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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1901)
m I T II K CO l R 1 K .i iV - A STORY - Thanksgiving: A Monologue (Emily Guiwit.s.) Thf last rehearsal was over. With fussy hahte the sliiKers hatl withered together their small helonsiiiKs .ui.l buslltd out into the crisp November air Already the janitor was turnini; out the lights one HickeriiiK jet alone remained in the organ loft. Soon the ihtnvh would he dark and silent, the srey stone gleaming white in the moonlight. "The sopranos were in good form might." thought the organist, as lie gathered up the sheets of music and arranged them in order for the next la "That was a tine crescendo just Itefore the tenor solo. There was life and color in their singing generally it is leaden and colorless. If they do as well tomorrow I will he satisfied. Hut choir singers are so unreliable (hfy positively have no sense of per gonal responsibility. If one of them happens to have a headache, more than likely she will not appear, then the luartet will have to be cut out. and maybe one of the solos in the anthem. It's a mercy the boys are more faith ful than the girls. And what a volume of sound does come out of their little throats!" "Don't stop for me, John." he called to the waiting janitor. "I'll lock the side door when I'm through I believe I'll just run over this accompaniment once more before I go home." "What a wonderful composition this is." he said to himself, as he reverently opened "A Song of Thanksgiving." by Frances Allitsen. "In the majestic ex pression of a divine dictum I know of no song that is its equal. It is strong, severe, it breathes the atmosphere of serene, yet inexorable religious asceti cism. And Mr. Archer is worthy of the song." he continued, remembering how the magnificent voice rang out after the opening chords. "It is some thing to be thankful for that such music and voices exist in the world. Well. I'm irointr home it's not neces- .''tfjn' fn ct'n I,...- ..11 nlt.lit t. .. ,ku -"... v .iiaj inri tT till nielli wj-i ive're going to have a little special music tomorrow. Thanksgiving day. indeed: My spirit of thankfulness will lepend very largely on the number of rnpty chairs in the choir tomorrow." Walking swiftly down the deserted street. Organist John Rnrton soon reached a comfortable brick Hat where i cozy parlor and bedroom answered his requirements of a home. "Now that was kind of Lizzie." h thoueht. as the cheerful blaze of a lire met his eye on opening the door. "Just is if she hadn't enough to do without building fires in iny grate. I must bring Lizzie a little present tomorrow no. it's Christmas when one gives resents, isn't it? Well. I can bring her a (lower or two some of those frowzy-headed yellow things I saw in the window today. Girls always lik 'lowers I must remember it. I really must." "Well, I've nothing more to worry about tonight," he said aloud, as lu xated himself before the little the. "It seems to me I had something in mind to do this evening and if I'm not mistaken it was something pleas ant, too. O yes, it was to look over 'rauford's new composition. Bless the man. what a worker he is. to be sure! Teaching all day. playing twice on Sunday and with choir rehearsals nough during the week to drive him tark mad yet turning out a compo sition every little while that takes your breath away. There's a funny thing about Crawford's compositions -they're always indicative of his moods when he wrote them. His last Spirit Dance was written the night of the Howards' party, and the graceful httle fantasia Is. indeed, a 'dance of the spirits.' "-My. but he was blue when he wrote this nocturne! "Nocturne Doloroso- 1 wonder if the music is as mournful as the name?" Ro'ng to his piano John Barton Played page after page of the manu- script, sometimes repeating a phrase as if questioning his first interpretation. 'There's no need for Tom Crawford lo K teaching any longer." he said decisively, after turning the last page. "Why this nocturne is wonderful, it's simply magnificent! 1 didn't suppose it "as in the oli man to i. anything so good. He seems to have the knack of expressing his exact meaning in the notes and that's the point where all the rest of us fellows fall down. Its not for lack or ideas that we don't do something great its because we don't know how to express our ideas. It's easy enough to feel deeply about things, but to express thus.- feelings so they will produce corresponding motions in other people there's the point that sticks. Theie is comedy enough for a dozen plays in every hu man life yes and tragedy, too." he continued with a sigh. "Now look at my own life, for example. Queer how things happen to a fellow, one thing afte. another, with no apparent reason or sequence. Now I never would haw thought twenty years ago that I would be in Nebraska today." Leaning back in his easy chair ids thoughts called up in review the years already passed his boyhood's Knglish home those later years at ..a the landing in that little Knglish vil lage where he studied with the organ ist of the tiny church. What peaceful years those were and how proud he was on that first Sunday when he played through the whole morning ser vice! And Nelly the organist's dark- . eyed daughter she is sleeping in the