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shade, the clever drawing, and humour go the mountains for rest, but to the
that are Ade's alone that makes them damp, lovely, depressing, stupid At
interestinc. The stories that are lantic coast.
read twice and throe times have a
entered magTuCOL m vitality that will keep them alive The isolation of the new world and
r ! long after we are dead. its political youth has hampered it
published eveby satorday with few partnerships or precedents.
BT The Courier is in receipt of a neat Fo- instance, the custom among Eu-
"Tlir. nnilDICD DDIHTIHP mil MIDI .WHIG PA cook booIf comPi,ed J' t,,e Omaha ropean nations at the conclusion of
IHt bUUHIitK rnlHMHll HRU ruoLloHlIra uU Woman's club, with especial reference a war, has been to allow the neutral
Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. in the recipes to the western market nations to award the territorial spoils,
" ' and its most abundant wares. It is first to themselves for their interfe-
Telephone 3o4. appropriately called the Trans-Missis- rence and then, if there is anything
sarah b. Harris. - Editor s'PPi Homemaker and contains a few left, to divide it arbitrarily, or in such
' prefatory essays by Mrs. Strawn, Mrs. a manner as to least effect the um-
c u., xt t !,!, Tracy, Mrs Arthur and others on pires without regard to the rights
Subscription Katee-in Advance. . Mfe Jn the hom ,)ygene Qf the of the triumphant belligerent. The
Six months''..!"."..!".!'.".".!".!".".".!. 75 home' et,lics of lome making, etc. United States is capaDle i.f set
Three months!!!.'!!!!..!!!!.'.'!!! 50 Bound in with the recipes are many tling her trouble with Spain
One month 20 blank pages so that new ones maybe without interference from Germany,
Single copies 05 added. It has only one defect and Russia and France. As President
that is the absence of an index. When McKinley rejected their offers of ar-
TnE Courier will not be responsi the young husband brings home a bitration before the war it is quite
ble for voluntary communications un steak or some mushrooms or a lobster likely that he will be unable to see
accompanied by return Ptage. and sayS he is hungry Mrs. Young- that'their advice can do Spain or
tIon,s".signed ty husband may not know how to cook America any good when the war is
of the writer, not merely as a guaran- them. If there were an index in the finished. The attitude of France and
tee of good faith, but for publication Trans-Mississippi Hon.en.aker she-Germany is unfriendly, even aggres
it advisable. could turn to mushrooms or lobster or sive. For the United States to accept
steak without wasting the minutes mediation from representatives of
being counted by a hungry man. The either or both is impossible. Germany
book is dedicated to the daughters is known to desire the Phillipines.
and in view of this very probable con- France would make any pact with
tingency, in which the daughters in Germany to get back Alsace and Lor-
question may play the ingenue part, raine. Both are committed to an un-
would it not be thoughtful for the friendly attitude towardGur country,
mothers to prepare an index for the It is certain that president McKin-
next edition? ley, if there were no other reasons,
jt would not ask the French or the Ger-
The death of Mr. Ilayden long be- man advice as to the disposal of isl-
fore his time, from the effects of chlo- ands conquered from Spain. Should
roform which he had formed a he do so it would seriously affect the
habit of administering to him- popularity which his wise and gener-
self when unable to sleep by ous conduct, of the war has gained for
natural mnnnu cliniilrl ha i Tvovninr. Iiim.
w5 to those who are slipping into the
9 "IRQFPVATIflNS 2 habit of narcotics. Sleeplessness in- Opportunities for distinguished
q .,, av -.... .w.,w. t, creascs indirect proportion to the braverv have been so few in the United
J narcotics we take to free us from it. States army for twenty-five years that
rm Victims of morphine, bromides and chances for riskintr their lives and
In a recent estimate of the litem- chloroform find invariably that the gaining immortal fame in the present
ture resident in Chicago Mr. Howells nervousness theyseektocureincieases war are eagerly sought. For the last
mentions three writers who are with th frequency and amount of the quarter of a centure distinguished
worthy serious consideration. George dose. The altitude of the place we conduct on the field of battle has been
Ade, the author of the Artie stories live in induces nervousness and the impossible to the high-spirited soldiers
and of a department in the Record temptation to take a dose that will of our army. The selection of Hob-
called Stories of the Streets and of the relax the tense nerves, irritated by the son for his perilous mission is resented
Town received the highest praise. Mr. business complications of the last few by the officers who were passed
Howells confessed that he read the Ar- jears is very great. Mr. Hajden should over and if the chance to
tiestor.es over and over again with re- have lived on the coast. Possessed of die is bestowed on one not
newed appreciation. Mr. Ade's pure an exceptionally nervous tempera- next in the line to death and fame
objectivity is refreshing. He sees his ment, it was over-stimulated by a there is an outcry all along the line,
story and his characters as 1 he artist residence of twenty-five years in Ne- Since the close of the civil war doubt
sees his model If we were to see the braska. If only the anaesthetic, less there have been officers who have
same people we would not be especially harmless shore of the Atlantic, with fretted out an existence at a military
interested but as he draws them we Its fogs and tonic salt, were nearer, post who were capable of conducting
see motives and character, although fewer of the spirited temperaments, brilliant 'Campaigns, unrecognized
his own personality is kept out of the stimulated to the point of continued Napoleons and Grants who have been
retired on account of age just at the
age when the need for military genius
lias arrived. Their lives have been
consumed in routine in which any
drill master could have done as well.
No wonder then that they envy the
chances that the young army officer
now has to show his metal. They
would have rung true too had they
been tried.
The continuous deathless presence
of valour and of military genius
whether tried or not, in our American
soldiery is exactly whatconstitutes its
strength. Like the king, it can never
die, though to the post commander
who has inherited military geniusand
is not called upon to exercise it, it can
not be especially gratifying that the
next century will afford the successor
to his genius an opportunity to save
his country. Something of the theos
ophic theory of the development of
genius in one state and body of exist
ence for which the conditions were
unfavorable in another and previous
one might help the officer without an
army to be reconciled to his life-long
Inactivity.
Rural free delivery of mail is en
joyed, it is said, by every country in
the world except the United States
and the Central and South American
states. One hundred and fifty-seven
petitions from thirty-five states and
territories are on file asking the ex
tension of the free delivery service.
Free daily delivery of mail to farmers
will increase the total amount of mail
handled. The farmers will subscribe
for more papers and their wives and
daughters will write more letters be
cause they will get the answers more
promptly. The reception of a daily
mail will bring the country nearer the
city, decrease the isolation, and make
it easier to keep the boys on the farm.
But in considering the effect of the
extension on a time-honored institu
tion the Kansas City Star says:
Doubtless the free delivery system
will prove as muchof a convenience in
the country as in the town, but the
change will destroy the dignity and
prestige of a great American institu
tionthe postofflce. To go to the
postofflce has been considered in this
country about the first useful task
that Infant legs can try, and the jour
ney to the postofflce and back has been
among the last occupations of tremb
ling and tottering age. What youth
and age will do when they no longer
go to the postoffce but the postofflce
comes to them, it is hard to conjec
ture. The postmaster will certainly
find his importance diminished when
he no longer meets his constituents
face to face and hands them their Iet-
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