The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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PRODIGAL
JUDGE
W^J ^<§y Vaugham KESTER^
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THE CHILDREN ROMP AND PLAY
The Day Nursery and Kindergarten
nro 'features of the Oklahoma State
Fair and Exposition, Oklahoma City,
September 24 to October 5, that have
received more attention from the ofli-
cers and directors than any other
single department. They have pro-
vided one big building solely for the
over the ICO acres of education And
' amusement to be found in the sixty
odd big buildings and barns at the
J State Fair, the little ones-spend their
1 time at play as shown in the picture
I made from an actual photograph
taken last year. *
Kvery precaution Is tnken with the
little ones and nothing but tne purest
SYNOPSIS.
The scene ot the opening of the story Is
laid In the library of an old worn-out
southern plantation, knuwn us the Bar-
ony. The place Is to tie sold, and Us
hlBtot* and that of the owners, the
Qulntards, is the subject of discussion by
Jonathan Crenshaw, a business man. a
stranger known as Bladen, and Bob
Yancy, a farmer, when Haanlbal Wayne
Hazard, a mysterious child of the old
southern family, makes his appearance.
Yancy tells how he adopted the buy. .Na-
thaniel Ferris buys the Barony, but the
Qulntards deny any knowledge of the
boy. Yancy to keep Hannibal. Captain
Murreli, a friend of the gulntards, ap-
pears and asks questions about the Bar-
ony. Trouble at Srratch Hill, when Ilan-
nlbal Is kidnaped by Dave Blount, Cap-
tain Murrell's agent. Yancy overtakes
Blount, gives ti 1 tii a thrashlng'and secures
the boy. Yancy appears before Squire
Balaam, and is discharged with costs for
the plaintiff. Betty Malroy, a friend of
the Ferrlses, has an encounter with Cap-
tain Murreli, w ho forces his attentions oil
her, and Is rescued by Bruce Carrlngton.
Betty sets out for her Tennessee home.
Carrlngton takes the same stage. Yancy
and Hannibal disappear, with Murreli on
their trail, Hannibal arrives nt the home
of Judge Slocum Price. The Judge recog-
nizes In the boy. the grandson of an old
time friend. Murreli arrives at Judge's
home. Cavendish family on raft rescue
Yancy, who is apparently dead. Price
breaks Jail. Betty and Carrlngton arrive
at Bella Plain. Hannibal's rifle discloses
some startling things to the judge. Han-
nibal and Betty meet again, Murreli ar-
rives In Belle Plain Is playing for big
stakes. Yancy awakes from long dream-
less sleep on board the raft. Judge Price
makes startling discoveries in looking up
land titles; Charley Norton, a young
planter, who assists the Judge, Is mys-
teriously assaulted. Norton Informs Car-
rlngton that Betty has promised to marry
him. Norton is mysteriously shot. More
light on Murrell's plot. He plans upris-
ing of negroes. Judge Price, with Hanni-
bal. visits Betty, and she keeps the boy
aa a companh*}. In a stroll Betty takes
with Hannibal they meet Bess Hicks,
daughter of the overseer, who warns
Betty of danger and counsels her to
leave Belle Plain at once. Betty, terri-
fied, acts on Bess' advice, and on their
way their carriage is stopped by Slosson,
the tavern keeper, and a confederate, and
Betty and Hannibal are made .prisoners.
The pair are taken to Hicks' cabin, in an
almost Inaccessible spot, and there Mur-
reli visits Betty and reveals his part in
the plot and his object. B- tty spurns
his proffered love and the Interview Is
ended by the arrival of Ware, terrified
at possible outcome of the crime. Judge
Price, hearing of Hie abduction, plans ac-
tion. The Judge takes charge of the
situation, and search for the missing ones
is Instituted. Carrlngton visits the judge
and allies are discovered. J udge Price
visits Colonel Fentress, where he meets
Yancy and Cavendish. Becoming enraged.
Price dashes a glass of whisky into the
colonel's face and a duel is arranged. Mur-
reli Is arrested for negro stealing and his
bubble bursts. The Judge and Mahaffy
rlscuss the coming duel. ('arlington
makes frantic search for Betty and the
boy. Carrlngton finds Betty and Hanni-
bal, and a fierce gun fight follows. Yancy
appears and assists in the rescue.
CHAPTER XXIX.—(Continued.)
Hut Betty shrank from him In In-
voluntary agitation.
"Oh, not now, Bruce—not now—we
mustn't speak of that—It's wrong—
It's wicked—you mustn't make me
forget him!" she cried brokenly, in
protest.
