Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 300, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 30, 1921 Page: 6 of 8
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OKLAHOMA LEADER
No. 300
THE LEADER'S DAILY COMICS.,
KRAZY KAT— A Rash Accusation
\FORT//E[
A STORY OF THE BUILDERS;/ DEMOCRACY
<2r IRVING BACHELLER
CHAPTER XIX.
Wherein Is One of the Many Private
Panlce Which Followed the Bursting
of the Bubble of Speculation.
Samson and Harry saw the bursting
of the great bubble of '37. Late that
night, Disaster, loathsome and thou-
sand-legged, crept Into the little city.
It cam« on a steamer from the Kust
nnd hastened from home to home,
from tavern to tavern C.reat bank*
had suspended payment: New York
had suffered a panic; many large busi-
ness enterprlsea In the East had
failed; certain agents for the bonds
of Illinois had absconded with the
state's money ; In the big cities there
had been an ominous closing of doors
and turning of locks; a great army
of men -were out of employment. The
little city was In a frenzy of excitement.
,Tlie street* were filled with u shout-
Ins, half-crazed throng. New fortunes
>bad shrunk to nothing and less thnn
Ylnothing In a night. Lota In the city
"• iwere offered for a tithe of what their
-w( market value had been. Davis hud
known that the storm would arrive
r' with the first steamer and In the
ulnng of business had put on a Hf<*-
^preserver. Samson knew that the
tlmo to buy wai when every onn
wanted to sell. He bought two corner
lots In the city and two acres on the
■ prairie half a mile from town. They
4 got their deeds and went to the Kel-
sos to bid them good-hy.
After hearty farewells Samson and
Harry set out for their home. They
were not again to see the gentle face
and hear the pleasant talk of .lack
Kelso. He had once said. In the pres-
ence of Kamson. that It Is well to
remember, always, that things enn not
go on with us as they are. Changes
come—slowly and Quite according to
our calculations, or so swiftly nnd
• Unexpectedly that they fill us with
• onfuslon. Learned and wise In the
weighty problems of humanity he had
little prudence In regulating the af-
fairs of his own family.
Kelso had put even* dollar he had
nnd some that he hoped to have Into
land. Bliu, who had been teaching In
one of the schools, had Invested all
her savings In a dream city on the
shore of an unconstructed canal.
Like many who had no experience
with such phenomena they underesti-
mated the seriousness of the panic.
They thought that, In a week or so,
Its effect would pass and that Illinois
would then resume It* triumphal
murch toward Its high descry. Not
even Samson Traylor had a correct
notion of the slowness of Time.
The effect of the panic paralyzed
the city. Men whose "red-dog money"
was In every one's pocket closed their
shops and ran away. The wild adven-
turers cleared out. Their character
may be Judged by the words of ona
of them reported by the editor of the
'Democrat:
"I failed for a hundred thousand
dollars and could have failed for a
million, If Jackson had kept his hands
off."
Hard times hung like a cloud over
the city. Its population suffered some
dlmlnlshment In the next two years. In
spite of Its position on the main high-
way of trade. Dream cities, cnnala
and railroads built without hands be-
came part of the poetry of American
commerce.
That autumn, men and women who
had come to Mrs. Klnzle's party In
Jewels and In purple and fine linen
hnd left or turned their hands to hard
labor. The Kelsos suffered real dis-
tress, the schools being closed and the
head of the house having taken to his
bed with Illness. Biro went to work
as a seamstress and with the help of
Mrs. Klnzle and Mrs. Hubbard was
able to keep the family from want.
The nursing nnd the care of the baby
✓onn broke the health of Mrs Kelso,
never a strong woman. Blm enmd
home from her work one eveulng and
found her mother 111.
"Cheer up. my daughter." said Jack.
a man who had ridden with th^ driver
from Chicago and who, It was thought,
Lad been in collusion with him. A
curious feature of the robbery had
been revealed by the discovery of the
mall sack rt was unopened, Its con-
tents undisturbed. Its rusty padlock
still In place. The perpetrator of the
crime had not. soiled his person with
any visible evidence of guilt and so |
was never apprehended.
Then for a time Blm entered upon
great trials. Jack Kelso weakened.
