The Supply Republican (Supply, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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THE REPUBLICAN, SUPPLY, OKLAHOMA
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Cop/right by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
BUILDING
“DO NOT DESERT ME!”
Synopsis.—Thomas K. Barnes,
n wealthy young New Yorker,
on n walking trip In New Eng-
land near the Canadian border,
Is given a lift In an automobile
by a mysterious and attractive
girl bound for n house called
Green Fancy. At Hart's tavern
Karnes finds n stranded troupe
of "barn-storming” actors, of
which Lyndon Itushcroft Is the
star and "Miss Thackeray” the
leading lady. They are doing
hotel work for their board. He
learns Green Fancy is a house
of mystery. That night two
mounted men leave the tavern
under odd druutnstunces. One
Is brought back dying. Barnes
comes under suspicion, lie stays
to help clear up the mystery.
O’Dowd of Green Fancy says
that that place of mystery is not
concerned in any way. Barnes
gets Into the Green Fancy
grounds und sees the mysterious
girl. She gives him the cut di-
rect and O'Dowd politely ejects
him from the grounds. Enter
another man of mystery, Mr.
Sprouse, "hook agent.”
CHAPTER VIII—Continued.
“From what I hear the man Paul
was shot through the lungs, directly
from In front. The bullet went
straight through his body. lie was
riding very rapidly down the road.
When he came to a point not far
above the crossroads be was fired
upon. It Is safe to assume thnt he
was looking Intently ahead, trying to
make out the crossing, lie was not
shot from the side of the road, gen-
tlemen, but from the middle of it. The
bullet caine from a point almost di-
rectly In front of him, and not from
Mr. Curtis’ property here to the left
or Mr. Conley’s on the right. The
chances are that Paul did uot accom-
pany Itoon to the meeting place up
the road. lie remained near the horses.
That’s how he mannged to get away so
quickly. It remained for the nmn at
the crossronds to settle with hint. But
we’re wasting time with all this
twaddle of mine. Let us he moving.
There is one point on which we must
nil agree. The deadliest marksman 'n
the world fired those shots. No bun-
gling on thnt score, bedad.”
In the course of time the party, trav-
ersing the ground contiguous to the
public road, came within sight of the
green dwelling among the trees.
Barnes’ Interest revived. Ills second
view of the house Increased his won-
der and admiration. If O’Down had
not actually located It among the trees
for him he would have been nt a loss
to discover It, although It was Imme-
diately In front of him and In direct
line of vision.
Pe Soto was seen npproachlng
through the green sen, his head ap-
pearing and disappearing Intermit-
tently in the billows formed by the
undulating underbrush. He shook
hands with Rarnes a moment inter.
“I'm glad you had the sense to
bring Mr. Barnes with you, O'Dowd."
said he. "Y’ou didn’t mention him
when you telephoned thnt you were
personally conducting a sightseeing
party. I tried to catch you afterward
on the telephone, hut you had left the
Tavern. Mrs. Collier wanted me to
ask you to capture Mr. Itarues for din-
ner tonight.”
"Mrs. Collier Is the sister of Mr.
Curtis,” explained O’Dowd. Then he
turned upon I>o Soto Incredulously.
“For the love of Pat,” he cried, “what’s
come over them? Why, I made so
bold as to suggest Inst night thnt you
were n chap worth cultivating, Barnes
—and that you wouldn’t l>e long In the
neighborhood—but to save your feel-
ings I’ll not repeat what they snld, the
two of them. What changed them
over, De Soto?”
"A chance remark of Miss Cameron's
at lunch today. She wondered If
Barnes could be the chap who wrote
the articles about Peru and the Incas,
or something of the sort, and thnt set
them to looking up the hack numbers
of the Geographic Magazine in Mr.
Curtis’ library. Not only did they find
the articles but they found your pic-
ture. I had no difficulty In deciding
that you were one and the same. The
atmosphere cleared In a Jiff#. It be-
came even clearer when It was discov-
ered that you have had a few ances
tors and nre received In good society—
both here and abroad, ns the late Fred-
eric Townsend Martin would have
snld. I hereby officially present the
result of subsequent deliberation. Mr.
Barnes is Invited to dine with us to-
night.”
Barnes' heart was still pounding
rapidly ns he made the rueful admis-
sion thnt he “didn't have a thing to
wear.” He couldn't think of accept-
ing the gracious Invitation—
“If they'll take me as I am,” began
Barnes, doubtfully.
