The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1901 Page: 4 of 4
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FIERCE SEA FIGHTERS.
VM«t>nt Warfare Cnrrlnl on by
Shark n, SwordllNh nnil Levla-
t liii tin of th« Deep.
Hardly a year goes by but combat*
"bet ween whales ami the swordfish and
•the swivel-tail shark are reported,
These stories are refuted by many
naturalists, who say that the attacks
exist only in imagination; but I am
disposed to believe that there is some*
•thing in these tales, says C. F. Holder,
Sn Ledger Monthly. Here is one re-
lated to rat* by a seafaring man famil-
iar with all the animals of the sea, ami
not likely to be mistaken:
"It was in the North Atlaptie," said
my informant, "and we wer moving
along under an easy pres^ of sail and a
smooth sea, so thai everything could
•l>e seen for several miles away. 1 w.i?
•standing on the quar.er deck, looki •.«
overboard, when 1 heard a terri'm,
•splash and saw a big whale leap mi;
<of the water. The moment it camu
down, two or three what we eall swiv< j
«el-tail sharks dashed « ut of the vvatei ;
and came down upon it with their la-.i« i
like tails, so that the blows could bit |
heard for half a mile witih the wind,
Again the whale went out of thfl
•water, and this time I distinctly saw a
©wordfish hanging to it and anothei |
chase it out. One had driven its - word
up to the eyes in the whale and cotiid
not tear away, and so w as being > ar-
Tied along with it. Thi> leaj)ing from
"the water was repeated several times,
end on each occasion 1 could see <hs
sword fishes come up from below whili
"the sharks were hammering it from
•above. The fact was, the whale waj
fighting the sharks and -wordfish, but
could only get at them by rising to t he
surface and lashing them with its tail
The swordfish cut the whale from be
low and the sharks lashed it froii
Above, and as long as we had them in
sight they continued it. Whether thej
could kill a whale in this way I do nol
know, but the fight was one of th(
most savage I ever witnessed."
Among the tragedies of the ocean,
the warring of the great tuna of th|
Pacific against other members of tim
finny tribe is remarkable.
The tuna is a gigantic mackerel,
ranging from four to eight feet in
length and weighing as high as 900 . i
1,000 pounds. I have seen a scl. io!
passing up the coast composed « I
thousands. They would be notice]
wheif three or four miles away by ;hj
white foam that <• vered the water,
and would move along at a ra
or six miles an hour. The foam wa?
caused by their repeated dashes aft* t
other and smaller fishes, t'pon one < e
casion I pulled out into the course f
tone of these schools, hoping to cat -ii %
tuna, but when T learned the size oj
the fish, and saw ore. which must have
weighed S00 pounds, leap 15 feet in;a
the air and come down head first lik*
a rocket, my ardor and ambition waj
cooled, and instead of hoping that oni
.would take my line. I devoted myener*
•pie* to wondering what I should do ij
a tu:ua landed in the boat, as in case « j
such an event the fish would go direr:
ly through the bottom. Fortunate!,)
n«o such accident occurred, though 3
Iflying fish, fleeing from the invaders,
struck my companion a sounding
blow in the back, while anothei
whizzed by my head like a rocket.
states the eastern coast seemi
cramped and small. Facts such a(
these brought out by the census bub
letin do much to acquaint one part ol
the country with the territorial eon*
ditions prevailing in the other.
health ik" old age.
by Modern! ion in Living
Oue In in the Full net**
of Youth.
race and lost by -a nose. That re-
duced my fortune to less than $4,000,-
000, and so I had to take up this
business to eke out my income. Of
Course, it's a sad case, and I feel my
position keenly, but with persever-
s ice and integrity I hope to pull
through in time to be able to pay the
cook her wages again. Ha^e you a
natch, please?"
(smreil
\\ lie
Fruit I'nffn.
Delicious fruit puffs may be made
Infancy and old age are frequently '".V adding ih the above mixture one
referred to as analogous states. In cuj ' i! of washed and floured
point of fact they are much more huckleberries or the same amount of
nearly opposite*. Infancy is the ex< looped raisins, currants or da:es. If
paneling, rapidly developing period, 's (,-r'ie the batter should'be pie-
while old age is a time when the tis* P«m'd deserib-tl . i n\«*, and before
sues shrink, as it were, to accommo* adding the white ->f the egg be fruit
date the lessening vital forces. It should lie beaten in w ;!i one
cannot be said that all persons reach ^ 'ce 1R'lk or wat--r and ai
old age at 70, although by this time M'-onal t.hree-quarte- < •
the majority of people find it neces*!graham flour.
sary to curtail their activities, says
Youth's Companion.
