The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-08-15
SARAH CARRIERS
NOSE
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1913. by Associated Lit
erary Press.

| without claws or teeth as yet. They
| had their comments all ready, but they
were not uttered. A gasp of surprise
took the place Of words.
Little Lucinda Carter had face on
her to he sure. but it was mostly COM
| posed of nose. 1t began half an inch
higher than any other nose. 1t had
the Roman hump to it, 1t bumped up
and then bumped down and then took
| on length until it far Overhung her
mouth. 1t was bad malfOrmatiOn. The
! father and neither felt bad about it.
The town of Charlotte had been not
ed for its mineral spring and its pic
| turesque location. 1t now became not
| ed for its kid with a nose" Scores of
strangers had seen Lucinda before she
WAS year old, and later on came the
| dime museum man and other eXhib.
ltors Of freaks. All were turned away,
| 1t was when she was about sixteen
years old that her nose made its first
appearance in II court of law.
Lucinda WAS making short railway
journey with her mother, and while
waiting at station an express train
passed them mt n sixty mile clip. A
bolt had worked lose. and it came
whizzing through the air and the win
dow and struck the girl in the face
and smashed her nose.
The railroad company took shelter
Ia, Of N
God and that the girl really looked bet,
ter without nose. Her father sued
for 5000 damages and was awarded
half the amount.
Two years later the girl started by
stage for a village ten miles away
She was without escort. but there were
five other paSsengCrs. At n certain
point the driver got down to pick up n
whip lost by some farmer. and as his
back was turned for the moment his
horses h0ltCd After they had run for
a quarter of a mile the stage was up
set Nobody was hurt except Miss LII.
cinda. and. of course she got it in tie
nose Smashed fat again. The stage
company offered 5000 in settlement.
but at the end of a lawsuit hid to
pay $4,000.
1t was supposed that the nose was
gone this time for sure. hut a surgeon
from the city who had come to drink
mineral water made an examination
and held out hopes. 1t cost money, but
he built up Il third nose for her.
For two years that nose had a rest,
and the townspeOple had ceased to
wonder what would be the next move,
when the dry goods firm of ClineN 4
Bro. got new sign. 1t was green and
gold and certainly some sign. 1t came
made the sign quite secure. but, Of
course. they quit on the minute. Next
morning it was raining and blowing,
and the idea was to wait for better
weather.
About 0 o'clock Miss Lucinda Carter
discovered that she was In need of a
spool of black thread No. GO. She
therefore pinned on her hat, opened
her umbrella and tripped down to Cline
& Bro.
Pad morning." said the clerk.
"YCS: it is"
Notice our new sign?"
no"
"It's Jim dandy. believe me. Look
at it as yon go out. Nothing else?
Good morning"
W.h-e-w! came gust of wind as
Miss. Lucinda stepped out on the plat
form.
Rim. c-r-a-s-h came the green and
gold sign.
The dandy sign was broken and
splintercd and the girl knocked uncon-
sciOus-hit square on that nose. of
course. and the clerk most tainted
away at sight of it.
THAT must he the finish of her
nose said all who saw its condition.
and when the doctor who was called
was asked about it he replied:
"If she ever gets another nose it will
be a wax one"
There was a lawsuit for $4,000 dam
ages, and strangers came from a dis
lance of fifty miles to see that nose
or the remains Of it. The judge was
an honest judge. He ruled
That she had right to believe the
sign was secure.
That she did not cause the sudden
gust of wind that tore it loose
That it wasn't fair shake for a
couple of carpenters in hurry to get
home to lay accidents to God.
That even if the plaintiffs nose had
been smashed three or four times be-
fore it still remained the only nose
she had.
The plaintiff was awarded $1,000
damages, and the surgeon who had
fixed her nose last came back after
some more mineral water and to say
to her:
81 think there's Just enough left to
make a new one. but this will be the
end. You'll have to begin on your ears
and give your nose rest"
They said that the new nasal organ
created was the best one of all. and
Miss Lucinda hadn't been wearing 1t
but few months when along came
a windmill man who said:
Say that nose suits me down to the
ground. I'm looking for a wife With
just that kind"