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The Chandler News.
VOLUME M.
CHANDLER,OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, FEB. lit, 1897.
NUMBER 22
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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa P« R. R.
NORTH, EAST, AND WEST.
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I hours to !- Ai.
Fice chair cara on all
trains. Pulinan PViaca
sleepers to Kaunas City
and Chicago without
chance. Also to Ft. Worth
and Galveston. Connects
ui Newton with Vestibule
limited having chair cars,
Pulmun palace compart-
ment Hleepertj and dining
cara through to Los An-
geles and San Diego also
with train carrying chair
"arf. Pullman and Tour-
1st sleepers to El Paso,
_ Los Angeles, and San
1'ranslsco Through railroad and steamship
tlcktea sold to ail points. Passengurs booked
to all points in the continent of Europe; als'j
from any port or inland point In Europe through
to any polut in the United Stater Prepaid
tickets paiii for here will be delivered to pas
seugers at their residence In Europe. For full
particulars, cnll on or address, Geo. T. Nichol-
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ATTORNEY-A.T-LA.W
CO. ATTORNEY OP LINCOLN Co,
Office at Court House,
CHANDLER, - OKLAHOMA
EMERY A. FOSTER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office, Corner Manvel Avenue and
Tenth Street.
CHANDLER,
OKLAHOMA
GUTHRIE,
CHANDLER,
D. N. FRAZIEU.
J. S. NEWBY.
CHANDLER.
CHANDLER,
OKLAHOMA.
heland's Gypsies.
DR. L A. KELSEY
dentist,
Ofiiee on Manvel Avenue, Between 9th
and 10th Streets. Office Hours
0:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 5:00.
CHANDLER, - OKLAHOMA
H.L.COHEN
MERCHANT
TAILOR . . .
Men's Fine Furnishing Goods
and Hats. A Full Line of Fine
French and Domestic Piece Goods
Now on Hend. Call and Examine.
l'nrt of the glory of knowing Romany
lies in tlie fat'l tliat it Is not in books
and must l e learned from tin1 gypsies
themselves, and the gypsies the world
over make it a kind of secret autl will
8iieak it or teach it only when they are
very good friends with you. They like
to have It as a mystery just as chil-
dren like to make up gibberish that
they talk with their chums and out-
siders don't understand.
Charles G. Leland, the author of the
iinns Breitman ballads, knows more
of these people and their language
than any other Ameiiean; aud there
are ve>y few people itHhe world that
know so much, and gypsies in Ameriea
and England and Austria and Russia
know him and love hini aud eall him
the Kouutny Hye, that is. gypsy gen-
tleman,-because they think no one can
understand them so well who is not
partly a gypsy himself.
Mr. Leland loves to meet strange
gypsies and speak to them In Romany
just to see their astonishmeut and de-
light, and he lias had a great many
funny experiences in that way.
Moll of the Konda.
One time he was making a walking
tour in Wales with Prof, rainier of
Cambridge university, and as they
lunched by the roadside there came by
the decentest and poorest of old
women; she acted as if she were going
to pass them, but they spoke to her
and asked her about herself ;she said
she was walking to a town, twenty
miles away, to see her daughter who
was dying in the hospital there; she
seemed very sad but quiet and resign-
ed, for she was very religious; she was
a Methodist, she said, and liad a letter
from her pastor in her pocket; she said
sh" had been a washerwoman for forty
years. The gentlemen asked lior if she
had any money, and she said no, but
she (lid sot beg; of course their bands
started for their pockets, but just then
Mr. Leland, looking up suddenly,
caught a very gypsy-like gleam in her
eyes, and he paused with dawning
wonder in his mlml. lie said suddenly:
"Can tnte rakker Romanes, mlrl
dyeV" which, lnnng interpreted, means
"Can you si>eak Romany, my mother?"
and siie answered bewilderingly:
•The Lord forbid, sir, that 1 should
speak any of them wicked languages."
Prof. Palmer is a great Romany
scholar himself, and he now drew his
hand out of his pocket and waited
with brightening eyes. Mr. Leland now
said in Romany:
"You needn't be afraid; I've been
upon the road myself."
"La, sir, you be upon the rood now,"
exclaimed the old woman in confusion,
whereupon Prof. Palmer cried out:
"It seems to me, old lady that you
understand Romany remarkably well
for such si devout Methodist."
