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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1901)
VOL. XVI., NO. VIII ESTABLISHED IN ISSti PRICE FIVS CENTS A.,-- LINCOLN. NBBR.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SI. 1901. THE COURIER, one thousand dollars. Between Great Monday evening. Very fortunately SECOND CLASS MATTES. Hritain and our biggest neighbor a v the fMTomcs at LrNcoLN as line of steamships is in constant op eration. The Atlantic coast line steamers on this side do not cross the Caribbean Sea. The new entendre and relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, the Cuban PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT IK COiRIER PRINTIIG AND PUBLI8KIJI6 GO Office 1132 X street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS. Editor for domestic arrangements the mem bers meet on alternate Mondays and dine together en club. There Is no reason why there should not be just as many men's culture clubs as there arc women's. The organization of the "Candle-Light' will be followed !v possibilities and the Isthmian canal, others until all the men who have will stimulate southern development not considered the relation of culture to such an extent that trans-Uarib- to life are actively engaged in the bean ports will respond and a trade preparation of one of those profound b3 established, the possibilities of productions called "a paper." Subscription Rates. Per annum 11 50 Six months 1 1)0 Rebate of fifty cents on cash payments Single, copies 05 Tib Cockiek will not be responsible for vol untary communications unless accompanied by warn postage. which are so extensive that their con templation is at present as unsatis factory as a prospectus of operations in Mars. English trade with South America is very large. To American ear. Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, JJrazil are far-otr foreign-sounding appellations. U"c do not realize that the bare feet of the South American natives touch the same eartli that our Not Yet. Tiie Independent publishes a report from Professor Edwin E. Slosson of the university of Wyoming of his at tempts to join a woman's club in that state. By one oilicial he was in formed that the members had no prejudice against men as men, but be signed by tne'full namo of the writer, not kindly. publication if advisable. T OBSERVATIONS. 8 -00''W not engrossed in business she dis missed him with the inconsistent statement that if he were admitted all the men in town would want to join. The next woman he approached on the subject replied that the mem bers were so ignorant of parliament ary law the men would laugh at them. When he told her that the men would be only too giad to tcacii the women he was iliogically not i tied that she did not know any man in town who mpn ivffro sn nirrniisrl in litminivtK Communications, to receive attention, must box-toed, calf skin clad fee spurn, less tl)at tliey would not join if permit- .v.uu.j. a II...U .rum uiui-uui, oar- Whcn he explained that he was quakes, volcanic eruptions and I'lmntrnc if toi.mnrntiirn tutirlit t.-i1L from Nebraska to the soutliernmost point, 01 uooa nope wiliioul neeuing anything more seaworthy than a ferry. Just as soon as we get commercially conscious of one great, American con- The Isthmian Canal, tinent connected by an'isfcTimus which The report of the Isthmian Canal is nothing but a thin tongue of land Commission has not been made pub- connecting two larger bodies of land, lie, though the commissioners re- we will begin to enjoy the benetits turned last summer and made a com- of selling things to and buying things coul(1 teac,, the woman's club any- plete and exhaustive report. It is from a country with latitudinal thin A third lady 5ajd that men suspected that the commission is very capacities ranging between 15 and 53 coud notattend the meetings of the much in favor of the Panama route, and longitude 47 and SO. To the cIut) because they were held in the both on account of the canal winch equator and oeyona it in ttie next one aftcrnoon. when he suggested chang- tias already been dug there ana on account of the greater distance of Panama from the volcanic region. The Nicaraguan route seems to be more in favor before, than after an investigation of the comparative ad vantages of the two routes. The southern states are vitally interested in the building of a canal. It is as important to the future southern de- per, the latter prepared by one or its velopmentas the great transconti- members. It is called the "Candle nental railways, which bisect this light Club" and is composed of nine country Into northern and southern professors, seven lawyers, two doctors, halves have been tothedevelopmentof a minister, a priest, a journalist and the north. Southern sentiment in fa- four business men, or twenty one pro vorof an Isthmian shipcanal is almost fessional men and four business men. Unanimous and senators from the Such evidence that the club move south are beginning to be urgent for ment is spreading among the men the beginning of this great water folks is very gratifying to club women way which will mix freight rates all who have listened to fulminations up and transpose classilications. from the pulpit against clubs and . There