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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1923)
ONE OF OURS ■ Hy WILLA CATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. (Continued from Yenterdnr.) Pynopsls. Clauds Wheeler, living on a Nebraska ranch with hi* parents, quit college In bla third year in order to attend to the home raneh while his younger brother, Ralph, and father, Nat, spend most of their time on their Colorado ranch, linj lisft is oldest brother, and is in business in Frankfort. Neb., the seem* of the story to date. While In school in Lincoln, Claude made friend* of Erlirh family, a motherly widow of Yiveson*. Erne*t. Hat el and Leonard llatvson. joung Frank fort farmers, are close friends' «»f ( laildc's. C laude and mother n^e greatl.v Inlerwtod In German advance into Helghim during world war. Claude turns attention to building home f«p Enid Royee. religious daughter of Jason Royee. Frankfort mil ler. lie married her at the Koyce home. On tile first night of their honeymoon Enid casually asked C!nndo to spend the night In another purl «;f the train. II*.* is hurt but complies. They arrive in Denver next morning. (Continued from Yesterday.) (Book Three ) CHAPTER I. Claude was to continue farming with his father, and after he returned from the wedding journey, he fell ot once to work. The harvest was al most as abundant as that of the sum mer before, and he was busy in the fields six days a week. One afternoon in August he came home with his team, watered and fed the horses in a leisurely way, and then entered his house by the hack door. Enid, he knew, would not he there. She had gone to Frankfort to a meeting of the Anti-Saloon h ague. The prohibition party was bestirring itself in Nebraska that summer, con fident of voting the state dry the fol lowing year, which purpose it tri umphantly accomplished. Enid's kitchen, full of the aftei noon sun, glittered with new paint, spotless linoleum, and bluo-and-while cooking vessels. In the dining room the cloth was laid, and the tahle was neatly set for one. Claude opened the icebox, where his supper was ar ranged for him: a dish of eanmd sal mon with a white sauce; hard-boiled eggs, peeled and lying in a nest of lettuce leaves; a bowl of ripe to matoes, a bit of cold rice pudding; cream and butter. He placed thes" things on the table, cut some bread, and after carelessly washing his face and hands, sat down to eat in his working shirt. He propped the news paper against a red glass water pitcher and read the war news while he had his supper. He was annoyed when he heard heavy footsteps com ing around the house. Leonard Daw son stuck his h'-ad in at the kitchen door, rind Claude rose quickly and reached for his hat; but.Leonard entne in, uninvited, and rat down. His brown shirt was wet where his sus penders gripped his shoulders, and his face, under a wide straw hat which he did not remove, was un shaven and stri ;:ked with dust. "Go ahead and finish your supper,” he cried. "Having a wife with an electric is next thing to having no wife at oil. How they do like to roll around! I've been mighty blamed careful to see that Susie never learned to drive a car. See here, PIARGS FOR RENT per month anti up. Free tuning and insurance. Liberal amount of rent allowed if you decide to purchase. Telephone your order to AT. 1856. SCHMOLIER & Ml*ELLER 1514-10-ia DIANA PA Phon* Dodge s . rlHhU vU. at is56 I I Claude, how soon do you figure you'll j bo able to ipt me have the thrasher? [ My wheat will begin to sprout in the shock pretty soon. Do you guess your father would lie willing to work on Sunday, if I helped you, to let the machine off a day earlier?” "I’m afraid not. Mother wouldn't like it. We never have done that, even when wo were crowded.” "Well, I think I'll go over and have ft talk with your mother. If she could look Inside my wheat shocks, maybe I could convince tier it's pretty near a case of ynur neighbor’s ox falling into a pit on the Sabbath day.” "That's a good idea. She's always reasonable." Leonard rope. “What's the news?” "The Germans have torpedoed sn English passenger ship, the Arabic: coming this way, ton." "That’s all right," Leonard de clared. "Maybe Americans will stay at home now. and mind their own business. I don't care how they chew each other up over there, not a bit! I'd MS soon one got wiped off the map as another." "Ynur grandparents were English people, weren't they?" "Thats a long while ago. Yes. my grandmother wore a rap and little white curls, and I tell Susie I wouldn’t mind if tlie bahy turned out to have my grandmother's skin. She had the finest complexion I ever saw." As they stepped out of the back door, a troop of white chickens with red combs ran snuawking Inward them. It was the hour at which the poultry was usually fed. Leonard stopped to admire th'in. "You’ve got a fine lot of hens. I always did like j while I.eghorns. Where are all your roosters?" We’ve only got onp. He's shut up! in the coop. The brood hens are set ting Enid is going to try raising win ter frys." "Only one rooster? And may I ask what these hens do?" Claude laughed. "They lay eggs, just the same—better, it's the fer tile eggs that spoil in warm weather.” This information seemed to make Leonard angry. "I never heard of such damned nonsense," he blustered. "1 laise chickens on a natural basis, or I don't raise ’em at all." He lumped into his car for fear lie would say more. When he got home his wife was lifting supper, and the baby sat near her in its buggy, playing with a rattle. Dirty and sweaty as he was, Leonard picked up the clean baby and began to kiss it and smell it, rubbing his stubby chip in the soft creases of its neck. The little girl was beside herself with dHight. "Go and wash up for supper. Len,” Susie called from the stove, lie put down the baby and began splashing, in tlte tin basin, talking with his eyes shut. "Susie, I'm in an awful temper. I I ! can't stand that damned wife of ! Claude’s!” She was spearing roasting ears out of a big iron pot and looked up through the steam. “Why, have you seen her? 1 was listening on the tele phone this morning and heard her tell Bayliss she would be in town until late.” “Oh, yes! She went to town all right, and he’s over there eating a cold supper by himself. That woman's a fanatic. She. ain’t content with practicing prohibition on humankind'■ she's begun now on the hens.” While he placed the chairs and wheeled the baby up to the table, he explained Enid’s method of raising poultry to his wife. She said she really didn't see any harm in it. “Now be honest, Susi**; did you ever know hens would keep on laying with out a rooster?” “No, I didn’t, but 1 was brought up the old-fashioned way Enid has poultry hooks and garden bonks, and all such things. 