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May 13, 18 THE NERBASKA INDEPENDENT 1 v it I A PA R OF PLAYERS By VIOLA EOSEBOEQ. CopjTigbt, 1888, by the Author. Bat lack ol employment aa uot jars. Mason's worst trouble now. She was becoming all the time weaker and Bick er. Yet sue seemed happy, and when occasionally I managed to take her to the theater, no matter what the play or whom the players, her poor wrinkled, plastered old face beamed with uncloud ed joy. She would smother her cough in her handkerchief and forgetting her habitual economy recklessly squander her gloves in indiscriminate applause. I must add that she took an apologetio tone about this habit, but appealed to me to say if it was not very pleasant to .applaud when one was pleased. "Ton see," she said, "out in Illinois tbe la dies hardly ever do applaud. At least they didn't use to. They didn't seem to think it was ladylike, and I always wanted to so!" ' ; Her emancipation from sewing and from such uncongenial conventionalities as forbade expression of her love fox things theatrioal seemed enough to make her last steps to the grave bright er than all her life before. For, as you Jiave foreseen, to the grave she was soon to come. ' - It is curious, by the way, considering that there all life's stories must finally nd, bow conventional a goal it seems in story telling. , But, as it happens, the small events I have Btarted out to relate culminated only as my friends took their parts in the universal tragedy and as always that tragedy brings out as no other set ting could all the touching helplessness and sweetness of their dingy, stumbling, little lives, Cassius did well on the road. The en tertainment, with no literary merit and no plot, fulfilled its purpose and pleased a number of people. Cassius' share in its success, ns we learned from his let ters, covered him with glory. He soon was looking for a backer, that theatrical good fairy so inexplicably subject to en treaty, preparatory to starting as the toy man upon a starring tour, of course -with "a play" properly built, around him. This ambition sounds wild enough, but what is wilder than history, espe cially let us take a comprehensive phrase history in the show business? Cassius might have made a fortune. Needless to say he was sure he would, and win immortal fame as well. But it was not to be. Aunt Maggie became too ill to be left alone. Her money was almost gone, and before the summer was past Oassius gave up his engagement and practically his search for a backer and returned to take care of her. Through all this I heard nothing of Mrs. Mason's daughter. After Cassius' return he told me that while he was away she had sent ber mother 5. "She hasn't any appreciation of Aunt Mag gie," was his only comment. But if her daughter cared little about ber and was oppressed by little sense of duty, Mrs. Mason had consolations such as wiser people often lack. Friendship, like all matters of feel ing, is a mystery. Evidently to enjoy it ' it is not necessary to be able to read what Emerson says about it. Here were these two, with nothing of intellect or dep spiritual experience to found con geniality upon, still building out of their crazy little tastes and loyal little affections the great blessing for them selves. Cassius made up his mind to take Mrs. Mason out of the city. It seemed the right thing to do, but I was trou bled as to how he was to take care of her anywhere. However, he had brought a little money home with him and was quite unburdened with fears for the future. "Oh, we'll get on somehow. I -can do lots of things," he declared. I took it as evidence that he could when in three days he found just the ; place he wanted and moved to it. It was on Long Island and was half -farmhouse, half old fashioned roadside tavern. It was within two miles of an ancient village, now brought low and become a summer watering place. Yes, he was right, that young man, when he said he could do a lot of -things. He did them. The one he had made of his diplomacy in getting my watch did not exhaust it. He entered his new boarding place on the regular -footing, and that footing he made firm by paying his and Aunt Maggie's board In advance for two successive weeks. Then hesucceimfuHy rearranged matters and defrayed his own expenses with his own labor. He was incredibly industrious, and before the hits lingering colony of vis itors left th.) village bo gave sn enter tainment for their benefit and his own. VA tutti frutti entertainment," he call ed it on tills he painted with a brush. , Something of his situation, hia care of the dying woman, had gotten noised about (1 don't think he aimed to con. cenl the facts), and the euturtuimueut was, I wa told, in every sense a suo- cess. I knew of its attractions only by J uearsay, :or, mougn I was taking a lata vsoatluu from city strw.ts and dramatio agents ana Had tnbiuhmt mynolf in the old tavern with 1117 pair of players, I staid with Mr Mseon while Cas sius 1ulnUl1r.1l lo