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?BiMlB'r n?JT .rKKWW11? r' 'n,B(B?wgTw','"lf, 'agrrj -i V ' W ( 'J The Commoner. 9 ) The Home Department. Recked in the Cradle of the Deep. (By Emma C. Willard.) Rocked In the cradle of the deqp I lay mo down in peace to sleep; Secure I rest upon the wave, For thou, O Lord I hast power to save. r know thou wilt not slight my call, For thou dost mark the sparrow's fall; And calm and peaceful shall I sleep, Rocked in the cradle of the dep. When fn the dead of night I lie And gaze upon the trackless sky, The star bespangled heavenly scroll, T.he boundless waters as they roll I feel thy wondrous power to save From perils of the stormy wave: Rocked in the cradle of the deep, I calmly rest and soundly sleep. And such the trust that still were mine Though stormy winds swept o'er the brine, Or though the tempest's fiery breath Roused me from sleep to wreck and death! In ocean cave, still safe with thee, The germ of immortality! And calm and peaceful shall I sleep, Rocked in the cradle of the deep. riiv Whites Experiment. "I don't think," said Mr. White, "that the hay crop ever promised so finely." " "Indeed!" said his wife, absently. "And if there isn't any fall In the price of fruit," he added, "our peach orchard is- going to net us a cool $100." As he spoke, he flung the homespun towel with which he had been wiping t- a- - 1 ignorance Blows out the eras and furnishes the newspapers with a jest and , an obituary notice. "Didn't I an honest plea, but it never brought a victim back to life. Those who let a cough run on, in ignorance 6f the danger, find no escape from the con sequences when the cough de velops into lung- trouble. The best time to kill a snake 3a in the egg. The best time to cure a :ough is when it starts. Ordinarily, a few doses of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery will cure a cough at the beginning. But even -when the cough, is deep seated, the lungs bleed and the , "body is wasted by emaciation, ,Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will in ninety-eight cases out of every hundred effect a perfect and permanent cure wMy husband had been coughing far years and people frankly told rae that he would go into con sumption," writes Mrs. John Shlreman, of No. 265 35th Places Chicago, 111. He had sttch terri ble couching- spells we not only grew much alarmed but looked for the bursting of a blood vessel or a hemorrhage at most any time. After three days' coughing he was toa weak ta cross the room. The doctor did him no good. I stated the case to a druggist, who handed me a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. My husbands recovery was remarkable. In three days after he began using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery he was up and around, and in two more day he went to work. Two bottles cured him." The Common Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 pages, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. . V, Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y. his hands over the back of the kitchen chair. "Oh, Gecrge, do hang up the towel," said Mrs. White. "The nail is just as near as the chair-back, and I have enough steps to take in the course of a day without waiting upon you." "You are always grumbling about something," said the young farmer, as he jerked the towel on to its nail. "There! does that suit you?" "Here is a letter from Cousin Dora, George," said Mrs. White, wisely avoiding the mooted question. "She wants to come here and board for a few weeks." "Well, let her come," said White. "It wont cost us a great deal, and a little extra money always counts up at the year's end." "But, George, I was thinking" "About what?" "Why, I am so hurried with the work, and there is so much to do-" "That is the perpetual burden of your song," said Mr. White, irritably. "Women do beat all for complaining." "Won't you hear me out?" said Mrs. White. "So I thought It would be a good plan to give Dora her board, If she would help me with the housework a little. It will accommodate her and it will accommodate me." "But it won't accommodate me!" said George White, cavalierly. "Real ly, Letty, you are getting absolutely lazy." Mrs. White crimsoned. "No one ever said that of me before," she said. "But just look at it," said the farm er. "Tell me of any other woman in the neighborhood who keeps a girl!' Why, they make a boast of doing their own- work' "They all have sisters, or" mothers, or grown-up- daughter Jfe"I have none." "Pshaw!" said White. "Ridiculous! Of course- you have to work. We all do, don't we? But your work doepu' amount to a row of pins. I don't know of anyone who has it easier than you do." "That's all that you know about it," said Letty, in a choked voice. "Write to Dora that we'll board her for $5 a week," said White, authori tatively "We must earn all the money we can while there is a chance. Make hay while the sun shines, eh? And r guess you'll manage to get along as. well as other people do, Letty. Now run upstairs into the garret, my dear, and get me my blue jean overalls. There's a good girl." Letty obeyed, but the tears were in her eyes, and a big, round ball was ris ing in her throat, and she could scarcely see the jean overalls, as they hung up high on one of the beams. As she reached up a loose board in the garret-floor tipped, her foot ran through on the laths and plaster be low, and, with a groan, she sank to the floor. The time passed on and George White grew tired