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BHCCIDENT.
The Girl That Helped John’s
Mother In an Emergency.
By CLARA LOUISE OTIS.
[Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary
Press.]
"Six o’clock and all's well.
Wind's In the east and blowing like—
everything,"
caroled a masculine voice.
The woman in the kitchen smiled In
spite of herself. "The dear child,” she
murmured happily, “so much like his
father,” then to the “child.” a tall
young man of twenty-four. Just enter
ing the kitchen: "You're early tonight,
dear. Supper won’t bo ready for ten
minutes.”
“Oh. that’s all right.” John Wil
liams gave his mother a vigorous hug.
“How Is mother?”
••Well. And John?”
"l’ine. Say, mother!”
“Yes, dear?”
“How would you like a daughter-in
law?"
Mary Williams set down the frying
pun and faced her son with a dazed
expression. "A daughter-in-law?" she
repeated blankly. A blinding rush of
tenrs came to her eyes, and the little
room seemed to be whirling around.
“Oh. John!” was all she said, but the
bitter disappointment of those two
words tjas not lost on the young man.
“I’m sorry,” he said briefly and left
the room.
Memories one nfter the other crowd
ed fast before her. Her husband had
died when John was three, and they
tad been so happy! And since John
nad grown to manhood how happy
he had made her! Yet—yet he was
going to bring another woman there—
another woman! The odor of scorch
ing meat made her start.
“Come, supper’s ready,” she called
In what was Intended to be her natural
voice.
“Tell me about It," faltered Mary
after they had sat lu silence for some
minutes.
“Not If you don’t want to hear, moth
er.”
The hurt, proud tones brought con
trition to her heart.
“I do want to hear.” The words
wero true in more ways than one.
“Her name is Kitty—Kitty Marvin."
“And"
“Oh, mother, mother! I’ve wanted
to tell you so! Are you sure you
want to hear?”
“Yes. yes!” She flashed out the
words lest John should divine her sink
ing heart. She smiled too.
Seeing only his mother’s smile, John
launched into the dear topic. “She
hasn’t lived here long, only since May.
I didn’t tell you because—well, to tell
the truth, I was afraid you’d be all
cut up about it. Besides, it wasn’t
settled until last night. Why, mother,
you’re crying! Are you sorry?"
"No. no! I’m—glad! Go on!”
“1 met her last year out at the lake.
Do you remember my speaking of
those girls out there? 1 knew then
she was the only one in the world for
me.” John spoke very softly.
So he had cherished this girl in his
heart a whole year, and she had
thought herself to bo his all in all!
“Wasn’t It strange, mother,” went
on the young man In a subdued voice,
as if his happiness was still a won
derful thing, to be reverenced and held
In awe—“wasn’t it strange that she
should move- here, not knowing It was
my home?"
"Yes. Tell me everything, dear.”
“All right. She Is little and slim and
has gray eyes.” Mary Williams was
built on generous, capable lines, und
her eyes were brown. "Her hair Is
like yours—brown and heavy. She
gives music lessons.” Mary had no
accomplishments except housekeeping.
“She sings, too—oh, mother, you ought
to hear her sing! And she Is as quick
a bird and the prettiest dnncer.”
“Can she cook?”
“Well, I don’t know, but she can do
everything else. You see, there are so
many In her family that it’s hard to
tell just who does do the work. 1 know
she can sew, for she showed me a
dress last night that she made.”
After the supper work was done and
John had gone off whistling Mary sat
dowu by the lire. “O God, give me
strength to bear it!” she prayed fierce
ly, holding tight to the arms of the
chair, then relaxing In a sudden burst
of reseutful tears. “How can he—
how can he bring that girl here—that
Kitty?” ran her rebellious thoughts,
and she forgot about her prayer.
“Why, her very name sounds good for
nothing. If I was an old woman it
would be different, but I’m only forty
seven and as strong as ever. This Is
my house, my own house, and I keep
it my own way. Yet a girl is going to
come in and shove me back—me, who
loves John more than she ever could!
