Oklahoma Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1891 Page: 4 of 4
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Oklahoma Democrat.
GAY ti CLUTE. Publisher*.
ELHENO, rT"oKLAHQMA.
BETWEEN THE GATES.
Between the rntr* l),r,b ani1 4l,'alh
An old and saintly pilgrim paused,
With look of one who wltncsn. th
The lone sought goal at last.
••O thou whose referent feet have found
Tb«* Master's footprints In thy way,
And walked thereon u.s holy ground,
A boon of thee I pray-
••My lack would borrow thy ex cent,
My feeble faith the strength «.l thine; .
I need thy houI'h white saintllnuaa
To hide the stains of mine.
••The grace and favor else denied
May well b<- granted for thy sake. >
So. tempted, doubting, sorely tried,
A younger pilgrim spake.
•*Tby prayer, my son. transcends my gift;
No power 1* mine," the sage replied,
••The bnrden of a soul to lift
Or stain of sin to hide.
•'Howe'er the outward life may seem.
For pardoning grace we all must pray;
No man his brother can redeem
Or a soul's runsom pay.
•• Not always age Is growth of good:
Its years have losses with their gain;
Against some evil youth withstood
Its hands may strive in vain.
- With deeper voice than any speech
Of mortal lips from man to man.
What earth's unwisdom cannot teach
The Spirit only can.
•* Make thou that holy Guide thine own.
And. followlhg where it leads the way,
The known shall lapse In the unknown
As twilight Into day.
•'The best of earth shall still remain,
And Heaven's eternal years shall prove
That life and denth, and Joy and pain,
Are ministers of love."
-John <). Whlttler, >n N. V. Independent.
1(11 it little cov
ard!"
T h e w o r ti
come floating
«p to me from
a group of chil-
dren p 1 ay i n
under my win
dow and ea
ry mo bat*
two years, 1
the summer 1
spent in Wes-
llttle coward" 1 met
the dining-room in the dark for Rome
water just as li crept out. I could just
see him, and that another was < r«-ep-
Ing after him, but not out of tins closet.
I slammed the door, locked it and ran
in here just as James struck dear Aunt
June on the head and tried to push her
down in her chair. Then 1 flew at him
and you came in. liut there may l e
in th<
she wfcj in the orchard, dressed in
something blue und thin, all ruffles and
how*. She was standing under an ap-
ple tree absolutely paralyzed with ter-
ror, and ga/.itig at a huge caterpillui
creeping up her arm. Hearing iny
atep, she raised a colorless face, with
stained blue eyes and quivering lips, to
say: . ,
•Oh, take it off! Oh, please take it more than one man
UP I door is strong and 1 will run down t .
° Another minute found her sobbing the police station while you take care
hysterically, and with a choking word of Aunt Jane and Serena.
of thank, sl.e ran aw:,v. | llefore I could Mop her she . r un
It all passed sii quickly that she was ni,ik- across the hall, out at ll do r
(rone before I saw how pretty she w as. and down the road, while .laines mil
leaving behind a half-picture of short i ,U-niy revived and began to struck
golden curls and frightened baby blue J und curse.
eyes. The next time I saw those eyes | My hands w
they were full of tearful gratitude for ( was severely hurt, and
my heroic handling of caterpillars.
It was odd how they haunted me.
Quite resolved to win Serenu, if per-
sistent wooing would accomplish it, 1
on all occasions, but, being
tonville and the
there.
I luul been in practice us a physician
for several years, when Aunt Jane, the
rich aunt of the Hutchinson family,
wrote to invito mo to spend ti few
weeks with her. 1 was rather amazed
at the invitation, as Aunt Jane had
never had the slightest affection for
me; but the letter was cordial enough
to tempt me.
"Ihave three young ladles visiting me," she
wrote, "and you may fall in love with any of
them, with mv oonsent. They are all well bom
and well bred, which is moro than can be said
of most girls nowadays. Serena Maybury is
just the woman for a physician's wlfo, self pos
aessed, calm, courageous and yet perfectly worn
wily. She Is very handsome, too. Julia Strong
In a literary girl and w rites for the newspapers,
tihe Is pretty, but abstracted, lives In a poetic
region above my rcach. Susy Markham Is
scaroely more than a child, eighteen years old.
rind small as a girl of twelve, fair haired, blue
$ <cntle und loving; but will not attract
yo«, 'ie is tho worst little coward I ever
uw-^ts 'ns at a spider, faints at a mouse,
clings to the boat when on the water and gets
ns white as a ghost if a horse prances. Hut
cone and see roe aud the girls, ami stop poison-
ing patients, sawing liones ami prancing about
sick rooms, for a month at least."
