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"? CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY MARCH 21, 1891. ' ljS J Oswr FLVGUESOFTflKClTIIffl. STRONG DISCOURSE PflEACHCD DV REV. T. DE WITT TALMAOE. n1rlut .Imiiirnienli III Hulijrrt A lnnt CutirmirtA I'ithhM Tim Nmk, rr Nprclflr. AmnirtimnU Tlint Ara llHrniful unit TIiiimi Tlmt Are Not. Nr.w YoilK, March IS. Tho series of ser mon Dr. Talmae Is nreaelihiK In this oily anil llrooklyn on "Tim IMiikiics of tlio Clll"" Is nltrncliiiK Kneral attention. At theinornliut service In llrooklyn mid nt t ho cvciiIiik services hehl uiitler tlio ausnlivs ot Tim Christian Iltirahl, In thin city, tin' numlwrof nersons who como to heir thoscrninnilsfar larger thanclttior of. the ImllilliiKs run iiccoiiiiikmIiiIo. Tlio sermon to tiny, which It tlio fourth of tho series, lit on "Hale fill Amuspiiienta." Tho text was II Samuel, it, 14; "Let llm young men now arNo anil piny lwfoni us." There nro two armies eiiramiel by tho jmhiI of OIIkmiu. Tim tlmo ImiiKH heavily on tliclr hands. One army proposes ujiamo of sword foncliiK. Nothing could l tuura healthful nnd innocent. Tho other nrmy accept! ha challctiKC. Twclvomcu twalnst twelve men, tho sport ocns. Hut some tlilun went adversely. Perhaps ono of tho awonlsmen Rot nu unlucky clip, or Iniiomo way hml his Ire aroused, ntul thnt which ommumIIii ortfulncss ended In violence, each ono Inking hlo contestant by tlm Imlr, nml then with tho nwonl thrustltiK him In tho Hide, ho thnt thnt which opened In In nocent fun ended In tho massacre of nil tho twenty-four simrtsmcn. Was there over a better Illustration ot what was true then, mid Ik true now, thnt thnt which It Inno cent may l mndo dcstructlvef What of a worldly nature la more Im portant mid HtrtMiKthciiloK mid Innocent than ninunement, and yet what has count cl moro vlctlmsf I hnvo noHympnthywlth a Htrnltjnckct rclliilnii. Thin Is n very brluht world to mo, nnd I proposo to do nil I can to mnko It bright for other. YOUTH'S firoUTlVKNKHS SIIOUMt not in: BUP l'llbSHKII, I never could keep Htep to a dead mnrch. A book yearn ago Issued oayH that a Chris tian man hat n right to hoiiio muumimenU. For Instance, it ho comes homo nt night weary from his work, and feeling In need of recreation, putn on his sllpcrs, mid goca Into hit garret and walks lively round tho floor Hovoral timet there can bo no harm in It, I IkiIIovo tho church of Hod ban made a treiueudnuH mistake. In trying to suppress tho sportfulncss of youth and drive out from men their love of nmuRcment. If God over Implanted anything in uh bo Implanted thlt desire. Hut Instead of providing for thlsdomaud of our nature, tho church of Qod hat, for tho main part, Ignored II, Ah In a riot, tho mayor plants a linttcry at tho cud of the street, and has It ilred off so that every thing is cut down that happens to stand In tho range, the good as well as the nail, ao there are men In tho church who plant their batteries of condemnation nnd lire away indiscriminately. Kvcrytblng is con demned. But my bible commends' those who use the world without abusing it, And in the natural world Qod has dona every thing to please and amuso us. In poetlo llgure we sometimes speak of natural ob jects aa being in pain, but it is a mere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yet shed a tear; and the winds sigh, but they never did have any trouble; and that the storm howls, but it never lost iUttttper. The world is rose, and tht universe a garland. And I am glad to know that in all our cities there are plenty of places where wo may find elevated, moral entertainment. But all honest men and good women will agree with me in the statement that ono of the worst plagues of these cities is corrupt amusement. Multitudes have gono down under the blasting influence never to rise. If we may Judgo ot what is going on in maqy of the places ot amusement by tho Bodomlo pictures on board fences and in many ot tho show windows there is not a much lower depth ot proflgaey to reach. At Jffaplcs, Italy, they keep such pictures locked, up. from indiscriminate inspection. vThajv' pictures. were exhumed from Pom pell and are uot fit for publta gate. It the effrontery ot bad places ot amusement in hanging out improper, adverUsomeuU pt what they are doing night by night grows worse In the same proportion, in fifty years New York and Brooklyn will beat not only rwspeu,'.uutBoaom. , N -To, help stay.the plague now raging I projact certain 'principles by .which you majpiudge itiragM to ay apnsenwat or recreatlou, finding out for yourself whether it Is right or whether it is wrong. hy its vnuits KNOW it, I remark lu the first place that you can judgo ot the moral charaoterof. any amuse ment by its healthful result or by iU bale ful reaction. There are people who seem made up ot hard facta. They .are a com bination of multiplication tables and sta-1 tlitlcs. It you show them an exquisite picture they will begin to discuss the plg meats involved in the coloring. If you show them a beautiful rose they will sub tmlt it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post-mortem examination of a flower. