Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 137, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 9, 1909 Page: 2 of 6
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norman daily independent.
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V. E. DANNER, Editor and Prop.
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Entered as second class matter Jan-
uary 27. 1909 at the postoftice at Nor-
man, Oklahoma, under act of March
3, 1879.
About
Marriage
Mothers Should
Train
Daughters
hy REV. M. C. PETERS
new state note3.
Governor Haskell and five co-defen-
dants were again indicted In the Mus-
kogee town lot swindle, at the hear-
ing which closed at Tulsa last week
Lawton let a conduct last week for
B five mile extension of street paving
to be laid with Oklahoma natural rock
asphalt.
Government officials t'lrc attac^ng
much property in the lumber district:,
tn southeastern Oklahoma, In compli-
ance with an order issue,1 last week
thy I. J. Wright, United States Com-
missioner to the Five Civilized frlbes.
Bank Commissioner A. M. Young
(has been named as delcgate-nt-large to
the American Bankers' association
conference in Ohleage in September.
The appointment was road© by L.
E. Wilson, president of the Oklahoma
Bankers' association.
The coil mines In Oklahoin that
lhave employed only smal foroes of
men for a year or more are preparing
to begin operations on a 'much lar-
ger scale.
District Judge King rendered a de-
cision at Muskogee last week holding
■that all marshals in small towns hold
over until a state law is passed pro-
dding for the ekeel ion of saimc. The
Taylor elation law does not provide
for the eleotion of a town marshal.
OTlllXd is i"11''1' ,0 l)U regretted in the present day than th*
N blunder that kind-hearted but mistaken mothers are making
m bringing up their daughters—fitting them for anything but
tlic positions they are likely to occupy.
The mother slaves that the daughters may do nothing,
with tile result that when young women have homes of their
own to manage they know positively nothing of the sciences
ot bake-ology, boil-ology, stiteh-ology and mcnd-ology.
The average woman is not only kept in ignorance of al
the details of household duties by which the beginning of
many a woman's married life is often made a series of blunders and the
result often not only mortifying and cosily, but ludicrous.
tine of the greatest defects in our social system is the aimless way in
which our girls are brought up.
Few are prepared in either body or mind for the lofty duties and
serious responsibilities which marriage implies, and marriage in conse-
quence has been brought down to a low sensual plane.
Mothers, have your daughters get their hands into regular daily do-
mestic duties, let idleness be forbidden them, and let every woman be
crowned with the dignity of a useful life.
Even if a girl should never be required to do the work herself she
ought to know whether the work is done in a proper manner or not. I he
rich of to-day are often to-morrow's poor. Croesus, whose name is a
synonym for great wealth, was himself taken captive, stripped of all his
treasures and in his old age supported by the charity of ( yrus.
Unless parents can give their daughter a fortune when she marries
they perpetuate a fraud upon the young man if by
her lack of domestic training they make her unfit ior
the position of wife in the home of the young man
who lias to make his way in the world.
May the day soon come when French will yield
to fritters, poetry to pies, when the most studious
will excel in stews, when more music* teachers will play
upon pots and pans, the female president will rule
the roast and women be taught to be help-meets in-
stead of merely help-eats.
THREE-FINGERED" BROWN
fOUMB MM FRIBHTEMEO '
IMTO PROFOUND SLEEP
NO TRIED MEANS HAS BEEN ABLE
TO AWAKE YOUTH WHOSE CASE
PUZZLES PHYSICIANS.
Philadelphia.—When Louis Cohen, a
young Russian, who boards with Hy-
man Weinstein on Green street, is
frightened he almost immediately falls
asleep.
Once somnolent, there Is no telling
when he will awake again. It may be
davs or it may be weeks. At pres-
ent he Is in the hospital and is sleep-
ing as though wound up for a month
to come.
The case is oi.e of the most puz-
zling, the hospital physicians say, that
they have come across. Every effort
has been made to awaken him without
success.
To electric shocks he has proved im-
previous. Douches of ice water have
TOE
JheLost
<,:ilyESTERI>Ay
The board of township trustees of
Morgnm township in Carter comity
have issued' a call for a bond elec-
tion to vote $40,000 bonds for good
roads, bridges, culverts, etc. Morgan
towns/hip encircles the city of Ardmore
and the farmers and others are en-
thusiastic for bctU'r roads.
rwnjm
urn
The Muskogee traffic bureau has
received notice of a five per cent re-
duction in freight rites on all iron,
canned goods and news paper.
There will be no carrcspoudcnce
school in connection with ithe state uni-
versity for the present, according to
President A. Grant Evans.
Cash
Capital of
Stock
Gambling
By FREDERICK U. ADAMS
The $:J0,000 ca.lemy building at 1>
an is Hearing completion and the city
council has ordered thirty blocks of
concrete sidewalk in the residence part
of town.
