Chandler Daily Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 309, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 29, 1904 Page: 4 of 4
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THE FATAL REQUEST
OR FOUND OUT
By A. L. Harris Author of "Min© Own Familiar Friend," ®fc.
C a $ t t l l
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Publishing V o tn p a n y.
Street <t Smith.
CHAPTER IX—Continued.
It was rather strange, but the
moment he put this question the little
doctor shifted his glance, ami merely
answered, "Humph!” while he seemed
to be looking at nothing in particular.
"You know what I mean?" was the
somewhat impatient response. "Did
my father meet ills death through
the shock of the collision or by
the—?"
"Your father was not killed in tho
railway accident at all,” was the
paralyzing reply, as tho giver of It
still avoided the eye of the questioner.
"Wbst!" shouted the latter, leaping
to his feet. “What do you mean? For
Heaven's sake, explain yourself and
do not talk In riddles!"
"What I mean Is this,” was the an-
swer given with great confidence and
decision, as he once more allowed him-
self to meet the other man's eye:
"Your father was not burnt to death,
as you feared, and he did not perish
through the shock of the collision,
which you hoped might be the case, as
being the more merciful death of tho
two. Your father was shot!"
Had the young man received a bul-
let wound himself, he could not have
started more violently than he did on
hearing these words.
"Shot!" he cried—"shot!” Then,
passing his hand across his forehead
—"I'm not dreaming, am I?"
Dr. Cartwright shook his head.
"No, my boy, you're not dreaming,
except Inasmuch as life itself is a
dream. Your father, I repeat, met his
death by foul play—that is putting
aside the question of sui-"
"Suicide!” cried tho young man,
snatching at the word, as it were.
"Suicide! My father! Oh, you must
be mad!”
The doctor shook his "head again.
“I discovered, on examining the
body after you had left the church,
that death had resulted from a bullet
wound In the right temple, which had
"Of course you did," interrupted Di\
Cartwright; "and quite right of you,
too. Always make game of this sort
of thing whenever you come across it.
1 always do myself, on principle. If 1
didn't, I should have half the parish
sending for me whenever they had
the nightmare. At the same time,”
he added. In a tone of concession, "I
admit that it certainly was—a coin-
cidence. Anything more I can't ac-
knowledge—my reputation won't al-
low it.”
"Yesterday morning,” resumed the
young man, “we received a telegram.
It said-Here it is—you can see for
yourself."
Dr. Cartwright brought his spec-
tacles to bear upon the document.
“Humph! Ha!
"'Am returning to-day by the 4:SO
train. Shall be home to dinner.
Friend accompanies me.'"
He read It through twice before re-
turning it. "And you say you have no
idea what the name of this friend your
father went to meet was?"
"To my knowledge I have never
heard it mentioned. I thought 1 knew
all my father’s Mends, but this one
must have been an entire stranger to
me, and rny father must havo had
some reason for
He stopped abruptly, respect for his
dead parent held back the words upon
his tongue. But Dr. Cartwright ap-
parently guessed the remainder of the
sentence.
"You mean, your father must have
had some reason for concealing tho
fact of his previous acquaintance with
the mun he went to meet at Dover?”
The young man’s face flushed.
“I tell you, no! I won’t believe it!
I won't even listen to such a supposi-
tion for a moment! I tell you—but
there, you never knew him!" And ho
turned his head away.
"To return to our subject,” said the
doctor. "You Insist on connecting this
same unknown personage with the
“I knew the
traversed the head completely, and
must have caused instantaneous
death."
“I can't realize it," groaned the oth-
er. "Who could have done it?—unless
he was robbed.”
Dr. Cartwright shook his head.
"His watch and chain and valuables
were taken charge of, like thosa of
the other passengers, and a consider-
able amount of money was found upon
him. Whatever the object, it was not
that. The thing will be to discover
If he had a traveling companion, and
who that traveling companion--"
Ted Burritt brought down his hand
upon the table, with a force that made
that article of furniture shiver.
“I know the man!" he cried. "Or,
if 1 do not know now, I will never rest
until I have found out!”
"Phew!” whistled the doctor. "Then
you know something about the affair?
