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ON A RAINY NIGHT
A Most Difficult Job in Log-
blinker's Estimation.
"This dash for the pole business
may be pretty hard work," said Mr.
Logblinker. "No doubt It does call
for quite some patience, skill and en-
durance. But if you want to under-
take something that is really difficult
just try to hold an umbrella as it
ought to be held over the head cif a
lady in a rainstorm 1 tried that last
night with Mrs. fjogblinker, and I
thought before we got where we were
going that I'd rather have been in the
far north with Peary.
"Rain? It was just sluicing, wilh
the rain coming down like a flood
falling through a coarse meshed sieve,
and Mrs. LogblinRer had on all her
tinery. including • her tall, wide pic-
lure hat, with the high, drooping
feathers.
"When we opened the front door I
opened the umbrella and held It over
her while she gathered up some of
her warments under her waterproof,
and while she glaficed around herself
to see that she had got* everything
secure, and then we started; and
when we had gone about 14 steps in
that pouring rain and 1 looked around
at Mrs. Logblinker to muke sure that
I was protecting her all right I was
surprised to see that her towering
bat, that had surmounted her head so
jauntily when we started, was now
creeping slowly down over her fore-
head.
" 'Can't you setf, Lucius,' said Mrs.
Logblinker. 'Ihat you are holding the
umbrella right against my hat?'*
"And I could see it then, though I
certainly had not seen it before, and
so I raised the umbrella to clear the
back of the hat. I had been holding
It low down, of course, you under-,
stand, the better to -protect her. So
now 1 raised it, but I must have
raised ti too high, for In a minute 1
heard a voice plaintively saying: 0
" 'Lucius, the rain -is just pouring
on the side of my hat.'
"So now I brought the umbrella
down a little and then presently i felt
something tugging at the umbrella on
the off side and Mrs. Logblinker says,
with a touch of impatience now:
"'My! You've got the umbrella
caught in my hat!'
"And so 1 had. But I disengaged
It quickly, aud then tried to hold it
and keep it balanced so that It would
just clear the big hat all around and
yet come low enough down to afford
the best protection.
"I can honestly say that 1 paid no
attention whatever to my own clothes.
I honestly didn't care about them; all
I wanted was to do the best 1 could
for the lady by my side; and though
It did strain every muscle in my
hand and arm and body I thought I
was now making a pretty good job of
it. but in a minute:
" 'My hat will be ruined,' I heard
the voice saying; and then I looked
at the lady again, and raised the
umbrella and lowered it and tilted it
this way and that In a desperate ef-
fort to make it serve Its purpose, an
impossible thing to do, 1 am now per-
suaded. for nothing less than an um-
brella 1 I feet wide at' least would
really shelter a lady in a picture hat
in a heavy rain like this.
"Hut I tried hard. I did the best I
could, only to hear about ten sec-
onds later:
" 'Don't you know how to hold an
umbrella?' in tones actually peevish.
"Mrs. Logblinker peevish, actually
peevish, and to me! Then she actual-
ly drew away from me, out from un-
der the umbrella, into the pouring
rain!
"Humbly, but quickly. 1 hastened to
her side again, to protect her, and
the other two blocks we had to go to
get the car we moved in silence, with
me doing the best 1 could; and when
we got inside the ear and got settled
down a little, where it was dry, she
did smile on me again.
"But I can tell you one thing: I
don't shy at difficult jobs, and we are
pretty poor; but the next time Mrs.
Logblinker and I go abroad on a
rainy night we takes a barouche if
it busts us."
MANY AND VARIED SMITHS.
PUBLISH 364 LABOR PAPERS
In the United States and Canada-
Reach a Wide Circle of Readers.
One hundred and eighty-five month-
ly and one hundred apd seventy-nine
weekly journals in the 1'nlted States
and Canada are devoted exclusively to
the advocacy of trade unionism, says
a writer in The World To-day.
These publications, which num-
ber does not include socialist periodi-
cals, reach a not inconsiderable por-
tion of the laboring community and
exercise an influence in it which is
little suspected.
There are in North America approx-
imately 2,500,000 working people or-
ganized'into trades unions, and each
of thein receives the official organ of
the craft to which lie or she belongs
and usually one or two other labor
papers.
Hut the prestige of these journals
extends beyond the enrolled member-
ship of established organizations.
They number among their subscribers
many sympathizers aud non-union
workmen; they are placed*on the ta-
bles of reading rooms all over the
country, and for every subscriber
there are probably two readers. It is
no exaggeration to say that they reach
5,000,000 readers, perhaps half as
many more.