"Forgive me, Betty, I'll not speak
of It again," he said.
"Wait, Bruce, and some time—Oh,
don't make me say It," she gasped,
"or 1 shall hate myself!" for In his
presence she was feeling the horror
of her past experience grow strangely
remote, only the dull ache ot her
memories remained, and to these she
clung. They were silent for a mo-
ment, then Carrlngton said:
"After I'm sure you'll be sale here
perhaps I'll go south into the Choctaw
Purchase. I've been thinking of that
recently; but I'll find my way back
here—don't misunderstand me—I'll
not come too soon for even you, Bet-
ty. I loved Norton. He was one of
my best friends, too," he continued
gently. "But you know—nnd I know
—dear, the day will come when no
matter where you are 1 shall lind you
and'not lose you!"
Betty made no answer In words,
but a soft and eloquent little hand
was slipped into his and allowed to
rest there.
Presently a light wind stirred the
dead dense atmosphere, the mist lilt-
ed and enveloped the shore, showing
them the river between piled-up
mass of vapor. Apparently it ran
for their raft alone. It was just twen-
ty four hours since Carrlngton had
looked upon such another night, but
this was a different world the gray
fog was unmasking—a world of hopes,
and dreams, and rich content. Then
the thought of Norton—poor Norton—
who had had his world, too, oi hopes
and dreams and rich content—
The calm of a highly domestic ex-
istence had resumed its interrupted
sway on the raft. Mr. Cavendish, as-
sociated In Betty's memory with cer-
tain earsplitting manifestations of
ferocious rage, became in the bosom
of his family low-voiced and genial
and hopelessly Impotent to deal with
his five small sons; while Yancy was
again the Bob Yancy of Scratch Hill,
violence of any sort apparently had
no place In his nature He was deep-
ly absorbed in Hannibal's account ot
those vicissitudes which had befallen
him during their separation They
were now seated helore a cheerful lire
that blazed on the hearth, the boy
very close to Yancy, with one hand
clasped In the Scratch lliller's, while
about them were ranged the six small
Cavendishes sedately sharing in the
reunion of uncle and nevvy, toward
which they felt they had honorably
labored.
"And you wa'n't dead, Uncte Bob?"
said llannibal with a deep breath,
viewing Yancy. unmistakably in the
flesh.
"Never onoe. I been floating peace-
fully along with these here titled
friends of mine; but 1 was some anx-
ious about you, son."
"And Mr. Slosson, Uncle Bob—did
you smack him like you smacked
Dave Blount that day when he tried
to steal me?" asked Hannibal, whose
childish sense of Justice demanded
reparation for the wrongs they had
suffered.
Mr. Yancy extended a big right
hand, the knucjtle of which was
skinned and bruised.
"He were the meanest man 1 ever
felt obliged fo' to hit with my tist,
Nevvy; It appeared like he had teeth
all over his face."
"Silo'—Where's his hide, Uncle
Bob?" cried the little Cavendishes in
an excited chorus. "Sho'—did you for-
get that?" They themselves had for-
gotten the unique enterprise to which
Mr. Yancy was committed, but the
allusion to Slosson had revived their
memory of it.
"Well, he begged so piteous to bo
allowed fo' to keep his tilde, 1 hadn't
the heart to strip it off," explained Mr.
Yancy pleasantly. "And the winter's
contln' on—at this moment I can feel
a chill In the air—don't you-all recifon
he's going' to need It to' to keep the
cold out? Sho', you mustn't be bloody-
minded!"
"What was It about Mr. Slosson's
hide, Uncle Bob?" demanded Hannl
bal. "What was you a-goln' to do
to that?"
"Why, Nevvy, after he beat me up
and throwed me in the river, 1 was
some peevish fo' a spell in my leel-
ings fo' him," said Yancy In a tone
of gentle regret. He glanced at his
bruised hand. "But I'm right pleased
to be able to say that I'vo got over
all them oncharltable thoughts of
mine."
"And you seen the Judge, Uncle
Bob?" questioned Hannibal.
"Yes, I've seen the judge. We was
'ogether fo' part of a day. Me and
him gets on line?"
"Where is he now, Uncle Bob?"
"I reckon he's back at Belle Plain
by this time. You see we left him in
Raleigh along alter noon to 'tend to
some business he had on hand 1
never seen a gentlemp.n of his weight
so truly spry on his legs—and all
about you, Nevvy; while as to mind!
Sho'—why, words flowed out ot him
as naturally as water out of a branch."
Of Hannibal's relationship to the
Judge he said nothing. He felt that
was a secret to be revealed by the
judge himself when he should see tit.
