THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
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W. yV. HANDKItH, l'uhllther.
NEMAHA, NI3MIASKA.
AN AUTUMNAL REVERIE.
Just nn humhlo, plain-faced woman,
Mlridlo-ngod nnd somewhat grny;
Trim find wholcsome-llko nnt) human
Kind o' grave nnd kind o' Kmy.
Makes mo think o early autumn,
Grupos-u.purplln' on tho vlnr,
WhoriMho first faint, frost 1ms caught Hi,
Caught nnd klRMcd 'um Into wine. .
Doop-volceil boys now call hop "mothor"
Ruby boys Hint's grown to die,
JJy boiiio magic trick or othur, 0
In ft 'year nn tail as una;
Girls tluit yesterday was c"llngln
To hor skirts, I've seen o'lat
With tho neighbor boys a-swlngln'
At tho roso-wrcuthed garden gate. -,
Wlilln across her brow Time's finger
Writes the plainer talcs o' truth.
In hor heart there still must linger
All the flowery dreams o' youth.
Field h are sweet with bloomy clover,
Life. Is crowned with blissful Joyi;
Love's pure gold sho's colnln' over
In hor happy girls and boys.
Heems as though tho cup Kate brings us
Is a sort o' bitter-sweet,
Kind o' soothes an' kind o' stings us
Mirth and melancholy meet.
Grief comes husliln' nil our laughter.
Kill rout skies arc clouded o'er,
Hut tho sunshine fellers after,
Always brighter than before
Spring may fndo and summer vanish,
Autumn yield to winter's sway.
Yet tho years can never banish
lleuuty Lovo has crowned with May.
In tliu chlmnoy-cornor, cozy, r
Drenmln' In the firelight's glow,
I shall aoo hor cheks blush, rosy.
Ah I Haw them long ago.
Nixon Waterman, In KlIlott'H Magazine.
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I Beyond the Green Baize Door, J
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TmSUK was mystery behind the
green baizu door; tangible or In
tangible, nobody knew, since no one but
Mr. lllakely ever saw the Inside of the
door which shuts his private room nt
Messrs. lllakely & Stephen's bank from
the narrow passage connecting It with
the general olllees.
Mr. lllakely was sole proprietor of
the bank, which was the only one In the
town, and showed every hemblanec of
the soundest financial basis.
Mr. lllakely was a man strangely de
void of eccentricities. The chief faults
tiie bunk stair found witli him were his
indofntignbillty, and that whenever
there was business to be done in Loudon
selling or buying stock, buying cash,
etc. he Invariably attended to it hlin
Kclf. 1 was seated at the desk of the head
cashier, who was away on a short holi
day, one morning in September, when
one of our clients entered the counting
house. "Mr. lloyton, look here," he said, slip
ping a crown piece upon the counter.
"Where did you get ltV"
"What's wrong wttli it?" I inquired,
examining it closely without noticing
any defect. "Did 1 give It to you?"
"Yes. Look at the edge; it's quite
smooth." '
1 passed him two half crowns, and as
"1 AM MRS. 11LAKI2I..Y," 81113 SAID,
HASTILY.
lie went away I blipped the crown into
my pocket, Intending to keep it as a
curiosity. Hut later in the day, when
Mr. lllakely was in the office, 1 showed
It to him.
"Curious!" hrmurmurt'(1. "One of an
experimental mint, no doubt, for it's
dated 1S00. Do you think we've any
others shuUnr?"
"No; 1 have been through them."
"Strangel Well, I'll keep it. It's
probably unique."
I was disappointed with his decision,
us I wanted the coin myself. It was
against my principles, however, to pro
test. 1 forgot it entirely until some
weeks later, when Mrs. lllakely, to the
utter astonlhhment of the bank's stall",
turned up an hour or so before luncheon
time.
Up to that time, although she had
been married more than ti;n mouths,
Mrs. lllakely had never been inside the
bank. Now she drove up in her car
riage, came In proudly and asked for
Mr. lllakely.
I replied thai if she would step into
the waiting-room I would summon him
in the usual -vviiy.
"No. Show me into his private room.
i am Mrs. lllakely," she said, hastily.
"1 recognize yon, madam," I replied.
"Hut the. rule is that all visitors, who
ever they may be, are to be shown into
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nmwk IIWIA
the waiting-room, where Mr. lllakely
will interview them."
"Nonscnscl" she ejaculated. "Such
rules do not refer to Mr. lllakely's wife.
The room is at the end of the passage,
Is it not?"
"You are putting me in an awkward
position," I replied. "I am not allowed
to let visitors approach the green baize
doorr-"
AH!" Her protld eyes flashed. "So
there Is a green baie rio&r jvhich no one
approaches?"