“I say,” called out O’Dowd to the
sheriff, who was gazing longingly at
the horses tethered at the bottom of
the slope, "would ye mind lending
Mr. Barnes’ nag hack to the Tuvern?
He Is stopping to dinner. And, while
I think of It, nre you satisfied, Mr.
Sheriff, with the day’s work? If not
you will he welcome ngnln nt nny time
If ye'll only telephone a half minute
In advance." To Barnes he snld: "We’ll
send you down In the automobile to-
night, provided It has survived the
day. We’re expecting the poor thing
to die in its tracks at ulmost uny In-
stant."
Ten minutes later Barnes pnssed
through the portnls of Green Fancy.
CHAPTER IX.
The First Wayfarer, the Second Way-
farer and the Spirit of Chivalry
Ascendant.
The wide green door, set far bnck
In ii recess not unlike a kiosk, was
opened by n man servant who might
easily have been mistaken for a waiter
from Deimonlco’s or Sherry's.
"Sny to Mrs. Collier. Nicholas, thnt
Mr. Barnes Is here for dinner,” said
De Soto. “I will make the cocktnlls
this evening.”
Much to Barnes’ surprise—and dis-
appointment—the Interior of the house
failed to sustain the bewildering effect
produced by the exterior. The en-
trance hall and the living boom Into
which he was conducted by the two
men were singularly like others that
he had seen. The latter, for example,
was of ordinary dimensions, furnished
with a thought for comfort ruther than
elegnnee or even good taste. The
couches and chairs were low and deep
and comfortable, as If Intended for
men only, and they were covered with
rich, gny materials; the hangings nt
the windows were of deep blue and
gold; the walls an unobtrusive cream
color, almost literally thatched with
etchings.
The stairs were thickly carpeted. At
the top his guide turned to the left
and led the way down a long corridor.
They passed nt least four doors be-
fore O’Dowd stopped and threw open
the fifth on that side of the hall. There
were still two more doors beyond.
"Suggests a hotel, doesn't It?" snld
the Irishman, standing aside for
Barnes to enter. “All of the sleeping
apartments are on this floor, and the
baths and boudoirs and what not. The
garret Is above, and that’s where we
deposit our family skeletons, Intern
our grievances, store our stock of
spitefulnesa and hide all the little
devils that must come sneaking up
from the clty_ with us whether we will
or no. Dabson,” addressing the man
who had quietly entered the room
through the door behind them, “do Mr.
Barnes, will ye, and fetch e from
Mr. De Soto’s room when you’ve fin-
ished. I leave you to Dnhson's tender
mercies. The saints preserve us!
Look at the man's boots! Dabson,
get out your brush and dauber first of
all. He’s been floundering in a hog.”
Tile Jovial Irishman retired, leaving
Barnes to be “done" by the silent,
swift-moving valet. Dabson was young
and vigorous nnd exceedingly well
trained. He made short work of “do-
ing” the visitor; barely fifteen min-
utes elapsed before O’Dowd's return.
Presently they went downstairs to-
gether. Lamps had been lighted, many
of them, throughout the house. A fire
She Was There.
crackled In the cavernous fireplace nt
the end of the living room and grouped
about Its cheerful, grateful blaze were
the ladles of Green Fancy.
The girl of his thoughts was there,
standing slightly aloof from the oth-
ers. but evidently amused by the tale
with which De Roto was rtfaling
them. She was smiling; Barnes saw
the sapphire lights sparkling in her
eyes and experienced a sensation thnt
was wofuily akin to confusion.
But everything went off quite natu-
rally. He favored Miss Cameron with
an uncommonly self-possessed smile ns
she gave her hand to him, nnd she in
turn responded with one faintly sug-
gestive of tolerance, although It cer-
tainly would have been recorded by a
less sensitive person than Barnes as
“ripping."
In reply to his perfunctory "delight-
ed, I’m sure, etc.," she said quite clear-
ly : “Oh, now I remember. I was sure
I had seen you before, Mr. Barnes.
Y’ou nre the mngle gentleman who
sprang like a mushroom put of the
eurtii early yesterday afternoon."
“And frightened you." lie snld;
“whereupon you vanished like the
mushroom thnt Is gobbled up by tiie
predatory glutton."
He had thrilled nt the sound of her
voice. It was the low, deliberate voice
of the woman of the crossroads, nnd,
ns before, he entight the almost Im-
perceptible accent. The red gleutn
from the blazing logs fell upon her
shining hnlr; it glistened like gold.
She wore a simple evening gown of
white, softened over the shoulders and
neck with a fall of rare Valenciennes
lnce. There was no Jewelry—not even
a ring on her slender, tnperlng fingers.
