The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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France Would JVIake
Gay Capital a Seaport
Something of the Canal System of the Republic
and the J^ccu One Just Ppooosed.
and an expenditure of $0,000,000 the
following results have been obtained:
The ehnnnel has been correeted; the
falls have been lengthened, lessening
the impetuosity of the rapids; danger-
ous rooks have been removed; the
minimum draft now measures 55
inches, and there is an available draft
of 03 inches during at lea,st 354 days,
and mote than 78.7 inches during .'!I0
Idavs of the vear. The only obstacle
ARTS a seaport is the dream
of a number of euthusi-
astie Frenchmen who would
see their capital city placed
in a position to compete
with London, Hamburg,
Antwerp, Amsterdam and other old
world centers of commerce. Deputy
Charles Bos recently attempted to se-
cure the necessary government appro-
priation for the carrying out of his
project of a great ship canal from i which the Rhone still presents to navi-
llavre to Paris, but failed for the time ' gation arises from the violence of the
being, lint when the government re- current. It is hoped to remedy this
fused to take hold of the project pri- j by establishing a scries of relays,
" tugs, drawn up-
vate individuals began the solicitation
of subscriptions to n fund that would
accomplish that which the govern-
ment had refused to do, and now have
nearly one-half of the $05,000,000 nec-
essary to construct the canal pledged.
France stands to-day as one of the
great canal building nations of the
world. Or, to be more accurate, as
one of the greatest nations given to
the improvement of existing water-
ways. She makes the most of every
advantage in the way of transporta-
tion that nature has given her by the
widening ami deepening , or canalizing
of her rivers. In this work she has
ipent within the past 20 years no less
than $87,000,000. France has to-day
within her boundaries 7,000 miles of
navigable waterways, and of these
there are less than 70 miles of canals
that have been builded within recent
years. All the vast government appro-
priations have gone to improve the
natural waterways and make them
navigable.
fitted o it with spec
stream by cables, to be wound around
fixed drums operated by steam power.
These cables would unwind for boats
going downstream, and would allow
an easy traction power, from which
the best results are expected. The
day. therefore, is soon coming when
the Rhone, which seemed unconquer-
able, w ill be easily navigable, and will
have an imn:e:i e t raflic.
The works executed upon the French
canals, being almost exclusively in the
line of improvement, appear compara-
tively modest alongside of the great
improvement of the Seine and Rhone.
The change accomplished in the last
15 years, however, is not less consider-
able, and is in proportion with the
hundreds of millions which have been
devoted to that purpose. The object
has been to reduce all canals of gen-
eral importance to one single type, so
as to render them practicable for the
largest boats in use on French canals.
The type of boat which predominates
THE. f KING.
Richard tht kin \ the Linn Heart,
Lay faint :.n*i •' u < breath—
Bertram de Gordon's was the shaft
That did hun t< his death.
They brausfht the boy to meet his doom
Before the dyins king—
A rc.inst the mall of angry men
He heard the daggers ring.
"Yours was the hand that strung the
bow,
Yours that the arrow sent—
Say," sold the king, "has chance the
Or
is It—death—you meant?
•rled the boy. ' I meant his
"Death!
death
Who la' 1 my kindred low,
Tyrant, who tilled my life with loss,
Who till* the world witlfc woe
The Lion Heart with dying eyes
Surve>*. d the tall, dark lad.
Whose blood went singing through his
veins
With hate and daring glad.
Then, where a mighty .pear held back
The curtain of the tent.
Into the deeps of far blue sl*y
Slowly the king's gaze went.
Perhaps he thought, though king, how
soon
He might need nu r
Perhaps what best be
Full royally to do.
y. too—
•ame a king
Like
k to heaven
m-at-arms
rain* distilling br
He felt his mom nts w
And marked among his
Stirs ominous of haste
His proud glance lowered to the boy
Who all his power defied—
"Go—1 forgive you!" said the king,
The Lion Heart, and died.
—Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Youth's
Com pan loii.
Ey A. L. UNGER.
Of the work accomplished within [is the Flemish pinnace, or Walloon
the past 20 years the most important j boat, of "00 tons. 11s dimensions are;
is probably the canalization of the j Length, 1:20 feet; width, 10'/, feet;
1.1 1 ?*H: ffiiil-tof-tf,
f?
