The Collinsville News. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 16, 1909 Page: 4 of 10
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tie '/VI tiwia
‘Fie »* ay zrst who 3It*b 1b Ka»-
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Tie Witch of the North Keise! to
tLiz.* i'jf a t.::.* >•• ,'b her b<?ad t/owed
axd her eye* c^oa the ground. Then
»i*r J'/z/tei up and raid:
"1 do tot know where Kansas la.
for l bare cerer beard that country
zneaitk/oed before. But Tell me, la It
b ctvflhsed country T'
“Ob. yes,” replied Dorothy.
“Then that accxrooL* for It In the
drill zed countries I believe there are
no witches left; nor wizards, nor sor-
eereaae*. nor magicians. But, yon see,
the laid of Oz ba* nerer been cl rl-
llzeNj, for we are cot off from all the
Witch of the North.
real of the world. Therefore we still
have witches and wizards amongst
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“Who are the Wizards?'* asked Dor-
othy,
“Oz himh»-If is the Great Wizard,’*
answered the Witch, sinking her voice
to a whisper. “He is more powerful
than all the rest of us together. lie
lives in the City of Emeralds.”
Dorothy was going to ask another
question, but Just then the Munchklns,
who had been standing silently by,
gave a loud shout and pointed to the
corner of the house where the Wicked
Witch had been lying.
What is it?" asked the little old
oman; and looked, and began to
ngh. The feet of the dead Witch
lad disappeared entirely and nothing
was left hut the silver shoes.
‘‘She was so old," explained the
Witch of the North, “that she dried up
quickly In the sun. That Is the end
of hor. Hut the sliver shoes are yours,
and you Ahull have them to wear.”
She reached down and picked up the
shoes, and, after shaking the dust out
of them, handed them to Dorothy.
“The Wlteh of the Hast was proud
of tbos« sliver shoes,” said one of the
Munchklns; "and there Is some charm
connected with them; but what it is
^e never knew."
Dorothy carried the shoes Into the
house ami placed them on the (able.
Then sho came out again to the
Munchklns and said:
“I Hitt anxious to get hack to my
aunt and uncle, for 1 am sure they
will worry about me. Can you help
mo find nij way?”
The Munclikins and the Witch first
looked at one another, and then at
Dorothy, nnd then shook their heads.
"At the East, not far from here,"
said one, “there Is a great desert, and
none could live to cross It."
“it Is the same at the Houth,” Bald
another^ “for I have been there and
seen It. The South Is the country of
the Quadllngs.”
“1 am told,” said the third man,
"that it Is the same at the West. And
that country, where the Winkles live,
Is ruled by the wicked Witch of the
West, who would make you her slave
If you passed her wa;\”
“The North is my home," said the
old lady, "und nt Its edge is the same
great desert that surrounds tills land
of Os. I'm afraid, my dear, you will
have to live with us.”
Dorothy began to sob, at this, for
she felt lonely among nil these strange
people. Her (cars seemed to grieve
the kind hearted Munchklns, for (hey
immediately took out their handker-
chiefs and began to ween also As for
At ofcoe *i.e tap thiistd to a slate, oa
* i>i vu writ lea Its Mg. whit* efcaJk
tuuc
“LET DOROTHY GO TO THE CITY
OF EMERALDS.”
The little old woman took the slate
froze her o'/w- and. haring read the
words os it. asked:
“I* your litre Dorothy, my dear?"
“Yes." answered the child, looking
op and drying her 'ears.
"Then you must go to the City of
Emeralds. Perhaps Oz will help you "
* Where Is this cityT” asked Dorothy.
“It Is exactly In the center of the
country, and is ruled by Oz, the
Great Wizard I told you of.”
“Is he a good man T’ inquired the
girl, anxiously.
“He is a good Wizard. Whether he
is a man or not I cannot tell, for 1
bare never seen him.”
' How can I get there?” asked Dor-
othy.
