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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1896)
i it) I 'h ii I! : I ' .Ii & N li i THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER 'I' ! XV. XV. SANDK118, Publisher. NEMAHA, NEBRASKA. THE BOW IN THE CLOUD. AH lny Ioiir tlio clotula linel lowrrnl, And tho rnln liml Hwejit tlio earth, Till It lay nil fair and lovely Ah when God Jlrnt nave It birth; And tin; minuet Hplendor falling, Bet a rainbow In tho nky; And I learned llfo'H luirilcHt Icbhoh Ah tho clotidH were drifting by. For tho radiant minuet i;lory, FnllltiK on my raptured ejvs, Ah tho cloudH wero lifted, thrilled mo Willi a raro and HWeot HtirprlHo. Hut If life wero all fair wcathor, Ab tlio (It'utliiK dayii o by, Wo Hhoiilil never know tho bounty Of tho rainbow In the Hky. Ah tho hum PceniH nil tho brighter Kor the troubloiin cloudH that rise, Ho our team but clear our vIhIoii Kor tho rnlnbow'H glad HtirprlHo. .And our hearts arc all tho purer Kor the Kitlhcr'n chaHtcnlnff hand, Whllo our faith grown clearer, tiUHtliiK Whoro wo cnnnot undcrBtund. Bo If heartH wero free from norrow, ICyeH wero never tilled with tearn, Wo uhould never know tho rapturo When tho ComfortcrappearH When wo ret upon Ills boHom, Aa tlio pasHhiK inomeutH roll, And tho Kftther'H Htnllo ciircHHlittf, HetH n rainbow In tho soul. Edith Virginia. Hrndt, In N. Y. Oborvor. A CONCILIATION. 1IV MAKV CI.AItKi: HUNTINGTON. Tin: tfrnss in tho front yard had bci'ii newly liiowii, lunding tm tuldeil trim jickh to the well-kept place. TullpK in the borders tin either Bide the long gravel walk made riotous rmtehiB o color tinder the monning mm. Snggen 1ion of lilies of tlio valley drifted from the south garden wall. Above the open front door tall lilac bttahes touched toiyt, and the heavy odor of their blos KcniB Hpilled itself upon the hush that Kcemed to hang over everything. In' tho instant during which he glanced about the familiar surround ings this hush smote keenly tipou the senses Jt the man descending from tho rickety fctnge, but lie turned with an unchanged face to assist Ids companion in alighting. She was a tall, well-built woman of H5, whose eyes and mouth betrayed habitual dissatisfaction, and whoso vivid oloring was set oil" to ad vantage byher fashionable black. She hept step with him as they went up the walk. "I feel quite tumbled to pieces from driving three miles in tliatdemorali.ing ftage. It is ridiculous that the people here in Jlloomingdon do not insist upon n better conveyance from the station to tlio Center. It is positively a penance to have to come here." She spoke petulantly, glancing at her husband as though ho were to blame foe the occasion that had brought them. Jlo did not seem to hear, and from a ii Irritated desire to gain his at tention, she went on: "J)o tell me, .Gerard', if I am all in a muss." "Von can go at once to your room nml attend to your toilet," was his brusque reply. Then he went eagerly up the steps to meet an elderly woman who appeared in thedooryvuy. "Aunt Ann!" Ife stopped to kiss her, Ktill keeping her hand. His wife held out the tips of immaculately-gloved lingers, and, only waiting for allirmative answer to question as to their room being ready, swept her soft draperies upstairs. Miss Ann lioynton led tho way Into the sitting-room, nml sank upon the long haircloth-covered sofa. Ocrard took a largo chair oppo site. ' " began to fear you wero not com ing," she said, tremulously. "Only illness would have kept me from coining. Your telegram reached me duly, but. Marguerite thought it nec essary to order new black, and that de layed me." There was a ring of impa tience in Ids voice as he said this. "Js there not something I can do? Are all preparations made'" "All." "At what hour is it to be'" "At three this afternoon." "I ordered some ilowers sent on." "They have come, and are arranged. "Will you see them'" lie mudo an almost woninntsli gesture of dissent. Tlio sweetness of lilac bloom tilled the silence that fell between them. (lerard remembered many springs ago of pick ing every blossom, and cutting the bushes, which were slender then, n.s -whips for himself and Uonrw Desnitn his two years' juniority lie was ever the one who rushed llrst into forbidden things. Ho remembered also tho pun ishment that followed as it usimllv did follow his many heedless acts of mischief and of how, while ho was Btiil Binarting from acquaintance with the lilnc whips which ho had unwittingly out. for his own undoimr. his father hail nought him again, and holding his hot, wet, angry face against a broad shoul der whispered how sorry ho was to have to punish his little boy whis pered also of a circus in town the next day, and that ho and Henry might go. Then ho remembered walking down through theorchard with small clinging fingers clasped in