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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1905)
MOM SINGING IN Tell me, -what's the use of fretting wbnn we think that things go wrong? It never makes them better; but 1'vo heard It snirt a song x Makes the heavy load seem lighter, and will cheer tho troubled heart Till It quite forgets Its worries, and Its vexing cares depart, As tho wind that sweeps the marshes whero the fog hangs, chill and gray, Moves the mists that mar tho morning till It blows them all away. ,' Bo, whenever storm clouds gather till they hide tho suu from sight, And it's darker in tho morning than It ought to bo at night, Then let's sing about the sunshine that is on tho other side Of the darkest cloud, my comrades. Let tho song ring far and wido . On tho listening car of others who climb the hill with you, Till tho rifted clouds are scattered, and tho gray old world Bcoras now. 'tJiHs of gladness and of beauty. Let the faith that cannot fall Jthe great external Goodness over fear and doubt prevail. As tho robln'B song sounds sweetest when wo hear It In the rain, 80 this song of ours, my comrade, in a time of tears and pain Will to those who' grieve a messago full of hope and comfort bring. Bo, look upward toward the sunshine, though It's out of sight, and sing. Eben E. Rcxford. I Hod Turner's Mortgage I 8 L gj GAIN Aunt Martha and I were on the broad, pleasant veranda, sho in her sewing chair and I in tho hammock. Not oven an invalid could have taken cold that day, so tho patchwork quilt was neatly folded and laid on a convenient hassock, in readi ness for use if a sudden brcczo should spring up. Auntie was busy, as usual, not darning stockings this time, but putting a neat patch on a shirt that looked much too small for Uncle John or either of my two stalwart cousins. Dear Aunt Martha! I suspected sho was earning a blessing from poor over worked Widow-Austin, who, with her Ave children, lived "down the road ,a piece." I lay passively watching her flashing needle, longing for a story, but hesi tating to suggest even lingual exertion l&n so enervating a day. Presently, TELL HE AUOUT THIS ONE, PLEASE, AUNTIE." however, glancing up and catching, I jsuppose, a wistful look in my toll- Sale eyes, Auntie seemed to divine my unspoken wish and smiled indulgently. "A o.ory? Well, choose a block and jvc shall see If there is anything worth iull'ng about it." Delightedly availing myself of the tlndly offer, I loaned over tiie edge of tho hammock and scanned the folded niillt for an interesting-looking block. A dark- blue ono with flue lines of Nrhlte caught my eye. "Tell me about this one, please, Auntie." Aunt Martha laughed. "Why, dear child, that is a piece of one of my kitchen aprons. The only story eon nected with that is prosaic enough Three word tell lt baking, churning, dish-washing. 'Try again." "Well, then, tills dainty little pink and white stripe?" A glance at Aunt Martha's face told me I had not chos en wrongly tills time. "All, that! You, l can tell you some tiling about that, Let me tliink minute, and sho dropped her work in ner lap and rocked Idly back and K forth a few minutes, summoning mem ory to her aid. Soon sho resumed her work agalu and tilie story began. "When i was a Utile girl a family named Larkson lived near my father's home. The hurfband and wife were u thrifty people, but very poor, and they j had a large family of children. There were seven of them, between the ages of 12 and 3 years, and It used to bo a mystery to me how they all mauaged to live in their tiny story-nnd-a-lialf cottage. The fact is, they didn't live In It. tliev onlv Mtnviwl thmu hIb-IiIh 'ih At all other times, summer and win- u-i, nun or mime, uicy lived out ot doorx, iind a happier, healthier brood It would have been hard to ibid. "My story principally concerns the. youngest of these children, littlu Hoy. He was rue beauty of the family. With hi pansy eye and tightly curl ing, golden hair he was an animated sunbeam. 