The Foraker Tribune. (Foraker, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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SERIAL
STORY
s
Agatha =y
By
EDITH
HUNTINGTON
MASON
Author ol
'The Real Agatha"
CoyyriirUr imo, by W. 0. n.ai.maj
Ouy/rljlit tu Ureal Britain.
SYNOPSIS.
Archibald Terhune, a popular and In-
dolent young bachelor of London, re-
ceives news that he has been made heir
to the estate of his Aunt Geortfana. with
an ln.-ome of $20,000 a year, on condition
that he becomes engaged to be married
within ten days. Fall'ng to do so the
legacy will go to a third cousin In Amer-
ica. The story opens at Castle Wyckoff,
where I.ord Vincent and his wife, friends
of Terhune. nre dlscusslnsf plans to find
him a wife within the prescribed time. It
leems that Lady Vincent Is one of seven
persons named Agatha, all close girlhood
chums. She decides to Invite two of them
to the castle and have Archie there as
one of the guests. Agatha Sixth strikes
A-chle as a handpalnted beauty. Agatha
' irst Is a breezy American girl. Lady
Vincent tells her husband that Agatha
filnth already cares for Archie. He gains
from Agatha Sixth the admission that
she cares for him, but will require a
month's time fully to make up her mind
Agatha Flr.-tt. nesrlected hv Terhune. re-
ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. Four
days of the precious time have passed
when Terhune Is called to London on
business. Agatha First, on the plea of
*lckness. excuses herself from a motor
irlp planned by the Vincents.
CHAPTER V.—Continued.
"Why, that's too bad!" said my
wife sincerely, though somewhat sur-
prlsedly, "I'm awfully 6orry, dear
child, and we shall miss you, of
course. But you mustn't think of
going if your head ache3. Go up-
ftaira and He down a while, why
don't you, and I'll have some tea
sent up to you. It's awfully good
for headache." And she spoke to
the footman who waited at the door
of the autoirobi'e.
"T will, thanks. Sorry to miss the
trip." replied the girl. "You're an
angel, Agatha!" And with another
farewell word or two we left her and
bad started on our way to Northbury.
And now comes the very strangest
part of this rather strange or at least
tinu8tial attempt to make a match and
win a fortune for a friend at one and
the same time on the part of Dearest
and myself. By Jove, It certainly
did give me a start when I discovered
—but this was the way it happened
—not to get ahead of my story.
We had made a pretty quick run
to Northbury and had been
ipectators at an exhibition of some
rather fast cricket which I had been
pretty keen about. The two teams
bad played even until the second half,
when Corcoran who was guarding the
wicket for the Lowshires—but 1 don't
suppose the details of the game are
of very general interest, after all.
Odd thing, but I've never been ab'e
to make Dearest understand It at
•11—I gave up trying years ago. It's
the only thing in the world we aren't
equally enthusiastic about. She won't
admit it. but sometimes I'm afraid it's
because she prefers the American
game of baseball! Fancy! But of
course If she does it's all the fault
of that American stepfather of hers
for bringing her up in the States. But
then, naturally, he couldn't help
being an American—I try to remem-
ber that!
As I was saying, however, we had
and T looked nt Pederson, the chauf-
feur, In dismay.
"What's to be done," I asked, Irit
received no help from that quarter,
only a dismal shake of the head.
Nevertheless assistance I did re-
ceive, though rather unexpectedly.
The accident had occurred, as I have
said. In the middle of the woods Just
where two roads crossed, and stand-
ing nt the entrance to one of these
roads I now observed a small boy, a
little freckle-faced village lad. who
stared at us as ir he'd never seen an
automobile before, and they're surely
common enough!
But It appoared that he had, Tor
when Freer remarked uselessly and
obviously for the third time, "What
beastly luck to have forgotten the
Jack. Now if only it had happened
out on the main road instead of In
this short-cut, we would have stood
a chance of borrowing one from an-
other car!" the little chap who was
standing by, came forward and in-
formed us in a shrill childish pipe
that If It was another machine we
wanted he'd seen a "big feller" come
through that same wood not a min-
ute ago and It had stopped not far
away. And he pointed a grimy thumb
over his shculder toward the road
that led to our left.
"O, they stopped, did they?" I asked,
and thought to myself with some sat-
isfaction that they were in trouble,
too. The misery that so often at-
tends an aulotnobilist Is especially
fond of company.
