The Cushing Citizen (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER IX— Continued
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These were busy days for Fltzhugh
lays filled with suspense and excite-
ment and acute money fever By the
end of the year his entire capital was
tied up in spring wheat which was
lurching and plunging like a sinking
ship and every ’downward swoop
drove his fortune upward Though
Fitzliugh’s money was all on paper he
was growing rich with galloping leaps
and already be was planning a deal to
follow that might send his fortune
oaring toward the million mark
It was in the beginning of March
while the Metropolitan Opera com-
pany was playing a two weeks’ en-
gagement at the Auditorium that he
received (through Artie) at his club
an Invitation to a box party given by
Mrs Otis
“Well well tell us how you man-
aged It"
“I told hen” sputtered Artie chok-
ing with mirth “I told her I had a
frightfully aristocratic fellow putting
up at my place who was all the talk
of Lunnon Mondays and Wednesdays
are her opera nights don’tcher know
and she’d just been telling me that a
ohap who was to have rounded out her
party tonight had failed her at the
last moment and then I mentioned
this frightfully- aristocratic fellow
and I saw her prick up her ears and
before I left she told me to bring him
along She doesn’t know don’tcher
know it’a you and she’ll be dread-
fully—” “Iler daughter will be there?”
"Oh yes indeed She was in the
room at the time She’ll be dreadfully
surprised too"
“No doubt Sparkle you’ve got the
brain of a Napoleon Going home?
Then Til take you out in my car"
They left the Union league club to-
gether and entered Fitzhugh’s new
90-horse power au£o£)obIle glistening
at the curb
The perennial favor'te “La Bd-
heme” was sung that evening In
spite of Mrs Otis (who had borne
Artie's “surprise” with commendable
composure sending only one terrify-
ing glance at that rash joker) Fltz-
hugh contrived to sit near Kathleen
and by the time “Kodolfo" and “Mlml”
had chorused “Amore” he was subtly
making love to her saying little by
word of mouth but speaking volumes
with eye and mien
It was near the end of act two and
he did not know whether “Mlmi” was
making merry with the Bohemians In
the Quartler Latin or dying of starva-
tion in “Rodolfo’s” attic and he did
not know whether Mrs Otis was
watching him or discussing with the
lady next her a corset display in
Michigan avenue that his hand found
Kathleen's and smothered it in a
burning pressure
“I have loved you” murmured he
very close to her ear “for three years
Today in fact is the anniversary —
the second of March Three years
ago today I found this” — from under
his cuff he slipped a dainty handker-
chief of exquisite lace and dropped it
in her lap “I loved Its owner then
I love her now I have always loved
her I always shall love her Every-
thing I have I owe to her”
She picked ub the bit of lace bent
her eyes on It The warm color had
crept from her cheeks leaving them
if he could have seen as white as
her arms and shoulders — uu exquisite
tlne-grulned white as pure and as
beautiful as the petuls of a milk-white
rose
The act was nearing Its close The
ocean of melody had touched high tide
“I am waiting for my answer” he
whispered
She made no sign that she heard
“If there’s any hope if I’ve a ghost
of a chnnee smile when you look ut
me again You needn’t speak Only
smile”
Some friends of Mrs Otis making
' an entr'-acte cull hnd peeped iu her
box to soy “liow’do” and Mrs Otis
dimpling and gracious and stout (and
watching her daughter from the cor-
ner of oue eye) stood gossiping with
them a few moments iu the corridor
entrance
As the lights came on Kathleen had
leaned back in her chair pressed her
lovely shoulders against the cushions
and breathed deeply Now she very
deliberately walked to the seat her
mother had vacated and with her
back partly towurd Fltzhugh she en-
gaged herself in airy conversation
with Artie Sparkle and the third man
of the party a ' middle-aged bachelor
named Chlckeripg Not once had she
glanced Fitzhugh’s way Not once did
she notice his existence
There is one thing at which even
the most determined of lovers will
stop and that thing is Indifference
Indifference raises a wall there Is uo
scaling
“Fool ! Fool that I was ever
to Imagine she cared 1 ’’ A girl
like her — what Idiocy 1”
lie determined that when the act
uded he weld excuse himself oa
some pretext and rush Into the streets
and walk and walk as he had walked
on this same night three years ago
He did not look very far beyond
that Only he repeated to himself
that for him everything was over All
his ambitions all his dreams and aspi-
rations had gone for naught He
thought of Esther
But all at once he sat up very
