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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1904)
THE LITTLE FEET. The pnttorlng of lit Ho feci My nil expoclmit car doth greet, A oliildlsh tread ncrons the floor In effort to at.triln the door, Where II, shall bo mine to see Thnt. which In precious unlo nip. ' A lnughlng faro, wllh oyon of blue, So Hire nor mother' fonder, trtio, . , When foil for me each day In o'er I homownrd wend my wny oneo more, With fond nntirlpatloiiH thrill My being, fin I climb fin hill, No lugging footHfop mine T ween When from the mtiiinilt homo Ih seen; What mattorn won riiics and care Once I have ituhhoiI l lie threshold there. Bofiion TrnnHcrlpf. A STRANGE LEGACY. m siffifflffliaBaiiiiEsisiisffliiiiigiisiiiasgaiaisifi OMICWAKI) Ihrough the murk and gloom of a November even ing; through (ho (hinlc night air nfl gathering fog, along groiiHy pnvo mcvfa ,nrl pver wllppery cronrilngH, ;tcratf itho great bridge, with fhe ya wil ling darluicHK on either Hide and down tho moan afreet rt of Houlhorn London, wearily lull, steadily Mary MucAllls ion bont her way. Thr,oc ycnrKof. hard work an a typlHt in a city offlce, tliree yearn of lonely jtrngglo wlfh fortune, had robbed Afnry'fl cheek of tho bloom it boaHtcd rtam ntio wan nluoteen, but Htlll alio strode on her wny, morning and even ing, buckward and forward, lo and from (he city, where her work lay, & bravo, eurnoHlMulndedr atendy eyed woman, a typical figure of I.oudon'n women workerH. SoiriotlinoM I hero would be a suspi cion of molaluro In the big pray eyea whoa work wifi more Hum UHiially Irksome or cmploycra more than untidi ly Irate and unreaaonnble. tfonictliucu for a moment her mind would stray from the dark, elose ollleo lo tho glorloua HcldH and hedgerowa which from l)abyhood alio had looked 51011 ttf hern In time to come. Now mid ngiitn iiH alio nto hor solitary meal tai her fioor little room In (ho shabby house In a thlrd-rato street Just bo fftusl "the IQIephant," the memory of b,o plenty In tho old days brought a Khktiow for a moment, and then the memory of Dick her Dick would mluiHO tho llllle cloud away. If Dick soulil bo brave and go away to Africa lo win a fortune for hor sho would bo liravc, loo. Dick had facod the crash which four yeara ago had mined alike his father and hers, quietly and un complainingly. Sho lind refused his offer to release her from her engage ment to hhn, and with mutual pro testations of love and fidelity they had (lurtcd ho to seek wealth across the was, alio to earn her living as best ht could In the grent world of Lou lion Many a letter from Dick lay care fully folded In her little workbox, lef m which she had read again and kgntu whoa the struggle was hard and hot heart grow faint. They told of Rrogroas slow but sure, until eighteen Boonths before, when the black cloud f -war Uwored, and ruin had for the. lecond Uzne. In his young II fo stopped Ht OWk Hcrrlck's door. . With the first clash, of arms his em ployment ceased, fho land ho had In vested tils twvlugH In was seized by lhe llocrs, while ho himself was com munUeorod and imprisoned as the re ydt, of hut refusing to fight against lils own countrymen. Since then jlueo sho had lived at her present, ad dress no news had como to onllght uu hor sorrow, to relieve hor anxiety, v t On her iloorstop sho met hor land tad) Mv". Bird, who had been shop ping, around the corner. Mrs. Bird '.ntt well meaning, but rntlior massive, 5yid sometimes moro than aggressive. uya are late this evening," Mrs. Bird assorted tartly. u'w I I am, rather," nervously ijwnouded Mary; "I was a llttlo be hlt'ttZ at the ofllce, and I've walked." "Wulked, a night like this! Then $u!d, no business. S'poso you cnught bl.nd got laid up?" 'JTa buseK were full and I I cKtttn'c afford a cab, you know." Wary answered, smllliiK gently. "No, In course, though you might Oo that a night like this If you didn't jq, saddlln yourself with that foreign WffteS man upstairs." Ulrd closed tho door with an tS.y SUlo bang as she followed Mary iuA. passage Oh hush, please, Mrs. Bird; think bmv ill the poor fellow has been." uUl-courM in lias, and you, with tIl you can do to keep yourself, must .aud look after him. Nonsense, that's K call It! What do we pay rates ffctf:,d,U'.l keep up that there place round tfcj- Vicner for, If It. ain't for such a 'Wut, you don't understand, Mrs. 