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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1904)
THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER W, W. SANDEK8 & BON, Pnllihr. NEMAHA, - - NEBRASKA. OH MY DEARIE. Oh, my dearie, dearie, dearlel l.lfo'n a wontlrmiK tlilim and cheery! Never dark uiul never dreary All ltn blooniH lire nwect with dewl And thi' mocking bird In hIiikIiik, Hwlnclim low mid IiIkIi and Hinging, And my ov'ry thought Ih winging Out ucroHM tin- world to you I Life's u wondroiiH thing: a potion Hllrred by breeze frnni tho ocenn, And Km ev'ry sweet emotion Dear, Ih horn of drciunH of yon! And I liri tho ehnllco Kindly, Hlowly, Hlowly, never sadly: Mover quickly, never mildly; TIb h most enelu.i.'.'.ng brew! Drnln It Hlowly, Hlowly, Hlowly, With a spirit' meek unil lowly, "J'Ih a wondroiiH hrcw and holy: Life, Is good! It gave me you! And I'm glad, dear, In my telling Can you we the gladncHH welling J n my heart and feel Hh HWelllng? Ah, life's Hides urn arched and hluel Dear, when I am lowly lying; When my hint fulnt hrcath comes sighing, And my spirit preens for flying, And life's cup In drained ami through, I uliull end It, never shrinking, "With no Hud regret or thinking, All of It wan worth tho drinking! It wan Hweet with Invo of you I J. M, Lewis, In Houston 1'ost. Mabel S $ ft ft f Si!s Mabel le. I HV OIIAIU.OTTi: NKIHIWICK. IT was Mat Ilronson who put tho idea Into our heads which, Indeed, were ready enough to receive It. I Imew that Mat was crosa thai after noon JtiHt by tho way ho slammed Ills 'wheel against the veranda and came charging up tho steps. "Sec hore, Molly," was his only greeting always having lived next door, ho is not always very ceremo nious "why don't you girls tako this nonsense out of Mabel Rogers?" I asked him, "What nonsense?" I Itncw well onuogh, but Mat has such an exasperating way of breaking into a subject! "Don't bo unnecessarily dense," was nil tho satisfaction I received. "I tell you, Molly, I'm sick of Mabel's city airs and affectations, and so are the other fellows. They're all beginning to keep shy of her." It was wicked of me, but I could not resist. "And yet," I said, "when Mr. Matthew Ilronson came home from col lege, about two weokB ago, ho said It was refreshing to find ono really stun ning girl In town a girl with some Htyle and manner, a girl who know what was what. And ho considered It such a pity that the rest of tho Harwich girls couldn't visit somebody in Now York-, and" But that was as far ns I got, for Mat was fairly snorting something about its being Just llko a girl to remember everything a follow over said, and -rako It up after ho had changed his mind. Then, when ho felt a llttlo moro com fortable ho said ho thought It, was somebody's duty to mako Mabel "cut It out," as ho expressed It. Her father did not care to, It seemed, and her aunt did not dare to, so ho thought It was left for us his sister Noll and mo as Mabel's most intimate frionds. She was too fine- a girl to bo spoiled by bucIi silliness. If It wore ono of tho boys, now, tho other boys would "take it out of him mighty quick!" Nell had como up on tho veranda during this oration, and sho asked Mat, sarcastically, what method ho would suggest. Would ho ndvlso us to put Mabel on tho. Iloor and sit on her until sho promised to bo nlco and natural again? Sho believed thai was tho usual mode of proceduro with boys. But Matthew only shook his bond and hinted darkly that girls had "ways;" ho did not know how they did Ihlngs, but ho know they did. He could not toll, for Instance, how thoy had made Nod Dates stop smoking but they had. Nell gavo me a funny llttlo look and said that sho guessed Ned could not tell, olthor, and I hurried to ask If Mabel had been doing anything now and striking. Sho was certainly inter esting In those days. "I was over there a llttlo whllo ago," said Mat, "to seo If sho would go 1o JSdlth's party with me. That now maid lield me up at tho door for a card wouldn't lot mo In without it, cither and ordered mo to walk Into tho 'drawing-room' while she took the card to Miss Mabello. Mabel had scon mo from tho window, too." "Oh," I Interrupted, "did you hear liow sho tried to make Timothy wear livery when he took tho horses out? lancy It Old Tim! Of course ho wouldn't, and for onco Mr. Kogora In terfered. Ho said that ho would pay tho extra maid and change his dlnnor oir p.'id . call her Mabelle; but ho wouldn't let her make a fool of Tim, too." Mat said, "flood for liim! I didn't know ho had tho spirit." Then he told how ho