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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1899)
HERPOLSHEIMEI) & GO. THE ANNUAL MAY SALE mmwnm, MAY 8th This sale will prove a boon to graduates, coming as it does right at a time when prepaid ations for graduation are at their height, and enabling people to secure graduation neces sities at prices far below the regular. HERPOLSHEIMER & GO. MAY SALE-LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS Fans for Graduates Hoautiful line of fans in Vienna style, decorated sticks and hone, g-ui.c and silk, plain and handsomely decorated, at 59c, 05c, 75c, $1.00, and upwards to $7.50 Ladies' and Misses' embroidered yoke effects, suitable to wear with plain, wash dresses, worth $1.50 to $3.50, to close during this sale, each 50c Muslin Underwear Ladies' drawers, trimmed with hemstitched um brella ruffle, a pair 2fic Same, trimmed with torchon lace, a pair 32 l-2c Same trimmed with torchon lace and insertion, per pair 5c Skirts trimmed with torchon and insertion at $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 Corset covers in plain and full style, torchon lace and insertion trim ming, each '. 50 May Sale Ribbons, Purses, etc. 25c and 35c ribbons, fancy pat- terns, new shades, per yard. . . 1 9c Ribbons in fane) plaids, worth up to 1 5c, this sale, per yard . 10c Fancy neck ribbons, worth up to ioc, this sale, per yard 5c Small coin purses, solid leather, well made, this sale, each 3c Ladies' kid and chamois shopping bags,assorted colors, this sale 1 -2 off Chatelaines, half alligator and half moire silk, jeweled oxidicd trimmings, very handsome, this sale 1-2 Off S3IE5IFOX-.SSCE5I3S:E!R, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. Guy D. Talbot Wins the Fourth Place for Nebraska. Given First by W. J. Bryan. The men who in the last and host analysis of character truly merit the name of great are those who have not only niatlo their genius felt in the times in which they lived, but who have left a larger freedom or n broad er knowledge as their gift to the fu ture. We must distinguish between men who are great because circumstances nave made them, and men who are great because they have made circum stances; between men who 'have es poused an unpopular cause when it was slowly but surely gaining strength in a people's heart, and' men who fathered lte first basic principle. It is not often in the world's history 1 that we sec such a man. lie is not a ' leader of men so much as he is a pro phet of God. The world advances from the night of barbarism to the Millen hira's dawn by slow and painful step-, and at each step there is but one prophet. 1 The world has seen but few great epoch-making changes; but few men who, with their faces to the rising iun, I have dared in the simple night of righteousness 10 stand for eternal ' truth though the world opposed, since , the Greatest of Heformers, in the hills t and valleys or l'alosUne, iy ins words and life, sowed the seeds of all re form. "When some great wrong is to be righted God sends the man. Hut it it. seldom in the world's history and more seldom yot in a nation's life, that such an occasion comes. Such a time did come in the six teenth century, when Catholicism ruled the worW and could strike ter ror to tli the credulous heart alike of prince or peasant, and no dissent ing voice was heard. Then came Mar tin Luther. The world of blind "belief with all the inertia of ignorance was against him. He said: "Here I take my stand." He did not stir. The world came to him and1 the bandage of blind superstition dropped forever from the eyes of men, finch a time came again in the eighteenth century. The world waa a world of sovereigns and subjects. Xo on ffuaHoncd the divine Tight of kings. But Patrick Hr-rary roused a people's latent thought and feeling with his "Give me liberty or give me death." The prophet had heralded the dawn of liberty's new day, and the -world mv the birth- of a nation n nation where every man is a mon arch, wnere the humblest is of royal Wood. May Sale Jewelry and Silverware Gold Sterling filigree spoons, forks, sugar shells, and other novelties, Russian enamel trimming, this sale at a discount of 30 per cent Shoe horns, button hooks, nail files, ink erasers, tooth brushes, letter openers, seals, wax holders, etc., etc., all in Sterling silver, during this sale at a discount of 3 0 per cent I'orcelaine clocks, fancy shapes, worth $3.75 to $4.00, this sale each $2.50 Silver plated statuettes, during this sale, at 1-2 off Thee are two of the most striking scenes in the drama of human progress-. The last and greatest of all, with its leader the most heroic of all, remains for us to trace. .Nothing is grander than to break chains from the bodies of men; noth ing is nobler than to dispel the dark ness of the mind. Nothing is so hero ic as to tight for the liberty of ot Iters. To light for yourself is natural; to light for others is grand. To light for your country is noble; to tight for the human race, for the liberty of hand and brain, is nobler stiHf And to do all of this with no reward for the present!, but poverty and curses and danger and no hope for .ne future but victory in another's cause and' t lie coiisviousness of