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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1903)
m XT b e Dalls nebraehan 91 x I Columbia National Bank OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Capitol, $100,000.00 OFFICERS John B. Wright, President J. H. Wttcott, Vice-President Joe Samuels, 2d Vice-President P. L. Hall, Cashier W. B. Ryons, Asst. Cashier Dr. J. R. HAGGARD cPhysician and Surgeon Special attention paid to diseases of iemales and rectal diseases. Room. 2 12 to 214 Richards Block. Resi dence I 3 10 G Street. Office Telephone 535. Residence Telephone L 984. TUB ONLY UP-TO-DATB Billiard and Pool Parlor IN TOWN NO SALOON ATTACHED Tnblen nevrljr covered Powell's, (45 North llth St. Phone L 664 THE fIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LINCOLN. NEBRASKA Capital $200,000; Surplus $100,000; Profits $18,319; Deposits $2,598,093 S. H. Burn ham. President A. J. Sawyer, Vice-President H. S. Freeman, Casl le H. B. Evans, Assistant Cashier UNITKD HTATKN DKl'OHITOKY BOWLING ALLEY 8 ALLEYS Standard and regulation In every particular. 1210 O 8t. H.C.Thomas, Proprietor Yule Bros.'Laundry t5i4 0 Street. Tel. 754. 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"nick." an affectionate but peculiar child, on reaching young manhood given himself over to the fanatical following of soci ological theories concerning crime. Under the influence of his declaration that depraved children have no right to life, a young mother of the slums mur derH her child, and 1b committed to prison for the deed. Richard did not come home until late that night, one of those late spring blizzards had come up and I was frightened to have him out so late. When finally ho came In at eleven, he looked down thoughtfully Into the fire while he told me that he had not spoken at the meeting, and I knew from the mud on his shoes that he had been walking. Next morning I read In the paper that the working men had refused to listen to him. When the cabman learned whom ho had driven out he declined to bring him back. The next day he had a cold and a fever. He re fused to take any of my remedies, since to take medicine was to own himself an invalid. I sent a telegram to John. Every morning Richard went down Into the city with his head high in the air, and I should have liked to see any one ever strike one of us as long as he held up his head and approved of himself. He would go down Into the busiest streets of the city and buy the paper of his old friend, the oil king, and read the howb smilingly as he sat before the fire In the little sitting-room, and brilliant grew the oil-king, he made a better newspaper man than you might have supposed. Vim and Venom go a long ways toward making brilliancy. Truly the boy must have worn a crown of thorns those days. But he never complained. He tried to fill an evening engagement be fore a gathering of economists one evening, but was driven back by the gathering mob. When he saw the paper the next morning, he understood the new hostility of the people. The girl had killed herself. Not in n nice, calm, lady-like way, she had little choice of means there in the cell, but in a frightful manner. She had been dismayed to find that she had added a criminal to the world, not taken one way. After that Richard did not try to keep up. "I was glad when John came. He went at once to Richard's bedside and the boy told him all about it. The old lady who owned the house had always been proud of "her boy" as she called him, and talked with tears in her eyes of his genius, hut she came to me that morning with stern, white lips and tohi me that Richard would have to find another room as soon as he waB better. "Very well," I said, "we'll take him away then, but he won't need another room." And John, who came In jiiBt then thought I meant we'd take him homo with us. We could hardly get a physician, they were all suddenly "very busy." Who ever before saw a city without a dozen loafing physicians? Finally we sent for tho city doctor. He could not refuse to come; he even attended sick criminals at the penitentiary. All the time that man was by the boy's bed Bide he never looked up, his eyes rolled around furtively aB a rat's In a hole looking for escape. He wrote out a hasty prescription und was about to take his leave when John seized him by the shoulder. John isn't a Bwearlng man, hut I have never been sorry for what he said to that doctor. He sank back frightened and prepared some medicine at once with trembling hands. John raised tho boy's head and I forced tho medicine by spoonfuls between his set teeth. For a few days his fever ran high and then he grew calmer. But ho didn't try to arise. John thought he was 111 yet and wanted to send for the doctor. But I knew hlB heart was breaking. A man cannot livo when Ills ambition has been killed. He had laid his offering at the altar and it had been refiiBed. He had struggled against the will of society and fnlled. Ho had tried to beat his