"Wonder If tbey'd lend us a Jack?"
I remarked aloud. "What kind of a
machine was it, kid?"
"A wboppin' big feller, red, like
your lordship's." said the boy. Of
comet* he Knew me. even If I aiou i
know him. He was probably the
butcher's or baker's boy from Wye
on his way back from the castle.
"Sounds rather promising," Baid
Dearest "Do go and see if they
can't help us out. I don't want
Agatha Lawrence to walk all that
way home In this mud!"
"Very well," I said, "but It sound3
as If they were in need of assistance
tlon for a cttap to bf»~ caug!;t In,
eavesdropping, and If they had soon
me they would never have believed
1 bad not been spying on them.
"Did you get a Jack?" Inquired
Freer as I came up. He could sea
perfectly well that I was empty-
handed.
"No," 1 said shortly, too absorbed
In conjecturing the meaning of the
strange discovery 1 had Just stum-
bled upon to Invent any excuse for
the failure of my errand
"We'll Just have to walk home," I
said. "Pederson can wait with the
car and I'll send him help from the
castle."
And all the way home I pondered
upon my queer adventure. What
could Agatha First be doing In a
strange automobile In the middle of
the woods when she was supposed to
be 111 at home, and who was the man
who was with her, the owner of the
checked coat? That was the most
mysterious part of the whole business
to me. and though I racked by brain
I could not possibly think who he
might be!
s mm
hJm
£3 ej
Agatha First Rose In the Machine.
themselves! Why else should they
want to stop in the middle of the
woods? However. I'll make the at-
tempt. Freer, you stay by the la-
dies. and I'll go and see what I can
do!" And Just stopping to give the
little boy a shilling or two for his
information. I strode down the wood
road In the direction he had pointed
out
I hadn't gone far and was Just
wondering again what in the world
would possess any one to push down
so narrow a road In a big machine,
when the machine In question came
in sight. It was a big touring car,
red like mine, to be sure, but an en
tirely different make, and I stopped
and stared at it in an overwhelming
surprise. But not for any reason in
connection with the automobile itself.
It was the girl who was Its sole pas-
senger that he'd my attention and
caused ray surprise. Sitting in the
front seat, a light pongee -oat about
her, with an air of expectancy, as if
she awaited the coming of some one
not far ofT. sat Agatha First. Yes.
•eon the match played to the end In the very same. As cheerful and as
•rite of the languid Interest dis- j much herself as If she had not plead-
piayed by the feminine members of ed a headache as an excuse for not
our party, and had lunched at the | automobiling with us that morning.
Northbury inn, a Jo'ly little den of
• place, and at about half after two
were speeding towards home again.
The roads were fairly decent,
though Liere had been a good deal
of rain lately, and the machine had
been running along so smoothly that
It did my heart good to see her We
had left the main road when we had
passed Wye village, for one that led
more directly to the castle, and had
•lo'ved down as the road turned out
to be rougher than I thought when
the worst happened. I was driving
myself, and in steering to clear a
Jutting tree I ran the big car straight
Into the dickens of a rut and our hind
wheel went It) to stay. 1 killed the
engine at once and Jumped out to
»ee what was to be done, disgusted
enough. I can tell you. though of
ronrpe 1 couldn't possibly have known
the thing was so deep, for It was half
filled with water. This short cut Is
■ favorite one of mine, though my
chauffeurs have often warned me
against taking a big < ar through the
woods that cover Wyckoff rise at this
point The trees are so thick and
the road no narrow.
The worst of the business now, as
T soon found out, was that there was
no Jack to be found In the car's kit
of tools with which to raise her. and
I remembered with chagrin that I
bad taken It out myself in hunting
for something else and had left It In
ttie garage Even tfce satisfaction of
Warning some one else was denied me
1 stood stock still in tho road as
my unwilling eyes took in this araaz
lng sight, and it was a full minute
before my routed wits apprehended
the significance of a man's checked
automobile coat that hung over the
back of the seat beside her. Evi-
dently she was with some one, which
somehow seemed less extraodinary
at the moment than that she should
be alone. Her escort though not
visible was apparently not far dis-
tant. for even as 1 stared. Agatha
First rose in the machine displaying
a huge bunch of wild flowers in her
hands as she did so. and hallooed to
him. "Don't pick any more!" she
called. "I don't want any more flow-
ers. I want you'" A laugh quite near at
hand sounded for a response and I hur-
riedly etarted back down the road.
