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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1922)
r sr- A gg-actfiffcWHftfl 0tmAmmmKim9 wfe-nr. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. CHIEF jtiiiutiiiinnuiituiniuiiiiiniiiiitttHiitMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiifi V $ Ramsey Milholland By BOOTH TARKINGTON Copyright by Doubteday. Pafla O Company fitiitiiitttiitiiiitiiiitiiiitiiiiiifiiifiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii riiiiifiiiiiiiiiitiiiESiiiiiiiiiif iiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiF; DORA YOCUM. Synopala. With hla grandfather, small lUmsey Milholland Is watch ing the "Decoration Day Parade" In the homo town. The old Kentto man, a votoran of tho Civil wnr, endeavors to Impress tho jrounic aUr wltii the slunlllcanco of the gToat conflict, and many years aft erward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years aftorward, Itamsoy la not distin guished for remarkable ability, though his pronoinicod dlslkes aro arithmetic, "Recitations" and Oer man. In sharp contrast to Ilntn scy's backwardness Is tho precocity of Uttlo Dora Yocum, a young lady whom In his bitterness ho denomi nates "Teachor's ret." In high school, where ho and Dora are classmates, Ramsey continues to feel that tho girl delights to mani fest her superiority, and the vln dlctlveness ho generates becomes alarming, culminating In the reso lution that sonio day he will "show" her. At a class picnic Ram sey Is captured bag and baggago by Mllla Rust, tho class beauty, and endures the agonies of his first love. Ramsey's parents object to Mllla and wish he'd taken up with Dora Yocum. Ramsey klssos Mllla. Then Mllla suddenly leaves town. E CHAPTER VII He never saw her ugnln. She sent him a "picture postal" from Oconomo woc, Wisconsin, which his father dis engaged from the family mall, one morning at brenkfast, and considerate ly handed to him without audible com ment. Upon It wns written, "Oh, you ltnmsey 1" This wns the lust of Mllla. Just hefore school opened, In the autumn, Sadie Clews made some reve lations. "Mllla did like you," said Sadie. "After that time you Jumped In the creek to save her she liked you hotter than any boy In town, and I guess if it wasn't for her counsln MUt up In Chicago she would of liked you the best anywhere. I guess she did, anyway, hecauso she hadn't seen him for about n year then. "Well, that ul'ternoon she went nway I was over there and took In everything that was goln' on, only she made me promise ou my word of honor 1 wouldn't even tell Albert. They didn't got any wire from tho uncle nbout the touring car; It was her cou sin Mllt thnt Jumped on the train and came down and fixed it all up for Mllla to go on the trip, and every thing. You see, Itamsoy, sho was turned back a couple of times In school before she came In our class and I don't know how old she Is and she don't look old yet, hut I'm pretty sure she's at least eighteen, nnd she nitwit be over. I didn't think such a great denl of this Milt's looks myself, but he's anyway twenty-one years old, and got n good position, and all their fam ily seem to think he's Just line I It wasn't his father that took In the tour ing enr on tho debt, like she snld she was writing you; It was Mllt himself, llu started out In business when he was only thirteen years old, nnd this trip he was gettin' up for his father and mother and Mllla wns the llrst vncntlon he ever took. Well, of couise she wouldn't like my toJIln' you, but 1 can't see the harm of It, now every thing's all over." "All all over? You mean Mllla's going to be to be married?" "Sho already Is," said Sadie. "They got mnrrled nt her Aunt Jess nnd Un cle Purv's bouse, up In Chicago, last Thursday. Yes, sir; that quiet, lltUo Mllln's a regular old married woman by this time, I expect, ltnmseyl" When be got over tho shock, which wns not until tho next day, one pre dominating feeling remained: It was a gloomy pride n pride In his proven maturity. Ho was old enough, It ap peared, to have been the same thing ns engaged to a person who wns now K Married Woman. Ills manner thence forth showed nn added trace of seri ousness and self-conslderntlon. llnvlng recovered his equlpolso nnd something more, he entirely forgot that moment of humble admiration ho had felt for Dora Yocum on the day of his flattest prostration. When he saw her sitting In the classroom, smiling bright ly up nt the teacher, the morning of tho school's opening in the autumn, nil his humility had long since van ished nnd sho appeared to him not otherwise thnn ns the scholar whose .complete proficiency had always been irksome to him. "Look at her I" ho muttered to him- "Snme olo Teacher's Petl" v nnd then, ns the days and sen- massed, nnd Dorn's serene prog' mtlnucd, never checked or even ithero stirred within him some of tho old determination her; nnd he would conjure jrcnm or uorn in loud ln fvyhlle he led the laughter uors. uut gradually his ,Wt,XfelHwier cnrae t0 bc merely IJPk-iataHppressJoii. Ho was tired of jiuvujk iu iuuii ui hit iuh ue sinieu