El Reno Daily American. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 188, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 19, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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EL RENO l)AII,Y AMRRK'AN.
I TOMORROW
AT ONE O'CLOCK SHARP
aBBasKasHii,««nD^K^'KH)* '-xv-aK •
FOR HER
SWEET SAKE
raters:
By S. E. KISEK
Th\.* bis* iot auction wiil begin, if you arc
interested in real estate, you can't afford to
miss this big lot auction.
Those who own Fair Addition properly
would not sell today at a profit. There are
now over 30 nice residences. Fair Addi-
tion h building faster than any other part
of town.
If you want quick profits in real estate,
tomorrow is the time to invest.
Don't fail to be on hand for the gift
distribution. $250.00 worth of valuable
presents given away.
Get a ticket, gocd in the distribution,
at Finch, Patterson and 1 ngle.
Big tent and brass band from Okla-
homa City.
Free ride to the ground.
A. D. POWERS,
AUCTIONEER.
U was evident thai tb young man I
was di < ply troubled. When the girl's)
mother had left them alone, at last, j
he sat down at the,piano and ran his
lingers over the Uevs for a moment,
t hen got up and paced nervously across I
the room. At ia.it he paused in front
of the girl, and, taking one of her soft, j
white hands tenderly in his palm, he
raid:
"Lucille, I have some very bad news
to tell you. 1 have been informed that
a mine In which I had invested most
of my savings has proved worthless "
"I'm so sorry, Charles," she replied,
putting her hands upon his shoulders
and looking tender sympathy into his
handsome face; "it would have been
glorious if your Investment had been
a profitable one, but as long as It has
turned out the other way let us make
the best of it and try to keep looking
upon the bright side. You know it
I uvf tovj
Ml TI) /
FIVE THOUSAND COTTON MEN IN DALLAS
Annual Convention of the Southern Cotton Asso-
ciation Attracts a Larije Gathering From
Many States.
Amerioau Special.
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 19. If the
condition of «the cotton-growing in-
(JiiHtr) oi the South can be improved
by the exhaustive di.scusson and
united ant Ion of men wall qualified
to speak and act in the matter, then
much good may be expected to re-
buU from the annual convention of
the Southern Cotton Association,
which began 'its sessions in Dallas
today. The gat hit-ring is the largest
und most represen atlve ever held by
the a mm elation.
More than Ave 'thousand delegates
and visiting cotton growers filled the
Fair (Grounds Auditorium when the
convt-atixMi was called to order by
1'risideat ilarvie Jordan of Georgia.
The delegates came from Florida.
Noi«:h and South Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana,
Tennes^e. Texas and Arkansas, and
represented ti' at ait o associations of
rot to* growers in those states.
The visitors were cordially greet-
ed !•> speakers representing the stat«'
of Texas, i.'he city of Dallas, and the
Dallas Oommercial Club. Several
of the prominent delegates present
were called upon and responded to
the greetings. President Jordan <ie-
1 • v♦ . -d bis annual address and re-
ports were presented by the other
officers. Appointment of the neces-
b.i \ ooramlttees and other business
o'l a perfunctory charact r occupied
1 !;t >ematnder of the initial < • >n.
The convention will be in session
Imo -iay«• Questions pertaining to
war* housing, financing; and market-
tnK '!be cotton crop will be fully dis-
« i . e<i Ol her ma;tors that will re-
ce ve attention are the credit sys-
tem and the necessity for diversify-
ing the crops, the enactment of state
end federal laws to confine trading
In largr cotton exchanges to a strict-
ly legitimate basis, and, in general,
ways and means to improve the ex-
isting methods and (ondttiona in the
Industry
Prominent among the speakers to
be h<«ar4 at th convention are S. N.
I). North, director of tho United
Htates Census Bureau; H. T. M liner,
commissioner of agriculture of Tex-
as; W. It. DoJson, director of the
state agricultural experiment station'
at baton Kotige, l>a.; John L. Spur-1
lin, of Hamilton, Texas; W. 1). N'es-!
bit, of Hirniingham, Ala.; K. 1). 1
Smith, of Lynchburg, S. C.; John I). I
Walker, of Sparta, Ga., and F. 11.1
Hvaitt, of Columbia, S. C.
I
COGAR
j We are having fine weather after
the blizzard, which was the worst
we have ever se n In Oklahoma.
There Is lots of sickness in our
part of the country. Most of it is
la grippe.
Mrs. Baker's family is slowly im-
proving.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert-
son, last Monday, a fine baby boy.
