The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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Peoples Voice
VOL. 7.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, APRIL H 1899.
NO 18
Ultimo Adios!
[ On tin* f vo of til* execution, J (Me Ki/.nl, tlio martyr
pn r «'t, nml lilntorliiw of Ui« Philippine*, wrote
tile |nllo iiiw luiiutlfnt IIIi«*v\I to hit native Inn 1. |
Ail r't, O IhimI h«Ii « iI I I'Hurl of ihe orient huh!
Jlrijilit, .v,«urklii 4 1,1 l'u' H,l,« ,',IW' puiuilw to nit ;
T<i IIim* my Iit« I my lifoao^ail itml iluik,
Oh, woultl tt vci® more In Ifjlit—a hlnlng, j-Union*
iiiiii u—
Mill wonlil I ulvo it lime, to it* expiring apatlc.
In lite mail buttle charge, with pu**ioti' frenzy utlrrtHl,
'1 In* Molillur fiv«« hi* life without it sorrowing word;
bo I iii«n mum. It mallei* not tiiu tlnm or place,
In c oup or ooiiiIm!, lruui|>et wootal, or In the face
Of mart} nlout, iny count ry'iu'iM.sc hallglv« me grace.
The laml Is dark with angrv >kle^, with Justice veiled,
ll'.it In my vintott clear the dawn appear*; Freedom
Impaled
8prn gs Into heavenly light ; to give It rosy hue
My blood I freelvnhc.il; my country, 'lis for you,
For lo thitf •oleum hour my heart 1 fond and line.
My childhood's ilreams of Itiuoeence, in pity or sleep.
The druunaof ail my youth, and tho*e my manhood
keep.
Weie always thine ; inlands I saw, of fairest fame,
In beauteous seas, their In uru with no ciotai of
shame,
No dark and troublous times, but happy days to claim.
1>renin of my life! My soul's most ardent, strong
dttirt.
Thee I t-aiulu! Willi farewell sight from my heart's
lyre,
Salute I How beautiful to fall that thou may'at rise-
To die for thy good life—to die beneath thy xkies,
In this enchanted laud to sleep the sleep I prize.
If o'er my peaceful grave thou west bloom, one day,
Amul-t the witvingurass, a simple flower, I pray
Thou bring it to thy lips and kiss my soul that I
In my tepose may fed lhe warm breath of a s:gh,
And tender memories of u friend and lover nigh.
O, iiiaj* the puto while moon with tranquil glory
shine
I'pon my silent home, and motKing's rnya divine
Linger awhile, with the fresh breezes murmuring
there,
And if a bird descends, his song, with notes so rare,
Shu I blend with imtiue's voices In a loving prayer.
And as the ardent sun evaporates the streams,
And draws up to the sky their moisture with their
hcums,
(ioi lifts my asplrallons. listens to my cry;
So, too, I itsk earth's-friends to hear my faint, fond
slKh.
And pray for me, my countrymen, when I shall die
1'rav for the dying ones who had no joy in life ;
l or those who suffer wrongs, and weary of the strife,
And cannot die; for all unhappy ones, who groan
In billet uess ot soul; for prisoners who moan,
And for inj self, redeemed in love by Christ alone.
And win n the shadows clo.-o around the sleeping
dead;
Silliness and darkness watching o or their earl lily bed;
Alone may they repose from life's tumultuous scene ;
heek not to know what this deep mystery may mean,
Hut listen for the voices from that world unseen.
And when, by all forgotten, my secluded grave
Has no memorial Ifcft, one blessed boon I crave :
Let men with plow and spade mingle my ashes there
Willi the dear earth I lovell, that it may Irtely i.eur
Yen in e id pat riot blood, (lowers of our nut Ive air.
Where e'er thou layt*t me, it matters not; I give
My body to tile dusl, bill Irulh will ever live ;
The sun will shine, songs will be sung, the fields be gay
Willi tropic life, fiomdcwy morn to evening's gray,
And all shall ti noli the faith of fieodom's sway
Country adored * With heart oppressed | say Adieu
Kor all thy wrongs and hoi row* b cak upon my view;
All that I leave is ilitne, my home and parents dear,
My sacred haunts: I go lo Coil with vi>iou clear
Of that 11.ir heaven where none despot't frown may
fear.
Farewell, O, cherished ones! Part of my Meeting life,
Friends id my joulh and In.n o; adieu tliehourof
strife!
Clve i hanks to Coil, I re-t from life's fatiguing day ;
Farewell, o, stranger sweet, that in my heart holds
sway,
Willi thee my spirit ll\e-, for thee my soul will pray.
Capital City Notes.
