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Hennessey Clipper
Henno«s«y Okluhoniu
"c. H. MILLKll . . fuliliahor
THE REASON.
Hazy In the? valley®,
Sunshine on the hills,
Mockin'blrds o" daytimes,
Nights the whippoorwill®.
Croon leaves In the springtime,
Hare trees in the full,
Spring the slngin* plowman,
Fall the hunter's call.
Summer nights the light-bugs,
Winters just the moon,
And the world a-swlngin*
Always right in tune.
Winter, spring and summer,
Falltime, too, to me.
"Wears a s«>rt o' glory
No one else kin see.
Ever'things a-weavin*
Like a poem, too,
'Cause I know you're lovin' me,
And I'm lovin* you!
M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
I transfer my office to hiin? Between And-and. well, it is now the 8th. I
men of the world, any sum 1 might ; tell you. my friend I don t like it!
name, would I mention a figure, and "The days went by. The Greek grew
E0 forth I thinner, more worried, and the pains in
"1 looked at his ugly face, his great his head prew more frequent. Hi®
pendulous cheeks, the puffy mounds most famous doctors of Paris could
of fle^h under his beady eyes; and then make nothing of his complaint, and
TOM MVAWS
MURDER.
L'y Herbert .1. Allinglinin.
ii
1 thought of Nada, delicate, innocent
childlike.
"In the end I told M. lonides cau-
tiously that to my extreme regret the
matter could nut be arranged.
"He smiled and shrugged his fat
shoulders; hut as he went out he re
marked softly that in his experience
he had always found it possible to ar-
range such jnatters.
"A few days later I had to leave
Paris on business. I was away atiout
asked him if he had any secret worry.
"Every day I called upon him to
watch him as he slowly died. It was,
I remember, on the 23d that he met
me in a stormy and rebellious mood.
'I will throw tills tiling off,' he
shrieked. 'Six mure days to live! Bah!
1 am scaring myself into the grave.
This cursed, scribbler tells me I shall
die on Friday next. Well, it is a lie.
1 will live! On Saturday next I will
give a banquet such as Paris has not
4s hours. When I returned 1 was in-'t, on fol. niany a year, and all society
CONFESS," said Munro, "I have
committed most crimes om*e.
Ilid I ever tell you how I blackmailed
a man, and got $.">,000 out of him?
Then there was my murder, quite an
artistic affair.''
There were four of us loafing in the
club reading room. It was a bright
but cold October afternoon, and the
first, fire of the season blazed in the
prate. We were all ranged about it.
sprawling in saddle back chairs. There
was Masters, the lawyer, who meant
to do something some day; there was
old Tufnell, the comedian, who had
done all he me^nt to do 20 years ago;
there was myself, the youngest of the
group, an unacted playwright; and
there was Munro.
No one quite knew what Munro did
for a living. He was a wanderer, and
would absent himself from our set
for months at a time, but he always
turned up at the club sooner or later.
He was a man of 45 or so, hair grizzled
about the temples, face strong and
hard, eyes keen but kind.
"Let's have the murdor," said Mas-
ters with a yawn.
"A really artistic murder should pos-
sess dramatic possibilities," remarked
the comedian ponderously, "and may be
of service to our young friend here."
The old man indicated me with a pa-
tronizing gesture. Munro took his pipe
from his mouth, and thoughtfully pol-
ished the bowl on the sleeve of his
coat.
"Th-j beginning of the business was
in the summer of '97," he began pres-
ently. "I left Chicago at a moment's
notice. Eventually 1 found myself in
Turkey, hobnobbing with a wicked old
pasha of my acquaintance. One day 1
was with him in the house, which was
more like a palace, when a dealer
brought some newly-captured slave
girls for his inspection.
"My friend rejected the majority
with scorn; but one beautiful Greek
girl found favor in his sight, and after
a lot of haggling with the dealer he
purchased her.
"The girl, when she learned of her
fate, was terrified, and made a painful
scene.
