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VOL. 7.
The Peoples Voice
Similar Cases.
[T >« follow!.* line, by the glfurf |K>«, Charlotte Fcrltliw St«t«nn,
will .ecu to miu.l of tho reformer the „.«ny ".Uullar .-«* •• in hU
r-rrr "*• •4U--WH
liave to first change human nature !" ]
Theie ivu* once h little animal, no bin* than a fo* ,
Ami on live toes he acaiupenxl over Ternary rocki
They called bin. Kohlppiu, an.l they callwt htm very small,
Ami they thought him of iui value when they thought of htm at all-
tor the linn j y Ulnoceroa anil (joryphodaut a J alow
Were the heavy art tocntc.v In the .lays of long ago.
Sul.l the lutie ftublppu*; "I am going to be a Horse I
"Anil on my uilihlle Unger nails to run my earthly course I
I m going to have a flowing tall I I'm going to have a mane I
1 m going to atan.l fourteen hamls high on the Payehoiolo plain !
TheCoryphoiluiit was horrlOeil, the Dmooiroa Wuailnx'ke.l-
AM fhey chase,I young Kohlppua, but he allppeil H ay
. ttey langheil enormous laughter, ami fhey graanel. enorinmu,
h#y '""le >'"" * K Jbl|i|>us"Uoantl view his fuihei a bono.l> |gr. „Hl
Sa"l tney, "Vou always were as low and small as now we see
^ An.I therefore It is evident you're always going to be I"
;:r l.": ".Kr""'' ■ " b.H,f,io gallop on I
' " ,,AV,t roOIUMOg rot.tt NATrKMI "mid tue Loxolopuouo ..
Then they fanced him dl p,«e.| „r, an,. retire,, with gait serene ;
ilils was the way they argued in "the Early Eocene."
There was once an Anthropoldal Ape, far smarter than the rest
And eveiytklng that they eould do he always did u,e besi
So I hey naturally disliked him, and they gave him shoulueis eo ol
And when they had to mention him, they said he was a fool.
"And m'1 PreU,"Uous Al °, """ 'toy; "I'm going to be a man!
And stsuil upright,and hunt, an.l tight, and oonquer all 1 cunt
I in g .lng to cut forest trees to make my houses higher I
NORMAN', CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. PIIDAY, AUGUST
20, 1808.
"I'm going to kill the Maatodon! I'm going lo make a nrel"
Loud screamed the Anihropoldal Ape. with laughter wild and gay
Ihen iried .. ealoh the boastful one. but he always g ,i awav
l'5 i'"1'11in chorua, but ue minded not whit
And they peiiedlilin with cwi amii-,which didn't seem to hit
*nl<l the sages; ' In the Hr t place, tlie thing can NOT be done I
And second, it tt could bo. It would not be any fun!
Vou ailinittiiig no reply
Tryl" CHAM* lot it *ati kki We should like to see you
They chuckled then triumphantly, those lean aud hairy shape*
or im*e things |msae,| us argument.-with the Anthropoldal Apes I
lheie Was once a Neolitiilc Man,an c'erprlsing wight,
Who made his simple Implements nuusuuliy bright
I nusually clever lie, unusually tirnve.
And he aketcbed delightful mammoth, on the borders of his cave.
To Ids Neolithic neighbors, who were startled and surprised
Said he : My friends, iu course of time, we shall be civilised I
■We a'e going to live iu cities, and build churches, and make laws I
We are going to eat three times a day, without a natural cau-e'
W e re g.,lng to turn life up.lde down ahou! a thing called «;,,|,| I
"« e re going to want the earth, and take as much a, ,
« r re got i g i0 wear a pile of stutl outside our pro|Nn skins I
"We are going lo have IHsea-es 1 and Accomplishments I! and Sins!II"
Then they all rose up In fury against their boastful friend
tor prehistoric e comes quickly to an end.
