The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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FRENCH MINE HERO'S MEDAL
STORY OF THE RESCUE FROM THE ' air. The sound of axes fell plainly
COURRIERES MINE. I on their ear8, Six men 3°ined tlie lil"
tie party.
I A day passed. One by one the
Ninny Not Only Won the Plaudits of lamps flickered out. until the men
the Wo^ld, But the Comrnen
elation of His Own Lit-
tle Sron.
The scene of the following romanc e '
Is the Courrieres mine, the time near-1
ly three weeks after the terrible dis-
aster.
A mingled crowd—gendarmes, fren-
zied women, and enraged miners—
stood at the mouths of the various pit
shafts.
Suddenly a great cry arose from
Pit 1!. More survivors had been dis-
covered. Everyone rushed to the
Outing Hats for Summer and Fall
were left in darkness. Time now
merged into one continuous night.
When their watches ran down they
knew that another 24 hours iiad
passed. Death lay around them. They
felt It In the air Despair was In
every heart, save in Ninny s. He
alone spoke of rescue, and urged the
men not to give tip hope. Thus time
went on. Food and water the miners
found in plenty. Bread was in the
knapsacks of the men that had per-
' islied.
Then one day the sound of rolling
trucks came to them. "The mine is
not destroyed entirely," each
thought, and each took hope.
For of course the trucks could not
roll by themselves, and the sound
must mean that their comrades were
working to effect a rescue.
It was Ninny, always Ninny, who
cheered and put new heart into his
comrades.
"Courage, mes hraves!" he would
cry; "only have a little more patience,
and we are certain to lie saved. Think
of the gallant fellows working to res-
cue us. They will never give in till
we are safe."
Hut for all that, as the days passed,
here and there a miner began to lose
hope.
! "It is more than a fortnight now
since we were entombed. Ninny." one
would say. "1 fear we shall never see
! our wives and children again. It
i makes me sad when I think that
i probably my little I.uclenne will
i never run to meet her father again."
"You speak like a coward," Ninny
would reply angrily. "You do not de
J serve to see your I.ucienne any more."
Nineteen days had now passed.
Then on a sudden, great joy filled all
hearts. Men were advancing towards
them. They were saved. Ninny had
led them to safety.
A happy wife sat at Ninny's bedside.
Near him, in the same ward, lay
Pruvost. On the breast of each man
Ills gang, were at work in the Cour- j gleamed the Cross of the Legion of
rieres mine. Suddenly a loud, but Honor, pinned there that morning by
■deadened thud resounded in the dark 1 the French Minister of works,
passages. The place was tilled with ! A little boy approached the bed on
poisonous gases.
•THEN ON A BIDDEN. GREAT JOY
FILED A I.I. HEARTS.
unouth of the shaft, where, from the
cage staggered 13 men and boys, each
supported by a comrade.
Amongst them was Ninny, the man
who had led these worn-out men to
safety, and Pruvost, his gallant sec-
ond.
This is what had happened:
Ninny anil Carlier, the foreman of
"The mine has blown up," each
man whispered, and paled ill the dark-
Mess.
Ninny now took the lead.
At the bottom of an incline the
lights of their lanterns shone upon
which Ninny lay—Ninny, the hero,
whose name was seen in every news
paper in the world. For a minute the
child gazed rapturously at the medal.
"You must have been a good boy at
school, dear papa." he burst forth at
length, "to win such a pretty medal
thick, yellowish fog. Noises filled the as that.
loassooeooeooooooooooaooooooooooocoooeoooooooooosoooea
GOVERNMENT SEED DISTRIBUTION
t
The distribution of vegetable and j vided into four sections; and fn or-
flower seeds on congressional orders der to send as wide a range of de-
is the largest single business which sirable sorts as possible into each see-
the agriclutural department has to tion a number of combinations are
lumdle. The total number of packets made up; each of five kinds of vege-
put up and mailed during the fiscal table seed, and each is so planned
year 1005 was 35,77^.400. These were
assembled into packages of five pack-
ets each, making 7,110,680 packages.
The seed purchased to fill all these
that it shall contain a good assort-
ment.
The seed needed is secured in one
of two ways: (1) It is bought out-
packets was enough to fill 28 cars of right, the seeds being on hand at the
time of purchase, or (2) it is con
tracted for, the department agreeing
to pay a fixed sum for all seed of
satisfactory quality delivered up to
a given amount. All seeds offered are
considered by a special committee
which consults with the seed experts
of the bureau of plant industry and
I)
THE PACKING ROOM WHERE THE
SEEDS ARE PUT UP.
