The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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PECK'S BAD
BOY Y/ITH
THE CIRCUS
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author'of "Peck s Bad Boy Abroad.'' Etc.
The Fashions of the Day
An authority tells us ihe short sleeve , reminds us furs are among tho re:il
"Craw! out of the window, old man. | marsh bent on settling with in cheep J
'cause the train is In the ditch the . The first lawyer nskci the printipal j
. car is allre. and if you don't get ov.t In owner how many were killed, 'cat s • .
1 about a minute with the other fie-iks, they could figure exactly l ow niue.i I .
I vou will be a burnt offering." I they have to pay for a d. a 1 one, but for street wrap. «,11 las, no longer bargain,.
| you mill a | onpg are (h(i Qnei ,hg, maUe than this season, but surely It is very
for a railroad 'cause thev can much the thing this year. And surely ment. the
kick and argue. The boss said nobody , Santa Claus this year brought many a i for the year round , and ard
was dead, but the giant, who was
I?n>USTHTAT, ITEMS.
Pa said you couldn't fool hint, Va se
be knew he was being Initiated into j troubl
the iO steenth degree of the masons.
and he guessed he could tell a
degree from a train wreck, cause the tuired in out of sight. The giant
degree- was a darn sight worse than
A gown of soft wool is a fine invt>-
,ort of dress one h.is <a!l
ICupjiitfbt bjr J. i).
The Bad Boy and His Pa in a Bail-
road Wreck—Pa Rescues the "Other
Freaks"—They Spend the Night or.
a Meadow—A Near-Sighted Claim
Agent Settles for Damages—Pa
Plays Deaf and Dumb and Gets
Ten Thousand.
It has come at last.
Everybody about the s'.-.cty expects
that the show has got to have a rail-
road wreck every season, and all
hands lay awake nights on the car3
to brace themselves for the shock.
Sometimes It comes early in the sea-
son. and again a show goes along till
almost the end of tho s ason without
a shake-up. and fellows tr.ink ma. be
there is not going to be any wreck,
but the engineers are oniy waiting till
everybody has forgotten slio.st It. and
thr.n, biff, bang, and they have rim
a wreck, but the conductor took one of
those long glass fite extinguishers and
sprinkled the medicated water on .he
freaks in the next berth, and then
turned It on pa and pa tasted it. ami
thought he was at a banquet, and he
said ' that sauterne is not fit to drink."
Then when tha bearded woman
yelled that the fire had almost reach d
her whiskers, and would nobody save
her, pa began to get ready to move on,
'cause he concluded he hadn't been
riding a goat after all. and he told mc
to hand him his pants. Pa is a man
that will never go out among people,
po matter how dark the night Is. with-
out his pants, and I admire him for
it. Some of the circus men didn't care
for dress that night, but got out just
as they were, and the result was that
when daylight came they had to tie
hay around their legs.
Our car was bottom-side up. but 1
found pa's pants, and he gut his legs
in. and I buttoned him in. but 1 felt
ail tho time as though 1 had buttoned
I hem in the back, so the seat was in
front, but the fire was cracking, and
pa pushed me out of a transom, and
mmM
If, •
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ra Got an Ax and Cut the Fat Woman Out.
heard what was said, ami he yelled
that he was alive, and wouldn't settle
for less than $20.000.but the claim agent
said the giant would be dead in 15
minutes in that quicksand, so he would
let him sink, and pay for him as a
dead one.
The slant said if they would pull"
him out of the mud he would settle
for $100, and they pulled him out.
and the rest of the injured were going
to mob him for settling so cheap.
One of the claim agents found the
bearded woman sitting on a hay cock,
combing out her whiskers, and asked
what it would take to settle, and she
said $10,000;and she got up and walked
over to another hay cock where the
Circassian beauty was drying her
hair, and the claim agent looked at
how spry the bearded woman walked,
and he said to the boss: "1 won't give
that fellow with the curly whiskers a
bingle kopeck," and the bearded wom-
an came back anil swatted the claim
agent for calling her a fellow. So
they compromised on $200, and she
went behind the haystack and put it
in her stocking, which convinced the
claim agent that she wasn't a man,
A near-sighted claim agent came to
the haystack where tho fat woman
was, and the boss told her now was
her time to have a mess of hysterics,
60 she set up a cry that scared the
agent, who thought there were at
least six women on the haystack,
and he said: "What will all you peo-
ple up there on tho haystack Be: tie
for in a lump, for 1 am in a hurry.'