“You must walk. It Is a long Jour-
ney, through a country that Is some-
time* pleasant arid sometimes dark
and terrible. However, I will use all
the magic arts I know of to keep you
from harm.”
“Won’t you go with me?" pleaded
the girl, who had begun to look upon
the little old woman as her only
friend.
“No, I cannot do that,” she replied;
“hut I will give you my kiss, and no
one will dare injure a person who has
been kissed by the Witch of the
North.”
Rhe came close to Dorothy and
kissed her gently on the forehead.
Where her lips touched the girl they
left a round, shining mark, as Dorothy
found out soon after.
“The road to the City of Emeralds
Is paved with yellow brick,” said the
Witch; "so you cannot mfss it. When
you get to Oz do not be afraid of him,
hut tell your story and ask him to
help you. Good-by, my dear.”
The. three Munchklns bowed low to
her and wfshed her a pleasant Jour-
ney, after which they walked away
through the trees. The W'ltch gave
Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled
around on her left heel three times,
and straightway disappeared, much to
the surprise of little Toto, who barked
after her loudly enough when she bad
gone, because he had been afraid even
to growl while she stood by.
Hut Dorothy, knowing her to be a
witch, had expected her to disappear
in Just that way, and was not sur-
prised in the least.
thing to take a 3ong in. for they soundly in them till morning, with
ceroid i,ck wear ceu. I Toto curled up on the blue rug beside
She took off her old leather shoes her.
and tied on the silver ones, which She ate a hearty breakfast, and I
fitted her as well as if they tad been watched a wee Mimchkin baby, who ;
made for her. ! played with Toto and pulled his tall !
and crowed and laughed in a way that
Finally she picked op her basket j
“Come along Tc/to she said, we greatly amused Dorothy. Toto was a
wOi go to the Em^rali City and ask fine curiosity to all the people, for
the great Ox how to get back to Kan- they had never seen a dog before.
*** again " “How fag is it to the Emerald City?”
Rhe closed the dor- locked It, and the girl asked,
pm the key carefully In the pocket of j “I do not know ,** answered
her dress. And so, with Toto trotting
along soberly behind her, she started
on her journey.
There were several roads near b7,
but it did not take her long to find the
one paved with yellow brick. Within
a short time she was walking briskly
toward the Emerald City, her silver
shoes tinkling merrily on the hard,
yellow roadbed. The sun shone bright
and the birds sang sweet and Dorothy
did not feel nearly a?, bad as you might
think a little girl would who had been
suddenly whisked away from ber own
country and set down In the midst of
a strange land.
She was surprised as she walked
along, to see how pretty the country
was about her. There were neat
fences at the sides of the road,
painted a dainty blue color, and be-
yond them were fields of grain and
Boq,
gravely, “for I have never been there.
It is better for people to keep away
from Oz, unless they have business
with him. Rut it is a long way to the
Emerald City, and it will take you
many days. The country here is rich
and pleasant, but you must pass
through rough and dangerous places
before you reach the end of your Jour-
ney.”
This worried Dorothy a little, but
she knew that only the great Oz could
help her get to Kansas again, so she
bravely resolved not to turn back.
She bade her friends good-by, and
again started along the road of yellow
brick. When she had gone several
miles she thought she would stop to
rest, and so climbed to the top of the
fence beside the road and sat down.
There was a great cornfield beyond
the fence, and not far away she saw a
vegetable* in abundance. Evidently Scarecrow, placed high on a pole to
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When Dorothy was left alone she
began to feel hungry. So she went to
the cupboard and cut herself some
bread, which she spread with butter.
She gave some to Toto, and taking a
pall from the shelf she carried it down
to the little brook and filled it with
clear, sparkling water. Toto ran over
to the trees and began to bark at the
birds sitting there. Dorothy went to
get him, and saw such delicious fruit
hanging from the branches that she
gathered some of It, finding it Just
what she wanted to help out her break-
fast.
