The Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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CHANDLER PUBLICIST.
W. H. french, Editor nd Manager.
mbs. C C. French, A ocl te KU.
tHANDLER,
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA AM) INDIAN TKKKITOKV
Erwin, Woods county, will celebrate
the strip opening on September 10.
The people of the Indian territory
re declaring for single statehood.
The Texas and Oklahoma Cowboys
Association has selected Mangum as the
place for holding the 1000 reunion.
The Oklahoma legislature appropri-
ited $3,000 for the encampment of tins
Oklahoma militia to be held this fall.
Very many horses have been killed
in Oklahoma this season, from stand-
ing near wire fences during thunde
showers.
The Dawes commission has fixed Oe
tober 31 as the limit for enrollment ol
Indian babies. If born after that datl
they cannot be put on the list.
Oklahoma's present population ii
350,000, which is greater than that o
(Vlawnrc, Idaho, Montana, Nevada
North Dakota, Utah or Wyoming.
Of thirty-fight Noble county teaeheri
who took an examination for counts
certificates, thirty-four passed. This ii
tile largest percentage ever known ii
the county.
The Oklahoma live stock commit*
i on have declared quarantine for al
the townships of Canadian county bor
dering upon the South Canadian river
until Nov. 1.
The surveying corps of the Arkansai
and Choctaw railroad is less than 1!
miles east of Durant, making the per
manent or location survey. 1'". W.
Valliant, who has charge of the corps
says the road will certainly comi
through Durant.
1 The applications of the following per
sons for authority to organize the Firs'
National bank of Miami, I. T., with t
'capital of 850.000. lias been approved
by the comptroller of the currency, G.
W. Heck, E. B. Frayser. J. O. llall, W.
H. Kornegay, Oliver Ilugby, ti. W.
t'lark ond W. E. Ramsey.
* A white man and his Choctaw wift
agreed to get a divorce and rcmarrj
under the Choctaw law, thereby giving
each a realty right instead of the wife
alone. The divorce was obtained, but
the wife gave the former husband the
laugh, and he is now without even the
land that was coming to his Indian
wife.
Willie Lincoln, a 10-year-old Iowa
Indian boy, met his death on a wild
pony, while racing with a white boy.
When their ponies were at their higlii
est speed the one ridden by Lincoln
dashed suddenly to one side, throwing
him against a tree and crushing his
skull to a jelly. The l oy was buried
in the Indian grave yard according to
the rites and customs of the Iown
tribe. Willie Lincoln was a son of
Abraham Lincoln, a well known Iowo
Indian.
The permanent survey of the new
[railroad through Oklahoma takes the
Toad much nearer the W ichita moun-
.tains than the preliminary survey.
|The line crosses the Red river nine
'miles above the mouth of Otter creek
jand from that point to Ft. Sill it run?
up against the base of the southward
Iprojecting spurs of the mountains.
'When the road is completed Oklahoma
'will then litve one of the scenic lines
•of the continent. Furthermore, slit
will become famous as a land of sum-
imer resorts, for no more delightful
'summer climate can be found any
Iwhere than in the Wichita mountains.
Sooner or later Oklahoma will havt
to meet the prohibition question. It
breaks out every once in a while.
The Cherokee spirit dance to deter-
mine whether the tireat Spirit was fa
vorable to the moving of the tribe tc
Mexico occurred recently at Hanson,
I. T. The danee was conducted by
Creek Heaver, who is 81 years old.
Fully J,000 people witnessed the dance
and at its conclusion the medicine
men of the tribe decided that it had
demonstrated the Great Spirit's un-
friendliness to the move.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the townslto plot of the town
of Sterrett, Choctaw nation, Indian
'territory.
During the payment of the Otoes
special agent camo from Washingtoi
to treat with the Otoes In the settle
inent of a debt which the tribe claim!
Is due them by the United States go7
l-rnment for lands in Kansas and Ne-
braska. The Otoes refused the proposi
tion of the agent aad demanded tha
"the government pay the money du<
'them within ninety days.
CHAPTER XI.—(Continued.)
"I am glad you are going to have a
change," volunteered Marguerite tim-
idly. "I hope you don't mind my say-
ing so, but you look quite ill; I noticed
directly I Baw you."
"I am in trouble, Miss Lilbourne and
that's the truth; I'm afraid change of
air won't cure it"
"Ob, how sorry I am." Her eyes
filled with sympathy. "What a world
of trouble it is! You in trouble, too?
You ought not to vex yourself so about
my affairs, If you have trouble of your
own."