So I went. 1 had been at Aunt
Jane's in my boyish days, and the
large, beautiful house, with its wide,
liigh-eeiliuged rooms, its broad porches
and airy halls, was quite familiar to
me- Lying near a river and in the
shadow of a mountain Westonville was
a most charming summer residence,
and Aunt Jane had visitors from the
first warm day to the last one, so that
I was not surprised to find others be-
side those mentioned in my letter of
invitation.
Pleasant days were the rule in that
Bunny July weather, and we boated,
rode, drove, clambered up the moun-
tain for picnic parties, played lawn ten-
nis and coquet, and enjoyed life as
youth only can enjoy it in summer
days free from toll or care.
Aunt Jane gave mo a most cordial
welcome, and the lirst time she was
alone with me, said:
"It is time you were married, Harry.
1 have thought it all over, and I mean
to give you a house well furnished as
soon as you introduce me to Mrs.
Hutchinson. No! You needn't gush
about it. lean afford it, and you de-
>ught l
united party of friends, we were not
ften tete-a-tete. And it was to tne, al-
ways, that Susv turned, in hours of
peril, when a toad sat upon her white
dress, when the boat tipped a hair's
breadth more than usual, when hor-
rible crawling things crossed our paths,
and cows lifted their heads to con-
template us. On all such occasions
two tiny hands, white us milk, soft as
satin, suddenly clasped ray arm, and
'oh! oh!" called my attention to the
terror.
And it was not done for effect. i oil
annot deceive a physician to that ex-
tent, and my professional eye noted
how the pretty face blanched, the pulse
quickened and the whole little figure
trembled. She really was the worst
little coward I ever saw.
And yet, although 1 chlded myself
for it, 1 could not share Serena's open-
ly expressed contempt, or sufficiently
admire her own scornful indifference to
toads and grasshoppers, boat-tipping or
fractious horses. She rode well, a
magnificent figure on horseback, while
Susie trembled and shivered, and clung
to the gentle animal she rode with des-
perate energy.
It was late in the season and all of
my Aunt Jane's guests had departed
excepting Serena, Susie and myself,
when one morning we were seated in
the sitting-room, discussing an impor-
tant matter. A far-away cousin of
Aunt Jane's had been a collector of
rare jewelry ami plate, and had left his
valuable treasures, the result of years
of purchase and selection, to her.
"And the whole lot has been sent
here," said Aunt Jane. 'I am not a
coward, but 1 have let it be well under-
stood in Westonville that 1 never keep
money in the house, have very little
plate und few jewels. There is nothing
discourages a burglar more than a cer-
tainty that, there is nothing to steal.
"Does anyone know?" I asked.
"The editor of the Westonville Ga-
zette published the whole story on Sat
urday. He must have seen some of the
servants who heard us talking over the
lawyer's letter."
"I'll run np to the city and arrange
to send tho boxes to a safety deposit
company," I said.
"Do! Oo now! You can come back
on the five-thirty," said Susy "I shall
not sleep a wink if they stay here. Oh!"
und her very lips were white, "if 1 saw
a burglar, 1 believe 1 shonld
And looking into her white, terrified
face, 1 believed so too, although Serena
said, loftily:
"What nonsence you do talk, Susy.
Hut, Aunt Jane consenting, 1 went
upon my proposed errand, arranged to
have the boxes sent for the following
day, und was on my way to the depot,
when I met an old friend and patient
The ten minutes' chat cost me the loss
of the five-thirty train. Not another
one stopped at Westonville. excepting
the midnight express, until the next
day.
Fretting, reproaching myself, I
passed the time as 1 best, could until
midnight, my heart sinking at the
thought of the three lonely ladies at
Westonville. There was but one man
on the place, and he slept in a room
over the stable. What if any thief at-
tempted to obtain the valuable boxes
piled iu the hull? Serena could be
trusted; Aunt Jane was not timid; but
Susy—poor little Susy!—she would die,
she said: and I feared she would. As
the train sped on, this thought of Susy's
terror became almost maddening; and
when, at last, I was at the little way-
side station, quarter of a mile from
Aunt Jane's, 1 started on u run for the
house.
The hall door stood open, and I heard
a sound in the sitting-room that seemed
to chill the Jdood in mv veins. Throw -
ing open the door, I saw Susy—little
Susy!—clinging at the throat of a man
roughly dressed, who held Aunt .lanein
a chair, while he tried to shake off
Susy's arms, at the same time keeping
Aunt .lane down. Serena lay in a dead
faint on the floor.
"You shall not hurt her!" Susy cried,
her slender arms strained to choke the
sufferer. "Let go. you wretch! I'll kill
your*
full, for Aunt June
rena was so
terrified that she could not stir, sobbing
and half fainting in sheer terror.
I cannot tell how long it was before
Susy came speeding hack with three
strong policemen In-hind her, but in
the meantime some of the maids were
roused and had come to my assistance.
There proved to he but one burglar
in the closet, a Westonville man and
crony of James', and the two were
marched off, securely bound.
