The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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J^TK- QlMWER,
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Pasteboard Hearts
Suffragists Plan to Charm the Senate
| !,«■ on<* of the delegates. Mm. Ollv
| II r. Jblrnont will be one of ihe r*
I i«-H«*iitntn(lv«■ of the Political Equal
i).
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raglsi
(Hi,
In New York havo
r< Im «1 over the re-
iy M i > Belmont at
ltapti-t church, nt
k hi.
W'AftHINOTON. The am
t Iona I convention <•! women hi!
fragists. which will be Inld Ifi Wash
Ington tin* wi < k of April II. w ill I"
Kioi-t riotahl' r.'tln iih- "f kind
m point of numberand j ci>nnnel that
i vcr hm taken plat • !n thl> country.
Never befoie ha\e women of nuch
wealth and social position Journeyed
to the national capltol to pp-hh their
cause. Their preneiice will be '« !•
hrated by Washington society with i
round 01 social function** Many of
the society delegate* will wear their
most fetching toilettes to the convn
Hon and they hope to convert many
statesmen by showing thein that it In
not only the iniiscuiliic type of women
who wants the ballot.
There In another and more potent
reason for the fair suffragists wearing
their most elaborate costumes. I'or
the first lime the women delegates will
appear In person before the senate.
They will present to the upper bouse
of congress lie giant petltlor lor
which names have been gathered tor
several years from every sin'.e In the
union. The petition praying for uni-
versal suffrage contains more than
1.000,000 nnmes
Mrs Clarence H Mm kay, president
of the Kqual Franchise society, will
h<
tok many n
mlzatlon It
j many tc speculate as to tb«
' <>f enfranchising the negrc
' the southern states. Man>
j iieen • xchanged during tlx
! netwe< n the New York w' '
huffraglst workers In the
, running the manner in wh
| ored women's vote ran be
If we get the vote "
Yes, said Mrs Ida Hustcd Harper,
"It Ih true that the southern women
wish to bar the colored woman from
\otlng Hut as the national associa-
tion stands for universal suffrage at
all times and In all places, we cannot
i ountenatK this action of the south*
■ ern women. The southern states that
! belong to the national association are
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
slsslppl. Missouri, Maryland and Ten-
; nessee.'
Mrs. Melmont gave out ttie following
statement regarding her stand on the
| matter:
i '! do not consider the suffrage ques-
| Hon m noclal question In any sense r.f
i the word. It Is purely ;i political ques-
! tion and must only be considered as
! such. The matter of political eq ml-
j itv has no connection with s< clal equal-
ity I think each state has the right
j to settle this matter for itself."
Monk Chases Longworth Dinner Guests
IK C'OL HOOSKVKLT Is having any
more thrilling adventures In Africa
than a number of distinguished per
sons had in the dining room of bis
daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, in
Washington, they think he owes It to
his family to come home at once
According to the tidings brought to
the front by the society reporters,
there was a monkey hunt at the Long
worths that left the company duly Im
pressed with the terrors of the Jungle
It appears that Representative and
Mrs. Longworth were giving a dinner
in honor of Mr. and Mrs Cornelius
Yanderbllt of New York Along toward
the close of the dinner the talk drift
ed to animals, and Mrs Longworth de
scribed two pet monkeys she recently
acquired. The guests expressed a
desire to see the animals and Mrs.
l^ongworth bar' *e cage carried Into
the dining hh
In some way the door of the cage
became unfastened and one of the
monkeys escaped. It lea|x d to the
center of the table, and, turning a
handspring, climbed to the chandelier,
where it hung by Its tall and chat-
tered at the company. The women
shrieked and scrambled to their chairs,
while the no n fell over each other In
trying to evolve musures of protec-
tion and at the same time capture the
beast.
The monkey eluded the brave hunt-
ers with ease. It sprang from the
chandelier to the sideboard, ran
around the room three or four times,
while the women and some of the
men went rapidly out of the nearest
doors. Then it vaulted into the plate '
j rail, where it did a few stunts to the
damage of much brlc a brae Finally
i It Intrenched Itself behind a jardiniere,
j where eventually !' was captured
I When the monkey was restored to
i Its cage and quiet had settled down
I over the dinner once more. Mrs llourke
' Cockran, who Is visiting Gen and Mrs.
Clarence Kdwards, expressed the opin-
lion that there was something wrong
with the construction of the nest pro-
vided for Mrs Long worth's pets.
