The Moore Messenger. (Moore, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 30, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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Positions
Drauflhon (rtve contracts, barked by chain
of SOuu««*ki*s. 1300,000.00 capital, aiul t9
year ' success, l* secure positions under
reasonable conditions or refund tuition.
BOOKKEEPING
(imposition, concede that he teaches more
k >KkiM*plnK In TIIKKK months than they
do In Bi\. liraughon can convince YOU.
SHORTHAND JSHS:
write the system of shorthand Imiuirtion
teaches, IwnuM they know It tsTJIK BEST.
FOR r'lKK CATALOGUE anil booklet "Why
Learn Telegraphy?" which explain all, cull
•Ml or write J.so. K. IIhauohok, l'reslUoiit
DRAUGHON'S
PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE
(WE kL«. tMcb BY MiUJ
Oklahoma City, Muskogee, Ft. Smith,
Ft. Scott, Kansas City, Ft. Worth, Dal-
las or Denison.
BOYS' CORN GROWING CONTEST.
$500 in Cash premiums Is to be of-
fered at tire Thlr.l Annual State Fair
of Oklahoma, at Oklahoma City, Sep-
tember 29 to October 8.
The premium money of $500 will be
awarded ax follows: Contestants in
each of the five suprem-e court Ju-
dicial districts will be offered prem-
iums of $100,000, divided as follows:
Yellow Corn—$50. .First, $25; sec-
ond. $15; third, $10.
White Corn—$50. .First, $25; sec-
ond, $15; third, $10.
Sweepstake premiums will be iti-
nounced later.
The Oklahoma Farm Journal will
give a three year subscription to each
boy who actually makes an exhibit In
this contest.
For rules and Information, address
I. S. MAHAN, Sec'y.,
Oklahoma City, Okln.
THE ORCHARD THIEF
CICERO C. CHRISTIS0N
LAWYER
129 1-2 W. Main Phone 572
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
All r%«tter pertaining to Legal Transactions
w^curatcly and promptly attended to.
Practice in all Courts
OKLAHOMA CITY,
J. WILL LAWS
Attorney at Law
All matters pertaining to Probate. Civil Caaei
ann Perfection of Titles Promptly
Attended to.
6ET THE GENUINE
HILL'S BUSINESS COLLEGE NOTES
Mr. Owen Thornton 'accepted a posi-
tion with the department of interior
at Muskogee, Okla. This is a first
class position and he has a fine chance
for promotion.
Miss Nora Tallferro accepted a posi-
tion as bookkeeper and stenographer
with Drs. Campbell and llorder at
Mangum. Okla. Or. Campbell made a
special .trip to our school to got a com-
petent bookkeeper and stenographer.
The reputation of our school is such
that we are placing students every-
where. We received a long distance
call from Watonga last week for a
stenographer, but we were unable to
fill this position on account of not hav-
ing way one ready. We also had three
or four calls here In the city that wa
were unable to fill because we did not
have any one ready.
Mr. T. iL. Briggs, who lias been
working with the United Woolen Mills
of this city, accepted a better position
with the Oklahoma City Farm Mort-
gage and Loan company. He had the
choice of two positions and one of
them we have not been able to fill yet.
Miss Mavis Cunningham has been
appointed official court reporter at
Cheyenne,\ Okla. Miss Cunningham
attended school a little more than
three months. This shows that the
Oregg system of shorthand will meet
any and all requirements. There is
no system in the world that can he
learned any quicker and be read so
easy as tills one. The beauty about
the Gregg system is that you can al-
ways read your notes. There is no
shading or position, an, as the vowels
are written with the consonants, it is
just like reading longhand. It is as
easy to read as print.
Our school is growing so rapidly we
are arranging for more room. We
have a great deal mors room now than
any other school in the 'state. \V>
have the finest lighted and best equip-
ped rooms there are anywhere.
We also have the best chance to
p>ace students in positions. The rep-
utation of our school inSsuch that we
can place our students without any
trouble.
Write for catalog and special rates.
Fare paid to school.
Bottled by
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Bottlers of the
GENUINE COCA COLA
Jack Frost, Red Rock, Ginger Ale,
Blackberry Punch, High Grade Soda
Waters.
LARGEST PLANT IN THE STATE
All orders, large or small, fillerd on
thort Notice.
THINK ABOUT IT
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GOOD COMPANY FOR 1909.
