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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
W. W. SANDISItH, PublMlior.
NEMAHA, "I - ' - NEHHASKA.
THE MAN WHO WORRIED.
"Oh, If I might put grief away
And hid adieu to enrc,"
The man who worried hIbIipu, ono duy,
"Tho world would he ho falrl
But pencil avoids my yearning breast,
Arid hniiplntKH goes by
Ah, Minll 1 over llnd tho rest
I long for oro 1 die?"
"Why grlcvo?" tho migu who heard
re-
pucu;
"IIos not your toll availed?
Tho ones you love aro by your Hide,
Whero have your efforts fulled?
1 eo around you luxurlcH
That many i man would deem
Tho rich and tcxtful properties
Of fcomo onchuntlng dream."
"My efforts havo been fairly paid,
My worn ara not alono
From errors I mynolf havo made,
Of chances that aro flown
Hut them's my neighbor! Day by dny
IIo mounts his fortuneH grow
How can I drive my gloom away
Whllo ho outstrips mo so?"
8. E, Klser, In Chicago Tlmes-Ifcrald.
CopyrlKht: J, 1900, by the J. I). Llpplncott Co.
CHAPTICH I. Continued.
Only ono man of thu party seemed
to liavo no further interest in what
wan going on out. side. With ono hnnd
ntiil grasping tho edge of tho upright
partition between two sections near
tho forward end, and tho otlior just
letting go, apparently, of tho bell
cord, tho tall, Hlender, well-built
young Holdler, with dark-brown cycH
and softly curling lashes, was lower
ing himself into tho aisle. The
brnkcmtiu procueded to rebuke him
on tho spot.
"Look here, young feller. You'll
linvo to keep your hands off that bell
cord. Hero I've been eussln' things
for keeps, thlnkln' it was knotted or
caught. It was just you had hold of
It. Don't yon know better'n that?
Ain't you over traveled before?"
Tho man addressed was stowing
aomothing away inside tho breast of
his shirt. Ho did it with almost os
tentatious deliberation, quietly eying
tho brakoman boforu replying. Then,
slowly readjusting tho knot of 11 line
black silk necktie, so that its broad,
flapping ends spread over tho coarser
material of tho garment, ho slowly
looked tho justly oxnsporatcd brake
man over from head to foot and as
slowly and placidly answered:
"Not more thnn about hulf around
tho world. As for your hell cord, it
was knotted; it taught in that ring.
I saw that some ono was tugging and
trying to get it loose, so 1 swung up
there and straightened it. .TiiHt what
you'd havo done under tho clrcum
Htnnces, I fancy."
Tho brakemtiu turned redder un
der tho ruddy brown of his sun
tanned skin. This was no raw
"rookio" after all. Tn his own ver
nacular, as afterwards expressed to
tho conductor, "I seen I was up ag'in
tho real t'ing dis time," but it was
hard to admit it at tho moment.
Voxation had to havo a vent. Tho
boll cord no longer served. Tho sup
posed meddler had proved a help.
Something or somebody had to bo
tho victim of tho honest brakoman's
spleen, so, somewhat unluckily, as
events dotermlned, ho took it out on
tho company and that dccroplt car,
now buzzing along with much com
plaint of axlo and of bearing.
"Damn tills old shake-down, any
howl" Baid he. "Tho company ought
to know 'nough not to havo such
things lyin' round loose. Somo night
it'll fall to pieces and kill folks."
And with this implied apology for
his aspersions of Hecruit Foster, tho
brakoman bustled away.
But what ho said was heard by
more than one, and remembered when
perhaps lie would havo wished it for
gotten. Tho delay at Ogden was sup
plemented by a long halt before tho
sotting of that blazing sun, neces
sitated by tho firing of tho wasto
in tho boxes of those long-neglected
trucks. Par back as tho rearjnost
uleoper thqt sickening smell of burn
ing, oil-steeped packing drove femi
nine occupants to their satchels in
search of scent-bottles, and tho men
to such comfort as could be found
in flasks of bulkier make.
