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Miss Lucy and
the Simple Life
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(Copyright, hy J B Lipplneott Co.)
"To open the eyes and tl)o hearts of
her young charges (o the glories of
Nature, to reveal to them the wonders
of the world beautiful this Indeed in
the blessed privilege of the toucher"
Thus rashly, the enthusiastic Miss
Lucy at a Teachers' Meeting The
Principal, caught hy (he aesthetic in
version of adjectives, beamed approv
al upon her and the next da> he eamo
into Room 20 with an invitation for
Miss Lucy. It was from the Play
ground Association, and In it Miss
Lucy was offered the use of the Park
Playground for an afternoon. At this
announcement, "How nice," Miss Lucy
gushed with hypocritical fervor, "and
how kind of you to get it for me."
This was how it came about that the
next day,- (he end of Juno and the
last day of school. Miss Lucy, feeling
like tho Matron of the Home for
Friendless Waifs, found herself walk
ing at the head of a two by-two line
thirty deep. It was Class A In search
of the wonders of the world beautiful.
In accordance with an Iron rule of
the Board each child had been re
quired.to bring.six cents for his car
fare. Bum O'Reilly, however, had ap
peared with only four and a letter
from his mother addressed to "Miss
Loosy teerher" In which tho snd "slr
kumstanzes off Mrs O'Reilly” were
set forth. However, her man was de
scribed as having his eye on some
thing, and "Miss Loosy was tho darlin
of her James and would she lend him
the other two cents."
As for Frederick William, lie had
brought the six cents but they had
been carefully hidden away In his
pocket by n shrewd mother and were
only to be used in extremity.
In the vernacular of Bum O'Reilly,
Class A had on its glad rags. There
was one boy who hail even washed
his ears. Bum himself it spite of the
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"If I Ain’t Bust Mo Sunday Pants.”
warm weather wore his Sunday
pants of red plush and out front "an
old chair cover. Frederick William
was just as clean and a little shinier
than usual, and he had on his best
stockings, upon which shone strange
zebra like slrlplngs. Sophie Hauer
schmidt wore her sister s bends At
the end of Lie line straggled Anna
Karenina with her mother's pink chit
foil veil around her neck.
In spite of her dirtiness that day
had seen a great moral upheaval in
Anna. Site was going to be good.
Vainly Miss Lucy had struggled for
this regeneration. The only response
had been a perverse wickedness
That dinnertime, however, in splendid
l ivali > of Sophie’s heads site had
stolen her mother’s veil. She had tied
it around her neck, and as Anna was
as truly feminine a creature of clothes
as Miss Lucy herself, instantly there
had come over her an overwhelming
sense of the goodness of beauty and
the beauty of goodness When she
had tied back her greasy forelock of
hair with her blue garter, her conver
sion was complete, lor that was the
way Marie Schaefer wore her hair and
Anna was going to be even as good as
Marie.
I his new morality oi Anna al
though the mere matter of a dirty chif
fon veil had brought her safely
through the journey to the Park At
the cars frantic cries for "Miz Luzy"
were heard, hut it was found to he
Sophie and not Anna who had stopped
to make faces ut an envious neighbor
who had been so nearly left behind.
At last the Playgrounds w ere reached
a pleasant and sheltered stretch of
lawn guarded by a fat policeman.
There one found many seesaws and a
big sand-heap. In one corner there
was also a pile of rafla and Miss Lucy
seeing, thought with a guilty helpless
ness of the Rafla Meeting taut she
had hooked to go to a matinee.
However, the children amused them
selves unassisted until Hum O'Reilly
fell off a see saw. When Miss Lucy
and the fat policeman ran to his res
cue, "Gee,” he remarked with Celtic
cheerfulness, "if I ain't bust me Sun
day pants.” At which Miss Lucy and
the fat policeman bushed.
After Bum had been repaired with
numerous safety-pins Miss Lucy called
the children together and distributed
some sandwiches that Bhe had brought.
In the silence that fell upon the eat
Ing children she heard the reverent
tones of Sophie Bauersehmidt.
“It’s chicken, ain’t It?” she whis
pered to Anna.
Anna had never tasted chicken but,
“Hod air," she whispered back cyni
cally, "thad chiegen. Ids weal.”
While the children were eating,
Miss Lucy, locking around on the
green beauty of grass ant tree,
thought a little nature talk *ou!d not
he Inappropriate. She selected the
grass as her subject.
