The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1909-04-09

"ONLY
A
MISTAKE"
by CLARENCE Mako.
by CLARENCE Mako.
,Copyright, By shortltory Pub. Co.

1
ccivcd by our brain cells at any time
and under all circumstances. no mat
] ter whether we be sober or drunk, on
the field of battle or In the region OF
abstract thought, Is recorded on tho
| tablets of mcmCry. and Is never lost.
! Moreover. IL Is "a singular fact that the
| proper degree of molecular vibration
| being excited In the brain, no matter
| by what cau.c-and the possible
causes are without numbcr-thcse
! thoughts spring into active and con
scious re-cxistence, for they have
| ncyCr been destroyed. Here lies the
Key to some interesting phenomena
Have you ever on making a call
| thought YOU had hung your hat up
on the hall rack. and when leaving
| sought there yainly for the very hat
which perhaps YOU were holding ia
your hand? II YOU have. you know
how unpleasantly this little trick of
your brain Jared your reason. in spite
of your involuntary apology that lit
was only a mistake, trinng. absent.
minded mistake. after all"
IL was all because OF just such a
little mistake on the part Of Mrs.
Starr, that foolish persons who postu-
late, Marriage is "A failure" used to
| point triumphantly at Starr and his
wife. All on account Of a queer little
| brain trick. Mrs. Starr blighted her
husbands life and her own.
Still, when they harnegsed up to-
| gether for better or for worse, no
| couple could be more devote edly in love
with one another than were they.
| This forms a rather sad but, think.
| profitable little story.
| Now that the principals concerned
are dead and gone. the physician who
attended Mrs Starr says ! am at lib
| erty to tell the tale. He laughs, as
he is entitled to, at the construction /
| put upon the facts-but inconsistently
eyades sitting in judgment on the case.
Men remember Mrs. Starr as the
beautiful Miss Smell. fer her face I'm
those days was u face that no man
could quite forget. She was the most
utterly ruthless coquette of her day.
The family means, In her generation,
sary to keep up the prestige OF the
family name.
Her papa and her mamma never
ceased To lament that fact. aud Miss
Smell was dutifully impressed in her
early girlhood that her beauty must
win back the departed family glorics
by social achievements. How well II
dii everybody knows.
by mere coincidence. among the
persons chained by her smiles wss q
Boy who did not have much of any
thing but naval commission, some
brass buttons and sword
This business with the BOY was
quite unnecessary. Miss Smell had
nothing 20 gain hy winning the poy =
Owe; still, she even went out % her
way TO do IT, The Boy avoided her
because he know she was unob:ain
able for him, and because tho FIRST
Inc he looked into Ter eyes Ne knew
With but ha'f chance, he would low,
lcr vCgy badly Miss Smell knew q
90, but n the E1y had rot ayoiic5
lcr, she would not have done What
.ho di1.
She was cnggHcl TO another maI
a. the timc--it was her ,hir1--an,
she deliberately broke TIA. engage
mgUi ,hl, she m,rhj be free to dca
with the noy This was mcst cftoc
iaGliy ucCnmu.
He was queer mixture OF poet an,
sailor ,hc Roy was. and Miss Tncl
was q lula shocEpl at the temp $
she invoked w,bia him. There wa
somu,hns in his glorous ayowal o
love thai made former pgotostation
puic into ir8!ui'Caucc. II carried he
away for the moment, and sine goy
him her Inns and she guvc him he
promise knowing very wOll in he
hear, of hearts it was the old stor
of love ON one side and submission o
the other. But marriage on his pa
was impossible. SO The Boy went o
TO his ship, ana Miss smell back to he
/, tgiumphs in thc social whlrl of "a
! city,
The letters that came to her frur
! every port the Roy's ship made wer
, rather remarkable. They were OF
I new breed and gpoc'os The write
|, seemed 20 have an mCauny diylnutio
of everything the woman he loved di
T. or thought. In spite OF that, ana mos
pltiful OF al, IN immcasura5lc 10"
hrcathcd forth from every line. y
man should write the things he wrot
. 30 amy Twins woman, 40 last a lo.t.
came from Honolulu thatwa so toucl
inc In ita pathos, so ahicc, IN its dey,
ton, aud still so mnryc,oUsly pgaphe
b. ic In rs conception OF Miss Smell
llfe, that she relt called upon 20 writ
J him some truths This was Just ab0,
:. the time she met Starr, and fell
!, victim herself TO the passion she ha
I. trihcd with so often,
When the noy received hcr lcttJ
l. he went down TO his quarters in N
, waydrocm and blew his brains a
] over the nice white paint that coycrg
I the cruisers armorod walls. Out
iocencys s2ke the surgeon called fl
!. pistolcleaning accident, but he w
!, brutal enough TO send back 4 boo
| latfar fbat la. F,,,nA a.,