The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1910 Page: 4 of 12
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THE iUOW, TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA
EMBERS
By LEIGH GORDON GILTNER
(Copyright. lSt , by blury i-ab. Co.)
He gazed at her with esger Intent-
Hess Outwardly she was title changed
Time and suffering had carved sharp
lines about his Hps and eyes and
touched his temples with gray; while
the woman's opulent beauty seemed
f>ut to have flowered into fuller per-
fection Her face was unfurrowed:
her eyes as lustrous as when they had
last met his—but something bad gone
out of them.
"lone," he said, "1 csme as soon as
I decently might—to ask you to for-
give me and help me bridge over these
six wasted years."
"Forgive you," she Interrupted,
"why Will, I've wanted always to own
myself in the wrong and to ask you
to forgive me!"
He made a movement toward her,
but something—or the lack of some-
thing—in her eyes restrained him.
"The fault was wholly mine," she
went on quietly. "It was such a
little thing—but I often think life's
greatest tragedies grow out of trifles.
A word from me would have sufficed—
but my foolish woman's pride would
not let me speak. "If I had been—less
uncertain—but It was ct a time when
everything was still indefinite. 1 was
not sure of you—or even of mytelf.
Yet I think you must have guessed
that I cared; and I used to fancy—
you did love me, Will?"
"Love you! !l the years I've spent
away from you I've sotindded the
depths of despair. 1 don't quite under-
stand what kept me from being a
brute to her; some Inherited Instinct
of decency perhaps—my forbears were
gentlemen, I'm told—though I had only
myself to blame. She was an acci-
dent of Kate. It might have been
any one else. I was mad enough for
anything. "
She drew a long, deep breath.
"It would have spared me something
If I could have made myself believe
that, Will, but I couldn't. I kept tell-
ing myself that you did not love me,
that ynii
mr vanity made me fancy It. When I
heard of your marriage—"
"Don't speak of It, dear. I was des
perate—half mad, I think. I thought
you had been playing with me, that
you had planned It all to show your
power—ah, what a fool, what a mis-
erable, blind fool 1 was! And then to
drag that Innocent girl Into my misery
—It was brutally unfair to her. But
I don't remember that I thought of
her. Suffering makes men selfish and
I was wild with rage and pain. I
married her with some mad Idea of
proving that your vaunted powers had
falled--ah, lone, If I alone could have
suffered for my folly! I tried not to
act the cad, lone. Upon my honor I
did my best. I tried with all my
strength to keep the truth from her,
but 1 think she guessed almost from
the first."
"Poor child," lone said Boftly, "Poor
child!"
">one," he said wistfully, " have you
no jjity for me? It is the erring al
ways who need pity—not the inno-
cent."
She turned her eyes upon him.
"Will," she said slowly, "It would
once have been balm to my burt to
know that you needed pity—but I'm
past al) that now. I used to feel that
I could have given you up to her al
It seemed to me that If I might feel
the touch of your lips on mine for one
long moment, I should ask nothing
more of Fate."
His eyes yearned upon her.
"And. tow," he whispered tensely
"now?"
"Now I think It would rather bore
me, "she answered quietly.
He caught bis breath sharply. For
six years he bad lived for the moment
when he and this woman should meet
again—and now ... He rose and
strode across to the window where
be stood an Instant struggling for con-
trol. Then he came and stood look-
ing down at her, his eyes dark with
pain and passion.
"Dear," he said, "surely I've been
punished enough. Don't torture me.
Don't say it's too late."
She lifted her eyes to his. There
was compassion In them—nothing
more.
"D ar," he said pleadingly, "dear-
est!" but she r"*de no sign. Then
audi* -jjly b«- wsii atd caught her to
bin with f force, pressing
fler e kit nei* .. Hps and brow and
cheek. She did not resist. 8h* lay
passive In his embrace, utterly move-
less and unrespenslve. His Hps grew
chill; his clasp loosmed. She faced
him calmly—her cheek faintly flushed
—but for the rest quite unmoved.
