Wagoner County Record (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1911 Page: 3 of 10
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FAMOUS WOMAN
WHO WAS STAKE
IN CARD GAME
Madame
RESIDENTS ot the United
States have been accused
ot many offenses but a
prominent novelist whose
fame rests on three sto-
ries based on Important
Incidents In American his-
tory has broken the rec-
ord In bis latest novel
be bas Martin Van Buren
gamble with George Par-
ish for possession of the famous Mme
Vespucci
This particular novelist shows a
fondness uncommon In American liter-
ature for dwelling on the political ad-
venturess— a type that bas not been so
common fn the history of political
leaders In this country as It has been
In the lives of statesmen and rulers of
Europe Such a woman was the prin-
cipal character In his ’ second novel
and to the limited few who keep alive
In their memories the story of Mme
Vespucci's career In America It was
perfectly plain that she was the proto-
type of the novelist’s heroine And
now In bis third book as If in revela-
tion of bow strong a grip this fascinat-
ing woman’s career and personality
have on him the novelist tells the lit-
tle known tale of how she once was
the stake In a game of cards between
two men' one of whom was not as ex-
alted a personage as the novelist
leads his readers to believe
The incident that makes one ot the
characters in this last historical novel
toll the story of the game of cards
played for Mme: Vespucci’s favclr Is a
proposal that this personage a state
senator Of Missouri In the ’50s of the
last century makes to a captain In
the United States army that they too
ghall play a game of poker for the tem-
porary possession ot the heroine of
this tale whom the senator believes
to be "the same kind ot a woman” as
Mme Vespucci was The captain does
hot understand the full meaning of the
Senator's proposal and to this the man
fretq Missouri replies'
a-The Precedent -
“Come now Youa an army man
ought to know something ot the his-
tory of poker in these United States
tdsten- my friend Do you recall a
certain gathe played 'by a man higher
In' kdthorltyT-younger than he Is to-
- day-a game played upon a snow-
' hound train In the north country? 'Do
you -remember ' what the stakes yto re
- then? Do you recall tKat the man
- laterbScam'e president -of the United
State!? Come- There Isa' line prece-
dent lor our little epterpree He played
then much as you do now ' There wae
' agalftht him then as there is now
againfet'Jrou' a mad who admired not
:so miich Just one womaj in all the
world as let tib say one particular wo-
man then and -there present Perhaps
you remember his name— Mr Parish —
later ennubledby the Gerftan govern-
ment And long known as a land baron
In New York'- Cornel Think of itt
Plctyjje that snowbound train that
great jitlzen and Parish playing and
playlpg until at last it cbme to the
-question of a woman— not pn beautiful
as this one bore but In hp own way
shrewd the same sort of a woman I
might shy — mysterious beautiful and
nO'hoq’t protest and I’ll nt describe
ifou remember very well hqr name It
’ w a& pleasant property not'so long ago
for everybody They played for the
love not for the hand ojthat woman
Parish Won her Do y’6u remember
now? -1 - '
"Why deny yourself the luxury of
remembering such game as that? It
woe a man’s game and well worth the
playing' Your former bead of the
army at Jpaat lost and he paid The
Vespucci
other won All Ogdensburg can 'tell
you about that today They lived
there together Parish and the wo-
man UU be went abroad Yes and
she was a prlaoner there not simply
for a short time and sbe lived and
died there Whatever Parish did who-
ever he was he never loved any other
woman as he did that one And by
the Lord! when It comes to that no
other woman In that town ever was
loved more than she by everybody”
Facts Incorrect
This reads well It bas a line ro-
mantic swing about It But the 'weak-
ness of this collocation of events Is
that tbs novelist’s Missouri senator
was not correctly informed In the
premises The episode of Mme Ves-
pucci's stay In Ogdensburg and ber ca-
reer as the Informal mistress of
Georgs Parish's s bachelor establish-
ment are too wefl remembered by middle-aged
residents of that Et Law-
rence county city to leave any doubts
as to ber career In the "City of Ms
pies” or whst became of her and of
Georgs Parish In later years when
Ogdensburg knew them no more In the
flesh
In setting forth the details of these
two lives as they are concerned with
this story let ns adopt the couWesy of
ladles first Mme Vespucci’s career
began In America when sbe made ber
appearance In Washington In connec-
tion with some mythical land claims
against the government She was
