The Territorial Topic. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1896 Page: 4 of 8
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MISS ill OF FORD'S.
Y FIRST glance at
Jarvis when be
stepped into my
den that night told
' me that there was
something on his
iy tb mind. I had known
yfiy him intimately for
Ml ^iJF\| fifteen years and in
^ that time the clcar-
„-i; cut lines of Ills
large, Impulsive
nature hud become so familiar to me
thai I was as well able to interpret
every phase of his varied humors as
was he himself.
But I did not press him for his confi-
dence. I had- long since learned that
Jarvis was one of the kind that caters
to one's curiosity much more satisfac-
torily if left to take the initiative, so I
pretended not to notice his abstrac-
tion. but busied myself in putting to
rights numerous odds and ends of
household decorations that had become
disarranged during a week's absence of
the women of the family and waited
for the propitious moment when the
npiiit should move him to unburden
his soul to me. ft came just after we
had finished our luncheon of beer and
frankfort^ and rye bread and had
started on our cigars.
"I called to see Miss Mofford this
afternoon," he said, morosely, "and
urged her to hurry up our wedding
day, but she parried all my arguments
with the same threadbare excuse that
has been dinned into my ears for the
lasl six months: Wait till my book
is finished.' Confound novel^ any-
way. Especially those that are written
by women."
f turned my head aside to hide the
irrepressible smile that would twitch at
my lips at his recurrence to the plaint
that had formed the basis of our con-
versation at least one evening out of
every week since Jarvis had become
engaged. I was about to study t:p
dome new phrase of consolation to of-
fer him, but. before I could get it word-
ed to, my satisfaction he broke out
again with more of passionate force
than 1 had ever known him to expend
when discussing the subject:
"She expects to have it in the hands
of the publishers in two weeks' time
and insists that, as it is incompatible
with her views for a woman destitute
of both name and fortune to marry a
man in my station, the wedding must
lie postponed until at least a fair de-
gree of fame has been acquired through
her work, which she feels confident is
hound to be a success. Do you know,"
he added, bitterly, "I think it one of
the most pernicious results of our
boasted modern-day liberty that young
•omen whose minds should retain j
(heir natural freshness and innocence
worlds. Everything might have contin-
ued to be laid out on the lines of the
regulation Sunday-school hook had it
not been foi—well, we will call it—fate.
" 'She was 19 when she learned to
love. It was a very short lesson and
she mastered it easily. All her life she
had been lonely and longing for some
one to confide in and cling to and she
accepted him unquestioningiy as her
protector and guide. I do not wish to
do him an injustice. He was not a
thoroughly bad man; moreover, I do
CHILDREN MARRY YOUNG.
Tear* of Discretion Not Permitted to
Delay the Hat of the Weddlng-
From the Philadelphia Press. The
i members of royal families usually mar-
| ry at an early age. The emperor of
Austria married when he was 24 a bride
of 16 years and 4 months: one of his
daughters married at the age of 16
years and 9 months, and his son's bride
was only 17. The king of Belgium was
a youth of 18 when he married a girl
not desire to excuse her or detract one | of 17, and his two daughters were mar-
iota from the magnitude of her crime. . ried while mere schoolgirls in age (17
He did not deceive her. He told her years). King Christian of Denmark
the day before they were to be married j prudently waited until he was -4, and
that he had a life living. And she- ; then took for a wife a princess six
well, perhaps she ought not to have j months older than himself. His two
done it, and of course neither an abso- ! sons followed their father's evnnplf,
lutely good woman nor a thoroughly J and did not mate until the age of 26
unprincipled, selfish woman would j and 27 respectively. His daughter, the
have done it. But she was only an ! Princess Thyra, was 25 when she mar-
everyday, erring mortal and—she mar- j ried the duke of Cumberland, but the
ried him anyway. Do not start so. She j Princess Alexandria was married to
Is only an imaginary heroine. Flesh- the prince of Wales at the age of IS.
and-blood creations are not guilty of
such acts of indiscretion.
" 'At the end of a year the very
thing which he had always assured her
would be an impossibility became an
assured fact. He returned to his first
love. It did not kill her. She schooled
herself to look upon her punishment as
the inevitable result of her transgres-
sion, and, realizing that her love dream
was ended, she turned once more to
the Innate sources of power and ability
which, with a little cultivation, would
render her independent of scoffing rela-
tives and friends and faithless husband.
