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The Mulhall Enterprise.
■atcrprlM PaMlaklat C*>p*ay.
MULHALL, • • OKLAHOMA.
OKI tHOKA AND INDIAN 1 KHKITO**
Work <m I lareiunrr'a race track ia
progressing nicely.
Wagoner, L T., is putting in a com-
plete telephone system.
Au Oklahoma druggist lias a Ave leg-
ged frog on exhibition. The hind legs
prt dominate.
Cnder Marshal Nagle the annual ex-
penses of the marshal's oflice were re-
duced $J<K),uoo.
The new water works dam at 1 erry
holds a lake containing ten million
gallons of water.
The Cherokees ask for what nobody
else in the territory wants—a territor-
A telephone line lias just lieen com.
pleted from Shawnee to Chandler.
It ia now pretty well assured that
Minco will have a new grain elevator
in time to handle the present crop.
The Indian Mission conference, M.
E. church, South, Duncan d,strict, has al form of government.
decided to erect a district parsonage at , ,|n(f ,|,ippera claim that SVin.onn
Duncan. worth of hogs have lieen shipped from
The miners are actively at work in , j,ftyne county this year.
the mines near N.*»joa. and some pret- daily CBpacity of the
ty specimens of ore have been take I elev4t()rt, estimated by car
out of the Shafts. i |oa U H(rKrcKllt<, atH)ut 500 cars.
Several territory papers are asking )
that the abandoned Fort Sill military The annual Intere.t on the S.07JM.01
reservation lie donated to the territory | cherokee school fund on depos't
for a aoldier'a home. | Washington .mount. to 130,887.8a
A young Seminole named Harjo, is in ! Arrangements are being made for
Umbo at" Iloldenvi'lo for obtaining 1 the establishment a permanent sum-
money on false pretenses, he having ,nt,r Chautauqua at Sulphur Springs,
stolen a cow and ealf and sold them.
Efforts ate being made at Washing-
ton by wealthy cattlemen and their
L T.
The Friends people at Tecumseh ex-
pect to erect a college on the ground.
allies to ex
tend the Medicine Lodge* donated them, in that city, by the
years from the time of its
treaty tive
expiration.
"(irass sickness' is a new disease
that 1ms broken out in Logan county.
The grass is so luxurious anil rich that
the cattle get sick and die unless
forced to exercise.
Oklahoma's seyere weather of the
past winter has had the efTcct of de-
stroying the larvae of many insecto.
making the crop much lighter than
usual this spring.
Three hundred Indians passed
through the streets of Crystal, I. T . in
one day last week on their way to
FawliuskL The Sac and Fox tribe is a
great one for visiting.
Samuel Chapman, a colored man of
Muldrow, I. T. has made public a
scheme for the colonisation «»f his race
in Africa and the plan has received
much favorable notice.
In Flint district in the Indian terri-
tory a cat belonging to an Indian fam-
ily has adopted four young squirrels,
which the old cat treats with as much
kindness as her own kittens.
The line of the Gainesville, McAles-
ter and St Louis Railroad is already
located from (iainesville to lied River,
and the surveying corps is now at
work from the north bauk of the Red
River.
Uncle Jack Harris has the finest
vineyard in Pawnee county. He is
training his grapes like he formerly
did in California, so that they will
form a body of sufficient strength to
support the fruit, the same as a peach
or apple tree.
Marshal Nagle has turned down over
2,000 warrants issued by I nited States
commissioners for timber-cutting, con-
spiracy and perjury. He held them up
and found no just cause. This was
hard on the commissioners and depu-
ties, but good ou the accused and the
government.
Charles Armor and Miss Mattie Ked-
mon were united in marriage near
Alva last week. Connected with this
marriage hangs a romance Charlie's
brother went to Texas a few weeks
ago, aud prior to his departure Charlie
informed him that if he would bring a
lady home with him he would marry
her. This was done aud the marriage
was the result
R. C. Adams, of Fort Gibson, L T., is
a Delaware Indian, but in the way of
Intelligence and entererise is far above
the average white man. Mr. Adams
has large interests at Fort Gibson and
will soon have a tine saw mill in oper-
ation there on Grand river near the
railroad bridge, the finest site for a
saw mill in the Cherokee Nation, there
being ample room for boomage, and
any amount of timber to be had up
that magnificent stream. Mr. Adams
is leader in the movement that result-
ed iu a grant of 157,MX) acres of land to
his people in the Cherokee Nation, ac-
cording to treaty stipulations.
