The Advance--Democrat (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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m thi* county *oro* ail or aevm
year* prior to Stair hex*!.
It ia really amuamg to watch the
acrobatic feata performed by aome
of our wwapaper contcmporarica.
Near ••progrraaive" *bceta prior to
the recent election have flipfloppi d
a double aummersault and landed
atjuarely upon the old atand |»at
platform. The fall of Teddy the
Terrible left theae fellow* hanging
on a limb and their movement* at
getting down are neceaaarially *e-
robatic and laughable, but how
atrange that it has given them such
a reactionary tendency.
A little review of history will con-
vince the most skeptical that Presi-
dent Wilson is a man who knows
what he is about, and that his ac-
tions are not without forethought
but are founded upon knowledge of
government experience for ages
past. Furthermore that his policies
are thoroughly democratic and in
line with the advocacy of the fath-
ers and founders of the democratic
party. His attitude towards the
foreign wars is in exact accord
with the policies of democratic
presidents of the past. For instance
James Monroe in enunciating a
doctrine which has caused the whole
world to take notice used this lan
guage:
“In the wars of European
powers, in matters relating
to themselves, we have nev-
er taken any part, nor does
it comport with our policy
so to do. It is only where
our rights are invaded, or
seriously menaced, that we
resent injuries, o r make
preparations for our de-
fense.”
It will be recalled by those who
know the history of our presidents
that Monroe was one of the most
popular executives the country has
ever had, being elected for the sec-
ond term almost unanimously. .
There seems to be notions afloat
that the A. and M. should surrender
some of its departments to the Uni
versity. To us this appears to be a
queer suggestion and entirely out
of line especially if advanced by
those who desire A. and M. to
build up and give to the state that
which is purposed by an Agricultur-
al and Mechanical College. It is
not to the discredit of this institu-
tion or its management, present or
Children’s Eyes
Often Defective
From Birth
A serious problem that confronts
parents is to know whether their
children's eyes are normal or not.
Culte a large percentage of school
children are handicapped by de-
fective vision. This condition is
Indicated by backwardness in
their studies.
Have Their Eyes
Tested
Kor the welfare of the child it is
very Important. Give proper at-
tention, and if taken in time chil-
dren frequently outgrow the trou-
ble.
A Siapk Test Will Determine
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Them’* our arntimenta what aay you
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Ten Things To Do This Month
1. Look to the barnyard, and
if it is a sea of mud put it to
rights.
2. Watch the growing calves,
and see to it that they are not
stunted through lack of feed
and shelter.
3. Visit your school and learn
whether there is plenty of fuel
and a good water supply; use
the opportunity to get belter
acquainted with the teacher.
4. Get your boy interested in
the Corn and Uig clubs and
your daughter in the Canning
club work.
5. Look to your subscriptions
to your favorite farm papers,
local newspapers, and a few
go~d magazines. Remember
that “the man who reads is the
mau who leads “
6. Befcin getting prices on
commercial fertilizirs, and ar
range with your neighbors to
buy co-operatively in cur lots.
7. See to it that the farm 1 aa
plements not in use are all un
der shelter.
8. Tackle the stumps every
chance you get; remember thai
s’.umpy Helds and really good
farming don't go together.
9 Keep your eye on the
wood pile and see to it that
mother always has on hand
plenty of good dry material
10 Make a King road drae
and try dragging that piece o'
muddy road that has been giv
ing you so much troubh ; you‘1
bo surprised how much good l
will do
Many Disorders Come From the Liver.
Are You Just at Odds With YoarselP
Do Ytii Regulate Liviig?
I Ar© you sometimes at odds with
yourself and with the world? Do
you wonder wbat ails you? True
you may fce eating regularly and
sleeping well. Yet something is
■the matter' Constipation, head-
ache. nervou*n<
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Fallow bare call* hlmtelf one be *
i a contractor, and run* a plan ms mill
beside*,'* be replied.
The other made an Indescribable
little feature with hi* band* and aboul-
der* and bead, not exactly of con
tempt, but more of pity and aorrow.
“Then laa no chance," be *ald with
weary resignation.
“Are you an architect?*' asked
Meade In bia turn
"What you call—draftsman.' replied
the other. *'De»lgner, to originate; ca-
thedral, residence, anything; detail*,
perspective, water-color, everything.”
"flood,** approved Meade with awak
Piling Intereat. “We need something
like that in Holden.
"What’s your name?" he demanded.
“Conrad Koehler.”