The.fat woman caught on at oncc,
and said: "We will all settle for $1".-
000." Then she yelled, and the agent
thought her back was broke, and he
offered $7.1300, and she cried and said:
"Make it $10,000." and the agent said:
"I will go you," and he made out a
cheek, and the fat woman had some
more hysterics.
I had watched the settling all
around, and I told pa to be deal and
dumb when they came to him. mid
jest point to the seat of his pants in
lront and buttoned up behind, and
look as though he was suffering the
tortures of the inquisition, and let me
-jo the talking, and I would make the
old railroad go into a receiver's hands.
So pa said: "You are the boss." and
he looked so pitiful that I almost
cried.
When the near-sighted ilaim agent
into another train, or been run into,
anu >ou have to be pulled out ot' a
window by the heels, and laid out in
a marsh until the claim agents can
i>ettle with you.
1 aiways thought in reading of rail-
road accidents, that the railroad sent
out a special train load of doctors and
nurses, to care for the injur d, but the
special train never has a doct r until
the lawyers give first aid to the
wounded in the way of financial poul-
tices for the cripples. People in our
business are on the railroads, and we
work them for all there is in it; and
the man that is hurt the least makes
the biggest howl, and gets the biggest
elice of indemnify. Some circus peo-
ple spend all their salary as they go
along, and live all winter on the dam-
tli^n he crawled out, and we pat down
in the mud.
The bearded woman came next, with
maid and matron most welcome addi- j henriettas make up so satisfactorily
tions to their stocks of long gloves. It i Our model pictures a princes ot apri-
seeins there never were so many calls | cot-colored cashmere, that ileliciob-s
pinky yellow now so beloved: the skirt
falls in softest folds, and is decidedly
long; a bolero of lace fastens in the
middle of the front with a big bow of
black velvet drawn through a fancy
buckle, the sleeves are edged with lace
to correspond. If desired, undersleeves
may be worn, perhaps it would be well
to provide a pair and thus vary the
gown as well as make It suitable for
a cold day, a day when the bare arms
might be rather chilly.
The white shirt waist is worn by ev-
erybody In the mornings, we simply
cannot give up this trim and dainty
garment. Neckwear for the wash-waist
matches. It too is trim and dainfy.
Washable stocks of various sorts are
popular, and many linen ones have
hand-made turn-over collars. It is to
be hoped women will adhere to wash-
able neckwear, It is the only really de-
sirable kind. One reason men look
neater than women after an all-day
downtown is because of their daily
fresh linen, because they display no
soiled finery.
We may affect the laundered collar
later on. and again take up the W ind-
sor tie. this year there is appearing a
Windsor with embroidered ends. Uoth
plain and plaid effects are in vogue in
this tie, the favored width is fiv
inches, the favored colors, white, navy
and cardinal. For lingerie waists
there are exquisite self-embroidered
for these gloves, and about as many j lingerie stocks. Japanese embroidery
white ones asaed for as black ones. on waists and in neckwear promises to
The dealers are offering a very good be more than ever the rage: likewise
long black silK glove, so thick and ot ! chemisettes lose no jot of their popu-
sm h excellent quality it is a strong ; larity, but now preference is given
rival to the more extravagant kid. The those mane of finest batiste rather
silk fits hand and arm so prettily, by than all-over embroidery and lace
not a few Is preferred for other than irills.
economical reason. . Bits of silK picked tip at to day s
My, such bargains as are tempting bargain counters may be .saved for the
one now, many a good thing going for gray voile spring gown, for (lowered
the proverbial song; if we were all silks k< so prettily w \ \ certain soft
musical, how well dressed we should tones of gray, and the r nnliination is
all be these January days! The wl-e the extreme of stybv Apricot chilli
woman buys now, if she is at all abl ; makes a lovely evening wrap, and tli *
against next year's demands; and to trimming to use for such a wrap is
add to this year's store, too, for real heavy lace. Not a few of the wrap^
winter is now before us. for many long are made without sleevrs. just bi^
days yet we shall have to cling to j capes, not unlike those we see in oid-
wools and furs. And speaking of furs, i fashioned fashion plates.
