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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1901)
LOVE IS "BEST By Florence KiodgKjnton | CHAPTER XII. It was springtime at Easthill-on Sea, and things were settling down again. Mrs. Dynevor, with her son and daughter, still lived at the Up lands, but with no tear now of the mortgage foreclosing. It was gener ally believed—and specially so by Har old—that the interest was paid to the young mistress of the Manor; really it went into the local bank account of “Kitty Dynevor,” for Lillian knew that Alick Craven’s wooing would soon end successfully, and wanted Kitty to have a nice little sum in hand for her trouseau. Woodlands was a school no longer. Mrs. Tanner lived at the Manor as chaperon to Miss Dynevor; and Lil lian, thoughtful in all things, had in sisted on purchasing an annuity of two hundred a year for her friend, so that, as she put it, if she did not live long Mrs. Tanner need not open a school again. Mrs. Dynevor and Kitty were often at the Manor, and loved Lillian even better than they had loved Miss Len don; but Harold never went there, and when he met his cousin at Up lands treated her with a cold reserve that almost broke her heart. “Your brother was kinder to me when I was a poor little governess,” she said to Kitty. And that damsel, then on the eve of her wedding, lec tured Harold pretty sharply on his manner to her favorite. “You don’t understand,” he said coldly. “Lillian is rich, wes, are poor, and that makes a gulf between us.” “But it need not,” Kitty persisted. Lillian and the twins were her bridesmaids when the June day came that made her Mrs. Alick Craven; and somehow, when the happy pair had driven off, Harold found himself alone in the garden with the chief bridesmaid. “It went off very well,” he remarked, “I never saw Kitty look better.” “No. I think they will be very happy,” she said quietly. “I suppose yours will be the next wedding in the family, Lillian? It is high time you chose a prince consort for the Manor.” “Only that I am not going to do anything of the sort,” she answered. ) “I thought I heard Mrs. Tanner say something about changes at the Ma nor.” “Yes; but they need not mean mat rimony.” ’She hesitated. “You were so kind to me in the old days, when first I came to hiasthill, that I would like to tell you my plans. I am quite sure I am not fit to be a great lady, and I should like to feel that my life was of use to some one, so I am going to London to be trained as a hospital nurse.” ‘Lillian!” “And as my life will be spent among sick folk, you see, I shall never want the Manor; and—you are the last of the Dynevors—you would make me very happy, Harold, if you would go • back to the old home which was to have been yours, which would have been yours if I had never been born.” “Lillian, you know it is impossible!” “I know you have shunned the Ma nor lately; but if it was your own?” “I have only shunned it because something it contained was growing all too dear to me. Lillian,' did you ever guess my secret—that I loved you with all my heart, and but for the gulf between our fortunes I shcftild have asked you to be my wife?” “And I thought you hated me be cause I was my mother’s daughter.” “I love you dearly; I have loved you ever since the old days, when I thought you were only a penniless lit tle teacher.” “I wish I had been,” she answered wistfully. “I don’t think money has . brought me much happiness. But Harold, when I go to the hospital you must take the Manor; the dear old place can’t be left desolate.” And then Harold Dynevor’s love conquered his pride. He took Lillian in his arms, and whispered that he would only take the gift with the giver. And now Dynevor Manor is a happy home, and children who bear the old name make merry in the nursery Mrs. »■ Craven had been afraid to use. The End. i Lesson In Astronomy 1 It was the third week of our trip across the plains. We were now Just seventy-five miles from Fremont, and expected to make it very shortly; but on rising I was disgusted to find that one of the horses—we had only two— was dead lame. He had cast himself in the night. I was rubbing the strain ed tendons when the professor came and stood beside me. “How long before he will be ready for work again?” “I don’t know,” I said shortly. “Hand me that oil.” “What is a near estimate?” he in quired, with a touch of mild irritation. “Surely in these days of scientific ex actitude so ' slight a matter as the length of a horse’s lameness may be computed with reasonable accuracy.” “I just wish you’d try it, then,” I said, sulkily. "He may be ready to morrow—we may have to wait two weeks—unless you want to ride the mare in. I don’t mind walking.” “And leave my specimens to the mercy