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The Stigler Beacon
R HOGAN Editor and Prop
STIGLER OK LA
rtttsburg Is beginning to get the
smoke out of its eyes
Mrs Russell Sage is the latest suf-
fragette but that only makes one
more
There is an old Irish saying that fits
the season: “A blithe heart makes a
blooming visage"
An Atlanta chauffeur Is suing the
family of his bride for $100000 Evi-
dently a repair bill
Sir Oliver Lodge has Invented an
instrument to dissipate fogs As 11
a sober fog wasn’t bad enough!
In Pittsburg the private conscience
at times appears to be about as
smoky as the public atmosphere '
A rich New York woman has eloped
arith a plumber but will no doubt re-
gret it If she has to pay him for his
time
Immigration Into Canada from Janu-
ary to August 1908 declined 46 per
rent compared with the same period
last year
As nearly as one can make out front
a long-distance wireless diagnosis the
kaiser is suffering from a loss of con-
‘ versatlon
The average life of a Pullman car
according to the auditor of the Pull-
man Company is 20 years Then what
becomes of ItT
A California man used a hole in hls
wooden leg to store hls money That’s
safer than a trouser pocket providing
he sleeps with the leg on
King Edward returned to London
to sign the prorogation speech which
Is much more kingly than having to
write the blooming thing
Again appears the professor who
says to marry happily marry oppo-
sites But isn’t the opposition rea-
sonably sure to develop afterwards?
The end of the deer season in Maine
shows a total of 10000 deer killed 20
men killed 125 men wounded The
deer hope to make a better record
next year
Since its Introduction into the Eng-
lish protectorate of Uganda In 1901
the sleeping sickness has killed no
fewer than 200000 out of a population
of 300000
By wireless telephony two French
naval officers have succeeded in hav-
ing conversation songs and even
whistling heard perfectly at a distance
of 90 miles
The young women visiting in Chi-
cago who had six automobiles placed
at her disposal must have been- most
unhappy because she could use but
one at a time
By the time a man has become the
father of three growing children the
last lingering hope he has that there
is really a Santa Claus dies away with
hardly a struggle
If Emperor William Is unable with
an Income of $10000000 a year to
make ends meet It will have to be ad-
mitted that he is about the poorest
manager extant
The pleasantest month of the year
at Chamounlx and other1 places In
Switzerland was October But the
tourists bad all departed and the
hole's were closed
If some of those doubters who are
so uncertain as to whether electrocu-
tion Is fatal want to mhke a thorough
tcBt why not try It in the case of men
who are killed while engaged In elec-
trical work? Many have perished In-
stantly while repairing power lines
and there has not seemed to be any
doubt that they were dead Is the
carefully adjusted scientific method
employed In the state prisons likely
to be less effective?
The fresh air fad is becoming a good
deal of a bore People now beg to be
let alone and not preached to every
moment about “open windows" and
“sleeping balconies” and the eternal
microbes It Is a terrible nuisance to
be always on the qui vlve about any-
thing The desire for peace naturally
follows the effort to keep in step with
the procession of faddists but let it be
mentioned says the Indianapolis' Star
that the lesson has been learned even
if one retrogrades and throws up the
fresh air sponge
An echo -of events which already
seem remote appears in the visit to
this country of Queen LUIuokalan! of
Hawaii to promote If possible the
passage of a bill now before -con
gress to give her a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars as payment for crown
lAnds which she formerly owned The
claim rests upon the old charge that
United States troops were used In
1893 to depose the queen and estab-
lish the Republican government
It cost $4000000 to bury the late
emeror of China but probably so
one in China begrudges the money
As a strictly news item it might be
mentioned that Count Bonis man-
hood Is outraged He says so himself
The wa7King Edwards “Cullinan"
-diamond reached England makes an
amusing story Seven detectives of-
ficiously guarded a man who carried a
small black bag But the bag -was
empty and the diamond was In the
pocket of another man who crossed
lroiu Holland In the steerage
CHAPTER I
The Masters
I heard about the pair first from
Emeline Eldredge “Emmie T" we al-
ways call her She was first mate
to the cook at the Old Summer Home
house that summer She come down
to the landing one morning afore
breakfast and hove alongside of where
I wag setting In the stern of my sloop
the Dora Bassett untangling fish lines
She bad a tin pail In her fist Indicat-
ing that her sailing orders was to go
after milk But Bhe saw me and run
down in ballast to swap yarns
“My sakes! Mr Pratt" says she
“have you heard about Nate Scudder?"
