THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1922.
SI 0 M E
GROWN
By FANNIC HURST
und white electric t.ulbf glowed
against a blue and white cheesecloth
background.
Tropical palms, with skilfully dyed
fronds and twined half way tip with
brown cotton nios, huddled In a little
Jungle around the plnno and violin
accompaniment. Ktrnlght around the
desert of room, chnlrs. backi to wall
and legs touching, nwnlted action aa
a Mage library netting, discovered at
the rise of curtain, awaits the en
trance of the French maid In her four
dollar silk stocking to tickle the fur
niture and the audience with a tiny
feather duster and tinier French ac
cent. After a while the scratching of a
violin for Hi note and the one finger
tum-m-m tuin-m-m on the plnno; the
light blather of voices rising to a swell.
Unstylish women In shotted silk
dresses with waist lines and decent
width skirts and bodices cut high over
bosoms that would have quivered un
der bareness. The Invitational rhythm
of waits muatc and Dink-halred violin-
IIEHE'S WHAT'S HAPPENED. Iat .waving In the palm Jungle. A
Mi Rirdie Fink is spending her couple glided out Into the Sahara of
vacation at the Beach hotel, where she polished floor, another and yet an-
has made a most favorable impression other.
It is easy enough to beat swords in-
to plowshares, but what use can we
ind for cloves 7
TODAY'S GOLF STORY
Ovpritf a, ma, r tm wmur i,it, u
(Continued from last week)
upon two men. One of them is me
' !otl clerk Mr. Gilly the other is
Mr. Prokes, head of the American
Order of Bison, which Is holding a con
Tention at the hotel. Gilly is a ladies'
man for fair nifty dancer and all that
sort of think. Prokes is an older man,
the substantial business man sort. He
straws a picture of happy home life
trith Birdie, and it fascinates her.
Then Birdie takes a canoe ride und
picnic supper with Gilly. She's drawn
. strongly toward Prokes and the happy
home idyll, but Gilly is showing a f ne
4dtime. Now read on:
The wings of their bonfire had flown
Into the night; only the sullen em
bera remained, red eyes guarding the
tmroai.ia of their cannibalistic feast
Tbey scurried down the beach and In
to their bobbing canoe; aa they
poshed away the red eyes blinked out
wMenly as If a night bird had died
sa) watch, and the gloom was Imuia
. lately a shade bluer and the mucll
leglnous mist of night rose off the
Water.
"You're a nice boy, Gilly; but gee,
Tea're a bum paddler. You Jerk a boat
.round like a subway train coming to
quick stop. Say, look at that moon,
will you, like a red Chinese lantern
kung from a star."
Yep."
I "La-la, tra la, tra la la la tra la 1"
"Sing to me, blrdle-blrdle I'm game
on the poetry stuff If you are. That's
ne of the main excitements up here
lngln on the water I"
Through the catncotublc gloom they
miled at each other.
Waa they play that ragtime lullaby
-i" "No lemme begin over again "
Iwm( and tow, sweet and low, -Vr
tad of th western ---
. Mow blow tra la la
"TU remember the rest tn a minute."
Mr. Gilly plied a rapid paddle. ' ,
W won't go horn until mornln'
' ar won't so home until mornln' -
"Wont we. Glllyr 1
"Sura we will. Ill have you back
aa your two-a-day, southern exposure,
tittle while after the convention is
tabbed singing Its eleven o'clock
wag. and has presented the grand
taaater of the Kokomo lodge with a
loving cup and tied the vote be.
Elkhart Lake and Minneapolis
fer the next convention."
"Oh. geel"
"What I
"I I aay, what time la It by your
fetd watch and chalnf
"Nine-thirty the night la young,
Horning Glory."
1 aw, who wants to go over to that
little old dump anyway, Gilly I . It
1 looks like a good spot for your favorite
funecol. I I gotta wantta be back
by ten I forgot something."
air. Gilly slowed his stroke; his
anouth took on a Blight oblique alant
i distemper.