HER BURIED
•READING MAKETH FULL MAN."
Wisdom and Advice Delivered by
Francis Bacon.
Crafty.men contemn studies, simple
men admire them, and wise men use
them; for they teach not their own
use; but that is a wisdom without
them, and above them, won by observ-
ation. Read not to contradict and con-
fute. nor to believe and take for grant-
ed, nor to And talk aud discourse, but
to weigh and consider. Some books
are to be tasted, others to be swallow
ed. and some few to be chewed and
digested; that is, some books are to
be reud only in parts;,,others to bo
read, but not curiously; and some few
to be read wholly, and with diligence
and attention. Some books also may
be read by deputy, and extracts made
of them by others, but that would be
only In the less important arguments
and the meaner sort of books; else
distilled books are, like common dis-
tilled waters, flashy things. Reading
maketh a full man, conference a ready
man. and writing an exact man; and,
therefore, if a man write little, he had
need of a great memory; if he confer
little, he had need of a present wit;)
and if he read little, he had ueed
have much cunning, to seem to know
that he doth not.—Francis Bacon.
Astonished Fair Bostonian.
An Iowa man tells of an incident In
connection with an exposition held in
the state, whereat one of the attrac7
tions was the Indian department,
where the red men dwelt in their
tepees and mimicked their own his-
tory in dances and mock fights. After
.one of these exhibitions by the Indians
a Boston girl undertook to talk to a
young Indian brave. "Heap much
tight." she said. The red man smiled
grimly, drew his blanket closer about
his stalwart form and replied: "Yes,
this is, indeed, a great exposition*. We
flatter ourselves that our portion of
the entertainment is by no means tlie
least attractive here. May I presume
to ask who it is that 1 have the honor
to address?" The Boston girl had
been talking to a Carlisle graduate
All Arc Descended from Former Work-
ers in Metal.
Genealogists *say that ths name |
Smith is such a common one in all
English speaking countries because
in early times not merely iron work-
ers were styled smiths, but also '
those engaged in any line of metal !
working.
In France Smith masquerades as
Le Fevre; and in Germany as
Schmidt or Schmitt; In Holland,
Smid or Smidts. In Italy, the famil-
iar name is recognized with diffi-
culty in Fabbroni and Fabronless;
in Scotland it is found more readily
in the Cowans; in Wales, Ooff and
■Cowan both stand lor the same
name; in Slav tongues Smith be-
comes Koraces. The Celtic ra<< never
was addicted to trade names, prefer-
ring personal, local, or patronymic
terms; still there are MwGowan
and Mclntyre, both meaning the son
of Smith.
The Smith derivatives, so to speak,
are without number, as Smith,
Smithe, Smyth, Snieith, Smit,
Smyte, Le Smyt. and the like. Then
come Goldsmith. Silversmith, Cop-
persmith, Locksmith. Whitesmith,
Brownsmith, Blacksmith. Arrow-
smith, Speersmith. Redsmith, Knyfe-
smith, Nasmyth (nailsmith?, Hdyie-
.smith, and on t > the tu ck of
doom.—Suuda}
Poets' Poor Pay.
Milton's "Paradise Lost" has Its im-
portance oin the history of publishing
as well as of poetry. We are indig
nant at the miserable reward which
the author received for his work, two
payments of five pounds each and one
of eight pounds (paid to his widow),
making a total of £18 in all for the
most famous poem in the English lan
guage.
Hut what previous English poem
had been.made the subject of a formal
legal agreement, providing for pay
ments on the publication of each of
the first four editions? What Knglish
poet had previously earned U1S by a
poem, not by a dole from a patron or
a gift of a sinecure, but as a matter of
business from a publisher?
Pope Not a Medicine Taker.
The pope has appointed a man as
his doctor whom he likes because lie
is "old-fashioned and not a tyrant."
The doctor will have an old-fashioned
patient, as little regardful of profes
sional wisdom as the great duchess of
Mary>orough. who got better simply
to confound the physician who predict-
ed her speedy dissolution. When his
gout was so bad all manner of rerae
dies, pills, liniments and medicines
were prescribed for liis holiness. Ami
he has told the world what he did
with them. "1 arrange the bottles and
pill boxes before me and after looking
at theni 1 say to myself: 'These are
the things which I ought to take.' Hut
the idea of actually taking them pro-
lucesv such an effect upon me that I
feel as if 1 had been cured."
