The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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IT WAVES, SURGES ROARS AND RESOUNDS ONLY TO COME BAC'< AGAIN WITH GREATER FORCE FOR ENID. GARFIELD COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, AND DEMOCRACY.
By Wave Printing Co.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1897.
VOL. 4, No 15
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OAKifjti
POWDER
AbsoSuieHy Pure,
Celebrated for its crc;it liav( riinj! j
strength and hoalthfulness. Assurer
the food against alum and all lorin> |
of adulteration common to the cheap
brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER
< :o., ni:\v York.
("I. i BIBLE in A'/iEinO*.
It 'VhI '' \<'iy Paalm Boob" find \V«*
Vrkntod in 1G40.
The fi; "Ji, 1'iblo printed in English ir
linerict was the "Bay Psalm Book,"
printed in 1040. Prior to this tho
avery copy of the Bible 111 this cou.itrjr
iad been brought to America by the
early settlers of Virginia and the pil-
grim fathers of New England, for ti. c
Zionists could not print the Englisi
'.Jible without being subject to prosecu-
tion from persons in Great liritain tvlic
published it under a patent ai th?
•'•own
t'-->ring the year 1040 & version of the
01 <1 Testament ivas completed by Mr
King, who availed himsyu of the a( >i t.
tnce of Kev. Dennis O'Nheriden. Nc
portion of the Old Testament s.i
isteii in t!ie Irish language until tU;
venerable Bishop Bedel* undertook t<
procure this translation. Although
appointed in 1(5-29 to the Gee of Kilmoiv
and Ardagh. he w«j an Englishman bj
birth «ad unacquainted with the laj-
"jtigo of his new diocese. His firs1
<tep toward the accomplishment ul
ais impartant design was therefore Che
acquisition of the Erse dialect, wliich
he commenced ic study at the age oi
Sfty-seven, ills nest measure was tc
iccure the services of a native Irish
scholar, and, with the advice of Pri-
te 'Jsher, his choice fell on Mr.
Xing, who h«,d been employed by Mr.
Cp.uiel while assisting O'Donnall with
his veiMon of if, Mr. King being
Ignorant of Hebrew, first made the
trans'iif!ion from the English version,
but to Bishop Bedell tiie Hebrew and
:he >ept.uagint were as familiar u th
English, for the Scriptures had for
yettrr been his favorite study. It wa«
his cus'oin, snys his biographer, pverj
■Jhi i.Her dinner and supper to have &
ftv.ii'cr of the Bible read at hie table,
ind at such times u Bible was placed be-
fore each person present. The Biblf fa
Hrorr.vv and Greek was thtu laid oe-
flarn, and he compared the Irish
.laudation with the Euglish. At th'<i
cms time he compared both i/ae
'j/igilsli aud the Irish with the
U-urew. The .Vptuagint ho compared
■villi tiie Italian , version of Diodati
'£v.T\ p'u-tioM of the Irish Bible -was
lh«t \<e.stod by t! 1 r • t comparison .'ith
•.lie ovigiu.il tex*. For thii utrfvoui
ivork Bishop Uedel! was ptaallirly
I'.ialified, having resided many jsars
it Venice as chaplain of Bir Ileury
■Valton, where he studied Hebrew me
lei Rabbi Leo, the chief chachar. ol
lie .Jewish Rynagogue.
Eor somt cause Mr. King ij.eurred
'.ht. enmity of Archbishop IJshei, tind
t-ome opposition was made to the trans-
'ation. Tho venerable bishop, thex
vist eighty, sank bens ith these perse
utions, vet remained linn in his deter
uination to publish It at his own ex-
pense. While he was making prepara-
tions the rebellion broke out, his palace
whs attacked, and he was sent a prls
onoi to the castle of Locbwater,
(vi'euee he was soon after removed te
the residence of his friend. Dennis
1'Slieriden, vvh •ha elosrd his rareei
if usefulness i' ff\y MIL—Ciiotvgc
reaching to tno selling; «nri Sir
this space, perhaps three or four feet
wide, the pottery to be burnt is care-
fully piled. the thick doers shut, the
heat gradualiv raised to the rigkt
Toi.nt and as t'lowly cooled.
Large flower pots are piled one on
another, every other pot beiny invert'
*d, giving the effect of rov0 of fin-
Wfcstic piiiars. Shelves bui'/t of block#
of Are brick support other kinds of
pottery- Saucers are ft on their rims
in horizontal rows.
The unpainted «lay wares require
for theft- first baking a heat of twenty-
ty-flve hundred degrees, and the deco-
rated wares a heat of two thousand de-
grees. The degree of heat is estimated
by experimenting wft-'J substance*
which are known to melt at certain
temperatures.
Around tlies-5 furnaces, glowing with
white heat, the wares are kept twenty-
•'our hours for a first baking, and from
•our to six hours for subsequent firing.
*s required, after decoration.
