T
When
Grandma
Came b,
CD. LEWIS
Yoillli: I.lli li'll 1 ;l Is. Mill nf vl!-
lnK liulliliT, luul Imvii tvtiriin,; Tilly
tpimuvr, tliiUk'lilcr tf the vlllimv miller,
for six immllis ur inure ulirti I ii milium
Wl.lilxvU o;iine on ii visit. Stie v:i
iiihiIht to Mrs. Minis, mill nltluiiij,-li
our sltt jciirn nlil It as Imt linasl
that hIii' O'UM still i . in U' tilings hilin.
l.ucli'ii whh lur favurltf nr:i tiilt'liiUI,
mill ln- Pilule li" M'li'i't i'f tin' I" : i ' t llml
slit- luul liiiuli' InT will III Ills I'.lMPf. Ill
Iiit wrstt-rn 1'iilin' tlie li:iil Iu'jmiI Hint
In- wns "ki'i'liiK iiKipino" with a
Kill ami that It winilil pruluilil) If u
imiteli, niid that ri-nsuii. more than any
oilier, linuiK'ht hi'i' oast In midwinter.
tir.iiiilina W'hltlii'i'k iirrlveil In Sunny
tiilf at mi inifuitiiiiiite Imiir. Tin- liver
riinnliiK thriiiinh Hie lllap' was frozen
two feet thlik ami was l-clny nsnl an
a Imnli'vniil ami rmv eourse ly every
x Hinder who hail a hurst- ami eutter.
There w ere some ixhI horses anil itoine
iliivers who were iiiinIoiih to head the
rii'esslnii, anil iitnoiiK the latter was
l.iirien Davis. It was a natural HiliiK
that Tilly Soiner sluailit he with hlin
as he drove and that she should rluli
her hands In lee when the cutter
erossed the line llfty feel ahead of the
net hest horse for I' ll tulles around,
(irnuilnm happened to he trussing the
hrhlije dininn one f the trials of speed
niul saw It all, and a she continued t'l
Kil'e her Jaw lej,'iin to set.
'Tim Idea of It -the Idea!" she unit
tercd tn herself. "My favorite j;riinil
niiii Iiiin not only turned to hoss raiin',
lmt that r:iI he Is ns K"od as eiiKHKed
to U xlekili' 1 1 1 in on the hest she known
how. I've K"t tu see iihout this tiling
rl'ht away."
She did. She hadn't k'ot her hontiet
olT liefnre she w as Hiiylui; to her daugh
ter: "Sarah lavls, It seenm as If I'rovl
deiiee had sent ine here at this time.
I'd you know what I.uiieu Is iloln' at
this very mlnlir
"lie's drlvhiK oil the lee. I helleve."
wi-.m the reply.
"Inivln'! Why, he's hoss racln',
that's w hat he's ilolu - Koln' up ami
ilown llekety split and that Spooner
pil. it I ion t who you've all heen wrlllu'
so iiiuiii, Is In the cutter with hint and
It sli-klil' hlin on. I stopped oil the
lu'ldp' and naw It all, and I'm pln' to
tell you riiit out plain that I'm iii-.luir.i-cd
of you. 1 never spri'ted t.i live to
see the day when y oil and .lames would
nee I.ucien heeome a hi ss rarer ami a
KainhliT and a inun'erer and never
even advise him ii'ln It."
"Come, mine, n, other!" ehhled the
(hiu;;htiT. "They u.ay he driving fast.
"ixen.s
dims, make torn Hosa OIT
it ami hit!"
ntul one horse may ooine out nheaj of
the other, hut It's not liorse raclim'.
Tltrre nre (HMple ilrlvliiK on the lee
who helonu to the church. It's simply
rec-reiitlou. 1 wn driving with I.ucien
myself yesterday, and 1 enjoyed It Im
mensely." "Iiui't talk to me. Sarnli Iiivl! I
know a hoss race when I see one, nnd
I know- that lions racln' load to pun
Mln iiml murder. If folks around here
think they can he Uirlstlans and hoss
race at the samp time let 'em pi ahead,
Mit I can tell 'em when they'll mil
up. I was In hopes 1 should tako n
Ukln' to that Spooner pal. lmt I never,
never can. Any pi I who will urce a
youii) man on to his doom outfit to
to sent to Jail, and I'll tell her c
whenever I see her."
