The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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COMMON LAW
AGAINST BOYCOTT.
DR. FERGUSON URGES A NEW
PRINCIPLE TO MEET PRES-
ENT DAY CONDITIONS. .
There is so organtsatioa except this
that exists to rslaa the general stand-
srd of living. and I tell you it is the
blcgett imaginable thing you are do-
ing and there la going lo come into
L.bor organisation a new conception.
It is the one combination lhat exist*
THE
PROFESSION Of
WOMAN.
EEINO A THE PASSING Of A PRINCESS.
Ity Dorothy I tit.
tc raise the general standard of living, ustt.re made him.
T« he a «nan is th
j creation. One h.i
simplest thins
only to be a*
“Labor Is Prior to and Abovo Capital
and Dcaorvaa Vary Much Groatsr
Cons.aeration"—An Addrost to the
Labor Mooting at tha Auditorium.
The meeting of labor unions at Au-
ditorium Sunday afternoon was ad
dressed by Rev. Ferguson of the
First Congregational church. Kansas
City, Mo. The meeting was held to
take action lo petition congress tp
amend the Sherman anti trust law so
it will not apply to labor unions. He
aald in part:
Great efforts are Introduced in his-
tory by some acctdeut usually, some
one small thing happening, and then
there arises, as It were, winged by
lhat small Incident, a principle, an
Idea, a new idea. You know how it
was when slavery began to be a seri-
ous question. The idea of emancipa-
tion camu about through that Drcd
3cott decision, requiring people in
(the north to catch southern slaves
that should escape. You know how
It was that the Revolutionary princi-
ple of no taxation without representa-
tion arose on the incident of the ship-
ment of tea to lioston, and so I might
go ou. By some particular incident n
great big, world changing Won has
and you will nuke a very great mi*-
takv If you do not give this sugges-
ts the weight M deserve*.
Organised labor. It has be**n
charged, very largely existed, not to
raise the general standard, but to
ral.e the standard of those that be-
longed to the unlou. 1 tell you you
cannot succeed until you endeavor to
raise the general standard: you must
not content yourself with national pol-
itics or state politic*. You must get
down to the business here tu this city
and in the city over the line, and yoj
must make this whole municipal gov-
ernment an organisation for raising
the standard of living. You must
make it tm|>ondble for people to live
here in mean houses. You must make
it easier for people to tuke nothing
loss than union wage* In the city.
The whole city must be a labor union,
and until you rise to that and con
re|ve of organized labor existing for
the whole community, to raise the
whole standard of living, you will not
be justified In promoting this novel,
this revolutionary, yet this most beuef
icon! principle.
____All the balance t*
dead easy.
He may be ugly. Nobody care-
Freckle-faced bow window, d, Raid-
heuoed. He is still a man
He may l*« awkward. It does no*,
matter. He may fall over his osn
feet, tear women'* gowns off of Ihtir
I val- tz by Heading upon them, break |
down furniture and smash teacups
He is still a man.
He may he stupid, and dull as a
meat ax. He |s4 endured, ev. n sought
By Ella Whcslsr Wilcoa.
There Is one uanu* which when spo-
keu in Honolulu, or, inde<d, »i any
port of the Hawaiian Island*, brings
a under look to every face, a look
which is like the reverent lifting of a
a ha' Tliat name is Kalulani
]...in of wealth and station, reared
with every advantage ta-.uitiful and
l»olovcd. Princess k. lul.ml pu-*el
early to the royal mausoleum to sleep
with her ancestors.
I walked olio day in wide spread-
ing ground* under the shadow of lord
ly paltus where her ehildhoud was
spent. Tropical vine#, flowering in
audacious colors, flung bold arms
liira< ua. #•» - — ,
in scclety, although he may hom like I about the unresisting trees and made a
n 14 Inch augur, lie pays his way,
fce Jurtine* hi* presence by tlie simple
exi*dlent of merely being a man.
