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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1896)
1 a V r x ( .THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISES ' XV. W. 8ANDKKS, 1'ublUher. NEMAHA, - NEBRASKA. KATRINKA. Katrlnka, fresh an the morning, Gassed from her casement low: Far off, tlie Ki-ent-salled windmills Stood darkly In a row, And tho sky with the changing splendor Of duwn wus all aglow. "I wonder," thought tho maiden, Thrilled with tho glorious sight, ""If all the beauty around us, And all tho love and delight, JTomca Hooding the earth at cunrlso To bldo with us, day jvul night? "1 wonder If all tho goodness That makes us steady and true Glides softly In with the dawning To gladden ua through and through 'To lift our hearts to tho Giver, And help us lp all wo do? "Yet whether wo loso It or keep It, Depends upon many a thing; "Whether we'ro lazy or busy, Whether we grumble or sing: 'Whether our thoughts are noble, Or whether they grovel and sting. "Oh, the wonderful sky!" sighed Katrlnka, "How grand I Hut tho day has begun. There's breakfast, and spinning, and mend ing, And kettles to shine one by one Good-by, you dear, beautiful morning! There's so much to do; I must run." Urlght little maiden, Katrlnka, Tn the land of the dyke and tho soa! They who live In the glow of the dawning Arc, all tho world over, like thee. Rearers of sunlight and gladness, JKalthful In shadow and sadness Tho path of the day Is diviner Wherever their light may be. Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, In St. Nicholas. SEEN IN THE TUNNEL. AM a music teacher b' profession, and, twice every week, I travel some little distance to give lessons at a larg school. Everyone who has had expe rience of similar oft-repeated journeys knows how wearisome the treadmil' .monotony of tho same route soon be comes, and I myself have a strong sympathy with those professional or business men who contrive by ingen ious ringing the chunges between rni! and 'bus to vary the daily journey from their suburban homes to their of fices or chambers. Hut I had no choice of routes; T could only reach my bi weekly destination via the Great United railway; but I contrived to extract f-'ome slight amusement from one pait of my journey. Atone point, my train passed through an nbc.nrmally long tunnel, which wa usunlly (probably for the convenience of some of the company's workmen) lighted by lanterns on its wall in cer tain places. As the train slowly passed (the Great United seldom puts on a very breakneck speed), shadows of the past sengers by the carriage windows arc often projected upon the whitewashed tunnel wall, and nre visible by the light of thefio lanterns. I made this discovery one day, when a young lady and gentleman had taken their scats in an empty carriage next to mine. As I passed by, I had noted the pair sitting opposite to each other the lady gazing abstractedly out of the window, the gentleman almost ostenta tiously engrossed in a newspaper. P. ut when their tell-tale shadows appeared on the tunnel wall, behold the two ilg ures leant ncross and exchanged an af fectionate embrace; starting apart again as the train emerged into day light, and sinking back, each into their respective corners, with an air of wcll aiTected indifference; little conscious of the amusement their stolen kiss had afforded to the quiet old maid in the next carriage. Ah, well, I am a lonely, middle-aged woman now (I fear many of my pupils call me "an old frump"), but I was young myself once, and many years ago a hand which has long been cold had pressed mine in a like manner, and kisses as loving have been showered on my lips. We were troth-plighted; but he, my young lover, died a month before our bridal day; and I well, "lit died, and she remained faithful," sums up the life history of many an "old maid." I do not, of course, talk about this long-past romance now, but I have still a very soft corner in my heart for all youthful lovers; remembering the days "when I, too, dwelt in Arcadia." So I used to keep a lookout for the chance revelations on the tunnel wall, and often extracted much amusement therefrom, though these silhouettes were not alwuys of a romantic charac ter. Once I beheld a very grave and demure-looking old lady imbibing draughts from what looked suspicious ly like one of those "traveler's bottles ' in which spirits arc sold at railway station; another time I detected a schoolboy (presumably alone in the car liage) heavily "sampling" a basket of ntruwberries, which I had overheard his old aunt, who saw him off, enjoining him to deliver to his mother intact; "for you have eaten more than are really good for you already, you know, Tom," the old lady had re Jiinrkcd, plaintive!)'