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
GLASS NUMBER ONE.
r;ia tt number one, "only in fun .''
(lias* number two, "other boy* do."
<;ia*s number three, "It won I burt me."
lilac* nuinher four, "only one m«'re;"
Glass number Ave, "before a drive;"
. Mass uumber six. brain in a mis;
;ia-s number seven, stars up In heaven:
tilass number eight, stars in his pate.
Glass number nine, whisky, not * me;
Ulsss number ten, drinking again
l<lass number tweuty, not yet a plenty.
Drinking with boys, drowning his Joys;
Drinking with men, just n>>w ant.'. then,
Wasting hli life. kil"ng his wife.
Losing rerpetst, manhood all wrecked.
Losing his friends, thus it all ends.
Glass number one, taken in fun.
Kumed his life, brought on Mr
blighted his youth, ruled his truth;
Gave only pain, stolo all his gain
Made him at last a friendless outcast.
Light hearted boy, somebody's Joy,
Do not begin early in sin;
Grow up a man brave as you can;
Taste not in fun glass number one.
—Central baptist.
DRUNKENNESS IN FRANCE.
Aunt
drank but little, but f.l could i>ee thai
the appetite *«• *re«ter. M>-
t.ai<l that she prayed for him an. |
begped him earnestly to .top drinking
but he always ui<l that be did n..
drink enoutfh to hurt him and that In-
eould stop any time he wanted to
We asked Mary many times to com'-
home to visit us, but site said she dare
not leave Albert for fear he would
drink harder if she went away. 3o
patient Mary staid year after year
without seeing* her home and friends
i and she never wrote me half that she
! suffered.
• One morning I received a message
telling me to go to her, and 1 started at
once. There was no one to meet uie.
but by inquiring I found the house.
There was no answer to iny rap upon
the door so 1 pushed it open and walked
in. I walked through the house, fc hich
seemed all in disorder, till 1 came to
the room where a dreadful scene met
my eyes and made me sick with fear
Mary la3' on the bed cold and stiff, for
>y
A tragedian
wM.
HP
I
IV KKTUIll
Jane, was put to bed and made as com-
fortable as possible. Serena had gone
to lier own room; the house was locked
up, when I turned to
night.
The Kaornioui Consumption of Wli
the French People.
The atrocious crimes and verdicts
that make a criminal court in this coun-
try a veritable chamber bf horrors and
indicate a marked affinity between the
criminals and the jurors, are attributed
by many observant Frenchmeu to the
alarming prevalence of alcoholism
throughout France.
There is a popular error in the United
States that drunkenness does not pre-
vail in wine-producing countries. 1 his
may be true where pure wine is sup-
plied to the people at cheap rates: hut
this is a thing of tho fargone past in
France. The analysis made by M.
Oirard. the director of the Paris labora-
tory, shows that ninety-two per cent, of
the cheap wines offered for sale in the
French market are adulterated, the
adulteration consisting chiefly of
diluted alcohol or the cheaper methy-
lated pirits.
The supply of native wine falls fa
below the demand, and hence adultera-
tions are stimulated to meet the gen-
eral thirst for vinous beverages at a
low price. This explains the well-
known fact that wine, so-called, is
never so cheap and abundant as when
bid Susy good | lhe ^nipe crop fails. Whenever, there-
fore, there is a general failure of the
she was dead, and by her sat her bus- constitute no
baud with dirty, torn clothing aud un- ev ,ri:uius.
combed hair. His eyes were wild-look-
ing. and 1 was afraid of him, but he
said in a harsh tone: "You have come
too late: she is dead and I killed her.
Then he told me his story, how Msry
had been suddenly taken sick and he
had gone after some one to stay with
her. He had to pass a saloon and the
UP IN TI1E GALLERY.
Whoro Actors tc> Find Ad-
mirers and Just Criti-S.
Hi. I'pper '-iiUrrv ma \Va lil"Bt"n 1 nea-
ter I. a riae. t>> StuJy .Mankind
ami Dramatic selenre- t" E*'""
litjj In "MilIter Heaven."
ISpeetal Washlnctor. L?ttcr.l
Although the theatrical season opens
(n the national capital early in the
autumn, the play houses are seldom
well patronized until confess ban
assembled. We are now having min-
strels light dramas, and still lighter
coined',,.. The stellar lights of the first
magnitude seldom visit us until during,
or immediately after, the Christmas
holidays. Not until then can they hope
I to have large and appreciative nudienc
und your superior actor ploy
1 appreciation of hisaudic
for the box receipt
einbt
under the stage, looking
rut litde, open*
little pigmy m
crawled out f
I tiddle
like a aqua re
ie by one th«j
the orchestr
region lowe
than the '--ods of ti e gallery could s«
They assumed their places like aulo-J
| Mata. and the little si|nealts of llieirj
the sepulchral moans audi
, f the cellos, and the 'fraul-likei
I little tones of the cornet ascended init«i
' our licaven. These were the premoni-
I tory symptoms of music. and soon wo
j had it; and wo had the l>est of it. t«M .
