The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XVI.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEB. 8, igoO.
NO. 37
• Bound to Win Yet.
There Is a song that no one else has
writ,
I know, but can not fashion It—
Not yet—perhaps, some time,
I'll get the rhyme
And quit.
I've started It a hundred times, I think.
Grandly—and then, ere one could wink,
The Inspliatlon's gone—
The song Is on
The blink!
How many things start well, but some-
how miss
Connections—like a girl's first kiss—
Ntart w.„n a mignty shout,
Then peter out
Like this!
Ten syllables, a sonnet to begin;
Eight In the next—a metric sin.
Then six—who would have knowQ
It could have grown
80 thin?
But. say!
One of these times
I'm going to switch the rhymes
Around, by George, the other way
Start little and end big—I will, some
day!
—Cleveland Leader.
AS WILLED BY FATE.
By GEORGE T. PARDY 1
Copyright, im, bj Dtilj Story Publishing Co.
He threw the pen down impatiently
and arose from the desk at which he
had been writing for the last three
hour*.
"It's no use," he muttered to Him-
self, as he paced up and down the
room. "I shall have to let It wait un-
til to-morrow after all. Ethel will be
disappointed, but It can't be helped."
Ethel was his sixteen-year oid
daughter, and she was coming home
to-night from the school in Paris,
where she had spent the last two
yeara. Only two days before he had
written to her promising that he would
give himself a week's holiday when
she came home, and take her about to
see all the sights of London. And
now here was his novel still lying
unfinished and every morning's post
bringing Imploring letters from the
publishers and reminders that the
time scheduled for the delivery of the
book was long past. He was genuine-
ly annoyed with himself.
His wife had died in giving Ethel
birth, and the afTectlon which he had
lavished upon the former had been
transferred, almost in Its entirety, to
the living legacy she had bequeathed
him. It had been a severe wrench to
let the girl go away to school at all,
a wrench which, each time she went
back again after her holidays, hai
seemed all the worse to bear. Now
that her schooldays were over at last
and she was coming back to him for
good, his pleasure was exquisite. He
had planned out everything that they
wou'd do In the short week's vacation
which was all he could permit him-
self, and had been thinking of It for
the past fortnight.
He had expected, of course, to have
sent his manuscript safely on its way
before Ethel's arrival, so that noth-
ing In the way of work should inter-
fere with the enjoyment of her first
week of new life. And here, as 111
luck would have It, was the book still
Incomplete. True, there was only ono
chapter lacking, but that" chapter had
been waiting to be written for over
a week. Possibly the Idea of Ethel's
approaching return had unsettled him
for work; possibly his mind, aglow with
Its ever present anticipation of pleas-
ure to come, was unable to contem-
plate. what for the proper accomplish-
ment of the book It was necessary It
should contemplate—a picture of a
very different kind.
For the great climax of "Forsaken"
was, as he was perfectly aware, a
tragedy and a death, and to write In
such a vein when he himself was sim-
ply permeated with the intense Joy of
living, was anything but an easy task.
Yet If Ethel was not to he disap-
pointed, the ta'e must be finished, and
quickly too. Even now the tall clock
In the corner pointed to five, and the
shadows were lengthening across the
trim kept lawn. By ten Ethel would
te at the station.
"Confound It!" he muttered, "I musl
pull myself together. This nervous
ness is simply ridiculous."
He stopped for a moment In his
perambulations to press the electric
bell.
"I shan't want any dinner to night.
Hawkins," he said to the servant who
appeared. "I'll have some supper with
Miss Ethel when she comes. Don'i
forget, the carriage is to be round at
half past nine sharp."
"Very good, sir."
The novelist sat down to his des!
again, and for a few minutes remained
lost in a reverie. At last he dipped
his pen Into the Ink, and it began tf
move across the white surface of tht
paper, s'owly at first, as though the
Ideas were tardy in assuming coherent
shape, then quicker and quicker still
Sudenly, as It seemed, his mood had
ohp.n?3d.. his thoughts attunod tfcam.
letveu to the minor key. And'aa ths
un'.ight diod away from the garden
ud the dusk crept out of the earth,
he tragedy of the woman's death
pread itself out over the paper, line
y Hue, sheet by st.eet, and the book
iwept on to its appointed end.
Only once in the gathering darkness
lid he pauie to call for lights, and
hen bent over his task again, to dash
>n to the page one of those living
A-ord pictures which bad helped to
;>uild up his fame. He felt, even as
'ie wrote, that he had never done tet-
ter work than this, and wondered at
llmseif that he could do It.
