The Olustee Democrat. (Olustee, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1924 Page: 4 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
r
I i
i i
I
t
ar
p
i
:U
!V
' I
Ji
r
r4-
: 5
: J !
csnio 'smsum
J T jiad ?een a
from daylight to dark Three
tires had been changed on the roacj
and to cap the climax lights failed to
function They limped into the Mar-j
land Station tired cross hungry and
on verge of one of those family
squalls that flare up when nerves are
on edge
The Marland Service Man 'greeted
tflem cordially and smilingly Quickly
he sensed the situation A moment’s
investigation located the trouble with
jivith the lights and they- were fixed in
a jiffy The lady was shown to the
Comfortable rest room and as oil gas
and water were supplied the Marland
man told the tired-out tourist where
there was a hotel and
to restaurant off
vherelthey could get a splendid meal
hndan'unsually good cup of coffee
§3? They were back next morning bright and
early— all smiles ready for the day’s drive
F u L"‘
Jnfrelating the experience the tourist said:
I
“I always entertained tlic idea that tilling
station service was confined to snap and effi
cicncy but this experience convinced us that
Marland service embodied something differ-
cntl"'5naP efficiency yes but the
additional human touih and whole-hearted
genial friendliness left us with an impression
pl Marland service that vv will never forget”
fk£Z
AJ
always tike fame
3-M
Bertrand- "Vi? Sinclair
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER ’I— The etory open In the
town of Granville Ontario where MU
Jtazel Weir la employed as a t rnograplier
In tlm ofllce of It-irrttigton and Bush She
Is encaeed to Jack IJarro-r a young real
c-tio uguil and the-weddin' lay is set
AVhile l!:ire with him one Sunday they
tnect Mr Rush Harers employer who for
the first time seems to notice her at-
" tractlyenees Shortly afterward at his re-
quest (lie beromoa Ha private stency
rapher After three months Mr Hush
l-t-poM nnirrluffe wlil-h Hazel declines
end sfier a stormy arene In the office
llazel leave her employment Mr Hush
warning her lie woula make her sorry for
refusing him
CHAPTER II— Bush makes an effort by
a gift of tl 'wer to compromlr- Hazel In
the mlr-ls of her friends Khe returns
them The rzt day Bush Is throtn from
rls Imrse on J fnta'y hurt lie pends for
tazek who refuses to see Mm before ho
tiles Throe davp afterward t I an-
nounced tfiat he h ft a loiracy of Pi Old is
diesel “ir reparation frr any wrong I
Iney have do her Hazel recognizes at
puce what construction will be put upon
“ “ Bush had bis revetted
the word
long hard drive—
a quiet clean lit-
the beaten path
Xx
CHAPTER III— Jack Barrow In a fit
of J -aloos ras- demand from Hazel nn
explanation nf Ilosh’s action Hazel’s pride
Is hurt and she refuses ' The engege-
ment Is broken and Hazel determines to
leave Granville Kite secs an advertise-
ment for a s- hool trnrher at Cariboo
Meadow British Columbia Sn3 secure
the situation
CHAPTER IV— Corlboa Meadow I In
a wild part of British Columbia and Ha-
zel shortly after her arrival loses her
way while - walking in the woods She
wanders until night when attracted by
the tight of a cnmnflre she turns to It
hoping to And somebody who wilt guide
her home At the Are she recognize a
character known to Cariboo Meadows as
"Roaring Bill Wecstaff" who had seen
her st her boarding house there II
bromides to take her home In the morn-
ing but she I compelled to spend the
night In the woods
CHAPTER V— They start neat day
ITaret supposes for Cariboo Meadows but
Wngetaff Arnlly ndm'ts he Is taking her
' re-
to hie cabin In the mountains He
epp'tful and considerate and Hazel
though protesting Indignantly Is helpless
end hai to accoriipany him
CHAPTER VI— At the rabla ATagstaff
provi-t-- Hazel with clothing which had
been left by tourists There they pass
the winter AVngstalT tells her he loves
hep hut In her Indignation at hep "abduc-
tion" alts refuses to listen to him
CHAPTER VII— With the coming of
spring llatel Insists that Wagslaff take
her out of the mountains He endeavors
