The Carwile Journal. (Carwile, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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CARWILE WOODS CO O T FRIDAY JAN 24 1902 VOL IV NO 23
I 15he TWO MADELINES
By JOHN
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-"If be loved us why did be leave
us?" asked the child with that logic
which -exists only ' in the unwarped
minds of children — of all ages
Even harder to answer than that un-
answerable question were the sincere
blue eyes raised with questioning look
to her own and Alice Newcomb as
If seeking an answer to give the trust-
ing child whose head nestled so lov-
ingly on her -bosom looked out of the
window to the sunshine and the birds
and all the pretty growing things and
sought in vain for an answer
Why had he left them? The ques-
tion that had never left her mind by
night or day for five years the har-
assing stinging burning question
which it seemed to her was branded
into her very soul Her last thought
eaoh night her first at dawn haunt-
ing her dreams by night and her work
by day never forgotten always unan-
swerable: ‘Why had he left them?”
The village had known no happier
home had never contained-within its
boundaries a prettier or cosier nest
than the cottage where now sat the
lonely woman with the winsome child
In her lap The sunshine peeped
through the honeysuckle and into the
room where these two sat Just as John
Newcomb had known it would when
with his own hand he had planned and
built the little home full of hopes and
purposes for the future
Their married life had been of un-
usual and perfect content Lovers for
many years they bad waited until
John’s prospects as a partner in the
firm of Newcomb & Miller carpenters
and builders gave them assurance of
financial safety and then they had
married and settled in the prettiest of
cottages almost before Alice could be-
lieve it true Three happy yearn had
they spent in their home during which
an added joy had come to them — the
little golden-haired girl wjiom they
had named Madeline She was a beau-
tiful and an Ideal child born of the
love of a perfect and a happy home
and her coming had flllecf to the brim
the cup of happiness which life held to
the lips of John and-Allce Newcomb
John Newcomb was a manljrman as
the men said who worked for and with
him he was “every Inch a man” And
with every inch of his many inches for
he was more than six feet tall' did he
love “his girl" Alice and his baby
Madeline To all that was rough and
burly and hearty In him did the
dainty little girl appeal with the un-
conscious strength of childhood The
first word and the first step and the
first tooth were events never to be for-
gotte 1 In John Newcomb’s life so
tightly about his heart did the little
Madeline weave - the meshes of love
giant meshes woven by baby hands
The partnership prospered the cot-
tage was almost entirely paid for and
John’s reputation for the practical part
of his work as well as the theoretical
for he had been known as an excellent
draughtsman grew apace and was the
He rose as one who dreams
source of some modest pride to John
and of much wifely pride to Alice The
home-coming of John at night was fhe
joyful part of the day to all of them
and as the little one grew to more of
the pretty ways and words of baby-
hood and childhood more and more
did John look forward to the restful
evening time at home
One night it was soon after Iadeline
had reached her third year and had
had a “boefday party” something har
pened that hrd never happened before
GASTON
John did not come home
Never before had such' a thing oc-
curred He was superintending th
work of a handsome school building In
a neighboring city It was a contract
the firm had been proud to get and he
had gone down to supervise the work
In person coming home each night As
the hours went by Alice first became
alarmed but her perfect faith In John
and her confidence that nothing but
the mlsBlng of his train could have de-
layed him soon quieted her fears and
like the Innocent baby she soon went
to her rest
Poor Alice It was the last peace-
"Madeline — Madeline I ”
fnl and perfect day that had been
granted her Five years of torment
had she lived through and yet John
had not come The love for her child
and his bad held her to life and sanity
the work of her hands with some aid
from her friends had kept the little
home
The fall of a heavy stone archway In
the ' building where he had lingered
alone that night going over the work
of his men a crash of stone and brick
upon a man when none were by to see
and tell of it hours of lying uncon-
scious in the darkness In the chill Oc-
tober night had blotted from this
man’s mind all memory of the past
When in the early dawn ct nsciousness
returned his mind was as totally with-
out memory as that of the new-born
babe - The home that he had built
those dearest to him the center of all
his thoughts and hopes the struggles
and the ambitions of the past were all
as though they had not been In the
chill gray morning he arose as one
who dreams walked aimlessly through
the deserted streets and when a lum-
bering freight train drew heavily into
the little station without idea of time
or place or season he climbed aboard
and was borne westward
” '
About the fire in a miner’s cabin in
the far west sat four men They were
clad In rough clothes and were loung-
ing about in the easiest attitudes that
occurred to them finding comfort In
their pipes of tobacco after the hard
work of the day One of these men
somewhat differing in appearance from
the rest' sat a little apart His face
was fine and there were lines of suffer?
