The Duncan Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Rhyme for
Rachel
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By-
Clifford
Howard
(O)pyricUt by Bhortatory Pub Co)
Seated In a street car Miss Marjorie
Hollis was absorbed In the latest Issue
at the literary Post It contained this
wei a most unusual announcement
and It was this which-now occupied
her attention to the exclusion of all
elno The announcement read as fol-
lows: tVs the undersigned executors under
the will of a person whoBe name we
withhold for the present desire to an-
iHHiiue that In accordance with the terms
of said will the sum of 1250000 will be
said to the first person who will submit
utisa rhyme for the name Rachel This
bequest la based on the following condi-
tions vis: 1 The rhyme must be a le-
gitimate one Dialect foreign or Invented
worda will not be considered 2 This of-
fer la limited to one year dating from
Bocanbrr SI 190—
In explanation of ’the Aforegoing offer
it la deemed proper to state the following
facta: Among the effects of the testator
above referred to s an unfinished poem
addressed to a ludy whose full Christian
same was Fedora Tillan Grace Lorain
Mltdegarde Louise Rachel - The aald
room was written by the testator for the
purpose of bringing Into rhyme each one
oC Che names aforementioned He euc-
needed In writing six stansas - In which
Oho first six names were respectively In-
Produced In accordance with his afore-
uaid purpose but he was unable to com-
Side the poem because of his failure to
find a rhyme for the leaf name— Rachel
Vor certain personal reasons he provided
fin hie will that an attempt be made In
the manner above set forth to discover
nicli t Thyme
Am full conditions and all necessary in-
fibrmarlon are contained In the foregoing
-Minounorment the undersigned must de-
AIim to consider any inquiries for further
explanation
- DUNDURT' a bordeau
Attorneys auLaw Washington D C '
( Circumstance compelled Marjorie
' Hollis to earn her living and against
them circumstances her aristocratic
nd artistic bouI waged constant re-
bellion Her family and her acquaint-
ances generally regarded her as a
iioiled child troubled with extrava-
gant tastes and a lack of practical
no£'On her alder she felt that she
-Va A-”'rrstood nor pw-uerly ap-
Bsgtoa
- Like herself Mr Dlllington was poor
and bad literary aspirations and Mar-'
jorie felt that in him she had at last
' gnmd a sympathetic fellow-mortal
He accepted -special1 Invitations to
She house "but rarely called-ot fits own
accord appearing content to tide
Home with her in the evening He
xvaa excessively reserved — that wis
one of his peculiarities — so that not-
- withstanding the increasing familiarity
of the acquaintanceship Marjorie
Anew no more of hla personal affairs
at the end of nine months than she
did during the first week -
There was one other subject on
which be was equally reticent and
fibat was the discussion regarding the
rhyme for “Rachel" The remarkable
sitter In connection with this matter
was a subject of unending curiosity
and discussion in literary circles but
Carter Dlllington pointedly avoided
very allusion to It To Marjorie! on
(the contrary It was one of alluring in-
fierest ’
She hesitated a long time before
venturing to speak to Mr Dlllington
about It His peculiar aversion to the
whole matter embarrassed her The
more mention of the name "Rachel”
disturbed him and her occasional ef-
forts to lead the conversation around
to the subject were promptly frus-
Srated Finally however she decided to ap-
peal to him for help Only one more
week remained and she beheld her
dreams of wealth fading Into the dull
' seality of drudgery' So as he was
about to take his departure after a
short call on Christmas eve she said
suddenly: “If a person were to find a
rhyme for ‘Rachel’ It would make hinV
famous wouldn’t It?”
“I suppose it would” he answered
drvly
f "And It would make him rich?”
' “Oil yes” Then in the same breath
bo abruptly changed the conversation
'“Perhapa Mias Hollis It may inter-
est you to know that I expect In the
next week or two to come Into posses-
sion of a small fortune and I hope
Shen to be married” and holding out
bis hand he bade Marjorie good night
“Good night” she responded me-
chanically and as the door closed Bhe
staggered into the parlor and throw-
ing herself upon the sofa burst iuto a
torrent of passionate tears
Suddenly her sobbings ceased She
mt up bewildered startled In the
ssidst of the turmoil of her' troubled
spirit there had burst upon her —
without warning without thought— a
rhyme for "Rachel!”
