THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
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XT, W. SANDKK8, Fnbllaher.
NEMAHA, - ' - NEBRASKA.
SHEEP-HERDING.
A it-ay, alow-movlnt;, dust-bepowdertd
wave,
111 at on the edges breaks to scattering
ipruy,
'Round which my faithful collies wheel
and bark
To scurry-In tho Inward feet that stray;
A babel of complaining tongues that make
Tho still air weary with their ceaseless
fret;
Brown Mils akin to those of Galilee,
On which tho shepherds Und their
charges yet.
The long, hot days, tho stark, wind-beaten
nights;
No human presence, human sight or
sound;
drlm, silent land of wasted hopes, where
they
Who came for gold oft-times havo mad
ness found;
A bleating horror that foregathers speech,
Freezing tho word that from the Up
would pass,
And sends tho herdsman groveling with
his sheep,
Fa co down and beast-IIko on the tram
plod grass.
The collies halt, the slow herd sways and
reels,
Huddled In fright nbovo tho low ravine,
Whcro wild with thirst a herd unshop
herded Beat up and down with something dark
between;
A narrow circle that they will not cross,
A thing that stops the maddest In their
run,
A guarding dog too weak to lift his head
Who licks a still hand shriveled In the
sun.
Sharlot M. Hall, In Land of Sunshine.
BORN TO SERVE
By Charles M. Sheldon,
Author of "IN niSSTBPS," "JOHN KINO'S
QUESTION CLASS." " EDWARD
BLAKE,'1 Etc.
lUurlKlU, 1VW, by Cbarlea M. Blioldou.)
CHAPTER IV. Continued.
Hilda, who hnd given signs of be
ing in a hurry, ro.su and walked to
ward tliu door. Barbara also gob up,
and, Hoinuu'liat to Mrs. Vano's Biir
prlHo wild: "I think I'll go, too. I'll
walk nlong down town with you, Hil
da, it you don't mind."
Hilda nodded and Barbara was not
quite Huro that hIiu was pleased to
havo her company; but Barbara, had
been thinking of a plan, and hIiu need
ed to be with Hilda a little while in
order to carry It out. So the two
went away together.
They had walked down the street
half a block, when, in answer to a
question, Hilda tmid she was plan
ning to do some shopping.
"Lot me go, too; nro you willing?"
"I don't mind," said Hilda, but with
. a note of hesitation that Barbara
could not help remarking.
They went into several of the
smaller stores, where both of them
purchased one or two small articles,
and finally entered the great Btoro
of Bnudmnns.
Hilda knew one of the girls in this
tore, and as they stood by tho
counter she introduced Barbara. Tho
girl behind the counter stared hard
at Barbara, but returned her greet
ing civilly enough, and then began
to giggle and whisper with Hilda.
Hilda seemed nervous, and repeated
ly looked at Barbara us if she were
In. tho way; and Barbara, thinking
tho others might have somu secrets,
walked over to the opposite counter.
She hud been- there only a minute
when u young man sauntered up to
Hilda and the friend behind tho coun
ter, and all three began to talk to
gether. Ho was not n bad-looking
follow, but Barbara quickly put him
down as of that class of weak-headed
youths who might be seen almost
any Sunday evening walking down tho
main street of Crawford in company
with one or more factory girls.
This time liarhnru did not attempt
to avoid watching Hilda. A floor
walker in the store, going by at the
stunt' time, glanced sharply at tho
young man; but ho was apparently
buying something. Tho floorwalker
turned at this end of tho counter, and
came back; and this time ho looked
longer at the two girls, and finally
beckoned to tho one behind tho
counter. She turned very red, and
came over to where ho stood, lio
whispered something to her that
made her turn pale and Instantly she
went back and completed the sale of
some little articles that Hilda had
bought, giving the floor-walker, as
sho did so, several hateful looks.
Hilda and the young man contin
ued to talk together while waiting
for tho change. When it came, ho
seemed to hesitate and finally looked
aver at Barbara. Hilda said some
thing, and ho answered and walked
slowly out of tho store.
Barbara camo over, and Hilda
picked up hor purchases.
"Aro you ready?"
"Yes," Hilda said shortly, and after
a word from tho girl behind tho coun
ter they went out.
They walked along for some dis
tance and then Barbara ventured to
Hoy'Why didn't you introduce mo
to your young gentleman friend?"
