Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, October 10, 1901, Image 6
m v.'v I nrryj . They drive home the cows from the ias ture, t'p through the long, ahady lane. Where the quail whistle loud in the wheat tit-las That are yellow with the ripening grain. They find In the thick, waving grasses Where the acarlel-lipiwd slrawtH-rry grows: They tattler the earliest snowdrop And the tlrst crimson buda of the rose. They toss the hay !n the meadow; They gather the elder hloom white: They find where the duaky grain's purple in the soft-tinted October light. They know where the apples hung ripest And are sweeter than Italy's wines; They know where the f-uit hangs the thlekmt On the thorny blackberry vines. They gather the delicate seaweeds And build tiny castles of sand: They pick up the beautiful sea shells Fairy barks that have drifted to land: They wave from the tall, rocking trte toua, "Where the oriole's hammock nest swings. And at tilght time are folded In slumber . By a song that a fond mother Kings. To those who toll bravely are strongest; Tlie bumble and poor become great; And from these brown-handed children Shall grow mighty ruftrs of state. The pen of the author and statesman The noble and wife of the land The sword and 'lie chisel and palette Shall be held in the little brown hands. ' -. ) J.-?. ' Whitened Hair, BY H. S. ROGERS. Copyright, 1901. by Dally Story Pub. Co.) Conductor Shaffer of No. 5 let him self down from the rear end of hi3 train as it came to a standstill. He cast an Inspecting glance along the line of cars and at first hardly noticed the white-haired man who came creep ing out from under the car near which he has standing. It was evident that the stranger had been stealing a ride, and he was dirty and begrimed; but In spite of the unattractive appearance of the man there was something un usual in his appearance that would cause anyone to look at him a second time. The skin had the pink tint and moothness of youth, yet the hair above the face was as white as winter now. The men looked at each other a moment and then the stranger turned quickly as if about to move way. Said Conductor Shaffer: "Joe Jordon, by thunder!" "Hoped you wouldn't know me, Bhaff." "I'd know you In the kingdom come, Joe. But, Lord, how you have changed!" Joe appeared a bit uneasy and moved from one foot to the other restlessly. "What you doing under that train?" "Riding the rods." "Prom vbere?" "Other end of the division." "Where were you going?" "Didn't know and didn't care. Just got but because I was getting cramped." "You are a regular bum, then?" "Yep, pretty much." "Just you get right in the smoker there and after I work the train I will come in and talk to you." After Conductor Shaffer had done his work he went forward and sat down by the side of the queer looking tramp. "Kind of getting up in the world some, ain't you. Shall?" "How?" "Kind of elevated from a freight run to this." "Yep, made up my mind three years (go that the old man on the I. N. and W. would never give me a chance, so ; took the first offer and transferred over here, Had not been acre six "Jot Jordoa, by tkoadsr!" aoatha utll I aot Ola paaasnger run. TOM mm to Im still m the alow McMt U yow llaa, Jo. What on sarth last hataanii to yoar hair?" "ir a afottr )ea story. Chaff, ma lm yea hart got time to Mate." "Twoatjr HUM to tha next stop," -TMO, yoa asa, tt la Uka thai. Shaft?, dw rmn ataoa I toon oat Not HANI V.v: ." ! .- one single person that I knew or that knew me in the old days has ever seen me or spokeu to me since then until I ran across you this morning. There was no one dependent upon me, and no one that cared, I guess. You know that I was running pretty strong with Mary Parr then for a tine, and al though she is married now " "What's that?" "Well, I ain't ashamed to say that I thought a lot of her and if things had gone differently may be I would have had a passenger run by this time. One evening Mary and I bad a little spat didn't amount to much, but we thought it did and that settled it. Then I heard that she was going with Henry Weber, a machinist at the shops, and so I kind of dropped out. Left the road and worked all over for a time. Then I got to traveling about a bit, and soon I was on the bum. You don't know how easily a fellow can drop into that, especially a feiiow that knows rail roading as I do. I have traveled all over these United States without a cent. It's hard lines some times, but I don't know but It la as good as any other if a fellow don't care what be comes of him. "About my white bead? Did you ever hear that a man's hair could turn gray in a night. I never took much stock in that, but here before you is a sample of what can ba dr.ae by fear. It was iu this way. I had b2a wandering down through the eastern states some three years ago, and one night I land ed at Lancaster, Pa. There was a young fellow hanging around the Pennsylvania road's water tank and we decided to travel together. It was warm even if it was late winter and we began nosing around the cars. The young fellow found a car door unsealed and called to me. We climbed in and found ourselves in a car loaded with bananas. It was pleasant enough and we found straw on top of the crates and made it a good place for sleeping. Before I went to sleep a brake-man came along and I heard him swearing because the banana car bad not baea Eeaied beore it left Newa X and then I jeanl him closing t'le door. It .lid not seem that I had been