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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1900)
10 THE COURIER. A- By-and-by another man came. He bad bushy white eye brows and a very red face. He walked with a cane and wore a bite euit with gold buttons. He and grandfather had a lone and very Btupid talk. Then we came away. But first, a nice woman with two long gray curls on each side of her face, came and gave me a big bunch of ilowers from the beds by the path. She walked all the way to the river with me, holding my hand. I wanted to squirm it away from her and run but I was afraid of the big man who walked with grandfather. We got into the skiff and I was glad. We rowed home under the same sky and past the same hills. I was hungry. When we got to our shore, grandfather said, "run on up to the house now while I tie the boat." I ran as hard as I tould and there was grandmother on the porch and we had apple dumplings for dinner. And grandmother said to grandfather, 'Did she make up with Alice?" And grandfather said, "She never opened her lips from the time we landed till we left. But I guess she had a good time. Didn't you, Toots?" And I said "yes," I did, only I was afraid of the man. I always had good times with grandfather. The next thing I remember, father brought me home a new Second Reader. I had learned to read at home. I do not remember who taught me. I have vague memories of a comfortable place on grandfather's knee, "and big black letters on his newspaper, which I traced with a painstaking little fore-finger. I find in mother's diary this entry. Marie has learned to read. 1 am at a los9 to know when or how. I am sure she did not know her letters at seven; she is now a little past eight. She started to school this mornirg, and her teacher requests that we get her a Second reader, etc. Thus dimly 1 know how I came into my greatest inheritance. After that I read everything I could lay my hands upon. There were few books after all The Bible, Sir Walter Scott's verses and Paradise Lost. These were all had for a long time, except my school books. I never cared for the Paradise Lost. But I knew Sir Walter Scott by heart, and made romances of my own by the score, after his pattern, when I was not in the midst of a real one in which a school boy was the hero. The first serious love affair I remem ber happened when I was in my eighth year. After that they were of regular semi-annual occurrence with an oc casional epidemic which increased the average sometimes to four, sometimes to six. Never to more than six I think. Marie is so shy," mother writes; "she never seems to care to play with Ru dolph's friends. She is quite devoted to her sex." Poor mother! But then I could not have told her and I was in deed too sby to let her see. My cava liers never came within sight of the house if I could help it. Of course now that I am crown up, all that is over I am seventeen, and too busy no? Why not be honest. There is John of course now, I shall be true to him forever. I have been en gaged to bim for a year. I suppose I ought to tell mother, But there! She does not like John I know; and besides, what is the use? There is time enough, and 1 might change my mind. One never knows what may happen. THEATRICAL). THE OLIVER. Julia Marlowe comes to the Oliver theater Tuesday. November 20, with the new successful play from the pen of Clde Fitcb, based somewhat remotely upon the poem of "Barbara Frietchie" and bearing the same title. The Bar bara conceived by Mr. Fitch is not an old woman, but a young and charming girl in love with a union soldier. The sweetness, freshness and grace of Miss Marlowe's acting and personality have perhaps never been brought out with morn telling effect than in Mr. Fitch's drama. Prices 50c, 75c, $1.00, 81.50 and ?2 00. Seats now on sale at box office. The society event of the season. Charles Frobman presents David Be lasco'a highly successful play, "Zaza," at the Oliver Friday, November 23. The engagement in New York extended for over a period of 250 nighte and played to houses at every performance tnat packed the theatre to the doors. The play is interesting, human, fascinating. The company has been selected with great care. Seats on sale Wednesday morning. THE FUNKE. Aiden Benedict's "Fabio Romani" will bo presented at the Funke opera house Monday and Tuesday, November 19 and 20. Marie Correlli, tho author of "The Vandetta," from which Charles W. Chase adapted the play of "Fabin Romani," is, by birth, half English and half Italian, her mother being a subject of Queen Victoria, and her father a de scendant of the old Romans. She is a powerful writer of the extreme romantic school, with a touch of the weird and uncanny in nearly all her works, such as "Ardath," "Tbelma,""A Romance of Two Worlde," etc.. but the strongest dramatically is "The Vendetta," and Mr. Cha6e utilized all its strong points in the play of ''Fabio Romani." Prices 15, 25, 35 and 50 cents. Seats now on sale. The Twice a-Week Republic Every Monday and Thursday a news paper as good as a magazine and better for it contains the latest by telegraph as well as interesting stories is sent to the subscriber of the "Twice-a-Week" Republic, which is only 1.00 a year. The man who reads the "Twice-a-Week" Republic knows all about affairs political, domestic and foreign; is posted about the markets and commercial mat ters generally. The women who read the "Twice-a-Wcek" Republic gather a bit of valu able information about household affairs and late fashions and find recieation in the bright stories that come under both the beading of fact and fiction. There is gossip about new books and a dozen other topics of especial interest to the wide-awake man and woman. TheCOURJER. i And any One Dollar Woman's dub Magazine 1.50 Briggs What does love amount to compared with money? Griggs A good deal. Why, I couldn't get any rich girl to marry me if she didn't love me. Town Topics. Doctor I'm afraid your wife will lose her voice. Enrec Let us hope for the best. Town Topics. Do you get your Courier regularly ? Please compare address. If incorrect, please send right .address to Courier office. Do this this week. Dashaway There ought to bo a law that no church should be located within a thousand feet of a lit k. Cleverton What for? Dashaway Wby, when I was driving off from the eighth hole, last Suoday, b Methodist minister in a neighboring church rattled me so that I sliced the ball. Town Topics. TODER TIIK DIRECTION OK 0. L CRAWFORD S F.C.Hi Corner 13th and P. Phone 354 The society event of the season. OJVE NIGHT ONIVY. Tuesday, November 20. JULIA MARfeOWB BARBARA FRIETGH I , A romance of the Civil War by Clyde Fitch. A historical drama founded on Whittier's famous ballad of the Maryland patriot. C. B. Dillingham, Manager, Prices: Lower floor, $1.50 and $2.00; balcony, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50; gallery 50c. On sale Saturday. One Ni&nt Only. Wednesday, November 21. HOYT' A TEXAS STEER The best pla' Hoyt ever wrote. Excellent company. Orig inal scenerr. P. ices 25, 50, 75, $1.00. Seats on sale Monday. ONE NIGHT ONXY. Thursday. November 22. Lincoln's Greatest Favorites, PRIMROSE &DOCKSTADEIT Greatest Minstrel Companj' on the road. Everything new this season. Prices 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Seats on sale Tuesday. One Night Only. Friday, November 23. Charles Frohman resents the enormous dramatic success, DAVID BELASCO'S version of 59 " 7AZA. As presented for over 200 nights in New York. Seats on sale Wednesda'. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 0. T. CRAWFORD AND F. G. ZEHRURG ' COR. O AND TWELFTH. PHONE COI NIGHTS M I 1 20 Twelfth year of AIDEN BENEDICT'S A Romantic Melodrama of Surpassing Excellence. Greatest of stage and scenic effects. Prices only 15c, 25c, 35c and 50c. Seats on sale Saturday. j s A i .iiSbfei-iuasaaiisS r .