You have your suspicious?"
"Suspicions!" cried the young man;
"more than suspicions! 1 see it all—
if I only knew the man's name.”
"What man's name?” asked the doc-
tor.
"What man?” was the impatient re-
ply. "Why, the murderer, to be sure.”
"1 wish you would just begin at the
beginning and tell me all you know
about it.”
"I will tell you all I know, as well
as what I only guess. Two days ago
my father received a letter, which ap-
peared to have a peculiar effect upon
him. It is evident to me that he was
expecting the letter, and that it was
that which made him nervous and
fidgety and unlike himself. At break-
fast the next morning, to our sur-
prise, he announced his Intention of
taking a short Journey; giving no oth-
er explanation than that he was go-
ing as far as Dover, partly on busi-
ness—though we had reason to be-
lieve that the business was only an
appointment with a friend."
"And the friend's name?—of course
he told you?"
“No,” was the answer, "that was
Just what he did not do."
"Humph!” said the doctor, "that
was rather- Well, never mind. Go
on! ”
"The night after my father left
home, I was awakened suddenly in the
middle of the night, by his voice call-
ing mo. And I answered him back.
The next morning my sister May
came to me in trouble about a dream
she'd had the same night. She dreamt
that something dreadful had hap-
pened, or was about to happen, to her
^fatb»- Of course, I made game of
man," he cried.
mysterious circumstances of your fath-
er's death?"
"Who else could it be?” exclaimed
Ted. “You yourself have put the mo-
tive of robbery out of the question!"
“Certainly," was the reply. "But
having disposed of that motive only
makes It the more necessary to pro-
vide another.”
"And there again you supply it your-
self,” burst out the other. "You hint-
ed of the possibility of my father hav-
ing something discreditable in connec-
tion with his past life-"
"Not discreditable,” Interrupted the
doctor, “only indiscreet."
"Now,” proceeded the other, "re-
verse your implication. Apply What
you have said of the one to the other,
and there you have your solution of
the mystery—your motive, and what-
ever else you require.”
He paused, breathless with the ve-
hemence with which he had pro-
nounced these last words.
"Well," said the doctor, wagging his
head sagely, "I don't deny it. There
you have a motive of a sort—not a
very strong one. But. before you can
proceed further with it, you have to
establish the important fact as to that
other occupant of the carriage. And.
when you consider that the individual
in question, even if he did travel by
that same train and in that same car-
! riage. was actually the recipient of
\ an Invitation to your own house, there
seems to be something so improbable,
so coldblooded about the whole con
cern that——"
"And is not that exactly what it is?
j A coldblooded, dastardly outrage upon
one who never injured a soul, and
who was one of the kindest and best
of men. Oh, laird! I can't stand the
thought of It."
"Now I’ve started him oft again."
murmured the doctor, remorsefully.
"Why couldn't I have left well alone?
Anyhow, 1 must be going now."
So. drawing himself up and squar-
j Ing his shoulders In his most mllitnri
ntyla, he renarked, falling back Into
j his ejaculatory manner, “Must be off
| now. Found the wound in your fath-
! er’s head to-day. To-morrow look for
the bullet that made it. Good-bye
Can’t stop another moment," and he
was gone.
CHAPTER X.
| The Fourth Carriage From the En-
gine.
The next morning, being Sunday,
everyone from far and near repaired
l * Uw church, which contained within
J
T It® walls the materials for such a funs- 1
ral sermon as, in all Its ancient bls-
j tory, It had never before seen gath-
I cred together there.
The remains, now all decently in-
closed 'in coffins, still lay within the
precincts of the chancel, wjiere tie >•
must remain until after the inquest
on the following day.
The church, which was of no great
size, was filled to overflowing. For
not only were there many mourners
present, who had come post-haste
from all parts of the kingdom, but
strangers for miles round, attracted by
the morbid' curiosity which draws
crowds as with a cart-rope, wherever
there is a prevalence of the ghastly
element, blocked the aisles, filled the
porch, and even occupied the pulpit
stairs.
