Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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GARBER SENTINEL.
Whole No. 291.
GARBER, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MAY 2 5,1905
VOL. VI. NO 31.
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Do vou Want Success That Way.
About 60 years ago there was born
a boy who has gained the reputation
of being a financial genius.
This boy showed his financial bent
early in the game. Most boys spend
all the money that they can get hold
of, but not so with this boy. When he
got a penny he stuck to it like a por-
ous plaster to the skin of its victim
and when he had gathered a few dol-
lars together he commenced looking
for a place to invest his coin. He was
never k nown to let loose of a cent for
charity and he never squandered any
money on what he termed the luxuries
of life. He was never known to treat
anybody else, but it might have been
observed that when some one else was
settling up a dinneror anything of that
sort, this financier was always ready to
accept the hospitality. He diden't
take the girls to entertainments or
anything of the kind, not because lie
w as not fond of the opposite sex, but
he couldn't think of letting go of the
necessary currency to pay the bill.
Nobody had any love for him, but just
the same he was piling up the coin,
and when he reached the age of 21 he
had more ready money than any other
young man in that community unless
the other young fellow had inherited
his wealth. As the financier grew
older his features grew sharper and his
eye colder. He was seldom seen to
smile and as for breaking into a laugh
that never occured to him. He was
on the lookout for dollars and cents
all the time and we have noticed that
the man who is busy chasing a dollar
hasn't much inclination to laugh.
He had good judgement about val-
ues as everybody was ready to admit
and his idea of business was that any
method of getting a dollar was proper
so long as you didn't run against the
law in getting it.
He had a neighbor who had a large
family and a run of hard luck. His
wife and several of his children were
taken sick; his barn took tire and with
it burned the only team the man had.
He had to borrow money to meet his
expenses and get himself another team
The young financier loaned him $500
and to se ure it took a mortgage on all
the man had. The value of the prop-
erty mortgaged was not less than $3000
but just then the man had to have the
money. Things went worse and worse
with the man. His wife died and also
two or three of bis children, It took,
all the money that he could possibly
raise to pay the doctor bills and 'uner-
al expenses, and when the loan of the
financier fell due the borrower was not
able to pay. He tried to get the loan
extended but the financier said that he
must have his monny or the security.
The borrower tried to make another
loan, but wasn't able to get It in time
to prevent a foreclosure and was
forced to settle with his creditor as
best he eould, He finally made a
deal by which the financier got his
property for 8200 oi $300 more than
the amount of the loan.
There were people who talked about
the financier being a hog and tlint-
hearted, but he said that sentiment
had no place in business, and that
every man must look out for himself
in a trade.
During the next 20 years by watch-
ing his chances and taking advantage
of the necessities of his fellow men
the financier had gathered in several
hundred thousand dollars worth of
property and wag beginning to be
called a captain of industry. ost of
the people he had dealings with be-
came bankrupt and several committed
suicide as a result of their financial
losses and discouragement, but that
fact didn't seem to effect the finan-
cier. His motto still was that busi-
ness was business and that sentiment
had no place in trade- If a man isn't
capable of taking care of his property
or if he lost on account of sickness
or other misfortune that wag his
lookout and that it was simply busi-
ness to take advantage of his neces-
sities to drive a good bargain.
lie got his eye on a railroad corpor-
ation and commenced to buy up the
stock until he finally had a controlling
interest in the company, Then it was
observed that the road ceased to pay
dividends on its stock. Instend of a
profit there was a deficit, and the
stockholders were assessed to pay the
running exper.ses. The price of stock
went down from par to par until it
was quoted at 10 cents on the dollar
There were a good many widows who
had invested all the money that had
been left to them by their late hus-
bands in this railroad stock under the
impression that it was a good perma-
ent and paying investment. The
estates of a number of orphans hail
been invested in the same kind of
stocks and many old men who had
managed to accumulate a few thous-
and dollars by years of saving and toil
had invested in this stock, supposing
that it would support them in their
old age. Finally the agent of the fin-
ancier visited these widows and old
men and the guardians of the orphans
and offered them 10 cents on the dol-
lar. They were forced to let go be-
cause it was all they had and they
could not meet the assessments and
besides they must have something to
live upon. In this way the financiers
managed to gather in nearly all of the
stock at a trifle as compared with its
real value. Within a month after he
had gathered up the stock was selling
at par. Several of the old men and
wemon xvho had been forced to sacri-
fice their stock were driven to insanity,
three or four committed suicide and
others took to their beds and died
broken hearted. Others who had
been counted in comfortable circum
stances were forced to depend on pub-
lic charity. It was not noticed, how-
ever than the financier suffered from
remorse. His eye grew colder and
the lines in his face harder but his
motto Btili was that seutiment had no
place in business. There wire senti-
.mental people it is true, who said that
to wreck a railroad corporation aiid
compel stockholders to sacrifice all
they had put in the company was little
better than highway robbery, but then
they were not great financiers, like
thig captain of industry.
