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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1910)
t.yWlWfcw MMMwMMriwiMwaM ihlwimwwuifcjunwtrt Mill II ... , III . II mmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmaaammmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmam A. D. RODGERS Groceries and Provisions A full line of fresh goods to order from Our prices are right Telephone orders filled promptly Phone 55 S. W. Cor. Box Butte Ave. and Dakota St. ; one block north of Burlington station, on west side of street Club Together and Save Money ISM All orders amounting to $15.00 for Mechanics' Tools, accompanied by cash, we will discount 10 per cent Inspect each tool before buying 3Tot one but what's guaranteed ",Vrariety and assortment large 33ach tool marked in plain figures Save time QTell your friends CELEB If you expect to buy a buggy soon, you will be the loser if you do not in spect the shipment of these famous vehicles received at the Palace Livery t Barn, direct from the factory. It costs you nothing to examine them and get prices. II H. P. COURSE Y mtK3KbSS7!nxwF'efA?hv,it ALLIANCE HOSPITAL Graduate Nurses in Attendance HOSPITAL STAFF Dr. Bellwood, Dr. Bowman, Dr. Hand, Dr. Copsey Open to All Reputable Physicians. Address all communications to THE MATRON, ALLIANCE HOSPITAL, Alliance, Nebraska. i i RAT E D Wallace's Transfer Line J Household goods jjr moved promptly and transfer work solicited. Phone s Frank Wallace, PropV. V1 AV Wcrtnrs MkjZml v o y n..vjjf 'w i ' Wv COPYKlCrfT,t90e, OYJ.D.LlrHC0TT CO Alt TflCHTJinJtrvlF' SYNOPSIS. . CHAPTER I. niciiard Derrlnir. return Ins from n. winter In the woods to Ills mother's farm homo, Is overtaken by Ills uncle, accompanied by his eccentric wife, coming to pay a visit at the farm. CHAPTEll II. Aunt Joruslia's ques tions about Emily Hutton, supposed to he Richard's sweetheart, bring out the fact that Bho Is to marry a merchant, Ed wards. CHAPTER IIL-DerrlnR's disappoint ment stimulates his mnbltlon and un der tho advlco of Seth Kinney, a hermit of the woods, ho resolves to nt himself for college. Kinney promises to teach him Greek. CHAPTER IV. Derrlnu tells his moth er his resolve, and in his grandfather's old laboratory begins the study of Greek. CHAPTER V.-Beth Kinney hoars Rlch- CHAPTER V. At breakfast next morning his moth er faced him over her coffee-cup, stern and lesB ready. "I have been going over tho nccounts till night." Sho spoko in n voice thnt was half com plaint. "I don't see how we can man age It. Tho interest is a hundred and eighty-Blx and the . taxes thirty-five, and there is never anything left at the end of the year, even ns it is now." Sho looked at him, her dark eyes weary with tho night's work. Ills own eyes flashed back a still light. "I shall do It some way, moth er. Don't worry." She shook her head, choking back something In her throat. "Your fa ther would have wanted you to If he had lived " Sho rose quickly and turned away to the pantry. When sho came back her eyes were shining again. He looked at her, smiling. "You'll find that Tom makes twlco as much off tho farm as I over have. You'll bo rich." "There's the schooling," she said anxiously. "1 Blmll earn It." His lips came to gether. The dream; look in his eyes was replaced by one of shrewd deter mination. His mother's glanco followed him admiringly. She rose from the table and began to clear away the dishes. Her stop was light. "And if I find I can't study and earn, too, i'll stop till I get enough to go on. It Isn't as it I were good for much " Ho looked at her, waiting. "No, no have your way. You've never asked for what you hadn't ought to have. It's true enough you'll never be a farmer." She Btood for a mo ment, one hand holding the plates and cups, the other resting on the table, looking at him fondly. Then sho turned brusquely away to the sink. Ho took down his enp from Its nail and went out into tho clear light, whistling. Particles