The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 8.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, NOVKMBKR 10,
NO. If>.
HOW DOES /T SEEM TO YOU ?
" Yes, yes ; lie saved his daughter a fate far 1 tremendous. The audience was electrified,
nv Kl tiKNK FIELD. -
II seems lo me I'd like to tfo
Where bells don't ring, nor whistles blow.
Nor clocks don't strike, nor gongs don't souuit,
And I'd have stillness till around
Not real stillness, hut just tlio trees'
l.ow whisperings, or tlie hum of bees,
Or brooks'ftilnt babbling over stone*
in strangely, softly tangled tones.
Or maybe a cricket or katydid,
Or the songs of birds In the hedges hid,
Or Just some such sweet sounds us these
To till a tired heart with ease.
If '(weren't for sight, and sound and smell,
I'd like a city pretty well ;
Hut when It comes to getting rest
1 like the country lots the best.
Sometimes it seems to ine I must
Just quit the city's din and dust,
And get out where tile sky is blue,
Ami say, now, how does It seem to you?
worse than ileath
" Was he nothing else ? "
The governor paused.
"What do you mean ? " he asked, looking
steadfastly at Ruth.
" Was lie not a madman then as surely as
he was a moment afterward ? "
The governor put his hand to his forehead,
as if in sudden revelation.
Ruth laid her hand upon his daughter's
hair, and said :
" Governor, she is very fair—very beauti-
ful ; so was this poor condemned maniac thir-
ty years ago, and no older than this child. No
one could ever dream, her proud father least
of all, her sad fate. She has no father now,
had worse than no husband when I met her
first, and when she saw the danger of her boy
and, save for the occasional outburst of ap
plause and the clear voice of the songster, one
; might have heart! the proverbial pin fall over
; the vast auditorium.
Ingersoll and Douglass.
Frederick Douglass was to lecture in the
| city in which Mr. Ingersoll livetl. He arrived
I in the place in a terrible blizzard late the night
before he was expected. No provision had !
j been made for his accommodation, lie re-
j paired to the hotel ; but the proprietor pos
j lively refused to permit him lo stay at his hos
telry. The circumstance that it was very late,
j and that it was a cold and inclement night,
I made no difference,—the rules of the hotel
I were as those of the Medes and Persians. He
WAS THIS MURDER?
[From " Who Haiti Sinned?"-in Coming Age, for November.]
Early one morning Ruth received a letter
from a noted criminal lawyer asking her to vis-
it a client of his then confined in prison, a
worn mi lately condemned to die for the murder
of her son. He said she claimed to have
known Ruth years ago, and begged to see her
once more. I need not say she lost no time
in getting there, Mr. Heine and I accompany-
ing her.
We were taken to the cell, anil Ruth stood
at the grating. A cry of joy broke from the
parched lips of the haggard face. Ruth rec-
ognised Mrs. Getty, ler old neighbor in those
dark days when she met Dr. Heine. The wom-
an was beautiful still. Her face pallid as
death, her eyes bright and glowing, and her
long black hair, streaming over her shoulders
in disorder, was still glossy and bright.
' What can I do for you?" asked Ruth, gently.
"You can hear me! You can believe me!
They say I murdered my boy, my dear son. I
sent him to heaven. I lost my soul to save his.
When I remembered all my suffering through
his father's drunkenness and brutality, when I
saw him start on the same path that would
lead the same way, to the same end of disgrace
antl ruin, and death of soul and body, I, who
had given him birth, had a right to save him
in that hour. My sin was not in saving him
from such a life and such a death ; my sin was
in bringing him on earth. Listen, you who
know what it is to suffer ; for 1 have seen you
many a time when you did not see me since
we parted on that low street in the sorrow and
degradation brought by our husbands—our
masters. When your boy grew up so brave
and so prosperous mine was just as brr.ve and
prosperous ,\fter his wretched father died of
delirium in the insane asylum he would take
me with him for a summer's outing. But
hark ye," and she whispered, so loud that we
all could hear it, "he met bold, bad women,
and they stole his heart away; they stole his
money, too, and he drove on to destruction
with painted sirens at his side, while his
mother, forsaken and neglected sought sewing
to provide food. The rent was not paid, and
the rooms, once neatly furnished, were stripped
antl all the furniture sold to dealers. He
seldom came to me, and when lie did he was
intoxicated, without money or clothes.
