The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 8, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY:
DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, I894
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Vol. I, No. 39
A SCHEME THAT FAILED.
The City Young Man Prepared u Surprise
for Ills Country Vlflltom.
The best laid plans of mice and men
gang aft agley. This ignorance of
what the future may bring forth caused
several youn^ women to be deprived of
a treat the other day, and a young
man to tear his hair as he paid the
costs. He was entertaining several
charming relatives from the country—
the belles of a small town, who were
pretty, witty and pleasant. They were
at the theater enjoying the plav very
much indeed.
It was a warm evening, and as the
young man knew they were somewhat
thirsty he thought he would impress
them with the luxuries of a great city.
So he slipped out between acts, as a
few others did. and bought a bottle of
champagne. His idea was to bribe the
boy who distributes ice water to those
wish it to substitute the effervescent
liquid for the water and take it to his
party. Then he intended to walk calm-
ly back to his seat and listen to the
exclamations of surprise and pleasure.
He knew the conversation would be
something like this:
"Oh, Charley, this tastes like cham-
pagne.*'
Then he meant to say in an off-hand
way:
"Why, cert'ny, that's what it is."
Whereat the young woman would
exclaim, according to programme:
"Oh. how lovely. Do they always
give away wine at the theaters?"
"Not at all of them," he imagined
himself saying, so as to impress his
relatives with the idea that he had
taken them to a specially luxurious en-
tertainment.
The water boy filled his glasses with
the sparkling wine and sailed down
toward the seats pointed out to him.
Hefore he had gone many steps, how-
ever, he. was seized by a thirsty patron,
and one of the glasses was taken. An-
other man helped himself to two, and
passed one of them before the boy
could protest. It is needless to say
that the boy was in great demand in a
trice. It is also needless to say that
the young man who paid for the fun
grew sad and wise as he saw his scheme
shipwrecked. It is further needless to
say that the young women drank
water, and that the conversation re-
ferred to never took place.—Chicago
Times.
NEW MANHOOD.
The Relations Between the Sexes Must Not
He Kelatious of Rivalry.
If the human race is to endure and if
civilization is to advance the relations
between the sexes must not perma-
nently be relations of rivalry. Men
and women were not made to struggle
with one another for the advantages of
life, but mutually to aid one another
in reaping those advantages. That
"sweet love" of which the poet speaks
is given as the reward of right rela-
tions between man and woman; and,
where other guidance is lacking, we
may profitably ask whether any given
line of conduct tends to the gaining or
the sacrificing of that reward. If to
the former, then it may safely be said
to be right conduct; if to the latter,
wrong. What it is clear that man has
to do in these later days is to frame to
himself a higher and completer ideal
of manhood than he has hitherto, on
the whole, entertained, and try to live
up to it. The awakened womanhood
of the age—when allowance has been
made for all that is hysterical
and morbid and heartless in con-
temporary feminine utterances—sum-
mons him most clearly and dis-
tinctly to walk henceforth on higher
levels in the streugth of a nobler self
control. Then he has to recognize in
the fullest sense, without a particle of
reservation, that he has in woman not
a weaker shadow of himself, not are-
flection of his glory nor a minister to
his pleasures, but a divinely bestowed
help-meet, to whom special powers and
faculties have been imparted for the
interpretation of truth and the beauti-
fying of life. The ancient Germans,
Tacitus tells us, used to recognize a
certain divine power of intuition in
their women, and if they did it was
probably not without cause. The phe-
nomenon is not an extinct one in our
own day, and we venture to say that
its frequency will wax or wane accord-
ing to the respect paid not by man
only, but by woman herself, to all in
her nature that is most distinctive of
womanhood. It is far from certain
that woman always recognizes what
her own best gifts are; and there is, in
our opinion, a specific danger lest, in
her new-born zeal for a masculine
equipment of knowledge, she relegate
to an inferior place that native truth
of perception which is of more impor-
tance, we may almost say, than all
formal knowledge. Popular Science
Monthly*
SEEING THE GOOD.