Hilda colored deeply as sho an
swered slowly: "1 didn't suppose you
would euro to know him."
Why not?"
"Well, you're not really one of us,"
said Hilda, looking sideways at Bar
bara. Barbara could not help smiling.
"How not ono of you?"
"Airs. Vnne told mo you'ro not
really working out."
"What am 1 doing?"
"I don't know," replied Hilda, hope
lessly, and then wns silent. Bar
bara mndo her decision rapidly.
"But I'm working out just as much
as you arc, Hilda. What is tho dif
ference?" "You'ro educated," said Hilda
shortly.
"But that has nothing to do with
tho fnct of my being a servant in
Mrs. Ward's house. I want to bo
friends with you, Hilda. Aren't you
willing?"
"I don't mind," Hlldn answered, in
a tono that Barbara did not think
very encouruging. They walked on a
distance without speaking. Then
Barbara became conscious thntacrosu
tho street, nearly opposite, tho young
man who had come into the store
wns walking, and Hilda knew it as
well.
Barbara looked at tho girl again
iind tho look determined her next
question, even at the risk of loosing
what little hold she might have on
Hilda.
"I am going to turn down here to
Mrs. Ward's,' she said as they reached
a corner and stopped. As they
stopped, Barbara saw tho young man
linger and finally stop in his course,
"lhopc you won't misunderstand me,"
Barbara continued, looking into Hil
da's faco with great frankness. "But
does your young gentleman friend
visit you frequently at Mrs. Vane's?"
Hilda turned red, and at first Bar
bara thought sho was about to give
an angry reply. Instead of that sho
began to laugh a little.
"Yes, ho calls sometimes. He's In
tho packing-house on night force."
Barbara looked at Hilda earnestly a
moment, then abruptly turned, snying
"Good-bye," as she left. She did not
look back, but was as certain as if she
had that the young man had instnntly
crossed the street and joined Hilda.
"And what business is it of mine if
lie has?" Barbara vexed herself witli
the question as she walked along. "I
nm glad she said he called. Mrs. Vnne
must know it. What business is it of
mine if the girl meets him this way?
He probably has very little other time.
Shall a girl out at service have no so
ciety, no company? O, the whole thing
is of a miserable piece with the entire
miserable condition of service. What
Is to prevent girls like Hilda throw
ing themselves awny on young men
like this one? Ami who is cither to
blame her or core one way or the other
If she does? And whnt possible pros
pect is there for me or any one to
change the present condition of
things?"
Barbara walked slowly bnck to her
work, depressed by the events of the
afternoon. What, indeed, could she do,
if, as Mrs. Vnne said, the very people
that needed to be helped into better
ways of living did not care to be
helped; If, like Hilda, they snw no far
ther and eared no more for better
things than the little episode of the
store and the young man suggested.
She felt so helpless in view of future
progress that when she went up to her
room that evening she was in great
need of comfort, and in her search for
the passages having servants in mind
she came upon that one in Titus, sec
ond chapter, ninth verse:
"Exhort servants o be in subjection
to their own masters and to be well
pleasing to them In all things; not
gainsaying; not purloining; but show
ing all good fidelity; that they may
adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour
in all things."
"I don't think there is any danger of
my 'purloining,' " Barbara said, smil
ing a little. "Although 1 have home
times been tcmptd to do a little
'gainsaying,' especially when Mrs.
Ward has one of her severe headaches.
I renlly believe I have tried to be 'well
pleasing' and also establish a reputa
tion for 'good fidelity.' But that is a
wonderful end to the exhortation:
'That they may adorn the doctrine of
God our Saviour in all things.' If a
servant, a slave in rum s tunc, count cr-
on serving with that end in view, what
shall I say of myself? Is my service
of such a character that it adorns like
a jewel that which in itself Is a jewel
to begin with, the doctrine of God our
Saviour? This is a high standard for
a hired girl, Barbara. If you live up to
it, it will keep you busy."
She ottered her prayer with great
earnestness that she might have the
leading of tho Spirit of Light, and In
her prayer she remembered Hilda,
fearing she knew not what for the
girl, realising as she never before had
realized the many dangers that face
working girls in large cities, and real
izing, too, that, if she accomplished
any great tilings as she sometimes
dreamed she might, it must be done by
the aid of a power greater than her
own, for never before had she felt her
own human weaklier so strongly.
