The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1909 Page: 2 of 6
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fRttDOM express cyER IN THE LIMELIGHT
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he* told (h« itory *»>
1—........To Enjoy
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Uhl* gown. and Anery,
Freedom
11 C. Walker. F-dilor
S K. Walker. Manager
Oklahoma
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how hr and hi. agrrrablr l»nrliw*r »»ad “'** > f mlmUaa and '*»•’«
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»* failed, had *n*a««l bade him ««»« •_ I-Uat.,
a man to shadow hint to Kurup* Even ‘n
more mlnuioly hr w.-nt over |he mat
Ain’t H funny how well Vt-n»*ati«
get. along wlilmul Castro*
of all the gold in the pougeaaloa ,,f
man 70 |ht cent la In the ahalte of
com
Waa It ih*> goon* iNinr or ihe walout
huak that promised ua an early and I
hard winter?
A Michigan man hua been eenl to
tail for ateallng a 2 rent atnmp How
that man tnuet be do.pl.od In I’llla
burg. ____
Milwaukee doctor married hie rook.
Why don’t they atari a magaslne • •»
tilled "What to Kat. and How lo Re-
cover?"
Numlgmgtlata are much dlaaailaned
with the new gold ci.rna, hut the com-
mon people are moat dlapleaiKMl with
ihe difficulty of gelling ihetn.
When aeronaut Ira begin lo pay. ■*
Ibey aeem likely to do ut no dlaiant
dato, building caallea In the air will
have a oiibatantlal foundaMon.
• Nal (baKlwIn haa divided Ida fortune
with hla new wife. In cuae trouble
follows ibis should almpllfy matter,
us far ua ullnmny may l»e concerned
To cur«> Its office boys of loafing a
firm nf Beloit, WIs. has equipped the
push carts they use with devices for
registering Ihe distance covered In
trips and the speed made.
In dlsisRsIng of an estate valued
at 12.001) the will of .lennlo Linn of
Philadelphia directs that ihe deed to
her cemetery lot Is to be placed In the
casket and burled with her.
Before «>>•- centry is half over, we
will probably be dispensing with aero-
planes and kindred devices, and will
be using our own Individual wings
for flights In the air. Then automo-
biles will be used only when one feels
like having u quiet, slow time of It.
Opium Just now is not having sooth-
ing effects In China. On ihe contrary,
the usually soporflc drug Is producing
riots over the planting of popples I he
Chinese cannot understand why they
ihould sacrifice their special financial
Interests for the general good of the
race, in which view they are not ex-
clus’vely oriental.
Consul General Robert Wynne
makes the report Mint the returns of
Shipping and tonnage of the Suez
canal for 1907 show that the not ton-
nuge exhibits an all-round Increase,
the figures for the last year showing
an increase of 1.282.9110 tons as com
pared with that of 1900 and an in
crease of 1,594.329 over 1905. He
ceipts during 1907 showed an increase
of $1,557,000 ns compared with 1906.
7. Close Watch Kept on the Man
Many Interests.
her was ..rending by leap*
- .ne ms* . and bound. Th« next day he s.krd
ZxrJx 2~T
II,. wanted two detective, assigned For three ««Otbs Mil
hat.dsom*
person played with
HIS EVERY MOVE IS CHRONICLED
Even a Few Hours’ Absence from His Usual
Haunts Causes Flurry Among Brother Oper-
ators—How Business Secrets Are Some-
times Wormed from Shrewd Men
of Business.
lifter (he at
■ slid hi. ••urn-
■ii.ii-ctlves should
ear
Th«
ule
tb.n Within a minute
rival of ihe third partin'
pnnlon one of the
knock on Ihe d<*or, which the besnMful
| cou.In would thereupon open
other partners would at once u|t|M’sr.
' feign surprise. Indignation »nd anger,
and the next morning the third part
Ii»r would be told be must .ell out a'
1 their figure or .uff«r exposure.
Shown Error of Their Ways.
The detective chief listener! In »l-
I |once until th« .lory was told.
•Do you realise." .aid he. "you have
manner that a m
mouse It Intended ultlrstely lo •*»'
I .title by little .he let It be known
.he wn. s widow. Reared b> Ui ,n
dulgeut father, all .he had known
about money was that It wa. mad* In
the mint and her papa got It. hor did
her hu.hand fort* upon her more den
Hite knt>wU*clK«* of the routiner n
1 which dlllar hill, are miracd Into ten.
| and ten. Into hundreds.