Guthrie, Okla., April 13, 1899.—
'Ihe Logan county grand jury
I proved itself ab iut ns much of a
legal farce as the legislative investi-
gating committee ditl.
Hutto says that he had no idea
that the grand jury would return an
indictment against Hon. Wails,as he
considered that offer of $25 simply
a joke.
The Logan county grand jury
should be indicted for malfeasance
and miscarriage in their star
chamber room.
One standing advertisement in a
Guthrie paper, reads: "A Retrac-
tion. It Was a Falsehood."
Only twenty-three divorces were
granted during the March term of
the l.ogan county district court.
Hill Little's suit against the terri
tory for ?i6.oo will not be decided
this month.
Colored House wouldn't have
been elected to the city council in-
stead of the genial white man,
; Dick Reaves, if preacher Nightin-
gale hadn't threatened his members
with expulsion from the church, pro-
viding they failed to vote the re-
publican ticket. It was the black
Nightingale's sulphurous song that
cooked the goose for honest Dick.
The Guthrie oil mill converted
7,000 tons of cotton seed into 43,000
]gallons of oil, within the last four
months.
It
Jones, the Socialist mayor of Toledo,
fears that the Ohio sti| reme court will de-
clare his platform, (the Golden Rule), 1111
constitutial ami his election void. Has
Hanna communicated with the court?
now claimed that Judge
; Herod was defeated by Judge
j Hughes for city attorney, because
Rev. Cheeseboruugh, or some other
| member of our African preacher
j cohort, denounced Judge Herod for
the ponderous reason "dat dis same
Hedge Herod is a blud relashun of
de King Herod of oF, who butcher-
ed two millyuns of Jewish chillern."
The Capital City is so terribly in-
fested with rats that the average
man put in his many leisure hours
in gunning for them. All public
anil private meetings and proceed-
ings are rat ified.
"Cousin McRtiilev," who holds
down a fat job in the Guthrie land
ofike, cuts the least figure among
the legion of capitaline wire-pullers
and political tricksters.
Lx Hon. Artful Daniels exoects
to train a herd of wild horses for
the woolly king of l'imbuctoo.
Comrade William Taylor, alias
"Dad the Kicker," did more to de-
feat the proposed $45,000 bond is-
; sue fnr sewerage purposes than any
other inkslinger (it this town. His
sarcastic article in Niblack's Leader
j was a stunner and clincher.
Most of the colored voters say
that the late republican legislature
was without a heart the way it re-
duced McCabe's salary to J6oo per
year. It should be remembered
that Hon. McCabe is the real, hard-
working auditor, and that well-paid
Hopkins is simply the power behind
the throne.
The writer of these paragraphs
stated some weeks ago that Judge
Burford smokes while holding
court. Now the Leader comes out
with the statement that Judge Bur-
ford never smokes in the court
room. The chief pilot of the Okla-
homa democrats will probably eat
another crow by publishing that it
had printed a lie about the smoking.
Fred W'enner, the governor's pri-
vate secretary, is the right man in
the right place. It would take
Gristmill Jones a life time to dis-
cover a match for Fred.
It is now generally asserted that
the Wails indictment will never
reach the district court, as the tax
payers are tired of the senseless and
expensive farce.
Frank Thompson, territorial treas-
urer, is the richest man of the gov-
ernor's cabinet, He is not worth
less than $100,000 and is amply able
to meet any and all real official
shortcomings or mistakes.
Many Oklahoma cotton pickers
are filled with gloomy prospects
threatening their avocation from a
new field of competition. It is now
claimed that a rich Mississippi cot-
ton planter imported last year fifty
monkeys from Africa, for the pur-
pose of experimenting with the ras-
cals in the cotton picking business.
The monkeys proved themselves
first-class pickers and it took only
one overseer to boss the fifty ring-
tailed simians. The aforesaid plan-
ter will shortly import a ship load
of monkeys, for the purpose of mak-
ing them both useful and ornamen-
tal in the Mississippi cotton fields.
Judge Burford has decided that
Council Bill No. 2, about which
there has been so much controversy
failed to pass and although it ap-
pears in the session laws, it is of no
validity. This is one of the meas-
ures vetoed by the governor and
afterwards claimed to have been
passed over the veto, but Judge
Burford holds that it failed to pass
over the veto. On the first vote ta-
ken in the council to pass the meas-
ure over the governor's veto, it fail-
ed; but on a reconsideration, it
passed. Judge Burford holds that a
vote taken on a vetoed bill cannot
be reconsidered. It begins to look
as though the "last legislature will
have nothing to show the people
that they ever spent 60 days at
Guthrie in the law-making business,
save the expense account that the
taxpayers will have to settle.
Jn a recent circular the W.
