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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1897)
12 THE COURIER. -Would I like berJM -I it might bo; fho Sb your mother atd that might make a difference." Stella questioned Fgain relentlessly: "Do you want mo togo?'" Her father did not answer quickly When he did 6 peak his voice was per fectly f teady. -That need not make any difference. She says jou can have anything you want. She married again, and eho is rich. Why, Stella," he tried to put a flimsy enthusiasm into his tonei "don't you fcc that you can go to school. And music! Stella, your voice!" Stella kept herself stubbornly to her questioning. "Why does eho want me, did she t ay why?" He answered evasively. "No that is she is your mother and Lee is dead." Stella's face softened. "How did he die?" the asked gently. "He had pneumonia,' ho would have stopped, but he could not lie to the ees so near his own, "he died before they had a dector. They did not think he was so sick." lie felt Stella shiver on his knee and he watched her with vague apprehen sion, as the rose and put the cat gently down on the steps outside the screen door. But she came back to him direct ly and bent down to kiss him full on the lips. "You must go to bed now," she said with aulhority. "I will think and wo can decide together. He watched her go and stifled a sense of disappointment in her and himself He could not expect sher to feel as he did. Acd.be was selfish enough to wish that she had cot waited to decide. In the morning when he made the fire in the kitchen Etove, he took the letter from his pocket and watched it burn. -If sho read it she would not go. She must decide for herself.' When Stella came out they both blushed a little. The clear dawn, the wide, open paririe, the cool air in the dim kitchen, the smell of fresh, ground coffee, seemed to put things on Euch a practical basis that they both felt awk ward. Then Stella sang a little and her father tipped over his coffee at the break fast table and she burned her fingers trj ing to wipe it up. They laughed and afterwards both felt as if there bad been a tacit agreement to overlook any slight descent from the practical that may have happened under cover of the dark ness. After breakfast Stella went about ber work without answering the wistful im patience in her father's eyes. He got his pony and drove the sheep slowly out of the corral. . He felt irritated with them. He was nervous when his dinner bucket rasped against the saddle. He felt in clined to go back and make Stella tell him whether she was going togo or stay. It needn't take her a week to make up her mind even if she wae a girl. He hadn't raised her that way. There wasn't a keener head in the coun try than hers. Then all of a sudden he felt afraid cf her very keenness. She would be sure to see that there would be advantages in going. She wouldn't stay with him for any sentimental reasons, and he needn't think it. It would be better for her to go. She bad had a dull life, and she would not need to work any more. She would step into Lee's place and use his books and wtar pretty things; he would see her sometime s am way; he ought not to care, lie would ltve on here. He felt hopelessly miserable at the thought of the little house with all of Stella's belonging taken out. He Eaw himielf moving around in it yar in and year out, gettirghis own meals, washing the dishes that Stella had been so proud of wbf n tbey were new, wearing out these things that she had handled and replacing tfeem with others. Acd all l! ....- . .- - - m, . . '- '" - SuliDtio-Salliie; Sanitarium, Cor. Irtlx amd 3VI. All Kinds of Baths Scientific Masseurs. A Deep Sea Pool, 50x142 feet. Shaving Hairdressing. Drs. EVERETT, Managing Physicians. the time Stella would bo growing away from him and taking on the ways of her mother, He wouldn't let her. They had as good as killed Lee with their ways and they should not spoil Stella, too. He struck the pony mercilessly with his rawhide and then jerked at the bit. "There, there," he paid aloud, "Stella's not a girl to bo spoiled I guess. Per haps she will come back. It's natural for her to go. She's her mother."' All day he argued back and forth with himself and came home at night hollow-eyed and grey-cheeked. Stella was bright-eyed and cheerful. After supper she brought him pen and ink and a letter sealed and stamped ready for the address. "I wrote it. to her- all by myself," she answered playfully. He took the pen and wrote the address. How could Stella be so o heart less. She stood behind his chair and watched him write. Then sbe put her palms along bis cheeks and turned his head back until she could 6ee his eyes. "Don't you want to know what's in it?" she asked tantalizingly. She caught her breath when she saw a quick spasm pass over her father's face. Don't look like that,' 6he faid with quick remorse. "It's all right. I won't go. I can't. I told her that sometime I would, but not now, becausa of jou." Perhaps sbe cried a little after that At least they kissed each other again although the lamp was burning on the table before them, and they bad tacitly agreed to forget sentimentality. ANNIE PKET. AMEN. He stays upon the threshold there must dwell, Who, in fm thought, the Eternal reign di vides, Allowing that the ill for aye abides, Or that God"s rule is lost in lowest hell. Prince of the-powers-of-air who now be strides Our world of fear and passion, all is well! Thou hast some freedom, but Who grants it guides, And service to salvation doth compel. Thus is it graven on each stone of life; Albeit present pain begetteth doubt, Albeit nerveless arms drop in the strife, Though faith be chill'd, and weak become the stout Why hast thou me forsaken? from his cross Sobbed forth the dying Christ, count men that death as loss? IDYLA. Dick I see that another large party of Greek patriots are off. Harry Yes, 'way off. BRUSH, COLORADO. This bit of information is printed for convenience about answering the numerous inquiries now coming in concerning Brush, Colorado, and surrounding country. I BRUSH has about 'wo hundred inhabitants. 2 A splendid, commodious school building, with all "high school" facilities. 3 Located in the Platte and Beaver valley, eighty miles east of Denver, in the midst of a large area of fine, arable land, covered by . irrigation ditches, and only waiting judicious farming to develop wealth. 4 The climate is adapted to all sorts of .crops grown in the North Temperate zono. 5 Excellent water can be had at depth varying from 30 to CO feet, the lower strata furnishing the purest mountain water attainable. 6 Fine building stone adjacent to t'ue town, can ba bad at from $3.75 to $1.00 per cord, thus making: it cheaper to build of stone than lumber. 7 Three crop3 of alfalfa are grown in the season, yielding as a rule six tons per acre as the product, while wild hay on tho higher land grows well and always brings a big price. The rich yield of hay makes it pre-eminently a country in which to raise cattle and hogs to the feeding stage when it is easy to drive them to the. cheap corn of Nebraska. 8 Small fruits and vegetalbea of all kinds can be developed to any extent al most the real conditions when told seem almost fabulous. 9 Steam threshers in work of 1896 show average of wheat in this vicinity to be forty bushels per acre, oats fifty bushels. 10 Entire absence of contagious diseases of both man and beast; the atmos phere is a regular daily life giver. 11 The county of Morgan, in which Brush is located, is free of debt and taxes low. are There is now excellent opening for a first class grist mill, one hundred barrel capacity, one good hardware store, one good drug store. Get on tlie Burlington Cars and look the situation over. T. J Thorpe dte Co., GENERAL BICYCLE BEPAIREB8 In a branches. - Repairing done as Neat and CompleU as from th FactoriM at hard tlaa All kinds of Bicycle Sundries. 320 S. 1ITH ST. Ifacninist and General Repair Work. LINCOLN. (Pfc Flour et 1. Lots of people think a dollar is enough vto pay for a sack of good flour. We sell a Minnesota patent flour at this price try a sack; if it is not as good as guaranteed we will return your money. JFZ3 -TDlie FoL-rmer's Grocery Co. 226-234 no. Tenth street. gsssii
