The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-02-19

have a plan for selling the city tn
water of the Schuylkill (which tn
company does not own any more thai
you or / own it, for the sum Of tire
and one half millions more. This ]
the most barefaced proposition OF al
and has raised such howl that IL ma.
not 90 through"
The ways of diplomacy are pas
finding out. Senior de LONE mails
letter to a friend which never reaches
him but is opened by Junta spy who
copies it and lays it before other con
spirators. Eventually the original
letter is sent to Washington and
reaches the hands of the secretary OF
state and the ears of SenOr de LONE,
who, in consequence is forced to re-
sign. His diplomatic crime does not
seem to be mitigated by the fact that
the letter was friendly and unofficial
and distracted from the mails by q
man whom il is Jesuitical not to call
robber. Neither is his Offense palli-
ated by the coincident appearance of
newspaper criticisms of the president
in the hundreds of papers i'm this
country: criticism much more virulent
than Senior de Lome'S deprecatOry
letter. The lesson seems to be that it
is not SO much what one says of the
chief executive Of the United States
Of America as who says il. Senior de
LONE departs with disgust from the
land Of freedom and justice, where
jingoism refuses justice TO the
stranger. Not that We are supposed
to care much what Spaniard thinks
of us, only our criticism of other cOun-
tries and their treatment of Americans
is rendered somewhat stilted and af-
fected by our inconsistency.
The modern young college woman
who can play basket ball, run as easily
and almost as swiftly as faun, who
has clear eye, and a complexion of
milk and roses, who looks straight at
you and in an emergency does not
faint or scream but stands by to help,
is mate for somebody more chastely
imagined than an Olympian deity.
She is harbinger OF future genera
tions that fOrbids pessimism, makes it
ridiculous. The old woman some
times referred to as the creeper and
Ginger, was also apt to whine and to
be peevish. her nerves made her want
to n.y." and their effect upon her hus-
band and children was not cheerful.
All those who have seen the univer.
sity girls i'm their gymnasium work
have been thrilled by their vigOr and
grace, by the abandon of their play
and their skill, by their obedience to
the rules and, above all, by the signs
Of health that almost all of them
show. The type is all-womanly,
though il shows on the street and in
society a directneSs and freedom from
coquetry that would have puzzled
and embarrassed the cavalier poets.
The type l refer to is studiOuS and
most of the time appallingly in earn
est. The type gaZes at trifiing ques-
tiOner with gaze so direct and I'M
conscious that, unless hardened to it,
the dilletante's eyes will falter ard
the conversation stumble into silence.
In face OF the physical results Of the
annette training Of woman, all criti-
cism is idle. 1t has helped to make
tnem independent, self-reliant, and of
immense meaning to the future of
Nebraska.
A story running in Golfers Weekly
called San Impossible House Party"
illustrated by Peter Newell and
written by Caroline and Alice Duer is
on the plan Of "A Houseboat on the
Styx." The guests Of Mr.. and
Ms TarnnnS Enpif are Clennafra