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October 10, 1901. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Tbs -Mermaid. BT EL JACK APFLETON. fCeryrjitt. lr- Story Co.) H st a 17. wre-cmrT4 rock aad tLoatttfaHy out to aa. It wts r?y tsorelcc sd tier salt tmti vu Wowlssc Island, of watch Vava Hciiea w&a plastlr irat indo lently coaaeioca. Hl straight, aristo cratic C3M vu tilted at tli propr tf ! to cxtta ttia oior o kenly ap jrc!atHiy thc wto lir fir from tic oexa. tU oft tat tu tilted tie tr tray, over Lis ka tlos ye. Vaa Ksldea vaa cot la loTe. He ti sot cortettpUtinc suicide. H t3 fsertly arista early to enjoy r !ty of aca a thing and a5 asdervJ talf a ciW from tie lansotr ici to tia proecti Ilttl core. As hi iifwrtioa waa xrIlet he took fros fcla pocket bow briar pip. 114 !t aal strata- a rsstra. "If it wr r.ot m beautiful." be re- alol, looking out to the aa hip pocket, and stooping:, be gently forced the pretty lips apart and poured a few drops of brandy Into her mouth. "Where am IV she tald, pressing her hands to her ears,' and making that time honored remark In excellent English. "Did I go under again?" An embarrassed expression came across her face, as she added, "And you had to go after me? It is too bad but I am very grateful, sir." Sir? Van Holden looked again. She was a mere child, not orer fifteen or sixteen at the most, and Gracious Heaven! she was stripping off that remarkable extremity, as If It were made of rubber! As she shook herself free from It and stood up In a very fetching bathing suit and stockings, he smiled and took a swallow of the brandy himself. "If youH excuse me," he said apolo getically, "I your appearance rather upset me. A rare, but strangely pa thetic smile answered him. "I don't wonder," she said; "you rear kd sloa -1. looking out to the sea mugt b( coiner than I." Shaking her as tt taatch bsraed sp. "if it wer not I tejf ;ree D( the sand which .clung to a rsJ sarriSc to disturb the abolute j ter &TtnBt Bn0 gathered up the remark kartsory cf this aeese and if other j abje covering &n(j rolled It Into a bun pcp! did s,ct go la so much and mass jje Wfcjca ,oe tucked under one arm. tie water cp 4 telSrre I would take j j am Tery pteful to you," she said a ip right here aad cow." The j a(faja anj i hope you have not worn raateh taring gone out. Van Holden yourself out " struck another atd lit Med his pipe, j So," he Interrupted, "but before Then he clasped his hnis about his ! yotl go wu T0U kindly tell me why kaeee and forked gtly back and for ward. "1 cagtt really to be In love." t wett ca. "o that I might spout poetry this Tery minute. Poor old oreaa! How reach you haTe borne from lsre-sick Individual who insit on Burdtria- good Terse, with you as aa as4ies&ee! It it r11y too tad. But I cac&ot Imp trU. and I never could !aote, no jo il be saved this morning. I ought to be la lore, but as no mod rs Veana is apt to rise from the wm-fcy all the gods. I'm not so jare! What's thatr His eye opened widely as his soillo qy was Interrupted bf tbe appearance ef a ripldiy moTisg. graceful figure, wifssnia eatilT toward him from arcssLd the llf.lm rromltorT at hia ' right, aad Van Holden held hia breath fsr a moment aa he gazed at it. It was aetaredly what he had thought at rtt g.a a girl, or a young wo- v at w4 iw mm t m tfi4f Kris fee! !OfiT face tnm4 to one side, her white arms j rtiSHES or wn. "This is an imposition. Your sign says 'Shoes Repaired While You Wait and here I've been over two hours." "Well, isn't that waiting?" "I wouldn't fight, my good men, said the peacemaker. "But he called me a thief, sir," exclaimed one of the combatants. "And he called me a lazy loafer," cried the other. "Well," said the peacemaker serenely, "I wouldn't fight over a difference oX opinion; you may both be right." . Wife (3 a. m.): "John Henry, you're drunk." John Henry: "N-no (hie), my dear; I'm only ti(hlc)red. Wez my slip pers r Wife (ia disgust): "Over there beside the fireplace, where they have been since 6 o'clock last evening." John Henry (after wandering around for half an hour): "'Scuse me (hie), my dear. Wez the fireplace?" HIS GROUNDS. "And on what grounds do you base your application for divorce?" asked the lawyer of his new client. "Exertion, sab.." "You mean desertion. I suppose. Your wife has left you, doubtless." "No, sah, she hasn't left me