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sation and "see Lincoln," including! to consult books in the library is eov- who was a student at the state unlver- fln into the church. It wait so tiiiy
the home of. Bryan, the Xebraskalered with dust. The board of public sity, met us at the rtain, which by .that it looked like n toy coffin, Oa
state capital building and incidental'
ly get a bumping on O street that will
cure any latent liver trouble which the;
passengers may have caught in less
favorable Rpots while en route. But
it is wry hard on Lincoln. With the
vision of Denver, and the capital build'
ing set in terraces of vivid green as
i!ean and smooth, of lawns as perfect
& those of Versailles, the travellers
are jerkeu hi.u Dumped over O street
past the Richard's block ruins and,
through the depression, human, real
estate and highway of the road toj
. - ?il IT:i !.. utin), -fMo .
me cupiiui. mini nicj ct... ... -
lands and buildings appamntly do not the way goes clear around the town the lid was laid a wreath of homely.
appreciate the fact that the building three times and then backs in, and home-grown flowers. The little caw
in which representatives meet to make he took us to his home in the out- ket was placed before the pulpit on
the laws and where u e chief execu- skirts of one of the prettiest towns a bare mnrble top table. Tn through
tive and other state officers conduct in the state. Here we were entertain- the windows of the church, which
the people's business-Should be taken ed most royally by Captain and Mrs. were stained a dull blue, the summer
care of and thnt the campus which Adams. Mr. Adams made the even- sun shone ghastly upon the solemn
surrounds it should not be converted ing most pleasant for us by detailing crowd gathered there. The mother
siroorh as satin, of asphalted streetsainto a pasture and reserved for the stories of the civil war where he par- of the dead linbo was supported into
special use of said officers. There tic'ipated in thirty-eight fights. Mrs. the church in her hot black dress and
is a dignity which doth hedge the Adams entertained us with a splendid veil, and had to be taken from the
dinner. Later we went out on the room again soon, as she was faint,
lawn and visited. From the lawn to i'he hot winds blew the gritty dust
the south we could see the bluffs that into the open door and the sound of
bonier the other side of the Republi- the mother's sobs sounded despair
can valley and they told us that that jnjjiy through the hushed house.
state which Undo Jake Wolfe does
not appreciate.
JOTTINGS.
was Kansas
Alout eight o'clock we got aboard
the train for Republican City.
My room-mate and I, with n hast
ily gotten together quartet, sang. By
e Cool Silnam's Shady Rills." a sontr
that brought out with its beautiful
words the awfulness and bareness of
the scene before us. After the local
preacher had read the scripture les-
limifiinir the travellers have repressed i Br William Kkkd Dunroy.1
criticism, in the hope of seeing a no- My room-mate and T took a zig-zag
ble edifice set in the midst of a green, scoot across the state the other day
isle, out when the humiliated motor- and saw more fine country, and had followed the winding flow of the Re
man tells them that the structure more fun than any two fellows who publican river. It curves and winds
at the right is the state capital they ever came up the pike. We left the along like the rick-rack braid that was
laugh at the result of their trip. The city behind us on the B. &M., along in formerly used to trim dresses with.
home of Bryan is the conventional the forenoon. There was nothing But up from the silver wriggle, the nn and some beautiful selection from
and expected modest residence 01 a much to leave behind us, but tho green and golds of the corn lands
well known man and the travellers thumping strains of a street piano sweep, and the golden fields of wheat
snap their kodack at the incurving and our boarding house dinner. After gleam like copper in the glowing sun
tower without any more remarks, the smoke of the city Tiad disappeared set light. We plunged on throngh
j we came into the region of com the beautiful valley and before we
The train started by Miss Schenck fields, and we stayed in that region hardly were aware the puffing old
of Babylon, Long Island, -has reached until we came back again. For miles engine was at Red Cloud. Here we
Lincoln and hundreds have responded and miles we passed by and through waited while the hungry passengers
to it with ten cents and the four let- checker boards of green and gold, went in to the Burlington setting
ters asked. Although Miss Schenc'k There were fields of the deepest green house and ate their suppers. It
has asked the aid of the newspapers corn next to the gold of a wheat or looked so inviting in there thnt we
the poets, he began a dreary and
fenrfully matter of fact wsrmon. With
his harsh and discordant voice he
preached over the dead body of the
fant a fierce exordium to the cring
ing living. Then out through the door
they bore the casket ahd on nnd ob
nut through the dusty roads to tflie
wind swept prairie grave. A few
stragglers drove nut to the buriai and
as they drove from the church the
of the country to-stop the chain the an oat field. Then we passed by wav- were mad because we had had our ,lllst ame IU l5ke a lirtain and hid
them from the sight of those who
stayed behind.