"I am not, as you know, a ladies'
man, but 1 confess the scared look in
the girl's eyes made me feel qualm-
ish.
"At the pasha's request I spoke to
her in her own language, but could
get nothing from her except a despair-
ing request to save her from her new
master.
"The end of it was that I offered to
purchase her. My friend was amazed
and much amused, but he good na-
turedly consented, and so Nada became
my property.
"I offered to send the girl back to
her people, but it appeared that they
had been ruthlessly slaughtered when
the was captured, and she swore that
the would never leave me. The situ-
ation was embarrassing, and I antici-
pated all sorts of trouble. But Nada
behaved splendidly. It is true she foi-
formed that Nada had disappeared.
"Immediately I suspected the fai
Greek and decided to call upon the
genth man when I had dined.
"However, I had just finished the
meal in my own house in the Hue Bar-
bet cle Jouy, and wad sipping my coffee
alone, when the door of the room was
unceremoniously flung open.
"I sprang to my feet and confronted
a wild, mad looking creature. Her
hair was disheveled, her clothes torn
s nd wet, her face distorted, her eyes
fixed and glaring. Nevertheless, it was
Nada.
"The cirl was quite mnd. At times
she would fall on the ground nt my
feet moaning pitcously, then in a fren-
zy of hysteria she would rave at me,
and then again she would turn shlver-
lnglj from me, and, crouching in a
corner, would sulk in silence. No con-
nect! ,1 story, hardly an intelligible sen-
tence. could I get from her. I sent for
:isslBtance. and she was put to bed.
The good woman whose services I had
leqftlsitloned came to me in about half
r,n hour, and her face was grave. She
ti.Id me that the girl had been terribly
Ul-used. She was a mass of bruises,
and across her shoulders were the livid
marks made by the lash of a whip.
"When I heard that 1 gave instruc-
tions that she should be properly
cared for. lit a cigar and walked across
to the hotel of II. lonides.
"I found him alone in Ills magnlfi-
cent apartment, seated behind a rich-
ly inlaid oak table. I thought I de-
tected amused expectation in his tiny
eyes, but there was certainly no shad-
ow of fear in them. Evidently the fat.
rascal telt secure behind his rampart
of gold. Evidently, too, his creatures
wer ■ near at hand to protect hint from
nt violence, perhaps crouching be-
curtains which hung
ill be present. Thus will I celebrate
my triumph.'
"I cordially approved of the plan,
tolling hill! that in the preparations for
the banquet be would forget his vain
fears. With feverish eagerness he pur-
sued the idea. 'I he short week went
swiftly by. The fatal Friday came and
went, ami the Greek still lived. I
found him Saturday morning almost
mad with delight. A great weight
seemed to have been lifted from his
soul. All fear of death Itad passed away
from him. Even the pains which had
been bis constant companions for a
month appeared to have vanished.
That night I attended the banquet at
the lonides mansion—a banquet still
talked of in Parts. It is easy to sneer
at the vulgarity of wealth, but if is
hard not to be fascinated by (he splen-
dor it can purchase.
The cream of Paris fashion, beauty,
:ind talent assembled round the Greek
merchant's table.
Never had I seen the man so ex-
ultant, so vivacious, so f 1*11 of l'fe. He I flint disappeared, and the stone
ind ! were probably the two happiest i peared perfectly transparent ami spar-
persons in the room. He i'ld not know, kling with a beautiful blue-green tint.
nd I did, that in an adjoining room a j The explanation seems to be that tlie
woman, closely veiled, was awaiting my : state of continual vibration in which the
signal. | diamond was kept by the bombardment
'She sat alone, swaying to and fro, | of the radium emanations for so many
pre!
hind the heav
at his side.
"Indeed, as I drew near to the table
his great puffy riuht hand rested on it
within an inch of a button of an elec-
tric bell.
"1 too!; nil this in at a glance, and be-
tween the door and the table, a matter
ef five paces, i hail made up my mind
how 1 should kill this oily, smug faced
villain, for I knew that if 1 challenged
him ho would r.ot fight.
