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of the French, English and Germans to
secure the next meet in 19G0. It was
finally left wilh an international com
mittee, and that committee has not jet
decided where they shall be held.
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THE NEW OLYMPIC GAMES
Magazine accounts of the Olympic
games that were revived at Athens this
spring are beginning to appear. These
accounts are by far the most satisfac
tory, even if They have not the enthusi
asm of tbiT cabled reports of American
prowess in' running, leaping, wrestling
and disc throwing.
In the September Scribners, Ruf us B.
Richardson, director of the American
school of classical studies at Athens,
describes the games and the stadion
where they were held, as only a college
athlete can.
The stadion, or amphitheatre, is built
by the closing of the two ends of a nar
row vallny. The immense oval is fitted
with stone seats and though it were
crowded to its capacity, i. e., with 50,000
people there is no danger of an accident,
because the 3tone seats rest on the
solid rock and earth of the hills. "The
40,000 or more people who were present
at the opening were enough to Btir that
deep feeling caused by the presence of a
multitue, the feeling which made Xerxes
weep at the Hellespont. When King
Geore entered with his family and
walked the lengtn of the stadion, ac
companied all the way by the acclama
tions o this mass, he is said to have
declared his emotion to bae been po
great that he could with difficulty com
pose himself for the great historic act
of Teopening the Olympic games after
they had remained in abeyance for til
teen centuries. The audience, like the
athletes, was cosmoo!itan. All the
tongues of Europe were heard. But all
the foreigners together amounted to
only a few thousands. At least nineteen
twentieths or the mass were Greek. For
the reason that the greater part of the
events of the stadion were won by for
eigners, the enthusiasm, which on such
occasions is more than mere numbers or
even sharpness of competition,was
lacking, except when the Greek runners
came in from Marathon. Then the
Athenians went wild, and the usually
quiejt king nearly ripped off the visor of
fesfftfeLuniform cap, waving it wildly
in nssur. Pity it would have been
had a foreigner won this race. All who
were present will remember the commo
tion of the crowd in the stauion in that
moment of victory as one of the great
est scenes tf their lives. The one cov
pted honor of the gamee was won by the
Greeks and feW almost beyond the
reach of envy. Shortly after the win
ners arrival came two other Greeks and
then a Hungarian. The next five in' or.
der were also Greeks. The run was
twenty-five miles and the winner, Spyri
dion Loues, accomplished the run in
the remarkably short t'me of two hours,
figty-eight minutes and fifty seconds. He
is a well-to do farmer, as modextas be is
strong." Cafes have been named for
' him, and gifts of all kinds have been
sent to him. The impulse to give
something to him who excels his fellows
is universal. It does not seem to make
much difference what it is, whether it is
eloquence, acting, singing or long dis
tance running, the ability to surpass all
others in any one direction inspires the
fe
multitude to give of the best tey have
to the victor. The world is debtor to
the genius, though it never settles with
him except by these occasional gifts
from heartc inflamed. The homes of
Bryan and McKinley are filled with
gifts, many of them triflirg, but touch
in gly indicative of the best a farmer
has, the nicest work of a mechanic or
the treasures of a sailor.
"In the games at Athens th generous
naiional rivalry was acknowledged by
the display, after each event, of the flag
of the victor's country on a pole erected
at the entrance to the stadion. Our
own country became conspicuous at the
outset. On Monday, in the first contest
of the games, Lane of Princeton won
the first heat in the 100 metre race.
This seemed almost glory enough for
one day, but Burke and Curtis proceed
ed to win the other two heats also.
Next came the triple jump, which was
won by Connolly of Harvard university
and the first flag that was run up was
ours. Then came the throwing of the
discus, in which Garret beat the Greeks,
at what was regarded as their own
game, and again the American flag went
up. Next came the 400 metre race, in
which both heats were taken by Ameri
cansJamison and Burke. In the five
contests of the day, then, the Americans
had won the only two heats that were
decided; of the others they had won all
the heats. It is no wonder that the
victories of the Americans became the
talk of the town. The Ametican athletes
were the heroes of the hour. They were
lionized and fol'owed by enthusiastic
crowds wherever they went in the even
ings. One paper accounted for their
prowess by the consideration that in
their composite blood "they joined to
the inherited athlctictrafarngoi the Anglo-Saxon
the wild impetuosity of the
redskin. Even the Australian, who on
the second day won the 1,500 metre race,
was set down as one of us. An educated
Greek, whose notions of geography, be
ing derived fromshool diys were prob
ably a little vague, said to me "Austral
ian, why it is the same thing."