There Is Nothing to lie (Julnetl by Dwelling
Upon One's Faults.
To appreciate the good qualities of a
person is to partake of them and to
raise one's self toward their level.
Hence every one who refuses to see
good where good is lowers himself by
so much as he excludes from his appre-
ciation. Uoethe says: "Some men
think about the defects of their friends
and there is nothing to be gained by
it. I have always paid attention to
the merits of my enemies and found it
an advantage." One need not even
draw the line between friends and ene-
mies to test the advantages of appre-
ciation. Let a mother show the un-
manageable boy that she sees the good
in him and work with him from that.
Let the teacher proceed upon the basis
that Incorrigibility has been oftener
met and conquered bv kind apprecia-
tion tliau by antagonism, denunciation
1 and cold compulsion. Many a parent.
in any a teacher, nee Is to be raised to
j the level of her boy's best instincts
I and aspirations by appreciating them.
I --S. S. Times.
A MOTHER'S KISS.
Influence on the Career of the 4«reat Faint,
er Benjamin Wen.
When I was a child, there was a
story of the painter Henjainin West
with which my father used to enter-
tain us youngsters, and went by the
name of "The True Fairy Tale." "More
than a hundred years ago, in the great
state of Pennsylvania, lived a father
and a mother, named John and Sarah
West. They had nine children, and
one day, when another little chap ar-
rived. he made ten, and because he
was the youngest of the flock they
named him Benjamin.
"For many years John West kept
the inn at Newton Square, and when
not keeping the inn he kept a store, so
that there were always people to sec
and things to be done. Among the
people to be seen were members of a
tribe of Delaware Indians, who upon
one occasion, seeing a small boy at the
taveru drawing pictures of birds, flow-
ers and fruits with colors that he had
mixed of chalk and berry juices, into
which he dipped a brush made of hairs
from the family cat tied in a goose
quill, took so much interest in his rude
work that they showed him some of
their own pictures, and taught him how
to prepare the red and yellow colors,
made from earth, with which they
stained their weapons and drew the
figures on the inside of their skin robes.
Blue he got from his mother's indigo
bag. The old cat seemed to take an
interest in the boy also, for it patiently
endured having its fur plucked out
until it was a very curious-looking lit-
tle beast.
"One day Benjamin was left to watch
his sister's baby,which had been rocked
to sleep, and lay in a wooden cradle.
He thought it tiresome business to sit
quietly and keep flies off a baby, when
he wished to be out of doors playing,
but presently the baby smiled in its
sleep, and he thought she looked very
pretty, and why shouldn't he make her
picture?
"So going to his father's desk he
fountf paper and some red ink, and, of
course, a goose-quill pen. The baby
slept well and the portrait was quite
finished when Mrs. West returned.
When she saw what Benjamin had
done she caught up the paper, exclaim-
ing delightedly to her daughter:
| " 'See! Benjamin has made a picture
of the baby!' And in her joy she caught
her six-year-old boy in her arms and
kissed him."
At this point Helen usually interrupt-
ed the story with: "What became of
the pitcher, papa? Is it still alive?"
And was told that the "pitcher" was
probably dead. Then the story pro-
ceeded.
"Years after, when Benjamin West
had become a great artist, he always
said that his mother's kiss made liim a
painter, and he found delight in talk-
ing of his mother as long as he lived.
At all events that she kissed him in-
stead of scolded him for wasting paper
and ink—both precious enough in those
days—encouraged him to go on making
pictures of what pleased him."—Cin-
cinnati Tribune.
CONCERNING HAPPINESS
The Tastes of the Individual Vary the
Problem.
