The Payne County Populist. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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Mrs. Saville also recelvps a letter, <
which Is possibly more lengthy, and
may contain more Information than
the communication to Barbara, In
which her father only says he is lonely
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PIER III —(Continued.)
|eorp. ijnes not tell Barbara
i,„ shadow that haunts him
i day a shadow so grim and
n his love for Barbara cannot
m forget II, a trouble bo dark
not i,,,' his mother's gentle
trouble he locks In his own
hH.. lay by day the end comes
Even if he told Barbara she
ot understand. Racing debts
nissory notes would be (ireek
n to her. But by degrees
iconics graver and quieter;
y smile Is forced sometimes,
light-hearted gaiety seems to
sertel him. And then Mrs.
(alls 111—so 111 that any
worry might be fatal—and
ilts and looks at her with a
bis throat and wet eyes. And
heart is breaking with his
j'jles, a sea of debt Is engulf-
ln a month a bill for one
pounds falls due. and he has
to meet It with, his own al-
anticlpated long ago. and the
who might have helped him
III to care now.
x< itement," the doctors say.
I6t shock would prove fatal."
rader George Bouverle looks
e. and his face has a drawn.
It. Dishonor Is an ugly word,
Is what It will mean. The
j had helped him Into the
1 not help him out of it. He
the country, and George has
t all alone.
get a hundred pounds* That
problem that haunts George
Ith a tick agony of uneaai-
. will not be quieted. It Is
there—the certainty of ruin-
shame of It 1 horrible.
. borrowed to pay his racing
t seemed so easy at the time,
i e months seemed such a long
He would be sure to have a
uck and be able to pay. But
who had lent him his name
and George has no means of
ig a hundred pounds. With a
heart, he remembers with a
lat scorches his cheek that his
s Income is very slender. She
en nearly all to him, saying,
sweet, lovable way:
it can an old woman like me
A young man must have pocket
tie had only been harder on me
was a little chap," groans
now, realizing too late that his
xi has not been a good way
larbara cannot comfort him
winter has worn itself away and
has come—March that has more
shy witching of April than the
loisterous month that proverbl
ters as a Hon
no answer from Tasmania
Mr Saville also mean to Ignore
ragement? It were hard to say.
looks like It
Bouverle slowly creeps back
.he borders of the shadow land.
;>or(e keeps his misery to him-
hile the day of reckoning draws
and nearer.
jy the lover* have met. Bar-
las ridden over on her bicycle to
)r Mrs. Bouverle, and George
with her down the avenue. Bar-
rannot fall to notice his dejected
pr. the look of trouble that
the sunshine from his face,
y stand together In the sunshine
the light falls on their young
and out across the lawn the
•ams touch the daffodils.
rbara looks at them with a smile
lwavs think of Wordsworth's
she says, and quotes them
waves beside them danced; but
they
utdld the sparkling waves In glee.
[>et could not but be gay
rich a Jocund company
lied and gased, but little thought
hat wealth the show to me had
brought."
eorge only sighs.
he slips her hand Into hla as ho
!els her bicycle beside her.
Poor George. It must have been
an anxious time for you; but
mother Is better, roally better.
Chicago.
WHRAT-No. S hard
CORN—No. 2
OATS—No. t
Yes.'
he says, moodily.looking with
seeing eyes at the nodding, dancing
ffixllls. and drawing another long
h. Then his eyes rest on her face
h a sudden agony of regret she can
l fathom.
Barbara, my darling. I am not
. of you!" he exclalms.ln a voloe
speaks of desperation.
lifts sweet, smiling eye*.
must not say that, Ooorge;
dear, why do you look o un
orthy i
t >|
She !
'You
It,
•ppy
1
Bar!
can't help it!" he bursta out
'bara, I um a most unlucky fel-
Pear. 4t would bo better for you
nev^ paw me again."
h>0k* half frightened, but her
creeps closer Into hla palm,
e Isn't any fresh trouble,
she asks, noting all at once the
look In his face.
he tella her suddenly and
almost roughly, making the
of It almoat In hla self-reproach
_ misery, sparing himself nothing,
Wiring it an gat In a whirlwind ot d«
'How rou know Ua tort of mm 70U
have promised to marry!" he says
with sudden fierceness. "A gambler,
and a gambler who cannot meet his
engagements! No Bouverle ever dis-
graced himself like that before. You
had better say good-by to me, Bar-
bara. Your aunt was right—I am not
fit match for you!"
Barbara's cheeks are pale enough
now.
George leans the bicycle against a
tree, and leads her across the grass to
a wood, where the green moss grows
in feathery tufts like sofa pillows, and
where here and there the celandine is
lifting its sparkling, spring-like face,
the birds filling the air with song. All
the world appears full of hope and
promise; hope seems everywhere but
in the heart of George Bouverle.
