December 2 1897.
THE NERBASKA INDEPENDENT
RUDOLPH.
By MARY V. SHELLEY.
(CoprriKht, im, hy Ihu Author.
We wo taught, I believe, by the best
authority tliut Mm esscnon of
Iks in the conflict of will and
rather in the victory of fate
over the more or lew consciously etrug-
mIU- i ,1 - A. il... .1 .
rttb:al
tm or
1 1 a'tug juuivmuai, ami mat mu caiumru-
).) pbe, to be truly Orcek, must in somo
war remit from deeds morally nin)ii
cant. But in there not an appallingly
tragic element in the action of futo,
when, an we o often know it, the catita
tiopbeba 00 relation to responsibilities
iwywbero; when it in but blind bolt,
falling blindly, stopping, crashing, an
nihilating, without more moral signifi
cance than is in the rain which Jul In
alike on the Just and on the unjust? la
it not because this is too appalling, be
cause it frightens on a children nro
frightened in the dark, that we cling so
closely to those Instances of human his
tory In which deed and doom are bound
together by brief and simple sequencer?
v It in a very uuimposlng little figure
that is most deeply assis'luted in my
mind with that other and more mysteri
ous tragedy in which the Hue and sane
and true are overpowered by that blank,
meaningless and terrible power we cull
, chance,
One spring day, yearn ugo, it happen
d that for a few hours I, myself only a
Jhoolgirl, was given charge of an un
familiar village school. It wan in a
mongrel southern mountain town,
Vbcre some coal mines were lamely
' lontributlng to the foundations of thut
new south which an yet (lie old nouth
nean ly grudgingly admitted an u poa
nihility, Tim school wan made tip of
luch a variety of dements an probably
could not have been matched at that
time in any achoolroom south of Die
Ohio river, There were Yankee ohil
dren from tlio cant and tin went, moun
tain bom and noutbern born children
(the mountaineer in louthern only in a
hallow geographical sense), even chil
dieu with a brogue and a touch of
broad Luncusbiro dialect, but in thin
crowd, m heterogeneous for the nouth, mo
homogeneous compared to the mixture
the north in forced to venture ujmiii,
there wan but one child who spoko the
English language with a foreign accent.
. To mo, ai 1 ntroggled with the ojton
Ij log class, tiiey all seemed conspicuously
united by a common dullness. Thin
clans wan of the older ncholarn, and they
were studying ' Tutor l'arley's Univer
' - sal History, " that absurd yet admirable
little book superseded generations agoev
erywhere but in forgotten and benight-
ed southern nookn by works paralyzing
ly full and dintrennliigly accurate. The
lesson was about Prussia. That torpor
which nature enables all bnt the liveli
est children to take on as a protection
against the horrors of the schoolroom
A, pervaded the clans. The big girls and
ji.boys sat about in attitudes of heavy
I Xroodennens, answering questions, when
Yf-Abey conld answer tbeni at all, as if
I badly constructed, insufflcient uiuchin
ery were for the moment put in motion.
1 I was casting about in my mind as to
what would bring them to life, when,
as J quoted something from the lesson
about the king of i'runnia (the book
dated much farther back than the seven
ties), I beard the shiest, softest, eager
est young voice say, an if the barriers
of repression had perforce given way,
"He's emperor now."
I turned to see to whom ail these les
son words meant facts, thoughts, some
thing else than gibberinb, with a seuse
of unreasonably grateful refreshment.
There iie was, a broad shouldered, dark
eyed little boy, about lii years old, who
was seated, when school opened, half
way back in the long, grimy room, but
who was now wriggling with vitality,
suppressed interest and an overpowered
but abiding sense of misconduct on a
seat just behind the recitation benches,
drawn there evidently by a forc e simi
lar in its impcriousncHS to gravitation
J itself.
"He's Dutch," remarked a boy in
I the duns in a tone explanatory, but not
lowered.
II "Win.! Vfilll llHtim?" f Mybiwl
"Hudolph, ma'am." It seemed that
fur purpoM's of convenience the regular
teacher hud found Kudolpli tiaiue
enough and hud pointedly refused to
1 . : ii m 1 i . . 11.
