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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08

childless woman, took it on her knees
and kissed its rosy feet. After that it
was easier for both.
When the time came for the singer to
60 away. she turned and looked back at
the smooth. browed woman ut the gate
with the small sweet child in her arms.
Then she turned swiftly with knit
brows, hurried down the darkening
street. her gaze set straight before her.
IL have chosen" she murmured; lit
is a sweet life. But not for me-
The smooth.browed woman watched
her friend out of sight with wistful
eyes. She looked down then at her
print gown and red. work coarsened
hands. The child fretted. For the
first time its cry vas unheeded. A new
strange spirit clouded the clear eyes
and dragged at the corners OF the cheer.
full mouth. Mechanically she carried
the child into the house and sat down
by the fire. Her eyes moved from arti.
Gle to article of the mesgre furnishing.
Absently che comforted the child until
he fell asleep. The fire burned low.
The clock struck. Startled the woman
sprung up and put the child in its era
die. As she hurried about her supper
work an unwonted frown knit her brow.
Il have chosen" she said. IL threw
away my chance for the wider life. 1t
is not for me-"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08
The Old Town on the River,

Miss Flora Bullock has accom-
plished that most difficult of all tasks
the memorializing Il town of gro
ceries, banks, dry-goods shops. barber
shops, manufactures, railroad sta
tons, and various institutions. with
out being commonplace and tiresome.
Barrie located Thrums in literature,
Miss Milford and Mr.. White immor.
talized the villages where they lived
Miss Bullock has translated Nebraska
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08

do you play any instrument, Mr..
Jimp?"
Eyes; I'm cornetist."
"And your sister,"
"She's pianist
"Does your mother play?"
And your father?"
Hes pessimist.''
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08

Hewett-Gruet says that he is doing
big business in Chicago.
Jewett-He is; he sells women's shoes.
Town Topics.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08
THANKSGIVING, 1900.

Our thanks we offer up today
As round the festive board we sit
For soldiers who were under fire
And turkeys who were over it.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08

City with the aid of photographer
and an artist into literature. Printed
on heavy enameled, paper enclosed In
covers of dark blue and white the
book with a cover design'of country
road bOrdered by Rolden.rod and pre-
sided over by crow on sign-pOst
pointing the way to the old town is
most attractive. Messrs. Tyson and
Rice who took the Photographs have
artistic eyes for the light and shade
and the long roll and swell Of the Ne.
braska prairies. The frontispiece is a
picture OF the main street Of Nebras.
ka City lin the night and the rain"
The tender night haloed by the lights
has paved the streets with gold and
drsped silver wires between glittering
posts, it has transmitted bricks into
sterling metal and made intaglios of
street signs. The curious yellow
heavy Missouri is drawn in its long,
lazy length with its low banks on one
side and its lower banks or flats on
the other. Miss Bullock's English is
pure and the precision Of her phrases
and the sureness OF her touch is de-
light. My friend in Beatrice will say
that it is because the book is the work
of a woman that like it so much.
But inspect, my friend, the works on
Lincoln and Omaha with pictures of
unillumined prominent citizens. read
if you are Christly patient enough,
their biographies and then turn to
these pages written bya young Ne
braska worshiper of Nature in the pc
culiar tones and forms of Nebraska
landscape and deny "after reading
and inspection the great and literary
charm OF the book and the poetic at
mosphere Of the pictures.
The preface in the book: "Not the
Old Town historical, social. nor COM
mercial, but the Old Town beautiful,
is the theme of this little Book. Ira
dItions may best be told by those who
helped make them. But all sojourners
are privileged to enjoy the beauties
of the fairest region in Nebraska
e. A part Of these sketches and
verses we're contributed to the COL
umns of The Courier of Lincoln in the
years 1899 and 1900.
Miss Bullock's verse is virile and
the rythm is scholarly. This to the
River is good sample:
Wiring and swifling, swift and strong;
o River, pause and answer met
What is the burden you bear along?
The River paused not, nor answered he.
Yet l caught one strain of his murmurins
songs
bear the mountains down to the sea"
(ObseyrUfio0s CoDfinued m, P00e 3l
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08

have the advantage Of those on the
outside 10 being able to admit them
or keep them out. AS one big club.
northern members OF the Federation
have no right to change the member
ship conditions so radically as to
drive out the white women Of the
south. who have served the Fedora
ton Loyalty. efficiently and zealously.
Even IL this be an unfounded preju.
dice. noblesse oblige should be a rele
want virtue in this case. When the
negroes are invited to join the Fed
Grafton the southern women should
be the ones to extend the 10 sitation,
because the negro population Of the
south is SO largely in excess Of the
white, because OF its long dOmicile
there because Of the civil war and the
history of the United States and be.
cause OF the general all-around pro-
priety OF the situation.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08