Suppose that a man has strong intel-
lectual tastes, a love of art or science
I or literature. He will require, of
I course, enough wealth to enable him
to devote himself without anxiety to
I his favorite pursuits, and enough, more-
j over, to train himself in all requisite
knowledge. But, granting this, the
material conditions of happiness will
be sufficiently fulfilled. I think it was
Agassiz who observed, when he was
devoting himself to science, that he
I had not time to get rich. Wealth, to
him, would have been rather an imped-
iment than an advantage.
A man like Faraday, who placed his
whole happiness in the extension of
scientific knowledge, and who was not
less honored because he lived on a
modest income, would not have had a
I greater amount of that kind of happi-
ness had he possessed the wealth of a
Rothschild. A man whose pleasure is
in reading books or contemplating
works of art, or listening to music, can
obtain the highest enjoyment at a
very moderate price, and can get
very little more if he has the most un-
bounded wealth at his disposal. If
we inquired what men of such tastes
had, in fact, derived from them the
greatest happiness, we should, I
fancy, find ourselves mentioning men
comparatively poor, whose enjoyments
were even comparatively keen, because
they had to devote a certain amount of
care and contrivance to obtain full
play for their capacities.
Charles Lamb, plotting and contriv-
ing to get an old volume from a book-
stall, possibly got more pleasure from
his taste than the possessors of gigantic
libraries. The sociable man again, the
man whose pleasure in society is the
genuine delight in a real interchange
of thought and sympathy, who does
not desire magnificent entertainment,
but the stimulus of intimate associa-
tion with congenial friends, would
probably find the highest pleasure in
comparatively dimple social strata,
where the display of wealth was no
object, and men met, as Johnson inet
his friends at the club, to put iniud
fairly to mind, and to stimulate intel-
lectual activity instead of consuming
the maximum of luxury.
GOMFERS ON A LAllOlt TARTY.
The Federation President (alls for inde-
pendent Political Action.
New York, Sept. 4.—Snmuel (tom-
pers, president of the American Feder-
ation of Labor, has given the papers
for publication a long address on La-
bor day. He says among other things:
"Labor day then witnesses a great re-
solve of the wage earner to act for
himself. We will take independ-
ent political action and this fall and
winter endeavor to send working-
men to represent him in the
halta of legislation. It is not by affilia-
tion with any political party that in-
dustrial emancipation is to be won.
The workinginan must have his own
class movement. The great evolution
that is to transform our social system
and finally abolish wage slavery must
be accomplished bj' the workinginan.
And he will never accomplish these
things by asking others to begin. 'If
you want a thing done, do it yourself,*
Is as true in the cause of industrial de-
mocracy as in any other concern of life."
IRRIGATION CONVENTION.
Arrangements Made for the Meeting at
Denver This Week.
Denvkii, Col., Sept. 4.—The national
executive committee of the irrigation
congress met Saturday and arranged
the programme for the convention.
The convention will meet to-day and
there will be addresses by the mayor,
governor, president of the chamber of
commerce and Chairman William F.
Smythe, of the executive committee.
On Tuesday the congress will visit Fort
Collins and other agricultural towns,
and on Thursday they will attend the
watermelon day celebration. The
other days of the week will be given
up to discussions of irrigation ques-
tions. Senator Carey, of Wyoming,
has been invited to explain his arid
land bill.
TESCOTT BANK ROBBERS.
The PosHe on Their Trail Hart Seen Noth-
ing of Them.
Saline, Kan.. Sept 4.—Members of
the posse which started from here in
pursuit of the Tescott bank robbers re-
turned yesterday and reported that
nothing could be seen of the fleeing
robbers. It is generally believed that
the men were from the Indian Terri-
tory, as they were mounted on c®w po-
nies and were dressed in the usual gttrb
worn by plainsmen. The report that
the cashier was shot dead was wrong.
1 A young man named Swartz was struck
in the leg by a bullet from one of the
| robbers.
OMINOUS RUSSIAN MOVEMENT.
