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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1896)
THE COURIER. RED AND GREEN The tall young man, who bad been standing on tbe back platform of tbe car, dropped down on the step and looked out ahead. "Pull the string a little, please," he said to the conductor; "there's a patch of ice at the corner." Ae the car slowed up he swung olT easily. An urchin stepped out from the shadow at the corner and whispered, huskily: "Buy a Sportin' Extra, boss, I'm stuck wid a big lot and I want to make de price of a bed." "You must think I was born yester day to give me that old game," said the young man. pleasantly. "Go on boss, buy one," persisted the ragamuffin. The man tossed the boy a penny and took a paper, opening it as he went down the cross street. As he passed the electric lamp he held it up, glancing hastily over it. Then he let one side go and used the free hand to run down a column. Meantime he had passed slowly on until he had reached the rail road crossing. He came out from the lee of the buildings holding the paper in one hand, and a sharp gust of wind whistled down on him and, slapping his face with the paper, whisked it off up the trac':s. "D n the luck!" he said, turuing up the collar of his greatcoat ae be strode across the bridge over the railroad. Underneath were lines and lines of glistening steel, crossing and diverging and converging, and everywhere green and red and white Iights,which changed color suddenly with a faint click. Oc casionally a brilliant train rushed out toward the open with a mighty cough ing and sneezing. The newspaper lay in a little ditch between the two tracks. A breath of wind, mournfully sighing through the myriad telegraph wires, lifted it up and dropped it again, a foot further on. The sudden gust of wind from the wheels of a passing express caused it to turn some fantastic somersaults, and left it bal ancing uneasily on an iron switchrod. Then a blast descended upon it, and tossed it up in the air, bote it helter skelter up the track, and, tiring at last, threw its plaything in the face of a round, red tight, which was staring like a one-eyed owl very solemnly into the darkness; and tbe paper, limp and life less, clung about the switch light help lessly. The fast western express was nearly an hour late that night, and Jim Glen nan, the engineer, had a clear track and the right of way through to the plat form. Not even a green "caution" to bother him; everywhere a bright white light flashed up at him or a semaphore bowed respectfully as he approached. Just as he went under the bridge a senss of uneasiness came to him. It will come sometimes to every engineer DEVI LS. 6Cenes to a hospital he knew it was a hospital because it smelted so of car bolic and echoed so when a door was phut. A man with a black beard bent over him and said: "He's coming to, I think." Tbe nurse, in her rustling blue print dress, looked at him a minute and said. "I think so." Glcnnan looked intently in the doc tor's face and Eaid, quite naturally: "Say, Doc, in the sight of God and man, there tvarn't no red light on that switch nor no light at all." But that night's edition of the penny paper said: "Jim Glennan, the engi neer of the unfortunate No. 906, today paid the penalty of his carelessness with his life." The Reporter. HUNTING BIG GAME. English lourist Peculiar-aw-people, the denizens of some of those aw wild western towns, don't you know. I awsked a fellah in one bloom in place, baw Jawve, if there was any big game to be found in those parts, don't you know, and what, baw Jawve, d'ye think he said, don't you know? Yankee -Give it up, don't you know. English Tourist He said I could find a "purty siztble' game most any time over at Ten -Spot Pete'e "Blue Gun" sa loon, baw Jawve. Yankee I see. He took you for a pot-hunter. Englisn Tourist Fawccy! LIFE'S SHIFTING SCENES. "Darling" His low, thrilling, passionate baritone tones spoke as though they meant it. "Darling" His right band stole deftly round her lithe and yielding form. Darling' His other hand, the only one that was left, was placed beneath her chin and tilted the ripe and glowing lips up to just the proper and most convenient po sition; and then "Aha-a a!" They started apart. "We are seen. Let us move quickly. And the Scene shifted. A DECISION. "Mr. Goelin and I have a controversy. Miss Kittish," remarked Mr. Gurley, "and we would like you to decide it faw us." "What is the question?" "Why do guhls always wead the last chapter 01 a novel first?" "They don't." This point may now be deemed settled. you THROWN AT HIM. Brown That's a terrible lump have on your hea1, old man. Jones Yes, that,s another thing you can do with a chafing.dise. SELF-SACRIFICE. on the box. He did not know exactly what was wrong, but amerg all of those She -There's danger in a lover's lip! thouBands of licnta ahi-ad 'of him and With microbes science says it's rife! spreading away on both sides there eeemed to be something lacking. Ail in the same instant he saw, or rather, in stinctively felt, another track branch ing out ahead, and there was no light there. His hand clinched nervously on the reversing lever, and he felt mechan ically for the sand lever, but not until the sharp lurch of the engine almost Love him from the cab did he strain at both those polished things until they bsnt. Grinding and scraping and skidding of brake shoes and wheels he heard; dhrieks of men and women and steam together; then devils came red, green and white one-eyed devils all yelling with a sharp metallic click, changing every instant, like chameleons, from one eoler to another. Finally, after years and years of their society, they danced themselves away and it was dark and cold for a time. He passed then, very strangely, through various forgotten He-1 thank you, dearest, for that tip Make me an invalid for life! ooocooooooo H. W. BROWN o Druggist and g Bookseller. Whltlng'ii g Fine Stationer O and ' Calling Cards 127 S. Eleventh Street. PHONE 68. ooooooooooo DO YOU WANT TO SAVE TIME? Well the new flyer leaving Lincoln at 320 p. m. via Missouri Pacific will save you several hours to St. Louis, Cincin nati, New York and all eastern points and connections are made in the St. Louis union station, the most expen sive, completn and finest in tbe world Any information or sleeeping car berthp city ticket office 1201 O St NOTICE. First publication August 29. William F. Onley, defendant, will take notice that on the 18th day of April, 1890, Stull Bros., the plaintiffs herein, filed their petition in the district court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, against said defendant, tbe object and prayer of which are to foreclose a cer tain mortgage executed by William F. Onley (single), to George Thompson;and by him duly sold and assigned to Stull Bros., plaintiffs, upon lot eix(C), in block eighteen (18), Mills' Second addition to University Place, in Lancaster county, Nebraska, to secure the payment of one certain promisory note, with interest coupons attached, said note dated Sep tember 1, 1892, for the sum of 1500, due and payable one year from date thereof. Said note was not paid when the same became due, nor any part thereof, nor has said note or any part thereof been collected and paid; there is now due on said notes, coupons and mortgage the sum of 9600, for which sum, with inter est from September, 1, 1894, at 10 per cent per annum, plaintiffs pray for a decree that defendants be required to Cay the same, or that said premises may e sold to satisfy the amount found due. You are required to, answer said peti tion on or before Monday, the 5th day of October, 1896. C. C. Flaxsburg, Attorney for Plaintiff. Dated August 29, 1896. 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