"My trouble is harder to bear than
yours," he said, "because It Is of my
own making. It is the shadow of a
fault committed long ago."
"And repented of?" she asked shyly.
"Heaven only knows how deeply!"
"Ah, then it will be all right," she
asserted brightly, "If you are ready to
atone!"
"Ah," he cried pitifully, "but sup-
pose one can't atone? That Is the
hardest lesson the world teaches, Miss
•Lilbourne. It is so easy to wrong an-
other, but so hard—so terribly hard to
Bet the wrong right again."
She looked at him earnestly. He
was the fast man from whom she
would have expected words like these.
Proud, self-oontalned, a man of the
world he had hitherto appeared; yet,
now it seemed as if he were asking
her—little Marguerite—for pity and
counsel.
"Have you asked the person whom
you wronged to forgive you?" she
questioned with a certain solemnity.
"No," was the almost inaudible re-
ply-
"Ah!" she said softly, "that's what
I would do! Please don't think me
impertinent—I know I am not at all
competent to advise you."
"That Is what you would have me
do?" he asked. "You would have me
say, *1 did you a grevious wrong—I
appeared, holding her hands to her
head.
"What did that remind me of?" she
said slowly. "Oh, what did it remind
me of? I feel as though I had gone
through a similar experience before.
It seemed quite natural to be looking
out of the window and waving my
hand to him." She broke Into a little
laugh. "I think I must be losing my
senses, but for the moment the impres-
sion was wonderfully strong."
CHAPTER XII.
Two days later, on reaching home
after a walk, she was told that a wom-
an was waiting to see her.
Imagining it to be a patient come
for liniment or cough-mixture, she
went straight into the dining-room,
and was at once confronted by a re-
spectably-dressed woman, evidently
provincial.
"There," said the woman triumph-
antly, the Instant Marguerits appeared
—"it's her—'I knew it was. I knew
I should know her first minute I
clapped eyes to her face. Well, miss,
you and me's met before, ain't we?"
"Have we?" said Marguerite.
"Dont you remember me, my dear?'
asked the woman, evidently disap-
pointed.
"No; I don't remember you at all.
"Not Mrs. Acland?"
"No. Where do you come from, Mrs.
Acland. please?" Marguerite asked the
question with a certain vehemence, ad-
vancing teward her visitor, and look-
ing earnestly at her face.
\4y stars—she don't remember me!'
, the woman again. "Why, my
d^" i, 'tain't four years ago since you
me every day of your life for six
ks."
"Did I—did I?" cried Marguerite, her
head in a whirl of excitement. "Oh
Mrs. Acland, tell me about it—do
Do you come from Devonshire or Corn
wall?"
f
"So he didn't marry you, after allT" j
■he said, with some show of surprise.
"Oh, begin at the beginning!" said
Marguerite, blushing. "Tell me all
about It, please."
"First, you must know," began the
good woman, "that I always thought It
wasn't all right, for this reason—that,
though the young man used to come
courting on the sly, when your uncle
was out, he used to write letters to
him, for I seen one myself, I did. I
always misdoubted that young man,
though you did set such store by him;
and I says to my cook, as I remember
very well, 'If any one's being deceived,
it's the child herself, and not her un-
cle,' I says. So, my dear, I kept the
address of the letter I see, thinking,
One day It'll come in useful.' And
sure enough It did! But it was very
strange. Here was I never been out
of Torquay this twenty year, and Just
fixed in my mind to come up by the
'curslon, when I see this in the pa-
pers.' She laid a slip of paper before
Marguerite, a copy of Bernard's ad-
vertisement. "I alius guessed it had
•been done at St. Boniface," she said
In triumph; "so when I see that ad-
vertisement, I says, 'There's trouble,
and I must speak up and tell what I
know.' I won't deny that I always
liked Mr. Phillips," she added paren-
thetically; "and chiefly because you al-
ways cheered up so when he come. So,
when I see the advertisement, I just
ran up to St. Boniface; and the clerk
and me, we searched the register. And
here's the copy of it, miss, as I brought
with me to make sure."
Marguerite raised her eyes to the
paper and looked.
There were the two signatures, one
under the other—"Arthur Phillips,"
"Marguerite Lilbourne.
Her heart sank; she did not remem-
ber the name in the least. It touched
no chord of memory. Till now she
had cherished a vague idea that with
the name of the man she had married
would come a flood of recollection. But
44 Circumstances
Alter Cases/'
h\ cAsfs of scrofula, salt rheum, dys*
pepsia, nervousness, catarrh, rheumatism*
eruptions, etc., the circumstances may be
altered by purifying and enriching the
blood tvith Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is the
great remedy for all ages and both sexes.