“Well Conrad whalever-your-last-
name-l»—Hayler’a as near as I can get
to It—you ought to Btarve. I have to
see a man In ten minute*” He
snapped open his watch, looked at It,
snapped It shut, snapped It open once
more, took a second look, and Jammed
It back Into his pocket. “You can’t
expect me to miss a business engage-
ment because you’re too haughty to
eat when you're hungry. Come along
with me”
The boy—he was scarcely more than
that—looked at him in solemn perplex-
ity, but followed as he was told to do.
Notwithstanding his announcement
that he had no time to waste. Meade
turned with his quick, nervous stride
iown the side street, at right angles
to the direction In which he had been
hurrying, and wheeled Into the hall-
way of an old, rickety, frame build-
ing Up one flight of stairs he stalked
Into an office where, near the window,
i big rough table, littered with paper
md drawing materials, was tilted upon
rude trestles. A cheerful wood fire
was burning In an old-fashioned stove;
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and p
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«r, it* list**
or the
flat ground*
Mted against
detail
and placed
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cade, aa the
put down, a
hu*i*a fitting the plan* that ha had
Irrli, It* VOOf toll
pocket*. It* eav<«
to afford *hade I
ftlmt*!# Atul mi)a(
The ornamental!
broad, plain *urfa
In Ita suggested
with con»ummate
last stroke* were
scarcely wait.
“l<ouk at that!” he exclaimed in
triumph to hta friend*. Harper
couldn't make a drawing like that In
two year*!"
Aa young Conrad added a chimney
and lined In the wide porch alep*.
Meade was for Jerking the sketch
from under hi* finger*, but the artist
held up hi* right hand solemnly.
“You shoult wait." he calmly com-
manded; and. with a few deft lines,
iuggegted a sidew-alK, a lawn, pome
trees and clouds; then, having drawn
a waving line about it to circumscribe
the plane of his picture, he detached
the sheet from the block and handed
it over, with the pencil upon it.
The three bent over It in profound
respect.
“That is certainly some house,” pro-
nounced Hyde.
“I don't know how to say lovely,”
drawled Eastman, “but I'm willing to
pronounce that, a mighty decent de
sign.”
“Decent?" repeated Meado. “It’s
great!”
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“Are You an Architect?”
| but there was no one in the room, and
I Meade plunged into the next office
* through the communicating door,
| which was open'
This was a lawyer's office. If one
j might judge from the yellow-backed
■ books which filled three cases, and
j here sat two men with their feet on
! opposite side* of a fiat-top desk, chat*
I ting laxity.
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a sluggish liver.
.pelts, indicate
j The tried remedy Is Dr. King's
New Life Ptllto On’.y ?5c tot your
| druggist. Buckleo s Arnica >sive
i tor Skin Eruption*- Ad v
"Where's Harper
demanded.
“He's oat of town. Brandy." drawled
th* I -an faced man at the far side of
the desk. Harper a gone to mortgage
hta immortal sonl for another new ma
chine, and l a keeping up bis tore ao
this room won t he *o b-astir co.d
II.
Of course they called him “the
Dutchman” after he had become an
intimate part of the life of Holden
for there was almost no foreign ele-
ment in the town. Eight dollars a
week and his board Harper paid Con
rad, aid the boy was satisfied.
“I am more worth,” he said, adding
philosophically, “but it iss not here
the money. If you have not profit of
my work that I do, then I am—what
you call it?—no goot.”
Harper, with whom economy was a
stern necessity, brought a cot into the
office, and for a week Conrad slept
upon this cot, taking his meals at a
nearby restaurant. During that week
Harper studied his draftsman closely
and Mrs. Harper made two unobtru-
sive trips to the office for the same
purpose. On Sunday Conrad was taken
to the Harper home and formally in
stalled.
“He's simply a revelation, Sam,’
Mrs. Harper pronounced in surprise
after the first week. "After you get
used to the dialect you begin to dis-
cover that he’s well educated; he’s
artistic to his finger-tips, a poet in
feeling, a lover of severely good
music; he sings divinely, and little
Elsie fairly loves him. She makes
him rock her to sleep every noon be
fore he goes back to work."
It was the good-fellowship of this
couple, together with their unwaver
ing affection, which made Conrad turn
his admiration of them to the samt
degree of worship that he had already
bestowed upon four-year-old Elsie. His
lines were cast in pleasant places in-
deed, and he thrust his roots deeply
into the soil.