Somehow he had never experienced
the flery thrill of Inspiration as he
experienced it to-night. He had writ-
en of death before, but never had
the filial calamity of a heroine of his
own creating stirred him as it stirred
him now. He lived himself every emo-
tion that he described, was wrenched
with every pang that his pen painted.
The death of this magnificent crea-
ture, with all its attendant agony, as-
sumed for him an absolute rea'ity. He
seemed to feel against his cheeks the
Icy bre&th of the Dark Angel, the lamp
flickered ominously, and strange, fan-
tastic shadows moved In weird proces-
sion a< ros3 the silent room.
As he penned the last word, and
wrote beneath In neat capitals "Finis"
T"> ha' a picture or moral grandeur
a poor, friendless youth refusing
vine at the table of a famous states-
nan, even though profTered by a
eautiful lady.
"No." said the young man with
rcmbllng voice and flushed cheek. "I
lever drink wine, but (here he
itni!ghten«i up and his words cams
nore firmly) If you've got a little
-;ood old rye whisky I don't mind try
iug a snifter."—San Francisco Chron-
icle.
The Plan That Failed.
A certain henpecked husband of
Muskogee, observes the Pryor Creek
Clipper, read In the papers where a
clrl at Tahlequah Tiad been Beared to
death Christmas by the discharge of
several cannon crackers, and straight-
«ay went down town and bought n
large suppjly, intending to fire them
New Year's. The day arrived on time,
ind he hustled his wheelbarrow load
if combustlblfs up near his wife's
room and touched them off. When
ihe shower of shattered glass and bro
ken pieces of timber ceased the man
felt something cold against his cheek,
and. glancing that way, saw his wife
with a revolver thrust in his face.
Sho remarked coldly: "Now, you
march Into the house and go to bed
or there'll be a second cla«s funeral."
He marched, muttering under his
breath: "It might work on a Tahle-
quah damsel, but on a Muskogee wom-
an never!"
Barefoot—Boots.
A New Mexico paper announces the
marriage of Miss S. M. Boots to E.
Barefoot. He now has Boots but she
has become Barefoot. Thus It is seen
that In entering Into a marriage con-
tract the woman is invariably the
loser. But there Is no denying that
the match was one of an affinity of
soles.—Los Angeles Times.
mm
Threw tht ptn down impatiently.
Small Cost of Salt Production,
Salt costs the producer less than
one-tenth of a cent a pound. Uncle
Sams 1904 figures are 27.332 cents for
each barrel of 208 pounds.
Drunkarda In London.
About C,000 drunkards are admitted
to Pentonvllle prison. London, every
year, says the medical officer.
Ben: Perley Poore's Joke.
MaJ. Ben: Perley Poore was on a
train from Boston to Indiun Hill
Farm with an invited guest. At a
station a brakeman announced TopB-
fleld. "Topsfield," mused the major,
"Top's-field. I have always wondered
where his house and garden are."
The Chronic Bachelor.
The age of a house can sometimes
be concealed by a few -oats of fresh
paint. Theoretically, I is the same
with a woman.—Cleveland Leader.
As to Heroes.
No man who is polite to his famll)
only when company Is present can
hope to be a hero to his son.
"Great Heavens!"
he shivered. It seemed curiously cold
Tor June. He passed his hand over
I Is forehead and the sweat glistened
;n his palm. An enervating languor
possessed his wearied senses.
"The holiday will do me good," he
reflected. "I have been working too
hard; I'm glad it's finished. And it's
good too, the best I've ever done."
Putting away the sheets carefully In
a drawer, he glanced at the clock. It
was half-past nine, and the carriage
was waiting.
As he descended at the station ho
uotlced that something unusual had
occurred. People were running wild-
ly about, questioning officials. Wom-
en were sobbing and newsboys ye'ling
in strident tones. One of the latter
shrieked hoarsely in his ear:
"Third Extra Special. Terrible ac-
"ident to the Continental Express.
List of killed— full details."
Mechanically, with a foreboding
sense of horror, he thrust out his
hand for a paper.
"Surely—Ethel "
"Great Heavens!"
• * *
"Forsaken," was the success of the
ienson In particular, the extraordi-
nary realism of the death scene In
Ihe last chapter was the subject of
much comment.
Worth Wore Than a Smile.
A generous stork visited a certain
home uptown and left a pair of babies.
A few days afterward the fasher and
a friend who congratulated him and
said: "1 hear the Lord has smiled up-
on you." "Smiled!" exclaimed the
proud parent; "He laughed aloud sir!"