Main Point.
The beautiful leading lady was iu
deep distress.
"In spite of all I can do," she sobbed,
"I fear that 1 am going stale. I have
lost my diamonds, 1 have lost my
pearls, my three husbands by divorce,
my imported bull dog and my automo-
bile. Now, is there anything else I
can lose that will once more bring me
before the limelight?"
The manager shrugged his should-
ers.
"Yes." he replied, coldly, "lose your
affectation and learn how to act."
"Why have 1 left off wearing rings
and curling my hair?" repeated Mar-
garet. "Well, I'll tell you why. My
vanity has received such heavy blows
that it is completely crushed.
"The first blow was about a year
ago when Mrs. Hlack aud I were stand-
ing at the window watching Alice and
my mother coming up the street. Mrs.
Hlack said; 'What a handsome wo-
man your mother is!' I was glowing
with pleasure, but before I had a
chance to say a word she added; 'You
must look like your father.'#"
"Well, for Alice's mother that wasn't
so bad." remarked one#of the others.
"You ought to hear what she said to
me."
"Oh. never mind now what she said
to you," exclaimed Jane. "We want to
hear about .Margaret's rings and hair."
"For a while I hardly dared look into
the glass." went on Margaret. "How-
ever, when my bruised vanity was get-
ting strong enough to be about I in-
vited some of the girls to dinner. They
had never seen my mother, and when
she appeared at the table you never
saw such a surprised lot.* 'Why, you
don't look at all as I thought you
would. Mrs. Carter!'"
".Inst as if anybody ever did!" said
Elizabet. "Why, do you know—"
"Let. Marguret go on?" said Jane,
Impatiently.
"Wishing to say something they
could dispute. I remarked jocosely.
'You thought she was thin and homely
like me.' But they didn't dispute it;
they agreed unanimously, so I knew
that I had expressed their inmost
thoughts."
"Your mother ought to be sup-
pressed," said Elizabeth. "She's alto-
gether too good looking for every flay
use."
"Well," began one *of the listeners,
"some girls are simply awful anyway.
Why, do 'you know, one of them told
Dora—"
"Oh. let . Margaret tell why she
doesn't curl her hair." said Jane.
"As you may suppose, my vanity
was ground into the earth again; but
not. until I met John Stewart was it
buried, never to be resurrected. John
used to admire me very much and I
might have been—but let that pass!
I hadn't seen him for ten years, and
when I did see him. I had on that
dress I got for Helen's wedding. I
hope none of the rest of you contem-
plate marrying a rich man: at any
rate, not until my pocket book is bet-
ter filled. Well, every one said I looked
stunning in the dress, and I'll frankly
admit that I expected to make John
regret losing such a clever, well-
dressed and generally desirable wo-
man. After shaking hands joyously a
reminiscent look came into his eyes
and he said. *What a pretty girl you
were ten years ago. Margaret-'"
"John Stewart ought to be drummed
out of decent society," began one of
the listeners. "He told Edith Sills
that her—"
"Oh. bother Edith Sills!" exclaimed
Jane. "Go ahead. Margaret. You
haven't got to the hair and rings yet."
"Mr. Scoville happened to be stand-
ing by—"
"He usually Is." interrupted Eliza
beth.
Margaret went on as if sh# hadn't
heard. "He said if'Helen of Troy had
been alive ten years ago, and if I was
prettier then than 4 am now. she
would have had to look to her laurels."
"Complicated, but. undoubtedly In-
tended to be complimentary. Surely
that didn't drive you to a ringless and
straight-haired condition." said Eliza-
beth.
"You're not including that in your
blows, are you?" hegau one of the lis-
teners. "That Mr. Scoville is tlje nic-
est man. He told Maud Gregory one#
that he—"
"Oh. never mind Maud Gregory." ex-
claimed Jane. "Do go on, Margaret."
"There is no more at present," said
Margaret. "1 know Mr. Scoville impei
lied his immortal soul, but it was in a
noble cause. To conclude, all these
straws, taken together, convinced me,
that the vanities of the world are not
for me. What's the use of trying to be
beautiful against such fearful odds?"
"What's'this I hear about odds?"
asked Margaret's sister, coming in.
/'Surely you're not betting on horses."