The financier didn't confine himself
to railroads. He saw where he could
get a cinch on a manufacturing indus-
try and squeeze the financial life out
of all competitors by using the rail-
roads to favor him and discriminate
against them. Some of his competi-
tors fought hard to hold on, but the
financier turned the screws until they
had to quit.
At present the financier is counted
away up in the millions. Nobody likes
him and most people say things about
him tffat wouldn't look well in print.
If he has any enjoyment it isn't visible
to the ordinary person. He never
laughs; bis stomach is out of order so
so that he cannot eat without suffer-
ing the pains and penalties of indig-
estion. But he is still grabbing for
dollars as if he were of the verge of
actual want. Some of these times he
is going to die and leave his million
for lawyers aud heirs to fight over. If
he has anything to his credit on the
books of eternal life the people who
have known him longest can not guess
what it is. He has never been known
to do a really generous and unselfish
act in his life. He has left the road
which he has traveled stiewn with
financial wrecks of his making.
There are not less than a dozen sui-
cides that can be charged up to him
aud several dozen cases of insanity, to
say nothing of the numerous cases of
people who have teen driven to pov-
erty by his financial deals.
What has he really gotten out of it
after ali.
If there is a future hell he is bound
to locate there sooner or later. His
shriveled old soul couldn't enjoy heav-
en, even if it were possible for him to
get there—Tom McNeal in Mail and
Breeze.
The Smiley and Robinson
Pony and Dog Show.
We attended the above-named show
last Thursday and Friday nights and
were agreeably surprised by the enter-
tainment as so many of such troups
are very tame affairs. Instead of the
old sleepy horses as usually perform in
-uch shows the four beautiful pon-
ies were so full of life and appeared to
enter into the spirit of the acting with
such vivacity that they almost required
restraint by the manager.
The acting of the dogs were truly
wonderful and when the dog Hob
kept playing the clown, imitating all of
the acts of the other dogs as a regular
clown would, the crowd just roared
with laughter.
That animals can recieve such train
ing not only reflects great credit on
the training master but clearly proves
that animals have greater pjwer of
reason than for which they are usually
given credit.
A lover of beautiful and intellege t
animals is not only greatly pleased by
such a show but he receives instruct-
ion in the possibilities of quadruped
understanding that is valuable. Child-
ren especially are better entertained
to see dogs and ponies acting as if
they were pupils of a school than they
would he in a great circus where sim-
ultaneous acting and incomprehen-
sible performances bewilder more than
they amuse.
Last but not least Claude the magi-
cian is the smoothest that can be
found of those practicing that art.
His line of work Is all up-to-date and
it is wonderful to WitueBS some of his
performances. He Is certainly abreast
of the times in legerdemain.
There are so many troups that atel
snides, imposing themselves on a long-
suffering public that when a good
thing does arrive we feel it our duty
as a publisher to give them the cre-
dit they deserve.
Lawsons Telegram,
"Boston Mass., May 19.
"Gov. T. B. Ferguson, Kingfisher, Okla
"I have delayed anwering your
kindly thoughtful invitation to be"
with you and your people in June, in
a hope that I could find a way to ac-
cept it: but 1 deeply regret to Buy
circumstances over which 1 have no
control make it absolutely impossible
for me to oe from my home in ,1 une.
