Madill Democrat. (Madill, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1907 Page: 1 of 6
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MADILL D
VOLUME 1.
MADILL, CHICKASAW NATION, INDIAN TERRITORY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907.
NUMBER 21.
Only a Picture.
We presume every person who
has reached middle life, linds
himself occasionally looking upon
some memory picture. It may
be the face of a departed friend
or relative, or some striking event
in their life, or oniy a landscape
scene, whatever it is, it passes
and repasses before the vision
and for a time they see as plainly
as if they were gazing upon a real
picture on canvas.
Some years ago at the close of
a hot summer day we walked past
a small vine covered cottage, on
the poarch of which sat two old
people who had long before pass-
ed the alloted three score and ten.
The old man sat leaning back in
his chair a look of contentment
and resignation on his face. Old
and aecrept though he was, there
was nothing but peace and con-
tentment written in that wrinkled
fyce. His aged campanion, who
i<ir more than fifty years had
walked by his side, sat knitting
in a low rocker. She too showed
the marks of age, her form was
shrunken and bent, her cheeks
had long been ago lost their
bloom and were sunken and fur-
rowed with time, yet through it
.all there shone forth a look of
peace and contentment, which
showed she was at rest with the
world and herself.
Something about the old couple
sitting there arrested our atten-
tion and we stopped to gaze upon
the scene, and what a picture it
made. In the foreground sat
that old couple at the door of
their little vine covered cottage,
their life's work over, awaiting
the summons to a better land.
Long and rough had been the
way, but time had brought peace
and contentment, and now they
were simply awaiting the call
that must come to all. In the
back ground the setting sun shed
a glow over all and the few scat-
tered clouds reflected back its
brilliancy, modified but more
beautiful than the sun itself. The
whcle making a picture that no
master of ancient or modern
times ever equaled.
' To have had the ability to put
that scene on canvass would have
been worth years of our life, but
instead of putting it on canvass it
became engraved on memory's
wall and when our mind turns to
old age it looks upon that scene
as the acme of peace and con-
tentment.
The " Knocker."
In this day and age of the
world, we learn to know that
every town is afflicted with
" knockers." Let us look into a
knocker and describe his char
actor and principles. A knocker
always has something to say
about his neighbors. He is ever-
lastingly seeking to ruin some-
body's reputation. He hates his
neighbor because perhaps he has
more "luck" in earning an honest
dollar. A knocks always swears
he is telling the truth and em
phasizes his dirty work with
wholesale cursing. He is fully
as bad as a thief who breaks into
your safe and takes you*-person-
al property when you are not
looking. The knocker goes be-
hind your back and belittles your
reputation and character and a
person with wholesome con-
science has no respect for him.
We know that every one has his
failings and makes mistakes. We
are not perfect. The knocker
should be ignored by decent peo-
ple; he is unwholesome and a
parasite on any community.
The birth rate of New York
last year was the greatest ever
reported. Perhaps if Theodore
could be induced to accept anoth-
| er term that unfortunate city
might be entirely rescued from
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Candidate for Congress From
the Fourth Congressional
District.
n
THE HOME CIRCLE.
And still the cry goes up, "Let
us save the boys." It is general-
ly accepted that fathers are be-
yond redemption, but the boys
must be saved. Fathers bend
their earnest effort trying to
straighten crooked sticks and
wonder why their boys are not
models when the fact is the
youngsters are simply "chips off
the old block." The stump which
bore them can produce no better.
Fathers note carefully the faults
of your boys, and then look with-
in. Do you expect to see any
virtue in them that is not reflect-
ed in your own life. You will
generally find ail your shortcom-
ings and bad habits and a few
more. Realize the responsibility
of parentage—the sacred trust
that has been placed in your keep-
ing. If you would have good
boys do right and lead a pure,
upright life and noble life. Keep
your thoughts clean, and give
your boys the birthright which
is their due. Yes, save the boys,
spare them the inheritance of the
evil appetite, unbridled passions
and sordid desires. Give them
a foundation on which they may
build a beautiful structure—the
noblest work of God.
In this issue of the Democrat ap
pears the name of Chas. D. Car-
ter of Ardmore, as a candidate
for congress frcm this, the
Fourth Con^re sional Distiic;.
While Mr. Carter's home is in
Ardmore, he is i.o stranger to
rfur people and has many warm
friends and admirers in this sec-
tion of the new state. He is not
only well and favorablo known in
this part of the country, but is
one of the most widely known
and prominent men in the entire
new state of Oklahoma.
