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OF EARLY DAYS
Victim Supposed to Have Been
Son of Rich Eastern
Man.
HE WAS TOO POPULAR
Treacherously Killed by Bullying
Foreman Whose Jealousy Was
Aroused Bullets Removed
From His Revolver.
Wntongn, Okla. One part of north
western Oklahoma which In rich In
tho myths of the cowboy days Is tho
hind to the north of tho Eagle Chief.
Much of tho early lore or romantic
nature has beonlost, hut there arc a
few old-timers who vividly remember
the trials of pioneer life and of tho
romunccs which, like the cattle, once
covered the valley of this small
stream.
The mecca for tho cowmen was
the frontier town of Caldwell. Kan.
Q m of tho most famous ranches
n? .r the Englo Chief was tho T-5.
.very ranch had its history, ninny
them reading like fiction more than
o the llfo which these big-hearted
men of the plains led. Of the T-5
this story will denl.
On a hill overlooking the "valloy of
the Eagle Chief is an almost forgot
ten grave.
Johnny Potts.
Within the grave Ho the remains
5f Johnny Potts. Where he enme
from It Is not known, but those whe
were his friends believed him to be
tho son of n rich Eastern man.
One Den Fnyiklln was foreman on
thoT-5 ranch. Franklin boaBted ol
the many men that had fallen at the
point of his gun. Men who worked
under him must obey; they had to
work, for to bo obstinate was like
playing with powder over a fire.
About this time Johnny Potts ap
peared on the T-5 asking for work.
Potts was unknown to them. He dis
played signs thnt he was well edu
cated and had not been raised in tho
rough cow camps of the West. His
work on the T-5 was faultless.
He soon became very popular with
tho T-5 boys, which fact made for
him an everlasting enemy in the
person of Franklin. Many tlmeB tho
foreman sought a quarrel with Potts
either with the intention of killing
him or to have an excuse of getting
f. Was Covering the Foreman.
i, ihlm discharged. The cowboys, know-
'Ing the dangerous nature of Franklin,
, warned Potts to be careful.
A few weeks later Franklin met
Potts at a Place in Caldwell. Frank.
tin started to draw his revolver but
before his hand had hardly reached
the holster Potts had drawn bis re
volver and was covering the foreman.
Instead of shooting Franklin he took
tho gun, extracted the shells, handed
the gun back to its owner and told
Franklin to go back to the ranch and
milk tho cows. Although frustrated
In his attempt on Potts' life, his
wounded pride demanded revenge.
Victim of Treachery.
1 About two weeks later a dance woe
. held at the T-5 ranch. Girls from
Caldwell came as invited guests.
While the dance was in full progress
a visitor at the ranch came to Potts
asking him for the loan of his re
volver to shoot a coyote hat was
about to stampede the horses. The
revolvor was returned to tho owner
eoon afterward. Potts did not ex
amine the gun to see whether or not
the other shells hod been exploded,
later in the evening Franklin nnd
Potts met. The former started a
quarrel. Franklin drew his gun but
before he could fire Potts' revolver
snapped twice in the face of the fore
man. Franklin fired and Potts fell
dead. Someone had extracted tho
shells from his gun.
Franklin later escaped from the
dance hall and drifted to Montana.
Potts' body lies today on tho hill
top overlooking the silent stream of
the Eagle Chief.
His grave Ib unmarked.
Must Get Broth Elsewhere.
Astoria, N. Y. IJocauBe John J. Wll
on made such a fuss about his wife's
inability to make Scotch broth und
Scotch stew, Mrs. Wilson has been
granted a year's separation from him.
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Ho Propped His Feet Comfortably on the Railing and Sat for an Hour
Thinking.
MIRACLE OF MOONLIGHT
From his youth up greed had been
in Inherent quality of Tho Man. The
son of parents in moderate circum
stances, he made un his mind earlv in
life that the only thing worth while
was money, and occupied his thoughts
with the tlme,when he should become
a man and begin acquiring it.
When ho began his adult life tho de
termination to attain great wealth had
become so strong that it dominated
Tho Man's life. He wnB energetic
and honest, nnd life returned him a
just reward, but he was neither satis
fled nor happy.
When he had begun hlB business life
ho took a certain very rich man for
his standard, nnd mndo up his mind
that life should yield him just as
handsome returns, so that tho com
fort which his hnrd work had carncil
for him and for his fumily seemed of
such small consequence that it never
occurred to him as being worth a
word of thanks to th? God who had
given him health of bfdy and mind to
make his own way with comparative
ease in tho world.
As the years went on, and he was
Btlll very far from being a man of
wealth, he looked upon the rich as liv
ing in a charmed circle, and there
came to accompany the envy and greed
Which had always lived in his heart
a feeling also of bitterness.
He declared that everything worth
hnvlng could be obtained only with
money, and so completely did ho ig
nore the returns which accrued to him
from his own hard work that it came
about that he considered them no re
turns at all, and a greater bitterness
yet took possession of him.