. I had begun to look upon this tun nel transit as the most amusing portion of my journey. I do not know if any of my fellow passengers observed what I did; but I doubt if they noted the shadows; for few persons save myself c.2i '-cn-cd to peer out upon the tun nel walls. I never called anyone's at tention to the silhouettes, not beiiijr much given to talk with strangers; and the Great United being neither n niueh-frcquented nor popular Hue, I often, indeed usually, was the solitnry occupant of the carriage on the midday trains by which I journeyed. I little thought how important my casual glances into that tunnel would one dny pro e. One dark autumn afternoon I was re turning more tired than usual from my work (I had felt strangely tired for several dnj's), and as 1 passed the ilrst class carriage next my own third glanced at it with the passing wish that I was going to perforin the journey home upon its comfortable cushions. An old gentleman was snugly en sconced in the corner scat with a small black bag on his knees; as I passed, J thought he seemed particularly so licitous about the security of that bag. As I seated myself in the third-class compartment I observed another niun, tall and thin, hurry up to the carriage where the old gentleman was seated and take the vacant place opposite to him; then the train started and J leaned my aching head against the hard back of the carriage and tried to doze a little. I awoke as the train entered the tun nel; I felt too weary to amuse myself with my usual "note-tnking" but as I glanced listlessly on the tunnel wall I observed that a tall shadow was bend ing over that of the old gentleman and npparently arranging something over or around the upper part of his figure. "I suppose they nre father and son, and the son is wrapping up his father in his rug ngainst the draughts," I thought, lazily, for a strange lassitude seemed weighing me down, mentally and physically. Then the train gave a sudden jerk and the tall figure Hung out its left hand against the carriage door as if to steady itself, and I noted that this hand had a curious deformity one linger lacking from it, the third linger having apparently been removed at the second joint. I got out at the next station as usual, and managed to crawl home; but the succeeding days and nights were blanks to me for a week or more. 1 alarmed my elderly cousin, Tabitha, who shares my little home, by going off into a dead faint immediately I entered my house; and it was found that I was sickening with n kind of low fever, which kept me in bed for some time and from which I believe I should never have recovered but forTabbie's careful nursing. I had been working much too hard for some considerable period and had been careless as lonely women are apt to become in the matter of diet and exposure to weather; and at over 50 one cannot "chance" one's meals and sit repeatedly in wet clothing without suf fering for one's folly at last. However. I gradually "pulled round," as the doctor said, and was promoted to the sofa in the sitting-room for a por tion of the dny. Lying there in lux urious idleness, I listened to Tabitha's detailed account of the beginning of my illness. "A fortnight? No; actually over three weeks ago to-day since you were taken ill. It was on Thursday, the ldth. I shall always remember the date, be cause it was the same day that the mur der took place upon the Great United, and by the very train you traveled by, Harriet." Cousin Tabitha is the best and kindest of women, but has one little weakness a morbid love, of reading all the "hor- ?B.ck smfSVL jftSMim. APPEALED TO THE DOCTOR. rors," especially the murders, which nre reported in the newspapers. "I forgot you know nothing about it, being too ill to hear any news," went on Tabitha, delighted to dwell again on the details of a crime; and then pro ceeded to relate how n certain well known London jeweler had taken a quantity of valuable ornaments to ex hibit to an invalid and aristocratic customer, who lived a little way out of London, and who wished to select some costly presents for a prospective daughter-in-law. Mr. 