The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 18, Ed. 2 Thursday, September 26, 1907 Page: 3 of 5
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HENNESSEY CLIPPER.
C. H. Miller, Publisher.
HENNE83EY, . ■ OKLAHOMA.
Difficulties are the stepping-stones
to duns.
Decent diet cures more Ills than de-
voted doctors.
The silent man behind a cannon
speaks loudest.
The oldest and dullest brow may
wear the brightest Jewel.
Zoological note: Down on Cape Cod
they are making the sand fly
There is no alloy in the pleasure of
those who give joy to little children.
It Is 24 karats fine.
A Massachusetts doctor says he
bleeds his patients just as he did BO
years ago Maybe; but not the same
ones.
Somebody has discovered that there
are 44 roads which load to hell. It is
probable that they are all finely paved
at the start.
If Count Ron! should really reform
and go into politics it would be an up
lift that might wMl cause the Gould
family to take a second look at him.
Sir Thomas Lipton is evidently nib
bling at the America's cup bait, but
will he bite? Defeats do have a ten-
dency to grow monotonous.
"What the Human Race Owes to
the Moon" Is the title of a current
magazine article. We fear Luna is
going to have trouble collecting.
"Necessity cannot be placarded or
dismissed," says the Baltimore Amer-
ican. Go on—didn't you ever need a
new suit of clothes and have to for-
get ft? •
The "Esperanto waltz" has arrived.
It fs probably intended to enable the
waltzers to say something more than
Isn't the music lovely?" or "What a
sptentftd floor this is."
New York barbers are threatening
to refuse to cut the hair of men who
shave themselves. Girls who are aux-
ious to get married should make haste
to learn the hair-cutting business.
According to the Washington Post,
"an English scientist claims to have
discovered that Darwin was wrong
when he said men were descended
from monkeys." Now let that "scien-
tist" read Darwin, and ho can make
the further discovery that Darwin
didn't say it.
A Washington paper prints a story
of a man who went fishing, and in
swinging his line through the air pre-
paratory to casting caught an English
sparrow, and tops this with a tale of
another disciple of Isaak Walton,
whose catch was so large that It
filled him overboard.
"Billy" Edwards, the famous old-
time pngillst who in 1868 won the last
lightweight bare knuckles fight for the
championship, has just died, "leaving
a fortune and an unblemished reputa-
tion for honesty and decent behavior."
The question arises, how in the world
did Mr Edwards get into such a call-
ing?
It has been discovered by an Eng-
lish statistician that it requires $37,-
008 to raise a society girl. This
amount must be put down as having
been expended on "art for art's sake,"
as the most a society girl usually ac-
complishes is to win an impoverished
nobleman who simply adds to the ex-
pense.
An Egyptian sun temple and a city
that has been lost for 3,300 years have
bee located by Prof. James H.
Breasted, of the University of Chica-
go. It Is the temple of Sesebi, found-
ed by Amenhotep IV. The city is situ-
ated in the heart of the almost inac-
cessible district of Nubia, near the
foot ef the third cataract on the Nile.
hands have been playing the "Mar-
seillaise" In Strasburg this summer
for the first time since Germany took
possession of Alsace and Lorraine
after the Franco-Prussian war. A
German from Berlin, visiting Stras
burg, wrote the other day to a home
paper about the "seditious airs," but
no one else seems to bo seriously d!s
turbed over the matter.
The barrel top Is still a strong
vantage ground in the down east
country store. No greater victory
was ever gained upon that eminence
than that reported in u Maine paper
where the storekeeper had a pitch
barrel placed for a regular visitor.
The latter took the place, but was
able to disengage himself and resume
his seat upon un open barrel of small
nail3, whence he soon departed car-
rying a goodly quantity of useful hard-
*Lw.
Last month the foundation stone of
the "Peace Palace" was laid at The
Hague. Mi. Carnegie, who gives the
building, thinks it would be more ap-
propriately called "The Temple of
Peace." Ideas are enshrined in tem
pies, seldom ip palaces
It sounds well for an Inventor to
say that he has harnessed the sun, but
has he asked the sun's permission?