The simple old Christian looked from
one to the other, speechless, and then
Mr. Leland took out one penny and
said: "There, I'll give you this because
you are such a very poor person, but
I'll give you a pocketfull if you'll rak-
ker,'' Hint is, talk Romany.
When the gypsy saw she was not
going to get Into trouble, but that the
gentlemen were ready to enjoy the
whole trick, her face brightened with
witch-like fun. and she put a hand on
her hip and said in Romany:
"Gentlemen, I'll have you know that
when you talk to me you talk to a reg-
ular shrewd old trickster," and then
she turned to Mr. Leland and cried
joyously, "I know who you are now;
you're the baro Romany Rye (the tall
gypsy gentleman) I've heard about. I
have wanted to see you, and now you
can go your way and brag about it in
your house that Old Moll of the Roads
couldn't take you in, that you found
her out; and well you may brag, for
never another rye will say as much.
Never." And after she had played at
telling their fortunes, because she did
not try to make gentlemen who knew
so much believe in such doings, she
danced away backward in the sun-
shine, rattling her money iu her hands,
as agile and happy as a deer in the
forest.
% Little Gypay Thief.
But though gypsies neves believe in
their own fortune telling, and will
never try to palm off their prophecies
on those who know their tongue and
their ways, they always think there is
such a thing as true fortune telling,
and sometimes when they find that
OKLAHOMA
K.YV. Rash,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office on Manvel Avenue, Between 7th
and Slh Streets.
OKLAHOMA
FRAZIER & NEWBY,
Attorneys at Law
OKLAHOMA
W. I. CALVIN,
BARBER
Second Door North of Manvel Ilousc.
Only Firt-Class Shop in Town.
12 Shaves for One Dollar.
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little fellow; ap it went onto ti <* gen-
tleman's broil d shoulders and .he
C|ueer pair started for tin* little hut
bidden away in the copse. Leland said
to the child in Romany. "We must be
very careful and not let the police see
us," and that remark established per-
fect contldcuce between them.
The mother saw them coming and
came out to meet them full of fright,
for she thought her small son was go-
ing to be arrested, but the stranger
threw down the wood and said in a
cheerful tone, and in her own tongue:
"Mother, here is some wood we've
been stealing for you." The poor
woman gasped with astonishmeut, and
made half articulate stands when she
tried to speak, and her mysterious vis-
itor disappeared In the gathering dusk
without another word.
A It omit ii > Offer
All these tilings aru *>ld though
among the gypsies all over England,
and even get printed al out from one
side of the ocean to the other, and Mr.
Moll s Sly Trick.
Leland is welcomed in many a tent
and van and gets many a lesson in
Romany in return; sometimes he is
offered more substantial favors. Once
be happened to stroll over to the
llamtou races in England, the coster
mongers' races, with only six shillings
(about a dollar and a half) in his pock-
et; meeting .111 old gypsy friend he
gave her a shilling and said, "I'll stand
that for beer, mother, but that's all i
can do to-day, for I've come out with
only shave triu-grusbi."
01(1 Liz took the coin and looked at
it and then at the Romany Rye; at last
she shook her head and said: "It'll
never <\<>. Bye, you ought to have more
than live shillings to see the races
through; a reg'lar Romany Rye like you
ought to throw some money around for
the credit of bis people, and if you
want a bar (u pound, or live dollars)
I'll lend it to you and never fear al>out
it." .
Mr. Leland said lie'd pull through on
bis live shillings, with all thanks to
his friend, but he was made very hap-
py at having a gypsy offer him charity
on the lowest race ground In England.
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The Little Thief
l Mr. Leland knows more Romany than
they do, aud more about gypsies tin-
world over, they will beg him to tell
I fhelr fortunes- and he will look at
I their palms studiously and do it! His
j friends iell him that this is th" height
of all cheek—to start in to tell gypsy
! girls their fortunes!
j Leland delights iu playing many
j tricks that are very gypsy-like in
j spirit. Wood is scarce in England, and
every twig is looked upon as property,
nml to take one Is to steal. One even-
1 ing when he was walking in the coun-
! try in England he came in a remote
j lane on a little gypsy l oy dragging a
bag full of wood; ii was clear enough
that h had neither begged nor bought
It. and he cast a frightened, despairing
| look fit the well dressed gentleman
who had caught him. but the well
'dressed gentleman said. "Laiisliati,"
which is Romany for "How do you
do :' and offered to carry his wood for
him.
