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. T 'J mug. And the dawn whitened, and the east waa clear. Strange pence and rent fell on me from the prrwrice Of a benignant spirit Htanding near. And 1 utioiiM tell him, an ho Mood Im-hMo me, Thin U our earth -inoHt friendly -nrlh. and fair; Uuily il m- and shore through nun and aha- (lllW Faithful It tin-tin, rolx-d in its a.ure air. " J lu re in blot living lurre, loving and M-rving, And ii:st of truth a in I wrcno friemlhhips dear; Hut May not, Silril! Karth has i,n-d,-strofi IIU namo (a Iteath; flee. Ict he lind thee h-rcl" And what If then, while the mill morning brightened. And frc.vhi-iiid in I ho elm the Summer's breath, rliiMild irravely Hmilo on rno the gentlo angel. And tako my hand ami Buy, ".My namo la Ileal li." - Edward Uowlaud Sill in OluVngo Graphic. 1 WTT vm inn I lark of Larami VyM there- is a range of hills that would ho called mountains anywhere else. Hero you cm find deep gorges, xavines and valleys. S.:ne twenty miles alve the city there is a road that winds up and up into the : lolls, over acres of barren rock, and then : d'-srends down into :i l.eaui il'nl valley where grass is growing luxuriantly, and ; tin-en and antelone an; rraziiii l,llw we were kinder soared people and the ruKtle; but a policeman comes up und asked us who we wanted, and we told him the name of the firm Jim worked for and ho explained how to get there. Dili and me started out and crossed the viaduct. 1 believe that's what it's called, a big bridge over the railroad tracks, ami when we got to the other end ami walked around a bit wo saw the hign up and we crossed over and went in. There were lots of men work ing tli-re,and Jim was standing up talk ing to a girl who was a-writing like a congressman. When Hill saw him ho walks right up and shoves out his hand and says he in a loud, cheery voice: " 'Hullo, ole Jim, how be ye?' "Jim just looked up and then jumped a yard and grabs Uill's outstretched hand in both of his and then ho grabs mine, a-talking like a politician all the time. He excused himself for a minute and reads a little more to the girl and then he introduced us to three or four people and got his coat. The girl turned around and commenced hitting a ma chine and Bill went up and took off his hat and his long hair fell about his face and he said: " 'That 's one of those typewriters, ain't it, miss?' "And the girl looked up and smiled awfully nice and says, 'Yes, sir,' and then Jim came along and wo left. Wo went out, and I'll bo switched if I could see how Jim could find his way around JJUl llho umaha a-pulling Tly pipe, L heard a step, and 1, seeing all the i looking upj! I saw Ct," DilL "I didn't Vrmw hi;n at first, ne had on store clothes. Urn hair was short and he only wore a mustache. He looked like a corps. His cheeks anil eyes were sunken, and ho had a cough that pained him terribly. He had walked all the way up from Laramie, and as he was I lie road by n ininiat .lire lake, and by and ' with all the wagons and people and ele i r . :ii i i .... h win u-.iu iu aroniDi mo nasi; ot a tall mountain, and there you will find a 1;; ile log cabin beside a willow lined : ! ream, and yon will see there a large sheep corral. 1 was lounging on fhe ground a few years ago i,u front of the litflo cabin ci.ioking peacefully, and listening to the wind sighing through the willows and I "lies, the bl.-athig of the sheep in the corral and the howl of the coyote up in Pie hills. As far as I know. Iiig Dill and mo wi re the first while men who herded sheep up here in the hills," nail the oc cupant of the cabin, as he sat in v.i niiii m jipe in ins meuiii. 'We came up here from the home ; ranch ilovv:; on the Laramie river and I . -Dtnlt "this cabin and the corrals in '77. i "Wc had about ."i,iU! sheep to look after, j with the dogs to help ns, ami it was ; pretty hard work, for then the hills wero full of mountain lions, and they din't know the diliVrci.ce between the sheep ai;d the antelope, but wo got along all right. As the old man sent some of the p down on the plains and others to the home ranch. Hill and me didn't have anything to do. so we went up in the northern p;:rt of the state rounding cat tle, but in the latter part of 18 s? the old m ;n sent for us. and so we came back ;:i:d took about o.OOO sheep up here to lo,k sifter. "We hadn't been here long before a yontig tenderfoot camo up in.iu Oinalia to lielp us, the old man said, but in real ity ho only wauled a little outdoor exer cise. Jim was a might v good fellow. the j am glad t th-mgli, if ho was a tenderfoot, and ho and Bill becamu warm fri -ads. Jim was small, thin at: 1 pale, and Bill was big. bronzed and full bearded, with hair that fell down on his : houhlers. Jim just r.s.l to stick by Bill as close as a sick kitten to a hot brick, ami used to follow hi.:i away over by Dirty Em mountain au l Bagged Top. an.l when ho came in at !".:;idown he would look like a corpse, bui after a wlnle he got as strong as an ox ;:n l sl-pt like a hor.se. After supper they would take their pipes and tobacco 2i: l go out there under yonder tall pine, an 1 would talk until lung into the uigut, iif. i I used to sit h'-re and wonder what lh.