Jt) and ho thanked the Lord that tho time "wouldn't be so long now until he'd bo out of that ole school, and then all ho'd have to do he'd Just take ti"v'fare,lneverato''Wallc by hor house, it fun easy enough to use some other Itreet when h hd to go down town, El IisibHLP' ' M I Hkkkjlj Mk' .ijEsP Wm wn Fourteen Is nbout gone," ho snld to Fred Mitchell, who wns still bin most Intimate friend when they reached the senior year. "Yes, Blr; It's held to gether u good many years, Fred, but after Juno It'll bc busted plum up, and I hope nobody starts a move to huvo any reunions. There's a good many members of the ole class that I can stand nnd there's some I cun't, but there's one I Just won't I If we ever did call a reunion, that olo Yo cum girl would start in right nway nnd run the whole shebang, and that's where I'd resign I You know, Fred, the thing I think Is the one biggest benefit of graduating from this ole school? It's never secln' Dora Yocum again." This was again his theme ns he sat by tho same friend's side, in the rear row of tho class at Commencement, listening to tho delivery of the Vale dictory. "Thinks she's Just soohllmc, don't she I" he whispered morosely. "Sho wouldn't trndo with tho Presi dent of the United States right now. Never mind I Just about n half-un-hour more and that's tho lust o' you, ole girl I Yes, sir, Fred ; one thing we can feel pretty good over: this Is where we get through with Dora Yo cum I" Ilnmspy anil Fred had nrrnnged to room together nt Greenfield, tho seat of the state university, und they innde the short Journey In company the fol lowing September. They arrived hi larious, anticipating pleasurable ex citements lu tho wny of "fruternlty" pledglngs nnd Initiations, encounters with sophomores, class meetings, nnd elections ; nnd, also, they were not ab solutely without Interest In the matter of Girls, for the state university wns co-educntlonnl, nnd it wns hut natural to expect In so broad a field, all new to them, u possible vision of something rather thrilling. Thoy whispered cheerfully of all these things during the process of matriculation, nnd signed the registrar's book on it fresh page; but when Fred bad written his J " - "What on Earth'a the Matter, Ram sey?" name under Itamsey's and blotted It, he took tho liberty of turning over the loaf to examine some of the auto graphs of their future classmates, written on the other side. Then he ut tered an exclamation, more droll than dolorous, though It nfl'ectod to be whol ly the latter; for the shock to Fred was by no means so pnlnful ns It was toils friend. Ramsey lenned forward and read the unmo Indicated by Fred's fore linger. DOHA YOCUM. . . . When thoy got back to their pleasant quarters nt Mrs. Meigs', fac ing the campus, ltnmsey was still un able to talk of unythlng except tho lamentable discovery; nor were his companion's burlesquing efforts to con sole him of great avail, though Fred did become serious enough to point out that it university was different from a high school. "It's not like bavin' to uho ono big room as n headquarters, you know, ltnmsey. Kverythlng's ull split up, and she might happen not be lu a single one or 5 our classes." "You don't know my luck!" tho af lllcted hoy protested, "I wish I'd gone to Harvard, the wny my father wnutod me to. Why, this Is Just tho worst nulsnnco I ever struck 1 You'll seel She'll bo In everything thero Is, Just the way she was back home." Ho appeared to ho corroborated by tho events of the next day, when thov attended tho first meeting to organise tho new class. Tho masculine ole ment predominated, hut Doni Yocum wns elected vice president. "You see?" ltnmsey snld. "Didn't I tell you? You see what happens?" But after that sho censed for a time to Intrude upon his life, nnd ho admit ted that his hornssmcut was less gravo than ho had anticipated. There were about flvo hundred students In the freshman class; ho seldom saw her, n dlstnnt glimpse of her on one of the campus paths, her thoughtful head bent over n hook ns she hurried to a clnssroom. This was bearable; nnd In the flattering agitations of being sought, and even hunted, by severnl "fraternities" simultaneously desirous of his becoming a sworn Brother, he almost forgot her. After n hazardous month the roommates fell into tho arms of tho last "frat" to seek them, und having undergone nn evening of outrage which concluded with touch ing rhetoric und nn oath tnken nt midnight, they proudly wore Jowcled symbols on their breasts and wero free to turn pnrt of their attention to other affairs, especially tho affairs of the Eleven. However, they wero instructed bj tho older brethren of their Order, whose duty It wns to assist In the proper maneuvering of their young cu reers, thnt, although support of the 'varsity teums was Important, they must neglect neither the splrltunl nor the Intellectual by-products of under grndunte doings. Therefore they be citmo members of the college Y. M. C. A. nnd of tho "Lumen Society." According to the charter which It had granted itself, the "Lumen Soci ety" wns an "Organization