The Mulhall Enterprise. (Mulhall, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1897 Page: 2 of 4
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The Mulhall Enterprise.
A telephone line it beinjr pot »t» be-
| tiveen Anadarko and Chickasha.
The Oklahoma chinch brg has pass-
cd in hi* checks. Too rau<-h wet.
Tha Choetatr railroad in hauling
lutni«er for ( handler free of charge.
Tliat lithe right apirit
Charlie Rohker accidentally shot
himaelf in the right arm while ont
Home grown strawberries are on hunting neat of Port Reno.
^alc in <iuthrie market*. An insane man in lincoln county
Chandler had hut one ticket out in imagines someone has atolen every
the recent election. It waa known as thing he poaacssea. including hia cloth-
■ atarprlaa Pabllahiac Coapeay.
MULHALL, • • OKLAHOMA.
OKI.AIIOMA AMI IMllAK II KRITORY
the cyclone ticket.
Infected chinch hugs can >»e bought
at an Arapahoe drug store
The change in the governor'* office
and in the United Mates marshal's of-
will take place sivnuntaneously.
Country postmaster* are wanted
throughout the Chickasaw nation to
fill vacancies occasioned by expiration
and resignation.
ing
The new cotton compress at oklaho-
ma City will have a capacity of three
hales a minute and will cost al»out gl ..■
000.
\V K Washington. * farmer near |
Marietta. I T . has 2.r»00 acrea in corn.
3,000 acrea of oata and 2,000 acrea of
cotton.
There ia something in the atory that
I>on<;r»yMm the young ncijro who p«»t oftke applicanu in Oklahoma tnu»t j
cut hia stepfather ft throat at Paul s
Valley recently, has been bound over
in the sum of $400
They are beginning to figure on the
pr«»bable value of this season's cotton
crop in Oklahoma. Some say 82,000,000
is a conservative estimate
About twenty bridges, a half dozen
of them large ones, have gone out in
I/Ogan coonty- The prospect for re-
placing them ri"t .-ip■'•'irii/in^
City Attorney lluiner of (iuthrie haa
got judgment for 81.*»il.01 against
township board No. ti. for receipt* from
unclaimed lots in the Outhries.
The Oklahoma papers are reaolved to
put a "blazer" head on tree homes
again until the president signs his
name to it and makes it a law.
Mrs Simon Howard, wife of the man
who was tried at Oklahoma Citv for
have the indorsement of both Flynn
and Harnes.
The farmers of < J rant county are al"
ready drawing plans of those new j
houses they intend to build when they |
aell their wheat
lireer county furnishes her own «alt j
It ia of as fine quality as is to l»e found
anywhere. There is a good opening
for gyp ami salt quarries.
The town of Springer, I. T.. which
was partially overflowed duiing the re-
cent heavy rains, is to l>e moved to
higher ground west of the present site.
Governor McCurtain has brought
several loads of corn for bread for the
( hoc taws who are in destitute circum-
stances. Seven cars are to Ik- distribu-
ted on the Frisco.
Payne county citi/.ens received 1®
wagon loads of bridge material from
tiie murder of Aaron Haning in Potta- | the Cimarron river between Langston
and Perkins. This flotsom was brought
over into Logan county and will be
used in building new bridges.
W. T. \V hi taker, the Cherokee Indian
who is at the head of the movement to
watomie county, is a cousin of Jesse
.I ames.
Perry is indignant over the recent
stories regarding storm damage in that
section. The substance of the whole
loss was
small bridge across the establish an Orphan's Home for white
Klack Hear, immediately east of Lela
The Kansas City Star under the nec-
essity of finding something new and
exciting for the people published the
fact prominently that ninety (Lay di.
vorces no longer obtained in Oklaho- hereafter. They have revived the
raa | good old custom of planting fruit trees
children at Pryer Creek. I. T., is meet-
ing with deserved success I p to May
11th he had received 1.1*3. 12.
< anadian county farmers are laying
up a bright crown somewhere in the
along the public highways for the re-
freshment of the weary traveler.
Hose Pryor has filed a suit at Musko-
gee, I T., in the United States district
court to recover $2."i,000 damage from
Sam T. Davis, a wealthy Cherokee
stockman, for seduction. The defend-
ant resides with his family near Mus-
kogee.
