The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XVI.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JAN. ,9o6.
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NO. 33
made it a different cask. knvieo story teller's gift, j prospector leads the wav. | neat and effective rebuke.
Nulla net Turned Out Largely a Mat
tar of Ownarahlp.
Mrs. Russell Sage Is one of the
most active workers In the movement
tc, abolish the docking of the talis of
horses.
In a discussion of this movement
she said recently:
It the horses already docked were
out of the way we should have no
trouble In putting a stop to docking
forever. But many persons, advocates
of our movement In the past, no soon-
er buy a pair of showy carriage
horses with docked talis than they
desert us and go over to the enemy."
She smiled sadly.
"It Is the old story." she said.
"White owned a dog. Black, who lived
next door, came to htm and said:
Look here. That dog of yours
howls so much at night that my wife
and I are going mad for want of sleep.'
" 'Is that so?' said White. 'I hadn't
noticed his howling. I think you must
be mistaken.'
A week passed and Black came
home one day with the objectionable
dog on a string.
" 'I have bought this cur,' he told
his wife. 'I have bought It from
White and I am going to chloroform
"Another week and White, the dog's
former owner, said to Black:
' 'Yrj haven't chloroformed that
dog yet, have you?'
Why, no not yet, 'Black answered.
1 he fact Is we have grown rather
fond of the critter, he Is so playful
and affectionate.'
But doesn't his barking annoy
you?' White asked.
'"No. I haven't noticed it," said
Black.
'"Well,' White grumbled, 'I can't
s.eep for that brute's continual yowl-
ing.'
Mrs. Sage smiled again.
"In the case of ourselves it Is one
thing; In the case of others It Is a dif-
ferent matter," she said.
The Only Difference.
John La Farge, the painter, was
talking in his studio about witty wo-
men.
Let me relate a young woman'*
witticism that I heard of the other
day." he said.
There was a man who loved a
maid, and she returned his passion;
but there were reasons that made
secrecy desirable, and thus, though
the two were betrothed, they pretend-
ed to the world that they were good
friends and nothing more.
One evening, as the young roan
v. as pressing his sweetheart to his
breast, her sister entered the room
suddenly.
"The lovers drew apart with great
hasle, and the sister, with an 'Excuse
me,' turned to go.
"But the young man deemed an ex-
p'anat jn necessary. He said:
" 'Don't go. We have Just been
measu lng to see which Is the taller.'
"The Intruder, standing by the door,
looked at the lovers Intently. Then
a dillcate smile flitted over her pretty
face, and she said:
"'You are about the same hedght,
but I think sister Is much the red-
dr "
Made Pretence of Mind a Very Sec-
ondary Consideration.
C. K. Sober was showing a group
i of Pennsylvania statesmen over his
famous chestnut farm near Shamo-
kin.
I have been told," said an Insur-
ance Inspector, "that on a good chest-
nut farm each tree yields $100 profit.
"That Is Impossible." Bald Mr. So-
ber, laughing. "That Is quite Impos-
sible. It is such a whopper that It
reminds me of life In the west.
A friend of mine sat one cold night
before the red-hot stove In a western
saloon.
"At the bar a number of tall stor-
ies were being told. Every man had
an Illustration to present of his own
bravery or generosity or Lothario-
ism. One chap said: 'I was once j
crossing a long, high, one-track rail- '
road bridge on the ties when I peen
a train coming toward me. The
bridge was too narrow for mt to draw
to one side or the' other and to Jump
Into the boiling waters below meant
sartln death. In a flash I grasped the
situation and started on a quick run
toward the locomotive. When with-
in a few feet of the great machine
I concentrated all my nerve and mus-
cle In one effort and leaped straight
up In the air. The terrible loco shot
under me and I came down safe and
sound on the bridge, preserved from
death, but seriously shaken by the
descent.'
"At the conclusion of this tale a
groan went up from the assemblage
and an old miner with a white beard
said bitterly:
What's the use of presence of
mind when a man can lie like ihat?"
VELL THAT PROVED OF VALUK.
Boar* Rightful Title aa Pioneer of the
Weat
I The prospector la the real pioneer
of the West; he blazed the trail for
I railroad, for the merchant, the
| capitalist and the professional man;
I to him belongs the honor of the prea-
ont condition of the mining Industry.
| The prospector has made It possible
for the making of the great fortunes
of Haggin, Fair, Flood, Hearst. Daly
and Clark. Where would the Com-
| stoch, Butte, Coeur d'Alene and other
notable camps be. had It not been
. for the prospector and his burro? The
life of the prospector Is not a round
I of pleasure; he sleeps In the snow and
i rain as often as not; his fare Is bacon
I and beans; dollars are few with him,
j yet he may be hunting for a new lo-
cation for you to go to. When he asks
| you for a grub atake, help him out-
his burro found the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan; his rifle killed the mountain
sheep that found and exposed the rich
ores of the Ram's Horn mine; Com-
stock, the man who found the vein
named after him, died a poor man, but
he did more for his country than Presi-
dent Roosevelt has. Marcus Daly
came to Butte with his blankets on his
back, but he did more for Montana
than John D. Rockefeller; W A Clark
drove a bull team Into Montana, placer
mined In Deer Lodge and made a for-
( tune, which he earned by hardships
endured which the average Butte clt-
| lien would not care to go through.