Sound ascends rapidly, and the gallery
Is the best place l ever occupied for
enjoying a good theatrical orchestra. As
lhe leader strikes an uttitude, just be-
fore striking his strudivarius, we real-
ize that an hour lias passed while we
have witnessed the play before the
j Jut it is too soon to heave a sigh
relief. The overture is prolonged
almost beyond endurance, and yet the
leader gives no sign of stopping. Why?
Because at this lute moment, the aisles
are tilling with great big hats covering
i;ttIt* bits of heads; striking costumes
onsiderablo stimulus to | J.«ta ^ which ought to
i. * ...u- have alreadv been occupied; ushers are
,f some merit, form llin , iu,rc „„d there, when they
a member of the stock company of Old | ru h .
play.
for tho
atlier than
albeit, the latte
Ford's theater here, recently informed
ine that the orchestra chairs contain
less inspiration, less incentive to cnergj
of thought and action than the upper
gallery lie said: "The people of tho
old world attend the opera und the
ought to liavfl lie eli permitted to attend
to their duties long ago; but the late ar-
rivals still come in, and the orchestra
toots. It has ceased to be music. It is
torture; and ull because a lot of ladies
smell of the liquor made him stop for I theat<.r ,.e(fui111lv They can sec and
just olio drink. As he started out a |lear nU of the best performers and ar-
man came iti whom he had not seen for ; because the prices are within the
turned back to drink a peacJ1 ()f au but the very poorest classes,
glass with him. The one glass led to h) this country tho citizens cannot af-
many, and he became drunk. 1 he jnr(j t)OXes or orchestra chairs, except
saloonkeeper did not turn linn out, as I ^ occns|onai luxuries. The gods of the
he was too good a customer w hile bis rollerics, however, ore "they who be-
money lasted, but let him sleep on the )ieve Uuit ,the p|n,,'s ti,,., thing,' and can
floor in tho corner till morning. her' ; a(Torj t:lUe their places nightly
he awoke he forgot his errand and
staggered home, lie found Mary just
where 1 found her, dead in her bed.
while the baby, a little boy, was
screami ig in the cradle.
As A1 >ert finished his story ho stood
aminuto looking at Mary, then mut-
ter, ng: "I killed her,'' he left the room.
1 went to a neighbor's to get soine one
to help me, and when two kind ivomen
returned with inc. we found Albert
dying, with an empty poison bottle bt-
side him.
l)o you wonder that I hate the saloon,
aud tiiat whenever I see oue this whole
Tlu
ional
pi:
galle
the skylights.
goer* regard the
disreputable regions, lit only
for newsboys, bootlaeks and the other
species of the poor, illiterate and un
clean They consider it unbecoming
for respectability to companion with
peanuts, chewing tobacco, cigarettes,
catcalls, whistling and shrill falsetto
yells. It is generally questioned
whether any good can come
sui generis Nazareth, 'lhe
often expressed that managers permit
the existence of the gallaries; for they
are regarded as nuisances. But to the
of that
ide
She was standing at the foot of Aunt ^rrnpe crop of France the masses of her
Jane's bed, holding fast to a chair, her people who are addicted to wine bib-
fooe perfectly colorless and her lips j \,ing should feci a sense of gratitude
trembling.
| scene comes the I manager the galleries represent peennt
1 mixed her a dose of com- j akin to that of the Irishman who, on
pohiug medicine und put it to her lips.
"Don't mind me," she said, smiling
faintly. "1 always was a coward.
"Nobody shall ever call you so where
I am," 1 said, and then—well, I will not
add all I said, but then und there 1 won
my darling's confession of love tor me,
and gave iny life's ullegianeo to the
woman I loved.
Aunt .lane was delighted. She un-
lerstood perfectly the love that
beholding the vast quantities of food
that poured into Ireland from the United
,States during the great famine of is 14.
gratefully exclaimed: "The Lord bless
the Americans! If it hadn't been for
the famine we'd b« all starvin to
death!"
It should also be noted that for many
years France has imported more wine
than she lias exported, although her
grape crop, even when most bountiful,
prompted the child to attempt to divert js supplemented by immense shipments
the attack of the ruffian .lames to her- of raisins from Italy, Spain and I ortu-
self, and it was a delight to her to pal. These raisins are fermented in
make ready the pretty house for us. combination with the juice of grapes
Serena comes often to visit us, calm and to increase the wine product,
self-poised as ever, and quite as coil- ! As the consumption <>f these wities
tcniptuous when Mrs. Hutchinson tlies has attained the enormous rate of-orty
to my arms in an agony <>f terror if ti gallons per capita per annum, in
mouse runs ucross the floor or a spider
iddi-
crawls up the wall.