to persuade her to marry him and atay
but on her perplstent refusal he aerom-
m nil! hep to Bello Cool a from where
she cun proceed to Vancouver
flMPTrn Vltl-On parting Wavataff
gives llnsi-l n packnen which sbn discov-
ers Inter contains li ve and a map which
will enahln lop to And hrr-way to the
eatdn If rlie desires to go h-ick At Van-
couver flaael plans to return to Gran-
ville hut on the train realises that she
loves Wagslnff and decides to go to him
She leaves the train at the Arat stop
CHAPTER IX— With the aid ef Bill's
mnp she fiads her way tuiak and the pair
tme to a Hudson Bny post and nro
married After soma months they decide
In go farther Into the mountains to a
spot where Bill Is confident there I gold
CHAPTER X— After an arduous trip
Wlhb severely trie Haiel's strength
they arrive at their destination and settle
down for the long winter
CHAPTER Xl-Warataff builds a rahln
anl a stable for the horses and ruts end
slacks sufficient hnv to Inst until sprine
Hood them is In plenty Hasel forgetting
tlm danger allows sparks from tlm chim-
ney to set Are to the stable which I
noneturad wlili nil the stored hav To
keep the animals from death hv starva-
tion Bill Is compelled to shoot them
CHAPTER XII— With the Aral spring
— — — ihl and
s 1 R f I rl G SS fv 1
da vs limy start prospecting for gob
are lucky With Iho gold and pack nf
furs the product of Bill's trapping during
the winter they (tart back to the cabin
they call home
CITAPTEn XIII— Without the horses
the trip I revere hut they arrive safely
nml And Ihev have "tich-hhers" Jake
lnqer n German from Milwaukee with
Ills wife and children
CHAPTER XIV— Vo pleas Hazel fired
of tlm aid i lade of the mountains Bill
agrees to malm a vlst lo Granville Ha
pel da wet—mmd hv "so-lelv" and Ando
herself in Imr dement hul the artificiality
nf the II fn wenrie Rill With some bust-
ness men he forms e company to work
the claims on wlili h ho and Hasel had
found gold
CHAPTER XVII
A Letter From Bill
All throygli iltt long night slm lay
aw tike d niggling wlili the Incredibly
ri 'I Hull lllll liml loll tier trying t
iiloulii' herself friiiii blame During u
iu linger ni Ills unyielding utiitinle
iai It while slit tills sorely eonsrlnii
thlil she herself hint heel) wt lihlmridy
lint lehllng If lie Inul truly loved her
-lie reiterated he would never have
iiinde It :tti Issue helwten I helu Hut
Hull was like t muu— In Insist n hi
iiMi desires -being Mnde mrttiuutm(
In h’linder mi hei'dloiig lu mutter
wlint iiidagmiisiiw he aroused
lie whs eiiiuiletelv lit Hit- Wli'llg she
reasserted
She n fyltuhdid it nil Through
Hie W'lnti r lie li'ld emisIslenHy wllll-
drnwn Into Ills shell Fur her friend
md fur most nf her pleasures he had
lit lies! exhihlted only bderuuie A ltd
tie luid elided hy (UitriiKing Inilh them
mid her mid nil tep nf Unit demanded
that sin I urn her hack m twenty-four
hours nuilee nu Granville and nil It
associations and follow him Into n wll-
tlerui'ss Hint she dreaded She hfld
full right to her resentment a IiN
itni'iner hi llte ehtiney enterurlfM of
nmrrlage were not her feeling and de-
sires entitled to equal consideration t
lie laid assumed the role of dictator
And slit had revolted That wot all
She Wn Justified
Eventually she slept At ten o'clock
heavy-eyed sufl'erlng on Intolerable
headache she rose nml dressed
Reside her plate lay a thick letter
addressed In IilU's handwriting She
drank her coffee and went back to the
Standing With His Hand on the Knob
H Turned
hodrnnm before she opened the en-
velope I’y the postmark she saw
lluit it h:ul been mailed on a tuln
"I tear Girl: I have caught niy
breath so to sjMUtk hut I doubt If eveP
a mope forlorn cu listened to the
iiileriuinahh clicking nf ear wheels
I am templed at each station to turn
bark and iry again It seem ho un-
real Hits parting hi hot iinger ho Mis-
erably uopeeessary Hut when I stop
to sum It up again I see no use In
lilioiher appeal I eonld route back —
yes Only the eertidn knowledge that
giving in like that would sent! us spin-
ning one more In it vlelou rirelo pre-
vents me I didn't believe It possible
