Renfrew's Record. (Alva, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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RENFREW’S RECORD.
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amount of 1mm! n-N rv«fi fur th«* torn-
dian Territory court of appeal* h*%
IT he girl at the
{halfway house
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mon M'htMtln, uii• wr*iti*** mid |»ul»li«
tmildmf* for the future of OkU-
- ii* ■* o 4i ja -re t Imtui port of
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A!. V A OKLi
vihit'h is It-jiM'd iiul at th** j»r***«*iit
tinr Irriiir^ an inroui** to the rduua-
the Greek nation the power to lea*-e
( A Vt CRY or THE PLAINS
tin* Utid of liU Marti without tir»t hav*
A L V- F 1 A l 1 H o R o 1 I HR RTORV OK THI CO» BOX
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tioi-.il int»re»ti» of the territory of il.'Mi
ilitf *m1 Uiinisi an «»r<U*r from the court I
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TERRITORY TOPICS
High S< rool Drfrater.—Th* prop-
nkitiou for a county high school at I.a-
mont wu defPtUsJ at the election.
Oatiu'i t'lirKi n.—In this town In .
KmgfUhcr county tlic people of lit. ’
town and vicinity are to erect a church
Towmutk Work Eushrd.—TheOuer-
okee townsite com mi union ha* opened
it* offices in Vinita after a auqiennion
mice last November, and work on
towuMU*** will In! rushed. leits In a
If rent nutnlier of towns will t»e stiver-
tiacd for sale, aud, In towns w here the
work is unfinished, the appraisement
will he rushed to completion.
Imhisn Stitso K Alt. BO AD.—The dis-
trict court at Lawton has been W-
sieged by Indians who are bringing
suit against the Oklahoma City 4 I' est-
ern railway company for damages sus-
tained to their allotments by the build-
ing of this road over them. The In-
dians claim that the awards were not
sufficiently large to cov«r the value of
the land taken possession of
Within th<*
•tali* thin num Mill
fc.VNURM |mt annum
Fikk at A*ti»ii
rU*rk in Vun
O. T., u h«» sit |»t in t
Bfttmw rkcapt* Th*
r«M»iu mas
next
lie at
I* I
rand In- amt ha* th«- lmlian
tr(| is a Authority of tht* st*
immI to > terror
HWokt*
Mr. William*, a
, htorr in A*>t<ir, {
t* *stt .iv Itatl a very {
th*»r of the fctoiv
burn***! through when he
Aiui ifutt' wav uinier him an in*
wan trying to reaeii the iliNir. I in*
a tore, with its entire at«»ek, a larire
amount of ea*h, noten and ufToimS i
were burnetl. A fi-t-d mill idjoiiiint?
w as alMi burned.
Sill 1*1*1 .Nit W M M T TlMW.Il. Ill*' ,
Rock Islam! lias given a low rate on
walnut timber from Hinder. O. 1.. b»
i'llieap». Thia iue!u«l**s all walnut
producing portion* of the territory*
Timber bought at other stations will
be shipped to Hinder to Ik* dressetl,
Ifiadt^l ami reloiwletl for the eastern
markets without breaking cargo en-
roll tc.
Sam ilAl.ouE.— Saline ileposits are
found in Western Oklahoma and tin*
A Him. DisArrRAE*».-The Creek ! manufacture of salt inast and will be
council passed a bill which provided : «>«>*« one of Oklahoma's gn at indu-
that Creek citizen* should be the legal
as well as the natural guardians of
their minor children and have control j
of their land without being required
tries. There is enough in sight to sup-
ply the world.
Link Team I!i km i>. — At Knid Jack
Everet’s barn with its contents, ex-
to give bond. This matter Is now lie- oept a new buggy, were burned. Two
fore the court of uppeals of Indian Ter- fauorite liigli bred horses ami Kveret's
ritory and lieoause of that it was dis-
approved by President Uooserelt.
Gold at “Df.vh.’s Dfn."—A cave by
that name is located on au allotment
that has been filed upon by Mrs. T. K.
Whitehorn, a Chickasaw woman, who
has agreed to allow mining operations
to be enrried on and will share in all
profits that nmy accrue. There is an
old legend among the Indians that
there was gold discovered near thia
place in an early day, and that many
white miners have prospected the hills
of the Pennington.