'iJlnlr ho Is not n common man; he un artist ami a gentleman. It would m m kill him lo be sent to such a place I know I. feel it Just as It would kill mo lo be sent there. Our cruel fogs hnvo brought him to death's door and as he has lain Insensible up thero delirious, raving his tongue baa told mo the tale of his sunny home away yonder In Italy, of the poverty which drove hi in hero to earn his bread, of hla miiHlc, which In like life to him. And now now ho is bettor bo patient still for a littlo longer. I will give him nil the attention I can and save you as much an possiblo. The money that Is owing you I will pay, willing ly, a Utile at a time. See, here Is some thnt I have earned working Into. Take It and let mo have my own way, won't you? Ah, you will! Thank you, Mrs. Bird! As I tend him and help him, poor follow, so I pray that a woman'H hand may help tho man I love, should ho need It" She turned slowly, and mounted the stairs. Mrs. Hlrd looked after her a moment Irresolutely. "Humph!" she muttered, "thnt gal's loo good for this world." "You are better ah, I'm so glad. Now He still, or I shall bo angry!" "Angry, you earn mia! Ah, but no how can an angel be angry?" Mary smiled. "Your Illness has not made you forget your compliments," she said, lightly. Mary 'MacAllister had slolen info the sick man's room, after taking off her hat: and Jacket, and had found him up and dressed and sitting in front of tlie lire. The firelight shone on his handsome face, so drawn and pale, on his bonds so thin and white. Mrs. Bird had during the day given off some of "her views." and f'arlo Tcrrlnl know for the first, time what Mary MacAllister had done for him in tho hour of his extremity. "Compliments! What words of mine can be called compliments, after what you have done for me?" Mary started. "You know?" "Yes, the good Slgnora Bird has told me." "Then she ought not to have done so. It. is nothing nothing. I repeat. And you must not think of it again, or" She paused and the man looked nt her Inquiringly. "Or what, Mees Mac Ancestor?" "Or I shall not be able to come and seo you or or help you any more." "But." said Carlo weakly. "I I do not understand. It is but the truth. You have saved my life, mia cara mia; I must thank you I must pour out my gratitude to you from my soul." Ho stopped, exhausted, for a mo ment, and then went on excitedly: "I I have been thinking of you, long ing to see you to look on you to perhaps be able to take your llttlo hand so and kiss It, nnd let fall my tears as of blood, on It. You have saved my life you hnvo done more you hnvo Inspired me I have been dreaming a picture of you, as I lay watching the lire, a vision of goodness, so high, so pure, so true, and the melody came. I heard, somewhere away up above me, In God's air, a host chanting your praises; the music they sang was the melody my soul has sought so long. I put it In my work. That work al last will be complete. It will triumph, for none can resist such music as this." lie roo abruptly, with sudden strength. Then he staggered across the room lo where a violin lay in its ease. Mary MacAllister uttered a cry and laid a restraining hand on his iti m. "What are you doing?" she cried. "You .i:i kill yourself If you (.Xert yourself like Ibis." The violinist took up his instrument and crept back to his chair. "No, It Is life to me to play, nnd you must hear. Then you shall tell me If It Is good enough for my opera." He seated himself nnd began to play. The girl, seeing remonstrance useless, quietly dropped Into a sent and listened. For a few moments sho heard only music she had heard him piny before in the daya when he was well. Then suddenly her lips parted, nnd who sat breathless. From the in strument poured a melody almost un earthly. Tho man played as Jf In spired. It was as If voices from an other world were spcnklng. On, on he wontr-frora a penn of prnlso to a frenzy of paBoIon, from a hurricane of hopo to a dirge of despair. And then on again, higher and high er, faster and faster, the liquid melody poured from the violin, until, with one great overpowering chord of grand cur, the music stopped and the bow fell from his norvcless hand, while tho musician sank back panting, exhaust cd, but triumphant, in his chair. So engrossed hnd he been with his beloved music, so enraptured had boon the girl with the marvelous strains thnt Carlo Tcrrlnl hnd evoked, thai neither had heard tho footsteps thai had mounted tho stnirs, nor seen the form thnt now stood In the doorway. Gently the rM chldcd