The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1909 Page: 5 of 8
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keel at the fir
Its oaeirt
■It dowa aad
1U the stick-
le tke tamer * doing mock
with tke product* of bis tarn
Mt receiving aueh fabulous
n •§ rend about la tke papere.
tke Pane si s' union to
la le 'so 'abend nod win battles.
te moot skeptical
tkal we know what we’re keen for.
■. H. Harrtaaa. tke great railroad
ktag. ears tke railroads do not need
He ears that M la the
that needs regulating,
alee have appar-
tnkau the Job tn hand; they
to knew already regulated eev-
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FARMERS WILL NAME PRICES.
Convention at kprlngfleld (Mo.) Takes
First Map to Throttle Specula-
tion in Farm Freduse.
Pledging themselves to dispose of
products collectively
through tke American Society of
Bqultr. which is cloeely allied with
tke Farmers* Educational and Coop-
erative union, the delegates In attend
aace at the convention of grain grow-
era aad cattle raisers, recently held
at Springfield, Mo., took the first step*
la an attempt to down the bucket
•hope aad boards of trade over the
United States.
Tke resolutions adopted followed
the address of Thomas O. Nelson,
national organiser, who stated he had
arranged for 10,047 meetings of grain
growers In Minnesota, the Dakotas,
Nebraska. Iowa. Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin, to be held before July 16.
aad that many more will be arranged
before that date.
The meetings wfU be held In coun-
try school houses aad at the various
shipping points where arrangements
will he made for storing the grain
until there Is a market demand, at
which time the society aad the Farm-
. ere* union will set the price, which, it
is stated, -will be equitable.
“With the Fanners* union and the
Society of Equity working hand la
hand.** Mr. Nelson stated, "the doom
of the speculator and the useless
middleman, boht of whom are a detri-
ment to the gralh grower, will be
sealed. **
Caustic resolutions scoring the
bucket shops, which. It is alleged, are
responsible for the gambling in grain,
were adopted, as well as resolutions
opposing legislation which aims to
control railroad rates by ignoring
state control. Such legislation, it to
alleged, will react on the farmers.
Alton W. Summers, an attorney of
Dallas. Tex., who advised with the
convention, and who had Just returned
from Washington, where he appeared
• before a number ot committees, advo-
cated the establishment by the gov-
ernment of a national system of grad-
ing farm products, such as wheat,
corn aad cotton. A committee was
appointed to consider his- ideas, as
under present conditions the majority
of all grain to graded by boards of
trade, whose opinion, it to alleged,
meets the demand of the buyer and
tot the seller.
Owing to the near approach of the
harvesting Season the proposed chain
of elevators and packing houses will
not be taken up this year, it having
been decided as Impracticable under
present conditions.
Why Iowa Farmers Succeed.
Why doss the average Iowa former
make nearly eight timee aa much per
year as the average Mississippi farm-
er? The Iowa farmer keeps plenty of
live stock aad puts the manure on his
land. He rotates hie crops, grows
leguminous crops, and thoroughly pre-
pares hie land. He cultivates about
fifty acres of this hlghly-productive
•oil by the use of strong teams and
labomavlag term implements. His
•oil is three times ns productive and
ho cultivates three times as many
acres.—Union Advocate.
Original Meaning of “Supper."
To “sup," or take “supper," to now
to eat the Inst meal of the day; but
the original meaning of the term was
to drink, n meaning still retained by
the closely allied word “sip." From
the same root we get the words “sop*
Through Strife te Higher Thing*.
The law pf worthy life to fundamen
tally the law of strife. It to only
through labor, painful effort, by grim
•aergy and resolute courage that we
move on to better things.—Roosevelt
RECENT “CORKER” IN WHEAT.
en
The Wichita Eagle, one of the lead
•m Pipers in southern Kansas, has
this to say about the recent “comer**
on wheat:
“•■m* year thousands of bushels of
•0-eeot wheat were skipped to Kansas
«*y »nd put in elevators because
Wichita bad no room for It. Today
It to being bought back at fl.«d n
bushel. The difference la the excess
amount being paid to-day would have
builded a million bushel elevator and
paid for It in this season's saving
alone."