The ground is being broke for the
erection of a new elevator located near
the Choctaw track in HI Keno. The
mills, elevators, railroads, and in fact
the entire community is beginning to
make ready to handle the enormous
ems to be certain in
Annie (ioohen, 12 years old, who
lives with her mother near Red Ilock,
walks in her sleep The other night
she got up and wandered away. She
was not found until the next night
and she was stili asleep, having walk-
ed twenty-five miles.
The cable rope at the horse shoe fer-
ry, V je miles caste.' the little town
of Hob Nubbins. I T.. on Red river,
was struck by lightning the other
night and burned in two. The boat
got loose and floats down the river
several miles before it was caught.
Some of the territorial newspapers
ere suggesting that a few missionaries wheat crop that
be sent to Fort Smith, where inside of i locality.
two days one woman shot and killed | \i M. Hudson, a farmer living near
another, and one man shot another Medford, Ok., was visited by masked
and tried to kill him. all because of men last week and ordered to leave
'aithleas husbands and faithless wives, j the country undci penalty of hanging
A prominent < herokee official gained i ,,,> left for Missouri with his five year
lis Indian blood in this manner: An j child. Hudson says he recognized
old Indian woman cut a gash in her , ''1<> lender of the mob an the man who
hand; allowed the blood to drop on a | wanted Mrs. Hudson to leave him.
piece of bread which the person in j Myrtle, the 7-year-old daughter of
question ate, and went down on his j T. A. Parker, a fanner living eight
hands and knees and crawled. The miles west of Alva, was bitten by n
old woman made oath that he had In- rattlesnake on the heel May 1 1. The
dian blood in him ever since he crawl- | child was kept do zed with whisky for
•d. I twelve hours and her foot kept encased
The memory of Sequoyah, the in- j in ®u,i- This treatment has evidently
ventor of the Cherokee alphabet, who proved effective, as Myrtle is now run
died about 184is still reverened by i n,ntf around as usual.
by th«» tribe. He is called "The Ameri- | The luxurience of oklahoma as a
can and Modern Moies." His alphabet fruit country has been variously de-
is still used in the Cherokee Advocate, monstrated. Now comes .lolin Massey
which is printed in both the Cherokee | of (iuthrie with Captain .lack straw
and English languages He was a full- berries averaging an inch and a half in
blood and w as ignorant of any other I circumference—rosy, lucious and obese-
language but his own. He has five acrea on his farm. No bet
Some of the Indian Territory papers ter strawberries were ever raised, in
are roasting the Wichita alloting ,inJ country.
agents because of the delay in their The-rcccnt floods in Oklahoma have
own work. The alloting agents in
camp at Sugar creek insist that they
are alloting the Indians right along,
but one of the alloting agents who is
in Washington declares that the work ed in Peep Ford
of allotment is "temporarily suspend- j high water mark,
ed" on account of the opposition of the
Indians.
Within a few days the C. O. A O.
railroad company will begin the erec-
tion of a '.'0,000 hu elevator by tracks
cast of the freight house at Oklahoma
caused the engineer corps of the Sa
pulpa railroad to do a good ileal of
their recent work over. They found
many of the grades tliey had establish
alley were below
The' dispatch with
which the new . locations are being
made would indicate that that line
will be built at once.
Instructions have been 'asued by
t om in '.* sioner of the (ieneral Land
ofiice Hermann, to the registers and
City. The elevator is to be operated j receivers of the various United States
by Davidson A Smith, grain dealers. I land offices under the provisions of
of Kansas City. The building will be | section 0, net of .1 une 1 o. lMirt, which
completed by June 1. Two cotton gins ' provides that homestead settlers on all
will also be in course of erection with- j ceded Indian reservations are hereby
in a short time in the < hoc taw right of granted an extention of one year in
way John A. Scott and the oklahoma which to make the payments now pro
( otton com puny are the promoters \ tided by law.
who was frightfully ^ The part of the Perkins bridge which
handler cyclone, has floated away in the flood has lodged
down the river and the lumber will be
sold
Little Nellie Ulani. who was injured
in the Chandler cyclone, is not yet
able to open one eye The doctors say,
however, that the sight of the eye will
Miss Mat tic
injured in ti
been removed to the home of her uncle
iu Hillsborough. Texas.
