Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1915 Page: 2 of 12
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—16—
Tie Comte de Sabron, captain of Trench
cavalry, tak a to hln quarters to raise by
band a motherless Irish t -rrler pup. and
lames It Pitchoune. lie dines with the
Marquise d'tCschgnac and meets Miss Ju-
lia Redmond, American heiress. He Is or-
dered to Algiers but Is not allowed to
take servants or dogs. Miss Hedmond
takes care of Pitchoune, who, longing for
his master, runs away from her. The
tnarqulso plans to marry Julia to the I)uc
flo Tremont. Pitchoune follows Sabron to
Algiers, dog and master meet, and Sabron
gats permlsaton to keep hln dog with him.
The Due de Tremont finds the American
belress capricious Habron, wounded In
&n engagement, falls Into the dry bed of
a river and Ih watrhed over by Pitchoune.
After a horrible night and day Pitchoune
leaves him. Tremont takes Julia and the
marquise lo Algiers In his yacht but lias
doubts about Julia's Red Cross mission.
After long search Julia gets trace of 8a-
bron's whereabouts. Julia for the mo-
ment turns matchmaker In behalf of Tre-
mont. Ilainrnet Abou tells the Mar-
quise where he thinks Habron may be
found Tremont decides to go with Hnm-
met Abou to find Habron. Pitchoune finds
at village, twelve hours Journey away, and
somehow makes Fatou Annl understand
his master's desperate plight. Habron Is
rescued by the village men but grows
weaker without proper care. Tremont
goes Into the desert with the caravan In
search of Habron. Julia follow* with
Madame de la Maine, whom Tremont
loves.
CHAPTER XXIV—Continued.
At night an ha lay In hla bed In his
tent, Tremont and Hammet Abou
cooled his temples with water from
the earthen bottlaB. where the sweet
ooie stood out bumld and refreshing
oa the damp clay. They gave him acid
and cooling drinks, and now and then
Habron would smile on Tremont, call-
lax him "petit frere," and Tremont
heard the words with moisture In his
eyes, remembering what he had said
to the Marquise d'Esclignac about be-
ing Sabron's brother. Once or twice
tte soldier murmured a woman's
name, but Tremont coald not catch it,
and once he Raid to the duke:
"Sing! Sing!"
The Frenchman obeyed docilely,
humming In an agreeable barytone the
snatches of song he could remember,
"Ia Fille do Madame Angot," "11 Tro-
vatore;" running them Into more mod-
ern opera, "La Veuve Joyeuse." liut
the lines creased in Sabron's forehead
Indicated that the singer had not yet
found the music which haunted the
memory of the sick man.
"Sing!" ho would repeat, fixing Ills
hollow eyes on his companion, and
Tremont complied faithfully. Finally,
his own thoughts going back to early
days, he hummed tunes that he and a
certain little girl had sung at tbelr
games in the allees of an old chateau
tn tho valley of the lndre.
"Sonnez les matines
Ding—din—don,"
and other children's melodies.
In those nights, on that desolate
way, alone, in a traveling tent, at the
side of a man he scarcely knew, Rob-
ert de Tremont learned serious les-
sons. lie had been a soldier himself,
but his life had been an Inconsequent
one. He had lived as he liked, behind
him always the bitterness of an early
deception. But he had been too young
to break his heart at seventeen. He
had lived through much since the day
hla father exiled him to Africa.
Therese had becomo a dream, n
memory around which he did not al-
ways let his thoughts linger. When
he had seen her again after her hus-
band's death and found her free, he
was already absorbed in the worldly
life of an ambitious young man. lie
had not known how much he loved her
until in the Villa des Hougainvilleas
he had seen and contrasted her with
Julia Hedmond.
All the charm for him of the past
returned, and he realized that, as
money goes, he was poor—she was
poorer.
