Fairview Republican. (Fairview, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1905 Page: 3 of 12
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"Meaning you didn’t?" ukM AIM-
MdN.
"I never robbed a Mill In ail my
days." -cried John; "except my father,
tt you (call .that robbery; and I brought
him back the money In this room, and
he wouldn't even take it!”
"Look here, John,” said hie brother
"let us hawe no misunderstanding ui*
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1865-1905.
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On Memorial
Day
By SIDNEY DAYRC
How It began was never fully under-
stood, but it was well known that Rob
Wells and Will Barnes were not good
friends as formerly. There had been
some trouble In the arithmetic class.
Rob believed that Will had overlooked
some of his figuring and in the advan-
tage gained by this was able to stand
better than he otherwise would have
done. This was a mistake, but Will was
too proud to say so. The breach once
made kept widening, until one boy was
ready to believe almost anything of the
other.
The two lived on the outskirts of a
lively town, but their homes differed
widely. Rob’s was set in the middle of
a yard adorned with grass and trees. At
ffymg It seemed shut out of his life. He
lived in one of a row of small houses,
straight, bare and unhomelike. He had
tried to raise grass In thgrstrlp of ground
before the door, and had planted seed
in the morsel of a back yard. He had
brought a wild vine from the woods and
tried to train it against the front of the
house. But back and front yards were
undivided from the others, and the dain-
ty shoots for which he eagerly watched
were soon trampled down by careless
footsteps, while the vine one day wilted,
and on examination was found broken
off near the toot. - ■*
The schoolboys entered- heart and
soul into the celebration of Memorial
day. Proud was he who had a grand-
father who had borne his part in the na-
tional struggle—next to Hlta those who
could boast of uncles and cousins to a
remote degree Those who could ring in
no ties of blood joined In a spirit of gen-
eral patriotism. .
“I declare, Rob,” said one of his
friends on the day oefore, “your flowers
look as If they knew what they wer^be-
MOW."
tng raised for.”
one side was a small pnrdon-wW-*- —win, father was always averse
snows) a pitiful story; but Flora hsard
nt with compressed lipa She was lost
iln none of those questionings of human
destiny that have, from time to time,
arrested the flight of my own pen; for
women, such as she, are no philoso-
phers, and behold the concrete only.
And women, such as she, are very hard
on the Imperfect man.
“Very well,” she said, when he had
done; ‘‘then down upon your knees at
once, and beg God’s forgiveness.”
And the great baby plumped upon
his knees, and did as he was bid; and
none the worse for that! But while he
was heartily enough requesting for-
giveness on general principles, the ra-
tional side of him distinguished, and
wondered if, perhape, the apology were
not due upon the other part. And
when he rose again from that becom-
ing exercise, he first eyed the face of
his old love doubtfully, and then, tak-
ing heart, uttered his protest,
"I must say. Flora,” said he, “In all
this business, I can see very little fault
of mine."
“If you had written home,” replied
the lady, “there would have been none
of It. If you had even gone to Mur-
rayfleld rearonably sober, you would
never have slept there, and the worst
■would not have happened. Besides,
the whole thing began years ago. You
got Into trouble, and when your father,
honest man, was disappointed, you
took the pet, or got afraid, and ran
away from punishment. Well, you’ve
had your own way of It, John, and I
don’t suppose you like It.”
“I sometimes fancy I’m not much
better than a fool,” sighed John.
"My dear John," said she, “not
much.”
He looked at her, and his eye fell.
A certain nngv? rose within him; here
them,” sighed John. And the conver-
sation then broke down, and the broth-
ers looked askance at one another in
silence.
"Well, and what the devil are we to
do? said Alexander. “I suppose if the
authorities got wind of you, you would
be taken up?”
“It depends on whether they’ve found
the body or not,” returned John. “And
then thereV that cabman, to be sure!”
“Oh, bother the body!” said Alexan-
der. "I mean about the other thing.
That’s serious.”
“Is that what my father
about?” Asked John. “I don’t
know what. Jt Is.”
“About your robbing your bank In
California, of course," replied Alexan-
der.
It was plain, from Flora's face, that
this was the first she had heard of it;
it was plainer still, from John’s, that
lie was Innocent.
