THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
W. W. BANDERS & BON, Fnbllahsn.
HEM All A, NEBRASKA.
ALL THE WORLD.
Mnlfl, do you rocall tho pluco
"Whoro the tortured watcrn rnco
Downward, downward, to tho hou
Id an effort to bo frw7
Jloarlng from Iiurw Htono to nton
Qrumbllntr In a tuonotono
In flomo hollow whero, dlRlrcflflcd,
Thoy have houk'H a moment'n rout?
Mnld, do you recall whero you
Sat and wutchpd tho varied hua .
Of tho waters and tho nkli?
Did you know that In your oyc.i
Hliono -ach tint of xky and utrcam?
Kv'ry ovnnenccnt Rlcam
Of tho wild uncanny rflon
Uhone from out your nyuu nRnln.
They wort there, tho nky'H own blue
Little llcckn of numihlno, too;
lCv'ry deep and KnnnbllriK pool,
Umbor-Hhadud nookn and cool,
SUvcj-bandi'd Hwaylnn birch,
And tho thrufllit'M bondltiK perch:
All woro thoro; each vale and Httx.'p,
All thu torrentH rtiah nud leapt
Thoy were there I know thoy were
Kv-ry nlopo of plnu nnd Ilr;
JHJv'ry fonm-whlto waterfall,
Kor I saw them, Haw them all!
And I novcr looked away
TYom your dnncInK eyon that dnyl
A1I tho world, my world, dear, Ilea
In tho deepH of your blue eyent
J. M. Lewis, In HoiiHton I'oHt.
Sir Humphrey Potter's
Jj & First Love. j&
HY JIAKOLI) OHLSON.
tit
MANY people considered that the
time hnd corao when Sir Hum
phrey Potter, with his wealth and IiIh
title, should tako a wife. Somo of
Iheso had daughters. They were only
anxious for tho dear glrlB' happiness.
No one, however, cared to Hpeak to
Jilra on such Buhjects as love and mar
riage. Ho would havo thought them
frivolous.
Ho was novor frivolous.
It was only posslblo to Interest him
In sorlous matters; business trans
ncuons tor preiorenco; pontics, on
which ho hnd decided views, In his
lighter moods. It was dlfllcult to
conceive of him as a lover. His tall,
portly form seemed always to require
about It tho rod mahogany and shin
ins leather of his olllco. Laughter,
whllo In conversation with Sir Hum
pnroy, socmeu out or place, it was,
said an Irreverent person, as tho
crackling of thorns under a Potter.
Mrs. Latimer hnd described him as
"portentous." Sho owned that tho
exact meaning of tlio word had escaped
her for tho moment, but sho had an In
ner consciousness that It contained an
exact description, and she was not to
bo moved by any dictionary person.
Ho was n solf-mado man. That was
evident. No ono else would havo trou
bled to make him. However, ho stated
tho fact constantly.
llo was enormously rich, and had ob
talned a knighthood by judicious phll
anUiropy. Ho did not pay largo sal
aries to his clerks, but when a fund
AvaB started at tho Mansion house ho
pressed nobly to tho front. Pressing
.nobly lo tho front peoplo can see you
when you are thoro had mado him
what ho was Sir Humphrey Potter.
Young ladles havo been wont to call
him, In tho courso of private conver
sation, "a fat pompous boast." Tho
courso of prlvato conversation does
not always run smoothly. Now ho
was "dear Sir Humphrey."
Ho was on tho market. Ho had
-wealth and title, nlthough tho goods
wore a little shop-soiled.
It was on a beautiful, warm morning
in July that Sir Humphrey cautiously
lifted ono lath of his bedroom blind
.and peered out. Ho was not anxious
1o bo scon. Ho was a man of great
dignity of presence (his tailor, to
whom ho paid cash, had often told him
to), but ho felt ho did not look his
best at that particular time. Ills hair
fell In a fringe over his forohead
which did not suit him and his face
shone with tho perspiration engendered
by a hot July night. It also required
the refining touch of a razor. The fat,
frowBy man In the long white shirt
(ho clung to tho old fashions), with
big, bare feet and rumpled hair, was
as ridiculous and unpleasant to tho
oyo as Sir Humph roy Potter, an hour
later, would bo dignified nnd knposing.
It was not for tho purpose of observ
ing tho beauties of nature that ho thus
delayed his toilet, but rather that ho
might watch Miss Latimer, tho daugh
ter of his old friend and present xo3l,
and nor cousin Clarissa, who wore
walking in tho garden. They woro on
Joying the fresh morning air; Clarissa,
for tho sake of tho thousand dellcato
scents that mingled with it and tho
sweet, glad song of tho birds; Miss
Latimer chiefly for tho sake of her
complexion. She did not caro much
for tho Bongs of tho birds; sho pre
ferred music from tho comic oporas.
