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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1899)
'-C T 4P VOL. XIV. NO. I. nSTABLISHBD IN 1886 PKJCE HVIi CEJT8. LINCOLN, NBBR., SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1801). tliruiiffli what is now Wisconsin, Min nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, belonged to Snuln. In 1801 IMMIPRi5i"ir tho French Intel taken half of the Spanish territory. Jn 1812 what the French had la marked on the map Kntkukd in jmTOFFA Lincoln a "Federal territory," and Spain was crowded into the southwest corner of what is now -the United St.atcB In PUBL1BHEDEVKBY SATURDAY lg30 th(J f nT Pugct sound south as far ub the pros- THE COURIER PRINTING UNO PUBLISHING CO ent northern boundary of California. iooxT tt ci. In an 1848 map only a little dolly of Office 1132 N etroot, Up Staire. Mexcan ,)0Ssessioncan b(J fwJ f Telephone 384. the northern boundary of Die SARAH B.HARBIB. Editor Mexicu"f peninsula. During this time of expansion, from a timo previous to 1775 to tho .present Subscription Rate In Advance. t,nC) tlcro ,mve aiways b(Jet tlu)KC Per annum $1 00 wuo had (fravo fears that the United ThrJSonJhV.:::::::."::::::::: 50 states was a bubble mat we were One month 20 blowing too big and that it was about Single copies 05 to burst. Like the resurrectionists they havo confidently expected the m u , -.n.ihi tnr i end of a11 t,llRs American as each Tn Courier will not bo responsible for vol- . . 1 n. , ,.. untary communications unless uccompanlod by piece of additional ground was added "commSSSStfoni.to receive attention, must to our noble demesne. Expansion be ilanod by too full name of the writer, not hitherto has boetl Spasmodic, but tllO morel as a sunrantoe of good faith, but for , ' . "ubiicat'on if idviiabio, spasms have occurred regularly and they have never failed to be accom- SV0&VtW9 panied by tho tremors and grave 5 doubts of a certain small portion of LnRQFDVATiniMS 9 tho inhabitants. Also on each occa- UD5BIVAiiuno. O slon tlie result ,m8 been rutherthc rc. aamaaaaaaa sult of circumstanced, und the laws of ,MXrv-wrmrmrw gmwth rather t,uu -fmm a)y vo,un European editors profess to believe tarv and premeditated attompts at that the statements of the president aggression. On the declaration of before and at the beginning of the hostilities at the time of the Amerl Ouban war disclaiming any plans of can Revolution there was probably territorial aggrandisement were in- none of the leaders who contemplated sincere. Nevertheless neither presi- entire separation from England, dent nor people, at the beginning of neither Franklin, nor Washington nor the war, had acquisitive designs upon any of the members of congress assem Ouba.Puorto Rico and the Philippines, bled in that first capital of the nation But like the building of a house or a at Philadelphia. But as the situation ship or the growth of a nation or an developed the appreciation of tho in individual, plans have had little to do cvitable result decponed until tho con with the successive stages of develop- viction which resulted In the Dec I a la ment consequent upon war and the tion of Independence, was signed by change in the relative positions of the the membors of congress July IV, 1770. combatants and outside powers to- This lack of foreknowledge and prepa wards us and towards Spain and to- ration for a larger country is exhibited wards oach other. Like a declslvo In tho messages of presidents unci in move on the chess board, once made it stato documents of various kinds since involves a series of sequential moves, the days of Washington. For exam whioh the player must make or be pie: Referring to Cuba, .lames Bu beaten. It is not as though there chanan, secretary of state in Juno, wero any choice, arter the first move. 1848, wrote the American minister at Assumption of power by the United Madrid as follows: States in the Philippines and Cuba "You are authorized to assure the could Dot be avoided unless by a vlo-,Spanish government that in case of lent unprecedented and quixotic re- any attempt, from whatever source, to fusal to accept the logic of tho sltua- wrest from her this portion of her ter tlon and the responsibility of our own ritory, sho may securely depend upon Initiative. the military and naval resources of On last Sunday the symbol of Spain tho United States to aid her in pro was hauled down from the govern- serving or recovering It." ment building in Havana and the This is only one of many instances symbol of the United States took Its on record in which the history of the place and Captain General Catellanos United States, grown from a narrow delivered tho island to tho American binding along tho edge of the commission of evucuatlon. This cere- eastern coast of America to tho mony was only the last one of u series present occupation of tlie con of Spanish evacuations of tho western tlnent from ocean to ocean, has continent. In 1775 all the territory seemed to convey no hint of destiny to west of a line drawn due south from tho statesmen who have writton stato the westernmost arm of Lake Superior papers and presided as presidents over the most extensive experiment in democracy evor made. One of the parishes of London has adopted a system of lighting its streets, dwellings and public buildings by using tlie