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shared by these who deserve it.Moau
while the city authorities should
not allow a dying man or woman
to he brought into a room full of
policemen and brutal hangers-on.
X ithing that Zola has told of the
slums of Paris equals this scene in the
station last Sunday night, just after a
two ideals, though sho terself Lo not CliV.ly down to tl.o horse and let lm
acknowledge this. One will make a part walkout But th would t,.r up more
of her book, the other u part of tor l.n. and the pol.ee. gun d .n .of
. . ... tho public welfare, ol yc ed. Ihov mul
the horiacjuld bo lifted out by means
A voung lady in a bright pink dr.'ss 0f ropes. They wrangled for half an
STORIES IN PASSING.
The pausing nf tho bear-man and of
the Ktrolling gipsy bind ba9 come, but wen acquainted
tuoiasioi mat won, wa'jujrm, u. hv tint name,
lifo of tho Eouth is still oa tho roa 1 tho
man with tho musicil barrel organ. He
is an Italian datk, thin, greasy and
scowling, and ho his been north and is
now, like tho birds an! tramps of tum
mer, hois slowly working south.
Two j cars ago h'13 monkey died. His
wife dioJ als i, that winter-sho of tho
dark-oyes and musical voie. who wore
the bright turbans and won the admir-
CiHnnobn appeared in tYn e 1 and
Manager "lining put on thoopo lirg of
1 in housj two weeks' in order tint Cor
inno might open it. Tho c(ainny id
cludetf lifty welt known comic opera
j o 'tie, anil is cocsi leretl oio of fio best
orcn companies that has ever left tlio
city or New' York. "An A-neri.-ail
Hoauty" Iieh bcei sen here before, but
mt-i.r ivilli till. VV.:il ll llf f llPllrV Rllll
town. fatation. , the lino eostumoi it now has. Mi Hire
"Isn't that gorgeous?" asked the rVrk Then tho livermen fell to digjwg and , j.,,,,, . ji;iC,j..r. mmngHs fir C f nnn,
of asobsr, tldcrly lady who had just dug a sloping pathway down into the jm,0 ej,.,t $2K10 on now costumes
mdn n nitrcliiisp. L'iu earth. To do this thry liatl t I iKe only, cot t sjea'c o; limini uceniTj.
"I don't know, sir!" replied tho lady, upa part of tho
'1'vo just coma horo and am not very stopped trallie on
with niiny tibbons and laces Hying in hour, tho crowd joining in w-th i!s npin
tho wind. laigo hat, and brilliant pari- ions and const int remarks, until lioally
"J ' " i i il. l t .. : ll . i: -..:... .ol .1,M-n l..ii.lr lii thi.
hui.dred nreachers had linished talk- ' F:i5SC" luo "uur " u Hl"' " n""" ,UL' I'"""-' "4. . ,..
iugabout tin Man of Sorrows-
I ihtst know anvbodv text morning. The uio'.oneers ovject?il
and finally th company superintendent
ir.11110 up, but they were dragging out
Sundayschocl was held beforoeuuich. tho horsi tlnn and ho could do noth-
and tho family had never allowed tbo ing.
six-year old son to remain to tho regular A ropo had Lejn t lipped about the
s;rvies. But this Sunday ho begged so horses head. Tho liverymen took this
hard that they finally consented. It was ropo and tho doctor seized the animal
communion Sunday, but it atrecled tho by tho tail, while the cowd stood back
boy strangely. As soon as the deacons and watched curiously, still tallirg each
baJ passed tho hmilv pe.v, ho bean to other that tbo elfort would euccocd or
... i m . fit. !.. ..II
cry toltiv to mmsjir. coining woum not unon wuu a miguiy pun
o this thf-y hail t tiKe'nnlv, cot t lHiea'co; I lit' i in uceniry.
urort lailwav. which , Tho theatre goers of hire .In should turn
i . i-. .".i:i filout en mats.Mind welcome to our ei'y
i tint hue until Hi- ( , vnrlfMia Corinr.n Uiiiwnibrr ror.iwl
ing (sometimes more than admiration) of tt;)p uim"ami af t..r the family arrived at snort of pain, tho horso found
and a
footing
other dark-faced countrymen of Ler
husband. How sho died only tho
scowling organ grinder could tell jou
that, though there aro rumors among
tie others. Perhaps the monkey nrght
have told, but the monkey is dead, as
you know. Perhaps tho ragged, sharp
faced Utile boy with his mother's ejes
might tell you. but look closely and well
homo ha kept it up. and was puhed out of tho ditch.