People who came to gape and gaze,
and then, going home to the Sunday
dinner, exchanged experiences over
the shoulder of mutton and baked po-
tatoes, remarking, as they wiped their
mouths, that it was a sad sight, but
one they wouldn't have missed for
anything you could have offered them.
At the same time they were compelled
to own that there were not so many
bodies as they had confidently ex-
pected, but then, nothing ever did
come up to your expectations in this
world.
Ted Burritt had a seat assigned
him In one of the front pews. A
glance at his face, on the part of tho
functionary who discharged the office
of ushering the people into their
places, seemed to be sufficient to show
to which portion of the congregation
he belonged.
Ted Burritt knew that his father's
body now lay there within the chan
Left-Handers Are Left-Eyed.
It may be news to you that people
may be divided Into the right-oyed
ind the left-eyed, and that in general
eft-banded persons are left eyed.
A left-eyed person uses the left eye
done in all cases where it is not
lecessary to use both eyes—as in
j bird, it generally falls down fiat on the
ground and screams pitiably, even if it
has not been hit at all; so that it
happens frequently that a gunner
gathers in entirely unhurt booby birds
that have simply been frightened into
helplessness.
Finding One's Favorite Eye.
lsing a spyglass or a microscope—
iither closing the right eye or paying
10 attention to what is seen by it.
rhirthermore, the left-eyed person,
khen reading with both eyes open,
cel rails, in one of tlu.se hastily con- pays little ?ttGn,ion to what the rlKht
* Itrn cn/lo Vnnr if nnnm t.noir <1 I f
structed coffins, which had been
roughly put together to meet the sud-
den and unprecedented demand.
It was evident that a certain num-
ber of seats had been reserved for
those who, it was felt, had the great-
est claim to them, for he observed,
after a short time, that the same pew
Into which he had been ushered also
contained two of his fellow passen-
gers on that ever memorable journey
—a poor widow and another woman,
The former, it was Impossible to
doubt, had found her worst fears
realized, for she still cried silently
and ceaselessly behind the shelter o<
her veil. The other woman, whom
he now guessed to be about forty
years of age, and who was good-look-
ing in a sort of hard-featured way,
was also clothed in deep black gar
ments, but there was a suppressed
glitter in her eye, and that same rest
less movement of the fingers, as she
perpetually rustled the leaves of hei
prayer-book, which betrayed the ex
istence of some strong but suppressed
feeling, which seemed to be more like
excitement than grief.
But, then, we are all at liberty tc
show our grief in our own peculiai
way.
In the other pews round him he rec
ognized other faces—those of fellow
travelers or others whom he had seer
at the station or in the church in the
early morning of the day before
Among these there were, of course
happy exceptions to the general rule
There were those who had found the
living where they had looked for the
dead, and who, after a few hours ol
torturing suspense, had discovered the
one they sought, either in the village
or in some of the neighboring ham
lets, and were present on that morn
ing with a chastened joy and gratl
tude unspeakable.
(To be continued.)
>ye sees. Now, it may seem very dif-
acult to prove this, as both eyes usu-
tily see the same thing, but it can be
iroven very easily in the following
vay:
With a sharp lead pencil punch a
/lie in a large card and hold the card
etween your face and the table, on
rhich you have placed a small coin,
dove the card about rapidly in all
.irections until you catch sight of the
oin through the hole; then hold the
ard still and shut one eye; then open
hat and shut the other. If you are
Ight-eyed you will see the coin only
rhen the right eye is open; if you
.re left-eyed you will see it only when
ho left eye is open.
This test will not succeed if you
cove the card very slowly, for (unless
fou are nearly blind in one eye) you
kill see the coin when the hole is in
line with it and either eye, but when
fou move the card quickly and you
catch the rapid glimpse of the coin
with your favorite eye, so to speak,
hut not with the other one, which you
are accustomed to neglect.
This habitual neglect of one eye Is
so common and so complete ithat
many a person has for years been
nearly blind in one eye without know-
ing it.
An Optical Illusion.
This amusing toy consists of a lit-
tle square box made of cardboard, 2
by 2 by 2 inches, inside of which a
slanting piece of cardboard and a piece
School Children Saved.