While her baby lived there was still
some near and dear object for her to
care for, but with the death of the
little one she left the place that had
been the scene of her deepest misery
The German emperor was 22 and his
bride only three months younger. When
the king of Greece married he was only
22 and his Russian wife had only just
passed her sixteenth birthday. The
king of Italy did not marry until he was
24, which is mature for the sunny
south, and his wife was not quite 16
years and 6 months. The king of Por-
tugal was 22 years and 6 months and
his wife almost 21. The king of Rou-
! mania, at 20, married a young girl ris-
J ing 16. The czar of Russia was 26 and
| his wife 22 when they were married.
| The king of Sweden and Norway was
! 28 and his wife 21. Everyone knows
that Queen Victoria was a few months
I under 21 and the prince consort three
j months younger when the royal wed-
ding took place: the prince of Wales
and greatest joy and began life again in ! oi , , , ,
„ , . was .'l jears and 4 months: the duke
a far-away place. A new name was „« e , .
, „ , , °f Edinburgh a few months short of 39
chosen, new work was commenced, and ' „ , '
it.. . i • . , , ! the duke of Connaught verv near v 29
the dead past burled its dead com- 1 J j
pletely.
" 'Three years of loneliness.
tlon and toil passed away, and then she
Prince Leopold just over 29: the duch-
j ess of Fife a little over 22: Princess
found herself wooed by another man.
But I am wearying you and must
hasten on. She did not love this man
in the full sense of the word, for she
was a woman whose former vows of
affection were not meant for time
alone, but she knew that she could be
very happy with him and could make
him happy in return, so one day, after
many refusals, she rewarded his im-
portunity by promising to marry him.
I have carried my own characters up to
this point and now what 1 wish to get
at Is this: I have portrayed this sec-
ond suitor as being good, honest and
kind. He knew nothing of the wom-
an's past; indeed, he did not suspect
that she had one. and I want to know
Louise, 21, and Princess Beatrice,
years and 6 months.
WANTED PENSIONS.
He Had Two Boya That Were Old
Fnoocti to Vota
I attended a political meeting at
Boone, N. C.. a mountain town in the
western part of the state.
One of the listeners was noticeable
for the intenseness with which he
caught every word any of the speakers
uttered. After the speaking was over,
he followed Mr. McLaughlin, one of the
legislative candidates to his hotel.
" Mr McLaughlin.'' he said, "I warat
the meetin'."
"Yes. I saw you there: glad to see
fjkpid be contaminated by investigat-
ion al
if it would be an inartistic ending for
her to marry him without undeceiv'ng 1 you: hope you will vote right," said the
him?'" iorator.
Jarvis paused there in his narrative "Yaas. But I listened to every word
all sorts of scandalous proceedings | and sighed deeply. i yo' uns all said, an' none of yo' rnen-
and the impulses that would lead a I "I told her," he resumed, after a ) tioned the pint I want ter git at."
person to act thus and so just for the i little, "that I knew nothing of the "What was it you wanted to know?"
sake of writing a book that shall be i artistic side of the matter, but that it I Waal, of course I heerd 'bout th'
,true to life. Miss Mofford outlined to j would be a monstrous wrong for her to ' tariff, an' silver, an' them things, but
me to-day for the first time the plot of | do so." i yo' didn't none of yo' say nothin' 'bout
her novel and asked my opinion In re-
gard to the consistent conduct of one
of her characters."
1 had long been aware of Jarvis'
aversion to playing second fiddle to the
literary ventures his fiancee had in
hand, but I knew from the extreme
rancor that was vibrant in every tone
of his voice that something of an un-
usual nature had transpired to vex
hiiu.
"if not violating any confidence," I
said, "perhaps yon will not he averse
to giving me a few proof-sheets, ver-
bally of this wonderful nineteenth-cen-
tury novel."
"No," said he, "that is what I had
intended to do. As nearly as I can re-
member this is the way she put it to
me
" I place great value,' she said, 'upon
your knowledge of human nature, and
" 'And would she not be pardonable i pensions
under any circumstances?' Miss Mof- i "Well, I am in favor of liberal pen-
ford persisted. 'Not even when taking sions."
