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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04
CLUB N O 7 E S
THE WEEKS REVIEW

Following the luncheon at the Lin
coin the Nebraska Library Association
held its annual meeting in Paiiadian
hall on Wednesday afternoon. In til"
absence of the secretary Miss Mullikin
was appointed secretary pro tempore.
In his Introductory address President
Wyer gave a brief resume of the work
accomplished by the association during
the past year. The six largest Libraries
i'm the state are the Omaha city library,
the university library. the Nebraska
state library, the Peru library. the
Creighton library. and the Lincoln city
library. The first library bindery in
Nebraska has been put into operation
i'm Omaha during the last twelve
months. and is proving a success
full experiment inasmuch as the
convenience is greater and the expense
is less than when the books were sent
to other binderies. The university
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04

library has been increased by the gift
of private library of 1900 volumes,
which is the largest contribution ever
received by that institution.
The state library is limiting its work
to the collection of law books. and it is
considered one Of the best law libraries
in the country.
After collecting books for nearly
thirty years the library at Peru is now
being classified and catalogued.
In spite of unfavorable conditions the
Lincoln city library is rapidly increas-
ing in popularity and efficiency. 1t is
expected that the library will occupy
its new building some time in Feb
ruary.
New libraries have been established
in Fremont and York. In Norfolk a
library has been started in connection
with the high school, and libraries will
soon be established in Wahoo and Mel
son. New buildings have been donated
to the libraries at Falls City and York.
Miss Edna Bullock, secretary of the
state commission, declared that the
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04

scribed circle for little more
than week. Now an injudi-
cious, vicious Zany like the Maclay
whom the newspapers call a historian,
is given columns where an epitaph of
two lines is all he merits. A fame,
newspaper born and unnaturally pro-
longed by newspaper stimulants after
dissolution has begun, is boring sub
scribers into an unrelieved ennui. DC
casionally chance elevates "A man Of
mediocre ability into prominence.
Chance is only a fash as to energy and
impulse. Chance may boost man into
"A coveted place. but only ability can
keep him there. A man who gets into
the newspapers by a conspicuous act
of folly is just as well satisfied with
his notoriety as though it were at
tanned legitimately. All the cranks and
fakirs whose names are household
words i'm this country owe their fame
to the very papers whose editors
profess contempt for their conduct and
pretensions. The waters of oblivion
used to sweep over a fool and his folly.
Today his reward is fame and the re-
production of his commonplace, unin-
spired features in nearly every
paper of consequence in the country.
Ennui preys upon the sophisticated and
the reading of the daily papers for the
very exaltation of fools therein is "A
cross
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04

of officers, with the following result:
President. Miss Edith Tobitt, Omaha:
first vice president, Miss Abbott, Lin
coin; second vice president, Miss Ru-
Ion. Peru: secretary, Miss Mullikin,
Lincoln; treasurer Miss O'Brien, Oma
ha. The next annual meeting will be
held in Omaha.
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At the meeting of the Athenea club
yesterday afternoon, Mrs. w. A.
Greene, the hostess, read paper on
the subject "Mosaics.'
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On New Years day the members of
the w. r. p. c. club We're at home
to their friends at the residence of
Mrs. Horace Yates, HOS H street. In
the evening the postal clerks and their
families We're entertained informally.
q q q
Mrs. II. w. Kelley entertained the
New Book Review club yesterday
afternoon.
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At the meeting of the City Improve
ment society on Thursday morning
committee was appointed to meet next
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04
German Protection

