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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1896)
Daueauamtii THE COURIER. jBsaaaar-rT s Phroso, even then Wheatley cannot be allowed to yield. The English fian cee must be brought to the island In company with a man whom she wishes to marry. Then Wheatley will be made to seem to give her up with reluotance and consent to be happy. It is hard lines to be one of Anthony Hope's he roes, though there is much glory in it at the last. If his conduct comes up to the mark he is dramatized, he has a dozen suits of clothes in one even ing and a dozen girls in different parts of the house in love with each suit and that equals 144 hearts beating wildly, twice the usual number of times for one man. But to secure all this Hope's hero must have a super natural sense of honor, something that nothing on the earth or in the waters, or. that drops .from above can tarnish. Think of the training the most spotless citizen of Lincoln must subject his honor to before It would pass one of Anthony Hope's examinations It would take morth3 and months of se vere pulling and swinging exercises be fore any honor I know of would walk alone. Even then it would be danger ous to take It out when the sun Is shining. To be sure, an English lord's honcc can be kept inviolate. He does not have to earn a living a labor which is accomplished best by those who know how to manipulate the truth. The peer of England has time and money in which and by which to cultivate "fancy stock of Integrity, faith and charity. But we have no leisure class hereabouts. The prize story In the Chicago Rec ord, called "The Incendiary," has come to an end. About thirty thousand peo ple have written a solution and sent it to the prize mystery story editor. The company has employed thirty peo ple to read the solutions. Their labors can be faintly imagined as well as the threatening letters the editor will re celve.after the prize has been awarded, from surprized and indignant entries. A solution has been handed in to The Courier, which Is published here with in advance of the official solution In order that those who have written answers may compare it with the offi cial one. which appears today and which, of course, the writer has not seen. "The sun set fire to the black papers in the waste-paper basket. The pro fessor's glasses were lying on the edge of the table and the late afternoon sun shone through the glasses and focussed its rays on the black paper in the basket. The professor was interested In optics and his glasses were very strong. The elderly gentleman who who sat by Emily Barlow on the last day of the trial was the optician who made the glasses for Professor Arnold and who afterwards testified In re gard to the unusual strength of the glasses and the probability of their setting fire to paper if the sun should shine through them as it did on that afternoon. Bertha had raised the cur tain and the basket was just In the line of ray from the sun through the glasses. This was Emily Barlow's theory of the origin of the fire and the optician's testimony established It. The testimony showed that Harry trhold and Robert Floyd left the house at 3:25 p. m.. the former by the area door, the latter by the front door. Robert was standing by the grate in the study In which he had thrown his article on anarchy after tearing It up. He lit the paper with a match and stood there till it burned up, put ting the match In his pocket, so care ful was he In regard to fire and hav ing In mind the exhibition bomb which he had made and put under the iron safe as being the safest place in the room. The smell of burned paper filled the room, but Robert thought it was anarchy that It came from and ab stractedly left the room. On the threshold he met Harry, who saw the smoke and the flame rising up from the waste-paper basket, and noted the magazines and books lying about the room. He also saw that Robert was preoccupied and he at once determined to hypnotize him so that the will In the safe which deprlred him of his Inheritance of $5,000,000 from his uncle might be destroyed. He hypno tized Robert so successfully that he wandered about in a dazed condition all that afternoon. That was why Robert forgot his engagement with the lawyer and left the house with his head down. Sire, the dog, was not at first alarmed by the smell of fire. He had seen the papers burning In the grate and gone to sleep. When the door was shut the smoke grew suffo cating and Sire saw the waste-paper basket on fire and his barking and scratching brought Bertha. Ellen had told Bertha she was going out in crder to be unwatched. She had gone down to the study to see