The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 27, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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SATURDAY
MAY. 6
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Have you paid your dog tax yet?
A crooked nail, like a crooited
man, cannot be driven straight.
The man who is always seeking
personal gain will never be rich in
friends or respect.
If Hennessey intends to make the
Eagle scream July 4th, it is none too
e irlv to make preparations for such
«n event.
George Chartier was uver from
Slieriday Monday. He savs the
crop condition is excellent, in hi
neighborhood.
Hennessey residents kh..uld 11.1
forgot the contents of the sanitary
notice issued by the board of
trustees April Hth
Be good to the robbins. A single
bird of this family has been found
to devour 175 caterpi'lar^ in a day,
while tlie cvp .ir-tiit i v. is
found to have a collectioi • 0
potato bugs
When the . i- n .. ili wa- iu is
cut in two, he won't .:.ake a luss
about it; but to the tail end will
grow a head and to the head end a
tail. There will be two worms in-
stead of one. Misfortune often
doubles our strength. .
All honor to the man who earns
his living by honest toil. He is
above all others, who is always
pulling for better things. He is al-
ways on the front seat of the com-
munity band wagon. He is the first
resident to greet the stranger and
tell him that he is visiting the best
town in the state.
Make up your mind that what-
ever you may have done in the
past you will in the future wear
your clouds "inside out, and show
the lining.'' We all have clouds,
but that is no reason why we should
draw the attention of the world to
them. It is the brave, cheerful
soldier who inspires the others.
and it was lost in the mail, or he will
take the paper and not pay for it on
the ground that he did not sub-
scribe for it, or move away leaving
it come to the office he left. Thous-
ands of professed christians are dis-
honest in this particular at least,
and the printer's book will tell fear-
ful tales in the final judgment.
When a town ceates to grow it
commences to die, and the more the
people try to kill off each other in
thr-ir business and good name, the
more rapidly will utter ruin come to
all. Stand together for the advance-
ment of every citizen. If a man
shows ability to prvsper do not pull
him back with jealousy or weigh
him down with cold indifference
The ability of always seeing the
bright side or shining up the dark
one is a blessing to the person who
possesses the power as well as to
those with whom he has to do. It
changes our daily struggle ;n the
performasce of duty into playing
the joyful game of life Instead of
the home being a place of growling
and grumbling, it becomes a place
of laughter and song. Wrinkles
will not come so soon upon your
fair countenance. To live daily
with sunbeams flowing from the
heart is a trick that may be learned
by everyone by a little patience, de-
termination and daily practice.
Result of Tuesday's Special Elec-
tion in Hennessey
There was not a very large
vote puled in Hennessey in the
special election last Tuesday on
the proposed amendment to tlie
constitution affecting the trans-
pi >rtation,laws us they now stand.
In the south precinct the propo.
sition received 17 for and 98
against, and in the north precinct
it received 18 for and 36 against
Prom all newspaper reports the
proposition has no doubt carried
in the state, the cities giving it
heavy majorities while the rural
district* voted against it.
Press Democrat Sold
The Press Democrat was sold
uh tii t of the ween to U. M
Hart, of Kingfisher, who will
i ke possession of the plant the
first of the month. Mr Hart is
tliourough newspaper man
and m r* n'inter, having
tn- i■ • - - vocations for many
li neman on the
lepI- k h hi a yea
. I* < eais at<o and is
ki .ti io a large number of Hen
iessey citizens lie was atone
nine editor and owner of the
Cashion Advance arid later the
Kingfisher Timos. We are glad
to welcome Mr. Hart to the city
.nd feel assured the Press Dem
ci ai will be conducted along the
lines most beneficial to the city
ii.d count*
Milo Maudlin, the retiring
editor, will leave for Iola, Kans.,
in a few days where he will take
charge of the tnecanieal depart
ment of the Iola Register.
Let us cultivate a public spirit and
talk less and work more. Encourage
our local authorities in making im-
provements. Speak up, speak well,'
telk encouragingly of our town and !
its bright prospects. It is these
many little considerations that
makes a town grow. Nature has
showered upon us her choicest
blessi:igs, and with perfect unity
and effort for the good of our com-
mon cause, great will lie the result
A contemporary says that news-
paper subscriptions are infaliable
tests of a m in s honesty. They will
sooner or later discover the man.
If he is dishonest lie will cheat the
printer some way; say he has a re-
ceipt some where, or sent the money
State Spelling Contest Rules
The following rules will be
adopted at the state spelling
contest to be held at Chickasha,
May 16th, 1911.
