The May Monitor. (May, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1905 Page: 4 of 4
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the May monitor.
Published Saturday.
Charles P. Deem, Editor.
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May, Okla., April 1, 1905.
Application baa been mad* at the Pont
Oflee at May, Oklahoma, for tranamimion
thrnagb the ™*M* aa aecond data matter.
Advertising Rates.
Display, 12)4cper column
inch each insertion.
Locals, 5c. per line each
insertion.
A discount of 20 per cent
will be made on 20 inches or
more of display advertising.
No ads will be changed or
withdrawn unless ordered.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Monitor wants a good
correspondent from each post
office in the county and will
make it worth your while to
ake up the work.
Write for terms and instruc-
tions will be sent you bv re
tutn mail.
Address: C. F. Deem,
May, Okla.
Deem Goes to May.
Tuesday C. F. Deem, with
his family, left for May,
Woodward county, where he
will commence the publication
of a newspaper and inciden-
tally boom the new town.
For two years past Mr.
Deem was editor of the Chro-
noscope, and as such he made
a record as a newspaper man
and town builder. Bpth Mr.
and Mrs. Deem have many
friends here who wish them
success.—Chronoscope, Aline.
That sounds pretty well to
the people here coming as it
does from a man who knows
what he is talking of. One
thing is sure if a road comes
up the valley May will be a
fine place to invest some
monev.
Varying effect of Strong Drink.
A well-known Brooklyn professor
while lecturing the other day to bis
class, turned from his subject for a
few minutes to talk on the effects of
excessive drinking. “Some men can
stand a whole lot more than others,”
he said. “Some men, in fact, cannot
get along without a certain amount of
stimulant In the way of strong drink.
The best speech I ever heard was on
the subject of prohibition by a man
who waB so Intoxicated that he could
hardly stand. So, you see, strong
drink doesn’t produce the same effect
«n all men.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
On Lone Tree Hill.
On Lone Tree hill, in grip of death.
Ten thousand soldiers lie.
Anil groans and shrieks of agony
Assail the leaden sky.
War's dreadful scenes of carnage grim.
Dismembered limb and staring eye.
Wild callS for help and prayers to Him
Who "heeds the raven's cry.
To Him whose ways were peace and love,
Who died foi giving all.
Who taught the brotherhood of man.
Who "sets ouch sparrow fall.’
Ills ti nder heart must heed such moan.
Such anguish and such woe;
He sends his angel Azrael,
lilost messenger below.
You owe your best endeavor
to the world today.
The Monitor*
This i« the Monitor. How
do you like it? Good? All
right, you will find it coming
out every week with its own
ideas on the way things are
and should be done, and it
wont be a bit slow about say-
ing its say either. If your
ideas are not just the same on
all questions it can’t be helped
The editor does not expect to
please every body all the time
and don't intend to try.
:. The Monitor is ready to do
anything to help along the
chance* of the town of May
and right there you will find
it every time.
The editor has had the ex
perience necessary to make
him feel that he can edit a pa-
per and will do all that is pos-
sible for the upbuilding
this community.
Its politics will be Republi-
can and it will not be afrait
to stand up for its principles at
any time.
If you like it send it to your
friends back east and let it tell
them of the glorious Land of
the Fair God.
Every reader of the Moni-
tor will find out something
about the possibilities of Ok-
lahoma.
“HOWDY”
Dry Goods,
Clothing,
A. V. Russell
Groceries, Shoes, Hats.
We carry a complete line of general merchandise.
In fact we can furnish you with almost any ar-
ticle you want from our stock.
See the line of White Dress
Fabrics received this week.
We pay best prices for butter and eggs.
A. V. RUSSELL
May,
Chas. F. Deem, formerly
editor of the Aline Chrono'
scope was a caller at the News
office Monday. He informs us
that on April 1, he will com-
mence puplishing the Monitor
at May. . Deem is a hustler
and will give the people of
that little city a live local pa-
yer. Here.s our hand Deem,
success to you.—News, Car-
men.
Pence vainly pray* md veils her eyes;
Ah! not it lone she ,-ces
These sights und sounds of misery.
But over lands and sea*
Are homes bereft and orphans left,
And widow's anguished cry;
And oh! ten thousand mothers hearts.
Thut break but cannot die.
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
MENU ALL IN ENGLISH.
C. F. Deem, late of the Al-
ine Chronoscope, was in Alva
last Thursday. He will issue
the first number of the May
Monitor, at May, Woodward
county, this week. The Woods
County Press Association los-
es one of its “always-there”
members, but we look for
Deem to organize a Woodward
county press association in the
near future.—Renfrew's Rec-
ord.