of any Yahoo that happens along? My dear Curtis, I could njfc think of it! Since there’s only you and I we can mcke ourselves very comfortable. But I 60 hope the crea ture will be all right in a short time. I am anxious to be in Fremont to study the collision of the comet with my colleague there.” “Collision of the comet!” I repeated straightening up. There’s nothing so tiresome as rubbing a sprain.” “Certainly! That brilliant comet to which I have called your attention for several nights, will surely collide with the earth, in a few days at far thest. The phenomenon will prove a rare and wonderful one, though as tronomers have often expected such an occurrence. Unfortunately, something always seemed to interfere.” “May the interference continue,” I said, laughing. “I don’t believe this old world will be smashed up yet awhile.” “I did not say it would be smash ed,” returned the professor with some dignity. “The most advanced theorists agree in saying that the comet itself is now only in a gaseous form, and that now only in a gaseous form, and that-” “Hallowell,” I interrupted, “go and make the coffee. We can discuss gase ous comets while we eat.” Three days passed, and the black was no better. As miseries never come single, his mate, a pretty mare, having the undue curiosity of her sex, experimented with a tempting weed, and was in a very serious condition when I found her. I dosed her with several remedies, getting little help from the professor. He was so busy watching a cloud that lay along the horizon that I was tempted to smash his telescope in order to bring him down to mundane affairs. Having done what I could for the poor mare, I came back to the wagon. “I don’t believe she’ll pull through,” I said savagely. The professor squinted one eye up a little tighter. “Amazing!” he murmured. “It trav els with scarcely the sped of a locomo tive. I marvel the velocity is no greater—doubtless the earth’s gravity exercises a controlling influence at present.” Then, in a different tone,. “Curtis, there’s a buffalo calf coming toward us. I suppose you would not be interested if I told you of the ar rival of something really important.” I took the glass out of his hand. “It’s not a calf, Hallowell. It’s a man—riding like the deuce. What do you reckon is the matter?” Hallowell was from the east and was not used to southern localisms. “It is impossible to reckon anything on so slight a basis,” he answered se riously—then made a wild dive at something that floated by. When he turned to me there was a shining bub ble in his hand. “The comet!” he shouted. “The dol lision has occurred.” “Do you call that thing a comet?” I asked contemptuously. "I might say to you with Festus—‘Much learn ing hath made the mad.’ ” “It is a detached fragment from the main body of the gas,” he replied, dancing triumphantly around. “The comet as a whole is that faint cloud you see yonder.” “The deuce it is,” I said anxiously. “We shall smother or be blown away. I remember you said something about its traveling like a train.” “Not blown away, corrected the professor. “We can take refuge in the hole by that hemlock yonder. As to our chance of smothering, I wonder you can mention such a trifle in the face of material of such overwhelming scientific interest. I think—” We were interrupted by a cry from the advancing horseman. I saw that he was using whip and spur on his mount, and that the latter instead of responding was evidently played out. Indeed, as he reached us, the poor brute went down. His rider staggered up before I could lend my assistance. “For God’s sake let me have a horse!” he exclaimed entreatingly. “I am on my way from X—, to Fremont, with a pardon for my brother. If I do not reach the town before 12 to morrow, the best man that ever buck led will die for no worse fault than putting a bullet through that liound. Pistol Pete. It is nearly 5 now!” “You shall have the horse and wel come,” I replied, for the young fellow’s manly face was haggard with an awful grief, “but one is dead lame, and the other is too ill to stand.” He made a rush for the horses to satisfy himself, and came back with a gesture of despair that went to my heart. “Look!” he cried wildly, drawing out an envelope. “There’s a life in that paper—and I have ridden—ridden —and met with one hindrance after another!” The professor looked at him pity ingly. “How limited are the capabilities of the body compared with the desires of the spirit,” he murmured. “I cannot bear it!” cried the strang er, frantically. “They told me that was a good horse—the liars!” He flung himself on the ground and hard, dry sobs shook his chest, The professor picked up the glass. “In less than an hour it will be here,” he said thoughtfully. “Thank God I am not a scientist,” I said rudely. “You fellows have about as much feeling as the dry bones you study." The professor ignored me, and shook the prostrate man. “Get up," he said, commandingly, a new note in his voice. “Do as I tell you, and your brother may be saved yet.