Woodward County Democrat and Palace Weekly Pioneer. (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co-Operative Union
Of America
The Rosy Road.
I.
I take the rosy roadway to Hallelula
•Town:
There ia where the sunlight’* In the
rain a-comin' down;
The summer is a song
An' the winter’s not for long—
R wy the bright road to Hallelula
Town!
II.
You pack up all your troubles In Halle-
luia Town,
A.n' fling ’em to the Four Winds as
they fly the world around;
From the windows in the blue
Angels wave their hands to you,
For I'aaven is not a heart beat from
Hallelula Town!
III. " ‘
T.ife’s losr.es an’ Its crosses—they
make your brightest crown
Where the bells ring sweetest welcome
to Hallelulla Town;
No thorn to wound the breast:
It’s there the travelers rest
In the lilies of the love of God and
Hallelula Town!
—F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
Make the Most of Picknlcs.
The long summer days are again
h-»re and the season suggests picnics.
There Is no more pleasant way of
spending an afternoon than at a pic-
nic. This affords an easy and agree-
able way of being sociable. With par-
ties or sociables the work of enter-
taining falls upon one or two, while
In the picnic each person contributes
to the dinner and each person ia re-
sponsible for bis or her entertain-
ment.
Anything In the way of refreshment!
may be taken to the picnic but some
things are more appropriate than oth-
ers. Cold tea, salad dressings, olives,
pickles, etc., are nearly always Includ-
ed In picnic lunches because they can
be carried In sealed cans. Deviled
eggs, canned meats, etc., also form a
.part of the nsual picnic lunch. We
think of the things that are easily
carried and that can be served with
the fewest dishes.
, Informality Is the keynote to the
ipleasure derived from a picnic. Peo-
ple are always ready for a good tiipe
and go to picnics for that purpose.
Anyone who feels that his food must
be served in order and who does not
feel able to come down to usual pic-
nic style, had better absent himself
from same as he will not enjoy himself
or add any merriment to the party.
Picnic style has Its own attraction
and to rob it of Its Individuality would
be to spoil It entirely. We should en-
courage picnics; If is good for people
to meet in this informal way and to
•eat out In the open air. Many seem to
think that one must necessarily go for
some distance—to a lake or to a park,
or some resort. It Is always pleasant
when this can be done but It Is not
necessary; there are always many
pretty places near at hand. It Is un-
necessary for anyone to do a lot of
extra work for a picnic; plain, whole-
some things that will satisfy good
healthy appetites are all that are need-
ed. Make the most of picnics, enjoy
the summer months, .enjoy your
friends and get together. That is
what makes life worth living.
Cars of Colts.
You’ve been too busy this summer
to pay much attention to the colts.
Then make up for lost time now.
Teach the ooit to lead and drive. Do
it wisely and patiently. It’s easy to
make him jerk up the head every
time you raise your hand or apeak
cross. A jerking colt has a jerking
trainer.
Handle the feet. Pick them up and
tap them. Get him so he can be shod
without fear. See that the feet are
properly trimmed to promote and di-
rect proper growth of hoof. Don’t let
any fool hoof butcher do It, either.
Make the colta fearless by showing
them strange sights.
It wouldn't be a bad Investment if
several fanners would get their colta
together and Introduce them to an au-
tomobile. Do It gradually at drat.
Hire the nulomobllist so you can have
him do as you want him to. Colts
must be taught that the auto, the
street cars, trains, threshing engines
and all such scary things will not hurt
them. A fearless colt Is worth more
to any owner, city or country, than
one that has to be turned around and
flee when such a thing approaches.
Hut In teaching tbs colts to be fear-
less don’t use brute force. Use good
patience, kindness.
Turkeys.
I wonder how the farmers’ wives are
getting along with their turkey rais
ing this summer. I say wives because
I am afraid if those who eat Thanks-
giving and Xmas turkey dinners
would use something else tf the men
on the farm had to raise the turka
By the way, turkey culture Is quite
interesting when one begins to get
down to the bottom of It. When we
go back to the beginning of our re-
public and read how the early settlers
feasted on the ever abundant wild
turkey, it is no wonder we eat turkey.
Out present turkey is the wild bird
dCmesticited, and I am afraid their
health has-been injured, some by too
much inbreeding. I think that herein
will be found the cause for most of
the prevalent loss that so many ex-
perience. There Is a common prac-
tice in all localities for farmers to ex-
change birds with their neighbors,
y^ear In and year out, and in a short
time the whole community is inbred.
