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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 7.
norman. cleveland county, oklahoma, friday, JANUARY 2<>. 18m.
Moody and Women Clubs.
A recent declaration of Dmiight L.
Moody, the evangelist, that " he
knew nothing about women's clubs,
but was opposed to them," has led
to a number of criticisms from the
women, one of which, by Mrs. West-
over Alden, of the N. Y. Tribune,
is as follows:
" Narrowness means force. The
Mississippi sweeping through its jet-
ties carries off nearly all the matter
that used to be deposited and be-
come a curse to commerce when the
stream was permitted to seek the
sea untroubled and unrestrained.
Sj with humin nature. Broadness
of culture and broadness of sympa-
thy rarely coexist with intensity of
purpose. A Cobden, a Wilberforce,
a Wesley, a Bright, makes a perma-
nent impression on history. A
Gladstone passes cfi the stage, leav-
ing only a memory of vast and many
sided intelligence. Glorious old
John Brown, had he divided his en-
ergy between human liberty and a
do^en other subjects, literature, art,
music, mathematics, philosophy,
would never have been hanged
down in Virginia, and his soul would
not be marcliuvg on. The Caliph
Omar expressed the true strength of
his creed in amswering those who
protested against the destruction of
the library of Alexandria, after the
capture of the Egyptian metropolis
in the year 640. He said: "If
these books are in accord with the
Koran they are superfluous. If they
are not in accord with the Koran
they are pernicious. Let them be
burned." So the 700,000 hand-
written volumes were promptly giv-
en to the flames. I can imagine
Mr. Dwight L. Moody applying
precisely the same logic, merely
substituting "Bible" for "Koran" in
stating his premises. Mr. Moody's
grand work for practical religion
would never have been accomplished
if he had not had the narrowness of
Omar, the narrowness of Cobden,
the narrowness of Wilberforce, the
narrowness of Wesley, the narrow-
ness of Bright, the narrowness of
the hero of Harper's Ferry.
" I am not surprised that Mr.
Moody disapproves of women's
clubs. He has the spirit of Spartan
devotion that made the troopers of
Cromwell destroy priceless paint-
ings and statuary in hundreds
of Roman Catholic churches. To
him the Sistine Madonna is but a
relic of idolatry; the "Kreutzer So-
nata' is what it was to Tolstoi; the
'Song of Solomon' a soulless parable;
Fielding is corruption incarnate,
Byron an abomination, and Shake-
speare a mass of demoralizing friv
olity. Mr. Moody has the energy,
the power of a steam locomofive.
He moves along a fixed track to a
given point. It would be as absurd
to dally with literature or the fine
arts as for the locomotive to stop to
admire wild roses by the wayside,
or to attempt to wander from the
railed track to gather trailing ar-
butus
The Fish Hawk watches tire-
Now the ignorance and narrow-
ness of mothers has done more to
retard the physical ar.d mental de-
velopment of the huiuan race than
any other influence, and the ignor-
ance and narrowness of mothers has
sprung naturally from the isolation
of the home. In the woman's club
a mother compares her ideas with
those of other women on diet, hy-
giene, family discipline, and pract-
ical education That makes her a
better mother. She learns to dis-
tinguish between real art and the
tawdriness of imitation, between
good music and musical clap-trap,
between good literature and bad
literature. These distinctions she
will make clear to her children as
they grow older. Her sons will not
be found revelling in 'I>ick Dead-
eye; the Terror of the Prairie," or
'The Awful Mystery of Muddy
Gulch.' Her daughters will discov-
er no fascination in the factory girl
novels sold by the million in America.
Moreover, in the woman's club,
in learning to express herself clearly,
a woman also learns to think clear-
ly. That is a great deal. But the
habit of taking part in impromptu
debating means much more than
that. It means the acquirement of
an independent attitude of mind
which makes it possible for her to
meet the emergency of little Willie's
cut hand, or little Jennie's case of
croup, with firmness, readiness, and
common sense. It would be unfair
to those who think with Mr. Moody,
not to acknowledge that a part of
each of the two last-named advant-
ages is afforded by the prayer and
and experience meetings of Baptist
and Methodist churches, in which
women take part as freely as men.
Like the prayer and experience
meeting, like the church sewing cir-
cle, like the woman's missionary
meeting, the woman's club takes
woman from the home for a time,
but she is worth more to her family
because of the temporary absence.
