The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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Hennessey Clipper.
C. H. Miller, Pub.
HENNESSEY, : ! : OKL/
A man may overtake a lot of pro-
pie on the road to ruin, but he never
meets any one.
THE IROHWAT
The thoroughly
will do everything
make you happy.
domestic
for you
woman
except
The New York World insists that
"even royal princesses are human."
Yep, intensely so.
The average annual cost for each
pupil for public school education in
Germany is $12.86.
When aeroplanes get to working
easily it may be found neeessary to
roof the penitentiary yards.
John Thaddeus Delane was editor
of the London Times from 1840 to
1877, the period of the paper s greatest
importance and influence
Kim BdfUd recently rode to mi
English street car, and we'll bet that
was one time in his life that the end
seat hog had to move over.
In Nerveless New York they bounced
a shop girl because she was pn ttv.
In Merry Milwaukee, boasts the Sen-
tinel, all the shop girls are good look-
ing.
The men who are trying to teach
women to properly alight from street
cars should be taken off the job and
put to work in a perpetual motion
machine factory.
A TALE OT THE BUILDERS
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SYNOPSIS,
The story
trip of th<
Mull"
111 the public schools of Strassburg,
Oernit-ny, men teachers get $342.72 to
$937.72 per annum, according to the
years of service, and women teacherf
get from $333.20 to $6(16.40.
In consequence of a Lahore literary
society announcing a lecture, "Man
the Index of Creation," the city author-
ities sent 23 armed constables down
to the lecture hall, which only held 30
people.
The police chiefs ill convention are
asking that the "officer of the law lie
no longer made the subject of jokes
and funny pictures. That is a reason
able request. It is now up to the po-
lice to stop being funny.
Olga Nethersole says if she had it
to do over again she'd be a wife and
mother rather than an actress. Lots
of sense in this. World could perhaps
get along without actresses, but not
without wives and mothers.
The New Zealand parliament is to
adjourn on the occasion of the visit
■jf the American lleet and will appro
priate $40,000 to pay the expenses of
pntertainlng tlio visitors. This is
friendship that bears the real brand.
An incandescent lamp in Its green
shade will, when turned upward to-
ward the ceiling, spread a soft and
pleasantly diffused light, plenty strong
enough for a room where no one is
reading. When the lamp is so used no
shadows are cast.
It is essential to note that penny
postage between Great Britain and
this country means two penny pos-
tage between this country and Great
Britain. In other words the Ameri-
canized penny, so called, is a gooi'
\leal of a misnomer.
After October 1 it will only cost two
rents for an American to write a let-
ter to England and vice versa. But
there are a good many on each side
who have no transatlantic correspond-
ents, and they will be inclined to re-
gard the reduction dubiously.
A cat in a New York suburb went
mad the other day and attacked a
young woman who fed it a piece of
pie. This is where animals have the
ndvantage of human beings. A man
in similar circumstances would be
obliged to suppress his feelings.
Noting the reoent events In the re-
spective scandals of France and Ger-
many, Harden, who is to get a new
trial, should take precautions against
the day when the military and court
party, finding all other measures in-
effective, will begin shooting at him.
A Boston medical scientist has dis-
covered in Boston a girl with six dls
tlnct personalities. This may be rare
for Boston, says the Baltimore Amer-
ican, but other places are entirely fa-
miliar with the phenomenon of a wom-
an who Is never the same thing twice.
In fact, continual changing Is regard-
ed in these places as a long-conceded
privilege of the sex
It will be news to most persons that
drunkenness can be superinduced by
absorbing too much water—that is,
leaving "fire water" out of considera-
tion. But a learned professor, in a lec-
ture In Chicago, declared that "many
men and women drink too much wa-
ter and are victims of that form of in-
toxication." However, the statement
is not likely to convince anybody that
the prohibition movement is really a
liquor crusade in disguise.
luring
IhrimKll !">■
niountaiiiM. •I iiflf Hilly ' I >. !«.•. i:w;
ilri\ <-i, Alfred Vlnr.nl, a young mull, ami
J'hini-uN i'Adwulladcr, introduced. I n<\\
ion,, n. niHH lli.- i. iiialiin of a niBssacri-.
