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VOL. 6.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1897
NO 15
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NOVEMBER WEATHER.
From Hicks' Word and Works:
November comes in with a reac
tionary storm disturbance. A wave
of higher temperatur e, with falling
barometer and autumnal r ains will
pass eastwardly over the country
from ist to 4th. Behind the rains
early in the period to the west look
for sleet and snow toward the north
followed closely by rising barometer,
high northwesterly winds and a cold
wave. Frosty weather after the
storms will prevail in all sections for
three or four days. From the 6th to
10th falls a period in which marked
autumnal disturbances may be ex-
pected. Warm, southerly winds,
falling barometer and growing cloud-
iness will occur the forepart of the
period, followed about the 7th to
10th, progessively from day to day
eastward, by storms of wind and
rain, turning to snow in many sec-
tions, and winding up with high ba-
rometer, northwesterly winds and a
cold wave. The crisis of this period
will fall on and touching the 9th and
10th, but not all over the country on
the same day. Eastern sections
will be in the warm, rainy area,
while the west will be in the hind-
most tangent turning to snow, north-
erly winds and cold wave. Each
great disturbance has a time of de-
velopment, a climax, and a sequel.
About Saturday and Sunday, the
13th and 14th, the high barometer
and cold will break down and more
storm conditions will develop and
cross the country from west to east.
Of course the beginning and ending
may involve more days than the
13th and 14th, but the disturbances
will be central on these dates—cen-
tral in their intensity and extent, and
central geographically in the prog-
ress from west to east. Be pre-
pared for warm rains, with thunder
in many sections, about 18th—19th.
Jf i« o barometer drops low at first,
it . . for sudden and rapid rise, with
high, northwest gales and violent
change to cold as soon as the west-
ern tangent of the storm area
touches your section. After the
storms, cold frosty weather will pre-
vail generally up to the new moon.
A combination of causes promises
heavy and dangerous storms on land
and sea within seventy hours, before
or after, 6 p. m. on the 24th. The
lower the barometer falls in the first
stages of these disturbances, the
more violent will be the atmospher-
ic perturbations, the higher it will
rise and the more intense and far-
reaching will be the cold wave at the
close. — November closes with a
change to warmer and with re-
newed storm conditions gathering
and starting from west to east. Up-
on the whole, there are strong reas-
ons to expect many hard, autumnal
storms and some rough, early win-
ter in November.
WHERE'S THAT GOLD?
. . . But though European banks
are much disinclined to let us have
gold, our financial prophets have
been telling us Europe would have
to send us gold, disinclined or not,
and that there would be gold im-
portations in large volume during
this autumn. But gold imports have
not been large. One week they
started in with a rush. More than
140 million grains were imported;
we were informed, with great posi-
tiveness, that the great inward flow
of gold, so long promised, was at
hand, but the importations stopped
where they began, and there is no
prospect of further gold imports in
the immediate future.
Meanwhile, the retailers of finan-
cial wisdom, blinded by their wor-
ship of gold and persistently shut-
ting their eyes to the magnitude of
our foreign debts, arc groping blind-
ly around for explanations by which
to account for the miscarriage of
their prophecies. Gold is not be-
ing imported for the very sufficient
reason that we are at this very
time drifting into debt rather than
getting out, as we pointed out last
week. But our gold worshippers,
who persist in believing that during |
the past few years we have gotten
entirely out of debt to Europe, can-
not believe this. So, ignoring the
true reason for the non-importation
of gold at this time, they are hard
put to it to find reasons. Holding
that Europe is running greatly into
our debt, as, indeed, she is on mer-
chandise balances, they are forced
to the conclusion that London is
borrowing in New York. We were
told the same thing last fall, that
London borrowed of us forty five to
seventy millions at that time. But,
if so, when did London pay off this
indebtedness, for admittedly it is
not in existence today? It is true
that during the last few months of
the fiscal year, 1897, trade balances
ran against us, but for the whole
year the trade balances were in our
favor by 274 million dollars, which
would preclude the assumption that
London paid off any debt to us dur-
ing the year, unless we admit the
presence of enormous interest charg-
es due by us to London on our great
foreign debt, and sufficient, together
with the expenses of Americans
abroad and freights earned from our
people by foreign ship owners, to
wipe out the entire trade balance in
our favor. And this presence is de-
nied by those who talk about Lon-
don borrowing from us in the fall
and paying us back in the spring,
when the trade balance for the
whole period is 274 millions in our
favor. If the presence of such for-
eign indebtedness and interest charg-
es is admitted we need not seek fur-
ther for explanation of the nonim-
portation of gold.—The American.
