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THE COURIER. V J 1 SCRIBNER'S For 1900 includes: J. M. Barrie'a "Tommy and Grizel" (sorial). Th eodore Rooso vel t's "01 i vor Crom -well" (serial). Richard Harding Davis fiction and special articles. Henry Norman's The Russia of Today. Article! by Walter A. Wjckoff, authors of "Tho Workers." Short Stories by Thomas Nelson Page, Henry James, Henry van Djke, Ernest Stetson-Thompson, Edith Wharton, Octave Thanet. William Alien White. Special Articles: The Paris Exposition. Frederic Irland's articles on spottp and explorations. "Harvard Fifty Years Ago,' by Senator Hoar. Notable Art Features, the Crom well illustrations, by celebrated Am erican and foreign artists. Puvis De Chavannes, by John La Farge (illustrations in colors). Special illustrative schemes (in colors and in black and white) by Walter A ppleton Clark, E. C. Peix otto, Henry McCarter, Dwight L. Elmendorf and others. rgTlllustrated prospectus sent free to any address. Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers, New York. WTHTH 3.35 Personally Conducted Tourist Excursions TO .1,0111. S cnic Kouto leaves Kansas City and Omaha every Friday via Colorado Springs and Salt Lake to California and Pacific coast points. These Tourist Cars of latest pattern are carried on Fast Passenger Trains, and their Copularity is ovidenco that we offer the est. Tho lowest rato tickets fro available in tbeso Popular pullmarv Tourist Gars For full description of this service and the benefits given its patrons, pddress E. W. THOMPSON, A. G. P Topeka, Kan. JOHN SEBASTIAN. G. P. A Chicago, 111. bEGAfo NOTICES A complete tile of "The Courier" is kept in an absolutely fibepkoOf build ing. Another file is kept in this office and still another has been deposited el6ewb.9re. Lawyers may publish legal notices in '-The Courier" with security as the files are intact and are pre served from year to year with great care. Corn Tassels, William Reed Dunroy's new collection of poems, on sale at the book stores. Up Salt Creek Way. My friend the professor, was showing me some fine colored photographs of a quaint old town, an old. old town in Germany, with a pretty umlauted name impossible to Anglicize. The " schloss" overlooking tho place was there pictured, the lake, the step, high roofs, with all thoso old, daintily curtained roof win dows, and theold Gothic cathedral with ob, an impossible date ascribed to it. It may have been the success of tho photographer's art, but I thought that a mellowed sunlight fell upon the col ored tiles and cast a touch of old world splendor on the simple home places. " We have nothing like that here ; nothing old and hoary with associ ations," the professor complained, and I aided him, for the spell was upon mo. "And yet, professor, one wouldn't want to live there. It would do as a placo to poke around in for old bones, and so forth, but it would not be exactly com fortable to live in, would it ? " That is true," ho admitted, wisely. What I was thinking of, though, was the "Hamlin town in Brunswick, by famous Hanover city, with the River Weser, deep and wide, washing its walls on the southern side." I know this old town of the middle ages must have been the abiding place of dirt and vermin of more than one variety. I was sordid enough to be thinking of that a' I tho time I admired the old fashionedness and peacefulness of the place. Yet the disturbing and baneful spirit of modern progress had invaded it. The professor had not noticed, but I pointed to him the intrusive telegraph I cannot think it was telephone poles, and a horse car. May the old town be spared the sadness of having its tranquility dis turbed by any such manifestation of the hurrying age as an electric car, or cable car, no to mention automobiles. I still think that the horse is a noble animal, although becoming a relic of an tiquity, suited to old towns. ' Oh, I wish we were five hundred years older," with the usual twinkle in his eye. " Then we could have build ings that we could be proud of for their venerable associations." " Well, professor," I mildly suggested, " what buildings are there in Lincoln which, if they could endure so long, would be likely to be considered classic or even quaint in architecture ? Tho main building at the university ? With a look of disgust the professor declared that that edifice would be torn down and a better ono would be in its place. " Yes, but what becomes of the age and associations, then ? " If I remember r'ghtly the professor simply smiled, or said " Well." Pos sibly he may have commented inwardly to tho effect that women are such illogi cal creatures. I have often wondered what there is in the city on Salt creek that would add the much sought for flavor of antiquity to the place when it is two hundred years old. I have tried to imagine bow this or that place will look when age has touched it As the professor said, " Really, I should like to come back in five hundred years just to see how things are. It would be quite an experience." But Lincoln has thus far been mak ing itself as if it expected a rather short existence. When a building wears out it can be torn down and a new one built, we say, regardless of whether it was the home of a genius or not. Why, what will the magazines of seventy-five years hence do for illustrations when they are affording the public biographies of all the famous sons of the city on Salt creek ? Just imagine it. We westerners are not much given to worship of the old. When a man once gets a breath of the boundless prairies in his veins he seems willing to let go the things of older days that men are trained to love because they pre old, and unconsciously say, " This is fresh from tho hands of God ; it noeds noth ing more." At least that is how it ap peals to me tbo great sweeps of un turned sod, the silent hills and all tho fair beauty of valley and plain Tho allurements of the old world, with its historic places where men have wrought out the ideas of God, are strong, I know. Yet tho new places have their history, of a different sort but no less sacred, and they yield an emotion as profound as any that might come to the traveler who stand in the Acropolis or views the field of Waterloo. So the rather disheartening etato of newness of our city, or its