For the next three weeks tho days
went by in an ordinary way for ljar
haru; but, when site had time to reflect
on them, she acknowledged that they
had contained important events for
lier. it is because we are not able to
bee the bearing of what occurs day by
day upon the entire programme of life
that very often we do not count each
day's nun as a part of the sum totul.
Barbara ljad been unusually con
fined to the housework. Mrs. Wnrd had
been again subject to un attack of
nervous headache, and tho whole of
the care had been thrown upon Bar
bara. Mrs. Ward had now learned to
trust her implicitly. This did not
mean that the sharpness of her man
ner under stress of her headaches had
entirely disappeared; but Barbara had
learned nhnost perfectly how to antic
ipate her wishes, and the girl's great
love for Carl and his complete trust in
her, together with Barbara's cheerful,
competent hnndling of the entire
kitchen, had all united to capture MrB.
Ward's affections. She was content,
even in her enforced idleness, to lie
still with her pain and indulge in a
great feeling of thankfulness for such
a treasure in the house.
She wns talking of it one evening
with her husband.
"Do you renlize, Richard, what a
prize we have in Barbara?"
"She is certainly a most remarkable
girl. Tho most competent servant we
ever hud in the house, Isn't she?"
"Without nny comparison. And I
want you to build that room as soon as
you can."
Mrs. Ward had mentioned the mat
ter of the room over the kitchen, and
he had agreed that it was not suitable
for a girl like Barbara.
"Or any other girl, Richard," Mrs.
Ward had said.
"Yes, I'll have a carpenter come right
up and look over the house. We shall
have to raise the roof over the kitch
en." "Why can't we at the same time en
large the kitchen so that Barbara can
have a corner of that carpeted ofT for
her own when she does not want to
run upstairs? I snw Mrs. Rice's kitch
en the other day. It is unusually large.
One end of it is neatly iittcd up with a
table for books or sewing material,
several comfortable chairs, and pic
tures on the walls a very cozy, com
fortable corner, where her girl can re
ceive her company or sit down to read
or rest."
"But Barbara never has any com
pany, docs she?" Mr. Ward asked, with
a little amusement nt the look his wife
gave him. "She hasn't any beaus, as
all our other girls have had."
"No," Mrs. Ward answered, thought
fully. "But"
"Well, what?"
"If sho had, we would ask her to in
vite them into the parlor. Of course,
wo can't expect a girl as attractive as
Barbara is to go through life without
attracting some one."
"Unless her place as a servant "
began Mr. Ward.
"But why should that make any dif
ference?" Mrs. Ward asked, irritated
by the suggestion. "O denr, don't sug
gest my losing Barbara. Whoever gets
her for his wife will get a perfect
housekeeper and a rare, sweet girl in
every wny; but wo shall lose tho best
servant wo ever had, and then our
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MIS GO, TOO; AUK YOU WILL
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troubles begin again, Mr. Richard
Ward."
Mr. Ward was silent awhile, and
then he asked about Barbara's plans
for solving the servant question.
"I don't think she's done anything
lately. 1 know she hasn't. Mrs. Vane
sent over the other day to inquire
when she was coming to see her again.
My illness has kept Barbara very close
to the house lntely."
If Barbara had heard this talk, It
might have encouraged her to confide
In Mrs. Wuru un t a matter which
had begun to trouble her somewhat,
and that matter was no less than the
action of her own ron Alfred Ward.
It was now Hearing tho end of the
college vacation, and tho young man
would hoou l)e starting back to col
lege to enter on his senior year. "Dur
ing the weeks ho had been at home
he had spe it a great deal of the
time about the house. He was behind
in two of his studies, and wns work
ing n little to make up.
One day Harbaru while at work in
the dining-room heard him wrestling
with a German sentenco in Faust. He
seemed to b unable to render it into
good English and Barbara naturally
began to translnte it for him without
looking at the book.
"Isn't this the meaning?" she said,
and then gave a very good interpre
tation, Alfred listening ns he lounged
on the sofa, book in hand.
"Of course 'tis. Thats just Itl
What a numskull I must bcl Wish
you'd translate the whole thing for
me," the college youth ventured to
hint.
"Thank you, no, sir! I have other
work to do," Barbara had laughed.