asked Mabel to go to tho party, and sho wanted to know If ho did not think that sort of thing "so country." Mat asked her what sort of thing, and alio said, thinking you muat always go to places with boys. And her aunt preferred her to go just with ono of tho maids. Then Mat had said things. Ho told her that was all right in a city, but in tho country, whore thoy had boon neighbors all their lives, it was simply ridiculous. Ho finished by telling her that she could go with one of tho maids until tho end of her days, so far as Mr. Matthew Bronson was concerned. Then Mabel told him not to act llko a small boy, and he eamo away. Nell and I screamed. To bo called a small boy Is so Irritating when ono is! And Mat Is undeniably undersized. But he did not hoc tho cause of our mirth. Ho said, severely: "It's all very well to laugh, but I think It's your duty to mako her drop It, if you can. You think it over." So Nell and I thought It ovor. To tell tho truth, we felt flattered by Mat's confidence In our powor to do some thing, and wo agreed with him in thinking that something ought to bo done. Mabel Rogers used to be considered tho prettiest, brightest, most popular girl In town before sho wont to visit her Now York cousins; but that visit nearly spoiled her. When sho came back hor aim In life was to look and act and talk llko tho city girls sho had met, and of course sho overdid it. No city girl ever would have recognized herself as tho original of Mabel's ex aggerated Imitation. Sho woro hor pompadour about three sizes too big; her manner was all "gush," and her affected way of talk ing made It a standing Joke In town that "Mabel Rogers wont to Now York on tho cars; Mabello Wogehrs camo back fwom New Yawk on tho calnV' What Mabol needed most, I think, was a brother. I have noticed that the girls who have brothers aro not so apt to got silly little airs and affectations as other girls are. I have often wished I had a brother, but Mat does very well. Ho keeps me supplied with many of tho comforts of one, particularly In tho matter of frank criticism. Nell and I thought It till over for sev eral days. Wo thought hard. It takes hard thinking, I have discovered, to find a really successful way of not minding your own business. In tho end, I am sure we would have given it up If Nell had not had an Idea In Latin. She is always having ideas in Latin. Sho had this ono while wo wore reading in tho hammock one after noon, and she gavo a llttlo bounce that made tho hammock flop and throw us out on the ground. Our hammock has tho floppiest disposition, anyhow. Thou, wlille we sat there on tho ground, weak from laughing, she ex plained that, sho had the loveliest Idea. I said It seemed to havo quite upset her, but sho utterly snubbed my poor pun. 'I Just found In this book," she went on, "SImllla slmlllbus curantur. 1 wonder wo didn't think of It before." "Translato it," I said. 1 never havo Ideas in Latin myself. "And you expect to enter college this fall!" Noll said, significantly. " 'Like cures llko,' of course, my dear. I've hoard It somewhere before," she added, honestly. "You mean " I began' "Exactly," Nellio assured me. "We'll just try being affected ourselves, and lot Mabel seo how silly It Is." I had my doubts. I said that Mabol would bo moro likely to boo that wo woro just rude, and perhaps wo would only offend her Instead of reforming her. Mother agreed with mo, too. She advised us, If wo really fc.'t called on to mend Mabel's ways, to tell her frankly what wo thought, instead of using a method that was so likely to bo misunderstood. But Nell and I agreed that wo did not have tho courage to do that, and besides, this other way would bo more fun. Mother smiled and did not say any moro. Sho novor nags, and sho nover says, "1 told you so, my dear! Sho Just lets mo And out a good many things tor myself. So Nell and I spent several days In learning how to do- It. Wo studied Mabol pretty closely, and I confess I had a kind of sneaking feeling, for she Is ono of the swootest, frankest, most generous girls I ovor knew. But. at last we considered our educa tion completed, and one aftornoon wo started out, with trailing skirts hot rowed and absurdly bopompadoured heads, to make a formal call on Mabel. wo llattorcd ourselves that wo had no. quired the correct accent, and our manner was affected to u point several degrees above Mabel's. Wo tried it on Mat before we started, and he nearly nan a lit. At Mabel's house wo usually walk right In and announco ourselves, but this atlernoon we rang tho bell and brought Maggie