One day a clear-eyed friend who saw
tho way Tho Man was going pointed
out to him that bo was making a fool
of himself.
"You are bo obsessed with tho Idea
of wealth that you arc blind to your
blessings, man," said the friend.
"Seek ye first tho kingdom of God
and Ills righteousness," quoted the
friend.
The Man looked nt him in disgust.
"The kingdom of God," he sniffed.
"Hah!"
Hut when ho was alone the memory
of tho wordB haunted him. Ho had
heard them in his childhood days, but
they had been tucked away in some
remote corner of his brain for lo, these
many years. And now one of the few
friends who Bcemed to understand
him, in these, his money-mad days,
throw them Into his teeth.
Tho next day ho wheeled suddenly
around in front of his friend.
"Where, when, nnd how is the king
dom of God?" he demanded to know.
"Here, now," answered tho clear
eyed friend. "Ab to the how, every
man must work that out in bis own
aoul."
It was evening. Tho Man was so
restless that ho could not Btay Indoors.
AH day ho had been evolving Bchcmes
in his mind for making money. Tell
ing his wife thnt he wanted to think
out some business matters in quiet
and did not want to be disturbed, he
pulled a comfortablo chair to the far
end of tho largo porch which sur
rounded three sides of his suburban
home; the end which commanded a
view of the little valley which la
between the house and the woods be
yond. Not that The Mnn cared about
tho view. He had no time for views.
Ho propped his feet comfortably on
tho railing which runs around the
edge of the porch, nnd sat for an hour
thinking of his scheme. The moon
peeped up over tho edge of tho distant
trees, but The Mnn did not notice.
Little by llttlo It climbed the heavens
clear, and round, nnd full. Its light
clung to tho valley which lay between
The Man nnd tho woods a veil of
Bilver white, nnd tho trees beyond
projected fantastic shadows out upon
its soft and wondrous beauty.
It was llko a prayer of quiet praise
to the God of Tho Mnn, nnd of tho
world in which he lives. Gradually it
touched the consciousness of Tho Mnn
himself, sitting alone on the porch
scheming how ho might become the
possessor of wealth.
It invaded his soul, and The Mnn
was not pleased at tho invasion. He
wanted to think nnd scheme, and here,
where he had thought to be able to
best concentrate his thoughts, ho
found them driven from his mind by a
silly thing like moonlight which
wrapped the little valley In Its mystic
light.
It so Impressed itself unon The Mar
that he forgot that for which he had
asked to be left undisturbed. Gradual
ly it was borne in upon him thnt II
was something more than moonlight
this thing which clung In such won
drous beauty to tho little valley and
he was quickened in his spiritual be
ing Into the rebirth without which wc
cannot enter the kingdom of God.
"Tho kingdom of God Is here and
now, and tho how every man must
work out in his own soul." he said, re
Iterating tho words of tho clenr-eyed
friend which had sounded like so much
nonsense to him the day before.
He was suddenly filled with a senBC
of strength; a senBo of tho love of his
wifo and children of which he had
hitherto taken so little time to think;
a sense of personal possession In all
there is of beauty in the whole wide
world; tho peace and holiness of the
moonlight by night; tho rndlanco ol
tho sunlight by day; the blue of the
skies; the refreshment of rnln; the
loveliness nnd fragrance of flowers;
tho possession of everything there if
In the world worth a single human
thought his without price and price,
less.
Prayor-T-the flrBt word of gratitude
that had ever gone from blm to his
God went out from tho heart of The
Man andnlngled with tho Spirit in
the moonlight, nnd as It went, all
there wns of greed, of envy, of hatred,
and of bitterness slipped away from
him llko a weighted mantle, nnd peaco
as infinite ns that which held tho vai
ley In ltd thrall entered his soul for
all time.
And when Hiobo who had known
him heretofore could not, upon occa
sion, suppress all they felt of wonder
concerning his transformation, Tho
Man explained with some such phrase
as "miracle of moonlight," which of
course they did not understand Jn tho
least.
SHOE TOKEN OF SUBJECTION
Ancient Significance of Custom Which
It Now Looked Upon as
Merely a Joke.
As specially applied to weddings,
there Is n suspicion that the throwing
of old shoes or now slippers, for nil
that hnd at first a significance which
would surely be most objectionable to
twentieth-century brides. It seems to
hnvo been u token of the complete
subjection of tho bride to her lord
and master. In thu Enst a shoe or a
slipper was publicly borne at the head
of tho bridal procession In Indication
of the bride's subjection, and at some
Jewish weddings thu bridegroom used
to strike tho hrldo n blow with his
shoe as a sign that she was thereafter
to be submissive to his will. Among
the N'cstiirlntis It was the custom for
tho bridegroom to kick the bride, and
for her to remove from his foot the
Hhoe with which he hail kicked her.
