The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1904 Page: 2 of 10
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INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS
Published Every Thursday in the Interest
of Prague and Vicinity.
w. s. OVERSTREET, Proprietor and
Business Manager.
Subscription Pric« 5>1.00
Per Annum
advertising Rat en Mad# Known on Aypi cation
la Peraon or by Latter.
Depth of Antarctic Ocean.
The Scotia scientific expedition, af-
ter cruising 5,000 miles in the Ant-
arctic ocean, reports it to have a fair-
ly uniform depth of two and one-hall
miles.
Yes. The Worm in the Still.
"Have a care, madam," said Mr.
Meeker, summoning up a little spunk.
"The worm will turn!" "Did you
ever know the worm to hurt anybody
when it turned?" calmly asked hig
wife.—Chicago Tribune.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
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Dont you hate to have a little dog
kark at you?
People who visit the cemetery a
pood deal gossip about the inonu-
tnents.
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About the only thing a man will
allow his wife to have a monopoly of
is patience.
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' When a man and wife disagree,
which is the government and which is
the revolutionist?
A man may not be able to manage
bis own affairs, but he will give yog
advice about yours.
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Those riding in carriages .are not as*
happy and comfortable as those on
foot think they are.
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When a woman is married to a man
«he realizes how heavy she is, and
ever sits on his lap.
The frank person who says disagree-
able things to your face is liable to bo
equally frank behind your back.
"At least I cannot be pointed out as
having made a loveless marriage,"
eaid an old maid to-day.
A hair restorative is advertised that
Will make hair grow in one night. One
that will make hair grow in a year is
hope enough.
In Atchison there are two young
/eople, a brother and a slater. The
sister is as idle as the brother, but
only the brother is abused for idle*
ness.
The friends of an Atchison woraan
have supplied her with abestos to ml«
■with the flour in making pie crust, t®
keep it from burning.—Atchison Globe,
They Could, But Don't.
Ho said that he could drink it or could
let the stuff alone,
Hut' he drank it.
That he never had a habit which could
not be overthrown,
But' he drank It.
Ills wifV hoped on, hoped ever as a wire
Is apt to do
Drippings from his brimming goblets filled
her eup with bitter rut'.
Hut the habit never held him; he could
<jult the stuff, he knew,
Hut he drank it.
He laughed to scorn all warnings, laughed
across the breaker's brim,
As hi drank it.
He could quit it if he wished to, nothing
got the best of him,
But he drank it.
Ills children all were barefoot and his
wife grrw almost blind
From sewing, sewing, sewing, Just to
keep the bitter wind
From her wee ones, and his trousers they
were torn and patched behind
But he drank it.
In the potter's field they're lying, wife
and babies side by side,
For he drank it.
Gone to find the love and pleasure that In
this world was denied,
For he drank it!
In th«* breakers of his (piaffing—stuff that
he could let alone—
Was his manhood, was his promise to the
girl he made his own.
Was her life and girlish beauty, was h's
baby's dying moan—
But he drank it.
All along the sloppy highway from cham-
pagne way down to booze,
As he drank it , , , ,,
lie went Just because he fancied lie coutu
(itop it d|d lie choo.se,
But Ttf (frUuk If.
Many men there are who drink it
could let the stuff alone,
Put they drink it Ju§t to gliow that they
cannot be overthrown,
Drink the lives of those they'd die for.
They could stop it—so they own—
But they drink It.
—J. M. Lewis.
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SOCIOLOGICAL EPIGRAMS.
Revelation, like creation,
fluent.
must be
Luxury and learning are all bed-
fellows.
The satisfactions of normal married
life do not decline, but mount.
Truth and right are above utility in
a.11 realms of thought and action.
Inherited wealth is an unmitigated
curse when divorced from culture.
To be of service, is a solid founds
tfon for contentment in this world.
The civilization of a people may be
Inferred from the variety of its tools.
In the modern world the intelli-
gence of public opinion is the one
indispensable condition of social
progress.
Toleration in religion is absolutely
the best fruit of all the struggles, la
bors and sorrows of the civilized na-
tions during the last four centuries.--
Success.
BETWEEN FRIENDS.
Lay bare the heart of your nearest
friend and be dazzled and electrified,
Stunned, stupefied and petrified; struck
dumb and thunderstruck, moon struck
and planet struck.
The care of your friend's heart you
do not know, you cannot lay bare.
It is a fortress and a castle more
impregnable than the wall of China.
It is a fastness within a fastness,
without gate or window.