Plain Namts at Banquet Given to En-
glish Lawyers.
Justice Grantham, treasurer of the
Inner Temple, says the London
Graphic, introduced an English menu
at the last Grand Day dinner there In
which it was stated: “”Te call things
by their names in English that you
may know they are no oddments, end-
ments or kickshaws disguised under
some foreign or unknown name.” The
flsh was said to be “a salmon fresh
caught at Christchuich and some lit-
tle fishes whitebait from the Thames.
Borne of them called devllej}, but they
also do come from the Thames and
not from the River Styx." Snipe and
ox tongues garnished with Morelia
cherries was the next course, followed
by lamb and hams fi;om the "ancient
citle of York.” The last Item was
“fatted quaiies from Egypt, and then
some sparrowgrass.”
Kinda’ like to hear ’em aav
it:—“Howdy! Howdy!”
Know who’s who right there
and then—That's the moral
truth, now men—Put my trust
right in him when a man says
“Howdy.”
Yes sir, like to hear 'em say
it:—“Howdy! Howdy!”
Hez the heft an’ makes you
feel that you’re really m the
deal and your friend can sort
o’ spiel, sayin’ “Howdy!”
Folks all say it in Mizzou-
ree:—“Wall, Wall, Howdy!”
Hearty, honest, homely, gruff,
gentle, kindly, yard wide stuff:
Man who says it’s good nuff.
“Old boy. Howdy.”
Yes sir, like to hear ’em say
it:—“Howdy! Howdy!"
Has a cheery, earnest ring, no
put on, A 1 thing, and gives
your own good will a swing,
tod you say “Howdy!"
—Unknown.
C. F. Deem, late editor of
the Aline Chronoscope, accom-
panied by his family, passed
through Avard Wednesday on
his way to May, Woodward
county, where Mr. Deem will
launch the May Monitor April
1st. Success to you. Bro.
Deem.—Avard Tribune.
C. F. Deem was in the city
last Thursday afternoon and
informed us that he would
start a, paper at May. Deem
will of course run a republi-
can paper.—Ingersoll Review.
Would Quinine be as biiter
if called by another name?
If you have any doubts in
the matter get the two papers
printed at Supply on the 16th
of March and compare them.
You will find the Republican
and the Speermore Pumpkin
Roller exactly alike even to
the few lines ot type over the
list of final proofs which reads
like this:
“The following final proof
notices are taken from the
Fort Supplv Republican. It
shows many homesteaders are
getting deeds for their claims.
Truelv this is a prosperous
country.”
It certainly looks odd to see
a paper copy from its own col-
ums.
Street Car Manners.
A couple of gaudily dressed women
of most ordinary type are seated in a
cable car. indifferent to everything but
themselves, one of the pair holding
her umbrella planted firmly across the
passageway. The conductor, in re-
sponse to a signal from the motorman,
hastens to the front door, to be pitched
head-first over the obstructing me-
dium, as the unconcerned cause of the
accident turns to her companion with
s scornful toss of her head. “The awk-
ward baste!”—New York Tribune.
A PERPETUALLY FROZEN LAKE
Sheet of Water In Denver That Nevei
Thaws Out
While the people of Denver are
sweltering in the first hot weather ol
the summer, says the Denver (Colo.)
Republican, a little mountain lake on-
ly forty-five miles away lies calmly
enjoying its perpetual freeze—the
lake is solid ice. This is what was
found by C. A. Parker, in charge ot
the telegraph construction of the Mof-
fat Railroad, in the shadow of James
peak, on the continental divide.
Perpetual snows blanket the moun-
tain on the sides not reached by the
sun, and amid the wintry scene of gla-
cial whiteness lies the little lake, one
big lump of Ice. Somtimes It melts,
but this year It has not shown any
signs of succumbing to the higher
temperature.
Mr. Parker enjoyed the cooling
proximity of the lake when Denver
was receiving the first real share of
hot weather. He also inspected the
enormous banks cf glacial snow, some
of them extending hundreds of feet
on the mountain side and scores of
f3et deep.
The Russian Housewife.
In Russia every housewife has par
tieular pride in her kitchen furnish-
!ng.’. writes Bertha Smith in the Four-
Track.News. Every mother provides
her daughter with these things at the
time of her marriage. Where it can
he afforded the wine pots and goblets
for the far-famed wines of Bessarabia,
in which the Russians delight, as well
as other pieces of dining room service,
arc of silver instead of copper, while
copper is restricted to kitchen use.
though among the poorer classes It Is
and brres.
