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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

Z Mr. David r. FrGncis wants the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency in 1908. but present prospects
are that the Democratic party will be
from Nebraska on that proposition.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

free citizen to join his fellows in de
termination to put down such schemes
of buying elections at all hazards and
for all time
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

one OF natures remedies: cannot harm
the weakest constitution; never fails to
cure summer complaints Of young or old.
DR. Fowlers Extract of wild Strawberry
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

Ladies. II you want refined and bril-
liant complexion, free from blemishes,
use Holsters Rocky Mountain Tea.
Brings red lips. bright eyes and cream
like complexion. 30 cents Tea or Tab
let's Ask your druggist.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26
-ruEspAY. sEPTEMBER 90. l905.

with the beef trust butting once
more into the limelght, it is up to the
tobacco trust to smoke up.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

Harry Clark has been offered fine
position as cotton buyer at Cache,
but prefers to remain in Guthrie and
represent the Merchants association.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

TIE Cleveland. Okla, postoffice has
been raised to the presidential class
during the past week. with s1.70O
salary attached The change begins
October L.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

More than forty memorials condemn
ing the treaty Of peace have been re
ceived by the Mikado Of Japan. These
be strenuous times for his distinguish
I'd ancestors.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

Tom Cook, the well known sporting
man Of oklshoma City, has moved to
Salt Lake City. Utah. Oklahoma City
was too slow for him.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

Arrangements have been made at
Ripley for farmers fair and institute
TO be held October IL, l3 and IA.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26

John ID. DeBois has sold his proper
ty, lot u, block SO, East Guthrie, to
G. w Knoblanch for $1,000
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-09-26
LOCAL POINTS

Paul Newman has copy Of the orig
inal Hebrew testament
Francis Hathaway sold lots and 4,
block Z, Belyeas addition Yesterday,
to Frank Lehman for $500.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30
WONDERFUL ISLE OF PINES
It Is Declared to BE the Garden Spot
of Western Hemisphere.

It Is Declared to BE the Garden Spot
of Western Hemisphere.
r. G. Symes of New Orleans dropped
| into the Cotton Exchange for a few
moments the other day, says the Hous-
ton Post. ~ have just returned from
the Isle of Pines" he said, land there
is no doubt about its being the garden
spot of the western hemisphere. 1t
lies something like sixty miles south
of Cuba and up to six years ago the
people of this country had scarcely
ever heard Of it. Now 1t is rapidly de-
veloping into the greatest resort al
most to the south of us. Before we
Americans heard of it, it had become
the sanitarium of the Cubans, for 1t Is
literally covered with the finest min
eral springs in the world. Its future
possibilities are absolutely illimitable
in many ways. But 1t is the fruit gar
den of the tropics. Citrus fruits are at
home there and oranges grow wild and
in the greatest profusion, and owing
to the unreliability of the crops else
where l am firmly convinced that the
time is at hand when 1t is going to be
one of the biggest factors in the orange
supply of the country. The transfer
nations taking place there are also
little short Of wonderful. About six or
seven years ago the half-million square
acres of the island belonged to the
Spaniards, but to-day nearly every bit
of it has passed to American control.
can also see trouble brewing In that
quarter, perhaps of a serious sort, for
the Americans there unhesitatingly as
sert that title to 1t did not pass to Cuba
at the close of the Spanish war, but
that 1t is the property Of the United
States. The people in control there
want no Cuban proprietorship and are
disposed to resist any claims In that
direction. They say the island is of
right the property Of the United States,
and that the latter must assert sover-
eighty, and II such does not come pref
ty soon there is every prospect of the
neatest sort Of little scrimmage In
that locality. The trouble is perhaps
more serious than many imagine, for
the Americans who own the lands are
among the most influential sort in this
country and they are dead sure to
bring such pressure to bear upon some
administration as will compel the rec
ognition of their claims. For my part
don't know of a better piece Of
ground above which to float forever
the stars and stripes than the Isle of
Pines. 1t is to-day the richest piece
OF ground. size considered, In the civil
to be made right there"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30
THE WEDDING DIRECTOR.
Boston Woman a Pioneer In New Occu-
patton for Women.

