rcwi r aggSWtMaarWMTOWBB ?H COtJRIfcfc. a town. If he has not no Y. M. 0. A. whose gifts to mankind dwarf Baron (b) There Little Girl, Don't Cry can make tlicin forliim. The regula Hirsch's Rockefeller's, & Stanford's Campion tions and rules that seem to he neces- benefaction".." And this is the man Mies Treat Nary ina Y. M. C. A. exclude many men whosaidto his phsician latch: '"I Overture -American Airs. who want to smoke and do not want to know m friends think Tina trille In the evening the following program attend "meetings" hut who jkiSscss near in monev-matters, but why was presented: Entered in mn rMorncE at i.inwln as energy enough to make their financial shouldn't I enjoy imself in my own Overture Poet and Peasant Suppe help indispeiisible. The young men wa? Now, one of the greatest Selections from the opera, "1-era- who have repeatedly refused to help pleasures I know a thing thatafjords mores" Uubinsteiu the association out of debt are un- mealinost as much satisfaction as get- (a) Dance ofthe Bayaderes. worthy so handsome a building. The ting a lailroad, or a canal, or a gas (b) Wedding Proceision. .oung men and older ones who are company at my own figure- is to Scene and Aria from the opera members of the Union-Commercial make that apple-woman down by my "Freischuctz' C. M.V. Weber club will pay their share of the ex- ollice give me four russets instead of (With Orchestra Accompaniment.) penses. take strangers there to dine three for five cents. Why. I can stand Mrs. Martin Cahn. and the building will be inside as it and dicker with her for half an hour Descriptive Pieces: has always been outbid?, a credit to for that extra apple, hut in the end I (a) Au Moulin (At the Mill) Gillet the city. get it-yes, si iree. I get it.' (b) Elfenreigen (Dacca of tho I ai- Much has been said about the evils ries EhricliB J.EOND CUMMATTLB. I'UHLISllEDKVEm SATUHDAY uv THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO Oflico 1132 X street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. 8A1UH i. HARMS. DOHA HAC11ELLEK Editor liusiucs; Manager Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum $2 00 Six months Three months One month Single copies O0V1 8 OBSERVATIONS. 00 50 20 03 of club life and little about the advan tages. There is no iutluence to which a young man re.soiids as readily and The public, as a whole, is. glad String Orchestra. that the Lansing theatre dif- Violoncello Solo, Concert), (with or ficult has been settled. Either chestra accompaniment. Goltermann gratefully and naturally as to that of (tne of the former owners could Master Karl Smith. men older and wiser and jierhaps hae managed it better alone than Selection L'Africaine. ... Mejerbeer richer than himself. On the outer Iwali of them, each watched and op- SopranoSolo - edgeof the circle, they unconsciously jKjsed by the other, did. Now that (a) Loc Me Well Bember accept the ideals and standards of the thetheatre has been bought by Mr. (b) Lullaby Bevignani rVWWwrmrrm,rw 0i,lcr Iliell wlti, i,om they are asso- Oliver and named after him, it pas-es Mrs. Cahn. . 5 ciated. The friendly intercourse of into the hands of a man who has no Two Hungarian Dances (llllt lif.k .... iiiri(riii. t lin .. ..i..vln. ...wl ...!... ..!.: . .1 ... . i. .1 . Tn 1 C ...;..r.. ) v.-., ... v.,.,,,,.,,., iiiiuHmuiaiiu ipihui uujm iiiau hi HiL me meaire .. i, u imum i Brahms a 9 deepens the sens? of responsibility of into the best condition for making 4V'O0'r every iiicinlicr. That man who is a mone. Public interest in the Lan- TheTwent-fifth of December is a be!oed member of good clubs', ikis sing-OIicrmisuiiderstandinghasonl day to forget old grudges, to take a sCsses charit and shows it every da, been kept alhe by pride in the beaii- new interest in humanity, to reniem- he is gentle and cleer and he uses his tiful o)era house which, during the ber one friends and be truh grateful gifts without arrogance. He sets the campaign, has suffered from dirt and for them, to draw closer to kin folks pace for the whole club and his neglect. The removal of the proper! andtoreturn thanks for the tie tnat uumanitj is worth more to the oung still owned by the former