The red color of baked cl&.y is due to
t* e p-esenee in the clay of oxide of
iron.—Outlook
—"Does your njw dress fit you well,
Clara?" "Oh, splendidly! I can hard!"
feotia ov uraath* in it -Tit--Bits.
.n- a* L*Vfctani cL
v«cnf3ATl, '♦.—At 2:23 c?'aloes>
this afternoon fir« broke out in the
Western telegTaph office while news
ef the Corbett-Mitchell contest
wes coming over the wires. The Ay
M>ciated Press office is located in this
buiidlng and at 3 p. m. it was imp«w
ible to got any communication witii
Cincinnati, the operators having been
ordered out by the chief of the fire da-
partmetn.
Press Association.
Topeka, Kan.. SB.—The Tratis
mississippi Press association held its
annual meeting in Topeka yesterday
and re-elected die following officers'
President, Frank P. MacLennan, .)!
Tcpeka; vice president, John S. Rich-
trdson, of Wichita; secretary and treas-
urer, C. M. Shults;, of St. Joseph. !
special meeting will be held in Kansas
City. Mo., February ti.
CHrlisle Kxplalra Iflr, Btad*.
Washingtox, Jan. "- -Secretary Ca>-
Msle appeared before tnc house judi-
mary committee to-day to explain his
reason 'or his call for bonds. The
Bailey resolution declaring th^t ths
■eciotarv has no authority to issus
tsoadc except for the redemption of
Truer*barl«« w*r uuder con iiieration
Jt B captain of a steamer thai [ilia
along the Now England coast and that
was passing one of the rugged, lonely
Islandu off the Maine shore, pointed to
6U enormous flock of gulls that
vliltered the rocks, the surface of th«
*ea, and th ' brunches of the cedars i
•hat cling to the hard soil. "There,"
<aid he. "what do you think of thatf
/ind"yet if you turn ton hook on aatur-
a! history they'll tell yon that gulls
■von't perch on trees. Some fool sailors
believe that the petreh, or Mother
Carey'B chickens, never alight evon on
',he water, but are aWays on the wing,
rhey d. Vt use their eyea And some
jt Vhiw KientiUe toUows are aa bad al
Au^ravutod Asntinlt.
The woman was before the polic«
fudge for beating her husband in t
cruel manner.
"You are charged," said his honor
'•with aggravated assault and battery
What have yov. to say?"
"That's just it, yer honor,'1 the prls
oner responded promptly; "if he hadn't
aggravated me I never would have
raised my hasd to hinv"—Detroit Vr i
-'We men play odd tricks ou one ri
0thV Bometimes," said a smart AtJer
ica/. woman; "but tho queerest I evei
h/ard of was perpetrated by one sociai
f^adtr In a western city upon anothei
They were t ivals, and hated each othei
V.^rdinglv, though outwardly thej
•^wesui-ved tile semblance of 'pleasani
illations Every chance that eithe>
jfrit to give a dig nt *,he other wao
eagerly seized, but the final aud most
efJecti^e stroke, affer which no call*
ivere exchanged, was delivered by Mrs
L- She sent out cards for a grand es>
Jertainrnent, and then took pains u
find out what Mrs. E., her competllcr.
evus going to wear. A gorgeous bro
jaded satin was the material of Mrs
E'sgown, it was ascertained. Accord-
ingly Mrc. L., whose husband was in
Ihe dry-goods bu^ess, obtained sev
cral hundred yarr">i of the same iden-
tical stuff and dr ped the walls of all
the rooms on tho lower floor of liei
Vouse v/ith it You may imagine Ui
feolings of Mra F. on arriving in hei
superb new frock, which she expected
to make a sensation. Naturally «h
Mtlc.'ed h- ; «xid dro«-«
Mlk-, l>c F^anlou a lew years hrncej
- You are wanted at tho telephone.
Mrs. Dc l':i-h,on--Oh, dear! I pre-
sume it's Mrs. Oo Style, to return my
telephone "Vil. 1 hops «he won't talk
loup.—N. Weekly.
pmperiv oxsTt'ivea A i,oinr>er ol par-
sons were injured tn the rioting, but
none ser'ously. Rioting is also re-
i ported at the Mill Farm mines in
' Dunbar.
Making th> tli-st of It.
"Go into the room and bring that
cake on tho table." said a Dallas moth-
er to her son.
"It's too dark; I'm afraid to go into
the room."
•Go right into that room this Instant
or I'll go in and bring out the strap."
"If-you-liring-out-the-strap," replied
the boy, sobbing, "bring-tlie-calto-
along too."—Alex Sweet, ia Texas
hiftincs
, itj.niiHAf HRnviTlKa.
I'eter Uridg?-. iters fell into a shafl
r Galena, Kim., containing 25 feet of
water and was drownee.
W. H. Earley, the station agent at
Wliltlng, ICan., who was shot by a
burglnr Thursday night, died on the 2d.
Joseph and Patsy Beck, two more al-
'.eged membirs of the Cook gang, wer«
aptured and placed in jail at Still-
-vater, Ok.