The difllcultles of the marriage made
liim all the more secure In his deter-
mination that nothing should separate
him again from this woman.
lly Sabron's bed he hummed his
little insignificant tunes, and his heart
longed for the woman. When once or
twice on the return Journey they had
been threatened by the engulfing sand
storm ho had prayed not to die before
Jie could again clasp her in his arms.
Sweet, tantalizing, exquisite with
the passion of young love, there came
to him the memories ol' the moonlight
nights on the terrace of the old cha-
teau. He saw her in the pretty girl-
ish dresses of long ago, the melan-
choly droop of her quivering mouth,
her bare young arms, and smelled the
fragrance of her hair as he kissed
her. So humming his Boothlng melo-
dies to th1) sick man, with his voice .
softened by his memories, he soothed " ' ... , ...
Habron by candle liKht to lear" hls le'tera
a ' , , , 1 from the cookery book.
Sabron closed his eyes the creases j Th0 mom WM B wh)te
In his forehead disappeared as though Bld0 h wJnd0W he haar„ blr(,
brushed away by a tender hand. Per- I -
haps the Jleep was due to the fact
on those silent days, and his blue
eyes, where the very whites were
burned, began to wear the far-away,
mysterious look of the traveler across
long distances During the last sand
storm he stood, with the camels, round
Sabron's litter, a human shade and
shield, and when the storm ceased he
fell like one dead, and the Arabs
pulled off bis boots and put him to bed
like a child.
One sundown, as they traveled into
the afterglow with the East behind
them, when Tremont thought he
could not endure another day of the
voyage, when the pallor and waxiness
of Sabron's face were like death itself,
Hammet Abou, who rode ahead, cried
out and pulled up his camel short.
He waved him arm.
"A caravan, monBieur."
In the distance they saw the tents,
like lotus leaves, scattered on the pink
sands, and the dark shadows of the
Arabs and the couchant beasts, and
the glow of the encampment fire.
"An encampment, monsieur!"
Tremont sighed. He drew the cur-
talu of the Utter and looked In upon
Sabron, who was Bleeping. His set
features, the growth of his uncut
beard, the long fringe of his eyes, h's
dark hair upon bis forehead, his wan
transparency—with the peace upon his
face, he might have bee* a figure of
Christ waiting for sepulture.
Tremont cried to him: "Sabron,
mon vieux Charles, revellle-tol! We
are in sight of human beings!"
But Sabron gave no sign that he
heard or cared.
Throughout the journey across the
desert, Htchoune had ridden at his
will and according to his taste, some-
times journeying for the entire day
perched upon Tremont's camel. He
sat like a little figurehead or a mas-
cot, with ears pointed northward and
his keen nose sniffing the desert air.
Sometimes ho would take the same
position on one of the mules that car-
ried Sabron's litter, at his master's
feet. There he would lie hour after
hour, with his soft eyes fixed with
understanding sympathy upon Sab-
ron's face.
He was, as he had been to Fatou
Anni, a kind of fetish—the caravan
adored him. Now from his position at
Sabron's feet, he crawled up and
licked his master's hand.
"Charles!" Tremont cried, and lift-
ed the soldier's hand.
Sabron opened his eyes. He was
sane. The glimmer of a smile touched
his lips. He said Tremont's name,
recognized him. "Are we home?" he
asked weakly. "Is it France?"
Tremont turned and dashed away a
tear.
He drew the curtains of the litter
and now walked beside it, his legs
feeling like cotton and his heart beat-
ing.
As they came up toward the en-
campment, two people rode out to
meet them, two women in white riding
habits, on stallions, and as the evening
breeze fluttered the veils from their
helmets, they Beemed to be Hags of
welcome.
Under his helmet Tremont was red
and burned. He had a short, rough
growth of beard.
Therese de la Maine and Julia Red-
mond rode up. Tremont recognized
them, and came forward, half stagger-
ing. He looked at Julia and smiled,
and pointed with his left hand toward
the litter; but he went directly up to
Madame de la Maine, who sat immov-
able on her little stallion. Tremont
seemed to gather her in his arms. He
lifted her down to him.