When oklahoma was opened the ac-
counts were greatly exaggerated. The
opening of original Oklahoma was a
very tame, dust and tediou* affair.
A white man at Davis traded two not injured.
ponies and a cow for an Osage girl re- Benjamin I Johnson, a deserter
cently.
W. L. Hagan of Lincoln
injured in a coal mine in New Mexico
last week.
A cottonseed oil mill in the next en-
terprise the Oklahoma city club g«»fK
after. There are no flies on Oklahoma
City.
from the United States army at Fort
ounty was Reno, has been captured. Ilis fur-
lough expired April 11, and he failed
to return.
The Fiftit annual closing of Tuska
heinuta Female institute at Lyceum. I
T., occurs June 14th and Kith.
(toorge Harnett of Oklahoma City is
< liarles ( hainberlain has been re-ap- 1 gathering together the talent for a
pointed city treasurer of Oklahoma minstrel show.
Hty. Oklahoma is getting a share of the
The Indian Terr'tory papers nil agree sugar »eet seed sent out in such great
that the Indians have succeeded in Jo- profusion by Secretary of Agriculture
nahing the Dawes commission to n Wilson.
frar.7le The Oilstraps may not know It, but
lici t At« liisou of Arapahoe, who alio! ''•** ( hsndlei News la just in pretty in
Coots, haa been rsrnauded to jell with- iti prs«eut form it was before the
out bail. 1 non*
Blsckberries will b® plentiful in Ok-
lahoma thia season.
Decoration Day orators are in de-
mand throughout Oklahoma
Major Woodson and Colonel Haskell
have accepted the Ked Moon Indian
school.
The .',000 acres of wheat within a ra-
dius of five mile* of rushing could no:
look more promising.
J P Wilson of (iuthrie has l**en ap-
pointed meat inspector for Logan coun-
ty under the new quarantine law
The Washita river in the Indian ter-
i Story was reported to be out of its
banks during the recent heavy rains.
Ardmore a colored people have made
a demand on the devil toaurrender and
are pouring hot shot into him day and
night.
The (reological surveying corps
meant to have headquarters at Okla-
homa City but changed its tnind and
will locate at Dennison, Tex.
The Chandler merchants are now
talking of being benefitted by the cy-
clone and are offering the people dam-
aged stock at slaughter price*.
of all the winter wheat states. Okla-
hoina is the only one that reported no
killed wheat. If she had any she had
sense enough to keep still about it.
With a §1 'i.OOO.OOO wheat crop and a
91 ■i,000,000 cotton crop with double
this total in cattle, hogs and other pro-
ducts, Oklahoma may get a little proud
this year.
Charles Harnett, who it is alleged
committed an assault upon a little girl
at Mill Creek, Indian Territory, has
t>een bound over to the grand jury in
the sum of £l.'t00, which he failed to
give.
Judge Wa'cott, of Ardmore, has
made requisition on the government
commission of fish and fisheries, for a
lot of black bass and croppie, with
which to stock the lake of the Ardmore
Rod and (run Club.
The Choctaw railroad has offered to
lay down at Shawnee, free of freight
charges, five car loads of lumber for
the use of ( handler tornado sufferers
The lumber will be used in building
houses for such of the sufferers as have
lots.
Near Bartlesville, I. T., last week
Willie Shi ply, while squirrel hunting,
accidentally discharged his gun. The
load of shot struck him in the aide of
the neck inflicting n terrible wound,
but luckily none of the large veins or
arteries were cut and he w ill recover.
The body of a 10 or 12 year old boy,
dressed in dark knee pants and light
waist, was seen floating down Red riv-
er near Marietta one day last week,
but owing to the freshet it could not
be recovered. It is rumored that, the
corpse washed ashore al Willis, but nr
clue to its identity could be found.
Col. Win. Ragen has returned from a
horseback trip from Wewoka, I. T., t<
Whitesboro, Tex., looking over the pro-
posed route of the St. Louis, Oklahoma
and Southern railway. He made a
very encouraging report to the direct-
ors and a surveying corps will soon be.
sent out to locate the permanent route
between the two places.
