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VOL. 8.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, MVKCII i>. 1W0.
Hobart's Hard Hits.
As Mr. Andrew Carnegie observes:
I "Poverty is a blessed heritage."
Yes.
BR CON TENT.
Said the parson: Be content:
Pay your tithes—dues,pay your rent; i
They that earthly things despise
Shall have mansions in the skies. ,
Though your back with toil be bent, I Next to hav,n8 *' Is «b°*e ex-
penses, poverty is the sweetest heri-
tage that can possibly be herited.
What is a poor man without pov-
Said the parson: Be content.
Then the parson feasting went,
With my lord—who lives by rent.
And the parson laughed elate,
For my lord has livings great.
They that earthly things revere
May get bishops' mansions here.
Be content: Be content!
Till your dreary life is spent.
Lowly live, and lowly die,
All for mansions in the sky!
Castles here are much too rare,
All may have them—in the air.
—Thos. McGuire.
Horace Greeley was a Socialist.
Greeley's biographer, J. Partcn,
speak* vorp fully of the enthusiasm
of the great editor for social revolu
tion. He, the biographer, says:
" 1 be winter of 1838 was very severe.
The times were hard, fuel and food
were dear, many thousands of men
and women were out of employment,
and there was general distress. As
the cold months wore slowly on, this
suffering of the poor btcame so ag-
gravated and the number of the un-
employed increased to such a de-
gree that the ordinary means were
inadequate to relieve even those who
were destitute of every one of the
necessities of life. Some died of
starvation, some were frozen to
death, while many through exposure
and privation contracted fatal dis-
eases. * * * In the better parts of
the sixth ward a large number of
mechanics lived whose cry was not
for bread and fuel but for work!
Charity their honest souls disdained.
All this Horace Greeley heard and
saw. He was a young man—not
quite 26—compassionate to a weak-
ness, generous to a fault. He had
known what it was to beg for work
from shop to shop, from town to
town. Why must these things be?
Are they necessary, and will it al
ways be thus? * * * lie procured
the works of Fournier, read them
with eager interest, anil became
completely captivated. * * * Hor
ace Greeley made no secret of his
conversion to Fournierism, on the
contrary, he avowed it constantly in
private, and occassionally in public
print."
On Nov. 20, 1838, he printed the
following: " Ihe earth, the air, the
waters, the sunshine were divinely-
intended and appointed for the sus
tenance and enjoyment of the whole
human family. But the present fact
is a very large majority of mankind
erty ? Ah what ?
There is no sadder sight in all the
spectacular scenes of this sphere
than a rich man surrounded by his
loving relatives, who fret for his fu
neral.
For the poor the fresh air of heav-
that makes his income slop over four
million dollars a day, John will
chase Pier out into the corridor and
invite you to take a comfortable seat
with you when you leave the build-
ing, The rich must not be made to
feel too keenly their unfortunate po-
sition.
Take John's poor warted hand in
yours and notice how the cruel scis
sors have left their awful marks
around the thumb and second fin-
ger of the right hand. Possibly you
may perceive a woeful water blister
peeping shyly from beneath that
No.33.
50
give the amount named in small
bills, please !"
Note with what avidity he will ex
change his garish greenbacks for the
pleasure of possessing even six little
dollars' worth of poverty.
Yes.
Note, incidentally, the haggard
horrors that have been heaped upon
him by relentless riches. His coat
hangs from his shoulders just as
though it had been made expressly
for him, with never a button missing.
Oh, the misery of it all! His neck-
tie costs eight dollars a yard and
is landless; and by law the landless ' looks like a map of Michigan struck
have no inherent right to stand on a L)y a rollicking rainbow.
en and an appetite that cojly tempts same thumb. All these miseries are
them to bite shingle nails. For the i caused by the daily toil of clipping
rich nothing but the miseries of
trussed terrapin and marmalade
macaroons.
Oh the horrors of marmalade
macaroons I
Poverty is indeed a blessed heri
tage. And so many of us are loaded
plumb to the hatches with the b. h.