ing But the unusual thing about the
face was the expression in the eyes
they were kind anc sad eyes but un-
less he spoke directly to another an
expression not of being hunted but of
hunting dominated them As if they
were always seeking and never finding
This was John Newcomb His com-
panions called him odd and talked of
him among themselves always ending
by saying that there was something
wrong — no doubt about that That
man had a past And yet 'the great
goodness of the man - forbade their’
thinking any evil of him No man in
camp was so kind-hearted or half as
enduring of hardship or trouble as was
John
It was the month of October and the
mountains wore their purple and gold-
en haze preparatory snowy winter
garb Soon the little cabin would be
snowed in and communication with the
town shut ofT In anticipation of this
time two of the men took a journey to
town about this season of each year
and purchased the necessary supplies
for the coming cold weather John
was almost always one of these for hia
knowledge of household economy was
i
of value in maklng the purchases Sev-
eral days were occupied usually in this
Journey and this little period of change1
and activity was welcomed by these
men of the mountains and the woods
One evening while his “pard" was'
absorbed in a game of cards where the'
bags of gold dust lay thick upon the
table John wandered away through:
the streetsof civilization The sun was
just resting on the horizon before it
bade good-night to the pretty little
mountain town And up and down the
street lined with graceful - trees and
cosy homes were to be seen the chil-
dren in their happy play' And the
hour was full of peaceful foreboding
that the twilight brings to the tired
son of man But of these things about
him John seemed to have little knowl-
edge or care until one of the homes
he passed by seemed for a moment to
attract' him It was a lew cottage
standing in the midst of a flower-
decked lawn and over its windows
climbed and bloomed the honeysuckle
The sight of it stirred something in
the breast or brain of this man as if
a dream forgotten had almost come
back to him - He looked again at' the
house and from the rear of it chasing
Joyfully in pursuit of a playful spaniel
came a golden-haired child very fair
to look upon -- '
As she ran toward the walk in front
keeping close after her playfellow a
woman stepped out on to - the broad
porchunder the honeysuckle and called
to her: -
"Madeline come — it’s supper time”
Madeline — Madeline! In a flash the
curtain of darkness lifted from the
man’s brain and the life that he had
forgotten all came back to him The
magic word the name of his own little
girl spoken by another mother to an-
other Madeline was the key that start--ed
again the wonderful wheels of mem-
ory The joy of feeling remembering
of living was his again
The woman on the porch was almost
frightened when she saw the strange
rough man take her little girl in his
arms and kiss her passionately And
the child was frightened too at the
expression on the man’s face — so fierce
so passionate as he compelled his
recreant memory to bring bar-k to him1
that which it had hidden all these
years He turned and left the child
who ran to her mother not a little
shaken by her strange friend’s actions'
Four days later the darkness was
turned to light and the mourning to
Joy and his own Madeline’s question
had been answered And a week later
from the Madeline in the east to the
Madeline in the west there came a box
containing the most beautiful of
French dolls and with it was a note
which explained how she of the west
had found a' father for she of the east
History of Irish Poplin
Lady Carew who died the other day
was a benefactress of Ireland in this
way: She was the first person to wear
in Paris an Irish poplin dress It
was in primrose yellow with a design
in gold thread and so much admired
that the foremost ladles at the court
of the Tuilleries asked her where she
bought the poplin and upon learning
the address wrote for patterns Marie
Antoinette ordered one in lavender
enriched with a gold pattern the
Princess Marie one in blue and silver
and Princess Clementine one in pink
and silver Irish poplin was first man-
ufactured in Dublin by Popeline a
Huguenot refugee It became the
rage and was greatly worn on occa-
sions of high ceremony as rain did
not spoil it Poplin became a favorite
dress for the public promenades at
fashionable hours All its French imi-