Said one: "This is chimerical I Utopian I Absurd 1"
: "What a stupid life! Too dull, upon my word"'
Cried all; "Itefore such llnngs can come, you Idiotic child
You fcc T Al.TKit III man NATLHh!" and they all «, back and sm lied.
Thought II,cy: "Ananswer to that last It will be hard to linn I"
, It haa a clinching at yumetit—-to tilt) Neolithic Mind f
September Weather.
Hicks' Wotd and Works, forSeptember.
Our storm diagram shows a com
filiation of astronomical causes in-
dicating general and active storm
disturbances in the first week of
September—about i to 4. The pe-
riod will begin with low barometer
in western sections, high tempera-
ture and winds easterly and south-
erly. While the storm areas are ad-
vancing from western extremes, fair,
warm weather will prevail in cent-
ral anil eastern sections, but the
Storm centers will progress steadily
eastward, and by the 5th all sections
will have had more or less storm or
storminess, or will have felt the
changes of barometer and tempera-
ture resulting from the passage of
general storms. Marked equinoc-
tial disturbances will most likely ap-
pear along the southern coasts at
this time, in which event a rapid
and general high barometer will fol
low disturbances inland from the
northwest, causing cool, northerly
winds over most of the country, un-
til the southern disturbances pass to I
the north Atlantic. From about the
Sth to the 10th, a general reaction
of the elements to storm conditions
will be the order. "Storm condi-
tions" are not always attended by ac-
tual storms—a fact would be critics
do not always understand. But
general storms and other elemental
perturbations never transpire unless
preceded by changes in atmospheric
pressure, wind currents and temper-
ature which go to make up what are
meteorologically known as "storm
conditions." Change to coolcr,
westerly winds ami higher barome-
ter bring on anti-storm conditions
and as a rule, dominate the weather
for the most part, for several days
between the regular storm periods.
The next regular storm period is
central on the ijth, extending from
12th to r6th. Watch roports of ba-
rometer and thermometer closely at
this tame, ami see if warmth does
not increase a*d the barometer
does not falS An western sections
early in this period; see if *hese
conations do net spread eastward
east, not prevailing at all longitudes
on the same day. Local conditions
will infallibly presage the near ap
proach of storms to any locality, or
indicate that storms have passed
east along paths that lie north or
south of the observer. 1 he usual
rise of barometer and change to
cooler westerly winds will follow the
storm areas.
From the 24th to the end of the
month many equinoctial storms will
be natural. I.ook for very hot
weather, south winds and low ba-
rometer, ending about 26th to 29th
in many storms of heavy thunder,
wind and rain. A sweeping high
barometer and change to much
cooler will end the month.
We predict that n uch very warm
weather will prevail in September,
and even into October, and that the
month of October will be one of
maximum storm perturbations, es
pecially over the lakes and the north
Atlantic.
That "Popular'' Loan.
I The Cleveland Citizen says that
' when it was announced that the to
tal subscriptions to the $200,000,000
war loan, including syndicate offers,
had reached Si,325,000,000, the sub-
sidized capitalistic organs shouted
for joy at this "splendid evidence of
patriotism among the common peo-
ple." The workingmen and farm-
ers received endless enconiums of
praise, and good-natured paragraphs
reminded us that the sharp-eyed,
bond grabbing plutocrats "have
been fooled." Lucky workingmen,
lucky farmers, to find themselves
with bonds sticking from their pock
ets! How happy they must feel at
their good fortune! It is such a
pretty picture to see the toilers wear
grins of joy as thej display big wads
of bonds—in the comic papers
and the plutocrats standing by
wearing frowns and cu*sing their
ill luck- McKinley is such a saint-
ly man, bless him! He "fooled" the
plutes, fellow countrymen ! Of
course here and there we find a
toiler wiio was not in on this "popu-
lar loan"—who couldn't It tip Mc-
from day to day,-and if they are not I Kinley fool 'em-^ut he is usually
o owed by growng cloudiness and cocksure "some other workineman"
finalJ.V llU Ctnrnr.c • i . r .
finally by storitK 0: rain, wind and
thun<!er in most parts, on and loach-
ing tfce days embraced in the storm
period. We predict that theifceat
will not break down generally, that
the barometer witlmol rise decided-
ly. ani that the wo 3t disturbances
of this period will ,nct transpire .un-
til abot; Thursday fite 15 th. Shtrp
change to cooler atad ihigher barotn-
eter will (follow stortnc.ind dominate
the weatterr for three ,c.r four dac-s
following.
