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The Nehraskan-Hesperian
THE STOTSBNBURG FUND.
It :1s noticed wltn pleasure that the
Courier has started a Stotsenborg fund
for the widow of the deceased. Every
loyal student and professor of the uni
versity sljould help along this cause.,
Tfeo.last issue of the Courier contained
the following:
"Had Colonol Stotsenburg lived,
there would havo been no need of a
Stotsenburg fund. No man In the army
had a brighter or more assured future
than Colonel Stotsenburg and when
the wai, which he entered as a cap
tain, was over, he would have been a
general. He would not havo asked
anything of Nebraska, but if he had
come home with the First, in the
gladness of the Teturn of the volun
teers and the rejoicing over their glor
ious record, their colonel would have
received a hero's share of gratitude
and lame, which would have had as
immediate effect upon the war depart
ment as In the case of General Funston.
But Colonel Stotsenburg did his duty
first always. When lie was ordered to
take out from the men's pay enough to
pay for the cook's services and for the
stores stolen during the voyage across
the ocean, he tried insofar as an in
ferior officer might, to alter the decis
ion. Failing, he enforced ie order as
though he approved it. He realized
that it would make him unpopular with,
the volunteers but he did his duty then,
as, when standing under shelter be
hind the rice fields at Quingua where
the Nebraska hoys lay in the trenches
he realized that the only way to "get
the soldiers out of the trap into which
they had been led, was to order a
charge. He himself tuen advanced
over the fieiu where the men crouched
in the rice huts. As he leaped from
hollow to hollow he was a conspicuous
object, and besides the men cheered
him. He fell with a bullet in his heart
just as he reached the men and ordered
a charge. He was late arriving. The
attack was unexpected and Colonel
Stotsenburg was off duty when the
trouble occurred. When the men were
once on their faces in that rice field
the officers were uncertain as to low to
get them out A retreat would keep
them in the line of fire longer than an
advance hut a Tetreat was about to le
ordered when the Colonel of the First
Nebraska Teached Ihe battle field.
Without stopping he ordered up the
big guns, glanced about, realized the
greater loss of life should a retreat
"be ordered and, not crouching or stoop
ing, ran on to the field himself. To
save his own -soldiers and to do his
lest as a soldier and an officer was all
he thought of. It seems to me if the
commonwealth of Nebraska fails to
recognize the obligation that Tests upon
it because of this soldier's unhesitat
ing, brave doing of his duty, we are
lacking in the common, primary, vir
tues. "Mrs. Stotsenburg is an invalid.
She has never recovered from the
shock of her husband's death and
from the -strain of that long journey
across the Pacific when she brought
back to his country the man who had
fought a good fight, who had been
misunderstood and maligned but who
fought just the same. Perhaps some
who read these words may hesitate
because of the participation in the
early suspicions of Colonel Stotsen
burg's juBt treatment of his troops.
It is a long time now since those sus
picions were proved unfounded. The
man who suffered bocause of them Is
dead. As a state and as individuals
we owe his widow aJid ohlldren sup
port. We owe Jt to justice to right,
ua far as possible a wrong, and if we
do not pay our debts we are bankrupt
in -conscience. No sum so small that it
will uot add to the Stotsenburg fund
tanfl tto Ihe number of contributors who
thereby express gratltudo and appre
ciation of a brave man's llfo and
death."
THE WINTER'S TALE.
Wagenhals and Komper's 'great star
triumvirate" Louis James, Kathryn
Kidder, and Charles B. Hanford comes
to the Oliver theater with a magnifi
cent revival of Shaqespeares "The
Winter's Tale" which hasn't been at
tempted in this country . since Mary
Andorson.s revival at Palmer's theater
eleven years ago. Wagcnham and
Kemper have given the comedy one of
the most sumptuous settings of any
Shakespearean revival in recon.. years.
A corps of artists were employed on
the production from May until Sep
tember. The models were .akon from
the most authentic Greek sources, and
i from designs by Abbey, and were
! painted by Bradley and Corbeit. The
'production is embellished with costly
, Grecian antiquities and all the elabo
rate draperies, properties and furni-
ture are carried by the management.
The costumes are from Herrmann from
from designs by Anderson. Miss Kid
der will be seen in the dual roles of
Hermione and Perita the characters
in which Mary Anderson made her
farewell appearances on the stage. Mr.
James will have a congenial part in
Autolycus and Mr. Hanford will be
he King Lcontcs. A company of ex
ceptional ability surrounds the stars.
It numbers people who -mite reputa
tion and a capacity for artistic accom
plishment for all they undertake.
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