Don’t I always come home early from
sewing society so as to have John’s
supper on time? Don’t I make his
shirts, when almost every man buys
them ready made? Wouldn’t I do lils
washing If he would let me? Oh. she
can’t love him as I do? Probably she
won’t even let him smoke In peace.
Oh, she can’t come—she Just can’t!”
For an hour she poured out the re
bellion in her soul to the leaping, sym
pathetic fire, then sank back exhaust
ed. “How selfish I am!” she cried
aloud.' “I’ll have to bear It. John’s
a man now.” As she grew more calm
she looked with disgust at her out
burst. “I act like a baby! I guess I’m
made of better stuff than that, nnd
this Is the last foolishness you’ll hear
from me. If my son’s going to be
married, why, he's going to be mar
ried—that’s all."
Hut she forgot to be on her guard
the next morning when John enthusi
astically remarked that she should
have heard Kitty sing ’'Dearie" the
night before. "Dearie”—what a fool
ish name for a song! And with that
one contemptuous thought all the bit
terness of the thing came back to her.
"Do you always have to talk about
her—even at the breakfast table?"
John’s lips came together in a
straight line. ”1 thought”— he began,
then stopped abruptly. Ten minutes
later he left the house in silence.
Mary would have given all she pos
sessed to recall those words. A sort
of hopelessness came over her. If she
could control herself no better than
that now. what would she do later?
If she only could be sure that the
girl would be sensible! From John’s
description it didn't seem as if she
could possibly be. "He has lost Ills
head over some little flirt." she told
herself, "and I can’t stop him. 1 won
der If he will forgive me. I —I'm
afraid not.”
At supper that night her doubts were
confirmed. John talked steadily about
,he weather, the shop, the garden—
everything but Kitty. She longed to
break in herself with the subject.
Two days pussed. Then she could
stand it no longer.
"John, I'm sorry”—
He motioned her to silence. "You
have let me know very plainly that
you don’t want me to talk about her.
and 1 won't."
Nor did he. A week passed by. then
two—distressing weeks for them both.
“You came near losing your supper
tonight." announced Mary one evening.
“Why, how is that?”
“I was downtown, waiting to take
the 4:30 car, when, all at once, 1 drop
ped one of my parcels and everything
In It rolled into the street. The car was
in sight, and you know there isn't nn
cther until 5:30. I knew I couldn’t get
all the thread and buttons picked up in
time, and 1 was thluking, ’Oh, dear,
John won’t have any supper until 7
o’clock,’ when, all of a sudden, some
one said. ‘Hot me help you.’ It was
some young girl, and, 1 declnre, I
never saw any one pick up things so
fast in my life! I knew Just enough
to open by bag while she shoved them
In. Then the car stopped, and she
helped me on—not as she would some
old lady, but just as if I was one of
her girl friends. 1 never expect to
see any one so handy and sweet ns
that again. 1 didn’t notice what she
looked like—I was that flurried—but
I did see that she had on an odd, for
eign looking ring.”
“What sort of ring?”
“Silver. It had two bands Joined to
gether by little crosspieces, and there
was a big green stone. Wasn't it
funny that I should notice all those
little things, and—my, whnt’s the mat
ter?”
“Nothing, mother, only—that was
Kitty!"
Quite Different.
“Marla,” said Mr. Rawlins, laying
aside his hat and overcoat and rubbing
his hands gleefully together, “you
know that for years we have been
wanting to buy a building lot In Ken
nedy’s subdivision, but couldn’t afford
to do it on account of the high prices
they ask for land out there. Well. I’ve
just learned thnt Quinlan, who owns
one of the best lots in thnt entire
neighborhood, will sell it for half what
it cost him if he can get the cash. He
needs the money and can't get It any
other way. I have a great mind to buy
it tomorrow morning. It comes easily
within our means.”
“I don’t think you ought to do it.
Joshua,” said Mrs. Rawlins.
“You don’t think 1 ought to buy it?
Why not?"