Sh li .'1 been In the Philippines and
she thought she knew something
about the building of homelike
monkey nests. Cotton and soft grass
j were produced, and Mrs Cockran pro-
• ceded to rearrange the monkey's
I home.
i The beasts did not appreciate her ef-
: forts, however, and one of them bit
• her thumb. A physician examined the
| wound and said there would be no
dangerous consequences.
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By LITTELL McCLUNG
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• Isn't Dolly Watson a bit late with j "You are doing well. Keep it up. I
her proposal party?" asked Campbell want you to win the prize!
Askin. assisting the girl with her opera j "HELEN,
cloak. "Leap year passed out some i Askin was in dead earnest now. No
time ago " ' longer was the eonteBt absurd or even
Helen Armond smiled forgivingly at [entertaining. The congratulations of
his ignorance j ,he s'rl w,lose approval he wished
Holly saved to night's affair pur- l of all were at stake, and he de-
pose!)' until all signs of leap year had | termlned to win
disappeared," she replied. "Now she
thinks it is high time for the men to
do the proposing."
"That's the attitude, is It?" the
young man exclaimed "Well, there's
surely method In Dolly's tardiness. I
suppose there will be the usual red
hearts and green mittens?"
"No, sir, there'll be a change in col-
ors at this party," the girl said. "The
hearts are to be blue, true blue—I
helped Dolly select them myself! The
mittens are to be a shade of yellow,
suggesthive of—lemons, of course Yes,
it is a bit slangy, but it certainly is
appropriate."
"As for me." rejoined Askin, "I ex-
pect to get a few mittens, for I'm not
adept in proposing."
"So I've noticed!" the girl ventured.
"But I do expect you," he continued,
Ignoring her thrust, "to give me a
real large heart—two of them if no-
body happens to be looking!"
"Don't be too sure about that, sir!"
she warned. "If you don't act with
proper gallanry I may hand you a
mitten '
"I dare you!" he challenged.
As he began to offer his love
maid No. 6 in exchange for a piece ot
cardboard, he noticed that the man in
front was still getting hearts. His eye
flashed defiance at his rival, and his
eloquence incre,j«ed. With the practice
gained by half . jn avowals, his
words came with surprising smooth-
ness. He received another heart!
Then he looked ahead and saw that
only three girls separated him from
Helen. She caught his eye and her
look was one of pride. She loosened a
heart from the string she held and
placed in In her lap. That heart was
for him, he knew.
Then, all at once, Just as ha was be-
ginning the seventh proposal, Askin's
voice began to fail him. This brought
on embarrassment and he found him-
self uttering the most disconnected
sentences. It went from bad to worse,
and in another minute he was utterly
confused and unable to say anything.
Relief came with the bell tap, and in
the brief interim ne slipped out of lino
and retreated into the softly lighted
conservatory. As he thought of the
situation he simply could not go back
into the crowd, but Instead flung him-
Oh. well, she answered, maybe I , „
... ,, , .i . self on a bench in despair, disgusted
wont, after all. Rut please «ee that . ,, .
you do it properly."
"I'll do my best," he declared. "But
we had better be going, for If you
arrive late you may miss several ap-
peals for a heart or two." i „ , ....
This fear was groundless, for they I *or Bome ,lme he sat "8tenlnB ,0 the
were ushered in before the heart-and-
wlth himself for allowing his feelinga
j to master him. What would Helen
i think of him now for giving up so fool-
I ishly when the prize was almost with*
I In his graBp?
ROM Cb&puHepic, the P&aeo <v beaut) and Ingen
Fla Reforrna, the American quar-
ter, and the city proper to the
old Aztec quarter in the south-
ern part of the City of Mexico,
Is the extreme of contrast in
worldly station and the longest step on
the North American continent from
the splendid modern to a still living
antiquity.
Down In the old Aztec quarter a dIf
flowers and vegetables grew for the
royal tables, and cool shades and bow-
ers for the royal pleasure, externally
\ernal from sublrrigation.
Their kings Increased in might and
knowledge; they had their David and
their Solomon, and their cities had
each its si lendld glory of soldiery or
statesman or philosopher, as had Home
and Athens.
mitten contest began.
"Awfully glad to see you both!"
cooed Dolly Watson. "I know where
one of my hearts is going."