Lille rat Anthony's Million they Had the
rnlxkinii have eurri.-d their destructive
work t hen- also. Sit Mil A lit I tliiu if ti-
ter Of Anthony, keeper of Mailon. Is In-
troduced. Anthony linn he,n Killed.
Ylneenl Is assigned his work In unearth-
ing plans of enenih-s of railroad, helnK
laillt. Vincent visits town where railroad
nun are working on the road and receives
token of esteem from Stella. T he old
BIHKU driver decides to work close to
town In order that he may be able ti.
keep fathi rly watch over the young
woman. She is engaged as a tutor for
Viola Hernard, daughter of hotel land-
lady. Vincent visits society circles of en-
emies of the I'ealral I'aelnc railroad and
learns their se< lets, lie returns to Stella,
cuch showing signs of love for the other,
rhineas t'ndwallader. pushing a railroad
opposing Central Partite, reaches mining
town She writes to Alfred Vincent his
boast. Plying his attentions Cadwallailer
Insults her anil she is rescued by GUloiui,
her father's servant, in tarn lie proposes
marriage, Is rejected, leaves her declaring
he will return the sort or a man she will
love. Vincent "shows up" San Krandsco
sad Washoe rnail and Is praised hy gov-
ernor and beads of Central Partite. Be-
ing known as agent of l'. P. he decides
to retire to position of a brak man for a
short time. Stella heirs from her lover,
Gideon and M' his phenmuevil success.
Kinds letter of Importance Involving plans
of opposition road. "I'ncle Hilly" returns
in terrible suffering from long mountain
trip. Plot to destroy company's ship
Klora is unearthed and incriminating evi-
dence against Cudwallader on charge of
wire tapping is also found, the letters
found hy Stella being deciphered I >
Hrnkemnn Alfred Vincent, who urrii's
on scene. Impending disaster to IVnlr .l
Pacific Is averted hy protecting the
Klora and sending the slllp laden with
iron for railroad camp. Phlneas Cad-
walladcr fai es prison on charge of wire
tapping and has Interview with Gov
Stanford, sponsor for Central Paeit'n
Phineas signs statement, promising that
1,,' will enter tile governor's cause anil
the latter tells him of a perfect chain
of evidence connecting lihn with plot ti
blow up "flora." Support of San Fran-
cisco and Washoe railroad is under-
mined hv sale of a link to Central Pacille
Stella and Alfred .how love for elicit
other despite hostility of Gideon. Bab
and dramatic perforinanc
social oci asion in railroad
CHAPTER XV.—Continued.
She leaned forward a little,
draperies flowing softly about
leet behind the graceful stage edging
of fir lips, her dear, wistfuf eyes peering
into the gloom. He knew she thought
him out there somewhere in the dark;
hungry, weary, waiting for her. He
was not hungry, he was not weary;
hut he needed her—she little knew
how he needed her. And no matter
how far asunder lay their future, to-
night he would have her, love her, ac-
cept the service of those dear hands.
Impulsively she called again: "Oh,
Romeo, Komoo, won't you come?"
The tender voice with the heart-
ache in it thrilled hint, chilled his si- j
lence; startled him with apprehension
also, lest the association of the name
lead her to say those other too true
words:
"'Tis but thy name that is my
enemy."
It should be her enemy no longer!
"Here I am Stella—sweetheart." He
whispered the last word as he caught |
her down-reached hand and sprang up
beside her.
As in a baby's face fresh-waked
from sleep, the warm color swept up,
rose-tipped cheek and ill), veined the
white lids and paled off to the softly
waving hair. Her eyes opened wide,
frank and joy-flooded as a child's. She
turned to him. Doubts and questions
fled. He was there! He called her
Sweetheart!"
In the sheltered, spicy nook behind
the screen, prudence, business, duty,
all slept forgotten, while a nameless
youth pledged life-long love and de-
votion to a dowerless, homeless, un-
worldly woman.
