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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1904)
TWO PICTURES. I. An old farmhouse with meadows wide, And sweet with clover on each sldo; A brlKlil -3"d ho.v, who looks Crotn out The door with woodbine wreathed ahout And' wishes his oni t lioti jlt lit nil dtty: "Ohl If I could only My nwny From this dull spot the woid U nee. How happy, linppy. huppy, How happy I should bp." II. Amid (ho eliyV. constant din, A inn ii who round flu- world linn beont "Who, 'mid l.lic (iitnull !ind the throng, Is thtr.kln?. thinking nil dny long: "Oht could I 07' !y trend once nioro The Held path lo the fnnnhoiiHo door, . ' The old green mcidow could I noo,' How hitp. happy, hnppy, ilou hnppy I -Iiniild he." -TJnlvcrsnllHt Lender. A CHANGE OLLY GUIGY wh 22. and as a iitenographcr in a New York law ofllco the Hum of $18 n wnok wan allot tod to her as her share f tho wurld'y wnalth. It may have been tho vicinity of Wall atrcet, or It may have been pass ing tho sub-treuHury dully (whero all that glitter; la mire to be gold), but Molly hail the feeling of wealth. How could It be otherwise when day fter dny who copied documents that rilncotu'scd enslly of hundreds of thou winds and millions, and dottly tucked fortified chocks for $T0,(MX) or $100,000 Into the envelopes of lettcru that be t;an "Inclosed please Hud" with uucon wions nonchalnnco? Imperceptibly her point of. view be came oni' wllh that of the great cor porations of whose workings she Imd dally glimpses, and tho time when $5, liOO would have seemed to her n lordly fortune wmi blotted out. When It Is added thai In her native village her love of Ideals and her hab it, of reading and studying had earned her the reputation of being "stuck up," It will be superfluous to add that sho was ambitious. . She lived In a busy dream world where, without fully realizing It hor wlf, she was forever preparing for the high station to which she might some iluy bo called. Hut hor dream of fnmo was not for herself, but for tho man tho man Whom the rose-colored future would Hiirely bring and of whom ovory girl worthy of the namo dreams raptur uiisly. In her nbsorptloii sho looked right vver the heads of tho ordinary young 1110,11 whom fate throw In her path, al beit she did It so sweetly that more than one of these fatuous youths had tried to bring her attention down from rho clouds. Only one persisted, and that was Itiinsum McOomh, the bookkeeper In the nlllcc. His unfailing thoughtful ness and consideration had won her ulncero liking, though he was keen enough to suspect that tho liking was :tlnged with patronage. Delicately he tried, from Umo to time, to show her tho trend of his feel ings. Hut she (rented him always with a frank good will that would not understand, receiving his attentions much ns u gracious goddess might havo received tho ndoratlon of a mortal .iiiid with mil a whit moro conscious miss that anything morn thnn friend ship could exist lHt.ween them. When, therefore, with tho dogged ik:Sb of a man who knows he is but ting, his head against a stone wall, ho (old her" in plain words what had long been apparent to every one who knew them, she was not only amazed but a lritlo shocked. Hansom, ordinary man though he might be. had loved her too long and deeply not to understand what she carefully Ivied to conceal In hor guard ed, bnt decided, refusal. "You needn't be afraid of hurting mo," he said bluntly, though his Hps were drawn and white. "I know what you mean know It better really than vou know It yourself. You menu that you could ueor marry n man who is not ambitious who doesn't at least ' oxpect to take tho world by storm, yvhothor he ever does It or not!" Molly flushed the moro hotly be cause) she knew his words were true, though she managed, woman-like, to muko an lueohennt protest. It was then thai the thread of gold Hint runs through the nature of each gio of n en mo l tbc surface in ltun koiii, lie took her hands in his, and looking .down into, her tremulous face wild quietly) "I love vou so well that God knows I would give you your dream if I could. JJut ! enn only offer you my love, and 'ijoped that you might" find It big "oiiiiu'gh" and deep enough to malic you forget uinbillon." Il boo' down and kiiwod her fore m a i m OF HEART head. Before sho recovered herself ho was gone. At the thought of facing him at the ofllco noxt morning sho quailed. It was not alone timidity, but a certain unaccountable discontent; with herself. She felt Rmall nud mean, indignantly as sho defended herself to her con science. But sho need have no fear. There was nothing In tho business-like smile and "good morning" with which ho greeted her to Indicate that anything unusual had passed between them. Her first feeling was ono of relief. But with tho perversity of woman, be fore tho day was over sho was resent ing the stolid Indliference of his m ner. For tho first tinio in tnont omitted the little deferential atten. his to which sho had become accustomed without knowing it "He's n nice fellow," her thoughts of him ran as she busied hersoli packing op her belongings that night, "but he'll never achieve anything