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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1894)
Tin : t'AT .ir.i.v. Sim n'alttf l\ > ' , Let mo have men nlwut ino tli.it nru ( at. Jilllui Cuwar , Act I , Sseno II. t lng tlm fnt tuiint ttml I UCOMI A man's IntrltiMc worth Is gnugcd by Ills rotundity I'roportlonutii ID Ills elrtli. Tlio ( at mail , ilarlliin of tlm fatoi , Who , In fceri'iia tcpotu. Ihifi initiiro's Mores usslmllnto Anil turn to adipose . \\lio ( iiitn tlio iMiiinUIes * iinUorse , AH liu'rf it rljjlit to do , Abiorusn corporoMty t'ummcnsurnto thi-roto "f.nt inp havn men nbotll tno , " tlrcut C'n-snr , " ( lininroditt Anil .IiilItM Cii'.Hiiiyou'll admit , Ik' know "where no win nt. " Tin ) fat 111:111 : , ovutyliody litiowt , Oolli limk In vlrtiln'n stnllo , Tor us lie nrow In nillpuou Hi * ilntli deiToii'o In tfiille. Anil 'tis my creed , though cyntctcnrp Anil ciivfl iniii'li tlieit'.it. No Minn fan lie entirely KOOI ! Till hu Is ( nlrly ( tit. No Minr cynic It tli ! nnn , No mNiiMllirupIc churl , And hit ivldr , inmily IKIMUII bonri ThdlKht heart oftiKlrl. Of rmturo'M I otlntv lu > partaken With itrnlltuirVniHl test , Atul In her pantry U no ( ooil Tlnit he cannot illiri'st : Wlio from tin ; liniimllcbs universe , AH IIII'M u rlnht to do , Ali < -otliH ui'nrpoioslty Commensurate ) t herein. THE SCHUE TEACHER'S STORY. / ; . H llhtni In llnmatice. I hnvc taught school forty-four years. Now I Imvo delivered the keys of my bchool houto to the coinmlttoo , I have jmckotl away on the top shelf of my tclosct a row of primers and readers , jjcofrraphie1 ? , spoiling books and arith metics , and I have stopped work for the rest of my life. Through all those forty-four years I have squeezed reso lutely all the sweets out of existence nnd stored them up to make a kind of tasteless , hut life-sustaining honey for old ago. I have never spent one penny unless for the barest necessaries. 1 have added term by term to the sum on my bank book , until I have been able to build this iioufco , and Imvo a sulllcicnt hum at interest to live upon. I need little - tlo , very little , to eat , and I wear my clothes carcfully and lonp. * I was never extravagant in clothes but once. That wsls twenty-five years ago. when I was 3Ti , and expected to be married in the spring. I had a green nilk dress then a bright green. But I had it dyed black , and , after all , got considerable wear out of it , although it was llimsy. Colored silk is apt to bo 1 had a blue woollen , too , a ealor I tihouid never have bought if I had not expected to bo married , and that faded. I also had a black velvet cloak , some thing that was very coatly , and I should not have bought it under any circiun- btanccs , but 1 was foolish. However. that has made my winter bonnets ever ince ; it was a peed picco and not cut up much. Looking backward forty-four years I cannot remember any other extravagance than this outlay in clothes when I expected to 1)0 ) married at . ' 15. I never Imvo bought any candy , except a few cough drops when I had a cold. I have never bought a riobon oven , or a breast- pin. I have always worn my mother's old hairpin , although it was so old-fash ioned , and tlio other girls had pretty uold and coral , or cameo ones. My mother died when I was 1-J ; my father when I was li ( ; then I began to teuch. My father left mo nothing. Mother was sick all her life , nearly , and lie could not lay up a cent. However , there was enough to pay his funeral ex penses , and 1 was thankful for that. I sometimes wonder what my father would nay if ho could see mo now , and know how 1 am situated. I wonder if he would think I had done pretty well. I don't know how it can make any difference to him now ; ho is past all such earthly vanities , oven if lie knows about thorn , but I do sometimes feel glad I have done so well , on his account. Anybody has to have some account beido their own , oven if it is somebody's that's dead. 1 IMVO built this house , with six rooms in it , nnd a woodshed. 1 have a little land , too. I keep hens nnd I am going to have a vegetable garden back of the house , and a llower garden , front. J have good wwwllen carpets all over the house , except the kitchen. I have stulTcd parlor furniture , nnd a marble-topped table , nnd h marble top shelf with a worked plush scurf en it. 1 have a handsome dining bet , and two nice chamber sots , and two beautiful silk quilts I pieced from bits my scholars gave me. I shouldn't be ashamed to have anybody go over my houso. And I keep it nice , too ; you could not find a speck of dust anywhere. Of course , I have nobody to put it out of order , and that makes a difference. It has always been my habit to look at all the ad vantage there is in llfo and I have found there is an advantage side to everything. I can keep my house a great deal nicer than I could if I wore not alone in the world. I sometimes wonder what I should do if I had a man coming in with muddy boots , or children tracking in dirt O4id stubbing out my earpots or kicking the paint off my now doors. To tell the truth , I never cared much about chil dren , though I have been teaching them forty-four years. I never dared to payne no before , but it is true. Once in awhile I saw a child that I thought a good ucal of. but taking them all together , I have often wondered how their own mothers could stand them. I would Imvo worked my lingers to the bone for the few I did tuko a notion to. I fairly grudged thorn to their folks , but the others ! nnd I had to hide it , too ; it wouldn't have done for the children to think I was par tial. They had all the mcannoas of grown-up folks , without knowing enough to hide It. Grabbing each other's apple- cores , and teasing away each other's candy , and the big ones plaguing the little - tlo ones ; throwing paper balls , and marking up the walls , and . o\ cry thing else. 1 know , for one , that thoro'ssomo- thing in the doctrine of original bin. I gucbs most women that have taught a district school forty-four years do. I have never been sure , either , that tlioy learned anything so as to remember it , and have it do them any good. I Imvo til ways been afraid that , no matter how hard 1 tried to do my duty to them , it was never quite done , nnd that I was teaching myself more than anybody else , just as I always i-comed to hit my own hands harder I him a scholar's when I hud to ferule one. one.I could travel all ever the earth , on a map , and never once lose my way , but I wonder if my scholars could. I can bpoll through the spoiling book without missing n word , but I know that not ono of my tcholars can do it. I can do every i.um in the arlthmotlemoasuro the depth of all the wells , calculate the speed of all the dogs and fo.\es , and suy the mul tiplication tables by heart , but I am quite btiro that no boy or girl ever loft my school who could. It eooms to uio sometimes that I have gonu to school to my scholars , instead of my scholars goIng - Ing to school to mo , and that I have never been of any bencllt to any onu of them. Stilt , I have sometimes thought that I was , once , and in u strange way , to tlio strangest scholar 1 over had. Before thinking cvou of tbia scholar , and tula story , I have to rovlow my face , nnd my whole character , in my mental visionns before u glahs , to establish , as it wore , my own reliability to myself. Is it likely that anybody , who looks like that , should tell herself that she saw what she did not sec , or heard what nho did not linnr ? Is it likely that anybody , who is like that , should ? Hut , after all , I was never given to say ing things that weren't plain common sense. Still , it has always kind of seemed to mo , when I thought of that time in Marnhbrook. that it didn't ring like any known metal. But there may bo some metals that really arc on earth , though they are not known , I suppose , and any body might hear them ring , and be hon est enough about it. It was just twunty-five years ago today that I went to Mnrshbrook to loach the No. 1 district school. It was right in the middle of the springtime. I had given up my old school , because I was expecting to be married that May. But v/hcn I found out he'd changed his mind toward me I felt as if I had ought to cote to work again. I'd laid out a good deal of money on my clothes , and I knew I'd have to make it up some way , as long as I wa always going to have nobody but myself to depend on , tfio way I always had. had.Maria Maria Roercrs hud my old school. She had come from the cast village to teacli it , when I gave I tup , nnd it wasn't moro'n three weeks before he began to go with her. She wn good looking , always smiling , though it always seemed to me It was a kind of silly smile. I was al ways sober and sot-lookingand I couldn't Mimlo ea y oven if I felt like it. Her hair curled , too. I tried to curl mine , but it wouldn't look like hers , I wouldn't believe it at lirst when folks came and told me ho was going with her , nnd they thought I ought to know ; but after a while I saw enough to satisfy me. my self. I wrote him a letter , and told him I'd found out ho had changed his mind , and ho had my best wishes for his wel fare and prosperity , and then I began to look out for another school. He didn't marry Maria Rogers till the spring term was through. She wanted the money for her wedding clothes. She was a poor girl , or 1 could have had my old school. As it was , she had him , and my school , too. I don't know ns I should have got any till fall , if the teacher at the No. 1 district in Marsh- brook hadn't left sudden. One of the committee came for mo the next day and said I'd got to go there whether or no. I asked why the other teacher had left , nnd ho raid she wasn't very well "kind of hystoriky , " he called it. Ho was an old man and a doctor. I looked him straight in the face when ho spoke , and I know there was something behind what ho said , and