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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1901)
THB GOURIER ( r rnentas lieutenants in the regular army, Nathan J. Shelton and Clarence B. Furay. The former is now in the Fili pincs holding a volunteer lieutenancy on one of the gun boats running eouth of Luzon. JuniuB Boyd and William P. Godson, both of Nebraska, are also or. dered up for similar examinations. Mrs. James Savage went to Boston Wednesday and will be absent four months. The hop last Saturday at the Coun try club was enlivened by tho presence of a larger number of the younger Bet than has been out there this season, and the warm evening brought out a great many just to enjoy the breeze that never fails to visit the club porches. Among the dancers were Misses Towle, Carita Curtis, Curtis, Lomax, Embry, Peck, Spurgeon, Burke, Moore, Ada Kirken dall, Kountze and Webster; Messrs. Charles Pratt, Otto Bauman, Howell, Gannett, Fred Hamilton, Haskell, Frank Hamilton. Keogh, Stewart, Gould.Dietz, Bruno of St. Louis, Henry Allen and Allen Smith. There recently came into our hands an old subscription list of a "private party" given-at Masonic hall on Decem ber 27, 1SS6. It is interesting as show ing the men who were prominent iu affairs of that kind at that time, includ ing, for instance, T. W. Stephens, R. G. Smith, Harry E. Moores, F. C. Simpson, Egbert Keller, Clark Redick, G. A. Rathbun, W. G Preston, Ed. K. S. Mc Cann, Fred RuBtin, Bert Wheeler, H. M. Rogers, H. A. Clarke, H. Cook, Wing B. Allen, D. C. O'Reilly, Fred Anderson, R. N. Hackney, Harry McCormick, Ed Sherwin, Harry Cremer, Stockton Heth, Charles A.Ellis, Billy Marsh, Hilton Fonda, Art Guiou, Chat Redick, Perry Badollet, A. F. Kountze, H. T. Lyman, Charles Kountze, Fred Preston, A. W. Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lininger and their granddaughter, Misb Marion Halt er, who have been traveling abroad for the past ten months, returned to Omaha last week Friday morning. During their tour they visited England, Ger many, France, Italy and the Holy Land. Mr. Lininger brought home many rare curios and paintings to add to his already interesting collection. Miss Gertrude Clarke is visiting in Chicago. She will spend the summer in the east. Miss Marie Crounse, who has been visiting in Hannibal, Missouri, and in Indian Territory, is the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. G. M. Hitchcock, The romantic marriage of Miss Eliza beth Josephine Campbell, daughter of Mr. William Price Campbell of 1910 South Twenty-third street, and Mr. Ira 0. Weatherill, took place Thursday, the lGth. Invitations were issued for the ceremony May 27, but the groom, who was on his ranch at Canyon City, was thrown from his horse and seriously in jured. On receiving the dispatch, Mies Campbell went to him immediately and the ceremony was performed by Rev. W. W. Ayres, at the home of the groom's uncle and the bride's aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Weatherill. The couple are now at Sa lida. Colorado, where Mr. Weatherill is in a hospital and improving rapidly. World Herald. "PICK." KATHARINE MKLIOK. For The Courier. One of the transports coming to tho Golden Gate is bringing a raw citizen to America. It is not certain that his own ideas of his future are as lucid as those of the simpIe-Bouled oriental who made hiB way to our own city not lone aco marked the tip of Bob's tail sink into a hole that ran down deep beneath the roots of a banana tree, and it was he who dived after and brought out the limp and recreant mascot of an inglo rious naval service. With his one eye batting like an agitated young owl's, tho little black wriggled out of hia hole and clutched Bob Evans tight. "i'lckaninny. Capitan: was nis one Ho is not as quick as hia wily broth era, but his is tho tibre of which nations are made. And fortunately for us and for him, our Uncle Sam had takon note of tho eamo, and will land him boforo long on our shores, to try an experiment worth watching. and is yet taking lessons in greatness of answer, as he squirmed away from tho THE DAY'S DEMAND. nis adopted father. But ho has been chosen as the gardener selects bis rare stocks for hybridation, and he mayor may not prove a Moses or a Boliver. He is a fair sized native, as Macca bebes go, but above the average in gro tesqueneBS of contour and expression this one-eyed pickaninny who devoted himself to an Iowa company of volun teers the moment they landed from the old "Penitentiary Ship." It was after the ninety days of cruise and Cavite de