The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, August 26, 1915, Image 6

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RJSD OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF
FolkWeTouck
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Tto Julia ChandterMoixx
WHOSE WIFE?
i The Man and Tho Woman woro In
in a public plnco. Thoy looked Into
each other's eycB and wcro conscious
of a dlfltlnct Benso of recognition, al
though thoy know perfectly woll that
noTor boforo hnd thoy touchod in
passing. Tho Man folt impolled to
take her at onco into hln armo and
hold hor thoro for all tlmo. Thus
thoy stood apart looking into each
other's eyes.
Then the crowd surged and thoy
wero lost to each other.
For many months thereafter Tbto
Man sought The Woman everywhere,
and when at last ho found hor sho
was watching two children at play,
and tho smllo In hor oyes was tho
ort of smllo that has its well-spring
only in a mother's adoring heart. Tho
Alan watched hor unseen and under
stood. A week lator found him in a
distant city, whero, aftor a few
years ho died.
Tho Woman never know what be
came of Tho Man. Sho novor saw
him again after tho day thoy had
looked into each other's oyes and
passed on. Somotlmos sho thought
of him, but moro often sho did not, for
her days woro filled with dutlos to
The Husband, and tho children sho
brought him. Year by year sho lived
at his sldo, mindful of his crcaturo
'comforts; sympathetic In tho hours
of his porploxltlos; proud of his
aohlovcmonts; Interested in tho homo
The Man Made No Answer, Taking the Woman's Hand In His Own.
ho mado him; devoted to tho chil
dren God had given hor, and In all
she was not unhappy, although novor
onco in her companionship with Tho
Husband did sho lift tho veil which
hung bctwoon him and hor soul
that ho might soo into tho sourco of
her bolng.
Tho Husband had boon gono to tho
Land Dchlnd tho Veil for mora than
two yoars boforo tho woman thought
of marrying again. Ho had boon good
to hor, and ho had left hor comfort
ably situated in tho matter of this
world's goods, but she was unutterably
lonely. Their children had becomo
old enough to bo consumed by their
Individual interests and Tho Woman
was desolate.
Thn Second Husband was also a
good man, much on tho typo of tho
Urst, and Tho Woman found horsolf
very fond of hlra when, for tho sako
of companionship, sho had becomo his
wife.
In tho interim of her widowhood
sho had not, howovor, forgotten Tho
JMan. The thought of him alwaya
brought her a peculiar sonso of poaco,
but somehow sho ceased to hopo that
he would in any way cross tho path
of her life again. So sho took up the
threads which tho First Husband's
'death had broken, and wovo thom Into
her now life with tho Second Hus
iband, but as it had been before, sho
igaja nothing of hor soul in tho weav
ing. 7fce bond between thom was
pleasant enough, but it wus of the
earth, earthly.
It often set Tho Woman to think
Inr, espoclally when tho twilight
hours brought their lengthening shad
ows, and a certain senso of crav
ing for one who could walk straight
into tho secret chambers of her soul
and feel nt homo thoro. And somo
tlmos, In retrospective momonts, The
Woman wondorod whoso wifo she
would bo In tho Great Doyond, whero
upon sho turned to tho Nazarcno's as
suranco of tho Sadduccca that "In
tho Anastasls thoy aro as tho Angels
of God In Hcavon. Thoy neither
marry nor aro given In marriage,"
and in her heart sho was glad, for
somehow neither of hor matrimonial
venturos had created within her any
keen deslro for their eternal perpetu
ation, nlthough tho world called hor a.
fortunato woman in tho niatctr of her
mates.
Ono day Tho Woman fell 111. Tho
doctor assured tho Second Husband
that sho would not live, and Th
Woman, hearing, was thrilled with
a sudden sense of hnpplncss.
Sho looked on tho kind, troubled
faco of tho Second Husband and know
au sho looked that sho was fond of
him. Sho had alao boon fond of tho
First Husband. Thoy woro both good
men nnd.truo and no woman could
have companioned them in their re
spective homes without acquiring a
slnccro nffoctlon for either, but Just
tho samo Tho Woman was rather
glad, In a fcoblo Bort of way, that
tuarrlago was all dono with. Sho lay
in hor bed very ill and very tlrod, and
had a clear vision of tho Sndduccos
asking tho Mnstor whoso wlfo tho
woman who had sovon husbands would
bo In tho Anastasls, and sho was in-
wardly smiling rathor contentedly
over tho reply tho Savior had mado
whon sho heard tho doctor nt hor bed
side say to tho Second Husband that
tho sands of hor llfo wcro running
low.
