The Ringwood Leader. (Ringwood, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Paw maa ara too boar la eiitlclaa
their neighbors
It la a pttjr the black spot at
bay cannot ba wiped off tka aa of
Europe
An Atlaatlo CUjr potleomaa wna torn I
batvaaa love and duty tka othar day
Ha nrreeted hla vita
The Valtad 8tataa must give
pla protection to all Ita elUsena
wherever they may ba '
The newest typewriters add and I
subtract but they uon't spell any bet-1
ter than the old one did
Orders for new locomotives Indicate
that the railroads are acaln running
on the prosperity schedule
When wo get talkies to Kara let's
ask: "How old Is Ann?" That ought
to test their boasted wisdom
The cutting of freight rates
merrily on and the shippers can cer-
tainly stand It If the milroads can
The United States has exported $1C
00000- worth of condensed milk In
Ten years Grant are the cow sad the
can
Dougtleaa a few nature fakers will
go trailing along after the duke of
the Abrussl as ha climbs the Him
alayaa
Or Wiley aaye that SO par cent of
the liquor that is sold as whisky la
a fraud Boms suspect the othar tea
par cant
Before the international court at
The Hague can do any loud talking It
will have to get some international
constables
A Pennsylvania bachelors' club has
been reduced to one member Ho
did be happen to comer all the luck
la his town?
Constantinople landlords might raise
tholr rents on the strength of the free-
dom from annul which residence In
' that city now Implied
Russia has ordered a Wright flying
machine After fooling around try
lag to Invent one of their own all the
nations will coma to 1L
Actor's wife says be gets $25000
a year Ha swears ha only gets
IUOO Now do you know what Is
meant by "stags money I"
An Atlantic steamship has Installed
a department store and a church but
the two are kept as far apart as pos-
sible for their ethics are different
New York city Is trying to work
Itself up to the point of adopting blue
shoes as a part of an up-to-date man’s
wearing apparel With a green hat at
the other extremity?
A Gotham club called In the police
at Its regular election This Is more
than the most warlike woman's club
not excepting the D A R's has ever
done But still men will go on bold
ing up to ridicule the belligerency of
the club feminine till the end of the
chapter
The moat remarkable fish story of
the season comes from the Catskills
It relates the tale of a man there who
to work off a lazje streak went out
Ashing and returned within an hour
with a sturgeon which gave 68 pounds
of caviar for which he received 1100
The energetic determination to work
off a lazy streak Is the point of the
remarkable tale
Chicago labor leaders convicted of
calling strikes solely for the purpose
of extorting money escaped with a
flne and can count themselves mighty
lucky True friends of labor can only
severely condemn the conduct of such
men as these who for their own en-
richment make others their tools and
lead them to a course which entails
heavy loss and suffering upon them
and upon their families
The estimates for the fiscal year
1910 call for appropriations of $36-
000000 for the Panama canal That
sum will represent a total expenditure
of $260000000 on the great interocen-
le waterway up to the dose of that
period The enterprise comes high
but It will be worth the money The
United States will be the first and
' greatest beneflclary but the new route
will be a boon to the commerce of the
world
A professor of political economy and
sociology In S prominent university
has been sued for divorce by bis wife
on account of his peculiar theories
He bolds the wife ought to share In
the breadwlnalng take care of the I
children and do the housework but I
remains discreetly silent on whether
the husband should wash the dishes
and do the family laundry by way of
sharing the wife's work Such domes-
tic problems thrashed out la court
would make this the most Interesting
divorce case of the season
&HA BOLD TUCGBXm
torrmfMT — mw mmi wmu ce
YNOPbid
Carrington loved Kate Cavenaush
daushter of Multi-Millionaire Henry Cav
enaush The latter Uked Carrlnaton but
refused him aa a aonln law Youns Car
rlnston a lawyer held evidence of crim-
inal Ananctal operations of which Cave-