the public's auui tueut Mrs. Ma 11 bait now become so weak thai she inilid more care than Cassius (H.tiU give her. MCnius has fiuUlit-4 the dress. Il didn't show tVr half when you saw It," the told lue cm th instant of our iuot tug. Mbe mad hlttt tring It for t to 5 Wt il hung tm a chair where alto could w (l with tier thin lmi-d As mk! 1 was Mltui with hint Cas sius a id. lia fitting his eyes a h P"k'? Mi sttow thu is going m fj,, ami sh say she want la t Imriwl hi that ttr I .tu t stand to Mar tne talk about It, but the lold me thai shv's tovtt so uiuth ivmiaur lor tm evev since 1 ve Known ner, ana sne given me so much good advice. " And with this singular peroration of gratitude the boy broke down and sob bed. But he soon checked himself to tell me that he had sent for some more yellow embroidery silk and was going to embroider all the seams of the gown. "She thinks it's as handsome as it can be, but it ain't. I always keep hav ing ideas come to me when I'm at work on anything like that " With this in coming wave of artistio complacency he dried his eyes and quite cheerfully de parted to split kindling wood. The next day Mrs. Mason had herself dressed in the robe of her heart, and with the ingenuity only known to wom en and drunkards contrived to command enough solitude and strength to paint her faoe in the old nnholy fashion. She was gently pleased and proud of the re sults, but Cassius said to me privately that lie was worried to see her dress up so. "She hasn't had it on before since it was finished," he explained. They both had a habit of speaking of the gown as "it," as if there could be but one substantive for that pronoun. "She wouldn't put it 'on when I asked her to. She just said that was the time that she wanted to be buried in it; that she always wanted to wear something like that, and now she just wanted to think of wearing It forever. I'm afraid she teels worse today and won't say so." Oassius had waylaid me in a hall to lonfide his fears, and when I returned to Mrs, Mason I fancied there was in deed a new melancholy in her mood. In her glowing raiment she was sitting, propped with pillows, looking out of the window at the level, sunny, autumn landscape. ' After a long silence, without turning her eyes indoors, she said ; "That money Cassius owes you he hasn't ever paid any of it?" Then, after another silence: "No; of course he hasn't had any chance, I'm the one that owes it really. " My reply she showed no sign of bear ing. Out of her own thoughts she spoke again, at last turning upon me the fixed gaze of a definite determination. "I've thought of a way to pay it. I guess you'll think it's I guess you'll like my idea. Cassius made this dress for me. It's mine, and I'll give it to you for the debt " The crucified triumph of her inflec tions told her feeling that I'd come oft She was fitting, propped with piltowi. well in 'this bargain, so I answered that the dress was worth a great deal more than $10, as indeed it was, could one ever find the place in which it was worth anything. r "Yes, I know," assented Mrs. Ma son, "but you've done a good deal for us. You do all the time, and it's mine. and I shan't ever really use itwhile I'm alive." She stopped and again looked a long time out of the window before she add ed conclusively, "I think you ought to have it" I found it more than impossible to speak to a living woman about her fast nearing need of clothes for the grave. I oould give no hint that I knew the wish she was sacrificing to honor. Yet, hard as it was for me to under stand any intensity in such a feeling, her strange, strained manner, her deep, fixed abstraction and her wide, sad, unseeing eyes told me that this crushed desire devoured her. In her little mind lived vividly the ancient the primeval feeling that associates forever, even aft er death, body and soul spirit what ever we call all that gives identity. In our modern world the vital pas sion springing, say, in Greek literature, from the deep belief in this or that cir cumstance of sepulcher is only imper fectly comprehended and with an effort but here, forsooth, was all the feeling that once flowered in suoh beliefs and passion in yet a simpler, a more prim itive, form, existing quite without reli gious association and in a poor batter ed little piece of worn unkind, only be getting an unutterable longing to wear forever a gown that was rich and rare. And here was this desire the con suming desire of the dying -trampled by the relentless conscience that had hunt ed her through lifo. Truly the inevitable human conflict Is found on queer battlefields. I devoted myself to rooting the con science. I thought it had hud its day, and I wanted Mrs, Mason to die com fortably, as such a veritable simple pa gan should, soothed with the knuwltlira that all that yt'llow fmbroidtrry was to enwrap her through all time, Hut the OOJUHlewe hod acquired the strength it had overcome. It was a stubborn, on Masoning organ, and nudcr its iron rule its pale victim