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regularly set out to do it. Did I tell
you Louie was up again list nigbt? I
often tell him he should not neglect
that other girl but he juet will come no
matter what I say. It isn't my fault"
This eounds like an extract from a
"Cheerful Idiot" doesn't it? But it is
instead an excerpt from real life. There
was a lot more and I hear it often. I
haven't catalogued her quite yet; but if
denly failed and ehe was compelled to go
south and will probably never be able
to return, but this library will remain
aa a monument to her literary tastes
and interest in the dissemination of
good literature. Two professional men
of the city were selected to address the
woman's club on the appointed fifth
Saturday. One of them Dresented the
value and neceesity of a library in so
convincing a manner there seemed
I ever fizare the snecies out satisfac
torily, I'll let you know; but this much nothing else to do but to inaugurate the
is true she exists a long scantling built work. The other presented a general
girl and this is part of her opinion of plan for raising the necessary funds,
herself. Alas! Poor Mr. B . which was carried out to the letter.
Whn T hfKran in write vnu a dav or This was followed by pulpit discussions
two since the elements and myself were of the beneficent and refining influences
colorless and all but dumb. Much of good books. Tbe newspapers co-op
N'
erated most cordially. A mass meeting
was held and subscriptions called for at
the close of an effective exhortation.
Then twelve committees were appoint
ed to solicit funds, each committee be
ing assigned a specific district, of which
the members of the respective commit
tees were residents. The most hopeful
had expected to raise 12,500. When the
business districts, which have usually
been mainly relied upon for subset ip
tion purposes, failed to meet expecta
tions, it seemed that the effort would
But the
complete
for canvassing purposes that when the
residence districts were heard from
the result was pledges for nearly 83,000.
In addition to the cash subscriptions
more than one thousand volumes have
been presented to the library. What
ever may be the usual experience in this
work it is fair to say that a greater
portion of these contribution! are eli
gible to a place on the Bhelves.
The city council immediately recog
nized the popular sentiment and levied
a mill tax, tbe full limit of the law, for
library purposes. A library board wbb
appointed and it is expected that in a
few weeks the public library will be in
running order.
The surprising part of it all was the
readiness of the public to respond. A
dominant enthusiasm was easily aroused.
could not be acid of me, even now; but
the world has bloomed into a magnifi
cent aun flower. From the bewildering
colon of the florists windows to the
green grocers at the corner where piles
of delicate green lettuce makes a cool
background for soutnern strawberries.
every sunbeam whispers that travel is
over and the birth of beauty is here.
Te Deum Laudanum! from the swell
ing throats of liberated birds! Te Deum
Laudamus! from the bursting hearts of
earth's green hopes! Te Deum Lauda
mus alas! more slowly, lees triumphant- not be the success hoped for.
ly, less joyously from the souls of His system was so thorough and
Own, wrho live and breathe of the wine
of Life because He, willingly bore the
cross and took the bitter cup from their
lips. Are you smiling? Are you say
ing, "Somebody must have preached an
uncommonly fine Easter sermon, to so
aroused my Penelope." I did a most
unusual thing, one with which perhaps
you would have had scant sympathy.
I followed a devoted people on their
Pilgrimage "The Way of the Cross" and
I saw one chastened woman who bore
on her face, traceE that led you to be
lieve every step of the way she suffered
with her Lord. She too was carrying a
cross to Calvary and when they pierced
Those Blessed hands and feet, they
draw upon her blood. I couldn't tell
even you, I could never tell any one how
her act of devotion sank into my very
soul. It wasn't the act of two thousand It was Boon discovered that a well-to-dn ' .
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she lift even the weight of a garment's
hem from those who still tread the way,
her face told me it would illume some
sad place in her soul. I asked about
her and the sister told me '
suffered sore distress." But I
well enough before; but whether her
sin or another's some day Christ will
lift again the cross.
Lovingly Yours,
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The Fremont Public Library.
A creditable library is just being es
tabliehed in Fremont and perhaps the
brief story of how it has been success
fully brought into existence will be of
interest and profit to other towns am
bitious for such a public blessing. And
perhaps the story of its establishment
may show them that, after all, there is
not such a great distance between a
dream and its realization. Fremont
has done more wonderful, but no more
worthy, things than to make this library
a possibility.
Let it be said for the encouragement
of thw club women of Nebraska that the
birth of the idea was in the stimulus
received at the State Federation held
last fall n Lincoln. The Fremont del
egates were greatly interested in re
ports of library efforts made at other
places in the state. One of those dele
gates
citizen had already anticipated the
matter and had a stipulation in his will
to set aside $10,000 of his estate to erect
a library building. It is therefore prob
able that when this bequest becomes
available (being dependent on the lon
gevity of the citizen) Fremont will have
a library worthy of such a building.