"Don't let me keep you up. Miss
Ftat
"Let's turn around, Gilly. I bet them
movies over there would put a night
wl to sleep. Gee, how dead It looks
let's turn back."
Sure thing."
lie swung around so suddenly that
ehe clutched at the sided of the Bliell
tor balunce.
Cee you got a temper like steel.'
Silence.
ln't you get sore easy, though 1'
' "I alu't sore."
The vigorous dipping of the paddle
and the swift cutting of water.
Say, Gilly, alnt you afraid of
breaking the Epecd luws?"
Silence.
A star streaked downward and died
la Its flight Miss Fink lay Hut back
ward in the bout, her face foreshort
ened and upturned.
Shootln' star's luck, ain't It, Gilly V
"Dunno I"
She ucstled deeper Into her cushion,
one arm flung high In a semicircle
about her head and her lids so low
over her eyes that she mlht have
been a sleeping Adrians.
Drip Drlp-p I They floated silently,
In a rustle of moving waters.
A smile trembled across Miss Fink's
Hps and she oiened them so that her
Tolce came softly, softly:
fiweet and low. ameet and low,
Wind of the western
Blow, blow, breeiee blow,
Wiud of the weiiern mn e
The Beach hotel gleamed yellow
from every window as If It were pos
ing for a picture postcard or where-to-spend-your-vacatlon
pamphlet.
The dining room was cleared of lta
Isle-forming tables and lta floor pol
ished to a mirror. At the far end of
the. room a clock pricked out In blue
Presently a bobbing throng, the
women flushed with their primal love
of the dance, the men In fast wilting
collars and out of step. Mr. Prokea
Inserted ' a third handkerchief, bib
fashion. Inside his fainting collar and
took Miss Fink tn an antiquated em
brace of the waits.
"Whew I"
"For the new grand master you ain't
doing bad. Proksey you've taken
every man's wife of 'em around, ain't
your
Mr. Prokes mopped at his face with
a fourth handkerchief and writhed In
his evening clothes as If he would fly
their broadcloth.
"Yes. but It's almost over. The
eleven o'clock aong and the passing
of the loving cup, and then I'm ready,
sister, for what I bean waltln' for ail
evening guess I"
"Can'tl".
"The prettiest and sweetest little
girl Jn the crowd end a little gray col
ored canoe. M don't like It a bit, your
da net n" around here with all those
other fellows you Just wait till I'm
off duty."
"What I think of these guys I"
"I ain't much cm dancing myself,
little sister, but I ra game but watch
me after the eleven o'clock song puts
me off duty and I've started the lovln
cup around I You and me, sister, and
the HttJe gray shell. Heady now, one
two three ready now go I"
Miss Fink pirouetted skilfully
around Mr. Prokes' heavy-footed am
blc, a wood nymph matching her
dainty pace to her favorite Bruin of
thg forest. -- '- r- ;'i
"Good, Proksey that was a swell
reverse. Say, there's a fortune for a
dancing teacher out this way
"One two three I"
"Ouch I Lemme try to guide. No,
now start over again; Just try to
klnda keep your feet where mine ain't
and you'll come out all right.'
"One two "
"So good now you're all right
No, that was my fault Heverse again
Ouch I"
"I I give It up, sister.'
"Whew!"
"It Just ain't right to ask a little
fairy like you to steer me around.
How'd you like to go out In a quiet
corner of the veranda and cool off; It's
ten minutes before the shoutln' and we
can wait out where It'a e.ulet" .
"Yep. It la hot In here, ain't ItF
Mr. Prokes breathed aa If for a lung
capacity test. Inserted a fourth hand
kerchief Into the limp rag of collar and
held wide the screen door. A rush of
air lifted his hair and dried tbe beads
on bis brow.
Light dresses and light voices drift'
ed from black corners of the veranda
and from the recesses of rocking
chairs. A chain of Japanese lanterns
stretched between two pillars, swung
and flickered, and out above the
cedars, standing darkly with thel
crowns against the sky, a lopsided
moon with a swollen and Inflamed
face. Invited them.
