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HARKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1895.
NUMBER 24.
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NATURE.
( dim oa yonder barren autumn Held,
Wktrt wast wind blow, birda sing,
Eaina fall, cornea Jnne, cornea spring,
Ita secret many a year bath Dot revealed.
tkm many dewy dawn bath writ In
red
And white, and aummer'a feet
Left many an imprint sweet
Yet aomething longed for hovers atill no-
Ten thousand aunaeta bare not wakened
to apeach
The weatera elopes, aor night's
Pala Oock of etara tba beighta;
The aea'a kiaa wina no aaawer from tba
beach.
Dead, ailent, nature atande before oar
eyea.
We queatlon her la vain.
And bootleaa atrlre to gain
Her confidence; ehe voachaafee no repliea.
And yet, oftimee I think aba yearna to
bleaa
Aad comfort man with ebeavca.
To pleaae bim with ber leavea
'The wildcat blaat bath tonea of tender-
And there are roicee on the aea in atorm
Not of the water' atrlfe;
Faint tonea, aa tbongh aome life
Amid the tumult atruggled to take form.
There la an undertone in everything
That comforta and uplifta,
A light that never ahifta
8hinea out of touch on the hortaon ring.
I know, behind yon mountain'a gloomy
aidea,
There aomething wait for me
That I may nerer aee
Some love-Illumed face, aome at retched
hand hide.
Some' epirit, aomething earth would half
diacloae,
Half hide, invitee the aonl
Unto aome hidden goal,
Which may be death, or larger life who
knowa?
William Preaoott Foater.
"THRIFT."
Hla mother had Inflated upon calling
aim Thrift No ou knew why aha had
Ivan bim the quaint name. Then
when be was barely 3 years old aha
414. She left him with a great wealth
of ailent love, but that, tike hla name,
sold not help hla much that la, aot
aa far M one could Jodge things. The
sMrtghbora said tt waa a cough that bad
rettH4,Cthat e-vW ber off. Probably
'tte cough UA" to do wHh It,
bat a starved-oot Itfe of lack of affec-
1 ttea and hard work had a good deal
more.
The neighbors aleo thought that Mra.
Wataon never had much aplrlt It
would eeem aa If they altnoet blamed
her for dying and leaving a huaband
with a child barely 2 years old. They
had misgivings about the boy, and they
were right Thrift waa deaf and dumb.
His mother bad struggled against the
knowledge aa long as she could. When
abe realized It she kept the knowledge
to herself with a fierce love. But the
cough came and settled all the prob
lems of life for her.
Thrift's father took ber death as
apathetically as be bad taken all ber
life. Only Thrift seemed to recline that
fate was still against him. lie lay
creeping for hours alone In the little cot
tage, strapped Into bis cot The neigh
bors were kind to htm. They took him
In turn to their cottages, but the ele
ment of teasing children and rough
handling was discordant to him. The
women meant well, but It was a hard
winter and money and tempers were
abort Besides, Thrift's baby nature
waa bard to understand.
Brightness came Into his life one day.
It came In the guise of a little dress
maker, Jean Lawrence. 8 he brought
him a black frock. She had been busy,
so she had put off the making till she
had time. No one else bad thought of
the little mark of respect It was a
tribute to custom, but It was the one
tribute of Mrs. Watson's life.
"I'ulr little lamb!" said Jean Law
rence as she came In. Her eyes filled
with quite unexpected tears as she saw
the lonely baby.
Thrift could not hear her, but some
thing sympathetic touched bis under
standing, for be held out his hands.
"Pulr little thing," said Jean Lawrence
again, and she caught him up and cov
ered him with kisses. Then she put
Thrift back In his cot and untied the
little black frock. She turned to go,
for she was In a harry.
Thrift's mood changed. His blue eyes
grew dark In the Intensity of his pas
sion. He kicked and screamed. Ills
fluffy fair hair was raffled; he looked
the picture of a little demon.
