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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1897)
THE COURIER. SACRIFICE. I took the best that I hat and laid it t Laid it down on ;". the altar stone; It was the best of my life v and I laid it f Down with tears on the altar-stone: . Sometimes I think that gift "' to the Giver The God who took will return again: That in the round s of the long forever, There is no space j lor endless pain: Eut duty is duty i and Truth s right, And to these I will hold ' in ill's despite. -IDYLA A Frosted Garden. surplus money in a safety deposit box, orln a Btockin gburf od in a napkin, ami there are many cautious and unsus pected citizens of Lincoln who hare UBed one of these receptacles for cash in late years. By this course, at the si me t'me decreasing the amount of money in circulation their own patriotism, and prolonging hard times. This numerous class would at once transfer their sivings and mak ings to tin postal savings bank and the government would put it in circulation, the owners would be saved the rent of a box and gain two and one-half per cent a year. The laborers of England area thrifty, hard-working lot, and ex ceedingly tenacious. But the laborers ia-tkis country move around, untram tneled by tradition, love of the homo stead or any sentiment whatever for that matter. The case with which they have made money has made it easy for them to spend it, and by the same token they would despise ttro and one-half per cent a year. The patrons of a govern ment earitigs bank in this country would be drawn from school teachers, and chil dren, minis'crp. doctors and lawyers, who 6ee so much of tricky bad men that thry are wary of trusting their money with anything human or less stable and concrete ihtn the whole United States. That through "Rock Island" train from the west to Buffalo for the Grand Army boys and their friends will be a hummer." Leave3 Omaha, Aug 22, 1897. You can take this train if you will promptly interview any Rock Island agnt. Belter mako your arrangements very toon and get the best service. It will run Ihtough without change. Cool Niagara Falls near Buffalo is in viting in August, and the ticket rate will be low. Get details from any Rock Island agent or addreoe C. A. Ruther ford, G. A. P. D., Omaha; John Se bastian, G. P. A., Chicago. Now U the chanci to get a farm. Harvest excursions on the' Great Rock Island route to the Oklahoma district, also to Kansas and Texa3. There are six excursions arranged for. Ticket rate, one faro for round trip plus 9200. Dates are Aug. 3-17, Sept. 7 21 and Oct. 519. Inquire of any ticket agent of the Rock Island sjstem or addres8 John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago, III. Tommy' Toilet. Tommy (inquiringly) Mamma, is this hair-oil in this bottle? Mamma Mercy, no! That's xnusil-ago- Toramy (nonchalantly) I guess that's why I can't get my liat off. Get Health Juror. Jirason I wouldn't hang a man on any "expert" testimony of doctors. Would yon? Jainsoa Not if I were in good aealth. Humph! "What's that to do with it? I haven't much faith in doctors trhen I'm wclL I walked down into the garden this morning to view, out of mere curiosity, the desolation that hid been brought by tho first sharp frost. Everything was killed. The lima beans hung limp and black about their poles. Tomato plants and sweet potato vines lay Hat on the ground and nothing could have looked more desolute than the water melon patch. Green melons, ranging from the size of a cup to the size of my head, not very large to be sure lay scattered about, connected here and thereby grey snake-like vines. I walked among them, overturning a melon here with my stick and crushing one there with my heel, till 1 came to the lower end of the garden, where it opened into the road; for the garden belongB to the German people with whom I board and is the old fashioned kind in front ot the house. It was made up of flowers and vegetables and fruit trees, put together without any order and was, even in its best days, a curious sight. I smiled to Fee that the house and the garden suited each other better now than when the garden luxuriated in marigolds ani touch me-nols and cabbages and goose berries. Now the gooseberry stalks were stripped of their leaves, the cab bages had been stored long ago, and the only flowers left were the Bachelor's Buttons along the path. These were as erect and stiff as if the frost had only straightened their wiry stems the more. I stopped at the gate, and leaning on t, let my thoughts run loose. Strange ly enough I grew sentimental. The idea of an old bachelor like me being senti mental! I seldom am and I might have known that, with my lack of experience, my thoughts would 6tray into the foot hills, and when I came to the round-up, would all Btampede. I kept thinking that everybody's life is like that garden. At the first frost everything wilt9 down and all the color vanishes. The half ripe water melons were like the good deeds never finished, while the dead fiowera were like hopes blasted even in their blossoming. So I went on in a silly fashion, trying to find something in the garden to parallel everything in life and something in life to parallel everything in the garden. Some ot my similes wero stretched to the utmost; some were 6o absurd that 1 blushed to myself in making them. But I kept on, knowing that probably 1 would never write them down and that if I did, no one would read them. I was just beginning to tire of these thoughts when I saw Dora, the daugh ter of my host, etanding in the house door with her knitting in her bands. Seeing her, I could not resist tho temp tation to try one more simile. But I looked around vainly for something to which I might liken her that is, after she bad encountered the frost. But there was too much incongruity in lik ening the fresh rosy little girl to any of the faded flowers or frosted vegetables, sharpened as my wits were by recent practice, I couldn't eee any points of similarity eo I gave up in despair. I started down the road with a feeling or being thwarted in my dearest wish when suddenly I stopped with a joyful inspir ation. "She'll be ju6t like the Bache lor's Buttons,' I said aloud, "she'll be bo well fortified against trials and disap pointments with her healthy body and strong nerves that she won't notice the trials after the first sting. She'll stand up as straight and placid in her old age as tho Bachelor's Buttons after the frost." Having said this. I walked on quite happy, and relieved that I had found a parallel for everything that I had tried. And myself? O, I hoped that I was to be like the cabbages that headed up and were stored before the fro3t came. Her doll bad been hid away in the old chest, of drawers in the attic for two years ever since she was ten She took it out one after-noon and smoothed down its dres3 with a gentle, superiority. How could she have been so childish as to play with dolls and like themes if they were really alive. Of course it waa pleasant to keep this ono to remember one's childhood by, but as for anything more she .turned up her cose. She laid it gently on her knee and bent over the open drawer. She worked quickly sorting her treasures and put ting things in order. It was getting dark; she must hurry. As she worked the weight of tli9 doll pressed more heavily inner lap and at last she laid it up across her shoulder The sun did not shine now on the high little window. The boxes and broken chairs eank back quietly ititj the grey ness of the eaves and at last she could Eee no longer. Then a strange feeling came over her, a feeling that she had never known before. She drew the dol' down upon her breast and bent till her cheek rested against it. She began to rock back and forth in silence, her eyes etaring into the dark. A fierce kind of happiness crept over her. "My dollie, my dollie," she whispered and rocked faster. After a long time she laid the doll back and stumbled down the stairs half' dazed by the complexity of her new feelings. ANNIE PREY. Cliolrra in Chain. At the recent raeetinjr of the Ger man public health society at M agile lurrg. Dr. Koeh said that it is now possible to prevent the spread of chol era in any country, and he was cer tain that Germany would never be visited again by an epidemic if only the measures now adopted were car ried out early and energetically. It was a in ittur of indifference to him wliut precautionary measures were taken in other countries, for Germany was now able to protect herself and keep the clioljra out of her own borders. Into prtluc a Proverb. "Doj'ou believe that whistling, in dicates that a man has an empty head?" asked the alTable devotee to "Sweet Marie." "It indicates that ne will have one if I can roach his head with a club," replied the person who can't be industrious without be ng irritable. Fnblic Servants. Inquiring Child Why do the papers call office-holders public servants? Mother Because they are paid so much and do so little. 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