much." Then she fol to wondering how a 'r havi; roMK to asic you ovri: moke.' man could fall to respond to the beck oning ambition, and gradually her mind turned to other things the de lights of tho new woman's hotel, for which she was about to forsake the shabby hall room Hint she had occu pied tor a year, ami where she fan cied Imagined pleasures of living would begin to materialize. A fortnight Inter, though -die did not confess It even to herself, sho was rest less and disappointed. This staid, quiet place, with Its endless processions of women, so many of whom looked as If life had beaten them to tho wall, was not what sho had dreamed of. Some were tall ami thin and sub dued, others short and stout and re signed. Few appeared to be enjoying the game. Many of them were spinsters, and as she watched their meek ways day by day her curiosity changed to oppres slon, and that melted into fear. Across her proud young confidence tho shad ow of a dreadful doubt fell. Could it be possible, by any chance, that such a fate was in store for her? Sho shuddered at the thought. It was insy. i be proud and self-reliant while she was stioim in her faith of his com lug the man who would shield, and protect her at whose fireside' she would sit when she wis old and gray Un what If she should miss him? Wi-.i' i' lie should have to Journey on ti the. end without love? A blank, wordless misery possessed her. She saw now that love was tho greatest thing not ambition. She re niomhored Ransom .MoOonib's face that night when he told her how much ho cared the honest, longing cyo.s-the manlv. gentle way in which lie had admitted ids shortcomings. A great tenderness filled her. It was tho love of a warm," generous-hearted man that ho had offored her, and In i life tii Mm f 1 her arrogance she had scorned It . s a tiling of small account It was In this chastened mood that she seated herself nt her desk the next day. Ransom McComb appeared In an entirely new light. Six months had passed since he had asked her to be hlfl j wife, and though he had been as aitm and thoughtful as over In MS treat ment of her In their daily Intercourse In the ofllco. something was gone from his manner something she had soiree ly known was there, until she missed It Inadvertently she had lMJgun to watch him closely. There were deter mined Hups nbotit his chin that appeal ed to her- -that mount something. She, was studying him one dny, with her hwid slightly on one side and more warmth and Interest In her eyes than tfho was aware of. when ho turned sud denly and caught her glance. A flash of surprise crossed tus race, and hop. d over hltn JiKo a warm wave. Proudly, but keenly, his eye questioned hers until, with a llttk nervous movement . she turned away. But he was satisfied. That evening, as she was moving restlessly about her room, trying to got Interested In something, but hot succeeding, his name was announced. In one of the small parlors of the hotel she found him waiting, and his very greeting bespoke a new mastery on his part On a chair In the opposite corner a colorless spinster reclined, hungrily reading a love tile. She snt there llku a stern object lesson, but Molly no onger needed to bo taught. "I havo come to ask you once more," her lover said, In smothered tones, with ono eye on tho object lesson; ' ovo you and 1 want you. My love foi you would bo no more worthy If I had u million," he went on, nlmost roughly. It's the last time." Shamed tears rose to her eyes and her hand stole Into his. "Love is the greatest thing," aha whispered brokenly. Utica Globe. FOGS Dj MUCH GOOD. Thcx Unve ii Greiit Hlfoct lu Supply luc Moisture to I'lnntn. "Did you ever think of the fortilizi- tng function of tho fog?" asked a man who pays much attention to niolcoro- oglcal nui'tcrs in the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "If you had you would not object so much to the llttlo nconvonlenco which we suffer at ttmca when fogs become very dense. There aro a great many persoirs Ln the world wlio look upon a fog as a slimy sheet of miasma, looking upon its breath u.t pcHlllcntlal, Iwt'Sevintf tlint it oozes out upon the earth and humanity nostrum Unit kfll. and all that tso.'t of thJug. There nre, to bo mire, elements of poi son In the fog. Fogs are often putrid, slimy, flut fogs ore not made alto gether of slimy putrdttuaicca. On a moment's reflection wo can understand that In these Interesting formations of fhc lower atmosphere there Is nvueh that is healthful and vitalizing, much that ts absolutely nccosfcuiry to the well-boing of humanity. "What could we do, -where would wa be without moisture? Fog is ono form of moisture. It Is vapor of water. Vegetation gets its nourbdunent mainly and chiefly, not out of tlto earth, but from the nourishing properties of tho water formations of tho air, clouds, mists, rains, snows, sleet fogs and so on. Without moisture there coiuu no no vegetation. Without vegetation, or the properties of vegetation, humanity, 1 am afraid, would be in a bad way. So you may now partially understand what 1 mean when I speak of the fer tilizing value of fogs. Trees and phuxts do not feed altogether through the roots which are