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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1897)
THE COURIER. 0 esft- W-r. STOBIES IN PASSING. :mjc3 Long engagements are the rule but once in a white quick work in, th it lino occurs and proves a mighty good thing in the long run. Such was the case with a friend of mine. He had. been a mortorman in Omaha for a year or more and then lost his place and was idle for several months. Then through an ac quaintance he learned that thero was a vacancy in the telephone office at Fair mont and went after that. "Are you married or unmarried?'' asked tbo director at the general office of the Nebraska Telephone Company in Omaha. "Unmarried," replied the young man. "I'm sorry but you won't do," said the director, "you 6ee Fairmont's to big a town for one man to attend to the work by himself and isn't large enough to hire two men. So wo aim to get married men for such places, along with his wife, the operator can run the office very nicely." The applicant felt rather crestfallen at this unpleasant statement. He was not only not a married man but did not have a ghost of a chance of ever getting married, that he coula see.He never had had much to do with young women in fact there was just one young lady he knew and that slightly. She was a stenographer in the city somewhere, a plain, sensible girl who boarded where no did and withwhom he had had some co a vereation. "Say, will j ou give me a chacca at that place until noon? I'll be back by that time,"he finally said to the director. Yes, I'll keep it open until noon," was the reply. In two hours the young man returred, radiant and happy, a young woman on bis left arm, a grip in his right hand. "It's all right, you can givo me the place,"' he explained to the director. "This is my wife; just married twenty minutes ago. The tram leaves at one o'clock and we are ready to start at once.'" The couple had charge of the Fair mont office three years. Ihen the young man was sent up to the Hastings office and has now worked into the gen eral office at Omaha. One family hid their Christmas pres ents in a very effective way this year. The father brought home a big stack of empty pasteboard boxes and piled them up in the main hall. The children searched them all and repeated the operation again in a day or two. After that the boxes stood unmolested. All the presents were put in the bottom boxes and remained untouched until the" Recent Sermons. :oihmio:co 3occom WAR.--The world Is coming to un derstand more and more the absurdity of maintaining a warlike attitude and supporting In times of peace great armies. The sentiment against war la steadily gaining. Rev. A. Z. Conrad, Congregatlonallst, Worcester, Mas3. CHEERFULNESS. There is no t.30 to be down In the dark, damp cellar when there are light, and warmth, imd comfort In tho parlor. Consistency b a great essential or a Christian life. There is too little of it In the lives of Christian people. Rev. J. I. Paxton, PreabyterJan, Philadelphia. WOMAN. I am ashamed to say that for 6,000 years man has been a petty tyrant and lordling as far as woman has been concerned. Every Intelligent student of history knows this to be true. Rev. E. F. Wright, Congrega tlonallst, Gardner, III. CHZENSHIP Good citizenship de mands first the recognition of God as supreme governor. As citizens men have no more right to ignore God than as individuals. If our bodies and souls belong to Him so does our state. Rev. C. A. Van Anda, Chicago. GOVERNMENT. God deals with governments as with individuals. Where righteousness reigns there Is blessing. Where it is ignored thero cometh destruction. Rev. J. L. Weaver, Presbyterian, Philadelphia. SOCIAL ETHICS. As Columbus die covered a neglected hemisphere, so wo are just discovering a neglected hemis- x phere of church work the hemisphere of social ethics. Rev. W. F. Craft, Presbyterian, Washington. PA AIOTISM. True American pa triotism lies in fulfillment or American ideas rather than in calculating upon American Interests. It Is the sound, patriotic American spirit to hold duty higher than interest, to hold the citi zen's obligations at least as sacred a3 his rights. Rev. J. F. Brodle, Congre-gat-ju 1st, Salem, Mass. THE STATE. The state is a moral organism. One man is not altogether man. Human nature cannot manifest Itself wholly in the individual. It doe3 not develop in isolation. Hence emergo of very necessity out of the soul of hu manity Itself family life, social life, re ligious life, political life. Rev. N. Luc cock, Methodist, Pittsburg. POLITICS AND RELIGION. Ju3t so long as good men walk one way In their religion and another in their pol itics and join in the foolish cry that l Tl Ghriatmas tree was prepared, while the politics has nothing to do with religion. little folks ransacked every other of the house in their eearch. part "What did 1 gat for Christmas?" said a little seven-year-old girl to a lady friend, "oh, I got a doll and a bible. Mamma gavj ma the bibb. She wants me to be a missionary, She aays that any family that tal'fj as much as we do for mission; and gives as much as we do to the missionaries, ough to have one among 'em anyway. There don't seem to be any of the rest of the children that want to go, so I guess I'll hare to b9 it I always did want to sae tho30 funny little Chinee3ars eat with stick;, and then it must be nice to rids on the big ocean and have the whole church pray in' for you." so long will bad men with selfish schemes and unscrupulous methods control affairs. Religion must be mixed with politics, buslnesn. Industrial, and Eoclal life. Rev. F. B. Cherington, Congregatlonallst, Spokane, Wash. CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM. Tho gospel of Christ applies to the great questions of tariff and finance and im migration, to the recognition of Cuban belligerency, or the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary, or the defense of American citizens in Crete or Armenia, just as it does to the questions of tho immortality of the soul or the destiny of the impetftent. Rev. G. A. Cleve land, Baptist, Riverside, Cal. A Squirrel's Capacious Mouth. A Dummerston (VL) man wished to cscertain how many kernels of corn a The boy of a neighbor across the way "T:" Tr' , ,. a who delights to hoar "big folks talk ThJrtv kernel3 were pjaced 0Q a board heard a gentlemen telling that old story A squirrel carried them all away at of being "glad t) shake the h3nd of the onetime. Forty-five kernels were "then man who shook the hanJ of Sullivan." placed in position, and chippy got away Then at dinner he quite paralyzed the with all of them at that trial. Seventy family by telling his brother of a man k?niels were put on the board for a who was "glad to shake the hand of a "Jarf Thelttle striped anlmaS t. v. 1 .1. 1. j c 1 v was heaten this time, but succeeded in .man who shook the hand of Solomon.' rarrying fl,tv.elght ;. the kerae H. j. fcHEDD. ,S mouth. Boston Herald. JOHN OOWDEX, Jr., Manager. One Night Only, I Friday, January 8th. iNTotlaiMe: 13 tvt Pun. TIIE FAMOUS OKIGINAL IRISH COMEDIANS, Mmirray amdl Maidk In Their Last Success, fuqheAn's C0lRTSlP, ASD THEIR BIO C03IEOV COMPANY: Delmore & Wilson, Fred De Noe, Andrew Bode, Frank Neville, Herbert Dillea, Will Elliott, Frank Miller, Chas. Lamb, Trumbull Sisters Gracie Cummins,. Kittie Wolfe, Mayme Taylor, Clara Howard, : ' Madjre Hilliard, Sisters Deane. i BHffiT HIS CODY MM ON IB. 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