** The man rose. We both stared at Hallowell. I wondered if he had really gone crazy. “Take the tongue off the wagon,” he said curtly, “and spread the cover and all the cloth you can find on the ground near me.” For a moment I hesitated; then It dimly occurred to me that even a bookworm might have original ideas, and I said sotto voce to the newcom er— “Do as he says; he’s by no means as big a fool as he looks." I rather think Hallowell overheard me, for he Bhot a distinctly ungrateful glance in my direction, but* he could say nothing, as we were both now zeal ously obeying him. He made us cut the great cloth cov er in two large sails, and these we fas tened on the wagon under his orders. "Surely—surely,” I gasped, "you don’t think that you can make that cloud of gas help us? Why, it’s fad ing away!” “It is not fading,” said the profes sor, brusquely. “It seems much faint er because you are so near it and be cause of the action of the sun on it. Do as I tell you—there’s no time to lose.” When he was satisfied he made us scramble into the wagon and we sat there, waiting for—what? Three ap parently sane men in a horseless wag on, waiting for a sky motor which mo mentarily grew fainter! When ten minutes passed by outraged dignity as serted itself. “I won’t be made a fool of,” I said, angrily, and started to leave the wag on. Hallowell pushed me back on my seat Then I became aware of a sick ening odor—a fresh breeze on my back— a pale mist around us shot with brilliant hues, and lo! we were run ning over the plain at a rate that threatened to wreck the wagon—our sails swelled out like two great wings. My hair was rapidly assuming a ver tical position, but the two faces near me showed utter unconsciousness of danger. That of the stranger was burning with Joy and reverent thank fulness. To him it was a God-sent miracle for a good man’s rescue. The professor was radiant over this new factor In his knowledge and he mut tered his observations aloud. Neither seemed dlatobed by the fact that from the speed and the smell,breathing was no easy matter. As to me—my one hope was that I might touch old earth again sqfely. On, on we flew. Again and again I expected an immediate smashup, but our wagon was of fine and strong make, the plain was level, and we bade fair to reach the town shortly. In less than two hours we were not three miles from Fremont! Then a terrible idea flashed on me which I had been too hurried to think, of before. We should pass the town! Like the brook, we might go on for ever— or at least far enough to wreck us on the broken lands beyond. As to the stranger, the trip would have been of no earthly use to him. “I shall jump,” he said simply, as if in answer to an outspoken inquiry. The professor was looking anxious but he said nothing. But we had forgotten the little river lying near the town. We struck it like a cyclone, and its four feet of water was whipped into wild spray around us, while the wagon spun like a frantic top, then stopped with a lurch that nearly sent us flying. Either the force of our motor was lessening or perhaps, even at its best, it would not have had time or strength to loosen the wagon from the heavy snag driven between the spokes, for the pale gas rushed on, leaving three dripping men and some ruined specimens in the river, with Fremont not 500 yards away. TEUTONS IN FRANCE, Farts of the Republic Are as Much German as the Fatherland. The northern third of France and half of Belgium are today more Teu tonic than the south of Germany. This should not occasion surprise when we remember the incessant downpour of Teutonic tribes during the whole his toric period. It was a constant pro cession of Goths—from all points of the, compass—Franks, Burgundians, and others. France was entirely over run by the Franks, with the exception of Brittany, by the middle of the sixth century, says the London Express. All through the middle ages this part of France was German in language and customs as well. The very name of the country is Teutonic. It has the same origin as Franconia in Southern Germany. In 812 the council of Tours, away down south, ordained that every bishop should preach both in the Ro mance and the Teutonic languages. The Franks preserved their German speech 400 years after the conquest. Charlemagne was a German. His cour tiers were all Germans. He lived and governed from outside the limits of modern France. The Abbe Sieyes ut tered an ethnological truism when, in the course of the French