The Alliance Herald from Alliance, Nebraska • 4

Y'f OUR THE ALLIANCE HERALD FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10 1922 NEXT TASK IS TO RESTOCK THE CATTLE RANGES AGATE FOSSIL BED CLASSED I WITH WORLD WONDERS (Continued from Page I) South Dakota is not only building up a wonderful system of roads Mr Cook declared but the state is utilizing its natural advantages Several views four years behind the times were shown of natural wonders in the has thrills Henry Hustenden Ger- Black Hills as well as views from farmer of Maronville has Colorado Montana the Yellowstone run onto the Hattie of Chateau Ever Ever Green SPRING DRIVE TO FINANCE THE CATTLEMEN By FANNIB HURST and the Pacific coast states has a number of places which could be developed anii made to attract the attention of Mr War Finance Corporation to Turn Its Attention From Farms to the Ranches Sticking the ranches in western Nebraska will be the next great effort of tlie war finance corporation John Flannigan executive secretary of the state loan agency is now in Washington to confer with Eugene Mever Jr managing director of the war finance corporation to this time the bulk of the loans have been made in northeast and southeast said Mr Flannigan spring is the time for filling up the ranch country! ith cattle and the big spring drive will be to finance the cattle men Where a man has his ranch and plenty I Of food and knows fin hu-me-s we One garage in Hot Spmgs repor expect to extend him the credit to get nth usmess of Under the law fle mount of money spent f1 bv the 2(1000 tourists who were Cook said He mentioned various-places including the sandhill lakes some of whjch could be stocked with fish if a state park could be made to include them the old tree near Craw ford where the famous Sioux Indian treaty was signed and the fossil beds at the Cook ranch He urged the business men to continue talking good roads and keep up their efforts unti1 natural beauty spots were set apart old trails and historic spots marked and inducements offered to tourists to pass through Nebraska on their way Lo other scenes of interest is the brae to agitate roads" he declared tourist travel is just beginning and there are no established routes Western Nebraska can net ihis business if it goes after it" i herd of cattle can't exceed the rate of 7 or tered on the carpet and on the tabla beside the Implements of his handl- cruft A cunary hopped In Its cage silent Mrs Delano dragged a chair across the floor and beside the littered table why ain't you working "I dunno She placed quick hand upon his brow because you feeling right and you won't tel! me going for Doc Tell me darling are you having that numbllke feeling up around your heart I ain't Lo spring fever's got me Even In my act I used to go dead like a tire when spring came" "Take little nap darling You slept In daytime ever since you started the carving Lemine pull (loVui the shade and (lx you for a nap He was mildly reluctant gotla finish the grapevine design for them lids Lo" lien say the minute you ge working too hard not another job does he send up from the It makes any difference Poor old gink he thinks I don't know that If he wasn't In hack of us my little wood curving keep us In shoe laces" here lemme (lx your pillow" you do all alone this after noon If I doze off Lo? Put on your little hat hnliy the pink one that Hen likes and stroll uptown past the office so he can see you Don't stick around here so much I gotta clour out that trunk Al All winter it's been standing around and I wanna got at It and gel It down In the cellar and out of the "Kiss me baby and I'll take a little snooze Spring fever's got me for sure" She leaned over and kissed his cheeks where the hollows darkened them lowered (lie shade and tip toed out closing the door after her (To He Continued) EtoiFt you think know what livin' In this amen corner Is you think I know what Uv- lng with a hulk like me In a 5 you're going to begin now to make me cry you? you're going to begin and remind me of what I done and make me wish 1 was dead and oh God Al If anybody ought to be hankering It's you not me I darling! You need to be ashamed of hankering It would be funny If you A pretty skltty Utile thing like you I ain't hankering because the night the springboard work was the luckiest stroke I ever had Would I I have got you If It hadn't gone back on me? Would Even for a bulk I got nothing to banker about baby It 1 ain't neither Al Honest I ain't Gee tills little bouse and you and Hen Gee 1 ain't never was friend like Hen Lo there never never was "And now he thinks the world and I nil of you Lo and luffs anil luffs at your ente little ways Honest baby sometimes I Just think to myself If you could get that other hankering out of your bead I mind nothing If I knew that you ami him after I well after well you know I wliat I mean baby after 1 "Al Al you make me nshumed to listen 1 'lease darling I stand It when you talk like that Ain't you feeling right today? you?" mean It hnliy There be nothing that would sot me ns easy about you as that He's so