ho knew I did. "I'll give you 50 cents a week more , seeing as you como to oblige , " sa\s he. "Very well , " says I. I know what it all meant. I had hoard about district No. 1 in Marshbrook ever since I could remember. They never could keep a teacher there through thd spring term. There wasn't any trouble fall and winter - tor , but the teacher would leave in the spring term. They always tried to hush it up , and nobody ever knew ex actly what they loft for. I rather guess they bound the teachers over not to toll maybe paid them a little extra. Anyway , nobody ever know c.victly what it was , but it got whispered 'round there was some thing wrong about the No. 1 school house. Nobody but a stranger or somebody that was along in years and pretty courageous could bo hired.to go there and teach the spring term. The chances wore that old Dr. Emmons couldn't got another soul besides mo for love or money , nnd if I wouldn't go the school would have to bo shut up till fall. But L didn't care anything about the stories. I never was ono of the kind that listen , and hark , .and screech , and I hod had enough real things to think and worry about- . Then I had a kind of feeling then I suppose it was wicked that it didn't matter much what happened any way , after what had happened. So I just packed up my trunk , while Dr. Emmons wgited , and then ho put it in behind in his wagon and carried ino ever to Marshbrook. It wa } about six miles away. Marshbrook was nan.otl after the brook there , that runs through marshy land , and gets soaked up in it seine seasons of the year. That spring it was quito high and the land all around it was yellow as gold with cowslips. Wo rode beside it quito a ways and the doc tor said his wife had boiled cowslip croons twice. Ho talked considerable about such things being bettor for folks to cat than meat , too. Ho didn't say a word about the school till ho sot mo down at the house where I was going to board. Then belaid I looked ns if I wasn't fidgety , and ho hadn't any notion but what I should get along \\oll and like the school. Then he said , kind a if ho hated to , but thought he'd bettor that ho gnessed I might just as well make up my. mind not to stay after school at night much nnd not to keep the scholars. The school house was in a rather lonesome place and some strag glers might come along. Then , too , it was rather damp there , being near the brook , after the dew fell , and ho didn't think it was very healthy. I said , "Very well. " Then Mr. Orrin Simonds , the man where I was troing to board , came out , and they carried my trunk betwixt them into the houso. I began school the next morning , and got along well enough. The school wtis quito n largo one , about forty in it , and none of them very old. They behaved well ns usual , 'mid I taught them the best I know how. I ought to have done bettor by them than I had ever done for other scholars , for I hadn't any lookout for myself to take my mind off. 1 sup pose 1 always had hud a little , though I hud hardly known it myself , and I ought to have been ashamed of it. I did not stay itftor school for some two weeks , not because I was afraid of anything , for I wasn't , but I hadn't any call to. 1 didn't mind what Dr. Kmmons had said at all , as far as I was con cerned , but I thought I wouldn't keep the scholars anyway , so If anything did come up I wouldn't bo blamed on tholr accounts. There wasn't anybody to blame mo on mlno. If I didn't give up the school and I wasn't going to do that , anyway. I wont to mooting the Sunday after I wont to Marnhbrook. I suppose some folks thought I .would get somebody to carry mo homo from meeting , seeing as it was onlv six miles , nnd I belonged to the church there , but I felt as if I had just ns soon see some new faces. Maria Rogers used to sit right in front of mo at home. I noticed that folks in the meeting house at Marshbrook eyed mo some. I don't know whether it was because I had come to teach the No. I school , or bo- cuuso I were my green silk. I suppose it did look 'most too line , but I had it , and it was a pleasant Sunday , and 1 thought I might just ns well wear it , though somehow , every time I looked down ut my lup as I sat in meeting , there was something about the color seemed to strike over mo and make mo Blclc. 