Tourists Pay More.
In Swiss restaurants natives gener
ally pay a few cents less for food o?
drink than tourists.
No Wine for This Youth,,
That was a noble youth from Ohio
who, on being urged to take wine at
the table of the chief Justice in
Washington, had the moral courage
to reluse. He was a poor young man
just beginning the Btruggle of life.
"Not take a glass of wine?" Bald
his hest In wonderment and sur-
prise.
"Not one simple glass of wine?"
echoed his host's beautiful daughter
as she arose, g'ass in hand, and with
:i grace ihat would have charmed an
anchorite, endeavored to press It upon
him.
"No," said the heroic youth reso-
lutely, though gently, refusing the
I ro.1er.ed glass.
Output of Silver.
Nearly ono-thlrd of the silver now
existing in the world was mined In
Mexico.
Camels Gutdcne.
Other creatures than the camel are
able to get along for extended periods
without drinking. Sheep In the south-
western deserts go for forty to sixty
days In winter without drink grazing
on the green, succulcnt vegetation of
lhat season.
Oysters at Their Birth.
It. has been ascertained that in ihe
ilqunr of their shel'S small oysters
ran be seen by aid of the microscope,
120 In the space of an inch, covered
with shells and swimming actively
about.
Beginning Early.
My little nephew recently asked his
mother to let him have her fashion
book. "What do you want It for?"
was his mother's amused query. "1
want to see the winter styles In over-
coats for young men of four," he re-
plied gravely.—New York World.
Farming In Austria.
In Austriu field labor Is still largely
dono by the women, who also thrash
tlio grain with Halls.
To Revive Artificial Flowers.
Hold them over the steam arising
from boiling water for a minute or
two. .
FOR PROHIBITION.
Ex-Gov. Ferguson Announces His
Stand on Prohibition.
Ex Governor Ferguson's posi-
tion on prohibition for the new
state of Oklahoma, which is op-
posed by some of the most promi-
nent politicians in the territory,
has never changed, and in a let
letter to ltev. J. .). Thompson
superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of Oklahoma, and
publisher of the Oklahoma Issue,
the official organ uf the league,
he says:
"In my judgment prohibition
should be extended to the entire
territory, although it is better to
take the Indiun Territory as a
compromise than not to get any-
thing, but congress should take
into consideration the fact that
there are Indian tribes and reser-
vations scattered all over Okla
hotna proper and that with the
coming of statehood and the ex-
ercise of state supervision it is
only natural that the federal gov-
ernwill grtidually withdraw its
restraints against the liqnor
traffic'among the Indians. As
the Indian merges into citizen-
ship the government will grad-
illy cease to exercise its authori-
ty, but the red man's appetite fur
liquor will remain just the same,
and unless the state has certain'
safeguards thrown around it for
at least several years to come I'
am afraid that very dangerous con-!
ditions will prevail in what is now '
Oklahoma. I think this isoneofthe
propositions which has not bjen
fully oonsidered, and I cannot
understand how congress can
reach the conclusion that the
Oklahoma Indians are less liquor
thirsty and less dangerous, if in-
toxicated, than the Indians in
the Indian Territory. The same
conditions will prevail in the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe, the
Kiowa, Caddo and Comanche,
Pawnee and Kickapoo countries,
and wherever Indiansarefound, if
left unprotected, that would pre-
vail in the Indian country if nosafe
guards were thrown around that
country. It may be argued that
we get along fairly well with the
Indian tribes now in Oklahoma
and have but comparatively little
trouble. While that may be true
to some extent, yet, as intimated
above, the federal government
still throws a protection around
the Indians which has proven a
very wholesome re.-traint upon
the violators of the liquor law.
There can be no question, how-
ever, when these Indians become
citizens and pass under the do-
minion of the state, but that con-
ditions will change. No stale in
the history of this republic has
■ ■ver been able to reach the stand
aid of the federal government in
regulating the liquor traffic.
■States do not prosecute with the
rigor exercised by the federal
government. Again, elective otti
;ers are oftentimes prevented
from doing their duty in the way
if prosecutiug violators of the
liquor law on account of the poli
cy of the situation. The federal
government can restrain because
its officials have no fears of re
tribution at the polls. They can
do their duty without fear or
favor. Vou know as well as I
know that state and county offi-
cers do not at all times do this.
The iiquor interests have a
strsing hold upon state and local
politics. If congress is wise,
surely safeguatds on the liquor
traffic will be thrown around the
entire state."