A. F. Ivey, recently suspended from
the National Hoard of Education, filed
suit against the Cherokee Nation for
the sum of SI l.ooo. I
There are fifty-two banks in Oklaho-
ma doing husineea.
New wheat will be on the Oklahoma
market about July 1st
Oklahoma wheat buyers will start
>r off at 50 cents a bushel.
They are having the chicken pox at
the Shawnee Indian Mission school*
There sre 177 criminal eases at th*
present term of the Muskogee. I. T.,
court
Oklshoma has done well by her In-
stitutions of learning. None have been
neglected.
The great puszle to Oklahoma farm-
ers is how to save their tremeudous
grain crop.
Six head of saddle horses were stolen
from Indians at Hominy Post, L f ,
last week.
Kvangehst Steve Rurke has received
an offer of S*0o to deliver fifty lectures
in the Kast
The cattle men report that the grass
was never in better condition in blaine
county before.
Wanted Agents. Rest work. Good
commissions. Kansas Steam Laundry,
Wichita, Kansas.
The Indian territory has about •'»>,-
000 Indian citizens, and over 300,000
United States citizens.
Some fool correspondent has sent
out the report that there is no gold in
FARJEON
' INTERNATIONAL MIM .MOCI.TION
In the garden !t la Important to Weep
tire. Many a false track §•'« T .ollow th(! ground well occupied. A» soon as
only to be disappointed, after lilies of ^ u matured, clean off the
weary wandering. Over and over again
1 was in Forest Creek. Tarransower.
Bendigo and Hallarat. In the hist place
I was a witness of the terrible riots,
and took part in them, being compelled
to do so to save my life. I went to ev-
ery new rush-to Maryborough. Dun-
oily. Avoca- but never fouud those
was In search of. One time 1 foliowei
a woman and child for six months,
losing them whenever I reached the
ground and plant another.
A Kansas City woman, who is going
abroad this summer, will visit the tom
of Adam if she can find it She wants
to place a flower on the graye of a mua
who followed the advice of his wife.
,d deal of "process butter" is
This is
A go
being sold in Eastern cities.
poor batter churned over in sweet
milk, sod doctored in a variety of ways
to take some of the badness out
CHAPTER XII
HE api>«
Government
There are primary schools in the
Cherokee nation and the same number j the Wichita mountains.
of teachers. Each teacher draws a sal-
ary of $35 per month.
The Rock Island Railroad is putting
in an artesian well at Duncan. Plenty
of fine water has been struck at a
depth of about 500 feet
There is an old saying that "rye al-
ways grows as high as the fence, but
in Custer county it is from one to two
feet higher than the fence posts.
Too much rain in portions of the In-
dian Territory has ruined the cotton
crop prospects, (.rass and weeds have
almost taken possession of some of the
fields.
Cloud Chief, in the Cheyenne coun-
try, is asking that some one locate a
cotton gin at that place. A large acre-
age of cotton is reported planted in the
vicinity.
The Southeastern Oklahoma Vetei-
ans' Association will hold its annual
reunion at Jefferson, August 11. 12, 13,
I 1 \ and 15. A charter will be taken out
in July.
The United States land commissioner
will render an opinion July 1 on the
Kast Guthrie cases and the matter of
the S1.H00 owing to the city by the
Townsite Hoard.
The Santa Fe has authorized the ex-
penditure of about 8:»,000 in improving
the company's depot at Purcell. Con-
tracts will be let and work will begin
at an early date.
The Choctaw Railroad wants some
land at South McAlester for terminal
facilities, and the tribal authorities
say they must pay S.'lOO per acre for it.
The land is really worthless except for
the purpose for which the railroad
wants it
There is no longer any doubt as to
the early opening to settlement of the
Kiowa ami Comanche reservations.
The stockmen ha-e been notified to va-
cate and just now there is considerable I
stir among them to secure other graz-
ing for their cattle.
Oklahoma City is getting another
big grain elevator. It will have a ca-
pacity of 'JO,000 bushels. With three
new elevators in process of construc-
tion added to Oklahoma's already am-
ple storage capacity, a big wheat busi-
ness is assured. The orchards of the
twin territories continue Riving prom-
ise of large yields.
The Wichita Mountains are a magni-
ficent range, being from 4,000 to 5,000
feet in height, and covering an area of
between 2,000 and 3,000 square miles.
Mineral lodes were found in abund-
ance, gas springs were seen and evi-
dences of petroleum were plenty. The
mountains extend into Greer county
where considerable lode mining is in
progress. The mountains are heavily
timbered and are leased out in pastures
by the India us.