with her tray. I know she was surprised, but sho was "Kame," as Mat would havo said. As we gravely preseutod our cards and naked for 'Miss Wogehrs and Miss Mabello," hor face waa as expression less as If we woro perfect strangers. Sho quietly showed us Into tho parlor and went to "tell the ladles." She canu back In a mlnuto to say that Miss Rogers was out, but Miss Mabelle would bo down in a minute. Nell and I wondered afterward if she gavo Mabol a hint. Wo havo never found out. Perhaps otir sending our cards warned Mabel. At any rate, when she came Into the parlor nothing In her manner suggested that there was any thing unusual about us. Sho had played tennis with us all the morning, too. Sho said, "Aunty will be so sorry to miss your call! How do you do, Mary and Helen?" Then she shook hands with us both, explaining how glad sho was to see us, and how long It was since wo had met. She was simply delicious, and for a moment Nell and I were staggered. Wo thought we were ready for any thing, but this perfect composure near ly routed us. Then Nell rallied and "went Into action." Nell Bronson Is nothing If not thoroughgoing, and she Is a born actress. It was the funniest thing 1 ever saw those two girls matching their Imitation city manners against each other. I stayed out, for tho most part. I had all 1 could do to keep from laughing and spoiling it all; and besides, Noll did not need any help. They talked about tho weather; about Edith's party, which Mabel pro nounced a "charming bit of local color, but so country, you know." Then sho described a party she had attended In New York. Noll said, feelingly, that It must be terribly stupid to live In a country town when ono was used to tho city. Mabel said It was oh, unspeakably stupid! (She had been In New York just five weeks!) There was no so ciety in Harwich. Of course thero were nlco people, but no society. Nobody knew how to entertain, except, per haps, Mrs. Merlweather, and she really was a New Yorker. So the girls went on, and I think they would have kept It up Indefinitely only 1 rose to go, fairly bursting with swallowed laughter. Nell got up, too, and Mabel. "Must you go?" she said. "But you will come again? Mary, love, pardon me, but your hat Is a bit too far for ward. Do you mind IX I fix it? There! Really, one needs to have lived In a city to get things just right." Then sho asked us If wo would let, her show us some day how to do our hair. And she Insisted on showing Noll how to put her bolt on "the now way." And ns we started down tho stops sho offered suggestions about the "correct way" of holding up our skirts, which Nell and I had caught up anyhow, to keep from falling nil over the miserable things. I watched Mabel closely to see If she meant mischief, but her face was as In nocent as a baby's. She seemed to bo doing it all out of the kindness of her heart. She honestly wanted to help, I thought, and she appeared positively flattered by our wanting to be llko her! Tho noble duko of York, or whoever It was, who marched up the hill and then marched down again, has my sympathy. 1 know exactly how he felt. Noll and I felt llko that when wo marched down the hill from Mabel's. We came away in good order, how ovor. Wo did not run until wo were round tho corner; and then we did not stop running until wo were safe In Noll's llttlo "den," where wo dropped on tho divan and proceeded to have hysterics, all by ourselves, as wo sup posed. But In a minute we hoard .Mat po litely Inquiring from the door If he could be of any assistance, and in the next breath impolitely advising us to "stop snorting" and toll him what tho "row" was. Noll sat up, mopping her oye3, and tried to explain. "O M-Mat," sho choked, "It's the f-funntest thing! Mabel nover saw tho p-polnt! Sho thought wo really wanted to bo 1-likc her. Molly, 1 shnll die!" and she col lapsed again. "Hurrah for Mabel! She's all right!" was tho only sympathy that wo got from Matthew. "Of courso she was just blufllug you, and it serves you right! Girls never can mind their own business, anyhow. They're all tho tlmo meddling." That brought Nell and mo to In a hurry. Wo started for that wretched boy, but ho was too quick for us. He dodged Into, his room and locked tho door, so wo had to content ourselves with tolling him through tho keyhole our opinion of boys In general and of Matthew Bronson in particular. Nell said It was just llko a boy. any way. If you took his advlco and suc ceeded, ho was a wonder; If you failed, you woro a meddler. Oh, wo said several things, and we could havo said many