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T V i. 7 t 'THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER tV. VT. 8ANDKKS, I'nblUher. NEMAHA, NEBRASKA. COMPENSATION. She folded up the worn nnd mended frock, And smoothed It tenderly upon her kneo, Then through the soft web of wee red sock She wove the bright wool, musing thoughtfully: "Can this be all? The great world Is fair; I hunger for Its green and pleasant ways," A cripple, prisoned In her restless chair, Looks from the window with a wistful gaze. "I can but weave a faint thread to and fro, Making a frail wool In a baby's sock; Into tho world's sweet tumult I would go, At Its strong gate my trembling hand would knock." Just then the children came, the father, too, Their eager faces lit tho twilight gloom, "Dear heart," ho whispered, as he nearer drew, "How sweet It Is within this little room! "God put my strongest comfort here to draw When thirst Is great and common wells are dry, Your pure desire Is my unerring law: Tell me, dear one, who Is ho safe as I? Home Is the pasture where my soul may feed, This ropm a paradise has grown to be, And only where theso patient feet shall lend Can It bo home for these dear ones and me." 'He touched with reverent hand the help less feet, The children crowded close and kissed her hair; "Our mother Is so good, and kind, and sweet, There's not another like her anywhere!" The baby In her low bed opened wide The soft blue llowers of her timid eyes, And viewed the group nbovo the cradlc sldo With smiles of glad nnd Innocent sur prise. "The mother drew the baby to her knee, And, smiling, said: "The stars shine soft to-night, My world Is fnlr, Its edges sweet to me, And whatsoever Is, dear Lord, Is right I" Mary Hlley Smith, In U'esleyan Meth odist. ..-.....-.l The World Against Him By WILL N. HARBEN. Copyright, 1D00. Iiy A.N. KuIIukk Nows paper Company. E-rrr.-ia CIIAI'TEIl Vril. Co.TiNXi:. The shot told on Evelyn. In the pros- enee of her father, she drended the dis closure thnt Winkle, in his anger, might make with regard to her intimacy with - -Jtoiiuij; buMhe old gentleman paid no 'heed tci 'their "innuendoes. "lie certainly is foolhardy," he joined in; "but to save me 1 can but admire the fellow's courage. 'Why," the colonel snapped his fat lingers, "if he keeps that horl of thing up, or tries to inter fere when the man is cnught, I wouldn't give a pinch of snuff for his life. Some chap like Syd Hart would draw a bend on him, and be proud of it till the end of his days." Then Mrs. Lancaster ennic and pit her arms round Evelyn's waist. "Don't act hastily, my dear," was her whispered warning; and she drew the ,girl to the other end of the veranda. "Don't you see what he wants?" she asked; "he is trying to rouse your fa ther's suspicions." About live o'clock the occasional shouts in the swamp grew louder and nearer, and into them was suddenly blended the ominous baying of dogs. "The hounds!" announced the colonel, tragically. "And they are out for business," glee fully ndded the captnin; "they are headed this way." Evelyn nnd Mrs. Lancaster stood lean ing against the balustrade, their faces towards the swamp. "Come inside, dear," suid the latter. ""It w ill do no good to witness it." But our young lady only shook her liend. After a few minutes the shouting and baying of the hounds died down. The colonel gave it us his opinion that they were oil" the track, but that it, was only a question of time before they would catch the scent again. Two hours passed. The sun sank be hind the distant mountain peaks. The fcky beyond was as red as blood. The wisps of clouds lying against the mountain-sides looked like glaciers. The landscape took on a delicate veil of ijraj. Objects in the distance began to assume vague shapes. The dark out lines of the swamp were fast merging into the night. "They have been taking a zig-zag course," proclaimed llasbrooke from Ills end of the veranda. "The rascal will be ns limber ah a rag when he is treed. There are no two ways about it; it's, all up with him; the ditrkness will not be in his favor; nothing but blood will satisfy the fury of that mob." "Do you mean that the sheriff will not be able to control them?" queried Mrs. Lancaster, who had begun to walk about nervously. "He'd have to hnve a lot of backbone to even try it," answered her host. "He'd be knocked out like a straw in a hurricane; murderers of old women stand no chance with these crude An-glo-Saxons." It hnd grown dark, save for the light of the moon, which had just risen and loomed up like a huge conflagration be yond the tree-tops. For yet half an hour only an Intermittent shout or the sudden outburst of barking