Dr. E. K. White is on the sick
list.
There was a towusite club organ-
ized at Mr. Clad well's store last
Monday night and a townslte laid
out. So now send us a railroad and
we will soon have a nice little town'
at home.
Died Last Thursday, the baby
boj of Mr. and Mrs. Deveeny. We
did noil learn the particulars.
Grandma Cox, who has been very
si k, is slowly improving.
The magic lantern show was a
fizzle las; Friday night on account of
the blizzard.
Women Appeal to lltiglic*
\lbnny, N. Y., Feb. 19.—A dele !
gat on of equal suffragists today I
made a direct appeal 'to the legisla- ■
ture and to Governor Hughes In bo-
halt of a constitutional amendment,
granting suffrage to women. The
delegation numbered several bun-1
j ilred women and was headed by Mrs.
Harriet Stanton match, daughter of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
president of the Equality League of
Self-Supporting Women.
Our reputation, our profit* are at
stake, that's why our seeds are the
'belt—Waring'*. 18 6-61.
tvas not your chance to become rich
that made me care for you."
"Yes, 1 know that, Lucille, and I ap-
preciate your noble willingness to
have me in spite of my loss, but 1
could never ask you to do that. I have
come to give you your freedom, lio,w
ever it may bear me down to have to
relinquish the happiness which I have
dreamed of since the never-to-be-for-
gotten day when you promised to be
my wife."
"Don't think of it again, Charley,
dear. I love you just as much as 1 did
tjien, and I wouldn't care to be awfully
wealthy, anyway. People who have
lots of money are hardly ever happy.
Think how lovely it will be for us to
have a cunning little flat where 1 shall
cook all the meals myself and feel
that I am really earning the things
that you are able to give me."
He walked over to the window and
looked out for a moment, biting fierce-
ly at his nails. Then turning to the
girl again he said:
"The beautiful picture you draw of
the flat with you and me alone in it
only makes it the harder for me to
have to tell you that the dear little flat
too will never be for us, I fear. The
fact Is, Lucille, that our bank and an-
other are going to consolidate, and the
probabilities are that the position 1
have will be abolished, so I shall have
to start at the bottom somewhere,
probably on a salary that would make
It absolutely impossible for me to
support a wife in anything like the
style to which you have been accus-
tomed."
"I'm so sorry, dear. Troubles never
come singly, they say, and really it
must be so. But let us hope for the
best. Perhaps they will not abolish
your position, and even if they do it
may be that you can step into some-
thing else that will be fairly good. 1
heard papa say onee that I he luckiest
thing that ever happened to him was
being discharged by a hardware firm
when lie was a young man. He got
into Ihe dry goods business almost
Immediately and in a year was higher
than he could ever have got in the
hardware line if he had remained in it
all his life."
"But things were different when
your father was a young man from
what they are now. If 1 should lose
niv present position I don't know
what 1 could turn to. And there's an-
other thing I am compelled to tell
you. A cousin of mine has Ijeen ar-
rested in New Mexico for horse steal-
ing. I feel the disgrace very keenly
and could not think of asking you to
share It with me."
"Why, dear. 1 don't see why your
cousin's misdeeds should reflect on
you in any v\fay. I am afraid all of us
have cousins who are not models of
virtue Don't let that Interfere with
your happiness. I shall never think
of it for a moment. I love you for
your own true worth and not for any-
thing that your family Is."
At'ti r he had run ills fingers over the
piano keys again for a little while he
returned to where the maiden sat and
said:
"Oh, well, confound it. if you're
bound to have me, 1 suppise I may as
well give in Go ahead and s"t the
day to suit yourself. Don't mind me."
—Chicago llecord-Herald.
Immense Profit to Postoffice.
As showing tin- enormous interest
taken in Limerick competitions the
British post master-general states that
during August, September and October
of last year the total number of six
penny postal orders sold was 311,000.
In the corresponding three months of
this year the number was 5,772,000, or
in times as many. This means an im-
mense profit to the postoffice.
increase In Habitable Land.
Since 1902, when the federal reel*
mation act was passed, the govern-
ment has added 5,000,000 acres to the
country's habitable land, and these
with the 7,260,000 reclaimed from the
desert before that year make an In-
crease of more than 12,000,0011 acres lu
the country's habitable area.
LOST Si-u.LS CF'WoTORY.
Fighter Put Up Good Excuse for Lapse
from Sobriety.
"Yes honor, I'll tell yer jus' how
'twas," said the man with the saffron
eye as lie stood before the police
judge.