run into the ground. Tho loaves eat They feed on tho deli cate spherical particles which crystal llze and condense into that mfcrty blanket we call fog. Food Is taken through the bark of trees, through limbs and twigs. "Men. you know, ford through the pores of t he skin. 1 may say that trees and plants, and. In fnct, vegetation of all kinds do the same thing. Moisture of the kind tfliat floats In the air or falls to the ground when It Ls heavy enough, furnishes the food that is taken ln tlds way. Stop for a moment and think wliat would happen to vcgotntlon If all the moisture were suddenly and permanently extracted from tho atmos phere. Vegetation would simply with er and die. it could not live. You see the air Is 70 or SO percent moisture, or about this, and Its capacity for hold ing moisture at any particular time, or ln any particular area, dependn up on tho temperature. "But this is another matter. Tho fog Is a great fertilizer and the luscious bone and blood nuak lug vegetable served to us on tho tablo would not 1h as robust and healthful If we should withdraw this food from tho plants." What Capers Aro, The caper of commerce la tho pickled flower bud of a shrub that grows ln waste plnces of southern I'hiropo. Marsollles alone exports alwit $r000 worth per year to tho TJidted States. Tlio business of raising and preparing capers might well bo hakem up in California, tho arid lands of the southwest and ttotno of the southern utatoa. , EVOLUTION OF THE DOG rmccH of IJrtlnct bpcclen Found in tli Tcrttury Period. The dog was domesticated by man n prehistoric times, and Its remains ire frequently found hi ancient vil lage sltea, shell mounds and burial places both ln the old and new world. Bemalns of various other species of its family (canldno) are found ln tho ldcr quaternary deposits nlong with thoso of mastodons, inammotlis, etc., but there is little ovidence as to which, If any, of theso species arc domesti cated by man, says the Montreal Her- lid. It Is probable that the domestic dog Is the result of many and various in tcrcrosalngs with tho jackal, wolf, co yote and other wild species, so that the original strain can hardly bo deter mined. In tho strata of the tertiary period aro found remains of numerous extinct bjkjcIch, which illustrate the ovolutlon of tho different species of modern canldae and their gradual divergence from the common ancestral type of the carnlvora. The canldno live most ly in the open country and hunt In packs, running down tholr prey In the open and capturing It by a combination of superior intelligence and greater speed. The development of this group of carnlvora has been, accordingly, chiefly In brain capacity and In tho adaptation of the feet and limlw to swift and long-continued running. Tho earliest canldae, of the eocene and ollgoceno epochs, were proportioned like the modern civets, which are for est dwellers. They had short limbs and long tails and their brain capacity was very much less than it la ln their modern descendants. Somo had re tractile claws; all hnd five toes on each foot and tho full series of forty-four teeth of the primitive mammalia. Be tween these earliest canldae and their modern species aro several Intermedi ate stages In the successive tertiary formations. Tho modern dogs range from a high ly carnivorous type, such as tho wolf and especially the Indian dhole (cyon) and tho South American bush-dog flctlcj-on) to small omnivorous speelea approaching tho raccoons in the char acter of their tieth. The series of fossil forms leading up to those differ ent types nre distinguishable at quito an early period and all pass through n course of pnrallcl evolution, each race progressing Independently In tho direction of greater Intelligence and hlghor speed. Other races of dogs now extinct progressed in different di rection by divergent evolution, some assuming the size and proportions of Lib" bears and from some of these tho i.c.ii's may be collaterally descended, while another series connects the dogs with tho raccoons. TOLD BY OLD CIRCUS MAN, Betimitlon tho Glaut Produccil When TrnvelliiB by Stenmbont. "The great giant never made a gre.K or sensation," said the old circus num. "than he Invariably did when seen i the upper dock of a steamboat. "When we shipped from one town to another wo commonly moved by the road; but sometimes when we wore going to stop at two towns along n liver, and the distance between tho two towns was great, and the old man Could make a profitable dicker with thu steamboat people, why, then we'd make the skip by boat. And moving In this way the giant did tremendously advertise the show. "You see, we couldn't have him crawl aboard a boat by the gangway, between decks, and curl himself up there somewhere below; -we had to carry him where he could be seen by all. "He would stop up from the wharf to the steamboat's upper deck, and stay right there straight through the trip, ln full view from the river's banks on either side, a man as tall as the steamboat's chimneys. And seen walk ing or standing there as the boat came nlong, or sitting there, maybe, in a great armchair that we never failed to carry along for him, he made a Right