1 never liked green very well , but ho did , and that was why I got it. I liked it bettor after it was colored , though it seemed a shiimo to have all the stiffening taken out of it. It was u beautiful picco. I bud u food boarding place , just Mr. Simonds nnd his wife , and she was na neat ns wax nnd n good cook. She was kind of woodony. nnd didn't talk much , but I didn't ' feel much like talking , and I liked It full as well. She used to have supper early , ab.iut as soon as I got home from school , and then I used to go upstairs to my chamber mid sit by ray- sol f. Mrs , Simonds didn't neighbor much , she said , but I guess after I came folks run in more. I'd near them talk ing down stairs. I guess they wanted to find out how I was getting along at the Number One school. Once Mrs. Simonds said , if she was in my place , she'd make her plans not to stay nftor school. She didn't seem anymore moro fldgoty herself than a wooden post , but I gues.she'd } heard so much from the neighbors she thought she ought to say something. I said I hadn't had any occasion to stay after school , and I hadn't. I didn't ' re ally have anv occasion the night I did stay , but I felt kind of down nt the heel , and I didn't want any supper , and I just sat there on the platform behind my desk after the scholars inarched wit of the room. I don't know how long I sat there quito a whilu , I supno e , for it began to grow dusky.- The frogs peeped ns if they were in tlio room nnd there was a damp wind blowing in the window , and I could smell wintorgrccn and swamp pinks. It was all I could do to Keep the children from chewing wintcrgreon loaves in schooi time. They were real thick all around the school house. All of a sudden , ns i sat there , I had a queer feeling as if there was somebody in the room , and I looked up. I saw , down in the middle of the room , a little , white arm raised in the dusk. It was the way the children did when they wanted to ask something , nnd I thought for n second that one had stayed or comeback back unbeknown to mo , and was raisinir an arm. Of course , that was queer , but it was the only reason I could think of , nnd it Hashed through my head. "What is it ? " says 1 , and then I heard a little girl's voicn pipe up , "Please , teacher , find my doll 'for mo. and hear my neqt lesson in the primer. " "What'says I. for it didn't seem tome I could have heard right. And then the voice said it over again , and that little white arm crooked out of the gloom. I got up and went down the aisle be tween the desks , and when I came close enough I saw a little girl in a queer , straight white dress , almost like a night gown , sitting there. Her little face was so white in the gloom it made mo creep , and her features looked set : oven her mouth didn't move when she spoke. It was open a little nnd the words just seemed to How out between her lips. "Please , teacher , find my doll for me and hoar my next lesson in the primer , " says she over again , dreadful pitiful. I put my hand on her shoulder and then I jumped aud took it away , for i never felt anything so cold as her little shoulder was. It seemed ns if the cold struck to my heart from it and I had to etitch my breath. "What is your numo ? " says I as soon I could. "Mary Williams , aged six years , fhreo months and five days , " says she. Then my blood ran cold , but 1 tried to reason it out to mypclf again that she was some child I hadn't soon that had run in there , and maybe she wastiU.quito right in her mind. "Well , " bays I , "you had better run homo now. If you want to come to school you can como at ! ) o'clock tomor row morning , if your mother is willing. Then I will hear your lesson and maybe you will find your doll , but you musn't bring it to school. I can't have1 any dolls brought to school. " With that she rose np and dropped a queer little curtsey that made a pull' of icy cold wind in my face , and was out of the room , very fast , as if she slid or floated , without taking any steps at > all. I put on my bonnet and locked up the pchool house nnd went homo then. Looking back I can't say as I felt scared or nervous nt all. I know I didn't walk a mite faster when I went past tlm old graveyard. There was an olu graveyard near the school house , and the children used to play there at recess. When I got homo Mrs. Simonds asked why I hadn't boon homo and if I didn't want any supper , but she didn't act sur prised nor curious. She never seemed surprised or curious at anything. 1 wont upstairs to my chamber , and sat down and thought it ovor. It seemed to me there must bo some above-board reason for it. As I thought it over , I remembered that there had been a strange , faint , choking smell about the child , and then I put my own dress-sicirt up to my face , and I smelled it then. I hung my dress out of the window to air when I took it off. The next morning , when the scholars filed in to school. 