The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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• rnl Uwi* Hrnrir. A cyrloo* lifted Uielr
to"? Into the «ir, Itorothy ftlllni uln-p
amidst the sacltrim-nt. A crash aauknir.l
ner. Tho Iioum hod loaded in o country
of marvelous beauty. Group# of gu»rr
llttl# people creeled her to the I-and of
Munchklns. Tho houoe hod killed their
enemy, the wicked witch of Koat. Dor-
othy took the wltrh'o silver ehoee. Mhe
{••ted for tho Kmerold City to Itnd *he
" Ikord of Oa. who. ohe woo promts*#!,
tnlpht find a way to send her hoik to
Kansas. Dorothy released a scarecrow,
living him tlf*. Ms was desirous of ac-
quiring brains and started with her to
the wisard to got thorn. The scarecrow
told his history. They met a tin wood-
man who longed for a heart. He also
Joined them. They came upon a terrible
lion. The lion confessed hs had no cour-
ts#. Ho decided to accompany them to
tho Wisard of Os to got some. The scare
” imiu ui UB IO (VI PHlir. a nr m«ir-
•row la puahlng the raft became Im-
paled upon his pole In the middle of the
river. The scarecrow was rescued by a
friendly stork. They entered a poppy
Held, which caused Dorothy to fall
•sleep. The scarecrow and tin woodman
rescued her and her do* from the deadly
flowers. The lion fell asleep and beln* too
heavy to lift, was left. On the search for
the road of yellow brick which led to the
Emerald City they inrt a wild cat and
Held mice. The woodman killed the wild
cat. Tho queen mouee hocsmo friendly.
8he sent thousands of her mice subjects
to draw the lion away from the poppy
field. Dorothy awoke from her Ion*
sleep. They started again on the Kmer-
ald City road. They came to a fence,
painted green. There were farmers of
green, houses of green and people dressed
n green. It was the Land of Oa. They
mat tha guardian of the galea. He de-
scribed the power of the Wisard of Os
All put on green spectacles as the bright-
nesa and glory of Bmerstd City blinded
them. The wisard decided to receive one
af th# party each day. All were put In
green rooms. Dorothy went to the throne
room. In a chair sparkling with emer-
alds she beheld an enormous head with-
arms. bigger than the
am Os. the great and
i-Miuie. sit mi *ne head. Os told her that
when shs killed the wicked witch of the
Kaat he would send her home. The scare-
crow. admitted to the presence of a tx-au-
tlful lady, who said she was the wisard.
waa promised brains when he killed the
witch. The woodman beheld a terrthle
beast with a head of a rhinoceros and
five eyea. The wisard promised him a
heart If he would slay the witch. The
linn saw a ball of fire and a voice from
the object promised him courage If he
•lew the witch. The search commenced.
The witch saw the party when It entered
her domain and caused a pack of wolves
to attack It. The woodman killed the
wolvea. Hhe sent crows which the scare-
crow scared and killed. Bees were dis-
patched nest, but the woodman received
the atlnga.
aids she beheld at
nut body, legs or
biggest giant. *T
lerrlble.,r said the
CHAPTER XII,—Continued.
So the Wicked Witch took the gold-
en cap from her cupboard and placed
It upon her head. Then ahe stood
upon her left foot and said, slowly:
"Ep-pe, pep-pe. kak-ke!”
Next ahe stood upon her right foot
and said:
••Hll-lo, hol lo, hel lo!”
After this she stood upon both feet
and cried in a loud voice:
"Zls-xy. luk-xy, ilk!"
Now the charm began to work. The
sky was darkened, and a low rum-
bling sound waa heard in the air.
There was a rushing of many wings;
a great chattering and laughing; and
the sun came out of the dark sky to
show the Wicked Witch surrounded
by a crowd of monkeys, each with a
pair of Immense and powerful wings
on his shoulders.
One. much bigger than the others,
seemed to be their leader. He flew
close to the Witch and said:
"You have called us for the third and
last time. What do you command?”
“Oo to the strangers who are with-
in my land and destroy them all ex-
cept the Lion." said the Wicked Witch.
"Bring that beast to me, for I have a
mind to harness him like a horse and
make him work.”
"Your commands shall be obeyed."
said the leader; and then, with a
great deal of chattering and noise, the
Winged Monkeys flew away to the
place where Dorothy and her friends
were walking.
Some of the monkeys seized the Tin
Woodman and carried him through
the air until they were over a country
thickly covered with sharp rocks.