lluit we could get so far apart Nor
that a succession of little things Could
cut si i weighty a ligure iu our lives
Ami perhaps you lire very sore and
resentful at me Hits morning for be-
ing so preeipltate
"I eoiildti'f help It llazel Jt seemed
the 'only way It aeems so yet to me
There was nothing more lo keep me
hr Granville — eterythiug to Make me
hurry nwaj If I had weaken! and
ieiiimrlzed ' wilh you It would only
mean Hu deferring of Just wind has
Impimmsl When you deelared your-
self ilntly and repenltslly H seemed
hopeless lo argue further I uni a poor
pleader perhaps nml 1 do not believe
In ootupnlsloti between us Whatever
you do you must do or your own voli-
tion without pressure from me We
couldn’t he lmppy otherwise If 1
'comis’llcd you to follow me Hgiiinst
your deslfc wo should iffiiy dn mi-i
cry lu our iram
"I eiHildo'l even say ipand-liy
didn't even waul ll In In gosMl-liy
didn't know If I cmdd stiek BC yyf
delenniimliiHi lo go Hides weld 's
I did And my reason lb iih that If
la-re most la break It would l-Her
come now Ilian after long-draw u-out
bickerings nml bitterness l we arc
ho dluiiM'lrleully qilsassl where w
l(iouglit wc sIihmI together we luive
made a titlsiake that no aitonml of ad-ju-liag
liolhiog lull seMirae ft so Is
wil rectify Myself I r-fu lo le-Ih-ve
that we have mail smh a nils-
lake I don't think that honestly and
dellberuiely you prefer an ekolie use-
less pursHelex uinisli ie existeuev
to the loti'lual wholesome life we hap-
pily planned Hill you are obwsssl
lobixlcaltsl — ruii'l pul ll utiv heller
— - a ol nothing lint a shiM-k will Mier
yon If I'm wrong if love mol Hill'
companionship can't lure' you away
from Ho-ho other Ihlligs— wli su-po-s-
you will isujsiih-r II ail cudtsl
ehapler lu lliat ease you will not
suffer The slnmlloii a ll stand will
he a relief lo you II oil llie other
hand If merely M sluhlsirtl Hlreak
that won't lei you admit that you've
enrried year proml litilc head on nn
overstilT neek do you think it' worth
the price! I dmt'l
"I'm not seoldiiijf little hthoii I'm
sh k miyl sore at tltp’pna- w've eonm
to N'o fisil (ride' cun close my cyca
to I lie fact 'or keep me from admllllng
freely liml I love you Jtlsl US Ullleh
and waul you as longingly n I did
lla day I pill you nhoird llie Stanley
1 at Itella I'oola I thought you were
slept ling gladly out ol' my life Ihen
Ami I h i you go freeiy and wiilmut
miyihing hut n dumb proles! against
futc because it wiim your wish I eali
step out of your life tignlu — If It I
your w I- It Hul I can’t Imprison my-
self lu your cities lm neither au
Idler nor can I become n legalized hue-emtet-r
I have nothing Imt contempt
tor those who lire’ Mind you Hits I
Imt so sweeping a statement as It
Mound X'n one Im n keenef appre-
ciation of wlml civilization means than
t Hut-of It ha arisen culture and
kimw hslge much of wlml should make
the world a heller place for u all Hut
Kotiieltow Ibis doesn't apply lo the
muss mid particularly not lo i lie cir-
cles we Invaded III Grnnvllle Wlili
here mid there solitary exception
that class I hopeless In It smug self-
Hiillsfaclloii— Its narrowness uf out-
look and unblushing exploitation of
the less fortunate rctcls me
“Anil to ilatilde my hand In iheir
muck' to settle down and live mv life
according to tlielr liourircnl standards
In have grossne of soft llcsh replace
able sinews to klihnu-rge mentality In
fuvor of n speeiou craftiness f mind
which imsse In the Vlty for brain
—well I’m mi the road' And oh girl
girl I wlli ymt were with me
"I must explain Gils mining deal—
(lull phase of It which sent me on (ho
mni page in Granville I should have
done o tcfore should have Insisted
on tanking It clear lo you 'The other
sldo had been presented to you rather
cleverly at the right lime And your
ready aeecplnnee of It angered me be-
yond bound Toil were prejudiced
It stirred me to a s-rfect fury to think
you couldn't he absolutely loyal to
your pal When you Hsik that position
I simply couldn't attempt explana-
tion ro you think I’d ever have tak-
en file other fellow's side against you
right or wrong?
