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Cleveland County Leader.
VOL 1
NOBLE. CLKVKLAM)COUNTY,<>K„ SATl'KDAY. MARCH 11, 189.*.
NO 10.
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NOBLE ACAflEMY,
]Nol)le, Oklahoma. Territory.
This institution of learning opened its doors to the school public in
September, lt>'J2, and hag already achieved a marked sucie«.-.
The range of subjects taught here equals that of any similar institu-
tion anywhere, and those subjects are as thoroughly taught here as any-
where else.
Tt is the design of the NOBLE ACADEMY to earn its success, and is
willing to be judged solely by the quality of its work.
Beautifully situated and easily accessible to the general public by rail
and stage. On a healthful location, backed by energy and experience, the
NOBLE ACADEMY sks only for a.fair trial to insi'irc its prosperity.
E. D. MACREADY, Principal.
J. G. THOMPSON
Calls the attention of the people
to his large stock of
Hats, Caps ancl
(rent's Furnishing Goods, Etc.
Ask to see his excellent line of
Dress Goods and Children's School Shoes,
Don't buy elsewhere until you l?ave seen
tfoose $1.00 Ladies S^oes. Call and see us
c
and get our priees. It will cost you nothing
and you sljall be well treated.
Noble,
Oklahoma.
ACME : SALOON,
TSToble, Oklahoma.
Finest Brands of Liquors always
in Store.
Bottled Beer and Choice Cigars at lowest Prices.
^Courteous treatment guaranteed to all Gentlemen'
A FLOWER.
Thl* little rtow.'r «*o fair ami *
Upon ;i hilhede had it* birth
Where lofty trers uad .set thr ir feet
Firm iu the earth
Tie sun's warm loyal heart It know
Befor«) iu t«'iiili-r leave-, took form,
Long ere it drank the fragrant dew
Or faced the storm
The angels of the wind -and rain
Watched over it with loviug car-1,
And ao it grew untouched ' v pu n
Each day more fair
At last one happy morn it stood
Porfoct as full-grown v<->tul soul,
Within Xhat grand ni.i - -.t t vood
All beautiful
And seeing it. I think that thuv
A song should grow in every part,
Burstiug at last all «l<vriou>
From poet he^ri
Harriet Srnead.
BRAVE WOMEN.
The women of the Revolutionary
war were generous, high-spirited. anil
devoted. They resigned their prop-
irty without a sigh, went from house
to house begging for the continental
Army, embroidered colors, distributed
trins and ammunition, exhorting the
men to use r.her.i like heroes. Kven
the girls ip many instances pledged
themselves not t> reeeive addresses
of lovers wI;o had not given proofs of
love for thel country. The records
are full of iioble deeds and bravery,
some of whl di are presented in this
paper.
When the iirst call toarms sounded
through the land, a Mrs. Draper im-
mediately exhorted her husband to
lose no time in hastening to the scene
of action, and with her own hands
Viund knapsack ami blanket on the
shoulders of her only son. a stripling
of 16, bidding him depart and do his
duty. To the entreaties of her
daughter tliat her young brother
liiight remain at home to be their
protector, she answered that every
ible arm belonged to the country.
"He is wanted and must go. You
and I, Kate, have also service to do.
Food must bo prepared for the hun-
gry; for before to-morrow night hun-
dreds, I hope thousands, will be on
their way to join the continental
forces Some who have traveled far
will need refreshment, and you and I,
with Molly, must feed as many as we
can. ' For two days and a night she
employed herself diligently in baking
bread: and then erecting^a long table
on the roadside she covered it with
pans of b.-ead and cheese, placing
great pails of cider beside them.
After the battle of Bunker Hill
there was a great scarcity of ammu-
nition, and Washington called upon
tha inhabitants to send him every
ounce of pewter or lead in their
irrovince. This appeal could not be
disregarded, but it is difficult at this
day to estimate the value of pewter,
as well as its indispensable con-
venience. The more previous metals
^ad not then found their way to the
lables #f the New Englanders; and
throughout the country services of
pewter scoured to the brightness of
•ilver covered the board, even iu the
houses of the wealthy.