Some Ornaments for the Jftair
A woman said to me the other day i adornments; the year has been marked
>* urn ittc uvfti-oieutvu ........ - -to be sure it was a hairdresser let a by spangles and a subdued glitter ol
came to pa, 1 told him that pa's last \4oman look to her hair dressing and gold and silver trimmings in dress and
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words were to beg to be shot, and ] her hat and she need not worry. And
the man looked at pa's pants, and then ' there is no little truth in the state-
her whiskers done up in curl pa-e.s. ! at his face, and said: "What hit him? j ment. though few there be or us that
and then the fat woman got one 'foot 1That's the worst case I ever saw in | seem to profit by knowledge of the
through the transom, and she couldn't a railroad wreck.
get it back in. and the train hands sot 1 I put my handkerchief to my eyes
an ax and were goin£ to cut her leg j and said: "Well, when the shock came,
off, and save one foot, at least, when ■ pa was all right, as handsome a man
;ot a move on him, and took the as you would often see. I think there
a&es they get from the railroads when ' people out. The giant was in two
the wreck comes. ! upper berths, and he g >t one leg out
The night of the wreck our tra n of the transom over one berth, and fine
was whooping along at about 90 miles leg out of the transom over the other
pa
ax and broke out the side of the car,
and got her out. Eight or nine men
lifted her tenderly onto a stack of hay,
and she wrapped it around her, 'cause
she left her clothes in her benh.
Well, it was a sight when the peon'e
were got out of our car, and they
let it burn, to light up th■? sc no and j speech. Think of a middle-aged man
pa and I and the boss canvasman went ' going through life mixed up in that
along the ditched train, and helped | manner, having to sit down on his
stomach, and having his backbone star-
ing him in the face. How does he
must have been a pile driver on tha
train that struck him, and changed
sides with him, knocking his stomach
around on the back side of him, and
placing his spinal column around in
front of him. where his stomach was.
and causing him to lose the sense of
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"What Hit Him? That's the Worst Case I Ever Saw!1
know when he takes food in his moui.li,
that it can corkscrew itself around
under his arm, and eventually find his
stomach? How a man can be ground
and twisted, and mauled, and stanipec
on by a reekles3 locomotive wilh a modest and pretty rather than obtru
crazy engineer and a drunken fireman,
fact.
Tills year especially the coiffure is
something not to be neglected, and
every woman should pay careful atten-
tion to this Item—climax, rather-of
dress. While there is no one sty!e
which may be said absolutely to rule,
yet there are certain things modish,
certain others not. It Is all very well
t:) assert that a v.omnn should not
observe changing iashions In lialr-
dressing, that she should keep to one
style that has been found becoming;
she should certainly never go in for
a fashion that is not becoming to her
individual face and form, but she may
adopt certain little changes that will
bespeak attention to the mode. As for
instance, this season for full dress she
may add some form of ornament to
her coiffure.
As a rule the hair ornaments are
coiffure decorations follow suit. There
are silver and gold roses, silver and
Nt:tvsTvi.t:s ok iiaii: .mxji:nmknt.
gold foliage, anil occasionally the lips
of soft pompom will be touched with
The old style sharp-pointed shoe of
Spanish crigin lias nearly dlsappearel
in Mexico, having been replaced by tha
American lasts.
I he cabinet makers of I"r;ince ar*
arti-ts, but they keep reproducing
yeir aftc year, the styles which 'heir
forefathers have made for centuries.
The cut of lumber In the Canadian
province of Ontario will exceed that
of last year by 100.000,000 f<et. Th*
cut will total about 4.Vi,iWi),000 feet.