In these days, when we split hairs
over the consent of the governed, a
thing like that should not be over*
looked.
BYSltmrUR fttMDT VBSEY
(erjVP/GHT. JS06 bg D.APFILE7VN t£ COWBiAVy
"Sofia. Headquarters of the Society of
Freedom.
"To His Excellency, Sir Mortimer
Brett. Minister plenipotentiary and
Consul General to His Britannic Ma-
jesty at the Court Qf Sofia:
"Sir: We of the Society of Freedom
wait patiently and anxiously for your
Excellency's answer to our humble
petition. We trust your Excellency
does not ignore this petition because
the signatures of the petitioners are
not added thereto. Surely your Ex-
cellency understands that the dictates
of prudence make It inevitable that It
is sent to you anonymously.
"Your Excellency must be familiar
with our greivances. Our present
ruler cannot and will not be longer
tolerated by his subjects. We fear
the British Foreign Office, however,
does not realize the extent of Prince
Ferdinand's unpopularity. Even if
your ministers care nothing for that,
do they feel no concern that he is the
tool of Russia?
"He has asked Russia repeatedly
that he be recognized a King, and that
he receive that title. His vanity is
such that he would sacrifice the free-
dom of his people to be on equal terms
with the sovereigns of Servia and
Roumania.
"Once more, perhaps for the last
time, we petition your Excellency to
exert the extraordinary influence your
Excellency possesses, that the English
Minister be advised in time. The gov-
CHAPTER XXVI.
Incriminating Dispatches.
She had been arranging the papers
deftly in some sort of order.
"You read French, I think? The let-
ter of Ferdinand is in that language;
Sir Mortimer's notes and answers are,
of course, in English."
I drew toward me the first of the
papers she indicated.
"You are nothing if not modern in
your methods," I scoffed, glancing
down the page. "Your safes and
typewriters bring back to me the asso-
ciations of my hanking business. And
a banker, let me warn you, scans the
signature of a draft carefully before
he cashes it."
"The typewriter is an amusing little
Instrument," she yawned, "and I am
proud of my success In mastering It.
As for the safe, if you have been a
banker, you know that the combina-
tion is carefully guarded, M. Coward."
It gave her the cruelest delight to
taunt me with the shameful word. Dur-
ing the next half hour she insulted me
so at least half a dozen times. I bent
my attention on the paper before me.
I translate roughly Ferdinand's let-
ter:
"(Strictly confidential.)
"Hotel du Rhin,
"Place Vendome, Paris,
"May 23.
"My Dear Sir Mortimer: a
"I expect to start for Sofia via Vien-
na and Budapest in about a week; I
trust I shall see jou at the Palace
shortly after my arrival. Meanwhile
let me urge on you once more that
you exert without further delay your
great influence with your Foreign Of-
fice, that your ministers may be con-
vinced that the crisis has come—the
opportunity we have so long awaited.
Now or never I must lead my army to
the succor of the distressed people of
Macedonia. I think that the profound
knowledge you have always shown of
affairs in the Balkan Peninsula must
make you realize the truth of tills
statement. It is useless for me to re-
peat my arguments. For what you
have done I thank you. But it Is not
to the diplomatist I am now speaking,
but to the man. I have written this
letter with my own hand, for reasons
that you will understand.
"Believe me, my dear Sir Mortimer,
"Faithfully yours,
"Ferdinand."
"I see nothing incriminating in this
letter," I said, "nor anything out of
the usual run of letters.
"You will notice on the back of the
letter this brief statement: 'Answered,
June 3d, M. B.' As to the answer of
the letter It is equally innocent. It is
simply the guarded reply of a diplo-
matist dealing with a delicate topic.
In these typewritten copies this letter
and its answer are meaningless. The
originals are simply useful to prove
the authenticity of Sir Mortimer's
handwriting."