Warship* Are Ordered lo Proceed to Cores
With Utmost Speed.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 4.—The RuS-
sian squadron, destined for Corea, is
under orders to proceed with the
utmost expedition. It is officially
stated that the dispatch of the fleet
| does not imply Russian military inter- ———
ventlon in the Chinese-Japanese dis-
i pute, but is merely intended to protect |-r Y Q TI H
Russian trade. VJ1 ctAAU-
—A Hungarian chemist, Dr. Johann
Antal, recently reported to the Hunga- j
rian Society of Physicians that he has
discovered a new chemical compound,
i the nitrate of cobalt, which, he says, is
a most efficacious antidote to poisoning
by cyanide of potassium or prussic
acid. He tried the antidote first on
animals, and afterward on forty living
persons who had been accidentally
poisoned with prussic acid. In not a
single case did the antidote prove a
failure.
—The incompetence of the interpre- I
ter in the Caeserio trial attracted gen-
eral notice. It was due to the rule in
France no foreigner can serve the state,
except as a street sweeper in Paris, and
even there the number of foreigners
must not exceed one-tenth of all the
sweepers. As a result an Englishman
can not teach English in a public
school, nor can an Italian interpret be- j
fore a tribunal. Amusement was
caused by the fact that Caeserio under-
stood the French of the judge better
than he did the Italian of the interpre-
ter-
—A writer in the Central Africa
Gazette, from Tete, says that at the
rate at which elephants of all sizes are
at present Wing killed off in south and
central Africa there is little doubt that
in a few years they will be practically
exterminated in those regions. From j
Tete and Zumbo alone the traders an-
nually send three thousand hunters to
the countries north of the Rambesi,
who shoot indiscriminately, regardless
of an elephant's age or the size of its |
tusks. The writer recommends all the
powers having territories in Africa to i
form a union and prohibit the exporta-
tion of tusks under ten pounds in
weight.
St. Joseph's Flumhlng Trust Sued.
St. .Jonkph. Mo., Sept 2.—Prosecut-1
ing Attorney Culver began a civil suit
in the circuit court yesterday against
six plumbers in this city for violating |
the law against pools and trusts, en-1
acted in 1891. They are charged with
entering into an agreement May 1 to
regulate the price of plumbers' sup ]
plies, and It is alleged that the combi-
nation still exists. Judgments of #100:
a day since the pool was formed, as |
provided for in the law, is asked.
Accidentally Killed.
Alton, 111., Sept. 3.—While a party
of young men were making a social
call yesterday evening, Paul Lange I
playfully drew a revolver. One of the
young ladies, Miss Annie Uottentrue,
seized the revolver by the barrel, as if
to take it away from Lange. when it j
was discharged, and the bull, entering ;
her head, killed her instantly. Laugo
is now under uive&t.
Be Sure to Attend
tug Anniversary Celebration
Of the Opening of the STRIP at
ENID, Ok. Ter.
SATURDAY. SEP. 15.1894.
This will undoubtedly be the most wonderful celebration that has
v ever taken place west of the Mississippi river.
A RACE WITH FIVE HUNDRED PARTICIPANTS
Competing for a HUNDRED PRIZES. The largest race the
world will ever see. Worth coming hundreds of miles to see.
INDIAJ)|WAR DANCE conducted by a Hundred Warriors.
BICYCLE RACE for championship of Oklahoma—fifty starters.
Pageant and Trades Display.
Gorgeous Fireworks and Illuminations.
Addresses by Senator Berry, of Arkansas; Congressman Jerry Simp-
son, of Kansas; Hon. D. T. Flynn, and other notable men.
Baseball G-ames, G-love Contests. Pie Eating Contest, Sack Race,
and a score of other amusements.
Baloon Ascension and Parachute Jump.
(The weather will have no affect on this occasion.)
A Ball and Banquet
Will end the festivities of the day.
Excursion Rates On All Rail Roads.
Enid is the third largest city in Oklahoma, and
has amtfle hot$l accommodations to entertain the
thousands wko will be in attendance.
OOMB, GOME. GOME.
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