Il nave CHOSEN, eno e0lQ. II Threw
away my chance for the wider life. 1t
is not for me-"
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN THE COUNTRY
Gray skies over gray fields, and q
damp March wind, seeking the marrow.
But such merry heart had little Mary
johnson. Never bit did she mind the
gray sky or the ugly wire-fenced fields
or the chill wind Perched beside her
big sturdy brother Oscar, on the back
seat of the farm wagon, her pink cheeks
rivaled the pink Ex-senator wound about
her throat, and her gray eyes in contrast
with all that colt rosy color were almost
blue. Happy as the meadow larks, 90
confident Of coming spring, whistling on
the fence posts. Mary johnson too war
bled clearly. What she really wanted
to sing was "Would We Two were May.
ing" but she had never heard of it. Be-
sides it was Sunda, and they were CO.
ing to church. So she sang to the un-
responsive backs Of her parents 30 COM
fortably wrapped in their blankets on
the front seats, the songs Of the Sunday
School. And it is not for pen or me to
say OF what she thought when she sang:
''Ring the bells Of Heaven,
There Is ioy today
Her voice was very clear and sweet,
and so contagious her merry warblings
that now and then Oscar joined to it his
deep bass, to her unconcealed delight.
Once her mother demonstrated over her
green and red plaid shawled shoulder
but Mary johnson was used to remoD-
strances. So they came happily over
the gray levels the short three miles to
the white school house set on brown
knoll. Could it be they we're late?
Mary declared she could count fifteen
teams tied to the fence, while they were
yet long way off. But as they drew
nearer they saw that the men still stood
IN group dL Uue uOOis no SuOy uiONO
into the yard Mary saw where Olaf
Ericsson stood, leaning his broad shout
ders against the wall. So tall. so hand
some. 80 unlike all the other men was
Olaf Ericsson. When the wagon stop
ped before the door, Olaf sprang to help
her down before Oscar could Chamber to
the ground. and now Mary's cheeks
we're go pink that the fascinator was
pale indeed. She and her mother went
into the school house and took their
places with the other women, who sat
all together at one side, and chatted
softly until presently all the men filed in
decorously and sat on the other side.
Then the good gray minister stood up
behind the teachers desk and preached
from the text.
"And this is my commandment unto
you, that ye love one another"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-08
For This Relief .

Some Of the Pullman cars on the
Burlington between Denver and Chi
cago are very comfortable. They are
new, but that is not the reason, they
are fitted inside with pianO-inished
mahogany but that is not the reason,
the passengers are waited upon by
porters not too anxious for tips, but
that is not the reason they are CON-
Portable. They have large sized tot
let rooms, where three or four women
can do up their hair without being
impossibly crowded. The relief of
such a toilet room is inexpressible.
In spite of woman's skirts, her long
hair. her complicated costumes and
the difficulties ia the way Of getting
them on straight and securely she has
been given a room to dress in about
the SIZE Of dry-goods box. And the
men with their fixtures have had
palatial apartments containing four
bowls. No woman, from her birth up
accustomed to seeing men take the
second best Of everything, ever trav-
eled in car containing these con-
trasting rooms at opposite ends Of the
car, who did not leave it at the
journeys end, embittered and opposed
to masculine domination. These new
toilet rooms will have more influence
10 maintaining the happiness Of homes
than many other reforms with longer
AMI more scientific names.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21
An lnyssimsRt.