Julia Redmond's eyes were on the
litter, whose curtains were stirring in
the breeze. Hammet Abou, with a
profound salaam, came forward to her.
"Mademoiselle," he said, respect-
fully, "he lives. I have kept my word "
Pitchoune sprang from the litter and
ran over the sands to Julia Redmond.
She dismounted from her horse alone |
and called him: "Pitchoune! Pit-
choune!" Kneeling down on the des-
ert, she stooped to caress him, and
he crouched at her feet, licking her
hands.
"Tou are !n a French hospital In AV
giers, sir, and doing well."
Tremont came up to him.
"I remember you," Sabron said. "You
have beeu near me a dozen times
lately."
"You must not talk, mon vieux."
"But I feel as though I must talk a
great deal. Didn't you come for ma
into the desert?"
Tremont, healthy, vigorous, tanned,
gay and cheerful, seemed good look-
ing to poor Sabron, who gazed up at
him with touching gratitude.
"I think I remember everything, I
think I shall never forget It," he Bald,
and lifted his hand feebly. Robert d«
Tremont took it. "Haven't we trav-
eled far together, Tremont?"
"Yes," nodded the other, affected,
"but you must sleep now. We will
talk about It over our cigars and
liquors soon."
Sabron smiled faintly. His clear
mind was regaining its balance, and
thoughts began to sweep over it cru
elly fast. He looked at his rescuer,
and to him the other's radiance mean,
simply that he was engaged to Miss
Redmond. Of course that was natural. !
Sabron tried to accept it and to bt
glad for the happiness of the mar.
who had rescued him. But as ht,
thought tills, he wondered why ht
had been rescued and shut his eye*
so that Tremont might not see hit
weakness. He said hesitatingly:
"1 am haunted by a melody, a tune
Could you help me? It won't come.' ,
"It's not the "Marseillaise?" asked
the other, sitting down by his side anr,
pulling Pltchoune's ears.
"Oh, no!"
"There will be singing in the ward
shortly. A Red Cross nurse comes ti
sing to the patients. She may helt
you to remember."
Subron renounced In despair. Haunt
ing, tantalizing in his brain and illu
aive, the notes began and stopped, be
gan and stopped. Ho wanted to ask
bis friend a thousand questions. How
he had come to him, why he had corns
to him, how he knew. ... He gav* |
it all up and dozed, and while he slept
the sweet sleep of those who are tc
recover, he heard the sound of a worn
Threatened by the Engulfing Sani
storm.
an's voice in the distance, singing, on*,
after another, familiar melodies, and
finally he heard the "Kyrie Elelson,"
and to its music Sabron again fell
asleep.
The next day he received a visitor.
It was not an easy matter to intro-
duce visitors to his bedside, for Pit-
choune objected. Pitchoune received
the Marquise d'Esclignac with great
displeasure.
"Is he a thoroughbred?" asked the
Marquise d'Esclignac.
"He has behaved like one," replied
the officer.
There was a silence. The Marquise
d'Esclignac was wondering what liei
niece saw in the pale man so near
still to the borders of the other
world.
"You will be leaving the army, ol
course," she murmured, looking at him
interestedly.
"Madame!" said the Capitaine de
Sabron, with his blood—all that was
in him—rising to his cheeks.
"I mean that France has done noth
ing for you. France did not rescue
you and you may feel like seeking t
more—another career."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
CHAPTER XXV.
St, Bride of Ireland.
St. Bride, the patroness of Ireland
and of Fleet street, whose feast falls
in February, was the beautiful daugh
ter of a bard who became the religious
disciple of St. Patrick and abbess of
OKUHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS or COMING FVENTS.
Nov 8-12—School Land Sale, Major
Cuunty.
