The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-06-29
COURIERISMS.

A two hundred million bushel corn
crop in Nebraska would mean
S5O,OOO,O OO-provided corn sells for %
cents, and many say it will sell for more
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The COURIER again submits that il
is bad practice for the board OF educa-
ton to give the teachers such a shaking
up every year. The teaching force is
demoralized, and no good comes OF this
feeling OF distrust and uncertainty en-
gendered every spring. The teachers
should be elected to hold their positions
during good behavior, or until removal
Tor cause.
IT
Last week Mat GerIng, OF Platts-
mouth. was on trial before Judge Lam
sing i'm this city. A part of this case
was tried in the county court-just a
small part. The mayor portion was
tried in the Newspapers. Which calls
to mind the fact that Lincoln attorneys
are largely given to trying their cases
i'm the newspapers. Why not let case
at law be tried and determined in court,
without resorting to newspaper assist-
and il is the better way.
IT
The Washinton Post has something
interesting to say about Gen. Clarkson,
OF Iowa, and the Allison presidential
boom: Senator Allison's friends here
say that General Clarkson is too officious
in dealing with the senator's affairs. and
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any capacity. Senator Allison depre-
Gates the somewhat premature launch
ing of his boom, for he has on former
occasions su ffered thereby. Those who
are in his confidence state that his
policy is to remain in the background
for the present and watch the course Of
events. He is not an aspirant for the
nomination in the sense that he is
seeking it, and he realizes that this is too
early in the season to begin spec
ulating in that direction. The contro-
versy between the Allison and Clark
interest wherever the two men are
known. Allison does not wish to appear
too prominently in the presidential
campaign until he is out of the
senatorial woods. His contest for
Tc-cicCtion 10 oh anu NC pEcicTS
to make sure OF six years in the United
States senate, after March, 1897, rather
than strike out for the presidential
nomination ami perhaps lose both
1t is said by Senators Aliisons friends
that General C!arkson has his eye on
Allison's seat in the senate and Tor that
reason he is anxious to appear as the
residuary legate OF Allison IL the latter
should leave the senate"
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Charles II. Hoyt was born in Concord.
N. H., July 26. 1850. He went to school
in Boston and got an appointment to
West Point but couldn't stand the
physical examination. Then he spent
six months on Colorado sheep ranch
and then read law for a while in the
Office Of his fathers old friend, ex- Chief
Justice Gushing. That being a failure
he went into newspaper work, first on
little daily at st. Adams, VT. and then
on the Boston Post. One day Manager
Harris Of the Howard Atheuaeum asked
him to try his hand at writing a farcical
sketch for an afterpiece to the Athen-
aeum performance. He wrote a bit
called sGifford's Luck" which was so
well received that he Immediately wrote
q thrilling melodrama entitled "Cezalia,"
which was a fiat failure. Then he
wrote "A Bunch of Keys" for Willie
Edouin and was paid $500 forit. 1t was
first produced at Providence and went