largo tender ones, and tiars dried by happy certainty that nfter all his lather wus the best father jin tho world, , , The blur passed from his eyes, and he found himself looking at a picture hung above the sofa in an oval frame. It had been taken during early man hood, but Ocrard could trace strong re semblance to the face last turned to him in fatherly welcome. Beside it was the picture of a pretty young woman with flowing curls his mother. She had died while he was very young, leaving him only a dream-like recol lection of kisses and sootiiings, and touch of loose hair against ids check. Aunt Ann was the only mother lie had known. She, seeing now where ills gaze turned, took a small leather case from the old-fashioned stand beside her. "Tills is tiie best picture your father ever had taken. He was -10 just your age. Tho sands of his life ran a long time. lie would have been 88 in June." Gerard took the case. The grave eyes seemed looking back into his own with Jnmiliar kindliness. "Tell me about it. Was he ill? Did he sulfer much?" "Had lie been ill I should have writ ten so. My letters told you of his grad ual weakening of body and mind through many months. Ho missed you and Henry greatly as ho failed. "lie would sit hours at a timeby his window here and look down the road. I think he was watching for one or both of you to come. And then, toward the Iaft, he sat oftenest on tho back porch, with a lingering expression in his eyes. He seemed to be taking a farewell of the hills he had always known and so soon must le.'ive. Ho did not speak often of you or Henry. Y'ou know he was a reticent man. The morning of the day ho died lie asked when you were coming home, and then ho said: 'If I could only know them reconciled my two boys.' An hour or ko later I came in, and he was sitting where you sit now, with the album on his knee. I spoke, but he did not answer." Tears were fall ing fast over Miss Ann's withered checks. "He had died looking at the picture of you and Henry, taken togeth er as children." A blur passed again before Gerard's eyes. He could not sec tlio tintype in Ills fingers. "Do you think that Henry will hi here in time'."' "He has been here through it all. lie came the day his fatherdied." Tlio pronoun "his" touched Oernrd. It seemed to put him at an immeasura ble distance from the still form which, without asking, lie knew lay in the closed parlor. As mischievous little boy, as wild young lad, he had received tho larger measure of tenderness, per haps because followed by the larger measure of anxiety, but in the ten years of estrangement between the brothers Judge lioynton had turned most to the elder son. This had not been unnoticed by Gerard, though his rare visits homo kept him from feeling the difference. New interests had crowded out the old Excitement of hours spent on 'cluing had put the even tenor of liloomingdou days far in the background. Until this moment lie had not realized with what strong bonds home associations still held him. The life of which he had grown to think as narrow and primitive and Blow now seemed to have held tli' essence of true existence. The rich broker, noted among business men for his keenness and sagacity, having tin influence that extended widely beyond his palatial home and that had brought him many responsible positions, sud denly felt himself pitifully alone. He thought of the woman upstairs with the beautiful face and the haughtily-poised head, but the thought brought no sense of nearness to any human being. Then he met his aunt's eyes still wet and shining with almost maternal tender ness. Ho was not alone, after all. II got up and went over to her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "I will go in and se4 him now." Shut into the darkened parlor be fore him only that colli n covered with the costly ilowers which he himself had chosen, Gerard lioynton stood still, lie felt something keeping him back something that stood between him and the dead man, nnd that would not let him look upon tho quiet face. And he knew what it was. The estrangement Hint had grown between two brothers fronted him iov like a visible thing. It was taunting hi.m with its power to hold him away it was reminding him that his was the blame. Ho remembered well how it began. He had come for a summer vacation, and found at the old home a girl whom Henry had brought as his fiancee a girl delicate and shy, with the sweetest smile in the world. And because of the smile, because Miss Ann petted her. and his father talked of her, and Henry followed her with looks of devotion, he had slipped into a way of trying to pleiuso her more than anyone else could please - succeeding so well that, one day Henry paused in the library door with gray eyes blazing black in color less face, and quivering lips hurling sucli words as "traitor" and "scoun drel" at the brother who stood thin holding a frightened girl in his arms and giving back defiance for indigna tion. There were, tears from Miss Ann and reproaches from the judge; Henry shut the bitterness of a heart made void into Ids own room for days; the girl with the smile went back to her people, and Gerard went also. lint while with Henry it had been the love of a life time, with Gerard it was only a phase. His passion dulled with distance; his letters grew less frequent, nnd stopped altogether after one even ing at a club reception when a pair of magnificent black eyes looked into his own. He married the eyes and a for tune with them. The fortune Invested had been many times doubled, had brought him the reputation of being a speculator who always came out gilded, but the eyes had brought him only a splendid creature, who threw over her fan at some ballroom gallant such smiles as she never bestowed upon her husband after the novelty of married life hnd worn 'iff, nnd left his great house to the devices of servants for months at a time while she flung her self into the gayety of watering plnc.3 and mountain resort, or visited some foreign city of note. What disappoint ment (lerard lioynton might have felt concerning his marriage he accepted with consciousness of a girl's sinil-j chilled unto death and a brother's tiny embittered because of his faithlessness. It was knowledge of being in the wrong that mnde Henry's intense, pained words so rankle in his mind. Ho had never forgiven that last interview where such bald truths compelled his ear. He had gone out from his brother' j presence with a set and sullen face, and had never spoken to him again. Iftiu two chanced to meet on home visits they avoided each other, and neither Mi.su Ann nor the judge deemed it best to no tice their averted eyes. Under stres.j of such emotion as these sad hour aroused, Miss Ann, for the first time, had spoken to Gerard of the long es trangement. She had touched ' upon this subject often with Henry, but lie always answered that he could not be reconciled to one who did not wish rec onciliation. Gerard knew tliat the attitude of tlio one injured had been his. After that last interview there was no reproach in his brother's manner, simply a waiting for such confession as was his duo t-j receive. Gerard's stubborn pride had refused this confession but lie was making it to himself now with a bitter sense that wrong-doing brought the heaviest penalty on the wrong-doer. Surely Henry's life could not be morj empty of something to be desired than was his own. A door closed so sortly that he did not connect tlio sound with entrance. He heard the piteous whine of a dog in the hall outside, and knew that Shop was mourning the stilled hand and voic of his master. He turned to quiet the animal, as though sound could dis turb the sleeper's eternal calm, and saw his brother standing inside tlio room with hands full of lilies of the valley. It hnd been some time since they had met. With a kind of shock Gornid noted the slight stoop of shoulders, the eyes spectacled from close study, the hair beginning to turn gray. Hut Henry noticed the other's air of in creased prosporitv rather than the few wrinkles upon the handsome face. Shop whined again, more insistently. Henry spoke through the closed door. His voice partook of the hush in tho dim room, but both heard the patter of soft dog feet turning obediently away. The elder man went around to the further side of the cofiln and placed the lilies upon the white satin pillow. To Gerard came vivid remembrances of sonic boys searching for these same blossoms along tlio sunny slopes of a garden wall, and shouting over each fragrant token of spring as only chil dren with the season's fresliiiess'thrill lug every pulse can shout. Tho foul ing of old comradeship swelled up in his heart, breaking down the last bar rier which was keeping him nfar front that still presence, lie went quickly forward, and bent over the colIln fc face in which every best emotion strug gled for the mastery. Henry did not lift his face from that fine old countenance, touched with the immeasurable dignity of death, yoi holding such semblance of life that it, seemed those eloFed lashes must lilt and the sealed llpsspeak. A lock of tlio thin white hair hail fallen over the forehead, and Gerard put it reverently into place. The motion stirred Henry to perception of a difference in the iniin standing opposite. He looked up and their eyes met in a way that brought their hands together. Again Shop whined at the door. A woman's voice spoke sharply to him from tlielandlng. Mrs. Gerard way coming downstairs, and she disliked dogs. Shop's feet pattered slowly rwny to the sitting-room where Mrs. Ann still sat with the judge's picture on her lap. In the darkened parlor, amid tlio hush