I scanned the answer. It was not an
exact copy, but the substance of Sir
Mortimer's letter jotted down to re-
fresh his memory:
"I replied in substance a= follows: It
was useless to bring up the matter
again; my personal wishes would not
be #;ifflcient to change the programme
of the Foreign Office; at present I did
not see my way clear to advocate as
a diplomatist England's espousal of
this cause; I would continue to lay the
matter before the Foreign Office; more
than that, when events Justified the
act, I would see that such influence as
I possessed was exerted In the man-
ner Prince Ferdinanl wished; but at
present I could offer no encourage-
ment."
(Note concerning the above, also in
Sir Mortiiner'B handwriting.)
"This reply will put an end, I think,
to further correspondence in that quar-
ter. Certainly, the hopes of the nation
seem so radically devirgent from those
of the ruler that I can favor one only
at the expense of the other. Natur-
ally, I prefer to favor the party that
promises the most for my own inter-
ests"
"I told you that the originals are
particularly useful to Identify the
handwriting and signature of Sir Mor-
timer. But observ", monsieur, the ex-
pression: 'Naturally, 1 prefer to favor
the party that promises the most for
my own Interests.' That sentence Is
to be remembered whun you read the
other letters. It has Its slgnlflcance."
Again she stretched out her hand.to
receive the papers 1 had lead. I did
not relinquish them, however I laid
them carelessly on my knee as If to
refer to them later.
"That remains to be proved," 1 said
grimly. "The expression seems simple
enough to me; on the face of It It
would mean slmpl) that Sir Morti-
mer's Interest! were Identical with
the Interests of England."
'We shall see," she returned wiih
confidence. "The pnpers of the second
envelope, wimh 1 huve culled Docu-
ments B. arc all In English. The
writer was evidently an educated Bul-
gar of the official class; many of this
class are trained at Roberts College,
speak and write Knallsll fluently."
"If Dr. Starva has proved to be a
traitor to the cause he will receive his
punishment. The memorandum of
Sir Mortimer's reply to the letter you
have just read Is pinned on the back of
the sheet. Read It." she commanded
harshly.
"It is a perplexing dilemma that has
confronted me. To keep my honor as
a minister Intact, and yet not to sac-
rifice my own personal hopes. I think
this is the first temptation'of my dip-
lomatic career. I have fulfilled my
diplomatic duties hitherto as a ma-
chine, that neither thinks nor feels.
Now I find that I am human; that I
am a man, with a man's weaknesses.
I say I am tempted. I believe that
lofty principles actuate Bulgaria. That,
I say to myself, is my excuse. But
lofty principles are not sufficient. I
disguised my true feeling in answer-
ing this letter by vague objections. I
confessed my self in sympathy with
Bulgaria's cause; but I protested that
more potent arguments must be used
to convince liie. The interests of
England are my own; but if it could
be done without too great a risk, I be-
lieve, God help me, I would further my
own ambitions at her expense. I say
I am tempted."
"I say I am tempted;" "If it could
be done without too great risk, I be-
lieve, God help me, I would further
my own ambitions at her expense"—
such expressions were hideously sig-
nificant. But I met calmly the male-
volent triumph of Madame de Varnier.
"When you read the next letter,"
she said, watching me closely, '-'you
will understand the meaning of the
expression, 'There are other means of
rewarding friendship besides empty
words of gratitude.' Even so stanch an
advocate of Sir Mortimer's honor as
yourself must realize that in the
words you have just read, he was en-
deavoring to discover just what that
vague promise meant."
I received the next letter in silence.
"To His Excellency, etc.:
"Our answer to your Excellency's
kind letter wishes to make this,fact
clear: The people of Bulgaria pledge
their word, through this committee,
I Tore Them to Atoms Before Her Eyes.
ernment of Prince Ferdinand must
fall. We do not desire bloodshed.
There shall be none, we swear it, if
England will support the insurgent
party. But in any case Bulgaria must
be free.
