The Oklahoma Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1915 Page: 3 of 6
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THg OKLAHOMA DEMOCRAT, ALTUS, OKLAHOMA
GAVE UP THE DRUG BUSINESS
Incident That Made Man Decide That
the Profoaalon Was Allogathar
Too Stronuoua.
"I got out of Hit. drug bualness be
cauau something happened thut Mar
ly turned my hair gray,'' aald tbu sal
low-complexioned man.
Of course tho other men aald: "Tall
us about It,"
"I unod to sleep in the atom," aald
tho Hallow man obligingly, "aud often
I bad to answer night ealla. Oua
night I wan iiwukoned from a deep
Bleep by Homebody persistently ring
Ing the door bell.
"I found a small boy at tha door,
and hi' handed me a prescription. I
was no alaepy that I could hardly see,
but I tilled the prescription, tba boy
puld me and hastened away.
"When I went to replace the bottlea
I had taken from the shelves my eyea
were open a little wider than In the
opening stages of my wakefulneaa,
and I was horrified to And that In-
stead of taking down the bottle of
tincture of orange I had used the
next bottle, a deadly poison
"I flew out of the door and looked
up and down the street. TI e boy bad
dlaappoared. I had never seen him |
before and did not know for whom the 1
medicine was. I wanted to ruah off
to tho doctor and find out who the
patient was, but that, I decided, would
be useless, as It would be too late
to do any good.
'I entered the store and paced up
and down the floor. My hair stood
on end f Baw my victim in all the
agony of aconite poisoning. I saw the
pale face of death; I saw the family
vowing vengeapce.
"My heart thumped furiously as I
heard hastening footatepa. I peered
through the window and saw the boy
who had brought the prescription.
The bottle was gone. My only hope
was shattered. With a trembling hand
I opened the door, prepared to hear
the worst
"The lad stood hesitating. Teara
were in his eyes. I dared not apeak.
( ^ please, mister,' he stammered.
'I ran so fast I fell and broke the bot-
tle, and 1 ain't got any more money.'
"My heart leaped into my throat.
I felt like giving a yell of Joy aa I
leaped forward and pulled that boy
Into the store. I wanted to hug and
kiss him. When I had mastered my
emotion I gave him another bottle of
medicine which I most cheerfully
paid for out of my own pocket, and
Into the bargain I gave him the big-
gest handful of expensive candy ha
ever had."
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Literary Controversies.
Famous controversies over the au-
thorship of poems include the fol- I
lowing:
"Laugh and the World Laughs With
You," claimed by four or five different
authors, is now credited to Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. Her chief opponent
was John A. Joyce.
"All Quiet Along the Potomac To-
night," was claimed by Ethel Lynn
Boers and by Lamar Fontain, and each
had plenty of unimpeachable Integrity
to sustain the claim.
Rock Me to Sleep," was claimed
by two different authors.
John J. Ingalls, the greatest Kansas
3tatesnian and writer, had his author-
ship of "Opportunity" disputed many
times.
Walt Whitman and Mary Mapes
Dodge had a stirring dispute about a
little poem: "The Two Mysteries."
The authorship of Shakespeare'L.
plays has been ascribed to Francis Ba-
con (Lord Verulam), Christopher Mar-
lowe, Sir Walter Raleigh and other
contemporaries.
Taste is the thing that counts.
All the "food value" and "health
value in any food doesn't count for
much unless you enjoy the food itsell
When it comes to flavor—the big
success of the day is KRUMBLES.
All the food value of wheat in the most appetizing
form.
KRUMBLES has a natural satisfying aweetness
that makes you go easy on the sugar bowl.
Look for this Signature—
I A cents, in the Kellogg
WAXTITE package,
which keeps the fresh, good
flavor in—and all other flavors
out.
Egret Plumea.
The story comes from India that
lome provinces in that country are
breeding egrets in captivity, and find
It possible to get, four crops of plumes
a year without injury to the bird. The
four-crop section of the tale sounds
too good to be true. The rest la plau-
sible enough. Men have domesticated
the ostrich, raised the black fox in cap-
tivity and even started breeding
akunks for their skins. Why should
egrets hope to be immune? The time
may not be distant when paradise
birds also will be reared in captivity,
Just as pheasants and peacocks are
now. If women insist on having
plumes, plumes they will get—but not
by the old, fiendish method which mur-
dered the mother bird and starved her
nestlings for the sake of a handful of
blood-stained feathers. That piece of
barbarism is gone forever, so far aa
America is concerned, and it owes Its
departure to a section of the Under-
wood tariff law which even Mr. Aldrlch
would hardly try to repeal.
Apt Quotation.