And as for tho dellcato scents of tho
waking flowers . Sho had been
known to purchase patcht uli.
Miss Latimer's whole attention was
at that period of her existence en
grossed by hej numerous love affairs.
Hor talk was of young mon. Her
yreat purpose woh to obtain a hus
band; if young and handsomo, bo much
tho bolter, but tho only Jndlaponaablo
adjunct was wealth. Sho waB little,
plump and protty, with beautiful eyes
that fiho could una effectively on very
young men. Thcso waiKoa wilu her,
talked with her (flho would glgglo at
remarkB that flhould havo bcon re
ceived with a cold flllonco), and flirted
with hor.
Sho was called "Flo." It seemed a
nccoHsary conHcqucnce. There are
many noblo, stately womon in tho
world named Floronco, but it would
scorn an insult to add r car tnein ay
Flo." However, tho namo suited Miaa
Latimer to porfection.
And Clarissa?
A tall, slender girl, bearing herself
with a natural graco and dignity that
little Flo, push hcrsolf out and pull
herself In aa sho might, could- nover
imitntc.
Miss Latlmer'H young-men friends
(sho callod them "tho boys") thought
hor cousin Clarissa stuck up. Thoy,
told each other so. But a smilo from
hor would havo brought any ono of
thorn to her feet. To bo favored of one
whom nil tho othors consider stuck up
and atnndofllsh appeals strongly to
mascullno vanity. Besides, Bho wiw
really beautiful, and as nice an a girl
who loves to ho a lady is to a man who
loves to bo a gentleman. But sho could
not bo considered "good fun."
When tlrts two girls disappeared
nlong the path that led down to tho
rivor, Sir Humphrey dropped tho latb
of tho blind and proceeded to build up
his dignity of presence.
He hnd mado up his mind. Ho would
marry Clarissa.
Tho preceding years of his lifo had
been dovoted to his business, and ho
had scarcely ventured into fomlnlno
society. But now he felt entitled to
show somo relaxation of his offorts,
and hnd decided that ho must bring a
wife to tho palatial homo ho had built
in a London suburb, nnd that sho must
be beautiful, Just as ho had beautiful
furnlturo to adorn It. Ho did not an
tlclpate any dllllculty. Ho could pay
the bill.
It. was a curious coincidence that is
to say, it may havo boon a coincidence
that Mr. Latimer said to him, an
they smoked a cigar together after
breakfast that morning:
"You ought to marry, Potter."
"Well, I can't say I havon't thought
of it," answered Sir Humphrey. "I
feel at times I want something to cheer
mo up to tako my thoughts off tho
work when I'm at home."
Ho spoko as If ho Intended to buy
a banjo.
"You want to find tho right girl,
and then you'll nover regrot It. And
you won't mako a mistake that ain't
your way, wo all know, Potter."
Sir Humphrey had money in Mr.
Latimer's business.
"You can hardly renllzo," continued
Mr. Latimer, "tho rest and pleasure a
tired man can find in woman's talk,
If it's llvoly and chatty."
Horo Mr. Latimer artistically lost
himself In reverie, emerging presently
with a sigh.
"How I shall miss my daughter Flo
when she gets married! So bright and
jolly such a capital companion! We're
always together."
The fooling of a doting parent had
carried him away. Ho was not always
with Ids daughter. Sho saw to that.
"It needs consideration, Latimer,"
said Sir Humphrey, and then, a littlo
abruptly, turned tho conversation to
other topics.
But by lunch-tlmo Mr. Latlmor had
calculated to a nicoty tho minimum
cost of tho transfer of his daughter
Flo to Sir Humphroy Pottor. Ho
would, ho decided, strongly advi3o a
quiet wedding (had not Flo's aunt
died within tho year?) but ho had
strong misgivings that that young
lady would like tho thing dona in style.
Sho would bo sure that dear auntie
would not wish any difforenco to bo
made.
In the afternoon Sir Humphrey sat
with Miss Latlmor on tho lawn, until
sho suggested tho summer house by
tho river as being tho coolest, darltng
est place, and providing awful fun
watching tho peoplo in tho boats.
"They're all In lovo with each other,
and so funny to watch! Do come,
doar Sir Humphroy!"
Clarissa had been sent to the shops
to match wool for Mrs. Latlmor. Mr.