1 remember how sweet he used to look In that little pink and white dre.su. IIIb mother gave mo piocif of It for my quill. "Aeros the road from thin family lived tho village oddity. ' Horace Tur ner, faml(Ja,rly willed 'Hod.' He lived all alone, without so much as a cat or THE RAIN. dog to keep him company, and his arge, gloomy-looking house was a striking contrast to the little beehlvo opposite. Ho had the reputation of being cross and crabbed and not one of the older Larkson children would have dared venture Inside his stern, white picket fence. "But little Roy was different. On the day he was 3 years old ho toddled sedately across tho road aud straight Into the house where Hod Turner was reading his paper. Hod glanced up in astonishment, his sharp gray eyes gleaming under Ids bushy brows, at the pretty picture of little Roy In his pink and white dross, hands clasped behind him, a pair of stray sunbeams playing tag In his hair, aud his solemn baby eyes scanning with evident ap proval the grim man before him. 'Man, Roy turn to see '00,' he an- nounced gravely at last. 'Oh, he has, has he?' grunted Tur ner. Well, take a chair, sir.' "That was the way the queer friend ship betwen tho two began. Many a day thereafter Roy might havo boon seen trudging 'sturdily at Hod's sldo as the latter walked about, superln tending the work on his largo farm They seldom spoke to each other and Roy never complained of weariness, 110 matter how long nor how rough tho tramp. But once, when they had been walking a long time, Hod glanced down and saw tears standing in tho baby's eyes; tho ltttlo Hps were press ed tightly together to keep back the sobs. He quietly stooped, picked up the little chap and carried hlrn. " Wiio knows what dormant in stincts of paternity were awakened in tflio man as ho felt the small, soft form cuddled against him and heard the sigh of content with which Roy dropped his head upon his friend's strong shoulder? ( r .. . . .... . .tinm-iB woiix on nae uue ror a year. Then trouble begun to rain upon the Larksons. First n severe Illness attacked the husband and father. No sooner had he recovered than their one cow, which furnished. a large part or their living, died, aud their horse soon followed. Another horse and cow they must have, but how to get them? Mr. Larkson's illness had oatou up all the MJMtfl savings which the closest economy had enabled them to make. In this extremity, Larkson bethought mm or his well-to-do neighbor, uml at last, with much reluctance, decided to ask for a loan. " 'What security can you give?' sale ed Hod Turner. " 'None but my note,' replied Lark sou. 'As you know, I do not own the place where I live, and so cannot mortgage it " 'Just so, just so,' grunted 'Turner, and was silent, while hope died in Larkson's breast. But presently Hod said abruptly: " 'What would you SHy to mortgag ing 0110 of your chlldron?' "Larkson starod In amazement, then, as it Avas borne in upon him that Tumor was in earnest, ho rose from his ehalr and with an air of dignity Unit ennobled his careworn, work- lined fscc, 'Good-evoning, sir,' was all he said. " 'No, no,' Tumor criod, eagerly, 'sit down, man, lt down, and let me ex plain. You wouldn't bo selling your child. I'll lend you what yoUwant and you can pay me Interest, Tint If at any time the interest lapses for two year, why, the child just conies over to live with me. He'd be yours Just the same,' Turner paused a moment and then continued, almost bashfully, 'It's llttlo Roy I want, you know. 1 I'd be good to him.' "Lark son hesitated. Tils need was great, but. could ho do tills thing? Ho glanced at his companion. Tumor, waiting for his answer, was watching the children at play across the road, and Lilrksou saw the look of deep nf footlon and longing which came into tho older man's eyes as Roy's clea laugh rang ,put. Ho 'suddenly fart that ho, not the man before him, was tho richer of the two, and an Impulse of gonoroslty come to him. But ho said only, 'I'll talk to the boy's moth er.' "In the end it was arranged as Tur ner had sugosted, though not without many tears from tho mother, and many sighs from tho father. For, In spite of Turner's assurances it did scorn as If they were selling their child. "For some time all went well and tho Interest was paid regularly. Then another little Larkson nppoarcd upon tho scene, typhoid fever attacked tho two oldest children, and Anally two years had elapsod since any interest had been paid on the strango mort gage. "Roy was 7 years old when Turner foreclosed aud took tho boy to livo with him. By this time tho Larksons had become accustomed to the Idea, they saw they never could pay their debt In any other way and know, moreover, that it was doubtless a for tunate thing for the boy to have won the love of tills man who could do so much for him. And really, it was not so very html to bear, after all. Hoy was at home as muoli as ever, the