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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1907)
Hjutx it n j ; i g kjt: rut mihtww wjiuwnwiigmqi Li LU LliJliBIM CHAPTER IV. Continued. There, wus a silence, and then I hoard an Indescribable fluttering rush that fold as plainly as sight could have done that a woman had answered her heart's call, looking up involuntarily, I saw a sight that for a long moment held my eyes as If I had been fas cinated. It was Hob bowed forward with his face hidden in his hands and liesido him, 'n her knees, Heulah Sands, her arms about his neck, his head drawn down to her bosom. "Hob, Hob," she said chokingly, "I cannot .stand it tiny longer. My heart is break ing for you. You were so happy when 1 came Into your life, and the happi ness is changed to misery and despair, and all for me. a stranger. At first I thought of nothing but father and how to save him, but since that day when those men struck at your heart, 1 have been filled with, oh! such a longing to toll yon, to tell you, Hob " "What? Boulah, what? For the love of God, don't stop: tell mo, Boa lah, tell me." He had not lifted his head. It was buried on nor breast, his arms closed around her. She bent her head and laid her beautiful, soft cheek, down which the tears were now streumlng, against his brown hair. "Hob, forgive mo, but I love you, love you, Hob, as only a woman can love who has never known love before, never known anything but stern duty. Hob, night after night when all have left l have crept into your office and sat In your chair. I have laid my head on your desk and cried and cried until it seemed as though I could not live till morning without hearing you say that you loved me, and that you did not mind the ruin I had brought into your life. I have patted the back of your chair where your dear head had rested. I have covered the arms of your chair, that your strong, brave hands had gripped, with kisses. Night after night I have knelt at your desk and prayed to God to shield you, to protect you from all harm, to brush away the black cloud I brought Into your life. I have asked Him to do with me, yes, with my father and mother, anything, anything if only Ho would bring back to you the happiness 1 had stolen. Hob, I have suffered, suf fered, as only a woman can suffer." She was sobbing as though her heart would break, sobbing wildly, convulsively, like the little child who in the night comes to Its mother's bed to tell of the black goblins that have been pursuing it. Long before she had finished speaking and it took only a few heart-beats for that rush of words 1 had broken the power of the fascination that hold me, had turned away my eyes, and tried not to listen. For fear of breaking the spell, I did not dare cross the room to close Heulah's door or to reach the outer door of my office, which was nearer hers than it was to my desk. I waited through a silence, broken only by Heulah's weeping, that seemed hour long. Then In Hob's voice came ono low sob of joy: "Boulah, Heulah. my Heulah!" I realized that he had risen. I rose, too, thinking that now I could close the door. Hut again I saw a picture that transfixed me. Hob had taken Boulah by both shoulders and ho held her off and looked into her eyes long and beseechingly. Never before nor Kinco have I seen upon human face that glorious joy which the old mas ters sought to get into the faces of their worshippers who, kneeling be fore Christ, tried to send to Hlni, through their eyes, their soul's grati tude and love. I stood as one en thralled. Slowly and as reverently as the living lover touches the brow of his dead wife, Hob bent his head and kissed her forehead. Again and again lie drew her to him and Implanted upon her brow and eyes and lips his kisses. I could not stand tho scone any longer. I started to the corridor door, and thou, as though for tho first time either had known I was within hearing, they turned and stared at mo. At last Hob gave a long, deep sigh, then one of those reluctant laughs of happiness yet wet with sobs. "Well, Jim, dear old Jim, where did you come from? Liko all eavesdrop pers, you havo heard no good of your self. Own up, Jim, you did not hoar a word good or bad about yourself, for it is just coming back to mo that wo havo been selfish, that wo havo loft you entirely out of our business con ference." We all laughed, and Heulah Sands, with her face a bloom of burning blushes, said: "Mr. Randolph, wo havo not sottled what It Is best to do about father's affairs." After a little wo did begin to talk business, and finally agreed that Heulah should write her father, word ing her letter as carefully as possible, to avoid all direct statements, but showing him that she had made but little headway on the work she had come north to accomplish. Hob was a changed being now; so, too. was Heu lah Sands. Uoth discussed their hopes and fears with a frankness In strange contrast to their former manner. Hut there was one point on which Hob showed he was holding back. 1 finally put It to