Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1909 Page: 2 of 12
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Hit-hard !>errlr s, returning from a win- ;
|er In the wund) to his mother'* farm
home. la overtaken >y hi* uncle, accom-
panied by his wt-<-ntri' wife, coming to
pay a visit at the farm. Aunt J«rusha *
qu«*tlons about Emily Hutton. suppos«l |
lo be Richard's wr -th*-«rt. brin* out the
fact that nlie ia to marry a merchant. I
Edward*. I*-rriwt' disappointment stlm-
ulates hla ambition and uniier the advice
of firth Kinney, a hermit of the *«*! ,
he resolves to fit hlmxelf for coflege. Kin-
ney promise* o teach him Oreek.
CHAPTER IV.
"You must get a roan to work the
farm on shares. He will make It pay
you better than I have. I am do farm
er." The tone had no note of dis-
couragement; it bad rather the ring
of success.
Mrs. Derring looked up from her
sewing. Richard had never said
"must" to her before.
"What Is the matter. Richard?"
She looked at him searchingly
"1 want to go to college. I nhall
never do anything at farming, but 1
might at something else if I had the
chance." He spoke Impersonally, as
If they were talking of some one else.
"Well, perbaps It is the best thing
to do."
Mrs. Derring sewed on for a few
minutes in alienee; then she said
■lowly, aa if the plan were forming
Itself: "I gueea Tom Bishop would
the farm on s >arei and they
could go to houaekeeping In the L-
part. The rent would bring in a lit-
tle something. He and Mary have
wasted to go to housekeeping ever
aince they were married." 8he ended
with a questioning inflection, submit-
ting the plan
Hh was not a "capable" woman.
The queernesa of Geoffrey Crane bad
descended to the daughter, and she
waa conscious that ber plans were
often Impracticable. But 24 years of
farming life bad taught ber to adjust
heraelf to the inevitable. Almost with-
out volition her mind bad begun to
turn over ways and means to meet
tbis new emergency.
"I could let them have the south
chamber and the back storeroom. And
perhaps we could pack up the thing*
In father's room so tbey could have
that."
The young man listened in surprise.
He had expected remonstrance, even
refusal. He was not prepared for such
rapid furthering of bis project. He
was almost Inclined to make obstacles
himself—so rapidly did she plan.
"Father Crane would be pleased, if
he were alive, to know you wanted to
go. He always wanted Rben to go to
college. But he married Jerusha. They
all said be ought to have been a
scholar. He was bright at his books.
But he was possessed to marry Jeru-
sha. So father had to give it up. He
always wanted me to go to school
more, too. It was a disappointment
to htm that 1 married so young."
She Bat looking thoughtfully out of
the narrow-paned window, lost in
thought of that far-off time when she
was courted and won by Marcus Derr-
ing.
Richard, the Oreek grammar in bia
hand, stole softly out of the room and
climbed the steep stairway. He went
quickly down the long ball and opened
a door at the end. The room thus dis-
closed was a curious one. Across one
side ran a sloping shelf, broken at
one end by a zinc-lined sink. The oth-
er sides of the room were filled with
cabinets in which were arranged
specimens of rock, chemicals, blow-
pipes, and many curious contrivances,
the use of which Richard could not
even guess. In this room Geoffrey
Crane had lived and dreamed and
died. Here, in the midst of bis herit-
age. the boy sat down to begin the
work that should make bim what his
grandfather would have wished.
Hut instead of opening the brown-
covered book he sat with It in his
hand, thinking of the new life Its
thinking of the new life its pages
were to open up to him. Life crowded
before him. College—new faces—new
friends—study—succese. And Emily
would be—she would not know—or
care. She would marry Edwards. She
would not know whether he succeeded
er failed. Was It worth while?
Something flashed upon him and
startled him. If he tod cared, he
Khould not now be planning a new life. '
I should have been as happy as
Uncle Kbeo." he thought with a half
smile.
Today he did not resent the Implied
disloyalty to his idol. He was noi
thinking of her so much as of Ix>ve,
the power that holds all men in its
grasp and b^nds them to its will, till
each soul longs for nothing so much
an that Love shall take human shape i
and dwell beside blm. Dimly it flitted 1
before bim—luminous but indefinable
—filling him with wonder. Uncle
Eben married the woman he loved
and bis life had been dwarfed. Seth
Kinney lost the woman he loved, and
his life was warped, distorted, and
spoiled. Was it fate? Life without
love was hard and cold. He opened
"There's
anxiously.
-I shall earn It." His Hps came to-
gether. The dreamy look in his eyes
was replaced by one of shrewd deter-
mination.
His mother s glance followed him
admiringly. She rose from the table
and began to clear away the dishes.
Her step was light.
"And if I find I can't study and earn,
toe. ill stop till I get enough to go
on It isn t as if 1 were good for
much—" He looked at her. waiting.
No. no—have your way You've
never 3sked for what you badn t ought
to have. It's true enough you'll never
be a farmer.' She stood for a mo
roent. one hand holding the plates and
cup*, the other resting on the table,
looking at him fondly. Then she
turned brusquely away to the sink.
