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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
LIVESTOCK MARKET.


Kansas City Stock Yards, Jan. Is
Oil mill cattle from the South are due
at this season and are running free
ly, Sugar mill cattle from dorado
and the West are due month or
more later, but they are running now
little ahead of time. The spread of
the silo has been so general in the
last year or two that these big fireless
cookers are now found ON the plains
in the panhandle country, as we'll as
in the corn raising districts. Their
use in connection with cottonseed
meal and other concentrated feeds,
has enabled the Southwest to push
its claims for recognition as a win
ter beef producing section, and ship
ments from that territory are now
running. Kansas and Western Mis-
souri, are sending in some beef, and
Iowa and Nebraska consignments are
coming this way. The result is that
$4,000 cattle arrived yesterday, and
sold at steady prices. and 5000 came
in today, market steady. Stockers
and feeders are selling firm, partly
because of the more hopeful outlook
for beef cattle and partly on account
the annual rise the first part Of jan
uary. This advance is explained by
the close of tn more or less somnol-
ent period around the holidays, so far
as the livestock business is concerned,
Heavy native steers sold at SO today
medium natives at $3.50 to $3.50, Col
orado Pulp steers $7.25 to $S.S5, meal
fed steers $3.50 to $50, native cows
$3.50 to 81, veals $3.50 to $11, stock
ers and feeders $6.25 to $3.50. Hog
advances received a halt this week,
trminating the spectacle OF corn and
hogs going in opposite directions. Re-
ceipts are running moderate. 10000
here today, prices steady to S lower,
top 1925 bulk of sales SIZE. 20 $8.15.
Pigs are 10 to 25 lower this week. at
1915 to s7.S5. Fresh pork demand is
very strong. and with short run Of
hogs impending, together with some
Improvement in quality OF hogs. in
ducement for prediction of higher hog
offered at the leading markets freely,
offered at tn leading markts freely.
and are holding barely steady since
the middle OF last week. tops at s7-so
to ss.05. On the other hand. ewes,
wethers and yearlinss are scarce. and
are holding mp firm. ewes at s5'z6 to
$3.50. wthers $40 TO 90. yeariings.
90. so TO 3725, Receipts are lighter
this week than heretofore. II 900 ycs-
terday. 1000 tcdar
s4 IA R1cKART.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
THE HOG MANS IDEAL

In recent discussion of the points
to be observed by hog breeder, w.
F. McFadden, secretary Of the Ameri-
can Poland China Record Association,
said:
THE hog man should make hos
raising his principal business; that
he should not make it secondary to
his farming operations, and that it
should be the central idea around
which revolve all his active business
operations. A hog man should be a
hog man 365 days in the year. He
criticised those breeders whose en-
thusiasm was short-lived, urging
them to take pride in their business
and in every little detail concerning
it. He thought that crates should be
made light, good and attractive and
that stationary should be neat, to the
point and indicative of the methods
of doing business. He thought that
good stationary added dignity to the
business.
Concerning what to raise, he said
that good many hog men failed be-
cause they did not offer for sale the
kind of stock the buyers were want
ing to buy. He appreciated that it
was an art for any man to recognize
what kind of hog would be in de-
maRd and be prepared TO supply it
He urged breeders to keep clear Of
that salemanship, says the Oklahoma
Farmer, was important and that it
was only possible to be good sales
ledge of individuality of animals as
we'll as knowledge of good business
practices.
Talking about feeding and care he
said that a hog should be we'll bred
and that improvement was the result
of good care and good feed. There was
no success without these and good
l.ludsemenr sin zselectian2ss ,,ss 44a ~
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
be able to take away with him and