of waiting. He shouted up. the garret stairway: "Look alive there, Letty! Do you mean to be all day?" But no answer came. He ran up stairs to find Letty lying senseless on the floor, with one leg broken, just above the ankle. "Now you'll have to get some one to do the work," said Letty, not with out a spice of malice, as she lay on the settee, with her poor ankle duly set and bandaged. "Not if T know it," said George White. "Hire a lazy woman who'll want a dollar and a half a week, and her board into the bargain, to do the work of this house? I guess not!" "But what are you going to do?" asked Letty. "To do it myself, to be sure. Half an hour every morning and half an J hour every ovenlng ought to bo enough to square up accounts." "Well," said Mrs. Whito, "I shall just like to see you do it" "Then you'll have your wish," said her husband. He rose early the next morning, and lighted the kitchen fire. "Pshaw!" aaid he, as ho piled on the sticks of wood, "what does a woman's work amount to, anyhow? What's the next lesson, Letty?" "I always skim the cream and strain the milk," said Letty, who, bolstered up- upon the lounge, was combing her hair with more deliberation than she had practiced for a year. "Well, here goes, then," said George. And a period of silence ensued. Presently he shouted: "I haven't got milk cans enough!" "Of course you haven't," said Letty. "You must scald out yesterday's. You know you said you couldn't set up a tin-shop when I asked you for a dozen more last month." "They smell like a fat-boiling fac tory," said George, disdainfully. "What aus 'em" "You should havo scalded them out last night" wishing she had wings like a dove, that she might soar into the milk-room and restore order out of chaos. "Here's a go!" said George. "There Isn't any hot water." "Oh, George, you've forgotten to put the kettle on." "So I did," said her husband. "And the sticks, hang 'era, are all burned out!." "You know I wanted you to get n ton of coal," said Letty, "but you said that as long as wood cost nothing but the chopping and hauling, wood it should be." "Have I got to wait for that water toi heat?" groaned George. "I don't know anything else for you to do," remarked Letty, drily. "Humph!" observed her lord and master. "What's for breakfast?" "Ham and eggs, I suppose." "Well I'm up to that part of the program, at least," said he, cheerfully. "Oh, pshaw! what is the use of keep ing your knives so sharp? I've nearly cut my thumb oft. Where do you keep the oatmeal? But it was a mortal hour before the milk was strained and the pigs fed, and by that time the house was blue with a sort of smudgy smoke. "Hullo!" shouted George, coming in. What's all this? is the house on fire?" "No," said Letty, calmly; "only the breakfast has burned up." George uttered a long sigh. "Who'd have; thought the fire was so hot?" said he. "What am I to do now?" "Cook another, I suppose," answered Letty. "And what next?" demanded George, fiercely tugging at his moustache. "Why set the table, and then clear it away and wash the dishes." "With, this cut finger?" complained the husband. "I was obliged to do It all the weeks I had the sore felon on my middle fin ger," remarked Letty. "The young turkeys andfogeese ought to have been let out and fed long before this; and the three calves in the barn-yard must be attended to. And then there are the kitchen and sitting-room to be swept and dusted, and the beds to make, and string-beans to be picked, and bread to bake, dfcU huckleberry pies to make, and your white vest to be Ironed and potatoes to be peeled, and the preserves to be scalded over, and the cheeses to be turned, and dinner to get, and the table to clear and the dishes to bo "washed " "Hold on!" cried George; "you have said that once." 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But, dear me, George, I am getting so hun gry! and I do not see the least signs of breakfast, George! Where are you going, George! ' I want my break fast!" For George had disappeared in the midst of her exordium. In twenty minutes or so he returned, and by his side trudged Mary Ann Pult, the nearest neighbor's twenty-year-old daughter. "I take it all back," said Mr. Whit.?. "I lower my colors, Letty. Your work is harder than mine, I'll be bleat if it ain't. Why, I couldn't take care of the milk and cream and cheeses for the wages a girl would ask. I never realized how much a woman has to do." "Are you quite sure you realize it now?" said Letty, mischievously. "Well, I've got a pretty fair idea on the subject," nodded George. "But you should be here on wash day," said Letty, "or on ironing day, or on the days when we chop sausags meat, or make soft soap, or " "Stop, stop!" shouted George. "If you say another word, I'll go for Ma hala Blinks, too. Haven't I said that I take it all back? What more wo.uld you have?" "Wal, squire," said Mary Ann, who had by this time removed her hat and shawl, "what'll I do first?" "Do!" echoed Mr. White. "Do ev erything, and let me get oft to the hay field as fast as I can." "Jes' as your orders is," said Mary Annf "And I say, Letty!" he added. "Yes, George." "Write to your cousin Dora. Toll (Continued on Page Twelve.) Or. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. A quick, safe, and sure relief for siek or nor vcras Headache, Backache, Stomach Fnins, Neuralgia, Nervousness, Irritability, SleepJaas ncss, Rheumatism, Sciatica. Contain no oninra or morphine, and leave no bad after-effects, 5 doses 22c. At druggists. ,'l I rv m i i