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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1898)
THE COURIER. by Anthony Hope, between, it is diffi cult to make a safe prophesy. If the author were in the habit of cutting a knot difficult to untie, Rudolph's life is in imminent danger. But Mr. Hope's ingenuity has not yet been strained Perhaps a new, honest, real, legitimate and red Elphberg may appear soon and the player king can abdicate his temporary throne while retaining the queen. There are certain impossible situations and the one contemplated in this substitution of an Englishman for the king of Ruritania is impossi ble even for a romance writer of the daring and invention of Anthony Hope. 3Tot that everbody would not be glad to have the story end with the earthly bliBS of Flavia and Rudolph even if it be impossible, such is our love for them. There am two other serial stories now current in the magazines, one in Harper's monthly and one in The Cos mopolitan. Roden's Corner in the former publication, is a story of money getting by concentrating all the mak ers of a certain chemical commodity called malgamite in one community and isolating them. The process of manufacture is deadly but the malga mite workers, already half dead from the fumes of the deadly stuff, are at tracted to the little Dutch village by the inducement of very large wages. The new process is advertised as much less deadly than the old one, while in reality it kills off the workers quicker, than the old method. The organizers enlist the sympathies of philanthro pists who contribute money to put what is known as the malgamite charity on its feet They then use the money to build their manufactory and the nouses of the laborers. Paper can not be made without malgamite. The paper manufacturers soon realize that malgamite has been cornered by a set of unscrupulous sharks who are will ing to pose as philanthropists and misapply the funds subscribed for charitj'. They protest but they must fulfill their contracts for paper and they must buy malgamite of the sharks at a ruinous rate In the meantime shabby little funerals stait at day break from the malgamite grounds and the graveyard nearby is rapidly filling up with cheap headstones when an honest man who lias been deceived into joining the company finds out that it is one of the most scoundrelly schemes of murder and robbery ever successfully developed and starts out to foil the villains. He escapes with his life. Rut there is reason to believe that the demands of justice and right will triumph, so far as artistic rules will, allow in the June number. The other story referred to is Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic, the author of ''The Damnation of Theron "Ware" and of many short stories. The story develops a new theory of socialism, or a translated feudalism where every man is a part of an arch whose re moval would destroy the structure. It has reached the stage of preaching and lectures and as a novel seems to "the critic as very far below the dra matic level of Frederic's other stories. But he is evidently trying to do good and we can forgive him much for recognizing the object of art and life even if in attempting to attain it he bungles by letting his object be seen, after the manner of the eighteenth century story tellers who had not yet -learned that novel readers were not to be boldly instructed. J The eighteen-year old boy who ran away from school to join the army on account of his grandchildren has the historical sense fully developed. With his Telvet chin still untouched by the raaor he sees himself fifty years hence implored by bis grandchildren to tell tfceJ" a tale of the war of 1898 and obliged to confess that he was only eighteen years old and their great grandfather Garoutte ordered him to continue his attendance at the Lin coln High school. He would have to tell them that he did enlist "but Ills father pulled him out untouched by his wail of "what kind of a grand father will I make." It is Safe to pre dict that if this boy gets into a battle he will be so taken up by the kind of a story his experiences will make and the heroics he can play off to his re mote descendants that he will be likely to altogether forget that the bullet may have already been dis charged that will destroy him and his posterity. Until a few months ago Commodore Dewey was one of a great number of naval officera. Today no one is so ignorant as not to know his name and what he lias done. The chance of distinction for the officers of the United States army and navy has arrived and they are only eager to seize it before peace is declared. That this will be soon is indicated by the slender resources of Spain and its in ternal dissensions. But for those who are anxious to fight one good fight and an early cessation of hostilities means bitter disappointment. Fame, and the opportunity to justify the choice of a profession, lies in the chance of a prolonged campaign. Though these considerations will not have any in fluence with the Washington authori ties the military point of view is interesting. j The editors of weekly newspapers have been requested by Manager Rose water at various times of the Trans Mississippi exposition to print from a column to a column and a half per week of exposition notes now and during the exposition. In return for this two or three hundred dollars worth of advertising the editors of these weeklies are to receive with various reservations and conditions a double pass into the grounds for the month of June. The Courier hopes that the editors of Nebraska will throw such a proposition into the waste basket- along with the fake propositions of barter that encumber the mail of every publisher. Editor Rosewater has received pay at regular rates for every line of advertising he has given the exposition in his own town. The proposition is niggardly and unworthy the management of anything as large as an exposition is supposed to be. Omaha has always regarded the rest of the state as a tiger its prey. The late attempt to juggle Lincoln out of the soldiers is one of many other instances in which it lias been demonstrated that Omaha is in the District of Hogumbia in stead of in the state of Nebraska. The new Burlington train from Chi cago to Denver is one of the hand somest in this country. It is made up of a baggage, two chair cars, a Pullman buffet, smoking and library car and a sleeper, solid vestibuled from engine to rear end. The buffet car contains a bathroom and sitting room, the lat ter furnished with comfortable rattan chairs. This new train is one of the best indications of renewed prosperity. The elegance of all the appointments is an indication of the confidence the Burlington manage ment has in this cis-Mississippi coun try as well as a testimony to the fas tidious taste of its inhabitants. ' Jt Mrs. Maule of this city has a long, short story in the current 'Club Woman." It records a week in the life of an ideal new woman, not the new woman of the comic paragraphers, but a real new woman the sympathetic, 1124 O St, Lincoln, Nebr. I llJfiff m Is one of our bargains. It "I n 1 II HRVl ur Pr,ce s very lw' only i a ar m inn nil a JLmmaet if ar we PaJr tne. freight 100 7 ft HMp Jj Am miles. jf Send for our catalogues a bicycle, or refrigerator, or Flf, m 9 m 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 MATCHLESS SHAW. Old fogies and mossback musicians are afraid to concede this fact, but the fair minded and up-to-date musicians are quick to recognize its superiority and gladlj' welcome it on account of its perfect tone and touch, which enables them to exhibit their talent tage. 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