pc able 10 take away with MIN ana
put into practice in his home COM
munity, the very best ideas in agri-
culture. Then the educational fea-
lures from all the different States
whose agricultural colleges will give
practical demonstrations in scientific
methods of farming, will make this
exposition a most valuable school of
instruction with a National short
course in farming. Texas should re-
member that she is in a world wide
competition of farm porducts where
each State or country represented
will attractively display it's greatest
resources.
This great agricultural congress
not only aims to teach the farmer how
to raise bigger and better crops, but
also to help the producer to get a
bigger share of the price the consumer
has to pay for what he eats. 1t aims
to help the farmer to make farming
more profitable without making the
increased profit burden to the con-
sumer. One of the ways of bringing
this about is to devise system OF
marketing that will get to the con-
sumner vast quantities of perishable
stuff that now goes to waste in field
and orchard because the farmer can
not get enough for it to pay him to
ship it,"
Mr. Summers thinks the marketing
problem will be partly solved through
stimulating the farmers to better
methods of production, based on psy-
Geological fact that when you can
get person to do any part of bus
mess well, he is not afterwards sat
isifed to do any part of it badly.
Agriculture" insists Mr.. Summers,
Should be the best conducted busi-
ness in the world, as all other busi-
ness interests are dependent on t..
In the soil is the source of our wealth
and from 1t we must get the money
to carry on any other business. AS
life itself is more important than the
conveniences of living, so Is agricul-
ture more important to the Nation
than other interests which have re-
ceived much attention in the past
"Inasmuch as this coming exposi-
ton benefits the different agricultural
sections of the country and the farm
ers of the United States It will ben
eft all the people in making more se-
cure their opportunities to live. Every
person should certainly give his un-
qualified endorsement and support 10
IA movement that assures this country
Of sufficient supply Of food. for no
nation can attain to tho highest state
Of ctytIntion with an underfed popuia-
tian. &F~ -
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
The Betterment Of Agriculture is
The Nations Pro blem.
An interview with Hon. Hatton w. Sumnrs.
(By Ida May Briggs.)

power to produce or else going hun
CRY in the near future. We who
would eat must get in touch with tho
things of earth, once more, as con-
sumers If not as producers.
Formerly. nearly all the people Of
the earth were in direct contact with
the soil, but the past three quarters
of century has been on of the city
building, with the population gravi-
tating towards the centers Of popula-
ton, leaving the small number re-
naming on the farm to provide the
food necessary to preserve the lives
of the city dwellers. Very often the
dependent ones have looked down up
on, scorned, or treated with indiffer-
ence the man who stayed on the job
of producing things to eat. Agricul
tner has too long been considered a
less desirable, less honorable, a less
remunerative vocation than a bust
ness carried on in the city.
Now, then" Mr.. Summers warns us
"our rich virgin soils are fast becom-
ing things of the past, and we cannot
abandon the depleted fields as we cast
off worn out garment and seek a
new one. We have to stay In the oc-
cupied territory. Our grazing lands
and timbered lands have been subdi
vided; we no more have the free
fields; our greatest is now occupied
by settlers. build up tht neglected
soil that it will produce enough food
for all our people"
These are some of the reasons given
by Mr.. Summers as to why the pres
ent Congress Is so appreciative OF the
great value of the Sixth National
Corn Exposition. to be held in Dallas,
Texas, February 1O-24th, to the
whole country.
II understand" says Mr.. Summers,
"the Government will make most
elaborate and comprehensive exhibit
at this exposition. not only Of the
best types OF agricultural products.
but Will also give instruction on the
proper methods Of cultivation. 10 viii
endeavor to cover all the important
interests OF the fhrn In such q way
that any visitor gan understand, and
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16

