THE COURIER.
alumnus Is elected in the legislature
on account of the accomplishments
expensively cultivated In him by the
Htato the people of the state, who
have paid for those accomplishments,
naturally expect to have the use of a
trained understanding, of a mind ac
customed to think not as a rabble
does, but under the guidance of
reason and independently. The hi
inentable failure of the speaker of
tlie late legislature to realize his
obligation to the state a'd Ills re
sponse to what was only the cry of a
cabal is one of many Instances show
ing the failure of the object of the
real education. Ills unlvorsityeduea
tiou. nave Mr. "Paul Clark a chance
to prevent a great wrong. He failed to
respond and missed the only con
spicuous opportunity he will ever
have of justifying the state's gener
osity to himself. Hut the men and
women whose characters are strength
ened and cultured by the state who
go back Into the community and be
come a source of inspiration to it,
who by force of character ar.d love for
their kind, become a vital part of
thoir surroundings pay back in
measure full and running over the
cost of their tuition and justify the
system, which in spite of all caviling
and impatience is making us con
scious that we were not created free
and equal and gradually developing
an unwillingness to take unfair
advantages of the -natally handi
capped. The New Street Car Ordinance.
The ordinance making it a Unable
misdemeanor to spit in the street
ears was passed by the council last
Monday night. It rests witli the
street car officers now to inaugurate
the suppiession of a iiulssance which
is making Lincoln one of the filthiest
cities in this country. Hiding in the
street cars, especially in the winter
time when the tires are lighted in the
little car stoves and the doors are
kept jealously closed, is an unpleasant
experience and hundreds of ladies
walk in Inclement weather rather
than ride in the tilthy cars. Those
putrons of the street car company who
are offended when spoken to by the
conductor on this subject will have
their places taken by neater people
who are glad of the opportunity to
ride in a clean car. It is hoped that
it time even the Incorriglbles will re
turn, cured of their disgusting habits.
Camp Sanitation.
Surgeon General Sternberg in his
address to the American Medical
Association on the subject of the
sanitary lessons of the late war, urged
the necessity for the teaching of
camp sanitation to the militia. Sol
diers In the regular army are taught
how to be healthy though enlisted.
Besides the soldier in the regular
army probably fares and is lodged
Just as well, If not better in the army
than before enlisting. The volun
teers on the contrary come from a
better fed, better clothed, better edu
cated grade of society. Enlistment
to the volunteer means unaccustomed
coarseness of food and unaccustomed
exposure. The militia from which
the regular army In time of war Is
recruited should be drilled In keeping
the camp clean, in the necessity of
drinking boiled water and in the
simple recipes of wholesome camp
cookery. In the past when the
various state militias have gone into
annual camp the time has been de
voted to the manual of arms, to learn
ing military etiquette ind to dress
parado before the rural belles of
towns nearest the camps. The com
paratively small number of men In
camp and the shortness of the time
devoted to the annual camp as well
as the employment of professional
cooks lias prevented the men from
learning the rigors of camping and
the constant hovering presence of
disease, whose marksmanship is per
fect. The surgeon general's insis
tence that the necessity of iru ning
and drill In camp sanitation and cook
high the pre-eminent lesson of the
war, it is hopedwill be oneof the in
Ihieuces to reform the rigid currlctt
1 1 1 tn of the militia training companies
which have scarcely changed since
Revolutionary days. The St. Louis
Republic says further on tills subject:
It would bean excellent thing for
oueregulai army otllccr to be attached
to every independent National Guard
organization and it would be equally
beneficial were army surgeons utilized
for the training of civilian practi
tioners in their duties as surgeons
holding National Guard commissions.
The heightened value of the National
Guard woujd well repay such atten
tion from the Federal and State Gov
ernments. The lessons taught by the
war with Spain, at the needless cost
of many lives, shou'd not be wasted
through forgetful ness or indifference.
Mischief Makers.