lay, after the long waiting on the old Pennsylvania that made her a prison ship forevbr to Iowa volunteers, that tho future came to Pick. As he was rolling himself contentedly in the waters of the bay, be saw a boat slip out from beneath the black shadow of the big bulk that had lain harmless and sullen for so many weeks in the harbor. There were two Americanos and a native in the boat, and they made such baste in the gathering twilight and among the swarm of boats, to get beyond the shelt ering curve, that Pick swam after them to eee what they did not wish to have seen. He did not see much. They landed,, seeming to shake the very sand in which the pickaninny lay, as they leaped with their heavy shoes to the shore. They shook themselves and lay down on the first green spot they reached to roll over and over in the grass. They encounter ed a knife-man whom the little native knew, and after much sign-talk, received his heavy, twisted blade, and gave him something. Then, turning quickly, one of them saw Pick's head slip down behind a rock like a turtle's. When the Americanos reached the landing place, there was only a soft splash far out at sea, and the native made hia explanatory gesture of "Pickaninny" cover the earth. Pick was everywhere that Americanos were in those days. They did not differ entiate him at first from the &warm that paddled in and out of the deep blue tides or silhouetted themselves against every skyline, and made the atmosphere black and blue. But "Cyclops Junior," as his one eye ard inscrutably ugly countenance christened him, rose above the herd, the day of the memorable landing from the "Penitentiary Ship." The mascot of an Iowa company broke ranks when the gang-plank was at last big white hands stretched out to ro ceive Bob. So it waa to tho little captain that one Francesco Suna delivered the company mascot, and it was to the big smile of the little captain that he surrendered bis allegiance henceforth (as many an other guileless bouI has done before and since). To be sure it was now the "Pickanin ny capitan" that Francesco Suna trailed after between engagements, and followed afar on the Maccabebe road. Four or five other small native hung about the cooking shack with greater or lees dili gence, but "Pick" soon quietly assorted the principle of survival by staying pow ers entirely beyond the capacity of bis volatile monkey brothers. When these young apes ran away with the straps they were given to clean, Francesco knew nothing about it, but he brought back the straps. When the fighting rations were in the rear, and the commis sary department stuck fast in a bam boo swamp, Francesco found a cellar full of well ripened mangoes, and eased the hearts and stomachs of a parching company. The knee deep dust or the chin-deep mud of the Maccabebe road made no difference to Pick. When you wanted him, he was there. The really remarkable thing, however, about this young Filipino, was his Pu ritan idea of duty. How the principles of John Knox ever sprouted in that black soil, let Him who made us answer. But certain it is that to Pick everything that is "main" is forbidden. When the boys taught him choice scraps of Ameri cano dialect, he invariably went to the "Pickaninny capitan" for enlightenment. If the phrase were pronounced "malo" it was consigned to the limbo of things unusable. Once when the captain went on a long 'hike," leaving Pick in camp, several of the guard who kept the station wbiled away the time teaching Francesco com plimentary speeches wherewith to greet the returning men. Pick was assured that the words were not "malo," and marched out when the first streak of khaki came down from the hills. As soon as the men "fell out" he went up to the captain, stood at attention, and with his une eye blinking in expression less regard, let loose a string of blood curdling oaths God give us men ! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts , true faith and willing hands , Men whom the lust for office does not kill : Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor ; men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ; Tall men. sun crowned . who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking , For while the rabble , with their thumbworn creeds , Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife. To ! freedom weeps ; Wrong rules the land , and waiting justice sleep . J. G. Holland. laid to shore. The fighting bull-dog, tain, who had left the hospital tent to Bob Evans, had remained ninety days take hiB men out that day, doubled up on