BI j. H. Nllio4N H.
Translated by Mrs Moses P. Handy.
(copyrighted isoo. Daily Story Pub. coJ
We were stroliing along the shore
OF the believing sea. The waves we're
magnificent They advanced in cara
vans. crested with foam. singing crys-
tai songs. they came with great cries
and falling upon the rocks left long
trails OF snow Rapid. irritable, angry.
numberless. they assailed the clins,
sometimes like a gorgeous garden OF
white and green flowers, sometimes
roaring ike ferocious troops Of bears,
elephants and lions.
Look" exclaimed Landa, There
goes Lavalle.@
All turned. In little phateon. they
saw a man still young by whose Sloe
was a woman Of the Iberian type; one
OF those ravishing beauties who arouse
desire. hate ana Jealousy In every
mans breast.
He's in luck that fellow, muir
INJURED the banker Langrume when the
phateon had passed. by a single
stroke be became owner Of 9O,o0O,oo0
francs, and the pretriest woman TO be
found from pole to pole And ] have
worked thirty years to get my beg
carly half dozen millions.
you are envious. answered Landa.
''Don't you know that Layalle owes his
fortune and his wife to a good specu-
lation. It all came from an invest
ment OF exactly 1000 francs"
Fifteen years ago our friend Pierre
Lavalle was a lucky young fellow Of
20 years He was rich, good-looking,
robust in health. and Of nature to
afail himself Of his advantages. His
father sent him around the world. In
Chile he had as a guide a most intel
lIigent man Of excellent family and
between them a friendship arose. The
guide pretended TO have discovered rich
veins Of silver ia the mountains but
be feared to be forestalled and dared
trust no one. At the moment OF their
separation Pierre offered him thou
sand francs. Jose Alvarado thanked
him with a digniiied air and said:
In ten years I shall be rich and
you are my partner"
Then he wrote In the young mans
journal this memorandum
In ten years promise to share my
property with my partner, Pierre La
vale. Jose Alvarado.
Santiago, Nov. 20, 1885"
Ten years later Pierre Lavalle was
completely ruined. His father died Of
despair after unlucky speculations and
left the son only a heritage Of debt
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21
The Irri9ar,on Problem.


When in his letter to the irrigation
congress General Miles said that prl-
vate or corporate enterprise could not
be trusted with a water monopoly
in the arid regions of the west, he ex-
pressed a sentiment that will meet
with a chorus Of approval in every
state and territory where irrigation
is employed. The truth has been
learned through experience by thou
sands OF people, but aside from this 1t
might be inferred with certainty from
the circumstances OF the case No
monopoly is more absolute than a
water monopoly in an irrigated dis
trlct. Water is the life Of the land. an
essential to It as breath is to the hui
man body Where a ditch runs prop
erty may be worth $3.50 to 5000 an acre
for fruit ratsing. A few rods away
from the reach of ditch or pipes 1t may
be worth SIS or twenty-five cents.
Suppose that there is an improvement
such as an orange orchard. The
value may then run to $1,000 or 81 500
an acre. But the trees will die with
out water, and If a ditch company is
unrestrained by law II may exact any
terms it pleases. Even a contract
would be an imperfect defense in a
time Of urgent necessity. since a legal
dispute over its meaning might result
IN fatal delays. The worst phases Of
the matter have been gradually miti-
gated by the growth Of body Of state
laws intended to protect the farmer
and orchardist. but the remedy is only
partial. The monopoly may be con-
trolled by men who have become SOM
nolent from feeding at a full trough.
and who, SO long as they enjoy a good
income, are entirely Indifferent to
such questions as the adequacy Of the
supply, improvements, extensions. etc.
Thus held monopoly continues to duh
enterprise. and a whole community
may be made to suffer.even IL the rates
are not exorbitant AS a matter Of
fact. however. the rates are generally
too high by comparison with the cost
Of the service, and the cost Of ditch or
pipe line. IN some instances the work
could be duplicated at a rldlculously
low figure, and when Il Is considered
that the supply may come. say. from
a river whose waters In its own bed
should be as free to one man as to an
other. the aggravation Of the victim OF
the monopoly is not hard to under
stand That some kind Of government
tai interposition is necessary is eyi-
dent from the facts and from the de-
velopments IN the states That this
interposition should be national IN
certain vast areas which cannot be
adequately handled by the local au-
thorities seems equally obvious. There
is work Of great magnitude to be done
which would be impossible 70 any
other agency than the federal govern
ment
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21

