September 20. 1900.
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mr fajni. ir .. ; ,-.tun. Tb- ;od. motion, motors, ali the salient facts
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c diameta-r a foot abate the ground. ; the distractions of having no studies.
cd proSb!r -rociaitm a rord of ood. icitmctors or classmates in common,
f The tre becaaae a iiBinr -e bare it ' Unable to be together in their working
(kiou-d. atii o it Lad t ctjtne fo- n. ' -Lours, it was seldom that they were
Vat it male tr think ef th- ro-ibi!i- separated during recreation hours.
W-oro.tf7jiiree.foreomer. 7 tramped and hunted together;
, , - . , but especially did they make expedi-
, ai p.,rp. Papr i b,ag irht5onii upoQ 0neota, the big lake that
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r,; rtbtottrfj? loib'sT wfjan-i variei attractions. All through
it t,.. to rur n:a!'rialsith' fal1 the" ttd upon It, even up to
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, f ' rfrnr"'k'-idayi. when huge vapor clouds hang
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that c.r ou j grow for iLe urxt I -Cjof jack lights gammer over the black
um. 1 to tfet kto Lt prie pa-i water that grows narrower and nar-par-jcaifft
itia to p a rcrd for th rower as the white sheets of ice g
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A Moonlight Adventure
A. Ccww
I-gs the Iaw; Curtius the Classical;
and Mad the Mechanical, were in their
first year at the university. Legs was
not the name of the I -aw. but only a
soubriquet. Wilson being the came by
which he was known to his instructors
acd hi landlady. Xor was Curtius the
name of the Classical- August Sieg
fried Otto Kurtz Schwi.rtzenburg was
hi extended list of appellations
as they appeared in the univer
sity catalogue. But Schwartzen
burg was altogether too long for use
in ordinary conversation, and August,
isJesfried or Otto, altogether too
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j luajtrx. no tie gTe ionn iiiai ivurit was
I to be his came In eoHonuial con versa -
tOUi onjy n t0e i-atinized form of
Cartlu. for which transformation he
had the precedent of the great Ger-
thang Teutonic Kurtz into the fam- j
S5 name of the Roman knight who
'a i. v uo- avu va, v a va uiwf t
Mead the Mechanical was Mead and
ruaiige name u it were wuuu iu-
&ta' f MaJ- H was the alliterative
Starting ioint that had caused the
itnat no mans mind was trained ana
1 ; t 1 i a I i
hai path in life he might happen to
follow, unless he wer: well grounded
i i t , .a 41.:
ia ia classics, ana in suppon luis
cjany. the land of scholars, it was the
custom for nearly all who studied even
;uth a thoroughly scientiSc and math-
eroalical profession as enginwring. to
,r-j.. ar.e a preliminary course in me nass
! tcs. I-rs the Iaw telieved that pre-
' ..minary stuuies in classics and engi
j nrring were alike unnecessary prep-
sration for entering upon a profession,
jf wished to become a mechanical
enitineer he would enter a shop and
if arn Ly experience, i ae high school
educaiton was a goou enougn iounaa-
tion for birr. He had no time to waste
j on a mediaeval system of mettal train-
in,; which existetl only because con-
ervatim and sentiment and tommy
trot prevented it from being abolished
it th 1ma ml nt mnrfpm enllffhten-
m--nt.
yt notwithstanding their differences
upon the value of various eiucational
yf-tems. Igs. Curtius and Mead were
the bes-t of friends. Living in the
-me letting house and eating at the
same table, they bad fallen in with
. .i -i r- . K-- r- nn tVio4i- i-t r1;.- ff fnl-
- ,,fA fnrfn. an armmintanrf
lajr to lne DOrth of the town, washing
pretrnt rateiit. university domain for a mile or
They were all inland toys and
lr'e lce nau onueu, iaej iuuuu biuu'Jiu
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and Ice boats took the place of skates.
Th ice boat season is the one time
; 0f ta? yeer -when the inhabitants of the
j city of Taychobera venture much upon
j their lakes. All summer long the
lakes are a3 unvexed by keels as lakes
iu tbe northern woods; but as soon as
nrmly held in th grip of
! winter, hundreds of ice boats appear
'upoa them, darting over their surface
n c!ouds uke scurrying flocks of huge
! snow birds. There -ere at least one
hundred and fifty ice boats along the
south shore of Oneota, yet a month of
the ice boat season passed and Legs.