of frost glinted in the air. They formed on the edge of his upturned collar and fur cap and deepened tho down of his lip. He blew them aside with a laugh. Taking the ax from the shed, down the lane he strode, the crusted earth crunching beneath his vigorous tread. The ax was shifted from side to side, as he walked, and the free arm swung across his chest. ,He struck Into the wood-road with a song and hallooed to tho stillness. The love-sick boy of With Every Blow He Drove Home the First Declension of the Greek Grammar. yosterday was gone. Taking off his cap ho called and sang till the blue Jays forgot to bo frightened and hov ered, curious, In the troos overhead, He took off his cap to them, looking up through the tree-tops to tho blue 'shimmer of Bky. Ho Bwung tho cap around hU head and they darted away a blue and white clatter of Eound. Ho replaced it laughing softly. The earth was alive. Ho reached out to the bushes as ho passed, trail ing the budded stems through his fin gers nnd brushing tho purple-brown oak leaves with swlftost touch. When he oarao to the tree that he was to out ho ran his palm up and down its rough 'bark beforo ho seized his ax and swung it clear from his Bhoulder. Tho blows rang even and hard, and with every blow ho drove homo tho first declension of the Greek gram mar. Every day fond him at work In tho woods. Soon Tom Bishop Joined him and tho cross-cut saw flashed to its work In tho trunks. Richard, to tho tune of its monotonous seesaw, sang Greek verbs nnd declined nouns till Tom caught tho rhythm and chanted declensions In sheer solf-dofence. At night when he repeated tho strango sounds proudly to his little wife sho looked at him in delight but half In fear that ho would grow away from her. Sho counted Jealously tho days that must elapso before the sledding should be done. Tho fame of Richard's learning went abroad through tho land. All the world knew that Seth Kinney wns "learning him Greek." The old man came often to the wood-lot to hear him recite. Sitting on a fallen log, ho would ropcat long, rolling lines of poetry that tho choppers repeated aft or him, to the rhythm of the saw, till the still, cold light was nllve with tumbling Greek. Perhaps tho blue- Jays, flitting among the treetops, heard the news and told it to tho crowB; and the crows of the open field called to the snowbirds and sparrows; and the snowbirds lisped It to the chickadees; and the chickadees, turn ing upside down on the orchard trees, twittered to tho hens running to and fro and cackling everywhere. Or it may bo thnt Tom's wife told her moth er. In any case, tho whole village knew it. And, perhaps, it was a lit tle balm to Richard's heart If balm It needed as he swung by her' lighted window at night to know that she know. CHAPTER VI. When the snow began melting from tho pnrtrldge-berrles the wood had been cut nnd hauled. Only scattered chips remained to tell the winter's work. And, although all the village knew that Richard wns learning Greek, It did not know that in tho woods he had learned something hard er than Greek. No one but ho and Seth knew that with every blow of the ax he had made a stroke at his trouble and cut it, and sawed it, and split it, and piled It high, and sledded It to town, and sold it at so much a cord till his heart was as sound as a drum. And when one morning he passed Emily in her new spring array, trip ping along tho country road, he could lift his hat and smile at her proudly. And Emily, fingering the ribbons thnt fell from her throat, called him In her heart a fickle thing and rejoiced anew that sho was to bo Mrs. Edwards. He was on his way to Uncle Eben's when he mot hercarrying a messago from his mother. He found the old man In the side garden, pottering about over the half-dried earth and warming his stiff back in tho sun. "Limy beans?" snld Uncle Eben when he heard tho request "You'll have to go Into the house and ask her. She hain't