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He has seen our Shower,
And knows o! its Power,
Cleansing, Refreshing and Cool.
So why shouldn't he smile,
When he knows all the while
" What fools these mortals be."
THE FOUNTAIN SHOWER BATH BRUSH,
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0 Though so hot we can hardly breathe.
bThe hotter we eet,
the broader he smiles,
Just laughing up his sleeve.
P. JB. ALMOND,
1106 O Street, Linooln, Xebr.
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Preferences
WE long- ago learned that
to argue against a wo
man's preferences was a mere
waste of time consequently we
uever try. We sell every good
sort of typewriter in its best
form. One of these will suit
your requirements. Plenty of
unbiased advice, however, if you
require it.
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II06 O Street
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WNCOIN, KBR.
conduct. His mildly philosophical ten
dencies kept him from taking an aggres
sive attitude on any of the subjects that
most men discuss with more or less heat.
It has Dot developed that he had an
enemy, and more than most children o!
men, he was what he appeared to be, a
gentle, cheerful, peaceable and good
man. The police can not tind his mur
derers. They can find no motive for the
murder, and the detectives, who are sup
posed to be adept in deductive reason
ing and to follow a clew as a dog does a
went, have discovered nothing.
Doubtless there would be more crimes
committed if there were no policemen
and no detectives, because they embody
the law and lawbreakers are afraid of
them, not for what they do, but for
hat they etand for. Of course it is
not any individual merit in policemen,
this crime-restraining influence which
is partially dissipated by their inability
to discover a criminal not within 'plain
sight of the casual bystander. Tho
majesty that used to hedge a king, now
protects the law from assassination and
the police are street signs of the law.
At times, however, there is a necessity
for active police intelligence, as is the
case where a wife is widowed and
two young children orphaned by mur
derers who are still at large.
Then the group of detectives about
tho President were of no service. The
murderer might have escaped if a
quick negro bad not instantly marked
his deed and fallen upon him, pinning
him down. And yet. Penelope, we
could cot afford to dismiss the police.
The streets would look dismal without
their aning against
things. There is their moral olTect be
side, but it seems a good deal to pay
for just a fear which the activity of the
police does not justify.
This is pretty heavy for a light frothy
letter to the Dollie of Omaha, but sinco
the assassination of the President the
inetlectualness of the police has been a
universal subject of conversation.
Some people are talking about a street
fair. After you have seen one or two,
street fairs are not particularly amus
ing, and many of the merchants think
that the expense of booths and the dis
turbance of ordinary business routine
amount to more than tho returnB. Thn
noise in the Btreet during tho continu
ance of a street fair is deafening and
the quality of the sounds is more than
usually distracting. Hurdy-gurdies, the
squeaks of countless toys and the stri
dent voices of fakirs advertising their
wares, bells, whistles, brass bands:
everything that man has invented to
make a noise is rung or blown, all at
oncoin fair time. Then all the ruffians
in the place and a few who are attract
ed by license throw confotti and rubber
balls at pedestrians who are trying to
attend to their own business. A car
nival in Latin countries is an institu
tion. The attempt to introduce it in
America has not succeeded. The layer
of vulgarity here is bo deep that when
the restraints that insure privacy and
freedom to the citizen who likes isola
tion are removed, that citizen ib at once
the victim of loafers and the objection
able class of practical jokere whose
amusement ib lying. 1 hope that the
sober merchants of Lincoln who have
succeeded by main force of energy and
ability will conclude that the street
fair is anarchy and does not pay. I do
not like the noise and vulgarity of car
nivals, and no spectacle, however bril
liant, can reconcile me to the confusion
aud familiarity of carnivals.