Strong Words from the Pulpit.
la a vigorous sermon preached in
tho Manchester cathedral not long ago
ReV. Canon Barker struck some hard
blows against the British government
for its proposal to legislate in the in-
terests of the liquor traffic. The cam-
paign against any strengthening of the
hold of the liquor traffic upon the pub-
lic grows in intensity, and temperance
workers of Great Britain are up In
arms against any scheme for giving
liquor dealers a vested interest in their
business or taking away from magis-
trates the power to refuse the renewal
of licenses when in their judgment the
public interest demands a limitation
of the number. Here is a part of what
Canon Barker had to say from tho
cathedral pulpit:
"I am bold in this sacred building,
and under circumstances of most sol
emn association, but I say that who-
ever is prepared to propose legislation
for the fastening of these public
houses upon us forever are betrayers
of the people, and are, I should say,
utterly unworthy of the positions that
they occupy. Bold words. 1 admit, but
not uttered without much pain, not.
uttered without much thought; but 1
defy any of these men, wherever they
are—in the congregation, the state, or
elsewhere—with the power of think
ing or reasoning to justify any state
or any government, whatever its
name, in threatening this moral wrong
upon a suffering community.
"You may perceive that I speak
with considerable warmth; God for-
bid that I should speak any way else
The subject is not a subject to treat
with white kid gloves. It is a subject
that needs every man to be in a fight
ing attitude. It is necessary for him
to take off his coat, or. to use the
apostollic words, 'to brace up his
loins,' to take 'the whole armor of
God' to fight against this Titanic evil
I say with great emphasis that we are
trifling with one of the deepest prob
iems of the century if we permit it
to go unsolved, and allow the drink
trade to tyrannize over us, and
corrupt at its fountain head all politi
cal and municipal life.
"God give to us hearts of grace, the
liearts of the prophets, the hearts of
the apostles, in this great crusade
is not in the power, as I have said, of
men or devils to resist the onward
march of a movement like this. Be
true soldiers of the Cross, be men, be
true citizens! Take from the people
the burden which is crushing them
down from day to day. Take from
our homes the shadow which is mak-
ing the word 'home' but a mere empty
sound. Take from our children the
curse of drunken parents which ruins
their prospects, blights their young
lives, and casts them into the vortex
of evil without guardianship, or care
or love.
"Think of poor women, whose eyes
often shed bitter lears for some
drunken husband who makes th<
ine a burden and a curse. If you hav
hearts, let those hearts speak and
brush on one side all these fatal
sophistries which would beguile us
We may arouse great enmities, but
we mint make no compromise. We
must go on with our battle untl
have broken the tyranny of the preat
est slavery that has ever oppressc
mankind."
founded by the Hon. William T. Ward-
well of New York eity, one of the fore-
most prohibitionists in the country,
has recently received from Mr. Ward-
well the gift of a plot of land located
In one of the finest sections in the
city, and valued at $125,000. It over-
looks Central park, being on Central
Park West, near the corner of One
Hundredth street. A modern hospital
building, up to date in every particu-
lar, is to be erected on this side.
This is undoubtedly one of the most
Important gifts ever made for hospi-
tal purposes in the United States. It
marks the beginning of a new era, for
the Red Cross hospital uses no alco-
hol in the treatment of its cases either
surgical or medical. That is why it
has received this princely gift, and
that Is what renders the gift signifi
cant.
Alcohol in its many forms has been
a universal remedy for all sorts of
ailments and accidents, but the trend
of the best scientific thought to-day
is to exclude it altogether from the
materia medica, and when wealth
joins hands with science, progress is
rapid. It means a great deal for New
York city and for the country at large
that a broad-minded man of wealth
and of keen business judgment like
Mr. Wardwell has set the stamp of
his approval on non-alcoholic treat-
ment of disease, and has publicly
bac>vd his judgment by the gift of a
fortune.
Mr. Wardwell's letter addressed to
the trustees of the Red Cross hospital
is in part as follows;
'As a member of tho board of trus-
tees of the hospital of the New York
Red Cross for a number of years, I
have had occasion to know the suc-
cessful results obtained by the most
approved scientific methods practiced
by its staff. These results have been
reached uniformly without the use of
alcohol as a medical agent, both in
surgery and in the treatment of all
the various forms of disease brought
to the hospital, including typhoid
feve*, pneumonia and cases of septi-
cemia.
The exclusion of alcohol by the staff
has been based, not on moral grounds,
but on purely scientific investigation
and practical experience, all of which
have proven, not only that alcohol is
unnecessary, but that it acts in all
eases upon the human organism with
deleterious results.
"Impressed as I am with the import-
ance of this treatment of the sick and
suffering, giving relief without impair-
ing any of the functions of the body
or creating a dangerous appetite, I
desire, as far as lies in my power, to
extend its influence and make perma-
nent a larger and ever-increasing
sphere of helpfulness and blessing to
humanity.