Ti 1K BABY WAS A NEAR AND DEAR
OBJECT.
iu order that I may work out a cons!.!'-
««l ending for my story I want your
suggestions and advice. Follow me
closely, that you may lose no detail of
what I have already written and may
be able to judge fairly. Once upon a
lime there was a girl—of course. There
could have been no novel without her.
She was not a very pretty girl and
there was nothing in all her girlhood
days thai bore the faintest trace of
prettiness. She was bought up in pov-
erty; not the^^«g riy <>f the tene-
ment and th^a^Wr but a const'int
cringing strife" Tor enough to eat and
to wear, that is called respectable pov-
erty, but which is very nearly as hard
to endure as the more inferior grade.
" Her parents died when she was so
young that a mother's kiss and a
mother's good-by son faded Into
into consideration her sufferings and
repentance?'
" 'Under no circumstances,' I reaf-
firmed with emphasis.
" 'Then there is another point,' con-
tinued Miss Mofford. 'If she told him
all what course would he be likely to
pursue? Judging another man's nature
by your own, tell me honestly.'
"I saw that her whole soul was
hanging in the balance with my reply
| and I reflected before giving it.
| " 'If she told him everything unre-
I servedly, and he really loved her, he
| would never cease to care for her in a
j certain way, but he would probably
never wish to see her again.'
I " 'That settles that question,' she
j went on, 'and now for one more phase
of the subject, please. If she married
him, leaving him in ignorance and he
subsequently learned all through other
sources, what do you suppose he would
do?'
" 'He would be justified in doing
whatever his outraged dignity and
honor prompted,' I answered. 'Not only
her former sin, but her deceit in deal-
ing with him would give him license
to resort to any method of avenging
himself.'
" Then you think,' she laughed, 'thit
my heroine is beyond redemption?'
" 'So far as human laws go, yes,' I
said.
"So you Bee, my friend," continued
Jarvis, with an attempt to shake off his
lit of melancholia, "I am going to be
an author, after all, in a roundabout
way. When 'our' book monies out you
shall have the first copy. But reallv
you can't wonder that it puts me out
of sorts, uow can you, to have ray
sweetheart mixed up In such an affair,
even though it be In the most innocent
way?"
And I. pondering deeply over what I
had just heard, let Jarvis out of the
front door without answering him.
Jarvis left town the next day and it
was six months later when 1 next met
him.
"1 read 'your' book.' 1 said, jestinglv,
when our first greetings were over,
"and was greatly fascinated with it.
You and your collaborator deserve
ories that were confounded with th
fancy pictures of iter imagination and
the lot of the homeless, friendless
child became drearier than before. But
from some one, heaven knows whom,
for in the bitter struggle of the lower
life we seldom find out the souls that
are fired with the divine essence, she
had inherited aspirations and hopes
aud an indomitable courage that could
not be extinguished by labor and hard-
*hlps, and adversity only served as an
Incentive for reaching out and grasp-
lug after the beautiful things she knew
•Us(eU In the material and abstract
mem- j great credit. It is undoubtedly the book
j of the season. I suppose the wedding
| will come off soon now?"
Jarvis' pale, thin face seemed to
I grow perceptibly thinner and his hands
trembled nervously.
"No," said he, "I guess not."
"Why not?" I ejaculated, in uncon-
trollable surprise.
"Because," he returned, "Miss Mof-
ford was the heroine of her own book."
Miss Clara Parrlsh, seventh and
youngest W. C. T. U. round the world
missionary, has started on her trip
arouud the world.
"Yaas, but I reckon yo' don't quite
catch thar p'int yit.'
"Well, what is it?"
"Yo' see, I git a pension of |S -a
month from the government, an' it's
helped me pow-ful. I have two boys,
one's 22 an' t'other jess cum 21. I
writ ter th' pension agent 'bout it,
but never did git no reply. How ole
do them boys hev ter be befo' they
draw pensions? Be-ant they ole enough
now?"
McLaughlin explained matters, but
he lost three votes by doingso.—Wash-
ington Star.
Improve on the American Plan.
