Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 143, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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VARIETY
By Brand Whitlock
Illustrations by Ray Walters
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SYNOPSIS.
(Senator Morley Vfrnon's visit with hla
Hancee was Interrupted by h .-nil from
his political boss at the state capital.
Both regretted It. thp Klrl more than he,
Becauatt she had arranged to attend a
dinner that evening with him. She said
she yearned for a national office for him.
On vernon's desk in the senate he found
a red rose, accompanied by a plea for
suffrage for women. He met the au-
thoress, pretty Miss Maria Greene of
Chicago, who proposed to convert him
Into voting for house resolution No. 19.
CHAPTER III.—Continued.
Vernon scarcely knew what to re-
ply; such objections as he might have
found at other times—the old mascu-
line objections to women's voting and
meddling in politics— had all disap-
peared at. sight of tliis remarkable
young woman who wished to vote her
self; he could not think of one of
them, try as he would. His eyes were
on the rose.
"Perhaps your objections are mere-
ly prejudices," she ventured boldly, in
her eyes a latent twinkle that dis-
turbed him.
"I confess. Miss Greene," he began,
trying to get back something of his
senatorial dignity, such as state sena-
torial dignity is, "that 1 have not de-
voted much thought to the subject; 1
am indeed rather ashamed to acknowl-
edge that I did not even know the
amendment was coming up to day, un-
til I was—ah—so delightfully re-
minded by your rose."
He raised the rose to inhale its fra-
grance. She made no reply, but she
kept her eyes on him, and her gaze
compelled him to go on. It was hard
for him to go on, for it was now but
a struggle against the formality of a
surrender that had been inevitable
from the beginning. Hut his man's
pride forced him to delay it as long as
possible.
"what assurances have you from
other senators?" he asked. "Though,
perhaps. 1 need not ask—they have
unanimously mounted your colors."
Ho looked at his colleagues, sporting
their roses. Miss Greene gave a little
exclamation of annoyance.
"Do you think I don't know," she
said; "that I don't understand all that?
I might have known that they would
not take it seriously! And I thought
—I thought—to put the matter so eas-
ily to them that I should be spared the
necessity of buttonholing them!"
"It was a novel way of buttonholing
them," he laughed.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, catching her
breath, "they wear the roses—and
laugh at me!"
Her eyes flashed through I ho mists
of vexation that suggested tears.
"You are all alone then?"
Vernon said this in a low, solicitous
tone, as if he were dealing with some
deep grief.
"All alone."
"And you represent no one—that Is,
no society, no club?"
"I am not a paid lobbyist," she r.aid,
"though I believe it is not beyond the
properties of our profession. I do
what I do only from a love of princi-
ple. I represent only my sex." She
said It Impressively, and then with a
quick little laugh that recognized the
theatrical that had been in her atti-
tude. she added: "And that, I suspect,
without authorization."
"The ladies, generally, do not seem
to be interested," Vernon acquiesced.
"No," she shook her head sadly, "no,
on the contrary, I suppose most of
them oppose the measure."
"I have generally found them of that
feeling," Vernon observed.
"The slaves, before the war, often
petitioned congress not to set them
free, you will remember."
Miss Greene spoke with a bitter-
ness. Then quickly she collected her-
self.
"Hut your objections, Senator Ver-
non?" she said, "lieally, wo must get
down to business."
She raised the little chatelaine
watch that hung at her bosom and
looked down at it. And then sudden-
ly, without waiting for his objections,
as ir she had quite forgotten them in-
deed, she impulsively stretched forth
a hand and said:
"You will help me, won't you?"
Vernon looked into her eyes. His
gaze, after an Instant, fell. He tried
to run the stem of the rose through
Ills buttonhole. The thorns caught in
the cloth.
"You'll have to do it." he said help-
lessly.
From some mysterious fold of her
habit she took a pin, and then, lean-
ing ove., she pinned the rose to his
coat, pinned it with Its long stem
hanging, as a woman would pin a How-
er to a man's lapel.
"Thank you." He was looking into
her eyes again.
"Rather let me thank you," she said.
'It's so good of you to vote for my
measure."
His eyes widened suddenly. He had
quite forgotten the resolution. She
1. _ tave perceived this, for she
blushed, and he hastened to mane
amends.