I he signals which indicate a need
for lightening the load upon the vital
forces as old age comes on are usu-
ally unmistakable. There is a de-
icreased capacity for work. The
ikicart-beats are weaker, the muscles
and joints less flexible. Acute dis-
eases are more to be feared. It is
not uncommon for the aged to recovi
wd foamy fold in
jgg as before ami
budget
overcome by his luck.
a Poor French Pennant A\ ho Drew
the (,'niiltnl Prize of #100,-
OOO Fainted.
Before the closing of the Paris ex-
hibition the last great lottery con-
severe attacks of illness; but such re*
coveries are not the rule.
One of the important questions
connected with the hygiene of old
age relates to the degree to which
•one should modify one's previous hab-
its of life. It may be said positively
that all sudden or directly rever-
sionary changes are to be shunned,
For example, one who lias always
walked as a daily habit would be un« , . ,
wise to -rive „p the n.stom complete- clotlies-n!! t„1 to
ly be
land and V/ATER.
IntereMt i nu Particulars* of ('ennui
Tabulaooiim ol" W ater Surface
in TIiIm Country.
■r from serious injuries and from nected stupendous show was
3rawn for, the winner of which, a poor
peasant, found himself the richer by
half a million francs—that is $100,000.
The drawing for this great prize
was fixed for half-past two in the
ifternoon. At two o'clock the great
hail was densely packed with a mixed
but anxious crowd. Dukes, duchesses,
:ounts, countesses, officers, business
men of ah descriptions, workmen in
their holiday attire, workmen in their
ike up
i vivid and sensational picture, say*
.he London Mail.
One peasant told the writer that h*
had traveled 200 mi'es in order to be
in Paris in time to see the "draw" for
the grca* fortune, and to make sure
that all was fairly rtone.
At the tick of half-past two the
committee, compos' ! of men of irre-
proachable character—men of the
highest standard—filed in. The gen-
eral secretary of the bank, M. Kouxel,
presided.
Before the "drawing" lie explained
to the people that the first would win
600.000 francs, the second and third
10,000 francs; the five following 1,000
francs, and 100 others 100 francs each.
The supreme moment has arrived.
Two boys are each placed before a
wheel, the boy on the rl-dit giving the
series, the one on the left giving the
number. There are 323 series of 10,-
000 numbers each.
The silence is painful. The faces of
the people in the hall are all anxious
find in many cases quite drawn.
The wheels are turned. The boy*
fa eh take a number. The prize, the
fortune, is decided.
Xumber*2,' !0 of th# sixteenth series
has won, and the owner of this comei
Into possession of ." 'iVOO francs.
"Xumber 2,.130, winner of the first
prize!" is called out. \ cry from the
center of the hall, a weird, unnatura)
cry. and the possessor of ticket 2..v:0
falls back, staggers, and is carried
* way senseless. lie is a poor peasant,
•vho for years has never earned more
than 20 francs a week. Vow? * * *
It is interesting to learn that the
winner of the great pwe of iS'1* a
woman—has not yet beci. paid This
of having passed a certain
birthday. In the same way it is sel-
dom advisable to abandon even tho
cares of business entirely, lest tho
seeking for something else wifclt
which to till the gap thus created
should be unsuccessful.
Extremes of all sorts are so many
dangers to be avoided. A certain
elasticity of muscle, bone and blood-
vessel is lacking, and as a result tho
cyst m i-< unfitted for sudden strain,
A strenuous life can no longer bo
pursued with safety. Severe trials of
muscular and mental energy, even se-
vere trials of temper, are out of place.
Nature's suggestions in regard to
food must be heeded. A simple, eu«
f tive : ' y digested diet should be the rule-
!o say that the aged require less
food than at former periods would
he unnecessary, only that a dimin-
ished appetite in old persons is some-
times regarded by tiiem as a serious
symptom, and one to be struggled
against.