was heard from the swamp, but each time the sounds were nearer. Old Ephrnim, as If anticipating his master's desires, drove round the horses nnd trap. "A good idea," approved the colonel; "gentlemen, we might ns well get near er. I think 1 know where they will come out. " "Uy nil menus!" cried the captnin, with enthusiasm. JIc was the llrst to get a seat Hi the vehicle, nnd was fol lowed by liis host nnd Mr. Hardy. ' When the trap had gone, Miss llas brooke retired to her room with some complaining allusion to her nerves, nnd Evelyn nnd Mrs. Lancaster remained on thevernnda, guarded only by the old ne gro, wl'o stood like a sentry on duty nt the foot of the steps. "Oh, Mrs. Lancaster !' exclaimed Ev elyn, "1 feel as if he is going into dan gerthat they will kill him!" For a moment the old womnn made no response, nnd when bhe did it was with evident emotion. "I pray God that he irny not be harmed." Her tone was almost a prayer in itself. The baying and shouting were now very near. Half n mile away torch lights like fireflies began to Hit along the swamp. The line of men was now In the open. They seemed to be hended in one direction, nnd it was not ninny minutes before all the lights hnd run together. Evelyn knew that the pris oner was in the center of that cluster of torches. The shouting hnd died down to a far-off murmur. Then into the yel low, smoky glare the two observers saw a while horse rearing nnd plunging. Presently the frightened animal seemed under the control of its rider, nnd a loud, ringing voice like thnt of an experienced open-air speaker, broke the stillness. "It is he I" gasped Evelyn, and her eyes seemed set in their soeke's as she peered through the gloom. "God have mercy on him!" Mrs. Lancaster's arm tightened round the girl's waist, but her voice lay dead In her throat. The distance was too great to distinguish the words of the speaker, but his stentorian tones seemed to cut the dark intervening space like a knife. At times a tempest of cries and yells would rise from the mob and drown the lending voice; but gradually, persistently, it would strug gle, up to mastery again. This went on for about ten minutes, and then the two on the veranda heard several loud voices raised in threatening tones nnd there was a sharp ringing report of a pistol. The cluster of lights widened and the white horse was seen to plunge away from the crowd, the beat of his hoofs being the only sound in the still air. "Ugh! Somebody hit dat time," grunted old Ephrnim. "My Lawd, whut a pity!" Evelyn gazed into the white face of her friend, her terrified eyes seek ing n confirmation of her own fears. She could not frame the words for the question in her heart. Mrs. Lancaster did not know what to make of it all, but she was afraid some calamity had befallen Jlonnld Fanshnw. " could not see if anyone was on the horse as it broke away," she fal tered. "I thought I saw him fall off." said Evelyn. "Oh, if if he is dead" Evelyn's voice broke. They were both silent for a few minutes nnd then they saw the torches going out one by one. The people were going home. There could be no doubt now. Some thing had happened. Ilonnld's voice was heard no more; could it be stilled forever? Then they heard tlie trap re turning. The two women advanced to the steps as the horses were reined in at tlie door. The occupants alight ed. As her father ascended the steps Evelyn caught both his hands in hers. "What did they do, father?" she asked. The old soldier laughed. "Do?" he exclaimed, enthusiastical ly, as he rubbed his hands together, "why, they did nothing. .ladeFanshaw's son rode into their ranks and made the grandest speech I ever listened to in 1113' Bfe. He turned the very marrow in my bones to ice. 1 was cold one minute. ?d as hot as old Nick the next. 1 believe we were all hypnotized. From tlie minute he began to show up the horror of lynch law and the risk they were running of hanging an inno cent mnn, 1 belluve I'd a-dicd rather than let the mob harm the fellow. He stood there with more ropes on him I han he could carry and didn't look big enough to harm a fly. After Fan shaw got their attention the first thing he demanded was that they let the prisoner tell his story. He gained his point nnd the little chap began to talk. Vou could hardly hear what he said, he was so fatigued and hoarse. 