He took down his cap from its n&il
and went out Into the clear light,
whistling. Particles of frost glinted in
the air. They formed on the edge of
his upturned collar and fur cap and
deepened the down of bis lip. He
blew them aside with a laugh. Taking
the ax from the shed, down the lane
he strode, the crusted earth crunching
beneath his vigorous tread. The ax
was shifted from side to side, as he
walked, and the free arm swung
across his chest. He struck into the
wood-road with a song and hallooed
to the stillness. The love-sick boy of
yesterday was gone. Taking off his
cap he called and sang till the blue
Jays forgot to be frightened and hov-
ered, curious, in the trees overhead.
He took off his cap to them, looking
up through the tree-tops to the blue
shimmer of sky. He swung the cap
around his head and they darted away
—a blue and white clatter of sound.
He replaced it, laughing 6oftly.
er him. to the rhythm of the saw tW
the still, cold light was alive with
tumbling Greek. Perhaps the blue-
jays, flitting among the treetops.
heard the news and told it to the
crows; and the crows of the open field
called to the snowbirds and sparrows;
and the snowbirds lisped It to the
chickadees; and the chickadees, turn-
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With Every Blow He Drove Horns the
First Declension of the Creek
Grammar.
ing upside down on the orchard trees,
twittered to the hens running to and
fro and cackling everywhere. Or it
may be that Tom's wife told ber moth-
er. In any case, the whole village
knew it. And, perhaps, it was a lit- ■
tie balm to Richard's heart—if balm
It needed—as he swung by her lighted '
window at night to know that she!
knew.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
DECEIVED BY THE SHADOWS
Discovery That Must Have Come as a
Great Relief to the Young
Lawyer.
One rainy day recently, a young
lawyer, thinking he would like to take
a little flyer in stocks, called at the
office of bis broker, who happened to
be his most intimate friend. When
he reached the office a new clerk
whom he had never seen before told
bim that the broker was engaged, but <
would be at liberty in a few minutes. j
While sitting Idly In the waiting room
the young lawyer noticed something
that made bis eyes almost drop out.
The gloom of the day necessitated the
use of artificial light in the broker's
private office. Silhouetted upon the
ground glass partition between the
two rooms the lawyer saw the shad
ows of a man and a woman. They
were both seated, the broker at his
desk and the woman beside and fac-
ing him. Every moment or so the
lips of the shadows seemed to meet
affectionately. Something about the
profile of the woman struck the law-
yer as strangely familiar. He rose
instantly and threw open the door.
Sure enough it was bis wife, but she
was sitting decorously in a chair two
or three feet from the broker, but
almost in line with him,' engaged in
an animated discussion.
Both looked up at tjie intrusion, but
without the least embarrassment.
"Why, hello. Tom!" exclaimed the
broker. "Your wife here thinks she
would like to speculate a little, too.
and I've been using all my eloquence
to dissuade ber from it. What's the
matter? Are you ill?"
"No," answered the lawyer, as be
dropped into a chair with an air of
great relief. "My eyes have been
bothering me a good deal to-day. Do
you know a good oculist?"
GAVE UP
ALL HOPE
After Four Loaf Ye* «f Srffw
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W«j RmBJ
CuM.
Benbrook. Tex.—"I feel Ilk: It Is mf
duty to advise other women to take
Cardul, the woman's tonic," writes
Mis. L C. Dean, of R. F. D. No. t,
Benbrook. Tex.
• I suffered for four (4) long yews
with female complaints. Such a mis-
erable person as I was! I had three
doctors, but they did me no good, and
I gave up all hope of being relieved.
"At last, my doctors advised me to
take Cardul. the woman's tonic. I
took four bottles and now 1 am well.
Cardul saved my life and I cannot nay
enough for It. 1 have prescribed It
with great success for- young girls and
women with various forms of female
complaint.
"Cardul Is a real boon to suffering
women. I am thankful for the good It
has done me and I know It will eure
othe ."
This remarkable letter from a lady
who has actually tried Cardul, ought
surely to convince you of Its genuine
merit and induce you to give it a trial
for your troubles.
Purely vegetable, perfectly harm-
less. non-intoxicating and free from
all deleterious Ingredients. Cardul Is
the ideal remedy for all weak, suffer-
ing women, young and old.
You are urged to get a bottle at the
drug store and commence its use to-
day
-Well, Perhaps It Is the Best Thing to Do."
the grammar and began to read. "Six-
teen Greek letters—vix.:
a,g, 6, e, i, o, k, I, tu,r, s, t, u
were Introduced into Phoenicia by
Cadmus fifteen hundred years before
Christ."
CHAPTER V.
At breakfast next morning his moth-
er faced him over her coffee-cup, stern
and less ready. "1 have been going
over the accounts all night." She
spoke in a voice-that-we*? half com-
plaint. "1 don't see bow we can man-
age It. The interest ia'a hundred and
eighty-sis and the taxes tbirty-flve,
and there is never anything left at
the end of the year, even us it is
now." She looked at bim. her dark
eyes weary with the night's work.
His own eyes flashed back a still
light. "1 shall do it some way, moth-
er. Don't worry."