When I. mien came home he pit
Mid roasting from prandina. lie tried
to explain, hut It was no pi. Crand-
inn had her opinion, and It was:
it am t a hit of use tit w aste your
lirenth, I.nelen. I'm disappintn'l In
your father and mother and In yon
When 1 was here hist you was split tin1
wooti and studyln your Sunday school
lesson all the time. When I come this
time 1 llml you hoss racln' mid on your
way to Htate's prison. 1 feel It my duty
to save j oil If 1 can, and I'm coin'
to try and think up a w ay to do It."
The Idea was to propitiate crandnm
ns nuiiii ns posslhle, and yet I.ucien
did not cease to "hoss race" now and
then ntul to take Tilly Sumner along,
ns hefore. The family would have
liked to brine nhout an Introduction
lietwivn tho plrl nnd the old lady,
1ml It was ho 'kill upon ns too risky.
Little wa said after tho first two
or three days, lmt jrrondtnn kept
t p n Krcnt thinking, with tho result
that ono day, two wpok lotcr, she
slipped out of tho houie and tuad t
'$21 7
1
mil at Spooner's. It n a coll that
left Its mark. She reproved Mrm.
HMinr, wondered what mrt of a
man Mr. Spooner was und wound up
!y calling Tilly an Impertinent minx,
tif course, there were results, nnd
those results made at hast two hearts
miie. I. mien was Informed In plain
Kiigllsh that If he didn't "drop that
gal" he would he dropped out of
grandma's will, niul, though he refused
to he Muffed, the situation !neai:ie
trained and anything hut pleasant. It
was Tilly herself who solved the prob
lem where others fallisl to s-e n glim
mer of light.
(lie day l.tuicii had luitini'sH over to
ward Liverpool, and as It w as a I. light
lYhrunry day he iiHked grandma to P
along. She was glad to gel out nnd
die country, mid she meant to take
advantage of the ociiikIoii to have a
iong private talk with the young man.
After a drive of two miles nnd halt
ut a farmhouse for a moment I.ucien
headed the horse hack home, mid he
fore grandma knew w here she w as the
outfit was on the lee along with twen
ty i it hers.
I.tliicn. what does this mean T' she
demanded.
It's our nearest way home, grand
ma.
The horso started olT at u good pace,
hut after n couple of minutes two or
time others began to draw up to him.
In live minutes (iratidiiui Whltbeelc be
gan to wriggle around. In six or seven
Hhe became so nervous that she asked:
"I.ucien, what do them fellers back
there w lint 7"
"They want to puss me and crow-
over It, In; replied.
Just then two of the cutters did pass,
and the drivers looked back and grin
ned. I. illicit held his horse down,
however, and he pretended not to mind
It when he was passed by two or three
others.
Vou see, I'm Just out for a drive," he
explained to grandma.
'Yes, 1 know. Could they pass you
If you didn't want 'em to';"
Hardly. I hate to be grinned at and
crowed over, but I know It's wicked
to speed horses."
"Yes, of course It Is, but"
Just then an old crowbnlt uKnched
to a home made sled came up and
passed the cutter at n Jog, and the half
Uo7.cn boys on the sled had some rut
ting remarks (o lualie. (iraiiiliun did
some more wriggling, hut she didn't
say anything until the mark was
reached nnd the horse had been turned
nroiind for a straight mile couiw to
the bridge. Then she observed:
I allien, I don't like to be made a
laughing stock of."
Nor I, cither."
Then If any more crowbalts come
up you might shake on the lines a
Its-tie."
ilut there are live or six men with
good horses who will surely try t.)
beat us." I
"Then shake n lectio harder."
One of tho good horses presently
came pounding up liehlnd, but I.uiieu
seeineil oblivious.
T said shake the lines," remarked
grandma.
The young man shook, but the liorse
still gained, and others were heard
mining up.
"Shake harder!"