Then Rhe went back to the house,
and having helped herself and Toto to
a good drink of the cool, clear water,
she set about making ready for the
journey to the City of Emeralds.
Dorothy had only one other dress,
but that happened to be clean and
was hanging on a peg beside her bed.
it was gingham, with checks of white
and blue; and although the blue was
somewhat faded with many washings,
it was still a pretty frock. The girl
washed herself carefully, dressed her-
self In the clean gingham, and tied
her pink suubonnet on her head. She
took a little basket nnd filled It with
bread from the cupboard, laying a
white cloth over the top. Then she
looked down at her feet and noticed
how old and worn her shoes were.
“They surely will never do for a
long Journey. Toto,” she snld. And
Toto looked up into her face with his
little black eyes and wagged his tall
to show he knew whit she meant.
At that moment Dorothy saw Ivins
the Munchklns were good farmers and
able to raise large crops. Once in a
while she would pas3 a house, and the
people came out to look at her and
bow low as she went by; for everyone
knew she had been the means of de-
stroying the wicked witch and setting
them free from bondage. The housed
of the Munchklns were odd looking
dwellings, for each wa3 round, with a
big dome for a roof. All were painted
blue, for in this country of the East
blue was the favorite color.
Towards evening, when Dorothy
was tired with her long walk and be-
gan to wonder Where She should pass
the night she came to a house rather
larger than the rest. On the green
lawn before it many men and women
were dancing. Five little fiddlers
played as loudly as possible and the
people were laughing and singing,
while a big table-'.near by was loaded
with delicious fyjits and nuts, pies
and cakes, and many other good
things to eat. ■ *
The people greeted Dorothy kindly,
and Invited her to supper and to pass
the night with them; for this was the
home of one of the richest Munchklns
In the land, and his friends were gath-
ered with him to celebrate their free-
dom from the borftlage of the wicked
witch.
Dorothy ate a. hearty supper and
was waited upon by the rich Muneh-
kin himself, whose name was Boq.
Then she sat down upon a settee and
watched the people dance.
When Boq saw her silver shoes he
said :
“You must be a great sorceress.”
“Why?” asked the girl.
“Because you wear silver shoes and
have killed the wicked witch. Be-
sides, you have white in your frock,
and only witches and sorceresses wear
white.”
“My dress Is blue and white
checked,” said Dorothy, smoothing out
the w'rinkles in it.
“It is kind of you to wear that,” said
Boq. “Blue is the color of the Munch-
kins, and white Is the witch color; so
we know you are a friendly witch.”
Dorothy did not know what to say
to this, for all the people seemed to
think her a witch, and she knew very
well ahe was only an ordinary little
girl who had come by the chance of a
cyclone Into a strange land.
When she had tired watching the
keep the birds from the ripe corn.
Dorothy leaned her chin upon her
hand and gazed thoughtfully at the
Scarecrow. Its head was a small
sack stuffed with straw, with eyes,
nose and mouth painted on It to rep-
resent a face. An old, pointed blue hat,
that had belonged to some Munchkin,
was perched on this head, and the rest
of the figure was a blue suit of clothes,
worn and faded, which had also been
stuffed with straw. On the feet were
‘‘We Know You Are a Friendly Witch."
some old boots with blue tops, such
as every man wore in this country,
and the figure was raised above the
stalks of corn by means of . the pole
stuck up Its back.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
“Look here! Didn’t I tell you never
to come around here begging again!”
“Yes’m, but I just thought dat I'd
drop around an* ask you if you really
meant it!”
Vainly Seek Health in Southwest.
According to a statement of the Na-
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis fully 7,180
persons hopelessly diseased with
tuberculosis annually come to die in
the states of California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas and Colorado, most of
them by order of their physicians. The
statement, which is based upon the
testimony of well-known experts, and~'*»
all available statistics, shows that at
least 50 per cent, of those who go to
the southwest every year for their
health are so far advanced in their
disease that they cannot hope for a
cure iq any climate, under any cir-
cumstances. More than this, at least
60 per cent, of these advanced cases
are so poor that they have not suffi-
cient means to provide for the proper
necessaries of life, which means that
4,315 consumptives are either starved
to death or forced to accept charitable
relief every year.