'be load W'S much t<><> heavy fur tile
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
TIMELY TOPICS FOR OUR BOYS
AND GIRLS.
"My Lady's Tippet"—A Plea for Child-
hood—lite Youthful llaya of ilriu*
Christ A Large Sum of Money Lost
Through Impoliteness.
Y LADY'S tippet is
of gray,
And gray her
eyes and
gray her
muff—
A mousie sprite
with winning
way,
the peeps from
o'er a velvet
ruff.
My Lady Tippet has a grace
No queen could copy if she tried.
While eyes of gray ne'er looked from
face
So charming ind so beautified.
Her laugh is like a silver bell
That tinkles In the frosty air;
Her smile is like a fairy's well,
Reflecting all the witchcraft there.
Her step is soft, her touch is light—
As soft and light as eiderdown—
And sweet her ways, which make me
knight,
And bid me for her win renown.*
My Lady Tippet loves me true—
She tells mo bo In tender wise
Whene'er she gives the kisses due
To prove the love that underlies.
And me? Ah me! no cloud I need,
Since she brings sunshine every day;
But life would be a blank Indeed
Without the child in tippet gray.
and Tabor, and Gilboa, and they all
had their sublime echo In after tJice
from the Olivette pulpit. Many have
cried out In admiration of Christ,
"Ecce homo!" ("Behold the man!"),
"Ecce Deus!" ("Behold the God!"), but
1 close this paragraph by writing "Ecce
adolescens!" ( •Behold the boy!").
Why She Taken 111* Name.
The practice of a woman changing
her name on marriage originated from
a Roman custom .and came into use
after the Roman occupation, says a
writer in the Commercial-Tribune.
Thus, Julia and Octavia, married to
Poinpey aud Cicero, were cal'ed by
the Romans Julia of Poinpey. Octavia
of Cicero, and in later times women
in most European countries signed
their names in the same way. but
omitted the "of." On the other hand,
at the beginning of the seventeenth
century, the usage seems doubtful,
since we ilnd Catherine Ran* so sign-
ing herself after she had twice mar-
ried, and we always hear of Lady
Jane Grey (not lindley), Arabella
Stpart (not Seymour , etc.
Some persons think that the custom
originated from the Scriptural teaching
that husbaml and wife are one. This
was the rule of law so far back as
Braden, and it was decidede in the
case of Von vs. Smith, in the reign of
Elizabeth, that a woman by marriage
loses her former name and legally re-
ceives the name of her husband. The
custom, however, is not universal. In
S ixl in and Portugal married women do
not take the names of their husbands,
but continue to be known by their
own. In many parts of the I'nited
States a woman never relinquishes her
maiden name, and Is called by It as
often as by that of her husband. Even
In the rural parts of England one quite
often finds a married woman called by
her maiden name, and in country dis-
tricts of Scotland it is sometimes found
that both names are used. In many
parts of France and Belgium the hus-
Iwind's and wife's names are used to-
gether when cither of them Is men-
tioned.
11 ii n 11 ti k With ii Mirror
A taxidermist at Northwood, N. Y.,
has been making experiments as to the
effe< i of light reflected In a bird's eye.
A glass seven or eight inches in diam-
eter has been found most serviceable.
The antics of the blue jays are remark-
able when the light strikes them as
they sit In the shadow of an evergreen
I tree. They jump to another branch
and try to look into the light, but they
have to turn away, as the light daz-
zles tliem. Then they Hy around the
! reflector, but after practice one is able
! to keep the light always on them, and
j the birds not infr< ipiently come with-
in reach of a man's hand.
I A nulled grouse gives a startled look
| when th( light strikes if. Then it
jumps and away ii goes. Hawks, too,
are usually startled or annoyed so that
they fly off. Woodpeckers don't seem
to mind it at all.
! Rabbits blink and stare at a glass f-.r
1 awhile, then go around a stump and
I sit up again, as if waiting for the light
to play tag with them.- New York Sun.
I>r<* if
j "Sometunes a horrible doubt come.-*
over me, and I can't believe you love
me more than you did your tlrst wife."
| "Yet. in all of the four years that we
I lived together she never wore a waist
| that hooked up on the shoulder, be
| cause she didn't dare to ask me to fast-
en it for her."
! And lie \.:t* never doubted agaln.-
' ( lev iMIHl : - .Ill >
A I'lea for Childhood.
You do not know—you cannot tell
What magic lies in each caress
From baby's bands; for childhood's
spell
Binds not all men; and so, unless
You love a child, yuu cannot tell.