Antrrira (Earning In 13c a Nation
of ©real tutrryrisru
By ALBERT SCH1NZ.
For Utility We-r,
The outing hat is a serious problem for the summer and early autumn
girl and a problem still more serious for the older woman.
When a bat of dressier form is under consideration the clever milliner
can work wonders; can bend the brim here and curve it there; can fill in the
hollows of 1 be coiffure with tulle or flowers or ribbon; ran soften all the un-
becoming angles and fit the hat to ill" hair and face of the prospective
wearer; but a smart outing bat is rather an uncompromising thing, says a
clever writer in tlie New York Sun.
It must have a certain severity of line. It must not be elaborately
trimmed, and very few kinds of trimming are at all appropriate for it. It
cannot be made in all kinds of braid.
Altogether, not one woman in ten looks well In her outing hat. and the
buying of such a bat should be undertaken in a spirit of profound seriousness.
!f the woman does not embark upon the venture in serious mood the chances
are (bat she will reach a state of seriousness, if not of absolute gloom, before
she has tried on more than a score of the models presented for her consid-
eration.
ROYALTY IN TRADE.!Hou, ioCUMM. .
Pretty, Narrow Back.
V
30,000 pounds per car. The work
•of packeling begins about November
1 of each year and is completed be-
fore the end of the April following,
1lie greater part of the work being
done in a little more than four and a
lialf months of this period. If we con-
sider the work to extend over six
months 500 packets are put up every
minute of every working day of eight
"hours during that time. During much
of the time as many as 1,000 packets
jier minute are put up
The secretary of agriculture has
pointed out that, while it is his duty
1o carry on the distribution in ac-
cordance with the wishes of congress,
1he money expended for vegetable and
flower seeds could probably be more
profitably used for the Introduction
of new and rare seeds, such as grains.
forage crops, cotton, tobacco and the
like. The large quantities of seed
needed make It Impossible to use the
rare varieties even if there were a
sufficient number of new and valuable
Tarieties of vegetable seeds each
year to fill the requirements. The
number of really flew and desirable
varieties of vegetables that appear
« ach year is extremely small, and the
seedsmen of to-day are so thoroughly
awake to the importance of introduc-
ing novelties that any new variety
quickly finds Its way Into the trade.
It is only the standard varieties of
vegetable and flower seeds, therefore, j recommends purchases is accordance
that can be used in the general free* with the following considerations;
distribution. These are in more or j (1) The known quality of the stockrf
less regular supply in the trade, and offered.
while the stocks vary in quality it is ! (2) The reputation of the firm mak-
not difficult for those who understand j ing the offer.
the business and who know the i (3) The price, calculated upon de-
sources of supply to secure each year | livery at Washington, D. C.
first-class seeds at reasonable prices. The price, though important, Is
The first step in arranging for a never the first consideration; good
new annual distribution is to prepare seeds must be secured at a fair price,
suitable combinations to sond Into the and "the best value" is the watchword
different sections of the United States. 1 in the work. The packetlng of the
For convenience the country is di- | seed Is done by contract.
(OoooaoBoeooeeoooooooooocoosoooocooocoeoooooeooooaGooe
Truthful Tommy.
"Tommy," said a father to his son,
"have you been at Ihose six peaches
I put in the cupboard?"
"Father." said Tommy, looking Into
his eyes, "I have not touched one."
"Then how Is it your mother found
Jive peach stones In your bedroom,
nnd there Is only one peach left on
the plate?"
"That," said Tommy, as he dashed
wildly for the door, "li the one I
didn't touch."—Tlt-Blta.
i The Distinction,
The Editor—We don't buy poetry.
I The Author—1 know It. I've read
11ho stuff you publish under that head.
! Hut this Is magazine verse I'm offer-
Mis you.—Cleveland I.eader.
Score One for the Poet.
Poet—Apparently you don't like my
verse.
Editor—No; I don't think much—
Poet—Ah! you don't. That explains
It.—Philadelphia Press.
COUNTESS FABRICOTTI SELLS
MILLINERY IN LONDON.
IN BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY
Finds That She Is Still Popular So-
cially with the People Who Pat-
ronize Her Shop—Old No-
tion Dying Out.
"We have been dreadfully hard up
ind are doing this just to make
money."
