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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER W. TV. 8ANDKKH, robllahcr. NEMAHA. NEBRASKA. TWO BRIDES. I. The Man who Loves the Nnmos or Things "Went forth henenth the BklcH, Mid named nil things that he beheld, And people called him wise, kn unHeen presence wulked with him Forever by his Bide, The wedded mlstresa of his soul For Knowledgo was his bride; 3ho named the llowers, the weeds, the trees, And all the growths of nil the seas. 3ho told him nil the rocks by nnmc, The winds and whence thoy blew: 3ho told him how the sens were formed, And how the mountnlna prow; 3ho numbered nil the stars for him; And nil the rounded Hkles Were mapped and charted for the saza Of his devouring eyes. Thus, tniiKht by her, ho tntuht the crowd; They praised and ho was very proud, i II. The Man who Loved the Soul nf Things Went forth serene nnd glnd, And mused upon the mighty wotld, And people called him mad. An unseen presence wulked with him Forever by his side, The wedded mistress of his soul For Wisdom was his bride. Sho showed him nil this mighty frnine, And bade him feel but named no name. She stood with him upon the hills Hinged by the nzuro Bky, And sliamed his lowly thought with stnrs, And bade him climb as high. And all the birds ho could not name, The nnmeless stnrs that roll, The unnnmed blossoms nt his feet Tnlkcd with him soul to soul; Ho henrd the Nnmelcas Glory spenk In silence and was very meek. Sam Walter Fobs, In N. Y. Independent. THE PROFESSOR'S I MASTERPIECE, ii & By liillian poster. si Copyright, 1807. S; ?nnttmmmmmmnmmmtmm& A&- ---u.iu.xir3tiru- en "x&?" SCIKNCH hnd been the pap of. his. early jearsj tintl So well had he thrived on It, and so completely had it become absorbed into his system, that by the time he reached man's es tate it was not only a part of his life it was all of It. His wife, his home, his child, were mere incidents, and en tirely subservient. It wns characteristic of the piofessor that if a subject took hold upon him at all, it engrossed him absolutely. He was not one to study superficially; he wns not" content until he had gone to the bottom of whatever it was that In terested him. So, when hypnotism at tracted his attention he not only de uured all obtainable lore upon the .sub ject, but he went Into India and into F.gypt, and delved to the uttermost depths of its mysteries. About the time he completed his in vestigations in the orient, his unas suming little wife passed quietly into a state of higher intelligence than even her scientific spouse had attained that ir, she died. Her legacy to the profes sor was Winifred, dearly loved and only child. In his lucid intervals the pre-fessor loved his daughter to the verge of adoration; in his scientific moments .she wns something not quite bo dear as his books, his antiquities and his instruments. Still, even then, Winifred was a useful adjunct, and thus escaped being an encumbrance. The girl had just completed her col lege course on her fnther's return from the east, and took her mother's place in the home, superintending in the culi nary department, nnd keeping careful cheek on the absent-minded eccentric ities of the professor. Shetried hard to be a companion to him, to be Inter ested In r the dry tomes over which he was forever poring; she endeavored to store her mind with their abstruse eon tents that she might discourse intelli gently in their evenings together; and if her success ns a scientific conversa tionalist wns not remarkable, at least she was a good listener. She would sit nt his feet, to all appearances In rapt attention; out whether or not the thoughts behind that earnest, in terested expression were always ex actly relevant, is a question between Winifred's conscience and herself. Sometimes it wojuld occur to the learned man that lie was taking that feminine mind fnr beyond its depth; anil he would pause nnd sigh. He often told her she had no potentiality for great things. He would say, and shake his bend dolefully: "I suppose you are a beautiful wom an, Winifred; but what has beauty ever done to solve the great problems of the world, nnd the mystery of life? I would much rather you had been gifted with a high order of intelli gence." It was shortly after they hod settled down together that the masterpiece was conceived nnd executed. It had been formulating in his mind for months, nnd his laboratory had been the scene of extensive experiments. At last, one evening, the preparations were completed, and nil was in readiness for the final test. He waited until the ser vants hud retired, then called his daughter; and when ehe had entered the room wnmlr ring, he carefully doted nnd locked the door. "My daughter," he began, solemnly. "1 cm on the eve of a great discovery; the greatest discovery of nil the ages. Its full scope Is incomprehensible; its possibilities are unbounded. It will beein n miracle to you when I tell you it means the perpetuation of life, the annihilation of death. Now the time has come when I must weigh my be lief in the balance of practical experi ment, and in tills i need your assist mice." , Winifred assured him she was only too glad to be of use. "Listen carefully, then. 1 want to hypnotize you Into n state of syncope, in which state your muscles