"Presalrve us," said the little dress
maker. It was the first time any exag
geration of feeling had ever come into
ber life. She waa half fascinated and
half terrified by this unexpected burst
"Presalrve us!" she repeated more em
phatically. She never could explain
afterward what prompted her, but she
tepped to the cot, wrapped a blanket
Around Thrift and did not stop to think
till she bad deposited htm safely In her
wn house. It was characteristic of
Jean Lawrence that she never reasoned,
oat why she had done this action. It
waa quite as easy a matter to settle the
disposal of Thrift with hla father. He
was only too glad to be rid of the bur-
. Tba Ant cUshlitf of wills ooenrred
vst the same little Mack frock. Thrift
gtAefaJtr refused te aave asytblag
to do with It Miss Lawrence was per- j
plexed. It would never do to dress bim ,
In colors on Sunday. She compromised
by making him a white frock, with a
broad black sash. It set off the child's
fairness, but still more it satisfied ber
sense of fitness.
Jean Lawrence always thought of
that episode as an epoch In ber life. The
next epoch was the sudden resolve of
Thrift's father to go to America. Jean
Lawrence lived In a state of tension
till be had sailed. It seemed Incredible
to ber that be could wish to leave bis
boy behind. She only aaw the extreme
desirability of Thrift In any manner
and way. Thrift's father did not
It was soon after this that Jean Law
rence's old lover returned to his native
village. This caused more thought In
the village than Jean herself gave to it
It was ten years since John Forbes and
she had been going to be married, and
ten years Is a long time In a woman's
life. Since Thrift bad entered ber life
she was uterly oblivious of anything
except her work." The more money she
had the more she could do for Thrift
Jean Lawrence bad always kept to
herself and no one knew why she and
John Forbes had never married.
Her old mother was alive then and
everyone knew she would have liked
the match. John Forbes had come
back grayer and older than he bad
gone away, but he was richer and even
more able to afford a wife.
Time had not gone very well with
Jean. She was thin and small always
and she had had a hard life of work.
Her sparse drab hair was beginning to
be sprinkled with gray. She looked
older than she really was. The vlllago
came to the conclusion that John
Forbes "would go by ber aud seek a
younger, bonnier woman." The two
most concerned gave no cause for gos
sip. John Forbes would sometimes stop as
be was passing the little cottage and
say a few words. There never was any
allusion to past times between them.
They called each other Mr. Forbes and
Miss Lawrence studiously. That was
the only clew either of them bad that
there waa a mutual past between theji.
Ob the Sundays that Jean went to
church ber thoughts were always di
vided between the balm at borne and
the peel ma, to ber great discomfiture
John Forbes would sometimes overtake
ber. They talked of the sermon, then
of the crops and the weather. By de
grees these subjects gained an easy fa
miliarity and only varied with the sea
sons. No one was more surprised than Jean
when John Forbes asked her one day
to marry him. She stared at him In
emotionless calm.
Ye must gle me time," she said.
John Forbes agreed to this quite pla
cidly. It was bard to understand what
he saw In his first love In her faded and
aged old-maldlsm. Possibly a tenacity
of affection and the same Instinct of
faithfulness that brought him back to
the little village the little village with
no pretensions to beauty or pletur
esqueness kept him true to Jean. One
was the borne, the other the woman ue
had loved. He saw no reason to change
because he had seen many fairer homos
and younger, prettier women.
Jean did not analyse ber sentiments
It was not her way. Besides, love
never entered her head a far as It con
cerned John Forbes. She merely re
viewed the advantages as they con
cerned Thrift The rumor that a new
and more modern dressmaker was go
ing to set up finally settled It and tint
said John yes.
The day waa fixed for the second
time In their lives. Jean had given uo
her house. She was waiting with tran
quility for this new step in her Ufa.
She had quite come to the conclusion
thnt she could not do better for Thrift
One evening John Forbes arrived.
Thrift lay contentedly on the hearth
rug looking at him. The last time
John had been at the cottage Thrift
bad been In one of bis passionate fits.
This had set him pondering.