"Whew, this Is more like It 1 Here
two chairs. There ain't no use talk
Ing, I'm more at home on an Ice Held
than a dunce floor. I Just ain't got
the knack. My, but you do look pret
ty tonight. Miss Fluk."
"Aw r
"Here, fasten this bmtonhole rose
of mine In your hair; it Just matches
your cheeks. Pretty as a picture you
look, you do."
(To Be Concluded)
We put on Ford ton covers complete
for $12.00. ThrelkehL 124 West 3d
Street. G3-tf
RANDOM SHOTS
A golf fiend died and went to heav
en. At tne ream uaie ne askeu
Peter if they played golf there. He
as told there were no golf links there-
He asked if they had a golf course in
Hell and SU Peter paid it was his un
derstanding that they had one below,
so our hero Journeyed thither. Upon
arrival there, they took him to a won
derful course, furnished him a caddy
and told him to play to his heart's
content But when he asked for golf
balls, they said: "That's the hell oi it;
there are no balls."
Don't be always worrying how the
other fellow is getting ahead. Spend
some of that thought on your own
busincss.v You will find it pays.
A device has been invented that will
enable one to play golf in his own
backyard. The invention, no doubt,
of a wife.
TODAY'S BEST STORY
In the old days of the traveling cir
cus there lived a tall, lanky guy in a
small town who prmed himself on be
ing an expert barber and drummer. He
was a charter member of the ' town
band. .
Along in the middle of the sum
mer a circus pulled into town and en
gaged the local band for the parade.
bach member of the band was given a
pass to the show for his services.
Everything went along fine and in
the evening the different members of
the band presented their complimen-
taries and passed into the big tent
Our tonsonal drummer friend was
not with the bunch, but appeared later
carrying a fair sized load of four and
one-half per cent. As he stood at the
entrance he started to fumble around
in his pockets for his entrance paste
board. He looked apparently in every
pocket then told the ticket taken he
guessed he had lost his ticket This
worthy said. "Why you are the fellow
who played the big bass drum in the
band today, ain't you ?" The drummer
Baid these were the facts. "Well."
said the show man, "You had a pass,
you couldn't have lost your pass.
"is zat soi .ats what you shav,
The hell I couldn't loss my pass,
Didn't I lose my drum?"
You don't know these days whether
the little girl next door is hanging
out her doll clothes or her mother s
Viola Dana, nifty little moVie star,
sure holds some brief for dancing. She
admits there's an intoxication in dimcr
ing, but says it's healthy, and above
all, ehe favors the freedom of the
knees.
a preacher. In thU rnu th Inet IIhaI
was "Dancing is a greater sin."
THE FOWL THING. '
(Discovered by the Chadron Journal.)
She laid the still, white form beside
those that had gone before. No groan,
no sign from her. Suddenly she let
forth a cry that pierced the still air.
making it vibrate into a thousand
echoes. It seemed as if it came from
her very soul. . Twice the cry was re
peated, and then all was quiet again.
She Would lay another egg tomorrow.
CAN'T WEAR OUT.
So the boy was received by Warden
Edward J. Fogarty, bathed, clipped
and given the suit he will wear the
rest of his life, unless pardon inter
venes. Omaha Daily News.
PHONE RATE
HEARING SET
FOR APRIL 17
TO PROBE RELATIONS WITH THE
PARENT COMPANY.
Railway Commission Also Promises to
Go Into Matter of Efficiency
and Wages Paid Employes. -
City Manager N. A. Kemmish is now
emrasred in preparing the Alliance
case against the increase in rates asked
by the Jjorthwestem cell leiepnone
company, Some weeks ago, prior to
the first hearing, Mr. Kemmish pre
pared a most comprehensive argument
against allowing the increase, but at
the hearing held in January, it was
decided to allow other interested towns
and cities time to prepare like cases.
The provision in the Alliance franchise
by means of which the city was en
titled to ask for ligures from the corn
many covering receipts and expendi
tures, is believed to have been largely
instrumental in giving the other inter
ested towns a like opportunity. Mr.