' “Yes” I says “Ever since I cotne
to Wellmouth"
“I mean about what him and hl3
wife has Just done”-says she “It’s
the queerest thing! iluiill never guess
it in the world” ' ' '
"Ain’t been giving hls money to tho
poor has he?" cays I for generally
speaking it takes a strong man and a
cold chisel to separate Nate Scudder
from a cent
“Oh! ain’t you the funniest thing!"
she squeals “No Indeed! He’s lei his
house to some city folks and — ”
“Ain’t that the cook calling you?’
1 asks I’m a homeopth when It comes
to Emmie T: I like to take her In
small doses — she agrees with me bet-
ter that way
It was the cook and Emeline kited
off after the milk only stopping Ions
enough to yell back: “Folks say
they're dreadful rich and stylish I'll
tell you next time I see you"
Well I cal’lated she wouldn't— not
If I saw her first— and didn’t pay no
more attention to the yarn except to
think that June was pretty early for
city folks to be renting houses There
wrs only three or four boarders at the
Old Home so far and I was to take a
couple of ’em over to Trumet In the
loop that very day
But while we was on the way over
one of the couple— sort of a high-
toned edition of Emmie T she was—
she turns to her messmate another
pullet from the same coop and says
she: “Oh! say!” ahe says "Have you
heard about the two young fellers
from New York who’ve rented that
8cudder house on the— on the— what
do they call It? Oh yes! the Neck
road I heard Nettle Brown say they
were too dear for anything Let s
drive past there to-morrow shall we?”
So there It was again and I begun
to wonder what sort of crlttera Nate
had hooked I Judged that they must
be a kind of goldfish or he wouldn’t
have baited for 'em Nate aln t the
man to be satisfied with a meBS of
scnlplns
I landed the hoarder! at Trumet
and they went tip to the village to do
some shopping Then I headed across
the harbor to shako hands with the
Trumet light keeper who Is a friend
of mine Hls wife told me he’d gone
over to town too so I come about and
back to the landing again And I'm
blessed if there wa’n’t Nate ScudJer
himself setting on a mackerel keg at
the end cf the wharf and looking wor-
ried I hadn’t hoisted the Jib on the way
down and now I let the mainsail drop
and west forward
“II l’o Nate!” 1 halleu as the Dora
Bassett slid np to the wrsrf
He kind of Jumped aad looked at
me as if he'd Jnst wcke up
"Hello Bol!" be says sort of mourn-
ful Then he turned hls eyes toward
the bay again and appeared to be
starting In on another nap
“Hear you got some boarders over
to your home’’ I says heaving him a
line as a hint for him to come out of
his trance and make me fast
“Yes” says he paying no attention
to the line
“Come early In the season’ ain't
they?" says I grabbing hold of one of
the wharf spiles and bringing my boat
alongside easy as I could
“Ya-as” says he again Then he
fetched a-long breath and opened- hl
mouth as It he was going to go ou
But he didn't: all that comes out of
the mouth afore it shut up was an-
other "Yes"
I made the Dora Bassett fast myself
and climbed on to the wharf
“Are theycarjatlng to(stay jong?’! I
asks He'd got tue Interested' Seemed
to have the "yes” disease bad
“Hey?” says he “Oh — er — yes”
I was a little mite provoked Not
thst 1 was hankering to have Nate
Scudder heave his arms around my
neck and tell me he loved me but I
didn’t know any reason why my pumps
should Buck dry every time I tried
’em
’Humph!” I gruntetj Blartjng to
walk off "Well be careful ’ef -yourself
lock out it don’t develop into
nothing worse”
"What do you mean?” he slngs’out
seeming to be waked up for good at
last
’Oh" says I “I Judged by the way
you kept your mouth shut that you
hAd sore throat and was afraid ot
getting cold Good day"
Would you believe It he got up off
that mackerel keg and chased after
me
“Hold cn Sol!” he says kind ot
pleading “Don’t be in such a hurry
wanted to talk to you”