"Children." she began, in her sehool
teachery voice, "I am going to talk to
you about what we see all about us
over Hie ground something that you
have all been sitting on. Frederick,
what?”
“Three ants and some sand," said
the exact Frederick William.
"Very good," said Miss Lucy with
resignation,” and now let's play some
games."
Miss Lucy suggested Blind Man's
Buff. This was popular and was only
stopped by Josef running Ills nose
Into a tree.
Tiie great catastrophe occurred dur
ing HI Spy. Marie Schaefer was "It."
Miss Lucy, sitting on one of the
benches, leaned back and looked
dreamily up at the lazy clouds that
drifted through the sky like gypsy an
gels through a blue world clouds that
were neither white nor pink but an
elusive primrose echo of both. She
ha<l just gotten to the second stanza
of a beautiful poem she was com
posing about it all when she noticed
that Marie Schaefer was standing with
her hand raised In quite the proper
school-child manner.
"I can't find Anna anywhere," said
Marie plaintively, "I have looked ev
erywhere for her and I can't find tier.
She's gone."
Miss Lucy jumped to tier feet with
a premonition of disaster.
"(lone!" she echoed wildly.
Then began a search which, as the
sun passed behind the trees, became
a frantic and vain wandering up anil
down endless paths—a search In
which was enlisted the fat anil sym
pathetic policeman. Anna was Indeed
gone.
At last when an hour hnd passed
and Miss Lucy had Just sunk upon a
bench and was beginning a nice com
fortable attack of hysterics, she saw
the fat policeman coming down one of
the paths. In his arms he had a drip
ping. squirming bundle from which
came thick sobs and a long string that
had once been Mrs. Karenina’s chif
fon veil.
"Oh, Anna,” cried Miss Lucy tear
fully, “Oh, Anna, where have you
been?”
"Id was the chlcgen. walled the un
happy backslider, "the whlde chic
gen In (he wader. He was so fad und
glean und shiny und I liged him und
l wanded him und I wand him now."
Then all her new morality buried in
the ruins of the chiffon veil—the
wretched Anna kicked her fat rescuer
viciously on the shins. "I wand him
now!” she screamed.
"She fell in tile duck pond," the po
liceman explained. Then, as he saw
the puddle of muddy water that had
dripped from Anna’s clothes, "You had
better take her home, Miss." he said
kindly, "she ain’t used to it and she'll
take cold. I'll carry her down to tho
gate."
The return to the gate was a rush.
\t the transfer corner Miss Lucy met
the Principal, wild eyed and on ills
wav to tho Park. He vyas In a state
of wordv roproaohftilness.
"I can ! help it," Miss Lucy snapped
femininely, "it was all your fault, any
how. Why did you got me that old
invitation! 1 didn’t want it."
Thou they wai’cil in mutual sulki
ness until the car came. it was crowd
ed with the six o'clock rush and Miss
Lucy, her hair coming down, her hat
over her ear, anil her dress wet from
Anna’s clothes, was angrily conscious
of many looks of amusement.
Anna, her nose dug into Miss Lucy's
arm. hail gone smilingly to sleep and
Miss Lucy, as she grudgingly suit
ported her, felt a sudden new bitter
ness in her heart against this ugly
little stumbling block to all her plans.
At last the school was reached and
the other members of Class A having
been delivered to anxious relations,
Miss Lucy hurried down to the tene
ment section with Anna. In u nerv
ous tremor at Mrs. Karenina’s antici
pated wrath she stumbled up the
greasy flights that led to Anna's home.
Half way up. a door was opened and
a drunken, blasphemous voice inquired
hospitably us to who it was that
wanted to get hts block knocked off
Ill l T7111 „» HI l IS l r* lllljtlll * .-A 11 II cl
back cheerfully over the banisters, but
Miss l.ucy turned pale and sped fear
fully up the steps—only to find that
Anna's mother was out She was prob
ably down the river or to a ball.
So Miss l.ucy gingerly undressed
Anna, hung her clothes over an Im
provised line, rubbed her dry with the
dish towel, and, as her wardrobe was
limited to one set. wrapped her in the
sheet and left her already asleep on
the unspeakable mattress where the
six other Kareninas usually reposed.