When Stratton found Cripple Creek he
was a poor carpenter, said to be too
laty to work, but he paved the way for
I thousands to earn a livelihood and
himself a fortune.—Butte Mining Re-
view.
Ministers Late Risers.
"Ministers Is the latest risers. Doc-
tors comes next." said the cook.
She was entertaining the maids from
next door. As she bustled about get-
ting th' tea and cake ready she talked
incessantly, like a machine. The maids
listened, their eyes fixed o.i the colla-
tion that each moment grew more
tempting under her hand.
"Some ministers don't rise till 10,"
she said. "There's hardly one of them
that yoi II find up by 8. Nine or half-
past is their average hour.
\ou see, they don't have no office
to go to at a certain time. They have
no early appointments that must be
kept. They have no clerks that they
must look after. Consequence Is. they
become the latest risin' class of men
on earth.
"I've worked around considerable lu
my time. I've had forty-seven places,
all told. Some has been with doctors,
some with business men and eleven
with ministers. The ministers is the
best to live with. They are so con-
siderate and generous and they have
such perfect dispositions. If they
would only get quit of this lazv habit
of lortfli,' away the mon.lng in bed
they'd be a class without a feult."
Doubts.
"Wealth does not bring happiness,"
said the ready-made philosopher."
"Mayl.e not," answered the man
who fretiutuiis the race track, 'but
when I compare the facial expression
of a j-rrson who has won with that
of a | eiFoa who has lost 1 have my
doubts."
Old Gontleman Had Underrated Hla
Son'a Abilities.
A young man once returned from
college with long hair, a sweater that
had eleven distinct colors In Its fabric,
a good opinion of hlmaelf and a col-
lege yell that was terrifying.
His father sized him up and then
complained bitterly. Hla complalnta
were more bitter when he heard the
college yell.
And F paid good money to have
him acquire those clothes and that
fog-horn voice and exuberant throat
development." he groaned.
"You don't care for the yell?" asked
the young man.
"I do not," replied the father. "It
is as valueless as the squeal of a pig
and that Is one part of the animal
which Is lost when he Is butchered." j
A few weeks later, while on a trip I
to a new country, the father and son
were attacked by a band of marauding
ufflans. The young man opened his
mouth, threw the reverse lever away
ever in the corner, and emitted a
college yell, --hich was substantially
a follows: "Br-r r-> Woof, woc/woof-
woof. Zip, zip, pippltysip! coropat,
compah! Gurgoo, gurgoo! Wottell
* ortelI! wheeeeee!"
The members of the marauding
band, amazed at the sound, and un-
able to understand it, turned and
red.
"Maybe a college education does
ray, said the father, slowly.
Ligntnouse as uira ■ rap.
The night watch of the Cape May
lighthouse was chatting with a vis
I tor when something struck hard
against the netting around the light
The watch went out upon the tiny
circular balcony and returned with
dead bird In his hand. "A mud hen,"
said he "Sometimes we get Ave or
six in a night. Often we find robins
and ducks dead on the balcony."
"It's a line life you lead hero," re-
marked the visitor.
"Yes; If It wgsn't for the oil—the
six gallons of oil that the light burns
nightly. The government won't give
us any machinery to hoist It up with.
Consequently every day I must carry
the whole six gallons up these 217
steps. That's hard on the heart."
"it must be," agreed the visitor.
"It would be so easy to rig up a ropo
and pulley, too, and draw the oil up
that way."
„„„ "n ■m't allowed," said the watch.
were attacked by a band of marauding i "In every "" burning lighthouse the
iufflans. The young man opened his *ttendant8 m<>*t carry up the oil by
™—**- hand, it does seem-—"
Plop!
He slipped out to get another mud
hen.
Are You Loft-Eyed t
"Left-eyed people simply owa the
town these days," said an oculist "If
the prominence and Importance of that
cptic continues to Increase we shall
cne day be a left-eyed race. In more
than half the patients I treat the left
eye Is already considerable larger
than the right, it is br'ghter and It
lasts longer. If you want to find out
which eye Is stronger try to read first
with one then with the other unassist-
ed by its mate. Nine times out of
ten that test shows hoy much more
useful the left-eye la than the right.
"I devoutly hope that I shall never
lose either of my eyes, but If one has
to go I Just as devoutly hope that It
will be the right. There was a time
when the superstitious, and even
specialists on eyas believed that enly
left-handed people were also left-eyed.