Mr. Carter is a native of the
new state, having been born at
Old Boggy Depot in the Choctaw
Nation thirty-six years ago. He
possesses that determination,
pluck and self reliance notable in
the mingling of Indian and Anglo
Saxon races. He has resided in
Ardmore for the past twenty
years, and during that time has
tilled a number of offices of trust
in both municipal and national
affairs. For some time he was
a member of the Chickasaw lsgis
lature and held the office of Na-
tional Auditor. He also served
four years as Superintendent of
Public Instructions, and four
years as coal trustee. The office
of governor of the Chickasaw Na-
tion has virtually been tendered
him on several different occasions
and he could have held that high
office of trust had he expressed a
willingness to do so.
In the recent campaign for
Constitutional delegates he held
the office of Secretary of State
Democratic Campaign Commit-
tee and it was through the tire-
less efforts and unceasing work
of himself and associates that
caused the Democratic majority
to be so overwhelmingly great.
While an office holder of the
tribe of which he was a member
the happiness and prosperity of
his people was his greatest aim
and ambition. As the represen-
tative of the people of the new
state as a congressman the hap-
piness and prosperity of all the
people will still be his aim, and
be being a member of an Indian
tribe, can no doubt do much in
the way of getting restrictions
removed, and he desires to see
the Indian allowed to sell con
servatively his land and the actul
settler to own it.
Mr. Carter's record as a Dem-
ocrat is before the people of the
new state and we all know that he
is a true Democrat and has done
excellent service for the party
He is a friend to the Indian and
to the white man and possesses
the qualifications to capably fill
any office or honor the new state
can bestow upon him.
the grasp of the race suicide
octopus.
Another evidence that adver-
tising pays is contained in the
following paragraph from the
Peoria (111.) Herald Transcript:
"Since we took charge of the
Peoria Gas and Electric Light
company, about six months ago
we have piped 500 Peoria resi-
dences for gas,' said Emil G.
Schmid last night, "while T no-
tice by the reports that in the
preceding six months the old
company piped just one house. I
attribute nearly every bit of our
new business to newspaper ad-
vertising. .Our company is a
firm believer in its efficiency, and
since we have come to Peoria we
have spent a good deal of money
in this kind of publicity with the
above very gratifying results."
Some of the congressmen are
wondering if the Washington
hotel keepers and landlords will
make a raise in living expenses
about March 1st to correspond
with that increase in salary.
LEE BROOKS
BUYS
CORN AND OATS
AND HAS SEED OATS TO SELL.
sMADILL LUMBER COMPANY;
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Everything in the Building Line.
S Paints, Oils and Builders Hardware. i
Baker Perfect Barbed Wire.
Figure With Us Before You Buy.
I D. W. INGERSOLL, Proprietor
The Thaw trial for the murder
of S. White is on in New York,
and every paper in the country
will be full of the details of the
trial and an account of the lives
of these men, neither of whom
lived lives that one could point to
with pride or care to talk much
about in family circles. Yet the
people want such matter or the
papers would not publish it. It
is generally understood that the
defense will depend on the un-
written law to justify Thaw in his
act. The unwritten law is al-
right if the wife is mnocent of
any wrong, but when she be-
came a party to the wrong we
can see no justification for its ap-
plication. About the only par-
ties who are to be pitied in this
sad affair is the wife and children
of Stanford White. They alone
seem to be innocent victims,
WOMAN'S SERVICE.
It is a gross injustice that
women's service, though it wears
away her life, robs her of the
ability to do that which is for her
children's highest good and chills
her love of the refined and beau-
tiful, has no promise of a com
pensation equivalent to the life-
long sacrifice it demands. A
man of family expects to pay the
men or women who assist in do-
ing their work in case such as
sistanee is required. Why should
they expect the woman, whom of
all the world they have professed
lo love best to do their menial
work for nothing? ' Oh," one is
ready to answer, "we are work
ing on a mutual plan. What is
for one is for both." Well, let us
see how that is. She has washed
to save a washerwoman's bill,
cooked and cleaned to save a ser-
vant'8 hire; taken care of the
children to save the nurse hire,
made clothes to save the expense
of a seamstress, besides doing
many other things equally as
hard; while he has none of these
unrenumerative tasks nor the ex-
pense of them to bear. He is not
willing that she should share in
his half earnings. Quite the con-
trary, when a little money is
asked for, not for herself but for
any necessities for the house or
children, it is often very grudg
ingly givan if at all. We have
known cases where poor over-
worked women are obliged, be-
sides doing all the work for their
families, to earn as best they
could whatever little money they
required for their personal ex
penses.
