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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1900)
THE COURIER. V alized better than any of us that a vote against the caucus nominee to elect Mr. Thompson might cause serious trouble and be attended with some personal danger, ne according ly sent for his revolvers, and when the two revolvers were brought into the room, some of the republican members there were frightened out of their boots and began to weaken. not belong to them and to laugh at ethical questions. In peace the officer must maintain a portentous state, an expensive and varied ward-robe. Certain expenses, the total of which exceeds his salary, must be met. Therefore merit has not much to do with the making of an officer. The repeated disasters to the British army have shown the in- They were quite ready to sell out the fcriority of the service, to the great party for Thompson's benefit, but it mortification of the sturdy common nnver occurred to them that any per- ers at home, who are paying the bills no intimation of the time when be may become a city or state or corpora tion official, with the money of others in his keeping, when a dozen safe schemes of misappropriation may be presented to him. Nor in church is the national crime very otten alluded to. It is a negative virtue, this of hon esty: only to refrain from taking wnat does not belong to us. But the neglect t insist upon it has let many a positive thief go unchallenged of his conscience. tays that the congress was more of a na tional than an inter-national meeting. She was impressed with the French wo men's want of knowledge and sympathy for anything outside of themselves. The great majority know no language but their own and they are discussing among themselves primitive questions that are no longer of interest to Ameri can svomen. sonal danger would be connected with the act until they saw Fisher's re volvers; then they began to turn pale and one by one they quietly folded their tents and stole away into the legislative chamber and voted for Mr. Hayward." Some times a little thing turns the tide of 'affairs, and in this case the senatorsbip of Nebraska was doubt less determined by the production of Fbher's atari's. .We learn that Cap jOs Fiefcer Is a candidate for re elec tioa. A' Aw should be re elected, Mr. Thompson shodto" salr bin when he comes down here to vote forMst-io leave his pistols at home. and who are about to insist on its re organization. Human Freedom. The difference between absolute freedom aud anarchy is hard to define. The anarchists talk about God and how human beings have thwarted His purposes by making laws impos ing order, and electing rulers or by submitting to kings. They ignore the cruel, rigorous laws of nature which enforce themselves and that no assas sination can effect. The anarchists claim that we were meant to be free, DuV'-SJiftre.is no Biblical or extra-Biblical authority rinr the supposition. Aguinaldo, the boxersXand the an archists claim divine direction for their deeds of violence, but mot of the world deny their inspiration. V MlllllMHMMIIimMMmOtMMt LHBS. Iiumimimmiiiiiiimmihumiimi Miscellaneous topics will make up the calendar of the Lawrenceville, Pa., New Century club for the coming season. This is the only literary club in Law renceville that does philanthropic work. Its sewing class for the poor last season proved immensely popular and it will be conducted this year on a larger scale, taking in more intricate braaches and adding the ornamental to the plainly practical stitch. IaDriutAMc According to contemporary evi dence, Richard Harding Davis has ceased to write stories Instead, he tags the latest war and falls out with the officers. He went to the war in Africa convinced that the English had no case, and he says of the war in Africa that the Boer has as good a chance of winning now as he ever had. "The Boers have enough pro visions stored away in the hills to last them a year and perhaps two years." It is not queer tnat tue ogmu to orison officers do not like Mr. Davis If he There are too many laws, but the. had accomplished for the literature of ciamor jS for more. A little freedom, the world what Shakspere has. he though dearly bought, is worth could be no more conscious of the def- while, but it is not settled yet that erence due him from theworld. Eng- perfect freedom is the highest good, lisiimen are reserved and strutting Even the hierarchy of Heaven is under will put a man out or it quicaer man orders. In Heaven is no