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Rock Island
Ss Pacific Rr.
Gives you the choice of Two Routes, one
via COLORADO and the SCENIC
LINE, and the other via our TEXAS
LINE and the SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Our Texas line is much quicker than
vny other line through to
SOUTHERN. CALIFORNIA
for
P1ULY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS
The Plillllpai'
Rook Island Exour
Ions
Are the most popular, and carry the
argeet business of any other California
Route. This signifies that you get the
beet attention and receive the best ser
vice. The lowest rate tickets to California
are available on these excursions.
Don't start on a trip to California un
til you get our Tourist Polder, contain
ing map showing routes and all informa
tion. For rates and reservations appl
to and agent of the C. R. I. & P. Ry., o
address
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
General Passenger Agent,
41 Chicago ,111.
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Is the BEST to reach the
NEW GOLD FIELDS in the
BLACK HILLS, i
Call at office for valuable
information.
A. S. Fielding,
City Ticket Agt,.
117 So. 10th St., Lincoln, Neb.
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SHORT STORIES.
W e caught the
AN EASTER drone of it a mile
away a shrill high-
FUNERAL keyed ullullation,
swelling and falling.
as the train of three hundred mourners,
wound slowly underneath richly budded
boughs. Spring was toward. Though
Easter fell early, woods were in tascel,
orchard trees a-bloom, garden ways
flecked and splotched with white and
purple and scarlet and gold.
"Sis Charlotte's Viny sho' would be
proud, ef she could see all dis crowd
come ter her funul," Black Mammy
said, as the bearers liftoJ from the
wagon a stained pine coffin, pitifully
slim. "She had high notions dat gal
did. Doctor he say she bound ter die
Monday night, but she up an lib tell
Sat'dy, so she kin be bu'ied dis Easter
Sunday."'
'-De breddren an' slstern kin come
forrard, an' take de las' look at our
sister, who is done 'ceaseted dis life.'
They came in a stream, weeping,
moaning, writhing, dropping big tears
within the open coffin. The dead girl's
mother, standing at the foot, kept up a
low keening, wrung her hands and
rocked back and forth. She seamed
heedless of everything, until a white girl
appeared, with her arms full of early
flowers.
She was near dead Viny's age, and
under the old order would have been
her young mistress; under the new
they had been the friendliest playmatee.
She knelt beside the coffin, to lay the
flowers within it, but stopped, perplexed
by that which met her eye. As she
hesitated Aunt Charlotte whispered
loudly:
"Miss Ma'y, please matin, don't tetch
dat bottay in Viny's han' hit's de flowerB
whar wus on de new hat, she nebber
libbed ter wa'a'. You kin put dat
gyarden truck at her head, an' foots
hit gwine wither long "fore de Jedgemenl
day an' de ve'y las' thing my po' gal
say ter me wus: "Mammy, bury me so
't when I rises, I kin rise in 6tyle.' "
Notwithstanding Miss Mary's Emoth
ered laugh as she obeyed, her tears fell
when the heard the clods rattle upon
the coffin.
"Something new
AN EASTER worn Easter day will
give you luck in love
CHARM. the whole year
through."
The choir boys were singing like
larks in a passion of joy. The words that
soared and swayed in the lily-scented
air were of souls "that reunited, nothing
henceforth could divide," bnt Nora,
sitting with 6trained, sad eyes, heard
only the idle words that her mistress had
said, giving her the bit of pleated tullo
and ribbon that encircled her neck this
morning.
Luck in love for a year? Ah, that was
better than the pale promise of some fcr
off attainment of a heart's desire! To win
Dan back again back from the Quinlan
girl of the black brows and the bold
glances! Could the pleated trifle work
that marvel that miracle which se
cret teais of agony and open smiles that
wrung her heart and pleadings and
prayers had fai'ed to work?
The blood ran rosily beneath Nora's
dull, freckled 6kin at the thought, and a
shaft of sunl'ght, stabbing a saint in the
great eastern window, played in go!d
about her dull hair for a second. Luck
in love for a 3 car? Theu a ray.
piercing some blood red robe, fell upon
the fore h. ad of ancther girl, and Nora's
eves followed the red influx. It was the
Quinlan girl, and Dan knelt by her side.
