Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1903 Page: 4 of 4
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On* uti tbit life's i game of vhM,
Where player* bolJ end player* ahy
Make diamond* trump* 4o*a all the ttt
Ot hatida, howe’er the deal go by;
'fiie bchenwr wine, they i*y, but 1
t are not a deuce for long eult art*,
A fig fur knavlih boweral Why,
1 And life but a game of heart*.
'Uft't poker,” others will Inelst.
“It mat ter* not how you may try,
Knowledge anil skill are never missed;
Luck and a liluff are the thing*.” A lief
A word, a look, a smile, a sigh.
Will «lii a Jack pot. Cupid's dart*
Cake all the chips. But poker? Kiel
1 find life but u game of hearts.
Old Omar called It cheat, but hist I
r.g tound.il. titnpUt, by the bye,--------
’Vti n maidens wanted to be kisard
Or ardept eyes cajoled reply.
Why any mure the fact deny?
- ~-‘Fhmn.-tr va dr nnnr arthounailB' parts."
Y.’t each (s.molded by one die:
I find life but a game ot hearts.
Princes*. though pessimists decry
hose's wound because, .forsooth, it smarts,
K ed 1!m>,i them not; though stakes he liigh,
1 find life but a game of hearts.
—Philadelphia l*ress.
aloo, who dlung to tho snte solitude oit
her roi m And when, after much adroit
persuasion, ahe gained the consent of
Lena’* mother to visit her, ahe found a
yet more serious obstacle in the auiieu
suspicion of this timid wild creature, who
bugged her prison and feared all humani-
ty. Mias All port brought flowers and
put thou in Lena’s room and went away
with a smile. She left sweets in the
same way and toya of a constructive
i nnture--blocks aud pieces of bright cloth
! or picture* or the paper Japanese flowers
| that ojen In winter. Finally she came
1 to the uotn and sat there sewing on some |
pieces of ;_;!>■ embroidery or painting or '
striugi’S bends. And at last, confidence
won, she persuaded the child to go with
| herein l placed'her; where she could have
" j Instruction sucliTis Is' given to the deaf.
! The Scarf!'* Were glad to he rid of thlk
I mortifying incumbrance. They said now
lit-TnmtTf-he-possible- to- Tnrtte- -guests to IfrfmfflHrrpfiw’CTef ~t(5«1b~tflT 'TtlT’"rock.^btlt
! tlie KouV without constant fear that they
NOW IS YOUR TIME.
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UNTIL lANl'AHY 1M
WE WILL MAKE ' K
ESPECIALLY LOW PRICES
Ilf ORDER TO REDUCE OUU AlG STOCK.
MINERAL WMLLS FURNITURE COMPANY.
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It was dismal enough to be on the
graveyard shift, he thought, without be-
ing put to drill single handed-in the som-
ber depths of ''dead work.” The alvift
bad been changed that day, and it shrug-
ged its 00 shoulders in sympathetic meas-
ure when the boss took him intaitho
dummy quiet of the deserted drift.
Sixty staling eyes watched the rising
and the falling of the twin lights, lost one
moment behind the body of the bos* of ___ _ .
£*SM Sft- tXTJSS PALO PINTO AND FEED STABLE.
yeao^ miT The' footfiflirfame baftf TT
the group like muffled hammer taps, not
a sharp, decided rap like that of steel
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t A Story of a College Settlement
X Girl.
The eyes of Lena Scarff were of the
color of purple violet, but they looked
out upon the world in much bewilder-
ment for the reason that their observa-
tions were supplemented' by ,an audible
message. In other words, the little child
had no voice with which to speak her
thoughts and no hearing l>y which the
thoughts of others could reach her. She
was one of a big family, and all of the
rest were without physical or mental de-
fect. They were indeed a robustious fam-
ily, intelligent, frugal and industrious.
The neighbors thought well of them.
Mrs. Scarff had the reputation of being
the best housekeeper in the block. Jo-
seph Heard, a contractor for ornamental
stonework, was accounted a successful
and line workman. The boys and girls
were bright at school. They were sent
to the turners for physical development
at the earliest possible nge, and they
were conspicuous among .the pupils of a
dancing school popular among the well
to do Germans in their community.
Moreover, every one of them could make
music of some sort or another, and the
front room looked more like the musi-
cians’ practice room at a theater than
the parlor of a family.
But while the Boards appeared to have
a number of homely virtues and to be
citizens of which any city might be
proud the fact remained that there was
a certain hardness about them. They
found it impossible to forgive incapabili-
ty, which they seemed to confound with
laziness. The boys invariably spoke
■with contempt of a schoolmate of theirs
who was lame. The girls openly com-
miserated any of their friends who were
plain. Joseph Scarff never had much
use for r.ny man who was out of work,
and his wife was more apt to be irritat-
ed than sympathetic if one of the girls
wan'found to be ill in the morning and
not aide to perform her share of the
household duties.
