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THE NEBRASKA 2NDEPENBKNTT. September 27, 1900. -( CARN1VA w w V OCTOBER 1st to 6th Lincoln will extend to its visitors one of her celebrated FREE entertainments. FREE street r d . y, V M V T J .T "! . T JL1 T7IT" T7IT7J . J J J- -. , , . . ttf V HX Ml, III III I I .1 1 I II) I NH 111 M H.I 1 1 1 . I I ! I 9 f- I If II I I, I ! S n n.iPi HIM.MT'I.Jl 1T1TT10T1T. Glinn O C? TTAn TTTMl I hnTTA n w f If 1 . r 12f NCOLN'S STREET in any circus. FREE elegant Flower Parade. FREE Carnival and a FREE and HEARTY Welcome at Lincoln's W w W Or Make yourself at home with 3 and plenty of j thing in Clothing, Suits, or Overcoats, Furnishing h the best goods 4U' 4m w ir LINCOLN, NEBR. The House By The Roadside Iff kcjrtcKx L' vc. "All da j h tAl b-i a!iry; but fleory Viman Ld rIdd-B farther ar.i dij taaui Li Cioon-day r-s-l tLort-r even than usual. It was Li ih to reach, for tt niiri.t, a ton where he knew that L touii ficd a onii:iiatior:ii sti frfOf to tiit be Lrvl endured feo far a Lis lonely out Jf; a-Lor-bac k. Now, in Hi- mte-utleruotju. L ai yet a lo&j? 'T from Lis d-iiL2t ion. As bis Lone ra.jae to a. walk. Low-ver. Wi tuaa d tot urge tiita at ou e to rt Utned effort. Ai be lookt-i stbo'Jt Llm. la trki able to recall tte ii.cid-rit and oy tit tLat long-afro mmuier as tLoueii it Lad i-n of tLe 5 ear uefore. Is tLougLt aiid tucy Lc agaia lived la that Iocs past fuaot-r, and Mary vat apaln fc: coirpanion. Hhe tad been a Lacdsome ax.1 lotely Klrl. well tilthd for better thises than ere com pi Ijwed tn wtat he had chosen to re gard ils the narrow live of Ler tieigh bor iw" frtetda. They Lad a great many lctrre.t to corumoa; her mind ti x ccltirat'-d as bla own. and they bed found unusual pleaur in. their cimmloiiM of th Look and authors Lbey liked, and la general interchange of thought; but Wioan had found a ertsiter. If a !5sh. f-i-Aure in her cajkoyaest of his descriptions of a life h had tever known. She had been trca and fair an4 aweei to know, rsd cow, ma he recallt-d her from the past, he felt that Ler influence upon hint for icood an influence un costaciouftly exerted and not promptly appreciated Lad t-n greater than that of anyone else. V t he Lad left her. He u not too old for regret. as4. a aigh ecarc 1 him aa he reflected that hi own ficklne had lost to him a corapanioa who would hare helped feisa to make the most of all that waj ood in him. AtrsorbeJ In hia reflection. Wimaii had paid but littia attention to his horse. The animal had been manifest ing liMTeaaiog restlessness and had. at Crst, mored on akiwiy: but now at an outbreak of laughter from the field be yond the hedge which here lined the roo.'t Jumped quickly to one aide and then started to run. He soon had his horse uaer control, tiul again he sur rendered, himself to hi reminiscent mood. He remembered a man who had bees deTOted to Mary Warne. a man of about hi own age. of huge frame ,and correrpemdieg physical - strength. He remembered the young man's ob vious offering when Mary had found himaeif mo attract! Te that roost of her days were given to him. The suffer ing !ad beea very reat. no doubt, but Wlmaa did not permit himself any ery regrrtXiil meditations. He bad VelleTed. indeed, that the man was not endowed with ordinary intellect; and. at all erects he had been certain that Mary Warne had not needed the pro- ectloa of such a can. However de- Toted. Agaia there was an outbreak of laughter from someone in the field he could net see. Again his horse Jumped, aad agata he started into a run. As tey emerged from a little wood bor dering the road, Wlman saw that the sky had become OTereast with clouds. He rode hortiedly to a small house tt stood a tew rods trvzx tie road. place provided to for the money that you can get in We don't offer Tying the bridle of l is horse to a near-by post he knocked at the door; but receiving no response he entered. The rain now fell ;n arnest. Partly to gratify his curiosity, but mainly that he niiLt in some oc cupation be less mindful of the storm and its effect upon him ho began an exploration of the h.u-. The.e ;is only one floor and the looms, of which there were many. w.