COUNTY RULES
1 The county superintend-
ent may arrange the details o!
the local contest It issut'g?st-
ed that the rules of the general
contest be followed as clearly as
possible. Every district should
send its successful contestants
the township contest and the
successful spellers of tlie town-
ship contest should be sent to
iho county seat
2 I'he contest may be by
grades in the county if it is so
desired and a prize given to the
winner of each grade, but in the
state contest only one speller
from each county shall be al-
lowed.
GENERAL, RULES
1. Two-bund red words shall
be pronounced to the contes
tants to be written, Any pupil
may ask for the word to be re
pronounced if it is not under,
stood The person making the
best grade shall be declared the
winner of the written contest.
2. The contestants shall spell
orally, each one retiring as he
misses a word until but one re-
mains. This person shall be de
clared the winner of the oral
contest
8 The words shall be taken
from Daub's Advanced Speller.
4. There shall b« two alter.
nating pronouncers and three
judges who shall be disinterested
parties and selected by the
county superintendents having
contestants present. The judges
shall mark the manuscripts and
settle any questions that may
arise during the proceedure ol
the contest and determine the
winners of the contest and
medals.
5. Medals with suitable in-
scriptions will be presented by
the Chickasha Chamber of Com-
merce to the winners of the
prizes in each written and oral
contest.
The spelling contest will tak>
place in the afternoon of the Urs
day, May 16th. The prelimin-
aries will be arranged by Presi-
dent Moore and Supt. Newell
Preparing for Memoral Day
A committee selected by the
local G. A. R. for the purpose of
making the general arrangements
for the memorial and decoration
day services met Saturday lfternoon
at 3 o'clock with Comrade Lamb as
chairman, and Comrades Snap,
Zeigler, Reynolds and Miles, the
other members of the committee,
present.
Comrade Zeigler was selected as
a committee to confer with the
Ladies of the Relief Corps to assist
in raising finance and furnishing
flowers, and Comrades Reynolds and
Zeigler were appointed to confer
with the ladies in regard to de-
corating and preparing the church
and also to ask their assistance in
the same.
It was moved and seconded that
one lady from each of our four
churches be selected as a committee
on music for the memorial and de-
coration services, and the following
ladies were named:
Mrs. John Duffy, M. E. church.
Miss Nettie Liddle, Congregation-
al church.
Mrs. Ed Rainey, Baptist church.
Mrs. Richard Binding, Christian
church.
Committee on transportation.
Miles and Zeigler.
Comrades Cashion and Zeigler
were selected to flag the graves of
the soldiers.
John T. Baldwin will arrange the
program for the decoration day
services.
Adjournment was taken subject to
call of chairman.
Take Warning
M r. Frank Pr.izak serves notice
that any one trespassing or hunt
ing on his premises with dogs
will be prosecuted to the full ex-
tent of the law. 503 pd
Prank Prazak and Neighbors.
Children's and Misses' wash
dresses at reduced prices at
Cashion Brother's store this
week. Cheaper than you can
make them.
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because it yives them
news of absorbing in-
terest. People no longer
go looking about for
things they want—they
go to their newspaper
for information as to
where such things may
be found. This method
saves time and trouble.
If you want to bring
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FAMOUS WOMAN
WHO WAS STAKE
IN CARD GAME
Madame Vespucci
RESIDENTS of the United
Stated have been accused
of many offenses, but a
prominent novelist, whose
fame rcsUi on three sto-
ries baaed on Important
Incident/) is AnserUun his-
tory has broken the rec-
ord In his latest novel'
he has Martin Van Buren
gamble with George Par-
ish for possession of'the famous Mme.
Vespucci.
This particular novelist shows a
fondness, uncommon in American liter-
ature, for ti welling: on the political ad-
venturess—a type that has not been so
common in the history of pollUcal
leaders In this country as tt has been
in the lives of statesmen and rulers of
Europe. Such a woman was the prin-
cipal character In his Becond novel„
and to the limited few who keep alive <
in their memories the story of Mme.,
Vespucci's career in America it was'
perfectly plain that she was tho proto-
type of the novelist's heroine. And
now, in his third book, .as if in revela-
tion of how strong a grip this fascinat-
ing woman's career and personality
have on him, the novelist tells the lit-$
tie known tale of how slie once was!
the stake fln a game of .cards betweeni
two men, one of whom mas not as ex-
alted a personage as the novelist
leads Ms readers to believe.
The incident that makes one\of the
other won. All Ogdensburg can tell
you about that today. They lived j
'there together. Pariah and the wo
man, till he went abroad. Yes, and
she was a prisoner there, not simply
for a short time; and she lived and
died there. Whatever Parish did, who
ever he was, he never loved any other
woman as he did that one. And by
Uhe Lord! when It coiies to that, no
iother woman in that town ever waB
,'loved more than she by everybody."