How happy we should be.
Did you ever stop to think how
cruel it is that a rich man has to go
through the world without the bless-
ed heritage of poverty ?
We who wallow selfishly in our
own b. h. seldom have time to sigh
for the rich man who is permitted to
sprinkle salt on the tail of a blessed
heritage. Possibly we haven't time
to sigh, because we are at that mo-
ment busily engaged in running 18
miles to the northeast, playfully pur-
sued by a bill collector. The fact
that the bill collector was inspired
to catch us and whisper sweet noth-
ings in our ears by one of the heri-
tageless rich men who owns a bo-
logna factory makes our selfishness
all the more inexcusable.
Some day when you meet Mr. An
drew Carnegie on the street forget
for a moment your pride and speak
sweetly to him. Say unto him:
"Hello Andy! My heart grieves for
you! You are lonely and unhappy
without the blessed heritage of pov-
erty. Take four dollars worth of
mine—nay! nay! thank me not, An-
dy
coupons, and the disease is known
as couponists. But, be not afraid.
It is not catching. Those who have
the blessed blessed heritage of pov-
erty are immune.
Pardon me just a moment.
There's a lyric lingering in my larynx
and I must let it loose :
Trust in Leather,
Trust in Ales,
Trust in Copper,
Trust in Nails.
Trust in Whisky,
Trust in Wine,
Trust in Iron,
Trust in Twine.
Trust in Pickles,
Trust in Tools,
Trust in Gumdrops,
Trust in Mules.
Trust in Harness,
Trust in Meal,
Trust in Dry Goods,
Trust in Steel.
Trust in Rubber,
Trust in Hens,
Trust in Paper,
Trust in Pens.
Trust in Sawdust,
Trust in Rice,
Trust in Green Goods,
Trust in Ice.
Here's the limit:
Andrew C
Wants a Trust in
Poverty I
—Appeal To Reason.
All Grades!
"1 think I said we had no debt. To
be accurate, we still owe $!>,000,000 011
our railways. They produce a net
profit of 20 per cent, per annum on
their cost. The market value of the
Orange Free State railroads today,
even with war on vur hands, is five
times that of their indebtedness.
President Steyn, of the Orange Free
State, in the New York Journal, De-
cember 2o, 18911.
A new invention enables one man to
switch 750 trains daily ; the new glass-
blowing machine makes 1,200 pieces
an hour; an electric organ blowing de-
vice does away with the church organ
"wind jammer": a new tobacco strip- 50 patterns Oil'Cloth
ping machine will do the work of fifty 1 -
people; an improved nail machine
produce two tons per day. "Every
day'11 be Sunday by and by," for the
working people- keep 011 voting for
the old parties.
NEW
PATTERNS
The World Socialist Vote.
Following is the fullest, record of
the Socialist vote throughout the
world that we have seen. It should
If 'twill bring you a moment's] be remembered that the suffrage is
pleasure take six dollars worth, and ' ''m'ted in all European countries, and
single square foot of their native
slate, except in the highways. Per
ishing with cold they have no legal
right to a stick of decaying wood in
a most unfrequented morass. Fain
ishing, they have no legal right to
Note that cruel scar under the
lower lip. That was caused by a
silver spoon. Yes, one evening
while engaged in carrying a silver
spoonful of scintillating soup to its
terminal station, news was brought
pluck the bitterest acorn in the 1 him that an employe had thought-
depths of the remotest forest. But j lessly kicked the ear off an inoffen-
the past cannot be recalled. What sive pig of iron. The shock caused
has been done, has been done. The him to lose control of the spoon's
legal rights of individuals must be ' steering gear, and it entered into a
held sacred. But those whom so j hearty collaboration with a retiring
ciety has divested of their natural , part of his chin. At the same time
right to a share of the soil are
titled to compensation, i. e., to a
continuous opportunity to earn a
subsistence by labor. To own land
is to possess this opportunity. The
majority own 110 land. Therefore
the minority, who legally own all the
land which naturally belongs to all
men alike, are bound to sccure lo
the landless majority a compensa-
ting security of remunerating labor.
