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THE COURIER. of her determination, from fulfilling the veiy arduous dtitirs which devolve upon the mistress of the White House. The strife between Mrs. McKinley's fenisle relation and friends and the president's f male relations and friends to fill tha position with honor to themtdves and the nation is most in teresting. The incubation of President McKin ley's boom began, says an eastern pa per, around Senator Mark Hanna's din ner table at Cleveland and the ladies present planned the social campaigns that will be developed In Washington during the next four years. The epoch racks, with nothing in the way of la- from your subject." observed the making dinner party Included Mr. and uor for a llving.to interrupt meditation, woildly junior, nervously. "Your pal Mis. Alger, Governor and Mrs. Merri- tne soldier who becomes a general, re- Hating circumstance is " am. Colonel and Mrs. Myron T. jHer rick, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Kohlsaat of .Chicago. At this time. Captain and Mrs. H. O. S. Heistand had not been heard of. Four years ago Captain Heistand was detailed as in spector of the Ohio national guard, under Governor McKinley's guberna torial command. The eastern paper goes on to say: Mrs. Heistand at once made it a point to make herself not only useful, but es- sential, to Mrs. McKlnley. who found in this energetic person thp physical force she was not always able to command for herself. Other ladies at the Ohio capital wives of state officials and outers who had enjoyed a share of Mrs. McKinley's company, soon found their services unnecessary. Mrs. Mc Kinley's wishes were constantly sup plied, almost before they were ex pressed, by her new companion. When the McKinleys removed to Canton, the Helstands accompanied them. Thp captain. It is averred, opened the ma jor's mall, stropped his razor, selected his habberdashery and fetched his hat all" and gloves. Mrs. Heistand performed "0n rainy days when your umbrella similar invaluable services for Mrs. Mc- and rubbers are swiped." interrupted Kinley. One by one the older friends the freshman. found themselves superseded until even "And above all," continued the sen Mrs. Hanna. I am told, found that Mrs. ior with a reproving glance at the McKlnley preferred to select her gowns freshman. "In the library"- The books from Canton mantua makers, under that are stolen or hidden, the students Mrs. Heistand's direction, to accepting her advice to patronize the Euclid ave nue shops. Of course, jealousies were aroused, and Mrs. Hanna and Mrs. Heistand no longer occupy the same box at Mr. Hanna's Euclid avenue op- blllty," Interrupted a lively youth seat era house. Then came the trip to 'd opposite, whose liveliness, however, Washington. There was a train-load of bad hitherto been directed dinnpr McKinley relatives, so many "sisters wards. "Bread, please." aad cousins and aunts" in fact, that it "I am not a sophomore any more, became known in Washington as thp Bertrand, my boy," said the senior. "Pinafore" train. Everywhere was the "And even when I was I think I may little western army woman, however. sa it without boasting I was never a attentive, busy, but omnipresent Now dig." the captain has realized his ambition "That's a dig at you. Bertie," said aad has been detailed at the White the freshman. House. Mrs. Heistand will" live in "Well, I wouldn't boast of my soph Washington. Mrs. McKinley has found omore years, either. If they were as aer indispensable. She will be a con- many as the senior's." stant visitor in the private apart ments where the Canton servants have learned to know her. She will have no end of influence In state as well as private affairs. Mrs. Hobart or Mrs. Hanna may be nominally first lady In waiting, but they will find the little wee.ern army officer's wife on guard at the private apartments, and Mrs. Heis- tand will "be the real manager of the White House, just as Senator Hanna has been the manager of the republican campaign. I shall certainly watch the result of it all with interest Captain Heistand is of thp Eleventh United States infantry. Speaking of army officers, their pro motion depends on so many things be sides bravery and the knowledge of military science, which truly admirable acquirements have not been put to mach use in tbe United States for the last twenty years. "Promotion for Canon Pf a Coil, fc'.OO per ton, for took store. Ulkand O. For sale by Gregory conrplcuous braveiy on the field of bat tle" begins to be interesting only for its antiquarian suggestions. Progres sion from a second lieutenant to seme- thing as gorg'ous. as plctorlally beauti- fill as General Miles, depends on influ? tnce cxlended at the right moment, on a knowled,. of thp weak points of ranking officers, their likes and dis- likes and such matters, which lie quite outside of the West Point curriculum. In barracks the officers have not much to do besides ponder on the person- ages whom it is necessary to propitiate and attract. In the solitude of the bar- fleets on army politics. "There is. nothing like boarding house life to develop selfishness." re marked the cynical senior, as he skil fully extracted an underlying breast from the platter of chicken. "Student life in general wculd in time ruin the beet disposition in the world, but the worst feature of it all is the boarding house creed." "What's that?" asked the Innocent. "Boarding house greed, he means," said a freshman who sat at the senior's le. "e ruefully scrutinized the three necks and the gizzard which formed the contents of the platter after it had passed the rounds. "One and the same thing." returned the senior. "But it's a creed not con- fined to boarding houses. It permeates our university life. You see it in the class-rocm. in the halls and above who consider the library a lecture room in poly-con, or an ingenious device for indoor-bench work. etc.. etc. It's al most impossible to get a lesson." "You certainly never test the possi- The senior ignored the remarks. "Returning to the subject of the moral influences of student life." he said, "there is one palliating circum stance." "Co-educaticn?" asked the freshman. The senior laid his hand in a fath erly manner upon the freshman's shoulder. "It is but too plain that the freshman is young and unsophisticated. But he will learn by and by to leave his umbrella and rubbers In the check- room on rainy days, and he will learn, toe, that co-education is not all that it seems to be. He will learn by and by." The senior sighed reminisoently, "He reads German every afternoon In chapel with one girl already," re marked the innocent, looking interest ed, while the freshman blushed. "You mean 'reads Dutch for one co-ed.' There are no 'girl3 around here, my boy. nor is 'German" in the Perfection Cooking Mixture ti.10 per ten, sold exclusively by Gregory, 11th BOARDING HI III riuriculum. And I can well imagine," h" continued, gazing thoughtfully at the cmbatrassed freshman, "how the ficchman burns midnight gas over his Immen&ee. But It perience.