"When a man loses his job in a rail
road or insurance olllcc or when a
private employer finds that an em
ploye is out of harmony with other
employes and that the friction pro
duced by this state of things is
obstructing his business and dismiss
es him, it is not customary for an
employe to spend a year or two in
attempting to injure the corporation
or man whose service he has left.
Rut let a man bo removed from a
'state Institution after convincing its
governors and his fellow workers
that his presence in the institution is
harmful and he will spend several
years, not in looking for another Job
but in endeavoring to injure the
institution which has employed him
and forgiven him longer and more
than any private employer ever docs.
For if a corporation has the faults of
all the men who compose It, it lias
also their virtues. In the case of the
board of regents of the State unl-
vcrsity, the board has six times the
forbearance of one man. And when
Professor II. K. Wolfe was asked for
his resignation it was only after he
had been warned that his class criti
cisms of other members of the uni
versity faculty were inexpedient and
that his conduct towards the chancel
lor must be regulated with greater
propriety. Paying no attention to
the warning, a year afterward, the
board asked for his resignation.
Since that time Mr. Wolfe has done
what he could to injure the institu
tion among politicians upon whose
good will the university income de
pends. Under the present administration
the university is prospering and the
hiatus which occurs between the de
parture of one chancellor and the
election of another is not favorable to
growth. Therefore I hope that the
plots of his enemies may bo defeated
and that Chancellor MacLcan may
conclude to remain with the Ne
braska university.
Battle Lust.
"Then we thrashed around the room
a while, pommelling each other in
public school style, upsetting chalis,
until he slipped on a rug and sat
down abruptly on the sofa. Oh, but
it did us good. We breathed deeply
and scowled at each other. The old
school boy spirit llared up the de
light In fighting, the intoxication of
thwacking a comrade at close quaraers
theecstacyof being punched on the
nose. Blessed privelege of youth!
thrice envied of old age. Not until
the last arm falls paralyzed, and the
last clinched fist relaxes not until
the last man has ended his last bout
with death shall the wholesome in.
stiuct of battle fail on the battle scar
red planet.'' From The Conspirators,
by Robert W. Chambers. After the
fit! lit with gloves, the beginning of
which Is til us described, the two
young men, having fought on" their
exasperation, bathe their faces, and
each acknowlegcs the other, a good
fellow. Life is a struggle from the
cradle to the grave and until we be
come incorporeal air, young strong
men will express the workings of the
spiritual law in the natural world by
lighting Inasmuch as the philoso
pher's conclusion that a fight does not
settle anything, Is not accepted by the
kings of Royville who restore their
own good humour, establish peace and
respect for the highest authority, and
set their own blood and their oppo
nents to more rapid flowing through
their veins, by using their fists. Men
arc but boys and Nations are men.
The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans,
Germans, Celts. Norsemen, English
and Americans have, in turn estab
lished themselves by lighting and in
each case the toughest fibre has won
or at least resisted institutional con
quest. By fighting, the Philipinos
they will be enabled to skip a century
or two of slow development like a
public school boy who skips grades
and thus lays time by for the higher
grades when he will need it more.
We can not graft our own civilization
on to theirs foi every people must ac
complish theirowu civilization but we
can coach them in self government so
that they can get their diploma much
quicker. After the fighting is over
the conqueror will be in a position to
secure their attention as by lighting
he lias gained their respect.
Milk Inspection.
It is not necessary to boa student
of chemistry to know that milk ab
sorbs odors and smells quicker than
any other food in the family refriger
ator. Hence It is only possible to
keep odorless vegetables and meats in
the same refrigerator with milk.
When it Is pure there is no better
food than milk. It is medicinal too
for it heals inflamed surfaces and is
easy to digest. But on account of Its
absorbent qualities it is also a com
mon carrier of disease. Chicago,
Kansas City and Omaha have been
inspecting cows and milk more rigidly
lately. Chicago has condemned a
number of cows having tuberculosis,
Kansas City has found out that the
milkmen were selling watered milk,
and Omaha that the milk dealers
were using an embalming fluid which
chemists say prevents decomposition
which when it refers to the process
going on-in the stomach means that
it prevents decomposition. An Intel
ligent milk inspector in Lincoln, who
happily has been a milk dealer him
self and knows the temptations of the
business might be the means of sav
ing many lives.