- -Two days later Marjorie Hollis was
fa Washington and on the morning of
Lsceraber 27 she walked Into the of-
fice of Dunbury & Bordeau and quietly
announced to those two gentlemen
that she had come to claim the $250-
000 for a rhyme for “Rachel”
For a moment the two men stared
at her without uttering a sound -
Mf Dunbury 'was the first to find
his voice “Impossible!” he ejacu-
lated Then noticing the sudden flush
upon the girl’s face he checked him-
self “Pardon me my dear young
lady! I did not mean to doubt your
word but you have astonished us be-
yond measure Let me explain" and
be placed his chair beside hers
"The extraordinary offer to which
you have responded was made in com-
pliance with the will xf our late client
Mr Benjamin F Morton He was a
trifle eccentric and one of his hobbles
was writing poetry He took a great
fancy to a nephew of his and spared
no money to have the boy well edu-
cated The old gentleman himself had
a very limited education'- and he was
determined that his nephew should
not be-handicapped as he had been
Well Just about the time the boy got
through college the old gentleman
struck a snag In this poem of - his
about Fedora Lilian Hildegarde et al
and be called upon his nephew to help
him out with a rhyme for ‘Rachel’
The young man informed him that
there was no such rhyme but his
uqele refused to-believe it He insist-
ed that as the lad had bad a college
education be could find a rhyme if he
chose Well the upshot of it was that
the old gentleman took It into his
head that his nephew was obstinate
and ungrateful and he cast him off A
short time before he died however he
finally concluded that perhaps there
really was no rhyme for ’Rachel’ and
he decided to reinstate his nephew in
his will but with this proviso: That
a rhyme should first be advertised for
and that should any person produce
such a rhyme within a year then the
money should go to such person In-
stead of the nephew
"As the executors we of course fol-
lowed the provisions of the will but
?e were definitely satisfied there was
uo such -rhyme And yet you say -you
have found one I am free to aay it
seems Incredible Incredible Still at
the same time the offer Is a bona fide
one and will he carried out to the let-
ter If your rhyme proves to he a legiti-
mate one It will certainly prove a
most astonishing revelation to us and
— to the nephew Carter Dilllngton”
Marjorie felt that 8he was about to
faint
have Just a moment to
"Certainly certainly! I did not
mean to hurry you - Of course I un-
derstand you feel a trifle agitated
but take your time pnd you'll recall
the rhyme In a minute or two”
- Several momenta passed in silerco
Then Marjorie arose She faced the
two lawyers and with a tremor In her
voice that she struggled bravely to
subdue she said slowly: ‘I have not
forgotten the rhyme but — but I have
decided not to submit it”
It was New Year’s day when Mar-
jorie again saw Carter Dlllington He
called late In the afternoon Why had
he come? 6he asked herself Was it
to torment her? To cause her wound-
ed heart to bleed afresh? He appeared
not to heed her constrained manner
nor the quick flushes that reddened
her cheeks v
“Marjorie" be said suddenly with
an impulsiveness and a familiarity he
had never before manifested “you
have ' wished me a happy New Year
Do you know that it Is you alone wfeo
can make the year happy for me —
supremely happy? I did not dare ex-
press my feelings before I was abso-
lutely sure that I could offer you the
comforts and the pleasures you de-
serve Now I am independent —
wealthy and you Marjorie will you
share my fortune with me?”
It was late ere the lovers were ready
to part “Is It any wonder” he was
saying as he lingeringly prepared to
leave "that I avoided the subject of
my uncle’s outlandish offer? Suppos-
ing that by some possibility there
had been a rhyme for ‘Rachel’ sup-
posing some one had succeeded In
finding It! But thank fortune dear
there Is none!”
“Yes but there is a rhyme for ‘Ra-
chel’ ” she answered softly casting
down her eyes to hide her sudden
emotion “Would you like to hear It?
