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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-01-20

WEEPING WATER, Neb, Jan. Is.
In accordance with old custom in the
Zetetic club, we were at home with the
president of the club January 2. 1900,
in the Masonic hall parlors. At eight
o'clock p. m. some seventy invited
guests, with club members, arrived
The hall was beautifully lighted and
decorated with bittersweet, the club
emblem. A punch bowl and glasses
were an unusually attractive feature Of
the evening. Two handsome daughters
OF the Zetetic served orange punch dur
ing the evening.
The address of welcome by the presi-
dent, Mrs. Charlotte T. Hungate; a duet,
''Laddio." sung by Mrs. ]. X. Keithley
and Miss Stella Sackett; reading,
How Some Women Conduct Pdrlia-
mentsry Practice" by Mrs. Nellie
Sackett; solo, The Blue Welsh Hills"
by Miss Stella Sackett; pronunciation
test, conducted by Mrs. E. L. Rouse,
for which two captains were selected
who chose sides, as in an old-fashioned
spelling school. Then ali Joined in
grand march. This was very graciously
interrupted by six Zetetic daughters
bearing small tables spread for 70, al
banquet. Each club member, seated
now at table with her three guests, made
.xL
dent as toastmaster, the following toasts
were responded to: This Day and
Hour" by Mrs. Laura M. Woodford;
.'Our Guests" Mrs. Gates; "Our Club
Mr.. J. NJ. Leach; The Golden Link Be-
tween the School Girl and the Club
Woman,,' Mr.. f. l.. Rouse. Then the
young ladies bore away the tables and
some time was spent in social chat.
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the money making arena to say. She
has not deliberately planned to 'crowd
men out but she has right to COM
pete and put to the most pleasant and
lucrative use her recognized abilities.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-01-20

From the Hi-yu Wa-wa club Of Sn
omish, Washington, comes the folio,
ng:
Let others join the revel,
The merry feast or dancee;
We seek higher level
A purer air, perchaneee.
To gather stores of wisdom
We scan the abstruse page,
And coin in folios heavy
The lore Of many a sage.
No subject now appals Us,
We're equally at home
Upon an icthyosaurus' tooth,
Or ancient fanes of Rome.
The Tarquins, say, or Kpling,
Theosophy or soap,
Law, ethics or the fall of Troy,
The last illness of the Pope.
Five minute calls on Science,
A dinner given to Art,
A card left on Religion
(She's not in the set called smart.
A chat with fair Dame Literature,
And Poesy, divine maid;
We feel, we weary women,
That Our club dues are paid.
IN. B. M.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-01-20

The Cozy club of Tecumseh met
Wednesday, January 10th at the home
of Mrs. True-the first time the club
has met with her in her new. cozy home.
The program, the continuation Of Ger
man history. was the church and state,
1347 15l7, conducted by Miss McCrosky.
Mrs. Alien read paper on Swiss indie
pendence, and Miss Appelget read a
sketch of the Hanseatic and German
orders. The program closed with an
instrumental selection by Miss Gail
True, Memberships "Consola'ioD.'
The program committee to prepare year
books for the coming year was elected.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-01-20

At the last meeting OF the Omaha
-Woman's Club, the musical department,
which furnished the program for the
afternoon, was greeted by an audience
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-01-20

Lincoln Sorosis met Tuesday after
noon at the home Of Mrs. j. E. Miller.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-01-20