"1 apologized for the lateness of my
call. 'The fact Is,' I said, laughing. 1
am devoured by curiosity. You kept
your word and have got the girl; but
how the dickens did you manage it?"
"He was taken aback a little. I think,
but lie readily fell into my humor. He
laughed and chuckled over his achieve-
ment till his great sides shook. Then
tie offered me money. I would not lis
ten to this, assuring him that I eon
sidered. myself fairly beaten, and 1 con-
gratulated him on his adroitness.
"He was delighted. 'You are a man
after my own heart,' he declared. 'But
you need not congratulate me. Th
business turned out most unfortunati
)y. The girl was a fool. Why, ray dear
sir, she tried to kill me! Of course,
I had to give her n lesson, but it did
no good.' He raised his tat. lit
hands in a gesture of disgust. 'You
know my little place on the Seine? She
was locked up in a room high above the
river, but she jumped out of the v.ln
dow and was drowned.'
"From that time," went on Munro in
his queer, emotionless monotone
cultivated the acquaintance of M. Ion
Ides, and we became inseparable. Do
you know 1 found him an amusing com
panion?
"One forenoon we were drlnkinf
wine together in a famous cafe—he ate
and drank at all hours—and he liap
j-en.ed to turn his ponderous bulk away
so as to stare in comfort at a pretty
woman at a distant tattle. 1 took th
opportunity to drop a little white pel
let into his glass.
"\oti know I have made a study of
poisons. Ill this country there is a
prejudice against thorn nowadays, I
know, but it was not always
RADIUM CLARIFIES DIAMOND
One of the Most Interesting and Un-
expected Discoveries Concern-
ing1 the New Mineral.
The universal interest awakened by
rrcent experiments with that wonder-
ful new property of matter, radio-activ-
ity, has served to make the world of
readers generally aware of the f°ct that
diamonds phosphoresce brilliantly :n
the dark wlu n exposed to the emanations
from radium. Indeed, says Garrett P.
ServiBs. in Success Magazine, it hasbe«Mi
suggested that this property offers a
sure and ready means of detecting fraud-
ulent stones. But Sir William Crookes
has just discovered that radium pro-
duces another effect upen diamonds
which is still more remarkable, and pos-
sibly of more commercial importance.
It appears to be able to cure the def ct.
of "off color" stones by changing their
objectionable yellowish hue to the de-
sirable pale-bluo or blue-green tint
characteristic of first-water gems.
Sir William took two yellowish dia-
monds, closely matched in color and
quality, and placed one of them inside
a tube containing radium bromide, keep-
ing it there continuously for a period of
78 days. In the meantime the other
stone was kept in a drawer, carefully
placed at a safe distance from all radium
jjnd other radio-active substances. At
the end of the time mentioned the two
diamonds were compared, and it was
found that the one which had been sub-
jected to the action of the radium
emanations had been deprived com-
pletely of its yellowish color, but at the
same time its surface had been consid-
erably darkened with a deposit of graph-
ite. After being heated, however, for
ten days, in a mixture of strong nitric
j acid and potassium chlorate, the dull
e 1 rt\ illcQniinarrnl n n <1 tlir> ctnnr n n-
MEDIO AIL EXAMINER
Of tlio United States Treasury Recommends
Pe-ru-na.
Another Prominent Physician Uses j ~ j
and Endorses Pe-ru-na.
DR. LLEWELLYN JORDAN. Medl-
cal Examiner of the U. S. Treasury
Department, graduate of Columbia
College, and who served three years at
West Point, has the following to say of
Peruna:
"Allow me to express my grati-
tude to you for (he benefit derived
from your wonderful remedy.
One short month has brought
forth a vast change and / now
consider myself a well man after
months of suffering. Fellow suf-
ferers, Peruna will cure you."
A constantly increasing number of
physicians prescribe Peruna in their
practice. It has proven its merits so
thoroughly that even the doctors have
overcome their prejudice affninst so-call-
ed patent medicines and recommend it
to their patients.