"I'll not only vote for it," he rushed
ahead Impulsively, "but I'll make a
speech for it." Ho straightened and
leaned away from her to give a proper
perspective in which she could admire
him. He sat there smiling.
"How splendid of you!" she cried.
"I feel encouraged now."
Then Vernon's face lengthened. He
stammered: "But you'll have to give
me some data; I—I don't know a thing
about the subject."
"Oh." she laughed, "I brought some
literature. It shall all be at your dis-
posal. And now, I must be about my
work. Can you make any suggestions?
Can you tell me whom I should see,
whom I should Interest, who has the
—ah—pull, I believe you call It?"
I 11 bring them to you," Vernon
said. "You sit here and hold court."
He rose and his eyes swept the
chamber. They lighted on Burns, and
an Idea suddenly came to him. He
would revenge himself on Burns for
all the slights of the session.
"Of course you'll have to see Sam
Porter, but I'll begin by bringing Sen-
ator Burns—familiarly known as Bull
Burns."
"I've read of him so often In the
newspapers," she saM. "It would be
an experience."
\ ernon went over to Burns' scat and
touched liitn on the shoulder.
"Come on," he said in a tone of
command, speaking for once from the
altitude of his social superiority. And
for once he was successful. The burly
fellow from the First district stood tip
and looked Inquiringly.
"Come with me," Vernon said:
"there's a Chicago lawyer back here
who wants to see you."
limns followed and an instant later
Vernon halted before Miss Greene.
The other men, who had quickly re-
turned to her side, made way, and
Vernon said:
"Miss Greene, may I present Sena-
tor Burns, of the First district?"
Miss Greene smiled on the big sa-
loonkeeper, who instantly llamed with
embarrassment. She pave him her
hand, and he took It in his fat palm,
carefully, lest he crush it.
"I am delighted to meet Senator
Burns; I've heard of you so often,"
she said, looking up at him. "And do
you know I count it a privilege to
meet one of your acknowledged influ-
ence in our state's affairs?"
Vernon stood back, delighted beyond
measure with the confusion into which
Burns for once had been betrayed.
The senator from the First district
adopted. It would be a great day tor
me if 1 could go back to Chicago feel-
ing that I had had just a little bit to
do with such a result."
"Den I'm wit' you," said Burns, and
wheeling, he went back to his desk.
Miss Greene watched him a mo-
ment. and then turned to the men,
their numbers augmented now by
others who had come up to see Burns
in *iie presence of such a woman. The
glance she gave them was a question.
"Oh, lie means it," said Monroe of
\\ hlteside. "He'll vote for the reso-
lution."
"Yes, he's given his word," said
Brownwell of Cook.
Vernon devoted half an hour to
bringing senators to meet Maria
Greene, It was not difficult work,
though It had its disadvantages; it
did not allow Vernan to remain with
her long at a time. But at last it was
done, and he found a moment alone
with her. She had given him some
pamphlets on equal suffrage.
"Ah, if you could only address the
senate!" he exclaimed, in open admi-
ration. And then, as If nn inspiration
had come to lilni, he added:
"Perhaps I could arrange It; It has
been done."
She gasped and stretched out her
hand to stay him.
"Oh, not for all the world?" she
protested.
"But you'll come and inert the lieu-
tenant-governor?"
"Up there?" she said. Incredulously,
pointing to the dais under the flags.
"Why, yes," Vernon answered; "why
not? li s where all the eminent law-
yers who come down here to lobby
sit."
She looked up at the desk behind
which the lieutenant-governor sat,
swinging gently in his swivel chair,
while the secretary read senate bills
on third reading. There was a re-
luctance in her eyes, but when she
caught Vernon's smile, she gathered
her skirts and said:
"Well, if I must."
CHAPTER IV.
Wilbur D Nfsbit
W'L>oc,rj/?/
g3 ESS
While Miss Greene sat chatting with
the lieutenant-governor, tflio gladly
neglected the duties of his high office,
Vernon went out into the rotunda,
lighted a cigarette, glanced over the
pamphlets, and tried to arrange the
beads of bis speech in bis mind.