constitution, but a perfect absolutism. Slavery and A midsummer convention of direct in terest to mothers closed on August fourth, in Chicago. The last day was devoted to a round of Chicago's libraries and visits to the Art institute and field museum. The League of American Mothers is the outgrowth of plans promulgated by Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot through a series of kindergarten publications. She received so many inquiries from mothers Utah's state federation of Women's clubs gave an outing at Saltair the other day. Of course everyone of the 1,500 women who went on the excursion was glad to see her friends, but tho primary object of it ail was to raise funds for the traveling library and for some educa tional projects in which the women of Salt Lake city are greatly interested. all over the United States that the es- - A writer on some celebrated mur- tabliBhmentof 750 leagues in various lo- ders is the August Cosmopolitan More than this, the women who organ ize and take part in public movements jtaHttioa fnllnivnil TsJifc-and papers of the conveation re- " Frnce .T wo dist!nct c,assee' lated dirWlr to kiadergarten principles JJB "Jem.nines and the "Feministes." and their practice aslied to the home ThfiurBt18 the conservative element, and the child. NThes. are to be the ttat was the claw that controlled foundation of a &r yean' coarse of Jhe July congress, The feministes have study which membersXef the kegae will their convention next month, and then ' miu a. u-k,-r. tk-. t.oi the 'advanced" party will "say things" nnennio tuqt t n niir nnr civc tin taic ssuinsmtD 11 omkj nimiw mnnmmw am mrcv miinai . . - relief when the hand of the sheriff thought ia the coar, itiil betaken "'K 11' W0m6D recites the attitude of society towards a murderer and the murderer's long ing for the fellowship he lost when he killed. The murderer Is isolated by tha repulsion of society, though his crime be undiscovered. lie is so lonesome that tLe author says he feels a Mad- touches his shoulder to conduct him in a wide ami decorative aarswith re- B thftSTS ' iF g to nrison. latktoaeirtberhoodeavireamenteaBd lu womaD' e ,W,f? f a renchman. the commission of any ordinary mis demeanor. As a war correspondent, he is graphic, and the photographs of himself In assorted fighting costumes and attitudes, which he scatters through the sketches, enliven the re port. He complained, however, in landing in New York that the British censorship was so strict that he could not get his news through it, and therefore he went to live with the Boers in Pretoria. It is scarcely strange that the Eng lish were suspicious of Mr. Davis. Be fore leaving Marion, Massachusetts, Mr. Davis and bis brother held a Boer celebration, raising the Boer flag and tiring salutes to it. On his arrival in London, the news of the celebration had reached there and the club, where a friend had put him up, was in an uproar. Mr. Davis said his friend did not withdraw his patronage, but to avoid trouble, he told him to take down his name. The trouble with the officers began as soon as he landed in Africa and reminds Americans of the trouble Mr. D .vis had on the transport on his way to Cuba. He is as exigent as Emperor William. He has the air of something annotated, and all sorts of men, Amer ican and British, resent the call to worship of what has the appearance of only a man. Mr. Davis' testimonyconcerniag the dissipation among the British officers, their coarse treatment of and speech to the respectable Boer women, has the various forms of ascending sub serviency of one man or men to an other man or body of men is very un pleasant. There are many things we hate to do for no other reason than that we have been commanded to do them. But the rebellion is earthly and resembles the way of a mule more than the strivings of an aspir ing soul after freedom. J Jt A Neglected Text Merchants, when they have been robbed by clerks or by customers who had goods charged with no intention of paying, have had the subject of the prevailing dishonesty brought home to them, as the temperance lecturers say. They begin to inquire then why ministers do not preach more about honesty and less about faith in a spirit and loyalty to the laws of a ways aad means by which the Rale may have most effective aj ties. ' Mrs. Lid H. Hardy a Toaeka, new president, briags to her off ce riches of a long experieaee while in charge of the Mothers' usioB condacted by Dr. Sheldon's church. The other officers are? Vice presidents, Mrs. Ellea Lee Wy man, Evanston, 111.; lfrs. Helta Vance, Decatur, 111. "s Corresponding secretary, Iftrs. Lacy Stewart Roberts, Lorgwood, IH; Recording secretary, Mrs. Alice haus, Vincennes, lad. ' Treasurer, Mrs. Frsnk Beiberliag; Akron, O. will be one of the leaders. It was Mad ame Schmahl who secured to the work ing women the right of her earnings, although, if the latter be married, she cannot deposfte or withdraw them with out her husband's signature. Mile. 