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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1892)
T H BALL I A NOE-INDBPB NDB H T. '. How Harry Climbed. Harry was an errand boy for a grocer, or rather was a general-utility boy. lie swept the store, set out the boxes containing the vegetables on the sidewalk . in the morning; took them in at night, carried parcels and as he learned more about the business, waited on customers. lie wan paid a mall stipened at first, and then his wages were increased, as his services became more valuable. There were two or three clerks in the store, and over all was, the employer. Harry aspired to be a clerk, and in due time he was promoted to that posi tion. In odd times he studied the market report and knew the prices of things and sources of supply; he read agricultural journals and became an expert in judging of butter and cheese, of apples and other fruits, of potatoes and other vegetables. He studied up the history of foreign fruits and other importations, and he .became generally a cyclopaedia as to all matters connected witfi grocery supplies. In rogress of time a steamship company, ooking for a competent purchaser of provisions, was advised of Harry's qualifications for the post, nnd on: gaged him at a large salary. He was now able to lay up every year a handsome sum, and in ten years he purchasod an interest in a large es tablishment doing business in every quarter of theglobe. By the lemand3 of fhotrade he was required to visit now one foreign port and then anoth er until he became quite a traveler, saw much of the world, and mingled freely with the best people. He is now at the head of the house, lives in his own brownstone front, has a wife and several lovely children, is an officer in his church, and a most res pected and influential member of so ciety. The Northwestern Congrega tionalism Juvenile Arithmetic. In the mental arithmetic class the teacher had a great. deal ol trouble in making Johnny Jones understand the simplest mathematical ideas, though he seemed to be a boy of much natural good sense. "Six from six leaves how many?" asked the teacher. "Huh?" asked Johnny, apparently astonished at the question. "ii you nave six cents in your pocket, and you lose them all, how many do you have left?" Johnny put on & scornful look at this, and answered, "One I sup pose!" "Johnny Jones, how could you have one of your six cents left when you naa lost them a!lr" "I didn't mean that I'd have one cent left!" "One what, then?" "One hole,-1 guess," said Johnny. There's got to be sunthin!" Some Indian Dames, The wives of some of the Indian braves have names as odd and often as funny as their husbands. They seem to have names -of their own, too, and not to take the namea of their husbands only. Some of the actual names given in a census of the families of the scouts at Fort Supply includes Mrs. Short Nose, who was, before her marriage, Miss Piping Woman; Mrs. Big Head, formerly Miss Short. Face; V,Mrs. Nibbs, formerly Miss Young Bear; . MrsxWhite Oo.w, formerly Miss Crook Pipefrs. Howling Water, formerly Miss CrmKWoman; also Mrs. White Skunk, Mrs: Sweet Water, Miss Walk High, daughter of Mrs. White Calf, and Miss Osage, . daughter of Mr. Hard Case. AULTMAH & TflYLOB, Machinery Company. co y x h g 1 f ? OUR MOTTO: "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST." white for prices j u F. L. LOOM IS, Manager, Omaha, Neb. rapicHy are apt to get bark-bound and split open; they blossom, but rarely Dare fruit, as the blossoms fall off. To make such cutting back most effective it should bo done when the trees are in full leaf. BILL NYE AND ANSOIST. If a young tree is growing very fast it will be best to head back half its yearly grpwth, for frees that grow so They Met In Chicago ., the Other day nnd "Kill Nye and Papa met tho other day," says a Chicago exchange, "and the heart of Chicago's prulc was so full of thankfulness that lie led a trium phal march into a dew dispensary." "Do you know, Mr. Nyc," said the old man, clashing his lemonade glass against that of the humorist's unas sisted cocktail, "that I always admired your writings, and were I other than I am I'd be signing mvself 'Yours frater nally?'" r "Indeed!" and Kjs glowed up at Anso beningnly- "Were I so situated as to warrant a change of vocation I would make a frautic effort to get your job." "But,' interjected Anse, switching his russet brown head meditatively, "the transition from humorist to first baseman is rather an awkward jumo." "There's where you are shy on men tal pabulum, as we say in the higher classics," returned Nye. uOurs are allied callings, and I consider you as much of a joke on first base as any I was ever ac cused of perpetrating." "I wonder what tlw.t fellow meant by that remark,' Uuch has been ask ing all day. An Unexpected rieply. My brethren," said the minister toward the cose of his sermon. great question confronts us! We have to decide whether we shall go on in the same bid way. or change now and lead a different life. Now, I asj. yoi how is it?" And the sleepy umpire h tt" back pew woke up and yelled, pfe;''. Boston New, J i' .' r II! MANUFTURERS OF Pure Hemp Binder Twine FROM HOME (jROWN FIBER. We can ofTet to fanners a better article for less money than they have ever before known. 38-6lB Will sliij; sample bag and take lodge note payabk Oct 1,'92. Patronize Home Industry. J or timber information address Nebraska Binder Twine Co., Fremont, Neb., or J. W. 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