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TIIE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921.
Just a Business
Woman
Br DOROTHY WHITCOMB
"Seeim to me you young fotka don'l
thlDk of nothing tut pleasure," tald
lira. Atluiug Querulously, at she
.watched her daughter Lizzie put on
br new hut.
MI wou't be gone long," replied Ll
mle, "Wet1., see Hint Fl Wlnton bring
jrou tack wife," grumbled the elder
wom&n, watching her daughter envi
ously as she pasied through the door
nd Into the village street.
But Lizzie Adiinis wus not thinking
rf Si Wlnton, whom her mother had
elected as her be:iu. HI was not un
willing that he should be the subject
t jrenial approbation, for the Ad
ms fumlly wus the first In the coun
ty, and It was a colhiternl branch, the
VVInthrop AduuiseM, who owned the
trig new cotton mill which drew thou
sands of young people front the moun
tain dint nets to work there. Lizzie
Adams, however, was of the poorer
branch. Her small wage was all that
sustained their family of two and
before that they hud lived la the ut
most penury. .
Lizzie Adams was not going to the
Wage. Instead she made tier way
toward the brand-new brick mansion
f her cousin ilerlx-rt, who hnd come
from college the week before to take
charge of the mill upon the occasion
of his father's sudden demise. They
bad been sweethearts In the good old
Otys, before Wlnthrop Adams had
Msen from a country atore-keeper to a
twuntry magnate, by a shrewd Invest
taenL But doubtless Flerbert had long
go forgotten her. For she had not
keen him for four five years, it must
She was not hoping to meet Her
bert ; ahe was Just taking a stroll, at
tired In her best hat and hef one
Wearable gown.
Those who seek, find. Lizzie met
Herbert driving a smart trap, and by
bis side sat a young lady, dressed In
what seemed to Lizzie the height of
fashion. And because there was hard
ly room to pass the trap stopped, and
Herbert recognized her. and bowed
nd smiled, end. the trap disappeared
behind her.
"Tou haven't quarreled with Si Win
ton V asked her mother, crossly, when
Ltsxie returned.
"No, I didn't meet hlra," answered
the girl. Two minutes later she was
Stifling her sobs upon her bed tn the
little room adjoining the Invalid's.
It llerbert had no thoughts for her
Upon the street, how would he greet
ber In the mill when, dressed In her
sorting clothes and covered with lint,
he tolled at the machine? She could
Hot bear to drag herself Into the place
tiext morning. The girls stood there,
beavy-eyed, sullen of face, dreaming of
Sunday and of their beaux.
"Now, then, don't stand dreaming
there 1" shouted Miss Jones, the fore
woman, to Lizzie. "Don't you know
yout.g Mr. Adums Is coming round to
tnsjevt this place this morning?"
It was toward noon when Herbert
Adams came In, escorted by the fore
man. Halfway down he came upon
Utile. He must have seen her. Hut
be did not even look at her.
At tJoo.i Lizzie crept away to spend
the half hour's recess somewhere un
der the trots.
Suddenly a shadow fell across her
ath and she found herself looking up
Into the face of bronzed young mon
Whose eyes were be;it upon her with
tmtutxtakable Interest. '
Lizzie," exclaimed the. mill own
r, "I saw you leaving the grounds,
snd followed you. How do you dot
I've often thought of you since we
parted lot me see. years ego, It
tnust be." ,
Ton seemed to forget your no'lt
bess this morning In the mill.'' the girl
retorted, struggling to keep back her
tears.
"Why," exclaimed the young man
In astonishment, "really. I was so em
barrassedI thought It best"
"Yes. you were embarrassed be
cause I wasn't dressed like your friend
yesterday," she blurted out, and could
have bitten her tongue afterward.
Miss KeitnT Why she why, Lit
tle, dear, she's the agent for the cot
ton company Just a business woman,
who Is negotiating for the year's out
put. You didn't think "
Suddenly he taught her In his arnis
Lizzie," he whispered, with his face
very close to hers, "did you think I
bad forgotten? Don't you know my
father sent me away to college be
cause I cared? I want you, Lizzie. Just
as I always did ; I want a girt of my
own country and my own people, not
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Hontst Prints of Long Ago.
The first and only edition of Cava
Ueri's "Six Geometrical Discussions"
published In Bologna, NUT, was liber
ally Illustrated with woodcuts of ex
planatory diagrams. At least the dia
grams were explanatory to the Initi
ated. Evidently they failed to make
the matter In hand clear to the printer
tor he locked one of the cutt In the
' form upside down and ao It went te
the press. One may easily Imagine
the consternation of Prof. Ca vailed,
the father of calculus, when be dis
covered the mistake. Probably to ap
pease him, the apologetic publisher
caused extra proofs of the woodcut to
be pulled and pasted lu each copy of
the bOitk over the inverted rifurram
The honest nrintxr fur Vil m r ,11
I v. m.w .1 la vtUU I
-seek to hide his original fault, but left
roe end unpasted ao that today lifting
tte flap reveals the mistake beueath.