sah." "Then you can't ask fo a divorce on the ground of desertior "I said exertion sah. It's de ground perzackly. She done exert herself con tinually to make me mizzable, sah. Put it on de ground ob exertion, sah." Detroit Free Press. glaaxslcg through the little whirl of; "Where am I? foam that ate made with long, grace ful. Terhand stroke. j you are out so early In the morning, Est before Vaa Holden had decided ; 4ione anj with that most peculiar that a aelfcelemi retreat was his cue. j peculiar costume on?' h caught tight cf him; and then, j The girl's pretty face grew seriously with a httie scream, seemingly more j wiatfal. "My father," she said, and cf frigtt than surprise, she turned i tcen weEt on ja a lower tone, "You aslfkljr and started seaward agaia. must not breathe a word of this, for he Bst something seemed to retard her j would punish me If you did; but he rrogre. and ia a moment more the j makes me learn to swim so. My golden hd. with maaes of soft hair f mother died last winter. .Then my plied high upoa it. had disappeared j father, whom I had never seen before, teneath the water. ! came and took me away, and I am Van Hoiden sprang to his feet, and i learning to swim with that talL It is TOO TOOTHSOME. The Lion: By Heaven! I'd give a thousand cocoanuts to lay my hands on the monkey who asked me to have a nice tle sandwich. Metropolitan Magazin threw o2 his coat. Waiting only to a thit she waa in Seed ia need of as alrta&ce. he tossed his pipe and hat ht hia coat, aad plunged Into the cool wares, asl struck oat for the pct where she tad gone under. Accus tomed aa he waa to fresh water swira tninc he found it easy enough to make epd here, and by the time she had come to the surface again, he was tide tr. Slipping oae arm beneath hers, he tamed upoa his back and swam tack to the beach, ia that mat-ter-cf-fact way !n which he waa want to do eTerythitg. Once there, he car like swimming without your feet and that wouldn't be very easy, would It?" "I should Imagine not," answered Van Holden gravely. "I think your father should be thrashed himself for tasking you do this. How old are you, my little siren?" "Fifteen." she answered. "He wants me to be a mermaid In the show this summer. You wouldn't make me do thst if you were my father, would your she added suddenly, as If struck by a happy thought. "Assuredly not." answered Van Hol den. taking one of her cold little hands rieS the dripping little figure to a dry in his; "what Is your father's name?" pot and laid her down. The girl was csea"4ci and Vaa Holden turned to pick sp his coat to throw oTer her. wha a slgst met his gaxe that took away what breath he had had left. "Heavens all re: he muttered, "I hare rescued a mermaid, not a mortal. Either ttat. or I am clear craxy!" She lay ca her side, her hair, shimmering with water, her eyes closed, the upper pert of her trim body clothed In a reg ulation tathing suit; but at the waist lice reality stepped and romance be gin. A delicately shaped, taperiag "Poor old ocean!" i TiremHy like that of a gieat moun tain trout, doited with spangles of gold a&4 red. finished the uncanny plctsre that Vaa Holden beheld. For a moment he could only stare; then, recorerteg himself somewhat, he pick ed vp his coat and spread It gently orer her. Recovering his pipe also, h walked dased'.y to the rock from .which he had first seen her. So rapidly had the remarkable Inci dent occurred that he found the tobac co still alight, aad fcr the space of a slant he smoked fast and furiously, trylrg to think what he could say or da At the end cf that time he turned and looked at the pathetic little heap and saw her stir. -What an Idiot I am." he cried, springing to his feet. . "Mermaid or girl, the neds attention. Instead of fooUfh raring at where's my Cask?" Es i&szA It, ttiH tinlrj-arsd Sa his "Frank Moran " she answered. "It is Moran's Great Three Ring Circus, you know." "Yes." said Van Holden, a curious light coming Into his eyes, "I do know." The child came closer to him and looked up at him for a moment without speaking. Then: "You are good," she said slowly; "you are strong, too. I think I like you very much." Ere he could stop her, she stood on tiptoes, pressed her pretty lips to bis, and turned and ran fleetly away toward the hotel In the far distance. Van Holden smiled and called after her, "Good-bye, little