The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-23

ingly clever paper on "Humor and HUI
morists."
Sunday Miss Sarah Harris and Miss
BERTHE Clark left for Chicago to attend
the season of German opera there.
Afterward Miss Clark will visit in
Cleveland. Ohio, where she has many
friends and enjoys the same universal
popularity and attention that she has
always known in Lincoln.
The roster OF the musical talent who
will take part in the second annual
charity concert at the Funke, Decem-
Der IL. is nearly completed. The pian>
lists will be Mesd. Will o. Jones, Marie
Hoover, Susie Schofield and p. w.
Plank. Messrs. Aug. and Chas. Hagen
oW Bertha Davis. VIM. LaMriecht. and
Ina Ensign. Among the vocalists are
Mesd. c. L. Lippencott, Florence Wor-
ley, Hattie Becker. Bessie Turner, Daisy
futile, Maud Oakley, John Doane, A. S.
Raymond, Grace Franks and Messrs.
Movius. Lawlor, McFadden, Seamark,
Kettering and Bruce Smith. T he fam
Gus Telyn quartet. the Philharmonic or
chestra and the Hagenow string quar-
tet are also booked.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wing died at her
home. 2206 South. Fourteenth street,
wednesdayevening. Mrs. Wing was
fifty-three years and eleven months old
at the time of her death. Her sisters,
Miss Gould Of Davenport, Iowa, and
Mrs. H. E. Lewis of Kearney, were
with her during her last illness.
There are some lives that seem to
touch the higher margins of life so much
more nearly than others, that seem to
have reached the broader horizons and
rounded the full measure of noble hu-
man experiences. That draw into them
selves SO much, and give out so infinite
ly much more. When one Of these
goes out of a community forever, there
is left a sadness and a sense Of loss that
goes further than the limits of personal
acquaintance and friendship. We, OF
this town, feel such a loss now. One of
the noble and potent influences Of our
social life has become a memory. She
who was the mental counsellor and COM
panion of many has entered into the
fuller understanding, gone so far be-
yond us now that our dreams even can
not follow. The soul that yearned for
high things has claimed its own by
now. For her there is the great enlight-
eminent, for us the doubt and the shad-
ow.
A leading lawyer of this city, who re-
Gently returned from business trip to
New York City, tells of a highly in
teresting talk he had with Robert G.
Ingersoll. during a casual meeting of
half dozen gentlemen at The Lawyers
club, in the great metropolis. Among
other subjects touched upon was the
death of Kossuth, when Col. Ingersoll
expressed himself upon orators and ora
tory in his own brilliant manner. Kos
suth. I regard as the greatest orator
Europe has given to the Nineteenth
Century" said Col Ingersoll. Il do not
consider Gladstone a great orator. but
ii must be conceded that he is a grand
speaker. He is wanting in feeling and
Imagination. He says fine things in a
well balanced and stately way, but I
defy his greatest admirer to repeat on
the spur of the moment. one sentence
of Gladstone's that has been burned in
to the memory and the recital of which
stirs the pulse into a faster beat. Lin
coins Gettysburg speech was a gem,
and in that Abraham Lincoln rose to
the first grade Of orators. But 1t was
by one flight, as brilliant as II was
brief. indicating the power and grand
possibilities that lay dormant in the
man. Webster was a man of grand pos
sibilities rather than of great achieve
ments. He aimed at being sonorous and
ponderous, and he succeeded. Clay was
by Inadequate training.
His success with the masses who idol
lied him, was due far more to his per-
sonal magnetism. than to his original
ity. for he had none. Americans are
the most fluent people in the world, and
our political methods have done much
to foster the art Of public speaking. but
this has not encouraged true oratory.
for when every one is a speaker. people
are satisfied with mediocrity. The true