The Eagle (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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THE DAWNING YEAR.
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GLOBE TROTTERS' NEW YEAR'S
a grizzled, sun-tanned, hard-featured
man, whose face bore the stamp of
hardship and adventure, was sittins
in the smoking room of a New York
hotel. lie happened to glance at a
calendar and saw that the day was
Dec. 31.
"By Jove!" he exclaimed. "So to-
morrow is New Year's day. Unless
something happens before then, it will
be the quietest New Year I've spent in
twenty-three years.
"'In all that time I have never been
so near my old home in Scotland as I
am now. Often I've tried to get home,
but somehow or other New Year has
always found mo in a tight corner in
some out-of-the-way part of the world.'
This man's experience Is typical of
that of many of the globe-trotters in
this age, when people are so fond of
"going to and fro in the earth and
walking up and down in it," like a cer-
tain personage in the Hook of Job.
New Year's day, 1897, found one
Englishman facing death from hunger
and thirst on board a life raft 300
miles southeast of Madagascar.
His ship foundered seven days be-
fore in a hurricane. The boats were
smashed by the fury of the waves and
some of the crew washed overboard.
The rest made a raft out of planks and
spars, but during the night high seas
swept over the frail structure and car-
ried away most of the water and food.
"All we had left," said the man who
went through this terrible experience,
"were a few tins of potted meat, a
small barrel of biscuit anrd the small-
est of the water casks. That was all
we had to keep life in twenty-five hun-
gry men.
"We made it last as long as we
could, but in four days everything was
pone. Some of the men fell into de-
spair and talked about throwing them-
selves overboard. Perhaps they would
have done so, but during the night of
the fourth day half a dozen big sharks
swam around the raft In circles. The
sea was phosphorescent and we could
see them plainly in the waves of livid
fire which they stirred up as they
swam around. Even the half-crazed
men who had talked about drowning
themselves 6hrank from death in a
shark's maw and stayed upon the raft.
"Next morning I paw by a pocket
diary which I carried that the day was
Dec. 30. To keep up the men's spirits
I told them I had dreamed we wero
going to be rescued on New Year's
day That appealed to the supersti-
tion inherent more or less in all sail-
ors. so I kept on telling them a ship
would come along and pick us up on
that day sure, until I began to believe
!t. myself. We even discussed grave-
ly whether the sail would heave in
sight in the morning or the afternoon,
and one man who said he guessed it
would be toward evening became quite
unpopular.
"New Year's morning broke with a
dead calm on the oily, blistering sea
and a blazing skv that aggravated our
thirst tenfold. There was not a ship
In sight all morning—nothing except
that glassy sheet of water and that
cruel, cloudless sky above us. It was
the same in the afternoon, and our
hopes fell as the sun sank slowly to-
ward the western horizon.
"Just as we were beginning to de-
spair, one of the men screamed hyster-
ically and pointed to a thin trail of
smoke on the sky line. It was a New
Zealand liner headed straight for our
raft. In a couple of hours her doctor
was giving us a hearty dinner and
slops and weak brandy and water."
This same man spent another New
Year's day off Cape Horn. He sailed
from Valparaiso in a British "wind-
jammer," expecting to reach his Scot-
tish home in time to spend his first
Christmas there for many years. But
calms delayed her for weeks in the
South Pacific ocean, and when she got
off Cape Horn she ran into a tearing
gale, which brought her mizzen toD-
mast down on deck and ripped out all
her sails. For days she drifted help-
lessly, exposed to the full fury of the
western gale.
The crew labored Industriously at
rigging up spare and bending new
sails. It was a task of tremendous
difficulty, for giant combers rolled
over the forecastle head continually,
filling the vessel amidships with green
seas.
Suddenly in the midst of this toil an
apprentice piped out:
"I say, fellers, this is New Year's
day. Have you all forgotten it?"
"Belay your tongue," retorted the
gruff old mate. "There won't be any
New Year dinner to-day, except your
usual whack of lobscouse."
The skipper was superintending the
work from the poop rail and heard the
conversation.
"Cook!" he bawled out. "Lay aft
here!"
The cook came out of his galley and
the captain asked what he could give
them for a fancy dinner.
"Ncthin' but split peas, sir. an' salt
horse and marmalade. There ain't no
turkeys in my store room, sir," he said
"Let's catch one o' them birds,"
suggested an old tar, pointing to sev-
eral abatrossea which were circling
about the wake of the ship. "We'll
stretch a point this day and be for-
given for it, I guess."
After several attempts an albatross
was captured with a big fishhook bait-
ed with salt pork and dragged aboard
triumphantly. Served up nico and
brown and swimming in gravy, it
looked so much like a real turkey that
It warmed up the men's hearts and
made them think of the holidays they
had spent at home. But when they
tasted it the resemblance ceased. It
was fishy and tough. The meat was
like knotted rope yarn and the gravy
suggested tar. However, It was a
New Year dinner all the same, and it
was enjoyed as keenly as the finest
feast ashore that day.
An American traveler, who is well
known commercially in the West In-
dies, was mixed up in one of the peren-
nial revolutions of Hayti in his hot
â– jnd foolish youth. Unhappily, he al
lied himself with the weaker side, and
one New Year's eve found himself one
of a small band of desperadoes de
fending the stockaded town ot Mlra
goane against a government army,
which outnumbered them 100 to 1.
