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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1905)
CRIPPS , THE CARRIER u v R. D. BLACKMORE Aaltaor of "LORN A D 00 NE," "ALICE L 0 R R A I N K," ETC., ETC. "Thou shnlt zcltle it, Dobbin." ho. cried, leaning over and stroking his gin gerly loins. "It eonsnrneth thee mol, or leastways quite ns inueli. rscvcr hath ny mnn tiacl n bottoi' horse. Dobbin, thou sccst thlngB ns never men can tell of. Now, if thou wnggest thy tnll to thfl right i will; and ho bo to the loft I won't. Mind what thou dueM now. Call upon thy wisdom, nag, and Kh'e tnJ' ,,ms" tcr honestly the sense of thy discretion." With u Mottled mind, and no disturb ance, he u waited tho delivery of Dob bin's tail. A lly settled on the white foatn of the harness on the oft Hide of thin undent horse. Away went his tail with a sprightly Hick at it; nnd Cripps ne eepted the result. The result was tho satisfaction of Mary's long und faithful lore for him, und the happy continuance, in th woodland roads, of the loyal race TOPICS OF 1 HE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Coiuuientn and CritlcUcaa Hated Upon Urn Happening of in Jy HUtorl- cnl anil Ncwn Note. Clothes do not make the man, sis many suppose. Thoy mako thM "woman. PorbapB Mohammed went to the mountain because ho was tired of tho seashore. longer appreciate tho courtesy. In do ing so thoy aro rarely rewarded vrlQu even a glanco nnd almost never wltA' n -word of thanks. Tho man who HfbV his hut when ho offers hia scat is often frozen with a stare which Implies a doubt as to his sanity or hla motives. Tho time may yet come when tho man who lifts his hat to a woman oxcept upon a society dress parado will bo regurded with couteinpt for his men 'tal softness. nilAI'Tlul: XXV. I which satisfy their film) cause by lead m.. Q,wmnr )mil tin, Carrier becuu his Ing into one another. With the growth Monifnt linmewiird course, as heretofore of his learning, bin candor grow; and lie dated, than Ktty, who loved a forest strove to bind others by his own strap ib ,i r,ilu.- .lull without Zac- and buckle, as little as he ofl'crcd to be diary, took Peggy's fat red hand ami, bound by theirs. Therefore when two of , unpretentious course of Cripps the nfter a good ton with Kusannaii, sci ma very iesi menus nmuc u mum nm: vD ,.,.),.,.. forth for an evening stroll, to gather job of It, and being unable to think their flowers and hear the birds slug. thoughts out got it done by deputy, and lni.1 i?iit well into Mink to infalllblu happiness, Thouias Iho wooded places, lVggy shrank away Ilardenow pulled up, and set his heels from a black wooden shed, partly over- into the ground of common sense, like a hunir hv tree. Iiorso nt the brink of a quarry pit, nud "Peggy not go there, Aunt Ktty," she tho field of reason, rich and gracious, laid; "goose in there, a great white opened lis gates again to nun. Plerpont Morgan paid ?S1,U7& for a biberon In London. Nov watch tha thaBo to tlio dictionary. (The cud.; SOME OTHER INAUGURATIONS Artomua Ward would have admired Togo. Tho admiral le not addicted to the habit of slopping over. joohq" -A-11 H0 before any University Mission, "A ghost, you little fIohoV" answered or plougU-niid-Biblc enterprise, liuroenow Mqiiinr. lninrlilne. fop nfA there was good sot forth to open u track for commerce iniiMof. r.nmn mill hIiow nte! 1 want to and civilization, and to light the devil ice a ghost." slavery in the rich, rude heart of "No. no. nol" cried the child, pulling Africa. Besides his extraordinary gift lini-kwnrd. and strut-dine: ns hard as she of tongues, he had many other qualifies- fcad struggled with the gate; "Peggy see tlons, his quiet style of listening, his n v.lilte goose in a black holo there, rill niagnllicent freedom trom liumor, aim Jay." Inst, not lonst, as lie aid to Htty, for n "Then, Peggy, slop hero while I go clinching argument, his wife's acquaint- nnd look. You won't bo afraid to do unco with tho carrying trnde. .hat. will you?" Happy exile, how much better than Itunnlug bravely up to the hole In homo misery it is! But the