The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Pan Blair, the 22-year-old son of the
flfty-mlllioh-dollar copper king of Blalr-
town, Mont., Is a guest at the English
home of Lady Galorey. Dan's father had
been courteous to Lord Galorey during
his visit to the United States and the
courtesy is now being returned to the
young man. The youth has an Ideal girl
In his mind. He meets Lily, Duchess of
Breakwater, a beautiful widow, who Is
attracted by his Immense fortune and
takes a liking to her. When Dan was a
boy, a girl sang a solo at a church, and
he had never forgotten her. The Ga-
loreys. Lily and Dan attend a London
theater where one Letty Lane is the star
Dan recognizes her as the girl from his
town, and going behind the scenes intro-
duces himself and she remembers him.
CHAPTER V.
At the Carlton.
There are certain natures to whom
each appearance of evil, each form of
delinquency Is a fresh surprise. They
are born simple, in the sweet sense of
the word, and they go down to old
age never of the world, although in a
sense wordly. If Dan Blair's eyes
were somewhat opened at twenty-two.
he had yet the bloom on his soul. He
was no fool, but hia ideals stood up
each on its pedestal and ready to ap-
pear one by one to him as the scenes
of his life shifted and the different
curtains rose. He had been trained
In finance from his boyhood and he
was a born financier. Money was his
natural element; he could go far In
It. But woman! He was one of those
manly creatures—a knight—to whom
each woman Is a sacred thing: a
dove, a crystal-clear soul, made to
cherish and to protect, made to be
spoiled. And in Dan were all the
qualities that go to make up the un-
selfish, tender, foolish, and often un-
happy American husband. These were
some of the other things he had in-
herited from his father. Blair, senior,
had married his first love, and where-
as his boy had been trained to know
money and its value, how to keep it
and spend it, to save it and to make
It, he had been taught nothing at all
about woman. He had never been
taught to distrust women, never been
warned against them; he had been
taught nothing but his father's mem-
ory of his mother, and the result was
that he worshiped the sex and won-
dered n* the mystery.
With Gordon Galorey and the oth-
ers he had ridden, shot better than
they, and had played, but with Lady
Galorey and the Duchess of Break-
water he was nothing but a child. As
far as his hostess was concerned, on
several occasions she had put to him
certain states of affairs, well, touch-
lngly. Dan had been moved by the
stories of sore need among the ten-
ants, had been impressed by the ne-
cessity of reforms and rebuildings
and on each occasion had given his
hoBtess a check. She had asked him
to say nothing about it to Gordon, and
he had kept hi9 silence. Dan liked
Lady Galorey extremely; she was
Jolly, witty and friendly. She treated
him as a member of the family and
made no demands on him, save the
ones mentioned.
In the time that he had come to
know the Duchess of Breakwater she,
on her part, had filled him full of oth-
er confidences. Into his young ears
she poured the story of her disap-
pointment, her disjointed life, from
her worldly girlhood to her disillusion
In marriage. She was beautiful when
she talked and more lovely when Bhe
wept. Dan thought himself In love
with the Duchess of Breakwater. His
conversations with her had brought
him to this conclusion. They bad
motored from OBdene Park together,
and he had been extremely taken wiih
the p1 sure of It, and with the fact
of their real companionship. Two or
three times the words had been on
his lips, which were fated not to be
spoken then, however, and Dan
reached the Gaiety still unfettered,
his duchess by his side. And then the
orchestra had begun to play "Manda
lay," the curtain had gone up and
Letty Lane had come out on the
boards. But her apparition did not
strike off his chains immediately, nor
did he renounce his plan to tell the
duchess the very next day that he
loved her.
When with, sparkling eyes Lndy
Galorey raved about "Mandalay," Dan
listened with eagerness Everybody
seemed to know all about Letty Lane,
but he alone knew from what town
she had come!
They went for supper at the Carl-
ton after the theater.
"Letty," Lady Galorey said, "tells It
herself how the Impresario heard ber
sing in some country church—picked
her up then and there and brought
her over her«, and they say she mar-
ried him."