young fair to look upon and an-
nounced herself as a direct descendant
of the great Amerigo of ber name
Sbe had come to this country from
Paris and speedily enlisted In her
cause the merits of which do not seem
to be very sound at this time the two
most famous members of the Van
Buren family — the former president of
the United Statee and his son John
who was best known through his so-
cial graces at the time though he was
the attorney general of New York In
the years 1845-46 Under what circum-
stances she left Paris where she had
resided all her life up to that time
la not definitely known although It is
believed that she accompanied one of
the two Van Burens to the United
States Bat there Is no question of
the fact that John Van Buren looked
after her closely for the first few years
she was In' this country and that he
made scant Impression on congress
with her claims There is also no
doubt that she traveled about with
him It was one of these Journeys
that she first met George Parish and
fell In love with him as he did with
her
' Van Bursn’s Love Cooled
It was time this fate befell Mme
Vespucci for John Van Buren had
grown tired of her This son of the
former president of the United States
did things gallantly He was In fact
so courtly a gentleman that he was
knpwn as “Prince John” ’wherever he
went and his social graces were so
conspicuous that to him was dele-
gated the duty of managing the fam-
ous ball in the Astor house for the
Prince of Wales So It was only to he
expected that when his old friend Par-
ish met him one winter’s night in an
Inn at Plattsburg N Y while Parish
was on a sleighing trip Prince John
should be perfectly willing to play a
game of cards for anything one could
mention — not even excepting a lady's
favor And under the circumstances
with a waning of affection in the case
of Prince John what more natural was
It than that Parish should have won
the game and the stake?
On the morning after the momen-
tous game Van Buren went his Jour
ney alone ' Parish returned to hi
Ogdensburg home but In the cutter
bealde him and behind the aplrlted
team of trottera that hla large stable
wee famous for sat the woman wbo
was to preside over hie establishment
for more than ten v ye re to come
The home Pariah took bar to waa a
grand one aa homes want In the
America ot that era It waa a low
square atructure that stood on Wash-
ington street facing the broad 8L
Lawrence and with Its grounds occu-
pied a whole block The house waa
surrounded by a high atone wall with
only two entrancee cut through It one
with stately wide gates opening on
Washington atreet and the other for
the servants' use In the rear The wall
waa ao high that only the treea around
the mansion within could be seen
above ft which gave to Its Inmatee
the privacy that la ao dear to the av-
erage Brlton'a heart In hla home
' Happlneae Laatad Long
The social world of the aristocratic
old place knew Mme Vespucci only
through the dally apectacle aba pre-
sented as aha drove out alone and in
considerable state In her open car-
riage behind the blooded Parish
horses Of all the bouses In Ogdens-
burg there was only one the ever en-
tered That waa a home on the op-
poelte aid of Washington street
where a gentle old lady received her
out of eheor pity for the solitary state
ot the foreign woman who had elected
to cut herself off from the companion-
ship of her sex for the sake of the
man she loved '
That aha loved Parish and that ha
returned this affection In kind there
Is no question Happiness dwelt in
that home for a decade and the only
thing that marred the perfection of
her life waa the ostracism of hsr sex
and this seemed to fret her not at all
She was young beautiful and had
everything that want with great wealth
and came from a generous man’s great
love
The men who were familiars In the
house had the greatest respeot for ber
and treated her aa if her position waa
eodally unassailable Posaibly this
conduct had something to do with her
traglo end for she gradually grew im-
perious toward the members of her
maacullne court and more particularly
ao toward the maater of the place and
of her fortunes This attitude finally
resulted one day out of her assurance
of the power ahe wielded over Parish
In her giving some orders concerning
the management ot the estate that
were directly opposite to Parish's
Ideals on the subject
With all the dignity And suavity of
manner for which he wae famous ha
told her the time had come when she
must leave him and hla house Ue
suggested that Parla would be an ex-
cellent place for her to take up resi-
dence In and that he would naturally
provide for her ao that ahe might live
In the style to which she had been
accustomed Of the effect of this ultl