give mo mino yet. It's time for 'em, too. She keeps 'em , locked up in the secrltary ch'ice as ' gold." He rose stiffly from his knees ! and led tho way to the house. ) Aunt Jerushn was burled In the I depths of the Dutch oven, a long , feather duster In her hand, with which she whisked its sides. She emerged. shining nnd surprised. I "Well. I declare, Richard; Is that ' you!" She readjusted her spectacles ; and looked at him kindly. Her skirt , wns pinned safely up out of harm's way and her sleeves wero rolled above the elbow. A sunbonnet protected her bend. She beamed out of Its depths. j "Want some of the Limas, do you, , for plantin'? Well, I do' know how i many we'll have. I hain't got 'em down for pa yet." Sho glunced at him suspiciously. Ho shifted from one foot to tho other. It might have been hope or It might have been impatience. Aunt Jerusha's look changed to af fection. "Ho wants some, dreadful," she confided to Richard, "but It ain't time yet" Sho crossed the room and took from a high nail by the shelf a key. It waB tho key to the parlor door. "You come wiUi me, Richard," sho said mildly, as sho waddled away. Undo Ebon lookod wistfully after them. He seated himself in a straight backed chair and, lifting his feet to tho front round, rubbed his fingers thoughtfully. Aunt Jerusha opened the parlor door into tho dim light "You can como right in," she said proudly. "Never mind your feet Women wore made to sweep up dirt I've got to clean hero next wok auyway." Tho room was speckiacs- Not a trace of dust Tested on any object, thought Aunt J lusha gave an osten tatious puff to the plush album as ah lifted It She opened It with a little gesture of prldo. It was half filled with pictures, and In tho hole loft va cant In the other half reposed a key. "I keep It In here," she whispered. "Ho wouldn't over think of looking in there." Sho chuckled Boftly as she drew It out She snapped tho henvy clasps safely and returned tho album to the table. "I thought I might's well show you." Sho stood In tho dim light watching him mysteriously out of her sunbon net. "If anything should happen to me, somebody'd hev to know, and he wouldn't hnvo no moro caro 'an a child." Sho directed her nod towards the kitchen. Uncle Eben looked up hopefully as they returned, tho key to tho secre tary borno in Aunt Jerusha's palm. Mounting a chair in front of tho high secretary sho Inserted the key In tho lock. Tho doors swung open. Undo Eben feasted his eyes. There wero packages of seeds and velvet bonnets nnd a string of gold bends and a high shell comb. She touched a package of papers that lay at the left "That's my will," she said sig nificantly to Richard. "I've left every thing to him." A glow of appreciation overspread Uncle Ehen's face. "Why, Jerusha," his boot-heels came down with a clatter to tho floor "why, Jerusha " "Not a word!" sho said sternly, turning on him. "I don't want to hear a word." She turned back to tho open spaco nnd searched among the packages. "Here they bo." Sho gave a fat sigh nnd descended from the chair, closing the mysterious doors. She omptied the packago in her lap, Undo Eben eyeing it enviously from afar. "I shall divide even," she said with a calm air "Just even." Sho counted " III LMMi' 'You Come with Me, Richard," She Said Mildly, as She Waddled Avay. aut tho beans, one by one, each In Its separate pile, and handed one of the piles to Richard. "There. Tell your mother I divided equal." "I'll tell her," said Richard, stowing away the bag in his pocket. He knew better than to hurt Aunt Jerusha's feelings by refusing any proffered fa vor. She sat leaning comfortably back In her chair, looking at him. "They say you're learning Greek, Richard," she said at last, rocking n little. Uncle Eben tipped eagerly forward In his chair. She Ignored lilm. "Are ye?" "Yes, ma'am." "And you're going to college?" "Yes, ma'am." "How's Amanda Derrlng going to pay for It?" she nBked severely. "I'm