Stillwell Organizing.— A report is
in circulation that a company will be
organised to build a railroad line from
Oklahoma City to Denver, to lie known
as the Oklahoma City and Northwest-
ern. The company will consist of A.
K. Stillwell, of Kansas City, t'4 0.
Jones, of Oklahoma City; F. I). Kinney,
president of the M. K. »t T. lines in
Oklahoma; K. L. Peckham, general
manager of the Denver, Knid & Gulf, j
and F. II. Johnson, a railroad contract-
or of St. Elmo, 111.
I. IVRD in A Shack Although hav-
ing lived in a dingy little shack in Ok-
lahoma City that he used as his office,
taking his meals at the cheapest place
lie could find, wearing the coarsest but
substantial clothes, it was discovered
tlint D. L. Spencer, who was found
dead in his bed had nearly $3,000 in
greenbacks which was found in the bed
and in other hiding places about ids
room. A few days ago he told .1. L.
Ladd that he held $10,000 stock in the
Detroit building and Loan Association.
WvntOsaoks at St. Loris.—Agent
Mitseher, of the Osage Indian reserva-
tion, is in receipt of a request from S.
M. McGowan, superintendent of the
Indian exhibit at the world’s fair that
a party of Osages visit the exposition,
lie says: ‘‘If a party of your Osages
would like to make this trip, you may
tell them that I can furnish free camp-
ing grounds, giving ample protection
in every way, and can arrange for a
onc-half rate transportation. I know
your Osages like to travel, and if a
party of ten or twenty tepees would
go together they could have a pleasant
and profitable time.”
Oklahoma Schools—Qklakoini ha-
seven educational iiu.tltution%.>f higher
learning under com” I of * tcn't vj,
and many ■eh :*">i i 1’ ,vs m tier
tlic super tsi > of n .ig " > • iiotnina-
Vlor She has aion- than '.’50,000 chil-
of school a ., and 3,000 young
men and wunan in tlic institutions of
bi'-l rr lesrnipg. There arc also 3,200
• uslrlet school houses worth $1,500,000.
At Reno-Major Portello is super-
intending tlic work being done at Fort
Reno.
Siioi nfk i.t ID AlToiSTKi).—The pres-
ident sent to the senate the name of
J. Blair Shoenfelt, of Wyoming, to be
Indian agent at Union agency, I T.
Mr. Shoenfelt was in Washington, ac-
ting, were cremated, and lie i» broken
hearted.
LiqroK Ski.i.isa. Secretary Hitch-
cock has requested an appropriation of
$10,000 of congress with which to run
down and prosecute persons selling
liquor to the Indians contrary to
law.
(vnt. muu*r in*-*
lary <»f the li-
the power to relieve from Ian -
si h ascii till- lessee and put the uin.i-r
allottee*. in puNvanlus? The court af
firmed the decision of .ludgi- Rayun ni.
of the western district, which was that
the guardian must have the emir: s
order. and that the M-erelary of the in-
terior can remove elaiuiantv
Saif, or 1‘oiiai simr Among a
bunch of Indian hilts received from
Washington by Indian Inspector J.
George Wright was the oat* |*asm-i1 St
the recent session of tin* t ‘lit wt a.V
eouneil authorizing the sale of the
I’otcau strip. This seetion of lund lies
on t he west side of the 1‘oteau rivi-r,
aud adjoins the city of Fort Smitlb
Ark . ami contains about seventy-five
acres. The strip was Muted by a
change in the boundary lines of In-
dian Territory at this piint. •
To Wtn at Manila.- During the
mouth of April two young ladies will
leave Guthrie to Is* married in the
I’hillpplnes. Miss Frances Farnass,
until recently of Chicago, and Miss
Fra zee, a milliner, are the young wo
men M ss Fra/.ee. it is annoumsd
will wed Prof. Ilrown formerly prin-
cipal of the Guthrie high school and
now in the educational service in the
Philippines, and Miss Furnass will
wed a Methodist Missionary, now
work among the natives.
