The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT :
Burke, Brigham & Womack.
J. J. Burke, Editor.
R. A. Brigham, Business Mgr.
J. D. Womack, Foreman.
EVENING CHAT
By Ruth Cameron
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1913
4 utcred at the jkjs toff ice at Norman, Old*.,
r.i transportation through the maiU *ccond
(iOOl) FROM EVIL.
Possibilities of good to come
out of the threatened closing of
factories by reason of tariff
changes are seen by Harper s
Weekly. Under the caption,
"Make Good Goods Again," an
editorial article is printed which
offers some suggestions worthy
of consideration. The article
follows:
If any manufacturers are
driven out of their present busi-
ness by tariff changes, may
there not be an opening for some
of them in making better lines
of goods than the market now
affords?
For example, the plumbers
say that all current plumbing
pipes are bad; that whereas they
used to be made of iron and last
in vise for twenty or thirty years
now they are made of steel and
rust out much sooner. We
The Mind of God.
The talk drifted from second
marriages to the after life the
other evening. The transition
was simpler than it sounds. A
friend of ours who had just
married the second time, and
who during his life was devoted
to her first husband, now seems
equally fond of the second.
The old question arose as to
whose wife she would be in the
after life. And some -one gave
the old answer, "In
SOCIETY
Mrs. Ben Williams spent yes-
terday in Oklahoma City.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McClure
entertained Mr. and Mrs. Bu-
chanan and children at dinner
Saturday night.
One hundred and fifty people
attended the Sunday school pic-
nic given by the Baptist people
at the city park Friday evening.
Mrs. E. K. Himes on North
Heaven i Peters avenue and daughter
there shall be neither marrying I Miss Alice left for a summer's
nor giving in marriage." outing in Colorado Tuesday af-
Now the idea that there willl ternoon.
be no such thing as sex in Heav-
en seemed either to puzzle or The Baptist Missionary Soci-
displease most of the company. (>ty will hold its regular monthly
They could not allow such a session at the North Peters Ave.
radical change. They had evi-
denty never conceived Heaven
as anything distinctly differ-
ent from this world, but merely
as this same world with all an-
noyances left out and all pleas-
ures raised to the nth power.
Now of course there is no
reason why that should be so.
In this life we have five sen-
ses through which we receive
home of Mrs. Ben
Tuesday afternoon.
Williams
Fifteen girls were in the camp-
ing party and Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
wards chaperoned the crowd.
The Home Missionary Society
of the First Methodist church,
ment with Mrs. Keiger Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. G. W. Biggers,
the new president, presiding.
The devotional service was led
by Mrs. A. Gould. The program
which was a very interesting
one was led by Mrs. C. W. Eich-
horn. A solo, "0, Master, let me
walk with Thee," was sung by
Mrs. L. T. Monnett, who also
gave a paper on "Our colored
work in the South." Readings
were given by Mrs. L. C. Snider
and Mrs. Gould. Roll call was
responded to by the names of
the homes under the care of the
society and items about them.
The hostess served cooling re-
freshments which were greatly
appreciated on so warm a day;
after a pleasant social hour the
meeting adjourned to meet with
Mrs. Biggers, "Under the Trees"
in the foreign field, August 5th.
merely repeat about them what pleasure, and there are certain
we hear, but that is that there | thingS which arouse such pleas-
are no good steel or iron plumb- j ure w^y shoui(] We think
ing pipes in the market and that
house-builders who want good
pipes are advised to use brass.
Does it not seem as though
there was a living for somebody
in making honest old fashioned
iron plumbing pipes?
And consider nails. Anybody
that has shingled a house within
the mind of God which con-
ceived all this isn't big enough
to conceive infinitely many
more senses through which we
might receive pleasure, and in-
finitely many more ways in
which it might be aroused.
The average human being's
i ir , , • habit of taking everything that
ten vears knows that wire nails f , ? ,J
' - - - - ■ | is, for granted, and never won-
dering about it at all or realiz-
don't last as well by a good deal
as the old iron cut shingle nails.
The bright wire nails rust out |
with lamentable speed and the
shingles get loose and roofs leak.
But it seems that there are no
old fashioned iron shingle nails
ing that things might have been
different, is really rather re-
markable.
There is a limited amount of
food in the world, and some-
to be had. They are no longer tirnse men cannot get any and
made. Won't somebody make i *''e starvation. Suppose now
some ? j that air or water were limited.
