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V te rv VOL. XVI., NO. XII ESTABMbHED IN 18S PRICE FIVB CENTS LINCOLN. NBBR., SATURDAY, MARCH 23. 1901. THE COURIER, BmUDDt THB JOiTOmCI AT LINCOLN AS VBOOHD CLASS MATTER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY TIE MHIE1 NIMTIK lD P6BLISHIH6 60 Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. Kenny, French and White, are all calm when the strange gentleman Irishmen. whose card she holds in her hand, Right Honorab'e .lames llryce, a draws from somewhere between his careful observer, and Mr. Seumas Mc- vest ant coat, a Look. One of the Manus, the Irish writer, agree that reasons for the continued popularity Ireland today is enjoying comparative of The Pilgrim's Progress is its abso pmsperif.y. The people are living lutely colorless style. The Pilgrim better, their food is of a higher grade, does not seem to care how his narra the bank deposits have increased, the tive affects his hearers. He tells his SARAH B.HARRIS. Editor Subscription Rates. Per annum : 1150 8iz months 100 farm rents are lower, and the returns from work are larger. The main rea son why it does not take its place as one of the rich countries of the world is its lack of manufacturing. It ex ists mainly on its agriculture and its fisheries. tale as the Ancient Marriner tells his, but lie does not appear to care to make converts. The style of the Bible is likewise an impartial relation of facts. The Sky Pilot is crudely writ ten and the pose of the author is on every page. Except the style and tlie Rebate of fifty cents on cash payments. Single copies 05 Tz Coram will sot-be responsible for toI antsry communications' unless accompanied by return postage. , Communications, to receive attention, most M -slxned by the fall name of the writer, not aseraly as guarantee of good faith, bat for publication if advisable, Ireland contains 32,337 square miles, sentimcntalism of the pose, the story OBSERVATIONS. ' St. Patrick's Day. not including the 19G tittle islands which add 240 square miles to the total. It is not quite so large as In diana and is a little larger than South Carolina. The Filipine islands are four times the size of all Ireland. Less than five years ago a commission ap pointed by Parliament reported that there had been placed upon Ireland a taxation burden which it was unable to bear, and that something should be done. Thus came the new Land Law Act, which was a mitigation, but not a reform, of the evils. A few days ago a member from Ire land arose in Parliament and tried to is well told and illustrates the influ ence of a thoroughly good and unsel fish man on a recklesscommunity. The Pilot is a young man who is thorough ly possessed by the desire to do good. Not a great preacher, not especially learned and not at all anxious to show the ignorant men who surround him that he does know more than they do, he finally converts them by the force and purity of his love for them. In spond to the tendencies of universal organization and, I believe that this is one reason why the domestic prob lem is still so mixed. Intelligent dis cussionand the longer it is discussed by employers and employes the more intelligent it becomes will define many of the misunderstandings which have devided mistress and maid. There are mistresses who consider a cook or a s,econd-glrl as a machine. The? deprive her of her rights and subject her to affronts which make her rebellious. There are also maids wiio consider the mistress as a person to be outwitted and served as shab bily as possible. It will do the mis tresses good to hear what the mem bers of the maids' club think of them. It will benefit the shiftless maids to listen to the advice and reasoning of capable, trusted bousemalds who compel respect, and, consideration from poorly trained mistresses. House hold service, however, can never be regulated exactly by the foregoing rules. Because of the emergencies always happening where, three or four this respect, the influence of ancle- are gathered together into a family. vated. unselfish character upon rough There. are sickness, water-pipes, unex and unsplritual men, Mr. Connor pected guests, death, unexpected The seventeenth day of March came make a speech in Irish. He was duly has accomplished very cleverly. his demonstration on Sunday this year. The day in Lin coln was bright and warm with the unmistakable tenderness of Spring in the air. Irishmen were out in force, decorated with that peculiar green that recalls the Emerald Isle. It is the greenest green there is, so strong that if there is a bit of it flut tering anywhere, it is sure to catch the eye. St. Patrick is to the Irish what George Washington is to America and the hatchet story and millions the snake story correspond . But Irish or American these na tional anniversaries are delightful. They strengthen love of country and respect for history and tradition. The brave green fluttering from the canes of millions of Irishmen all over America on the seventeenth day of March, indicates no lack of loyalty to their adopted country. Irishmen are quickest of all emigrants to take out their naturalization papers, and their participation in politics shows the interest they take in the