So Lean, With the purple eyes and the
•ars which would not Hear and the sensi-
tive mouth which uttered no articulate
word, came ns an unspeakable mortifica-
tion to the Scarffs. She had been such a
pretty baby that at first she had been
made much of. but when the discovery
of her misfortunes was made nothing
Would i ncounter that dreadful little crea-
| turc. ■ '
The family was given permission to
{ visit her once in three: mouths, but they
! did not avail themselves of the opportu-
| nit)-,-ait'd I-ena. when the brief vacation
[ cap;a, seemed unwilling to go home,
: Neat clothes were sent her by her moths
er duel plenty of pocket money, and with
that it appeared that she felt her full
ditty done. At the end of two year*,
however, Mi's. Scarff, moved by some be-
lated maternal tenderness or by curiosi-
ty, made a.journey of 200 miles to see
I her daughter, and she returned with a
: somewhat puzzled look upon her face,
j Lena was growing rapidly, she said, and
could read and Write and do carving in
wood, besides sewing and dancing and
l housework. The Scarffs opened their
eyes, hut were more or less incredulous.
Besides, it didn'tmutter; the child was
diAngreeablejto them. They disliked even
to think of her.
Five years went by. aud one day, in
company with an attendant from the
school, Lena made her appearance at
her home. It was in the early evening..
a prolonged boom! boom! multiplied into
counter echoes until it reached 60 ears
•s the dull clamor of waves in a sea cave.
A distant angle shut off the pallid lights.
For a moment 'the ebbing tide was re-
flected upon the while behind; then dark-
hess. No one of the sh i t spoke. The
dripping moisture spattered loudly about
them.
“Eleven twenty,” said a hollow voice.
"Long time before tally,” some one
replied.
"Tell Pippin' we’ve started for fbe No.
6 breast.”
Several of the men moved on down the
incline. Thplr lights were brighter and
moved more briskly than those just miss-
ed in tint vague atmosphere of the desert-
ed drift. The totes of the boys carue |
back in broken syllables und now and j
then a gibing laugh. The resonant bari-
tone of one was giving to the gnome ech-
oes:
Maid, of Athens, ere wo part,
Give, oh, give me back my heart!
My heart—heart—art—was dashed
wildly from wall to wall, shrinking until
it was ritere smothered merriment to the
20 ears that listened for the shift boss
Wr P. Herring y Proprie tor
SOUTHEAST OOK. SQUARE. ,
Good Riggs, Good Teams and Careful Drivers,
lei tin rhy ct urge. Aiao
The Best of Curs Taken of Stock
Transfers Passengers and Baggage to all Points.
when the family had just finished dinner I .. • , ■
ami were sitting in the parlor among l" tl‘eln llt thc,r worL
theh' musical instruments.
"She was so anxious to give you a sur-
prise,” said the attendant, “that I could
not deny her.”
Several pipes were lighted, bringing
into life from the uncertain candle glow
strong, interesting faces and stealing
away the suspicions at ancient gloom
The Scarffs were feeling distinctly be- that had clothed the indistinct figures
wildored. There stood before them a
tall, graceful girl with a face of inde-
scribable refinement and appealing '■'pa-
thos.' Her purple eyes shone With a ten-
der light: her abundant golden brown hair
yrav coiled upon her head in smooth
.braids; her complexion had an exquisite
delicacy. She was perfectly at case. In-
deed, though it,seemed impossible, it was
actually a fact that she seemed to be
surveying her family with a critical eye,
and her-manner as she greeted them was
anything but cringing, And, while they
would not have used that word, yet in
reality a cringing attitude was, what the
Scarffs would have expected of this un-
fortunate. \
Joseph Scarff was moved to something
like shame for his long neglect.
"I hope you have come to stay, Lena,”
he wrote on a sheet of paper. She
thanked him with a kiss on ni* cheek, so
charmingly given that the Scarffs started j
in amazement. None of them could have
done 'anything so spontaneous.