Germany pig iron production in Oc-
tober parsed, for the llrst time, tin
million-ton mark. The month's out-
put reached 1,006.94:1 tons, a gain of
10 per cent, over October last year.
This country ranks first In the pa-
per making industry. Germany is sec-
ond. and Ureat Hrltain comes third.
The production In America is two or
three times greater than in Great
liritain.
The United States consumes all of its
annual Iron output of 35,000.000 tons.
England consumes 6,000 tons mora
than Its 11,000,000 ton output, an 1
Germany 3,000,000 more than Its 21,-
000.000 ton output.
One lirlck-making company put out
84.liG0.000 bricks, with an average tj
the machine of nearly 3,750,000. T li is
Is the largest average, and the grcatist
1,1 al Of brick ever made in New York
state by any brick manufacturing
According to recent statistical stata-
ments published In the Bulletin of thi
Commercial Geographical society of
Paris, the world's production of p
tniie\iin was divided as follows: I'nlte 1
States, 15,000,000 tons; Russia, 10,G0> -
000; Sumatra, Java and Borneo, 1.001) -
000; Roumanla, 400,000; the East la-
dies, 404,000; all others, 250,000.
SCIENCE SPECIALS.
Experiments made with kites oil tha
Mediterranean have shown that over
large surface of water the temperature
and the rapidity of air movements de-
cline steadily in proportion to the alti-
tude.
Prof. Nichols, the astronomer, ma ia
a delicate instrument some time ago to
measure very faint heat-waves. It is
bo sensitive to heat that it registers tli j
warmth that emanates from a mans
face 2.000 feet, or more than a third ut
a mile, away.
The furnace as a means of ventilation
is said to be more economical in dee;>
mines than In shallow ones, as it ae s
by heating a column of air; the higlo .
that column the greater will be the dif-
ference In tile weight of air in the r.i-
cast anil downcast shafts, and con;j-
quently the greater the motive power.
Carrying out experiments In psych •
phenomena, some scientists at iltt> >
produced some striking results. A I i-
> ear-old hoy was put in a trance, and in
this condition answered questions put to
him In Greek. Latin. Arabic, French.
English, German, and conversed ia
those languages, his voice being that of
a man.
Radium breaks up Into helium and
lead, if Rutherford's Inferences are true.
Radium has an atomic weight of 22 j.
and if eac h of the live alpha particle!
given off is an atom of helium of ma -s
4. the residue must have an atomh:
weight of 205, about that of lead. This
metal, moreover, is present in all radij-
active minerals.
SWIPED SQUIBS. |
It may be that it is "footbawl" rather
than football to which the public ob-
jects.
What the average man needs mors
than anything else is a supply of eve-
ning reception conversation.
rolled over by box cars, and walked
on by elephants, and still live, is
beyond me. As he told me before he
lost the power of speech, not to he too
hard on the railroad company, though
"ome railroads would be glad to pay
hi in $20,000. and no questions asked
he begged me, as heir to his estate, to
let you off for a paltry $10,000."
Pa made up the darndest face, and
groaned. The agent called another
agent, and they whispered together,
and finally the first one came to me
and asked pa's full name, and then
the two of them got out a fountain
pen. and they made out a check, and
he said: "This is the first case in the
history of railroad wrecking that the
agent has not had the heart to try to
beat the injured party down. This
is certainly the most pitiful ease that
has ever been known, and if your fa-
ther ever conies to his senses you can
tell him he is welcome to the money."
The agents shook hands with pa and
ive. though over in Paris they have gold or silver. One of the prettiest,
gone In for long egrets and even birds; and simplest modes Is the use of a
of paradise feathers. A soft low pom-! twist of tinsel gauze across the front
pom is decorative and becoming, also of the coll. Good gauze should l/e
the single rose, and also the cluster employed, cheap tinsel Is a tiling to
of small blossoms. Sometimes from he avoided.