Barbara's eyes are slowly filling
with tears, but what is that In wom-
an's love that makes her then more
tender to the erring and more lenient
to the failures, s ready to forgive?
She and George flave seated them-
selves on a fallen tree, and she Is the
comforter. His hand is held to her
bosom, her face, full of love and pity,
Is upturned, with the tears quivering
on her lashes.
• I feel as if I could shoot myself!"
George cries passionately. "Sweet-
heart. I have only brought sorrow on
you."
Barbara looks at him bravely.
"George, when I promised to marry
you. It was to be for better, for worse.
It is the same as if we were married
now. I am glad you have told me
your trouble. It is very dreadful; I
hardly understand what it means; but.
my dearest. I will help you to bear
IL"
How swe«t are her wordu. how earn-
est the pure and lovely face!
George only groans.
Barbara does not know of the mire
of difficulties that so nearly submerge
him.
He turns his haggard gaze on her.
"Nothing can help me. unless I get a
hundred pounds; and what I feel most
is what this will mean to my poor
mother."
He might have thought of this be-
fore. but Barbara doeg not say so; on-
ly leans her cheek against his shoul-
der, and looks away at the golden sea
of daffodils that flutter so gaily in the
March sunshine.
[ would rather release you," George
says huskily. "I shall have
abroad or somewhere."
I will go with you," Barbara eays.
In a sweet, unsteady voice. "You
cannot give me up. George, for I won t
be given up unless you do not care for
me any longer."
"I must love you till I die!" cries
poor George, love and remorse making
him well-nigh desperate.
But even Barbara cannot raise his
spirits. Nothing can lift the gloom
from his face. A trouble like this takes
the life out of a man. The girl puts
her aim about his neck and draws
his grave, unhappy face down to hers.
"George, after this you will never
bet on those horrid horses again?
Once thla trouble paases away—and it
will pass, dear—you will be brave. I
think. George Oh, I don't know
how to say it! But do you remember
the preacher In the square? He said
God will help people to resist tempta-
tion even in the little things of every-
day life."
"That !« rubbish!" George returns,
answering her caress. "My old mother
talks that sort of nonsense. I don t
believe she buys a new bonnet with-
out asking for guidance as to the
color of the ribbon." He laughs a
mirthless laugh "It stands to reason,
darling. I don't took on a mess like
mine as what mother calls a chasten-
ing of the I .ord. I have brought It al
on myself, worse luck! and 1 don t
expect a miracle to get me out of the
hold My Barbara, my own love,
you've lost your heart to a worthless
sort of Chap. Even Sebastian Saville-
but, no! I would hang myself If >ou
were his wife!"
The misery seems darkening every
moment. That awful promissory note,
given to pay that wretched racing
debt. Is ever In his mind. Not even
Barbara's love can help him now
He stands up. a tall, splendid flK"re'
In tweed knickerbockers, so goodly to
look upon, ao wretched and unhappy,
as hla haggard face shows.
I have only about a fortnight.
saya. as together they walk back to
where Barbara left her bicycle After
that, oh, my darling, what am <
Barbara's heart echoes the cry. Her
face is as sad as his as she * ee s
away In the sunlight; and «",°r*c)
thrusting his hands In his l^*et"and
sinking Ilia head on his cheat, walks
slowly back to the house.
nOKN—No. I
OATS-No. 2
wmcn ner rather only says he is lonely kyb—No.s
and wants her to manage his house- HAYchoi^°VrMriehT
hold for him. j BUTTEB
Mrs. Saville looks keenly at her
niece as she sees her reading the bet-
ter, while the color forsakes her face.
And Sebastian watches Barbara, too.
"Father wants me to go out to him,"
Barbara says, lifting her great, trou-
bled eyes. In her heart she knows
that this command is only to separate
her from George.
Mrs. Saville folds up her own letter.
"Yes, so your father says. He thinks
you are old enough now to be at the
head of his house; but we will miss
you, dear. And I see he expects you
to start at once. He mentions the
steamer that some friends of his are
going out by. Every thing will be
dreadfully hurried. We must go to
COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS.
Kansas City.
CATTLE-^Caamon to heavy... !
HOGS—Cholfli £> ....
WHEAT-No. iflmT.1.,.......
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43 a 43 V
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St Louis LIts Stock.
BEEVES 4 00 Q 5 SO
STOCKEima FEKrJEUS ... 3 30 ft 4 85
SOUTHERN STEERS 3 00 © 4 65
Cotton.
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Liverpool ft 3-lfld
New York 'j'/io !>^o
O&lveston 9'4o
PALACE
(Heat Market
presh and Salt Meat a!tr*ys on hand and fa any quantity.