You do not know—you do not dream
How potent is that childish laugh;
For ears must understand the theme
The treble bears. It tells not half
To those whose hearts unconscious
seem.
You do not know—you do not think
How near to heaven these wee ones
are;
They stand upon a sun-clad brink-
Sweet treasures sent us from afar
Each little hand a tender link.
The Hoyliood of Jchus Christ.
(By Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)
About Christ as a village lad In and
about Nazareth we have nothing in the
canonical boons, and yet It Is as a boy
that we must consider him. There is,
for the most part, a silence more than
eighteen centuries long about Christ
between infancy and manhood. What
kind of a boy was he? Was he a genu-
ine boy at all, or did there settle upon
him from the very start all the inton-
sltives of martyrdom? We have on
this subject only a little guessing, a
few surmises, and here and there an
unimportant "perhaps." Yet, by three
conjoined evidences, I think we can
come to as accurate an idea of what
Christ was as a boy as we can of
what Christ was as a man. First, we
have the brief Bible account, then we
have the prolonged account of what
Christ was at thirty-three years of age.
Now you have only to minify that ac-
count somewhat, and you find what he
was at ten years of age. Temperament
never changes. A sanguine tempera-
ment never becomes a phlegmatic tem-
perament. A nervous temperament
never becomes a lymphatic tempera-
ment. Religion changes one's affec-
tions and ambitions, but it is the same
old temperament acting in a different
direction. As Christ had no religious
change, be was as a lad what he was
as a man, only on not so large a scale.
When all tradition and all art and all
history represent him as a blond with
golden hair, I know he was in boy-
hood a blond. His boyhood was passed
among grand scenery, as most all the
great natures have passed early life,
among the mountains. They may live
now ou the flats, but they passed the
receptive days of ladhood among the
hills. Our Lord's boyhood was passed
in a neighborhood twelve hundred feet
above the level of the sea, and sur-
rounded by mountains five of six hun-
dred feet still higher. Before it could
shine on the village where this boy
slept the sun had to climb far enough
up to look over the hills that held their
heads far aloft. From yonder height
his eye at one scope took in the mighty
sweep of the valleys, and with another
sweep took in the Mediterranean Sea,
and you hear the grandeur of the cliffs
and the rge of the great waters in
his matchless sermonology. One day I
see that divine boy, the wind flurrying
his hair over his sun-browned fore-
head, standing on a hilltop, looking
off upon Lake Tiberias, on which at
one time, according to profane history,
were four thousand ships. Authors
have taken pains to say that Christ was
not affected by these surroundings, and
that he from within lived outward
aud independent of circumstances. So
far from that being true, he was the
most sensitive being that ever walked
the earth, and if a pale Invalid's Unger
could not touch his robe without
strength going out of him these moun-
tains and seas could not have touched
his eye without Irradiating his entire
nature with their magnificence. I war-
rant that he had mounted and explored
all the fifteen hills around Nazersth,
among them Hermon, with its crystal
coronet of perpetual snow, and Carmel
Story of Mau-Katlng Tlg°r.
Of all the animals that walk the
earth the man-eating tiger of the far
cast is the most terrible and ferocious.
Mr. Claes Ericsson, who went to Su-
matra to collect orchids, tells some
stories of the daring of tigers.
"We had taken possession of a small
hut," he writes, "standing a couple of
feet from the ground, on the slope of a
mountain. As it would not hold all
my men. about half of them were
obliged to sleep outside. Shortly beforo
daybreak I was aroused by shouts and
a loud knocking at the door."
"Tuan—Tuan! Rimau! (Sir—-Sir!
Tiger!) Let us in!"
"Springing out of my clambo (mos-
quito curtains), I reached and unbarred
the door before the Malays who
shared the hut were on their feet. 1
was only Just In time. As the last of
the terrified fellows rushed past me the
tiger struck the door a violent blow.
Had a Malay been holding it the brute
would certainly have been among us,
but I pushed with all my might, shout-
ing for my Winchester. Half a dozen
of the coolies came to my assistance,
and between us we got the bamboo
which served as a bar into position.
"Finding that he could not break In
there, the tiger walked around the hut,
sniffing at every crevice, and striking
the bamboos until they shook again.