I. Helen clucked, but he did not draw
nway from the danger, (iraudmu
waited until the nose of u horse was
level with her arm and then said:
'I.uiieu Ihivis, if yon let mo be
laiighed at you are no grandson of
mine. Make your boss -it un and git."
Three seconds later she was riding
at a 2:1) clip and holding on to her
breath and her bonnet, and three min
utes later the bridge was passed and
she knew that she had led by a hun
dred fivt. She hadn't n word to say
on the way from the river to the
lumse nor for half nn hour later. Then
she put her hand on I. mien's shoulder
and observed:
"1 guess things have changed since
wns a gal. I guess that beatlu' the
other hoss hain't lioss raiin' or gain-
blln" or murder, nnd you'd better bring
Tilly Spooner over hero tonight to licur
mo say so."
fjily llollnniVa I.niM-hrnti Ablnttona.
Lady Murster, granddaughter of King
Wllllani IV. of England, relates In her
biography that In 1K37 she went with
her mother to take luncheon with Lady
Holland. "To this day," she says, "I
never taste cold turkey and salad with
out their conjuring up In my mind's
eye Holland House dining room, full of
brilliant silver nnd glass, the Huuirt
footmen, nnd, most of nil, n most
charming looking lady with u very pale
face-the palest fiu-o, I think, I ever saw
nnd with such a heavenly, sweet smile.
She sat In a large iirnuiialr, nnd her
occupation seemed to me, even young
ns I was, strange In a dining room. She
was not tdttlng at the dining room
table with every one else, but In a cor
ner of the room. A mnhl was kneeling
by her bathing the pule, sweet, smiling
lady's feet-the loveliest white fivt -In
n large china foot tub! This lady was
the famous I.ady Holland, and 1 heard
It said that these, to outsiders, peculiar
ablutions took place In the dining room
of Holland House during luncheon
whether there were visitors or not!"
The llliioilxtone.
"Moht ersons Know ery little nlmut
the Ftone of which they so glibly
talk," remarked a gem expert. "Very
few have any Idea of what a blood
stone Is, though the red spotted green
heliotrope commonly goes by that
inline. Here tire two pieces of real
bloodstone, the bloixlstone of the an
cients. A you nee, they are black. Hy
rubbing one mi the other 1 draw what
looks to be blood. Touching It to my
hand It leaves u bloodllkt stain. No,
there's no trick about It. Those bits
of black stone are simply hematite,
and hematite Is the rnl bloodstone.
Not one person In 10,ti seems to know
thli."-rhltadelphla ltecord.
TOY GARDENING.
II la of 411 rt Ike Moat flilful and
Itldlralou.
Our muiiM'l U to avoid ull mimicry
lu gardening as we would uvoid It In
lcetii or lu gait Sometimes we do
not mind Uinjj repetitious. "In gar
denlng," we W, "almost the oi;!y
thing w hich costs unduly-hi money or
In mortillcatloii-ls for one to try to
give himself somebody else's ganicu!"
line of tho reasons we give nj.alu.st it
Is that It lends to toy gardening, and
toy gardening Is of all sorts the most
pitiful and ridiculous. "No true art."
we say, "can tolerate any make be
lieve w hich Is not In some way laier
than the reality It simulates. In other
words. Imitation should ulways i lu
tho nature of an amiable condescen
sion. Whatever falseness, pretension
or even mere frailty or smalliiess sug
gests to the eye, the IneffecUlallly of a
toy Is out of place In any sort of g::r
denlng." Wo do not actually speak all
this, but we Imply It, and we ol'icii tlnd
that the mere utterance of the words
"toy gardening" has a magical effect
to Hiiggest all the rest and to over
whelm with contrition the bad taste
and frivolity of many n misguided at
tempt at adornment. At that word of
exorcism Joints of cerulean sewer pipe
crested with scarlet geraniums, rows
of white cobbles along the wall: or
drive like n cannibal's skulls around
his but, purple paint kegs of petunias
on the scanty doorsteps, crimson wash
kettles of verbenas, anthill rockeries
mid well sweeps and curbs when- iio
wells are, go modestly and forever into
oblivion. (i. . fable lu Scrlhuer's.