She is also worth more to society at
large, to philanthropic agencies, to
the organized church of Christ, and
to Mr. Moody himself, for it is to
women far more than to men that
the revivalist appeals, and from
women far more than from men that
he receives support and admiration.
" Have I attributed too much of
the narrowness of genius to Mr.
Moody ? Let me tell you a story,
and I have finished. I once sent a
reporter to get a signed article from
the revivalist on some matter of
current interest. He had nearly
finished the article for which the re-
porter was waiting, when she inci-
j dentally remarked that it was need-
ed for the Sunday Tribune. Mr.
Moody flew into a passion, threw
his pen to the other side of the
room, and declared that he had nev-
er written, and never would write, a
line for a Sunday newspaper. The
reporter escaped somehow. Yet,
for any good purpose, Mr. Moody
would have reached more people
in that one newspaper issue than he
ever reached in a whole week of his
best-attended revival meetings.
no :o
contrary to law, and is credibly re Cooper.—Vintage of 1876 — XXX.
ported to have taken another wife
since the admission of Utah, con-
trary to the pledges made by his
state to the nation; and
Whereas, Polygamy is an institu-
tion unjust and degrading to wom-
anhood; and
Whereas, Mr. Roberts was a con-
spicuous opponent of woman suf-
frage in the constitutional conven-
tion of Utah; therefore,
Resolved. That Mr. Roberts is
obnoxious to the N. A. W. S. A.,
both as a representative of anti-
suffrage and as a representative of
polygamy; and that, if any consti-
tutional means of excluding him can 1
be found, we hope a self-confessed $20,000,000.
law-breaker w
to form part
body of the United States.
Alice Stone Blackwell.
Nevertheless, the writer hereof ven-
tures to assert his absolute belief
that Wharton Barker (who has not
been out of the high councils of the
Republican party but a few years)
is one of the ablest and grandest
men in the reform movement. The
money losses which Mr. Barker has
sustained because of his reform ad-
vocacy would make comfortable
fortunes for quite a number of hun-
gry patriots.
Speaker Reed has been figuring,
and finds that the U. S. government
price of healthy, kinky Malays is
.C. KKMrHOW, I'TMlUtm. UKO.T. KKVNOLIMS, V.-I're.,
C, II. IlKSSENr, Cmbler.
Norman State Bank.
Capital, $50,000.
Collections a Specialty.
W. C. RENFROW. C. H. BESSENT. GEO. T. REYNOLDS. F. CARUTHERS.
J. D. MAGUIRE. J. M. CURTICE. T. E. SMITH.
Si'IkhiI Iteport.
Report of school district, No. 67,
Denver Cleveland county, for lir<t
and second months. No. pupils en-
rolled first month 2!'. Average at-
' * ' J I(
per head 10,000,000 Malays= J tendance U per cent. No of pupils
j $20,000,000. So now when a con-1 enrolled second month 41. Average "uuKm no oai
•ill not be permitted j gressman humbly petitions Tom to I attendance 6B per cent. superintended
of the law-making pass that little appropriation of a I '1'hose who have been present every •ind.I. A. Kin
riited States. hundred thousand or so to improve IdayH'"ce enrollment were Susie Gray, | Harrier named
Is it the End?
The famous, lon-winded Cherokee
commission has at last come to an
agreement with the Five Tribes for
the allotment of their lands and oth-
er wealth. The principal points ap-
pear to be as follows:
1 he land (r. r. lands and townsites
excepted) are to be divided equally
among the Indians, the lands are to
be divided into five grades—Jj, 2.50,
125. 75c and 25c per acre; basis of
allotment to be 120 acres; commis-
sion to Indians to determine Rvalue
of lands; all tribal funds (except
school fund) and other public prop
erty is to be capitalized, and the as
sets of the tribe and the per capita
share of each person thereof to be
ascertained before deeds to land are
issued; allottee can select from land
he has already improved; the res
idue after allotments are made to be
used to equalize allotments; no land
to be sold except as provided for
town lots; this lot money also goes
to equalize allotments, and when
that has been done the remainder
will be divided equally; if the 120-
acre allotment is less in value than
the citizen's per capita share in the
tribal assets he shall receive the dif-
ference in land or money, or both,
and shall receive a deed in fee sim-
ple to his land as soon as the allot-
ment is completed; if his 120 should
be of greater value than his credits
credits he shall pay the difference to
the government for the tribe; allot-
ments for minor children to be made
by father or mother, and by agent
for prisoner or incompetent; allot-
ments to be non-taxable for twenty-
one years, or until title passes from
allottee, and shall be free from any
debt or obligation contracted prior
to issue of deed; roll of citizens to
be made up by U. S. commission
in December, 1899.