a
In the evening we were invited to
little postoffice at Babylon is swamped ing fields of alfalfa and by fields supper and could not eat again. We
with the letters in answer to the chain where the wheat had been gathered looked for the town but could not
started by Miss Schenck.The chain was and stacked in big stacks that looked find anything but straggling streets
to end with number twenty, but the like knots of blonde hair on the head with trees and weeds galore. Finally
recipients have paid no attention to of a woman. And over the checker we were ranked into Republican City the house of a neighbor. There was
that and the increase in the Schenck board was stretched a blue tent of tfhe and there we found our friends await- a iaw there. A part of it was alfalfa
daily mail is in the ratio of geometri- bluest sky that ever covered a land ing us. My room-mate was at home. i,t that did not matter for it was
cal progression, lour multiplied dj Df plenty. He went flying around like a hen fre.sj, and green. On the vine-covered
four nineteen times equals, if each with its head cut off, kissing and hug- ,)0r,.h we .. an 'hour listening to
As luck would have it, two young fc'inff whnt see,necl to ,ne like the a male quartet sing. My room-mate
ladies, old acquaintances, were on the . " ' as ,clt l" iy sang in this, and the other members
letter contains ten cents, $146,854,097,
817.60. The letter the writer received
was numbered twenty-eight, so one
hundred and forty-six billion and a
few odd million dollars has been mul
tiplied 63,536 more times than the
dreamy young lady expected. The fin-
1 ..:!.. nm nil fpnnUifl lilt.
gem ui .. ..j-- - mont TriblIne AVnR at the
opening letters and stacKing up uimes.
The amount already received is suffi-
:,.. . ahaIIa -rYsn filler! li11ir t niuin
l-ICUb iu cuu " .... j . . .. .
. ., (1UIILi 1,C (IflllCU
oi xnc
shake hands with whom 1 could find.
train, or rather one of them was in
the train, and the other one boarded ,nl " " ?
. . ,., ... , . . . f'le next morning
it at a little station. This was just y.ew
the last touch to make joy complete. ,nled jown T cal
itt ruuiuuiii' liiie: cuiiui ui Mitr ruir
train to
a
were an old man fifty-three j'eara of
age, a "corn field canary" as the corn
plowers are called, and a university
student. Their voices blended finely
ill the niirht nlr nnd ivi hm. n ennwrf
Nebraska. Tho wind was blowing that wolM 3t to 8,,ame mnny a one
held in the city of Lincoln. Later
the "City"
It is an un
of western
tain an ice route in the camps
United States army for many years.
hot mill tllf llvt. frrmi Ivntidntt tvnu
TnAAr 11C fltlfl T17A 0 yWIi fl n fval i fow
ff.1,1.1 f annn. .Mn6nl.. h.a41.a ...?. ......
joshes before we pulled out for "T '" M? , V , V went to the tram an,! went west to
the latter " J . uxioni mat i mignt get a train for
nam n.ui.suH. unci me next (lay it ail
blew back again. I suppose she knows
town was reached.
till
About this time
In the meanwhile "the Schencks who we ali n fef "&&- & for si,e has i.ve(1 there nineteen years.
live on a hill in the village of Baby-
home. But the trin home was over
another road and it was by night. I
did not see the corn fields nor the
After breakfast, where we had coffee emerald plains, I was wrapped in the
room-mate and I went out on a forag-
. inir ovnlniMifirtn W rtitll " An1 i
Ion build a huge bonfire with the let- l ' ne-rv " nchly amber as eVer WaS brewed arms of morpheu, and did not awak
ters received from soldier sympathiz- restaurant so we pile.! into a grocery am, flak hnad flfc for fhe and
... ... lu, store where the proprietor was busily iU 1 i.- iT i. r.
ere every night, which can be seen for ,,.,., , manj- other good things, the church
miles around. The country side " - , , , ., bells began to ring. I thought I
knows the cause of it and smiles. As "" "" ""- " "" "" - would get funny am. innocent-
each letter received represent ten the same time We 'began to order , askc1 .f fh were 4rivi the Aad I wou'dmy tfatut Sd attcr
. . ,v1inf wn irnnfol finH tlirit70Oll nrrtATG " ' mmiu mnr
cents in stamps the postomce snares "- - " cows to pasture. But it wasn't so AnaatHornJamtuac.