WONDERS OF COAL TAR.
No tale in "Arabian Nights," no
story of the wondrous treasures ta-
ken by mystic power from magic
nutshells, surpasses what science is
doing today. Science, the wizard
of the century, touches with his
rairy wand the black, viscid coal tar
from the gas retorts, and coal be-
comes not only a source of light
and heat, but an arsenal of colors, a
buffet of dainty tastes, a medicine-
chest for suffering humanity, a store-
house of new foods and exquisite
perfumes, a source of powerful ex
plosives for war, and so many other
miraculous powers that the telling
challenges belief. From the one
hundred and forty pounds of gas
tar in a ton coal of science today
makes aniline dyes, numbering over
two thousand distinct shades, many
of them of exquisite delicacy, so
that vegetable dyes are almost dis-
placed. Of medicines, antiseptics,
hypnotics and fever-allaying prep-
arations it furnishes quinine, antipy-
rine, atropine, morphine, exalgine,
somnal, salol, chloralimide, hypnol
and a host of others. It furnishes
perfumes—heliotropine, clove, queen
of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter
almonds, vanillin, camphor, winter
green and thymol. It has given to
the world bellite and picrite, two
powerful explosives. It supplies fla
voring extracts that duplicate the
taste of currants, raspberries, pep-
per, vanilla, etc. It is the house-
keeper's ally, with benzine and naph-
tha, the insecticides. It supplies the
farmer with ammoniacal fertilizers.
It has given to the plotographer his
two developers, hydroquinone and
likonogen. It makes the anatomist
its debtor for a most wonderful
stain for tissues. It contains the
substance which tints the photogra-
pher's lens. It yields parffir., creo-
sote, pitch; materia! for paving; sac-
charin, a substance three hundred
times sweeter than sugar, and sac-
charin-amide, still sweeter; lamp-
black, material for red ink, lubricat-
ing oils, varnish, rosin, almost our
entire supply of ammonia, and hun-
dreds of other things—all these sci-
ence brings forth from coal tar.
By means of its products—this
waste that surpassed its uselessness
only by its offensiveness—we can
make preserves without either fruit
or sugar, perfumes without flowers,
and coloring matter without animal
or vegetable aid of any description.
ELECTION RETURNS.
As we go to press the returns from
the elections are incomplete and the
contest in several states is so close
that it will take the official count to
determine the result definitely. The
greatest interest in the election
seemed to center on the mayorality
race in New York city and the leg-
islative election in Ohio to turn
down Hanna. In New York city a
desperate fight was made to turn
down Tammany, because that organ-
ization refused to endorse the Chi-
cago platform and for the further
reason that it is recognized as the
most corrupt political organizations
in American politics. The effort to
down Tammany resulted as usual—
the Tamrnany candidates' plurality
was only about 90,000. In Ohio the
republican state ticket won by re-
duced majorities. The legislative
ticket is close ; but it is thought to
be safely republican by about five
majority on joint ballot. This of
course means Hanna's re election.
In Iowa the republican ticket wins
over the fusionists by about 25,000
majority. In Nebraska, the fusion
ticket wins by about 25,000 major-
ity. In Colorado, the peoples party
ticket wins by about 2,000 majority.
