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(Copyright. 1920. Western Newspaper Ual0S-> Sarah drew aside the rutiled curtain to look down the country road. It was oot a cheery outlook, with rain making pools of the deep worn ruts, and som ber clouds turning the twilight to dark ness. But Sarah took in the view phil osophically. jt^st as she took the Cheerlessness and somberness of her own life. % Time had been, yi-urs ago, when the roadside cottage was a house of mirth, merry with young people's laughter and comfortable with the protecting presence of the old. Sarah's parents had long since passed to their reward, while the sis ters, who were ail older than she, lived in various distent homes, more or less selfishly absorbed In their own fami lies. Sarah had dung to the old place, at first through duty to her older in valids. then because there was no place eise to go. She managed to keep the cottage heated and comfortuble; to tend and sing over the vegetables In her garden, to keep there, aside, a little plot of flowers with which to cheer the sick or rejoice, perhaps, in some affair of the living. Sarah was always glad when the sto ries ended happily, and sometimes, after she had laid lhe paper aside, she would sit in the cozy, silent room be fore the fire, picturing to herself a romance which might have been her own. Sarah was sixty now—a good, wholesome, pink-cheeked sixty — but she had put her hope of love aside. She lighted another yellow shaded lamp "in the small yellow dining room and moved about setting the supper table. She smiled with a sort of weary amusement as she pul down a second cup and plate opposite her own, then added a knife and fork for company. For twenty years Sarah had been do ing this same useless thing. It seemed less like being alone to see that other place ready—and waiting, almost as if the door might open at any moment to admit her companion. Then when the supper was quite ready Sarah went out to the stable to shut up old Moll for the night. Moll was the white horse, and Sa rah’s desolation so preyed upon her out there in the rain and the darkness that she was tempted to linger beside old Moll, Just to feel the comfort of a living presence. And as she stum bled up the steps of the back porch she came all at once face to face with the human presence of a smilingly apolo getic and very wet old man. Raindrops were gleaming on his white beard, rivulets ran from the brim of his felt hat. “Beg pardon, ma’am.” said the old man gently, “but I reckon I've come pretty far in the storm and can’t get on to where I was goin'. Kin I dry up a spell by your tire which shines through the window? It looks Invit ing. I must say.” And as the old man's request was coupled with a very evi dent shiver, Sarah's protective hearl immediately responded. “Go right In ahead of me," she said cordially; “it ain’t no time for formali ties." But W’hen the old man was rid V his overcoat and was resting In Sarah’s father’s arm chair he smiled again In his deprecatory way and took a card from his pocket. “That’s my name,'' he said. “Ebe nezer Styles. Reckon you’re acquaint ed with young E. Styles? Well, he’s "V “Eben Styles.” Sarah repeated, awed, "the lawyer down to the village—him. your son? Hadn't you better telephone to keep him from worryln' for fear you ain't corning back.” The old man sadly shook his head “The only thing that’ll worry Eb.— or leastways Eb.'s wife,” he said slow ly, “Is the fear that I will come back. Seems I kind of make 'em shamed hII the time. Eb.’s wife she ain’t been used to my kind. An' reckon—” The wrinkled face lit up with grljn humor. “Reckon I don’t never want to get used to her kind. So when I tele phone ’em It’ll be Just to say that 1 ain’t goln’ hack.” “But what,” asked Sarah wonder lngly, “be you goin’ to do?” “That.” Ebenezer Styles replied, “will be decided later. I’ve sold prop erty, an’ I get my interest regular from the money what I sold it for.” “Jest now, then,” Sarali said briskly, “come an’ have a little supi>er.” The old man looked hesitatingly at the table laid so neatly for two. “You was expectin' company,” be said, “ain't I puttin’ somebody out?” “For twenty years,” she said, “I bin expectin’ somebody, an' until tonight nobody ever carne.” Long the man and woman sat In the sunshine of the yellow lamp, with the storm but an echo outside, pouring Into each other’s sympathetic and un derstanding ears a story of lonely years past. “For being with Just folks,” Ebe nezer told her. “can't always keep one from bein' lonesome: why, when I used to walk up here an' sit to the side of the road a-watehin’ an’ watchln’ you In yonr garden, seemed you must be like—ma. Seemed it’d be mighty nice If I could work beside you thqge. But land!" he exclaimed, “you will think Pm queer goln’ on like this.” Sarah's eyes were visionary. “Yon watched me?” she asked slowly, “In my