Shakespearian quotatlona are In
great favor with Mr Joseph H. Choate,
but he uses them only when they are
apposite. A hit which he scored In
the Cesnola trial ia illustrative of thia.
Clarence Cook, the art critic, bad
liven testimony unfavorable to Gen
eral Cesnola. whom Mr. Choate waa
defending Something was developed
on the cross-examination that materi-
ally weakened the statements made
by the witness, whereupon Mr. Choate
turned, his countenance expressive
of well-assumed indignation, and.
potnting hts finger at Mr. Cook. aald.
dramaticallv
Fhlse. fleeting, perjured Clarence!"
Matter of Location.
"When I was a boy." said Mr Water
•took. I wanted to go to sea and be a
pirate
"And you changed your mind." re-
plied Miss Cayenne, "to tbe extent of ,
deciding to remain on land " '
SERIOUS MEMEE
IMIENSfflV
SATS NEW HEALTH OFFICER, WHO
CALLS ON PEOPLE TO CUT WEEDS
AND CLEAN UP PREMISES.
Ex-Governor Lee Cruce
To Whom It May Concern:
I think, after a thorough inspection
of the city, that nearly all are con-
cerned; that is, you have more or less
weeds growing around your premises.
Also, there are many vacant lpts over
town covered with weeds.
Now, as city health officer, I kindly
ask you to proceed at once to elimin
ate this evil; also, to clean out your
lots and barns, since having so much
rain it is more necessary now than
ever before. Typhoid fever has al
ready begun and indications are that
we will have a large number of oases
thia summer.
Therefore, let everybody work to-
gether in peace, harmony and unity
for a clean town; don't abuse your
neighbor because his premises are
not sanitary, when, perhaps yours are
worse than his Clean up your place
and I feel sure that your neighbor will
become ao ashamed of his that he will
do likewise. I trust that within the
next ten days the weeds that are now
so flourishing will be a thing of the
past
Youra for a clean town.
C. G SPEARS.
City Health Officer
Abraham Lincoln once said of an-
other lawyer: "Your honor, my wor-
thy opponent reminds me of a Missis
slppl steamboat that bad a little en
glne and a large whistle When the
boat moved along It couldn't whistle,
[and when it whistled, it stopped
jiiwi's RE
MIR WE in
MARRIES SUNDAY ON HOUR'S NOTICE
AND INHERITS $1,500,000 ON
FOLLOWING DAY.
Oe-iuoine, 111., June 14,-Saturday
Henry M Collins of Oklahoma City,
and Miss Mary Messer of Milwaukee!
both visiting friends here, met and
were married after an hour's acquaint-
ance. Yesterday Collins was in-
formed that he hadinherited an estate
valued at $1,500,000 through the death
of an uncle at Edmonton, Canada.
The couple departed to spend their
honeymoon at Memphla. Later they
will go to investigate their newlv ac-
quired fortune. Collins says.
| white diarrhoea remedy for
| chickens at Owl Drug Co.
The Race Track Kpisode of about a j
year ago. involving I,ee Cruce. then I
governor of Oklahoma, and the own- j
ers of the Tulsa race track, and from i
which the state derived considerable ''
fame, was brought to a final conclns I
ion a few days ago In Muskogee when
the ex rnvernor was awarded the de |
The Best Hot Weather Toak j Mm That Baas Net Affect Tha Head
'•ROVK s T STKLES8chill TONIC eariebe* the I •'* ,on,c ! *•!>** Hlcct LAX A-
btood. Mid. «p the .bote ir«n orti.wy
'•"tiltr ttmctfcea sad fortify m te -iibitin 11 c,u*r wn-tmntH aor
> "s;on in a suit brought against him
by the race track owners for $30,000
in damages alleged to have been suf
fered by the plaintiffs by reason of the
governor's act of stopping the racing
The testimony of Mr. Cruce was a
serere arraignment of Tulsa and Tul
•a county officials
NEGRO CHILD BORN
M"NU8 ONE ARM
A local physician reports the birth
of a baby girl « few nights .-go to
Tom Nelson and wife, negro servants
of tbe Blassingame family, whoee
body was marred by the strangesf de-
formity that ever came under the ob-
servation of the physician or is prob-
ably known to medical aclence.
The right arm waa completely mlaa-
ing. aa were three flngera from the
other arm. and the two remaining
fingers being webbed. The toes- on
both feet were also allghtly webbed
and conaiderably shorter than normal.
The body la otherwise completely
matured and tbe baby la doing well
MRS. JUDSON PROFITED
WHIN HIR LINK LORD APPLICO
SHILLAC TO THC STAIRS.
Further Proof, if Any Waa Needed
That Man aa a Help at Houae-
Cleanlng Time Haa Hie Die-
tlnot Limitations.