Mrs. Collier, the hostess, was an el-
derly, heavy-featured woman, decid-
edly overdressed. Mrs. Y’an Dyke,
her dnughter, was a woman of thirty,
tall, dark and handsome In a hold,
dashing sort of way. The lackadaisi-
cal gentleinnn with the mustache
turned out to be her husband.
"My brother Is unable to be with
us tonight, Mr. Barnes." explained
Mrs. Collier. "Mr. O’Dowd may have
told you that he Is an invalid. Quite
rarely Is he well enough to leave his
room. He hns begged me to present
his apologies und regrets to you. An-
other time, perhaps, you will give him
the pleasure he Is missing tonight.”
De Soto’s cocktnlls came In. Miss
Cameron did not take one. O’Dowd
proposed a toast.
"To the rasculs who went gunning
for the other rascals. But for them
we should be short nt least one mem-
ber of this agreeable company."
It was rather stnrtling. Barnes’
glass stopped half way to his Bps. An
instant later he drulned It. He ac-
cepted the toast as a compliment from
the whilom Irishman, nnd not ns a
tribute to the prowess of those mys-
terious marksmen.
The table In the spacious dining
room was one of those long, narrow
Italian boards, unmlstaknbly antique
and equally rare. Sixteen or eighteen
people could have been seated with-
out crowding, and when the seven took
their places wide Intervals separated
them. No effort had been made hy the
hostess to bring her guests close to-
gether, ns might have been done by
using one end or the center of the
table. The serving plates were of sli-
ver. Especially beautiful were the
long-stemmed water gohlets and the
graceful champagne glasses. They
were blue and white and of a design
and quality no longer obtainable ex-
cept nt great cost. The esthetic
Burnes was not slow to appreciate the
rarity of the glassware ahd the chaste
beauty of the serving pintes.
The mnn Nicholas was evidently the
butler, despite his Severnh avenue
manner. He wns assisted In serving
by two stalwart nnd amazingly clumsy
footmen, of similar ilk and nationality.
On seeing these additional men serv-
ants Barnes began figuratively to
count on his fingers the retainers he
had so far encountered on the place.
Already he hud seen six. all of them
powerful, rugged fellows. It struck
him ns extraordinary, and In a way
significant, that there should be so
many men at Green Fancy.
Much to his disappointment he was
not placed near Miss Cameron nt
tnble. Indeed she was seated ns far
away from him ns possible. There was
a place set between him nnd De Soto,
for symmetry’s sake, Barnes con-
cluded. In tills lie was mistaken;
they had barely seated themselves
when Mrs. Collier remarked:
“Mr. Curtis’ secretary usually joins
us here for coffee. He has his dinner
with my brother, nnd then, poor man,
comes In for a brief period of relaxa-
tion. When nty brother Is In one of
ills had spells poor Mr. I.oeb doesn’t
have much time to himself."
Loeb, the private secretary, came in
for coffee. He was a tall, spare man
of thirty, pallidly handsome, with
dark, studious eyes nnd features of an
unmistakably Hebraic cast, ns his
name might have foretold. His teeth
were marvelously white nnd his slow
smile attractive. More than once dur-
ing the hour that Loeb spent with
them Barnes formed and dismissed a
stubliorn ever-recurring opinion thnt
the man was not n Jew. Certainly he
wns not an American Jew. His voice,
his manner of speech, his every action
stamped him as one born and bred In
a land far from Broadway and its
counterparts. If a Jew he was of the
east as It Is measured from Rome—
the Jew of the carnal Orient.
And as the evening wore on there
came to Barnes the singular fancy
thnt this man was the master and not
the servant of the house! He could
not put the ridiculous Idea out of his
mind.
Me wns to depart at ten. The hour
drew near nnd he had had no opportu-
nity for detached conversation with
Miss Cameron. He had listened to her
bright retorts to O’Dowd's sallies, and
marveled nt the ease nnd composure
with which she met the witty Irish-
man oil even terms
Net until the very close of the eve-
ning, and when he had resigned him-
self to hopelessness, did the opportu-
nity come for him to speak with her
alone. She caught his eye, and. to his
amazement, made a slight movement
of her head, unobserved by the others
but curiously Imperative to him. There
was no niistukiug the meaning of the
direct, intense look that she gave him.
She was appealing to him as a
friend—ns one on whom she could de-
pend !