tations the wool being less carefully
treated cockle and lose luster when
exposed to the least shower Balzac
dresses some of his grand ladies in
poplin The Princess Clementine wore
a plaid poplin gown the day the late
Queen Victoria first landed at Treport
to visit Louis Philippe and Marie
Amelie at Eu Irish poplin is
still much worn by the children of the
wealthy and Is thought to go well
with Irish guipure — London News
'Montcalm Record as a Warrior
Montcalm commanded the French
forces in Canada during the Seven
Years’ War which resulted in the con-
quest' of Canada He defeated the
British under Abercrombie at Tlcon-
deroga N Y but was defeated by
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham out-
side the walls of Quebec (1759) in
which engagement both generals lost
their lives
Consumptive In Australia'
According to Dr Sidney Jones 16-
000 consumptives are moving about
Australia annually
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Specimen Now Rmrely
An albino deer is so rare a sight In
the Adirondacka that when one does
appear it is regarded with superstiti-
ous feelings by some of the natives
Many of the so-called natives of the
Adirondacka are French-Canadlans 'A
white deer is never killed by the
French-Canadlan and he does not mo-
lest it although he believes there is
an evil influence about him while the
albino deer remains in his neighbor-
hood Some white deer have been killed
in the Adirondacka in the last few
years In 1898 a white deer frequent-
ly visited homes of natives in the
Keene valley It appeared in the fall
and became remarkably tame It was
a beautiful creature having a neck and
tail of pure white while the upper
parts of the' body and the back were
nearly white The eyes of this deer
were white although usually the eyes
of an albino are pink
By common consent the albino of
the Keene valley a doe was left un-
molested and it was decided to await
a heavy snow when it could be run
down and captured alive But the
dogs got after It and chased it until
it passed in an exhausted condition
near a traveler who caught it and cut
its throat The traveler was not
aware of the agreement among the
San Francisco having already be-
come familiar with Theosophy the
mystic religions of Brahma and Bud-
dha and with the lofty philosophy of
the Vedantan Swamis it only remained
to learn of Jainism perhaps the sanest
and most of all the ideal West Indian
religions says the San Francisco
Chronicle Yesterday before a large
audience in the rooms of the Laurel
Hall Club Jainism made its first bow
to the people of California the lec-
turer being Prof Emlyn Lewys until
recently a resident of London Prof
Lewys is a scholar of striking person-
ality and the only English-speaking
authority on this most ancient of re-
ligions Jainism as explained by the speak-
er is the Protestantism of India as
opposed to the Vedas Brahmanism and
the soul-paralyzing caste system It
aims at the perfection of character not
through faith but through correct
conduct and systematic intellectual ac-
tivity or ‘concentration as opposed to
the Yogi system of intellectual vacui-
ty The speaker said: -
“If a religion may be known by its
fruits what shall we say of this one
which though now numbering 2000000
votaries and dating its origin long
prior to the entrance of the Aryanp
WATER FOR THE HOLY CITY
Jerusalem Is Now Supplied by a System
of Modern Designs
The Holy Land has its railways
electric lights and American wind-
mills and now Jerusalem is about to
get a supply of good drinking water
In ancient times the city of David
jras well supplied The remains of
equeducts and reservoirs show this
But since the Turk’s day the people
of Jerusalem have been dependent
on the scanty and often polluted ac-
cumulations of rain water in the rock-
hewn cistern beneath their feet Even
this supply has recently failed says
a correspondentof the London Times
owing to want of rain Distress and
sickness became so general that the
Turkish governor has at length been
Induced to sanction the purchase of
iron pipe to bring water from Ain
Salah or the "sealed fountain” at
Solomon’s pools about nine miles
south of Jerusalem A pipe six inches
in diameter will bring 8000 “skins”
of water a day for distribution at
“fountains” supplied with faucets
Solomon in his famous "Song” speaks
of this secret spring now turned to
use "My beloved’’ he says as quoted
by the Times correspondent “is like