tho poor violin 1st for his great exertion, sweetly sho bade him good-night and rest, slow ly she turned from him to the door. For a moment site gazed, as if looking on tho dead, then with a cry of pas sionate gladness sho flow to the out stretched arras, crying "Dick!" And as the lovers passed from tho room and the door closed behind them Carlo Terrlnl's head fell, and a great sob shook him from head to foot Downstairs In Mrs. Bird's front parlor Dick Herrlck's story was soon told. After months of Imprisonment at WatcrvanI ho had recovered his liberty, but not bis rights. The Dutch man who hnd sold him the land was now In possession of it again and was disputing his title. Too poor to tako tho necessary legal action to recover, ho hnd returned to England as poor as ho left It four years before Tho next morning Mary, dressed for tho city, paid her UBunl visit to Carlo Tcrrlnl before going. She found hlin very III. He confessed that he had not boon to bed. He had been working all through the long night, writing the music ho had composed and played to hor Into his opera. "But now, now you have finished," she pleaded, "you will sleep and rest?" "Yes, cara mia. I will rest soon I promise you," and as the door clos ed behind hor he added, with a wan smile, "forever." Two hours after sho had gone Carlo Tcrrlnl let himself out of the house, without a sound nnd mndo his way to a West End music firm, the bead of which was a compatriot of his. After a few minutes' talk he per suaded him to listen to the opera, which he played through without a break. Astonished and delighted the pub lisher instantly concluded a bargain with htm, and Carlo Tcrrlnl crept home nnd fell exhnusted on the bed, from which he never rose ngaln. A few hours before he died he gave a letter, sealed, to Mary MacAllister, and whispered to her to keep It till ho was dead. The day after he was laid to rest Mary MacAllister, remem bering the letter, opened It and read the last words of her dead friend. Ho had given her the opera which she had Inspired, and which hnd cost him his life. Two years later Mary MacAllister looked down into the fnco of her flir born. With the money which hi, poured In on her like a golden stream from Carlo Terrlnl's work her hus bnnd had fought and own his cause, and was now on his way to becoming n South African millionaire. With opulence around her, a child she ador ed and a husband she worshipped nt hor side, there was yet a wistful sad ness In her look as she gazed at her little one. Her husband caught her glance and laid his hand gcnuy on her shoulder. "You have something to ask me?" he said, gently. "Yes, a little favor, dear," she hesi tated. "What could I refuse you? Tell mo." "Let our little one be named Carlo." "Your wish is mine, dearest. What better name than the name of that noble soul to whom we owe our all?" London Tlt-Blts. Tho Poor Compositor Agnln. There wns trouble between the pro prietor of the Daily Trumpet, published in Slowbury Center, and one of the promltuait citizens of the town. Tho citizen Is Orlando Vanco Jones, who writes occasional verses for tho "Poet's Comer" nnd pays for space In which to advertize his dental sirup. The trouble arose soon after tlie birth of Mr. Jones'B grandson. Being much gratified by the resemblance to him which many of the diplomatic mothers In Slowbury detected in the features of Orlando Vance, third, Mr. Jones comiMsed n tender poem which he en titled, "A Pigmy Counterpart." When lie opened tho paper, of -which ho had ordered one dozen copies, he saw at U10 head of the column his poem under the title, "A Pig My Counter part." A ulco, worthy, ambitions and cap able woman, married to a worthlese man, is a pitiful sight. Flvo new courses hnvo been es tablished at tbo university of Michi gan within the past tliree years: a Imlnlstratlve Jaw, navul architec ture, bliihor commercial educution forestry, and Insurance. Whales and sorpents are voiceless. So, aro the porcupine, the arma fla and the giraffe. A fireproof chimney, made ontlrely of paper, has been erected in Urcslau Prussia. It is fifty feet long. This Ih Mlruculoan. Mnnhattan, Kan., March 14. Ono of the fltrnngont cases that has ever been heard of In Blley Co. is that of tho throe-ycar-old daughter of Mr. Jonas Brubaker, of this place. Somo time ago tho llttlo girl took whooping cough, which was followed by pneumonia. When the pneumonia left her, she was taken down with malaria fever with at times symptoms or itpinai meningitis. The family doctor brought her safe ly through those troubles, but after tlie fever Drlght's Disease set in and the doctors guve hor up. Hor father tells the rest of tlie story: "Wo began to give her D odd's Kid ney Pills, nnd after she had taken about three nnd a half boxes, she was entirely cured. Now she Is well as any child, running and playing as if noth ing hnd ever been the matter with her. The doctors said she was boyond the rench of medicine. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved our little girl's life, when sho was so far into the chronic stage of Brlgbt's Disease thnt we thought notbln could save her." AGRICULTURE IN WE8TERN CANADA. It Grain Vieldn Knnchlnic Land Dnlryltia Hoaourcea. The editor of the Wisconsin Agricul turist, who wns ono of a party of edi tors of agricultural nnncrs. took a trio (through Canada during the pnst .spring, writes to his paper lu the fol lowing strain: The reason of his visiting Canada was to satisfy himself that the reports coming to his paper regarding the won derful resources of that country wero accurate. In viow of the wonderful settlement thnt was going on there, many from this country crossing the line in search of permanent homes and In view of what he had heard In re gard to conditions of soil, water, cli mate, topography, fuel, grasses, rain fall, markets., etc., and also the influ ence which theso have had on the present and future of agriculture he deemed It necessary to make an ex tended trip through all of the abovo territory. In speaking of the Province of Man itoba, he says: 'Tlie province of Manitoba com prises within its limits tlie far famed grain-growing valleys of the Asslnl- bolue and Red Rivers. Althouch call ed the Prairie Province of Cnnndn Manitoba has largo areas of forests numerous rivers and vast water e. panslons. "The soil is a rich, deep mould, or loam, resting on a deep clay sub-soil. it is well adapted to wheat crowing. giving a bouullful yield of the finest quality, known the world over as No. 1 hard wheat. During the past ten years the growth of wheat and other grains has steadily Increased, until now the production, by 35,000 farm ers, reaches over 100,000.000 bushels. Of the 23,000,000 arable acres in Mani toba, probably not one-half of It Is occupied. Cultivated grasses yield about two tons per acre, and native grasses a ton and a half. "Thero can be no question but that dairying will become a great industry throughout the Northwest, and espe cially cheese making, ns tho climate is favorable and similar to that of On tario. "Crops grown are wheat, bnrlev. oats, flax, rye. peas, corn for fodder, brorae, potatoes roots etc. The soil is very fertile and moisture ample. The climate Is good and the growing sea son, whll not qulto so long as in Wis consin, matures crops as the sun shines much longer, rising about 4 o'clock nnd shines until about 1 at night. One can easily rend a .newspaper at 10 p. m. Tho long dnjfc mako growth fast and push crops to maturity ahead of frost. "Tho ranching, the wheat growing and the mixed farmlug belts all cross over Asslnlbola. Tho yield and the quality of wheat raised along the main line of the Canadian Pncitlc Railway, at such places as Indian Head and its allied districts, have become famous. Its possibilities ore shown by the aver ages of tests made nt the experimental farm In 1002, when eleven varieties of the most suitable wheat, sown on April 11), wore cut In 130 days, and yielded 4.314 pounds of straw and 43 bushels and 2 pounds of grain per acre. Its mixed farming area is ex cedent, Its range cattle, horses nnd sheep are the equals of any seen In the Northwest, and Its treeless portion is underlaid with coal. The town of Medicine Hat Is heated and illuminat ed with n itural gas. There are abun dnnt deposits of brick, pottery and tire clays." Agents of the Canadian Government will be plensed to mall an Atlas to any ono Interested and also all other Information regarding railway rates, etc. DOLLAR HUMOU CURE FromPimples to Scrofula From Infancy to Ago To those who have suf fered long and hopelessly from Humors of th Blood, Skin, and Scalp, and who have lost faith in doctors, medicines, and all things human, CUTI CURA Soap, Ointment, and Pills appeal with a force hardly to be realized. Every hope, every expec tation awakened by them has been more than ful filled. 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