A little later she opened the door
and for a moment sho looked remorse
fully at the sleeping Anna. Then she
felt a sudden smart In her eyes.
“Poor tiling," she said angrily, "poor
ugly little thing! Sho might never
have come home at all, and her dread
ful mother would not have cared. She
would have been glad."
Then she shut the door carefully
and started to grope her way down the
stairs.
Half way down she made a wrong
turn and fell down several steps. She
made quite a noise over It and the
owner of the blasphemous voice
opened his door and threw a chair
leg at her. it was then that Miss
Lucy decided that the wonders of the
world beautiful were not worth while.
In a panic she flow up the narrow
street where dirty little children,
ghastly in the electric light, played
and fought and cursed. With her
eyes still open for chair-legs she at
last reached the street of her own
protecting home and people. As sho
ran thankfully up the steps, “Don't
say blessed privilege of the teacher
to me” said Miss l.ucy wearily.
One morning he casually asked his
wife which letter in the niaglc name
she had so long unsuccessfully sought.
It was the "V'."' He left the house
five minutes earlier than usual arnl
stopped In at the corner grocery on
his way to the train. When he
emerged It was with a decidedly
guilty air. Under his arm was a
small square package wrapped in
brown paper.
At the office the Man opened his
parcel surreptitiously and drew forth
a carton of Predigested Oats. He slit
tire top with a penknife and groped in
file interior until his fingers encoun
tered a small square of pasteboard.
With far greater agitation than moves
the professional stock-gambler who
notes on the ticker the gain or loss
of thousands, lie examined tiie little
card. It bore the imprint of an "M."
Somehow the Man could not fix his
mind on his business. A little leaven
had leavened his whole lump.
Queer things transpired at the of
fice within tlie next week or so. Each
morning the Man appeared with two
or three packages under his arm, and
yet he never took any bundles away
with him. Tiie boy was sent so often
to various downtown groceries for
Predigested Oats that lie confided to
the janitor his fear that tin} boss was
turning into a horse. The janitress
querulously complained that a pool
woman's life wasn't worth living, the
way No. 212 littered up Ills carpet day
after day with that brownish powdery
stuff that was so hard to sweep out.
The Man himself began to- get
cramped for room, ilia desk was full
of oats, ills coat and overcoat had to
be laid over tlie hack of a chair dur
ing the day—the clothes-lockers
were crowded with square boxes. Tlie
stationery closet was bulging with
predigestion.
There comes a point when the addi
tion of one little straw to the camel's
burden brings that faithful animal to
an untimely end. In desperation the
Man one day bought a dozen packages
of the detested oats at one fell swoop,
and found within them a dozen dupli
cates of letters lie already had, but
no "Y.”
^auir in tin iiuri uai n » i n u i?-,
he rried, hurling a shower of oats and
cartons through the open window
into the light-shaft. "Hy the Great
Horn Spoon, 1 don't believe there ever
was a 'Y' in any of their boxes! It's
robbery, but they tried their game on
the wrong matt when they tackled
me. I'll see whether there's any law
in this land!"
Determined to strike while the iron
was hot, the Man telephoned to his
attorney, who roosted several stories
higher in the same skyscraper, ask
ing him to stop in on his way to
lunch. Within an hour the lawyer
appeared, and listened attentively to
the Man's recital of how his wife had
invested vast sums on the represen
tations of the cereal manufacturers,
and of how much evidence she had
acquired by purchase of the absence
of an essential letter from the pack
ages. In thus setting forth the case
the Man deemed it irrelevant and un
necessary to mention his own pur
chases. For the sake of convenience
lie simply added his expenditure to
liers and represented the sum total as
her outlay.
"Now, tell me, Calloway,” he con
cluded, "is there no way of getting
hack at these people? Couldn't we
get at them through the postal laws,
if by no other procedure? Are they
to go on robbing the public indefi
nitely?'’
“Well,” said the lawyer, pressing
his finger-tips together reflectively, I
could tell better if I were acquainted
with the exact terms of the company's
offer 1 suppose they are printed on
tlie package. Couldn't you bring down
a carton to-morrow?"
“Certainly. Come to think of it, I
believe 1 have one of their old boxes
down here somewhere. Let me see—
where did 1 put it? You're taller than
1 am—just look on top of that book
case, won’t you?”