In this frank fashion, and with a
cheery laugh as though making light
Df the ill fortune which has driven
The Countess Fabricotti.
,ier into trade. Countess Fabbricotti
.old why she had opened a millinery
*hop.
There is no sailing under false col-
ors about the countess. Her name is
writ large over the shop she has just
apened in South Moulton street, Lon-
don. In her new role of a business
woman she recognizes the value of
her title as a commercial asset, and
intends making the most of it, re-
marks a correspondent of the Chicago
Chronicle.
"No," she said, "1 will not go in
for designing headgear myself. 1
may make some suggestions and help
that way, but it strikes me that wom-
en who have been trained to it ought
to be able to do much better in that
line than an amateur like myself. I
have engaged a staff of French wom-
en—there hi no doubt they turn out
the best hats and bonnets in the
world—and 1 shall not interfere with
their work more than is necessary.
You see, I know nothing of the
tricks of trade. Hut the hats bought
here will bear my name and if those
who buy them choose to say that they
were designed by me personally, I
don't suppose that even the recording
angel will care much.
"Since I announced my intention of
joining the ranks of working women
1 have received more invitations to
social affairs than I can begin to avail
myself of. Perhaps it is meant as a
delicate way of encouraging me. Hut
you see, 1 am by no means the first
woman with a title to go into busi-
ness. The old notion that there is
anything discreditable in engaging in
trade, even for a woman, is dying out.
The fact is, it is becoming quite fash-
iouabla to make money."
It Is Necessary to Develop the Waist
and Abdominal Muscles by
Exercise.
Hacks are too wide because women
have not developed the waist and ab-
dominal muscles or strengthened
these muscles which hold up the
chest by proper and systematic exer-
cise of the lungs. The rounded back
of age is out of the question where
women continue exercising after
their first youth is passed, and do not
permit the fatty degeneration of the
muscles to set in.
The woman who wants to preserve
a straight and narrow back should
learn first of all to carry herself well,
admonishes a writer in the New
Vork World. There are three natural
points of rest in the body. The first
and most important one is, of course,
the balls of the feet; next comes the
second point, located a little below
the small of the back, and last of all
the third point, the prominent verte-
brae at the back of the neck. In
standing each of these three points
should help to carry the weight and
preserve the balance. The hips
should be held well back, which helps
the back to keep its natural straight
line, and the head should rest erect
on the last point.
Where this general line of the body
is kept in walking and standing the
back will not have much chance to
curve and droop. When the lung ca-
pacity is well developed the back just
above the waist line will always look
narrow, the back muscles being used
to uphold the chest box.
It is only when our attention is
called to the fact that |ve realize how
few straight, graceful backs we see.
Once a woman has come to the stage
where she ceases to care how she
looks, or, as she says, wants only to
be "tidy and clean," her back view of-
fers to the seeing eye a plain revela-
tion of neglect and on-creeping age,
KS1MTK the cosmopolitan spirit which more and more in-
Dvaik's modern society, ev rv nation nevertheless continues,
if not to confine itself absolutely, certainb t< specialize
in a particular domain of human activity. If ( ermany
bv preference placcs its grand men in the domain of
thought, France in that ot art in its diverse phases, Amer-
ica places hers in business; it more and more seems de-
stined to remain the nation of great industrial and com-
mercial enterprises.
W e are too apt to judge nations like men, according
to what thev have not, instead of appreciating them for what they
have. More than this, often it suffices that a thing be not conceived by
our neighbors as by ourselves in order to infer that it does not exist.
When we take the correct viewpoint we always see something to love
and admire. And it is. moreover, nec- ssarv that a foreigner after hav-
ing seized upon the characteristic note of a people, know how to re-
late it with evervthing else, lie will then observe that all the needs
and all the aspirations of man end everywhere by being satisfied. Let
us take a classic example. Art is by no means absent from commer-
cial America, only its manifestations must be sought elsewhere than in
Franc* To demand French art in America is as ridiculous as it one
required a Laplander to dress like an inhabitant of the tropics, or,
reciprocal!\ , a denizen of the equator to don white furs for the chase.