Then death came U|K*n Ihelr happy
home, and In a twinkling the re.pon.t
I hllltle. ol a large fortune were thrust
Hhe disliked these burden.
Ill you n-uiiw, ......... -• -- . . (|l.liken me.e
a.keil mo to help you do something | i ^ wM nrver tra|ned to bear
for which we would both be seut lo >he hU(, Iielther splltiale nor
•'*^rr.nu™.» e~l WW “JZVZZS? *• "■ “
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KW YORK.—"The man of
many Inlere.i. can no
more gel away from the
penetrating ruy. of pub-
licity than n cat can gel
away from It. tgll," «at«I
the old-time detective In Ihe first
place, the nation ut lurge I. keeping
ilH ,.ye on him. Hut that’, only one
eye There are a thousand little bin*
Ing orbs that follow him wherever he
goes during busInesH hours. Let him
be absent from hi. office at u lim*?
when the bankers, brokers and trader,
believe he should be there, and
straightway goes n notice over the
ticker to every one of them.’
"J, P. Morgan is said to be detained
at his home by Illness." runs the mes
sage. If II be about him. or "E. H. Hat
rlman, who Is not at his office to-day.
Is reported to be about to make a trip
to the Pacific coast."
Whoever It may be who lias lent
poruril.v dropped out of sight a rush
is at once made for his office.
Perhaps the firm gives out a state
merit. If this formal communication
seems all right, that settles It. If It
contains a word or clause that looks
suspicious Ihe chase Is redoubled.
Messages fly fast over the telegraph
and the long-distance telephone
wires. And If possltive. reassuring In-
formation be not forthcoming within
an hour the wildest rumors begin lo
appear.
Mr. Harriman a while ago dropped
out of sight for four hours, relates Al-
len L. Henson In the New York Herald.
The usual inquiry was begun. In the
course of 30 minutes It was definitely
determined that Mr. Harriman was not
... hls home. In the next 15 it was
Boston and
word "f htisl
The esteemed London Times dwells
upon the artistic defects of Louis X\
furniture and wonders why it is that
rich Americans are picking up the
specimens of it that are offered foi
sale in London. The most obvious
reason is that they are generally pre
pared to outbid rich Englishmen who
appear to be equally anxious to se-
cure possession of it. It Is a mere
matter of the relative resources ol
rival bidders, rather than any lament
able difference in taste.
A policeman i" New York, convict-
ed of brutally beating a citizen, plead
ed for mercy on the ground that he
had a wife and family. Why the fact
of having a wife and family should be
regarded as giving practical Immunity
In violating the rights of others, is
what neither law nor logic has ever
found out; hut it is brought forward
so often and is frequently so success
ful that a certain class of wrongdoers
have learned to rely upon It to escape
the consequences of their own delib-
erate acts. ___
Three fires in New York at once,
with a loss of nearly a million, made
a good test lately of the new high
pressure system. It worked in a way
to make the lire authorities enthusias-
tic and to its efficiency is laid the fact
the loss was not many more millions.
This is the first time the system has
had a severe test, and it proved equal
to the emergency. Consequently,
says the Baltimore American, the
city officials are congratulating them-
selves on so satisfactory an addition
to the city’ Are defenses.
Civil service reformers have no ioa*
son to he displeased with the working
out of the merit system. Secretary
Cortelyon of the treasury department
rose to his present position from the
ranks of the classified stenographers,
and Frank H. Hitchcock, whom Mr.
Taft is reported to have selected for
postmaster general, began his govern-
ment employment in the department
of agriculture, and rose by merit to an
stant postmaster generalship. The
ideal toward which this is tending is
, hat the government service should
offer a career to a young man. inde-
pendent of partisan politics or politi-
cal “pull." o
The plutocratic agricolists of the
have full granaries and
plethorIc*bank accounts, are wonder-
learned he had been In
was not feeling well. A full hour from
the start news came that he had left
Boston. The facts stopped coming.
No one knew where he was going. No
one knew what was the matter with
him.
Rumors Fly Thickly.
During the next three hours almost
every conceivable rumor about Mr.