Peruna occupies a unique position In
medical science. It is the only internal
systemic catarrh remedy known to the
medical profession to-day. Catarrh, as
everyone will admit. Is the cause of one-
half the diseases which afflict mankind.
Catarrh and catarrhal diseases afflict
one-half of the people of United States.
nnd crooning softly to herself.
"Tin- hours passed swiftly with good
food, good wine, and good talk. The
iffair was at its height. Some one pro-
posed a toast, 'The Giver of the Feast.'
it was drunk with acclamation, and the
unwieldy Greek rose to reply.
"Then I gave my signal, and at the
same time slipped quietly out of my
seat at the foot of the table.
My place was taken by a figure
dressed wholly in black.
All eves were turned upon her as
she dr-;\v off her veil. White as the
damas'.; cloth on the table, but more
beautiful than I had ever seen her, she
stood silent and motionless.
lonides leaned heavily on the tj.ble
with botli hands, and stared at her
with eyes almost as wild and fixed as
her own.
"Then she raised a thin, delicato
arm. slowly, pointed at Jiim with a
gesture quite mechanical, and uttered
the one sentence I had rehearsed to
her a thousand times during the last
week—'The Se&e gives up its dead.'
"The Greek's jaws moved, the inus-
les of his face were convulsed, and
the veins stood out on his forehead.
Again and again he tried to sped';, but
no words passed his lips. '1 hen sud-
denly he straightened him:;;lf up, his
great arms sawed the air. his flashing
fingers clawed at nothingn y ■. and at
last a cry, shrill, piercing, and blood
curdling, escaped him, a cry of mingled
agony and horror.
"Then he fell forward and crashed
down upon the table among the gold,
silver, and shattered class, and there
he lay like a great, loathesome frog,
ugly and disgusting. II" was quite
dead. 1 touched Nada on the arm and
she followed me like an obedient child.
1 had thought the shock might restore
her. That was my chief reason for
confronting her with her countryman.
But it was not a success. She never
recovered her sanity."
Munro ceased speaking and began to
ref;ll his pipe.
Masters yawned pud rose to his feet.
"Did you ever try to write a novel,
Munro?' he asked wit a his irritating
drawl.
Tufnell and I laughed, both a little
relieved, 1 think, at being brought back
to the sane world after the grew so me
recital.
Munro said nothing, but, taking a let-
t. r irom his pocket, flung ii over to
Robert R. Roberts, M. T)., Wash-
ington, D. C., writes:
Through my own experience
as weil as that of many of my
friends nnd acquaintances who
have been cured or relieved of ca-
tarrh by the use of Hart man's
Peruna, I can confidently re com- I
mend it to those suffering from such !
disorders, and have no hesitation in
prescribing it to my patients."—
Robert R. Roberts.
m
lowed me about like a dog, but she
never obtruded herself upon my notice. . drug 1 used was an old Italian poison,
and yet was always at hand to render i I b.liev*- originally it came from the
me any service within her power. ! east, but it owes its fame to the ex-
"All went \\eli for a time, and I j tensive use of it made by the Borgias
had got quite used to her being about
the place, and even found myself mis-
sing her when she was absent.
"Then, in the autumn of '99, I went to
Paris. There I found a certain M.
lonides lording it in fashionable soci-
ety. He was, it appeared, a Greek mer-
chant, who had made a fortune out of
currants. He occupied a magnificent
hotel, kept a retinue of servants, had
a gorgeous equipage, and entertained in
a lavish and princely fashion.
"He was enormously rich, enormous-
ly fat, and as ugly as a satyr. We had
been in Paris about a week, when this
M. lonides saw Nada, and at once took
a fancy to her. I think I have told you
the girl was really strikingly pretty.
People turned In the street to look a:
her. -AVell, the Greek was fascinated
by his countrywoman, and the r -ilt
was that one day Nada came fly in:: to
me for protection. I soothed her and
thought no more of the matter, but on
the morrow I had a visit from the
great man.