You are careful what choice of
friends the young people of your house
hold make. You do not op>?n wide the
door to those whose speech and be-
| havior betray ill-breeding and la*
j morals. Are you as careful to shut
it against books and periodicals that
I present vulgar and demoralizing ,jlc-
j tures of life and its purpose? lv-
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i found that The Youth's Companion oe
| cupies the same place In the family
reading that the high-minded young
man or woman holds among your as-
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without being "goody-goody." It is
entertaining. It Is Informing. In its
stories it depicts life truly, but it
chooses those phases of life in which
duty, honor, loyalty are the guiding
motives.
A full description of the current vol-
I ume will be sent with sample copies
of the paper to any address on request.
| The new subscriber who at once sends
$1.75 for a year's subscription will re-
ceive free The Companion's new Cal-
endar for 1909, "In Grandmother's
Garden," litographed in thirteen col-
ors.
THE YOUTH COMPANION,
144 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass.
Pro p e ctive Student
As business is getting better all the time, the demand Is Increas-
ing for well trained boys and girls to All lucrative and important
positions in the business world. The boy or girl without a business
training can have no show whatever. If you wish to make a success
of your ife, you must be trained.Recognizing this fact, your next
question wil be, Where can I get the best training for business" Call
at Hill's Busines Colege' and see what they can do for you.
We have the largest enrollment and best equipment and more
teachers than any other shchool In the southwest. We are placing
more students in positions because we are training them better and
business men naturally patronize the school that turns out the best
students.
Penmanship
We are making a specialty of this important study. We have
one of the finest professional penmen in the United States, and will
be peased to send you samples of his work, or you may cal at the
schoo and see for yourselves what he can do.
Write today for a new catalogue and special rates.
HILL'S BUSINESS COLLEGE
OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
THE TRUE STORY OF A NOCTUR
NAL ADVENTURE
One of the Real Life Romances
Which Touched a Youth's Life
and Made Him a Better
Boy.
St. Hubert's lodge, Croydon, hus a
fine orchard, and the schoolboys who
dally passed Its walls looked longingly
at the red-cheeked apples, so near and
yet so far. nestling among the glossy
leaves behind the orchard wall. To
none was the sight more tantalizing
than to Willie Roberts, who never
passed that way without stopping and
devouring with his eyes the ripe, rosy
fruit, until his desire for it became al-
most a passion
One evening he slipped away from
home, and, with four or live confed-
erates, made Ills way cautiously to
the orchard, each boy with a dark
and deep design in his brain.
The road was deserted, and at a sig
nal from their leader they, artet- one
or two attempts, climbed the wall, and
dropped down on to the long grass of
the orchard inside. Here they parted,
each climbing a separate tree. Wil-
lie's looked very dark and shadowy
us he stood beneath it with beating
heart, but he could see the myriads
of dark lumps among the leaves,
which he knew were rosy-cheeked ap-
ples in the daytime, and pulling him-
self up by the branches, was soon
busy tearing off the apples and thrust-
ing them Into the big pocket, lining
the whole of his jacket, a cunning re-
ceptacle possessed by each of the
boys.
He was an expert climber, and
pushed his way up higher and higher
in the tree, hearing all round hiin
the thuds of the ripest apples drop-
ping on the ground as the trees were
shaken by the movements of the boys.
All of a sudden a bright light from
a lantern shone into the orchard.
There was a desperate sound of scuf-
fling and scrambling as the little
thieves dropped from the branches and
took to their heels over the wall again,
and were soon scuttling home as fast
as they could; all hut Willie Roberts,
who, alarmed like the rest, hail thrust
his foot down in the darkness to be-
gin a hurried descent, but could find
no branch beneath to support him.
Encumbered by his booty, paralyzed
with fear, he hung on where he was.
until the person who carried the lan
tern—one of the maids from the
house—thinking she had got lid of all
the orchard pilferers, returned to the
house and locked up for the night. At
ten o'clock Willie had not returned
home, and his father, becoming
alarmed, reported Ills loss to the po-
lice, and the district was searched.
Mut it was not till two In the morn-
ing that, through a hint let tall by one
Encumbered by His Booty, Paralyzed
by Fear, He Hung on Where He
Was.
of his confedcrates the orchard waE
vlsitctj, and there on the top of tlie
largest apple tree the lanterns wen
turned on Willie Roberta, still tlingin
to his perilous position, with mor<
than 100 stolen apples ill his jacke
lining. Ladders were procured, am
he was lifted down. and next clay a
the police court he wept bitterly ant'
cluns to his father's neck.
NEW
PREDICTION OF WHAT THE FU-
TURE WIIL BRING FORTH.
In View of the Developments of the
Past Few Years Naval Experts
Say Still Bigger Ships Are
Coming Into Existence.
