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. . . . THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA . . .
THE COURIER
SCHOOL OF nusic.
Would call the attention of all who desire a musical education to the unequalled facilities offered at this school
WTIIvIvARD KXMBAXr,, Director.
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NEBRASKAGIRL
RAISED A BREEZE.
It was in the early days of Hot
Springe, S. D., aa a summer resort. The
one hotel of the place, also the sanita
rium, was filled almost exclusively by
ranchmen and "cowboys from the sur
rounding region come for the most
part to seek relief from the rheumatism
that the exposure of winter had caused.
There was a sprinkling of other guests,
but the only woman besides the wife of
the proprietor, the clerk's wife and an
"old maid" school teacher who had
come for a rest; and the men numbered
over a hundred.
Among them was an old soldier from
Nebraska, relates the Chicago Inter
Ocean. He had been a major in an
Eastern regiment, had been wounded at
Bull Run, and now, years afterward,
was suffering still from the effects of
that old wound. When he heard the
ighs of lonely masculinity for "just one
pretty girl," he used to smile and
chuckle, and finally one day after dinner
he said:
"Well, boys, I guess that wish will be
granted when the stage comes from the
Gap tomorrow."
"Why, who's comin'?" cried the
choruB.
"My girl. She's only fifteen, but she's
lively enough to make you think there's
a dozen of her instead of 'one. She s a
regular Nebraska breeze."
The stage was escorted by a veritable
guard of honor when it drove up to the
hotel next day. Bill, the driver, thought
it "parflckly 'stonishin " how many of
the boys had to ride over to the Gap on
busines that morning, and, though there
waa always a goodly gathering on the
broad verandas to welcome the newcom
ers, on this occasion the guests fairly
outdid themselves, and even those whose
aching and stiffened joints forced them
to the regulation wheeled chair, came
out to see what the major's daughter
looked like.
There was a murmur of disappoint
ment as they saw that the seat beside
the driver yes, even the seat behind
him was empty.
"Guess she didn't come," said one of
the invalids. "She'd have been outside,
sure; I 'lowed to see her sitting 'side of
Bill and holdin' the lines."
"Ob, Bhe's there, all right enough.
Just look at the grin on Bill's phiz.
He's proud of his load this time, sure."
Bill executed his customary sweep up
to the steps with a special flourish and
stopped suddenly, just as the major ap
peared in the doorway, and in the Bame
instant the stage door flew open and
there ruBhed up the steps a figure whose
appearance drew a sigh of satisfaction
from the expectant observers. Tall and
in every line matured beyond her years,
she was a picture delightful to contem
plate. "Hello, papa!" she cried, and gave the
happy old major a hug that made him
an object of green-eyed envy to at least
forty masculine hearts, and then with
out more ado Bhe carried her father off
to her own room, where they could talk
together undisturbed. Bill, in the bar
room, wae the target of a dozen ques
tions a second. Finally he commanded
silence by one impressive sweep of his
arm, and said:
"Now, if you boys'll just keep quiet,
I'll tell you all there is to tell."
"The major, he told me before I left
this morning, that she'd want to arive
fust thing; said she'd git the lines out o'
my paws 'fore I'd know a thing about
it, and so I was to request her to ride
inside, and say her paw said so. Well,
when Bhe got off the cars, of course, I
knowed right away she was the one, and
she came right up to me and says: 'Is
the box seat engaged?' Says I: "I'm
Borry, Miss, I can't furnish you with no
outside Beat today; it's against your
paw's orders.' She laughed and showed
her pretty teeth, and in she popped
without a murmur. Powerful sorry I
was.
"But wheo we got just this side o' the
Gap, that blamed new mustang got a
spell o' jumpin', got his leg clean over
the trace. For a few minutes things
was lively. I couldn't git the horses
still enough so's I could get down, when
all at once there comes a big black hat
up over the rail, and 'fore I knowed it,
there was a young lady in the box Beat.
" 'Give me the lines,' sayB she, cool
and smilin' as you please, 'and you git
down and 'tend to that mustang. I'd
do it, but he don't know me, and I might
git kicked.' She just took the lines out
o' my hands, held 'em exactly like me,
and down I went on orders and got that
cues back where he belonged. When I
climbed back again she didn't Bay
nothing, jist grinned and kept the lines.
Then some of the boys that went over to
the Gap this morning began to ride up
close, and she says to me: "F you'll
slow up a bit, I'll go back inside,' and
'fore I fairly knowed what she was at.
she swung off and was inside, out o'
sight. Now, that's all there was to it.
But I'd let her drive anything I'd drive
myself. She's got nerve and sense.
That's right."
Scant justice was done to the dinner
that day; the guests were too much oc
cupied in watching the chuckling old
major and bis pretty daughter, and
listening for the comment made by the
clear, young voice. The one thing
which most interested the eavesdrop
pers was her great interest in horseflesh.
She had come prepared to ride, and she
wanted something that would go; that
was her principal requirement. And
every owner of anything equine began a
mental canvass of the virtues of his par
ticular beast, in the ardent hope that he
might prove acceptable to the goddess
of the hour.
Before a week was past she was the
life of the bouse, and her father's name
for her was softened by the old doctor,
whose especial darling she was, into
"Breezy," uttered in every possible
tone of affection. She read and sang to
the sick, played pranks upon the well;
she instituted dances, in which "ladies"
were distinguished from "gentlemen'' by
the handkerchiefs tied on their left
arms; she found time to explore the
country all about, and observed eo keen
ly that by the third week of her 6tay
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she was cheerfully officiating as volun
tary guide to a party of timid women
tourists who spent four days at the
Springs. And to all who heard, her
slightest wish was law.
