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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1897)
537 '?"'"- V-. w TT i5r"7?V"W?: - . j"Tfapsr - THE COURIER. - nrfa. i'-ti. EVFNING The lamps ehed a soft glow from under their heavy shades. The fire roared cheerfully in the grate, and now and then a coal cracked and Bent fan tastic dancers and broken down castles flying up tli9 chimne. The little pug dog lay en the fur rug before the tire. He snored peacefully away and once he had a dream. He was having a terrible fight or chasing a rabbit, perhaps, but his cries were se piteous that I arose and shook the bad dreams away without waking him. Then I went back to my chair and bent resolutsly over my Latin; but it was no use. I could not translate. The steady patter of the rain, the swish of the sweet briarbnsb, the eglantine, against the window made everything lonesome and cad. I could hear the noige3 in the city two or three uiild away with the distant rumbling of the cars coming and dying away again leaving the silence more in tense and expectant. Far away a train whistled; the Eound ingered on the damp air and then with a sad moan died away. The wind blew around the corner of the house with a little sigh, as if it had a grievance and it was sympathizing with itself. I looked acrosj . the table at my mother. The rest had gone to church. We were al we. She was reading and locked up oily when she turned a page, then egiin b:canoe perfe3tly forgetful of everything about her, Her head was bent, and the shadows, and the flicker ing light of the fire played over her Joo3fly kno'tid white hair wh'ch waved softly back from her forehead. The golJ fish glittering as if their bodie3 were set with millions of t'ny jewels were lazily drifting around in their glass home, under the same staepy silent spell which was over everything. A piece of music slipped fron the rack on the piano and fell noisily to the floor. The little bird in his cage twittered sleepily and put his head undor his other wing. The old clo;k on the shelf wheezed out "tick-tock-tock tick' spasmodically. Every now and then it would seem to stop but, hearing the stjadier tick of its mate in the parlor, would gasp, and be gin again reo!ule!y while the wooden George Washingt n at the top beamed serenely. I lefcned back in my ch lir and halt closing my eye3, looked at the figures in the fire. At first they were (lain, but they gradually grow dinmer and dim mer until they eailed away into oblivion. With a 'whool!" the wind blew the .raindrops- from the vine against the" window pane. I shivered and drew closer to the fire, Mother's bojk had fallen into her lap and she was sleeping, a light sleep which could easily be broken. I looked at my Latin again. It saemed hard to go back from this dreamy lone some silence to tne trials and troubles of the Greeks. I closed the book softly, and leaned back in the hinged rocker. ' Everything wa3 so far off. Jt would be so long before I would recita again in Latin. No need to get it now. It was so mnch more delicioii3 to close my eyes and not t go to sleep but jmt, just Quiet reigned. I could hear faintly only the wind and the ra:n and the diEmal creak of a window blind which swung to and fro. "Whew!" eaid mother "Oh-ahab," yawning "most ten o'clock Annie, Annie!" The clock wheezrd and gingled and broke the stillness with ten noisy clangp. I eat up very straight. "I'm awake' I taid. "I fee" said mother. "We may as well go to bed, Annie. The folks will go to your s-etir's after church. It3 too stormy to come home." Sin laid her spectacles on the table and carefully laid her book on top of them aud then put the gauze covering over the fish globe. "Come on" she said. The fire was burned to glowing ashes. In front on the fur rug, the pug deg lay, his chin resting on the open Vergil. Mother's rocker swung back and forth and set the curtains into lazy motion. Suddenly I found myself in darkne-s. Wait, Mamma, wait" I cried. HARRIET M. COOKE, April 27, 97, A Theosophical Courtship. "So you love me, George?" "With all my heart! "Love me for myself alone." "Yes, my darling, for yourself alone." "You never loved another?" "Nsver! You are the first girl I ever loved."' "You will always bd true to mo?" "For ever and ever." "George, don't thick that I doubt you, but please stand here a moment be tween me and the light. I want to take a look at your aura. Oh, what