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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1895)
THE COURIER. i I !! ((( ((( THE PASSING SHOW 1 I beard the other day. a story about a poem, and since Richard Harding Davis thought it good enough to write about I will tell it myself. A few months after Anno Reeve Aldrich, the poet, died, some of her best verses appeared in Harper' a under other initials than her's. If 1 re member rightly the verses ran something like this: "If it were land, then weary feet could travel, If it were ana a thlp might cleave the wave, If it wore death ad eres could look to heaven And aee through tears the innlight on a crave. But land nor sea nor death keep us apart. But only thou, O unforgiving heart." 1 , "If it were land through piercing thorns I'd travel, If it were sea I'd cross to thee or die, If it were death I'd tear life's veil asunder. That I might see tho with a clearer eye. Bat land nor sea nor death keep us apart. Forget, forgive, O unforgiving heart' Miss Aldrich's friends were indignant and wrote to Richard Harding Davis demanding an explanation. Mr. Davis' only anBwer was a story which appeared next month in Harper's, telling the ex perience jot an editor who published a poem that was mailed to him signed with false initials, In Mr. Davis' story the editor traces the poem to the pla gairist and threatens him with open dis grace. The only explanation the young man offers is (hat his sweetheart was fond of poetry and that he stole the verses to win her favor, I am inclined to think that the story was true and Amelia whose books are upon one ever lasting subject, whose adjectives all have one taste, whose descriptions all tend toward one end, and whose harp has but one fervid string, has been granted a divorce. For the Chandlers' sake I am glad of it. It was a terrible trial for the family to be tied in any way to an erratic, semi-commercial proclaimer of the supremacy of love like Miss Rives. Of course Amelia Rives was received in Richmond and Washington, but only in that conde ecending, considerate fashion that ar tists, one and all, leaders and campfol lowers are taken up by society. 1 war rant Mr. Chandler's aunts and great aunts , and cousins are all rejoicing and offering up prayers of thanksgiving that young Chandler in well out of it. borrowing: from health; - i' rrri a :. k bbbbbbi i .i aum mum. mMmVmmmmVlFns 72- xmByJ' If you have borrowed from health to satisfy the demands of business, if your blood Is not getting that constant supply of fat from your food it should have, you must pay back from somewhere, and the somewhere will be from the fat stored up in the body. The sign of this borrowing is thinness ; the result, nerve waste. You need fat to keep the Llood in health unless you want to live with no reserve force live from hand to mouth. Scott's Emui sion of Cod-liver Oil is more than a medicine. Tt is a food. The. 1 1 vnonhosnhites make it a nerve food. too. Ana; as for the man himself, herob- , perfection as good things ever come in this bl7 has experience enough and to spare. . " I & world. Be turt ycu pt Scott' i Emxlihn rvktn feu leant it and net a cktaf tmistitutf. SCOtt & Bowrie, New York. All Drufcgists. 50c. and $1. spare, If the imaginative and fervid soul of Amelia has tried all her absurd theo ries upon him I do not wonder that he is aweary. Tl t the case here was no sensational evidence in '& all: the oniy reasons given were that it would be more convenient for each of them to be free and that a divorce would be "an accommodation mutually accepted." In other words they were tired of each other, and Mrs. Chandler being ccarcely a woman, but merely a free lance or a very trashy or der of fiction and a disciple of a most dangerous and treacherous school of modern thought, decided to put an end to it. For like all the women of her particular school, Amelia Rives has no sense of responsibility, only a few high HATS! HATS! HATS! HATS! HATS! 2V make hats "Wetrrlxn. bats "We sell hats We say nothing about prices, you know they will be 11 right at 124 S, 12th St. Lincoln Neb. Satisfaction guaranteed in Every particular. IVf ieasK A. BETTS HWITTMANN&CO. Wholesale manufacturers of that Mr. Davis simply told the facts in sounding and superficial theories of the U,SM ana heaVH amess the case, for as a story the production was more interesting than artistic Madame Melba has honored thip soil once again. She is already en route, leaving her big talented boy at school in England It seems almost impossible that she has a boy of her own who is studying Latin and harmony on