From the j9th to falls a pe-
riod of reactionary storm condt
, */ iiicr.r trusted *i2ents to r
ex;nfrcoinciden! with tt,e p°°' ^0^ a„d Grower
earth's equator passing centrally
through the sun. A generii low ba-
rometer, developing in extreme west
and moving eastward, attended by
great heat and breaking inrto active
storms of thunder, rain ant? wind,
will be the natural order from about
assisted in the foohng business.
Certtin people are unpatriotic
enough tt. declare that the -"popular
loan was a delusion and a snare
that McKinley ami congress have
been htmbubging j.gain. B*t such
people should not fee heeded They
are irresponsible tgitators, without
money tnd with n® standing among
the best people. The disgruntled
and nowy copperheads mak.2 the
ridiculous claim ttuit the bunkers
and brolssrs fooled the people after
all; that tie rich moiiey kings tiere-
ly sent tho-r trusted tgents to ce-tain
s *nd
had them jpply for bonds in tfc-ir
cames, and they (the bankers iad
tarokers) to j/Jvance the money as*i
Uite them off their hands when is-
sued; that families of as high as teu
members, heelc over head in debt,
Monday, the ,9^ ^Thur^y'The11 person ''Sc!udin7°he° bil ^ "V
22tl. Storms, of course, will lia^ I cradle 2 .17 i • 10 the
their usual progress from west to working secured bond, for^t
good reason that they had no mon-
ey to purchase the same, and that
where a few of these evidences 0/
indebtedness, and consequently pros-
perity, fell into the hands of the
middle class capitalists it will be on-
ly a little while until the strong sue
ti°n of the big whales will have
gulped them down and some of the
little minnows with them.
Such talk is scandalous. We have
no patience with it. People who de-
clare that the workingmen and far-
mers are not becoming bloated
| bondholders are enemies to this
country and its flag, and they ought
: to be made to go back to where
they or their fathers came from.
Down with everybody who dare hint
that our McKinley did not fool the
plutes more effectually than Lincoln
ever did !
Writing on this subject, Willis J.
Abbott in the New York Journal
says:
Here is the other side of the pop.
ular subscription for United States
bonds, which many newspapers are
pointing to as an evidence of the
great prosperity and thrift of the
people of the United States today:
I he heavy subscription for bonds
in sums of $Soo or less shows that
industrial and commercial conditions
in the I nited States are extremely
hard. It shows that trade, business,
farming, industry of any sort, offers
so little chance to the many with
small means that he despairingly
puts his little money in a bond
which pays picayune interest as an
alternative to a savings bank, which
may fail, or in an old stocking,
which may be stolen.
Not so many years ago, a man
with 52,000 or #3,000 was fit to
make a start in business for himself
—to become his own master. Now
in 999 cases out of 1,000 he is al
most as badly off as if penniless.
Great aggregations of capital con-
trol every branch of industry.
Rockefeller began with nothing, but
woe to the man who puts his few
thousands into an oil refinery today.
Commodore Vanderbilt's ferry did
not cost much, but he who would
try to carry passengers to Staten
island today has a monopoly to
fight. The original Astor, with his
real estate purchases- the Armours,
with their magnified butcher shops;
Marshall Field, who now conducts
the greatest dry goods house in the
world; the Arbuckles, with their
greet coffee business; the Havemey-
ers, dominant spirits in the sugar
trust, began with but slender capital
carted by their own exertions.
