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'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. W..: lsca:.
by the Lrain and uttered
i smiie. ives
- :u! !a::ce
be strung together
tones
in
of
counterfeited joy. but we can read the
falseness and mark the absence of heart
The fifty largest libraries in Germany
possess 12.700,000 volumes, against those
of England with about C,4.";o,000, and of
North America with about 6.100,000
volumes.
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