At the thought of the speech, Ver-
non grew cold and limp with nevous-
n<-ss. His bands were clammy, his
knees trembled, his mouth became dry
and parched, and the cigarette he had
lighted imparted all at once an evil
taste. Yet he smoked on, and as he
wandered around the rotunda, men
from both houses, passing to and fro.
greeted him, but they seemed to him
to be strange new creatures flitting by
in a dream. 11' he was conscious of
them at all it was only as of envied
beings, all on a common happy plane,
fortunate ones who did not have to
make a speech within the hour. He
went over to the state library, think-
ing that its quiet would soothe, but
when he stood among the tall stacks
of books he suddenly remembered that
lie must not smoke in those precincts;
and so he turned out into the rotunda
again, for he must smoke. He walked
round and round the rotunda, pausing
at times to lean over the brass railing
and look far down to the main floor
where the red light glowed at the
eigat stand; he sauntered back into
the dim and undisturbed corridors, his
mind racing over all the tilings he
might say.
(TO TIE CONTINUED.)
Trim Your Nails.
There is a certain eminent physician
who, Wiser than the children of light,
j plods his way along in an unbeaten
j track and has no peer as a diagnostic
"Aw now, lady, don't be t'rowin' de | an "expert
con into me." j " L„ manicurist, instead of a
white or colored valet
The men in the little group on that j
side of the senate chamber burst out j
in a laugh, but Burns becoming sud- condltlons Barb „ - — ,
denly grave, and dangerous and terri- in rertuin fh*'le"/ou tllat
ble in his gravity, they broke off in ! stance ' f°r
the very midst of their mirth. The
group became silent.
"Really, Senator Burns," said Miss
Greene, "this is no—ah—confidence
game, I assure you." She rose with
IV
Bgs of
do) tisli are as pal;
table and nutriti
as those (if t!
DETAILED PLAN FOR
PRACTICAL FARM BUILDING
Complete Design Given for Erection of Structure that Will
Accommodate, Horses. Cattle. Feed and
Accessories,
We have a dogfish
hen, and
It's better far than
chickens;
It does not care
each day to go
Around and raist
the dickens
By scratching up the
neighbor's lawn
Or squawking In
the alley
When some wild
boys, sport
bent upon,
For feathers make
Our dogfish hen, however, will
At times set up a howling
When all the world at night is still;
And oft we hear it growling
When bold marauders seek its nest-
Hut then with satisfaction
We know that we may take our rest,
Our watchdogflsh in action.
Next year we think that we will go
A-yaehtlng on the ocean,
And we'll enjoy the sail, we know.
For we've conceived the notion
Of taking, too. our dogfish hen
To swim behind us gayly—
We'll trap a sea cow, too. and then
Have eggs and fresh milk daily.
Our dogfish hen don't go to roost-
It is no perch's daughter:
It wags its tail with joy when loosed
Within its nest of water,
And better still and better yet.
Our dogfish hen will never set
liecause It is no setter.
ti
Barn for Mixed Farming.
"Den I'm Wit' You."
was struggling for some word to say,
and at last he? broke out with:
Safe.
"If I were sure the candy sold In
that shop was pure and free from bac-
teria. I should be glad to get you a
couple of pounds," says the scientific
swain. "But in these days of reckless
adulterations I feel that I cannot take
too many precautions to preserve your
health and beauty."
The fair young thing, who has a
normal candy appetite, coos a word
of appreciation of his thought fulness.
Next they approach a place where a
soda fountain continues its glad
work.
"You are fond of soda and ice
cream, are you not?" he asks.
"I Just love it."
"If it weren't so often filled with
dangerous germs I would be happy to
get you some."
This time she does not coo appreci-
atively, and they continue their home-
ward walk in silence. When he is
leaving her, he bashfully hints that he
would like to kiss her good-by.
"You may," she says, to his sur-
prise. "You can be sure there won't
be any germs in the kiss, either, for
you haven't given me the chance to
acquire any."
He sleeps but little that night, be-
cause of his mental effort to deter-
mine whether she is thoughtful or sar-
castic.
The farmer who can so adjust his
work that he may dispense with the
help of one man is lucky indeed, hut
many a farmer lias done so by simply
changing his system of feeding and
caring for the stock; also by so dis-
posing of the grain and hay that in-
stead of hauling many tons of it to
market it is fed on the farm, and the
beef, pork, butter, cheese, etc., sold.
This allows the farmer to restore to
the ground at least a part of the fer-
tility in the shape of manure.