strong Lo 1 like to see him nil lit up like a Christmas tree hen you begin cutting up with your cute little ways He's so strong Lo and like a kid at the suine time He could he so good to you Hnliv I'd feel so easy If I knew for sure that "Al please please cut It Please darling "Even when I hear him coming down the street oil tils way to the factories I or when he stops by from the aider-men's meeting eve when I hear his footsteps coming down the street like a soldier with new spurs on his hoots was marching to stand by us Ain't It so?" He was slower still to release her hand "That's hy Lo I even If you can get the hankering out of your system nans there have been registered at Hot Spr-ngs the past per cent interest There have wolild do wonders for western Nebraska America Not the New World Mr Cook reviewed the geological no instances of Nebraska hanks charging in excess of their agreement with the government although charges have been made against bankers in Dr Copse president of (lie h'story of the North and South Am local branch of the war finance cor- can cont nents lhns generally oration said that at present the gov-1 new world he but a a 'inment allows loans of only SO per matter of fact ean be shown by the cent of the actual purchase price of I geological formation the stock The hanks in practically (very case have had to furnish the that it is older than other continents Some of the formations that have been turned up and the Dakotas Thietry i can do a stroke of work During the summer Hustenden raises bevrbl- during the winter he sits and listen his wife read world events from a carefully hoarded stack of German newspapers arranged chonologieaN Although losing ground steadily Hustenden (who can read himself) has never allowed his wife to skip Last winter he got to the sinking 0f he Lusitania and could scarcely wait for fall to come you known th it tu's country was at war all along?" asked a member of the American Legion said Hustenden "but I wa n't interested because I got to it yet in the We won said the Legionnaire heartily And when he added all ever He felt as though he were letting the cat out of the hag It not over yet for answered Hustenden returning lo his wife an Uie stack of papers Neighbors are expecting to hear a wild celebration in the HustemleTs house along about April when he gets to the false armistice report In the event the bonus passes the American Legion has volunteered to cooperate with the government in administering the law and through it organization to effect a saving amounting to millions of dollars in the cod of distributing adjusted compensation The 1 1 000 Legion posts in almost every city and township in the nation I will he placed at the disposal of the- government Hanford MacNider the-5 eommandei of the Legion has pledged The whole Legion organization will assist in the gigantic task of getting up-machinery to cany out the terms of the law in the payment of compensa- on to the several millions entitled to benefits the passage of the bill some agency extending into every community will of necessity have to fie provided through which applications would be received" Mr MacNider declares offers to take over the job and with the machinery which we have already built up carry out Ihe plans of the legi-lation It is probable according to Commander MacNider that citizens throughout the country will volunteer to serve without pay on local boards or commissions subject to the same regulation and supervision as other federal employes With the completion of the census of the 4000000 war veterans now being taken the L-egion wfll have in its possession the only accurate data on the distribution of adjusted compensation under the five ironTITTTTTTITTTTITTnnTTTTTTTTTmTrnTTn Owrtlbt lino bf Til WbMKt BrndlcMa I no In Adulul spring comes shyly A willow by the river bending over at Its Imagery like woman stooping to Immerse her hair blooum suddenly over night In long lacy strands A truant tildes bis shoes slicks In his breath and shivers before the first plunge of the season In front of little cottage on a hill a falryllke carpet of white dog-violets bloomed of a morning and when Mrs A1 Delano opened her front door to the first kiss of spring she cried out suddenly as If something within her hud thawed "Al darling look out In the front yard lemine wheel your chair out darling Iook a whole batch of something or other spread out on the grass like a table-cloth drying Here lem uie wheel you no baby It's fine here by the window with the sun on Al ever since we been living here you been waiting and waiting for the spring to come It's spring now for sure darling Smell! Here darling So She flung wide the window beside his chair and the frilled white curtain atlrred I Iike someone was squirting a perfume atomizer" He relaxed his great shoulders back against the pillows his face inert but smiling he sporting that sunbonnet Ben brought you and hiking right out In the garden now ifou't you I other 20 per cent which in the major- it of cases they were1 unable to do as they were ually already carrying the