The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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THE ERRING BURGLAR.
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It was agrcod on all lianils that F.en
Whltcly was a very practical follow.
By gome this li'ay have been said of
him disparagingly, though others un-
doubtedly applied the words in a com-
plimentary sense, Practicality lias its
eulogists, but it has. also, its censors.
There are some people who will find
fault with prose because It isn't poetry;
the same sort of people consistently
denounce practicality because of its
Inefficiency in specu'.ativencss. For it
Is a common form of criticism to con-
demn a thing not so much for being
what it is as for not being something
else.
Hen Whiteley's mind ran clear and
pure as a brook, lie wns a broker in
the city. At one time In his life he
had been shockingly poor and had to
work very hard. His industry at last
had met Its due reward. Arrived at
Hearty middle age. he was in very com-
fortable circumstances, and he saw no
reason to doubt that iiis prosperity
would continue. When lie announced
to his friends that he thought of tak-
ing to himself a wife it was generally
felt that the step he meditated was a
prudent and a proper one, and only
what might, under all the circum-
stances of the case, be reasonably ex-
pected. And when he further stated
that he had made an offer of his hand
to one Miss Edna Latrobe, the daugh-
ter of a very wealthy dry goods mer-
chant, and that his- offer had been ac-
cepted by that lady, his friends, among
whom I numbered myself, hastened to
tender him hearty congratulations on
the happy occasion.
Ben spoke of the matter in his own
simple, sober way:
"Well, you know, I'm getting on," he
said, "and if I'm over to marry it's
about time I should be petting about
it. A few years hence it will be too
late. 1 shall be settled do\-n then In 11
bachelor kind of life, .-"hall have adopt-
ed bavhelor views and habits and bach-
elor ways of looking at things, which 1
shouldn't be able to alter or get out of
at any price. A few years ago 1 could
not have afforded it, to put the matter
plainly, and so it was quite out of tin;
question. But 1 always looked for-
ward to getting married when 1 could
afford it, and now I'm going to carry
out the notion. You're very kind, anil
I think I shall be happy—In fact, I've
in doubt about it—as happy as any
fellow has any right to expect to be.
One ought not to expect too much, of
course. But I'm very fond, in my
way. of Miss Edna I-atrobe, and I
think that she, in her way, is fond of
ire. She Is not too young nor too old, j
not too good-looking nor too plain, j
She's sensible enough and accom- I
plislied enough, and I do not see why |
she should not make me a very good
kind of a wife, i,nd, similarly, I don't
see why 1 should not make her a very
good kind of a husband. What more
Is there to be said? l'erlaps I'm not
very fond of old Latrobe, and perhaps
old Latrobe is not very fond of me.
But, still, I don't see that that need
matter very much I daresay we shall
understand each other by and by; i
meantime, we must rub on, just as
well as we can, and I must try to make
the best of the old gentleman's hu-
mors, ntid not run counter to him any
more than I can avoid We need not
be meeting so very often, you know.
And It seems to me the old follow
would not be any fonder of anybody
«lso who might want to marry Ills
daughter than he is of me. And if
Edna lllits pie (and she sny« she does)
and I Ilk* Ed u (and I say 1 do>. that
«Mbi*to me Q.« chief part of the busi-
ness. I don't think I need trouble my-
self about the old man's views on the
subject. You sec. It's our affair, Ed-
na's and mine, and not his, though it's
hard to make him see it in that light.
Edna has very good sense, and 1 think
she looks at the matter very much as
I (lo—only, of course, she can't help
feeling that he is her father; whereas,
thSBfr goodness, lie's Hot uillie. I'm
very much obliged lo you for your good
wishes. 1 say over again."
It will lie seen thai Ben Whltely was
not a lover to "sigh like n furnace."
As for "writing a woeful ballad to his
mistress' eyebrow." 1 don't fancy lie
could have accomplished such a feat if
i his life hail depended up n his doing
j so. I lis pulse beat ever s.eadlly and
I punctually. The thermometer of his
love stood at "temperate," with no
tendency toward a rise. Let Cupid do
all he could, it did not seem that he
was able to accomplish any vital
changes iu these respects. Wh'ilely. it
was evident, persisted in contemplat-
ing love and marriage from tin- prosaic
and practical point of vow. Notions
of poetry and sentiment on ti <so, or.