* • *
Women have no such cinch In oxl<t-
tnre A baby girl is horn to trouble
and the strenuous fife, for Just to '«*
a woman is the bnrdcst prof< <»i.m on
earth.
riot of strange bloom
Splendid peacocks swept down the
spa clous paths, beside the handsome
white-haired h'ist, as ho cutne h*
greet ills guests. Soft fountains play-
ed and refreshed the air with co ding
sound.-*. The month was February, the
weather July.
Th# Democrats of Delaware are in
earnest In pushing Judge Gray for
the Democratic nomination at Denver,
although he declined to have his name
'onsldercd by the state convention,
is claimed that while attorney gen-
3.al of the state Judge Gray was th3
Irst governmental ofllcer to obtain a
groat big, world changing woa n“ |eonvlctlon and fine against a corpora-
come into existence, coma Into the | f^ vioIalion of ils charter obli-
open to be adjusted. We are today-
up against Just such a moment as
that I think in this issue which is ag
now presented. I was talking the oth-
tion for violation of its charter obli-
gations. The case was one against
the Baltimore A Ohio railroad and
a precedent by Judge
. IWWWHBIW.W- hlB decision
very excellent gentle-
*r day to a
■an, a senator of the United States,
against the
Standard Oil company. It Is also
. made know’n for the first time that a
a lovable old man. and he means to w„ made to obtain the
b. perfectly fa.r but he was conv need ^ Qf JudRe Qray a8 chlef
that the cause of labor and «he c,<t of the ,upr.me court of the
of capital were bound up together n H ^ ^ ^ Ume ch,ef Ju8.
thla iaaue, and that the laborers could ) wag apI>otnted. Judge Gray
not aslc. that the labor union move-1 ^ ^ a member of the United
not ask, that the labor union move-
ment could not axk that the b®yc°*J j Mnatei but his legal attain-
should be allowed. That the capttall I ^ were known by his colleagues
SSHti '£2E5HSS3
all over the country; many ] ,nfonnatlon 1. that Judge Gray
•ducated in a certainJW They teH another coal 8trlUe #oon after
»ou you cannot do the thing you are settlement of the last strike by
trying to do in this meeting, and th y ^ wh,ch he wa8
■ill be seriously and morally in earn- circumstances set
eat about 1L Th^ these. When the award of
«*« wr««. no.’- ™»- ' **»' “ commlM.on ... In th. coureo of
tell you from a c» n point of vie a dlflcrence arose between
they are right on you arewron*' _ d oporators concerning the
That point of view s the old, world I miners and opera^ ^ ^
point of view, th* point of view p minor di,pute*.
conditional I... lb. f»Uto<«««»• ,h. boord. .bo
0,. ••common l-». operator. and bad boon appointed by
mTyind^..,».L——. -«— -«**
It makes law and medicine, the
army and the navy, and th.* church
secni like mere child’s play, and the
rtnl renson that no woman has over
won great renown In any of tlirse call-
ing* is because nobody can carry nn
successfully two different profession*
simultaneously, and by the time a
woman lias turned out u neat job Ot
heii g a woman she has exhausted her
energies and abilities. To he succesi-
fully a woman is a Job that leave* one
no leisure to dabble with trivial mli-
ters such as literature or art, and bj
tno women who achieve careers on
the outside mostly fall ns women.
To begin with, the profession of ho
ing a woman embraces all of the pos-
sibilities. It requires that the persm
who is called to It shall possess all j
of the virtues and the graces, and then
nature neglects to supply the demand,
and the poor, struggling young fenaS-i
who is trying to be a woman the best
site can has to furnish some sort o‘ i
substitute of her own.
Take the matter of good looks, for
instance. That is the very foundation
stone, the a. b. c„ so to speak, of the
proleislon of being a woman. It would
be easy enough, of course, for eve-y
won. an to be beautiful if she was
built that way, but only about one In
Wo sat under a wonderful banyan
tree, made historic by the pen of Rob-
ert I/uiis Stevenson.