“Anyway here It t : You got the
essentials tip to a certain Mlut front
Itrooks Hut he didn't tell It all— hi
kind never doe not hv n long shot
They the four of them It seems held
n meeting ns sihiii a I shled out
that gold nnd put through that stock-
selling scheme Thill was legiHluate
I couldn't rostra I it them from that le-
Ing a liopeleM minority of one Tlielr
chief object however was to let two
or three friends In on the ground Aoor
of good thing also they wanted
each a good bundle of that stock while
It was ehcui— flgurlng that with llm
prospect I had opened up R would
sell high So they hud it on the mar-
ket and lu addition had everything
framed up lo reorganize with a capi-
talization of two hundred nnd fifty
thousand dollars This all cut and
dried before I got there Now us It
originally Ktood the five of u would
each have iiuule a small fortune on
these Klitppnn claims They're good
Hut with it quurier of a million iu out-
standing stuck — well It would be nil
rigid for the fellow with a big block:
Hut- von can see where I would get
off with h flve-thoiisnod-dollnr Inter-
est To' he sure a certain proportion
of the money derived from the sale of
till stock should le mine Hat It goe
Into the treasury and they had it ar-
ranged to keep It In iho treasury ns a
fund for operations with them doing
I he operating They luol already Indi-
cated tlielr bent by voting un nninml
stipend of ton thousand and six thou
snnd dollar to Inrlmer and Hrooks
a president und secretary respective-
ly Me they' proposed to quiet with a
manager's wage of a mere llvo thou-
sand a year — after I got on the ground
and began to get my back up-
"Ilrt they rapped the (Umax with
what I must cold-hloodislly character-
ize as the baldest attempt at a dirty
fraud I ever encountered And they
had the gall i try nnd nmkc nm a
party to It To make Ihl rlenf you
must iindei-stiiml tlm I I on behalf of
the company and tiding ns the com-
pany'll agent- grubstaked Will ley Is-wls
and four -others lo go In and stake
I I Hint claims' I was empowered to
arrange with Hio five men that If the
claim 'made a docent showing each
should receive ilv thou-mnd dollars In
stock for assigning iheir claims to the j
company mid stoned have employment
at top wages while Hie claim went
operated
"Thny surely earned It You know
whst tlm N’orli U In tUff dead Of
or They bucketl Iheir way through
H hell of trust and snow and stakts
tlm claim If ever iiiiti were cullthsl
l what w M due llnsti t lie’ “wore
And liol one of I hem sluiterikl 'ovvi
hi I hi rg:du cvetr though they Were
taking out weekly a lunch gold
liny wen In gel for Iheir full share
They'd- given Iheir word und they
wore w Idle lueti They tsk mo for i
while man a ln They took my wtrd
lliat they would gel wlmt was coming
lo them nml gave me lu the -oiuwtly'
uunn- clear title lo every claim it
those title on rsrd In lluzelin ab'
nine liouie “
"lo-riliMT nml HriMtk delipetnle
iroHMs In withhold llinl aln i” L 4
fraud lliese lueu to steal — oh'l
flml ' word lrong enough Hnmk
said lo me ttlili a grin! ‘The ro
eriy’s In llie ruiMiay' name— let llm
roughneck swetii a while They've
got no eoinv-haek' anyway
"Thai wn when I smashed him (hi
you blame me? I d lukiii over those
“That Wat When I Smashed Him"
fellows’ claim in gisul faith C'oiild
I go back there ami face those men and
say: ‘Hoy the coiiipiiuy's got your
claims and they won't pay for them'
lo you think for n minute I'd let a
bunch of l!ly-Tiugcrcd crook pul any-
thing like liml over on simple Kqimre-
denllng fellows who were loo honest
lo protect iheir own Interest from j
sharp praelhv! A quartette of soft-
iMKlied mongrels who sat In uphol-
stered office chairs while these oilier
wallowed through six feet of snow for
three weeks living on bacon und
beaus to grub n pot of gold for them!