country. The wearing of the green is simply an expression of affection for the old sod and a sign that American Irishmen do not forget their native land. There are more Irishmen now in America than in Ireland. They arc members of all professions. There are more Irish members of our con gress than in the British parliament, more Irishmen prominent in every station of life in America than all the rest of the world. Although they have founded no nation for them selves they have aided in building up the two largest and most powerful nations on the earth. TLe fighting men whose victories have extended the empire, Wellington, and contem poraneous Roberts, Kitchener, Kelly- rebuked. A phrase in Mr. Redmond's address was this: "The Irish language is almost dead." Figures support his statement. The Irish language is understood by less than a half million persons in Ireland, and only thirty thousand of them speak that and no other tongue. English is the language of Ireland. Sixty years ago the popu lation was over 8,106,597; in 1891 it was 4,706,162; in 1881 in was over five The Sky Pilot. The Sky Pilot is a story of a home missionary who selected his first par ish in the foothills of the Rockies in Montana. His parishioners were hard-drinking, profane, gambling ranchmen, who drank, swore and gambled because, except hunting and fishicg, these were the only recrea tions. When the minister arrived his church people christened him, the "Sky-Pilot" in cow-boy fashion. An all-pervading seutimentalism, and an evident enjoyment of touching sit uations, creates a prejudice and a sus picion that the book is a tract and written to "help humanity." Any such purpose, unless skillfully con cealed places a bonk in sentiment al tract-literature. The unsuspect ing reader does not like to be ex horted or his emotions awakened by a novelist. It is like a book-agent who sends in his card to Mrs. Brown with the aspect of a caller. After the lady of the house has hastily re paired the effects of housekeeping on hair, face, hands and dress and ar ranged her features on a scale of neutral pleasantness, it is only the exceptional woman who can remain Organization. Monett, Mis a union and The house-maids of ouri have established adopted these rules: "1. No restriction is to be placed up on the number of callers that a girl is allowed to entertain. She must be permitted to regulate her visiting list as the mistress regulates hers. "2. Every evening out, at the maid's pleasure, after 7:30. "3. No answering of the bell on wash days where there is only one servant in the house. "4. Every Sunday afternoon out. "Wages Not less than 83 25 a week, with board and room." Whenever one of the members of the club loses her employment, or, as is more likely, determines to change her place of working, a meeting of the club is called. Hergrievances are laid before the body, and a vote is taken. If she is sustained unani mously, the whole machinery of the club is set to work to find her a new position. The vote, however, must be unanimous. If there is a single vote against her, and she quits her posi tion, she does so at her own risk. The club makes no effort to get work for her. One reason for the growth of the club lies in the fact that posit ions are found for new members as soon as they join the club. When a servant girl finds herself out of work her first move is to join the House- journeys and the innumerable accf- dents aqd incidents of a housekeepers week, which will interfere with the maid's afternoon out every Sunday and Thursday. Where there are children the maid should at least share the evening's watchfulness, and if she were to go out evejyevening after 7:30 the mistress would be a per petual prisoner. Maximilian or Diaz. For twenty years General Diaz lias been president of Mexico. He is now over seventy years old. He was born in 1830. The elections which occur every two years are a matter of form so far as the president is concerned. He has been a wise and enlightened president. The president doubtless knows that the people of Mexico are ready for a republic only in name. When they killed Maximilian they were sure they wanted a republic, yet except for ten years after the assassi nation of Maximilian in 1867, Dia. has ruled Mexico absolutely. No European monarch has possessed and exercised such authority as character izes the rule of President Diaz. He is a born ruler, and in his long ad ministration Mexico lias been at peace and has prospered. But the people are inconsistent. If Maximilian was killed on account of a national aver sion to one man power then the twen ty years of Diaz absolutism is only another tribute to the power of a name. The Mexicans chose to sub mit to one man for twentv vears h. maids club. Tne girls themselves cause they called the form of his go. - take pride in keeping up the standard. Organization has one slowly accom plished but inevitable effect. Itteaches employes as well as employers that there are two sides to every question. Household labor is the very last to re- ernment a republic, and they killed a much milder. less masterful, less am bitious man because he was a mon arch In name. To be sure he was an Austrian and Diaz is a Mexican of Mexicans. But they did not kill