In Nora's besom the fluttering heart was
suddenly st'lled to a liimp of ice. Her
fingers clutched at the collar that
strangled her. But feeling it and re
membering the work it was to do, her
band fell away. And the carolling of
the boys, the whiteness of the lilies
marshalled in radiant rows before the
altar, the beams of brightness in the
church, all became mingled in her
mind in one blind passionata appeal for
"lucky in lave."
The people were filing decorously out;
the organ was playing a jub'.lant po3t
lude; the doorp, held open, let in the
morning freshness upon the flowering
chancel. Nora placed herself in the
slow-moving mau, where the new frill
must smite the recreant Dan's ejes and
stir his heart. And as her feet struck
the stone steps without and she
broathed the scentless morning air, she
heard the hated voice of the Quinlan
girl.
"D'ye mind Nora Haggity's collar this
marnin'?" it said.
"Sure, it's the quare Iookin' ould
rag," commented Dan. indifferently.
She sat. miserably
AN EASTER in the angle of tho L"'
entrance, old. tired
LILY. cold, ghastly with the
pallor of the poor.
He came swinging along the sidewalk
young, vigorous.iwarm, comfortable with
the content of tho well-to-do.
ilis oje al'ghted on the old woman
just as she rose. In the gutter lay a
handful of Easter lilies.half faded, prob
ably thrown aside from some church
or window decoration in favor of a
fresher bunch.
She picked the flowers from where
tbey lay and resumed her seat on the
steps. When the young man passed she
looked up at him so wistfully that the
cigar he smoked changed from tho deli
cate satisfying thing it was to a rank re
minder that its cost would buy such a
creature as this her dinner.
She cast her eyes down again wher
she offered him the flowers and mur
mured a pitiful, foreign, broken plea
that he purchase them. She knew he
had no use for the flowers; that they
were soiled and drooping, and that even
if he had not seen her pick them from
the street he could not but Eee through
the beggar's subterfue. He felt the
pathos of the fraud and paid for the
faded flowers and went on his way, sat
isfied with his quatter's worth of self-approval.
The flowers he threw away as
Eoon as he was around the corner.
Hours afterward ho repassed the spot.
She was there still, and tho memory of
the morning's episode had not faded
from his mind. As he approached he
saw her rise stiffly and pick a faded
bunch of lilies from the gutter, and
when he pas&ed she looked up wistfully
and then down with the same shame for
the Bame poor wares she had shown in
the morning.
"I wonder how much that graft has
netted her today?'' mused the young
man.
TWO CHILDREN As old Ber
lin, the build
OF STEAM. er, climbed in
to tbe car he
caught a glimpse of Pat Do:g3n, splen
did in his gray Sunday suit and scarlet
neckscarf, running after it hot-foot. Eer
lin checked the car. He always stood
on the platform, 6waying uncomfortably
with the motion, because the young
men stood there. " I aint young," says
Berlin, "but I can match the best of "em
working. And I don't look bald with
my hat on yet."
He was a tall, lean man, in black
clothes almost as shabby es they were
neat. He had a long, mild, sallow face,
tufted with gray at the chin, and a pen
sive eje, which lightened when Durgan
Bwung himself on the step.
The young fellow was good to eee in
his youth and strength and raidian
cleanliness. "I've something particu-l
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Actual tint traveling.
31 hours to Salt Lake.
Gl hours to San Francisco.
GS hours to Portland.
77 hours to Los Angeles.
FROM
LlNGOfc-N, NEB.
City office, MM O street.
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Worth of millinery i
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at one quarter the regu-
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W.WILLI AMS.II
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Xfist Time,
Tl-aovigl Cars.
To Omaha, Chicago, and points in
Iowa and Illinois, the UNION PACIFIC
in connection with the C. & N. W. Ry.
offers the best service and tho fastest
time. Call or write to me for time cards
rates etc. E. B. Slosso.v,
Gen. Agent.
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You will find Hartshorn's former 2j
upholsterer at 231 so. 1 1th street.
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as Eome people siy that
"a pleased passenger is a
ra'lrrad's best advertise
ment!" To all noints east, west,
north and south, the Bur
lington has well equipped
and unnaralleled service.
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