matum had on her subsequent events
showed But at the time she was as
dignified as a woman ot her training
only could he
i Last 8oelal Function
She made one request however and
this he granted with hla usual cour-
tesy urbanity and generosity This
waa that before ahe left Ogdensburg
she might he permitted to give a fete
cbampetre for the poor children of the
town between whom and Mme Ves-
pucci there had sprung up a great at-
tachment From Montreal and New York Par-
iah summoned all the kinds of per-
formers and shows that gave the form
of entertainments sacred to such out-
door parties for children In the land
of Mme Vespucci’s youth the land
that waa to be the ecene of her brief
exile The lawns behind those gray
walls never were ao full of life and
merriment aa on that day which was
to mark the end of madame’a reign
All the men who were friends of Par-
iah and Mme Vespucci took part in
the farewell Father Mackey and Dr
Peters were there and for the first
time Dr Miller the Presbyterian
clergyman entered the gateway and
met the mistress of the establishment
She hid the ache In her hem behind
a mask of gaiety and there are old
men and women In Ogdensburg today
whose eyea will lighten at the mem-
ories of the happiness that was theirs
that beautiful afternoon
Then Mme Vespucci went away
Paris became her home but It was s
solitary and heart-breaking one for
her The letters she wrote to one of
her old men friends in the Maple city
told of this solitude and this heart-
break She wrote to him at Intervals
of two years and then word reached
her friends- that she was dead Of
how great was her love for Parish
this brief record of absence from his
side bears witness Beyond the stone
that marks her grave In Pere-la
Chaise there exist no tangible reo-
ords of her In this country today" ex-
cept a silver box marked with thk
Vespucci coat of arms and a packet
of letters she wrote In Paris
As for Parish his life had a more
glorious ending ao far as the exter-
nals were concerned A short time
after Mme Vespucci disappeared
from Ogdensburg Parish ’ received
word that he had inherited through
his mother’s family the title and the
lands of Baron von Bteftenburg in
Germany Before he left New York
for Germany he destroyed the tradi-
tion that the men of hla family never
married by wedding a Mrs Randolph
of New York a widow who had been
one of hla lifelong friends and who
accompanied him to hla castle in Ba-
varia but did not accompany him to
Ogdensburg on hts one return to that
town Hla house slightly altered and
with the surrounding wall removed
la now owned by Oeorge Hall a mag-
nate and former mayor of Ogdens
hors
QMLODKIEEl
Jy WILBUR D NE-Psrrt
AS IT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN
tit Mr George Ade Inetead ot Mr John
Qreenleaf Whittier bad written "Maud
Muller")
Maud Muller on a eummer'e day
Sighed: "I'm Built Like a Bala of Hay
"I am compoaed of Hlpe and China
Until I aeem a Pair ot Twtna”
All aurnmer than ahe worked away
Just like a Farm Hand every day
Until ahe looked both Trim and Sweet—
And Yearned for something Good to Bat
Upon the Lawn In gentle Gulee
Maud Muller took her Exercise
The Judge came riding down the Road
And noted how well Maudls showed
H asked It he might have a Drink
And seemed to ba About to Wink
She got the 8ugar and the Mint
And tha Glad Nose Paint did not Stint
She mixed the Judge a Jullp Slug
That hit him like a Klselng Bug
The Judge attempted to get Gay
But Maudle told him: "On your Way
"T am a Simple Country Girl
But this la an Imported Curl
"Likewise the Bloom upon my Cheek
Is Massaged In Just Twice a Week
"I may stay with the Folks at Hum
But Jedge I guess I'va Traveled Soma”
The Judge rode slowly back to Town
And thers called on Samantha Brown
The Julep still was Up hla Nose
And what did he Do but Propose!
Maud Muller wed a Farmer Lad
Who had a Plutocrat for Dad
Sometimes Maud thinks about the Judge
And amlles about tha Good Old Budge
She gave him on that Summer 'Day
When he came Riding down the Way
The Judge betimes will often think
About the Awful Curse of Drink
Maud knows that when she seeks divorce
The Judge will be For Her of course
- MORAL:
Though Cupid says that You are Tt
You cannot Tell from Where You Sit
Of the Famllyf
"First” says the lecturer "our fore-
fathers ascended to their domiciles by
means of the tree trunks next they
progressed to dwellings built upon
the ground and naturally invented a
rude ladder by which to mount to the
upper floors they then developed the
stairways and from that by easy
stages came the elevator Therefore
we may say the tree trunk Is the
father of the elevator”
“And” Baked the bright scholar In
a rear seat "after that may we reason
that the stepladder is the stepfather?”
