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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
Augusts, 1900
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THOSE OLD DAYS tj
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Ifcj gL3 fca q cli
Grsir?irtx.", id Captain. Hammond.
ltr 4 . tuzr& this sLip. f retina
t jX ft cxajCer. 1j- Le beloat. t tu
"lie k-k ie a dc-s of tali, aaid Cre-ga-
"Did yoa brit jt tiai s bs:d. air?
Hera!X wits tsje.
tyUftxf bat let me Lsow, Sir.
"vrry, 4;lkla. I dlia't inow yvti
I dts't bl Va oa try ship. Sorae
pp&-"4 tirvw Lisa. OTrrboatd, ilr. Cre
xa." k. wotJd tLey? There VI be the dvil
ad all to tay tf tt-v 4 A. A Ut dind
m that lz. Captata Hamooud. 111
?az4 f,-r Lis kep aad b.djris That's
filr-" r&t lKwk Labis all a rues J.
&4 Captaia iliaaxmd as app-arL
TW d-a" natural? tee-atoe te most
popular prrui;r 4o the ship. Moat of
bis fun" L -roted to ria. TLe ret
ra pc&rtiikiJy difd-d bet ami oSkers
aad tern, i
At II io de J a ro Cr-san disera-
Varked with Ius-h acd Li few b-lonc-isc.
No ttsr s board Lad aiwjrj is
di-Teris; Li taJue. ct even the
who Lad dobe Lis L-tt t draw
fuss. -
Wbes CresB It&ded. be pat tip at the
as4it tdfai 14 r be coo Id ad aad
looted ab-:t hisa for a faaklly named
loj W. He forud families radld iKijrle
is erery eteeisbir ewaditkB of life, but
fra aJJ f tb3 be tamed iwij nnsat
USed. "lr-r Cretan went Punch
ett t. He rii a Alert a a fox.
tjs. Pita-a. wea take a tarn.' aid
Crer as erJ robsg.
TL cata tWro-safam were crowded;
lotted akoe. fett t eLotr-. aboae np- ;
.a ti tret; tie i--j !e f Ilio were
taakifif ir-rrj la eLaraetentic fa.Lka-1
Creaa tsrod lata darker aad carrower
waj. ottderiiit d-i'!y oti tLe tracse
ftBt flat brt,,sat him o far to to aj
portrm bat.recf kmtv-M. Sc id-af I'aoch
vtarteJ forward. to ctousmL Crejsa
aw a tjre pan iat a ;uaJi lookis
me.
"ISatk. dr be railed. I"Bah caxa
t krl ail jolrrf istg wita exoteu.ent.
"J St a troe lad, 1 wo4r Le
tfcovcLt. drawfcx back iato tLe Ladw
wtii ti Latkd t tbe dr collar.
I i.aif as twar tie ;ar w vat. It
U cn lo tLe dre of a nurie.
ladb strai&ed f fre Liut-!.
Vciet! Nt uew. TLi uu't tLe ric'at
f.ace t ia'rrTlew a ladj. Yvo a Wold
kaw tlat. Itywk."
Crrfsa vti luure exrited tbaa tae dog.
He exmkj Late dar-d fr WLea
tkv wucuta ti out of aifbL. Le weat up
to tL Ltue wLidb tLe Lad left aad
L sacked. JL drasxied cLild tma tu tie
.k w k f ftit ifty
"if are. tM fiter MUra' ;
"WLere dt-e krV i
"Hvw evuid I kaow. rt'C '
"Wl'J the Le Lte tw-MfTMW ? '
Crsaa nLlld Lia addre a jee
f fper aad lied it aui a coia lata
' tke ttiU'm Laad.
tJiT Ler tL jjer taorrow ard tell
Ler t evase at ' .au. Jii-aa ti laoaej
daest fcow. at k-k." " - .
II karried Lack to tLe Lot el aad tried
ta alrefu Lt tLe tavrxiac fooxd Lita with
Leary -jr- acd acLii-c Lai. AH day Le
aat at Los wiadow wttL tLe ds. watcli.nj
for tt vo&us La a aarke'a drea.