In "the lieart of tho desert, with
dust and desolation sprending far
on every hand, tho long train had
stopped to douse- those foul-smelling
Arcs, and, whllo train-hands 'pried
oil tho red-hot caps and dumped
buckets of water into tho blazing
cavities, changing malodorous smoko
to dense clouds of equally unsavory
steam, and tho recruits in tho uffllot
ed car found consolation in "josh
ing" tho hard-sweating, hard-swearing
workers, tho young olllcer who
had boarded tho second sleeper nt
Ogden, with half a dozen bipods in
dusters or frazzled shirt-sleeves, hud
becomo involved In a complication an
the shadier side of tho train.
Somewhere into the sage-brush
Jnck-rabbit had darted and was now
in hiding. With a dozen eager heads
poked from tho northward windows
and stretching arms and index fin
gers guiding them in their inglorious
hunt, the lieutenant and his few
associates wcro stalking tho first
four-fooled object sighted from the
trnin bIiicc Hid crossing of tho bald
divide.
Within tho heated cars, witli
(lushed faces and plying palm-leaf
fans, a fow of tho women pnsscngers
wcro languidly gazing from tho win
dows. At the center window of tho
second sleeper, without a palm-leaf
and looking serene and unperturbed,
sat tho young girl whoso lovely faco
had so excited Mr. Stuyvesant's deep
admiration. Thrice since leaving
Ogden, on ono pretext or other, had
ho passed her section and stolen such
a look as could bo given without
obvious staring. Immediately In rear
of tho sent alio occupied was an aus
tere maiden of middle ngc, one of
tho passengers who had como on by
tho Union Pacific from Omaha. Di
rectly opposito sat two men whom
Stuyvesant had held in but scant
esteem up to tho timo they left tho
valley of Salt Lake. Now, because
their sections stood over against
hers, his manner relaxed with his
mood. Circumstances hnd brought
tho elderly maid and himself to tho
same table on two occasions in the
dining-car, but ho had hitherto felt
no desire to press tho acquaintance.
This afternoon ho minded him of
a new book lie had In his bag, for
literature, ho judged, might bo her
hobby, and had engaged her in con
versation, of which his share was
meant to Impress tho tiny, translu
cent ejar that nestled in tho dark
brown coils and waves of tho pretty
head in front of him.
When, however, it became patent
that his companion desired to form
her own impressions of tho pages un
influenced by his woll-dellvercd com
ments, Mr. Stuyvesant hnd bethought
him of the semlsomuoleut occupants
of tho opposite section, and somo
cnbalistlo signs ho ventured with a
little silver cup summoned them in
pleased surprise to tho water-cooler
at tho rear end, whero ho regaled
thorn with a good story and the best
of V. O. P. Scotch, and accepted their
lavish bid to sit with them awhile.
Prom this coign of vantage lie had
studied her sweet, serious, oval face
as she sat placidly reading a little
volume in her hi), only onco in uwhllo
raising a pair of very dark, very
beautiful, very heavily browed and
laslied brown eyes for brief survey of
tho forbidding landscape; then, with
never an Instant's peep at him,
dropping their ga.o again upon tho
book.
Not onco in the long, hot afternoon
had she vouchsafed him tho mini
mum of a show of interest, curiosity,
or even consciousness of his pres
ence. Then tho train made its sec
ond stop on account of tho fires,
and Uro'r Babbit his luckless break
Into tho long monotony of tho de
clining day.
Tentative spikes, clods and empty
flasks having failed to find him, the
beaters had essayed a skirmish line,
and witli instant result. Llko a
meteoric puff of gray and while, to
a chorus of yells and the accompani
ment of a volley of missiles, Jack
shot into space from behind his
shelter and darted zigzagging
through tho brush. A whizzing
spike, a chance shot that nearly
grazed his nose, so dazzled his brain
let that tho terrified creature dou
bled on his trail and came bounding
back towards the train.
Closo to tho track-side ran a nar
row ditch. In this ditch at tho in
stant crouched tho tall lieutenant.
Into this ditch leaped Bunny, and
tho next second had whizzed past
tho stooping form and bored straight
into a little wooden drain. There
somo unseen, unlooked-for object
blocked him.
Desperately tho hind-legs kicked
and tore in tho effort to force the
passage, nnd with a shout of tri
umph tho tall soldier swooped upon
tho prize, seized tho struggling legs,
swung the wretched creature aloft,
and for the first timo in six mortal
hours met full in his own tho gnzo
of tho deep, beautiful brown eyes ho
hnd so striven to attract, and they
were half pleading, balf command
ing for Bunny. Tho next instnnt, un
injured, but leaping madly for life,
Uro'r Babbit was streaking eastward
out of harm's way, a liberated victim
whoso first huge leap owed much of
Its length to tho impetus of Stuyve
sant's long, lean, sinowy arm.