During the night the government
soldiers forced their way into the town
Only about thirty oÂŁ the defenders
were left alive.
"Stand them up in a line and shoot
them," commanded Gen. Manigat.
But they were too weak to stand
All of them were wounded, half-starved
and fever-stricken. So the govern
ment troops propped them up in chairs
and shot them as they lolled there.
Only the white man was spared
order that his case might be inquired
into.
When he protested to Gen. Manigat
against the cruelty of shooting help-
less captives that triumphant warrior
merely blew a cloud of cigarette smoli
and remarked calmly: "C'est
guerre."
"Late on New Year's eve," said the
American, "they tried me by court-
martial. When I woke up on New
Year's morning I was in the calaboose,
sentenced to he shot at sundown. It
wasn't very pleasant waiting. I was
quite glad when a gold-laced officer
entered the cell toward evening, with
a paper informing me that 'his excel-
lency, the citizen president,' had been
pleased to pardon me. in consideration
of the request of the American minis-
ter and of the fact that it was New
Year's day.
"I believe they had never intended
to shoot me. but only to frighten me.
for they hardly dared to touch a white
man whose country owned a navy that
might bombard their ports. Anyhow,
I got out of jail in time to eat my
dinner with some American and Eng-
lish friends on a coffee plantation near
Miragoane."
The Automobile Useful.
Automobiles have been put to many
uses, but it remained for a clever Ger-
mantown electrician to put a machine
to a use as novel as it was ingenious,
though simple at that. The arc light I
at the northwest corner of German- j
town and Chelten avenues suddenly
went out on Thursday night. Kicking
the pole and a dozen other familiar ;
methods failed to jar the carbons into
proper position.
Then the lamp was lowered, but all
were afraid to touch it, as no one
had rubber gloves or other insulation.
The chances of an accident were in-
creased by the wet pavement and
dripping lamp. Just then as the dark-
ness and delay became most vexatious
at that much frequented corner, an
automobile drove up and its owner
Jt out and'went into the postoffice
happy thought struck the electri-
cian, and he had a minute's hurried
conversation with the owner. The
electrician raised the lamp, whi!° the
automobile drove the machine under
it. Then the electrician stood on the
automobile', safe with tho protection
of insulation from the four rubber
tires, and easily adjusted the carbons,
and there was light again.—Philadel-
phia Record.
Found at Last.
Hensley, Ark., Dec. 26th.— (Special)
That a sure cure for Backache would
be a priceless boon to the people, and
especially the women of America, is
admitted by all interested in medical
matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams of
this place is certain sho has lound in
Dodd's Kidney Pills the long-looked
for c.iri\
"I am" 38 years old.'' Mrs. Williams
says, "and I have suffered with the
Backache very much for three
four years. I have been treated
by good physicians and got no relief,
but thanks to God. I have found a cure
Jt last and it is Dodd's Kidney Pills
I have taken only one box and it has
done me more good than all the doe-
tors in three or four years. I want
all sufferers from Backache to know-
that they can get Dodd's Kidney Pills
and get well."
Backache is one of the first symp-
toms of Kidney Disease. Guard against
Bright's Disease or Rheumatism by
curing it with Dodd's Kidney Pills.
\ woman jumps at a conclusion and
wins; a man hesitates and loses.
Lending money and borrowing
trouble are often synonymous.
If you don't get the biggest and Best
it's your own fault. Defiance Starch
is for sale everywhere and there Is
positively nothing to equal it in qual-
ity or quantity.
The burglar takes things for grant-
ed, or any other old way.
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(lruKu'lut will refuuil money If PAZO OINTMENT
full8 lu cure you lu 6 to 14 days. 50c.
Few men have more of anything
than they want, except faults.
Many Children fre Sickly.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders forChildren,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's
Home, New York, cure Feverisliness, Head-
ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis-
orders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms.
At all Druggists','J5c. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeKoy, N. Y.
Even the strong arm of the law
cannot arrest the flight of time.
The golf girl goes a'golfing
In the giddicit of gowns.
The sun shines sultry on her
In the surliest of frowns.
O'er the green she chases gayfjl*
In a fierce perspiring march.
But her clothes don't show a wrinkle
'Cause she used Defiance Starch.
Variety is the spice of life, and vice
is the cayenne pepper.
Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De
fiance Starch is fast taking place of
all other brands. Others say they can-
not sell any other starch.
Revenge is sweet—but only in the
hands of a fool.
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New Year's Superstitions.
The following superstitions in con-
nection with New Year's are still be-
lieved in various parts of England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales: On
New Year's morning go to a well or
fountain and leave an apple and nose-
gay, and the water will keep fresh
and be more wholesome all the year.
If a dark complexioned man crosses
your threshold first on New Years
day you will be prosperous; if a
blonde, unlucky, and If a red headed
man dire disaster will surely follow.
Before locking the door for the night
on New Years eve place a gold coin
near it and let it remain there until
the church bells ring next morning,
and you will have plenty of money
all that year. So strong is the beliet
in the adage of the dark complexion-
ed man in some places that he is
paid a small gratuity to call early
and walk through the first floor of
the house, entering by the back door
and leaving by the front.
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Gray, Lee M. The Eagle (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1904, newspaper, December 29, 1904; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc94700/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Territories+-+Oklahoma+Territory%22: accessed June 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.