The betterment of agriculture is
not the problem Of the farmer, but
the problem of the Nation" asserts
Hon. Hatton w. Summers, Congress-
man at large from Texas. who has
introduced a bill in Congress provid-
ing for a farm products marketing
system.
Nothing is more important to
Nation than to have its people we'll
fed" emphatically declares Mr.. Sum
ners, and especially is this true in a
nation like our which must depend on
the wisdom, patriotism and good judg-
ment Of its people for the adminstra-
ton Of its Government and its per-
petuity.
I'VE of the cities, should be most
intensely interested in the best meth
DDS of production because these things
determine the volume Of food which
we will have to eat and eating ever
remains the primal necessity of man,
with the fields as the great source
OF supply The brown stane palaces
the sky scrapers, the gilded streets
Of our cities cannot feed the mass OF
humanity struggling within their con-
fines These must look back to the
land for sustenance. Those who eat
should be more deeply concerned
about better methods of farming than
those who produce crops merely for
the money that comes from their
sales.
If the inhabitants of city which
got it's water supply from a reservoir
beyond its borders should learn that
the source OF supply was being con-
stantly reduced, they would not sit
with folded hands and say. this Is
no concern of ours. but OF the people
who live around the reservoir or
work there, would they" asks Mr..
Summers. as he calls our attention to
the alarming decrease OF farm pro-
ducts In the United States: while it's
population is steadily increasing.
~'0nr most priceiss treasure, the
fertility of our soil has been 30 dIs-
aipated by slipshod methods OF till
ing It that We are now face 70 face
with the necessity Of increasing IT,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
RURAL CREDITS BILL.

Washington. p. c., Jan. 15.-During
tn holidRya. Congressman Joe d.
ThompsohhRb been preparing rural
credits bill. Mr.. Thompson will in
troduce this bill when Congress re-
convenea The pill provides for way
to bring together the man who has
money "a lnsp and the man who de-
sires to borrow by establishing Gov
ernment bank which win act as pipe
line between the two and psure the
farmrs mony at cheRn9sate OF infer
est suct as big corposations. railroads
and large commercial establishments
are now favored with.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
WARNING ORDER.

To Eli P. Williams, the defendant
in the above entitled cause:
You are hereby notified that you
have been sud by Lewis Paullin in
the District Court of Bryan County.
Oklahoma, upon a cause of action
sounding in tort, the plaintiff charg-
ing you in his petition with the COM
mission of certain acts resulting In
the slander of plaintiffs title to tho
realestate described in plaintiffs peti-
tion, property Of the plaintiff and must
answer the petition of the plaintiff on
or before the 27th day of February,
1914, or the said petition will be TAX
en- as true and confessed, and judg-
mnt in favor OF the said Lewis Paul
lin and against you, the said Eli p.
Williams, for the sum of $4,000 and
sustaining an attachment upon the
ground that you are a Nonresident
OF the State VI Oklahoma, levied upon
the following described real estaAe.
title to which is in your name, to-
wit: sWA Of sW X of SEA of Sec.
4, Twp 7 South, Range East. of the
Indian base and meridian. and lying
and being In the said county Of Bryan
State OF Oklahoma. and ordering said
real estate to be sold in satisfaction
Of plaintiffs claim and demand. will
be rendered accordingly.
Witness my official signature and
seal this the iath day OF January.
1914.
". A. JONES.
Clerk District Court. Bryan County.
BY Richard Nicoids. DEPUTY.
r Crochet q Fowler. attcrnsys fcr
piaihtfff.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16
TYPEWRITER BARGAINS.

Oliver Model five. slightly used, and
you would think it brand new one.
Price $1,000. Another one used about
the same length of time. and in equal
ly as good condition for s65.OO. q. M.
Evans, Durant, Okla. Adv.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16

First insertion Jan. 16. 1914; 4th
insertion Feb. 6, 1914)
State of Oklahoma, Bryan County,
SIS.
In the District Court at Durant.
Lewis Paullin, plaintiff, vs.. Eli p.
Williams. defendant. No. 1887.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-01-16

All kinds OF legal blanks at the
News office. Mall orders promptly
attended to when accompanied with
remittance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
NEGRO EDUCATOR HONORED
Degree of LL. D. Conferred Upon M
 c. LOwery of Butler