Nov. 13-17—School Land Sale, Blaine
County.
Nov. in— Cornerstone laying, Oklahoma
Canttol Btill.llnu,
Nov. IS-20—School Land Sale. Canadian
County.
Nov. 22-2,1—School Land Sale. Lincoln
County.
Nov. 25, Shrim rs State Ceremonial, Ok-
lahoma City,
Nov. 2K-37—State Educational Associa-
tion. citv
Nov 29 Dec r--School I And Sale,
Kingfisher County.
Dec 6-8--School Land Sale, I<ogan
County.
Dec. 9-11—School I.and Sale, Cleve-
land County.
Dec. 13-16—Scnool frfiad Sale, Okla-
homa County.
Dec. 27-Jan. I. E-istcm Oklahoma Houl-
tr<- sh™ Tul«n
March 3-8—Livestock Show. Oklahoma
City.
10c Worth of
Will Clear $1.00 Worth of Land
Get rid of the stumps and grow
big crops on cleared land. Now
is the time to clean up your farm
while products bring high prices. Blasting is
quickest, cheapest and easiest with Low Freez-
ing Du Pont Explosives. They work in cold
weather.
Write for Free Handbook of Exploeioet No. 69F,
and name of neareet dealer:
DU PONT POWDER COMPANY
WILMINGTON DELAWARE
Ktl-
rootb?l C m«
(Vt. 20—Alva at Kemlall
Oct. 29—FVIfnnnd at .Ada.
Ort. 31—Kan as TT. nf State U.
Nov. 5—Routri.>n>stf.-n Normal vs.
mond, «t O'.-iphoTa O'tv
Nov. P—Stnt* i!. At Kendill.
Nov. 13—Stjite ti nt Arkansas V
Nov. IS—Pittsburg Nor'iHI nt Ke'-'lnll.
Nov. 19—State 1". at Kansas Agricul-
tural.
Nov. 19—Rrlrrtond at Phillips ti.
Nov. 25—ArV-ansas (J. at Kenrtnll,
Nov. 25—State U. vs. Asfgles. Oklahoma
Citv.
Go slow—but you'll arrive late.
A HINT TO WISE WOMEN.
Don't suffer torture when all female
troubles will vanish in thin air alter using
"Fetneoiaa " Price 50c and ti.00.—Adv.
The Shawnee National Bank cap-
italized at $100,000, has deposits oi
$1,059,577.01.
A Roosevelt cotton gin advertiser
that it will pay $25 a ton for cotton
seed. One year ago the prevailing
price was around $13 a ton.
Domestic science is being taught for
the first time in the University of Ok
lahoma. Miss Harriet Julia Hopkins,
who has had several years of special
training in the work, has been secured
to take charge of the new department.
Material has arrived for the pipe
line which the Night and Day Oil
Company w ill construct from the Kock
Island railroad to the oil field, five
miles east of Lawton. The company
agrees to buy all oil produces in the
Lawton field.
A moonshine still with a capacity of
turning out. 100 gallons of whisky a day
was captured on Black Fork creek
south of Heavener by Deputy Sheriff
Johnson and posse. The operators of
tile plant were not found. The still
was destroyed.
The Home State ban'.c, which re
ceived a charter about two months ago,
is now opened up for business at
Grandfield with E. M. Kimmel, presi-
dent; Fred Wagner and M. F Patter-
son, vice president, and Floyd Thomp
son, cashier. This gives Grandfield
three banks.
The total loss resulting from the re-
cent fire at Drumright, which destroyed
nine buildings in the business section
of the city, was $42,100, according to
the official report of the fire filed with
State Fire Marshal C. C. Hammonds.
Of this loss only $8,500 is covered by
insurance, that amount being held by
one man.
With 13-cent cotton and cotton seed
selling at $31 per ton there is a great
activity in all the cotton fields and
much of the fleecy staple is now
being marketed. About 400 bales
have so far been ginned at Frederick.