So as to tin. They tell us nd that men had to earn
there is no good tin that we get! enough for themselves and their
in this country: that the Me-1 families or else die of thirst or
Mrs. W. H. Newblock and
children expect to get away to
Sulphur Springs next week for
an outing.
Two charming young ladies of
Shawnee, Miss Anna Shrout and
Miss Eunice Stone, were guests
of Mrs. J. W. Barbour Saturday,
Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. M. B. McClure expects to
leave Tuesday for her home in
Nashville, Tenn. She has been
here with her neice, Mrs. C. C.
McClure, since last October.
"Tithing" was the subject of
the M. E. Ladies Tuesday after-
noon with their hostess Mrs.
Keiger. Mrs. L. T. Monnett,
Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Snyder fill-
ed out the program.
Rev. and Mrs. Bridges leave
this week for their summer va-
cation, among other places they
will visit their old home in Ill-
inois. Rev. Bridges will take up
his work here again the first
week in September.
Mrs. E. A. Poster returned
on Thursday evening from Olus-
j tee, Okla., where she attended
Finley bill tin that we get is ; suffocation. That seems _
made on thin sheets of steel (not thinkable, doesn t it1 And yet, jjer mother during her illness
iron) and not tinned thick >t might have been, you know. and death. She left Monday ac-
Or suppose, on the other 1 companied by Mr. Foster and
hand, that food were as free as j two little children, for a few
air, and it were as unheard of | week's outing going via auto-
enough, and the whole product is
flimsy and has no wear in it.
Won't somebody who is out of
a job please make some good old i a thing for a man to lack food
fashioned tin? Also some good ■ as it now is for him to lack air.
old fashioned bicycle tires. Also I Such a condition is unconceiv-
various other articles, of which
we can get a list from various
experienced croakers.
oOo
1 RUTH IN PARAGRAPHS.
able, Isn't it ? And yet it might
have been.
The world is a wonderful
creation. Think how much more
wonderful the mind of God that
conceived it must be. Think
what a marvelous power it must
mobile.
Misses Mary Spencer and
Pauline Edwards were special
guests Saturday at the Priscilla
club which was entertained by
Misses Thelma and Gertrude
Binford. A full membership
was present and a pleasant af-
ternoon was spent. Ices and
i„ „ m.in nar, hnv i what a marvelous power it must w peu
thought up such ekes were served.
is the things as music and roses and
the ocean and stars and sleep
mobiles, the first cost
smallest part of it. , , . ,. , , ,
Menthol has advanced from an< b b'?s an!> sunsfts and sex
$3 to $28 per pound, but as very
few of us know what it is little
harm is done.
A dying husband in Georgia
left strict orders that his wife
should not be allowed to attend
and all the other strange and
wonderful things which we
take for granted. Think what
it has done and then stand awed
by the realization of what it
might do, and do not attempt to
his funeral-but it does not define the after life m terms of
seem right she should be denied >'°" own ,limte understanding
such an inexpensive pleasure. and experience.
Time doesn't fly very fast, n u n 1.
for the man who has nothing to ' ~Hofha11' wh° acTcomPa"
nied Geo. r ranee to Leaven-
do.
So many who do favors expect
payment with interest.
A chigre's idea of Heaven is
any place under a corset.
A man who travels for his
worth, returned home today,
coming via. Muskogee. He' re-
ports exceedingly warm weather
everywhere.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Graham of
Hugo, but recently of Norman,
were guests at the Easern Star
Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs.
Garland were taken into member
ship. Mesdames R. C. Berry,
Dave Ince and Miss Dot Morter
were hostesses and served re-
freshments to forty members.
The M. E. Ladies gave a de-
lightful party 011 the churchlawn
Thursday evening. Besides the
dainty refreshments and general
good time a select program was
given. Readings were given by
Mr. Smith and Mr. Tanner. A
piano solo by Miss Neoma Leach,
Vocal Solo by Miss Eva Lee, and
health has the longest journey getic man with team to handle j Corning and Dortha Monnett.
ahead of him. ! our Sewing Machines in terri-1
Women who are in favor of J tory of Norman and surrounding j An interesting meeting
the eight hour day should avoid j country. Good money making
getting married. , proposition. About 100 accounts
Until he gets out of a job, | for collection.
nearly every man is inclined to [ Call or write,
think he is a Wage Slave. | Singer Sewing Machine Co.