Later we sipped tea in a great
room filled with jtortraits of kings,
queens, prince# and princesses, rulers
and potentates, all interesting from a
historical point of view. Hut one, oft
repeated, from childhood to young wo
manhood, was of peculiar and pathetic
Interest.
Kalulani, daughter of our 6tately
host. Gov. Clcghorn, and his wife
Ltkcllke alter of the late king
Kalulani was heir apparent to the
throne of Hawaii, and she had grown
from childhood to young womanhood,
thinking of herself as a future queen.
Gov. Clcghorn had made his mag
nlficent cstnto what he deemed a suit-
able homo for a coming queen and ho
had sent Kalulani to Scotland and En
gland and France to educate her as
befitted her position. While she was
abroad the great chauge came to the
Hawaiian Islands, which turned them
from a kingdom to a territory of the
United States.
Kalulani was only a young girl; she
was not a philosopher or a deep stu-
dent of altruistic forms ot govern-
ment, and so the blow tell upon her
with severity: it destroyed her dear-
est hopes; her most cherished arnbt
oven tboor who readied that it won
inevitable and for th# bo«t. It was,
particularly hard for Kaiiilam, who
had been reared with the expectation
of becrmtng our que*n.
"It might r*ally l>*> *aid that *b*
•lied of annex*.ion ller iuterest in lifa
passed with the monarchy.”
Kerrywher* were portraits of -taiii-
lain. Sh<- was beautiful, as are almost
all the "daughters of a double rata.’*
Th*- Polynesian blood, mingled with
that of the English. Scotch. Ameri-
can or Irish, produces a peculiarly at-
tractive ty|H> of beauty, and education
and culture had added tlietr refining
charm to the young princes*.
As vc walked down the long ave-
nues and out to the main thorough-
fare, followed by the haughty pea-
ixK-k*. who seeemod to want convinc-
ing proof that we were not loitering tb
the grounds, a penetrating melancholy
ipcrnnated the sunshine of the bril-
liant day, and never did life speak
more ch.itly of the transitory uature
ot Ittppliu which Is tuu-i'd on human
ambitions. •
lotU r in the day wo stood by th«
royal mausoleum, where Princess KaU
ulatil lies burled beside her mother
and h*-r uncle, the late king of th#'
Hawaiian Islands, and other members,
of the.royal family, ami again th#
words of the old Persian P'*et cam**
to mind: L
"And ihiB, too, shall pass nw'ay."
Y’et somewhere. I ain sure, th*;
sweet spirit of Kalulani has realized,
its dream and somewhere she is asy
rending ;hrones. For to each of us*
in God s good time, must be given our
hearts’ desire. —Memphis Appeal.
I
.......... ----1 tton. and one year after annexation
100,000 la turned out by nature with a I
straight-front figure, a golden pompa- > 8 ,e dl0<1-
dour, curls that grow on Instead of
being pinned on, and a peachy coni
plexion.
• • *
Yet the remaining 99,999 women
are not exempt from the demand* of
their arduous profession. They would
not bo considered women; they
would be branded as mere Things it
they were not. good looking also. The
Everybody In Honolulu, and In the
Hawaiian Islands loved "Princess Kai
ulanl.” When she went away to Scot-
land to attend school Robert Louis
Stevenson wrote in her album
’Forth from her land to mine she goes,
The Island maid, the island rose.
Light of heart and bright of face,
The daughter of a double race.