going to pay my own way," said tho boy. She nodded slowly. "I thought like enough. Dut you can't do it" "I'm going to." Sho looked at him moro approving ly. "Tho Lord helps them that helps themselves," she said solemnly, "and 1 and the Lord do tho same." She rose majestically and opened the secretary doors once more. She took down a broken-nosed teapot and extracted a roll of bills, holding it out to him. "There's J100," she said slow ly. "I shall give you that every year till you get through. And if anything happens to me, Eben's to give It to you same as if I was alive." "Of course I" began Uncle Eben from his chair. Sho stopped him swiftly. "Don't say n word." I Ills open mouth collapsed. He rubbed his fingers thoughtfully. ! She turned to tho boy. "Run along ! home, Richard. Don't forget to tell your mother I divided the beans with her even." (To he Continued) Hot Rivals In Advertising. An account of the methods of two rival cinematograph proprietors In tho same street Is given by a Paris paper. After adopting in turn all up-to-date methods to attract the clientele of tho I other, one showmnn, designated X, In serted a somewhat Imposing adver tisement In n newspaper, with the or thodox coupon with following notice: . "Please detach this coupon. On pros- I entatlon at the box office the propri etor, X, will glvo a roductlon of 50 per cent on each ticket." Y, the rival, was, like Mrs. Gilpin, "a careful soul," so ho hit upon an In- ' genlous plan of checkmating X, and In serted under X's advertisement the following: "Y's numerous friends are informed thnt If they presont X'a cou pons at Y'a box office they will be ad mitted at half price," theroby saving i the coat of tho spaco occupied by the counon of X. I Miss M. Ruth Taylor TEACHER OF PIANO 324 West Idaho. Phone 205 Edith M. Swan THAOIlEli 01? PIANO, HARMONY and Musical History Studio 424 Laramio Avenue rj li o n n Q !2 O WILLIAM MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT LW, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, EUGENE BURTON Attorney at Law Office in rooms formerly, occupied bv R. C. Noleman, First Nal'l Bank blk Phone t8o. ALLIANCE. NEB. H. IYL BULLOCK. Attorney at Law, WILCOX & BROOME LAW AND LAND ATTORNEYS. Long experience in state and federal courts and as Register and Receiver U. S. Land Office is a guarantee for prompt and efficient service. Office In tnnd Offlco miUdlng. ALLIANCE - NEBRASKA. . Drs. Coppernoll & Petersen OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS (Successors to Drs. Prey & Dalfe) Over Norton's Store Office Phone 43, Residence 20 GEO. J. HAND, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat DR. C. H. CHURCHILL PHYSICIAN AND SCRGEON (Successor to Dr. J. E. Mooro) OFFICE IN FLETCHER BLOCK Office hours 1l-12n, m. 2-4 p.m. 7:30-9 p, m. Office Phone 62 Res. Phone( 85 H. A. COPSEY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 300 Culls answered promptly day and night from olUlce. Offices: Alliance National Bank Building over tho PostOlUco. DR. CHAS. E. SLAGLE WITH DR. BELLW.OOD Special Attention Paid to Eye Work Drs. Bowman & Weber PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS First National Bank Bldg. RoomB 4-5-6 Office hours, 10 to 12 a. in., 1:30 to 4, 7 to 8 p. m. Office Phone 65 Res. Phone 16 & 184 Dr. H. R. Belville zDE3Isa:zs,x, All first-class up-to-date work done in most careful manner PHONE 1C7 Opera House Block Alliance, Nebr. T, J. THRELKELD, Undertaker and Embalmer OFFICE PHONE 498 ' RES. PHONE 207 ALLIANCE, NEBR, THE GADSBY STORE Funeral Directors and Embalmers FUNERAL SUPPLIES OFFICE PHONE 498 RESIDENCE PHONES 207 and 510 Shoe Repairing PROHPTLY DONE OMMJMMUUaMiiaMHUMBMUMMMWMM All Work Strictly First-Class 11. D. Nichols BOX BUTTE AVENUE AT ALLIANCE SHOE STORE W. F. ROSEN KRANZ Practical Blacksmithing and Wagon Work. Horseshoeing a Specialty Stop on Dakota St, Lotxeea Box Butte and laramra Avenues, Alliance, Neb. a f M ' r tOWc" J