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The Sioux County Journal, VOLUME VII. HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUG. 20, 1S'J5. NUMBER 51. A WOMAN'S BARGAIN. Ton will love me? Ah. I know Ag men love -no better, diur. Worship? Yea, a uiuntU or so. Teuderuesn' Perhaps u year. After that, the quiet pm'Ihc Of possession; -nrch rare, And the culm iml s!ln-rio. That nil married luwr wwir. Illume you, dearest? Nut nt ull. Ah Fate iiiude you. voti Hlund; As Kali; made you. so you full, Far below Love's high di'inusid. Vet how strange is Love'n deep luw! I ran look you through and thiuiiijU, TruritiK plainly Nature's flaw iu the lu art Le gave to you; Knowing all luy heart must stake, All the Unuifr, all the fear. And yet glail, even o. tu luiike This, my lotting bargain, dtar! JtOMAXCEOF APII'E. P-l-i-ff, Minnie! It's a horrid smoking carriage." -So It Is, Maud. Well, It could n't lit? hclju'il. There was no tiiiiu tu choose our -arrhim? ; in fact, we Lnd luck In catching the train at all. These underground trains scarcely give one, time t wink." "What dreadfully vulgar expressions you ilo pick up. Minnie!" "Slang Ih tin? go liowadnyH, my dear. You catniot he Kinart without It. lint, I say, do you really object to the smell of tobacco V" "Yea, especially w hen It Ih male. The cent of a carriage like this clings to one's dress for hours." "What os that? It Is rather chick than otherwise. For my part, 1 greatly prefer a smoking carriage." "What extraordinary taste!" "Not so much for the sake of the to bacco, as because you meet the best looking men lu smoklug carriages, and " "Minnie! Don't be so Inexpressibly vulgar." "And the wickedest" "Are all smokers wicked, then?" "No, but all wicked men are smok ers." "And you like wicked men best?" ' "Rather! Don't you?" "Of course not How can you sup pose such a thing?" "Charlie Bidding Is a little wicked, my dear" (with laughing malice). "I I don't believe II -I don't see how that bears on the subject, Minnie," "Humbug, my prim old coz. Don't I know who sent you that pretty little gold watch for a valentine the other day? There was no letter with It and you couldn't Imagine from whom it came eh? Oh, you Jolly old hypo crite!" "You-you shouldn't talk such non sense, Minnie. You let your tongue run away with you." "Perhaps I do. But It's not nonsense, all the same. You know that Charlie Bidding is in love with you, my dear; and I know that you entertain a weak nes for him. I also know that If he wasn't a Icetle bit wicked you wouldn't care for him a straw not you! Sup pose In; had been" (with Inljuite worn) "a good young man, he would never have sent you that pretty gold watch at all seeing that he Isn't engaged to you; ho would never have danced seven dances with you at Lady I' 's ball the other night, when he nearly en raged Aunt Agatha Into a fit; he would never hare stolen that kiss from you in the corner of the conservatory, when " "How con you my such things, Min nie?" Interrupted Maud, blushing a rosy red. "I I don't know what you mean." "Yes, you do, my dear, very well," laughed' Minnie, saucily. "These little eyes of mine are awfully sharp- But what a pity the Hon. Charles Is only a youuger sou, with a limited allowance. His brother, the earl, Is tremendously rich, too; might endow poor Charles with affluence, If he liked, and never In the least miss it. But, of course, lie doesn't, stingy curmudgeon! Cures for nothing, they suy, but his stupid poll tics and blue books." "I I really Minnie, you speak as If Ch Mr. Bidding's affairs had some thing to do with me. Haven't I told you fifty times " "Yes, you old darling! And I've never believed you once. Hllloa, what's this?" "What's what? "Why, this," said Minnie, stretching across and picking up some article from the' opposite seat. "By Jingo, Maud a pipe!" "So It Is. Koine man left it behind Mill. I'gh! The horrid, smelly old thing. Put It down at once, Minnie.1' "You're no Judge of pipes, my dear," said Minnie, airily. "If you were, you would never abuse a pipe for being old. Now, this Is a regular clinker; quite a gentleman among pipes. Look at It Amber mouthpiece, 'all ver collar, beau tifully colored bowl, and" (bringing It close to her dainty noe) "ainella de-llc-lour "Faugh! I call the smell atrocious. It nearly makes nie 111 even that dis tance." "Ah, thaft your prejudice, dear, old faabloned cot. I -I say" (Inspecting the Inside of the bowl) "It's actually charged'" "Actually what?" "Charged, you darling simpleton; loaded-tilled with baccy. Aud I do be lieve yes, yes. It is-1 uui sure uf it It's Old Carolina!" "Pray, what is Old Carolina, Minnie?" "old Carolina, Maud, Is a particular ly scrumptious kind of baccy. My broiher .lack always expects me to give hint some for a Christinas present It tUkles just about heavenly, 1 can tell you." "Tastes!" cried