The spirit of chivalry took posses-
sion of him. His blood leaped to the
call. She needed him nnd he would
ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS
Authority on Highway Construction
Likes Concrete, but Favors More
Care of Lanes.
“More attention has got to be paid
to the earth rouds If the coming bond
elections are to go over." This is the
opinion of E. L. Stevens, Inventor and
road expert. Mr. Stevens Is, perhaps,
one of the most unique characters in
the road-building world. A graduate
civil engineer, he felt the tremendous
need for the perfection and develop-
ment of the road system of America.
He stepped out from the promising
channels of the regular engineering
profession and went down almost be-
low the level of ordinary men to study
road building, say's Rocky Mountain
News. He hns made road building and
maintenance his life work and is now,
probably, as well qualified as any man
“Come and Sit Beside Me, Mr. Barnes,*
She Called Out Gayly.
not full her. And it was with diffi-
culty that he contrived to hide the
exaltation that might have ruined ev-
erything !
While he was trying to invent a pre-
text for drawing her apart from the
others she calmly ordered Van Dyke
to relinquish his plnce on the couch
beside her to Barnes.
“Come and sit beside me, Mr.
Barnes," she called out gayly. "I will
not bite you or scratch you or harm
you In any way. Ask Mr. O’Dowd,
nnd he will tell you thnt I am quite
docile. I don’t bite, do I, Mr. O’Dowd?"
“Y’ou do,” said O’Dowd promptly.
"Y’ou do more than that. You devour.
Bedad I have to look ill a mirror to
convince meself that you haven’t swal-
lowed me whole. That’s another way
of telling you, Barnes, that she’ll ab-
sorb you entirely.”
For a few minutes she chided him
for his unseemly aversion. He was
beginning to think that he hnd been
mistaken In her motive, and thnt after
nil she was merely satisfying her van-
ity. Suddenly, nnd ns she smiled into
his eyes, she said, lowering her voice
slightly:
“Do not appear surprised at any-
thing I may say to you. Smile ns if
we were uttering the silliest nonsense.
So much depends upon it, Mr. Barnes."
THIN PEOPLE
SHOULD TAKE
PHOSPHATE
Ntthlng Lika Plain Bltro-Phoaphata
to Put an Firm, Haalthy Flash and
to Inoraaoa Strength, Vigor
and Marva Poroe.
Judging from the countless preparations
tnd treatments which are continually be-
ing advertised for the purpose of making
thin people fleshy, developing arms, neck
and bust, and replacing ugly hollows and
angles by the soft curved lines of health
and beauty, there are evidently thousands
of men and women who keenly feel their
excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually due
to starved nerves. Our bodies need more
phosphate than Is contained In modern
foods. Physicians claim there Is nothing
that will supply this deficiency so well as
the organic phosphate known among drug-
gists as bltro-phosphate, which la Inex-
pensive and Is sold by most all druggists
under a guarantee of satisfaction or money
back. By feeding the nerves directly and
by supplying the body cells with the neces-
sary phosphoric food elements, bltro-phos-
phate quickly produces a welcome trans-
formation In the appearance; the Increase
In weight frequently being astonishing.
This Increase In weight also carries with
it a general improvement In the health.
Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack of
with the bloom of perfect health.
CAUTION; — Although bltro-phosphate
is unsurpassed for relieving nervousness,
sleeplessness and general weakness, It
should not. owing to its remarkable flesh-
growing properties, be used by anyone
who does not desire to put on flesh.
To Be Avoided.
"John, it is time you were digging
up the garden.” “Oh, don’t let us
rake up that old subject.”
Proving It.
"After nil, poverty Is the great po-
liceman of life.” "I must suy it does
pinch people.”
Organized uplift is human sympathy
groveling nt the feet of efficiency.
Sand-Clay Road Well Cared For.
to tell the methods for the proper up-
building of the nation's highway sys-
tem.
For a number of years Mr. Stevens
has been highway commissioner for
the Estes Park highway. This piece
of road work In Itself Is a testimony
to his ideals. He is also the inventor
of the Stevens Improved road drag,
one of the simplest and most efficient
road machines on the American mar-
ket.
Mr. Stevens believes In concrete
highways and prepared boulevards,
but he also believes that the earth
road, which comprises more than 80
per cent of the country’s highways, is
of no less importance. “A concrete
highway Isn’t going to do a farmer
much good if he has got to haul his
load three miles through hub-deep mud
before he gets to it,” is Mr. Stevens’
attitude.
The farmer Is the man who is going
to pay for most of the country roads,
and although concrete roads are heed-
ed where the traffic Is sufficiently
heavy the earth roads that feed the
concrete road must be kept up.