Here they dropped the poor Wood-
man. who fell a great distance to the
rocks, where he lay so battered and
dented that he could neither move nor
groan.
Others of the monkeys caught the
Scarecrow, and with their long An-
gers pulled all the straw out of his
clothes and head. They made his hat
and boots and clothes Into a small
bundle and threw It into the top
branches of a tall tree.
The remaining monkeys threw
pieces of stout rope around the Lion
and wound many coils about his body
and head and legs, until he was un-
able to bite or scratch or struggle in
any way. Then they lifted him up
and flew away with him to the Witch’s
castle, where he was placed in a small
yard with s high iron fence around it,
so that he could not escape.
But Dorothy they did not harm at
all. She stood, with Toto In her arms,
watching the sad fate of her comrades
and thinking It would soon be her
turn. The leader of the Winged Mon-
keys flew up to her, his long, hairy
arms stretched out and his ugly fac#
grinning terribly; but he saw the
mark of the Good Witch’s kiss upon
her forehead and stopped short, no
Honing the others not to touch her.
”We dare not harm this little girl,**
he said to them, "for she Is protected
by the Power of Good, and that Is
greater than the Power of EvlL All
we can do la to carry her to the castle
of the Wicked Witch and leave her
there.”
So. carefully and gently, they lifted
Dorothy In their arms and carried her
swiftly through the air until they
came to the castle, where they set her
down upon the front door step. Thou
the leader amid to the Witch:
"\A e have obeyed you as far aa we
were able. The Tin Woodman and the
Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion
Is tied up In your yard. The little girl
we dare not harm, nor the dog she
ferries In her arms. Your power over
our band la now ended, and yon will
never see us again.”
Then all the Winged Monkeys, with
much laughing and chattering and
noise, flew Into the air and were soon
out of sight.
The Wicked Witch was both sur-
prised and wgi ried when she saw the
mark on Dorothy’s forehead, for she
knew well that neither the Winged
Monkeys nor she. herself, dare hurt
the girl In any way. She loeked down
at Dorothy’s feet, and seeing the sli-
ver shoes, began to tremble with fear.
Ike hare of the gate. "1 can starve you
Yon shall have nothing to ant until
you do aa I wish.”
®o after that she took ao food to the
Imprisoned Idea; but every day
came to the gate at noon aad as!
“Are you ready to bo harussssd like
n horse?”
Aad the Lion would answer:
"No. If you eomo la this yard I will
bite you.”
The reason the Lion did not have
to do ns the Witch wished waa that
every night, while the woman
asleep, Dorothy csrrtod him food from
the cupboard. After be had eaten he
would He down oa his hod of straw,
aad Dorothy would 11# beside him aad
put her hoad oa hla soft, shaggy
while they talked of their troubles aad
tried to plan some way to eocape. But
they could End no way to get out of
the castle, for It was constantly
guarded by the yellow Winkles, who
were the slaves of the Wicked Witch
and too afraid of her not to do ns she
told them.
The girl had to work hard during
the day. and often the Witch threat-
ened to beat her with the same old
umbrella shs always carried in her
hand. But. la truth, she did not dare
to strike Dorothy, because of the mark
upon her forehead. The child did not
know this, and was full of fear for
herself and Toto. Once the Witch
struck Toto a blow with her umbrella
and the brave little dog flew at her
The Brave Little Dog Flew at Hsr.
for she knew that a powerful charm
belonged to them. At first the W’itch
waa tempted to run away from Doro-
thy; but she happened to look into
the child's eyes and saw how simple
the soul behind them was, and that
the little girl did not know of the
wonderful power the silver shoes gave
her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to
herself, and thought: ”1 can still make
her my slave, for she does not know
how to use her power.” Then she said
to Dorothy, harshly and severely:
“Come with me; and see that you
mind everything I tell you, for if you
do not, 1 will make an end of you, as
I did of the Tin Woodman and the
Scarecrow.”
Dorothy followed her througlf many
of the beautiful rooms in her castle
until they came to the kitchen, where
the Witch bade her clean the pots and
kettles and sweep the floor and keep
the fire fed with wood.
Doorothy went to work meekly,
with her mind made up to work aa
hard as she could; for ahe waa glad
the Wicked Witch had decided not to
kill her.
With Dorothy hard at work the
Witch thought she would go Into the
courtyard and harness the Cowardly
Lion like a horse; It would amuse her,
she was sure, to make him draw her
chariot whenever she wished to go to
drive. But as she opened the gate the
Lion gave a loud roar and bounded at
her so fiercely that the Witch was
afraid, and ran out and shut the gate
again.
