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tion, so bis family is left far from
rich. Although no soldier who gave
up his life in Cuba for his country
was more heroic than Colonel Waring,
yet he held no commission and conse
quently his family can claim no pen
sion. Yet doubtless cougrcss will
grant one, for he went to Havana im
mediately on receiving the request
from the secretary of war to proceed
to that city, inspect it and draw up
plans '-for making that pest hole of
yellow fever a new, clean and health
ful city."
It may have been forgotten by many
that Colonel Waring drew up the
sewage system of Lincoln, which is
one of the very few Lincoln jobs that
have been well done. We can point
wilh pride to the sewers underneath
a rotting and dangerous pavement
patrolled by impoverished citizens
who have nottiing left but an irre
proachable sewage system twice the
deptb of a grave under their feet.
There are other improvements in the
city, such as the water system, which
ha6 failed to bear the test of time and
utility, that cannot be contemplated
with satisfaction, but whose faults,
born of politics, emphasize the fault
lessness of Colonel Waring's sewer.
The election of the Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt as governor of New York
and the defeat of Croker, incorporate
Tammany, mav be chronicled as one
of the affects of the Cuban war. In
spite of the cohorts that vote on
Croker's signal, Van Wyck was de
feated, (according to the returns the
morning of .November 9) and the en
thusiasm that has made an impassa
ble crowd around Teddy wben'ere he
took his walks abroad has recorded its
genuineness by votes. Perhaps the
picture In Harper's Weekly a week
ago of Croker stretched on a bench
with his feet braced against Judge
Daly, who sat on the extreme end of
it, best expressed the attitude of
Tammany towards the supreme court.
The result in Nebraska seems to be
at this date a complete victory for the
republicans. The gratification that
is universally felt over the conduct of
the war and the desire to express con
idence in the administration for the
effect on Spain, were the active causes
of the victory in this state, which the
manifest unfitness and incapacity of
some of the candidates were insuffi
cient to overbalance.
The election of Judge Hayward is
received with undiluted satisfaction
by all republicans. As governor he
will represent the best culture and
accomplishment of the state. He is
sot a newcomer but built his home
with those early settlers who followed
the first border adventurers who had
bo notion of founding a state. Lin
coln can welcome him without reser
vations to the city of universities.
Harvard's football victory after the
annual series of defeats administered
for so many years is very gratirying to
the friends of Fair Harvard who have
never quite understood why the fine
athletes who compose the Harvard
eleven should be worsted year after
year. Two weeks from today they
play Yale and faithful admirers of
the oldest, and in many respects the
best, college in this country, are fer
vently hoping it may win. Yale haf
won so many times her spirit needs the
discipline of defeat. A fortnightfrom
today may the thews of Jaffrey, Bur
nett, Boal, Dibblec, Haughton and
the others be knit with steel as they
were when they played with Pennsyl
vania. By the way, the famous
"guards back" play is being circum
vented in other colleges which have
adopted it as well as when used by its
original in venters. The Lawrence
team which was defeated by the Ne
braska university team has adopted
Pennsylvania traditions and were
beaten while depending upon the
"guards back' play. TheiropponenU
have mastered it and Pennsylvania
must invent another set of maneuvres
before she can win the pennant. Cap
tain Dibblee of the Harvard team is
a Chicago lad, and Cameron Forbes,
the roach, is one of the directors of
the Burlington railroad, so there are
two reasons, more than abstract and
disconnected interest in a continually
defeated team, why tlie sympathies of
the west should be with Harvard this
day fortnight.
If the alumni of the university suc
ceed in raising enough money to pur
chase the exposition organ it will be a
fitting expression of gratitude and
loyalty to the university. It is pro
posed to give each alumnus an op
portunity to subscribe, as he has been
prospered for this gift in return for
four years of undergraduate culture
and, heaven only knows, how many
years of post graduate instruction
at live dollars per, who have con
tracted the university habit. It is
hoped that the beneficiaries will seize
the opportunity of returning a part of
the cost of their education to their
alma mater. In reckoning upon grati
tude the originators of the scheme
showed a cloistral ignorance of hu
man nature to which it is hoped they
will not too rudely be awakened. Of
course there have been many instances
of alumnal generosity and the presen
tation of an organ by the Nebraska
alumni will be a sign that the gener
osity of the west is not a mere saying.