At Rip Van Winkle’s Hotel.
“What time do you want to
called, Rip?"
"In about 20 years.”
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8ENSE ABOUT FOOD
Facts About Food Worth Knowing.
Well 3,310 Feet Deep.
The record of the deepest well in
the world is claimed by France. Situ-
ated at Ronchamp (Haute-Saone) the
Buyer oil well is said to be the deep-
est that has ever been sunk for in-
dustrial purposes. It reaches a depth
of 3,310 feet. The temperature at the
bottom of the well is not less than
115 degrees Fahrenheit when it is 50
degrees Fahrenheit at the mouth of
the well. Apart from wells, the deep-
est boring on the earth’s surface Is
probably that of the Paruschowitx
mine, in Upper Silesia. It attains a
depth of 6,408 feel.
Some New Definitions
Girls In a fashionable seminary not
a hundred miles from town. In ex-
amination papers, recently turned out
a new batch of delightful definitions.
It 1b evident from thetr answers that
Eoveral of them, while they may not
be trained thinkers, have more or less
logical processes of thought One de-
fined “red tape” as “the Inability of
any one holding a political position to
do anything necessary without special
orders,” showing she had read her
"Little Dorrit" to advantage, to say
nothing of "Bleak’ Honne.” Another
girl, asked "Why does a ship float the
right way up?” replied, "Because If it
did not the people in it would tumble
out." One ingenious girl suggested, staff.
“foxlet” as a noun for a young fox,
which certainly Is more specific than
puppies. And a young person, evi-
dently determined not to let herself
be numbugged, said “BSc.” meant
“Bad science."—Philadelphia Evenlna
Telegraph.
Newspaper’s 8tormy Carter.
Since the German socialist organ
Vorwaerts, was founded, 25 years ago
penalties amounting to ten years and
18 weeks’ imprisonment, seven weeks'
arrest, three months' detention In a
fortreRs, and $3,000 In fines have b„«n
inflicted on members of the editorial
It is a serious question sometimes to
know just what to eat when a per-
son’s stomach is out of order and most
foods cause trouble.
Grape-Nutg food can be taken at any
time with the certainty that It will
digest. Actual experience of people is
valuable to anyone interested in foods.
A Terre Haute woman writes: “I
had suffered with Indigestion for about
four years, ever since an attack of ty-
phoid fever, and at times could eat
nothing but the very lightest food,
and then suffer such agony with my
stomach I would wish I never had to
eat anything.
“I was urged to try Grape-Muts and
since using it I do not have to starve
myself any more, but I can eat It at
any time and feel nourished and satis-
fied, dyspepsia Is a thing of the past,
and I am now strong and well.
“My husband also had an experience
with Grape-Nuts. He was very weak
and sickly In the spring. Could not
attend to his work. He was under
the doctor’s care but medicine did not
seem to do him any good until he be-
gan to leave off ordinary food and use
Grape-Nuts. It was positively surpris-
ing to see the change in him. He grew
better right off, and naturally he had
none but words of praise for Grape-
Nuts.
“Our boy thinks he cannot eat a
meal without Grape-Nuts, and he
learns so fast at school that his teach-
er and other scholars comment on it
I am satisfied that it is because of
the great nourishing elements in
Grape-Nuts."
“There’s a Reason.”
It contains the phosphate of potash
from wheat and barley which combine
with albumen to make the gray mat-
ter to daily refill the brain and nerve
centers.
It Is a pity that people do not know
what to feed their children. There are
many mothers who give their young-
■tern almost any kind of food and
when they become sick begin to pour
the medicine down them. The real
way Is to stick to proper fpod and
he healthy and get along without med-
icine and expense.
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