If she could not get hold of the will for Mrs. Arnold, who had called, and she found Robert there. She went back to her room to wait until he went out and laid down on her bed. where she fell asleep. The Oaf and the peddler were one. The oaf was the Irresponsible brother of the Lacy girls, who killed them selves by jumping from the burning building. Mrs. Arnold had employed him on messages to Ellen, whom she had bribed to keep her Informed of the movements of the household. After the fire Mrs. Arnold communicated her suspicions of Robert to the oaf, whose beloved sisters were killed because of the fire. It was their grave that Emily and Walter saw him decorating. He thought he would kill Shagarach first, because if It were not for him, justice would be done -to Robert hence his attempts on the lawyer's life. Harry was Innocent of any premedi tation In the Arnold fire. He acted on impulse. Neither did he know that his mother was spying on the house hold with the aid of Ellen. The Violet and Shagarach were married. The couples at the end of tho story are Violet and Shagarach Trjstram and Beulah, Robert and Em ily, Harry and Rosalie, Senda and her German lad. I A CONSTANT QUAKE. i faction or Street Thmt Experience Ac- tnal Ferpetnal Motion. jA section of 2Gth street, New York, daily enjoys sensations similar to those caused by a constant succession of earthquake shocks, says the New York Journal. Everything in the vicinity trembles as if suffering from a mild attack of the ague. It Is really per petual motion. There Is a clubhouse la this section right In the center of the trembling district. A recent visitor, one who had not been there before, no ticed that objects on the mantel or else where always moved slightly and that he himself felt a strange vibration. The friend with whom he was dining laughed at his uneasiness. It's always that way here," he said. "It's only a little shake, perhaps the hundredth part of an inch, but it's perpetual. Some day I fear the building will shake to pieces all at once, just like the 'wonder ful one-hoss shay.' The cause? Oh, it's that electric light plant opposite. En gines and dynamos running all the time. Enough steam power is exerted to blow the block to Jericho, enough electricity generated to light a square mile brilliantly every night. All the houses around here shake. I remem ber when this block was a most ex clusive residential neighborhood. Now at least half of It the half that shakes most is given over to small shops and cheap theatrical boarding houses. There's one pleasanter aspect, how ever, to this vibration." Then the clubman performed a pleasing experi ment He requested the caterer to bring him a glass of milk, some rum. Ice and sugar. These he blended, after which he placed the glass upon the window sill. "In three minutes," said the clubman, "It will be a perfect milk shake." It was no exaggeration. The vibration, though annoying, at least supplied one want. CHEAP RIDE CHEAP VACATION. By availing yourself of the very low rate of J9.90 to St Paul. Minn., and return, made by the North-Western line August 30 and 31 on account of the G. A. R. encampment, you can spend your vacation at one of the numerous resorts near St. Paul, fish ing or hunting, at a very moderate cost and under the most agreeable vacation conditions. Get information and make sleeping car reservations tn advance at city office. 117 So. 10th St. Lincoln. Neb. A SUMMER RESORT. A delightfully cool and attractive place these warm days Is the handsome store of Sutton & Hollowbush. 12th and O street. A new addition Is a large nd beautiful onyx soda fountain, one of the finest In the state. This Is presided over by an expert flzr clerk. This sea son nut Ice-cream and many new flavor? In cream and Ices are strong favorites Mr. Sutton's cream has a state reputa tion; he fills orders dally from many outside points; and Is making a special ty of this trade. The line of candy Is now larger and finer than ever. Confec tionery always fresh: many novelties. POINTS 0E CONTRAST. The morning and evening paper read by purchaser alone, in part, because hastily, forgotten in the rush of business, or thrown away m soon as glanced at. THE WEEKLY PAPER, rea.i throughout in he seclusion of the home after business hour in the leisure of the reader, at th club by family and friends. THAT IS WHY T?JHJ COURIER will pay you as an advertising mt.Iiun SUMMER TRIPS AT REDUCED RATES. The North-Western line Is now sell ing tickets at reduced rates to many tourist points in the western, northern and northeastern states and Canada. Any one desiring a summer trip would do well to secure our figures before pur chasing tickets