THE COURIER
It wag on June 1st, 1900, that the
club was organized, S. H. Burnham
being the chief promoter. Golf was
then a spreading: rage. Now It haii
come to be recognized as a stable, ra
tional, healthglvlng sport, and a
soberly increasing portion of the pub
lic Is taking to It It is hardly a recre
ation that can be undertaken by solely
one man or two, because there is need
of space and much effort and care in
the perfection and maintenance of a
green. Consequently Mr. Burnham
did not comprise the sole charter
member of the golf club. Nearly fifty
were interested in it before It became
incorporated. Money Is one of the
first requisites. It takes coin to in
dulge in golf. In the first place mem
bership costs $15. After that dues of
$1 a month for six months in the year
ore reuqlred. Bach member has to
furnish his own equipment and this Is
no trivial expense. Monthly meetings
are held for the transaction of business
and the settlement of vexed questions.
On some evening, about the middle
of the present month, a basket picnic
will be enjoyed by the members on the
grounds surrounding the club house.
That's nothing new of course, but it is
always something decidedly delightful.
It Is a rare member who will miss it
He will hitch himself to his good
friend whom he desires to acquaint
with the fellowship of the organization
and nothing short of a calamity will
deter him. Another excellent feature
for the summer Is a contemplated
porch or pavilion at the club house,
the cost to be about $500 and the pur
pose to be Informal dancing.
Recurring to the tournament at the
end of the month, pamphlets are out
giving the programs in full. In due
season they will appear in the public
press.
The big golf game of the first day,
Wednesday, May 28th, will be the
qualifying round at medal play for the
Western interstate championship cup.
It is valued at $40 and will be carried
away by the winner. A cup valued at
$25 will be the prize of the Second Six
teen, 18 holes match play. On the sec
ond day this contest will be resumed
and the amateur championship will be
determined. The match play against
bogey for the club Western interstate
championship is due on the third day.
Teams of five, one from each club, will
engage in this, the prize to be a $40
cup with names and scores Inscribed
on it A general handicap game is
also on the bill for that day with a
limit of handicap to eighteen holes. A
cup worth $25 will go to the winner. A
handicap game, eighteen holes for
Lincoln players only, will be the last
event of the day, the prize to be a set
of sticks.
In tennis, the one who proves him
self the western interstate champion
in singles will secure the trophy of a
cup worth $40. For the runner up in
singles a $25 cup is in store. The sec
ond event is the western Interstate
championship in doubles, the prize to
be two silver cups, valued at $50 each.
Phonographs, guns, revolvers, pic
tures, fishing boats, fishing outfits,
cups and kodaks and a variety of
.other things of lesser value go to the
winners of the shooting events. There
are many of these and the targets are
free, a thing not usual.
IN DESPEBATION.
The European king sighed and
stirred uneasily.
"My subjects," he exclaimed, "are
getting so enlightened, so imbued with,
the ideas of democracy, that they no
longer fawn upon me, toady to xae.
There's only one thing for me to do to
relieve this moaotoay. I must visit
America."
Mrs. Close (cautiously) I was look
ing at seme lovely laces today 'and the
prices were ridiculously low.
Close I wish you had bought me a
pair there are four knots in the ones
I'm ufltac. Tawa Topics.
Yeull aever find a pretty matron
with a grown-up daughter who waam't
Married when she was a mere child.
OBSERVATIONS
v
BY SARAH B.' HARRIS
M SUrUag Mortea
Untried men sometimes acquire a
reputation for great ability. -That man
of mediocre ability is fortunate who
has lived a life of obscurity, a life
which has not made great demands
upon him. Many kings and other
rulers have been execrated by their
times and by posterity for no more
personal reason than that they were
unequal to the responsibilities of their
birth and position.; Mr. J. Sterling
Morton, the most widely honored citi
zen of Nebraska, was tried in various
conspicuous positions of great re
sponsibility and he was not found
wanting at any time. He was repeat
edly in a position where, if be had
yielded to the tempter, greater, honors
might have been heaped upon him, but
nobody knows of any occasion wherein
he struck his colors.
He might have been nominated by
the democratic party for president if
he had only consented, not to advocate
free silver but Just to suppress his
opinion in regard to the expediency of a
single standard. He considered the
suggestion a challenge to do all that
he could on the platform, with his pen
and by the use of an extensive influ
ence to secure the firmer establishment
of the gold standard. As the secre
tary of agriculture, in President Cleve
land's second cabinet be endeavored to
Btop the distribution of seeds to farm
ers by congressmen, a survival which
costs the agricultural and the post
office departments millions of dollars
annually. There is everything to be
said against the custom and nothing
in favor of it But Mr. Morton's suc
cessor yielded to the clamor and re
sumed the distribution of flower and
vegetable seeds. Mr. Morton was a
farmer; he had been in Washington
long enough to know Just what an
outcry a withdrawal of a trifling pat
ronage from congressmen would
cause. But the man, the deed and the
time were met and the expenses of the
department of agriculture, while Mr.