An outlaw band has been making
wholesale raids in Pottawatomie coun-
lnims that 1 ty Last week they visited Andrew
the Chief of the Cherokee National- Morrison's general store nt Violet
lowed the Federal authorities to take Springs, held up the proprietor for sev-
away from liim his stock of general eral hundred dollars and robbed the
merchandise amounting to SOT,000. store of a large quantity of goods. At
He confesses that he owes the Nation Avoea, they looted the large store of
J.I,700, but tile Nation never returned 1<. Perkins, securing a large i|u«uty of;
hi'm any residue from his stoc k of plunder, and the same evening held up ,
goods The case will be . ailed up and robbed a party of freighters,
next month in the Circuit Court. Ive.v curing They next visited the
uas recently tried for embezzlement | noted Corner Saloon, at the junction
of public money, but his ease was dis „f oklahoma, the Chickasaw ami Semi-
missed because of a technicality iu the nolc countries, and held up the large
indictment. crowd there.
Rumors of railroad building are fly Oklahoma farmers are growi ng
lag thick and last thaw dlJW It is again. This time the complaint is that
claimed that thetlainesville, McAlester the potatoes keep them awake ot night
ind St. Louis Railroad now has money howling for more land to grow on.
backing it. end that it is u sure go. ^ scheme is on foot to call a meeting
Some hay that the Goulds ur« now ()f representative farmers of Oklahoma,
backing it ('auadian, Logan and < levelaud coun-
The Fawnee Indians have 10,000 ties and to select a committee who will
acres "f the very best land in l'ayne appraise the loss of wheat of those
;ounty. About l.noo acres are leased fanners whose crops were injured by
to white men. anil about twelve acres j the hail and the farmers each accord-
ire farmed bv the Indians themselves, ing to his share will donate out of
or. rather, by their squaws, while the their bountiful yield to relieve the
balance lies idle. j distress of their brother farmers.
The town of Sninger, I T. which The number of students now en roll-
iiareeeiitflood.hu ad at the Purcell Institute is one bun-
Frank ti. (ioodnaugli, wheat expert
f the Burlington Commission company
f St. Loul», has just ended a week "
Two Maine county children poured
powder on the floor and set fire to it.
Their eyes were frightfully burned.
Many of the early potato vinos near
Osborne, Ok-, are dying. A worm work-
ing at the roots it the cause of the
trouble.
Chills and fevers are epidemics alorg
the Washita and other rivers in the In-
dian territories on account of the un-
usual overflow.
A Kay county farmer has English
blue grass three and one-half feet
high. The seed is valuable for making
dye and the grass is good hay and pas-
turage.
1). M. Wisdom, Indian agent at Mus-
kogee, is compelling all non-citizens
who have cut hay in the Choctaw na-
tion, to pay the rryalty of »0 cents per
ton, and stop further work.
Custer county has 50,000 acres of
land in cultivation, the most of which is
planted in wheat, corn and cotton, and
it is conservatively estimated that the
Income from these three crops alone,
will be $150,000.
The appellate court at South McAles-
tes, has made an order assigning the
judge, created under the new bill, to
the northern district. It is probable
that the first of court under the new
regime will be held at Wagoner.
An investigation of the books of the
former clerk of the court at Atoka
county, I. T., lias just been completed.
It shows a shortage of 81,500. A pros-
ecution will be instituted against his
bondsmen, aud also a criminal prose-
cution against the clerk for embezzle-
ment
W. T. Whitaker, the Cherokee Indian
who is raising a fund by voluntary
dime contributions to build an orphan's
home for white children at 1'ryer
I T., is meeting with great success,
lie is endorsed by religious, fraternal
and business organizations aud is un-
doubtedly actuated by pure motives.
Recent visitors to the silver mines
near Johnsonville, I. T., declare that
surprising developments will shortly
transpire in that direction. An impor-
tant a'jipnient of metallic sands was
recently made to the Omaha smelter,
and it is said that very flattering re-
sults on silver bullion were returned.
There will be livey times in the Kick-
apoo and Comanche country about Oc-
tober. Here is what an Indian tcrri-
ditor says! "Why not rusl:
tory i
Kiowa and Comanche
for
country?
nl softened
and. with a
sudden ln»»M.lse of
remorse and pity, I
took the old mother
in my arms. W ith
her head on my
should* r she sobbed
her thanks, and
continued her sto-
ry, calmer now be-
cause of this little
act of sympathy.
