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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1922)
t . rw i-s V- K."' iit-ii5rjsr ' "JWi-nmw". -n fi 1ST V upj, r QLOUD ;,jgpwAiiu, fiKna fcjfefcWTffV.iffMWlWMWW -- --t i- 1 ffiJAjij $$$v$$WM None So Blind Dy CLARA DELAFIELD !!! iii ::: Copyright, 103S, Western Newepiipor Lnlon. ! airs. Armlger Urown could not seo that her new nutld was a liuly, but t&at wus hot hor fnult, brcuuso bIio was not quite otto hi Tsolf. Amy Trem- Lrttto father lmil been n prosperous lawyer, but, when lie died Intestate and bankrupt, she hud to work for n JlvLnR. And, being tt homo-loving body, 3nc deliberntely chosu domestic serv ice. ' Site chose It bemuse she liked It, and there was no one In the world to dbputc her decision. Mm. Armlger , "Brown admitted Amy was the best ,ctml; In the world, the best girl situ had ever known. She was that hid- ,don treasure, tho Perfect Maid. Sho ithmiRht her n superior girl. Hut a ilady? Well, Mrs. Armlger llrown was .aot quite Years had disguised her common origin. Mr. Armlger Urown was u "Atcck broker, and their son, Howard, had Just left Princeton to enter his dither's olllce. The mother ruled the ?oost. She was very proud of her son, very proud of their home and money, Shcir car, their friends of course It never entered her mlndlhut Amy Trcmlctt could be a lndy. , Tho ear of losing her was always with her. Amy win devoted to her, Her husbapd, and Howard, but maids Tflarry. And It was about a month aflcr Amy's arrival that Mrs. ArmlBor '.Brown thought she detected her In an Incipient tllrtatlon with the Iceman. rKt Amy," she said, "I don't want lt Interfero with you, but I mtpposo yu know that man who comes with the ice Is an ex-convlct? Yes, his em ployer belongs to an association for ftofplnp released prisoners. You won't wldsper a word about It, of. course, Bet I thought you ought to be told." The baker's man, who next seemed Interested In Amy, was a different .proposition. Everybody In the town knew young Hamlin. Hut Amy was a uowcomer. Mrs. Armlger llrown look the occasion to look In at the baker's shop one day. "I told toy nmld to order rolls In future," she suld to young Hamlin, but fcho gets more forgetful every day. I'oor thing, I don't blnme her, though ; ihe's worried about her husband." "What did you say, Mrs. Urown?" naked young Hamlin, bristling. "I said," snapped Mrs. Armlger Brown, who did not like to he ad dressed ns plain "Mrs. llrown," "that the poor child's worrying about her Irusbund. You see, he's In tho peni tentiary, and she has the two children ,to support, and It gets on her mind. Don't you say a word to her about It : 'nobody's supposed to know." The baker's inati and the Iceman left their freight without dalliance, land Mrs. Armlnger Hrown's spirits 'rose. Hut the third danger loomed up presently In the shape of a mysterious charneter who used to engage Amy's evenlugs off. And Mrs. Armlger llrown 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 llrown," she answered. There was nothing mote to be said. Hut TSIrs. Armlger llrown watched Amy.. This was really a ease of love, bU- lU'ddod. Amy looked so very spruce and lovely when she set out In tho evenings for her unknown destina tion. Mrs. Armlger llrown noted the irolor In the girl's face and decided that this latest amour must be stopped at any cost. Shu resolved to follow her. She did so. She trailed her one warm, dark night In the summer to Ulverslde park. Amy descended tho lope toward the river, snt down on n i-ft, and wulted. Mrs. Armlger Urown, not very far nway, presently heard n man's footsteps approaching. A dim figure appeared and Amy sprang to her feet with n little cry, and In an other moment she was folded In his inns. - Mrs. Armlger Hrown's blood ,ran 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 the bench now, were saying. ( "ljiulul; she suspects something, thirling,1' Amy said In a low voice. "And after those tales she told the baker's man and the Iceman, she'll .tnp at nothing." ' 'Che man laughed. "You did throw her off the scent nicely about those men," he laughed. "Poor mother I She's ho blind !" "Mother:" With a strangled cry Mrs. Armlger llrown sprang forward, to look into her son's face. "Howard !" she cried In amazed fury. "Amy! You'll leave tho apartment to nrght this very night. Of all the out rasowis, 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 ,lf iou turned her out at this hour of alfcht. Sit down," he added, drawing 'tho panic-stricken woman down on tiie bench, "and let mo tell you who jr'my Is." New Geyr Reported. A dispatch from Great Falls, Mont., ays that Information through the for iat at Black Leaf, Teton county, re vived nt tho Jefferson national forest Headquarters states that it geyser, or vulcanic eruption, occurred at Mount Hlack Leaf canyon recently, mud and 'steam shooting up 200 feet high for two days and then subsiding to u steady outpour of hissing steam. 