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THB COURIER. i r r f on Wednesday afternoon at bor homo, 1201 G street. Refreshments were served and ribbon souvenirs were given to the guests. Those present wero: Mesdames E. J. Jackson, A. N. Young, II. M. Scott, C. R Tefft, D. E. Green. W. J. Turner, R. P. R. Miller, E O. Miller, Frank Doyle, E. P. Micklo and A. A. Ilood; Misses Meredith, Deyo, Jude Deyo, Kempton, Mabel Kempton and Ida Young. A dancing party was given by Delta Jpsilon at the chapter house last Fri day evening. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Spencer, Mrs. P. II. R. Millard; Misses Jussen, Millard, Parks, Weesner, Davenport, Heacock, Hazlett, Harper, Muir, Lummery; Mrs. Reed and Miss Cooper of Holdrege; Messrs. Wills, Pollard, Lussier, Strahan, Wilson, Kan zier, Clinton, Hall, Benedict, Lester, Walton, Steen, Hummel and Gaines. The Lotos club met on Thursday with Mrs. Lewis at the Unitarian church. Mrs. Lewis lectured on "The Growth of an Idea." Expositions which began with the Crystal Palace and blossomed into the Columbian and Paris exposi tion was the theme of her brief resume. Professor Morgan Brooks afterward talked about and showed lantern views of the Buffalo exposition. The lectures were very interesting and were enjoyed by. many guests. Mrs. Wurzburg played national airs and Miss Reynolds Bang "God Save the Queen." the guests of Mr. returned to their Illinois. A. L. Douglas, havo home in Galesburg, Mr. O. Steele left Tuesday night on a business trip to Chicago and New York. Mies Bacheller gave a six-coureo din ner last week Thursday in honor of Miss Tyson of Red Oak, Iowa. Miss Tyson waB also entertained by Misses Trigg and Cook on Friday night. Mr. Bryan will deliver the commence ment address at the high school this year. MisB Clara Parker was the guest of Mrs. I. G. Chapin during the Delta Gamma convention. Mrs. W. A. Dilworth, Mrs. W. M. Lawlor, Mrs. John Harrop, Mrs. II. P. Stine, Mrs. J. C. Johnston and Mrs. Will Hopkins attended the grand lodge of the Pythian Sisterhood at Ravenna on Wednesday. ITALIAN BEES FOR SUA. $8.00 rJER COWNY. Queen Bees by mail $2.00. Extracted Honey, absolute ly pure and very fine, 15c per pound. 2273 Howard Avo9 l,liiooln,Vobr. A X V CDQ Send The CouneryaurLEGAL notices L W 1 E l0" files are kept in fire proof buildings. BRIEF CHAPTERS. BY FLORA BULLOCK. For The Courier Gregory, The Coal Man, 11th & O. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Everets have is sued invitations for the marriage of their sister, Miss Carrie Elizabeth Stearns to Mr. William Perry Jackson, on May the thirtieth. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bonnell of Chi cago, announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth, to Mr. Carl F. Williams, also of Chicago. The wed ding will take place in June. The closing party of the Saturday Night club was given last week Friday eion on mo until one Just as black as coal, with eyes of inky depths, in the centre of gyrating white mats the ink-wells never seem to move, and fuzzy little braids sticking out straight from a large, round head. Her apron, which is one of the all-over kind so admired by old fashioned moth ers, so hateful to the soul of the city bred school-girl, is bright red, and around her very short but agile neck id a string of blue beads. Her age she would tell me proudly if I asked her, I am sure must be about seven happy years. She goes to school down on the corner and when I meet her going thith er in the morning, the white mats roll, the ivory is displayed, and she sayB, "Good morning," with all the condes cension of a porter's daughter. Her personality did not make much impres- morniog when I in Walsh hall. The cotillion, which had many novel figures, was led by Mr. Mattson Baldwin and Miss Burr Ex-Senator Thurston was in Omaha last week Thursday. He was on his way to California, where he will attend the launching of the battleship "Ohio" today. Mrs. J. M. Struck gave a dinner last week Wednesday in honor of Mrs. George Simon of Cedar Rapids. The guests were Mrs. Simon, Mrs. Burgess, Miss Bacheller and Miss Smith. Mrs. O. C. Rector gave a luncheon laBt Saturday for Mrs. F. C. Howe, who went to New York this week. Mrs. A. R. Michell is entertaining her sister. Mrs. Maurice Deutsch of Horton, Kansas, during the Delta Gam ma conyention. thought to get better acquainted. "Good morning, Martha," I said. One is always safe in calling the porter "George" for even if it is not his name, he will understand the implied compli ment. Why, then, should not the little lady be "Martha?" She did not seem to understand the reverence paid her, however, for she looked up with the quickness of a squir rel and announced: "My name's Miss Williamson." I am afraid I shall bo obliged to re gard her as a very distant acquaintance, hereafter. Come, let us go get sunburned. It is just the time for that, this lovely May morning: the northwest wind, cool must havo been put there for him and all his couBins. Keep them locked, friends, for I know the blue-coated king of feathered thieves has his two wicked eyes upon those boxes. The wild crab-apple how fitting that it should keep its glory hidden just a little longer than its cousins of orchard and field. The plum bloesomB are wan and drooping, but the lovely pink and white crab-apple scents the air and lures the bees other brothers of ours, but oh, how they hurt us sometimes. The sun loveB you, my friend; for your cheeks and nose are glowing. But I must tako otr my hat to him boforo ever be grants mo tho coveted shade. Away with your cold creams, potions, tan oxterminators and frecklo extrac tors! Lot us show that wo havo calmed our souls this morning out whero tho wind blows free. When you go a picknicing on a May afternoon, this is how you should go not with baskets and boxes of iino things your mother mado for you; but tucked away in your receptacles let there be bacon and eggs and cotTeo ready for heroic treatment over tho camp tire. If you forget the sugar and the salt, so much the better, for then you will find what flavor there is in camp-tire ashes, wind blown. The woods were not far away. So wo walked and carried burdens, baskets well stowed, a coffee-pot blackened by former experiences, a frying pan, and a toaster. The Lady Who Manages Things did forget the sugar. 