- mischief they would talk about. But J::.i was the b-st natured fellow that e-.vr lived, excepting, of course.'Big Bill. All that sum:ii'-r they were as insepara ble as the lamented Siamese twins, and when one went dow?i to the home ranch or to Laramie the other would go too. '"One day Jim wasn't feeling well, and I'm blessed if Bill didn't camp right by his bedside all day long, and me and Shep, the dog, had to look after the siu-ep. Jim was only sick a couple of days, and the next Sunday when the men from down on the ranch came up to bring us some papers and canned stuff thev brought a letter for Jim from his employers down in Omaha asking that he come home at once. When Jim got ready to go i am an Indian if he and Big Bill didn't cry, and Bill he walks clear up to the top of the hill, and sat down on a bowlder, and kept his eyes fastened on the wagon as it turned around the terpentine road, and watched it until it disappeared on the plain be low, and then he came back here and sets down awful glum, and says he to me: " 'Jake, Jim's an all tired good feller.' " You bet he is.' "That's ail I said, but Big Bill under stood me. Every Sunday when the men from the ranch didn't come up Bill used to walk clear down there and get the letter that would be sure to be there for him from Jim. and he would bring it back up here, and we used to work pret tj han I to rea l it. even if it was written with a typewriter, for you know neither Bill nor me had ever had any schooling. They were awful good letters, though, and once he sent us some fine woolen shirts and mittens, and some crack to baico and a couple oi pipes; this is one of them now. About a month after he left we get a letter saying he was going to be married, and he was dead anxious for Big Bill to comedown and take it in, but Bill wouldn't do it, because he said Jim might lie a-diamed of him: but Jim u-i..:it that kind oi a fellow, as I'm going J to ti II 3cu pretty soon. "About three years after his marriage Jiia wrote a letter asking both Bill and me to come down and see him and his wife and the kid. and there was a lot of scribbling, which Jim said was the baby's invitation. Course I knew it was Big Bill they wanted to see, although Jim and me were good friends, but as Bill allowed he wouldn't go if I didu't go with him, I consented to go, and so when tins sheep had been moved down to the ranch we went down to Omaha. We didn't tell him we were coming, for trie cars, but wo got on one of them : trains and rodo for about half an hour ami then wo got off and walked up a hill. A pretty little house stood up above the street ami wo went up, for that was where Jim Jived. The house was fixed up in great shape, and as Bill . and me stood there kind of awkward the curtains were shoved aside and a young lady came in. She stood for a j second, and Jim just said "my wile," I when she stepped forward with the : sweetest kind of a smile and taking my i pard's hand and savs: j " 'This is Big Bill. I kne-.v, and Jake. I OCT) ' Oil.' "Bill just looked all broke up for a min ute and then he turned to Jim: " 'No wonder you married, Jim,' says he. "Jim and his wife just laughed, and while they were enjoying themselves a little child came into the room and ran up to his father, and he took him up in his aims and kissed him and then set him down on the floor, and ho ran over to where Bill was sitting in one of those i big chairs and climbed up in his lap, and ' Bill held him like he was glass, and he was pleased if he did feel foolish, and the kid ran his little hands through the j big man's beard and long hair, and ; seemed to enjoy it immensely, and pretty j soon Bill turns to Jim and says he: ''You had better tako this, Jim. 1 ain't used to handling such lambs.' "Jim readied out for the child, but lie clung close to Bill. A Hush of pride comes into my pard's face, and he looked up and said: ! " 'What's the kid's name, Jim? "But before Jim could answer the boy said 'Bill' just as plain, and the big fel- j low looked up first at Mrs. Jim and then ; at her husband and he read the answer j in their faces, and then he pressed the j child close to his bosom, and two big j tears came into his eyes and fell on his i cheeks. We felt at homo right away, j and that afternoon Jim got a carriage I and drove u.s all over the city and