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STORIES IN PASSING.
An O Btreet clothier lelatea this
thing about a young farmer living sev
eral miles east o Lincoln. The firm
had known the man for yeara and never just
her h aa fait getting grey about the
empl.es.
Then her huaband died and things
were in such a tangle the lawyers ate
up everything, straightening them out
again. J lie was looking mighty blue
then but her brother who ran a
for a moment thought there was any grocery store in Lincoln came down
thing of the sharper in him. But even and persuaded her to go back with him
the head of the firm is caught once in and run a boarding house for Btudents.
awhile. Sbo took a house close to the univer-
The young man came into the etoro sity and started in with eight boarders,
one Tuesday, his faded blue overalls She now has fifty. Her brother lets ho
crammed into his boots, his red bandana have things at cost. Sho is making a
gathered about his neck with a bone good living and putting aside a little for
clasp. He needed a shave and his white the children's education. She hasthreo
alouch hat was Bpotted with dirt and servants to run the house while she at
water. He was going to get married, tends to the buying, which she doeB on
he oiid, and wanted to purchaso a suit a bicycle. There is little worry, the
of clothes for the occasion. children are in school, and eho is out of
It didn't take him long to decide on a doors all morning,
suit. He chose one out quickly but was She has solved one of the questions of
uncertain about the taste of his in. the hour and now weichs 160 Dounds
tended. Might he take it out to show
her, and come in Saturday and settle?
At the end of the week he brought
the suit back. The young lady didn't
like it very well. He would have to
look again. But he was too busy just
then; would be in the first of the week
and bring her with him.
A week or so later several young fel
lows were in from the same neighbor
hood. "That was a nice suit you sold Henry
Menke," thev said. "Got another
like it?"
"Certainly," was the reply, "in fact,
got the same thing. Menke brought it
back, Baid it didn't suit his girl."
'Brought it back?" they exclaimed,
"Why, Great Scott, he was married in
it! We saw it at his wedding.
The story leaked out and quickly ran
the round of Menke'a neighborhood and
the neighbors made it so unpleasant for
him that he packed up his wife and
went back to Illinois.
and gaining every day.
"You barely know her? Well, there's
but one thing for you to do. It's too
bad the snow's bo deop and only that
one little narrow path along the side
walk. No rubbers? That is hard luck.
And I have none. But '11 it'll never do
to go single tile on such a short ac
quaintance, never in the world! You'll
have to give the girl the path and plow
along in the snow at her side.'
And he took mo seriously and waded
kneo deep both going and coming. Of
course, the shoes he wore were ruined.
He told me about it when he came in
late that night and I laughed at him for
a fool. But the next morning I found
he had gotten into my patent leathers
by mistake.
It was when Washington's army was
passing the most terrible winter ever
known in the colonies. The snow was
drifted everywhere. The cold was bit
ing, and not a dry log to be found for
miles. The soldiers were half naked
and almost tentless. But there was not
amurmurin the ranks.
One day late in December was especi
ally severe. The enow tilled tho air and
half buried the camp. Toward evening
a strange outfit drove inside tho lines.
It was an ox-team dragging four heavy
sleds, loaded high and covered with
countless blankets.
"From the women in the town," said
the driver as he came to a halt.
The mon came running from the huts
and tents and the blankets were torn off
with a shout. On the sleds were
baskets and baskets filled to the brim
with rich brown doughnuts, and pinaed
to every basket was a sprig of holly, and
a pleasant Christmas greeting.
The Salvation Army stopped before
the screened door of the saloon and be
gan its cervices. The jacgling of a
piano from within mingles with the
hymn of the street. Curses and laugh
ter drown the Bound of prayer. Sud
denly angry voices arise behind the
green curtains. The piano ceases. A
chair upsets. There is scuffling of feet
an oath, and a sharp report rings out.
Then all is still.
Outside the group huddles horror
stricken. Of a sudden tho deor bursts
open. A young man with bloody, hair
and paling cheek staggers out, stops
short on the pavement and falls Jo the
ground.
Almost instantly a gray-haired woman
of the faith darts from the group and
drops by his side. The bloody head
rests in her lap and a mother's lips are
kissing the cold brow of the dead boy.
H. G. Shedd.
Miss Anna Dink, modiste, has moved
her rooms to 1318 O street.
Canon Pea coal, $5 per ton. The best
for the money, at Gregory's, 11th and O.
The teacher of an infant Sunday
school class in an Cast Lincoln church
was speaking of an idol and having the
children finish each sentence to show
that they understood her.
'The idol had eyes," the teacher said,
"but it couldn't ."
"See," came from the little ones.
"It had ears but it couldn't
"Hear," was the answer.
"It had lips," she said, "but it
couldn't"
"Speak," once more replied the chil
dren. "It had a nose but it couldn't
"Wipe it!" shouted the children, and
the lesson stopped while the young lady
tried to from tho smile off her lips.
She used to live down in Crete, a
slight, pale faced little woman, who had
been tied down at home all her married
life by the children, She seldom got a
breath of fresh air, there was always a
tired drawn look about her eyes, and
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