After this there bad been several
well-meant efforts at kindness on the
part of his friends. They happened to
coincide with his own views. They ad
vised him to send Thrift away. Jean,
they said, would neglect everyone and
everything for the boy. She would
wear herself out for Thrift but not
bother with anything that did not con
cern him.
How far he believed this or bow far
a man's dislike to scenes or a natural
desire to have his wife's affection cen
tered In himself had to do with his re
solve he could not have told. He Ixt
atlrred himself, and with Infinite trou
ble and by some outlay be secured an
admission for the child to a deaf and
dumb Institution.
It was this fact he had come to tell
Jean. He rather wished Thrift would
help him to lead up to It by a scene.
Thrift gave him no help. He lay smil
ing Impenetrably.
Jean was not quick at reading signs.
"Jean," be said at last helplessly,
"we'll be merrit Tuesday."
"Ay," assented Jean cheerfully. Her
eyes fell naturally on Thrift and she
smiled at the boy.
"And Thrift r John added, with a
suspiciously clear not of Interrogation
la his voice.
"Ay, Thrift," the repeated.
"Ay, Thrift," said John. Then find
ing this rrea did not pi ogress matte -s
esperatsty, wrtt a snatch uf
"T koj .! so Berrying
Tkrlftr
The old clock ticked through h
room. The peats spluttered on the lo
hearth, In front of which on a curious
ly woven rug Thrift lay.
There was absolute silence for a bit
Then Jean's voice broke It
"Then, John Forbes, ye're no merry
lng me."
Again there was silence.
John said In a quiet voice:
"I bae made a' the arrangements for
him, Jean. He will gang to a schule fa
they'll teach him to read and write, and
understand talk of a kind."
"Will they teach him to talk like lther
fowkT
Her tone was expressionless. '
"Xa, they canna dae that"
"Then why should the bairn be both
ered wl' learning that'll nlver das him
or on y one else ony gudeT Tell me
that John Forbes."
"It will give him employment, Jean,
and besides " Here John Forbes,
with a man's tactlessness, undid every
bit of good his arguments might have
effected. He added: "Fowk tell me
ye Just mak' an Idol o' him, and that
ye hae nae ither Idea but him. A man
could mi be exieck'd to elan' that, and
lther people kenning it"
Jean had been passing through a
crisis and she was but a woman.
"And if fowk care to gossip over my
affairs, John Forbes, and you care to
heed them," she retorted vehemently.
"If Thrift dlsna gang wl' me nae poo'rs
will tak' me to your hooose."
John was annoyed by her tone.
"And supposing I say I wlnna hae
Thrift?"
They sat on In a strained silence.
John was too angry to move or
speak. Jean bad no wish, either, to
break the silence.
"Te ken this Is the second time your
obstinacy has come In the wye," said
John, finally.
"I mind," said Jean, briefly. "But I
dldna mean ye to tak' It aa ye did yon
time," she added.
"I dldna ken." replied John.
It struck neither of them that then
was any pathos In the sentence a
pathos of a ten years' mistaken silence I
"Are ye sure ye mean it nooT" he
asked, getting up.
"I certainly dae," said Jean, firmly.
"Then gcld-by, Jean."
"Quld-by."
The Instant the door was shnt Jean
almost strangled Thrift with kisses.
Unfortunately the practical things
could not be settled so summarily.
Jean had given up her house, and she
found It was let to the new dress
maker. She was not accustomed to
complications In ber life. Alternatives
seemed to crop up and they worried
her. At the same time Thrift was ber
one object Everything was directed
to his aim. After some few weeks she
got a tumble-down little cottage about
a half mile from the straggly village.
It proved too far, or the "hang" of the
new dressmaker's skirts proved too
much for Jean's old customers. Work
and pay became scant The little dress
maker bore up proudly and bravely.
She stinted and starved herself, but
Thrift grew and flourished. There
loomed before ber always a fear of the
"charity" where her boy might be
taught and no one knew at what ex
pense of unklndness.
