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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1898)
, 4 t I . isgflrs'V"- rr.yzfyzmttvvvr-' TtZ t-c- vr W -v-JTT-p; - r y'-yyyjFiiiwaijf '."?-s t. ,- C VOL.13.' NO. 31. -JS -fv &"'' , ' BSTABLISHBD IN 1886 PRICE FIVK CENTS: -i: i 2 -' ' " ' J". . . f , . "-V . . ',.'.1 1 " s- iV"rj yr r LINCOLN. NBBR., SATURDAY JULY 30. 1898. ca WWJ side a black tin box ordinarily kept in raised to the position of taxpayers and tional, not often exhibited by the CsjScK(. a dark place and visited once a month worthy citizens. If then the income pioneer. A file of The Conservative by a man with a stub end of a candle in does nob equal the excuses or the de- will be invaluable to the future histo ids hand. The eroeer and the butcher nartincnt. meters that measure the rian of the visr, :nw! ir t.li iu.ri,,. y PBhMtf .....2 i- .!...: ... .... -. : a. .11 i i.a .. .1... .1 ... it. t ii.s i . tr . vtuigu uicir wares in iuu signu ui iiic uruj u uriiiK aim tavu in can ue nies. xue llidiau Stories of customers by an instrument so simple put in. In addition to other objee- Spotted Tail and White Cow Entered in tiie postoffice at Lincoln as that a child can understand it. In tions such a system will raise the tax published in the issue of Julv "M r- SECOND CLASS MATTEE. . , - , . -. ... , . - ! ... ' ' tact the modern scales does not differ of the washerwoman to a sum' out of late to the beginning or the present published EVERY svturuay iH PrincinIe from the "alaiices placed all porportion to her income and will epoch in which the Indian hasaccept- " in the hand of the allegorical figure be an uneconomic tax on large fam- ed the supremacy of tlie white and ac- niiniiouivn nn of Justice tnrec hundred years ago. ilies, which are statistically, as well as knowledged the futility or struggling THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO But gas, waterand electricity must be proverbially, poor ones. As a dis- against him. and has begun to try, in t TI St weighed automatically because the courager to personal cleanliness the spiteof racial obstacles, to be like him. Office 11.F- r street. Up btaira buyer is not present when the custo- water meter's capacity is appalling. The value of such a paper, published Telephone 384. "icr wishes to use these commodities. The Coukikii advocates the free by a man who lias already done much sarah B. harkis, - Editor Therefore the scales are shut up in a and unlin.I.eduse of a bath tub with- forllia stat' an(, mmt fa box which has never yet possessed the out the espionage of a meter prone to and deserves full appreciation confidence or the public. The propo- oe inaccumte, of mysterious construc Subscription Kates In Advance. sition to supply every water consumer lion and long the instrument of gas Per annum S? in Lincoln with a meter is not popu- and electric lighting companies whose It is continually a matter of sur- Six months.. lar The difficulty with the present ways are known to be those of P"se that the magazines print serial Oneonth..." ".".'.".".. .."..".".'.. ".V. 20 rcginie is that everybody who uses darkness s'.ories. For out of the very large Single copies.."."."..".... ". 05 water is not made to pay for it. If number of subscribers to these ameli- the meter system were in use, these Tne Conservative, the new paper orations of the life monotonous, there ... . . people who have used the city water published bv the Honorable J. Ster- are very few who will admit that they ble?oErVoluX for years without paying for it, would lng Morton at ebmska City, is a readserialstories. Yetinallthestand- accompanied by return postage, continue to do so. The boodle ele- weekly journal devoted to the discus- ard magazines there are serial stories Communications, to receive atten- ment of the administration would not s'on "f political, economic and socio- throughout the year. And before one tion, must be signed by the full name be defeated by a meter. The leakages logical questions. The twelve pages is completed another one is started tee lorSfaitli T bSrfKubHJSn complained of by the couneil probably are twelve inches long by nine and If they were not read they would not if advisable. occur through and by the connivance one-half inches wide and divided into be published. Publishers are only of some part of thecity administra- three columns of thirteen ems each, anxious to pleas; and they would not tion. The result of putting in meters Te typography is extremely neat and pay Athony Hope, Henry Seton Merri- will be to decrease the amount of uie vontents are very interesting. Mr. man or Budyard Kipling for stories water used by those who