Inning fnWIifulU done one's part in the world's great work is sublime. And aH of this i but the tale of I. I. TAMIOT the life work of William Lloyd Gar rison the greatest, tenderotrt soul that the Great ltepublie has seen since the days of Washington. He was born in one of 'the lowliest of lowly New England homes. He grew up almost without an education in Hotton's historic suburb, Xewbury port. No sight or sound of slavery was round his boyiliood home. There was nothing in the peaceful, quiet landscape on which lie looked, noth ing in the low hills, tne cultivated and undulating fields where ambition was labor's only goad, nothing in 'tlhe mur mur of the Atlantic's tide upon his native beach to stir his sympathy or to prepare his mind and heart for the suhlimest life of unselfish toil and self surrender that our "history records. Lot us pass over his early nistory, interesting as it is, until at the age of twenty-three, when life's future, lit by hope's radiant star and picturesque MAY SALE-GLOVES AND CORSETS Odd lot silk mitts, in blue, red and pink, long and medium lengths, pure silk, worth as high as 65c, this sale I while they last, a pair 1 9c What we have left of our Kayser pat ent finger-tip gloves, worth up as high as $1 go during this sale, a pair.47c Good summer corsets, well made, perfect fitting, this sale 21c 50c corsets, summer net, perlect fit ting, this sale, each 39c May Sale Underwear! Ladies' fine Egyptian cotton vests, - high neck, long sleeves, lightweight, 25c quality 1 7c Ladies' shaped vests, ecru, low neck, sleeveless, 19c quality, each. . . 13c Ladies' fine merino union suits, long sleeves, ankle length, regular $1.00 quality, each 75c Children's low neck, sleeveless union suits, white and ecru, 25c grade, each 19c with ambition's beautiful mirage all lies before him, inviting him to claim bis share of wealth and happiness and worldly honor. He went to Hostou and worked for a time as type-setter. In a few months we llnd him editing a little jKiper. There was practically no issue before the people. The only question! that Garrison could find was one which grew out of it claim of Massachusetts for indemnity for some injury caused by the war of ISIS. The people's conscience slept. All the conditions existed as they did years later, when Lincoln, in the emancipation Proclamation, gave ex pression to that conscience aroused. Four millions of human beings were goNcrncd b the lash, humaiu llch quivered under the strokes of cruel whips; hounds tracked women through tangled swamps. 4Ua1es were sold from the breasts of mothers. Four million bodies were in chains, four million souls in fetters; all the sacred relations of wife, mother, fa ther ami child trampled beneath the brutal feet of might. Hut the people's fon-i'icnee slept. There was 110 eye to pity and no hand to save, lint one man awakened. It was William Lloyd Garrison. All the unspeakable cru elty and infinite outrage of slavery rose up before his mind like a hideous dream. He saw 'the slave in chains.' It was enough. Slumbering pity woke. He would aid in the pmcutw of tihe -tUB. Another step was to be taken toxnrd the goal of ultimate right. Divinity had sjokeii its mes sage of duty to the waiting heart of anonlicr prophet. He resigned his editorship, and, go ing to Haiti more with no present cap ital out his love of freedom and noth ing to expect but opKsition, lie cs t.iitlMifd "The Genius of Universal LmaiH'ipation." Here at tihe age of twenty-four ho raised, for the first time in America, the standard of im mediate and universal emancipation. He win utterly alone. Wendell Phil lip had not yet been heard. For more than a decade Sumner's eloquence was silent and Illinois' rustic stales man wn still learning in the univer sity of nature Hie homely wisdom that was at Inst to fit him to be the instrument through which destiny consi.mninled that which Garrison be gan His was a solitary voice crying nloud in the wilderness of a nn'tion's iniquity. Fiv.ii) t)ie abstract statement that slaven is a crime, he deduced the concre:o application that slave-holders were criminals. With the fearlessness of conscious right he asierted that every rnnn wlio takes by force the fruits of another man's hVbor is a criminal Iwforo lhc law of God. Tflic grand jury indicted Ovim for libel, ne was tried, found guilty, was too poor MAY SALE-DRESS GOODS AND SILKS Fancy mixtmes, new patterns and colorings, double fold, regular 15c values, this sale, per yard gc All wool novelties in very desirable patterns and colorings, worth up t 35c, this sale, per yard 20c 42-inch all wool novelties in plaids, new colors, regular .jyc values, tin sale, per yard 25c Bicycle suitings, regular $1.19 values, this sale, per yard 79c Handsome colorings in tailor suitings, plain ami plaid, worth $i.o this sale, per yard 69c Silk and wool novelties, latest color combinations, 98c values, per yar 60c Hlack satin Duchesse, 27 in. wide, per yard 87c Short lengths China silks, satins, etc., worth from 48c to 75c, per yan 30c May Sale Laces Imitation Torchon laces, large variety of patterns and widths insertion to match, prices range, per yard . . 1c, 2c. 3c and upwards to 10c Imitation Torchon laces, in red and white, and blue and white, per yard . . . . 