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It is estimated that the consumption I
of salt in a jo.r in the Uuilcd Slates is
a bushel to each inhabitant and now we
wondor why tlioro arc no inauy "fresli"
people.
Tho chief of tho dairy division of the
department of agriculture values the
dniry product of tho United States at
450 million dollars annually.
If tho Noblo County Sentinel vrill
hereafter pivo credit for items clipped
from tho Herald wo will appreciate
tho favor and say no moro about it.
A short grass editor last week dis-
posed of Sol Miller in ten lines but
found room for two or tlirco personal
notices fur himself. K. 0. Star.
Well that's all right. A live dog is
better than a dead lion.
There aro a number of our exchanges
which seem to make it a rulo novcr to
give credit for items and articles clipped
from other papcra. Gentleman what
are you short on typo to give credits
with or brains?
Lon Wharton editor of tho Perry
Sentinel who has been confined to his
bed over 6incn tho 20th of February last
is now ablo to sit up a part of tho timo
and thinks ho will bo ablo to attend to
business in a short time.
Tho X-ray will havo to take a back"
scat. An Austrian (scientist has doscov-
crcd a method whereby it can bo ascer-
tained what a person is thinking about
Experiments recently conducted in tho
Chicago University were succcsslul.
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Wo aro glud to learn that tho dnmago
and loss of lifo caused by tho floods at
Quthrio and El lie no is much less than
at first reported. The entire death list
at Gutbrio is about twclvo instead of 40
or 50 and at El Reno there was no loss
of human life. Still is bad enough
especially at Guthrie.
Soma of tho bon ton Oklahoma City
ladles aro giving "White Minstrel" en-
tertainments. Whito niiDatrcls aro all
right for tho Bongs of tho Crusaders but
they aren't worth shucks for darkey
minstrelsy. Black und motley is your
only color for that.
An Atchison (ICas.) woman who
married a second timo admitted to a re-
porter that all through tho service she
saw tho ghost of her first husband stand-
ing besido her uud shaking his fist so
vigorously that she was surprised that
others in tho room didn't hear his bones
rattle. But sho didn't stop tho ceremony
for a tninuto.
Thero is a dispute now as to whether
tho Log of tho Mayflower which Mr.
Bayard is going to bring oyer from Eng-
land is the true lag of tho truo May-
flower' or not. Why not get Jake Admire
to examine it? Ho could tell in a minute
whether it was tho same old log that was
tnado when he camo over in tho May-
flower or a fraud.
'Havo you noticed that handsome ad-
vertisement I put on yonder fence?" in
quired a merchant of one of his cus-
tomers recently "No"' replied tho
latter "but if you send tho fence to my
house I will tako pleasure in reading it.
I read tho newspapers and havo no timo
to run about and hunt up advertisements
on street corners-" The merchant
scratched his head reflectively. Ex.
Down in Kansas City tho other day
a fellow named Plunkctt Greono wanted
to sing in tho Apollo Club and a lady
sued out an injuuetion (o restrain him
although ho is said to bo the finest vvat-
blcr in Kansas City. What awful howl-
ers the rest of tho "vocalists" down
thero must bel No wonder they havo
cyclones and floods. If they don't stop
they will havo earthquakes.
Tho Scicntifio Atncriuan sajs that a
contemporary is responsible for tho fol-
lowing bit of information but refuses to
bo endorser for its accuracy: "In
China tho hen is kept constantly
busy. Wbon not engaged in hatching
her own brood she is compelled to hutch
fish egS. Tho spawn of fish ore placed
in an eggshell which is hermetically
scaled and placed undsr the unsuspecting
hen. After some days tho eggshell is
removed and carefully broken and tho
pawn which has been warmed into life
is emptied into a shallow pool well
warmed by tho sun. Hero tho minnows
that soon develop aro nursed until strong
enough to be turned into a lako or
Urciui.
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Tho Guthrie Capital says that tho ne-
groes in' tho west fifth ward of that city
will now havo a religious boom. Tho
negro prophet G&iumoD predicted that
they would havo a cyclone then a flood
and next an carthunto at Guthrie. The
cyclone and tho flood showed up on time
and now thoy expect tho earthquake.