Boston Woman a Pioneer In New Occu-
patton for Women.
A wideawake woman In Boston has
found new outlet for woman's actlv-
ity by taking charge Of weddings, ac-
cording to the New York Tribune. On
the day of the marriage ceremony the
bride and the brides mother are gen.
orally too busy and too tired to give
much attention to the management of
details. AS helper in this household
emergency the wedding director fills
long felt want. The name of this plo-
neer is Mrs. Nellie Bliffins and she
lives with her husband and daughter
on Boston's aristocratic Beacon street
Mrs. Briff1ns' method is to get to the
house early and to give her first atten-
ton to the trousseau. She sees to it
that the dress, gloves and slippers are
just right She then takes charge Of
the packing. The bride eats her lunch
con in comfort, knowing that every
thing she needs will be in her bags and
trunks, carefully inventoried In little
book as to its precise location.
Mrs. Briffins is at the church door
before the marriage ceremony, to give
the last touches to the brides gown
before the bride enters the church. The
girls mother Is even saved from hav-
fng to see that the rooms are put In
order after the newly welded wife has
gone on her wedding tour. Mrs. Blif
fins attends to all that
The value of the work of the wed
ding director is best attested by the
popularity it has attained. Most of
her business, Mrs. Bliff1ns says, comes
indirectly. 1t has grown on the prin-
ciple Of an advertisement Of certain
merchant some years ago: IF you
don't like 1t, tell me; II you do like 1t,
tell others"
At first many people. were inclined
to pooh-pooh the idea of a wedding di-
rector. To-day, however, they have
learned that even to run a wedding
properly takes some expert knowledge.
Mrs. Bliffins is a student of design and
decorative art, as well as of the chang
ing fashions. Frequent visits to New
York, and occasional ones to Paris en-
able her to bring back ideas Of how
they manage these things In other
places. But more valuable yet are the
many suggestions her woman's wit and
her woman's taste enable her to add to
the convenience or the beauty of the
wedding.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30

1t is regrettable but true that among
our colored brethren of the sunny
South the stealing of poultry is not
considered heinous sin. Indeed, they
seem to look upon the matter very
much as did Huckleberry Finn, who
said, II remember rightly, that ais
pap" always took along a chicken
when 1t didn't seem to be "roosting
comfortable" because even II he didn't
need 1t himself it was an easy matter
to find somebody who did. An anus
ing story is told of how negro
preacher once took advantage of this
weakness among his parishloners.
Just before the collection was taken
up one Sunday morning he announced
that he regretted to state that a GER
tain brother had forgotten to lock the
door Of his chicken-house the night
before, and as a result In the morning
he found that most of his fowls had
disappeared.
81 doan' want ter be pussonal, bred
ren," he added, but l hab my suspi-
cions as to who stole dem chickens. I
also hab reason fob bellevin' dat II
am right in desc suspicious dat pusson
won't put any money in de plate which
will now be passed around"
The result was fine collection, not
a single member of the congregation
feigning sleep. After 1t was counted
the old parson came forward.
NOW, bredren," he said, 1T doan'
want your dinnehs to be spoilt by
wonderin' where dat brudder lives who
doan' lock his chickens up at night.
Dat brudder doan' exist, nah friends.
He was parable, gotten up fob pur-
pose of ances."-Popular Magazine.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30
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PoPuls.E!I'2ie