1 it l I ? Thirty Years Ago April 10, 1802 Geo W. llolllvi'i', holler maker nt tue 11. A. M ron ml hoiifce narrowly us iped it severe s nidiiu' April (It li ln-t by the breaking of a poitlon of nslenm cock which opeiieil an escape valve, tho jor of steam striking on tho left side scalding the outer portion of loft ami fioni shoulder to wrist. Minnie Marsh, daughter of M S. Marsh, gave her young fi lends a pleat. ant party on hor hli'thduy which or cut red on last Saturday, (Stent, excitement prevailed at Wien er's clothing store on Wednesday oven log, and Finnic Cowdun thought thai his lifo was not woith u sixpence for tvhout fifteen seconds, in fact hit hair is still stniuliiig on end from his great fright. The "cuiim' of nil thistles1' was from an explosion that took place in the largo xtove in the rear end of tho room which had accumulated suill uleutgao to blow the pipe down. Married at Hcd Cloud, Nub., Aptll 12, 16112 by 0. Schenok, F.sq., Albert It. Ilntlluld and Miss Finn M. Ludlow; all of tliis city. Ilfil Cloud is certainly on the high raid to prosperity. The, following pupils attending the Hod Cloud schools for tho term begin ning .lauuaiy 1th and ending Match 25 have buou neither absent or tuidy: Mat.de Gieenlee.OllvoOi coulee, Don ald Pope, Willie Kellogg, Edwin Ovet- injr, Harry lientloy, Mary Kuines, lllanch yellaiH, Edwin lientloy, Hairy L'tsoii, Charlie Perry, Stacey Mot hart, Evt Foster, Ethel Hatlleld, Frank Pet erson, John Wilson, Willie Ward, Carl lllrkitcr. Rhino Hirknur, Ross Fearn Tim Committee on Finance- for the oiiturtiiiumcnt of the dologates for the auiMint meeting of the Golden Hod Highway Association, announces the following statetuont. for publioitlon. Amount collected ?0 fiO, amount ox. pendud for outjrtalnnient and hadges cS'JfiO, biilancit on hand SO.O'.l. Lunch iim sorveil to 122 people 'I ho balance on hand will be turned over to the local enintnltteo of Hie Golden Rod High way Assooiaiio i. ACRIFICE 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 Kuchlng, Sarawak, to a London paper, says : I wus asked tho other day what I considered to be one of the greatest deeds a woman had ever done. This Is my answer: Far from the town, along a straight white road fringed by a brown mud ditch and rubber trees, there lives a little pale, unas suming woman; her only companion Is a bent ami aged Chinaman, who keeps house for her and looks after everything that she needs. Tho house Itself, standing a few yards from tin road, Is nothing but it native hut made out of rushes and palm leaves, un built on wooden plies. Passing by, and 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 thut would bo because, hidden among the trees below her, you hud not seen tho 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 onco had. Dut what has she taken to herself In pluce of them? An encampment of human souls that no ono else dares go near. A herd of beings more terrible than death. Sho Is not even of their race. They speak to her In every language from their decayed and crumbling mouths. lach day sho goes to them nurses thoso that nre most sick, encourages those, that Imvo talents, to mako use of them. It Is sho who occupies tho tlmo they spend In waiting to die. She helps them to tend their gar dens. One Is a basket-maker, another carves In wood; and all tho tlmo her eyes nro confronted by the ravages of disease. Things Indescribable sho sees, and yet her gaze remains puro and unaffected, even Joyful, as If that great mission within herself uplifts hor from it all. When I went to visit her 1 expected tq find her morbid, perhaps Infinitely sad. Instead, sho talked eagerly and frankly of all that she was doing, "I am so deeply Interested In my patients," sho snld, "that 1 am busy taking Impressions of their thumbs. It Is remarkable how tho thumbs of n leper bend backwards, and nro abso lutely llnltened at the tips." Shu 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 ago. One or two of them had run away from tho camp and had died a horrible death in the Jungle. As I was leaving, she said with a slight smile. "Yon know tho most popular person among us Is tho cof tin maker." That was the only