A mother's health, both of
body and mind, is worth more
than additional acres of land and
tine live stock. The heart should
not be allowed to grow old. Life
should not ha,ye lost its charm,
the heart its spirit, and the body
its alasticity at forty years. And
yet how many women are faded
and wan and shattered in mind
and health long before they are
forty. All the joy of life is not
in its morning, if tyrannical or
thoughtless opposition were re-
strained by the hand of justice.
lations with the children were
the most beautiful we have ever
seen; every inmate of the house
involuntarily looked into her face
for the keynote of the day and it
always rang out clear. From
the rose or clover leaf, which in
spite of her hard housework she
always found time to put beside
our plates at breakfast, down to
the story she had in hand to read
in the evening, there was no in-
termission of her influence. She
has always been and always will
be our ideal of a mother, wife and
home maker. If to her quick
brain, loving heart and exquisite
face had been added the appli-
ance of wealth and enlargement
of wide culture, here would have
been absolutely the idal home.
As it was, it was the best we
have ever seen.
Lee Brooks has seed oats to
sell and wants to buy your ear
corn.
A PERFECT HOME.
The most perfect home we ever
saw was a little house in the
sweet incense of whose tires went
no costly thing. A thousand
dollars served as a year's living
for father, mother and three
children. But the mother was
the creator of the home; her re-
Let the good mother, though
often perplexed with care, and
striving to lay up for the inevi-
table "rainy day," not neglect
the intellectual and spiritual
training of the little ones entrust-
ed to her cafe, but listen to then-
plans, and take part in their
often perplexed with care, and
striving to lay up for the inevita-
ble 'rainy day," not neglect the
intellectual and spiritual training
of the little ones entrusted to hex-
care, but listen to their plans,
and take part in their childish en-
joyments, and when the evening
lamps are lighted read to thein
and talk to them of intimate
things, sowing the seed of good
thoughts, and so gain their love
and confidence that anything
they afterwards met that does
not seem quite right to them,
may be talked over with their
parents. The recollection of such
intercourse will be a well spring
of tender memories when she
shall have passed away.
SOMETHING FOlt BOYS.
Many people seem to forget
that character grows; that it is
not something to put on ready
made, with womanhood or man
hood; but day by day, hear a lit-
tle and there a little, grows with
the growth and strengthens with
the strength, until good or bad it
becomes almost a coat of mail.
Look at a man of business—
prompt, reliable, conscientious
yet clear-headed and energetic.
When do you suppose he devel-
oped all the admirable qualities?
When he was a boy.
Let us see the way in which a
boy of ten gets up in the morning,
works, plays, studies, and we
will tell you just what kind of a
man he will make. The boy who
is late to school stands a poor
chance to be a prompt man. The
boy who neglects his duties, be
they ever so small, and then ex-
cuses himself by saying:
"I forgot; I didn't think;" will
never be a reliable man.
and the boy who finds pleasure
in the sufferings of v,eaker things
will never be a noble generous,
kindly man—a gentleman.
While the possibility of woman
getting beyond man intellectually
and physically may not be alto-
gether pleasant for the lords of
creation, still they must realize
that it is impossible to have too
much of a good thing, and the in-
teresting growth holds out the
hope that so great will be her
mental growth and physical ad-
vancement that she will attain
sufficient moral courage to keep
the-skirt of her dress above the
dirt of the street, to have con-
venient and roomy pockets to re-
lieve her overloaded hands, to
eschew the senseless custom of
partially concealing her features
llattenning her nose and injuring
hereyes with a little grave mask,
whatever are the decrees of Dame
Fashion.
No Free Seed.
The indication? a re that there
will be no more trap. ,sef<Vr- "son)-.
out by the government. That is,
indiscriminate scattering of seeds
over the country as in the past,
it is probably just as well. The
seeds of late years have not been
of the kind to inspire faith in
Uncle Sam's judgment, in fact
there has been indications that
some seed house was working off
old stale seeds on the govern-
ment at a big profit. One thing
that kept this abuse alive long af-
ter it should have been killed was
that the agricultural committees
were not apparently getting
much direct benefit from the
general government and to scat-
ter a few free seeds to these peo-
ple seemed no very great waste
of money; but since the establish-
ment of free rural delivery these
people have a direct daily benefit
of the general goveramert which
largely offsets the advantages
which the big cities get in tUs
free delivery and the millions
spent on harbor and public build-
ings so there is no occasion for
continuing this waste. For waste
it was. The seed being inferior
in quality and not sufficient in
quantity to really be of much
actual benefit.
Negro's Advice to His Race.
A prominent negro educator of
Tennessee in a recent address
delivered himself of the following
advice:
"There is no use in beating the
devil around the stump—It is
now up to the negroes of this
country to make themselves or
go down. You have no particular
friends in the north. Some Ne-
groes have been falling on their
faces ever President Roosevelt,
but he has shown them now that
he is not stuck on them. The
negro is a negro the country over
and the sooner he learns this the
better it will be for the whole
race. Go into business, buy
homes, educate your children,
take a stick and knock the devil
out of the Jim Crow Negroes,
and make all the loafers go to
work and the problem will be
solved."
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