Omaha daily bee., 1891-03-08
"HAR VAS NORVEIGJUN."
How Retribution Once Overlook n
Vain Glorious Young Man.

''TallSing of retributionn said a tall,
athletic young man, when his turn in the gen
eral review come around, 81 once saw the
iron hand that accompanies the leaden heel
strike SO hard that it all but annlhilatcda Il
vain glorious and over confident young man.
1t all happened this way.
''AbOut four years ago | was running one
of the big machines IN the Fort Scott car
shops at Kansas City. | had two of the
most promising Vikings who ever escaped
and foresWore allegiance to King Oscar.
One was Norwegian nameu Ole Nordgren,
who, like his ancestors for centuries, had
sailed the fjords and inlctS in all sorts of
weather, tin he was as hard and tough as
Weather-Sea~ ed oak bGam-and about as
unwieldy. liz other fellow was almost a
cOuutryman of Ole's-that is he came from
Sweden. His name, Nels Nelson. Jens Jen-
sen, or whatever it was at the christening,
had heen lost about the shops. and he
answered very willingly to the call of jim.
Ole, by the way, had been dubbed Joe.
",Oe professed a profound contempt for all
Swodcs, and J i'm in particular, and would swear
vehemcnty when called a SWede, informing
his hearers 'Har vas note dem Swede-har
vas Norvecjun.' Jim, of course took eXcep-
tions to this, and as there were many other
SwedeS and no more NOrWegians In the
shops, Joe's race prejudice, so frankly voiced,
gained him many enemies and not few hard
knocks. When there was lull in work,
pecially during mornings, it was a common
thing to set Joe and Jim to fighting. Neither
possessed any more science than a hen. and
neither was Very badly hurt, though Joe in
variably got the worst of it,
IAN inspiration came to me one day and
CoaXed Joe to go with me to the rooms of an
athletic clue Here | explained to him some
of the rudimentS Of the tiStic art and taught
him how to strike out from the shoulder, in
stead of swinging his arms like farmer
driving hogs. IT wasn't very long until Joe
could let out right and left straight, and oh,
so hard.
Then he went to the shops one day. As
soon rs Jim appeared Joe informed him. liar
vas dem Swcde,' and qualified the statement
rather forcibly in the most socal manner
imaginable. Jim rushed at Joe as usual, when
biff Joe landed one on Jim's jaw, and
down went the Swede, This was uncx
/ pected, and jim was too astonlshcd to renew
| the attack,
Then Joe left. He had been gone about
| two hours, and then a voice was heard to an
uOunce FROM the upper end of the shops
| 'Har vas Nowcciun lIar can lick dem
! SVCdc.' Singing a war song such as in Oldeu
| thine delighted the dago's hearers, Joe moved
| down the shop, vengeance incarnato. Not Il
Swc8e whom he could reach escaped BiT
bin, right and left every blow settling an
! account of wrongs long borne, he cleared the
shops of fellow SCandinavianS, and there is
| now telling how far he would have tested his
| ucw-found strength had not the able bodicd
| raIci the Norwegian cyclone, Joe finally
! quicted down, but after that day no one dis
putci his statement that 'liar vas Nor
| vcoJuu.' "
a theatre hat for the demi season is fiat
| model OF gray straw pointed over the fore
| head and edged with a wreath of ViolctS
| without foliage. handsome model is a
large black straw, with three yellow dafo-
dis at the back, and long black velvet rib
| bon streamcrs rhe only trimming in front
is a yellow aud black butterfly.
J Crochet buttons were never in such de-
| mand; in fact, every kind of acovorcd button
| will be good, Metal buttons with silk cen
ters are very desirable, rs are also silk but
| tons with velvet centcrS. Cculoid effect,
on metal are rich and taking. Gilt buttons
! which We're so largely used last season, vii
| he even in greater demand than before.
| what was that noise | heard in the par
| lor last night Nlariam at was William
breaking his engagement"