Few withheld their portion in that
hour of the country's need; and noble
were the sacrifices made in present-
ing their willing offerings. Mrs.
Draper was rich in a large stock of
pewter, which she valued as the
greatest ornament of hertiouse. Much
•of it was precious to her as the gift
of a departed mother. But the call
reached her heart, and she was thank-
ful that she was.able £u contribute so
largely to the requirements of her
country. 'J he supply of domestic
cloth designed for her family was in
a short timer converted by her labor,
assisted by that of daughter and
maid, into coats for tlje soldiers; the ,
sheets and blagjcetfe <v i f h which her '
presses were stored were fashioned
Into shirts; and even the flannels I
already made up for herself and
daughter were altered! into men's
garments.
A Mrs. Pond, of Connecticut, as-
sisted only by another woman and a
hired man, on a sudden emergency
prepared in a single hour a breakfast 1
of milk and hasty-pudding for 100
hungry and wearied soldiers.
A patriot by the name of Israel,
falling under something more than
suspicion, was taken on board an
English frigate as a spy. and a detach-
ment of mariners was sent to capture
and slaughter his cattle. Mrs. Israel j
was a young wife of 19, about to be-1
oome a mother, and is described as of
slight and girlish figure: modest and
retiring in manners. On seeing the
mariners land, however, and accom-
panied by a boy of only eight years, i
she set out at full speed to the
rescue of the cattle. This she ef-
fected by driving them into the barn-
yard. with the shot of the enemy fall-
ing thick about her. There they |
were safe, for the British forces in
that quarter were not in a condition
to invade farm-houses.
One noblewoman, Mrs. Gibbs, it is
recorded, in the midst of scenes of
violence during the robbery of her
house by the British troops, com-
manded even their respect by her
calm and ladylike deportment. In
her presence all was. at least, the
show of decorum. ••Maintaining her
place as mistress of her household,
and presiding at her table, she treat-
ed her uninvited guests with a dig-
nified courtesy 'hat insured civility,
while it prevented presumptuous
familiarity. The boldest and rudest
amorg them bowed involuntarily t«>
an influence which fear or force could
not have secured."
Mrs. Motte appears conspicuously
in her heroism when she consented
to the destruction of her property.
Her magnificent house interrupted
the progress of an important siege,
and the American commamici hinted
with great em harassment, to a lady.
I to whom.the patriotic cause owed so
I much, that its destruction would lead
I in all probability to the rapture of
| the enemy. " The smile with which
the communication was received gave
instant relief to the ombarassed
officer. Mrs. Motte not only consent-
ed, but declared that she was grati-
fied with the opportunity yf contrib-
uting to the gOod of her country, and
should view the approaching scene
with delight. Shortly after, seeing
the bows and arrows which had been
prepared to carry combustible matter
she sent for Lee, and, presenting him
with u bow, and Its apparatus, *rhleh
had been imported from Jndia, re-
quested his substitution of them as
better suited for the object than those
provided." The house was burned
before her eyes; the British garrison
surrendered, and after the captors
had taken possession, Mrs. Motte
signali/ed the occasion by presiding
with feminine grace at a grand din-
ner of the officers.
William Martin was killed at the
battle of Augusta, and a British
officer rode out of his way to gratify
his ha4red of the •♦rebels" by convey-
ing the intelligence abruptly to-the
bereaved mother. "You had a son,"
said he, 4 in the army of Augusta? 1
saw his brains blown out on the liold
i of battle." The American woman
did not blanch for an instant; her
countenance was calm, whatever strife
may have been going on within, and
looking steadily at the ruffian, she
answered: "He could not have died
■ in a nobler cause."
j At a time when the failure of am-
munition began to bo vexatlously felt
in the American army, supplies of
| war wero secreted in hollow trees
and other such places. The amount
given to Colonel Bratton was con-
fided '->y him, during an occasional
absen, ,3, to the care of his wife; but
the iflfcumstance being in some way
known, a detachment of the enemy
was sent to secure it. '
Mrs. Bratton was made aware of
their near approach,and "immediate-
; ly laid a train of powder from thede-
| pot to the spot where she stood, and
1 when the detachment came in sight,
j set lire to the train and blew it up.