You will find it hard to hold 16 North Harvey,
an audience if you have nothing Oklahoma City, Okla. j features,
to tell but your troubles. 1 F. W. O'Bawr., Mgr I
Men don't feel as bad about 1 _ „ , ,, T „
the thin hose women wear as I —Prof, and Mrs. J. B. Chea-
some of them may intimate. die's "new" house on the corner
It takes women so long to get of Bo>'d iind Elm is certainly a
beauty. They have remodeled
it in a most artistic manner, but
have not lost sight of conveni-
ence and comfort for artistic ef-
fect. The sleeping porch, the
fine new front porch, the beauti-
ful lawn and other improve-
ments make it a most desirable
home.
held at. the home of Mrs. Sher-
man Wednesday afternoon by
the New Idea ladies, several ex-
tra guests being present. A good
program and dainty refresh-
ments were the entertaining
ready, a mere man wonders how
they find time to gad so much.
In the summer when the fur-
nace needs 110 attention, the
lawn needs mowing. 'Tis a stren-
uous life.
People are living longer and
taking less medcine than in the
g. d. of o.; particularly those
who live longer.
As we understand it the ar,t
of conversation consists of air-
ing an extensive vocabulary
without saying anything.
—We don't care, particularly,
-flow hot it gets if the hot winds
don't blow. It is the latter that
does the business.
—An observation from the
Solomon Tribune: There is more
joy in a printing office over the
sinner who pays in advance and
abuses the editor on every pos-
sible occasion, than there is over
ninety and nine who borrow the
paper and sing its praises with-
out contributing one cent to keep
it out of the poor house.
-Wanted: Good live ener- a piano duet by Misses Helen
Misses Irma Lowther and
Laura McCall returned from
Olustee Tuesday evening, where
they were members of a two
week's house party at the home
of Miss Gladys Edwards, a for-
mer Norman girl. Many pretty
affairs were arranged in honor
of the visiting girls one of the
most enjoyable being a camping
trip of several days duration.
According to Uncle Abner.
We never saw a mortgage
shark who looked as though he
ever enjoyed a good laugh.
A Prince Albert coat don't git
a feller as far in a business way
as it used to.
When the average man gets
sick he lays it to everything ex-
cept whisky or tobacco.
The best way to find out how
little any feller knows is just to
listen to him.
A feller finds out more about
the true inwardness of auto-
mobiles in five days after he
buys one than he found out in
five years looking at 'em and
reading about 'em.
There is always work for will-
ing hands to do. When a teller
gets through mewing his lawn
he kin start right in and mow
it over again.
One thing that a kid can't un-
derstand is how a father kin use
language that is wrong for him
to use.
I have seen lots of fellers who
could wear derby hats in the
summer and be happy. It all de-
pends upon the point of view,
after all.
I never yet have seen a pret-
ty society woman who could
drink out'n a bubbly fountain
and look as though she enjoyed
it.
When a feller has got an oat-
mobile and a large family and
goes broke he always lays the
blame on his wife.
It sounds like a paradox, but
a great many people in our vil-
lage put everything they have
on their backs in order to make
a front.
—Mrs. Mabel Bentley and
children, who were here from
Tulsa visiting Mrs. Wm. Clifton,
left yesterday on a visit to her
mother, Mrs. Needham, at Sul-
phur.
—J. C. Lindsay came up from
Sulphur yesterday. He has just
finished two terms as county
treasurer of Murray county, in
which he made an excellent rec-
ord.
—Peter Mappes and C. W.
Eichhorn, two of our best farm-
ers, went to Oklahoma City this
morning. They think the hot
dry weather has damaged their
corn considerably, but they'll
still have corn.
—Mr. Shartell is away from
home and will not be back until
the latter part of the week. Ex-
cepting some odds and ends, the
interurban committee has about
completed its work, but cannot
make report to the railroad com-
pany until Mr. Shartell's return.
That is the present status of in-
terurban affairs, and there will
probably be nothing further do-
ing until Friday or Saturday.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Foster
leave today on an automobile
trip of three weeks or a month.
They don't know exactly where
they're going but they're on
their way. Ex-Sheriff Ike Sale
will help A. E. Thomas hold
down the Carey-Lombard's busi-
ness while Mr. Foster is gone.
—Harvey Parsons says in the
Topeka State Journal that the
reason why a good many people
go fishing on Sunday is that
last Sabbath the preacher in
Rockefeller's pet church refer-
red to the petroleus old pluto-
crat as "one of the roses in the
Lord's garden," and preachers
all over the country are kotow-
ing to old reprobates in their
community just because they've
got money.
