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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1897)
THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER W. W. 8AMJKUS, 1'ubllilier. NEMAHA, i NEBRASKA. BROTHERHOOD. Hero fit the window I sit, Urcnmlly over tlio street, Careless how momenta may nit FeelliiK tlio Holltudu sweot. . Melody breathes In tlio nlr; Cometh on mlHt-hnloud wings Visions of children nt prayer And of ono that exultantly sings. Blltnco Ih over It nil, Yet doth tlio melody swell, Holding my spirit In thrall To tlio HonorotiM song of the knell. Up through the street In the gloom A ftinerul cortege comns; The surf Bonds nn echoing boom Ilko u tluinderouH ruinblo of drumn. There I Joy In Itn dominant nolo, And a minor of pain; Thcre'H a Hob In my throat, And my tearH aro llko rain. O, feeling that blndH tin as ono In a brotherhood vnstl "When for each llfo Ih finally done And his plume-covered carrlugo moves pant. Borne one, surely, shall paime to behold, And beholding the fruit of tlio yearn, Shall be bowed In hla soul an of old lly a prayer that la quickened with tears. Frank Putnam, In Chicago Times-Herald. A PINEAPPLE CHEESE. iy icniTii h. TUi'rijic "There, girls," said Peg as bIic laid nn apoplectic parcel on the (lining-room table, "there is probably the finest pine upplu cheeHe on the into of Manhattan." "Pineapple cheeHe," a chorus of dis niay and derision arose. "Why pineap ple? Why not Hrio or Ctunanibert or" "Oil, I know," snlil Peg loftily, "thnt you swells," with a bitter emphasis on the word, "nireet all hinds of evil Kindling cheese with your after-dinner coltee, but as I am plain and demo cratic in my tastes 1 buy pineapple cheese wherewith to regale myself when 1 come in, worn, jaded and faint with hunger after my day's toll." Then she hung up her sailor, cut oiT the head of her pineapple cheese, scooped out a chunk, and proceeded to cat it like a piece of cake. Meantime we three Jeered. Ak Peg stood there greedily devour ing her cheese, she did not look much like n girl whose heart wns broken. She wus plump, rosy and sturdy. She curled her hair. She was as dill'erent as possible from the accepted type of love lorn maideu wasting away to a prema ture grave from disappointed love. Vet vo girls knew all about the dreadful quarrel l'eg had with Jack Sheppard a quarrel that broke oil' her engagement and sent Peg out into the world to Heel: a career. We four girls, Grace, Eleonore, Mar garet, otherwise Peg, and the writer, have a tiny little box of a flat uptown where wo play at housekeeping. We live in a. chilling dish and the lire es cape is our refrigerator. Every week or so wo are visited by a big good nn tured oilicer who tries to look stern when he states he will surely be obliged to arrest us if we do not keep our lire es cape clear of bird cages, vegetables, fruit, and ilower pots. Then there ensues a spasm of tidying tip, the plants and birds are arranged in the "drawing-room," as we call the tiny Yeccption room, the vegetables are stor ed in the kitchen closet and the fruit heaped ostentatiously on the side board. Hut some way, gradually, de moralization again creeps upon us, the tire escape allures and beckons us and flaunts its attractions as a store house before us and we again succumb to its fascinations. Therefore we were not greatly sur prised when Peg, after satisfying her healthy young appetite, proceeded to place her cheese, just ouside the win dow upon the lire escape. "Peg, you arc crowding the refrigera tor," objected Grace. "Do you 'want a call from Dan TJynnV" asked Eleanore. Dan Flynn, it may bo remarked in passing is the policeman who periodi cally clenuB out our refrigerator. "Dan Flynn won't see it to-night." cuid Peg calmly, "and 1 may cat the rist of It for breakfast." This silenced us; there really was no argument to that proposition. We adjourned to the drawing-room and while Grace prepared an article on "How To Turn the Hack Hreadths of nn Old Silk Skirt," for a ladies' maga zine, and Eleanore ran over the new uong she was to introduce in her next role, I gossiped with Peg about the newcomers who that day had taken the Hat under us. "There can't be any women," I re marked, "for there wasn't a rocking chair, a piano or a setting machine, and there were whole eases of su IV inciden tal to the Accursed Sex carried in." It is by this term we are accustomed to speak of men in Peg's presence. We feel it to be due her. "Then there were rifles and walking sticks and clubs galore," 1 continued, "a whole arsenal. -I counted all sorts of weapons except a Galling gun. Can they bo social highwaymen, do you think?" "All men," said Peg oracularly, "are in u measure social highwaymen. Very Jlkely this Is an organized band of cut throats. The details assuredly arc sus picious. Grace, you know the chief of police, I believe." "I interviewed him once," drowsily came from Grace, who hud just arrived at the sponging and pressing stage of her article. "Very well, you know him then," said Peg severely. "I think, you should call ou him and ask him to look up these creatures and see whether four unpro tected women are safe in living so near them." 