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The Pilot's Story.
'She was as trim a litt'e craft a ever
I eee,' said the pilot "With her hair all
fluffy and blowin' in th' breezo and a
trustful way of lookin' at ye out of her
big brown eyes, that would melt the
heart of a pirate; why, she hadn't been
aboard two days 'till she was pop'Jar
with th' hull crew even the deck ban's
used to draw back respectful like when
.the first mate took her below to see the
propeller shaft driving th big Bide-
wheels, and our second mate why I'll
be blowed if he didn't swear at the
'roustabouts in a whisper when the gang
.plank was run out at a landing. You'd
a laughed to hear him yell, 'Haul ay!
haul ay there! Steady now! Heave to
'there! Heave away! Slack that line, I
'say!' with never an oath, and he told me
-afterwards be never struck one of the
'niggers with his club all one day 'till he
said he was afraid he'd get to be a mU-r
sionary or something, and went back
,and basted thtm a few times while they
'were putting lime into the hold.
"As I said, she was a general fivorif,
but th' second day she begun to be un-
easy -like and ask about th landin's, and
where we expected to tie up next, and
how long, and then Ehe'd stand on the
deck and watch everybody that came
aboard, 'peared as though she was ex
pectin' Bome one, and sure enough th'
third morning about 8 o'clock we made
another landin' and the slickest feller
you ever sse walked up the gangway and
registered as a paEsangei. She didu't
see him until he stood in front of her,
and then she gave a little smothered
scream and went up to him and took
both his hands. They spet.t nearly all
day in the pilot house that's alvays a
gjeat place for spooney couples on a
steamboat, anyway. I was at the wheel
and didn't pay no attention to 'em
kind of got in the habit, you know, of
being deaf and blind in such case, but
I sized them up before they had been
there an hour, and I saw just how it
'was, and I was sorry for her because 1
had got to like her unusual. I had
spotted him by his eyes, though he was
the most genteel chap I ever see. Sha
was runnin away from her pa and her
ma with this feller. He had put her
aboard and then gone fa'ther up river
by rail and there took th' boat himself.
I felt like warning ner but the feller
was fo genteel looking and so well
. dreE6ed, and then I know'd it would be
.no use.
"Abjut three o'clock in the afternoon
we passed a small landing on the right
.bank where we nist" alius stopped, but
hid no fieightfor it and no woid of any
passengers. te we plowed along -in
mid stream we could see four men
standin on the landing half a mile away
- waiving their hats like they wanted us
to stop; when they saw us go by they
got into a skiff and rowed for dear life
and came alongside callin'for a rope; we
" stopped the wheels and took them
aboard; th' feller and th' girl had
walked out afore of the pilot house to
th' front of the upper deck, and, when
the men come within hailin' distance, th
girl screamed and they both run back
into the pilot houee, th' feller beggln
me tihidd em away some place, but I
iust laughed at him. There was no
place to hide, anyway, and I was glad of
it. By this time the whole boat was in
an uproar, a great noise below; then we
heard: men coming up the ladders. Th'
feller was tsr'bly excited and I thought
the giri'd faint, but she was plucky and
the Ipver 'round th' neck and waited,
crouched down in a corner. Pretty soon
we heard th' noise of feet on th' sheet
jron roof and then somebody called out,
'There they are,' The four men run up
to th' dcor and did'nt say a word; the
-joungeet ones just collared that feller
and th' old man and th' other one set
do n and held th' girl between them
:it was th' girl's father and her three
brothers; th' two with the feller carried
him to th' eJge of th' upper deck there
was ayell and a splnsh and then a c-y
below among th' deck ban's of 'man
overboard'. The girl just writhed and
screamed and said she would jump in
the liver with him, but they held her
down and th' roustabouts threw a rope
to th feller in th water and dragged
him on deck drippiug wet, to be sure,
but genteel looking for all that. The
cap'n put him under guard below to
keep th' girl's brothers offn him, and be
sat shivering in his wet clothes 'till we
made the next landin', when he give th'
cab'n boy his measure and sent him out
to buy some dry clothes and the best
suit in the town. I wondered how he'd
jook in a ready-made suit, he was such
a dandy tall and 'bout as slim as that
oar over there. When the boy came
back with the clothes th'. feller looked
at the suit and said it was the right
ueasure; then he went up to a state
room, still under guard to keep th girl's
brothers off and put on bis nex suit.