Greenville, July 7.-(Special.) )-For a number of years the negroes of Green vile and Butler county have been very interested in the advancement of nor ality and education among their race. Several schools have been established for this end
 One of the negroes who has done much toward this end is NJ. c. Lowery, D. D., ILL. D., the man who delivered the an- nual address at the closing of the South Alabama Baptist college a few days ago. Lowery was born and reared near Green vile and received his education in the public schools of his county and he is a graduate from two of the best schools for his race in the country. His address showed him to be great speaker, and in the front rank of thinkers of his race.
 As an expression and acknowled cement of his ability, the faculty and board of trustees of the South Alabama Baptist college conferred on him the degree of doctor of laws. As leader Lowery has done much to build up his people and guide them along right lines. He has filled numbers of responsible positions. He is pastor of the First Baptist church at Troy and Ozark and also moderator of the South Alabama Colored assooia- tion. He is treasurer of the trustee board of the s. A. B. college, and has done as much as any other man to advance the above college. He erected church build ing at Troy, worth S20000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08

and you are very near to correct sing ing Not so bad, as far as 1t goes; but what does 1t all avail if there be no method? l have heard naturally beauti- ful voices, propeIAy pronouneing Italian
 but the result was far from being perfect singing. l reiterate that there is an Italian method, the only correct method or singing, which. once acquired by hard study, gives the singer the foundation which will make any language singabe Right here let me emphasize that the ma tive Italian Is not born with the gift of correct singing any more than Is an American, or any other foreigner, and he needs to study method as well as any other person. A singer is more fluent in lis native tongue than is a foreigner; but in that alone has he the advantage over the stranger. It is not the language which makes the singer; it is the method, the modus operandi. which must be com sidered first of all granted one las a voice which can be made to sing.
 In defense of our English language, l maintain that it isy singable, and when properly pronounced with the Italian method of tone production applied, will approach correct singing just as nearly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08

There is an Italian method. a German method, a French method-there are all sorts of methods, good, bad and indiffer- ent If there were no Italian method, then surely the life work of Manuel Gar cia, Lombardi, Verglni, Sebastiani, and the other masters of the great Italian school, were in vain.
 Each school has It's own method of tone production. Who win deny that the Ital- ian method is the best. the one which preserves the singing voice the lpngest2 When I think of method I am not onsid- ering any particular language. me- dium through which we expreX our thoughts is absolutely a thing apart from the method used in producing tone. The Italian method needs not the Italian lan- guage alone as medium 1t can be ap- piled to any language known. The Italian method-the Italian art of tone production requires not the works of Verdi Doni- zetti Puccini, as it's vehicle; I maintain it is the only way in which to properly sing in any language. The greatest per- formance of Tristan which have heard q am not referring to the presentation of the opera, as whole, but to the DOT trayal of the tenor role of Wagner S opera) was the singing of Burgotti an Italian who specializes in the Wagnerian tenor roles. singing with the Italian meth od not shouting the part as is almost in- varably done by his Teuton colleagues they of the ''beefy." strident German school.
 While I am as enthusiastic over the beauty of the Italian language as is MT. Loehr. yet I differ with his statement Speak the Italian language correctly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Italian Method of Singing

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 This mornings Age-Herald contains an interesting interview by Dolly Dalrymple with Mir. Allen George Loehr, who has come to Birmingham as head of the de- pertinent of languages of the Sherwood Music school, and it is gratifying to note that the study of languages, so essential to a singers training, is to be incorpor- ated in the course of instruction of that institution. I sincerely hope the Sherwood faculty will not neglect to give proper attention to the diction of English, that much abused medium of expression.
 While our ideas coincide to a great ex- tent I take issue with MT. Loehr in the following remarks. quoted from his inter- view:
 Tt is a lamentable fact that our lan- guage is not a musical language, and as such does not lend itself easily for the best results. Voice teachers rave over the Italian method. As a matter of fact, there Is no Italian method, but there Is the wonderful Italian language, every word of which is song. Speak the Italian language correctly and you are very near to correct singing"
 I protest vigorously against the asser- tion that there is no Italian method"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
Financial District Sees New Relations Between Admin
 tratiOn and Business
BOTH MEN ARE FINE
 CONTEMPORARIES
Presidents of the Past Who Have Always Called in Able Business Men for Consultation-The
 Greater Achievement
BY HOLLAND

