Ji' 'aWuT?"' Jzt ""i- V j Ja"" r flj I 'W""aWBaBaB'aBaaJ YVWAMV h jtttAfariSlltAi&tjmfVWi Wi mxwKim(KWm&tmr. ?- -... . ji - ,- E None So Blind i ( By CLARA DELAFIELD Snoirletat, 1522, ': Mrs. Armlger Brown could not hco itbut her now niiild wits a Iutly, but ttiat wus hot her fault, because sho wag not lulte one herself. Amy Trent- ;lctfo father hud been n prosperous lawyer, but, when lie tiled Intestate and bnnUrupt, she bail to work for it living. And, being a home-loving body, she deliberately chose domestic serv ice. ' She choso It because Bhe liked It, and there was no one In the world to depute her decision. Mrs. Armlger iBrown admitted Amy was the best ,cook In the world, the beet girl she Iiad ever known. Hho was that hid den treasure, tho Perfect Maid. She i thought her a superior girl, Hut a , ludy? Well, Mrs. Armlger Hrown was .aot quite Yearn had disguised her common origin. Mr. Armlger Urown was n "stc-ck broker, and their Hon, Howard, had Just left 1'rlnceton to enter his ktlier's oillee. The mother ruled the tcosL She was ory proud of her son, wry proud of their home and money, Jheir car, their friends of course It never entered her mind ''that Amy I'remlott Could be a lady. , The fear of losing her was alwayH with her. Amy was devoted to her, Ucr husband, and Howard, hut maids "marry. And It was about n month after' Amy's arrival that Mr. Armlger 1 'Hrown thought who detected her In an incipient lllrtatlon with the Iceman. "Kr Amy," who said, "I don't want to Interfere with you, but I nuppo.se ym know that man who comes with Ihe Ice Is an er-convlct? Yes, his em tVeyer belongs to an association for wrfplng released prisoners. Vou won't vrblsper a word about It, of. course, Bot 1 thought you ought to be told." The baker's man, who next seemed ttilorcstcd In Amy, was a different (proposition. Everybody In the town knew young llamlln. Hut Amy was a newcomer. Mrs. Armlger Hrown took the occasion to look In at tho baker's shop one day. , ul told my maid to order rolls In future," phe said to young llamlln, but she gets more forgetful every day. I'oor thing, I don't blame her, though; she's worried about her husband." "What did you say, Mrs. Hrown?" asked young llamlln, bristling. "I Dfsald," snapped Mrs. Armlger Urown, who did not like to be ad dressed as plain "Mrs. Hrown," "that the poor child's worrying about her husband. You see, he's In the peni tentiary, and she has the two children I to support, and It gets on her mind. , Don't you say a word to her ubout It; nobody's supposed to know." The baker's man and the Iceman ' lrfr their freight without dalliance, land Mrs. Armlnger Hrown's spirits rTvm. Hut the third danger loomed up (presently in the shape of a mysterious chnrncter who used to engage Amy's evenlugs off. And Mrs. Armlger Hrown could learn nothing about him. "Amy, who Is that man you meet In tho evenings?" she asked her. Amy 'colored. "Oh, Just a friend, Mrs. Armlger Hrown," she answered. There was nothing more to be said. Hut Mrs. Armlger Hrown watched Amy;.. This was really a case of love, & decided. Amy looked so very spruce anil lovely when she set out In tho evenings for her unknown destina tion. Mrs. Armlger Hrown noted the oolor In the girl's face and decided That this latest amour must be stopped tit any cost. Shu resolved to fullow lior. She did so. She trailed her one warm, dnrk night In the summer to Klverslde purk. Amy descended the lope toward the river, sat down on a rit, and waited. Mrs. Armlger Brown, not very fur away, presently heard a man's footsteps approaching, A dim figure appeared and Amy sprang to her feet with n little cry, und In an other moment she wns folded In his RHUS. - Mrs. Armlger Hrown's blood jran cold. This meant the loss of Amy. She would never get a maid like her again. Terror gave her a supernat ural' cunning, and she edged forwnrd softly among the trees, until she could hear what the lovers, side by side on tho bench now, wore saying. ( "b tuluk sho suspects something, darling,' Amy said In a low voice. "And after those tales sho told the baker's man nntl the Iceman, she'll top at nothing." The- man laughed. "You did throw her off tho scent nicely about those men," he laughed. "Poor mother! She's so blind !" "Mother !" With a strangled cry Mrs. Armlger Hrown sprang forward, to look luto her son's face. "Howard !" she cried In nninsed fury. "Amy! You'll leuvo tho apartment to night this very night. Of all the out- rusoMis, wicked things " -' "Wo can't be. married till tomorrow, Mother," said Howard, politely. "So ;you'll really have to let Amy stay overnight. It would bo such a scandal 1 sou turned her ont at this hour of night. Sit down," ho added, drawing the panic-stricken woman down on toe- bench, "and let mo tell you who stay Is." New Geyeer Reported. A