only difference being that at meal times aud at night he went across the road. His mother cared for his clothes as usual, but Turner Insisted on paying her for it. "A change had geen gradually com- lng over Hod Turner. Tho child's love seemed to have made another man of him and he was now as genial as ho had formerly been gruff. He lived In the boy, made plans for his futuro ana spoke of him ns his son. As for Roy, he was quite contented and hap py with tho now order of tilings. "Ono night the climax of tho Iirk- sons' troubles came. Tltero was a cry or 'Are!' that awoko Turner and Roy across the road, now the tiro had started no one know, but before It was discovered It gained such headway that there was barely time for all the family to escape when, amid walls of grief and dismay, the roof fell. Not a thing Avas saved. "Then Hod Turner gave proof of the change wrought In his character. He opened wide his big house and took in the homeless family, to slay until they could And some other home. "Mr. Larkson at otico sought anoth er larm to rent, without success. As the weeks Avent on, Turner found that tho merry family of children bright ened up his gloomy house amazingly. Mrs. Larkson's cooking was better than his own, and Larkson had more practical Ideas of farming than his foreman had, and sowell, as tho vil lage Avag put It, "Turner might as avcII have had a mortgage on tho Avhole family.' "Turner nod no longer, but by somo indefinable change of feeling, Mr. Horace Tumor to the Avhole village lived to a good old age Avltli his adopt ed family, and -when at last he died no one Avas surprised to And Roy, little Roy no longer, his sole heir." Tho sun Avas setting, the shirt was mended, tho story Avas tolil and it Avas supper time. Aunt Martha paused a moment Avhen sho had folded her Avork and 1 am sure 1 heard her murmur. And a little child shall lead them." The Homestead. A rim iioe'u MurroiiUer. In Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee," Captain R. E. Lee describee his father's return to private life after the surrender of Ap pomattox. He aays: "A day or two after tho surrender Gen.1 Lee started for Richmond, riding Traveler, who had carried him so Avell all through the Avar. He was accom panied by wine of his staff. Ou the Avay h-e stopped at the liiiueo of his eldest brother, diaries Carter Lee, Avho lived on tho upper James, in Powhatan county. Ho spent the evening In talk lug Avlth his brother, but when bed time came, thoygii begged by his host to take ..tho room and bed prepared for him, he insisted on goin to Ids old 'tout, pitched by tho roadside, and pass od the night in the quarters that lio AVas accustomed to. On April 15 he arrived in Richmond. The people there soon recognized him. Men, women and chlldron crowded around him, cheering and AvaA'ing hats and hand' kerchiefs. It aviib more llko the avoI come to a conqueror than to n defeat ed prisoner on parole. He raised his hat In rospopso to their greeting and rode quietly to his home on Franklin stroot, Avhero my mother and slaters .Avore anxiously awaltlnt: him. Thus ho returned to that prlviiui family llfo for Avhich ho had always longed and became Avhut ho always desired to bo a peaceful citizen In a peceufnl land." Haofjlotr h Keytho. As a youth Daniel Wobstor Avas somewhat opposed to physical labor, but ho Avas quick at repartee. While moAvIng ho complained to his father that his scythe was not properly hung. "Hang it to suit yourself, Dun," replied the paternal. The boy Immediately hung it on a tree near by. "There, father, it's huug to suit mo hoav." "Tho men generally," said a snappy Avoman to-day, "seoni to be In favor of us Avomen living tho Simple Life: because they think It would live them Jt .tS32$Bf Ono of tho most rcmarkablo opals In exlstonco is supposed to bo a fossil fragment of tho clnloUasaurus, which once lived in Australia, roachlne a longth of forty feet, Tho specimen, lately brought to Now York, Avolghs 1,1150 carata. Tho successful producer of rubles. by artificial means, Professor Vorneuil, has concluded that it Is not posslblo to make artificial emeralds by any process of fusing tho essential constitu ents, and avo can expect this peerless gem only as supplied by nature. On the shores of British Columbia, says Conway Mac.Mlllan, grow somo remarkable examples of dwarf trees, They are found among tho rocks close to the seashore, but beyond tho reach of the surf. Among those examined