Gridley Bryant a civil engineer In
182G projected the first railroad in tho
United States. It was built for tho pur-
pose of carrying gronito from tho quar-
ries of Quincy Massachusetts to tho
nearest tidewater. Its length was four
milts including branches and its first
cost 50000. The sleepers were or
stono and wcro laid across tho track eight
feet apart. Upon roils of wood six
inches thick wrought.iron plates three
inches wido and a quarter of an inch
thick wcro spiked. At tho crossings
stono rails were used and as tho wooden
rails became unserviceable thoy wcro re-
placed by others of stone. May Ladies'
Homo Journal.
Ho who worships tit tho shrino of
public sentiment serves a foolHi nnd
fickle dame. Tho editor who tries to lido
into favor on tho waves of public senti-
ment has a great deal of walking to do
and unpleasant walking at that. Public
sentiment changes with tho wind is
often wrong. Publio conviction is near-
ly always right. Public Btntiment would
havo mado tho lowly Nazareno an earth-
ly king ruler among men nild yet in
but a brief spaco of timo publio senti-
ment crucified him. Public sentiment
as it is known today goes to extremes.
It flops flippantly from execration to ex-
altation from praises to curses. He
who goes with it must watch the weath-
er vane and his courso is uncertain. To-
day public sentiment takes up a man and
questions tho the integrity of those who
do not sonnd his praises but a brief
spell and all will change. Tbo idol of
today will bo shattered tomorrow. Tho
man whoso courso is along tho lino of
what germs right wins in the end. Ex.
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it is reported that a movement is on
foot in Chicago to organize a great army
of poor people and march them to Utah
into an unsettled part thero to mako
uew homes for themselves.' There is to
bo no ruler or governor over them and
every fellow is to bo a law unto himself.
Tho Bchcmo is said to bo under tho mans
agement of Eugene V. Debs and tho
march will bo mado after tho stylo of
tho Coxey army when it went to Wash
ington and will probably amount to
about as much and end in a moro disas-
trous manner. A't most it cannot provo
much better than tho Topolobampo
scheme out of which John Brcidcnthal
and other populistio philanthropists mado
fortunes by starviug a lot of ignorant
poor people. ' But this scheme will not
fail for lack of numbers because thero is
a gudgeon born every minute.
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Tho Oldest Oklahoma L'npcr.
Tho Guthrie Capital claims to bo the
oldest Oklahoma paper its first issuo be-
ing printed in Winficld Kas. March 30
1889. Tho Capital is mistaken. Tho
Kingfisher Frco Press which is tho out-
growth of tho Oklahoma World ante-
dates tho Capital nearly two months.
Tho first seven issues of tho Oklahoma
World aro not on filo at this offico but
tho 8th number is and that is dated
March 30 1889. The Oklahoma World
was published by Ellis Brothers in
Wichita Kas.. and edited by Col. E. O.
Colo. Kingfisher Frco Press.
Tho Free Press and tho Capital arc
both mistaken. Tho Beaver Her-
AI.D which is tho outgrowth of tho
Tfruitorial Advocate antedates
both tho Capital and tho Oklahoma
World by two years. The Territorial
Advocate was established nt Beaver in
tho spring ot 1887 and hero it has been
all the timo Bince grinding out an issuo
each and every week in tho ten years
with sovcral changes of publishers and
one change of namo during that period.
Now let tho argument ccaso(lfor in tho
matter of age no other Oklahoma paper
begins to be in it with tho Herald.
Mr. William Allen Whito editor of
tho Emporia Gazette an author of nas
tional tcputation accompanied by W A.
Griffith artist spent Wednesday and
Thursday in this county gathering data
for a scries of illustrated articles soon to
appear in McCIuro's Magazine Tho
early history of Slovens county its aw-
ful tragedy at Wild Horse Lake and tho
events that led up to it; tho ruthless
murder of Col. S. N. Wood and the
causes that precipitated tho tragio doom
of that forceful but disturbing Gguro in
tbo history of Southwest Kansas afford
ample material for the writer aud wp
look for something interesting from his
masterful pen. That tho truo history of
thoso events unmarrcd by falsehood and
unadorned by fictitious fancy will ever
be written wq do not believe. That Mr.
