Nebraska Newspapers

    May 13, 18
THE NERBASKA INDEPENDENT
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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.
THE END, .
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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.
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one penny, and two aslftwnow. When
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THE
ELKHORN
LINE
Is th best to reach th
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New Gold Fields
in the Black Hills
flail at Office for Valuable Information.
L 8. FIELDING, City Ticket Agt.,
117 Sooth 10th St., Lincoln.
CALIFORNIA!
SCHICAGO,
ROCKISLAND
& PACIFIC RY.
Gives you the choice of TWO ROUTES,
one via Colorado and the Scenio Line,
and the other; via our Texas Line and
tbe Southern Pacific.
Our Texas Line is much quicker thaa
any other line through to
Southern CALIFORNIA
FOB .
PERS0NALLYS.rEXCU.1Si:::S
THE PHILLIPS
HOCK ISLAND EXCURSIONS
ire the most popular, and carry the
largest business of any California Route.
This signifies that yon get tbe best at
tention and receive the best service. The
owest rate tickets to California are
available on these excursions.
Don't start ou trip to California until
u get our Tourst Folder, containing
sap showing routes and all information.
or rates and reservations apply to any
agent of the C, R. I. & P. Ry., or address
JOIlir SEBASTIAN, O.P.A.,
Chicago, Illinois.
Prosperity.
Do yon know that In these hard times a
tection of country fifty miles sqaars
sailed the Black Hills, has more material
prosperity than any Qtber plnoe of the
tame site you can mention? $8,000,000
was the HW gold product one-sixch of
the entire amount produced In the" United
itatea. Late last fall new discoveries
were made that will largely increase the
product. As soon as tbe snow goes ,oS
prospecting will be renewed vigorously
at the new fields. There will be found a
jhonce for rsen I'vdted rwaas. u
ood ore ! a.;i u;s,
money can oe vSfalneC for demopmens
from sale of ore as sown as toey begin
work. You can get; valuable informa
tion regarding tbe new scold discoveries
by calling on A, S. fielding, 7 South,
rentb St., Lincoln, Neb. t
To the warm, but still bracing at
mosphere of the Gulf states, tour
ists and pleasure seekers are fast
learning that the delightful winter
resorts in this part of Mississippi,
- Alabama aod Florida are the only
places to spend tbe cold and bleak
winter months.
The Mobile &
Ohio Railroad
The favorite north and south short
line has placed on sale at all point
north of the Oh io river, ticket at
low rates to all "winter tourist"
points in the south.
Tickets will be on sale daily nntil
April 30th, 1807, and will be lim
ited to June let, 1897, and passen
gers will be allowed to stop over
at points south ot the Ohio river.
For information regarding rates,
tickets, time tables etc., apply to
any railroad ticket agent, or to
John Q. Mann. Qeneral Manager,
Mobile, Alabama, or . . Posey
General Passenger Agent
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I s rate eicurelnns will be run by the
Moi.,1, jt Ohio railroad from stations
Ht. Loum, Mo., to Cairo, lllinoi. i
sive, to points In Tenneasew, Mie-iss pt, ,
nd Alabama on March 3d and lutb,
April 0th ami SJuto, May 4th and iHih,
1M7, Hal nn tare plus I'd (HI for the
round trip. AMilnie-S.ers t,nid0
nay Information regarding land will be
furnished on apnttvatioa to theilabani
I And and Jteluienl eompsay, Mo.
hiliS Alabama. r information rcard.
ig w..te, raw, time, ei apply to W,
II. Harrison J., i. A., j fonrta
I M ie, Iowa 6r K. K W;
liberal Passenger Agent, Mobile, Ala
bama, 5j
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