-i- -o arranged that he could pas; from one ; another without retracing his KHts; Juut , iu none of tUt" rooiwi ty-jit th- one- lie had entered at firis. did iie rii.d any evidence of past or present occupation. In that room, however, a strij) of car pet remained upon t!ie t o v. there were a few pieces of old and sadly worn fur niture, and in one corner there was a litter of old clothes and old bedding. The inner doort throughout were fallen from their hinges, the window: that were still intact were nailed fast, iiile the others were n-plaed and the aper tures closed by heavy and fastened shutters. As Wiman vas in the fur thermost of the rooi:js h heard a noise in tb first he had enterfd as though something heavy , were being moved; he heard the same weird laughter that he had heard from the lipids and be yond the heds:e and he stopped Ln dis may. He felt a dreadful f?ar of being afraid. He stood ti-ml ling; but nies netly he heard shuffling and stealthy footsteps advancing. lie retreated as noiselessly as possible toward the far ther doorway of the room in which he stood and waited. Hut as the footstep? came nearer WSman turned and fled. The shuffling footsteps followed him as now. from room to room, he ran and soon felt rather than knew that his pursuer was close behind hhv. Wiman hoped that when they should reach the room of the entrance he would be able to make his escape. As they reached the room he kiw at once that before the door had b-en heaped the various pieces of old furniture the room contained. There was no time to pause, and now from room to room the mad race continued. Occasionally there would be an outbreak of the same wild laughter that earlier had fco disturbed and frightened him. As he ran on Wiman. roujd feel the hot areath of the other upon his nek. and from time to tlmei with an access of fear, his hand upon his shoulder. At length he appreciated that his little remaining strength would soor. be gone. Then in desperation he turned: but at once he was caught and flung headlong upon the floor. Then there came a knock upon the door and a gen tle voice called "Milton:" Wiman felt that no woman should be permitted to enter into that company. Helpless ly he listened to the removal of the barricade of furniture from before the door and helplessly he heard it opened. He beard again the weird laughter of the man as he welcomed the woman who he thought in his poor way was to be his nartner in Wimau's pun ishment. -I trust, sir, he has not hurt you." the woman went on gently to Wiman. "lie he we have to be a little care ful; but he has never been so violent. 1 trust he has not hurt you," she re peated and then as Wiman turned a smile lighted her face. She extended her hands in glad welcome and cried, Ah. you have come! I knew, I knew have come at last: AY F us. Separate toilet accommodations for ladies and come in and rest. you something dollars a Amazed at his silence Mary Warne looked at him as he stood with his knees trembling beneath him. his breath -coming thick and fast, his eyes tvfcndering from one to the other. . He was almost abject; but, Mary Warne saw more than the manifestation of his face. Her extended hand dropped, the smile faded, and her face became .set and pailid. She became suddenly another mourner at the death of hope. "Mv God!" she murmured. "Mary Mary Miss Warne " Wi man began: but at the sound of hia voice the man at her side noved as though he would spring upon nim; but Mary with a gentle word or two soothed and quieted him. "I have waited and waited for your coming." she said then to Wiman. "And now you have come back, idly riding past. Here you sought shelter from a summer shower?" 