That theory is now exploded. Over-
development of the left eye Is in dan-
ger of becoming a disease, the pe-
culiar effects of which are already
apparent Id many faces "
What Did He Mean?
^ What makes you look so worried?"
I can never get a dress suit to fit
me.
"Perhaps you don't get there early
r->ough."
Surplusage.
Owen Wister, the novelist, was crit-
icising the work of a literary begin-
ner.
"Now, here," said Mr. Wister, slash-
ing his blue pencil through an entire
manuscript page, "here Is arrant su-
perfluity and surplusage. In what w xj
do these 400 words help your story?
"In no way. On the contrary, they
hinder, they Impede It. These written
words are mere surplusage, as so
many of our spoken words are mere
surplusage. They resemble the use-
less questlors that we ask.
"A man itood before a mirror In his
room, his face lathered, and an open
razor In his hand.
"His wife came In. She looked at
him and said:
" 'Are you shaving?'
The man, a foe to surplusage, re-
plied fiercely:
"'No; I am blacking the kitchen
range. Where are you—out driving
or at a matinee?'"
Showing How Unnecessary It la To
Give the Lie Direct.
Senator Foraker was contradicting
a certain statement.
"Though this Is a firm contradic-
tion," he said, "I want It to be a pleas-
ant and polite one. It Is not neces-
sary. when men tell falsehoods, to call
then liars and club them over the
head. Their error can be pointed out
In neater and more graceful ways.
"For Instance:
In a small town In Indiana a group
of drummers were assembled. They
sat In the reading-room of the coun-
try hotel. On the flimsy hotel paper
they had finished writing to their
firms with the lumpy Ink and the
rusted pens which the hotel manage-
ment provided, and now, with news-
paper reading and desultory talk, they
whlled away the tedious evening.
I "A young drummer In a red tie took
the cigarette from his mouth and
; said;
" 'Well, my day's sales here reached
J5.000. Not bad for a small town
eb?'
"An elderly drummer looked up
from his newspaper and said quietly:
Not bud at all. It Is wonderful
what one can sometimes do In these
little places. On my last trip here
my commissions came to Just what
you say your sales did.'
"The young man reddened.
" "This isn't a lying competition,' he
said gruffly.
"'Oh. excuse me.' said the other.
' thought it was.'
STATEMENT
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
At the close of business, Saturday. December 30 1905.
RRSOURCBS.
U>unc und Discounts
Overdrafts
Premium on U. S. Honils
Ileul Rstute, Furniture und Fixture.*
United Stiiies Bonds
percent Kedcuiption Fund l,2ftO.<M)
Cash und In Other Dunks 5I,«27 19
total " •iim mil o.
llUs.OO.t TOTAL
The above Statement Is Correct.
liabilities,
fT5.Uirt.oa Capital Stock
none Surplus
1,100.00 Undivided Profit*, net....!!....
5.500.00 Circulation
25,000.00 Deposits
125.000 00
5,000.00
231 47
. 25.000 00
100,771.75
iiot.oat.'ii
E. II COCKREL.I., Casbter.
Fritz Knew His Company.
Finley Acker, one of the leaders of
teform In Philadelphia, said the other
day:
"From time Immemorial there has
teen room for reformation In town
councils. From time Immemorial the
city fathers of every country have
been more or less justly attacked.
In a medieval German tale It says
tnat the parish council of a small
Tillage met one evening to discuss
certain improvement In the water sup-
ily.
"Difftng this debate, the town's one
watchman entered the room quietly
placed In a corner his lantern and
spear and sat down to listen to the
argument.
"Suddenly a councilman turned on
nlm fiercely.
- "Frits' he cried, 'what are you do-
ng here. Who Is to watch that noth-
lug Is stolen In the village?'
Fritz, with an easy smile, an-
swered:
"Who Is there to steal? We are
all here. "
taxes taxes.
Taxes fall due December 15th of each year
One half can be paid up to the third Monday in Jan
uary, after that date all must be paid. Penalty is
added March 1st on the whole tax, and August 1st
^ 'a5t half Personal taxes goes into the hands
of the Sheriff March 25th last half August 25. Real
estate sells on the third Honday in November.
1 axes collected for Kingfisher and Garfield
Counties.
Bear & Westlake.
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jjj We will Make a Big Reduction
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Hi 0n a" our Holiday Goods. We
jjj don't want to carry them over.
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She Fixed the Candy.
A Brooklyn woman, Just returned
from a visit to a relative In Canada.
was telling of her pet niece, a child of
about 8 years, who came bounding In-
to the room with a box of chocolate
peppermints, the gift of another rela-
tive.
"Do have some, Aunt Sis," aald
Edna.