Avas ono about a foot tall, which had a trunk ono inch in diameter. The rings of growtii showed It to be OS years old. Anotiicr,- less than a foot tall, was SO years old, and the ago of a third, which had attained a height of less than 21 Inches, was OS years. Tho broad steel tracks for vehicles laid several years ago In Murray street, New York City, have been re moved, and the street Is, to bo paved with wooden blocks. The steel tracks Avero not regarded as a success, prin cipally because of the crowded condi tion of the stroot, which proven toil their regular use. Tho Scientific Amer ican contends that tills test Avas not conclusive, und that such tracks should be tried on long country hills and In districts where smooth, hard roadbeds cannot readily be maintained. Addition and other mathematical processes arc performed by labor-saving machines, and avo are next to havo mechanical reasoning. Tho logic ma chine of Professor 0. H. Richer, of the University of California, is an Im provement on that of Stanley Jovons, tho English logician. In the "circle notation" of logicians all premises havo separate symbols, and conclusions are produced by a combination of theso symbols; and on pressing the keys of tho noAV mnchlne something like an adding machine a manipulation of circles and electric lights throws Into relief all formulas that aro posslblo answers to logical questions. Tho proper keys have no chanco of error. To determine the number of iish In the sea and how they locate their set tlements aro obviously problems not easy to settle. The study has been bo gun for the benefit of tho fisheries In tho Irish Sea. Tho first experiment aro made to learn the extent and na ture of tho migrations of solea aud plaice, and hoAV great an effect fishing has In reducing the marine llfo over a given section of tho sea. About ono thousand fishes mostly plalco and soles aro returned to the water after being marked with brass labels held by silver wire. ROAvards aro offered for tho marked fishes that may be cap tured -particulars concerning location, etc., to be given nud the Investigating commission oxpecta to hear again from about 2o per cent of these spoelninis. Carlo Baose, of Florence, has Invent ed a process for producing bas-relief ii uy photography. The basle of tho in volution Is tho property possessed by a film of chromium gelatin of swelling In proportion to the intensity of the light falling upon it. Tho swelling is greater avIUi Ioav than Avltli high in tensity, so that the light passing through a photographic negative pro duce upon a chromium-gelatin plate a positive In distinct relief.' The trans parency df an ordinary negative, how- over, Is no truly proportional to tho relief of the original model, but by an Ingenious automatic device, Involving a double exposure, this difficulty Is avoided, and a negative is obtained having its lights and stunles corroftly graded to produce tho effect of relief. CONCEALED THEIR TREASURE. FortuiitM Found in CurloiiH Plnces- A Pillow Hid $J 0,000. It Is only a few Avooks since M. Rous sigue, a Parisian, discovered a nice little trensifro concealed In 0110 of tho very last places Avhore lie would havo expected to find It, says London Tit- Bits. Ho had Inherited from an aunt a small statuette to Avhich ho attached very little value, but Avhich neverthe less ho placed an nn ornament in ono of ids rooms. As luck Avould havo It. his maid, In dusting tho statuette ono day, dropped It pn the floor and, presto! out rolled from Its hollow Interior package Avhich yn examination proved to contaiu notes of the Ynluo of il.000 francs, ns well ,as a costly diamond ring. This Is by no means the only occa sion ou.AVhlch a statue has been made to servo tlio purpose of a bank. A 1'oav year ago an art collector of Khar koff, In RuHsla. purchased a stutuo of the Apollo Belvedere, of which he Avas vary proud. Ono day his children, Whon playing, upset tho statue aud broke it beyond all possibility of repair. Tho father, avIiou he saw his prlssed statue in fragment, was furious, but conso lation came to lilin In a most unexpect ed form, for on examining the frag- 3 mftntu lift fotllirl fr nr at ! in tinttn limb a roll of Russian bank notes of tho vnluo of 8,000 rubles. With tlm notes was n momorandum by a Chovn Hor Prokhoroff, datod 18-18, to tho of- feet that the concealed money Avas thd fruit of gambling, and that It was lil intention to use It in tho building of a church. A