grew dally more am. more uielniirlioly, In hrr Urkiid fwcousiiut the near and waiur approach of drtdltaUi itwlf was tmtwiglud by the burdru f this view saerifloa. The queer, beautiful little friendship that was Ultfhtouiug hrr Ul diyrs was perhaps the p.f twst wine In hr arrry (wait 1 if iifo, ad now uvea it gave iu own special etnt'1 sting to hrr Uw the loss of the tubruidufr4 gown. "I i" you'll think ttMiaihin more of It Uum I'iMMtiiu dkk It," she said to lue. "I should, l'a 1 us dint't always da Jul right I neve was saUsfi! sDout nis toiling you ne wan cen to ouy a trunk you know I wasn't but any how there are not many young men as good as he is. He never had any bad habits, and and" she began to cry weakly "he's been so good to me, and we've had such pleasant times, talking about plays and things while he em broidered. I never had such pleasant times, and I've taken such an interest in every stitch. " The situation was certainly becoming intolerable, yet it was easier to discover this than to find a way to mend it Here was I cast for a very Shy lock and all my viotim's. moral nature involved in the determination to make me play the part Thank God, I have occasional luoid intervals in which I glimpse the unfathomable and invaluable depths of inconsistency and unreasonableness in the human heart I have a profound be lief in the superior wisdom born of these qualities, and though my experi ence of them in Mrs. Mason may seem to contribute but slightly to sustain this faith I never elsewhere found them more to my mind. I could not break down her determination to pay Cassius' debt by any direct attack. 1 changed my tactics for the better plan of a trans parent stroke, one warranted to deceive only with the consent of the deceived. I conferred with Oassius privately and told him I would take the gown, and the debt would be paid, but that When the end came I found it hard to steel myself to speak of grisly details that the woman with the sublime resig nation of the dying faced bravely when we could do nothing more for her, I should give it back to him to be used as she had wished. Then I told him that this was a confidential communi cation and that he was to betray it to Mrs. Mason at once, omitting only the faot that I had given this last com mand. She must believe that I supposed my secret intentions successfully secret ed. Surely this was a weak plot ; but, as a plan for pleasing every one concerned, it was strong, and it succeeded. I don't know the fine ins and outs of Mrs. Ma son's fixed credulity, but with that dis tinctly primitive, pagan feeling of hers I dare say my position as one who would be content to give her the desire of her heart, though she could not know it, looked possible. But indeed I do not think she thought much about it Her weary scruples once tripped in my little net, she was only too glad to be done at last with her lifelong struggle the struggle between conscience and desire all are born to, but wbicb broke my heart with a new piteous sublimity as I watched this foolish old child. Per haps it was hardly with a moral victory that she at last escaped from this "oral predicament," but how eloquently her compromise pleads the victories of the past! Surely an audience of happy gods, watching our "blind and blundering race," must have reversed all other de cisions at last and declared the tired sewing woman a pleasing player, must have found her demonstrating anew the endless diverting possibilities of their rich entertainment The fall was well advanced when on her, oostumed to her mind, the curtain fell. j Cassius, the tide in his affairs having flowed Alia ebbed, again took up his fight with fortune in the despised ranks of the supernumeraries. 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Knew package routains a treatiee on cause and cure ol pile, together h teetimoaUla from erery etfttoa ol thiseoanlry. Mpr re letture4. Tho ship Francis In command of Cap tnla , r, Hrolth, eautcht Are at sea Isst Nua.lajf aod was bee-hed near Long Uran. b, .V. J., to enable the tree, and pae-nawe to eevape. T, fttMl, Mt Hwo r ranoiiwo January 17 with a t .lu.i.i. i bound tor Yfw -it. n. ff..He ol the crew to ,ui, nhk the fire totally destroyed. Patroulie our aJrerliser. WIEKLY CROP BULLETIN. Furnished by the Govtrcroent Crop and Weather Bureau. Lincoln, Nebr., May 11, 1897 The temperature has been above the aortnal continuously the past week, averaging a daily excess ot 4 degrees. The rainfall has been below the nor mal except in small areas in the eastern section. No rain fell during the first five lays of the week, but general showers occurred on the last two days. The past week has been very favora ble for the advancement of farm work nd the growth of all vegetation. Plow ing for corn has been pushed and consid erable corn has been planted. The con tinued rains this 'spring have delayed the corn planting until now the work is about a week behind the normal ad" raocement at this time of year. The result is