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I have watched for your coming
with eager eyes,
You fellow there; yet t
you showed surprise,
And flung up your head
with a guilty air
As if you would speak,
e but aid not dare,
Lest your wondrous secret
v might whisper through
The innocent note of
a "How dye do V
But I spied you, and ah,
I know full well
The matter you looked,
but would not telL
You are somewhat early ;
select" your tree ;
You will not be molested
by such as we,
Crawling low as the worms
with scared, upturned eyes
At you winging freely
your way through the skies.
You set me a dreaming
this May March day,
Though trees are hare and
the hills are gray,
Your silenced song
beats within my breast.
You need not tell,
for I know the rest
There's a jubilant,
green clad Glory that waits
With her fairy wand,
at our Southland gates.
to love In spite of- .
"Willie may stay after class,'' paid the
teacher with cheerful sternness. "He
must learn his leeeon, it doesn't matter
it he doesn't get through in time for his
sapper. He will hare to stay here till
he learns his lesson. '
So he stayed. The teacher then ex
plained to him that she bad work to do
Howe which wouldkep her for some
time, so that he could stay just as long
as he wished; it would not inconveni
ence her. Then for an hour at intervals
he gravely tood up and spelled chicken,
'c-h i-c h-e-n. Finally he made up his
mind to get it right, and did so.
"Now you may go," said the teacher.
"Are you going, too," the cherub
asked.
"Yes, I think I shall go."
"Why, this is such a nice little room"
(it is nearly a dungeon) "and I like
to stay in it I was afraid you weren't
going to let me stay today." AH as
gravely as an owl.
The teacher wonders what kind ot a
boy Willie will make when he is a
grown-up.
I crave your pardon, messieurs critics,"
for two things. First, for-hcgisBiBg so
early; second, for beginning at all. And
yet I frankly confess mat -1 am not
eorrv. and that I may commit the of
fence again, Why, the bouI of even a
clod is stirred by these days that seem
as foretastes of heaven. What can one
expect but spring poetry! Adequate
expression there is not, in any way.
But the critics, who would have all be
dumb until they can speak an adequate
word, would stifle the world. So what
is the use ? I like the Japanese idea
that it is fitting for every one to make
vareee. Some day there will come a
great poet to them.-and they-shall-have
their reward. So I crave pardon, but
do not apologize. Commend me to the
housetops and high places as the post
of vantage from which to watch the
coming ot the Glory. Especially here in
the Old Town is it pleasurable to stand
high above the roofs and trees and read
the signs. The March wind may scurry
around among the bare branches and
blow snow gusts acroes the hills.. But
day by day there is a freshening color
in cottonwoode, a reddening tinge in
maples and elms, an ever increasing
touch ot green in brown lawns. And
however high my tower may be, when
I look upward I see that there is still
plenty of blue sky above.
In the days of thaw the hills had an
added charm. For as far as eye could
see each was decked with strings ot
sparkles. But down on the ground I
found only rushing mimic rivers, the
delight of school girls and the opportu
nity ot boys. Then the great river
swept the sparkles onward. That, too,
seen from above and afar is a thing of
beauty, for the sky is mirrored there
and white clouds do veritably sail on its
for the nonce fair bosom. Get close
enough, nay, too close, and the mirage
is gone. Only the swirling old Missouri,
famed among the nations, is there, wal
lowing around among its mud banks.
Willie is one of those dear, innocent
little fellows whom a teacher is bound
Ernest Seton-Thompson Says Mice
are Fine Singers.
There was one more lesson, a great
surprise, in store for me. It is well
known to science that the common
house-mouse has a song not unlike that
of some birds. Occasionally gifted in
dividuals are found that fill our closet
or cellar with midnight music that a
canary might be proud of." Yet1 further
investigations have shown that the com
mon deer mouse ot the eastern woods
also is a gifted vocalist.
Now, any cowboy on the upland plainB
will tell you that at night when, sleeping
out, he has often heard the most curi
ous strains of birdy music in his half
awakening hours a soft, sweet twitter
ing song, with trills and deeper note?,
and if he thought about it at all he set
it down to some small bird singing in its
dreams, or accepted his comrade'e unex
planatory explanation that it was one ot
those "prairie nightingales." But what
that was he didn't trouble himself to
know.
I have often heard the strange night
song, but not being able to trace it
home, I set it down to eome little bird
that was too happy to express it all in
daylight hours.
TO THE DEAF. A rich lady, cured
ot her Deafness and Noises in the Head
by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums,
gave $10,000 to this institute, so that
deaf people unable to procure the Ear
Drums may have them free. Address
No. 6,6389 A, the Nicholson Institute,
780 Eighth Avenue, New York.
People Hate No Trouble
In getting- what they want at the
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First Publication March 17, 1900-3.
Notice of Petition for Letters.
In re estate of Joseph Westfahl, deceased.
In the county court of Lancaster county Ne-
The "state or Nebraska to Jennie Westfahl.
Bertha M. Westfahl Martin H. Westfahl. Ida
M. Westfahl, Ella M. Westfahl. Lena M. West
fahl. Herman H. Westfahl and to any other
persons interested in said matter.
Take notice that a petition stoned by Jennie
Westfahl praying said court to grant letters of
administration of said estate to Ernest T. koop
has been filed in said court; that the same Ls set
for hearing on the Hth day of April. 1900. at ten
o'clock a. m and that If you do not then appear
and contest, said court may grand administra
tion of the said estate to Ernest-T. Koop.
Notice of this proceeding shall,beipublished
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Witness my hand and the seal of said court
this Hth dav of March. A. D. 1900.
seal. Fkask K. aters. County Judge.
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NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT.-E 1357
In the County Court of Lancaster County, Ne
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The state of Nebraska to the heirs of Pauline
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March. A- D. 1900.
seal Frank R. Waters.
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