W. A. Baker, United States Indian
Bgent at Holdenville, who was recent-
ly arrested on the dharge of suborna-
tion o|t perjury wan discharged iby
Justice of thie Peace E. C. Roberts at
Holdenville last week, the testimony
introduced during tlie preliminary ex-
amination being insufficient to sub-
stantiate the dhargie.
Guthrie is raising a bonus to meet
the Mountain, Valey and Plains rail-
road proposition. The road when com-
pleted will form a direct connection
with the Pacific coast.
I take it that no effective denial can be
entered against the assertion that many of
the superb buildings which are massed in
the Wall street district of New York are
largelv devoted to housing concerns which
draw their revenue from the speculative
public, 'l'his sitnie public partially paid
for their erection. It continues to contrib-
ute the funds which make such investments
profitable.
The reader will be appalled by the
facts I am about to submit.
ll is not alleged that what is known
as the Wall street district is entirely do-
voted to the purposes of speculation, it includes hundreds, and possibly
thousands, of firms which have no direct concern with the various ex-
changes; but it is possible to arrive at a reasonably close approximation to
the total paid bv those who defray the cost of the Wall street game.
The lax books of Now York city show that the Wall street district
is assessed nt a figure between lS-200,000,000 and $300,000,000, the exact
amount being dependent on what may properly be included in the term,
"Wall street district." Within the moot reasonable boundaries for this
district must be included properly worth at least the former figure; and
it may be assumed that the real selling value is al.least '.!(> per cent, in
excess of that assessed against the owners.
It is ultra-conservative to assert that one-third of this capitalization
is employed in catering to speculative enterprises and employments. This
constitutes an item of .">.000,000 for New York city alone, and the na-
tion will swell this to $100,000,000 and more.
We have taken no account of the cost of the fixtures in the thousands
of offices in these buildings; neither lias mention been made of many other
items which properly belong in this calculation. The total amount of fixed
capital invested in the speculative game in the United States is approxi-
Mordecai Brown, the Chicago Na-
tional league star pitcher, played an
important part in bringing the pen-
nant to his team for the third time.
According to his work thus far this
season he is in first-class shape.
WOULD NUMBER PLAYERS.
Simple Plan by Which Spectators
Could Identify Various Men
in the Game.
The suggested scheme of numbering
ball players in a game, as track ath-
letes are numbered, is not a new one,
but it would be a good thing. \\ hen
men are all dressed exactly alike, as
they are on a ball team, it is not the
easiest thing in the world to distin-
guish them on the field. Still, every-
body wants to know who each player
is as he steps to the plate or as lie
comes in from the field after making
some specially brilliant plan, and it
would be a simple matter for one to
ascertain the identity of a pat ticuiar
player if he but had a largo number
on his back, which number with the
correct name appended should then
appear on the score card.
This may sound or seem silly to
some, on account of its novelty, hut
anything new in any game seems
strange, and often even ridiculous on
Us introduction, as, in fact, do most
novel inventions of any kind. Cer-
tain it is that this would bo an aid
to the public, who at a distance they
are compelled to sit from the diamond
often cannot tell who a player is as
he steps to the plate. A few "wise"
ones may scoff, but the majority of
spectators would warmly welcome
su*h an innovation, and it Is surpris-
ing some of the big league teams have
not tried it, for the comfort and con-
veniences of the public should al-
ways be kept strongly in mind by
those who make the rules and run the
games. The scheme has been tried in
football with success, and might be
applied to other games as well.
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Contracts for the construction of
Creek county's first reinforced con-
crete building to be built at Bristow
w**re awarded last week to J. I Ad-
kinson, of Hartford City, Indiana.
Much damage may result in the vi-
cinity of Muskogee from the rapid rise
of the Arkansas river.
The Elks who held their annual con-
Tention at Shawnee last week, chose
Eawton as the place for the next meet-
ing.
inately indicated in the following table:
Invested in exchange buildings
Value of membership tickets ..
Invested in ofiiee buildings
Fixtures and incidentals
Total
$ 25,000,000
100,000,000
100,000.000
I 25,000,000
$250,000,000
Reports from their correspondents to
the state board of agriculture indicate
that 1909 will be a banner year in
Oklahoma. Everywhere a large in-
crease in acreage planted is registered
and the crop to date is growing ex-
cellently.
State Examiner anil Inspector C. A.
Taylor has sent out general instruc-
tions to the officers of the Oklahoma
counties to bring their delinquent tax
list up-to-date, and suggesting an im-
mediate resale of all property sold for
taxes nd for which the county holds
sale certificates, up to 1905.
What Is
Really
An Ideal
Wife
By NIX0LA GREEIEY-SMITH
The Western Union Telegraph com-
pany has joined the seventeen rail-
roads of the state in attacking through
the supreme court rate orders of the
corporation commission, and has filed
an appeal from the order of last Do-
comber Using telegraph rates in Okla-
homa. The company is now under a
$30,000 supersedeas bond pending the
determination of the appeal and the
new rates will not go into effect unlet s
upheld by the supreme court.