's confiden tial clerk, who usually accompanied him on such journeys, was taken sud denly ill, just as the pair were leaving town, and the jeweler, not liking to disappoint a valuable (and rather crotchety) customer, set off for old Lady 's alone. His errand was, of course, known In the vicinity, and it was supposed that he had been followed to the station and robbed and murdered in the rail way, for, on the train's arrival at the Loudon terminus, the bay of jewelry ( At?: i'jctv..ii 111! . . j.. Z ; -My "ufl Tv! was missing, and Mr. was fouiuM lying dead, with a handkerchief steeped in chloroform fastened over his face. The jeweler was an elderly man with a weak heart, and the chloroform, which was perhaps only designed to stupefy him, had killed him. No clew had yet been found to tho identity of the mur derer. The guard at the local station fancied that he had seen a man follow tho old gentleman into the carriage, but had taken no particular note of this person, nor could even bo positivo that a secoud traveler had entered tho carriage. As Tubitha talked on, the events of that last journey of mine Hashed, back suddenly on my mind. And 1 saw the two shadows in the tunnel the tall figure bending over the old man ah, little did 1 imagine then that 1 wus the spectator of a crime 1 "Tabitha, 1 ought to give information to the police," 1 cried, sitting up sud denly, and then hastily poured out my story in turn. Tabitha listened with rather provoking incredulity. "Do you think you really saw all that?" she asked, gently replacing me on the sofa and shaking up my pillows, "You know, dear, you have been ill so long and you hnve fancied all sorts of funny things you don't know what MUTTERED A CURSE UNDER HIS BREATH. nonsense you have talked," and Tabitha laughed softly at the recollection; "most likely this is only a delirious fancy, like the rest." Hut I was persistent, and appealed to the doctor, who called shortly after wards. I do not think he either alto gether believed my story, but he ac quiesced in my desire to communicate with tho police authorities; "it will quiet her mind, at least, and it is very bad for her to excite herself in this way," 1 overheard him remark to Tab itha in the passage. So I made my "deposition" in all due form to the authorities; and I think the police were more inclined to attach im portance to my statement than my two previous listeners had been. "Could I identify the man I had seen enter the carriage?" I was asked. "Yes," I replied, after a pause, "I be lieve I could. 1 noticed that he was tall and thin, witli very dark eyes and an unpleasant, sinister expression of countenance; and then there was the peculiarity of his left hand," and I mentioned the mutilated linger which 1 had seen shadowed on the tunnel wall. 1 saw by the faces of my interroga tors that they considered this "an im portant piece of evidence," though they made no comment upon it. 1 was told I should be communicated with if my evidence was required, but the months sped nway, and the "robbery and mur der of a gentleman upon the Great United railway" seemed likely to pass into the category of those undetected crimes which remain mi'stei'ies to the end. Nearly a year had flown. Tabitha and I were visiting some old friends at a quiet, west-country seaside place. The murder and the likelihood of my being called as a witness had almost passed out of my recollection, when a chance incident recalled both to my mind. Tabitha and I had been lingering rather too long upon the bench, and found the incoming tide gaining upon us. To save time, we hastily climbed over some rocks to reach the shore, as several other belated visitors were do ing. Just in front of us wns a tall, thin man, who turned round to look (and also to laugh) at our hasty retreat; asl looked at him, 1 fancied that 1 had, somewhere, beheld that forbidding looking countenance, with its keen hawk's eyes the next moment, the man steadied himself with an out spread left hand against n fragment of rock, and 1 then recognized him at once. That gesture, that mutilated finger had 1 not seen them both some ten months ago rellected upon the tun nel wall? No one, of course, is desirous of fig uring as "a witness" at the Old Hailey, but I felt a duty was laid upon me in this case. I watched the man the old jeweler's murderer! enter a small hotel opposite the shore; and then walked round to the local police-station to relate my tnle; leaving Tnbithn (who, on my whispered explanation, entered into the matter with true de tective zeal) sitting on a seat nenr the hotel to wutch if the man quitted tho premises. Hather to my relief (for 1 half fan cied the inspector might consider me ouly a crazy old woman) 1 found that ..4 fibb my "evldeiico" formed but an addi tional link in a chain. The police au thorities had already established a quiet surveillance over this man, ow ing to certain suspicious circumstances which seemed to connect him with tho sale of some of the stolen Jewelry; ho was actually being watched al this sea side place in pursuance of orders from Scotland Yard, and my information now furnished sufficient ground for hia arrest. 