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ROBERT BROWNING.
People literarily inclined will And, in
the iiret of the "Westminster Biogra
phies," the ''Life of Robert Browning,"
by Arthur Waueh, a charmingly per
spicuous bit of writing. The book is a
clear exposition of the poet's exception
ally sincere, strenuous, purposeful
career. It Bhows Browning &b a man
who found poetry not inconsistent with
the interests of a man of the world. He
whb a poet in whom there was none of
the traditional madness. Even the ideal
and idyllic lore the poet bore his wife,
in their perfect marriage, was eminent
ly sane. Mr. Waugh shows the steadi
ness of Browning' growth in art. He
explains, too, the Browning method of
interpreting life by analysis of emotions,
in which field Browning is second only
to Shakespere. The poet's message is
likewise clearly explained as one urging
the salvatory influence of simply doing
one best by the best light attainable.
Browning beliered essentially that the
duty of man was to perfect himself as
far as possible here, and that the effort
wculd be rewarded Bome where, some
how, in the hereafter. Browning is
shown as being, in the highest sense,
modern, and withal a man deeply and
widely learned and sympathetic, though
revealing his sympathy in a detachment
of himself from the characters he inter
preted. Browning took himsslf seiious
ly enough, but never too seriously. He
worked, but he always enjoyed himself.
He was strong in his opinions, but he
allowed his wife often to influence him.
The world's slowness in recognizing him
never caused him to complain, and
when fame came, the Browning Club
fad simply filled him with a humorous
dread. Mr. Waugh's little biography
is marked by an enthusiasm well re
strained, and by a quality of criticism
which is sound, because it sets up no
foolish, arbitrary standard, but accepts
the rnsa.and his work as they were and
are. It can dono one aught but good
to read Mr. Waugh upon Browning,
and especially his defense to the charge
that Browning did not reflect the pass
ing interest of his day, did not sing, as
does Mr. Kinlinc. the toxical thincri
about him. Browning, says Mr. Waugh,
was concerned not with the petty etmem
eral interests of blood or party, but with
the broad interests of humanity, with
the probleme which, in oneform or an
other, confronts every man of every civ
ilized race. He did not believe in fail
ure. Failure counted, in his opinion,
towards success in the end; to "other
heights in other lives, God willing."
Persons who have been confused by in
terpretations of Browning and few of
us have not will find Mr. Waugh's little
work a common sense corrective of
much of the cryptic criticism which has
gathered about the poet's work as a re
flection of his life. The Mirror.
sand dollars, not because it was worth
that much, but because it was all I
could get. My business was very small
then, and a thousand dollars represented
the bulk of my capital. I had been
married five years, and my wife was the
very best investment I had ever made.
One day I received word that oil had
been struck on the farm adjoining trine,
and right away I proceded to go crazy,
just as everybody else did when oil
showed up anywhere in their neighbor
hood. My wife showed signs too, but
she kept her witB about her. Inside of
a week I began to get offers for my
farm, and I got crazier every time there
came an offer higher than the one before
it. It went -up like a balloon at first,
until the figures got away up, and then
the small bidders dropped out At last
an offer of a hundred thousand dollars
came from the representative of a com
pany that I knew was worth two or
three millions."
" 'Let it go, John,' said my wife when
I told of this offer.
" ' I trueBS not,' said I; 'if it's worth a
hundred thousand to them, it's worth a
hundred thousand to me.'
"She pulled down her apron with a
jerk a peculiarity of hers when she meant
business.
"'You're getting a hundred times
mors for it than you gave,' said she, 'you
never expected to make a hundned thou
sand dollars in a hundred thousand
j ears, and you know it.'
"'But I'll make a good deal more than
that now,' I insisted, and started to my
desk to write a letter declining the.
offer.
"She pulled down her apron with a
jerk that made the strings crack.
"John Martin, said she, 'don't be a
d fool!'
"And I wasn't," concluded the narra
tor, "for I accepted the hundred thou
sand dollar offer, and it was ninetv thou
sand more than the company ever got off
the farm, fur the oil didn't seem to run
that way." William J. Lampton, in
the September "New Lippincott."
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A Sensible Woman.
A party of married men were talking
about their wives, and it is worthy of
note that every man was glad he had a
wife and was anxious to tell of her good
points.
"I never heard my wife swear but
once," said one of them when there
seemed to be a lull in the praise-meeting.
All the others looked shocked. If any
of them had ever heard their wives
swear, they were not telling it, and they
resented the frankness of the one man
who was apparently betraying family
secrets. But the man did not regard
the bad impression he bad created.
"And that," he continued in the same
tone, "was way back yonder, thirty or
more years ago, when the oil excitement
in Pennsylvania agitated the whole
country. I owned a farm up there
that I had taken for a debt of a thou-
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Docket T. No. IK.
In the circuit court of the United States for
the district of Nebraska, Hannah Oilier, com
plainant, vs. John J. Davis et aL, respondents.
In chancery.
Foreclosure of Mortgage.
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above cause on the 17th day or November, JKW,
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1900, at the hour of two o'clock In the afternoon
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Lot number three (3) in block number three
3) Pleasant Hill Sub-division, Lincoln.Nebras
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