Cured Hams, Bologna Sausage, and in lact avery thing j
usually kept in a first—class market.
Ftth and Cum
In season.
WHEAT-
Julv
COKN-
.Inno
July ..
OATS-
Wlctiltn Grain.
Open. High. Lo<
Close.. Close,
r. Today Y'day
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u jit ii uiihu. ^ a- -- UATS —
London in a day or eo and get your JntM- 21'.'
.. July
25 H 24 24W 25H
2'i 25* l" *4 35*
Calls, Puts.
Wheat: July sj'jj
Corn: July 4o?4 405*
Wichita Live Stock.
HOGS 251 li.iad sold 4 75 97V4
CATTLE " " a ....
GEO. STEES, Pros.
Plmlj o! Mosey to Lou
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thing-
Barbara sits white and miserable.
To leave George, that is her one
thought—to put thousands of miles be-
tween them! The thought is intoler-
able; but not till breakfast is over,
and Sebastian, with another incompre- hkevbh ....
hensible look, has lounged out of the COWS AND HEIPERS. ...
" " 1 , tl' . T. n ohn STOCKEKSA KEKDERS...
room, does Barbara speak. 1 nen sue . texa" —"
looks at her aunt. ! HOOS
"Aunt Julia, does father say nothing i ATPQT NPWQ IN DRIFT
about George? You know we are en- I H t LA I to I NtWb in DnlLN
gaged." I ....
Mrs Saville aralles rather provok- The Khedive of Egypt is visiting
lngly. :
"I do not think your father has any The Des Moines, Iowa, auditorium
objection to your considering yourself js burned
engaged. He hardly mentions the sub-
ject.
Barbara's color rises. She is to be Cut)!ul ele<.tioUs echo not a single
treated as a child, then, who has set
its heart on possessing the moon, and disturbance.
every one knows it is nonsense! | Heavy rainfalls have badly damaged
"I will go out to father as he crops in Georgia.
wishes," she says, proudly, "but when
I am of age I will marry George Bou- '
On Real Estate or Chatties at
Stillwater State Bank.
Chicago Live Stock.
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Grasshoppers are destroying cotton
: in Tennessee.
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ee dou- | .A , .
- — . ' excited over China.
verie; so there will only be a year to
wait, and then nobody can make any
objection.
"I was not aware that any one had
objected," Mrs. Saville returns. "I
have not tried to prevent your engag-
ing yourself to any one.
Barbara s Up quivers. This tacit f
ignoring of her engagement is hard to land.
bear.
Mrs. Saville. who has no sympathy
with her, proceeds to discuss Bar-
bara's clothes. t
You will want some gowns." she
says. "1 am sure 1 do not know what
kind of things you will want. I be-
lieve It is a nice climate; but 1 fancy
some one told roe there Is always east
wind, and that Is so trying.
But Barbara can take no interest in
her clothes.
"I have plenty of thl gs. I shall
only get a deck chair," be says, al-
most crossly, for this banishment to
the other side of the world Is very
hard to endure. Besides, her nerves
are on the rack on account of CJeorge
Bouverle's troubles.
• Your father has sent you a check
for youf expenses," Mrs. Saville says
presently. And Barbara says "Yes," |
and no more
Mrs. Saville gathers up her letters
and rises from the table
"1 must go and tell Mason to com-,
mence packing. Keally, it Is hardly
fair to make you start at a minute s
notice; but the steamer your father
names sails in a few days, and wa
have to meet these people who are to
take care of you."
Barbara bursts Into tears. She Is
stung to a pitch of excitement, and can
only realize the one awful fact—she
must bay good-by to George and leave
him In his trouble.
"My dear, there Is nothing to cry
for." Mrs. Saville says, crossing the
room in her trailing garments, and
leaving it as Sebastian enters.
(To be Continued.)
A carpet mill in Philadelphia is
burned at a loss of perhaps $100,000.
An earthquake has destroyed the
Muir glacier on the sea coast of Alaska.
The Worlds Christian Temperance
nion is in session in Edinburg, Scot-
nd.
There are to be 600 Tammanyitea
from New York at the Kansas City
convention.
Count Murarieff. the war minister
of Russia died of apoplexy at hia break-
fast table June 21.
l.arge blocks of German government
and municipal bonds are offered for
sale in Sew York.
The Kentucky court of appeals de-
cides that the practice of the osteo-
pathic school is lawful
China has 350 miles of railroad with
3,000 more projected. It has 3,000
miles of telegraph service
Alabama planters are gloomy over
delayed work and damage to their
I cotton crops by continuous rains.
Henry Finehout. aged 81, died in St.
