The Medford Patriot. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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DEALKBS IN
GRAIN, COAL
AND
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Charcoal Powder Paper.
Paper liupr<*KiiMii'<l with charcoal
powder posse**!* tho properties char-
acterlatlc of charcoal fillers, and la
also available fur nitration of liquids
which attuek common titter imper
Moreover, Ha hlnh rnrhon cuuten'
inukia li u K ntil conductor ol *■!« c
trlclly, tun I tlila property inn i e utl
I llzcd in U*i- construction of elftlrlco
i apparatus.
Wher. Packing Oott'f
If you lutiat carry u b..u,
In the trunk or siillcune, tii'.n
caution of wriippiiiK 'mi
cotton around tho corlt, !'<•
Vl«< <• with nn cluHtlc hand
Heard Them at Work.
Ono dny my llttlo four-year-oM
couBln Eunice wont next door to vlall
u lady, who was blinking clothes It
the yard. Near by was ti hoe lilvn
In which Knnlce vim much Interested
Sho stood looking at tho busy b«-e
for n while, and then asked what the)
were doing. Sin- was told ilic.v wcr«
making honey. For a minute she win
quiet, then suddenly exclaimed, "V«?h
air, 1 can hear them cookln' It."—Kx
change.
$50,000
DAMAGES
By JOHIS PHILIP ORTH
Tho question with Ml-- Lucy
Ramsey for u your past had been
whether sho would take up a literary
career or establish a squab farm.
Sho linil literary napiration*, but nil
tho squab bonks said there was CO
per cent, profit in squats.
Mi«h Lucy was twenty venra old,
and her education win finished. ilep
mother stood neiilrnl on the great!
question to be solved, bat har father,
who was n tilhiL-e fihysiciau, took a
rather selfish view of it ami nrouod:
''If you wrile books none of tnv
patients will buy them; if you raiso
squahs they will order more or lesi
of the birds on my prescriptions."
The squabiti
Tt was th« greatest sensation tho
Weekly Record liad over had, and it
made tho most of it.
Three days later tho proud editor
was groveling in the dust. He hail a
libel suit on hand, with damages
laid at *5Ot0UO. Miss Lucy Ram-
sey had another. She wasn't grovel-
ing, She was too scared. When
Pupa Ramsey was told of the service
of trhc papers, which happened when
he was out visiting a patient, he
turned white and groaned:
"Fifty thousand dollars! You'll
have to go to prison for SJ5 years to
satisfy that judgment!"
When Mamnut Ramsey came to
know tho substance of the summons
served on her daughter in her pres-
ence, she lifted her hand4 and sobbed
out:
"Oh, why didn't I also advise you
to raise squabs!''
There had been n bad mix-up. The
countable had arrested a man for I
stealing something from Mr. George
Lister's auto as it stopped for a i
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es probnblv would havu .
carried the dav but for'an accident. w™° 111 tho vllIaK - 1 h,,r" had beou|
Oned.iv Miss Lucy sat under a bios, !l but tl,"n> UHS «I«peradoi
aoming apple tree.' She was not fee], ,n ,ho ca8'' M,ss Lwy'* " f°™ant,
was an excitable person, and had;
drawn on her imagination a great|
deal. It was a clear case of libel.
The editor of the Record drove
over and said it was, and intimated!
very strongly that he would eommit|
suicide to escape the consequences.|
Doctor Ramsey went to see a law-
ing gay. Her thoughts turned to
sad things, and having the stub of u
pencil and a piece of paper handy
she wrote a sad poem entitled: "Wilt
They Miss Me When I'm Gone."
Without saying a word to anyone
ahe sent the verses to the Cold Har-
bor Weekly Record. Thev wero no!)
only published, but the editor called -Ver' but, *ot (T,ol?tion; The
suit, could be defended, but tho ver-
dict of the jury could be foretold
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..Oklahoma Laundry Co..
THE OPT WATBRBPIjANT
Laundry Called for Every Wednesday & Delivered Every Saturday
FAMILY WASHING A SPECIALTY.
AIjIj work guaranteed
O. P. Thack.er, Agt.
Watch For The Oklahoma Laundry Wagon
People's Electric Construction Co.