Al last aa eta. It aa toward eeea-L-x.
ta tLe om1 wiad a Llowicj up
aia. Le was Loa a tat aa enity ;
ra. amr4jt( to LI tastrurUoa. aad I
fce aed tLe dc wrtit do & t taet L-r.
WLea tLe door i o;eaed. I'uncb
trBC to Ler yfui:j. With a little tar-
tied cry ah drew away; iLeo Le fell a i
L-r kvf aad Lcn-d Ler fac afaiast Lia i
"I'cacfe. IWtr aLc ctmkI. Ib it
jsmV
""I're lrcrht Lisa to you. Moira. aaid
Crexaa. "Tm Le who fruad you."
Atd yoa too! Oa. Joba!
He took Ler haad aad Leld it for a
leg lizue ia tVrae-. ajax:as iato Ler eyea.
TLea L let it fall with a nfh that abw
d mLat earisea Lad Leeu lifted from
"I 4lm't write. Le aaid. Leraa my
aaaj cM t- aotLtef tt;t trocLSe tu
yoo. a rwtifrder of t4ti-r daT.
Xeeer tLatl te ervr-1.
""It was tfcr.?sb tsy father that you
w tsade fwjor," Le weat oa Ermly;
"otLerwt yoo wosid aeter Lave left
Lots. Irt tae reak. M'-ira. I hare had
eao'ggh rod for tun to Le able to repay
Mr. le Try i-tsy. Here it i."
He took m draft from Lia pocket book
aad laid it o? rL taUe.
"Doa'tr Le rrird.
I'm rati take it to hiro."
""Joha, L dtrd a year ao."
TLea I too later
Sjt too late, f tr jour s-ine was ia
ti tLofljt. I aterer ran forret that."
v-aa draw a to the order of a dead zuaa.
"TLea it'a ywn now. Tfoa're- ak-ae
a&d d It. The thief's tw-a Lan-'as
roa&J esr Deck lLe a UiilUtoae. Take
tt, SJoira."
Tor tLe aake of tLe olJ daja. ahe
aiidL "iim't atk rr-.
"Jrs for iLetr ak I do ask. Dear
Cod, tbe vlS dayr
WLra are yoo etAns tfck?
"Never. I stall tiy Ler to redeem
jr father's ta .."
"J A a. are yi ill?"
"Oc'y a ! tt! f-tetih.
EL frit Li jt:le and pased a cool
fcas-d acre Li f -r-tead.
"TL 4d day! JI4f. if on!y we eocld
fctiar tl eta Lack. If dy I dared- ,
-Ve.r . !
-Tea yt-
Fh ka!f l"de Vm seJ rwI op ir;to
him tT wi.h eyes f cf KiazlJ jwy aad
fesr.
"Tell rr r M.
"I Lsr. LTt4 vtj e"--r
IIt Lead aatk a&4 rt-tt-d against Lia
kee.
"Js.Lr." jb mYi. "I was always your.
I tb.-eLt you'd frft- r -.
TTt-re was id fir iter M lira's curs
txg. TLe y 1 -w fever g-t to wtik j-ii-. k
!y. at4 la 12 Lours t"rxa:3 ws ia its
rrfpu I! w i-.-t a ftartif-ularly g! pa
t'tt. ei:Le?. id fcsd t I subieeted to
trkt di-i- tine, fiat dt-ath was teatca
Lack at Ut. asd h- eiJ Mira and the
dg I'cach la4' tbe mmt popular
furtpbers tt 1e Kafi;h craaunity at
Hi. TLat was I -rr ert- TLe?r present
dde Is ia tie Ciiuty Clare.-Ex-
chaste.
FLIRT! HO.
Tira JuUp -a a Ix-iif iict. That is to
ay. Lt was curried op to the standard.