Clllt KARAW Tow NKITKH Tile l Ineka-
aaw Townsite company which was fur-
loughed Inst summer, has received no-
tiee that money now is on hand to
carry out the work of townsite coin
missions in Indian Territory. It was
instructed to liegin work at once
CHARTER XVI.
There are several towns in the Chicka-
t itTm ll Dedicated. 1 in* Methodist w nation that had In-en platted and
church at WiKKlward lias been dedica-
ted and its debts wiped out. Rev. J. j
W. 1 lancer, president of the Wesleyan
University of Iowa, delivered the ser-
mon.
Ckstos is Active.—The business
men of Cestoa are losing no opportunity
to swell the bonus and secure the right
of way for the Colorado, Oklahoma A
Southwestern railroad.
Wei.i s Gone Dby The Frisco wells
at Enid have gone dry and the city
cannot afford to furnish water for the
shops to any great extent, it is report-
ed.
NkuUOEN Angry. -The negroes of
Muskogee proisi.se to get an injunction
against the school board to compel
and the plats had lieen accepted, when
the order came furloughing tlie tow n-
site force.
W.ach.ai UK Akkkstf.D—The medicine
maker of the Snake Indiana and his as
sistant have been arrested in Musko-
gee. Waehaehe has been the disturb
ing factor among' the Snakes at Flat
Rock tliis. winter, where the Snakes
w ere in camp. Tin* act w hich caused
his arrest was driving a woman from
her house and taking w hat lie wanted.
Dragged to Death.—Glen Johnson,
aged 10, near the Chaney Pale school
house was dragged to death by a horse
which he was leading. The horse
broke away from the boy and in some
way tlic rope got around his neck in
The Halfway House.
Miss Ma y Ellen,” cried Aunt Lucy,
thrusting her head In at the door,
oh. Miss May Ellen. I wtsht you’d
come out yer right quick. They * two |
them praF dogs out yer a chasin’
ouah hens agin na.-ty, dirty th.ngs!'' i
"Very well, I.ucy,” called out a
dee in answer. Mary Elk n arosn
from her seat near the window,
whence she had been gazing out over
the wide, flat prairie lands and at the
blue, unwinking sky. Gathering each
bit of stick, she and Aunt Lucy
drove away the two grinning daylight
thieves, as they had done dozens of
times before their kin, all eager for a
taste of this new feathered game that
had come In upon the range. With
plenteous words of admonition, the
two corralled the excited but terror-
stricken speckled hen, which had been
the occarion of the trouble, driving
her back within the gates of the in-
closure they had found a necessity for
the preservation of the fowl* of their
"hen ranch.”
"It's that same Domineck, isn't It.
Lucy?” said Mary Ellen, leaning over
the fence and gazing at the fowls.
"Yess'm, that same ole ben, blame
her fool soul! She's mo' bother'n
she's wuf. We kin git two dollahs
fer her cooked, an’ seems like long's
she's erlive she bound' fer ter keep
me chasin’ ’roun’ after her. I ’clare,
she jest keep the whole lot o' ouah
chickens wore down to a frazzle, she
traipstn ’roun’ all the time, an’ them
a-follerin' her. An’, of co’se,” she
added argumentatively, "we all got to
keep up the reppytatlon o’ ouah cook-
in'. I kain’t ask these yer men a
dollah a meal—not fer no lean ole hen
wif no meat ontoe her bones—no,
ma'am."
Aunt Lucy spoke with professional
pride and with a certain right to au-
thority. The reputation of the Half-
way House ran from the Double Forks
timber, and as yet unsupplied with
brick or boards. In addition to the j
main dugout there was a rude barn i
bun of sods, and towering high above (
the squat buildings rose u»e frame of j
the first windmill on the cattle trail. |
a landmark for many miles. Seeing j
these things growing up about him. ,
at the suggestion and partly through
the aid of his widely scattered but j
kind-hearted neighbors, Major Buford j
began to take on heart of grace. He
foresaw for his people an lndepend I
ence. rude and far below their former
plane of life. It was true, yet infinitely
better than a proud despair.
it was perhaps the women who suf-
fered most In the transition from
older lands to this new, wild region
The barren and monotonous prospect,
the high keyed air and the perpetual
winds, thinned and wore out the
fragile form of Mrs. Buford. This
Impetuous, nerve-wearing air was
much different from the soft, warm
winds of the flower-laden South. At
night as she lay down to sleep she
did not hear the tinkle of music nor
the voice of night-singing birds, which
in the scenes of her girlhood had
been familiar sounds. The moan of
the wind in the short, hard grass was
different from its whisper in the
peach trees, and the shrilling of the
coyotes made but rude substitute for
the trill of the love bursting mocking
bird that sang its myriad song far
hack In old Virginia.