'In the nnme of God and Christianity,' he said, 'let me have a chance to prove I'm not guilty.' "Syd Hart, Thnd Williams and their fnction were too full of whisky and hatred to be moved by mere eloquence; they were there for blood, and iliey were going to have it; so they tried to drown out what the prisoner was saying. Hut Fnnshaw, towering above them all on his horse, finally succeeded in getting him heard nnd the boy's story satisfied me of his Innocence. He said the money he had was his sav ings from two years' hard work In an iron foundry in Chattanooga nnd that he was taking it home to his widowed mother, who depends on him for her support. He said he was tramping homo on foot to save the expense of n railroad ticket. Somebody asked him Why he had tried to escape from the sheriff, and he snid he was afraid of being lynched that he had heard of the treatment men accused of crime re ceived in these mountains. "Then some one nsked him nbout the blood on .his hands nnd shirt, nnd he showed them a cut on his leg which had been bound up and was bleeding. "About that time Syd Hart became obstreperous again. Captain, I saw you talking to him just then. 1 won dered if you had said anything to in llainc " "I thought T might reason with him," broke in Winkle, with a start. "I saw he was clear out of his head, wholly unreasonable, you know." "Well, you seemed to have struck stony ground for your good seed," laughed llasbrooke, "for he got wilder than ever." "Oh, do go on!" cried Mrs. Lancas ter. "What became of Mr. Fanshaw?" "I was coming to him," said tlie old man. "As soon as he appeared on the scene, the sheriff, who had hardly opened his mouth in nny sort of reinon strnnee, picked up his courage and be gan to try to get possession of tlie pris oner; but nobody pnid nnj nttentlon to him. Hart and Willinms had their ears. However, young Funshiiw saw how the thing wns going and brought it to a fo cus by tlie most unexpected and risky move I ever saw . Pretending thnt he wanted the people in the edge of the crowd to see how small the prisoner was, he lifted the little fellow onto his horse in front of him, and, before any one suspected what he was up to, he hnd wheeled his horse and wns oil' like the wind. Syd Hurt pulled his revolver and aimed it at Fansliuw's back, but Dave Fanshaw knocked the weapon up, and it went oft without harming any one. Then Dave held a pistol at Hart's head and dared htm to stir u muscle. This quarrel drew the nttentlon of tlie "WHAT DID THEY DO. FATHER ?" mob from the prisoner and Fanshaw bore him nway without any opposition. The sheriff followed at his heels. They have gone with him to' the jail in Dan ube. He'll be safe there." Evelyn wns. closely watching Winkle; she had read him better than had her father. "It was the noblest deed 1 ever heard of," she snid, exultingly. Winkle responded with a shrug and a frown. "Fanshaw will pay well for it, in nil probability," he said, sullenly. Despite her habitual command oer her emotions Evelyn's face fell, but she did not gratify her enemy by reply ing to his thrust. Her father agreed with Winkle. "Yes," he said, "it is not over yet by any means. S, d and Thnd w ill certain ly be bent on revenge, nnd Fnnshuw will be their target. I never saw a more malignant countenance than Hart's when he realized that his pluiih were thwarted. I guess he will lie in wait for Fnnshuw on his return from Dan ube." Grown suddenly faint, Evelyn-turned into the hall. Mr. Hardy's voice followed her and beat pleasantly on her curs. "I certainly take oil" my hat to that sort of courage," he was saying. "Fanshaw lias the right kind of grit. It's a pity the world has not more men like him.- Evelyn's window commanded a view of the road leading from Danube to Fanshaw's house, and the remainder of the night, sleepless and distraught, she sat gazing across the fields at a spot she knew he must pass on his way hoiif. And there, in that awful still suspense, she rend her heart as she had never read it before. "Yes," she confessed to herself, aloud, because she loved to hear her own voice pronouncing n truth which seemed to have quickened her soul into a new and higher life, "yts, I love him! I love him!" About five o'clock, after it had grown light when the sky in the east was turning golden her long vigil was re warded. Moiing along the road, with a tired step, she saw a white horse, nnd n moment later she recognized the rider. Then she put her icy hands to hrr fnce nnd burst into tears of relief. An hour later, with a mother's solici tude, Mrs. Lancaster stole into her room and found her asleep, her head resting on the bare window hoard. The good woman comprehended it all, and, rals- yzN yW ing tho girl's fnce, she kissed her eye lids till they opened. "He Is safe!" were Evelyn's llrst words. "I saw him come home. I liir tended to go to bed then, but t wns say ing my prnyers here when'I fell nslecp." Mrs. Lancaster's lips twitched sympa thetically as she put Evelyn to bed and sat by her stroking her brow until