Tim vii ratber a tae looking fellow
aad kcew it. He had. married a woman
a fw years more aucient than be waa
Lei-act ale had a few tuoie dollar than
Le.
lie Lad a C3..tar-in-law. She was
a alight. vr'A prt-erved old lady of the
eri'-d. aid autii-r bluost any light she
W ked quite as youcc aa Ler daushter.
Mi a. Juiip.
This ci'ilber-in-Iaw had a marvelous
way of r:eiir herself up and of appear
irx rwj aai kittenish, and if she took it
iat j her Lead to pa for a sweet lt she
coujj do it at a distance.
KLe waa a dutiful mother-in-law to
Tim and mede it quite as animated for
him as mothers in-law are apt to do.
She suspected that Tim was fond of
other laU!- that he tra inclined to pass
Licelf cST m a single man, and her heart
yearced to prove it.
Her aaimtses had already awakened
the jealousy of her daughter, and it had
of late Leea so "warn" at his house that
thry didn't have to bnrn half as much
coal as they f onset ly did.
liut Tim was a persevering case, and
whenever be felt himself at a Fafe dis-tan-e
from Lome he would nnbend him
aeif and be happy, for happy he was
whea Le could find somebody to flirt
with.
The park was bis favorite resort, and
how lucky it wa that Lis "family" "did
cot know of all his pleasant cadidoes in
that tteactifol resort.
One pleasant afternoon Tim and a
party of boon companions, dressed in the
height of fashion, were meandering
throach the winding and devious ways
of tLe par, when a gay and dashing
creature swept past them, casting back
a coquettish smile that might easily have
been interpreted into an invitation if
either of them aaw fit to take it up.
Tita was the first to Hpeak, for he was
an ardent youth.
I5r j-ugoe. but the a stunner! I
say. fellows, just see me sail in and cap
ture that charmer."
They a freed to wait and see him do it.
He turned and followed ber. She didn't
tppt-ar to be extra anxious to escape
him. and so it was not long before he
overtook ber. XSauiag his hat he saluted
Ler.
SLe replied artfully, and in a few mo
ment he seemed to have captured the
fair creature for sure.
His friends fol-
lom-ed slowly behind to see how it would
eventuate.
They reached a shady aat, and, rest
Ins there, they kept up the same ani
mated conversation that they started.
TLo was somewhat taken. Exactly how
she looked, or how old she was. he could
not tell, for she had one of those illu
sion a ry reils over her face, and they are
such assistants to fraud that many a
man has been taken in without going be
hind them.
The result. was an appointment fcr the
next day in the same place. Then they
parted. afc'lLTiru joined his companions in
Lisa glee? Juney were disposed to doubt
Lis complete-conquest, and so it was ar
ranged that they should be on hand the
aext day to see for themselves.
The next day found him on the spot
dressed with exceeding care. His beau
tiful unknown was alo on band, and ere
long they were engaged in earnest and
loving conversation again.
Oh. you naughty men!" sighed she.
"You are always capturing the hearts of
as poor, trusting women, and we are al
ways the sufferers. How do I know but
that you are a married man belong to
another V
"What! Can you think me guilty of so
much deceit?
Yoa know we are strangers."
"What signihes it? Fate brought us
together aad we cannot deceive each
other. I love you!
"Oh. sir, it is impossible!
"111 swear it!"
"And you are not married T
"No. no. ray dear. Fate has reserved
us for each other. Until I met you I
never loved."
"Oh. oh. how my poor heart goes! Let
ns retire to a place not so public, for I
feel so giddy. Here, let us go into this
arbor."
"Anywhere in the world with you,
dearet." be whispered, as she took his
extended arm and they started for an
arbor near by.
Here they again seated themselves, and
Tim bMran to pour forth the same volume
. t. i
of ptetry that he had used on so many
' other occasions. One of her little gloved
Lands he took in bis. while his arm
gradi'.ally stole around her shapely and
caytelding waist.