1 will not weary the reader with tho details of tho trial personally, 1 never entertained tho slightest doubt of tho guilt of the accused after noting tho expression which came over his face as I related, in tho witness-box, tho singular manner in which his shadow had betrayed him in the tunnel. As 1 spoke, a livid paleness overspread his countenance, lie clutched suddenly at the rails of the dock, and muttered a curse under his breath. Tho evidence against him proved, in deed, fatally complete, and all that his counsel could do for him was to try to persuade the jury that robbery, not murder, was the prisoner's intention; and that the poor old gentleman's death was accidental. The capital sentence was, in fact, afterwards commuted to "penal servitude for life;" for which I was not altogether sorry. 1 would rather not have felt that my evidence actually hanged a fellow-creature, though 1 am very glad that it served to effectually "seclude" a man like tho prisoner from making further attacks on harmless railway travelers. Tit Hits. GOOD DRAFT HORSES. There Jit Alwuyn u IMoro or I.chh Lively Dt'iuuiid fur Them. There is always a demand for good draft horses, and farmers who have the courage and energy to raiso thcmOgct the profit. Scotch farmers have not been discouraged by the ship loads of cheap American horses, but have secured the very best sires to breed the very best heavy draft geldings that sell high and are above all foreign com petition, and they are on the lookout for good horses to mature at a good profit. It does no good to sit down and complain. They meet the competitor and low prices with a better class of horses. The Scottish Farmer says: "Farming affords to the open-minded man numerous openings for exercising his talents and abilities. To tho man who is determined to be circumscribed in his ideas and aims agriculture may be a close corporation. Such a man can shut himself up and see nothing be yond; but to the man who looks out, there is in agriculture plenty of out look. These thoughts are suggested by tho really first-class exhibition of draft stallions seen at a parish show near Glasgow within the past ten days. Many of the farmers in that locality have found it profitable to purchase good, growing young horses, to keep them always improving, and finally tn sell for city woik. To farmers pos sessed of the requisite skill, with hold ings from 150 to 1250 acres, the profit thus derived is an important addition to revenue, and such have felt .somewhat keenly the eifeet of the diminished profits following on the excessive im portation of cheap horses from abroad. This is likely to be a temporary check, and the gelding trade is still a paying venture." Another Mother and Man. The truth of the adage about tho hand that rules the world being tho one that rocks the cradle is again ex emplified, but this time not in tho world of statesmanship, but in that of science. Nicola Tesla, who ranks with Edison in electrical invention, was, as a boy in Montenegro, full of mischief, and also under the guidance of a re markable woman his mother. Ho once went by himself to a chapel in tho hills back of his native town, and man aged to get himself locked in itatnight. A search was made for him, but thero was no claw until, clear and sharp on the night air, rang out the tones of the chapel bell. Nicola was cold, nerv ous and hungry when found. On an other occasion, when up to some boyish pranks, his mother suddenly appeared on the scene. He was so startled that he fell into a kettle of fresh milk, spoil ing the milk and his clothes at the yamo time. Like many other men who have become famous along one lino of usefulness, young Tesla was started in life at nnothcr line. His father wnnt ed him educated for the church, but his mother encouraged his scientific tastes, and finally had her way. Sho was a woman of unusual ability, forco of character and ingenuity. This lass characteristic was developed in her em broidery, which was of nrtistic and original designs, and made her famous ail through the part of Montenegro in which she lived. To his mother's lovo and influcneo Tesla attributes much of his manhood's success. Harpex'a Hound Table. A Theory Worth Notice. "Don't you know that the wages of bin is death ?' "Yes, and that is nrobablv whv tha world Is so wicked nobody is drawing full pay these hard times." Chicago lieconi. The pertulaca is named from two Latin words signifying "to carry milk," ami alluding to the milky sap which ex udes from wounds or broken brauchvi of plants of this species. OUR TRADE WITH CANADA. Tho Ofllrliil T Igtirrn Show an Inrrrnio of Over S 1,000,000 for tho Year. Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 3. Ofllclal figures of exports and imports for tho fiscal year ended Juno 30, Issued by tho governmont, show tho total foreign trade of Canada to havo been 210,021, 852, compared with S22 1,-120. 