'Yes." Wiman returned. "They told me you would not come," Mary went on resolutely; ' but I would not believe them. I have w.iited and hoped for your coming. I wpf, fo sure that you would come! I was certain that you were kept away by some thing I could not know something you could not help. Now you have come back and in your face I see Oh, may God help me I loved you and above everything else 1 vis?v.xl to Low i'i you 1 loved you, and I did believe." "You can admit so much?' Wiman asked. "Yes, it may be thnt I shovld he too proud to let you know that I have cared even; but no, I am far too proud to deceive you I have cared I have suffered. I never was deceitful, or foolish, or false Until now 1 had confidence and hope. They sustained me; they never abandoned me. Until now, I believed that you would keep your promise to me." "I I did not know," Wiman stam mered helplessly. Mary Warne loohed at him and she could not prevent the look oftcontempt that would show it self in her clear eyes and the slight up turning of her lip. "You won my love," she went on, unwilling to compromise with him or with herself. "You gave me your love: at iea&t you told me so. You led me to confess my own. Confidence and faith go with a woman's love. You had all mine." Mary AVarne spoke very gently. Her manner indicated very plainly that she was impelled to speak by her own love of candor and truth rather than by any wish to upbraid or rebuke Wiman. Her musical voice, the present gentle ness of her manner and memory of the past quite overcame Wiman. He took and went know. I insane if for me to a step toward her. "Mary, Mary," he began on impetuously, "I did not know now. I was foolish, you like. It is not too late MAY HU MM WW ferf keep my promise. Let me come back to you. Let me come." "No, no, no!' Mary Warne answered, but her voice was gentle no longer. Clasping Milton by the arm she fell back from Wiman. "No, no, no," she repeated. "Enlightenment has come, bitter enlightenment. It has come through you; it could have come through no one else. But see." she added as for a moment her glance passed out of doors, "the storm has passed." "But you are not afraid?" Wiman FREE chance While all this is Goods, Hats, or Shoes, we beg to remind you that we will give you this country. worth :f.' asked, thus dismissed. "Of Milton?" she returned with a sad smile. ,"IsTo. Poor Milton! There is nothing a woman needs to fear so much .'J; She checked herself; but. Wi man knew as well as though thecut ting word had been uttered that there was nothing Mary Warne feared, so much as she feared a coward. The storm had ended. As Wiman passed from the house the rain was dripping from the leaves of the trees, but.' overhead the sky was blue and cloudless: in the west the sun was sinking amid light clouds of glorious color; but in the east w-hither his road was to lead him. all was dark and threatening. Wiman mounted his horse, slowly and wearily, and turned upon his way. The Tragedy of Peppermint Alley Louise Pike It was the dinner hour in the phos phate mines of southern Florida. The negro hands had swarmed up out of the s.icky hole at the sound of the mid day whistle, and after a hasty wash in the uninviting waters of a nearby white sulphur spring, sat about on the piles of gray rock or lounged in the scanty shade of the rickety shafting, smoking vile "nigger-heel" tobacco and chaffing each other as noisily as only a gang of negroes can. The sun shone down on these black men most ardently, causing their faces and half clothed bodies to shine like polished Iron, and rivulets of perspiration to stream over their countenances, drip ping upon the chunks of soggy corn bread or ; Into the gleaming tin pails of thick , black molasses and water from which they were making their noonday meal. One pick hand, a burly, black fellow, sat apart on a lump of the quarried rock munching his corn pone and drinking his "sweeten water" in dogged silence. He took no part in the talk, and presently his silence drew the attention of his fellow workmen to him. "What de matter wid Pete?" asked a barrow hand, grinning. "He ain't say nuthin" yit." The others laughed loudly. "He gal done gone back on he," volunteered one between puffs of his rank pipe. Renewed laughter greeted this explanation and another man across the shaft sang out: "If she done gone back on yer, Pete, git another. Plenty gals, an if one quits yer git another." "Dat's so," assented a little, old, weazened negro popping his dried, wrinkled face above the shafting, look ing very like the jack in a Christmas box, "Oman lak dawg. She gwine stay wid one dat feed 'er best, any how. If yer ain't dar ter beat her she's gwine back-on yer, an' if yer is dar ter beat her