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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1897)
MJH9S THE COURIER. :j in h: and from London to the deck of a Glou cester fishing smack is a far cty. Kip ling is the only man I know of who can accomplish the natives of these widely separated regions in so short a time. "Disko," the skipper of the "We're Here," is of the sea, salty; bo was his father and his grandfather. He belongs to the Atlantic coast of North America, aatho codfish does. Not having an thing to do with the land, yet between him, Europe, Aria and Africa there is a line that he never crosses. Throughout the length and breadth of his spine he is a tish, a cod fish, an American cod fish. There is nothing anywhere else in the world like him, and Kipling is the only man who has pioJuced hie flavor. Difko, the skipper, has not spent much at his time on land, ho diepises it, bet his flavor is of the North Atlantic coast His is the essence of American ism, independence, bravery, gentleness, impudent shrewdness, everything that was Puritan, is Puritan still with all the cant and denominationalism blown, buffeted and tanned out of him by the wind, the sea and sun. Kipling's tal ent of getting folks acquainted with each other is a most Christian gift. "But I say unto you; Love your ene mies," "And the greatest of these is iove," etc Kipling has read and trans lated the heart of a child. He has quickened the sense of human relation ship to animal life of all kinds, from the domestic animals to the beasts of the forest, jungle and plain. His is the boaorand pleasure of introducing hu manity to itseir. Those that "labour and are heavy laden" may not read his stories. They may not know that a man has seen and appreciated the dig nity of the fight with the elements and against unwise economic conditions for bread. But in this respect Kipling is doing what Victor Hugo did for labor. Students read the book& of Henry George and of writers more or less scien tific on economy. But students nd covel-readere, too, read Kipling. And as he neither reasons nor preaches, he does cot awaken the arguing instinct that never sleeps with both eyps shut, but conveys hi own feelings in so gen tle, so mysterious a manner that his own sympathies are bUod of our blood and bone of our bone before we know it. The following passage shows a sail or's contempt for a land-lubber and the atmosphere on board the "We're Here:" "The thing that struck him most was the exceedingly casual way in which some craft loafed about the broad At lantic Fishing-boats, a Dan said, were naturally dependent on the courtesy and wisiom of their neighbors; but .one ex pected better things of steamers That was after another interesting interview, when they had been chased for three miles by a big lumbering old cattle-boat, all boarded over on the upper deck, that smelt like a thousand cattle-pens. A very excited officer yelled at them through a speaking trumpet, and she lay and lolloppod helplessly on the water while Disko ran the 'We're Here under her lee and gave the skipper a piece of his mind. 'Where might ye be eh? Ye don't deserve to be anywheres, iou barn-vard tramps go hoggin' the road on the high seas with no blame considera tion fer your ncighbo-s, an' your ees in ydur coffee-cups ins id o in your silly head?.' At this the skipper danced on the bridge and said something about Disko's own eyes. We haven't had a a obsei ra tion for three days. D'you suppose wo can run her blind?' he shouted. " 'Waal, I can, Disko retorted. 'What's come to your lead? Et it? Can't ye smell bottom, or are them cattle too "What d've feed 'cm?' said Uncle Sal tcrs with intense seriousness, for the smell of the pens woke all the farmer in him. 'They say they f-11 off dretf ul on a v'yage. Duono as it's anyo" my business, but I've a kind o' notion lhat oil -cake broke small and sprinkled ' " 'Thunder!' said a ca' tie-man in a red jersey as he looked over the s de. 'What asylum did they let his whiskers out of?' --Young feller," Salters began, stand ing up in the fore-rigging, 'let me tell yeou 'fore we go any further that I've ' "The officer on the b-idge took off his cap with immense politeness. 