The Pittsburg Enterprise (Pittsburg, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1910 Page: 7 of 8
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BONES
INTERVENES
By STACEY E. BAKER
Copyright, 1910. by Associated Literary
Press.
K1 verson owned a Jog. The Girl
owned a cat.
Only for the former (meaning the
dog), and his misplaced and most
unnatural alfection for the latter
(meaning the eat), the two (mean-
ing Elverson and the Oirl) would
never have become acquainted.
Before Bones, which was the
plebian name of Elverson's bull-ter-
rier, had come down from the city,
the trim, broad-shouldered youth
with the keen face and humorous
eyes, had strolled disconsolately
through the great house with only
an occasional glimpse of his fair
neighbor as an inspiration for him
to linger on.
It certainly was beastly dull in
Glyndon for a city-bred chap like
Elverson. The villagers showed in-
satiable curiosity, but little friend-
liness. The fishing season had not
yet opened.
Even Elverson marveled much at
the strange taste of the uncle who
had lived here as a recluse the whole
of his simple life. Again, he won-
dered at the eccentricity behind the
clause in the will that left him all
of his relative's vast property only
on the condition tliat he reside in
this house for one year.
But the Girl!
She was the oasis of this dreary
desert. She was not a native of
Glyndon, thought Elverson, for,
from the distance of their respective
porches, she seemed a woman capa-
ble of telling a tea-gown from a
kimono.
Elverson was almost inclined to
flirt with the maid. His Hue eyes
summed up her slim, slight form
and the golden weight of her- hair
appreciatively. She had mon-
strous, large eyes, and—positively
yes—a carriage! Once the bored
youth was about to raise his hat to
her, when—
“Ahem.”
Elverson turned quickly, to gaze
into the reproving eyes of the anti-
quated butler.
“Are you—er—interested in the
lady in the next house?”
The surprising effrontery of the
old fellow struck Elverson dumb.
“I like your nerve,” he managed
to ejaculate. “What business is it of
vour’s who I am interested in?”
The old servant coughed apolo-
getically.
“Now, if you were, I might be
able to tell you something about
her.”
“Well,” Elverson growled, “if you
know so much about the girl, why
don't you tell me instead of stand-
ing there like a dummy?”
“The girl is the niece of Ellen
Hemingway,” preluded the butler,
and paused expectantly.
“And,” snapped the youth, after
the ensuing silence had gotten on
his nerves, “who the deuce is Ellen
Hemingway? You talk in chunks.”
“Ellen Hemingway,” explained
the butler patiently, “was one of
the best known missionaries this
country ever sent to China.”
Elverson reddened.
“You should have been a tutor,”
he said sarcastically.
“I was—once,” answered the
gray-haired one, serenely. “But, to
resume:
“Miss Sibl Hemingway, the
young lady who occupies the house
yonder is the heiress of her aunt
who died recently. She inherited
all of her nunl’s money, and”—the
servant punned to peer Imlf-humor-
oitsly at the expectant youth, “she
is, by the term* of tlu- will, to re-
main resident here fur one year. ’
“She must be having a line time
here," Mgrerd Elverson, dryly, “f
ought to g" over and congratulate
her on flie similarity <>f our hilari-
ous aituatlon*"
The old servant shrugged his
shoulders ii" lie turned auiiy. “rl he
elder Mis* IliJtiingway was a stick-
ler for the convention,” he inti-
mated. "If you care to meet the
young lady I should suggest that
you refrain from anything liable to
tauae a poor impression.”
The youth looked longingly over
to the veranda of his fair neighbor.
The girl was gone.
The next day Bones arrived.
Bones was a city-bred canine and
the vast vista of green went to hi»
susceptible lu-ad. He probebly la-
bored under the delusion that he
had died and gone to dog heaven.
1 At any rate, he was happy.
The two used to take long walks,
| and these invariably led past the
] mansion of the Girl—Elverson still
‘called her the Girl, despite the fact
i that he now knew her name.
On one of these periodical jaunt*
the keen eyes of the dog rested
upon a fat and complacent angora,
sole occupant of his fair neighbor’s
poreli, and in a perfect ecstasy of
delight. Bones chased the indignant
feline up a tree.