House of boards, Esther saw, to her great amaze- (Jrlpps sent forth another member into itent, tho form, perhaps tho corpse of brnlshmcnt, with littlo choice or chance a man, stretched at length on tho ground of much felicity on his part. As there Inside. It lay loo much In tho dark for Mio fuco to 'bo seen, and tho dress was so uwnddlod with netting and earthy, that little could bo mudu of it. A torn ilrip of cambric, that onco had been white, lay partly on the body and partly on tho board. Esther cnught It up; she remembered having ironed something ol nro woes more strong than tears, so are tlie crimes beyond the lash. When the doings of Leviticus wore brought to light, and shown to be unsuccessful, a council of C'rippses was held in his hog house, nnd a stern decree passed to expatriate him. Tickusu was offered ills fair say, and did his very best to defend himself; lids shape for somebody onco, who was but the ease from the first was hopeless. oing to bo examined. She know wh'-ro to look for tho mark, and there she saw In small letters "T. Ilardenow." Surprised ns she was, she did not lost1 her wits or courage, as she used to do. Sho ran to tho door of the shed, tried the padlock, and finding it fastened, made haslo to tho grain house and seized a bunch of keys. Not one of them truly was born with the lock, but one was soon found to servo the turn; then Ls- thcr pushed back the creaking door, and timidly guascd round the shadowy shed. Sho wos quite alono now, for her little nlco, with short sobs of terror, had sot off for homo. Iu tho light admitted by tho open door. young Esthur descried a poor miserable thing, helpless, still as a log, und sense lc.ij);- yet to her lnlthfnl heart, the idol of nil adoration. Gently, step by step. sho stole to 'tho prostrate form, and knelt down softly, und reverently touch d it. Sho feared to seem to take ad vantage of a helpless moment; and yet a keen joy, mixed with terror, shone In tho eagerness of her eyes. "He Is alive, If he had wronged any other parish than Beekley, or even any other as well, there might have boon some escape for him. Cruelty, cowardice, treaso'n high and low, perjury to his own elder brother, and eternal disgrace to his birthplace there was not n word in the mouth of any one linlf bad enough to use to him. Tho Car nor rose, and said all ho could say, for tho sake of the many children: but weighty with piety as lie was. ho could not stein tho muny-fountniued torrent of tho Crlppsic wroth. The pigs of Le viticuB were divided among all the nephews and nieces and cousins, nud TIckuss himself, unhoused, unstyed. un- larded, nnd unsmocked, wandered forth with his business gone, like a Gndareno swindled void of nwine. Tho loyalty of Mrs. Formitage to her .IhUinguIshcd husband's memory was nev or disturbed by any knowledge of that latal codicil. Poor Mrs. Sharp, ub she slowly recovered from the sad grief wrought by greed, moro and more rev erently cherished her great husband's high repute. She rejoined him In a bet I am sure of that," sho said to herself, tor world without any knowledge of the as she pulled forth .a pair of strong blow ho had given to her son's head anil scissors which sho always carried; "he is her own henrt. Kit had not died from alive, bnfvcn, very nearly dead. What his father's blow, and, like a man. con wretches can have treated him llko this.' " coaled that outrage, and, like a good son In two minutes Ilardenow was free listened to his departed father s praises from every cord and thong of bondage; his lax anus foil at his sides. "Oh, ho is starving, or downright tnrved!" cried Esther, watching ills white lips, which trembled with some glad memory of suction, and then stiffen ed again to some Anglican dream. "Af- But In her heart tho widow felt that some of these might be Imperilled if that codicil turned up. Long time she kept It in reserve, ns a thunderbolt for Joan hermitage, but finally, on Kit's wedding day to n banker's daughter, with a sigh and a prayer, sho took advantage of a tor nil, 1 have blamed other folk quite clear tiro nnd a rapid draught and