~|~N~N~~"O-~~~N~~~~S~
1t is reported in German newspapers
that the Chinese government has re-
Gently granted its first patent. IT ia
for an electric lamp invented by a na-
tive Of Marking, who claims that he
has far outdone his foreign rivals. and
VINO calls his lamp, with that touch
OF poetry which Is more common to
the Chinese mind than people who
know only the John Chinaman" of
America imagine, bright moonlight"
The recent classification at the Brit
ish Patent Office shows that cooking
is the popular subject of invention
having been the subject Of 1878 Brit
1sh patents in forty-eight years, or an
average of seventy-three year. Um-
brellas brought out 1857 inventions
and hats 1,411. Invention tends to run
In grooves, 1896 and 1897 rejecting the
enormous development in cycles. while
motor vehicle inventions have doubled
since 1900.
Much interest has been awakened
among naturalists by the discovery Of
a species of white or polar bear living
inland in the northwestern part of
British Columbia. A mounted speci-
men has been in possession of the Car
negie Museum for nine years, but only
lately was its true character recog-
nized. 1t had been regarded as an
albino black bear, but william T.
Hornaday has shown that 1t is really a
species Of the white polar bear. The
specimen Is Az feet long and 81 inches
In height. No living bear Of this spe-
cies is in captivity, but efforts are now
making to capture one or more for the
New York Geological Park.
Tea drinking is an acquired habit.
and NJ. Jules Rudolph expresses the
belief that 1t would not be difficult to
transfer our liking for Chinese tea to
any one of various infusions having
the same effect in aiding digestion and
stimulating the nervous system. Some
of these infusions of leaves and fow-
ers have been known to us as medi-
cines. Camomile, veronica, sage, am
brosia, horsemint and wlntergreen are
among the locally we'll known of many
common plants yielding agreeable teas,
and Paraguay tea and false tea are
already much used In South America.
M. Rudolph looks upon Roman camo-
mile as an especially promising tea
substitute. He has found the unknown
tea of the tarragon to be very pleas
ant, and 1t is useful in stomach weak.
ness.
The recent use Of copper sulphate
for the disinfection of reservoirs and
the destruction of algae and noxious
germs in water has led to much dis
cussion Of the old idea that copper Is
dangerous to health. DIR. George T.
Moore of the Department of Agricul-
ture maintains that a change has come
over scientific opinion on this subject
Strange as 1t may seem, he says, there
Ia not an authentic case of copper-poi-
soning on record, either In this country
or abroad, and he adds that toxicolo-
gists and psychologists who. have suffi-
Gently studied the subject agree that
copper,'in the amount used for purifica-
ton of water, Is harmless. On account
of the many defects in the practical
use of filtration plants, DR.. Moore re-
CARDS publication of water supplies py
copper as a preferable method, or at
least as q safe auxiliary.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30
CHAPTER II.

II heard the footsteps of his pony
long way off. / was in the middle of the
open road when l saw him coming along
In the moonlight. 1 stood still and wait
ed for him. Murder him! Murder himv
whispered a voice in my ear. Whose
voice was thatf The evil ones voice.
MY stick was thick, heavy cudgel
with knob. l grasped 1t by the end
and waited. He did not see me. He
was looking straight before him, think
ing, l suppose, how he had done well to
get the nephew out of the wayne had
robbed and ruined. So, as he came up
to me l lifted my arm and struck him
on the head once, saying, Give me back
my land, villainv But I do not know
whether he heard me or saw me; for he
fell to the ground without a word or a
groan-
HE fell, say, from his pony clean
on to the ground, his feet slipping away
from the stirrups. His face was white.
I stood beside him, waiting to see If he
would recover. / hoped he would, be-
cause 1t is a dreadful thing to think that
you have murdered a man, even when
you are still hot with rage. If he would
only recover little and sit up, 1 thought,
I should be happy man. But he did
not. He lay quite still and cold.
"Then began to think that If 1 were
caught should be hanged. Would they
suspect me? Fortunately, no one had
seen me take that road. must go away
as quickly as could, and leave no trace
or sign that would make them suspect
me-
'Then thought that if I were to rob
him, people would be less inclined to
think Of me; because, though 1 might
murder the man who had ruined me
they would never believe that l would
rob him.
81 felt In his pockets. There was his
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30

Isn't this the way good advice goes
the world over? To-day we saw one
of our associates writing piece
about the folly of drinking Ice water.
Then he went over to the tank and
filed up on It.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30
ExCeptiona.