him bluntly: "Hob, are you working out anything that look's like real relief for Miss Sands and her father?" "I don't know how to answer you Jim. 1 can only say 1 havo some ideas, radical ones perhaps, but well, I am thinking along certain lines." I saw he was not yet willing to take us Into his confidence. Wo parted, "Bob, Forgive Me, But Hob going along in the cab with Miss Sands. Two days afterward she sent for us both as soon as we got to the office. "I have this telegram from father It makes me uneasy: 'Mailed to-day Important letter. Answer as soon as you receive.' " The following afternoon the letter came. It showed Judge Sands in a very nervous, uneasy state. He said he had been living a life of daily ter ror, as some of his friends, for whoso estates ho was trustee, had boon re ceiving anonymous letters, advising them to look into the judge's trust af fairs; that the Relnhart crowd had been using renewed pressure to make him let go all his Seaboard stock, which they wanted to secure at tho low prices to which they had de pressed It. In order that they might re organize and carry out the scheme they had been so long planning. Judge Sands went on to say that the day lie was compelled to sell his Seaboard stock lto would havo to make public an announcement of his condition, as there could bo no sale without the court's consent. His closing was: My dear daughter, no ono knows better than I the almost hopelessness of expect ing any relief from your operations, lint so hopeless havo I become of late, so much am I reliant upon you, my dear child, and eternal hope ho springs In all of us when confronted with groat neces sities, that I have hoped anil still hope that you are to bo the savior of your family; that you. only a frail child, are through God'P marvellous workings to ho tho one to save tho honor of that numo we both love more than life; the hud to keep tho wolf of poverty from that door through which so far has como nothing but the sunshine of prosperity und hap piness; tho one, my dear Ueulah, who is to save your old father from a dishonored grave. Dear child, forgive tun for plac ing upon your weak shoulders the addi tional burden of knowing I am now help less and compelled to rejy absolutely uuon you. After you have rend my letter. f tin ro is tin hope, I command y..ti to t II ii so tit once, for although t Un now 1 tn i'ic Lilly ami almost mentally helpless, 1 .un still n SuiiclH, nnd there Ims never i been one of till1 niuno who shirked Ids itut. howiviT stern anil painful It might ! When I handed the letter back to Miss Sands, sho said: "Mr. Randolph, let me tell you and Mr. Hrownley a Httlo about my father and our home, that you may see our situation as It is. My father Is one of the noblest men that ever lived. I am not the only one who says that If you were to ask the people of our state to name the ono man who had done most for the state as a state, most for her progressive betterment, most for her people high and low, white and black, they would answer, 'Judge hoe Sands.' He has been, and is, tho idol of our people. After ho was graduated from Harvard, he entered the law office of my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee Sands. Before he was 150 he was In congress anil was even then reputed the greatest orator of our state, where orators are so plentiful. He married my mother, his second cousin, Julia Lee. of Richmond, at 25. and front then until the attack of that ruthless money shark, led a life such as a true man would map out for himself If his Maker granted him the privilege. ,You would have to visit at our home to ap preciate my father's character and to understand how terrible this sorrow Is to him. livery morning of his life he spends an hour after breakfast with my dear mother, who Is a cripple from hip disease. He takes her in his arms and brings her down from her room to I Love You, Love You, Bob." the library as if she were a child. lie then reads to her and lie knows good books as well as he knows his friends. After he takes mother back to her room, he gives an hour to our people, the blacks of the plantation and his white tenants throughout the county. He is a father to them all. lie settles all their troubles, big and little. Then for hours he and I go over ills business affairs, livery afternoon Troiii four to five he devotes to his estates and the men and women for whom he acts as trustees. He lias often said to me: 'We have a clear million of money and property, and that is all any man should havo in America. If is all he is entitled to under our form of gov ernment. Any more than that tin honest man should in ono way or an other return to the people from whom he has taken it. I never want my family to have more than a million dollars.' When he wont into the Sea board affair, lie explained to me that It was to assist the Wilsons they were old friends, and he acted as their solicitor for years in building up I he south. He discussed with mo the right and advisability of putting in the trust funds. Ho said he