"We do not ask for the active aid
of England. We beg that England
shall not interfere with the ambitions
of the people.
"Your Excellency shall have no rea-
son to regret being our friend. And
there are other means of rewarding
friendship besides empty words of
gratitude, Let your Excellency once
assure us of you Intention to support
our cause, and we shall make this
more, clear.
Your Excellency knows the man-
ner in which your answer may be con-
veyed to this society.
"With profound expressions of re-
spect, we submit ourselves,
"The Committee of the Society of
Freedom."
I placed this letter on my knee with
the others I had read.
"This Society of Freedom, is It con-
i itemed with the trick of the death-
mask stamp?"
"I fear so," she answered In a low
i voice.
I "Then has the fact no significance
I lor you that Dr. Starva received a let-
i ter with one of those stampB on the
! envelope last night? These stamps
' are proscribed. They could be sent
J through the mall only because certain
of the postal authorities were In syni-
| pathy with the revolutionaries. Let-
' tors with these stamps, It Is safe to
infer, would be sent only to those who
I are equally In sympathy. Dr. Starva
must be favorable to this part) If he
t is not actually one of the committee.
1 I warned you Inst night that there wan
I treachery in the camp."
that if England gives to the Insurgent
party is support in overthrowing the
rule of Ferdinand, the relation of Eng-
land to Bulgaria shall be similar to
that which exists between Egypt and
England.
"The Society of Freedom is fully
aware that your Excellency's Incon-
venience and labor must be recom-
pensed. The sum of £20,000 Is al-
ready placed in the Ottoman bank,
payable to your Excellency on de-
mand."
(Note by Sir Mortimer pinned to the
above letter.)
"To this I replied that the sum men-
tioned was too ludicrously small to be
considered. Only the most substan-
tial guarantee could justify me in tak-
ing the risks involved."
(Third letter to Sir Mortimer from
the society.)
"To His Excellency, Etc.:
"The sum of £50,000 has been
placed in the Ottoman bank to your
Excellency's account. The society
trusts that tills sum will be sufficient
to Justify the risks. Will your Excel-
lency give his answer without delay?"
(Note by Sir Mortimer pinned to
the above letter.)
"I have taken the step. It Is too late
to ask myself now whether I have
been Indiscreet. If I have consulted
my own wishes. If I have furthered
my own plans, I feel that I am justified
morally. I am helping an oppressed
people gain their liberty. My own
recompense is meager enough. If the
Foreign Office should probe the mat-
ter. and discover the extent of my In-
discretion my diplomatic career will
be ended. But I am content to do a
little evil that good may come."
1 crujhed the paper in my hand,
sick at heart. I shuddered at the
| hypocritical comfort this guilty umn
had hugged to his breast. I had hoped
against hope. But if they were true
copies. I could no longer doubt that
Sir Mortimer had stooped to the tak-
ing of bribes.
"And these documents are word for
word copies of those In the safe?" I
demanded gloomily.
"I swear it by every oath I hold sa-
cred!" she replied without hesitation,
and kissed the jeweled cross that hung
about her neck.
She stretched out her hand for the
papers. I tore them to atoms before
her eyes.
For a moment she s^ggled to res-
cue them from my git ). When she
saw that it was too lafe, she laughed
boisterously—a laughter that showed
at once contempt, defiance and tri-
umph.
"Bravo!" She clapped her hands
derslvely. "You take your precau-
tions. You are desperate. Protest as
you will, you are convinced of Sir Mor-
timer's guilt."
"You are mistaken," I replied cool-
ly. "But even if these papers are true
copies of genuine documents, it is as
well that even the copies be destroyed.
If they are forgeries, and you have yet
to prove to me they are not, they are
dangerous toys, and so better de-
stroyed."
"Another copy is easily made, so
long as I have the combination of my
safe, M. Coward."
"You are never weary of insulting
me," I said indifferently. "But be sure
of this, you will find I am not coward
enough to yield weakly to your scheme
of blackmail."