OTOE COUNT? COMMISSIONERS.
The county commissioners of Otoe
county, in the state of Nebraska can
beat the calendar, says Tho Conserva
tive. TheBO three learned officers of the
law can make vo duys labor out of the
work done in one day and get paid for
sumo, They make out and audit their
own accounts. Theso commissioners
average salaries of about eighty dollars
each per month. They must work at
the rate of about eight to ten dollars a
day two days in one. Their compen
sation per year is greater than that of
tho average clerk, accountant or book
keeper in Nebraska. When shall their
salaries be increased. When will they
make three days out of one?
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Of the four operas given hero by
Metropolitan company, I Bhould Bay
that tho Walkuro was tho moBt brilliant
performance. Horr Van Wyck, who
was to huo sung Sigmund was ill, but
I scarcely seo how any one could havo
Rung that difficult pnrt hotter than did
hia substitute, Horr Dippoll. From tho
first moment when, after that ominous
preludo of tho storm music, ho rushes
exhausted into Hunding's hut, to his
Inst passionate rejection of immortality,
ho sang with matchless intensity and
vigor, and ho at all times sung porfectly
in tuno. Not every man can do that in
tho Ring operas. Sieglindo was sung
by Frau Lilli Lehmann, who did not
particularly distinguish herself. Tho
truth may as well bo told; whatever
Frau Lohmann's past glories may have
been, her voico is worn out, her methods
are antiquated, and her self-conscious,
declamatory German style seems vory
artificiul and stilted besido tho more
natural methods of the younger singers.
She was certainly unequal to that first
stormy scone, and Herr Dippoll and Mr.
Bishpam, who sang a moBt dramatic
Hunding, bore tho weight of it upon
thoir ehou'dors. Tho mutual attrac
tion between Sigmund and Sieglindo
begins, you remember, the moment eho
discovers him at hor husband's hearth
btone, a refugoo from his persuors. Sho
ministers to his needs, Hunding enters
and tho guest tells his story, sitting by
the table, beneath tho tree where tho
sword itself is waiting for him where his
father thrust it on Sieglindo's wedding
night. During his recital Sieglindo
gazes at him enraptured, and Hunding
sits in the shadow, his hands clenched
at bis side, his eyes blazing like live
coalB, while his guest sings of tho bo
ginning of tho woes of the children of
Wotan. After Hunding is drugged and
safely disposed of by his resourcful wife,
Siegmund is left alone by tho Are.
Then he begins the great sword song,
praying for the weapon biB father had
promised him in hie hour of need, the
sword with which he can free this wo
man ho lovec. It begins with quiet
melancholy, rising to that great cry
"Vol6ung, Volsung, Wo 1st Dein
SchwertV Surely if the elements ever
answered the cry of human need they
would have answered Herr Dippol then.
The flames on the hearth leap up and
cast a glow upon the handle of tho
sword buried in the ash tree. Then in a
burst of power which ib the very apotheo
sis of the magnificent sword motif, Hsrr
Dippel leaps upon the table and
wrenches the weapon from its unwil
ling scabbard, and the sword song,
glorified, HaBUOB up from the orchestra
like the steel itself.
Sieglindo enters, and seeing the sword
in his band knows that her deliverer
has come. She tells him how the stern
man with his hat drawn low over his
eye, had put the sword there, and then
he knows that this woman is his sister
and bride. Tho scene which follows is
probably the most exalted love scene
evor set to music, and all Frau Leh
mann's stilted poeings could not mar it.
Whon Siegmund throws open the door,
letting the moonlight in, and sings bis
song of spring and love, then for the
first time tho human element enters the
cycle of the Ring, and already, so far as
dramatic purposes are concorned, Sieg
fried, the raan.waited for of the gods, is
born.
During tho intermission between the
first and socond acts I left the theatre
and was crossing the bridge between
the stage entrance of the Grand opera
house and the Avenue theatre, when I
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