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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
COTTON
GW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS. May 1.-The better
political news, tho large business re-
ported In finished goods md threatened
lower temperatures In the western belt
we're IesponsibM for an upward move
the first hall hour Of trading prices
rosa ~ to a pointA
Heports OF firisness and more activity
In the spot department increased the
demand from contra cts. In the trading
up 10 noon the advance was widened
to. ~ TO IS polnta
Spot cotton steady and unchanged.
Sales on the spot ,S5s: to arrive 4 ,lS5.
Low middiine 33,00c; middling a. 7sc:
good mIddllnG ,s.7bc. Receipts 1859;
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

dered to Greece TO handle a revolt
which has broken out as a result OF
the Greeks demand for independence,
General Allenby has been called de-
liverer Of the Holy land.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

COPENnAGEN, Nay I. - The
ring Of gcvsssment tfceps 10 ensiag
arotnd Musieh, according o Bsrliu
dispatches The village d Sskonsas
and limiting have been eaplsket som
the soviet fsfces without Nv, ~
are shout forty milss nofthwsss q
the city.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
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! hold that this In real good dope,
And ~e should all condemn
Those men who make friends with the
That thsir friends will max. them.
Oh, JoyF
II Iva Pool, OF Walton, Ky, gives us
an invite we would like to do a little
fishing and swimming.
Coshi
Il wonder what Japanese does
when his collar button rolls under the
dresser and loses itself1" mised the
Crouch.
why do you wonder that," asked
the Old Fogy.
There are no cuH words in the
Japanese language" replied the
Crouch.
Hav, Hawl
He Is q fat head, that 10 true.
1 speak of Oswald Hantx;
For he 10 planting oysters to
Produce some oyster plants.
Ouch!
Hardin SPOTS lives on Price Hill,
Cincinnati
Tbs Wise Fool.
bad air causes fatigue" observed
the Sage
so does hot air." added the Fool.
10 That Sol
Your troubles I don't want to know
Said grouchy Samuel Sawyer:
"f you must tell your troubles. 80
And tell them u a lawyer.
Huh.
"We should profit by the mistake
OF others" remarked Miss Oldgirl.
That's right" agreed Mr.. Oldbach.
That is the reason have never mar
ried."
Two DSmlis.
Wilmington JournA- -RepubIcan)
Once upon time there was .
man whcse job was harder than he
thought if yas. Luke McLuke, And
once upofs time there was a man
who could do his job better than he
thought he could.
More Like 1t.
That man lives by his Wits" said Jack.
That cannot be- said Britts.
nv A. hs ks Hxyan hu hA
OF other peoples vita"
Mail Order Dentistry.
F. E. Smith, Of Chicago. ILL.,, picked
up = letter that was addressed 10 q
firm Of dentists In Chicago. The let
ter was from = farmer in Wisconsin
and wanted 10 know II the dentists
would make him q set Of false ieeth
and nail them in. Ths last paragraph
Of the letter read ~ follows:
my mouth 10 three inches acrost
Il 10 five eishts inches threw the jaw
II is some humnoeky on the edge. 1t Is
shaped like . horse shoe with the toe
forward. II yoa can't make the teeth
from this description. ln>haf to cum
and see you
Aw, 0Vaa!
WY Doe river yiseY' said Park.
"t'tl ten yeu u you won't get sore:
The pHcs 70 wSic6 4 ross before"
Luke McLuke.
why doas q river r,ssi taks
IT. myl Joesphue u1ank.
Tat ~ re .,,s Sscss.; =, y wants to make
-Nswsrk Advocate.
Ths Levstls Corn-Fsl.
Dr.. Sree Bssudsb. Chicago
scientist. made Q test at the Great
Lakes training station to deterAips
whether nssn iiks thin girls OF pluap
| siflsa best. He blind folded twenty,
nosen snilosa and lst s;uht sivts 0as1
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
OF. loU,O.

ST LOUIS. May l.--coRN: No. Q
i,M; No. 3 white el7o. OATS: No. !
70hc; No. white tSkc.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Maw voNk sVeAR.