BRUNER & OLLERMAN, Managers
Will be pleased to Figure with you ou Your Wiring and Fixtures
Work. No Job too Large or too Small. Office with Batten
Realty Company. Both Phones 124.
MEDFORD, -o- OKI jA.
I" LOOK HERE! ^
| We will SendjAll OurjfNew And
Renewal Subscribers
THE
Wichita Weekly Eagle
AND THE
Arkansas Valley Farmer
AND
The Medford Patriot
For Only $1.10
The Wichita Weekly Eagle and The Arkansas Val-
ley Farmer is without doubt the most Popular and
Scientific Metropolitan Weekly Newspaper publish-
ed in this country. Associated Press and Special
Wire News. Markets absolutely correct,
The PATRIOT that pleases ' every home
citizen. It portrays the success of this most pros-
perous community and the prosperity and news of
our state.
Once a reader of THE PATRIOT always a reader.
attention to them editorially. Ho
stAted that a new Kipling had arisen,
and that within a vear the world
would be singing her praise.
There was nothing cold-hearted
about the Cold Harbor Record. Tho
•ditor wrote Miss Lucy a very flat-
tering letter. He would have sent
her n check for $200 if financially
able. He would never be financially*
able to send anything but the Rec-
A3
Ml* Career Was Decided.
months ahead. The doctor went to
see the lawyer who had the ease in
hand, and what he got from him
was:
".Mr. Lister is a wealthy and very
respectable young man. His reputa-
tion in list suffer from this. It near-
ly broke his mother's heart, when she1
read that article in the paper. It
will damage him to the amount of a
million dollars, but he has told me
to settle for $50,000."
"But I'm not worth $10,0001"
groaned the doctor.
"No? I'm sorry for you. You
should bo worth $60,000, and vthen
vou could settle this case and have
$10,000 left!"
Doctor Lister had a cozy [dace on
the outskirts of the village. By
walking a quarter of a mile one came
\ to a spot where the river swept in
! close to the highway, and there was
1 a bit of a grove there and seats un-
[ der the trees. Miss Lucy had often
walked out there when trying to de-
cide on her career. Now, with that
I awful libel suit hanging over her
head, she took to going oftener.
Ou this particular afternoon she
had dim thoughts of suicide. With
the silent waters rolling over her she
would be at rest and the libel suit
would have to be quashed.
The young lady did not jump into
the water. She hadn't arrived at
that point yet. She was just think-
ing about it when the bench on
which she sat broke down. Tt was a
The Number Thirteen, Unlver lly
Contldered Unlucky, Has Had
Some Exception*.
Among motorist* tin thirteen su-
perstition is very strong Some year*
ago a competitor in the l*lr uf Man
motor race refused lo lake ibis num-
ber, and insisted on driving us \o.
12a. He staled thut when hi* firm
begun to build cars the thirteenth
killed its purchaser and five others
on its first run. "For me," he add-
ed. "N'o. 13 has been especially filial.
In tho Pnlis-Berlin race I wn- on
No. L'5, which was lir-i until about
ten miles from Berlin, when a < i>n-
nccting rod broke nod our chanco
was destroyed. There was also the
Paris-Bordeaux race, v. hen another
N'o. ]3, and a great favorite at the
start, capsized and smashed thir-
teen miles from Bordeaux. And in
a recent hill-climbing contest Count
Zborowski and his mechanician were
killed on No. 13."
The superstition is not universal,
however, Dr. Xarisen can afford to;
laugh at it. The crew of tho Framj
on its memorable norlh pole expedi-
dition consisted of thirteen men,
who, after an absence of three years,!
all relumed to their homes in per-!
feet health, despite the trials they
had gone through. Then on Decem-
ber 13, 1893, the doctor records the
birth of a litter of pups. "Thcroi
were thirteen—a curious coincidence,
—thirteen pups for thirteen men."
Further, Dr. .Vansen arrived at
Vardo, in Xorway. on August 13,1
189lj, and on Hie -' If-same day the
Fram emerged her long drift
in tlie ico into the open sea.