The Kickapoo Indians have many
queer beliefs. For instance, they ima-
gine themselves constantly surrounded
by good and evil spirits and firmly be-
lieve that by bathing in ice-cold water
they become evil-ghost proof. They arc
in the refreshing and refrigerating
habit of plunging into the ice-crusted
North Canadian and Deep Fork rivers
during the w inter season.
A species of the Mexican soap plant
thrives luxuriously on the rocky ster-
ile hills of oklahoma territory. The
soap plant when transplanted makes a
pleasant adornment of front yards.
First-class cleansing and healing soap
ran be made of the roots, while the
long, tough leaves of the plant makes
good ropes, hammocks, fish nets and
several other useful articles.
Pat Morrison, living west of Perkins
down near the river, found a number
of trunks, all, supposedly, belonging
to a daughter of David Terrill, living
northwest of Perkins. Miss Ida Terrill,
who was mnrricd to Karnest Busch ».f
West Outhrie. but w ho ia now dead.
The trunk contained .the marriage cer-
tificate and oilier papers, the means by
which it was identified. Mr. Morrison
has forwarded the trunk to Mr. Busch
at (iuthrie.
Rev .1, A. Worlcy. of Ardmore I P..
who has just returned from the meet-
ing of the board of missions of the M.
K. church South, belli at Nashville,
Tcnn . says the Indian mission confer-
ence will be presided over this year by
Bishop Wilson of Baltimore lie is
one of the most eloquent speakers and
indefatigable workers in the M. F.
church South; and his assignment to
this mission he considers a very ac-
ceptable acquisition.
six saw mills neai Sapulpa are run-
ning night and day, sawing railroad
ties, which indicates the early con-
struction of a railroad from Sapulpa to
()k lahoma.
It is rumored at Purcell that two
brothers named Sidney and John Wal-
ker, who live between there and Mar-
ietta, got into a fist-fight one day last
w.m'U in which the aggressor fared so
j badly that he died a couple of days af-
terward. No confirmation of the story
or any part iculars have yet been learn-
ed.
Willis Anderson, a li'ghly respected
young man of Ryan, while riding u
horse May'.', attempted to cross a swol-
len stream and was drowned Ilis
body was not recovered until May 11.
It is predicted that this summer
when the ( imarron and other oklaho-
ma streams have dried up, excepting
the big In ,»s in the river beds, those
holes will be chuck full of delicious
I catfish, buffalo and other good varie-
ties of the tinny tribe nixl can l*u
caught without hooks or utM, hut siui
1 ply wlili pOrhfoikt
B.L FARJEON.
INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
CHAPTEH V fCoiTiavD.1 ' to herself, and I am too much cast
My way then ia cliar. and I tell her down to stop her; but Mabel does.
that If she had not no assured me, I "Amoa." ahe savs, "is it true that you
should not hare had the courage to do not lore me?"
speak further. And so by degrees I I know by that question that her
open my heart to her, and I show her mother has been working against me
that the happiness of my life is in secretly. But out of regard for Mabel s
her hands. Well, well, what more can peace of mind at home, I repress the
I say of thia interview? What more hot words that are rushing to my
than that, to my indTable delight, Ma- tongue. I answer simply that 1 love
bet accept* me as her lover, telling me ber devotedly, and that I would pour
that she has loved me from child- out my heart's blood In her service. I
hood, and that, although she has make no reference to the wicked
never thought of me In the relation of tongue that has maligned me when my
a husband, she Is blessed and content- back was turned. Then Mabel tells
ed In the prospect of becoihlng a her mother—before my face, bless her!
sailor s wife? We tow to b« ever faith- »he tells her—that there's no man In
ful and true to each other, and I break ,he world she loves like me, and that
a sixpence, each taking half. she has gi\en her word, and means to
"I devote mv life to vou. my darling." abidc b-v "• Her mother s face grows
I sav as I kiss her and bold her In ,vhlte f"'1 slv and she does not
my arms Mv heart beats forowr. rPP'-v ,0 Mabel's outburst. So, her
and only for vou.' hrea,h not bpln* employed to fan the
Many minutes pass In such-like "re. it cools down, and thatv storm is
lovers' talk. I think that a mother,
over.