RANDOM SHOTS
We have hint lmort tV itnWu ,t -
dress of Harold Bell Wright, but have
not the slightest intention of. ever
using it.
Inebriated cent in a (Titcn
house was discovered, after the "Good
wtrnt sifrn had been flashed on the
screen, still fitting in the back row,
holding in his arms an enormous bou
riuet of roses. "I'm waiting to take
Marv Pickforci home." he evnlni
the ushers. .
"Women are funny," admits one of
them. We'll be eqifally frank and sny
that there are times when men strike
us about the same way.
TODAY'S BEST STORY.
(Honestly, we've read better ones.)
The Ipfldinir Inrlv tf nn trt
theatrical company met the leadmg
man of an outgoing troupe at the
railroad station.
"Did you have a rood hones her?"
she asked engerly.
"o, pretty small," he admitted
"Too bad but perhaps you got r.
lot of applause."
"Well." he hesitated. "tW
dog that managed somehow to get
into ine piace and once I thought I
noticed him wag his tail."
Speaking of chilly audiences, Alli
ance has the world cheated. It's true
that now and then th vmi.WH'o ia
fairly punk, but a quartet composed
in jennie L.ina, jime. Bembrich, John
McCormack and Caruso wouldn't get
more than a ripple of applause here.
It's got to the point where, when a
man applauds an act, people nearby
look at him accusingly, in the belief
that he's in the employ of the house.
THE LATESTKID STORY
After having been repeatedly warn
ed never to speak a profane word, the
five-year-old son came to his mother
to report the wickedness of one of
his playmates.
"Oh, mother," he ejaculated, "Tom
my said an awful word. He said he
sh.i1 the name of the man who runs
Hell."
A brace of high school girls, with
their sweeties, sat in the gallery a
the movie the other night. Wonder
how they felt when the hjrhts went on
at the close of the second show, dis
closing the presence of one of the
profs. . . ,
THAT DARNED MAKEUP
(Cozad Local.) "
"In our issue of week before last,
we mentioned that N. M. York, our
county attorney, was a Cozad visitor
and just below it stated that nature
sometimes made mistakes in that she
sometimes put all the bone in the
head and none in the back. These were
two separate items, but through error
of not putting a dash rule between
them, will cause some people to think
that the Local was trying to give Mr.
York a dig."
After Bruce Wilcox of Bridgeport
learns that all Alliance agrees with
The Herald when it charged the Mor
rill county men with bad faith, he may
proceed to call the entire town down
for being misinformed. That oli"
pirate has more nerve than a govern
ment mule, and he's about aa thick.
Remember the stories about the
Hellish Hun plots that used to be so
frequent during the war? Well, an
other one of them has just been un
covered in Denver, where a German
has accused his wife of attempting to
take his life by feeding him thousand
legged worms mixed with carrots.
Either the carrots or the worms would
have been bad enough, but the com
bination Ach, Gottl ,
'S a funny thing how 'a mere pho-
tograph can attract so much atten
tion. And yet, come to think of it,
it was the pose which drew attention
to "September Morn."
UYou never can tell where voull find
wit. A Nebraska" City woman found
a piece .of rubber in some sausage she
purchased,' and hurried down to bawl
out the 'butcher. "Madam," he told
her, "it's simply another indication of
the way the automobile is supplanting
the horse."
LIES FOR TODAY.
''Today's Weather."
"I was too young to remember that."
"We'd love to hear you sing."
"Two can live as cheap as one."
"Prohibition."
The nation's bill for silk stockings
last year was 'in the neighborhood of
half a million dollars. Not only that,
but it was worth it. They adJ ten
billion to the looks . f
Grand Island has a new wrinkle for
ChriFtmas. The dummy cops on the
street intersections are to be dolled up
irt imitation of Christmas trees, with
little electric lights and everything.
Now, if they would only make the
drinking fountains into punch bowls,
it would be a regular Christmas.
An Alliance business man boasts
that he does the lion's hare of the
work in his store. We do the lion's
share of the work in this shop, for that
matter. Lion's don't work.
THE TOWN GOSSIP.
(Nebraska City Press.)
THE WISE maiden -SCENTETH
TROUBLE
AFAR OFF and avoideth
TROUBLE BY staying away
BUT THE foolish virgin
MERELY SAYS "Don't"
VERILY, VERILY. :
PA'S SOnTn-LAW.
Gem from the Congressional Record
(Nicholas Lonjrworth speaking):
The gentleman (Mr. Garner) has
but one object in view. He it an
adept at muddying the waters in order
to attempt, as he always does, to drive
a wedire which shall separate the
cohesive majority on this side of the
House.' (Applause.)
We saw a democratic editorial the
other day and it warmed the very
jXmas Specials
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Priced especially low for
iristmas trade.