still moro curious hiding place for troosuro Avas that cliosou by Pore Ah toluo, n hunchback beggar, avIio used to hang about tho church doors ol! Paris soliciting alms. Whon tho hunch back died his nephew applied to tho authorities domnndlug that a post mortem examination should bo made. Tho request was granted, Avlth the re suit that It was found the hunch avuh false, and that In Us fraudulent Inte rior Avero stored tho beggar's savings, amounting to INJ.OOO francs. Pero An taluo, It was also discovered, was an ex-convict, avIio owed his freedom to tho Influence of a AVoll-knoAvn deputy. An Inquest held at tho St Pancraa coroner's court some time ago on Wal ter Samuel Mott revealed another treasure a small one, it Is true con cealed In a most remarkable placo, Mott had a wooden log, and an exam ination of this limb revealed ten sov ereigns concealed In It. Tho precau tion Was a very wise one, for It came out In evidence that for some avcoIcr tlio deceased had been rarely sober, and It Avotild havo fared 111 Avltli Ida; treasure If it had not been so artfully, and effectually concealed. There avuh considerable method ln tho parsimony of an old lady, avIio, wherover she Avent, carried with heij an old box, apparently full of odill pieces of scrap Iron. Tho box Avas a subject; of Jest and ridicule among Jiui neighbors, but tlio old lady could af ford to smllo at thoir Jokes, for It was, In fact, the most valuablo box any. Avhero In tlio district. When sho died tho box A'as found open to any ono avIio cared to Inspect It, and under the surface layer of old Iron Avero, found 3,000 golden guineas,. tho snvlnaa of a lifetime. In another case known to the Avriter. after tho death of an old womhh in tho north of England who l. r,i years been In receipt of on from tho parish, a sum . . found In a number of . scattered about hor one 1; . Miss J . a notorious i miser, died it Avnn found thai , low contained securities aiu! notes of tho value of , over 1 ' Avhlio at an auction sale of. the ft.v of a Lewlflham lady of mlaerJy m stlncts the purchaser of hor piano Htl found a Binnll mine of gold in tho horsehair stulilng, and a gentleman avIio bought her bedstead discovered 1)00 hidden aAvay In one of its hollow) logs. OJI on tlio Cohoo. The cup of black coffoo had on lis surface a little, oil. This oil shine mcred. It gave forth dollcato, chang ing colors, llko oil on water. Tho man who Avas about to drink tho coffoo civJ cd at It with delight. '"Tho oil," he said, "tells me all I) AA-ant to know about tiie coffee. Now, Avlthout tasting it, 1 am sure it Is su-1 porb. "Tho Avhole secret oC making coffee," ho Avent on, "lios in extracting and re taining this oil. This Oil it Is whh-h give coffoo 1U nromatlc and delirious taBte. This oil it is also which stimu lates ycu, which makes you feel after you havo drunk strong and gay. "Good coffeethe kind avIHi oil afloat on it can only be i ndo by ex cellent cooks. In million ' res' hous. or In. hotels Avhero tlioy enu loy From h chefs you ure llkoly to get it. But UieJ average American housewife dooa not knoAV how to make Hits ly kind of coffoo at all." PhlbuM;.' i Bulletin.. Under Other Cotiu.i ion. A young medical student came faco to face Avltti a dear, k.ui, fatherly looking gentleman, with Ayhtfce halv and of highly respectable appeav.lfice. They both stood trjinBflta. Tho same idea flashed across both of them., "Your faiitf Is familiaf-very farall-' lar; but I can't remember where we) havo met so often." IIoAvover, tho friendly Impulse was carried out. They slutffk hands warmly and do- parted, Htlll ignorant of each other's name and occupation. But tho young man avhs determined, to solve tho problem, and ho seized pa''' a Avaltor and said to blm: urn. .11 .....It.... ...!. t.. ltotl.1' 1 ' " - CTi-l ' I gulshed stranger with the Jong iy.liuojf hairV" , .' 4& And tho waiter whispered lowly: "Ploase, sir, that's tho pawnbroker." Tho I'ooIIhH FJhIi. ' Deacon Good Don't you think It cruel for you to draw n fish out of his native element by a sharp iron hooLV Flshor Boy If a1' no fault of nnue. When I'm Just gtv,,1 a worm 1 .ilt Avater bath, Avhat does a fish A,mt to hook himself on to my line for'. It's no buslnoss of his. Bostou Tr.f v . t. vltH Proper, Pine. Assistant Here's . a letter smells a's If It had -n sample u burger ghee.se In it' add Postmaster- Novo', nilud fin that hi.i-l d' uU dross. Send it to the dead leiM of t,., (-1 rt,, i',.iiiiiiiii