Suddenly sho hucamo conscious of
a prcsonco In hor room othor than her
doctor and hor family, and when sho
lifted hor oyes It was to look, as In
a far gone yeBtorycnr, into tho oyes
of Tho Man, and now, as then, sho
folt hor being suffused with radlanco.
Tho Man stood apart. Ho hold out
his arms to her. Tho Woman, rising
In her spiritual body, wont unswerv
ingly to his sldo, and tho doctor
turned to tho Second Husband and
told him that sho had died, and Tho
Woman hearing, romomborod tho
words of tho Master spoken so many
centuries ngo to tho Sadduccca, nnd
fear followed tho happiness which had
lighted her oyes.
"Ho had roferonco to marriage in
its oarthly sonso," Tho Man answered
hor thought. "No purely physical tlo
Is porpotuat. Only tho spiritual is
otornlty. Death disrupts every union
that is not of tho spirit us well as of
tho body. You have always been my
mato. You always will bo."
"And tho two men I have compan
ioned for a tlmo?" questioned Tho
Woman, anxious for their happiness.
"Somowhero In tho wonderful Unl
vorso of Spirit thoro la tho altar ego
tho complemontal soul for every
one," tho man mado uiiBwor, taking
Tho Woman's hand In his own.
And togothor thoy turned thetr
faces toward Eternity.
What would ba tho result If we all
followed the advice we glvo to others!
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LURE OF ORIENT
RUINS HER LIFE
Pathetic End of Young American
Girl's Dream of
Love.
SQUALOR MARKS END
Daughter of Wealthy Massachusetts
Parents, She Succumbs to Wllea
of Chink Then Began 15
Years of Torment.
Now York. Only a glasBy-eyod
Chlncno idol looked on this wook
whon Kitty Powers, cast-off wlfo of
Fong I'ong, former president of tho
Hrp Sing Tong, of Now York city, and
said to havo been tho daughter of
wealthy Massachusetts parents,
breathed hor Inst after a vain offort
to got opium with which to stifle tho
thundering In her brain.
Catherine Powers died In a two-by-four
cubby hole In a rotting shanty
In tho Chlncso district of tho metrop
olis. Too proud to beg, too sick to
go out of hor room, with detectives
constantly watching tho houso, Kitty
died alono nnd forgotten. Chinatown
had Ilttlo uso for Kitty, and had of
fered $5,000 for Fong Pong, now sup
posed to bo in Chicago. Vain efforts
wero mado to locato him to toll him
of tho illncsB of tho wlfo who forsook
her homo, rolatlves and American
ism for him 15 years ngo.
The Dream That Faded.
Kitty Powers camo from Roxbury,
Mass., 15 years ago. Sho was smug
gled into Chinatown and remained
thcro in seclusion for four years. Ac
cording to tho police sho novor loft
tho houso. Hor parents, wealthy and
respoctcd, mado ovcry offort to lo
cato hor. At tho ond of tho four
years, when hor body and soul had
boon sufficiently tortured by tho do
lights of opium and othor drugs, she
decided to becomo tho legal wlfo of
Fong Pong.
Several dotcctlvcs wore always near
Kitty. Tho district nttornoy'a ofilco
protected hor, for sho know China
town. But it did not know that Kitty
had no monoy, that it was only what
Kitty Died Alone and Forgotten.
a fow whlto wives of Chinamen gave
hor that enabled hor to keep hor soul
In hor body.
BEAR BESTS BULL IN FIGHT
Fight Occurs In Pasture, and Noise of
It Wakens Farmer's Family In
Minnesota.