One day Aunt Lucy, missing Quar-
terly Meeting, and eke bethinking her-
self of some of those aches and pains
of body ind forebodings of mind with
which the negro is never unprovided,
became mournful in her melody, and
went to bed sighing and disconsolate.
Mary Ellen heard her voice uplifted
long and urgently, and suspecting the
cause, at length went to her door.
"What Is It, Aunt Lucy?” she asked
kindly.
“Nothin’, mam; 1 Jess rasslin- wif
ther throne o’ Grace er I’ll bit. We
essence of vital stimulus. Tall and
shapely, radiant, not yet twenty three
years of age, and mistress of earth a
best bleaslug. perfect health—how
could Mary Ellen be sad?
• Chick - chick - chick ehickee’" she
called, bending over the fence of the
chicken yard. “Chick, chick, chick!"
"Ill be thah freckly wif ther feed.
Miss May Ellen,” called out Aunt
Lucy from the kitchen. And pres-
ently she emerged and Joined her
mistress at the corral.
• Aunt Lucy,” said Mary Ellen, "do
you suppose we could ever raise a
garden? I wag thinking. If w. had a
tev. peas, or beans or things like that,
you know-”
"Ch-huh!”
"And do you suppose a rose bush
would grow—a real rose bush, over
by the side of the house?
"Law, no, chib-, whut you talkin'
bout? Nothin' haint gotn' to grow
! yer, less'n hit's a little broom eohn,
er some o' that alfalafew, er that sobt
er things. Few beans might, ef we
wortered 'em. My Ian!” with a sud-
den interest, as she grasped the
thought, "whut could 1 git fer right
fraish beans, real string beans. I does
wondeh! Sakes, ef I c'd hev string
beans an' apple pies, 1 shoh'ly e'd
make er foh tune, right quick. String
beans—why, law, chile!”
We’ll have to think about this gar-
den question some day,” said Mary
Ellen. She leaned against the corral
post, looking out over the wide ex-
panse of the prairie round about. "Are
those our antelope out there, Iatcy?"
she asked, pointing out with care the
few tiny objects, thin and knifelike,
crowned with short black forking tips,
which showed up against the sky line
on a distant ridge. "I think they must
be. I haven’t noticed them for quite
3 whll?.1*
Yass'm,” said Aunt Lucy after a
judicial look. “Them blame I’ll goats.
Thass urn. I wlsh’t they all wuz.n’t so
mighty peart an' knowin’ all ther
time, so’st Majab Buford he c'd git
one o' them now an' then fer to eat.
1 member mighty well how Cap’n
Franklin sent us down er quarter o'
an’lope. Mighty fine meat, hit wuz."
"Er—Miss Ma’y Ellen,” began Aunt
Lucy presently, and apparently with a
certain reservation.
’•Yes?”
(To be continued.)
an equitable division of school funds. ] such a way that lie could not help liim-
Yoi mi Moiiikii Dus. Mrs. ,1. A. I self.
Walker, wife of a leading physician of
Shawnee, is dead, aged leaving n
husband aud three small sons.
The Axaharko Tkibuxe.—J. R.
Kckle.s lias sold the Anadurko Tribune
to C. W. Turner, ex-county superin-
tendent of the public schools.
Lead and Zinc. Lead and zinc ore
from wells ami bills near Vinita, if
properly exhibited at St. Louis, would
astonish every observer.
New Postoffice.—A postoffice lias
been established at Roena, Choctaw
nation, I. T., with Nancy A. Herndon
as postmistress.
Ladies' Society. At Shawnee the
organization of a Ladies’ Society of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is
under way.