(stt'iifK'" wiin juriin-r ji-uinitio yitu
blcn. "Well, Kudolpb, enine out lu re and
ti.il tie mi hiii hoys and Kill ilium t bow
tfin king niino to bo mude emperor,
inline, nit there."
(tut Hudolph hail found auoptfiluui
ly fur enmi-thliig muni dear tliuii huiiiil
utinu otlnrs. llm bright, dark eyes
who ftiMi m d it xn me as lu nlippmi
fn in tin one mat into the othur, say
tug 1 "Tim war it was that made so,
was not The emperor is bigger than
ihu iit'g. They want tli Uerinaii llm
tii rmau one to be big. my father say,
Who how It tenia Utmo w hat Ibrr
Itmmar- k d..f"
Tim child sat Kit tita vtlgu of lite
U im It, lu iiding Inward ln as tin pour-nt
f. nli las nuMtnuis, as it thn major pari
, f bis ji uns ltf bad hiiUitu tu
l til In a ftulllm st art b lt lli fad
.1 m tlt iiusii l oitndlilsliou. I lllU
rd, dtldd Uvll ailuiitaUou and
l.m r NndltM la y 1 did Mot Ond
itui 10 it' all his stuauslttra uu
iii.ilus, I Ml I told htm Me tu and
it lr h 1. and Would mm hat
Mteulddu, iWfoia lbs vliMk w ill
iHtwd 1 fiend that t!u( t nothing
my ll In ll"d..l U'i initial
lbs nnt and l)twrk lltal be
)l( tiM It. i au tMtl U curtivily,
lt,i Mio Uisk, lnlltigu rtiHUvh'H
t,u if iaa tiitM if uiMb"i44
j .l 1 saws, M sal i' I
. isi'ttwl tiistl miHinM. aUn lbs
. t.. whl iliiMlmg iltv,iy,
At iwbal il i-t 1 r l'itl)uis M la
Had a atiitdf tiut t- ih Mu n
m4 m Ih t lithe, wktia h
im kttlf and Iti lly lt al
Kud it aita, and iti tiiuggltug Willi
the tedium of long division, where he
was slow, patient and sorely afllicted.
At noon my little brief authority end
ed. 1 left Hudolph lunging about the
playground in a game of bunn, rather
clumsy, something of a butt in the
sport, and perfectly hearty and good na
tural, Before ho came to me in the after
noon I had leurued something about
bim. He won known among the men of
our household, 1 found, through his
babitof "hanging around" where any
talk about the mines wus going on,
and, oddly enough, because of his nota
bly courteous ways at the postofllce and
the store, places where the minors were
given to tueitly asserting their supe
riority to all other clusnes. His father
and mother were Oermans, I was first
told, but Jim, 11 small cousin, said the
father wus "hulf Kyetulitin," and fur
ther informed me Unit Kudolpb was
"no good" -that ho couldn't catch a
ball.
"But he's very nice and good fea
tured, isn't he?" I inquired, weakly
longing to hear only praises of my dis
covery, My young man stared, "Yaw," he
drawled in uncomprehending derision
and dlnuppeured uroitnd the corner of
the porch on bis hands.
I was sitting on tint port It when Ku
dolpb came, a little uwkwurd, but with
al much more plcuxed tliuii shy, stop
ping to wipe his bare feci on the gruns,
and before lie wus fidrly under the roof
taking off Ids lmclcN rug of a hut,
with a bright smile of greeting, I Jowl
gathered together some old illustrated
papers of the time of the Kraneo-l'ms-aiau
war, He f'll upon them,
"1 before one tiid nee, a long time.
It had a picture of another emperor,
Mux Maximilian' He tint! wun killed,
is it not so? How how could that come
when Im was emperor? Was lie not tho
bigest?"
Hudolph scon recognized tint necessi
ty of limiting his Held of research and
began to put me through a most ex
haustive exuminutlou on Kruco-(Jcr-mau
polities, iie did not find mo alto
gether satisfactory. My knowledge was
too superficial und too qualified, He
caught continually 11 1 main linen of
causation, which could b followed on
ly by going far afield,
"Why wished the French emperor to
flght?" lie finally asked, w itlt 11 touch of
sternness, when I hud tried to describe
the diplomatic pretenses by which the
war wun precipitated,
"1'ooplo thought (liitf ho wan afraid
the French nation went getting tired of
n
Jit nit villi kin little forrAitynr on a por
trait of Kapoteon.
bim, that they might begin to ask again
wby be should be emperor, and no he
wanted to give them something else to
think about and to please tbeni by mak
ing thorn victorious,"
Hudolph pondered. "Yon know not
oroly?"