It was Stella, remembering his long
fast, who cut short the precious mo-
ments and lured Alfred from his love's
empyrean summits to his daily bread.
She rearranged the dishes and went to
the kitchen to make fresh tea, he fol
lowing that no dear breath of her
should be lost to him. Back to the
table again they went, stepping lightly
words beat back his fears. He took her
hands in his own, steadily giving her
look for look, his eyes reverently read-
ing the soul she laid bare. "On my
honor, Stella, yes; though I should
pity her for lite long, dreary waiting
ahead of her."
Stella sprang up, joy in her voice.
"No waiting will bo dreary when it is
for you! Wherever you go I can
think of you, see you. The world will
be bright since you are in it and my
own. I'll count off the days gayly and
—and make a little prayer for you
each night."
"Mr. Crocker's special leaves at
seven," said Alfred. "I go on that.
And there are reports to make, pack-
ing to do. I'm not to work for the
company—that is, openly. I'm to go
on difficult errands, here and there.
And I don't know when I'll see you
again—Oh, my darling! I will not
leave you!" His arms were out-
stretched to her, his voice throbbing
with rebellion against parting.
Just look a' here!" Sally B. said
excitedly, as she entered the office
and held the paper out to Stella. 1
go to go to Bill htimpin' quick—ter
morrer, if I can git away. By goll!
it'll beat the ole Harry for me to git
ready!"
Stella took the unsavory paper and
looked vainly for Sally B.'s message.
The only noticeable thing was a string
of crosses on the margin.
"Oh, I forgot. O' course, you can't
read Bill's letter; nobody but me can.
See them two crosses first there?
Close together? Them means he s
well. See them four with lines over
'n' under? That says he's struck it
rich. Blamed rich. Lines under'd
mean pretty good; but lines on top,
too, means whoppin'! Them three
crosses standln' apart, them's grub.
There's a dot over each; that's all
kinds. There's a line under 'em; that
I means lots of it. Oh, Bill s hit a big
lead this time, no doubt o' that; an'
he's layin' out to work it on the jump,
an' with all the men he kin git." She
looked at Stella exultantly, but turned
quickly back to the hieroglyphics.
"Here's one big cross standln' alone;
that's me; an' the line under it means
'come.'"
"What does the picture of a pen
mean?" Stella asked, curiously.
Sally B. looked a little conscious.
"Oh, you know, I kin read, an' make a
fair stagger at writin'; so when Bill
has any very important business that
goes by way of ink I have to help him
out."
"But how can you leave in this busy
season?" Stella asked.
"It's right smart pestersome, but I
got ter. I got you, an' Vi, an' Yic.
Grandma'am'll have ter—what's that
word A1 Vincent used the other day?
When strangers wants bed?, yon
two gals come together io show 'em I
up, an' have Wing bring up the car-
pet bags."
"Why, ma? You always bring 'eni
up yourself."
"That's all right; but you mind. I
ain't goin' to have you an' your teach-
er totin' baggage just 'cause I hain't
got no style."
Only the stage took the road ahead
of Sally B. the next day. Do you
think I'm goin' ter git mixed with Gid
MRS. FRANK STROEBE
rWJbaBi
She Was a Picture as She Climbed
to the High Seat.
A Remarkable Recovery.
Mrs. Frank Stroobc, It. F. D. 1, Apple-
ton, Wis., writes: "I began using Peru*
na a few months ago, when my health
i and strength were all gone, and I was
nothing but a nervous wreck, could
; not sleep, eat or rest properly, and felt
Xio desire to live. Peruna made mo look
lit life in a different light, as I begun to
! regain my lost strength.
"I eertainly think Peruna is without
a rival as a tonic and strength builder."
SICK HEADACHE
Positively rurpd by
these Little Pills.
They also relieve Dl
tress from D.vhj>p| hI ,In-
digestion and Too Hearty
Entlnp. A perfect rem-
edy for Dizitincfc*, Nau-
sea, DrowsinesH, II sd
Tustein the Mouth, Coat-
ed Tongue, Pain In tb«
Side, TORPID LIVER,
regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetabl®.