For, although she has proved herself
a heroine, Susy Is still, in such mat-
ters as mice and spiders, a little cow-
aril.- Anna Shields, in N. V. Ledger.
much abused pawnbrokers.
"Oil, TAKE IT OFF'.
nerve it! But don't imagine from iny
letter that the girls know of my match-
making intentions. They would pack
up and leave at five minutes' notice if
they suspected it- And they are all
popular in society, making a sacrifice
of other pleasant invitations to come to
Westonville. Serena is the wife for
you if you can win her."
And I cordially admired Serena.
Certainly she was the most queenly,
self-sustained, beautiful girl 1 ever met
Nothing fluttered her or moved her
from a calm composure. It was impos-
sible to imagine Serena in hysterics,
and her health was absolutely perfect
I devoted myself to Serena, and
found her mind as attractive as her
faec. She was well-read, and had a
keen interest in the current topics of
the 4ay. I never met anyone who
thoroughly read and understood a
newspaper, and she could converse
well on ull the political, foreign and
dottiest it affairs.
•Julia wof in agonies of composition,
gathering geenes and incidents for her
flr.it novaJ. uikJ going about as if asleep
with her eyes op<>n.
AjjO Susy. 'A«r tt" t time I saw Susy
One blow on the top of his head from
my heavy walking stick brought the
fellow down insensible. Susy dropped
her arms aud stood white as death, but
perfectly calm, facing me.
"Can you find me a rope to tie this
fellow?" 1 asked.
She nodded, sped away, and returned
with a coil of clothes line.
"Listen!'' she said, speaking quickly.
"There is another one in the china
closet, locked in. He is trying to kick
the door down. Do you see. this is
James!"
James was the one man-servant Aunt
.lane employed. Tying hiiu firmly, i
gave my next attention to Aunt Jane,
whose whole face was covered with
blood from a wound in the head. Know-
ing liow the sight of blood always
sickened Susy, i tried to keep her back,
but she said, quietly:
Tell me, please, what you want and
how to help you."
1 sent her for water, rags laudanum,
and while we bound up Aunt Jane's
head and restored her to counseious-
ness, Serena cuine to her senses and sat
up, white and shaking.
"Oh, Susy, that man will kick the
closet door down!" she cried, as the
blows from the next room became more
violent.
It seemed as if he would, and I
started to quiet him, when Susy grasped
my arm.
"Don't open the door!" she said.
"There may be more than one man
there. You see, wo were all sitting up
here, hoping that you would come on
the midnight train, but Aunt Jane had
not told James to go to the station be-
cause she thought you had rather walk
up than have us ulone. So I suppc
Jumes thought you were gone for all
night, and he came in at some time in
the evening, we do not know when,
aud hid in the china closet. 1 went to
Their limine** l y V> Mesni What It*
4 rltle* Would Have the I'ublie Believe.
It seems impossible to take up a pa-
per und find in its columns one word
favorable to pawnbrokers. True, there
are some unscrupulous parties engaged
in the business, but they are found in
all callings. Many money lenders oc-
cupying only ti small otticc arc not
looked upon the same as those who
place the proverbial three pendants in
front of their places of business; still
vou will find worse sharps among them.
If pawnbroking were judged in an un-
prejudiced light, it would be found
just as legitimate as any other busi-
ness. In ti recent issue of u Milwau-
kee paper there appeared an article
headed: "Abolish the Pawnshops and
There Will He Less Thieving." This
statement is not only erroneous, but it
is unjust. It is wrong to suppose that
thieves use only pawnshops us a place
for disposing of their plunder. It is a
well-known fact that all pawnbrokers
must submit ti daily re port of all
pledges taken in or goods purchased.
Still, if anything is stolen the lirst
thought is that the thief has found his
way to some pawnshop and is con-
cealed there: but the most of the so-
called "fences" really exist among
those money lenders who are not
classed with pawnbrokers and therefore
are not required to furnish any report
But in most cases neither one nor the
other would touch a stolen article
knowing it to be such. If an honest
borrower comes in lie answers all
questions properly and. of course,
truthfully as to ownership; and if a
thief comes in he is equally prepared
to answer all questions. So to dis-
tinguish the honest borrower from the
thief would actually require an ex-
pert mindreader. Therefore, the
pawnbroker might just as well take
the loans and trust to luck as to be left
by the real owner, since out of every
one hundred loans made there is not as
much as ten per cent recovered. All
crooks know that pawnbrokers must
report goods taken in. and judging
from the amount of stolen goods recov-
ered tliey must have some other place of
disposing of them. Naturally there is
much less risk run by taking it to
some one who is not a licensed pawn-
broker and is not required to make a
report—Old Pawnbroker, in Chicago
Herald.
tion to a vast quantity of brandy,
equally adulterated, and a very consid-
erable amount of brain-corroding ab-
sinthe, it would be very surprising if
the great body of the French people
were not in a state of chronic drunken-
ness.