Consul Winter reports from Anna
berg. Oct. 2. 1900: During the past
ten years. sAip building in Germany
has become a great Industry. Old
wharves have been torn away and new
and larger ones constructed in their
places. The present capacity OF all
the wharves does not meet the de-
mands Of the German merchant ma
rine. Many orders must still be placed
IN foreign countries At present TWEEN
ty-twc ships are being built IN Eng
land for Hamburg alone. During the
first half Of the present year the dock
owners and shipbuilders Of Stettin.
Kiel. Flensburg. and Bremen have in
creased their capital stock on the
whole. By Sfs7s.Oo0 Many new en-
terprises are being planned. In the
neighborhood Of Nordenham. on the
Lower Wesel, large wharves are being
projected. A wharf FOR straisund is
being planned which win cost nearly
81 900 600. Il Is also reported that q
Belgian synficage win build
q wharf ID Antwerp under the ausplc-
es Of The Bremen Vulcan works The
German merchant marine now NUM-
bers zee steamers of 1.I599Ie tens.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21

only By genious heroism or some
other great quality During the en-
tire evening each time she passed near
the place where he sat watching her
dancing or walking. a wave Of pas
sionate alteration and sadness surged
through his being
He saw her again He was intro
duced to her ana n time TO her
mother During the winter he loved
her silently and without the least
hope. What right had he to coyet such
love hundred men. the elite Of
Paris. would have killed themselves
for ber And she was fabulously rich.
So be loved her as one loves inac-
cessible things. the clouds. the stars
OF the sun. She welcomed him as she
did others and her mother seemed to
like him. What did that signify?
Pierre was an impossibility In debt
up to his neck he passed through the
most humiliating period Of his life.
The chief OF his bureau warned him
that he must either settle with his
creditors or the bureau would be COM
PEELED TO dispense with his services.
One evening the poor boy sat with
his head is his hands rejecting upon
his situation The thought OF suicide
entered his brain A tiny fire burned
in his stove: the lamp with little oil
hickered He was cold and hungry,
and be felt himself alone and without
a sympathetic friend like an animal
dying In a cave In the midst Of his
distress there came a vision Of the
Chilian belle and knowing that his
clothes were no longer preSentable,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21

Smyrna, in ancient times one Of the
most important and now by far the
greatest of the cities OF Asia Minor
has preserved an unbroken continuity
Of record and identity OF name from
the first dawn Of history to the present
time. It is said to have been a Leie-
gian city before the Greek c0lonists
settled in Asia Minor. The name.
which is said to be derived from an
Amazon called Smyrna. il indubitably
Anatolian. having been applied also
to a quarter Of Ephesus, and (under
the cOgnate form Myrina9 TO a city Of
Aeolis. and to a tumuIus IN the Troad.
The favorable situation of Smyrna on
the path Of commerce between Lydia
and the west raised it during the sew
enth century to the height Of power
and splendor. It lay at the eastern end
Of an arm Of the sea. which reached
far inland and admitted the Greek
trading ships into the heart Of Lydia.
Miletus, and at a later time Ephesus,
situated at the sea end of the other
great trade route across Anatolia, CON-
peted for time successfully with Smy-
rna for the conveyance Of traffic from
the INTERIOR but both Ephesus and
Miletus have long ago lost their har-
bors. and Smyrna now remains with
out rival The latter city was found
ed on the site which it still occupies.
partly on the slopes OF a rounded hill
called Pagus near the southeast end Of
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21
MUSK OK RAIsrNosa
Industry WIN Bo Prosecuted Upon m
Extensive Scale.