CARTERS
Little
PILLS.
Sbo did not go to him, hut smiled;
and Alfred knew she would side with j shapper—shapperon you all.
duty. "Ought you to go?" she asked I Stella smiled half-heartedly.
ni
I
Heart.
ITTLE
(VEF5
MILLS.
Genuine Must Bear
Fac-Simile Signature
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
BAMBOOZLES HIM.
Trust,
Are Yours."
gently. "And if you ought, will not
going bring sooner the day when you
may stay?"
"Already you are the better half
of me," he answered tenderly, and
followed the words with farewell.
CHAPTER XVI.
Sally B. Leads the Wagon Train.
Busy nights made Sally B.'« risings
no later. She served as good a break-
fast to Mr. Crocker the next morning
as if the hotel routine had been un-
broken.
The little town was full of confusion,
that they might wake no ear above; | ami the center of it was the hotel. The
whispering, with gay little ;aughs sup
pressed with difficulty, lest eaves-
dropping walls might hear and tell.
Radiantly garbed, glowing, together
they ate, the food ambrosia, the se-
questered scene a rite, a pledge, pre-
figuring a home to be.
"I've known all the time I oughtn't
to love you, still less ought I to win
your love: yet—yet—oh. Stella, I
couldn't help it!" said Alfred.
She regarded him earnestly, pitying-
ly, a moment, her heart in her tender
eyes; but he did not look up till she
spoke. "Tell me, is it—is It any fault
of your own that—" She did not fin-
ish, but he understood.
"No." He paused uncertainly. "No,
and yes. 1 cannot tell yor. freely—It is
not all my secret. 1 am suffering for
Canada is not confining Its energies
to constructing canals, though doing a
big line of business in that direction.
Hailroad development Is going on rap-
idly. In addition to the transconti-
nental roads in operation or in contem-
plation construction is pushed north-
ward. One of the important projects
is the road up to Hudson bay, and
which will opeu a great territory. The
scheme will involve a large outlay, but
that will not scare the Canadians if
they can convince themselves that
the enterprise will pay ultimately, a
}t undoubtedly will.
another's wrongdoing, vet I caused
him to commit that wrong, unwittingly j ,l|,at serenely over, with ...fred s e>
—God knows, unwittingly!" The lat.t ever on her own. his kiss still thrilling
words were vehement; and he looked, her lips. Nor would she think of htm
not at Stella, but away, as If he ad- i as flying from her. Plenty of time to
dressed Rnother auditor.
She slipped to her knees beside hint,
her clasped hands against his breast,, , . ..
would It be months before she should
see him?
i Before noon a man came in from
the east with two wagons and a slx-
you think we can manage?" She did
not shrink from responsibility, but
from the horde of men. Travelers,
strangers, men of the town, all would
make pretexts for lingering in the
office or wherever they could find
either girl; not from rudeness, but be-
cause of the woman-hunger, the long-
ing for all that a good woman stands
for to men of the frontier. And Sally
B. would not be there for refuge and
court of appeal.
"Of course you can manage. You
got to. Sabe? Don't get skeered 'fore
you begin. I've got Jinny Dart staked
out by telegraph. She's the best
dinin' room gal in Placer county. She'n
Yic '11 run the eatin' end O. K. All
you got ter do. Stella, is to boss the
whole consarn." Sally B. whisked off
to make her preparations, which began
with a telegraphed order for goods
that kept several clerks in Sacramento
busy all that afternoon.
Toward supper time the three wom-
en were in the "corral," where Sally
B. had "put through" a tremendous
cleaning. The room was long and
bare, with rows of neat beds, an oc-
casional chair, several rough tables
and a forest of nails uphanging various
pieces of men's apparel.
"Now you'n Viola ain't to touch
them beds, but just ha'nt that Chiny
limb o' Satan, Wing, an' see't he does
'em right. I'm goin' to make Shack
Newbegln boss of the corral, an' he'll
look out for any cuss that gits on a
bender. He'll make him take leg ball
too quick!"