FIRST PIANO MAKER.
Two Apri'linrnn of CrlHtoforl'a Work
Still In Ki faience.
It was a harpsichord maker, Crlsto
foii, lu the employ of the I'uki- of Tus
cany, who In 1711 made the tlrst suc
cessful piano. As curator of Kerdlnand
de Medici he had u splendid collection
of lUiglau, French ami Italian instru
ments to look after, and this undoubt
edly aided him, though the model was
ho crude that the Inventor could never
have dreamed a monument would ever
be em-ted In Ids memory. There nre
only two grand pianofortes of Ctisto
fori lu existence.
One decorated In gold nnd Chinese
figures Is in Florence, and the other Is
lu the Crosby-Itrown collection In the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three
documents attest the authenticity of
this last Instrument, which was pur
chased from Slgnor llego Martelll.
From this feeble beginning a long list
of names could bo mentioned of men
who helped perfect the piano. Hut fac
tories alone could never have achieved
without royalty to encourage and vir
tuosos to play. Frederick the (ireat or
dered five phinos for bis palace, where
they ciin be soon at the present day.
Sialic Antoinette was a patron of the
art, nnd (iemeutl in Knglaud and Mo
zart In Ccrmany Introduced the Instr.i
ments, ho It became a part of life. U
was In I'leyi-l's concert room that Cho
pin played, ntul our later firms have
brought out a long list of artists -Jo-srffy,
radorowski nnd others. House
keeper. Doelor'a fee flrmntned In the Well.
"The (uccrcst fee I ever had offered
to uie was by nn old farmer it it In Mon
roe county," said a prominent phy
sichiu who Is also something of n
sportsman. "I was up there one year
for the trout llshlng, and one evening
I wns Huminened from the hotel where
I wns stopping to attend an old woman
lu the neighborhood who had suddenly
been taken 111. After I hud Ilxed her
up her husband said to me: 'Ioo, I
don't know what your charge Is, but I
ain't got no ready cash about me. I'll
tell you what I'll do, though. See that
well over there? There's one of tho
llncst trout you ever seen In that there
well, nu' If you can ketch him he's
youm.' I had no tackle with me, ami
as I had to return to the city next
morning I missed the opportunity to
collect my fee." nilladelphhi Ueeord.
The Imperial lnslp.
The Imperial cngle, the largest of
tho species known, flics to u height of
from lo.ooo to l.",000 feet. It la n na
tive of South Auierlea, and Its habitat
is among tho lofty mountains of that
country. Its power of flying to high
nltltuiles Is only exceeded by the con
dor of the Andes, which Is said to liavo
attained tho height of six miles, or
within one mile of the greatest height
ever attained by a balloon. The cngle
palls In the air at heights ranging from
three to tlvo miles and when seen to
soar upward by an observer on tho
earth's surface disappears from sight
lu about three minutes.
A Mill Cold Wooded.
"Speaking of cold blooded methods In
business," said a southern merchant,
"reminds me of a story they tell about
a New York drummer who died sud
denly In nn Atlanta hotel. The coroner
telegraphed to his firm, saying: 'Your
representative died here today. I nwalt
your Instructions.' In a few hours this
answer came buck: 'Search his pockets
for orders, l'xpress his samples to
New York, (live the body to a medical
college.' "
A C'onnf rrlrrllant.
"What U a eounterirrltant?" nsked
Mrs. Smlthers.
"A eounterirrltant," replied Smlth
ers, "Is a woman who makes the clerk'
pull down everything from the shelves
for two hours and then buys 4 cents'
worth of hairpins." Cleveland Tress.
Kconaoijr.
Krlond If your washerwoman
charge by tho piece, It must be rather
expensive. Young Housekeeper Oh,
no, She lose to many things that her
bill ore never blgh. New York Weck-
OMAHi
idwards
MAIN Of F CI
fifth ar.d RoSt.-t Sis..
ST. PAUL, WINS.