Indeed, any ether subjeels, were not
possible lo liiin. llis constitutional se-
renity refused to be disturbed at all.
There was nothing nliout him denoiii g
"a carol ss desolation." The "marks
of love," us tney an; commonly under-
stood, wore not discernible upon him.
Many, perhaps, would have regarded
I him simply as a man going to lie mar-
ried. and bo Inclined to think tint lie
was not to be regarded as a lover at
all. lie affected no particular raptures
I as fo the proposed change in his life.
To his friends on tin* board of trade he
said nothing ns to the agitated state of
Ids breast or the excitement of his
feelings. He did not regard .Miss La-
trobe as :tn angel or a goddess. I'as-
! sion did not perplex nor discompose bis
j vision. Miss Latrobe seemed simply
; to him what she seemed lo every one
j <>lge--a nice-looking, sensible American
girl. If he were to be considered as a
lover at all. it was as a lover with a
largo infusion of a man of business.
At the same time it should bo noted
that as a man of business. Ben White-
ly was a strictly hororable and thor-
oughgoing gentleman.
I often asked myself if marriage
would change hlmV Would his practi-
cality ultimately succumb? Would he
not, rather, like most other men, find
at last an unexoeoted tire kindling and
crackling in his breast?
I called upon him one evening, and
in tiio course of our conversation I
asked him about Miss Latrobe.
"The affair is off." he said, gravely,
holding up a small sealed packet.
"You don't mean to say so?"
"Yes; it's a bad Job, and I am very
sorry about it; but it can't bo helped.
It's the old man's doing. I hope he's
satisfied now. lie's the most unrea-
sonable and disagreeable old fellow I
ever had the misfortune to moot."
"But what did he do?"
"Well, we fell out about the settle-
ments; there was where the hitch
arose. I'm sure I did all I could to
please him. I told him to settle what
money he proposed to settle upon his
daughter-it wasn't so \ ery much,
after all just as he pleased. Or ho
might settle nothing at all upon her,
just as he pleased. It was his- daugli- I
tor I wanted, not bis money. I thought
of ussigning to my wife my policy of :
insurance—it is fer a larger amount
than most men carry and as to the
real estate, I put that along with it.
the whole tiling being assigned to trust-
ecs for my wife's sole benefit in ease of
my death. But it did not content him.
He had no confidence in me. and gave
me no credit for any affection. He in-
sisted that any mou I might in fut-
ure become possessed of I should bring
into the settlement. 1 flatly refused
this. It was most absurd, as'I had my
business to consider. It might lie very
desirable ly and by to ii vest more
money in it. Why should I he hind-
ered from investing my own money In
any nay 1 deemed host? He wouldn't
give in, and I wouldn't. I bogged her
to marry me without the old man's
C" merit. IV,or girl: <he w> ia «
dreadful way. She didn't dare do tliaf
—so it's all up.
"This packet," lie said, opening II,
"contains all the letters I ever wrotfj
to Edna. And hero is a little present 1
gave her. sent back to me." It was a
| ling, a large, purple white diamond,
j heavily set in plain gold. .last the val-
; liable, simple, substantial present 1
, could have f: nolod Bell Whitolv sehvt-
! ing for ids betrothed.
i "I supixise they will i xpoct mo to
I send back ail Edna's letters to me," hi-
1 said, rubbing his chin thoughtTuliy. as
j he handed me a cigar and took on#
himself. We smoke,I . ml talked of
other matters, .lust r.s 1 was leaving.
I he hold my hand for an I'islant, and
j said, quietly: "I tlii k I shall try to
see Edna once mo.-o, for a particular
reason."
A few nights afterward I saw him
again, and noticed a slight change in
his manner, lie did not apeak and
look so gravel.i: iu fact, lie was iu
rather hotter spirits than usual.
"I hope ii'U did not mention what I
told you the other night—that my en-
j gageinent was broken—as it happens
I it isn't broken; It's on again. I told
you 1 should see Edna again. Well. I
j knew that she often went with her
I father and other relations to Lincoln
| Park Sundays, for a walk after church.