"He was pretty frank, talking like
a man accustomed to pay for what he-
wanted and to get it He understood
Iho jouflfc lady was my ward. Would
In Italy. Its peculiarity, which is also
its great virtue, is that it does not kill
its victim until the expiration of SO
days or thereabouts.
"I stayed with M. lonides until he
har drained his glass. Then 1 left him.
"My next step was to persuade Nada
to write a letter to her countrymen in
which sl e prophesied his early death.
The girl was still quite out of her
senses, but with nie she was submis-
sive and obedient.
"Every day a letter to the same pur-
port w;is sent to the Greek, and each
letter was signed 'Nada of the Seine.'
"A week passed before 1 saw M. Ion-
Ides again. He was greatly changed.
11 • was paler, and less grossly fat, and
I*is gf. at fa< e had lost i'1; complacent
t lniper. He confided in me, whom In
dec lar« il to be his one true friend in
Paris, lie told me that he experienced
que?r and alarmin," pains in his head,
1 caught it and the other two leaned
over my shoulder as I read.
It was a brief notification from the
superintendent of a private asylum and
The it ran thus:
"Dear Sir: I have to inform you
that the patient known as Nada is se-
riously 111. If you care to see her you
may do so at any time of the day or
nis'ht tm presentation of this paper.
1 noted that the letter bore a dato
two davs old.
1 handed it hack to Munro in sllenc
He twisted it into a spill and took
light for his pipe from the fire Then
he moved towards the door.
"You went, of course," I said impul-
sively. "is she better?"
"Yes," he replied simply, "she died
in my arms last night."—-Chicago
Tribune.
days produced an internal change, result-
ing in an alteration of the color of the
stone. Thus the effect of the emanations,
as the experimenter suggests, may bd
to cause a chemical as well as a physical
change, and he adds that, if the yellow-
ish hue is due to the presence in the
diamond of iron in the "ferric" state, a
reduction to the "ferrous" state would
quite account for the change of color.
It may be said, by way of explanation,
that iron in the ferric state shows a
yellowish or reddish color, and in the
ferrous state a greenish or bluish color.
This discovery is one of the most in-
teresting as well as most unexpected
that has yet been made concerning the
effects of the radium emanations. The
Investigating chemist, interested prin-
cipally in the purely scientific aspects of
the phenomenon, is not likely tocare very
much about the possible results on the
diamond market, but possessors of off-
color stone.s may comfort themselves
with the thought that science has pos-
sibly found a way to increase th^ value
as well as the beauty of their jewels, al-
though, in the present state of the mat-
ter. it would, perhaps, cost more tf
"cure" a cheap stone by a course of ra-
dium treatment than to exchange it for a
better one.
"STILL DOiN' STRETCHIN'"
Family Trying to Get Along'Without
Girl Who Disliked Waiting
on Table.
After being without a girl for a
week, the mistress of a Iiarlem apart-
ment was showing an applicant over
the ilat, relates the New York Tribune.
She had been liberal in her promises
of privileges In the way of afternoons
and nights off. She had even gone so
far as to extend the hour of the girl's
return on these nights, and to agree to
her using the sewing machine after her
work was done.
The new girl seemed pleased and the
mistress was beginning to hope. They
walked back Into the dinir.g-rooin, and
the girl had actually removed one hat-
pin from her hat. Then her smile
faded, and a question mark appeared.
"Do you do your own stretchin'?"
she demanded.
Do we do our own what?" asked the
puzzled mistress.
Stretchin'," repeated the new girl.
I don't understand."
Stretchin'," repeated the girl
second lime. "Do you put all the stuff
on the table at mealtime and stretch
for It, or do I have to shuffle it
around?"
The family are "stretchin' " in earn-
est now, and will until they get a girl
who Is willing to wait on the table as
well as cook the meal. The matron's
household vocabulary contains a new
word.