"Uncle-Bob, who m I going to live
with now?" questioned Hannibal anx-
iously.
"That pint's already come up,
Nevvy—him and nie's decided that
there won't be no friction. You-all
will just go on living with him."
"But what about you, Uncle Bob?"
cried Hannibal, lifting a wistful little
face to Yancy's.
'Oh, me?—well, you-all will go
J right on living with me."
"And what will come of Mr. Ma-
j haffv?"
I "I reckon vou-all will go right on
I living with him, too."
"Uncle Bob, you mean you reckon
| we all are going to live In one
house?"
"1 'low It will have to be tixed that-
a-ways," agreed Yancy.
thirds an enormously high per cent,
to have achieved."
"There i8 something In that, too,"
agreed Mr. Wesley. "Who Is Colonel
Slocum Price Turberville?"
The judge started up from his
chair.
"I have that, honor," said he, bow-
ing.
"Well, here's a letter come in ad-
dressed like that, and as you've been
using part of the name 1 am willing
to assume you're legally entitled to
the rest of .it. It clears up a point
that off and on has troubled me con-
siderable. 1 can only wonder 1 wa'n't
smarter."
"What point, may I ask?"
"Why, about the time you hung out
your shingle here, some one wrote a
letter to General Jackson. It was
mailed after night, and when I seen It
In the morning 1 was clean beat. 1
couldn't locate the handwriting, and
yet 1 kept that letter back a couple ot
days and give It all. my spare time.
It ain't that I'm one of your spying
sort—there's nothing of the Yankee
about me!"
"Certainly not," agreed the Judge.
"Candid, judge. 1 reckon you wrote
that letter, seeing this one comes un-
der a frank from Washington. No, sir
—1 couldn't make out who was cor-
responding with the president, and it
worried me, not knowing, more than
anything I've had to contend against
since I came Into oitice. I calculate
there ain't a postmaster in the United
States takes a more personal Interest
In the service than me. I've frequent-
ly set patrons right tfhen they was
In doubt as to the date they had
mailed such and such a letter." As
Mr. Wesley sometimes canceled as
many as three or four stamps In a
and that a quid of tobacco was
throwed in anger." Having thus dear-
ly established the fact that he was a
more or less national character, Mr.
Wesley took himself off
When he had disappeared from
sight down the street, the judge closed
the door. Then he picked up the let-
ter. For a long minute be held it iu
his band, uncertain, tearful, while his
mind slipped back into the past until
his inward searching vision ferreted
out a handsome soldierly figure his
own.
"That's what Jackson remembers If
he remembers anything!" he mut-
tered, as with trembling lingers ha
broke the seal. Almost Instantly a
smile overspread Ills battered tea-
tures. He hitched his chin higher and
squared bis •ponderous shoulders "1
am not forgotten—no, damn it—no!"
he exulted under his breath. "Recalls
me with sincere esteem and consid-
ers my services to the country as well
worthy of recognition—" the Judge
breathed deep. What would MabatTy
flnd to say now! Certainly this was
well calculated to disturb the sour
cynicism of his friend, ills blearea
eyes brimmed. After all his groping
he had touched hands with the reali-
ties at last! Even a federal judgeship,
though not an office of first repute In
the south, had lis dignSty—it slgnitied
something! lie would make Solomon
his clerk! The judge reached lor his
hat. Mahaffy must know at once that
fortune had mended for them. Why,
at that moment he was actually In
receipt of an Income!
He sat down, the better to enjoy
the unique sensation. Taxes were be-
ing levied and collected with no other
end In view than his stipend—his ar-
dent fancy saw the whole machinery
m
Interior View of Day Nursery, Kindergarten and Women's Rest Cottage,
Oklahoma State fair aud Exposition, Oklahoma City, September £4 to
October 5, 1912.
women and children of Oklahoma. It
is situated in a magnificent grove and
the little ones left thera are constant-
ly under the watchful eyes of the la-
dies in charge. Sanitary toilets, wash
rooms, beds for children, electric
lights, gas heat and plastered walls
make the building as snug as any
modern home.
Tho Day Nursery will again be un-
der the supervision of the Federated
Kindergarten Mothers' Club this year.
While proud mothers wend their way
milk is used. The same care Is taken
with regards to the water used *nd all
sorts of games are indulged in.
While the tiny tots are being looked
after in the Day Nursery the older chil-
dren will be allowed to play In the
pretty grove. Work of preparing aa
outdoor playground Is now in progress.
