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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1901)
THE COURIER. H I 1 In Cffi5i2ii '"Wi .on. sHi ksi&si! v;&kewm( CAN'T HAVE I MANY TOWELS. m m This is true of every household No mat- tv.i iiu juaujr )uu nave 3rou can nnci use or raoie, and here's an excellent excuse for purchasing- more. You can purchase the very kind you need most for about half price. ;f xl s u. special saie to dispose ot a big- lot we purchased Irom a crowded maker. He sac- we give you the benefit of his rificed the g-oods and loss. m 8c Linen Huck Towels, red, blue and white border, size 17 x 33 inches, fast edge, hemmed, each.. Linen Huck Towels, same as above, 18 x 34 inches, worth 18c, special price, each 10c r.itioti TTtwlr TVm'olo 1Qv9Ri : .-1.0,. ...-ii. on. ;SvJ white and red borders, special, each 13c sSV Linen Huck Towels. 21 x 39 inches, worth 30r anywhere, special price, each 17c Pure Linen Huck Towels, 23 x 45 inches, hem- sutcneu, iancy borders, an easy OUc value, special, each 25c Satin Damask Table Linen, bleached, 70 inches wide, $1.00 goods, per yard 67c j recommended to ub for his ekill and honesty by tho proprietor ot the hotel a moat unusual thing, for the Filipino ri has uenuired such a renutation for treachery and dishonesty that it is rare indeed to tind any one, even his own countrymen, willing to take the reepon eibility of recommending him for aDy position. In this case I am bound to say in justice to both that we never had cause to complain. Federico was about forty years old, very quiet, dignified and uncommunicative. No doubt his Email salary was eked out by many little com missions, for the marketing was left entirely to him. lie was required to bring us an itemized list of his pur chases every day but as we were com pletely ignorant ot the actual prices and had no way ot knowing what they were, we were none the wiser. I once insisted upon going to market with him but placing me behind a booth in chargo ot a pretty Filipina friend with whom he seemed to have an excellent under standing, he excused himself for a mom ent and 1 saw nothing more ot him until he came to tell me he waa ready to go home. However, I believe him to have been honest as he understood it. In any case, it would have cost us morj to have done the marketing ourselves, for where he received one commission should have paid two. Through ifflS? fiJieivoMvaiQ NOT for many years has The Outlook published a serial feature which has atti acted such widespread attention as Booker T. Washington's autobiogra phy, "Up from Slavery." These articles are now to be published in substantial book form, by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., of New York, and we have arranged to make a most unusual and attractive offer to you for an advance order. The arrangement with Messrs. Doubleday, Pae & Co., who are also publishers of "The World's Work," a magazine of a new kind, beautifully illustrated, and edi ted by Mr. Walter H. Page, provides for the offer of the following- at exactly half price. Full year's subscription to THE COURIER $1.00 "Up from Slavery," by Booker T. Washington, Price, net 1.50 A full year's subscription to The" Outlook, for an cne not now on our books, fifty-two numbers including- the twelve Illustrat ed Magazine Numbers. Price 3.00 A full 3Tear's subscription to The World's Work, Price 3.00 Total list price of the three.$8.50 Kindly bear in mind that this offer should be accepted at once, in order that the Washington autobiography ma' be sent you as "soon as it comes from the binders. THE COURIER CO. All for $4.50 If Ordered Now ytm sxsxiysxxs) x5W6SXGX8xxse HUTCHINS fc HYATT, SELECT OAK AND HICKORY WOOD LBKGTH. SAWED -AJV: e( i itvxvbxu. were very small. S and cal we Federico we engaged a house boy, For- tunato, about sixteen, graceful, smiling and with a burning ambition to wear a white suit and speak English. His satisfaction was unbounded when he was able to say, "Dinner ees eerv."' And so one day our baggage, our boys and ourselves formed in profession for the little house in Ermita and a new experience was initiated. Of course there were hitches, but in the main, everything went very smoothly. I Boon found it expedient to lengthen the in tervals between my excursions into the culinary department where it was evi dent my presence occasioned considera ble surpriso and waB neither expected nor desired. At last completely per meated by climatic indifference and ut terly regardless of heredity and training I retired altogether, content to act on the principle that "What the eye doth not see the heart doth not rue." Upon the table by my chair stood a little bell which I tinkled when habit got the