1 tried to think that strungo littio girl might bo among them , but she wasn't , and she didn't como in the afternoon. That night I stayed after school again. I had mndo up my mind I would. I waited , and uftor a while that littio white arm showed out of the ditsk , but I hud not seen the child como into the room. I asked her again what she wanted , and she piped up , just as she did before : "Pleaao , teacher , find my doll for mo , and hear me say the next lesson in tlio primer. " I got up and wont to her just ns I had before , nnd there she was just the same , and the faint smell came in my face. "Whoro did yon lose your doll ? " Kays I. But she wouldn't say. "Please , teacher , find my doll for mo and hear me suy my lesson in the primer , " says she , with a kind of a wail. 1 never heard anything so pitiful as it was. It seemed to mo , fomohow , as if all the wunts I had over had myself sounded in that child's voice , and as if she was begging tor something I had lost myself. But I spoke decided. It was always my way with children. I found 'it worked hotter. "Now you run right home , " says I , "and you eomo tomorrow and I'll glvo you your doll and hear your lessen in the pi imor. " And then uho rcso up and curtsied , just its she hud before , nnd was gone. I did not try to follow hor. That ovoniug I went around to old Dr. Emmons and asked Mrs. Emmons if I could see the doctor n few minutes. I guess she suspected what had hap pened , for she looked at mo real sharp and said she hoped I wasn't gottintr nervous , and overwrought with school teaching. I said I wasn't. I just wanted to boo the doctor about a now scholar ; and she loft mo in the sitting room and called him in. I askcu him , point-blank , if anything had anything hud over happened there in Mnruhbrook , and ho wouldn't toll mo at first. " 1 suppose you want to glvo the school up. I thought you were old onouirh to behave yourself , " says he. Ho was pretty short sometimes , but , ho meant woll. "I'vo done tlio best I could by the school , " buy B.I. "Why couldn't you come homo when school was done , as you was told to , in stead of staying there in that lonesome some pluco and getting hyBtorJckyV" says he. "I don't know as I can got another teacher this term. The suhaol house will have to be shut up. It's a pity all the female school teachers in creation couldn't be ducked a tow times , G eirfclemen' ' H . . A _ /BL. Profitable Inducement IP-k. to j [ on J , w.lv n li Would you invest one dollar , if you were certain to receive two dollars in return ? We'll not mince words about our offer we need room for our Spring stock , which is on the way in fact several cases are here now. We're unable to make room , unless we dispose of the bulk of our heavy weight stock ! There's only one way to do this quickly ; and that is i We've decided to give our stock of Winter Woolens away ! without profit that is we'll make them up , with our usual good care ± _ -at the actual cost of materials and. workmanship $ How can we do it- ? Another reason- $ m It's a novel way we have of Well tailors , until keep onr busy new friends ; besides , we clean itp all I he trade ! We cant 4 spring opens vp odd lengths that accitmitlitc during a bnsy season's trade afford io let them go rcc'need / / pays 11 s to do it them very soon ! you II save it ! Hardly any need quoting prices. It's necessary to see the goods to appreciate them. You've paid twice this amount lor garments of equal quality ! Suiting ! Trousering ! Is it necessary to urge you to $18.60 $4.60 be prompt in placing your ' $22.65 order ? The best styles always $5.95 $ i & ; k $26.90 go first "The earl } ' bird , " etc. $6.90 J / i < pj o SJbt T .We mail samples. 2O7 S. 18th. 5rr No its- goods charged - to anyone. Between Farnam and Douglas. * * * < " " * e * " ' $ ! ' $ > i § * > lH' 'ii ; i f iHltii i H t H I'l&I'i and get the fldjjets.out of thorn. I'll got a man for the place next time. I've had enough of women.'I ! 'I don't want to give np the school , " "What are you talking about then ? " pays he. . 'I want to know if anything has ever happened here in iMar.shbrook , " says I. "I don't want to' giro up the school if anything has happened. " flo final'y ' told'mo ho\v a little girl had boon murdered , some fifty or sixty years ago , on her way to school , on the brook road. They found her laying dead beside a clump of swamp pinks , with a great bruise on the back of her neck , as if she'd been hit by a stone , and her doll and her primer were laying in the road , where sho'd dropped them when she run from whoever killed her. They never found him. "Was her name Mary Williams ? ' ' Bays I. "How did you know it ? " says the doc tor. tor."Sho told me"saysi. The old doctor turned as white as a sheet. "Yon ain't hystoricky , " says he. When ho found out that I wasn't scared , and didn't want to give up the school , ho wanted to know what I'd seen , and asked a go l many questions. I told him as short as I could and then I went home. The next morning before school I got some linen rags from Mrs. Simonds , and a picco of bright blnothibot , and I made a real pretty rag baby. I'd never made ono before , but 1 couldn't bco why I didn't ' make it as well as anybody. I ravelled out a littio of an .old black stocking I hud for its hair , and I col ored its cheeks and mouth with cran berry juice , and raado its eyes with blue ink. I found , too , an old primer , that Mrs. Simonds said ho"r mother had studied , for I thought that might have been like the one the child was carrying to school when she was killed. That night I stayed nftor school again , and waited until I saw the little white arm raided out of the dusk. She did not wait for mo to speak that time. She piped up quick , "please , teacher , llnd my doll for mo , nnd hear mo'say my lessen in the primer. " "Put your arm down and bo quiet , " says I , "and I will hear your lesson. " I put the rag doll in my pocket , nnd took the old primer I had found , and went to her. her."Find the pluco , and go on with your' lesson , " says I , and I gave her the book. She turned over the leaves , ns if she were quito aj1.