will be dor mant but your senses alert. The vital forces, while retaining their full vital ity, will suspend activity during the ptriod for which I hold you under the Influence, nnd you will remain in any fixed pobition until I remove the influ ence. "Do you see the possibilities? Its usefulness is manifold. If a man be came mentally depressed, for instance, iiibtead of committing suicide he would simply put himself away for n time un til matters brightened. Then look at It from a standpoint of domestic econ omy when a man is out of work nnd cannot provide for his family, he will 'put them away' till business revives. It can also be used for recuperation, and thus sne millions of money in summer resort bills. Its uses are in finite." "Wonderful!" exclaimed his listener. "But," continued the professor, "that Is only one step of my discovery. The second is what I may call its artistic development.' You can, of course, un derstand that unless places were espe cially provided for these dormant bodies, it might be somewhat gruesome to have them about the house. So I hnvc thought of making them artistic of posing them as statuary, and to that end I have invented n marble enamel, in which the body, after being hyp notized, is submerged. The enamel hardens In n few hours, and the person is encased, to nil nppenrnncc, in a coat ing oC the finest Carrara marble." "A living picture!" cried Winifred, CEIM? i mm I AM GOING TO TELL YOU clasping her hands. What a glorious idea!" "Yes," he went on, pleased at her enthusiasm, "and now, the question is, have you'the courage to undertake your part for the cause of science, nnd be 'put away' until to-morrow, say, when I will bring you bnck to life?" "I will get ready at once," cried the girl, jumping up with alacrity. "I have a Grecian costume that I used once in tableaux vlvantes nt college when 1 posed as a blind girl. I am not in the least ntraid, but 1 would like to know how T look when I nm hypnotized and mnrblelzcd. Will you take a pho tograph of me, so that I may see my self afterwards?" He said he would, called her a brave girl, and watched her with loving eyes as she tripped from the room. The professor stood trembling with excitement before his masterpiece. Success, perfect and complete, had w warded his eilorts. The silence of mid night was over the outside world, and within the laboratory his own heavy breathing was the only sound. He stood before his stntue pnntlng with tho exhileration of his joy, his face flushed and his eyes glittering with the high nervous tensiou under which he J wus laboring. If art hnd carved that statue, with what strides would its creator have as cended to the pinnacle of famei Dainty and lovely was the lithe young flgme in its Grecian droperies; one round, white arm extended, groping, after the manner of the blind ; the upturned face, pathetic with its drooping lids, so toft in contour, so tender in expression, so adqrablc In feature, so alive within its mnrblc prison no wonder its nuthor stood trembling before it, and finally dropped on his knees at its feet. He wns overcome, and with his face In his shaking hands, murmured brokenly: "I am frightened at my success, Wini fred. My brain isnwhirl. Perhaps you are but a phantasm, after all." He arose and walked about the room, and finally sank upon a couch In a dis tant corner. "I will lie here and watch till morning," he thought; "then I will wnken her." But his nerves were under too high tension to be quieted. He tossed from side to cide. He grew feverish. "I will take a sedative," he snid, at last. "This exeltnbility is unlike me; I cannot stand it." Ten minutes later the professor was stretched upon his bnck; the sedative hod responded quickly the professor was asleep. And the statue stood gunrd with outstretched hand, while the small hours grew larger and the quiet in the street grew more intense. Did she henr stealthy steps out side the door? Did she feel its cautious opening? Did she see an evil face ap pear at the aperture? No, she was blind, she could not sec. "Hist! Bill," said a voice "look alive now. Take whatever ye can get ahold of In a hurry. Holy smoke! That statute made me jump. We'll tnke it along; it looks vnlible. Lively, now! Look out ye don't break it won't be no good if ye do. Go easy; don't wuke the old duffer." The apartment was luxurious, and its owner, stretched at case to the full of his six-foot length among varicolored pillows, was pleasing to look upon. He was one who could take his ease grace fully; indolence wasn part of his inher itance. In straight line with the direction of ABOUT MAISIE TO-NIGHT. his vision, In a niche, between parted curtains, bathed In prismatic colors from the cut-glass globe of an incan descent lamp, stood a life-sized marble figure of a Greek girl, with outstretched hand and tender, drooping eyelids. The man among tlfe, pillows looked at the figure before him. It had been in stalled a few days, but he had gotten into the habit of talking to it as he smoked his pipe after dinner. "Ah, Nydin," be said, softly, "I be lieve I would have given nil my for tune, if the villain had asked it, to possess you. How you got into that wretched little junk shop on the East side, 1 don't know. I don't want to know. I asked him no questions. I paid what he wanted, and had you brought here at once before nnyone could clnlm you; nnd now I wonder how I lived without you so long, "I will not think of you ns marble. 