Helen flashed the hostess a reprov-
ferent world Is found, an old world, ' par out beyond the western shore of
with all Its primitive life and at the lake rose the natural fortress of
mosphere. and one may feel certain chapultepec, and this, too, they em-
that he ie not only treading ancient
paths, but is seeing the very life of
centuries ago.
There still stand many of the old
adobe houses which were built by the
braced. A causeway was constructed
thither and a palace and garden
red red on Its topmost crest. As the
city grew gradually the two extremes
of water depth and mountain height
Aztecs, who here founded their capital reached out and met with clasped
city in 1325, when they ceased their ; hands in the valley between—the last
wandering and rested here in the love-
ly vale of the Anahuac, "Near the Wa-
ters.' guided, as they belived, by their
gods.
The Aztec tribes had wandered /ar,
stopping sometimes for perhaps a gen
eratlon or two on their long pilgrimage
from the north, driven southward, as | and overlaid, until
Is supposed, by geographical and eli- j traces remain,
matlc changes, but ever seeking a
kinder land At San Diego, Cal., at
Zacatecas, at Puebla, are found traces
link connecting the confines of a great
city.
When the invader came his covetous
eye at once discerned the value of this
heaven-born city and Its surrounding
valleys. When he secured control the
Aztec work was destroyed, added to
now not many
On the spot where the great temple
was reared stands the grand cathedral
to-day. On the site of Montezuma's
of short sojourns, but not yet had they I wild beast garden was built the Fran-
found the end of their desire. ' clscan church and « on vent, one of the
Enough Useful Animals to Destroy Man
wi
IF ALL the useful animals In the
world were to organize themselves
lor revolt against the cruelties of man
they would outnumber any human
army that could be brought against
them, even If every man, woman and
child marched from the four corners
of the earth to enlist.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has issued a report show
Ing that th«* number of useful animals
more than equals the population of the
earth.
Clen Hellw ether could organise his
sheep Into a di\lsion of 680,000,000,
outnumbering the Chinese by more
than 100.000.uuo The horse could
have a t avail y d \Uion of more than
*♦6,000,000. with a coip* of more than
7,000,000 mules and 9,000,00 Jackasses
to carry supplies to the front. About
100,000,000 goats could furnish milk,
while l!l 000.000 buffaloes could stamp
I out Spain man by man.
I Meanwhile 2.000,000 camels could
campaign li their familiar conditions
! of deserts and dry places and HOU.OOO
hardy reindeer could sweep the north-
ern climes.
There arr, as nearly as can be es-
timated, 1,&00,000,000 useful animals in
the world. Including, in addition to
those mentioned, enormous numbers of
cattle and hogs
The Cnlted States leads In the num-
ber of swine, with about 60,000,00- a
third of all In the world Australia
leads with sheep N8.000.000, the
I Cnlted States being third with
; 57.000,000
! Kuropcau Russia and the United
j States are about even on horses, with
about 26,000,000 each, more than half
the mules are here Hrltish India Is
the principal habitat of the goat; there
are 110,000.000 there. The camel is
j usually associated with Kgypt, but
| but there are only 176,000 there,
| against 700.000 In Asiatic Kussla.
The tableland to the north wr s a
barren desert In many places, and only
reached by parched trails and toilsome
ascents, but at last guided by the then
smoking, snow-capped Popocatapetl,
the sacred mountain, they found a par-
adise up above the rugged mountain
ranges, laid like a royal gem against a
background of azure sky and verdant
rim, for a valley of lakes It w as and al-
ways Is green and fresh. They called
ft Anahuac and, still seeking tokens of |
the gods, they saw us they came at
most magnificent properties of the
New World, until during the severence
of church and state in Mexico in the
last century it was broken up and di-
fided
And so all the way to Chapultepec
the palaces and gardens of the Monte-
zumus were succeeded by the royal
palace of the republic; and the Paseo
de la Reforma Is the ribbon that binds
the two together as the causeways did
years ago.
Hut at the farther end along the
I
tinkle of the little silver boll. Every-
thing became comparatively quiet
again. Suddenly behind him he heard
a soft football. Then a hand rested
lightly on his shoulder. He looked up
—into Helen's reproachful eyes.
"What's the matter, Campbell?" the
girl asked, a touch of sympathy in her
tone. "Why in the world did you let
that ither fellow beat you? Why, you
didn't even stay to propose to me, and
I had a heart waiting for you!"