"Its hopeless, dear," she said quiet-
ly, "a faint flutter of the pulses—pure-
ly physical—nothing more."
He laid his face down upon bis
armB.
f • * «*iu UW«. W/ DpCUR,
Ood! he said miserably, "I couldn't but thf look on his face stirred her
have lived through those awful years h.-rd-von calm. His eyes made a last
if Id dreamed of this!" She might wistful, dumb appeal; then be touched
wish me to be; a word or look frorr.
blm could make me miserable; If he
(lanced at another woman I should
suffer; the fear of losing bis toTe
would constantly torture me—in short
I should be thoroughly wretched.
Whereas 1 think I shall be quite com-
fortable and content Actors say they
produce tbelr emotional effects when
their own emotions are controlled. So
I shall play my pretty wifely role all
the better because my hesrt Is not
Involved. And 1 shall be happy
enough—as happiness goes In this
world."
"And I?" He queried bitterly.
"You also. Will. You'll marry some
one else In time and probably be hap-
pier than with me. I've often thought.
Will, that If I'd married you, I might
have made you very uncomfortable.
A great devotion frequently has that
effect upon Its ob.'ect, I've observed. I
should have wearied you with my af-
fection and worried you with exac
tlons; we should both bare suffered
and probably ended by boring each
other. Even If our love bad proved
strong enough to survive the friction
of dally life, we should in the end, aft-
er months of discord and discomfort,
with occasional rapturous Intervals,
only have arrived at the point where
Archie and I are beginning—a good
comfortable camaraderie, whlcb, aft-
er all, is the safest matrimonial basla.
Good-by, dear Will. It hurts now, pep-
haps; but believe me, the pain will
pass."
"Will," she cried Impulsively,
"you're so physically perfect that I
wonder It doesn't touch me. I re-
member how I used to gloat upon the
beauty of your face—the type Is pure
Greek. Odd Isn't it that I can con-
sider It quite Impersonally now, as I
should a work of art?"
He threw out his arms In a sudden,
desperate gesture.
"Forgive me. dear," she said gently,
"1 know Its bitter—but It will not
last."
Moved by a audden Impulse she
drew the tall head down and kissed
his brow. He did not try to speak.
he cried sharply, "I can't
have pitied him, but that she no long
er allowed herself the luxury of emo-
tions.
"Strange, Isn't It," she said musing-
ly, "that the things we most care for
in this world come to us after we have
ceased to care? Five years ago I
would have given my life for an hour
"Don't!
bear It!"
"I'm Borry, dear," she said gently.
He did not lift his head. There was a
little silence in the room .
"Will," she went on after a little,
"there is something more. I—I am to
be married soon to a man I've known
fcr years. I gave him my promise
soon after the death of your wife."
"You knew?" he queried sharply.
You knew that I was free, yet you
did not wait, you gave me no
chance—"
"It would not have mattered. There
was no chance."
"Then you love him—this other
man?"
"If I did I should not marry him. I
have exhausted emctfon, Will. 1 don't
live any longer—I only exist. My one
prnyer Is that I may never love again.
I I.ave suffered enough. If I found I
was beginning to care for Archie I
her hand with his lips and went away.
When the outer door had closed up-
on blm. Ion* drew a long breath.
"A moment more," she said, "and
1 might have yielded. But It Is better
as it la. I've suffered enough."
vwtia ci.n
The swamp potato (Solanum comer-
soni), which grows wild in Uruguay,
has lately been cultivated in France,
where It has produced a variety with
violet tubers. The new variety is char-
acterized by extraordinary productive-
ness, resistance to disease and frost,
and the production of large aerial
tubers in the axils of the leaf stalks.