1 have visited fifty-four of the eighty-
six departments of France, and 1 can
attest, with perfect truth, that her
rural population has shared in the gen-
eral deterioration, and no longer ex-
hibits the homely virtues that we asso-
ciate with rustic life. The faces of the
vast majority of French agricultural
laborers are red with wine and eau de
vie, and a very large proportion of
their earnings is paid to settle their
Scores at the pot houses.
A recent French writer, referring to
the spread of drunkenness throughout
the hamlets of France, says:
"In tho villages the women are
obliged, like the wives of workmen in
the cities, to hang about the wine shops
on pay days in order to fight for their
children's'bread with the victims of al-
coholic shipwreck. Instead of putting
away his sous and silver in the clothes-
press or in a corner near his chimney,
and saving them for a 'rainy day' as he
formerly did, the countryman now
spends them freely in daily visits to
the tavern." T® this degeneration
of her agricultural class may
imputed the fact that although France
has been favored for many years with
good crops, yet her imports of food
products have steadily increased,
amounting in the year l^'.'U to l. UKJ.OOO,-
000 francs, or nearly ^80.000.000, thus
exceeding lier exports of such products
for that year $ll8.0 )0.0j0
Notwithstanding all these evils that
beset the republic of France, and de-
spite her vast debt of S3,000,000.000. the
largest ever borne by any nation, she
itill marches bravely forward under
her mighty ' urden. For twenty-one
years, the longest period by a decade
that republican institutions have sur-
vived within her limits, she has illus-
trated in the midst of "mightiest mon-
archies" the benign principle of "gov-
ernment by the people and for the peo-
ple." of which our own great republic
is the highest embodiment She is now
a potent political force, and every year
of her existence serves to swell the
When 1 came back from Mary's I
brought her baby with me, and he has
now grown old enough to join the
Loval Legion, and he is a temperance
child. I hope he will do all he can
against saloons and never go to one.— I
Bell Hoiiinffsbed. in The Lever.
NOTto tiY THE WAY.
The official report concerning the
consumption of alcohol in Norway
shows an increase over former years.
London has 14,000 grog shops. How j
much these cost nobody can figure up.
Never will there be any way out of
"darkest" London, or the bottomless !
miseries and degradation of any other
city, so long as the grog-shop curse is
tolerated.
Petitions containing thousands of
names are constantly coming to Evans-
ton to be attached to the great petition
which seeks the outlawing of the liqu. >r
traffic aud opium trade throughout all
nations. Ceylon has sent 3:1.797 signa-
tures: Burmah, 82,078; Canada, 88,8 15.
pi
differ from all others in that the coiorec
people are more numerous here that
anywhere else in the cities of our conn
try Once upon a time the gallery wa|
denominated here, "the nigger heaven,
for the reason that there was a tinu
when the black men were chatties, un<
the galleries alone were open for tiieit
admission. Notwithstanding the fact
that the civil rights bill gave the eolotvi
people a right to select their pla -.•* <•
amusement and their seals in an\ ) . 1 j
of tho house, they are still comparative
]y poor, and patronize the gal1 r ' s
Acting upon the advice and su.r/estioi
of ray friend I invested a quarter in :•
seat in the gallery of one of our leading
theaters one evening recently: an.I ti
was interesting as well as instructiv
For tin hour before the play coin
menccd I sat in a front seat watching
the play in real life around and below.
It was a struggle to get a front seat,
even when the doors were first opened.
for a long line extended from the box
office clear across the sidewalk and
i one was rushing and pushing.
Uuty Henry Somerset will briny to the & ,„.lture(l way. to pet a goo 1 pla«
Boston convention the Knglish petition. ^ ^ j.ac Many of the people
From the records of Yale college dur- jongCj to that ancient aud honorable
ing the past eight years it is shown that iU, o( clerks, they of the tape-line
the non-smokers were twenty per cent aQ(j yard-sticks. They had been stand-
taller than the smokers, twenty-five OD their feet all day, and now pro-
per cent, heavier and had sixty-six per sed lo sjt and listen for a couple of
cent more lung capacity. In the last jlourHt resting while being both in-
graduating class at Amherst college. structed and pleased There were la-
the non-smokers have gained in weight
twenty-four per cent, over the smokers: |
in height, thirty-seven per cent., in ;
chest girth, forty-two per cent.; and in !
lung capacity, eight and thirty-sixth ;
hundredths cubic inches.—Western ! ^ f T ~j^T'
Medical Reporter. .
"Is this the way to the poorhouse?"
asked one man of another, as lie pointed 4jj, ^ | V'V jjj
ertain direction. "No, but this
them nrgleet - ). . '■
bi°ted wmM
THE OAI.I.ERY.