mer maid!" She paused a moment to wave her hand to him. and answer, "Good-bye, good man!" Then she waa gone again. "Frank Moran, Indeed," said Van Holden, the determined lines about his mouth showing plainly. "Ha Is adding kidnapping to his other fine arts Well, Mr. Moran, I have stopped some of your smaller garnet; HI see If can put an end to this. Poor little mermaid!" By five o'clock that afternoon Van Holden was back In Now York, and a , day later there was a brief but Intense I scene in the room which Mr. Moran ! occupied at the seaside hotel. At the ) end of that scene, in which Van Hoi den. Moran. an old tut determined lawyer from New York, and a fright ened, shabbily dressed little woman who proved to be the small mermaid's aunt, took part. Van Holden showed the circus owner the door, with, the admonition: "I give you two hours to get away; at the end of that time 1 you are still here, or If you try to take this child again by pretending to be her father, or any other relUive, Into the penitentiary you go!' And that evening the little mermaid, whom her delighted aunt called Ma rian, was placed In the motherly care of Mrs. Hargrave, the manager of the hoteL A few days later Van Holden's mother came, looked at , the child looked at her son and took the former to her heart, for all time. That was five years ago. Today Van Holden Is no longer a careless, irre sponsible bachelor. If you care to look htm up. you will find him. en sconced In a delightful little flat, deep. ly ana increasingly in love with , his wife graceful and beautiful . In irerr way and calling her, at times, "msr- LITTLE LAUOHLET& Tb Streouoaa Swim. Mid martyrs epitaphs we may yet see: She wore herself out for society." " BInslo and Mnilc. "What do you think of barring out ragtime airs? "Oh, peanuts have a right to live as Well as salted almonds." The Bd Habit of Hoarding Trash. In cleaning house from year to year A woman's ways are irous queer; She wails o'er rubbis' m, alack, 'Tis dusted and put , -ly back. A New Monocle. "What a peculiar monocle that golf er Is wearing! 'Yes, that is the very latest. It Is called the hoot-monocle!" Detroit Journal. Had Not Chanced Her Mind. "Before she married him, you know, she used to say there wasn't another man like him In the world." "Yes, but now she says she'd hate to think that there was." Philadelphia Press. The Chtrnb'i Bath. "My wife didn't stay but a week down at her mother's." "Homesick?" "No; but her younger 6lsters ad mired our baby so much they nearly washed it to pieces." A Wall Street Victim. ' Mr. PI ink: I sympathize with you, Mr. Plunk. Mr. Plunk: Yes; that's the worst of it; I don't mind dropping the money so much as I do having fellows who are really tickled about it come and tel me they feel sorry for me. OwltlTate Beauty of Spirit. Intelligence and common sense in re gard to the laws of health will change a comparatively ordinary looking worn an into a creature who can claim her own share of good looks. Such a wom an will eat only healthy, nutritious food and endeavor to get a good sup ply of fresh air each day. She wil know that a bath taken before retiring each night is essential to preserve her health and beauty. A sponge bath tak en in the morning Immediately after rising will commence for her one o the duties of the day, says Julia Tere sa Butler in the Weekly Bouquet. And she will not forget to cultivate beauty of spirit. No woman can be lovely without a lovely disposition. She may be fair to look upon, but, like a rose without fragrance, she will Impart no sweetness. Wlralesa Telegraphy to Australia. Attempts are being made by the Marconi Wireless Telephone Com pany of London to Inaugurate a wire less telegraph service to Australia. Although the total distance Is consid ered In excess of that from England to this country, it can be more easily ne gotlated owing to the facilities offered at various points en route for trans mining stations. Arrangements are being made to erect stations at Prawle Point, the Lizard, Uahant, Cape Fin lsterre, Gibraltar, Malta, Algiers, Sar dlnla, Sicily. Cape Malea In Greece, Alexandria, Aden, Socotra, Colombo Sumatra, the Cocos Islands. Perth, Al Hnnv AAalaJda and Melbourne. STRICT TUTELAGE. Relations of Apprentice and. Master In th7 Middle Ages. Apprenticeship was an important in stitution in France