Facts Incorrect.
This reads well. It has a fine, ro-
mantic swing about It But the weak
ness of this collocation of events is
that the novelist's Missouri senator
was not correctly Informed In the
.'premises. The episode of Mme. Ves
'puccl's stay in Ogdensburg and her ca
reer as the Informal mistress of
Georgn Parish's bachelor establish
ment are too well remembered by mid
die-aged residents of that St Law-
rence county city to leave any doubts
as to her career in the "City of Ma
',ples," or what became of her and of
George Parish in later years, when
Ogdensburg knew them no more In the
flesh.
In setting forth the details of these
two lives as they are concerned with
this story, let us adopt the courtesy of
ladies first Mme. Vespucci's career
began In America, when she made her
appearance in Washington In connec
tlon with some mythical land claims
characters In this last hlstorical^novel j against the government She was
tell the story of the game of cards
played for Mme Vespucci's favc«- Is a
proposal that this pesrsonage, a state
senator of Missouri in the '50s ccf the
last century, maloes to a captain In
the United States army that they too,
young, fair to look upon, and
nounc-ed herself as a direct descendant
of the great Amerigo of her name
She had come to this country from
Paris and speedily enlisted In her
cause, the merits of which do not seem
shall play a game<of poker for the tem- ; to be very sound at this time, the two
porary possession of tho heroine of j most famous members of the Van
this tale, whom the senator believes.! Buren family —the former president of
to be "the same kind of a woman" as: the United States and his son John,
Mme, Vespucci was. The (japtaln does who was best known through his so
not 'understand the full meaning of.the ] clal graces at the time, though he was
senator's proposal, and to this the man the attorney general of New York In
from Missouri replies:
The Precedent.
"Come, now. You, as an army ir.at\
ought to knowf something of the h!s->
tory of pokei In these Undted States.
Listen, my friend. Do you recall a
certain game, played by a maai higher
In authority—younger than lie is to-
day—a game played upon a snow-
bour.d train in tho north country?? Do
you remember what the stakes were
the years 1845-46. Under what circum-
stances she left Paris, where she had
resided all her life up to that time,
la not definitely known, although it Is
believed that she accompanied one of
the two Van Burens to the United
States But there Is no Question of
the fact that John Van Buren looked
after her closely for the first few years
she was In this country, and that he
made scant impression on congress
then"' I)o you recajl that the man i with her claims. There Is also no
l:Uir became president of tho I't lted
Sf.ates? Come. Tliere Is a fine pjece-
(fent for our little enterprise He played
then much as you do now. There was
against him then, as there Is now
against you, a man who admired iicV
so much just one woman in all tha\|
doubt that she traveled about with
him. It was one of these Journeys
that she first met George Parish and
fell In love with him, as he did with
her.
Van Buren's Love Cooled.
It was time this fate befell Mme.
worlt^, as„let us say, one particular wo-<) Vespucci, for John Van Buren had
man then and there present. Perhaps* grown tired of her. This son of the
you remember his name—Mr ParisSi—j former president of the United States
latta- ennobled by the German govern- [did things gallantly. He was. In fact,
roemt and long known as a land baron
In New York Come! Think of It!
Pfc-ture that snowbound train, that,
great cllizen, and Parish, playing? and
playing: until at last It came to the I
question of a'woman—not so* beautiful
ns this one here, but In her own way
shrewid, the sc me sort of a woman, J
might say—1113 sterlous, beaftlful, antft,
no, don't rirotiist and I'll not describe.
You remei nbor*"\ ery well te n name. It
was pleas.-tnt property not sti long ago
for everylK.dty They played for the
love, not for the' hand, of that woman
Parish won her. Do you .remember
now ?
"Why deny yoi irsclf the luxury of
remeuit*?rlng such ,a game ns that? It
was a man's game , and well worth tlue
playing. Your foi Iner head of the
army, at least, lost { and^ho iwld. The
courtly a gentleman that he was
known as "Prince John" wherever he
went, and his social graces were so
conspicuous that to him was dele-
gated the duty of managing the fam
ous ball In the Astor houBe for the
Prince of Wales. So It was only to be
expected that when his old friend Par-
ish met liim one winter's night In an
Inn at Plattsburg, N Y., while Parish
was on a sleighing trip, Prince John
should be perfectly willing to play a
game of cards for anything one could
mention—not even excepting a lady's
favor. And under the circumstances,
with a waning of affection In the case
of l'rlnce John, what more natural was
it than that Parish should have won
the game and the stakef
On the morning after the momen-
tous game Van Buren went his Jour-
|W alee*. Perish retained to Mi
Ogdensburg home, but In the cutter
beside him and behind the spirited
team of trotters that his large stable
was famous for sat the woman who
was to preside over his establishment
for more than ten yeare to come.