naufh waa sullty It waa Carrtncton's
duty to prosecute the rich man but he
decided te '
Kate He
I ao the neat day
CHAPTER II— Contlnusd —
She laughed brokenly "More than
you I can picture to you Just what
will happen" Bhe rose “There will
of course be a great newspaper clam-
or the Interstate commissioners will
put their heads together there will be
Investigations by the government
That will be the attack The keenest
lawyers are on the side of corpora-
tions that Is because the slate Is
niggard with her pay Let me outline
the defense Father will resign from
his high ofllce to be re-elected later
when the public cools off! A new di-
rectorate will All the place of the pres-
ent one Suddenly falsified entries
will be discovered the heed book-
keeper will have disappeared All
Angers will point to him He will be
In South America having been paid
several thousand to go there AU this
will make the passing of the dividend
perfectly logical The mattei will
never be tried la court Honey will
do all this"
Hy dear little woman you reason
like Pythagoras but" Carrington
added gravely “when I undertook to
untangle this affair I realised Its huge
proportions For every redoubt your
father has I have an assault for every
wall a catapult for every gate
petard But as I said before you
havo only to say the word and for the
present nobody will be any the wiser"
"If I permitted you to do this I
should destroy my faith In both of ua
It would preet a barrier which would
be Insurmountable That Is not the
way out"
1 have weighed all these things"
dlscouragedly
He took the document from his
pocket and caught it In a way that
Indicated how easily It might dbe
ripped Into halves the halves Into
quarters the ouartera Into Infinitesi-
mal squares of meaningless letters
"Once more shall I Kate?"
"No John That would only make
our difficulties greater But I do ask
this one favor put your evidence Into
the hands of a strange attorney have
nothing to do with the prosecution
for my sake"
T must have the night to think It
over Moat of my attacks are not
herein written I dared keep them
only In my head”
"I am very unhappy” said the girl
He took her hand and kissed It
reverently He longed to console her
but no words he had In mind seemed
adequate
Fore!" came lazily over the knoll
They were no longer alone So to-
gether they wandered slowly back to
the clubhouse Tea was being served
and Carrington drank his abstractedly
From time to time he Joined the con
venation but without any heart
Some of the busier ladles whispered
that It looked this time as though
Kate had given the young man bis
conge
On the way home Norah with her
humorous comment on the weekly
budget of 'gossip saved the situation
from any possible contretemps Mrs
Cavenaugh was easy going but for all
that she possessel remarkably ob-
servant eyes and ner eldest daughter
was glad that they were occupied else-
where Kate was very unhappy: her father
was not honest and the man she loved
had come into the knowledge of the
fact Ah bow quickly shadow can
darken sunshine!
"What did you make It In today
Mr Carrington T' naked Norah
'Make what?” he counter-questioned
absently
"The course Mr Goose! Wbat did
you think I meant?"
Ob” lamely “i made a bad play at
the beginning and gave It up”
By this time they bad arrived at
the gates and everybody was thank-
ful Mrs Cavenaugh because her
nose smarted with sunburn Norah
because the gown she was to wear
at the dance that night was new
Kate because she wanted to be alone
and Carrington because be wanted to
learn whether the angel threw Jacob
or Jacob threw the angel The driver
and the horses were glad to arrive be-
cause they were hungry
It took the young lawyer some Jims
to dress for dinner that night His
usually direct mind vacillated between
right and wrong wrong and right
and he floated from one to the other
like an unattached cork He made a
dozen annoying blunders In dressing
And when finally the pier-glass re-
flected an Irreproachable and flnlehed
picture be searched his cast-off vest
for bis growing monster aad trans-
ferred It to the pocket of his coat
Monster! Here was no story-mow
ter like the creature of a Franks
stein It was genuine and was like
to turn upon him at any moment aad