she's gwine back on yer anyhow. So dar." His hearers greeted this piece of equivocal wisdom with nods of as sent, but the man for whose consola tion it was intended remained silent. - The rough chaff of his fellow work men, had come nearer the cause of his moodiness than they knew. Up in the country he had" left a wife, a big yellow woman with great bovine-like eyes and two rows of flashing vhite for nothing, for a to hear America's biggest store. heartily provided FREE, should but dollar 1 teeth. Pete was very black, and his wife had often laughed at his ugliness, but she had hitherto been a good wife to him, "sending him word" con stantly by every messenger that she knew passing between, the town and the mines. But how, for several weeks she had neglected to send him any message, and Pete, who was naturally a jealous man began to get uneasy. His restless, dissatisfied mind began to pic ture his wife taking up with some other gay young buck, and goaded al most to madness by the bare idea, he became more gloomy and silent than ever, determining to go home on the first opportunity. Pete kept his in tention secret, for were the mine boss to become aware sure to thwart it. 01 it lie wumu ue Able-bodied miners !1 1 1 J X are not easily had, the work is labor ious and extremely unpleasant, the situation of the mines remote and di version of any kind exceedingly scarce. The terms of Pete's contract of labor not being near out he was forced to act very secretly in carrying out his plans. "I'll jest slip up to town an' see Silvy, drapping in when she ain't 'spectin' me. I gwine kotch her if she's gwine back on nie.h!" he told himself with jealous savagery. Without confiding his intentions to any man Pete stole out of camp un der cover of night, and when day dawned and the "hands" were roused from their uneasy beds to the day's labor he was many miles on his home ward journey. All night he walked, hiding by day in the leafy fastnesses of swamp or wood, until a safe distance precluded the possibility of capture, then he finished his journey easily in the light of day. It was late evening when he reached town, and without any warning stood in the doorway of his wife's cabin. Silvy was sitting before the fire place over a few smoking knots, her elbows on her knees in an attitude of deep thought. She sat for several mo ments unconscious of his presence un til startled by his voice. "What yuh studyin' 'bout, Silvy?' he asked, striding into the roim. The woman started up with a half cry, her yellow face turning to an opaque whiteness. "Lord-amighty, nigger , you done skeer meh sho'!" she exclaimed, sink ing back into her hide bottomed chair weakly. Pete was not half satisfied with such a welcome. "Howr come I skeer yuh so bad?" he asked grinning suspicious ly. "Kase I 'lowed yuh was at de mines," she answered. "How come yuh ain't sent word yuh was a-comin'?" "I 'lowed I gwine 's'prise yuh," "Well, yuh done done hit." Then af ter a moment she looked squarely at him and asked: "What make yuh quit de mines?" "I ain't done quit. I'se gwine back 'fore long. I 'low I wanted ter see yuh an' I jest sloped out an' come." "Huh!" Silvy grunted, but whether in approval or not Pete could not tell, and then fell to thinking intently as she had done before he had surprised her over the fire. Pete was not satisfied, although his sharp eyes had discovered no sign of another man about the house, nor did any man come about with any undue greatest statesmen of all parties. sb gentlemen. FREE check stand we do offer uWwuu familiarity during the time he re mained at home. He was preparing to journey back again to the mines with a mind at rest in a degree, when his wife startled him by revealing: the cause of several actions that had puz zled him on more than one occasion. I have said she startled him, but rath er he was electrified by the tale which his wife unfolded to him in the sim plest language. Sitting Tor a long time gazing JnyQ th.q fira ahe at last, made up her mind, and gazing at Pete" stead ily in the face she began by observing abruptly: "I done hit a man in de haid." Pete started. "What yuh 'low?" he asked, and Silvy repeated her assertion, "I done hit