"One night aftei I had kneeled down beside
him and prayed God forgive us all—I—I did
like Virgiriius. Oh, he was a hero, you know.
Who says he did not love Virginia so well he
would rather send her to heaven than suffer
her to fall into that wretch's hands ? Yes, yes,
it was brave—anil it is not more dreadful for a
weak woman to fall into the hands of a knave 1
than for a weak man to fall into the hands of
one of these bold, wicked magdalens. But ]
was compelled to seek lodgings elsewhere. Af
her only child, it maddened her and worked j ^er a long and weary search, anil with heart
her up to the belief that murder was heroic. aching and limbs almost frozen, he accosted a
Well, Ruth came away with a reprieve, but - — u-:.a.. i.:
when they reached the cell release from a high
er source had preceded her, and the poor dead j
woman lay upon the cell floor in murderers'
row, while her spirit, mayhap, was with her boy. j
"The Black Peril."
[From the riiiladelpliiu American.]
. . But there is another cause for British
anxiety in South Africa. And that is the
" Black Peril." Suppose the blacks, taking ad-
vantage of what must seem lo them to be a
fratricidal struggle among the whites who have
domineered over them, crushed thern, beaten
them, should rise ? Much is said of the bad
treatment the negroes have had at the hands
of the Boers, and it is too readily assumed by
many Englishmen that if the blacks should rise
at all it would be against the lioers. But the
British South Africa Company, the creation of
Cecil Rhodes and dominated by him, has
ruled over the blacks of Rhodesia, the great
territory of a million square miles to the west
and north of the Orange Free State and the
Transvaal, antl peopled by from 2,000,000 to
3,000,000 negroes to 6,800 whites—ruled over
! them in a way that should bring a blush of |
j shame to the face of every Briton.
There is ill treatment, and enslaving of the i
j blacks of Rhodesia today, a driving of them to j
forced labor, such as has not had its parallel i
in the Transvaal. At Bulowayo, the capital of j
Rhodesia, is a government office which traffics
in •' indentured laborers," in other words, buys j
and sells men into slavery for a term of years—
the only difference between an "indentured la-
borer " and the slave being that one is sold in-
to slavery for a term of years, the other for
perpetuity. And how*does the Buluwayo gov-
ernment—government chartered by the British
parliament and doing business under the Brit-
ish flag—procure these " indentured laborers?"
It does not exactly sent! out its agents on slave
hunting expeditions. But it does impose a tax
of five dollars a year on every hut, then sends
its officers to collect such tax, threatens to levy
011 the chief's cattle for the unpaid tax, but of-
fers to compound such tax for labor. And
then the chief compels a number of his young
men to "indenture for a year," sells them into
slavery for a year in return for a tax quittance,
and they are driven off to Buluwayo there to
be sold into slavery for one year for the gov-
ernment's profit. And if enough "indentured
laborers'' are not secured in this way to meet
the demand the chiefs are readily prevailed on
to furnish tnem for a tritle of cash.
Thus is the labor market, the slave market
of Buluwayo supplied. If any of the blacks
whose labor is thus sold, who are thus depiived
of the right to sell their own labor and that
passing stranger. After briefly stating his case,
he inquired if he knew of any one in the city
who would give him shelter for the night. The
man thought for a moment, and then replied ,
" I think the man most likely to give you a
a bed is Bob Ingersoll. I'll show you where
he lives." On reaching the Ingersoll home,
the negro's knock was answered in person by
the head of the house, who, it is needless to
say, did not keep him on the steps while he
toid his story. He welcomed the negro as
though lie had been a brother ; a hot supper
and a warm bed were given him with hearty
good-will. " I could not have received more
courteous, or shall I say, more Christian treat-
ment if I had been a prince," observetl Mr.
Douglass, when speaking of this incident. And
this action, as 1 have already observetl, was
truly characteristic of the great orator. His
was the love nature, and his affection went out,
in a manner as beautiful as it is rare, to the
oppressed and unfortunate ones of life.—n. o. i\
Absolution by Telephone.
A curious instance of the modern tendency
of the Roman Catholic .church to keep abreast
of the age, says the Chicago Tribute, "may be
found in a theological treatise just published
in London, entitled ' The Sacraments Explained
according to the Teaching and Doctrine of the
Catholic Church.' The author is the Rev.