touch of shall I say? bitterness in tho very greatest little wouiun that I know. JOY IN S IF THEY GET IT THEY'LL ONLY SPEND IT Jusi ii bpy f.om home I There ho was lying out in ;v tent thn cold No vember day. 1 had known th s boy for tv loni,-, long time; wo had grown up togctltcr, and I hnd watched him go from gram mar school to high school and from high nchool to college. His mother was a widow who had educated the boy herself by teaching school, and she was determined to lmvo him fol low in his father's profession the law With his mother's hHp lie got through law school and g.aduatcd with honors. A job in tho little c ty whore he lived was er.sy and it looked as though in tt few yours ills' mother's troubles would lie over and hqr sacrifices well repa !. Then rame tlte war. Tho boy thought it over and a month after it had been declared lie was on his way downtown to u recruiting office. No officer's training corps for him, )p wnntcd to get into action soon as possible. They sent him to tho First Divis on then being made up near Syracuse, New York and two months later ho was in France. The usual training; then the Vosges, the Mrme, St. Mih'cl. until in mid-October he jumped off wiili his division somewhere south of Dtin-Sur-Mcuse. And humped into tt p!ecc of shrapnel that wedged its way through his bloure and coat in such a way that he was sent b:low Dijon to what was called "the largest hos pital in tlio world." Uy accident I stumbled into li'm tiioi-e. The day was c"ld, tlte a'r was freez ing, and the tdnt was, to say the least, uncomfortable; but lie was tho same smiling boy from home as he lay there stretched out on liir, narrow cot. Ho was suffering, however, mentally and physically; for someone nt the casul ty clcr-.ring station had removed nine ty dollars back pay from his pockets. This money lie had ben going to send to his mother as soon as lie got out of action, and the low worried him. Moreover, as he was suffering pn'n from r. hole in his chest tha: you could stick your fist 'nto. Tho doctor called me aside and told me t'hftt the operation at tlte front had been very badly done; they had lef. a piece of shrapnel one thirty-second of an inch f.'om his heart.' It might itavo to be removed '.f so yes, I understood, and the sweat came out on my fore head despite tlto chill in tho open tent. You see 1 knew this boy fro'ii home. He was also hungry. I saw his no6n met'l, soggy bread and still moic soggy ontmcal, bad food for n mh.h so weak that lie could not sit up in bed. I remember I pinched a loaf 6f bread from the Colonel's mess; I :.lso remember the ravenous way he ate it, almost like an animal. It was not pleasant. to sec. Somehow he lived, and soon ho was up and around. Once when I was passing by a long line of men unload ing frieght cars I ran i'tto him un expectedly. Thoso men wtvc carry ing burlap sacks of cgctables from tho siding to a nearby warehouse, ami a forlorn f w were hanging on tho outskirts of the line to pick up any that fell out by mistake. I saw one, bohle:' than the rest, go up to one mnn with a, sack on lis back, and null a carrot out of a small hole in tho bag Ho stuffed the carrot into his blouse and turned quickly away, but I recog nized the boy from homo That, too was not u pleasant thing to see. It was nearly a year before wo met again, and ho had returned to his old job. Two years service with a fight ing division had cured him for-ver of this so-called "wanderlust," which is commonly supposed by writers n tho da'ly papers to afflict all cx-scrvico men. He was glad to gft back, said so and meant t. He found things in tho off cc some whtu changed, for to fill his place the bo. s had taken on a Miss Smith. Yes, these modern young women were tak ing up law now; but his employer as sttiCd him tho old job was open and that there was work enough for till. So there was, too, for about, tt year and a hnlf,; during wh'ch time he was busy, got two small raises, and had about decided to have his mother give up teaching the not your and move out into the country with him. Tilings wen certainly looking up! Then in the spring of 1921 the boss ll.id 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 home was a real expense, whereas Miss Sm,th was still working for fifteen dollars a week. Tito old man handed out a check for a month's pay in advance, remarked how badly ho felt, nnd told tho boy that ho would have no eifH culty at all getting placed with ?omo largo firm. That's what tho boy thought until exactly four weeks of waiting in cntc rooma mado htm feel