"No; you are so brave that you
leave a helpless girl to bear the dis-
grace of her dead brother, when by a
word you might save her the suffer-
ing. Your pretended honor is so pre-
cious to you that you scorn to aid the
woman whom you love."
"Silence, woman!" I cried passion-
ately. "Do you think I am convinced
of Sir Mortimer's guilt because of
these flimsy type^ itten copies? You
must let me see the papers in the
safe."
"If you are desperate enough to de-
stroy a copy, I should scarcely trust
you with the original. For the last
time, must the woman you love know
of her brother's disgrace? I am in
your power; perhaps you hope that I
shall be coaxed into opening the saie.
Or are you about to compel me?"
"I should have resorted to that
measure long ago had I thought it
would prove effectual. It seems that
there is again a deadlock between us.
I refuse absolutely, not only to help
you, but to believe that Sir Mortimer
is guilty."
"If I show the papers in the safe to
Helena Brett, even she must believe
the evidence of her eyes. Shall I call
her and ask her if she recognizes her
brother's handwriting? If you believe
so strongly as you profess that Sir
Mortimer was innocent of wrong-do-
ing, you will not refuse that."
"I would spare her even the thought
of its possibility," I said sternly.
"That is impossible. She shall sea
those papers—if not to-day, to morrow,
the next day; it makes little difference
to me."
" 'Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof,'" I quoted flippantly; but I
began to think it inevitable that
Helena Brett be summoned.
"Again we must compromise it ap-
pears. I will call Sir Mortimer's sister
here. She shall see the papers—de-
cide for herself and for you whether
they are genuine. You see, I am
strong enough to prevent a woman
from destroying the originals as you
have destroyed the copies."
"And when she has seen those pa-
pers?" I asked thoughtfully. "Say
even that she herself believes them
genuine? What then?"
"It will be for her to decide. Per-
haps she will refuse to ask you to do
what I wish. Perhaps she will offer
to you happiness if you consent. She
shall be the one to decide. You pro-
fess to believe that Sir Mortimer is
innocent. More than that, you think
her soul so white that she will refuse,
even if she believes her brother guilty,
to rescue his memory from dishonor
with dishonor."
She had put into words my own
thought.
"We will let her decide," I said
quietly.
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Two Women.
"And am I again to shout my com-
mands to my servant through the
closed door?" asked Madame de Var-
nier ironically.
I unlocked the door of the staircase
in silence, taking the precaution, how-
ever, of not admitting Alphonse.
j "Has Miss Brett come to the cha-
teau as I wished?" Madame de Var-
nier spoke naturally through the half-
| opened door, not betraying my pres-
| ence behind it.
j "She is waiting !n the music room,
madam."
| "Bring her here."
I "I shall do as madam wishes. But
this American, this man we called his
Excellency—he surprised me just now
—has he intruded on madam or—"
"He came here to keep an appoint-
ment with me," Madame de Varnier
replied composedly, cutting short his
agitated whisper.
"Ah, that is well."
Alphonse sighed his relief, and de-
parted on his errand.
"What inducement can you have of-
fered that she should come boldly to
this Castle of Despair?"
"Is not the inducement great that
she i.« to Bee a loved brother?"
(TO HE CONTINUED.)
Proof of Queen's Vanity.
Queen Elizabeth is said to havo pos-
sessed no fewer than 80 outfits of
false hair.
IN THE 8UM1RLATIVE DEGREE.
Little Son's Explanation Seemed to
Cover the Case.
Little son, aged seven, whoso train-
ing has been of the most painstaking
and conscientious, rather took away
his mother's breath in describing the
dog's game of ball. He ended with:
"And, mother, Topsy caught the ball
in her mouth, and then just ran like
h—!"
"Like what?" cried the startled
mother.
"W'y, like h—, don't you know,
mother?" innocently.
"No, I don't believe I do Just how
is that, dear?" she asked faintly.
"Well, I don't know jus' what It
means, myself," he confessed, "but it's
a whole lot faster than 'lickety-split!' "
CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH.