Who pays the tariff on food stuffs in
Germany if the tariff is increased?
The American shipper? There is no
doubt that his sales or orders for wheat
delivered {. o. b. at a German port
will decrease. But the grain will cost
the German importer the price of the
grain plus the transportation, plus the
tariff. The importer sells the grain to
the miller and the miller to the baker
and the baker to the people. But the
tariff is on the wheat from the time il
leaves the exporters hands. The last
man who buys the grain either as flour
or meal pays the tariff. If the father
or bread winner sold the bread to his
children, he would sell il to them for
a price fixed by the tariff, but when it
finally slips down the red throat of
the little German child IL has reached
the consumer. For a sentimental rea-
son the father can not get the price
out of the bread and he therefore pays
il.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04
Ideas

l0(2S
The man of works and deeds has a
great contempt for the theOrist, the
debater, yet there is not a warehouse,
a grain elevator. freight car, or a
shop that was not originally an idea
and nothing more material. Debate
brought about Magma Carta, the exc
cution Of Charles l. the American rev.
olution, and il will in time accomplish
universal suffrage for all the children
of men. An idea is born in one brain.
The man who owns the brain COM
municates il to his friends. 1t is start
ling and awakens the opposition of his
kind. A hundred years ago they killed
a man whose ideas We're too original
But you cannot suppress an idea that
way. Someone else is likely to catch
it before the man dies. Or if he dies
without making a convert the same
idea will occur to some other man by
original inspiration. The only way to
keep new ideas out of body is to kill
all the dreamers and theoretical fell
lows just as soon as they are old
enough to show plainly what they will
be about as soon as they are grown.
Sweet content never accomplished any
thing. II is the divine discomfort
which stirs a man TO think he can
make things better if he tries. which
induced the Puritans to come to Amer
lea, which influenced Luther TO nail
his theses on the cathedral door, which
made the Man of Sorrows willing to be
nailed on the Cross.
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But has he the first characteristic of
a true poet?"
Well, yes. He was born, / believe"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04
HARK

LISTEN to those Steam Radia-
tors kicking and hammering
until your room rings like a
boiler factory.
PHEW Now hot, now cold.
with frequent emissions of
lovely ~ fumes from the
valves.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

soft heart and hard head make
an excellent combination, but a hard
heart and soft head-weIl, that's
different.-Chicago Daily News.
"A $24,000,00O nickel trust has Just
been formed in New Jersey" SAY,
they'll be putting the pennies into
trust next" - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
is 1T true that a man is as old rs
he fecls?" asked Highfier. That's
what they say. Why?" Because, If
It is, l must be about so this morn.
Chicago Post.
Weary Willie-.I hal err soft snar
de odder day, Dusty" Dusty Walk.
er-"How wuz dat, Weary" Weary
wlille--"Got chased by err dog wot
didn't have no teeth. Chicago Daily
News.
Loafer-"Any chance of a job q
work ere, mister?" Foreman-'sNo.
We're not wanting any more hands
now" Loafer-"Well, the little bit
O. work I'd do wouldn't make NO
difference!"-Punch.
Ping-"Some women novelists have
great power of diction." Pong-"In
their home life I'll bet they show
stlii greater power of contradiction"
baltimore Herald.
Il tell you that poet is genius"
"A genius? Why, his stuff is the worst
! ever read" 81 know" "But WHY do
you call him genius?" Because
ne succeeds in selling it."--Philadel-
phia Record.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-"One swallow
does not make a spring." Mr.. Grim
sonbeak-"That's ridiculous" Mrs.
C.-"Why is it ridiculous?' Mr.. c.
Because one swallow does make a
spring. I've seen it spring from one
twig to another."-Ohio Journal.
Young man." said the solemn
looking stranger, do you drink in
toxicating beverages?" "Not with
strangers" said the young man, as
he moved away. Thus it will be seen
that our best intentions sometimes
strike a logical snag. = Baltimore
News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