DIAILR3 Hi
Stocks, Grain, Provisions
ll.Hifht and lor cash nrcarruvl '-n n-asena'-lr
maitfins, un wtiiititht-rnwill Im a th.iri;c el iQ
Cram. en siml.i an. I -n l!ax.
Wrile lur uur m irkt-t letter.
COMMISSION MiRCriAHTS VX CM LOTS
Ship Your Grain To Us
Dust Kacilitii s. Prompt Kktckss.
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DULUTH WINNIPEG
Branch Office 223 Coates Block
l'lattMtioiiUi l'liotic 211
Don't allow money to lie around.
Is easier to spend It, and easier
to lose it.
It
UE MONEY
by lceepitik' it in a sale place such as
The Banl of Cass County
Von can give a check for any part of
it til any lime and so have a receipt
lor payment without asking for one.
lien yon have a hank account you
will he anxious to arid to It rather than
spend from it. Uon't you want to
know more about it.
Bee Hive Restaurant,
Main Street
I M M E I) I AT i: LX ( VITUS I T K
COt'IiT HOUSE.
Monlri at all hours. Special at
tention to tho fanner patrons. The
tables nre supplk'tl with the best
the markets ntlord.
JOHN COKEY. Proprietor.
Independent Cigar
FACTORY!
the
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5c CIGAR,
ClmlleiiL'cs C'otnimrtson In Quality
uuil Workinaiinlilu.
JULIUS lMCl'l'KKBlCRG,
Miinufiu'turcr.
R. B. WINDHAM
ATTOUXEY-AT-LAW.
IMiittMiioulh : : Nebraska.
Probate, Commercial Law, Real
Estate Litigation
Ami Foreclosure of Mortgages a Siieiiiilty
Perry's Restaurant
MARTIN BUILDING,
S North Side Main Street
CASTOR I A
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
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MINNEAPOLIS
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8 nu onorc uraerouse s
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N Menls Served tit IveguUir
S Menl Hours.
Fresh Oysters
S (IX SEASON)
ft Fish or nnythinc in Market.
S (J1VK US A CALL. q
P. UTTERBACK, Proprietor,
N MARTIN BUlLUinu, ft
Going to Business College? !'
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Polled Durham Bulls
FOR SALE
High Grade Pedigreed Stock
Tele. Cedar lawn Stock Farm.
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Renews the hair, makes it new again, restores the freshness. Just
what you need if your hair is faded or turning gray, for it always
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PLATTSMOUTH, .
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No Matter How Nice
Your House Appears
From the outside, if it is furnished with out-of-date
broken and scratched Furniture it doesn't measure
up to what your home should be. We have every
thing you can think of in
furqiture oi)d Sjouse Furnishings
New oods coming in daily. Come in and look our
store through when you get ready.
Sattler & Fassbender
EMBALMERS AND UNDERTAKERS
Sixth Street, Between Main and Pear Sts.
so. you will tie lnUn-sted in our luu-
tiful. lllulrnti'd i-atiilocur. It irlls all
atnul uur isturtea of i.tiitlv. eouiutueuLa.
our sr.i.lu;u . ll is I rev. Aililn-
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VEGETABLE SICILIAN
If r
hnit iVntmnrnw
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040mk. Choice
toenail iviiwci
G. FRMNZEM
Merchant Tailor.
The only one in Plattsmouth that
ries a larje assortment of suit
ings, fancy pantinjjs and vest
in.s for you to select from. All
work first-class and of the latest
styles. Cleaning and repairing
jjiven prompt attention.
Room 227 Coates Block
car-
Nebraska.
Zbc 35cst Mbi6h
is the Cheapest
in tbc jnM
Poor Whisky is not only dis
agreeable to taste, but undoubted
ly injurious to the stomach. A lit
tle good Whisky is n fine tonic and
helps instend of harming. Such
Whiskies ns Yellowstone, for in
stance, will do you just ns much
good ns a doctor's prescript ion. If
you don t know how good it
cotno in nnd try it.
PRICES:
nuckcnlicimennyc, per jrallun. ,
Yellowstone, " " .,
Honey Dew, " " . ,
Ii? Horn, " " .,
.n oo
. 4 oo
. 3 00
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