In 1889 we mar say thai the new
era of our naval construction bo^an,
when we laid down the Keel of the
Texas. At that day she was a splen-
[fa obj r.
of t
COPPER FLKQ
'i
3
The Battleship of the Future Under
the Water with Observation Peri-
scopes Set.
did ship, at a cost of $2,500,000. In
the present year we have launched the
North Dakota at a cost of $7,000,000
without a flutter of excitement.
Hetween the time of the Texas and
the North Dakota we have distanced
every navy in the world on rapid con-
struction. We have not only kept up
in speed with England, but we have
gained on her until wo hnve half her
number of battleships. But In the
North Dakota we have a ship that
singly there is not her equal. Remem-
ber her 12 inch guns are not the 12-
inch guns of other ships.
A 12-inch gun of to-day will carry
a shot several miles further than the
older 12-inch guns or the 12 inchers
of the other nations. Apart from her
guns she is armored unusually heav-
ily ar.d the English Dreadnought
could uot hope to discuss any ques-
tion with the North Dakota.
As we have distanced all ancient
history in war ships, that leads one to
think what a future battleship will
look like. Setting a time, for example,
at 1940, we figure it out en past pro-
ductions and, leaving aside freak con
struction take note of our present
abilities.
Now for the flgnre* of this mae
j don of war. joing at it niathemat
j ically.
j At tbe time of lis laune! ''ig. New
j York will be the largest city in th<
I world. So the great sea terror wil
be named the New York. And flgur
j ing on her principal dimensions ir
accordance with thi known develop
I ments in the past, the result is easj
i to ascertain.
Length on the load water line, 1,600
feet.
Ream, 475 feet.
Draught, 79 feet.
Height above water of hull (free
board), 79 feet.
Armament: Two oO-inch rifles, of
103 miles range. Four 50-inch mortare
aerial detonators. Seventy 30-inch
rifles of Gy miles range. One hundred
and fifty 19 Inch rifles, of 33 miles
range. Three hundred 6 inch rifles, 11
miles raMge.
The 60-inch rifles, the 50 inch moi
tars and the 30-inch rifles are disap
pearing guns mounted in barbettes.
iicat equipment: Fifteen "subma
rines. Fifteen torpedo boats. Seventy
five gasoline launches. •
Aviator equipment: Three airships
(Zeplinoids). Twenty-five aeroplanes
(Wrights).
Crew, 15,000 men.
Officers, 350.
This huge engine of war would have
a normal speed of 59 miles an hout
and forced speed of 65 miles. She
would carry 1,000 150-horse power tor
pedoes in stock.
She would be provided with "univer
sal turbines," adapted to steam, alco
hoi, hydrogen and what may be called
"picrate of gasoline," the cheapest
and most powerful gas producer
known.
The future United States ship New-
York couid destroy more than Its cost
Mi firing its guns one round, and prob
ably several times that. As a peace
maker it would be worth to the Unt
ted States more than the cost of an
average navy.
On a war footing the ship undergoes
a marked change. Everything on deck
comes down, even the superstructure,
e nder way she has a smooth clean
hull with clean decks.
Leaving out England's battleships
and using her cruisers, if every ship
in the navy were placed side by side
the New York could put a solid shot
through the entire English navy at
one discharge.
Her mortars will throw detonators
up in the air to the freezing line—the
limit of aerial navigation. By such ex
plosions machinery and men are put
entirely out of existence. Curiously
enough, the higher up a shell ex ilodes
the greater its destructive radi is.
Victims
of Graft
It Is the
Average Man
Who Suffers
By FREDERICK A. CLEVELAND.
technical Director of Buraau of Municipal He «nrch.
sa
'V.
Tilt- common fallacy that it is the direct tux-
paver who pays for graft and inefficient government
has been skillfully used and taught by too many
self-seeking demagogues urging nupjiort for officers
or for organizations which have abused public trust,
wasted public funds and misdirected the energies of
government by granting privileges and monopolies
for their private enrichment. \\ hat is more to the
point, by provoking class feeling and stimulating
prejudice, the argument is often successful. Through
disuniting to the needy a small percentage of the
subverted funds as gratuities and as evidence of per-
sonal intern: in their welfare the grafter has suc-
ceeded in holding himself up as a more desirable
citizen than the man of wealth. In this way tho
mind of the victim is adroitly led to the conclusion that it is the man
of wealth and not himself who suffers from political infidelity. In fact,
it is not at all uncommon to hear men seriously assert their belief that
it is no crime to steal from the government.