and perfume of rare blossoms, the brothers bowed with clasped hands over the open coflin, and the aged face within seemed rap turous in its divine content. Spring field Republican. City I)oj-n and CVuntry Dork. There is a marked diiTcrence between city and country dogs. A city dog turned loose in a pasture lot mopes along, paying no attention to the birds and other aninials around it, but a country dog turned free in a city street, after tho temporary embarrassment which countrified folks always feel, ob serves the sparrows tc be unusually tame and numerous. Then comes a round of sport that makes the country dog feel itself very much at home. The country dog delights in chasing small birds and the city dog doesn't, but after a few hours' racing the dog'a feet would be as sore ns any clodhop per's that walked tho .stones for itn length of time, cspeelaHy on a hot day K. Y. Suu. . SUMMEN GOWNS. Dnlnty DrenneH far tho lloiituil Boa- HOII, Exceedingly pretty tills year are tho organdies and muslins, and for girls particularly there is a wide choice. For a graduating gown an extremely pretty design is made up of lace-striped organdie and plain India mull. The outer skirt is mounted over a thin lawn underskirt. The edge of the front breadth is trimmed with three rows of Valenciennes insertion and a rufllc of Valenciennes lace in all about three Inches wide. At the foot of the skirt is a five-inch ruflle of organdie headed with a tiny heading. The underskirt of lawn has a lace-edged rufllc tlio same depth as the one. on the skirt. Tho back of t lie skirt is gathered into about 3 inches. The back of the waistis simply gathered under the belt, the ribbon of which is sewed into the underarm seam about half way down, from there i. crossed to the back and rVawu round in front, here it is fastened into a loosely-tied bow. The waist in front is made of plain mull, as is also the lower pull of the sleeve. The waist is set on a gath ered yoke of the same, with bands of narrow Valenciennes lace. It hangs over in a pretty, loose fashion, but so that the lines of the figure are not hid den. Narrow edgings of Valenciennes lace and white satin ribbon bows are the trimmings. Anot Iter graduating dress which is much simpler is also of white organdie trimmed with Valenciennes lace. The body is made with a round yoke and a full rutlle trimmed with three rows of Valenciennes lace. The sleeves have bands of the lace and the skirt is edged with a riillln trimmed with Valen ciennes. It is made with a white lawn skirt, but can be worn equally well over any other color. A white dotted Swiss which is ex ceedingly dressy is made up over white talTcta. The seams are all marked with insertion of Valenciennes lac", which shows the sheen of the silk through very prettily. The waist is shirred on the shoulders and hangs in blouse, fashion over the belt, while the sides and back fit more snugly. A V-shnped piece of Valenciennts inser tion is let in at the throat under a high stock collar of ribbon, while the sleeves are finished with rallies of Valenciennes. Harper's Dazar. THEY WERE CALLED DOWN. A Tarty of KtudciitH Tackled u Clown and Took :i J I IkIi Full. An interesting episode occurred the other day at New Brunswick, X. J when 100 or more Itutgcrs college students nttemptcd to run a circus ac cording to their own ideas. They guyed the clown and he remonstrated, where upon they guyed him all the more. The rest of the audience wished to sec the performance and hissed the students, but the latter persevered in their efforts to stop the show. Finally the patience of every one wa exhausted. "You look like gentlemen," commented the clown. "Bravo," yelled the 100 students. "Hut do you intend to annoy these 2,000 women and children (wild cheering) who have paid to see this show? (Cheers.) Have you no rcpect, have you no mothers or sisters?" (Loud cries of: "No" from the students.) The clown stopped i:i despair. Suddenly he brightened up and yelled: "You needn't think you can run thissliow, even if you do wear (U)-cent pants." Then the au dience yelled and cheered, and the clown encouraged by the support, continued: "But don't be impatient, papa will send your board money next week." The. students were quiet, but the. rest of the audience shouted: "Hravo." Then the clown told a story. "I was standing at the station hist night," he said, "when a young man was struck by a locomotive. His arm was knocked ofl his leg twisted out of shape, his ribs knocked in, his head cut open and his brains scattered along the track. The doctor came, pasted the man's arm on, straightened his leg. mended his ribs nnd closed the gap in his head. The young man started off. Then the doe tor discovered that he hadn't put the man's brains in his head. He yelled for him to come back, but the .voting man's friends said it wasn't