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than smile. There are no great tides ot feeling surgiug up from the depths ot thelrjsoul lu bllow after billow of reverberating laughter." They seem as It nature had built them by contract and made a bungling job of it. ,i" Bat; blessed be God, there are people in the world who have bright faces, and whose life is a song, an anthem, a prcan of of victory. Even their troubles are like the vines that crawl up the aide ot a great tower, on the top of which the sunlight sits, and the soft airs of summer hold per Ktual carnival. They are the peoplo you ll!:e to have come to your house; they are tho peoptu I like to have come to my bouse. If you but touch the hem ot their gar ments you are healed. Now it Is these exhllarmit and sympa thetic and warmhearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amusements. In proHirtlon aa a ship Is swift it wants a strong helmsman; in proportion as a horse ' guy, it wants a stout uriver; auu tbese people ot exuberant nature will do well to look at the reaction ot all their amuse ments. It an amusement scuds you home at night nervous so that you cannot sleep, and you rise up in the inorulug, not be cause you are slept out, but because your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have beeu where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a miii next day to his work bloodshot, yawn ing, stupid, nauseated; and they are wrong kinds ot amusement. They are entertain ments that given man disgust with the drudgery ot life, with tools because they ure "not swords, with worklug aprons be- awfto they are not robes, with cuttle be f,fm they are not Infuriated bulls of the lf say amusement sends you home long- iHgier a llfo or romance ana thrilling m VMture, love that takes poison and shoots f, moonlight adventures aud halr- brenillh etcaHt, joititnny depend Umn It thnt you nro the sacrificed victim of tin annctllled plcnturn. Our recreations nro Intended to build up, nnd if they pull its down mm to our moral or im to our physical strength you may come to the conclusion thnt limy nro obnoxious. There is nothing moro depraving than nttcmlanco upon nmiiHoiucntt thnt nro full of Intitiendonnd low suggestion, Tim young man enters. At llrst he sits fnr back, with his lint on ami his cont collnr up, fearful that aomelMMly I hern may know him. 8ov eral nights past on. I to takes off his hat earlier and puis his cont collnr down. Tho blush that llrst camo Into his cheek when anything Indecent was enacted comes no more to his cheek. Farewell, young man4 You have tirolmbly started on tho long road which ends in consummate destruction. Tho Ntnrs of hope will go out ono by one, until you will lm left in utter darkness. Hoar you not the rush of tho maelstrom, in whoso outer clrclo your lxmt now dances, making merry with tho whirling wntersr But you are being drawn In, nnd the gen tle motion will become lerrlflo agitation. You cry for help. In vain I You pull at tho oar to put back, but tho struggle will notnvaill You will lo totted and dashed aud shipwrecked and swnllowod in the w)ilrlKK)l Hint has nl ready crushed in its wrath ten thousand hulks. YOltNO MAN BK ON YOUIl OUAHD. Young men who havo just como from country residence to city residence will do well to be on guard nnd let no ono In luco you to place ot improper amusement. It is mightily alluring when a young innn, long a cltlren, offers to show n now comer all nrottud. Still further. Those nmusemunts are wrong which lead you Into expenditure be yond your means. Money spent In recrea tion Is not thrown nwny. It Is all folly for us to como from a place of nmttsement feel ing that wo havo wasted our money nnd tlmo. You may by it have made nn in vestment worth more than the transaction that yielded you hundreds or thousands of dollars. Hut how many properties havo been riddled by costly amusement. Tho llrst tlmo I over saw tho city It was the city of Philadelphia I was n mero lad. I stopped nt a hotel, aud I remember in tho eventide one of these men plied mo with his infernal art. He saw I was green. Ho wanted to hIiow mo tho night of the town. Ho painted the path of hIii until