his own account. Its rather hard to think of opera singers in a maternal aspect any way. Of all those Binging women though, I should imagine that Melba would be the most comfortable one. She may be more erratic than the con scientious Eames, and she may forget her boy sometimes, but when she re members its worth while I warrant. Of course every one knows that Lang try has lost her jewels, the newspapers have been impressing the fact upon us ever since it occurred. But the secret details are known to few. The truth of the matter is this, that the or d:r presented the bank clerk for the de livery of the jewels, written in Langtry's hand and signed with Langtry's signa ture, was forged from a recommenda- DRIVING, RIDING AND RAGING OUTFITS W0-1& N Tenth St. Lincoln, Neb BICYCLE RIDERS SHOUD USE EIGG'S CALENDULA ror sprains, bruises, sore muscles after RIDES, etc. In 25 and 50 cent sizes, InstantatneouB in its results. tion of a complexion soan written by the fairTLily in a thrifty moment This "the bugiT and started down the street, should certainly be a warning to the She stopped, tied the horse and followed fair actresses who supplement their sal- him down the Btreetstriking him again aries by sending their photographs and aQ3 again as she overtook" him. Since signatures to advertise liver tonics they Uie unfortunate affair thePabst family have never tasted and cosmetics they ave been tryEg 9 patch it up and kind by which such women excuse their lack of womanliness. And upon a few metaphors and similes she obtained her divorce. It looks dangerously like the philosophy of Victoria Woodhull. When Amelia Rives marriedsix or seven SsSSsSSsSS 5li! years ago no one wno naa reaa ner violent fiction expected that she would remain married very long or that she would make young Chandler particu larly happy. A woman of her strained and distorted opinions would not be likely to do so. It is useless to say that the quality of one's work is no indica tion of his life. An author's work is the product of his mind and his feelings, if they are erratic, everything in his life is erratic Margaret Mather is not content with domesticity. She is discontented to such a degree that she drove her hus band down one of the principal streets of Milwaukee, lashing him with a buggy whip, a few weeks ago. They were out riding when the trouble began, it seems. Suddenly Mrs. Fabst caught up the buggy whip and struck her hus band across the face. He jumped from MAKERS OF DELICICSlJS CANDIES AND ICE CREAM. -3SHML PRICE ON ICE CREtt TO PARTIES OR SOCIABLES -Catering in all its branches ?Phomb681 , Y. 131 SOUTH 11 Street ig have never used. It is an undignified custom and it is putting one's own rep utation and the public favor to very mean ends. At any rate Langtry will not soon write advertisements stating that she is "pleased and benefitted" by Somebody &. Co.'s soap for 'the com plexion. So Amelia Rives-Chandler, the elo quent apostle of the small winged god, Margaret, when interviewed by report ers, has thrice hissed histrionically that it is a "cruel, cruel lie," but hundreds of the good citizens of Milwaukee saw it and although they like Pabst beer, they will not forget such disgraceful be havior. There is no doubt about the truth of it, and it is the beginning of an end that is not far distant. Of all the talent wasted and the careers fofiSSifeiSbsbs m LINCOLN i JW POLYTECHNIC 5 JK INSTITUTE j 1 Mil In is the mainspring of i 1 1 Mess jjj ftjj for INDIVID ALs S (ft and states ! i sf O Do the best, if not the best, then the best possible. ABRAHAM LINCOLN i)C!CrCC r-urnlshes the mind; M Mathematics Forges it." Dr. John Brown. Dieiplinea the mind; Letters Delight ft :nd for catalogue Wm. E. CHANCELLOR, A. President of faculty M. IVfvl miiiidl Of Celebrated Hats Now on ole toy public nor respected by society. She is neither flesh, fish nor herring, so to speak. Heavens! how she could read those line of Juliet's. J. A. SMITH, Sole Mt abandoned there ib no more hopeless and irreparable than Margaret Mather's. The woman is still young and still beau tiful, but every career is shut to her. She has burnt the candle at both ends, . and now she can have darkness for the "Believe me love, it is the nightin rest of the journey. It is awful to think gale.' 1 can hear the despair and plead that any one who could play Juliet as ing of that great voice now, It was a Margaret Mather once pliyed it should voice that throbbed and pulsed with come to this. That she is no longer feeling, that waxed ana waned, that fejl sought for by artiste nor admired by the upon those who heard her like the