If the worst came to the worst she
would ask John Forbes to get bim In,
and she would become a servant One
wintry eveulng the child was fretful
and ailing. A knock came to the door
and John Forbes entered. He did not
seem to notice the extreme poverty of
the cottage, nor the miserable attempt
at the fire. This fact brought a rush of
gratitude to Jean's heart It was to
see If these things were as bad as re
port said that he had come.
He took Thrift up on bis knee and he
talked occasionally to Jean.
"Can I dae onything for ye?" he said,
suddenly. "For the boy, ye ken."
A little flush came In Jean's cheeks.
She faltered her thanks.
In a rush of love for Thrift she be
gan faintly to realize that she had not
appreciated this man as he deserved.
In the same moment she realized she
had thrown her chance away.
No Idea that she might work on ber
old lover's pity crossed her mind. She
began timidly asking bim If be could
manage to send Thrift to the home he
had mentioned.
"Why noo, when ye were so set
against It?" asked John, with a sever
ity that was not reassuring.
"It's circumstances," said Jean brief
ly. She felt she would die rather than
let John Forbes know there was noth
ing In the bouse to eat and no money.
She would have risked everything but
the fear of Thrift falling ill.
"Weel," said John slowly, "I'll see
aboot It But boo wull ye pay me,
Jean?"
The little dressmaker drew herself
up.
"There'll be no fear o' that, John
Forbes."
"But ye blvna tell't me In fat wye,
Jean."
"In honest money, by honest work."
The pink flush had deepened into a
deep crimson on ber cheek.
"But I dlnna want your money, and
as for wark, suppose ye come and
wark forms."
"Na, aa," said Jeaa Involuntarily.
She baa bad bar chance of being mis
tress at the farm. She could not stoop
to work for another, as she supposed
"Weel, come wl'oot doing ony wark."
Jean looked at him in utter bewilder
ment "The difference atween as lay In
Thrift If he gaes awa' there's naeth
lng need binder your coming to the
farm."
"I dlnna expeC yeM think I meant
you," said the little woman, lbs was
thoroughly hurt "111 thank ye a' the
days o' my Ufa If ye'U dae for Thrift,
but I am no seeking to be beholden to
you for myseT."
"Ye'll be ray lonely wl'oot Thrift."
"Ay." Jean nearly smiled because
she was so near to team at the thought
"I'll be lonely at the farm."
"Te can malrry," said Jean. She
suddenly felt she had cut herself off
from every possibility by bar sugges
tion. She had dons it for Thrift all
along; she would have married him for
Thrift's saks, she gave bim up for
Thrift's sake. Now Thrift by her own
act was to go away from her. And
John Forbes was nothing to her. . The
unexpected touch of kindness bad
brought a rush of sympathy to ber
heart She did not know it, but it bad
broken down the barrier that ber love
for Thrift had built up round her
woman's heart
"Ay," answered John Forbes slowly.
"But ye maun ask me this time,
Jean."
"Oh, I couldna," faltered Jean. She
felt confused and trembling. She look
ed down.
"And I wlnna, nae a third time."
"I'm no fit to be a leddy noo," she
murmured.
Then she looked up. John saw In
her eyes a look he hnd not seen for
more than the ten years.
"Jeanr
"John!"
That was all the love-making that
passed between them, but they under
stood each other then.
When John went out, Jean seised
Thrift and kissed htm as she had done
once before.
But she knew that for the first time
sines he had com Into ber tire he had
only the second place. She thought
1 she hid the fact Hi bar inmost heart
bat John Forbes guessed It He had
the tact to hid his knowledge from
his wife. For the tact that lore brings
Is often the highest wlsdocv All the
Tear Round.
SNAKES ARK TOOLS OF TRADE.
A Boceat Federal Decision la Kw
York So SeUed a Case.
