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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1903)
"twr j -"jm' wv- ju. , t - - j SafurDag tfUbrasfoan 7' :. 4 'A L te Other Side n Gorbeau." (With apologies to Victor Hugo.) An hour before sunBet, on the even ing of a day In the beginning of Oc tober, 1815, a man traveling afoot en tered the little town of D . Ho wore a red cloth about his neck, tied in a hard knot. He stopped and looked around. The staff he was carrying Blippod out of his hand, and fell to the ground. He looked behind him. He looked first to one side and then to the othfr. He frowned darkly, picked up hlB staff from where It had fallen on the ground, and walked on. A slouched leather cap half hid his face, bronzed by the sun and wind and dripping with sweat. He wore a coarse yellow shirt, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor. Evidently a mariner or a man connected with the sea. His trousers were of coarse, blue cloth, white on ono knee, with holes In the other. He paused a moment to wipe out the dust from his sleeve. A bird on a fence on his right was sing ing Its evening song. He stopped and listened. He drew forth a handker chief and wiped the sweat from his brow. t He coughed slightly. The chill breath of a passing breeze caused him to Bhudder. He Bald: "It is getting cold." He started as If from a dream, and went on. He was making Mb way into D by the same road by which, seven months before, the Emperor Na poleon wont from Cannes to Paris He stopped before a Bhop. The street ltrnp was burning dimly. He fumbled In lt-J pocket and drew forth something. He turned it over in his palm, and gazed at It. He hold it out at arms length and it glittered. He looked at yho setting sun and then at the streetsImp. Then he med itated. v. lamps wero all lighted an hour befOv, It was necessary. Five sou worth of oil wasted on each lamp. Five lamps makes twenty-five sou. Enough to keep two people from starv ing and to furnish them food for two days. An annual waste of 12,775 sous. The extravagance of the government Twelve thousand, seven hundred and soventy-flve sous Four human bouIs. An abominable state of affairs! What is necessary? WgM, , Light makes whole. Light enlightens. Let ub return to that cry. Light! an'' lot, ub persist, In It. Light' "Light! Who lenows but that, these opacities may become transparent. Are not rev olutions transfigurations? Proceed, philosophers! Teach, enlighten, kin dle, think aloud, speak aloud, shout, cry out, dance up and down, shriek, tear your hair, tear off green branches from the oak trees, make thought a whirlwind. What Is the key to this secret? Economy. Aught else? Sympathy. The man turned toward the shop. He entered and with his two bou piece he bought a biscuit. He sighed. One half he broke off and devoured, the other half he put In his pocket. Forty years ago the solitary pedes trian who ventured into the unknown regions of La Salpevlere and went up along the boulevard as far as the Barrlere d' Italic reached certain lim its where It might be said Paris dis appeared. It was no longer a solitude, for there wero ppople passing; It was not the country, for there were houses and streets; It was not a city, the streets had ruts In them; not a vil lage, the houses were too lofty. What was It then? It was an Inhabited ' place where thero was nobody. It was a deBert "place where there was somebody. It was a material place that did not exist. It was a corpse full of life. It was an animated body devoid of life. . 'S' It' Was a hdrsemarket. . '" The man strolled on. Hlfi name was Gdrbeau Hfe VvftB aomtswhat known, and had taken Bveral prizes when a youlh at collage. Once he was heard to" say: ' "t hope I will not see '93 Vwt.ce." Men, looked serious when he said thesd words. They wews bold Nvords. Some deny that he dared to say them, but most people assert that he did say them, He stopped before the gato of a lattice fence surrounding a garden. He Inserted a key In the lock and opened the gate. This Is where he lived. The house waB his own. He worked In the garden In the morning. He owned it. too. The house and garden cost him 500 francs. Ho lived alone. He did his own house work. He cooked his own meals. 8ometlmes he would pick an apple off one of his treeB and hold It up before the eyes of the street gamins. "Which one of you Bald your prayers this morning?" he would ask. The gamins would hang their heads. The man would smile and eat the ap ple. Ho once Bald: "The French revolu tion Is a mess of scamps." We shall hear of him again. J. R. Sing, O MiiBe, of the baleful wrath Of the prof. In polycon, Who finds he's wandered Into class Without any necktie on. One of the professors In the Uni versity is authority for the following anecdote and vouches for It as a part of his own experience. It happened when he was teaching school In a small town some twenty years ago. One day ono of the leading mombers of the board of education made one of IiIb frequent visits, and In response to the profeBBor's earnest solicitations rose to make a few remarks to the chil dren. For a moment he stood In per fect poise and swept the faces of the pupils with his eyeB. Having made a careful survey of the room, he smiled blandly and clasped his hands tightly. Meanwhile the pupils sat In suspense, with their hands folded and their eyes riveted on the face of the speaker. Finally the speaker his spell brokon commenced: "Children," he said, "I lovo to look Into your beautiful faces." Pausing for a moment In order that they might fully digest his words, he resumed: "Now, children, what shall I talk about?" Whether he expected an answer to this question or not, it Is dlfllcult to determine, but It Is safe to say that tho good man was shocked, when a voice from tho remotest corner of tho room piped up: "Talk about two minutes and then lt down. Visitor (at domestic science depart ment). "Will the head Of tnls depart ment be In this noon?'' Fair CulBlnlere. "Can't say, Miss B . She's Just gone up town for lunch." An Indirect Incident Effect. A bas ket ball team Just passed along, look ing demoralized and beaten; which signifies that they have Just met Ne braska. First Co-ed "Tom beat all the rest of his class in the physics test." Second Co-ed "That's nothing. Charley beat his professors In the lit exam." Father. "I'm afraid Dick Isn't getting along very -well at the Univer sity." Mother. "Oh, yes, he is. Why Just in his last letter he wrote that the. registrar often calls him over to his his office to consult with him." . The Cupids think the two Tho following colloquium occurred In the class of a professor of mathe matics who believes In drilling the facts Into the students: Professor. "Of what Is zero the co Bine?" Student. "Of ninety degrees." ProfesBor (greatly gratified). "That's correct. Now, of what is zero tho sine?" Student. "Of thunderin' cold weather." Instructor. "What is the most pow erful agent In bringing worka of value into public notice." Freshman. "The book agent." Senior Co-ed. "What was the most pleasing feature about the debate the other night?" Junior Co-ed. "The decision of the judges." Senior Co-ed. "I didn't see any thing especially pleasing about that." Junior Co-ed. "Well, It certainly was pleasing to tho Juniors." Mother Earth certainly displays fominlne attributes, In that no one Is ?ble to definitely determine her age. Professor (lecturing "One defect in a nation's policy does not contaminate the whole. Suppose, for Instance, I had an applo with a rotten spot In It. 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