INV YonI Ny i,-suoAR: Yw.!
ssssS ~ y rs ;ss.s'kss'i'' fine s'ann-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

the "gobs' one at a time The gobs
were permitted to hug each Of the
girls and then announce by number
which girl they liked bea without
having seen the girl. And what hap
pened' Why, every one Of the twenty
seven gobs selected the same girl. And
she was a real Corn Fed, while the
other girls were slender.
DO what2
r. NJ. Douthat rims an electrical
shop in Morgantown, w. Va.
Where's That There Um-ber -slla7
We have had quite flock OF rain in
this section this spring. But what W
started to say was that you can al
ways c. A. Bigdroy in Kearney. Neb
Names 10 Names.
0. Lord lives at Norton, Va.
Goshl And We Missed II!
The bride wore beautiful bouquet
pink sweet peas and after congratula-
,ions the guests we're served with light
refreshments in the large dining room.
Our Daily Special.
You Can Usually Gonneet Your Bad
Luck With Your Bad Habits.
Luke McLuke Says.
Listen for a moment to any two men
who are standing in front of . bar
and you will discover that people do
not have to have anything to talk
about in order to talk. -,
A man has no business squawking
when he is stuny in a get-rich-Quick
game II he hadn't been so anxious to
cheat he wouldn't have been cheated
The fact that you think your girl is
tall and willowy won't keep other folk,
from thinking that she is long and
lanky.
Most folks act as though there was
a stiff war tax on the use Of the terms
Please" and Thank You"
A bully is Z man who knows thai
the average man would rather be i'm
posed upon than fight.
Once in while you run into a man
who reminds you OF six-inch dog
that has a Ak foot bark.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
kANsAs CITY CASH DRAIN.

KANSAS CITY. May i,--wHEAr:
sSsA No. osssss ssss Ne So '1,s rss sac'ss; ssis NJ
Z t'71, CokN; steady to higher. No,
Z H. m,,sa s,,,u,. tis;TIsS; Y lS, No. Whit, t,ss:
No. ]. white 72tc; No. 2 mixed 70d7fc;
No, ; red 70671c. RYE. Sl.ei.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
PROVISIONS
oHicAoo.

CHICAGO, Nay k--PoTATOEs;
bulh wAite stock uieoai6; weatsrp
rupsetl Sl,1 cwt.; new stock tohbi1k
ecsrel: Tssas sa'ss Triunphs WSso
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

clcss, May siSs; July h.ssN Sept
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

Dr.. Ssee Dssudsb, Chicago
scientist. made Q test at the Great
LAKES training station to deterAipe
whether nsn iiks thin girls Of plump
eifle., best. He bliWd-foidsd twenty.
even sailors and let eight girls 'past
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

cHlcA0Q. Nay i,--BUTTER: lower.
creamey .kooSec. E00s: higher: re-
osigts SASss sas::; fir.ts tiY0lsc; ordi.
naY nr9(A lNeoic: at mark. seses in<
sSx$ ~ 1i"essc .sc. ''oT,Es pasS:S ,s, fs:5.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

why Doe . riysr r,ssf take
IT, nIl Jossphus pAnk.
That N's becluse u wants 10 make
A run upon ~ bsek.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Mail Order Dentistry.
Av. 0Van!

why does rivsr yiser' said Park.
"!u tell yeu u yoe won't set sore;
rSc p:cs 70 = wiicS 4 rose before"
Luke McLuke
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

Two DSmlis.
tWilmington JournA- -RepublIcan.)
Once upon a time there was .
man whose job was harder than he
thought il yas."--Luke McLuke, And
once upoha time there was a man
who could do his job better than he
thought he could.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
More Like II.

More Like II.
THAT man lives by his Wits" said Jack
"You mean that he lives by the lack
OF other peoples vita"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

The bride wore a beautiful bouquet
pink sweet peas and after eongratula-
tions the guests we're served with light
refreshments in the large dining room.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-19
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the w ar
never
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~ - = ~~A~-~ ~ - - ~ S9N@A4AS 49, AAAN
4Hl country in q few-Weeks
TO- see the green of the
new leaves, and maybe, too, you've
got tickets for a corking show
tonight, where lne &. there will be.
lights and =5cplors and gay cos
TUNES and-a happy crowd.
Well 80 perhaps the war is
over for you. !,
But for some Of us \
Can YOU rest or work or
play or live until you have finished
the work we started before the
light went out? -. S- -
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
The Vow That Was Kept