I suppose this W an oversight, as It
may be, because some breeder who
has an extra good Tom, and thinks
|5 to $10 is about the right price
for him. Would it not be better to pay
$10 for a great big, stout, vigorous
Tom and raise a good flock of poults
that will live and grow into fine spe-
cimens and weigh from five to ten
pounds more than they usually do,
than to keep trading and carrying out
the weak and dying poults? Of course,
these conditions do not exist in all lo>
caliiies, but they do in many. Mr. R»
bert Lee Blanton of Richmond, Va,
In a very instructive article, states
that In his opinion inbreeding is the
worst enemy to strong and healthy
slock. Mr. Blanton lives in a country
where the wild bird abounds, and has
made a careful study of them in their
wild state, and has captured wild
birds and la breeding them, and in
an illustration shows a wild Tom that
weighs 38 pounds. Mr. Blanton states
positively that he does not inbreed
but secufes new blood each year, and
has comparatively little loss. I believe
that most young turkeys are like many
Incubators—they are fooled with too
much. I think that if one will follow
nature in this matter, the results will
be better. How well I remember how
I used to hunt the hedge fences back
In Iowa to And hidden nests that Mist
Turk had atole away. We used to rob
the hens of their first lot of eggs and
set them under common hens, and us-
ually dene very well, but when we let
the turkey hen set on her eggs just
where she chose to she always beat
us a block—relieved us of a lot of
trouble and fussing with the young,
tender turkeys.. There was no feed
bill, either, for the mother turk would
never bring her brood home until they
were large enough to fly Into the trees,
all strong, healthy birds. If I were
raising turkeys I would let the turkey
hen to do the job.
Agricultural Colleges.
When the great agricultural, manu-
facturing and housekeeping masses get
together in earnest, and with an In-
telligent purpose to improve their con-
dition, they will receive the hearty co-
operation and assistance of the learn-
ed professions, because what is good
for one Is good for all.
"Agricultural colleges are a rather
recent innovation. Fifty years ago the
first one In this country was establish-
ed at Lansing, Michigan, and one week
ago its semi-centennial was celebrat-
ed in th.it city, and was considered an
event worthy of the presence of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who made an address
which should be read and studied by
all. A friend of mine recently said*
‘Of all the money the State spends,
there Is none which begins to yield the
returns of that speut on its agricul-
tural college.’
"It is impossible to estimate the
work that has been done by colleges
—the light that has been shed by
them on the important matters in
charge. We only know that it has
been great as It haa been It Is but
little more than a drop in the bucket
to what la needed.’’—From address by
Mr. Wm. Londen of Iowa.
Horae Senee Reminders.
Don’t leave me hitched in my stall
at night with a big cod right where I
must lie down. I am tired and can’t
select a smooth place.
Don't compel me to eat more salt
than I want by mixing It with ray oats.
I know better thau any other animal
how much I need.
Don’t think because I go free un-
der tho whip I don’t get tired. You
would move, too. If under the whip.
Don’t think because I am a horse
that weeds and briars won't hurt my
hay.
Don't whip me when I get frightened
along the rttid, or I will expect It next
time and maybe make trouble.
Don’t trot me uphill, for 1 have to
carry you and the buggy and myself,
too. Try It yoursalt sometime. Run
uphill with a big load.
POLITICS
LAWYERS’
CREED
Scratch an Attorney and
You Have an Active
Participant.
By ERNEST McQAFFEY
Because He Is Regarded as a
“Con Man” He Gets the
People’s Business.
CRATCH a lawyer and you will
find a politician. It did not need
jj an acquaintance with practical
politics to know that the mem-
bers of my profession were active
participants In the game. But as
time went on I was surprised to
find the vast and far-reaching influ-
ence that they wielded. If a man
really gets out to make politics
his profession, he would better first
study law and get admitted to the bar.
The average popular impression of a
lawyer In the "submerged tenth’’ at-
mosphere of political surroundings, is
that he is "a confidence man." But
In that environment this is considered
as a valuable asset. To be “slick,”
“smooth," to be hailed as a “schemer”
by this contingent is to have Its most
profound homage. In such labyrinths
of the political catacombs their idea
of a lawyer Is a man who can make a
good talk and twist the “law" any way
to suit the necessities of the occasion.
But he is always a man to be looked
up to and consulted with.