The Eagle to right, but, say, baa it
besrd from the politicians yet? Will It
stick to Its text when the time comes?
Suppose the formers of that country
should take a notion to build the He-
ritor. or several of them, wouldn't the
Eagle fiop over and any they were
forming n trust? Now. Mr. Engl*,
don't get tangled up la this affair pre-
maturely. for bulMieg the elevator to
Juat what the formers of that vicinity
are going to do. And they are going
to put their wheat there and hold It
until they can get n remunerative
price. And they are going to do the
same thing all over Kansas and the
northwest. Yes, sir, they are going
to put their wheat In elevators snd
hold it till the cows come home If that
much holding Is necessary In order to
receive a remunerative price and keep
it out of the hands of the speculator.
Another Kansas paper, the Ottiwa
Herald, commenting on the situation
which caused the price of bread to
soar upward, saya:
“An extraordinary pinch tn the grain
market haa brought every man back
to the realisation that be lives off the
soil..and that showers, snows, cinch
hugs snd hot winds sre the elements
which give and take from him his
dally bread."
If the writer of that paragraph un-
derstood the subject thoroughly be
would see that the worst element is
the speculator. That everybody lives
off the soil is true, and this being the
fact the former haa It In his power to
control the situation. The wheat
which the Kansas former grows passes
through several middlemen's hands
before It reaches the miller. Then the
flour passes through several agencies
before It reaches the consumer. None
of tbeee middlemen add a single cent
to the value of the product, yet they
each exact a toll from It. There can
be some way devised by which the
millers could buy direct from the
former, and sell his flour more direct-
ly to the consumer. In this way the
former would receive a better pries
for his wheat while the consumer
would pay less for hts bread, and no
one would be hurt except the middle-
man who 1b neither a consumer nor
producer tn the strict sense of the
term. To do this it would be neces-
sary for the formers and millers to
own their own elevators. In this way
the grain would be kept out of the
way of the speculators, gambling In
futures would he practically stopped,
and the grain, going on the market
Juat as the consumers’ demand re-
quired. prices would be much more
stable than they ever have been.
The Farmers’ union points out this
method of combination and co-opera-
tion. It to n practical and business
method, but so many special privileges
have been bestowed upon corporations
and trusts, and so powerful have they
become in thwarting every attempt to
escape from their extortions, It to
necessary for the farmers all over the
country to unite in an effort to carry
the plan into effect. In sections where
banks array themselves against It the
farmers must, as the grange haa In
some states, have banks of their own
and prepare to finance their own
crops. A11 this cannot be accom-
plished in a day or a year, but if the
fanners will do so they can make
themselves masters of the situation.
SR. HARRMAR IS BORJMSQ AH OFFICE ON THE ROOF.
The Peerless Cowpea.
At the head of all legumes, from
every Imaginable standpoint, to found
the peerless cowpea. Imported into
this country about 150 years ago, and
first planted in South Carolina, they
have continued to spread until their
cultivation now extends into nearly
every state in the union. There are
in general use over 100 varieties, and
wherever grown their praises are sung.
Old wornout hillsides have been re-
claimed and made productive within
a few years by growing annual crops
of peas on them, and turning under
the vines early In the fall. On aoila
already productive, the better plan Is
to cut and cure the vines for hay.
Feed this to the stock through the
winter and carefully preserve the
manure.—Cotton Journal.
Soot Good Fertilizer.
Soot to a good and safe fertiliser
for nearly everything, and scattered
around the Stems of plants, making
the soil black, acts In the first place
fes a slug antidote and in the next
as a plant food.
A UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES
THE MIAMA INSTITUTION It ONE
HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
The School at Oxford. O., Has Splen-
did Record--Many Distinguished
Men Among Its Graduates.
Oxford, Ohio. — Miami University
has began the celebration of ita
hundredth birthday, in connection
with the annual commencement exer-
cises. The Institution, though small,
having only 1,806 alumni, to growing
rathet fast, snd now has 1,100 stu-
dents. But It Is not Its stoe that
Miami boasts of, for in the hundred
years of its existence It has given to
the country a remarkable list of dis-
tinguished men.