"Me and Jake wuz both in love wid
little Alame. Well, de time came when
she had ter pick between re two ov us.
Maine, she cast her lamps over him
an' me, like a feller'd size up a couple
ov easy marks, an' she sez, 'To de vic-
tor belongs de goils,' an' told us ter
fig'.it it out, an' she'd marry de winner.
"I met Jake in a back yard on Chris-
topher street, an' we went to it. I
won't describe de offensive details to
per honor, but I will say dat in about
three an' two-thirds minutes, after a
spirited encounter, 1 landed a left to
his solar, an' he was down an' out. I
left him lyin' dere on de ground and
walked over ter Barney's ter soak up
a couple uv beers in commemyration
uv de event, den I cruised around ter
Mame's ter claim my skirt.
"Now, mebbe yer honor can't guess
whap happened while I wuz t'rowin'
dem beers inter me. Well, yer honor, 1
dat man Jake recovered from his
knockout, an' when I got ter Mame's
room all dat wuz left wuz a note on
de table. 'Art,' she sez, 'I have beat it
wid Jake. I hate ter pull out uv de
game wid de jackpot, but when I said
I'd marry de best man I thought it
would be Jake.'"
The prisoner looked full Into the
face cf the judge. Do ye blame me
fer gittin' drunk, yer honor?"
"Discharged," replied the eminent
person evasively as he slammed the
docket back on the clerk's desk.
THE NEW
TYPEWRITER
GIRL
Mere Warehouses.
Many men are mere warehouses full
of merchandise—the head, the heart,
are stuffed with goods. . . . There
are apartments in their souls which
were once tenanted by taste, and love,
and joy, and worship, but they are all
deserted now, and the rooms are
filled with earthly and material things.
—Henry Ward Beechcr.
Get Knowledge.
To trust to mere authority altogether
is absurd; it is to forego the pleasure
of living, and in an important sense to
cease to be a man: but to renounce
authority altogether, and to depend for
our knowledge wholly on our own ex-
perience, is simply impossible, and if
possible would be very absurd. There
is evidently a middle ground which
leaves a wide field for personal expe-
rience, and at the same time allows
the individual to give almost indefinite
extension to his knowledge by appro-
priating the accumulated experiences
of the races.—Jean Jacques Rousseau.
The Fence Posts Become Hedges.
It is wonderful how rapidly plant
and tree life will grow in this climate
and soli, says a Panama letter to the
Boston Transcript. People desirous of
fencing a piece of ground will cut their
posts in the woods, plant them in the
ground and string their barbed wire.
When the wet season comes on, the
combined operation of the rain and the
heat will cause the posts to sprout. In
a year's time, or less, the post will be
a tree. The same is true of almost
any cutting thrust into the ground. It
will take root and grow without the
least urging.
Not His Fault.
A first grade boy brought perfect i
spelling papers home for several
weeks, and then suddenly began to
miss five and six out of ten.
"How's this, son?" asked his father.
"Teacher's fault," replied the boy. ,
"How is it the teacher's fault?"
"She moved the little boy that sat
next to me."—Llppincott's.
A Relief to Him.
"It must be hard," said the friend. I
"to have your wife running off t;> j
woman's rights meetings and all that !
Bort of thing every night."
"Hard?" replied Henpeck, "why it's
great! 1 can sit comfortably at homu i
and not have to listen to her."
I t
The Precious Stones.
The pearl is nothing but carbonate '
of lime, and vinegar or any other acid
w ill eat away the polished surface in a
few moments. As for the opal, hot
water is fatal to it, destroying its fire, j
and sometimes causing it to crack
Soap Is a deadly enemy to the tur-
quoise. If a turquoise ring Is kept oil
the hand while washing, in a short
time the blue stones will turn to a
dingy green.
The new typewriter girl, flutters in
with a bright smile, and a cheerful
"Good morning," pulls the hood from
her machine and sets down with a
clatter, and opens her mouth whence
comes:
"There, that hood always bangs that
way. I don't know what makes it.
I'm sorry. O, if you don't mind, I'm
sure I don't. I haven't any nerves; I
never did have any; nerves, I meant.
My sister says she- envies me. She
has nerves; she'll jump If you look at
her. Doesn't make any difference
whether you're pleasant or not, she
jumps just the same. O, yes, I'm
ready. Been ready ever so long!
Wondered why you didn't begin.
"O, dear! Dear! Mm-mh! There!
No, nothing's elMtlv wrong, but I've
spelled enthusiasm with an I, an I, at
the beginning flon't you know!