I could not call at the old man's house,
jot! know, because I felt that I had
been kicked out of that, or just as
good. So I went to the park. ' I soon
saw Edna with her father and a lot of
other people. She saw me, and under-
stood my sigi s that I wanted to speak
to her on the quiet. Watching her
chance, she slipped with mo into the
greenhouse. She looked scared, and
tears were iu her eyes, so I put my
arm around her waist. I didn't care a
bit who saw mo. I i sked her to for-
give ino for not sending back her let-
ters but that fhe fact was, I could not
do it. You love me still, then. Ben?'
she said. Of course. I kissed for
answer. Then she began to cry.
" 'Come, Edna,' I said, 'let's got mar-
ried right away, whether papa likes it
or not.' Poor child, she could not
speak for crying, and she looked at.
me, and then she gave me such a fun-
ny little nod and began laughing
through her tears. It was the prettiest
thing you ever saw. We kissed each
other a few times, and then I turned
and saw old Latrobe. 1 bowed polite-
ly and said:
" 'Mr. Latrobe, Edna and 1 are going
to be married; that's quite settled.
Suppose you give us your consent.
We'd much rather have it than not.'
"Well, would you believe it. lie held
out his hand and said, in a queer voice;
'Come home to dinner.' I ought, per-
haps to have told Edi.,i that the reason
I could not send back her letters was
because I had used tliom to light pipes
with; but it doesn't matter now. Come
and see us married Thursday."
An Kneltnli Kpitnpti
A slight contribution to the literature
of epitaphs is made by Anna Bowman
Dodd in her "On the Broads:"
"As we were turning our backs on
the old tombs an epitaph caught my
eye. It was such an epitaph as roused
a grave doubt:
'Sacred to the memory of Joseph
Figg, the affectionate husband of Eliz-
abeth Pigg.
Versos on a tomb are praises Idly
spent.
A man's good name is ids host monu-
ment."
\\ hich of these Piggs was tlie humor-
ist Or were they troth victims of a
Yarmouth wag? New York Post.
An riterlor Motive.
Toinsmith—So it turns out that it
wasn't disinterested philanthropy that i
prompted old Mumbleby to sell those
Now Jersey houses and lots for almost
nothing, after all.
Jlmjones—is that so?
Tomsuiith Yes. lie had s corner In '
mosquito netting -Illustrated Monthly. I
I* It Fouud
Ways Again.
A curious romance of burglary and
filial affection Is told in the French
newspapers. It has generally been sup-
posed to bo almost Impossible to escape
from the French penal settlement at
Cayenne, and that the perils to be con-
fronted in the forests, both from ani-
mals and natives, not to talk of starva-
tion, appalled the convicts to such an
extent that tliey never even thought
of attempting flight. This theory has
just received a severe shock, the de-
scription of no less than thirty recently
escaped convicts having been circulat-
ed to the police by the minister of the
Interior. Ono or two have already
been captured in France. Among these
is a certain Petltjean, who is accused
of new misdeeds. Petltjean escaped
from Guiana some time ago, for no
other reason, he said, than to come and
embrace his old mother, who lives at
Bagnolet. Ho was arrested, but. In
deference to public opinion, which was
impressed by his filial affection, he
was set at liberty and allowed to re-
main In France. A fortnight ago a
robbery took place on the Boulevard
Diderot, in Paris, and by tracing back
the stolen goods four persons were ar-
rested. They were all carrying knives,
knuckledusters and revolvers, and
made a most desperate fight for their
liberty. Once in prison, however, they
confessed they belonged to a largo
gang whoso chief was Petltjean. Ilenco
the latter's arrest.
CIGAR AS A SOCIAL FORCE.
ferl£lit Young Hmii In.i.t. on TettchlDg
Ilia Cut her to Smokp.
That adage about the child being
father to the man receives an odd in-
terpretation by a young man who lives
in Oak Park. Ho thinks it means that
tho child should run things and make
the old man stand around. This
bright young man lives with his father
in bachelor apartmeuts. It chanced
that the old gentleman led an exem-
plary life In his younger days and had
never learned to sinoke. The son,
however, being thoroughly up to the
times, is very fond of his cigar, and
many a colloquy ensued. When the
father came homo to find the rooms
redolent of cigar smoke he would argue
with his son that it was no nice way
to do, and that ho should respect the
feelings of those v.-ho objected to
smoke. "But, father," objected tho
young man, "you must recognize the
fact that the cigar is a great social
factor. Father, you must learn to
smoke. It is an accomplishment of
every gentleman, and you should not
overlook it." The next day he brought
home a box of cigars and a pipe for
his father, and the old gentleman, who
has spent fifty years in this vale of
smoke without knowing the comforts
or eolaco of tobacco, began Industri-
ously to learn to smoke. After three
trials he gave it lip and confessed bis
defeat. Hi3 son smoked up all the ci-
gars and the pipe was given to an ir-
reverent young man who laughed at
the story.
