The Logan County News. (Crescent, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, July 9, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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logan county news
PROMINENT CITIZEN
cmcpson hough
AUTHOR^ TflEMISSISSIPPI BUBBLE 51-10 OR EIGHT.
ILLUSTRATIONS pv,
#f h?s assistant. was constantly urely don't ?nTc could ha\«
with her on the streets at the opera, spoken to an>« Ue'"
the play He showed, tn short, that "1 wouldn t put that pnat Ackorman
he found her society wholly agreeable when he's drunk If he'd talk to me.
upon every possible occasion. If this he would to others And you know
was in bad taste, if many or most, in perfectly well that when talk begins
the usual guess, put it at the point of abo :t a woman, it ne\. r stops!"
No, that is the cruel part of it."
Her voice tremble,! jnat enough, her
eyes became
creetiy moist;
sufficiently
ca/wew /su £/ stOi/c/t
SYNOPSIS,
,Tohn Hnwn 1* bn
h«* ihow.s Ml|fn
ordinate m*lflalin«-
i in Tpxw VIatly In
if masterfulness ami
He marries Lauri
John
I !«* In
clerk In
St. I.o
i all wu
offlc
youriK
llal*t y, "i
1 -si curiPi
the idfii <
< i perfect
forms n •
lils daughter Or
Int«*r he hears drace's
engineer named 'li;irles
ii H.-heine to utilize tie-
,,f elect ridt y He appropriate-
his <iwn and Induces Hilary
ii experimental machine lie
many with himself as pres:
<ilar\ "f IWO.OOO a year and
. rliii' i lent of the works, h-
I mi in rv ,'f ?■'■ >>' lUiwn tak. s cliari:.- of |
tha offlc* In Chlc*f"> VlricinU Delaware
i. aaaltnwl « hi* t noii*pn*r. ««•
•l,i. In pUliw Ih. furniture an,I deeo-
rnll.m f.n (hi- ly mansion Hawn has
Mm ltawn foeli nut of place In
1 he new surroundings
Halsev goes
,.„v ...in nawn and Miss Dela-
ware 1,1 eiplal.i ,I.'lava In perfecting the
lie. n„it..i t„ the Impatient .llrector. He
crta a ineHHAiie that a deformed daughter
ha. heeii horn t„ M" wife. Orare Rawn
ltawn hnrnatna with Mis* Delaware to
wear his Jewelry and appear In pithllc
with him as a means to help him In a I \ .rte(]
buslnosa whv ltawn Is fortunate In mar
K«t speculation*. pllen up wealth and at
tains prominence H« frets hoc
tllOU*
the f
self.
Th
unques-
iiorifai.lv was. admired as sic certainly
was if there had been fire in this'
girl s heart for any man, she kept it .
-ither extinguished or well banked for |
All my Ii
as I kne
s w rongi
vlfe do
w ay
not rls
He (Jive
vlth hlrn In a social
• r fi million dollars to
Us hi# daughter. Mrs
i irge < f hl« household
nvstone hall, and Hal-
alo
In thf
cot-
Halsey's machine
but ho keeps the* fact a
impropriety, John Rawn gave himself
no concern. The Rawn aristocracy be
gan in him. He founded it. was its
Charlemagne, its William the Conqner-
or, as ruthless, as regardless of others.
>is selfish, as megalomaniac as the best
of kings. Here, therefore, were two the ir little
I aristocrats! They ran well in couple | ,>rv „ in 8t,
It is not to be supposed that a girl , I)|<1 yolj ev
I so shrewd as Virginia Delaware could j },ow helplo
i fail to realize the full import of al> ; ,ire we women?
this. She let the slings and arrows ue flung himJ
un its course unnoted She fall upon the buckler of her perfect j ,-ouch beside he-
maxims over her desk, re- dignity and her perfect beauty, but she j sli«> went on with
1 e.stral coat of arms. She felt their impact. She was perfectly
-iocrat, and meant to be in hand, knew perfectly well her mind.
81 h In ail likelihood— knew perfectly well the price she must
>pl*- folk nm> not read a pay. She let matters take their course.
•in i she gaw further into knowing that they were advancing
than did John Haw n him safely and surely in one direction, that
which she desired. She was more
mained. then, as against the skilled in human nature tha« her em
a'nh ,M (Jf Virginia Delaware, the one ployer. saw deeper into a man's heart
pitfall nf love, and even this she eas- than he had ever looked into a worn
•ided Beautiful as she ungues- an's!
And then, at last, the life schedule
of Virginia Delaware was verified. At
last, the inevitable happened.