About 100000 gallons of aIcoho
were used in Germany last year fol
technical purposes.
Ginseng to the value of about $780,.
600 is exported to Hong-Kong every
year from this country. 1t is used
as medicine and a stimulant.
japanese paper pocket handker-
chiefs are now supplied to consump-
tive prisoners detained at Norwood
Scrubs, England.
/ The biggest pump in the world is
used in an American zinc mine at
F1eldensville. 1t pumps 10000 gal
Ions minute, or 10000, 900 day, and
uses over ton of coal an hour.
Surgeon general Sternberg says
that the metric system had been es-
tablished in the army and had given
entire satisfaction. He commends the
system and urges its adoption.
Miss Maud Dennison, of Chicago, is
said to be the only woman harness
maker in the United States. She is
20 years old, was born in Louisville,
and has worked at the trade four
years.
bananas are, as rule, planted out
systematically in rows. the suckers"
being placed at an average of ten
feet apart. The banana plant bears
only one bunch at time, but it is
a quick grower, yielding its fruit in
IL to IA months. When the plant is
about six months old second suck
err" or shoot, is allowed to spring
from the root, third after the ninth
month, and SO on, SO that after the
first year there is continuous crop
being reaped.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07

Chestnut grove, with its full-grown
trees, produce six times as much food
per acre as any cereals, and Hum
boldt estimates that banana orchard
will feed rs human beings, where a
potato field of the same size would
support two and wheat farm only
one. A time may come when the sta
pies of human food will be chiefly de-
rived from trees, thus increasing the
DEMONSTRATING capacities of our planet
more than Rve-fold, not to mention
the saving in drudgery, nor the bene-
fetal climatic influences of tree plant
atoms. No blowing, hoeing and now
ing, no worrying about winter food for
hungry cattle, no deserts overspread-
ing vast areas of tree-deprived terri
tory.-Nature.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07

Uncle Sans rural delivery ha,
brought out many peculiar things
At one point on crossroads lin n.
diana a number of farmers, i'm orde,
to make it convenient to them.
selves, as well as the mail carrier
have rugged up n contrivance which
is decidedly novel Hero 16 farmers
are served. and each has his mail box
mounted on an old wagon wheel,
which has been set on top of Z most.
The 16 boxes lie around the edge of
the wheel, and when the carrier
comes he simply has to get out Of his
wagon and give the wheel q turn ia
make the boxes which he wants come
BEFORE him. 1t is miniature post
ONCE out of doors.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07
JasperDarre
Caller
BY w. r. ROSE

THE door creaked very slightly, but
it Jared on Jasper Danes nerves
He looked up with a frown.
rs this Mr.. Dane"
A young woman was framed in the
doorway.
Jasper's frown slightly faded as he
caught sight of her. She was pretty
young woman and charmingly
gowned, and she wasn't more than one
and twenty. Jasper avoided the wom-
ans page of his paper. He couldn't
have told what the young woman in
the doorway wore, but he recognized
the fact that ii was a combination that
seemed to be just suited to her.
mr.. Dane, the editor?"
Jasper, pencil in hand, bowed again.
The young woman advanced into
the apartment.
you are much younger than sup
posed you to be-" she said.
.)asper's eyes opened wider.
II am not quite sure that Lought to
take that as compliment" he said.
He even smiled. Then the pressing
character OF his work reminded him.
His features stiffened. He raised his
pencil again, and looked at the girl
severely.
Its the very first time / was ever
in an editors sanctum," she said as
her glance took in the dingy walls and
the Uttered desk.
How can serve you, madam ?" in
quired Jasper.
The girl looked at him and she
looked at the chair beside his desk.
THANK you," she said, and sat down.
Jasper sighed and stared at the half
written sheet before him.
Are you sure it is the editor you
want to see?" he asked. "The society |
editor is at the lower end of the hall. |
So are the musical editor and the art |
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07
CORONATION CURlos.
Unique Features That WIN BE Pre-
scented mt the Formal Crownfng- OF
England's King and Queen.

