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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1896)
THE COURIER. u? J OU MAURIER AND MOSCHELHS. rint Masting; or the Two Great Artists In Guy Bohemia. We first met In Antwerp in the diss rooms of the famous academy, says Moscheles In the Century. I was paint ing and blaguing as one paints and blagues in the storm and stress period of one's artistic development. It had been my good fortune to begin my tudics In Paris, where in the Atelier Gleyre I had cultivated, the essentially French art of chaffing known by the same of "la blague Parisienne," and I now was able to give my less lively Flemish friends and fellow-students the full benefit of my experience. Many pleasant recollections bound me to Paris, so when I heard one day that a "nouveau" had arrived straight from my old Atelier Gleyre I was not a little impatient to make his acquaint ance. The newcomer was Du Maurler. I sought him out. and. taking It for granted that he was a Frenchman. I addressed him In French. We were soon engaged In lively conversation, asking and answering questions about comrades in Paris, and sorting the threads that associated us with the nme place. "Did you know un nomme Poynter?" he asked. exquisitely Frenchifying the name for my benefit I mentally .translated this-lnto" equally exquisite English, my version natur ally being "a man called Poynter." Later an American came up. with whom I exchanged a few words In his and my native tongue. "What the deuce are you? English?" broke in Du Maurler. "And what the deuce are you," I rejoined. And we then and there made friends on a sound Inter national basis. "It seemed to me that at this first meeting Du Maurler took me In at a glance the eager, hungry glance of the caricaturist He seemed struck by my appearance, as well he might be. I wore a workman's blouse that had gradually taken Its color from Its sur roundings. To protect myself from the Indiscretions of my comrades I had painted various warnings on my back, as. for Instance, "Bill stickers, be ware." "It Is forbidden lo shoot rub bish here." and the like. My very black hair, ever Inclined to run riot, was encircled by a craftily concealed band of crochet work, such as only a fond mother's hand could devise, and I waB doubtless coloring some meer schaum of eccentric design. It has always been a source of legit imate pride to me to think that I should have been the tool selected by Providence to sharpen Du Maurler's pencil. There must have been some thing in my "verfluchte physiognomle," as a very handsome young German whom I used to chaff unmercifully called It, to reveal to Du Maurier those dormant capacities which bad been be trayed in his eager glance. A MOTHER-OF-PEARL HOUSE. Built by m Chlneie FUberman Hany Year Ago. Old habitations are to be found nil over California, says the San Francisco Call. Sometimes there Is good reason for ihem being odd, but often it Is the result of some crank Idea. On the beach near Cypress Point, in Monterey county, there is one that cannot come under the first head and hardly under the last The residence belongs to a Chinese fisherman and is part natural and part the work of his own hands. The natural portion of the house is a small cave in one of the many rocks that stick up all over the beach. The other part is a sort of wooden shed which has been built in front of thlfl opening. The lumber used is of the roughest kind but the esthetic China man overcame this objection by cover ing the whole outside with abalone shells, the hollow side being turned out The Chinaman evidently did that many years ago, when the shells were plentiful and had scarcely any market velue. Every shell used has been de stroyed as one or more nails have been driven through them according to thuii size. Some of the shells are magnll ceat in color and enormous in siie There is one at least fifteen incae In diameter, and a duplicate in good condition could Bot be bought ia Can Francisco for anr price. Most of the larger shells, if they were not punctured with nallholes, would read ily sell for from $3 to $5 apiece. But that size cannot be had In the market now, and would be difficult to find on the rocks of any part of the coast The general effect of the house, when the sun strikes It at the proper angle, is dazzling. The polished, pearly sur faces sparkle with astounding bril liancy and flash with all the colors of the rainbow. It is a pleasing and sur prising sight-and the only pity is that so many beautiful shells were de stroyed to produce It. No Wonder It'a a Cre. The sliver question, as It Is under stood in some parts of Kentucky, is graphically Illustrated by a letter which one of the statesmen at the cap itol received from a correspondent In that state. It appears from this epis tolary evidence that a controversy was being waged between a sound-money man and a sliver champion. The gold man thought he had the best of the argument He asked his adversary why he thought that the free coinage of sil ver would make times better. "Simply because it would put more money in circulation," said the white metal crank. "But how will it put; more money in circulation? " demanded the gold man. "How?" asked the sliver man, with a smile of contempt at his opponent "How? Why, you blamed fool, If you can take one gold dollar to the treas ury and get sixteen dollars for It, won't that increas the circulation?" Pitts burg Dlspiich. It Was Too Bad. Walter Savage Landor, though he often handled his fellow-men some what roughly, hated to see an old troo felled and even shrank from plucking a rose. One morning he collared his man cook and flung him out of the window. Then, suddenly remembering on what "bed" in the garden the man would fall, the flower-loving Landor exclaimed: "Good heavens! I forgot the ! vlnlatot". An English Slap at the Dutch. The Boers are no doubt puffed up with their constant good luck when re sisting British attacks, but they must be well aware that they have nothing to gain by war and that their position Just as It is Is one of the aost fortunate in history. At least, we can recall no other republic In which every man was for his wants well off, in which all taxes were paid by foreign immigrants and foreign toll and in which the whole community, without ever submitting to a conscription or entering a barrack, had acquired a high military reputa tion. We cannot believe that these ad vantages will be willfully thrown away and do not see wherein, if peace is maintained for the next ten years, Great Britain will suffer except from a few taunts, and what do taunts matter to a people with our history? If it amuses Dlrck Cloete to consider John Bull cowardly or soft, let him consider it; he will reconsider that opin ion before the end arrives. England is not In a hurry if the capitalists are. She survived Napoleon and she will survive Krueger. not to mention tbe veiy mem ory that there ever was a Dutchman between the Zambesi and the Cape." What proportion of all these who can read now know that New York was once a possession and a settlement ol the Dutch?" The Spectator. WPOiSflEVW & 00 Never before have we shown such a complete line of Dress goods as we are showing lhis -season. Ex clusive patterns, no two alike, every piece new, clean, stylish and strictly up to date fresh from the cases. 40-inch Camel Hair mix tures per yd, 39c. 46-inch, all wool serge, all shades, per yd, 42c. Mohair and wool novelties 55c and 65c. Beautiful line of imported Dattern suits in silk and wool, Mohair and wool, Camel nair and all wool in latest effects and Patterns. 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