irrigation congress which met in Lincoln this week gave an impetus to the cause in the very place where it will do the most good, viz. in Ne braska. The members of the congress are of the tpe practical and rellect ing, not reformers, but inventors who accept circumstances as they are and go about to make arrangements which will make certain natural laws oirset others which have operated against man. The discussion on irrigation, its expense and benefits, has changed many a farmer's views, who has thought irrigation impracticable be cause of the e.)cnse. Considering that the productive capacity of an acre of ground is doubled, while the labor required to till it remains the same, the cost of irrigation is .-aved in the cost of labor. If irrigation be comes general the size of the farms -will be rut in two. the number of holdings increased. And by the same token the hired men of today will le proprietors in the irrigated future. Another possibility of irrigation ap plied to the richest soil and longest .summer in the temperate zone is the vast diversity of crops. Nothing, out side of tropical fruitsand nuts, is im possiblo to "Nebraska with plenty of water on it. The early springs, the late fall's, the loam, the perpetual sun ami water in plenty make an agricul tural paradise such as no other state can vouch for. The Gridiron. If an early start and good material count- for anything, the university football team should le the best this fall ever produced in Nebraska. The men are all quick and active and kjs-sc.-s. in addition todetermination and grit, two or three season's exjHjrience. The last two weeks of preliminary work has put the men '.n good condi tion and Coach Robinson has set the candidate.-at work on signal practice and blocking immediately. Thereare half a dozen players who already have shown more than the average amount of seed and the struggle for places behind the line will be unusually .-harp. This cannot be said so much of the line men ex cept for end positions, where a large number are trying for places. The men themselves feel that the rivalry is strong, ami already are making every effort possible to gain the place which they desire. With thisautagouism the men who finally succeed in tilling the positions will be the best. They mii.-t posses in addi tion to an unlimited amount of nerve, all the different qualities of speed, earnestness, ever-rising courage- -but alxivc all. nerve. The man who brinks from an oncoming plunge of the other team is lacking in the prime requisite. The style of gam: for this season will be varied somewhat but only in the details. The retention of the rules of last season necessitates this year's play beingsimilar in the main. Much of kicking will be done. Not only does it make the game a better one for the spectators, but it is a sure, safe game, and especially on a windy day is the winning game. The line work will be more open and easier to watch. With the doing away of mass plays, this method of line blocking becomes necessary. The guards and tackles will be some six or eight feet apart, while the ends will have a still greater amount of terri tory to cover. It is said that the formation of in terference behind the lines will be considerably different this .season, but just how and to what extent is not yet known. The only resemblance to a mass play that will be used this year in all prob ability is the revolving wedge used by t lie Nebraska team in the Iowa game of last year. It is almost impossible t stop this maneuver. Wagenhurst is coaching Missouri thisseason, and he being from Penn sylvania, as is Woodruff, we may ex lcct the same sty ic of play-that of lT. of P. from both teams. This game mainly consists of draw ing the guards back with the half backs and running them in the inter ference. With a quick, active line opiwsing them, however, it is a dan gerous game, for the eight or nine opposing players playing in the line can quickly pass the other five and break the interference liefore it has started. If this can le done, remains to be seen. What style of game Iowa will play i- not yet known. The coach of that team is a Lafayette man and in all probability will make a letter coach than either Wagenhurst of Missouri, or Woodruff of Kansas. These two gentlemen are wonderful as individual players. Hut as coach, that is a different matter. The first game played by the Ne braska team is Octobers, with Ames. The game is to be played at Des Moincsnnd will be a hard one- the first gamealways is hard. As the Ames school runs through the summer that team should be well t mi ned at present. Their practice be gins in early August, and just at pres ent they are in as good shape as they will be in any time during the season. Their school year ends in October, and it is their custom to remain to gether and travel about playing ooooooooa'S'OOCs . 111 CopJTishllS9:ii.v The -'IcUi-Ulix-li C. 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