way against the tide and been overwhelmed by the strong, steady waves closing over his head. What mattered ono life moro or less? He may have been the fore runner of progress, but he was not Btrong enough to bring about the ad vancement Itself. At last ono night he rested quietly, peacefully as a man whose day'B work is done whether for good or evil, and the nurse watched him while he slept. John and I sat and talked in the llttio sitting-room, so that he might sleep undisturbed. When his father waa near he tried to tell him over and over about the mistake, how the girl shouldn't have died, she was inno cent, but the baby waB better off. John talked hopefully to me that night of what he and Richard would do when the boy was well again. He confided to mo that ho had had wild hopes and ambitions himself once, but he had always kept them under. "The Individual must keep himself under," he said, "if he isn't one of tho crowd he must pretend to be. It's like a flock of sheep where there are too many leaders, the flock gets i.pread out too much. I'd like to have Been Rich ard a leader first rate If he'd have liked to be one." "Do you know, Marian," lie said again, "that if Richard had died, I couldn't have stood it?" "Oh, yes, you could," I answered, "there are worse things than death." "If Richard were dead," said John, "I don't know what I'd live for any more. You don't know how It is when he's away. There's the rocking-horse he used to have when he was a baby; I've never let them take it out of tho old parlor. We never had the new IiouBe built because his schooling cost a good deal, but I didn't tell him. You must never tell him, Marian." "No, I won't," I said, quietly. "You don't think he will die, do you, Marian? I can't stand to have him die!" "Do you remember," I asked, "at the funeral of Elmer's babies you held your own child safely In your arms with never a tear?" "It waB because I knew I shouldn't lose him. I have ridden over those plains on the wildest horses with Dick beside me on whatever horse he fan cied and I was never afraid. I knew that he was mine. I loved every breath of the prairie air and I wor shiped God in my heart, but I knew y w r ill mJT "xm nHDCnLATE5BDNBDN5 Sold only by Harleu Drug Co., llth & 0 Ste and Ood knew that I should hate him and his oreaturcB through all tho worlds to come If I should lose baby Dick. Elmer gave up his children too easily." "That time, do you remember, Mar Ian, when Elmer's little boy was bur led, how little Dick Rtood at tho odgo of tho grave and cried out that they were covering up the pretty posies? Ho loved pretty thlngH, bless his heart! He couldn't bear to boo tho UowerB covered up." And ho we talked through all the long ovenlng and I listened every min ute for a word from the nurse. When over sho moved, my heart stopped boating with the fear that she was coming to cnll ub. How could I bear It? How could John livo through It? About midnight sho carao for ub. Richard wqh Bitting up in bod with eyes staring frightfully ahead at something we could not boo. His hands were Btrotched out Imploringly, and his pallid face covered over with great dropB of sweat. So he who had never been afraid of anything In nil his life was afraid at last to die. John spoke to him reaBBurlngly. The boy turned his vacant eyes to ward the voice. "I can't Bee you, papn," lie whispered, hoarsely. "Don't let me die. It's baby Dick, don't lot him die!" Oh, baby Dick, never before had that power failed and sorry enough It 1b to fall you now. But there are stronger powers on earth than a fath er's protecting lovo or tho tears of a helpless old auntlo who can only wring her hands and lot her darling Blnk back on his pillow with great staring eyes and clenched fists, breathing no longer. John gave one great cry and caught him in his arms, sought for a pulse and could find none, then fell to rub bing one of his cold hands his hard est. He cried out to me angrily to help him and not stand there crying. And to humor him, I did so. W worked over the cold rigid hands, no longer baby Dick, with the great star ing eyes wide open and tho cold rigid form as heavy as clay untU the beads stood out on my face and ran down my cheek with the terror of It all. the horror of the dead man's eyes, the weight of the dead man's hand. John worked with desperate energy, his teeth set tightly together and to ward the last when he began to give up hope, his tired hands worked less swiftly and his lips breathed forth curses on the men who had killed his boy. After awhile, it must have been an hour or two, the cold fingers In mine straightened out less rigidly and the eyelid closed slowly. Ho had not breathed for two hours, yet this spas modic motion took place and who can say but that his spirit entered Into its rest at that instant? John gave up the struggle then and dropped the life less hand. He threw himself down be side the bed and sobbed as any other (Continued on page 4.) .HIGH GRADE r. . .--rj- v : o 7