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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1897)
r yvG-&"y& -s:y-- i--. -r -3r--.ty-y-, -.v 3ppWiL'Bsp - -- JF, xgQr-rs. ??apw-, rf5!SP5?r?rW THE COURIER. II- r i OBSERVATIONS. Continued from page 2 1 The property holders of tills city mut. organize for self-protection if tliey prop se to retain any portion of Mint which can lie suljerted to taxa tion. The city charter provides that if an citizen or citizens shall he of theopin'nn tliat any civil liability, arising out of contract or otherwise, exists in behalf of the city, against any person or iiersons. lie or they may demand of the city attorney that he commence an action in the name of the city for the enforcement of such liability, and if the city attorney re fuses to commence .such action or fails to commence it for one week after de mand, such citizen or citizens may commence and prosecute such action in the name of the city at their own expense. Members of the city coun cil are required to give liond condi tioned that they will not vote for the expenditure of money or the creation of any liability in excess of the amount allowed by law. The action of the city council at its last meeting in voting to employ two attorneys was unauthorized. Ily this actional! oi- portunity is aiioroen io icsi uie aiuc burning wood of this provision of the city charter giving citizens the right to insti tute a suit if the city attorney, on demand, refuses to institute the same. An organization of citizens should be perfected and an investiga tion had. and if it is ascertained that a liability on the official lionds of the members of the council exists on ac count of any illegal acts since they were inducted intooftiee. action should lie at once commenced on the bonds against the delinquent officials and they should lie given an opportunity to employ attorneys at their own ex pense rather than at the expense of the public, and to defend their act ion in the courts. Nothing but organized and determined action on the part of the taxpayers will rescue this city from impending bankruptcy and. ap parently,, nothing but the judgment ofacourtwill teach tlia members of the city council that they are public en-ants and that they mut be made Eomenow. "There wasn't a boy in Greenville, nor a man for that matter, who could figure like him, and then there wasn't bia equal for miles around in running, jump ing, skating and all tbe rest of the sports we had in those days." "lie grew to be tall, broad-shouldered and straight as an Indian. His hair was black and he had the most homst blue eyes, I ever looked into' "His face was tinned but flushed as quickly and as easily as a girl's and girls by tbe way, were Uncle James' par ticular bugbear. He wasn't afraid of tramping borne through the wood?, lata in the darkest night, after a day's thresh in;, and with only his Hail over his shoulder for his protection; but he'd give almost any excuse and goto almost any extreme to keep from going to a paity until Mary Evans came to live in Greenville. Her father built a big houEO about half a mile from us, and folks used to say tkat there were more parties given there in the winter tan in any other two houses in town. Mary was very much liked and was taken up and made a leader right away. She had a real sweet voice and used to sing in the church choir every Sunday.'' Grandmother leaned forward and brushed back into the ash-pan, a bit of Ned turned on his side and looked into the fire. No one said anything and Grand mother went on: "Well, Uncle James fell in love with Mary Evans. Those who knew him well, knew that Uncle Janus had loved for the first, last, and for all time. Painting YT0llF Homes- Is amatter of man, brush and paint more of less. The paint is not the least important of the three. You want paint that sticks and paint that has color. The main point in paint besides prettiness is perfect bod' and paint that holds on. We sell the famous MOUND CITY HORSESHOE BRAND. Sf9 ( 6k l- jr ,PjyB)n n C-AUH D qj &p and pride ourselves on selling-the best paint in the citT. We warrant it to be the ideal paint. Of course we sell brushes and eve'thing- for painting- purposes. We also She was a nico'girl, but her head waB turned by the Mattery and when the finally had at he. feet. Uncle James, who before she came, had run from thesDund of a girl's voice, she was very much elated. She wasn't a girl who could ap preciate, or deserve a man like him, and if she'd realized how much it meant to him, sho'd never have led him on as she did. Finally she promised to marry him and the wedding was 6et for June. It was the middle of winter then. Uncle Janes was the happiest man in the state of Maine. He worked early auJ late ts raise er.oujh money to build a house in the spring on some land his father gave him, and used to plan with your father's folks just how much he would oe aoie to mane on nis nine larsa every line up in the front rank glass and paint houses in mates cordially furnished. with the lanrest the west. Esti- Staidard Qlass. ard Paird: Go Wholesale and Retail. l.'U2tol316 O street. PliUllpMatter, J. 33. Meyer, Proprietor. Manager. him to support. . - or Boston, that "Voung Jim" had di-- Well, the years went on, and as time appeared after having been discovered passed great changes took place among in the forgery of a note to aconside-ablo