Pum.ic Water Plant.—The tank
and tower of the public water plant at
Guymon was fiuislied last week.
In Woods (< vn rv. Tlic Arkansas
Valley .4 Western railroad is nearing
Ilopeton.
• 'oi'.Si I.m is. lid It. Marchant.
secretary of ttie Oklahoma world's fair
commission and tlic other members of
tin. commission, Messrs. Merbergen
and Sheetce, have gone to St. Louis to
make the final arrangements looking
to shaping up the Oklahoma exhibits
in the various departments for the
opening of the exposition.
Gi'Tuhie’b Delegation-.— Fifty Guth-
rie hustlers put in three days at the
live stock convention at Oklahoma City
to secure the next convention for Guth-
rie.
A Ti si- Wei l. Shawnee is to have
a test well put down 1,300 feet by
parties who have asked no bonus and
who are able to carry out their con-
Itim k Fob CoritT Hoi-he.—Seven
ears of hard, red brick have been re-
ceived at Alva for the new court house.
C'.ianute, Kas., is furnishing them.
S.ai.oon Men's Union. A territorial
charter has been taken by the Saloon
Keepers' Protective Union of Oklahoma
with headquarters at Knid.
A Mystery. L. 1’. Murray's repair
shop at Hunter is burned with a loss
of $1,000. No one bad been in the
building for three days.
Gi thiiie Succeeds.—The Oklahoma
Livestock association appointed its
next meeting at Guthrie by an almost
unanimous vote.
-%■;.
Drove away the two grinning thieves.
weak sinners. Miss Ma’y El
WHERE HE GOT THEM.
of the Brazos north to Abilene, and
much of the virtue of the table was
dependent upon the resources of this
“hen ranch,” whose fame was spread
abroad throughout the land. Saved
bv the surpassing grace of pie and
all po
len.”
"Yes, I know, Lucy.”
"An’ does you know. Miss Ma'y El-
len, I sorter gits skeered sometimes,
out yer, fer fear mer supplercashuns
"chicken fixings,” the halting place i ain’t goin’ take holt o’ heaven jess
chosen for so slight reason by Buford
and his family had become &' perma-
! nent abode, known gratefully to many j erlone—no,
In Good Shape.—The Santa he yards travojers an(j productive of more than I erlone.”
and shops site at Shawnee be.'.nuing a ijv|nP tor those who had estab-
to show up in good shape. lished it. It was, after all, the finan
right. White folks has one way er
prayin’, but er nigger kaint pray
mam, jess kain t pray
companies! by George Findley, of To-1 tracts. The 150 lots in Rom* Garden
peka. who bus the contract to feed the addition which were to lie sold at S'.’5
prisoners confined at
government prison.
Mi Brian Case Dismissed. C. A. Mo-
Brian. cashier of the hank of \\ aurika,
was reported $7,000 shy, but Avlien ar-
raigned at Lawton the county attorney
dismissed the case, everything having
been amicably arranged.
A Test Case.—In a civil action
brought at Sapulpa by M. FI. Sharp
agaiust E. S. llundel for ejectment
from property leased from au Indian,
it developed that the case would prove
a test for further actions which involve
approximately 320,000 acres of land in
tlic Creek nation. Judge Raymond,
before whom the ease was tried, took
tin matter under advisement.
Mork Broom Cork.—The fanners of
Custer county are proposing to plant
more seres of broom corn this year
ever before.
the Muskogee l’er lot to help finance the proposition
| have all been sold and the deeds signed
and delivered.
Ardmore Block Bernkd.—A block
of frame business houses burned at
Ardmore. The loss is$15.000. The in-
surance is about $7,000. The fire orig-
inated in the store of Kn-lin A Hoff.
Will M akk a Tour.—Prof. D C.
Hall, instructor of physical culture
of the University of Oklahoma, will
make a tour, visiting the principal
towns of the territory with his gym-
nasium squad of athletes which tie has
had under special instruction for sev-
eral months.
Under Load or Lumrkb.—Philip
Haranan, a farmer living west of
Arapalio, was crushed to death under
a load of lumber He was discovered
when the team u .died h me witli the
empty wagon, uc was o3 years old.