"Helen, that's just the reason I
couldn't keep up that sham!" he blurt-
ed out. "Because you were there! It
was fairly easy proposing to all those
other girls, but the thought of saying
those silly, trumped-up words to you
unnerved me completely!"
"Why, Campbell, couldn't you
them to me?" she asked quietly.
For answer he turned quickly
grasped her half-resisting hands.
"Because, dear girl," he whispered,
"because 1 simply couldn't willfully
seem ridiculous before you. Because,
well—1 love you too much, that's why!
Helen, haven't you more than a paste-
board box heart for me? Haven't you
a real one? If you have, I want to
ask for it In earnest—now."
A few minutes later the name of the
man who had won the prize was an-
nounced. But Askin knew that he, not
the fellow who was given a handsome
smoking set. had secured the real prize
of the evening.
say
and
How Col. Lyon Created a Federal Job
H \t
\ F
Col.. CKCIl. I.YON of Texas Is a mil-
lionaire rumlimiin who plays pull
tic* for (he fun of It. and who plays so
well he Is now credited with the own
ershlp ot the Republican party of
Texas.
When Col I.yon gels up out of a
chair he opens up like a carpenter's
rule, a section at u lime. When he
talks you can stay out In the next
room and miss none of the story, for
Col. Lyon is typical of his big stale.
Col. Lyon sat In the 1'ress club In
Washington one evening and told of
the Job he got In Texas for a young
gentleman of color who wanted to
work for the government.
l.yon looked over the pay roll of
employes at the federal building at
home. There were no vacancies and
most of the jobs had a long waiting
list of applicants Lyon looked abroad
ai I he lists of employes In other fed-
eral buildings, lie found a job he
didn't know about.
It was the Job of a char woman.
Col. Lyon looked It up in the dic-
tionary and found that a char woman
was one who polished doorknobs and
things There wire plenty of knobs
in tin- federal building back home,
but his tuan was uot a woman, and
the dictionaries made no mention of
char men
This tljd not stop Col. Lyon of
Texas. 11*' created the office of char
man. the only one In existence, so far
as Washington knows, and the young
man who wanted to work for the gov-
ernment Is polishing knobs with great
eclat.
early morning to the shores of Lake i south lake shore, the hand of the
Texcoco a golden eagle resting lightly I spoiler was somewhat stayed, for with
on a rocky, cactus grown pile far out in ] the receding of (he waters the farther
the shallow water. With wings out- j valley was more desirable for the
spread toward the rising sun and a city's needs than the frequently over-
serpent In Its talons he was taking his Down Aztec quarter.
morning's meal on a throne of nature's Clustered around the oldest church
making Small wonder that these pi'o on ilie American continent a chapel
pie accepted this beautiful valley as was built there by Cortez for his first
their chosen land. ] occupation, but now, compared w ith
til. the very spot where the eagle sat its surroundings, still stand many of
they set up their standard, a rude pro the anc ient flat-roofed gray houses on
ductlon of the scene, the same which the foundations, which have grown to
was worked In the rare guetzal feath- be a part of the mainland, though low-
ers on the banner of Montezuma, taken ( (0 the water's edge. Still run In nar
by Cortez and sent as a royal trophy ; row, tortuous squalor the old streets
to the king of Spain, and which has, i and canals, traversed once by the Az-
wlth little changes, been preserved as j t,.Cs in royal barges and flat-bottomed
i the standard of colonial Spain and the canoes. Still grow the floating gar-
| banner of Mexico to-day. j dens, though really floating no longer;
From the bosom of the lake to the \ the drainage of the lake and ihe set-
mainland In the often waxing and wan- tling of ages have moored them to the
lug waters they erected dwellings, lirst bottom of the lake, but they still
of rushes and reeds, later of adobe,
plying canoes between As time went
on and they increased In power and
numbers, four great causeways were
constructed, the "Culzadas" of the Az-
tecs, bearing rock founded and fortlfled
roads from llio lake to the shores and
quiver to the tread where they rise In
distinctly artificial outline, and still
produce the year around their fruits,
vegetables and flowers
Queer, white-capped boatmen run to
meet you as you near the water's edge,
each beseeching your patronage, sing
cut to the country beyond- connecting ing the praises of his own boat nnd de-
Texcoco with Xochlmllco and Chalco riding his neighbor's with apparently
A Hand Rested Lighted on His
Shoulder.
Ing look, but it was wasted, for she
turned to make a similar comment to
other guests.
