The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-27

good program. President Jordan Of
Stanford university speaks on the 18th
and on the 18th. He Is one Of the
eminent men of the country. Perhaps
the affairs Of no university have been
more difficult to manage than STAN
threatened by the suit against the
Stanford estate. the newness Of the
plant, under which term Is included all
that constitutes a university. viz, the
colleges, the faculties, the students.
and the income. demand a man OF
fipesse extraordinary. President Jor-
dan has been tried In the hottest fire
II Is possible to make. A fire kindled
and fed by the faculties, students and
public. He has been miraculously
kept cool. A breeze from heights that
most of us cannot see has blown the
flames back and he Is coming to Ne
braska to prophesy. His name Is rare
ly in the newspapers-his business Is
to keep the energy that runs one of the
greatest schools in the country from
being diverted. His work Is as quiet
as that Of certain senators who are
said never to have made a speech Of
any consequence. but on the other
hand to have effected more appropri-
atoms and things fer their district
than all the men put together who lay
awake nights thinking of electrical
combinations Of words. Sometimes.
though, men Of action like Lincoln and
Grant stop doing and thinking long
enough to speak for a great cause and
their words, at such time, are never
trivial. Prophesy is nearly a lost art.
1t once was and there is nothing to
show IL will not be again, and Of the
same kind that all religious have ex-
amples of. that is the analysis Of men
who have studied history and who
know where they are at Knowing
which, they can predict the next period
Of development without supernatural
assistance. Not that President Jordan
claims to be gifted.
The Chautauqua grounds are being
put into good order, the grass cut and
benches repaired. All the cottages
have been rented for the season. Forty
tenants occupy the lawyers building
and the other cottages are relatively
as full. If you want to get acquainted
over again with friends whose occupa-
lions and yours have kept you from
meeting, go to Crete on the days be-
tween the and the 18th.
Lincoln's assassin, John Curry, has
induced the people of Tennessee to
send him enough marble to set his
statue on. 1t has been suggested be-
fore that IL John Curry must make a
statue of somebody and set 1t up to
mock and humiliate passers-by let 1t
be Of Mr.. Thurston. who has probably
offered to do more for this country and
state than any other man alive. He
might shrink from so painful an ex-
preston Of the peoples gratitude, but
the stoicism he has shown before may
stand him in good stead when his love
fer the people of Lincoln is brought to
this supreme test
Speaking Of fakes, the prize mystery
story in the Chicago Record called
"Sons and Fathers is related to the
class. The mystery concerns the pa
of two young men. In the first
chapter it is stated that one of them
Is twenty-nine years old. In the last
part Of the story the age Of the other
young man is given as twenty-seven.
But in the final chapter the mystery
Is explained by the statement that the
two young men are twins What in
vests the subject with greater mystery
than even the author intended is the
fact that a number Of people guessed
the correct solution. The Chicago Rec
ord is supposed to be the most literary
Of the Chicago papers.