Jealous African blacks kill them-
selves and not their sweethearts. A
negro of Conakry, on the west coast of
Africa, in a fit of jealousy, ran a knife
into his groin, making a wound six
inches deep of an ingeniously compli-
cated nature in his inside. The hemor-
rhage was stopped with coarse shelly
sand and the man taken to a French
surgeon, who took much pains repair-
ing the damage, but could not get nil
the pieces of shell out. Before he was
cured the man ran away from the hos-
pital aud, as he was still jealous, he
climbed a high palm tree and throw
himself down. The result was only a
few contusions and the abandonment of
the Idea of suicide. The man is now-
doing -hard muscular work, and the
French surgeon, whose report of the
case appears in the Lancet, Is trying
to make out what has become of the
pieces of shell that are still In the
man's peritoneum.
Blloful Ignorance.
"Oh," said somebody, "how much ar
gument and rancor might be saved if
only we could learn to let people be
mistaken in harmless matters. But so
many folks go through life correcting
everybody, taking away many a pleas-
ant Illusion with the rough hand of
truth, which Is often held out to those
who would rather not take it."
Said a man to me: "You women
believe what you want to believe. If
you'd like to have a thing so you think
It Is so. It's different with a man; with
him a fact is fact, whether he likes It
or not."
"When anything important hangs on
the issue, why, 1 look unpleasant facts
in the face, too," said 1, "but there are
some matters upon which I'd rather be
mistaken than know the truth. It is
often better for our usefulness and
for our peace of mind not to know too
much."—New York Recorder.
The devil hasn't a monopoly of the
hell business.
Do love affairs tiually giv# the victim
heart disease?
EYESMAY DECEIVE US
TESLA DOESN'T BELIEVE IN
BALL LIGHTNING.
How He Kxplalnti the Matter — A Bar
keeper Observed That Lightning Dug
a Hole In the Sea and That the Sky
Wan Set on Fl e.
ALLS of fire, vari-
colored and terri-
fying, have been
peppered down
from the skies
upon the country
in most surprising
fashion the past
month, if testi-
mony at second-
h a n d is trust-
worthy.
In spite of all this, Nikola Tesla, the
ir.ost famous of American electricians,
says balls of fire are never dropped
down upon us from the heavens—that
they're a myth, an optical Illusion.
"I have never seen such balls of fire,"
said Mr. Tesla, "though I have been
close by when the lightning struck. 1
was blinded, of course, and believe
every one else is when the lightning
strikes near them. If one sees anything
then, it is of about as much value scien-
tifically as what one sees when one is
struck on the head with a club.
"There is an explanation which may
show how the idea of fire-balls orig-
inated. As a rule, we do not see the
whole of a flash. We get glimpses of it
along the edges of clouds or through
tive he had seen a ball, though when
questioned as to what it looked like he
said that he couldn't tell exactly.
"The lightning dug a hole in the sea
right out there," he said, "and the
whole sky was set on fire."
A FLAT-SEEKER'S EXPERIENCE.
He Klnda Hla Dear I.lttle Children a
Decided Handicap.
A story is being told which, while it
may not be true, visibly illustrates
the tribulations of those who have
committed the unpardonable crime of
having children. The man of whom
the tale is told was a man of family
quite a good deal of family, in fact.
For some reason he did not want to
lent a house. He wanted to get into
a fiat or a boarding house. He tramped
the town over seeking a place where
he and his wife and children might
shelter their weary bodies. He applied
at place after place, but it was of no
use. As soon as the fiat owners and
boarding house keepers found out that
there were children they treated him
like a thing apart, unfit to be afforded
accommodation like Christian people.
If he had been a savage, a leper or a
criminal his ostracism could not have
been more sudden or complete. Ex-
perience made him wary about 4:30 in
the afternoon, after he had met with
twenty-one rebuffs. He determined to
make a last desperate effort and to
keep the fact about his brood as shady
as possible. He tackled a man who
owns a block of flats. He wanted a
suite of rooms for himself and wife,
he said. The bargain was progressing
smoothly and the man began to hope
that he might get a place to live in
SEEN THROUGH ENCLISH EYE<=
American Country Nawapapera Surprl
by Their Vivacity.