sleep came again. Then the old lady sat with her chin resting In her hand, quite thoughtful. "1 really don't know which way my duty lies," she mused. "She loves him she loves him just ns I should have done at her age, nnd she will sulTcr over giving him up as I suffered when, ho was torn out of my life." CHAl'TEU IX. Tlie guests and family at Carnlelgh usually came down to breakfast irregu larly, but this morning by eight o'clock they were all at the table, Including Evelyn. The colonel, who had been out for nn curly business walk witli one of lils overseers, was the last to'sltdown. And as he took his place at the head of the table he had the air of a mnin anxious to be questioned. He had picked up u piece of news. "Well," he began, with twinkling eyes, "it scents that Itonald Fnushnw was not spending his breath nnrfVld ing his horse to death for nothing." "So he reached the jail nil right, did he?" inquired Mr. llurdy, us he put n spoonful of whipped cream into his cof fee. '"Oli, yes, he made that trip all right, but the news has just come from Wilkin Station, on tlie other side of the moun tain, that a negro has been nrrested who has already confessed to the crime of killing the old woman." , "So the boy was innocent, nfter all!" cried Hardy. "Yes; the bhcrili uubbed the wrong bird nt tlie start, nnd If it hnd not been for Fnnshuw his body would hue been swinging al the sport of the wind this morning." "And u widowed mother would hnve been without her son," put in Mi-H.Lancaster, with telling effect. "Fnnshaw did only what nny man would hnve doire who believed in the prisoner's Innocence," said Capt. Win kle, with nu ley smile at no one in par ticular. Hut Mrs. Lancaster was more than u inntch for him. "It's only whut one mnn did do," she retorted. Thereupon Winkle stirred his coffee in moody bl lencc. "1 nin sorry it was Bonnld Fanshnw who Is to yet all the credit." remarked Caroline llusbrooke, coldly. "Since he has taken up the study of Inw it looks ns if he has u pretty good idea of his im portance. Tilings arc coming to a pret ty pass when such' people as the Fan shnws get into the professions usually held by gentlemen." "Don't kick against the pricks" (it wns a favorite expression of her fa ther's), "the common people hne been rising into prominence since the birth of creation." "And the better class hns been degen erating," remarked Mr. Hardy, with a slow smile. "As far ns I am concerned, I'd rather employ a man like Fanshaw to defend me, if I Were on trial for my life, than some mnn with more ancestry aiid less Individual force." "Bravo! bien dit," applauded Mrs. Lancaster, nnd she rose to accompany Evelyn out on the lawn. The dew lay as heavy as raindrops on the grass and hung like scintillating gems from tlie gorgeous hollyhocks, the Indian' chieftains, nnd the roses flared like billows of red on the silvery green swnid of the sloniutr terraces. Mrs. Lancaster was first to break the silence. "I need not tell you I'm glad that boy was innocent," she began. "1 am espe cially glud because it emphasizes tlie nobility of Mr. Fanshaw's act. I am go ing to drive over to his house in the pony cart this morning. 1 have something to sny to him." Ew-Iyn raised her great eyes In aston ishment, but she uttered no comment. Mrs. Lancaster's voice shook per ceptibly ns she went on: "Nothing has ever affected me so powerfully us all this has. Last night the Impassioned fervor of his voice while lie was speaking down there hi ought back some of the ten d crest and saddest recollections of my young married life. It reminded me of a speech In favor of secession that my husband made, just before the war broke out. There seemed to be a ring in Mr. i'nnshnw's tones like my husband's. It may have been only my imagination, and the great dis tance, bul it drove me nearly wild with the old pain. And last night In thinking of Mr. Fanshaw's danger, it seemed to be my husband who was in peril. Hoally, I did not sleep a wink. I went to the window a hun dred times. 