Kemmish has had time since the hear
ing to develop his argument against
the increase and it is believed that
his figuies will have strong weight at
the hearing.
Mr. Kemmish a few days ago re
ceived a letter from the state railway
THE PARSON'S CORNER
By Rev. B. J. Minort, Pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Alliance
LAW VS. GRACE,
provided a substitute for man in the
person of Christ, and in his person we
have all died, and those who believe
and accept Him as such are looked
upon as having paid the penalty of
the broken law.
A train, law. bv its verv perfection.
lays upon us burdens of duty. The
The doctrine of law and trace has moment a new law is enacted, that
ever been the ground of theological moment a new duty is created. Each,
debate and, of course, like all other new law adds a new duty of keeping-
questions little understood, many false it Grace interposes ana tuts tnese
impressions exist on this question, burdens and helps us to bear them
That the -doctrines of law and grace Psalm 65:22, "Cast thy burden upon
play a large part in the christian dis- the law and He shall sustain thee."
pensation is acknowledged by all, but Christ came to keep the law for us,
few desire to discuss it for fear some- and in His keep'ng we are reckoned
one will cry, "Prejudice." It is hard , as having kept the whole law.
to convince a man that he cannot be
come saved by keeping the law, and
when you speak to him about grace,1
he often does not know what you are
referring to. Let us look at the mat
ter of law and grace frankly, and re
if we shall not discover some things
about it that will shed new light 'ipon
this fundamental doctrine of Chris
tianity. The province of law is to command.
It is, as someone has said, "authori
tative." In the chapter wherein is
found the decalogue we find the
phrase, "Thou shalt," at least sixteen
times. Law requires obedience regard
less of ability, in order to acceptance,
The law of the state requires as per
fect obedience from the weak aa fiom
the strong. No provision is made for
a man's condition. The boy who in
herits a criminal nature is expected
to keep the law aa perfectly as the
boy who comes into this world with
an inclination to be good and law
abiding. Law knows no mercy. The
iroment Adam and Eve disobeyed, that
moment law required full satisfaction.
Law has no room for pardon; it
must exact penalty; it knows no mer
cy. The soul that sinneth it shall die,,
is a decree of law that cannot be set
aside. It can recognize only deserts.
The wages of sin is death. Rom. 6:23.
Grace, however, will remit penalty, and
makes no reference to deserts, but be
stows gifts. Rom. 5:19, "For as
through the one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, even so
through the obedience of the One shall
the many be made righteous.
The wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life through)
our Lord Jesus Christ"
The only condition of being accept
able to law is perfect obedience. The
law will uphold the landlord in evict
ing the tenant from the house into
the street to freeze to death, regard
less of the fact that the tenant is sick
and has been unable tto work for
weeks, and that his inability to pay is
the result of misfortune with no fault
of his. Law, after it ia violated, knows
nothing but punishment and ven
geance. Law is authoritative and
iiothing else. t
Still again, the law by its very per
fection and exacting demands lays
upon the sinner duties that he is un
able to bear and fulfill, therefore
bringing the sinner in despair. There
is nothing but despair for the law
breaker, for as far as the law is con
cerned he has nothing but punishment
awaiting him. Grace, however, in
spires hope even in the most hopeless.
Saul, the persecutor of christians, who
went about killing people for no other
reason than that they professed Chris
tianity, met Christ, the personificatiorit
of God's grace, and immediately he ex
perienced a new born hope, and he
was transformed into an enthusiastic
preacher of the gospel he at one time
hated.
The province of grace, however, is
to enable it is vitalizing. It will take
the lawbreaker and provide a substi
tute for his violation. It will satisfy
commission, asking if the date set,) the law for his guilt and then enable
Aoril 17. allowed sufficient time to him to keep it hereafter. Grace vi-
prepare his case, and asking what he
proposed to present as evidence. Mr.