$30.00, $48.00, $54,00
GEO. D. DARLING
115-117 West Third Street
Buy Xmas Candy
At a Big Saving
Mixed'Xmas Candy
1 lb. 20c
5 lbs. ... 95c
10 lbs. $1.75
20 lbs $3.30
Coconut Candy
1 Jb. . 30c
2 lbs T 50c
Toaster Marshmallows
1 lb 40c
2 lbs. ... 70c
5 lbs $1.50
Peanut Candy
and Brittle '
1 lb. . 20c
2 lbs ; 35c
5 lbs. 80c
French Creams
and Gumdrops
1 lb. 23c
5 lbs. $1.00
10 lbs .'.$1.80 II
20 lbs. $3.30 i j
Pure Taffy 1 flavors
, lib 15c
. , 2 lbs 25c
' 1 5 lbs I 55c
10 lbs. $1.00
Chocolates
1 lb 30c
2 lbs 55c
5 lbs... $1.30 3
10 lbs. $2.30
20 lbs. $4.20
cockets of our heart to see the phrase,
"The Old Guard, " spelled with capital
letters, Just that way. How long it
seems since that fateful second of No
vember when Joy departed from the
democrats.
Which reminds us that there was
once a Cox-Roosevelt club.
Cox was a luckx. guy, but no one
will ever be able to convince him of
"it
We can match any Ivory piece
you wish to give for Xmas. Bren
nan's. 6
A three-act comedy for the business
man, "Nothing But tho Truth." Thurs
day night, Imperial. . 6-7
Buy your Xmas Candies at
Brennan's. ' 6
Keep December 22 open. That's thf
the Tuth' for twenty-four hours. 6-7
Herald Want Ads are read.
At cooler weathe raoDroaches the!
great American business man hope to
become acquainted .with his family
again.
The English language hat about
600,000 words, but paragraphers con
tinue to coin new ones about the
weather.
We serve a special Xmas din
ner. If, you don't eat at home,,
try us. Brennan's.
A French corporal and one private
took 100 German soldiers as prisioners,
but maybe they were not very anxious
to fight. I
Though the world has never before
been so warlike, never before has the
world been so thoroughly convinced of
the folly of war. j
A restaurant keeper accused of cri-'
city toward a lbbstei' insists it isn't
an animal. Still, it may be. j
Many of tte newspapers are print
ing editorials on the shark, r.nd not
one has a kind word to my.
It isn't the -quality of the ftuff that
makes it a luxury, but whether you
have the money to pay for it
BARGAIN IN
MOTORS
New 14,-horse motors,
110-volt, will run from lamp
6ocket; suitable for attach
ing to washing machine.
White they last
$20.00
Auto Electric Service
Ben W. Keach, Mgr.
k"SW !ft tWHWi SNrtf
Order Xmas Tree
. LET US SELECT ONE FOR YOU, AND DELIVER IT THE DAY
or Two Before Christmas. Prices Very Reasonable This Year
HEADQUARTERS FOR HOLLY WREATHS AND MISTLETOE
Early
Delicious Apples, per box . $4.50
Jonathan Apples, per box . $3.00
Gano Apples, per bushel , .$1.95
Winesaps, Rome Beauty and
Wagner in Boxes
See Our Line of
Christmas Candies and Nuts
MEAT Prices For SATURDAY
Puritan Ham, jer lb ...... .28c
Sugar Cured Bacon, lb. ,28c
Hog Fat, per lb. . . . 8c
Fresh Side Pork, per lb. .... 15c
Hamburger, per lb. 15c
Rib Boiling Beef, per lb. . . .10c
Rib Roast, per lb 15c
Home Made Pure Pork
Sausage, per lb. 25c
Ma1 lery Grocery Company
"Quality Grocers"
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PECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE SELECTED WITH
TASTE. WE OFFER OUR SELECTION AND EX
PERIENCE TO HELP YOU.
He's Happy to Get
Xmas Gifts Like
These
Fresh Pop Corn, per pound ; 30c -
Quantity Roasted Peanuts Ask for Price
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BOX CANDY AT LOWEST PRICES
Lowney's and Brecht's Chocolates in fancy Christmas
Boxes. Also Chinese Baskets. . All New Stock
CANDY CANES, special for Christmas
Decorations, priced 2 for 5c, and up
Special Prices to Churches, Schools and Parties in Quantity 1
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vmance Aanuy oiore
210 Box Butte Phone 27
READ OVER the LIST You'll See Many Things You Want to Get
Silk Shirts in Xmas pack
ages Fine, stylish Mufflers
Leather Collar Bags
Silk Handkerchiefs in Xmas
boxes
Traveling Bags
Men's Garters in. Xmas
boxes, single or double
grip
Leather Dress Gloves, lined
or unlined
Silk Socks, different shades
Garter and Arm Band Sets
Serviceable Caps
Leather Belt with Sterling
Silver Initial buckle.
Travelo" Knit Jackets and
Vests
Linen Handkerchiefs with
neat initials
Sweaters
Useful Cloth Hats
An exceptional assortment of TIES, all
kinds, priced 23c to $1.48
Soft Collars,, all the latest styles and ma
terials, priced at 23c to 50c
Hosiery, in Silk, Wool, Cotton and Lisle,
at, the pair 122c toJ7jc
Cuff Links, Collar Pins and Tie Pins, all
very reasonably priced.
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Box Butte
Avenue
E. G. Laing
"Modern Clothes For Men"
Alliance N
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