straight and his deep-brooding mel-
ancholy slipped away from him His
sinewy fingers spread then clenched
quickly — his familiar battle sign Was
he) Daniel Bandolph Fltzhugh to be
lashed into oblivion by a girl’s indif-
ference? He was not aware act three had
closed until the roar of hand-clapping
apprised him of it Automatically he
joined In As the lights came on he
h?ard Artie’s voice:
“I say Miss Otis won't you come
for a stroll In the corridor? It’s
frightfully warm heah”
“I really prefer staying here thank
you Mr Sparkle but you go”
When he knew Artie had gone Fltz-
hugh walked over to say goodby
But as he drew near she rose hur-
riedly and hastened toward the cur-
tains at the rear of the box leaving
him with her mother who with her
lorgnette to her eyes was placidly
and studiously ignoring him Kath-
leen vanished into the corridor- and
turning drew the curtains together so
that her face and neck and shoulders
were framed In the aperture And for
a long moment her soft pansy eyes
gazed into his leaping black ones
And the smile on her lips was heav-
enly And the light in her eyes afraid
yet glad spoke with an eloquent
tongue
Then the curtains fell together and
he was alone with Mrs Otis '
CHAPTER X
AJhe following October Fltzhugh
Dought a seat on the Board of Trade
Hla - Golden Goddess Luck ever
beamed upon him and this no less
than his breadth of grasp on the mar-
ket and all its wealth of tentacles
swelled his fortune with tremendous
booms His speculations in May and
“I Have waved You" Murmured He
Very Close to Her Ear
July wheat had alone netted him two
hundred thousand dollurs Winter
wheat hod Increased his capital by
two more similar notches It was now
well past seven hundred thousand dol-
lars and was rushing on towurd the
million mark
All this within four years! Tot
whenever he caught himself being
awed by the magic ho had wrought
he would quell his rising ego by severe
self-admonition : “Don’t get too con-
fident Remember It's all gambling
Once your luck changes It will go as
fnst os It came — maybe faster You're
liable to lose the whole pile la one
swoop”
Esther and the thought of her gave
him bad moments Directly she left
the hospital she had come again to
him and he had been forced to the
Ignominy of lying to placate her Tills
angered him Soon afterward she hud
gone to I’nterson N J where from
tijne to time he heard from her lie
tried repeatedly to give her money
but always unsuccessfully She re-
pulsed every effort he made Her un-
spoken reproach her silent refusal
of his checks for she returned them
without a word worried him more
than anything else she vould have
done v
AVliat Fltzhugh could not understand
was Otis’ unrelenting bitterness He
never planned a venture never mnde
a move’ but some bidden hand was
against it He was not slow to dis-
cover whose hand it was Nor was he
long In discerning that Its owner had
nothing save enmity for him Since
Kathleen’s return from abroad he had
taken eager advantage of every op
portunity to be with' her ' Aad
too be had encountered that same op-
posing force At first he never sus-
pected Otis He had thought Otis e
man who disdained society aa a fri-
volity only for women to amuse them-
selves with He was soon to learn
however that it is often those who
jeer the loudest at smart society who
secretly revere it most ' Hypocritically
a snob the flinty old capitalist was as
well versed in all those little tricks
and artifices and petty subterfuges of
socially disparaging a person as the
most sophisticated dowager
Fitzhugh’s perplexity became a tor-
ment One evening (It was at A
charity ball) he reminded Kathleen of
the “La Boheme” evening one ' year
before
“I shouldn’t bring It up’’ he ended
“only this is our ‘anniversary’ an'd an-
niversaries are always the' time for
recalling things”
She lowered her eyes to the cluster
of -violets on her corsage They were
his violets He had long ago learned
her passion for the flower and seldom
the day passed but he showered her ’
with them
“You do care a little? Don’t you—
Kathleen?”
“I — you know I like you"
He said tensely: “I don’t want you
to like me"
“I’m sorry"
“I want you to love me You know
I love you Can’t you — don’t you love
me Kathleen?”
The violin sobbed with Its delicious
melody She began toying with the
violets Her fingers were unsteady'
The violets fell to the floor
“Don’t you?” he Insisted as he re
covered and returned them
“Don’t I what?” — pinning the flow-
ers to her corsage 1
"Love me”
Having finally arranged the bou-
quet and stilled her trembling fingers
she permitted her arms to rest beside
her on the chair Instantly she felt
his hand close upon hers The sob-
bing of the violin increased It was
some wild thing of Mozart’s
“Kathleen 1 Kathleen!”