Snakes a re "Implements and tools of
trade," under certain conditions. ' This
Important fact has just been settled
with due Judicial solemnity in the suit
of Miss Jeannie Magnon against the
Board of General Appraisers, Miss
Magnon Is a snake charmer. She came
to this country on the steamship Bohe
mian on March 80, ISM, and brought
twenty-eight trained snakes with her,
which she Intended to use during ber
engagement at Hagenbeck's exhibi
tion. The Collector of Customs decid
ed that the twenty-eight snakes were
subject to duty as animals, and Miss
Magnon appealed to the Hoard of Ap
praisers, which sustained the decision
of the Collector. Miss Magnon ap
pealed to the courts, and Judge Wheel
er, In the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals, banded down a decision re
versing the Board of Appraisers' opin
ion and sustaining the plaintiff. "The
Importer in this case," says the Judgo,
"is a snake charmer and Imported
twenty-eight snakes in her actual pos
session and used by her In exhibitions
of ber skill In that profession and
which are not for sale. A duty was
assessed upon them as animals. She
claimed that they were free under par
agraph 686 of the tariff act of 1800,
which exempts Implements and tools
of trade, occupation or employment
These snakes are clearly Instruments
within the meaning of the law. They
are Instruments with which she prac
tices her profession, and are her pro
fessional instruments. As such she
seems to have been entitled to have
them come with her duty free."
The Uaes of Hot Water.
t The best methods of usln hot water
are as follows: For sprains of the
ankle and wrist or any Joint the part
should be thoroughly soaked for half
an hour at a time, night and mornini;,
in very hot water. Any one suffering
from a severe sprain will not require
more than the first soaking to convince
them of the advantages of bot over
cold water. A flannel bandage shoulj
be applied firmly after each treatment
For bruises very much the same meth
od should be followed, although the
application need not be continued for
so long a time. For wounds and sores
the best method Is to drip or pour for
a few minutes. For styes and In
flamed eyelids, and even for sore eye,
use water as bot as can be borne, by
sopping. To stop bleeding, very hot
water applied to the raw surface will
be found efftcacloue. For many forms
of dyspepsia and biliousness, particu
larly of catarrhal condition of stomach,
a goblet of hot water, drunk after the
night's fasting, will give relief. For
continued application, la the form of
a poultice, as In catarrh of the breast,
pleurisy, pneumonia, eta a Jacket of
cotton batting wrung oat la very not
water by swans of a towel, and cover
ad with oil sOk r waxed paper,
be se4.-Uee Bosm Jwmal
NEW COATS AND CAPES
WAOOER STUM SHOWN
THIIR MAKEUP.
IN
mt the Haadeosae StjUa that
Aaw Oat for Karl? SpringCheck
Velvet W1U Be Much Worn-Fur la
Ooinc to Lent.
Talk of the Faeniona.
Mew Terk OerrespoDdaooa:
O possess a coat of
seal In one of the
new cuts. Is to ad
vertise the fact us
clearly as If you
yelled it out as you
went along, that
you are wearing a
good two hundred
dollars' worth on
your extravagant
back. Tho cheaper
seals are not made
up into coats at all,
but appear only in
capes. The stuff
that is to be the
swagger thing for spring capes Is check
velvet and It is used both for lining
and for the outside. Some handsome
examples are made reversible, the
check velvet being very brilliant, tho
other side of dull woolen stuff. Other
velvet capes offered for the days that
announce winter's end are made don
ble, the upper being handsomely embel
lished with applique of heavy lace and
pointing ot jet, the under one plain. The
top cape should reach the elbows, the
under one the hips. The fashion of
mounting capes on yokes is a little
gone by, but as It affords a method of
elaboration It has still admirers. These
have the yoke of rich lace, embroidery
or costly fur, fitting just to the shoul
ders and a little deeper front and back.
The top cape is made very full on this
BIDDING HJOH FOB L0HQ LIFK.
and stands straight out over the arm in
epaulette fashion. The other seems to
fall straight from the yoke to the hip
This variation of the line of the under
and over cape Is what Is not liked.
Where the yoke is lace covered each
cape has corresponding elaboration.
