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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1902)
THE COURIER scribed circle for n little more than si week. Now an injudi cious, vicious zany like the Maclay whom the newspapers call a historian, is given columns where an epitaph of two lines Is all he merits. A fame, newspaper born and unnaturally pro longed by newspaper stimulants after dissolution has begun, is boring sub scribers Into an unrelieved ennui. Oc casionally chance elevates a man of mediocre ability Into prominence. Chance is only a (lash as to energy and impulse. Chance may boost a man into a coveted place, but only ability can keep him there. A man who gets into the ilewspapers by a conspicuous act of folly is just as well satisfied with his notoriety as though it were at tained legitimately. All the cranks and fakirs whose names are household words In this country owe their fame to the very papers whose editors profess contempt for their conduct and pretensions. The waters of oblivion used to sweep over a fool and his folly. Today his reward Is fame and the re production of his commonplace, unin spired features In nearly every paper of consequence in the country. Ennui preys upon the sophisticated and the reading of the daily papers for the very exaltation of fools therein is a cross. -11 ". -"i German Protection Who pays the tariff on food stuffs in Germany if the tariff is incteased? The American shipper? There is no doubt that his sales or orders for wheat delivered f. o. b. at a German port will decrease. But the grain will cost the German importer the price of the grain plus the transportation, plus the tariff. The importer sells the grain to the miller and the miller to the baker and the baker to the people. But the tariff is on the wheat from the time it leaves the exporter's hands. The last man who buys the grain either sis tlour or meal pays the tariff. If the father or bread-winner sold the bresid to his children, he would sell it to them for si price fixed by the tariff, but when it finally slips down the red throat of th little German child it has reached the consumer. For a sentimental rea son the father can not get the price out of the bread and he therefore pays it. .? ? . T Ideas The man of works and deeds hsis a great contempt for the theorist, the debater, yet there is not si warehouse, si grain elevator, si freight csir, or a shop that was not originally sn idea and nothing more material. Debate brought about Magna Carta, the exe cution of Charles I, the American rev olution, sind it will in time siccomplish universal suffrage for sill the children of .men. An idea is born In one brsiln. The man who owns the brain com municates it to his friends. It is start ling sind awakens the opposition of his kind. A hundred years ago they killed a man whose ideas were too original. But you cannot suppress sin idesi that way. Someone else is likely to catch it before the man dies. Or if he dies without making a convert the same idesi will occur to some other man by original inspiration. The only way to keep new ideas out of a body is to kill sill the dreamers and theoretical fel lows just as soon as they are old enough to show plainly what they will be about as soon as they are grown. Sweet content never accomplished any thing. It is the divine discontent which stirs a man to think he can make things better if he tries, which induced the Puritans to come to Amer ica, which Influenced Luther to nail his theses on the cathedral door, which made the Man of Sorrows willing to be nailed on the Cross. -. .? .- C 'C "But has he the first chsiracteristic of a true poet?" "Well, yes. He was born, I believe." Miss Lippincott JtSMffiS; Isona in Drawing, Painting, Wood Carving. Improved China Kiln. China decorated or tired. Studio open Monday.Toesday, Thursday ,and Friday afternoons 2 to 5 o'clock. Saturday mora- P CLUB NOTES THE WEEK'S REVIEW Following the luncheon sit the Lin coln the Nebraska Library Association held its annual meeting in Pail.idian hall on Wednesday afternoon. In lhi absence of the secretsiry Miss Mullikin w:is appointed secretary pro tempore. In his introductory address President Wyer gsive si brief resume of the woik accomplished by the association during tlie past yesir. The six largest libraries in the state are the Omahsi city library, the university library, the Nebraska Mate library, the Peru library, the Creighton library, sind the Lincoln city library. The first library bindery in Nebraska