At this moment a deeply veiled lady
came tip behind them, and Tom's friends
were just passing through the, arbor to
see Low well be was getting along.
j His charmer called to the veiled lady.
j "Come here. Mary, and just hear how
s-et Le talks.'
He tamed toward the intruder, who
' Lad ii the meantime raised her veil, end.
half riing. be confronted his wife.
He felt as though a ten pound shell had
exploded in bis hat. He glanced from
Lis wife to his betrayer, who had also
raided fcer veil, aad who. of all people in
the world, should it be but his mother-in-law!
His friends vanished amid the most
boisterous laughter, and his mother-in-law
rca'hed fur one ear while his wife
took bld of the other, and without a
word they started with him In the direc
tion of home.
Toor Tim 4n!ip! lie is now a broken
Lrted and melancholy man. Jle avoids
Central park, and the places that knew
Lira onfe wti!d require an introduction to
Lira now. A wig replaces his late hy
perin curls, nnd It is generally nnder
std among, bis friends that his flirting
days are over. New York News.
ttoBt ntsra.
UtoTlrfl i another of the devil's
pet woj.Js. 1 m lieve the quiet admission
L 'h we at all ef ns so ready to make
that because ttings have long bee-a
wiuti; it is iniHjii!ie they should ever
be r'sLf is ji'c of tie most fatal sources
of ndry end crime f;om which the
world suffer. Whenever you hear t
trsa 4Uvx'inz you froci attempting to
d we!!, on the ground that perfection is
"Ftopian." beware of that man. Cat
the word w:t of yonr dictionary alto-
retN-r. There is no for it. Things
are either possible or impossible you can
easily determine whih in any state of
Lraian scieree. If the thing is iuipossl-
Me. yea ol not trouble yourself about
it: if possible, try for it. It is very Ut-
piin to hope for the entire doing away
with sin ad misery out of the world, but
the f'topisijim is cot our businesa the
work u. Ruskia.
Then and Now at
Fort Sarj Scverioo
By Kate JorJar
"As I look at it today,
Cuban, "the past seems
' said the old
like an evil.
frightful dream." s
To left and right of the great fort oa
the land side the paseo stretched, tree
hadHl, edged by a low stone sea wall
and filled with companies at driU. stroll
ing senoritas, excursionists, peddlers,
who, in varied minor keys, cried their
wares guar a sandwiches, cigars, limes,
freth honey.
We paced peacefully on the brow of
the fort and then crossed to a point
where we looked down on the courtyard,
lined with prison cells and otlicers quar
ters. The walls were flaring in coats of
whitewash, and the cleanly smell of chlo
ride of lime catae up to us. Enlisted men
were sweeping or plying soapy mops to
the pavements or polishing any bits of
metal in evidence.
Above an incline leading to a neighbor
ing rampart an American sentry paced,
his bayonet a magnet for dancing sparks
of sunlight, the stars and stripes standing
out above him in the breeze, a brilliant
square of beauty.
The old Cuban was silent. lie was not
looking at the American flag. His eyes
saw nothing, but the vision of his soul
was busy.
This shabby, quiet man, with shapeless
panama hat, knottt-d red neckcloth and
bulging cotton umbrella, was familiar to'
the American colony. He was one of the
dismal, out at elbow thousands of Cuba,
and but a few" years ago bad been a
wealthy planter. Now he earned a hand
to mouth living as interpreter, for Eng
lish was a second tongue to him.
"aii aye!" he said, comiug back to the,
present with a dream. "Ah, what "I have .
Been! You see the arch next the last?
In the cell beyond that I lay and stew
edfor 00 days." .
"Alone there for CO days?"
"H'm," he said, with a grim sniff.
"Not alone. There were 20 of us in that
hole, and some had fever, and two went
mad."