'eanne Chauvin. doctor of law. and Augsburg, doctor of law, from many, will also be prominent in the mber program. San Francisco has a ledge of women Elks. It is auxiliary to Goldea Gate Lodge No. 6, Benevolent aad Protective (Solden PrpAr th the Mill Ge Septa AnW Gfaapmk ai ToaiM Mtr. petctsgsj thefaetl atiehedaY I the to en the "Ihe Ni cated for every boi farfi ti-suffragist said to Mrs. Carrie a Catt, president of the Nation- n Suffrage association, that a lest the ballot for women was hat very little had been accom- ter a half century of agitation object. Mrs. Catt replied: nan canal has been advo- ssme length of time with in favor or it. and vet it is being accomplished. But this Order of Elks of America. Mrs. Lottie does not prove that the canal project E. Rothman headed the list of thirty should fate abandoned as a failure charter members aad says that other lodges of womenlEUcs will be established Robert along the Pacific Coast The Safe ?raa- ical Obser cisco lodge consists mainly of the wives and relatives of members of the Goldea Gate. But the womea Elks are alreedy encountering breakers. The B. P. O. E. Burdette.in bis "Philosoph- ations of a Woman's Conven tion," mattes this note: Mme. Rebecca Douglas Lbwe of Georgia, does not wield a borrowed Ravel. During a discussion over some (intensely Interesting and future world. A sermon on overreach-. No. 3 says that the Goldea Gate charter vitally important point of order, two del ing, an exaltation of honesty, an ex- has been suspended and that bo womea egatee, arguing from opposite sides, tri position of the numerous ways of de- can belong to the regular Elks, evea as amphaatly waved before the chair' let priving another of his property with- honorary members, and also says that ten from Tbipmas B. Reed snaUinimr Jerome B. Fisher, a supreme judge of both con tea tkins. And she dhair calmly Jamestown, N. Y., and grand exalted waved them aside, reminding the con ruler of the Elks, is coming oat next veation that Mrs. Sksttuck s "rules of month to familiarize himself with the order" was 'the asanas! which governed laws of the state, so as to take steps to the deUberatjeas of the biennial. Great prevent the use of the name Elks by aay ia the cznr; may his shadow never grow organization outside of No: 3. " Issa. But, to paraphrase "Mr. Dooley ' v lei as say it softly, the czarina might From an American stand noiat thavkaarna. Th mnnintini. m. i j a. --- v - ( v WwHvvub.uu - mMTrt in steal and set an example to less dis- Women's congress in Paris is regarded a ivJidle. A ny deliberative body of over A unguisnea employes, ana we are last failure, and ror. liore, wno naa toe eoe- tnoussnd delegates is unwieldy be it a uecumiug a uawuu oi inieves, yet not grese in cnare, is said to De reeponaoie. pooy or men or women. Even in Rr out getting too near the penitentiary, might remind those who lay Sunday aside with their broadcloth Prince-Alberts, that faith without works isdead. No vice is so common, none so unex pected when discovered, and cone so infrequently denounced as stealing. State treasurers, cashiers, postal di rectors and all kinds of public officers not been impeached and is undoubt edly true. According to their own in school are the children warned that It is alleged that this same professor is a of traiaed legislators like our House chronicler. Mr. Kudyara .Kipling, tne temptation to tnievery win forever "woman hater " and now British officer and soldier aredisso- assail them. The schoolboy thinks of lute louts, presuming on their nation- a thief as a pickpocket and knows his ality and numbers to take what does virtue safe against assault. He has ought to explain why that kind was any kind of a factor in convention. Mrs. Jennie June l ""' .- icgiBiaiuru line our House lot v somebody Representatives, all the work of leginfi. indofaraaa tioa'.'s done in committee. One-third 'of inawomaa'e the members of the House-now ihiv Z' uueo UUbllDIV n Croly larger proportion than that might jus ' 4 Y - j -, 4 rZJ t r .i ) "1 V f. we ft '"II J? Zi ft 13 V . V "W-4lL