tudt Coupiotciy hifcu tuc nuuieoiion oa
the First Congregational church. The
occasion served to Introduce three young
artists who have lately come to Omaha:
Miss Ella Free. pianist, from Berlin,
Miss Beatrice Wilson, soprano. from
New York, and MISS Lena Ellsworth,
vioIinist. from Chicago. Miss Free
opened the program with the etude
known as the Wave Etude" by List,
followed by the difficult Concert Etude
Of Thalberg, where she displayed great
technical power. Later in the after
noon she played the Polonaise in +
sharp of Chopin, selection which is
associated with Liszt, since it was a
favorite of bis as it is also OF Moskowski.
This pOlopaise is gloomy in tone color.
and it produces series OF unhappy
emotions in the listener which the intro.
duction of pastoral scene in mszourka
rhyt thin does not wholly dissipate. Miss
Frees Interpretation Of the selection
was magnificent and as the piece is one
that is rarely heard. her listeners con-
graduated themselves upon their oppor-
tunity.
Miss Beatrice Wilson, vocalist OF the
program has a full and sympathetic
mezzo voice. which was heard TO good
effect IN the Bach Gounod Ave Maria"
where both organ and piano were used
in accompaniment and the usual violin
obligato was played by Miss Ellsworth.
Miss Wilson's other contributions to the
program we're Bartlett's "A Dream" and
"A May Morning. by Denza.
The violin selections were chosen with
nodesty but they gave the impression
of an artistic performance. Miss Ellis.
worth, who is also vocalist, and tea h
er ir Tabor College. Iowa. is a charming
player. Her numbers were Cav alma"
and "Serenade' by Spence and Gabriel
Marie, respectively. After the pro-
gram a reception was given to the per-
formers 10 the parlors, which was at
tended by the large audience. Mrs.
Ford, leader of the musical department,
made the presentations. Mrs. Wyman
and Mrs. Bartlett poured coffee and
various young ladies Of the department
served refreshments.
The club rooms of the Fairbury club
were filled to overlooking Tuesday, JAN
uary 18th, with both men and women.
1t had been decided by the club that in
place OF the usual current events and
parliamentary practice, which occupies
part of the time of each general meeting.
the lady having that in charge was to
prepare such an entertainment as would
be attractive to visitors. This week it
fell to the lot of Mrs. Letton, and she
decided upon comedietta, entitled A
Bunch OF Red Roses" 1t proved very
entertaining. The parts we're we'll taken
by eight club members. The visitors
fee goes to swell the library fund.
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Continued on Page 81
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From the Hi-yu Wa-wa club Of Sno-
homish, Washington, comes the follow
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-28
Bill Arp's. Letter
He Loses His Temper When He Reads Some
Northern Papers.

to find lot of them in William Cullen
Bryant's collection.
But am going to quit reading such
newspapers as destroy my serenity 1
have to hurry out into my garden and
dig too hard and too often this hot wealth
er to keep my choler down. I've been
building a woodshed and chicken coop
with two apartments, one of which is
for the Christmas turkeys, when the time
comes. Old Uncle Sam did die sure
enough, and l am now emphatically the
boy-but reckon it is good for me. My
wife says it is. I've worn out my forked
hoe digging up the hard ground in the
rose beds for the worse l am insulted
the harder l dig. | don't understand
some things. General Gordon and General
Wheeler and some of our orators and
preachers go up North and mix up with
those Yankees and come back loaded
down and say: Oh, they are all right;
they are harmonious, but / notice that
the Grand Army wants to regulate our
school books, and the editors dictate how
we shall manage our negroes. I'm doing
my best to harmonic, but when | read
their editorials / want to hire a cussin'
man-one that can't be broke of it
and III give him 81 day to use Ian
guage on that. editor. He wouldn't mind
being cussed afar off and maybe it would
relieve my feelings. He knows that ev
cry follower of fancy and Calhoun still
glories in their constitutional teachings.
He knows that DR.. Andrews, who is the
honored head of the public schools of Chi
cago, declared in a public address that
every principle the South maintained and
fought for had been decided in our favor
by the Supreme Court of the United
States before the war and has been since
the war confirmed by the present court.
He knows all that and he knows all about
Pana and Akron and New York city's
treatment of the negro, and in face Of
all this he dares to spit out his venom at
us. l don't understand him nor what
manner of man he is nor how he can
sleep in peace or enjoy and digest his
daily food
But we will get even next month and
then you will hear howl. Good gracious!
What a consternation-what weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth-Bryan
and Stevenson Both names end with
big N. and that combination has never
failed yet.
Well. / am working on that book now,
and my friends are sending the names of
their favorite poems from all over the
South. 1t is already interesting and curl
Gus to note the ones that are most pop
ular. | shall publish a list of them be-
fore long in the order in which they
stand.
And now about that scriptural
enigma. / have received several LETT
tiers about it. and but one correct an
swer and so | will have to give the so
luton as sent by the Mississippi girls:
You have heard, no doubt, the oft-told
tale
Of Prophet Jonah and the whale,
His living soul was kept within
Till he repented of his sin.
When the whale dies its oil gives light
Dispelling darkness from the night
BILL ARP.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-28

