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LINCOLN. NEB.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5; !8i'S.
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ESTESEDIX TllE POSTOFFICE AT LINCOLN A3
SECOND CLASS MATTEE.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
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IHE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO
Office 1132 X street, Up Stairs.
Telephone 384.
SARAH R. HARRIS.
BORA RACHELLER
Editor
Riisincss Manager
sessed against them. The question on her heroine, but she might have been for years. The council commit
has been taken into court and it made the villain justify more exactly, tee has proceeded very wisely in mak
should be decided there. In the mean- The Beth Book is about the size of ing its investigations. It is composed
time, opposition to the company be- The Heavenly Twin. It takes Mrs. of those who have fought for an ecu
cause it hiis referred the matter tothe Grand ;"7." pages to tell her story, but mimical adnilntmtion, and the result
courts, is inconsistent. There is not the story does not grow tiresome, of its work, unless the obstacles to
a member of the council however therefore it. is not too long. Novelists discovery arc Insurmountable, will be
given to patriotic posing and sopho are in the habit of beginning with a gratifying to the people,
morieal speeches, there is not a citizen Minerva and Apollo at least eighteen o
of Lincoln, or of Utopia, for that mat- years old. Modern story-tellersrecog- The mayor wrote the following note
ter, who would noi do exactly as the nize the necessity of explaining the to the council and it was read at the
directors of the street car company conditions surrounding the childhood meeting on Monday night:
have done. This being so. and I have of their characters and respond to it To the City Council Gentlemen:
yet to hear of anyone willing to pay more or less. But Mrs.G rami devotes Owing to the ponding investigation of
taxes which he was not legally com- two-thirds or her pages to the child- the water department I have deemed
pelletl to pay, let us treat the street lined of Beth. The account is so vivid VjuSmint toVll tif .KiS
and, in a sense, autobiographical or sioued bv the resignation or L. .7. By-
thc lives of all sensitive and i magma- ers. In view of thesituaton I deem
Subscription Kates In Advance.
-Per annum 51 CO
-'"Six months "
'-'Threo months 50
"One month 20
Singlo copies Oo
car company without prejudice.
The Beth Book by Madam Sarah
Grand is the last of a trilogy which
began with Ideala and was followed
by The Heavenly Twins. It treats,
tive children, that when the story l iC1 l lI:.IC(i the department for
r,..i.i..c IK M.-mir.. i...rtff wlwn if t,Hi IlMlt III the llillldS of W. W.
re.uhes tl.c mature period, when it CwlinUK an(, w,lW therefore nomi-
inen and one ror women. Beth is a
OBSERVATIONS. 8
The question in dispute between the
Lincoln Street Car company and the
city as to the former's liability ft r
paving taxes between the tracks is
-soon to be settled in the courts. In
. the meanwhile there is no reason why
the company should not go on with
the repairs necessary to keep the
plant in working order. If the com
pany wishes to spend forty thousand
dollars in improvements and repairs
there is no reason why they should
not proceed to do it. The council will
nut agree to keep the painy between
the tracks in repair. The franchise
that the company has been granted
gives it the exclusive right to the
middle of the road, a right which in
conveniences and frequently endan
gers the life of pedestrians. The
cheap transportation and access to
distant parts of the city recompenses
the citizens for surrendering the best
part of the highway, but the comjiany
should keep that part of the road of
which it has been granted the exclu
sive use, in repair. On the other hand
the property lias not jmid satisfactory
returns on the investment, and it is
idle to expect tlie owners of the prop
erty to pay anything that the law
does not exact from them. There is
not a taxpayer in Lincoln who would
-voluntarily pay more taxes on a prop
erty than the law; require!. Some of
the best lawyers have expressed their
professional .opinion to the effect that
the street car company is not obliged
fcj.law to pay the paving taxes as-
precocious youngster and an uncon- woman. She has a message to deliver a
vcntltinal young 'woman 'who marries a imnerativif as Joan of A re's, and riilly-iibiulttedf. P.-A. Graham,
the mayor is startlingly illustrated by
its conduct after reading the com
munication in immediately appoint
ing Mr. Woodward and Mr. Webster I o
confer with the mayor and discover if
passible whether the appointment
was to be temporary or permanent.
