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A Kindergarten Hold- Up
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By MABELL SHIPPIE CLARKE
(Copyright, by Shortstory JPub. Co.)
It was when Sam was a stunted, old
looking boy of ten, and the baby, Sal,
was five, that many things happened.
First his father was sent to jail
Cor life for killing Sandy Mike Sullivan
In a fight; then his mother died and
little Sal was taken away to an In
stitution. With a heritage of vice and a train
ing in crime as his equipment for this
world's warfare, Sam entered upon his
independent career.
It was 15 years after his mother s
death that a morning in late May
found him on the outskirts of a sub
urban town, Norham, near Boston.
Sam always tramped for six months in
the year. He had developed a taste
for the country; he made a living eas
ily, and met agreeable companions.
Usually he rode on freight trains at
night, and walked the country roads
in the daytime. By mistake he had
left the train at a greater distance
from the village than he had realized;
It was already after nine o'clock, and
he had had no breakfast.
Fortunately, he spied a cottage In
the distance, and bent his steps to it.
As he came near, the cottage resolved
itself into a plain white building of a
shape common to New England, and
he heard children's laughter and sing-
ng, and the tramp of little feet.
"It's a bloomin' school," he mut
tered. "Xo grub here."
Still, he did not continue his walk,
for now there sounded from the piano
a lively march which he had heard
many a time from the street bands in
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Notice of Petition.
Estate No. 2518 of Clem Birney de
ceased, in County Court of Lancaster
County, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons Interested in said estate, take
notice, that a petition has been filed
for the appointment of Henry C.
Berg a as administrator of said estate.
which has been set for hearing herein,
on February 24, 1909, at 9 o'clock a. m
Dated January 23, 1909.
P. JAS. COSGRAVE,
(Seal) County Judge.
By Walter A. Leese, Clerk. 43-4
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deceased, in County Court of Lancas
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sons, interested in said estate, take
notice that a petition has been filed
for probate of the last will of said
deceased, and for appointment of
Peter B. Eno as administrator with
will annexed thereof, which has been
set for hearing herein, on February
23, 1909, at 9 o'clock a. m.
Dated January 21, 1909.
P; JAS. COSGRAVE,
(Seal) County Judge.
By Walter A. Leese, Clerk. 43-4
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notice, that a petition has been file!
for the appointment of Burton A
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which has been set for hearing herein
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New York. Besides, he saw In the
square entry-way of the old-fashioned
schoolhouse, beneath the little coats
and hats, a row of luncheon baskets.
jHe eyed them critically.
"Dere ain't a square meal in the
whole of 'em, but dere better'n noth
ing;" and he stepped cautiously
In, and devoured the contents of
the first three receptacles in the row
in an incredibly short time.
He was consuming a bread and but
ter sandwich, when, in the midst of
the second mouthful, which was al
most the last, bis eye fell on a little !
hole in the corner of a pane of the
glazed glass door.
"Wot is them kids doin", I wonder?"
he said to himself, and applied his eye
to the hole with the promptness that
characterized his arrival c.z ' a deci
sion. Once in command of the scene, Sam
remained motionless and lost in amaze
ment Ten, twelve, seventeen, he
counted, of the prettiest little crea
tures, boys and girls, the oldest not
over five. ,
It was a kindergarten established by
the early comers among Norham's
summer residents, who had hired this
deserted schoolhouse, had had it fitted
up with long, low tables and little
chairs, and had installed therein as
teacher a ward of Mrs. Humphrey
Brandon.
As Sam watched the little people
about the tables began to model clay,
Jwhile the teacher told a story of a
mother bird and her birdlings ; and one
after another of the pretty children
wenLto her to show the nest and eggs
.which had grown as the tale pro
gressed. Looking and listening though he
was, Sam neither saw nor heard a lit
tle girl who ran to the door behind
which he stood, and pulled it open, re
vealing to the astonished teacher and
children a disreputable, unshaven
tramp, in a stooping position.-
The teacher sprang to her feet in
alarm, though in an instant she was
controlled, that she might not make
the children afraid. She wag a girl
pf 20, and not comely, though her face
looked sweet and motherly, as she
claBijrid one sobbing child to her
breast, and walked a step nearer to
the door. '
"What can I do for you?" she asked.
Now the unmasking of Sam's am
bush had disconcerted him . more than
be would have acknowledged even to
himself, and the effort at recovery of
his self-possession caused him to as
sume the air of audacity. It angered
him, too, to see how the mere sight of
him standing in the doorway had
thrown into confusion the pretty scene
on which he had been looking.
Straightening himself with an air of
impudence and command that made
the poor teacher shake with fright
replied to her question.
"Wot kin you do for me? A lot,
miss. I come here to see you an' de
little kids. Trot 'em out. Show me
dere paces;" and Sam seated himself
in the magisterial seat, with an as
sumption of being very much at his
ease.
"You mean that you would like to
see some of . their games?"
"Yes. An' have 'em sing," command
ed Sam.
Here was a way to quiet the chil
dren, who, in their accustomed rou
tine, would forget the forbidding
aspect of their visitor. Making them
form a circle, their mistress led their
thin, sweet voices in the song of the
carpenter and farmer, with gestures
illustrative of their occupations.
Sam looked on with an interest
amounting to absorption. Never had
he supposed that childhood contained
such interests, such pleasures, such
stores of information. His mind went
back to his own early days, and he
dimly felt that its excitements were
not to be compared to these delights.