“It would be taking advantage of his
necessities.”
“But, Maria"—
“Besides. I have just learned of a
splendid opportunity to buy some fur
niture that we need. Grlgson & Mul
lins are advertising parlor sets at one
third less than cost because they are
overstocked and can’t afford to carry
them through the season. I'd like to
At? About $200 worth of parlor fur
niture. We’ll never have as good n
chance again.”
Being a man of excellent self control.
Mr. Rawlins merely smiled.—Youth's
Companion.
Love In the Kitchen.
Among the domestic servants of n
Germantown woman Is a very pretty
Irish girl, not long in this country.
Now, Bertha had not been at work
more than a couple of mouths before
she became engaged to a plumber's
apprentice. She confided to her mis
tress, however, that she had no inten
tion of marrying at an early date, but
wished Instead to save her money and
Incidentally afford the apprentice time
to become n regularly registered plum
ber.
The mistress good naturedly assent
ed to the girl's request that the lad be
allowed to visit her in the kitchen.
It was observed that on such occasions
only the voice of Bertha could be
heard coming from the kitchen.
"Tour sweetheart doesn’t seem to be
much of a talker,” said the lady of the
house to Bertha.
"No, mum,” said Bertha; “leastways
not ylt. mum. But he’ll do betther as
tolme goes on. He’s too bashful ylt.
mum, to do aunythlng more than eat!"
—Philadelphia Press.
A Handy Man.
“Why so sad?” queried the young
man, looking at her fondly.
“Oh, nothing special, only I have
troubles of my own,” said the frail
young thing., sighing.
"I Insist In taking a hand in them,”
he said, seizing a dainty palm that
was wasting lta time in her lap.—Bos
ton Globe.
THE CRUSH OF WORLDS.
What Would Happen if a Dead Sur
Invaded Our Solar System.
It is possible, though it is not prov
ed. that stars may sometimes ap
proac-b one another and even "leap
madly from their spheres.” "What
would happen were an unknown stai
or a dead suu to invade our solar sys
tem?" asks a writer in the London II
lustrated News, who answers his que
ry in two ways. In the first place, thf
star might rush straight into the sun
and by the heat of the collision re
duce the sun and all its planets to a
nebulous mass without form or struc
ture. But it is more mathematically
probable that just as comets approach
circle and recede from the suu. so thf
starry invader of our system would
approach our system and recede from
it. having altered it beyond recogni
tion.
But what would be its effect upon
our suu? The sun ns we know ii
today is explosively elastic. Great
tongues of flame which would con
sume n little planet like ours at a
mouthful continually leap front it
with speeds of several hundred miles
a second. This enormous explosive
force is restrained only by the greatei
force of the sun’s gravity. But if an
approaching star as great as the sun
dime within striking distance of II
then along the line joining the two
bodies, each would begin to pull the
other, us today the moon pulls up the
earth's oceans.
The mighty pull of the invading star
would neutralize the sun’s gravity in
one direction, and the sun would, in a
sense, explode. Out from our ances
tral sun and from opposite sides of
it would fly two great lengthening
arms of matter, reaching far beyond
the farthest planet. As the star
passed. Its moving mass would give a
further twist to the sun and would
pull the arms of matter into the shape
tr a great double spiral. Form and
action would thus be Imparted to the
nebula thus created, and from the
solar system thus extinguished In cn
tastropbe a new sun. with planets con
densing from the lumps and inequali
ties in the projecting arms, would
arise.
CAPE HATTERAS.
The Shifting Sands and Point of ThU
Isolated Place.