In but few of the cities of the world
are school children examined on en
trance or subsequently to determine
which are defective with reference tc
applying the remedy. Examination?
of nearly nine hundred pupils in an
American school of the better class
during the last year showed that 3-i
per cent were near-sighted, 12.9 per
cent had functional heart disorders
of looking glass are glued to the sides
5.6 per cent had spinal curvature with nf the little box, as the diagram shows,
some vertebral rotation, 41.2 per cent Bine A—B represents the bottom. A—
more had a symmetry of spine, hips c the rear wall of the box, D—D the
or shoulders, 14.6 per cent had ade slanting piece of pasteboard, and D—
noids or chronically enlarged tonsils e the slanting piece of looking glass.
In over 10 per cent of the cases letter? In the center of the front and back
sides of the box a round opening is
made, one for the eye, the other one
to admit a marble, which is to roll
down the slanting piece of cardboard,
if you let the marble roll down and
look into the box at the same time
you will see the marble roll upward.
This is a very puzzling little illu-
sion, and will amuse your friends if
you do not tell them how it is done.
were sent to parents, recommending
that medical attention he given tc
some physical condition. Examina
tions of 40,000 school children by
school physicians in the duchy ol
Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, showed
that 23 per cent were near-sighted, 1C |
per cent or more had spinal curva
ture, and 60 per cent had teeth which
needed attention.
Protecting School Children.
Tho Minister of Public Inst-uction
in France has taken the lead of ail
the world in measures for the preven
tion of consumption in the schools. A
new law requires that an examination
of every pupil shall be made once in
three months, and the hight, the
weight, the chest measure and the
general physical condition of every-
one shall be entered on the pupil's
report. The schoolrooms receive the -
same preventive attention. Carpets
are prohibited, curtains must be ol
cloth that may be frequently washed; i
no dry sweeping is allowed, and dust i
must be removed by wet cloths; all
school furniture must be often i
scoured; books are regularly disin
feeted, nnd no book that lias been
used by a consumptive chfld may be
used by another person.
Colleagues at Outs.
Years ago when Lord Anglesey wa? i ln(cllcct
lieutenant of Ireland he said once oi| __ - - •
‘he Irish secretary of that day: "Mr
Funny Booby Bird.
The booby bird, an oceanic fowl, Is
probably the funniest and most stupid
bird in the world. It appears to have
as little intelligence as the old extinct
dodo had, according to the ancient ac-
counts.
The booby nests on Islands far out
in tho Pacific ocean, and will not »tir
out of the way when men land there,
but remains squatted on the ground,
staring at intruders stolidly.
It can fly very well indeed, and goes
long distances; but when it is sitting
on the water it will remain directly in
he course of a ship, so that it hap-
pens often that a steamer will go
] clear over a booby that could easily
i have swam or flown out of the way.
Sometimes booby birds will fly on
•ho deck nf a ship and lie there with
! their legs sprawling under them, malt-
I ing no attempt to rise, as if their be-
| wilderment had quite benumbed their
The booby does not feed its young
Stanley and I do very, well together «? i "9 °tb" T'\\n°'
■ompanlons, hut we differ so totals “T !n "V "T 'hP
.... . .. . .. i boobv swallows the food, and then
M r i 'hi',,, i, h //’ °n ** the young bird thrusts its head into
subject to him. Just how they trans .. ” , . . . „ ,
toted official business remains a mys ™ P "
I food out.
1 When a shot is fired at a booby
A Few "May I’s.”
May I ever harbor lofty thoughts
and Ideals.
May I always think the Jjost I can.
May I distribute good cheer in
abundance.
May I fulfill the mission God in-
tended for me.
May 1 always love the good more
than I hale the bad.
May I always mind my own busi-
ness, and thus give others a chance to.
May I always help those .who nepd
help, cheer those who need cheer, aud
love those who need love.
Pretty Easter Card to Paint.
Voyagers From Sea.
Tho gray rat, of which you are so
frightened that you will not go down
into the cellar after dark, is a native
of Asia, and was unknown in ancient
Europe. Only in the year 1773 did it
make-its appearance in that part of the
world, coming from India by way of
Russia. Some people believe that it
originally came from Norway, but that
is a mistake.