I had to laugh couldn't help It
“Yes” says I “I kind of suspicioned
that you did front your chatty re-
marks If you'd said 'yes’ nine or ten
times more I'd have been sure of It”
"Well I did” he says “I wanted to
ask you — I thought I’d see what you
thought — you see — ”
Here be kind of faded away again
and stood still and wiped his fore-
head “Look here Nate Scudder” I says
“for a man that wants to talk you
make the poorest fist at it of anybody
ever I see Why don't you try singing
or making signs? I wouldn’t wonder
If you got ahead faster”
He grinned a feeble sort of lop-
sided grin and tried another' tack
“You were speaking of them board-
ers of mine" be says
"Yes I was” I says
"They come day afere yesterday —
early” say he
“Um-hum So I heard” I says
He fidgeted a minute or ao more
Then he took me by the arm and led
mo back to the keg
”SoI” he says “set down I want
to ask you something By gum! I got
to ask somebody I’m — I'm worried"
“Yes?” I said giving him a little of
hls own medicine
"Yes Them boarders — they worry
me Me and Huldy set up til) nigh
11 o'clock last ' night talking about
’em She thinks ruaybe they stole the
money and I don’t know but they're
crazy ran away from an asylum or
something You’ve seen more city
folks than I’ hive being around the
hotel so Ses what you think
"’Twas this way” he went on “I
got a letter from the feller in New
York that I sell cranberries to He
said s’ couple of friends o? hls wanted
to come to a place In the country
where 'twas quiet Did I know of such
a place round here? Well course I
wrote back that 'twas nice and qnlet
right at our house There wa'n't no
lie In that was there Sol?”
"No” I says “I should say
'twouldn’t be shaving the truth too
close if you'd sail there was more
quietness than anything else down on
the Neck road”
"Well” he goes on not notlclog the
sarcasm “I wrote and never got a
word back Me and Huldy had glvea
up hearing And then yesterday
morning they come — both cf 'em
Nice lookin' young fellers as ever you
see they are dressed just like the
chapa in the clothes advertisements In
the- back of the magazines The big-
gest one — they're both half as tall as
that mast seems so — he took up his
bat and says kind of lazy and grand
like a steamboat capt'n:
“ 'Mr Scudder? he says
” ’That's my name' says I I was
kind of suspicious there's been so
many sewing-machine agents and such
round town this spring And yet I’d
ought to have known he wa'n't no sewing-machine
agent
”'Ah!’ he says 'You've been ex-
pecting us then Has the luggage
come?' -“What
In time did I know about bis
‘luggage as he called U?
“ ’No’ says I “Taln’t’
" ’Oh well never mind' he says Just
as If a ton or two of baggage didn't
count anyway ‘Can you give us two
sleeping rooms two baths a setting
room and a room for my man?
“'Two baths’ sys I 'Can't you
take a bath by yourself? You seem
to be having lots of funny jokes with
me Would you mind saying what your
name Is and what you want?
“He looked me over sort of odd
‘Beg pardon' he said ‘I thought you
were expecting us Here's my card'
“I looked at It and there was the
name 'Edward Van Brunt’ printed on
it Then I begun to get my bearings
as you might say
“'Oh!' I says 'I see’
“ 'So glad I'm sure' be says 'Now
can you give us the sleeping rooms
the baths and the room for my man?'
“ 'Hump!' says I lookin’ back at the
house behind me 'if me and Huldy
busked In the henhouse and the chore
boy In the cellar maybe we could ac-
commodate you that Is all but tbe
baths You'd have to take turns with
the washtub for them' I says
“He laughed He was so everlasting
cool about things that It sort of riled
me up
“ 'Perhaps you’d like to hire the
whole shebang? says I sarcastic
pointing to the house
“He looked at It It looked sort of
cheerful with the syrlnga over the
door and the morning-glories hiding
where the whitewash was off
l“ 'Good Idea!' he says 'I would’
“Well that wag too many for me!