I heard Chancellor Andrews' lecture
this morning to the teachers in the high
school auditorium. lie is a pleasant
speaker, with an inexhaustible vocabu
lary, he is without pedantry and his
pleasant, frank manner establishes a
cordial entente between the people he
is speaking to and himself. The Chan
cellor was speaking about geography
and the best way to teach it. It is
necessary, he said, to teach beginners
in geography with a globe, otherwise
very young pupils only learn intellec
tually that the world is round, they
never feel its roundness. Then he told
the Ave hundred young women listening
to him that they could all make their
own globes. And then he explained
how to do it. He said to get several
boards a Toot long and have them
smoothly planed, then select one for
the axle of the sphere and keep on nail
ing short pieces of timber to the nuc
leus until the rough shape of a sphere
was attained. Then to lathe it into a
perfect sphere. He added that they
would And it very easy.
You know Penelope, how easy it is
for women to pound nails! The Chan
cellor said long wire nails were best and
my vivid imagination pictured those
five hundred women at work on their
globes and the globes themselves, after
they were finished. Probably the Chan
cellor knows how to pound a nail but
be has never seen a woman pound a
nail or he would not have fancied that
he was giving them an easy recipe Tor
globes. In the Chancellor's address
there are effects of obstacles conquered
and victories won, an indomitableness
that is the result of difficulties over
come and prizes won. He has no con
ception that anyone can be conquered
by a wire nail, but then he has never
seen his wife nail up a box for her folks.
If he had he would not have given a
recipe for globes to women which in
volved the driving in of about five hun
dred nails. Would he?
lours,
ELEANOR.
THE CARE OF THE SICK.
H. WINNETT ORB.
For Tho Courier.
As manifestations of any human ail
ment, there are two seats of symptoms,
physical and mental. The body and
the mind are both affected. This has
been the belief of tho regular medical
profession since tho time of Hippo
crates and has always been a govern
ing principle in practice. There have
always been, however, hangers-on at
both Bides of the .profession who have
claimed on the one band or the other
that disease is a strictly material or a
purely spiritual process, and that reme
dial measures of only one class or the
other should be employed. Each of
these "medical" sects has been charac
terized by some one predominant trait,
and each in turn has succumbed with
out seriously affecting the straightfor
ward progress of medical science.
The human body is a very compli
cated organism a compound of cells,
tissues and organs. The different parta
of the body are so related that any con
siderable disturbance of ono part may
erve seriously to interefere with the
harmony of their relations. When any
such disturbance does occur, it is said
that a man is sick, and measures are at
once adopted calculated to restore or
reestablish the normal functions of the
affected patient.
In the evolution of the humar race
which taught men that preparation for
a certain duty and frequent perform
ance of it enables one to do it better,
it came about that the care of the sick
fell to a certain few. These men were
called physicians. Since the earliest
times certain qualifications have been
recognized as essential for a physician.
First of all he should be gifted with a
good general knowledge, with a clear
conscience, and with sound judgment.
He should have an inherent sympathy
for the sick and a natural inclination to
relieve their suffering. These things,
combined with a thorough education in
the arts and sciences upon which the
fundamental principles of medicine
rest, should be followed by careful
teaching regarding all the structures
and functions of the human body in
health and the ways in which these
may bo influenced by disease.
The natural tendency of the human
body is toward health the restoration
of any diseased body to a healthy con
dition consists either in removing ap
parent obstructions or in bo stimulat
ing the body forces that these same
barriers to restored health may be
naturally removed. These are simple
facts, but facts so well established as
to be immovable, and facts which
should underlie all measures employed
for the cure of disease. Men or women
who do not know the laws and prin
ciples involved in a thorough under
standing of these propositions cannot
but apply misdirectedly or with utter
want of direction any measures for the
relief of the sick. Such men or meas
ures, moreover, cannot secure more than
temporary employment, as is shown by
history since the world began.
Truth and common sense are destined
finally to prevail. A general knowl
edge by the people of already existing
facts will easily serve to dissipate the
errors and ignorance that exist concern
ing medical facts. This knowledge al
ready exists and needs only to be placed
where it can be seen. As Browning says:
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