half and half with the ice auxiliary, he would chase after the kid some- unny M j tho ht ;t wou,(1 ,)e Hw
Nevertheless it is the earnest wish of tunes out of the front door, and some- ew went t gund schoo, OweU for tie Esquimau
Miss Schenck that the chain may be ?Tmes out of the back door. We found room.mate.8 fatner ta ht the c,ass That he s'ts on a cake of ice I
broken and that those receiving an sme mustard sardines tor one.tnmg, j wag . Aml j wH UweU tor tae polar bear
end will neither send ten cents nor
write four more letters.
nnd some soda crackers for another. t,at j nww went ntj a TnatnelookssoCooIaadnfcel
Chees, oranges, hoarhound candy and ,,, .. . . , , ..
w a t. v t L- there ras niore Wlde awakeness than But the scorcha heat o
red pop, completed the list of things . , T .. u n. i. , , . . . aw,lB1 ne P
to eit We took brown mnef for a It might "have shocked And Wsten both farad f
to eat. we tooK Drown paper tor a th f .. ,, , , Ajr- .. . ,
the ears of snmp h1n nlil "Prwliv-f A t r t . t r ....
ed condition and the grounds are table spread and made napkins of the rian e,,,er to have leanl qt .fc 7
The capital building is in a wretch
those of an unthntty tanner, in or- ""- " "- - "- "- might have brought the wrath of
'der to provide fodder for the cattle overturned one of the car seats and some devout Methodist u bt
belonging to the state officers only as "' - '"- ic" "c Pre-u ur the jigcggio,, of the lesson
mtiannnnTti - nnil T 4aII vtnn nlii
much grass is cut every day as can be i"u" , i .iSut thoroiigh and each man had a right
., it... i : i.:tui niv.t here that I never sat down to a lunch- - ,. . . .
carncu in iuc uuggin i,i..vi -" - io express nis opinions, mere is no
pours dowa
ad feet!
-Vance Thompson m the Musical Courier.
was BEAUTIFUL EASTER LILIES.
Rlnrirln id tYm Kmn nML. i
,-m - - . - wn comWI wifh immfipnlntA linan nnri ..... UCslUIlIUi
the nmiding. it, is nam on xne pcopie - - Hidebound way of discussing the les- Easter lily. Durirg lha bloomin sa
of the state to humiliate them for shimng silver and cut glass that sons in that class. If a man disagrees son, in som9 places, .he ground is almost
the sake of a little fodder. Only eight tasted better than this one. The ti. with the lnte t; o whit9 with their b.f , ""J
men are employed in the building spoons that we had purchased to eat the ,esson ,, get, a 1ttIe out.(lc of HowNp and tfcousand8 of' .J
and grounds of the Colorado capital. sard'nes w,th- were kept by eaca the of orthodoxy it does not picked by the colored children and c
Nebraska has seven in a much smaller one ol the "y as souvenirs. matter. Every man, Christian or non- ried to market. Before coming north I
building and smaller grounds but the Christian, trinitarian or unitarian, has had a fine lot of the lily bulbs dug and
"Denver capital( which is twice as Luncheon was nicely over when a perfect right to express his opinion brought tnem with m; they mke
large) is kept clean inside and the three of the party boarded the train and the discussion and interest in the lovely bouse plants and are sure to
grounds are kept in perfectcpndition for Superior together and one went class is augmented thereby to a great bloom. Any ono who would like two or
by eight men. Visitors to tWcapital on to Hebron. At Edgar the last degree. three of these Jily bulbs can have thnai
here complain that the charmen em- young lady left us and we went on by tending a stamp to pay pottage. Yon
ploj-ed to keep the halls and rooms to Superior alone, but talked of'noth- After Sunday school was held the are icdeed very welcome to send aal
clean do their work after the busi- ing but our luncheon and the kindness funeral of a little child. Slowly four can get more when I return to Florida
ness of the day has begun and the of Providence in providing such good sun-burned men,-bent with years of next fall. Address, Mrs. F. A. Warner
unlucky lawyer or student who wishes company. At Superior, Don Adams, hardship and toil, carried a little cof- Saginaw, Eat Side. Michigan. '
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