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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1897)
THE COURIER. Gloves. Taffeta Silks, i DRESS SKIRTS, i LADIES BLACK i Ladies 2-clasp and 4 button kid gloves, black embroidered back in ox blood, brown, mauve black and white, all sizes, worth $1.25 per pair, at 98c. eoeeeeee; Ladies ready made dress skirts, all wool cheviot serge, velve teen bound, lined throughout. 4 yards wide, worth $4.00, at S2.75. ffUUK Ladies black velvet capes, beautifully jet ted, lined with taffeta silk, worth $7.00, at $4.98. Black Satin Duchess. Black Satin Duchess, 27 in. wide, extra good H . 1023 to 1929 O Street, Lincoln, Neb. oualitv. wortlu$1.35 per yard, at MAM ORDERS J Receive Sp9Cial Attention. xs4fe 95c- Laces. UNLAUNDEREDSHIRTS ALL WOOL Cream and butter color laces, Oriental and applique, 5 in. wide, worth 50c. per yard, at 25c. Mens unlaundered & shirts, all linen Bos oms, linen lined, Wam sutta muslin, hand mar1 lmftnn finles;. & , worth $1.00 each, at 50 PAINS Dress Patterns of fine silk and wool nov elties, black mohair and wool Jacquards. French serge in black and colors, worth per pattern, $4.50, special price $2.98. 50 Pieces, 2 in., all silk, changeable Taffe ta, all the new colors and combinations of colors, special price per yard 69c. 5si Embroidery. 50 Pieces cambric em broidery, 6-8 in. wide, fine, .and open edges, worth up to 50c a yard at 29c. 1s9is)ssi'ssis Handkerchiefs Ladies Plain hem stitched handkerchiefs, all pure Irish linen cambric, 4 in. hem, regular price 17c. each, at VlF Mb. 0fc ioc. m. STORIES IN PASSING. "There were about a hundred of us fellows living in the old dormitory ou T street which is now the Catholic" fe male school," said one. of the younger university professors who is a graduate and has worked into a good chair in the institution. "It was in the days when Professor Wolfe's bookcase -bearing the slightly paraphrased legend, 'God help him who helps himself to the .contents of this case.' was the talk of the college, and when we were all young1 and enjoyed nothing so much as a joke. Well, one of the men in the dormitory was a surly, sour-faced chap from Cass county, who loved his own company too wf 11 to have many friends among the students. His way of re ceiving tempting boxe3 of things from home and carrying them up to his room for his own enjoyment did not add much to his popularity. "But one box of apples which he re ceived went the round of the entire crcwd of students, through no will of his own. The box was unloaded just before supper and taken up to the young man's room. A few of the boys aw. the box and quickly laid the plot. "About 8 that evening the occupant of the adjoining apartment dropped in to the Cass county student's study. . "'Hello Robinson, can you lend me your Latin die. this evening?' he said, and then as he caught sight of the box uncovered, 'apples? By Jove! where'd you get such fruit? I'll Just help myself to one.' I "Robinson did not object and the visitor picked out a good red Ben Davis and was polishing it with his hand, when a second knock brought in another student. " 'Evening. Robinson! Having a little treat? Just in time, I see. Apples? Well, you know mc,' and he made a reach for the box. "Just then another knock came, fol lowed by another student, and then an other and another, until the room was full and the boys were crowding the whole lngth of the corridor, all munching the ripe red apples that had come up from Cass county that after noon. "Robinson was not much of a gentle man at best, but he could net stand up against such a gathering. He bore it grimly and ever after brought his box es up from the depot after dark." He is a young man who came up fiom Geneva five or six years ago and began reading law with a well-known firm in this city. At home his people took a prominent part in church and he himself had been an activp worker in the Christian Endeavor society and local Y. M. C. A. But since his coming to Unrein with his work, hi3 study, and the b:x life of the law, he had ilippcd out of the old ways into the habit of spending his Sundays in gen eral reading at his room or at the city library. In fact, he had scarcely been to church half a dozen times in the past two yrars and ta the side meetings not once. I.ast week his mother was ill for the first time since he left and he ran down home to spend Saturday and Sunday with her. Sunday morning she was quite exercised because she must needs remain in the house and miss her Sundayschool class the first time in years. She thought of her boy as the knew him best five years ago and asked him to teach the class for her. He made an excuse about preferiug her company there at home. But she was so in earnest about it that he finally gave in. "It was the first time I had, beea. to Sundayschool for years," he 3aid in telling me about it, "and I was rather losl. The classes and all were much as when I was a kid and used to go then myself. But I knew none of the young er children and a few of the older ones. Some of my fenner teachers in the Bible class and the same superintendent preeted me and showed me to mother's flaps. I noticed that he was consider ably oIdr, grayer about the temples, his voice more mellow, and that he had a little halt in his step. The class was boys about twelve years of age restless as a lot of colts, punching and kicking each other and seeing how near they could come to whistling without doing so. Well, we tackled the lesson. It was the story of David and Goliah, and what I knew about it was ex hausted in ten minutes. Those boys tumblMl to the fact and fell to asking questions that would stump a supreme judge. They were getting noisy and I was growing desperate when somehow the subject of the lesson suggested to one of them' the ominsr Corbett-Fitz- simmens fight. In a moment they were all lull or it and giving me pointers on the situation from every standpoint and even offering to make bets of small sums. Imprcprr. yes, but it kept the little chaps quiet for the rest of the hour. The nxt week they told my other that next to her Tier sen 'beat the other teachers all hollow and they hoped he'd cime down often right after the fight, anyway.' " They were sitting in the cashier's office eff the teller's cage an old Ger man farmer and his wife. The man's overcoat was faded brown, torn in places and with dirty velvet collar. Ilij face was baked and teamed with toil and weather and his hair, thin on top. was gray streaked about the temples. His wife wore a cheap black dress, an old plaid shawl drawn tightly abDu: her thin shoulders and a gray felt hat streaked with dust and water. Her mouth was drawn tight at the corners. The crows-feet of her neck and cheeks were fac running to the furrows o( time, and in hrr eyes was the dull, pa tient light of years of toil. The old ccuple sat stiffly and awk wardly on the leather chairs while tn cashirr faced them from across a highly-polished oak desk in the. center of the apartment. His black businesi dress, his smovthly shaven features and white almost delicate hands heightened the contrast. Unfolded on the table was a legal looking document with two signatures at the bottom an uneven, trembling scrawl, and a running business hard The cashier was gazing steadily at the two (perhaps he did not know haw steadily that comes from long buainer-. of the kind) and playing with the cor ner of the document. "No. I cannot do It. The bank Ij making no extensions. The times are too uncertain. It is seif-preservatloj. The date falls due In two weeks' I b--II' ve. You understand?" The German half arose rimnnh. ,. hat unnoticed to ih flnm- witi. strange lieht in his ptpv a i... knotted hand reached over and grasped his. pulling him back into the chair. The cashier Tvas still gazing stradilv at the two. But my check wps cashed and I had to give way to others at the window. HARRY GRAVES SHEDD.