Getting hold of my rifle I tried for a
shot, but the hovel was packed with
men. However, when they had recov-
ered from their panic,I persuaded them
to follow, and we dashed out, yelling
at the top of our voices. The tiger
made off, but a Malay caught sight of
the brute in the tall Alang-Alang grass
below, and drew my attention. I fired,
but the light was too bad. Anyway, I
missed."
S'i.OOO I.oat Through Hittl Manners.
Alfred Louis Velpeau, the most dis-
tinguished French surgeon of his time,
was a man of rough and disagreeable
manners. His bad manners lost him
two thousand francs once upon a time,
A mother, whose daughter's life he had
saved from a severe case of croup,
went to him brimming over with grat-
itude. "I have come to thank you for
what you have done for us and to offer
you this as a token of our obligation,"
she said, placing a beautifully embroi-
dered purse on Velpeau's table. Vel-
peau scarcely took the trouble to look
at it. "I accept, madame," he re-
marked, in his ungracious way, "but,
of course, this Is without prejudice to
my honorarium, which comes to three
thousand francs." Thereupon the lady
took up her present. "I am afraid I
made a mistake, then," she laughed,
"there are flvo notes of a thousand
francs each in there. This makes us
right, then, monsieur." And, pocket-
ing two out of the five slips of blue
paper, she bowed, "I have the honor
to wish you good morning."
What Is It?
Here is a little trick that will help
out an evening's entertainment when
conversation begins to lag. A boy gets
up and says to the company:
"I have In my pocket something that
has traveled thousands of miles by sea
and land. It has been handled by hun-
dreds and thousands of people, and yet
no one has ever seen it. It lives in a
house of Its own, but It was never out-
side of its house. I can exhibit it to
you here so that you all will see It,
and then it will disappear so that you
will never see it again. What is it?"
Then the company begins to guess
and guess, and guess, and by and by
they give up, completely discouraged,
and ask to hi shown the wonderful ob-
ject.
The boy promptly takes from his
pocket a Brazil nut or any other for-
eign nut, calmly cracks it in the pres-
ence of the company and holds up the
meat.
"You see this meat," he says; "it has
never been seen before, and it never
will be again," and he calmly puts It
In his mouth, chews it and swallows It.
lie Plowed to th* Mark.
Pat was new at the business, and
the first attempt was anything but suc-
cessful.
"Look here," said the farmer, "that
kind of thing won't do. The corn will
be dizzy that grows in a furrow so
crooked as that. Fix your eye on some-
thing across the field and head straight
for it. That cow there hy the gate Is
right opposite us. Aim at her and
you'll do pretty well,"
"All right, sir," said Pat, and just
then the farmer was called away to the
barn.
Ten minutes later ho returned and
was horrified to see that the plow had
been wandering in a zig-zag course all
over the field.
"Hold on fhere!" he shouted. "Hold
on! What are you up to?"
"And sure, sir," said Pat, "I did what
you tould me. I worked straight for
tho cow, but the crayture wouldn't
kape still."
He Knew the Meaning;.
A teacher was giving lessons In wore
illustrations, and was examinfng the
word atom. She told the children that
atom meant a small particle of any-
thing. It might even be so small that
it could not be seen by the naked eye.
After she had defined the word so
plainly that she thought the pupils all
knew its meaning, she said: "Now,
some one speak a sentence in which the
word atom will he used correctly." A
boy answered^ "Jimmy Brown hit m*
and I'd like to get at him."
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IN THE ODD CORNER.
SOME QUEER AND CURIOUS
FEATURES OF LIFE.
"Duty and Howard" Mk« VrlownU
Bubble —Clearing-Home for Ohl Hot-
tics A Circular Rainbow l'erfuinee
aud raMlou. J
•> VERY day hath
] toll aud trou-
ble.
Every heart hath
care:
Meekly bear thine
own full
measure,
And thy brother's
share.
Fear not, Bhrlnk
not, though the burden
Heavy to thee prove;
God shall fill thy mouth with gladness,
And thy heart with love.
Patiently enduring, ever
Let thy spirit be
Bound by links, that can not sever,
To humanity.
Labor— wait! thy Master perished
Ere his task was done;
Count not lost thy fleeting moments,
Life hath but begun.
Labor! and the seed thou sowest
Water with thy tears;
God is faithful—he will give thee
Answer to thy prayers.
Wait in hope! though yet no verdure
Glad thy longing eyes,
Tfcou shalt see the ripened harvest
Garnered In the skies.