elsewhere. ooooooocoooocoococooc osoo o 8 9 GO TO 2 I California 5 In uTourlntMleeper It is the RIGHT way. Pay more ana ) ou are O extravagant. Pay less 8 and jouareuncomfort- 0 able. X The newest, brightest, Q cleanest and easiest riding Tourist sleepers are used for our Personally conducted excursions to Galifornfa which leave Lincoln every Thursday at 10:30 a. m., reaching San Francisco Sunday evening, and Los An geles Monday noon. Ask G.W.Bonnell city ticket agent, cor 10th and O Ste- Lincoln Neb for full information or write to J. Francis, G. P. A. Omaha, Neb. ( 5ococcccccccccccccocccco Empress Josephine toilet preparation face bleach, face tonic, hair tonic, etct at Kleinkauf & GrimesVH" North lis A comfortable California trip can be taken every Thursday at 10:30 a. m. in a through tourist sleeping car, Lincoln to Los Angelos without change via the Burlington. Remember this when ar ranging for your winter trip. Depot ticket office, 7th street between' P and Q streets. City office, corner Tenth and O streets. HINTS TO TOURISTS. WHERE TO GO AND WHAT IT COSTS Is the subject of a little pamphlet pub lished by the North-Western line, giv ing a large amount of information re garding the lake regions of Minnesota and Wisconsin. For copy address City Ticket Agent, 117 South Tenth street. Lincoln. Neb. We have purchased (because It is Just the thins; we have needed) the Columbian Cyclopedia Library, con sisting of the Columbian encyclopedia, which Is also an unabridged dictionary thirty-two volumes of convenient size neatly bound, four volume of thean nual cyclopedic review, lour volumes of current hlstoryfor 1S96, one Columbian atlas and the neat convenient revolving oak cas ewlth glass doors. From the evidence obtained we find that some part of this work Is placed In the best private and public library In this country an dabroad, for the reason that they cover a fleld relative to the past, present and future progress and achievements of the human race not attempted by others. The plan Is original, and the work throughout is carefully and ably written. Current history contains 220 pages. Is Issued two months after the close of each quarter, this length of time being taken to reduce all Information received to be an absolutely reliable and authentic basis. If these are kept on file, this magazine will prove a permanent and invaluable record of all Important movements In political, social religious, literary, educational scientific and industrial affairs. The magazine will be Indlspenslble to all people who have encyclopedias, as it will be needed to keep these works up to date. To those who d not own encyclopedias It will be doubly valuable as their source of Information is more limited. About March of each year the four volumes of current history are bound Into one volume, known as the Annual Cyclopedic Re view. There are now four of these bound volumes covering yearsl892-3-4 and 5. The work has for endorsers and subscribers in this city and state such people as Mr. Gere, edltor-lnchlef of the Lincoln State Journal,. Hon. Joe Bartley. state treasurer, Hon. W. J. Bryan. Mr. Miller, editor of the Northwestern Journal of Education, Hon. H. R. Corbett. state supsrlntend ent of public instruction. Dr. R. E. Glffen. Miss Mary L. Jones, acting librarian at the state university whose letter we publish below In full: "Every reading person has felt the need of brief summaries of current topics and events. The dally, weekly and monthly periodicals and papers may furnish data sufficient, but the labor of collecting and digesting It Is frequently out of propor'lon to the re sult obtained A most satisfactory summary may be found In the quar Journal has been of Invaluable service terly Issues of Current History. This In the library covering a fleld that no other attempts. MARY L. JONES, Acting Librarian. Subscription price, $1.50 a year in advance; bound volumes, cloth, $2. half morrocco, $2.50: library sheep,$2.50; embossed sheep. $3.50; three-fourths perslon. $1. Complete library from $36. to $108; cases from $6. to $44. The complete library Is sold on monthly payments to suit purchaser. City subscriptions will be received at the Courier office for a limited time only, or at Mr. H. W. Brown's book store, direct all other correspondence to C. S. Borum, general agent, Lincoln, 2V. Time ifflone? she it by mm the 4CTOV Actual time traveling. 37 hours to Salt Lake. b7 hours to San Francisco. 65 hours to Portland. 8'J hours to Los Angeles. -FROM- LINCOLN, NIB Under new mancemect MERCHANTS' HOTEL OMAHA, NEBR. rAXTOir. HiruRT datkkfobt. Proprietors. ' - BMMtfmi a 4ttA trmd. mv ii i i ---? .-.. a pMi the door to and from all orlsCW 3. tit I STW tJvKr1! il m