Cholly-Bronson's the worst ass in
town, but on me honah his wife is the
clevahest woman 1 ever saw.
Molly-Is that kind7
Cholly-Oh! Present company al
ways excepted, y know.
Molly-Yes, in both cases.-CIeve-
land Leader.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30

A man is rich in proportion to the
thing he can afford to let alone.-Tho
reau.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30

Many a man owes all he has to his
wife-and a lot more to other people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

extremely bored-eXcept when she buried that
distracting in a bunch of white vio1ets''
But | thought you didn't like white violets?"
Phyllis depressed.
You anticipate, dear. | fell to wondering
who she was, what her life had known where
she had boarded train and to what place
she going She certainly could not get
out before reached Toledo, and that was three
hours ahead. The scorned novel rose to par.
Surely she could not object to my hospitality
You didn't speak to herr" At times Phyls's
voice freeze man.
Eyes, my dear You wouldn't have me SO TN
gallant as to pretty Enthusiastically
bored and alone, and not try to help her Besides,
if | hadn't offered her the book there wouldn't be
a story, and you especially want story.
my lady of the Pullman coach accepted my
courtesy with gracousness of manner and with
the pose which American girls seem to acquire
wonder Easily we fell to talking. She going
to New-York to meet her husband. | confess |
bit upset to find that she was married q
always was If it was pretty woman). We dis
covered that she knew my cousins the Gillettes
intimately; for l had told her who | was, and that
l was bound for New-York, also, with stop-over
at Niagara
Joy! She going there. / had been at
tracted to her from the start and by this time /
had decided that were to be good friends. In
fact, | of the opinion that had she been
married | certainly should have been in love with
her, if | was not even then There is tempting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
One Of the Girls He Nj
Before He Married Phyllis
By L A u r A S 7 z d nj A n

might at any moment burst from her repressed
calm and hurl herself upon with incoherent
maze of questions. l decided that l wouldn't study
her; mental telepathy might carry. So my gaze
wandered to the compartment opposite, where
seated modestly and at her an extremely beat
tiful young woman"
''What did she have on?''
ooh, you silly Phyllis! She wore some dark,
close-ftting dress, which did not notice partcu-
1ary; but she beautiful, with coil of smooth
dark hair, and the quaintest little turned-up-to-
Heaven nose" That unkind; for Phyllis
nose, which | love, is Independently straight.
" Her gray eyes frank and tender and wistfu1,
and there exquisite delicacy in the of
her throat but certain grimness that l did not
fancy lurked around her lips. Hers face
that puzzled and interested me; it capable of
varying depths. She seemed absent-ninded and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

Il did not enjoy my meal. Her enthusiasm
shamed me, and as had besides a sense of having
acted rather cavaierly in leaving her alone, l
hurried through the dessert to reach her again
She had crossed to Goat Island and was leaning
the rail by the Horseshoe Falls. l came up
to her noiseessly; but she knew my presence for
without turning she said:
al have been watching those two wonderful
waters out there in the middle See how they
start apart and then rresistib1y are drawn to-
gether rushing madly on, twisting and turning
until they engulfed A love like that must
be wonderful
1T might be equally DISASTROUS replied.
"'Wouldn't you willingly sacrifice everything
for such a love? All pitifuly few know
it. then too late The sadness and longing in her
face thrilled me.
Might came the stars were more brilliant than
a moon; and the Maid of the Mist gnmered within
her long white veil Phyllis, there are moments
in ones life when out under Gods open it seems
if the very spirit of the universe is abroad and
the hour set apart for condolences which otherwise
would be told Niagara make people
akin 1t makes all the world contemporaries. |
should advise Old Age and Youth to go there
their honeymoon.
She not happy. Hers had been a lonely
childhood, then young marriage, and now an
utterly empty married life Not story;
but it filled me with sudden desire to answer the
wish in those great eyes The perfume of her
volets urged me- and the noise of the waters
above the admonitory small voice Around us lay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