shipboard, with no surreptitious visits with laughter at the solemn impreca- to terra firma. Now, as the sullen, tions, and then, at Pick's straight stare weary files rolled over, one of them was of utter disappointment, vowed to him- twisted like a hairpin, as Bob suddenly self that Francesco Suna should be put saw his way clear to land. beyond the mercy of the irreverent. He Between and around the logs of the got the boys together in his tent, and soldiers, out over the pier and on to a they talked over plans for bringing Pick The Strained Relations Between Finland and Russia. At present, as everybody knows, thoso are almost the worst possible. Twice within tho last tew months I have soon a capital where every woman was in black. One was London, whore tho people were mourning their dead queon; the other was Helsingfors, whore pooplo mourned their lost liberty. livery wo man in Helsingfors bore the black sym bols of personal woe. But personal pro test went much farther than this. When General BobrikolT, tho Russian governor-general, who was sent to carry out the new regime, took his walks abroad, every Finn who saw him com ing, crossed to the other side of tho street. When be patronized a concert for some charitable purpose, the Finns bought all the tickets, but not a single one of them attended. The hotols re fused apartments to ono of the Finnish senators who supported the Russian proposals. By the indiscretion of a port er he secured rooms at one of the prin cipal hotels and refused to leave. Therefore the hotel was boycotted and it is temporarily ruined. The Russian authorities, intending to make the Rus- The tired, dusty cap- Bian ,aD&uage compulsory in all govern Miss Helen Peck left Wednesday for Chicago to attend the wedding of Miss Elizabeth Sellers and Mr. Horace C. Hutchins. Mrs. C. E. Yost gave a beautiful luncheon last week Friday, at which the guests were MeEdames E. M. Morsman, W. W. Morsman, Redick, Joseph Barker, Belden, Coutant, Brinker, Pritchett, stretch of the tangled green, with his nose to the earth and his stub tail stif fened, went Bob. Pick followed to see, as did a third of the company, not at all unwilling to see their feelings expressed in simple brute sincerity. With his nose to the good green earth, Bob ran round and round, in widening circles, barking his joy, until every hair began to glisten with the island heat. Still he shied from under every hand stretched out, and seemed to spin faster as his yelps grew fainter, and the men began to fear sunstroke or convulsions from the sudden joy that crazed his sea-wobbly legs. Then he disappeared. Nobody had McCord, Gannet-, Hull, Rogers, Arthur Been him, after his Navajo dance around Crittenden, Smith, Wood, Offutt and the edge of a nipa hut. Nobody but Miss Deering. Pick. It was he whose one steady eye to America. When Francesco was consulted next day, he was stolidly acquiescent. In deed, he wore with such calmness the new suit which was brought down from Cavite, that the captain wondered, until presently the suit and the pickaninny disappeared. "Has he skipped for tho timber?" the men aEked, but it was not long before some one found the young native in the cook shack washing the capitan's socks, the new finery religiouBlj laid aside. Francesco did not come back on the Senator that brought his regiment home. Some Filipino relative entered protest, and he was left behind. But a letter written in his own hand, has announced to his company in America that be will come to them and be their boy. ment departments, invited several young Finnish functionaries to St. Petersburg, to learn Russii.n under very advantage ous conditions and with every prospect of official promotion. When the lang uage ordinance was published and these Finns saw why they were desired to learn Russian, they immediately rn. signed. The Russians took charge of the postal system of Finland and abol ished the Finnish stamps. Thereupon the Finns issued a "mourning stamp," all black except the red arms of Finland and the name of the country in Finnish and Swedish, and stuck it beside the Russian stamps on their letters. The Russians retorted by strictly forbidding its sale and destroying all letters which bore it. Now it is one of the curiosities of philately. So the wretched struggle goes on, and the young Finn turns his eyes and often his steps toward the United States and Canada. From "Russia of Today," by Henry Norman, M. P., in the June Scribner's. It is something to make people cry, mora to make them laugh, most to make them think. June Lippincott. SI