out to j the fort. Bill looked awful happy sit- ting on the back seat with Mrs. Jim, and went the kid and Mrs. Jim laughing softly and talking merrily while her husband and Bill spoke of when Jim was up here in the hills. We staid there for three days, and Jim just showed us all the big buildings and took us up to one of those swell clubs and introduced us around as though we were millionaires instead j of poor sheep herders, and a reporter gave Bill a great write up too. J "About a montli after we were down in ' Omaha we saw a man from the ranch riiling up, and so we went over to see what was the matter, for it was on Thursday and we thought something was up. He i pretty well pegged out 1 didn't say much to him. but just got him some thing to eat and put him to bed. He ; used to sleep like an ox, but all night ! he was restless, and pitching backward I and forward on the bed. Next day In j told me that when he got in Omaha he j Went up and saw Mrs. Jim and the kid i and that she was all broke tip. You see j Jim had spent money pretty freely and ! when his debts was paid she didn't have j a cent, and Bill told her that Jim had i lent him a lot of money, which, of course, was not so, ami that ho would pay it j hack now. You see, if Bill had offered t to have helped her she wouldn't have j taken a cent, but as long as she believed ; Bill owed the money it was all right. ! "So Bill got a job working on the gianes, nut lie toM her he was just rest ing in Omaha, and every Saturday night he used to give her nearly all his earn ings, and just starved himself and slept in a tent with the horses out in the suburbs at night in all kinds of weather, and breathing the dust and dirt all day and t lie stable at night, and not eatiti.t, at all regularly, his health broke down and he was taken to a hospital. About this time an old aunt of Mrs. Jim's died and left her a pile of property. Mrs. Jim kinder suspected something was wrong with Big Bill, but she couldn't get anything out of him, though she tried awful hard. She lowed to tell Bill the next Saturday night when he came, but he didn't come, and she couldn't guess what was the matter until she saw by a papi r that he had been taken to the hospital. She went up there to see him and lie was delirious, and when he was out of his head uid all about what lit li e I Lvcn !oi;ig, and it liked to h killed NEW SPRING A p LATHING FURNISHING (JOOl)S. HATS, ETC ARRI.TINQ EVERY DAY AT t-v. THI-: I. HADING ONi: I'KMCK CLOTH IKK'. I.)o not buy until you have seen and inspected 4 '.Irs. Jim. When begot b used to tako him lavt 1 ter she out ving, and said the would pav him back, and she di.l make him tako about a hundred dollars, and she was just bound he would be paid in full, and so he skipped out and came back up here. l- or a wni:e ne was a good deal better, but his cough got worse, and by ami by he didn't pretend to do anything but just walk around with his head down 'and his hands behind him and talk about Jim and little Bill ami Mrs. Jim, and be would lay out there in the cold night ait with his head in his hands, looking up at the star dotted heavens and listening to the wind moaning through the pines. I got a h tter from Mrs. Jim asking it Bill had come up here and how ho was, and 1 managed to write back how he was. ell, one morning Bill didn't get up and 1 saw that he was pretty bad, and so 1 didn't go out with the sheep but just lei't them in the corral while I attended to Bill. Along about noon 1 heard Shep bark, and looking out I saw a carriage coming around the mountain ! there, and which the IMOTH STO km PK1CE5 IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. The Furni"dYmg iinet stock of Sin-insf (JIothin' Goods and J.?ais you ever seen in Plattsniouth. I thought it was a doctor i cJ"niCl May Xot Enjy I'iokwick iv.j.i:. old man had sent m. hurl Why criticize "Pickwicks" The i;.ter- when it drew up Mrs. Jim and little Bill Pol;ltt;d stories are distracting and tire got out. j tome; skip the stories. The Fleet " 'Is there anything the matter' He ! t'Pisot'10 id nt comparable in power or isn t dead, is he.- she asked me. 