that an unusually large acreage is being listed. The early planted corn is coming up in the southern counties. Rye is beginuing to bead and wheat to joint in the southern counties. REPORT BY COUNTIES SOUTHWESTERN SECTION. Butler Wheat and oats look well; prospects good for a fruit crop; consid erable corn ground plowed; pastures 9ne. Cass Wheat and oats have mads rapid growth and look splendid; rye be ginning to head; corn planting progress ing finely.; pastures good. Clay A great growing week; grain doing well; plowing for corn in progress and planting aonVr full headway. Fillmore Small grain doing well;great deal of corn planted; prospects or a food crop of fruit; pastures good. Gage Rye heading out; grass and mall grain have made a rapid growth; :orn planting progressing rapidly. Hamilton Some corn planted; alfalfa aot doing so well as expected; other grasses, oats and wheat doing well. j Jefferson Wheat and oats are doing nicely; corn planting progressing and ?arly planted coming up. Johnson Wheat and oats have made good growth, a good beginuing made in corn planting; pastures irood. Lancaster Wheat is doing well; good week for work. Nemaha Considerable corn planted; much corn listed this year; all vegeta tion has made a rapid growth, - Nucbolls Small grain looks well; onsiderabie corn planted; ground in Sne condition; prospects for good fruit ;rop, Otoe Corn planting a little late but progressing rapidly; grain and grass rowing weil;fruit trees in profuse bloom. Pawnee About one-third of the corn planted; acreage of wheat and oats small but grain doing fairly well. Polk Good progress made in plowing for corn; . some corn planted, will be more listed than usual; rye making im mense growth; oats generally look well but some pieces thin. Richardson About half the corn crop planted and some coming up; small grain looking fine. Baline Corn planting well under way; fruit setting fairly well; more corn listed than usual. Saunders Considerable corn planted last of week; small grain and potatoes islsg well; fruit trees blossoming very full. Seward Plowing add corn olantius' has bfen pushed well ahead; all vegeta tion coming ofl finely; fruit in good con dition. ' Thayer Much corn planting; small grain growing well; fruit trees almost oat of bloom. York Some corn planted but planting will not be general until next week; fruit prospects excellent. NORTHEASTERN SECTION. Antelope Small grain looks well; plowing for corn well advanced and most farmers planting; some alfalfa sown. Boyd Crops lookiuir ni: corn blunt ing in progress. Hurt Small grain and grass lookine fine; corn planting has made good pro gress; fruit trees in full bloom. Cedar Small grain has grown raoidW: meadows and pastures full of grass; corn planting begun. turning Small grain doing finely: some corn planted. Dixon torn planting begun but much plowing to be done yet; small grain do ing well. Dodge All small grain doing flnelv: some corn planted. Douglas A few fields of corn have been planted; fruit trees in bloom; spring wheat doing well. Holt Wheat and rve on the UDlands look well; plowing for corn making good progress; some corn planted. Knox A little early corn planted: fruit trees in bloom. Madixon Soil in good condition for planting; corn planting inet beginning: small grain and graeses doing well. t'latte All vegetation has made excel lent growth; some corn nlunted: much corn being litd in. Stanton Plowing for corn iu progress: some corn planted; sugar beets are being piameu as lout as posiiiuie; wheat is up. Tl... L! 11 t I Mr i uursiun oinnii iirain ana grow a o ing well; some corn planted; fruit trees In full bloom. Washington Some corn plantej; whf at and oats look well Wayne Small grain looks first-class; some planting corn. ( KXTtMl, SECTION. Hoo tie Small grain growing finely; rorn planting begun. Buffalo Plowing for eora and plant ing In pi-ogre; fruit some Injured by Iroet; grsM la good. t'uster Wheat, rye aod oats doing well; so 1114 potato orning up; corn planting the onh-r of ttte dar. Itaweon Spring sown grain doing ll; pinning for corn and core planting bring putird; Irrigation begun along ditclue, j tirtwUr Small grain looks flntj corn about a third planted. Hall A grel deal of plowing aod some corn ilantini; sinall grma looks sueualiy well; trait trees In lull bloom, lloeard torn planting has bee pushed with vigor, green and email grain look well: prtwpevt favorable tor Iftfit. Lonn Plowing lor torn well advaneed and pint tinir Uun. Merrick Karl sown rve nad mSnkl took will. wi ut welt; a lew fields ol ah (alia badly winter kilM. aaie Wheat improved; allatla much winter killed Sherman Corn planting started; sraa f rain growing well. Valley Spring wheat in fine condition icorn planting wen under way; some po tatoes pianteu; cattle an in pasture, SOUTHWESTERN SECTION. Adams Corn planting progressing. rapidly; wheat looks well. Chase Rain would improve the small grain; some corn coming up; corn about one-tnird planted; grass is good. Dundy Dry week but soil is in good condition for planting corn; the greater part 01 tne corn already planted. 