NONSENSE IN WEDDING GIFTS
Population Decrease* in One Country
While It Make* Great Gains
In Another.
Much is nuide of the fact that the)
population of France is decreasing.
Is it because wo all shall be losers,
if the death rate of that country con-i
tinues to excecd lite birth rale? Or
is it because the ri'st of the world in
especially fond of the French? Or
is it because we fear that some day
the population of i.m earth will bo
so small that human beings will not
be numerous enough l<> combat wild
beasin and other euN which arc suc-
cessfully combated today?
Whatever may be the feelings with
which I ho rest of mankind beholds
the steady decline of the French peo-
ple in numbers, the fact is thero arc
still people enough on this planet;
for while the population of Franco
has increased only 3,000,000 sinco
1851, that of Germany has increased!
30,000,000.
Would it not be better, then, to)
(look on both sides of the population)
picture? It also might be well toi
consider this fact: If the French!
people have done Hieir turn on this(
planet, the planet, may have to recon-
cile itself to seeing them disappea^
or mingle with some other race.
SURE.
j sharp declivity to the bluff, and then
ord, but would see that that reached1 j a fall three feet,' and she went
her every week. All great literary rolling to plump into the stream,
lights in prose and poqtry had had|' Perhaps she screamed. Whatever
to have a beginning. The Record ! 'he did or not made no difference to
offered Miss Lucy the needed step- j the young man coming along in the
ping-stone. It would publish all her auto. He saw the accident, stopped
poetry, and it would be delighted to' his machine, and was in the water
have her dish up the news of her vil- ! supporting her before she hardly mi-
lage and the country around. ! derstood what had happened. There
Papa Ramsey saw the letter and ' was quite a struggle to reach shore,
replied that he was still for squabe. an(l when it was acirompliahed she
Mamma Ramsey saw it and said she
was still neutral. Miss Lucy read its
orer for the seventh time and her ca-
reer was decided. It was to be lit-
erary. Within an hour she was at
work on another poem entitled "Will
the Blossoms Fall Upon My Grave?"
She also procured a ten-cent note-
book and made ready to gather
items.
was picked up in her wet state and
deposited in the auto, and all the
young man said was:
"Point out your house as we come
to it. please."
The doctor as well as the mother
were at home. Miss Lucy was
whisked off to her room, and after
the doctor had received a brief ex-
planation of the affair the autoist
Writer Sees Evil In Generosity of
Friends Toward Couples Newly
United.
Because wedding presents are so
often much more lavish than the cir-
cumstances of donor or recipients
rightly permitted, a professor says,
the giving of them inclines to make
young people imagine that they can
slothfully start life where their par-
ents left off. It is, therefore, im-
moral.
Enlarging on the subject the pro-
fessor is most emphatic and sweep-
ing in lii< condemnation of the wed-
ding gift custom.
"The weak and extravagant man-
ner in which great numbers of wii','i!
earners give golden teapots, heavy
silver inkstands and plate and jewel-
ry of all kinds to friends getting
married surely justifies one in con-
demning the practise.
"The general way in which wed-
ding presents arc given nowad.-us is
unwisely sentimental.
"No doubt (he donors mean kind-
ly, but their generosity is greatly
misplaced. The economic res nil on
the recipients is that they strive lo
'live up' to the magnificence of these
gifts, but generally fail badly. and
in any case their sense of values is
upset.
"Tf wedding presents are given at
all, the givers should take the great-
est care that only serviceable
suitable gifts are made.
"In nine cases out of ten.
ever, money is much the best
ding gift."
and
3
Ou*a.
Mrs. Benton Holme—In her ne
set of china she has one hundred and
fifty pieces.
Mrs. Ivnowsitt—It's in a good
many more pieces today. She just
hired a new cook a conple of days
ago.
WHAT HE WISHED.
Clausler (who meets dyspeptic]
Weigler coming from dairy restau-
rant, where he has been breakfast-l
ing on oatmeal)—Say, old man,i
you're looking miserable—what's the
trouble?
Weigler —Oh, I'm regretting thatj
I'm not a horse.
Gausler--Regretting that. you're|
not a horse?