differently. They were all cutting down, too, ovorywhero ho got the pamo answer; they would take hi name but could promise nothing. He became anxious) then disturbed 'then plainly worried. One morning his mother found h m taking off the silver button he had . Iv.nya won so prour1!. In '.ho lapel "f hiti coat. .Svl I- fTi dOitig it. "Oh, they don'- care anthmg about tho war, thoSj liifds,' lie aonwofod. Midsummer nnd atlll no jb, al though lie had bo n to ov:y?ttW fir:.i, every bank, Mid rvcry bwclners ho.'" in tho small city; rad advertised in tit" papers, had anawrred desenn of nrlvertjfiomcn'n and had ha-n'ed tr-1 offices of his friends. So hj decided to go to work at sonu thing tho next d y, and ho thanked htaven he nnd built toads and reservoirs, b.idgc? and banncka in the Army. He didn t mind swinging a pick, all he wanted v,:". work. Ho thought he would land some thing tho very ne.vt day; but ho didn" lie found to his surprise that thero were other 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 Mont faucon. They were dressed like himself :n flannel shirts and hobna'ls. like him self they wanted but one tiling work I At last ho discovered that tlto local railway company w.'iB phort of freight handlers, so he got his long desired job. Got it, and held it, tco, all th ough thoso blistering hot days teht summer; stuck to it despite the aching muscles just as ho had stuck tho-o hot days on the Marr.o er.nctly tvr e years before. Then in October came another shock, for orders come from the hend office to reduce, and in ono day two hundred men wore dropped. Ho came homo that night with a cnicer look on his face; but ho was at seven the next day hunting for another job. Factories, stores, anywhero th re was a chance for work ho went, and everywhere he was 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 nene o' you soldier bums around here." Tin boy from home almost hit ho fat man who said that I'm glid he didn't, bccatiSe he swings a mi an 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 he hadn't touched a key board for exactly three years, he blew in and took the test. Ho stood first out of a hundred and fifty-three men, tint! the company gave him a job at once at forty dollars a week Once more he whistled as he went home from work, once more lie begun to feel tilings wore on the upgrade You remeber ihc strike never came off? Yes, Jrhcy were sorry, they would certainly keep his name; but at present they had their own men to look after. He slogged off into tho dusk thut night wih a heavy heart and no job. Thut was just before Christmas, since then he has hardly dont a stroke of work Why? Because ho can't get it to do; you tee ho 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 tho 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 thut Mr. Mellon ,thc Secretary of the Treasury, was opposed to compensa tion, regarding it as money wasted. Or. another sheet of the same paper he happened to sec a small item me-t Honing that Mr. Mcllon's bank in Pittsburg had just declared a dividend of twenty five percent! He read that the country can't af ford adjusted compensation at this 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 rccievu a loan of three million dollars from tho Govern ment. And on another page he notic ed that the Shipping Board was get ling eight million dollars to recondi tion the Leviathan. Eleven million in ono day; but to give a tenth of that to the cx-servico men will bank rupt the country! Do you wonder ho is very thoughful these days as he goes patiently from factory to factory asking for work ? Tho other day ho road that tho bank ers of tho nation were united against tho Adjusted Compensation Bill, and thai they had sent thousands of Ict- 1 tors to Washington protesting against it. Ono prominent banker in Wall Strcet was quoted as saying that tho bankers wanted everything possible dono for the disabled man; but they could not see whv the able-bodied man shou'm echo JiUh.e. cr lu'.p. TI.'. mado tho boy from homo laugh; you see, ho lias somo disabled buddies, nnd he happens to recollect how thoy st'iig gled tvo years after the Armistice to get a few dollars -from tho Govern ment. He also remembers that thesi samo bankets who nro now so tiol'.o'.t- t::i!:!::isiK::!::::!u:::::i:!::::::!::::::::t:!ffrR;::::t:::i:::::::::::::::::::n::t:::::: :: Our Long Distant Service Is Your Servant Our Long D stance lines connect everywhere und avail you of a bc.v ce that is practically unlimited. At any hour, at any place you may call anyone by Long Distance telephone and the many uses of th'3 scn'ice make ij. possible for you to complete all manner of busi ness transact ons rapidly and effectively, and in a way both profitable and pleasant to you and your pations. You will f r.d that our Long Distance service will head tho li3t of bus ncss gettrs it will multiply your selling time minimize tho selling expense and will carry your voice from city to city without delay. 