West, you must forget that you were born and bred. l did so five years ago. The fact that you are a college girl won't help you half so much as the fact that you are unlearning your eastern method of saddle riding. These westerners don't give a rap concern ing your parents or your grandparents. Their interests are all in the present, not the past. As Jimmy says: One man is as good as another, here, and a heap better So leave off your con- descending airs with Harry Esterly. They are quite lost on him, assure you"
 Edith listened in silence to Mrs. AL colt and watched her as she moved quietly about the living room of the ranchhouse, which was as COZy and homelike as the exterior was dreary. Then she picked up her riding whip, pulled the latch of her sombrero un- der her chin, and with a disdainful little sniff, walked out toward the cor ral. where Harry Esterly awaited her.
 Harry watched her keenly as she strolled slowly toward him.
 Cad" he said to himself, She's well put up."
 And she was. Erect and 1.-the as a young Indian, with hair that shone bronze in the sun, with skin that glowed with health after the morning
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

he returned looking little anxious.
 Hes not there" he said. "He told me he'd reach here by the time the storm broke. It's letting up a little, and I'll send some of the men out soon. Though nothing could have happened to an old timer like Harry"
 Edith said nothing, but as the wind Iessened she stole softly from the room and out toward the stables. Dusk was just beginning to deepen as she rode swifter out toward the stopping place of the morning.
 If he got caught he made for that little shelter I know" she said to her self. But know that that Josephine has done something, even if he Is cowboy, and it's all my fault"
 She drew rein by the hillook. Back in it's shadows sat Harry, pale, but calmly smoking, until he saw the star tied eyes of the girl. Edith gave him no time for questions.
 "Oh," she moaned. "I knew Jose phine would do something"
 Harry glanced in an embarrassed way at his ankle, about which he had awkwardIy tied a handkerchief.
 All my own carelessness," be said. q stood in the saddle to look for the herd and If the blamed little imp didn't buck without a word of warning and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
By Will Seaton

threw me. I'll never hear the end of this at the ranch. First horse that's thrown me in five years. They'll find us in a little while. They know this place."
 But Edith could not see the humor of the situation.
 ''I was selfish, cruel thing" sha moaned. "Oh, you poor, poor boy!"
 Harry looked at her closely. Then he leaned forward and quietly took possession of her hand.
 Edith" he said. softly, Edith, do you carer"
 Edith looked out into the disk. "A cowboy" she thought, just 8 plain cowboy! What would they say?" Then with deep blush she looked into his face. "Yes," she half whispered, I'm afraid do You see, I always said I'd never marry any but @ college man.
 ''Is that so?" chuck1ed Harry. well, you're keeping your VOW. have a sheepsl1in kicking around in my stuff somewhere"
 And you never told mel'' Edith ex~ claimed.
 Harry looked up in surprise. Gee" he said, "I'd forgotten all about it."
 And he sighed in absolute contend as he felt Edith's face against his coat sleeve.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

"Why, she's as safe as a church. And Billy. here, used to buck like a jack rabbit. Of course, he's all right now, though"
 "PIease!" pleaded the girl.
 Harry jumped from his horse and helped Edith from the saddle.
 Let me change saddles quickly" he said. We've no time to waste" And in few minutes Edith was cantering g swiftly toward the ranchhouse, while Harry rode out toward the distant herd
 Half an hour after Edith reached the house the duststorm was upon them. Whirlpools of dust were hurled upon the house by a bowling wind that shook the very rafters.
 Hour after hour of intense dry heat, combined with the screeching of the wind, rasped the nerves almost to the breaking point. Edith strolled rest lessIy from room to room, watching the dust sift in through the closed win dow and under the doors. Finally she approached NIT. Alcott, who had come in just after the storm broke.
 Has Mir. Esterly come in?" she asked. Would you mind looking, Jimmy"
 MT. AIcott sighed patiently and went out into the storm. In a few minutes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
By Enos Emory.