the amiss, lie hath corded himself away codicil How through tho chimney pot. from his victuals to give way to his As a lawyer's daughter, sho revered noble principles. But how could ho lock such things. Iii the same capacity, she himself in? Tho Lord must have sent a knew that now it could make no groat bad hngel to tempt him, und then to turn practical difference; for Grace was quite tho key on him." sure of her good aunt's money. And Bnfnr.. sh hnd flnlMlierf thl vnnqnnliitf again, as a widow and mother, sho felt nroccsH, tho girl was half way towards wl,a,t tal" mnHt 1)0 "Bt ou the nn,ne tho cot of TIckuss, her heart outweighing K',u ,ve '"-,f,t, if this littlo document over her mind, according to all true feminine Cl10 to light other than good firelight, proportions. She ran in Bwiftly upon , IJl,t wJ,y ll01(1 Esther have hud no When Washington Took the Outh- "liDnccinioe'H" Illir I)uv. When, on April 1)0, 1780, George Washington was Inaugurated as tho llrst President of tho United States, the country had only eleven States (for North Carolina and Uhodo Island did not ratify the constitution or come un der the government until many month afterward), all of which were east of tho Alleghenles and north of Florida, which was Spanish territory until a third of n century later. Now York City, then tho national capital, with Its 1,000,000 Inhabitants in 1905, says C M. Harvey in Leslie's Weekly, baa 1,000,000 more people and many bill ions moro wealth to-day than the on tire United States had at that time. The .'.000,000 population of the Unit ed States nt the beginning of Washing ton's presidency had Increased to 5,000, 000 at the opening of Jefferson's. Ver mont, Kentucky nnd Tennessee, ad mltted In tho Interval, brought tho number of States up to sixteen, but tho country's western boundary was still at tho Mississippi, and still Spain's territory of enst and west Florida shut out tho United States from nccess to the Gulf of Mexico. With Jefferson's entrance Into olJico in 1S01 began that Democratic control of the government which lasted till Lincoln's Inauguration in IS01, except during two short In torvals of Whig sway. "To-day we have had the inaugura tion," wrote Webster on March 4, 18129, at the Induction of Jackson Into office "A monstrous crowd of people ls In tho city. I never saw anything llko It before. Persons have conw 500 nilled (o see Gen. Jackson, and they really (eem to think tho country ls rescued from some dreadful danger." SnhL ex-President John Oulncy Ad- nniB, in his "Memoirs," the "Inaugura tion of William Henry Harrison as President was celebrated with demon stratlons of popular feeling unexam pled since that of Washington, In 1789.'' This was on March -1, 18-11, and liar rison's triumph (lie was a Whig) was tho (lrst defeat which the seemingly In -vl'M'lblo Democracy had sustained slnco Jefferson brought that party Into pow er forty venrs earlier. No .previous inauguration brought to "Washington anything llko the swarms of people, largely office seekers, which the on r'auco of old "Tippecanoe" Into office attracted. The 12,000,000 Inhabitants of tho United Stntes at Jackson's Inau guration had expanded Into 17,000.000 at the Induction of the hero of the bat tlo of the Thames Into office. Tho rail road, too, had appeared, adding to the convenience nnd tho cheapness of travel. Noah was a groat ball player. Ho pitched tho ark without and within and later put tho dove out on a fly. "Lovo ls honey mixed with gall," says a pooL Tho girls furnish the honey part and tho boys do tho rest. Every time we see a picture of. John D. Rockefeller's head wo can't help thinking what a sinecure hLs barber possesses. A Los Angeles preacher was deposed for heresy eighteen months ngo. He baa slnco mado ?100,000 in mining.' 