The explosion that greeted the ears
, of the foe informed them that the ob-
ject of their expedition was frus-
trated. The officer in command, ir-
ritated to fury, demanded who had
dared to perpetrate such an act, and
threatened instant and severe ven-
geance upon the culprit. The intrepid
woman, answering for herself: 'ltWfis
I who did it. Let the consequences
be what thev will, I glory in having
prevented the mischief contemplated
by the cruel enemies of my ooun-
• try.111
A quiet, unobtrusive-looking house
: in Philadelphia, inhabited bv a
Qffukcr couple by the name of l>ar-
ragh, was chosen by the British
i officers as a place for private confer-
ence; and one evening of their meet-
ing, the party in command exhibited
so much anxiety to get the family to
bed, that, the alarm of- the mistress,
Lydia Darragh, was excited. She
could not rest that night. She heard
in imagination sounds of foot from
the midnight council, and at length
getting up. she stole like a shadow
to the door of tlw, room, and heard
the reading of a paper containing tie
plan of attack upon the American
army at the White Marsh on the next
day but one. She crept back to bed,
and a knocking at her door soon an-
nounced that her mysterious' guests
were departing.
She rose, shut up the house, and
collected her thoughts. Information
must be given to her countrymen of
the impending destruction; but by
whom? To employ her husband
would be to place him in imminent
jeopardy, and she determined to bo
herself the messenger. Karly the
next morning, taking an empty sack
with her for the ostensible purpose of
procuring Hour for her family, she
went to headquarters, obtained Gen-
eral Howe's written permission to
pass the British lines, and then walk-
ing through the snow to Frankford,
deposited her sack at the mill. She
then pressed forward toward the
American outposts, but luckily fall-
ing in with an officer on the way, she
delivered her fateful tidings. Lydia
returned home with her sack of flour
the same day, and the bullied British
never could imagine to whom they
owed this unfathomable treachery.
Karly in the war, Governor Hut-
ledge sent a quantity of aims and
ammunition to the house of Colonel
Thomas to be ready in case of any
emergency that might arise on the
frontier. These munitions were under
the guard of twenty-five men, and
the house was prepared to resist as-
sault. Colonel Thomas received in-
formation that a large party of Tories
under the command of Colonel More,
of North Carolina, was advancing to
attack him. He and his guard deem-
iug it inexpedient to risk a twice so '
' much superior to th ir own retired
carrying as much ammunition as po*
i fcible Josiah Culbortson, a son-in
I low of Colo' cl Thomas, who «a:
with the lit Je garrison, would no* gd
with the others and remained in tus
house. Besides him and a boy the
only inmate* were women.
The lories advanced and took tip
rheir station, but the treasure was
not to l>e yielded to their demand.
1'heir calk for admittance was an
swered by an order to leave the pretn-
j ises, and their fire was received with-
out much injury by the log* of which
t he house was built. Their tir • was
quickly returned from the upper
story, and proved much more effect-
! ual than that of the assailants. The
old-fii-diioncd "batten" door, strongly
barricaded, resisted their efforts tc
demolish it.
Meanwhile < 'ulbertson continued te
lire, the guns being loaded a* fast as
he discharged them by the ready
hands of Mrs. Thomas and her daugh-
ters, aided by her son William: and
this spirited resistance wry shortly
convinced the enemy that further ef-
fort was useless. Believing that many
men were concealed in tin* house, and
apprehending a sally, their retreat
was made as rapidly as their wounds
would permit
I After waiting a prudent time, and
! reeonnoitering as well as she could
from her position above. Mrs.Thomas
1 descended the stairs and opened the
doors. The powder thus preserved
constituted the principal supply for
I Sumter's army in the battles of ltoeky
j Mount and Hanging Hock. -Colonel
Henry Inman in the National Trib-
une.
