The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899, March 04, 1898, Image 3
ME ' he 4- S I TZ'O ITTrTH Yv TEcDri21i.lfl UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Vol. XXVlI. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MARCH 4, 1808. No. H2 Speed Out To Scu. The day droops crimson-pinioned far u-wcsl. Lone from herjutty crag, a sea-gtdl down ward peers; The baby waves' complaining, at the breast Of this mite uler, reefy strand, she wondering hears. She rests not there. Far past the ciooning bar, Her figure trails the lace-like, sea-born robes of night; Engulfed in that soft pink by evening's star, Far, far, she drops behind the straining sight. There is a lonely rock far out to sea, Of gold, they say, at eve, and gold at blush ing dawn, Thither, 0 wanderer, hast thou fled from me "Old Mr. Uowlands," where, just at .supper time, it is poured out on the kitchen floor and pulled over by four or five children and then through the evening the neighbors come in for their "Youths' Companions'' and "Boston Advertisers" and rare lnttorb. But the post office is at the depot and the pot mast n and ticket agent and baggage master are all lame Mr. Josselyn. Next to the depot is a store where they sell groceries and china, and stationery and dry goods; one of these "department stores"' but it is all in one small room. The next build ing is the public library, where you pay two cents a day for the use of the books; and here in the library the grammar school graduates and the revivalist rants and the W. C. T. U. sells ice cream. Then there is a lumborvnrd To sleep until the drowsy, voiceless night is and plaining mill, the only live thing in town; gone. Thus, 0 my soul, at eve, speed out for rest. Seek, thou, thy Clefted rock amid the dim- miug sea; Draw close thy weary wings upon thy breast, And let the lisping waves bring long, sweet sleep to thee. Iua Aiuel Kelloqo. but the machinery is still and they are screen ing cranberries. This is the business portion of the town, and it is all at the Halifax end of South Hanson. Now along the road toward Bryuntvillo is the residence portion. First comes three houses, all with mansard-roofs, all alike, and all painfully now; then a house with a white fence made of wooden hasps; then Charlie Stetson's potato patch and then his house and corn field. Yes, it is a corn field, about three hundred feet long and half as wide. But "Charlie did not have good luck this year, he planted and the birds got it, and iheu he planted again and it didn't come im good. Hanson road has three branches. One, High But there will bo enough for his own use." Street, has a guide-post which says "North The next field belongs to the parsonage, Hanson, two miles;" another, Pleasant Street and it is full of wild carrot. But ihere is a whose guide-post its "Barnestown, half a mile; new minister coming and he will take caro Plympton, five miles" and the third is neatly of things bettor, "lie is hero now and his labeled "Crookor Place," and has no guide- son is on the way with the furniture and cow post and loads to nowhere. and horse in a car. Thoy started "Wednesday The first building in South Hanson is the and ought to bo hero tomorrow. His wife is depot, which is also the post office. But the visiting in Now Bedford and will come when Pleasant Street mail is taken in a bag up to thoy are settled. Ho put a new floor in the Cameras Dry Plates Films CardsPrinting Paper at LINCOLN PHOTO SUPPLY CO. 1U1 So lltli ureet. OU.tl'jt 1-IllUMOll.. We in the "West'.' would not call it a town at all. It is simply a section of road cut ofl' and called the town of South Hanson. The next section after the Woods is Halifax and on the other side is Bryantville. The South