C loveland'* New Home.
The house In which President Cleve-
land will live after his retirement from
| public life is a picturesque old man-
j sion in a pretty part of Princeton, N.
J. The house is not one which any
' one would suppose would be occupied
j by a man of Mr. Cleveland's wealth.
| It is a large, roomy structure, with
an appearance of age that it does not
deserve. It is built of stuccoed brick
and brown stone in the old colonial
stylo. Its dimensions are ."() feet wide
by 45 feet deep and two stories and a
half high. Three bides of it are sur-
rounded by porches. Through its mid-
dle runs a wide, old-fashioned hall, at
the right of which is the staircase. The
flooring of the hall is in hard wood, but
there are no other hard wood floors in
the house. The rooms, fifteen in num-
ber, are all very largo, Mid the ceilings
are 12 feet high. One-half of the first
fli r is given up to the parlor. The
house was built in 1854 by Commodore
Stockton, a line desccndent of Richard
"Mend it
or End it,"
has been the rallying cry ot
reform, directed against abuaea
municipal or social.
For the man who lets him-
self be abused by a cough the
cry should be modified to:
Mend it, or it'll end yon. You
can mend any cough with
Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral.
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January 16th. '17, that we will send to
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ness, nervous and neuralgic headache,
heat weakness, toothache, earache, |
croup, la grippe, malaria, creeping
numbness, bronchitis, and kindred dis- j
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I these columns anything of a medicin-
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i the correspondence of this Company, j
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THE STOCKTON MANSION.
Stockton, who bought the land froiL
William Penn. It was owned lately by
Mrs. Slidell, who, when she left for
Europe a month ago, told her agent to
sell It for 540,000. The Clovelands will
reside in Princeton from October to
June and Intend to spend the warmer
months at Buzzard's Bay.
llall Cuine un<l ({unkin.
Mr. Hall Caine, tho novelist, says:
"Mr. Ruskin's works were to mc from
the first of my reading a great stimulus
to thought and I think a great impulse
to moral endeavor. The author him- j
self also, at a very early stage of my I
life as a man of letters, gave mc great j
help and encouragement. A year or j
two ago I visited him at his house in I
Conlston, and there lives in my memo- j
ry now the pleasantest recollections of '
a beautiful and noble personality." j
Two Remarkable IVorila.
It Is said that there are only two
words In the English language that
contain all the vowels in their order.
They are "abstemious" and "facetious."
claim.
6WANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO.,
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At wood is largely wanting in the
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Australian £olu fields, SOYi'ral Strum It la In form a four pa :o folder which, when exteud*
ships are engaged in carrying timber
trom the Pacific coast for use in Aus-
tralian mines. The steamships carry
from 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 feet each.
The wooti is California pine and fir.
In a black letter bible which a fotr
years apo was to be seen in Lees Cas-
tle, near Maidstone, the peculiarity is
to be found in Genesis xxxix 6, that
"Joseph was a polye felow," instead of
"godly person," as stated in the an
thori/.cd edition.
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The readers of this paper will be nleasea
to learn that there Ih at least one oroaded
disease that science lias been able to « ur«
In all Its stupes, and that Is catarrh.
Hall's Caturrh Cure Is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity.
Caturrh being a constitutional disease, re-
quires a constitutional treatment Hall's
Catarrh Cure Is tnken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur- feet deep.
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the dl:ieas«>, and giving I Mrs. Potter
the patient strength by building up the
hama, Kioto and Oska."