It looked like emerald; but I was afraid ot Irlm. I shoved back from tho basilisk I mndo up my mind he was a basilisk. I remember how ho wheeled his chair round lu front of me, and with a concentrated and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul; but there were good angels lu tho air thnt night. It was no good resolution on my pnrt, but it wits the all encompassing grnco of a good God thnt delivered mo. Beware! bowaret oh, young man. "There Is n way that Hccmoth right unto a man, butthoend thereof Is death." Tho table has beeu robbed to pay tho club. The champagne has cheated the children's wardrobe. The carousing party has burned up the boy's primer. The tablecloth of tho corner saloon is In debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions thnt In m day make a tour around a whole, month's wages; li wiles whose lifetime business it is to "go shopping;" largo beta on horses have their counterparts In uneducated children, lmukruptcles that shock the money market and appal the church, and that send drunkenness staggering across the richly figured carpet of the manslou and dashing Into tho mirror nnd drowning out tho carol of muslo with the whooping ot bloated sons come homo to break their old mother's heart. A BAD BTOltY. I saw a beautiful home, where the bell rang violently lato at night. Tho son had been off lu sinful indulgences. His com rades were bringing hltn home. They car ried him to the door. They rang the bell at 1 o'clock In the morning. Father nnd mother came down. They were waiting for tho wandering son, nnd then tho com rades, as soon as the door was opened, threw the prodigal headlong into the door way, crying: "There he is, drunk as a fool I Ha, ha'." When men go Into amusement they cannot afford they flrst'borrow what they cannot earn, and then they steal what they canuot borrow, 'First they go into em barrassment, and then, into jylng, and then into theft;" and when a man gets as far on as that he does not stop short of the peni tentiary. There is not a prison In the land where there are not victims ot unsanctlfled amusements. Merchant of Brooklyn or New York, is there a disarrangement In your accounts? Is their a leakage In .your money drawer? Did not the cash account come out right last nlghtr I will tsll you. There la a young man In your store wandering off into bad amusements. The aalary you give him may meet lawful expenditures, bat not the sinful Indulgences In which he has entered, and he takes by theft that which you do not give him In lawful salary. How brightly the path ot unrestrained amusement opens. The young man says: "Now I am off for a good time. Never mind economy, I'll get money somehow. What a Hue road! What, a -beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip, and over the turnpike! Come, boys; All high your glasses. Drink! Long life, health, plenty of rides just like thlsl" Hani working men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look HP apd say t" Why, I wonder where those Sllows get their money from I We have to 11 and drudge. They do nrthiug." To these gay men life la a thrill nnd an excite mentv They stare at other people, and in turn are stared at. The watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagger. They Jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take the name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their mother's knee: and to all pictures ot coming disaster they cry out, "Who carcsl" and to the counsel of some Christian friend, "Who are your" Passing along tho street some night you hear a shriek in a grog shop, tho rattle of the watchman's club, tho rush ot the po lice. What Is tho matter now Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grog shop light. Carry him home to bis father's house. Parents will come down and wash his wounds aud close his eyes in death. They forgive him 'all ho ever did, although ho cannot in his silence ask It, Tho prodigal has got home at last. 'Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers, and twist the in into a chaplct for the silent heart of the wayward boy, and push back from tlie uionteu brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the. air will be rent with the agony, The great dramatist says, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thank- less child." J.IFE AN KAItNEST THING. I go further, and say those are unchris tian amusements which become the chief business of a man's lite. Lfo is an earnest thng. Whether we were born In a pal ace or Iiom'I, whether we are affluent or pinched, we have to work, Jf you do not srfea.t with toll, you will sweat with dis ease. You have a soul that is to be