"No, of course he would not suy
things like thut, nor would the men
who worked for him even if they 1st
lieved they knew his thoughts. "
"It must been something that way,
is it not? You think it would been bet
ter he not try ami be smart so?" He sut
with his grimy little fon tliiKer on a
portrait of Napoleon III mid looked at
uto eagerly, as if it were the end of u
fairy tale In was uwaiting.
"Hello, Dutchyl" called Jim front
the ihstrwuy,
"Hello!" attswcri d Itttdolph pleusunt
ly, but with the umo uir of deeply un
conscious patronage with which one
would put a dog while thinking o'
something else,
"Miss Mollycoddle, Mi Mnllycod
diet" shottti d the other ns im tore awuy
and over the fence.
"Hit I gocx llh with some time, " nioiI
Kudnlph, u if incxiihimitionund upolo
tiy for the iutiiiliiir 1 nth te ns of this ml
droNM. "Hm should not tqieuk, to yoti so," I
said.
Hudolph grinned. The n marks of
young uiiimals like that did not seem
to hint in any vay n luud to emotional
eiiicriciiee.
After be had i xliaumt d belli Utu Slid
hlinwlf 111 IiiMoiichI nnnh 1 begun
anking linn id out bin home, and he
brightened suam and told me thai he
had a litlle io r, vhi Mas "m-Iuiii"
"You know w lion, thut in U tter than
r.'ngllnh word" and thai hu was fair,
with, hair and eye like n t'hrttnia
doll, and lli.it h I"Vh ininht upon hi
bk. Time yr.ra old lo was
"1 muni go," l" (tnliltiily Im kn onl,
Utllltg Up, "."lO' Will Wlt til go tide
to our spilng, I fiS' I. " and b mil' d
onilldeiUally at inc. and linn ll
tWlIIHg lit ItHt, Willi H M llMiof 11 It. led
IVMUUIlt.il Of Willed liu w IglHifalll.
"1 in w U H ank you, oh, I i iii
aiialtt. 1 like t niu It. Iiuti u aU'iid "
And he lluekid Ins ll k head b lo",
audllo ti lo iir uioitu r, w l. in h
slaudtiig, lituttig Willi u im di av, in
U tlM- il.lW4, Hhii he .uiltd
1I1 a lit h e j itli, audi htdJui
vbalhiig loiu tot '.
"J III! Will ll lulu, " ld HtV lllll
r Indict. i. il toau ilt window to
wkla iiw I. ttl huii ad
Inn 1 40UI. I Ud llllU M bl won
mt losti
J W tiid i t sivwitig Multaii iiial
about bint ( t'wd l lw Mm i Id
It, ,i)l tif It will 11 wm iu. In ih 1 o
lve aihui4na f' 1 h an 4iti i of
biiiusaiir, II. i. ud . Uln t
b 4Mil ilur of llw t , fvl how
tbl iMitt gii imv ul ttr
rraisemblance by in some way belit
tling bim, the expedient of inadequacy,
but obligutions stronger thun artistio
ones are upon me.
I soon made my way to tho despoiled
hillside half poor village, half bure
woods where was Kudolpb'i home. It
wan a neat little cabin, und I wan
pleased to find tho family all thero the
little Teutonic blond sister, the work
worn, dust colored, plain mother, and
the big, dark futher, with bin touch of
Latin vivacity appearing and disappear
ing beneath his gravity.
Kudolpli gawd at mo, pleased anil
proud und possessive cossessive of ev
erybodyand silently brought tho little
passive sister to my elbow, thut I might
better note bor churms.
I scut bim oil to fill my bottle with
water from the sulphur spring, no that
I could talk better about himself,
"I think Kudolpli is a very remark
able boy," I begun "a very, very
smart' boy," I added in my effort to
muku myself comprehended,
"Yas," said the father briefly from
tho doorstop where he stood, "he inn
great great hero, great here," He
touched Hrst his forehead, thun his
breust,
The mother, who could speak no Eng
lish, showed by her softening rouute
nunce, as sito looked at us and then aft
er tho boy, that she understood,
"I come to Amcrion for he, I know
sot that he get much good, but I try."