But as society is now organized, this
is not and cannot be done. 'Work!
work! give us something to do!
Anything that will secure us honest
bread is at least the prayer of thirty
thousand human beings within the
sound of the city hall bell. This is
an enormous waste and loss. We
ihe saucy soup, delighted to regain
its freedom, put an $8 scar on a
hemstitched tablecloth. Oh, the
curse of gold!
Some day when you are weary
with basking in the beauties of your
blessed heritage saunter into the pri-
vate office of John D. Rockefeller.
John will be tickled into a frenzy to
the limitations apply to as to favor
the wealthy, the clergy and the blue-
blooded aristocracy of the ancient no-
bility. Otherwise, the Socialist vote
would be doubled. Still, 7,000,000 is
a good showing.
AUSTRIA. riKEAT BRITAIN.
1895 90,000 I 895 . 55,000
1897 7">0,000 ITAI.Y.
BELGIUM. 180.'? ' '20,000
1894 :m,ooo , KD76 4(X)
1898 :>.14,.J14 1H!)7 134,496
denmark.
1872 315 sekvia.
1884 ti,80.7
1887 8,408 SPAIN.
1890 17*2:52 1893
1892 20,098 1895 14,W0
1895 25.019 1897 28,000
1898 32,000 SWITZERLAND.
FRANCE. 1890 13,500
1885 . 30,000 1893 . 29,822
1889 91,000 1897
189.1 590,000
. 50,000
1898. 1,000,000
germany.
I-NITK1) STATES.
1807
1871
1874
1877
1878
1881
1881
1887
1890.
1893.
11898.
1890
1891
30,000 .,
101,927
3)1.070 ,h(.,
480.843 l; i
437,158 1
311,901
599,900
703.128
1890
1897
1898
13,704
10,552
21,
25,(>HG
30,020
34,869
30,275
55,5f>0
91,749
1,417.298 total f.ST. vote
1!7h<;* 7;;h at present.
2,200,000 1900. 7,000,000
In 1897 we went $663 worth of beer
to the Philippines. Last year we sent
them $106,206 worth of beer. And so
''trade [beer] follows the flag-."
Miller and Lutz, two California mil-
lionaires, "own" 14,569,000 acres of
land. The kingdom of Belgium and
An Example in Interest.
The story of Mr. Ciiurcli S.urdi-
vaut, (he principal of Ins speech,
who died at his houis n ar \V> ,ni n >,
Stark county, III., m November 01
last year, told in full, would be verj j
interesting; but we will d.vell upon
his financial interests wherein the
children of A. W. Sturdivant, living j
west of this city, have a prominent |
representation. In 1875 Church |
Sturdivant converted all of his pr.1, -
erty to the amount of $30,000, into
cash and placed the money on de-
posit with the bank of Scott, Rigley
& Hammond at Wyoming, III.,
with instructions to exercise their
own discretion in the use of the
same. From the time of the deposit
until the time of the death of Mr.
Sturdivant he had withdrawn ? 10,000
for living expenses and the balance
with the accumulation—amounting
in all to $122,000—was left by will
to be divided among fifty-six heirs.
I'lie children of A. W. Sturdivant,
above mentioned are eicli entitled
10 one fifty sixth of $122,000, which
aggregates a little over $13,000.
ihe example bears evidence of
what the judi cious use of money
can accomplish. F01 $3o,oooplaced
on deposit with the bank in 1875,
Mr. Sturdivant and his heirs with-
drew $ 132,000 at the expiration ot
twenty-five years, and it is altogether
probable that the bank itself realized
a magnificient profit besides. At
torney A. I'. Neil of this city, has
charge of the matter with regards to
the Payne county heirs.—Payne
Couuty Populists.
A MEASURING F'AKTY.
A 'measuring party ' is given to you;
, Tis something" novel an well as new.
Two cents for every foot you'r tall
Measure yourself 011 door or wall.