considered it Ills duty to employ them as he did his own in enterprises that would aid the whole people of the south, instead of sending them to the north to be used In Wall street as bolting for the 'Sys tem' grinder. These fortunes wore made in tho south by men who loved their section of the country more than they did wealth, and why should they not bo employed to benefit that part of tho country which their makers and owners loved? I remember vividly how perplexed ho was when, at the be ginning, the Wilsons would show him that the Investments wen.' roturning unusually largo profits. " it is not right. Heulah,' he said to me one morning after receiving a let ter from Haltlmore to I he effect that Seaboard stock and bonds had ad vanced until his Investment showed over HO per cent, profit, 'It Is not right for tis to make this money. No man in America should make over legal rates of interest and u fair profit on an Investment, that is, an Investment of capital pure and simple, particu larly in a transportation company, where every dollar of prollt conies from the people who patronize the lines. I have worked K out on every side, and it Is not right; It would not be legal if the people, who make tho laws for their own betterment, un derstood' their affairs as they should. "He was always writing to the Wil sons to conduct the affairs of the Sea board so that there would be remain ing each d:y only profits enough to keep the road up and tho wharves in good condition and to pay the annual Interest and a fair dividend. And when the Wilsons came to our house to lay before him tho offer of Rein hardt and his follow plunderers to pay enormous profits, for the control or the Seaboard, he was Indignant and argued with them that the oilier was an instill to honest men. It was lie who advised the trusteeship control or the Seaboard stock to prevent Relnhart from securing control. I sat in the library when he talked lo tho elder Wilson and the directors. (TO 11U CO NT IX UK 1 1.) THE RICKSHAW AND DANDY. Primitive Modes of Travel in Hill Country of India. In the mountain districts of India the principal vehicles of passenger conveyance are tho 'rickshaw and tho "dandy," with which Rudyard Kipling has made us familiar. United States Consul Gen. Michael, of Calcutta, writes thus about these vlhlcles: "The rickshaw Is pushed and pulled through the streets and on the roads leading out Into tho country by four coolies, and tho 'dandy' Is carried on the shoulders of four and sometimes six coolies. Saddle ponies are also used to some extent but. most of the inhabituuts and quite all visitors used the 'rickshaw and 'dandy.' The latter is constructed on the plan of a sleigh box. but longer. A pole is attached fore and aft, which is long enough to give it springy motion when the coolies are walking and trotting. A cross piece rests on the shoulders of the coolies and is shifted now and then from one shoulder lo the other for rest. Ily the command of the coolie in charge this shift is made simultane ously. As a rule, both the 'rickshaws and the 'dandies' are heavier than they need lo be, and they are general ly lacking In finish. Yet these vehicles cost as much as light and strong ones well llnished should cost. The writer would like lo place alongside of the 'rickshaws and 'dandles' in use in In dia some .samples manufactured in the United Slates after designs made by an American designer. The sam ples would attract orders.'' SALT CELLAR OF LONG AGO. Was Distinctive Mark of Caste in the Middle Ages. "Tills is a medieval sail cellar," said the antiquary. "It is huge, It Is shaped like a castle, II is solid silver and t lie price but -what is the use telling the price to you? Very magnificent, eh? In the middle ago, you know, the salt cellar was the principal tablo orna ment. Gnosis sat above or below the sail as they were prominent or the reverse. Where do you think you'd have sat, eh? Queer I able manners iliey had in those days. The fastidious had individual knives, forks and spoons, but the common people ate wilh I heir fingers. You helped your self from the general dish with your own spoon If you had one, but if you were very, very fastidious you licked the spoon clean first. The food was queer rich, rank food swans, herons, porpoises, garlic, verjuice, saffron. There was mead and wine in floods and ushers stood about, whose duty it was to lead to convenient couches such guests as had dined too well. These ushers, being overworked, wore continually striking for more pay. Tho hours wore queer, too. Hreakfast, dawn; dinner, ten o'clock; supper, four o'clock in tlie afternoon." A Campaign of "Nagging." Ily constant nagging at the drabbi ness and dinginess of masculine cloth ing some attempt is being made to imparl a lillle color to it. Suits of distinct lines, like green and purple, will be iii-gad upon man With a little more persuasion and perseverance we may even get him in good time into something a trifle more picturesque in design than his present garments, Lady's Pictorial. Proof of Power. The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain of the stupidity of his helpers, of the In gratitude of mankind nor of lite innp preclation of the public. These things urn all a part of the groat ganio of lilt! and to moot them and not go down before them In discouragement and defeat is the final proof of power. lilbort Hubbard. MOSES PLEADING WITH ISRAEL Sunclny School Lesson lor Scpl.15,1907 Specially Prepared 'or This Paper LNSSON TKNT. IVut. fi; 1-15. Memory Verses (iOLI)KN TKNT. 