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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1901)
mlkv eiw. MldJOT w F AnimUmf 3 7"-l w LONIO alono nt tho tnUrnlKht hour sit ting, my soul nnd I, Harking (round of tho wind's c o m plalnt, listing tho tlmo go ly. aTrontlng each to tho other's thought, with tho moon'n tnee, sweot nnd thin, A-watoh nt tho space of the window place, waiting tho yenr begin Waiting tit usher the Old Year out and wel- oomo tho Now Year In. Heavy my noul with grief nnd pain heavy, and bowed with tenrs, Worn with tho weight of Sorrow's hand, not with tho wolght of years; And 'twlxt us many a thing of woe, many a thought of sin, "While tho moon outHldc, llko a puro-cyed brldo, wnfl waiting tho year begin "Waiting us usher tho Old Year out and wclcomo tho Now Year In. My soul It spoko In the stilly darlt spoke, and1 I shrank and hoard, 'The chorda of my being pulsed nnd leaped, affrlKhtcd Llko captlvo bird; I heard, and I knew that such words wcro truo while tho new moon, sweet and thin, WU' sad siirprlno In her tender eyes' was waltlnjr tho yoar begin "Waltlnjr u ushsr tho Old Year out and welcome tho Now Year In. And I plend with my soul: "Judge not Judgonotl" nnd I prnyed: "NowYwr, bring graco." X foil on my knees In tho hush and dark I wept and hid my faco; For out of tho llnlto bounds of Time, from tho realms of "tho mlRht havo boon," "To scpulchor -of tho lnllnlto past boarlng mistakes and sin, Tho Old Year stolo ns tho church holla chimed and tho Now Year entered In. Mary Clnrko Huntington, in Oood Housekeeping. V -Z?rZZZM- wsw tlic city, nnd all the shops were aflame with llht nnd brightness. Annie gazed wistfully nt the pretty things in the grcnt windows; hIic wis but a little maid, and could not help wishing for pretty thingM for herself and for her mother and Teddy. Dtit the wine she must not linger; she would only look in one 7nore shop and then then she would seek the great shop where wine was sold in bot tles; surely the big, rosy-faced man whom she had often noticed standing In the doorway of his shop would listen to her wlory of poor Teddy and give her the wine. So tihv stood before this last store it wns a jcjwolry store nnd, oh, how beautiful the jewels looked sapphires and rubles and diamonds how they glittered. The sight was enough to fascinate older eyes than Annie's. Presently something in one corner of tho window caught her gaze it wasn't a Jewel, it was a switch of love ly hair; not one, but several, and be low them in pretty, shallow, satin lined boxen, were clusters of curls. A sudden thought came to Annie; she pressed her little hands together and held her breath, then paused a mo ment to gain courage, nnd passed reso lutely into the grent store. A kind looking man came forwnrd to meet her and said: "What can I do for you, lit tle ladyV" "Do you buy hairV" she nsked. "Sometimes, little one; why do you ask?" ' "Will you buy mine? Sec, I have plenty!" Bhc answered, taking off her lint nnd shaking her curls down over her shoulders, and looking up with anxious eyes. "Hut, my little girl, are your curls yours to sell?" "Oh, yes, sir; if you only knew wliy I must sell them, I nm sure you would buy them. Teddy is so ill that he needs things, and mother " nnd here she choked up so she could sny no more, "And you want to sell your beautiful fllftCUR ffifcta 1 vngfiQrjAR wXx.vwz.'txxXNuwf ?. -o- II, if my darling could ouly hnvc the wine! How hard it Is to be so poor, so poor." 'Annie heard her mother's woifd, al though they were not intended for her to henr. She saw her brush nway the -team from her eyes and then go back fto Teddy's room. ' "What did the doctor sny, mother?" asked Teddy, in a weak voice; "did he say I will get well?" Amiio heard the reply: "lie snyB tlint the fever is broken, nnd thnt nil you Miavo to do now is to got well." p Teddy's voice trembled as ho replied: "Oh, mother, I was afraid ho woultt say I might die, nnd I wondered who would take care of you and Httlo An- nlej I nm glnd God 1h going to let mo Mivo to do it. Now I must begin to get Btroug! Can't you give me lots to cnt?" Annie saw her mother's lips quiver ns she- turned her face from Teddy." "Yes, my son, but not too much at vonce, you' know," she snid. Teddy looked very thoughtful. '"But is thcro anything In tho house, mother? I have been sick a good while, nnd my Inst wnges must bo nenrly .gone, nnd you haven't had time to color many photos lately, hnvc you?" The boy'B mother answered, brave ily: "Sick folks mustn't bother about thesd things, you know." Then she 'left'the room, nnd Annie saw thnt she did -bo to hide the tears which were streaming down her worn face. "I must do something; I wonder Ayhnt it will be?" murmured Annie to herself, nnd, crushing her hat down over her curls, she slipped into the street.' Annie thought constantly of wjnc for .poor Teddy, and wondered if she sum moned courage to beg a bottle whether anyone would be kind enough to give it to' her for a poor sink boy, her only brother. She knew that sometimes grocers kept wine, especially around holiday time, nnd felt sure if they only knew how very, very much it wns needed at homo by her poor sick Ted dy thnt some one of them would sure ly give her a bottle. Then there were other plnccs where they sold nothing but wine and such stuff, for she had seen big window full of the bottles, with pictures of great bunches of beau- allul grapes standing behind them. Annie wasn't a bold, forwnrd child; she wns timid, but brave nnd resolute; her love for her brother, ntlenst.mndo her brnve for the time; so she resolved Mn her heart to beg for the