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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1897)
THE COU Z -i. II II IMie Cliicao, Rock Island & PaciflcRy. Gives you the choice of Two Routes, one via COLORADO and the SCENIC LINE, and the other via our TEXAS LINE and the SOUTHERN PACIFIC. Our Texas line is much quicker than any other line through to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA for Personally conducted excursions The Phillip!' Roolc lalond Exor Are the most popular, and carry the largest business of any other California Route. This signifies that you get the best attention and receive the best ser vice. The lowest rate lickets to California are available on these excursion?. Don't start on a trip to California un til you get our Tourist Folder, contain ing map showing routes and all informa tion. For rates and reservations appl to and agent of the C. R. I. & P. Ry.. o address JO UN SEBASTIAN, General Passenger Agent, 4-1 Chicago ,111. 11! 1 Is the BEST to reach the NEW GOLD FIELDS in the BLACK HILLS. Call at office for valuable information. A. S. Fielding, City Ticket Afft,. 117 So. 10th St., Lincoln. Neb. Our spring styles of shoes and Oxfords are in, black and all shades of colors, We want your trade and will give you the best goods for your money. WEBSTER S ROGERS, 1043 0 STREET. oaocococ D. C. VAN DUyN, CJS QfJAlJ ND COMMISSION. STOGKS, QRUJJ, PpOVISIOS. Bids for carlots made elevator men. Offices: Brownell block; phone TOG. Correspondents: Johnson-Brinkman Com. Co., Kansas City; F. G. Logan, Chicago-New York. Direct wire Kansas City and Chicago. TJ&dr new mantf emml MERCHANTS' HOTEL OMAHA, NEBR. PAXTOV, IOIRI DATXMFOKT, rnprlatara. picUl attoatlo U ttato trd, crt lI NUN<nTdm. t mm ftr-gg; IN THE COUNTRY. A short tiiuo ago I went to the coun try with my fathor who bnd business with a farmer there. It was a long way and although I en joyed the shady drivo I was quite tired and ready to rest when we reached the farm house. My father loft mo in the cool parlor or front room while ho wrnt out to see the farmer and after I drank a glass of milk I felt much refreshed. I was sitting in a big chair by a win dow lazily watching a big butterfly fly from ilower to flower in the old fashioned garden. A hugo lilac buth juEt at ono side of the open window swayed its branches slowly back and forth in the wind and sent the sweet petfutne from its blossoms into the shady room. Suddenly I was startled by hearing a sharp and shrill voice coming from the kitchen. "Thar ye sit areadin' an' lettin' yer old mother work like a nigger. Ye haint done a thing, ye lazy, good for nothin'. I told ye an hour ago to scrub the porch an' ye haint done it." Yes I hev, too," was the answer in a lower tone. "Hev ye swep' the stairs?" -Yes." "An' dusted?' "Yes." There was a silence, then 'Hev you took back thet but er I borrowed o' Miss Field?" "Yes, I htv." "Huh! I told ye thim flowers needed watorin.' " "I watered 'em." "Huh! Did e wash thet wicdo.v thet ye spillea apple eass on?" "Yes." "At.' dried it?" "Yes." Another pauso. "Hev ye sewed thet hole in yer dress yet?" "Ob, ma, I forgot. "Forgot!" camo the other voice in a scream. "It's always forgot." Ye never do a hand's turn but'forgofc' Here I've worked like a beaver all mornin' an' yo aim done nuthin' nuthin. Lazy, lazy, laziest girl I ever saen!" The old woman who comes every Monday to do our washing is Scotch. Hei speech is broken, and, like most of her people, she talks incessantly and make3 a great many shrewd and funny remarks. The other day when I camo home fiom school she was talking to my mother about the hard times and I hr ard her when I was Hill far oft". When I came up she had stopped and the only sound was a rub-a-dub, splash! rub-a-dub-dub! But presently she began to talk again and never ceasing in her work but wringing out clothes 8 fast as she could make her strong arms turn the wringer handle. "Yis, verra hqard teems we re havin' o' it noo" she said. Then a3 neither mother nor I answered she went on. "An' ye dinna ken hoo haard teems some folks is o' haen. Theers Miss Cata nach oof a tha toon wha hae thra wee bonnie bearius ta luik ta. I wa' epakin" wi' her about it. She says 'at hoo she dar'na a lat her wee boy go out an' work a'l ho a gentleman deed want tha cheild ta rako snaw off his walk. She's