The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-05
SARAH CARRIERS
NOSE
BY M. QUAD
Copyright. 1913, by Associated Lit
erary Press.
BY M. QUAD

mot handsome enough to be mistaken
for the hero of dime novel, and nei
Their was he so plain faced that tn,
children were afraid of him.
When Lucinda Carter was born ant
the neighbors called to see the kiC
and guess at her weight there was {
Jolt all along the line. They were pre-
pared to see an ordinary baby CIR
without claws or teeth as yet The,
had their comments all ready, but they
were not uttered. A gasp of surprise
took the place of words.
Little Lucinda Carter had face or
her, to be 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 VI
and then bumped down and then took
on length until it far overhung her
mouth. 1t was a bad malformation. The
father and mother felt bad about ii.
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 nose" Scores of
strangers had seen Lucinda before she
] was a year old, and later on came the
| dime museum man and other exhib-
! itors of freaks. All were turned away.
1t was when she was about sixteen
years old that her nose made its first
appearance in a court of law.
Lucinda was making a short railway
journey with her mother, and while
waiting at station an express train
passed them at a sixty mile clip. A
bolt had worked lose, and 1t 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
behind the plea that it was an act OF
God and that the girl really looked bet
ter without a nose. Her father sued
for $4,000 damages and was awarded
half the amount
Two years later the girl started by
stage for village ten miles away.
She was without escort, but there were
FIVE other passengers. At certain
point the driver got down to pick up
whip lost by some farmer, and as his
back was turned for the moment his
horses bolted. After they had run for
a quarter Of a mile the stage was up
set Nobody was hurt except Miss Lu-
clnda, and. of course, she got 1t In the
nose Smashed fat again. The stage
company offered 5000 in settlement
but Mt the end Of a lawsuit had to
pay $4,000.
II was supposed that the nose was
gone this time for sure, but a surgeon
from the city who had come to drinP
mineral water made an examination
and held out hopes It cost money, but
he built up third nose for her.
For two years that nose had rest,
and the townspeople had ceased to
wonder what would be the next move.
when the dry goods firm OF Cline &
Bro. got a new sign. Ii was green and
gold and certainly some sign. 1t came
6 o'clock before the carpenters had
made the sign quite secure. but. of
course they quit on the minute. Next
morning 1t was raining and blowing, |
and the idea was TO wait for better |
weather.
About o'clock Miss Lucinda Carter |
discovered that she was in need of a |
spool of black thread No 60. She I
therefore pinned on her hat, opened 1
her umbrella and tripped down to Cline
e. Bro
bad morning." said the clerk
"Yes: 1t is"
Notice our new signT
mo"
ITS a FIN dandy. believe me. Look
at 1t as you go out Nothing else?
Good morning"
W-h-e-wi came a gust of wind as
Miss Lucinda stepped out CD the plat
form.
Rip. c-r-a-s-hi came the green and
gold sign.
The dandy sign was broken and
splintered 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 be 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 viii
be wax one"
There was a lawsuit for $1,000 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 a right to believe the
sign was secure.
That she did not cause the sudden
gust of wind that tore it loose.
That 1t 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
10 her:
81 think there's just enough left to
make new one. but this will be the
End. You'll have to begin on your ears
md give your nose a rest"
They said that the new nasal organ
treated was the best one OF all. and