strange colors! Blue and black with bIotche3 ot red. George, you have bsen lying to me. I see that you don't love me for myself at all, but that you're after my money. That sea green tails me that you love another. The purple btreak is undenia ble evidence that you have proposed to at least a dozen girls, and have been a bad, bad man. That Venetian red indi cates that, it we were married, you wouldn't be true to me three months. Algernon George, Nit, you are a base de. ceiver! Hence from my sight, villain! I haven't studied up theosophy for nothing." "Waiter. I found this hair in the honey. Where did it come from?' "Saksalibe!boss, it must have come out of the comb." "How was the play last night?" "Great." "I heard it,waa very poor." "Well, the .acting was rank enough but the comedian was a fat fel'ow that even the smallest eggs could not miss.' Cora Where can a girl go who hse nothing to wear? Dora -Try the Turkish bath. CHEAP RATES TO TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL AND EXPOSITION - At Nashville, Tenn.. May 1st to October .TO. Begining May 4 and on esch subsequent Tuesday the Missouri Pacific will -sell tickets from Lincoln to Nashville and return at 835.15 good 20 days from date of sale. The Kansas and Nebraska limited leaving Lincoln at 2:30 p. in. makes better time by from two to five hours each way than any other line. Map9, time tibkt and further informa tion at c'.ty ticket rfli o 1201 O street. .F. I). CORNELL, O. J. cfc T. A. NOTICE OF PETITION FOR LET TERS. Jn re Estate of Moph'er T. Green, De ceased. In the Conn'y Court, of Lancaster County, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska to Sophia L. Green, and to any and all ether persons interested in said matter. Take cotice, that a petition signed by Wm. A. Alixander, praying said Courl to grant Utters of aministration of said estats to J. P. Hebard haB been .filed in said court; that the same is set for hear ing-on the 31st day of May, 1897. at 9 o'clock a. m , and that it you do cot then appear and contest, said court may grant administration ot the said estate to J. P. Hebard. Notice of this proceeding ehallbe pub lished three weeks successively in the Courier prior to said hearing. Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 3rd day of May, A. D., 1897. seal S. T. Cochran, County Judge. BRUSH, COLORADO. ' This bit of information is printed for convenience alxnit answering the numerous inquiries now coming in concerning1 Brush, Colorado, and surrounding country. BRUSH has about wo hundred inhabitants. 2 A splendid, commodious school building, with all "high school" facilities. 3 Located in the Platte and Beaver valley, eighty miles eft ot Denver, in tho midst of a largo area of fine, arable land, covered by inigation ditches, and oaly waiting judicious farming to develop wealth. 4 The climate is adapted to all sorts ot crops grown in tho North Temperate zone. 5 Excellent water can be had at depth varjing from 30 to (X) feet, the lower strata furnishing the purest mountain water at a'nahle. C Fine building Btoce adjacent to tue town, can bo bat at from 81.75 to 81.00 per cor J, thuB making it cheaper to build ot stone than lumbar. 7-Three cropaot alfalfa are grown in the season, yielding as a rule six tons per acre as the product, while wild bar on the higher land grows well and always brings a big prica. The rich jield ot hay makes it pre-eminently a country in which to raise cattle and hogs to the feeding stage when it is easy to drive them to the cheap corn of Nebraska. 8 Small fruiti and ve,jetalbe3 ot all kinds can be developed to any extent al mostthe real conditions when told seem almost fabulous. 9 Steam threshers in work of 189G show average of wheat in this vicinity to be forty bushels per acre, oats fifty bushels. 10 Entire absence of contagious diseases of both man and beast; the atmos phere is a regular daily life giver. U The county of Morgan, in which Brush is located, is free of debt and taxes are low. There is now excellent opening" for a first glass grist mill, one hundred barrel capacity, one good hardware store, one good drug- store. Grt o the Burlinggton. Cetx-m and look the situation over. Whether it's a hat or a bonnet you want an inspection of our goods is solicited. MRS- R. E. LLr FiM Milltaeir y .;',, 12S So. 12tli Street. " ' IM..IIMIM II .... I- . II. 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