THE COURIER.
this fair beauty cannot unreservedly
read lier lesson to everoone: Go thou
and do likewise."
To die, fightingtle usurping whites
like the aboriginal chiefs of his race,
v'lh a chance of conquering them, is
the hope of the Indians. It has struck
many a spectator of the sham battle
and war dance of the Indians at
Omaha tiiat there was no vaudeville
inertia in their performance. They
dash up to the audience of pale faces
with a vim and a blood-curdling
eagerness, with yells and grins that
causes many a man to fondle his scalp
reassuringly. Dressed in feathers and
red blankets, with the paint only par
tially concealing the dirt on bronchos
and riders, the Indians, armed with
knives and guns, sweep up to the
grand stand tilled with open-mouthed
and unarmed whites ip altogether too
realistic a fashion. They do their
turn every day, but why should they
be so eager 'about it? Why should
they enjoy it 60? Even the lions,
tigers, leopards and elephants of
Hagenback's show have the vaudeville
yawn and the perfunctory, tired-to-deatb,
absentminded air of the regu
lar vaudeville performer who does his
act like an automaton. But endless
repetition has not been able to chill
and paralize the interest the wild men
have in even the semblance of fight
ing. The hereditary instinct is bard
to kill. The footlights burn up love
and various sentiments of what men
are pleased to call honor, but the play
politician with a pull would accept a
position requiring expert knowledge
of electricity, chemistry or botany,
yet he accepts a colonel's or captain's
job with an aplomb that would be
ridiculous if it were not so fatal to
the youths whose lives are sacrificed
so light!'. Mr. Bryan is the only
colonel by reason of his candidacy for
the presidency, but there are many'
other colonels and majors for less
relevant reasons The system is thor
oughly vicious and so selfish and cruel
that even politics will have to relin
quish it. Unless congress places mili
tary patronage out of the reach of
governors and the politicians who
control them, the time may come
when volunteers will be unwilling to
sacrifice themselves for a country
dead to a sense of responsibility to its
soldiery. The record of the First Ne
braska under Lieutenant, now Colonel,
Stotsenburg, may be studied with
profit by those who contend that poli
tical officers are as good as real ones.
Patiently, persistently, severely, he
has taught the men of his command
how to be well in camp. The small
percentage of deaths is directly due
to his knowledge, example, fidelity
and sense of his high calling. The
First Nebraska is composed of stu
dents and some of the strongest and
best youth of the state to whom their
loss would be irremediable in the
years to come. The contrast of the
health reports from the department of
the Pacific and the department of the
Atlantic is due more than to any other
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This fall we are showing- a very strong1 line
of medium furniture, carpets, curtains and
draperies. Here are two of our leaders in din
ing room furniture.
is as real as the prairies tneir ponies cauSe to the greater proportion of
still leap upon, to the Indians. When regular army officers in the former de
Geronino's, big chief, turn comes and partment. The boys who died at
he rides up U) the grandstaud and Chickamauga from typhoid fever con
looks it over, his small eyes gleam, his traded in a filthy camp cannot be re-
lean face is irradiated by the spirit of
the chiefs of his long line, and only
his natural shrewdness keeps him
from scalping Jthe gaping men and
women before him. I suppose there is
called by an investigating committee,
but that committee can recommend
changes in the present system which
will be the means of saving the life of
ttie babies who will go to war in the
Solid oak dining table,
top 42 inch square, very
heavy and will last a life
time. Six foot length,
S6.50;eight foot length $8.
Solid oak dining
chair, cane seat, brace
arm. A very good
thing. We sell six of
them for $5.-
FRERJHT PAID ONE HUNDRED MILES.
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really no danger, but without doubt course of the next twenty-five years
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the Indian parade, nglit and war
dance is the best illusion on the
grounds. Crows, Black Feet, Cbippe
was, Sioux, Fiatheads and Whites.
There is bloodshed, burning murder,
dispossession, and broken treaties be
tween them.
Hot weather doubles the number of
suicides. If the melancholy maniac
would pause with .the knife or the
pistol or the pellet in his hand and.
reflect that he is only about to verify
the statisticians report in .regard to
TO A NEW BORN BABE.
through
eyes creafst fwnin not, pray, dose
UUK.KJTO
the relation of hot weather to suicidal
The war investigating committee mania, and that to prove the statisti
has already had enough evidence, in cian correct he is breaking the heart
many cases extracted from unwilling 0f his mother and his wife and blight
witnesses, that the regiments officered ing the lives of his children, he might
by political pets are the ones which lay the instrument of death aside un-
have been most decimated by disease.