FLY EATEN BY INDIANS.
COMBINATION OFFER.
Something to interest and instruct
every member of the family dur-
ing the long winter evenings.
“A MANS BEST FRIENDS ARE HIS BOOKS.”
Better prices than you can get on
any of the periodicals listed below.
All the best and latest Newsatmod-
eratecost. Pick from the list below.
Name of Periodical Ilegu
McClure’s Magazine
Success
Woman’s Home Comp.
Wichita Weekly Eagle
Wichita Daily Eagle
Daily Oklahoman
Daily State Capital
St. Louis Globe Dem. S. W.I.50
St. Louis Republic S, W. 1.50
Others will be added as we {ret the rates.
ilar I’rioe With the Monitor.
$1.00
$1.80
1.00
1.75
1.00
1.75
.50
1.40
4.00
4.00
4.C0
4.00
4.00
4.00
W.I.50
1.75
. 1.50
1.75
Women Orators.
Women speak best when they re-
tain their seats at table: the very fact
that they are standing and facing
their audiences has a tendency to give
the bravest of women stage fright,
says What to Eat. Women orators
have the advantage over men in know-
ing that their attire will have much
to do with keeping the attention of
their audience. A pretty woman in a
pretty gown, a fan, a muff, a Jewel,
will hold the eyes of the women listen-
ers even if they do not care much for
the speech.
THOUGHT HE WAS RAVING.
‘The Frisco railroad people
are watching1 the Beaver val-
ley pretty closely at present
remarked a Frisco official the
other day. ‘Of course I won’t
say positive, but that valley
will have trains running
through it this summer and I
expect it to He the Frisco.
Good Wife Doubted the 8tory of Her
Husband’s Promotion.
Archbishop Thompson was greatly
surprised when he was given the arch-
diocese of York. He had been suffer-
ing acutely from toothache, and upon
medical advice had resorted to nar-
cotics. After a particularly bad night
he set out for his doctor, though his
wife had besought him not to submit
to further narcotics, as after them
he was “not himself” for some hours.
On the wny he met the postman, who
handed him a letter announcing bis
preferment from Gloucester to York.
He rushed back and burst excitedly
Into the house, the toothache all for-
gotten. “Zoe. Zoe!” he cried, “what
do you think has happer-d.’ I mb
archbishop of York! ” “There, what
did 1 tell you.” rejoined his w..a.
“You’ve been taking that horrid nar-
cotic again, and are quite out of your
head.’’
Inventor ot Thermometer.
It Is 180 years since Gabriel Danl-M
Fahrenheit published to the world an
account of his thermometer an In-
vention which enabled man accurate-
ly to measure, not merely and vague-
ly to surmise, how hot or how cold
he chanced to be at any given mo-
ment Fahrenheit was a bankrupt
German merchnnt with n turn for
chemistry. The thermometric grad-
uations of Celsius nnd of Reamur, al-
tnough an admitted improvement on
that of Fahrenheit, have never rea’.ly
superseded his. It is no doubt a con-
tradiction In terms to talk of a tem-
perature of so many degrees below
*ero, but everybody knows and real-
i.». what it means.
Larvce of Insect Make Rich and Nu-
tritious Food.
According to a writer in the Scien-
tific American, perhaps the most sin-
gular food for human beings is the
larvae of a fly which is common in
parts of California. Thl3 insect is
found in such vast quantities in Lake
Mono that it is washed upon the
shores in vast windrows and can be
collected by bushels. The water of
Mono is very singular, seemingly j
heavy and smooth like oil; so much
so that it resists ordinary wind and
refuses to become ruffled. When the
larvae begin to appear Indians gather
from far and near and scrape them
up. place the wormlike creatures on
cloths and racks in the sun and dry
them,, when they are beaten up and
husked, looking then like rice. The
Indians call the food “kooh-chah-bee.”
and many bushels are collected at
this time. That larvae are nutritious
la shown by the condition of the In-
dians, who soon grow fat on the rich
diet.
Stewart Edward White’s Honeymoon.
Stewart Edward White, who last
spring “achieved the climax of a llfa
of hazard and wild experience by mar-
rying a Newport girl,” as a newspaper
observed, has been enjoying the
unique honeymoon after “The Virgin-
ian” pattern.