street swwoplngs for fuel. Before tho system was adopted the parish paid about $:i0,000 a year for carting refuse to a barge on the river Thames and towing it to a dumping place in tlie sea, and about 820,000 an nually for gas to light the streets and parish buildings. About $00,000, or 810,000 more than these annual charges, which was met by taxing the people," says William E. Curtis, "was invested in an electric plant, which has since been run twenty-four hours six days in the week and twelve hours on Sunday, furnishing electric power for small manufactories during the day and for illuminating purposes at night. Tho street sweepings havo furnished almost all the fuel necessary. The cost of coal in addition was only 804. :J2. Tho total expenditures for the first year wore 819,070 for wages, sup plies, stores, insurance, repair and other purposes. The interest, sinking fund, rents, and tlie ordinary allow ance for tho depreciation of the prop erty was 810,205, making a total of 820,275. Tho gross rccoipts for the sale of light and power, including a credit equal to the average chargo for street lighting by gas, wore 845,205, thus leaving a net protit of 815,o;iO for the benefit of tho parish treasury, which will be used in enlarging the plant. "Arrangements are now being made to use the escaping steam to heat tho water of a public bath, instead of al lowing it to go to waste. Furnaces havo been added for burn ing the garbage collected from tho dwellings which could not be used for fuel, and the extra cxpeuso, which was, however, comparatively trifling, was more than offset by saving the cost of hauling tho garbage to the barges." The system lias been so succeesful that othor parishes of London are putting In similar plants The com mittee of the Lincoln city council which has been appointed to consider the suggestions and theses of the Good Government Society might apply to the mayor or under mayor of Shoroditch for information regarding the garbage burning furnaces. "Stalky and Co.," Mr. Kipling's new serial in McCluro'sinagazIno, isastory of boys at school. Tlie boys themselves are little brutes and Mr. Kipling presents them undecorated with the sentiruont that most boys acquire only with their first love affair. Not at all liko Mrs. Burnett's Fauntloroy, these boys arc pitiless, projudiced, selfish animals. How one of them could have grown up to bo Mr. Kipling him self is no greater a miracle than the sudden transformation of the gnemes who delight in torturing and fighting dogs and killing eats and in all forms of human exasperation, into chival rous men, ready to work with tho hands or the head or both for some woman or for child ion who wore but now their detestation. This conver sion, of course, is only apparent. Tho boy, who, up to a certain period, ap pears cu exist for tlie purpose of Bat ing, throwing things, and defeating instructors, hired to teach him the lore of tlie ages, must conceal the life ofthespirii. The sudden exhibition of sentiment and tlie fruits of the spirit In young inon is sufficient evi dence to those who apply natural laws to tho spiritual world that tlie boy has had a soul from tho bogi li ning, though lie has boon as uncon scious of it as the shell Is of the chicken that finally cracks It. Me Turk, Stalky and Beetle, (tho last Is nicknamed from the glasses ho wears and is tho Kipling boy himself) are in an English boarding school which possesses ail the familiar, Tom Brown, characteristics of fagging, cricket, forms, and dormitories. The boys arc scornful, cruel, selfish egotists with that most impenetrable and overween ing egotism of boyhood, which, as aforesaid, devolops into u manhood that shirks not responsibility nor be grudges labor for a sentimental rea son. Nevertheless the fiontcmplation of the boy as Mr. Kipling remembers him, and he has the most penetrating and accurate memory since Slinks pore, is not pleasant but it Is more satisfactory than tlie impossible gal boy that Mrs. Burnett wroto about sitting In her boudoir and remember ing her own son with a mother's fatal inaccuracy. I can well bcliovo that Mr. Kipling's accomplishments and his present elevation above all who write stories in any language have gonu to his head and made him believe that when ho was a lad ho know all tho time he was inspired and that the boys lie was forced to associate with, and the tutors who presumed to teach him and make rules for him were dolts. I cannot believe that he was quite such an insufferable intellectual snob as he says he was, or how could ho havo escaped the vengeance of the rest of the school. The discussion last week at tlie touchers' convention of tho question: Resolved, that tho public schools arc an adequate and natural preparation for citizenship; suggested to the listeners that tho teachers themselves and tho club women who formed part of tlie audience and furnished a por tion of the debate, did not consider the public school system anadequato preparation for citizenship. Tho teachers were ready to defend it ub being better than any other system in use, but tried by tho scale of ade quacy they wero obliged to admit that the citizens whom it graduates into political activity every year do not, as a whole, appreciate their communal duties and priveleges. Most of the policemen and firemen, as well as tho 'm& .iitWu.