The king has decided to do away will
many of the fees which have pertaines
to some of the ancient Offices in con
nection with the coronation. Th,
granting of fees in the past has mere
~ been in conformity with historit
usage which has now lost its meaning
His majesty has also broadly hintet
to the duke of Norfolk that he wishes
the robes he has to wear ON June II
to be less heavy and burdensome thar
those worn on former occasions. Lord
Salisbury recently amused the king
very greatly by telling him of the ex-
perience of his father, who was one of
. the~train-bearers at the coronation of
.s-16sorge Nv.
"The weight of his majesty's robes, y
said Lord Salisbury, gave each of the
train-bearers Turkish bath of some
hours duration. The king suffered
even more than the bearers, and grunt-
ed and grumbled necessarily. When
the ceremony was over his majesty
was found in his dressing-room at the
abbey. walkingup and down undressed,
but with the crown on his head"
When King Edward heard Lord Sal
isbury relate this he said: 81 hone
his grace of Norfolk will see that INV
coronation robes are more seasonable
than those of his majesty George w.
A king without crown is curious
sight; but king in bedroom attire
would hardly present regal or digni-
fed spectacle
The king has determined. says Lon
don Tit-Bits, that a splendid crown
shall be worn by the queen at the cor
onation. This crown is to have as it's
chief ornament the Koh-i-Noor. When
her majesty quietly demonstrated at
this, and suggested that something
less magnificent should be made, King
Edward gallantly answered:
mo gem is too rare 10 crown such
head; as your life has been, so shall
your crown be-magnificent." Lately
several designs have been submitted
to her majesty. who has at last chosen
one of them. The crown will have
eight jeweled arches, with the splen-
did Indian diamond in the middle. Her
majesty's present crown has only r.
arches.
Although the king has determined to |
do away with many historic usages,
yet his majesty has encouraged MANY |
REVEALS. One of these REVEALS will be |
that Of the old English fair. Great ar
are being made at Kensal
Green for huge fair to take place
during coronation week. Forty-eight |
acres of ground have been secured.
and on this will be hundreds of van
dwellers, who will entertain the thou-
sands of spectators who will undoubt-
edly be present at the fair during the
week.
Every afternoon whole oxen will be
roasted, and thousands of cakes.
stamped with the images Of their
will be distributed among
The juveniles who like to be present
during the festivities. 1t was suggest
I'd that these dainties should be called
Coronation cakes" but this happened
% come to the ears of the king, who.
,aving, perhaps, an idea as to the nj.
'ure OF these cakes, suggested that
hey should Be called, not Coronation
'okee," but "oorouetiop cugiosiv II
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07
POWERFUL ON BRASS.
Wind lnstrument Player VINO blew
Bufges Into the Horn, Large
or Small.

| ~
"The most powerful player on bias
in one way, that I ever knew" said q
veteran bandmaster, according to thu
New York Sun, was young Bulgari
an who, years ago, belonged for short
time to a band that was leading in
the little town of West Jugby Junction
Mich.
He was likely young fellow in every
way; presentable personally, intelli-
gent, good reader of music, a very
good performer on the B-tiat cornet.
more than fair on the barytone and
not at all bad on bass horn: and we
counted him decided acquisition to
the band; but it wasn't long before
we found that he was too powerful for
ms.
THE man next him in the tenor
rank, the front line, of the band was
the first to discover his wonderful DOW
er, or rather the wonderful effects of
1t. When one day marching along next
to him in the band at the head of ma
rade he suddenly heard the Bulgarian's
cornet go off the key about half a
note, and looking around toward him
he saw that his cornet was all ont
of shape. The Bulgarian had blown
1t dubious at number of points, and
the only wonder was not that the cor.
net was of half note but that the
player could play on it now at all.
SWELL, not to burden you too much
with the details, we tried him then on
a barytone, thinking that on a larger.
heavier instrument like that. one in
which there was more space to fill, to
begin with, and which was built of
heavier metal, there would be less dan
ger OF such results. And we Thought.
besides, that with experience he wouJd
come to modify his playing somewhat
and that he'd be all right sooner or
later for sure.
But it seems that he was SO car
ried away by his own enthusiasm that
he didn't know himself at times inst
how powerfully he was blowing: and |
so there was no telling really just what |
he would do. As matter of fact
at the end of one weeks practice on
it we found that he had blown > ne,v
barytone all out Of shape.
"Then I'VE shifted him to the has.
horn; we thought we'd try him on
that anyway, but in one nights PLAYING
ne blew our bass horn right ont
straight. And then we had to let him
70.
"When he played with ordinary now
r he was beautiful player, and we
rated to part with him; we had none
90 many such in the old band in those
lays. but we couldn't afford to keen
lin supplied with instruments.
whatever became of him never
new. Most likely he never got again
UGH chance as he did with us. Ther.
we're not many country cornet hands
a those days that would have let him
traighten out more than one instru.
tent. And SO suppose he must have
OF discouraged finally in his attempts |
, belong to band and turned to farm.
,g or some other occupation. and
cry likely now he is dead.
"But I've often thought that ~ w..
I'D the Bulgarian now in these davs
sensations, we wouldn't fire him
ed feature him: Great bass horn
DO by Nicholas Stormio, who PLAYS
re great horn out straight as he
ays;' and we'd have made a fortune
1t of him."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-07
TIE TRADE IN TATToo1NG.
Once Profitable, But of Late Years
Ii Has Fallen on to Almost
Nothing.