the half wreath there will arise at one It may be In place here to speak of
tide a short ostricn feather, some- the arrangement of the hair. The low
times the wreath will terminate in but- coil and braid are not so much in fash-
terfly bows. The Single ostrich tip has Ion now as the hair drawn up well on
l.een worn by generations of women, the crown of the head. The pompa-
iind is again in vogue; it is a sort of dour, a nirely modified one. Is th-
regal touch to the toilette, suggests thing, although the part is seen quite
court receptions, queen's drawing frequently and when becoming is most
room—though worn by a very humble attractive. A pompadour drawn up
little girl at her first dance. The lacs, pretty well from the sides and falling
and jeweled butterfly has also had a over the middle of the forehead i-
long life, just why we cannot say. affected, and there may he a little curl
Newer modes are upstanding sprays just at the middle. We recently no-
of gold and silver wheatheads Inter- tlced a pretty arrangement of roses
mingled with grasses, and we should across the back of a soft knot of hah'
speak of the use of other shimmering piled high on the head.
Cold weather makes Ice. Ice mal: i
the water wagon slippery. A slip-
pery w ater wagon is hard to hold on io.
Hence, therefore, etc.. etc.
The president, of a bachelors' eltib at
Nevada. Mo., has resigned to get mar-
ried. The presumption is that he grew
tired of brdng nt the hpad of things.
ar, hour, on a hippity-hop railroad in berth, and we pulled his lrgs. but he
Pennsylvania, and the night was hot, couldn't make it so pa took the ax j , Md went to thelp traln aml
and the mosquitoes from across the and made both berths into one, ami I
line in New Jersey were singing their got him out.
solemn tunes, and pa. who attended a The giant shook himself and start-
lodge meeting that night at the tovn ed on a run across the marsh, but
we showed in. was asleep and talking he mired up to his neck, aid a f.r 11-
in hij sleep about passwords end cr who hoard the nr:l e cam? to otder
grips, and the freaks and trapeze per- us off his hay field for tres. ais, anl
formers in our car had got through yeiled: "Here's a head of some o3
kicking about how the show was run- your performers cut off away over
ning into the ground, when suddenly hete.' and he was going to bring it in.
there was a terrific smash-up ahead, when the farmer found the head was
an engine boiler exploded, a freight alive, and he ran away from It.
ear of dynamite on a side track ex- In an hour we had everybody out,
ploded, and there was a grinding and and made b ds for them by s-r.ading
bumping of the cars. Then they rolled out hay coi ks. and notody seemed to
down a bank, over and over, so the be hurl so very much. Wo heard a lo-
upper berth was the lower berth half i eomotive whistle up the road, and
the time, and finally the whole hmi- : some one said the relief train was
ness stopped In a hay marsh, and the i coming with doct ■r^ and nurse*, but
bilge water in the marSh leaked Into the show owner who was wilh us
the hold of our ear; people screamed, said: "Relief doctors, uothing. That
and some one yelled "fire!" and I t is a train-load of lawyers and cieim
agents to settle with us. Th" doc-
tors will not c.ime till to-rr.or ow
Now. everybody pretend to be hurt
awful bad. and strike th 1 slisr. s for
pulled on pa till he woke up.
I thought pa's head was all caved
In. because he talked nutty. The
first thing he said was: "Say I. pro-
nounce your name, and repeat af:er $10,000 apiece, and come down to $!0'i,
me," and then he said: "I promise and If you can't do any better."
swear that I will never reveal the se- It was getting daylight, onil the re-
crets of this degree." and then the con-I lief train stopped, and the good Sa-
duetor pulled i;a s leg and sa'd: i maritans came wading Into the nay frequent
pa winked at me, and a wrecking train
came and we got on a special, and got
to Pittsburg hefore breakfast, and pa
is going to buy me a dog out of the
money.
Gee. but there is all kinds of money
in the circus business. Pa is going
to wear his pants hind side before un-
til we get out of Pittsburg.
Not. What He Meant.
"I have always believed." said Mr.
Twaddles, reflectively, "that a man in
marrying should choose his opiiosite."
"My dear," said Mrs. Twaddles,
"that is the greatest compliment you
e ver paid me."
Mr. T—— began to speak, but
thought better of it. He settled In his
chair and buried his nose in his pa-
per.—Stray Stories.