more, only bo- loro wo camo to them somebody ran up tho stairs and distracted our atten tion. It was Mabel. "I've come to return your calls, girls," sho said, "and I couldn't wait to send up cards." Nell and- I just stared. Sho was speaking In her old, natural way, and somehow I know sho had been crying. "I want to tell you that I'm very grateful to you," she went on. "I was furious at first, for I think It was a pretty mean way of telling mo that I've been a goose, but I suppose I de served It. Only, Instead of discussing mo behind my back and letting mo keep on being a gooso so long, I think you might have told me frankly." Then her voice began to tremble and sho stopped. Things looked pretty squally, and Nell and I could not seem to think of a thing to say. Wo simply stood there and felt mean. And then suddenly the door How open and that blessed boy came bouncing out. I could havo hugged him! "I beg to Inquire," ho said, solemn ly, "whether I havo the pleasure of ad dressing Miss Mabolle Wogehrs or Miss Mabel Rogers?" "Mabol Rogers," Mabel said, laugh ing. "I Just came back from New York this afternoon. Come on, Mat! Lot's show these llttlo girls hero how to play tennis. Oo Change your skirts, my dears!" Mabel Is all right! Youth's Com panion. REASON INADEQUATE. An IlliiMtrntlvr. Instance i; lllonoy of lllrnot Itevc Iiitlon. of the In the struggle between rationalism and faith In revelation which disturbed the second half of the eighteenth cen tury and has boon many times renewed In our time, Hume was tho recognized leader of tho rationalist philosophy. One of his essays on natural religion, relates Youth's Companion, called forth a reply from Robertson, tho historlnn, who maintained that man's reason as applied to nature Is Inadequate, and cannot arrive at the highest religious ideas without direct revelation. Hume and Robertson were antago nists In their philosophy, and also in some of their ideas of history, but they were warm friends. One evening, dur ing a gathering of literary people at Robertson's house, tho conversation turned to tho controversy between nat ural and revealed religion. Hume urged his views with his fine Intellec tual subtllty, and Robertson rejoined with an equally adroit defense of rev elation. When Hume rose to depart, some what early, his host started to follow him to tho door with a candle. "Pray don't troublo yourself," said Hume, with humorous significance. "I find the light of nature always suf ficient." Unfortunately for the aptness of his remark, he stumbled in- the dark, and pitched through the open front door down tho steps. Doctor Robertson ran after him with the candle, and hold ing It over him, helped him to rise. Tho chance was too good to miss, and when he saw that Humo was not ser iously hurt, ho said, quietly: "Mr. Hume, you had better have a light from above." Iiid Oiloni on Women. "I nover wns shy about women. I novcr could understand why some men wo can break a mustang before break fast and shave In the dark and get all left-handed and full of perspiration and excuses when they see a bolt of calico draped around what be longs In it. Inside of eight min utes me and Miss Willella was aggravating tho croquet balls around as amiable as second cousins. She gavo me a dig about the quan tity of canned fruit I had eaton, and I got back at her, fiat-footed, about how a certain lady named Eve started the fruit trouble In tho first free-grass pasture 'Over In Palestine, wasnt' It?' says I, as easy and pat as roping a one-year-old. "That was how I acquired cordiality for the proximities of Miss Willella Learlght; and tho disposition grew larger as time passed. Sho was stop ping at PImlonta Crossing for her health, which was very good, and for the climate, which was 10 per cent, hotter than Palestine. I rode over to see hor once every week for a while; and then I figured It out that if I doubled the number of trips I would see her twice as often." McClure's.' ".Sunday Kulks." When Dr. John Cairns went from Scotland to Ireland for rest and travel in 1SG4, he was at once delighted by discovering from the guides who showed him about that most of tho landed gentry wero "Sunday folks." "That's a fine castle," ho would say. pointing to a big house sot like a crown on some rocky hill. "Yis, sorr," said his guide. "'Tls Sir John O'Connor's," or "'Tls Sir Rory Mooro's." Ho always added "He's a Sundah num." At last Dr. Cairns grow curious. s "What Is a Sunday man?" ho asked. "Well, sorr, It do be a mon thot has so many writs out agin him for debt that ho stays shut up tight