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In fact' he doesn't remember a single letter from Wall Street two years ago, asking tlicit the disabled man bj taken care of; he 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 it few. Meanwhile his mother is still teach ing. They have moved to a smaller and cheaper flat in the city, and ho is practising all the mean little econo mies that go with being poor; cutting down on tobacco, walking when he ought to take a strecit car, sliding down back streets to avoid meeting the men he used to know nnd work with, going without lunches whenever he can. He is willing, eager, even to work, but still ho 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. Ho was downat the factory at six fifteen the next morning to find n line several blocks long, mostly com posed of cx-ser:icc men. No use to wait, so he blew off up town, passing on his way several men he had former ly known. Thoy d!d 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 the bonus, they'll only spend it." lie looked nround. The .peaker was tho son of a millionaire automo bile manufacturer, ltimsclf the husband of a rich girl. "If they do got it, they'll only spend it.". Well, if he did spend it, that would bo about the only thing he had spent for tlte past sevon months; ho could testify to thnt. His thoughts were a little moro bitter than usual that night, for ho was obliged at last to drop his government insurance. It was about all hd had saved out of tho wreck, and it hurt to sco it go. . Perhnps this is not a real case? Porhops it is all my imagination? No, thjs is all true, it is not my imagi nation. Indeed, it is a very real case to mo, for I happen to know this boy quite well. You sec ho is my only brother. Tho. American Legion Wcm.' Jv. Variation In Icebergs. Icebergs In the Arctic regions are neither so largo nor so numerous as thoso seen in the Antarctic seas, but they are usually loftier and more benutlful, with spires and domes. t: t: u elegrapii Co. 3J(c Sell rSi D cash that's PS cheaper. IZ ELEVATOR UH In The District Court of Webster County, Nebraska. In Tho 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," Blackledge, Judge of the District Court of Webster County, Nebraska, made on the COth day of March, 1022, for thu salo of the real estatp herein after described, thcro will bo sold at public vendue to tho highest bidder for cash, at the south door of the court house in the City of Hod Cloud, in said County on the 24th day of April, 1922, ut the hour of two P. M., tho following described real estnte: The Northwest Quartor of Scotion 20, Town II, Range 10 in Webster Coun ty, Nebraska. Said salo will remain open ono hour. Dated this 22nd day of March, 1022. Myrtle A. Putnam Administratrix of the estate of Newell C. Putnam, Deceased. Notice of Probate In the County Court of Webster Coun ty, Nebraska State of Nebraska, ) Webster County, f6S To all persons interested in the es staCo of Noah E. Cling, Deceased; Take Notice, that a petition has bcon filed praying thnt tho Instrument filed in this court on the 15th day of April, A. D. 1022, purporting to bo the last will and tostament of said deceased, may bo proved and allowed and record, cd as tho last will and testament of Noah E, Cling, deuoiihed; that hald in Btrumont bo admitted to probate, and tho administration of said estate bo granted to Frank 0. Cling and William 0. Cling, ns Executors. It is hereby ordered by tho court, that all persons Interested in said es tate appear at the County Court to bo held in and Tor said county on the Gth day of May, 1022, at ten o'clock, A. M., to show cause, if any there bo, why tho prayer of tho petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of tho pendency of said petition and thehear iug.thoroof, bo given to all persons- in. torcsted in said matter bv nublUhinu a copy of this order in tho Hod Cloud Chief, a legal weekly newspaper print oil in said county, for thrco consecutive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand and tho seal or' Bald court this 15th day of April, A. D 1022. (Seal.)- A.D. RANNEY, County Judge. Fi3? fU . M -ji- y ii ( - J ol rfr 1 1...'