On one of theeo many trips to New
i later time. She had gently declined ' York. Miss Delaware had been alone
♦he heart and hand of every male in her apartments at the hotel for
clerk in the office. She had chosen most of the afternoon. In the evening
her own ways, and was not to be di- before the dinner hour, she was sum
Cool, ambitious, perfectly in moned to meet Mr. Rawn in one of
hand, she went her way, and bided the hotel parlors. At once she noted | marble and costly porcelains The air!
| his suppressed excitement He scarce | wafJ hoavy wjth fragranee. dripping armtM
could wait until they wore alone, in ■ with gof( mej0#jy aml „1U8jC> she was j
a far corner of the room, before ex- beautiful, a beautiful young woman.
plaining to her the cause. j He caught one glance into her wide. !
'I don't like to say tins. Miss Dela- pathetic eyes ere she turned and bent
ware. ' ho began, "but I've got to do j her hem, He caught the fragrance of
sufficiently and dis
choked a little. Just j
I." she said, with a pa
- V lit the hand of ev ,
s to be against a woman
s'op to think. Mr Rawn,
how hnpeltftis, ^e really
loser upon the i
face troubled, at
r gentle protest 1
e I've done right as near '
Mr Hawn Perhaps I
i coming to trust so much i
P ii,| on vou so much. It '
o natural, that I've Just :
on. almost without any
e only been anxious to ;
tlxit was all Hut thin
out us well it can have
I must go."
CJo" Leave m *' You'll do nothing
of the sort! I'll take care of this thing
myself. I say I'll stand between you
and all that sort of talk."
"Mr. Hawn. 1 don't understand you."
They sat close together on this bro
ended couch among many other bro
caded couches. Crystal ami color and
gilt and ivory were all about them;
pictures, works of art in bronze and
Victims of the Drug Habit.
According to a recent estimate of
the I'nlted State# public health serv-
ice, the number of persons in this
country who are victims of the drug
habit is about 70v000, and the number
of doses of narcotic drugs consumed
by them aunually is about 850.000,000.
This estimate is based on figures col
Icett .• the state of Tennessee whole
tmdev a recently enacted aatlnaicotic
law 1,40 '. permits were issued in six
months to persons petitioning for the
privilege of using narcotic drugs, and
the consumption #i su< h drugs amount*
ed to >.4i s 1300 average doses.
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
i all aeenie
I lot m-ittei
I thought
talk
but
CHAPTER XI.—Continued.
Continually in our American aris-
tocracy and tn that, par consequence,
of Kurope we find ladles whose fa-
thers were laborers, shop-keepers,
soap makers, butchers, this or that
anything you like. So only they had
money, they did as well as any to
wear Kur M>.\in ooronets, to assist at
royal coronations. And, having proved
their powers in swift forgetfulness.
they offer as good proof as any, of
the scientific fact that gentleness of
heart and soul and conduct are not
things transmissible even to the third
and fourth generation, either in
America or Europe. Your real aristo-
crat perhaps after all, is made, not
born.
As to Virginia Delaware, daughter
of the baker. John Dahlen, in St.
I.ouis, she started out in life with the
deliberate intent of bewig a lady,
knowing very well that this is Amer-
ica, where all things come to her or
her who does not wait. In some way.
as has been said, she had achieved
graduation at a famous school where
the art of being a lady is dispensed,
She had. indeed, even now and then
seen a lady in real life; not to men-
tion many supposed ladies in theat-
rical life, playing the part as to them
secfried fit, and far better than any
lady could
The soul finds its outward expres-
sion in the body. The ambition shapes
the soul. It was wholly logical and
natural that, having her particular am-
bition—that of many American girls—
Virginia Delaware should grow up tall,
dignified, beautiful, composed, self-
restraining, kindly, gracious; these be-
ing qualities which in her training
were accepted as properly pertaining
and belonging to all aristocrats We
have already seen that, put to the test,
in the midst of our best aristocrats—
those who frequent the most highly
gilded and glazed hotels in New York
—she was accepted unhesitatingly as
of the charmed circle, even by the
head waiters. Had you yourself seen
her upon the Chicago streets, passing
to her daily occupation, you also in
ail likelihood would have commented
upon her as a rich young woman, and
one of birth, breeding and beauty. We
have spoken somewhat regarding the
futility of mottoes and maxims in the
case of an ambitious man. As much
might be said regarding their lack of
applicability to the needs of an atnbi
tious woman. Virginia Delaware
would have made her own maxims,
had she needed any; and had she been
obliged to choose a coat of arms, she
surely would have selected the Chris
tian motto of "Onward and Upward."