From the Bedfordshire, Eng., Ti men
The Bedford Daily Mail is another eon-
temporary which it is interesting to
look through. Really the number of
local newspapers is legion, a few
weeks ago we quoted from the Bedford
Gazette, which is published at the town
of that name in Pennsylvania, but th^
Daily Mail is the organ of public opin-
ion for the city of Bedford, Ind., and ia
a very readable sheet. oiancing
through its columns, one gathers that
this Bedford, though a much smaller
place, is in advance of its English
namesake. For example, it already
has an opera house, "located on J
street," but the fact that it Is being
offered for sale looks significant. A
two-story arbor, one-third of a mile
long, is being built of timber; the
lo ver story is for a rare track for
horses, and the other a bicycle track
About 185,000 feet of building material
will be used in this structure.
Bedford in Indiana has a popular
country fair, when the merchants of
the city make a great display of their
goods and the young people go in for
racing of all kinds. These amusements
are carried on in the Floral hall. We
wonder if they use that building for a
(lower market The boys play at ball
— presumably baseball—and a match
with Bloomfleld is announced. Bed-
ford, Ind., is noted for its freestone
quarries, and the boys in the local ball
team are called the "Oolltics." An-
other singular coincidence: Bedford
In England stands on the same geolog-
ical formation. It is only natural, of
FRENZIED MEN WALK OVER BLAZING COALS,
mm
arn^- A ' - - cr /
Torturing the body seems a poor
sort of religious rite, and yet that is
a necessary part of religious ceremonies
in various countries. Dancing on red-
hot coals with the bare feet is but one
of the forms of worship adopted by re-
ligious fanatics in some countries.
Though more or less common in India,
it would never be popular in this coun-
try.
There is no other country that can
natives then appeared with pails, and
the ditch was filled with water. It siz-
zled and steamed as it struck coals
which had rolled into the ditch.
The heat was terrific, and it was im-
possible for the average person to ap-
proach near the blazing coals. Within
the temple the eight men were prepar-
ing for the sacrifice. Prayers were ut-
tered and the goddess was beseeched to
make the suffering of the men as light
approach India in the matter of unique as possible. As the hour approached
religious ceremonies, and no people
who hold to a belief with the same
unswerving fidelity that marks the in-
habitants of that torrid clime.
On the day set for the fulfilment of
the vows, three huge wagonloads of
wood were hauled to an open space in
front of the temple. The villagers as-
sisted in the arrangements, and the
wood was placed in a regular pile about
four feet wide and ten feet long. A
trench about three feet wide and two
feet deep was dug around the pile of
wood, and the latter was then set on
fire.
In about four hours the wood was re-
duced to a pile of live coals, six or
eight inches deepe, spread evenly over
the surface of the ground. A hundred
fissures, or, one might say, through
cracks. Let us suppose a wall of cloud
between us and the flash. The vio-
lence of the electric discharges breaks
tills wall, producing fissures in it, just
us an earthquake makes long zigzag
ciaeks in a wall of stone or brick, and
the light comes to us through these
streaklike openings.
"Now, suppose the lightning blew a
hole through the cloud wall Just as a
cannon blows a hole through the walls
of a fort. We should then see a spot of
dazzling light that would be a ball so
far as our eyesight could determine.
Such a ball might play many pranks
according as the cloud rift moved
about.
"These theories account well enough
for all the fire ball stories that have
come to my attention. 1 believe the
ball itself is a myth."
The proprietor of the United States
casino, at Far Rockaway, where one of
the fire balls was reported to have been
seen, said to a reporter that he was
out on the casino platform over the
water all through the storm, and that
lie saw the lightning strike the water
not far from where he sat.
"I didn't see any fire balls," he con-
tinued, "though I don't wonder if oth-
ers thought they saw some. The light-
ning was so close that there was no
interval between the flash and the
thunder clap. The wind blew a hurri-
cane and lashed the waves to froth and
tilled the air with spray. When the
lightning struck the water the sea
looked like boiling metal and the spray
(lew up like sparks. It would be easy
enough to imagine that balls of elec-
tricity were exploding out there."
The barkeeper of the hotel was posi-
for the climax, the eight men were al-
most frenzied, and their shrieks and
howls could be heard for a long dis-
tance.
Suddenly they dashed out of the tem-
ple and approached the heap of coals.