German potato growers, however, find
the new variety so similar to the long
known variety Paulson's Blue Giant
that they are Inclined to think that
the latter has. Innocently or designed-
ly, been exploited in France as a nov-
elty. The same opinion is held by a
prominent English potato grower. The
two sorts have also been cultivated
side by side at the experiment station
of a Swedish society for the improve-
ment of moors, where they appeared
to be identical In foliage, flowers and
tubers. The swamp potato, however,
was oeginning to care for Archie I Proved less Productive than the old
should ask for my freedom at once " I'^'ue Giant, and Its most strongly em-
He listened quietly—a hurt, dumb "hfl8i7-ed --..--.v..
wonder growing in his eyes
'As it is" she pursued evenly "I
like, admire and respect him thorough-
ly. He's a fine fellow, our tastes are
congenial and we're the best of com-
rades. I think he loves me In his
way infinitely better than I can ever
love him—but he will not be the loser
" - — - «« uui. uo ilit) lyser
most resignedly, if 1 had been sure j by that. I :an be far more charming
that your heart was mine. But the
time came when I conquered that feel-
ing and tried to hope that you loved
her. 1 think mine was not wholly a
selfish love, Will. All through those
first awful days after I conquered my
bitterness, 1 kept saying to myself
over and over. 'He loves her; he is
happy. That should be enough for
me'. But it wasn't, Will. I'm very
human and after a little I grew hungry
for the sight of you, for your voice,
your smile—why Will, 1 could willing
ly have been a servant in your house
—her servant—only to be near you!"
"lone," he cried passionately,
"lone"— but she stayed him with a
glance.
■ "What I lived through that first
year and the years that followed you
will not care to hear, 't Is not a
pleasant story. But always the
fiercest flame will burn Itself out in
time—the pain spent Itself. Peace
came to me—the calm of the lotus-
eater. At first, a chance word, the cas
ual mention of your name, brought It
ail back to me and made me wretched
for days. But it is not so now The
flame has burned itself to ashes."
The man's face was drawn and mis
erable.
"i might have known, I might have
feared this," he said dully, "1 deserved
nothing i*8s."
She did not seem to hear.
"Will," the went on, "I used to tell
God that If he would let me feel for h
fay—for an hour—that you loved me
could bear anything that came after.
to him as matters stand than if I wor-
shipped him. A woman loses her
power over a man the moment he
knows she loves him. Till then he's
her slave; thereafter her master. If
1 loved Archie I should be unnatural
and constrained, striving always to be
not myself but whatever I fancied he'd
phasized peculiarities, antipathy to
liino and preference for marsh soil,
could not be detected. Similar results
were obtained on an experiment plan-
tation in Silesia—Scientific American
Notes of Women.
A French book on the evolution ol
the Englishwoman finds the woman's
club—which in England is a real club,
not a body which holds monthly meet-
ings—an excellent Institution for both
married and single. For the married
woman It Is her "own place, where
her husband cannot worry her," while
for the unmarried It Is a place where
she need never be dull and where she
can properly entertain friends of botk
sexes.
Worthy of New Citizenship
Triumph of Italian Veteran In Agricul-
tural Colony in North Caro-
lina.
Berto is a veteran of the new Ital-
ian agricultural colony In St. Helena.
N. C. His faith in his ability tc win
a way in the new world is told In the
Survey by Felice Ferrer}, who states
that the new colonists are not only
good farmers but also good citizens.
Berto's ege made the immigration
inspectors look askance at him; they
doubted that a man on the verge of
seneetitude could provide for himself.
In search of elements for a definite
ruling, they asked blm to show how
much money he had. Berto triumph-
antly drew from his pocket and waved
in the air a dollar bill, all his eartbly
riches—I am not sure It was not bor-
rowed!—and when an Inspector dryly
said: "Is that all?" Berto gasped In
surprise, and retorted with the great-
est ardor: "But this Is five francs!"
For a moment the old man's tote
Beemed sealed; the Inspectors were
not deep psychologists; they did not
know their man, nor realize his mean
ing. However, somebody was found
who agreed to stand surety that he
would not become a public charge,
and Berto walked through the gates
of the United States at the barge of-
fice. wondering why his show ol
wealth had made so little Impression
Now Berto, well on In the sixties, lean
wiry, tanned like an explorer, is th«
best worker In the colony, and his
farm among the most prosperous; a
vigorous old man, he manages well
his many acres and hij four robust
sons at work upon them, rain or shine,
whenever the land requires their care
Unidentified.