As Calloway turned bis back to
grope for the carton on the book
case, his client hastily slid open a
drawer of his desk, grabbed the top
most package, and pushed tho drawer
home.
"Oh, here it is; I had it in my desk,"
he said, passing it to the attorney.
The latter read the printed proposi
tion carefully and glanced over the
top of his spectacles at the would-be
litigant.
"What did you sat was the missing
letter?" he asked.
"It is ‘Y.’ "
“ *Y?’ Where does Y' come in?"
"In Prettyman's, of course. P-r-e t
t-Y-m-a n-s.”
The lawyer looked at him suspici
ously. “You’re not trying to ‘josh’
me, are you?" he asked.
Plainly the Man was puzzled.
"See here," said the lawyer; “with
out prejudice to your general intelli
gence, it seems to me that in this par
ticular instance you've been making
a monkey of yourself. Here is Pretti
man's spelt in letters an inch high on
the carton—P-r-e-t-t-I-m-a-n-s.”
The client took the box incredulous
ly and looked for himself. His face
was very red. He tossed the package
a foot or two in the air, and as it de
scended he met it half way with a
kick that sent it hurling to the ceil
ing, where it smashed three globes on
the chandelier and produced a snow
storm of oats that would have made
the stage manager of an Uncle Tom s
Cabin company turn green with envy.
And the lawyer's fee was |15.
Ho you think that Man went home
and made a full confession to his
wife? Not be. He "cashed in" what
letters he had acquired, gave the
clocks to the stenographer and book
keeper, made an exaggerated pretence
of discovering his wife's error all by
himself, and twitted her about it for
two months. For lie was a man.
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Sheriff's Sale
Peter Frederick, Sr.. Plaintiff,
vs
•Jacob tiebhart, The Uncle 1
Sun <hl Co.. Peter II. Cioebel.
Trustee in Bankruptcy of the
Fucle Sam nil Co., Samuel
Lichty, Fred Parclieii, and
Martha C. Gray, Defendants, J
Notice is hereby given that on Saturday the
31st day of July, 1909, I will offer for sale at the
west door of the court house, in Falls City,
Richardson County, State of Nebraska, at the
hour of one o’clock on said day, the following
described real estate:
Commencing at the southeast corner of the
land deeded bs Towle apd Crook toj. II. Kamel
hi the southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section 15, township 1. range In, re
corded in book 7, page Richardson County,
Nebraska Deed Records. Thence running
south 75 feet, thence west 125 feet, thence north
75 feet, thence east 125 feet to the place of be
ginning, except that part heretofore sold to the
Uncle Sam Oil Company, also lots 20-21-22-23
and. 24, in block 231, in the City of Falls City.
Also a tract of land situated iu Falls City, Ne
braska, commencing at a point 75 feet south of
the southeast corner of the land deeded by
Crook and Towle to J. VV. Kamel, in the south
east quarter of the northwest quarter of section
15, tow us nip 1, north of range In east, thence
running south from that point 37 feet, thence
running due west to Hen Poteet'scorner, thence
north 112 feet to J. W. Kamel's corner, thence
due east about 145 feet, thence south 75 feet,
thence cast 120 feet to place of beginning, be
longing to defendant. Jacob <iebhart, and seized
b.v me as sheriff of Richardson County on an
order of sale issued out of the district court of
Richardson County. State of Nebraska, and un
der the seal thereof, and which will be sold in
pursuance of said order to satisfy a decree of
foreclosure entered in said cause in favor of the
plaintiff, Peter Frederick. Sr., and other claim
ants named as defendants therein. Terms of
sale cash. w. T. Fenton, Sheriff,
R r \ vis ,v R! \ vis. Attorneys tor Plai tit iff.
Legal Notice
To Hannah JM. Ill gilt, non-rosideiu defend
ant :
You are hereby notified that on the 14th da>
of June, A. 1 1909, Kdward J. Bright, as
plaintiff, filed a petition against you in the dis
trict court of Richardson county, Nebraska, the
object and prayer of which are to obtain a di
vorce from sou on the ground that you have
wilfully abandoned the plaintiff, without good
cause, for the term of two years last past.
You are required to answer said petition on
or before Moudas. the 2nd day *• f August, A. I).
l’K)‘». Fdsvaki> J. Bkkiht,
By John YVTi.tsk, Plaintiff.
His Attorney. 25-4t
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* Falls City, Phone 422 %
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