Burning with fever, his mind wan
dered In the pleasant paths he loved
and saw in Its fancy the deeds of
AJax and Achilles and the toplees tow
ers of Illlum and came not back again
to the vulgar and prosaic details of
life. The girl knew not what to do
A funeral was a costly thing She
hnd no money. The Klnzles hnd gone i
on a hunting trip In Wisconsin. Mrs
Hubbard was 111 and the Kelsos aJ
ready much In her debt Mr. Lionel
Davis came.
He was a good-looking young man
of twenty-nine, those days, rather
stout nnd of middle stature, with dnrk
hair and eyes. He was dressed In the
height of fashion. He used to boast
that he had only one vice—diamonds.
But he had ceased to display them on
his shirt-front or his Angers. He car-
ried them In his pockets and showed
them by the glittering handful to his
friends. They had come to him
through trading In land where they
were the accepted symbol of success
and money was none too plentiful.
He had melted their settings and
turned them Into coin. The stones he
kept as a kind of surplus—a hnlf hid-
den evidence of wealth and of superi-
ority to the temptntlon of vulgar dls- i
play. Mr. Davis wns a calculating,
masterful, keen-minded man, with a
rather heavy Jaw. In his presence,
Blm was afraid of her soul that night.
He was gentle nnd sympathetic. He
offered to lend her any amount she
needed. She made no answer, but sat
trying to think what she would best
do. The Traylors had paid no atten-
tion to her letter, although a month
had passed since It wns written.
In a moment she rose and gave him
her hand.
"It Is very kind of you." said she.
"If you can spare me five hundred
dollars for an Indefinite time I will
take it."
"Let my lend you a thousand." he
urged. "I can do it without a bit of
inconvenience."
"I think that five hundred will be
enough." she said.
It carried her through that trouble
and Into others, of which her woman's
heart hnd found abundant signs In
the attitude of Mr. I>nvls. He gave
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"Cheer up. my naugnier. sain jnr .
"An old friend of ours haa returned •'Let Me Lend You a Thousand," He
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to the cltv. He Is a rich man
onslR In m« rtwert of poverty. He
lias loaned me a hundred dollars 111
good coin."
"Who has done this?" Blm asked.
"Mr. Lionel Davis."
"We must not take his money." said
Biin.
"I had a long talk with him." Kelsd
went on. "He has explained that un-
fortunate Incident of the horse. It
was a bit of offhand folly bornJJf an
anxious moment."
"But the man wants to marry me."
"He said nothing of such a pur-
pose."
"He will be <n no hurry about that,"
said Bim. "He Is n shrewd operator.
Every one hates him. They say that
he knew what was coming when he
sold out."
That evening Blm wrote a long let
ter to Samson Traylor, teUlng blm
of the evil days which had come to
them. This letter, now In possession
of a great grandson of Samson and
Urged.
the most assiduous attention to the
comfort of Blm and her mother. He
bad had a celebrated physician come
down from Milwaukee to see Mrs.
Kelso and had paid the bill In advance.
"I cannot let you be doing these
things for us." Blm said one evening
when he had called to see them.
"And I cannot help loving you and
doing the little I can to express It,"
he answered. "I would like to make
every dollar I have tell you In some
woy thai I love you. That's how I
feel and you might as well know It."
"But I do not love you, Mr. Davis."
"Iiet me try to make you love me,"
he pleaded. "Is there any reason why
I shouldn't?"
"Ye®. If there were no other rea-
aon, I love a young soldier who Is
fighting In the Seminole war In Flor-
ida under Col. Taylor."
"Well, at least, you can let me take
the place of your father and shield you
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By DOK WILLARD
of a great granusou oi (muumiu r „
Sarah Traylor, had a alnirular hla.orr, j
' "Vnu i « a most irt*nero'
It reached the mun to whom It was
addressed In the immmer of 1844. It
\aati found with many others that sum-
mer In Taiewell county under a barn
which Its owner was removing It
brought to mind the robbery of the
Klage from Chicago, south of the syca-
"You are a most generous and kind
ly maul" Blm exclaimed with tears
111 her ->yes.
tTo Be Continued)
Dr. Lola Taylor of Birmingham is i
said to be the only woman in Ala- '
iuj,e iruui uuiungv, w.'iwi i« ur mn uui; "uim
iuoro^weoda, In tl^e autugin of '37, b;r • bam a oractlclng dentlstrv.
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GRAB A BITE
OF LUNCH ?
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MIGHT BE GOOD
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MacLaren, William. Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 300, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 30, 1921, newspaper, July 30, 1921; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109502/m1/6/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.