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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1901)
THE COURIER. 8 1 I i h v. ,- from the way, gotten and aide walks are preempted from six o'clock on. People are flocking borne from re sorts far and near, and everybody bad the "most perfectly lovely time." Those who did not catch eimply huge fish are the persona who do not like to fish. I heard one enthusiastic sports man just returned ask a girl who had been at a lake resort, if she had caught any fish. ;Mercy no!" she replied, "I did not try; I was afraid." "Afraid," be exclaimed, in amaze ment, "afraid of what?" "That I would catch a fish," she laughed. I could thoroughly appreci ate her feeling. Girls do not look quite so attractive after they have returned to their nor mal conditions, with their brown bands aad faces, the result of a hatless, sleeves to-the-elbowB summer. 1 have an idea that lemons and buttermilk will be in great demand as the society girls seek to whiten themselves in anticipation of the AkSar-Ben ball. No one seems to have hazarded a gueea as to the King and Queen yet. Since the King must bave money, youth and beauty being requisite only for the Queen, it is not necessarily a difficult proposition. How useless it seems to try and in tereet one's self in little tawdry events while that great question which is be ing solved in the distinguished sick room at Buffalo is unanswered. I considered myself a rather colorless, opmionleea person until the awful news came flashing over the wires last Fri day. Then my patriotism, love of coun try and party sprang, fully armed, to life. I am not concerned about the out come, some way, but I say with Mr. Bryan "Oh! the bitter humiliation of it!" It is a dishonor to the flag, to those dead and gone patriots who blazed the way for this great republic. It has dis honored us, ana those who shall come after ub. It seems to me the most senseless, hardest to forgive crime in the annals of history. Thank heaven! we can safely trust the outcome to Him who watcheth over Israel . For the red handed assassin dared to strike not only the highest official, but also at the Lord's anointed! There comes the rain! Buckets of it, fully sustaining the reputation of Ne braska for doing well anything it at tempts. By the way, can you tell me it Mr. Zehrung is affecting particularly noisy hosiery this season? A letter from an Iowa girl friend recently makes inquiry as to whether 1 am acqup led with the above-named citizen of your city. She ayB he is "just lovely," and wears quite too utterly utter hose. In fact, I judge that, although she admired him, his apparel impressed ber still more. Such is fame! If you do not write me pretty soon, my enthusiasm is likely to fade away. Penelope. tts LINCOLN LETTER. Lincoln, Nebr., September 10, 1901. Dear Penelope: One of those long silences superin duced by heat and summer ennui has dropped, like a curtain, before my com munications to you. You have been good enough to write, but then you have been in a cool place where thought is not soured and thickened by a sun which seems only a mile or two away. Lincoln has been baked this summer and everybody who has stayed in it now wears a chastened look and as little be sides as the police or society allow. The man in the sleeping car whose thirst was at last quenched could not forget how thirsty be was and still kept the rest of the passengers awake by groan ing about how thirsty he was before he got the water. We can sympathize with him, and are still expatiating on the heat which has but just declined and the crops which are still dried up and unmatured. We were shocked for a moment out of our monotonous plaints by the assassi nation of a beloved president, but the doctors say he is sure to get well and they would not say so unless they were convinced, because now if anything should happen there would need to be some very elaborate explanations. There is therefore nothing to take our minds off our too recent sufferings and our present losses. The fields of corn stretch away in every direction from Lincoln, withered and yellow, the leaves rattling stiffly like a rattlesnake's warning, Nebraekans have lost heavily by this summer's drought and it is not surprising that they are still talking about it. There is nothing like hunger to start a baby to making a loud noise and there is noth ing like the loss of money to start the people into voluble complaints. There fore, Penelope, in your cool retreat lis ten to the voice of the Nebraska farmer and the regrets of the trades-people who exist to serve him and his wife and children, nor say that the dirge-like notes weary and depress you. Poets who do not keep close to the people are not long remembered. They have but little influence and they get a reputa tion for profundity which is death to a poet You know my aspirations to write poetry that is good enough to lull the suspicions and scrupleB of a manag ing editor on a daily newspaper? It ib not an exalted ambition, but bo far I have not attained it. Somebody told me the other day that you were getting more and more literary and that even in Omaha where "they" are so particu lar about what gets into the newspapers, your stories, essays and critiques are eagerly sought for by editors. I should think so, indeed, and they might have shown discrimination some time ago. But, Penelope dear, to be snubbed and ignored has been the lot of all the truly great. If publishers took us up and petted us thus early in our careers would it not be a sign that we possessed the ephemeral talent of an Edwin Mark ham rather than that of the immortal poets we both revere? However, there is no sign of an approaching and fatal popularity here in Lincoln. The "C" editor barely allows me to write for the paper, and when I ask her about the quality of my work she looks solemn and changes the subject and says the Ibtters are well enough, especially when they provoke a reply from you. There are a number of men in Lin coln who want to be policemen. These periodically stir up eome councilman or somebody who writes letters to the newspapers to urge the enlargement of the police force. Seems to me we have enough policemen considering how finite their intelligence when it is desirable to discover a murderer or prevent an assas sination. You may have read about the murder a few weekB ago of a Mr. Gilli Ian. Mr. Uillilan waB a quiet, peace able man with a saving sense of humour which displayed itself in a qui3t, unob trusive sarcasm and a sane conduct of his life. A recent evening he was return ing from his down-town office, it is sup posed, though no definite record of his movements can be found after he left- the home of a friend. He had a bundle of innocuous theosophical magazines under his arm and as he walked along he was considering the problems which theosophy professes to settle. Suddenly he was assaulted and killed, not without a struggle, for the magazines were scattered about the sidewalk. Investigation has only con firmed the general opinion of Mr. Gilli Ian in regard to his character and his (f)peningana growing of Nw Fall Furs, guits, rcss Fabric8' Etc., attire . . . . OPENING OF FURS. Second Floor. Our Fur business increased double last season. Tin only reason we can ascribe this to is the fact that wo will sell only the high grade qualities at the lowest legitimate price. Furs of every description will be found in our stock. 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Positively the& richest line ever brought to this: city. It is worth a visit it will interest you. China Department, 2d floor. "v-i