I wanted awfully to see who the man
that belonged to the checked coat
was. but I wanted still more to ex
cape being seen either by him or by
my eccentric guest. Miss Endicott.
The' possibility that 1 might fall In
with th<* former returning from his
Iltt'e ramble, flowers In hand, almost
made me run and the fear that In
looking for him. the latter was al-
ready on the point of discovering my
retreating form, i a used me to stick
close to the roadside and the shelter
of the trees like any thief or tres-
passer. And. by Jove! I oldn t
breathe freely till I'd sighted my own
machine standing In the sunlight at
the crow-roads. It's a nasty posi
PART TWO.
CHAPTER VI.
It wasn't until later that same aft-
ernoon of our Northbury trip, when
Lady Vincent and I had ascended to
our roems to dress for dinner, that
I found a chance to tell her the news.
I can always be sure of an uninter-
rupted chat with her then.
"And so you saw her sitting in the
automobile alone in the middle of the
woods?" asked Dearest, when I had
finished my breathless recital.
"Yes, that 13 as far as 1 could see,
she was alone." I replied. "But you
forget the man's laugh and the
checked coat. There was a man with
her right enough, and though I didn't
think so at the time, I think now that
makes the thing much more mysteri
ous."
"Of course there was a man with
her," remarked Dearest. "It was a
lover's tryst, as plain as plain can
be!" Dearest Is so romantic. But
then at the same time I'll have to
admit she's nearly always right.
"But who under high heaven
could it have been?" I cried, never
more puzzled in my life.
"We know It wasn't Freer; he was
with us all the time, and Terhune has
been in London all day!"
"He said he was going to be In
London," remarked my wife with the
slightest possible emphasis on the
"said." I gaped at her a moment,
then seized her shoulder.
"Do you mean to say it was Archi-
bald?" I cried, "who was the owner
of the checked coat?"
"I didn't say," she replied, "only
it does look a little like it, doesn't it?
You see he couldn't go to the cricket
with us because he had to go up to
London, and she, because she had a
headache. Voila tout!"
"But we saw the wire," 1 objected.
"Oh, as to that!" she said, " a tele
gram's easily enough cooked up! He
had only to write one himself and tell
the station-master to send It over
We none of us examined It closely.
It's an old dodge, you know."
"So It is!" I cried, "and you're
right. It must have been old Ter
I hune! What a dunderhead I've been
not to see it before! But I say," I
I added, less exuberantly as a thought
struck me. "if that's the case, what
does he mean by it. Dearest? What
do they both mean by it, he and she?
And what does it portend in regard
to the match we're trying to make be
tween Arch and Miss Lawrence? An-
swer any of those questions if you
can! Wiseacre that you are, I be
lieve you'll have to let me count ten
on that!"
, "I'm afraid I will," she admitted, as
puzzled as I was. "You see I never
knew Agatha Endicott as well as I
did the other five Agathas—as well
as I do Agatha Sixth, and then you
know Agatha Sixth has visited me
before, and this is the first time I've
seen Agatha First since we parted
on the occasion of mv marriage."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Burlesque Wedding Guests.
Poulbot, a Paris caricaturist, having
determined upon so commonplace a
step cs getting married, decided that
he would be married In no common-
place way. He asked all his friends
to the wedding, but there was a sine
qua non condition attached to the in
vestigation. You had to go with a
"made-up head." or you would not be
admitted. Preferably you were re
qtipsted to make up as a country
cousin at a village wedding. Some
guests arrived as ancient peasants,
others as village Idiots. There were
several blufT squires and rural Hderly
gentlemen with means, a number ol
retired officers and exuberant uncles
from the south, besides fierce military
gentlemen from the hottest stations
of Algeria. The only persons who
wore their natural physiognomies were
the couple most conceme 1 They had
drawn the line at making up them-
selves as a burlesque bride and s
comic bridegroom.
Caught!
"Do you remember me buying a hair
mattress from you the other day?"
asked the lady.
"Perfcctiy well, ma'am," was the re-
ply of the dealer.
"Well, I've discovered that onlj
about one-quarter of the filling Is hair."
"Then you certainly do seem to have
me where the hair is short ma'am."
A Few.