alseep very long when I was awakeued by my com panion. Said he: " 'There Is something In this car." " 'Of course there Is, said I, an3 about to fall asleep again. " 'It's something crawling. Don't you feel them?' "I did feel something on my hand and shook It off. Then I dug a match out of my pocket and struck It. That's where my hair began to turn white. The place was cwarmlng with gigantic spiders, I thought, but as the matcn flickered and flared I looked np at my companion. His face was deadly white and be hissed at me: " 'Tarantulas.' "Then I understood In an Instant. The horrible things bad been brought from some southern country In the bunches of bananas, A bite from any one of tha ugly creatures meant death. I could hear my companion's teeth chaptering and I knew that he was In an agony of fear. " 'What's to be done?' he gasped. " '8it perfectly still,' said 1. 'Don't more nor brush one of them off, even If It crawls on your face. Ha? you tha nre to do It?' " 'No, no. , My God. I shall ha Insane In a few minutes.' "I knew that he was tailing tha troth and felt that I also had tha asms to tear. Oar warm bod las probably at tracted tha creatures, because they ba lsa to crawl over us, and to this day t bars only to close my sysa and I eaa see' and 'teal those hairy lags and little claws creasing oa ay Bash, god-, vvai H I AMI wi7vY. denly my companion gave a scream and I i . i . 1 I .i u,ll ' uegan Dealing tue air anu iiguuug iui tarantulas. We were pressed so cloie to the roof of the car that we could scarcely move, and as I lay there not daring to even turn a hand or foot It was 'earful. The odor from the InsecU that he had crushed and from the ripa fruit was in itself overpowering, and It is not surprising that I soon became unconscious. And that no doubt saved my life and reason. "It was some time the next day when I awoke, and there was daylight in the car. I looked about and there was not a tarantula in sight. I called to my companion, but there was no an swer, and 1 was too weak to get over to him. After a time I heard people "Tarantula!" moving outside and made an outcry that attracted attention. At last the car was opened and I was released. I won't trouble you with all those de tails, but they fouad the body of my companion. It was swollen to horri ble size and a fearful thing to see. I lay in a hospital three weeks and whn I came out my hair was like It is now, although you know, Shaff, I am less than thirty." "I have had some darned queer stories told me, Joe Jordan, but that takes the cal e. Who told you that Mary Parr was married?" "Nobody; just knew it was all." "Well, you are the blamdest idiot That girl has Just been sitting around waiting for someone, and most people think it is you. My wife was saying to me only the other day that if Mary was pining for that Joe Jordan she better look out or she would end up an old maid, because the Lord only knew whether he was in the land of the liv ing." "Reckon most people would think she was losing time waiting around for an old whiteheaded tramp, Shaff." The queer looking tramp sat a long time watching the scenery rushing by, but it Is doubtful if he saw any of it. When the conductor came along the next time he looked up and remarked: "Say, Shaff. do you reckon I could get back on the old I. N. & W.?" ' " 'Ain't done nothing to queer your self, have you?" "Not that I know of." "Well, the old man always spoke mighty well of you, and if there U nothing doing for you on that road, I have got a pretty good pull over here myself. You drop off at heme with :ne, and we will see about Axing you up a bit before you tackle bira." Friederlcliftltof Is Jlcm. Frledorichshof, at Cronbcrg, the pal ace wherein the late Dowager Empress Frederick died, is one of the most beautiful country seats possessed by the royalty of Europe. It is natural, therefore, that envious eyes should be now cast at Princess Frederick Carl of Hesse because, by the will of her de ceased mother, sne comes into posses ion of this estate. It Is a spacious and sumptuously furnished palace, sur rounded by a magnificent park, set In some of the mont romantic country scenery In Germany. Upward of $1,000, 000 was spent by its recent occupant In improving house end grounds. The young princess who is soon to occupy it ig one of the sweetest-faced members of German royalty. She Is the fifth and youngest child of the late Empress Dowager, and was the favorite during the last few years of her life. She was born Apill 22. 1872, and was named Margarethe. Her marriage to Prince Frederick Carl of Hesse occurred In January, 1893, and she has thre sons. Some ISotttl I'lgaroa. I Statistics arc not very entertaining. but there are some stories of hotels that they alone can tell, and that of the supplies is one of them. For In stance, during the year 1900, one of those big hotels spent for meats, $200, 000; for poultry, $113,000; for vegeta bles, $80,000; for fruit, $42,000; for eggs, $12,000; for butter, $57,000, and for the Cowers used In decorations and there are flowers on tie tables every day $30,000. The initial Invest ment In silverware was $250,000, and with lossts that, charitably, are cred ited to the souvenir craze, and the gen eral wear and tear on table service, about $40,000 a year Is spent In keep ing this supply up to the hotel's stand ard. PrograM In Omu Travel. In 1840 the Cunard steamship Brit annia, built of wood, propelled by pad dle wheels, maintained a sea speed of about 8V knots. Her steam pressure was 12 pounds per Inch. She was 207 feet long, about 2,000 tons displace ment, her engines developed about 760-horse power, and her cost con sumption was about 40 tons a day, or shout Ave pounds of coal per Indicated bona power per day. She carried a full spread of sail la siity years speed has been Is creased from t knots to twenty-three knots; the time on tha Toy age has been reduced to about ono-lhird of what It was la ISM PUZZLING. He I do believe c ire would kill a She- Probably so, but a cat don't Faahlon'a ei Fad. "What is the nature of this new-' fangled malady which they call the 'golfing spine'?" "That," responded Cynicus, "U easy. 