I went Into the house aud fetched out
Huldy Ann — she's my wife There
alnt many women In this town can
beat her when It comes to managing
and business If I do say It
“ ‘How long would you want the
house for?' says Huldy when I told
her what was going on
" ‘A month' says Van Brunt turn-
ing to the other city feller 'Hey Mar-
tin?’ T'other chap nodded
“ 'All right’ Bays Van Brunt ‘How
much?'
“Thinks I Til scare you my fine fel-
ler’ And so I says 'A month? Well
I don't know Maybe to accommo-
date I might let you have If for two
hundred' I sort of edged off then
thinking sure he'd be mad but he
wa'n't — not him 'Two hundred It
is he says and fished out a little
blank book and one of them pocket
pens
“ 'Name's Scudder?’ he aqfes
” 'Yes' ' says I 'Nathan Scudder
One T In Nathan'
“And I don't know as you'll believe
It Sol” says Nate finishing up “but
that feller made out a check for two
hundred and passed It over to me like
'twas a postage stamp What do you
think of that?"
I didn't know what to think of It
On general principles I'd say that a
man who wanted to board with Nate
and Huldy Ann Scudder was crazy
anyhow but of course these fellers
didn't know
“It beats me Nate” I says "Wha'
do you think?"
“Blessed if I know!” says Scudder
with another of them long breaths
"All I'm sure of is that they’re up
home with the parlor blinds open and
the carpet fading and me and Huldy's
living In the barn She's doing the
cookin' for ’em till this 'man' of theirs
comes I-and knows what kind of a
man he Is too And that check was
on a New York bank and I've Just
been up to Trumet here with it and
the cashier say 'twill be a week afore
I know whether It's good or not And
I can't make out whether them two
are thieves or lunatics or what And
Huldy can't neither I never was so
worried In my life”
I kind of chuckled down Inside The
Idea of anybody's skinning Niio Scud-
der was the nlghest Ip the biter's be-
ing bit of anything Ijever come acicss
And-Just then I see my twa passengers
coming
“Well cheer up Nate" I ays
“Maybe you’ll get the reward whether
It's lunatics or thieves Only you
want to look out and not be took up
for an accomplice”
He fairly shriveled up when I said
that and I laughed to myself all the
way out of Trumet harbor One thing
I was sure cf Them two New York-
ers must l)o queer birds aad I wasted
tq see ’em
And the v-ry next afternoon I did
“ace ’em They coro dawa the Old
Horn) pier together walking ns If they
didn't care a whole contl aental wheth-
er they ever got anywheres or not
One of ’em the smallest one — he
wa'n't more'n six foot one and a ha'f
— looked aort of sick to nte He had A
white face and that kind of tired
don't-care look In hls eye and the
bigger one aort of 'tended to things for
him
“Good morning” says the big one
— the Van Brunt one 1 judged — cheer-
ful enough T'other chaj) said “Good
morning" too
“Morning” says I
“Can you take us out sailing?”
“Why — er — I guess so” I says "I
don't know why I can't if you feel
like going Course — ”
I hadn't finished what I was going
to say afore they were in the boat
Now generally speaking there's some
bargaining to be done afore you take
folks out for a three-dollar sail You
naturally expect it you know — not so
much from boarders as from towners
but still some But not for these two
— no sir! It was this powerful sud-
denness of theirs that hit me betwixt
wind and water aame as -it had Nate
Made me feel sort ot like I'd missed
tbe train Stirred up my suspicions
again too
'Twas a nice day one of them clear
blue and green days that you get early
In June The water wa'n't rugged but
Just chopjty enough to be pretty and
the breeze was about no'theast glvln
ua a fair run down the bay
“This Is grand!” says the big fel-
low as the Dora Bassett began to feel
her oats and lay down to her work
"Caesar! Van” said the other one
"why do you bring me down to earth
like that? Grand! Bleecker next!"