She was overpowerlngly conscious
of his nearness The flesh of his hand
seemed to burn into hers Every
nerve in her body throbbed to its pres-
sure All the restraint of years of
breeding and tradition which thus
far had held her back were now snap-
ping asunder and she felt herself be-
ing swept on toward that which she
feared yet longed to attain She
could no longer resist She gave her-
self utterly to the half-frlgntened do-
Uclousness of surrender
“Ah I love you I
do love you "
They were snugly ensconced behind
the shielding palm The violinist was
In a poetic frenzy The attention of
all was held by him Nobody saw
them The shadows of the March
afternoon were thickening and the
room was In semi-darkness
After a while he spoke very softly
"So we are engaged” he said and
In spite of him his voice trembled
“Yes" she murmured unclosing her
eyes Still leaning against him she
asked wistfully: "And are you very
very happy?”
He held her close
“I never dreamed” said he “that
any man could be so divinely happy
least of all myself”
Presently she sat up with a start
and removed his encircling arm
“You must remember” she said
hastily “it Is only between ourselves
We mustn’t announce it yet”
He detected a strange note in her
voice
“I understand” he answered quietly
“You see If I promise to marry
you — "
“‘If’ yon promise?”
“I mean when we announce our en-
gagement' I shall have to oppose fa-
ther and mother I’ve never breathed
a word to them you know When I
found you had said nothing to mother
that night I — I thought It best all
round to wait a little while So I’ve
never spoken But now I shall
have to fight for you I shall have to
defend you You must help me all you
can and always remember If I seem
severe or exacting It Is because I core
for you so”
“Once” he mused looking down nt
her with the unutterable Joy of posses-
sion “you spoke rather strongly of
my egotism I think sometimes I
have' a right to be egotistlcul”
"Indeed you have !” she exclaimed
purposely misunderstanding him
“Your success Is the most wonderful
thing In the world"
“I didn’t mean exactly that” he
smiled "But go on : tell me I've ac-
complished wonders”
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Simple Cure for Hiccoughs
Tills Is the method of treating ob-
ptinate hiccough tlint Dr D Francisco
Vonegas employs He describes It In
the Revlsta de Medlelnary Cirurgia
Practtcns (Madrid) The patient lies
down and draws up his knees until his
thighs are pressed tightly to his ab-
domen the lower part of the legs be-
ing pressed against the thighs by bend-
ing the knees The position Is held
for several minutes The effect of
this le to press the abdominal organs
up against the diaphragm and to sus-
tnln the pressure until the diuphrugiu
ceases Its spasmodic contractions
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Green Is Nature’s Color "
Green Is a restful color Oculists
sny thnt of all colors green is the
most friendly to the optic nerve In
lands where eternal snows or eternal
white sands flash up their glaring re-
flections men have to shod? their eyes
or go blind But green grass never
bothers the eye One can stare a for-
est In the face all day with Impunity
Nature’s greens never get on our
1 nerves
OKLAHOMA
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS IX OKLAHOMA
Aug 22-24 Chlckaalta Chautauqua
Aug 25-29 Toukuwa Chautauqua
Spt 1-4 Jacksun Count? Fair Altuo
8ept 8-11 llecktiaan Count? Fair Elk
Cky
8pt 9-11 Tillman Count? Fair Fredrick
Mept 0-11 Johnuton Count? lnlr Tinho-
mlngo Sopt -li Mamhnll Count? Fair Madlll
kept 8-11 MuCurtaln Count? Fair Ida-
bel Bqpt 1S-16 Comanche Count? Fair Law-
ton ftopt 13-18 Choctaw Count? Fair Hugo
kept 13-16 Pottawatomie Count? Fair
Shawnee
14-10 Lincoln Count? Fair Chand-
ler Sept 14-17 Kiowa Count? Fair Hobart
Sept 14-18 FUteburg Count? Fair Me-
Alenter Sept 15-17 Okfuskee Count? Fair Oke-
roh Sept 15-18 Canadian ‘ Count? Fair El
Reno
Sept 15-18 Carter Count? Fair Ardmore
Sept 15-18 Coal Count? Fair Coalgate
Sept 15-48 Creek Count? Fair' Sapulpa
Sept 15-18 Cuwter Count? Fair Clinton
Sept 1VI8 Jefferson Coant? Fair Ryan
Sept 15-18 Okmulgee Count? Fair Ok-
Sept 16-18 Fontotoo Count? Fair Ada
n ulgee
Sept 16-17 Nobel Count? Fair Ferry
Sept 16-18 Blaine Count? Fair Watonga
Sept 16-18 Cleveland Count? Fair Nor-
man Sept 16-18 Greer Count? Fair Mangum
Sept 16-18 naekeU Count? Fair Sttgler
Sept 16-18 LeFlore Count? Fair Foteau
Sept 16-18 Oeage Count? Fair Faw
htlKku '
Sept 16-18 Roger Mills Count? Fair
Cheyenne
Sept 16-18 stepheno Count? Fair Dun-