"Amos, my son, I was in the hospital
for more than a year, and most of that
time I was like a woman in a dream
I was told that for months I dldn t
know a soul about me, and it was never
9X pec ted I should rise from my bed.
Hut the Lord was good to nie, and I got
well slowly—oh, so slowly, Amos! tor
i long time I could not remember what
had taken place, but little by little It
?ame back to me. Then I was told that
when 1 was taken to the hospital they
did not know w ho I was. and that there
was nothing in my pocket by which
they could have found out my name.
They suspected, they said, that 1 had
sailors for my relations, for I talked a
great deal about the sea; but that was
ill they could discover. No one came
to see me all the time 1 was in the hos-
pital, and when I was strong enough
they let me go home. When 1 got back
to the cottage I found a neighbor living
in it, who thought that I was dead, as
I believed you to be before to-night, my
3ear son. The neighbors had heard
nothing of the accident, and they all
believed me to be dead; and they came
about me, now that I was risen from
.he grave, as it might be, and those who
were hardest upon me before made it
up to me In kindness. Then 1 heard
that I had lost my son—that the ship
he was in had foundered, and that not
i soul lu her had been saved. 1 heard
[uore, my son—shall I tell it?"
"Tell it," I said, steeling my voice.
"Don't blame me, Amos, and heir it
like a brave man. for my sake, dear. I
lsked after Mabel, and the first thing I
heard was .hat she had a baby. Go
and bring her,' I said to the neighbors
who were about me—'go and bring her
and my son's child to me. Tell her I am
living, and am yearning to embrace
| them both.' They looked at one another,
and gradually the story came out.
Shortly after the news of the loss of the
Blue Jacket with all hands reached the
neighborhood, Mabel and her mother
went away."
"Where to? Where is my wife and
child?" I
"They left England altogether, for i
Australia; and since then nothing has
been heard of them."
Consternation at this startling news
struck me dumb for a time, and my
mother was too frightened to break the
silence. Thb night, which lu my eager
anticipation was to have been tilled
with joy had brought desolation and
despair to niy heart.
"Have you anything more to say?" I
asked faintly, when I could muster
strength to speak. I had to repeat the
question before my mother replied, and
then the words fell like drops of poison
from her lips.
"Amos, Mabel did not go alone."
"You have already told me so. Her
mother and my child were with her. My
child!" I stretched forth my arms in an
agony of disappointment.
"Some one elae was with her, niy
son."
"Who?"
"Mr. Druce. your enemy."
The words might have conveyed a
loubtful meaning to m.v senses, but the
tone in which they were uttered al-
lowed no room for doubt. My mother
believed Mabel to be false to mo.
I shook her from me roughly, and
stood upon the threshold of the room.
The snow floated In, but I did not heed
It I heard my mother's step behind me.
"Stop where you are!" 1 cried, fierce-
place I was bound for. and following j BO as
liars. Who were sulking at my life and ihem on to the next, where 1 lost them of it. ——
mv happiness, sided with them against again. j If it Is necessary to water the plan ,
her and had no word to speak in her | i ouuld till a volume with my adven- I soak the ground well around the r
defense. I turea during this time; but the tell- 0ue good soaking a week is better tha
' What could have been In Mabel's , [ng 0f them would not forwaid niy | a sprinkling every day.
mind on that happy Christmas night, j story. i must here record a «rtaln ; unique spectacle cf four genera-
three years ago. to cause her to win j change of feeling which came o\e • tions of the same family being togeth-
sacred pledge of trustful- | ttt about the expiration j er in a church, each in a special capac-
itv, U rer
land. The vicar performed the cere
from me
ness iu her faith anil love. I cannot | yeara. The desire to find my w Ife b« j ^ roported from Tockholes, Eng-
with certainty say; but some shadow I carae weakened; the desire to find m>
of fear was upon her. Perhaps she ] became more and more lnlfn^®
suspected you were not her friend; per-
haps. with the kuowledge that ber
own mother was against me. she dread-
ed that circumstances might occur in
my absence to cause n breach between
and she wished to strengthen both
herself and me. Anyway, she drew the
pledge from me, and she gave me hers,
and I believe in her faithfulness with
all my soul. 'The harder task of faith-
fulness is yours,' she said, as she kissed
me; and she told me that while I was
absent from her she would have three
talismans with her—hope, faith and
love. 'I should never doubt,' she said.