8artorial Suggestions
"But sir” deferentially says the
tailor "while of course we can make
your trousers with a 60 Inch walsl
hand sir allow me to remind you that
your waist measurement is already
fifty-two and — ’’
‘That’s Just It!” interrupts the fat
customer “I’ve been trying to reduce
my weight for a year — and no luck
Now If I can yank my waistband out
six or eight Inches I can unconscious-
ly create the impression with myself
that I'm getting thinner”
Correcting the Legend
"Huh!" sniffed the man with the
astute eye looking up from the pages
of "Le Morte d’ Arthur"
"What is It?" asked his wife
"Some of these writers had better
get their facts straight" he com-
mented t
"What is it dear?”
"Why this fellow says that King Ai
thur's sword was Excallbur Any fool
knows that caliber refers to gunsl
Huh!"
The Strike
He struck her
She stood before him proud beau-
tiful and defiant
"I have told you" she said In de-
termined tones' ‘that I will not”
“Lizzie” he repeated “lend me a
dollar out of my wages I’ll pay it
hack In Installments I haven't eves
got lunch money”
But she was obdurate
It never pays to strike a woman
UNCLE SAM
ASKED TO AID
HELM COMMITTEE 8EEKING HELP
OF COMPTROLLER
TO SEARCH THE BANKS
Committee Wants to Loam Disposi-
tion of tho Lorlmor Slush Fund
— Sensational Develop-
ments Expected
Springfield 111 — The aid ot the comp
trailer of the currency with the na-
tional bank examiners at his com-
mand in searching Chicago banks
for trace of t’he alleged Lo rimer cor-
ruption fund is to be sought by the
Ilelm bribery committee according to
reports here Politicians says mem-
bers of the committee believe a corps
ot bank examiners could do more In
tracing the alleged slush fund In a
short time than an employe of the
committee might accomplish In montld
Chairman Helm said that bis com-
mittee will not meet until Thursday
Although process serve have been
scouring the state with subpoenas for
two weeks the names of only five
persons who are to appear as witnesses
are known here These Include
Edward Tilden president ot the Na-
tional aPcklng company Chicago for-
mer United States Senator Albeit J
Hopkins of Aurora Carl S Burgett
a member of the lower house In the
forty-sixth general assembly and now
doorkeeper of the house and former
Representatives Johnson Lawrence of
Polo and William C Blair of Jeffer-
son county
Practically every member of the
legislature which elected William Lori-
mer to the United States senate bas
been summoned Jo appear before the
state senate investigating committee
to testify aa to the alleged bribery
of the lawmakers The truth of the
report was confirmed by the clam-
like silence of al lthe present legisla-
tors who were members of the last
assembly
From the sources of the Informa-
tion that these men had 'been sub-
poenaed came another report that the
subpoenaes were served In secret and
that all persona named In them had
been warned to maintain alienee
Sergeant-at-Arms Zinn of the com-
mittee refused to deny the report le
day ’
NEW TRIAL FOR DR HYDE
Supreme Court of Missouri Remands
Case to Trial Court
-Jefferson City Mo — Dr B Clark
Hyde waa Tuesday granted a new
trial on ' the - charge of murder of
Colonel Swope the millionaire philan-
thropist of Kansas City by the su-
preme court Judge Franklin Ferris
wrote the opinion which Is about 12-
000 words long remanding the case to
the Jackson county criminal court tor
retrial
Action In the B Clark Hyde murder
case at Kansas City awaits the arrival
of the official mandate from Jefferson
City Attorneys for both the state and
the defense can make no definite
and complete plans for the future un-
til they have read this document How
long it will be before the mandate ar-
rives Is problethatical The law says
It must reach Kansas City within ten
days after the opinion Is delivered
Attorneys expect It within three or
four days
That the case will he retried Is cer-
tain says Prosecutor Virgil Conkling
It Is probable too that Dr Hyde will
again be tried on the charge of having
murdered Colonel Thomas H Swope
It was on this indictment that the case
Just passed on was based '
Heroes Rewarded
New York — The heroism of Orlavus
Juve and John J McGlynn who risked
their lives to save fifty of their fel-
lows while working on the Queens-
boro bridge In 1907 was rewarded by
the appellate division of the supreme
court today by the award of $20000
damages to each They were placing