The Women's Rest Department «iil
be iu charge ot a competent matron,
who will minister to the needs of
those who seek rest in these comfort-
i able quarter*.
10 RESTORE OLD PAIN1INGS HOW TO BEMJTIfr YOUR LAWN
Marvelous Results Obtained by ; Professor Major of University of Mie-
Frenchman in Experiments With
Electrical Currents
CHAPTER XXX.
The Judge Receives a Letter.
After he had parted with Solomon
j Mahaffy the judgv applied himself
' diligently to shaping that mlracle-
I working document which he was pre-
paring as an offset to whatever risk
l he ran In meeting Fentress. As san-
■ guine as he wits sanguinary he contl-
j dently expected , to survive the en-
counter, yet it was well to provide for
j a possible emergency—had he not his
grandson's future to consider? While
i thus occupied he saw the afternoon
j stage arrive and depart from before
the City Tavern
Half an hour later Mr. Wesley, the
pc#tniaster, came sauntering up the
street, in his hand hi' carried a let-
ter,
"Howdy," he drawled, from just be-
j yond the judge's open door.
The judge glanced up, his quill pen
poised aloft.
"Good evening, sir; won't you step
Inside and he seated?" he aslte/ gra-
ciously. His dealings with the United
States mail service were oi the most
Insignificant description, and in per-
: sonally delivering a letter. If this was
what had brought him there, he lelt
Mr. Wesley had reached the limit of
j official courtesy and despatch.
"Well, sit ; It looks like you'd never
1 told us more than two-thirds of the
truth!" said the postmaster. He sur-
veyed the judge curiously.
"I am complimented by your opln-
i ion of my veracity," responded that
gentleman promptly. "1 consider two-
-2
A
A Btrange case has been going on
for some time in the Paris law courts
concerning a process for restoring old
paintings, claimed to have been in-
vented by a prisoner who is being
prosecuted on the charge of having
obtained money on the pretext of the
success of the method. This method
is a mysterious kind of application of
electric currents to the pictures in
question.
The prosecution seemed to havo
strong arguments at iirst, but now the
state of the case has suddenly
changed, Bince the well-known paint-
er, M. Tony Robert-Fleury, a former
president of the Societe des Artistes
Francais, has come forward and given
evidence in favor of the prisoner. M.
Fobert-Fleury said that the prisoner
had long been a pupil of his and he
had witnessed some experiments. The
results were really marvelous.
"They seemed to me extraordinary,"
said XI. Ilobrt-Fleury. "rle sent cer-
tain currents through the picture,
which caused an exudation. He ab-
sorbed this with cotton waste. The
painting is restored to a virgin state
without being in the least deteriorated.
All the black, oily grease is eliminat-
ed and the painting is revarnished
with astonishing rapidity. I gave him
an old portrait of my father out of
my studio. It was In a terrible state
of grease, accumulated by age. In
half an hour it was cleaned of all oily
matter and restored to freshness.
The leaden salts were eliminated and
the color came back to the picutre,
which is now saved."
souri Gives Home Landscape
Hints in a Lecture
I Was Quite Peevish After He Threw Me In the River
Emigrants Prove Ungrateful
The members of the emigration sub-
committee of the Birmingham distress
committee report that they experience
difficulty in securing repayment of the
amounts advanced to emigrants, al-
though many of the persons assisted
are now well able to repay. Since
1906 the committee have expended
$10,000 In assisting emigration, and
the repayments amount to $100 only.
In each case the emigrant had entered
Into a bond to repay the loan.
single day he might have been par
doned his pride in a brain which thus
lightly dealt with the burden ot ofli
cial business, lie surrendered the
letter with marked reluctance.
"Your surmise Is correct,'' said tne
judge with dignity. "I had occasion
to write my lrlend, General Jackson,
and unless 1 am greatly mistaken 1
have my answer here." And with a
fine air ot indifference he tossed the
letter on the table.
"And do you know Old Hickory?"
cried Mr. Wesley.
"Why not?' Does It surprise you?"
inquired the judge. It was only his
innate courtesy which restrained him
irom kicking the postmaster Into t.le
street, so Intense was his desire to
be rid of him.
"No. I don't know as It does, Judge
Naturally a public man like him is In
the way of meeting with all sorts. A
politician can't afford to be too blame
particular. Well, next time you write
you tiiHtlit just send him my regards—
(1. W. M. de I,. Wesley s regards—
there was considerable contention
over my getting this office; I reckon
he ain't forgot. There was speeches
made, I understand the lie was passed
between two United States senators,
of government Iti operation tor his
benefit. It was a singular feeling lie
experienced Then promptly Ills
spendthrift brain became active He
needed clothes- so did Mahaffy so
did his grandson; they must take a
larger house; he would buy himself a
mau servant, these were pressing re
cessitles as he now viewed them.
