The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 258, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 3, 1901 Page: 4 of 4
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OPERA HOUSE
To Night
Tuesday DEC.
TH E GREATEST OF ALL
High Glass Repertoir Attractions
Stoter's
Madison Square
Theater Co.
Producing on Tuesday
Evening the Beautiful
Drama Entitled-**!.
"Village Blocks!#"
Prices 15, 25, and 35c.
ill
PITH AHD POINT.
The use of the mosquito la to ako*
us that troubles are not always in
Sroportion to their size.—Chicago
laily News.
"What pretty white flowers they,
•re on thut plant." "Yes, but they
don't stay on very long:." "Mo?"
"No, they're bachelor buttons, you
know."—Philadelphia Press.
Everything- has its disadvantages;
if you are at the head of the pro-
cession you can't rest or slow up a
moment, and if you arc at the foot
you get all the dust.—Atchison Globe;
"If your hat blows off while yon
are with an evening trolley party,
don't mind it." "Why not?" "Because!
hatless trolley parties are awfully
good form."—Cleveland l'lnin Dealer.
"Do you really think he is suffering
from insomnia?" "Of course he is.
Why, he can't even go to sleep in.
church when the collection-plate is
being passed."—Philadelphia Kecord.
Customer (getting his hair cut) —
"Didn't you nip off a piece of the ear
then?" Barber (reassuringly)—"Yes^
sir, a small piece, but not 'nough to
affect the hearin', sir."—London Tit-
Bits. 1
llamm, the actor—"Do yo;i know it|
Is very disagreeable to be stared at|
when off the stage?" His Friend
Smith—"But, then, you know, nobody
ever takes notice of you when you
are on the stage." — Boston Tran-
script.
"That advertisement of yours was
• fake," protested the disgusted
(fuest. "How so?" demanded the pro-
prietor of the mountain hotel. "Well,
It said 'trout are always to be caught
here,' and I haven't seen aynone
who's caught a single one." "Well,
then, they are still 'to be caught."
aren't they?"—Catholic Standard.
RATS ON FERRYBOATS.
If Women I'nurniirri Knew How
Kear They Were There Would
Be • Stampede.
There were only three men and tw
"omen in the women's cabin of tha
Jersey < entral ferryboat on an earlT
trip a few mornings ago. It was jus*
after daybreak, and it wasn't very
light, but Jersey Central ferryboats
ire economically man.ig, d, so the elec-
tric lamps had been turned off and in
the cabin It .was very dim, not light
enough to rsad the morning paper,
says the New York Sun.
But from the end of the line of
life preservers under the row of
seats crept a dim little shadow. It
moved about the floor and was hav-
ing a vary good time till one of tha
male passengera threw a glove at it.
1 hen with a faint squeak it vanished
like a flash into the life preservers
under the seats.
With screams in unison the two
women passengers grabbed their
Ikirts and sprang into the middle of
the cabin. The only wide-awake man
chuckled and the women glaiTd nt
him. One of them said he was a
brute. The other asserted that it whs
an outrage. A colored porter caine
to the door to find out who was
fighting, and as the women swept bv
him to the deck, where it was safer,
he received the brunt of their indig-
nation. .
"Lor' bless you, Indies." said the
porter. "Dey's lots of dem rats ab'd
nil dese hoats. Dey'sc lookin' fer
Kimep'n t' eat, but
Jotfc"
But the women continued to sny
things about wretc ied old tubs of
ferryboats swarming with 1.1-4 in,
casting frightened glances around till
Hie boat reached tin- Jersey side and
they could hurry ashore.
It wasn't comforting, but what the
porter sa:d was true. There isn't a
ferryboat around .New York which
hasn't plenty of ruts aboard, and
when it is quiet their favorite play-
ground is among the life belts under
the cabin seats. They don't bother
anybody, and nobody but the passen-
gers who travel in ti . small hours of
tlic morninir when traffic is lipht
hliow that they are there. But they
ere. I hey like the cabins because in
winter it is warm there and there is
n chance of finding a few stray
crumbs under the eats.
How they manage to live at all is
n mystery, Tor ferryboat commons
must be very short, but they loolq
slei k and well fed as any other mtsj
'I lie living isn't g. t (| enough to .
tract them in m \ uncomfortiil>'•
numbers, nd they . ..n't increase v, ,y
fast, but there nr.- dozens of then
for all that. They come aboard wl u
the boats are tied up in their si;,,
and when the times are verv lwii,i
they migrate by the same mute.
There are not enough of the rut*
to cause the ferry companies to cm-
ploy n rat catcher, and it would ha
Impossible to keep the boats clear al-
toKelher. anyway, so nothing is done
about them. They are allowed to
atay picking up a living as best the*
enn and so far there has always been
(ley won t eat
A MISSIONARY'S Peril.