In position some large iron plates on
the tower of the bridge One of these
slipped from its supports and would
have fallen In the midst of the fifty
men working below If Juve and Mc-
Glynn had not deflected It In so doing
their hands were crushed costing
them their usefulness in a trade at
which they had earned from $30 to
$40 a week
For Canada Alone
Washington — An European govern-
ment the first to raise the point waa
advised Tuesday by the state depart-
ment that the tariff concessions of-
fered to Canada under the pending
reciprocity agreement will not be tend-
ered by the United States to' other
nations until the “most favored nation''
clause of their treaties with this coun-
try is Investigated
West Sure Of Capital Outcome
duthrie Okla — Receiving assurances
from Oklahoma City that suitable quar-
ters have been secured and prepared
W hla department Attorney General
Charles J West Tuesday began prep-
arations for moving his entire offices
to Oklahoma City Mr West who
but recently returned from Washing-
ton where he argued the state capital
removal case tor the state is sanguine
that the matter will be decided by tha
federal supreme court in favor of Ok-
lahoma City on the ground of nonjurisdiction
'A trial package of Munyon’e Paw hi
Pills will be sent free to anyone on re
Jurat Address Professor Munyon 53d I
affereon Eta Philadelphia Pa If yon art
in need of medical advice do not fail te
write Professor Munyon Your common!
cation will be treated in strict confidence
and your case will be diagnosed as ear 1
fully as though you had a personal into
view
Munyon’e Paw Paw Pills are nnllk
all other laxatives or cathartics Thai
coax the liver into eotlvity by gentle
methods They do not scour they de
not gripe they do not weaken but they
do start all the secretions of the livw
and stomach in a way that toon puts
these organa In a healthy condition ana
corrects constipation In my toplnloe
constipation la responsible for most el!
ments There are 26 feet of homes
bowels which la really n sewer pipe
When this pipe become clogged the
whole system becomes poisoned sens
tng biliousness indigestion end impure
blood which often produce rhenmatlem
and kidney ailments No woman whe
suffers with constipation or say live
ailment can expect to have n dJ
complexion or enjoy good hoelth U
I had my way I would prohibit the sals
of nine-tenths of tha cathartics that are
now being sold for tha reason that they
toon destroy the lining of the stomach
setting up serious forms of indigestion
end ao paralyze tha bowel that they rm
fuse to act unless forced by strong
purgatives
Mnnyon’s Paw Paw Pills are a tonic
to the stomach liver and nerves They
Invigorate instead of weaken they en-
rich the blood Instead ot Impoverish
It they enable the stomach to get
tho nourishment from food that is
Into It
These pills contain no calomel as
dope they ere soothing healing and
stimulating They school the bewah
to sot without phyulo
Regular size bottle containing 45 plUg
25 cents Munyon’e Laboratory 53d a
Jefferson Eta Philadelphia
MADE HIS ESCAPE IN TIME
Metaphors of Millionaire Found Nw
Response In ‘tho Broast of
tho Farmer
Tho millionaire accepted tho fan
er’a cordial Invitation' to ride and with
much scrambling gained a eeat on top
of tho hay
"My good man” said tho millionaire
patronizingly "this swaying rolling
sweet-scented divan la a couch upon
which I could win slumber and be Ir-
resistible to the arms of Morpheus
whenever I courted sweet sleep”
The farmer stiffened "I’ll hear ne
more of your talk I’m a respectable
married man an I’ll ask you whoro
you’re goln so I can avoid tho place"
Dreamily tho millionaire smiled
"I’m getting back to Mother Nature
who has been outraged and abused by
me for years I am a broken man
and she will forgive me and bring me
back to health’’
The farmer stopped the team and
pulled a three-tlned pitchfork from
the brace socket — but hla passenger
was gone — Success Magazine
8ure
"What Is a co-worker ?”
"One who helps you work
body of course”
We always like those who admire
us we do not always like those whom
we admire — Francis Duo de Roche
faucauld
It Does
The Heart
Good
To see how the little
folks enjoy
Post
Toasties
with
cream
(Sweet crisp bits of pearly
white com rolled and
toasted to an appetizing
brown
“The Memory Lingers"
FOSTUM CBRBAL CO
Mattie Creak Mich
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