"1!” he exclaimed. “I rob my bank!
My God! Flora, this Is too much; even
’•on must allow that.”
spoke
even
Where was he to put them? Tho eve-
ning was chilly, but Inside the '\
house It was close and hot. Very
he knew that the tender bloom would
wilt in the uncongenial atmosphere.
There was no place outside where he
could be sure that they would be safe,
) but with many misgivings he at last hid
them under the steps of a back porch,
resolving to be up early to guard against
marauders.
Meantime Rob Wells, with the other
members of his family, reached home an
hour or two later, to be met by the
kitchen maid with dire news.
"Yes garden’s about ruined,” she
said. “I heard a noise, but before I
could get there the meddlin’ thief was
off. I’ve took a light out to see and It's
—ob, my! He might ’a’ been satisfied
with thievin’ without tramplin' things
down so.”
“Who was it?” cried Bob in wrath.
“Couldn’t you see anybody?”
“Well, I wouldn’t like to be put on my
oath to aay it, but if ever a boy that I
just caught the sight of ruunln’ through
the alley gate looked like one boy more
than another that boy would be Will
Barnes."
“Just like him. He’s always looking
enviously at my flowers. And now-
just before Memorial day—”
“I smoothed things up a little," added
Jane, as, choking with anger and with
tears which he could not repress, Rob
hurried out and bent over his dearly-
loved flowers, breathing out wrath and
threatening at the destroyer.
“I’ll go to him the first thing In the
morning. I’ll tax him with it. I’ll make
him own up, and then we’ll see who's the
best fellow.”
Jane, full of indignant sympathy,
told the milk boy and the grocer's boy,
so that by the time Rob was on hie way
in the morning to call Will to account
half the boys In town had heard that
Will Barnes, possessed by a spirit of
spite and envy, had spoiled Rob Wells’
garden.
Meanwhile Will, having after his long
wood stroll overslept himself, had come
down In haste to look after hlB flowers,
only to find that more alert eyes had dis-
covered them. All the children In the
row were quarreling over the wonderful
And under the porch. Aa with a sinking
heart he was turning away he came sud-
denly face to face with Rob Wells. The
latter felt himself full of words with
which to overwhelm his foe, but he now
stood for a moment for pure lack of any-
thing strong enough. And at sight of
him Will suddently forgot his own trou-
ble In recalling Rob's somewhat similar
one.
Oh,” be began, with a look of frank
sympathy, "how Is It about your garden,
anyway? If I had only got there a few
minutes earlier I might have had that
old cow out before she had done mucil
mischief. It was a little toq dark for m-e
to see,” he went on, as Robstared tnt,
hi,. »___ ■— — ...mv, vujected
flora.
“You have a very imperfect Idea of
my resources, and none at all of my
effrontery,” replied Alexander. “Please
observe.”
He put John from his way, chose a
stout knife among the supper things,
and with surprising quickness broke
into his father's drawer.
“There's nothing easier when you
come to try,” he observed, pocketing
the money.
“I wish you had not done that,” said
Flora. “You will never hear the last -
of it.”
“Oh, I don't know,” returned the
young man; "the governor la human
after all. And now, John, 1st me see
your famous pass-key. Get Into bed,
and don’t move for any one till I come
back. They won’t mind you not an-
swering when they knock; I generally
don’t myself.
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ROOSTS AND NEST BOXES.
Ap Excellent Arrangement Which
Will Provide Comfort and Safety
for the Hens.
A poultry exchange gives the follow-
ing excellent plan for roosts and nest
boxes;
“One of the most Important arrange-
ments in the poultry house is the proper
location of both roosts and nest boxes
and the plan here described has been
found all that is desirable. Its advan-
tages are the placing of the roosts low,
the chance for a dropping board under
ROOST AND NEST BOXES COMBINED.
the roosts and the location of the nest
boxes where it 1b 'quiet and dark, a con-
dition quite pleasing to laying hens.