trans figured amid the pomp of a judgment day; aMl after the sea has sung Its lnt chant mil tlio mountain shall liato como down In nu nvnliineho of a rock, joti will llvo nnd think nnd net, high on a throuo when) seraphs slug, or deep In a dungeon where ilemoiih hovri. lu a world where them Is so much to do for yourselves, nnd so much to do for others, God pity that mini who hat nothing to do, Your sisirts are merely menus to an end, They nro alleviations and helps. The arm of toll Is tho only arm strong enough to bring up the bucket out of the deep well of pleasure, Amusement Is only tho Ixjwer where business nnd philanthropy rest while on their way to stirring achievements. AmtiHcmcntHnro merely the vines that grow about thuanvllof toll and tho blossoming of the hammer. Alas for the mini who spends his life lu lalsirlously doing nothing, his days lu hunting up lounging placet nnd loungers, his nights lu seeking out somo gas lighted foolery! Tlio man who nlwns has on bis sporting jacket, ready to hunt for game In the mountain or fish In tho brook, with no time to pray or work or rend, In not so well off as tho greyhound that runt by his side, or the fly bait with Which ho whips tho stream. A man who docs not work does not know how to piny. If God had Intended us to to nothing but laugh bo woul.1 not have given us shoulders vyttli which to lift, nnd hands with which to work, and bruins with which to think. ; The amusements of llfo are meruly tho .orchestra playing while the groat tragedy of llfo plunges through Its live nets Infancy, chlldhocd, manhood, old ngu and death. .Then exit the last earthly opportunity, Enter thu overwhelming real ities of an eternal world! I go further, and say thnt all thoso amusements are wrong which lend into bad company. It you go to any place, where you hnvo to associate with tho In temperate, with the unclean, with tho abandoned, however well they may be dressed, In the tiamo of God quit It. They will despoil your nature. They will un dermine your moral character. They will drop you when you aro destroyed. They will give not one cent to support your chil dren when 'oit are dead. They will weep not one tour at your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. I had a friend at the west a rare friend. He was one ot the llrst to welcome me to my new home. To lino ix'raonn! appear ance ho added a generosity, frankness nnd ardor of nature that mndo mo love him like a brother. But I saw evil peoplo gath ering around him. They canto up from the saloons, from tho gambling hells. They piled him with a thousand arts. They seized upon Ills social tint ure, aud ho could uot stand the charm. They drove him on the rocks, like a ship full winged, shivering on the breakern. I used to ad monish him. I would say, "Now I wish you would quit thesu bad habit and be come a Christian." "Oh," ho would reply, "I would like to, I would like to, hut I have gone so far I don't think there Is any way back," In his moments of repentance he would go home and take hln little girl of 8 j ears, and embrnco her convulsively, and coyer her with adornments, nnd strew around her pictures aud toys aud ever) thing that could make her happy; and then, nn though hounded by nn evil spirit, ho would go out to the enflamlug cup nnd the house of shame, like a lool to the cor rection ot the stocks. A DKATIIUKI) BGKNK. I was summoned to his deathbed. I hastoned. I entered tho room. 1 found blm, to my surprise, lying In full everyday dress on the top of the couch. I put out my hand. Ho grasped it excitedly and said, "Sitdown, Mr.Talmage, right there." 1 sat down. Ho said: "Last night 1 saw my mother, who has been dead twenty years, and she sat just y here you sit now. It was no dream. I was wide awake. There was no delusion in the matter. I saw her just as plainly as I see you. Wife, I wish you would take these strings off or me. There aro strings spun all around my body. I wish you would take them off of me." I saw it was delirium. "Oh," replied his wife, "my dear, there Is nothing, there, there Is nothing there." He went on, and said: ".lust where you sit, Mr. Talmngo, my mother sat. She said to me, 'Henry, I do wish you would do bet ter.' I got out of bed, put my arms around her, nnd said: 'Mother, I want to do tat ter. I have been trying to do letter. Won't you help mo to do better? You used to help me.' No mistake, about it, no delusion. I saw her the cap, and the apron, aud the spectacles, just as she used to look twenty years ago; but I do wish you would take these strings away. They annoy me so. I can hardly talk Won't yott take them awayr" I knelt down and prayed, conscious of the fact