Greece is out of the beaten track that
Americans tread when they go abroad.
The procession stops at a point no
farther south' in Europe than Rome nor
farther north than Berlin or Hamburg.
An occasional traveller like D.E.Thomp
son or Colonel Wilson, whoso curiosity
and means for gratifying it draws them
to Norway and Sweden, is looked upon
as an explorer and to-mented by absurd
questions from ignorant, learned people
on their return to,th"eif native village.
Questions which indicate an ignorance
of facts as profound as that of the Ath
enian newspaper man. who considered
that all Americans were descended from
Anglo-Saxon and red Indian ancestry,
and hence was able to talk in all seri
ousness about the American combining
the "athletic instincts of the Anglo
Saxon with the wild impetuosity of the
red skin.'1
At the close of the new Olympic
games there was much scheming and
wire palling a mong the representatives
Second publication September 12.
r SHERIFF'S SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY Gl'vEN, THAT
by virtue of an order of sale issued by
the clerk of the district court of the
Third Judicial district of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in an
action wherein John P. Whitney is
plaintiff, and Theodore Benninghoff et
al., defendant I will, at 2 o'clock p. m,.
on the 6th day of October, A. D. 1896.
at the east door of the court house, in
the city of Lincoln, Lancaster county,
Nebraska, offer for sale at publicauction
the following described real estate to-wit-Lot
six 6, in block two hundred and
forty 240, in Lincoln, Lancaster
county, Nebraska.
Given undsr my hand this 25th day
of August, A. D., 1896.
John J. Trompen,
Sheriff.
Oct 3.
Second publication September 12.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. THAT
by virtue of an order of sale issued by
the clerk of the district court of the
third judicial district of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in an
action wherein National Life Insurance
company of Montpelier, Vermont, is
flaintiff. and Carlos C. Burr defendant,
will, at 2 o'clock p. m., on the 6th day
of October, A D. 1896, at the east door
of the court house, in the ciiy of
Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska,
offer for sale at public auction, the fol
lowing: described real estate, to-wit:
Lot five Cropsey County Clerk sub
division of lot one (i), two (2), three (3),
four (4). in block fifty-three (53) in the
city of Lincoln, the west-half 4')ot the
south half (J) of lot twelve (12)." in the
southwest quarter (J) of section thirty
six (36). town ten (10), range six (G) east
of the 6th P. M.,also three hundred and
twenty-five (325) feet off the north end
of the west half (J) of the west half
i4) of the northwest quarter () of the
northwest quarter () of section one (1),
town nine (9), range six 61, east of the
6th P.M.. also fifty 50 "feet off the
south end of lot one 1 and fifty .r.0
feet off the south end of the east I alf
of lot two 2 in block one hundred and
eighty 180 in the city of Lim oln, also
lot eight 8. block eighty five . in the
city of Lincoln, all in Lancaster county,
Nebraska.
Given under my hand this 25 ih day of
Auguet, A.D., 1896.
John Tro--:pen.
Sheriff.
Oct 3.
Second publication September 12.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
by virtue of an order of sale Issued by
the clerk of the district court of the
third judicial district of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in an
action wherein Ward S. Mills is plain
tiff, and Aaron K. Seip et al., defend
ants. I will, at 2 o'clock p. m..on the 6th
day of Ocliber, A. D., 1890, at the east
door of the court house, in the city of
Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska,
offer for sale at public auction the fol
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
Lots nire (9), ten (10). eleven (11),
twelve (12) and thirteen (13), in block
one (1), ai.d lots two (2, three (3), four
(4). eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven
(11) and twelve (12). in block nine 9,
and lots eleven (11) and twelve (12),
in block eleven 11, and lot seven (7), in
block nine (9). all in Mills addition to
University Place, in Lancaster county,
Nebraska.
Given under my band Ibis 31st day
of August, A. D.. 1890.
John Trompen,
- Sheriff.
Oct 3
The southeast quarter ( of section
thirty five (35), the-southwest quarter
() of section thirtysix (6), all in town,
eleven (11 ), north range five (5), east of
the 6th P. M. in Lancaster county, Ne
braska. Given under my hand this 25th day
of August, A. D., 1606.
John Trompen,
Sheriff.
Oct 3
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Second publication September 12.
SHERIFF SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
by virtue of an order of sale Issued by
he clerk of the district court of the
Third Judicial district of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county. In an
action wherein the Union Central Life
insurance Co., is plaintiff, and Thomas
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o'clock p. ni., on the 6th day of October,
A. D., 1896, at the east
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Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska,
offer for sale at public auction the fol
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
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