taen in washin' noo tho an verra weel she's gaen alang. She weel ma ax nowt fro noan o' her neibors." There was quite a pause. She attacked her wash board vigotously with a dirty apron. "You're getting along all right, aren't you?" mother asked. "Yis. yis, I'm a' right" she said. "Once I wa" scarce o vittles, but I'd rajthtr dee ony day nor ask help. I hae ane greet comfort."' She smile. broadly. -Yes" mother said, "What's that?" "Wheen we had tha awful storm i'tha' weenter theer wa' ane wee hole i tha wa.' An nne nicht a eatin o' ma supper I felt tha wind blaw on ma back a woe bit. Sae, I tuick a wee bit bread an' put i' tha hole. Sae, noo, I'll ollays hau bread i' tha hoose." HARRIET M.COOK. May II. 1897. A Monologue of The Plantation, by Ruth McEnery Stuart. Speaker A Black Girl. Time Easter Morning. "Scuse mo knockin at yo' do" so early. Miss Betty, but l'e in trouble. Don't set up in bed. Jes' lay still an lemmo talk to yer." "I come to ax yer to please ma'am loand mo a pair o' wings, raistue. No" in I aint crazy. I mean what I say." "You see, toJay'B Easter Sunday, Miss Bettle, an' we're havin' a high time in our chu'eh. An' I's gwine sing de special Easter carol, wid Freckled Frances an' Lame Jane jinin in de choruB an' our chair. Hit's one o' deze heah choirs sot up next to de pulpit in front o de cocgargation. "Of co'so me singin de high solo makes me de prinsipleat tiegur, so we 'ranged fur me to etan' in de middle, wid Frances an' Jake on each side, an' I got a bran' new whito t3rltoa frock, wid spangles on it an' a Easter lilly wreath all ready. Or co'se, me bein' de fust singer, dat entite mc tt wear de highest plumage, an' Frances.she knows dat, an' she 'lowed to me she wa3 gwine to wear dat white nainsook liwn you gin "er, andc3 a plain secondary hat, an' at de p'intcd t me we all three got to rise an'couitesy to de congergat on, an' den bust into song. Lame Jake gwine wear dat white duck suit o Marse John's an' a Easter lily in his button hole. "Well, hit was all fixed dat a-way, peaceable an' proper, but jou know de troubls is Freckled Frances is jtalous hearted, an' she aint got no principle. I tell you. Miss Annie, when niggers gits white ecough to freckle you look out for "em! Day jes advanced fur enough along to show white ambition an' nigger principle! An' dat's a dangerous mix ture! "An' Frances ? She ant got no mo pr'nciple 'n a suc't aig dorg! Ever sence wo 'rarged dat Easter program shebeen studtia' up some owdacious way to outdo me today in do face of eve'ybody. "But I'm Jes one too many fur any yaller freckled nigsjer. I'm "black but dey's a heap V trouble come out o ink befo" today. "I done had my eje on Frances. An" fur do las' endurin' week 1 taken notice ev'ry time we had a choir prac tisin'. Francep, she'd fetch in some talk about butter 11 s bein' a Easter sign o' de resurrection o'dedf ad, an' all seen as dat; Well, 1 kndw Frances don't keer no mo 'bout de resurrection o de dead n nothin. Frances is too tu;k up wid dis life fcr dat! So I watched her. -An laB n'ght I ketched up wid 'er. "You know dat great big silk paper butterfly dat you had on yo' piaoner lamp, Miss Bettie? She"s got it perched up on a wire on top o dat secondary bat an' she's a-tixin it to wear it to church today. But she don't know I know it. You see, she knows I kin Bing all over her an' dat's huccome she's a-proj'ectin' to ketch de ejes o" de congergation! "But ef jou'll he'p me" out, Miss Bettie, we'll fix 'er. You know dem yaller gauzy wings jou woe in de ttb leaux? Ef you'll loand 'em to me an' hep me on wid em terrcckly when I'm dressed, I'll te a whole live butterfly an' I bet yer when I flut ers into dat choir. Freckled Frances'll feellikescatchin'dat lamp shade off htr hat sho'sjou born! An' fur oncet I'm proud I m" to black compketed, caze black an yaller, dev goe3 togeiherfur butterflies! "Frances 'lowed to kill rne today but I lay when she sets eyes on de "yaller winged butterfly she'll predate de resur rection o' do dead ef she never did befo' in her life?' dWMmiSitP 5 yf CTOV Actual titno traveling. 31 hours to Salt Lake. 61 hours to Sao Francisco. 08 hours to Portland. 77 hours to Los Angeles. FROM LINCOLN, NIB City office. 1044 O street. R TIE NIT ROOTE TO THE Come and 8e XJm S. O. Towhsxmd, F. D. Cornxu G. 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