lence
 Tiffany held her breath. She could not move hand or foot Was it a dream. or had the dead indeed come back to live for a moment in that sor- row-haunted room,
 Joys voice broke the stiffness with a stihed sobbing cry.
 70. Honey, Honey Honey! Come to me, Honey! O, I can't bear 1t, can't bear it any more. o, Honey darling, I want you, my little baby, Honey!"
 Her low sobbing filled the room. Tiffany, with some vague idea of com forting her, pushed open the door quietly and went in.
 The room was just as she had all ways known it when Honey was alive. The cot with its looped-up mosquito curtains stood in the center of the room. Toys lay here and there as If only just dropped by small tired hn- gers. Honey's big gramaphone gleamed like gold in the moonlight.
 Beside the bed, her arms outfung on the cover1et. knelt Joy, her fair hair tumbled about her shoulders, sobhing as if her heart would break Joy-who had forgotten. She turned with a start as Tiffany entered. Did you want anything, dear? she asked vaguely. She rose to her feet, a smile on her pale face, leading the way back into her own room. Come in here, dear. Now, what is 1t all about?" and. as Tiffe faItered out her tale. she bent and kissed her very tendeTly.
 He is a nice boy, dear. and I hope you will be very happy. What g cleV- CT little mouse it Is to keep its se- CTet so long!"
 But Tiffany, as she kissed her aunt good night, flung her arms about her neck and whispered passionately: | "Oh, Aunt Joy, I do love you so! 1 never knew darling-oh, I thought, we i all thought, that you'd forgotten. i thought no one remembered Honey
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

speaking behind her. Why, I thought you had left Bombay for good" she said. as she rose and followed the speaker out onto the lawn, unnoticed by any of the others at the table.
 It was very different, very radiant Tiffany who rejoined her aunt when it was time to go home. The clear hap py light in her eyes must have whisp- cred, Who was it, Tiffe?"
 Tiffe only laughed and shook her head. Her glorious secret was far too precious to tell all in hurry like that. She was glad that Just then they met two men who were coming to dinner with them and whom Lady Sea toun persuaded to return with them in the carriage.
 When they reached home Sir Peter hurried every one into the dining room at once, fuming because it was already 10 minutes late. As soon as she possibly could. the girl slipped out by herself into the garden where jasmine filled the air with its ragTance, and the moonlight famed on strange flowers and blos- soming trees and the little red roses and stiff beds of stocks that are the only English flowers which really thrive in the moist salt-laden air of Bombay.
 Sugar, the quaint little fox terrier that loved the girl far better than master who never could bother to feed or pet her, crept up close to her now. and they sat very still, while Tiffle dreamed over again every word and look and movement of those few perfect moments at the club.
 Presently voices came to her from the open drawing room door, voices and laughter and the notes of a piano. Then a pure, glorious contralto voice l hoated out:
 o Ely. Ely, dear to me dear and sweet,
 All night long I am hearing the sound of your little running feet,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
Changing "Hello" to Dear"

Besides, no telephone girl can have a friendship with a department store girl, and vice versa. For some un- known reason they glare at each other as they pass by.
 No, it was not worth going away for, and yet Miss Mira Anderson would go. The manager of the office said she was Jagged out and needed the change.
 As she sat in the park after her boarding dinner, out of sorts with the world, a woman came along and sat down beside her.
 You are sad" she said after a mo- ment
 No answer.
 Are you going away very soon?'
 A shrug of the shoulders.
 Where the corn grows?'
 A sniff of contempt.
 Out there where the corn grows you will find a spring near q creek. Look into it and you will see a face"
 My own, of course" laughed Miss Mira.
 ''No, 1t will not be-
 ''Then whose?"
 "The face of the young man you are to marry within year.
 Nonsense! I am no longer kidI"
 You will see-youf will see. I do not ask you for money. tell you this because I see it. Things shall be bet ter with you-goodby."
 When the woman had passed on the girl laughed sarcastically to herself. but behold what queer thing human nature is! Five minutes later she was saying to herself:
 There's nothing in it, of course, but it's funny she should tell my fortune without pay. I have read of such things and they may be true. It would
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