can Sept 16-18 Waehltaw Count? Fair Cor-
dell v
Sept 17-18 McClain Count? Fair Purcell
Serf 18-22 Hughes Count? Free Fair
HoUlenvIlle
Sept 26-22 Payne Count? Fair Still-
water Sept 20-23 Logan County Fair Guthrie
Sept 21-22 Oklahoma Count? Fair Okla-
homa City
Sept 21-23 Pawnee Count? Fair Pawnee
Sept 21-23 Woodward Count? Fair
Woodwardl
Sept 21-24 Rogers Count? Fair Clare-
more Sept 25-Oct 2 Oklahoma State Fair and
Exponitfon Oklahoma City
Oct 4-8 Oklahoma Free State Fair Mus-
gokoe Okla
Oct 26-30 Garfield Count? Fair Enid
An entire half acre of cotton was
killed by a stroke of lightning on a
farm In Hughes county
New concrete sidewalks are being
laid on some of the main streets In the
business Bection of Purcell
Officers for Wynona were chosen at
the first election of Wynona as a city
Dr M R Prentiss is the new mayor
Home grown sweet potatoes are
selling at 12 cents a pound at Guthrie
Plant lice have destroyed many melon
plants
Cushing Rotarians have decided to
hold a carnival lasting ’wo days
This will be August 5-6 at Big Rocks
Dn the Cimarron river
R A Griffith postoffice Inspection
has been in Newkirk preparing a plat
of the city and making plans for city
delivery In the near future
Ten miles of road south to the
Oklahoma county line has been put
In good condition Two miles of road
north of Guthrie will be clayed
Plans for a reception nor teachers
of Ponca City schools this coming
vear are being inaugurated by the
Ponca City chamber o commerce
Luther Russell of McLoud has left
for London England as a delegate to
the Friend’s World Peace conference
He will stop off a few days in Wash-
ington and Philadelphia
Judge Roberts of Enid is holding
district court in Kingfisher Sixteen
divorce cases are impending for trial
Number of divorces sought in King-
fisher county is Increasing
Work on the new county bridge
over the South Canadian river at
Calvin is progressing and will be
pushed to completion Bonds were
j voted for $150000 to build the bridge
I During the last year total deposits
and assets of the two banks at Ollton
have more than doubled and now total
more than $1000000 Both banks are
state institutions and are five years
old
The newest weekly published on the
east side of the state made its Initial
appearance at Sauplpa recently when
“The County Democrat-News ’ said to
be the only democratic paper in Sap-
ulpa was launched
I To determine whether Wewoka
shall remain the county scat of Seml-
1 nole county or whether the seat of
government shall he moved to Semi-
nole an election will be held accord-
ing to the proclamation Issued by Gov-
ernor Robertson The petition for tho
election was circulated for the most
part by citizens of Seminole
Suits for damages aggregating ap-
proximately $130000 for the death of
Chester Mkkelberry and the injuries
sustained by his brother Orville when
a truck they were driving was struck
1 by a K O & G passenger train were
filed In the Delaware county district
court The plaintiffs are the widow
of Chester Mickelberry the bOy’s fath-
er and the injured youth who Is In a
local Miami hospital
Muskogee Free State fair this fall
will offer a new attraction the hula
j hula girls A contract has just been
j signed for five Hawaiian dancers to
appear in native costume to dance
sing and play during the fair week
October 4-9 Many other attractions
are being booked for the event
More than thirty-five Caddo county
world war veterans have been ren-
dered service by the some service
branch of the Grady county Red Cross
chapter records In the office of Mrs
Blanche Freeman Red Cross worker
show
Will Not be One Day Without
PE-GW-IWA
This Lady TELLS Her FRIENDO
Mrs Mary Fricke 507 Bornman St Belleville
111 Is Just one of the many thousands of ladles
throughout the country who after an agony of
years have at last found health strength and
vigor in PB-RU-NA
Her own words tell of her suffering and recovery I
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stomach had awful cramps and headaches so I
often could not lay on a pillow Saw your book
tried PB-RU-NA and got good results from the
first bottle To be sure of a cure I took twelve
bottles I have recommended PB-RU-NA to my
friends and all are well pleased with results I
will not be one day without PB-RU-NA Have not
had a doctor since I started with PB-RU-NA which
was about fifteen years ago I am now sixty-three
years old hale hearty and welL Can do as much
work as my daughters I feel strong and healthy
and weigh near two hundred pounds Before I
