The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, March 03, 1893, Image 3
“BEING DEAD, YET 8PEAKETH." He wiisftwml and body fitly blended Am# vdln : spirit in lt«giant frame. And now they nay IiIm worda and deeds are erdc d. And Phillips Brook© in nothing but a name. But words hO anoken do not eeust* In saying. The deeds ho done act on forevermore. Life and the rippled |m»o1, on© law obeying. Are Ktirred from » enter to the farthest shore, j -YYulter Storm Bigelow. A YANKEE COUBTING. y If any out* was better known than an other for miles around the village of Conway, it was Deacon Harding, the pil lar of the Methodist church and the strictest selectman the New Hampshire village had ever known. He had never married, and some folks said he was too mean, and that all bethought about was putting up a goodly share of this world’s goods to his credit in order that he might make better provision for the commodi ties of the next. But then people will calk. It was therefore a matter of consid erable speculation among his neighbors when the deacon was seen to stop occa sionally at the Widow Martin’s cottage, and many and varied were the conjec tures about the outcome. The widow was plump, rosy cheeked and good na tural, and her dear departed having left her more than two years before she was, as she believed herself, fully qualified to bo considered among the eligibles of the little world in which she lived. She had heard (what woman does not?) of her neighbors’ talk about her. but being of that happy disposition which does not heed the stories Damo Rumor occasion ally circulates she kept on her way re gardless of all the gossips said. ine widows cottage was an inviting spot when the snow lay piled up in great masses in the roadways and on the moun tain sides and the mercury was away be low zero. A bright light always shown from the window's while the hickory logs crackled and sputtered in the wide, open fireplace. Everything about the place was so neat, clean and wholesome look ing that one felt at home the moment he crossed the threshold. At least that is what Deacon Hardin thought as he came in sight of the cozy home of the widow while on his way to a meeting of the town board. The deacon was feeling cold and out of sorts generally, and somehow his ideas had been traveling for weeks past in a direction decidedly singular for such a confirmed bachelor as he. All ap peared to lead up to one object, and that was the Widow Martin. The deacon w'as getting on dangerous ground, hut he didn’t seem to know it. He had al ways said there w'asn’t a woman who could catch him. He had lived sg long without one that he was not going to be taken in by any of them at his time of life. Not he, and he grew several inches higher every time he hugged this conso lation to his breast. But this particular evening he was unaccountably lonely and disspirited. Everybody who was anybody in Con way was full of rest and cheer and just brimful of happiness. The spirit of the holidays was everywhere, but the deacon was alone. There was no one to welcome him, no one to greet him at his home, except, perhaps, his old housekeeper,who was deaf and ill tempered enough to sour the biggest cask of cider in his cellar. It was no wonder, then, that as he reached the Widow Martin’s cottage he determined to stop just for a chat with her and to W'arm himself before going to the meeting. That was all. If he had been told there was anything else on his mind, he would have thought the sugges tion ridiculous. The widow heard the deacon’s buckboard stop—in fact, she had seen him coming up the road—and there had been a hasty glance over the room, and just a peep in the looking glass on the mantel to see if everything was in order, long before the deacon’s voice was heard on the frosty air and the wheels had ceased to revolve in front of the cottage. By the time he had blanketed and covered his horse and led him to the shed out of the cold blasts that swept down the hillsides and across the valley the widow had the door open and was waiting for her visitor. “1 just thought I’d stop a minute, Mrs. Martin, to warm up, for it’s powerful cold out this afternoon,” said the deacon, stamping his feet to shake the snow from his boots before entering. ‘Tm real glad to see you, deacon. Come right in and sit down by the fire." In a few moments Deacon Harding had removed his heavy coat and thick gloves and was comfortably seated on one side of the broad fireplace, while the widow was rocking herself gently to and fro at the other. xxa ins guuu icu-n/ci uiticaocu iuo uca con kept looking over at the widow. What a nice, pleasant little woman she was, to be su/e, and she was pretty, too —there was no mistake about that! He sat there enjoying his novel sensations without speaking for a long time. Surely there was something the matter with him this winter’s eve. He was usu ally able to talk about something wher ever he was, but now he couldn’t say a word if his life depended on it, though he tried desperately several times to start a conversation. And the widow sat there apparently entirely unconscious, with her mind seemingly fixed upon some trifle she was sewing. Did she have an idea of what was pass ing in her visitor’s mind? Of course not. Women are such dear, innocent crea tures, especially widows. The deacon grew restless as the minutes passed swift ly by, and finally, as if the heat was too great, he got up and moved