As an Inventor of road machinery,
a road engineer, a road supervisor and
a road worker for his practicalities
and the life dream of better roads as
his idealism, Mr. Stevens Is ably qual-
ified to judge highway problems.
BRACE UP!
The man or woman with weak kid-
neys is half crippled. A lame, stiff
back, with its constant, dull acne and
sharp, shooting twinges, makes the sim-
plest task a burden. Headaches, dizzy
spells, urinary disorders and an “all
worn out” feeling are daily sources of
distress. Don’t neglect kidney weak-
ness and risk gravel, dropsy or Bright’s
disease. Get s box of Doan’s Kidney
Pills today. They have helped people
the world over.
An Oklahoma Cate
Mrs. Eld. Ross, 619 8.
Fourth 8t.. Ponca
City, Okla.. says; "I
suffered severely from
kidney trouble. My
hands swelled untfl
they became very sore
and when I touched
them, it left an Im-
print. My ankles' Vs
swelled so badly that
sometimes I couldn’t Jr,
put my shoes on. I
also had terrible pains
through the small of
my back that felt as
If something was cut-
ting me. I used two
boxes of Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills and I felt like a new person."
Get Doan’s et Aay Stare. 60c a Bex
DOAN’S
POSTER-MILB URN CO* BUFFALO, N. Y.
Barnes, “bound forever,”
makes suggestions to the
girl that promise excite-
ment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Staving Off Old Age.
Among many other extraordinary
plans for prolonging one’s stay on this
interesting plnnet may he mentioned
that of a South African furmer who
advised people to eat every day four
pounds of bananas steeped in sweet-
ened whisky, and that of a professoi
In the University of Pennsylvania who
believed that much could be done In
the way of staving off old age by fre-
quently huving one’s feet tickled I
UTAH TO SPEND $8,000,000 §
Part of Money Is to Be Spent for Im-
provements on Arrowhead Trail
to California^
The state of Utah has decided to
spend about $8,000,000 on roads In the
next two years, with an expenditure
this year of about $2,000,000. Some of
the Utah millions, which are made up
of state and federal funds, are going
to be used on the development of the
Arrowhead trail, which is tributary to
all parts of southern California, from
San Diego and Imperial vulley on the
south to Fresno and San Luis Obispo
on the north.
$300,000,000 FOR HIGHWAYS
Wyoming Led All States.
Women acted as jurors in America
almost half a century ago. The first
grand jury which Included members
of the “weaker" sex wns Impaneled
nt La ramie, Wyo., 48 years ago. Th«
territory of YVyomlng was organized
In 1868 out of part of Dakotn, Utah,
and Idaho, and one of the first official
acts of the new territorial government
was to grant women- the right to vota
and hold office.
Sum Which If Capitalized at 5 Per
Cent Would Represent Invest-
ment of $6,000,000,000.
Government road officials estimate
that road construction and mainte-
nance In the United States Involve an
annual outlay of over $800,000,000, a
sum, which, If capitalized at 5 per
cent, would represent an investment
of $6,000,000,000. There has never
been a nation-wide traffic qeesus to
show either the direction or volume
of traffic over these highways.
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Roads Must Be Linked Up.
If we are to keep costs down, oui
highways must be linked up and there
must be through trunk lines provided
to which feeders can be built.
Not Mercenary.
"An artist Is supposed to have «
fine disregard for money." "And they
live up to that tradition. I’ve known
I many of them to let a $5,000 pteturs
go for ten plunks.”- -Louisville Co*
1 rier-JouraaL
Lower Hauling Coats.
Hauling costs are lowered by good
roads because the size of the load is
limited by the worst spot in the road.
One of Major Activities.
Road building will shortly become
one of the major activities of our
government.
Wichita Directory
autoIretairIng
WELDING and General Machine Work.
Manufacturers of Generators and
Welding Equipment.
Brooks Machine Co.. 225 W. Lewi. St., Wichita. Kans.
ALFALFA and PRAIRIE
BOUCJMT and SOLD
DALE TIES
J. N. TURNER. WICHITA. KANS.
Wichita Auto
Wrecking Co.
Cheapest place to bnj yovr
Aete Parte ia4 Sapplita
Phone Market 1042
807 W. Douglas Arena*
Wichita, Kane.
Usual Wording.
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“’Jokes wanted. State age.”’
So long as you resent and resist
your environment you can find neither
peace nor happiness.
When Your Eyes Need Care,
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