Once again he reached for Ills hat;
the desire to rush off to Belle PlaiD
w as overmastering.
"I reckon I'd be Justified In blrine
a conveyance from Pegloe. tie
thought, but just here he had a Bav
ing memory of his unfinished task;
that claimed precedence and he re-
sumed his pen.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Thoughtful Child.
Little Alice was terribly afraid of
cats. One day she had been standing
on tho doorstep for several minutes,
looking at a big black tom cal galli-
vanting on the fence Finally, she
rushed Into the house, looking very
excited, and exclaimed: "Muvver, I
thought I'd better come in Dnt
kitty was Just so afraid of me. 1 felt
sorry for It and coined away!"—*
Woman's Home Companion.
New Pyrometer
A new pyrometer for measuring
high temperatures consists of strips of
two metals, rolled together Into a spl- j
ral. As heat rays strike it the Bpiral
gradually unrolls, owing to the differ-
ence between the two metals' coelfi-
cients of expansion.
Home landscape gardening—which
Is nothing more than making your
house and yard look so homelike and
inviting that your friends instinctively
will want to drop iu as they pass the
gate—is not so difficult a matter as it
Bounds. That at least, was the im-
pression gained by BOO fathers and
mothers and children, too, whe at-
tended the lecture given at Kansaa
City, Mo., by H. F. Major, Instructor
In landscape gardening at tho Univer-
sity of Missouri.
"A well arranged home is very much
like a correctly composed picture,"
Mr. Major said. "The sky Is the back-
ground. Thp house, placed well bacll
in the mid/lie distance is the foca{
point—the natural resting point for
the eye.
"The lawn, spreading out from the
house, is like the mat to the picture
and, like a picture mat, should be kept
simple and unbroken. Driveways and
walks are quite necessary, but as they
are not decorative they should be kept
to one side and not too wide.
"Then comes the frame for the pic-
ture. Trees and Bhurbs—plenty of
them—down the driveways and about
the house, covering up the founda-
tions and the sharp corners. These
are the settings that hold the picture
together.
"Then, the important thing is to
keep the place cleaned up. Grounds
need grooming as well as horses, and
show the effects just as much. Clean-
ing up around a house is like keeping
your clothes brushed—It gets to be a
habit."
Antiquity of Tobacco
The idea that tobacco has only been
known to Europe since the discovery
of America is incorrect. In fact, the
Medes and Persians a long time be-
fore our era smoked narghiles as an-
cient scriptures prove. A philologist
has suggested that the Greeks and
Romans smoked tobacco at least in
their colonies. In the Malay archipel-
ago tile use of cigars and cigarettes ta
said to date much further back than
the discovery of America. The word
"cigar" seems to show that man's
solace and comfort did not originate
in the West Indies, but is most likely
derived from "sakara," an Arab word
meaning smoke.
Phonographs as "Centrals"
The Berlin telephone department is
j making tests with phonographs Is or-
| der to notify subscribers that the line
is not free, so as to relieve the opera-
tors of this duty. The results are said
to be very good
Old Tree of Historic Interest.
Sir Sidney Pocock, J. P., has Just
disposed of his residence, Charlton
: Colrt, Sheppei'ton-on-Tharnes, Middle-
i sex, England, in the kitchen garden of
| which is a very old mulberry tree
bearing a tablet with the follow ing in-
scription: "During the reign of
j Charles II. a fox was hunted from
I Windsor park and took refuge in this
I tree, where it was killed. The king,
j who was present at the kill, express-
1 ed a wish that the tree should be pre-
i served to commemorate longest
Wireless Telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy having been ef-
fected between Canada and Italy, reg-
ular service between the latter coun-
try and Argentina will be attempted.
Test For the Purity of Sugar
A simple test for the prity of sugar
is to burn it. If pure fire will en-
tirely consume It; if adulterated, it
will leave an ash.
Symptoms Made to Order
| A young ladv who appeared to be in
piTt'ei" he* ii entered the consulting
i room of a physician. "Doctor," she
said, "is it absolutely essential that I
I go to Siarienbad this year?" "Oh, per-
haps not!" the physician replied re-
assuring. "Tell me fully your symp-
j toms. What do you expect to cure at
| the springs?" "That is Just what f
j came to you to flnd out .doctor," she
confessed. "You see, I have got to
talk father over. What do you go to
! Marienbad to be oured of?"
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