The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1904 Page: 2 of 10
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"Abide With Us"
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'!'!•« dark, sell n!>;ltt dr:n
1 he mutant v 11Ii1«: styi Ii
A transient brl^ninoF.; i.
i' Hulen, it i II iv, ih< «klc s grow
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< r -frii'ii '^afust Thy will.
r not mir kins, we pray,
1!' i.i with iid .st:)f.
J • ; , i i, ; n< t. <) l.ard, \\ !u>n \\'a
'j'urii, uitji it pcot ••*. hepjis, to T., •• .
Oar livt-s uiv w ary fit the i < nt,
'ml full « r rare, our Hlilvln#* fall:
Y\ • labor ami we have no rest.
TI nugh joy-* bo many. fc irn prevalj,
Al!ii«: Thou in our hearts, that \v<
Mil) bear *>\iv i'! • r i>.iM i!>
"May I como in?'*
A smilo lit up the face of the Inva-
lid man.
"Of course you may, Dabs! Oh. It's
jou, Harriet! Mow marvelously your
voice resembles Barbara's!"
The smile liad faded when he saw
liis mistake, and his pale, subdued Ris-
ler-in-law busied herself with the med-
icines.
"Yes, we're all alike in that." she
said, "If in nothing else. But I've
noticed that brothers and ulsters more
often resemble each other in voice
than in anything else—haven't you?"
"At any rate it is so in your ease,"
i-oid Philip Clicsney, wearily. "Why
rtorsn't Barbara come up?"
The solemn Harriet turned away.
How could she tell the stricken man
that Barbara--beautiful, winsome, self-
ish Barbara, who had lookoed upon
iifi-.a.-t a summer garden, and herself
i ho fairest (lower therein—now could
she tell him that his wife had taken
his illness in the light of a personal
affront? Her plans were ruined for
the feason; the parties and ball.! and
festive gatherings, where she would
have been envied and worshipped as
queen indisputable,, had to !>e ex-
i hanged for a .depressing bedroom. I!
was unendurable!
But how could Harriet tell the dot-
ing, helpless man, knowing as she did
that he had worshiped her with all
the strength of his nature, that she
had left Bslrbara in her room, cry-
ing out in tho bitterness of selfish-
ness against her hard and cruel fate?
"Barbara is tired. She has a head- |
ncho and is lying down," said liar- I
rlet, glibly; and ho was Batialied.
Ho swallowed the medicine she
1 .cured out for him with a wry face.
"Raise yourself for a moment." she
faid, "while I smooth your pillow."
"Very well," he said, irritably. ' But
ho quick; I cannot sit up long"
He was scowling when ho laid back
j.gain on the smoothed pillow, for it
is hard indeed to be 111 when a beau-
tiful wife and a prosperous ousiness
dangle tantaliziugly, and call mock-
ingly to him who was so mighty yes-
terday to come to-day and reap the
harvest for which he had worked so
hard.
Harriet turned r.way, cut to the
which ugly, gentle littii Harlret I'ra-
set had cherished—that time would
win Barbara to a sense of her duty-
was not realized. The gay little but-
teifly soul pined and wearied for its
rose garden, and grew more and more
t > loathe tho nauseous, unhealthy
weeds within which it had to flutter.
Who shall say she was to blame?
Have you. reader, ever attempted to
analyze the charm of the most fasci-
nating woman of your acquaintance
—to find out the secret by the magic
of which she makes men her slaves?
Bo :-o, and, ii the gift of seeing be
yours, you shall fiud that on tho re-
verso side of tills beautiful charm
there lurks the sinister demon—Self-
ishness.
All tho lime Philip grew worse.
He would either die, or become a life-
long invalid- that was th" verdict of
rr.rarort, "I'm blind. I can'^ See."
"It is I, Philip," said uyf/ Harr: jcV
beautiful voice,
A glory of satisfied longing leaped
Into the sick man's face.
"At last," he said, "my wife ray
darling! I -forgive me! I • thought
you had tired of jour helpless, use-
husband. But oh, you have'eome
to me—you have come!"
The volco liad deceived him again,
and austere, truth loving Harriet who
bad never lied before, did not enlight-
en him.
He clasped her hand and they talk-
ed a? lovers do, lightly ignoring death,
who watched, them sardonically. .