It make mv list double up when I
llilak ahoiil ll
“Ami I wouldn't lie put off or plaeqf-
il by a elinnce to fallen my wwi jinqk
roll t didii'l care If I broke Hp J-Yec
nltl Mining company and myself like'
vise A dollar doesn't terrify nor yet
InKctiinte me — I lmpe It never w ill And
xhllc perhaps It was not "Imt they
-Voiihl call g-Msl form for me to la4o
ny temper nnd go at them with lay
Isis I wus IlghHug land when I tlior-
iiighly sensed tlielr dirty project Any-
way it helped bring them to lime
tVheiryou take a nnin of that type and
Mil? him around with your two hand
le's apt to llsteti serloiis to wlint you
ny And tlo-y listened when 1 tol'
liem In dead earliest next day llpll
tVhitey Lewis and Id parlnec ppul
lave wiint was due ihcm or I'd wreck
he hunch of them If it took teii year
tnd every dollar I had to do It - And
t could have put them on Hie trump
v K I 1 1IKI tlolw Hit
no — they'd already dipped their Hit-
lers lu where they couldn't stand liti-
gation I'm sure of that — nr they
would never have come through which
hey did
"Hut I'm sorry I ever got inlved up
with i hem I'm going to sell my stock
md udvlse Lew is hiuI tlm others to do
lie same while we can get full value
for it Ioriim-r and Hint bunch will
manipulate the outfit to death no mat-
ter how the mine produce
"That's nil of Hint I don't eaff twfl
whoops about tlm money ! There l-j
still gold I'll Hie Klnppnii Gauge and
it her corner of Hie North whenever
I need ii Hut it nauseated me I
L-iin't stand Halt rut-throat game And
Liranvllle like most oilier cities of it
kind live by and for that sort of
tilling The pressure of modern life
innkes It inevitable Auywny a town
I no place for me I ran stonlach it
about so long nml no longer It's log
crtimimd tts girded about with petty
larceny conventions If once you slip
nnd get down every one walks on you
Everything's restricted priced tin-
kered with There I no retd freedom
of body or spirit 1 wouldn't I rad' a
comfy log cabin In 1 tic woods with it
big fireplace nml a shelf of books for
Hie' finest home off Maple drive— not if
I Imd to stay there and stifle in the
dust and smoke aiid smells Tliat
would he n sordid and impoverished
existence I cannot live hv tlm dog-cat-dog
code that seems lo prevail
wherever folk get Jammed together in
nn Unwieldy social mass Lhuvc said
the like to you before
“Hy nnture and training 1'inTinfiUcd
to live In these crowded places I love
you llule person I' don't think ymt
realize how much htil I can't make
you lmppy by tanking myself utieMy
miserable That would only- produce
Iho Inevitable reaction-' Hut I siill
think yoff are essentially enough like
me to meet me on common ground
You loved me and you found content-
ment imd joy at our little cabin once
Don't you think it might be wailing
there again?