"It is the factory and shop and office
worker and not the college-bred girl who
makes the ideal wife," said Miss Marv K.
Woolev, president of the Mount liolyoke
College for Girls, the other day.
Miss Woolev argued that the girl who
works for a living is more sincere in her
love lor u home than the college girl, and
jibe declared that the former is, of the two,
the more anxious to marry.
1 do not see how Miss Woolev arrived
nt the second half of her conclusion. For
since marriage constitutes the only busi-
ness the woman who does not work for a
living may engage in honorably, she must naturally be less difficult to
please than the working woman.
It seems to me impossible to generalize concerning the superiority
a, wives of one class of women over another. Unquestionably the woman
who lias worked for money and who has had to strike a weekly balance be-
tween a fixed income and fixed expenses makes a more practical and per-
liapB more considerate wife than the more sheltered and dependent girl
who has lived at home. .
She has greater responsibility, and lor the man who is seeking for
| these qualities she would be the better helpmate. But not all men seek
! 1)ra(.ticnl wives. Xot all men even want sensible wives f ten the mos
| ,-.l!v frivolous little creature of our acquaintance makes her husband
I tunny bv Iter very illine « and frivolity. A man loves a womau nut for
I ln-s joints of similarity to him, but her points of difference.
Mike Mitchell, who had a bad sea-
son last year, is just killing the ball
this spring, and seems to have re-
gained all his batting power.
Jimmy Sheckard is having an ele-
gant season, lie Is doing the best
work he has shown since he joined the
Cubs.
When Mike Kelley of St. Paul sold
Myers to the Giants he told McGraw
that the Indian wasn't a very good
catcher There is no danger of Kel-
ley getting him hack the way the red-
skin is batting the ball.
If Durham could only pitch against
Lennox and Maddox on the same day
the scores would sound like a bull
market.
Tom Catterson has been released
by Brooklyn to Buffalo of the Eastern
league.
Sluderstanger of Rochester has been
secured by Manager Kittredge to re-
place Kister at second base for Wilkes-
barre, New York State league team.
Manager Golden of the Reading At-
lantic league team released Pitcher
Coveleskle, a brother to the Philadel
phla National league team pitcher,
and Third ltaseman Deckard.
ltabe Towne, who caught for Comis
key three years ago, is now with the
Hioux City team. Weaver, who was
with the Sox last season, is back at
Wichita.
One put-out Is unusual for a first
baseman In a nine inning game. This
is the record of First Baseman Rohn
of Atlanta In a game against Birming-
ham the other day.
Fromme, who was given to Cincln
nati without a murmur, is allowing
grand ability. Many critics always
maintained that this Reuben was a
Star If he had decent luck behind hitn
Pitcher Houltes of the Doves has
been sold to the Rochester club of the
Knstern league. This fellow is a
very liandy man. as he can play nl
most any position on tye team and
can hit fairly well.
Douchcs of Ice Water Hsve Not Die-
turced Rim.
not disturbed him, r.or have baths of
almost scalding water. Not even the
pricking of pins has served io io,is>e
him.
The doctors have decided now to
sit down and wait until the young man
has finished his nap.
A peculiar feature of Cohen s af-
fliction is that he neems to be able
to sleep without food for ;::i indefinite
period without suffering.
Three months ago, when he dropped
into a doze the last time he was fright-
ened, he slept for two weeks on a
stretch. When he finally awoke he
dressed, picked up his dinner bucket,
and went to work as though nothing
had happened.
This time Cohen's liap v.as superin-
duced by an experience he had with a
policeman. He was out late the other
night and did not seek his home un*
til three o'clock in the morning.
When he reached the house lie
found he had forgotten his key. Ac-
cordingly. he pounded on the door.
While waiting tor some one to open he
was grasped by a policeman.
"What are you doing here?" the cop-
asked, gruffly.
Cohen trembled. The appearance ot
Weinstein saved him further trouble,
but he staggered, Weinstein says, and
was barely able to reach his bed. Then
he threw himself down, half dressed,
and went sound to sleep.
In the opinion of the physicians who
worked over him the young man's trou-
ble is of a nervous nature. Follow-
ing a fright or shock, it would seem
tjiere is a reflex action which leads to
sleep almost immediately.
Against this tendency Cohen seemt
uable to exert any mental force. This
is considered the more remarkable, as
Cohen is an unusual specimen of phy-
sical strength.
; have lost a Yesterday-
Miser or my memories
'. I had hidden It away
1 Where no thief might come to seize
, .*.11 my Yesterdays 1 hhl
1 As a miser hides ids gold;
; As a mlsxr Hum 1 did—
| Now lis fallen from my hold.