'I have come and will take him back where he can have the lxst of medical attendance. I can never forget what he did for Biilie and I, just for Jim's sake.' "I didn't say anything, but just pointed ! into the little cabin, and sho and the kid i eliect to the Marsnalsea scenes in "Little Dorritt." But skip the Fleet. All the rest remains a priceless treasure. How are we to decide with t he cocksurness of a Fitzgerald that this thing is exaggerated and that unnatural? Let us tako a Boek as we find it. The moment you apply on every feature. Those who are glad to sec us rarely disguise the fact, and those who are not can scarcely force our belief from rest ing upon the foundation of a perhaps disagreeable truth. Toronto Globe. in d leaned over him. lie i opened his eyes, and when he saw her ho tried to raise himself, but he couldn't. " 'Am 1 dead?' he asked. " 'No.' said Mrs. Jim, 'Eillie and 1 have come up here for you, and we will take yon back with us to Omaha, where you will soon get well.' " 'You are very kind,' he said, and then smiled softly, drew a heavy sigh and died. Mrs. Jim leaned over him and her tears fell upon his face as she kissed him, and little Bill and me wero crying too. We buried him nest day, when the men came up from the ranch, out there under tho tall pi::?, where he ! had a letter with a black margin from j and Jim used to lie so muc h, and where , Bill and he tore it open and it was from ; he spent so muc:i of his time after he Mrs. Jim, saying that Jim had been taken j got back from Omaha, and a few days suddenly sick and had died. Well, sir, j after Mrs. Jim came up in a carriage Bill just took the letter in his hand and j from Laramie, acting as the guide for a turned around like one that's paralyzed j man who brought up a stone for Bill's and ho walked straight over yonder nnder that pine tree where he and Jim had laid so often and threw himself down tn the ground. 1 looked after the sheep, and at sundown I drove them all up here into the corral and then Shep and me went over, and the dog, when he saw Bill lying flat on the ground with his face in his arms, gave one long and agonizing howl and began licking Bill's face and Bill reached up and pulls Shep right down by him and said awful soft like: " 'Your heart's broken, too, ain't it, Shep?' "He lay there for a long while, and the moonlight came out from behind the clouds tind bathed the hills and the val leys with the soft light, and it fell upon Big Bill, lying with his head on the dog and sobbing to himself. It was almost i morning, and the moonlight had died ! i way. and the eastern heavens were i tinged by the light ot the rising sun and I a sott wimi stirrea tne wmows mere by the brook, and murmured through the ! pines, wneii lie arose ami come over liere j to the cabin. I was so dead tired that I had sk-pt all night, and when he opened tile dot;r I was just getting up. i Jake,' he said. 'I have got to go : down to Omaha." J " 'Because.' he said, 'you know Jim ; was pretty extravagant and he didn't . get much of a salary, and I wouldn't be : surprised if his wife and the kid was j pretty hard pressed. I must go down j and look after them, for I know Jim : would like to have me do so.' "1 saw there wasn't anyr.se of talking, 1 and so he shook hands with me and j started out over the hills for tho ranch, j He drew all the money coming to him, ; and I didn't see or hear anything from ' grave.' There wero tears in the eyes of the old sheep herder when he finished, and we ! arose and went over to the grave. Tho i wind -as sighing a requiem through the ! tall pine tree, and the little stream was murmuring the sweetest music as it ran along over the rocks. In the moonlight I read on the plain marble slab the sim ple inscription: l : ma bill, : ONE Or TUB NOBLEST OP MEN. Z - R. A. Eaton in Omaha Herald. the principles and the standards of real life the illusion vanishes. Not the least marvelous characteristic of the author's genius is the sureness with which he stills you spellbound in his enchanted pleasance. So long as the magic holds, you travel with pleasure in the coaches; you go with rapture to Dingley Bell; you admire young ladies with fur round their boots; you applaud Sam eller; you thank heaven and Charles Dickens for Mr. Weller the elder, and you lavish your holies and fears on Mr. Pickwick him self. But try to place the characters in j the real world, and you find you have to deal with "impossibles," who peram- j bulate the country tippling ale, brandy ! and water and punch, who kiss the serv- ' ant maids, whose womenkind are as "im- ! possible" as themselves, and whose cir- cumstances and surroundings are dis- ' tinguished by nothing save an uninviting j plenty. To the dyspeptic who thus : essays to "realize" these friends from youth to middle age, these heroes of the one great Cockney epic, the posthumous papers of the Pickwick club are not to be recommended. For those thrice fort unate that boast themselves eupeptic they are the most invigorating tonic. National Observer. M'liat t!i Ilattf.-r S:iit About IVriplc. A good way to judge a man is to listen I to his talk when he comes in to buy a hat for himself. It is all right for a man to ask his tailor what he ought to wear. But every man ought to know what sort r V 1... C . .... 