Following the usual greetings and
introductions, came the contest, with
whisperings that an unusually hand-
some prize awaited the winner. The
men were to propose by progression,
each of the dozen girls having six
hearts and six mittens. Each could
choose his own words and methods,
and he had two minutes for every ac-
ceptance or rejection.
At the first tap of the bell—the stg
nal for the start—Askin found himself
separated from Helen by nine or ten
girls. He glanced about to see three
men sink to their knees slmultaneous-
: ly, in story book fashion, and with
mock-serious expressions begin to
plead with three girls for as many
hearts, lu a moment both drawing
i rooms were a babel of confusion.
The absurdity of the thing struck
Askin forcibly, and he scowled at the
men around him for making such mon-
keys of themselves. But beside him he
saw a pretty girl already preparing to
gi i a heart to a young fellow who
was pleading his cause In ardent sen-
tences.
Then, without another second's con-
templation, he threw himself into the
spirit of the contest and began to pro-
i pose as best he could to a young wom-
an he hardly knew. The girl's face
lighted up with a smile of pleasure,
and when the bell sounded she drew
torth a heart and fastened it to his
i lapel.
Inspired uy this success, Askin
stepped before the second girl and
HASTENED TO HIS MOTHER
Long Ride Undertaken by Washington
to Obtain Blessing He So
Much Valued.
It Is Interesting to recall a ride
taken by the first president which
seems to have escaped general no-
tice.
In the early spring of 17S!) Charles
Thompson, secretary of congress,
reached Mount Vernon bearing the offi-
cial notification that George Washing-
ton had been elected first president
of the United States. The news was
not unexpected and seems to have
been calmly received by the dignified
old general.
After early dinner, while Mrs. Wash-
ington entertained the guest from the
north. Gen. Washington wrote to the
president of the senate that the com-
munication had reached htm at 1 p. m.
that day, and that he proposed, a9
there seemed reason for haste, to be-
gin his Journey toward New York
"the day after to-morrow."
This letter was sent at once to
Alexandria postofflce by a servant, and
the general ordered his horse for a
rapid ride to Fredericksburg, nearly
40 miles away and with two turbulent
streams to ferry In the bargain.
The April days are not long, and
night was closing in as Washington
left home for a long, wild dash through
forests and over obstructions not
known now In any American forest;
and the object of this effort was not
glory or country, but to cl tain on this
greatest day of his distinguished
career his mother's blessing.
The aged woman was near 80 and
and Zumpango, crossing marshes on the most terrific venom, hut it is all a thon ,he third, varying his deelara I In falling health. Washington reached
piles, spanning ravines on arched i part of the game
bridges thrown boldly across, cleaving
a way through hills and raising
monument of triumph and skill to
All of the old atmosphere still pre-
vails; oxen still slowly tug by the
neck at loads borne on rude wagons,
tonlsh th-> conquerors 100 years Inter, with wheels sawed from huge logs,
and from which they took their clew
In later developments.
Their temples nnd palaces sprung sealed freight.
within the very sound of shrieking en-
gines which bear the palace cars and
tions of eternal devotion as much as
possible. A second, then a third time,
he was triumphant, and after he had
proposed to the fifth girl five blue
hearts were dangling from his lapel
But while several men had three or
her side In the early dawn, but bad
almost Immediately to return or else
break his word to the senate. He
held her In his arms In loving tender-
ness, whtle she declared that she
would never see him again. But she
far did their ardent desire to triumph i old age and die within walls erected
over nature go. that great floating I g0 long ago that their homes are as
gardens lay on the lake, borne on rafts 1 much a part of the landscape as the
and enriched with virgin soil from the Hiid mountains Moving is one
plains, rivaling the hanging gardens of 0( the Ills of life from which they ar#
the great Semlramls of Babylon in j gxeuipL
of them. He was evidently very popu-
lar, for he was landing the coveted
prizes without apparent difficulty.
Suddenly and unobserved some one
slipped a bit of crumpled paper Into
Askin s hand. He opened It and read;
ways," sent him forth.
Within 24 hours Washington was
again at Mount Vernon and ready to
begin the long ride to New York. He
was not far from 60 years old at that
time, either.
four mittens apiece, he noticed that he did not seek to detain him, but with
was not the only winner of hearts; "Go, my son, and may heaven's and
| from the water at command, and so children are born, reared, live to 1 ,he fellow In front of him boa-ted six your mother's blessing go with you al-
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