"Were you active among the insur
gents?" "Oh, yes; though not a soldier. But I
was a man to fear. It was known I had
lived in the states till I was 25. and I
had taken out papers there. My ene
mies hated me, so to keep me safely they
put me in thi pesthouse as it was then
Bats, vermin, every imaginable tilth, and
wretches who prayed aloud for death ;
filled every cell. Where I was one of us
kept awake always to keep the rats off
the rest while they slept. We took turn .
that way. What I tell you is true. " 4
"Three times I was sentenced to death, j
Once I was really led out to be shot in j
the moat down there. But they were !
afraid. Before they could carry out the
sentence the third time the protocol was
signed. They dared not kill me. Mean
while my people did not know where I :
was. j
"It was not enough that San Severino
held mediaeval horrors of which the peo
ple knew unjust trial, torture, execu
tions In bulk, where each man was a
numbered Cuban without a name, just a
receptacle for a Spanish bullet but se
cret murders by the score took place
within these walls. Some of these sons
and husbands who had 'disappeared' !
were seen again when their garrotted
bodies, not sufficiently weighted, rose to
the surface of the bay and drifted to the
beach. What I tell you is true."
We went down to the cells.
"This was mine," said the old Cuban,
sniffing delightfully the aroma of white
wash and eying the clean pallet; "ah,
the difference!"
A young lieutenant approached with
a large piece of white pasteboard. It
was covered with black penciled
squares.
"Have you seen this? I got it in one
of the cells when we first came. Some
poor devil's chessboard. Wonder what
he played with?"
"I know," said the old Cuban; "dirt
rolled into lumps."
"We have another souvenir of two
interesting prisoners." And tha young
lieutenant led the way.
"Two newspaper correspondents were
kept here out of harm's way. They
were not treated like other prisoners
and put into one of the vermin ridden
cells, though these, were bad enough
i. t 1. 1 t - a i
j 7
cd to the wall.
There in black crayon were the pro
files of the two Americans cleverly
sketched. It is probable the drawing
will remain there while San Severino ex
ists. We went back and recrossed the
bridge. Above, in its white arch, hung
the silent fortress bell.
"Ah, that bell! What it said to me
once!" the old man murmured. "It is a
curious feeling," he added, "to say good
by to life and then come back to it."
Our way lay through the passages be
tween the cemented bowlders to the dry
moat. Over this the drawbridge hung,
with massive, useless chain.
"Do you see the level line of chipped
stone along this wall?" said my guide.
"It is the 'dead line. Here those sen
tenced to be shot were ranged, blindfold
ed." He poked with the point of his umbrel
la along the line of loosened mortar, and
a bullet fell out, then another and an
other. i "It is full of them." he said, looking
down on the rusty lumps in his palm,
"and most of them stilled a heart. What
' I tell you Is .true."
Up one of the paths between the tow
ering walls. pa?t the moat, filed a trio
of American girls in white, with flowers
and big green parasols. Their laughter
made the moat murmur. Following at
, a few yard distance came one girl, a
'colonel's daughter, and with her a
! younar cavalry ofjeer. He was leaning
toward her. and she parte him a rose as
they passed out of sight.
; "?od be thanked! Lovers in San Se
verino! The difference!" murmured the
oid Cuban, lifting his hat reverently, and
he said no more Criterion.
i
1 ar ci""
I We ought to buoy for ourselves In our
course as we buoy a harbor. Off this
noaI a black buoy floats and says to
t those who sail by as plainly as If spoken
; in all languages, "Keep to the right here,
1 And over against it. floats another and
j says, "Keep to the left here. Now in
! life's ocean, wherever we know the
jquicksauds are, wherever we have once
jheen stranded, let us sink the buoy and
i anchor the memory and keep to the right
or to the left, as the shoal may be.
j Weekly Bouquet.