"If 1 cannot harness you,” said the
Witch to the Lloa, speaking through
and bit her leg, in return. The Witch
did not bleed where she was bitten,
for she was so wicked that the blood
In her had dried up many years be-1
fore.
Dorothy’s life became very aad ns
she grew to understand that it would
be harder than ever to get back to
Kansas and Aunt Em again. Some------------ - ..... on ia9
times ahe would cry bitterly for hour*, annunciator indicating the position of
with Toto sitting at her feet and look-1 the table and n bell rings. In a second
nor ever let water touch her
•my.
But the wicked creature waa very
cunning, aad ahe Anally thought of a
trick that would give her what ahe
wanted. She placed n bar of Iron in
the middle of tho kitchen floor, and
then by her magic arts made tha Iron
Invisible to human eyea. Bo that
Dorothy walked across the floor she
stumbled over tha bar. not being able
to aaa It, and fell at full length. She
was not much hurt, hat In her fall one
of the sliver shoes came off, and be-
fora she could reach It the Witch had
snatched It away and put it on her
own aklnny foot.
The wicked woman was greatly
pleased with the success of her trick,
for as long aa ahe had one of the
■boot she owned half the power of
their charm, and Dorothy could not
use it against her, even had she known
how to do ao.
The little girl, seeing she had lost
one of her pretty shoes, grew, angry
and said to the Witch:
Give me back my shoe!”
I will not,” retorted the Witch,
"for It is now my shoe, and not yours.
"You are n wicked creature!” cried
Dorothy. “You have no right to take
my shoe from me.”
“I shall keep it. Just the same,” said
the Witch, laughing at her, “and some
day I shall get the other one from
yon, too."
Thla made Dorothy ao very angry
that ahe picked up the bucket of water
that stood near and dashed It over the
Witch, wetting her from head to foot
Instantly the wicked woman gave n
load cry of rear; and then, as Dorothy
looked at her In wonder, the Witch
began to shrink and fall away.
8ee what you have done!” she
screamed. "In n minute I ahull melt
•way.
"I’m very sorry. Indeed,” said Doro-
thy, who was truly frightened to see
the Witch actually melting away like
*>r^wn sugar before her very eyea
’Didn’t you know water would be
the end of me?" naked the Witch. In
a wailing, despairing voice.
"Of course not,” answered Dorothy;
"how should I?”
Well. In n few minutes I shall be
all melted, and you will have the cas-
tle to yourself. I have been wicked In
my day, but I never thought n little
girl Uke you would ever be able to
melt me and end my wicked deeds.
Look out—here I go!"
With these words the Witch fell
down in n brown, melted, shapelesa
mass and began to spread over the
clean boards of the kitchen floor. See-
ing that ahe had really melted away to
nothing. Dorothy drew another bucket
°t water aad threw It over the mass.
She then awept it all out the door.
After picking out the silver shoe,
which was all that was left of the old
woman, ahe cleaned and dried it with
n cloth, and put it on her foot again.
Then, being at last free to do as she
chose, she ran out to the courtyard
to tell the Uon that the Wicked Witch
of the West had come to an end, and
that they were no longer prisoners in
n strange land.
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
•tains Are Burglar Alarms.
In n New York rathskeller they
have devlaed a novel way to protect
the ornamental ateina on the shelf
running along the aide of the room.
Each stands upon n burglar alarm con-
nection and when one la removed a
contact la made, a drop falls on the
All Who
Would Er\foy
damtaad, quite cfeeriy, that H involves tho
flusotios ot right living with all the tens
implies. With proper knowledge of what
is bast, sack hour of recreation, of enjoy,
■sent, of contemplation and of effort assy
ids to contribute to living aright.
Then the use of medicines may be dis-
pensed with to advantage, but under or-
dinary conditions^ in many *
simple, wholesome remedy may be invalu-
able if taken at tha proper time and tha
California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it is
alike important to present the subject
truthfully and to supply the one perfect
laxative to thorn desiring it.
Consequently, the Company's Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Senna gives general
satisfaction. To get its beneficial effects
buy the genuine, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale
by all landing druggists.
DOUBLt BARCAflM.
Old Crab—What be ye doin' uraound
this place, eh? Wanter buy It?
Nervy Nicholas—Why. I’se de spe-
cial agent of Andrew Morganfeller
and I’se lookin' fer n alte ter lay out
hla enormous estate on. I’ll offer yer
free plunks fer die place if ye’ll trow
off 90 per cent fer cash.
He Forgot flomething.