that he did not realize what I was Baying, I got tip. 1 said, "Good -by; I hojie you will be better soon." He said, "Good-by, good-by," That night his soul went to the God who gave it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said, "Don't bring him In 'tho church: he was too dissolute," "Ob," I said, "bring him. He was a good friend of mine while he was nllve,,aud 1 shall stand by him uow that ho is dead. Brlug him to the church." LAST KCENE OF ALL. As I sat in the pulplt,nud saw his body comlnjc up through the aisle I felt ns it I could weep fears of blood. ' I told the peo ple that day: "This man had his virtues, and a good mauy of them. Ho had his faults, and a good many of them, but if there Is any man in this audience who is without sin let him cast the llrst stone nt this colli n lid." Ou one side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweet faced, as beau tiful as any little child that sat at your table this mcrnlcg, I warrant you. Sho looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows of an orphan child. Oh, Iter coun tenance haunts me today like some sweet face looking upon us through a horrid dream. On tho other side ot the pulpit were tho men who had destroyed him. There they sat, hard vUaged,some of them pale from exhausting disease, tome of them Hushed until it seemed as If the tires ot Iniquity flamed through the cheeks and crackled the lips. They were the men who had done the work They were the men who bad bouud him ha ml and foot. They had kindled the fires. They had poured thu wormwoou auu gall into that orphan's cup. Did they weepr No. Did they sigh re pentlnglyr No. Did they say, "What a pity that such a brave man should bo slniur" No, no; not one bloated hand wns lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at the coffin like vul tures gazing at the enrcahsof a lamb whose heart they had ripped outt I cried in their ears us plainly as I could, "There is a God ,nud a judgment dayl" Did they trembler Oil, no, no. They went back from tho house of God, aud that night, though their victim lay in ()akvoMl cemetery, I was told thnt they blasphemed, mid they drunk, 'and they gambled, and there was not one lessmtstoiner In all the houses of Iniquity. This destroyed mau was a Sauixon In phys ical strength, but Delilah sheared him, and theThllisilnesof evil companionship dug his eyet out ami threw him Into the prison of evil habits. Butln the hour of his death he rose up and took Inld of the two pil lared curses of God ngMust druukcnnewi and tiutleaniiess, and threw himself for ward, tutll dowu upon him and his com panions there came tho thunders ot an eternal catastrophe. Again, any amusement that gives you a dlstnsto for domestic llfo is bad. How innny bright ilomestlo circlet hnvo been broken up by sinful amusements! Tho father wont off, the mother went off, the child went off. There are today tho frag ment before moot blasted households. Oh, If you hnvo wandered away, I would like to charm you back by tho sound ot that ono word, "homo." Do you not know that you have but little moro time to glvu to do mestic welfare? Do you not see, father, that your children are soon to go out Into thu world, and all the Influence for good you nro to havo over them you must havo nowf Death will break in ou your conju gal rclntlous, and alasl if you have to stand over tho grave of ono who perished from your neglect! AT HIS WIKK'H DKATIIUKI). I saw a wayward husband standing at tho deathbed of his Christian wife, nnd I saw her point to a ring on her linger nnd bcanl her say to her husband, "Do you see that ring?" Ho replied, "Yes, I see it." "Well," said she, "do you remember who put It theref" "Yes," said ho, "I put It there," and all tho past seemjd to rush Upon him. By thu memory of thnt dny when, In the prcsenco of men mid angels, Vou promised to Ira faithful in joy nnd sor row, nnd In sickness nnd in health; by tho memory of thoso pleasant hours when you ant together in your new homo talking of a bright future; by tho cradlo and the Joy ful hour when ono life was spared and an other given; by thnt Blck bed, when tho little, one lifted up the hands aud called for help, and you know ho must die, and ho put ono arm around ench of your necks mid brought you very near together In thnt dying kiss; by tho little grave in Green wood that you never think of without n rush of tears; by tho family Bible, where, amidst stories of heavenly love, It tho brief but expressive record of births aud deaths; by tho neglects of tho past, and by the agonies ot the future; by a judgment day, when husbands and wives, parents and children, lu immortal groups, will stand to bo