in his house all the week, and only comes out on Sundah, when Uio law protects him." Dr. Cairn's opinion of tho landed gentry underwent a change. Youth's Companion. ANTI-SITTING DEVICE. Central Amcrlcnn In vcntorN Irtcn for At ill; Inn lihldy Forgot Her Dreum of Maternity. When a hen gets a notion Into her diminutive brain that it Is her mission to lead a bunch of downy-covered chicks over tho gardea It is a very difficult thing to convince her otherwise. There may be many excellent reasons ad vanced by the farmer why It is not de sired that she should take upon hersell this unselfish duty; but no matter howy many or excellent aro his reasons, thv carry no weight with the hen. Being chased from ono nest, she will take hor placo on another, and In the absence of eggs she will sot on any thing, from a load of cobblestones to a. watermelon. Foiled at one effort, she will make another, and cling to the ob ject of her ambition with a persistence worthy of a greater cause, until the ag gravated farmer is almost ready to wring her neck. Tho means of preventing a hen from setting seems llko a very humble prob lem to occupy the throbbing brain of an Inventor, but the matter has been recently attacked by a Kcnius of Brit ish Honduras, who Is so sure that he has found the solution of this mighty matter that ho has gone to the trouble of taking out patent papers hi this and other countries. The apparatus consists merely of a loop of wire adapted to fasten to her leg and encircle the limb In such a man ner that tho fowl's freedom of foot Is not Interfered with In her ordinary rambles about the barnyard In search of food; but tho moment sho tries to locate her self on a nest she finds a yawning chasm between them. Sho may hover around and over tho nest, but it refuses to receive her ro tund form. This is because the wlro loop which has been fastened to her prevents her from bending her leg, as Is necessary to assume the setting pos ture. It is said that after repeated ef forts to find a hospitable nest sho gives up her task and forgets her dream of maternity. Philadelphia Press. WHEN HENS EAT EGGS. Dnrk Ncnlii, Unlit According to I. Inn Here l.nlil Down, Usually Hf feot n Cure. Where egg eating is a habit among fowls, dark nests will be found very serviceable; as it becomes practically Impossible for a fowl to strike an egg hard enough to break It when it is in a semi-light. In the arrangement shown. DAUK NESTS. (A, Iioar View; li, Front View.) hero tho hens enter the nest at B, fromi which tho lower board has been removed to show the arrangement of partitions' between the three nests. When this board Is on, the nests aro light enough for the fowls to find them, but too dark for them to seo the eggs very distinctly. At A is seen the rear of the next box. which has a cover that can bo raised up when the eggs arc to be gathered or tho nests renewed. Such nest boxes should not be nailed to tho floor or par tition wall, but should be hooked fast, so that thoy may from tlmo to time bo. removed and thoroughly disinfected. Poultry Craft. AdviiiitaKCH .if Inculm'torx. Among the numerous advantages of the Incubator over the hen may be men tioned the following: The incubator is always ready for business while a hen only sits when sho feels llko It. It is. less work to care for an Incubator than for a sufficient number of hens to hatch the same number of chickens. Tho greater the egg capacity used, the moro time Is saved over that required for the care of the hens. The chickens are so much more uniform In size and age that they aro moro easily cared for, moro cheaply fed and present a much more attractive appearance when fitted for the market. Again chickens hatched in incubators aro always free from lice and generally remain so till they aro largo enough not to be much injured by them, a thing that can rarely bo said of hen hatched chickens. Pralrlo Farmer. lllK l'riillt In MiiNhrooniM. The growing of mushrooms lor mar ket has become an industry of consider able Importance in this country. It has, however, been handicapped in its de velopment by the fact that it was neces sary to import most of the spawn, which are exceedingly uimcult to grow. Tho department of agriculture announces Uiat It has discovered a slmploand prac tical method by which not only a high grade of tho spawn of the cultivated mushroom, but of many of the wTTil va rieties may be .produced. It Is boilnved hat the use of this method will obvialo the necessity of importing tho 2,1100,000 pounds of mushrooms we now got from, prance annually. Rural World.