Said gift is made upon the follow
ing conditions:
That the trustees shall within five
years of the date of this instrument
erect upon this land and equip for
service in the most approved manner
a hospital building in which the treat-
ment of disease as at present practic-
ed in the Red Cross hospital shall be
retained, as far as practicable, and
in which alcohol as a food, beverage
is a medical agent shall not be
used. By the term medicinal agent I
mean that no medicine or preparation
shall be given internally or in any
manner or method by which it shall
enter the human organism, in which
alcohol shall be an ingredient in suffi
cientf quantity to act as an agent or to
produce an effect. Where equally de-
sirable action can be attained from
fluid extracts or alkaloids they shall
have preference over tinctures.
That in the selection of a medical
and surgical staff, preference shall be
)*.vcn to physicians and surgeons, who
besides being qualified, shall be ab-
stainers from alcohol. This clause;
however, shall not exclude other prop
erly qualified physicians and surgeons
if they agree to treat disease as here-
inbefore provided; that only total ab
stainers from alcohol shall be eligible
to the chief executive office of the
medical and surgical department."
The Backward Look.
When grandpa reads about the way the
business men combine
And raise the price of this or that along
their special line
He shakes his head and takes his pipe
out of his mouth and says:
"I dunno what wer's comin' to in these
new-fangled days;
We uster be content to live like those
from whom we sprung.
But now it's mighty different from the
time
When I was young!"
When father picks his paper up and
reads about some swell
Who gave a banquet lo three friends that
cost a thousand—well.
He kind of wriggles in his chair, and then
he slaps his knee
And swears the world last lost its mind,
as far as he can see.
"We used to have a good time," he says,
"out there among
The poor folks in the country—where I
lived
When I was young!"
In years to come, when we are old, and
airships fill the sky
And radium autos dash about—when liv-
ing's twice as high,
We'll have this satisfaction; we can call
our children 'round
And say about what grandpa said, and
know just how 'twill sound.
"This age is far too swift for me; too
hurried and high strung—
We didn't go this foolish pace, my boy,
When I was young!"
—Cincinnati Times-Star.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
G. rinq the Sick Without Alcohol.
Pie New York Red Cross ho-ipi'al,
Heredity.
Sir Herman Weber, M. D., In a lec-
ture on "Means for the Prolongation
of Life," refers to the value of a good
ancestry. He quotes the case of
family of eleven children, whose par
ents (both) died above 90; five men
and lour women, leading satisfactory
lives, lived to 88 and more, while tw
addicted to alcohol died between
and 70. Here it would seem that al
cohol was the primnry factory in ma
terlally shortening life, and although
these two lived to a fair age. as thingtt
go. tbey ought, judging from their
brothers and sisters, to have lived
twenty years longer than they did.
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Bett?r be a giod man than a man
of goods.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Job printers of Louisville have asked
for an increase in wages of $1.50 a
week and an eight-hour day.
The" AshTand mine at Ironwood,
Mich., operated by the Cleveland
Cliffs Iron Company, suspended opera-
tions. Three hundred men are idle.
The city firemen of Houston, Tex.,
have formed a union and secured a
charter from the American Federation
of Labor.
The Leather Belt Makers' union has
demanded the union shop and that in
dull times hours be shortened and no
men laid off.
The four strongest points of a suc-
cessful trade union, says John Mitch-
ell, are as follows: 1. High dues; 2. A
system of benefits; 3, discipline; 4
A union label.
The Granite Cutters' union has in
its organization 99 per cent of all th3
cutters in the United States and a
reserve fund of $500,000 with which
to prosecute any fight.
The labor papers of the State of
New Y'ork are advocating the forma-
tion of an organization of a "union"
of the publishers of that class of pa-
pers. The Labor Journal of Rochester
began the agitation.
Unable to agree to an arbitration
of their differences, the Iowa miners
and operators split in joint conference
with the result that every mine in the
state shut down, throwing 13,500 min-
ers out of employment.
According to the report of Secre-
tary Carrick of the Brotherhood of
Painters and Decorators of America,
the organization paid $74,279.50 in
death and disability benefits in the
two years ending with 1903.
Free employment bureaus are in
successful operation in thirteen states
in this country. Eight foreign coun-
tries also have the same measures. A
move is now on foot to establish a
similar bureau in Massachusetts.
There will be a general suspension
of building operations in Terre Haute
because several trades, particularly
carpenters, want an eight hour day
and 35 instead of 30 cents an hour.
Plumbers want 50 instead of 40 cents,
Employes of the Erie railroad are
seeking a readjustment of wages
Last year increases averaging 6 per
cent were made in all departments.
The agreement was to last one year.
The employes now wish another ad
vance.
The American Federation of Musi-
cians will hold its next annual con-
vention in New York City the second
week in May. New York Local No.