Well, 1 am a little disturbed at the
difference in our ages, which I never
thought of before Mabel's mother spoke
of it. Truly, I am old enough to be her
father, though aa for my hair getting
white, that's a fable—there isn't a gray
hair in my head. Still, the twenty and
odd years between me and her are
ou v. . » . , „ twenty and odd little imps mock-
She says that would be a true delignt ■ . , 1
. . . , ,i lnK and pricking me. How I should
i Vior an/1 ci f 4 nt lifif ...
when she presses her first-born to her
breast, cannot experience a greater joy
than animates me at this time.
' When I command a ship."' I say, as
we walk arm-in-arm toward her house,
I will take care that my wife shall
come out with me-if she cares to
come."
to her, and says other sweet things
which, as Bhe speaks them, are to my
heart like the murmuring music of
birds. We go toward her house with
the intention of acquainting her
mother with what has occurred, and
I fancy I see her watching us at the
window as we walk up the street;
but on our arrival she is not to be »
found. It is settled between us that
Mabel shall break the news to her, and
I walk home.
"So, mother," I say, going to her in
the kitchen, where she is making a
pudding for dinner. "Mabel wouldn't
marry a poor man for love! Of course
not, when gold Is flung before her
eyes! Well, mother, how much gold
have I to buy her with?"
I draw the old woman on my knee,
where, if my voice has not already be-
trayed me—but I am sure it has—she
can read the joyful tidings in ray
bright face and kindling eyes.
"Ah, mammy! You didn't know Ma*
like to poison some of them, and bury
them out of all knowledge!
Meeting Mr. Druce at this point of my
musings, he looks at rae as though he
would be glad of the opportunity of
killing not only my twenty and odd
years, but all my other years as well.
I am too happy to return his scowl,
and he makes an angry motion and
passes on.
CHAPTER VI.
T wanted not a
week to Christmas,
and in another week
! from that time I
should be bidding
my Mabel farewell.
It was my lot now
to experience the
pain that gives joy.
Hitherto I had left
for my duties with
a light and willing
spirit; now my heart was charged with
bel. She is, as I said she was, the sadness at the thought of leaving my
soul of truth, and her heart is better darling girl.
than gold. She'll be a sailor's wife, 1 cannot tell you how I loved her—I
as you were, mammy." cannot tell you what she was to me.
Does my old mother's face reflect the She was more than my life—she was
joy that shines on mine, or is there my soul. In all the world there was
a cloud of doubt on It? Doubt of what?
As to whether I have done right?
Away with It! I will have no doubts
or shadows. There is no room for
them in the sunshine of my life.
"Why, mother!" 1 exclaim. "I can-
am
but one star for me—Mabel. Through
the light of her love the fair earth be-
came fairer, and the gloomiest day was
filled with sunshine.
It happened at this time that Mabel's
, mother was summoned suddenly from
not tell whether you are pleased or her home. An only sister, who had
not at the news." lived a hundred miles away, was dy-
"I hope you have acted wisely, my ing, and called her to her bedside. The
son," she replies, her lips trembling summons was so sudden that I did not
slightly. her before she left. Going in the
1 snap my fingers at the word. Wise- morning to Mabel's house, I found her
ly! What lover ever thought of that alone, and she told me how her mother
when he was opening his heart to the had been compelled to go almost at a
girl of his choice? And. after all, is [ moment's notice.
not love the best kind of wisdom? But
I can scarcely understand my old moth-
er speaking In this way, and it doe3
not satisfy me.
"You married for love, mother, why
should not Mabel do the same? Come,
come; It would hurt me much to think
you begrudged me ray happiness."
"Oh. Amos," she cries. "With all
my heart and soul I wish you to be
happy."
"Well, then," I reply, repeating words
that have been used before, "there is
"Did she leave a message for me?" I
asked.
"No," replied Mabel. "She was no
hurried and agitated "
She scarcely knew how to finish the
sentence, so I placed my fingers on her
lips to save her from awkwardness.
She felt more deeply than I any lack
of affection in her mother toward me.
"I suppose she wanted you to go with
her, Mabel."
"Yes; but I said I could not leave
you, especially as it was uncertain
no happiness without love, and Mabel • when we should return.
and I love each other true, as you and j I knew instinctively that there must
mv father did. Don't tell me you doubt j I'nve been a scene between the mother
Mabel any longer. You may have had daughter, but I was not the man to
reason for it before, because of peo- ; question Mabel concerning it. I would
pie's foolish tongues; but. now that j 'h'1.1 Pain "Pon B'rl-
she has proved herself better than gold : Now, how It came into my mind, or
you have no right to suspect her.
