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, hf- 4 Y W 4A -4 '- . r ! hil ,. m mw 1 -fl IHHSlRCxir'iMAvmHPSfBBH MP"fc VOL.." 9 No. 38. . LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8; 1891. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ENTERED AT THE LINCOLN POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS UVTTEB. I'UIIMSHKD EVERY SATURDAY HY THE COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY. OFFICE 217 North Eloventli St. TELEI'HOXK PO W. MORTON 8MITH, EDITOR. LUTE H. MOKSE, - - - BrsixEss Manager. .Subscription Rated In Advance Per annum $200 I Threo months 50c. Six months 100 Ono month 'JJc. Single copies Fivo cents. For gale at all news stands in this city and Omaha and on all trains. A limited number of advertisements will be inserted. Rates made, known on application. Olive Schreiner's prose poem, "The Wine Press," has had few imi tators, but Oscar Wilde has followed in her footsteps, producing a series of sketches based on scripture, which he has treated similar ly. The following are samples: "It waB night-time and H was alone. "And He saw afar oft the walls of a round city, and went toward the city. "And when he camo near he heard within the city the tread of the feet of joy and the laughter of the mouth of gladness, and tho loud noise of many lutes. And he 'nocked at the gate and certain of the gate keepers opened to Him. "And He beheld a house that was of ruarblo and had fair pillars of marble before it. The pillars are hung with garlands, and with in and without there were torches of cedar. And He entered the house. "And when Ho had passed through the hall of chalcedony and hall of jasper, and reached the long hall of feasting, He saw King on a couch of sea purple one whose hair was crooned with red roses and whose lips were red with wine. "And He went behind him and touched liiin on the shoulder and said to him 'Why do you live like this? "And the young man turned around and recognized Him, and made answer and said, 'But I was a leper once and you healed me. How else should I live?' "And He passed out of the house and went again into the street "And after a little while He saw one whose face and raiment were painted, and whose feet were shod with pearls, and behind her came, slowly as a hunter, a young man who wore a coat of two colors. Now the face of the woman was as the fair face of an idol, and the eyes of the young man were bright with lust. "And Ho followed swiftly and touched the hand of the young man and said to him, 'Why do you look at this woman in such wise?' "And tho young man turned cround and recognized Him and said, 'But I waB blind once, and you gave mo sight. At what else shoufd I look? "And He ran forward and touched tho painted raiment or tho wo-" man and said to her, Is thero no other wuy in which to walk. Rave' the way of sin?' f "And tho woman turned round and recognized Him, and laughed and said, 'But you forgave me my sins, and tho way is a pleasant way." "And He passed out of the city. "And when He had passed out of the city Ho saw seated by the roadside a young man who was weeping. " - "And He went toward him and touched tho long locks of his hair, and said to him, 'Why are you weeping?' ' " "And the young man looked up and recognized Him. and made ' answer, 'But I was dead once and you raised me from the dead'" What else should I do but weep?" THE MASTER. "Now when the darkness camo over the earth. Joseph of ArimaJ thea, having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from tho hill into the valley. For ho had business in his own home. ' "And kneeling on the flint stones of the Valley of Desolation he saw a young man who was naKed and weeping. His hair was the color of honey, and his body was as a white flower, but ho had wounded his body with thorns, and on his hair he had set ashes as a crown. " " "And he who had great possessions said to the young man who was naked and weeping. 'I do not wonder that your sorrow is so great, for surely He was a just man.' "And theyou.igman answered, 'It is not for Him that I am weep ing, but for myself. I too have changed water into wine, and I havo healed the leper and given Bight to the blind. I havo walked upon the waters, and from tho dwellers in the tombs I havo'cast out dev ils. I have fed the hungry in the deseit where there was no food', and I have-raised tho dead from their narrow houses, and at my bid ding, and before a great multitude of people, a barren fig-tree with ered awaj. All things that this man has done I have done also. And yet they hava not cruifitiid in).'" Rev. John Snyder in the GMe Democrat discusses southern literature, and modern didactic fiction, saying in part: The venerable "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" has been recent ly discussing modern writers and their methods. He speaks in the highest terms of the two writers who may be said to represent the Southern type of genius, Geo. Cable and "Craddock." It always Warranted the BEST FLOTTfi in America. Any Grocer can get it for you. None Genuine without cut of Indian on back nf sack. J. K Ives & Co., liolesale Agts. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA
