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The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORTS.

Senator Harris has presented in the
United States Senate a memorial from
Walter N. Allen, of Meriden, Kans., pro-
testing against government crop reports
and asking that they be discontinued.
In this memorial Mr.. Allen gives the fol-
lowing as his reasons for asking that
this be done:
kansas now has capital and settle
ment, and should stop booming her
crops Is 1t good business to publish
every month an inventory Of our stocks
the number Of acres sowed and the
prospect Of growing crops? If the de-
partment at Washington were to send
out report showing the full crop of
wheat, corn and cotton in the United
States, the effect would be to intimidate
buyers and bear the market But, on the
other hand, should the report show short
crops in all States, or full crops in our
section and short crops in another Sec
tiOn, in neither instance, as experience
proves, would the price be improved so
long as the supply offering in the open
market was equal to the export or cash
demand"
But the bulls and the bears who ma
nipulate the markets, not only of the
country but of the world, do not depend
upon the government crop reports, but
have special reports of their own from
every country and county and hamlet.
If 1t were not for the government reports
they would manipulate and publish their
own reports In such ways as to best suit
their methods and enable them to fleece
the producers even worse than they do
at the present time. The government re-
ports are supposed to be wholly impair
tial and as reliable and accurate as they
can be made and they stand as q check
against the avaricious and unscrupulOus
methods Of board Of trade spectators
who are actuated by purely selfish aims.
The government crop reports ought
not to be discontinued, but they should
be improved and made more perfect.
They should give to the farmers COM
plete, accurate and reliable information
as to what the farmers are doing, not
only in all parts Of this country, but in
every country. They should also give
as reliable and accurate information as
possible in regard to the best products
for the farmers to raise in different To-
calities in order to meet the supply and
demand and get the best prices obtain
able. This country is soslarge and pro-
life that If the farmers should all turn
their attention to any one product they
would overdo it and be Obliged to sell it
at ruinOus loss. The farmers need re-
liable information that will enable them
to avoid such results, and there is no
waT .hat they could get it so well as
through reliable government reports.
In these modern days Of rapid transit and
The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01
CLASSIFYING ANTI PROH1BIT1ON1sTs.

The Kansas City Times, which is en-
titled by official designation to speak
with authority for the Democratic and
POpullst parties Of Kansas, in referring
to the resubmissiOn resolution now be-
fore the legislature, says that 1t is to be
the issue this week. There Is no brew
ers' or distiIers' lobby in Topeka work
ing to accomplish this end" says the
Times "The liquor interests apparently
have ceased to care rap whether Kan
sas retains prohibition or not. Tt is pol
itlCs, pure and simple; win or lose, 1t is
clever politics, and the trump card Of
the anti-Republican forces in the legis-
lature."
BY this the Times means that the fu-
sion forces of the legislature intend to
force the matter upon the Republicans
by standing as unit In favor Of re-
submission. The Times claims that the
Populist senate will pass the Campbell
resolution providing for resubmission,
and when 1t goes to the house the total
strength Of the minority there will be
lined up also in favor Of resubmisslon.
This leaves the matter upon the Repub-
Leans, which is what the Times means
by Clever politics"
The Times inslnuates that the Populist
and Democratic parties are sOlidly anti
prohibition parties. This Is, Of course,
true Of the former, and probably true Of
the latter. It's affiliatiOn with the party
Of drunkenness has attracted 1t that way
until 1t can be counted on, with the ex-
ception of few of its strongest repre-
sentatives, to stand in favor Of license.
1t would be interesting to know just
what the Socialists in the Populist party,
who have been claiming that it Is an out
and-out Socialist party, think Of this
stand. To be consistent Socialists do not
need to favor prohibition at all, but they
must be against license, as they are
against the licensing of private capital
in any form. They stand for a system
Of public ownership and control, but
while the fight is between prohibition
and license, they must either come in as
a third party or in defense Of prohibl-
tion. Whether or not they will side with
the Times Is matter to show in the fu-
ture the depth Of their convictions.
The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01
ONE.sIDED PROsPERITY.


Under the above caption Puck, the
New York humorist weekly, attacks the
Dingley bill as TuinOus to the import
er's business. Puck states that while 1t
Is doubtful that the Dingley bill has
made the prosperity that has come to
the large manufacturing and agricultural
interests Of the country, it is beyond
question that the tariff has ruined the
business Of the importer and in that
way affected a large number OF wage
earners disastrously. The editorial goes
on to show how this is done and says
that 1t is small comfort to thousands of
men who are thrown into the uncertainty
of out-of-work, a position which Puck
Characterizes as industrial slavery"
that this one-sided prosperity has come
about.
When you consider the matter does it
not seem true that all the prosperity that
comes under our present condition is
One-sided? We have prosperity in this
country, and lots of it, but it is only at
the disposal of the man who already has
money Even in these prosperous times
one can go into Kansas City and see
300 men in line at one of the big pack
ing houses at z o'clock in the morning.
They are all after jobs which only few
can secure, and often all of them are
turned away disappointed. A man who
hou IN
cure a profit on it and thus reap the
benefits Of prosperity. But the man who
must depend upon his daily labor for his
living and for that of his family has just
as hard time, If not more difficult, to
secure work, If he happens to be out OF
steady employment, as he did in times
Of panic and financial stringencies. He
finds 20 to 500 or more men to one job,
and the number of unemployed seems to
him constantly to be increasing. The
first consideration Of the average en-
ployer, whether he desires to look at it
in that way or not, is the lowest form
Of selH-interest. He must secure his la
Dor in the cheapest market and secure it
without regard to the welfare Of his en-
ployees, or some more selfish employer
will underbid him.
No matter how great the prosperity we
find the same conflict going on between
capital and labor. There are the same
strikes, demands for living wages" and
the same troubles in prosperous times
as in hard times. AS long as we uphold
system founded on love of money this
will continue. Prosperity will come and
go, but it will always be one-sided.
1t is gratifying to see that apprecia-
tion Of this fact, and move toward the
establishment Of more humane principles
is growing throughout the world. Sam
uel M. Jones, Golden Rule Mayor" is
a type. He is hard-headed business
man and the mayor Of large American
city, but he Is devoting the best in his
life toward the establishment OF an eco
nomic brotherhood. He carries his ideas
out in his business as far as practicable,
as we'll as in his public life. 1t is graft
flying to note that this spirit to change
the common business excuse from This
is hard world" to 81 am my brothers
keeper" is being taken up with deter
mination by men of ability and promi-
nence in public life
AN ENPERTNTENr FnR MANuOOO
The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01
D1RrCT LEG1sLArIoN NOT A MENACE

A writer in the Green Bag, Of Boston,
attacks the principle of direct legislation,
asserting that 1t is menace because 1t
will utterly stifle the voice OF the minor
ity, This is the opposite argument
from that which Is usually heard
urged against the initiative and refer
endum. The stock argument, Of course,
is that the people do not know enough
about public affairs to be trusted with
the power to initiate or recall legislation
for decision by their own votes. But
under this we hear most frequently that
the right to initiate legislation would
result In the fitting about of countless
busy-bodies with petitions asking for
special elections to vote upon foolish
measures. Now lawyer brings up the
opposite side. He claims that the ini-
tiative and referendum would give the
minority no rights and on that account
would be dangerous piece Of political
machinery.
These two arguments contradict each
other, and 1t is precisely the mean be-
The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01

Johnny (whO has just been scolded)-
Am really so bad, mammal" Mamma
Yes, Johnny, you are very bad boy"
Johnny (rehectively)-"Well, anyhow,
you ought to be glad I'm not twins. -
Harlem Life.
The Advocate and news., 1899-02-01
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-17
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THE IDEAL nARRlA1e.

Woman is not undeveloped. man.
But diverse could we make her a. the man,
Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond ID
this,
Not like to like, but like I'm difference.
Yet. In the long ears, nker must they grow;
The man be more OF woman; she of man:
He going in sweetness. and In moral height
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw
the world.
She mental breadth. nor fail in childward
care,
Nor lose the childlike In the larger mind
Till. nc the last, she set herselfto man
Like perfect music unto noble words.
And SO these twain upon the the skirts OF
time,
Set side by side. full sammed in all thei,
powers;
Dispensing harvest. sowing the to-be.
Self-reverent each and reverencing each
Distinct in individualities,
@But like each other. ms those who love.
Alfred Tennyson
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getting up cemetery sssocia-
ton. The first literary society
in Ardmore, the Chickasaw
Chautauqua Circle, was organ
lied by Mrs. John McNeish in
September, 1892, with thirteen
members and at one time
reached a membership of thirty.
Many women took up their long
laid aside books and began to
look with new interest icto them.
Some of these, after six years OF
Chautauqua work, have taken up
the University Association
course and others have gone into
Mrs. Barry's SHAKESPEARE class.
All feel repaid for the little time
spent IN study each week. Then
we have the Derthic Musical
Club which is pursuing a sys-
tematic course of study in music.
An artistic club. the A. II. W. 3,
who spend one afternoon each
week for their Improvement in
needle work. Also an enthusi-
astic Benevolent Society which is
always alert to the calls of those
in sickness and want and to care
for them with purely unseltish
views. And last but not least,
the w. c. T.'U., who, by the way,
were the first organization of
women to band themselves to-
gether for the purpose of carry.
ing on a good work, and today
stands among the first of
women's clubs, going into the
very depths of want and degre-
dation to rescue the fallen and
depraved and remove the temp
tations from the young. For
who knows better than a woman
how to guard the young feet
from snares?
y So we see the woman at the
beginning of almost every un'
selfish movement for good, al.
ways seeking to improve herself
as well as to elevate those who
need her help. And of course
1.-THE more cultured she is the
more she can do foy others and
the more she can do for her OWE
home and her children.
MRS. w. II. BOGIE.
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the greatest of her prose works.
One of the sights pointed out to


the tourist in Colorado is her
grave on Cheyenne mountain.
The past summer the writer
with party of friends climbed
the rugged mountain to see her
lonely resting place. First, her
log cabin, which, had been built
for her as a quiet retreat, was
pointed out to us, then over more
rocky sleeps we climbed until we
stood beside pile of stones
thrown together by thousands
who had preceded us. It was
the grave Tof one of the great
literary women of our age.
And who does not love the
sweet Carey sisters-Alice and
Phoebe? Their lot was not cast
in a region of literary culture
nor had they education or liter
ary friends. We can imagine
them in their barren home on a
Western farm, after the day. S
work of general housekeeping,
talking over with each other the
imagined life of their heroes and
heroines. For the poetic sisters
| were one in spirit through life.
They passed away in 1871, Alice
first and her sister following six
months after. Their stories OF
happy childhood and hymns of
worship viii long remain to
bless the earth.
The name of Louisa NJ. Alcott,
through her "Little Men and
Little Women" has become q
household word. Miss Alcott
was very fond of children and
most of her books were for the
Iyoung. She was a close friend
of the poet and philosopher EN-
erson and of Hawthorne. She
has left behind her works that
will gladden. the hearts Of mil
lions of boys and girls.
| Our most famous humorist
Eamong women is Marietta Holley
better known as Josiah Allen &
Wife" Her best books are ''Sa
man tina at Saratoga, "Swee'
Cicily," "My Wayward Pardner'
and Samantha at the World
Fair" Through all her works
there is a vein of sly humor
homeay philosophy and prac
tical common sense.
Frances Whitaker or the
"Widow Bedott" is another hu
morist of no mean ability. For 1
mastery handling of the Yanke,
dialect she occupies unique
place in humorous literature
Her husband, Hezekiah Bedott
may stand alongside Josiai
Allen AS one of the prominen
heroes of humorous literature.
! Perhaps our most popular nov
elist among women is Amelia E
Barr. Her best work is "Jal
| Veddsr s Wife"
Another is Miss Alice Frencl
Octave Thanet) who is the rep
resentatlve novelist of the South
west.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ware
is also worthy of mention as tn,
author of "Gates Ajar."
Mrs. GEoRGIE SAMMoNS.
| Ardm0re, /. II.
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TIT clubs Where they can
spend from one to q
nights a week, combining their
forces for the purpose of some
some common object" usually
their own pleasure). Not until
the last few years do we see
women taking advantage of these
opportunities to any very great
extent. Now our cities and the
most of our towns have their
little societies where they meet
to work for some common object.
The various churches, temper
Iance, literary, musical, needle
work, etc., and it is a great
pleasure after the monotonous
routine of housekeeping to spend
part of an afternoon each week
W ith a congenial company OF
women at work on some line OF
study in behalf of some good
cause. Some argue that it takes
them from home too much. So
it would if they were to belong
to too many of them. Some
women are better adapted to one
kind of work and some to anoth.
er. II a church worker, she is
am bilious to have a church home
for her own as well as other
children, or she may work in
whatever line she is interested.
In the literary clubs as we read,
new avenues of study and
thought are opened to us. A
, systematic course of reading is
no disadvantage to any woman
rather help, even If she should
go to % club once "a week To do.it
We keep in touch with the worlC
ana as our children grow up W.
are congenial companions FOL
them instead OF being laid on th'
shelf as old fogy. And when W.
lgrow old I am sure we will b,
glad we have kept it up. 1t il
impossible to stand still, and i
we do not keep our minds cultl
waited of course we will retro
grade according to the laws o
nature. Ardmore is not behin'
along this line.
Each church has good livel,
aid society which makes on al
verage of two hundred dollar
a year toward the support of, tn
ch urch, besides several mission
ary societies. And the womel
have interested themselves il
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-17
WOrlAf'S WORK IN AMERICAN
LITERATURE.

y
America began to have a lit-
erature. The men and women
who crossed the sea in search of
civil and religious liberty came
not to write but to do. In all
new countries industrial and
com mercial interests are at first
the strongest.
But with the advent of liborty,
upon our shores was born the
spirit of progress. There was
an awakening in commerce, in
manufacture, in science and cor
respondingly SO in learning.
And a rich field was An erica for
her young aspirants inliterature!
There was the aboriginal red
man with his unwritten past, the
conditions under which colonial
tion proceeded, our rich legend.
airy lore and frontier scenes and
episodes.
But it is our purpose to con
slider only our women in the field
of letters. Some of these writ.
ers are still in the midst of their
productiveness.
Jane Austin has been called
the "Story Teller of the Pill.
grims." Her work is distinctly
American. Her parents were
from Plymouth and traced their
lineage back to the Mayfiowel
Pilgrims. She has given US five
volumes of "Pilgrim Stories, ;
besides a number of poems.
Few names are more indslibly
written upon our couutrv's his
tory than that of Harriet
Beecher Stowe. The publica
1 ton of "Uncle Tom 8 Cabin, hel
first great work, was az histori
cal event. 1t is SAID to be the
greatest book ever written for /;
purpose. 1t brought the pool
professor wife both fame anG
fortune. Uncle Toms Cabir
has been translated into NOR.
than twenty languages, including
| Welch, Russian, Armenian
Arabic, Chinese, and japanese
land it has been dramatized il
various forms. We have many
delightful books from the pen o
Mrs. Stowe after the appearance;
lof "Uncle Tom," but this. hel
first great work, has never beer
Isurpassed.
| Virginia Terhune, familiar t.
| Chnutauquans as Marion Har
Hand, is one of the. first writers
to excel in thetline OF fiction ant
also to be a leader in tke direc
ton of domestic economy. Some
of her Contributions to magazine.
have been published in nearl,
avery journal in England ant
throughout France.
Helen Hunt Jackson is Gale;
"the friend of the Red Man. fol
among all American writer's sh,
is his greatest benefactor. l
was through her influence ths
the government instituted i'm
portant reforms ia his behalf
She was q poet of rare grace aut
beauty of diction. "Bomona' il
=
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GGentle,nen and ladies in need
of furnishing goods should in
spect Davis NBros.' line before
purchasing. For quality and
low prices they can notlbe sur
passed in Ardmore.
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The loves; prices in Ardmore
for business cards, plain and or.
namental job work can he Sc
cured at the Drew Printing Co,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-17

If you want citrOn, candieC
orange peel aud ether materia
that is fresh and cheap see a. F
Jones.
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The Womau's Edition of tn
ARDMOREIrE will be on sale 4
London & Boyd's.
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Sig Simon has u fine line .
carpets and rugs ready for pu'
ting down, after order islplaced
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The display of handsome table
linen at w. o. Duston's can not
be exceIled in Ardmore.
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Citation By Publication.
The State OF Texas,

Inc OIate o. L eXdS,
TO the Sheriff or any constable of Gamer
on County, Greeting:
You are Hereby Commanded to sum
mon Henry Patterson, by max
ing publication of this Citation once
in each week for four weeks previous
TO the return dag hereof in some newspa-
per published in your County, if there be
newspaper published therein but if not
then in any nrwspaI er published in the
18th Judicial District; but if there be no
newspaper published in said Jrsdicial
District. then in news. aper published in
the nearest District to said 2Sth Judicial
District, to appear at the next regular
term Of the District Cour, Of Cameron
County, to be holden at the Couri House
thereof, in Brownsville, on the first Mon
day in FebruaryA. D. 1899 the same being
the Sixth day of February AID. 1899, then
and there TO answer petition fled in said
Court on the 10Th day of December A. D.
1895 in suit, numbered on the docket of
said Court No. 1897. wherein Irene Pat
terson is the Plaintiff, and Henry Patter
son the Defendant, said petition alleging
that the said petitioner and said defendant
were legally married on October 6th.IS79i
in Cameron Iounty, Texas. and lived to-
gether as husband and wife until Septern
Der 18TH 1851. Where, for no cause known
to plaintiff said Defendant abandoned her
bed, andzboard, and has ever since that
time utterly failed, and refund to cont-i-
bute anything what ever ID the support OF
Petitioner or hts children.
Petitioner prays that citation by pub
LEGATION be issued to defendant Henry
Patterson, to answer this petition, and
that the bonds of matrimouy, heretofore
existing between them be forever dissolx-
ed.
Herein fail not but have before said
court, at its aforesaid next regular term,
this writ. with your return theraose. show
ing how you have executed the same.
Witness, Louis Lowalski, Jerk of The
District Court Of ameron County.
Given Under my Hand and the Seal of
said court; at Office in Brownsville this
the a7th day of December A. D. 1898.
LOUIS KowALsKI, clerk,
District Court Cameron @
tSeall A true copy certify, y
LOUIS KowALsK1, Clerk.