Mr. Judaon laid aalde IiIh evening
paper and looked about the neat liv-
ing room, "House cleaning's about
over, lan't It. Martha?" he naked.
"Almoet." responded bis wife;
"there's the kitchen to clean, and the
cellar to be whitewashed, and the
front stalra ought to be freshened up.
What would you uae on them. Wil-
liam?"
"Shellac," aald Mr. Judson, with
prompt Intereat; "that will dry quick-
ly. and aa we have no back stairs,
that's an Important point. I'll bring
home the atuff tomorrow night, and do
It before I go to bed. You can go up
Brat, and stay, ao that the stairs won't
have to be used, and by morning
they'll be aa good aa new."
Accordingly, the next evening. Mr.
Judaon sent his wife off to bed at ten
promptly, although he did not leave
bla reading until silence reigned up-
•talrs. Then be donned a big apron
tnd got out his bruehea and shellac.
"Just as well to wait until there's no
one round to make suggestions," he
mused, "women never understand how
much better a man can work by him
wlfl"
Mr. Judaon was a deliberate and
conaclentloua worker, slighting no de
tall, and In an hour or so the flight
of ataira glistened In all Its original
freshness. Mr. Judaon surveyed It
proudly from the lower hall. Then bis
law dropped.
"Thunder!" he muttered, disgusted-
ly. "I ought to have begun at the bot-
tom and worked up!"
But out of a momentary mental
:baoa he clutched at the important
(act He muat go up backward, and
is he went, varnish over each foot
mark on the stair below. Mr. Judson
waa portly and his sense of humor was '
lot keen. Aa he backed cautiously up
!he aticky stairs at midnight, can and
i>ruah in hand, atooping to touch up
jach abandoned atep, with due regard
io his blue gingham draperies, he be-
fan to breathe hard; but at last he
reached the top, and looking down,
congratulated himself that no one
leed know of bis blunder. How beau-
tifully the surface shone!
Then it slowly penetrated his con-
iciousness that one reason for the
pleasing illumination was the gas in
the lower hall, the two burners of
which had been turned high to light
ma earlier labors. Mr. Judson hesi-
tated, thought of the gas bill, remem-
bered that the front door was not
locked, and restrained himself with a
iternness of self-control that jarred
lis nerve centers. There was only
)ne thing to do, and he descended—on
tiptoes. He left his large, sticky slip-
pers at the foot of the stairs, to save
.he hall carpet, locked the front door,
turned out the gas, resumed his slip-
pery and began his second recessional,
Jbliteratlng each footstep by the un-
:ertaia light of the upper-hall gas. it
was not a quick job; the distance to a
celebrated spot in Ireland seemed to
Mr. Judson Insignificant in compan-
ion. although he made no audible com-
ment until he stepped on his blue
fingham tall and sat down unexpect-
rt!y on tbe top step. Then, forgetting
saution, he expressed himself in l#ud
ind Irritated tones.
A substantial vision In pink flannel-
Jtte appeared at the bedroom door be-
hind him; but realizing that baromet-
ric pressure was high, it retired as
lilently as It had come, with superb
wifely tact, before he had time to de-
tach himself from the step and apply
the final brushwork to his master
piece.
At breakfast Mrs. Judson's praise
was unstinted, although she casually
leplored the traces of varnish on the
tpron and slippers.
"Tea," Mr. Judson admitted, with-
ut looking up from the morning pa-
per, "I'm afraid I did spill a little. By
the way. Martha, isnt it about time!
lor you to think of a new hat?"—
fouth's Companion.
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SOUTHERN ELECTRIC MOVES.
Tbe Southern Electric Company
moved thia week from the location ad
Joining the Umg grocery store on th.
North side to tta oM staad at SIS
Weet Commerce
Clipped His Locks.
Recently William Melvin. or "Me<|l-,
Bine Bill," as be was known in the
middle West, had to have his hair cut
before beginning an indeterminate
sentence at the Ohio penitentiary
after a conviction under the Mann
white slave act. Melvin cried as the
prison barber snipped his locks, which
hung down to his shoulders
"I've been eighteen years raising
that crop of hair." was his reason for
weeping
But a Sing Sing convict a few years
ago eatahlished a hair record thafbeat
this. Hts blond locks reached fully
to his waist line. He had never had
his hair cut ftflce bis birth He ex
Preeaed no regret over the loes of his
locka, being oddly confident that he
eouM grow another stock of hair In
short order.
Strengthening Coast Defeeeee
All the coast torts of the United
•tatee are being equipped with new
•••era that reeemble small light
Battery commandera * ill use
towers tor obeervatlon purposes,
they overlook the guns and
■eats and are within calling
ot the gunaers The towers,
vhtah are pleasing from an arehi-
are constructed of
Stairs lead from
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