Weigler—Yes; a horse is happy|
when he's feeling his oats.
TAKES IT SERIOUSLY.
"I suppose you know
marked Wiseman.
Borem,
re-i
She did gather. She wrote of sew- I excused himself and departed. He
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tions to-day.
J^TRIOT MEDFORD, OKLAj
I
ing societies, engagements, mar-
riages, accidents and other things,
and the Cold Harbor Weekly Record
began to put on airs and brag over
the Hot Creek Weekly Times.
Miss Lucy had girl friends to help
her along in her literary career by
telephoning in items. It was four
weeks before she struck a sensation.
Then it came from a village five]
miles away, and it was gilt-edged. It
j was an opportunity such as Shake-
; «peare sighed for in vain. As tele-
; phoned in and written up and pub-
lished in the Record under four
•can -heads. Constable Baker had ar-
rested a desperado who had stolen an,
auto in the city and was making
across the country. There bad been
a desperate fight- The prisoner was
suspected of being a country Raffles.
He had given the name of Georga
Lister, and claimed to be innocent,
but the authorities were up to hia
games. State prison yawned for him.
came next day, however, as was very
proper. Miss Lucv received him, as
was very proper. The father and
mother rendered thanks. And when
the hero handed out his card he.
thought it also very proper to add
in explanation:
"I am the plaintiff in the $50,000'
libel suit, you know. I ordered it>
discontinued this morning. I—I
can't save a young lady's life and
then sue her, too, can I ?"
"They told me all wrong about
it," pleaded Miss Lucy, "and you,
don't know how sorrv I have been."
"We'll talk it over some day—i
when I get over being a desperado."
And thev arc talking it over so
frequently, and talking other things
with it, that the doctor shakes hia
head in a dubious way and says to
the wife:
This is going to be a lonesome
PUNISHED.
"People who lie are alwavs pun-
ished in one way or another,"
"That's right."
"You know of incidents wlh-h
bear out my statement?"
"One. I used to exaggerate the
size of my fortune when talking <> a
girl I used to call on before I w;;s
married."
"And she discovered ik ; r>u
were lying and despised you e, r aft-
erward ?"
"No, she married inc."
SHE WAS SORRY.
"Only
'How are
"Well.
"Don't
"Don't
you do In
ter of an
just well enough to say|
you?'" replied Marklev.
don't do it."
do what?"
say 'Dow are you?' for if I
'II hold you up for a quar-;
lour or so and tell you."—i
Catholic Standard and Times.
THE ONLY WAY.
"So," said the good man. "vou in-,
tend to be a doctor when you grow
up?"
"Yep," Tommy replied.
"And why have you decided uponi
the medical profession?"
"Well, a doctor seems to be thei
only man that keep.- M on gcttin'!
paid whether Ins no:-. - . Iisfactoryj
or not."
pect she's got to go.'
"I am so sorry." she said • Y'ii
they had wandered far from be
madding throng and lie had eiidc u-
ored several times to kiss her, "iln;:
we never came out here before."
"Are you ?" he asked, w ith a glad.
note of eagerness in his tone.
"Yes. Because if we had I'd be disease,
somewhere else now."
DEER IN MAINE.
Maine deer are increasing and onei
reason for their great numbers this
summer is because they arc able to
obtain excellent feed from young)
shrubs in the burnt, districts.
Last w inter was remarkably mild
in northern Maine. The deer wan-
dered about at will, obtained plenty
of food, and so were not killed off by
~ USUAL ATTRACTIONS.
HIS OPINION.
"1 spent my summer in the Yel-J
Topkins— Do you think the aver- lowstone. The geysers aav wonder-'
age girl will accept a man as soon as ful. It's a great resort."
he proposes ? "The Yellowstone may be wonder-
Hopkins—As soon as he pro- ful. but it will never be a resort un-
_ _ poses? Great Scott, man, she'll ac- til they have a boardwalk and a gey-
ei" «¥* bim as soon as he begins to pro- ser of orangeade."—Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
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Simons, R. T. The Medford Patriot. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1910, newspaper, October 20, 1910; Medford, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc185941/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.