485 in 1895. Tho total imports woro S118,011,000, ngainst 110,731,000 in 1805, and exports 3121,013,852, agalustSHl,0!J8,803in 1895. Tho oxports to Great Hrltuin woro over 800,000,000, an increase of 85,000, 000, whllo to tho United States tho ex ports decreased from 511,000.000 to 539, 000,000 in round figures. Thoro is t slight Increase In Australian trado and also with Newfoundland, but tho exports in tho West Indias dropped from 53,000,000 to 82,000,000. Tho ox ports from Great Hritaln increased by nearly $2,000,000, and from tho United States they Increased over 51,000,000. HOLD UP A TRAIN. During ltobbrrn Htnp n Knty KxprcM, but (let I.tttln llooty. Audmohk, I. T., Nov. 3. Tho Mis souri, Knnsns & Toxns southbound passongcr train was hold up by train robbers and robbed about one milo south of Alvarado, Tox., at about 7:10 last night. Hut llttlo troasuro was secured. Tho robbory was a most daring one. Tho bandits oro sup posed to bo bonded for tho In dian territory. Officers on tho border havo boon notified andaro on tho alort. Tho sheriff at Cloburno, Tox., has boon asked to como and bring bloodhounds to tho Bcono of tho robbery, and to tako tho trail of tho gang. Texas officers will loavo on special trains for tho scene. ARKANSAS FARMER DUELISTS. They Fall Out Over n I.lnn Fcnoo iind Settle It with dims. Mkna, Ark., Nov. 3. John Middle ton and James Irby llvod 10 miles cast of hero on adjoining farina A division fonco dispute arose. Last Saturday Middlctou was repairing tho fenco when Irby camo along with a gun. Hot words followed. Middloton left and wont to the house, but soon ap peared with his gun, and on an invita tion by Middloton to como and "shoot it out liko men," both men wont to shooting. Irby wns hit and instantly killed. Middloton gavo himoolf up to tho sheriff. SPECIAL TRAIN WRECKED. John I'. IrlMi's Tour Through Nebraska Mnrred by un Accident. Malcolm, Nob., Nov. 3. Tho special train bearing John P. Irish,"who was following tho Hryan train in tho inter ests of tho gold standard domoeratlo ticket, collided with a froight train east of Malcolm. The collision smashed the engine of tho Irish train and completely demolished tho ca boose of the froight train. John M. Tipllng, of Lincoln, a commercial trav eler, was caught in tho caboose and killed. Tho special was provided with another ongino and went on to York. A GOOD HAUL. Sneak Thieve Out S.'l.OOO Worth of Jewel ry tit St. ,Joioili. St. Joskimi, Mo., Nov. 3. Sometime during tho parado hero Saturday night thioves entered tho jewelry storo of A. Wondover & Co. and stolo about 53,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry. Tho proprietor and his assistants had been watching tho parado and talking with some friends near tho entrance of tho store. For a fow minutes Mr. Wend over was loft nlono and was accosted by a stranger on somo trivial mutter, and while thus engaged, it is supposed, pals stole four trays of diamonds and othor valuables. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Undo Suni'H Deficit for October Wan Nearly Kleht Million. Washington, Nov. . Tho monthly comparativo statement of tho roceipts and expenditures of the United States shows tho total receipts for tho month of October to havo beon 820,232,829, as compared with 527,901,718 for October, 1895. Tho disbursements during the month aggregated S33,fl78,277, showing a deficit for Octobor of 87,555,458, as compared with tho deficit of 50,001,087 for October last year. Tho total deficit since July 1, 1890, is 532,889,577. Lutheran Longim. Chicaoo, Nov. 3. Tho second annual convention of tho Lutheran Lcaguo of America will bo hold in this city No vember 17 to 20. It was organ izod a year ii'o at Pittsburgh and claims a membership already of 50,000. There aro leagues in eight states. Any soci ety connected with u Lutheran church is eligible. Among tho speakers who havo accepted invitations to be present nre Rev. A. C. Swlnson, of Kansas, and S. H. Harnitz, of Iowa. Claimed IIu Wun 104 Ytmrn Old. Lkavknwohth, Kan., Nov. 3. Patsy Hamilton, generally known as Kslloy, died at tho county jail of ol6 ago and was buried at tho oxpenso of tho county. It is claimed that his ago was 101 years. In 1871 ho was sent to tho stato asylum for tho insane. In 1878 ho was returned an an incurable, since which tirno ho bus beon an inmato of the county jail An rx-l'onfeiienito Diplomat Dead. Lkadvim.k, Col., Nov. 3. Henry a Stotesbury, who, during tho civil war, held a high position in tho diplomatic service of tho confederate states, and made soveral trips to England in an endeavor to induce that governmont to grant belligerent rights to tho confed erate states, died hero last night.