Woodward County Democrat and Palace Weekly Pioneer. (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1908 Page: 4 of 9
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When a man thinks hia son ian*t
likely to be good for anything else, be
generally tries to get him to study
medicine.
Expressions of a Cynic.
Walter Pater, an old man at 50, bald
os a coot and grotesquely plain, r»
carded every woman much as did Dean
Swift, who wrote: "A very little wlf
la valued in a woman, as we are
pleased with few words spoken Intel-
ligibly by a parrot.” “You don't ap
-prove of marriage?" a friend once ob
aerved to Pater. "No,” he replied,
"‘nor would anybody else If he gave
the matter proper consideration. Mev
and women are always pulling dlf
ferent ways. Women won't pull oul
way. They are so perverse.”
The Allurements of ths City.
Mrs. Perkins and her daughter
andy from the country were in the
city one day, and as they walked
aloag together they came to a win-
dow in which was displayed a variety
of women’s apparel. Mandy glanced
wistfully at the different articles of
clothing end started Into the store
But a sign in the window which read:
“Clothing One-Half Off During This
Sole.” caught Mrs. Perkins’ eye. She
oeized her daughter by the arm, hur
sjed her along down the street, and
eiclalmed In a loud voice: “W’y,
land's sake, Mandy, that ain't no d»
cent place fer a girl to go!”—Judge’s
Library.
NOT THE RIGHT MAN.
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Farmers Educational
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—AND—
Co* Operative Union
Of America
The Rejected—And will nothing
nake you change your mind?
She—M'yea, another man might.
WANTED TO KNOW
The Truth About Grape-Nuta Food.
It doesn't matter so much what yon
hear about a thing, It's what you know
that counts. And correct knowledge
is most likely to come from persona)
experience.
“About a year ago," writes a N. Y
man, “I was bothered by tndigestlon
especially during the forenoon. I tried
several remedies without any perman
ent Improvement.
"My breakfast usually consisted ol
oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, codes
and some fruit.
"Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts
I concluded to give It a trial and find
out if all I had heard of It was true.
“So I began with Grape-Nuts and
cream, 2 soft boiled eggs, toast, a cui
of Postum and some fruit. Before th«
«nd of the first week I was rid of tht
acidity of the stomach and felt much
. . relieved.
• “Hy the end of the second week al
traces of Indigestion had dlsappearet
snd I was In first rate health once
more. Before beginning this course of
diet, I never had any appetite for
lunch, but now I can enjoy a hearty
tneal at noon time.” "There's a Rea
s aon."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well-
vtlle,” In. pkgs.
Ever read the above latter? k new
«ns appears from tlm# to tlmo. Thoy
art genuine, true, and full ef human
A Country Idyl.
“Have you dug your grass?” asked
the city chap
Of the staring farmer man;
For he thought he would not crush
the swain
Beneath his social ban.
"How was the crop when you dug
your grass?
Did the weevils hurt your pegs?
And did the canker worms destroy
Your young cucumber trees?”
“I love, good sir, the country air;
From the town I fain would flee,.
And lose myself In rural dreams
'Neath the potato tree.
I would pluck the turnip from its
vine.
Thro’ the parsnip meadow push.
And rest beneath the grateful shade
Of the onion's bending bush.
“Oh! I fain would be a simple swain
And drive my yoke of cows,
And rest at noon beneath the shade
Of the rutabaga boughs.
I'd hunt the woods where the co-
- coanuts grow
The whole of the livelong day,
Or start at mom with the rustic hoe
To dig the hills for hay.
•
“And if at aoonday I grow faint
With my labor's strain and rush,
I would mix the milkweed’s lucious
milk.
With the niUEhroom’8 lucious mush.
I would pluck the pineapple from the
pine—
But Why has your color fled?"
But the good man fell with a sicken-
ing thud;
That farmer man was dead.
—Selected.
CR Earfc^Forty. Aecee. j
It When a mail bos tehred a.faqilly of^
fopyteen' children OQ, * farm,, of fqrty .
acres—gA1ng.'«tcb atid'every, young ’
stfcfr a $ood Wtr^jfHon.^ comfortable (
home* until maqbood -or womanhood ’
4s reached, and finally a 'Substantial
start in life—ttVi big. boost for acre
farming. This was accomplished by
C. Y. Trice, who died a few days ago
in Kansas City at the home of his
son, C. Y. Trice, Jr., 436 Prospect
avenue. At the time of bis death he
was 87 years old.