that everybody along the river came to see and looked at with wonder. "And when we had come to where we wore to land, where they could sec tho groat giant close at hand, why, the people there looked at him with nwe. "All of which, as you can easily see, made business great for the show- In fact, we never hit a town any hard e.r than when wo hit it so." New York Sun. Kutniit Terrible. Fnmily Doctor I hope, my dear lady, Unit you aro all better for your long holiday and thorough change o air." The Patient It has done me all tho good ln the world, my dear doctor. am a different being; in fact, quite an other woman! Sharp Child Oh. mamma! How pleased papa will be when he hears ot this! Punch. "Yomoii Do Bolter. Seventy-five per cent of the women and but slxty-Uiree per cent of the raon hiking the civil service examination aro able to paBS It It ia twice as eaay to foel yourself aa it; la to fool other peple. II KT I'Y GltEBN LllDKti AN AUTO( Hoity Grcon sometimes rldos ln a 912.800 automobile, bufc It is owad by her son Edward n R. Gieen of, tho Texas Midland railroad. WARMTH AND LONGEVITY" It has been discovered in Kuropa that the warmer a country th mare centenarians it lias. AVERAGE SONSHIN1 Spain lias un average of 3,000 fcomrt Df sunshine a year, against only MOJ. In England. jf, A Physiolan's Advloe. Yorktown, Ark., March 7th. -Dodd'i Kidney PUIb must not bo confonnded with tlio ordinary patent medicine. They are a new dlscovory, a Bpeclllc for all diseases of tho Kidneya and have been accepted by physicians only after careful tests In extreme case. Dr. Lcland Williamson, of this plac, heartily endorses Dodd's Kidney P1U "as a remedy for the various forms of the diseases of tho Kidneys, pains ln the back, soreness ln the region of tn Kidneys, foul-smclllng urlno and cloudy or thickened conditions of th urine, discharges of pun or corruption, Gout, Rheumatism, Inflammation and Congestion of the Kidneys and all kin dred complnlnts." Continuing ho says: "I could mention many cases ia which I havo prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills with success. For Instance, Mr.' Hobcrt Weeks, farmer, malaria hacma turia or swamp fever threo times, kid neys weakened, continual pain and soreness in back, which made him very nervous, had a little fever and some times chilly. Urlno changeable, hnt generally very high-colored, an old chronic case who had taken much med icine with little effect. Aftor taking Dodd's Kidney Pills about- six weeks lie was entirely cured and had gained fifteen pounds in weight Tho lust time I biiw him he was the picture of perfect manhood." ODD THINGS ON THE PI KB AT THE WORLD'S FAIR Voice of the Lord and the roan who utters It. i A tlood of fifty thousand gallons ot water every minute. A ride threo hundred miles in a real ttaiu of pullman cars. vjuui ua ui xuu Lmviug uuua uc yir Fire engino and horses dash 500 feet under roof to burning block. Real waves on a real beach of sand one mile from spectators. Man who carves images from a single grain of icu. Submarine boat sinks beneath real water, with its human cargo. One show with .'100 houses, 22 streets, covering 11 acres. Miniature men of war operated by rlcctric motors on large expanse. Holies from the golden temples or .iu-'jori. riicator of flowers, masterly con- eption of a dead woman. .la panose roosters with tails ten to t vonty live foot long. Old hand tiro engine once pumped at tires by GEorge Washington. Ziini Indians dance the mask, the ite and suakes dances. Eleven sections of arcaded bazaars of Strarabuul reproduced. Children ride giant tortoises with bridles and bits.. ON A RANCH Woman Found the Food That Vltt Hor. A newspaper woman went out to i Colorado ranch to rest and recuperate and her experience with the food proh lom ls worth recounting. "Tho woman at the ranch was pro eminently the worst housekeeper havo ever known poor soul, and poot me! "I simply had to have food good an plenty of It, for l had broken dowi from overwork and was so weak 1 could not sit up over one hour at a time. I know I could not get well un less I secured food I could easily dl gest and that would supply tlio great est amount of nourishment. "Ono day I obtained permission to g through the pantry and see whaf 1 could find, Among other things I cami across a pnekage of Grape-Nuts which I hnd heard of but never tried. I read the description on the package and bo came deeply interested, so then an there I got a saucer and some cream and tried the fnmous food. "It tasted delicious to me and seem, ed to freshen and strengthen me great ly, so I stipulated that Grape-Nuts and cream be provided each day instead of other food and I literally lived ou Grapo-Nuts and cream for two or three mouths. "If you could have seeu how fast 1 got well It would have pleased and sur prised you. I am now perfectly well and Btrong again and know exactly how I got well and that was on Grape Nuts that furnished mc a powerful food I could digest and make use of. "It BeemB to mo no brain worker can afford to overlook Grape-Nuts after my oxporlenco." Name glvon by Poa turn Co., BatUe Creak, Mich. Get the miniature book, "The Road WtllYjJl.".lm each ok.