applicant for the full value of his stock It is practically impossible for a man who has a great deal of feed to make money enough to pay his interest and a reasonable amount on the principal of his debt unless ho has his ranch and feeding facilities to capacity and unless the war finance corporation can loan somewhere near 100 per cent it is almost impossible to do this Mr Flannigan has gone to Washington to see if he can convince the heads of the war finance corporation of this and if he is successful it will be a great aid to western Nebras- Observations and Memories in western Nebraska can he scientifically proved to be at lea- two hundred million years od The speaker also spoke of the importance of these fossil discoveries to science and told of an expedition now being made in Asia He mentioned among other points that despite opinions to the contrary evolution is not in direct opposition to the teachings of the Bible 'I he two can he harmonized But he declared when scientific investigation shows -(line points in reference to the earth and its people to he facts it is foolish x) interpose old beliefs and religious teachings as authentic He pointed out that evolution does not claim that apes were the ancestors of the human race -but that the human race sprang from some ape like ancestors whether we like to believe it or not There were dozens of colored slides used in illustrating the talk which greatly pleased the Rotarians and their guests Captain Cook father of the speaker is one of the best informed men on the subject of early history in the state and on his return to Nebraska in two or three months (By A Hayseed) The Herald editor has asked me to continue so they will appear weekly -unless I am arrested ka stock feeders for false pretenses A questionnaire sent I Flannigan to each county in the cattle 1 do not like by inherited name very 1 country reveals a shortage well Probably Nebuchadnezzar stock in every one A leport i think much of his but according to i Chadron claims that its tenitoiy is Mr ttle live the Good Book he was some character in his time hunkering Al honest darling 1 "You don't mean thnt Lo" "Do! Do! Do! Lemme go darling lemme put some hullis out Leuime hurry She broke from him with a great show of raillery first" And she was out In the sunshine and down the steps two at a bound In the center of the lawn dellcnte and fragrant us a fountain spray the lilac bush was purpling In the sun Ry afternoon the sun had shifted so that the warm Hood of light lay to the rear and streamed Into the small square kitchen with its rows of utensils reflecting and gleaming A few Schlitz as a name looked badly in print until it was attached to the advertising of a foamy beverage that had quite a circulation before the passage of the eighteenth amendment Then it had numerous admirers better stocked than most western regions Custer and Holt counties are claimed to be 50 per cent short Rock County has 40 per cent of its usual supply and Grant Garfield and Box Butte counties about one-third In sentencing a criminal prisoner the judge might as well add as long as you care to The modern good provider is one an attempt will be made by the Lo- avaijle 0ne suggestion the tarians to secure him for an address emmont has received calls for a Captain Cook is now engaged in writ-' stem jmj)ar to the selective draft ing his account of early Nebraska and un()er Nvhi(h soidiers were western plains history and the Ro- furin war by boards of citizens tarians are exceedingly anxious to their )ocalitjes near from him Business is especially among the bandits My given name is a trifle odd also Tt must have been given to me for balance but always seems topheavy so i generally use only the initial who filings home a new dance recon for the phonograph every night The full name is preserved to sign mortgages and long newspaper articles See it below To those who have what is termed ginger in their makeup life is a long series of games It begins in child hood with tag and blind huff and may advance in maturity to a com p' factory or a chain pelitive motor car of ten-cent stores Chiropractic Facts If someone asked for the most en ticipg games of like Observation would immediately answer: Stud poker and politics And a youngci man might include modern dance on account of the imported wiggles short dresses and rolled down stock ings CvXL-A Vi iJvl ill I Any old professional although not quitting the game himself will advise against poker for stability or laid up shekels in old age and the ministerial brethren are discoursing loudly anil length on the iniquities of the dance Taking it for granted that both are experts in their line this leaves only politics anywhere near safe lo fool ith I'll show him we ain't such City hugs Monday night and be stopping In after aldermen's meeting You better put out some hullis to surprise him "Sometimes I wish Ben stop In Monday nights after those meetings hon They last so late and It keeps you awake so waiting for Lemine boss your garden Job baby right here from the window What you going to put out first