THE WATER FRONT AT HAVRE.
lower .Seine from Paris to Rouen,
which has cost in round figures $11,-
€00,000. This great work has only re-
cently been completed by the con-
struction of the canal from Tancar-
ulle to Havre, which has cost $3,860,-
dOO. The ob ject has been to obtain at
all times a depth of 10'/. feet, afford-
ing shipping an available draft of nine
feet 11 inches, while establishing the
necessary arrangements for active
and easy navigation.
In the 155 miles which separate
Paris from Rouen there have been
constructed nine stations with remov-
able and movable dams for the drain-
age of superfluous water, as well as
locks to insure in ordinary times the
regularity of navigation. At each dam
there is a large lock affording in the
sluice an available length of 4021/.. feet
and a width of 55% feet, and also a
smaller locks affording in its sluice an
available length of 130^ feet and a
width of 28y2 feet. The results of
these works are already considerable,
for in five years- from 1S80, the year
of their completion, until 1S91—the
annual traffic on the lower Seine has
increased from 217,000,000 to 399,000,-
000 "mile-tons."
The character of the boats and their
means of propulsion have likewise
been transformed. Besides the ordi-
nary canal boats, which carry, at the
maximum, 300 tons, specially large
barges up to 1,000 tons in si/e have
been constructed. St cam is exclusive-
ly employed for navigation; it alone
operates the very complete output of
towboats, using chains and magnetic
adherent cables, as well as the tugs
and coasting boats, which are in regu-
lar communication with London.
One remarkable feature of the low-
er Seine navigation is the regularity
and swiftness of transportation. In
this respect there are boats between
Paris and Rouen which compete with
the railway.
The price of freight between Rouen
md Paris was, in 1890, upstream, 71%
tents per ton, and downstream, 51%
£ents per ton.
The improvement of the Rhone from
ihe junction of the Saone at Lyons to
the sea has been undertaken with an
entirely different idea. Over a dis-
tance of 205 miles the improvement of
Ihe open river has been accomplished
f>v a series of works w isely conceived
and accurately executed. Before the
works were commenced, in 1880, the
minimum low-water mark was 15%
inches. During 182 days of the year
only did the available drnft exceed 03
inches within which time there were
included 101 days, during which it was
more than 78.7 inches.
After 12 jears of persevering efforts
draft, leaded, , feet. Boats of this
type figure for s'O or 90 per cent, of
the total upon the northern and east-
ern canals. To permit the passage of
these boats the sluices measure in
available space: Length, 126 feet;
width, 17 feet. The legal dimensions
of the great French canals are not
less than 32 2-3 feet in width at the
bottom. 52V;. 111 width on the water
surface and 0feet draft.
In 187S only 288 miles of canals satis-
fied these conditions. In 1893 there
were 1,353 miles. Such were especial-
ly all the canals (if northern and east-
ern France. For a great many canals,
moreover, these measurements have
been increased, by reason of the im-
portance of their traffic. Thus the
canal from the Oise to the Aisne has
a width of 32 2-3 feet at the bottom and
a draft of 7 1-5 feet. The Scheldt canal
lias a width of 36 feet at the bottom
and a draft of 7 1-5 feet. The St.
Quentln canal, whose depth is the
same, has a w idth of 39 1-3 feet. Upon
certain canals the traffic is enormous.
There pass, for instance, over the St.
Quentin canal, on an annual average,
3,500,000 tons of merchandise, and in
some parts exceptionally frequented
as much as 3,800,000 tons. The total
annual traffic, therefore, for this sin-
gle canal amounts to about 300,000,000
mile tons, which is equal to almost
half of the total traffic of all the Bel-
gian waterways united. The traffic
per mile is about 5,000,000 tons. The
St. Quentin canal has a length of 58
miles and ".*> locks. At its summit level
pond there are t wo subterraneous pas-
sages, 3,009 and 18,700 feet in length
There is, moverover, a series of nar-
row passages in cuttings, with curves
of short radius and great angular de-
velopment. In order to meet the ex-
igencies of such an important traffic
upon canals where navigation is very
difficult, the authorities have estab-
lished a series of intelligent and pra'c
tical regulations. Cpon the northern
and eastern canals and canalized riv-
ers towage by hand power is pro-
hibited for loaded boats, and toler-
ated for empty boats only on condi-
tion that it be done by men of the
crew. Towage on canals is mostly
done by horses. On certain canals, as
on the canal parallel to the Oise, pri-
vate companies are established which
furnish horses at a fixed price by con-
t ract.