1 know there is n soul within that stone. I know it because I feel it. It draws me to you. It is like the magnetism of a living person. I don't understand it, but it is so. And now, you shall be my confidante. I nm lonely; there Is no living soul to whom I would tell my thoughts, but I will to you. "I nm going to hold your hand, Nydiu, while I talk. I nm glad it is marble you would not let me If it were not. When I hold it close for a few minutes it grows warm; 1 feel it throb. Don't tell tne it is the throb of my own veins; 1 know better. 1 will warm you Into life yet. you will see. "I am going to tell you about Maisie to-night. I am thinking of marrying Maisie. Do you know, little girl, 1 am getting so maudlin about you that I actually imagined I saw your eyelids quiver when I said that. Oh! about Malsic! She Is n charming girl every one says so and we are very compan ionable; no doubt wo would be tho most congenial of couples. I have not asked her yet. I never seem to be in the mood, somehow the proper degree of warmth seems to be lacking; but I shall, for I despair of ever having the proper degree of warmth for anyone, nnd I want to belong to some one and I want some one to belong to me. "I nm out of sorts to-night. You irri tate me, Nydin. You are tantuliztng. I know quite well that you are only cold, hard stone; yet as I sit here and look at you I can hardly master tho longing to tnke you in my nrms. I would start out and hunt for the model who posed for you, but I know 1 should never find her. Your face haunts me continually. 1 am losing interest in everything else in the world. Some day you will tantalize, me beyond endur ance and I shall arise and crush you into dust mnrble dust nnd then I will sweep you up in a dust-pan nnd throw you out, and perhaps then I shall have peace. "I nave decided to speak to Maisie to morrow. I must settle this; my mind is losing its balnnce. 1 can fancy my self in a padded cell, and those who come and look at me through the grat ing will say: 'Poor fellow, he loved a murblc statue. Nydin, Nydia, what is your power? I never thought my rea son wns weak there were never any unbalanced minds in our race." He paused in his soliloquy, for there seemed to be a commotion in the hall outside his rooms, nnd footsteps rush ing up the stnirs in frantic haste. Sud denly the door was flung open, nnd a n.nn, dishevelled and wild, rushed in. The intruder stopped nnd looked eager ly about. "Thank God!" he ejaculated; anil tears in a torrent poured from his eyes. He started in the direction of Nydia, but the tall, athletic young innu stepped between them. "Be careful, man," he said, quietly. "Stand aside. She is mine." "She is mine. Dare lay one profane finger upon her and 1 will not hesitate to strike you down in an instant." "Yoursl She is mine. My daughter. Fool! Imbecile! Stand aside, I say." The two men grappled. The protes tor was something of an athlete him self. Their bodies swayed from right to left as each struggled for the advan tage. Furniture fell; the glass globes rattled; the very walls of the house rocked. Once the younger man was down, but recovered immediately, -and with all the concentrated power of his sinewy muscles he grasped the other and threw him prostrate. The professor gasped for breath. "Let me up," he roared, when he could speak. "I'll let you up when I have you in a straight jacket." The professor groaned in anguish of spirit. "Fool!" he muttered. Q'hen, with one desperate effort he lifted himself on his elbow, turned his face to the statue,' and shrieked: "Winfred, 1 command you, awaken!" There was a cracking, as of glass or porcelain breaking. The young man turned nnd staggered backward against the wall. His Nydia was emerging from her chrysalis. The warm tints of flesh and blood supplanted the dead white of tho marble surface ns it fell nwny. She stepped down from her pedestal, gave her draperies a truly feminine shake, and fell into the arms of her father who in the excitement had been permitted to regain his feet. "My child, can you forgive me?" he cried. She looked over his shoulder archly at the figure against the wall. "Fully and freely, my dear papa, ab solutely and irrevocably, now and for ever." She took n step in the direction of the other, nnd held out timidly a little hand, to which still clung a fragment of the marble enamel but he mnde no move to tnke It. He stood spellbound, and simply stnrcd. "I used to wonder what you looked like," she snid, wistfully. Still he remained motionless. "Then you did not mean it?" She turned back toward her father. There was a little catch in her voice; it seemed to break the spell which held him. The blood rushed bnck to his face, the life came bnck to his cj'es; he took a step and caught the floating drapery before it was quite out of reach. "Only give me a lifetime to prove it," he said. llrlckft of IMitNtut- of I'nrlx. Bricks made of plaster of pan's and cork are now used in the construction of powder mills. In case of explosion they oiler slight resistance, nnd are broken to pieces. Umbrella Servo nt Fuiict Ioiih, The chiefs of Africa are particularly fond of