Miami has given to the country one
president, Benjamin Harrison; eight
governors of states, three cabinet of-
ficers, six foreign ambassadors, seven
United States senators, 83 United
States representatives, 53 federal and
state Judges, 30 college presidents nod
a host of other distinguished men
Gen. Robert Cummlng Sohenck of the
class of 1837 was on* of the greatest
speakers the house of represea tat Ives
ever had. Oliver P. Morton the fa-
mous war governor of Indiana; Cal-
vin 8. Brice, United States senator
and capitalists, and Stanley Matthews,
chief Justice of the United States,
were Miami graduates. David Swing,
the famous Chicago preacher, was
groduated from Miami and for 12
years was principal of the university's
preparatory school.
A GORGEOUS FRENCH FUNERAL
THE GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT
Condition of Whsaf and Oats on
Juns 1 Was Satie-'
factory.
Washington, r C. — The June
crop report of the department of agri-
culture, giving conditions of the vari-
ous growing cereals on June 1, ex-
cepting corn, has just been issued.
It shows the condition of winter
wheat 80.7, compared with 83.5 a
month ago, 86 a year ago and 80.6 at
harvest last year. The condition of
spring wheat Is 95.2, compared with
1*5 a year ago and a harvest condition
ot 77.6 In 1908. The area of spring
wheat Is 18,391,000 acres, compared
with 17,710,000 acres sown and 17,208,-
000 acres harvested In 1908.
The condition of oats is 88.7, com-
pared with 92.9 a year ago and 69.7 at
harvest last year. The area of oats
l* .32,422,000 seres, compared with 31,-
•MO00 acres reported sown and 32,-
144,000 acres harvested in 1908, the
harvest area having been revised.
Mrs. Sage Has Given $25,000,000.
New York, N. Y.—In less than
three years Mrs. Russell Sage haa
spent more than 125,000,000 for public
purposes and the benefit of mankind.
The recent Investigation abroad of the
question of workingmen’s Insurance
and the establishment of a gigantic
employment bureau call attention
anew to her prolific bounty. It took
Russell Sage 60 years to get IC5.000,-
000.
New Packing Houe* Scandal.
St. Louis, Mo.—After eighteen
months’ service as a United States
meat inspector In East St. Louis pack-
ing houses, J. W. Harms has resigned
and haa written a letter to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, James Wilson, de-
manding an investigation of the meat
inspector system at the National
Stock yards.
Paris Has Seldom Witnessed • Spec-
tacle of Such Pomp and
Magniflcncc.
Paris, France. — Not for several
years has Paris witnessed a spectacle
of such pomp and magnificence as was
seen at the funeral of H. A
Chauchard, proprietor of the Maganins
La Leavre, from the Church of the
Madeleine. The church was besieged,
and It to estimated that more than
half a million persons crowded the
streets along which the funeral pro-
cession waa to take Its way.
While the good taste of M. Chauch-
ard’s friends brought about the sup-
pression of the gorgeous Louis W
Cavalcade that the millionaire had
planned, the obsequies were can tod
out on a truly royal scale.
Starting from his residence In the
Rue Valaaques, where the body had
been lying la state, the Imposing pro-
cession, escorted by n squadron of
Cuirassiers and several battalions < f
infantry, literally forced Its way
through the streets to the Madelelna.
The hearse, which was drawn by six
black horses, was preceded by thr-*e
funeral ears banked high with the
rarest of flowers and by 6,000 cut
ployes of the Louvre store.
AN INCOME TAX CONCESSION
The Finance Committee at Roquet of
President Taft Mad* Offer to
Progressives.
Washington, D. C.—Aftei a con-
ference at the White house between
President Taft and Senator Aldrich It
was stated that the finance committee
would consent to placing a two per
cent tax upon the net earnings of cor-
porations if the supporters of the In-
oome tax amendments would accept it
and withdraw their proposition. This
suggestion It Is declared came from
President Taft and was designed to
prevent a split in the Republican party
over the Income tax feature. Mr.