away from the fire. Somehow, when he settled down again, liis chair was much nearer the widow, but she didn’t seem tc notice the change and kept on sewing. “It’s powerful cold today, Mrs. Mar tin. There’ll be a heavy frost tonight, I reckon,” remarked the deacon, finding his speech at last. “Do tell, deacon,” replied the widow, shuddering, “but don’t you think you’ll get chilled if you sit so far from the fire? Do draw up closer and get warm; you’ve got quite a w>yto go to town, and you must take care of yourself in such terri ble weather.” “Yes, ma’am, it be chilly, that’s a fact. I think I will move np a piece to the fire.” “How kind she is!” the deacon kept re peating to himself as he edged nearer toward the blazing logs and at the same time drew closer to the rocker, where the widow still sat sewing. “I saw yoh at church last Sunday. Mrs. Martin. The minister preached a powerful sermon, didn’t he?” remarked the deacon after another long interval. “Yes, deacon, and it did uio a power of good too." “I'm re al glad to hear you say that. Mrs. Martin,” exclaimed the deacon. His face fairly beamed with delight, while if the truth must be told he abso lutely chuckled and rubbed his hands on his knees as if something had happened with which he was immensely delighted. “Do you recall what the parson preached about?” It must have been the heat from the burning logs that caused the widow’s cheeks to blush so. Sho couldn’t even look up from her sewing as she replied: “Well, come to think of it, deacon, I think it was about weddings and such things, but I ain’t quite sure, for I didn't pay much attention, I'm afraid, to that ] part of the discourse.” The chairs were getting very close. “That’s it, that’s it,” cried the deacon, bringing his hands down upon his knees with a slap that startled the canary from his perch and set the widow’s heart beat ing furiously. “That's it. And don’t you remember where he said that it wasn’t good for man to live alone? I think he told the truth, don’t you?” The chairs touched now. The deacon was absent from the town meeting that evening. When the villagers assembled at church next day, they saw a little woman sitting beside Deacon Harding. It was the Widow Martin. She was wedded to the deacon, for the parson had said it wasn’t good for man to be alone.—B. A. MacDonald in Buffalo Express. Saved by a Prayer. In a small village not far from New York I was sent by my parents to spend a few weeks with an aunt of my father’s. I had not been at her home long when one evening as we were preparing to re tire for the night inv aunt discovered that we were not alone in the room. She had noticed a slight noise and upon close inspection discovered a man hid in a closet. She knelt in silence a few mo ments; then in a loud voice she asked God to protect the stranger, whoever he might he, to keep him from the evil he intended to commit, to bless and lead him to better ways. She had barely finished when he came from his hiding place and addressed her, saying: "Madam, you have taught me a lesson 1 shall never forget. My mother taught me to pray just as you hav.e prayed tonight when I was but a little child,” and with thes9 words he left us, and we have never seen him since.—Cor. New York Press. In Two liig Cities. The average man who makes the trip to Brooklyn by the bridge cars conducts himself very differently at the two ends of the lire. On the New York side he manifests the utmost eagerness to lose no time. IIo rushes up the station steps, crowds upon the first car lie comes to, and the® dashes for a seat, as if his hopes of happiness depended upon his speed. When ho gets to the Brooklyn end of the bridge, however, he has more time. He walks away from the cars as if he had no further reason to hurry. Instead of fight ing for a first place on the stairways, he loiters along as if he wanted to end the procession. A Brooklyn philosopher ac counts for the phenomenon on the ground that everybody is inclined to be happy jn his town and is too well content to hurry.—New York Times. Australians Mad A ft A Pleasure. It is strange that in the midst of plenty there should be any scarcity felt here, and there is really no need for it, for the land is unlimited, only waiting to be scratched to yield an abundant harvest. The curse of this fair land is the unwill ingness of the people to leave the big towns and go up into the bush and com pel by Work nature to bring forth her bountiful increase. Town life is the attraction here, and the people will have pleasure if they die. When prosperity prevails, people live as if its sun would never set. All seem to be aping the class above them. At one of Lady Hopetoun’s receptions there pre sented themselves 1,700 people. Many ladies met their cooks there.—Melbourne Cor. London News. A Mighty Man. Topliam, the prince of English strong men, had knots of muscles where the armpits are in the ordinary man. He could tatre a bar of iron 14 inches in di ameter and 5 feet long, place the middle of it over the back of his neck and then force the ends forward until they met before his face. On one occasion he called »pon a village blacksmith and made of him an everlasting enemy by picking np a number of horseshoes and snapping them in two as easily as if they had been pine sticks.