The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-15
yAKE,S LUCK.

WnAtever VIA MI. S4ulmps say On.
girls, 10 think Of it-poor washed-out
Amanda Liza, with her check aprons and
AIDED calicoes-to think of her turning
out An heiress, Whew, 1t takes my
breath away. What III Jake do now,
vonderr;
Miss Jenny Smith was an acknowledged
leader in the Squimps academy. She had
maintained her rotund person and round
gocd-nstured face in spite Of sour bread
and scAnt rati0ns.' We thin and starveling
girls looked up to her as a star of the first
magnitude. We clustered round her In
high eonclave, as she sat on desk in the
school-room during the temporary alb
sence of our worthy preceptor.
s.Oh. she'll never think Of Jake again.
cried sharp-fsced girl In the corner.
q I'll bet she will,- responded Miss
Smith. slapp.ng her hand theoretically on
her old grammar. Miss Smith had ssbig
brothers," which may partly account for
the vim with which she was won't TO ex-
press herself. but oh. don't wish IL
was me, To think that Amanda Liza.
hat used to lend my old collars to-"
q Young ladies, Miss Bimm!- cried
wxrning voice; whereat Jenny, with more
haste than dignity, abandoned her lofty
position, and there was q general stam-
pede for seats, as Miss Bimm, the head
teacher, came sailing In. followed by Mr..
Squimps. the principal. black, tall, and
solemn rs the shadow of a lamp-pOst.
Now for stricter rules, longer lectures on
prupriety, and a general surveillance
founded on certain recent occurrences
What would Mr.. Squimps say? Ay, to
be sure that was always a question of inn
portznce. and MIR. Squimps always said a
good deal. Here was an especial theme
Tor his eloquence; for this case of poor
Amanda Liza, who had been his bond
slave for ten years, cufEed and cornered,
making no sign, and at last turning out to
have relations Of her own and a heap of
money, and leaving his establishment
for good and ALL In his absence, was
lssfl< too much for human nature, as he
declared. For Mr.. Squimps did not dis
dxin to descend to familiar colloquial-
isms" once In a while as a relief from the
aigh mental strain of too much Latin and
lexicon.
Mr.. Squimps should have been a public
speAker-so his wife declared. 90 all his
hieris afirmed-only the trouble was he
would never know when to stop. There
was no "cork up to him, the girls de-
clared- Once given a little rope, a small
vexation. an accidental Earring of his ar
nngements, and Mr.. Squimps flowed out
into limitless rivers of rhetoric. He ar
gued his Joint down to the last whittle,
wound up splendidly, touched up his
side-whiskers, looked round for applause,
turned over his wristbands, and, before
you knew it, began again.
This was q splendid opening, this of
Amanda Liza's-a girl whom he had taken
cut of "pure- charity when her folks
Did of fever, q girl whom he had educa-
ted. brought up In his very family, and
and-and- Mr.. Squimps felt himself pos
sessed on this occasion Of all the stock in
trade necessary for an orator.
And Mr.. Squimps like father to her,
too " cried Mrs. Sguimps, elevating her
xhriveled little hands.
Mrs. Squimps was a small wrinkled
lady, rustiing about Of an afternoon In a
stif voluminous silk, so little, 30 shriyel-
ed, she seemed to rattle In IL as she walked,
Ike . withered kernel In walnut-shell.
She had the benefit Of Mr.. Squimps' elo-
quence the greater part Of her life, and
thumbed and faded.
The good lady was humbly aware of her
deficiencies. A mere bit OF quartz. she
did not attempt to shine even In her hus-
bands refulgence. All real authority In
her department was delegated to Miss
Bimm, who carried things with an air,
taught the - higher branches" and took
the lead.
Mrs. Squimps meekly took the kitchen.
eminently filter, as her husband declared,
for that department, which was the foun-
dxrion Of all others. The foundation,
prepared under Mrs. Squimps' supervis-
ion- was not very substantial. But ele-
rance was the aim. gentility the law, at
the academy. as Mr.. Squimps observed,
and no one asked twice for the same dish.
An army Of hungry girls, heremarked pri-
vately to Mrs. Squimps. would devour
All before them unless properly restrained.
Under this aspect sour bread and chill
pancakes were judicious.
Amanda Liza. the girl about whom we
we're al Just now In Juror. had assisted