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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1902)
tHE COURIER 12 c Career . . . oraXobbn8t Flashily dressed In gaily coloied clothing, a solidly built man of middle age was seated in the lobby of a cap ital city hotel not long ago. earnestly engaged In conversation with a prom inent corporation attorney. His pres ence served as a stimulus to the rem iniscent faculties of a former legisla tor, who broke out with words of se vere censure against the man with paste diamond and gold headed cane. "Ten years ago that man there was one of the brightest of a graduating class In southern Nebraska," said the legislator pointing to the Individual of gaudy apparel, "I handed him his diploma on that eventful night. Just previous to this I had let fall a few jtearls of wisdom for the benetlt of the incipient mind. And I thought that man there would be the last one to go astray. "No, never mind his name. If you don't know it, you will never have any honest incentive to find out. He will be here at the next session of the leg islature, the next and the next. Un less perhaps he gets caught in some particularly daring piece of work and has to seek some other field of opera tion. "There Is no term In the English language by which he may be called. Confidential agent, lobbyist, go-between, capper and political piker are some of the names more or less polite applied to his class. Boil them all into one concentrated epithet and you have him. "How did it happeif? Simple enough. Up under the dome a' multitude of men have met their moral doom In the same manner that he did. After his gradu ation he worked for a short time hon estly enough. Then a friend with exceedingly bad judgment got a place on a senate committee In the Nebraska legislature and brought the young fel low to Lincoln with him. Now never mind what year. Tou will be consult ing the records or asking some of the other members and finding out who this is. There was a year you remem ber, when a gang of fellows wanted railroads to lower freight rates and some other people didn't want It done. Well, the bill was up to the Nebraska senate and had just one vote more than enough to ensure its passage. To be exact there were seventeen in favor of the bill and sixteen against it. "One night there was a shady deal on. A member was hired to leave the state In order to defeat the bill. Our friend over there was loafing In an oil room and heard a chance remark which put him on to the game. He watched the conspirators and kept mum until the member in question had mysteriously disappeared. "In a burst of confidence he told one of the champion cappers what he knew. Now this man was not averse to making a little money so he put a flea In the ear of the callow youth. "He Instructed the lounger, who was supposed to be studying shorthand, to go to the man who had paid over the money and demand $200 as the price of silence and when the money was paid bring it to the capper. He found an apt pupil and inside of two days the money was in the clutches of the go between. "Of course Mr. Capper demanded half the money which the man who had been instrumental in the hold up readily paid over. When the fellows discerned that the senate hanger-on was familiar with the rules of the game he got a little lobbying to do In order to keep him quiet. Before the end of that eventful session he had passed the amateur stage and yearned for a professional standing. "He soon learned the ropes and did a good business. In the third session, for he stuck right with the business, he was the shrewdest of the lot. He comes around between sessions, though. He finds larger fees out west n Senator Clarke's country. "At rare intervals he comes hack. He possesses some Information under his hat which Is especially valuable to cer tain Interests. And you may bunk upon it, he gets his price, too. "Itich? Lord, no! He lives from hand to mouth. He has formed the habit of living with swell people, drinking the best liquors and staying at the highest priced hotels. He gam bles between legislative sessions and Is not as successful at that game as he is in impressing his individuality on the statute books. "The capper who helped him in his first hold up is dead. Too much whisky, good and bad. He was delir ious in his last moments, told the story of leading the kid astray and his last breath was spent In trying to articu late the name of the man who accom plished the undoing of the man who ran away." And the veteran legislator stopped short. The lobbyist was marching proudly out of the hotel. "Going to take the 11 o'clock train for Montana I presume. Good, he's better out of the state than in it but I never supposed I would have such a story to tell about that boy." " UlU iVIUKUAlM UAtSLfcr' 5S99$$&2r-$99V&ift Steel Trust President Charles M. Schwab, In his latest role of "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo," is mad clear through at the newspaper reports of his gam bling transactions. Many financial men stick to the story that J. P. Morgan cabled to Schwab to quit gambling. In School Days Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk Is seen. Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered sens. The jackknifes carved Initial; The charcoal frescoes on its wall; Its door's worn sill, betraying. The feet that, creeping slow to school Went storming out to playing. Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting; Lit ud its western window panes, And low eaves' ley fretting. It touched the tangled golden curls And brown eyes full of grieving Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled; His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mnigl -t. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left he lingered As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hand's light caressing. And heard the tremble of her voice As if a fault confessing. "I'm sorry that I spelt the word; I hate to go above you. Because" the brown eyes lower fell "Because, you see, I love you." Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing Dear girl, the grasses on her grave. Have forty years been growing. He lives to learn, in life's hard school. How few who iass above him Lament their triumph and his loss Like her because they love him. John G. Whittier Clubber You re not looking well; have you had the gout lately? 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