*‘1 would like to have my old room, if
you please,” she wrote,
“That little old room! You shall have
a larger one,” her father replied. But
she insisted upon the old one and made
herself at home there. The family went
to bed that night with mingled feelings,
chief among Which was that of the diffi-
culty of the situation. This beautiful
girl could not be hidden as the seemingly
half witted child had been. So far from
intruding upon the family, she kept rath-
er exclusively to her own room, which
she had fitted 'up with a divan, which she
more was said about her. She was kept i made into a bed at night, and with the
in the background. When callers came, i
•he was hustled into an upper room, and, |
as she was a singularly patient child, j
more and more she was left by herself
in a room at the end of the up stairs hall, j
which had been set apart for her. The |
place was warm in winter and cool in i
summer; bats were put across the win-
dow that the child might be in no danger |
of falling out: the room was thoroughly
cleaned once u week, and Lena was look- j
i d upon by the family as, being well
A few toys were got for
bench and tools of her woodcutting craft.
On the wall, with* its fresh tint of cool
green, were hung the patterns She used
and many a specimen of her clever handi-
craft. There bad been cabinet makers in
the Ben iff family, one of whom was fa-
mous, and artists were not unknown ei-
ther. Moreover, in this way, Joseph
Scarff was an artist too. So there was
ability to give a true appreciation to this
work! and the Scarffs began to wonder
If they had not a genius in their midst.
Later, when the news had gone abroad
just before.
“Going to shake your hoof tomorrow
night. Bill?’
“I’m hoodooed on that if I don’t lay
off,” was the reply,
“This ’ere graveyard deal ts a terror,”
interrupted a deep bass.
“Tell the boss 1 got cold and went off
Into the hole," called a gawky being, de-
taching itself from the crowd and begin-
ning the descent. “Might ns well keep
front freezing to- death.”
“Say. Mike, tell Pip we quit shift
early.’’
“Say, Mike, tell the old man Christmas’
coming.”
“Say, Mike, tell Pip that the breast Of
No. 2 ain’t going into the mountain by
Itself.”
“Say, Mike, tell Pip them Cousin
Jacks down there'll do him if he don’t
git a move on.”
“Say. Mike, tell the\old man not to git
playing too high a hand with that bad
air in the old drift.”
Every message from the chain of fire
dots was followed by peals of laughter
which became a mass of underground
jargon, disturbed now and then by a
weird scream from below.
The big Irish trammer was alone.
The very earth was slumbering now.
Not a human inkling came from the si-
lent drifts.
The patter of the underground rain
was ceaseless, small drops and larger
otles keeping perfect harmony in their
monotonous music.
The big trammer’s watch joined the
miserere like a lender with remorseless
baton, mea suring off the time of the wild
orchestration until eternity. Through in-
finite nges of rock there came, with
shock, the faint, regular tap °* the ham-
mer, like the Chiseling of the surgeon's
instruments into poor, bruised bones. It
put the teeth Upon edge and sent a shud-
der through the solitary trammer. All of
this maddening regularity of sound was
like the pulse throb of creation
The trammer could not shake off the
oppression borne in upon him by the
Tell the boss not
SEE THAT YOUR TICKETS READ VIA
tke'KATY FLYER-MUTE
WHEN GOING TO
ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO,
KANSAS CITY, DALLAS,
FT.WORTH. HOUSTON,
ALVESTOtt, AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO.
PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS.* FREE CHAIR CARS.
•> KATY DINING STATIONS- MEALS 50 CENTS. ••
fs loarLtiVerl
Your appetite is poor,
your heart “flutters,"
you have headaches, tongue is coated; bad breath, bowels con-
stipated, bad taste in the mouth? Ii
not all of these symptoms,
then some of them?' It’s
your liver.
any or all symptoms, make your health,
appetite and spirits good. At druggists, 50 cents.
hcr.U b ut*‘bhe BeenTed not ^much'intereated ^^t"^n“‘0^LTd mkcn'noto j jo ^.playing too high a hand with that
f her. W0^ataake?to ^STaocieM ! The"VreeS” In me. ftom the stoiid face
the* ;it'ts and crafts. Storiea of her beau-1 °f ,lle hanging wall and u“tjlj
ty and spirituality and talent went out. | ^ stl,'<Jr®£’ Urops «tood jout _up
Artists of many sorts came to make her forehead like those Qpoa the
acquaintance and to compliment her which he leaned, dizzy and trembling.
avquuiu\.uiiv.r „ f . ivrtf mo.” he whisn
upon the beauty of her work. A Bohe-
mian circle was open to her, and she be-
gan to delight in the friendship of dis-
tinguished men and women. The little
hall room was often crowded to over-
flowing.
The Scarffs began to talk much of their
sigter and to make capital even of the
difficulties under which she worked.
