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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1898)
IL-A WiVi --. -C - h "- t TfT '. -.- -r-t jf-" -i ? ,r HHSNOHUB saj -J , f . ! - ' ." THE COURIER. r u it l - h lY f no IsC t r V Iff. '; 13 !$ i- l- V " ST His eves roameil about in wild dismay and frightened her. "Why, the ship must have left hours ago; it is now midday." His mouth opened, but he could not utter a sound. Finally he clutched at her body and half screamec: "My God, iy God! have you dome this?" "Don't, Eric, don't you crush me; have pity. I couldn't let you go, Eric; don't you know I couldn't have let you go" He flung- her from him and a gut- teral sound came in his throat. He reached for his trousers and dragged them on. "Eric, what are you going to do? Are you mad you are too late; the ship sailed houm ago. Forget them, dear lieart, forget them, and tomorrow we will go back " but he had caught up his coat, belt and hat and torn from the room. She rushed to the window breath lessly. He was already speeding- across the lawns and gravel walks; his feet seemed to scarcely touch them. On he went in the direction of the bay and the empty docks. She knew how useless it was; not even a curl of smoke rose over the expanse of daz zling water. The broad arm of the sea girt the horizon like an impene trable wall. Cuba, the green and glist ening hills of Cuba, were afar off r.s the furthermost sun of the universe. The quiet was intense. 3fear the beach the merry blue waes danced and flickered mockingly in the sun light. The 'docks looked ugly and bare, stripped of the great cm goes that had lain -there for days. ot a soul was about. The sun beat down hot-and moist from the cloudless sky. Suddenly a pistol shot rang out dis tinct, penetrating. With a shriek Gesta, at her window, fe- senseless. now futile had been her strategy! The sound of that shot struck lier to the heart so surely as the bullet nad pierced his. They brought him into the hotel im mediately, but he was already dead. The affair was quickly hushed, and has so far been kept from the papers. Jn the stress of greater tragedies and events of the war this minor incident was overlooked; but when the strag gle is ended and the many experiences and anecdotes are recounted, the sad episode of Captain Winthrop's death will doubtless reach the public. It is -said that a phial and a curious sedi ment in the -wine glasses found in the room play a part in the story, but of that I am skeptical. Surely the facts need no such embellishments to im impress themselves. Kv$ 5vi riWlMj c3'2u4hj fjMAi 1 nasi m si Ml m - m iH m REDUCED RATES TO GRAND EN CAMPMENT MINING DISTRICT WYO. The Union Pacific will sell tickets at one fare for the round trip, plus $5.00, from all points in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Utah to Rawlins, Wyo. Date on which tickets will be sold are 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct. and Nov. Stage line daily except Snnday each way between Rawlins and Grand Encampment For full information call on or address E. B. Slosson, General Agent. A CHEAP BIGYGLi "-. j &M '&$&& ?.'- .' fc. Is a good thing1 to get rid of and a very good thing for our repair shop. However, since selling- wheels it has not been our aim to sell this grade of Bicycle. As we guarantee satis action or money back, our policy has been to sell our patrons A GOOD BICYCLE CHEAP $&; :&smz A-.-l-fC -.- . That we knew would stay built and last, meeting" all requirements; size, style, weight and sex. Our. op tions in equipments are positively unlimited and you get what you want without extra expense H. Witt man & Go., Wholesale Saddlery and Jtamess. 143-145 South Tenth Street, Lincoln, Nebr. Established 1870. Our Sign the Big Horse in the Air. ments in the dailies. See announce- m m 3811 22H SSI m m j WATSON AND FARRAGUr. NEBRASKA AND WYOMING HOME SEEKERS' EXCURSIONS. August 2nd and 1C, September 6th and 90th, October 4th and 18th, the ElkBorn line (Northwestern) will sell sprang from, and I commend him to rival the deeds of his famous exem your attention." plar may never come to him, but if How could it be otherwise than that does come we may well believe that a boy coming- at the most impression- he will act as if Farragut were again able period of his life under the inftu- beside him as Farragut himself ence of a man as strong, as individual, would have acted. He will mntp i,, tenant, stood Reside the admiral and as dominant as Farragut was, revering words of the Spanish minister come when he stepped into the mizzen rig- ........ .? . T ' , WJM a Mmncance wl"ch the j., , A - i 1. loved by him with an affection rival- man who uttered them liHl m iring the better to see over th- smoke, . ,-,-,,.. i mem untie meant. . . .- ,. , . . iuit iiiui uurue 10 ins unn son, si-ouiu lie. will see TO it ihtt "flm c,- i. Watson himself says: "I secured him . b - . . ,., , . 'x . '" e lo u iaat the Spanish wvui ua iiMiviiuiv. alajjavoo v.vttiiuiiinc his whole existence? This was the formative period of Watson's charac ter. Now in nis later' years for he is well along in -the fifties there is much which recalls When the time came to search for torpedoes in Mobile Bay it was Wat son "who went by night in an open boat and located, them. And during the creat ficht Watson, then flag-lieu- wifh a rope's end, bating first remon strated with him and begged him not to stand in so exposed a place, as he was only a few feet from and above the deck of the ram (the Tennessee), which scraped her whole length along aut, the commodore squadron will go where it ought to go," but he will determine its desti nation. American Monthly Review of Reviews for August. tbat side ol tne mrtioru. the great admiral, despite t bvi- It was Watson who was sent to Fort OMS differences in physique end nat- tickets at one fare plus t2 for the round Morgan with the summons to surren- ural temperament. There is the same trmP' it would seem more nigh-!ond trm to Doinf 011 its linea in Nebraska aer, ami n wa iu.i i i.u. .. . gentle speech and quiet disposition; w " wu m reconcentrado. First Hobo-I'd like to go ti Cuba Second Hobo What for? First Hoba-I'm tired of being called west aad north and in Wyoming west of aad laciouiDg vnnuuaciiuu, iiu uuui inam round trip rate to be S9. Stop oven granted on going trip beyond Stan toe and Creston, Neb. For further in foraaatioB call on A. S. Fieldwo, C. T. A., 117 So. 10th St. dispatch reporting the great victory Farragut said: "During the action he was on the poop attemling to the signals, and performed his t.w.ies, as might be expeoted, thoroughly. lie is a scion worthY of the noble stock he the same tendency to believe in Jack - to prefer the sailor to the engineer; Gri?gs-Why ia it that joung women the same quickness of decision and th fifty thousaud or more dollars a stern determination in carrying it in- year seldom marry? 10 enect. wkne uracious! They don't It may be that the opportunity to have to. have "- uJr-&? flfe. i?34?i J