'Twould be all right if I'd only put it
at the end. Would you mind begin-
ning again at the word enthusiasm?
There! There's that interrogation
point again coming in where the com-
ma ought to be! it makes the copy
look so funny, don't you know. Tck!
Tck! 1 do wish the thing hadn't any
pauses at all.
"Is that so? Did I spell crocodile
c-r-o-c-i-d-i-l-e? Well, there, I suppose
I was thinking. My mother often says
that when I'm thinking I don't know
a thing.' Croc-i-diie! Well, it does
look funny! Why, yes, I'm all ready
to go on. Did you say equatorial Af-
rica? Please spell it! There, there's
that interrogation point again; O,
dear!
"Did I put a comma between south
and South America Well, I thought
that you were talking about the south,'
the southern states you know. I can't
always tell when you want a comma. !
Yes, 1 know you told me not to put in
any punctuation marks but to leave It
to you, but I get so used to putting
them in that it seems as if I must.
Don't you think that when you get i
used to doing anything you keep right
on doing it? N-e-u or n-e-w for pneu-
monia? Why. yes. it does begin with!
a p,' doesn't it? I forgot all about it. J
Spelling is funny, isn't it? Capital C
for conchology? Well, I didn't knowj
but I'm willing to learn. Concho!—Is
the next letter 'o' or 'a?' Did I spell
ornithology, orinthology? Well, I don't;
think you've given me the word be- j
fore I've learned it now. It ends 'igy,' |
does it not? O, 'g-g-y.' Well, live and
learn! I shall know next time. Kane? i
K-a-n-e? The one who killed Abel. I
don't want to know what he did but
how you spell his name. O, Cain, the
one in the garden of Eden? Well, per- |
haps he wasn't exactly, but you al-
ways think of him there, and the ser-
pent and everything.
"Please repeat. I couldn't hear you
because I went back to correct.
There's something the matter with
this ribbon. Is sort of—kind of—well, \
I don't know what, but it just does, I
and I have to go back and do it all
over again. Isn't it queer how little 1
things bother you sometimes? This
ribbon now! Do you pronounce
Roosevelt with three syllables or two?
Some people only make two of it,
don't you know. I think three is bet
ter. E-v-el-d-t! No there isn't any d
in It! I must have been thinking of
the South African war! There, that's
right! Who's vice president now?
No trouble about spelling his name, Is
there?
"Did I begin attention with a capital
A? Well, I suppose that's because it's '
a long word. Seems natural to begin
a long word with a capital, don't you
think. S-i-o-n! Why, no! It's tlon,
isn't it? I was thinking about the
capital and I didn't think.
"Do you put an apostrophe before
phone? Some folks don't. Oh, yes, 1 i
can put it there; I only wanted to \
know if you would. I want to do just
what you want me to do. My sister
In law says I always do what I am
told. Why, yes, I'll keep still, but I
wanted you to know the reason." I
Onto the Congressman.
"Pa," asked little Willie, "is it right
to say 'Congressman McBiuff made a
witty extempore speech,' or 'a witty
extemporaneous speech?'" "To be
perfectly correct," replied the wise'
father, "you'd better stick in 'seeming-
ly' somewhere there."
Walking Off a Cold.
Take good care of that cold. Get
fresh air. Walk to your office. Walk
to your shop. Here are the kernels
of some advice recently handed out
by two well-known physicians as ap-
plicable to present atmospheric and
epidemic conditions.
Rules for Success.
In order to succeed you must he
sure of two things—you must look for
work, and not be always looking over
the edge of It, wanting your play to be-
gin; you must not be ashamed of yo-ir
work and wanting to be doing some-
thing else.—George Eliot.
Causes Unpleasant Reflections.
Don't step hard on a struggling mor-
tal because his grandfather once
robbed a stage coach. None of us can
go too far back in the family record
without a shiver of apprehension.—
Manchester Union.
Sorry He Spoke.
"I thought you were born on the
first of April," said a benedict to his
lovely wife, who had mentioned the
twenty-first as her birthday. "Most
people would think so from the choice
I made of a husband," she replied.
Bamboo Guitar.
A popular instrument in Madagas-
car Is the bamboo guitar, made from
a bamboo cane six feet long Thrt
cavity serves as a sounding board.
Strings are cut out between the joints
and are stretched by bridges.
Benefited by Compressed Air.
Engineers declare that consump-
tives employed in caissons used in
tunnel construction are benefited re-
markably by the compressed air. Emi-
nent physicians are testing the truth
of the assertion.