You will fin 1 all sorts of people In
the world. Including a few who pre-
>end to like mineral water.—Atchison
Globe.
DEMOCRACY OPTIMISTIC.
rWHTK HOUSE
roFo 0
\ IOWA [4 ~ __
X/Jr a. / x'
"A..
A >v/u<u
Dem.—I'll have enough to fill both coops.
I'ncle Sam—H'm, I wouldn't count your chickens before they're hatched.
T. E RE4L QUESTION
OVERSHADOWING ISSUE OF THE
CAMPAIGN.
The resources with which any coja
try Is to maintain IU Industrial and
commercial supremacy ax*, put stun
It. brains."
Effect of Democratic Victory at the
Polls Is Here Made Plain—Some-
thing for Republican Voters
to Ponder Over.
The arrogance of Dempcratic lead-
ers in not only assuming that they
will control the next house of repre-
j sentatives, but in declaring that they
j will pass a tariff-for-revenue-only bill
I makes this' an issue that oversl^adows
every other question of the campaign.
Whatever difference of opinion there
may be concerning the present tari£f
there can be none from a Republican
standpoint — a united Republican
I standpoint—regarding a tariff-for-rev-
| enue-on y—which means free trade, or
I worse than free trade.
i We must have government reven-
ues annually amounting to over
OOJ.OOU, naif of which must come from
customs duties—in other words we
| must so adjust our tariff as to bring
us $35,000,030 from duties on imports.
We can do as Great Britain does, tax
tea and coffee and other necessaries
which we do not produce, or we can
lower the duties on competing prod-
ucts so low that immense importations
! will be necessary to produce the de-
sired revenue.
Suppose the average duty were put
at 10 per cent. That means, to raise
the necessary 1350,000,000 revenue,
importations amounting in value to $3,-
500,000,000 and that does not include
imports free of duty and with a large-
ly increased free list such as is prom-
ised or threatened by Champ Clark |
& Co., we may well put the estimate
of imports at $5,000,000,000, a large
portion of which will replace or drive
out American production. And fur- j
ther bear in mind that 90 per cent. !
of this represents labor.
One-third to one-half or our work-1
ing men are thrown entirely out of;
work at once, and the wages of those
remaining at work must be most sub-
stantially reduced. That loss of pur1
chasing power hits the farmer who !
realizes no profits on his year's work,
and he stops buying all luxuries and
many necessaries. Then the railroads
are affected, and men must be laid off
and wages reduced. Then follows the j
closing of jobbing houses, the failure
of merchants and ruin and want in
many homes. We thus pay the price
—an awful price—for an experience
that might have been avoided.
But the closing of factories and the
reduction of wages is not all that fol-
lows buying abroad what we can make
at home. These goods must be paid
for, and in gold. Before we buy a dol-
lar's worth we owe J300,000,000 or
$400,000,000 abroad for our freight
bills, interest and dividends on foreign
investments and tourists' exchange
An adverse balance of trade then
means a drainage of gold, means a
scarcity of money, means the closing
of banks and the bankruptcy of cor-
porations. firms and individuals. It
means 1837, 1857, 1873 and 1893 and
worse.
But after a few months, when our
foreign competitors have gained our
markets and closed our mills, prices
will quickly go up, we shall be at the
mercy of the foreigner. We will not
buy so much, lor suddenly we will
have becomes a poor, incomeless peo-
ple, paying the price of folly, so far
Pinning Opponents to Facts.
Mr. Taft's statesmanlike practicali-
ty has extended itself In his positive
demand, oft repeated, for a bill of
iwrticulars regarding the evils which
they claimed afflicted the country
and the remedies they proposed as
means of eradicating them. From
first tc last be has stuck to his text,
which may be defined In homely,
everyday English as "Tell us what is
the matter and what you purpose
doing about It"—Kansas City Jour-
nal.
as we have anything with which to
pay. This is no economic doctrine, it
is practical result. We have tried it
we have had the real genuine expe-
rience, not once, but several times.
Are we going to try it again? The
election on November 8 will tell the
tale. A Democratic house of re?«re-
sentatives will be the first step, as it
was in 1890. Then if we repeat, the
result of 1892 in 1912 we may loo*
lor worse financial and industrial con-
ditions than we have ever known.