Floodwood, Minn. O. H. GJora, a
farmer In Flno Lakes township,
about sovon miles south of Floodwood,
roporta that a hoar attacked his two-year-old
bull recently and lacerated
tho nuininl so badly that It had to bo
killed. Tho light between tho bear
nnd tho bull occurred in tho pas
ture near Mr. GJorn'a Iioubo nml awnk
oned his family, but by tho tlmo thoy
reached tho Bceno of battlo tho bear
oscapod Into tho woods. Tho samo
day a. she-bear was killed by John
Footo, nn Indian, who lives on tho
west shoro of Pralrlo Inko. Tho old
bear was accompanied by a cub, which
Mr. Footo captured, but had to lot him
go, as ho got too frisky.
COW MOTHER OF TRIPLETS
Three Calves Born In Iowa Aro
Healthy Triplets Rare Among
Cattle.
Webster City, la. Ono of tho great
est rarities In "cow fnmlllos" Is owned
by Stanley Conklln at his farm south
west of this city. Tho "family" con
sists of a cow and triplet calves. Twins
aro a frequent occurrenco nmong cat
tlo, but triplets aro so raro as to at
tract attention. Tho trlplots aro
healthy and normal.
Black 8nake Got His Kittens.
Amity, Qa. When tho Itov. W. A.
Fltzgorald saw a plump blacksnako
sliding away from an outliouso, whero
flvo kittens made their homo, ho was
suspicious and lookod Into tho build-
' Ing. Sure enough, tho kittens had dis
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appeared. .
Books and Bangs.
John Kondrlck Hanks, author of "A
Houseboat on tho Styx," and "Coffee
and Kopartco," who Is spending tho
summer nt his camp in Mulno, said In
an Intervlow last week: "Peoplo
should own and read books Just as
they should seek friendships, and try
to understand their friends. A book
that ono has cotno to know, and to
lovo, Is ono of tho truest of friends,
in my library In Maine aro not many
books, but nono tho less Lincoln walks
thcro with mo; Emerson is my friend;
Halznc and Dumas aro permanent
dwellers at my sldo; I frolic with
Mark Twain thoro; 1 travol with O.
Henry, nnd I play boyish tricks with
Aldrlch and Penrod; I fenco with Mon
taigne, and tho great spirits of "Tho
Spectator."
NO DOUBT THAT RESINOL ,
DOES STOP ITCHING
It is a fact that tho moment reslnol
ointment touches itching skins, tho
Itching stops and healing begins. With
tho aid of reslnol soap, it almost al
ways clears away all traco of eczema,
Bummor rashos, pimples, or similar tor
monting, unsightly eruption quickly,
leaving tho skin clear and healthy.
And tho best of it is you need never
hesitate to uso reslnol soap and resl
nol ointment. Reslnol Is a doctor's
prescription which for twenty years
has been used by careful physicians
for many kinds of skin affections.
They know that its soothing, healing
action Is brought about by medication
so bland and gcntlo as to bo suited to
tho most dcllcato or irritated skin.
Reslnol ointment and reslnol soap are
sold by all druggists. Adv.
The Bonnie Conductor Lassie.
Edinburgh, Scotland, has two dozon
womon street car conductors who aro
a thorough success in tho now lino of
work. Othor tramways aro already
rocruitlng girls and training thom to
bo conductors. It is said that girls
working In tho English cartridge fac
tories aro so tired with patriotism
that somo of thom work thirty hours
In a stretch without any rest. Miss
Ellzaboth Lister has been appointed a
statlonmastcr in South Wales, tho first
woman to act in that capacity. In
tho north of Englnnd nnd in Scotland
and Wales tho men workers aro being
supplanted in tho fields by womon,
who can bo seen following tho bar
row or digging and hoeing.
Another Little Bedtime Story.
"Good gracious!" crlod Peter Rab
bit, "what Is tho cauBo of that uproar
going on up in tho air? Thoro! That
was tho S. O. S. call! Somobody must
bo In trouble, and "
"Oh, that is old Doc Stork," replied
Sammy Jay. "Ho is carrying twins to
tho wildcat's houso, and tho dear Ilt
tlo strangors do not wish to go."
Kansas City Star.
Transportation In Calcutta.
To compote with Calcutta's present
stieet railway system a company has
boen formed which will placo 100 mo
tor buses and 400 cars for freight In
service within a year.