1 ranklin Small grain, alfalfa and all grasses growing well; a good deal - ol corn planted this week. i rentier Pastures good and small grain looking flno. Furnas Corn more than half planted small grain doing well; prospects are for an aounaance 01 Iruit. Harlan A large amount of corn Dtanted; first crop of alfalfa nearly ready to cut; fruit trees in full bloom. Hitchcock Crops all growing nicely; corn planting is being pushed; some corn up; will need rain soon. Kearney Plowing for corn being pushed; wheat and oats have made a rapid growth. Lincoln Plowing for corn being pushed; sotm corn planted. Perkins Corn half plan tedjrain needed but crops not suffering. Phelps Small grain looking nice; some corn planted. Red Willow Wheat and rye are doing well; grass far enough along to maki good feed for stock on range. Webster Winter wheat iointinr: rve beginning to head; corn coming up; probably a third of the corn planted. WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS Keith Small grain and grass look well; corn planting progressing ranidlvi ground getting dry and rain needed. Jveyal'aba Wheat growing well: corn plnntingnotfiinished. Kimball Small grain up; alfalfa doing finely. Rock Early potatoes up: alfalfa win tered good. bcotts Bluff Small grain mostly up and a good stand; alfalfa very fine; corn and potatoes being planted. x nomas urass coming finely; tome graiu being put in. U. A. LUVELANU, Section Director, Lincoln, Neb. NERVE OP A BLACKSMITH. Forged s Tool to Perform en Operation on Himself With. James Curamings, a blacksmith of Los Angeles, recently performed a novel operation on himself. When a I boy of 5 years, back In New York, Cummings had his left hand mashed In a barn door, and, from lack of pre per attention, the two fingers of that hand afterward grew together as far as the middle joint, leaving a sort of web of flesh connecting them. Cum mings finally decided upon a plan by which he could regain the use of his injured members and save the trouble and expense of an operation by a sur geon. Acting upon his own ideas, he re paired to a blacksmith shop and forged a chisel in the shape of a long and narrow letter U, which he fitted to a handle Improvised from a piece of rough board. Calling a bystander to. n assistance, be naq t.tte hold the told in . place and then struck a heavy blow with a hammer himself, cutting through the flesh and driving the cbisel deep into the block on which his hand was laid. ' Having ready a, handkerchief well soaked with carbolio salve, he wrapped up lit 5 hand and repaired to his own roam, where he later dressed the wound. He claims to have had sufficient experi ence in tne care of wounds to treat his own casa successfully. AT THE DENTIST'S, Tbe Foreeps-Wlelder Is Told a Bather Unpleasant Thing. A well-known Chicago dentist tells an excellent story on himself that will bear the light of day. The gentleman is the owner, among other possessions, of a cottage on Congress street and, as with most old-fashioned, buildings of tbe kind, it has an out house and other primitive con veniences in the rear of the premises, A new tenant of the cottage made it a sine qua non that before he signed the lease the service of a scavenger should be engaged and accordingly ono of those useful but extremely malodorous functionaries was en gaped. About a week after this a well dressed man called at the doctor's office at the corner of Madison and Ashland boulevard with a bill. It was the scavenger. The doctor promptly paid the bill, remarking that the work had been well done, The man lingered around a few mo ments and finally said: "Doctor, you're a dentest, atn't you?" "Yes." "You have to pull and fill teeth?" "Certainly; have you anything you wish attended to?" "New," drawlad the eavenger1"but ! I CouUln t help thinking you must be In an extremely unpleasant business." "I could have stood thU from pretty nesrty auyootiy out a scavenger," d ctared the doHor. Nnatsthlng Vert Haarhahla, Real Estate Owner There are curious things presenting thumiolres to our notice all tbe Urne. Friend Yes; to an observer there Is much that is curious in the world, Hut what led j-0-1 to make the re mark? Itoal Estate Owner 1 have a double teuotnot house which Is occupied by two fsmiiio, and the two innate heads of these families have Uicn llvlug a neighbors for full hre months, and are sttll on speaking terms. tsfchr't tare. L'pun on invasion o Udtet pall an KngUoU cMy a shilling fr the diitttnoa they hot rUKUa with one fowrpeuny hit, t thrinuy pieties, one penny, and two aslftwnow. When esbby Uoked at the eoins, he smiled il fully, and asked; "Welt, well, how long might jrutt hate bwva earing s t it this little twatr W n4 th Front )i krtumlr CAITHO arras, u.O.Ii,i i li iirnl.ltitCltK.i i!l ur.iuut. L.t vir Us it a4 pat iftatisfitd. VON MOHL CO., 304 B. ClMhuttl. 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