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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1902)
THE CO U R T KR 0 THESE MEN PROMINENTLY CONNECTED WITH THE PRINCE'S VISIT i; caul srnritz. The prominent Geriiian-Amerii-an will take part in till" reception of tin prince, despite the fact that lie at one time nanowly escaped hanging by the Kaiser's executioner. PltlXCK IIKXItVS MIUTAItY AND XAVAL AIDKS. Major Von I'lessen will acconiiany Prince Henry as his military aide dur ing Henry's visit to this country. Von I'lessen is adjutant to the Kaiser and stands high In his favor. Admiral Von Tripitz. seretary of the I'russian Imperial navy, will be the chief aide of I'rince Henry during his American tour. He will travel on the Kron I'rinz in a stateroom adjoining that of the Prince. Cl.STW Al SCIIWAi: Tlie well known Herman steamship man at the head of the North German Lloyd line, who will play an im portant part in the welcome of I'rince Henry and has had much to do witli the preliminaries of his isit. KKMAKAIJLK IMS1-: IX VAM'KS. (Continued from page 1.) of course brought the land down to such a price that people could well af ford to lease It. This brought on to the niarKet the greater portion of the school lands in western Xebraska and under this auction method, my prede cessor leased D07.!75 acres in about three years, leaving .V!.o2 acres which, of course, represented the poorest land and that which he could not receive bills upon. "Tile greater portion of this la ml has now been leased, with considerable more of forfeited land, at an increased valuation over that of former leas ing. We have held auctions in over fifty counties in the state and tlieie is not TiOO acres of land but what lias been taken and by the time we com plete our auctions in the other coun ties, there will not lie any great ex cess of this amount. "IJoughly estimating the amounts in tlie counties yet to hold auctions in. we have as follows: lioyd county. I!, :! acres. Saline 1:10 acres: lUchardson. :!0 acres. I'olk 00 acres, Greeley MM acres. Garfield, l.loo acres. Loup. m) acres. Antelope, lrto acres. Wheeler 'M acres. Cass -i) acres. Iancaster ."7t acres. Washington 27C acres, t'edar 12" acres, Dixon acres, Xemaha s." acres, Dakota 7Y1 acres. Keya Paha l.-IS acres. AlcPherson fi.osn acres. Logan L'.jG'l. acres, Knox S'H acres. Johnson :: acres, Jefferson CSO acres. Hamilton lrti acies. Cage I'u acres. In many of the eastern counties, where we lind a small num ber of acres, the land subject to lease is usually government lots along riv ers and it is doubtful if there is any land there at the present time. "Tlie bill that is now before con gress for the purpose of leasing tin public domain in tlie western part of tlie state would not be a good tiling for the school land interests in tin state of Xebraska from the fact that cattlemen, leasing the government land in a body, which surrounds the wide ly distributed school lands of the stale, would render the leasing of it entire ly at the mercy of the parties that owned the land around sections l'i mil ::fi: inother words no man would want to take a section for grazing purposes without having other grazing lands adjacent to it. and if a person secures tlie lease to all the land aiound 10 and r.fi. they would force the state to either lease them at a reduced .ilue or else not to lease it at all. is it would b. of no benefit to auvoin Ise as a Hinge " c Restaurant Wan "The restaurants of tlie city have furnished fotRIJfor many a deserving student here in Lincoln." said a vet eran lunch counter proprietor to a rep resentative of tlie Courier. "I have known boys of the right sort to light their way to their diplomas while working in my kitchen. Some few failed, gave up in despair and drifted into something else. Hut in the main these last were of the notional sort who didn't know what they wanted anyhow. "Kvery year 1 pick up three or four students if I can use them. My pro fessional waiters I give as good wages as they could get anywhere else and in addition give them their choice they ;:n be relieved of pari of the wo:-', by the students or they can do it all. They invariably choose the former. "fiver a dozen students, now active men of affairs. I remember distinctly. They never fail to come in and see me when they drop into the city and I am sure that I have no disposition to for get them. "Xowhere can you pick out the pe culiarities and capabilities of men bet ter than you can in a