Catarrh is a systemic disease curable
only by systemic treatment. A remedy
that cures catarrh must aim directly at
the depressed nerve centers. This Is
what Peruna does.
Peruna immediately Invigorates the
nerve-centers which give vitality to the
Dr. Llewellyn Jordan,
Mcdical Examiner United States
Treasury.
mucous membranes. Then catarrh dis-
appears. Then catarrh Is permanently
cured.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your ease, and he will
bo pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.
Ohio.
TEA-DRINKING BY CHILDREN FURNISHING THE MATERIAL
Said by Physicians to Be Prevalent
Among Those of Poor Who
Cannot Afford Milk.
It has been stated by. physicians that
the practice of tea drinking among the
children of the poor is very prevalent,
says the Detroit News-Tribune. Even
little ones less than two years old are
given tea to drink three times a day.
The reason for this is tiiat the parents
are not able to buy milk for the chil-
dren, and, thinking that they must have
something to drink besides water, ig-
norantly give them tea, never realizing
the disastrous results that may follow to
the growing child in the way c.f nervous-
ness and other troubles. Physicians
who work among the poor are discour-
aging this practice as tarns possible and
advising water as a beverage, cither cold
or hot with a little milk ai'ded, making
11r ll I 1 IIIIII IK Mint.
The hopefulness of some young men
Is unbounded At a dinner table the
other lileht some one said to a ined
leal student:
"Don't you despair of ever building
up a practice in medicine?"
"Indeed, no," he answered.
"Hut you will admit that the profes-
sion is already overcrowded?"
and he admitted that he v.as worried i "O, perhaps It Is said the young
by an ationymiris letter writer. 'Of . man. And then w ith a laugh ho added:
course, it I3 ridl- mIous,' tie declared: j "Hut I propose to graduate in modi-
'but she that Is, 1 mean the writer of cine, just the same, and those who are
these confounded letters—says 1 shall 1 already in the profession will have to
not live beyond the 2Uth of this mouth. ! lake their :hunte."—lialtimuru Sua.
An Exhibition of Native American
Freedom for a Possible Forth-
coming Book.
The two men wore seated at a table
in the farthest corner of the restaurant,
relates the Chicago Tribune.
"May I ask you for the score card?"
said the one with the bristling mous-
tach, pointing to the bill of fare.
"You may, sir," replied the other, a
man with closely cropped hair, "but
that's all the good it will do you. I'm
not a waiter."
"Maybe not, sir." returned the other,
"but if you had requested such a fa-
vor of me I should have taken pleasure
In complying."
"Quite likely. Some men are born
that way. They'd just as lief be taken
for a waiter as not."
"And some men are born boors,
that drink known in many families as | Tiicy couldn't bo gentlemen if they
"cambric tea." Women, too, who know j tried."
better than to give tea to babes, might j "Think you'd Know a gentleman 1!
do much good by instructing those who j,otl )iaj,;l(>neri to meet one?"
do not know better; not in an intrusive ,.j think I should. He'd look as dif-
way, but by perhaps saying: "My doc-
tor says it is harmful to give children
tea, so I have stopped it altogether."
And the ignorant women, with the doc-
tor's opinion placed before them, will
more often than not listen and profit by
it, for they have much confidence in a
physician.
Tobncco Blindness.
Dr. McNab. of th" Manchester Royal
eye hospital, has discovered hitherto
undreamt of perils In the humble pipe.
Giving evidence in a compensation case
at the local county court, he said he con-
sidered the defective vision of a plaintiit
was caused, not by a blow from a brick,
but by "tobacco blindness," He said
that one and a half ounces of tobacco a
week were quite sufficient to impair the
eyesight, and lie had known a case where
a man of middle aue was a sufferer from
the effects of half an ounce a week.
FISHERS WHO CAN'T SWIM.
Labrador Men's Lives Often Haz-
arded Through Ignorance
of This Art.