The .result of this outlook on the!
legal profession is to send various
young fellows to the law colleges, and
to the private offices of full-fledged at-
torneys, in their endeavor to get ad-
mitted to practice and have the right
to "hang out a shingle." If they are
of foreign nationality they readily ac-
quire a knowledge of the English lan-
guage, and can, of course, speak their
own native tongue. In this way they
used to pick up a little practice hang-
ing around the courtrooms of the jus-
tices of the peace, particularly the po-
lice magistrates. In those days they
did not even need a license to practice
before a justice. And all the time they
were mixing in the primary fights, get-
ting on the delegate tickets, running
for the legislature a little later on, and
even making bold “stabs" at getting
the nomination for state senators. I
ran across them In every direction,
and most of them were almost entirely
•nnocent of any legal knowledge. “The
rule in Shelley’s case" was no differ-
int to them from the rnle in any fel-
<ow's case. No reason why “Shelley”
should have “any the best of It!”
Hut weren’t they “hustlers!” A lot
of them were "studying law,” a few of
them were admitted by favor of a cer-
tificate from one of the legal "mills.’’
otherwise known as law colleges, and
some others were practicing before
the justices on the “catch as-catch-can"
plan of professional ethics, and de-
pending on what is popularly known
as “pull" or “drag” to get their elicits
off. Each Justice knew about how
niurh influence a petitioner for anyone
had who appeared before him. If it
was a lawyer who was also an alder-
man (quite a frequent occurrence),
the course of justice was extremely
apt to be tempered with “mercy,” to say
the least. Fines were “suspended” on
future good behaviour, men let go on
their “personal recognizan.ee,” fines
were made as low as the law allowed,
and other favors bestowed on many
of these legal lights. An alderman
who was a lawyer was expected to put
In his time for nothing, depending on
future political favors for his reward.
There was very little money in It for
him.
In the city, the lawyers had of ne-
cessity the choice of all Judicial of-
fices. Chief among these were the
Judgeships, and once a lawyer was
elected judge he could usually retain
the position for another term, often
for several terms. But he would not
“play politics” until along about time
for an election to take place. It
rather amused, and sometimes dis-
gusted, me to see the patent hypocrisy
of these members of the Judiciary. Be-
fore getting the chance to run they
cast dignity to the winds and were out
after the nomination ns hot as Her-
cules. They would get young fellows
to chase around helping them drum up
support in the bar primary (a sort
of “kissing goes by favor" expression
of "the Bar association”), and they
were not at all too proud to shake
hands with perspiring ward workers
and ”bo8§e8," and even laugh at stale
pleasantries about the outlook. Hut
"Oh! What a difference in the morn-
ing’’—the morning after election, I
mean—If they happened to get elected.
After the first flush of Joy In victory
had passed away, how the dignity of
their position would envelop them and
enfold them and swathe them with
successive layers of self esteem until
Uiejr could swell up and out no longaft
How they would resent the idea, ‘.he
bare Idea, mind you, of mixitig in any-
thing so derogatory to the Hench, to
the sacred Hench, as politics. As for
listening to the suggestion of who
would be a good man for clerk, or
who might be glad to get a job as
bailiff for his night and day services
for monthB, tut, tut. think of the
"ermine,” think of the sanctity that
doth surround a judge.
But bless you, when the time began
to swing around for another election,
how easily and sincerely these good
men forgot all about that assumption
of aloofness and political chastity.
You would meet them in the little
petty back halls In the various wards,
at the downtown meetings and at the
clubs, and they always remembered
you (If you were active in the party),
and they always had a choice lot of
“guff" about the principles of the
party, which, translated Into the ver-
nacular meant; “I want to hold on to
my Job.” Why, these fellows were
occasionally the most ungrateful and
palpably hypocritical “skates" I ever
met. The most ordinary "ward work-
er” could see through such a game as
this without a second glance.
Of course the corporation counsel’s
office, with a bunch of assistants, was
a fruitful place for a bestowal of
legal jobs. It had many a tough legal
nut to crack, and was a busy office.
Being right in the lime light, and with
so many matters <• importance, the
head of the office had to be somebody
who could do more than “put up a bold
front.”
The city attorney’s office, being an
elective one, war a plum eagerly
sought by the more active of the pure
ly political attorneys. He had a num-
ber of positions under him of assis-
tants in the running of the office, and
these places were regularly filled from
the legal ranks of the party. Here,
then, were more niches to be filled up
with legal timber; and If a young poli-
tician had “been admitted to thp bar"
he had a chance of going in and get-
ting a salary from the start and an op-
portunity for experience which would
be Invaluable to him. All the city at-
torneys I ever knew were orators, ex-
cepting one. They were all active in
party work and party councils, and
sometimes graduated from this office
either to higher political positions or
to positions with big corporations If
they chanced to develop unusual ca-
pacity as lawyers.
There were other departments, often
appointive, where legal talent was re-
quired, and there was always some
political attorney “ready at the drop"
of an Interview to shoulder the white
man's burden and “take a hack” at the
city treasury. It Is a noticeable fact
that lawyers as a rule (I don't say
it because I am one myself) are hon-
est in the-practice of their profession.