Be sure to get Hood's, because
ZfficdS Sauapami
JUSTICE IN CHINA.
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"IHE GLANODD I'P. SAW HER, AND RAISED HIS HAT."
cannot undo it now, but I repent. For-
give me!' "
"Yes," she replied, with a nod of her
pretty head. I would say that."
'And suppose by that confession I
lowered myself in the eyes of the per-
son whom before all others In the
world I desired to stand well with?"
I think," she answered shyly, won-
dering at the srtrange intensity with
which he questioned her—"I think you
would have to bear that as a penance
Tor your fault."
His strange eyes looked down at her
• weet, Ingenuous face with a gaie she
could not understand.
... j i— went to my heart, It did.
"I .hall think over your adv ce^ he | 8unk ,nto # chalr her
said earnest}, am ry o 0 * face turn|ng so deadly pale that Mrs.
Will you give me your best wishes. , thQught ghp fa| goinK w fa[nt
"Yea," she replied, her face suddenly j hurrying (0 the sideboard the woman
"Torquay, my dear, to be sure. You
mean to say you've been and forgot
that, too?"
"I've forgotten everything," replied
Marguerite, trembling with eagerness.
"I've been very 111 and forgotten all
sorts of things; but I do believe you're
the very person I've been wanting so
long. Tell me—who are you?"
"The landlady of 5, Ponsdon Cres-
cent, my dear, where your uncle
brought you, four years ago come
November. Ah, my dear, I remember
It all so well! A poor, nervous thing
you were, starting at every sound; and
your unele seemed so hard on you, it
"Arthur Phillips—Arthur Phillips,"
she repeated hopelessly; "I am certain
I never knew any one of that name."
She leaned her chin on her hand.
The efTort to remember was painfully
intense.
"There was somebody," she said
slowly, "who used to—used to—at
least, I used to look out of the window
for him. I called him some name—
not Arthur. A short name—something
like Phil; but it wasn't Phil. I should
know it if I heard it, I think. Oh,
dont you remember it?" she asked
piteously of Mrs. Acland.
The woman shook her head.
"I don't," she answered; "but I do re-
member you was so took up with him.
But, bless you, Arthur Phillips worn't
his real name! I seen that plain
enough all the time."
"Not his real name?"
"No, my dear. He never married you
for no good—of that I'm sure! I ought
never to 'a let you 'a gone off with
him. He come and said your uncle
was ill, and he was to take you to
him; but, when he put you in the car-
riage and drove off, my heart misgave
me, for I see there was another man
with him; and I'm morally pursuaded,
my dear, that that other was Mr. Bran-
don hisself all the time—disguised,you
know. I never seen you again, my
dear, till this minute. But that after-
noon, when Mr. Brandon came raging
and shouting and wanting to know
where you was, I thought directly that
he was only putting It on, and knowed
fast enough where you was all the
time. Well, my dear, I s'pose if I'd
'a done my duty I'd a gone to the per-
lice; but I am a poor woman, with my
living to get, and I don't want no scan-
dals about my house; and then, you
see, I hadnt nothing to say—no evi-
dence, nor nothing of that kind. So
I just kep' quiet; but it's bin on my
mind ever since."
"Mrs. Acland," said Marguerite, sol-
emnly, her hands clasped under her
chin, "you say I was in your house six
weeks, and that you saw me every
day,"
"Yes, my dear."
"Did it ever strike you that there
was anything odd about me? Ltd It
ever occur to you that I was out of my
mind?"
The woman's look of consternation
was evidently genuine. No, she had
never thought of that. "A poor llttl#
nervous thing," had been her idea,
much cowed, subdued, and bullied by
an overbearing uncle.
(To be continued.)
A Story of LI nun* Chang aad Weald-
lie Prisoners.
Of Li Hung Chang numberless sto-
Irles are told in Chinese society. Now
land then one reaches ti:is touMry
ithrough our consuls in China. On ons
foccasion when the premier wr.s Larltf
a bitter fight with some of the mere
(Conservative members of the tsuiig-1!
yamen he received as a present a mag-
nificent cake, which he had reason to
suspect contained poison. He put thf
;cake aside and set all his powerfu
machinery to work to find out who
iwas at the bottom of the plot. The
Investigation was partly successful, the
crime being traced to three men, of
iwhom one, at least, was absolutely
guilty. Li had the trio arrested and
brought to his yamen. When they ar-
rived they were ushered into his pres-
ence and were received in his courtli-
jest manner. The cake was produced,
with the remark that "politeness for-
bade his tasting it until the three
generous donors had had an opportun-
ity to enjoy its excellence." Li cut
.the cake and one of his servitors
handed it to the unwilling guests.