steamboat navigation on the uoner I 1! . -. 1
6. F1 I Waltafc-.huuiaker,LeeMauldiii,Vera,
William Warren. Charlie Warren,
- 1 WaltjW-ilu
Cimarron, etc., the czar squelches Kva O Walter Mays. No. girls en-
the would be treasury looter with rolled 21. No. boy* enrolled 30.
the reminder, " Sweet spirits, hear Those making an average of 90 per
me prayer! Why, man, that prec ccnt lvere May Bumgarner and Wil-
ious money would buy—so many I "'Lm ^ ;irren- l'ho e making an av-
Malays at $2 per caput." : cent S,lsie (ira>--
jtearl \V ilkerson, Frank William-
.... "*""*7 lett May, ltuth Peters, Walter Mav
I he recent war with Spain cost Laura, George, Ktter Rowland,
the United States a large sum of j ny Mau'din, Daisy Bird, Geor> <
money; but at the present time it
looks very much as though the cost
of the investigation to ascertain just
what kind of beef was furnished the
army in the field, will cost the gov-
ernment more than all the other ex-
penses of the war.
erson, Vera Mays Maud Peters, Ten I oeen quite sic
lie, Bertie William*, < laude UirJ and
k
nit
Ora Vauldin.
C.
baskets, Jim Walker for instance.
1 lie fun came in when J. T. Walker
and his boy Harvey took to bidding
against each other, and the boy held
out the longest too. Everybodyseem-
ed to have a good time, but those who
bought no basket . Mr. Stames i«s
uperinteiulent of the Sunday school
ng is assistant Doc.
I one of the creeks He-
publican creek Mm Walker can
make a better cake than many wom-
en can make ... .Charley Harhert was
elected secretary of the literary in
the place of Hob Me Daniels, resigned.
Walker fell Friday and hurt
himself so that he had to rest from
carpenter work for a few hours ...
, I •v>*° matter how bad the weather is,
1.1 the young ladies out here will wear
Kan- j their best clothes to the literary
Wll- Miss Ida Harbert is better. Slie has
iil-'k, X. X. X.
Shkkman, Teacher.
TO TilK PUIS 1.1
We lire authorized to guarantee ev-
ery bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and If not satisfactory to re-
Flynn and Grimes followers may : t,"'1 t",7 t0 ,u"? phaser,
u. • . a 11 • t 1 / litre in no belter medicine made for
be in the saddle in the lower house1 1« grippe, eolds «nd whooping cough
of the present legislature, but the I ™rice ?5^nti,?iu '"'r. houle- f'7 it-
turning down of President McCre-! n a < ruggists.
die's committee appointments in the j UllUm (.,.ovc NoteHi
council throws the Barnes forces in-1 \hrr!p, . .
„ 1 ,, , , Married at the residence of
to the saddle in that body and Mr. J. W. Sherrod of Union
gives the minority some force in Grove, last Thursday evening at 7
that branch of the present legislature, o'clock. Mr. Geo. L. Hanks to Miss
Mattie Coleman. Rev. J, T. Priskltt,
Hon. J. Y. Callahan feels quite ol"c'atinR' The wedding was a quiet
sure that some good may gome to atTair' Tho9e Present were Mr. "<!
Oklahoma out of the present sess 0^1^' Mrs-
. , I,resen[ sess I'nskitt, T. I. Durham and wife, H.
ion of congress between now and r. Allen and family, P. P. Stephens
the 4th of March, and if it does not and wife, M. H. Goss and wife, W. H.
the Republican majority in congress J Walton, J. R. Shelton, N. Goss and a
will alone be responsible for it. few >'0lmB fol,(S whose names we fail-
These are free homes, statehood I
and the donation of the Fort Sill
reservation to Oklahoma for an in-
sane asylum. 1 lie enactment of Sherrod had prepared for the occas-
one or all three of these measures ! '°"> a" enjoyed themselves suniptu-
depend exclusively on the action of! 0U9|y- The happy couple
Speaker Reed. He can let all of
l'i
nest
i-elvt
Notice.
eparatory to a change in our buni-
we ask that all krowing them-
s indebted to us will call him! m.
tlo at once. McUl.vley & BEKRY.