Latimer had thought the walk would
do her good.
Tho thermometer registered 80 de
grees in tho shade.
Sir Humphrey passed tho timo pleas
antly by instructing his companion in
the mothod of making money on tho
stock exchange. She understood every
thing, so wonderfully did he explain
things.
Sho said so.
Ho had endeavored to enlarge
Clarissa's mind on tho samo subject
on tho day previous. Sho had not un
derstood him. Sir Humphrey had no
doubt of that.
Sho had mado a foolish remark to
tho offect that sho preferred tho
methods of burglars. Thoy, at least,
took their chanco of getting caught by
a policeman or shot by tho man they
were robbing.
In tho evening, vhon the moon was
Just clear of the tree tops, Clarissa
walked down to tho river to meet her
cousin. It was at tho urgent request
of that youjig lady sho did so.
I've promised Otis to go for a moon
light row, but pa muct think you'ro
with ma Ho don't mind my being
late, then," aho had said, an thoy left
the dinner table. "Bo Btire you'ro thoro
at nine, bo that wo can como In to
gether, nnd don't let pa see you alone."
So while r sipped his port In after
dinner contentment, Clarissa wandered
In tho rono garden and dreamed of tho
lover that waa to come.
Sho did not dream of tho lover that
waH coming.
Sir Humphroy finished his cigar and
then went out into tho garden. Mr.
Latimer Bald to the Bharcr of hlB JoyB
and sorrows but not his port that
hp hoped Clarissa would have tho
Bcnsd to como in. Her health was too
dellcato for tho night air.
It wan a maxim of Sir Humphrey's
that, when your mind wan made up to
a certain course, it was best to act
promptly. Ho went in search of
Clarissa.
Ho enmo behind her as sho stood on
tho bank of the silver river, lost in
eweet dreaming. Tho soft, white even
ing gown, made in tho quaint, beautiful
faahjon of a past generation, showed
tho Hnca of her graceful figure.
Sho would look well surrounded by
tho ancient carved-oak furnlturo ho
had bought in Tottenham Court road.
Ho wan standing at her side beforo
sho rccognizod his presence. He looked
very big and Imposing In his evening
clothes. A large diamond sparkled In
his shirt front Was this tho lover of
her dreams?
When ho had buBlness In hand, It waa
not Sir Humphrey's custom to beat
about tho bush. After remarking on
tho beauty of tho evening so much
waB customary oven in strictly busi
ness conversation ho oaked her If sho
would bo his wife
For a moment she did not reply. Sir
Humphroy recognized the fact that sho
was very beautiful and that loveliness
and the moonlight threw him a little
off his balance. He felt he wanted to
tako her in his arms and kiss her. Tho
matter was getting beyond the strict
regime of business.
Ho had nover wanted to kiss any ono
before.
It could, of course, bo only a mat
tor of minutes a little maiden hesita
tion beforo ho had tho right to do bo.
Minutes? Clarissa was speaking
"Do you know ray father, Sir Hum
phrey? "No, I have not that pleasure."
He anticipated no trouble in that
quarter. Was ho not Sir Humphrey
Potter?
"I think you will not cannot re
new this proposal when I tell you that
that"
"Yes?" urged Sir Humphrey as
Clarissa paused.
"Ho la In prison," she said, In a
voice scarcely audible, and turning
herself away from him.
"In prison?" gasped Sir Humphrey.
There was silence. A faint breath
stirred the rushes and died away again.
A wakeful corncrake creaked once and
then subsided, as If ho were alarmed
by the noise ho mado in that great
stillness.
Sir Humphrey was thinking. He
could not decide on the instant what
ho should do. But the moonlight still
exorcised its power over him. Ho still
wanted to kiss her.
Latimer should havo told him; il
was monstrous to have introduced hira
to this girl without a word as to hei
father's disgrace. Sho was, he sup
posed, living on the charity of the
Latimers. There would be a taint ol
crime in her blood, and perhaps if lu
married her it would appear in hei
children. Tho thought was horrible.
But ho wanted Clarissa.
When, at last, ho foil asleep, he hac
almost made up his mind to marry hor
But when ho awoke in the morning
ho found his lovo much less obtrusivt
and his business instincts predoml
nant. Sentiment had faded with tin
moonlight.
Ho wondered how ho could have hesl
tatcd. Such a marriage was impossible
"I am very distressed, very (lis
tressed indeed, to loam you arc in such
an unfortunate position," he said
when tho opportunity came; "but you
must sec, of course, that under the cir
cumstances I cannot repeat the offer
that 1 mado yesterday evening, an of
fer that I should not have that is to
say, had I been Informed, ns I should
havo boon, of tho circumstances, I
should not have er put us both In
this painful position."
