THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
W. W. HANDKItM, r-ihllihrr.
NEMAHA, NEHRASKA.
AN AUTUMNAL REVERIE.
Just nn humble, plain-faced woman,
Mlddlo-agcd nnd somewhat rny;
True nnd wholcsome-llko and human
Kind o' Krnvo nnd kind o' Kray.
Mnkon mo think o' early autumn,
Ontpos a-purplln' on tho vlnr,
"Whuro tho first faint frost tins cniiRlit 'em,
Caught nnd kissed 'cm Into wine.
Dcop-volcod boys now call hor "mothor"
Unhy hoys Hint's Krown to ho,
Uy soino limbic trick or other,
In a year ns tall ns sho;
Girls Unit yesterday was clliiKln'
To hor skirts, I've scon o' lato
With tho neighbor boys a-HwIiiKln'
At tho roso-wrcathed garden Kate.
Whllo across hor brow Time's flnKor
Writes the plainer talcs o' truth.
In hor heart there still must linger
All iho llowory dreams o youth.
Klolds nro sweol with bloomy clover,
Llfo Is crowned with blissful Joys;
Love's pure Kold she's colnln' over
In her happy Klrls and buys.
Hoe ms as thntiKh tho cup Kate brings ut
Is a sort o' blttcr'Swcnt,
Kind o' soothes nn' kind o' stings us
Mirth and melancholy meet.
Grief comes liushln' all our laughter,
Kalrest skies are clouded o'er.
Hut tho sunshine follers after,
Always brighter than beforo
Oprlng may fado and summer vnnlsh,
Autumn yield to winter's sway,
Yot tho years can never banish
llcauty ,ovo hns crowned with May.
In thu chltnnoy-corner, cozy, r
Droamln' In the firelight's glow,
I shall soo her uhvoks blush, rosy,
Ah I saw them long ngo.
Nixon Waterman, In Kltlott's Magazine.
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Beyond the Green Baize Door,
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THHIIK was mystery behind the
green baize door; tangible or in
tangible, nobody knew, since no one but
Mr. Ulakely ever saw tlie Inside of the
door whleh shuts his private room at
Messrs. Ulakely &. Stephen's bank from
the narrow passage connecting it with
the general offices.
Mr. Ulakely wus solo proprietor of
the bank, which was the only one in the
town, and showed every semblance of
the soundest financial batis.
Mr. Ulakely was a man strangely de
void of eccentricities. The chief faults'
the bank stall found with liiin wore ids
Indcfutlgabillty, and that whenever
there was business to be done in London
selling or buying stock, buying cash,
etc. lie Invariably attended to It him
self. J was seated at the desk of the head
cashier, who was away on a short holi
day, one morning in September, when
one of our clients entered the counting
house. "Mr. ltoyton, look here," he snid, slip
plug a crown piece upon the counter.
"Where did you get It V"
"What's wrong with it?" 1 Inquired,
examining It closely without noticing
any defect. "Did I give It to you?"
"Yes. hook at the edge; it's quite
uuiooth." '
I pabscd lii m two half crowns, and ns
Itwn
Wr?CSU
ilr CA
"I AM MRS. HI.AKICI..Y," 81113 SAID,
HASTILY.
he went away I slipped tlie crown into
my iocket, Intending to keep it as a
curiosity. Hut later in the day, when
Mr. Ulakely was in tlie ofilee, 1 showed
it to him.
"Curious!" lie murmured. "One of an
experimental mint, no doubt, for it's
dated lSUfl. Do you think we've any
others similar?"
"No; I have been through them."
"Strange! Well, I'll keep it. It's
probably unique."
I was disappointed with his decision,
us I wanted the coin myself. It was
against my principles, however, to pro
test. I forgot It entirely until some
weeks later, when Mrs. Ulakely, to the
utter astonishment of tlie bank's stafT,
turned up an hour or so before luncheon
time.
Up to that time, although she had
been married more than ttyi months,
Mrs. Ulakely had never been inside tlie
hank. Now she drove up in her car
riage, came in proudly and asked for
Mr. Ulakely.
I replied that if she would step into
the waiting-room 1 would summon him
in the usual way.
"No. Show me into bis private room.
I am Mrs, Ulakely," she snid, hastily.
"1 recognize you, madam," I replied.
"Hut tlie rule is that all visitors, who
ever they may be, are to, be shown Into
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the waiting-room, where Mr. Ulakely
will Interview tlicin."
"Nonsense 1" she ejaculated. "Such
rules do not refer to .Mr. Ulakely's wife.
Tlie room is at the end of the passage,
is It not?"
