The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-24

lied In some MT far d 5tant day.
Next. Are you an employer. ON
ploy-a. or working on an account
am not any. I am an employz,
not "A employ-d. and | have en-
ploy.s ard IN her account have
worked 50 indinerently fear. some
times. | am no account.
NcNt In what year did you I'm.
migrate?"
II was the year 1909. AS | left
my old state. they said was "eml
grating to oklahoma" But some
where over in Arkansaw, | changed,
for when got here these people
said | had "immigrated to Oklaho.
ma" So "cmigrated" and I'm
migrated" both. in week.
am not "naturalized' here In
Oklahoma. either. ! am trying to be-
The process of naturalization Is diff
fcrcnt in Oklahoma. In any other
state 1t Is legal cne; in Oklahoma
1t is a political process. Here
newcomer should as In any other
state. hire lawyer to get him reg
ularly" in some political party.
Next DO you speak English"
Not very well But | do my best.
For several years. | have travelled
a good deal. and delayed trains.
long hours and short meals have
caused be to interpolate my English
with certain emphatic mtcrjectlons
that spoil it. TO degree.
Next. What IA the general ma.
turc Of industry at which you work.
just scratch for living | scratch
ON paper. as | am doing now; then
| scratch my head 10 get something
to scratch on paper and ! scratch
1t down Just like this-and that's
the way I get my living. such As 1t
It, and that is the general nature
OF the industry-it Is scratch
scratch 1t is right hard on me
but not as hard on me as ii is on
my readers
What else? Are you able to read
and wrlte?"
Sot all the time. Living ls higl
now, and meals are short ut home
and often | am so weak | am no
able" to read or write and have
to go and lay down. Like othe
scribos. | lie up and lay down.
DO you own your own home
Not now. My three boys. the old
est fifteen. own everything their paI
ents used u own. Boys are so mucI
smarter now than they used to be
Mine are smarter than they use
"a to be- and are smarter than | use
Il to be. 1t Is great relief TO hay
II such smart boys. When was
y boy | helped my parents make
,t living and was satisfied TO liz
-. along with them. Now. I am still
helper just help my boys and COZ
r. tlmic 70 get "A living. II there
N anything left after the boys suppl
II themselves. Smart boys.
N Next What is your trade or pr
-o fcssion?"
neither trade nor profess
" scratch. | often write up things an
frequently. after writing my written
| confess and beg TO be forgive
not that ever lie straight ou
= but because | know | do suppre
" the truth. \ write.up man leari
from the preacher who breaches I
ncrals he learns that the thing
:" do is to tell all the good and lea'
- out all the bad.
Wherever 20 | am liable
>" write up something or somebody.
can't pass new house witho
" stopping and making notes, Al
when ! see a piece of new lumo
In or near the road | get out II
pencil and notebook, and am liah
~ To build some sort of building rig
there In the road, on a sheet of !
per. II all the buildings ha
. built on paper had, In fact, be-
built there would not today ne
'' piece of lumber or a brick left
~ the south.
., wrote mp a president once--t
~ only one ! ever saw. In eXplainlI
TO the people what he was-ln ,
y" planning to my readers what pr'
idcnt isl told them that the on
difference between him and II
worth mentioning, was that he "
president and | wasn't
'" wrote up a president Once--t
That is as small. lowdown thi
W." as ! ever did-and as ! ever VT.
mn. too. But can not name
IT, thing, have written mp II | IA
''' reader who is Interested. | "
u. ouumcrate the things ! have I
written up
NV Th, last Are Won blind in bt