Aldrich communicated the plan to Sen-
ators Cummins and Borah who are the
leaders of the progressive Republicans
who have favored the Cummins Income
tax amendment. These senators con-
sulted with their colleagues, and, as a
result the plan was repudiated by
them. Mr. Aldrich consulted also with
Republican leaders who are opposed
to the Income tax Idea and he had no
better success with that faction than
with the progressives.
INCREASED SALOON LICENSES
Gov. Hadlsy Has Asked County Courts
to Maks Dramshops Pay |300 Par
Year in Place of $200
Kansas City, Mo.—Oov. Hadley
has called on each of the county
courts of the various counties to col-
lect from each saloon, July 1, |150 for
state purposes Instead of $100, as has
been the rule several years. Each
half year the higher rate is to be col-
lected hereafter for state purposes.
Under instructions from the governor
the excise commissioner of St. Louis
has notified the saloons of that city
to be prepared to pay the higher li-
cense.
Revised the Rate Up Again.
Washington, D. C.—By an aye
and no vote of 40 to 50, the senate
adopted the finance committee’s
amendment restoring the Dingley rate
of 30 cents a pound on wool top waste
and other watte*. The house rate was
20 cents. Progressive Republicans
generally voted with The Democrats
against the increase.
GOT TO THE CAUSE
ken All Symptoms of Kidney
C. J. Hammonds. 617 8. HiU St., Port
i, says: “1 was operated
on for stone la the
kidney but not cured
and some time after
was feeling so bod
that I knew there
must be another
stone that would
have to be cut out.
I decided to try
Doan's Kidney-Pills
aad the kidney action improved right
away. Large quantities of sediment
and atony particles passed from me,
and finally the stone Itself, part dis-
solved. but still as big as a pea. With
It disappeared all symptoms at dlssl-
ness, rheumatism snd headaches. I
have gained about 50 pounds since and
feel well and hearty “
Sold by all dealers. 60 cents a box.
Foater-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Tired Tom (sadly)— Ah. that patch
tells me that my old pal, Plodding
Pete haa been this way. Poor old
Pete! __
Ate a Chick with dig Eyes.
A trainman to telling an incident
that occurred on a Mohawk A Malone
train up in the woods the other day.
The train was standing on n siding
waiting the arrival and passing of an-
other train when an Italian walked
through the coach, h|p hands crossed
on his stomach and hts head wagging
from side to side In a doleful manner.
“What's the matter, John?" some
one Inquired.
“Oh, me sick—^ne sick as dev," re-
plied the man, rolling his head still
more distressingly and continuing the
rubbing of bis stomach.
“SIckT WeU, what you been eat*
IngT' asked the sympathetic passen-
ger.
“Eata de chick with the big eyea,"
responded John, as his groans In-
creased.
John had killed an owl the night
before and It didn't agree with him.—
Utica Observer.
A Man of Meane.
Stern Parent—Ethel, young Fledg-
ley gave me to understand he was a
man of means when he asked for your
hand.
Ethel—He la a man of means, fa-
ther.
Stern Parent—But he only makes
$1,000 a year.
Ethel—Well, he means to make
more
Overcome Adversity.
The waves which sorrow lashes np
around us stand high between us and
the world and make our ship solitary
tn the midst of a haven full of vessels.
Cannot one do like the fair sun, and
go under the waves 'and yet cone
back again. And yet. aftef all. If you
look upon bis going down rightly
there Is no such thing In reality.-*
Richter.
Good”
at Breakfast, Lunch
or Supper
Delicious
Post
*
Toasties
A new dainty of pearly white
corn, by the makers of Posturp
and Grape-Nuts.
Toasties are fully cooked,
rolled into thin wafers and
toasted a crisp, golden-brown.
Ready to eat direct from the
box with cream or good milk.
The exquisite flavour and crisp
tenderness delights the most
fastidious epicure or invalid.
••The Taste Lingers”
Popular pkg. loc.
luirge Family size 15c.
Sold by Grocers.
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Ragland, J. H. The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1909, newspaper, June 18, 1909; Okeene, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173184/m1/5/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.