little churchyard witli her hands fold ex 1 over her peaceful breast. Next those years of further study in London his father's death and the necessity for prompt and linal decision in regard to his future life. On the one hand the commonplace existence of an Knglish gentleman every energy directed to ward living up to his family traditions on the other hand obscurity, perhaps, but music a life devoted to the art he loved so well. Then the sudden re solve to leave old Kngland and trust his future to a foreign land the trip over the ocean seven years ago drift ing across the country to Nebraska and staying here simply from lack of am bition to pack up and go further. "After all. what difference does it make?" said John Barton, dreamily. "One place is as good as another for an humble individual like myself. Here I have my church organ and my piano here I can study and teach the im mortal works of the great masters--here I can contribute my mite toward the musical education of the world" "Arise and come up higher." said an angel who suddenly appeared at his side. "Thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee ruler over" "Mr. Barton. Mr. Barton." .ailed Lizzie's voice from the hallway. "Aint you comin' to breakfast? 'Cause it's eight o'clock and the coffee's all gettin' cold!" John Barton awoke with a stai t. My goodness, here It's morning." he said in amazement. "I must have gone to sleep in my chair why I nevei did such a thinjr before in my life! And it's Thanksgiving morning, too! (). I do hope those sopranos will all be on hand!" -Si --i -u THK lH'LINC. PASSION. "I tell you. our navy is full of hraw lighters." said Skidmore. True." added Kilduff. "and if there is no enemy t light, they will light among themselves."-The Middy. Doctor Above all things you must dismiss every source of trouble and anxiety. I'atient-Biit. doctor, that's impossi ble. I've just got a new automobile. Town Topics. . Little Clarence-Pa. is carlnilic acid very useful? Mr. Callipers To be sure it is. my son. A great many superlluous people .oiild hardly limit suicide without it. DR. IJEN.1. F. HAIUCY. OHU'c. .dining ltlock. Residence. 1:113 C street, l'iiones, ollico ill: residence 7I. Hours, u to 10 a. in.; 12 to P-MM; i to I p. m. Evenings by appointment. Sun days, 12 to 1 p. la., and by appointment. I). .1. H. THICK KV. IrticticiriK Optician office, tiro o street. Hour-., !' to VI it. in.: 2 to I p. in. F0R . F8R C0ATS FUR GAPES FUR G6I2LAR&TTES FURS OF ALL KINDS ( CO TO- O, STEELE .. Furrier.. IK SO. TWKLKTH STREET LINCOLN". NKi:. LOCKS X. WKXTK. I). D.S.. OFFICII ROOMS -.'it, -'7. I. HROWNELL III.OCK. 1:17 Ninth P.lcvciitli street. Telephone, Office. XU. Di:. HUTU M. WOOD. 112 SOITII S1XTKKNTH STKKKX. I'lioue LIII12. Hour, in to V-i a. in.; 2 ! I p. in. & cHia- IM Flowers 'rm m In Endless Variety all the best stock . . . We'll fill Thanksgiving orders by phone or mail. If you arc going to have a dinner or der a few" flowers. We expect to be in the Kutler Mock, In rear of Miller & Paine', in a week or two -In the meantime we are at 36th ami It Stv Stackhous & Greer nr The New Florists. I'HONE F1019. M. H. Kirriin m, Ml)., I'har.D. Practice limited to EYE. KAK. NOSE, THKOAT. CATARRH, AND FITTING SPECTACLES, l'lione HIS. Hours, li to. ri; Sunday. 1 to.::iii. Rooms :ii:t-:sil Third Floor Richards ISIiK-k, Lincoln. Neb. .1. K. MAUUAItl). M. I).. LINCOLN. NEK. Oilier. I WO 0 street Rooms 2P.:. 21:1, -'II. Richards Itlock; Telephone .J.T.'i. Residence. 1310 G street; Telephone. KlKI Ladies! WE MAKE SWITCHES AND POMPADOl'RS TO ORDER, DO HA1RDKESSING. SHAMPOO ING, and GIVE SCALP TREAT MENT. APPOINTMENTS MADB 11V PlIONK. AGNES RAWLINGS Phon .is in SOUTH 12TH $ ' ' '-''v-'UHJS'tS' J.v v 'it jt "Jt .y.jC'jmjt I H. W. BR0WN Druggist and Bookseller WHITING'S FINE STATIOXEltY AND CALLING CARDS. it l'J7 So. Eleventh Street. Phone 6 -.. the Franklin Ice Cream and Dairy Co. Maiiiifacturers of the rine-.t quality of Plain and Fancy ICE CREAM. ICES. FROZEN Pl'DDINGS, FRAPPE. and SHERBETS. Prompt delivery and atiifaction guaranteed. 133 South 12th Street. Phone 205. Rudge & Guenzel Co. Things Colonial 1118-1126 N Street (& ! ifl)) f Two i-hoiee reiroIiictiiii- shown belnw, and we carry manv quaint, odd jiieeeuth a IH'SH'liOrrOM MAHOGANY ROCKERS OLD COLONY CHAIRS COLONIAL TWIN REDS etc., at prices you pay in other -.tore- for ery ordinary deMjnis. None of the "old feeling" ha lieeii l in re iro4luciiiK thi table. Made in Milid iiuihoKauy. .siitin rinished. in 27. 3U. and 3r. inch top. and the prices ranj:e from $15.(HI to.tO.W). We have just brought out this deii;ii in lxiiu tifully figured oak, and in the new Antwerp fin ish, as inch top. at $!.00. We show the Weathered. Flemish. Belgian, Antwerp, and Golden Oak, in wax finish. An old Virginia home furnished the original of which this- beautiful piece is a copy. Tlie clean cut lilies of the mahog any frame, and the one color silk uphol tering, gives this Davenport a chaste, classic character. And there's a cure in the Kick, and a shape in the x-.it that imparts to one u satisfying restfulnc-s not often found in jiarlor furniture. COLONIAL DAVENPORTS. $J toli".. COLONIAL CHAIRS to Match. - to10. Any (looil Thini; to Furnish a Home Garland Stove Agents ;'' W r - s. 's - - tfs W. 'W-,' ? - r -c:- il Hi i 1 1 ( ii.