Curtius and Mead had not been able
j to beg. borrow or steal one of them.
i Only In school hours were any of them
I unused, and the three collegians could
1 1 not aeree upon a suitable time to cut
a recitation and take the much-coveted
ice boat ride. Tneir diversity oi
courses made an agreement impossible,
anu December became January and
part of January was gone and u lookec
j t ery much as if Ice boating was a sport
they were to witness to their heart's
j content, but never take part in.
It was on the second night after the
January full moon that Legs rapped
' up Mead and Curtius at i o'clock and
informed them that he bad just suc
j ceeded in persuading the owner of an
J ice boat to go home and let him use
! the craft for the rest of the night.
When the three comrades reached the
lake the la&t Ice boater had gone. For
a quarter of a mile along shore
? stretched a quadruple row of ice
boats, their sails set. ghostly and
' weiru in the moonligai, rustling, creak
S lis and groaning in a multitudinous
low voice of complaining as their
ropes and stays flapped and their
fpars trembled in the wind.
"Funny they don't lower the sails,"
said Mead.
"They don't need to," said Legs.
"They just turn tne rudder crosswise
and there the boat stays."
"Hut the funniest thing about the
whole business." said Curtius. "is how
they all stay inside the ice crack. I
never saw an ice boat out in the lake
in my life."
"Well, about all they care for is the
f wift motion,' taiJ Legs. "If the wind
! at all strong you go so fajt and your
eye water so yon can t see anything.
Might just as well run up and down
In hire, over and over a pain, ai to go
anywhere else."
A mile and -a Lalf from the south
shore a long point ran out into the lake
from the west. Every winter a crack
eome two mile long ran f rom the end
of the point diagonally toward the,
town. On either side of it rose a ram
part of broken bits of ice some four
fe high, thrown up In the ever-recurring
process of the freezing and break
ing of the craek as the great lips
gtoivj nat each other, up and down,
fiow one, now the other. It was there
that the lake breathetl, said some,
while others declared that the crack
stretched above a shoal, but the breath
ing theory generally obtained, for ir
f;ll the lakes of the region there were
spots which remained open even in the
coldest winters. Within the diamond
shaped space formed by the crack and
University Bay, the ice boats could
fcpeed almost three , miles east and
west ana a mile and a half north and
south, and this course contented all
but the very few wights who occasion
tilly ventured into the open lake.
"Say. there isn't much wind tonight,
so let's go down to the other end of
the -lake," said Curtius. "There's a
place down here where we can get
out. The crack stops within three
hundred feet of the shore and we can
get out there."
"The other end of the lake. Nine
miles," said Mead. "We can make it
in a very short time. 1 d like to see if
it is rougher than this bay, or why the
chumps tie themselveH down to six
square miles of space wnen they
might have thirty-six."
All right then. The open lake it
. said Iegs as he gae he ice boat
to Bet it undei aj and
- . . .
A lew scattered ciouas raceu in iue
sky with the intermittent gusts or
floated lazily in the light breezes and
calms that followed. The boat whizzed
over the ice with a uniform hum of the
runners before the gusts, or bumped
and creaked and stopped altogether in
the light breezes and calms. Out into
the open lake, past Long Point, across
tne little bay to Rasberry Point,
around into the big eastern arm of the
lake they went and came to a dead
stop beneath a long line of cliffs, the
abutment of an immense ridge that
circumvallated half the lake. Far
ahead twinkled the lights of a village.
Between the lights and the boys lay
a great mirror reflecting the disk of
the moon, its nearer end a quarter of
a mile away, its extent beyond the fall
of the moonbeams impossible to dis
cern. "Look at that big sheet of clear ice,
glare as glass." said Curtius. "Let's
run over to Milton and get something
to eat. It will be great slipping over
that glare."
"Let her go, then." commanded Legs,
but there was no wind to obey his
command, and he pushed the boat
along, out from under the lee of the
cliffs, until a sudden furious gust that
swept down whisking a great cloud
across the moon almost snatched the
boat away before he could scramble
aboard.
"Hoop la." shouted Legs, as the craft
"picked up her heels and sped.
