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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1897)
W" " ' M .Jir f -.--4- t - rr,t t ,, , i THE COURIER. 'f'l " if J" ' i1 9 c 1 Y? the pasture. They go there to express themselves In need of a stimulant and their sovereignity. Nay, nay, they are driven by a small part of a party which knows how to drive the multi tude to attain their own particular and private ends. " their final state is seven times worse than their aboriginal condition The theory of heredity receives some severe shocks every now and then. Last week a little boy died in New The mayor's action in dismissing York city. His name was Alexander Chief of Tolice Melick is commended C. Howard, his father is a, Kliceman of bovine temperament, his mother, a good woman with no more intellectual characteristics than the father. Yet the boy had the head of a Huni- hy all the decent icople of the city. Added to the reputation which Mr. Melick acquired during and before the Sheedy trial, and which should have made him ineligible to office boldt and an intellect that corres forever after, are the current rumours ponded in quality to the size and touching Mr. Melick's very friendly shape of the cranium. What other relations with the gamblers of the children labor to acquire the young city. Such rumours are prejudicial Alexander conquered by a single effort to thecity administration as a whole of the mind. He was witty and sen and it is very wise to cut off sitive. His imagination was lightly the offending member csjecially poised and took wing at the sugges on the approach of an election tion of poetry, music, or nature, in. which various charges against the Without any trace of intellectual an administration will be made, and if cestry, this !oy with a Daniel Web possible proved. ster head would, if he had lived, have It has been observed by students of conquered a new world in music or human nature that in times of de- mathematics. The theosophists have pression games of chance are more the only theory capable of explaining popular than in times of plenty, such phenomena. Annie Bessant Desperation drives men to risk all of would say that the minds of geniuses the little that remains to them. After are in the air and sometimes go into the hard times really set in, banks IkkMcs that are not made for them, and dry goods stores, grocerys and fur- So far back as the policeman and his niture emporiums went to pieces as wife have any record there are honest soon as their largest debts became artisans and hard-working house due. Butthevariousformsof gambling wives. There is no account of any prospered and as times got worse more creative intellect. were established. To discourage this j tendency of human nature by sup- The resignation of Mr. Ilarwocd pressing the gambling rooms and thus from the Frst National tank of this make it difficult to gratify the tastes city, although it means to the bank strengthened by misfortune, requires the loss of a president who has di an alert moral industry which Mr rected its policy in times when a false Melick's biography does not indicate move would mean ruin to a weaker that he possesses. For which reasons institution, is good news to Mr. Har the mayor's decision as to Mr. Melick's wood's personal friends. The strain unfitness for the place he occupies, is of the jiast three years has turned surely sound. young bankers into old men and vigor J into fatigue. If Mr. Harwood were Sam Jones' financial success has writing his biography, after relating created a school. His ritald bar- with pleasure his cxtwrfences in the angues are copied by men like Sunday law he might say: ''After that I was and Beals who lack Sam Jones' origin- in the banking business for about ality in pulpit profanity. As a law- fifty years. Then I went to Europe yer nobody ever heard of Jones. There and again I enjoyed my book, my came a time when, tired of obscurity, friends and the face of nature. The he reflected upon the profession fruit of the vine was a pleasant thing in which his fluent command and the sun shone to bless and not to of Billingsgate would be of curse." use. The preacher's calling has Mr. John M. Carson, the new presi tlie advantage of- a reverence le- dent of the bank, is an old banker, stowed on all who choose (few are Though prevented by lamene:s from chosen) to preach. Sam Jones craved an active life, his judgment is sound an influence and fame which his legal and his experience tits him for the practicehadnotand never wouldsecuie office he will assume the first ofSep him. Lawyers make their own careers, tember. Mr. D. D. Muir, who returns The profession itself has no tradi- to Lincoln from Denver, to assume tional and partly superficial reverence the real management of the bank in to bestow on those who practice it. which he was emploved for 10 vears- There are those who have left it for the ministry and proved by their un selfish lives the genuineness of their conversion and their ability to help is a born tanker. Added to a long ex, perience, in which he has gained the respect and confidence of all who have done business, with him, Mr. Muir mankind. Sam Jones' sky-rockets, has an intuitive knowledge of finance, which are sent off for a large per cent which, except, to the man whose brain tf the gate receipts, amuse and some- cells are created for this speci tic pur times disgust. There are few recorded pose, is an intricate maze. With an instances of his addresses awakening integrity unblemished lie will return a desire for repentance and restitu- from Denver to the friends here whose tion. He makes an audience laugh at quality of steadfastness has been other people, nis words do not search proved by the passage of twenty-five the heart. When he has gone, con- years. Under his strong