Mr. Trice came to Missouri from
Kentucky in 1850 and bought a 40 acre
farm near Cameron, fifty-five miles
northeast of Kansas City. He bed a
wife and six children. Eight more
came in after years.
After Mr. Trice paid for his farm at
$2 an acre he had left only his wagon
and ox team. He possessed no other
capital. The soil, he determined,
must yield the family a living, ami he
began a systematic and scientific cul-
tivation of the land.
He planted even the fence corners;
there was no room for weeds. A
cockle burr didn’t have a change to go
to seed. As soon as one crop was
harvested the soil was prepared im-
mediately for another. Some of the
land was made to yield two or three
crops a year.
"Under, a father’s management that
forty acres yielded our large family a
good living.” C. Y. Trice, Jr., said re-
cently. "It was our only source of
revenue and It waR sufficient, but
father knew how to farm. He was al-
most half a century ahead of his time
with his farming methods that ex-
plained his success. He practiced the
so-called 'scientific' farming fifty years
ago. We didn’t have many luxuries,
of course, but we had plenty to eat
and to wear and we had an education
and father accumulated enough to give
us a start when we left home—all off
of forty acres."
To the up-to-date, energetic agricul-
turist the success of Mr. Trice on for-
ty acres of land may seem remarkable.
But there are many careless, “slip-
shod” farmers who fall to earn a good
living for a much smaller family on
twice that amount of land. And what
Investment in the city, representing
even twenty times the sum invested
by Mr. Thrice, would yield a like re-
turn?
Twelve of Mr. Trice's fourteen
farm-reared children ar« living, and
there are forty-eight grand children
and fifty great-grandchildren and one
great-great-grandchild. Out of 113
descendants eighty-nine are living.—
Kansas City Star.
A Contemptible Character.
The most contemptible character
which the Farmers’ Union meets to-
day is the farmer who taunts the
member of the Union for not selling
his cotton at 12 cents, as Mr. Wise-
acre, did. Ungrateful and Ignorant
wretch! If members of the Farm-
ers' Union had dumped their cotton
on the market when these robbers of
their brothers were doing it, the prices
of cotton would have reached eight
cents months ago and would be sell-
ing today at five and six cents. In-
stead of being honored for their self-
sacrifice by the their non-union neigh-
bors, as they should be, their self-sac-
rifice has been coined into money by
taking advantage of the good market
made by the holding movement. It
Is like a drowning man, who has been
rescued by a friend, jeering that friend
because he did not have sense enough
to remain on land and take care of
his health. It is like a man whose
property and loved ones have been
saved by the sacrifice of another ridi-
culing the friend for not having judg-
ment to take care of himself. Even
the cotton buyers and speculators ad-
mit that the holding movement saved
cotton from dropping to the lowest
prices ever recorded. This Is the uni-
versal verdict of the business woitd.
Imagine, then, the contempt in which
the business man and cotton buyer
must secretly hold the farmer who is
so ungrateful and 60 selfish as to reap
the benefits of another's efforts and
then upbraid him for his unselfish
work!—National Co-Operator.
The National Mseting.
The national convention of ths
Farmers' Educational and Cooperative
Union of America, held in Fort Worth
recently, showed the organization to
be In excellent condition and capa-
ble of doing effective work In the in-
terest of the farmers during the com-
ing marketing season.
With the spread of ths Union to
grain, tobacco and fruit growing
states, the work has naturally divided
itself Into different departments and
the committees representing them
save outlined plans for handling these
various product which will, no doubt,
prove advantageous.
The system for marketing cotton
seems to have been advanced material-
ly and with the co-operation of the
membership the way Is being opened
for direct sales to the mills, which
has been the desire of many members
for sometime past.
Partisan politics had no plnce In the
.'onventlon and yet it was evident that
the farmers now realize that much in-
jury has been done them by the na-
tional and state law making bodies
and that these injuries must be re-
medied. This, however, is recommend-
ed by direct appeals to the congress
and legislatures and not through the
endorsement of airy political party.
