THE COURIER.
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS.
The hotels of Deliver are crowded
with club women Women are clever
and ardent politicians. The Nebraska
delegation was well organized under
the leadership of Mrs. A. W. Field,
whose knowledge of the technicalities
of a complex situation involving an
tagonistic and antipathetic units was
an important element of the victory
secured by the Lincoln delegation
Although many of the exhibits in
the Omaha exposition are still in
packing cases, the buildings, except
in some trilling details, are finished.
The effect of the lagoon and the
facades which surround it is very
much like that of the world's fair.
We miss the noble gigantic statues of
horses, cowboys, deer, oxen and lions
and the big gilded matron in an
island of the lagoon that gave to the
Columbian fair its monumental char
acter. But when the difference in
the cost of the two celebrations is con
sidered, the Omaha management,
architects and landscape gardeners
arc to be congratulated on their splen
did achievement.
Lieutenant Frank Burrs letter in
last week's Coukiek was a realistic
report of the trials and hardships or a
volunteer's first experiences. In the
manner or the best impressionists he
laid in his colois fresh and clean,
while his bones were still aching from
his unusual exertions and his feelings
still smarting from the profane criti
cisms or, the corporal. Lieutenant
Burr is a talented young fehow who
can dance and sing, play all kin-is of
musical instruments, and write poefy
in an original and graceful way all his
own. Besides he can do the tilings
that everybody does without trying.
He is not especially ambitious and so
far in his career has not thought the
prizes worth the trying. He has now
won a lieutenancy in the regular
army. His feet are set in a path
which leads upwards, and there is lit
tle doubt but that he will climb.
William Blacks serial of "Wild
Eelin" in Harper's Bazar is nearing
the end. The heroine is a young lad
of high degree engaged to a young
literary fellow of low degree and great
talent. But Eelin with eyes like the
blue of the sea wave has given him
her promise and although she loves
another man who loves her she will
keep her word. She is the daughter
of a chief of a Scottish clan, whose
father, grandfather and dimmest an
cestor was .1 chief of the clan organiza
tion whidi has been preserved for years
by keeping faith. This daughter of a
hundred chiefs falls sick of a fever
and in delirium tries to drown herself,
is rescued by her fiance who hears her
confessions of love for Somerled Mnc
donald, the other man. Archie Gil
christ, the fiance, has the difficult
task of uniting the real lovers and con
cealing his broken heart. Mr. Black
helps him by the introduction f
Gaelic songs, legend and other high
land "business." The real lover is
informed by Archie that his love loves
him and he says that lie would have
the skin of both his hands flayed to
make a lacing string for her shoe.
But he says to Archie "You love tins
girl quite to distraction, and she has
promised to marry you, and you have
just saved her l.fe. Yet you seem to
suggest that I should take her away
from vou on account of a few words
spoken in delirium. My friend, even
if there were any such impossible pos
sibility 1 am not a coward hound'
Nobody better than Mr. Black has
been able to express the worshipful
tender love of a young man for a
beautiful woman and in this story he
di-cs what he has done many times
before But so long as all the world
loves love it will sit open mouthed
when William Black tells how .John
Jones loves Mary Smith.
Mr. Watkin's recent criticism or
university address is deserved. The
custom of substituting professional
speakers in place of the boyish ora
tions and school-girlish essays rrom
the most talented members or the
senior class is not altogether satisfac
tory. In the first place the profes
sional speakers are not good looking.
'1 hey are grizzled or baldheaded and
youth lias fled them long since. The
class is transfigured by youth and
newly won accomplishments, their
future is mysterious. Hope, joy,
and beauty are their valets, who have
dressed them in the latest thing in
waistcoats, collars, coats, trousers and
gowns. It is Hyperion to a satyr and
we arc not going to stand it much
longer. There are plenty of opiior
luuitics to hear the celebrities, but
we, the mothers and fathers, uncles,
aunts and sisters, will never see our
young, conceited, enthusiastic, hand
some, chic relatives in the act of
graduating rrom this particular insti
tution again. It would be just as sen
sible and just as appropriate (ir it
were legal) for a bride and bridegroom
to select two elocutionists to pro
nounce the words of the wedding
ceremony for them, because they
know where and how to emphasize,
and because they can make the sylla
bles round and full and audible in the
furthest corner or tlie church. Were
this the custom policemen would he
unnessary to keep strangers out or the
church. Cut and dried preparations
are or no special interest to any of us,
especially when they interpose be
tween something young, beautiful and
eager related to us by blood. The
hesitation and stage rriglit or the
gallant blustering boys is far more
worth seeing than the polished gesture
of the most distinguished orators, who
are all very well in their place, which
is not the center of the stage on com.
inencemcnt day.
Some of the speakers who have
spoken to the graduating classes or
the Nebraska state university have
underestimated the intelligence and
culture or a western audience. Among
those who did not were Dr. Duryca
and President Angell of Ann Arbo
Tlie mistake is a common one. The
English conceive all Americans except
those who have been sophisticated
by residence in England, to le
cowboys and Indians. New Yorkers
and New Englanders bitterly resent
being placed in what they believe a
truthful picture of the west. Tlie
error of tlie Atlantic coast people is
unpardonable for they continually
meet travellers or culture andsavoir
raire rrom the west. Yet that eastern
people do think us woolly there is re
curring evidence. No protests or ex
amples of culture, amiability and
polish on our part disturbs this im
pression. Nothing will except age
and we are willing enough to wait.
While tlie east is getting acquainted
with us would it not be better not to
import any unsympathetic part of it
but to follow tlie dictatesof our hearts
and listen to our young gods and
goddesses on commencement day
berore the world lays its oily talons on
their triumphant shoulder?
'Paw.1' asked the little hoy, "didn't
you say in jour speech that you ex
pected the map of the world to be
changed soon? "
"I think I did," said the orator.
"Then what is the us-i of my studyin
jogrophy."
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The sudden and deplorable death of fact that Miss Pool's literary career was
Maria Louise Pool has occasioned wide- steadily showing a growing promise of
Iy spread and genuine regret amoDg still greater achievement makes her
American readers; and especially among taking off seem peculiarly untimely. An
thee ...ho. ,h. develops, ad J SEftSftSEfiSE
future of American fictional writing are makeB a seasonable supplement to the
matters of particular concern. The issue of literature for June 8.
LITERARY NOTES.
The July Century will open with a
story of the Cuban insurgents, entitled
"By Order of the Admiral," by Winston
Churchill, author or "The Celebrity."
It will be fully illustrated byClinedinst.
Another story which The Century has
in hand for immediate publication is a
Spanish-American tale by Mrs. Schuy
ler Crownin9hield, whesa book, "Where
the Trade Wind Blows," has recently
attracted attention.
Problems of the Spanish American
War," and a number of important ar
ticles are already promised for it.
When thia cruel war is over.
And the boys come home again,
What show will those who didn't go
Stand with the maidens then?
The Century Magazine has arranged
for a series of articles on the present
war, somewhat in the manner of its
famous "Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War' The series will be entitled,
"Battles and Leaders, Places and
"Hot water lamp posts," with which
Liverpcol is already familiar, are soon to
be erected in four different parts of
London. A gallon of water boiled bj
the heat of the ordinary gas lamp will
be supplied, day and night, for a half
penny, on the penny-in-the-slot principle.
A cake of solidified tea, coffee or cocoa,
with the use of metal mug, may also be
had automatically for a penny extra.