My love for you and faith In you have
become a part of my life.' Listen now
to the words I spoke to her; they are
graven on my heart: 'Henceforth this
good season holds a more sacred place
in my heart because it ha3 brought me
the priceless blessing of your love; be-
cause, also, of the lesson It has taught
me, the lesson of faith, to live forever
undimmed in my soul.' Well, whis-
pering these words to her from my
heart of hearts, shall I, on this anni-
versary of that happy night. Utter as
It is to me, prove them, ever- by the
shadow of suspicion, to be fahe? No.
Henceforth I have but one tas-'c before
me. When that is done, and not till
then, you and I, mother, shfll meet
again."
She crept to me, and laid h^r weak
hands upon me.
"What are you going to do, Amos?"
"I am going to act toward n-y wife
and child as my father, Amos Beecroft,
would have acted toward you and vours
had you been slandered In his absence
as my wife has been in mine. I will
never put foot Inside this cottage affnin
until I find her; and when she is be-
fore you, and you are face to face, yru
shall ask her pardon, for the wrorg
you have done, her."
"I ask her pardon now!" sobbed mf
mother. "I have been weak and
wrong—I see It! I ought to have done
as you said. No, no, Amos; do not
leave me without a word of pity and
forgiveness! As I kneel to you I will
kneel to her. my son!" Her tears
choked her utterance
Soon I thought almost entirely of my j
child, and I pictured him In my im-
agination as growing up year after
year, with fair hair and blue eyes, and
with features resembling those of my
father. Beecroft, Mariner. This change
of feeling led to another impression
as the years went by. I get It into my
head that my wife might have died, but
that my boy was certainly alive. Curi-
ously enough, instead of becoming dis-
heartened by my want of success, 1
never once lost my conviction that the
day would come when I should hold
him in my arms.
I had to work for my living, as you
may guess, and I was generally fortu-
nate In finding more gold than my ne-
cessities required. I was sober and
steady ; and I take some credit to my-
self that I was not wrecked, as hun-
dreds of better men than I were. In
sly grog-shops and public houses.
Drink was the ruin of many a fair life
on the gold-diggings and in the cities;
but there was no temptation in it for
me, aud I escaped. I did not escape an-
other temptation. I w'as bitten by the
gold fever, and I had my dreams of
finding a big nugget of gold, and the
day afterward of finding those I was
In search of. and then all of us going |
home and living happily together,
dreamed that dream often, and always
mony of christening a child named
Henry Catterall, the child's father was
officiating as organist, his grandfather
joined in the musical service as choris-
ter and his great-grandfather occupied
a seat in the church warden's pew.
In setting out a tree, save some of
the top soil especially to put around the
roots.
The youngest school teacher in Indi
aua, if not in the United States, is a
12-year-old boy who is very likely to
spoiled by the big girls in his school.
A Stout Backbone
!■ as fdsontial to phy ileal hanlth as to political
consistency. For weakness of the bark, rheu-
matism and disorders of the kidneys, the tonic
and dietetic action of Hostetters Stomach Hitters
Is the one thing needful. The stomsch Is the
mainstay of every other orRan. and by Infigor-
ating the digestion With this preparation, the
•pinal column, and all Its dependencies, sre sym-
pathetically strengthened. The dyspeptic and
bilious will find it s pure vegetable stimulant and
tonltt. _ —
If the soil isn't as rich as it should
be, watering the plants with weak li-
quid manure will help materially to
secure a more vigorous growth.
riso's Cure fur Consumption is the best
of all cough cures.—Oeorge W. Lotz,
Fabucher, La., August 21. I WIS.
Good machinery properly used will
1 I materially lessen the cost of putting
ann , "P the lmv croI>- ***
regretted the waking up. One thing 1 j dnct.on mean^abetterpr^
G^t.
pushed resolutely from my mind, anil . null's Catarrh Cure
would not think of—that was. what . constitutional cure. Price, 75c.
1 should do if 1 met Mr. Druce. When , 1
it got into my head unawares, I brood- | There might be some excuse in Lil-
ed over it until I came to myself, when iian i{ussell changing husbands aa of-
I thrust it from me in fear, for therf teu as 6i,e does if she could ever hope
always a mist of blood In my eyes j to fin(i one to suit lier—or that sha
his image came before me.
caught the whale.
would suit.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Bmoko Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily an.I fo-.erer. be mag-
netic, full of lifo, nervo and vigor, take Nolo-
Ha», the wonder worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists. 60c or II. Cure *u»r*D-
teed, llooklct and sampltt free Address Star-
ing Komedy Co., Chicago or New ^ork.
A Kansas"City man was a«ked re-
cently to sipn a petition to a man
He promptly
that there was not
Three Hours of Hani Fighting Brought
Victory tu the Fishermen.