"He'll bo great in himself anyhow."
"Yas, dat iss so," spoken witli tran
quil solemnity. "Not nntiiy iss (torn dat
way us he, tilior, I wish he get ed-u cu
tion." Tito word hud been well learn
ed. "He not get much hero?" turning a
gaze of troubled inquiry upon mo. He
told me how ha was afraid to go now to
a place with better schools for four he
could not And work. He could do no
skillud labor. Ho longed toget. Hudolph
a place in the machine shops, but the
boy wus not clever with his bauds. Tor
bupn ho could never rise much above his
father unit ss he got "one cd-u-ctt-tion,"
I said there wus small fear; ho'd
find bin wuy to a very practical educa
tion; ho'd know many things beforo ho
wun grown,
The man's fuco brightened, and he
showed his white teeth as he nodded
and said a few words to the mother,
who nodded und smiled too.
"He unk, ask til ways," ho said.
Tho small sister now started down
tho hill, making her legs fly until she
met tho returning brother and wan lift
ed on ills luck, where, when he arrived,
ho hung, dumb, solemn and ro'-'td eyed
as before,
I arranged that Hudolph should corns
and see mo often, and laboriously sup
pressed my tendency to make vague
promises and prophecies an to his future.
Who knew what could or could not bo
counted upon in this disjointed world?
Tho cuptivating thing about Ku
dolpb 'n mind wan tho curious absence
of any touch of precocity, It was as
normal as a blackbird's; all its pecul
iarity seemed to lie in its superior
onndness, reasonableness and activity ;
things wero real to him; phenomena
seeded to bo accounted for. He was al
ways trying to accomplish , the explana
tion, striking for tho roots of things,
He bad a sleepless desire to find out.
His interest in history it did not, by
the way, reach the point of enabling
bim to derive pabulntn from the nnual
bintorieal classics was as simple in its
way as Jim's in tho story of a possum
hnnt. The difference was that Kudolpb
bad the qualities that enabled bim to
grasp the verity of the larger games,
while poor Jim could only comprehend
the existence of things akin to his expe
rience. I tried, of course, a hundred youthful
experiments with this delightful mind
and came to the conclusion that it wus
not an artist's organ ; that it was meant
for tho conduct of large affairs at first
band, not for any plustio or poetic after
interpretation of them. Not that he was
without appreciation of such interpreta
tions. On the contrary, he wus appreeiu
tivo of more things than any one I ever
knew. Ho was alive to tho interest of
every form of meutul activity presented
to him. Ho was a choice champion fo"
days in the woods and would lie silent
for hours on the high briuks of thoe
far, fair blue gulfs with which the val
leys encompass the mountain.
Hut hu was mastered by the thirxt for
large knowledge of human undertak
ings. Ho probably had more actual ac
quaintance with the mines than had
my coumIii, t ho pmddcnt of tho compa
ny, and though arithmetic was a pain
ful thing to him be would cuter into
computations as to llm operations and
by sheer force of reuouitig would piodi
bis calculations Isyond the miut of hi
schoolroom acquirements.
The 1 htttiuts were browu in their
ounkfli when one day, one memorable
dtty, I went nutting with Hudolph and
Jim, We bail two or throe hours of llm
ituplenl, pun Hi ih lights, all turned in
to three bartuli'M )ouug animals, w lilt
bat one Idea in ihe world client nut.