Labor—wait! though midnight shadow
Gather round thee here,
And the storms above thee lowering
Fill thy heart with fear—
Wait in hope: tho morning dawneth
When the night la gone,
And a peaceful rest awaits thee
When thy work Is done.
I.Ike a Volcanic Hubble.
The Rev. F. S. Bortaln of Puebla
writes as follows: "It may be of inter-
est to some of the readers of tho Mex-
ican Herald who visit Puebla to know
of one of the less visited attractions In
the vicinity of the City of the Angela.
I refer to the 'Coxcomate.' It is about
twenty minutes distant from Puebla
over the street car line to Cholula. Any
street car conductor can point it out
to tho curiosity seeker. It ib to the
right of the car line, about 600 yards
distant. It looks from the car window
to be a pile of white stones or a well
bleached haystack. But upon closer
inspection it proves to be a tumulus
of white calcareous stone evidently of
water formation, about fifty feet in
height and 100 feet in diameter at the
base. The form is that of a truncated
cone. At tho apex Is the elliptical
shaped opening about twenty-five feet
along the minor and fifty feet along
the major axis. It is a bell-shaped cav-
il y, and lined with ferns of various de-
scriptions. I should Judge the depth to
be at least 100 feet, and at the bottom,
so far as visible, the opening must bo
sixty feet in diameter. In the bottom,
on one side, are to be seen some gor-
geous ferns and on the other side a
pool of water. Tradition says that the
ancient Aztecs were accustomed to
worship here the genius of the spot,
and occasionally threw in a live victim
to appease his subterranean majesty.
It Is also said that a few victims of the
Inquisition were thrown down here to
reflect upon Ihe controverted points of
doctrine. At all events it Is a most
singular freak of nature, as It is in the
middle of a level plain, or rather a bar-
ley field. It looks to have been some
volcanic bubble, of which the great
Mexican upland Is so full, and is well
worth a visit on the part of the curi-
ous. Although I have inquired among
my Mexican friends I have found no
one who could tell me the meaning of
the name 'Coxcomate.'"
Perfumes and I'aimloti.
Business men will be pleased to know
that the highest development of the
mercantile interest can bo increased
by an atmosphere of peppermint. Tim
id men should eschew the use of the
essence of magnolia, as it has a tend
ency to promote warlike passions. ^
spirit of placid devotion will abide with
the person who habitually uses violets.
Very strangely, the perfume of the
placid lily is said to beget an increas
ing mood of obstinacy. The extract of
cloves is credited with the perversion
of honest thought Into the rank poison
of the slanderous mind. Happily, a
frivolous and irreverent spirit can be
changed into that of a profound and
meditative thinker by the habitual use
of bergamot.
Vervain will develop the artistic Im-
pulse. Ambergris is recommended as
the divine essence upon which poetic
genius must be nurtured. White rose
begets a love of sloth and indolence,
and the famed patchouli will, sooner
or later, cause the moral downfall of its
devotee. The essence of the verbena
arouses a taste for strong drink. The
faint perfume of the common or garden
pink will be responsible for a highly
developed pious spirit. The red rose
will cause the fancy to turn not lightly
but rapturously to thoughts of love and
conquest in Cupid's realm.
< learliiR-IIouae for ItottleH.
What becomes of empty mineral wa-
ir bottles must have been a puzzle to
' nany. A writer In the Windsor Mag-
I azlue for November throws some light
on the mystery. Describing a Home
| for Stray Bottles in Southwark, Lon-
i don, he says, "All the lost, stolen, or
strayed mineral water bottles flnd a
| home in the racks at Holland street,
and here their flight is arrested for
the purpose of being returned, sold, or
destroyed. The Bottle Exchange con-
fines Its operations to bottles which
have contained lemonade, ginger beer,
soda or seltzer water, and here the
line Is drawn. Beer bottles seldom go
astriy or wander from 'the house of
call.' T'je reason Is obvious. Beer
drinkers have to pay full value for the
loan of bottles; buyers of mineral wa-
ters pay a nominal deposit. The man-
ufacturers and bottlers, however, pay a
penny farthing for cach bottle, and, al-
though charging for •£? contents, yet
no fee was originally made for the
bottle. This occasioned great loss to
the mineral water manufacturers, and
the object of tho Bottle Exchange has
in view is to restore the bottles to the
owners. The majority of lost or stray
bottler? are tecovered from duut-blns,
and from this source alone 87,563 dozen
were returned l 1S95. These dust col-
lectors get twopence per dozen for cart-
ing the bottles to tho exchange. The
number collected from the dust-yards
and marine-store dealers in 1889
amounted to the total of 113,016 dozen;
during 1894 the quantity recovered
from these sources amounted to 200,237
dozen. But the total number of bot-
tles 'turned over' at the Bottle Ex-
change during 1894 was upwards ol
9,840,000, whilst in addition there were
33,000 boxes, 13,000 syphons, and 585
casks clalmcd by their owners."