There nre few names more widely
known In the United States or locali
ties about which a greater ignorance
prevails than Cape Hatteras. Situated
as it is at the angle where the long
strip of sand beach from Cape Henry
south turns at a right angle to the
westward, with the widest part 01
I’amlico sound between it and the
mainland and with the beach both
west and north cut into several islands
by inlets from sound to ocean, Its po
sition is isolated. No means of trans
portation exist along the beach, and
with the nearest railway station from
which a regular transportation route
is operated nearly a hundred miles
away it is an easier place to talk
abeut than to visit
Like all sand promontories, the point
of the cape is always moving. An old
wreck imbedded deep in the sand and
showing only the stumps of her masts
and bowsprit and the rusty skeletons
of what were once her chain plates
and dead eyes is now a quarter of a
mile or more inland. Twenty years
ago she is said to have lain in the
water, where she struck or drifted
ashore, the land now outside of her
having been built up since by the ac
tion of the wind and the waves.
Two features connected with the
sailing of the fishing skiffs used here
abouts are new to me. One is that of
using a member of the crew as shift
ing ballast. A plank is run out over
the side, the inner end caught under
the lee washboards, while on the outer
end. with legs dangling over the water,
sits the man acting as ballast, and
this not in racing, mind you. but in
every day sailing. The other is the
practice of "nodding,” as 1 heard it
called. In moderate weather, when the
skiff is only lightly gliding along, one
man will stand up alongside the cen
'erbonrd on the weather side and, fac
jig outward, will steadily'rock side
wise from one foot to the other with
faster. And perhaps it does.—Char
lotte Observer.
(First publication August 5.)
Notice For Publication.
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Otllcd at O’Neill, Nebraska,
August 3, 1909. “Not coal land.”
Notice is hereby given that George
Peebles, of Emmett, Nebraska, who,
on March 14, 1904, made Homestead
entry No. 18539, No. 01118, for NE*
section 28, township 28 N, range 13 W,
of the 6th principal meridian has tiled
notice of intention to make tinal, live
year proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before Register
and Receiver, at O’Neill, Nebraska,
on t he 16th day of September, 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses: Fred
Martens, John Mering, Arthur Wil
son, William Blore, all of Emmett, Ne
braska
7- 5 ' B. E. STURDEVANT,
_ Register.
Wanted—Intelligent man or woman
to take territory, and appoint can
vassers to sell our water Alters. Ex
clusive territory, and nice profitable
work for the right party.
Seneca Filter Co.,
Seneca, Mo.
Lost—On the streets of O’Neill last
week a bunch of office keys; dozen or
more keys on buuch. Liberal reward
will be paid finder for their return to
this office. _ 9 3
Strayed—Western horse strayed
away from Knapp pasture about ten
days ago. Light sorrel in color with
strip in face.—L. W. Arnold, O'Neill,
Neb. 9-2
(First publication July 29)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF HOLT
COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
Tract No. 1110.
The State of Nebraska, Plaintiff, vs
The several parcels of land hereinafter
described, and all persons and corporations
having or claiming title to, or any interest,
right or claim in, and to, such parcels of
real estate or any part thereof, defendants.
FINAL NOTICE.
To Daniel O’Connell and to the occupants
of the real estate described, said real estate
is vacant and unoccupied.
Nonce is hereby given that under a decree
of the district court of said county, rendered
in the state tax suit for the year 19u5, the fol
lowing described real estate situated in the
County of Holt and state of Nebraska, to-wit:
In the village of Emmett. Lot six (U)
block live (5), Holt county. Nebraska, was
on the 10th day of November, 1905, duly
sold at public vendue by the county
treasurer of said county in the manner
provided by law and the period of redemp
tion from such sale will expire on the loth
day of November, 1909.
You art) further notified that the owner of
the cert ificate of tnx sale issued by the treas
urer will make application to the court in the
above eutitled cause for confirmation of
such sale as soon as practicable alter the
period of redemption has expired, and you
are hereby notified that the time and place
of the hearing upon such eon Urination will
be entered in the confirmation record kept
by the clerk of said court, on or before the
10th day of November, 1909. Yrou will ex
amine said confirmation record to ascertain
the time of such hearing and may be present,
if you desire, to make any objections or show
cause why the sale should not be confirmed.
5-3 MORRIS MALLOY Owner.
(First publication August 12.)
N otice.