Let us sit down here— on the 6ofa
and I will tell It to you”
Sho waited a moment after they
were seated and then In a half tremu-
lous whisper she recited the following
llDes:
“A fitting rhyme lias long been found
For each and all of these—
Fedora Lilian Grace Lorain
And Hildegarde Louise
And In these names themselves we find
The hidden rhyme for Rachel
For lo the letters of these names
Are F L O- L H L”
Then in the quiet glow of the mid-
night firelight she told him her little
story -
Woman gs a Creator
A woman who creates and sustains
Ia home and under whose hands chil-
dren grow up to be strong and pure
men 'and women Is a creator second
only to God— Helen Hunt Jackson
COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS
WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE
FARMS THOUSANDS ARE
GROWING RICH
WHAT PRE8I0ENT TAFT AND
OTHER8 THINK OF CANADA
Another Fat
Year for
West -
th Canadian
Our Canadian neighbors to the north
are again rejoicing over an abundant
harvest and reports- from reliable
sources go to show that the total yield
of 1909 will be far above that of any
other year
It is estimated that $100000000
wXll this year go into the pockets of
the Western farmers' from wheat
alone another $60000000 -from- oats
and barley while returns from other
crops and from stock will add $40-
000000 more Is it any wonder then
that the farmers of the Canadian
West are happy? ’
Thousands of American farmers
have settled in the above mentioned
provinces' during the past year men
who know the West and its possibili-
ties and who also know perhaps bet-
ter than any other people the best
methods for profitable farming
President Taft said recently ' In
speaking of Canada:
“We have been going ahead so rap-
idly In our own country that our heads
have been somewhat swelled with the
Idea that we are carrying on our shoul
ders all the progress there Is In the
world We have not been conscious
that there Is on the north a yoivig
country and a young nation that is
looking -forward as it well may to a
great national future They have
7000000 people but the country is
stilt hardly scratched”
Jas ‘J Hill speaking before the
Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days
ago said:
“I go back for S3 years when I
came West from Canada -At that time
Canada had no North-West A young
boy or man who desired to carve his
own way had to cross the line and
to-day it may surprise you — one out
of every five children born in Canada
lives in the United- States Now you
are playing the return match and the
North-West
ttwtetf 'States
brought 100 tand-seekera mainly from
Iowa and Southern Minnesota last
night out’ of St Paul -going-to-the
North-West Now these people have
all the way from five ten to twenty
thousand dollars each and they will
make as much progress on the land in
one year as any one man coming from
the Continent of Europe can make do-
ing the best he can in ten fifteen or
twenty year" -
It Is evident from the welcome
given American settlers in Canada
that the Canadian people appreciate
them Writing from Southern Alberta
recently an American farmer says: —
“We are giving them some ’ new
ideas about being good farmers and
they are giving us some new ideas
about being good citizens They have
a law against taking liquor into the
Indian Reservation One of our fel-
lows was caught' on a reservation with
a bottle on him and it cost him $50
One of the Canadian Mounted Police
found him and let me tell you they
find everyone who trlea to - go ( up
against the laws of the country
“On Saturday night every bar-room
Is closed at exactly 7 o’clock Why?