The science of war can not be learned
in a few weeks study of army tactics.
If it could, the four year's discipline
and study at West Point and Anapo
lis would be. a farce. Actually no
schools require sturdier mental fibre
and character than- the military and
til cold weather, when two to one he
would conclude to live. If the suicide
would only confide his intentions to a
friend who could prove to him that it
was hot weather and not trouble that
was causing him to finger a pistol re
flectively, fewer j-oung children would
be left unprovided for. This effect of
the sun upon the oeonle who live
Thou babe, whose opening
UKW T . . . , . ...
This round and whirling world, the blue X ea, tnusobbgating
j. Earth and seas and skies, and seek again
Oh heaven, sun-spangled with innumerable TU duo nnable land.
nttSU"pang,CO inui ammamu -William Reed Dunroy.
The surging, vast grey sea; the earth with Clerk lie did not ask the price of
gren any of those suits he ordered must
Engiruled; thou babe; whose ears unctopt, haTC loads of money.
creafst ' 'Tailor H'm! I ffuess 111 Ibok Mm.
All sound anew; the thrilling thrush's song; UP- iDore e'i he hasn't a Sent!
The rippling laughter and the moan of pain, U& Insurance Agentr-I fail -to un-
The thunder and the booming of the sea;
The crash of cataract, or pulsing plash
Of tiny brooklets in the moss; tell me
Whence earnest thou?
Where wanderedst thou without
In that unknowable land, from whence I
came
derstond iby vfaalt right you ask far a
reduction of the premium
policy.
Insuredr I nave just joined
Un'ited States- envy.
on your
tne
Heiress Yes, you Jove me now, but
naval academies. Graduates from
these schools know how to take care eicht months of thfive.ir in .icmltm. Bt eaterim? this, focrot? Bethink theeerav sihnlI not always retain my chbrms.
emselves. their men and their tjerat.nr is nnfnrtnnatir uniform TW w that land? Do not fonrrf. bit Suitor You will if your monev is
of themselves, their men and their perature is unfortunately uniform. 'Where was that land? Do not forget, but
hones. The four year's drill and the
high standard they must reach to stay
in the class make soldiers of the boys
and eliminate the poor material which
may be useful in some other and less
important position.
Volunteers who enlist are ignorant
of the sanitary horrors of a crowded
camp, their patriotism, their devo
tion to their country, should be ac
cepted by that country in the fame
spirit. They should be officered with
out regard to politics by officers who
know bow to instruct, as well as
to command their men. If the inves
tigating committee unearths half the
mischief caused unwittingyl by politi
cal appointees the system may receive
Loss of property or position or sweet
heart, when occurring in a temperature
over 100 fahrenheit and coupled with
a disponding disposition, is very
apt to result in suicide. The cooling
effect of philosophy and the ascription
of the desire to heat rather than a
broken heart or impending poverty
would save members of the community
who have been hard and expensive to
raise and who have perhaps just be
gun contributing their share to the
travail of the world. Business in
variably picks up in the fall and just
as good fish as have been caught come
back from the seashore and mountains
in the shape of girls willing to be
wooed and wed. If the hand which is
ten
safely invested.
your money is
such severe condemnation from con- just about to make some girl an old
grew the winter that the boys that maid for life will only give pause to
respond to the next call to arms will the mind to reflect on the weather
have the best protection in time of and the effect of fall on love and busi
war and that is thoroughly educated ness and the general health a goal
and experienced officers. Jfot even a worth running for may yet be won.
Me if in icy regions, cold and bleak
Or torrid zones, sun scorched, or dark, or
light
Thou earnest.
Thou blinking, blinded babe,
hast been
In God's great arms asleep, but new awak
ened By kks of His to life. Hast been in hell,
And now redeemed from pangs of wrath
and death
Returned once more to know the joy, the
bliss
The terror and the woe of kit?
Wert once
In some great heme's breat in ancient yean? Try them.
Or didst inhabit craven coward's flesh
In other ages oa this earth? Knowestthou
The path thy feet must tread. Art shod
With saakk that wiU give thy feet surcease
From rocks and thorns? Art strong enough
to bear
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