Secretn^y of Agriculture Morton
levoting earnest attention to the que
tion of th e inspection of foods exportf 6
and imported.
The two Johnson brothers, who es.
iped from jail at Mexico, Mo., wer-
captured at Clark, Mo. Tliey are im-
rtar.t -,v't;-.esses in a murder trial
The popuii .ts of Nebraska have ijr
. ealcd to the state supreme court to
-j-i'er the printing separately of the
i-ofmlist, and f jsion democratic tickets.
The .Mid-Continental Poultry and Pet
-took association was organized it
Kansas City. Mo. It is composed of
oultry breeders of Missouri and Kan
Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, has suf <1
>>'iin i?.. Tanner, chairman of the Ull-
• ois republican central committee, for
alleged sla' der placing damages a?
fr>(),000.
Dr. E A. Nsiley, of St. Lituis, wai
f'.eotod president and Dr. A. B. Holder
-•! Memphis, secretary of tV~ South-
Jvc3tcru Association <>f Railway Sur-
('•') us.
* highbinder is SLid to have made an
itte.iipt Friday morning to assassinate
Sam : ').v, the wealthiest Chinaman in
'.lieu:-!. 'Jt* was frightened away
i guard
•■IS. GOT ntJi wOMMIsaiON.
3 w n Theorottt-a.' Financier Iteaped Ills
Reward the llrokers.
"I had a qircer conversation in my
itfice the other day," said the head of i
■veil-known banking concern, over the
-valnuts and wine at his table. "I>
happened in this manner. At noor
most ot my clerks go out for luncheon
ud the porter, Jim, an aged but verj
mowing colored man, is often called
ipon to leave his position byvtlie dooi
for a lew minutes
"Well, last Wednesday I sat in my
iSice, tilted baok in the desk chair,
struggling with a knotty problem on
change.
"Wrapped in my thoughts, as / was
itiM there seemed to h." something ev-
erting an iiillur-.nce to make me turn
tround.
' This subtle thought transference I
resisted until it bt-cumc overwhelming,
or 1 J sharplj' twisted the chair a boa'
"There stood before me the least
•emblance of i, man I've yet seen, cla.1
■n raiment ths.t once had been fashion
tble, b ;t which now was not alone oui
of date by a year, but had lost all o!
Its, shape and a goodly portion of (ti
Integral structure.
"Now, in extreme youth I'd beer
fooled by the apparent inability of one
man to clothe himself properly, and be-
fore I got through with the costs of
aaving treated him as his clothing
would seem to warrant I had to sign e
good many cheeks, so, like a flash, it
went through my brain here is a capi-
talist in disguise or he'd aever have got
past Jim. In the most suave man-
ner possible I glanced at him.
Vowed, and said; 'Good day, sir,
vhat can I do for you?" II« began to
tumble with his hip pocket Norcross,
Jr., thought 1, but it was nothing bo
sxciting. lie simply pulled out a
small book and handed it to me. 1
read tho title.- 'How to Get Rich
Without Working—a Sure and Speedy
Method of Obtaining > Kir tune, by
Prof. D. Poor.'
" 'I'm the author of that work,' tlx
Intruder broke in. 'and I don't, want tc
tell you a copy I just want my com-
mission, and as you were a little alo-*
to remitting 1 nailed for It.'
" 'Commission?' I gasped.
'Yes, commission,' he repeated.
sold more than eight thousond of those
hooks in New York alone, and knew
that 1 am entitled to a commission
from every bunker and broker in the
oitv. Your debt to me we'll put up at
ten dollars lor to-day; In tho future I
>nay demand more.'
"Crank, thought I, bat before I hafl
time to think again he continued:
" 'You see, therr are eight thousand
foung met who tried my way ol
letting rich suddenly; their avarieiooa
minds cravad riches, anil they tried
method, they stimulated trading on
the exchanges!; every broker reaped a
harvest, of eot>imissions, and all I want
lt my share.
' 'But. you should be rich yourself
'.hen if yo-i have a sure and speedy
aaethod ef ma'-ti fig a fortune,' I put in.
" 'No, I followed my own advice,'
vas the answer, as he rose to go."
'What did you do," came In a spon-
taneous chorus from the guests.
"Well," concluded the banker broker,
'I gave him t n dollars; his argument
was '.oo suggestive to need furtfao
'•monstratlok * -'Chicago Time*
For uou to ponder over!
We have just received a big invoice of
summer goods. Here is some of our prices.
America Indigo Blue Prints, 4 cts.
Best L. L. Muslin, 41-2 cts.
Hope Bleached Muslin in 20 yard
pieces, 7 cents.
A!I the Latest Btyies
in Dimmities, Organdies, etc., at prices from
8 1-3 to 3C cents per yard. Yours
to serve,
Jenkins Bros.
ALL KINDS
OF
Statloneru
AT THE
Wave Office
Our Jot) Departiirii Can-
not, be Beaten.
New Type
Good Stock
Low Rates.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1897, newspaper, April 15, 1897; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112010/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.