out Maud. "You do not mean to say that you have ever smoked it!" "Bather. I've had stealthy whiffs from Jack's pipe many times. I should like a pull at this one now!" A she spoke to Maud's unutterable horror she placed the pipe In her uiouili and made bellevo to draw nt It. "Good heavens. Milium!" exclaimed her sober cousin, aghast "How can you! That horrid, dirty, strange pipe? Take it out immediately!" Minnie only laughed. "If I had a match with me," she said, "I should shock you still more; fur I should light up." "Allow me to oblige you." It was a man's voice, and It came from behind. Both girls turned hastily round. Maud's face was crimson. Even Minnie, who was usually equal to most situations, showed some signs of confusion. The stranger was In the next com partment looking at them over the partition. How long he had been watching them they did not know, for they had sat with their backs to him, and would never have observed him at ail unless he had spoken. He was not an ill-looking man rather the reverse. He had a pleasant, good tempered face and twinkling eyes, which were now regarding the two young ladies with evident amusemeut But he had no business to' be spying over the parti tion at all, still less to address girls with whom he was unacquainted. So Maud felt, and she drew herself up as stillly as she could and affected to Ignore him. That was not lu Minnie's line at all. After the first shock 'of the stranger's voice she began to enjoy the joke, and she said, with a wave of her hand to ward his proffered match-box: "Thanks, awfully. We are getting out at the next station, else I should certainly have availed myself of your kindness." "Then If you aro really not going to use It yourself, perhaps you can spare me my pipe now," suggested the stranger, smiling. "Oh, It Is yours, Is It ? Here you are," she said, handing It to him. - "Thank you very much. I ought to explain. My Intrusion must otherwise seem rather unaccountable. I got out at the last station for a paper and jumped back Into the wrong compart ment. Kecollecting that I had left my pipe an old and valued friend nmn the seat, I stood up to look for It over the partition, I was rejoiced to find that It had fallen Into such appreciative hands." "Oh, I kuow a lot about pipes," laugh ed Minnie. Then, as the train pulled til), '- turned to her couslu, exclaim ing:, "Hllloa! here we are; Gloucester road. Out with you, Maud." The stranger raised his hat by way of a farewell. "I shall never forget," he said, de murely, "that so great a connoisseur In pipes as yourself has pronounced mine to be a regular clinker!" When they had alighted from the train, Maud, who had been frowning at her cousin all through the above con versation, at once took that young lady to task for encouraging the stranger's familiarity. But Minnie treated these remonstrances very lightly. "All right, dear old Propriety. No harm done. Only a bit of a Joke. What do you think Aunt Agatha will say when she hears about It?" "Surely you won't tell mamma?" ex claimed Maud; "she'll be terribly angry If you do." "Oh, I shall tell her, certainly," an swered Minnie, "If only for the sake of watching her face during my recital. It will be better than a play." And Minnie did tell her. And Aunt Agatha's face as a genuine study of emotions was decidedly better than a play. No actress could quite have pro duced that horror-struck expression. "Margaret," she said, scathingly, "I do not know which tocondemn the more, your outrageous conduct with that Impertinent stranger or your flippant miinner in relating It. It is hard for me to believe that you are my own sister's child." Minnie affected to look very much crushed. She bent her eyes over the tablecloth. Aunt Agatha could not see their roguish twinkle, or she might have found It harder still to believe that the girl was her own sister's child. In truth, few things daunted this harum scarum young lady, and no reproofs weighed heavily upon her soul. A few mornings later the two girls were sitting In their little upstairs room, where they painted, and messed and practiced untldlnees to their hearts' content They war talking now; though, to be sore, Maud did bold a palatta Id one band and a bruab In the' other, anil made occasional reckless dubs at a caiiyiis iu front of her. Mlu uie had thrown her Implements of art upon the tloor beside her, and was lounging with crossed knees, lu a bas ket chair near the window. She was lu one of her high-spirited moods, and was rattling away like the proverbial (small est hour. "If I were you, Maud, I should assert myself, defy Aunt Agatha, and many Charles Bidding to-morrow I" "Hush! Minnie. How can you?" "Yes, I should. If I loved a liian, I shouldn't care a twopenny I mean twopence, whether he was poor or rich. Ail the mothers, or fathers, or 1 notions, or aunts lu the