C. T. U. rejoices over some
notable successes lately achiev-
ed in temperance and moral
reform worx, among which are
enumerated: The Illinois legis-
lature's appropriating $9,000
for a statue of that noble wom-
an and patriot, Frances E. Wil-
lard, to be placed in Statuary
hall of the capitol building at
Washington; an official order
abolishing the sale of beer and
other liquors in the navy; the
action of congress providing in
the new army reorganization
bill that no officer or private
soldier shall be detailed or re-
quired, "nor any other person"
allowed, to dispense intoxicat-
ing liquors in any encamp-
ment, fort or other premises
used by the United States for
military purposes; act of con-
gress prohibiting Sunday sale
of liquors in District of Co-
lumbia; congress raising the
"age of consent" from 14 to 16
ye*rs, in Alaska.—The great
power which accomplished the
above steps of progress was
the "petition from home" sent
direct to the congressmen.—If
you wish to know what the W.
C. T. U. is trying to do in con-
gress, and how, write to Mar-
garet Dye Ellis, Sup't of Legis-
lation W. C. T. U., 101 South
Tenth St., Jersey City, N. J.
The conversation of Joaquin
Miller in the April number of
The Coming Age is thoroughly
enjoyable. The poet discus-
ses imperialism, the Klondyke,
Hawaii, and incidentally puts
in a strong plea for simple
Saxon words. His vivid des-
cription of the splendors and
perils of the frozen north is
perhaps the most attractive
part of the conversation,
which from first to last will
hold the reader's attention.
Mr. Miller is followed by the
Hon. Samuel M. Jones of To
ledo, who reflects the rising
tide of progressive thought in
regard to municipal ownership
of public utilities, and Rev.
George C. Lorimer, who talks
at length on the practical pro-
gram of the evangelical alli-
ance. Among the leading es-
sayists in this issue are l'rof.
John Uri Lloyd, Henry Wood,
l'rof. Jean du Buy, Ralph Wal-
do Trine, Charles Malloy, and
Imogene C. Fales. The Com-
ing Age grows in interest anil
popularity. Its contents,
though thoughtful and schol-
arly, are of so varied a char-
acter as to prove interesting to
all classes of thinking men and
women and all members of the
family circle.
The cost of fire protection
in Liverpool, Eng., and Glas-
gow, Scotland, is 10 cents per
capita. The lowest rate in the
United States is 54 cents per
capita (Washington, 1). C.) and
the highest is $2.26 per capita,
at Providence, R. I.
I he commissioners at their last
session granted a license for a sa-
loon to be opened ip at Franklin,
and the people out in that neighbor-
hood are kicking and cavorting like
wild Texas steers and have taken
an appeal to the district court. We
are informed that the proper steps
had not been taken for the granting
of the license, as no publication had
been made as required by law, and
when Judge Wolf, in behalf of the
protesting citizens, wanted to argue
this point with the county commis
sioners, Chairman Cobb informed
him that it was not necessary, as he
had already made up his mind to
grant the license and Harbour and
Hryant let Cobb have his way anil
the license was granted. Cobb seems
to be a kind of a "Glover" on the
commissioners board.
The Norman Lumber company
has something of interest in its new
ad this week to those who desire to
buy granite ware. Take time anil
look over the price list that ap-
pears in this paper. Remember the
sale only lasts next week.
Mr. Bob Mcllvoy has a large
force of carpenters at work putting
in the timbers and getting ready to
put the roof on the Aniol Main
street building.
THAT TtmOUUlNG tiRAT)ACII15
won't! quh-kly h'uve von, if you u-cil
Dr. Kind's N.-w [.ifk- IMli*. Thousands
of sulTei-er.-> have prove.! their nriieh-
les merit for sick ituil nervous head-
aches. They make pure blond and
si ronit nerves 11 ml Inilld up jour health.
Rimy to tiiko. Try them. Only 'J-"> els.
Money hack if not cured. Sold by
Make & lteed, druggists.
Il.e democratic primaries held
last Wednesday evening were very
poorly attended and very little in-
terest was manifested in the city
i-lcction. Ihe following candidates
were nominated for trustees. First
ward, J. I. I'helps; Second ward,
M. M Furry; Third ward, W. T.
Wallace; Fourth ward, G. C. Bible,
I'ifth ward, J. |>. Grigsby; Sixth
ward, Sherman Davis. The dele-
gates chosen to nominate candidates
for the city offices meet in conven-
tion tonight.
I he warm weather of this week
has caused the wheat and oat fields
to grow rapidly and corn is coming
up nicely. I he fruit crop will not
he as complete a failure as was
feared. 1 here will be plenty of
fruit raised for home consumption
if nothing injures it from now until
I its maturity.