Industry WIN Bo Prosecuted Upon an
Extensive scale.
In Sweden the industry Of raising
the musk OK for its fleece has been
started on a large scale, says the New
York Journal. After making many un-
successful attempts the Kolkhoff Arc
tic expedition. which several seasons
ago returned to Sweden from Green
land, succeeded in there capturing
alive two calves Of the musk OK, a male
and female, and in bringing them to
Sweden In good condition. In this way
the musk OK industry started. At
present there is a large herd Of these
animals, which are being cared for on
a farm In northern Sweden, where all
conditions are apparently suitable for
their development The musk OK (ovi-
bas moschatus) is a singular animal,
in appearance resembling both an OK
and a sheep. as the scientific name
"ovibas" implies. It's introduction into
Sweden will be of great benefit to that
country. in the opinion Of Kolkhoif.
who, in fiat contradiction to the state
ments Of the older biologists, says that
the flesh Of the animal is not merely
edible. but OF very agreeable flavor AS
fully developed musk OK weighs
about 1900 pounds this is an import
ant consideration. But the principal
value Of the animal lies In its heavy
fleece of dark brown wool nf axfraor-
dinarily fine fiber. The fleece OF a
single musk OK outweighs those Of 20
sheen
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21
PROUD or LABELS.
Young Man Frankly Admits Travel
Checks Are Bluns

A dlstangy looking young man
boarded a Fourteenth street car at
Massachusetts, avenue the other night
He was carrying a leather suit case.
Pasted all over the suit case were la
bels indicating much foreign travel
steamship pastors slapped on at dep
De. HaVre, Ostend, Bremen, Cherbourg,
Liverpool. Yarmouth. Naples. and rail-
road labels that bore the names OF all
lines all the way from Constantinople
to ST. Petersburg. The young man Of
distangy appearance put the suit case
down between his legs. and all the
people in the seats opposite began a
fascinated sort Of inspection of the la
bells. A stout man with several Of the
component parts Of a jag who sat next
to the young man seemed to regard the
labels with particular interest He
stopped over and deciphered them
carefully and elaborately and then ne
looked up at the owner Of the suit case
with a leer
Been around right smart, hain't
you, Dodner?" he inquired.
The young man retarded him with
a smile
Never been farther away from
Washington than New York in my
life '--he replied, without any hesita-
ton whatsoever Il got that whole
bunch Of labels for half a dollar at a
little money exchanging joint. down
near the Battery in New York. Hot
scheme, isn't it?"
The frankness OF the statement 50
dazed several Of the passengers who
overheard it that they got off at the
wrong theater.-W Washington Post.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21

The poor boy was forced 70 accept a
clerkship IN a government Office.
None the less he stin went about IL
society. AS he did not try 10 borrow
money from anybody. as be talked
well and looked well the best hostesses
asked him to their houses. One even
ing be attended a ball given by a rich
Argentinian, Don Estevan zuloaga.
The affair was dazzling. All the South
Americans n Paris were there. includ-
ing many ravlshing beauties. Pierre
admired spanish beauties with the en-
thusiasm Of the old rOmancers. Those
eyes whore voluptuousness distilled
their mogic. those delicious curves OF
the figure. those little feet light and
trembling. those magnificent mouths
created for kissing aroused in Pierre
an ecstatlc drunkenness. Don Esta-
van had sought 70 bring together the
richest human flowers Of the Plata.
Peru. Chile. and Mexico The scene
nearly turned the head Of Pierre
when be entered
nNN Inv HAHNI AlAN ANNNAH "a AAA AAN
other women was dimmed In bis eyes
when he perceived q young Gillian on
The arm of a young and handsome
spaniard With a skin az clear ae q
blondes 0ut Of a wonderful smooth
ness. with eyes that absorbed the light
and emitted it again IN dazzling elec-
trio rays: with a divine mouth as In
nocent as voluptnonz; with graceful
rhythmic walk. and the sweep Of her
undulatinE curves she seemed 70 Dos
sres the auinleesence cf the charms
ana saduc1ons ef twenty exquisite
women.
Pierre m1s overcome with the des-
nsir thef follows too violent admira-
tion The love oi sub cFsatars
seemed q BIN stmsfhine unaifainab.e
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21

This picture OF Panaghis Coutalian-
os. known also as the Human Artil-
lery Battery" gives an idea Of his
wonderful strength and the marvellous
nature Of his work. The gun which
Is seen on the hack Of The mans back
weighs 400 pounds Each Of those sus-
pended from his shoulders weighs 200
pounds. It would be a considerable
task Tor even a professional strong
man to carry these cannon in the way
shown here Indeed. 500 pounds Of
dead weight IS a decided lift Tor any
one. Sc that Of itself wonid put this
extraordinarily developed Greek Ia tie
lisi q muscular wonders he goes