1 i i - ui a iiaL is iLiosi. iiocomi ng to mm. iso ! article of a man's wearing apparel so i completely makes or unmakes him as his hat. There are men who should j never wear any oth- than a silk hat, j just as there are men who should never j wear anything in the way of a hat ex- cept a Derby. There art; men who will j never look like anything human with ! either. Some men wero born to wear J nothing but tho soft hat. I I would not vote for a man who does i not know what sort of a hat he should wear witiiou-t taking the advice of an other on t lie subject. I belie-ve it was i Shakespeare who said that dress pro j claims the ir. :i. Shakespeare knew j whai he wanted to say, 1 reckon, but if j he ever paid any attention to the matter ho would have said the hat. It is my observation that a man will say more foolish things when he goes to buy a hat than at any other time. Interview in Chicago Tribune. "(9. ETERSEIT &, LARSON THH LEADING GROCERS HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK IN THE CITY. ATTKXTIOX J K'M r;Ks e want your Poult.-,- i.',, i... ;r and yor llltm IMV, 7c7.?,f f, kinds, we v,,Il pay you the h i o CHt urn in Lincoln. " Ior J The Danjcrs of a Doctor's Life. Eighteen thousand doctors are now re quired to guard the health of the British islands. Few of them spend the evening of their days in competence an el retire ment. The doctor's life is the most dan gerous of all, and, on the average, the shortest of all. It is even more danger ous than the soldier's. Exposed to the contagion of fatal diseas.-s. to odd, to nignt air, to accid.-ut. :t l wondered that he fa: is i :e tie of life. In every little fouuel clergymen, ofilcers cers, tailors, schoolmast shoemakers and even peddlers, who end the evening of life in aillueiice and ease. But how seldom the doctor. He gener ally dies in harness. London Tit-Bits. not. to be !y in the bat town may be brewers, gro rs. jewekrs. I'ire Anion;; Sva; Xutioin. Accorumg to Phuy lire was a long time unknown to some of the ancient Egyptian tribes, and :'.::-n a celebrated astronomer made them acquainted with that element and how to produce it they were wnu witn ueiignt. the Persians. Phenicians, Greeks and several other ; nations acknowledge that their ances ; tors were once without the comforts j which fire bestows; the Chinese confess the same of their progenitors. Pompan- ion, Mola, Plutarch and other ancient I writers speak of nations which, at the ! time when they wrote, knew not the use of fire, or had just recently learned it. i which were discovered I idea of fire or its uses. When small bodies get in the eye, like cinders, dust or chips of stone, a horse hair loop will frequently do what pall ing one e-yt-lid over the other fails to ac complish. Pure gum arabic, in we-ak solution, may be poured into the eye, which requires a cold bandage after- him until along toward the close of the ! ward. In case of lime, use lemon juice srminer, when one evening, as Shep and an.i water at once. How Do You liow? Did you ever watch people bow? It is quite a study te nece the variety of facial contortions and tho divergence as to the method of bobbing the head. You have probably noticed the digni fied little bend of the head accompanied by a passive countenance. It does not mean much, and when it does the special j The inhabitants of the Marian islands, in lool, had no Their astonish- j rnent knew no bounds when they saw it I applied to wood, mot of them taking it j to be some kind of an animal which the i sailors had brought with them and which I must be fed on wood. St. Louis lie j public. I Economy in Horseshoe. i A horseshoe has been patented in Can I ada which is provided with removable ; calks. These calks are easily removable, ! anI when they require sharpening calks j may be put in in about five minutes. . Two sets are kept on hand, one sharp ' and the other dull; this effects a great : saving. The shoe has tapered dovetail ! recesses, in which the tape-red shank of the calk fits. New York Telegram. graces and commendable virtues are not indicated in the definition. A genial bow has as much to account for as a hearty hand clasp, and one frigid recog nition has been known to drench a sprout ing friendship with ice water and kill it on the spot. Heads, are often tossed back anil then bent down, and I have taken delight in observing a man who opens his mouth as if to facilitate the tilting of his head. On some occasions a greeting is given by a solemn wagging of the head, just as people in some localities shake hands with a motion from side to side. With a few people the whole face lights up as they greet their friends, and to those cheery, whole soule.l mor tals we give an unasked and voluntary confidence. Lips can be curled into a of fairly geod imitation can be danced into . of mirth. 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