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day after day on the corner of 0 andllth
or O and 10th, might have brought
their trained minds to bear on an esti
mate of the crowd and saved the
country the expenso of an official count.
'There is a body of people who be
lieve that dullness and solemnity in
literature make respectability."
Town Topics is one of the brightest
papers published in this country and They would need only to add the llfty
one of the most brutal. If its editor bad
not been an editor ha would have been a
surgeon. As it is ho is never happy un
leps ho has the scalpel in his hand. As
for subjects he prefers women. Every
body who has any psychological knowl
edge at all knows that a woman's bon
net is her vital point. Attack that with
ridicule and tho baro nerves will quiver.
Imagine Mrs. Bunion reading tho two
following paragraphs:
It has been suggested that while the
Tho vio
an espe-
with tho van-colored plumes.
lent violet bonnet seems to be
cial favorite with Mrs. Burden, as she
aired it or one like it last summer at
Newport most continually, and it has
bobbed up again recently. Perhaps, enough the books generally so easily
however, if these had been taken away, damaged were not much injured. The
something still more startling would china also appears to be all right. The
have soon been in their place, so it may carpetB aro covered with sand and
be all for tho best. water, the pictures struck by a stream
I was very much amused at reading of water, have only tho frames left, tho
in one of the newspapers that Mrs. Bur- wood work is charred and warped, alto
den's diamonds were almost equal to gether, the house is a desolate wreck,
those displayed by Mrs. Herman Oel- In spite of the destruction no flames
richs. Mrs. Oelricbs never wears jewels
at all, -and is generally most simply
gowned. Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Henry Sloane
and Mrs. Bradley Martin have always
were seen at any time by the crowd. As
long as the house was to be destroyed
it was a pity that a spectacle did not
occur. At the present time the house
bean famous for making the most lavish its guarded by policemen, the glass of
displays at tho opera. I have never seen
Mrs. Burden when she wore all her
jewels or even a part of them. I
pose that room was wanting.
sup-
the windows is broken in and the house
where ?o many parties and dinners have
been given only needs a jackal to bo
completely horrible. The slow consump
tion of Mr. Burr's house by smoke
and water is like the loss of his expec
tations. They were once a magnificent
structure, lie lost his credit, then slow
ly and without much noise the structure
slowly melted away. If it had not been
for Nebraska drouth and univer
sal depression that is, if the times had
continued as they were when Mr. Burr
laid the foundations of his fortune,
he would now be one of the wealthiest
and influential citizens. As it is
We have lost from our midst a
Colonel Sellers or a Colonel Carter of
Cartersville in tho person of
Colonel Fredd who started the Neb
raska Hedge Co. a few months ago.
Colonel Fredd is a professional pro
moter. He has started over ninety dif
ferent companies. Every new enter
prise, however worthy, needs just such a
sanguine, confident promoter as the col
onel to give it a push to start with. He
can most always do it. He has the
well enough but "any old thing" seems energy, the honesty, the faith. The Ne
to do for a coachman and harness. The braska Hedge company was not a great
Omaha young men have a modish way success but Nebraska people have cut
of getting over the ground, a neat tourn- off many luxuries in the last two years,
ure, that Crete and Saltillo might study, and they drew the line long before they
There is only one man in Lincoin that got 10 hedges, Colonel Fredd has gone
dares to wear a chrysanthemum in his to Denver and interested himself in
buttonhole during the somewhat long Cripple Creek mines. He mines and
season for that flower and his name is countermines the Cripple Creek district
always given to the minstrel manager in the Denver stock exchange and word
when he vsks for a name which will comes from there that he has made
Omaha society is much more sophisti
cated than is that variable entity called
society in Lincoln. Although not even
Omaha has reached the metropolitan
point of indifference to things calculate'1
to improve the mind and character. If
it happens to have German opera all
. there is of it and some other people
crowd the house and listen humbly and
seriously. If Omaha is going to have
anything to fall back upon when she
claims the homage due a metropolis
from provincial towns she must drop
this seriousness and be frivilous and in
consequent always. Omaha has made
encouraging progress in the last ten
years. In this beginning of the new
year it is well to take a retrospective
glance at what a spirit of reform has
accomplished for Nebraska's city. In
the first place, Omaha has very good
turn-outs handsome horses, harnesses
and carriages driven by neat coachmen.
In Lincoln the horses and carriages are
make his very poor jokes funny enough
for the gallery to laugh at. There was
a time when Lincoln men did not dare
to wear anything but coarse clothes. It
830,000. He is willing to place about
100,000 shares of some of his best mines
on the Lincoln market. If some of the
stocking capitalists might be induced to
is the survival of border intolerance that invest in this rare chance, it might air
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or a hundred whom the tire whistlo
failed to awaken from their Sunday
nap, or who wero too sick or too lamo
to walk or ride. Everybody else was
there. It was an occasion to see ones
friends such as tho century may not
repeat. Everybody had a good timo and
was sorry to leavo. It was understood
that tho hou30 had passed out of Mr.
Burr's hands into those of an insur
ance company. It is very hard to
sympathise with an insuranco com
seeks to make tnis young lire an un
happy one. Omaha has passed that line
and there are other indications of a
higher life beginning there which will
be enumerated at another time.
a little money that has been in a con
fined place for a long time.
S. B. H.
Remedy
Trilby's "Truthful pills is a specific
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The Burr fire on last Sunday brought Just one peiIet at night (Ioes the work:
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burglars were about it, they might, for pany. Not because it is not worthy
the relief of those who have some ar- or over did anything to harm us, but
tistic feelings left, have taken aay because a company is so abstract a
Mrs. Townsend Burden's violet bonnet thing, it lives east somewhere and is
and her still more wonderful headgear composed of sleek financiers who think
of Lincoln as a barbaric place way out
west. The smoko was so denso that tho
firemen could not Btay in it long
enough to bring out much furniture.
There was very little saved. Oddly
out most of the population. It
would have been an economical idea to
have taken the census then and there.
A few men good at figures and large
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