weighed as little as one' hundred I hope lots of MRS mart pricks
people use PB-RU-NA and get the results I did” An experience Ilka
that of Mrs Frick is an inspiration to every aick and suffering
woman
If you have catarrh whether It be of the nose throat stomach
bowels or other organs PB-RU-NA Is the remedy It Is not new
it is not an experiment PB-RU-NA has been tried PE-RU-NA has
been used by thousands who once were sick and are now well To
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PB-RU-NA will Improve the appetite and digestion purify the blood
sooth the Irritated mucous linings eradicate the waste material and
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Tablet or Liquid Sold Everywhere
SOLD FOR 50 YEARS
For MALARIA
CHILLS and
FEVER
Alee a Fla General
Strength lag Toaie
sold rr ail Man mm
NO MERCY FOR THE FLIRT
According to Dream Modern Girl Met
With Deserved Condemnation
at St Peter's Hands
Cortlandt Bleeker was talking at
Piping Rock about the modern girl
“I had a dream last night” he
said “I dreamed that a modern girl
died and appeared before St Peter
"She wore a gown of filmy almost
transparent tissue She was very
beautiful and she had a conquering
air
“ ‘Let me in please’ she said ‘My
sweethearts were numberless hut my
virtue remained unspotted Though I
skated over miles of thin Ice I never
once fell through I am a modern
girl’
“But St Peter frowned and said
pointing downwards with his fore-
finger :
"I condemn you to the same
flames to which you condemned
your foolish lovers’ "
First Choice
Down In Terre Haute there are two
places of interest to which every
Terre Hautean takes his visiting
friends — the Davis gardens and High-
land Lawn cemetery The other day
a young society matron started to
take her wo visiting friends out for a
drive Now her roadster was new
and the way she drove It was exceed-
ingly reckless Near Main street she
turned to the women and asked : “Now
which place shall I take you first?”
The most frightened one turned to
the other visitor: “Oh tell her Davis
gardens” she whispered “I’m sure
we’ll get to the cemetery'if she keeps
up this sort of driving much farther”
— Indianapolis News
Sunlight for Malaria
Dr O Vlale reports to Policlinico
(Rome) that cases of long rebellious
malaria Improve rapidly when the
nude trunk is exposed to the sunlight
for several hours after each dose of
quinine
When Something
Is Wrong
With Your Comfort
— when nervousness indiges-
tion billiousness or some other
upset makes you think you are
not eating or drinking the right
thing
— if you’re a coffee drinker cut
out coffee ten days and use
Postum Cereal
This delicious drink with its coffee-
like flavor suits coffee drinkers Its
value to health soon shows and its
economy is so apparent under use
that one quickly realizes
There’s
Made by Postum Cereal Co Imp
Battle Creek Michigan
HE HAD MISSED SOMETHING
Mr Gap Johnson Brought to a Realiza-
tion of His Ignorance of His
Surroundings
“It must be wonderful to live all
your life long In the midst of the
’Land of a Million Smiles’ where the
silvery waters purl and plash and the
nymphs frolic all the day I” prattled
one member of a party of city motor-
ists who had Invaded the Ozarka
“To live In the — p’tu! — which?” sur-
prisingly returned Gap Johnson of
Rumpus Ridge
“Here among the hills and deUs of
‘The Playground of America’ Look at
the advertisement in the newspaper
and — ’’
“Well Til be— p’tu— dogged 1 I
never would ’a’ b’lleved It la the living
world If I hadn’t seed it In the paper I
I’ve lived yur since Heck was a pup
and I never knowed nuthln’ like these
yur ladles — nlmps I b’lieve you called
’em — to be setting on rocks thls-a-way
and skylarking around with nath’n In
pertlckler on but undershirts and
smiles Say how long has this yur—
p’tu 1 — business been going en any-
how?” — Kansas City Star
A Good Trader
“Of course I realize from all yoa
have said that you are the smoothest
business man who ever hit this town”
the quiet chap observed when the
salesman slowed down for want of
breath “but there are some others
Now for Instance I’ll sell you an ar-
ticle for a dollar that I paid five for
and still make a profit on the deal”
“Can’t be done I’ll take you 1" the
salesman responded briskly and
handed over a dollar
Whereupon the quiet chap gave him
a $5 meal ticket that had been
punched for all but ten cents ef Its
value
Wise Woman
“lie tells his wife everything"
“So?” “Yes but she only believes
a part of It”
a Reason
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