"Hurrah!" shouted Curtius. "Isn t !
this"
Out dropped the world from beneath
them and chilling cold surged over
them with a terrible splash and closed
above their heads. This was the glare
ice, a breathing hole or the lake that
always appeared in that spot after the
first month of winter had passed. It
was a horrible space before Legs and
Mead, curled up in the box, crawled out
of blankets, disentangled themselves
from ropes and sails and rose to the
surface, now glistening in the light of
the unclouded moon. Divested of
their weight, the boat which had been
steauily sinking toward the bottom,
rose until the arm pits of Curtius. who
was standing beside the mast on the
cross board, were lifted above the
water.
"Swim for it, Curtius." cried Legs,
though he knew Curtius could not
swim, hoping in some wild way that
the fear of death, as he had heard it
sometimes did, would make him swim
instinctively.
"I cannot swim," said Curtius sim
ply. Encumbered by overcoats, sweaters,
gloves and rubbers, ban drowned by
their long submersion, it was a severe
struggle for the swimmers to reach the
ice, and a still more severe struggle
to drag themselves out.
"Stay here," said Legs, the moment
ne round nis teet; do what you can
and I will go to town for help." and
away he started for town, four miles
away.
Mead the Mechanical said nothing
for a minute, neither did Curtius the
Classical, the one studying the situa
tion, the other proudly resolved to
show that he had no fears of death.
Curtius, who was standing when the
boat made the plunge, had been entire
ly beneath the surface, but a moment
and his lungs were Tree from water.
The question of life and death with
i..m was the length or time he could
resist the numbing effect of the cold
water that surrounded him nearly to
his arm pits and retain strength
enough to cling to the rigging.
"Don't let go," said Mead suddenly.
"I'll be back." and he ran toward the
shore an eighth of a mile r.way. He
. d not recall having seen a house
along a six miles stretch of shore, and
in fact there was but one and that not
visible from the lake, but there was a
pump house at the mouth of a ravine,
that sent water to a quarry, a mile over
the hill. There, perhaps, he would find
help, a boat, a rope. The pump house
was unlocked. Every match in his
pocket was soaked, but the furnace fire
was burning and he threw open the
door and let its radiance stream forth.
Not a boat, board or rope could he see.
as he looked carefully all over the
room, for he was still Mead the Me
chanical and methodical despite his
maddening anxiety. In the last shad
ows of the further end of the coal bin
his eyes fell upon a small hose cart
wound with hundreds of yards of gar
den hose, the property of the owner
of the surrounding farm, who used the
quarry pump to irrigate his land in
dry spells. Here was the desired rope
and away ran Mead, trundling the
hose cart, and he had gone half way to
Curtius before he realized that the butt
end of the hose had caugnt upon some
thing at the pump house and that he
was laying the hose as he ran. But he
saw that there would be enough left
for him to throw to Curtius, and he
ran on while the reel spun
"Look out," he cried, as he stepped
to the brink of the hole and swung the
heary nozzle around bis head and shot
It toward the boat. It caught In the
rigging, out of reach of Curtius, and
he drew it back and threw it again
This time Curtius caugnt it, but aa
the pipe tightened let it slip through
his nerveless fingers. Meaa threwlt
again and once, more the nozzle hung
upon the rigging, but this time by Cur
tius side.
"I can t hold on to It, old man. My
hands are so numb they can't hold
anything. It's good-bye, I guess. I ll
drop off before long."
I'Don't you dare to," blazedIead
"Hook your arms around that mast
and let 'em freeze on.. If you don't,
I'll fix you," he roared. "I'm going
uack to the pump house and loose the
other end of the pipe and get enough
to lasso the mast."
The sound of sizzling s?eam greeted
h.s ears as he stepped Into the pump
house. He had heaped coal upon the
fire and thrown the drafts wide open
when there before, in order to have it
warm for Curtius. For a moment he
paused in weariness before freeing the
hose and in that moment took in the
fact that besides the accessories of a
pumping station the place contained
steam pipes and a hot water reservoir.
What they were there ror he did not
ask himself, though he was afterwards
to learn that .they furnished heat and
hot water for the hot houses of the
same farmer who used the hose for ir
rigating in summer. Mead tapped his
forehead and reflected. He was tired
now. It was a hard run back to the
hole. Curtius might drop in before
he could get there. The nozzle hung
in the rigging beside Curtius. The fire
wa3 blazing, the reservoir was hot, the
steam of the engine was up. He freed
tue end of the hose, but he did not rut
toward the hole. In a minute, the
pump was beating and hot water was
rushing through the hose.