AS Patrick Henry said, ut is uselesfg to
cry peace when there is no peace. Hen
ny Grady never lulled the nation INTO
peace for more than about a week. Bet
ter take that inscription off his monu-.
ment What alarms me is the fact that
the Northern papers that are most Bit
ter against us are the most popular with
their people. This is a bad sign. The
New York Press boasts that its circula-
ton is twice as great as that of all the
Republican papers of New York and
Brooklyn combined and it is increasing
every day. 1t is ably and bitterly edited.
Not a daily issue but has some fling or
Islander against the South. / wouldn't
care for what an editor said if his read
ers didn't approve and indorse it, and it
is reasonable to suppose that the million
Northern readers of The Press hate US
as cordially as does the editor. l can't
account for this antipathy, for we are
not doing anything to them. In the last
Sundays paper The Press says that we
should build a monument to Paul Sloan,
the DEPUTY sheriff of Lake Charles, La,
because he lost his life in trying to pro-
tect negro from mob" That is not
so bad, but he continues his remarks and
says We should set up his statue in place
of one of those erected to Calhoun and
fancy and Davis, whom their own follow
ers admit were incurably wrong in every
question of their time and the Northern
mind reads Paul Sloan's title to monu
ment as clearly as John Browns"
What is the use of trying to keep calm
and serene under such provocations. Chief
Justice fancy and John c. Calhoun were
dead before our civil war and l did not
know that any respectable citizen of the
United States would dare to dishonor
their great names. They were states
men, not politicians, and the tributes and
eulogies paid to them by Northern men
were full of praise and overlooking with
national lamentation. Even Daniel Web
ster spoke with much emotion in his
beautiful eulogy on Mr.. Calhoun But
now at this late day the same old fanati-
cal cry is heard that caused New England
to send John Brown on his malicious and
devilish errand. The same malignant
growl that inspired John G. Whittier to
write of Webster:
$50 fallen! So lost! the light withdrawn
which once he wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone for
evermore.
All else is gone; from those great eyes
the soul has fed
When faith is lost and honor dies, the
man is Dead
And this because he honored Calhoun
and in his old age dared to say in his
speech at Capon Springs that a State had
the right to secede from the Union when
the compact was broken My father was
from Massachusetts and honored Mr..
Webster above all men and was intense
ly indignant at Whittier's fanatical puri-
tannical verses. That triumvirate Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun was his ideal of
great men, patriots and statesmen, and
It'll mine today. Ny contempt for old
Whittier is very great and none of his
slanderous effusions shall find place in
my collection of poems. 1 was surprised
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Relief from pain and itching is so imme-
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The ligature treatment, the knife, or
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Thousands of pile sufferers bear wit
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A complete treatment of the Pyramid
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The Pyramid Drug Co., of Marshall,
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS|
reported by JOS. L. Seawell)