Whito will do tho best be can to sift tho
truth from tho uiasa of conflicting state
ments that have been snid and written
wo do not question. Whatever ho may
write however will bo well written nnd
the illustrations from tho pen of Mr.
Griffith will add materially to their in-
terest. Huguton Hermes.
DcTllish Destruction of Birds.
Tho horrible destruction of birds of
all descriptions is on tho' increase noti
withstanding tho efforts of lawmakers
of the various states for their prcserva-'
tion. 'Tho women of these United
States spent six million dollars for dead
birdsfor tho adornment of their Easter
head gear this year of our Lord 1897.
What a mockery I Ho who notes each
sparrow's fall will certainly oxact a fear-
ful penalty for this useless destruction of
of his sinless inoffensive creatures.
Not content with this terrible slaugh-
ter of the innocents for tho pampering
of vanity the women of tho eastern
states havo tnksn up tho obsolcto and
useless so-called "sport" of falconry for
the "plcasuro"(?) they find in tho butch-
cry of inoffensive birds which havo no
means of defending themselves because
of their wcakuess and timidity. Hero
is a description of a lato falcon hunt
in Vermont which wo find among tho
fashion items in a lato Sunday paper:
"Tho American falcon as hero seen iJ
the sparroiv hawk with sunken eyes
arched brows elinrp beak and little top-
knot. It is a formidable looking animal
and its claws aro sharp and ferocious.
"Tho falcon hunts havo been mostly
after low game. The little wild birds
that fly tho woods theso days aro best
adapted for tho falconing in its amateur
state. Tho heavier wild fowl that fly
higher aro too fierce for the littlo Amer-
ican falcon.
"This is tho pen picturo of n falcon
hunt as it took place tho other day upon
tho estate of Braintrco. Thero wero six
ladies in tho party and eight gentlemen
each of tho latter carrying tbo falcons on
their wrists. Tho ladies rodo in front
each poising a hooded falcon upon her
gjovc or resting it against her shoulder.
One beautiful girl with osproy feathers
floating down her back carried her fal-
con upon her three cornered hat whero
it furnished n trimming for tho strange
headgear. Sho woro a Mario Antoinette
gown with floating fichu of laco. Her
horso was a light-footed Kentucky gray
and mado no noise as it penetrated the
woods. Tho others camo silently after.
"Suddenly thero was a pause. Tho
bugler blew n blast aud from tho trees
and brush camo a sw-w-iuh as flocks of
birds roso from their cover in fright. In-
stantly the falcons wcro unhooded nud
let loose. Out they flew and down and
around soaring over tho heads of their
prey until tho frightened birds fairly
flow within tho grasp of their talons.
Ono licrco little undersized falcon seized
two bird- in one deadly clutch and camo
flying back with them to tho falconer
before tho others had captured a prize
apiece. At a call all tho birds returned
and then camo tho dividing up of tho
trophies aud tho feeding and rchooding
of tho falcons.
"Tho nerviest of tho hunters insisted
that tho head of the prey bo cut off lor
tho falcon to enjoy as its best roward
This was tho way tho beautiful young
lady who rodo first diverted herself af
ter capturing a bird"
Header can you conccivo anything
more uselessly horridly cruel than this
method of destroying tho soug birds?
Tho horriblo butchery of christians by
Turks and of Cubans by Spaniards has
raco and religious haired for its excuse;
but tho wanton slaughter of birds for
mcro pastimo has no excuse.
Tho American peoplo aro a remark-
ably impatient lot of folk. If they at-
tempt any particular thing and fail to
make a success of it in a very short
timo they "drop it" and go at some.
thing clso. This is particularly notice-
ablo in settling up new countries. They
havo no patienco to wait for develop
ments.
If wo look over tho history of tho
various old countries of tho earth wc
will find that it took many generations
of' people and hundreds of years of timo
to bring thoso countries into a high
state of cultivaticn. It required moro
than two thousand years to mako Franco
the garden spot sho is to-day and Eng
land as long. To bo euro the main
part of tho progress has been made with
in tho last three hundred years. And
yet both thoso lands havo much to do
beforo they becomo finished and perfect
Tho Uuited States has mado greater
progress in agricultural horticultural and
architectural scienco than any other
nation over made in the samo length of
lime and yet after -50 years of con
stant improvement wo find ivcn our
widest richest and larucst cities in rather
a crudo state. In thr oldest farming
communities wo find much leas than ouo-
half of tho land actually cutlivatod in
any nliape and but a very little of it in
a high stato of cultivation.