Authur Devine, Passiunist, a recognized author
ity on orthodox Catholic theology. He says
it has not been officially decided by the Pope
whether or not confession can be heard and
absolution given by telephone, but he is in
clined to believe such action would be vilid
under certian circumstances. It is one of the
requirements of valid confession and absolu
tion that there should be 'a moral presence of
the penitent with the confessor.' A written
confession sent to an absent priest is not vilid
but Father Devine says that 'a priest' might
give absolution by telephone, under condition
to a person taken suddenly ill, so as to be in
imminent danger ol death, and when he cannot
possibly reach the place where the person is,'
in which case 'the penitent and confessor may
be truly said to be conversing together, and
consequently to be morally prasent to each
other.' 'The idea of grafting a venerable rite
upon the most modern of inventions will have
a curious interest for Protestants as well as for
Catholics."
A Kansas Girl on Expansion.
Recently an eastern paper offered a prize
for the best 100 wort! artic le in favor of ex
pansion, and a similar prize for the best art-
icle of the same length against expansion. The
right stolen from them—if any of these blacks | |aUer ize was won by a Kansas girl, Miss
♦ r,. tr pcranp theV nrP linked. " If the V man- : ^ n r il l. II . 1
try to escape they are flogged. " If they man
age to reach their native village the chief
whips them and sends them back, so that he
may not fali under the displeasure of the gov-
ernment. If any black is found at large with-
Bea
of I'aola. Her article was as
the warm blood sicke'ned me, and I cried out
and they came and found me, and ever since 1 QU( a ^ass after |,js labor has been disposed of
they have said I murdered him. I hat is not j,e recejves twenty-five lashes from the police
murder ! That is love, love beyond degree, j an(j js tllrnet) over to bis master, who takes j
for 1 risked my soul in hell to save my boy ! | suc^ otiier measures as seem to him desirable
Tell me,—you who know the truth,—am I a ^I1(| js js (he labor system in vogue in
murderess?" British Rhodesia, and in Rhodesia there are italj,st rea'nVthe benefit!
"No, no," said Ruth, softly. You are L 000,000 blacks and 6,800 ! Is it any wonder ' TheexLr^on
very weak. ' . the British military authorities have anxiety I , development.
" Weak ? Why, I could wrench these iron i amJ fear ,he .. Hlack Peri, ? • ! h0, e
bars away like paper if I cared to do it, and if
Jenny Lind's Compliment.
During John Howard Paine's residence in
I Washington a pleasant compliment was paid
j the poet by the world's greatest singer. It
; came about in this way : A concert was given
in December of 1850 by Jennie I.ind. The
| audience that thronged the concert hall on
that memorable night was one of the most dis-
tinguished and brilliant that ever assembled in
i Washington. On the front seat were Daniel
I Webster, Henry Clay, President Fillmore, i
i General Scott, and Mr. Paine. According to
i the program the concert was to close with a j
song written for Jenny Find by Bayard Tay-
| lor, entitled "Greeting to America."
This selection was received with marked
favor, appealing as it tlid to the patriotism as
! well as the artistic taste of the audience. She j
i closed amid a storm of applause, during which
Mr. Webster, as if responding on the part of
I America, slowly rose in his place and made a
profound bow to the nightingale from over the
waters. This occasioned a renewal of the
demonstrations of delight, which continued tin
til Jenny Find, who had retired, reappeared.
She slowly advanced toward the footlights,
her face betraying intense emotion, and instead
of returning Mr. Webster's acknowledgment
even by a glance or a smile, she fixed her
eyes on the wondering poet, as though she
wished to speak to his very soul ; then, with a
wealth of feeling seldom evinced even by
j that marvelous woman, and in a voice clear as
j a bell, and sweet as music from the other I
i world, she began " 'Mid pleasures and palaces
I though we may roam," etc. The effect was |
Connie
follows :
The acquisition of the Philippines means :
1. Imperialism, which has ever overthrown
republics.
2. Militarism, which must be supported
by an overtaxed people.
3. 'The care of the islands, which the An-
glo-Sax on cannot inhabit.
4. The masses bear the taxation: the cap
it would bring back my boy as he once was j
to me ; antl I'd wrench them like paper still if ;
I could see antl know the devils who first sold |
him that hellish stuff." < I
She had spent her strength in her fierce
words, antl sank down on the floor. We left
her antl sought her attorney, and Ruth de-
termined to go at once to the governor. Her
husband accompanied her, and he told me i
how she pleaded with him. The governor had
made up his mind not lo interfere with the
sentence. ...