She shook her head, choking back
something in her throat. "Your fa-
ther would have wanted you to—if he
bad lived—" 8he rose quickly and
turned away to the pantry.
When she came back ber eyes were
shining again.
He looked at her, smiling. "You'll
find that Tom makes twice as much
off the farm as J ever have. You'll be
rich."
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Special '
"Hmm
May Paste Million Pesters.
Artists, billposters, printers, p&per
manufacturers and tuberculosis fight-
ers are all united in a gigantic crusade
against tuberculosis which is a boot to
be started under the direction of the
National Association for the Staffer
and Prevention of Tuberculosis. In
addition to the gifts of free space on
billboards and free printing of posters
made by the Associated Bill poetess
and Distributors of America and the
Poster Printers' Association, seveml
hundred paper manufacturers have
given paper for the posters to the
value of several thousand dollars, bad
artists from all over the United States
are contributing sketches for pesters,
free of charge. The local, state and
national anti-tuberculosis associations
will see that the posters are placed
in cities and towns where they we
most needed.
The posters are nine feet long and
seven feet wide and will be printed m
several colors. If sufficient paper Is
procured a milHon win be pasted up.
The value of these various contribu-
tions would reach fully $2,000.00* If
paid for at commercial rates.
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AH the Same to Her.
"1 must warn you, dearest," he said,
"that after We are married you VflTJ
very likely find me inclined to be ar-
bitrary and dictatorial in my manner."
"No matter,'' she replied, cheerfuBl,
"I won't pay the slightest attention- to
what you say.:'
The earth waa alive. He reached
out to the bushes as he passed, trail-
ing the budded stems through his fin-
gers and brushing tbe purple-brown
oak leaves with swiftest touch. When
he came to the tree that he was to
cut he ran his palm up and down its
rough bark before he seized his ax
and swung it clear from his shoulder.
The blows rang even and hard, and
with every blow he drove home the
first declension of the Oreek gram-
mar.
Every day found him nt work in the
woods. Soon Tom Bishop joined him
and the crosB-cut saw flashed to its
work in the trunks. Richard, to the
tune of Its monotonous seesaw, sang
Greek verbs and declined nouns—till
Tom caught tbe rhythm and chanted
declensions in sheer self-defence. At
night when he repeated the strange
sounds proudly to his little wife she
looked at him in delight—but half in
fear that he would grow away from
her. She counted jealously the days
that must elapse before tbe sledding
should be done.
The fame of Richards learning
went abroad through the land. All
the world knew that Seth Kinney was
"learning him Greek." The old man
came often to the wood-lot to hear
him recite. Sitting on a fallen log, be
would repeat long, rolling lines of
Jhat the choppers repeated att-
Influence of "Thee" and "Thou."
in a little essay in a contemporary
on the "Sweet Girl Graduate" we find
the following; "A young woman who
has just graduated from a private
school conducted by Friends is prov-
ing the truth of tbe report which has
made this school popular and finan-
cially successful. From a quick-tem-
pered, sharp-tongued girl she has de-
veloped into a mild-mannered, Boft-
spoken young woman whose serenity
is never ruffled, apparently. She says
that it was due to the fact that dur-
ing her stay at the boarding school
she was compelled to use the quaint
language of the Friends, and that she
found it Impossible to be cross when
saying 'thee' and 'thou.' If this item
is widely copied, there will be a de-
mand for a Quaker young ladies' semi-
nary in every town that is without
one."
Saintly "Guide."
An Englishman having business in
a certain Danish town arrived at the
railway station. He inquired of a
group of men standing near the way
to the bouse he wanted, whereupon
one of them offered to go with him
and show him. With recollections of
what such a service meant in England,
he said: "I don't want a guide." "But
surely you asked us to show you the
way," -said one of them. "Yea, hut I
don't want a guide." "My dear sir, I
sm not a guide; I am the biahop."
RESULTS OF FOOD
Health and Natura! Conditions Ce«*e
From Riflht Feeding.
Man, physically, should be like a
perfectly regulated machine, each part
working easily In its appropriate pbuie.
A slight derangement causes undue
friction and wear, and frequently rtttns
the entire system. r
A well-known educator of Boston
found a way to keep the brain and Hie
body in that harmonious co-operation
which makes a Joy of living.
"Two years ago," she writes, "being
in a condition of nervous exhaustion, )
resigned my position aa teacher, whish
I had held over 40 years. Since then
the entire rest has, of course, ban a
benefit, but the use of Grape-Nuts has
removed one great cause of illness In
the past, namely, constipation, and its
attendant evils.
"1 generally make my entire krwk- .
fast on a raw egg beaten into four
spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a little
hot milk or hot water added. I Bks
It extremely, my food aasimilatea, and
my bowels take care of themselves. 1
find my brain power and physical con-
dition much greater and I know that
the use of the Grape-Nuts has contrib-
uted largely to this result
"It is with feelings of gratitude" that
1 write this testimonial, and trust It
may be the means of aiding other* to
their search for health."
Look la pk a. for the little book, ~IV
Boad to Wallville." "There's a Reason''
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