“Ia that all you have to say to me?”
rhe queried, looking off into space.
"Great heavens, girl” said he,
abashed, "what more can I any?
Haven’t I told you that I worship the
very ground you walk on? Haven’t
I offered you every lota of my worldly
posaesslons? Haven't I said that you
would never want for anything, that
your relatives coulU come and stay as
long as they wished, that I would
work my fingers bare for you, and
that I would devote my entire exist
once to youT*
“Oh, yea, you said all that,” she re-
llied, wearily, “but—"
‘But what?" he asked, tremulously.
‘You—you didn’t aay right out and
out ‘I love you,’ and that’s what I
wanted to hear most of all.”
Tha Rara Gift of Courtaay.
Courtesy includes not merely social
kindness, graces of speech, absence of
tudeness, but honorable treatment of
business associates and of all the fel-
low cltixena with whom a man of af-
fairs may have business to transact.
It 1, not American to keep one citl-
xen waiting all day at the door be-
cause he Is poor, and to grant an-
other citizen an interview because it
Is believed he is rich. Wisdom Is not
confined In a purse, and frequently
much wisdom may be learned from n
poor man.
Mistaken Identity.
“I always did enjoy that scene In
which Hamlet comes out and solilo
quizes," said Mr. Cumrox.
“My dear,” replied his wife, “you
are confused again. You have gotten
Hamlet mixed up with that vaudeville
person who comes out and throws his
voice.”
Ing Into her face, whining dismally to
show how sorry he was for his little
mistress. Toto did not really care
whether he was In Kansas or the
Land of Os so long ns Dorothy was
with him; hut he knew the little girl
was unhappy, and that made him un
happy, too.
Now the Wicked Witch had a great
longing to have for her own the sil-
ver shoes which the girl always wore.
Her Beet and her Crows and her
Wolvee were lying In heaps and dry-
ing up, and she had used up all the
power of the Golden Cap; but If she
could only get hold of 'the sliver shoes
they would give her more power than
all the other things she had lost She
watched Dorothy carefully, to see If
she ever took off her shoes, thinking
she might steal them. But the child
was so proud of her pretty shoes that
she never took them off except at
night and when ahe took her bath.
The Witch was too much afraid of the
dark to dare go la Dorothy’s room at
night to take the shoes, and her dread
of water was greater than her fear
of the dark, so she never came near
when Dorothy was bathing. Indeed,
the old Witch never touched wate^
half a dozen waiters are In attendance
at that table and the stein goes back
on lta peg. The proprietors have lost
so many valuable pieces of bric-a-brac
that they were constrained to adopt
this measure, since the alarm system
has gone Into effect there have been
many surprises, but no losses
South Carolina Horse Swappers
The horse swapper’s business is
rather flourishing in this section Just
now. Many old plugs change hands
and many Jockeys are made to rejoice
for a short while, at least until they
find out that the other fellew knew
something that he forgot to tell; then
he loses confidence In his former
friend—and doesn’t look upon him ns
being the pink of perfection as ho did
before, but they get better as soon
as they have time to think It all over
and realise that this Is not the first
time the trick has been turned, and
probably not the last Perhaps the
other fellow will do tho turning next
time.—Calhoun X-Ray.
Bo sure to live on the sunny side,
but do not expect the world to look
bright If you habitually wear gray
glasses.—Charles W. Eliot
THE DIFFERENCE
Coffee Usually Means Sickness, But
Postum Always Means Health.
Those who have never tried the ex-
periment of leaving off coffee and
drinking Postum In Its place and In
this way regaining health and happi-
ness can learn much from the experi-
ence of others who have made the
trial.
On%who knows says: “I drank cof-
fee for breakfast every morning until
I had terrible attacks of Indigestion
producing days of discomfort and
nights of sleeplessness. I tried to give
up the use of coffee entirely, but found
it hard to go from hot coffee to a
Claaa of water. Then I tried Postum.
It was good and the effect was so
pleasant that I soon learned to love
it and have used It for several years.
I Improved immediately after I left
off coffee and took on Postum and
am now entirely cured of my indiges-
tion and other troubles all of which
dUV° Coffee’ 1 *m now well
contented and nil because I
changed from coffee to Postum.
i •’ODtnm Is much easier to make
right every time than coffee, for It la
*° even and always reliable. We
wleT U!f coffe* “ow ,n our family.
W®Jf8e Postum, and are always well.”
by trill" " * reMon” an<l it Is proved
iDJ**!for * of the famous
Hoad to Wellvllle.”
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