He hollered out this last part in a
kind of screechy sing-song Then they
both laughed
I looked at ’em There wa'n't noth-
ing to laugh at so far as I could see
and the "Bleecker" business didn't ap-
pear to have no sense in it either
They made two or three other
speeches that sounded Just as foolish
Thinks I: “I wonder if Scudder's
right?” They didn't look like luna-
tics but you can't always tell Old
man Ebenezer Doane went to church
of a Sunday morning just as sensible
acting as a Second Adventer could be
but when he got home be fired the
bean-pot at hls wife chased hls chil-
dren out door with a clam hoe and
they found hint settln’ a-straddle of
the henhouse singing “Beulah Land"
to the chickens These fellers might
be harmless loons that had been
farmed out as you might say by the
asylum folks There was that “man"
that Nate said was pomlng He might
be their keeper
“I understand you've got a friend
coming” says ' I by way ot ground
bait
“Friend?” says the big one
“Friend?' I don't understand" -"‘Scudder
said you had another man
coming to hls house’ says I
He smUe(f ' “Oh I 'see ' Th?tf-be
smiled again a queer lazy kind of a
smile like as If be was amused pt him-
self or hls thoughts
“I don’t know that I should call him
a friend Mr — er — "
"Pratt” says I “Solomon Pratt”
’ “Thanks No I wouldn't go so far-
aB to call him a friend' and yet he's
not an enemy — not openly” He
smiled again and the other chap —
whose name I found out was Hartley
— Martin Hartley — smiled too
“He's the -man' Van here belongs to"
explained the Hartley one They both
smiled again
I kind of jumped I guess when he
said that It began to look as If the
asylum hies was the right one and
this feller that was coming was the
keeper
“Hum" says I and nodded my head
just as If the whole business was as
plain as A B C “Do you belong to
anybody?” I says to Hartley: -
“I did” Bays he “but he's doing
time’’
“Doing time?" says I
“Yes” says he explaining kind of
Impatient like "Up the river you
know”
I chewed over thU for a minute and
all I culi! think cf was that the feller
must bo la a clock factory or a watch-
maker's or something
"Watches?" I asks
Hartley seemed to be too tired of
life to want to answer but hls chum
did It for hliu
“No” say3 he “I believe It was
pearl studs on the showdown”
Well this was crazy talk enough for
'nybedy I didn't want to stir em
up non’ — I've always heard that you
had to be gentle with lunatics — ao I
went on encouraging ’em like
“Studs hey?" says I
“Yes” says he “He was a British
beast and Martin was all balled up la
the street at the time — away from hls
apartments a good deal — and tho B B
annextd everything In sight"
“Go ’leng!” says I for the cake of
saying eomethlng
“L'eg pardon" tays he
“Nothing" sayj I and we stopped
talking
They s cnied to enjoy the 3ill first
rot? and acted ra rational as could be
generally speaking They didn't know
a topping lift from a center-board so
lar as brat - went but that wa’n't
strange: IM ceea plenty cf hoarders
like that But never nfors had I seen
two that rctei or talked liko them
We got buck to tho wharf along
rluak pai I walked with 'cm a
piece rn tl’elr way to Nato’z I was
koeiCrs a sort of old bach hill just
cutVr'o the village ard to It wa'n't
much cut cf my way They had mo
gucjclng i-nd 1 wanted more llnw to
vc: I: oa the t Id lie
(TO PU CONTINUED)
ti:sro il Cld Vegetable
Or tho cldrit known food plaaij
Is asparagus
RIFT IN LOVE’S LUTE
Sighing Swain Meant Welt But Lan-
guage Tripped Him
The essential difference between
the elgnlflcatlon of words and terms
In the English tongue which are al-
most the same In etymology and or-
igin la a great element of difficulty to
a foreigner who is learning the lan-
guage — a fact to which a certain at-
tache of a foreign mission at Wash-
ington recently testlfled
When the budding diplomatist in
question arrived at our national capi-
tal a year or two ago be soon capitu-
lated to the charms of a yonng woman
or tne official set and they speedily o-
came tbe best of friends A month or