Elverson laughed.
“Something seems to amuse you.”
eaine in a eohl contralto, and Elver-
sou turned hastily to stare, embar-
rassed, into the eyes of a thoroughly
angry girl—the Girl!
“You were enjoying a rare spec-
tacle,” prompted the maid. “You
were watching that c oarse brute of a
dog in its efforts to kill my pet.”
“Bones wouldn't harm a kitten,”
protested Elverson.
Bones, unmindful of his master’s
predicament, was leaping twice his
height in the air and madly attempt-
ing to reach the hissing tabby.
"He is playing,” explained the
man earnestly. “The dog was
brought up with rats and he is per-
fectly mad about them.”
'1 he girl sniffed her doubt of this
statement. To cap the climax the
I cat, unknowingly roosting on a de-
I caved branch, moved quickly and
came down plump upon the head of
the terrier. The result was disas-
trous for the dog.
The eat, Mieving that she must
battle for her life, unsheathed dag-
ger claws and forced the fighting.
With a humorously pathetic
glance at his master and a fright-
ened howl, Bones turned tail and
fled, the eat on his back.
It was now the giet*a turn to
laugh.
“Old scores are evened now,” de-
I dared Elver-on. smiling a hit rue-
fully as the pained yelp- of his pet
came hack to him. “Jfi-- Sibl Hem-
ingway'.- cat seems quite capable of
j fighting its own battles.”
The girl turned mocking eyes. “It
would seem so, and it would also ap-
pear that Mr. Allen Elverson’s log
i lias at last met the Waterloo that he
I has long deserved.”
At I so it was that Bones,, who
\ reallv liked eats as his master had
I avowed, i ame, in his misery and
of
I two very bored young people; for,
j from then on. Miss Sibl and the El-
verton vouth knew each other, and—
j Suffice it to say that the two kind-
ly old souls who had been denied
romance in their own lives had
planned it thus.
homemade paste.
The average paste bought ready
for use is apt to leave a stain on
paper or leather work, so to avoid
this an expert in leather tooling
savs an excellent paste can be made
at home as follows: One cupful of
whole wheat or gluten flour mixed
with one cupful of cold water. This
is added to two cupfuls of boiling
water and allowed to boil for five
minutes. One t is - nfnl of pow-
dered alum should be d[--olved in a
little cold water and added to the
paste. When smooth it should be
strained through a thin cloth and
put into a jar.
Smaller quantities may be made,
of course, using the same propor-
tions.
THE CLIMAX.
“Old Mrs. Smith was complain-
ing the other day that she had no
luck with her son*.”
“How so ?**
“One went blind, another went
mad. and the third went to the
bod.”
“But she had a fourth; what be-
came of him ?”
“Oh, he went to the legislature.”
THE HYMN HE WANTED.
The organist sent a little bov to
inquire of the minister what the first
hnr.n would be. “Tell her,” said
the minister, “I would hse ‘Carol,
Brothers. Carol.’ ”
The little boy thought he sa d
“Howi, Brother*. Howl,” and toid
the o«tan.*t that the minister's se-
lection was, “Yell, Brothers, Yell.”
MOSTLY CAS.
Gunner—That po'itical agitator
considers himself a star.
Guyer—H’m! Comet would ba
more appropriate.
Gunner—Why so?
Gayer—He’s so full of “hot air.*
COLD LIGHT OF SCIENCE
Professor Explains Hen With Human
Pace and the Calf That
Eats Chickens.
“Profeasor, how are We to explain
freak animals such as the Chicago
hen with a human face, and the
California calf that eats chickens?”
“I am very glad,” said the pro- j
fessor, “to note the interest of any ;
pupil in the strange facts of zoology. |
Such creatures as those mentioned
are hardly to lie ascribed to prena-
tal influence, as we understand the |
term, -incc the intellectual qualities
of the lien and the cow fail to lend
themselves readily to the. taking of
impre.'-ions. N’or would an irnpres- j
sion, a! Iiest vague and nebulous, he j
transmitted without the greatest dif-
ficulty to offspring.