310 is preparing an elaborate program
of entertainment for the visiting
musical artists.
"Every member of a trade union
must stand upon his merits as a me-
chanic," says Henry White, the secre-
tary of the United Garment Workers.
"A trade union is not formed to give
protection to the incompetent men or
women in the trade."
The advisability of inaugurating a
general movement for the purpose of
abolishing night work in all bake-
shops throughout the country is be-
ing discussed by the members of Bak-
ery and Confectionery Workers' In-
ternational Union of America.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
William Dodds of Pittsburg, elected
fraternal delegates to the interna-
tional mining congress to be held in
Paris by the United Mine Workers of
America, expect to sail for Europe
May 5.
The Boot and Shoe Workers' union
Is to start an extensive campaign of
newspaper and other advertising for
the union stamp at once. All local
unions of the B. and S. W. U. and or-
ganized labor throughout this country
and Canada will be asked to look foe
the stamp when buying shoes.
The breach between the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway company
and its machinists became wider when
J. W. Kendrick, third vice president
of the company, gave his ultimatum
to a union committee, emphasizing his
refusal to make any agreement with
the International Association of Ma.
chinists.
The financial statement of the
American Federation of Labor shows
that receipts during February amount,
ed to $16,521.59, while expenses
reached $16,342.89. On March 1 the
general fund contained $27,367.54 and
the defense fund $76,370.55. The fiff
ures are taken from Secretary Mor-
rison's report.
At New Orleans, La., John B. Honor
& Co., stevedores, secured judgment
against the Longshoremen's union for
damages in the sum of $12,000 for viot
lation of contract. This is the first
decision of the kind ever given in the
far south and will have a decisive ef-
fect on other labor union troubles that
are pending.
"If I were a mechanic I would cer-
tainly be a member of a union of my|
craft," said President David R. Fran-
cis of the St. Louis world's fair. "We-
are all laborers. I labor. While I
cannot show the 'horny hands' of toil,
I often think that I would prefer the
labor that produces them to the laboq
which I am engaged in."
President (flompers of the American
Federation of Labor, reporting his ob-
servations while in Porto Rico, says:'
"It is noticeable that the working
people have insufficient food, and that
their quarters are cramped and u®i
sanitary, which, together with tha
continuous warm climatic conditions,
have contributed much to physically
enfeeble th^ people."
As a result of the recent labor strike
at the Quincy and Copper Range Con-
solidated copper mines, miners' unions
have been quietly organized in the
south range and Calumet districts
through the efforts of a representative
of the Western Federation of Miners
from Cripple Creek, Col. They are
the first ever formed in the history of
the Lake Superior copper region.
The recent convention of the state
labor federation of Tennessee, held at
Knoxville, passed a resolution asking
Congress to pass a law granting a
pension of $12 a month to every
workingman who shall have reached
the age of 60 years and have earned
less than $1,000 a year. The law is
to be modeled along the lines of the
New Zealand pension law for laborers.
In a recent speech to union glove
workers, President Samuel Gompers
of the American Federation of Labor,
said: "I say this: I have invariably
stood for an agreement with employ-
ers. I regard it as sacred, but if a
man binds me hand and foot and ex-
tracts from me a promise under du-
ress, I do not regard that promise as
binding upon me when I am liber-
ated."
After a week's stubborn fight the
operators and miners agreed upon thet
scale to be paid in the central Penni
sylvania field for one year, beginning
April 1. The basis of the settlement
is for 62 cents for the gross pick-
mined ton, which proposition was of-
fered by the miners' union of the joint
scale committee. It is a reduction
of 6.08 per cent from last year's rate
of 66 cents for a gross ton.
The Clerks' union of Melbourne,
Australia, has asked the Secretary of
State to have legislation introduced
fixing the hours of employment and
I establishing a minimum wage for
clerks. The spokesman of the union
said that Australia was the worst
country in the world for retail clerks,
that wages did not exceed from ,4 to
$6 a week and many of the girl clerks
worked for as little as $1.25 a week.
John McNeil, president of the
Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and
Iron Shipbuilders, has sent out a
warning, accompanied by advice
against strikes this spring. He re-
ports that information has been re-
ceived of a movement of employers
to disrupt organized labor wherever
possible. Strikes will not be sanc-
tioned except to resist a reduction in
wages or the introduction of longer
working hours.
The two organizations of window
glass workers, numbering 7,500 men,
have been replaced by the Window
Glass Workers of America, which will
take in the membership of the two
former organizations and will have
headquarters at Cleveland. There will
be a president and four vice presi-
dents. The vice presidents will look
after the following territory: Altoona,
Pa., and east of that city; between
Cleveland and Pittsburg, West Vir-
ginia and part of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
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