litigants binds. The llinisy nature that exults male animal who looks up to him than was fortunate for the opera house. As oer or disparages a gift from a friend sermons and creeds innumerable. it is now there is nothing in the thea- and forgets that it symlwlizas affec- The club at the present time is im- trestill owned by Henn Olherand tion, is unworthy ot trienasuip. mc imcu nun a spirn oi ticotiou tome .i. !. Lansing, all property owned No. 2, D major ) 'Cello Solo Le Dcir, (with string accompaniment) Hauter Master Karl Smith. March et Cortege La Reino de Saha Gounod The orchestral work under the capa ble direction of Mr. Hasenow was as good, perhaps better than usual. The concere was toD long, but having this fault was excellently conceived and car ried out. Tho music was modern in ... . ...... . . -..' . . . . --- . - r- f.n., nra . , , . .. ... t,..f,n gift is a sacred mbol. but oniy me niierois oi tne city and berorc lj in common having been removed to cuarm:i,-r BtulL" "" '"-"""'- trembling bands of age and the pink, may hac accomplished .something b the Halter block, where the dispute aod received an at,e(luale rendition at small hands of children recehe a gift an unselfish activity in cit politics. oer a fair division will centuillv the hands of our orchestra, now having as perfect in itself. The aged for the take place. This is out (f the nmge the fuI1 quota.oflDStrument"; ,. , lue it stands for, een if it be sonic- An caslern c.u.I)angc s;ns tllat ns of public vision. The present ow ner At the en'Dg CJ"Cert , . .." tl.Sn.r flioi- r.-innot, Use. t lllllK OI 111? soil S-i.r 1,,, ,.1 I.:. ,. ;ii...i .. nf f lie. Mio.-it nwli.1 ..... I....-M. ....: aun oi uiudiia, a a ihhuu u. u.....a..v l"""h -.' - - -.. ..f,V ....' Ulllllk III"" 1.111.111(1 lUlt "" ".. ., .. ,,yIK. ,,,IJ Llll.- I III Ml- fifty million lollars to the people as lr?- It belongs to the two unfoi- embodied in various nliilnntlirmii,- tunate families who nut so muHi in blessed cenii whose largebsisa reward educational and art institutions Tho the building just at the time. wIiph of virtue and selected from millions oi inoome of 51,000,000 is apportioned to prices lx-gan to fall and landlords were others for each particular cmm. scholarships in Yale, Harvard. Colum- giver w ith a full heart. The children take gifts from Santa Claus as from a voice and facile evecut on. was heard in tho prayer and scene from 'Der Freis- chuel.," and also in a group of piano forte accompaniment. Mrs. Cahu is a pressed to the bottom of the heap. In 6iD?ff temperament as well as voice, any circumstances dual ownership of a"d left ,dr.e,,.n"ely gd 'mPrfs,on; so large a jiroperty is apt to end disas trously, but Messrs. Lansing and OH er'sdilliculties were aggnivatcd b the hard times and familv rolation- Christmas doeb not amount to much ,ja an(1 -VelIesby, Vassar and Rad unless the children consent-as they clilfe. for the advantage of such bos always do- to shed upon the grown-up a,Kj jrjrN as prote best fitted for a Ieopie their unfeigned, effortless hap- college course, niness. Some of that brightness that The income of t00.000 is sot nsido gleamed around the head of the Rab for the supiort of American art stu- "ips. which are always complicated eighteen hundred and ninety-seen dents in the art schools of Italy and without mixing partnerships with jearsago. still shines around the head Greece. Mr. Sag', prompted, it issaid. u,em- Wilder the new manageinent of the new-born, growing paler as by certain domestic influences, has the beautiful theatre has fine pros- b,"Ber '" .... ' """- " ', outh merges into maturity, andskei)- protested oeiferously in this glorious Iecand we hope thatprosperitv and ?Lere compelled to respond to enraree. . . , ... s i.