She'll he a loving <!;n:ghtcr to you, and
you must he to her as good a mother
as you have been to me. There! there!"
For the .good old soul had suddenly
thrown her arms around my neck, and
begs my forgiveness if she has hurt
me in any way. She believes, slio
gays, that Mabel is exactly as I have
painted her. and she sobs out blessings
upon both of us. So the little cloud
blows over.
But shadows come from Mabel's
mother.
With a full-blooded face she says:
"You can never mean It, Mr. Bee-
croft-."
"I can. and do," I answer readily;
"and so does Mabel."
"Mabel is eighteen years of age," she
says: "and ypu?"
"And 1 well, 1 am over forty.
hang iny head ruefully
what put It there, it is beyond me to
say; but as Christmas drew near, I
got it fixed in me that Mabel and I
ought to get married before I went to
sea again. The more I thought of it,
the more fixed became the idea and the
stronger my wish. I wes fearful- of
broaching the subject to Mabel, not
knowing how she would receive it in
the absence of her mother; but an In-
cident which occurred three days after
her mother's departure gave me the
opportunity and the courage.
I had gone to the docks to see after
my ship, expecting to be away until
night, when I was to meet Mabel at
our little cottage of shells. I returned,
however, three or four hours sooner
I than I anticipated, and I went at once
to Mabel s house. I heard voices with-
i in one the music of which 1 well
I knew; the other I scarcely recognized.
I opened the door, and, entering, saw
She peers J
quisltiveness.
"Have you
"No; It did
rae with malicious in- | Mr. Druce. lie was standing before
| Mabel, and had just finished a passion*
old her that?" 'ate speech, judging from his position;
, f come into my head to for as I appeared he laid his hand in
! no light way upon her, and she was
didn't. And that is the j striving to wrest herself from his grasp,
advantage of a child To see was to act ; my blood was boil-
own man. with a beard I ing furiously. I seized him by the neck
bite; knowing, too, that and the next moment we were outside
do so."
"Of course i
way you take
you. a full-gr
asil soon be \
was as good as married to a man the house, whither I had dragged him.
as will be able to support her, and without any effort on my part, and
make a lady of her." without resistance on his. He was
' N'o man can do that; she is one really as a feather in my hands. Be-
already." mg outside, with my hand still grasp-
"Thank me for that." she says, with j ing him firmly, I twisted his face by
force to mine, and looked into his eyes.
"You miserable coward!" I said.
"That is the way you treat defense-
less women, is It?"
And with my open hand I struck him
on his smooth face; then flung him
away.
Ho said nothing not a word. But
the glance he gave me was like the sud-
den darting forth of a serpent's fang
—without the active poison.
"Put up your hands," I cried; "I'm
going to thrash you, or you me!"
Ho put up his hnnds, and aimed a
feeble blow at me. I hit him once, and
he fell to the ground, witl^the color
of blood now on his frightened face. I
had not struck lightly
He wiped the blood awny as he rose
I scorned tj itrike agiHr Then ho
a toss of her head.
"I do. heartily. As for the man,
name him."
"I shall do nothing of the sort."
"I will. then. Mr Druce."
"A better man than you any day."
"That ma> be. But 1 know he's not
the man to make Mabel happy "
"Hell make her both happy and
rich." she retorts. "And you step In
with your smooth tongue, and spoil her
life."
"God forbid'" I say, with twinges of
compunction and rue and jealousy.
"I'll not stand in the way of her happi-
ness. Call her In, and If she says now
she prefers another I'll bid her good-
bye. jwi is a in in's duty."
She dart* !. in the room and brlno
In Msbel, snd theu there Is a cceuu.
Tfc* muiDer rant* lo Uavs all uke talk , spoke.
"Amos Beeeroft/* he enid, "you shall
Uve t® learn Uat this is the woret day's
work you have ever done."
"Worst or best," I replied, "you have
received a l«w»on I advise you never
to forget. Indeed, I think you are not
likely to, for I am In hopes I have
marked you for life."
His lip was cot, and the tear I
judged, would not be soon effaced.
"By what right," he asked, slowly,
do you step between me and Mabel?"