begins to deal with the everlasting tiate him Tor that, position tcmnr.r-
disnute concerning the rights or amy, ami only until such time as it
as they do, or the evils consequent women and the immunities or men, it lna' seJ"1 advisable to make a per
....,. i. ..,.;.,. , -,v ,.,,- i ...w ,,.,.. r,.- ....... ....- manent nomination. I trust vm will
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Mrs. Grand is a brilliant and logical pursuing this plan, and conrirm the.
ippointmcnt hercbv made- JJepect-
niperative as Joan or A re's, and .r""'"ii:uf. r.-.vtKAii.:n,
a cad because lie aks her to and Ik- she delivers it quite as bravely and ., ... , ,. .3 .
fvnm. Iiomnmilo "rPtv.nr. Ifor Hmifi. .r n.. ci... i... !... i,.l.l ........... J.HC L-oiiimeiice lllf council lias 111
v -. ..v- 1-x...1r., ...V1,v-.-.. --v- u..v.v UIHJi-LlIilHJ .I1VJ li4CT i-ii li'iu tirtt-
or a nusuaiiu does notjusuiy. as print- 0ntly that men do not like her books,
ers say. She is a young woman who to which she replies in this one, that
has never allowed her judgment to be s,e ;s m,t writing ror men but for
biased by custom or convention. She women. She thinks ir the women can
judges the rich and the poor, peer and be induced to expect more or men, the
peasant with a singular accuracy and men will rescind. She says that when
justice. Like the scales in a physical women loved knights, true knights
laboratory kept under glass that the there were, when she loved trouba-
specks in the air may not disturb dours the men turned troubadours. The first number or The Kiote, a
their delicate and true adjustment, Whatever the standard be. woman has new magazine published by the Eng
Beth's intuitions arc exact and her made it and only woman can change Iishclub or the state university, has
conclusions llawlcss, humanly speak- a. so in truth, it makes very little appeared. It is small, neat and the
ing. Yet she married the first man difference whether men, except Tor contents are interesting. It contains
who asked her. He happened to be a their reflexive inllucnce on women, three short stories, two short poems
mercenary, dandified, brutal, ignorant approve of Mrs. Grand's books or not. andan editor's drawer under the head
doctor, and daily association with him jt ing, Yelps. The first story in the book
became vivi-section without an anaes- Much is expected of the investi- is written by Miss Pound. It concerns
thetic. Yet she will not admit there gating committee now at work on tlie the courtship and marriage of a maid
is any relief, and not until he himself water, police and fire departments or or all work and bears photographic
wishes a separation does she leave this city. It is composed of men or signs or realism", ir it. were not Tor
him. Association with a being whose the same party to which theollicials the tone or patronage, obscuring the
standards and tastes are Miperior is as it investigates belong. Thus the peu- evident sympathy or the writer with
painful to one as to tlie other. The pie are beginning to hope that the thesiibjcet, the sketch would be alto
inevitable comparison and just as in rumors which have been afloat ever gether. admirable. This paragraph
cvitable loss of s?ir re-peet is uncon;- since the beginning of the present shows the story-tellers attitude:
fortableevcn fora degenerate Though mayor's administration as to the sell- "Lottchen was married in thechurch,
in the case or Dr. Maclure. Beth's ing of positions in the fire and police with Father Kersenbender, the priest,
husband, it N complimenting him departments, may be confirmed by officiating, and had probably, in the
more than he deserves to call him a facts They hope for the worst be- cbroniclings or her circle, the most
degenerate. That word preMipixise- cause a punishment or such offense elegant wedding or the year. We
former excellence, and Dr. Maclure now will make the election of any or sent her a present and though we did
shows no survival or breeding, char- the old crew very difficult ir not im- not. or course, attend ourselves, we
acter or intellect, lie is a beast with- possible. The republican party is were told by our new servant the de
out a beast's refinement and reserve, striving to rid itseir or die rubbish tails or the events" We on our part
To be convinced or his incurable vul- which lias weighted it down and oh- immediately reel the arctic distance
"arity require no discriminating scored its principles. It is a measure between the story-teller and her
jud-Miient like Beth's Yet she mar of self-preservation, and ir these who humble heroine. In passing, we
rieshiin and does not discover that he arc guilty do not succeed in conceal- might note that it is the custom -r
is impossible Tor several years. This ing the evidences or their robberies -her majesty, Queen Victoria.-and the
is the weak point of the book. With- from tlie people they have robbed members of the royal family to attend
out an unhappv marriage Mrs. Grand there is more encouragement in tlie the funerals and weddings of turn
could not. of course, secure the eilccts the present situation than there has spits and scullions and of all raithrul
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