Kemmish has replied, stating that Al
liance's case is all ready for the jury,
but asking for information as to the
sort of showing that the company
wants. The Alliance city manager
has r.o desire to duplicate figures un
necessarily. Ihe following newspaper
report shows the trend of the com
mission's prospective investigation:
The state railway commission has
tet for hearing at Lincoln on April 17
iha implication of the Northwestern
Bell Telephone company for an order
iiuucing permanent uie present sched
ule of rates save aa changed in some
particulars in the various exchanges.
A number of cities were represented
in the hearing, and these are co-operating
with the state commission in
bringing out all the facts, according to
the State Journal.
The first part of the hearing will be
devoted to an investigation of the
Northwestern a relations with' the1
Western . Electric company and the
American Telephone & Telegraph com
pany. The stockholders in all three
companies are practically the same.
The Northwestern buys all of its sup-
tlies and equipment from the Western
llectric, which is a manufacturing
concern, and pays AM per cent of all
its gross revenue to the American
Telephone & Telegraph company, or
$17,000 a month.
Other states have investigated the
relations between the Bell subsidiary
companies and these other corpora
tions, but this is the first time that Ne
braska has probed them- Th) protect
ing subscribers raise the point that
under these conditions it is possible
that they are being charged too much,
and they want to know about it The
parent company pays 9 per cent divi
dends, while its subsidiary in this sec
tion is earning less than 4 per cent
Might it not be, ask the subscribers,
that the Northwestern pays too much
for its material and too mu-.h of a
royalty to the A. T. &. T. ? The latter
! company, it might be added, owns a
number of other subsidiaries ami also
vast numbers of long distance lines.
The company will bring eastern wit
nesses to the first hearing to prove its
contentions that while possibilities of
overcharging exist in the buying of
everything it uses from the Western
Electric. as a matter of fact it ?,as
less than it can buy elsewhere because!
of quantity production. It also con
tends that for the 4Vi - r cert royalty
talizes through the putting of a new
Lastly, law cannot change character.
It has no transforming power. Grace
undertakes to make a new character,,
a. new man of him who believes and
accepts Christ 2 Cor. 5:17. "If a
man is in Christ he is a new creature.""
Thrilling examples of the transform
ing power of the gospel could be
shown.
(To Be Continued.)
Tribal dances of the Sioux Indiana.
are said to be demoralizing. Has some-
NEWBLOM SALE IS SET
FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 28
Announcement is made by A. L. and
M. M. Newblom. living fourteen miles
south of Cliadron on the state high
way, of a public sale on Tuesday,
March 28, commencing at 10 a. m., at
which time they will offer eighty-five
head of cattle, including a number of
pure bred Herefords; eleven head of
horses; fourteen pure bred Poland
China brood sows; some chickens, a
big lot of farm machinery and house
hold goods. There will be a free lunch
at noon. S3
A story is going the rounds telling
of the awful revenge taken by the, lit
tle boy who was spanked by his sister's
sweetheart I irot even with him.
though," said the precocious youth. "I
. ! 1 . 1 , . I '
put quinine in ner laicum powaer. j-r
A New York newspaper is offering
a prize of a bale of hay to the first
reporter who cafl successfully explain
why he speaks of a "housewife" and
never mentions a "house husband."
irrnniDi p a orrrir-vrT t-
j 4,niwiid nw LfLiiii V'.
(Zanesville, O., Times.)
" Miss Mayite Collins has sued John
L. Nelson at Columbus for $5,000 dam
ages as the result of an accident' on
the Bathing Beach toboggan at Back-
eye Lake last July. Miss Collins says
snc picKeu up a spunier wnue siloing
down the toboggan, severely injuring
her dignity. t
SANDHILL POETESS WINS;
The Random Shootist's great poeti
cal contest, which started two or three
issues ago, has finally been decided and
we are about ready to give the result
to a waiting world. Out of the hund
reds of entries, the judges, which con
sisted of A. H. Harper, and a couple of
other Judges of poetry and motion, de
cided that the prize belonged to the
Sandhill Poetess, who writes under the
nom-de-plume of Rose Wildrose.
Rose's completed verse reads after this
fashion:
Flap on, flap on, bold galosh'.