But from that little incident she
began to note little irritating atten
tions paid to her, nt first insignificant,
but the last ff,w days before the
young man departed for college they
were unmistakable, and Barbara was
annoyed and even angered. She was
really much relieved when he had
gone.
But that experience wns not at all
to be compared with a dlcovcry sho
made ns to Alfred's habits, and it was
a matter of regret to her afterward
that she did not inform Mrs. Wnrd of
it. It was the fact that several times
she felt certain the young man had
been drinking. She had never known
him to be intoxicated; but she was
sure he had more than once been
dangerously near it, and it wns a
matter of surprlso to her that Mr.
and Mrs. Ward seemed so indifferent
to it.
"Oh dear I" Barbara sighed, as sho
went tho rounds of her daily tnsk,
carrying this added burden of knowl
edge. "Is there no family without its
skeleton? Ought I to drng it out for
their inspection, if they don't know
of its existence? It hardly seems to
be my business. And they must bo
blind not to have noticed ns much as
has been apparent even to a servant."
It wns a week after Alfred's de
parture that Mr. Ward announced the
news of Mr. Morton s acceptance of
his call to Marble Square church. It
was In the evening after the supper
work wns all done; and Bnrbara, as
her custom had bcin for several days
during the remodeling of her room,
was seated with the family in tho
dining-room, which wns also the
favorite living-room, helping Mrs.
Ward on some sewing. Lewis and
George were rending, and Carl was
playing on the floor near Barbara.
"I have Morton's letter of accept
ance, Martini. As chairman of the
supply'committec it came to me to
day. It is a good thing for Marble
Square church. The people had sense
enough to call him without going
through u long course of enndidat
ing." "When is ho coming?" Mrs. Ward
n.sked.
"Two weeks from next Sunday. Tho
church at Carlton released him under
special conditions, because they could
get a man at once to fill his place.
We're fortunate to get a man like
Morton. He has a future."
"Barbara mndo me a gingerbread
mnn once; and we called it Mr. Mor
ton, didn't we, Barbara?" Carl spoke
up suddenly, after . a absorbed silence
during which he was apparently not
listening to a syllable that was being
said.
"Where is Mr. Morton going to
stay?" Mrs. Wnrd asked.
"I don't know yet. I wrote him
that we would be delighted to take
him in here, but we didn't have tho
room."
"And I told Barbara," Carl broke
in ns if nothing had been said since
ho spoke Inst, "that 1 thought the
gingerbread man looked just like Mr.
Morton, and she said she thought it
didn't. I wish Mr. Morton would
come here to live, don't you, Bnrbara?
Wouldn't that be line?"
Barbara did not answer, and Carl
got up off the floor, and went over to
her and pulled her work out of her
hands.
"Carl! Carl! on mustn't do
thntl" his mother exclaimed.
"Say, Barbara, don't you?" Curl
persisted.
"Don't ask so ninny questions," re
plied Barbara, almost sharply.
"I haven't asked ninny," Carl pout
ed; but he went back to his game on
the floor, wondering in his childhood
mind what made the usually gentle
Barbara so cross.
"I think the Brays can take him in.
I hope they can. It's so near by that
we can have him with us often. We'll
be right on his way to church and
back," Mr. Ward remarked ns he set
tled himself to the reading of tho
evening paper.
To Ue Continued.
"Uiil Vive."
This sentinel's challenge has passed
into u proverb, nnd ts often used in this
country almost as a .substantive, "on
the alert" or "ready for action if nec
essary." But what Is Its origin? Tho
Standard Dictionary explains it to
mean "Who lives? who goes there?"
us if one of these expressions was
equivalent to the other; but few seem
to have noticed that, if so, vivo should
' be in the indicative instead of the sub
junctive mood. Vive la republiquel
means "May the republic live!" (i. e.,
continue), and qui ivo? should mean
not "Who lives?" but "Who may live?"
The difficulty was queried in your con
temporary, Ilntermediatle, and an
answer by .1. Lt. seems to explain it.
lie says that the old French challenge
was Qui va In? but when many phrases
particularly military were intro
duced from Italy, this was supplanted
by Chi vi vu? ("Who goes there?")
which was transformed into French
asQulvlve? -Notes and Queries,
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The University of Berlin lins 0,85?
students this winter. Munich comes
next, with 4,203.
The total number of students at the
universities of Germany this winter is
85,513, us against 34,303 last winter.