'Excuse me,' be said, 'but I've asked for my reck oning. If the agricultural person with the hair will kindly shut his head, the sea-green barnacle with the wall eye may per-haps condescend to enlighten us.' " 'Naow you've made a show o' me, Salters, said Disko angrily. Ho could not stand up to thnt particular sort of guying, and snapped out the latitude and longtitude wi hout mote lectures. ' 'Well, that's a loat-load of lunatics,' said the skipper, as ho rung up the engine-room and tossed a bundle of news papers into the schooner. " 'Of all the blamed fools, next to you, Salters, him an his crowd nre abaout the liUeliest I've ever seen,' said Disko as the 'We're Hero slid away. 'J was jest givin' him my jrdgmenf on lullskin' round these waters like a lost child, an' you must cut in with j cur fool farmin'. Can't ye never keep things sep'rate?' "Ha'rvev, Dan and ihe others stood back, winking one to the o her end full of joy: but Disko and Walters wrangled seriously til evening, Salters arguing that a cattle-lwat was practically a barn on blue wa'er, and Disko insisting that, pven if thiB were the case, decency and fisher pride demanded that he should have kept 'things Beprate' Long Jack stood it in silence for a time- -an angry skipjier makes an unhappy crew and then ho sjH)ke across the, labe after supper: " 'Fwhat'sthe pood o' bodderin' fwhat they'll say? said he. " 'Ihevll tell thet tale agin us fer years tfiefs all,' 6aid Disko. 'Oil-cake sprinkled!' " Vi'h salt, o course,' said Salters the impenitent, reading the fanning reports from a week-old New York paper. " 'It's plumb mortifyin" lo all my feelin's,' the skipper w nt on. " 'Can't see ut that way, said Long Jack, the pesceinaker. 'Look at here, Disko! Is there another packet afloat this day in this weather cu i ha met a tramp an', over an alxve givin her her reckonin over an' above that, I say cud ha' discoorsed wid her qu're intelli gent on the management av steers an such at sea? Forgit ut! Avcoorsethy will not. 'Twas the most compenjus conversation that iver accrued. Double game an twice runnin' all to us.' Dan kicked Harvev under the table, and Harvey choked in his cup. "Well, saidSalters, who felt that his honor had bi en somewhat plastered, 1 ' said I didn't know as 'twas any business o' mine, 'fore 1 spoke. " 'An' right there,' said Tom Piatt ex perienced in discipline and etiquette. Right there, I take it DisVo, you should ha' asked him to stop if the con versation wuz like'y, in yer jedgment, to be anyways what it shouldn't- " 'Idunno but that's so,' said Dis-o, who saw his way to an honorable retreat from a fit of the" dignities. " 'Why, o course it was so,' 6aid Salt ers, 'you bein shipper here: an' I'd cheerful hev stopped on a hint not from any ladin or conviction, but fer the sake o bearin' an example to these two blame bovs of aours." " Go to VERVES & SWEiDOU IOJ?" Slippers, Etc. 1129 0 Street, :-: Lircolr Neb THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL, HaiF ressing, gfyampooing, jgankuping And all KinclM ofMasaage. ? I3I NO. II A Full line of Hair Goods and Cosmetics. NEW COURIER HALL - '1 HARRIS BbOGK THE BEST FLOOR IN THE CITY. SEE IT BEFORE YOU GIVE A PARTY. The Model Restaurant is an excellent place for family board. It is also ex cellently situated for persons spending a day in the city. Ladies while shopping can find no better place for luncheon. Meals 15 cents, Sunday dinner 25 cents. Tickets 83. 31G South Twelfth. Soup served from 8 to 10 p. m. Leave word for Miss Willoughby at Gourier office. 11?4 N - 11?4 k The second floor of the Harris block, 1134 N street, has been fitted ap for a dancing hall. The floor has received the attention of experts. It is of hard wood, and the board? are laid parallel with the length of the hall. Parties desiring to rent it can do so at the Courier oflice, in the same block. We have the hot stuff. Lincoln Coal Co This year's Lehigh Valley and Scranton hard coal $9.40 per ton at Charles Greg ory's, 11th and O. New Pann. hard coal, 7 GO at yard yard and SS.00 delivered. Whitebreast Co. Sutton & Hollowbush have invented a cough drop. They call it the S. & II., Sutton & Hollowbush, and it is a good one. Stop and get one on your way to the theatre. It will save you a spasm of coughing. Psyche Oh, Willie, let's go to that! Willie Never! He is why I have to wear this long overcoat now. I3l NO. I3TH J -mcwvjg-lL:-i,riar,,,Uaa