An extra centfor each iiu:h you give,
And thereby show how high y >11 live.
With music and song, recitation and
pleasure,
We will meet one and all at our r.irtv
of Measure. First Presbyterian
Church, Thursday evening, March 15th
Norman, Oklahoma. Refreshments
free.
You are cordially invited to hear a
sermon on Romans xii. 1,2, next Sun-
lay at 11 a. m. and another on "Tin-
young Kings choice" 2d chronicles
xxxiv, 4 at at 7:30p. m. We are con-
ducting revival services every Sunday
at 7:30 p. m. and ar< glad to welcome
everybody interested in such work.
J. K. Waqnrr, Pastor M. K. Church.
The Epworth League at the M. 10.
Church every Sunday at 0:30 p. ni. is
plendid and all feel amply paid who
come in time to be with us in that hour.
The Junior League of the M. K.
Church is preparing an entertain-
Our line of Carpets and Floo.
Coverings was never so complete as
n0W- During month of March we will place on sale:
50 patterns Ingrain Carpets ai 12!c to 75c
at 25c to 5Qt
2j patterns Mattings at ioc to 50c
Linoleums at 35c to 50c
BARGAINS FOR ALL.
K/iEO <V- SIl.\i:l:iili,
FURNITURE, CARPETS, AND UNDERTAKING.
wppr*1
AND
Implement Co.
will [my you tlio liigbost
market price for jonr
drain, Hogs mid Cattle,
and will sell you all kinds
of I'hi'mi Implements at
the low'st, living prices.
If \ 011 have Grain, Fat.
Hoj b or Cattle to sell,
let us ^ivt> you prices ou
them.
If you wnnt to linv any
kind >f farm implement,
we will he pleased to have you examine our line ,uid stock of imple-
ments, and learn our prices.
I he growth of our busines shows that our customers find it
profitable to tliern to deal with ns
FARMEIi8 (MAIN AND IM-
PLEMENT CO.,
Haul s|(|< ItttllroHO Truck, NOKU lN.
11. W. Stubheman has his harness
shop full of line harness and saddles,
having made heavy purchases of all
kinds of leather atui leather goods be-
fore the leather trust got in its work
on advancing the price of leather.
"Stub" has made a handsome profit
on the advance of leather; but he in-
forms us that his customers reap the
benefit for he continues to sell at old
prices If vou need anything in the
harness or saddlery line, don't forget
to see ,'Stub." and learn prices be-
ore making purch ases.
" ' ' ' 1900,
AND ALL OF
1901-2-3 and 4!
The
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Limited
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JOURNAL
from now to
dec 1904,
nearly 5 years
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This offer should be ac-
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Finest train west of < Chicago.
hours to Los Angeles.
Pullman. I lining car. Buflet
Smoking car with barber
shop), Observation car (with
ladies' par lor).
Vestibuled and elei trie-
lighted throughout.
Four limes a week Tues-
days, Wednesdays, Thurs-
days and Saturdays from
Chicago, by Santa Fe Itoute.
r. j. morgan, agent.
norman.
wtdefs.oc'o.jooottcocoooocfti)'**.
EAST NO It PH SOUTH
EVEKV W HE UK
vv ks r
Fills* :< > LINE « vN FIX VOU
its 7,000,000 people only have half as ment to be given soon. < >ur Juniors
many acres as M. and L. | society now numbers sixty members
The "Dresden china" factory has !and their superintendants are doing
for 180 years been the property of the
splended work.
J Grand
* ■ Central
government of Saxony, it employs j t ^
see you. We of the blessed heritage *00 persons, and is the largest porce-
are so selfish, so selfish! We never lain factorv in the world. 1 Yesterday District clerk, B. D.
., , , . , , , , I i Shear appointed It. K. Leach as deputy
think of running inon John to shake Mckinley and his party stand for!dis(rK., k for thiHC()UllU Mr.
a day-day and cheer him up with the great capitalist*; Bryan and 11took charge af the offlct at
our exciting little stories of the home Part> stand for the middle-class cap-while we have no doubt Mr.
italists, who want to be great
life of those who are safely pinned
to the extreme end of a blessed
heritage.
