The Cushing Democrat (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1906 Page: 9 of 14
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boo ring- "TM ^'du ,-aTho l*»rd moke tholr fertile fields o wllderaeee
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oiber. "unloM you wirtto ««»y f|Ur
meot more Hons »«d of»«
womon jrou bco •» glutei the
our rwpocto to the hw,t^' . of lhr
lion. and. occordlnf to tbojm\m
game, wo oro now ontttled to ro'rooi
in whotovor order wo moy
-All right. Bort. »*• ««•
tbo military man. with • h
llof. "Lordy know# thl* » P
mont good and plenty."
Whereupon the two menJo the
assembly anl Pre3*ntly Van Ai
modest apartment of Herbert
atlne. almost across the way.
Ktssrss
wm'of'Umw'SS?.
" J.«rnaU« Wend of M.
ssrris^ »'
•crji'sysiS-'K
r/r.prr:rcr.n^
naper man looked curiously at hi
pape « hftd won distinc
old-time chum who had won
tlon on the field of battle, as wen
In camp and barracks.
S?JT"^~SS
rr:!- rHowSe ScS. -
It happen that you never have mai
^The general looked long and eajnes^
]y at his friend, and blew much smoke
into the unoffending atm°8£he™„
Then he dropped his head into
hands and remained so long th
Van Alstine arose from his chair a
went around and laid his hand on the
other's head. ..
"Forgive me, old chap, he said, scflt
lv "I was not trying to start anything
—and-—and—God knows I didn't want
to uncover any old sores. Lets have
a drink and forget it."
The gesture and words and intona-
tion were so tender and sincere tba.
the officer looked up gratefully and ex-
tended his hand to his friend.
"There is no offense," he said. 1 -
you touched a very sore spot. You
want to know why I have never it-ar-
ried_why no woman shares my life
wuh me well, old man, I will tell
you It is not that I have been so de-
voted to my profession. It is not mat
I have been so busy with working out
orflnance problems and doing murine
duty in barracks and fighting In<*ia®s
on the plains. These things are wboHy
incidental and immaterial. It was mj
inclement destiny once to meet r.y
mate face to face—and then to lose
her—that Is all. Only. Bert, no other
woman who lives or who will
can interest me—in that way.
t«.r l» la n«c****ry—but tough And I
was only a boy. and rather a oonalilro
^-llut I did my duty with all the cold-
ne*« I had born taught to uoo—until
one day with order* to burn a fine old
plantation hot.*, from which our fel-
low. had been fired upon, and all lb*
barn* and supplies. I rode up with a
aquad of grim and tired men. and. dls
mounting, entered the house and atked
to see the head of the house I neve,
destroyed a house without giving the
women and children an opportunity o
net away with enough supplies to
Sir" them to their Mend.-lf .he,
had any.
A negro servant ushered me into
the library—a fine old room with
shelves lined with the kind of books U
made me ache to think of destroying,
and went to find the mistress.
ently the door opened, and with an
Inward groan I turned to confr™^d
gray-haired gentlewoman who typified
to me the mistress of the southern
home; the lady who had given up
her men folks to her state, the sacred
cause, and who remained bravely ba
bind, alone and unaided, to face
dangers of war and rapine.
imagine my surprise when I saw in-
stead of this gentle creature, a dainty
girl of 16, with flashing defiant black
eyes and a face and figure 8ta^*n* l£
perfect beauty and symmetry. Her Uttie
hands were clenched In anger and des-
peration, and her shapely head wa.->
thrown back in splendid scorn.
•' 'Well sir,' she said, and you ought
to have heard the indefinite conte npt
in the musical voice.
••'Are you the mistress of the pa-
Dlace?' I stammered.
•• «l am,' she replied, with dignity.
'My grandmother is so -ill she cannot
leave her bed. I am the only on-;
left'
"Oh, the pathos of it—the sickening
pathos, and the tragedy. And, Bert, I
had to tell her my wretched orders.
For a moment she seemed unable to
comprehend. Then, with a wild cry,
the defiance faded from her face and
manner, and before I could prevent it
she flung herself at my feet.
•• 'Oh, not the house, please, please,
sir, not the house,' she begged. 'It's
all that is left, and the only shelter
for grandma and the servants. And
grandma is so ill and the doctor says
she will die if'she is disturbed. \o<.
cannot, you must not be so cruel.
•'I knew that moment that I would
not burn that house. I tried to b^
stern, to remember the precepts of the
Point, and do my duty. But with that
helpless, kneeling girl before me, that
mere child caught In the ^sis-ess
tragedy of war and trying to stem the
tide, not for herself but for others
L.ier with her swimming, eloquent eyesflxed
live! pleadingly on mine. I knew I had
j the strength.
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...•dm. a*4 IM V**f- I**"**,, £
wool* tkisk H
raa o*or do aaytblag «o r*P*'
~M» oroo bad mugbt a pbotoarapb
interrupted b#f
- If you wuuld gt*e mo that pbou»
graph wlib yuur as mo wrllioa oa 1U
Mtd. 1 would fool doubly '•I*]*
"tibe fiu-b^d ocarlet as «b»
dowa tbo Picuro a»d ~*l
d^h. wrote h»r as mo oa H. «d »*M
H to me Then 1 rodo away.