"You are putting me In an awkward
position," I replied. "I nm not allowed
to let visitors approach the green bal.e
door"
"Ah!" Her proud eyes Hashed. "So
there Is a green baiedoor which no one
approaches?"
When Mr, Ulakely came, he did ao in
ills habitual leisurely manner; and he
walked Into the waiting-room, leaving
tlie door ajar.
"Mr. Ulakely," she said, haughtily,"!
have been insulted by one of your
clerks. Since when has your wife been
denied the right to enter your private
room?"
"Kvcr since she wrongly assumed that
she had such a right, Mary. My clerks
have their orders; they obey them. You
cannot blame them for upholding rules
1 myself have framed. What do you
want? I nm busy this morning. The
market Is unsteady just now."
"Tell me, Itlchnrd; had you known I
was coming would you have allowed
your clerk to deny me access to your
private room?" Mrs. Ulakely inquired.
"The rule is of many years' standing,
Mary," he said, deliberately. "I f it were
set aside for you it would be the thin
end of the wedge: my room would no
longer be private."
"You indorse your clerk's insult?"
"I uphold my clerk who upholds the
bank's rules."
L felt her brush past me as she came
out of the room and saw her walk round
tlie desks, iter lips tightly compressed
and her head high.
Tlie following morning when I turned
up at the bank tlie porter met me with
the inquiry had I seen anything of Mr.
Ulakely? No one iiad seen him since
tlie bank closed the night before. lie
wart not in tlie bank had not been
home indeed, It, was Mrs. Ilfakely who
had driven down the first tiling to in
quire about It i in ; and no ouu had seen
him.
"Mr. Uoyton," she asked, "have you
seen my husband? You were the last
to leave, I believe?"
"Yes, madam, but I have not seen Mr.
Ulakely since he put you into your car
riage yesterday."
"That decides it," she muttered.
".Something has happened to him In his
room. The door must be forced, l'or
ter, go for n carpenter!"
"You take the whole responsibility of
forcing the green baize door?" L sug
gested. "The whole responsibility," she re
plied, and turned away impatiently.
When the carpenter arrived Mrs.
Ulakely led him to tlie door and ordered
him to force it. lie smiled grimly as
he looked the door up and down. He
sounded it witli a mallet and Ids jaw
fell.
"Iron!" he said, laconically. " "(.'isn't
my job; you want a blacksmith."
The porter was sent oil" in the car
riage to fetch a smith. When the man
arrived lie eyed tlie door critically and
looked dubious.
For live minutes he dealt a rapid fire
of blows, and then tlie door began to
tremble, then to shake. Finally, after
ten or twelve minutes, it gave a shudder
and came forward, swinging on its
hinges.
.lrs. Ulakely darted forward and
stopped. Six feet farther down the nar
row passage another door obstructed
the way. She signed impetuously to
the smith, who stepped forward and
shivered the lock of tlie second door,
which was only light wood. All was
darkness beyond the door.
I turned to Mrs. Ulakely, who stood
gazing In wonderment Into chaos.
"Porter," she said, in a hushed oiec,
"get me a lanturu. Then you can both
leave us. Mr. Hovton's will be all the
help 1 shall need."
We passed through the doorway and
Into a small, dark room, poorly fur
nished with a little oiliee furniture and
littered with papers. There was no
sign of Mr. Ulakely. ,
"hook!" cried Mis. Ulakely. "hook!
A trapdoor!"
I saw a square had been out out of
the carpet, in the center of which was
a ring by which 1 raised tlie trap.
hooking through, wo saw a ladder
leading down to darkness.
doing carefully down -four rungs of
the ladder, I held tlie lantern out at
arm's length and sun eyed the scout.
A stone-walled chamber stretched be
fore me like a largo ault. in one wall
was a low, barred door; hi a corner was
a small furnace. A peculiar-looking ma
chine stood in the middle of the ault,
and upon a ledge of its frame rested a
row of silver coins.
I went down, and, stopping, as 1
thought, to the ground, my foot encoun
tered something soft. 1 sprang aside,
avoiding it, and saw tlie body of Mr.
Ulakely huddled up in a broken bundle.
"Ah, me! Ah, me!" she moaned,
propping the head upon her knee with
frenzied tenderness. "Uiehnrd, hus
band! You did not merely dream- you
lived your crimes that night and now!
This is ills secret! hast night the
night before, he was resiles in his
sleep; he talked of coining, years of
coining-coining silver coins nnd vcapr
ing profit profit. 'Tlie- mint' makes
profit on Its silver coins, and why not
I?' He said that, and as 1 lay awake 1
hoped he merely dreamed. Dead, dead!
Yes, yes, and if you had lived these
J hands would kill you for the ignominy
and shame! Itiohardt Oil, Richard!
