The Kiel Herald (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE KIEL HERALD
VOL 1.
KIEL KINGFISHER COUNTY. OK1.A. THURSDAY. JULY
.. l will Kive me nonunion a second
m^T OF AN ORCHID continent-spanning line: while the
lAsdi ur nil viwiiti/ ; Canadlan Northern whl<.h is expected
to be finished in 191:1 or 1914, will
give it a third.
time able to muster an army of 49,-
000 men.
HUMAN LIVES SACRIFICED FOR
BRILLIANT FLOWER.
Hunter's Narrative of a Trip Up the
Orinoco in Quest of the Plant
Is Not Extremely Pleasant
Reading.
It Is not n pretty story, this narra
tlve of a trip up the Orinoco, but you
may understand orclild people hotter
if you read it:
"It began unluckily," said he. "I
took a partner, because I'd learned
that tlie dark places of earth are hard
upon a man by himself. I met him
at Port of Spain, an.I he was eag'>r
for the adventure because he had
Just absconded from a British mer-
cantile house In Havana, and the
Orinoco Founded to him like a haven.
"We hired a few negroes. Our real
guides we would pick up at Angos-
tura. One day while watting for the
stores to be packed I took my partner
out to show him what an orchid was.
"Near the Pitch I.'ake I saw on in a
tree, and ordered one of the negro
boys to shin up and get It. He
■wouldn't. A deadly snake dwelt in
that tree, he declared. He was afraid.
Afraid of snakes! Nice, efficient, help-
ful boy to take into tripical forests
wasn't he?
It was insubordination before the ex-
pedition had even started. So I cufT d
liim and handed him my hunting
knife. 1 ring dovn that flower ami
also the snake's head,' I ordered; and,
whining, trembling, he went tip the
trunk. He was detaching the orchid
from where it clung when a tiling like
a spear, as black as his own skin,
suddenly struck at the boy's wrist.
He sere rued with terror, and. toppling
down, writhed with pain. He died—
and I felt a g'.oonv settle on my spirits.
"Well, at Angostura, we took rafts
and six guides upstream. First one
guide died of fever: then another was
bitten by poisonous injects. One fell
in with—or into—an allisator. We
needed meat, and the skin was worth
a good deal. so. half in revenge, ha'f
in curiosity, we w>nt out and plugged
hi l s in the monster. When the guides
cut it open they stooped and drew
things ov.t—the hones and the cotton
clothes of the guide tills cannibal
reptile had swallowed. The very knot
was still in his Sarong. Oh. don't
squirm. This is orchid hunting.
"We had three guides left at the end
of the second month, when paddling
along one day where the vines over-
reached ami let snaky tendrils draggle
down, we came to a fifty yard clear-
ing. We saw ther^ the sides of three
canoes, half smothered with rapid
growing vegetation, and 1,500 alligator
skins, well salted, but decaying. Hang-
ing to the roof of what hail been a
kind of lean-to were 100 orchid plaits
—withered and dead. On the floor lay
two rusty rifl s and two ske'etons.
Out by t,ie ashy place where the flro
had been was a third skeleton. I'p
b"tWHen the ribs were cheerfully gro*
ing some gay weeds.—Everybody's
Magazine.
Nsw Meaning for R. 8. V. P.
The mystic letters "R. S. V". P." so
fanilllnr on Invitations for social fune
tions have taken on a new meaning,
and If uttered aloud at an afternoon
tea or like gathering of women, will
cause all hands to rise Instantly to
the head and a general look of anxiety
will come over each fair face, for lo!
tie new meaning Is: "Hat Shows Very
Plainly."
C;lli Them "Moonlets."