of mnle nnd female students" so "ndvnnced" was this university "for the develop ment of tho powers of debate nnd or ntory, Intellectual und sociological progress, nnd the discussion of nil mat ters relating to philosophy, metaphys ics, llternture, art, and current events." A statement so formidable was not without a hushing effect upon Messrs. Milholland nnd Mitchell ; they want to their first "Lumen" meeting in n state of feur nnd came awny little reassured. "I couldn't get up there," Ramsey declared, "I couldn't stand up there before nil thnt crowd nnd make n speech, or debate In n debate, to pave my soul nnd gizzard! Why, I'd Just keel right over and hnf to be cnrrled out." "Well, the wny I understand It," said Fred, "we can't get out of It. The seniors In the 'frnt' said we had to Join, nnd they said we couldn't resign, either, nfter we had Joined. They said we Just had to go through It, anil after n while we'd get used to It nnd not mind It so much." "I will!" Ramsey Insisted. "I couldn't nny more stand up thero on my feet and get to spoutln' about sociology and the rndlcnl motompsy I'horus of the mcttyphysicnl bazoozum I ban I could fly u flyln' machine. Why, I " "Oh, that wasn't anything," Fred Interrupted. "The only one that talked like that, he was that Bllckons; he's u tutor, or something, und really a member of the faculty. Most o the others Just kind of blnh-blahhod around, und what any of 'em tried to get off their chests hardly amount ed to terribly much." "I don't care. I couldn't do It at all !" "Well, the wny It looks to me," Fred observed, "wo simply got to! From what they tell me, the freshmen got to do more than anybody. Kvery oth er Friday night, It's all freshmen and nothln else. You get n postal card on Monday morning In your mail, and It says 'Assignment' on it nnd and then It's got written underneath what you hnf to do the next Friday night oration or debate, or maybe Just rend from some old hook or something. I guess wo got to stand up there nnd try, nnywny." "All right," said Ramsey. "If they want me to commit suicide they can send me one o' their ole 'Assignments.' I won't need to commit suicide, though, I guess. AH I'll do, I'll Just fall over In u fit, and stay in It." And, In truth, when he received his first "Assignment," one Mondny morn ing, n month Inter, he seemed In n fair wny to fulfill his prophecy. The attention of his roommate, who sat at u window of their study, was at trai ted by sounds of strangulation. "Wimt on earth's the nintter, Ram soy?" "Look! Look at this!" Fred took the card ami exnmlned It with an amazement gradually merg ing Into u pleasure altogether too per ceptible: ASRIONMKNT Twelvo-Mlnuto Debate. Clnss of 101S. Subject, Resolved: That Germany Is both legally and morally Justified In her Invasion of Relgliun. (Debaters arc notified that each will be held strictly to' the following sched ule: Affirmative, -1 mln., first. Nega tive, - mln., first. Alllnn., 2 mln., sec ond. Nog., 2 mln., second.) Afilrmntlvo, R. MILHOLLAND, M8 Negative, D. YOCUM, '18. Taste is a matter of tobacco quality Wc state it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality (and hence of better taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. LiSttt Gf Mytrs Tebacct Ct, I ,J Ci HMK Chest CIGARETTES of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos blended 20 for 13c 10 for 9c Vacuum tins of 50 - 45c if JH sw ALL THESE PROVOKE SMILE Various Kinds of Ladles Who Excite the Risibilities of Writer In Humorous Publication. Ladles make me laugh ladles who dress like Kewple dolls; ladles who nre always arranging slumming par ties; ladles who arrive at the theater during tho middle of the first act und practically stop the performance; In dies who tell fortunes; Indies who spend twelve hours u day In restaur ants; ladles who organize welfare leagues nnd nre forever talking about them; ladles who know ull nbout rela tivity; ladles who embroider their bridge playing with telephone calls, gossip nnd risque stories; ladles who are habitually one hour und twenty minutes late for all appointments ; ladles who nre shocked at anything they don't understand; ladles from Columbus, 0., who, having spent nine months In Paris, completely forget their nntlve tongue; ladles who liuve never been understood; ladles who don't know when a romnnco ends; ladles who aro continually dwelling on the fact that they are ladles. From Life. Hog Pedlflrees to Have Monument. A monument Is to be erected to commemorate the beginning of the practice of writing pedigrees for hogs. Tho first such pedigrees, oldest records show, were written lu 1S75 for Poland China hogs on the farm owned In Uluo Dull, Ohio, by W. C. Ilunklnson. Part of tho necessary funds for the monu ment hnn been raised by the Ohio State Poland China Breeders' ussocln tlon, und the Ilunklnson estate, which still owns tho farm, lias consented to the erection of the monument on the property. The monument Is to be dedicated In August. Would Be Unfortunate. Vicar All sinners, Mary, will be washed whiter than snow. Old Beggar Woman Not