dispatch from Great Tails, Mont., i ays that Information through tho for i at at Hlack Leaf, Teton county, re vived at tho Jefferson national forest headquarters states that a geyser, or volcanic eruption, occurred ot Mount Black Lent canyon recently, mud and 'Steam shooting up 200 feet high for two days und then subsiding to u steady outpour of hissing steam. , Western Newsflnpor Lnlon. . Thirty Years Ago April 10, 1802 Geo W. 1 1 nil is' m-, boiler maker at ttie U. it M round lioioe narrowly es iipetl u severe si'iildliiit Ajtril (lilt lnt by the breaking of u poitlmi of u steam cock winch opened mi efccupn valve, the jor of hteiim striking on tho left hIiIo sen tiling the outer portion of left arm fioiu shoulder to wrist. Monde Marsh, daughter of M S. Mitrhhi gave her young frlondfc i plouf - an! party on bor blrihilny which oc- cutreil on last Saturday. (ireat excitement prevailed lit Wien. or'n clothing store on Wednesday oven- log, and Frank fowtloii thought that bis life was not woith n sixpence for a.bout IKteeti seconds, in fuel hh luiir 19 still standing on end from his great fright. Thu "ciium of nil thistles" wns from an explosion that, took place in the largo clove in the rear end of tho room which had iicetimtilatodsiilll oluntgas to blow tho pipe down. Married at Kid Cloud, Neb., Apill 12, 18112 by 0. Schenok, F.mj., Albert U. Ilntfluld and Mlt,s Flon M. LudloW.all of tills city. Iltl Cloud is certainly on the high rnul to prosperity. Th( following pupils attending the lied Cloud schools for tho term Ik'k'1 li ning January lib and ending Mutch 25 have huoii neither absent or tnidy: Mat.dcGiecnleo,Ollva tlieenlec, Don- uhl Pope, Willie Kellogg, Hdwln Over- Ing, Marry Hentloy, Alary Humes. Ulaneh Sellnrs, Edwin Mmtley, Hairy L'lsoii, Charlie Perry, Slacey Moihart, Evi Foster, Ethol Hatfield, Frank Pot- erson, .lohn Wilson, Willlo Ward, Carl Illrkter. Kliiiio Hirkner, Hoss Fearn 'J'he CoiuinittcQ on Finance for the entertainment of tho delegates for tho iiiiiiiihI inoi'titig of tlie Golden Hod Highway Association, announces the following statoniont for pyblioition. Amount collected $01 fit), amount, c. pended for oiitrtiiiuuiciit and badges (8'J r0, bulanco on band Si).(li). Luneh min nurved to 122 people 'Iho baliuiuo on hand will lx tttriied over to tho local committee of I he Oold'Mi Uod Highway Atsnulatlo i. A0R9FIGE East Indian Ruler's Tribute to Wonderful Woman. European Lady Who Has Withdrawn From the World to Comfort , Victims of Leprosy. The ranee of Sarawak, writing from Knelling, Sarawak, to a London paper, says : I was asked tho other day what I considered to bo ono of tho greatest deeds a woman had ever done. This Is my answer: Far from thu town, along a straight white road fringed by a brown mud ditch and rubber trees, there lives a Uttlo pale, unas suming wonum; her only companion Is a bent nnd aged Chinaman, who keeps house for her and looks after everything Hint she needs. Thu houso Itself, standing a few yards from thu road, Is nothing but a native hut made out of rushes and palm leaves, am built on wooden piles. 1'asslng by, ami seeing the woman sewing in her garden, you might say: "What a strange choice this Is to cut oneself off so entirely from clvllza tlon." Hut that would be because, hidden among the trees below her, you hud not seen the leper camp. It Is true that this little European lady has cut herself off from what Is called the' world, from tho friends that she once knew, and the relations she once had. But what has she taken to herself In place of them? An encampment of human souls that no one elso dares go near. A herd of beings more terrible than death. Sho Is not even of their rnce. 'They speak to her In every language from their decayed and crumbling mouths. Riieh dnv xho imps to them nurses those that aro most sick, encourages those that havo talents, to make use of them. It Is she who occupies tho time they spend In waiting to die. She helps them to tend their gar dens. One Js a basket-maker, another carves In wood; nnd nil tho time her eyes aro confronted by the ravages of disease. Things indescribable sho sees, and yet her gazo remains puro and unaffected, even Joyful, as If that great mission within herself uplifts hor from It all. When I went to visit her I expected tq And her morbid, perhnps Infinitely sad. Instead, sha talked eagerly and frankly of all that she was doing. "I nm so deeply Interested In my patients," she said, "that I am busy taking Impressions of their thumbs. It Is remarkable how the thumbs of a leper bend backwards, and are abso lutely flattened at the tips." She went on to describe how charm ing some of the lepers are. A few of them a.o boys of only twelve and thirteen years of age. One or two of them had run away from tho camp and had died a horrible