I mean by this that they don’t em-
bezzle money and prove unfaithful
to the trusts placed In them In as
great a proportion as other profession-
al and business men. The statistics
show this, strange as It may seem.
Some people claim that this is because
they know the penalties better. In
Ha Was Followed by a Hebrew Law-
yer of Wit.
reality, It la because the transgres-
sions are fewer. I never saw a lawyer
In an appointive or elective position
drawing a salary from the party, who
was not expected to be a "live propo-
sition” as a worker for the party’s
good.
You could tell an ex-judge from a
full fledged one Just as easily as you
can tel! among a crowd of fishermen
who has caught a string and who has
had "fisherman's luck.” An ex-judge
had a chastened look usually, not at
all despondent, but a rerainiscential
»-r of "old. unhappy, far-off things,
and days of long ago." The present
Incumbent was sometimes radiant,
oftener severe.
"As who should say. I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no do* bark.”
At the various banquets with which
the political world amused Itself, the
lawyers were always on hand In large
numbers, and were depended on for
moat of tho speech making. In tho
mayoralty elections and the ward
elections they were also active, and
the brunt of the “silver-tongued’’ ora-
tory was invariably borne by the
members of the legal profession. I
remember at one club banquet where
a certain very eloquent young lawyer
arose and began his flowery speech
with something like the following:
“Sprung from a race whose blood
dates back to the dawn of the revolu-
tion," and so on. He was followed by
a Hebrew lawyer of wit and worth,
who did not particularly fancy tho
first speaker. This gentleman struck
au attitude and launched his oration
In the following terms: “Sprung
from a race whose blood dates back
to the dawn of creation," and so on
and so forth. It was unanimously
voted that the Bccond speaker «u en-
titled to the claim of "first blood.”
In the city council you would al-
ways find the lawyers to the front;
Even Laugh at Stale Pleasantries
About the Outlook.
and on the committee requiring the
handling and disbursing of money
none was complete without a lawyer
on it. The study of their profession,
and their opportunities for speaking,
developed them In the matter of pre-
senting ideas shorn of surplus words,
and while they were not by any means
the wittiest of the council orators,
they were usually the weightiest.
It is really amazing to look up and
ascertain what a remarkable influence
the lawyers have had in politics, and
to reflect that this influence is steadi-
ly held up in present times. New laws
are being ground out regularly every
session by state legislatures, old laws
repealed, and laws rendered null by
decisions of the supreme courts ara
followed by fresh batches of legisla-
tion. We have too many laws in this
country. Don't you think so? And we
don’t enforce enough of the good ones!
And yet. and yet, my experience in
politics has convinced me that the
leaven of lawyers In the political strife
of the country makes generally for the
good. I say this because I have known
hundreds of them, and as a class they
are honest, and collectively intelligent
As office-holders 1 have found them
capable, including myself. As legisla-
tors I have not had much experience
with them. But the criticism that I
would pass upon them is not that they
hold so many of the offices, but that
they make too many laws.
One young lawyer of my acquain-
tance whose ambition once ran to the
nomination for sheriff, was shown that
resourcefulness is nut entirely ab-
sorbed by the members of his guild,
lie was an Irishman, living in a
county where the vote was a German
one as to majority. He figured over
the situation with an Irish friend of
hia who had been brought up from
boyhood in the German settlements,
anil who spoke German like a native.
At last he came 'o the conclusion that
it couldn’t be done.
"They’ve got 112 votes to our SO. the
very best way you can figure It." he
announced to his faithful lieutenant.
“Do I get the chief deputyship II
you win?" was the answer. J
“Certainly,” was my friend’s reply. .
“Leave it to me," was the mysteri-
ous response.
On convention day the Irishman
who spoke German circulated among
tho Germans who came from his part
of the county and who were trying
for a candidate of their own. The
other German contingent had a candi-
date also, and the Americans and Irish
were secretly nnd solidly for my friend
McHugh. The Germanized Irishman
got his German friends to throw "a
complimentary vote" to McHugh “Just
for the first ballot, d'ye see.” to the
number of enough votes, when the
Irish and Americans came in solid, to
barely scrape McHugh In on the first
ballot, leaving the worthy Germans to
"hold the bag." By much "soothering”
afterwards a truce was effected, and
McHugh triumphantly elected. Hut
he didn’t run for sheriff next time,
KRNKBT M’OAFFKT.
(Copyright, 19ns, by Jn»i-ph B. Bowles.)
Eliot; There are new eras in one’*
life that are equivalent to youth—ara
somethin* better thap youth.
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