Mrs. Trout—Have you found any
trace of poor dear Speclies?
Mr. Trout—No; I've read all
papers that fell overboard, b jt nobody
has caught anything under ttvs
pounds.
SHE J. B. MOORE
„ FOR ————■
FARM LANDS 6 CITY PROPERTY
All kinds of Improved City and Farm prop-
erty. Will tell your land at once if the
price is right.
Office Phono No. 132, Residence Phono 89
Telephone connections anywhere in East
Oklahoma. Will sell your land by phone.
Tahlequah, - Okla.
CITY
TRANSFER
PHONE 64
roua riTsoniaa
aOLICITBD
O. M. KITCHENER
New Tin and
Pumbing Shop
Beat well caalng 22 1-2 eeata
per foot.
Myer deep well pumps.
All kinda of tin ind galva-
nized iron work, steel smoke
stacks built, large or small
All kinds of roofing.
0. S. CAMPBELL
Four doors north Lawrence-
Wvly Mercantile Co.
BREAD, PIES
AND CAKES
FRESH EVERY DAY
Clean and wholesome.
Banquet orders receive
prompt attention. We
•lose Sundays. Phone II
HONE BAKERY
■TOOK BRANCH.
▲ reward of $50 will be paid for eH
dence leading to the conviction of ani
one stealing any of the stock with the
following brands:
horsbs
Horses branded 3
on left she .uder.
cattle
Branded wi tk
stripe aorctss both
hind legs.
Hooa—Left ear out off.
Jsrr Etbridob.
A standing reward of 180.00 will be
paid for evidence leading to the convio.
tlon of any one stealing any of the stock
with the following marks or brands:
cattlb
Oattle branded lasy 50 on left side,
ear mark, split and nnderbit in th«
right and swallow fork in the left ear.
Ham'l. 8 Foreman.
Eat What
You want of the food you need
Kodol will digest it.
Our Guarantee
You need a sufficient amount of
good wholesome food aiul more than
this you need to fully digest it.
Else you can't gain strength, nor
can you strengthen your Btomach if
it is weak.
You must eat in order to lire and
maintain strength.
You must not diet, because the
body requires that you eat a suffic-
ient amount of food regularly.
But this food must be digested,
and it must be digested thoroughly.
When the stomach can't do it,
you must take something that will
help the stomach.
The proper way to do is to eat
what you want, and let Kodol di-
gest the food.
Nothing else can do this. When
the stomach is weak it needs help;
you must help it t>y giving it rest,
and Kodol will do that.
FOR SALE BY CREW
Go to your druggist today, and
purchase a dollar bottle, and if you
can honestly say, that you did not
receive any benefits from it, after
using the entire bottle, the drug-
gist will refund your money to you
without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
of the bottle purchased by you.
This offer applies to the large
bottle only and to but one In
family.
We could not afford to make such
an offer, unless we positively knew
what Kodol will do for you.
It would bankrupt us.
The dollar bottle contains 2H times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol is made at the laboratories
of E. C. DeWltt & Co., Chicago.
BROS., DRUGGISTS.
- - ■ ■nuo„ urtuuuisis.
Find* a Sleepy Grass.
While making a trip through the
southwestern part of New Mexico,
Herbert W. Wolcott of Alamogordo,
N. M.t found a grass from wh he
believes a narcotic may be exti acted
which will take the place of those now
Hnown to science.
"The grass is known as "sleepy
grass' to the natives of New Mexico
near the Apache reservation," said
Mr. Wolcott. "Cattle and horses will
eat it the first time they see 1L It
makes them (all to the ground In their
tracks and lie In a state of coma for
two days. When they wake up they
have no 111 effects from the opiate.
But they will never .^at It again; In
fact, they will run away if it Is of-
fered to them.
"This sleepy grass" Is not to be con-
fused with the loco weed. The grans
is a real grass, not unlike the Ken-
tucky blue grass In appearance. The
loco weed Is a plant and bears a
flower. Horses and cattle bocome loco
fiends and are worthless after tasting
the deadly stuff."—Kansas City Star.
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