The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1912 Page: 3 of 12
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PLANT BARTELBES
Garden Gq The
Flower Best
Grass That
Field Grow
Ask Your Dealer for Them Today. From
THE BARTELDES SEED COMPANY
Oklahoma Seed House, OKLAHOMA CITY
The man with money speaks
truth.
No harmful drug* in Garfield Tea. It is com.
posed wholly of simple health-giving herb*
Dream of marriage signifies mad
ness.
AGKSTB WASTED—Exclusive territory. Good chance to
build up permanent business. Mail us 110 for 8b lb.
Feather Bed and receive.without cost, tt lb. pair pil-
lows. Freight on all prepaid. New feathers. hestticK-
lnu. Satisfaction guaranteed. Turner A torn well, teal her
healers. Wept. 41, Charlotte, N. Hof. Com 1 Nat 1 Bunk.
THEN HE WENT.
How a Middle Man Failed to Get His
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<<tjtHERE Is no particular moral In
Myrtle—Have you ever tried to
figure out what Shakespeare meant by
the words, “Stand not upon the order
of your going?”
George—No. Have you?
Myrtie—Yes. The definition is
“Don't wait for a house to fall on
you.”
As the Streets Are Cleaned.
Mother—Well?
Tommy—Don’t you think I might let
the rain wash my fare instead of re-
moving the dirt myself?
Money sometimes talks when you
want to keep it quiet. _
_ this story of Washington life, un
less it be confirmation of the ancient
philosophy to get your money fiist,
remarked Col. Richard K. Lee the
other day.
"A diplomat, whom we will call Don
Juan Rapida, from one of the Inflam-
matory Latin republics, caught the
fancy of a young American girl, the
heiress to many millions. Tho diplo-
mat is good-looking, but financially
impoverished. The girls agrees to wed
him, and her plutocratic pater, who
made hi3 pile out of beer, is willing to
take Rapida as a son-in-law. So desper-
ately hard up is the South American
gentleman for ready coin that he goes
t<> a friend of mine to see if he can't
raise $5,000 in order to make a show-
ing in the preliminaries. This friend,
being good-natured, introduces him to
a generous party who agrees to pro-
vide the cash, provided Rapida will
give him back $10,000 for the loan of
the $5,000 as soon as the nuptials
with the brewer’s daughter have been
consummated.
"My friend who arranges the deal
people and children, 60 cenl.
Every Crisp,
Little Flake
Of
Post
T oasties
has a flavour all its own.
f
“Toasties” are made of
selected white Indian corn;
first cooked, then rolled into
wafer-like hits and toasted
to an appetizing golden
brown.
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A favorite food for
breakfast, lunch or supper
in thousands upon thousands
of homes where people
are particular.
“77ie Memory Lingers ”
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Sold by Grocers
is promised $1,000 for his trouble,
but, being a rather harum-scarum bus-
iness man, he takes no written prom-
ises, as did the lender of the money,
Prior to that he had often put up small
sums ranging from $10 to $30 so that
Don Juan ftapida might be able t»
convey his loved one to the theater
and a small dinner after the ehow.
The very money that went to buy the
engagement ring was furnished by my
friend, who had to mortgage some lit-
tle property of his own. to get the
ornament.
“Well, the wedding came off as per
schedule, and the Don and his bride
sailed for the gay capitals of Europe.
The money lender got his $10,000 on
the minute, but my unfortunate friend
has had nothing more substantial than
some polite letters from Paris and
Berlin begging him to wait in patience
and cease sending costly cablegrams
marked collect. The letters are writ-
ten with a view of cheering the recipi-
ent, but he refuses to be cheered and
has about come to the conclusion that
it will be many a day ere he gets back
the cash that went for the engage-
ment ring and the theater tickets, to
say nothing of the fee promised for
negotiating the $5,000 loan.
“Don Juan and his bride are having
a gay time in the Old World, and the
groom seems to have entirely forgot-
ten his benefactor and friend in need.
After all, that old saw about getting
your money first is right in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred.”
Shrewdness.
“And why are you writing 'Personal'
on that envelope?”
“1 want the man’s wife to read the
letter.”
A Slight Mistake.
“Katie, I can't find any of the break-
fast food."
“O hevings, mem, 1 must of took It
for the sawdust to put on the ice on
the pavement, mem.”
Not Resentful.
“Those people say they don t be-
lieve you ever reached the pole.”
“That’s all right,” replied the ex-
plorer, as he looked up from his man-
uscript. "The more doubts there are
as to whether I landed or not, the
longer this rather remunerative dis-
cussion is going to last.
“Why Is a Cat?” a Burning Question
Birds are Early Risers.