Because it is the law and it’s the
same with every other law ' ’ There
isn’t a bad man in the whole district
and a woman can come home from
town to the farm at midnight if she
wants to alone That’s Canada’s idea
how to run a frontier they have cer-
tainly taught us a lot
: “On the other band we are running
their farmB for them better than any
other class of ' farmers I guess
can say this without boasting and the
Caandians appreciate us We turn
out to celebrate Dominion Day they
are glad to have us help to farm the
country they know how to govern
we know haw to work”
Another farmer from Minnesota
who settled in Central Saskatchewan
some years ago has the following to
say about the country:—
‘‘My wife and I have done well enough
since we came from the States we can
live anyway We came in the spring of
1901 with the first carload of settlers’
effects unloaded in these parts afld
built the first shanty between Sas-
katoon and Lumsden We brought
with our cm of settlers’ effects the
sum of $1800 In cash to-day we are
worth $40000 We ‘proved up’ one
of the finest farms in Western Canada
and bought S20 acres at $3 per acre
We took good crops off the land for
four years at the end of which we
had $8000 worth of improvements in
the waj of buildings etc and had
planted three acres of i trees Two
years ago we got such a good offer
that we sold our land at $45 per acre
From the above you will see that we
country from Winnipeg to the Rocky
Mountains will soon be a net-work of
trunk and branch lines ' Three great
transcontinental - lines are pushing
construction Jn every direction and
at each siding the grain elevator is
to be- found- - Manitoba being the
first settled- province has now pn ele-
vator capacity of upwards of 25000000
bushels Saskatchewan 2000000 and
Alberta about 7000000 while the ca-
pacity of elevators at Fort William
and Port Arthur on the Great Lakes
is upwards of 20000000 more
Within the provinces of Manitoba
Saskatchewan and Alberta there are
flour and oatmeal mills with a com-
bined capacity of 25000 barrels per
day and situated along some famous
i setting penole from thel'water powers in New -Ontario there " "£
itk-syerylpiyWS rerWargpD 111 be ’ fotad- ’jTntatlo'
- - - 'anywhere In the Prairie Provinces
have not done badly since our ar-
rival” -
Prof Thomas Shaw of SL Paul Min-
nesota with a number of other well
known editors of American farm jour-
nals toured Western Canada recently
and in an interview at Winnipeg said
In part:—
“With regard to the settlement of
the West I should say that it Is only
well begun' I have estimated that in
Manitoba one-tenth of the land has
been broken in Saskatchewan one-
thirtieth and in Alberta one-hundreif
and seventy-fifth I am satisfied that
in all three provinces grain can be
grown successfully up to the sixtieth
parallel and in the years to come your
vacant land will he taken at a rate
of which you have at present no con-
ception We have enough people in
the United States alone who want
homes to take up this land
“What you must do in Western Can-
ada ia to raise more live stock When
you are doing what you ought to do
in this regard the land which is now
selling for $20 per acre will be worth
from $50 to $100 pre acre It Is as
good land as that which is selling for
more than $100 per acre in the corn
belt ‘
“I would rather raise cattle in West-
ern Canada than in the corn belt of
the United States You can get your
food cheaper and the climate is bet-
ter for the purpose We have a bet-
ter market! ’but your market will im-
prove faster than your farmers wilt
produce the supplies Winter wheat
can be grown in one-half of the coun-
try through which I have passed and
alfalfa and one of the varieties of
clover in three-fourths of it The
farmers do not believe this but it is
true”
Keeping pace with' wheat -production
the growth of railways has been
flutte as wonderful and the whole
Last year the wheat crop totaled
pver 100000000 bushels - This year
the crop will yield 30000000 more" A
recent summary shows that on the 1st
of January 1909 the surveyed lands
of the three western provinces totaled
134000000 acres of which about 32-
000000 have been given as subsidies to
railways 11000000 disposed of in oth-
er ways and 3800000 given by the
Canadian Government as free home-
steads being 236000 homesteads of
160 acres each Of this enormous ter-
ritory there is probably under crop
at the present time less than 11000-
000 acres what the results will be
when wide awake settlers have taken
advantage of Canada’s offer and are
cultivating the fertile prairie lands
one can scarcely imagine -
A Test
‘‘Well” said Mr Cumrox “your
party was a great success” -“How
can you tell?” asked his' wife
“Whenever a - crowd 'comes along
that makes me feel like a stranger in
my own house I know it’s a brilliant
occasion”
0tais or Omo Cttt or Toledo ? ''
Lucas Countt f
Frank J Cheney make oath that ho la tank
partner of the Arm of F J Cheney 4 Co dotnc
Dualness to the City of Toledo County and 8UU
aforesaid and that aatd Arm will pay the aum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
caeo of Catarrh that canoot be cured by the uae of
Hall'i Catarrh Cure
FRANK J CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my prfenow
this 6th day of December A D 1686
a A W OLEASON
8BAt f t Notary Publkl
Hall's Catarrh Cute 'Is taken internally and acta
f directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system Head for testimonials free
F J CHENEY 4 CO Toledo O
Sold by all Pnuntiats 75c
Take Hall’s Family FUls far constipation
- The Strategic Point
“General we are outgeneraled”
“Carqmba! But how is that?”