Mine Explosions in Wales.
Records covering a long series of
veara show that In the coal mines
of Wales most of the fatal explosions
have occurred during the extremes of
summer and winter, while In spring
and fall such accidents have been la-
She Still Retains H«zr Figure
No one would believe how hard the i costume be w arm. It is better to be too
queen of England works. No working warm than too cool. Better to sweat a
woman toils more steadily than she. j
little than to shiver.
! And what Is If all for? Why. for a
little waist; for a tall, slender figure;
licr object is to preserve her figure.
make her waist little, make her figure , for (he admlration ,lf thr. pub|ic< nn,| for
tall and slim and preserve, generally. the name ()f belnK the younBegt co-year-
the outlines of her body. j 0ld woman in the world.
Svelte is the only word to describe j j-jer majesty has no sacs under her
I he queen of England's form. It is that eyes. And this Is unusual, for they be-
of a girl of 19, mature, but not matronly; j gin to come at 40. Her majesty has no
developed, yet by no means old; full of : crow's feet around her mouth, and this
curves, yet not rounding; tall, classic t is rare, for they begin to appear at 30;
and ideal, yet not stilted nor laced. And j her majesty has none of those strange
its price is eternal vigilance. | horizontal lines running across the
The queen of late has been going In forehead, and this is mavelous. for Ihey
for out-of-door fads. She is a believer in ■ appear long before one has reached 50;
outside exercises and her reduction i and her majesty has few of those odd
methods take the form of out-of-door goft looking bags which are found at the
work. She rows upon the Thames; she \ tip of every chin and in the front of every
fishes off the banks of Scotland; she J throat—tho brisket bags which are al
drives an automobile in London and ! ways present in middle age.
she works vigorously in the; garden. i A dozen women of middle age were all
The queen walks little, yet walking is ! looking at their throats the other day.
fine for the figure. Her majesty is a ! With collar off they were trying to see
firm believer in it. but being slightly : 11' the throat was pretty. All were over
lBme, she seldom indulges In It. | 40 and all had the brisket. It is the sop
11' you are walking for reduction, or bag of flesh which hangs from the tip
if you are automobillng for that sani" ; Of the chtu to the throat and sometime*
purpose, be sure to dregs for it. Let your | down upon the
FACIAL PARALYSIS
Nervous Distortion of Face Cured b>
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
What appears to bo n slight nervrun
attack may bo tho forerunner of a sev« ra
disorder. No nervous sufferer should
neglect the warning symptoms, but
should sco that tho starved nerves a; )
nourished before tho injury to the deli-
cate organism has gone loan extent that
renders a cure a difficult matter. Tha
nerves receive their nourishment t h rough
the blood, tho same lis every other part
of the body, and tho best nerve tonic and
food is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Tha
experieneo of Mr. Harry Bemis, of
Truthville, Washington county, N. Y.,
substantiates this.
"J had been feeling badly for a Ion?
time," said Mr Bemis, "and in tin
early part of September, 1902,1 was com-
pelled to quit work on account of my ill
health. My trouble was nt first ex-
treme nervousness, then my sight be-
came affected and I consulted an oculist
who said I was suffering from paralysis.
Ho treated mo for anno time, but I got
uo benefit I tried another doctor and
again failed to obtain any relief. My
nervousness increased. Slight noises
would almost make me wild My month
was drawn so I conld scarcely eat an i
one eye was affected so I could hardly
see. I had very little use of my limbs,
in fact I was almost a complete wreck.
" 1 am all right now nml am at work.
That is because I followed my wife's ad-
vice and took Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
She had used the same remedy herself
with the most gratifying results and she
persuaded me to try them when it ap-
peared that tho doctors were nimble I >
help me They neted very surely in my
case; my face came back into shape and
in time I was entirely well."
Dr Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists or by mail bv tho Dr William*
Medicine Co., Schenectady. N. Y. A
booklet on Nervous Disorders scut fro*
on request.
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Miller, C. H. The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1906, newspaper, February 8, 1906; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc105483/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.