N< independent God-fearing, liberty
loving citizen of your state can pos
sibly want to hear what I have to say
one hundredth part as much as 1 de
sire to tell him of a slavery blacker,
more far reaching and more hellishly
destructive than any the American
people have ever wrestled with, and
one which if not checked now will
turn the citizens of your state as well
as all older ones into abject creatures
who will live only by the license of a
band of the most brutal villains un-
hung. Today every citizen of your
state, proud though he may be in
what he thinks his certainty of free-
dom, independence aud equality, in
fact pays tribute for his own and his
family's privilege to eat, drink and
sleep, to a band of bullies, Just as does
the slave of blackest Africa. Living
in the hope that you and the people ot
Oklahoma may at some future time,
when I can get away from my whet-
stone, renew your kindly offer, believe
me. yours appreciatingly.
Thos. W. Lawson,
E. E. Flank. A. L. Collins.
REAL I ESTATE I AGENTS.
Fine Farms in Day and Woodward counties.
Correspondence Solicited. Address:
PLANK & COLLINS.
Arnett, Okla.
1GARBER PHARMACY 1
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§? Having recently installed an up-to-date ^
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ISoda Fountain!
Why Suffer From Kheumatism-
Why suffer from rheumatism when
one application of Chamberlaiu's Pain
Balm will relieve the pain? The
quick relief which this liniment affords
makes rests and sleep possible and
that alone is worth many times its
cost. Many who have used it hoping
only for a short relief from suffering
have been happily surprised to find
that after awhile the relief became
permanent. Mrs. V. II. Leggett of
Yum Yum, Tennessee, U. S. A., writes
I am a great sufferer from rheumat-
ism. all over from head to foot, and
Chamberlain's Pain Balm is the only
thing that will relieve pain. For sale
at the Garber Pharmacy.
Decoration Day Proeram.
Program begins at 10:00 a. m. sharp.
Opening song America
Invocation liev. Barber
Song
Address Chairman.
Adjourn to cemetery to decorate the
graves.
Noon.
Exercises begin at one o'clock p. m.
sharp.
Call by bell at German Luthern church
Song By the choir.
Kecitation Bertha McCafferty.
Recitation Erla Cochran.
Song
Kecitation Nellie Shaffer.
Quartette Just before the battle Moth-
er.
Kecitation Alta Chenoweth
A picture of War Walter Francis,
Solo Fay Forney.
Oration By the Hon. WiWinghiU,
Where were yon when you heard oi'
Lincolns assassination; what did you
think aud what did you say V Response
by the veterlis of the civil war.
Song
Linoolns Gettysburg Address. Geo.Taft
Kecitation Beulali Posten.
Song Praise God from whom all bles-
sings flotf.
Benediction.
The Fairmont Band Will furnish
music for the day.
A MATTER OF HEALTH
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The Public is invited to call and enjoy these §
g. cooling and heaLhful drinks.
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Ice Cream of the best njake is kept constan-
g> tly on hand,
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gj Also a most complete line of drugs, paints ^
sr- oil are ' ept at lowest prices.
gj We always keep a full and up-to-date line of
stationary.
t M. G. TAFT, Prop. |
WOLFE a mod:
fleat riarket and Staple Groceries.
Highest market price paid for Hides of all Kinds.
Home-rendered Lard, 12^c per pound. Market price paid for country pro-
duce in meat or groceries. Ice always on hands in any quanity desired.
ICE IN ANY AMOUNT WANTED.
GARBER LUMBER CO.
Sewing Tables and Lap Boards at
Moritz Furniture & Car pet Co
Garber O. T.
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SHINGLES,
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BRICK, CEMENT.
All kinds of building material kept on hand.
Your trade solicited.
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Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist*
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE.
Phone No. 57. Good Rigs. Careful Drivers. Your Patronage Solicite
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
HASKOSI/BSmUtt
Worms!
WHITE'S CREAM
VERMIFUGE
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For 20 Years Has Led all Worm"Remedies. <
■IOX>X BY ALL DRUGr(iI8TS.
|Pr«pap«Hl by—~JAMES F. BALLARD, St. Louis.
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Peters, S. H. Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1905, newspaper, May 25, 1905; Garber, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc143680/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.