This timo when ho looked up and
raised his cap, and stood there with
his blonde hair blowing down over
tho broad white forehead, although
the soft curves of the ripe red lips
at the window above him chnnged
not, there was something in tho
dark-brown eyes that seemed to say:
"Thank you!"
Yet when he would havo met those
eyes again that evening, when "Last
call for dinner in tho dining-car"
was sounding through tho train, ho
could not. Neither wero they among
thosq that peered from between
parted curtains in tho dim light of
tho sleeper, many in fright, all in
anxiety, when somewhere in tho dead
of tho summer night "-long after all
occupants of the rearmost cars were
wrapped in slumber, the long train
bTitnpcd to n sudden jnrrlng stand
still, and up ahead there arose sound
of rush, of excitement and alarm.
CIIAl'TEK II.
It was just after sunset, when, for
tho second time, the hot boxes of the
recruit car had been treated to lib
eral libations from the water-tank,
and tho belated train again
moved on.
Dinner hnd been ready in the dining-car
a full hour, hut so long, as
the sickening smell of burning waste
arose from tho trucks immediately
tn front very fow of the passengers
seemed capable of eating. Tho car,
as a consequence, was crowded to
wards eight o'clock, and the steward
and waiters were busy men.
Tho evening air, drifting in
through open windows, was cooler
thnn It had been during tho day,
but still held enough of the noontide
caloric to make fans a comfort, and
Mr. Stuyvesant, dining at 11 "four-in-hand"
table well to tho front, nnd
attempting to hold his own in a
somewhat desultory talk with his
fellow-men, found himself paying far
more attention to thu lovely face
of tho girl across the aisle than to
the viands sot before him.
Sho wns seated facing tho front,
and opposito tho austere maiden
previously mentioned. Conversation
hud already begun, nnd now Stuyve
sant was able to see that, beautiful
In feature as was her face In repose,
its beauty wns far enhanced when
estimated and smiling.
"When to well-nigh perfect external
features there is added tho charm of
faultlessly even and snowy teeth nnd
a smile that illumines the' entire face,
shining in the eyes as it plays about
tho pretty, sensitive 'mouth, a young
woman is fully equipped for con
quest. Stuyvesant gazed in fascinntion un
controllable. IIo envied tho prim,
precise creature who sat unbending,
severe, nnd, oven while keeping up a
semblance of interest in the conver
sation, seemed to feel it a duty to
display disapprobation of such youth
ful charms.
No woman Is so assured that
beauty is only skin deep as she who
has none of it. Her manner, there
fore, had been decidedly stiff, nnd
from that had imperceptibly ad
vanced to condescension, but when
tho steward presently appeared with
a siphon of iced seltzer, and, bowing
deferentially, said he hoped every
thing was to Miss Hay's liking, nnd
ndded that it seemed a long timo
since they had seen tho captain and
supposed lie must bo a colonel now,
tho thin eyebrows of tho tall maiden
were uplifted into little arches that
paralleled tho furrows of her brow
as sho inquired:
"Miss Hay? from Fort Leaven
worth?" The answer was a smiling nod of
assent as tho younger lady burled
her lovely, dark face in the flowers
set before her by assiduous waiter,
STUYVESANT QUICKLY AKOSE AND
STEPPED UP THE AISLE.
and Stuyvesant felt sure sho wns
trying to control an inclination to
laugh.
"Well, you must excuse mo if 1
havo been a little slow," said the
elder In evident perturbation. "You
see wo moot such queer people trav
elingsometimes. Don't you find
it so?"
Tho dark faco was dimpling now
with suppressed merriment.
"Yes occasionally," was the smil
ing answer.
"Rut thou, being tho daughter of
an army olllcer," pursued tho other,
hurriedly, "you have to travel n
great deal. I suppose you really
havo no homo?" she essayed in tho
half-hopeful tone to bo expected of
ono who considered that a being so
endowed by nature must suffer some
compensatory discomforts.
"Yes nnd no," answered Miss Hay.
urbanely. "In ono sense wo army
girls havo no home. In another, wo
have homes everywhere."