Miss Sarah Scovillo Whittlesey, of
Yale, has been appointed professor of
political economy at Welleslcy college.
Charles L. Hutchinson, the million
aire banker of Chicago, has been a
church worker and a Sunday school
superintendent for tho past 24 years.
President Clark, of the Christian En
deavor society, proposes a registra
tion of Endeavorcrs who are willing
to promise to maintain family prayers
In their homes.
A native of Basle, Switzerland, has
donated the local university 300,000
francs for the founding of chairs of
critical theology, philosophy and
biology, which arc to be free from all
Interference by church or state.
Dr. Thomas Chowder Chamberlain,
one of the most widely known geolo
gists of the country, has been elected
for his sixth term ns president of the
Academy of Sciences of Chicago. Ho
Is also professor oi geology in the Uni
versity of Chicago and editor of tho
Journal of Geology.
South Germany's oldest monastery,
the Benedictine abbey of Wcssobrun,
founded in 735 and confiscated in 1803,
has been restored to tho Benedictine
order by Baron von Cramer-Klett, n
Protestant, and will soon bo reoccu
pied by monks. The baron bought all
the lands and remaining buildings of
the old abbey for 900,0,00 marks from
the Bavarian state and sold them to
tho Benedictines for a nominal sum.
KANSAS FARMERS' WIVES.
Are Now Notable for AccoiiiiiIIhIi-
nieiitN That Were Undreamed
Of n Few Yenrn Ak.
One having access to the Kansas
newspapers cannot have failed to note
the unusual number of marriages
which took place during the holiday
Ecnfon. It has been said that the office
of the probate judge contains the bn
rometer of material conditions in every
county. What we know for sure ia
that young folks usually consult their
pocketbooks in making arrangements
for marriage, and that in good times
these matings are much more frequent,
says the Kansas City (Mo.) Journal.
Those who have gone a little deeper
into the suject than a mere mathemat
ical calculation must also have noticed
a great difference in those friendly
little notices given by the newspapers,
particularly when the bride and bride
groom have come from farmer fam
ilies. Twenty years ago a marriage no
tice of a farmer couple in Kansas
would, nine times out of ten, have men- .
tioned approvinglj that the bride wasj
a master hand at butter, or she wasone
of the most successful raisers of poul
try in the township, or that she "pos
sessed those habits of industry which
fitted her to be a farmer's wife." Now
an equal proportion of such notices
will recite that the bride is a fine mu
sician, that she is a graduate of such
and such an institution; that she won
a prize in elocution, or that she was
noted among her associates for pro
ficiency in some of the arts.
And the difference in these notices
makes the vast gulf which has opened
between the past and the present with
respect to farm life, no doubt to the
uneasiness of those who fear that tho
rugged industry once considered es
sential in successful agriculture has
inKen us departure, et tnere are
those on the other side who cheerfully
accept the belief that a woman who
can play the piano may be quite ns
much of a helpmate to the farmer ns
the woman who can play onlj- on the
washboard. The fact is that modern
methods, particularly modern machin
ery, have revolutionized the business
of agriculture and it no longer requires
the man-killing, get-up-at-three-o'clock-in-the-morning
industry which
formerly was the price of success. And
this revolution has come as much to
the fnrmer's wife as to the farmer. So
here's to the farmer's bride who can
play a nocturne while the electric
churn is churning, or who vnries the
monotony of her calling by writing
esmys on decadent art!
lleem nn IViir McxHoiinorN,
From Russia conies a suggestion to
the effect that honey bees should be
tried ns military messengers in place
of homing pigeons. It is urged thnt
for such purposes they would be
preferable to birds in more thnn one
way, innsmuch as they could hardly
be intercepted, and it would certain
ly be out of the question for the most
skillful marksman to hit such a car
rier. As for their size and small car
rying power, a bee could transport
a good deal in the shape of docu
ments, if the hitter were transferred
by microrphotogrnphy to n minute
piece of paper. This piece of paper
might be fnstened to the insect's
bnck, und on the arrival of the lit
tle messenger at lis destination the
writing could easily be enlarged. The
homing instinct of n bee is as strong
ns that of a pigeon, and its method
of finding its wny to its hive is the
snnie as that whereby the bird gets
back to its cote from n great dis
tance. Cincinnati Enauirer
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