- invaluable. is invaluable ex Oh. you needn't Liush about it. No doubt you know ycur lesson far'better than the innocent yonder, Aand you're storing up treas- ure against the day of conditions, Freshman chapel exercise is far more profitable than junior bench-work." The reminiscent sigh was breathed again, "it sf ems to me you're wandering "Ethics, you wisely prefer to drop bench work, ethics, my dear junior. It ccmes the last trrm of the senior year for those wise enough to take It then, and forms a sort of antidote to the past. It reminds us, for example, that the freshman brie is not exclusively fond cf necks and gizzards, or that his rub bers are a rather poor fit for our shoes." "I'm taking ethics myself." an nounced a second lieutenant, patting Wg mougtache ccaxingiy. "You don't say." "Yesslr, I'm taking ethics, and the worst book-swiper in the Uni. is in the rlaes. and it doesn't do him a bit of good. Why, he even hides ethics ref erences when he goes to dinner!" The senior appeared shocked. "And more than that," continued the lieutenant, "there's another fellow in the class argues that a man's duty Is to look out for himself and himself cn,y ald he doM u , "Is he a second lieutenant?" asked the senior. The lieutenant was ruffled. "You needn't cast insinuations. You know I never -say a word in class." "Which shows your wisdom if you hope for credit But I didn't refer to ycu not by any means. Pass the but ter to the innocent. He's looking long ingly in that direction." The worldly junior having finished his dinner adjusted his pince nez and glanced benignly about the expectant tabic. "Have any of you been down to the state house lately? he asked. Xo one had. "Well, you should go and see the workings of the university . lobby. There's no denying the Chanc. is the man for the place. He's a lobbyist, he i3." "Wha wha what!" stammered the lieutenant. "I thought he wasn't going to lobby at all, thought he wasn't ever going to be seen on the floor of the house." "Well, he isn't Not by several. But you're pretty sure to see a Uni. page or two and you wonder what they're up to down there." "Well what are they up to?" "Hooking members." swiping "Hooking do you mean members?" "I said 'hooking' members. They just go up to .the 'gentleman from Crab Orchard' or Omaha or whatever it may be, and hook on to him in a sweet and winning manner. Then they lure him out into the supreme court room and" Prima Donna Dear! I suppose those "Give him a set-up of cigars in stupid, stingy p.-ople down in fiont ex there?" asked the sophomore enthusl- pget U3 j0 entertain them, astically. "Sh sh sh! You'd embarrass Solo man with your question. He meets the Chanc there and learns all about the needs of the university and the state and the farmers. Tell you what. these Uni. pages are the smooth peo- The nw incandescent gas light has no superior. For sale at Korsmeyer pie." "And I was talking with the repre sentative from my county," said the in nocent, "and he said that the. Chancel lor took a committee of 'em out to the state farm, where they couldn't get away, and talked to them two hours straight; just wouldn't stop, he said." "When will you infants learn that silence is golden," groaned the junior. "When speech is no longer free sil ver," remarked the sophamore. "That time has come, Bertrand," said the senior, solemnly. "You had best subside. But really, my dear junior, it was my understanding that the matter of lobbying for the old Uni. had been left in other hands." "Your understanding always was poor." "Yet certainly I have heard it whis pered that the appropriation for the new building was directly won by the politic efforts and suave address of one departmentally interested " "Departmentally interested?" "Exactly; and as a matter of fact, he could've got the dairy outfit, too. It it had been sufficiently to his Interest to make that a special object, that is, he says he could." "You don't mean little" "I do," sa'id the senior. THE USE OF IT Abb. What is tbe use of it all. The anguish, the grief, the strife. " Tbe struggle with shades, the fight with fate The battle for life? What is the use to fight fur fame. To cringe to Ambition's demands. And grasp tbe chaplet of bay at last With stiffening, dying hands? Is it not enough to have striven and toiled? The pursuit is more than the paltry prizo. To have loved and sufiercd is much, To have lived is moro than we realize. William Reed Duhkot. March 15, 1S97. ITREAbLY IS. Hewitt Poets are born, not made. Jewett It's loo bad. Hewitt-What is too bad? Jewett Thatco many of them are born. REPENTANCE. Mrs. Benbam The. newspaper bas quite an account of a man who commit- ted bigamy. I don't see why a man should want more than one wife. Benham I don't sea why he should want one. CAUSELESS WORRY. Croker No honest man can living these times, Corker Tut, tut, old man! borrow other people's troubles! mako a Don't ALL HE NEEDED. Physician You need more outdoor life. Patieat I guess I'm all right; I never get in before morning. "If I didn't love my husband, I'd kill him!" exclaimed the warm-blooded lady from New Orleans. "I wouldn't," replied tho Chicago woman. "I'd get a divorce and stick him for alimony." Understudy tonight. -Nobody in the boxe3 "My son," said Mrs. Gazzani, "I do not like to hear jou allude to Miss Troltsr as a bird. It sounds disrespect ful." "But she is a native of the Canard Inlands, mother," replied Mr. Gazzani If you eat why not try the Annex tea andO. Plumbing and Healing Co. taurant, 133 So. 12th St.