a spring shut up a fountain sealed”
It is a deep-down subterranean spring
which ha3 from the time of Solomon
flowed through the arched tunnel built
by him to the distributing chamber
or reservoir near the northwest corner
Dcor Scar cc
dirandaolu
Seen In the Adlrond
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hunters to preserve the doe as long asi
possible and deeply regretted his sot
-when he was informed of their plans
The guides of the Adirondacka say
that within their memory not more
than a dozen white ‘‘eer have been re-j
ported and the appearance of one lai
sufficient to excite them greatly Men
of the steadiest nerves under -mosti
hunting experiences are sometimes up-
set at the sight of a white deer or an
albino bird-
Many visitors to the north woods
scout the idea that there is such’ a
thing as a white deer At the samei
time the superstitious prefer not to
see one as they believe it indicates
danger So deep-seated was this bu-I
perstitlon among the natives at Wild
Cat pond in the Cranberry lake region
of St Lawrence county that they left
an albino deer alone when it appeared
there three years ago It was fre- i
quently observed accompanied by al
fawn of the usual color What be-j
came of it has never been known but
the native there tells the inquirer that
he did not shoot it nor did any of his
relatives They all admired it too
much to think of killing it and while
they don’t admit that they were super-
stitious about shooting it they will
say they preferred to take no chances
so far as that white deer is concerned
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into' India in prehistoric times has'
never yet produced a murderer?
Though regarding kingship as the
greatest injustice still the Jains do
two-thirds of all the financial business
of India They never eat meat and'
the monks- often carry brooms and1
sweep tho paths to avoid crushing the
Insects ' They believe in the advance-
ment of women in reincarnation and-
the eternal persistency and progressive
evolution of each ego and hold that
the atrocities of the soul and intellect
such as sense knowledge clairvoyance
telepathy the emotions the physical
constitution and the power to achieve
are all under the obscuration of Kar-
ma which to the Jain is a substance
The object of their study and effort is
to shake this Karmic clog out and to
liberate the soul by vibrating in a cer-
tain way This may be done by con-
centration on such Ideals as benevo-
lence charity or wisdom by analyz-
ing the teachings found in their en-
ormous and as yet untranslated li-
braries and then by synthelzing and
immediately acting on these truths
'Janiism then is the religion of intelli-
gence utility and action The Jains
marry at the age of 9 or 10 and
live ideal married lives all unions be-
ing regulated through astrological af-
finity’’ of the highest of Solomon’s pools
Half a century ago the location of
this "hidden” spring which was still
as in Solomon’s time flowing into the
reservoir mentioned was unknown
The tunnel is roofed by stones lean-
ing against each other like an inverted
V the primitive form of the arch
which i3 also seen In the roof of the
queen’s chamber of the great pyramid
The entrance to this tunnel from the
spring is one of the oldest structures
in existence The piping is to be laid
along the old aqueduct which former-
ly from the time of Solomon brought
this same water to the temple area
There are eleven or twelve ancient
fountains here and there in the city
long unused but now to be utilized and
from which the water may be drawn
free to all several taps being attached
to each fountain — Baltimore Sun
Thoroughbred dogs are less intelli-
gent than mongrels
In Maryland if one is walking at
night and a spider web brush the
face It is supposed to mean that a
ghost is following but in the daytime
it tells that a stranger is coming ' It
is widely -believed in Maryland that
a horse has the power of seeing
ghosts
‘ My! I think your mother would be
worried if she saw you!” “Well it’s
pretty hard for a boy to get along with-
out worrying his mother” — Puck
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Cowgill, Mrs. W. T. The Carwile Journal. (Carwile, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1902, newspaper, January 24, 1902; Carwile, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1841469/m1/1/?q=communication+theory: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.