- customod to it. and I saw at oneo that I had the right book. It was a queer lit tie primer , that had been written by an old minister in Marshbrook , nnd used in the schools there for some time. She found the plnco soon and began to road , piping ip quito loud. You cuAild have hoard her out of doors ; the windows were open. Thi ' piece was called , "The Character 6fn , Good Child. " She read it very wull , , I only had her spell out a few of the \yoL'il . "You Imvo got your lesson very well , " bays I. rhon I < took the doll out of my pocket , and guv * ltto hor. She fairly snatched for it > vrith her little , white , gloaming hands Md they touched mine , and I felt the cbld strike to my heart again. MI\ She hugged tho-doll tight and kissed it with her still , parted lips. Then she hold it oft' and looked at It. "Please , teachor.'find my doll for mo , " says she with agrMit } wail , and I saw she know it wasn't htsr 6wn old doll. "Hush , " says' " ! , "I can't find a doll that has been lost llfty years. This doll is just exactly as good. Now , you'd hotter take it and run homo.1 lint she just gave that pitiful cry again "plcaso , teacher , llnd my doll for mo. " "You uro not behaving pretty nt all , " pays I. "That doll is jiibt us good. " Then , 1 don't know what possessed mete to say it , but I says , "sho hasn't got any mother , olthor. " She just hugi/cd the doll tight , and kissed it again then , nnd didn't Buy another word against it. "Now , you'd bettor run homo , " says I. She rooo up and curtsied , and I was all ready to" spring. I followed hor. I didn't knaw as I could keep her in sight , but I did , and she went into the old graveyard. I saw a plcam of white in there a minute ; then it was gone. That evening I went to Dr. Emmons and told him what had happened. "Now , " says 1 , "I want to know where that child was buried. " "She was buried in the old Williams tomb'says he. Then I'nskcd him to take a lantern , and go to the graveyard with mo , and look in that tomb. I didn't know as I could make him for quite a while. Ho said the Williams family had all died out , and gone away. There wasn't ono of them left in town. lie didn't exactly know who had the key of the tomb , and ho kept looking at mo real sharp. I suppose ho was afraid I was getting hystoricky. I guess ho got pretty sure at last that I wasn't , for I taught that Marshbrook Number Ono school fcoven years nftor that , though any young thing could have done it , and stayed after school every night in the spring terms , for that little girl never came to scare anybody again. Ho kept looking at mo that night , and then ho felt my pulse and counted it by his watch. "You don't want to give the school up , " says ho. ' No , I don't , " says I. Ho went out after n while , and pres ently ho came back with a lighted lantern and a key. I don't know whore ho got it. Then wo wont down the road to the graveyard. It was a dark n'ght ' and it was 'misting a littio. Ho went alonsrin front with the lantern and I followed on behind. Ho didn't speak a , word the whole way. I guess ho felt kind of grouty at having to como out. I didn't care if he was. I was bound to find out. When wo came to the old graveyard ho opened the gate nnd wo went in. His lantern lit up all the old headstones and trees , and scraggy bushes , as wo went across to the Williams tomb. It wasn't very far from the gate. A lot of little bushes were growing out of the humped-up roof and I read Williams in the stonework ever the iron door. The doctor fitted she key in the lock while 1 hold the lantern. I felt the way I used to when I was a child , when I waked up in the dark , in the night , but I hold the luntorn as steady as if my hand had been nn iron hook. It was hard to turn the key in the rusty padlock nnd the doctor worked quito a long time , but finally it snapped back , and ho pulled off the padlock and slipped the hasp. But oven then ho could not open the door until ho had cleared away some stones and turned up sorab littio plant ? that had grown ever the threshold by the rcols. After ho had done that , ho opened the door , and n puff of that same strange odor which I had noticed about the child , came in my faco. Ho took the lantern nnd stepped down into the tomb , and I after him. All of a sudden , ho stopped short , and caught hold of my arm There , on the floor of the tomb , in the lantern light , right before us , lay the doll , aul the primer. A scheme Is broached in Germany of cm ploy i HI : electricity to inovo heavy