The home Pariah took her to was e
grand one, as homes went in the
America of that era It was a low,
square structure that stood on Wash-
ington street facing the broad 9t
Lawrence, and with its grounds occu-
pied a whole block. The house was
surrounded by a high stone wall, with
only two entrances cut through it, one
with stately wide gates opening on
Washington street and the other for
the servants' use in the rear. The wall
was so high that only the trees around
the mansion within could be sssa
above It which gave to Its lninatee
the privacy that is so dear to the av-
erage Briton's heart In his home.
Happiness Lasted Long.
The social world of the arlstocraUo
old place knew Mme. Vespucci only
through the dally spectacle she pre-
sented as she drove out alone and In
considerable state In her open car*
rlage behind the blooded Parish
horses. Of all the houses In Ogdens^
burg there was only one she ever en-
tered. That was a home on tho op-
posite side of WuBhlngton street,
where a gentle old lady received her
out of sheer pity for the solitary state
of the foreign woman who had elected
to cut herself off from the companion'
ship of her sex for the sake of the
man she loved.
That she loved Parish and that he
returned this affection in kind there
Is no question. Happiness dwelt la
that home for a decade, and the only-
thing that marred the perfection o£
her life was the ostracism of her sex.
and this Beemed to fret her not at all.
She was young, beautiful and had
everything that went with great wealth
and came from a generous man's great
love.
The men who were familiars in the
house had the greatest respeet for her
and treated her as if her position wa
socially unassailable. Possibly this
conduct had something to do with her
tragic end, for she gradually grew im-
perious toward the members of her
masculine court, and more particularly
so toward the master of the place and
of her fortunes. This attitude finally
resulted one day, out of her assurance
of the power she wielded over Parish,
in her giving some orders aeecernlas
the management of the egtyfcte
were directly opposite ta
Ideals on the subject.
With all the dignity and sweetty fel
manner for which he was famous be
told her the time had come when ahe
must leave him and his house. He
suggested that Paris would be an ex-
cellent place for her to take up resi-
dence In, and that he would, naturally,
provide for her so that she might live
in the style to which she had been
accustomed. Of the effect of this ultl- i
matum had on her subsequent events j
showed. But at the time she was as |
dignified as a woman of her training
only could be.
Last Social Function.
She made one request, however, and
this he granted with his usual cour-
tesy, urbanity and generosity. This
was that before she left Ogdensburg
she might be permitted to give a fete
champetre for the poor children of the
town, between whom and Mme. Ves-
pucci there had sprung up a great at-
tachment.
From Montreal and New York Par-
lsh summoned all the kinds of per-
formers and shows that gave the form
of entertainments sacred to such out-
door parties for children In the land
of Mme. Vespucci's youth, the land
that was to be the scene of her brief
exile. The lawns behind those gray
walls never were so full of life and
merriment as on that day which was
to mark the end of madame's reign.
All the men who were friends of Par-
ish and Mme. Vespucci took part In
the farewell. Father Mackey and Dr.
Peters were there, and for the first
time Dr. Miller, the Presbyterian
clergyman, entered the gateway and
met the mistress of tho establishment.
She hid the ache In her heart behind
a mask of gaiety, and there are old
men and women in Ogdensburg today
whose eyes w-ill lighten at the mem-
ories of the happiness that was thelre
that beautiful afternoon.
Then Mme. Vespucci went away.
Paris became her home, but it was a
solitary and heart-breaking one for
her The letters she wrote to one of
her old men friends in the Maple city
told of this solitude and this heart-
break. She wrote to him at Intervals
of two years; and then word reached
her friends that she was dead. Of
how great was her love for Parish
this brief record of absence from his
side bears witness. Beyond the Btone
that marks her grave, In Pere-la-
Chalse, there exist no tangible rec-
ords of her In this country today, ex-
cept a silver box marked with tha
Vespucci coat of arms and a packet
of letters she wrote In Paris.
As for Parish, his life had a mora
glorious ending, so far as the exter-
nals were concerned. A short time
after Mme. Vespucci disappeared
from Ogdensburg Parish received
word that he had Inherited through
his mother's family the title and the
lands of Baron von Steftenburg In
Germany. Before he left New York
for Germany he destroyed the tradi-
tion that the men of his family never
married by wedding a Mrs, Randolph
of New York, a widow, who had been
one of his lifelong friends and who
accompanied him to his castle In Ba-
varia, but did not accompany him to
Ogdensburg on his one return to that
town. His house, slightly altered and
with the surrounding wall removed.
Is now ownod by George Hall, a mag*
nate and former mayor of Ogden*
burg.
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