The legislature at its last ses;ioa
passed laws making it easier to carry on
library work. A state commission was
created and the limit of taxation wa3
raised. With these helps and the exam
ple of Fremont's successful efforts, oth
er towns may well be encouraged to
similar undertakings.
Ross L. Hammond.
Ill
Successfully Treated by the British Doctors
and They will Make No Charge for
Their Services to All "Who Call
at Their Office at the Cor
ner of JJth and NSts.,
Lincoln, Nebr., Be
fore May 12th.
A staff of eminent physicians and
Burgeons from the British Medical In
stitute have, at the urgent solicitation
of a large number of patients under
their cars in this country, established
a permanent branch of the Institute in
this city in the Sheldon block, corner
of Eleventh and N streets.
These eminent gentlemen have de
cided to give their services entirely
services rendered for
three months to all who call before May
12th.
The doctors treat all forms of disease
and deformities, and guarantee a cure
in every case they undertake. At the
first interview a thorough examination
is made; and, if incurable, you are frank
ly and kindly told so; sIbo advised
against spending your money for use
less treatment.
Male and female weakness, catarrh
and catarrhal deafness, also rupture
goitre, cancer, all skin diseases and all
diseases of the rectum are positively
cured by their new treatment.
The chief consulting surgeon of tbe
Institute is in personal charge.
Office hours from 9 a. m. till 8 p. m.
No Sunday hours.
Special Notice If you cannot call
send stamp for question blank for home
treatment.
Discharge of Ear Permanently Cured.
Lincoln, Nebr..
April 6, 1901.
Editor Courier:
This is to certify that I have been suffering
from a discharge from my ear for two years,
without rinding any cure or relief. I was cured
sound and well by the British Medical Institute,
and the discharge was completely stopped w ith
one month's treatment. Alex. A cdell.
Crc-ca, Nebr.
flcation breathed mystery, the sheep
from the goats, so to speak, the little
girls all one side the central aisle, the
little boys all the other and to overstep
tbe line of demarcation a thing too ter
rible to contemplate.
"Many things were strange. That
one muBt get up suddenly when a bell
rang, waB strange.
"And to copy digits until one's chub
by fingers, tightly gripping the pencil,
ached, and then to be expected to take
a sponge and wash those digits off, was
Btrange.
"And to be told crossly to sit was be
wildering, when in acswer to c, a, t, one
said "Pussy." And yet there wsb Pussy
washing her face on the chart, and Miss
Clara's pointer pointing to her."
Emmy Lou's experiences ought to
teach school mistresses something.
LITERARY NOTES.
ELEGY.
He said to his hairs: "Oh hairs, few hairs,
That grow on the top of my head.
It makes me feel sick
when my pate gets so slick
That it looks like a loaf of new bread."
He said to his hairs: " Oh hairs, thin hairs,
Each day you are growing more shy
And the hairs on my head
are all numbered, 'tis said,
But its numbers don't run very high."
William Reed Dunroy,
in Sioux City Tribune.
jars. J. .Muuin, president for three months-f medicines excentedl
of the Fremont Woman's club. It fell to all invalids who call upon them be
to her to provide four programs during fore May 12th" Tne" services consist
tte yemr. these being on the fifth Satur- n0 y- of u CODaltatjOD. . examination
" . '. .. B. UDUUUOl'ur and advice, but also of minor surgical
days of tbe month. She arranged that operations.
the aext fifth Saturday should be de- The object in pursuing this course is to
voted to the discussion or the library beme rapidly and personally acquaint-
a umhi. v .v in. j ea with the ck ana afflicted, and under
qasstioo. Meantime her.whealth sud- no condition will any charge whatever
The Mysteries of Learning.
The bewildering effects of a child's
first day at school are delightfully por
trayed in a story in McClure'a Maga-
zine for May, called "The Right Pro- "Were you not shocked," they asked
methean Fire'' by George Madden tbe sorrowful Boston woman, "when
Martin. Emmy Lou, the little heroine, your nusDan.d came home to you intox
has already figured in tha pages of Mc-
Clure'e, and she is good enough to be
admitted there regularly. In the pres
ent chapter she goes to school for the
first time, and meets with mystification
upon mystification.
The very manner of the infant classi-
icated?"
"I was," she acknowledged; "but I
scarcely know which shocked me the
more the fact that be was under tbe
influence of liquor, or the fact that he
manifested it by his language.'
"He wasn't abusive, was he?"
"Not at all; but he used the split infinitive."