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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1900)
THE COVllt. f TRAINS DAILY VIA JHHHBl s.r7- vx . a.v "S PICT0X FOR Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California AND Pacific CoasL Points. Only re n'EDt to an ) fwoniuhts to Califo.nia, Oregon From Missouri River. For time tablpp, foldfis, illustrate! hooka, pamphlets descriptive ot the ter ritory triiverecd, call on 13. 13 SlOsson, Agent. First Publication, Fob. 2lth.-3 NOTICK OF PKOBATK OF FOIihIGN WILL. In the futility court of Lancaster county Ne braska: The .t:ite of Nebraska to Franklin U.ker, Sarah Maker. Ira F Uaker ar' to any other jiersjus interesfnl in said matter. You are hereby nolitictl, that an instrument jmrportlmr to be an auUiculicUxiLcyw; OjTUip Iast Will ami Testament of Samuel BaRer. (leceasetl, late of Portage county. Ohio, anil of the probate thereof is on tile in said court, and also a jietition slimed by frank linker, his son. jiravinj.' for the probate of said instrument That on the l'Jth day of March. 1j0, at ten o'clock a. m.. said petition and the proof "of the execu tion of said instrument will be heard at the county court room in Lincoln, in said county, and that if you do not then appear and contest, said court may probate and record the sime. Thls notice has been ordered published for three weeks successU ely prior to said hearing in The ourierof Lincoln. Nebraska, a weekly letral newspaper of general circulation printed in Lancaster county. Nebraska. Witness mv hand and seal of said court this JNt day of February. VMK (.sK t L FHANK R. WaTEKF. County JuuVe. Hy AI.TElt A. Lkese. Clerk County Court. -. -t. Df... f.- J Athletic Photograohs Photographs of Babies Photographs of Groups J Exterior Views THE PHOTOGRAPHER 129 South Eleventh Street. 2 0OO0 0000 5 9 127 t H. W. BROWN Druggist and Bookseller. WnltlriK'" Fine Stationery and Calling Cards So.Eleventh Street. PHONE 68 t c c ? ? c Ia eeoooo6 I ARTISTIC PRINTING Of every lirrition It will pajrjou toconsult l. L. Lemmox, at the LEGAL NEWS PRINTING . Excellent Work. Satisfatory Prices HOl X street. XOaX0O Corn Tassels, William Reed Dunroy's new collection of poems, on sale at the book stores. Up Salt Creek Way. Vee, your au'litorium is tine, the acoustics are perfect. The quiet group of listeners who rat in the corner of the gallery furthest from the stHgo that nicht of the Kvent lost none of the gulden tnnps. Vet I think few of them would wish to sit just there agiin wheu Paderewski plays. A nimeless some thing was dissipated by the distance; no opera glass could supply it; we felt that it was there, but nut of our grasp. A thiist for a real draught of the nectar grew as the hour slipped by until we felt that nothing would satisfy unless we m;ght go and put a hand on the p ano, like a blind and deaf Helen Kel ler, crnving the thrill of the sound Tho sensation of far-offnPB9, intangible and hardly analyzed, seemed to cover us, and we sat and listened as through a raiat. It was beautiful, and not in any artistic way failing in tiled. But while musicians euthuse over the etupend ius-ne-p, the wonder of technique, and those less versed' expatiate upon brill:ant ruas and 1 quid meh dies, some of us felt the fog of distance sti I about us. We shall know better where to place ourselves another time when Paderewski plays. - But as for acoustics well, there are acoustics and. acoustics. The builders builded well, but-.fjrgot one thing, ap parently. The Darwinian theory does not saem to have entered into their cal culations. I am not bo sure about man ItfffT.'and I fear that- womankind has lost all traces of the primeval, but I am positive that in bjykind there still lingers the o'd tree-dimbiing insticct. I was led to phiksjphiz9 a little along this line the other day when 1 raw a blind boy who is not o'er fond of physi cal exertion ascend to ihe highest branch of a tall tree. It was not the prairie man's hope of looking over and around that .impelled him, for he could a e nothing; It must have been, there fore, the Darwinian theory that ltd him skyward." So proof wa3 aff 'rJed that the acous -tics of the naw building are quite ex traoidinary. One can bear everything that goes on inside and outside at the b line time. Mingled with tna sweetest of harmonies was the rap ng, crashing s iund of foot steps on a sleeted roof. The audience had done well to get it self into any sort of ease after having been mashtd to a pulp in the effort to gain entrance to the ball, and this ad ded torture was almust too much. I imagino that those on the flojr below and the artist himself did not know how long that racket ha J been kept up it began very shortly after the program opened for surely someone would h-ivo moved to put a quietus on it long be foie that frantic appeal of silence. We're western, but we're very slow about 8rne things- Vet though annoyances disturbed, and fur a time dimmed the splendor, the event itself is what we count as un forgettable. To the veriest la man, unlearned in musical lore or terminolo gy, who perhbp; went with an expecta tion of being Lored, the concert must have been eonie.hing of a revelation. I like to believe that training in music is not a .tine qua non for the erj yment of the hartuoaies of the mast rs thrilled from a master's lingers- though belief is not always possible. D.sciimination and the note by no'e apj reciation o good music is not f r any but those who sit at tbe feet o Caliope and labor long. But eojoymtut and keen delight might, I should think, be a rich portion to those less fortunate. Vet I heard of one man who squeezed U rough the crush, endured one or two numbers and then gave it up, and went home to his newspaper, and I misdoubt that there were otbeis. Then a few nights later I tried to put up tbe doors and shutters to my memory while I saw a large audi ence half ecstatic over th miraculous imitations of Blind Boon. So I put forth optim'stic theories very timorously. Some one writes that the whole voca bulary of adj dives has been exhausted in the attempt to put Pdderewski's plajing into language. The attempt is futile. Say that it is music, perfect music, and you have just about covered the ground. No nee. for comparisons with