All In all, the national meeting has
added strength to the Farmers’ Union
movement.
Fer Extending Use -of Cotton.
J. E. Pearson, at the recent Annual
Convention of the Farmers* Union In-
troduced the following, which was
adopted:
“Realizing the importance, not only
to the South, but to the American na-
tion at large, or creating a larger and
permanent demand for cotton, we
recommend that the representative
from each state in this convention,
upon their return home, urge upon
every local Union and every County
and District Union that immediate
steps be taken to induce the members
that all demand and Insist that deal-
ers furnish them with all kinds of
wrapping twine, cord, made of cotton
only, and that also all sacks for salt,
sugar, grain of all kinds, potatoes,
etc., be made of cotton bagging when
possible, and insist that webbing for
bridles and halters and back bands be
made of cotton, which is the American
product, whereas Jute and siHal (from
which many of above Items are made)
are products of foreing countries and
money expended for articles made of
jute and sisal goes abroad to enrich
foreigners. We further recommend
that our members secure the co-opera-
tion of all commercial bodies In their
respective states and other organira-
tions to aid and co-operate in purchas-
ing above articles, and insist that same
be made of cotton, which furnishes
employment to thousands of American
laborers, whereas jute and sisal ar-
ticles are made by foreing labor. In
accordance with a resolution passed
along above lines by the Northeast
Texas District Farmers’ Union, com-
posed of the counties of Bowie, Red
River, Lamar, Delta and Fannin at
their meeting in June last the Texas
Wholesale Grocers’ Association on mo-
tion of Mr. A. P. Foute of Waples-
Platter Company, have taken steps
to comply with above recommenda-
tions, which was signed by Drothor J.
E. Pearson of Dodd City, Texas, presi
dent of above Farmers’ District Un-
ion, and we are Informed that the
Southern Wholesale Grocers' Associa-
tion have also adopted committee re-
ports favoring to above recommenda-
tion, and they claim It wHl Increase
the price of cotton nt least 1-2 cent
per pound and we urge prompt and
continuous action from our member-
ship and all friends to bring about
this Increased demand, which can
easily be accomplished by united anJ
continuous action."
Musings uf the Metropolis
1 ■ l1
News of New York Town
. Outlined in ,Brief Form.
Dealt in Millions, Owes Grocery Bill
EW YORK.—Against Ella Rawls
Reader, greatest woman financier,
diplomat and a Warwick of South
American republics, who a few short
months ago was dealing in millions
and planning to finance the revolution-
torn and bankrupt Santo Domingo,
judgment has been filed for a grocery
bill of $629.88. The ungallant grocer
is James Butler, and he sued upon
Mrs. Reader's note of hand, the judg-
ment also including costs.
Mrs. Reader, who has an office at
45 Broadway, is said to have spurned
matrimonial proposals from ex-Sena-
tor William A. Clark. Sir Thomas Lip-
ton, Sir John Dewar, a German prince,
an Indian ditto and several other
promlaing admirers. She has been
much In the public eye since sha
stormed the state department at
Washington with letters of full au-
thority to treat for International
agreements between Santo Domingo,
and any other old nation on earth. She
aued J. B. Haggin, capitalist, for
*3,150.000 damages for alleged slander,
and she accused the government at
Washington of conspiring to defeat
her plans for the re-establishment of
the Dominican republic.
She is a well-known figure on
'change In this country and In London,
and is young, handsome and well ed-
ucated. Some ^ears ago she was a
soda fountain attendant In the west,
and first came to New York as a
stenographer.
When her account at the corner
grocery became so large as to worry
the dealer, the woman financier gave
Butler her note for the amount, but-
neglected to pay It when due. She Is
still buying her groceries from ths,
same store, but she’s paying cash for
them now.
Large Restaurants Tendency of Times
t
E announcement that there Is to
be In New York a new restaurant
seating 5.000 diners at once will not
be a surprise to those who have no-
ticed the present tendency in such
matters. The small Intimate restau-
rant of the first class is almost a
thing of the past In this city.
If small restaurants do exist they
are rarely of the same grade as the
large ones. They are small because
the proprietor has not yet been suc-
cessful enough to go in on a large
scale. As soon as he does make
money and attracts a sufficient num-
ber of customers he is certain to make
his place Just as large as his resources
warrant
There Is no such thing here as a
restaurant kept email for Its own sake.
