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LINCOLN. NBBR., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898.
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OBSERVATIONS. 8
When it is remembered how many
Frenchmen are said to have commit
ted suicide when their testimony
mig-ht have overthrown the govern
ment the charge that Lieutenant
Henry was murdered is not .without
weight. The kind of justice received
by Zola and Dreyfus resembles the
tyranny of an absolute and irrespon
sible monarch. The trials had none
of (the features of cases tried under
n republican form of government, yet
France is supposed to be a republic.
No king would dare to use such a sys
tem. If the prisoner on Devil's island
is killed when the authorities are com
pelled to release him the French peo
ple are a pusilauimous pack of leashed
hounds if they do not resent and abol
ish such a system. No Bourlion, no
lettres de cachet, ever struck freedom
a harder blow than the trial and con
viction of Dreyfus, the trial ot Zola,
his sentence and the murder of Henry,
if it were a murder.
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It is reported that Lieutenant Hob
son intends to ask for a popular sub
scription to raise the Colon, iiir ease
the government refuses to do it. There
are several expressive phrases to de
scribe Hobons conduct since he took
another man's place, on the Merrimac,
not the least descriptive of which is
fresh. From this time on Hobson
will manage 1o make himself conspic
uous. If he finds that he is obscured
by the number of brave capable offi
cers by whom he is surrounded he will
throw himself on the graces of a pub
lic which has helped to make him the
notoriety fiend he is fast 'becoming.
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Siev eking, the Dutch pianist, has
been arrested at Ischl for refusing to
take off his hat to a priest who was
passing with the Viaticum. The Sieve
king Can be depended upon to break
the conventions of whatever country
he happens to be living in. When he
lived here he rented a house from an
unsuspecting landlord and wben he
left it, it was as if a herd of animals
had been confined therein, very dirty
and full of dents that resembled hoor
marks, ire also left an unfulfilled con
tract. He disappeared from New York
under much the same circumstances,
baring the house, although his New
York landlord has never been heard
from. The New York Sun suggeststhat
Sieveking objected to take off his bat
because his hair was not in condition
to be. abruptly exposed to the winds
of heaven. He has let Ills hair grow
and, with such slight results that ever
since he has been most sensitive about
showing .his poll in public. His
friends, who have observed that) he
never uncovered without a certain
amount of preliminary notice, under
stand that the arrest at Ischl was due
to the suddenness of the notice and
not to any disrespect for the religious
ceremony.
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On a page of portraits labelled
"Leaders in the higher education of
women at the present time," Harper's
Bazar prints a photograph of Mrs. J.
Ryland Kendrick and calls her "Lady
Principal of Vassar college, New York.
The rediculousness of such an inscrip
tion under the portrait of a lady with
a most feminine face, a crepe lisse col
lar, and with little curling tongs curls
about her face, is apparent when we
imagine a portrait equally cultured
.but unmistakably masculine with in
scription under it like thus, Mr. Geo.
K. MacLcan, Gentleman Chancellor of
the University of Nebraska.
Harper's Bazar is edited by a
woman for women and I doubt not
Mrs. Sangster feels the belittling of
feminine endings and of being called
a lady editor or editress. "The Eng
lish language is freer of feminine end
ings than any other and those we
have are fast going out of use, thanks
to the spirit of the age which will
have none of them. Some of the first
women who wrote books like George
Eliot and George Sand used a mas
culine nom de plume or the public
might have called them vvritercsses.
The work of the five fingers and the
multifolded brain, whether brain or
fingers be masculine or feminine,
should be judged solely as to its appli
cability to the purpose for which it
was created and not with reference
to its creator. The wortc Is either
good or bad, beautiful or ugly, useful
or foolish and who did it is of no
consequence.
To nouns made from aetive verbs
which describe flatly actions requiring
no special intellectual ability, words
like eater, walker, speaker, shouter,
runner,et cetera, it would be ridicu
lous to add ess when the performer
is a woman. It is no less ridiculous
to speak of a doctress and an editress
or of a lady president or principal.
Doctoring and editing and teaching
are as sexless as walking and sleeping
and speaking to the accurate man
with a taste for philosophy.
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The Courier cannot refrain from di
recting Governor Holcomb's attention
to the conduct of the state of Maine
in. hiring an engine and seven Pull
man sleepers for the sick soldiers of
the Maine regiment at Chickamauga.
One hundred and twenty Maine sol
diers sick with typhoid and malarial
fever and other diseases, were loaded
into that train and started for the
north. "Off they went to Cincinnati,
to Cleveland, to Buffalo, to Albany,
Boston and on to Portland and the
country of pine trees and granite.
Supplies, ordered ahead by telegraph,
were furnished for them without
money or price chiefly by the Red
Cross. Delayed ten hours at Cleveland
by a breakdown-, their train was sent
to the lake shore where it got the cool
lake breezes. All those sick soldiers
got back to Maine alive and most of
them improved very decidedly on the
journey." Very different conduct this
from that of the governor of Nebraska
who let the boys who had volunteered
perhaps to death and mckness, cer
tainly to hardship, go without paying
the heroic lads the seven or eight dol
lars which they had earned, and that
would have kept them from the for
lorn penniless condition in- which
they actually left the state. Governor
Hulcomb could have ensily paid them
with state funds but with the hard
heartedneas which made him a suc
cessful money loaner before chance
and his sic made him governor, the
chief executive of the state of Ne
braska sent the volunteers out of the
state penniless. The loar black pig
vvihose fame is forever united with the
governor's history could nob have
shown his instincts more truly. When
he was a private citien a little cruelty
in levying on n. spotted cow called
Speck, "or on the orphan's only pig.
was no disgrace to the" state lwcau.it
it is impossible to keep heartless
money grubbers out or a neighbor
hood. But the acts of a governor of
a state reflect upon the state either
glory or disgrace and it is so consid
ered by other states.
At the Denver B.'enuial there was
criticism of the gowns worn by some
of the speakers and officers. The
Courier has no sympathy with such
criticism. The chic, light lawns and
organdies worn by Mrs. Henrotin and
many of the speakers and delegates,
and especially the frocks of .the Den
ver women were beautiful and very becoming-
and seasonable. A beautiful
woman well dressed is doing- her part
to make others happy. She is fulfill
ing the law of her being and at the
same time she may be just as good
a club woman as she who is plainer
and perchance poorer. ','Fine feathers
do not make fine birds" but a queenly
heart is not always indicated by a
shabby gown.
The Club Woman of the current
month contains excellent editorial
comment on this subject:
One thing is certain that clothes do
not make the woman in this club
movement. The plain little woman
whose garb is just about as noticeable
as the feathers of a little brown spar
row is quJte as apt to be the leading
spirit in her club or town or state, as
the one with reception gowns from
Felix and tailor suits from Itedfero.
And yet why should anybody speak or
think disparagingly of a woman be
cause Shakspere's advice is followed,
"Costly thy raiment as thy purse can
buy?" May there not be as muclr un
charitableness among club women in
this direction as in the other? Possi
bly a woman is abundantly able to
wear a tailor gown that costs a hun-
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