The subversion of revenues, the taking of public goods or the theft
of time and service which are paid for by the municipality, is a direct
loss to the weak rather than to the strong. Persons of wealth can protect
themselves; they have the means to secure for themselves wholesome food
and environment. Persons less fortunately situated must depend for
these benefits on government regulation and control. Their hope lies in
efficient administration and the most painstaking care in the application
of public wealth to public uses.
Most of the taxes are derived from real estate, and taxes on real es-
tate are usually shifted to the consumer. With increased taxes coma
increased rents; with increased rents the retail price of goods goes up.
Generally speaking, it is found that retail prices of goods vary directly
as do rents and taxes. An unwarranted cost of government, therefore,
ultimately falls on the consumer rather than on the so-called taxpayer,
for the ratio of consumption to income decreases as individual wealth in-
creases.
Aside from the added cost of living which increased taxes entail,
what is lost by bad government and whose loss is it ? What is the loss
entailed on the individual who while a child suffered from tuberculosis
of the spine and is left a cripple for life? What is the kiss entailed
on a man, his family, the community through the fact that when a boy
he had no proper educational advantages? What is the loss to one who
in youth has I teen forced to live among the immoral and criminal, and
who has become a pervert or a social outcast? What is the distress en-
tailed upon a family through sickness and death from preventable dis-
eases? What discomfort, loss of vitality and lowered earning power result
front living in unsanitary tenements, in dark rooms, in crowded and
badly ventilated apartments? What happiness is destroyed through fear
of violence or lack of police protection in districts where the vicious live?
Who pays for the babies who die from infected milk? Who suffer from
the germ-laden filth of the streets? Who are the victims of the gambler,
the seducer, the vender of adulterated foods? '
From any point of view, it is not the one who directly pays the taxes
who pays directly or indirectly for fite waste of public funds or the in-
efficiency of public cerviee. It is the wage-earning man or woman who m
handicapped. It is the one who to-day is flattered by the personal atten-
tion of the political infidel, and who eats a Christmas turkey which
is the gift of the despoiler, who is himself despoiled.
Why
Enfran-
chise
Women?
By REV.CHARLES F. AKED, D.D.
New York City,
Why should women he given the ballot?
JVcatifc they are as intimately concerned
with the laws as men are. They tire
equally subject to them. If an administra-
tion is corrupt they have to live under it.
If the laws are unwise or unjust they have
to suffer. And they know very well that
laws which are unjust to women would
be more quickly amended if women had a
voice in legislation. It cost the women in
the enlightened state of Massachusetts 55
years of effort to make mothers the equal
guardians of their children with fathers.
In Colorado, after women were once en-
franchised, the first session of the legislature put that wrong thing right.
Women have been agitating this injustice in America for half a century,
and to-day there are only 13 states out of 45 in which the woman is equal
guardian with the man. And you go on talking about the wonvtn having
enough to do to look after their home and children.
Women to-day have entered into the world of business. The profes-
sions are open to them. They are wage-earners to an extent sometimes
unrealjzed by richer women who sing the home-and-children lullaby and
have all these women want. There are more than 5,000,000 women
tvage-f.arners in the United States. There are over 600,000 women in busi-
ness and industrial occupations in the state of New York. Yet these wom-
en are denied by men the right to share in making laws which vitally affect
their business, the conditions of their toil, that on which not only their
living, but their life depends. And they know antl you men know, if you
will but look for the knowledge, that they need the ballot for their own
protection.
The woman worker is entitled to the vote because without it she will
never secure equal pay for equal work. In New York city alone there are
12,000 women teachers who are paid, not according to work, but according
to sex. One would think it a very elementary proposition that if the same
work is done by a woman and a man the same wage should be paid for it.
Such an unsophisticated view leaves out of account the chivalry of men—
the chivs'ry which is content to walk off with double the pay a woman
gets. Ti,at is the sentence r ? condemnation which he passes upon a fel-
low-worker who is guilty of the sex of his mother.
It is the conviction of my life that, since the beginning of the Chris-
tian era nothing has promised such magnitude of blessing to the world
as the intellectual, social and political emancipation cf the second and
nobler half of the human race. The final issue is with the women them-
selves. It may be that for the time at least, we men can do little to aid
them save by way of encouragement and cheer. But if we cannot share the
toil and glory of the fight we can proclaim ourselves their loyal and lov-
ing comrades. And we wait with eager hope the hour when, to welcome the
dawning of the morning the great world gates shall be flung wide, not for
the first time in history, by a woman's hand.
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Simms, P. R. The Moore Messenger. (Moore, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 30, 1909, newspaper, January 30, 1909; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109089/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.