rend him He shrugged aad pro-
ceeded down the stairs ' Thera ara
soliloquies that sometimes leave an
unpleasant taste behind Bo he pinned
"You Are Not Going Are You
his faith to the banner of the late
genial and hopeful Mtcawber some
thing might turn up for the beneflt of
all concerned
The ball and living room at the
Cavenaugh manor were one and the
same There were bookcases ranging
along the walls window seats a read
ing table and an ancient chimney seat
As Carrington turned the flrst landing
he stopped
Father I think It positively dread
ful the way you treat poor grandpa”
This was Norah
There was a crackle of a news-
paper 'Never mind Norah darling your
grandpa Is used to It It doesn t mat
ter at all"
It was the sight of the last speaker
that brought Carrington to a stand
Norah 's grandpa was no less a person
than the shabbily dressed old man be
had seen at the station that after-
noon What kind of family skeleton
In the closet was he that they kept
him en camera? He coughed and
went on
Norah was plucky whole-hearted
frank and encouraging
Mr Carrington” she said Immedi-
ately "this la my grandpa”
Carrington did not hesitate a mo-
ment but smiled and thrust out bis
hand which the other'grasped with a
questioning air of diffidence
Glad to meet you sir" said CaO
riogton -Cavenaugh
Ills glanced over the top
of hit paper scowled and resumed
hla reading Kate hadn’t come down
yet no she missed this seen When
she did appear there was no visible
sign of any previous agttatloa She
aad Norah ware thoroughbreds
"Why grandpa!" she cried extend
lag her band
The old maa bowed ever It
kissed It and bis action was lacking
neither la grace aor gallantry
”1 happened to he down this way
on business" said the old maa with
a covert glance at hla son "sad
thought Td drop In-
"Dinner m nerved" said the splen-
did butler as be slid back the doors
to the dining room
The old maa looked about him quee-
Uonlngly and Norah slipped her arm
through his "You’ll have to take me
In grandpa" she laughed
The old man’s eyes shone for n mo-
Inent and he patted her hand
"I’m as proud as a king Norah"
Now Carrington could read be
tween the lines It waa manifestly
plain that grandpa was not welcome
te Cavenaugh But why? Mrs Cave-
naugh scarcely tolerated him While
the girls seldom If ever spoke of him
It waa evident that both held him
their affections There were many
things going on In the Cavenaugh
manor aad Carrington entered the
dining room In a subdued state
mind
By degrees Norah succeeded
drawing the pariah out of himself
Carrington was soon listening to an
Grand - pal" asked Norah
amazing range of adventures The
old man had seen Cuba In the All
busters’ time he bad fought the Cana
dian constabulary as a Fenian he had
been a sailor and had touched the
shores of many strange land Grand
pa Cavenaugh was anything but Hitt
erate Quite often there was a Hast
of wit a well-turned phrase a quota
lion He bad besides a comprehen
slve grasp of the politics of all coun
tries
Carrington saw at once that hit
half formed opinion was a house of
cards Thera was no reason in the
world why they should be ashamed of
him shunt him off Into the side-track
of obscurity aad begrudge him a
plate at the table Carrington realised
that he was very close to some pe-
culiar mystery and that the old man's
bitterest enemy was his sob
Throughout the meal the millionaire
preserved a repelling silence From
time to time when there was laughter
he scowled Once or twice Mrs Cave-
naugh essayed to pass an observation
across the table to him but a curt nod
was all she received for her pains
Presently Cavenaugh dropped his
knife on his plate and the pariah re-
treated meekly Into his -shell In
fact he looked frightened as It the
thought had come to him that he bad
made an Irreparable tSunder In warm-
ing under his grandchildren's smiles
‘Carrington" said Midas balling his
napkin and tossing It on the table
your particular branch Is corporation
law Isn't lt?”
"Yea The Ann has some ra puts Ho
la that branch" Carrington glanced
curiously at hla hoot What was ess
Ing now? Was It possible that Cava-
naugh had la soma way learned of his
discoveries and waa about to placets
him?
"I believe you haadlsd successfully
lbs a A M railroad dsal?"
