October 10, 1901.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Tbs -Mermaid.
BT EL JACK APFLETON.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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Valuable Picture Frame.
Perhaps the most valuable frame
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mered gold, with an Inner molding o
lapis lazuli. The corners have hearts
designed in . large pearls, and precious
stones are Inlaid around it It Is said
to have been, the gift of a rich nun
nery, and its estimated Value is $125,
000. One of the pictures in the Vatl
can at Rome is Inclosed In a frams
studded with jewels, so that the value
of the frame nearly equals that of the
picture. Many of the churches on ths
continent or Europe nave pictures with
similarly ornamented frames of great
value.
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Mention the Tnlerndnt. "
NOW LINCpLN SUPPLY CO.
FARMER'S FR1E.HU SWEEF FEED MILL
Grinds ear corn, shelled corn, oats, and all
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write lor run particulars.
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128-130-133 N. 13th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
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