Dan Blair could have told them how
she had sung In that little church
that day. Dan was eating his caviare
sandwich. "Her name then was Sally
Towney," he murmured. How little
h« had guessed that she was singing
herself right out of that church and
into the London Gaiety Theater! Any-
way, she had made him "sit up!" It
was a far cry from Montana to the
London Gaiety. And so she mar-
ried the greasy Jew who had discov-
ered her!
Dan glanced over at the Duchess of
Breakwater. She was looking well,
exquisitely high bred, and she Im-
pressed him. She leaned slightly over
to him, laughing. He had hardly dared
to meet her eyes that day, fearing
that she might read his secret. She
had told him that in her own right
she was a countess—the Countess of
Stainer. Titles didn't cut any Ice
with him. At any rate, she would be
able to "buy back the old farm"—that
is the way Dan put It She had told
him of the beautiful old Stainer Court,
mortgaged and hung up ylth debts,
as deep in ruins as the Ivy was thick
on the walls.
As Dan looked over at the duchess
he saw the other people staring and
looking about at a table near. It was
spread a little to their left for four
people, a great bouquet of orchids In
the center.
"There," Galorey said, "there's Let-
ty Lane." And the singer came In,
followed by three men. the first of
them the Prince Poniotowsky, indo-
lent, bored, haughty, his eyeglass
dangling. Miss Lane was dressed in
black, a superb costume of faultless
cut, and It enfolded her like a shad-
ow; as a shadow might enfold a spec
ter, for the dancer was as pale as the
dead. She had neither painted nor
rouged, she had evidently employed
no coquetry to disguise ber fag; raiu
er she seemed to be on the verge of
a serious Illness, and presented a
striking contrast to the brilliant crea
ture, who had shone before their eyes
not an hour before. Her dress was a
actress' distinction, he said softly to
himself: "That's all right -she makes |
the rest of them look like thirty
cents."
CHAPTER VI.
Galorey Seeks Advice.
Blair did not go back at once to Os-
dene Pdtk. He stopped over In Don-
don for a few days to see Joshua Bug-
gies, and so remarked for the first
time the difference between th«
speech of the old and the new world.
Mr. Buggies spoke broadly, with com-
plete disregard of the frills and adorn-
meuts of the King's English. He
spoke United State* of the pure,
broad, western brand, and it rang out,
tt vibrated and swelled and rolled, and
as Buggies didn't care who heard him,
nothing of what he bad to Bay wai
lost.
Old Mr. Blair had left behind him a
comrade, and as far as advice could
go the old man knew that his Dan
would not be bankrupt.
"Advice." Dan Blair senior once
said to his boy, "is the kind of thing
we want some fellow to give us when
we ain't going to do the thing we
ought to do, or are a little ashamed of
something we have done, it's an aw-
ful good way to get cured of asking
advice Just to do what the fellow tells
you to at once."
During Buggies' stay In London the
young fellow looked to It that Bug-
gies saw the sights, and the two did
the principal features of the big town,
to the rich enjoyment of the Western-
er. Dan took his friend every night
to the play, and on the fourth evening
Buggies said: "Let's go to the circus
or a vawdeville, Dan. I have learned
this show by heart!" They had been
every night to see "Mandalay.
"Oh, you go on where you like,
Josh," the boy answered. "I'm going
to see how she looks from the pit."
Buggies was not a BlaJrtown man.
He had come from farther west, and
had never heard anything of Sarah
Towney or Letty Lane. He applauded
the actress vigorously at the Gaiety
at first, and after the third night slept
name ::::::
PASCUAL OROZCO TO BE
CHARGE OF CHIHUAHUA
THE STATE IS POWERLESS
SITUATION BEYOND ITS CON-
TROL, BUT AMERICANS SAFE
Madero Is Gradually Gaining Control j
of the Situation—Other News
of the World at Large of
General Intetrest
Mexico City.—Pascual Orozco will
be appointed military dictator of Chi-
huahua if the recommendation of the
retiring acting governor, Aureliano
Gonzales, is approved by the federal
authorities.
A telegram from a high offlcial in
the capita 1 said the state held itself
powerless to control the situatlou
there and that the executive, iu ten-
dering his resignation Sunday, offered
the above suggestion as a possible
remedy. He stated that there had
been no disorders in the city since the
battle last Friday, and that there was
no fear felt for the American resi-
dents, who are generally well liked
bj the native population.