New York, July 7.-(Special) l)-President Wilson is thought by those who know J. P. Morgan intimately to have in no way exaggerated his reference to the very agreeable hour which he spent re- gently with Mir. Morgan in the White House. For the present head of the house of J. P Morgan & Go. has long been es- teemed for his unusual gift of prompt de cision and quick judgment, accompanied at the same time by courteous and kind ly manner He has not found it neces- sary even in the busiest hours of the day to impart a sort of brusqueness, sharpness or peremptoriness to his man. ner of dealing with those who call upon him at his offices. Moreover he is known to be. keenly interested in all that apper- tains to the growth and development of the United States and possesses that quail ity of mind which makes it possible to glean and absorb great deal of infor- nation through personal conversation.
 President Wilson and MT. Morgan ap
 pear to be old friends, although not un- til this statement was made was it com monly known that MT. Morgan and Mir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
O'LEARY BEGINS WORK
 AS CAMP ADJUTANT
Instructor at West Point Reaches Montgomery to Prepare for En- campment, July 21-30

Montgomery, July 7.--(Specia1.)- )-Second Lieut.. Herbert O'Leary, U. S. A., instruc- tor at the West Point Military academy,
 New York, arrived in Montgomery Mon- day to make arrangements for the brigade campment of the Alabama National Guard. which will be held in Montgomery
 July H-3O. MT. O'Leary has been detailed
 by the war department as camp adju- tant, and will immediately begin his new
 duties.
 He visited the camp site and conferred
 with Adjt. Gen. Joseph B. Scully as to
 various details in connection with the en- campment. He will remain in Montgom- cry until August 1.
 General Scully announced that he has al sked for bids from the various railroads
 fin the state for handling the state troops to and from the encampment. These bids will be opened next Wednesday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08

occasionally visited New York for the purpose of getting the views of bankers and nnanciers of that day.
 Generai Grant, when President, came rom Washington to New York for the Sole purpose of meeting the leading bank CTS Of the time and getting their views respecting the expedieney of reissuins the greenbacks which had been with drawn from circulation by Hugh McCul- ioch when he was Secretary of the Treas ury In President Johnson's administra- tlon. General Grant was in consultation With these bankers for hte greater part or day and it was the understanding which he then gained of a profoundly diff f1cult fiscal and financial question, the features of which had been embodied in the so-called initiation bill," which made II possible for him to write his now his- toric veto to that bill.
 When General Harrison was President and was in some perplexity about ques- tfons whose solution was of importance to business interests he occasionally sum- moned his longtime friend, Norman B. Ream. to the White House. for there were many things about business affairs in the United States about which MT. Ream had better understanding than the President did. President Mckinley also occasionally invited MT. Ream to pay him 8 visit at the White House, confessng
 
 he had little information but he felt that he could rely upon MT. Ream for the in formation desired.
 No doubt MT. Morgan was able to ex- plain to President Wilson as well as any anyone could do what some of the reasons ere for the recent phenomenal exporta- tions of gold The movement is one which has almost vital relation, in the opinion of the most competent men of finance both in this country and in Eu- rope, to the establishment of improved industrial, commercial and financial rela- tions the world over. The science of for eign exchange is a very difficult one and there have been only few real masters of 1t in the United States. MT. Morgan s father. the late J. Pierpont Morgan, was such a master and 1t was this mastery which had made it possible for him to protect $63, ,0000 900 in gold for six months so that not a dollar of it was gone from the United States treasury. That was in the latter part of President Cleve- lands administration. Mckinley used to say that the great leaders in American industrial. financial and commercial life are as whole men of the highest sense patriotic responsibility. They are also possessed of wonderful stores of informa- ton of a kind which would be of the highest value for an administration at W6 6shington or for Congress to obtain some understanding of. And it should be reported that not the least of the gratify- ing factors which are characteristic of the beginning of the new fiscal year is the evidence that the administration at Washington and the leaders of American industrial and financial life are now dis posed to find a common ground which will enable perfect cooperation to be es- tablished.