world might try ! ""Tp me. But I shouldn't let them If a man, I say, whom I loved, asked nut to marry him, I'd do It, In spite of 'cm ail." "Ch Mr. Bidding lias never asked me to marry him," suid Maud, blush ing;. "But you know that he wants to. You know that you lire only to give him the opportunity to usk you. Are you daren't, bemuse you're afraid of Aunt Agatha. If I was In love, which Good heavens, who's tills V A hansom hud drawn up at the door. Jlllinlo watched the occupant alight She chipped her bauds merrily. "Talk of uugel," she. cried. "Oh, Maud, here's fun. Who do you think It Is!" "Who?" exclaimed Maud, springing to the window and peeping out. Her face suddenly flushed the rosiest of reds. She recognized the athletic form of Charles Bidding. "He has come to ask Aunt Agatha for your hand," laughed Minnie. "Poor Charles, I do not euVy hliu the Inter view." "Oh, I'm sorry he's come," faltered Maud, looking rather distressed. "I I'm afraid mamma will will be dread fully rude to him. She was was horrid to him the other night at Lady P 's ball. It Is of no use his coming either; no use, whatever. lie he only has 500 a year, and he's in in debt Mamma would never let me marry him." "Fiddlesticks, dear old coz," said Minnie, putting her arm around ber and giving her a kiss. "Aunt Agatha can't prevent you. lilrla are not slaves nowadays. You only have to assert yourself, you darling goose. My motto Is, if a man is worth loving, he Is worth marrying. Aud If he Is worth marrying, marry him. For men worth marrying do not grow on every bush." In this half-jesting strain Minnie ran on. But Maud did not hear much of it. Maud's attention was obviously dis tracted. Her eyes constantly wander ed to the door. 8he seemed to be lis tening for something outside. At last there came a footstep. A maid enter ed. "A message from missis, please, Miss Maud. Will you go down to her lu the drawing-room?" Maud sprang up and smoothed her hair with her hands. Then she ran downstairs to obey her mother's order with a very nervous, frightened ex pression upon her face. It was nearly an hour before she curne back. Minnie looked up at her ques tlonlngly. It was clear that something unexpectedly good hail happened. "Oh, Minnie, 1 have something so wonderful to tell you. Mr. Bidding Charles has had an extraordinary piece of fortune. He has has come Into two thousand a year! And mam ma has allowed us to be engaged. She was so kind, Minnie, and said such such beautiful things about my happi ness being her one consideration. I I think I have misjudged mamma, Min nie!" Just for a second a queer, quizzical twinkle Hushed In Minnie's eyes. The Idea of Aunt Agatha saying beautiful things was rather novel. However, that was soon forgotten lu her genuine de light at Maud's happiness. With all her harum-scarum ways, Minnie was a warm-hearted, unselfish little creature. She hugged and kissed her a dozen times. She used every term of congrat ulation of endearment. Had It been her owu engagement, she could not have displayed more heartfelt and un affected Joy over it. Maud found her sympathy very delicious. Girls In Maud's condition are particularly sus ceptible of sympathy. It adds 73 per cent to their bliss. At luncheon Aunt Agatha was morn than agreeable. Her face was wreath ed In smiles throughout the meal. Min nie Indulged In many vulgarisms mi rebuked. It was altogether an unpre cedented luncheon In that house. Aunt Agatha snhl some more beautiful things and Minnie niannged to keep counten ance?. It was an effort But she did It In the afternoon the elder lady went out alone to pay calls, and, no doubt, to discuss Maud's engagement with her friends. It was 5 o'clock before she returned. She came Into the drawing-room, where the two girls were having tea. They saw at once by her face that something had happened In the Interim. She had gone away In a sunlight of smiles and good humor. She came back In a storm of angry boo wis. Even Maud bad never seen ber moth er's face more ominous. Tto poor girl shuddered. What could It menu? Could it have anything to do with hu engagement? But it was not against Maud that iiei mother's auger was directed. "Margaret!" she .said, in uu awful voice. "Margaret!" "Yes, aunt," replied Minnie. - "I -I hardly know how to uddiesn you you-you shameless girl. Ho you know what 1 have been told of you thli uflernoou? That a few evenings ago you were seen, after dark, lu a deserted street near here, walking arm-In arm w itli- villi a man!" "ignite true, aunt," answered Minnie, In a low voice. Her eyes Were bent upon the carpet. She was altogether very shame -fuced and confused. "And a strange mnu!" continued Aunt Agatha, her voice rising with Increased auger. "Yes. uunt. At least I had never seen him till t ill I picked up his pipe the I other day on the 1'ndergrouud." ! "Picked up his pipe?" Aunt