trucks ami ilrnys. This is merely a development of ths electric carringo idea , wlilch l ua been suc cessful In that country for several years. A small storage batlor.v is placed in an ordi nary phaeton. T-cart , or brougham , the power Is carried tu the wheels , and the regulated by the driver. Such n e.u'Hago has been seen a good deal about New York for the last few mouths. The scheme is en tirely feasible and practicable , anil uxpcrl- mulits Imvo been muuo toward adapting the system to heavy trucks. The government Is Interested lu tlio experiment , aud health boards nro enthusiastic ever the subject , their claim being that If electricity can bo substituted for lioress the cleanliness and health of great cities will be Incalculably Improved. Horses will always bo uaod In timing for pleasure , but tlio conoral schomn of employing electricity for trucks and drays , provided tno spcoci Is limited , opens up a wonderful Held , The coal tlpplo ot the HaeKott Coal and Cnlto company , althoir mine on the Wheel ing division of the Baltimore & Ohio rail road , burned ono day last wnclc. There luvu been laoor troubles on thin division for some tlmo. but the minors arc still working. The trouble is attributed to striking miners , or their frlenUft. by some of the ofUclttls of the company. Miners' Secretary McBrlUo deplores - ploros tlio burning , and says ho does not think tbo miners vrould bo guilty of such nn outrugo. Tbq loss was ) ,600. Cure Indigestion ana Dinousnesj with DoWKt's Little Early Risers. TIII : rii'J ro/ : > . / . D. Umlethlll. tn llan > 'i' Inn Rreat war for consecrated ground Ono who 1cd 1 t'h-ltt nnd ono who nerved Ma- hmiml Cncountuicd nindly , HO tlitit Christian knight And /uulous Moslem foil In that llerco H lit. Then , Mnco so wildly tliuy had waited the strife , Tholr anger scarce could pass with passing life. O'er tholr palo corpses hung their souls , yet wroth , Till a stions nngol bent and raised them both. \Vliutl" fclirlel.rd ilio pagan. "Wouldst tliou bear my foe ? " "In nngol's arms slmll a cursed heathen go ? " Cried the proud knight. Thu radiant angel bent Ills statolv head to hush tliclr discontent. "Know , yo Dew lldcrod souls , " ho softly said , "All these who bravely battled , being dead , 1'raUo God alllto In ono angelic host. Who to servo truth have counted llfo well lost. Tor men , midst whirling clouds of smoke and llanio , Ood's shndow dimly oo , and giro It name ; Some on Jehovah call , on Allah > ome. And same tight bravely , though their lips bo dumb. Leant , faithful splilLs , wlicn the strife waxed hot , 1'or the < -omo God yo fought , yet know It not ; Anduowtho pauus of death nro overpast , Thuhamo wide heacn shall hold jo both at labt. " UUZCTltlCATj XOTKS. George Bartlett Prescott , who died re cently , was one of the pioneers in electrical science. Ho was a partner with Edison in the ownership of all the patents In the quadruples system in this country and Eng land. Chlcaeo Is already in the field with a new telephone company which is to contest the Held with the Bell company as soon as the telephone patents expire , at the end of this month. The company has a capital of $1,000,000 , , and will lose no tlmo in pushing its business. The introduction of an ordinance into the Philadelphia councils granting the privilege of laying conduits in tbo streets to the Drawbaugh Telephone company , under con ditions that it will insure a great reduction In tlio cost of telephone service , besides guaranteeing a reasonable return to the city for the franchise , opens the way for com petitive telephone service. The recent description of Herr Kolb's method of malcing tbo lines of electric forces visible has brought out another , and in some respects similar method by Prof. Weller of Essllngcn. In Kolb's experiment , a quantity of pure anhydrous oil of turpentine was poured into a Hat tray or vessel , and some sulphate of quinine stirred in with & rr i rod. The discharge from an electric "Influ ence" or "static" machine was then sent through it by means of wires terminating in brass balls dipping Into the turpentine. This developed white crystals of quinine , which arranged themselves In beautiful curving lines between the balls. Prof. Wol- lor uses two electrodes , or metal surfaces connected in an electric circuit , and a inllkv mixture of triturated sulphate of quinine in oil of turpentine. Shortly after the elcctrio discharge Is pf ssoJ through It a clear sp.ice Is seen at tbo positive olcctrocio and parti cles of quinine cluster around the negative olcotrode In strcaranrs directed along the lines of electric force , Either of thuso ex periments can be easily carried out by the electrical student. Ono of tbo most wonderful of modern dis coveries In the region of electrotherapy is the system of "cuprlo electrolysis" brought out by Gautlorof Paris , by whli'li a metallic deposit can Do made on any part of the body , internal or external. The process will bo understood