restaurant. Tlie finicky, the bull dozers and the kickers make us a great deal of trouble. There are some customers that are in con tinual rows with the waiters. When this is not tin- program, they are kick ing on the food. "When there is anything wrong it is made right of course, but just as soon as we find out that we have a chronic kicker some of tlie many successful remedies ate applied. One of tlie most effective ways is simply to tell the complaining one that the food must be paid for and if i' is unpn'atahle so much the worse for him. Some men have to be ignored by the waiters and in rare cases they get to lie so pestifer ous that I simply invite them to eat somewhere else. Then they either leave or iiiit kicking. "Shysters try to woik us just like the do any other sort of business. It is a common trick to run a bill and then skip out. Fleeting and transitory grafters try to pass worthless checks. Shameless rounders get into debt and then refuse to p.i while others eat small ..niounts. omplain of not having in nion ind ifterwards deny the debt. Lach class we must deal with according to their several ways. "One of the smoothest schemes for working a restaurant man is done this way: The grafter comes in when everyone is busy and eats live or ten cents worth of food. The waller gives him a check. When he gets ready to go out he calls for another, meanwhile hiding the Hist one. The waiter ponders for a moment, concludes that he has forgotten to check up the cus tomer and Hips out another check. Grafter goes to tlie desk ami pays one of the checks. He leaves with another one in Ills possesion. "The next day he comes in and orders up a giMl sipiare meal. He gets his check, fifty or sixty cents, and puts it in his pocket. I'.ut he does not pay it. Oil. no. He takes tlie small one that he got the previous day and pays it. This game is smooth and dangerous because in the rush neither the waiter nor the cashier lias any way to take a tumble to the state of affairs. "I got next to this game by accident. One day I was circulating around among the customers. I made a men tal calculation of what one ordered just to check up the accuracy of the waiter, a new man. Weil. sir. that customer nearly knocked me down by presenting a ten cent check. I went back to tlie place, counted up again ami made him pay tlie full amount. The waiter declared that he had charged the man correctly and hN checks proved his statement. Iiut there was one missing when we closed that night. Then I was next. "I am waiting for that man to come in and try to work us again. Then will be an explosion. He lives here in town but lie never eats here now. Per haps he has taken a tumble. Kit never mind. Some restaurant man wil' catch him some day. "Hums and tramps rarel er bother us. They work private house- and the rural districts. "Now and then some fellow gets down in his luck and we simplv go to work and carry him over. It is an actual case of food then, you know, and I have never hail a man neglect to pay in a case of that kind. Once a stranger ate with me here for a week. Then he got a job where he worked for his board. Six months later lie paid me. He is now a prosperous druggist Xow well--that"s all there is to it. 'Restaurant men have hearts ju-t as surely .is their customers li i stoinachs and, like every other lass of honest business men. they can do an immense amount of good if they want to." The author of the famous tract. "Come to Jesus." at one time engaged in a theological dispute, at last sat down and wrote to some publication of his opponent an answer bristling with sarcasm and invective, sharp and cutting as a razor. Reading It to a friend, he asked: "What do you think of it?" "It Is a masterpiece of invective." was the reply. "Von fairly flay lihii alive. What have you decided t all It?" "I have not thought of a title. Can you suggest one?" "Well." came the response, 'how would it do to call It 'Go to tlie Devil,' by the author of Come to Jesus?' ' . v . .- - .- "1 wonder why they haven't start ed any yellow journals in Cuba yet?" "I don't believe there are enough Americans thele to support one." Life. ... . .- - - 1 Miring seen months of 1:I. :;.ittS Imll.s and over r..ii horses were killed In bull fights in Spain. V NEW JERSEY'S SENATOR Here is John Drjdn X Jer sey's new Senator, who succeeds the late Senator Sewall in the higher branch of the Legislature Dryden's rix.il for the Senate was ex-Attorney General Griggs who ran him erj lose in the contest