Let us not forget the abolition of
tolls voted in 1880; then the full im-
portance of the works and useful meas-
ures decreed by the French govern-
ment in favor of the development of
interior navigation will be easily un-
derstood.
DANIEL CLEVERTON.
I rights of others, and a facility for
attaching unto himself anything of
value not fastened down or red hot;
as well as a disposition so quarrel-
some, that at about the age of 15,
after having at various times inflict-
ed serious wounds on other gamins
he cut a white boy very badly, and
the Umilistone vigilantes told him to
make himself invisible, which he did.
For several years Juanito was not
much in evidence; but it was known
that lu« had joined a roving band of
Apache# who attacked a party of
freighters near Benson, and were
driven off.
•luanito was hailed by one of the
freighters who knew him, and re-
plied iti'iltiugly, but paid for his in-
sult by the passage of a "forty-four"
bullet through his cheek.
After t!^t he got "bad."
Depredation and murder followed
each other rapidly; now here, now
there; until 1m* had left his earmark
over nearly all of the central and
southern part of the territory, and
even as far north as near Skull Val-
ley and Camp Verde.
At last, after a particularly cruel
murder, followed by the theft of one
of tli1 favorite horses at the "Q 1"
cow ranch, lie had in his rapid flight
through a rocky canyon broken his
horse's leg and had to walk to this,
the nearest water, and now he sleeps
peacefully, expecting that in the
morning the cowboys will ride j.way.
Hut .luanito is reckoning without
his host, and his hunters are not sub-
ject to the orders of well - anybody.
They know that other parties have
all the other water holes within a
radius of a hundred miles under rigid
surveillance, and they know that if
.luanito is anywhere within that ter-
ritory he must come soon to water.
All they have to do is to keep an
unfailing watch on the water hole,
and sooner or later .luanito, if near
will come; but .luanito had not been
used to that kind of a hunt, and has
been wondering for the past two days
what could possibly keep those idiot
(iringo's in his way.
And now, at the end of the third
day. his water is all gone. The last
two days it has been unsavory, for
water does not keep sweet long in
Arizona, but while it lasted it was at
least wet, but to-night he had drill.k
the last of it.
To-morrow he could stand it. if he
had to, shaded as he was by the nics-
quite thicket, but if the (iringo foul-
did not go by to-morrow night, "San-
gre dc Christo save him." he would
have to risk a trip to the water hide.
So Juanito reasoned with himself
as he prepared to go to sleep; a
sleep that was filled with troubled
dreams, and pictures of flowing wa-
ters.
At the first peep of dawn lie awoke
with a dry tongue, and, after listen-
ing for some minutes and hearing,
nothing, he concluded that the hated
Gringos had gone; when a horse
neighed and he sank back with a low
groan, full well realizing that a tia.v
of torture was before him. I lis jerky
was nearly gone, but that gave him
but little concern; he could do with-
out food for several days, but water!
ah, yes, water lie must have, for
none may live long on these arid
deserts without it.
As the sun rises, Juanito blesses
his patron saint that he has the
shade of the mesquites; here it will
be possible for him to endure the
day, but out there in the scorching,
burning sun, carramba! no!
Slowly the hours creep by, but the
sun seems to get hotter very fast,
and Juanito's blood gets more fiery
as it courses more rapidly through
his veins, while his tongue gets more
and more dry and parched with each
hot breath.
At last Juanito is desperate; he
realizes the trap he is in, but no mat-
ter; perhaps he can succeed in get-
ting to the water hole unseen, but
if not—well—death from a biiilet is
1 far better than this torture that he
knows will get a thousand fold worse
' as tli" day wears on; and if he fails
; he has his trusty Marlin, and no
! doubt he can tit least make the score
! an even one.
Meanwhile the cowboys have not
early one. morning in an unpleasant | rel.lx,,, their vignance. .lust before
frame of mind, due to the loss of all
J i AMTO was discouraged and sul-
len. not to say vengeful.
Here he had lain for nearly three
days with only a little jerky to eat.
and only nil occasional mouthful of
water, and now his canteen was
empty.
"Mtfdre de Dios," he muttered to
himself, "will those miserable ((lin-
go's never, never go away so that
pobre Juanito can get some fresh
agua.