Each took a piece and ate, or pre-
tended to eat it. One crumbled the
pieces and let them fall upon the floor,
hut the other two ate calmly, without
,manifesting any emotion. Ten minu-
utes and the two men began to show
symptoms of suffering. Li smiled be-
nignantly and said to the man who
ihad not eaten: "Your wisdom is so
great that I am compelled to pre-
serve your head as a souvenir to
transcendent genius." The man was
removed and promptly decapitated. To
the other two the premier remarked:
"The cake that you are eating is not
the one you sent me, but one wMth
I had my cook imitate. The poison
from which you are suffering exists
only in your imagination. 1 know of
no way to cure your present pain ex-
cept by letting you share the same
fate as your friend who has just left
the room." As they were led away
the statesman said to his retinue: It
is a pity that a man who can eat a
deadly corrosive poison with an un-
moved countenance should so misapply
the talent wherewith heaven has en-
dowed him."
A CHINAMAN'S OATH.
flushing. He moved away from her—
he felt that his self-control was de-
serting him; he must go—and In-
stantly.
"Goodby," he said hastily, unable to
raise his eyes to her face. 'T must
apologlie for—for staying so long."
Ho left the room abruptly, before
*he had time to reply. Actuated by an
indescribable impulse, she went to the
,window to see him pass. He glanced
up. saw her. and raised his hat with a
audden smile of pleasure, indicating
iwlth one hand the marguerites In his
Vutton-bole. She drew back as he dis-
seized the carafe of water and sprin-
kled some on the soft dark hair and
cold forehead.
"Thaaks—thanks; I am better,"
sfcid Marguerite, rallying—"much bet-
ter, thank you. I can listen. It waa
too much for me, Just for a moment—
the thought that 1 was to hear what
1 have longed and prayed to hear for
so many months Go on—tell me!"
"You mean to say you have forgot
it all?"
"All—all! I had brain fever."
The woman glanced down at the
girl's clasped bands.
The Celestial Wa* Particular and Canted
the Court Lot of Trouble.
The various forms of oath-making,
even in this country, are of consider-
able interest. It would not, however,
1>e easy to find an instance in which
anything like so queer a medium of.
attestation was employed as a guil-
lotined black cockatoo. But no less an
extraordinary medium than that was
what the police of a country district in
New South Wales had to provide the
other day for a finical Chinaman, who
declined to swear on anything else.
Headless fowls were brought, but in
vain, and as the matter was impor-
tant, even a black swan, a luxury
surely for a Chinese witness, was sug-
gested, only to be Immediately refused.
After some time had elapsed, and
when the representatives of the law
seemed quite at their wits' end, a dead
cockatoo of the required hue was
strangely discovered in a hut of one
of the other celestials, who mulcted the
anxious officials in $2.50 for the bird.
Then the solemn and peculiar oath was
duly administered, on which the diffi-
cult witness with a bland and childlike
expression, declared he knew nothing
about the case and sat down smiling!
Candor of Dublin Surgeon.
Dr. Colles, an eminent surgeon of
Dublin, who died in 1843, was remark-
able for his plain dealing with himself.
In his fee book he had many such
candid entries as the following: "For
giving ineffectual advice for deafness.
1 guinea." "For telling him he was
no more 111 than I was, 1 guinea." "For
nothing that I know of except that he
probaibly thought he did not pay me
enough last time, 1 guinea."
Of the world's annual yield of petro
Isum, 6,000,000,000 gallons, the United
States produces one-half.
f
Ingenious Kxpedlent.
A local correspondent says that the
other day a friend of his brought him
a chunk of ice which he threw Into
his jar. But here was a difficult prob-
lem for him. The quantity of wat«
was too great to be sufficiently tooled
by that piece, which was melting as
fast as our correspondent was himself
doing In tears. At last a highly val-
ued friend of his—who had spent ths
best portion of his life in scientific re-
searches on the most original lines—
came to his rescue and, after mature
reflection, was of opinion that the beet
way out of the difficulty would be to
evaporate the greater portion of aqua
by heating while the ice would surdy
eool the remaining quantity.—Lihora
Tribune.
4}ulte Attached to It.
Philadelphia Record; DedbroHo—"1
hear you called on the lady's father last
night. How did he like your suitT"
Harduppe—"Very much, I think. H*
kept half the coat collar when 1 left."
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