“The title ‘freak’ is a misnomer, j
In nature there are no freaks, but
each visible condition is in response
to definite causes, perhaps wholly in-
visible. We regard certain things
ns froals merely by reason of the
fact that we do not understand
them. I think it possible, however,
to explain the instances you cite. J
Indeed, the hypothesis bv which they
are divested even of the aspect of
strangeness is clear to my mind. The
correspondents in the premises are a
pair of liars.
“Has anv other young gentleman
a question to propound this morn-
ing?”
THIS BEAR WAS PENITENT
French Brum Wandered Three Days
in Foreet of Sennart and Re-
turned to Hit Matter.
The story of a penitent hear
comes from Corheil, France, which, '
after roving about for three days in 1
the forest of Sennart, returned
humble and penitent to the master
who had reared it. Rruin hail tieen
brought up in a cage by a traveling
showman. He had learned numer-
ous tricks, and earned his sugar and
cakes honestly. But one day re-
cently the cage was left open. The
new s of the bear's escape soon spread
in the village, and everybody start-
ed out to hunt for him, boating the
bushes and searching in the hollow
« ■ ■
no trace of the fugitive. The owner
of the hear had given him up for
lost when, on the morning of the
third day, Bruin unexpectedly re-
appeared. He had probably found
nothing to eat in the fore-t and the
over-civilized country round about,
and rather than starve he concluded
that it was hc-t to return to his mas-
ter. He hung his head sadly, as if
reallv very repentant and groaned
when he was put hack in his cage.
JOAN'S HOUSE.
The most sacred things must
make way nowadays to the demands
of progress. Among the sights of
the city of Orleans the house in the
Rue de Taour where Jeanne d’Arc
lived has been conspicuous. In or-
der to facilitate a street widening,
the Paris Figaro says, this house
has been demolished and the mate-
rial of which it was constructed has
been scattered. The facade escaped
the vandals’ bands and has been re-
moved to another part of the street,
where it will be erected and pre-
served.
WOULD HAVE SEVERE LAW.
Dr. Katherine Davis of New
York Reformatory for Girls said at
a recent meeting of the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science that it would be better if
judges wonld not impo-e light sen-
tences on girl= who have offended,
but would send the-m to reformato-
ries where they may be reclaimed.
However, most persons will be glad
,
to redeem themselves.
A QUESTION OF ETHICS.
“Are vou bound morally to return
everything you have ever stolen?”
“What a question ! Certainly.”
‘Then I guess I had better go at
once and give Mollie ba< k the kiss 1
iioli yesterday.”
WHAT’S THE ANSWER?
A man was telling us yesterday
that all knock-kneed women are nar-
row-minded. He -.dn’t say why;
he just said so.
WAS QUITE STRUCK WITH IT.
Perkius—Did you see Morgan’s
ne* machine?
Jerkins—Not in time.—Smart
Bet.
HE STUTTERED IN SHORTHAND
Certain Word* Tangled Up the Pan
as Well as the Tongue of the
Stenographer.
The western agent lookisl nround
the office with an air of lively curi-
osity. “Made a few changes here,
haven’t vou?” lie asked.
The New York manager nodded,
“Fired the old stenographer, that’s
all,’ ’he said.
“What for?” asked the westerner,
idly.
“Stuttered,” was ttie reply.
The westerner was puzzled. “1
can’t for tho life of me soo,” said
he, “how stuttering could affect a
man's stenographic abilities.”
“Xeillif r could 1 see it in the tie-
ginning.” said the manager, “but I
soon found out. I took a fancy to
that young chap the minute he came
in here, although lie couldn’t speak
ten winds without falling all over
himself.
“Before 1 km vv him I should have
ridiculed llio bare suggestion that
there could !«■ such a thing ns a
stutti ring stenographer. Stammer-
ing sicnied to he that poor chap's
onlv fault. He knew shorthand from
first to a-t Hnd the tv|M'writing ma-
chine at every angle; Imt there were
certain words that tangled up hi*
pencil as h.II as hi- tongue, and
thus knocked him clean out of the
race.
“It was one of the strangest
thing* that ever came to my notice.
I did what I could to help him out,
but to no avail. That young man’s
pencil staggered fearfully whenever
he came to a word "that he found
particularly difficult to speak.*—
Northwestern Herald.