"Well, what is tho matter cf you any- "Thank God!" said tho doctor, "fhatV
how?" ask-d his elder sister who hud two hundred dollar's saved.'
not gone to church. The cowd melted away. The liver -
"Oh," ho wailed between sobs," at the men went up Thirteenth Btreet, whiU-
churchthey passed bread and baer tbo doctor led tho horso and a friend
and wouldn't givo me any." pulled tho buggy hone by the broken
shafts.
About ten o'clock one night this sum- When all had quito gone a man in
back toward the root jou will seo a slit mer u doctor came driving rapidly down working doth?s came out o! tho dark
and a notch in the little fellow's tongue. t street. Sudd-nlv in front of tho Lin- ncss somowhero and lighted two red
dell hotel his h-irse sank out ;r sight, lights at each side of tie ditch,
with a crashing of timber and a snap There is a triangular series ot lam
ping of straps the buggy camo to a full suits in tho courts now. Tho doctor is
stop, and the doctor was pitched violent- suing the city for damages. The city is
ly to h:s knees against the dash-board.
When ho jumped out of tbo bugy, ho
found his horse had p'unged into a hole
onenini? Friday. Sen'embcr 10. hi d Sat
urday afternoon inatint". Sent" will l
o i side Wednesday. S'ptemhrr 8. at HI
o'clock n. m , at the now lx olllei in
Sutton t llo lowbudfs.
AMERICAN EXWSE NATIONAL BASK.
LINCOLN, NEH.
S. II. ItUKMIAM,
President.
d. n. wi.nc.
A. d. Sawyku,
Vico president
Cashier.
I nVtUTAL SilOXCII.
Direct us -A. J. Sawyer, S. II. Burn
ham. K. Finney.. LA. Lancaster, Lewi
Gregory, N. Z. Snell, G. M. Lambert
son. D. G. Wing. S. W. Uurnham.
Talk to him and his answer will be a
hoarse, rattling sound, as from a mouth
too full for utterance, a sound that
makes you shudder and grow cold about
your spin,-. Tho black, scowling Italian
.alone knows how tho wire died, down in
the little hut by tho levee, close to the
big bind of tho Mississippi below the
Spanish quarter cf tho city. And he
never speaks of it.
So instead of tho niorkey, now the
little fellow with the notched tonguo
and the ratthrg Bound in his mouth,
wears tho dirty red cap and in tho old
tin cup receives tho pennies from the
children who love the music of the or
gan. Hiseytaare bright and a smile
tits on his lips, but bac': o! tho light and
back of the smilo hidea a lurking fear
and a constant fright. For after the
sueirg the railway company fr Ieavirg
no danger lights a the ditch, and the
railway company is.suicg the dot t r fir
inte'rfei ing with its business by taking
up a portion of tbo track in excavaio
hi3 horse that night.
H.G.SHKDD.
DRAMATIC NOTES.
in the pavement win chthestrcet railway
laborers in doing somoi pairicg,had left
unprotected. The horse, becoming bad
ly frightened, struggled about to got a
footing, fo . it was suspsnded by its sides
against the walls of the ditch, and each
elfort only sank tho animal deeper and -
wedged it tighter. Tho informal opening or the Funke on
A man came out of the shadow of tho Monday by the Paiges filled tho hoes
clectiic ligh. to tho guards with a very att active
TIello, Dec! What's up?'' audiencj. Tao sunnier hati which
"Nothing up ever thing down. Ilorsn bobbed in all par's ot the Louse made
in thn ditirh hpr. No liffht. (J.ill mi tin. Punlrn infn n lartn narterri. Mtlll
cbilJren with the pennies have gone and the FOjjCe, will you and also a couple of ger Zehrung in evening dress wts a
the Italian man has taken his organ nien from a liverv stable."' nleasant siuht after a summer with the
One or two others had come up by ubiquitous nrgh'gee llanneks and night-
this time. The first man'j use of thi marts of "ciah' suifs. Mr. Zehrung
telephone in the Lindell informed tho presides over exhibitions at the Funke
lobby and a general rush into the street w.to a decorum and tl ganco that goes
followed. far towards keep!n;r the audiencs quiet
At least tifty men were standing mid well behave). II s appearand is a
around the horso in the hole, with u compliment to tli3 airJier.ee and to the
woman or two at the edgo of tho crowd company and deserves recognition. "Toe
craining her neck to see. No one of- Paiges" are an excellent repertoir com
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fe;ed t) assist, but everybody had ad
vici or a remark to make.