Fur la going to last very bite into the
spring season. Of that there can be no
question, but whether it is to have the
all-the-year-round vogue that dealers
are now promising for it, is doubtfuL
It is a comfort to the be-furred woman
to know that she can wear her peltry as
long as it is comfortable, and it pro
longs beyond ordinary limits the time
for considering fur-trimmed garment.
In the garments there Is one result evi
dent, and that Is that stuffs of compar
atively light ' weight are liberally
trimmed with fur. In the Initial pic
ture, for Instance, there is shown a
tight fitting Jacket of black velours,
lined with thin silk, but set off with a
handsome fur collarette and cuffs, a
muff matching them. - The garment
hooks under a double boxpleat In front
and Is ornamented at waist and throat
with buttons of oxldyzed silver.
Fur edgings will, of course, be worn
much later than collarettes, and though,
like the latter, they may now match
the muff carried, they will be quite ac
ceptable after the muff has been put
thb asveas or srauo.
away In camphor. Lata as It la, novel
forms of applying them art often
seen, the dealers hoping, probably, that
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of them will strike woman's
fancy so strongly as to ensure their be
ing carried over Into warm weather. A
striking use of them Is portrayed In the
second picture, In trimming a gown of
brown cloth and velvet Its foundation
skirt has a wide velvet panel, the cloth
being drawn away from It to imitate
an oversklrt and is edged with fur at
the sides and hem. At the hips there
are velvet puffs that show through
slashes in the cloth. The bodice is
made entirely of velvet and is finished
by a separate collar of brown cloth,
edged with fur and also slashed to
Show a velvet puffing.
Some spring jackets assert their new
ness and deny the possibility of having
v
AS IT FROM A CLOUS OF BUTTERFLIES.
served In winter by being open down
the entire front and fastening only at
the throat Such run to much eccen
tricity In revere, which are about the
only possible point for displaying nov
elty, as the garments are otherwise
simply made. An example of this style
la shown, sketched In dark-blue cloth.
Made with fitted back and sides, its
loose reefer fronts turn back in large
double revere edged with bias folds of
the cloth. The standing collar and
cuffs are also thus banded. The gar
meat hi lined with rose-pink surah
brocaded with white flowers. d
The combination of jet and chiffon
In the ornamentation bodices is, of
course, very far from a new Idea, but
some entirely novel expressions of (t
ase current Tho fourth filustrttod - '
here depicts one such, light pink chif
fon being draped over a fitted whito
satin foundation. The large revere are
of black velvet, edged with Jet and in
closing a big and brilliant Jet butterfly.
Smaller ones drape the sleeves very
prettily. Below this there Is an empire
skirt garnished in front with black vel
vet points, which hang from a plain
black velvet belt and are bordered with
Urge Jet beads, besides being weighted
with fringes and a fancy gilt and jew
eled butterfly.
Though designers hint of plainer
styles in bodices, the theater bodice la
still bent on being a Joy forever, and all
sorts of eccentric ornamentations are
seen on it One Is shown herewith that
is gotten up very daintily, and It can be
carried out in any favored combination
A SHOWY BODICE FOB TUB PLAYHOUSE.
of colors. It is made of cloth and fas
tens at the side, as It Is alike In back
and front having an embroidered vel
vet yoke with collar and epaulettes to
match. The plain belt and the corners
of the yoke are garnished with velvet
ribbon bows that perkily go straight up
and down like a sheep's foreleg.
Among the seinl-experlmental mod
els now shown there Is one new design
that Is pretty sure to find favor, because
of Ita novelty and beauty. It Is a silk
bodice that flta tightly all about except
high In front, where a full boxpleat
falls blouse-like, dropping stiffly over
the belt This pleat Is finished lu shirt
front fashion and down Its center Is
worn a set of studs, diamond solitaires,
pearls or any favored gem. This l
something entirely new, and already
gems are being set on short pins with a
catch to apply on the under side of the
silk. Stud holes should not be made,
and the bodice may better be worn
with no studs unless one can boast a
handsome set
Copyright ISM.
White drssstd-kid gloves with broad,
black stitching and few Mack buttons
an comet wear far
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