Cotton seed is especially bringing a
good price, jumping from less than
$20 per ton to $31.
Beginning November 1, cattle com-
ing into the state from the South, or
quarantine territory, must be dipped
twice before crossing the line into Ok-
lahoma, under rules of the board of
agriculture which will go into effect
nt that time. The new rule is calcu-
lated to prevent other than strictly
clean cattle coming into the state,
Oklahoma county will be called on
to contribute ♦307,830.07 as its share
of the state taxes. This is a part of
the total of $4,160,857.36 to be raised,
and includes one-fourth mill for the
state highways and one-fourth for com-
mon schools. Tulsa county conies next
with $177,465.96. Muskogee follows
with $166,358.52; Garfield, $120,481.05; j
Creek, $109,972.07 and Kay. $100,351.52. j
This includes county valuations and
the valuations of the public service cor-
porations in the varieus counties ol
the state.
Ramona, a town with a population !
of 900, located eighteen miles south of i
Bartlesville, is having her troubles I
since the county attorney closed up I
the only two drug stores in the town [
with an injunction because it Is I
chanted the drug stores were selling j
whisky. All drugs used in the town ]
now are bought in Bartlesville. The I
county attorney has been appealed to
to modify the injunction, but the prose- I
j cutor is firm and declares the charges I
will have to be disposed of in the dis- i
triet court.
The trial of Frank Scribner in the !
district court at Ada on a charge of j
murder is nitracting more than usual I
j attention. Scribner is accused of help, j
| ing his brother, Andrew, murder his
wife on May 9. I!i09. Andrew Scribner
erving a life sentence in the
Trouble Ahead.
"1 met Newrich today. He says
he'B sending his daughter to a finish-
ing school."
"I can see his finish when she gets
back."
Too Busy.
"Let's see. You live In the com-
muter zone, don't you? Much build-
ing out your way?"
"Well, I should say there is. We've
just completed two new tennis courts,
a nine-hole golf course and—"
"I mean real building."
"I was coming to that. We've put
up two new garages and extended the
piazza on the country clubhouse."
His Dear Young Friends.
"Ah—h'm—my dear young friends,"
said the statesman, who had kind-
ly consented at the earnest so-
licitation of the superintendent to ad-
dress a few helpful words to the Sab-
bath school, "looking back over my
long career. 1 am convinced that the
only way to win true success Is to deal
honorably with one's fellow men, to
follow the dictates of conscience, to
heed the teachings of the Golden Rule,
and to walk in the straight and nar-
row way. But—ah!—would any little
boy or girl like to ask me a question?"
"Well, say." spoke up one of the
dear young friends, "ain't you kinda
sorry you didn't find it out sooner?"-—
Kansas City Star.
WOULDN'T WORK THAT TIME
For Once It Was a Cinch That Sign,
Ordinarily Infallible, Was Doomed
to Failure.
%
Tire talk topic turned to signs, to-
kens and things like that the other
afternoon, when Congressman Henry
T. Helgesen of North Dakota contrib-
uted the following anecdote:
One day Jones was rambling along
the boulevard, when he was railed by
his friend Smith. While talking about
war, crops and mosquitoes, Jones no-
ticed that Smith continually rubbed
the palm of his hand.
"What in the world is the matter
with your hand?" he finally demanded.
"You have been rubbing and scratch-
ing it ever since we stopped here."
"The palm itches like blazes," an-
swered Jones. "They say that it is
a sure sign that you are about to get
some money."
"I'm!" thoughtfully returned Smith,
as a great light suddenly dawned upon
him, "Here is where you get wise to
the fact that there is nothing in signs.
I haven't a dollar to spare."
Man of Resource.
"Do you know where I can buy any
counterfeit money?" inquired the man
with a suitcase.
Are you looking for troublef"
"No. But I'm against the tipping
evil and at the same time I want to
go through the formalities and avoid
being made uncomfortable by tha
waiters."