Shackelford Newbegln had takers
vision him far awav, his mind occupied | Gideon's place at the bar and had
with alien concerns. Plenty of time proved exceptionally trustworthy,
to count off the days, the weeks—| "Doggone'em! Some of 'em sleeps
lining room was overflowing. Added
to the crowd of the night was a gang
of men just arrived and clamoring for
breakfast before they were hustled on
the Front. There was none of the ex-
pectant quiet of the supper hour in
the green-embowered room. And Sally
II. was everywhere, gencraling the sit-
uation masterfully.
There was meager time for dream-
ing, yet the heart of Stella dreamed
on. though her head bent faithfully
to its tasks at the office desk. The
night in fairyland had passed, still its
visions held. Across the guich tender
hands she knew were preparing the
dead for burial; but often as her
thoughts strayed there to death, still-
ness, mystery, she whipped herself
back again to the bustle and hurry
around her. This she could endure,
some one questioned her intention to
■ ;irSHALLPILL, SMALL DOSE, SHALLPWCE.
rce! 1 got good wagons an a good
team; an' I'm goin' through on time, I
am!"
The tarpaulin-covered wagons were
drawn up in front of the hotel. Sally
B. inspected everything with the eye
of an old teamstor—harness, coup-
lings, the adjustment of the load.
"Why, ma, you looked it all over bo-
fore," Viola said, tagging her mother
like a shadow.
"I know that; hut accidents hap-
pens in busy times. Then them pesky
hostlers might think it was funny ter
fergit something 'cause I'm a woman.
Men think thelrselves so smart! That
Shack 'lowed 1 didn't need any back-
action with my load."
"Well, do you, ma?" Viola only
asked to hear her mother vindicate
herself before the admiring bystand-
ers.
"Well, don't I? S'pose I'm goin' to
use up yo' paw's fine stock a-puttin'
all my load on one wagon? What did
he send two wagons fur if I wasn't ter
use 'em? I'll work that back-action
on all the heavy spots, an' git the load
an' yo' paw's team inter Virginia
ahead of Old's teams, an' in good
order. See if I don't!"
"You bet you will, ma!" Viola ex-
claimed with ardor and unusual slang.
The moment for starting came, and
Sally B. turned to her lately arrived
helper. "Jinny Dart, you do yo' pret-
tiest fur the shebang an' I'll make ye
glad," she said, and wheeled quickly to
hug her dear "women folks." Viola
she held in lier arms for a silent mo-
ment.
"Take keer of her, Stella," she said
softly, placing Viola's hand in her
teacher's. "She's the hull world to
me."
"1 will, Mrs. Sally." Stella saw a
tear on the dark cheek as Sally B.
wrung her hand.
She was a picture as she climbed
to the high seat and took up the lines,
aptly as Uncle Billy himself. "Driver?
What do I need of a driver? I've driv
six— Golly! I wish I had a doller fur
every mile I've driv six, the swing
team a-buckin' sometimes like a fresh
converted sinner agin Ole Nick."
She wore a short, dark woolen skirt,
?. calico waist, a white kerchief around
her neck and a man's felt hat. "It'll
last better'n a woman's," she told the
girls. Huge-wristed gauntlets made
her hands look ridiculously small, as
did the high-booted foot that swung
out on the brake.
The sun had chased the mercury far
above the hundred mark in shady
nooks. On the porch the heat was in-
tolerable. Yet the hotel people and
town folk were gathered there to see
Sally B. off, and Yie Wah had donned
four satin coats in her honor.
Sally B. loosed the brake a trifle,
called to her leaders, waved a last
good-bye and was off down the hill.
The load shook a little and settled to
its long haul, skyward as well as east-
ward. The horses, rested and fresh,
snorted and tossed their heads, raitled
their metal-buckled harness; and one
of the swing team danced sidewise
down the road a:td out of sight. Sally
B. looked back frequently to see if her
freight was riding safely; and at the
last turn in sight, took off her hat and
swung it to the girls and grandma'am,
yet watching from the hot porch.