A CANADA LYNX.
I.ota of Thoin to tl e North of
M plant off.
In December 1890, we were gfii^x °T>
the Sturgeon river on the ice, say a
a writer in Forest and Stream. At a
point about eight miles north of Lake
Nipissing we saw an animal cross the
river about a mile in advance. Not
knowing exactly what it was I ran
ahead with a 10-89 Winchester. On
coming to the track in the snow I saw
at once that it was a Canada lynx,
and as there was an enormous bluff
or rock on the shore in the direction
take.i by the animal it seemed proba-
bly its den was in the vicinity.
As soon as our dog came up he fol-
j lowed the fresh scent and found the
lynx about 20!) feet up the lodge
crouching under a large rock. The
ascent was so abrupt that I had the
utmost difficulty In getting up. Even
' the weight of the rifie told against
, me at times. The position of the
I lynx was such that it was impossible
I to see him without climbing on a
I large bowlder directly in front of the
place of the animal1* refuge. I
mounted the bowlder, and. stooping
down, looked in at the lynx barely
ten feet away, but I was so much
blown by the exertion that it was
| necessary to wait a half minute or so
to recover my wind.
I remained on guard in front of the
| animal, and when sufficiently recov-
ered knelt down and flred. <?;>_• sorir+±
would have reached me, and its
' mentuin must have precipitate! me
!'()() feet down the face of the cliff.
The position taken by the animal was
such that he could not be seen except
from the one point. He appeared
rather'frightened than vicious, so fat
as 1 uould judge -when first seen his
ere* were glaring green from beneath
the rock, when ready to tire his posi-
tion was changed. The head was not
visible, but the breast only was ex-
posed. The 300-grs. bullet proved
too much for him.
Hunters in Northern Ontario do not
consider the lynx at all dangerous.
If taken in a trap they do not hesi-
tate to attack the animal and beat it
to death with a club. My own ex .
perienco tends to confirm the notion
that they are cowardly.
Moorlftli Architecture.
An American engineer, recently re-
turned from a visit to Spain, is con-
vinced that the durability of Moorish
architecture is over-estimated in pop-
ular opinion. That which lie exam-
ined he found extremely defective
from the engineer's point of view,and
he believes that where one ancient
Moorish structure remains, scores
must have perished. The tenuous
horseshoe arch and the prevalence oi
pillars seemingly too delicate to dc
the work imposed upon them he as-
cribes to the fondness of the Moors for
creating In structures the impression
of instability, a trick, the result, per-
haps, of something deeply imbedded
in the Moorish intellect.
A llettgar's Wealth.
In Homo there is much talk about
an old beggar who used to frequent
the doors of the church of the Min-
erva. and who, dying lately, was
found to be possessed of 100,000
francs, which he had left by a prop-
erly drawn up will to his three chil-
dren, who were completely ignorant
of their father's wealth.
Hi* iit'IuI Touch.
Mrs. Hoetong—.'signer Klaviersplel,
the pianist has such a beautiful touch,
hasn't he?
Mr. Bobber ly- fes: he touched me
for five dollars in the conservatory a
minute ago. -Chicago News-Record.'
THE LARGEST BABY.
4 Young <ilant Who Wrl|(h«d Nfjrlf
Twenty-Four I'ouniU at Mirth.
The baby which for general .ilze,
height aud weight takes the rate :u
Doing "the largest on record'1 was
oorn in Ohio on the twelfth day of
January. 1879. The "average baby"
weighs from six to nine pounds; thi*
giant infant's weight was exactly
twenty-three and three-fourths
pounds. He (it was a boy) was two and
one-half feet in length (the comino i
run of babies range from sixteen t
twenty inches in height) and had a
head measuring nineteen inches. Its
••cute little pink foot" measured five
and ouc-hali inches and was as thick
as that of the average 18-months-old
child. About six years prior to this
extraordinary event the same woman
gave birth to an eighteen-pound baby
which was twenty-four inches in
height, says the St. Louis Republic.