A RO-Ont Calender Krea.
rrrhapa the moat beauMful la rndar ImuM for the
year'97 !• Tub Youth's c'omiuwiom Art Calendar,
which Is given to each subscriber io the paper for the
year'97. Ills m de up of four charming pictures,
beautifully reproduced In twelve harmonious co on.
ed, Is 10x24 inches In size. The subjects are delight*
fully attractive. This Calendar make* a <ir lr*l .e
crunmrnt f«>r mantel, center table or writ lug <le k
It U offered for alc only hy the publishers of Tub
Youth's Cobpabto* at 51) cents i>f>r eepy. Only he-
raiii>e of the enormous number published It Is poMl
hie for the puhlUhers of Ti!R COMPANION lo send ll
free to all Companion subscribers.
Whntever we would do if we had the
power is what the Lord will tfive ua
the credit of having done.
No work is hard for the man who
has God for his helper.
It ia better to bo right and poor,
than wrong and rich.
The devil throws the most darta at a
shining mark.
The Lord's sheep all know their
Shepherd.
The Eureka, Cal., gold mine ia 2290
Palmer lias a 85,000
constitution and assisting nature In doing I
Its work. The proprietors have bo much 1
bracklet.
faith In Its curative powers't"hat "they "If- i Germany lias 1,000,000 textile opera-
fer One Hundred Hollars for any case
that It falls to cure. Send for list of tcs-
tlmonlals. Address. i i ■ * n
P. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo O. ™ffland makes copper coins for Rus-
Rold by druggists. 75c. ' ' gia.
Hall's l^mily Pills are the best.
Artificial flowers are inau i of bre ad.
Texas pecan crop is worth $500,000.
A team consisting of three horses
and an ox is in regular service hauling
lumber to tho railroad stations in
Aroostook county, Me. The ox is
harnessed with bit and breeching, and
harmoniously and well besido one of
horses.
It is not to please their husbands, '
but because they want to look well if |
there should be a lire in the night, that
prompts women to put trimming on
their night dresses.
If t'ie I'ut y in i uillnir Teeth,
Be Kiire and nne that old end >>«'ll-trled remedy. Mua
Wishlow • sooTiMNii Hvatip for c'hllditu Teething;.
The Lauyson railroad, in Tonquin, I
wliich was to open n conquered pro- ^ ,
Tine, far a„ «pendi.nro of SSOO.OOO, j (jlaClneSS LOlTieS
bled the I-rench treasury to the tune I
of 84,307,790.
Tho eggregious underestimate of cost
nf the Panama canal nearly swamped
that enterprise before wholesale steal-
ing completed the ruin.
Flegenmn's Camphor lee with Glycerine.
Vures Chapped Hands and Fare, Tender or Soie I «ut.
Chilblain*. Piles, Ac. C. U. Clark Co.. New llaveu. CU
With a better understanding of tlm
transient nature of the many phys-
ical ills, which vanish before proper ef-
forts—gentlo efforts—pleasant efforts—
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that", so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis-
' ease, but simply to a constipated condi-
tion (ti the system, which tlie pleasant
| family laxative. Syrup nf Figs, prompt-
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The devil does a good day's work i remedy with mi 11 ions of families, and is
when he persuades the father of a fatn- i everywhere esteemed so highly bv all
;i . . . . who value good health. Its beneficial
.U that he can save money by not taU- effeets a„, §ue to the fact Umt ,tis t)l„
mg a religious paper. one remedy which promotes internal
. , cleanliness without debilitating tho
1 lie greatest taxpayer is tobacco. In organs on which it acts. It is therefore
the last 27 years this product has paid j all important, in order to get its bene-
a tribute of a billion dollars to Undo ! 8cial e ectB- 10 note when y°u P"r-
u , chase, that you have the genuine artl-
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jMeiorer. r ree inal bottle R;id t r* atl*e. 4l . , ...
Bend u Da. Ku.hm wi An h st., 1'ijiuc.eipbia,PSi If in tho enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
The man who knows Christ well will " " . - --
not look for perfection in anybody
else.
mines give every
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commcnded to the most skillful
ph3'sicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
Michigan iron
promise of activity iu the near future ! well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
" ' r igs stands highest and is most largely
Piso's Cure tor Consumption ha, .avui nsed and gives most general satisfaction.
tor Consumption ha, saved
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Regent Hq., Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 8, '90.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1897, newspaper, January 1, 1897; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116908/m1/3/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.