Battleships Soon Wear Out.
Naval experts put down the active
life of a modern battleship at about
15 years. A hundred years ago battle-
ships lasted almost six times as long
and were on active service nearly the
whole time of their commission.
Had Feast of Oysters.
"Ye Ancient, Honorable and Noble
Order of Oyster Gobblers" has just
held an annual gathering at Black-
burn, in England. A party consisting
of 23 members consumed 1,300 oysters.
Uncle Allen.
"I've observed one thing about a
footrace," said Uncle Allen Sparks.
"If you've got any money up on the
result It always turns out differently
from what you think it's going to."
The Philosopher of Folly.
"Any man on earth," says the
Philosopher of Folly, "can become
famous. If he lives long enough.
Longevity will get anyone's name in
the papers."
Luck.
A man is lucky when everybody in
town knows that he owns a dress jit.
Then he doesn't need to worry when
it is necessary for him to go to diu
ner In his business clothes.
Time's Changes.
When a woman is young she ad
mires the man of just a little wicked-
ness When she Is older she wn'shipi
the man of much goodness.
Betrothed in Infancy.
In some parts of west Africa the
girls have long engagements. On the
day of their birth they are betrothed
to a baby boy a trifle older than them
selves, and at the age of 20 they are !
married The girls know no other way
of getting a husband und so they are
quite happy and satisfied. As wives
they an- i atterns of obedience, and
the marriages usually turn out sue
cesses.
Care of the Eyes.
flood sight is among the greate t
blessing ol life, and it behooves
women for their own i.aUe to tale-
good care of their eyes When you
have nothing do, when you are iin
ply resting, close your eyes and let
thi in rest also As long us the eyes
are open tlwv are at work to a great
er or ]<-- extent, and oculist*, will t>^t
you thai the moUUr* of the Hosed
lids Is good for tlieiu.
Better Than Riding Donkey.
A little hoy wah sitting on one of
the benehe in Central park. New
York, watching people tide the don
keys, El nail;. an e«cet>dlngly fat worn
an appeared 1 mmI a tlonkev, anil wa ■
Just about to mount, when she saw
the small hoy and aid to him: "Lit
tie boy, don't want me to hire a
donkey for you. Iimj?" "No, lliunk you,'
said Ihe bu>, I d rather sit Iimi« and
laugh."
Her Weight Cost $43.
In some parts of Hungary it is the
custom for the bridegroom to pay a
sum to the bride's parents, and In
ease the parties cannot agree the !
mayor acts as arbitrator. Mayor
Volked, who is a cattle dealer, has
had to decide a case of this kind, and
after Inspecting the bride decided that
the bridegroom must pay the parents
at the rate of half a dollar for each
pound that the bride weighed. This [
verdict was accepted, and the woman i
weighing Kf> pounds the bridegroom
banded over the equivalent of $43,
after which ihe wedding ceremony
was performed.
Population of British Empire.
The population of the whole British
empire is estimated at about 420,000,-
000, of whom about 348,000,000 are na/
tive races.
Find Made by Botanists.
New specimens of grass and white
orchids never before known to exist
In tills country have been discovered
In Cape May county, New Jersey.
Rheumatism and Meat Eating.
A great many medical authorities
lake the ground that rheumatism Is
peculiarly the disease of the flesh eat- I
it, anil Hie theory is strengthened by !
the fact that the further you go south '
the less rheumatism you find, until 1
when you get into the tropics, where
a vegetable food Is the rule and peo- !
pie eat very little flesh of any descrlp- i
tlon, there is hardly any rheumatism.
—Green's KrnlM irower.
Street Railway Accidents.
One of the startling faetH developed
by the public service commission of
Sew York city |* that over 2U0 per-
sons are killed or seriously Injured
every month by the urban railways un-
ler the commission's Jurisdiction. The
annual toll of ileutlm lu accidents Is
betw< i n 5U0 uud liUO.
Southern Seas Salty.
The sea is much more salt In the
tropics Ulan In the northern latitudes.
This Is due to the greater evaporation.
New Yorkers Wearing Beards.
According to the observations of a
New York barber 56 per cent, of tho
adult male population wear beards.
Peculiar Check.
A check for ten dollars written on
a strip of leather has been presented
and cashed at a Pittsburg bank.
Dentist.
A person who finds work for his
nwn teeth by taking out those of other
people.
Beware of Debt.
Kalelgb: Borrowing Is the canker
and death of every man's estate.
German Proverb.
Great minds have wills; others, only
wishes.
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