altogether squalid and unpicturesquo middle age has reason in it. Still, a town is built to stay, or it should be, and there is just now beginning an idea of permanency, durability and style in architecture that will last. The new library is to be built. Many will say, " Let it be simply ele gant, substantial and durable " My plan is in the interest of the professor and others like him that the architects make us some edifice that shall bo of good stock that it may at'.ain to a ripe Mathusaleh age, and fashion it with such innate gentility that it may grow old gracefully. Ttioee who come after us are likely to be more given to ancestor-worship and tradition-preserving than we are luckily for us so, after all, we may bo building for tho future as much as for ourselves. You will observe that in last week's Courier and this number I have given my quota of advice on the subjects of the site and the architecture of the Carnegie library. In successive issues it may be possible to get the library built, stocked with books, and deliver ing them to patrons before ever the man of dollars has signed his check. There is nothing like getting things done on paper for speed. - Speaking of ance6tois reminds me. Not long since I asked a class of young students of United States history two questions bearing on the colonial period. The first was: If you bad been livicg in those days, in which of the thirteen col onies would you have preferred to live ? The majority of the class favored Penn sylvania, because it was the most peace ful one their outline work had not told them what poor old Penn thought of that peacefulness, himself. Then I inquired. "In which of the colonies would you rather say now that your an cestors lived ?" and they debated be tween New York and Pennsylvania! You may be sure that I was amazed, They did not know that he only may be proud who can say: "My forefathers settled in Massachusetts." It may have been vainglory ot my part, but I had to set them right. la the general era of good feeling now shedding light in Lincoln even the Old Town on the River may take some part. The members of St. Mary's parish, the Episcopal church ot this city, are the pleased recipients of the gift from Mrs. A. J. Sawyer of Lincoln of an excellent organ. The church members were busi ly engaged in soliciting subscriptions for a pipe organ when Mrs. Sawyer kindly offered to give a two-manual Estey organ, which will 6erve in the little church quite as well as a larger organ. Leave Chicago every Thursday via Coloiado and Scenic Route to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Southern Route leaves Chicago every Tuesday via Kansas City, Ft. Worth and El Paso to Los Angeles. These Excursions Cars are attached to Fast Pas-enger trains and their popu larity is evidence that we offer the best Accompany these excursion and save money for the lowest rate ticlets are available in these popular Pullman Tourist cars. CLUBS. (Continued from Pago 5.) able as to cause her election as a fellow of the American association for tho Ad vancement of Science, and she gave up a life position which brought her a yearly income of 82,200 in her enthusiasm for scientific study. Miss Martin will re fioct honor upon the university, which, in making this appointment, demon strates anew the policy of this aggres sive university to Beek the foremost edu cators irrespective of sex. Mmo. Pegard, director general of the woman's congresses of the Paris expo sition, after consultation with Mrs. Lowe, has decided to change tte dite of tho international meeting of women from September 8th to June 28ih and 20th. Tho change was made in order to bring American club women into personal association with the various congresses of women which will bo held in Paris in June. This chango in plans is really an advantage to western wo men, as those intonding to visit the ex position can first attend the Milwaukee biennial and at its close proceed on their Europsan trip, thus obviating the ne cessity of two trips east. The Christmas number of the Manila Tribune, now at hand, is a very credit able beginning of American-Filipino lit erature. It contains, in addition to the general news of the day and reports ot social and church gatherings, original contributions in verse and prose. The fiction is of the realistic school based upon Filipino life. Among the notices is one requesting "all those interested in the establishment of the Manila public library to meet with Mrs. Greenleaf at the Hotel Oriente this morning." There are no reports from women's clubs, but their appearance will only be a matter of short delay after the founding of a city library. I believe it is a wise be ginning to start with the library, as the clubs will then have material at hand when they begin a regular course of study. Mrs. Richard P. Bland, wife of the great silver advocate, is preparing a biography of her deceased husband. Mre. Bland has the reputation in Wash ington of being a brilliant, thoroughly cultured woman. She already has a number of clerks engaged in sifting out available material from among Mr. Bland's private papers bearing on the current political events of the last quar ter century, and she has succeeded in interesting in her project many ot the political friends of her late husband, who will assist her to the extent ot their knowledge. Her long residence in Wasbington'will give her adaptability and facility for the work she has under taken. Mrs. Bland intends to make this woik not only a biography of her hus band, but practically a review of the silver question. The Western Club Woman, edited by Ellis Meredith and Ella Cheater Adams, at Denver, is ever a welcome visitor. It has already from real merit made itself a sure place in club literature. Like the western prairies, it is breezy and in spiring. May it win the success it deserves. At a recent club meeting at Pasadena, California, a learned judge was explain ing " The Legal StatuB of Wonen in the State." After sketching the histori cal development of the laws relating to woman, he explained her property rights and business privileges, adding that any favors lacking were duo to her own influence. The law makers are her fathers, brothers husbands and sons, he said. Naturally they will never deny her any just demand. Further, 9he