The crowd soon melted away and
left the three alone. Stella put her
arms around Viola, and they stood so
an instant, both forlorn, oppressed. ,
Yet with one accord they remembered I .'
grandma'un, and turned to help her
back to her cool room. And in that
service the homesick moment was
conquered.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Mrs. Caller—You surely don't al-
ways give your husband a necktie on
his birthday?
Mrs. Athome—Yes. I do, and the
poor dear doesn't even know it's th«
same one each time!
An Undeterminable Temperature.
It was uot in his public address that
Senator Beveridge related this story,
but at an informal gathering of con-
genial spirits. "When I was a boy in
Adams county," he said, "Judge Blank
was taken very ill. The doctor called
regularly; but the judge kept getting
worse. Finally the crisis came. Th«
morning after the doctor called at the
Judge's house. '1 hope your master',
temperature is lower than it was 'asl
evening,' said lie to the butler.
" Th not so sure about that,' replied
the man; 'he died, sir, in the night."'
—San Francisco Call.
It's surprising how brave the av-
erage man is when there isn-t any
real danger in sight.
WIFE WON
MuSDand Finally Convinced.
Some men are wise enough to try
usw foods and bevetugto and then gen-
erous enough to give others the bene-
fit of their experience.
A very "conservative" Ills, man,
however, let his good wife find out for
herself what a blessing Postum is to
those who are distressed in many
ways, by drinking coffee. The wife
writes:
"No slave in chains, it seemed to
me, was more helpless than I, a coffee
captive. Yet there were innumerable
warnings—waking from a troubled
sleep with a feeling of suffocation, at
times dizzy and out of breath, at-
tacks of palpitation of the heart that
frightened me.
"Common sense, reason, and my
better judgment told me that coffee
drinking was the trouble. At last my
nervous system was so disarranged
that my physician ordered 'no more
coffee.'
"He knew he was right and he knew
I knew it, too. 1 capitulated. Prior
to this our family had tried Postum,
but disliked it, because, us we learned
later, it was not made right.
"Determined this time to give Post-
um a fair trial. I prepared It accord-
ing to directions on the pkg.—that is,
boiled it 15 minutes after boiling com-
menced, obtaining a dark brown liquid
with a rich snappy flavoi- similar to
coffee. When cream and sugar were
added, it was not only good but de-
vour
your
her gaze probing his soul
"Dear heart, suppose 1 were
<lster and her lover were in
place would you not have her say, as
1 am saying. 'All my heart, my trust,
my Hie, are yours, now and always?'"
Alfred lifted his head. Her fervent
horse team, bringing a message for
Sally 11. It was an old newspaper,
crumpled and dirty.
in their boots, drunk or sober," Sally
B. continued, her mind still on the
beds. She scowled reflectively, her
neat soul outraged by memories of
back aching seasons of blanket-wash-
ing, of ceaseless Btrlfe to keep the cor-
ral from ' smellin' wti -s'u a pig pen!
Splendors of the Pasi.
Where is the real, magnificent "lux-
ury of the past? Where are the gar-
dens of Seniiramis or the banquets of
Lucullus? Tea parties have replaced
the splendid feasts, motor cars the
costly coaches, cottages the palaces
and tailor-made gowns the costumes of
brocade and gold. Nothing to-day re-
calls the magnificence of the Italian
renaissance or of Franco under the
three Louis.
V
Noting its beneficial effects in me
the rest of the family adopted it—all
except my husband, who would not ad-
mit that coffee hurt mm. Several
weeks elapsed during which I dranlc
Postum two or three times a day,
when, to my surprise, lay husband
said; 'I have decided to urink Postum.
Your improvement is so apparent you
have such fine color—mat I propose
to give credit where credit is due.' And
now we are coffee-slaves no longer.
Name given by Postuui Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Head "The Koad to Well-
ville," in pkgs. "There's .. Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
aie genuine, true, and lull of humajr
interest.
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Miller, C. H. The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1908, newspaper, July 23, 1908; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc105614/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.