Ik-st
inquire
sure
tie
poorhouse. It makes
their business, it steals their earninp
it pives them bad habits, it clothe- ^
them and their children in raps, ami j
robs them of their daily bread.
and at last it robs thein of the
souls.
Dkink is the preat curse of Australia.
Iliph wapes only too often lead to in-
ilulpence in bad colonial beer and wine i borers there, too, dressed in tli
that is even worse than malt liquor or j snits; quite a number of them accom-
spirits. Girls and women drink much panlo(| |,y their wives, daughters or
more in the colonies than they do in ! sw,.ethearts. The negro boys were
England. This is partly owing to the j the|.e |D forcc. and they were the .iolli-
bard work, partly to the hot climate. | esl an(j happtestmcmbers of the throng.
"I shouldn't like the girl who made me j \Vhen n,c ,ioors were opened, the tick-
this shawl to see me in this place," eU rapi<liy sold and the stairs
said a girl while unpacking her box in ! bcing crowded, it required mu -
tt miserable Melbourne lodging house. I c|c ,ind agility to gain a !>oint
She looked up, and there stood the j o( vantaffc.. There was a gulf of
maker of the shawl, the daughter of a j vacancy in the dimly lighted vault bc-
poor but respectable Irish farmer.
Both girls had been emigrants, and both ^
had come to grief through drinking. j j„, heard. Hammers were clattering
Everybody respects a young man tjie voice of the stage manager and t.ie
who refuses to drink, and in those days j commands of stage carpenter and
" i nil il!' *
the stage.
wanted to come late, to show tlieii
plumage and disport themselves before
an impatient audience. They are bor-
ing us. They win not a single plaudit.
Ill the gallery they are provoking com-
ments and criticisms which are well
timed, and ought to be whispered into
the ears of these disturbers of the pub-
lie peace.
But, fortunately, all things have an
end, even that vanity of vanities, which
is all vanity, the display of dress goods
upon feminine backs; so tho music
stops, ami the curtain rises. Every
inch of the stage is visible from the
gallery. Every actor appears to good
advantage. Every lineament, every
smile, every gesture, every intonation
seems studied for our especial delecta-
tion. The comments about me are pro-
found. Tho actors are compared, in a
learned manner, with others who have
I appeared in the same parts during the
past twenty-live years. Three seats to
my left is a little drlcd-up iiriton, who
heard Macreadv, Kdinnnd Kean, Cash-
man and the cldpr Booth. A mulatto
compares the star with E. L. Davenport,
Edwin Forrest and John McCullough.
lt grows more und more interesting. 1
see the players and hear the play me-
chanically. The running fire of com-
ment all around me is more interesting.
My tragedian friend is right. The peo-
ple of the gallery have seen more, seen
more critically, understand better than
those pheasants and jays below us.
They applaud at the right time: they
exhibit delight, impatience; they have
hissed once during the first act, and
they hissed at the right time and at the
rigiit actress. Those people on the
stage down there are playing to the
gallery. They are looking up, verily at
me and at my neighbors. Every one of
them is seeking the approbation of this
old-time "negro heaven." It is palpa-
ble as print; plain as noonday sunlight.
Down in the orchestra circle they know
nothing of this. In the boxes they are
talking of society. The actors know it.
Only in the gallery is the play intelli-
gently watched, from curtain rise to
curtain fall. The audience is above.
The money-bags are below. The actors
are playing to the audience, the real
audience in the gallery.
Smith I). Fnv.
low There was silence iu the hull, und
every footfall liehind the curtain could
Too rait.
[Ie—Will you marry me, Eveline?
She—Sir!—
lie—Rejected again!
She—'tainly. I only wanted to see
whetiier you were in earnest or not.—
Jury.
The lU-t F.vlflenee.
Justice—You called this man a drunk-
en bum What reason have you to in-
sult him by such language?
Prisonei—I guess I know what I am
talking about Don't we take each
other home every night?—Texas Sitt-
ings.
A Strain on Friendship.
"Curry, I want you to be one of my
bridesmaids."
"You are my clearest friend, Sally,
but you arc asking too much.'
"Too muchl Why?"
"I've just become engaged to your
fiance."—Life
current of "republican thought that Is sensible men, even those who are not Bhifters resounded through space. They
surely, though slowly, undermining | opposed to drinking on principle, are kerned very near us, nnd yet far n
every throne in Europe from the Neva
to the Thames.
May her rulers soon learn that
"righteousness exalteth a nation, and
avert retributive justice by removing
from France the stigma of being the
Sabbathless land.—Americus, in N. Y
Mail and Express.
A l>rop or Water.