But all this sounds so demure. Now
Nellie was anything but that Who was
it who pinned the placard on the back
of the Chicago drummer who was the
dude of the Springs for a week, and
made him the laughing stock of the din
ing room? Who walked the balustrade
of the upper veranda with absolutely no
support, to prove that she had a "head"
that is, that she could look down from
high places and keep steady nerveu?
To say nothing of the bet of a box of
cigars against a box of candy that it waa
possible to "skin up" the bluff back of
the hotel at a certain almost perpendic
ular place. She won her wager in eight
of the terrified guests, who rushed from
their rooms at the sound of the falling
stones and gravel from the ledge which
gave way under her feet and left her
clinging "by her eyelashes," as she her
self said when she came sauntering
down the trail half an hour later. Breezy,
and only Breezy, hung the bunch of fire
crackers to the clerk's door at five
o'clock Fourth of July morning she
did it on a dare, and certainly did not
anticipate the sudden eruption into the
balls of half-clad men brandishing six
shooters and puncturing their inquiries
as to the cause and location of the
"trouble" by profanity, all the more em
phatic because bo long suppressed.
She could ride anything, the boys
said; she feared nothing. Bhe said her
self. And that is why it so annoyed
her that among all her devoted slaves
one man remained obdurate and flatly
refused to let her ride his horse. He
was that no longer rare exception, a college-bred
ranchman. He gave as an ex
cuse for his discourtesy the undeniable
vlciousnees of the beast; only half tamed
and full of the tricks dear to the cow
boy heart as a test of tenderfoot eques
trianism. Nellie was about to give up,
when she hit upon the expedient of po
litely intimating that Mr. Brown's true
reason for refusing her his horse was
bis fear that Modoc might meet with
some injury at her hands. This inti
mation, taken up by her whole throng
of aiders and abettors, no man could
endure. Brown yielded, and before a
score of eager listeners promised Miss
Nellie the horse as a reward it she came
home from the ride alive.
"Mind, I doa't say with whole- bones.
First Pub. Sept. 84.
In the district court of Lancaster county, Ne
braska. Herbert B.dawyer,
VS.
Burns E. Wedgo and Mildred J. Wedge, his
wife, Cbarlea K. Kidwall and Amanda An
derson, formerly. Amanda KIdwell, wife of
Charles R. KIdwell, Levi Wilhelm, and At
Tin NeUon. and Martha A. Nelson, his wife.
Rnfut E. Wedge and Mildred J. Wedge. Mia
wife, Cbarlea R. Kidwell and Levi Wilhelm will
take notice that on the S3rdLday of August, VJOO,
Herbert Ii. Sawyer, plaintiff herein, filed his
petition in the District Court of Lancaster
county, Nebraska, against said defendants, the
object and prayer of which is to foreclose a
certain mortgage executed by the defendants.
Rnfus E. Wedge and Mildred J. Wedge to one
James K. Seeler upon lots 13 and U in block 3
jot W. H. Irrlne's second addition to the city of
Lincoln, located on the north one-half (n S ,
of the southwest quarter s w ). of the south
west quarter iswH'ot section eighteen! 18 .
township ten (10), in range seven (7), east, to
secure the payment of a certain promissory
note dated September 1, 1900, for the sum of
seven hundred C$700.00) dollars, with interest
at seven per cent per annum and duo and pay
able on the first day of October. 1895, and that
there is now dne upon said note and mortgage
the sum of twelre hundred I S13W.0O) dollars,
that said note and martgage has been duly
assigned and is now owned by the plaintiff.
Plaintiff further prays in fits petition that a
mortgage executed by Charles K. Kidwell and
Amanda Kidwell to the said Rufus E. Wedge,
and by the said Rufus K. Wedge assigned to
Levi Wilhelm for the sum of JI6O.0O, given Feb
ruary IS, 1893r be declared a subsequent and in
ferior lies to that of the plaintiff.'
Plaintff further prays for a decree that the
defendants be required to pay this said mort
gage of $1200.00 and that said premises may be
sold to satisfy the amount found due. You and
each of you aro required to answer said peti
tion on or before Monday, the 8th day of Octo
ber, 1900.
Dated August 28. 1900.
Herbert B.Sawter, Plaintiff.
By A. W. Field, his Attorney.
First Pub. August 11, 1900-5
master's SALE.
Docket T. No. 132.
In thft elivilffc rnurt nf tht TTnltiwl Ct.t.u rn
me aisinct or rueDraska. Hannah Oliver, com
plainant., vs. John J. Davis et aL, respondents.
In chancery.
Foreclosure of Mortgage.
Public notice Is hereby given that In pursu
ance and by virtue of a decree entered in the
above cause on the 17th day of November, 1W8,
I. A. J. Sawyer, master In chancery of the cir
cuit court of the United States for the district
of Nebraska, will on the 10th day of September,
1900, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon
of said day at the east front door of the county
court house building In the city of Lincoln, Ne
braska, sell at public auction for cash the fol
lowing described property, to-wit:
Lot number three (3 in block number three
i3) Pleasant Hill Sub-division. Llncoln,Nebras
ia situate in Lancaster County. Nebraska.
A. J. Sawter.
Master in chancery.
Webster & Flehartt asd H. F.Bose,
Solicitors for Complainant.
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