Harriman was started—he was seri-
ously 111; he was about to go to a hos-
pital for an operation; he had
operated on; he was better;
worse.
And then definite information came
that nothing of importance was or had
been the matter witli him.
During the panic last year Mr. Mor-
gan could not have been watched much
more carefully if he had been a spe-
cial train running a mile a minute un-
der the constant observation of the
best dispatcher on the road.
Yet it is not in such daylight opera-
been
he was
If necessary—to get onr
tics between two word, of Idle chat-
ter, u. women have sl.o been cm
ployed to seek Ihe confidence of wive,
for the same purpose.
A. an Illustration of what business
men sometimes do In the wuy of sluol
owing, the following Incident sur-
passes any other:
Went Almost Too Far.
In the financial district Is a firm,
capitalized for many millions, that is
rated In Bradstreet’s at AAAI. There
are three partners. Two of the purt
tiers did not like the other one. He
was Intractable, disagreeable, hard to
get along with. They decided to get
rid of him and offered to buy hint out
He wouldn’t sell. Then they offeree,
to sell. He wouldn’t buy.
Finally the two hit upon a plan.
Their partner had announced hls in-
tention or taking a trip to Kurope.
They would send a detective with him.
Perhaps he would do or say something
that would be to their advuutage. 1 e i-
liaps, upon his return, he would he
willing to sell rather than to have the
detective's report sent where it would
be read with the greatest interest.
So the partner and the detective de-
parted. The partner’s visit dragged on
from week to week, and finally into
months, and upon each returning ship
came the reports of the man who had
been sent to watch him. But the re-
ports were of no Interest even to the
men who read them. Their pat tnei
seemed to be conducting himself ad-
mlrably, so far as his own interests
were concerned, though quite unfor-
tunately for those who wanted to bjiy
him out. But they knew him—or
thought they did—and waited for more
reports.
But the rest of the reports were like
the first, and the man himself came
home without his partners having oh
tallied the kind of information they
wanted.
It was then they shuffled the deck to
play what they believed was their
trump card.
Pretty Woman as Decoy.
One of the partners had a very
pretty cousin, a young woman. She
was summoned to the home of her
relative and told that important busi-
ness considerations made it desirable
that she perform for them a very deli-
cate task. She should appear at the
office and go to work, apparently as an
ordinarv employe. Her purpose in do-
ing so should be to cultivate the ac-
quaintance of the third partner. But
she should hide her time. There should
be nothing in her conduct toward him
to suggest to so shrewd a man the pos-
sibility of a plot. Yet when the time
amaxvment.
"You have asked me to aid you In
springing n trap by mean, of which
you plan lo force your partner lo sell
at a price fixed by yourself property
.hut he does not want to sell. Now.
what would be the result if I were to
do It ?
"The partner of whom you are try
lug to rid yourself would go home uttd
constant fear of tumblng Into pitfall*.
The gentleman was duly syinpsthet
lc. To Ihe best of hi. limited ability
he would at any time Instruct her.
Was she ut that time contemplating
uny Investment shout which he might
enlighten her? She wn. not.
This woman knew what to do—or.
rather, she had been told what to do
Her employer, wished to know wheth-
)/£/? To fa
is/r//m.
M/PAf/M SfC/PFA-5 fiPOAf
/j Mm ar/m
spend a sleeples night. About eight
o'clock in the morning he would say
to himself: 1 can stand this no
longer. I must go to my attorney and
seek his advice.’
"He'd go. His attorney would listen
to his story, take out his watch, note
the time—nine o’clock—and say: I
want you to go with me at once to the
district attorney’s office and swear out
a warrant for that young woman for
conspiring to extort money fiom you.
"The third partner would swear to
the warrant and the young woman
would he arrested. Within an hour
after her arrest the whole stoiy
would he wrung from her and war-
rants would be sworn out for you and
your other partner.
"Abandon this scheme. Go to your
office to-morrow morning find tell your
partner you came
............ within hailing dis-
tance of the penitentiary to-night, but
luckily escaped it. If ever you have
any honest detective work to do I shall
be at your service, but this case I
would not take for a million dollars.
Again the Feminine Element.
On another occasion a firm of big
operatVs wanted to get inside infor-
mation concerning a multi-millionaire s
ultimate plans for the development of
.. great property* There was no use
against
But he
Messages
able to do to make farm life more
attractive, unless, suggests the St
l,ouis Globe-Democrat, it be to advise
the farmer to move into town.