by recalling tbo fact that an Iron needle connected with tbo "posltlvo" polo , plunged Into human tissue , U quickly attacked by tbo oxygen ami cblorlnu set free ut this pole , Is converted into oxychlo- rldo of iron , a double salt , and Is soon com pletely dcstroj ed. The same Is true of any metal atta'ckcd by oxygen or chlorine. A copper needle or bull ) or other conveniently shaped electrode penetrating tissue or laid against mucus.membraiio , especially within tlio cavities of tbo body , is converted into oxychlorldo of copper , zino Into ox.vchlorldc of zinc , and so on. This method luTs only recently been introduced into ibis country , but Us benefits promise to bo fur-reachln ? when it is brought into general practice. In gynecological work H secures results at tainable by no other moans , as the introduc tion of the posltlvn copper sound affords not only the intrinsic advantages of tno current , but also the further bonollclal action of an anllseptlo salt whoso permeation Into tbo tissues contributes to their strength and nu trition. In other words , tbo motalllo de posit U m-st made , and then , by what Is termed "c-nlaphorusls , " driven Into tbo tis sues. It Is highly probabln that this will bo the treatment of the futuru In catarrh cases , A copper bulb through which an electric current Is passing Is swept ever the nasal , throat nnd mucus membranes , and de posits and drives In tbo copper sals. This method Is both rtpul and painless , aud its affects are described as maclcal. Tlio mayor of Cincinnati has been author- bed to cxpena { 100,000 for the bcnclit of the unemployed. THE COMPLEXION AND BEAUTY , MME. M. YALE'S Excolslor Complexion Romodlos Awarded the Highest Medals nnd Di plomas from the World's Pair Co lumbian Exposition. Mmc. "Vale , the World-Fanivd Complexion SpeulallBt , la the moat beautiful woman living- , Hur beauty lias been ciiltlvatutlnnd lieryoulli pri- BeriiHl bythousoof tlieso remedies. At 41 nly does not ioolt more than 18. PRICE LIST And Mmc. Yalo'n Aclvlco FOR M3TH PATCHES , SALLOWNESS , Tlilck , cleiul Hkln or liny other ( Utiuoloratlon I reo oinmcnd my Complexion Illcach , nn I Kunraiitcu It will removu all Hliln blomlHhns anil give a perfect , natural complexion rqual In purlly and beauty tu achllcl'H. I'rlco , * U.OO per botllo ; 3 for$0. It la mlvls iblc to UHQ threu bottles If the cnse U of lou < standing , although ono bottle In BUlllclent In m&uy caaus. WniMXLES AND SKIN FOOD. Excelsior Skin Peed will renuno any cane of wrinkles nnd every tiaco of ut'o. It hau ueou tCHtcd by thu cro.UL'Ht c-licmlcal experts aud pro- nomiecil marvelous It nnU'-s flabby lleuli firm imd tin ) old , withered Htclu frtHiiI'listlcundyouth ful , nmikon ul a > ks roimd and plump. Two ulzeui prlco , * 1.5 ( ) anil * .i 00 par Jar. FF1ECKUS AND LA FRECXLA- Itmatternnot If freckles have bnou from youth to old aijo La Fiookla \ \ 111 remove them lu ovury cani ) . In elBhtoon months ever u quarter of it million men , women nnd children havu bci'ii curmi of frocklca and their skin miUu beautiful , 11 la hnrmluhs and wonderful , I'rlaSI DO pur bottlo. THE HAIR AND EXCELSIO I HAIR TOHIQ. Gray hair Is now turned back to Its original color without dye for the IlrHt tlmo lu tlio hlatory ot tlio u oriel. Mmo. Valu'h KxeolnlOr Hair Toulo IB con sidered the moot advanced triumph In chemistry. U restored thn natural color to i'r.iy hair. contalnH uodyu , and Ntops luilr falllni ; In from'Jt houra tu QUO week. Can ho inllrd on to create mi iiutonlBh- Inc growth. For b lid heads U It innrvoloim , I'rlco , * 1 per bottle ; U for * 5. OUIDZ TO DHA'JTY. Mine. Yala will nentl hrr ' 'Guide to Deauty. " n vnhnblu book , fnu > . to laJlot H-Midliu U cents In poHtaife htainpx to im for mailing u'lino. Ulvrn extracts from Mum , YatiiH fanoua lectures on beauty , and general udleu on buauty culture the moat advanced branch of education -which glvim every woman an I'qiril clruice to beconio beautiful and remain jouu ; nlu-.UH bend all mall ordorH to Mine. Yala at her henJ- quartern , Temple of Beaut ) , 140 Htalo Ht. , Chi- cniro , 111. MAIL OHDKKS-T.arllPH , jou may order your coodH by mnll or iri't III > m from your ilru slst. It lie iloof , not kcM'D tliHin HUIII ! Mmu. Y.ilo hla lia'no. Ho ninat bu behind thu tlmcH. Mine. M. YA.LEX Jlontity Co/iip/o.t/o/i H ; > oo/uJfHf 501 Karbach Block. 15th and Douglas Straits , Omaha , He1) ) , Millli Oilier , 140 Mutn St. . Ulilcago , III , I ( /Venn U , S. Journal o/Hc die lite. ) rrofW.H.l'eekewhoinakciiaifclaltyofKplle | | > sjr , tina Ithout doubt treated and cured moru cases than agyllvlngrii ) > lclanlilacnccet3l9a9tonlthln ; ; > . Wo InvcliearilufcaieanfMjears'BtJindlnKcnrcdbrbiin. Ho publlihraa Ynluahla wnrk nn this disease which ho tendjIth a largo bottle of Ills absolute cure , free to Any luffcrer \ \ ho may tcuil tlirlr I'.O. anil KzprcBi id * dre . Wo ad'.lio anyoro wMiIng a cure to address , I'rof. W. II. I'KEKK , i.D. . , 4 Cedar SI , New Yotlf ,