In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and was reg ulated with the utmost care, as will be seen by the following account of "An dler in Old France;" By the rules of the book the master was held greatly responsible for his apprentice; and un der a wise and kindly roof, the lad who was learning to be a master workman and a ruler in his little world might ead a happy and profitable life. Often he did so, and when the day came that he might claim his freedom, he chose o remain the paid servant, friend and fellow-worker of te master who had sheltered him from boyhood and taught him all his craft,' rather than to seek a fortune less assured elsewere. ' Dur- ng the years of his apprenticeship the patron or master was to feed, clothe and shelter him, In the homely word- ng of the clockmaker's rule, to cher ish him "beneath his roof, at is board and by his hearth." Nay, It was strict ly enjoined upon the master to treat his apprentice "as his own son," and in some trades he was bidden to re member that his responsibility did not end on the threshold of the workshop, that the "soul and morals" of the little stranger had claims on his solicitude. In a day when the streets of Paris were not very nice for. anybody, and were more or less dangerous after dark for everybody, the master was instructed to be careful of what errand he dis patched the youngster, and the pastry cooks, whose apprentices were often sent to cry cakes and creams upon the public ways, were continually warned to prevent the lads frpra falling among evil company. It seems . certain that, so far as the middle ages are concern ed, the rules, precepts and admoni tions were not only framed with great good sense and care, but were very rig idly enforced upon all masters who had youths and lads in their employ. High and low. In the society of that day, the rod and. birch were flourished, with small discrimination and less nice ty; and if the tutors of little princes had leave to whip them freely, appren tices could not expect-to come off too lightly at a master's hand. ' PLANTS EAT INSECTS. Venns' Fly-Trap Discriminates Between Animal and Other Matter. A few insecting eating plants have been gathered from the swamp lands of North Carolina and California, and others have teen sent from India, Aus tralia and Madagascar.; ;Perhaps the best known of tha group Is Venus' Fly Trap. The leaves . vary, from one to six inches long, and at the extremities are placed two blades or claspers. On the. inner" walls of these claspers there are six' Irritable hairsany one of which receiving the slightest touch from an insect is sufficient to bring the two blades together with such rapidity as to preclude any possibility of the fly escaping. A correct idea of -how the trap closes on its victim may be ob tained by bringing the two hands rap idly together, the 'fingers of one being firmly pressed between those of the other. This plant readily discriminates between animal and other matter; this, if a small stone or piece of wood be dropped Into the trap It will instantly close, but as soon as it has found out its mistake, and it only takes a few minutes, it begins to unfold Its trap, and the piece of wood or stone falls out. On the other hand, should a piece of beef or a blue bottle fly be placed in it, it will remain firmly closed until every piece of organic matter Is ab sorbed through the leaf. It will then unfold itself, and is ready for another meal. New Director of LI ok Onset vatory. William Wallace Campbell, who has Just been elected director of Lick ob servatory, to succeed the late James E. Keeler, was born on a farm in Hancock county, O., in 1862. He stud ied astronomy at the University of Michigan under Prof. Schaeberle, and took the chair of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Colo rado, and later at Ann Arbor. He has written several text-books. HEADACHE At ail drug stores. 25 Doses 25c. fir LINCOLN BRUAD&AST SEEDER SPECIAL PRICE, $8.75. Wooing of the Minister. BY SARA LINDSBY COLEMAN. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) The most careless observer among the villagers might have noticed some thing , unusual in the Reverend Mr. Wlgglesworth's manner that night The Widow McLean was the first to see it; she dropped her eyes in blush ing confusion and did not lift them until the end of the service when she led the choir In a triumphant song. Mr. Wlgglesworth was a bachelor and a scholar, a little seamy along the back, a little frayed out at the wrists, a timid, self-conscious, gentle, forget ful man with dreamy, patient eyes for erer turned inward on a brain toiling with abstractions. Miss Eliza' Ellington noticed it, and as the sermon progressed the mem bers of the flock turned In their seats and Btared at each other. Some mys terious change had taken place In him. He stood erect, his figure was animat ed, he' looked years younger; In his usually, pale cheeks the color came and went and his eyes were alight with en thusiasm. As the congregation passed out from the churchy on all sides there was un stinted praise of the sermon. The minister hurried home to his modest room, flung himself into a chair by an open window, and gazed on the beauty of a moon flooded Southern night The perfume of the Jessamine that climbed about the window was in his nostrils, the exquisite song of a mocking-bird pouring forth its mel ody from a near tree was in his brain. "She loves me," he muttered, and again, "she loves me." He knew women so slightly. Seen through a veil of mystery, they were such formidable creatures and yet, the priest in him giving place to the man, he had often longed to lift that veil. He had felt a sudden heartache for ties he had never known sweet, warm, hu man ties. That night, as he had gone up the steps of the church the Widow McLean, who was as comely and young and pretty as any girl among his flock, had stepped on her dress and fallen down ward. The minister had lifted her to her feet, her soft fingers had closed over his hand. "You are so good," she had murmured, and with a quick, spontaneous burst of passion, and a modesty that was enchanting, .she lifted his hand, pressed her warm, red lips to it, and glided into the church. An hour passed, the minister had not moved from his chair; another hour, he sprang up. "If she ever does it again I will marry her," he declared enthusiastically. And in the morning when the breeze fluttering at his win dow blinds awoke him, "If she ever does it again," he muttered, 'half awake, he Bprang to his feet. "I will marry her anyway," he vowed. He could hardly wait, so eager a lover had he become by afternoon, for the return of the small colored boy who carried his message of love. Like most timid men he had trusted his fate to a written message. The afternoon was hot Eliza El lington, who had spent the morning In the household work that was always so much harder on Monday, had taken some sewing to the cool shadowed depths of the grape arbor at the back of her simple home. Her sewing lay beside her untouched. Her figure drooped, her eyes were downcast, her delicate brows arched with melan choly. She could not escape the knowl edge that thoughts of the minister had become a source of disquietude. All unaware the little love god had nestled in her heart Poor starved heart that refused to be. old at thirty, that cried out for the rights that be longed to its womanhood. Into the quiet nook and upon the solitude of her thoughts a little negro boy with outstretched hand that held a note obtruded himself. She read the note, turned It over, Can be attached to any wheeled vehicle. Sows a wide cast equal on both sides of the wagon. Either side can be shut off when desired. Sows one acre for evenr M. mile traveled. The "cast" is under perfect control of the operator; can be made tcr width desired, or dinronallT to the right or left, or directly behind the wagon. It will sow perfectly any quantity to the acre of an it mas or grain, oats, oariey, rye. Ducswneat. etc., or grass seeds, clover, millet, timothy, Runcarian. atn. It will also sow flax' send. hemp seed, peas, corn and fertilisers ; in fact, anything which requires broadcasting, In a most satisfactory manner. Write for full particulars. FARMERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATION . 1SS-130-13 J.'. 