umbrellns, nnd upon any special occasion you will be sure to Ke them produced with great state aitil cere- mony. FASHION'S FANCIES. New Noile on the Correct Thing; in. I.ailleM' Contmncft. The plaited round waist and the full' Russian blouse wnfst contest for favor with the numberless chie little coat basques, ory short, very smart nnd' ery much trimmed. Sometimes we kce the basque portion cut in one with the waist, and sometimes ndded on. hi other instances the coat or basqivo ef fect is confined to the basque only, while the front is slightly pointed or quite round. The back is in one seamless piece, and is arrahged In endless ways below the belt line. Short jacket fronts made by leading French eoalmakerH open on full ve.'its of any soft material that gathers, plaits, tucks or can bo ar ranged in effective, Mirpliee folds in side square or tiny rounded jackets of some heay textile. v Evening toilets show stylish loops nnd ends of ribbon on the shoulders, the loops alone or mingled with airy frills of plaited silk muslin. The half low bodice shows the still popular Wut tenu bow of medium-wide ribbon placed between the shoulders at the backs, the ends falling low on thedress skirt. Of ribbons alone are made very charming girdles, bretelles, vests, gimps, surplice waist front, jacket fronts, panel pieces, fichus, pull's for slashed sleeves, blouses, dollars, eulTs and little mouehoirmulTa or chatehiine. Mnny of the demitrained dress skltts are cut with ninogorOs; and nt the back some arc box-plaited and others fan pluitod. Huguenot caps are added to the tops of many of the short, full, puffed sleeves of evening bodices. Peplums, which are added to Hussion blouses, jacket bodices, surplice waists and similar garments, are shaped in va rious ways. Some are crenelated, oth ers cut in oval tabs or sharp Vandykes, and also in circular form, with or with out plaits at the back. Little bolero, zouave or other small jacket pieces are added to the fronts of high or low-necked corsages cut a hi Busse and made of airy textiles draped loosely over fitted silk underwaists. These little side pieces are made va riously of lace, velvet, jeweled passe menterie, satin, brocade or watered silk, and the sleeve puffs and collar if collar there be match these pieces, in color and fabric. German broadcloth in dark Bussian red, or the favorite blue shade of the winter, is noted among elegant models in redingotes and other enveloping gar ments of the season. Some of the very expensie wraps are lined throughout with fur, notably a very beautiful blue garment made in Huguenot fashion, witli odd. stylish sleews, a passemen terie girdle and lined with chinchilla. Another handsome model is a cape of blue German broadcloth, lined with mink fur and trimmed with dark brown silk cord ornnmentsA There is also an immense reers collar of 'mink around the neck. A third wrap, with Bussian blouse features, is made of red and black fancy cloth, lined with red satin and trimmed with bihids of black fox fur. with n very high Klondikcjcol hir and a capeeollitr of the fur cover ing the shoulders. N. Y. Post. HE SANG EVERYTHING. An miinlniv Incident In n -Noted I 'reiioli e r'M lixv ei'l o n c-c;. The following is related by Bev. Dr. Melnlyre, of Chicago: "I cannot sing, unfortunately, and so whenever I eon ducted revival services I used to take along a friend of niine named Vincent, a great, strapping fellow with a voice like the north wind. He never had had an j musical training, but, oh, he could sing. Whenever hesailed into a hymn the cornfields would turn their ears to ward the church. In those days hymiii . books were scarce, and it was custom ary for the minister to rend two lines of some familiar hymn, and the con gregation would then sing them, the tune being generally known. "On one occasion I -rend two lines of a long meter hymn, and Vincent led the' singing magnificently. Then 1 next picked up the Bible and read my text: 'Is there no balm in Gilead? Ts nophy sician there?' 1 laid down the book, but before T could begin preaching Vin cent's voice nrose, loud and clear, and the congregation followed him in sing ing the text. Too much surprised to collect my scattered senses T leaned over the pulpit nnd in a stage whisper said to Vincent : 'The words I gave you were the text, and not a hymn at all.' This time Vincent had a monopoly of the singing, for the congregation had not caught the words; but he never stopped or wavered until he had sung every word of my confidential remark to him. I sank into my seat. For the next five minutes T didn't dnre open my mouth for fear Vincent would sing me down. I paid him off that night after the services." Troy Times. Dilte PmlilliiK. One cupful of sour milk, one cupful of sugar or molnses, one spoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of soda, spices to F.uit the taste, one pound of dates with stones removed; stir quite stiff with graham flour and steam two hours. Serve with cream and sugar. Boston Globe. "Woman," she declared, "is resolved to be free." "Try it on!" sneered the mnn, deflnntjy. At that she shivered. If she tried it on, would it involve her standing up for two or three hours at u stretch, holding pins in her mouth? Detroit Journal, y Tfmwc tjyngynt,pwj!totr'r rar "kjub js$l K7a&aMiw a.sr-at. ,