They were dressed in loose, lemon-col-
ored garments, and were shrieking as
if mad. The writhed and groaned and
made hideous contortions, all of which
was supposed to be the spirit of the god-
dess within them. Suddenly they
wail as if in answer. Not a moment did
they remain quiet, and occasionally
they jumped into the water to cool
their parched feet. After several min-
utes of this exercise they ran. still
howling and twisting, back into the
temple, and the ceremony was over.
A shotr time afterwards a European
doctor examined (he feet of the eighty
men and found, to his amazement, that
neither feet nor legs were burned, and
that the men had suffered no inconveni-
ence. The natives claimed that the
goddess protected the men by the exer-
cise of her marvellous power, and she
row stands much higher In their opin-
ion than before.
The sceptical ineiited that the feet of
the men were hard and horny from go-
ing barefooted, and that for several
weeks before the ordeal they had been
hardened by the use of alum water.
The fact that the feet were wet and that
the men did not remain still, continu-
jumped into the water in the trench, ally jumped about, stepping as lively
where they remained for a few seconds, as possible, also had much to do wilh^
almost enveloped in the steam which the result. The moral effect of the
was arising. They leaped onto the ceremony is bad, and the English gov-
bed of coals and began dancing and ernment has repeatedly forbidden th9
leaping back and forth. All the while paetlce of it in public. From the New
they yelled and the crowd set up a York Journal.
when a sort of 1-just-thought-of-lt look
came over the face of the landlord.
"Have you any children?" The fa-
tal question had come at last.
"Yes. seven of them," sighed the
now thoroughly dispirited liomeseek-
er. "But," he added, with a sudden
course, that similar soils should grow
the same kind of crops.
There is also a Bedford steam laun-
dry, which, "after being broke down
four days is again able to get out
first-class work." There are other co-
incidences, but one can irrfntion only
gleam of inspiration. "I might drown I two: People get married there and it
a couple of them!"—Buffalo Express.
No P.m-oiiragnmeiit for Her.
"So you're the Eccentric Young Man,"
observed the farmer's wife in a tone
that would split a grindstone; "you're
walking across the continent on a
v.ager and you rely on people along
the route for entertainment, do you?"
"Yes, madan, and if you will kindly
roast a chick—"
"Seems to me there's something rem-
iniscent about your talk. I have heard
language very much like that before.
But the men who sung that song didn't
call themselves any fancy names; they
were just plain, oyster-can willies. It
would be much better for you, young
fellow. If you had joined the union, for
if you had you would have noticed a
mark on the gate-post, which stands
for 'a husky woman and a big bulldog;
gin the place the go-by,' No, I don't
think 1 will encotirage any esthetic
Itinerants to-day." Buffalo Express.
Not Ills, of Course.
"I was unfortunate enough to leave
my umbrella In a street car yesterday,"
remarked Manchester.
"Whose umbrella was it?" asked Bir-
mingham.
"I don't know. I borrowed It from
Snaggs."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
rains sometimes. "Married, at the
home of the bride, Noah Girdley to
Dealle Kinder. Rev. Alexander Wag-
goner officiating' names that are
truly picturesque. "The bride wore a
white lawn dress trimmed with pink
ribbon and white silk lace"—simple but
effective. As for the ruin, in about
half an hour M street from Sixteenth
to Fourteenth was one solid sheet of I
'water its full width, and the water,'
backed up over the basement as far as
Stoessel's barber shop, poured through
the coal holes into Gus Ellis' cellar,
and ran into several stores over the
front doorsills. Such are a few glimpses
of life in a far distant city where the
people delight to style themselves Bed-
fordlans. Do they eve,- think of Bed
ford In the old country?
A New OH for Lnuipg.
Here is a new combination for a lamp
oil which is said to give a particularly
bright and white light, and one that
will not go out easily. The oil is made/
with two parts of best lard oil and one'
part of headlight oil, to which is tidi-
ed a piece of gum camphor about tjfle
size of an egg when the total quantity
of. oil does not exceed a pint.—Ex-
change.
The Forth bridge in Scotland is cap-
able of sustaining the weight of two
ironclads slunj from the center.
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Brown, Quincey T. The Territorial Topic. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1896, newspaper, September 18, 1896; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115736/m1/4/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 7, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.