- . ,.!.,... ..in ....... . . " ...... , , ' '.. Mr. Haffenow is to be congratulated ticism ana cwncisui l.iiv h. . i.w umgaiusL me increasing dominance ieacwiii orojaover j ne unver. of imagination and faith, cnristmas of dallic methods and morale in Amer Master Karl Smith, an unaffected and bojish jouth, plajed the Goltermann concerto for 'cello very smoothly and with abundant technical faulity. So marked a talent should receive the fos tering care necessan to make a finished artist of this boy. Both he and tho sinner wcra warmly recehea in fact day in the morning is a re-nascencc to Can art, and has taken the means the adult Christian world because of mentioned to turn the current in the Iheirresistiblechildrenandofthctra- direction of the ancient and classic dition which will make this world a schools. Mr. Sage has left a hand- geed place to live in all the jear s0nie income to his wife and nearest through, by-aud-by. relations, but nothing princely so jt that the money is practically distrib- The Union-Commercial club will uted again among the people whose begin the nn j ear in its new quarters, custom made stock in his companies the Y. M. C. A. building. Although valuable. This lavish distribution of some regret has been expressed that a heap of money which he has been the Association has had to lose so fine all his life piling up, seems inconsist- a building, it is sympathy wasted, cut. lie is a miser and loves money The joung men hae never shown for its own sake. Yet, unlike a miser, that they appreciated their handsome he does not wish to bury it when he is clubhouse by contributing much to no longer capable of enjoying its jkis- the running expenses. It was a gift session. So determined is he that no In the first place from the successful legal quibble shall destroy or delay men of Lincoln to theyoung men, who his heaven-sent intentions, that all MUSICAL. Mr. Hagenow is to be congratulated upon the success of the series of con carts he has inaugurated. The next conceit of this series is to take place about the raiJdle of January, with Miss Marian Treat as soloist, but it is prob- The second concert of the series gi en able that a concert will be given on tho by the Philharmonic Orchestra pre- 29th of the piesent month attheFunke ceded by a matinee concert for school opera house for the benefit of visiting children, waB given on December 14th at teachers. At this conceri Mrs. Harriet tho Oliver theatre. Mr. Ausjust Hage- Demeut Packard, a soprano sokiit. will now was the capable conductor. Dr. be heard. reasonable demands of kith and kin will be satisfied by adamantine con- Charles Baetens was concert master and several soloists were heard. At the afternoon concert for school children a most commendable enterprise, which Mr. Hagenow will undertake again. Miss Marion Treat sang most charm ingly, despite a severe cold. The fol lowing popular program was well rendered: March Kicg Cotton. . Descriptive Pieces: - Continued on Page 11. had a fortune, fame and family to ac quire. In the nieauwhile the hall bed-room was said to be their only snot for recreation, study and society. This is not quite true There are come when Mr. Sage's small haggling Soprano Solo-Xng'rVnaTvN many homes, humble and otherwise, with apple women will have been for- olin obhVato) enaQeiw in this city where any joungman oi gotten, he will rank as the most de- $300 Will buy a pair ot LADIES' FINE BOXCALF t Hints ;i 11(1 n.ntli-nrrvttl .iiU,.n..i. ... -.- . i r - i- , V ii.i..m.iiis 0 iireurelgen (Dance or the Fai- before his demise. In the ears to ,;, . . . junens ..Sousa (a) Au Moulin (At the Mill) Gillet HEAVY CORK SOLE VIQ KID or in obligato) Braj;a Miss Marian Treat. verturc -Poet and Peasant Su ppo good morals can make himself w el- oted lover of his kind. When Astor o ... . lnv lisitrtl nffiff A"V wlA.l.:i- P ir , ... come ii nc cnooses. - . luuauni ..x nuuungion win on v Violoncello Solo Gavntt ; r n is a. nen's club where, day aftcrday, be remembered as rich n.er, RusSeii MastKarl ISmith PrCr the same groups hi.i. ia;....,...,, o.iBu iu uc uuuuicu oy an Kinds of IdjIIe InaBird Store ing remarKS aim iuuan.. ........ Biaieiui ineiiiones. -ine other men SopranoSolo- has the spirit of comraderic begets were, in theirday accounted good fel- (a) I Once Had a Li into nleasant relations with his human low s, but how favored the nineteenth jurronudiugs on the first daj he enters century to be characterized by a man (b) Jerusha"! c FINE KANGAROO SHOES cOC At the Orth ardefson ? r Little Doll, Dears. 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