It is a repronch in tho eyes of cer
tain severe moralists that a fellow
bcli!g should bo so obviously, content
with his or her lot. Tho elder wom
an seemed to feel it a duty to ac
quaint this beaming creature with
tho manifest deficiency in her moral
make-up.
"Yea, but I should think moat any
nki
one would rather have a rcnl home,
n place where they weren't bounden
to anybody, no matter If it was hum
bly." (She called it "humbly," and
associated it in mind witli tho words
of Payne's immortal song.) "Now,
when I went to seo Col. Hay about
our society, ho told me ho had to
break up everything, going to Cuba,
but ho didn't mention about your
going west."
"Fnthcr was a little low in his
mind that day," said Miss Hay, a
shade of sadness passing over her
face. "Both my brothers aro in tho
service, and ono is barely 17."
"Out nt service!" interrupted tho
other. "You don't mean "
"No," was the laughing answer,
and in Miss Hay's enjoyment of tho
situation her eyes came perilously
near seeking those of Mr. Stuyve
sant, which she well knew wcro fixed
upon her. "I mean that both aro In
the army."
Well I thought not still I
didn't know. It's nil rather new to
me, this dentin' with soldiers, but I
suppose I'll get to know all about it
after a spell. Our society's getting
much encouraged."
"Hed Cross?" queried Miss Hay,
with uplifted brows and evident in
terest, yet a suspicion of incredulity.
"Well, same thing, only wo don't
propose to levy contributions right
and left like they do. I am vice
president of the Society of Patriotic
Daughters of America, you know. 1
thought perhaps your father might
havo told you. And our association
is self-sustaining, at least It will bo
as soon as wo aro formally recog
nized by the government. You know
the Hcd Cross hasn't any real stand
ing, whereas our folks expect tho
president to issue the order right
away, making us part of tho regular
hospital brigade. Now, your father
wns very encouraging, though somo
officers wo talked to wero too stuck
up to bo decent. When I 'called on
Gen. Drnyton he just as much as up
and told me we'd only be in the way."
Just here, it must be owned, Miss
Hay found it necessary to divo under
tho table for a handkerchief which
she had not dropped.
Mr. Stuyvesant, ignoring the teach
ings of his childhood nnd gazing
over the rim of his coffee cup, ob
served that she was with difficulty
concealing her merriment. Then, all
of a sudden, her face, that had been
so full of radiance, became suddenly
clouded by concern and distress. Tho
door nt tho head of tho car had
swung open and remained so, despite
tho roar and racket of tho wheels
and tho sweep of dust and cinders
down the aisle. Tho steward glanced
up from his cupboard opposito tho
kitchen window at tho v rear, and
quickly motioned to somo, ono to
shut that door. A waiter sprang
forward, and then came the steward
himself. The look in tho girl's faco
was enough for Stuyvesant. IIo
whirled about to seo what had
caused it, and became instantly
aware of a stout-built soldier sway
ing uneasily at tho entranco and in
thick tones arguing with the waiter.
IIo saw at a glance tho man had been
drinking, and divined he was there
to get more liquor. Ho was on tho
point of warning the steward to sell
him none, but was saved the trouble.
Tho steward bent down and whis
pered: "This makes the second timo he's
como in since six o'clock. 1 refused
to let him have a drop. Can't some
thing bo done to keep him out? Wo
can't lock tho door, you know, sir."
Stuyvesant quickly arose and
stepped up the aisle. By this time
everybody was gazing towards tho
'front entranco in concern nnd curi
osity. The colored waiter was still
confronting tho soldier as though
to prevent his coming farther into
tho car. The soldier, with Hushed
and sodden face and angry eyes, had
placed a hand on tho broad shoul
ders of tho servant and was clumsily
striving to put him aside.
To Be Continued.
Prune Your 1'OMMlliiliflcN.
As a rule, after a man has reached
his meridian, he will go on doing as he
has done before; he has become prac
tically a slave to his environment nnd
habits of life. Prune your sapling,
before time has made Its rings anil
hardened tho fibers of the tree. The
most beautiful flowers and the finest
fruit aro the results of judicious prun
ing in the springtime of the life of the
plnnt or tree. The finest manhood and
womanhood enn bo developed by a
wise use of tho pruning knifo in
youth, and the benefits will be found
in old nge. Success.