—Miss Alice Brittian Jack-
son was here yesterday, and tells
us she has sold her Washington
lumber yard to W. H. P. Trud-
geon, of Oklahoma City-Purcell,
and is on a trade to sell her
Tribby yard, desiring to get out
of the business. She left this
morning for Chautauqua, N. Y.
where she will spend the balance
of the summer. Her mother,
Mrs. S. A. Britiian,, and Miss
Lee are now at Chattanooga and
write her it is delightful.
—Paul McNeal, son of J. W.
McNeal, the old-time banker of
Guthrie and well known Repub-
lican pleaded guilty in district
court in Guthrie on charge of
using false weights in his mill in
that town and fined $50 on each
of half a dozen counts. The love
of that almighty dollar gets lots
of men into lots of trouble.
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I Santa Fe Newt
♦ Mexico
Mrs. Felgar on DeBarr avenue
was hostess to the Presbyterian
ladies Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
Bogle presided over the business
session after which Mrs. Alex-
ander took charge of the lesson.
Twenty members were present.
Mesdames Hutchin, Aitkenhead,
Griffin and Mr. Alexander assis-
ted with helpful papers or talks.
Ices were served.
♦ leled trout fishing in the ♦
♦ Pecos River. A fine Scenic ♦
♦ Highway through twenty- ♦
♦ two miles of mountains and ♦
♦ Forests. ♦
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"Old-New Santa Fe" free. ♦
Call on me for low rates ♦
this summer. ♦
An ideal place to visit en ♦
route to California. ♦
J. .T. BAKER, Agent ♦
Norman. Okla. ♦
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The Dsugliter
of David Kerr
By
Harry King Tootle
< lluatrations by
Fiay Walters
♦ An Open Book of Ancient
American History
♦ A little city standing just ♦
♦ as it did over three centu- ♦
♦ ries ago. See for yourself ♦
♦ the ancient possessions of ♦
♦ the Spaniards in America ♦
♦ which their descendants use ♦
♦ today. The Governor's ♦
♦ Palace, the Old House and ♦
♦ San Miguel Church are the ♦
♦ oldest continuously used ♦
♦ buildings of their kind in ♦
♦ the United States. ♦
In the nearby hills are ♦
the homes of hundreds of ♦
relics of the cliff dwellers. ♦
Every modern luxury in ♦
the new Santa Fe. Unparal- ♦
(Copyright, 1912, bj A. C. McCluri! & Co.)
of weaknesses, misfortunes, oppres-
sion, inhuman exploitation, and man's
Inhumanity to man she had not con-
sidered. She believed they were born
into their caste just as she was born
into hers.
Now as she listened to this work-
man talk, heard his story from Mrs
Hayes, learned that he had little chil-
dren dependent upon him just as she
had been dependent upon her father
before he had made a settlement upon
her, making her independent, Gloria
began to realize that there was such
a thing as the fellowship of man. She
waB not uncharitable. Whenever any
appeal had been made to her she had
always emptied her pocketbook
thoughtlessly and coiftidered her duty
done. Now the thought of personal
service came to her. She was igno-
rant of what she could do, even of its
power to bring her any measure of
happiness, but it was worth trying.
They had driven in silence almost
to town before Gloria turned to Mrs.
Hayes and said:
"Mrs. Hayes, the next time you go
to the mission I want you to take me."
Several days later Gloria went with
Mrs. Hayes to view at close range the
work being done in the poorer quar-
ters of Belmont by the Presbyterian
Mission. She met Mrs. Wallace, the
matron, and from her learned the
story of the humble but unfortunate
toilers, and the evils to which they
were constantly a prey through their
Ignorance and inability to protect
themselves. Gloria then accompanied
her on a round of visits, and soon the
girl's Interest was such that on the
days Mrs. Hayes went to the mission
she was glad to go with her.
The boss was disturbed at his
daughter's trip into the lowest quar-
ters of Belmont.
"This ain't no kind o' play, girl,"
he complained. "Why don't you stick
to society?"
"Society!" she replied with fine
■corn. "Why doesn't society stick to
m T"
"What's the matterT"
He had been quick to catch the note
of unhappiness. His daughter had not
meant to say anything, but the words
had slipped 6nt before she could think.
She now tried to erase the Impres-
sion by saying:
"Matter? Nothing. Why?"
The boss' suspicions were not U>
be so lulled.