"Couldn't see the light, you say Doc?
What'li your wire say about that?"
"Fast driving, eh? Didn't know you
had such a speedy goer. But you'll have
the authorities after you."
"Your horso seems to be taking a short
cut to China. Vcu'd better telegraph
pany. Members of tho sinio family,
they play together snioitbly. The busi
ness has been lessened by the hot
weiither wh:cO has kept tho people null
of doors. A rcof girdoa would draw in
these later summer nights when tin
moon is crescent. Of the indiv.'dud
members of the company, George W
Paige has a sauyfrold and a corned an '? ,
and crept through tho alleys out or the
town and darkness has come upon the
fields and tho hills and tho road?, when
s' range things are seen and heard
among tli9 shadows: then comesbackon
tho evening breezes cries and sounds
that chill tho blood and turn tho body
icy cold, cries and sounds that
But the summer timo is going and
with it tho birds and the wild things of
tho long, hot, hzy days. And slowly
the organ-man is creeping from town to
town, ever onward. leading a dark-facsd,
bright eyed little boy in a dusty red cap
who holds a battered tin cup in his
hand.
For the summer is passing and theyt
too, are going south-south to a little hut
by the Ieveo close to the big bend of the
Mississippi below the Spanish quarter
oitnocitj. there by that time at the rate he's has a gocd stage pre3ei:e and a distinct, '
Sho is somewnat oi a uoiiemiau iii uu-r i;uiu. nm cuiiuiumuuu uuu uuti .-aSu .
ways. Her own income makes her in- A dog nosed up to the holo and some quirements that deserve commendation
dependent of the world and she use3 it one kicked it away. A man blippeJ and The ladies of the company are not of
as she pleases. Sho shuns boarding sent a largo quantity of loose dirt rolling equal merit. Lillian Pa?e, with some
ihouses as one does the plague. Sho upon tho horse's back. A boy got his natural gifts of face and figure, overdoes
lives in rooms, taking her meals to suit head between two men and peeped into heavy vill.an and despairingly ja'.hcs
,her own convenience. She makes her the hole, lost his balance and before the act tho two soubrettes nscd to study
.own coffee, and it is most del'ciou3. too. two men could grab hi oi went sprawling study, study.
In dresB she combines a matronly neat- upon tho animal s head,
iness with just a dash or that sailor dis- "Now jou kid, get out of here!'' cried
order which is so attractive to masculine the decto-, jerkirg tbe boy to the pave
.eyes. You might take her for an aitist. ment by tbe arm. 'Keep back, all o!
surely cot an author. But she isscrib- you. Give the horse air whoa, there
Mine constantly and tbero aro two or st;Edy, Prince, steady whofc!"
three novels in her mind which sho will The patrol and tbe men from the liv- Corinna, will present the splendid opera
bring forth fometime. Ju6t now she is ery stablo arrived at the same ti-ne. Tho entitled, "An American Beauty.'' This
searching mankind for an ideal-in fact, liverymen's plan was to dig a gentle de- is tho first timo in many years that
.Vulval t mj I raveling.
?A h .urs to Salt Lake.
CI hours to Saa Francisco.
03 hoars to Portland.
77 hours to Loa Angeles.
-FKOM-
LINGOUN, NEB.
round to Hong Kong to ship him back self-pssscssion that promifes a career in
will get a first class company. Harry Reynolds
in tbo morning. The brute
there by that time at the
IS THE OUT
ROOTE TO THE SUTf
Come ond See XJ
T O. Towksex n, F. D. Corkxll,
Agt. C. P. AT. Aft.
UBfc
G.
PAT.
8" Loui3.
Ma
1201
Manager Zth.ungof the Funke opeia
hou.e rqucs's us to announce that the
formal oprninz -f Li3 house will
place Friday, September 10, when the
peerless and well known young actress.
WARD'S PERFUMED FOOT POWDER
FOR WV CURES
take ' Perspiration A&niiVX Coras.
I Feetarul X'WtBKI Swollen
1 rmo!ts. VWWW3f F.
W.J.W.1CD4 coXfiiiaf hing. tlliwti.
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