In the European cities there are res-
taurants which have existed prosper-
ously for years and never increased
their capacity for guests by a single
square foot. It is more customary in
Paris for a proprietor who finds suc-
cess In one place to open another in
some other part of the town.
There are, for instance, restaurants
the Champs Elysees which are con
ucted by proprietors with places else-
where In the city. Thus It is posslhlt
to keep some Intimacy of atmosphere
in them. But the demands on the re-
sources of these places are so small
that they are not to be compared In
any way with the New York restau-
rants. If any restaurants have ths
same problems to meet that face ths
New York managers they are those
of the large hotels In London.
One reason why New York restau-
rants have become ao large Is the re-
cent union of the hotel and the res-
taurant Formerly hotel restaurants
were comparatively little patronised
by any save the hotel guests. The old
Brunswick a quarter of a century ago
tried to rival Delmonico’s, which used
to stand opposite, and made some
sort of stab at it In the beginning, but
later It was only the restaurant that
survived.
I was with the opening of the Wal-
dorf-Astoria that New Yorkers got
Into the habit of going to a hotel only
to use the restaurant. The recent
erection of so many new and hand-
some hotels with the effort always to
attract outside customers has mad*
dining In hotels quite as usual as eat-
ing in a restaurant. So the possi-
bility of a quiet and unmusical meal
seems more remote than ever.
Famous Church-Observes 60 th Birthday
■4M
i
MPRESS1VE services the other day
marked the sixtieth anniversary of
the foundation of the Church of the
Transfiguration, popularly known at
“The Little Church Around the Cor-
ner." Eminent Episcopal clergymen
offered their congratulations. The
sermon was preached by Very Rev.
Dr. Wilfred L. Robbins, dean of the
general theological seminary, with the
faculty of which Rev. Dr. George H.
Houghton, the founder, was long con-
nected.
This is the house of worship which
Bishop Greer described as “the home-
body’s church, the stranger's church.
and everybody's church.” It includes
in Its membership the wealthiest and
the poorest, and all walks of life.
in the seventies Joseph Jefferson
went to the pastor of a church at Mad
Ison avenue and Twenty-eighth stree
to see if be could make arrangements
for the funeral of George Holland, a
distinguished actor. The minister de-
clined to read the service, but re
marked that there was a little church
“around the corner” that did that kind
of thing. •
“God bless the little church around
the comer," Bald Mr. Jefferson.
That phrase gave the Transfigura-
tion church Its World-famous name.
Theatrical people have regarded It
ever since aa their home. In the old
days. Booth, the elder Waliack. Mr.
Jefferson and other distinguished
members of the theatrical profession
attended services there.
Much Sympathy for Son of Senator Brice
/\NE hears expressions of sorrow and
sympathy on all hands for Stew-
art M. Brice, son of the late Senator
Calvin M. Brice of Ohio, whose mind
has become so affected that a court
has appointed a guardian of his per-
son and estate. The Brice home has
been in New York since the senator's
death, and when Stewart Brice came
•here fresh from his college ajthletlc
honors and pitched into practical poli-
tics with a fervor which exceeded
anything even hia father ever showed,
a brilliant career was predicted for
him.
He had wealth, high social post
tlon, moral courage and a capacity for
making frlenda which has seldom
been equaled. He soon became a
member of nearly every club in town,
and when, although a member of Taro
many and a Democratic alderman, he
delivered a terrific lecture to Richard
Croker one night In the Democratic
club, he could at that time. If he had
pushed his advantage, have become
so powerful that Croker to the con-
trary, Tammany hall could not have
refuged him the nomination for con-
gress which his friends wanted him to
take. But Just then the Spanish war
came and he sought instead service
iu the field.
President McKinley made him a
captain and the stories of correspond
ents told of him when, airily dressed
in a pair of khaki trousers and a
sleeveless undershirt, he picked up it
broken wagon spoke and attacked a
mob of Spanish who were stealing
the food intended for refugee women
and children, reads like a descriptlox
of one of Oulda’s heroes. One of tho
correspondents wrote that Brice, wh*
is a giant In atrength, literally lal4
out a dozen of the thieving bullies an«
chased a score of them halt a mil*
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