"There she blows!" That was the
cry heard through Amagansett, L. I.
a few mornings ago. The signal Hag
of red was run up and was quickly re- 1 out of the pcuitentiary,
sponded to by the crews belonging to i declined, saying that
the whaling boats along th3 shore be- j enough men there now to suit him.
■rod forgive you for what vou have I tween Kast Hampton and Amagansett nKT stkkmith ami aitf.titE.
ne,. . answered, not looking at the | v.S I
and numetous attempts h^ve been made Kansas City's grain exchange build-
to catch one, but without succeus. Two I |n(f is larger than Chicago's.
were again sighted that morning op-I campnnr i™ with Olyeerin*.
poslte Amagansett and five boats were I Sr'cS'.'SS™'^^
soon In hot pursuit. The whales weie
alMiit one and a half miles off shore. The importance of Healthy cows and
After an exciting chase until noon one sound milk cannot lie overestimated,
of the captains got close enough to the Too little attention has been given to
largest whale to harpoon him. He was j the matter in the past.
opposite Napeague life-saving station 1 - - -■
and the men soon had
The original treaty with them expires ly> "Don't approach close to me, nor
in October aud that leaves them with- | look Into my tace! You have hardened
out a acrap of title to the land. If we
wait for Secretary llliss we are liable
tu wait always. But the Kiow
ountry is publl
' domain of |
October, 1 S'.»7.
y heart toward you. It is for me to
peak now, and for you to listen. You
"and believe that my wife is unfaithful to
me. Y'ou, my mother, have said so to
me-—to my face. It is a lie! Do you
hear me? It Is a lie!"
My vehemence shook her to the soul.
"Y'ou made me speak." she faltered,
"as though I were on my death-bed. I
have obeyed you, my son—I have
obeyed you. Oh, Amos, my heart is
breaking!"
"And mine is filled with Joy and hap-
ul and eloquently besought her to I ulnea8 at what yon have told me," 1
•come his "bonnie bride." When ho I retorted. "A loving mother you have
Comanche
,he United States aft
So Indian title intervenes."
A Perry youcg man who was heels
over head in love with a young lady at
that place, called at her home one
evening recently and finding her ali ne
'n the gloaming began to pour out his
done
prostrate form at my feet, "and send
comfort to us both. I go away tonight
a crushed and desolate man, and there
will henceforth be no light in iny life
till I have found my wife and child!"
Thus in the blindness of my grief I
spoke, throwing, in my unreason, all
the blame upon my old mother; and
as I stepped out Into the cold and win-
try night, her mournful cry, "Oh, Amos,
my son!" crept after me like a wailing
wind. I knew that a ship was lying at
Gravesend ready to sail for Australia,
and for that I was bent. 1 trudged
doggedly through the snow, halting
but once, outside a house in which,not-
withstanding the lateness of the
night, merry-making was going on.
What caused me to pause was a worn-
an's voice singing the very song my
wife had sung on our wed ling night:
"Though friends be chiding,
And waves dividing,
In faith abiding,
I'll still be true;
And I'll pray for thee,
On the stormy ocean,
In deep devotion,
That's what I'll do."
The hot tears this reminiscence
forced from me relieved me somewhat;
but a gnawing pain was at my heart
as I repeated the words "In faith abid
Ing I'll still be true." The tone In
which my mother had informed me
that Mabel did not go away alone had
haunted nie from the moment the
words were spoken, and I strove in
vain to deaden the poisonous thoughts
they engendered. The two themes, "In
faith abiding, I'll still be true," and
Mr. Druce, your enemy, Is with Ma-
bel," came alternately to my mind,
mocking each other and adding to my
misery.
In two days I was again on the sea,
on my way to Australia.
ad concluded his appeal, he
ling awaited bii answer It csir
' mother said: "You had better s<
i about that I'm not up in su
e. The
e Daisy
•li mat.
ers." lie hail been talking to Daisy'a
nother all the time! lie hasn't bad
•ouraga to see liaisy yet.
The Chickasaw nation is to be resur-
Artliur Elliott, ion of Captain Klli-
ott. living near the Nine Mile liat, in
Oklahoma, was drowned while swim-
mi..» in the North Canadian river last
week Arthur, in company with his But what does It matter what a lot of
brother nnd another boy, had
proved yourself to nie on this bitter
Christmas night!"