In the county court of Holt county,
Nebraska. In the matter of the es
tate of Joseph Laney, deceased.
To all persons interested in said es
tate: You are hereby notified that
on the 14th day of August, 1899, J. 11.
tivvan, administrator of the estate of
Joseph Laney, deceased, tiled in said
court his final account as said admin
istrator and on April 3, 1900, a peti
tion for final settlement and distribu
tion or the residue of said estate; that
the said final account and petition for
final settlement and distribution wilt
be heard on the 28th day of August
1909 at 1 o’clock p. m. at the county
court room in O’Neill, in said county,
at which time and place any persons
interested in said estate may appear
and show cause, if such exists, why
said final account should not be ap
proved and a decree of distribution
made of tire residue of said estate in
the possession of said administrator.
It is ordered that a copy of this
notice be published for three success
ive weeks in The Frontier, a news
paper, printed and published in said
county.
Dated this 10th day of August, 1909.
[Seal] 0. J. MALONE,
8-3 County Judge.
(First publication August 5.)
Notice For Publication.
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at O’Neill, Nebraska,
August 3,1909. “Not coal land.”
Notice is hereby given that George
Peebles, of Emmett, Nebraska, who,
on July 6,1904, made Homestead entry
No. 19225. No. 01417, for Si, NW* SWi,
section 27, SEJ, section 23, Ni NWi,
section 34, township 28 N, range 13
W. 6th principal, meridian has filed
notice of intention to make final,
five year, proof to establish claim to
the land above described, before Reg
ister and Receiver, at O’Neill, Ne
braska, on the 16th day of September,
1909
Claimant names as witnesses: Fred
Martens. John Mering, Arthur Wil
son, William Blore, of Emmett, Ne
braska.
7-5 ' B. E. STURDENANT,
Register,
(First publication August 5 ),
Notice.
State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss.
To whom it may concern: The com
missioner appointed to view a road
commencing at southwest corner of
the southeast quarter of section two
(2), township thirty-two (32), range
twelve (12), running thence north on
the quarter line to the north side of
section two (2), township thirty-two
(32), range twelve (12), and termina
ting at that point in Holt county,
Nebraska, has reported in favor of
the establishment thereof, and all
objections thereto or claims for dam
ages must be filed in the county
clerk’s office on or before noon of the
28th day of August, 1909, or such road
will be established without reference
thereto.
(Seal] W. P. SIMAR,
7-4 County dlerk.
(First publication Aug. 19 )
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at O’Neill, Nebraska,
August 17, 1909
Notice is hereby given that Mrs. J.
B. Maring, widow of Jacob B. Maring,
deceased, of Emmett, Nebrasko, who,
on July 22, 1904, made Homestead
Entry No. 19500, No. 01568, for SW*
SE4 section 12, township 28 N, range
13 west, 6th P. Meredian, has filed
notice of intention to make final five
year proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before Register
afhd Receiver, at O’Neill, Nebraska,
on the 27th day of September, 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses:
.Tames Gaughenbaugh. L. I. Puckett,
E. S. Herrick and M. E. Hiatt, all of
Emmett, Nebraska.
9-5 B. E. STURDEVANT,
Register.
(First publication August 12.)
Notice To Creditors.
In county court within and for
Holt county, Nebraska, August 10,
1909 —In the matter of the estate of
I. R. Smith, deceased—To the
Creditors of said estate: You are
hereby notified that I will sit at the
county court room in O’Neill, in said
county, on the 8th day of September,
1909, on the 8th day of December,
1909, and on the 8th day of March,
1910, at 10 o’clock a. m. each day to
receive and examine all claims against
said estate, with view to their adjust
ment and allowance. The time
limited for the presentation of claims
against said estate is six months from
the 8th day of September A. D. 1909
and the time limited for the payment
of debts is one year from said 10th day
of August 1909. Six months after
September 8th, 1909, all claims barred.
Witness my hand and seal of said
county court, this 10th day of August,
1909.
[Seal] C. J. MALONE,
8-4 County Judge.
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