I haste back along the way
Through the laughter and the tears.
Seeking for my Yesterday
In the dust of other years.
Was it sunny? Was it gray.'
Was II gloomy? Was It glad.
Ah, it wis a Vi sterday
But a Yesterday I had.
I have held them in my clutch.
All the days that used to he;
1 have li veo them overmuch,
They were ail in all to me.
Yesierdavs- I knew each one
liy its twilight or its dawn,
B> task* finished or begun—
V. t Yesterday is gone.
Had it silertee? llad It song?
Had it. laughter? Had it grief.
Was it brief or was It long?
Bursting bud, or withered leaf?
Ho, I h now noi; nay, nor ean
Joys and sorrows long were blent
Into re' olleetions fair
(if the days that came and went.
Sn I count them and f miss
I)i:e <•! all my Yesterdays,
And I turn that way and this
Through the years' unending maze.
And you say I need not sigh .
Is it some small thing. I pruj.
Out of the glad days gone by
To have lost a Yesterday?
FIGHTS WILD CAT FOR LIFE.
Poultry Raiser Encounters the Beast
Among Chickens and Desperate
Battle Ensues.
Middletown, Conn.—John Simonton,
a poultry raiser at Deep river, near
here, had a desperate battle for his
life with a 50-pound wild cat, ac-
cording to the story which has just
reached here.
Simonton heard a noise among the
chickens before daylight, and when
lie opened one of the henhouses lie
encountered the wild cat. As Simon-
ton's (log jumped at the brute the ani-
mal turned and struck Simonton a
blow with one paw that tore Ills head
open.
He seized a club just as the beast
sprang for his face. He missed, and
the cat sank its claws into his arms.
He shook it off, but it leaped again.
They went down together, and for 15
minutes were engaged in a terrific
struggle, with the dog assisting his
master the best he could.
Simonton finally brought the club
down on the wild cat's head killing it,
hut not until he had been frightfully
lacerated.
Another Explanation.
Recently, while the Helpful Jlints
editor was absent, for a week or two,
his work was handled by the puzzle
editor, and a number of errors crept,
into the column. Many of them were
trivial, but ill one instance we fee!
that the error was serious, and we
hasten to adjust it. Mrs. Sophia
Brown or East Wind, Intl.. asked for a
recipe for pickling green tomatoes. In
t-ie same mail was a query from Miss
Lizzie Magruder of Joy Center. Ia..
who said she was troubled with aching
eyes, and wanted us to suggest some-
thing that would give relief. The
puzzle editor, whose mind was occu-
pied probably with the construction of
• double inverted pyramid on the.
vrord "parallelopipedon," answered the
two inquiries, and got the replies
mixed somewhat.
He advised Miss Magruder to "wash
all the dirt off of them, then scald them-
quickly in boiling water. After that;
put them overnight in a strong brine..
Next morning lift them out one byv
one, dry with a clean towel, cut into
narrow slices, put into a deep jar, anil
pour over them a hot spiced vinegar.
Seal them up carefully and they will
be ready for use in a month." Mrs.
Brown, who wanted to pickle the to-
matoes was urged to bathe them in
luke warm water, and then with , a
glass dropper drop two drops of bor-
aeic acid solution Into each one, tie a
cold towel over ihem and protect from
tho light until thoy showed no more
symptoms of pain.
It is needless to state that the error
was unintentional, although both Mrs.
Brown and Miss Magruder have written
rather tartly to us. Miss Magruder
asks us if we do not think we ought to
sign the pledge before answering any
more queries, and Mrs. Brown accuses
us of having caused her to spoil two
bushels of choice tomatoes. As wo
said before, we can only express our
regret ami promise to avoid such con-
fusion ill the future.
Eel Wins Midair Battle.
Oak Orchard, Del.— A midair fight
for life on the part of a three-foot salt
water eel, made captive by a hawk,
entertained cottagers and fishermen
here and finally ended In the release
of the eel.
The battle was won by the eel
j wrapping Its folds around Ihe hawk's
j wings, rendering it helpless to fly. For
nearly live minutes the fight, con-
tinued, but the eel was too large for
I tlie hird and the hawk was finally de-
feated and compelled to drop tlio big
I eel back into the river.
Business Dishonesty.
"How's business?" we ask of our
friend who makes genuine maple
sirup from stewed corncobs.
"It would be good," he frowns, "if
It were not for the unmitigated ras-
cals one has to deal with."
"Somebody beaten you out of his
bill?"
"Worse than that. A conscienceless
scoundrel sold me a load of corncobs
and got his money for them—and now
1 find that half of them are imitation
corn cobs!"
Good Manners.
Thr dining ear In etiquette
Ollhgs not to thin or that form,
'Tis simply careful not to get
Its crumbs upon Its platform.
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