John will lock up the safe any
time to listen to a story of how the
ists. Three-fourths
not in either class.
)f the people are
! Leach will mak'- an excellent clerk it
1 is not quite clear to us how some of
the republicans are going t< survive
In Denver the undertakers have j the blow. Leach entered the race as
i formed a trust to increase the price I a dark horse and the field soon com-
of coffins, funerals, etc. First the 1 bined against him but 44 Your Uncle"
must devise a remtdy, and that rem kerosene lamp exploded and set fire
trusts make it too expensive to live, j succeeded in jfetting in some very
cdy 1 propose to show is found in I 10 ca*> ant^ w'^ thrill with pleas- and then they make it too expensive i lint: work and won out in tin- race,
association.Jure when you tell him that the cat 'o die. Where are we at? Appeal
From chapter 16 of "Life of ilor- I jumped into the bread pan and ren
MRS. F. WITTE,
i PARTIES OR M)IYII)[!\LS
contemplating a trip t«> Si. Louie, Kan-
sas (at\, I ti.i ,ai up-tiIn. e li,(:iijiihti,
Louisville, Fvan-V! lie, Chlcn^o, Mjl-
i wHuk«', New York, IJeston, WHshing-
loil, I) (J , iip Mil v ot
should benr in inirnl the St. Loui- A
!!l I San Fmnt it.ro Kailroad.
■
Frisco Line
i- the most direct route ami quickest
time. Mail and exnress imhv. m okla-
homa t iiy daily at D.iOa m , arriving
5 in St. Louis 7:26 the following morn
o in*.', Km shs i i \ 7:16. making eloo®
i oonneetioi - with ail through trnlns
■ f«.r tho
HAS 1, NORTH AND WBT
MtOPKIBTOR OK
The Dining I loom Service of the
| Grand Central has achieved a wide
j reputation for excellence, anil the
! its rooms are kept in firstclass con-
| ilition.
A homelike place for the traveler.
Kates:
ace Greeley."
Ottawa, Kas.
A 1.. Tavi.ok,
j dered the last baking you had in the
house unfit for publication.
See I. K. -Miller for any and every- Sa,,nter into -fo,ln's Priva,e office
thing. I buy sell or exchange any Isorne day. If J. Pierpont Morgan
and all kinds of goods.—I. K, Miller, happens to be there curling the luck
Not ice.
1 expect to leave Norman about
i $1.00 Per Day,
| $4.00 Per Week.
Trsin !• tv. m S. L* ui«« 9 00 ;i. m ar-
rives in Oklahoms Oitj 0.00 the follow
ing eve i< u V\ e ;t|H> conncri at
Niehol-. Mo , with ihe midnight
Memphis, liyer, ir ivii.tr i> Memphis
the following morning. This is tho
best and ihofte-i iu j'o le all south
eastern points. \VV ttre ihe only line
running throiyb r.miming chiiir earn
and Pullman pal . *e sleepers between
St. Louis and Oklahoma <'ih, an:)
tourists H.eepors leaving St. Louis at
at 9:00 o'clock p in. tin; (ir.- and third
Tuesday in each month. He sure \onr
tickets r- ad via
to Reason.
All the fine fleets and armies; all j A
the smart journalists and dignified t he first of April, I wish to sell my
legislators; all the grand, new laws horse and bu^gv and household furni-
and big, ambitioi s programs what l ire. Anyone can make inquiries by
have they done for the woman at the calling at Dr. Hamilton**' residence,
washtub?—London Clarion. I Kkv. J. Q. Di'kkky.
Frisco Line.
'llus to all trains.
House centrally located corner of
! Peters avenue and Gray street, one
block from bank corner.
NORMAN, OKLA.
Writ.'* < r ''illI mi us for
; iind (feio1 i'h 1 information.
I B. F. Dunn, n !'./ ,
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