Some folks think that you're all bosh
Although you hide an ankle trim,
You save the eyes waen the leg s too
thin.
There were other entries, but this
cne seemed to e.iter into the spirit of
the thing somewhat better than the
others. The Chadron entries were
expecially good: Leo Lloyd declined to
enter the competition, probably be
cause he was so wonted in other com
petitions with our own poets, but he lit gets vital parts of all instruments
olfeis "You do not covar all the limb" used in engineering, accounting and
just to show that he could compete if other services that make it a very good
he w anted to. Doc Pect of Chadron. ;in ' contract for the Northwestern.
old head at the contest game, ug- During the hearing, which is cx
gests: "You make the watchful eyes pected to take a number of days, the
spirit within the repentant sinner, and one been teaching the red man to tod
by giving him a new power which is die or shimmy 7
not his, but one which he may appro- .
priate as his, and through which he So-called mystery ships have been,
is enabled to keep the law that has responsible for elevating the bootleg "
hitherto been beyond him. Things he per to ihe picturesque dignity of be
once could not do can now be done; ing called a pirate,
the law, which once he hated, he now,
loves. , . I There Is one thing more to be said'
I in favor of the prophets of good times-
One of my ancestors, during one of They are certain to be right 'if they
the Napoleonic wars, served out his keep it up long enough,
time and, loving the life of a soldier, I
agred to go back as the substitute for Just think of the matches that were
a rich man, at a certain sum, the used by the men, women and children
money going Jo his family. He was of this country who smoked 56,000,
killed as a substitute for the rich man. C00.000 cigarettes last year.
The laws of France could not draft I
the man whose substitute had died, I A Pittsburgh minister says "music
for in the person of the substitute he is the sunshine of the soul." Jazz:,
was legally dead. So the grace of God must be the moonshine.
When Fire Comes
SAVINGS OF A LIFE TIME ARE GONE
IN A FEW MINUTES
How is your insurance?
Look at Chicago with its great fire-fighting
apparatus and in one of the best pro
tected districts suffered a $10,000,000.00 to
$15,000,000.00 loss in a few hours this week.
See us TODAY and have your property
insured.
Snoddy & Graham
Insurance Agents Over Thiele's
Nature Intended that you should
eat what you want. You can do it if
you take Tanlac. F. E. Hosten.
Shoes should be cheaper this Bum
mer. More hide has been tanned this
winter than ever before.
The only spenders who are now de
voting their energies to keeping things
up are Euspenders.
You can also judge a man by the
records he keeps on the phonograph.
gTOw dim."
Ada Noid, Chadron's newest poet
ess, while not entering the competition,
is inspired to write a poem, so perhaps
our labor was not entirely wasted on
Chadron. Ada's verses go this way:
Unbuckle! Unbuckle I O lovely
galoshesl
The subject of many unmerciful
joshes;
Your zero-time duty is nearly i-ll
spent,
For summer is here and winter
has went.
Other lines were: "For ankle thirl
now look quite slim," "A husky leg
looks mighty thin," and ''No one lould
say your wearer's prim."
Before we forget it, we want to in
struct the operator to change a word
in one of the above paragraphs. Bet
ter make it "emotion" instead of "mo
tion," Friend Op.
There was a mysterious entry in the
competition. It was unsigned, but
written on stationery similar to some
we once sold to somebody probably
commission will also go .nta ;uei-tion
of efficiency, which naturally rn.ses
the matter of the wage level. The com
missioners say this angle of the case
will be approached with due cautrous
ness fo thiit the employes may not be
done an injustice. The wage level of
telephone workers will be contracted
with that of outside businesses, but
there is no intention on the part of the
commission to require persons who
work for public utilities to take less
wages than is paid outside or get out
of the work.
A military expert says the Asiatic
nations don't have money to make
war. Perhaps, then, they make war
to have money.
There are two kinds of men. Those
who should be permitted to die a
natural death, and those who think
they know it alL
A good credit is like a pistol; it's a
handy thing to have in time of trouble,
but it will get you in trouble when you
don't need it
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