“If you really care If I and the old
North atilt menu anything to you a
few day or week or even months of
mpnrattnu won't matter Au airecihui
that enn't survive six months Is Pm
fragile to go through life on I don't
tisk you to Jump the next train nnd
follow mo 1 don't nk You to wire tuci
TViue back lllll' Though l-wtmld
come quick miigll If you called me I
MttTcly wsnl you to think ll over s-w
I cr I y and let your losiri decide You
know w In-re I stand don't you llazel
dear? 1 laivcn't chiugl — not a l-lt—
I'm lilt Slum- ohl Hill I -III Id tu-her
hit the trail ahmo than with itu mi-
willing part mr Don't lloiimler ithmit
luuiiy quii-ksnnd of ilwiy ThTc N
IHi 1 oilglil to' Is-twian It
”)hi ll 14 up to you once more little
l-rson’ If my way I not your way I
will abide by your li1sini wit hold
whining And whenever you wsnl to
reach me u message to Ke’lx four
volseur Fort tlisirge will cvcutually
liml me I'll lix it lliut way
“So Imig little Mrsoii I like you a
heap for all yiiur-uaninnkerou ways
"HIUI-"
She laid aside the letter wtik a
lamp lu her throat Fr a brief Instant
she wn Minded to teti-graph llie word
that would bring lilm harring buck
lllll — some of the truth he liml set
down in tsild black nml w Idle etit her
deep Of t surely she had drawn her
weiisin oil llie wrtmg side in Iho min-
ing trouble Overlmsty?— ye And
shamefully disloyal I'crlmps there Y’l1
something la ll after all that ' to
say It might s- they luttl iade n mis-
take She saw plainly enough liml
lUlh-MS sho isuihl get hack Nome of I In-
old eiithuslusm for lluit Wilderm-ss life
unless-the fasehitlHoii of magalffia'lll
dlstaliees of silent hri'illldess forest
of contented quiet days' mi irail nml
stream Could lay fast hold of icr
again they would only defer the day
of reckoning ns Hill liml said
No she would imt attempt to call
him back She doubled If lie wquhl
come And sho would mu to — md yel
She mtlsl have time to think
'Altogether ns tln- lilsl Impress! m of
Hill’ letter grow less vivid lo her site
eoiisldcrcd her grlevittiemj lymre Alai
she wji minded lo net its sin- Imd hot
III i jliij live Iter life n siaum-d
In-st t her 'rather Hum pis-ket her
pride nml rejoin HIM Tlm femlnlim
Instinct to coimmI the limn lo eiipliu-
Inle nsserlod ltelf more ami more
strongly
(Tu Bo ContinuC)
Caught Coming and Going
An tinoniployvtl nutti who wus re-
cently eleeteil to il-e la:trd of guardi-
an for Wiaildedon Litgltiitl I liable
to a line of find if he take Id sent
IwcaUse Im received roiicf from I he
municipality within llm last twadve
months Uu the other Imad if he fail
to accept llm office v lililn n month fol-
low int d ehs-tlon lu- I liable a
Unit of il sliidlnr umoant
v Crew Rtmerrberj Home
fVUlT ' mil' In has a lame crow
sW mam hl'l- The Hist -winter tit
bird sitiyed lamta lait every year since
it In g-ne Smith during llm cold
weaiiicr Every zprin tlm crow lit
returned n I nine if ever
Church Directory
BAITIST CIIITUCII
Sunday School every Sunday 10 n m
Preaching at 11 am and 7 10 pm
H Y P U every Sunday at liah) niu
‘
Prajer meeting Vedncsday 7 'iin
Choir practice Sunday :J p m aud
Wednczduy 81:3
A warm welcome to nil
K A Poshing Pastor
METHODIST CYIUKCH
Sunday School at 10 am
Preaching at II am and 700
Epivoilli League 11I ffiio p m
Prayer meeting Wed 7:I0 pm
J- P Ilcndri-y Pnstc-f
p m
ciinncii c
Iiibio Study m lo a in
Preaohing at ll a in and 7 m
JhO Y Uigg i’uMuf
Lodge Directory
Lodge No 5 a P St A
M meets 1st and 3rd Thursday nigh
John McKinyle V M
II C McC'aieb Sec
Olusteo
Olustee Lodge IOOF no 4
meets ccery Wednesday night H It
H Hyftl ?ec‘jr
EASTERN STAR
Olusteo Chapter No 8-j meets Snd
Tuesduy evening of each month
Mrs Jennie Edwards Worthy Matron
Mrs Stella Truscott Socretary
V
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Dickey, D. L. The Olustee Democrat. (Olustee, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1924, newspaper, February 21, 1924; Olustee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2328731/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.