"And tbe ^«e»f oald Vaa Alatlao.
"^The other »hoob bis bead. "Ho."
bo aald. "I Wr MW her M^1\
! ,hl wsr waa over. I went back and
Irtid to find her. but the bouao ha<
bM? dootroyed by aomo better office.
than I and the family acatterod I
~>uM « "»o el.w. But Bert, rte ..
s-r»rr.rr™iur>;"
5h^"V*-y£S
photograph?" a.keo
VThe^n°«l took a won. wallet (ron
hiH pocket and unwrapped an old pho
'"'""van Alstlne r. eye. r«ted upon
that* face* ~n.ewher.J-h;
^ro^^rUoc'^
^rU%1.Snrto"«Uta^»,)
older and wdder. Tom. wait until to
morrow. Perbaps-
iiorat K-PPM.U1 aad «b»
eooiMllloo oa agrVuHure bs«
, .-„J |M«ber (aaaoa tfpraaw^
tbo mubRIm aad xtboefoeally
aomo time oapUlalac tbo alt»a«b>a to
tbo MNMBlltoe la Ha rooai at bo eap»-
tol. Tbo bill waa
ploiod wboa tba commute#
It will aatborlae aa snnusl appropM
atloa of $3,000,000 to poy tbo eoot oc
Inspectloa sad will cootate
•too for tbo lory of aa
msko up aay doftctoaey la tb«• amou^
available for tbla worb aa •***£*
by Mr. Cowan, roprroratlag *he Texas
Csttlo Orowers, sod later urged by tb
^The'cuurt rorlew prorlaloa iHH
bo contained In the meoaure Tbla ac-
tlon moeta tbo auggestlon of the pros
Ident. Tbo worda "In tbo
of tho oecrotary of agriculture wm
not bo contained In the mejunre. Thls
sctlon meets tho auggeatlon of tho
PrThoCaUctlon wslvlng the civil
law for one year In the oelectloa of
Inspector, will go out of the provlidon.
slsoone of the president s recommen
d#There la to be no date on the^abejj
of the packing of most
In this the president yields to the
committee. The language gWen the
insnoctors tho right to packing planta
at all times la amplified by the *ord*
• whether the same be In operation o«
not." With these changes made, tne
president has Indicated his entln* aat-
Isfactlon with the meaaure which waa
reported from the committee as a sub-
stitute for the Beverldge amendment
and was recommitted t0 thecornmlt-
tee that the changes might be made.
"••H uah";- helalriy yelled. "V«."
-*<7:rs:>rzrx
Taylor and she eou.es from Oeorgi.
Sr-s=SS¥5S
sssr-tsrs*—
taken to a haii bewildered
zsss&r"
wrote her nearest of kin.
••I am to te married next Thursday
Ln Thomas Burton, of the army
He Ifc not of our people, and fought on
Jte other side, but he was our frienu
in time of need, and I have loved him
ever since. We will be ln Atlanta on
our wedding trip, and I hope you will
Z te so offended as to refu- .us you,
blessing and your hospitality.
Big One Story.
Senator Clay, of Georgia, was once
. lne a constituent the sights of
the national capital when the Wash-
ington monument was reached.
"WhaTdo you think of it?" careless,
lv asked the senator, as the constltn-
S gazing in awe at the sUtely
^Senator," responded the Georgian
eravely "that's the darnedest highest
i one-story building I've ever seen.
TAKEN INTO COURTS
Indian Territory Dlvlalon of Farmers'
Union Seeurea Injunction
MUSKOGEE: At Dallas, Tex., the
Indian Territory division of the Farm-
ers' Union has secured an injunctlot.
against the Farmers' Educational and
Cooperative Union of America pre-
venting the latter from interfering
with the work of the Indian Territory
organization and commanding them to
be recognized as a legally constituted
body of the Farmers' Union This> l»
the end of the struggle that has been
on between the Indiahoma Farmers
Union which included Indian Territory
and Oklahoma, and that branch wh ch
split off at the McAlester convention
last summer and formed an ^depend-,
ent organization in Indian territory,
declaring that they would not affiliate
with the Oklahoma unions. The India-
homa organization declared the action
of the Indian Territory union Illegal
and refused to recognize it The in-
junction suit followed.
Quaint Agriculture.
There are ln the suburbs of Romi
two farms where antique ®fdals a^®
made in largo quantities The paopla
who devote themselves to this odd In-
dustry cause to be swallowed by tur-
keys coins or medals roughly struck
with the effigy of Tiberius or Caligu-
ls. The mechanical action of Jo tiny
atones contained ln the gizzard[ U.ad-
ded to tho purely chemical action of
the gastric Juice, partially effacing tho
flrunts and toning down the hardn...
STie features
that some of tho specimens In our
public collections have boen oMained
by this curious process-Cosmos. Por-
ts.
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Wintersteen, Paul A. The Cushing Democrat (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1906, newspaper, June 28, 1906; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc283896/m1/9/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.