'Tainted money? The census bureau has ruled that women must toll their ages io the enumerators. Isn't, tills putting n pre mium on perjury? Ono of the railroads proposes to equip ono of Its fast trains with a gym nasium. Tho upper-berth pussonger will not feel the need of it Tho King of Slam has eighty-two wives nnd boards all of his mothers-in-law with him. Let us hear no more from tho man with but ono. Recently occurred tho fortieth anni versary of General lec's surrender ot Appomattox Court House. A gener ation hns passed sMnco then. Not tho sllghtcsL bitterness remains in the North. The recently published book of letters and recollections of General Robert E. Lee, the great soldier whom competent European authority com pares with Napoleon, was welcomed uo moro heartily In the South than in tho North. Leo was one of the greut hcroca of tho war, and as the years pass ha ls Blow'ly becoming a national hero of whom all sections nro proud. Tha South has already taken to its heart Lincoln, the great, pathetic burden bearer, who grows larger and more Bublime as tho majesty of his spirit appears above tho forgotten distrac tions of his exciting period. The heat of paselon dies with tho passing years, and then the divine In man reasserts Itself. Tennyson illustrated this In his two "Locksley Halls." Tho later one, not very highly prized by tho critics, Is the diviner poem, for In it tho hero turns his "back on revenge and rises to tho heights from which bo can say, "Love wilt conquer lit tho last." It does conquer. It has conquered hero In America, for Congress, just before It adjourned, authorized the return to the States of all the battle-flags of tho war, not only tho tlags of the regi ments of the North that had been: stored in Washington, but the flags oC the regiments of tho South which barf been captured in the field; and not a protest has been heard from any quar ter. The breach ls healed, and scarce ly n scar remains. Lot us hope, slnco he Ls likely to be a grandfather within a year or so. that Kmperor William may no longer be slightingly referred to as "that young mnn.' Grafting hns always been a rlfky business, .particularly when aceoiupan- led by lying, from tho days of Ana nias nnd Sapphlra down to tho present time. Tho corporation magnnto is always prepared to show that any legislation ho does not wnnt ls going to bo inim ical to tho interests of tho laboring inan. When Onptaln Richmond Pearson, llobson tells his brldo that she ls the sweetest woman ho ever kissed, the compliment will be moro than usually expressive. If Japan linds that tho Job of kid naping the Emperor of Korea culls for an artist the able Pat Crowe, who can produco a flattering lino of testimo nials, ls out of a job. According to statistics tho average number of children in an American family Is two and three-eighths. So that when you have three children you have five-eighths of some other fam ily's child, mathematically speaking. SuHnmtah, sitting in the dusky kitchen nnd pondering over a very slow fire the cookery of the children's Biippcr. It wns as, fine a pot of stuff as ever Susannah Cripps had made, for sho did not hold nt nil with fattening the pigs and starv ing her own children; and Hhe argued house of her own, ns darkly hinted above. so as to compel her almost to descend from tilt to tent? The reason is not far to seek, and ho who runs may read it without running out of Beekley. Cripps the Currier, now being past the middle milestone of man s life, and see- niot justly, while Esther all the while ing every day, more and more, the gray Was ladling all the vlrtuo out. To put it hrielly, Hardonow came quite hairs In his horse's tall, lowered IiIp whip In a shady place, and let ills reins round, nnd nfter twenty spoonfuls vowed go Blackly, and pulled his crooked six- -with the conK'-icncc rushing for tho pence out, and could not see to read it. moment into tho nrnis of common sense that never would lie fast again. And after thirty wcro absorbed nnd begin ning to iistditit'.ute, he gassed af Esther's And yet the summer sun was bright In the top of the bushes over him! 1 vear u must; I r.oo no way out of un," Zmechury said to his lonely self, tmiiling vcs, n'd saw tho clearest and Htty Is as good ns gone n'ready, her truest so uiion of ail his "nostu lutes on cannot stand out ntrin' that there coll Jitney." Esther dropped her eyes In buoy; nnd none else undtrstnndeth