a man in de haid." "What for yuh do dat, woman?" "Hits disser way," began Silvy, pull ing her chair up closer. "I'm trou bled in my mind an' I'm gwine tole yuh 'bout hit. Y'uh know Ike Posey? He came here when yuh was at de mines an' Ike he brung another man from nigh about Savannah. Dat man name Jared Green, an when he done see meh he 'low if I wanted a man he gwine stop long with me." Pete reached, over, and seized her arm, holding it in a tight grasp, and when she remained silent after her last sentence he shook her roughly, but in silence. "He stop long till Hannah Battey come here an' fool 'round, an' then he 'low he gwine stop wid Hannah. I 'low ter him if he quit meh fer dat gal I gwine kill him sho, but he laff an' 'low he gwine quit anyhow, an' come Sat'dy he quit an' went ter stay yonder. Den yuh sont money, an' I tek hit an went out ter de fo' mile hill ter ol Jack, an' ax 'im. I say: 'Jack, yer want ten dollahs?' and Jack he 'low: 'Yas I does; yuh gwine give hit toe meh?'" "I 'low I'm gwine gib hit toe yuh if yuh does what I say, an Jack say: 'What dat?' an' I 'low 'kill a nigger.' Den I tole Jack 'bout hit an he 'low he gwine do hit sho. but when I gits Green out dar, Jack he not dar. He done gone wid dat money an' I ain't seed him since. -Den Hannah she 'low she's gwine on a 'scurcion, an I done tole Green I got some mighty nice chicken fer din ner, an' he 'low he gwine holp meh eat hit, an when he come in an sot ter de table I done slip up an' hit him in de haid." She stopped and sat looking into the fire, and Pete, his eyes starting from their sockets with horror and rage exclaimed: "Whar he. 'oman?" Silvy did not answer In words, but pointed with the gesture of a tragedy queen to the floor in a corner of the room. "Dar,V she said briefly, "I put him dar." . . . It was a most awful story which the police acting on Pete's information unearthed in Peppermint Alley. Just as Silvy had told it. In a fit of jealous rage she had beguiled the man to her cabin and while in the act of eating food prepared for him by her had cieft his skull with one awful blow. Then the consequences of her deed coming home to . her she had sought to hide the evidence of her crime. With the axe thaf had dealt the blow ehe worked, dismembering the big 9 O V3 you need any f you 6 LINCOLN, NEBR. VJ ( IQT HJW 3"K 3"F iTTjl To, B1 tJ2 trT It body, hiding the various pieces in sep arate place of concealment; and it was many days ere the entire body was found and placed together. "I 'lowed I gwine kill 'im ef he quit meh, an' I done hit" going through the motion of felling with an axe -"I jess tap 'im in de haid wid de axe." Again and again she went over the story relating it with unvarying de tail whether she had an audience or not, dwelling on each- ghastly partic ular until a.fe'w days before the trial it was discovered that the woman's reason had fled. Perhaps few people ivalize that one day's income of Mr. Andrew Carm would pay the president's salary for one whole year. Henry C. Frick, who was a partner of Mr. Carnegie and knows whereof he speaks, say? in his suit against Mr. Carnegie that hi.s share of the profits of the Carnepio Steel company last year was $1 2,28.1, 000 and his share of thi earnings this ye?r will be $24,867,500. His income for one day is $08,130.13, more than the salary of the president of the United States for one year. His an nual income is eual to .wages of 12. 000,000 of working men at $2 per day. DAILY TOURIST CARS BETWEEN NEBRASKA POINTS AND Utah, California, and Oregon ARE ATTACHED TO "THE PACIFIC EXPRESS" FOR Utah and California AND TO "The Chicago-Portland Special" FOR OREGON AND PUGET SOUND Personally Conducted Once a Week'. K. M. SLOSSOX, Nebraska Agent. SPECIAL EXCURSIONS Via Rock Island & Pacific railway to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake City and Ogden, on sale Sept IS. To nearly all points in Minnesota. Io wa, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, on sale Sept. 26. All the abov; one fare plus $2 for the round trip and good until uci. hl ior tne return. For further information address E. W. THOMPSON, A. G. P. A.. Topeka, Kas. F. H. BARNES, C. P. A., Lincoln, Neb. .1 'v.