WHITFIELD VS.. FUQUAY. New trial.
Any knowledge of a fact, truth of which
may be ascertained by proper inquiry,
is notice to the party and will deprive
him of equities arising for the want Of
such notice. l James VS.. Gardner, SO n.
c.. $685.
Specific performance of contract for
the sale of land, though an equitable re-
lief, will be enforced as a matter of course
where valid legal contract is establish
ed devoid of fraud and unfair advantage.
3 Pomeroy Eq. Jur., Sec. 1902; 121 n. c.,
251.
BAKER VS.. CARTER. Action dismissed.
Where, in an action against the wife
and son of a deceased debtor to have his
deed declared void as to creditors, while
the cause is pending upon defendants
demurrer upon the ground that no cause
of action was shown in the complaint, the
administrator of deceased debtor and 9TH
er of his creditors are made plaintiffs
and the pleadings are reformed so as to
turn the action into "a creditors bill,
and the original plaintiff takes non-suit
and withdraws from the action; Held,
that the Superior Court had no jurisdic
tion and the action is dismissed. The
creditors remedy was by special pro-
ceeding before the clerk. 90 n. c., 455;
81 N. c., 176; IA n. c., 626; 65 N. c., Sc.
CANTWELL VS.. HERRING. Affirmed.
The Superior Court has inherent dis
cretionary power to allow amendment to
pleadings or to allow them to be filed at
any time, unless prohibited by statute.
or unless vested rights are interfered
with.
TAYLOR VS.. BREWER. New trial.
In an action against a mortgage for
wrongful sale and conversion of mort
gagged property, the defendant has a risht
to prove upon the trial that the plaintiff
mortgagor delivered the property to the
defendant mortgages attorney to be sold
and the pcoreeds applied to the mortgage
debt
COBB VS.. PERRY. New trial.
When there is more than scintilla of
evidence about which reasonable minds
may differ the question should be submit
ted to the jury.
In this action to have defendant de-
clared a trustee for the benefit of plain
tiffs, plaintiffs alleging that the land was
conveyed to defendant to pay off incum-
ORANGES thereon and then defendant to
divide the land between plaintiffs. the
trial judge ruled that upon the evidence
of plaintiffs they could not recover. The
court hold that the evidence, to the effect
that defendant had stated his purpose to
be to disincumber the land and divide 1t
among the plaintiffs; that he had promis-
ed one of the plaintiffs to give her "a
right to her interest," and had afterwards
promised this plaintiff to buy her home,
did not warrant the trial judge in taking
the case from the jury and new trial
is awarded.
BELL VS.. COMMISSIONERS OF JOHN
ST0N COUNTY. No error.
Counties. being a branch of the State
government, can be sued only in causes
authorized by statute. and an action can
not be maintained against the county
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to be around the house some. / have
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to recover the penalty
prescribed by section I'll of The Code, for
failure to establish hospitals under sec
tion 707 (22) of The Code. 126 N. c., 90S;
9S N. c., 8; 80 N. c., 437.
POTTER VS.. WHITE. Error.
In this action to have a deed, absolute
on its face, declared a mortgage, the
trial judge committed error in excluding
defendants evidence to the effect that
the deed was not intended by the parties
to be a mortgage; that the redemption
clause had not been omitted by ignorance.
mistake. ETC., and that plaintiff occupied
the land as defendants tenant.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-28
W|EEHOOD AS THE
TEST OF NOMANHOOD
The Good Woman Who Makes
a Bad Wife.

Marriage was a serious thing to the
grandparents and great grandparents of
the present generation. No woman en-
tered lightly upon wedlock. She knew
that she was going to found a family, and
that she must be equal to all the respon-
sibilities of the position she assumed
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The Old War Horse for Bryan.
washington Post.)

Gen. Wade Hampton, of Columbia, S.
c., who has been quite ill for several
days at the Metropolitan Hotel. is con-
siderably improved. He went out driving
yesterday afternoon with his son, Mr..
Alfred Hampton. who is employed by the
government in the immigration service,
at New York Il am in pretty good con-
dition again. said Gen. Hampton yester-
day, and shall leave this evening for my
home, in South Carolina. l am very
anxious to see Mr.. Bryan elected Presi-
dent of the United States"
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A WONDERFUL BOOK.

DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
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MRS. JOE PERSONS
REM
WhatAre Stronger Than Facts?
Aulander, N. c., Oct. 10, 1900.

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ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR.
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