Yea
certai
pobre Juanito (prior Juanito)
ly needs some fresh water, for
it was nearly three days before,
when, just as he had finished filling
his canteen at the water hole, his
sharp ears caught the click of steel
on a rock as a party of cowboys ap-
proached, and .luanito lost no time
in hiding* himself in a dense thicket
of mesquite a little farther up the
canyon.
At thai time Juanito was very
tired; he had tramped 20 miles after
his liosse had fallen and broken his
leg, and he thought it best to wait
a day and rest, for it was nearly 40
miles to the nearest water in any di-
rection, and Juanito knew quite well
that it would be a hazardous trip for
a man on foot, and with but one can-
teen of water, even if he was fresh
when he started.
He knew very well that the cow-
boys were looking for him, but it
never entered his mind that they
would stay there at the water hole
in any such senseless way; so he took
a good drink, ate some of his jerky,
and, after concealing himself so noth-
ing but the closest search would dis-
cover him, he went to sleep as calmly
as though his life had been spotless.
Rut Juanito's life had not been
spotless; far from it. In fact, he had
been an exceedingly bad Juanito;
though, perhaps, it was not so much
his own fault.
"Pobre Juanito" had had a very
bad start in life, llis father had been
n Chinaman at that, while his mother
had been a low cast Mexican woman,
whose veins were largely filled with
Apache blood, so Juanito was rather
handicapped by his parentage to
start with.
Then events had been rather
against him.
When he was about three years old
his father came home to their abode
iJMBRHLLA DRIP CUP.
I n little Little la
t roiturt ion \\ oi
h> the
WHAT NOSTALGIA IS.
I ii si 11 (on <** i e L ii e sn t'nde* Another
Name, a lii*en e .?revnleirt in
t « lunin 1 Annie*.
The information that there i* a
breaking down in the Philippines due
o home sickness draws attention to
lhat curious but by no means rare
icrvous disease known as nostalgia,
ihe scientific name for the melancholia
resulting from homesickness.
According to a medical authority,
'nostalgia is a form of melancholy
brought about by an unsatisfied bulg-
ing for home or home surroundings.
It affects the physical health of the
lictiin and may even lead to his death.
In the most aggravated cases the suf-
ferer from nostalgia is seized with a
Yep feeling of sorrow, which is fol-
lowed by disturbed or impelled dii^'s-
.ion, and causes fever, tuberculosis,
general debility and, if suitable retne-
iies are not provided, death.
"As the remedy for nostalgia, a re-
turn to the native place and to fa-
miliar surroundings is generally ac-
knowledged. Should this be impossi-
ble, the hope that it might be possible'
it some time must be aroused and en- '
!*our iged. Aside from this it is neees-?
• ury to divert the sufferer's mind and '
lttract it toother matters."
Dr. J. Leonard Corning, the special-
ist in nervous diseases, said to a New j
Vork World reporter;
"Soldiers in all armies and of all
countries have always suffered more
or less from nostalgia. 1 believe nos-
talgia is rarely fatal in itself, but it
is easy to conceive of a soldier becom-
ing insane from homesickness, and
committing suicide. Insanity un-
doubtedly results from it.
"Then the climate of the Philippines
help< a!"iig the disease. Our soldiers,
■specially young recruits, are made
melancholy by the fact that they are
so far from home and amid such
strange surroundings. They are nec-
essarily subjected to strict discipline,
and they have no chance t get away
from it. Their amusements are limit-
ed and they long for the climate, the
Our illustrati
novel*v for prt
water over the
lireila when th
ention \\ hont* la-
id i;e \\ elcoiiir-1
1.allien.
shows
practical
n l; the (' ripping of
r from a wet uin-
ner, or borrower,
eir-rs a room. Oftentimes the um-
brella is taken through the house to a
rear room for >pr ailing out to dry,
and in this case a trail of water is gen-
erally left behind across the carpets.
The drip cup here illustrated is intend-
ed especially to prevent this, as well an
the formation of the little puddles of
water wherever the user of the um-
brella stops to transact business or
chat with a friend. The cup is of rub-
ber, with a thick end mi the tip of the
j
I'M lilt 10 LL A WITH DRIP CUP.
cone to hold the flexible cup in place
when slipped over the end of the um-
brella handle. When the umbrella i*
opened as a protection for the person
the drip covers the cloth around the
stick, the very place where the cloth
is apt to wear out first. When the um-
brella is in use the device contracts
slightly and is hardly noticeable, but
w ben t he cup is in operation it expands
and holds quite a quantity of "••ater,
which is easily poured out by tilting
the umbrella slightly before opening.