Although this may be thought to Is*
a wonderful story by those not in-
formed as to the real facts, it will l e
shorn of some of its seeming Mulhat-
tonle ear-marks when it is known
that the parents themselves were two
of the largest people of the l*nlted
States at the time of the occurrence
related above thev were Mrs. and
Mr. M. V. Bat ,es, the former known
as the ••Nova Scot inn Giantess," and
the latter as the ••Kentucky Wonder."
Mrs. Bates was (if my memory is not
at fault, she died some live or si*
years ago) seven feet nine inches in
height, the father of the baby giant
being about two inches less in stature.
Prior to the arrival of this Titanic
infant upon the scene, the "largest
baby on record11 was the "giant baby'1
of the London, Kngland, medical hos-
pital, a preserved specimen which
measures twenty-four inches in height,
and has a head thirteen and one-half
inches in circumference.
In March* 1879, less than twfc
months after the bty*th of the giganti®
Bates baby. >frs. Ruben Griffiths of
Whftebreast township. Warren coun-
ty, Iowa, gave birth to a seventeen
and one-half pound baby, twenty-ono
inches in length, and with a head
lacking less than a half inch of com-
ing up to the London medical hospital
record.
UTILIZING A RAT.
ITow fhf I.ItH*. KiMlent Helped Carole**
UorkHjfn out of a tlx.
Many or the telegraph wires in
London run through the subways in
which the gas pipes and sewers are
placed. The principal arteries are so
large that it is easy enough for men
So work in them.but the pipes through
which the side wires branch off are
much smaller, and great care has been
taken to preserve the connect! n be-
tween the main and lateral wires.
Some years ago men were repair-
ing one of these latter, and carelessly
pmitted to attach it to a leading lino
by which it could be drawn to j.ts
place when it was mended. The
blunder seemed likely to have seri-
ous consequences, for it was thought
that the whole of the lateral pipe
would have to be dug up in order to
get at the broken wire.
But one of the men came to the
rescue with a happy thought, sug-
gesting that a rat should be procured,
and with a fine piece of wire attached
to it, sent through the pipe. This
was done; but to the dismay of the
workmen, the new hand came to &
stop after it had gone a few yards.
The inventor of this idea was not.
however, at the end of his resources,
and by his advice a ferret was pro-
duced and started on the dilatory rat's
track. There was a moment of sus-
pense before it was settled whether
the rat would run away or show light
but this was soon ended by the pay-
ing out of the wire, and in a short
time the latest addition to the staff
of the postoffiee appeared at the
other end of the pipe
The little animal was caught, the
wire detached, and then it was set
free in recognition of the service it
had rendered. By means of the wire
the telegraph line was secured, and a
long and laborious piece of work
saved.
Death* From Joy, Fright, Grief, Ktc.
We read in Livy that when Hannibal
had vanquished the Romans in the
battle of Cannae, two women, seeing
their sons whom they had supposed
dead return in good health, died im-
mediately from excessive joy. A
Frenchman who had by chance passed
over a narrow plank lying across a
deep gorge in the dark, on viewing
the spot the next day fell down dead
while contemplating the dangers <>f
the previous night. Montague re-
lates the case of a German noblema:i
who died of excessive grief on discov-
ering that his son had :een killed ;:i
battle. "He stood." says Montagt.
like a stock, with his eyes lixeJ . :i
the corpse till the vehemeney of his
sorrow having overwhelmed hi* vit-.il
spirits, he sank stone dead to t o
ground.11
Dreadful.
Buckston It mn<t I «• ii to : i;>
thill},' for a mun t ' waken in !ii*r >Tn
md discover that lie ha-li.-rn • t
ilii'e.
Nendiek (). I don't k::o •. A i :
who has Keen i'i a hall bedr l-i
wouldn't mind it.
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