Mconlcts Is the new name for me-
teorites. Pr.vf. Q. K. Gilbert has found j
it. He relieves tiv;y are by-products,
of the catastrophe that split off th"
moon from the earth's mass, not vis- j
jrors from space, but little fragments j
o: our own planet that have returned
a" r long al ienee. They move in
o bits oi their own, generally eceen-
tiic orbits. Those moonlets whoso
velocities were hyperbolic would tree
themselves from our earth, but could
not escape the sun and would th'ar'>-
for- revolve about It. in orbits coin-
ciding nr.ere or less closely with that
of the laith. Sine^> they would be
constantly meeting both the sun and
the moon their orbits would lie sub-
ject to most violent perturbations,
constantly shifting them back and
forth between hyperbolic and elliptical
conditions. Also, as Prof. W. H. Pick-
ering of Harvard believes, they would
nil of them sooner or later pass near
enough to sun or moon to bo minute-
lv fractured by it.
Students and Bullfights.
Adres Osuna. director of public edu-
cation, has asked the state govern-
ment of Coahulla, Mexico, to enact an
order prohibiting school teachers and
children from attending bullfights.
Senor Osuna believes that witnessing
such brutal exhlbtlons as bullfighting
tends to harden the minds of students
and make them unlit for citizenship.
ANOTHER MAINE NATURE TALE
In All Fairness ths Writer Says He
Gives the Story for What It
Is Worth.
An Auburn man has a cow whose
ldlosyncracies have puzzled him, says
the Lcwiston (Me.) Journal. A month
ago she seemed gay and light-hearted.
A week of depression followed. An-
other week of airy and lightsome
frivolity seemed to follow, and now
she would seem depressed. He has
been watch'flg her, and has lust dis-
covered that she has developed a pas-
sion for literature as a diet. In other
words, she chews the old pamphlets
and newspapers. He has found out
another thing, viz., that her moods
vary as to the amount and character
of illustrations consumed—the more
the articles are Illustrated the more
exhilaration for the cow; the more
solid the matter the greater the area
of depression. For Instance, a copy
of the Congressional Record will re-
duce the cow's spirits and tempera-
ture to sub-normal, while a copy of
any of the current Illustrated newspa-
pers will make her caper Mke a happy
child. "The other day," says he, "I
fed her a select dish of illustrations
from Puck, Frank Leslie's, the I.ewis-
ton Saturday Journal and the annual
report of the Maine agricultural de-
partment, and she was so happy that
she kissed me." We give this story
for what it is worth, for we have
not yet had opportunity to verify it.
NOT QUITE IN SAME CLASS.
Rich and Had Been Wanderer In
Early Days, But Had Not Neglect-
ed Ablutions.
Senator Norris Brown, in an ad-
dress in Washington, praised an Iowa
millionaire.
"His success is a lesson to us," said
Senator Brown. "There are men in
Maquoketa who still remember him
as a tramp, a common, homeless
tramp."
The speaker smiled.
"One afternoon in New York," he
said, "as the millionaire and I were
walking in Fifth avenue a beggar
stepped up to him and whined:
" 'Boss, I guess you ain't never
went cold and hungry, sleepin' lij
wet fields and gittiu' kicked from—'
" 'Oh, yes, 1 have, though,' said
the millionaire.
"He looked the tramp up and
down, handed him a quarter, and said,
as he passed on:
" 'But 1 had the decency to wash
myself once or twice a year, by
. George! You make me kind of sick ' "
—Detroit Free Press.
How Evans Got to Annapolis.
Admiral Kvans tells the story of
how he happened to be appointed as
a cadet to the uaval academy at An-
napolis from Vtah when his native
state was Virginia.
' William H. Hooper, the first terri-
torial delegate to congress from T'tah,
was a great friend of my family,'' he
said. "One day he asked me if I did
not want to be an officer in the navy.
1 told him: You bet I do' He then
explained that there was an appoint
inent to be made from Utah and said
that If I was only a resident of 1'tah
1 could get the appointment As soon
as I could get my hat and catch a
train 1 was on my way to Salt I.ake
City, and I got the appointment. 1
was the first cadet to be appointed
from that territory."
A Incorporated. )
*
What Swinburne Was.