N'on-Alchhollc flavoring powders to
take the place of liquid extracts used
as lla> oring In cooking and making
ice cream. Superior in every rea-
ped to liquid flavoring extracts so
commonly used. Give these extract
j powders a trial and we believe they
will please vou. For sale by Mrs. E.
If. Coffey. ' SMt
lUIKUMATISM CUKKD.
' My wife has used Chamberlain's
1'hIii It 1 i 111 for rheumatism with great
ii-lief, and 1 can recommend it as a
splendid liniment for rheumatism and
"tlicr hou-' hold use for which wc have
found it valuable.—\V. J. Cuyler, Ked
Creek, N. Y.
Mr. ( uyler Is one of the leading mer-
i chants of this village and one of the
1 n<>nt prominent men in this vicinity —
I W. (t. I'hlppin, editor Red Creek
Herald. Kor sale by all druggists.
Mil
Invites the attention of
the farmers of Cleveland
county and Chickasaw
Nation to their line of
Farm Implements and
Machinery. ::::We ask for
a careful inspection of
our implements, as we be-
lieve they are the best to
be found on the market, and we guarantee our
prices to be as low as in any of tho surround-
ing towns for similar goods, if not 1 d wer.
See our specialties in Cultivator Shovels
and Lister Tools
We are also agents for Binders, Mowers,
Headers, and Nichols-Shepard threshing ma-
chinery.
Let us give you prices
on all kinds of Grain
before you sell....
The Cy Williams Grain and Implement Co-
NORMAN
SPRING NECESSITIES IN GREAT VARIETY.
,.5f M
|t r4.fl
El
fli rTffllBHriHH 1 m- "v s .
5% sfWe have on our shelves one of the finest stocks of New Spring Goods carried by any merchant in the Territory.
Our Styles and Patterns are all up-to-date, and we feel great pleasure in exhibiting our new goods to customers. Before
you make your spring purchases permit us to show you these goods and give you prices on them, for we feel sure that
wc can demonstrate that for Good Goods and Low Prices we arc leaders in Norman.
We have just received out-
new spring stock of ladies'
LADIES, ATTENTION I
We carry the gp/endid tine
COR SET 3 SHOES.
Shir! Waists, 2Se to $2.
and gents spring styles in of Jopsy Mose, and a/no have
Footwear and call your spec- " fane// Hue of stripped hose.
SPECIAL BARGAINS.
Just closing out a fine line
jOadies Summer Corsets, from of ladies' $3 shoes tor $2.50;
2Sc to $J.2§ Oxfords, in also line of $1.50 shoes for
ial attention to examine our
goods in this line.
iOill he pleased to show them.
coin and common-sense toes,
for $1. Good values
1.25: and a line of $2 shoes
at 1.50.
II!
* fir >
V1 !-/•% 0 c. l s special attention to the new Crosett Shoe, and also to our Harrisburg $1.00, which we guarantee not to rip.
v '>j w uur line Ol ixents Spring Clothing is the very best, and on examination you will find our prices just.
EAST fvIASN STRRET, NORMAN.
\\\ m. Ku&sni.i, co.
$200.00 Given Away.
I than it appearsin"Beai llful Flowers." j them forty words formed as above, I f j s?e<!3 of l''n popular and different va- j tpaod a large amount of money tostart be awarded to pei
Se par I to IJ-e-1 u- t-i-f- >i-1 F-l-o-w e-s It is said forty small English words j you are good at word making and can
rieties.
and ue«.! ihe letter* to form many
words hh you can, using the letter*
b tck WHnN or forward-', but don't u*e
an\ | tier iu the s;unis woi'J more tiroes
Our object in giving this $200 Is to
our trade and want your trial order; live words or mor
- sending twenty-
who w."i I assist in
can be euelltd c rivvtly from these j form forty words write your name anil ; attract attention to and introduce our ! >'ou wil1 receive the greatest value it introducing our - and specialties,
een letter*. i\ i* example—tea, I address plainly on our list and^euolose 1° the United States. This offer I seeds ever offered. If two or more Satisfaction - y guaranteed,
f.. r . m- j j _ ... ... ,, ... ... will he careful iv and conscientious! v person* succeed in forming for v word.- S. n i > our li? t a? a r :>> p>-sih'o.
o-vV.;';,;. V'1^ ' :,L' two cent stamps Juried out and it shoul^not ^cla*sed the $200 will be divided prorata Address Hsmil St Co., Of"P~
pn\ 01 ° the person sendinif for ten pacaets of beautiful flower | with catch-penny affairs. We will Maay extra special prizes of value wil! Ave , Chicago, II:.
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