'Wouldn't Dan Flynn do ns well as the chief," asked Eleanore, lazily hum ming over the last bar of her song. "You see, Peg, the head of the depart ment Is a rather busy man, and as Dan Flynn Is on our visiting list, it might be quite as convenient, mightn't It?" Hut Peg made no answer to this idle banter. She sat engrossed in deep thought. Her blue eyes grew larger and dreamier. We all watched her with undisguised admiration. She was mi abominably pretty. I made sure that she was wandering through the niiize of memory with her lost love, mid ventured to rouse her, hoping site would rehearso some ro mantic chapter for our delectation. "Peg," 1 asked, softly, "of what, dear, tire you thinking?" "1 was wondering,'' said she, with a little start, "whether those miscre ants below us would steal my pineapple cheese." In the middle of the night we were aroused by a fearful crash in the kiteh eii. Grace, Eleanore and I rushed fran tically about confident that burglars were upon us. After scrambling for matches boiiic minutes, with cold chills running down our spines, we at last got a light only to discover Peg wandering about in her night-gown, looking very sheepish and nursing a broken head. "I got up to see if tlio pineapple cheese was safe," she explained, "and fell over the clothes horse which some driveling imbecile had left directly in my path." We got her to bed, where she re mained a day or so in company with vinegar and brown paper, smelling salts and cm tie cologne. Mcnntimo the rest of us often met " I GOT Ul TO SKK IF THE PINEAPPLE CHEESE WAS SAKE." our new neighbors on the stairs. They certainly did not look like criminals. On the contrary they were decidedly prepossessing in appearance. Hut Peg persisted in believing them to be house breakers, and to have special designs upon her pet cheese, which remained upon the fire escape, as the eagle glance df Dan Flynn had not yet fallen upon it. One nfternoon, Peg, being quite re covered from her fall and dressed in her most becoming ten gown, sat read ing a reprehensible novel, occasionally looking up to state the financial loss her illness had been, to say nothing of her loss to the artistic world, for Peg did nice little black and white sketches for some of the newspapers. Suddenly she threw down her novel with a sigh. "Judith, I'm hungry," she announced; "I think I'll have a whack at that pineapple cheese. A bit of bis cuit, a glass of milk and that cheese will save my life. Come on, we'll pick in the kitchen." She dragged me Into the kitchen, and telling me to get the milk and biscuit, leaned half way out the window to reach the cheese, which stood cheek by jowl upon the lire escape with Eleau ore's parrot. At that moment a man's voice float ed up through the soft summer air. "Look at that flro escape, Harry. I tell you it's on outrage the way some people crowd their lire escapes. Looks like a tenement. Why In the mischief don't they have a refrigerator? I'll bet my head there's an old maid upstairs. A poll parrot and a pineapple cheese. Well I'm blessed." I never could tdl howkU happened. Whether Peg's nerves were yet shaky from her illness or from rago at the impertinence of the critic below stairs. 1 cannot say, but as she took up the cheese it slipped from her hands, shot through the opening and went down whack, bang on the head of the man, who leaning from his window was looking up to condemn the condition of our decidedly disreputable lire escape. There was a horrified exclamation from Peg, a muttering as of distant thunder from below, a sweet, Imploring "Oh! I beg your pardon," and Peg came in through the window, her pretty face (us red as fire and tears standing in the big blue eyes. "The beast," she wailed, "did you hear him? And ice 40 cents a pound. As if we could help being poor. An old n.aid, indeed. I'll show him. And my cheese, my beautiful pineapple cheese. Don't talk to me. .Judith, 1 could kill him. I wislt it had knocked his hand mjiiic, wicked head right oil' his shoul ders." And to my great amazement, pretty Peg sat down on a kitchen chair and wailed aloud: "As if he hadn't made mo trouble enough," she sobbed, "to come here to live, and dog my footsteps, and call mo an old maid, and steal my cheese." "Who, Peg, who?" I cried, almost shaking her in my excitement. "Who? Why who could ltbc but that abominable, detestable Jack Sheppard, dear old thing. No, no, Judith, i don't mean that. 1 hate him; I despise him. A man lias indeed sunk Very low when he steals the bread out of his