The common house rat, by the way,
used to be black, and made its way
from Asia to Europe in the sixteenth
century, arriving not long afterward in
America.
The English Language.
It Is said, you know, that our lan-
guage is the most intricate in the
world. You will understand how true Ready for a Swim,
this is, if you read the following:
"A sleeper is one who sleeps. A st‘c'c- dcop a little oil in the roun,
sleeper is that in which the sleeper Immediately you will see tit
sleeps. A sleeper is that on which <*ar*' across the water. Do yoi
the sleeper runs while the sleeper j nn<terstand what makes it go? Yo
sleeps. Therefore, while the sleeper
sleeps in the sleeper, sleeper carries
the sleeper over the sleeper, under
the sleeper, until the sleeper which
carries the sleeper jumps the sleeper
has- and so hack to the fairy, who
delivers up (he box, which is opened
with anticipation, and paeh one re-
ceives his own gift. Should the first
player forget any article, he pays a
forfeit, and the next one takes his
place.
; Faint This for an Easter Gift.
Weather Indications.
When you wish to know what the
weather is going to he, go out, and,
picking out I he smallest cloud, keep
your eye on it.
If it decreases and disappears, it
shows a state of the air which is sure
in in- In!lowed by fino wi atnor. if it
increases, put off your trip, for rain
is not far off.
The reason of this is as follows:
When the air is becoming charged
with electricity, you will see every
cloud attracting lesser ones to it, un-
til a shower results. On the contrary,
when the electric fluid is passing off,
then a large cloud will be seen breale
Ing in pieces and dissolving.
Toy Fish Driven by Oil.
Here is a toy fish that not only
floats, but swims, and yet it is not one
of the magnetic fishes that are sold in
the toy shops. You can make it your-
self very easily and without spending
a cent for material.
Draw the outline of the fish on very
stiff paper or thin card and cut it out.
Cut out also the circle printed In
black in the center of the fish and the
narrow black strip which runs from
this circle to the tail. Now float the
fish in a basin of water, and with the
sewing machine oiler or with a smaU
and wakes the sleeper, by striking the
sleeper on the sleeper and there is no
longer any sleeper sleeping on the
sleeper in the sleeper.”
A Game—If You Will Bring to Me.
This can be played by any number,
but five or six are enough to make It
interesting.
The hostess supplies a box contain-
ing a simple gift, or even a nice candy,
for each child. This box is carefully
wrapped and tied so that its contents
are secret. It is then given into the
keeping of one who is selected and
called the fairy. To each of the others
is given a bit or stick or paper, but
the article is called, first, a nail; sec-
ondly, a hammer, then pincers, etc.
One girl or boy goes to the fairy and
says:
"Please give me your box.” The
fairy says:
"I will if you will bring me a nail.”
The player then goes to the one with
“a nail.” She replies: "1 will give you
my nail if you will bring me the ham-
mer.” So she goes to the end one,
who gives up. say, the pincers. Then
going back she collects each article—
failing if she forgets what each one
know, I suppose, that a little oil drot
ped on water will not stay where it i.
dropped, but will spread out in al
directions and form a thin film ovei
the surface of the water. But in thii
case the oil cannot flow in ail direc
tions, 6ut only backward, or toward
the tail of the fish through the little
channel, and as Hie oil flows backward
the fish is driven forward, just as a
gun Is driven backward, or “kicks,''
when the shot is fired. When youi
fish comes to rest, another drop oi
two of the oil will start him up again
Something to Draw.
Here is a sample of curious draw-
ing. Tliis man's head is made entire-
ly, as you may see, by the use ol
straight lines. See if you can draw
one like it that is not a copy.
PHOTO FRAME FOR AN EASTER GIFT.
Of the making of frames there is no
end—nor is there likely to be while
they continue to make so effective a
. -lifP
I*!
note in bedroom and living room dec-
oration.
The design given to-day Is suitable
for execution in pyrography, mineraj
staining, chip carving, eta.
The second cut gives a practical
working detail.
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