« ««
e
««« «
! ed to get, after the ceremony that
made the happy couple man and wife,
the guests were invited out to partake
of the good things that Mr. and Mrs.
Mayor Jones of Toledo.
Hon. Samuel M. Jones, mayor of
I oledo, Ohio, is also president of
the Acme Sucker Rod Company.
Every Christmas this company mails
to each of its workmen, as an ex-
pression of goodwill and a recog-
nition of faithful service, a sum
equal to five per cent of the total
them become law or he can prevent
any of them. The free homes bill
will be added to the Indian bill in
the senate and then it will go back
to the house, and if Speaker Reed
says so it will become a law, and if
lie says no it will not. The respons-
ibility for its fate is wholly in the
hands of the Republican majority
of the house.—Ex.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 16.—The
first decision by an appellate court
in this state that deals with the ele-
ment of gambling in the operation
of slot machines was made today by
the Kansas City court of appeals
which held that, a slot machine
where the chance of winning or los-
ing is taken by the operator is a
left last
Friday for Moral, Pott, county, their
future home, that Mr. Banks had pre-
pared. The bride and groom are well
and favorably known in this county.
We join their many friends in wish-
ing them a happy voyage o'er lifes
sea Our school at the grove is pro-
gressing nicely under the manage-
ment of Prof. Preskitt John Pope
of Missouri, has arrived with his fam-
ily and will locate among us. He is
011 a trade for the Mrs. Crelghton
farm near Independence. We gladly
welcome such men as Mr. Pope among
us Health of the neighborhood is
as good as usual Farmers are
plowing and preparing the ground for
the next crop. W. A. stripling.
HE FOOLED THE SURGEONS.
All doctors told Itenick Hamilton,of
West Jefferson, O., after suffering 18
months from Rectal Fistula, he would
die unless a costly operation was ]) !!•-
formed, but be cured himself with flv
boxes Buekl -n's ^ rnica Salve, the sure
est Pile eure 011 earth, and the best |
Sold i
$■ cA TOi/mes,
xJhe Uailor,
^/ISHES to announce to the
men of Norman and sur-
rounding country that he has
received his line of Spring sam-
ples, and that they are invited
to call and see them, whether
they are thinking about a
Spring Suit or not. They will
need Spring Suits, and Wil
mes wants to order and make
them up for them when they
do need them.
Guarantees Prstclass work
in every respect.
In Norman stiitn llank
iluilriiiig.
Iessly for the fish "to Approach Ifieh^rm^i^'^h"'!, as a W lear"™ by T- d"rine th« | gambling device pure and simple
the surface of the water j u 7 n T a,ln,mng' eve" y , ' 15 lhsUnclly nieant The decision was made in the ease ! 2o cents a box.
though Oom Paul is as ignorant as as a meth°d of profit-sharing, and I 0f Charles O Rrnwn nf t i y Blake & Read, druggists
A anti then snatches it before it can ! a British hostler of art and litera- i "<>t as a charitable gift. It is "do- , * ^ Wh° —
escape....The New York Racket I h,,- ri;„,i v • in<r th- K-*. 1 was convicted in the court of that
watches AND CATCHES the match- I, . d Iom 5 U1US1! was worth 8 . We k'low at Present t0" county for having a slot machine in
wards making a beginning of brorti-
erhood when justice will prevail,
WILMES, THE TAILOR
«*««
waicnes and catches the match- h- •••— wuiui
less bargains as they appear,— ! IlsteninS t0 though Blind Tom
as nicy appear,— ^ © *uu
anywhere, everywhere—and then couId neither read nor write. Mr.
gives them to the trade as it gets Dwight L. Moody is a soul-stirring
them, carrying out our habit of preacher. .Go and hear him when
Underbuying and Underselling.... ; voll . „ „ , „ ' "en
Again we have caught a royal " , chance."—Woman's
bargain in SHOES, and can save J Jollrna,> Boston.
you money. We made a trade ♦«-
with the Norman Shoe Store, ; Anti-Roberts Resolutions,
and got the pick of the entire I Tk „ 1 ai
stock, and now we'll sell to you ,• , «cneral of the Na-
at a discount....Are youcinterest-! oman Suffrage Association
ed ? Do you want to save mon- j recently held a business meeting,
ey? Then come to the New! and adopted the following resolu-
V8 daRyaaocks, ?2.oo. | ti0"S WhicH S<mt COn8ess:
Ladies' underwear, Union Suits ! Honorable Sirs:—At a meeting of
at 35 cents. Beat it, can you? i the general officers of the N. A. W.