intelligent gregations still want to be amused, guidance the First National bank still want to have a humorous light will retain the prestige it has always thrown on types which, for a hundred had. years, has served the funny men on cTrvmcc im dappivo the daily newspapers. The ordained OlUKlcS) ll rAbbllNCj. preacher who needs 52 new sermons to It was one day several years ago carry him through the year, which is when the elevator in the Burr block .just twice as many as Sam Jones' had "died" with the cables motion whole repertoire, seems a common- less and the car suspended midway bo place, good little man, but tiresome tween the fourth and fifth floors: and withal, to the congregation which has until the engineer of . the building been listening with amused abandon could be found the elevator-boy was to am Jones' goat, old maid, mother- entertaining the passengers, in-law, bathing suit, stove pipe and "This thing hasn't happened since bald head Jokes. In the end the home last May," he said, leaning against .preacher's influence is interrupted the crank-handle and giving a little .vnd lessened, Sam Jones' converts find tug to his red checked tie, "but there was thunder to pay that time. Had a couple of cops in the car chasing a diamond thief, the elevator stuck,and it was two hours before we budged. It was like this. I was coming down and had just reached floor 2 when I heard a yell. I looked down the hall way and there was a chap in a slouch hat and black suitrunning toward me. He had come up from the west en trance (it opens on Twelfth, you know). Well, he had run up there and seeing me going down gave that call. I gave the machine a jerk and backed her up a little and the man tumbled in, pulling and blowing but pale as a damp rag. "'Quick, man, quick down!' lie cried hoarsely. I thought lie was sick and opened the crank wide and let the car drop like a ball of lead. "Just as he hurried out at the ground floor a woman came up tlie steps. She was tall and iiad on a black skirt and a shirt waist with blue strijes and was cool and calm. The eyes of the two met a moment and she bowed while he let her imss into the elevator. Just then there came two sharp, short rings, from the second floor, and I started up again. That bell was jerking away in quick little rings, like the barks of an angry dog, and there at the door of the land ing was a cop, breathless and red in the face and punching the bell with j his thumb. "'Seen anything of a little man in a black suit?' cried the policeman, as soon as my head was level with the landing. 'Just took him down.' 1 said. " 'Then take me down! "The cop rushed in. brushing by the lady in the shirt waist who passed out and stood in the hall uncertainly. And, as I thought afterwards, she was a trifle pale about the lips. "1 took the cop down and there he was met by another who had come from across the street. The second lointed up the little stairway that runs along the east side of the eleva tor shaft to the second floor (you know it. the one that opens through the little door on the right). Then the two cops started singly up that little stairway just as a ring came from floor 2. I ran up there and found the calm lady in the blue shirt waist. She entered the car hastily and then looked tack just as I closed the door. My eyes followed and I saw the tails of a black coat disappearing down the west entrance to Twelfth street. Then I turned to the lady again and there in her hands she held a little package like a jewelry case tied in tissue paiwr badly crumbled and torn from hasty wrapping. "At the ground floor she left the elevator and walked rapidly down O street. 1 stcpied to the sidewalk a moment and saw her gaze eagerly up Twelfth street. Then the . bell on floor 2 rang again and I found the two cops there, red and excited and angry. " 'Taken down that chap in black.' " 'Nope.' " 'The devil you haven't.5 "Then I took them down and the car stuck for two hours and when we got down the newsboys were crying the evening papers with big accounts of the great , but the cable's moving. Old Bill's got her going pretty quick this time. Floor five!'' They were both about eight years of age one with dark hair and large brown eyes, the other fair with golden hair and eyes of blue and they were racing down the pavement on their wheels while a group of boys of the same age were watching at the corner. "Go it, Marian." "Harder, Helen, harder." The cries came excitedly from the little admirers as" the girls' wheels sped on abreast. Then as they, neared the corner, the higher gear of the one wheel began to tell and the blonde crossed the line a length ahead, her cheeks flushed and her hair waving out in the breeze. "Three cheers for Marian," cried the boys admiringly at the corner. The dark one heard and her eyes be. pan to fill with tears and her breast to heave tumultuously, and she wheeled to the opposite side of the street with her head turned away. Then from the group of boys a small voice cried out: "Three kisses for Helen." The girl heard. A blush crept over her face and she sped faster up the pavement, but her tears were dried and there was a smile upon her lips. Continued on third page. ill PUT YOU OFF IT BUFFALO.- When you arrive there on your trip over the Great Rock Island Route. To attend the 31st national encampment y OF TIE Aug. 23,1867. Remember the Rock Island runs a through train leaving Omaha, August There will ba no change of cars nor transfer between depots in Chicago. The train goe3 through on fast time and you will have a Quick Tw'P to Buffalo. Tha rate is low and you should post yourself. The cool atmosphere around Niagara Falls will invigorate you. Don't miss the trip. Get details from any Rock Island agent, or address as below: C. A. 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