These- success, and the form ...
whicfc they have embodied it make
repetition of their achievement im
possible. Enormous capital scarce
ly sufces now to do what tney did
without capital. Not even the vill-
age buteher can live if the Armours
say nay, nor the grocer trade prof
itably in sugar 0r coffee except by
permission of the trusts.
The man with S500 looking about
ium for a chance to invest it in a
business enterprise and work with
it, increasing it by his own skill and
indasfty, find* fs-y.ry avenue closed
by monopoly or held by aggrega-
tions of capital too great for him to
attack. So he clings to his clerk
ship, invests his savings where they
' bring him the magnificent in
come of #15 a year, and is called on
to exult in the great prosperity
of which his investment is the irre-
futable evidence.
No people in the world have 10
eagerly taken up the bonds of their
government as the French pessati'
rY Rut in France the peasant re
mains a peasant into the third and
fourth generation, herds in cabins
scarce fit for swine, goes ill clad, il-
literate and unread and rejoices if
he can aff.ird a dinner of meat once
a week.
Appointments for Wise and Pool.
August 29—l)lu 110111I 8. II., No. 8
" UO—Cloth It* r 8. II
" 31 — Berry 8 II
Sept. J—Liberty s. II
2 -Hill JJ. II
" 5—Elm Grove 8. H
" (J—riewMtnt Valley 8. II.
" 7—KiiIIB 8. II
" 8— Twelve Corner* 8. II
*' W—Lone Star 8. II
NO
0
Same Ancient Method.
We learn from the Youth's Com
panion that Sydney Smith, who
died in 1845, raised a very fine race
of horses, though the leader of the
tine was a "large, living skeleton with
famine written on his face." The
horse had a forlorn appearance
combined with a boundless appetite
and had earned the cheerful nam
of Calamity. He was sluggish of
disposition,
:D33I03pr]oo;IX)"
Good, sound.-.-
COMMON
SENSE...
Will tell you the time has come when Summer Goods
.... must be got rid of quicky, if at all. We have
.... made prices to sell the goods before the season
.... wanes, and if we could reach every lady in Cleve-
.... land county, and show her the values we give
there wouldn't be a piece of summer goods sold
.... elsewhere in town. —
Standard prints, per yd 4c
25, 35c straw hats 15C
125c slippers g5c
150c slippers 125
200c slippers 159
250c slippers 2.00
Wash goods, 33 1-3 per cent off regular price.
§
□
~j GRAND LEADER.
■]j □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□
quently invented what he called his'
SMITH & WILLIAMS
"patent tantalus," a small sieve of THE RE AL EST ATE A ND 1NSUH A N G f' MFN
gram suspended 0.1 a semi-circu- Abstracters and Conveyancers '
tar bar o!
t, ges, and all kinds of legal papers, in proper form Money to loan at
low rate. Notary public in office. ' 1
ends of the shafts just beyond the
horse's nose.
As Calamity trotted, the grain rat-
tled, and he forged ahead with all
speed to overtake the sieve. He
did more work under this spur of
the imagination than ail the high
feeding which had gone before had
been able to extort from him.
A great many people are being
fooled by the old parties in just the
same way that Sydney Smith fooled
his horse. The party boss fastens a
few promises just ahead of their no-
ses, cracks his whip and away they
go. "Calamity" had some sort of
liorse idea that Sydney wanted
him to have the grain and did not
understand that his master always
put some obstacle in the way which
prevented his getting it.
Just so some deluded people have
an idea that the Democratic leaders
want them to have free silver; but
like poor old "Calamity" of bygone
days, they never reason that these
same leaders always put some ob
staclej in the way of their getting it
And, too, like Calamity, they trot on
neither fatter nor wiser.—Progress
ive Farmer.
roomsovim' Norman 8tute liunk
v rmun, ok la.
The Spaniards . ^
* have retreated!
And so have our competitors ; but still you can
hear the artillery of the Famous Grocery thunder-
>ng against the walls of high prices, at any time
you put your ear to the ground. The Famous is
loaded to the water line with the Best Line of
Groceries carried in Norman by any grocery
firm, and they don't ask any more for their goods
than other grocers ask for goods of inferior quality.