denth In tho Jungle. As I wns leaving, sho said with a slight smile. "You know tho most populnr person among us Is tho cof fin maker." That wns tho only touch of shall I say? bitterness In tho very greatest little wouiun that I know. JOY IN S if TUEY GET IT THEY'LL ONLY SPEND IT Just n boy fiom homol There lie. was lying; out in i lent thn cold No- ember day. I had known th s iioy for a lonr, lonK time; wo had grown up together, and I hnd watched him go from gram mar school to high school and fi-om high school to college. Ills mother was widow who had educated tho hoy herself by teaching school, and she was deformmed to have him .fol low in his father's pr.fcssion -the law With his mother's lflp lie got through law school nntl g.aduatcd with honors. A job in tho little c.iy where ho lived was er.sy and it looked as though in a few years his- mother's troubles would be oor and her sacrifices well repa d. Then came the war. The hoy thought, it over and r. month after it had been declared he was on his way downtown to a recruiting office. No officer's training corps for him, h" wanted to get into action as soon as possible. They sent him to tho First Divis on then being made up near Syracuse, New York and two months later lie was in France. Tho usual training; (l.ar, (l.n r..,1, 4J, Tt .. Cj- M!V.-1 I :;.; L, n?,i. ' :: " :.r-r ;"' v;:,f thy wantc-1 t one thing-work! Miibii ,i, juivi-vywi'Uiyi;! jiv juui;ii uii with his division somewhere south of Dun-Sur-Mouso. And bumped Into n p'ece of shrapnel thnt wedged its way through ills bloure antl coat in such a way that ho was sent b?Iow Dijon to what was called "the largest hos pi.nl in the world." By accident I stumbled into h'm lhc:-e. Tho day was old, the a'r was freez ing, and the tdnt was, to say the lenst, uncomfortable; but lie was the same smiling hoy from home tis lie lay ther saddled out on his narrow cot. lie was suffering, however, mentally and physically; for someone at the casul ty cletring station had removed nine ty dollars back pay from his pockets. This money he had ben going to send to his mother as boon as ho got out of action, ami the low worried him. Moreover, as ho was suffering pa'n from t. hole in his chest tha!: you could stick your fist nto. The doctor called me aside and told mo that the operation at the front had been very badly done; they hnd left a piece 'of shrapnel one thirty-second of an inch fiom his heart.' It might havo to be removed If so yes, I understood, and the sweat came out on my fore head despite the chill in tho open tent. You see I knew this boy from home. lie was also hungry. I saw his noon meal, soggy bread &nd still moic soggy oatmeal, bad food for a mKh so weak that he could not sit up in bed. I remember I pinched a loaf of bread from the Colonel's mess; I idso remember the ravenous way he ate it, almost like an animal. It was not pleasant. to see. Somehow he lived, and soon he was up and around. Once when I was passing by a long line of men unload ing fricght cars I ran into h'm un expectedly. Those men wore carry ing burlap sacks of vegetables from tho siding to a nearby warehouse, and a forlorn f w were hanging on the outskirts of tho lino to pick up any that fell out by mistake. I saw one, bolde:' than the rest, go up to one man with a sack on li's back, and null a carrot out of a small hole in the bag II? stuffed the carrot into his blouse and turned quickly away, but I recog nized the boy from home That, too was not a pleasant thing to see. It was nearly a year before we met again, and ho had returned to his old job. Two years service with a fight ing division had cured him forever of this so-called "wanderlust," which is commonly supposed by writers n the dn'ly papers to afflict all exervico men. He was glad to get back, said so and meant t. Ho found things in tho off'co some wluu changed, for to fill his piece the bo. s had taken on a Miss Smith. Yes, these modem young women were tak ing up law now; but his employer as Btued him tho old job was open and 'that there was work enough for all. So there was, too, for about a year and a half,; during wh'ch time ho was busy, got two small raises, tind had about decided to have his mother give up teaching the no:.t car and move out into the country with him. Things wci certainly looking up! Then in the spring of 1921 the boss IKid him in nnd started to tell him how unfortunate it was. Oh, no his work was perfectly satisfactory; but business was all going to p'cecs, clients fewer and fewer, bills not be ing paid, and times ahead looking very bad. The boy from homo was n. real expense, whereas Miss Smith was still working for fifteen dollars n week. Tho old man handed out a check for a month's pay in advance, remarked how bad! jr ho felt, and told tho'boy that ho would liayo no diffi