In Kentucky and Virginia, the dem-
ocratic ticket wins. In Massachu-
setts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
the republican ticket wins. In Mary-
land, the election is close but dis-
patches indicate a republican vie
tory and the turning down of Gor-
man. The vote received by the
Populists candidates is on slow
freight trains and it will be some
time before they arrive to report so
that we can give you some idea how
that party fared at the polls.
With the result of the elections,
McKinley and Bryan both expressed
themselves as pleased. It is a strange
coincident that they should both
feel the same, is it not? We have
not heard from the people; but we
are inclined to think that their
frame of mind is quite different
from the expressed frame of mind
of McKinley and Bryan.
The unexpected has happened.
On Mondaj Mr. McKinley refused
to consummate the Union Pacific
steal. He took steps to postpone
the sale fixed for Monday next, at
which it was arranged to knock
down the Union Pacific property to
the Reorganization committee for
the face of the first mortgage debt
and 60 per cent of the debt due the
United States, thus paring down the
debt due the government by 40 per
cent. By order of the president the
attorney general moved an adjourn-
ment of the sale from Monday next
until December 15th, a motion that
there seemed to be no doubt would
be granted by the U. S. court.
So it seemed that the president
would stop the steal, that the sale
fixed for the 1st would be postponed,
that $25,000,000 of the debt due by
the Union Pacific to the govern-
ment would after all not be sacri-
ficed, would not be thrown away,
would not be handed over to the
reorganization committee, that the
$61,000,000 interest which the gov-
ernment has in the Central Pacific
would not be put in jeopardy, at
least on Monday next. But the re
organization committee raised its
guaranteed bid for the property by
$8,000,000 and on Tuesday the
president ordered the motion enter-
ed by the attorney-general for an
adjournment of the sale to be with-
drawn, said let the steal go on. And
the steal goes on, though it will be
of lesser magnitude than the one it
was expected to consummate. So
this much, a reduction of the mag-
nitude of the steal contemplated,
has been gained, but that is all. The
steal will come to $18,000,000 in-
stead of the intended $26,000,000.
This reduction in the steal is as.-
sured, for the reorganization com-
mittee has declared its purpose to
raise its bid for the property by
$8,000,000. Rather than lose the
property it would raise its bid $18,-
000,000 more. It would raise its
bid because it represents junior se-
curities of a present market value
of $60,000,000, securities junior to
mortgage held by the government,
that have no claim on the property
until that mortgage is satisfied, and
that would become absolutely
worthless if the property should be
sold to any one other than the reor-
ganization committee for less than
the sum total of the first and sec-
ond mortgages.—Philadelphia Amer-
ican, Oct. 30.
We notice that the editor
of the Guthrie Leader, who
early last year was for gold and
Grover, is now informing his rea-
ders about the crime of '73 and
quoting an old Pennsylvania Green-
backer's definition of money as fol-
lows; "That money is an instru-
ment of association without regard
to its form, or substance, and that it
is a saving fund for labor." The ed-
tor of the Leador is doing very well
for a new scholar in the financial
school and promises not to be the
dunce in the class.
The Union Pacific railroad was
sold last Monday to a combination
of Wall street bankers, under fore-
c'ostire of the government (2d) mort-
gage amounting to $58,000,000. The
government got $40,000,000, thus
losing about $18,000,000 in the
deal. The property was worth
$150,000,000—has earned 5 per
cent, on that amount for past ten
years,— and it might now be the
property of the people of the Unit-
ed States if the government had
paid off the first mortgage ($27,000,-
000) as an act of congress already
provided, and taken possession. In-
stead of that, McKit ley turned over
the road to a private clique of tnon
ey dealers and made them a present
of $18,000,000 besides.