Phyllis patted my cheek with the most cOaX1ng
of finger-tips.
You may not be happy afterward, lassie
mine"
Eyes, l shall know"
ITO the DEATH them l responded gai1y, while
Phyllis snuggled closer, with her eyes burning for
the story.
After ALL wasn't it cruel? She was such wide
eyed little innocent. Yet these ceaseless question
ings!
"Al right 1t was just four years ago the nine
teenth of next month"; never could forget the date
l was Pullman coach returning from Chicago
and was booked to stay at Niagara to meet a
on business and incidentally to see again the
wonder of that rush of waters. | was carving
III my left breast pocket valuable package of
papers and certificates that summed UP my
trip to the West for our company, and which
to bring about crisis in my career with
the firm.
We steamed along for some two hours, during
which time | dled through current novel, that
a shrewd newsboy placed in my seat with SO
friendly a that | could do nothing else
than buy it politely. The monotonous lurchng
of the hurrying train made me lazy; and tired
of the blurred green outside, and of the foolish
twaddle on my knees l began to study my fellow
sufferers
Here Phyllis gave an interested little wiggle.
In the section in front of me was a queer old
ing maiden trip, and who looked though she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

tain pretty little sphinx-eyed tease" l replied
Didn't you ever have thrilling experience
with woman-one that nothing make you
forget?"
l reflected Had l? Yes, away back in a dim
pgeonhole of my memory, in of those hooks
which love to rummage in a pensive twilight
there was such an event. And | smiled
Now, Phyllis be exceedingly bewitching and
extremely winning; but she ought to learn that
Sunday when she is dressed, l like to her, in
some cnging black stuff, with a little Presbyterian
bib of white under her chin, and with crisp white
ruffes peeping the tniest of feet; and when
we are alone for a long afternoon, while the rain
patters soft old tunes the roof, l do not
to be questioned about the actors who played
their parts my stage before the entrance of
the star.
Moreover, Phyllis and l have been married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

Of the encounter A couple Of days at Niagara,
with lovely sympathetic woman, and with no one
to disturb us! If only she not married. Bits
of old French romances drifted through my mind
but then it just because she was married
that it all could happen"
Il glad you had some sense of propriety."
Phyllis's ancestral Phistinism is most trying
1--WE reached enchanted haven at sunset.
The falls iridescent promise Ny COM
panion sought the capable maid at the Overview
House, while flung my luggage into my spacious
rOom and then dashed out to snatch every moment
of the fleeing color From favorite rock |
gazed into the seething mad pool l could under
stand how that stealthy seductive flow could drag
a down into its depths. 1t was an American
Lorelei and how like her hair l thought was that
waving band of water in the shadow of the rock.
Ali and was there not faint fragrance of violets?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

10 think they are to turn this beauty
into force to supply Buffalo with light
said low voice at my elbow. 1t was she.
1t does seem barbarous, but the
amount of water that they consume
will not be missed, they say l replied
g Perhaps not; but it seems so COM
mercial, SO material. We have no re-
spect for this masterpiece of Nature,
though we would have infinite respect
for painting of the falls done by some
famous artist.
go In discovering that the force pro-
duced from the vertical drop of COM
paratively small quantity of this water
can generate enough electricity to supply
a large city, we thereby are honoring its
divine power to the best possible advan-
tage. And as to an artists genius-it
lives beyond the canvas; it has its effect
on hundreds of students
90 suppose you approve also of tear
ing down the Palisades, and in time
would countenance the Yosemite being
disfgured in some savage way?'
There you are unfair The Palisades
are different thing entirely, and in that
instance l do not approve. By the
way, unless we go up to the hotel we
sha'n't have any dinner, and this air has
made me hungry
Thank you, but l would rathsr stay
here So, as l had imagined, she WAS y
woman with deep feeling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
I S

safety in falling in love with
a married woman, | considered.
Anyway, husband or. no hus-
band, there was nothing to pre-
vent my asking her permission
to be her guide at the falls. My
head spun with the excitement