Now if these pugilists were only as
skilled to strike a blow as they are in
blowing!
Fast Over the Teleph one Wires.
n
came she should recognise the moment
The partner
wes.t ®wlio
noric*bank accounts, are wonder- (toM 1;lMil,g only a few hours, that
ing what the Special commission will , .,,u8ine8Sr shows its greatest acute and pla> the_*■«‘ •
----------- ncSs „f xision or its most unflagging The time finally came
I persistence It is when the big flnan- I asked her to go to dinner wUh him
I cteirs warn to force somebody’s hand the next evening. She had been to
i or to obtain inside information regard- | dimic
ing another's plans that the eye of a
hawk becomes, in comparison; like
I S °etm*rgenedes beTutSftmen I invitation, and still more promptly
f hired to follow told her cousin.
men for’months-to Europe and tack I An hour later the cousin was in
next evening
with him before and had gained
tough of his confidence
to know this
dinner was not to be like the others.
But she lost no time in accepting the
ot' sending me? to bru^h up
him. He never talked to men.
had evidently promised his aged grand-
mother he would never he unkind to
woman, so thej determined to cap-
italize this trait of his charactei.
From no one knows where they en
listed the services of as pretty a wom-
an as ever rijde down Fifth avenue.
In a few days she appeared at the
hotel in which the great capitalist
made his home. She was beautiful
enough to be conspicuous in any com-
diffident enough to make her
aur^venes? compelling. She neither
•sought nor declined introductions to
others, passing her time as any well
bred woman in affluent circumstances
might wish to do. As good an antomo-
h,le as is made in France to^k her
front and to the hotel. And the car
bore her monogram.
Wise Gentleman Easy Victim.
er it was the Intention of the gentle-
man to force a certain stock to a still
higher figure—it was then high—or
let it sag back. She bided her time
until she believed the right moment
had come and then edged around to
the subject. A transaction that need
not be entered into here had left her
several thousand dollars which she de-
sired to reinvest. Would the gentle-
man advise her to buy stock in his big
concern at its present high price?
Fell Into the Trap.
He ought to have known better, hut
he didn’t. He "fell" for the "widow's”
query without a premonition of danger.
And lie told her not only what he hon-
estly believed, but what he knew to be
true. The price of the stock was to be
slaughtered in a few weeks.
She thanked him and did not invest.
Neither did her employers. More than
that, they sold what they did have.
And what they saved by getting out
while the price was high made the
cost of paying the “widow's" expenses
for six months look like a rain-check
beside a thousand-dollar bill.
Another business man sent a mes-
senger to request the chief of a private
detective agency to call on him.
"I want you to find out," said he,
“what So-and-So is going to do with
such-and-such a property. He is the
hardest man in the world to get any
information from. He doesn't even
talk to his wife. But lie's got a daugh-
ter who can talk like a phonograph.
Furthermore, I think that girl of his
knows what lie's up to all the time.
As nearly as I®can find out. she’s the
onlv one he confides in—she winds
him around her finger if she wants to.
“Now, what I want you to do is this:
There are a lot of young men without
much means in this town whose social
position is just as good as So-and-So s
and his.daughter's. 1 want you t<*find
one of them who will consent to go on
this case. I'll put up all the money he
needs to make good with the girl.
And 1 want you to have him go after
her as if she were the only girl he had
I ever loved. If he has to, let him even
I propose to her—but he needn't marry
her if he doesn't want to—but if she
the lull confidence ol the V eil Ini .rwd
ol the World and the I'ommendatioa ol
the timet eminent phy.icisiw H*** r“rn’
ttsl that the component |>art. ol Syrup
ol Fip and Elixir of Senna should !«♦
known lo ami approved by them, tlvrv
(ore. Ihe California Fig *y™l» (’° l,ub*
IfahM a full statement with every |>aikajr
The |ierfeet purity and uniformity of pc*-
durh which limy demand in a laxative
remedy of an ethical 1 hurucier. are w.nred
by the Company’s original method of man-
ulacturr known lo lim Coiu|>uny only
The lip of California am tued in the
production of Syrup of Fig. and Elixir of
Senna to promote tl»e pleasant to.tr, hut
the medicinal principle, an* obtained fr»n»
plant* known lo art most lienelicially
To p i it. beneficial effects alway* buy
the genuine manufactured by the Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only, and for *ale
by all leading druggist*.