She placed her cheek agnlnst his Are you comfy darling? Shull 1 put that new-fangled pillow Ben sent underneath your only I guess you better shut the window Ly the nip gone out of the air you feeling well 1 am baby Only hen a fellow sits on Ids throne all day Ills crown gets you joke like She drew the rug closer across bis leglike limbs peering closer Into bis face ain't getting that numb-kind of paralyzed feeling any further up re you I ain't I you look so llmpllke today weetness and 1 thought you'd be so glad to see that it's spring Sure It hurting you any higher up? Doc Bays If as a fiddle I She bent down to kiss him Ills head lay In the full glory of a bar of sunshine that crosed Ills pillow going out now and dig up In the garden little Look out Al at the lilac hush It's getting It a beaut Lo? I bet when It blooms It smells like sixty We gotta wrap it up these chilly nights just like it was a baby We gotta throw a sheet or something over it Don't forget Lo to cover It at then It'll look like a spook In the wnyt It covered so It won't get you ever want me to remember won't get nipped little klddo 1 keep you Jumping going out now before I do the dishes and spade ap like Ren learnt me Maybe some of the girls will have time to run up for a minute to see us when the show plays its return week from tonight We want the little plaeJo lijok swell Al" He was slow to release her hand seem funny to have the show playing In our town It Lo and It She made a wide-mouthed grimace nd pursed her frultllke lipa Into pucker should worry?" i mean that La" "Do!" Tour little klddo I Poor little kld-fio His throst might have been fur lined think hankering pon? Yon think Im hankering Jnst fesctOM the show's coming here next week Like fen 1 am 1" aquaal if you was rta km ft thlnl JJassS I The lure of politics lies in office -in the satisfaction of the feeling that you from among the many have been clo-en to rule For this 1 and the possibility of a chance of power higher up in the official line many a man has given up a ten-dollar-1 a-day private job to serve the public at four dollars per diem Sometimes the public appreciates his work sufficiently to give him the higher place and probably ten dollars a day But often he is really no better off than before for the man who replaced him in private life has also doubled his income VS Medical Theories Chiropractors believe that disease comes from within the body and in support of theie belief they point to the fact that Subluxations have been produced in the Spines of men and animals and various diseases have been the result from Goiter to Fevers and various intestinal disturbances known as diseases In its hunt for causes and cures of disease the Regular School of Medicine engaged in a game of Buff It teaches people that disease comes from without It declares that germs are the cause of most diseases and for those which specific germs have never been found for instance Scarlet Fever Measles and Appendicitis they think they must exist and expect to find them some day If the germ theory of disease were correct there would be nobody living to believe it RESULTS COUNT Drs Jeffrey Smith Mrs Lola Delano Swabbed Out a Great Shining Dlshpan and Hung It In Its Row Along the Wall gray chickens prinked In the open doorway and on the window sill a potted gerahluin lifted its head gratefully to the light On thnt same window sill a coffee pot lid buck turned Its IJnok mouth to the sun Mrs Iola Delano rvahhed out great shining dlshpan and hung It In Its row along the wall The pink was high In her fare and her fingers would recoil Lo?" "Nothing Al be In there right In minute The dishes Is done Shull I wheel you back here no I like to watch the kids coming from school" She wrung out her dishcloth nfter the Immemorial fashion of those to whom fulls this ancient and greasy rite slapped It open and hung it across the sill Blonde tendrils of hair clang to her motet face Al" In the front room quite In the attitude of the morning except that hla head lay back against the pillows more completely relaxed Mr Al Delano gaxed at the white celling The Mtm wfloftc tntei cat- The great throng known as the public is very thoughtless and hard to please An good deeds may be many but his few errors are always in the foreground The general public is too busy buttering its own bread to keep records but one may always be certain that the onnosition parties are on the job And igis their business to play up the mistakes to the dear public for a double time shuffle The waiter thinks he is authority on this statement regarding the fickleness of the public and the baleful influence of the political outs who want in for he held the office of justice of the peace for one term in Bitter Creek precinct Fussy county Indiana For further proof about the big statements in this paragraph see ex -President Wilson or Governor Me Kelvie Or if short on carfare interview your local county commissioners ALBRIGHT HAYSEED Om sura way to mar th finish of a near automobile seems to ba to get it caught between a couple of paee-teg street earn j-.