But Harriet saw that the shock of
the joy had been too much for the
sick and blind man. A gray shadow
slowly spread over the sunken cheek.
"Kiss me, and say that you lovo
ire!" he gasped.
"1 lovo you!' -ho said, as f.he kissed
him tenderly.
The kiss was a lie, and a lie is a
foul thing; but tho Recording Angel
has surely written the sin in the
faintest of characters ill bis book, for
the: words that gentle, ugly Harriet
obediently spok( were, and had al-
ways been, true.
And, with the kiss of deceit on his
brow, a happy man passed into the
great unknown, . where, if th:re is
mercy, ho never learned tho truth.—
New York Telegraph.
"Why doesn't Barbara come up?"
quick by the note of Irritation. She
kuew it was foolish, and that Philip
Chesnoy bad enough to try Jjim, if
any man had; but she felt it. never-
theless.
He caught her look as she ti'rned,
and a touch of remorse swept over
him.
"Little sister," ho said, clasping her
hand, "take no notice of me. I am
ill and peevish; but, believe me, i
am grateful."
And Harriet left tho room with a
wild tumult beating in her usually
cjuiet breast.
That was in tho early days of Phil-
ip Chetjacy'u Illness, but the hope
The kiss was a lie.
the doctors; and the beautiful girl-
wife shuddered, and bit her rosebud
lips till tho blood came as uhe con-
templated the prospect.
And one day a male butterfly, also
without a heurt, fluttered into that
gloomy bower, and flaunted his gorge-
out. tempting coloring before fie daz-
zled eyes of the brilliant feminine in-
sect of bis species; and, lo! they flow
away from that gloomy house- which
was assuredly no place lor butter-
flies—together.
Harriet was the first to learn of the
flight. She had t'-arod lor so long
that, her lovely sister would, iu revolt
against the late which was •<> ilis-
t&.-tefnl, take some such stop .i hi.^,
that the discovery scarcely came sis a
surprise. She had done her best to
drive the male butterfly fixim the
house; but he had found entrance
again and again.
Hei thin, pale face grew rnoro
drawn as she contemplated the posi-
tion; but, like the drab, unselfish crea-
ture she was, she soon fell to blam-
ing herself.
BaboHiad been their mother's dar-
ling, and on her deathbed she had be-
stowed her upon Harriot as a precious
trust. How, she reflected, had she
kept that trust? It is ever thus with
the drab and unselflsh.
That night the doctors canic from
the invalid's room looking graver
than over. Philip, they said, was
sinking, and ugly, gentle Harriet grew
to think that surely Fate must bate
him bitterly indeed.
To lose life is bitter. In spite of
the pessimists; but to have the knowl-
edge that while life was slowly ebb-
ing honor itself had taken wing-, and
flown, is to taste the uttermost dreg?
of human degradation.
She had not told hiui of the flight
of tho butterflies. She had tried, for
she conceived it to be her duty to do
so; hut the words had stuck in her
throat. And now, as she was about
to enter hla room, she1 determined
that he should never know if she
could help it.
"Who is it?" moaut'd Philip. av> she
THE POWEr? OF GRIT
Make Up Your Mind to a Task, and
You Will Do It.
To carry on the back a pack weigh-
in;; a hundred pounds or more means
not only strong muscles but a masiery
of balance. In the Forest, Mr.
Stewart Edward White says that the
first time he did any packing he had a
hard time stumbling a few hundred I
feet with just fifty pounds on his
back. At the end of that same trip he j
could carry a hundred pounds and n j
lot of canoe poles and guus over n j
long portage without serious incon j
venience. Mr. White says:
At first packing is as near infernal j
punishment as merely mundane con
ditlons can compass. Sixteen 1 nr.d
new muscles ache, at first dully, then j
sharply, then intolerably, until it j
seems you cannot bear it another sec |
ond. At first you rest every time yon 1
feel tired. Then you begin to feel very j
tired every fifty feet. Then y*i havi j
to do tho best you can. and prove the ,
pluck that is iu you.
Mr. Tom Friant, an old wood shod i
of wide txp^rimw . •; has often told m<
with relish of his first try at carrying.
Jle had about sixty pounds, nnd his
companion double that amount. Mr.