garden?" Ebenezer nodded. “My! you are like ma,” he said ad miringly. And this was Sarah's romance. THE NEGRO FOURTH ESTATE AND PREW AR PROSPERITY j (Continued From Page One.) j Every paper has correspondents in j all of its territory and in states be yond that might be supposed to be its territory. There are also news agencies. The most important of these by far is the Associated Negro Press. | Through special correspondents in ! every city of the country it gathers ; the racial news and sends this out : regularly to its large membership. | About seventy-five papers receive these communications directly, but all get it sooner or later. Nothing racial escapes the Argus-eyed colored press. The editorial writer, the reporter, and the poet are ably seconded by the • picture-maker. A half-dozen very ef ! fective cartoonists are providing sin gle papers or groups with the story of current events: riots, lynchings, travesties of justice, jim crowism, dis franchisement, and all the effects of i racial prejudice and hate. Everybody can read a picture. Nor does the : ! scene it conjures up fade out of the soul. 1 This press features two or three ; classes of items of a racial import, i Equal prominence is given on the 1 front page and in the headlines to j the wrongs and injustices inflicted upon the Negroes because of color, | and to racial achievements, new ac- j tivities, new business firms and en- i terprises. Negro benevolences, and the like. Race progress—race persecu- ( tion: that is their main story. But a third species of news ranks close to these, sometimes taking precedence: news of movements on the part of the whites toward real race adjust ment on the basis of justice, news of serious efforts toward racial co-oper ation, news of forthright utterances j in advocacy of tlieir cause. This news ! they offer on their front page under | conspicuous headlines. Neglecting White I’ress. The new-born prosperity of the Ne- : gro press signifies a corresponding : neglect on the part of the colored j people of the white press. They will i not longer trust the whites to furnish them the news, to teach them how to think. Too often have they been be guiled. The saying now runs: “There’s a white man somewhere in the wood-pile.” in the columns of the‘colored papers alongside of ex pressions of exultation in their own eocce— run the severest arraign ments of the white press for its falsi fication and suppression of racial news, for prejudiced comment, and for 1 Classified Advertising _______________——,__j RATES—4 cents a word for single Id* I sertions; 2 cents a word for two or more Insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 20 cents. Cash must accotn i p&ny advertisement j - ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24tb and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in first class modem home. Web. 6567.! FURNISHED rooms, strictly mod em, one block from Twenty-Iourt* street car. Webster 4012. Furnished room for man and wife, In private home. 2722 North Twenty fifth street. Webster 1888. It Furniture of three rooms for sale, witl^ privilege of renting three-room apartment. Call Webster 2104. One furnished upstairs front room, suitable for two gentlemen. Two blocks from the car line. Rates rea sonable. Cali Web. 3792. 4t For Sale—A 7-room modern bouse and barn. Nice place for chickens. Lot 60 by 127 1-2 feet. Can be bought on easy terms. Cali Webster 5240. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in a first class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric lights, on Dodge and Twenty-fourth street care line. rs. Anna Banks, 924 North Twentieth. Douglas 4379. FOR SALE—5 room modem cot tage, except heat, close In on Twentieth street car line.- $400 cash, balance easy terms. Monitor office. Doug. 3224. FOR SALE LODGE DIRECTORY G. U. O. of O. F., South Omaha Lodge No. 9374. Meetings first and third Fri days; College Dept , second and fourth Fridays, Z5*h and N 8ta., South Side. Past Grand Matters Council No. 448, first and third Tuesdays, 24th and Chartee Streets. WM, R. SHAFROTH, N. G. E. E. BRYANT, Q, M. and P. 4 L B. P. O. E. W. Iroquois Lodge No. 92 meets first and third Wednesday of each month at U. B. F. hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. Exalted Ruler, Wal lace Pettigrew Secretary, Thomas S. Rigrgrs. neglect of the Negro—except to re port his crimes (alleged). The white papers by their false and flaring head lines and exaggerated, mainly ficti tious, accounts of Negro assaults upon white women are denounced by the colored editors as responsible for practically all of the race riots of last year. The universal radicalism of the Afro-American press—using that term in the sense of demanding a funda mental change; the almost absolute unanimity of that press in its state ment of grievances and demands— many voices, but only one mind; the resoluteness of tone and manifest de termination never to withdraw from the battle for "equal rights"—these are the impressions that are the most outstanding with me from my much perusal of the weeklies that regularly reach me. Subscribe for The Monitor. 