President Madero declared a day or
two ago that he had full confidence
in Orozoco's loyalty. He subsequent-
ly proved it by commissioning him to
go to Juarez to straighten out the
trouble at that point.
Minister Calero, of the department
of foreign relations, doesn't share the
president's confidence.
THE BATH TUB TRUS1
r
APPEALS
i ^
minium
<f'' Intern!
"Turn It Off and Turn on the Other Faucet."
PLAY TO THE GALLERY
LW
Butter Still Drops
Elgin, Ills.—Congested conditions in
leading butter markets of the east
are attributed as the cause for the
4-cent reduction made by, the quota-
tion committee of the Elgin butter
board Monday. Members of the com-
mittee declared the output had mater-
ially increased during the last week.
This is a reduction of 8 cents iu two
weeks.
DEMOCRATIC
PROGRAM
CONGRESSIONAL
IS REVEALED.
Oppose Third Term
Washington. Representatives Sam-
uel W. McCall, of Massachusetts, for
many years a leader among the re-
publicans in congress, lias aligned
himself with the movement in opposi-
tion to a presidential third term. In
a speech to the house he declared that
danger to the republic lurked iu long
tenure of oftice.
Iron and Steel Schedules Are to Be
Taken Up First Because Lead
ers Fear to Deal With
Wool and Cotton.
The leaders among the Democratic
congressmen have finally thrown aside
ail pretenses and decided to relegate
the wool and cotton schedules to the
background and take up iron and steel
first. Revision of the tariff has been
delayed on one pretext and another
but now the mask is off and the Dem-
ocratic program revealed.
As was expected the game of poll-
tics is to be played with the tariff
Bryan's attack on Underwood was due
to the fact taal the steel schedule was
not taken up during the last session
Underwood, a presidential candidate,
wishes to "vindicate" himself More-
over, greater political effect can be got
out of an attempted revision of tho
iron and steel schedules, at this time,
than out of wool and cotton.
The steel investigation is now oc-
cupying the attention of the public
Wool and cotton have become an old
story and. therefore, are of less value
than they were for use In playing to
the galleries. Again, the Democratic
congressmen will not recognize the
tariff board unless they are convinced
that not to do so will lose votes for
their party. They hoi>e, by postponing
consideration of the cotton and wool
schedules, which are the only ones the
board has reported upon, that the pub
| lie will lose Interest in it.
The De mocratic congressmen are do
— liberal el y taking to thin Ice Every
Embezzlement Charged tariff law tho country lias had was
Mobile, Ala J. Gardner Adams, framed by the method they seem de-
I said by the police here to be wanted ' termlned to follow. Not one of these
at Roswell, N. M., on an embezzlement I laws was satisfactory, in the enlight-
charge, was arrested Monday and is cned Judgment of the nation today. Do
being held. The man lias been in j they believe they can get better re
this city several days visiting rela
tives at a suburban resort.
Watchman Forgot His Fire
Jaudon, Mo.—When a watchman
employed by a railway company here
forgot the fire he had kept burning
In the night to keep a quantity of
dynamite and pow der wann, the maga-
zine caught fire and two tons of tho
explosive blew up. Window panes
were broken for miles around. No
one was injured.
Another Oil Advance
Independence, Mo. The Prairie Oil
and Cas Company advanced the price
of crude oil three cents to sixty cents
a barrel. The reason, it was stated,
was the alarming demand on the re-
serve stock and the rapidly decreas-
ing production.
"She Knows How to Make Herself Conspicuous," Said the Duchess.
challenge to the more gay and deli-
cate affairs the other women in ihe
restaurant wore. The gown cam*
severely up to her chin. Its high col-
lar closed around with a pearl neck-
lace; from her ears fell pearlH, long,
creamy and priceless She wore a
great feathered hat, which, drooping,
almost hid her small, pale face and
her golden hair. She drew off her
gloves as she came in and her white,
jeweled hands flashed. She looked
Infinitely tired and extremely bored.
As soon as she took her seat at the
table intended for her party, Poni-
otowsky poured her out a glass or
champagne, which she drank off as
though it were water.
"Gad," Lord Galorey said, "she Is a
stunner! What a figure, and what a
head, and what daring to dress like
that!"
"She knows how to make herself
conspicuous," said the Duchess of
Breakwater.