'Golfing tpine' Is what the old man used to have after a hard day's, plow ing, but he called It backache." New York Times. lie Kuld No More. Mr. Bender "Great Scott! Whr.n a woman goes out to get samples she spends half the day." Mrs. Bender "That is nothing! Why, I have known you to make a round of the sample rooms and spend half the night" Mrs. Eddy There is no matter; all Is mind. Learner Is money matter? Mrs. Eddy There is not matter. Learner Well, I have a million dol lars in my mind. Will you please cash me a check for a hundred thousand? Mrs. Eddy Yes. in my mind. Iearn er No matter, never mind. COULD i i I r-. .-v a S m a ,-sbv Jig.-iby I wish I had your nerve. Dlgsby What would you do then? Jigsby I wouldn't have to do anything. NOT KNOKill It HASH. "Yes, we've all ready the story about the man who picked up a pin cn the street and thus attracted the attention of a rich man," said the chap with the red necktie, "but things don't work that way In real life. I wanted to get solid with a railroad superin tendent and strike a conductorshlp. I knew at what hour to look for him at his oflice, al I was waiting for him one morning with a brass collar but ton In my fingers. As he approached I let the button tail, and as be came near I picked It up.", "Ah, young man, you have found something." he said as he halted. "Yes, sir. It U only a brass collar but tun, but I c.v-r ociIojk small things." "That's Is right. Keep that In mind and you will succeed. Are you out of work just now?" "Yes, sir?" I replied, with my heart In my mouth. "Then you might look for the mate to that button and so make a pair!" be said as he went upstairs. There Is an element of success In every man, but be seldom gels It In operation until some smart woman begins to tread on bis heels. Penn sylvania Orit. Hrlgbt Outlook. Silas "Hoow Is yeour son get tin' on at college?" Cyrus "First rate! He has mas tered French now an' he says he'll noon be able to get a Job as waiter an' understand the menu." la AiMrlca. "Are there, Indeed, so many eligible young woman In America?" asked the count. "There are countless thousands!" replied tha other. Detroit free Proas. Pictorial lrnimor cat tare. THE DIFFICULTY. "How do they expect me to lay when they have taken the china nest egg, the only thing In the world I had to measure by?" LIVE ON IT. LCOK HE AH, He With we wuz sardines, lovey!" She Why, dovcy? He 'Cause den we might be packed In de snmo can! Ilrothtrljr AwilalHii.'. Rodrick "They say that Weaker was held up by masked men the other Dlght." Van Albert "Yes, It was at the mas querade ball. If they hadn't held blm op he'd nerer got home." !' Her Own Principle. "t thought she was a temperance ad Tocate." "She Is." Ah, but how she Intoxicates with bar smiles.". men Iltg KXEW WHAT TO TASK. "Now do you understand? You arc to attract the farmer and bis wife to the front of the bouse and give me a clear field." "Ye. I'll round the front door and groan and get 'em downstairs while you break in the back way." "Yes. that's right. Tell 'em you're verv HI." "But can I hold 'em long enough for you to ransack the house?" "I'm not going to ransack the house. All I want is time to get Into the cel lar." "3ut ain't you going to get their money?" "Money! Of course not. I'm after their potatoes." Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' An Knviaula Reputation. Fair Teacher "So you wish to bring a little comrade to Sunday school Has he a good reputation?" Pupil "Good? Why. say, ioidy, da! kid kin knock any feller in de ward an' he's de best all-roun' ball playet on de lot." YK CANDIO FHIKNII. Scribbler "I wish I knew whethor the editors read my poetry or send it back without looking at It." Friend "They don't read It," "You think bo bwtiuee they alwayn decline it?" "Hecause they alwjyg d c'lne It 'with thanks.'" Her View of It. 1 "Yes," taid the girl In blue, "she protested vigorously, and stlil bs kissed her." "Now, doesn't that just Bhow the luck that some girls have?" nuked the girl in white. "I've tried it twice and I lost the kiss both times." Ilobtou Traveler. Tim M'ajr of omen. , "There is one thing about modern society that puzzles me," said the phil osopher. "What's that?" "The older women are all th time anxious to get in; the young and pret ty oneg want to come out." Sniarl Set. "Sponger says ho can drink any number of cocktails." "Any given number, you mean," Life. BLACK GAL." Took I'll on film. "Are you any relation to my sltxor?" Ho blushed and stammered until the young Udy. taking pity on him, solved the matter by saying: "No; but you'd like to be, wouldn't you, Alfred?" Hon ton Traveler. ( hMtawl Again. Optimist "Well, old man, did you enjoy Rnrope?" Pessimist "No; I wasn't dlssp pointed In half as many things as I ejected to be disappointed In.' -.4 J. S "...