Well, 6ir, th minute I saw him I knew
how it was. I told the cap'n, and he got
th' girl's father to let her come down
and see her lover. We'd, she comes
down all tears and trembling, but when
she saw that feller in th' other suit, do
you suppose she'd look at him? No, sir;
went back on him flat right there, and
cool as anything. I knew it, simply a
case of clothes, that was all; what she
thought was love was nothing but
clothes that feller wasn't tit for fish
bait without his swell suit, and I ju3t
walked over and got the wet duds, and
blow me if they wasn't ready-made too
think of it that feller, slim as a rail
and t30 swell for anything how he ever
got a suit of clothes to tit him was more
than I could tell; but a Lincoln man on
board said they was a suit of the cele
brated 'Slims sold by Paine & Warfel,
the big clothin feller, anl that just
etartsd me to moralizin a bit. When a
measley lubbjr with snaky ea and
slim as a post, and no more moral char
acter than,a mutkrat, can pass himself
off for a gentleman by wearin" a certain
brand of store clothes and win ths inno
cent heart of the prettiest girl oa th'
hull length of th' Mississippi, simply on
th'iet of his coat and the hang of h;s
pantaloons, I say there ought to be a
law agin' it, and blast my eyes if ever 1
go to Lincoln if I don't look up that
Paine fc Warfel and tell them in good
steamboat English what I think of them
and their high-toned 'Slims,' you kin
smother me with a tarpaulin."
Say boys, jou see hoar fat I am; well,
that Lincoln man saia that they had
suits that 'ud make roe look just as
peart ts that snakey-eyed feller did
afore he had the duckin'." They are the
H. S. & 31. brand.
MRS INA DILLON TABER.
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Pupil of Signor Gedeoni Olivieri, the
teacher of Emma Eames, Emma
Calve, Jean and Edward. De Reske and
Jean Lasalle. For terms and particu
lars address Mrs. Ina Taber, 673 Boy,
stjn Street, Boston, Mus3.
SHERIFF SALE. .
(Fir3t publication September 38.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
by virtue of an order of sale issued by
he clerk of the district court of the
Third' Judicial district of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in an
action wherein Seaburg L. Sears is
plaintiff, and Nils Blomstrom et al.. de
fendant, I will, at 2 o'clock p. m.. on tbe
19th day of October, A. D. 1897, at the
east door of the court house, in the city
e-f Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska,
offer for sale at public auction the fol
lowing described lands and tenements,
to-wit:
The northeast quarter of section nine
(9), in township twelve (12), north, range
seven (7), east of tne sixth principal me
ridian, in Lancaster county, Nebraska.
Given under my hand this IGth day
of September, A. D. 1897.
John J. Troupes,
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(First Publication September 25 )
New England Loan fc Trust Co., vs.
Thompson 21-147.
To Thomas Jenkins, as executor of
tbe last will and testament of John
Thompson, deceased. Annie Pitts, Will
iam Pitts, her husband, non-resident
defendants:
You and each of you are hereby noti
fied that on 'August 5th, 1897, the New
England Loan & Trust Company, an
Iowa corporation, ss plaintiff, began an
action against you and other defendants
in the district court of Lancaster coun
ty, Nebraska, and on the 18th dav of
September, 1897, filed its supplemental
petition therein, the object of which
action and supplemental petition is to
foreclose a certain mortgage on the fol
lowing land in said county, to-wit: Tbo
southwest quarter of section number
21, in town number 12. corth of range
number 5, east of tbe 6:h principal me
ridian, made by James Thompson and
Sarah Ellen Thompson to the New Eng
land Loan fc Trust Company, dated
April 25, 1887, to secure the pament of
promissoiy notes of said James Thomp
son to said New England Loan & Trust
Company for the sum of 81375, on which
there is now due the sum of $1343.99
with interest from May 1, 1897, at 10 per
cent per annum, pursuant-to coupons.
Plaintiff pra s for decree of foreclos
ure and sale of said land to satisfy said
lien, for deficiency judgment and gen
eral relief.
You are required to answer the plain
tiff's petition arid supplemental petition
on or before the first day of November
1897.
New England Loan & Trust Com
pany.
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