EVIDENTLY HE LOST OUT,
- I ent wif
de teacher at school today.”
“What pc- lion did you take?”
“Well, de las’ position was crost
his knee*.”
“HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD”
A wealthv Sicilian merchant
named Penitentc fitted the front
door of his villa with an elaborate
mechanism of pistols loaded with
dynamite cartridges for protection
against robbers.
Coming home late the other night
and forgetting the release device on
opening the door, Penitente was
blown to pic. es with his own inven-
tion.
THE LIFE OF THE SOIL.
According to Dr K. E. Keller-
man, the modem view of the soil
regards it a* alive. It :s a rnatrft
supporting various definite group*
of micro-organisms and recent inve*-
tlgations suggest the pos-ib:!ity of
mining by ti ogical diag-
noses the crop-producing capacities
of different so as well as their
cause*. It has ken shown within
the past few years that the action
of the nitrifying ha *eria. especially
in sample* of soil, correlate* fairly
well with the prod ctivene- of the
-irne coils under fie. 1 < -id t on*.
HER OBJECTION.
“I'm no- - . with my photo-
graph*.”
“Why not? They look, ten “an
younger than you are.”
“I know. But I want them to
look ten years younger than ' my
I am.” • '
WHERE HE CAME IN.
“Hate you ever figured ;n i di-
rune suit?”
“No, the lawyers did tbe figuring;
I just paid the bill*.”
rOUND WANTING.
“So he has ioet faith in deap
breathing ?”
“Ye*; it wouldn’t keep his Mir
from falling omt”
BEAUTIFYING OUR CITIES
New Bedford, Mate.. It an Instance of
the Spreading Demand for
Civic Adornment.
That the demand for civic beauty
is not confined to a few largo placet*
is shown hv the fact that many
towns which can hardly claim to
rank among the larger cities of the
country arc* giving evidence of the
same spirit.
An illustration is supplied hv
Ni w Bedford. Mass., w here n home
gardening and yard improvement
; contest has been started as a result
; nf prizes offered for the most beauti-
ful yards and gardens to lie eared
j for and cultivated during the rnm-
| ing season. The prizes will not he
j awarded until next fall, at which
time the constancy with which the
yards and gardens are attended to
throughout the season will he taken
into considerat ion.
New Bedford is a manufacturing
town which is growing rapidly in
population, and where it might lie
I supposed that a spirit of the kind
j which has given rise to this contest
j would he less prevalent than in a
i plan' where industrial venture* lire
to In I'nnspiciiou*. Ii is on this arw
j account all the more pleasing to ob-
serve that its people appreciate the
advantage which anv town enjoys in
which beauty marks its homes and
cleanliness contributes alike to
pleasure and health.
Even town in the United States,
however small, may follow with
profit the example which New Bed-
ford and other places of like public
spirit have set, and it is gratifying to
see that the tendency in that direc-
tion is growing stronger as the coun-
try grows older. Denver Repub
lican.
OH! THESE GIRLS.
Seek* to Awaken China.
Chiang Kuugnu. an official 1*
I’eklng. has originated the ' national
Dlsgraco Homely,'' which Is ricHlgnat-
eil to keep ttie Chinese people In mind
of their nalionnl disgrace with a
view to awakening anil Humiliating
their deaire to reform. It ts IntendeJ
to build a tower In which will Im ea.
hlblled relies or pictures of events
amt incidents which have brought
China to her present humiliating and
critical position.
Rice Omelet.
Pour a cup of warm milk over a cup
of rice, atlr in a tahlcapoonful of molt-
ed butter, 'wo saliHpoonfuln of salt
and a lash of pepper. Stir and add
I lire*' w ell beaten en|H. Pour Into a
hot fry In* pan containing a s|M>nufiil
at incited butler and cook Inside the
oven When done fold over ami soive
on a not dlah.
Pig Iron Without Coat.
PiK iron U being made directly from
the ore without fuel In California, the
reipilsile heat being supplied by elec-
tricity The process Is too expensive
to b>' i mplored where coal is abund-
ant and cheap, and will not soon come
Into use In the euHlcrn part of the
country.
Bubber From Brazil.