The beautiful embossed leather-
puper covering the walls of fine li-
braries, and the delicate, stamped
fire screens may, like many social
upstarts, be ashamed of their ances-
try. Investigation proves them to
be nothing but thick paper covered
with a layer of pressed leather pulp,
made by pulverizing the leather in
old boots and worn-out shoes, capt-
ured by scavengers in their raids on
the ash barrels of society. Old
shoes, no matter how degraded and
worn in the servicc of man, have a
partial reincarnation. Pieces are
taken from their uppers and soles,
to form parts of shoes for children;
the smallest pieces are used to ele-
vate womankind by the Louis XV
heels. The steel nails leave scraps
at the suggestion of the attractive
magnet, while the brass and copper
nails, rescued later, pay the entire
cost of the old shoes. The clippings
and cuttings, transformed into a
paste, re enter society as artificial
leather, and the residue, even unto
dust, is carefully gathered as a fer-
tilizer for farming purposes.
Under the Fee and Salary bill
passed by the last legislature the
county scrip of the various counties
in the territory went, from 40 to 75
cents on the dollar, to par within
one year after its passage and the
rate of taxtion the first year after its
passage began to show a decided
decrease and the counties began to
pay their old indebtedness. In this
county the old back indebtedness
that was paid off before the fee and
salary bill of the present legislaure
was enacted amounted to $10,000.
' Since the enactment of the present
I law the indebtedness of this county
has again began to grow, the rate of
taxation has increased and county
j scrip against several of the funds has
fallen to 75 or 80 cents on the dol-
lar, the sum total of the expen-
ses of the county have in-
creased and the counties throughout
the territory are generally on the to-
boggan slide again toward increas-
ec indebtedness and higher taxa-
! tion. To pass a law where by coun-
ties went into the business of dis-
crediting there own scrip, by refus-
ing to accept it in payment of taxes,
was certainly a stroke of brilliant
statesmanship; likewise a law making
it compulsory to insure school
houses without option being given
to board of directors in the matter.
Attorney General's 10 per cent com-
mission for collecting school land
notes is also another that will at-
tract some attention for it means j
upwards of $7,000 to the school
fund of this territory. In fact as
we view some of the work of the
present legislative body it makes us
feel better towards the member-
ship of the last legislative body.
Ex president Harrison is out with
a letter strongly favoring govern-
H:45 Aildri-i>a hy Itev. A, P. (Jeor^e,
Hutchinson, Kan. Adjourned
until morning.
10:00 a. m. Convention opened with
devotional service, scripture lets-
non, 23rd t'aulin, read by I. M.
Little.
10:30 Address by Prof. Paxton. Sub-
ject: Huw to k*-p a Sunday
School* awake.
10:30 Address by Itev. A. P. George
on Evergreen Sundiy Schools.
11:45 The committee on noinimitions
report. Mr. I. M. Little renom-
inated for County President.
Mr. M cCollnugh renominated for
County Secretary. Upon vote of con-
vention both were unanimously re-
elected. The following name* nomi-
nated by the committee for the execu-
tive board: k'rof. Rice of Norm in,
ment ownership of railroads and j Mr. Henry Applegate of Moore, and R,
telegraphs. Populist ideas are get-1 of Highland, wore elected by
ting to be quite fashionable. A few
unanimous vote.
12:00
Adjourned until 2 p. in.
years ago a man that would even I „ ,llk ,
; . 2:00 Devotional services.
intimate that the government should o;15 Verbal report of tne township
take control and operate the rail- ! president* who were present,
road and telegraph lines of this 2:45 Report of the County Secretary,
country in the interest of all the The following it a lUt of the Sunday
Names of School?
people was singled out as a fanatic,
an impracticable dreamer. Steven-
son, the father of the modern rail-
way, and Morse, the father of the
telegraph, were also listed in the
same class; but the railroad and
telegraph of today sets at naught
the early estimate society held of
the genius of these men. The ques-
tion of the government of this coun-
try taking control of the railroad
and telegraph lines has resolved it- i ii south
l in i-l uoi
self down to two propositions: 1 lie 1 n-<
, ISaptMt
government must either surrender I Hinckinini
, . , AOUIII Uale.
to these corporations, or take con-
trol of them. If the government re
mains supreme it must take control
of the railroad and telegraph lines
of this country, and the wise poli-
ticians of both the old parties real-
ize this fact.
schools reported from the different
townships:
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f I 3 W I
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TIIE DEAD I'USSY CAT.