"No, thank you, dear," scifi her
aunt. "I like peppermints, but not
with chocolate covers."
Little Edna looked disappointed;
ihen left the room hurriedly, as though
struck with an Id^a. A few minutes
later she returned with a handful of
white candles. j compensation Tor the less of one side
Now, you can have peppermints, ' of hi« imi.1,,1.. i
jasiAsy*-* -,
Rebuked for His Carelessness.
"I had a peculiar dream last night.
Mary," said a Kansas City railroad
niau to his wife yesterday. "1 dream-
ed I was appointed agent for our line
In San Francisco at double tji* salary
I'm now getting."
"How fine," said Uis wife with a
smile.
Yes." continued the man, "and I
started for San Francisco to take the
Place. At a small station In Kansas,
where the train stopped, I saw a dog-
fight going on and stepped off the
car to witness It. The train went
on w..nout me and I woke up before
I could catch another."
The wife's smile change to a look
of kee> disappointment. "Henry," she
said with emphasis, "you have the
Instincts of a brute. Why didn't you
stay on thaL train and let that dog-
fight aione? You'll never get a good
Job If you act like that."—Kansas
'-'It/ Times.
Money for Lost Mustache.
A Servian litigant was allowed (180
compensation for the less of one side
Not a Fish Story.
"My dog always posts my letters."
said the aecond best story teller at
the club, according to the London
Sketch "I Just hand him the letter
•nd say, 'Here Rover!' and he trots
off to the post at once. Well, yester-
day when I gave him one he dropped
it on the floor. 80 I took it up. and
thinking there must be something
wrong. 1 weighed It. and found that
It was insufficiently stamped."
"That reminds me of a dog I once
had named Carlo," remarked the best
story teller. "Carlo always posted my
letters, and one day when I gave him
one to post, like your Rover, he let
It fall on the floor. I thought that
perhapa 't was insufficiently stamped
but on weighing It 1 found It was all
right. So I gave It to Carlo again but
again he dropped It on the fioor Con-
vinced now that there must be some-
thing vrong, I looked at the address
and found that I had Inadvertently
addressed the letter to 'Mr. John
Smith, Esq."
No more dog stories were told at
the club that night.
LONG BELL LUMBER CO.
I^UHBER LIME and paint*
IT PAYS TO TRAD£ WITH UB
Estimates j* nlshed Promptly 7
R. KRATER, Manager.^^
hennessey,
oklahoma.
Washington an Expensive City.
Washington is, aeit to New York
the most expensive American city In
which to live. Rents, fuel, groceries
meats a"d clothing are all high. The
ordinary government clerk of family
has to live not only on an economic
basis but on one of actual nlggardll
nees, barren of comforts and far re-
moved from the semblance of luxury
For him to live within his income
la scarcely possible. At hest there la
left no margin for Insurance, for
medical attention or for the savings
bank. For him to buy a home would
be as likely aa for b m to buy the
capltol. Yet, habituated to a round of
duties, he c' -gs to his place, for he
s out of to* i with < ther opportuni-
ties and ' ^ that wpre be to re-
tire a Hcore would scramble for the
vacancy.—New York Timet.
Lam# Theory.
"Do you believe," queried the long-
haired passenger, "that people will
have the aame vocation In the next
worid as they nave in this/'
"No," replied the hardcore drum-
fer. 'That would be Impossible la
many cases."
"Why do you think so?" asked the
1. h. p.
"Because." explained the knight of
the sample caae. "there are quite a
number of Ice dealer* lu this world."
Don't Hibernate
This Winter
What's the good of "crawling in" and trying
to shut out cold weather?
You can't do it successfully. Old Man Winter
will avenge himself by gh-ing you coughs, colds,
soro throat and other "cheerful" ailments
Winter is your vacation time; why not take a
trip to California and get a spell of warm soft
semi-tropical summer?
You'll come back witl re .owed vigor for next
season s work—a new man.
Ut us send you our illustrated literature about
the tHp via the Rock Island and about California.
It s well illustrated and covers all the points you
want to know-snows whkke to save money.
Just drop me a postal.
F. PITMAN, Agent,
Hennessey, Okla.
N. RECTOR, a. li. CULLUri, M. L)..
Physician and Surgeon m,., i • . ,
* ; Physician and Surgeon.
Oftlco: Ok h;homh A "enin
Ofiloe 'Phone 21. ?<, ,1 eu,H PholJl.
henneskev, oklahoma
H. G. Barker,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office: Bree* Building, upStairs.
Hennessey, - Okla.
m'" rr,,"t " «' Hll*lr« storf Heml
edrni-p. frank Hunt property Nor herui.Hc,,
w. 0. STKVENS. W.L MOOK,
Stevens & Moore,
. .. Attorneys-at-Law
Notary in Office.
IWT Office In the Dr. Merudlth building.
Hennessey sad [
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