culty at all getting- placed with some largo firm. That's what tho boy thought until hoy were all cutting downjwop, ovorywherc ho got the samo" nnsyor; they would tako h:& name but could exactly four wcolcs of waiting in tnte rooms made him feel, dlfferenlly.' T promico nothfng. He became anxious, then disturbed then plainly worried. One morning his mother found h m taking off tho silver Irttfon hv had . !v.ay wo'-, so nrur". in tho lapel of liin coat, .'t," :-I: i' ., he v. doing it. "Oh, they don';, care anything nbftut tho war, thoftj lihrds," he aaawercd. Midsummer' and still n0 '. jtjlv al though he had bo to ovrry-t-w tir.v, every bank, rul every btuir.ers lion-' in tho small city; lad advertised in th- papers, had answered dcRens of advertisement and had ha 'irod th"1 offices of his friends. So he decided to go to work at something tho next d y, and ho thanked hl&vcn he nail built roads nnd reservoirs, b.idjjc? and banncka in tho Army. He didnt mind swinging a pick, all he wanted v. .. work. Ho thought lie would land some lting the very nc::t day; but he didn" He found to his surprise that thoro wrre otlier men also in search ot work; some of them men he had fought with on tho banks of the Veslo and in the woody slopes below Monl faucon. They were dressed like himself in flannel shirts and hobnails, like him .-.... II At last ho discovered that the local iv.ilwny company w.s short of freight handlers, so ho got hi long desired job. Got it, and held it, tco, all tli ough those blistering hot days hht .summer; stuck to it despite the aching muscles just as ho had stuck those hot days on tho -Mnrr.e exactly t'nve years beforo. Then in October came another shod:, for orders come from tho head office to reduce, and in one day two hundred men wore dropped. Ho camo homo that night with a yueer look on his face; but lie was at seven tho next day hunting for another job. Factories, stores, anywhere th re was a chance for work he went, ar.d everywhere he wns told the same thing nothing doing. In one place ho was received by a large, fa man, with a diamond in his necktie. "Naw, wo don't want none o' you soldier bums around here." Tha boy from homo almost hit 'he fat man who said that I'm gkd he didn't, because he swings a mean left when ho wants to So October passed on to November, with rumors of a railway strike and calls for telegraphers He had served as a telephone coporal at tho front, and although ho hadn't touched a key board for exactly three years, he blew in and took the test. He stood first out of a hundred and fifty-three men, and tho company gave him a job at once at forty dollars a week Once more he whistled as he went home front work, once more lie began to feel things wore on the upgrade You remebor the strike never came off? Yes, hoy were sorry, they would ceAninfy keep his name; but at present they had their own men to look after. He slogged off into the dusk that night will a heavy heart and no job. That was just before Christmas, since then he has hardly dont a stroke of work Why? Because he can't get it to do; you sec he lives in a small city where there aren't many jobs to be hnd. He spends part of each day going the rounds, tho rest of the time he reads the papers, reads the papers and thinks And somo of his thoughts well, they are just a little unpleasant. The other day, for instance, he read that Mr. Mellon ,thc Secretary of the Treasury, was opposed to compensa tion, regarding it as money wasted. On another sheet of the same paper ho happened to see a small item me-i t toning that Mr. Mcllon's bank in Pittsburg had just declared a dividend of twenty five percent! lie read that the country can't af ford adjusted compensation at thi. time when business is so bad. That sounded reasonable enough to him until he read in the identical paper that a bankrupt Eastern railroad (the New Haven) was to rccieve a loan of three million dollars from the Govern ment. And on another page he notic ed that the Shipping Board was get ting eight million dollars to recondi tion the Leviathan. Eleven million in ono day; but to give a tenth of that to tho ex-service men will bank rupt the country! Do you wonder he is very thoughful these days as he goes patiently from factory to factory asking for work? The other day ho road that tho bank ers of the nation wcro united against tho Adjusted Compensation Bill, and that they had sent thousands of let ters to Washington protesting against it. One prominent banker in Wall Strcet was quoted as saying that tho bankers wanted everything possible done for tho disabled man; but they could not see whv tho able-bodied man .1 !..... , . 1. ' rV - made the boy from homo laugh; you sec, ho has some disabled buddies, und he happens to recollect how thoy st'tg inded tv'o years after tho Armistice fJoAcret afow dollars -from tho Govorn- AfA.. ..: , ... . ., manc.'SCJriealso Tcmemuers tnai incs. 1 samebankctHjwho nre now "r T . . . ., ! 