"No, we weren't betting." explained
one of the listeners. "Margaret was?
just telling us why she had stopped
curling her hair and wearing rings." |
"Well, Margaret. I might# have,
known," said her sister, turning to her •
reproachfully. "You bound me to so- I
crecy just because you wanted the
pleasure of telling it first yourself. But
he knows a thing or two doesn't he. |
girls? It's so distinguished to wear I
straight hair when it's becoming, and
Margaret's never looked so well tin
other way. And her new diamond ring
makes her other lings look cheap, so
of course she won't wear them."
"What are you talking about?" j
Eleanor?" gasped Elizabeth
"Why. just what you were talking '
about; Margaret's engagement to Mr. I
Scoville."
"Deceiver! Burled vanity indeed!" |
shouted the chorus.
"I knew it all the time." said Jane
with a superior air. "My brother saw
Mr. Scoville showing the jeweler that
old Norwegian ring of Margaret's, to
get the right size for the new rinii':
and 1 heard from, very good authority
I that he liked straight hair. 1 just
j bought I'd make Margaret tell on her-
j e)f; but she was interrupted so man>
. • lm< she wer. on iessntIully, "that
I i it ui/.'—Chicago Dailj News.
ASTONISHED THE OLD MAN.
Youngster's Language was Most Thor
oughly Up to Date.
There is a certain gentleman of
particular^ refined instincts and man
ner in Washington who abhors the
Idea that his young son will become
generally acquainted with the lan;
guage of the street. The other after-
noon when he had Just finished ad
monishing the boy that he should not
play polo in the streets while roller
skating, he got a shock. The young
ster had been told that sooner or later
he would find himself in the station
house, when he suddenly interrupted.
"Pop, did you ever see a cop run-
ning after a man?" •
The proud parent replied that he
had never seen a policeman*at full
speed after a prospective prisoner,
but added that he believed there'were
any ntimber of the force who were
good speeders.
"Well," continued the youngster,
"the bicycle cops is the boys now-
adays. I believe the cops that walks
have all got the rheumatism, and with
cops with bum feet, pop, i will run the
risk of being pinched." *
The father gasped at the "mixture
of street" hurled at him, and then re-
marked: * "I dcfh't think there is any
use of you gefing out into the street
to skate." Straightway he issued or-
ders, and his young son now skater
In the back yard.
Frisco Specials
Twenty-five dollars ' for one way
colonist tickets to California com-
mon points, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and intermediate points.
Tickets on sale daily to April 30th.
Tickets on saleto following points
in the northwest from March 1, to
April 30. liillings, Mont., $24.45;
Hindsdale, Mont., $31.45; Livington,
Logan, Gardiner, and intermediate
points on North Pacific, $24.35;
Helena, Butte, . Anaconda, $24.35;
Spokane, Wash, and intermediate
points, $2ii.&5; Portland, Ore.,
Tacom^, Seattle, Olympia and Van
couver, Wasfi., $211.35.
For further information apply to.
A. J. Mvliimbkr, Agent.
Chandler, Okla.
},
Universally Condemned
National Bank Examiner John M.
Hale came in from his duties of ex-
amining national banks, the first of
the week, in order to cast his vote
at the city election last Tuesday.
John says, that in his travels over
the two territories, that he finds al-
most a universal sentiment against
the adoption of'the constitution; al-
so that the leading democrats of the
-Indian Territory are bitterly op-
posed to its ratification.
That hacking cough continues J
Because your system is exhausted and ^
your powers of resistance weakened. <£,
Take Scott's Emulsion. ^
It builds up and strengthens your entire system. J
It contains Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites so ^
prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest. A
ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00 ^
HAD ONE GREAT CONSOLATION | J
At Least Onlookers Did Not Know of
Congressman's Misfortune.
* Don't Mortgage Your Farm *
Recently a member of congress
from Missouri came racing down the
iron steps which led to the train shed
of one of the depots in Washington,
just asjhe train was pulling out.
The member was 'stout and per-
spiring, and.his arms were filled with
bundles. • for he was a commuter.
Everybody got out of his way as he
chased the rear car down the long
platform, some shouting advice and
more or less pleasant comment after
him. Some sportively inclined per-
sons offered bets in a loud voice on
his chances of catching the train,
while others laughed at his grim de-
termination.
The member caught the train, be-
ins hoisted upon the platform by a
trainman, without the loss of a bun
die. He shook'his fist at the cheer-
ing crowd behind him and went in-
side the car with the blissful sense
of having won out."
It was only when the conductor
came around that he learned that he
was on a Chicago express, instead of
a local accommodation. However, he
accepted the situation gracefully, ob-
serving: •
"There's one comfort. Those idiots
in the station will never know. They
think I caught the right train."—liar
per's Weekly.
UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN
E. W. HOYT
* . If ydu jvant to borrow money on your (arm, don't (ail to see me. I am
J loaning PRIVATE money on the good (arms of Lincoln County, and am
*■ in a position to give you better rates, terms and privileges than the reg-
* ular loan'companies, AND I WILL DO IT TOO. .
J All I ask is that you see me', and hear my proposition. I make my own
* examinations, draw my own papers, and will close a loan in twenty
* minutes, and pay you your money. I also have plenty ol money on your
J live stork on long time at current rates. I am up stairs over the STAB
* STORE, in the Clapp building. Rooms 4 and 5 Chandler, Oklahoma.
* *
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Lee Patrick, Pres.
E. W. hoyt, Treas.
F. B. hoyt, Vice-Pres.
Manager Insurance Dept.
W. R. Gulicl, Sec.
Manager Abstract Dep
The Abstract and Guaranty Company of Lincoln County
ABSTRACTS AND INSURANCE.
The Queer Parson Bird.
Two splendid male specimens of the
poe honey eater were recently ac-
quired by the Zoological society of
London. England. Its throat is adorned
with small white featliers which, from
their resemblance to clerical bands,
have gained for it the name "parson
bird." Its metallic green* plumage,
with bronze and purplish reflections,
is very beautiful Its long and rather
slender beak is curved; it has rather
large feet, and the length of its tail is
considerable.
Although somewhat rarely seen in
this country alive, this bird is plentiful
on both the north and south islands of
New Zealand; it is a good songster
and mhuic. and its lively temperament
renders it a most interesting cage
bird. Its food consists of berries, in-
sects and honey. It has an extensile
tongue, the tip of which is forked, and.
being covered with fibers, forms a
kind of brush, most useful to the par-
son bird iu gathering its food.
Office Sands Building.
handler, Oklahoma.
CHAS. TILGHMAN,
President.
O. W SCHLEGEL.
Cashier.
Chandler National Bank
Capital Stcok S25,OQO.oo.
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED.
Corner Ninth Street and Manvel Awenue.
| J. C. P r in gey !
1 WILL INSURE YOUR CITY AND *
| CO.UNTY PROPERTY IN THE
I Home Insurance Co. I
of JSfeW York.
Reserve $11,000,000. f
Assetts, $21,000,000. *
Labouchere Writes of Career.
Henry Labouchere, the stormy
petrel editor of London Truth, has
written a review of its 31 years ofaex-
istence. The publication carries the
motto, "Culiores Veritatis Fraudi3 In
iinici" and the editor devotes space
to its legal experience in exposing
fraud. Of all the actions brought
against the paper in that time only
four have resulted* in damages. Of
these one turned upon the precise po-
sition of a village pump, "as to which."
Mr. Labouchere dryly observes, "I was
misled to trusting to the evldtmce of
two beneficed clergymen—a lesson
which 1 have always remembered to
my profit." Because of putting it on
the wrong side of the street lie had to
pay $.">00 in damages and much more
in costs.
J. K. VANDEVEER
Transfer and Storage.
Hap and Grain
JVorth ftlanVel AVe,
Chandler, 0\la
* •
You Do Not Want to go Hungry
She Was Good Enough.
Fannie is a little lady of three or
thereabouts,. and wise •beyond her
age. She has a brother a yfear or so
older than herself, in whom she has
always shown much solicitude. Fan-
nie's mother tried to teach her a little
prayer, which concluded with: "God
bless nie and make me a good girl:"
but Fannie had her own ideas upon
the question, and <i<4«pite coaxing, the
little girl would conclude her childish
prayer in this way: # "God bless me
and make brotlK-: a good boy; l is a
good girl." •
Too Much for the Strong Man.
"The stroug man refuses to go on
for his act."
"What's the matter?"
"Somebody i-oured water into his
hollow weight s. It fro?. * and made
the weights so heuvj ho can't lift
eiu."
V . •>
% When in the city go to Mitchell & Dancy's restaurant
| where you can get an uj>to-date meal. Strictly up &
* to the latest style. Come and see us in the first •>
:j; block south of the Star ^tore. •>
! MITCHELL & DANCY, !
Chandler, Oklahoma.
THE OLDEST BANK
IN LINCOLjV COUNTY.
CAPITAL $50,000.00
General Banking.
Money to Loan.
Collecting.
Union National Bank
Chandler,
Oklahoma.
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