Her island hero In Southern sun
Sliall mourn their Kalulani gone;
In Sydney, a town of 500,000 Inhab-
itants, one can get nothing to oat or
n Sunday. Certain restaurants supply)
food surreptitiously, but the whole
time the gui-sts are In dunger of belni
arrested. Once an Italian was In I
restaurant on Kunday, when suddenly
the police entered. The Italian waa
promptly pushed by the proprietor ita
to a room where a waitress happened
to bo standing In negligee. Even thll
room the police Invaded, but the wait
ress saved the situation by declaring
that the ~youni man was her flaaca
The young man, by the way, had b*#a
married som# time. He thought that
he had deceived ibe policeman, bttt,
a* a matter of fact, he had got^out ol
the frying pan Into the fire. One
day tli* waitress called b\mbe|dff
the courts and elaltnotl_500 JJ^SKds foe
breach of promise. Th* Italian haA
to pay. And then came the worst of
nil. His wife sued for a dlvorc*, u4
shortly after married another
V* V
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.1
A girl gels mad with you tot
squeezing h .’ band so you'll know she
•ike. itr mr—ns
common law proposition, you are
wrong, but the common law was not
definitive. The common law was not
the last word of human nature and
there Is arising in the modern world
inoy were ucn rwu iws».**r» • ---- ounii uwuim ---------
result Is, that merely to be allowed on And ju her dear banyan shade,
. > . ,L — A tVtnit knva tit I . « ___i_i. mm HHIa vnnirl
| the men named by John Mitchell and
the miners’ union. The miners called
|a convention to declare a strike and
I the situation was so grava that busi-
ness and industry were again on the
there is arising in me ------------- ues* . miners were
r-*ssw
new principle it going .. „„,a «vttii »o stop the con-
very seriously. ProbaMy the en «?ct °Th« strike commission had dls-
wlll be most impressive to the men flict The strike «, ^
In the United States will be the I banded and none f It^
Abraham Lincoln expressed It: He authority • d anotber
Ws. ’Labor U prior to and above -P- the word, wktoh b-e^ed jrom
^rar"-v^^ pa,^-—2 -x
u 5 ari
thi* strategic principle and carry it public condemnation upo .
thUli U. met J.d«. 0«v »'
oatounding. novel, fruitful proposition,
that is. that labor, since It exists to
raise the general' standard of living
labor organizations, since they exin.
.utterance in th* world they have to
undergo an amount of labor and en
dure a martyrdom that would appuli
the stoutest-hearted man.
JOYCE FRIDAY NO 1
The fat woman must starve and
wear herself to a frazzle doing physie-
Tiook vainly for nty little maid.
But our Scots Island, far away,
Shall glitter with unwonted day:
And casl for once their tempests by
To smile in Kaiulant’s eye.”
Aad to these pretty lines, Mr.
Stevenson appended this exquisite bit
wear nerseu iu » -rr------ ----- - -
al culture stunts In order that Bhe mry of prose more poetic than his poetry,
be thin. The skinny woman must stu'f | as always was his prose-
lEuur vji --------
to raise wages, is a totally different
thing from those combinations that
exist to raise prices. You must sharp-
ly differentiate here between ths com-
binations that exist to raise wages and
the combinations w ‘oh exist to raise
prices, and the combinations that ex-
ist to raise wages are going to stand.
I They are going to stand, but remem-
ber-and if you don’t remember you
, are going to make a great mistake—
remember you are going into a now
• tking; that ibis Anglo-Saxon clvlllza-
' tion does not understand what you
I are going to do. There Is no organiza-
tion In Americ* f t axlsta, except
this, to raise the g ral
‘ living. Everything left to indlvld-
, palism. the devil tte htoto—t
* 1 rvrr - * »
ceptea juuro w
opinion and withdrew their objections.
The miners’ convention adopted a res
olution of thanks to Judge Gray and
sent the miners to work. The board
of conciliation was thus constituted,
and umpires named by Judge Gray set-
tled every dispute that are in the
anthracite field In the tern. »t the
agreement.
Starching Clothing,
For starching muslins, ginghams,
etc., dissolve a piece of alum the size
of a filbert for every P'*»t of starch.
By following this hint, you preserve
the bright colors of ths fabric a long
time. This hint Is esp*olally useful
for dresses, and the coet is most
trifling.
Ths prosperity of a fool may
either • reward *r • pault*
herself to fleshen up, so that when
she goes decollete she may present
rounded contours Instead of an anato-
mical display to the public. The worn
an with straight hair must smile wbl e
R is being pulled out by the roots be-
ing waved and curled. She with wnnl
les must set her teeth and have
’ linos” out, and no woman dares ask
of ter dressmaker, or her sboem&kci,
or her milliner, to furnish her w’th
an article of apparel that is comfort*
ble to wear.