A Circular Italnhow.
One of these peculiar atmospheric
phenomena, circular rainbows, was ob-
served In India by Lieutenant Whee-
lock about the middle of August. Mr.
Wheelock was climbing a mountain
spur at sunrise. The atmosphere was
clear, hut there was a heavy fog hang-
ing over the valleys. As the sun rose
a rainbow, round as a circus ring, was
seen in the fog which all but obscured
one of tho beautiful lakes which are
so common in India. Mr. Wheelock
is a trained meteorologist and was not
at all astonished to see a circular rain-
bow, knowing, as he did the conditions
under which it was found. But what
attracted his attention in particular
was the presence of a bright spot In the
exact center of the circular "bow.'
This spot was so Intensely luminous
that the observer thought that It might
be a bush lire some distance away, but
this supposition was soon dispelled by
further developments. Slowly and reg
ularly, and from all sldeB at once, the
bright center spot became surrounded
by circles of radiating light, each con
talning all of the primary colors, in
fact, each was a perfect mlnlaturo cir-
cular rainbow. This wonderful phe-
nomenon lasted for about two hours, or
until the sun had risen to such a height
that the reflection sank back against
the mountain side. Mr. Wheelock
watched it until It faded away, pro-
nouncing it the most beautiful and
wonderful sight he had ever beheld.
\ erinoiit'H Ice Well.
The famed frozen well at Brandon
Vt., Is justly regarded as one of th<
greatest curiosities in theUnitedStates.
The well was dug in the year 1858 an<i
has been a noted wonder ever slncf
the first fifteen feet of the excavation
was made. It was started In gravel,
which extended to a depth of ten feet,
where a four-foot bed of sticky, yellow
clay was encountered. After this clay
stratum had been extended through
the frozen gravel a layer of sand (un-
frozen) was revealed, and it was In this
that water was found. A basin was
then dug out, which gave the well a
total depth of thlrty-flve and one-half
feet, and the hole was walled up. Since
that time the water In this peculiar
well has never been more nor less than
two feet in depth, and this is always
frozen over with a sheet of ice of great-
er or less thickness. During the sum-
mer of 1895 the temperature at the
bottom of "Brandon's frozen well" was
phenomenally low—so low, in fact, that
the Ice at one time formed to the depth
of twenty-two inches on the two-foot
sheet of water. At all times of the
year there Is ice from four to eight
inches thick on the walls of the well,
where they como in contact with the
frozen stratum.
A Pigeon Hurled Alive by a Oof.
The London Spectator tells of a dog
that got Into the habit of killing pet
fantail pigeons. The dog was punished
for the trick several times, but he kept
right on killing the pigeons as if he In-
tended to exterminate the race. One
day the dog's master shut him up in
the kennel and kept him there for a
good many hours, to the sorrow of the
dog. At last the dog begged so hard
to bo allowed to go and showed such
signs of repentance that he was turned
loose. The dog's behavior for some
days was perfect, and not a pigeon was
lost. Then, a week later, the master
was In the yard one day and saw a
mound of fresh dirt heaving up and
down, as If something alive were be-
neath. The man kicked the dirt and
found a live pigeon burled beneath It,
the dog hid not killed the bird; Just
buried It alive. Naturally the master
thinks his dog can do anything bu'
I talk.
A Skilful "Hand-Dancer,"
1 While there are many men who are
i ible to dance on their feet, there is
, probably but one man In England who
is able to dance upon his hands. Some
years ago he had the misfortune to lose
iioth his legs in a colliery explosion,
and. having been a clever clog-dancer
prior to his accident, it occurred to him
! that he might possibly learn to dance
upon his hands. He put his theory into
practice, aud after twelve months of
persevering endeavor, he became ex-
j (eedingly pkilful as a "hand dancer."
Ie wears a pair of clogs upon his
i lauds, and does a genuine clog-dance,
I very step being accurately performed.
By this odd accomplishment ht dow se-
liureti a decent living.
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