Tlu-ro is nothing like some such pritii
Hi piirvuil to bring llm heart clo to
Balute, for gi lung I 41 the ihapsodlesl
and wordy slate ami becoming 01m with
Ut. A bundled d p. starved, beindita
ry liialiuets are one moiw gralithHt,
Hul nature Is an appalling mother,
Th plac ws 4 1 if dy haanM w
rtimtuut grote Hear Ins iNlga of torn
clil. mid jut her 11m fotu4tlim w
au4l. The ItiouuUiH slop! rapidly
dew 11 low aid lbs l! y for a little due
Uiee, ltill of ib ending f rout II
full hltfhl If Ian uul tvM-f-ndteuUi
eilff, but llt siw p slop 00T at
tapily ) a siiathi wall of grattitx,
fr l Ivw who w M'ia wt iblt
4t I ttill i f Uia gtr It. Tie Utf
and small wIUii! growth M(odd
down IIm li to ail? b tt txtak, but
Ub lt lW l'4. lod Im d uy toil
flhd, and l Ul w inaiing nk
i f b HlvUMUlH nd-', dtlk. IIUWi IW f
fttl ot Iihos ih w iUuiji and sttlb.
In mil no 1 it it il atf lt, Ida
IUm i f w hi it I ba vsuntii g,
foil iwiid a I' llitig huI (h a log
(oi! dvwa 4tbw lt lti dangt 1 ia I
14 bw. Tb li'UI buid i t tie ImomS :
and grasses on which I stood gave way,
my hand uprooted the bush I held, my
foot Blipiwd from under me, and I lay
faoe down 011 Unit smooth, sloping sur
face, without a thing within reach to
support a chihl I kept myself from
slipping only by a certain strain of inns
oulur pressure. He low was the gulf,
whoso faroff depths were filled with
the beautiful, visible music of waving
branches; above me the lute yellow sun
light shone brilliantly between the durk
trunks of other trees, and benenth them
stood two white faced little boys. Hu
dolph was nearest me, half way down
tho slope. I saw a whole beartful of
history take place within him ns I
gazed. Tho flrxt stroke of terror was fol
lowed by a heavier, for between tho
two, in a long second's time, tho child
found ont he loved me. He had never
thought of loving me before; rather, as
love goes not by thinking, ho had been
deflected by no pulsutiou of conscious
love toward me, 1 was a pleasant factor
in a diversified universe; I was not the
father, nor the mother, nor the little
sister, But suddenly, here and now, as
Hay there heiieiith the fuir sky, help
less and in mortal danger, Hudolph '
heart went out to ine. He loved mo, atttl
be loved me greatly, with a flush Inn,
buckward, heart bursting realization
that I had been good to him, These aro
many words, but three changing ex
pressions, melting swiftly into each
other on the child's face, told it nil.
Jim did t he bent he could, It was use
less, but it wus all his lights and his
gifts were equal to. Ho could run, and
he run, far und fast, starting at once,
With only a hulf choked word and a
nod to Hudolph, und taking himself off
in good shape, though he wus so white
Kudolpli and 1 were alone, and al
ready my power to cling to the rook wus
weakening. '
I tried to wriggle myself upward. I
slipped a very little further down. Hu
dolph now nodded reassuringly ut me,
laying in u queer, low voice, "In one
minute," un he ran a short distance to
whero u lot of poles lay cut for some
purpose, Ho came buck dragging one.
Tho nearest point to me thut olTorod
firm unchoritgo was where, at one side
and somewhat above me, stood a young
licrolock in 11 cleft in tint rook. Hudolph
selected the spot In an instant, but the
distunco between mn und it was greater
than tho length of tho pole. Ho imme
diately stripped oil bis coarse cotton
And punhed me the pule.
birt. splitting ono sleeve in two, be
knotted the parts firmly around the
tree. He torn a strip off the garment.
He tied that, with a loop banging, just
abovo tho butt end of tho pole. Hy hold
ing to the shirt bound to the tree he
could extend his range perhaps a foot.
The loop ut the end of the jkiIo gave
him a few inches more Hu clutched the
shjrt, put his other hand through the
loop and twisted it about his wrist,
slipped towurd me us fur as he could ou
his knees and pushed me the pole. Not
a moment had been lost. I conld reach
it if 1 caught, quick and Arm before I
had time to slip after relaxing my pres
sure on tho ris k. There was nothing
else to do.
A minute later I sat at the foot of
the hemlock, and dent It hud once more
fled into the far, dim haze of tho unreal
ized future, but I was cold with the
feel of bin breath npon me. It seemed
hours beforo two haggard faced men
rode up on nimudillcd, fouuting horses.
Thn next day euitit) tho end the stu
pid, meuniiigless, miscrublo cud. I can
uot dwell upon it.