1 saw Mr. Fanshaw re turning this morning, and then I drew my first easy breath. Oh, Evelyn!" (Mrs. Lancaster was gazing into the girl's eyes; "what is the matter with both of uh?" Evelyn shook her head; her rich, abundant hair glistening like threads of burnished gold in the sun. "I know what's the matter with me," she said, with a little laugh. "I hope something else is wrong with you." .Mrs. Lancaster sighed. "When I get back from his house I may tell you what I am going for, but I shall not now no, I shall not now." To I3o Cfntlnued. DEWET IN TIGHT PLACE. ItrltUli C'otmnamlorn Hnpn toHoon Cptnrf tho llnnr I.tiuilnr llttrglinrn (1st t7, 000 Slump Near Krugnrtlnrp. Allwnl North, Cnpc Colony, Dec. 9. Gen. Dcwct appears to be In n most dangerous position and to need alt his strategy to extrichto his force. With strong British columns on three Hides nnd two swollen rivers barring his front, the British eoniinnndera begin to bo hopeful that tho great cluiHc by four columns which has been ono of the most exciting opera tions of tho war will result In the enpturo of Dewet. It is not clear from Kitchener's meager dispatch whether tho road through Bouxvlllo to Wepencr Is still open to him. If It bo closed he may bo run down In the southeastern corner of tho Orange lltvor colony. Gen. Kitchener has evidently made the capture of Dewet the llrst object of his campaign, and Is not leaving n stone unturned. Gen. MncDonald has been sent, to Allwnl North nnd Knox's forces Include several mobile, moiinteil columns. Johniinoliiirg rVnrrtl with llnrliml Wlv. London, Dec. 10. A dispatch from .lohaunesburg says the town hns been fenced round with barbed wire to pre vent tho Inhabitants getting food to tho Boors. IloiT Cnptttro 17,000 Hhnnp, Johannesburg, Dec. 0. Tho Uoers have captured 17,000 sheep from a small detachment of British troops in tho vicinity of Krugerdorp. SOME MISSOURI TOWNS. Cnnu onirn (lv. Mat of Pinned In Stat lliivliiir Mor TIimii S4.000 mill Ldm Tl.nn S3.O0I) flilMhltnnt. Washington, Dec. I). The population of certain' incorporated places in Mis souri having a population of more than 2,000, but less than 25,000, Is nH follows: Albany 2.20.rl Liberty 2,407 A111"01"'1,-, ?" Louisiana cm Hoonvlllo -1.377 Mncon 4.ni Rothany . 2.0!)3IMurci!llno 2.0M Hrook fluid Rutler . California Cameron , n.isi Marshall coso iMlirwIIln 4.KTT .'i.ins 2.1.X1 2,!)7!t Memphis 2.1K5 Mexico G.0M Moberly 8,012 Monctt a.nr. Canton :,;iii.r) Capo airnrdcnu 4,81.1 Cnrrolltaii 3.DGI Cartorvlllo 4.4Ki Carthago 0.41U CnruthorsvlUo . 2,3in Chllllcotho O.'.HV) Clinton n.or.i Columbia 5,561 Montgomery C'y,2.rc 1-HCOHIlO .. ...... Z,3 No vn da 7.4fit Ornnogo 2,073 Palmyra 2,323 Plorco City 2.171 Pleasant Hill.... 2.002 Ponlar III111Y 4.xsi Do Soto fi.Citli Eldorado Sp'gs. 2.i:i7 Fnyetto 2.717 nifh 11111 j nr.i Richmond 3.47H Ht. Charles .... 7,983 Scdalla 15.231 Slntor 2,602 Snrlnirllolil 2.1 ?rr Fulton 4,883 Oranby 2,3Ui Hannibal 12.780 Illirtrlimvllln ... 2.7111 Hohleil 2.120 Htanborry 2,(Sil Tronton 5,336 inucpendouco .. u.'.m Jefferson City.. O.fifil Klrkflvllln 0,!)W Klrkwood 2.S25I Lamar 2.737 I.chnnon 2.12.ri unionvllli! 2,oro WarrnnHliiirir ... 4 791 Washington 3,oiR weiiii uuy .... d.zoi west lMnlnit .... 2.WKI Lexington i,VM FOR DEED OF HEROISM. Hutch 1 Million, tin Amwrlrmi Snllnr, Will Itnctilvn Prmiflli ftllnl for Itnuculnir Nlz Mnn f oni Drowning. Elgin, 111., Dec. 10. Hugh P. Mullen, who enlisted in the nnvy in Chicago on Juno 2:i; 1000, and who was awarded a first-class medal by tho secretary of tho navy for saving tho life of a com rado who fell overboard from thn battleship Texas off Newport News, litis been recommended for n medal by the admiral of tho French navy for rescuing six French sailors who were capsized from a small boat olT Gibral tar last month. lie h now coxswain on board the lmtllcKhlp Kentucky, and, together with a Hcaman, dived into tlie sea and despite the great danger involved succeeded in keeping tho French sailors alloat until the party was rescued. The act was per formed during a heavy gale and in n rough sea. A FIEND INCARNATE. Knnttitiltlitii Confn.trs to llruliil Murrinrnf Hit Child to Heutirn B4 Inminuicn nn jm I.lfr. Maysvllle, Ky., Dec. 10. William Gibson, who tortured to death his three-year-old step-child near Cat tlettsburg by burning its body, face and bend with u red-hot poker, gave wny Saturday under tho strain nnd to his jailer told the story of his crime. Ho implicated his wife and says that the murder was for tho pur pose of collecting a small insurance on the child's life. Gibson says ho does not remember the amount, but it is stated that it was only $24. Ho says that the method of burning the child's body wns adopted for tho pur pose of giving It tho nppcaranec of having the smallpox and Isolating the house so ns to prevent 11 full investi gation. DELAYED TILL FEBRUARY. Owing to MnorlHh IVtlvlH CJoiimil Oum- mnro Ilua Iontponeil IIIh Vlult 10 the hultitn or Morocco. Washington, Dec. O.-Upon his own suggestion Consul Gummere lias been authorized by the state department to defer, his proposed visit to the eapital of Morocco in connection with the Eswigui case until next February, owing to tho fact thnt certain Moor ish festivals are to occupy the next six weeks in thnt country, preventing tho transaction of business. "--tiwr" 3ltf-iir ?A iSSe.;