Toil's as stiff an' iih cold a* a stone,
Little cat!
Dey's done Crowed out ami left you alone.
Little oat I
I'fea-mtrokln' 3*011' fur,
But you don't never purr,
Nor hump up anywhere
Little cat—
W'y in «lat ?
Is you'ii purlin' and liutnnln' up done ?
An' w'y far i* you's Iiltle foot tied,
Little cat ?
Did doy piM*n you'H tuinmick lnfclde,
Little cat?
Didiiey pound you wif bricks?
Or wit big nasty atieks,
Or abuse you wit kickn.
Little cat ?
8 lw .1 II Uoan
H |w \\ K Craig.
Kocky I'oinl .H I * II It Allen
I hull Ian. 1 H-lw K II halley
Nobie . ..H-2iw|
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Wh. Mound. h-2w Mi . Hays.
Shiloh. . 7 lw:
Lexington, 61w|
Valle) lirove.tf le .1 1*Corbett
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;w I aft
eli 1
• flat,
Did doy holler w'enever you cwled ?
Did It hurt worry bad w'en you died,
Little cat ?
Oh! W'y didn't you wun otTand hide,
Little cat ?
I ih wet in my eyes—
'Cause 1 'most always cwlos
When a pussy cat dies,
Little cat,
'l ink of dat t
An' l's awfully solly besides I
Dest lay still dere down in do sof gwown,
Little cat,
W'lle 1 tueks do gween gwasj all awound,
Little cat,
Dey can't hint you no more
W'en you's tired an' so sore —
Dest sleep twiet, you poro
Little cat,
Wlf a pat,
Anil fordet all do kicks of do town.
Sunday School Convention.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual
S. S. Convention of Cleveland County,
held in Norman, Oct. I5th uud 16th,
1897.
FRIDAY 15TH.
10:o0 i . ti). The convention opened
with prayer and praise service
and scripture lesson from St.
John 3rd chapter, read by Mr. I.
M. Little, the County President.
10 50 Normal Bible drill, conducted
by Rev. A. P. George.
11:30 Adjourned until 2 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
2:00 p. m. Opened with devotional
services.
2:20 Address by Rev. S. E. Henry.
Subject: Are our Sunday School
scholars Bible students?
2:50 Same subject discussed by Elder
Clarke Bradeu.
3:20 Address by Rev. A. P. George.
What is a Sunday School?
J4:30 Address by Judge Williams.
Subject: What can the S. S. do
for the community at large?
4:55 Children's meeting, conducted
by Rev. A. P. George.
5:05 Adjourned until evening.
EVENING SESSION.
7:30 Song service led by C. W. Brew-
er, prayer by Rev. E. Case.
8:00 Address by Rev. E. Case, of Ed-
mond. Subject: Why study the
Bible?
Totals—UU schools reported, containing 233
officers and teachers, 1.770 scholars, 2,01ft en
rolled, I,J0flaverage attendance, $2>V>.5)8 year's
expo use.
The above reports are as near correct
as 1 could get them, us some^ of them
wt*re not written.
3:00 p. m. Address by Elder Clarke
Braden of Missouri, 011 general
Sunday school work.
Address by Judge Wilkins on
improvement in Sund y school
work, followed by Prof. Rise on
same subject.
it was ddcided by the conven-
tion to hold two county conven-
tions annually. The next one to
be held in Moore, in May, 1898.
3:25
3:50
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for Bethany, Nebraska, yesterday af-
ternoon where they intend to make
their home in the future. They have
been citizens of this county for the
past three years and we are sorry to
see them leave us, but comfort our-
selves with the hope that they may re-
turn again. Mr. Nelson has played in
hard luck here by reason of which he
has grown homsick for Nebraska, but
we fear he is quitting us just al the
time he should remain.
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