The tattoo market is not in salts
factory condition. 1t has grown worse
steadily for several years, and none of
the leading professionals are happy
over the trade as it stands or the prom
Use for the immediate future. One of
them said the other day that he had
half mind to close up shop for good,
reports the New York Post. "a few
years ago." he said, "there were ten
OF us tattooers in this shop and the
business was great, but the American
people don't care for fine art, and we
are suffering accordingly. There was
time when no museum was complete
without tattooed man or tattooed
lady Those were the days that made
fellow happy. Why, Capt. Costen-
tenus, The Great Tattooed Greek, was
worth $4,000 a year at one time, and
Nile. Celeste, who was captured and
made princess and tattooed by the
cannibals of FIJI (between ourselves
l was the Fijis), got $3.50 week for
several seasons. The trade has not
died out altogether, but we do not get
any more big jobs, only little ones that
take half an hour or an hour; young
men that want to have a ship or heart
and their sweetheart's initials tat
tooed on their arms, and now a nd then
a mother who desires an Identification
mark tattooed on her baby. That is
to prevent his being stolen, she saws.
never heard of case where it did
prevent 1t, but then they get the idea
from Observation-Disclosures novels, and
feel quite proud when it is done. An
other class who want queer symbols
tattooed upon their bodies are the
Free Masons, theosophists and men
who belong to organizations never
heard Of"
us your work difficult?"
Not at all. All that it requires is a
steady hand, a good eye, and knowl- |
edge of the business. For tattooinp
blue and dark blue we use India ink |
Today just as they have done for GEN.
Iuries. For reds we employ cochineaI
md sometimes purified iron rust. For
green there is mineral powder
ground very fine that beats anything
know of. For yellow, ochre is the
best. You have to be very careful
With colors, and often think the
rade got a black eye from careless
'r ignorant people using injurious or
poisonous substances. Many of the
'olored inks when tattooed make biz
ores- So will many of the water col
RS which are used by painters.
'hrome yellow is poisonous, and so are
II the greens and blues which contain
Upper. l ought to say that chrome
'reen is not dangerous excepting
5hen it is impure and contains lead.
here are some vegetable colors which
re not injurious, but ought not to be
sed, because they are slowly dissolved
y the blood. You can get a very beam
iful effect from spinach green. It
'oks just as pretty as the side of a
ipe green apple, but after a year II
rows quite faint, and in three or four
ears it is absorbed altogether and
here is nothing left. When / began
usiness a crazy Scotchman had me
lttoo Stuart plaid stockings from HE
PES up to his knees"