toobev the law. The city charter also gives to any taxpayer in the city year the right to appeal to the district Well, there's no use in telling all court 'from tbe allowance of any claim about it. You read lots of things like it exceeding the sum ofJ3..00 If any nowadays, and don't think so much of claimis ever allowed in pursuance of them. Mary's folks sent her up to Bot- the resolution adopted at the last ton that winter to visit a wealthy. aunt meeting of the city council an appeal and to buy some wedding frocks. She should be taken and payment of the meant to slay a week, but Mary tnl her claim should lie resisted. The time to aunt took to each other, and the visit organize is now. A FIRE-SIDE TALE. Grandmother leaned back in her huge rocker, and shielded her eyes from the heat and light of the grate the. Tbe shaded lamp was turned low and the tongues ei name in we urc, uwung Jp take and she had never and disappearing in tne emmney, cast ever-moving shadows on her loosely knotted white hair. "Children," she eaid in a reminscent tone, '"my uncle, James Gillespie was a man who suffered disappointments. The wjy that big log burns in the grate, re minds me of him, for he was fond of that kind of a fire." We settled back in our ch-iirs, our books softly on tbe sofa, took the pillows from behind his back an J lay at full length, his eyes closed . L "Ho was a quiet man, one of the kind who never says much but is always do ing. Hewaasby and backward when be was a boy, and awkward in his man grew from weeks to months. Uncle James didn't say much, but he grew a little thinner and older-looking, especially after Mary began to write shorl notes only once or twice a month. Finally one day, he got a letter which told him in straggling sentences that she was sorry, but it had all been a mis- loved him and ow she had met her fate, and so on a lot of nonsense and rubbish, and at Iatt asking him to give her up. I never Baw a man breakdown so com pletely in a single day, yee, in a single hour, as Uncle James did. He worked along mechanically, complaining to no one and giving no explanation of the affair. Some time after that, his father Closing J.-J J j. t-Qij nparlv nil nT life p-im. Ned, who was sitting .,, .ved mon fo rnv f. ., expenses. Then he worked for his invalid sister, who was about fifteen years older than he. An old friend of the family moved in with them and did the housework. Things went smoothly enough, and Uncle James spent all his time on the farm. The new, too, but no one ever got ahead of next iogi ha matr:ed 6ister came Unc James in school, except in gram- after her husband's death, with her two mer.andhe didn't take to that study Mde children, and made three more for the old circle of frienis in Greenville. Some died, many married and went away, and those of us who remained found cares and troubles of our own, as our families grew up around us. We then saw little of Uncle James. He lived out on the Jamestown road you know, and your father and I went housekeep ing over across the "crejk on the west side cs it was called. But we heard ofhim frcm time to time. He never married. I always said he never would and his whole heart was bound up in tbe boy, his nephew "Voung Jim" as they called him. There was nothing too good for that boy and Uncle James was eo proud of the bright, handsome fellow. He sent him off to school and gave him e ;ery ad vantage in thi3B day?, and Uncli James had to pinch and save so that Jim might get on in the world. Well, the boy did seem a credit to the family. Ho was handsome as a picture and we women found it easy to under stand why Uncle James loved him, but tbe men bad m patience with bim, and. sometimes when one or two came bactej from business trips to Boston, -thejvv brought with them tales of Jim's life there at echoal which weren't to his credit I always hoped Undo Jams never heard tboio stories. The blow fell at last though, aid dear me! How well I remember what an ex citement it made. It was Just at the be ginning of the Christmas holidays and Uncle James bad prepared as a great surprise for Jim, to go and visit him in Boston and come back home for Christmas-dinner. He wasn't a very old man, Uncle James wasn't, but you must re member he was a steady worker all his life, and 1 think his strength was used up more than any of us suspected. At any rate, when word cime to him on the very day that he hed planned to start amount, Uncle James broke right down. He settled tho note and it to:?k every thing he had. But I never thought he cared so much for that. He loved the boy so, you see. He didn't live very long after that just faded away. He never complained nor murmured, and wouldn't hear a word said against him, and only used to say it must have been in some way his fault, maybe ho "hadn't raised him right." And one day in the early spring he died. People camo for miles and miles around to go to the funeral, each one with some Btory of the goodness and gentle, self -sacrificing kindness ot tbe man; no one ever remembcrec having heard him speak a harsh or angry word. And I say again, when I think of him, that there was ;i life of disappointment and self-sacrifice, if ever there was one." And Grandma softly wipsd her eyes, Harriet Cooke. PI WINTER TAN ITS and our 1-JH IRIi strictly waterproof are having- A Great Run. 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