necessary to bother about the brains, because he was Roing to college at New Brunswick." Everybody in the crowd chooiod except ing the students. They were as meek as lambs, and during the remainder of the evening made themselves conspicuous by their quietness. Without an execu tion, it was the greatest "call down" the students have ever had, and it is the talk of the town to-dny. Troy Times. Iluuvy IlutH Injurious Heavy hats are condemned by the doctors as a serious means of produc ing headaches, wrinkled foreheads and gray hair; but tho season's millinerv apparently ignores any of these good reasons for the regulation of size and weight in headgear, and hats are larger and more heavily trimmed than ever, "l'ictiire-hat headache" is a fashionable, complaint just at present. The use of belladonna to beautify the eyes is said to be a growing evil among women whose vanity oversteps the bounds of good sense, but If they persist in its me blindness is pretty sure to be the re sult. Bicycle dress lias brought about a reformation for some women in skirts for rainy days. They are worn short enough to clear the ground by four or five inches. For women who cannot hold up their skirts neatly and at the. same time effectually this fashion is a blessing. Chicago Tribune, THE "WHITE TERROR." Dreaded IttMtdnn Secret Police Tlio Story of Itft Orguitlzntloii. ' The third section, whose chief is spoken of in n whisper as the White Terror, is made up of tho dreaded secret police. Tlio organization of tills forco is a well-guarded mystery and therein lies it vast power. It is under tlio immediate control of tho minister of tho interior and its one particular business is to ferret out enemies of the czar and of tho imperial government. Much has been written about tlio third section, but no complete story of Its organizntion has ever been told. Even tho cleverest and most-rolicd-on detectives in its employ do not know tho roal facts of the matter. Ameri cans who have- lived in tho principal Kussian cities and who have written, about it have only been able to obta'n, the barest skeleton of its formation, but that is as much ns any one knows. Secrecy and mystery from its founda tion. How many men compose the forco is unknown. They may number 5,000 and possibly CO.O0O. Tile section includes men placed in every walk of life, from tlio humblest to the most powerful, tlie artisan and tlio diplomat, the high army ofllcer and tho common soldier, the lnborer nnd the society man, tho merchant and the thief. In every big city the world over nro men of tho third section. They are in New York. Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and all largo towns of this country. They swarm in London, Paris, Berlin,. Vienna, Constantinople nnd the great capitals of Europe. The cities of Asia aro full of them. Those in the Roman cities have no' regular hours for reporting for duty, as in the case with members of tho de tective forco in tho ordinary city. They are on duty all the time. Few of tho agents know ono another. This is regarded as a great advantage. An agent would bo in the company of nine other agents and not ono in tho group of ten would know that ho was in tlio presence of fellow-ofilcers. Their superiors confer with them in. secret and they never meet at ono place. It is an every-day occurrence for an agent to turn in a report accus ing another agent of suspicious con duct. The latter is simply following up some case and tho other, not know ing him to bo a secret ofliccr, makes, his report. So elaborate, complete and. extensive is this organized spy system that little goes on that does not reach the cars of some official. Washington Post. Pure Blood is essential to health. Now is tho tiino to purify and enrich tho blood, and. thus give vigor and vitality, by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla The Ono True Wood Purl Her. All druppfsts. fl. Hood'8 Pills euro all Liver Ills. 25 cents. "S. H. &M. or Nothing That's the stand to take with your dealer on the "W W-,v- BIAS VELVETEEN SKIRT BINDING question. If he will not supply you we will. " Homo Dressmaking Mado Easy. ' a new book by Miss Emma M. Hooper, of the Ladles' Home Journal, sent for 25c . postage paid. S. H. & M. Co. , P. O. Uox 699, N. Y. City. You can reach practically all the gveaf resopfs of America, by the through cap lines of "America's Greatest Railroad" The New York Central. Of course it's imitated anything good always is that's endorsement, not a pleasant kind, but still en dorsement. HIRES Root beer is imitated. lt.i onl.r b.r The Charlra R. lllrot Co., rhll.lIpbu. A ',&. iiacl-igti make & ulloni. SoM ever? here. WF DAY3?1 STARK Trees. Outfit. FREC No Money to Invest No Risk. ST1KK BRITS. tottlnlin. flo bockport, ,llu DYSPEPSIA:, YUCATAN KILLS IT. w r r M. - OV J W-K& V J Ay n T I' "-"--jtfrfrffT