Friant stood, it for what seemed like
a few centuries, and then sat down.
He could not have moved another
sto;i if a gun had been at his ear.
"What's the matter?" r.skod his
companion.
"Bel." said Friant, "I'm all in. I
can't navigate. Here's v.-her# 1 quit."
' Can't you carry her any farther?" j
"Not an inch."
"Well, pile her on. I'll carry her for j
you." i
Friant looked at hipi a moment in
silent amazement.
"Bo you mean to say that jou are
going to carry your pack and mine,
too?"
"That's what I mean to say. I'll do j
it if I have to."
Friant drew a long breath. "Well." |
said he, at last, "if a little, sawed-off [
chan like you can wiggle under a hun-
dred and eighty, I guess I can make it
under sixty."
"That's right," said Bel, inyierturh-
ably. "It you think you can. you
can."
"And 1 did," ends Friant, vith a
chuckle.
Therein lies the whole secret. The
work is irksome, painful, )ut K you
think you can do it. you can; l'or a!
though great Is the protest of the hu-
man frame against what it considers
abuse, greater still is
man's grit.
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Miss Agnes Miller, of Chicago, speaks
to young- women about dangers of the
Menstrual Period — how to avoid pain and
suffering and remove the cause by using
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
"To Young Women:—I suffered for six years with dysmenor-
rhea (painful periods), so much so that I dreaded every month, as I
know it meant three or four days of intense pain. The doctor said
this was due to an inflamed condition of the uterine appendages caused
by repeated and neglected colds.
"If young girls only realized how dangerous it is to take cold at
this critical time, much suffering would be spared them. Thank God
for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, that was the only
imdicine whi.'li helped me any. Within three weeks after I started to
talco it, I noticed a marked improvement in my general health, and at
the time of my next monthly period tho pain had diminished consider-
ably. I kept up the treatment, and was cured a month later. I am like
another person since. I amjn perfect health, my eyes are brighter, I have
added 12 pounds to my weight, my color is good, and I feel light and
happy," — Miss Agnes Miller, 25 Potomac Axe., Chicago, 111.
The monthly sickness reflects the condition of a woman's
'lealth. Anj thing unusual at that time should liav© prompt
and proper attention. Fifty thousand letters from women prove
that Lydia, E. 1'inkham's Vegetable Compound regulates men-
struation and makes those periods painless.
READ WHAT MISS LIXDBECX SAYS:
"Dbar Mrs. Pinkha'M :—Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound has greatly bene-
fitted me. I will tell you how I suffered. My
trouble was painful menstruation. I felt as earn
month went by that I was getting worse. I had
severe bearing-down pains in my back and abdo-
men.
" A friend advised me to try Mrs. Pinkham's
medicine. I did so and am* now free from all
pain during my periods."—Jessie ft Lindbeck.
1201 6th Street, Koekford, 111.
FREE ADVICE TO WOMEN.
Remember, every woman is cordially
invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there
Is anything about her symptoms she does
not understand. Mrs. Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass., her advice is free and cheerfully given to every ail-
ini* woman who asks for it. Her advice has restored to health
more than one hundred thousand women. Why don't you try
it, my sick sisters?
FORFEIT I' cannnt forthwith prodnc# the orlfrln*' lattora nd stgr.&torn of
tTiniJUU testimonials, which will prove tneir absolute £<••• n-nesii.
V v LydU S. Fiukluau Uutliuiu^ Co>( Lynn, Uuk
L HAYNES BUXTON. M D EDWIN F DAVIS M D
DOCTORS BUXTON & DAVIS,
SPECIALISTS
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
120 1-2 MAIN STREET OKLAHOMA CITY
c«t*tLi«m(e in o*uhoi vrofric* o*«n ron P«tir(,ts qavi or rvn* vc**
the power of o j StdmpS^S
Seat j,
Stenc Us
dg9i.
The Better Land.
She Paid Well for Permission.
Mine. Scveillez, a M)-year-old witlov.
of Paris, France, found a chance to
marry again last weelc, but, fearinp
that tho ghost of her husband might
disturb her sleep, she consulted a
spiritualist, ond obtained permission
tor a second marriage.
After several seances, in which
Mme. Sevcillez paid large sums to tho
medium, the latter persuaded her to
keep locked up for three days and
nights in a dork room, placing all her
valuables on u plate covered by n
cloth, on the table near by.