13th St., Lincoln, Webr, Ment.w Th Independent, , NOW LINCOLN SUPPLY CQ I. If earth and sky as the minister turned in at the cottage whose portico Was covered with great clusters of crimson rosea. He bad agonised over the note, for he was a tender man; h had prayed over it, and led by the spirit he had come to tell Eliza Ellington, who was one of his best church workers and a faithful, conscientious woman, that the letter she had received be-i longed to another. He would be very tender with her,9 he assured himself. He sat In the . parlor tremblingly, awaitina; her approach, and when she fluttered in gowned In a simple white dress, with a great cluater of the crim son roses 'on her breast, he noticed that she trembled, too. The roses were aquiver.'the color came and went in her face, her eyes were shy as a dove's. The minister went forward and took her hand. He didn't speak,: he couldn't break her dream of happiness at one blow. He held her hand, looking down at her with troubled eyes, when she suddenly met . his. gaze, .and ' In . her eyes he thought he saw a faint re proach. Was It thus that men wooed the women they loved? Sorely per plexed, the minister bent and kissed her on the brow. - They sat down on the wide, old fashioned sofa. , She, noting his Silence and seeming coldness, pitied him, and told herself that his unaccustomed ness to women made him - shy, and that by sweet, womanly means, she, fUl LftJ mm an A little negro with a note. there was no address and read again words that sunk Into her brain. She looked at the small boy won deringiy, piteously. "Is there not some mistake?" she asked timidly. Joy was slow to enter where sorrow had so recently dwelt When the minister read the note that the colored boy brought him, un consciously he repeated the words he had used the night before, "She loves me." But a great dismay had fallen on the man, for the yes that he so ardently waited for had been written In a neat, precise hand by another, by Eliza Ellington. , The messenger, with a child's heed lessness, had loitered on the way, his mind diverted by a dozen things. When he picked -up the note for the last time, it had been laid down care fully while he took part In a fight he carried It without further delay to the rose-covered cottage. The glory of lunaet was upon ths "If I had known," he said. when she became his wife, would woo him from such ways; and he, looking at her ' and thinking that he "must break her heart pitied her. Ah, sweet, sweet pity, so near akin to love. Woman-like, and to cover his em barrassment, she began to talk in a nervous, hurried way. Of her gera niums that had not done so well, of the violets that had finished bloom ing, of the beautiful, bountiful roses in their wealth of -flower. She told him timidly that she had wanted to send him some of them ' from the day the first violet had. lifted Its head.. "If I had. known," he Bald huskily. A rose unfolds Its crimson heart to the sun she moVed nearer the minis ter. , - A flush of shame mounted the Rev erend Mr. Wiggles worth's brow. He mopped his face with his handkerchief, the thought had crossed his brain that the Widow McLean didn't know a blessed thing about his sensations dur ing the last twenty-four hours.. The girl talked on With a shy con sciousness. . The minister had never thought her pretty before, and now her earnest, almost somber eyes looked at him gravely as If" questioning this thing that held them apart A sudden vision of a cottage with crimson roses clustering on the Veran da came to him. and down a trellised walk above w-i crimson roses' grew, Eliza, and not tue widow, moved with eyes alight with happiness. "Miss Ellington," he asked unheal tatingly. She gave him a look of sweet reproach. "Eliza, was there ever an other?" ; "Never," she said. , "And you have loved me?" question- ingly. "From-the first," she said simply. The Widow McLean had been married twice. The last scrifple had vanished from the Reverend Mr. Wlgglesworth's mind, and he drew her into his arms and held her silently. A man has wisdom straight from the gods who is silent at such a time. Some hours later when he went home by way of the stars, he didn't even glance at the young widow's house, he didn't even remember that she lived there. . She, although she did not remain the Widow McLean, when tender thoughts of her former pastor came to her, felt always a flush of shame when she remembered that night on the church steps. And to the day of her death she believed that by her unseem ly conduct on that night she had lost the minister. Eliza, secure in a good man's love, and unconscious of any debt to the widow, dwelt at peace. . . . ...... .. ...... f Valuable Picture Frame. 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