Mead could see nothing but a cloud
of vapor rising from the hole as he
approached. , Boat and man, if man
there longer was, were obscured by it
and anxiously he called and his heart
thrilled as a voice answered back, not
in the discouraged and hopeless tones
he had last heard, but in the steady,
firm tones of one who hoped and would
fight for life.
"I'm here," called Curtius, appearing
and disappearing as the mist streamed
this way and that, "and I'm getting
warmed up. I've held my hands down
right, near where the hot water runs
out and they're all warmed up and I
can hold on all right, and I've turned
the jet on to my body here and there
and am getting nice and warm."
"Keep hold of the hose, then, and I'll
pull you ashore."
But Curtius felt no jerk on the hose,
for Mead the Mechanical, in his frozen
and sodden clothes, wearied by his ex
ertions, sickened by his fears and be
numbed by cold, dropped senseless on
the ice. Cheerily called Curtius for
awhile through the cloud that now en
veloped him and then for the first time
on that dreadful night his agony over
came him and he wept, for the curtain
of whiteness lifting in a gust disclosed
his friend -dead or flyrng on the iee.
Hand over hand he gathered in the
hose. The point of purchase was the
pump house, now that Mead had drop
ped the hose. The ice boat could not
now be pulled to the side of the lane of
water, but must traverse it to the end.
Oh. how slowly the boat moved. The
resistance of the sail and framework
sunk below the surface made progress
slow and painful. As he went on and
moved into cold water and the nozzle
sank deeper and deeper as he gathered
in the hose, diffusing its warmth so
far down that he no longer felt it, the
old numbness began to creep over him.
He would never reach the ice and turn
the hot water on Mead,. , The beats of
the pump on the shore-Tvere becoming
slower. There was no one there to at
tend to the machinery. The warm wa
ter would not. flow much longer. Be
fore he could get to the ice there would
be no more hot water and all would be
up with Mead. He hauled the nozzle
from the depths, swung It spitting its
scalding flood, and hurled it toward the
prostrate boy. U fell a full foot short
of the ice and sank.
Curtius bowed his head. Mead was
dying and so was he, too. A great rest
lessness, a great impatience for the
death that was coming, and yet so de
He 'loosed one arm
layed. seized him.
from the mast and leaned down. 'lne
water gurgled into his ear, but with the
gurgling came another sound that
straightened him up like an electric
shock, for the floor of the lake vibrated
with the ringing, the singing of the
runners of an ice boat. Were they
shouting? Perhaps they were, but the
wind and distance carried the sound
away, but not the hum of the ice boat
runners that sang everywhere through
miles of ice that carried the sound like
vibrant glass. Yes, they were shout
ing, and it's Legs the Law and pike
poles and ropes and doctors and stim
ulants and warm wraps ana laugnter
and happy tears, which Legs the Law
is not ashamed to shed.
What a run was that of Legs the
Law. Four miles of ice, half of it
against the wind, lungs choked, clothes
stiff with frost and reet leaden wun
wet, up streets for doctors, back to the
lake again and not to be stayed from
going with the relief expedition. It
was suggested that Legs- name be in
scribed upon the great gilt-lettered
tablet of the university athletic rec
ords that hung in the corridor of Main
Hall, in commemoration of his run,
and almost everyone said it would be
a nice thing to do, but somehow we
do not do those fine sentimental things
any more, and Legs' name was never
placed on the tablet. It was Impossible
to learn the time he made in the run,
for he had not looked at his watch
when he started, and this, said the
matter of fact individuals of the ath
letic committee, would prevent any
commemoration of the run.
In Love
From the Persian.
A woman was walking In a palm
grove when a man saw her and hast
ened after her. When she asked him
why he followed her, he replied:
"Because I am in love with you."
"And why are you in love with me?"
she asked. "My sister wno comes after
me yonder is far more beautiful than
I; go and fall in love with her, in
stead."
The man complied and went back,
but only to look upon a woman as
ugly as sin. He was vexed, and re
turned to the first woman and said
to her:
"Why did you deceive me?"
And she made answer:
"Did you not also tell me an un
truth? For If you were really In love
with me why did you turn back to the
other woman?" -
Lancaster county people can nowhere
get so much reading for the money as
in The Independent witn the Lancaster
County Supplement, From now until
November 10 for 13 cents. "
Don Cameron's Lunch Counter, 114
to HScJLlth St., LincolhjNeb,
inMJ jyKciisrit lift
BELGIAN HARE CRAZE.