The barn plan shown herewith in
the two illustrations, the ground plan
and the perspective view, is so ar-
ranged that one man may feed and
care for the stock in a short time. As
shown on the iloor plan, the barn will
accommodate 14 cows, 12 horses, has
box stalls for both the cows and
horses, also a large calf pen. The in-
stallation of manure carriers and hay
lork is very easy, and these will soon
pay for themselves in the labor saved.
A feature of the barn not to be over
and will do better if they can see their
neighbors.
1 ho floors of the cow stable, tho
milk room, feed room, and silo are of
cement, the gutter being formed in tho
iloor and having a four-inch drain at
the rear leading to the manure pit.
1 be stalls are made to fit both long
and short cows. The first stall in
front is four feet wide and live feet
long. The rear stall is three feet six
inches wide and four feet eight inches
long. The stalls then slope from
front to the rear, each stall being
slightly shorter. Stalls are now con-
structed in so many different ways
that it is hardly worth while to men-
tion them, every cow man having his
own views of the matter. However,
it is wise to so build them that the
stall may bo easily cleaned and
washed. This construction will com-
ply with all sanitary requirements of
inspectors. The floor of the horse
stable may be of cement or clay.
The location, the local supply of
looked is the arrangement of the feed ' materials, etc., will of course govern to
"The human
nail, like the human hair," he said
to me, "is much affected by physical
grows nearly twice as fast
at others. It is so with tho nails. At
times, according to how we feel, the
free edge may be a month in growing;
there is some retarding agent. At
graceful sweep ot her skirts. Then I Sometimes3 t'hVTilTaT ^
rt <•«: a 'v sseus sag
to vote at all elections, as they vote i ady was'' the mal-
at school elections now. If you can 1
give It, I should like your support; I
should, at least, like to tell you my
reasons."
Slowly she seated herself
saying: "Will you sit down?"
Hut Hums only stood and looked at
j her. There was a trace of fear in her
! face.
I "IJo you want dis resolution
t'rough?" ho askod, bluntly.
"I? Indeed I do!" she said.
"Is dere anyt'iug in it fer you?" he
went on.
"\\ hy," Miss Greene said, somewhat
at n loss, "only that I am interested as
a matter of principle in seeing it
again,
put
Fish Caught by Horsemen.
It is not often that hunting and ang-
ling are combined, or that fish are
caught by a horseman; yet this is
j what, according to a correspondent,
| happened at a recent meet of Lord
Fitzliardinge's foxhoundj. While Jump-
ing a stream, Mr. Philip Norris of liris-
tol (England) was thrown from his
horse, anil fell into the water. Subse.
fluently, while changing his clothes at
a village hostelry, he discovered that
a live trout had netted Itself In one of
his pocket! while he was in the water.
The fish has been preserved at tho
hostelry.
Telescoped Proverbs.
A silk purse in the hand is worth
two sow's ears in the pen.
Save the pennies and your heirs
will take care of themselves.
A burnt child makes you dread the
insurance agents.
room and silo. The four-foot chute ex-
tends the entire length of the silo, and
has small windows for light, a tight
door below separating same from the
feed room to keep out dust and odors.
I he silage is dropped down this chute,
and from there shoveled to the mixing
boxes—one for the cows and one for
the horses. There are two bins in the
leed room and two more may be
located on the floor above and con-
nected by small spouts for drawing
off the grain. These spouts may be
located directly over the mixing boxes.
All hay is supposed to be fed from
above, one hay chute being provided
for each two stalls.
The milk room being located as it
Is, the milk may be taken to it at once.
In this room should be located the
separator, also plenty of clean water;
if possible running water should be
provided. The shop is a very neces-
sary room, and it will save many small
repair bills. In it may be stored the
nails, bolts, etc. In the horse barn
tho harness room is located In the
center, which makes it handy to all
parts of the same. The two box stalls
provide room for both male animals as
well as sick and ailing ones.
The hay bay is supposed to be open
clear to the roof. However, some
farmers may wish to arrange this
space different. The partition separ-
ating the cows from the center sec-
tion is boarded or plastered up tight,
I excepting the calf pen, to separate the
rows from any odors, dust or dirt from
| the other animals. The box stalls,
| however, in both the cow and horse
barn are so constructed that the in-
I mates may have a good view of tho
other animals. They
a certain extent the material enter-
ing the construction of any building,
and, in fact, all buildings. The barq
Ground Plan.
as shown is 12 feet to the eaves and
.'S feet to the peak; the silo is 38 or
■10 feet high.