Switzerland normally sells $3,000,-
000 worth of cheese to the United
States yearly.
On the Side
of Science —
GrapeNuts!
which, as a child, dressed In his dimity j designed by Wren's young daughter.—
he had sat up in his bed 1'all Mall Gazette.
that, unconsciously, Tremont slipped
Into humming a tune which Miss Red-
mond had sung In the Villa des Bou-
ftainvllleas, and of whose English
words De Tremont was quite Ignorant.
"Will he last until Algiers, Hammet
Abou ?"
"What will be will be, monsieur!"
Abou replied.
"He must," De Tremont answered
flercely. "He shall."
Ha hncsvio serious and meditative
I'ildare. The story of St. Bride, oi
Bridget, fired the Celtic imagination,
and in Ireland about twenty parishes
bear the name of Kilbride. The spire
As Handsome Does. 0f her church in Fleet street has been
When Sabron next opened his eyes twice struck by lightning and much
he fancied that he was at home in his reduced from the original height, but js now-
old room in Rouen, in the house where j Is still one of the tallest steeples in penitentiary at McAlester for his part
ho was born, in the little room In London. It is supposed to have beeu |n the same crime. Dan Scribner,
| another brother of Frank Scribner, was
convicted of the murder of Zeke Put- I
I nam, city marshal of Allen, and is now I
j serving a life sentence In the state
| prison.
The state supreme court sustained '
the collection of the gross production !
Oil tax, under the law passed by the j
last, legislature, holding that it is a |
license or tax on an occupation and j
not a property tax. The opinion was
written by Justice Sharp.
Frank Davis of Enid, aged about 25,
leader of a gang of bandits, was killed
In a pitched battle between Uie gang
of four men and a posse of officers,
headed by Chief of Police Carl Nelson
of Carrington, N. D., the fight taking
place in a Carrington rooming bouse
and near by, he beard a dog's smoth-
ered bark. Then he knew that he
was not at home or a child, for with
the languor and weakness came his
memory. A quiet nurse In a hospital
dress was sitting by his bed, and
Pitchoune rose from tho foot of the
bed and looked at him adoringly.
He was in a hospital in Algiers.
"Pitchoune," he murmured, not
knowing the name of his other com-
panion, "where are we, old fellow?"
The nurse replied in an agreeable
Anglo-Saxon French:
Have a Good Bed.
In Farm and Fireside a contributor,
writing a practical article about mat-
tresses and other provisions for beds,
makes the following general comment:
"In furnishing a home the housewife
should give most careful thought to
the beds and their equipment. We
spend at least a third of our lives lb
bed, and It is worth while to make
that third pleasant and refreshing. The
best mattresses and springs are none
too good when one Is storing up
strength for some work. Besides, as la
the case with most household pur
chases, tho best are really the cheap
eet In the end."
1 Wkaa).
UiUTan
__ m Co.- limited
a~F5od
Certain elements are necessary
for building stout bodies and active
brains. The great majority of these
all-important elements for life and
health are supplied by Nature in
her field grains, wheat and barley,
products lack these essential elements
But white flour
-Why?
Because the miller to make his flour look white
and pretty throws out about 4/5 ths. of the mineral
content of the wheat necessary for building brain,
nerve and muscle.
Scientific opinion is on the side of
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
for supplying balanced nutritive values.
Not only does this famous pure food supply all
the sound nourishment of the wheat, including the
vital mineral elements—sturdy builders of brain, nerve
and muscle—but of malted barley as well.
Grape-Nuts is easily digested, generally in about an
hour—white flour products require about three hours.
Grape-Nuts is always ready to eat direct from the
dust-proof, moisture-proof, germ-proof packet—de-
licious and economical!
Not alone from the scientific side but from the
view-point of better health thousands have come
to know
ti
There's a Reason" for
Grape-Nuts
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
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