have always Morton, in philosophy, is a positivist. which were after all only read when paid their own assessment plus the He has convictions and in speaking or published in book form, assessment of some one who has man- writing he never shows any doubt of Jiever to admit that lie has read a aged to elude his water tax. To the reliability of his inspiration. He serial story as it appears in the maga measure the gallons of water in a has pro. ed by accomplishment that zincs is a masculine point of honor, bath, or for a washing or for the 'deals are worth having. lie came to At dinners and on all occasions where hundred household uses should be con- Nebraska in the early days before we men of business come in contact with sidered only as a last resort. The lad a right to a star in the flag. He the chocolate caramel part of human leakages of which the councilmen are built a home on the edge of Nebraska ity this disavowal of all interest in constantly complaining should be in- City where he could have land enough serial stories is made over and over vestigated and the immune pets of for a manor, and he named it Arbor again. It is one or those reiterated the political ring in control of the Lodge. Thirtyyearsor more ago he imbecilities which form one or many affairs of the city, made to pay their planted trees which now overshadow reasons why society has little flavor r'mtiOa4W share of tax" protect the lodge which was then for any but the very joungorthe very w5 A few months ago when the Brace the wilderness. His example and patient and good-natured. Much LHRFRVATIONS '2 block was investigated and the water efforts to plant a treeless state have ennui might be prevented by teaching UDOEIVlIUlNO. O was f0Un(j to be turned on, Mr. D. E. caused thousands of trees to be plant- each youth and maiden the things mm-mJjmjmjmjimj Thompson wrote a letter to one of the ed and innumerable birds to stop and (harmless enough in themselves) not 'G0''mrm city papers which was supposed to set rear their families in a state they had to say. And one of them should be No citizen of Nebraska has acted a at rest the suspicion that that block hitherto ignored in their migrations, this self-evident fib in regard to serial more important part in the pending was using city water without paying Perceiving the difficulties which the stories. Why they should be denied war with Spain than George D. for it. The letter explained about early settler had in getting the trees with such pharasaicemphasisis one of Meiklejohn, assistant secretary of the cistern on the property and the to live, Mr. Morton established Arbor the mysteries pertaining to masculine war. Possessing remarkableexecutive amount of money paid Mr. Brad Pay. The results can only be estimat- ideals of virtue that no woman can ability, of keen discernment and ma- Slaughter for electricity but failed ed by the early settlers on the prai- fathom. That it is considered efferai ture judgment, Mr. Meiklejohn has to explicitly deny the use of the city rie. From a treeless, bird abandoned nate and in bad form to read a serial proven himself a valuable assistant to water in the building The letter state ornithological statistics show story no one will deny who has studied Secretary Alger. In the future dis- was carefully worded and the omission that Nebraska contains a greater va- the average man in his hours of recre tribution of positions of trust and is only apparent to one who is looking riety of species of birds than any ation. i. e., hours when he is directing honor Mr. Meiklejohn will not be for- for that and nothing else. Whether other state in the union. The increase the attention of a small company to gotten either by the general govern- the Brace block was using water for in the rainfall is also directly due to what he himself likes to read, to eat ment or by this state. which no payment was exacted, or the increased cultivation of timber as and as to what he thinks about women Jt not, does not alter the fact that the well as crops. In his efforts for the religion etc. He may have read' The construction of the meter is a largest users of water in the city preservation of the early history of Trilby,, and "The Prisoner of Zenda" mystery to most people who, neverthe- either pay nothing for it or a dispro- Nebraska Mr. Morton has shown a as they appeared from month to month less, accept the record as presented by portionately small share of it. This scholarly : appreciation of the value in the magazines, but I have never the collectors. But the works are in- being so the immunes should first be of records, documentary and tradi- heard one of these speakers confess it ?i i i