Children's Union Suits, 25c. I S. A., held January 2, 1890, the fol-
•.s:s5^zs;",,*ptd"ck io"ng
unanimously:
and every man be secure in the en
joyinent of the full fruits of his la-
bor." It is needless to add that the
company has no fear of a strike.
In the letter which accompanies
this Christmas check, Mayor Jones
says :
" I am with Franklin, Garrison,
1 olstoy and Christ on the question
of war. I don't believe there ever
was a good war or a bad peace, and
for that reason I am ready for a
perpetual Christmas now, a Christ-
mas that shall last, not 24 hours,
or a week, but 365 days in a year."
cts.
Six Papers for One Price.
his place of business. He appealed
on the ground that a slot machine
was not a gaming device.
GLORIOUS NEWS.
Comes from Dr. D. 13. Cargile, of
Washita, I. T. He writes: "Four bot-
tles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer of scrofula, which had caused
her great fufferiii); for years. Terri-
ble sores would break out on her head
and fa3e, and the best doctors could
give no help; but her cure is complete
and her health is excellent." This
shows what thousands have proved,—-
that Electric Bitters is the best blood
purifier known. It's the supreme rem-
| edy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ul-
cers, boils, and running sores. Ii stim-
ulates liver, kidneys and bowels, ex-
pels poison«, lielps digestion, builds up
the strength. Only 50 cents. Sold by
Blake & lieed, druggists. Guaranteed
I h.*it s it! For 4r cents we will
send to every \ dick subscriber who
pays one year in advance from this
following journals for one
a first-
Price
Men's undershirts, 20c and up. | ul",'IHnous|y• I The Chicago Express won't ad-
1 he New York Racket leads in Vhereas, brigham H. Roberts, niit that anvhmhr r-nn h, 1 p c 1 rr
.v, ^ c„s„„n„„ r^;r;
jamy, I Jess he is distinrtlv marlrp/l> H l-T 11 I — - D
everything .
Undersell,
Pleasant Hill Notes.
The teacher gives a written exam-
ination to the pupils at the close of
every school month. Then she gives
out report cards Win, Smith of j date th
Linden. Pott county, spent the lioli- j year:
days visiting at L. A. Givens J. A. Thi; Livk Stock Indicator
King visited the school recently and class farm weekly of 111 pages
made a speech to the children O. 31.00 a year
L). Harbert was very sick last week Si'I'.cial Farmeh's Institute Fiji-
notable to go to Norman The j'hon Monthly, 16 to ^4 pages, tilled
young people had their last dance at, from lirst page to last with contribu-
Peter Berglans What would the j tions on timely topics from practical
literary paper do if it were not for I farmers and their wives. Fverynum-
those sweet girls to contribute to it ' ber worth a dollar. 50 cents .1 year,
every week? Well, the girls do pretty | Far.mkks ill'TCAr. f.vsf'KAN'ck JOUIt-
well anyhow. It is spicy enough .vai. Bimonthly. Devoted
The Sunday school gave a box supper j tner's co-operative insuranci
at tiie school house last week Tues- a year.
to far-
30 cts.
lis avowedly Hying in ^.my, | less he^ kros ^
day night. The money raised there-
by is to be used for buying Sunday
school literature, books forjibrary.
The handsomest basket was Miss Min-
nie Harberts and it was sold for 91.75
Several other baskets sold for $1.25.
Harbert cried the sale. Sev-1
Poultry Fabmrb.—Monthly 16
pages. Devoted to poultry raising on
the farm. Every farmer's wife
'needs it in her business." 50 cents
a year.
The Humane Ali.ia.vci:.—Monthly,
I« pages An elegant publication fin-
farmer's boys and girl-, devoted ti
leral of the gentlemen bought two | humane education. 50 cents a year
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