To those who repine at the humble
ness of their lot without knowing to
hat eventual distinctions they may In-
destined, we recommend a perusal of
the apologue with which Addison con-
cludes one of his moral essays: "A drop
of water falling from the cloud** into
the ocean became discontented with its
insignificance and complained that in
the loss of its individuality it was, in
fact, annihilated. In the midst of its
murmurings it was swallowed by an
oyster, became converted in process of
time into a gem. and finally constituted
that celebrated pearl which adorns the
top of the Persian diadem."—Ram't
Horn.
—The Writer and the Critics. — Will*
bergate (a poet, so his friends say I -
"The critics are not treating me right
in regard to my book of poems.*' Billby
— "What do they say .'' W 111 bergate—
"Nothing."—Yankee Blade.
WORK OF THE SALOON.
Two 1.1 ve* Pmy the Penalty of Tamperm*
• Tastr lor Hum.
Do you ask me why I hate the
saloon? 1 will tell you. I once had a
dear sister Mary. We were constant
companions. Mary was a conscien-
tious girl, and anxious to live a good
life. She used to say: "Anna, when I
grow up 1 ain going to be a minister s
wife." How 1 wish she might have
done so, but, when sh« was twenty-
four years old, she married a man who
was studying for r doctor, and with
nim she left her home and went to the
far west
The man whom Mary married had a
rich father who gave his son a home
and furnished it very nicely.
Mary, used to write us cheerful
letters, for she was happy for a time,
but,by and by. her letters seemed differ-
ent, and in one of them written to me
alone she told mc her trouble.
She said that Albert (her husband)
had taken to driukimr Ai first be
No
Jennie—1 d<
ost between
|'n Utility or it.
m't think there's any love
Milly Pond and Hudson
oppose — . .
giving up the consumption of alcohol moVed. There was a steady tramp upon
as a bad practice. They know by ex- the stairs, as the late arrivals ascended
perience that it is one of the most ^ their gallery places, so that, in half
serious of the obstacles to material sue- an hour, there was a goodly auu.ence in
cess. Hunt out the real cause of half that upper strata of theatrical society,
the bankruptcies and you would find They were an orderly lot, too. As usual,
it in drinking. Discover the true cause however, we found that several objcc-
of the inability of young men to get tionable characters were in our vicin-
ahead and in the majority of cases it jty, buti that happens down in the par-
would be drinking. The country boy quette very ofteu. Only downstairs
who tries his fortune in the city cannot the loud talker and excessive drinker
afford to take that risk. He must be in weara diamonds and broadcloth. For
lighting trim always, with every power our fipecja| guardianship ti gentleman
at his full command. with blue clothes, brass buttons, a sil-
ls the Swiss canton of St. Haul, a ver badge and a locust stick walked up
law passed in 1800 provides that habit- , antj down the aisles. At an ecrly peri-
ual drunkards may be placed under tKj two gentlemen were escorted down-
care in an inebriate asylum, for periods btairs by him, out into the open air,
varying from nine to eighteen months, nnfj W(, haw them no more, we trust,
either on the ground of voluntary sub- foroVer.
mission, or by direction of the local ! what a picture it was when the
authority (district council). Proceed- , thump-thump and clatter of the orclics-
ings may be initiated by a relation or ^ra ,.|iair8 commenced, followed imtnc- j
guardian of the drunkard, by any pub tjiately by the advance guard of the !
lie body, or on the sole responsibility j f.^hionable procession below. Dimly
of the council, but they must be justi- -n the shadows we could see figures of
tied by a certificate from the medical jj^ies and gentleman assuming places
oflieer of health that such seclusion is ll(>lu.alh us. and the hum and murmur
necessary for the cure of the patient (,f their voices came to us almost with
If his personal property is insufficient ^H> soit.mnity of a gathering nt church,
to meet the expense, tho public fund- j ^ iast there was a click and swish
are to be applied to, not only for his heard, and instantly the electric lights
own maintenance, but, if necessary, 0p,,nC(| before us a vista more wonder-
for the support of his family during | fu] thau beautiful. The little door
bis enforced
Pearl—I don't sec how any could get
lost in that way; they sit so close to-
gether.—Hrooklyn Eagle.
Heroic .Measure*.
"My son is in love with my wife's
maid, doctor. Is there any possible
cure?"
' Yes. Let him marry her. Ile'll get
over it."—Puck.
No Mo
Credit.
Mrs Spendall— You look worried. Is
it because you are so deeply in debt?
Mr Spendall (gloomily) —No. It's
because l can t get any deeper.—N. Y.
Weekly.
To Coinp-ire New thing* With Old.
Stayatt Holmes (to returned tourist)
—What is Pompeii like, anyhow?
Trotterly — A good deal like New
York; all duff up, you know —Puck.
Taken Arter lllm.
"Does yonng Carter take after hl
father, the colonel?"
"Yes, sail, he's n poker-chip of the
ole block, aah."—.Judge
ealistic
en to lier
"Miss Hyart is
stockings."
"What do you mean?"
"The clocks upon Uiem are striking."
-Life.
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