The best aid in any ambition lies in
the intensity of that ambition. We all
are what we really desire to be, each
can have what h* really covets, if he
will pay the price for it. In her gentle-
t ess with her associates, in her dig-
nity and composure with her employ
er, in her conduct upon the street and
in the crowded car, in all situations
4nd conditions arising in her own life,
Virginia Delaware diligently played
the part of lady as best she compre-
hended that; because she had the in-
tense ambition to be a lady. She con
tinually was in training. Moreover,
she had that self-restraint which has
been owned by every woman who ever
reached any high place in history. She
kept herself in hand, and she held her-
self not cheap. Likewise, after the
fashion of all successful politicians,
she cast aside acquaintances who
might be pleasant but* who probably
would be of little use, and pinned her
faith !o those who promised to be of
future value Such a woman as that
can not be stopped—unless she shall,
unfortunately, fall in love.
If there was calumny, Virginia Dare
heeded it not. She accosted all gra-
ciously and with dignity, as a lady
should. And all this time her great
personal beauty increased to such a
point as to drive most of her tair asso-
ciates about the headquarters' offices
to the verge of rage. To be beautiful
and aristocratic both assuredly is to
her time
Cool, ambitious, perfectly in hand.
John Rawn also went his way in life.
I wo more ambitious souls than these,
or two more alike, you scarcely could
have found in all the descendants of
the two bucaneer-monarchs we have
named.
And Rawn continually found some-
thing responsive in the soul of this
young woman, something that never
found its way into speech on either
side. She was the type of devotion
and of efficiency. Gently, without any
ostentation, she took upon herself a
vast burden of detail; and she added
thereto an unobtrusive personal serv-
ice upon which Ilawn unconsciously
came more and more to depend. Did
he lack any little accustomed imple-
ment or appliance, she found it for
him forthwith. Did he forget a name,
a date, a filing record, it was she who
supplied it out of a memory infallible
as a fine machine. From this, it was
but an easy step to the point where
the young woman's unobtrusive aid
became useful even beyond business
hours. John Rawn had never studied
to play any social role. Did he need
counsel in any social situation, she.
tactfully hesitatant and modest, al-
His Excuse
In his Savannah camp Illll Dono !
van. baseball manager, lwid a dusk>
hued waiter at the hotel by the name
of Sutton. Hill had to reproach Sut-
ton more than once for a lack of agil-
ity In arriving with Vhe food. Sutton
promised to improve. Due morning
he brought in a consignment of grid
dlecakes that had gone cold.
"What do you mean," said Hill, ' by
bringing me in sold cakes?"
"Well, I tell you, boss," said Sutton.
"I brung them cakes in so fast for you
that 1 kuobs they hit a draft."
Blissful Ideal.
"I hope," id the applicant for sum-
mer board, "that you have no mosqui-
toes, and that there will be chicken
and fresh vegetables always on the
table, and that the nights are invari-
ably cool?"
Great Scott, Mister!" exclaimed
Corntossel, ' Wat place are
you lookin* fur? Heaven?'
Compiled by a Substitute While th#
Regular Man Was Away From
His Desk.
A good way to save money on your
gas and electric light bills is to spend
| your evenings at theaters and restau-
rants where the management pays for
I the lifhU.
i If your husband's hair shows signs
of falling out, try pulling his ears in-
I stead. They very seldom come loose.
Installment collectors and other un-
; desirable callers can be made to keep
their distance by means of ripe toma-
toes served at long range.
A society matron, whose position de-
mands that she entertain a great deal
I more than she can really afford has
discovered that by serving a few bird
shot with each portion of guinea hen
the gu« Ms can l e made to think they
aro eating game.
A young wife of our acquaintance
tried for years to break her husband
of the habit of bringing home unex-
pected guests to dinner. At last she
tt>ok the advice of a friend and flirted
desperately with the very next man
her husband invited to the house. Alter
that there was no more trouble.—New
York World.
it!"
"What do you mean, Mr. Rawn?"
she replied in her usual low and clear
tones.
'There's been talk!"
"Talk? About what?"
"Is!"
"About us? What can you mean.
Mr. Rawn?" she asked
"The world is so confoundedly
small, my dear girl, that it seems ev-
er} thing you do is known by every
body eh v Of course, a man like my
sedf is in the public eye; but we've
always minded our business, and it
ought not to have been anybody else's
business beyond that."
"You disturb me, Mr. Rawn! What
has happened?"
" Hut now. to-night, now—just a
little while ago—I met this fellowr Ack-
]■ ' :■< ON
She Had Chosen Her Own Ways.
ways was ready to tell him what he
should do. what others should do. Had
he an appointment, it w as she who re-
minded him of it. and it was she who
had made it. Were there personal
bills to pay, it was she who paid them.