Aga tha's voice had risen almost to a scream. "Is that the fellow? That counter jumper! A nice companion fur my niece to walk arm-in-arm with in the public streets." "I -did not t t tiiKC his arm," fal tered Minnie iu a slight ill-used tone, "until I I hud promised to marry him." "Promised to marry him!" Aunt Agatha's expression was now appall ing. "Mary him! Some common cud whose very name we don't kuow aud "I do know his name, aunt," inter posed Minnie. "What Is it, pray? Tom Jones or Jack Hoblnsou?" scoffed the elderly lady with an unparalleled effort at sar casm. "Not quite either, aunt It Is the Karl of Northover Charles Bidding's brother." So, you see, Charles owed his fortune to the earl, his brother. The earl owed his generous Impulse to Minnie. Aud Minnie owed her opportunity to the pipe. If you took the opinion of these three persons, adding Aunt Agatha and Maud, you would probably find them to concur In Minnie's original verdict upon the said pipe that it wag a regular clinker! London Truth. Can Never be One People. That the two hundred and eighty mil lion Inhabitants of the continent of In dia should ever become one nation is so wild an Improbability, and, even if possible, a matter of so many centur ies, that Its assumed realization cannot be made the basis of practical politics. Kngland and Ireland are au example of the slowness of growth of a common national sentiment In closely allied peo ples forming one state, aud the national unification of medieval Europe would have been a problem analagous to that of India to-day. For Latin then, as En glish now, in India was a common tongue for the educated classes, yet the former did not supplant, as the latter is now destroying, the popular language. Aud the ideal of a temporal head of Christendom in the holy Roman Empe ror, with its attendant aspirations, was a sentiment counteracting local or tribal feeling stronger than any that bus yet arisen In India from the superimposed authority of the Queen's Government, while there is nothing In India to corre spond with the religious unity of Eu rope under the Popes. For Hindoolsm and Islam show no signs of decay, ami the antagonism between their followers Is on t lie Increase. In the traditions of history, one of the most powerful elements of national sen timent, the pride of the one is the shame of the other. The Mussulman glories In Aurung.eb; the followers of Goblud Singh and SivaJl detest his memory. Intermarriage Is impossible, anil Is a sin even among the myriad tastes of Hindoos. There Is no histor ical example of such a miracle as the amalgamation Into one nation of Bitch a multitude of diverse elements, and If It Is to be effected the first steps have yet to be taken. Wet Hoots. When boots arc wet through, do not dry them by the fire. As soon as they are tuken off, till them qnlto full with dry oats. This grain will rapidly ab sorb every vestige of damp from wet leather. As it takes up the moisture, It swells and fills the boot like a tight ly fitting hist, keeping Its. form good, and drying the leather without harden ing it. In the morning shake out the oats and hang them In a bag near the fire to dry, ready for use on anoth er occasion. Coke as Fuel. Tests lu the use of coke as a fuel for locomotives In place of coal have been made by the Baltimore and Ohio Ball road on some of Its Virginia lines dur ing the -past few weeks, and have proved very successful. With the heaviest freight trains equally good results have been obtained from coke as from coal, with the great advantage of an avoidance of the smoke and cin ders attendant on the use of coal. Tobaeeo-O rowing State a. Tobacco la grown In rorty-two states and Terrltorlea, but nearly half the crop cornea from Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, North ' Carolina, Tennessee. Pennsylvania and Connecticut GOWNS AND GOWNING. WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. Ilrlef Glances at Fan fit feminine, Frivo lous, Mayhap, and Vet Offered In the Hope that the Reading: May Trove Uebtful to Wearied Womankind. Gossip from Gj Gotham. New York correspondenoe: EALI.Y fine figures should be as per fect in the lines of the back as In those In front and while a woman should not be blamed, per haps, if she is not pretty iu front, there is no excuse for her being any thing but graceful and attractive in the back of her. If she won't stand i well, the dressmak V W cannot help the Ifullness that ruins ill contour in front, but she can build up the correspond ing hollow In the lower back, aud the result Is a series of unimpeachable curves that incites the beholder to lias ten her steps, only to meet with disup polnlment lu the front view. The woman who is round shouldered is even harder to manage, but the crafty dressmaker seizes upon the blouse ef fects allowable now, and with a loose box pleat