1c, 2c, 3c and upwards to 7c Imitation Valenciennes laces, in nar row widths, doz. yds. 18cand 25c An exquisite showing of finer grades in Valenciennes and Mechlin laces. All come with insertions to match. Piatt Val. laces in assorted widths and patterns, at 3, 5. 6 and up to 1 5c yd to pay his fine, and at the ago of twenty-four, when few men have fixed beliefs, was in jail for his convictions. Here he staged until a generous friend animated not by hate of slavery, but by loe of free speech, paid his fine and Garrison was once more free. He had no money. The paper, never prof itable, had during his impriisonmcnt, .sunk under its load of debt. He was without a weapon. For the moment his voice was silenced, but the fire still glowed unqueuvhed in his heart. He went back to Itoston, and after working a short time at his trade, he rented some type, borrowed a press, and friendless, pennilcs- and alone, le gan to publish the "Liberator." The Liberator, fourteen inches by nine, as large as a uimIci-ii handbill. A finan cial failure at first, a financial failure all the thirty-fixr .veal's of its life. Hut it was not born to die. It heralded a new eimgel. In K page Wendell Phillips read the alphabet of eman- I A MMMIIKIIf.AIN ciputiou and (-baric Sumner's heart first learned to U-at in sympathy witlli a race oppressed. Like a halo round the brow of holiness whonc its mot to: "Our country is the world; our countrymen are all mankind." Stern as the angel of judgment, bravo ns the defiance of Martin Luther, is his introduction: "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as jus tice. I am in earnest. I will niot equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be, shall lc. heard." And ah! 1iow lie was heard I The strength and re sources of his mofiher tongue seemed inadequate for his needs. All the harsh, the stern, the terrible and the tremendous energies of English speech 1io drew upon and launched at slavery. The Liberator radiated thought that glowed, couched1 in words thnt "burned. A pillar of firo in the nigkt of the nation's aim And yet amid all tlhc excesses of tihe enthusiast was the calculating mind 1 ffj Bk May Sale Hosiery Ladies' Hlack cotton hose, seamless, spliced heel and toe, double sule, a pair 0c Ladies' imported real maco cotton hose, velvet finish, extra high spliced heel, double sole and toe, 35c quality, a pair 29c Hoys' cotton bicycle hose, 2x1 rib, seamless, spliced heel and toe, double knee, a pair 14c Misses' fine imported fancy striped cotton hose, 1 x 1 rib, double heel and toe, 35c quality, a pair. . . 25c &, CO of the philosopher. He saw tha the i national apathy could be owe-., me only by firing the national in 1 He knew that he himself must 1 p.rt of the force of the explosion Hut 1 fearing nothing but his conscience .mil his God lie bent to his task, lie felt and knew Unit there is a law more potent than any enactment of Mate. Higher than statue or decision of court, he set the principles of i-w rnal right. He felt that the fugitive -'ave law was a crime against Immunity He denounced the legislators, the -gis-lation and all who obeyed it. 1L-. re bukes cut deep. His insolence was no longer to be borne. The t atic must Ik; silenced. Then came tlie twenty-first of August and the vad cloth mob," ami before a sin.- "tie of the great men whose name ere afterward so closely linked wi the tint i-sln very cause had learned i' first great principles, Garrison had well nigh died for his convictions. I de nying that it is a crime to fe- the hungry, to give water to lip- that thirst, to shelter a woman Hyin rom the whip and chain, William loyd Garrison stands with garment iorn and tat tens), the bruised and t. -ling xictliu of a Itoston mob, in the -stcd laud of freedom, a martyr to free dom's cause. Hut after eight weary years toll and conflict he had reached tl uirn ing of the long lane. Friend and siipjiortcrs came clustering .mud. Phillips 011 the roiitriuu and - inner in the senate brought their el" imCe to nid his cause. We know tl rest We know how that cause crew rent,'' er in the jMMvcr of its righte siicss until the nation trembled the throes of civil war, how the ti seed which Garrison had planted v -a he said 'I will be heard,' grew itil It budded in the election of Lliw u at"1 blossomed In the J3iirancipati Pro clamation. William Lloyd Garrison fir-' "f re formers in the greatest of 1 orn more than a martyr to his can - o8 a Ufe of toll and striving is great than the dreamless sleep of death. I ' Kve to fight liberty's battles from i fi'-st to its last He lived to see the .te7 of the cause lie Jiad spokem in 'e He lived until his name and i-iwrty were united forever. He lived o showered with roses and i inlne wliere years before a prirce ha. I Itfe" set upon his head. He did not retreat a nntion came bo him. Ho li 1 un" til tlio history of his deeds made mu sic in the 'hearts of a liberated race, until Ids name was written with Lin coln's on Columbia's calendar of worth and fame. ; "Wilten. wrongs are to be right J fiod sendn the 'mam. Hut it is seldom tlat we are permitted to see another Tro metheus bring the fircc of liberty from heaven's altar and Idndlo a peo ple's h carts with Its sacred flame. 1