tub, and with an upttlt to her beauti- full head that would well give 8 thrill of pride to any man on whom she be- slowed her friendship.
 "Is that Josephine?" she called to Harry as she drew within hailing dis tance.
 "Yes, that's Josephine" answered Harry, batting the smaller horse. Isn't she a beauty"
 "She is indeed" said the girl smoothing the soft nose of the pretty mare, Are you sure she isn't part brOncho? Brother Jim says that If a horse has ever so little a drop of broncho blood in him, ever so far back, he's bound to buck, at least once in his life. And I don't want to be the one to discover that one dropi" Harry shook his head. well, of course" he said, tits hard to pick up a horse around here that you can vouch for But really, Miss Alcott, I think Josephine is as safe as a cradle. "
 Edith hung her whip on the saddle pommeI and motioning away Harry offered hand swung herself into the saddle.
 This morning" he said, I'm going to take you to my particular pet spot. It's only half an hours ride from here"
 Out they raced across the dusty
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

the teeth of a wolf It pulled at her ankles as if there was a rope around them. In a minute she had been gripped at the knees. Then she caught the branches of a bush and hung on and screamed. She could save herself from sinking deeper, but she could no more pull herself out than she could fly.
 With the tall cornstalks and trees about her to smother the sounds the girls screams could not be heard 40 rods. She sized up the situation after awhile and was quiet.
 She would have to wait until they came in search of her. They would not know in which direction to search. They might not find her till next day.
 Six feet away was the bubbling spring redecting the face of the man she was to marry, but she could not pass over that six feet.
 Two hours went past, and then she heard some one whistling as he came through the corn. He came with care less step, and when within a few feet of her, but hidden by the corn, she heard him say:
 Hang 1t all, that spring ought to be right around here somewhere!"
 The captive did not call out. Some one else was in search of the spring. What for? Judging by the voice 1t was young man.
 "Of course, it's all nonsense. but I'm going to have a look just the same"
 The owner of the voice moved to the right and halted. Then he moved to the left and halted. The luxuriant cornsalks made jungle of the place,
 ''I'd better stayed away and looked in 8 glass of lemonade for the face, If were g farmer and had spring I
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
delicious to tell things to.

delicious to tell things to.
 But the bed room, when she reached it, was empty. Beyond was the nur- sery that had been Honey's, a door always jealously locked now. Tonight to Tifie,s astonishment it was ajar, and the moonlight streamed in, a long bar of pale gold across the matted floor.
 The girl went forward, calling soft ly to her aunt. But no one answered her
 Then she stopped suddenly, rigid. From the room beyond came a clear, high child voice, rippling with laugh ter.
 But what shall I say, Mummy? I don't like talking like that an hear in it all again. Will it be like Mum blin' Nose, an all ur-r-r-r to begin, eh, Mummy? Oh-h, I wish I could hear it now. S'alI I say my Goblin poetry-eh, Mummy"
 Then came Joys voice, laughing a little as she answered
 Do you think you could remember it, my darling?"
 Tn course I can," cried the child, in dignantly. and began to recite in the Ill 7ll SlLIS-SOuS Ot d SL1dlI peISOQ reel ing off verses by heart. Wand'rin' down our village street,
 Goblin, have you lost your way?
 Goblin, have you come to stay? o. what little dusty feet, Wand'rin down our village street. There o, wait, Mummy, can't re- member"
 "'Did you come.'" said Joy.
 And the child went on triumphant Iy:
 Did you come to gavYer vem
 For Titany's dia-dia- I can't say that vewy hard word, Mummy" There was a whirr as of invisible
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

plain, the horses taking the barbed wire fences as lightly as birds. They drew rein on lonely little hillock, the only brake in the level of the plain for miles around.
 Look" said Harry. See how one side is scooped out? Some Indian made himselv a shelter here sometime from a duststorm. And now stand here on top for a moment and you will see why I like this place"
 Edith looked. The slight eminence gave a surprising sweep of view; the far ranchhouse with the distant graz ing herds, the blue line of haze that marked the mountains, and farther still the brown of the plain merging into the blue of the desert. Toward the desert Harry looked apprehensively.
 Miss Edith.'i he said, T believe that we'll have a duststorm here in an hour or so. The air felt like it this morn ing. with the scorchtng wind, and now I can see it gathering out there on the desert. I wonder if you would be will ing to ride in to the ranch alone while I ride out to speak to Mir. Alcott?" Edith bIushed a little. Why, yes, of course I'll go, but-but I wish you would let me ride your horse back, MT. Esterly. I'm so afraid Josephine will buck"