She presided over his personal bank
account, and there was no hour when
she could not have named the dollars
and cents in his balance. Did he wish
to avoid an unwelcome visitor, it was
arranged for him delicately arid with-
out offense. Little by little, she had
become indispensable, both in a busi-
ness and a social way—a fact which
John Rawn did not fully realize, but
which she knew perfectly well. It had
never been within her plan to be any-
thing less than that. She knew, al-
though he did not, that John Hawn
also was indispensable to her.
Rawn came from no social station
himself, and as we have seen, had
grown up ignorant of conventional
life, so that now he remained careless
of routine now that this young woman
should attend in all his visits to the
Bast in business matters—where, in
short, he could not have got along
without her There was talk over this
erman—you know him—big man in
the company—used to be general traf-
fic manager down in St. Louis, on the
old railroad where I began—w'ell, be
was drunk, and he talked."
"What could he say?"
"He got me by the coat collar and
proceeded to tell me how much—how
much—well, to tell the truth, he con-
nected your name and mine. If he
wasn't drunk—and a director—I'd go
do vn there yet and smash his face for
him! What business was it of his?
Of course, men don't mind such things
so much. Hut when it comes to you—
why, my dear girl!"
The truth has already been stated
regarding John Rawn; that, batra-
chian, half-dormant for almost half
a century, and then putting into busi-
ness what energy most men put into
love and sex. he had passed a life of
singular innocence, or ignorance, as
to womankind. He had never counte-
nanced much gossip about women, be-
cause he had little interest in the
topic The grande passion marks
most of us for its own now and again,
or is to be feared now and again; but
the grand > passion had passed by John
Rawn. He was now approaching fifty
years of age. Married he had been,
and divorced; but he had not yet been
in love.
He now spoke to his like, his mate
in the hunt, of the opposite sex a
young woman who at that very mo-
ment was as beautiful a creature as
might have been found on all Man-
hattan. a woman known in all Man
hattan now as the mysterious "Lady
of the Lightnings." the goddess of the
stock certificates of one of the most
mammoth American corporations, a
creature over whom Manhattan's most
critical libertines were crazed—and
helpless; moreover, a woman who, out
of all those in the great caravanserai
at that moment might as well as any
have been chosen as the very type of
gentle breeding and of gentle woman-
hood alike. But she had not yet been
in love.
"I don't understand. Mr Rawn." re-
peated she slowly. "What possible
ground could Mr. Ackerman have had?
her hair—that strange f" igrsnce of a
woman's hair. Dejected, drooping nt J
she sat. her hands clasped loosely lit j
her lap, he could see the bent column
of her beautiful white neck, the curve
of her beautiful shoulders, white, flaw i
less.
The flower on her bosom rose and j
fell In her emotion She was a worn J
an. She was beautiful. She was I
young. Something subtle, powerful,
' loyiterious, stole into the air. j nurs
| She was a woman! "Y
j Suddenly tills thought came tn John
!t;i n like a s'hUen I low :■ the face | pa:
It came in a sense hitherto unknown
to him in all his life. Now he under
stood what life might be, saw what de-
J light might be! Ho saw now that all j
along he had admiped this girl and j
onlv been unconscious of his admirs
Can't Be Done.
"Mrs. Giddy has invited all the mem-
bers of the sew ing circle to a luncheon
and matinee party
"Doesn't she know they have been
gossiping about her something aw-
ful ?"
"Of course she does. That's
reason she's trying to square
circle."
Resembled Dining Car.
Jim Sullivan, typical American
tramp, carried a kitchen cabinet under
his coat, and when arrested in lied
Wing, Minn , the following things were
found Eight large, raw potatoes,
weighing seven pounds; one quart bot-
tle of sweet milk. one.ten-cent loaf of
wheat bread, one half dozen tea bis-
cuits, one-half dozen rolls, fresh; two
one-pound packages of ground coffee,
two aluminum salt and pepper shak-
ers. glass cruet filled with vinegar, one
raw onion and two Japanese paper
napkins.
the
the
A Real Dilemma.
I'm in a fix," declared the
Encore.
"I'm glad we didn't get any dupli-
cates," said the bride as they inspect*
i ed the wedding gifts.
I wouldn't mind if somebody would
ar cor duplicate that check your father gave
pondent. "I'm in love with a pretty us," replied the bridegroom.
•'he wants im
it port describe
to shave, and my
me w ith w hiskers."
It is said men who work live long-
est, but it may depend on whom they
t ry to work.