This general rule that a woman
must be beautiful whether she Is or
not prevails no matter What the sta-
tion In life to which a female has been
called. No woman is so high or so low
as to escape It. No woman Is so mar-
ried or so single as to risk being as
ugly a# God made her.
The Queen on her throne does nit
dare to be the elderly grandmother
that she Is. Her face Is enamelled, hoi
head covered with a bright young wig,
her figure padded and coraelted Into
the semblance of a girl’s, becausu
back of the sideline of being a Queen,
her real profession of being a woman
demands that she shall be perpetually
beautiful. The beggar woman on the
street corner drapes her ragged shawl
about her picturesquely, because the
belter looking a woman is the more
successfully she solicits alms from the
passers-by—St. Louis Times.
Written In April to Kalulani, In the
April of her age, and at Waikiki,
within easy walk of Kaiulant’s Ban-
yan. When she comes to ray land and
her fathers and the rain beat# upon
th# window ,as I fear it will,) let her
loo*, at this page—it will be like a
weed gathered and pressed at home,
and she will remember her islands
and the Bhadow of the mighty tree,
and she will hear the peacock’*
screaming in the dusk and the wind
Lowing in the palm and she will
think of her father sitting there
alone.”
That was written in 1889—and th#
father of Kalulani still sita there
alone.
Ab we walked under the great ban-
yan tree and down the avenues bor-
wondrous palms, and every
There would be some sense in lov#
affairs if nature hadn't intended oths*
wiseT ■**?■ \ ~~
When a man makes a lot of money
it's a sign his family can’t spare anf
of It tor him to spend.
A man is so proud of his brains be
thinks that’s why he's the best looking
one in the family.
A woman wants hor husband t*
hold public office so she can believe
he amount* to more than she knowa
he does.—New York Press. .
What your occupation is matters lit-
tle, wbethvr you succeed or fall mat
ters not the main point is the spirit
la which you work.
A Zoological Party.
A pencil together with a card num-
bered according to the guests preaont
is given each one. A slip containing
a number and the name of an animal
is also given each guest. One at R
time they go to a blackboard hanging
on the wall, and draw the animal for
which the card calls. The other*
write on their cards, opposite tb* num-
ber the name of the animal thoy think
represented. At the close each mark*
his neighbor’s card as th# host read*
the correct answers. A book may b*
given the one having the nearest coi*
rect list.
At the supper following, a minia-
ture Nosh’s ark might form the oen-
dered by -----
.peclM of tree V” Ci«‘ ! *"*">'> '«» — »»«'
shrub known lit th P ■ • „nfn,nl, Bhould bo Rrouped In profit--
horn Bald Boll y. sttr i Ribbon, .bould rub from th. or—
tree, ond orrongod tb«, — ■<« , wh.„ . Wdw be.,
Kololonl. I wonted « « * oho,lid mork Ibe ladle.- ptab.. o.d .
, rent boo.e for her ond «■— th. .-Womt
,o giro her cool obod, i. her prornoo Complllllo„
ades." * _____
But only visitors walk now where
Kalulani’# slender feet trod for a few
brief years.
"She died of rheumatism of the
heart.” her,father said, * year after
the annexation of Hawaii. “You see,
she had been educated with the ld*a
and expectation of becoming queen.
She was the nearest in line and uad
been officially announced heir appar-
ent. It was hard tor nil Hawaiian, to
Theaters on Trains. ,
A company has been formed in Par*
Is for the purpose of providing theatew
cars for all the important expres^
trains on the continental lines. These
railroad theaters, says Popular Me-
chanic* are to have sixty seats, a lit-
tle stage, and an orchestra, consisting
of s piano, a flute and a oornot. Pas-
sengers will hpok seats a* tk*y
eni. ii was uaiu w •• —*----— -
accept ibe oaBSing of tHo monarchy ^engage toblti la a ****9 ~
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