Ihe inventor is William W. Winter, of
Philadelphia, Pa. Louisville Courier*
Jo urnal,
NEW LIFE STATISTICS.
•cent Itenen relie*
'I lint PI rut-.lorn
Than Other
lllllil I lid i eli t «
e I.nii|£cr
In I.I i
plea
if the
i much
Anv-
hjs money at the gambling dens, and
a skin full of bad Tombstone whisky,
and in the quarrel that followed
Juanito's mother received several
more knife wounds thau is conducive
to longevity, and passed out <>f the
game.
Juanito's father was found asleep
with the bloody knife still in his
hand, and the crowd that soon gath-
ered lost little time in arranging a
"necktie" party, with the result that
in less than 1"> minutes Tombstone's
population was decreased by one
"ehino," and Juanito was an orphan. :
Juanito had been chirstcned Juan, I
but as he grew to manhood and did
not grow very much in length, his
name became lengthened to Juanito
equivalent to "Little John," in Eng-
lish.
Alas, poor .luanito; life did not deal
very gently with him, and his in-
herent badness had the best of
the moonrise the night before they
had silently gathered from their dif-
ferent points of surveillance and in
low whispers discussed the situation;
Curly, the leader, giving it as his
opinion that if the " - Greaser" was
there he would soon show up.
"Don't break away for a minute,
boys," he said, "if he's round here he
must be mightly near o' water, an'
we'll purty sure git him to-night or
to-i lorrow."
So they had silently crawled back
tc> their posts, where in pairs one was
ever on the alert.
Thinking of the water that means
lif.j to him, Juanito slowly creeps out
from his thicket into the scorching
sunshine, and through the no less
scorching royks and snnd that al-
most blister his hands, but his trail
will now be only a short one.
At almost his first, movement out-
side of his thicket "Tex," his near-
st foe, had seen him; a moment
activity and the
homes.
"I should say that a news
from ihe United States w ould <!
toward helping such sufferers.
thing that will distract the mind from
brooding on the surroundings will
help."
The disease is so well recognized by
irmy officers that in the Philippines
the army bands are forbidden to play
"Home, Sweet Home," because of the
effect it may have on the soldiers.
AN ELECTRIC EXPRESS.
Speed nl to.", >til« N ii ii Ifiiiir Attained
an I lie Marienfrlile n ml
Zwmncii It ii ilrnail.
At a moment when English compa-
nies are much exercised as to the sys-
tem of electric traction to be adopted
on their underground lines, it is inter-
esting to hear from berlin that the
trials with the electrical high-speed j
railway mar Zossen have proved a|
complete success. * The distance be- j
Not only life insurance experts
but a great many other people also
have observed that longevity or the re-
verse runs in familii Some person*
have hardier constitutions than oth«
cr . and they are apt to transmit them
t(i their children. A man both of whose
I>:
;LI:< tiuc engini:
kvere long lived has a promise
>f a good, old age himself. This, of
course, is an old story. A much less
familiar principle affecting the dura-
tion ol' life has been pre ruled by Mis*
Mary lleeton, of Cambridge, and Prof.
Karl Pearson, of London, in a new pe-
riodical called "Hiometrika."
A comparison was made between th©
length of the lives of two adult broth-
ers or two adult sisters to ascertain if
there was a perceptible difference be-
tween the older and younger members
of a pair. The figures here given rep-
resent the average of over 1.000 cases,
and hence would seem to point to a
general law. It 111 iv be added that the
particular persona under investiga-
tion belonged to the Society of
Friends. That organlaztion placed it*
rceords at the disposal of Miss Beeton
and Prof. Pearson,
It thus appears that the average
age of the elder brother was 58.56
years, the younger brothers 54.575, the
elder sister's 59.924 and the younger
sisters 55.667. There is a difference of
over four years in favor of the older
brother or sister. This does not signi-
fy that the older brother or sister will
survive the younger. The mean inter-
val between the birth of the member*
of all the pairs under consideration
was about six and a half years. Hence
the older brother or sister would ordi-
narily die first, though attaining a
greater age.