Tell your troubles to your friend All things
if you would know how weak their waits- if he
sympathy really is. ' waiting.
come to the man who
waits on himself while
tion. God! what had he lost, all these
years! Me, John Rawn, had Hved
these years, and had not loved!
He reached out timidly and touched
her round, white arm, to attract her
attention'. She flinched from him a
trifle, and he also from her.* Fire ran
through her veins as from a cup of
wine, heady and strong He was a
boy, a young man discovering life.
The glory of life, the reason, had been
itfeie aii tlii3 liuie, and ho had aoi bus
peeted it. What deed for pity had been
wrought! He, John Rawn, never be |
fore had known what love might be!
He was the last man on Manhattan to
go mad over Virginia Delaware.
She drew back from him. seeing the
flush upon his face, color rising to her
own. Indeed, the power of the man.
his sudden, vast i*ibsion, were not lost
upon her, different as he was from the
idol of a young girl's dreams. But Vir-
! mnia Delaware saw more than the
! physical image of tills man beside her
She knew what he had to share, what j
1 power, what wealth, what station. She |
! knew well enough what John Rawn j
! could do; and she gaged her own value
to him by the flush on his face, the
I glitter in his eye.
I For one moment she paused. For
one moment heredity, the way of her
own people, had its way For one
moment she saw another face, differ-
ent from this flushed and corded one
bent n<ar. it was for but a moment;
then ambition onee more took chargo
i of her soul and her body alike.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Offers H2ir for Pardon.
Mrs. Irvin Dodd of Boston, implor-
ing the pardon committee of the gov-
ernor's council to release hqr husband,
serving two years for larceny, offered
to sell her raven black hair, which
reached to the ground, if thereby she
could secure money to pay back an
express company the $500 which ho
was convicted of stealing. Dennis D.
Driscoll, assistant penal commission-
er, appeared before the committee to
urge that the pardon be granted.
Judge Ely. who sentenced Dodd, seat
a letter favoring a pardon.
—unjust talk and much amused com
ment on the fact that the two seemed SHOWING REAL BOY'S HEART
so inseparable. Rawn did not know
or note it. They literally were running
together hunting in couple In the
great chase of ambition. Few knew
now what the salary of the president's
private secretary represented in round
figures. Certainly she dressed as a
lady. Certainly also she comported
herself as one. It was, In the opinion
of John Rawn. no one's business that
he registered himself at the New York
hotels, and either did not register his
companion at all, or else contented
himself with the wholly descriptive
word "Lady" opposite the number of
the room whose bills he told the clerk
to charge to his account.
Never was there the slightest ground
for suspicion of actual impropriety be-
tween John Rawn and Miss Delaware.
Abundance of bad taste there certainly
invite hatred! It Is almost as bad as | was, for Rawn. without explanation or ,
Miss Delaware ailuweil I apology to any, always ate in company | ln8 and am 8 *
m
Letter by No Means Brilliant Literary
Composition, but the Sentiment
Was There.
From a thirteen-year-old boy In a
far-away ocean island comes the fol-
lowing belated letter to a woman
"pal" of his: "I hope through the
year that has began success will fol-
low you In all your projects and If
you have made any resolutions which
you wish to carry out, you will be
enabled In bo doing.
"If the superstition comes true that
what you are doing at New Year's
you will do all through the year, I
certainly will lead a very quiet and
temperate life; I was peacefully slum-
bering.
I received your letter thi - mom
Joyed the presents. Shall I take the
statement- that you were surprised
that I made the leather articles as a
compliment or otherwise?
"I a«i sorry, too, th#* the suit would |
not look appropriate on me. I will
make the best use of Uie money you
sent, and can enjoy a spring suit as
much j s the other, if dif'«rent circum-
stances prevailed.
"My cold was not so bad on Christ
mas as before, so I was net made mis-
erable on a day to be given to joy."
And he was hers truly- and no fool
Ishness about it. Y'et he Is the same
boy who can't eat if her 'etters don't
reach him on time.
Hospitable
"Well, did New Yo k arpeal tc
you?" "Yes. It was 'i-i Iconic' w hen
I came, and 'well done' «hen I wont.'
—Cornell Widow.
be rlcb.
ml
Crisp littk bits of Indian
Corn, rolled thin as paper, and
toasted to a golden brown.
Have a sweetness and tasty
goodness distinctively their own.
And all the way from raw
material to your table not a hu-
man hand touches the food
clean and pure as snowflakes
from the skies.
Ready to eat right from the
package with cream and sugar
or crushed fruit. Post Toasties
are wonderfully delicious.
Sold by Grocert Everywhere
Portion Oroal Company, IJ mitral
Battle Cirrk, Mich.
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