The Post. (Brule, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1906 Page: 1 of 12
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BRULE, WOODWARD CO. <>. T. (SEE PATE INSIDE)
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N0.26.
For the Rhymer’s Sake.
uS-iya VrSpacHV <or S5£‘>
Where he made hebdonud.uy . v
Trips across the sands,
Carrying reticulated - u^ni. n
Silks and garments rich. -v
Spices and orbiculatcd - S. I
Jewelry and sich.
He would drink, on Monday morning,
TSte foUowMng°Saturday, scorning
Water, till ’t\vas passed.
■Rut when he alle\ uitt d
Then his thirst, he’d take
No small sips abbreviated
He would drink a lake. ^
Well he had no opposition,
Till a Yankee brain
Once evolved a proposition y .
For a railtoad tram: • ■ 1
And this modern evolution.
When perfected, made
On the whole a revolution
In the desert trade.
But our friend, the clever camel.
TS K'.i'Sv're never —
And ^he1 engine SA «»
Bumps on the trial spin. tf>r
When she ran plum short o
And he beat her ^Cleveland leader.
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J THE DEACON'S HANDICAP l
* By J. C. PLUMMER *
jJ-
Copyright, 1906, by Daily Story Publishing Co.
Deacon Job Potter entered hib
kitchen and seated himself with a
deep sigh on the bench. , d
“What’s the matter, Job. a.
IVlrs. Potter.
“I’m concarned, Hannah, 1 m con
earned. My sperrit is as clar a*
spring water, hut I’m concarned shout
what these hyar carnal minded people
W1“What’s happened?” Inquired Mrs
Potter, anxiously.
“I was drivln’ to hum this afternoon
when who should come up to me bu
Mordecai Pratt a drivin' that there
'two hundred dollar critter he bought
in York, hitched to his buggy. b
my old sixty dollar mare to the hgU
wagon and when she heard that c.t
ter behind her she jest gripped the
bit in her teeth and Mordecai wasn
nowhere ’cept kivered .™t "•
Now, all these people will think .
was racin’.” AT
“Eat your supper, Job, sa < ,
Potter ‘‘no one ’ll believe you would
race arter the way you’ve talked agu
!t “Mordecai wasn’t nowhere” repeav
ed the Deacon, with a chuckle ^ j
be turned into a groan as morb befit-
ting one concerned spiritually.
A ripple of laughter came Iroiu the
rfl“Who’s in thar?” asked the Deacon
“Why,” replied Mrs. Potter, <c-°‘
ing. ‘‘Fred Carey walked hum 'Altb
Sarah, and he’s not gone yet
The Deacon thumped his fist on the
'“"I won't have that roan a goto1 with
Sarah" he snarled, "he's a worldlin
Hisells feed to those
critters that have race horseB at tin
track. Who ever saw Fred( Ca ,
the mourners' bench in the
of the l!ord? Mo one, but tnere b low
’ave seen him dancin’ at these by
o?
ab"Jedge Grimes says Fred's doin a
B,ce ^^essandpls,o,nMtohpeoa,tc
“’Vhds Jedge Grimes?’’ retorted .he
Deacon, disdainfully, "don t ho P-J
Mrs. Potter went up 6t»lrs Pey
, e ,he juAe:^ were fully
fore the sons J
Pr“e had gone the Deacon crop
tied his pockets of some old pap*i‘
throwing them Into the stove. ,_
“Mordecai wasn’t nowhere,
chuckled and then looked at a ^
piece of cardboard among tlie pap •
it rpad as follows.
"International Turf Club, New folk
PI a.? or Pay.
ICOOjSaracen
Atlantic Handicap,
picked .his hyar thine up on .hr
road in front of the hoi.se, n -
the Deacon; "some carnal Idjut bten
“I’m consarned, Hannah.
;= a =Sss
this hyar paper at bunoay
and he replaced it tUe
z: hr:: shsu .»?
spring ^ k . . « laro’g busi-
Fred Carey was doing a lar*e n
' with the horsemen. He was
Uked and trusted by the race men
and while they_ dodged some hills.
lhf t0?the Deleon s 'savage oppose
1,0 to his suit for his daughter s hand
rr.d ^entireiy hapw-
Sarah hotter would not listen to his
urgings for a runaway marriage,
won t marry and have Papa mad w h
rae” said she, softly, when Fred
ur-ed her, and lie knew she meant it.
The village, being right in t c' ^a
ow of the great race course, natma),
contained some ungodly sou 1
were interested in the sport, and a
few evenings later the Deacon, car-
rving home a half-soiled pair of hoots
C the shoemaker, found them
wrauned in a sporting paper.
Son eyed it with a hostile gleam
as he unwrapped the hoots i
vacy of his kitchen and then his ey
caught an item in the paper.