has been put into operation in Omaha during the last twelve months, smd is proving si success ful experiment inasmuch sis the convenience is greater smd the expense is less than when the books were sent to other binderies. The university work in Nebrasksi is one of growth and sulaptation to conditions, in which there can be no precedents and which can not be systematized. Tin conditions sire unlike those of either the east or west: they sire not unlike the conditions in Idaho and Washington states, where there sire few large cities needing help from the commission, and where there sire many towns too small to support a library, yet bravely endesivoring to sustain si residing room through the help of the traveling libraries. The aim of the state commission is to be help ful without being ollicious. The question box wsis conducted by Miss Tobitt of Omaha. One question related to the advisability of buying cheap or good editions for use In the library. It was decided that good edi tions should always be purchased. The session closed with the flection r QUEEN WILHELMINAand DUKE HENRY MAKEUP h -m& &'' f&aJS Here is the latest photograph of Holland's queen, whose domestic troubles hsive been discussed sill over the world It was feared for a while that a royal divorce would scandalize the court of Holland, but the queen sind her consort are now said to have nuide it up sind will strive to dwell together in peace and harmony. ings 9 to 12. library has been increased by the gift of si privsite library of 1700 volumes, which is the largest contribution ever received by that institution. The state library is limiting its work to the collection of law books, and it is considered one of the best law libraries in the country After collecting books for nearly thirty years the library at Peru is now being classified and catalogued. In spite of unfavorable conditions the Lincoln city library is rapidly increas ing in popularity and efficiency. It is expected that the library will occupy its new building some time in Feb ruary. New libraries have been established in Fremont and York. In Norfolk a library has been started in connection with the high school, and libraries will soon be established in Wahoo and. Nel son. New buildings have been donated to the libraries at Falls City and York. Miss Edna Bullock, secretary of the state commission, declared that the of officers, with the following result: President, Miss Edith Tobitt, Omaha: first vice president. Miss Abbott, Lin coln; second vice president. Miss Itu Ion. Peru: secretsiry. Miss Mullikin, Lincoln; tresisurer. Miss O'Brien, Oma ha. The next annual meeting will be held in Omaha. j" - .- c ? At the meeting of the Athenea club yesterday afternoon, Mrs. W. A. Greene, the hostess, read a. paper on the subject "Mosaics." - -54. -J S" " ? On New Year's day the members of the W. It. P. C. club were at home to their friends at the residence of Mrs. Horace Yates, 110S H street. In the evening the postal clerks and their families were entertained informally. H- O- Mrs. H. W. Kelley entertained the New Book Review club yesterday afternoon. j - r rf At the meeting of the City Improve ment society on Thursday morning a committee was appointed to meet next S8aaSS3?SSSS33aSK -fts H. W. BR0WN Druggist and Bookseller WHITING'S FINE STATIONERY M AND CALLING CARDS. g 137 So. Eleventh Street. Phone 68 jj TdBL, We Invite you to Call i and see our Cut Flowers and Plants in our new location ji Smith jjth Street PHONE B236. ! We make a specialty of fur nishing Floral Decoration-, lor Weddings, Parties and Recep tions. A complete stock of Plants and Cut Flowers on hand. Stackhous &Greer ntyf Florists' i Green Houses, Office. 36th and Q Sts. 131 South 13th St, HSgK5&SS2iS&eSSSSSSgeSSaiS l! PRIVATE AND PUBLIC Library Books BOUND IN A SUBSTAN TIAL MANNER AT FAC TORY PRICES BY . . . I South Platte Publishing Co., S$? PAPER BOX MAKERS 142 Jf. Ilth St., U.tULX, MiH. lit s ft I j FREIGHT PAID ONE WAY. g : Cycle Photographs Athletic Photographs Photographs of Babies Photographs of Groups Exterior lews V. The" Photographer 129 South Eleventh Street HARK LISTEN to those Steam Radia tors kicking and hammering until your room rings like a boiler factory. PHEW ! Now hot, now cold, with frequent emissions of lovely (?) fumes from the valves. Get a Gas Heater GRATE OR RADIATOR they're the thing. You can light them without getting out of bed. They'll take the chill off the room. We sell them at cost. Lincoln Gas and Electric Co. 1 2th and O Sts.