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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1899)
utmi'Mmma HRSffH-HH THE COUw c. Hitchcock has devoted Ills entire at tention to populism. The space occu pied by the family referred to and The flfecc in tho World-Herald is regretted by all the subscribers. An editor's opinion of a competing editor is quite apt to be uncomplimentary and un just, Nobody Is especially interested in it and if it be reiterated in every paper it becomes very tiresome, Thore is so obvious a reason why such judg ment can not be impartial or disin terested that it should very raroly be printed. Dr. Longshore-Potts Dr. Longshore-Potts has been lec turing to women for over thirty years. In homely untcchnical language she explains to women the cause of aches and pains. Elderly and unpretentious 8ho disarms all prejudices against traveling doctors. She docs not claim to cura everybody in one treatment with one kind of medicine but advises patience and the application of com mon sense to all cases. She deprecates above all the use of the knife. Per haps in none of her talks is the Doc tor more earnest and convincing than in her exhortations against the use of the knife. Her lectures delivered to women all over this country, have done a great deal of good. She is a consistent foe of tight lacing and has effected many a cure by convincing her patients of the real cause of illness. In inducing women to recognize their vanity as a cause of disease she has accomplished what discouraged prac titioners have long attempted. If she does no more than loosen the stays of vanity she will have fulfilled a useful mission. Siic has, however, been of much more than negative service to womankind. As she travels over the country she has the best wishes of a great many patients whom she has helped. The Gift-Howe. Admiral Dewey is not a politician and he is not a business man. He is a simple-hearted, brave and determined old man. Accustomed to the isola tion of a ship whereon he is a mon arch, used to giving orders which are immediately acd silently obeyed, possessing by birth a chivalrous love of women which his sailor's life has keptinviolate.Admiral Dewey thought when he got married tbat he could do nothing less than gl ,'c that which he thought most of to his wife. The newspapers, which are responsible for most of the misunderstandings be tween Americans and for some of the wars between America and other countries, deliberately exasperated the people by the sensational way they reported Dewey's gift of his gift. It was not because lie was not pleased with his house but because he thought more of it than any thing else he had, it was not because he did not appre ciate that the house was given to him because the people idolized him, but because the house was a sign of a '. people's affection and gratitude, that he gave it to his wife. No woman would ever have done it. But tho great Admiral gave it to his wife thinking the American people would appreciate the chivalry and generosity. And if we were somewhat liner-fibred ourselves we would have understood and at any rate would have said noth ing. The newspapers found out im mediately what the Admiral had done and by all sorts of inuendoes and dis graceful and baseless Insinuations in cited the people to bray in the deafen ing chorus which lias made the gentle Admiral sick of the whole thing. He has lived in clubs or on his ship for years and he was tremendously pleased with ills new house. Because it. was so goodly and so satisfying he gave it to his wife. He has not lived enough on land or perhaps he has forgotten the very peculiar noise a donkey makes when he is mad or hungry. Had. he been more accustomed to the sound it would not have kept him awake. The Admiral is entirely mistaken though if he thinks there is no enc to defend him. There are several million people in this country who know him the old time gentleman, the unworldly, finely-tempered old blade that ,he is. And it makes ua wish we were good prize-fighters when we hear him abused. The house was his, given to him to enjoy, and in giving it to the woman who is making him very happy after his long cruise, he was using it to his highest enjoyment. The Chinese show their wisdom in making their idols of jade and teak. On crossed legs, with four arms or six and with an extra number of eyes they sit forever in the attitude their de signer and worshippers think most ap propriate for a Chinese god. Ameri cans are different. They will not worship jade or teak or Vermont gran ite. But they are always in an uproar because their god has moved unex pectedly. Would it not be much more rational to make an idol out of stone that cannot move, nor make any eccentric motions? Anyway one can not expect Admiral Dewey to sit cross legged forever because it is the con ventional idol attitude. The New Library. That will be a happy day for Lin coln when such a heading will mean a new library building here. Three new public libraries in Appleton, Menasha, and Oshkosh are about to be opened to the public in Wisconsin. The Ap pleton library was started through a gift of the local Y. M. C. A., which owned an equity In a desirable lot. The association tendered the property to the city on condition that it would pay the indebtedness and build and maintain a free library. The city built the library at a cost of $38,000. It uses the open shelf plan. The costliest of the three new Wisconsin libraries is at Oshkosh. It was erect ed on money left by a legacy left for a city library by Mr. Marshall Harris. The total cost is $75,000. The Men asha library was also a gift. It cost 932,500. Lincoln is so hopelessly in debt that it will be many years before the mu nicipality will build, or should build a public library. In the meanwhile un less a wealthy philanthropist donates a public library or the price of one is raised by private subscription the books will have to be housed wherever light and Are protection can most satisfactorily be obtained. Philan thropic and wealthy citizens are of so rare occurrence in Nebraska tbat it is almost hopeless to wait for one to die and leave muncy for a library. Yet encouraged by the example and good fortune of these comparatively small towns in Wisconsin there Is no reason why the capital city of Nebraska, the home of three universities and the dwelling place of hundreds of profes sors and teachers should quite despair. The dry air