Superficialities of this sort unquestionably are committed constantly;
the Oennan philosophers reproach the Americans for not being meta-
physicians, and. vice versa, the American psychologists wax hot over
the German speculations; the French artist despises the utilitarianism
>f the American, while the latter shrugs his shoulders on viewing the
culptures of Notre Dame, whose "practical utility" escapes him.
r.ut let us try for once to elude the prejudices reposing in evident
misunderstandings, and let us resolutely ask ourselves, for example, it
a cultivated and philosophic mind could not perceive art even in the
gigantic sk\scrapers. Some weeks ago the author of this article had
the honor of meeting in Paris one of the finest and most delicate con-
noisseurs of artistic beauty of Kurope, well known by everybody far
beyond the limits of his French native land. We were not at all
astonished that he testified to experiencing a sensation of the imposing
in the architecture of New York. And we remember that some months
before in an article the young baron of Montesquieu, that aritocratic
arbiter of elegance in the old continent, compared the effect of the
skyscrapers on the man of the nineteenth century to that of the city of
a hundred towers described in a famous bit from the legend of the
centuries on the cavalier of the middle ages. As for us, we know no
view more fairylike than, on a beautiful night of January, clear and
cold, at the hour of dusk, that presented by these giant constructions,
rising straight toward the sky with thousands upon thousauds ui witt-
lows brilliantly illumined.
Very Pretty Mats
for Toilet Table.
Made of Cream Canva> and Worked
in Mercerized Cotton with At-
tractive Pattern.
A very pretty set of mats for a tol
j let table may be of cream canvas
; worked with this pattern in mercer-
; Ized cotton, of which there are so
many qualities and lovely colors now
Crosi Stitch.
to be obtained. The pattern is
simple It may easily be copied, and it
may be continued for any size mat.
The edt;e can be finished by fringe or
lace, or the ranvas might be laid over
silk of the same color as the em-
broidery. then the edge finished by a
silk frill pinked at the edge.
Plenty of Room.
The biggest room In the world Is
the room for self Improvement.—N. Y
1'reas.
Ulberc tlx Cimit of Rinnan
Daring is Reacted
By OCTAVIE LA TOUR.
Woman Who Performs Limit of Human Darin*.
Human daring has
but one limit—human
imagination.
Human courage is
infinite. It dares all.
There is no task, no
feat, no exploit of bra-
vado you can suggest
lo it that it will not
• venture.
But there is a limit to the field that imagination can invent for
human daring. Imagination.defines daring's scope. Imagination is
daring's onlv limitation.
In the years of old, everyday life presented dangerous situations
for everyday people. There was war. and the jousts of chivalry and
crusades to the east. Then the new world opened its gates to adven-
turers, and men sailed west to brave the terrors of a virgin world—
Ihe terrors of the unknown.
But nowadays such experiments—if you except automobiling and
subwaying—are rare. Civilization lias been so busy for hundreds of
years eliminating danger from the common routine that the type of
men that would have been heroes long ago find sports the only outlet
for their venturesome spirits. They drive racing autos. They launch
forth in airships and ballootjs. and they turn explorers and penetrate
remote corners of the earth—Thibet and the desert vasts of the Hima-
layas—the jungles. 'They force their way to the north pole and the
south, by ship, sledge and balloon, to satisfy the craving or courage tu
be up and doing.
And as the field grows each year narrower and narrower, as this
mountaineer scales that peak, and this explorer maps out another
island in the Arctic zone, human invention sits down and ponders on
something for human daring to do next.
Then there is fche class of the professionally brave, so-called, to
which 1 suppose 1 belong. Our function is to satisfy the public taste
for a certain form of excitement that conies from witnessing danger-
ous feats. The sensation of beholding some human being grappling
with death in a hair-raising spectacle relieves the humdrum of mod-
ern life.
Courage, not merely moral courage that copes with ethical prob-
lems and wins the battles of the soul, but physical courage, animal
courage, is a primitive instinct with us humans. Wc arc savages enough
to rejoice more in an exhibition of it than in the return of the lost
sheep to the fold. And persons who are not called upon to be brave
and daring themselves satisfy their natural inclinations with the ad-
miration of another's thrilling feat.
So we professional heroes and heroines fill a quite necessary bill
in life's vaudeville. We foster the spirit of bravery and daring. We
risk our lives every day and think no more of it, probably less, than a.
lawyer does of his case at bar.
And, if you will believe me, there is nothing too daring to attempt.
Demand what feat you will that requires physical courage and physical
skill and we will attempt it—nay, we will perform it successfully and
make you our curtsy or our low bow at the end. We will show you
no hesitation, no fear of death, 110 apprehension of bodily injury.
But whatever you ask, even if it seem beyond possibility ot mere
moral accomplishment, we will do your bidding.
The game is one of mettle and not of dt-atlj.
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