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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1897)
"t V rfP-J0 ?' & - JTf-W- -, ,; j v - - sl&? ? .; - - i ,wvi sv,-i v . .-' T, M -' n. f"i . 2 THE COURIER. It, W 13- if 1 I: I. Bf- H i" !& r u : fr ? I- . -A A- fc? V r- ? .- Sj piness under man's strict supervision. Her book is a long one and divided into many subdivisions, but the argu ment, as before stated, is based on the inferiority of the first female, pre ordained from the beginning of things a ninny. The question of the municiiial per formance of all city functions is the old question between the advantages of the different forms of government. While itcannot be denied that an ab- a pumpkin and a sheaf of corn and solute monarch, if he be good and corn flowers in her hair. Thedecorc wise, can administer the affairs of a tive value of the pumpkin has only of people better than their representa- late years beeh recognized and util tives can, 3-et a monarchy is bad, be- ized. The pure orange of its united cause if it is elective the kingdom crescents was too daring, too splendid, will be torn to pieces, like Poland of until the pester artists expressed the old, at every election, if it lie heredit- beauty of flat tones and pure colors, ary, well, goodness and wisdom grow Their work has improved the some effete, degenerate sons of noble sires times fussy perspective of the more will surely fail to rule wisely a people enervated by the rule of a man little less than a god, who bore the respon- Scribner' shows a panel of a maiden sibility of governntentso well that his n a greenish robe which the summer II people no longer know or care any- -wjn has faded; around her are the fall thing about the science of govern-Jpg autumn leaves and behind herthe ment and at his death the state dark.backgrqurd .of- the. coming-sea-is ripe for a tyrant. Those Jg. On each side is a pillar of grains, who believe in evolution in city apples, pears and plums, government, in the gradual shar- One of the most interesting of the ing by everybody of the benefits Scribner a articles is one on "The Life m accruing to a number of people who of a College Profe sor," by Bliss Perry, agree to make a community, are op- evidently a professor himself. After posed to giving up any of those bene- good-naturedly admitting "that your fits to an individual who, by making born teacher is as rare as a poet and an unfair profit for supplying some as likely to die young," and that "the necessities to the people, is no longer alumnus is lucky who can call the roll a member of the community but an of his old instructors and among the enemy to it. The responsibilities and martinets and the pedants and the duties as well as privileges of com- piously inane can here and there come munity life should be borne and en- suddenly upon a man a man who .joyed by every member of the com- taught him to think, or helped him to munity. If they are shirked, the feel, and thrilled him with a new vicious, as in Lincoln, will assume re- horizon." Mr. Bliss says: "When a sponsibilities and privileges alike, un- professor grows tired of moralizing til the community will find some day about his colleagues or his pupils, he that the water supply is being tam- always has the president to fall back" peredwith or that the city lighting upon. So have the undergjaduates, .Contract is let' to the man who will fortfcat matter, and their parents, pay the most for it, irrespective of and the alumni, and the trustees, and what the city must pay for it. Under the general public and the newspa such contracts the-volers quickly lose per reporters. The college president the community sense. They are not who can conduct himself to the satis of the city. The city is a contractor faction of this varied body of critics, .who has agreed for so much a year to and en joy at tne same time the ap- furnish light and water andperhais proval of his iwn conscience, is a intramural transportation to the in- gifted man. A president must have habitants. To pay this man the pec- many qualifications for his office I . pie are taxed. He charges for water and light as much as he can, and be- .cause be has a franchise he gives the people as poor light and water as he can and not break his contract. He . took the contract -to makemoney out of it, not from motives of enlightened .citizenship, and as he is of necessity a , shrewd man, as he has no competitor, , as he has a franchise for a certain number of years, there is no reason -why be should not make mone'. And .he does from fifty to a hundred per cent. Incidentally, in selling part of .their functions to the contractor, the .people have sold them all. Thereafter the contractor designates the mayor, the councilmen, the fiscil officers and their appointecs.The machinery of the city is concentrated, centralized in a little money-grubbing, repulsive boss who has seen the seamy side of human nature, until he does not believe in anyotherside, who has only friends that he lias bought, who has no virtues .or scruples apt to interfere with his - income. Such a boss does not resemble the type of the ideal absolute monarch except in absolutism. The few thou- sand dollars the people save by era- ploying a manager to run the affairs of the city, as well as to designate the . city officers, it loses in municiiial self- reliance and in the schooling which, if persisted in, will finally evolve a . government and administration wor thy of respect. -. JO fashion, ot colored covers which Scribner a Magazine introduced, and which McClure'a was quick to follow, shows from year to year, even from month to month, the progress of lith ographing. Everj' month in the year has a color of its own from the faint green feeling in March to the whites turning yellow of January. The Octo ber colors of orange, purple, olive and red appear on the covers of the afore mentioned magazines in most artistic combination. McClure'a isa girl with aspiring artists who scorn anything connected with an advertisement. have heard a cautious observer say but his first need is aTthick skin. Un- doubtedly, by some wise provision of Nature, the skin grows thicker with - exposure, but there isa curious pre v- talent impression that a " president's conscience is liable to a corresponding induration. A cynical-minded friend of mine, of large discourse in these matters, avers that such are the tenip- tations peculiar to the office, that of -all the college presidents he has known, only two remained Christians. These two if I may be permitted to say so without discourtesy to the oth. ers are both dead." The charming illustrations of the portraits of Cecilia Beaux, pronounced by the judges of the Paris salon to be the best woman portrait painter in the world, present to our western world, at least the work of a new ar- tist as fascinating as it issimpleand quiet. Stevenson's story of St. Ives, which has been running in McClure's for eight months, is now nearing com- elusion. The life masks of Jefferson, Madison, Adams and the Marquis De la Fayette are remarkable and pres- cious likenesses of these men of whom there are so many portraits, none of which resemble each other sufficiently to establish their authenticity. But these casts were taken from the faces of the men in life, and the wrinkles and pores of the skin, which no pho tograph reproduces, are here. II is tor. ically and bicgraphically they are in valuable. They are not artistic, but 420 ao Bleventb at. Professional HIrsslhir amd Diseases of ttxe W. BAIDUFF CANDIES tllHMMMM MIIIHIMMMIlgMHMmilMIIMMIIMM HMIM TfAilHCHQCOiKfES Bon ons9 Favors. Mail orders promptly and carefully filled. Farnam Street - - - - LINCOLN ONCE 5AID 'God must love the plain people, He made so many of them." The Typewriter we make is intended for "The Plain People," Those who do not care to pay Our Machine does the $100 kind of Work, and? the Price is only $20. Send, for Catalogue andsample of Wo.rlc ODEkb TYPEWRITER GO 35S-3Q-5r Dearborn Street, Cbioago 111. J. L. STEPHENS. HARRY E. President. azMtm Gmi corner Eleventli and O Streets Ope led its fail term recently with a large attendance. 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