1 told her she probably had done so, and she dropped her basket and ran back, with the re sult that Brown Eyes had to carry a glass of sugar all the way. Wo cho6e a spot on the leeward side of a hill or rather tho Lady Who Manages Things picked it out and there we built uur tire, heaping on dead branches with an eye for th glowing coals. We sat around and watched it, whilo the Lad told yarns. When the Lady Who Man- their own price and tho R. R. company has paid out nine hundred thousand dollars in one country for right of way; along the path of destruction stand empty houses, and all that is left of tho grovos, is a wide swath dotted with fresh-cut tree stumps. Spoiling tho woodland, spoiling the hill, just to savo steam coal, yet the owners of tho hill smile and wish they owned a fow moro such gold mines. You see 1 am not an interested party, so I call it a tragedy. Mayhap there are trees enough, and hills to spare. Give mo a Sabbath morning out on a hill-top where I can look down and around and far away, with tho bird songs for anthems, with my lap full of tlowore, peered at curiously by ground squirrels, plucking tho grass at my Bide and thinking nothing, just nothing. You may sleep if you will till tho sun is high and the breakfast is cold and tho stern church bells are ringing. But I am sure that you miss a glory and a gladness that every human soul needs. Mr. M. L. Scudder of in Lincoln this week. though it is, will help, and when we ages Things announced it was time to come home we may brine blossoms of begin, there was plenty to be done, but various shades of crushed strawberry. I in my laziness sat and watched and New York waB Out by the Old South Mill we will go a experienced a growing appetite. Uac- trnmWmc- nut amni.ir the fields and on? lou know 1 never eat bacon, lou The best equipped and most popular dining hall in the city is the Palace Din ing hall, 1130 N street. Sunday dinners a specialty. Best attention paid to fam ily board. Give it a trial. Born, on Thursday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Belcher, a son. Mies Helen Marie Burr formerly of Lincoln, but now of New York, will be the guest of Mr. and Mre. Roes Curtice the latter part of this month. Mrs. Florence Worley-Demorest of Denver, is the guest of Lincoln friends. Miss Mabel Lindley is visiting in Be loit, Kansas. Mrs. Lew Marshall is entertaining Miss Altemus of Hartford, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robertson and Mr. Edward Robertson, who have been amoijg birds, joying in tho splendor of sight and sound. What makes those fresh Sweet William, buttercups, crabapple and hawthorne blossoms wither and perish so soon after you have placed them in my hand? What makes tho birds cut their warbling short and dart away from us as we pass? Should they all not recognize us as brothers just for this one celestial morn? Now we can look back on the town, I especially enjoy looking back on towns now we can gaze on a wide, nameless land before us, and now, on the other side of the fence, we can note and gloat over the fine moss green of the long, low lines, portents of ruBtling corn-rows to come. I wonder if Mr. Robin does not think that pinkish rural delivery mail-box would be a fine place for a nest. Surely that row of them where the route ends could tell it by tho look of me, but al though I cannot claim to be a con noisseur it seemed to me that bacon was very good, coffee ditto, scrambled eggs ditto. Not far away there was such a trag edy of progress going on that every opening hickory blossom as it blushed so beautifully seemed to utter protest. Through the heart of tho woods, and the heart of the hill the men of the rod and chain had come, the men of the axe followed, and now tho men of the dump carts work and swear all day cut ting deep into the hill, rilling the beau tiful valley. Yes, said the advance agent of progress, that grade in the old road is too steep, the curve is too nar row; we will whack into these hills and Oil these hollows, and in ten years Bave the cost of all. So Smith and Jones and tho rest have sold their lands at To Frustrate the Wily Moth. There is really nothing that more de lights a moth than a spot of some kind on a woollen dress. It behooves one then to see that everything is clean when it is put away for the summer. Dresses, like furs, should be hung for some hours in the open air and sunlight, says the New York Evening Sun. An old or partially worn out binding should by no means be left on the bottom of a skirt because of the dust that must inevitably bo lurking behind it Cedar chips put into trunks and bureau drawers are fairly good moth prevent ives. Newspapers are good for wrap ping about clothing because the print er's ink is offensive to the moths. Some housekeepers dip pieces of paper in melted paraffino and lay them when dry between the folds of articles they wish to protect. Turpentine has a following of persons who consider it tho best thing possible for the work. The great ob jection to turpentine, as to most of tho moth preventives, is the fact that it is so objectionable to human beings as well. You can prepare a powder that while performing the work of a sachet will drive away the moth miller as well. If small bags are filled with it and hung among tho contents of the wardrobe, they will be reasonably safe. Mix to gether six ounces of Florentine orris root and one ounce each of caraway seed, powdered tonquin bean, cloves, mace, nutmeg and cinnamon. Mail and Times. Passenger These street cars are bet ter lighted than they used to be. That shows you're beginning to have some consideration for the public. Conductor It isn't that You Bee the advertisers kicked because their signs ouldn't be read. Town Topics.