He was an affable young man and
desirous of demonstrating his kindly
and genial disposition. So when the
canary bird chirped sleepily from its
cage on the wall he spoke up cheer-
ily.
“What’s the matter, bird?” he in-
quired.
The girl glanced at him with a
dreamy smile. She was a southern
girl, and she spoke with a gentle
drawl.
“He thinks it’s mawnin,’ ” she
cooed.
The man who loves birds hasn t
been back.
a MINIATURE house of representa-
A tives, made up of a hundred or
more of the “baby members,” who are
serving their first term in congress,
convened at Rauscher s the other
night and spent the evening joyously.
It was the first banquet of the kind
ever held. Party lines were forgotten, <>
the methods of the house, the person-
alities of the older members, were
burlesqued by the “youngsters.”
There are 120 members in the house
serving their first term, the greatest
number since the beginning of con-
gress, due to the political upheaval in
1910.
The business of the evening, after
the banquet had been cared for, was
a bill, introduced by Representative
William C. Redfield of New York, plac-
ing a duty of $1 on all cats, and parts
of cats, whether wild, pole or domes-
tic in type, brought into this country
O' its possessions.
The bill also provided for a special
additional duty on Maltese cats of 40
C\ SAY CFNUE -
Jmeh —th'
|CAT IS A
FEU HE THAT
SHOULD BE
PROTECTED
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cents per pound of malt contained in
each cat. Catnip was to be placed on
the free list. The n>easure, declared
its father, was to protect the Ameri-
can cat industry.
The Democratic opposition to the
bill was led by Representative Frank
B. Willis of Ohio. He denounced Rep-
resentative Redfield as representing
the cat industry. Free cats, Mr. Wil-
lis declared, were indispensable to
the American people.
Whether the measure finally was
passed or turned down was never
quite decided. The burning question
which developed from the debate wras
“Why is a cat?”
A Girl Balks at Marrying an Old Man
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I WILL HOT I
\\MARRY THAT I
ReD-eyED
OLD
TERRAPIN
U-t0£>,
11ARVEY GIVEN, assistant United
II States attorney for the District ol
Columbia, happened to be walking the
other morning by that famous corner
in the courthouse where marriage li-
censes are issued, when he heard a
girl’s voice, saying with considerable
feeling; iV , ,
“Don’t! I will not marry that red-
eyed old terrapin, and I’m not eighteen
years old—I am only fourteen.
Mr. Given stepped up to the counter
in time to prevent a marriage license
being issued. The man who was ap
plying for it was Louis Garrison, six-
ty-one years old, of Stafford county,
Virginia, and the girl, who was stren-
uously objecting, was Myrtle Baldwin
of the same county. Mr. Given took
matters into his own hands and con-
ducted Garrison and Myrtle Baldwin
to the office of United States Attorney
Wilson. With them were Mrs. Luli^
Decatur, a niece of Garrison, and
Goodwin Mellow, a young man from
Stafford county. Mr. Given told Mr.
Wilson of the occurrence, and there-
upon the quartet went under a very
careful examination.
Myrtle declared over and over again
she was only fourteen years old.
THANKSGIVING PSALM
A Rhythmical and Grateful Chant.
A teacher In a Terre Haute publio
Bchool joins in the chorus:
“Teaching is a business which re-
quires a great deal of brain and nerve
force. Unless this force is renewed as
fast as expended the teacher is ex-
hausted before the close of the year.
Many resort to stimulating tonics for
relief.
“For 3 years I struggled against al-
most complete exhaustion, getting
what relief I could from doctors’ ton-
ics. Then in the spring of 1903 I
had an attack of la grippe and ma-
laria which left me too weak to con-
tinue my work. Medicine failed to
give me any relief, a change of cli-
mate failed. I thought I should never
be able to go back in school again.
“I ate enough food (the ordinary
meats—white bread, vegetables, etc.),
but was hungry after meals.
“I happened at this time to read an
article giving the experience of an-
other teacher who had been helped by
Grape-Nuts food. I decided to try
Grape-Nuts and cream, as an experi-
ment. It was a delightful experience,
and continues so after a year and
a half of constant use.
“First, I noticed that I was not
hungry after meals.
“In a few days that tired feeling left
me, and I felt fresh and bright, In-
stead of dull and sleepy.
“In three months, more than my usual
strength returned, and I had gained 15
pounds in weight.
“I finished the year’s work without
any kind of tonics—was not absent
from duty even half a day.
“Am still In best of health, with
all who know me wondering at the Im-
provement.
“I tell J.kem all ‘Try Grape-Nuts!
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appeara from time to ,
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
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Lanter, W. L. The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1912, newspaper, April 26, 1912; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc912953/m1/3/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.