so ago the attache returned to this
country after a lengthy leave of ab-
sence passed in hls own land About
the first thing he did on reaching
Washington was to sehd a note to the
lady of hls admiration wherein to
her astonishment and indignation hs
gave expression to this sentiment:
“Ones more my dear friend I shall
gaze upon your unmatched eyes”-
Harper's Weekly
SKIN ERUPTION CUREO
Was So Sore Irritating and Painful
That Littla 8ufferer Could Not Sleep
—Scratched Constantly
Cutlcura’a Efficacy Clearly Proven
“When about two and a half years
old my daughter broke out on her hips
and the upper parte of her legs with a
very irritating and painful eruption It
began in October the first I noticed
was a little red surface and a constant
desire on her part to scratch her limbs
She could not sleep and the eruptions
got sore and yellow water came out
of them I had two doctors treat her
but she grew worse under their treat-
ment Then I bought tbe Cutlcura
Remedies and only used them two
weeks when she was entirely welL
This was in February She has never
had another rough place on her skin
and she Is now fourteen years old
Mrs R R Whitaker Winchester
Tenn Sept 22 1908"
Power Drag a Cheat Corp Bo' Prop Cotton
Mr Dude — I was thinking how much
I resemble your carpet — always at
your feet 'you know
Miss Sly— Yes very murh like ray
qarpet I'm goingtoqhakelt soon
Anger Shrinks Vitality
Dr Maurice de Floury a distin-
guished Frenchman advances the the-
ory that every -time one becomes an-
gry hls vitality shrinks After even
the most artfully suppressed signs of
-bad temper the vitality becomes small-
er and smaller until finally nothing Is
left ’ Anger is a certain kind of ce-
rebral excitement explains Dr de
Fleury The hyieraslhQnlc subject is
always on its verge while tbe neuras-
thenic becomes 'Infuriated ’ onry by a
sudden bound of reaction excited from
without But at that moment when
they are-let loose the two are alike
save that the strong man is a Minder
brute : while the weak man is some-
what of an actor and scents to aim at
effect
Uncertainty In Pittsburg
It was Christmas eve in Pittsburg
The snow sparkled in' the tin roofs
Far away could be seen the rubicund
glow of the coke ovens
AH was quiet in the home of the
Pittsburg official
Suddenly a low tap resounded on the
outer door
“Hark George!” said the official's
wife “Did you hear that? It may be
Santa Claus”
“It may be Santa Claus” said the
official gloomily "but I'll bet $1 It’s
a deputy sheriff!”
And be arose and put on h!s shoca
JOY WORK
And the Other Kind
Did you ever stand on a prominent
corner at au early morning hour and
watch the throngs of people on their
way to work? Noting the cumber who
were forcing themselves along be-
cause it meant their dally bread and
the others cheerfully and eagerly pur-
suing their way because of love of
their work '
It Is a fact that one's food has much
to do with It As an example:
If an cnglno has poor oil or a boiler
is fired with poor coal a bad result is
certain tun't It?
Treating your stomach right is the
keystone that sustains the arch of
health's temple and you will find
“Grape-Nuts" as a dally food Is the
most nourishing and beneficial you can
use
Wo have thousands of testimonials
real genuine little heart throbs from
people who simply tried Grape-Nuts
lut of curiosity — as a last resort — with
tho result that prompted the testimo-
nial If you have never tried Grape-Nuts
It’s worth while to glvo It a fair Impar-
tial trial Remember there are mil-
lions eating Grape-Nuts every day—
they know and wo krow If you will
urc Grapo-Nuts every morning your
work Is more likely to bo joy-work be-
oauso you can keep well and with the
brain well nourished work is a Joy
Read the “Road to Wollvlllo” In every
package — "Tt:r’'s a Reason”
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Hogan, R. The Stigler Beacon. (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1909, newspaper, January 29, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1977977/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.