Mtsaeurt Man .Ulve lit Reason for
Thinking. That It 1 2 ore Than
" ratilBK Fad.
In response to requests for descrip
tion of and information on the Belgian
hares I hand you the following1 which
I consider a fair representation of the
real food article the show stock vary
ing' in color and size according' to fancy :
One year old, medium condition, weight
about nine pounds; color, red brown.
Avith ends of hairs ticked with black
occasionally, except under part of body,
which is usually much lighter; ears
slightly lighter than main portion of
bCdy. laced with a black border, a fine
lookinjr fellow indeed. They are the
cleanest of all animals known; there is
no smell about their pens and they are
TYPICAL. BKLQIAN HARE,
entirelv free from tbe parasites so
eomnion to the ordinary wild rabbit. :
Their flesh remains firm, solid and
sweet the year round, which is not
the case with the wild species. They
are very docile and easily bandied; ,
one can pick them up anywhere.
Grasping them firmly by the skin im-.
mediately back of the shonhTers. one
can carry .them without a stivi??le.
but should one attempt to handle tL'em
otherwise he is almost sure to get
scratched and possibly bitten. They
are very quiet in their pens, making i
no noise except an occasional stamping
of their hind feet at portendinsr dan-'
ffr.
Is the Belgian hare a passing fad?i
This is a question .that is asked many!
timen, and1 1 would like to state mt;
reasons for believing' most decidedly j
the contrary. While it would seem to ':
me that most everyone has heard some-
thing of the good bunnies, yet to many ,
they are entirely new, for often I am
asked these questions: Are they good i
to eat? Are the skins and fur of any i
value? What does it cost to raise!
them?" etc. If they were only fair
to look upon cur Jhopes would be j
blighted. Not only is their meat choice i
and edible the vear round, but their!
fckius and fur enter largely into the
manufacture of g-Ioves. capes, collar
ettes, muffs and kindred articles, a fact
that few people were aware of until
recent styles demanded the natural col
ors, Belgian brown, rufns red and sil
ver prays, thereby throwing off thej
tleceV.lon there is in forrisrn and hi?H
mounding names. Considering- the fact
that the United States has about TO.
000.000 of people to clothe and feed
and with an increasine demand from I
foreign countries for our meat
prou-j
nets, there will naturally be a tenden
cy to put tbe Belgian hare industry
on a solid basis with the meat and
poultry business of the eountrv
ready a large number of poultry raisers I
are combining- the Belgian hare and
poultry business with profitable re-i
suits, while farmers are beginning to
realize that there is more money to
be made at this than with poultry,
the cost of product iou being much
less.
"With clover hay at $S per ton, sorgh
um hay. $6; oats. 2. cents a bushel,
and bran 75 cents a hundredweight,
their meat can be produced at 2 cents
per pound, and it is now bringing- from
15 to 20 cents a pound dressed. J. F.
Atkinson, in Rural World.
A IMace for lir Moat.
On a good many of our farms there
is a place for the g-oat. Sheep will
eat a large cumber of weeds and are
very serviceable in that reg-ard, but
the goat carries the same idea to a far
greater length. Sheep are grazers
primarily and browsers incidentally.
But goats are browsers by nature.
They will live and flourish where
even a sheep will grow thin. Kinds
of feed that would send the sheep
into the sick list will support the
goat and make him fat. A writer ou
goatR says that they will pass by cul
tivated grasses to get at burdocks,
mullein and thistle. The bushes that
are constantly springing up on our
waste hillsides might be kept down
by goats. There is no doubt that a
million or so of goats could be dis
tributed among our farms without in
any way interfering with -the stock
now being kept. Farmers' Review.
DUpoxIng of -Moldy Hay.
As long: as I had to stack my bay
outside 1 had some moldy hay in the
bottom of the stacks, but since I have
a good barn I have never had any
moldy hay. Our hay here is altogeth
er wild prairie and aloug-h hay. which
i not liable to become moldy like
tame hay, especially timothy. If l
put some hay . into the barn which is
a little clammy I sprinkle a good dose
of salt over it, .which keeps it good
and cattle like it , so 'much the bet
ter. If you have some moldy hay,
place it so that cattle- think they are
atealing it, , and they will fight for
it and eat it up clean as if it was the
best hay they ever eat. . This, 'has
been-my experience. John M. Geis
ler i& farmers; JHjievr. '
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