At the appointed time Mme. Sev
elllez. tired of waiting for her hus-
band's spirit, removed the covering
of the plate, and found all her valu-
ables gone and in their place a uotc
granting her permission to marry.
She has denounced the medium to the
police.
r,oin. savin, iwcmi «d copmr puuvg
WISP & SON, OKLAHOMA CUV.
tiomething Wrong.
"What's tho matter?" demanded
the slightly fuddled mau as he got
aboard the car, "ain't this the car I
want?"
"What!" snnpped the corductor
"How dc I know?''
"Oh, you must 'a' knowed it or yet
vouldn't n'a stopped an' let ms ketch
yer."—rW'cdslphia Press.
ItEISTtR
LADIES TAILORING
COLLtCE
lirU and women taught Dressmaking and
,allies' 'Fallonllg. Can m«kn jour own gowns
■r if you sew for others, roh make $2 whera
on now make *1.00. Diploma-' Grant'-il to
irartua'es Uraduates a-slst, ti to lx*M pnTinK
millions. No clauses formed, tmi ils enter any
line Personal instructions. Write for terms
r onee. haister ladiet' lallot inq College. i:f;1 j
V. Main St.. Oklahoma City. Okla.
fiENSiONj.f:ir.,v.:.rK.'s
f Successfully Prosecutcs Claims.
Late Princlpc.1 Kx&uifaer IT 8 Peioalon Bur«au.
3 in civil war. 13claim*, 1U5 sine*
W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 44, 1904
WESTEKf) CANADA'S
Magnificent Crops for 1904.
KPWORTII UNIVERSITY
Jutut nropirtj of th t«o Meihollira*. In
t Ijw thorough i ri ncholarah p aid holpful
| nud ralitfimiM 10 cjurib Ten h>*.| prolftMort. the
majority «>f whoin !•.•*<* taught io tuoh univarii-
11r 11* N« r hw^.<t«fn. Vnn«i*rbil , Aim Arbor,
Chicafo, Colun-.bun, Lainnd Htanford. d« Ti->t«
thalr ttnia to th® foliage of lib 7«l mia. fill
i-orp* iiitlruolora in Acailrfoy and Muaio,
Klocntion and Arf. t ampan of fortr-two
a> raa baautifullj «ituatr<*. Modem building"
Vh.vftii-a?. Ohamirwl and Diol^gtonl Laborn r«r o .
lho l int «c*alon begins Sri- eoibor 7, 1D04.
Addrei*,
President it. B. McEwjin, Oklahoma, Okla.
IV ANTED.—For the U. S. Army, able-liodieil
11 unmarried im-n, bi-twoen ngos of il and
citizens of United Stairs, of ifood character
ml temperate habits, who can speak, read ;\nd
write Bnjrli-h For informa I >n atmlv lo TV
rultiiifi Offlcor. FostoMce Ijuildmir, Oklahoma
Oity.Okla . or 1'ul-u, hid. Tor., Enid, Shaw-
ee or Guthrie, Okla.
Western Canada's
Wheat Crop this
Vear Will ba 60,-
000,000 Buslitla,
and Wheat at Pres-
ent Is Worth Sl.oo a
Bushel,
Tb* Oat and Barlet Crop Will Alio Yield AtMindantlf
Splendid prices for all kinds of grain^ cattle
and other farm produce for tho growing of
which the climate Is unsurpassed.
About 130,000 American! have settled In West
ern Canada during the past three j-ears^
Thousands of free homesteads of 10) acres
ef>ch still available In the best agricultural dis-
tricts.
It has been said that the United States wfll
he forced to Import wheat within a very few
years. Secure a farm in Canada and become
one of those who wilt produce it. •
Apply for information to Superintendent of
Immigration. Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized
Canadian U«verument AKent-J. S. Crawford.
No. 125 \V. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When writing advertisers,
mention this paper.
Kindly
BEGGS'BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES cntarrh ci the rtomach.
. „ CURES WH£RE .
I neat (<«ugh Syrup. Tiutai Good. U«l
In tlraft. 8old by dmgglata.
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Overstreet, W. S. The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1904, newspaper, November 3, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc146700/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.