On the other hand the election of a
Republican house of representatives
next month means two years more at
least of sound stable business condi-
tions. It means confidence and will-
ingness to invest. It means work and
good w^ges for all. If it is found that
any item or schedule of the tariff is
operating to the injury of any indus-
try or section then it wili be changed
by protectionists and friends of an ad-
equate tariff instead of those who
threaten to close every custom house
in the land.
Democrats Without Standing.
Neither in Maine nor anywhere
else has there been anything like a
definite 'statement of what the Demo-
cratic party stands for. No one has
the slightest idea of what is the or-
thodox Democratic attitude toward
even the tariff question. As to the
regulation of interstate corporations,
the Democrats of both senate and
house have found fault with the Re-
publicans because they didn't go far
enough or fast enough. Champ Clark,
of Missouri, marked for the speaker
ship if the Democrats control the
house, is an old Bryanite and alto-
gether out of sympathy with the
Cleveland elements in his party. His
chief political Occupation is to rage
against the money powers, and he
fills his speeches with denunciation
of the "special interests." But this,
of course, may be only heat light-
ning. No one knows, and consequent
ly no one can tell.
Getting Down to the Facts.
"Our Democratic friends are saying
that if the Democratic party comes
into power it would reduce the ex-
pense of this government $300,000,-
000," says the president. "Do they
mean that the Democrats would aboL
ish the pension list? Do they mean
that they would give up the navy and
disband the army? Do they mean that
they would abandon Porto Rico and
the Philippines? Let us have a little
specification. What are such state-
ments worth unless the details of the
expenditures that they criticise and
expect to avoid if they are let into
power and become themselves the
rational government?"
In the Same Old Plight.
Another of those coincidences which
so frequently bedevil Democrats is
seen in the fact that on the same day
Senator Owen of Oklahoma was say-
ing that the Democratic party must
get rid of bossism and stand for the
people's rule. Boss Murphy and Boss
Sullivan were tightening their cinches
on the New York and Illinois De-
mocracy.
It is. as former President Roose-
velt says, a record of achievement for
which the Republican party a6ks ap-
proval this year It is a record of
promises fulfilled, of good thing3
done.
Must Look to Republicans.
The best argument for the Repub-
lican cause in the coming campaign
will' be the contrast between Repub-
lican deeds and the utter improba-
bility that the Democrats would ac-
complish anything if they were given
control of the lower house of con-
gress. Stagnation In pabllc business
would be ti e natural result. The real
promise of progress is in the Repub-
lican party- a fact as clear to Th*»o- !
dore Roosev> It as it Is to William 11
Taft—Cleveland Leader.
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Vegetable Com-
pound and did just
as you told me and
now I am perfectly
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Mrs. Axna Anderson, Box 19, Blaok
Duck, Minn.
Consider This Advice.
No woman should submit to a snrgL
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until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's
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This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
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It cures female ills, and creates radi-
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Mrs. Pinkliara, at Lynn, Mass.,
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Nine tima in ten when the liter ii right tW
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WHAT HE CONSIDERED FAIR
Mr. Olsen's Offer Must Have Come A®
Surprise Even to Persuasive
Claim Agent.
Up In Minnesota Mr. Olsen had a
cow killed by a railroad train. Ia
due season the claim agent for the
railroad called.
"We understand, of course, that the
deceased was a very docile and valu-
able animal," said the claim agent la
his most persuasive clalm-agentlemaa-
ly manner, "and we sympathize with
you and your family In your loss. But.
Mr Olsen, you must remember thlx
Your cow had no business being upon
our tracks. Those tracks are our pri-
vate property and when she invaded
them she became a trespasser. Tech-
nically speaking, you, as her owner,
became a trespasser also. But we
have no desire to carry the Issue into
court, and possibly 'give you trouble.
Now, then what would you regard aa
a fair settlement between you and the
railroad company?"
"Vail." said Mr. Olsen slowly, "Ay
baen poor Swede farmer, but Aye shall
give you two dollars."—Everybody's.
A business firm advertises a shirt
without buttons. That's no novelty.
Many a bachelor has worn them for
years.
When the patient man la onee
aroused he makes up for lost time.
When It's
"What for
Breakfast?"
Try
Post
Toasties
Serve with cream or
milk and every member
of the family will say "rip-
ping" good. And don't
be surprised if they want
a second helping.
"The Memory Lingers**
roerom Cereal Company, Ut,
BatUe Creek. Mica.
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