Somo horses aro better mud runners
than others. It is so with human be
ings. If thoro Is anything moro misleading
than tho averago guaranty, wo would
gladly glvo up a nickel to soo a mov
ing plcturo ot it.
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Post Toasties
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A genuine treat that meets favor
with guests and home (oiks.
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WILL AEROPLANES STOP WAR
Orvllle Wright Is Moved to Say He
Likes to Think So,
Anyhow.
Did you ever stop to think that
thoro Is a very definite reason why tho
present war In Kuropo has dragged
nlong for a year with neither sldo
gaining much ndvantago over tho
other? Tho reason, as I llguro It out,
Is aeroplanes, Orvlllo Wright writes
in Collier's. In conscquenco of tho
scouting wqrk done by tho flying ma
chines, each sldo knows exactly what
tho opposition forces aro doing.
Thero is little chanco for ono army
to tako another by surprise. Napoleon
won wars by massing his troops at un
expected places. The acroplano has
mado that Impossible. It has equal
ized information. Each side has such
complcto knowledge of tho other's
movements that both sides are obliged
to crawl into trenches and fight by
means of slow, tedious routine rather
than by quick, spccjtacular dashes.
My impression is that boforo the
present war started the army experts
expected it to bo a matter of a few
weeks or, at most, a few months. Today
it looks as if it might run into years
beforo ono sldo can dictate terms.
Now, a nation that may be willing to
undertake a war lasting a few months
may well hesttato about engaging in
ono that will occupy years.
Tho daily cost of a great war Is of
courso stupendous. When this cost
runs on for years tho total is likely to
bo so great that tho side which wins
nevertheless loses. Wnr will become
prohibitively expensive. And the
scouting work in Hying machines will
bo tho predominating factor, as It
seeniB to me, in bringing this about.
I llko to think so, anyhow.
It has been discovered that our sys
tem of education makes children wiser
than their parents, nut tho children
aro no wiser than their parents wero
at their ago.
It doesn't look as if tho fool killer
will over bo ablo to tako a vacation.
A "friendly interest" Is often but an
other narao for impudent curiosity.
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roofing and save a few dollar in in
Hat cost or you can pay this slight difference and get a
roofing guaranteed by the world' largest manufacturer
of roofing and building papers. The Final cost is what
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Shingles
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These shinglci are surfaced with
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making a most artistic and durable
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The Invitation.
"Hello, Mabel!"
"Oh, hollo, Georgo!"
"How aro you, Mabel?"
"JuBt flno! How'ro you, Georgo?"
"Samo. Say, Mabel, lot'B go through
tho park this afternoon. What say?"
"Well ali-ah ahem I I ah I'm
kind of woll, I'm kind of tired,
George."
"Then you won't go?"
"I'm so sorry, but, Georgo, you un
derstand Just how it ls( don't you,
George, dear?"
"Yes, I guess so. I supposo I'll have
to rldo with someono olso, then."
"Illdo?"
"Yes; my now eight-cylinder road
ster camo this morning."
"Oh, George! Did it really? Isn't
thnt Just splendid? Say ah Georgo,
I guess I'm not as tired as I thought
I was."
"Well, I wouldn't tako any chances
if I woro you, Mabel. It doesn't pay.
I'll tako someono elso."
"Hut renlly, dear, I'm not tired a
bit. Honestly."
"It's Bwect of you to say that, but I
don't want to tnko advantago of your
kindness. Good-by, Mabel."
Mabel slammed tho receiver vicious
ly on tho hook. "Darn it!" Bho mut
tered. "Why didn't ho say so In tho
iirst placo?" Michigan Gargoyle.
One Led to Another.
"I tried to get you over tho tele
phone half a dozon timos yesterday
morning, but tho lino was busy every
tlmo."
"Yes. My wifo called up a neigh
bor to ask hor a question, and botore
thoy got through each had asked the
othor not less than ono hundred
questions."
Circumstantial Evidence.
"How did you know that man was
a sporting follow?"
"Hoeausu when I trod on his corna
ho let out a regular football yoll."
Probable.
"Pa, who started tho saying that
a man's wife Is his better half?"
"Somo man's wlfo, I reckon."
Even aftor a man swears off ho Is
apt to keep right on swearing.
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