Sir Humphrey spoko at civic ban
quota.
"I hope you will let er bygonos bo
bygones, and remember mo ns
friend."
Clarissa hoard his speech to tho end
in silence. Sho had expected it. Now
it was her turn. Sho had long ago
realized tho perfect self-conceit of tho
man. He had thought that sho was
ready to throw herself Into his arms
should ho choose to open them. Sho
had decided that to bo tricked and do
ceived by a girl would be an Invaluablo
lesson to him. tf
She was only acting for his good.
Sho raised her tsyes and looked at
him steadily.
Then she told him that her father
was Indeed in a prison. Ho had been
thero nearly all his life. It. was ono
of tho largest and most Important prls
ons in England.
Ho was the governor of IL London
Sketch.
Ar the Drama
By JOSEPH JEFFERSON.
RT IS the selection of those matters most interesting in na-
A I ture, and the blending of
I Tt dnes not need to be an
rather a reproduction of those things best calculated to
convey the idea.
I have been asked why I do not have n dog in "Rip Van
Winkle." My answer is that the ,dog selected might nofcr
conform to the preconceived notions of the larger part or
the audience of what Rip's dog ought to be. Then he
might wag his tail at the wrong time, and thus attract entire-
attention to himself. The principal
ng outshone by a dog-star.
The production of plays has undoubtedly improved in recent times..
I will not say as to the acting, but
" - -
ly vastly superior to those of a generation or so ago. ror insiancc,
when a banquet scene is shown now, real champagne is served. We
used to have to be content with soda water. I remember being on the
stage once when an unsteady stage
abra and set fire to the ice cream.
I am asked if truth and sincerity
cess on the stage. They certainly
should be sincere and act seriously. For, once he betrays the fact that:
he knows he is saying funny and absurd things, the subtlety of the im
pression is destroyed. The gravediggcrs in "Hamlet" indulge in the
most ridiculous statements, which
philosophy, but if they were to indicate in the slightest degree that
they regarded their remarks as absurdities the humorous effect would".
be lost.
The artist should be artistic,
sentimentality are very different things, just as art and artificiality are
widely divergent. This is true in
THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
Took tie Which In Known to n Million
1'ernoiiM mill Spoken by Many
TliotivumlH.
Gaelic is a living language to about
1,000,000 persons out of the 4,000,000
in Ireland. Of this 1,000,000 more than
nine-tenths know English also; about
G5.000 living in the more remote and in
accessible villages of the western coast,
know no other language than Gaelic.
This small r'-nnant, states tho Boston
Transcript, possoses the language by
a continuity of inheritance running
back to the very roots of time.
Gaelic is not and never has been a
dead language. The approaching death
which was threatened by tho rapid de
crease of the numbers who speak it will
be long deferred, or entirely prevented,
it is hoped oy the efforts of tho Gaelic
league.
Further indications of tho so-called
"Celtic Itenal8sanoo" force themselves
on tho attention of contemporary trav
elers In Ireland, whero shopkeepers, in
deference, more perhaps to popular
sentiment than to actual necessity,
have a newly painted Gaelic sign below
tho English ono that has long done
duty; where the newspapers print a
column or a page of their contents in
the native tongue, and where every vil
lage has Its branch of the Gaelic league
which meets once a fortnight and has
Instruction, lectures and recitations In
tho language. Tho Irish educational
authorities, at tho Insistent demand of
the renaissance organization, has in
troduced Gaelic Into tho public school
curriculum. There are Gaelic chairs at
Harvard, at tho Catholic university nt
Washington, at Notre Dame, at Trini
ty college, Dublin; at Oxford, and in
somo of the German universities.
All this is a reaction against the leg
islation, with tho social tendencies that
accompany hostile legislation, of quite
500 years. The statute of Kilkenny In
1.1G7 placed a death or confiscation
penalty on tho use of the Gaelic lan
guage "within the pale," and by the
middle of tho eighteenth century it be
gan to bo accurate to say that English,
rather than Gaelic, was tho prevailing
language of Ireland. A still more ruin
ous blow was dealt In 18311, when the
national schools were organized with
provision for Instruction In English
only.