former sweetheart's mouth." "Hut Peg, dear, it wasn't bread and he didn't steul it. You dropped it, you know." "Well, he made me drop it wifh his nasty sneers about an old maid. 1 wonder docs he think ho is the only man m the world? Anyway, the par rot is Eleanore's, and if you are my friend! Judith Favcrsham, you will make it your busincs to let him know that fact before you are a day older." in the midst of tills fusillade of wounded pride and dismay, there enmo a pull at the bell. I opened the door. There stood Policeman Dan Flynn. "I must trouble yez, miss," he said, gravely, "to tnkc in the chiuise and the burrud. It don't look proper at nil, and I'm surprised I. at leddics like yez w'll persist in scttin' the laws at defiance." Hut Peg was before him like a whirl wind. "We'll take in Polly," she cried, "and as for the cheese, it's already been taken in." "Not foivc minutes since," said tlio ofllecr, reproachfully, "wid my own eyes did I see that clinn.se Haunting it self on your fire escape." "Well, you go look on the fire escape below," laughed Peg, hysterically. "The men who live downstairs, it seems, have not enough to eat or to do" purposely raising her voice. "They've got my cheese. Mr. .Flynn, and It's a case of highway robbery, and I think 1 will go around to the station house and get out a warrant or some thing." Policeman Flynn looked nt Peg in amazement. As for myself 1 couid not speak for laughter. And to cap the climax, at this moment up the stairs came u handsome fellow with a wicked gleam in his eyes and bearing ou a silver platter the remains of Peg's piue apple cheese. "Mr. Sheppard's compliments to Miss Seymour," he said, "and he has sent home her cheese. Ho begs she will count the pieces and seo whether they are all here." With a scarlet face Peg shut the door upon Policeman Flynn and the young man. leaving the latter to explain the situation as best he could to the oflicer. A burst of suppressed laughter from the hall told us that an amusing and satis factory explanation was being sup plied. "Never," said Peg, stamping n small foot, "never will I recognize that des picable person Jack Sheppard. 1 coll you to witness, Judith, what I say." Then she retreated to her bedroom and shut the door on the tragedy of her life. Next day I came home early. As I let myself in at the side door, I was startled by a low murmur of voices coming from the drawing-room. Glanc ing through the hnlf-drawn portiers I saw Peg in close conference with one of the miscreants from below stairs. "I didn't want to take the bread from, your mouth, sweetheart," he was say ing, "nor yet the cheese. 1 will be sat isfied with the kisses." And then he helped himself. AVlHdom ami ltollcetlon. "I thought Slumpsey was going to reform after he got married?" "lie did intend to, but concluded tha effect would be a reflection on his judg ment." Huffulo Times. SKIN GRAFTING EXTRAORDINARY A Cout Ilutton Proven un Efliclcnt Aid In .Modern Surgery. The unusual manner in which a pieco of skin was cut from n boy's thigh and grafted in his eye to enable him to wear an artificial eye to replace one de stroyed by accident has been brought to the attention of the physicians of the New York Academy of Medicine. 'The patient is Kichnrd Von Homer, of Jer hoy City, a foundry hand and a very healthy specimen of boyhood. Some weeks ago while he was pouring some molten metal in n mold it splashed and a drop of it struck the boy in the right eye. It burned away part of the upper lid almost instantly and snnk into the pupil, destroying the sight. Dr. H. T. Chambers, of Jersey City, was called, and, applying cocaine to reduce the pain, lie examined the eye. He found a tiny speck of the hardened metal in the ball of the eye, and decided that the en tire organ would have to be removed. When this was done and the injured surrounding tissue was cut away the burgeon discovered that there wasn't enough of the eye socket left to hold in ploco even the smallest sized artificial eye. Dr. Chambers resolved to try a deli cote feat of Thiersch grafting to rem edy the defect. Previous successful experiments at skin grafting had been made when the skin was grafted on a flat surface. The difficulty in this case lny in making the flesh grow into a cavity like the eye socket, and as too much pressure destroys all chance of the grafted flesh growing upon the sur face to which it is applied, the under taking was particularly hazardous. Three weeks ago the surgeon went about his tusk after an unusual meth od. The injured eye socket was en tirely healed by this time. The night before the operation he prepared a section, measuring two by four inches, of the flesh of the thigh and swathed it in antiseptic bandages over night. The next day he put the lad under the influence of ether. The eye socket wnH sprayed with cocaine, an incision