When Mr.-lllakely came, he did so in
his "habitual leisurely manner; and he
walked Into the waiting-room, leaving
the door ajar.
"MV. lllakely," she said, haughtily, "I
have been insulted by one of ' your
clerks. Since when lias your wife been
denied the right to eyter your private
room ?"
"Ever since she wrongly assumed that
she had such a right, Mary. My clerks
have their orders; they obey them. You
cannot blame them for upholding rules
I myself have framed. What do you
want? I am busy1 this morning. The
market Is uustendy just now."
"Tell me, Richard; had 3011 known I
was coming would you have allowed
your clerk to deny me access to your
private room?" Mrs. lllakely Inquired.
"The rule is of many years' standing,
Mary," he said, deliberately. "If it were
bet aside for you it would be the thin
end of the wedge: my room would no
longer be private."
"You Indorse your clerk's Insult?"
"I uphold my clerk who upholds the
bank's rules."
I felt her brush past me as she came
out of the room nnd saw her walk round
the desks, her lips tightly compressed
and her head high.
The following morning when I turned
up at the bank the porter met me with
the Inquiry had I seen anything of Mr.
lllakely? No one had seen him since
the bank closed the night before. lie
was not In the bank had not been
home Indeed, It was Mrs. lllakely who
had driven down the first thing to in
quire about him; and no ouu had seen
him.
"Mr. lloyton," she asked, "hnve you
seen my husband? You were the last
to leave, 1 believe?"
"Yes, madam, but 1 have not seen Mr.
lllakely since he put you Into your car
riage yesterday."
"That decides It," she muttered.
"Something has happened to him in iiis
room. The door must be forced. 1'or
ter, go for a carpenter!"
"You take the whole responsibility of
forcing the green baize door?" I sug
gested. "The whole responsibility," she rc
jiiicd, and turned away impatiently.
When the carpenter arrived Mrs.
lllakely led him to the door and ordered
him to force it. lie smiled grimly as
he looked the door up and down. He
sounded It with a mallet and his jaw
fell. "Iron!" he said, laconically. " Tisn't
my job; you want a blacksmith."
The porter was sent olV in the car
riage to fetch a smith. When the man
arrived he eyed the door critically and
looked dubious.
For live minutes he dealt a rapid fire
of blows, and then the door began to
tremble, then to shake. Finally, after
ten or twelve minutes, it gave a shudder
and came forward, swinging on its
hinges.
Mrs. lllakely darted forward and
stopped. Six feet fartlierdowu the nar
row passage another door obstructed
the way. She signed impetuously to
the smith, who stepped lorward and
shivered the lock of the second door,
which wns only light wood. All was
darkness beyond the door.
I turned to Mrs. lllakely, who stood
gazing in wonderment Into chaos.
"Porter," she said, hi a hushed voice,
"get me a lantern. Then you can both
leave us. Mr. Iloyton's will be all the
help 1 shall need."
We passed through the doorway and
Into a small, dark room, poorly fur
nished with a little otliee furniture and
littered with papers. There was no
i.!gn of Mr. Itlnkeh.
"Look!" cried Mrs. lllakely. "Look!
A trapdoor!"
I saw a square had been cut out of
the carpet, in the center of which was
a ring by which 1 raised the trap.
Looking through, we saw a ladder
leading down to darkness.
(Joing carefully down four rungs of
the ladder, I held the lantern out at
arm's length and surveyed the scene.
A stone-walled chamber stretched be
fore me like a large vault, in one wall
was a low, barred door; in a corner was
a small furnace. A peculiar-looking ma
chine stood in the middle of the vault,
and upon a ledge of Its frame rested a
row of silver coins.
I went down, and, stepping, as 1
thought, to the ground, my foot encoun
tered something soft. I sprang aside,
avoiding it, and saw the body of Mr.
lllakely huddled up In a broken bundle.
"Ah, me! Ah, me!" site moaned,
propping the head upon her kuet; with
frenzied tenderness. "Kiehnrd, hus
band! You did not merely dreamyou
lived your crimes that night and now!
This is h!' secret! Last night the
night before, lie was restless Iti his
sleep; he talked of coining, years of
coining- coining silver coins and reap
ing profit profit. 'The- mint makes
profit on Its silver coins, aud why not
I?' He said that, and as I lay nvvake I
hoped he merely dreamed. Dead, dead!
Yes, yes, and If you had lived these
J hands would kill you for the Ignoiuluy
JMohardl Oh, Richard!
Ilcyond tho police, only Mrs. lllakely
and myself know the true secret that
hid beyond the green bai.e door. Lon
don Tit-Hits.
AFRAID TO BE AFRAlD.