'I lie barn should of course have a
good foundation of stone, brick or
cement On many farms it has been
the practice to build a small shed
here and there and the stock is scat-
tered all over the farm. This causes
an unnecessary lot of labor to caro
for them; also an unsightly appear-
ance to the surroundings. In construct-
ing a barn of this sort it will not be
necessary to do alt the work before
the same may be used, but a portion
of it may be left until time and per-
haps your purse will allow it to bo
like company, j finished.
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Emanation From Printer's Ink
Peculiar Property Found to Affect
Photographic Plate.
That printer's Ink gives off an
emanation that passes through opaque
bodies and affects a photographic
plate has been discovered by a Ger-
man Investigator. Photographic roll
film is sometimes thus affected,
through lis celluloid cover, by the
printed characters on the paper in
which It is wrapped. Tho emanation
is found to proceed from the oil in the
Ink during the drying process. It is
not precisely the same as the emana-
tion from radium and other radio-ac-
tive substances, for, unllko (hem, it
changes gum arable into a granular,
insoluble substance. It was this ef-
fect produced on the gum of envelope
flaps by the printed characters on the
envelopes that first attracted the In-
vestigator's attention. Tho emana-
tions are reflected by metal mirrors In
the same way as light, and they oxi-
dize metal surfaces against which they
strike. The exposure necessary to ef-
fect a sensitive plate is eight to ten
dftya-
Nine ladies' tailors make a man
shudder at the thought of polygamy.
Marry In haste and your rivals will
repent at leisure.
Never judge a man by his clothes;
it may be a rented dress suit.
Speak twice before the other man
has time to think.
Large ears are a sign of benevo-
lence—on the part of nature.
Lightning never strikes twice in the
same place; It doesn't have to.
Dark Outlook.
"Mamma," asks the little boy, "how
can Santa Claus get into our flat,
when we haven't any chimney—noth-
ing but a steam radiator?"
"He will probably slip in by the
basement door, darling."
"It's all off then," says the lad, with
a surprising vigor in the use of slang.
"That janitor will put him out of
business before he can unpack his
sack."
KEEP BOYS AND
GIRLS INTERESTED
Children Should Tuke Pleasure
In Farm Life.
The accompanying picture shows
one way how the boys and girls of the
! farm may became interested and take
j pleasure in farm life and its sur-
! roundings. The young farmer is Mas
| ter Lewis Daniels with his trained
| steers which he commenced to break
of other little things that save time on
the busy farm of which lie is a mem-
ber.
The young farmer, although only
nine years old, takes such an active
Interest in the dairy herd kept on this
farm that lie has become so skilled as
to have charge or the feeding of the
twenty or more head of calves and
young stock, that the owners only
deem it necessary to give them occa-
sional oversight. I believe this Is 0110
ot the best ways to keep the boys in-
terested and when the steers have
grown too big and old for them to han-
dle, if they are sold, the money should
Its Facial Aspect.
"Yes," says the man with the mud
on the knees of his trousers, "there Is
a human side to gardening. For In-
stance, the potato has eyes, and the
corn has ears."
"Hut," asks the man with the frayed
cuffs, "what vegetable has a nose?"
"I do not wish to go on record In
the matter," replies the first man, "but
the onion smells more than any other
plant."
Master Lewis Daniels and His Trained Steers.
when they were only three weeks old
and which were so well trained when
this picture was taken that he could
drive them anywhere, either riding on
the wagon or driving alongside. They
have become so handy, and the irlver
as well, that they do lots of small jobs
on the farm, such as drawing wood
from the pile where it Is sawed anil
split to the house sheds, carting feed
to the chicken houses, gathering
leaves to put in the pig pens and lots
be placed in the bank to their credit,
and the future will hold for them a
strong tendency to remain upon tha
farm.—H. O. Daniels.
Tips Abolished by State Law.
! tie state of Washington has abol.
Ished tile tip in hotels, dining cars and
other public places. The new law
makes both the giving and receiving
of a tip a misdemeanor, and lmpo**«
a heavy line.
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