wine which 'the doctor snid would bring bnck iBtrcngth to Teddy. Christmas had co mo and gone, but Teddy wns so ill with tho fever that Annie thought nothing about the absence of the gifts usual to thnt happy day; but now Ted dy was to grow better, and she did long to be nble to make his Now Year's and her mother's brighter than Christ ma3 had been, As Bhe wandered down the (Streets revolving these thoughts in her nnind and wondering how she might get the necessary wine she passed many a .gay 'scene. .Early evening had closed down on dnys to see her curls in their pretty natin-lincd case. After they had both kissed her nnd thanked her over nnd over ngnin she crept away. "I'm glad I did it; but how lone some my pretty curls will be!" said the child. Hut the curls were not nt all lone Bomc. The kind man was looking at them when one of the boys showed a gentleman in. The visitor was a big man and he had gentle eyes, though his face was somewhat rough to look at. "I'm quite out of heart, Alfred; Icnn get no clew; but what's that you have there? Pretty, 'aren't they?" "Yc, beautiful!" Then the kind man told all about the little girl who sold the curls to him, so she could hnve money to buy things for the sick brother. "Alfred, this hnlr Is just the color of Elite's; could It be? Could it be Ellic's child's hair?" "She's coming here day after to-morrow to see her curls In their satin-lined box; then if you will be here you enn find out who she is," nnnwered the jeweler. Sure enough, Annie cn'mc to see her curls ns they looked ready for sale; she wanted to sec the box. While she was admiring it and telling nbout Teddy, and how the wine was doing him good, the stranger with the gentle eyes ar rived. He talked to the little girl for awhile, then surprised the jeweler and little Annie by bursting Into tears. "They've told you about Uncle Luke, haven't they?" he asked. "Oh, yew, often," replied Annie. "He Is In Australia, where the bark falls oil the trees and the leaves stay on, and where the birds have no wings, nnd ev erything is so queer I" "But what if he came home?" "Oh, he won't," she said; "mother hns lost him completely." "Hut he hns come home. I nm he." Then there wns what Annie called "a time." That was how It happened that just j ii . "DO YOU BUY HAII17" SI11B ASKED, hair to buy things for your sick broth er; is that it, little one?" "Yes, sir." "I wouldn't take it, but " "Please don't refuse me, sir; my hair will grow in again; it grows awful fast; sec, it is below my waist!" "It Is beautiful, a very rare color, and so curly," said the man, stroking the rippling mass of shining hnlr. "Mother's is just like mine, only it is n little fady here and there. You will take my hair, won't you? Plense do; it will) surely grow ngnin, nnd my brother needs things so very, very much; the doctor says so!" The man led her into a bnck room nnd himself cut the glossy locks, lay ing each curl carefully down. Then he called a man who wore a white apron nnd gave the little shorn head Into IiIb charge. "I believe that you are prettier than before," tho kind man snid, when the hairdresser hnd finished. Then he lnld a little roll of bills in the child's hand and bade her be careful not to lose it on 'her way home. Annie hurried home. When she ar rived mother was reading -to Teddy, and Annlo crept in like n little mouse. She removed her lint carefully, so as" not to spoil tho hairdresser's work, then dropped the bills in her mother's lap, with a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Yenr, mnmmnl" "Oh!" screamed Teddy. "Oh!" creamed mother, as they both saw and knew all. "How could you, Annie?" they both cried nt once; but the child looked as pretty ns ever. "How enme you to think of it, my poor baby?" asked the mother. "It's for wine wino is better thnn curls any tiny," answered Annie; then, turning to Teddy, she hugged him In joy nnd snid, softly: "Clet well, Ted dy, nnd pay me bnck some day!" Then she told how it nil hnppened, and how she was going In a couple of n the doctor was praising Teddy's pa tience, and saying how the wine had helped him, there was a. great flutter in the hall, and Annie bounced In, drag ging a big man with kind eyes in a rough fnce by the hand. "My curls found him. It is Uncle Luke, mother, nnd ho hns money enough to bujf my curls back two or three times. I know, because he said so." And then there was much more of "a time." And the doctor held Teddy's hand while Uncle Luke told about his long search for his sister, and mother explained about father's death ahdher removal to the city, and how she lost Uncle Luke's address nnd could not get a letter to rench him. Then they talked about Annie's curls, nnd the doctor blew his nose furiously and dug at his eyes, and Annie heard him say: "Old idiot that I am! I guess I'll try to see about n wny of getting wine when I prescribe it ngain for a boy whose mother has that frightened look in her eyes." Annie tucked her little shorn head under tho doctor's arm and whispered: "But you see how it was best, don't you? My curls found so much for us they brought us an uncle. Just look nt mother; don't she look happy? Isn't a good uncle the best New Year's pres ent in nil this world?" Wine is a good medicine when one needs It, and Teddy improved rapidly so rapidly that he wns almost ready to try the new Bled that Uncle Luke brought home to him on New Year's eve. A for To Uly's mother, the roses began to tint her cheeks again, and Annie was sure she was the prettiest and best mother in all the world. La dies' World, New York. Simply Unlimited. 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