The Red Cloud chief., 1900-06-08
ALMOST
Incidents Of Every Day Life Which Very
Few People Stop to Think About on
Account Of The.s I ittlonsss


Account Of Their Littleness
The census enumerators are abroad
IN the land.-They stated out OF the
first of June.-The curiosity OF the
enumerator will strike you as great
He will ask as to your age, condition,
business status, family relations, and
financial capabilities. - lie will ask
ais whether you are black or white oil
whether your children or black or
white.-H you pick up the furniture
and throw at him your name will
probably adorn the roster list OF a jail.
There are many peculiarities in max
ing up the list The enumerator may
call on you on June 0 and you may
have been married the night before,
but you will go down as a bachelor
and you wife as unmarried.-If you
have died since the LIST Of June but IL
you are alive on that day you will go
on the list as alive.-You may have SIX
feet of earth for a home and still be
supposed to be walking the Nebraska
prairie.-A kid" may appear at your
home after June LIST but the govern
ment will not know that you will soon
have to bly, a matrimonial fruit basket.
Everything dates from June l.-You
will be asked some questions by the
enumerator that you will not like to
answer but it is best to unbutton your
mouth like a little man as Uncle Sam
Is behind him.-He will know more
about you than members of your W
family or your best girl.-But then
when he gets through with you he IS
supposed to be dead, or In other words
he is supposed to forget everything he
has found out.-Severe penalties are
established for the punishment Of any
betrayal of Information received by
tn enumerator.-If he is false to his
trust and repeats to any person any in.
formation he re, eives in the perform.
ance of his duties he may be fined $500
upon conviction.--He must not show
his schedules to any person and must
destroy all imperfect cOpies.-So you
see the enumerator has troubles of his
own and you should treat him kindly.
You will all pass his questions safely,
q good deal more so hat you can pass
over the sidewalk in front of the
Noah's Ark.-We hope the council will
frame an ordinance according to law by
which they can condemn such build.
inRs so they may be torn out and used
for kindling Hurry up, we would
like to see this relic Of past ages ap.
praised and see what 1t Is worth.-Last
week 1t was the sweet girl graduate.
Next week IL will be the swest.vOiced
school ma'am who will make the boys
hearts 90 pittapa'.-They will desert
their best girls and seek the school
ma'ams. OF course there will be q
GOODNESS spring up between the boys
and their best girls for a while but this
will soon be mended.-The school
marms are so good looking that we
can't blame the boys, and they're new
too-Most people remember the picture
scene on a railroad train going through
a tunnel, in which a man tries TO put
on a clean shirt and the sporty young
man kissed the cOlored mai! who
had changed seats with her white mis-.
tress just as the train was entering the
tunnel, and the scene on the train
emerging therefrom.-The scene we
are going to describe was on a dark
and stormy night AMI the dust was
coming from the north at q terrific
rate and the flashes Of lightning lit up
the sky at times with a lurid glare
1t was a picture from life's other side.
Two cou pies who appeared to have
travelled far in the pitchy darkness of
the night were seen during a flash Of
lightning and then were once more en-.
veloped by the pitchy darkness Their
faces and clothes looked as il they
had been in a sand bank somewhere
They were nearing their destination
and were giving the last hugs and
kisses as Red Cloud boys and girls al
ways do, when a terrific clap of thun.
der was followed by "A bright flash of
lightnin "a few feminine shrieks
disclosed the scene to a photographer
who was waiting to get II shot at the
lightning.-The girls and boys during
the dust storm had changed places and
each was hugging the other fellows
girl-Hence the screams The pho
tographer got the picture and the light
ming too.