“The other side hOs beaten us tc
the jeabie office” --
A dealer sold Imitation ’ Spearmint
His customer gave it to a friend The
dealer lost his customer The cus-
tomer lost his friend
What a young man earns in the day-
time goes into his pocket but what he
spends in the evening goes into his
character — Dr Cuyler -
DO HOT ACCFPT A SVIISTITCTK
wbFO you want IVrry Dnvia' !&lhklllr an nothing
la as good (or rhcunmtlftra neurulgltt and Himllur
troublufi 71) yearn In conbtunt un ‘4oc 35c and 60c
I have lived to know that the great
shcret of human happiness is thlB—
never suffer your energies to stagnate
AM! TOUR CLOTHES FADED f
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white egatn Large 2 ox package 5 cents
A woman Isn’t ' necessarily level-
headed btcause her hat is on straight
Tomorrow
Tomorrow didst thou say?
-lethought I heard oHratlo
morrow
Go to I v ! not hear of it tomo'rrow!
'TU a sharpe:’ who stakes his penury
Aai st thy plenty who takes the
rc-i dy sh '
icd pays hee naught but wishes
hopes a d promises -T
e currency of idiots Injurious
baikrupt ' - “
' hat giulis ithe easy creditor To-
morrow! 11 !f a period nowh ire to be found
in all the hoary registers-ol Time -
Unless perchance In the fool’s cal-
endar Wisdom disclaims the word nor holds
society
Wth those who own It No my Hora-
tio :T-s Fancy’s child and Folly ‘is I’fc
Father
Wrought of such stuff aadream:i are
and as baseless
As-the fantastic visions of the even-
ring — Charles Cotton
Pointed Paragraphs
A philosophical man when consider-
lng his own troubles isn’t
- It is better to have a few good
friends than a good many friends
It’s astonishing how many thing
come our way that we don’t care tor
It’s dlflicul tt osettle a case in court
while the litigants have any money -
It a woman wears anything that is
comfortable she Is usually ashamed
of it
When a womah tells a man her age
sho never brings out the family blble
to prove it
Hunt for trouble and sooner or lat-
er you will find were it landed — on
your neck
The woman who marries a man to —
reform him should not let him be-
come aware of the game
If a man has a good reputation and
tilts to live up to it his neighbors are
likely to consider him a hypQcrite—
Chicago News '
Words of Wisdom
A godd intntion -will no more make
a truth than a fair mark will make
a good shot — Spurstowe
It is no disgrace to be mistaken it
is a crime to be a hypocrite That
is the sin against light — the worst of
all— John Oliver Hobbs
Life has too many claims and privl-
’resources ’ to ’ wltste it in
mtatlons -Yet us look forward
not backward— Whiting
Perfect taste Is the faculty of re-
ceiving the greatest' possible pleasure
from those material sources which
are attractive to our moral nature in
its purity and perfection— Ruskln
- Blessed ia the man who has found
his work let him ask no other bless-
edness Know try work - and do it
and work at it like Hercules One
monster there is in the world— the
Idle man — Cnryle
We have a great deal more kind-
ness than Is ever spoken Maugre all
the selfishness that chills like east
w-lnds the world the whole human
family is bathed with an element of
love like a fine ether — Emerson
The Divine Whisper
The call Is loud! Earth’s honors wait
Its golden prizes meet' the gaze
And eager crowds are rushing on
Amid the blare and ’neath the blaze
Deaf to the mandate — ‘Be thou trut
But here and there in crowded way
A pilgrim wends him ' toward his
goal
Pressed and alone amid the strife
Within his secret faithful soul
He hears the whisper — “Be thou true!”
And so he walks the higher way
And learns the meaning ' of his
choice
Beyond the reach of change and spoil
Through the Divine eternal voice '
That whispers on — “Betriie! Be true!”
—Mary R Baldwin
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