"You're keepin' somethin' back from
me, Gloria. What is it?"
"No, I'm not," she insisted.
"Has anyone done anythin' or said
any thin' to you?"
"Nothing."
"But somethin's back o' all this. You
ain't happy. Anybody can see that.
Now what's it all about?" He wait-
ed for her to reply, but she would
not speak. "Can't you answer?"
Forced Into a corner, unable to turn
the conversation. Gloria saw no way
of escape, and finally stammered.
"It's—it's—well—it's just an atmos-
phere."
"You go every place."
"To all the big things, yes."
"People are nice to you."
She hesitated, but finally said.
"Ye-es."
"Ain't they?"
"Oh, I suppose so," she admitted in
a lifeless manner. "Perhaps I'm not
used to western ways, yet the nice
people loolt just like nice people look
back East."
"What's different, then?"
"They seem to keep me at arm's
length. I don't see why. You're the
biggest man in Belmont, and yet I—"
She did not finish the sentence.
"Yet—I—what?" he urged.
"I don't understand, that's all."
"Who, for instance?"
Gloria thought for a moment, and
resolved only to name persons in a
general way.
"Well, Letty Loomis."
"Old John Loomis' daughter?"
"Is he the big wholesale grocer?"
"That's him. What 'd she do?"
"I tell you—she didn't do anything.
It's just—an atmosphere."
j "Huh! A beautiful lot o' airs she's
got a right to put on," snorted the
boss. "D' you know how old Loomis
made his money?"
"Out of groceries, didn't he?"
"Groceries, nothin'. That's just a
stall. He's got a warehouse chuck
full of rotten whistky he sells in pro-
hibition Kansas. That's his real busi-
ness. He don't sell enough groceries
in a year to feed a first class boardin'
house. I wouldn't let him sell any-
thing to the poor farm. Don't let
that girl o' his put it over you any.
And they say he passes the plate
in church! Gad, I hate a hypocrite.
I'll make him sweat for it."
Her father was so wrought up that
Gloria was afraid to speak further,
but when he insisted she told of sev-
eral instances of which she had been
pleased to term antagonistic atmos-
phere, and in each case Kerr related
some disgraceful characteristic of the
head of the family. Once he did not
hesitate to give his opinion of a soci-
ety woman whose history he knew
well. This intimate knowledge of Bel-
mont affairs and his belittling refer-
j ences to leading citizens made Gloria
reach the conclusion that in some way
he was in a class by himself. This
caused her to soothe him with the
remark:
"Father, I think they're jealous be-
cause you're head and shoulders above
them all."
She might not love him, but her
pride in him and her loyalty to him
were all the greater for the lack at
love. She felt that she was at fault
for not having that true filial regard
which other daughters had for their
fathers, and therefore whenever she
could she strengthened her faith In
him as Belmont's leading citizen. She
was proud to be his daughter.
CHAPTER XI.
On the day of his interview with
McMinitry Kerr had asked Kendall
and Dr. Hayes to meet him at Judge
Gilbert's office directly after luncheon.
At this conference he Intended to tell
them they would have to acquire the
News. The transfer of the property
need not be made until after the
election, but he wanted to know at
once that it was his.
The boss was late, and the three
men had to wait some time for him.
"I wouldn't want the boys to know
it," said Gilbert disconsolately, "but
I'm afraid he's got us beat."
Kendall was hopeful still.
"It's three days till election," he
urged. "Anything can happen in that
time."
"I wish I believed in miracles like
you do," was Dr. Hayes' rueful com-
ment.
"Only a miracle can save us," added
Judce Gilbert gloomily
"1 tell you, gentlemen," insisted
Kendall, "I still think Dave Kerr can
swing it."
"All the same," answered the cor-
oner, "when I went out to stick my
good money in real estate options on
factory sites I wash I'd been riding
Balaam's ass."
The others' laugh at his expense
was cut short by the entrance of Da-
vid Kerr.
"How 's it look, Mr. Kerr?" asked
Gilbert.
"It might be worse," waa the reply.
"We count the votes, don't we?"
Gilbert was not optimistic.
"I'm afraid it isn't going to be that
close."
"Have you heard anything from the
eleventh?" queried Kendall.
"I had a talk with Sweeney this
morning, and he said he could put
enough stock-yards people in the 'lev-
111th to deliver the ward all right.
Itauerschmidt was in my office at the
same time. He's up against it In tba
sixth."
"Then we can't count on much out-
aide the river wards," said Kendall.
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