" But, governor," said Ruth, '1 it is in your
power alone to save this poor maniac."
" ' Maniac ' ! "
" As sure as that you are a sane man."
"She planned the murder with great skill
and for his life insurance, so the proscutor
claimed."
" A woman, too. Oh, governor, and yoi- a
man in power. ' ... , ,,
" Women seek their rights so frantically
nowadays that they must share the halter as
well as the ballot," he saitl, still unmoved.
|ust then a beautiful young girl appeared.
Mr. Heine had arranged it so. She was the
governor's daughter.
Ruth rose, anil drawing her hand through
her arm, said : ,
" Governor, did you ever see John McCul-
lough play Virginius ?
" What did you think of him as he took Vir-
ginia in his an- in that last farewell and
drove a dagger to her heart ? Was he a mur-
derer, or a Roman centurion, and in that deed
a hero in your eyes ?
of wealth needed for
6. European embroilments in violation of
the Monroe doctrine.
7. The loss of our citizen soldiery.
8. The adoption of a leprous tropical race.
9. An additional proof that a pure repub-
lic cannot lor.g endure.
10. The violation of the principle of self-
government.
What is Religion ?
Plato : " A likeness to God, according to
our ability.'
Kant : '' Reverence for the moral law as
of divine command."
Ficlite : " Faith in a moral government of
the world."
Jeremy Taylor : " I he whole duty of
man, comprehending in it justice, charity, hnd
sobriety."
Mackay : " Every man worships a con-
ception of his own mind."
Martineau : " The culminating meridian of
morals."
Chinese : Religions are many ; reason is
one. We are all brothers."
Billyboy blue Bolton says : After working
off this effort on an unsuspecting public, the
Nortonville News has the nerve to ask its sub-
scribers to come in and renew their subscrip
tions: " A Nortonville farmer has Kaffir corn
for his cow and the cow has a Kaffir two every
year. 'That's what makes the stock raising
business profitable."
Even his worst enemies will not assert that
Hanna ever betrayed a Trust.—Detroit News.
For everything' in the Fur-
niture or Undertaking'line
at lowest prices, see
REED & SHAFFER.
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latest fabrics in Dress Goods, such as
wool and silk Crepons, from 95c to $2
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Broadcloth, an exceptional value for 48c;
Venetians, 54 to 70 inches wide.
Beautiful line of Jackets and Capes,
Shoes, Clothing, and Overcoats.
Best boys' Clothing and Shoes in the
wide world.
Everything guaranteed.
We want your trade — and intend to
/umo it. by selling you goods that will
suit you, at less than other Norman, or
Oklahoma City, merchants will sell.
COME AND SEE US
when wanting Dry Goods and Grocer-
ies, and let us verify our statements.
Yours to please.
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« O • * 0
1 lie Farmers Grain ami Implement
Company
Will pay you the highest market price for
your Grain, Hogs and Cattle, and will sell
you all kinds ol" Farm Implements at the
lowest living prices.
If y m have grain, l'at hogs or cattle to
sell, let us give you prices on them.
If you want to purchase any kind of
farm implement, we will be pleased to have
you examine our stock and line of imple-
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Yours for business,
FA1LMKKS (iliAIN AM) IMl'LKMKNT
COMPANY.
East side R. R. Track.
f .*)—• /i -.A
'I \ \/7V./ \ \ >,
Photograph*.
The Ui'st, and
Only the Best..
At Urook's Gali.kky.
; V < ;<>n\ersat ion Overheard be-
tween it Funnel' anil a
Merchant.
When in town selling hU cotton, a
I'ott county fanner was overheard to
\ xhv t line of Ih■■ merchantsin Norman,
"I want a sack of Hour and I waul '"N.
H " The last sack of flour 1 had was
"N, B." anil it was the heal sack of
I (lour, I ever purchased in my life."
I 11 is need less in
not try to eell
I product.
•ay, the merchant did
ibis- man a Kansas
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To Cure it Colli in One Day
I'ake Laxative Bromoi.i ilnine Tabids.
All druggists refund the money if It
fails to cure. K W. Grove's signature
on every > ox. 25c.
Don't Give ^ our Money
To canvassing agents, when we can
giro you portraits and frames for the
aine price or less, and you run : u
risks.
IJKOOKS, THK I'HOTOOUAfltl'.K
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1899, newspaper, November 10, 1899; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115899/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.