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For the benefit and eonveniece of such customers who prefer calling for their oWn work I have maintained a temporary branch at 2420 Lake street All work will be appreciated and the best attention will be given to these orders. Call Harney 3374 or leave It with Mrr Macon, 2420 I-ake at the New Columbia Hall. Yours for good work and service. SV. V. RICHARDSON," Tailor 2704 Cuming Street. OFFICES FOR RENT IN KAFFIR BLOCK Desirable offices can be rented In the Kaffir block, formerly the Warden hotel property at Sixteenth and Cum ing streets. Heat, light and Janitor ervlce. Apply Kaffir Chemical Labora tories. Douglas 7074 DENTLO. Have you tried it? You don’t know what real tooth paste is until you do. Manufactured in Omaha by the Kaffir Chemical Laboratories Ask your druggist for Dentlo, the pyorrhea preventive toothpaste.—Adv. MAX SERIF 1408 North Twenty-fourth Street Ladies’ and Gent’s Wearing Apparel SPECIAL BARGAINS OFFERED AS FOLLOWS: $3.50 Ladies' Waists.$2.65 2.25 Ladies’ Aprons. 1.8® 1.25 Ladies' Union Suits. .69 .65 Ladies' Vests. .39 CORE AND SEE CS - | The Fashion ■■ Tailors y £ Indies’ and Gents’ Tailor- V ! ing. Cleaning. Pressing and X 0 Repairing X 2913 N. Twenty-fourth St. X 1 > X \ \ We Call for and Deliver X <» X <-c-x~x-x-x-x-<“X“:“X~x~:~>*X“X 4&8MMB9KKB®* KKKa:.K)tsra vot. sr gg r EVANS & HUNTLY | Groceries and Meats i a Wc- solicit your patronage, g I Fresh Meats, Staple and Fancy » Groceries. Courteous Treat- % rnent. One price to all. 1411 N. 24th St Phone Web. 241. * a a a.X'aiMMMWn;*ff-K » a-a-a.'aMtCX&KPCR I For that Neat. Well Dressed y Appearance, See y J. H. HOLMES I TAILOR GENT'S SUITS TO ORDER * ♦ i • y ,, Ladies' and Gent's Suits Remod- %• i, sled. Repaired, Cleaned and Pressed o " ALL WORK GUARANTEED J \ \ We Buy and Sell Second Hand 2 4 s Clothes. Work called for and de- J t, llvered. A \ \ 2022 North 24th Street X . . Phone Webster 3320 *x->x-:..x~>-:->.x~x:~>x~x~x*.x-x 2617 Cuming St. Chime H. 6672. A. STUART NOVELTY CO. Fine Art Negro Subjects PICTURES, CALENDARS, POST CARDS. Bronze Statuettes, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dun bar, Frederick Douglas, Bishop Allen and Others. OMAHA, NEBRASKA :; Friedman’s Place | i > Fin* Watch Repairing. Red 7914 4 • > We Buy and Sell ‘ ’ Jewelry, Clothing, Sheet, Trunk* / 1 ’ Suit Cate*. Etc. T I ; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS T Use Dentlo The Pyrrohea Preventive Tooth Paste OMAHA’S LARGEST STORE FOR WOMEN’S WEAR CONANT HOTEL BLDG., SIXTEENTH ST. I HOT CHILI! HOT COFFEE I I Yum, Yum Delicious Gregory’s Kandy Kitchen 1 and Luncheonette I 1508 North 24th Street f Webster 267 \ § Home Made Candies. Ifce Cream .Sodas L Good News for All Men SIMPLY WASH THE HAIR. OH, BOY. DR PRYOR'S JAPO WONDER SOAP Is the only preparation on the market that will straighten the hair without turning It red or injuring the scalp. The latest scien tific discovery. Will not give the hard, por cupine effect, but makes the hair soft and wavy. Price $1.12 per package Agents' outfit $5.50 No samples. Big money for A. Stuart Novelty Co. 2617 earning Street. OMAH A, MOB. Tel. Harney 6672. H. DOLCOFF FURNITURE AND HARDWARE STOVES, RUGS, LINOLEUM Better Goods for Less Money. Credit if You Wish. OPEN EVENINGS 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4815 ALHAMBRA GROCERY & MEAT CO. PRAMER BROS., Mgrs. One Door South of Alhambra Theater Everything to Eat Cleanliness and Courtesy Our Motto TRY US ( aH Webster 6021 ....... Telephone Dr. L. E. Britt Upstair* Douglas 2672 Douglas 7812 ; 1 -' 1 \ / Pope Drug Co. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. * l>Lh and Farnam Streets. Omaha. Nebraska » ■ -.... ,, _. . Beautiful Columbia Hall 1 2420 I>ake Street ;; For Rent for Balis, Parties, Recitals and General Assemblies |; Monday and Friday Nights, Dancing School. ;; ^ Webster 763. W. G. Macon, Mgr. ; j ... § YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD 1 I RELIABLE MERCANTILE COMPANY I CASH OR CREDIT MILTON MAYPER, Mgr. f = Dealers in Dry Goods, Rugs, Blankets, Quilts, Curtains, Portiers, Table = | = Linen, Sweaters, Silverware, Clocks, and a Full Line of General Merchandise. Call Us Up and Have Salesman Come to See You A SQUARE DEAL TO ALL = 1809 North 24th St. Webster 5187 E fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirf I Patronize the State Furniture Co.! 14th and Dodge Streets X The Monitor recommends its advertisers. Reliable and accommo- V y dating service can be found here. ! [ .-'groceries always C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2005 Cuming St. Telephone Deuglaa 1098 l «—...-._