New Bank Building.— The orient
state bank at Lone Wolf is advertising
for bids on a new building.
One-half in Towns.—One-half of
the population of Kay county arc in
its eitie's and towns.
M.asinu Grand Lecturer.—fudge
\V. I(. Brown has pneumonia. He is
the lecturer in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory for the Masonic grand lodge.
He is getting up in years and it is
thought by many of his friends that
the sickness will go hard with him
Poni A Schools Closed. The thou-
sand school children ctf Ponca City met
a surprise in finding the schools closed
in the middle of the term by order of
the school board. The board did not
make a public explanation of their
order.
Kil l i d iiv A< i ldeXT. Winnie Woixl-
mansec. about’17 years of age, was ac-
cidentally killed while out limiting
near Jefferson, by the discharge of a
shotgun in the hands of a companion,
Tom l.uttrell. The boy lived about
four hours after the accident ■ eeurred
cial genius of Aunt Lucy, accustomed .
all her life to culinary problems, that j
had foreseen profit in eggs and chick- j
ens when she noted the exalted joy j
with which the hungry cow punchers |
fell upon a meal of this sort after a
season of salt pork, tough beef and j
Dutchmven bread.
At first Major Buford rebelled at the
thought of inkeeping. His family had
kept open house before the war, and |
he came from a land where the j
thoughts of hospitality and of price
were not to be mentioned in the same i
day. Yet he was in a region where
each man did many things, the first
that thing which seemed nearest at 1
hand to be done.
From the Halfway House south to
the Red River there was nothing edi-
ble. And over this Red River there
came now swarming uncounted thou-
sands of broad-horned cattle, dri.cn
by many bodies of hardy, sunburned,
beweaponed, hungry men. At Ellis-
ville, now rapidly becoming an im-
portant cattle market, the hotel ac-
commodations were more pretentious
than comfortable, and many a cow-
man who had sat at the hoard of the
and exonerated UK companion from Halfway "inise going up the traih
would mount his horse and ride back
“Now, Aunt Lucy,” said Mary E.ien.
sagely, "there isn’t anything wrong
with your soul at all. You're as good
an old thing as ever breathed, I'm
sure of that, and the Lord will re-
ward you If he ever does any one,
white or black.”
"Docs you think that, honey?"
“Indeed I do.”
“Well, sometimes I thinks the Lord
ain’t goin' to fergive me fer all ther
devilment I done when I was l’il. You
know, Miss Ma’y Ellen, hit take a life
er prayer vo wipe out ouah transgre»-
shuns. Now, how kin I pray, not to
say pray, out yer, in this yer lan'?
They ain’t a chu'ch in a hunderd mile
o’ yer, so fer’s I kin tell, an’ they
shoh’ly ain't no chu'ch fer cullud folks.
Seems to me like, ef 1 c'd jess know
er single nigger, so'st we c'd meet
onct in er while, an’ so’st we c’d jess
kneel down togetheh an' pray com-
fer'ble like, same's ef 'twus back In
ole Vehglnny-N-whv, Miss Ma’y Ellen.
I’d be the happiest ole 'ooman ever
you did see.”
Mary Ellen rose and went to her
room, returning with her guitar. “Lis-
ten. Aunt Lucy,” she said; "I will
play and you may sing. That will
make you feel better, I think.”
It was only from a perfect under-
standing of the negro character that
Little Boy's Explanation Embarrassed
Generous Teacher.
At recess one morning little Nathan
Garowski withdrew to a corner and
wept, and the heart of his pretty
teacher was moved with compassion.
•What's the matter, Nathan?” she
inquired gertly. "Why don't you play
with the others?"
Nathan looked up with dimmed
eyes. Dust and tears mingled on his
lirown cheeks. He pointed mutely to
his skirt and then broke into a roar:
"It was the dress of Rebecca. Me
mi.dder no money has for buy me any-
t'ing. I nefer have the trouser, and
the children—the children—they stick
out the finger on me, and make a
laughs. They call me—call me—a
gi-girl.”
"Don't mind them, dear,” said Alice
Harmon with sj mpathv. "They shall
not laugh at you long. I will get you
a coat and trousers, too.”