"Amos, Amos!" she cried, In an
agony of grief. "It Is not my fault. I
know what you must suffer. I would
not dare to tell you what thu neighbors
said of her
"You would not dare," I said, "for
I should not it"P to hear. It needs no
telling; you yourself have made me ac-
quainted with the slanders their false
tongues spoke respecting me. Well, you
knew them to he liars, but you were
willing enough to listen to them after-
ward, when their tune was changed.
gossiping tittle-tattling women say
about a man? He Is strong to bear It,
nnd ran laugh at them for their pains.
And you! well, hi could defend nie in
my absence, bin you could find no worl
In defense of her who Is dearer to me
not found uutll the j than my ltff th in a hundred lives, If 1
across the river and had started back
again when Arthur was taken with
cramps. His brother almost lost bis
own life iu his efforts to save Arthur.
The body wan
morning of the next day.
A movement is on foot to establish
summer normal at Ardmore
was drowm
been moved to a hill furthei west A j dred and twenty-nine
city that is set on a hill cannot he j At Chandler Chauncey M. Husky
quenched. was arraigned for murder last week ^
Kecent visitors to the silver mines and plead not guilty. He is charged ( u (he ..jela at 30,000,000
ear Johnsonville 1 ''' ■'••••*» ♦*»«« i>uiin<* n «m»n mimed 'liivlor in BH ■
surprising developments will shortly
transpipn in that direction. Au im
portant shipment of metallic ^ands
was recently made to the ouiaha
smelter, aud it is said that very flatter-
in# resulta iu silver bullion wen re-
turned.
the southeast corner of the Kickapoo .
la'jt fall. <>u his own accord, Judge (
Dale reduced the amount of his bail j
from to 95000. Husky was in
jr\!l last winter when the jail delivery j
occurred, und had au opportunity to
escape, but did not do no.
had them! You hater her from the mo-
ment I spoke t.. you <>f my love for her.
Why did you do so? You threw doubts
then upon her goodness, as you have
thrown doubts this night upon her pur-
ity. If you liiiil done what you should
have done when Mabel returned home,
wheat of the territory If you had gone boldly Into her house
and spoken to her plainly, all this mis-
ery. all this torture, might have been
avoided But you had condemned her
In your heart from th* first, and were
only too willing to believe all the bad
things that were said of her. You. a
woman who, for my sake, if not for
bushels.
The Oklahoma agent for a Kansas
t'ity packing firm, estimates that with-
in five years the Income from eggs and
poultry In Oklahoma will exceed that
nf any agricultural product, cottor her own. should have defended her. n
uext ai cap ted roung and Ineiperlenced girl, from the
uialldleua toagueft of slanderer# ana
CHAPTER XIII.
T I K KINO scenes
(|q are now before me
scenes which are
woven in the his-
tory of my life, and
which will lead me
naturally to the
end. Hut before
they com mence
there is a blank, so
far as concerns the
proper business of
my story.
A blank of six or seven years. 1
have lost count of time; and to this
day, although 1 have been tenderly
and playfully assisted by one who Is
very, very dear to me, I cannot tlx the
exact number of years I was at the
other end ot the world, llelng there, I
had but one object before me, and In.
pursuance of It I traveled thousands
of miles on foot. Wherever 1 heard of
a woman nnd child who In any way
resembled the description of those 1
was In search of, thither I directed my
steps. This will not appear so strange
to vou Who have not traveled In those
regions, when I toll you that on the
gold-diggings at that time there were
llfty men to one woman; therefore, a
woman could be more easily tracked
than In a big city. Neither weather
nor distance deterred me I traveled
through flood, and literally through
fire; for I was In the lllack Forest
on that awful black Thursday when
scores of miles of silver and Iron bark
trees were blazing fiercely. You may
walk through the forest on this day.
and follow
when struck
three lines attached to him. Then be-
gan an exciting battle between the men
and the sea monster. Time aud again
the whale attempted to carry the men
out on the oiean, and repeatedly the
whalemen would stab him with the
harpoon. It vras dangerous sport, and
to the onlookers from the beach It
seemed as though the boats would be
wrecked every time the whale rose to
the surface. He made savage lunges
with his tall, lashing the water to a
foam and spouting to a great height.
After three hours' hard lighting the
whale showed sltns of weakening and
began to spout blood in the air. At
4:30 o'clock the crew succeeded In
landing the whale on the beach. He
measured forty-five feet and will prob-
ably make forty barrels uf oil. The
captors expect to realize a very largo
sum for him. The unusual , ight drew
crowds to the beach fruiu neighboring
villages and the ho*< Is ami livery sla-
bles made preparations for a grand
rush of visitors the next day.