and the constant sunshine attract a great many invalids who are obliged to live in a dry sunny spot. And in the not too-distant future Lincoln's lack of a library may appeal to these rich men who come out of the east where every village has a public library. A commlttco of the library board on tho selection of new books has ex amined all catalogues and finding lists of the best libraries It is, of course im possible to make up lists out of hand. From ttiese sources they have made a valuable working library, It will re quire years to gathor books enougli to satisfy tho demands of the ordinary reader and student. Veryjproperly the board of a library with so limited an income as ours, docs not attempt to supply books for specialists. When the new books have been bought, re ceived and catalogued, patrons will doubtless remember that a llhrary can not be bought in a day nor can the place of books collected in twenty .years be filled even in one fifth of twenty years. Charles Cogh'an. Although theatre goers have not seen Charles Coghlan as Clarence In "The Royal Box" for a month, he adapted the excellent play for his own use and assembled the company which presented it. Under his inspiration and direction the play was staged and the actors costumed. The ensemble was h!s product. The creator of so fine and so consistent a play as this is of necessity a fine colcrlst and, composer of stage pictures, and a dramatist of discrimination. If we saw only a rep lica of his work, he has breathed into it the breath of his life, for his under study (if he were an understudy) moved and spoke even as Charles Coghlan himself. The stage, in his deatti, has lost one of the few men who were willing to take their chances with something intrinsically beauti ful and to trust a people to recognize it, one who did not exaggerate a situation or a character but trusted that his self control and faith would be finally rewarded. The death of so genuine an artist of so frank and sin cere a man is a great loss to any pro fession but especially to the dramatic, where the constant influence of the show feature is apt to blur the worth of everything not absolutely required behind the footlights. Good Drinks. The Slocum law which has been on the statute books of Nebraska for lo these many years, is a dead letter as to the provision for only the dispensa tion of pure liquor in Nebrasks, pure beer in Nebraska, and pure wine in Nebraska. Where are the fanatics of temper ance? Where those pugnacious prohi bitionists who wished to abolish the drink traffic from Nebraska? Do those persons who have so vehemently advocated absolute, prohibition now shrink from the enforcement of all the provisions of the Slocum law which might, could, or would if rigid ly administered give either pure, un adulterated drinks or no drinks at all, in Nebraska? The Conservative. Corn Tassels. The first edition of Mr. Dunroy's new issue of Corn Tassels was exhaust ed almost before It was off the press. It is a very neat volume and con tains a winnowed collection of the poet's pooms on Nebraska. Fragrant of the soil, souvenir of the prairies, the rustling corn and billowy wheat, Corn Tassels Is an adequate symbol of Nebraska. Max Heinrich. On Monday night at the First Con gregational church under the auspices of the Matinee Musical Max Heinrich gave a song recital to an audience of about three hundred peoplo. Very few musicians can communicato as Mr. Heinrich does thelovo of music. Witli no greater voice endowment than hundreds of other singers and perhaps with no greater passion for music lie is yet able to Inspire a com mon place audience with a correspond ing appreciation. He plays his own accompanlmeuts, and tho song and ac companiment are times, antiphonal ana nmes mergea in ine song and al ways the accompanist and the singer are of one mind and one impulse and the unity of effect the cunning artist produces repays him for the double exertion. The wail of the dying child in the Erlklng, his frightand delirium, the man's fear and love for his son that clutched the father and the final ity of the last chords: -'In seinen armen das kind war todt," were ex quisitely rendered. All of a good fellow's love for his kind, all sweet enjoyment of hospital, ity, all appreciation of tuneful woods as a dining hall and of droning and creaking leaves and boughs as a cano py of sleep were In his final sonp, Jipsy John. When Mr. Heinrich sings English it is with the same ac quired and inherent sense of values. Those who have been irritated since they first heard a play by ignorant soubrettes whose real place is not one which involves speaking to intelligent people, are conscious of a swelling gratitude when they are addressed by a man who knows how to strike the chords of words. The program is re printed as a matter of record: .Die Post (The Post) Faith in Spring (Fruehlings glaube SFranz Schu- Staendehen (Serenade) bert Der Erlkoenig (The Erlking) J Where'er you walk. Haendel Spring Song MacKetuie It is not always May Gounod Fruehllng's Ankunft (Spring's Arrival; Marienmuermchen (Lady Bird) Schnccgloeckchen (Snow Drops Die beiden Grenadiere (The two Grenadiers) Allah Chadwick Stt2l&5r FE.A.MDowa Klirtge, meln Pandero (Sound, my Pande ro). Murmelndes Luftchen (Murmering Zephyrs). Am Manzanares iOn the Manzanares) From the Spanish Song. book Ad. Jensen Bird and Rose Horrock Finch and Robin D'Albert The Wooing. Sievekkg Gipsy John Clay Rob Schumann Tailor is your master in? Servant Sure I do' know. Ho said it you caught him in he'd be out, and now I'm puzzled to tell which he is. He kept his face to the foe. The foe shuddered gloomily and then disappeared in the gathering gloom. "People have told me," he said, as he wrapped his thoughts about him, "that 1 have a hard face." t Harold (in ecstasy) And you will be my owneet own? Ob, darling, name the day! Maude Well, I hardly think we could find a minister tonight how will tomor row do? . Uaraldine-It would be glorious tot drift like this forever. Gerald We couldn't do it; the fel low who owns the boat would be after us for stealing it. I'm a man of one idea. Have you any idea what it is. Customer Where did you learn jour business? Barber lama graduate of a ton sorial college sir. . Customer I thought you had learned it in the tannery. They are talking now about cloilo? the churches in our town on Sunday. What for? .v It is claimed that they havo cast-dii credit on golf, mmmmmu t.. ,-uiWr.vc' &