1 don't doubt she gets good ideas from them. But any how*. you be ^careful. She's our nearest nei-glfcbor. and 1 don't want to have trouble with her.” “I’ll have to keep out of her way, then. If she tries to do any mission ary work among my chickens. I’ll tell her a few home truths her hus bands too bashful to tell her. It's my opinion she's got that hoy cowed already.” “Now. Ben, you know she won’t bother your chickens. You keep quiet. But Claude does seem to sort of avoid people,” Susie admitted, filling her husband’s plate again. ' Mrs Joe Havel says Ernest don’t go tb Claude's any more, it seems Enid went over there and wanted Ernest to paste some prohibition posters about 15,000,000 drunkards on their barn, for an example to the Bohemians. Ernest wouldn’t do it. and told her he was going to vote for saloons, and Enid was quite spiteful. Mrs. Havel said. It's too bad. when those boys were such chums. 1 used to like to see them together.” spoke so kindly that her husband shot her a quick glance of shy affection. “Do you suppose Claude relished i having that preacher visiting them, i Do You Suffer from Headaches, Biliousness, Indigestion, Constipation? Our methods give com plete relief. No case ac cepted that cannot be helped. The Thomas Chiro practic Offices 1712 Dodge St. Gardner Bldg. AT lantic 1293 B Lowe Brothers 1 Paints -Varnishes SOLD IN OMAHA BY C. O. Hurd. Beneon North Sj(|. H«dw.r. Co., Wdliom.-Youn. H-rdw.rr Co.. 4112 North 24th St. 220 South 24th St. .. wo M. J. 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"1 don't believe you would live with the sort of man jam could feed out of a tin ran." Nr>. I don't helieve I would." She pushed the buggy Inward him. "Take l.er up, Paddy. She wants to piny wilh you.” Leonard sat the baby on his shoulder and carried her off to show her the pigs. Susie kept laughing in herself ns she cleared the table and washed I he dishes; she was much amused hy what her husband had told her. lade that evening, when Leonard was starting for the barn to see that all was well before he went to bed, he observed a discreet black object rolling along the highroad in the moonlight, a red spark winking in tlie rear Mo caller] Susie to the door. "See, there she goes; going home to i nort the success of the meeting to Claude. Wouldn't that he a nice way to have your wife coming in?” “Now, Leonard, if Claude likes It—” "Likes it?" Big Leonard drew him self up. “What can he do, poor kid? lb's stung!" (Centime'll In The Morning Bee > ra*t ‘TPi]l Box” in Place. The last of the new ‘'pillbox'' suburban police stations has been sc* in place by the contractor, this location being Hanscotn park property along Woolworth avenue, a short dis tance east of Thirl.i-second avenue. | ■ Art you reading the Brisbane ml I umn daily appearing In Ihla paper? Our Children H.v ANGELO PATH I. The Sand Pile. There were a great many children | living in the apartment houses thnt [ lined the park. The park made a i fine place for them to play in and i to look at. Tlie parknian. Paddy, used to let the dandelions blossom so the youngsters might see them shin ing like golden discs in the tender green of the soft spring grass. Over under the big elm there were swings and slides and just beyond was the pond, shallow enough to lie ■safe and deep enough to fish for the gold fish who were too sophisticated to hang 1 liemseIves on bent, pins or scraps of led flannel however tempt ingly dangled before their sniffy nose*. Boats with paper sails did very well too. and (lie bearh fur nished just the right sort of damp sand for pies But some of Hie mothers wanted a sandpfle. ‘‘Nice, clean sea sand that they can shovel and carry, you know, Paddy," "Yes, yes. Ii's me that knows them and piles." said Paddy. "And the more X know about them the more I don't like them." "They're so clean, you know. The children get so messy playing on the edge of the pond. They must have some sort of dirt to play In and really I think we ought to have a sand 'pile. I'm going to persuade the commissioner to put one in." "You'll never be sorry for that but once m your life,” said Paddy. "If you saw what went into them piles with all them children playing In them every day you wouldn't lie saying how clean they were. However, I'm not the commissioner. Still I’m ad vising them. Steer clear of them randplles. Its me that knows them." But the lady called on the commis sioner and persuaded him to put a sand pile under the old aycamore | that sir* ip the little dell dose to the pond. ' It will fie a« rool and o shady and the view of the pond In so attractive,” said the active lady mother. ‘■'Tts all of that." said Paddy. " 'Tis cool and shady and damp and the Messed sunshine will see little <*f jit and It's none the better for that. ! Now if I was placing yon bit of a dump I'd he for putting It right out In the open lot with the sun full on it. 1 would that.” I’ut the lady smiled at old Paddy's "bstinance and took Cyril and Maude and their shovels and pails to the fresh new sand pile. It was lovely. "Paddy, you don't know how good it Is.” she called to him. "The chil dren never had such fun In the play ground as they've had today.” ' May It last.” said Paddy fervent ly. "hut 1 know It will not." The next afternoon when the lady up peared with Cyril and Maude the pile was well filled with busy shovel lers. 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