Shot Cools im It Full*
The erroneous idea is held by some
that lead shot are made spherical by
falling from a height. The only pur-
pose c.f lofty shot towers Is to give the
shot a chauec to cool and harden as
they tumble. They are Just as perfect
spher.s when they start fioni the top
as when they reach the well of water
200 l'eet or so below. The usefulness
of ti.,' water Is merely as a soft cush-
ion lo receive them. Shot cannot bo
frrmitf from pure lead, but an ad-
mixture of arsenic causes the lead to
fortr, globules, like mercury. The
molien mixture Is placed In an iron
sim'epan with perforated bottom anil
the drops falling through are the shot.
Th.;y must fall some distance in order
to get time to cool and harden. When
a hatch Is thus made they are scooped
out of the water, tumbled about In a
revolving barrel with plumbago and
fljtally put through a series of sieves to
s,-,rt them into sizes for the market.—
iilning and Scientific Press.
To Care i'onatlpntlon Forever.
TnUo Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25o.
If C. C. C. fail to cure. Urugnibta refund monej.
It is not \ cry long BgO since butter
was habitually "traded out" at the
store. Much of it can only bo disposed
of in this way still, but good butter is
a rash article.
*H eHHenlia* 'or
VflOOQ an,i physical strength.
A MilAf StA When tho blooc* Is
A PPCll It? weak,thin and impure
the appetite tails. Hood's Sarsaparilla ia
wonderful medicino for creating an ap-
etitc. It purifies and enriches tho blood,
tones the stomach, gives strength to the
nerves and health to the whole system. It
Is Just tho medicine needed now.
HOOd'S8 parma
Is tho best—In fact the One True Blood Turlfler.
Hood's Pills tive.* A11 druggists. 25c.
$100 To Any Man.
WILL PAY $100 for ANY CASE
Of Weak
They Tre«t and
No Hope.
He (dejectedly)—"And don't you
think thnt you could ever learn to love
we?" She (thoughtfully)—"Well. I
uilKht " He (excitedly)—"Oh. Hel-
ghp (still thoughtfully) "But 1
don't think It will be worth while."—
iSomervllle Journal.
In Me
Kail to Cure.
An Omaha Company places for the first
time before the public a Magical Tkkat-
msst for the euro of Lost\ itality, Nervous
autl Sexual Weaknoh*. and Restoration of
Lifo Force in old and young men No
worn-out French remedy: contains no
Phosphorous or other harmful drugs. It is
it WonderfulThbatmim magical in its
effects—positive in its cure. All readers,
who are suffering from a weakness that
blights their life, causing that mental nnd
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man-
hood, should write to the HTATE M bDlCAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Nob. aud they will
send you absolutely FKF.H, a valuable
paper on these diseatos. and positive proofs
of their truly Maoic altkeatmknt. Thous-
ands of men, who have lost all hope of a
cure, are being restored by them to a per-
fect condition.
This Magical Turatmbnt may bo taken
at home under their directions, or they will
pay railroad fare ami hotel hills to all who
prefer to go thore for treatment, if they
fail to cure. They aro perfectly reliable;
have no Free 1 rescript ions, Free Cure,
Free Sample, or C. O l> fake. They have
fiiM.OOO capital, and guarantee to curs
every case they treat or refund every dol-
lar; or their charges may bo deposited lu «
bank to bs paid to them when a cure ia
•fYocted. Write them today
C'IRE YOURSELF!
fa- Mil- 44 (r IIII ti II t >1 ml
Ihllaiiiniatititifl.
or ul< •uti' iia
I* tlUMIlt'l MIM.
PninlfNH, nnd not aatrla-
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Mold hi l)ra||llta,
nr wnl In plain wrapper,
I'V i»*pri'K«. prepaid. fof
l< '•> or < |.otl Ira. f '.tv
Circular acut ua rr^urat.
8 so
An unusual rrport came from Eto-
wah county, Alabama, whon the rec-
ords of the United States marslinl of
that district for 1896 were made up. It
appeared that not a moonshiner had
been disturbed there during the year
"Wctftcm 'Wheel Works
Cft'CAGO /ll'MO'S
«. A! Al.«'t.Vr I HI I
"I can't aee why they speak of the i
vlsdom of the serpent."
;n iur "Well, you never heard of a «*»ent j
the track of that terrlbl* | getting IU leg pulled, did >ou.
Real Cough Syrup. TaMsaOood. Uaa Q
In ttuin. Sold by dnifRlsta. HI
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