A South End Romance
Hiram . Woodruff was unquestionably a
self made man, and he was pardonably
proud of Lis job. The material out of
which . he had fashioned himself was
patent medicines,
lie stood at the door of his office on
i Cornhill waiting for some one. "These
painter fellows don t hare any idea of
time," suid he to his cashier, who stood
in the door with him. TLe cashier bit
- " " " i
"Why?"
ay, k ioiu liai juuug uruoiouu iu
be here at 6 sharp, an here 'tis two I
minutes past, an Le ain't come yet. But f
I believe he's the man for the job when
he does get here." " i
"What is the job, major general?" In t
luc iciuuie uasi I , i ivu i u uuu curci uia- ;
jor general of militia in New Hampshire, "u"e "- P Vf
and the title still clung to him at times. 5,Ion n the invalid s room. I entered. The
"Why, to paint a couple of dozen hand S fir b"TOed ,l?wl.thT ow,was Pe?
paintin's in oil for our parlors. Marthy j "t.Kr ! , T
says she's tired of the chromos that! i???L, 27t T 2 YUr S,
we're had erer since we were married. 1 ef,ldrei 1 aid J?TheJr?om feels coId1
an I have to please her. I never forge. J Tt.as adjusted her cap, settled
that it was her gettin cured of a broken Jer ,apron f,nd mmenced series of at
back through takin Haaleton's hair in-1 ck" ?n th fire; , B,sn' bng' bang
vigorator tnat started me in the patent! fj? th? lkcd t the woman
medicine business." th f lk v.WhlUhS CuaSef Te
"I'll give him one minute more, an then n to fil,nch- e beastly lodging
I'U go down to the calcimiaer's on Court i Q ?"te-Small and poky " said
square an git a young man there to do "e ,uder her breath; The fire sent
the job. It'll be cheaper an jest as good. ! U a fitful bl"e' ""I coa.,s were ovel
T?nt'. eto mivB ed on. Tattle of fire irons, and the
" fA'Xa OitVl M 7 BS.STUI U UUUt 1
As he spoke a slimly built young fellow
with a beard of French cut walked up to
the door.
Well, young man. you nearly lost the " T ST 1 ,: C "ciaim
WhL'. rnr r,tv I'enting the apex of each bottle to
job. Where's your paint T
The young man colored. Being a paint
er, it may have come easy to him. But
he fell into the other's humor and said:
wouldn't be businesslike for me to pitch
ia without counting the cost."
Woodruff was pleased. "You've got a
long head if you ain't in business."
They had walked as they talked to
Washington street, and Woodruff hailed ;
a horse car. This was a year or two be-
fore Boston discarded horses as a mo
tive power for its cars and fully ten
years before he slower metropolis did
the same thing.
As they entered the car a very stout
woman rose and left her seat. The two
sat down in her place and Woodruff
thanked her with old fashioned courtesy.
Redmond started to speak, but was seiz
ed with a violent fit of coughing.
"Consumption?" asked Woodruff with
grim kindness.
"Guess not." said the artist with tell
tale hopefulness.
"Sounds so to me. You must let roe
send yon a dozen bottles of, my liver com-'
ijotind. Over 1,000.000 testimonials.
Named it Lucille liver compound after!
Woodruffs crossed legs had upset a
portly passenger. "Ought to make these
cars wider," said he, overlooking the fact
that a man should not wear his crosses
in his legs.
Hiram Woodruff lived at the South end
in Union park, and a ride of a half hour
brought them to his door. j
The door was opened by the most beau- ;
tiful girl that Redmond had ever seen.
"Whew!" he whistled to himself, "and
living out.". Then he remembered that it
was Thursday, .and. knew the girl to be
the Lucille of the liver compound. ;
She was pretty with a New. England
prettiness that is, her charms w re
lareelv of the face, and vet there is
that in the slim grace of her figure that
was as Dotent in the eves of Hedmond as
the lines of a more generous build would
have held for him. " j
"Hello, sis. Where's ma? Oh, this is
Mr. Redmond, sis; the man that's got the
job to paint the parlor pictures."
Ma now arrived on the scene.. She was !
a small, faded, thin woman, pre-eminent-!
ly the wife of a self made man who gen
erally forgets to make. his wife until it's
too late. - s
"Now, young man. there's eight walls
to cover in the two rooms, an we'll want
three paintin's on a wall, each one 36 by
24. an four colors in each red, white,
blue and yeller."