falling from just vhere the ugly curve at the shoulders begins an appearance of straightness is secured, while the closely fitted sides, and per haps a line or so given by a sttap or ribbon drawn from the snoudet to the waist at just the tight angle, complete the perfect back. The set out of the skirt from the waist in the back also assists In giving the needed out-curve where the figure lacks it The woman who has actually no end to her back, but whose clothes would slip to her heels with nothing to stop them, has an artificial waist line made by hooking up skirt to bodice, and by the outsweep of the folds of the skirt from this point. Other women are horridly short waisted in the back, without any curve to complete the back either, and they go on being wide and flat till the dressmaker is obliged to "draw the line." Such a woman usu ally lacks at the hips and Is the same all the way down both sides and back. She can be greatly Improved by a skirt very full on the band and by a bodice finished as in the first picture. Bight In the center of the waist line at the back the bodice fits down In a little point, while the roll of silk that edges It Is actually allowed to lift a little above the apparent waist line under the arms, setting down low again In front to do battle with ugliness there. The second figure shows a gown adapted to the woman whoso waist lldea down to ber heels. Note the value of the little upstanding bow, and observe the taper produced by 011 Ing the back at the ebonldr line and ! ( f: I AHA . f PI mmBJ- 1 I I i I 'M i I AJf 170I.Y BACK MADE SIGHTLY. mowt arracrs s above with insertions, and by redacts tlse to a narrowing series that enda under the bow lu a point This line of insertion may mask a "hump" at the shoulders, aud the two side insertions that stop at the shoulder line will fur ther suppress! protruding shoulder blades . Three big folds aud the sweep of a train supply the lack below the waist, and the unsightly back Is made entirely comely. These are the days when there Is lit tle that is startling! new, and when to make up for the lack of novelty, ex aggerations are freely Indulged In. Lace having been so long the vogue, is now fashionable only In avalanches and billows that threaten to swamp a whole costume, Including wearer. Big hats are larger than ever. Yards of drap- FOB TRAVELING OR THE STREET. ery are festooned about the biggest sleeves; If a gown is already covered with ribbon, one can safely put on more; four colors having blended Into acceptable harmony, a couple more may be added and the demands of the waning season be met. Skirts resist this tendency to highly wrought effecta with considerable success, but above the belt the standards are such that the batiste garniture appearing on the third pictured dress Is but moderately elab orate. It Is used upon a blouse of blue silk crepon having a gathered front and plain back. The yoke of embroidered and spangled batiste Is banded with dark blue satin, the collar and belt be ing of the same. Then there Is a double collar of the batiste deeply pointed at the edges, and fluffy chiffon rosettes set off the collar. Even traveling dresses are affected by the general demand for elaboration, though, of course, they escape the tidal wave of fluffy and other crusha ble dainties. Whatever may be said against overdoing the trimmings of dresses for ordinary use, there Is an advantage iu making the traveling rig ornamental, for it will then be also aer vlceable as a street dress. So, for once, a fashion has been set by wealthy wom en that can be copied by less fortunate ones, to the latter's 'advantage. Two A SECOND MODEL OK DOUBLE I'SK. examples of these jaunty costumes are presented in the remaining piiAires. The first is sketched In navy blue mo hair and is made with a very full and deeply ideated plain skirt Its bodice Is made of gathered taffeta shot with violet and blue, and is trimmed with mohair straps, three In back and front with shorter tabs at the tops of the latter, all studded with tiny steel but tons. The standing collar and belt are also of the mohair with button garni ture, and the sleeves, which have Im mense puffs and fitted cuffs, are of the same. Silver gray cashmere is the fabric of the second rig for Journeying, and, like the first, its skirt Is plain, and pleated with accurate nicety. Any sort of allk or shirt waist may be worn with this,' for the cape la heavy enough to furnish the necessary warmth. It Is made of alternate white aatln and gray cash mere bands and fastens with a gray strap piped with white. Its collar Is high and warm and Is also piped with white. rilny aays of a Roman gentleman whom he doea not name that be was able to repeat the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," the whole of the "Aeneld" and moat of the poems of Horace from memory'. J i -lift y