An Appreciated Dedication.
Pietro Mnscagni, whose fame came
with thu production of "Cavnlleria
Hustlcana," has grown weary of his
critics, and as a response to them has
dedicated his new opern: "Tho
Musks," to himself. This is tho dedi
cation: "To myself. With distinguished es
teem and unalterable satisfaction."
London News.
What Toiiuuie Snld.
Admiring Mother Now, Tommie,
what do you sny to Mr. Bildud for giv
ing you that penny?
Tommlc Please, Mister Bitdnd, I
wlsht it wuz a nickel. Ohio State Jour-ual.
W -v ft It I II I I L X'
SMALL APPLE DRIER.
For ClcntillncHH mill Facility of Op
eration Thin Iloiiictiinilc Device
linn No Superior,
The illustration shows an npplo
drier adapted to use on the ordinary
stove or range, nnd which for cleanli
ness and facility is superior to any
other method of fruit drying on a
small scale. Any good tinner will bo
able to make tho main parts, and tho
cost should not be much. Have made
a tin box about iya to 2 feet deep. Tho
other dimensions may be made to s'uit
the available heating surface of stove,
say 20 inches square. The box is left
open nt the bottom, has several holes
made in top, and is fitted with a hinged
door at one side. Put four sieves,
four inches apart, inside box, support-
IMPROVISED APPLE DIUEtt.
ing them on three arrangements like
A, made of heavy pieces of tin about
two inches broad, bent in the form il
lustrated, and riveted in box inside,
one at each end and one in middle
The end supporters of sieves are bent
as. in the cut, to extend down nnd serve
os feet for the drier. The middle
supporter need not reach below box.
If desired, the supporting deuces,
may be made like B, using three on
each side. The sieves (C), nrc easily
made by tacking wire netting, of not
too close mesh, on a tin framp, or
lapping it over n frame of heavy wire.
They slide in nnd out on the supports
just described, nnd may change places
as the drying progresses. When drier
is made in the way described, without
bottom, the sieves receive the direct
hent which rises from the stove. If"
thought best, the drier may have a bot
tom, and the drying be carried on be
moans of the hot air inside of box.
It will be best to have a removable tin
bottom, which slides in on the holders
the same as the sieves, and fits closely
to sides of box. Then the drier maybe
used with or without bottom, ns seems
best to suit the particular purpose.
J. G. Allshousp, iu Farm and Home.
UNIQUE FRENCH IDEA.
now a Kuropcnu Florlnt Ubck Esir-
SIicIIh to Excellent Advantage
In Horticulture.
A French florist, who is also an ex
tensive breeder of poultry for eggs,
says that he uses the shells to good
advantage in horticulture. IIo
punches nt the bottom of each half
shell with a sharp penknife a little
hole 1-10 inch for drainage, fills tho
shell with good rich earth, suitable
to the vegetation it is intended to
contain, puts in one or two seeds,
stands the shells up in a ilut box of
earth, keeps them warm and moist,
and then when he thinks he can trust
the wenther outdoors and the seeds
have sprouted sufficiently, he breaks
the shell nnd puts the little ball of
earth into its proper place.
He says, as not a root hns been
disturbed, it is far preferable to the
insignificant "torn" pots he formerly
used, nnd with a favorable time for
transplanting there nre no wilted
leaves to retard the growing of tho
plants. IIo is a great grower of
muskmelons, and his success, he says,
is great.
He applies the shells to the use of
delicate seeds, to cuttings of temper
ate plants, ueh ns verbenas, fuchsias,
geraniums and pelargoniums, and
own to pick out small seedlings
originally sowed in pans or such like,
ns they retain that way, when need
ed to bo potted, a solid mnss, well,
constructed, and the roots nre not in.
the least disturbed. American Gar--dening.
Soil XecdH HoKiilnr Fccdliifr.
Ill his efforts to grow crops the in
tclllgent farmer must ever try to con
serve nnd add to the stock of avail
ublo plant food in the soil. The fer.
tility of a soil is measured by its pow
er to produce crops. A soil may havo.
many hundreds of pounds of plant'
food per acre, and still be unfertile,
while another mny contnin little plant
food, but may havo that little in an
available form and thus be productive,
i. c, fertile.
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