“Make a frame of the desired length
and of a width so that the nest box
will be 12 Inches in the space occupied
by the hen. The side boards are 18
inches high at the back and when cov-
ered with matched boards, which form
the dropping board, it comes even with
the floor in front. Then fasten posts
at either end of the front on which the
frame composing the perches is to rest,
fastening this frame to the box frame,
which brings the perches level. The
one open side of the board frame is then
partitioned off to form the nests, which
are about a foot square in the clear.
This plan forms a neat, compact, com-
bined roost and nest boxes and as it is
placed away from the wall there is little
opportunity for vermin to infest it. fhe
illustration shows the details plainly,
the drawing at the top labeled two in-
dicating the nest boxes, which are shown
in the mam
IECMH
Is the title of a serial, the
opening chapters of which
will appear in the columns
of this paper very shortly.
JULES VERNE
is the author, and his name
will need no introduction.
The story is illustrated
and copyrighted.
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NEW
BLACKSMITH
SHOP.....
Come to the new Blacksmith shop
on East side of Main street for any
kind of work in our line.
We are the only smiths in town
using the new “Fairfaix” method
of brazing, recently discovered in
Belgium. Any casting, hard soft,
Tom a pump handle to the bull-
wheel of a horse power made as
good as new.
Bring us that broken wind-
mill head. “We’ll mend it.”
Baker Brothers.
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i drawing by dotted lines."
ECG-EATING HENS.
How to Oiieo7«r Them and What to
Do When They Are Detected
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XII.
N spite of the hor-
rors of the day and
the tea-drinking of
the night, John
slept tl sleep ol
infancy. He was
awakened by the
maid, as It might
have been ten
years ago, tapping
at the door. The
winter sunrise was
painting the east; and as the window
was to the back of the house, It shone
into the room with many strange col-
ors of refracted light. Without, the
houses were all cleanly roofed with
snow; the garden walls were coped
with it a foot In height; the greens lay
glittering. Yet strange as snow had
grown to John during his years upon
the Bay of San Francisco, it was what
he waw sNthle that moat affootad him.
For it was to his own room Hint Ale> •
ander had .been promoted: there v i
the old paper with the device of flow
era, in which a cunning fancy mlo-h'
yet detect the face of Skinny Jim, of
the Academy, John’s former dominie!
there was the old chest of drawers',
there were the chairs—one, two, thren
—three as before. Only the carpet was
new, and the litter of Alexander'*
clothes and books and drawing mate-
rials, and a pencil-drawing on the
wall, which (In John’s eyes) appeared
a marvel of proficiency.
He was thus lying and looking, and
dreaming, hanging as It were, betwee-o
two epochs of his life, when Alexander
came to the door, and made his pres-
ence known in a loud whisper. John
let him in, and jumped back Into the
warm bed.
"Well, John,” said Alexander, "the
cablegram is sent In your name, and
twenty words of answer paid. I have
been to the cab oflice nnd paid your
cab, even saw the old gentleman him-
self, and properly apologized. Ho was
eighty placable, and Indicated his be-
lief you had been drinking. Then I
knocked up old Mscewen out of bed.
end explained affairs to- him as he eat
and shivered in a dressing-gown. And
before tbAt I k«d been te the High
street, where they have heard nothin.;
of your dead body, so that I incline to
the Idea that you dreamed It.”
“Catch me!” said John.
“Well, the police never do know
anything,” assented Alexander; “and
at any rate, they have dispatched a
man to Inquire and to recover your
trousers and your money, so that really
your bill is now fairly clean; and I see
but one lion In your path—the gov-
ernor ”
■‘I’ll be turned out again, you’ll see,”
tald John, dismally.
“I don’t Imagine so,” returned the
other; “not If you do what Flora and
I have arranged; and your business
now is to dress, and lose no time about
It. Is your watch right? Well, you
have a quarter of an hour. By five
minutes before the half hour you must
be at table, in your old seat, under
Uncle Dut.hle’s picture. Flora will be
there to keep you countenance; and
we shall see what we shall see.’’
"Wouldn’t it be wiser for me to stay
In bed?” said John.
"If you mean to manage your own
concerns, you can do precisely what
you like,” replied Alexander; but if
you are not in your place five minutes
before the half heur I wash my hands
of you, for one."
ft ba continued.)
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