THE COURIER.
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FishinV
Talk abjut jour kinda o' siort,
Fishin aluii s my fork!
July mornin, still an" fair,
Harness up the ol' gray mare
Start at four o'clock, we'll say,
So'd to reach tho crick by day.
Ketch your minnics at tho dam,
More'n fifty at a filam;
Then vado down below thoshoals;
There you'il lind tho I'shin'-holo.
Let your cork go dnften' down
Where tho current eddies roun'
Down to whero tho wilier tips
Thet above the river lean.
Long an' 6lim liku buggy whips,
Tap tho water with their green.
Hoi' ) our breath an wait an" then
Ketch yourself half listenin'
To a bird that shouts an' Bings
'Causo the sun he3 teched its wings.
Zip! your cork gee i out of sight!
Whiz! your line's a-pulliu" tight!
Give him timo to get his gait
Now you've got him, Ehore es fate!
Easy eapy let him run
Let him tight and have his fun!
Now! pull in! he's comin back
Don't ye "low 'im any slack!
Work him over to tho shore
Get him safe upon your string
Hurry beck an' try for more
Fishin' jes beats anything!
Bass quit bitin' by an" by,
When tho sun gets gooJ an' high;
Then's the timo to take a rest,
Eat a bite, an' smoke, an' jest
Lyin' there beneath tha trees
Drowse, an' dream, an' take jour case.
Pecker-wood upon a limb,
Jay-birds laughin' down at him,
Kedabird on the other shero
llolleriu fer "Tee-a-dorc!"
Bumblobees a-whizzin' by
Evr'ytbing seems pr'tty nigh
Keepin'up a kind o" tune
Fitten' to tho summer noon.
An' I jes lay back an' sing,
"Fishin' does beat anything!"
Don't git home till kinder late;
Sary, waitin' at tho gate,
Looks at all my tish an' says
She won't scold this time, she guess',
An' sho 'lows she never see
Sech a fisherman es me.
Then she gets me up a snack;
Says she's glad that I got back
'Thout a-gitten killed er drown'
An my lisdy never foun'.
Then when Sary's say is sa:d
I jes mosy otr to bed.
Tired es a hunted deer;
Droppin" otr to sleep, I hear
Katydids thet rasp au' sing-
Fishin jes- -beats anything.
Albert Iiigelow Paine in the Century.
President Kruger's Illiteracy.
Nor can this modern South African
Colossus write any better than he can
read. To bo sure, he can sign his name
to public document?, but in somewhat
the samo way that 03man the Great,
tho founder and first sultan of tho Os
manli Turks, used to sign his name to
public documents by dipping his lund
into a saucer of ink and spreading it out
on tho paper, thub literally making his
.s"i inunuul. Not that President Kru
gerhas not got hcjond Osmnn tho First,
for ho can guide tho quill sufliciently to
B:gn his name to papers of state; but to
icrilc his name on those pjpers, or even
an ordinary letter, with his own
hand, would bo quita bej'ond his
powers, is the story often told in Pre
torii. And yet, should I leave tho im
pression wi:h my readers that Le was
simply 8n ignorar-t old Boer, it w ml 1 be
a falsa impression. From tho scholar's
standpoint, possibly In is tha. but fion
the standpoint of tho pol tician and man
of atlairs he is oae of the shrewdest gicat
men of the time. It ho cannot wiito a
state document he can dictate one. Ho
knows what is in ovory one that ho
signs, and his native shrewdness enables
him to got the better of far moro schol
arly rulers of mightier realms than his
when the interests of his "pior burgh
erF," as he pathetically cal8 them, aro
concerned. From "The Two Kepuhlics
of tho Southern Cioss," by Francis E.
Clark, D. D., in American Monthly Re
view of Reviews for August.
No ono who is interested in the history
of tho United States, and especially of
these newer 6tates in tho WcBt which
a.p to Lo tho field of so much history
j tt unlived, snould overlook a book
which tho Macmillnns announce under
tho title The Old Sunlit Fe Trttil. It is
by Col. Henry Inman, lato of the U. S.
Army, and is as fascinating as a novel.
So far removed from matters of our
everyday experience aio the scenos
which he describes that ono could not
feel supriscd on finding them n a book
of Mediaeval history, yet tho Colonel's
narrativo deals with a past so recent
that men who figure in this volume aro
still alive and in their prime, such men
as Col. Cody, "BufTalo Bill." to whom
tho bcok is dedicated. Col. Inman knew
the hcro3 of theso stories well, and was
himself a part of that rude life now as
completely vanished as tho herds of buf
falo which once covered those plains
Tho stories wander like the old trail it
self through many accidents and in
cidents, some of them romantic, many
highly exciting. They contain sketches
of the old trappers and voyageure, and
of famous scouts like Kit Carson, who is
tho hero of a certiin storj of heroic sur
geiy, highly successful, but crude
enough to havo happened in the middle
ages.
Tho Macmillian Company announces
an attractive holiday book entitled Sing
iny Verses for Children. It will con
tain a group of eighteen soogs set to
music and illustrated. They are design
ed to be sung by children as well as lo
children, and will be brought out in a
way that will attract both musicians and
children, who will fiad in it a beautiful
picture book with simple music and
veiso of attractive rhythm. The verses
are by Lydia Avery Coonley, and aro
simple and natural, full of tho spirit of
out-door lifo and bo varied thet some
thing can bo found in it appropriate to
every season. Tho illustrations are by
Alico Kellogg Tyler and show a strong
ataehmntto tho little folk and that
keen sympathy with the spirit of each
song which is essential to the best
illustration.