'Itowuro lost thou forget the Lord." - IJeiit. ti: hi. TIM K.- .lust before the Israelites cross ed the Jordan tn enter tho Promised Land. A few months after the lust les son. Forty years after the Kxodus. Ac cording to the margins of our Bibles, it, C. nr.i. I'LACK. The Israelites wore encamped In tho broad space between the Ulver Jordan and the mountains of Moab, about opposite Jericho, on (ho eastern bank of tho river. This tract bun a breadth of four or the miles. Comment and Suggestive Thought. Reasons for Loving (lod Supremely. (I) He Is supremely good; ho la tho sum of all good. He that loves God loves all that Is good, and hates all that Is evil, (li) Ho Is not only good, but lovable. Ills goodness Is attrac tive; 11 Is worthy or love. (II) All we have and are we own to him; and the only way in which we can make any return Is to love him and obey him in love. That Is all that is ours to give; t.o withhold It Is unutterably mean. ( I) "The heal, thing in man Is love, and God wants tho host." (f). Such love not only honors God, but elevates man. Love Is the most en nobling act of the soul; and thG nobler, and higher the object, and tho more intense the love, so much tho more; Is tho one who thus loves ennobled, purllled, enlarged, exulted in nature, (t?) In hlni are found all that ought to move the hlghent affections of mon. The Foundation or Religion, of Character, of Righteousness, lies In a right, hearl, a heart that loves God and loves men. No act of goodness without this is true goodness. And men will not long continue to do right toward till without UiIb deeper motive. This love Is not national, but Indi vidual, liach heart, must do tho lov ing, and when Jill hearts do it tho whole nation will have this heart or love. Ho thai has this love in his heart has the fountnln and source of all vir tue. It Is lo the life what tho main spring Is to a watch, what a fountain Is to a stream, what tho soul Is to the body, what the two olive trees of Zocharlah's vision were to tho lamps they fed. This Is what faith in Christ brings to the soul. Tho one grout ossontlal, both for tho Individual and tho state, Is a new life in the soul that supremely loves the good and liates the evil. Tills Is tho one way to the best life hero and hereafter. The state is made up of In dividuals, and, therefore, If every one had this new lire the whole state would bo free from Its corruptions and crimes. The newspapers would give us the morning news of good deeds, Instead of Its flood of crimes and wrongs. Education in Religion and Right eousness. (7) "And thou shalt teach thorn diligently unto thy children." In ovory way, by home instruction, and by schools, and by sabbath wor ship and teaching. "And shalt talk of them when thou slttesf In thine house," etc. The atmosphoro of tho home shall be full of those truths. Men will speak often of that which is of the greatest interest. Conversation is a marvelous power for culture and training. The events of the day, tho deeds oT ourselves and of others, can bo made the occasion of moral instruc tion, in a concrete and vivid form. They are to groat moral principles what tho particles in the air are to the light, which would bo generally invisible but for the objects which re flect and disperse It. The homo Is in its nature a university. It Is a large purt of the true "university extcn alon" movement. Family Training Is the greatest In lluenco around tins young. Family Religion Is the foundation of church, of Sunday school, of religious life, of the whole country's morality and prosperity. Family Prayers tire a great aid to family religion, and the International Lessons for the whole family are one of tho greatest helps to this end. The Family Atmosphere, of reli gious life, of benevolence, of temper ance, of kindness, of Intelligence, of bright conversation, Is tho largest fnc tor in family training. (8) "Thou shalt bind llioin for a sign upon thine hand," etc. It was a literal and formal interpretation or this command which led to tho use or phylacteries upon the arm nnd upon tho forehead. Theso are small cubi cal leather cases. In which aro parch ments containing four passages of scripture In four columns (lix. Kl: 1-10, 11-10; Dent. : 1-9 and 11: 11I-21). These are bound upon the arm and be twoon the eyes by leather thongs. The real meaning of this command Is that God's law should bo in every dond of tho hand, in tho sight of the oyos, in the plans of the head, livery part of tho dally life should bo ruled by God's law. It should novor bo for gotten.