revolution, he cried out against the French aris tocracy: “Let us send them back to their German marshes whence they came.” Removal from Coutity .Jails. One of the measures before the legis lature of North Carolina provides that all criminals condemned to capital punishment shall be removed from the county jails immediately upon convic- ! tion, to the state penitentiary to await j the execution of their sentence. * Corn Stalk DUeasn. Out In Nebraska they "have Just tils* covered" that corn stalk disease Is due to the eating of corn smut by cattle going In stalk Helds. This Is an old story and a fictitious one as regards smut, which has been fet to cattle ex perimentally In large quantities with out doing them any harm, in fact cat tle have, when so fed, shown a liking for smut and seemed to do well on It with very few exceptions which were not shown to be due to the smut The writers we have in mind who have been claiming that corn smut was the cause of the disease, make a new plea, however, for they say that smut Is "ergotism" of the corn plant, and that the disease therefore Is ergotism. This is erroneous in every particular. Corn smut is not ergot, and cattle affected with corn stalk disease do not show the symptoms of ergotism. It Is true that cattle so affected stagger and show symptoms of toxic poisoning, but they do not have the lesions of acute ergot ism and do not live long enough to de velop the lesions shown by cattle poi soned by ergot. In the latter disease there is gangrene of the tissues and separation of the ligaments, especially above the ankle Joints, so that there may be a ring of flesh sloughed off at the place mentioned and exposing the bone. We do not see this in corn stalk disease. In this disease we see cattle become stupid, staggering, feverish, lacking appetite, having diarrhoea or constipation and passing blood In the passages and often blood-colored urine. It is evident that there are two forms of corn stalk disease, one of which Is Impaction of the stomach, attended with cerebral symptoms as a conse quence of the irritation of the stom ach; the other, a toxic poisoning of the blood by some poison of the food, either a fungus one, such as was dis covered and described by Billings of Nebraska, and Burrill of Illinois, or some poison such as might be found when food is undergoing decay or fer mentation. It has been shown in In dia that there exists a condition of the stalks of corn where the joints contain saltpeter In such large quantities that poisoning may ensue from the con sumption of stalks so Impregnated, and this condtion of corn stalks might well exist here also, for it is said to follow the premature drying up of corn | around wet places, where cut worms or other insects have killed the plant, or where it has died out as a result of the presence of alkalies in the soil. It would be well to examine some of the stalks from the fields where the disease has prevailed and see if there be not something of the same sort wrong with the stalks. Certain It Is that where corn is cut and shocked in proper season there Is no trouble from feeding the fodder to cattle. We do not hear of the disease where cattle are yarded for a part of each day and fed other foods besides corn stalks with an adequate supply of water and salt Un der these conditions cattle do not suf fer from impaction and at the same time rarely take that form of the dis ease which is characterized by toxic poisoning, hence the way to prevent the cattle from disease in fall and early winter is to manage them prop erly by allowing them to go but a few hours in the stalk fields daily and at the same time providing them with an abundance of water, salt and good food other than fodder and corn. While we do not believe that corn stalk disease Is due to corn smut nor to er got, we are not to be understood as ad vocating the feeding of cattle upon smutty corn If it can be avoided, but we do believe that the disease will dis appear where cattle are managed as we have suggested, and without regard to the presence or absence of corn smut from the stalk fields. It will be better still when the wasteful plan of pas turing corn fields instead of cutting them for fodder is done away with throughout the country. American I’oland-China Record Coin* pany Meeting. The twenty-fourth annual meeting of this company will be held In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1901, The business to be reported will show a great increase over the past few years. This denotes a great ly increased interest in the business and should draw out a large meeting of the members of the company. This is always one of the most interesting swine gatherings of the country. 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