bet ter of apathy, and somewhere from the depths below would faintly sound, 'Senora," and a scurry of bare feet. Soon a bata would come running up tho stair two steps at a time pulling on his coat meanwhile, to find out what was wanted; but alas! the filling of my order was a matter of more deliberation, for the very air in Manila is saturated with "Manana." We are told that hurry and worry in the tropics are suicidal; this beingsoitis evident that Providence has provided well for her eons of that region for these are qualities absolutely wanting in their physical and mental make-up. There was little variety in our daily fare and it contained few things that were new to us except as to fish, which was always perfectly fresh, of fine Havor and deliriously cooked. Tiny sardines were fried in bunches of four or five, Bpread out like a fan, their tails pinched together to form the handle, and garn ished with slices of lemons about the size of a walnut with green rinds .and orange yellow centres; cold fried bocu dulec (sweet mouth) wsb served in a piquant French dressing with chopped tomatoes and green sweet peppers. There was a kind called bamos, a name I was able to remember because it sounded bo like camoit, and a great raaoy other varieties but with TagaJog names too difficult to remember. The oysters were very small and with a greenish tint that did not recommend them to the eye or taste; lobsters, also small, ine snnmps were am ares, a dimutive squid of a peculiar shndo of pink, worn served to us ub great delicacies. Fur meat wo had beef and occasionally mut ton from Australia which as a rule was tough and umanageablo owing to the necessity for cooking it as soon us pos sible after it was killed. It is said to be impossible to keop it sweet any length of timo even on ice; the same necessity spoiled in tho samo wny the chickon and game birds which were brought homo alive and allowed to run about tho kitchen until a halt hour before tho meal at which they were to bo served. Irish potatoes were imported from Hong Kong and were sweot and yellowish while the sweet potatoes or jams wero white and soggy; lettuce and tomatoes wero fairly good. One of the invariable courses at titlin was an omelet inado ot duck's eggs when hen's eggs were scarce; the eggs wore beaten up without milk, poured into a hot pan which was gently rolled from side to side until tho contents were of tho proper consistency, when cne pan was lifted from tho tiro and struck on the handlo by the other hand, thus tossing the golden mass into the desired shape. It was light as a feather, delicately browned and piping hot. Wo bought our eggs by the hun dred of a woman with a voice ami faco l'muy ximpalica' who brought them in a basket which she deftly poised on hor handsome head. She usually camo dur ing tiffin and Equatting on the floor beside her basket would begin by ask ing twice as much as she expected to get, artfully prolonging the parley until the end of tho meal when she would reach her "bottom price" from which no amount of further argument could movo her, and the matter jvas settled. The meal hour seemed to be a favorite timo for the visits of this class of traders; the conclusion of a bargain was usually followed by the native element concern ed retiring into the kitchen where no doubt they discussed our eccentricities over a bowl ot our rice. SPRING. KM1LY (ICIWITtt (For The Courier ) A robin sat singing high up in a tree , As happy as ever a robin could be ; Till a boy came along, down below, with his gun , One flash, and the song of our robin was done . A violet blossom so meek and so fair, Bravely held up its head in the cold April air ; Till a horse, coming down to the river to drink , Crushed the life from our violet , there by the brink . A bicycle rider Just new to the art , Started out on the street with a sad, trembling heart ; Met a cow by the roadside what could you expect? The wheel and the rider and cow, all were wrecked . Do you ask why I tell such a pitiful tale , At the sound of which strong men and maidens grow pale ? Why of woe and of death and destruction I sing ? 'Tis a twentieth century poem on "Spring l" TOGO UP IN SMOKE. Connecticut is putting on airs. Ex periments have shown that Sumatra wrapping tobacco, fully equal to the imported, can be produced in that state in unlimited quantity. Being a tropical plant it must have conditions created for its growth, and this is done by cov ering the ground with tents made of cheese cloth. The plants grow nine feet high, with leaves sixteen inches long and of the finest texture. The in dustry will add at once a million dollars to the value of the state's tobacco crop with prospects of large increase. II i il n