"She looks extremely ill," said Lady
Galorey. "The pace she goes will do
her up In a year or two."
Dan Blair had his back to her, and
when they rose to leave he was the
last to pass out Letty Lane saw him,
and a light broke over her pallid face.
She nodded and smiled and shook her
hand in a pretty little salute. If her
face was pale, her lips were red, and
her smile was like sunlight; and at
ber recognition a wave of friendly fel-
lowship swept over the young man—a
sort of loyal kinship to her which he
hadn't felt for any other women
there, and which he could not have ex-
plained. In warm approval of the
through most of the performance I
When he waked up he tried to dls- j
cover what attraction Letty Lane had
for Dan. For the young man never [
left Ruggles' side, never went behind j
the scenes, though he seemed ab-
sorbed, as a man usually Is absorbed
for one reason only.
In response to a telegram from Ob- j
dene Park, Dan motored out there one i
afternoon, and during his absence
R'.ipgles was surprised at his hotel
by a call.
"My dear Mr. Ruggles," Lord Ga-
lorey said, for be It was the page boy
fetched up, "why don't you come out
to see us? All friends of old Mr.
Blair's are welcome at Osdene."
Ruggles thanked Galorey and said
he was not a visiting man, that he
only had a short time in London, and
was going to Ireland to look up "his
family tree.'
"There are one hundred acres of
trees in Osdene," laughed Galorey;
"you can climb them all." And Rug-
gles replied:
"1 guess I wouldn't find any
O'Shaughnessy Ruggles at the top of
any of 'em, my lord. The boy has
gone out to Bee you all today."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Climate An Antidote
San Antonio, Texas.—Dr. Abraham
Sophian, New York meningitis expert,
says that bad weather is an ally of i
I the disease and that the climate here I
I is an anditode. The situation through-
| out the state, he added, is much im- I
I proved.
Oystermen Rescued
Annapolis.—Commander Howard, of j
the oyster navy, through indirect
i sources, learned Monday I hat all of
I the oystermen caught in the ice jam
suits than the statesmen and lawmak-
ers of the past? They know that an-
other inequitable tariff law will mean
the condemnation of the party re-
sponsible for it.
The country is awake as to this sub-
ject. They are taking long chances.
off Tilghmans Island reached shore
and that no lives were lost.
Oil Production Decreasing
Independence, Mo.-—The Prairie Oil
and Gas company advanced the price
of crude oil three cents to sixty cents
a barrel. The reason, it was stated,
was the alarming demand on the
The Many-Sided Wilson.
Why did Harper's love Wilson bo?
That is a publication avowedly de-
voted to the old-time theories of
government. And Woodrow Wilson
was Its presidential choice. Y et he
Is making a campaign for the presi
dency on the progressive platform.
Including the Initiative, referendum
and ail the fixings. How can the
affinity of Harper s for such a man j
be explained? .
The suspicion could not he remote
that Editor Harvey felt that Mr Wil-
son would become conservative if
elected president. That has often
happened before to men suddenly
DECISION IS A WISE ONE
Open Debate In the Senate on Arbi-
tration Treaties Will Be Approved
by the Country,
All parties seem to bo pleased by1
the decision of the senate to debato
the arbitration treaties In open ses-
sion The supporters of arbitration
desire to have the principle debated
on Its merits in public so that tho
people can Judge of the measure In-
stead of Its being decided by the se-
cret manipulation that too often Bet-
ties questions, especially those that
are treated in executive session. Tho
opposition seems anxious to Improve
the opportunity for oratory, bringing
out their objections to It. Possibly
some of them may entertain covert
notions of talking the treaties to
death.
Whether there Is ground for such a
suspicion or not, the method Is tho
right one for this, as for most legisla-
tive propositions where an important
principle is involved In this case tho
proposition Is momentous, holding out
a hope for the future of relieving tho
world of one of its greatest burdens.
The obvious way is to have a fair
and frank statement of the objections
to It—if there are objections that will
bear statement—a full consideration
of the gains and an honest nnd public
showing on which side the advantages
finally rest. With that done, there is
little doubt as to the Judgment of pub-
lic opinion.
IGNORE FINDING OF EXPERTS
Democratic Leaders Have Their Own
Ideas as to Revision of the
Tariff Schedules.