4a Barlr Experience Which IIlaar
Irstea the Banner* Kneonntered
is the Chinese Kleld.
In the introductory passages of
paper entitled "A Missionary Journey
in China," in Century, Mrs. Fanny Cor-
bett ilays relates au incident of her
childhood:
"it is a terrible experience to falj
into the hands of a Chinese mob. la.
offensive, good-natured men are
roused to frenzy by e\il insinuations
against foreigners, and, intoxicated
with excitement, arc capable of most
fiendish atrocities.
"As a child of eight, I was taken by
my father, an American missionary,
into the interior of Shan-tung, to the
district now occupied by the Germans.
My mother had died a few months be-
fore, and my father, anxious to pursue
promising work in the interior, took
his three children (of whom I was tha
eldest) and a faithful Chinese nurse
to a town four days'journey from ( hl-
fu. In this place he intended to spend
the winter. To make the small mud.
nailed hut more comfortable for us
he covered the damp earthen tloor with
boards.
"This was instantly resented by ths
suspicions Chinese. 'Why should
man place boards over his floor unless
there was something underneath
which he wished to conceal?' The old
story that the missionary had kid-
naped and murdered Chinese children
was again widely circulated. It wa
asserted that he had made a miracu-
lous medicine of their hearts and eye«.
with which he could bewitch the Chi-
nese Into believing his new religion.
The children's dead bodies must there-
fore he concealed beneath that care-
fully laid wooden floor.
"The increasing hostility was ob-
served with great anxiety, and after
being twice stoned iti the market-
place, my father concluded to tlee to
the county-seat, 12 miles distant,
where he could claim protection as ed
American citizen. We started at mid
night. It was impossible to proenro
snimals to convey us; so a few native
Christians took their lives in their
bands and carried the little children
on their backs over the dangerous rose;
to partial safety. I remember dis-
tinctly our stealthy creeping through
hostile Tillages, afrai.l that at any mo-
ment the barking dogs might bring
our enemies upon us. and our crouch-
ing in the early dawn beneath the shel-
ter of a clay bank, while a distant
«heelharrow creaked slowly out of
hearing.
"We manae-ed to reach our destina-
tion in safety, and remained for a few
hours in an obscure inn In th<
suburbs. With great difficulty a cart
and two wretched animnls were pro
cured, and at the end of a week's trav. 1
over miserable roads we were a! home
again. A slight realization of the dan-
jrer we had escaped came Into my child-
ish mind when we were met outside the
city wall by the foreign residents and
native Christians of Chl-fu, who with
• Teaming eyes prained God for our de-
liverance.
"It was afterward learned that the
next morning after our escape—only
• ix hours after our departure—a furi-
ous moh of men came to our little
hor.se, tore up the wooden floor, looted
our furniture and would undoubtedly
We killed us had we filles into their
GAIN IN SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK
American I nioa Report a f'roitrrat
f«r the % ear *atiufnt lory to
the Managrri,
• nough to eat to aecure to ali plump
and well-fed paasengari iminuultf
from attack. '
The missionary work of the Amer-
ican Sunday School union In the year
closing February 1!K, 1U01, exhibited
two gratifying features. While
new Sunday schools were organized
In destitute places, only six less than
III the previous yeur, there were 5'.'4 re-
organized, against S15 in the year he-
fore, and 3,423 schools visited or oth-
erwise aided, against 2,flh7 of the pre-
vious year; and 9,l2;i cases of visit und
aid to old schools, aguinst 7.4HS in th
year before.
I he amount received for the support
of missionary work was $140,101,
against TKll,7'.iO, an increase of $14,304.
During the year there were 222 men
employed of whom 113 were at work
during the whole year, and 109 during
a portion of it. Two thousand, four
hundred and sixty-eight schools were
set in operation that were not In ex-
istence one year ago, reaching 90,103
members; in addition to this, in tha
3,523 schools aided for the first timn
there were 270,783 members, while 9,12#
i visits were also made and aid given t
old schools.
The work of family visitation haa
been prosecuted, 17S.794 such vislta
having been made by missionaries
against 148,075 the previous year.
Twenty-two thousand, seven hundred
and ninety-two sermons and address-
es were made, agalnat 18,714 of tha
year before, and 13,702 Bibles and Ta -
taments distributed. One hundred and
ll a churches of different denomina-
tion* have been organised aa tha otrt>
•oat of Ul schools.
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The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 258, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 3, 1901, newspaper, December 3, 1901; Stillwater, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117496/m1/4/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed May 31, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.