Directed toward the enjoymeni »?
the sense., the strong will may b« a
demon, and the Intellect merely ila de
based slave; hut directed toward good
the strong will 1. king, and the Intel
loot Is then the minister or man s high
e.t well-being.
Don’t It Jar You?
To have a cough that you can’t
leave off—even when you go to hod?
Put it away for good by using Sim-
mons’Cough Syrup. It heals inflamma-
tion of the throat and lungs—gives
you rest and peaceful sleep.
Hi. Pleasant Visit.
"Why are you whipping that child *
so?" asked a man of a German who
was belaboring a boy of ten.
“That’s none of your business," re-
plied the German. "Besides. I have
a right to whip him. He is my sis-
ter's child, who is here for hls pleas
ure.” __
Catarrh and Headache
Mrs. Z. E. Goforth. 2119 Holly Street.
Kansas City, writes: "After using a
sample bottle and two 25c bottles or
Hunt's Lightning Oil, I am almost
well of Catarrh. It stops my head-
aches. It is the best mediolne l ever
saw, and 1 Just can’t keep house with-
out It”, She Is right. _
Looking Forward.
Mr. Wiggins, being In a frivolous
mood, was giving a burlesque lmita
tion of palmistry—pretending to
read his wife’s fortune In her palm.
Six-year-old Ruth was listening with
intense seriousness, hut neither of
them was noticing her.
"And, finally,” he concluded, after
the usual recitals about a dark man. a
light man, a journey, and a large for-
tune. "you will live to a great age."
"Thank God!" broke in Ruth, clap-
ping her hands ecstatically. "Then raf
children will have a grandmother!
Come Get Your Medicine.
If that little bit of three-cornered,
half-jointed, pin-headed squirt with a
big automobile and a size three head
on his miserable, slanting shoulders,
who turned the corner of Ferry and
Main streets on two wheels the other
ofternoon, and nearly sent three pedes-
trians into Kingdom Come, will call
at this office we’ll tear his scrawny
soul to pieefes and lick him to a “fraz
zle" after the most approved Roose
veltian methods. He knows who we
mean.—Buffalo News.
Enforced Economy.
A friend of Pat's was caught iu a
shower near his cottage and asked
shelter from the elements. Pat opened
the door. One ot the first things the
friend saw was rain coming steadily
through a hole in the roof.
"Pat. boy," said he. "for why don't
ye fix th’ hole in th’ roof?”
"The hole in the roof, is it?” asked
Pat, spearing for an excuse. "Oh, yis.
I would, ye know, but whin th' rain
is cornin' in I can't fix it, an' whin it
don’t rain it don't need fixin.
NO MEDICINE
But a Change of Food Gave Relief.
Her life in this hotel was destined | has the information I want he must
to be marked by two great days, and get it.
The days are growing longer, but it
will take some time to get the gas
companies lo believe iL
a ,
it was six months before the first one
came. On that day she was intro-
duced to the man on account of whom
The chief politely declined, and the
case went elsewhere, if it went any-
where.
Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food is
required.
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is
grown there by nature for food to brain
and nerve tissue. This is the phos-
phate of potash, of which Grape-Nuts
food contains a large proportion.
In making this food all the food ele-
ments in the two cereals, wheat and
barley, are retained. That is why so
many heretofore nervous and run down
people find in Grape-Nuts a truenervo
and brain food.
“I can say that Grape-Nuts food has
done much for me as a nerve renew-
er,” writes a Wis. bride.
“A few years ago, before my mar-
riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large
firm. I became so nervous toward the
end of each week that it seemed 1
must give up my position, which I
could not afford to do.
"Mother purchased some Grape-Nuts
and we fonnd It not only delicious hut
1 noticed from day to day that I was
improving until I finally realized I was
not nervous any more.
"I have recommended it to friends
as a brain and nerve food, never hav-
ing found its equal. I owe much to
Grape-Nuts as it saved me from a.
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retain my position."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. Read "The Road to WeM-
ville," in pkgs. "There’s a Reason."
Ever rend th«* above letter? A new
one nppenrn from time to time. They
■ re genuine, true, and full of huiun
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