• • (jive lis a trial and be coiivincsfd....
Famous Grocery Co.,
Norman, Okla
SAY
In yesterday's Democratic con-
ventions, Judge Cease fell outside
the breastworks, and as the pre
cious life ebbed away he exclaimed,
a how-could you-do-it tone,
Vou had ought to be proud of
what you have did here today."
? Did You Know that
A. O. McGILL. uDOC."
A/ B n T
Is running one of the best
M . \ K It, T
IN THE GITY?
Rule or Ruin Democrats.
Guthrie Free I'resa (Union-labor;.
The Leader has been loud in its
denunciation of the populists who
bolted the Oklahoma City conven-
tion, but never a word has it said
about the democrats of Noble coun-
ty who bolted Duke Mills and nom-
inated 1 om Doyle for represent-
ative. The democrats and populists
of that county had agreed on the
terms of fusion, and the populists
had nominated Mills with the un-
derstanding that the democrats
would endorse him...The Leader
has nothing to say about this treach-
ery. In fact, the Leader people se- j
cretly gloat over it. They know I
that if Duke Mills gets into the legis-
lature it means one more guard to
the treasury. Mr. Mills is accused
of being a farmer and an outspoken
champion of organized labor, and
these are crimes to the treasury-
To he convinced of this fact, you have; but
m.. t'IP vt0 h-n and purchase some of
miat*. You Will find his place of business iu«t
Last of the old Post Office Building.
"3AST MAIN STItEET,
NORMAN, oklahoma
It you want to get a nice, clean
piece of meat, that will temnt
the appetite, put up in firstclass
KIMBERLIN 4 CO. MaFn east
Dleasp von HI V We will Cloour bestto
the city! deliver goods to any part of
looting gang running the official or I #24.00 to Cincinnati u„tl Rctllrn
The I°e d .Oklah0fma (Jemocracy 1 on sale September 2, 3 and 4,
Hie Leader hears of a populist who m""d to October 2. 18UH ,\ger t
has the manhood to stand up fur Vl'h" « k' re80!'vf. b,'r,h1 ln
1 .... , • LiiecK b. vi'iiL'e t'lro 1 h
what he thinks to be right, and that ° ' .
man is immediately branded as a 1 OFFI |\1,
boodler and a traitor. Let a demo- Woi* histOTV
crat break every pledge he ever *
made, play traitor to his best friends
and strive to defeat every fusion
candidate who is not a democrat,
and that man will get a half-column
slobber under the heading, "Demo-
cratic Workers in Oklahoma." This
is the same gang of patriots that
went to the Oklahoma City fusion
convention to fuse if the nominee
was a democrat—or to bolt if the
nominee was a populist. J
By Coiitfessmuii James Rank in Youn^. AU
about War with .Spain, the Navy, all defenses,
battle ship*, etc. Portraits ami bio^iui btes Of
Dewey iiimI a!I prominent officers. Ne.wfyfMO
piig«\s Massive volume. Murvelou-|y i r cni).
llest authorship. Only authentic official booli
Bxperleooo not necessary. Anybody can eeli
It. I.i«di.^ ns •iiieces.-tul us gentlemen. Wcaro
th« largcdt subscription book linn in ain- ilcft
1 Write us Fifty persons ureempl \.d inoui
correspondence department alone, to -one
you Our hook Is just out <;< t agent",* :io v
and be first 111 the Weld. I.aivef>0o War .\l.iu m
colors fiee with hook or outrit. other \aImiDki
premiums. Tremendous seller. Hiy 'f d money
maker ever known Most liberal termsgiiftraiJ.
teed Agents making to pertiay. Twen-
ty days credit given. Freight paid. Fuil book
sent prepaid to agents for 11.45. .Splen lid janv
pie outfit and full Instructions free for mi Hi Jo
stamps to pay postage. Mention I'eopJej V k-e.
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