A. L. Benedict in the August Lippin
rott's has a few sensible words to say
abut fraternities:
If you impress the members of higher
classes as being a desirable acquaint
ance or as likely to retlect creJit on
them as a student, jou will soon be
"rushed' for one or more of tha frater
nitics. But remember that you must
not seek this honor. Whether or not
you will join a fraternity, and, if so,
which one, is an important question. A
good fraternity with a chapter houso
otrers you a home a home, to be sure,
in a family composed entirely of boys
and youcg men and without tho rt fining
and restraining influence of father,
uniherand sisters at an expense not
much, if at all greater, than that of
boaid elsewhere. In lucIi a chapter you
will tied ready friends who will bring
out tho best there is in jou and help
you in many wars, while the chapter
meetings will afford you literary, musi
cal, eluctionary, and pailiamentary
training. After graduation, too, you
will still enjoy tho privilege of having
friends though strangers scattered
over tho country. On the other hand,
some fraternity chapters ere clubs of
tho most dissipated and vicious men at
college, and membership in such a so
ciety is a disgrace as well a a damage.
Between theso two extremes aro nil
grades of fraternity lift. Some chap
ten, though not positively bad, arc ex
pensive and frivolous; in others there is
determined and selfish stiiving after
mastery in collego jxlitics. At some of
the larcer universities college pride is so
in excess of fraternity spirit that society
membership nmounts to little; at tho
smaller liege?, fraternity pride is in
the ascendant, and membership becomes
moro and moro important to tho Bin
dent's welfare, though never indispen
sable. Tho status of tho local chapter is
of more practical importance to jou
than thator the fraternity as a whole,
yot it is unwise to affiliate with a so
ciety wbo3e chaptera at other colleges
cannot receive jour approbation, while
tho brst societies havo tho same aim
and about the samo standing in all their
chapters. It is well to bo guided, to
some extent, by the fraternity t'os of
relatives and friends; but you must re
member that a chapter which was ex
cellent in jour father's timo may have
degenerated, and that your cousin, at a
collego hundreds of miles away, may en
joy a very different fraternity atmos
phere from that which jou would rind
at your own college. Finally, be broad
minded enough to recognize that the
fraternity which is best for you may not
be absolutely better than sinia other,
and that soma difference in methods
and aims is necessary to suit different
temperaments.
Mrs. Benham Beforo we were m r
ried you said that my slightest wish
should bo jour law.
Benham Yes, but I'd rather be a law
breaker than to have the law break me.
First Publication, July, 24th.
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Coropanj, v. Burr, 1G-118.
To tho Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance Company, S. A. Max.vell and
Company, David B. Welch, Jane E.
Chamberlain, Abbie M. Chamberlain.
Mary S.Jacob?, Jane D. Dowdall. the
Sullivan Savings Institution of Clare
mont, New Hampshire, the Citizen's
National Bank of Des Moines-, Iowa,
Louis Hax and James Porter:
You and each of you are hereby noti
fied that in the case pending in the dis
trict court of I,ancastcr county,
Nebraska, number KM 18, wherein the
said Northwestern Mutual Life Insu
rance Company is plaintiff, and you and
others are defendants, the National Life
Insurance Compan of Montpelier,
Vermont, on the 2.'Jrd day of July, 1837,
tiled its petit'on against jou and 'be
other defendants in said cause
tho object and prayer whereof are
to adjudge that the petitioner,
tne national jjiro insurance Com
pany has a valid and fiist lion on a cer
tain frame dwelling houso now standing
on a part of the land in controversy in
this cau-c, to-wit: Lots number 10 and
11 inblock number 02 in the city of Lin
coln in said county, whieh house former
ly stood on lots number I and 2 in block
number 180 in said city, and on which
said petitioner claims and prajs alien
by virtue of a certain mortsage executed
by the defendants. Carlos C. Burr and
Mary E. Burr, on July 11, 1887, for the
sum of 311.000. reemled on July 12.
1837. in book 14 of mortgagee, prgo 502
of the mortgage recorJe of said county,
and covering the last above described
land; that the decree in said cause may
be so modified and corrected as to ex
cludo in express terms from tho prop
erty to be Bold for the pjyment of the
liens thereby established tho house
aforesaid; that said houso with all its
appurtenances may be sold for the pay
ment of your petitioner's lien; and that
you and all tha defendants herein may
be excluded from all interest therein or
lien thereon.and enjoins and restrained
from in any manner interfering with the
petitioner and all persons claiming
through or under the same from the re
moval thereof.
You are required to answer paid peti
tion of the National Life Insurance
Company on or before the 30:h day of
August, 1897.
The National L'fe Insurance Company,
of Montpelier. Vermont.
By S. L. Geisthardt, Attorney.
Aug 14.
Free
Advent fsslragt
What a lot of free ad
vertising tho Burlington
must locoivo if it is true,
as Bflini) Kop!o say that
"a pIciiRod p.iRfcngrr in a
railroad's bett advertise
ment!" To nil pointe east, west
north and bouMi. the Bur
lington hin well equipped
and unparalleled service.
Georico V. Lionncll,
MERICM EXCnMGE MTIOMl BUM.
LINCOLN, NEB.
S. II. IiUKMlAM,
President.
D. G. Wikg,
A. J. Sawvkk,
Vice president
Cushier.
CAPITAL 25O,C0O.
Directors A. J. Sawyer, S. II. Burn
ham, E. Finney. J. A. Lancaster, Lewis
Gregory, N. Z. Snell. G. M. Lambert
son, D. G. Wiug, S. W. Burnhnm.
PICTO'V
Actual time traveling.
.'!1 hours to Salt Lake.
Gl hours to San Francisco.
G8 hours to Portland.
77 hours to Los Angeles.
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LlNGObN, NEB.
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