Menard l"
licyond the police, only Mrs. Ulakely
nnd myself know the true secret that
hid licyond the green bal.e door. hou
dou Tit-Uits.
AFRAID TO BE AFRAID.
A Kfttintloti In Whlrli It Win linn.
Kcrous to Slimy tlie .Nllklit-
vmt Kenr.
There are.BltuatloiiH in which n timid
man cannot, out of consideration for
his own Bufety, show the slightest fear.
A writer describes such a situation on
board a ship which was transporting u
great number of coolie's across tho
ocean,, many of them desperate and
brutal men.
One day ut luncheon In the saloon the
passenger heard horrible yells and
shouts of "Ta! tn!" (A fight! a tight!)
"Jlulio!" the captain said. "Another
jol jy row belowl Uetter stay where you
arc. You'll find a loaded revolver in my
room if anyone attempts to molest
you."
Lighting his pipe and calling his dog,
a fierce-looking English bull, the cap
tain went on deck to see what was the
matter. The coolies were fighting sav
agely; broken howls and pieces of fire
wood were Hying about, and several of
the men hnd ugly-looking kniics drawn.
Into the midst of them walked the cap
tain, knocking first one and then an
other aside.
One fearful-looking coolie nimed a
blow at him with a broken basin, but
before the blow could descend the dog
brought the man down on his back and
held him there. Tlie two principal of
fenders were caught, their heads
banged together until the fight was out
of them and an explanation asked. Ev
erybody wanted to talk at once, but the
captain hold "P his hand till there was
silence, and then called one in.in after
another and heard each through an in
terpreter. Tin row turned out to have been
caused by a man trying to light his
pine ut an opium smoker's Innip. The
most trivial thing often caused tho
worst fight. After all was over the pas
senger said to the captain: "Are you
not afraid of these people?"
"Yes," said the captain, "to tell the
truth, I am. Hut to show the least fear
among such n crowd as that, or to lose
my temper, might lead to my deatli on
the spot. I cannot n fiord to show' that
L urn afraid. Hut I am getting used to
it." Chambers' Journal.
PLAIN SPEAKING.
nxninploN of the GriifTneMH of Ilnff-
IIhU NotnhlcN The Truth In
IllsiiKrvcnlile Komi.
To nn American who avoids rudeness
ns vulgar and unbecoming in social in
tercourse the not infrequent grulTness
of Ids Huglish cousin and his habit of
forcing the naked truth upon friend or
foe, in season or out of season, is often
quite incomprehensible.
Mrs. Oliphaut, in lierNiutobiogrnphy,
gives an example of this grufi'ness in
her nccount of a visit paid by hor to
the Tennysons. The poet apparently
had not tlie least interest in hor and
did not hesitate to show it. When she
was taking leave his wife regretted that
her visit hud been so short, and Mrs. Oli
phaut declared that it had giwu bora
great pleasure. Tlie poet, who stood
glowering down on them both, sudden
ly exclaimed:
"hord! what liars you women are!"
Archbishop Temple, clerical head of
the Church of Englund, is noted for his
brusque sincerity. A lad" told him a
remarkable ghost story, for which her!
aunt was authority.
"Is not that a proof of the existence
of ghosts, your grace?" she asked.
"I really can't say. I don't know your
aunt," was the reply.
A clergy man who wished for a bish
opric was consulting the primate, and
said, Willi an evident desire to tliow
thiit he tlid not overestimate his quii.V
flcations for tho place: "i know that I
am no preacher."
"No, you are not," was the prompt
and startling reply. "I bue heard
you."
Another clergyman who had boasted
of his parisii reforms anil talked inces
santly of himself said, at last: "What
do you think of m work, my lord?"
"Oh," said Dr. Temple, "it's much the
same as other men's; only they don't
talk about it, and ,oudo."
It is a duty to speak the truth, but
it is not the. dut, of any man to toll,
when it Is unnecessary, all the truths
that he knows," - Ulnok and White.
Her Selr-KNteeiii.
"I low you," he passionately said
"with all my heart, with all my soul,
audwitli the whole strength of inv be
ing!" "I don't soo how you can help it!" re
plied the maiden, who was fully aware
of her own worth. I'uck."
Kat Pot a to II read.
Tn (icrumuy potato bread is used by
the natives of Tliuringia to feed their
horses, especially when.. they are
worked h.'id in cold weather. Tlioan
hauls thrive on it, and their health and
strength are excellent.
Cliniitituiiuii'M Growth.
Not less than 1,000,000 persons attend
the 73 branch Chautauqua assemblies
every summer.
AN ELEPHANT IN BATTLE.
The Knltliftit Aiilimtl Stood Stnnclilr
llcxldc Ills Dcnil Mrmtcr for
Throe Ilnys.