the wrror, and mrdo him drink the dregs frying pan. I have fought agin' the ml bott in, wl h n convert's zealous wonunlnses, seeing oil ns I lias seen. And julp. And ns It happened, this was better 1 might 'a done, if I must come wUe. to it, many a time in the last ten year L-Micr smiled and wept at her pn- Better at last for the brown, white and mv's ardent words and Impassioned yellow, though the woman ns brought frrtltudo. She knew that between them might a shattered 'em ngnln. After nil, , as a great gulf fixed, nnd that the leap Mary might be a deal worse, though I r-ss it seldom has a happy lauding; have a' felt some doubt consuming of ud when poor Ilardenow fell back, In her tongue, nut her hath n proper re V" weak reaction of a heart more fit for spect for me, and forty puns to Oxford n than nassion. she knelt at his side bank if her mother snnikoth rniirht of u' d nursed nud cheered him, less with her; nnd the bqulro hath given me it new t air of n courted maiden thnn of a horse, to come on when Dobbin beglnneth earefhl liandmnid. In the end, however, to wenr out. Therefore his domestics ;uij feeling was prevailed upon to sub- hath first claim; though I'd soonder side, and Esther, although of tho least drnive Dobbin thnn ten of 'un. What Revolutionary and longest established shall us do now? Whatever shall 'us tock In England -.that ot the genuine do?' Crlnnses. whoso name, orlglnnlly no Zacchary Cripps pulled off his lint in n doubt "Ghrysippus, muicatcs the pos-1 slow perspiration of suspense, for if lie ession of a golden horse Etty Cripps, once made up his mind, there would be finding that the heart of her adored one no way out of It. He looked at his hod, In Splinters' opinion, n perilous lis- horse with n sad misgiving, both on his mre. redti r ng change or climate, con- own account and Dobbin's. The mar ented at last to come down from tho rlogo of the master might wrong the tilt and go to Africa. horse, and the horse might uo moro be For Ilardenow. as he grew oilier and the master's. Suddenly a bright den able to regard mankind more largely, struck him bar ol sunnhine through came out from many of the narrow ways, the shade. AuHtrnllun Tc i Drinker. Pha tea drinkers of Australia rival those of China and Japan, not, how- over, in the quality, but lu the quan tity, consumed. The men, especially, drink the beverage,!!! large quantities, and all day long.- nnd at a strength which would mako tho cue of a tea- Irlnk'ng Chinaman curl. Sunday morn ing the tea drinker starts with a clean not and a clean record. The pot ls hung over the tire, with a sufficiency of water in it for the day's brow, and when this Is boiled be pours into It enough of the fragrant herb to pro duce a deep coffee-colored liquid. Monday, without removing yester day's tea loaves, ho repents tho proc ess! Tuesdny the same, likewise Wed ties lay, and so on through tho week Pownrd tho close of the seven dnys he pot ls filled with an acrid mash of tea leaves, out of which the tea Is nueezed by the pressure of a tin cup By this time the tea Is the color of rusty iron, incredibly bitter and dis agreeable to the uneducated palace. The natives call It "real good old post nnd rails," the simile being obviousl) drawn from n stiff and dangerous lump, nnd regard It as having boo- brought to perfection. Sitin-tliinir n the Bpi'k. He Before proposing, Miss or Gertie, I wish to know If you hnvo anything in the bank? Sho Yes, Mr. Poorman; I have a sweetheart thoro nnd wo are to bo married next week. Plck-Me-Up. No Air tiimit. Bacon I see Professor Osier says people do their best work before they are 40. Egbert How about Mrs. Chadwlck? Youkers Statesman. Ono of the St. Petersburg organs of the reactionary party mournfully com plains that Russia is In danger of be ing regarded as a second-class nation Tho editor's fear Is wholly unwarrant ed. Russia will hereafter bo looke'd upon as one of the fifth-rate powers. Forty years ago Lord Francis Doug las lost his lifo in an attempt to as cend the Matterhorn. No trace of the body was found, although search was made for It, and