“Public interest on the winner• >
the Atlantic Handicap now centc_
on. Saracen. Opening at 1 ° 1
the winter betting, his odds h^e
dropped to five to one with wise
money going on fast atr and
The Deacon dropped th P I '
ten in his pocket. He drew forth the
pasteboaul ca'd- „ . murmured,
“A thousand to ten, n
“and this hyar card belongs
one who has it. wallet
He replaced the card in hisjalle
and did not speak thereon at the Sun
‘^handicap was to he run the
Tuesday of the follow**
the Deacon became distraugm
anxious as the day approached. In a
Asked quaveringiy who had won the
handicap.
surreptitious manner he obtained a
Sorting paper the day before the ,nce
and discovered that barace
onoted at three to one.
In the meantime he had issue, a
proclamation forbidding Carey his
house and his daughter meeting h
lover Sarah, mournfully, submit e,
but Carey boldly told the Deacon tha.
if he could outwit him he d do it.
When the day of the -- dawned
the Deacon wandered about t
ns a perturbed spirit. The Handmai.
was to be run about four oclock nn^
by that time the Deacon was sl.nhms
about the entrance to the course m an
agony lest he be recognized ard le-
Saracen should lose. Heheard the
cheers and shouts which heralded tnc
finish and a cold sweat came out ov ^
him. Men began to come out of t
entrance and seek the cars,
dared not ask who had worn FinalA
in desperation, he approached a spo>
ive looking man and asked quav * S
h- who had won the handicap.
“Why Saracen,” replied the pmn.
vvny’ thp iock looking
“hands down and the J°^
baTLaDetceon0lstaggSeredeback against
the race track fence. ^ #
-Is this your ticket?" asked the
cashier of the Turf Club.
~ , the
m“ThTsemanarhas the ticket you
Conned” said the cashier.
“fLund it in front of my house,
murmured the Dcaeon. 4<1
“Bv George!” exclaimed Uare>,
lnif will help to pay tor
“alt ^ , T :vill hve in next month.
Sarah and .^reed to the mar-
You know you ve a^re nothing
viasre and of course 111 say nut *
Ubout the ticket and you hemg at th.
tight' the Deacon opened the
,oor for Fred Carey when he ca.ied
“Vet;fd"DeaceonadrePosited
five hundred dollars m bank.
— rnese lies are only on the sur-
nes. 111 The slightest rettec-
sc-rsn.
maThTwor stoo°dJ'before a steamship
offlJe regarding the globe that r^
voiced in the window.
“ ‘Do von mean to tell me, sa
boy,n'that .he world is as round ss
, .i0 ■ the man answered.
" ‘Then ’ said the boy,'I can't under-
stand why the people on (he other side
don’t fall off.
tmtaagutTe '- he said, wearily.
‘Well, why is it?’ the'boy perslst-
6d“‘Heaven,’ the man answered, ‘has
gtven those people common sense, and
they hold on.’ ”
A Point He Overlooked.
!n a discussion of expensive health
resorts and watering
McVickar. of Providence, satd the
“‘-I Wend of mine, a very stout fel-
low once went to Marienbad to get
1" weight reduced. He had heard
great things of Marienbad, and hope
lo lose 50 pounds or so with no In
convergence to himself. .
But he found the rates excesslv y
high and the regime excessively se
vefe’, and after an In.ervl..; ‘"e
hotel physician, he said. petnshly.
“ ‘Scare diet, long walks—I cou
have managed all that without com-
ine to this expensive place.
“ ‘Yes,’ said the physician, u
forget the annoyance induced by
high Prices. That of itself will go a
long way toward reducing >
weight.' ”
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Peril of Erring Soldiers.
-Strange as it may seem, sal(| *
.tsr-sg
S-srvs “= v -
thal by so doing in certain instances
they render themselves marked men
f° “The fact is probably not generally
known among citizens that a dishorn
orably discharged »c S
barred from holding public
fice whether this applies to the mu-
| Apathy, the ^-onweao,thoOrsoth:
I “^Sen with dishonorable
discharges have fallen to speedy nu n
upou a'full ;e^^g0ftr“
consequences attacv ug
unbecoming a soldier.
Too Long for War»g.
i nave just received thy following
st0ry from a reacer who is
apparently unperturbed bv the earth-
nuake A lady in San Francisco en-
Q"!e 'a Chinese cook. Wuen the ce-
festial came, among othei things she
asked him hit aa“e’ Chinaman.
“Mv name, saui me ^ t>
• i ‘ Wang Hang Ho.
smilmg, is *>.aub / ,, tbat ”
“Ob I can’t, remembei all tnat,^
said the lady, "1 will cal! you John.
‘ John smiled all over apd asked.
“What is your namee?
-Sy name Is Mrs. M-.-lville Long-
d°"ide no memble all that," said John.
..Chinaman he no savey Mrs. Mem-
London. I call yon Tommy. -
Tatler.
No Answer At All.
danThe MoSmSans." he said,
BWCr tnnuire.rs’ ouestiou. with
Precocious.
oDeaker Cannon, on his seventieth
birthday referred in a jocular way
the precocity of the twentieth ceu-
tury child
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Forster, William. The Post. (Brule, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1906, newspaper, November 30, 1906; Brule, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc942308/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.