Brasil exported about XS.IIOO.OO*
pounds of rubber In 190!*, calendar
year, half to Europe and half to the
United Stales It was the largest
year's export o( Brazilian rubber on
record.
No Royalties Called “Baby”
One noteworthy feature about roy-
alties Is that none have been called
''baby," From their earliest years the
royal children are always called by
their names, or possibly by some pet
name, bill an English prince or
princess Is never called "baby” either
by relatives or by Ills (or her) nurses
From the age of five a prince Is
railed "sir" by bis attendants, and a
princess 'madam'’
Daisy Did you do any penance
during (.cnt?
Mai.-;. Y<«.; I only allowed my-
self two propn-als.
SUSPICIOUS.
Gentleman fin railway train)—
How di ! this accident happen?
Guard Some one puller! the cord
and stopped the train and the boat
express ran into ns. It will take five
hour* to dear the line for us to go
ahead.
Gentleman—Five hours? Great
Scot! I was to Ire married today!
Guard (a married man, stern-
ly)—fy/ik here, are you the chap
who slopped the train?—Tit-Bits.
WOMEN MASONS NOT ALLOWED
At the r <ent convention of the
Shriners at Richmond, Va., they
turned rip *, n the application of the
Daughters of Isis, a proposed auxil-
iary branch. The married noble*
wanted th*-.r wive- and daughter* to
sliare in their pleasure* and this
sought to have the auxiliary recog-
nized.
SUPPORTING THE COURTS.
. h |j
supporting our courts?”
Greene—I certainly do. Why, I
contribute to their *ipporf as a mo-
torist and my wife help- them some
by pay mg fines- a- a suffragette.”
ANOTHER BUSY LINE.
Eating Oranget on Tram*
It you lake the children on th«
train anil wish to feed 'hem oranges
which tend to quench the tiilrat, pre-
pare ihe fruit al borne and wrap that
sections Iri waxed paper. It Is tedious
to pare them on the train and on*
is haule to soil the clothes In doing
so.
Theft of a Corote
A creepy story of the mysterious
disappearance of a corpse comes from
k'erg' Ze, Ljanca- A short time ago a
young woman named Alexandrine I.au
rent tiled at Vcr-rezi, and wan buried
In the Catholic cemetery A few days
ago Alexandrine's mother died, an.l
tbe relatives decided to bury her kn
the name ;rave a* the daughter.
When the grave was uncovered it was
found that the bier had been turned
upside down The coffin an oak cue,
was Intact, and on being opened It
was found to be empty. The girl’s
body has disappeared absolutely.
Nutritious Value of Black Bread
"Black Bread '—that It rye bread—
is not a famine ration, says the I-oa-
•lon Lancet, but just an good food as
white bread, and the - torm of
the staff of life in several civilize*,
countries. There Is almost no differ-
ence chemically between tne two
breads, although the wheat contains
nightly the more gluten Black bread
"keep* fresh" that Is, rnoist—much
longer than white bread It has a
slightly greater Irritant »ff»ct upon
tbe Intestinal canal, which hi also an
advantage under ordinary conditions,
'I ne whole rye bread, or pumpernick-
el Is tbe preferable form
Newspapers and the People.
Whatever we may say of the mod-
ern press on Its lens commendable
side, we are bound to admit that
newspapers like governments fairly
reflect the people they serve, write*
Francis E Leupp in the Atlantic.
Charles Dudley Warner once went in
far as to say that no matter how ob-
jectionable the character of a paper
may be. it Is always a trifle better
than the patrr/m on which it reltea for
Its support. I suspect that Mr War-
ner's comparison rested on the great-
er frankne** of the bad paper, which
by very virtue of Its mode of appeal,
ts bound to maze a brave parade of
its worst qualities; whereas the read-
er who Is loudest In proclaiming is
pun ,c h • repugnance for horrors an I
bis detestation of ir-andal*, may hi
private be baying the sbeet which
peddles both most shamelessly.
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
MACHINERY
Wo%» *»■ %r mne
Southwestern Mnna/actoriag Co.
OY.A“CVA ClTT
“Can voo bang ont same of my
summer things to air tori ay Y' the
telephone girl asked
“No,” sa. l her mother, “the i.oe
is busy.”
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