He thought of his father and mother.
He had heard that his father had died
in jail. He had spent two years in
the same jail himself. He never looked
for his mother's grave never even
asked its whereabouts. He thought of
Sal, and wondered. It was years since
any of them had come into his mem
ory. The blocks were being put away to
the music of a merry tune, when the
teacher's voice reached him as from a
distance, and her face was seen as
through a mist.
"Would you like to see the children
march?"
She had placed them in line, with the
tallest boy at the head, and was pass
ing by him to go to the piano, when the
tramp suddenly exclaimed:
"Stop!" in a tone that made her
knees vibrate.
"Where did yous git dt?" he said,
pointing a dirty finger at a silver coin
hanging fr jm her watch chain.
"This? I've had it always," returned
the girl, holding up the dime with its
engraving on one side. Sam took it
between his thumb and finger, very
much to her discomfiture, and read on
it, in well-cut letters:
SAM.
and underneath, rudely scratched:
SAL.
There came to his remembrance like
a flash the day when he had found
that , coin engraved with' his name,
and with a hole drilled through it, in
the street, and how he had taken it
home, and had scratched on it with his
knife the baby's name, and had tied
it about her neck with a piece of pink
string.
"Who are you?" he demanded, look
ing at her earnestly, and still holding
the com.
"Sally Brandon."
"Go on." v
"Mrs. Humphrey Brandon's adopted
daughter."
"Who's yer father?"
The girl was almost crying. .
','1 don't know. I came from a home
in New York. Mrs. Brandon adopted
me and had me trained to teach.
"Why'd she call you Sally?"
"They told her at the home that that
was all of my name that .the police
man who took me there told them, and
they gave her this to keep for me.
It was round my neck when I was re
ceived." Sam now was sure of her identity,
She was Sal, the baby. He looked at
her keenly, then sat down, saying,
briefly:
"Set de kids agoin'."
While the merry march sounded
against his. deaf ears, Sam revolved
the situation. Under ordinary circum
stances, if he had found anyone whose
"leg" he could "pull," he would have
pulled it without hesitation. Some
thing of the sort he thought of now,
for he had no doubt but that he could
persuade her of his identity, even
though her baby mind had retained no
memory of the tenement-house days.
At any rate he could frighten her out
of money.
But, strangely enough, he did not
want to, and this 'for the first time in
his life when there was a chance of
"boodle."
He looked at her smooth hair, her
sweet face, her neat dress; he watched
her skill as the music ran out from
beneath her swift fingers; he remom
bered her control over the children,
and her evident knowledge of her pro
fession. His thinking resolved itself
into a murmur inaudible to her.
"I guess she am t got no use fer a
brudder like me; an'," he added, with
grim humor, l uunno s l could use a
sister like her."
So never , a word said Sam on the
subject, and when the march was over
he took his -leave.
"Much obliged, teacher, fer yer per-
liteness. I wisht I'd a had a school
like dis when I was a brat, an' I'm
much obliged to de little kids, too.
Good-by."
"Good-by!" they shouted in chorus,
and the little girl whose weaving he
had described as "blooming pretty,'
cried: s
"Come again!"
Sam stepped into the open air, and
looked at the blue sky, and vp and
down the road, and then walked joff
with his bands thrust deep into his
pockets, whistling very loudly the
march the teacher had just played
WHY WE OPPOSE INJUNCTIONS
Labor injunctions will be one of the issues during the
coming campaign and it behooves all workers to "book
up" on this usurpation of courts. .
Here are a few points that will "floor" any defender
of labor injunctions:
From the foundation of our government, injunctions
have been recognized for the protection of property. " Sec
tion 917 of the United States Revised Statutes empowers
the supreme coins to prescribe rules for its application.
Rule 55, promulgated in 1866, provides that special injunc
tions shall be grantable only upon due notice to the other
party. . , v
Labor injunctions are capitalistic applications of jus- '
tice, masking under a hypocritical love for courts.
The labor injunction was invented by Alex Smith, at
torney for the Ann Arbor railway in the strike of 1894.
It was applied by Federal Judge Taft, who committed
Frank Phelan to jail for six months, and since then near
ly every court has granted these writs on demand.
Labor injunctions are not authorized or recognized by -any
legislature.
Labor injunctions deny workers a trial by jury a
right accorded the meanest criminal.
Labor injunctions outlaw, acts committed at strike
times but legal at all other times.
Labor injunctions empower the court to act .as law
maker, judge and executioner.
Labor injunctions class workers as property.
Labor injunctions make no distinction between proper
ty rights and personal rights.
Labor injunctions rest on the theory that when an ac
tion by workers injures property, fundamental personal
rights can be enjoined.
Labor injunctions protect dollars at the cost of a free
press and free speech.
Labor injunctions disregard the wrongs of workers in
a desire to protect gold. '
Labor injunctions are issued on the sole affidavits of
men who place spies in unions. 1
Labor injunctions class the patronage of workers and
sympathizers as a property right that cannot be jeopar
dized by a statement of facts.
Labor injunctions still the voice of protest against
the grinding policy of unfair employers.
Labor injunctions differ from injunctions for the pro
tection of impersonal rights.
Labor injunctions guess a violation of the criminal
code will be committed.
Labor injunctions are strike-time "laws."
Labor injunctions are not entitled to the respect of a
liberty-loving people.
Labor injunctions are judge-made laws, thanks to Wil-
liam Howard Taft. Toledo Union Leader.
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