Several days later Nathan appeared
in the glory of a new suit and strutted
about basking in the admiring glances
of those who had despised him. His
cup of pride was filled to overflowing
when the superintendent came In with
the principal for a visit of inspection.
Nathan, well in the foreground,
glanced at his garments and looked
at the strangers for approbation.
"Why, little boy. what a fine pair of
trousers!" said the superintendent af-
fably. “Where did you get them?”
Nnthan drew himself up to his full
height, and outstretched his hand In
the direction of his beloved teacher.
“I got them off her,” be announced.
"I got them off Miss Harmon.”
Then Alice Harmon, with .the blush
of confusion on her fair face, ex-
plained: “The—the children—on the
East Side always say 'off when they
mean 'from.’ ”—Lippincott’s.
GOT THERE AT LAST.
all blame.
Night Telkphoxi Serviii King-
fisher is asking for night telephone
service because fires often occur at
night and it lias no other way of turn-
ing in the alarms.
Burned in Jail. Carl Black and
Cecil Hoggett. two young men, wort
burned to death in the city jail at
Mountain View. They had been ar-
rested for drunkeness about midnight
and it is thought that the bedding
caught fire ftoin a lighted cigarette.
Idle G vs Weli s.—There are ninety
oil and nine gas wells near Bartlesville,
I. T.. only forty of which aiv being
worked, anti there an* forty six oil
wells near Chelsea. 1 I’., of which only
twenty-five are being worked becaus#
the others have no pipe line facilities.
twentr five raUcs lor ^rr._S«,» | SSTSSzlSll^rjrS.:
grace; yet there, beneath the floor of
the attractions of corn bread and
chicken when prepared by the hands j
of a real genius gone astray on this
much miscooked world.
Thus the little Southern family j
quickly found itself possessed of a
definite, profitable and growing busi- |
ness.
Buford tvas soon able to employ aid
in making his Improvements. He
constructed a large dugout. after the
fashion of the dwelling most com- !
mon In the country at that time. This
manner of dwelling, practically a roof-
ed-over cellar, its side walls showing |
but a few feet above the level of the
earth, had been discovered to be a
very practical and comfortable form
of living place by those settlers who
found a region practically barren of
the wide prairie sea. those strange ex-
ercises were carried on, the low-
throbbing of the strings according
with the quavering minors of the old
time hymns, until Aunt Lucy wiped
her eyes and smiled.
"Thank yer, Miss Ma'y Ellon," she
said; "thank yer a thousand times.
You shoh'ly does know how toe com-
fort folks mighty well, even a pore ole
nigger.”
On the morning following Aunt
Lucy’s devotional exercises that good
soul seemed to be altogether happy
and contented and without any doubts
as to her future welfare. Mary Ellen
was out in the open air, bonnetlcss
and all a-blow. It was n glorious, sun-
ny day, the air charged rith some
President's Messenger Long Delayed
by Senatorial Courtesy.”
One of the prerogatives of a United
States senator is that when he steps
aboard an elevator in the senate wing
of the capitol he Is carried Immedi-
ately to his destination, no matter in
which direction the elevator may bo
bound or who may be aboard. Throe
rings of the bell indicate that a sena-
tor wants to ride, and the conductor
loses no time in responding to the
call. •
One day last week Mr. Barnes, the
assistant secretary to the president,
stepped aboard a senate elevator
trom the ground floor. In a portfolio
under his arm he carried a message
from the president of the United
States to the Congress.
"Senate floor," said Mr. Barnes, as
the conductor shut the door.
Just then there were three rings of
the bell and the indicator showed that
r. senator wanted to be lifted out of
the terrace The elevator went down
instead of up, and Mr. Barnes went
along. The senator in the tcrraco
only wanted to go to the ground floor.
As he stepped off. however, there wa3
another senatorial ring from the ter-
race. The senator wanted to go to
the gallary floor, and the elevator
went there without stopping. As the
car started down there were three
rings from the ground floor, and ngain
the car failed to stop at the destina-
tion of the president s secretary. For-
tunately for Mr. Barnes, this senator
wanted to get off at the senate floor,
and the congress, after long delay, re-
ceived the message from the presi-
dent.—Washington Post
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