Few fishermen can swim, says a writer
In Leslie's Monthly on Labrador. "You
see. we has enough o' the w ater without
goin' to bother wi' it when we are
ashore," a man said to me only the
other day. Y'et this very man had fallen
overboard in the open sea no less than
four times and had only been saved on
one occasion by catching the line thrown
him in his teeth and holding on till he
was hauled aboard. His hands were too
1111 tubed to be of any use. Still, this fact
docs not deter them from facing the
ter. In an open bay In Labrador lives
one solitary settler. In the spring of the
year, when the ice was just breaking up,
the man's two lads were out on the bay
ice after seals, when all of a sudden it
gave way and the lads fell through.
The father, seeing It from the shore, did
not hesitate, but, seizing a fishing line,
hastily fastened one end round his body
and, giving the other end to his daugh-
ter to hold, he ran out to the hole
through which they had fallen. He
jumped Into the water, actually went
down and fetched up the bodies, too late,
alas, to restore life to them after that
cold water.
Better Times Ahead.
"They tell me." said the tenderfoot,
"that you haven't lynched any horse-
thieves in this locality for more than
three months."
"Well, of course," said Comanche
Pete, apologetically, "we have our dull
times here wnnst In awhile, same as
they do in the states."—Chicago Trib-
une.
Point of Wisdom.
A man never really begins to learn
until he Is ready to admit that he does
not know.
ferent from you as he possibly could."
"How do you know anything about
what a gentleman would look like?'*
"I'm intimately acquainted with sev-
eral and they don't any of them ac.t
like you."
"That so? Say, who began this con-
versation, you baboon-faced—"
"I did, you bullet-luacied barbarian.
I asked you in a civil way if you'd be
kind enough to hand me the bill of
fare, anil you insulted me. You haven't
the manners or decency of a walrus.
You're a hunk of mule meat In a shape
something like a man, with a—"
"You can't talk that way to me and
live! I'll—
"Don't you do it! If you move you/
hand one Inch nearer your hip pocket
I'll (ill you full of holes right here!"
But the other did not sthop.
He thrust his hand into his hip
pocket, pulled out a silk handkerchief,
wiped his eyeglasses, picked up a paper
and began to read it.
Then the man with the bristling
mustach turned to the unmistakabls
Englishman who had been sitting al
the next table nnd listening with hor-
rified astonishment to the conversa-
tion.
"We thought you'd like to have t
little exhibition of our native freedom
of manner," he said, pleasantly, "to
use in your forthcoming book, don't
you know."
They Almost Do.
"Y'ou'd make a big hit if you could
compose the words of a popular song."
"1 guess that's right; all I have ever
heard or seen needed composing."—
Houston Post.
For 1005.
Father Time was observed getting his
hair clipped.
"What Is that for?" asked the friend.
"Why, people are going too rapidly
these days," explained Father Time,
"and I want to tlx it so they can't take
me by the forelock."—Chicago Daily
N'c ws.
To Be Sure.
"I'd like to turn my lie's pug dog, my
daughter's eat, and my mother-in-law's
parrot all into one room and let 'cm
kill each other!"
"Ah, I see! Pet scheme of yours, eh."
—Cleveland Leader.
Change of Business.
First Colorado Citizen—Wat yer do-
In' fer a iivin' now, Dill? Saltin'
mines?
Second Colorado Citizen—No 'Sault.
iu' travelers —N. Y'. Weekly.
Hot Superstitious.
Busy Man—Don't you see that sign,
Keep out?"
Caller—Oh, yea, I see It; but I'm not
|ln the least superstitious.—Judge.
Achilles Consoled.
Achilles chuckled.
"Yes." said ho, "my heel Is vulner-
able. but that, isn't where you sit down
ou the ice."
Tobogganing down his front steps,
ho started to business.—N. Y. Sun.
Suggesting an Easy Hcniedy.
O.Kori.e — Tis queer, but whinnvtr 1
fcpl in me pants for me knife 'tis alwajs
in the other pocket.
Mc'l'oole—Thin w hy don't yez always
feel In the other pocket first, ye foolififc
man7—Pittsburg Post.
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