STATEMENT
FIR5T NATIONAL BANK,
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
At thr close of business, Saturday, December 30, 1905.
HKS( HJRCF.S
Loan* and Discounts
Overdrafts
Premium on IT. s. llonds
Krai lOstatc, furniture and Kixt
United Slates Monds
ft per cent Redemption Fund
Cush und In Other Dunks fil.
TOTAL 11
The above Statement
LI A DILIT1RS,
$7.P ,0S<1 03 Capital Stock
none Surplus
I.loo.oo Undivided 1'roUts. net
.v: oo,oo Circulation
•-.'.'vooo oo Deposits
$•->: .000 00
">,000.00
•J31 47
•Jo,000 00
HHJ.7TI 75
I .* •«
I'.
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( M K UKCashier.
AN EDITOR'S APPEAL.
To Brother Editor's on Behalf of
the Lost Child of Dr. Byers.
If the editor of every news
paper in the central west will re-
publish these lines there is no
question but what Dr. S. L.
Byers, of Seeleyville, Ind , will
recover his little son, who was
stolen from his home last May.
Dr. Byers has spent his entire
resources m search of his child,
and unless the big hearted mem
bers of the profession come to
his assistance his son w ill grow
up an outlaw and tin outcast
among the lowest people of the
earth. It is a cause that should
appeal to every one, and no fatli
er reading these lines can do so
without a quickening of the heart
and a sympathetic throb. It is
believed that if this article is re
printed in tne papers it will form
an endless chain that will uncov-
er the lost boy's concealment
and restore him to his distracted
parents. In doing this the pro-
fession of journalism will be ful
tilling one of its highest desti
nies.
Publishers whose circulation
touch the Wabash, Ohio and
Mississippi valleys, are especially
requested to reproduce thisstory
of the lost child, as Dr. Byers
believes his boy is now in some
houseboat waiting to take the
road in the spring. There is a
reward of live hundred dollars
awaiting any information that
will lead to the boy's recovery.
No questions would be asked and
if the abductor himself should
deliver the child to his parents
he would not be molested. The
bereaved parents are heart-
broken and only wish to regain
their child. If each journal will
reprint these lines they will
travel to every exchange table in
the United States and bring back
to a wrecked home a child who is
no doubt suffering with cold, uti
fed and wretched to a degree.
Think of what your own feelings
would be under similar circum
stances! This appeal is indicted
originally by a publisher who
saw Dr. Byers only once, has no
personal interest in the quest
other than the bond of sympathy
that makes the world akin, and is
inspired from the belief that the
boy can only be found through
the efforts of the country press,
of which he is proud to be a
member. Ili . recovery will be a
triumph in advertising, and no
editor whose heart is placed
right will refuse this appeal. lie
member it may be your child
next
The following is a description
of the boy:
DESCRIPTION.
Hi hard Byers, if alive, was
six years old last July, is of
light complexion, has gray eyes,
left eye noticeably crossed, has a
small V shaped nick in the edge
if the left ea1-, has a sharp chin
and a narrow projecting fore-
h 'ad. He is rather small f> r his
age and is unusually bright aid
i itelligent, taking after the man-
ner of a boy much older.
Dr. Byers lias searched among
the roving bands that frequent
the United States and believes
I i,hat his son can be found among
' traveling junk dealers, so called
horse traders or movers. Ho
does not think the boy was stolen
by genuine gypsies. He thinks
lie was taken by a wandering
band that used him for the pur-
pose of begging in the towns
tlong the route.
Holland's Maoazine.
One i.f thenew Magazines rapid-
ly coming into public favor in the
West and Southwest is Holland's
Magazine, published at Dallas,
Texas. It is a high-clasn publi-
cation, neatly printed and finely
illustrated, containing original
stories, poems and descriptive
articles, especially interesting
and instructive to this portion of
the country. If you want the
worth of your money and at the
same time to help a western in-
stitution send $1.00 for Holland's
Magazine for a year to Frank F.
Hollaifd, Publisher, Dallas Texas.
BIG FIRE IN THE BOLINO
BLOCK KINGFISHER,
caused by burning all the com-
mission contracts in the Farm
Loan Business. I represent the
I only company that makes Farm
Loans withoutany commission of
any kind. Call or write,
F. L. Boling,
Kingfisher, Oklit.
7)oyal
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Makes delicious hot biscuit,
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An absolutely pure, cream of tartar powdsf*
NOVAl BAKINO POWMR CO., Ntw YORK. — -
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