A language Is the Index of the emo
tional and Intellectual life of tho peo
ple among whom It has grown, hence
the universal testimony of philologists
that Gaelic Is tho host langungo In the
world In which to write poetry. "TIs
a great tongue to court with," said one
of Ian Maclaren's characters, "It has
03 ways of saying 'dear.' "
The philologists tost try equally to Its
great adaptability to tho discussion of
spiritual themes; and ono of tho dukes
of Argylo Is quoted as saying that ho
should use English to nddress his
queen, French to persundo his lady of
his love, and Gaelic to speak of his
God. For lyric poetry, for tho descrip
tion of nature, for deep and Intense
expression of lovo and hate, for tho
communication of truth with power,
for wealth of metaphor, for expressing
shades of emotion incomprehensible In
a less adaptable tongue, Gnellc Is tho
language par excellence. Similarly, no
trentiso on philosophy or science could
bo written In Gaelic without tho whole
sale Importation of foreign terms.
Gaelic Is closely related to tho native
tonguo of tho Scotch Highlanders;
more accurately Scotch and Irish ns
well as tho dying Manx, aro branches
of tho Gaelic tonguo. A Boston gentle
and the Actor
them into a harmonious whole.
exact reproduction of nature, but
actor would naturally object to be-
the mechanical settings arc certain-
. T .
manager upset a lighted . candc-
are not important factors in suc
arc. Even in comedy the player
they arc supposed to think arc deep
but never artificial. Sentiment and.
painting as in any other art.
man was lately Interested to find that
his Irish maid and his Scotch gardener,
neither of whom know English, could
converso without great difficulty mi
their common tongue. Still more loose
ly, "Gaelic" is used as the equivalent of
Celtic." In this sense, it is in addi
tion tho language of Wales and of Brit
tany, and was, up to the mlddlo of the
last century, tho lingua rustica of the
Cornish coast of England, just across
the channel from Brittany.
A GRASSHOPPER RACE.
It WtiH "Won ly John W. Mnckny He
cuuho the ProfeHNor Got the
AVroiiK Ilottle.
Mackay waa an early riser, a hardl
worker, and, although exceedingly hos-
;able was him of abstemious and:
could seldom be induced to play cards -
for money, and then for only nominal'.
stakes, relates tho San Francisco Call.-
Tho only gamo that seemed to attract .
him was the "grasshopper race," with
which the mining superintendents on the-
Conistock beguiled a portion of the noon.
hour, while waiting for luncheon at the
Savago company hoisting home. Boys
caught grasshoppers and sold them to
the players at 25 and 50 cents each. Each,
player paid a fixed stake, ranging from
one dollar to $20, Into the pool, and tho
man whose hopper mado the longest.
Jump captured the pool. On the day be
fore Christmas It was agreed to celebrate
that holiday with a pool the stakes in.
which were to bo $100 for each player.
The terms were "play or pay," and at tho
Instance of a German professor who was
a superintendent of a leading mlno each
man was allowed to use any means that
ho might devise to stimulate his grass
hopper. Tho professor was so full of:
his scheme to scientifically capture tho
thousand-dollar pool for there wero
ten entries that ho communicated it
to a young assayer, who was not a grass
hopper plunger. The professor had ex
perimented and ascertained that a grass
hopper who was touched by a feather
dipped in a weak solutlou of aqua am
monia would Jump for his life. The
young man also experimented, and as a
result ho filled a bottle of the same size
and appearance with cyanide of potas
slum and managed to substitute It for tho
other In the professor's laboratory. Tho
next day, when the professor, after much
boasting about ins scientific attain
ments, dipped a feather In tho substi
tuted bottle and touched his insect with
it the grasshopper rolled over as dead
as. a salt mackerol, amid the roars of the
crowd. Mackay's hopper won tho big
pool, and two widows, whose husbands .
had been killed In tho Yellow Jacket
mlno, received a gift of $500 each from an
unknown source.
ToiiKiie-TwiHtei,
Hero aro somo sentences that will
amuse you. Give them to your friends,
and havo them say each of them over as
rapidly as possible:
Six thick thistle sticks.
Flesh of freshly fried Hying fish.
Two toads totally tired tried to trot
to Tedbury.
The sea ceaseth, hutjt sufllcoth ua.
Glvo Grimes Jim's great gilt glg-whlp.
Strict strong Stephen Stringer snared
slickly six sickly silky snakes.
Sho stobd at the door of Mrs. Smith's
flsh-sauco shop welcoming him In.
Swan f wam over the sea; swim, swan,
swim! Swan swam back again. Well
swum swan!
Susan shlneth shoes and socks; socka
and Blioes shlno Susan. Sho ceaseth
chining shoes and socks, for socks and.
Bhoes shock Susan. Woman's Home
Companion.