The last work of Harold Frederic yet
printed is Gloria Mundi, the serial
finished in the cur-ent number of The
Cosmopolitan. The story has a hero
and a shadowy heroine, who are, of
course, lovers. The former was a poor
unknown young man who is found by
opulent uncles looking for an heir
and inducted into a dukedom with an
income of 0,000 pounds a year. This
plot never fails of fascination, for just
around the next week there is a for
tune waiting the poorest beggar of us
all and the hope that never dies is fed
by the imagination and fanned by
tales of unexpected and overwhelm
ing fortunes, reaped by poor but pretty
young men and women like Harold
Frederic's hero. On his way to his
dukedom the hero meets his duchess
in a.second class railway car. She is
haughty to Fortunatus but he has the
frank confiding manner of Frederic's
best and when he is duke accepts his
assurances that money and rank are
nothing to him unless shared with
her. She is a typewriter girl and
earns her living on the machine, which
explains her hauteur and rather sharp
habit of picking up her lover's modea
of expression and incredulity regard
Ine his ideals. A typewriter knows
the men she writes letters for. She
knows what they say to their corre
spondents and the real facts of the
case and nothing is more fatal to
love's 3"oung dream in the heart of a
maiden In this case the 3"oung man
is incapable of deceit and is the im
possible idealist he seems to be. Only
he is not a fool and has no hopes of re
forming the social and financial sys
tem. He intends to do the best he
can and there is no doubt he will .be a
blessing to the world, especially when
the typewriter promises to marry him.
About Frederic's stories there is
a'ways something of the fairy tale
order which explains why we settle
down to them for a pure hour of en
joyment. The hero and heroine are
poor, which is what we are; they get
suddenly rich, which we are not but
K
II HIE
1224 O St., Lincoln, Neb.
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This fall we are showing- a very strong- line
of medium furniture, carpets, curtains and
draperies. Here are two of our leaders in din
ing room furniture.
Solid oak dining- table,
top 42 inch square, very
heavy and will last a life
time. Six foot length,
$6.50;eight foot length $8.
Solid - oak dining
chair, cane seat, brace
arm. A very good
thing. We sell six of
them for $5.
FREIGHT PAID ONE HUNDRED MILES.
still hope for; they love each other
poetically, their love quite washed of
dross and we sympathize secretly, if
hopelessly, here. Finally they are mar
ried and live in a beautiful historic
castle surrounded by cottagers who
adore them. And the author writes
fiais where it belongs and has no am
bition to write problem stories of con
sequent marital bickerings and dis
illusionment. For these and other
reasons, but these principally, 1 bit
terly mourn Harold Frederic's death.
The southern people who are object
ing with shot guns to negro domi
nance should not be igtiorantly con
demned before investigation. Though
north or south the oligarchy which
controls city politics is not usually
composed of the best and most intelli
gent part of the community. The
misrule of the negro in the south may
be worse but it is of the same quality
of ignorance and corruption that rules
in Lincoln. If the shot gun policy is
effective and necessary in .the south
the time may come when such argu
ments may seem to be the last resort
of a plundered people in Lincoln.
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Eleventh street is being transformed
from the most dangerous and uncom
fortable street in Lincoln to the
smoothest and neatest. So soon as
the work is done there will be a
a revival of business on that street"
that may influence those who will
then be driving business away from O
street by their opposition toasphal
tum to accept the will of the majority.
Eleventh street has been anathema
for so many years that the return of
the lighter grade of vehicles will re
joice the dealers in various kinds of
merchandise who bare done business
at a disadvantage. It is said that
horses cannot remain standing on an
asphaltstreet without inflicting great
injury upon the asphalt. The vehicles
which are left standing all day long
upon the principal business streets of
the city, interfere with traffic, make
the streets unsightly and very dirty.
Owners of horses in quartering their
animals on the streets of the city
from morning to night are making aa
improper and selfish use of the public
domain. Of what use is a street com
missioner who permits the people who
hire him to be imposed upon day after
day without attempting to at least re
strict the nuisance to side streets.
THINE EYES.
Within the depths of thy full orbs of brown
I read a world of love no speech can tell;
The stammering tongue can no more voice-
the sweet elusive thing
Thine eyes show forth, than motkyed,
grinning clown
Can cast a charm or weave a magic spell,
Or midnight raven, ravish with his harsh
attempts to sing.
Thy voice is low, and wonderfully sweet;
Its liquid tones are softer than the song
Oi yonder lark, th t mounts the viewless
ladder of the skies;
And yet, 'tis but a preface, dull and long,
A tiresome thing, compared to that rare
treat
The book I read, between the fringed cov
ers of thine eyes.
Wil'iam Reed Dunroy.
Mr. Gruffleigh After all, there is one
good thing about marrying.
Mies Gueh Indeed! What is it?
Mr. Gruffleigh It a man does not do
hlmBelf any good when he marries, he at
least Eaves come other poor devil from,
getting into trouble.