A new and untrammeled estimate
of Swinburne comes from the police-
man whose duty It was to look after
the crowd that went down to the Isle
of Wight on the occaston of the poet's
burial. A stranger, who was unaware
of the fact that England had Just
lost her greatest poet. Inquired of
this policeman at Ventnor station the
cause for the crowd. The reply was
as follows:
"A man named Swinburne I never
heard of him afore. They tell me he
wrote a lot of poetry stuff Tf It
hadn't been for that nobody wouldn't
have taken any notice of him at all.
He wasn't anybody very particular."
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♦ A Farmer's Store For
The Farmer.
BUYS Coal, Lumber, Twine, %
\ Potatoes, etc. In Car Lots. ^
♦ We offer you afresh and complete stock of
Hardware
+ I)ry Goods, Groceries, Shoes, Millinery etc:
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Was Not in Her Hair.
"Now, Margaret, dear, I'm giing to
put some vaseline on your hair to take
the dandruff out," said mamma to her
small hopeful of five. "Then you may
run out and play."
"What's in your hair, Margie?"
asked her playmate a little later. "It j
looks all shiny."
"Oh. my mamma put some gasoline'
in it to take the dandelions out," r i
ulled little Margaret, wisely.
DON'T FEED TOO NEAR HOME J
Lover of Birds Points Out in What
Manner This Kindly Practice j
Is Pernicious.
* Highest price potdfor Produce
Come in and see us.
T
* The Farmers Co-operative Association
\ has issued 109 Share Certificates to its
• members and cordJSlly extends an in-
♦ vitation to every farmer to join it and
• secure the great benefits of Co-opera-
♦ .' tive buying of all your needs.
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Transcontinental Railroad.
Forty yenrs ago the first trans-
continental railroad was completed
A few woks ago. hear Missoula.
Mont., the gap on til's links of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul was
fil ed !n, and the sixth tlf the roads
which sran the continent in the
I'vi'.'d States was finished. Canada
I: . one road—the Canadiaii Pacific—
v. liich reaches ironi one o^e.m to the
b her. 'Hie co mpletion oft the Grand
Tj mil; Pacific, which is HOhWed' for
Mosquito Coast.
The Mosquito toast is a strip of ter-
ritory lying dn the easl coast of
Nicaragua. It was discovered by Co-
lumbus in 1502, and was claimed by
Spain, although it was never con-
quered by that Country. DuHng (ho
i seventeenth century the Mosqtiito
| coast was tiie headquarters of the
buccaneers, ami itt 1*150 bectlme sub-
ject to Great Britain with non-fulflll-
i ment of the Bulwer-C-layton treaty be-
tween the Vnited States aud Great
Britain, these two nations agreed not
to Occupy or fortify or colonize or as-
, stnne or exercise any dominion over
any part of Cetitr.il America. In 18"5
the 1'nited States charged Great
Britain with non-fulfillment ol' the
I treaty, and in 18.">St the lingluh agreed
with certain reservations, to cede the
territory to Honduras. Nicaragua now
j claims the sovereignty of this terri-
tory. The Mosuuitos. who now num-
In the northern states many of the
protected birds are Induced to build
their nests in or near buildings, and
they are fed and sometimes partially
tamed. This is commendable, of
course, but robins, tor example, are
included in the list of game birds in
some of the southern states, and el-
forts made to tame them hero may
result in their destruction on th ir
southward flight in the autumn. Ac-
customed to frequent the homes of
their northern friends, if they evinc ■
similar habits in the south they are
often killed for the pot, says a writer
in Forest and Stream
In the course of time the southern
states will protect these birds, but un-
til this is done it would be well to
j remember the result of feeding birds
j near our homes. Of course the mere
fact that they are not molested while
in the north causes many birds to
nest round about houses, but if they
must bo fed this should not be done
near dwellings.