He and his wife have been camping
alone, far from any sort of civiliza- |
tlon, in the wilds of the Sierras. Al- !
though this is Mrs. White’s first ex-
perience in out-of-door living, sho
sends back word of enthusiastic «.e-
light with It all. She sleeps on the
ground, cats camp fare with relish
and thoroughly enters into the spirit
of the life so vividly described in her
husband’s books.
No Admission to Forts.
Even the Knights Templars attend-
ing the conclave in San Francisco
could not obtain admittance to the
bay forts and batteries, when they
gayly went to visit thorn. Undo ;
gam has become very particular about
his coast defenses.
Q.U1CK MONEY
to Loan on Good Farm.
Call on me or write and describe your place.
R. O. RENFREW, Woodward, O. T.
Upstairs over Post Office.
Original World’s Fair.
World’s expositions may be said to
be lineal descendants of the annual
fair at Stourbridge, near Cambridge,
England, which, it is claimed, was in-
stituted by Carauslus, the r®hol Ro-
man emperor of Britain, on sept. 19,
A. D. 207. It certainly flourished as
early as this, and British commerce Is
believed to have had its first real
boom in consequence of the reports
carried to the continent by foreign
traders who flocked to this world's
fair. About a thousand years later
Stourbridge fair got a new lease of
life from King John for the benefit of
a leper hospital, and for eight centur-
ies or more it was the greatest fair
in England.
Debt Owed to the Spruce.
While it was the pine that made
possible the once prosperous West
India trade and built up Maine's ship-
ping in the days before the civil war.
It never in all the years of its pre-
eminence accomplished half so much
for the land of its birth as ‘he coarse-
grained spruce. For, while the pine
bu: . ships nnd Individual fortunes
and made West India rum as cheap as
cider all along the seaboard, the
spruce has built towns in the midst
of f'e wilderness, like Rumford Falls
and Mlllinocket, brought outside mil-
lions of capital to Maine, and given
popular literature an amazing boom.
BO YEANS’
EXPERIENCE
Trade Marks
Oxsisns
-, w . . - Copyrights 6 c.
Anrone wntllnl * .ketch nnd Uuarlptlnn no
ontelily nerertola onr ojaiikm free whether mi
sent free. Oldoet egeney for eecnnne puteirte.
Patents taken tnroeeh Mann A Co. receive
special notice, without charse, lathe
ipecui nociee, wiinout smto »
Scientific American.
A handsomely Illustrated weekly. r.rreV dn
eolation .f any eelentuie 'ournaL Terms,We
year-, fovr months |L Sold by an newsdealers.
Automobile ’‘Campaign.”
General Booth’s automobile ”ea»
npign” from Land’* End. England, to
Aberdeen. Scotland, took him over
1.500 miles of road. Everywhere ho
^reived with enthusiasm.
Many Uses for Fire Brigade.
Berlin's fire brigade is known Jocu-
larly as the “maid of all work.” It is
called out not only when fire breaks
out, but also when any kind of acci-
dent occurs. When the elevator mar
was crushed to death as Prince Fred-
erick Leopold of Prussia was descend-
ing in a high building It was the fire
brigade which was called out to free
the victim. Last year no fewer than
112 animals were succored by firemen.
Recently the firemen relieved n swal-
low from a plight The bird bad
caught a claw in some masonry under
s roof and could not extricate Itself.
A fireman climbed up to it on a fire-
escape and released it. The other day
the firemen were rung up to save a cat
which was being attacked In a tree by
crows from above and by boys from
below.
AM Were at One Tims Black.
While there are no black races In-
digenous outside of the tropics, the
leading American, English, French
and Italian ethnologists boldly teach
that the white races of the world are
simply modified negroes and that the
Anglo-Saxon and other white races
are of an African origin, having
crossed over Into Europe during the
neolithic age. Their habits, charac-
ter of food, environments, attitude of
their homes, climate, occupation, their
greater distance from the rays of the
tropical sun, are some of the ethnol-
ogical factors which are believed to
have bleached their skins nnd made
them white.
PROUD DAY FOE FATHER.
Four of Frenchman’s Children Married
on Earn* Day.
It Is not every father who can »«•
four of his children married on the
same day, so no one need feel *ur‘
prised If M. Girard, a farmer of the
village of Huguetiere, In the Vendee,
France, on such an event occurring
in his own family, determined to cel-
ebrate ’It In style. On the day of tbo
weddings Huguetiere gave himself up
to rejoicing, as did numerous guest*
from the surrounding countryside who
had assembled to see the four couple*
nnd the imposing procession which ac-
companied them. At midday a ban-
quet was held, at which more than
400 guests sat down.
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