was made in the tissue, the section of flesh wns cut away from the thigh and transplanted to the upper part of the eye socket and fitted in the fresh in cision. Heforc this was done, however, the surgeon had to devise a means of hold ing the graft in place without too great pressure. He hit upon the expedient of using an ordinary flat-surfaced over coat button about an inch in diameter. This was covered with antiseptic gauze and fitted in the cavity. The graft of skin was stretched over it, and the button and the skin graft were bound firmly in the eye socket and al lowed to remain a week undisturbed. The button had four holes in it, which permitted the free circulation of the fluids of the eye while the grafting process was in progress. At the end of the week the bandage was removed, and it was discovered that the trans planted flesh had grown upon the eye, making a new and healthy upper lid that would hold an artificial eye in place. The secret of the success of the oper ation, Dr. Chambers said, was the pres ence of the holes in the button. The boy was at a recent meeting of the Academy of Medicine, and showed the assembled physicinns thnt the eye could be removed and replaced with ease. He had practically a new eye socket. All pain had disappeared, and all danger of the sound eye being af fected through sympathy. Two phy sicians reported that they had tried skin grafting for somewhat similar injuries, but had failed because they had not used the button, or a similar device. They declared they would try the experiment over again with the button, and report the result to the academy. N. Y. Sun. AvrrrtRO Ago of Doctor. It has been discovered by a French statistician that the average age of doc tors is much higher than that of any other calling; it is no less thnn 50. When we consider that doctors are probably more reckless than any other diners-out habitually taking the things they tell other people are "poison" this is very creditable to the profes sion. The reproach, "Physician, heal thyself," would appear to be unfound ed; for it seems they do heal them selves, or nt all events manage to hang onto life longer than the rest of the world. They probably know more about antidotes and "poisons" than we do. Where their great pull consists, how ever, is, no doubt, in their opportuni ties of observing what treatment is most eillcneioiLH with their patients. A certain physician l.s said to have let this particular cat out of the bag to one to whom he was paying marked at tention. "I am very much interested in your case," lie said, "because 1 have the same complaint myself; and if this medicine really does you good I shall try it." James Payn, In Independent. In the ItcMtiiurant. Wnitcr, wanting to show oft his graru mnr to scholnrly-looking customers, Khouts to kitchen: "Two roast beeves!" Seholnrly-Looking Customer Not so much, my friend. We want a big din ner, I'm sure; but two roast beeves would be enough for a regiment. Na tional Tribune. In tbo .Modern Wunt Column. "A young criminal lawyer desires nt n suitable remuneration n respectable criminal." Fliegende Blaetter. , -j Better rhnn cure. Is prevention. If subject to rheuma tism, ward ort 1U uttnclcs by purifying your blood now with a thorough course ot Hoods Sarsaparilla rho best In fact the Ono Truo Blood Purifier. 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They are not impossible, idealized dream-children and dream mothers, but real ones such as ono knows. Though the beautiful Joan of Arc child, on her knees in the field, has an inspired look in her face, she is nevertheless like many French peasant children to be met along any roadside in summer; the mother aiding the tot tering steps of her twins is doing only what all nurses and mothers do; in "Dipped in the Sea" the child is but struggling ns all others do when phtnged into tlio waves. Mrs. Leo Hneon. in Centnrv. CONDEMNED. When an innocent man is condemned for any crime he doesn't lose hope. His law yers appeal trom one court to another. They arc bound to save liim, tf he can dc saved. It is the same way with a good doctor when Ins patient seems condemned to death by disease. Hut doctors make mistakes some times; they lose heart too soon. After they have tried everything they know and the patient is no better, they think there is nothing more to be done. 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His great' thousand-page illustrated book, "The Peo ple's Common Sense Medical Adviser" is one of the standard medical works of the English language. Nearly 700,000 copies were sold at $1.50 each. A paper-bound copy will be sent absolutely free for the cost of mailing only, 21 one-cent stamps; or, cloth-bound for 31 stamps. World's Dis pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y. KyMsrmfw. wlmfm jggw arm p w I a I Vu IJBk "" Jfm foci m m f