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In fact' ho doesn't remember a single letter from Wnll Street two years ago, asking thct the disabled man ba taken care of; ho does, however, recall distinctly that Tho American Legion went to Washington and got action for the wounded. These arc a few of the things he is turning over in his mind. Just a few. Meanwhile his mother is still teach ing. Thoy have moved to a smaller and cheaper flat in the city, and he is practising all the mean little econo mies that go with being poor; cutting down on tobacco, walking when he ought to take a strccit car, sliding down back streets to avoid meeting the men he used to know and work with, going without lunches whenever ho can. He is willing, eager, even to work, but still he cannot get a job of any sort. So he thinks and thinks, and the other day something happened that made him think harder than ever. A factory advertised for two men to wash windows and act as porters. He was down vat the factory at six fifteen tho next morning to find a line several blocks long, mostly com posed of cx-sorvicc men. No use to vait, so he blew off up town, passing on his way several men ho had former ly known. They did not recognize him in his. 0. D. shirt; but as he pass ed ho heard one man say: "Hang it, Tom, if they do get tho bonus, they'll only spend it." Ho looked around. The speaker was tho son of a millionaire automo- bilo manufacturer, himself the husband of a rich girl. "If they do get it, they'll only spend it.". Well, if he did spend it, that would bo about tho only thing he had spent for the past seven months; ho could testify to that. His thoughts were a little more bitter than usual that night, for ho was obliged at last to drop hi3 government insurance. It wns about all hd had saved out of the wreck, and it hurt to sco it go. . Perhaps this is not a real case ? Perhaps it is all my imagination? No, thja is all true, it is not my imagi nation. Indeed, it is a very real case to me, for I happen to know this boy quite well. You see ho is my only brother. Tho American Legion Week ly. Variation In Icebergs. Icebergs in the Arctic regions are neither so Inrgo nor so numerous as those seen in the Antnrctlc seas, but thoy aro usually loftier and mora beautiful, with spires and domes. i. ui- i: t: t: u cash that's cheaper. awd ELEVATOR In The District Court of Webster County, Nebraska. In The Matter of the Application of Myrtle A. Putnam, Administratrix of tho Estate of Newell C. Putnam, De ceased, for Leave to Sell Ileal Estate. Notice is heroby given that, in 'pur suanco of an order of Hon. Lewis II,' Biackledge, Judge of tho District Court of Webster County, Nebraska, made on tho COth day of March, 1922, for thu sule of the real estatp herein after described, thero will bo sold at public vendue to tho highest bidder for cash, at the so'mh door of the court houso in the City of Red Cloud, in said County on the 2ltb day of April, 1922, at the hour of two V. M., the following described real estate: Tho Northwest Quarter of Section 20, Town 3, Range 10 in Webster Coun ty, Nebraska. Said sulo will remain open ono hour. Dated this 22nd day of March, 1022. Myrtle A. Putnam Administratrix of tho estate of Newell C. Putnam, Deceased. Notice of Probate In the County Court of Webster Coutw ' ty, Nebraska State of Nebraska, ) Webster County, fBS To all porsons interested in the es stafo of Noah E. Cling, Deceased; Take Notice, that a petition has been filed praying that tho Instrument tiled in this court on the 15th day of April, A. D. 1922, purporting to be the last will and testament of said deceased, may be proved and allowed and record, ed as tho last will and testament of Noah E. Cling, deeotihudj that said in strument bo admitted to probate, and tho administration of said estate, bo granted to Frank 0. Cling and William 0. Cling, as Executors. It is hereby ordered by the court, that all persons Interested in said es tate nppear at the County Court to bo held in and for said county on the 5th S day of May, 1922, at ten o'clock, A. M., to show cause, if any thero bo, why tho prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notico of tho pendency of suid petition and the hear ing.thereof, bo given to all porsons in. forested In sold matter bv nubllshinu n copy of this order In tho Red Cloud Chief, n legal weekly nuwspapor print, ed in said couuty, for thrco cousDcutlvo weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand and tho seal of Bald court this 15th day of April, A. D 1022. (Seal.) A. D. RANNEY, . . County Judge. 4 I .-fl -- . , Al x VI '$ t Hti. .'( n i m t.Vl, '.' IkIA'W, Tl J ,V IW v - ..s