"Wo wo la thras courts"
"Wen" contused Cavanaugh "Tv
been thinking of you to-day The P
A O counsel has had to give up s -account
of poor health aad Mat the w-
soa spoke to me yosterday asking H
I knew a maa who could All his pise
It pays seventeen thousand the year"
He paused as If to let thin magnlflceat
salary sink Into the deepest ere vice
of Carrington's souL "What would
you say to a permanent berth like
that?” Cavenaugh positively beamed
Kate stared at her father In aston-
ishment Was It possible that be was
beginning to look favorably apoa Car-
rington? Her glance traveled to Car-
rington His expression oho found
puzzling '
"Seventeen thousand!" murmured
the pariah rubbing his hands while
his syea sparkled
Carrington deliberated for a space
He waa hard put He did not want to
refuse this peace-offering bat nothing
would make him accept It
"Thjs Is very flae of you Two
eara ago I should have Jumped at the
chance But my agreement with my
partner makes It Impossible' I can
not honestly break my contract with-
in live years" He waited for the
storm to burst for Cavenaugh was not
a patient maa
"Are you mad?” whispered Kate A
flush of anger swept over her at the
thought of Carrington's lightly casting
aside this evident oHve branch -Would
yen have me accept It?" ho
returned tat a whisper lower than
hers
Bhe paled "I had forgot tan" she
said with the pain of quick recollec-
tion The dinner came to Its end aad
everybody rose gratefully for there
seemed to be something tense la the
air
'Seventeen thousand honest dol-
lars!” murmured the pariah ggtg
along at the millionaire’s heela v
Carrington threw him a swift pene-
trating glance but the old maa
was looking ecstatically at the tinted
angels on the ceiling The old man
might be perfectly guileless but Cap
rington scented the faintly bitter
aroma of Irony
Just before the carriage arrived 'to
convey Carrington and the ladles to
the club dance grandpa appeared bat
In hand and a humble smile e his
face it was a very attractive face -weather
beaten though It was penciled
by the onset of 70 years
You are not going are you grand-
pa?" asked Norah
Yes my child I should be very
lonesome here alone with your es-
timable father I'll drop In to-morrow
for Sunday dinner that Is If you ara
not going to have company I am
glad that I met yea Mr Carrington'
Poor old grandpa!” sighed Norah
when the door closed upon hist "He
has the ridiculous Idea that he Isn't
wanted"
Nobody pursued the subject and
Norah began to preen herself
An Idea came to Carrington
wanted to be rid of his document
spoke to Kate who nodded compre-
hensively She led him Into the din-
ing room la one corner protected
by a low screen waa a small safe
This she threw open and Carrington
put the envelope Into on of the
pigeon hole The safe was absolutely
empty a tact which pussled him not
a little '
(TO BE CONTINUED '
A Gold Farm
'Thanksgiving football Is one form
of gold farm” said a metallurgist:
but gold grows and when the secret -of
Its cultivation Is discovered we
shall have gold farms literally
'Miners having set timber braces In'
gold mines often find on tb Umber"
growths of gold Growths of gold
baveoo been perceived on the rocks
of gold bearing river Gold has been
discovered growing on sluice boxes
'What causes these growths of gold
we don't know We do know that one
essential is the percolation of water a
feature without which gold growths
are never found When we discover
the other features and ao doubt
science will discover them some day—
the gold farmer will perhaps be as
common as tbs farmer of fruit or
truck" -
Te Step Bleeding et the Nee
A man In traveling from New Eng
land to bis borne In New Jersey had a
violent nosebleed on the train Every
aid was rendered and the y“ reme-
dies such as Ice on the neck s key
thrust down the back and all sorts of
things were Ineffectually tried Be
profuse was the hemorrhage that
when New York was reached he was
too weak to go to a physician mat-
tended The application of tincture of
eucalyptus promptly stopped the bleed-
ing This Is an exceedingly valuable
remedy and should be Indelibly
stamped upon our memories A small
vial should be placed la every family
medicine cheat
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Watkins, W. H. The Ringwood Leader. (Ringwood, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1909, newspaper, July 15, 1909; Ringwood, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1719435/m1/2/: accessed June 3, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.