them as truly repents, 1 'ope, sir. Boston Transcript. Best feature of the admiration of the people for art Is that they don't pick flaws In the technique. Gent of tho Old School. Gypsies apparently do not take much stock In the newer feministic theories. A swnrthy nomad and Ills gaily-dressed wife came Into n cigar store on Cadillac square. He bought some good cigars for himself and a package of pipe tobacco for her. She remonstrated with him In gypsy lan gunge about something, turned her buck to him nnd started for the door. His face clouded with anger, he raised his large foot und administered u lus ty kick that wns forceful enough to send her through the swinging doors. Sho made no protest and they walked uwuy together. Detroit News. One of the First. The nuto salesman, after a great deal of hesitancy, had agreed to take the old car In part payment for the new. "What Is the number of the motor?" he asked. Tho owner poked his bend down on the bonnet n moment and then bobbed up again. "Eighteen sixty-three," he answered. "I asked," said tho salesman, "tho number of the motor, not the date of manufacture." New York Sun. Could Do Her Part. "Alice," said tno mistress, reprov ingly, "this Is absolutely the worst pie I ever tried to eat. You told me that you could mnko as good pies as any cook In the city." The new kitchen girl placed her arms akimbo and faced her mistress with defiance. "So I can. mum," she said. "So I can. But all the leddles I Ivor wurrked for mixed the plea thlmsllves bufure I baked 'em, mum." Rcnuiar Customer. An actor, desiring to Insure his life, gave us a refeience tho name of a cler gyman, upon whom accordingly called a representative of the company. "My dear sir," protested the minister, "my ucqunlntauce with the gentleman Is a very slight one." "That's funny," exclaimed the agent, "hecnusu ho told me he visited your church regularly." "He docs," was the dry reply. "He always gets me to marry him !" HAD SPEECH WITH GOVERNOR Certainly Short, but the Incident Gladdened the Heart of This Indiana Small Boy. When Governor McCrny and others boarded an Interurbnn to visit tha new reformatory site at Pendleton they found the car alrendy well filled.. The governor sat down by a small boy from Fortvlllo nnd n moment later asked him to exchange seats with another member of tho party s thnt they could continue n couvcrsn tlou. Shortly afterward, the Iad'9 seatmnto disclosed to the boy that It was the governor ho had accommo dated. The Incident made an Impression and when the boy reached home he boasted to his father that he had seen the governor nnd hnd spoken to him. "Is thnt so?" said his dad, skep tically, "und what did thu governor say to you?" "Oh," he snld, "would you Just ns soon sit In that seat over there sou?" Indianapolis News. Stop Hiccoughs. "Thero Is, 1 believe, only one spe cific for hiccough," says nn eminent physician, "and that is n small doso of vinegar, sweetened with as much sugar ns it will absorb. I have used this remedy when the annoyance has passed almost Into the dangerous stage, and never know a case which one doso would not velleve und two cure." Salesmanship. The Irate shopper was returning an unsatisfactory purchase. "You told me those wero fust col ors," she cumpnilned, "and the verj first time they were washed they ran." ".Maybe you didn't use stationary tubs," suggested the sweet young thing behind the counter. Just So. "Husband and wife In n bridge game usually make a poor score." "Yes, and they rnku up so many old scores." Like money, people borrow courtesy nnd never pay It bacit. Wlltlnm nnd Mnrv nollivm VIpoIbId "T4m food ole cUsj of Ml-lapd-when be dUn.UYM no, mora thtqlia 1710. The "Lumen Society" debate, R. Milholland vs. D. Yocum, (TO BE CONTINUED.) Phi Beta Kappa Founded In 177(h Tho Phi Betu Kappa collego fra ternlty Is tho oldest of the Greek letter societies. It was founded at 1 it, MJ i tcxmW pm-ll' The Thrifty Citizen Who Caught the Plugged Nickel cJVL R. BROWN had swallowed hi9 lunch nnd had paid his bill. Cautiously he counted his chance. Here!" he said, sharply, Take back thi3 plugged nickel and give me a good one I" Mr. Brown walked proudly out. They couldn't fool old Brown. But old Brown had fooled himself. Brown'9 day was heavy and dull. He lacked " pep." There was a mid-afternoon drowsy spell when he needed to be awake the direct and natural result of, heavy, starchy breakfasts nnd lunches, taken on faith and without question as to value just because the food looked and tasted like food. Thousands of shrewd business men who count their change, take their food for granted. That's what builds up the sani tarium business, and puts the tired "all -done" feeling into the mid afternoon of a business day. Grape-Nuts is a scientific food whose delicious, appetizing flavor and crispneso are an introduction to well-balanced nourishment a nourishment easily and quickly as similated, so that body, brain and nerves are well fed and kept free of the stored up poisons left by so many ill-selected foods. 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