Suffered Three Years—Hands and Ey«
Most Affected—Now Well and Is
Grateful to Cuticura.
"My wife was taken badly with ecze-
ma for three years, and she employed
a doctor with no effect at all until she
employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
One of her hands and her left eye
were badly affected, and when she
would stop using Cuticura Soap and
Ointment the eczema came back, but
very slightly, but it did her a sight of
good. Then we used the entire set of
Cuticura Remedies and my wife is en-
tirely recovered. She thanks Cuticura
very much and will recommend it
highly in our locality and in every
nook and corner of our parish. I. M.
Robert, Hydropolis, La., Jan. 5 and
Sept. 1, 190G."
A Horse's Good Fortune.
A spiritualist came to our house
some time ago and claimed to be able
to locate our lost friends if we de-
sired. We had an old horse which
we had sold years ago and my mother
wanted to know where ho was. Moth-
er began:
"We had a very good friend who al-
ways did all our work. He passed
from us several years ago and the
last we heard of him was that he
was in Los Angeles. I would like
to know if he is still living."
The spiritualist made certain mo-
tions and knocked on the table and
then said:
"Your friend is in Los Angeles and
is married to a rich young woman."—
,Judge.
Of Little Faith.
At the Pine Grove camp ground in
Canaan, Conn., a little girl was re-
moved by her mother for disobedience
and being naughty to her playmates.
The child was told that when she said
her prayers at night she should seek
forgiveness and ask the Lord to help
her be a better girl. Here is the
prayer which the youngster made un-
der protest:
"Oh, Lord, I want you to help me to
mind my mamma, to help me to be a
better girl, to help me to be good to
my playmates, to—but, pshaw. Lord,
what's the use? I 'spect you don't
believe half I'm saying."
A Pardonable Fault.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, discuss-
ing a rather finicky attack that had
been made on certain recent state-
ments, smiled and said:
"But who or what is blamelesss? It
is like the case of the Scottish ben.
An old Scottish woman wished to sell
a hen to a neighbor.
" 'But tell me,' the neighbor said,
'Is she a'theglther a guid bird? Has
she got nae fauts, nae fauts at all?'
" 'Awell, Margot,' the other old
woman admitted, 'she has got one
fault. She will lay on the Lord's day.' "
After a Raise.
"What makes him look so solemn?
He gets his month's salary to mor-
row."
"That's Just the trouble. His wife
and his mother-in-law allow him 50
cents a week out of it, and he's try-
ing to make up his mind to strike for
a dollar."
FAMILY FOOD.
Crisp, Toothsome and Requires No
Cooking.
A little boy down in N. C. asked his
mother to write an account of how
Grape-Nuts food had helped their fam-
ily.
She says Grape-Nuts was first
brought to her attention on a visit to
Charlotte, where she visited the Mayor
of that city who was using the food by
the advice of his physician She
says;
"They derive so much good from it
that t.1 ey never pass a day without
usinj it. While I was there I used the
Food regularly. I gained about 1T.
pounds and felt so well that when.I re-
turned home I began using Grape-Nuts
in our family regularly.
"My little 18 months old baby shcrt-
ly after being weaned was very ill
with dyspepsia and teething. She was
sick nine weeks and we tried every-
thing. She became so emaciated that
it was painful to handle her and wo
thought we were going to lose her.
One day a happy thought urged me to
try Grape-Nuts soaked in a little warm
milk.
"Well, it worked like a charm and
she began taking It regularly and im-
provement set In at once. She is now
getting well and round and fat as fast
as possible on Grape-Nuts.
"Sometime ago several of the family
were stricken with LaGrippe at the*
same time, and during the worst stages
we could not relish anything In the
slxipe of food but Grape-Nuts and
oranges, everything else nauseated us.
"We nil appreciate what your fa-
mous food h.is dn't for our famll) "
"There's a Reason, llrad "The Jtost
I tc, We.lville," It ft as.
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