At first he had to overcome the
same contemptuous prejudice that hac
bestowed upon him the title of the
Dutchman." Mrs. Harper introduced
him to some nice girls, but secretly
they laughed at his broken English,
and Blanche Reynolds, by whom he
was at once speechlessly smitten
openly flouted him; whereat Mrs. Har-
per wanted to shake her. With the
young men he was in somewhat less
constraint, though even here he was
still an alien until one evening when,
in passing the library, one of a group
of young men made some laughing re
mark, loud enough to be overheard,
•boat -the Dutchman.” Conrad
wheeled immediately and came back
“Not Dutchman—German!” he de
dared, marching directly up to the
one who had spoken. It was l’rice
Reynolds, her brother. "It iss not dis-
grace to be Dutchman, either, but it
is disgrace the way you say it. I am
Dutchman no more! and you hear it!
The other laughed
'Keep your collar on, Dutchy," be
admonished with amused tolerance.
• j not Dutchman. I have said!”
insisted Conrad. “I challench you!"
Thev repaired to Hyde** barn Here-
tofore fights in Holden bad been awtft.
unexpected, spontaneous affair*, and
they had been fought oat with great
vigor la an entirely impromptu man-
ner: bat this was a decided novelty.
When lb*
•*1*
waged, an hour later,
was full to overflowing
■tic spectator*. Candor
____ admission that Conrad
was worsted In the encounter, but that
wa* not th© point. He had fought
gamely from beginning to end
That wa* his Initiation. From that
day he was admitted to be a man
among men. without any regard what-
ever to nationality or habit of
speech; and where the boys led, fol-
lowed the girls. Through them he pa-
tiently plcftlded to Blanche Reynolds,
and having secured her frank favor
there was nothing more In this world
that he wanted. He was the acknowl-
edged suitor of the handsomest, the
most brilliant, the most wonderfully
endowed girl in all the world; he lived
In a home atmospherfe that to him was
divine; his work was not only con-
genial; it was his life, and his em-
ployers— precious thing to this vivid
emotionalist—trusted him implicitly.
Both to save expense and to con-
centrate energy, the office had been
moved down to the mill, where Con-
rad became not only designer and
draftsman, but timekeeper.
One evening Harper asked for his
time-book.
Perched on a high stool, Harper
read him the items one by one; that
on such a date one workman had put
in nine hours, another six, another
two, and so on through the spring and
the early summer.
“That cannot be,” objected Conrad
at one point, raising his head; “Wright
haf not work nine hours by the 29th.
That day he haf been hurt.”
“That’s so,” admitted Harper, con-
fused. “I’m looking at the wrong line.
It was on the 28th he worked nine
hours.”
“Ja, but on the 28th you haf read it
seven hours.”
“That was a mistake, too," said
Harper impatiently. “Make it nine.”
Conrad looked troubled. The whole
time-list had an unfamiliar look to
him, and it bothered him that his usu-
ally photographic memory should be
confused. It did not occur to him
for an instant to suspect that Harper
Mr. Ho«hl*r HtraP*
was reading the Item* willfully wronj1,
that he aa* deliberately adding sev-
eral dollars a day to Meade'* account
When they were through, after
three solid hours of toll. Harper aent
Conrad home ahead of him wl'-le he
counted up the new record. As re
vised, the book showed over a thou
sand dollars still due him from Meade
—enough to tide him over this desper-
ate pinch in which he found himself
Musing In pallid-faced self-loathing
over this, his first departure from rec
titude, he did a thing Inexplicable even
in one of his careless habits. He de-
stroyed the old book, abstractedly
tearing It up page by page and drop-
ping It In the wastebasket.
Ia the morning caine Conrad, and
recognized those scraps at once. On.
the table lay the new book where Har-
per had left It the night before. Me-
chanically obeying the inexorable logic
of the situation, Conrad picked some
of the scraps from the basket and com-
pared entries. Every legible word
was damning. Here, on the 16th, was
Turner, on the old book three hours,
in the new book nine. Wright was In.
the new book for nine hours on that
date, and in the old one his name was
not written down at all, for he had
been at work on another job.
Then Harper came in, strangely
shaken, though trying to preserve an
air of easy nonchalance.
“I have just had a settlement with
Meade,” he began in a voice intended
to be quiet and cheery, “and what do
you think the fellow did? Offered me
a five-hundred-dollar bonus for the
good work wTe have done!
“Here's your back pay, Conrad,” he
said. “I’m sorry to have kept you
waiting so long.”
Conrad backed away from the check:
as if it were an unclean thing.
“No, no!” he cried. ‘That money, I
want it not! It is not goot money. I1
saw in the basket this morning the
book where you tore it up. You haf
been a t’ief; I am part t’ief;” and slip-
ping his instruments into his pockets
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