tho dendly grasp of the glacier has held it through oil tho period. The rate at which the glacier luiB moved has led somo persona to think it probable that the portion where the alpinist fell will reach tho valley during the present year, and a close watch is kept. What would you think or n youn man, ambitious to become a lawyer who should surround himself with ft medical atmosphere and spend his tlmo reading medical books, asks Orlsou Swett Marden In Success Mngaziuo. Do you think he would over become a great lawyer by following such a course? No, ho must put himself Into a law atmosphere, where ho can ab sorb It and bo steeped In It until ha Is attuned to the legal note, lie must lie grafted Into the legal tree so that he can feel its sap circulating through hlra. now long would it take a yountf man to become successful who puts himself Into nu atmosphere of fnilura and remains In It until he Is soaked to saturation with the Idea? How Ions' would It take a man who depreciate himself, talks of failure, thinks of fail ure, walks like a failure, and dresses llko a failure who ls always com plaining of the Insurmountable difficul ties In his way, and whose every step ls on the rond to failure how long would It take him to arrive at the suc cess goal? Would any one believe la him or expect him to win? Tlie ma jority of failures began to deteriorate by doubting or depreciating them selves, or by losing confidence In their own nbillty. The moment you harbor doubt and begin to lose faith In your self, you capitulate to the enemy. Ev ery tlmo you acknowledge weakness, inefficiency, or lack of ability, you weaken your self-confidence, nnd that is to undermine the very foundation of all achievement. So long ns you carry around a failure atmosphere, and v i t .1l-..A,,un anitintll- All radinto uouot aim uisL-uiiii:iu"i.. j will be a failure. Turn about face, cut off all the currents of failure thoughts, of discouraged thoughts. Boldly faca your goal with a stout heart and a de termlned endeavor, and you will find that things will change for you; but you must see n now world before you can live In It. It Is to what you see, to what you believe, to what yon strug. gle incessnntly to attain, that you will approximate. Beneath tho Sandy Hook light-ship Is a boll which ls rung by the same little engine which toots the fog-horn. The bell rings five one, five one, five ono, 51, the number of tho light ship. The sound travels swiftly un der the water, and may bo caught und magnified by a drum under tho water line, which ls placed against the plates of vessels which avail themselves of the signal. A telephone wire attached to the drum conveys the notes to the proper officer. Tho fog-horn may fall to do Its duty, but no matter how hard tho gale blows, the submarine warn Inr; Is effectlvo mlleB away from tho cm n her color scheme." MHwauke Candles, in Va't-li Com u mon. "Candles to match dresses Is tht latest fad In novelty confectionery said J. K. Levy, of Chicago. "Tk Idea Is entirely new, and. like nil otliei now tilings, had its inception In a trilling Incident that wns all but over looked. A matinee girl complained to a New York candy merchant Uiat tin box of sweets ho had Just sold hoi formed a contrast with her dress whlcli wns perfectly awful. Ho Immedlatelj got busy and looked over his nssorb ment of goods, and ls now selling pink, mauve and brown shades of candles, U a box to match, which the matinee girl can nllow to repose In hei lap, happj In the knowledge that It U anothot Iglht-shlp. Sentinel. In breaking down tho barriers be tween the sexes tho women are be ginning to practlco toward men tho same Impoliteness that they formerly reserved for each other. Men no long er as a rule give up their stats In street cars to women becauae they have been taught by painful experi ence that tha womea m cIm uo Quick und Thorough. Mrs. Paddock I thought Bobble iuu, a system for playing tho races. Mr. Paddock He had, but he bet o a horse named Snrsparilla and It clean ed his system out. Puck. A man had fins and bones for break) fast this morning; small flsk,