is much to Le urged against their power to distract a woman's subsidies and we are not backward mind from church entertainments, hundred years the tide of business and of American energy will How in in creasing volume. A Culture Club. A new club was organized in Lin coln last week, to meet once a fort night and discuss a dinner and a pil ing the time to evening she answered that that was impossible because there were no men in the club and the women could not go out alone eve nings. Professor Slossons last appli cation was equally unavailing. He attempted to prove how competent he was to enter any department of ihe club by reciting the list of his varied accomplishments. When he finished the lady remarked that if he knew as much as he thought he did she didn't see why he needed to join a woman's club. The professor concluded his "tale of woe"' with the simple words: "I do not know to this day why I am not a member of the woman's club." The Vfaite Rats. Mrs. Fiskeaud HenriettaCrosman are the ouly two prominent actresses who have refused to make terms with the theatrical trust. Mrs. Fiske will about stating the case of the people church decoration, church repairing, against the shipowners who wish to the missionary society, the prayer- play wherever she can make the best farm the people, but this matter of meeting etcetera. The Candle-Light terms and for the manager that offers intpn-nmrrmnientinn between Anier- CI ub proposes to accomplish what all them. She is too exalted a theatrical icaand Central and South America women's clubs announce as their ob needs attention. Between the two ject: namely the sociable discussion great continents of North and South of otherwise burning topics. Ihe America there is scanty direct com- dinner which precedes the discussion munlcation. Travelers from America serves to bring the men together and to S. America take passage on a to keep the membership interested, transatlantic steamer which goes to As seventeen or eighteen of the mem- England and from there embark for their South American destination. The round trip costs an American star to be forced to make terms. And her independence has not reacted upon her disastrously. Henrietta Crosman is not so unique and man agers in the trust can get along with out her so she has had her troubles. The White Rats is a combination of bers are married, seventeen or eigh competent actors against the theat teen wives will not have to order rical trust which has reduced their meat for dinner on every alternate wages, while at the same time increas ing the price in New York to the patrons. The trust has also deprived actors of freedom of action and threatens their dignity and self-respect. The association cahed :Thc White Hats," is an offshoot of the English "Water Rats," an organization found ed to curb and it was effectual a condition similar to that existing in this country. Only performers are admitted to its membership, Since its organization, only a few months ago, over tC0 members have been en rolled. It is a secret society. Should any member reveal any business he i forever banished from the society, and every "White Rat"' is under oath to refuse to play witli the traitor in any theater. In its treasury there is al ready some W0.00Q. A system of ben etits has been'deviscd to increase this amount as needed. They have start ed an insurance fund for the benetit of the members. The whole plan lias, been devised and carried out with in tinitely more business tact than ever before displayed by any body of iwr formers. It is signiticant that such men as Henry Lee, "Nat tJoodwin, l)e Wolf Hopper, Peter Daily, .leffd'An gelis, and a large number of other widely recognized actors have joined and are taking an active part in the affair. In the meantime the vaudeville trust has been not! lied that after the 24th of -lune no member of the order will book through the oulces of the vaudeville association. They will book thereafter through the exchange to be managed by the Association of White Hats. The Wtiitc Rats an nounce that they will play where they please, and will not submit to the per centage system which the vaudeville syndicate extorts from their salaries for booking these people in the trust's own theaters. , Miss Anthony Speakers of the W.C.T.U.advocatinr equal suffrage have repeatedly asserted that a.c soon as women were allowed to vote, saloons would le closed. Mrs, Nation's hatchet has demonstr.ited the contrary. The women have equal rights in Kansas with the men and. yet, it appears, from Mrs. Nation's forays that there are as many saloons in a prohibition state, as in Nebraska, or any other ,bigh-liecnse state. In eoudpmninMrs. Nation's lawlessness. Miss Anthony remarked very appo sitely that the law is mightier than the hatchet and considering that the men of Kansas have armed the wo men of Kansas with the suffrage they ought to use it to elect state ollicers who will enforce the Jaws of Kansas. From her youth Miss Anthony has been an earnest believer in law and order. Her criticism of Mrs. Nation, should therefore not have surprised her followers among the W.C.T.TJ. Lawlessness can not effect any per manent reform and the city or state wfcich permits saloons to run contrary W: 1 . M i . V flf i )h