Morton was secretary, were largely re
duced. Not that it has made much
difference to the country. His suc
cessor reinstated the corrupt custom
and 'the useless employes who were
kept in the department by a pull
snapped back into it just as soon as a
new secretary was appointed. But the
time may come when another secre
tary of agriculture possessing Mr.
Morton's mental integrity and his per
sonal bravery and self-respect may be
appointed. In that case Mr. Morton's
example will strengthen him to gird
up his loins and do battle with an
ancient wickedness.
A son of an old and well-to-do fam
ily in Michigan and graduated by
Union college, Mr. Morton might have
remained in the east He preferred to
make a home and found a family in
the west On nhr wedding day, Octo
ber .1864, e started with' Mrs. Mor-
ton for Nebraska, and "after a long
journeytheyarrlved in'Bellevue. After
a few weeks they took the homestead
in Nebraska' City' which these pioneers
of fifty years ago 'have Jstfetoped Into'
a "manufacturing centre. "Mr. Morton
deliberately renounced ease and' the'
comforts 'of awfully settled community'
for a little house 'on the prairies and
the opportunity to be of .boundless in
fluence and usefulness In a new, com
munity. The prairie grass "billowed around
his home and the young -man and his
wife were homesick with gazing 'on
the distant horizon, a view unbroken
by trees or by any perpendicular lines
except by the four angles of their own
cabin. But. a courage and a faith like
that of George Washington's sustained
them. -Mr. Morton's belief in the fu
ture of Nebraska never faltered. He
became the state's foremost citizen.
He made Arbor Day a national occa
sion, and thousands of trees are now
.'.in bud that would not have been
planted if Mr. Morton had not spent
his" llmeaha energy' and creative in
spiration In Inducing settlers to "plant
trees."
It Is a task that must be done almost
as often as the seeds are planted 'for
the fall harvest, the borers and the
constant heavy "winds kill the trees.
Nevertheless for thirty years or more
Mr. Morton has not had to buy any
firewood. By judicious cutting and
planting he had enough wood every
fall to make an imposing wood-pile at
the kitchen door of "Arbor Lodge."
He loved his fellow man whom he
had seen. He spent his life in kind
deeds for the community. Where he
cast his lot there he remained. He
had many opportunities to live else
where, in larger and more prosperous
communities. But when he and Caro
line, his wife, had gone out hand in
hand to seek their fortune, they chose
Nebraska City. Four noble, talented
boys were born In the home they built
there, and no honor or opportunity of
fortune could tempt Mr. Morton to
give up the home they built together.
This was another characteristic: tena
cious fidelity to family and friends
and to his own ideals.
He had a very passion for loyalty,
sincerity, direct dealing. He hated
trickery and the assumption of opin
ions for the sake of votes and dele
gated power. Some underlying moral
energy helped him to fill his life with
accomplishment that blessed the com
munity in which he lived. In years he
was seventy-one, but in nervous en
ergy and activity and intellect he was,
before the beginning of his last illness,
as young as the president of the Uni
ted States. Like him he was eminent
as a writer, as a statesman, and as a
brave, dauntless doer of deeds. He
loved books and the life of the student,
but more than all he loved life and
doing his best in his day for his family
and his generation. He died on the
battlefield and the "Valkyrs recognized
the old warrior and carried him to
where the wife of his youth and his
youngest son waited for him. And not
one for a long time has been so sur
prised at -the meaning of life and the
Inevitable recognition of noble deeds
at the end.
Readers of the Conservative will
miss the short editorials wherein the
talent to call things by their real
names was Mr. Morton's unique 'pos
session. He was a preacher of truth,
and his words and phrases had a bibli
cal force and nakedness that made lies '
squirm. He was his own editor and '
his inspiration was deeply hidden in
the mountains of Integrity and pa
triotism. Mr.- Morton never knew the
meaning or convenience of compro
mise. Conduct was good or bad, deal
ing was dishonest or upright For him
there were no gradations or fine shad
ings. Between Tionesty-and dishonesty
In commerce and politics there'' was 'a
gulf fixed. Bfenevef tried "to "cross It
'andjtbejrppewlcer who attempted It
forthe 5spectacalar effect excited his
temperamental scorn. He was- at -the " "
other pole "from the opportunist
The death of is youngest son, Carl,
waalfor him the beginning of the end.
His wife left him Hit charge of their
tour .sons. He fulfilled the trust with
fidelity.' They Jiave -grown to be dis
tinguished men, loved for their integ
rity and qualities, .of mind and 'heart
But the death of the youngest snapped
the golden cord that age had "drawn -tense.
. "
The centre of the man's life was his
affections. He had many Interests
and he was true to alL. To his last 111-
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