Hudolph wus coming throiiKU one of
the little peiiiiiHulu of woodland that
here and there invaded the struggling
villuK, He cuiiKht bis foot in a vine,
stagtfered uguinxt a tree, appeared to
regain bis foothold, ami then sank
dow 11. Home hoy nt a ditatiee saw this.
Hut w hut wan it to call for special at
tention? They wetil on.
It keeins In have (si n mine lima half
an hour biter Ihut a mnn coming along
I hi. path found Ihu child dead. He Isy
under llm m il, drifting, bright leaves In
a pool of Hood. Ho had ral bis wr 11
with a big harp knife, his pride, which
m had o 11 in bis hud w hen be stuoo
Id.il. AiialirvwM severtHb f b had
tied to ileal h.
ly ie It f iiiUliti fouling did llistit
take Dm lifwIUI lb day btftr had
ii g4lUnily iukt-t for nttiH), and to
wr till' d Urn htl and I lata lu
wboMi power I own ail lbM bapy
jr.
l ot a dicadu bss a4 sum Iom
Ih ttv !, 1 1 ki-ird aaiuiun iuu
tile" lim I4ll i-hlld, lb luot bo
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dying VVi ul i Hul lhes p lalgtil
m urn li4il"W gliitifM of th4l lm
bl and l ndtd Imla flguiw au ib fy
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bldlH'U l kUIHM i t lit tH tt
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lis w4 luti'd In lb small iikui
ravfd m llm bilk I ba av a
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design, and beautifully ornatnsnted in gold. The bed plato boa
rounded corners and Is Inlaid or countersunk, making It flush with
the top ol the table. HmiiKST A mm The space under the arm is 6!
Inches high and 0 inoltos long. This will admit the Urgent skirts,
ven quilts. It ih Bklf-Tiiiibadino Thers are absolutely no bolea
to put the thread through except the eye ol tbe noodle. Tu Phut
tlk is cylinder, open on the end, entirely sell-threading, etmy to put
in or take out; bobbin holds a large amount ol thread. Tub Stitch
lUour.AToa Im on the bed ot tbe Machine, beneath the bobbin winder,
and has a scale showing the number of stitchne to the Inch, can be
chniiKffd from 4 to .12 stitches to the luch. Tuie Feed Is double and
extunds on both eidns of the ntwdlo; nevsr falls to take tbe goods
through; tnvsr stops at seams; movsment is positive; no springs to
break and gut out of ordur; ean be raisod and lowered at will.
Automatic Hoiiiiis Winumi An arrangsmsnt lor filling the bobbin
automatically and purfwtly emooth without holding the thrwid.
Th Mahhn docs not run while winding ths bobbin. LianT Kuft
isti The Machine Is eay to run, dm not fatigue tbe orator,
makfslittls noise and snws rapidly. This Htitcii is a doublo-Iock
utitrlt, tint sntns on both sldmi, will not ravl, and can be changed
without stopping ths Macbinn. Tna Tssiot la a flat spring Umslon
mid will admit thread Iront M to 150 spoolcottaQwIthoutcltanging,
Xvi-r gts out ol ordi-r. Tmk NvKnt-K is a straight, soil-suit log
nordlo, Hat on on side, and cannot b put in wrong. Nekiu.m lUa
is round, mude ol rasa-bardi-ued stl, with oil cup at bottom to
prvnt oil Irom getting on the gmds, Ann'sTABta IIeasisos-AII
biarliigs ars rmw hardened stwl and eaa I easily adjuUd with a
rrxwdrivi'r. AH bmt motion run Im taku up, and the Machine will
lnt a life time. Attacmmssts Kach Maclnue la furnUhad with the
billowing sxtol boetstKol attachmouts rasa: One Foot Hammer
t eller, one IWxHtf ol N'edl. ell Hobblna, one Wreueh, one Horew
lrifr, one Hhuttle Hrew Hrltr, one 1'rwuMr Foot, oa IMt and
Hook, on Oil Van Oiled Hh oil, one Uwugw, one Uauge 8'rew, one
ijtilltfr, and one Inatruclloa Mook,
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OUR OFFERS
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rout!y at.
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INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CO.,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
EWING .
. . MACHINE
Popular Price.
FREIGHT PREPAID.
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