The first inq liry hrre mentioned
was limited to pairs the youngest mem*
bers of which had attained theageol
at least 21. A second comparison was
made that Included minora with adults*
It gave results closely resembling the
other. The mean excess of life in
3,853 pairs was 4.0 years. But the in-
terval between the births appears to
exert some influence. "IliomctrikaV*
contributors furnish a formula by
which one's expectations can be com-
puted, and adds: "Thus, a brother
i born ten years before another brother
I has probably seven years greater dura-
tion of life. A sister born ten years be*
NEW
tween Marienfelde and Zossen was
traversed at a speed which would
amount to about 105 English miles an
hour, and engineers are even convinced
that this speed can be increased. The ■
length of this line is about 20ya miles, j
but the experiments took place be- |
tween Zossen and Marienfelde, or over ! fm,e another sist,,. has pr„babl.v about
a distance of about 14V* miles. The
heaviest grades are about three per
cent, and the sharpest curve 1% de-
«n«ees. The track is of standard gauge
and of ordinary construction. The
six years* greater duration of life."
The Shape of the Enrtli.
The exact shape of the earth is a
question which cannot be settled
two cars used in the experiments will ! without fresh evidence from the ant
bailees for development, and it did ja^er there is a sharp crack, and Ju-
not fail to develop,
He became a sort of common
charge among a half dozen or so of
the lowest of the Mexican families;
eating nt the adobe but of the family
anito sinks quietly down, unmarked,
save by a little hole in the center of
bis forehead.
A few days later, when Curly and
. . liis comrades rode up to the "Q 1"
happened to l.e honored bv bis ^ ( „erc by tlie,foremun
p,i".eurr at meal time, and sleepin- ^ a f)f (.avalrVi
wherever he 'happened to be when w)i(me |leutcniint ..neerlnffly nald:
sleepy: but after a few years he be-
came so bad that Juanito's presence
was nit loi «'l upon with favor by
,in.v of hh foster fathers and .loan , ])u{ ^ (l (.uriolm lmi 1)f
ito early began to "rustle for him-
self, doing odd jobs around the sa-
loons, ami morning errands for the
gilders.
l\'hctn*r inherited or acquired,
(luanito at an cariy age showed a
great disregard for the property
•Well, did you see anything of Juan
Yes," replied Curly, "we got him;"
lis eye-
Los Atigele*
bu
brows, "he escaped.
Herald.
Not So l int ti* It Soimdn.
When a man starts for a dentist's
office he usually strikes a tooth-
hurty gait.—Chicago Daily News.
seat about 50 persons each and are of
the standard size used on the Prussian
state railways. One of these was built
by the Siemens & Halske company,
and the other by the Allgemeine Elek-
tricitats Gesellschaft. The current
supplied to these ears is three-phase
at 10,000 volts pressure and a fre-
quency of 45 to 50. The transmission
line has three wires suspended ver-
tically one above the other at the side
;>f the track, the lowest wire being 18
feet from the ground. The wires are
iiipporfed on insulators which are
•arrled on a vertically stretched wire.
The current is collected from the wires
dv three Independent spring alumin-
.um trolley bows pivoted upon the
•oof of the locomotive, so as to move
jori/ontally. The three bows are held
igaiust the trolley wires by spring
arctic. For this purpose two at least
of the expeditions have been provided
with pendulum outfits; by noting the
exact length of time occupied by the
swing of a pendulum the distance of
the place of observation from the
earth's center can be determined,
says the Popular Science Monthly. It
is held that the south polar region
projects further from the plane of
the equator than does the north polar
region; according to one estimate,
the south pole is slightly more than
one-hundredth further from the
earth's center than the north pole.
AVhinky from Watermelons.
The eolorcd people throughout the
country stand aghast at the report
that a firm of Baltimore distillers is
about to make whisky from watermel-
on! can be turned through a half circle . ons on a large scale. I he colored peo-
lorizyontally bv a handle on the motor- j pie anticipate a scarcity of watermel-
jian's platform when the direction of ons, and are certain that the fruit
notion of the locomotive is to be re
versed. The total weight of the loco-
motive is about 10 tons.
should be eaten in the old-fashioned
way, as nature prepares it for masti-
cation and assimilation. '
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Daves, N. F. The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1902, newspaper, March 27, 1902; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc104988/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.