Paul. Minn., .lone 24. lie had been in
Myers & Nicely
ELKHORN
SALOON ■ ■■■■sad'
Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars;
STILLWATER AND ORLANDO BUS UNE
Shortest and Most Complete Line
between Stillwater and the Railroad.^
Leaves Stillwater it noons *rriv«w *t Orlando 4 p.m.
Leaves Orlando 7 a. m.; arrives at Stillwater Mitt
W.I... jirMt ombmUm a* 0*laa4* wMh wrth Wa 4 t«la fer aU
W. C. DAVIS.
Turf Exchange Saloon.
W. PL TATE, Prop.
Pure Wines, Liquors and Cigars are always lcepl
in stock. Everything Fresh.
corner8thand Main Streets.
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Origin of Visiting Cards.
"The use of visiting cards dates hack
to quite an antiquity," eiplalns Mrs. j
Van Koert Schuyler, In the ladies'
Home Journal. "Formerly the porter]
nt the lodge or door of great houses
kept a visitors' book, in which he
scrawled his Idea of the names of those
who called upon the master and his
family, and to whose Inspection it was
submitted from time to time. One fine
gentleman, a scion of the nobility from
the Faubourg St. Germain. was
shocked to And that his porter kept
so poor a register of the names of
those who had called upon him. The
names, badly written with spluttering
pen and pale or muddy Ink. suggested
to hloi the Idea of writing his own
railroad employ for «0 years, most of
that time as a conductor.
The Standard (HI company now has
control of the gas company in New
York Citv. and has raised the price of
gut from 65 cents to SI.0.1 per thousand j
feet
| Another big leak of funds has been
found in Havana, where the schools
had a large number of high priced
professors. Governor General Wood
cut the number about on-half, and re-
duced salaries besides.
United States trade with China
doubled in four years from '98 to '99
inclusive. During last year China im-
ported American goods to the value of
$16,388,743. In 1899 the United States
liouglit more of c'hina than any other
country in the world.
| A monster reception was given to
Congressman Charles Curtis as a homo
j welcome, by his Topeka neighbors. In
' his speech he said nothing about pol-
itics.
Puerto Kico has 2iU persons to th
square mile, being about the same as
Massachusetts, twice that of New York
and threo times that of Ohio. It is
more than seven times that of Cuba.
There are 57 towns in Puerto Rico hav-
ing a population of 1.000 or more.
One-flfth of the population live in
towns.
The German meat law is claimed by
the German government as an aid to
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Ota •palstn la S Urtl
HUlTaW, Ottafcwa,
^ Pbjriolan and Surgeon^
OOm aputrs ta *•« Daltca Dolldlaf.
Btu;T Mr, OUtkMli
name upon slips of paper or bits of , ule — --
cardboard in advance of calling upon dealers as it does away with local i
his neighbors, lest his name should j section and provides for uniform in-
fare ns badly at the hands of their
porters. This custom soon became
generally established."
spection
The war pepartraent has detailed an
officer to consider regulations in view
I of the establishment of a war college
I for the army.
The Chicago board of trade has
rln« Barensm.
Four or live drummers, after their
ners" stored ' cu^dYeouTt decision giving them the
the various cities of the Vnlted States right to collect daily market quota-
CHAPTER IV.
Mr. Havllle's answer has come.
I. not in the leas, what Barbara ex^
pected. It Is a very short letter, and
out of It falls a cheque for t*o hun-
dred pounds. And there nothing
about her engagement at all,
casual allualon to the danger of nirta-
tlona thaUcan end In nothing.
Barbara la to come out to Tasmania at
once, by the next steamer that aalls
after the receives the letter. T
hundr.d pounds la to purchase no out
which they had visited In the courae
of their business experience. New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Bos-
ton were left In the list of the unde-
cided when a New York man uppealed
to a veteran who had been reading a
newspaper during the discussion. "You
know the country pretty well, I guess,
major?" said the New Yorker. "Fairly,
I should «ay," was the reply. "I've
been traveling over It for thirty
years." "Well, what would you say
was the best town In the United
Btates?" "Chicago," responded the
major, promptly. "Aw," expostulated
the New Yorker, "wo don't mean mor-
ally," whereupon the major hastened
to ipoloslat.—Washington Star.
tions. This is the result of the fight
against bucket shops.
A rascal haa been swinging a nuin
Iter of young women at Kansas City,
lie gets them to advance a portion of
their fare to Pittsburg where he Is to
take them to join his theatrical com-
pany. He had a lot of them bunched
at tiic depot and then diaappeared.
A bellboy of Minneapolis weut to the
Klondiko among the Hrst. He haa re-
turned with heaps of money and left a
doien claims being worked there hav-
ing a partner for each one. He Is Irish
and will visit his mother In Ireland
lie la but little more than ')0 years old.
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