The ono state in tho Union showing
the greatest progress in tho production
of fruits and graimi is"' California nud
sho is tho stato whicl less than fifty
jcars ago offered tho most forbidding
aspect to tho farmerhood fruit grower.
With at least ten raijlass months each
year almost constant winds mostly
sandy and rocky soil there was but littlo
inducement for any one to attempt
farming. And yet with her magnifi-
cent system of irrigation California has
been made a veritable Gardtn of Eden.
Utah is another spot of earth which
was orginally n desert of sands and
mountains of rock. Had it not becu
that tho Mormons took poscssion of that
country because they thought no other
peoplo would over want to settlo in such
a djsolato spot Utah would jet bo a
howling wilderness. But by judicious
mangament much hard labor nnd cost
of timo and money with the aid of irri-
gation Utah has becu trsnnforniod from
a desolate region into ono of tho most
dcsirablo places to livo that can bo found
in tho west.
Colorado is called a mining state nnd
yet tho fruits vegetables and grains nud
grasses raised by irrigation each year is
worth much moro than all tho gold and
silver mined in the stuto
When wc consider what has been done
iu other couutrics nnd other stated wo
wonder why anyone will risk his reputa-
tion and judgment ns a prophet by say-
ing that this southwestern country will
never bo thickly settled. Would it not
bo moro reasonablq to say that the timo
will come (not in this generation prob
ably) when this country will bo highly
improved nnd densely populated? Tho
writer will not livo to see it accom-
plished; but timo will make wonderful
changes hero. When alfulfa and other
grasses shall havo taken tho placo of
tho greatest part of tho sparso wild
grasses four head of cattle will bo kept
to one acre instead of ono head to ten
acres as now. Add to this tho small
irrigated garden and fruit patches and
vegetables and fruit will bo shipped out
instead of in.
Of courso all this chnngo will rcquiro
much timo in tho natural cturso of set-
tlement and improvements of countries.
Thero is only ono way to hurry up this
rauch-to-bc-dcsircd stato of affairs and
that is this: If somo of tho immensely
wealthy men of tho cast would becomo
truo philanthropists and expend their
means in making tho necessary improve-
ments in theso prairie lands colonize
them with industrious poor peoplo from
tho congested towns and farming com-
munities in the cast tljen it will tako
but a short timo to accomplish much
along theso lines. Such action on the
part of tho wealthy wou'd do great good
in two ways: It would relieve tho cast
of a good class of peoplo who will always
while thero havo a hard timo to mako a
living; and it would givo to tho south-
west a large number of desirable settlers
who would bo both producers and cot-
sutners. This is not an impossible dream. It
is tho cheapest most reasonable nnd
easiest way to relievo tho cast of its
surplus population and would givo this
country what it needs enough peoplo
to form closo oomtnuuitics and eternally
banuh tho loneliness of the vast plains
Until tho timo comes when these
things are dono it will bo well to"con.
sidcr tho fact that Beaver county con-
tains about 3700000 acres enough to
support 370000 head of cattle allowing
10 acres per head. It is not probablo
that tho assessment rolls of tho country
will hhow a fifth part of this number or
ono to 50 acres. So bring on your cat-
tle; wo know they will bo all right.
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It is the Intention to aake this tbo biggest and best cel-
ebration otcr bcIU In Beaver county. It will not be a local
nflalr but people from Kansas and Texas and all parts of
Denver county will be there. You cin't afford to miss this
celebration but bitcb up and come.
There wilS be
Music by tho Heaver Cornet Hand a tuatoh
gamo of Basa Hall Tournament llitlio a
gamo of Football Horso racing Foot Rjo'nj?t
Sack llacinc etc. Platform Dance!
Fireworks!
COMMITTBK: Lke Howard Oalvin Glbnn
Dr.B KnwAiiuH Uauson Wiuuut Cuut
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Interest paid on time deposits.
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