—St. Louis Repub lic. People Who Work While Asleep. Not content with doing their duty throughout the day and when they are awake, there seem to be some people who are not content unless they keep themselves employed while they are asleep. Not infrequently individuals have projected and carried to a success ful issue projects which they were quite incapable of tackling when awake—no doubt because they couldn't, even if they wished to, dream of doing them unless asleep.—Boston Globe. London's Parks. The open spaces in London, without reckoning the disused burial grounds, extend to 5,449 acres. Besides there are open spaces on its borders which bring np the total of parks accessible to Lon doners to 22,000 acres.—Pall Mall Ga zette. Crinoline to be or not to Be. All. (ii-mge Al. lirrker, Democratic mi in tier 11 oiii 1 lennepiii c unity, in u Inch Ai nun ..p.i i- i--limited, caused a I mi.-aim.. 111 li • AIiiuu-miI.i I legislature, on Fchruarv 3d, i.y mi i ..due.ng a hill pn.hlbiling (In mai.iitaellire >i|- sale id urilimiiie. I'iie hill in hid is as follows: fsRC. I—li si.al he ohlawt ill lor any person lo niuniilaeltin or sell, or offer ior sale, or use, or |.. rum to miniilact IIre, sale or use ol an\ lioopskirt or limipskirts, or anwlitng like lliereunto, within the limit- ol Mlnneso'a SkC 3—Any person violating this net, or hi any wav assisting the viola tion id an;, i rovi-ion- of this act shall he punished by a fine of not. less than $5 or more than $lf5 for each offense, and shall he imprisoned in tin- County jail for a period nut exceeding 30 days. The vexed controversy concerning ciinnlinc, which has been raging in the papers nf late, is due to the dearth of Fashion news lather that actual facts. Whilst newspaper fashion writers have busied them-elves discussing the appal ling consequences of tile revival of the lioopskirt in Paris and whilst the influ enee of the Princess of Wales has been appealed to to stand as a barrier against, this coming threatening event, the leading dressmaking houses of the French capita) have not yet made a single crinoline for any of their eus tumers. All there is to be said on this subject is that the several pretty novel models of skirts coming from Paris are as a general rule flat around the waist with considerable fullness at the bottom. In order lo thoroughly comprehend the actual tendency of Fashion and to get models of these stylish skirts, one must consult the McDowell Fashion Maga zines: La Mode de Paris and Paris Album of Fashion are invaluable to dressmakers and sell at $3.50 a year, 35 cents a copy. TJte French Dress maker, $3 00 per yar, or 40 cents per copy, is noted for its practical styles. La Alode, $1.50 per year, or 15 cents a moot!), is the Family Fa-hion Journal, par excellence. You can subscribe at your newsdealer or by applying directly to the publishers, A. McDowell & Co., 4 West 14th street, N. Y. City. — LITERARY NOTE. No fiction in the world is more fas cinating or more powerful than that of Russia. This fact is made apparent in the current issue of Romance, the sev enth of its notable series of special numbers, and specifically devoted to Russian short stories. Nearly half of its contents relate to this remarkable country, and are from the pens of such writers as Tourgueneff, Tolstoi, Pouch kine and “Stepniak.” There are also beautiful stories of England and. Ameri ca by some of the best authors, among whom are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tom P. Morgan, Caroline A. Creevey and Clyde Fitch. Uncommon interest attaches to a recently discovered tale by John G. Whittier, and also to the striking newspaper story, “The Great Journal Beat,” by Rhodes MeKnight. The readers of this charming magazine will not be surprised to learn the fact, which has come out since his death, that Phillips Brooks was a regular read er and warm admirer of Romance. The magazine is issued by Romance Publish ing Company, Clinton Hall, Astor Place, New York, at 25 cents a num ber; subscription, $2.50 a year. The March number of “Tales from Town Topics,-’ which is No. 7 of the scries, shows no abatement of vivacious interest, and the new prize novellette that starts off the volume, entitled “The Cousin of the King,” written by Adrian Shade Van Westrum, is a par ticularly thrilling and successful piece of fiction. It is the story of a foreign adventurer, who attempts to win the the hand of a rich American heiress, but is balked in the game just on the eve of victory. The tale is one of moving interest, and is marked by strong character drawing and dramatic action. The collection of short stories, sketches, poems and witticisms is as sparkling and spicy as one could wish. Altogether, “Tales from Town Topics” No. 7 is a readable and clever book that all smart people must enjoy.— Town Topics, 21 West Twenty-third street, New York. To Our Advertisers. You are entitled to have your display advertisements changed once a month at the regular price. Changes more frequent will be charged extra accord ing to the amount of composition. Local advertisements may be changed every week at usual price. Copy for new advertisements and for changes of regular advertisements must be in this office by Wednesday of each week to insure prompt insertion. Notice of discontinuance of any dis play advertisement must be given not iater than Wednesday. Local adver tisements may be discontinued at any time before Thursday evening. A strict observance of these necessary rules is respectfully requested. The Publisher. January 1, 893. WANTED. 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