There are few women who view
with calmness the Killing of harmless 1
birds by cats. On the other h ind, j
there aro few owners of cats who
take any steps to prevent these depre-
dations. The taming of birds in
places where cats are permitted to :
ream at will means certain death to a
targe majority of such l.irds, and so
far as wo know there is only one pre-
ventive, and that is to remove the cat
j from its field of activity.
The theory that cats keep the conn-
try home free from rat3 and mice i"
pretty—or was before Puss, pampered
and overfed, became more fond of the
heat of the kitchen range or the sun
lhan of her traditional hunting fields.
Now Chat the birds are eivourag d to
nest near by, almost. within her reach,
with a minimum of effort sh' varies
i her diet now and then with a nestling
and is content.
j To prevent hounds from hunting
; fox°s we confine them until ready to
• accompany them, but we entourage
j son pi irdn to nest near dwellings and
nt th 4 same time '■tu'.W one oi their
I worst enemias to h u ry them daily.
If you have occasion
to transact banking busi ness wl.ile in
KINGFISHER
The Guarantee state mi
4We have a Barrel of MONEY to Loan.t>
Our depositors are guaranteed by the Depositors
' Guarantee Fund of the state of Oklahoma.
®We are the most obliging people in town. ®
J. A. Overstreet, J. F. Oyer,
Pkkhidknt.
Geo. Newer, cashier.
VlCK l'UKSIDKNT,
C. E. Jones, Asst ("ASHiar
ited Turkey be was engaged tiy a
wealthy pasha to give lessons in phy-
-ical culture to the women of his
!iarem. When the modrrn Samson
was ushered into the haremlik, how-
•ver, he found the room where the les-
sons were to be given divided across
he middle by a high screen of mttsh-
i abieh w ork, through the carved inter-
■Mces ot which t!i<> women could
watch his every movement without
'i dug themselves visible. He was in-
structed io take up his position in the
nilliant'y lighted space in tront ot
he screen, and a dozen or more
.vomen io'.owed his exercises, ges-
ure by gesture, from the other side
I .!(■ the lattice work, without his being
•uvare ol their presence gave by the
ustle of their garments. Two gi-
; gantic eii'inchs, with drawn swords,
' noVer took their eyes from him dur-
ing the whole performance.—Every-
\ body's Magazine.
j tain srnau portion or me leu Hem-
isphere of the brain, the correspond-
; ing convolution on the right side, nor
1 mally a "sleeping partner," may ho
trained to do its fellow's work should
1 this become Injured.
| A curious point emphasized by the
lecturer was that although tho nerv-
ous impulses which allow us to speak
and to use the right hand lor all
kinds of intricate movements arise
from the left hemisphere of the brain,
this has not caused It, in all the ages
we have talked and been righthand-
1 ed, to become heavier or larger than
Its less used fel'.ow.
Sandow in a Harem.
No one who 1 . not dwelt in that
mysterious land can have any con-
ception of the jaalo'is e?re with
\v!:'ch Tt:r!?Jr'i wo—en are grrded on
every occasion. Vhen Sandv ,v vis-
E:very Brain Holds a Sleeping Partner.
in lils second lecture on the brain
in relation to right-handedness and
[.opecb, delivered at the Koyrl lnttl-
I in te, London, Pi of. Frederick \V. .Vlott
' emphasized the Intimate connection
< existing between the various centers
in the br. in.
While n.ost right-handed people are
able to articulate words rationally
; thioiigh In.pulses ari ing from a cer-
A Reminder.
"Your wife's mouth reminds me of
a cherry."
•'Indeed ?"
"Doesn't it you?"
"No, it reminds me of other thlntjs
empty coal scuttles, the pan unde^
the icebox, the lawn mower and sue*,
things."—Houston Post. |
Seeing the Sights.
"This," said the guide who waa
piloting a bunch of tourists through
I trypt, as lie pointed to a mirnniy.
V, us a high pi lest, li e* wis st. man ot
I; s diy. H" lived o i g ■ i - aga.'
"Was his last s* latal?" qaw*
d t.!ie wag oi the baaclr
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