An old elephant taken into buttle on
the plains of India wns a standard
bearer and enrried on his huge back the
royal ensign, the rallying point of the
1'oona host. At the beginning of the
fight he lost his mnster. The "inahoot,"
or driver, hnd just given the word to
hnlt, when he received a fatal wound
and fell to the ground, where he lay
under a heap of slain. The obedient ele
phnnt stood still while the battle
closed around him, and the standard
he enrried. He never stirred a foot, re-
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
'. . .
Tho new head of tho Grand Army of tho Republic, Col. Albert D. Shaw, of "Water
town, N. Y., Is a Now Yorker by birth and 58 years of age. He was 20 years old whon.
ho enlisted In tho Thlrty-llfth New York volunteers. Ho fought at Rappahannock,,
tho second Hull Run, Cliantllly, South Mountain, Antlctam and In many lessor
eiiRaKenients. After the war ho served as consul at Toronto, Canada, and later at.
Manchester, Kncland. He Is the author of a text book used in many public schools,
called "The Teaching of Patriotism and Civics." In 1S'J7 ho was elected department
coniuiundur of tho New York G. A. It.
fusing to ndvance or retire, as tlie con
flict became hotter and fiercer, until
the Mahrattas, seeing the standard still
flying steadily in its place, refused' to
believe that they were being beaten
nnd rallied again and again around the
colors. And all this while, amid the din
of battle, the patient animal stood
straining its ears to catch the sound of
that voice it would never hear again.
At length the tide of conquest left the
field deserted. Tlie Mahrattas swept
on in pursuit of the Hying foe, but the
elcnhnnt. like a rock, stood there, with
the dead and dying around, and the en-;
sign waving in its place. For three da s
and nights it remained where its master
had given the command to halt. No
bribe or threat could move it. They
A FARMER OF
wmmim
v- P "-ethods of aKrlculturo In vokuo throiiKhout tho Philippine Islands, says tho.
National Stockman and Farmer, aro the most primitive. There Is not, Plow or
other modern farm Implement on any of tho islands. Tho ancient crooked stl k u t h
Plow in use, and tho fertility of tho soil is such that Ils possblo to raise t-ood
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then sent to n village 100 miles away
and brought tlie mahoot's little son,
Tlie noble hero seemed then to remem
ber how the drher had sometimes given
his authority to the little child, and im
mediately, with all the shattered trap
pings clinging as he went, paced quiet
ly and slowly away.
.Mil telle x.
Tt is estimated that we use annually
In the United States over 00,000,000,000
matches. These indispensable little ar
ticles were first used in this country less
than 70 years ago, and at that time a
box .containing 25 was sold for 25 cents.
Imagine, if you please, matches at one
cent, apiece ! To-day, we buy.l',000 for
Ow cents. . , a . .
THE FOREIGNER IN JAPAN.
Clinnge of Status in Ofllclnl Circle
AVItlilu tho Vant 1'cht
Venn,
One of the most interesting ques
tions in consideration of present Japan
is the changed status of tho foreigner.
To be a European or nn American in
Japan twenty, ten, or even five, years
ngo was to be a man of power and in
fluence. When foreigners were first-admitted
to the empire the Japanese,
one of the shrewdest, most far-sighted
peoples of the world, adopted their
methods and their religion, hired them
as teachers, engineers and officers. Now
according to "Japan in Transition," the
ALBERT D. SHAW.
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first important book dealing entirely
with the new Japan, since they have
learned sill the foreigners enn tench,
them in science, literature, art, war,,
commerce, manufacturing, in short, in
all enterprises, they are relegating t heir
instructors to the background -with the
cry "Japan for the Japanese." It was.
thought at one time that Japan would
in time become a Christian nation. The
nutlior of Japan in Transition shows,
that almost all who accepted Christian
ity did so for the sake of the instruc
tion which the missionaries alone could
give. In the army and navy the same
state of affairs exists. English and
German officers who fought for Japan
throughout the China war were dis
charged for tlie reason that the mill
THE PHILIPPINES.
tary schools which were founded'
through their efforts ha-.e developed"
ilrst-class officers. Everywhere the pol
icy of discharging the foreigner as
soon ns possible has been adopted, nnd
In a few years a foreigner in nny kind
of nn oflleial capacity will be the ex
ception. At present the ambassadors,
of the powers are practically the only
foreigners who command and real re
spect. Genii Aro I'MmC-Iloni,
An Italian professor has promulgated
a new theory concerning genius. Ho-"
snys that the majorltyof personsof dfs- -tinetion
nre the lirst-born of the family
while a large proportion of the minor"
ity are the youngest of large families, ''
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