"By the best of all rights. That
young lady is to be my wife."
"You are a liar!" he cried, furiously.
Mabel was standing at the door,
trembling in every limb, and I went to
her side and passed my arm around
her waist.
He stood before us in silence for full
ten seconds; then, with a wicked look,
slunk away.
"I'll not risk your being insulted
again by that scoundrel," I said to
Mabel. "While your mother is absent
you must sleep at our house. It will
be safer for you."
But her woman's sense saw in this
proposal what had not occurred to me.
"I can't do that, Amos, until —un-
til "
"Until what, my darling?"
Bright blushes drove the lilies from
her cheek. Then I guessed what was
in her mind.
"Come wit.h me," I said. "I have
something to say to you before my
mother."
She locked the door and came with
me.
"Mother," I said, "it isn't safe for
Mabel to sleep in her own place alone;
she has come to stop with me."
My mother nodded.
"I shall sleep there instead of her,"
I continued, "and Mabel will take my
room here for a day or two."
"And then, Amos?" said my mother,
guessing that I had something more to
say.
'/\nd then, mother," I rejoined. "Ma-
bel and I will gf»t married. There is
no occasion for any one to know but
ourselves. On the day before Christ-
mas we will go to the registrar's, and
this Christmas shall he the happiest
we three have ever spent."
I saw In Mabel's joyful, blushing
face assent to my daring. It took my
mother's breath away for a moment,
however.
(TO US CONTIVDEO.I
The London synod has rejected the
charge of heresy preferred against thu
Hev. John Watson (Ian Msclaren), snd
the matter will probably end there for
for present.
A St Louis woman had a guardian
pointed for her husband on proving
that he spent all his penhiou money
|30—every month on patent meda ine-
A llanecrniit l.pihaigy.
Th« fr>rfrOnn«r of a train of e\il«. whlrh ''•«
often culminsta fatally m inactivity or lethir y
• • |j \m0j% Not ..niy it Brlgst's Hmw
iialvtcn gravel. Or ihim oth»r dangcrou* lit*.
gral d » bm of it rgaas tfcs—sites to W
prehPDUfd, but <lr |<*ical from tba
blood, rheumatism and tit ar* nil trarrsbU tt
tha sos wifl fTOHl the b! 1 by tha kldaafi
jf certain Imporiti'-s Hosteller's Hloroach Bit-
't r» depurate* th« blood, renders tha k dney»
ictiT* and preventa thc.r dlfteaae
It is said that the soft wheat flour of
a mill not far from Kansas City is sell-
ing in Minneapolis for SISS per barrel
more than the best patent spring wheat
flour is worth.
Winfield Chautauqua Assembly,
eleventh annual session, begins .lune
l.'ith and continues ten days. An ex
ceptional fine program of lectures. In-
struction and mysic has been provided.
The bicycle hog has been properly
punished by John Jacob Astor who has
hitherto allowed all riders to use tho
fine hard roads through bis magnifi
cent grounds near Khiueheck, New
York. A partv of scorchers riding four
abreast crowded John Jacob Astor off
his own roadway the other day and
now tho grounds are closed to all rid-
A NEW GHOST STORY.
Mystery Hvi < Ipiiml I'p by tha
H poole.
Dublin society has lately been start-
led by a very astonishing story of the
supernatural, but the mystery has
been cleared up. Recently Dr. Wynne,
the Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kil-
laloe, and his wife died suddenly on
the same day, says the New York Jour-
nal.
On the afternoon of thia day a lady
walking in one of the suburbs of Dub-
lin met a clergyman, whom she sup-
posed to he the bishop, and inquired
for Mrs. Wynne. "She," was the reply,
"is dead, and," after a pause, "the
bishop, too, is dead.' The lady was
quite overcome and on recovering her-
self found that the clergyman, whom
she still believed to be the bishop, had
vanished. She immediately went and
explained the mysterious occurrence
to a well-known Irish Protestant digni-
tary, who is a firm believer in super-
natural appearances. He said there
was no doubt that she had been ac-
corded an interview with the spirit of
the departed bishop.
The story was extensively circulated
in Dublin society, and was told to a
clergyman when visiting the family of
a well-known judge. "Why," said the
astonished cleric, "I am the bishop's
ghost. A lady whom I did not know
came up to me and asked me how Mrs.