They entered into a plan suggested by
b*r father to ImRd 0 studio on the back
‘Something's got me,” he whispered
hoarsely, aud the sound* rasped in the
slope above nml fell about him again in
an inhuman sigh. There was something
ghastly in this feeling. He could only
listen, listen, mot ion left, helpless. A
vague jar shook the “workings” almost
imperceptibly, the strained ear caught a
solemn boom and some seconds later a
belch of foul air from the deserted drift
puffed out his light, startling him from
had i the last man,
ner. mu. sue wtu,™ m* u.uv» . —i— -— - r ■» .1 , I 'to git playing too high i
laa2«Moarmikaf1‘a'lditimls^oThU‘stock9 t.l.n I bail air in the old drift."
She was dressed in saeklike frocks of
dark blue calico, and her hair was kept
shaved close to her head in order that
there n iglit not be trouble in combing it.
In short, no caresses were given the little
one; no one held or comforted her or
played -with her. She became, ns time
went on, almost as solitary as a hermit.
Much earlier than any of the rest, she
learned to care for herself, and she in-
stinc'iv *ly hastened to her bare, sunny
little room the minute a meal was over.
In time work began to be required of her.
She v/as set to wiping dishes, to dusting
-ooins.and'to sewing. She did whatever
he was taught, patiently, without tears. ;
,llnt the droop of the sensitive mouth
grew greater, and there was n look of j
Hopelessness In (he purple eyes which in
nothing ever banished.
W’l.vtt thoughts were struggling in that
inarticulate being no one cared to think.
There was no curiosity felt upon the sub-
1-m. The family went its prosperous and
well satisfied wny and let the soul, silent
ntni*l sociability, starve for lack of the j it eometi
*1 of human love. , r(] them honest chagrin to discover that,
There was, not far from the house of v' ■ - - - •- -
the Scarffs, a certain college settlement
enthusiastically sustained by a number
cf disinterested young men and women, ,
and one of these women heard by the j
ino,est chance of the existence of Lena !
Scarff. But to reach her was « task as ,
difficult as that of the Prince Charming
to find the Sleeping Beauty. The Scarffs
Blight easily have thought themselves
lit pet sons to augment' the Working force
a settlement, bnt they would n«*er
have admitted that they could be Its ben-
Mamma—Very well, dear. How shall
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' Little JobfiDy—I’ll tell you. Ton start
» do something, and I’ll u tell you
t to.
Palo Pinto ani Mineral Well: Mail Back Line,
fe. S. GREER, Contractor.
Passengers, Baggage and
T ansferred Between these Points with Comfort (tyd
Dispatch •
£<F“0ur motto is Efficient Service nml to Accommodate the Travel
ef the house which could be entered fyom j his stifling lethargy. Hurriedly lighting
the street and where she could entertain ' the candle, he jerked out his watch.
|n ,i)p evening when she pleased. And | Twelve fifty. Ths boss had been ab-
they offered to add to the pleasure Of sent an hour in the deserted drift. The
these evenings by furnishing music on ! blast—the nlr filled with lurking death
the piano or violin or flute. i that had come hundred* of feet to him—
In brief the Scarffs found the greatest 1 the horror that awaited them at the
cause for pride which they had ever breast of the (lend, work—if all dazed
known in the girl whom they had one# him iiko the benutifol sun when he came
despised and treated with cruel neglect out of earth into the dawn. He sprang
'nJes puzzled them and cans-! to the bell rope, au4 swaying his whole
_________»st chagrin to discover that weight upon it. counted the pulls which
owover courteous nnd kind thlc silent j rang out seven loud peals It* the engine
lister of theira might be, it wrt not to room nbove the surface,
hem. hut to others, that she gave Seven bolls, tho most terrible warning
lances of undisguised affection. She ; an the sharp category of mine signals,
maioed. so far as the Scarffs were con- Harsh, Insistent, they clanged; shrill and
mod, remote, alien—no satellite, but a mHvering were the seven shrieks from
nutlful star, moving proudly in ita own ■ the tally whistle, alarming the camp.
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It gives you the important Courtty news, aa ^ell
as the Records of all the Courts, also the principal
happenings of the County.
iflciitios.
Miss AlJport, the .voting lady fpom the
settlement, had need of much diplomacy
before she could ss much os catch a
glimpve of the mothidly shy. pale crea-
iny«, only, halt human jn h«<r comprctico
rbit.-
ffslte Sstsrsl,
Little Johnny—Mamma, let’s play 1
m your mother and you are my little
-St Paul Pioneer Preae.
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|The graveyard
boss half way up tb
he body of the mini
led to his end.—Ex
found the mine
deserted drift with
hlch he had car:
Robert Frank, the well known artist,
is a selProade man. and not until he had
eootne self supporting did be have a
'innee to pursue the regular studies
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Only $1.00 Per fear
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the rates named below-
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Son, J. C. Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1903, newspaper, January 30, 1903; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018622/m1/4/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.