To this day there Is u common cus
tom In Itussla for the bridegroom on
his wedding night to require thu hrldo
to pull off his hoots. In one of them
is a whip, und In tho other a gift. If
Hhe pulls ofr llrst thu one containing
the whip, she gets a stroke from tho
lash, and Is to expect Hoggings there
after, but If the gift Is llrst disclosed
her married life will bo happy. It is
related of Martin Luther that once,
after performing the wedding cere
mony for a couple, ho took off the
bridegroom's shoe and placed It upon
the brlde'n pillow, as n sign thnt she
should in all things and at all times
be subservient to her husband.
Why She Went to Church.
A devout old lady had becomu very
deaf, nnd, as her church was some dls
tnnco from her home, decided to in
tend nnothcr one, which was nearer.
She spoko to tho mlnlBter of the sec
ond church about it, and wns cordially
received and urged to como whenever
possible.
"Ah, well," she Bnld, "all churches
lead to heaven, nnd ns 1 hnvo grown
deaf and cannot hear any of tho ser
mon I thought 1 would attend your
church."
A Cinch.
"My big brother is a printer," said
tho boy who worked in a downtown
office.
"That's nutliln' to brag nbout," ro
tortcd his bosom friend.
"Maybe It ain't, but It's mighty
bandy Just tho same. When I want
to go to a bnll game, I get him to put
a death uotlco in tho paper, so the
bosB has got to bellevo I'm goin' to
a funeral."
Explained.
Hubby came home from a club with
his white waistcoat badly spotted.
"How careless you are," Bald bis
wife.
"Not at all," he replied. "You Bee,
they didn't hnvo any menu cardB, and
I knew you'd want to know what we
bad to cat."
When a man singB a woman's praise,
sho doesn't enre whether ho can carry
the tuno or not
The milk of human kindness is usu
ally distributed in rather small cans.
wnlsky uns caused many a mnn to
go to worn in orner to get uio price, i
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Troubles of Commuter Got Little Sym
pathy From Fellow Passenger
on Train.
"Soino of my bulbs hnvo rotted In
tho ground. Kver hnvo that happen
to you?" asked the commuter of tho
mnn who sat besldo liltu in the train.
"No, 1 can't say 1 have," replied
tho other.
"And tho bugs in my rosebushes
are a pest. Do you have any troublo
of that kind?"
"Not a bug on a slnglo bUBh."
"That's strange. Now, with my lawn,
I find that only about halt tho grass
looks healthy. Tho rest won't grow
no matter how much I water It. Hut
I supposo you know from experience
what that Is?"
"Never had any grass troublo,
either."
"Great Scott, man!" exclaimed tho
commuter. "How do you manage to e
capo nil these annoyances?"
"Very easily, sir. 1 live In a ho
tel." Styles.
Dill I see tho Atlanta convicts are
no longer required to wear striped
clothing.
Jill I'erhppB thnt'B tho reason como
of the fashionable women aro breaking
out in it.
Troubles and thunderclouds usually
seem black in the distance, but grow
lighter ns they appronch.
Hotter bo taken by surprise than by
tho police.
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Varying Eetlmatet,
"I put my reliance In the wisdom of
the plain people," said Senator Sor
ghum. "Hut suppose the plain people do
not hnppen to agree with you?"
"Then 1 refuse to ho Influenced by
thu thoughtless crowd,"
STRICTLY No. 1-8 AC Per Lb.
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Ask for Dollvorod Prloom
Wrlto for Oatmlog
Liberal Juries.
Hnsed on verdicts by Mississippi Ju
ries Law Notes recominends that Htato
as ii place where money is easy. Tho
case of Illinois Central railroad vs.
Daciia reunited In a verdict for $500
to a prospective passenger because a
ticket agent said "d n" to him;1
while In Alabama, etc., Hallroad com
pany vs. Morris it appeared that a
liberal Jury gave $15,000 to a white
woman who wan compelled to ride
short illstnnco with threo negroes, al
though tho stingy court cut thu ver
dict to $2,000.
Caught.
"Whnt a pretty hnt, Mrs. Mnkey
wore this evening."
"Did you llko it, denr?"
"Yes, it was very becoming. Why
don't you get lints like thnt?"
"You inusn't blnmo mo if I lnugh,
John. The hnt you llko is my hat.
Mrs. Mnkey borrowed it this eve
ning. It's tho $:i0 hut you culled m
fright." Cleveland Main Dealer.
Fiction.
"What kind of fiction docs Fleecer
write?"
"Mnlnly promissory notes nnd I O
U'b." Huston ICvenlng Transcript
Awkward.
Noah beheld tho flood.
"And ik. n blessed placo to Intern,'
ho cried.
Mnrrlngo rings and prize rings often
lend to the stage.
In trying to get her rights mnny a
woman goes nt It Jn tho wrong way.
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