Democrats In the bouse of represen-
tatives are making no secret of their
purpose to proceed with their revision
of tho tariff without any regard to the
expert Information on the subject fur-
nished and to be furnished by the tar-
iff board In accordance with this
policy the ways and means committee
has postponed Its consideration of tho
woolen schedule In order to allow tlmo
for the facts and conclusions present-
ed by the board and communicated to
congress by the president to pass
from the'public mind, and Is now busy-
ing Itself with other schedules, with
regard to which no undesired and In-
convenient enlightenment has been re-
ceived Chairman Underwood and his
Democratic colleagues feel that they
can get along better, that they can
make more rapid progress and accom-
plish results more satisfactory to
themselves when they are not burden-
ed with too much knowledge. They
do not experience any need for Infor-
mation. They can concoct tariff
schedules out of their own inner con-
sciousness, and that Is what they pre-
fer to do.
eserve stock and the rapidly decreas- j charged with authority The "outs
Ing production.
Says Hammond Safe
Washington John Hays Hammond,
the mining engineer who has been
traveling in the insurrecto zone of
Mexico, telegraphed Sunday night to
Mrs. Hammond from Ilermosillo, Mex-
ico, that he expected to arrive in
Tucson, Ariz., Monday.
are proverbially radical, and the
Meaning W. J. B.7
The Buffalo Express views 1912 with
alarm. 11 says "The year which has
just been ushered 111 Ib classed by
some seers as a year fraught with
"Ins." from Jefferson down, strange- I much danger. Dire happenings aro
ly cautious. Harper's devotion has I predicted. The stars forecast them.
All Could Vote
Washington.—Universal suffrage
suffrage for citizens of the district of j ™vprer
Columbia as proposed in a bill intro-
duced by Representative Berger of
Wisconsin.
looked like discounting such a rever-
sion of Wilson's attitude to his orlg
Inal position
Hut does the Democratic party, In
the now ascendant radicalism pur-
pose to elect a man whose relapse
from liberalism could be thus clearly
anticipated? 1*iiese questions the
break betweei the governor and dis-
llarvey naturally suggests
Their answer will afford the most In-
teresting developments of the coming
months.
It Needed a Diagram.
Dealer—Yts, quite good, only I
can t quite see what It's all about.
Artist—Why, It's clear as mud Tbs
farmyard at sunrise
Dealer—Of course, of course But,
say, would you have any objec
tion to making an affidavit to go witk
it?
Will Pay Americans
Tehran.—Arrangements have been
made to pay the Americans employed
in the treasury department, among
whom were W. Morgan Shuster, trea-
surer-general, their full contract sal-
ary and traveling expenses.
Lever Bill Passes
Washington.—The house passed the
Lever bill providing that the United
States department of agriculture's in-
quiry into the acreage planted to cot-
ton shall be made on Jul) 1, Instead
of Jun* 1 of each year.
Jackson's Stand for Tariff.
The Washington Post recalls to
Men need to be cautious in their com-
ings and goings and in all their do-
ings. There are evils to be avoided, ca-
tastrophes to be guarded against. One
must be walchful, alert, vigilant. For
1912 Is a leap year."
Nor are all the perils those pe-
culiar to leap year. There are like-
wise those which camp upon the trail
of a people capable of listening to a
Ixiud Noise and accepting It as wis-
dom, patriotism and statesmanship.—
Johnstown I Pa.) Democrat.
Usual Democratic Procedure.
This year's Democratic platl >rm can
not be foretold The Democi..!lc na
Democrats celebrating Jackson day tional convention will be held the
the tariff pla.orm on which he was
elected for his second term It was
not read at the Washington banquet
Here It Is: "Resolved. 'I hat an ade-
quate protection to American Industry
is indispensab'e to the prosperity of
the country; and that an al andon
ment of the policy at this period would
be attended with consequences ruin
ous to the test Interests of the na-
tion "
week after Ihe Republican convention
itr.d the Democrats won't know until
[ the Republicans get through what
I they'll have to "declare against."
Democratic Novelty
Nobody will blame the I'emocrats
for rejoicing In their party "harmony"
while they can. It Is not rn!v a nov-
elty. but Is liable ti disappear any n>>
ment.—Kansas City Juurua.
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