"Oh, pa," said Lucille, 'let him have
green, or he can't do any landscapes."
"Well, green, then." It was plain to
be seen that Hiram Woodruff could deny
his daughter nothing.
"Now, what's your lowest estimate for
the job?"
"If 1 use the same stencil for the lot, I
can do them for $2,000, but if I make
each picture different it will be $100
apiece."
"Oh, I want them different." said Mrs.
Woodruff in a hesitating way. She talk
ed as if the belt that ran her tongue
needed tightening.
Woodruff looked doubtful. "Yes, each
one different," put in Lucille, pulling at a
button of her waist as if she were pick
; Ing cherries. Redmond was bewitched
at the -graceful action of her wrist and
then and there determined that the job
; was not the only thing, in Hiram's power
j to give that he would get.
"Each one different it is. then." said
the old man, "an I'll pay yon $10 a pic
. ture extry if you'll paint ads. of my pat
ent medicines on each landscape.
Redmond felt that now was his chance.
"It's against the ethics of my profession
to do such a thing," said he, twisting his
beard to a point and then untwisting
it again, "just as it is bad form to use a
stencil for anything except cows in pas
toral scenes, but if you'll let me have a
chance to win Miss Woodruff I'll fill the
landscapes so full of ads. that they'll
crowd the trees out on to the frames."
Done, by Jehosaphat!" cried the old
man. bringing his fist down upon the old
meioaeon witn sucn torce mat u com-
plained.
Redmond's action may have been
crude, but both his pictures and his wife
are much admired, and as the landscapes
with the ads in them have never been on
the line anywhere it doesn't make much
difference if he did outrage the ethics of
painting. Criterion.
Too MsicTa For Celeste.
All the towns, now magniticent cities
with magniticent opera houses, were then
guP.tless of any decent halls, and the or-
chestras were the great ditaculties. In
Buffalo, a very pretty village, the only
j available music was one violin played by
: an old darky, ana an ne Knew was
Hail, Columbia, ana "lanKee uooaie.
j So, as Celeste danced twice, the orches
1 tra (?) commenced the first time with
! "Hail. Columbia," and finished with
"Yankee Doodle" and for the second
dance reversed the order of precedence.
Poor Celeste, who spoke very little Eng
lish then, her patience exhausted, ex
claimed, "Blank 'Yankee Doodle and
'Hail. Columbia. "From Autobiograph
ical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew in Scrib-
aera,
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Nurse Tomkias didn't profess to be
uone of your Marhly trained nurses" she
didn d with "them newfanzled no
tions" -she didn't see "where the ther
mometer and the 'ygienic measures came
in. People didn't live no longer than be-
started.
Thus soliloquized Nnrse- Tomkins in my
presence after 1 had engaged her services
to attend my wife for a passing and
slight indisposition. Mildred did not im
prove rapidly, not so quickly as her anx
ious husband would have liked, and at
last that 'was n the Sunday with a
deeply rooted sense of distrust toward
tj-ij . . .
-. . , .
nurse's work was done. Tomkins walked
to the bed, collecting bottles in her prog
ress. One was eau de cologne, another a
B.U. ItAitU - It 1 t
the patient's nose. Mildred was taken
by surprise, and the strong salts made
her gasp. . I commanded my language and
sat still, considering the situation with a
I? l aftf rwrd astonished me.
. j w uug as i was oy u was an ngnt, I
said to comfort myself, and I would al
ways be by so long as Mildred was being
I ensconced myself in an easy chair
!TnKn was arw? CD to the Preside. n
the dressing table near by a little cloud
of blue smoke ascended to the ceiling, a
sickly eastern smell emanating from the .
burning paper. I leaned over and blew
it nt T liil Tvr .