.Mttintlon In Which It Wns linn
KeroiiN to HIiimv the SIlKht-o
est Kcnr.
There are situations in which a timid
man cannot, out of consideration for
bis own safety, show the slightest fear.
A writer describes such a situation on
board a Hlilp which wns transporting a
great number of coolies across tho
ocean,, many of. Jtliefn desperate and
brutal men.
One day at luncheon hi thesnioon the
passenger heard horrible yells and
shouts of "Ta! ta!" (A fight! n fight!)
"JIullol" the captain said. "Another
jol Jy row below! Hotter stay where yo'u
arc. You'll find a loaded revolver In my
room If anyone attempts to molest
you."
Lighting his pipe and calling his dog,
a fierce-looking English bull, the cap
tain went on deck to see what was tho
matter. The coolies were fighting sav
agely; broken bowls and pieces of fire
wood were flying about, and several of
the men had ugly-looking knives drawn.
Into the midst of them walked the cap
tain, knocking first one and then uu
othcr aside.
One fearful-looking coolie aimed n
blow at him with a broken basin, but
before the blow could descend the dog
brought the man down on his back and
held him there. The two principal of
fenders were caught, their heads
banged together until the fight was out
of them nnd an explanation asked. Ev
erybody wanted to talk at once, but the
captain held up his hand till there was
silence, and then called one 111.111 after
another and heard each through an In
terpreter. The row turned out to have been
cnused by a man trying to light his
pipe at an opium smoker's lamp. The
most trivial thing often caused the
worst fight. After all was over the pas
senger said to the captain: "Arc you
not afraid of these people?"
"Yes," said the captain, "to tell the
truth, 1 11111. Hut to show the least fear
among such a crowd as that, or to lose
my temper, might lead to my death on
the spot. I cannot afford to show that
I am afraid. Hut I am getting used to
it." Chambers' Journal.
PLAIN SPEAKING.
KxntnpleN of (hi: GriifTneKH of
Hn1 Notnlilcx The Truth
niHUKrvcntile Komi.
Kn ff
lii To nn American who avoids rudeness
as vulgar and unbecoming in social in
tercourse the not infrequent grulYness
of bis Knglish cousin and his habit of
forcing the nuked truth upon friend or
foe, in season or out of season, is often
quite incomprehensible.
Mrs. Oliphuut, in hervautobiography,
gives an example of this grufi'ness In
her account of a visit paid by her to
the Tenuysons. The poet apparently
had not the least interest in her and
did not hesitate to show it. When she
was taking leave his wife regretted that
her visit had been so short, and Mrs. 011
phnnt declared that it liad given her a
great pleasure. The poet, who stood
glowering down on them both, sudden
ly exclaimed:
"Lord! what liars you women are!"
Archbishop Temple, clerical head of
the Church of England, is noted for his
brusque sincerity. A lady told him a
remarkable ghost story, for which her
aunt was authority.
"Is not that a proof of the existence
of ghosts, your grace?" she asked.
"T really can't say. 1 don't know your
uuut," was the reply.
A clergyman who wished for a bish
opric was consulting the primate, and
said, with an evident desire to show
that he did not overestimate Ids quu.V
llcatlonn for the place: "I know that I
am no preacher."
"No, you ore not," was the prompt
aud startling reply. "I have heard
you."
Another clergyman who had boasted
of his parish reforms and talked inces
santly of himself said, at last: "What
do you think of m.v work, my lord?"
"Oh," said Dr. Temple, "it's much the
same as other men's; only they don't
talk about it, and you do."
It Is a duty to speak the truth, but
it is not the dut.v of any man to tell,
when it is unnecessary, all the truths
that be knows." lllack and White.
Her Self-tHMti'tMii,
"I love you," he passionately said
"with all my heart, with all my soul,
aiuUvvlth the whole strength of niv be
Ing!"
"I don't see how you can help it!" re
plied the maiden, who was fully aware
of her own worth. l'uek.
Knt Potato llreiul.
In (Icrmauy potato bread Is used by
the natives of Thuriugia to feed their
horses, especially when they are
worked hard in cold weather. The an
imals thrive on it, and their health and
strength are excellent.
Chniitiiuiiua'H Growth.
Not less than 1,000,000 persons attend
the 73 branch Chautauqua usbembllea
I every summer. .
0 . . .
nnd shame!
Ulchardt"
AN ELEPHANT IN BATTLE.
The Knllliful Animal Stood Stnncliljr
UcnIiIc IIIh IJenil Master for
Three l)nn.