caught up In shining nrray or to shrink down Into darkness; by all that, 1 beg you give to home your best affeetloiui. Ah, my friends, there Is an hour coming when our past llfo, will probably past Ira fore tit In review. It will Ira our bust hour. If from our death pillow wo have to look back ami sco n Ufa spent in sinful amuse ment there will be a dnrt that will strike through our soul sharper than tho dngger with which Vlrglnitts slew hit child. Tho memory of tho past will make us quako like MiiuImHIi. The iniquities and rioting through which wo havo passed will como upon tis, weird and skeleton as Meg Mer rill cm. Death, tho old Shylock, will de mand and tako tho remaining pound of flesh, and the remaining drop ot blood, nnd upon our last opportunity for repent ance anil our last chance for heaven tho curtain will fotuverdrop. A I'olyneilnu Legem!, Turn, coming from over scat, found him self in a land named Otca, and leaving his canoe journeyed inland. Traveling through the dense forest, ho saw fairies sit ting lu the flower ot the climbing plants and swinging on the lllanas which trailed from tho high houghs across the vistas ot the wood. These fairies were curiously shaped beings, having small heads and large bodies, while their hands nnd feet were attached to limbs so short that they seemed as If extruding from their bodies. Tura had brought with him the sticks wherewith fire is produced by friction, and he proceeded to kindle a fire mid to cook some food, much to the astonishment of tho fairies, who hnd always consumed their food in lis natural state. Tura fell In love with ono of tho fairy women and married her. Ills wife reciprocated his affection and they lived happily together; but one day when tho elfin spouse was combing out her husband's hair she suddenly cried out, "Oh, Tura, what Is this white hair among the black ones?" He told her that It was n sign of ngo and of approaching decay, the forerunner ot death. Then his wife wept bitterly nnd refused to lie comforted. It Is a touching story, the sudden surprise and grief of this child ot tho Immortals on her discovery ot that which to us poor sons ot clay Is so common and obtrusive n fact. The old legend has given rise to a proverbial say ing, "The weeds of Tura," its a synony mous expression for gray hair. Longman's Magazine. Queer Artlitle Blunders, Some very curious blunders may be seen In old pictures. It. is related that Bur gonne in his "Travels in Spain" noticed a painting where Abraham is preparing to shoot Isaac with a pistol, and in a country church in Germany the painter, in repre senting the sacrifice of Isaac, places a blun derbus In Abraham's hand as argument for obedience, and paints an angel coming down to pour water on the pan. Huer has painted the Blessed Virgin as resting on a velvet sofa playing with a cat and n paroquet, and about to pour her self coffee ft out nn engraved coffee pot. lu Durer's picture of St. Peter denying the Saviour a Roman soldier may Ira seen smoking a pipe. Providence .Journal. The Scotch Hentlle. Ot course he was fond of his snuff, and made free with the "mull," ac the Scot terms his snuff box, right and left. An old beadle himself tells of having got a sharp reproof from the pulpit because ot his too devoted attention in this particu lar. "When the minister was preaching," says he, "a neighbor asked a snutT, and 1 gave him my box. The minister saw us and just leaned over tho pulpit, looked straight in our faces, and said, 'There are some of you more concerned about your noses than about your souls' bulvatlon.' After that I was very careful never to pass my box in church again." Gentleman's Magaxlue. , Two Opinion of Southey, One year when I was up In the Lake country 1 was sketching at Hydal Water, when a gentleman came up behind me, and after watching mens I painted for some tlmo said, "The man who can do that should have a name." I answered just as he moved away, "The mau who can see that oughc to haea name, too." lie looked very peculiar, and I asked some men who were working in a stone quarry close by it they knew who he was. "Oh, yes," they said; "why, that's Southey, the poet. He's a funny fellow." "How funny)'" I asked, "Why, he's mad," they answered. T. Sid ney Cooier. ButUlleil. Little Man (excitedly) I'm hunting for n man named Bibbs, who said I was a toad stool. Big Man (calmly)-I'iu Bibbs, but I didn't call you a toadstool, I said you belonged to the mushroom aristocracy. Little Man (backing olT)-That's all right. We're all foud of mushrcoms. Good News. The New Realistic Novel "HER HUSBAND'S FRIEND," lly ALBERT ROSS. 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