11 OUt. I did COt approve Of my wif e S
room smelling of these scents. Nurse
can. ,. ' ct, j-v i
saw the action. She stopped shaking the
pillows into a hard mass and looked at
me questiohlngly. "Them papers purify
the- atmosphere of a sickroom," she said
in explanation. "At my last case I
burned them day and night. Captain
Eames wife she was a real lady, and
she liked fine smells." Mildred told me
afterward Mrs. Eames' name had been
a familiar one to her and that she ap
peared to have been a most remarkable
womn- She evidently was a good pa-
urai in bo tar as endurance went. airs.
Eames and me," continued Nnrse, resum
ing her "pTnlimHnn" et tha knrainv
rZr-
mighty young modern nurses who are
'aving their eads turned by all them
newfangled notions and them funds and
associations and Mrs. Eames and me
we often said as ow it was all fudge!
Now, in er case," Nurse Tomkins went
on, them doctors ordered 'er to eat noth
ing all day long. Well, that wasn't the
first case of typhoid I ad nursed and I
knew well the pretty young creature's
strength couldn't 'old out against starva
tion for weeks she, as was accustomed
to ride in her carriage and ave the best
" Actuals in the land so I just judges for
uyelf, and I takes 'er up a cut of meat
on the sly she that sad and beseeching-
like for a bit of something to eat and
didn't she just perk up at it! And look
ed so pretty with all her laces and frills
round her bonny face 'twasn't the first
case of typhoid I ad by no means."
"And Mrs. Eames recovered?" I asked.
"The pretty creature, she died in my
arms as gentle and mild as a lamb, and
I never saw a prettier deathbed," re
sponded Tomkins. "She was a real lady
the flowers in her room were something
lovely and 'er husband, he sobbed 'is
eyes out, and no wonder she that was
worth a dozen of 'im and when I left
that 'ou6e, after all my devoted duty, e
never so much as give me a sixpence
more than my pay."
Mildred's head tossed restlessly on the
pillow. "Nurse, I said, and I held the
door open as I spoke, "will you come and
speak to me a minute down stairs?" I
left the room. Tomkins followed me into
the dining room.
"Tell me." I asked her, "what training
hare you had in nursing?"
"Twelve years," she answered, her
head held high.
"Twelve years at a hospital?"
"Lor' bless you, no sir; I never required
no teaching. I was a born nurse, and I
pick it up as I go."
"As you go?" I asked. VYonr institu
tion accepts untrained nurses, then?''
"That it doesn't, sir." she eturned,
with spirit. "I had five years' experience
when 1 joined." I was a nurse ever since
I was 8 years old. My poor father, he
Buffered"
"But." I put in, interrupting what I
guessed might develop into a lengthy
anecdote, "you have had no training then
no training as a nurse?"
"Nature taught me," said Tomkins.
"Nature and observation. If I saw any- :
thing made a patient worse. I altered my j
treatment next time. I've ad great ex- j
perience with the sick, as I am seldom j
called in unless it's an incurable case." j
I had been pacing the narrow limits of j
the room while Tomkins spoke, and when j
she ceased I was conscious of a tremor i
in my speech. I didn't say much, as little
j as I could, but I paid Tomkins for her
"services," and I satisfactorily conveyei
to her mind that I could dispense with
them in the future. For the sake of
peace I gave the woman a few shillings
beyond what she expected, but her ab-
8ence. 1 considered, wouia De cneapiy
bought at thrice that sum. and I never
felt more relieved than when I heard the
rumble of the cab down the quiet seaside
road. Tomkins took the landlady into
her confidence before her departure, and
I heard her say in the loud voice she as
s. a . a
sumed in the sickroom, " E11 kill that
dear liUe w5fe of js just as likely as
j not .Es ngj no experience with the
j r5(,i. ni1 thMT, vounsr husbands ain't fit
; to ave the care of a young wife. Now.
; if j stoid"
But I wanted to hear no more, and
when I stood next by Mildred's side I
took her hand in mine as if I could never
let it go. and a feeling, of heroism seized
me that Mildred was saved ,from the
jaws o death and that I was her savior.
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