showering pearls of a waterfall, ecstatic bird notes, the murmuring of winds; the similes do not describe and do not clarify the notion in any reader's mind. Not all the natural sounds put together could tell the story of Appas sionata. It is something deeper. One of the best things Paderewski did for his audience was to rid them of tie notion that be is a bun Jle of freak ishness merely. He seemed very sane, though as snsitivo as a musical aitist must be. I thought that even thu long hair was pardonable. It alTorded tbe pior man some shelter from the stare of the populace. Letter From Germ my. GRAVE AND GAY. Feminine Finance When Gladys went to boarding school She learned to cut a dash, And in her letters, as a rule, Appeared appeals for cash. The modest sum which she had deemed Sufficient, ere the went, Soon like the merest trifle seemed, And vanished to a cent. For ice cream sodas, matinees, dub dues and golfing sticks The dollars quickly went their ways And left her in a fix. So to papa she makes appeal To double the amount, Lest other girls should make her feel That she's of no account. Papa, alarmed, designs a cure, And writes that she must spend Less money, for he is so poor That cash he cannot send. She's touched to think that to such straits Her good papa is brought, But while her kind heart palpitates She has a happy thought. "Poor, dear papa," she writes, all doubt Gone from her little head, "If all your money's given out Just send a cheque instead." - Town Topics. THE WAV TO GO TO CALIFORNIA is in a tourist sleeper, personally con ducted, via the Burlington Rout. Vou don't change cars. Vou make fast time. Vou see the finest scenery on tbe globe. Vour car is not so expensively fur nished as a palace sleeper, but it is just as clean, just as comfortable, just as good to ride in and nearly 8t2O,0OO cheaper. It has wide vestibules, Pintsch gas high back seats; a uniform ed Pullman porter; clean bedding; spacious toilet rooms; tables and a heating range. Being strongly and heavily built, it rides smooth"; L warm in winter and cool in summer. In charge of each excarsion party i'p an experienced excursion conductor who accompanies it right through to Lts Angeles. Cars leave Omaha. St Joseph, Lincoln and Hastings every Thursday, arriving San Francisco following Sunday, Los Angeles Monday. Only three days from the Missouii River to the Pacific coast, including a stop over of l.i hours at Denver and2V hours at Salt Lake City two of the mo. t interesting cities on the continent. For folder giving full information, call at any Burlington Route ticket otlice. or write to J. Francis. Gen'l Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb. STirrrmuT. Germany, Fob. li. I'M). These Germans are an extremely ego ti ti"al raco a sincere, earnest, plodding penple, on tbe averege, ioclined to stu pidity. One often wonders how long they can keep on ; how long they will Burvivb as a power. Neceetatily my in prefsions are not based on very exten sive observation, but, still, right bore in Stuttgart serious problems confront one and excite thoughtful speculation. All Tood pr Klueta nrs tifty per cent higher bore than in New Vork. Egg, milk. Hour, sugar, tea and cotfeo espec ially potatoes are very high and of in ferior grade to what jou are accustomed to. Fresh meat is a luxury. Sausage and dried smoked meat and tish are cur. sumed in incredible quantities. Fruit and vegetable ar scarcely to be had in winter, exjept by person of moro than moderate modns. Roots are enormous. Ready-m tde articles are very high and generally inferior in quality and make. Household furnii-hingB are much dean r than at Lome. Oue is tempted to won d ir who hits the money, or is there much to be had v Relative to Amor i ctn ideas of wealth, there is little here. Labor appears criminally cheap to one accmt-jmoJ to our wagts. A common labirer gets three marks l-eventy-tivo cents) per day and wash-women at d seamstresses often not twenty-live centa and seldom over tifty cents. Teachern are, in general, miserably paid. Ollicials are generally poorly paid, but have the a ivantagea of email pensions. All th9 population seem to be in the mad rush for tbe cities here, as at home. Prcliti indeed, aro these Jermans, ex cept among the most intelligent classes, where they ajldom have more than three childi en. "Raising cannon food,' as Hum or somebody said, seem to be tbe chief work of the nation. The fields are generally meagre and are left to the women to till, tbe men being either in the towns or army. Owners of large agricultural estates complain of the scarcity ot farm hands. I'nder such conditions where is the food to come from? From America? Tbe German agriculturists seem more willing their people should starve than get ch.-ap food in that direction. Colon zttion is tbe national fad here, as in America. Will that solve the problem ? It lookg as if it will only de lay that Eoial revolution towards which civilizttion 6.miis tending. This old Europe needs a few more wars acd de populizing pests. Tho equilibrium, of population is as vitil a question as "bal ance of powbr." I constantly wonder how these people live, and jet the labor ing classes seem to have a audi iency of food to cirry on the 'splitting and bud ding" process ad infinitum. the German military is fc. mighty acd wonderfully made iastitut on the sine qua non of national pride and ambit on nnd yet one cannot but feel that it will eventually become the cancer to destroy the German stomach. On all sides one bears that Germany can whip all (.reatioa with her army and some seem anxious to ahov America how the spider anu fly game is played, but as to who would be the spider and who the rly between a nation of restricted re sources and one unconscious of its innate powere, there can -be no question. The Frano-Prussian war was a bad thing for the Germans. It ii tl ited them bo that they are constantly hungry to "fight r bust." It gave them a faith in tbtm selves more mighty than that which can remove mountains. The German loves hie country, himself, his beer, bis "Frau und Kinder" with an infinite and passionate intensity, but, like most other people, individuals or nations, needs to learn that "there are others" in thi6 world as well as himself. Adela Randall.