Wynne was. I said she was dead and
that the bishop was also dead. The
lady naturally seemed greatly dis-
tressed and I passed on." There is
a very striking likeness between the
dead bishop and the clergyman for
whom he was mistaken.
One fare for round trip is all you wi 11
have to pay from any A T. &' S. P.
station in Kansas to the Musical Festi-
val and Chautauqua Assembly, Forest
Park, Ottawa. Kansas. From points
in Kansas within 1M) miles and from
Kansas City and St, Joseph tickets on
sale Juno 10 to 2">. From points in
state beyond this distance, tickets will
be sold Ju* e 12 to 17. The park is only
half a block from A. T. it- S. F. station
in Ottawa. Folder and particulars on
application.
Ninevan was fifteen miles by nine,
the wall 100 feet high and thick enough
for three chariots to drive abreast.
Hall's Catarrh Corn
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75o.
Time never travels so slowly as to a
man who has just attracted unfayora-
i ble public attention.
A TRULY MORAL SHOW.
That l.lttl<> rrlii' Fight at the Athletle
Club.
"Oh, yes," said the commissioner of
police,"the prize fight before the Scrap-
pers' Athletic Club was a truly edify-
ing and soul-nourishing exhibition.
He rubbed his hands with ecstasy, says
the New York Journal.
"Of course, I know that there was a
little stir made over the fact that one
man had his head punched all over the
ring like a foot ball; that two men are
laid up in the hospital with broken
noses, damaged ears and peepers (dosed
up with left-hand swings; but those
( lassie left-handers were such beauts
that I must forgive the natural results
He bit off the end of a black cigar re-
sembling a dynamite torpedo.
"Then, too, there was some murmur
ing about the referee's giving the de-
cision to the fellow who was struck be-
low the belt, and whom it took four
doctors three hours to bring to. He is
probably a cripple for life, but tho in-
fighting in that round was glorious. 1
never saw anything beter at Harvard
or during my several fights with In-
dians out west." He licked his chops
with the delicious thought.
"Of course, now that the fellow who
got it in the jugular in the fifth round
is (lead, 1 must chip in something for
his family. But, of course, any fool
who goes into the ring with his heart
three inches out of place must expect
to get it hard. He should have had a
post-mortem examination before he
went up against it. But, altogether, it
was a highly edifying and moral show."
Carry Toilet ('nam.
Women who ride the bicycle in Eng-
land sally forth in the summer time up-
on their longer excursions equipped for
the fray with the sun. They do not
carry parasols, but they carry complete
toilet cases, in which there is a variety
of powders and other things that are
calculated to preserve the complexion.
A tiny brush, a comb that soothes when
it caresses, a puff, a tooth-brush, a
manicure set. a little mirror, in fact,
nearly every feminine appliance, on a
diminutive scale, has its place.
The secret marks on Bank of Eng-
land notes hy which forgeries are so
rapidly detected are constantly being
i hanged The microecupe will reveal
J many such peculiAalllra to iu observ-
, wit e>s.
Impure Blood
have found Rood's Sarsaparllla an ex-
cellent medicine My little Rirl was afflicted
with eczema for seven years and took many
kinds of medicine without relief. After taking
a few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla sb* was
cured." Mas. Emma Fuankmn, Honeoye,
New York. Oct only Hood's because
HOOd'S SpariH*a
Is the Best-In fact tha Ono True Blood Purifier.
■ ■ i, n* * i are the best sftsr-dinner
MOOtl S PlllS uills. aid digestion. 25c.
Wh.^
opened that
* bettle'of
HIRES
Root beer?
The popping of a
cork from a bottle of
Hires is a signal of
good health and plea-
sure. A sound the
old folks like to hear
—the children can't »
resist it.
HIRES
Rootbeer
la rompospd of the i
very Ingredient* tho 1
system requires. Aiding
the digestfon,.snot inig
i tho norves, purifying
1 the blood. /. temper-
! siice drink fur temper*
atice people.
I lla<l>> onlr bT
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A ranli> • ' <
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Of WraltneM In Men They Trent and
l ull to < ure.
An Omnba Company places for the first
time before the public A Mao u raiat*
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I'hosphoroiiRor other harmful drugs It id
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