An old elephant taken into battle on
the plains of India was a standard
bearer and carried on his huge back the
royal ensltrn, the rnllyhrg, point of the
oroonn host. At the beginning of the
light he lost his master. The "mnhoot,"
or driver, had just glven the word to
halt? when ic received a fataj wound
and fell to the ground, where he lay
under nheapof.slaln. The obedli-nt ele
phant sfood sj,ill while the battle
Closed around him, and" the standnrd
he cnrrled. He never stirred a foot, re-
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
The new head of the Grand Army of tho Republic, Col. Albert D. Shaw, of Water
town, N. Y., Is a Now Yorker by birth and 5S years of uge. Ho was 20 years old when,
he enlisted In tho Thirty-fifth New York volunteers. lie fought at Rnppahannock,.
tlio second Hull Run. Cliantllly, South Mountain, Antictam and In many lessor
engagements. After the war he served as consul at Toronto, Canada, and later at.
Manchester, Kngluud. Ho is the author of a text book used In many public schools,
called "Tho Teaching of Patriotism und Civics." In 1S'J7 ho was elected department
commander of tho New York G. A. It.
fusing to advance or retire, as the con
llict became hotter and fiercer, until
the Mahrattas, seeing the standard still
fiying steadily in its place refused to
believe that they were being beaten
nnd rallied again aud again around the
colors. And all this while, amid the din
of battle, the patient animal stood
straining its ears to catch the sound of
that voice it would never hear again.
At length the tide of conquest left the
field deserted. The Mahrattas swept
on in pursuit of the Hying foe, but the
elephant, like a rock, stood there, with
the dead and dying around, aud the'en- ;
sign waving in its place. lor three dnj s
and nights it remained where its master
had given the command to halt. No
bribe or threat could move it. They
A FARMER OF
then sent to n village 100 miles away
and brought the mahoot's little son.
The noble hern seemed then to remem
ber how the driver had sometimes given
his authority to the little child, and im
mediately, with nil the shattered trap
pings clinging as he went, paced quiet
ly and slowly away.
MittchfH,
It is estimated that we use annunlly
In the United States over 00,000,000,000
matches. These indispensable little ar
ticles were first used in this country less
than 70 years ago, nnd at that time a
box containing '.." was sold for 'J5 cents.
Imagine, if you please, matches at one
cent apiece! To-day, we buy 1,000 for
five cents. . .
0& SIC l:
The methods of agriculture In voruo throughout tho P
National Stockman nnd Farmer, nro tho most nrlmltlve
other modern fnrm Initilnmnnt mi nnv nt ttin i.inn.i,. n.i.-
plow In use, und the fertility of tho soli Is such that it
crops without any extensive cultivation. The whole of
tho exception of some wild Interior portions, is onu great
cultivation of everything known to the tioplcs and unite
of tho temperate scono.
THE FOREIGNER IN JAPAN.
ClinoKc of Statu In OlUelnl Circle
, Within the Last FctT
Yen.
One of the most Interesting ques
tions in consideration of present Japan
Is the changed status of the foreigners
To be a PJuropeaji or an American in
'Jnpan twenty, tcif, or even five1, yenrs
,ago was to be a man of power amLln
flucnde. When foreigners'' were first-admit
ted to the empire the Japanese,
one of the s.Hr.evvjdcst, most far-sighted
peoples of the world,' adopted their
methods and their religion, Hired them
ns teachers, engineers nnd officers. Novv
according to "Japan in Transition," the?
ALBERT D. SHA.W.
first important book dealing entirely
with the new Japan, since they have
learned all the foreigners enn teach.
them in science, literature, art, war,,
commerce, manufacturing, in short, in
all enterprises, they are relegating their"
instructors to the background with tho
cry "Japan for the Jnpanese." It was.
thought at one time that Japan would
in time become a Christian nation. The
author of Japan in Transition shows,
that almost all who accepted Christian
ity did so for tho sake of the instruc
tion which the missionaries alone could
give. In the army and navy the same
state of affairs exists. English and
German officers who fought for Japan
throughout the China war were dis
charged for the reason that the mill
THE PHILIPPINES.
hlllpplno Islands, says the
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mcicni crooKci stink Is too
ls posslblo to rulso good
tho group, with perhapa
garden laud, suited to tho
a number of tliu producu
tary schools which were founded:
through their efforts have developed'
jtrst-class officers. Everywhere the pol
icy of discharging the foreigner as.
soon ns possible has been adopted, and
In a few years a foreigner in any kind
of an official capacity will be the ex
ception. At prustnt the ambassadors,
of the powers are practically the only
foreigners who command and real re
spect. Genii Are Klmt-Ilorn.
An Italian professor has prorhulgated
a new theory concerning genius. Ho
says thatthe majority of persons of dis
tinction are the first-born of tliy family '
while -a large proportion of he minor
ity are the youngest oilarge'Taailllc.'
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