Xot infrequently it is found advan-
tageous in later life to take food in
small amounts and at short inter-
vals. It will be observed, also, that a
lowered vitality calls for more sleep
<is a means of preserving the bright-
er qualities of the mind.
While heavy cares are properly
shifted from the shoulders of the
mged. it must, be remembered that in-
terest in life is largely maintained by
virtue of a helpful attitude toward
others, and to insist that the aged
{member of the household shall do
nothing is a mistaken kindness.
While the amount of work 'which
may be done is curtailed by advanced
age, instances are not lacking to 1
show that the quality of mental labor
performed is not nee s>arily lowered.
this purpose is more suitable for ft
summer bed, because they are as
easily washed as a sheet. Lace coun-
terpanes over silk are happily out of
fashion, and were never suitable for
a bed in summer. A pure white bed
looks so pretty and cool that there isi
no likelihood of its ever being entire-
ly out of fashion. Coverlets and bol-
ster covers of wash silk are used in
guest rooms in summer, but are cost-
ly. They are shown in white silk, with
convent ionalized flower pat terns in col-
or sprinkled over them
Even the half tester, or canopy, is
little used in summer, when it is de-
sirable to catch all the breezes that
come. Such contrivances are a pro-
tection against draughts in winter, ami
there is some • xcuse for them on tho
ground of their being picturesque. All
comfortables are unsuitable for sum-
mer use because tin v cannot be waslit ct
without rippingthein and makiiiL' them
over.
BROKE THE HOODOO.
Ilow a Literary Woman tint So Sho
Could W rite on SnturilajN
iin Well iin Not.
There doesn't seem much left to say
about the feminine 'm nation. So
m.inv stories have been t< Id of its ex«
trnvagances that none of them carl
now surprise the hearer, so the story
! told by one woman to a group of
' friends the other evening created but*
passing interest, relates the Baltimore
Xews.
This woman keeps the wolf from tho
rloor with the point of her pen, and
she declares that to save her life sho
cannot work on Saturdays. On any
■other day of the week it is not diflicult
to turn out—grind out, she calls jt —
[s fair amount of "copy," but on 8at«
I of days her brain seems set at "piny,"
j 1 ke an alarm clock, and write she can*
not. Sometimes she thinks this is be-
cause of a harking back in her mind
• to her school days, when Saturday
jwfcs a genuine ho! a v. and nothing
eoidd induce her to touch a pen or
a pencil or a book during its halcyon
, hours.
However that may be. a few week*
i ago the woman went ♦< work early ab
her d< sk one morning. It was Friday*
she thought, and she had much to do,
for she knew that tomorrow she
would have to take a holiday, whether
she wanted to or n >t, because of the
prejudice against working on Satuf*
day held by her mental forces, P.y one
o'clock she had accomplished a good*
ly amount, and she lay down her pen
, with a sigh for a moment's rest. Then
her eye fell on a calendar, and lo! it
wasn't Friday at all, but the fatal last
I day of the week.
The woman gasped when the f.ill
force of tl^e discovery brttfee upon her,
j and then she wheeled right around and
! we nt to writing again.
I "One hoodoo broken* thanks be,*
paid she to herself, aad so it was. f( r
I she's had no difficulty with her Sat-
urdays since, but can write awr.v n
y on them a^ she can on Mon*
days or Tuesdays.
Nineteen t li lentury anil Met -roriten.
One of the most interesting of cen*
4BUS tabulations is that recently mud*
of the water surface of nil the states
and territories in the union. Theii
igross areas appear in one column
.their water surface in tin next, and
•the amount reiuaii lug, which is the
• land surface, in the third. This last
• series of figures is tie one used in
.computing the average number oj
jpeopl <■ to tho s-qunri" mile, Mil vi
lYouth's Compiinion.
, To this >01110 i-ta'istlHiiiis olijoo;
Imaintaininp that watoi- surface s
"well ns land area : mid lie ri - irdod
Jas a hasis of tiun■, i; uppori. lc
[Canton, China, people live 011 the wa-
iter, but as they have never done
Iherc the eenmis oil • • prefers to limit
jits calculations to lie land.
1 It is a notable fact that 1." s'.r !
Ihavo 11 greater water surface than I
• land area of Hhodc Island, which ,<
1,053 square miles.
Minnesota's lake and rivers covci
;more than 4,000 square miles, anil
'♦his does not include any of l,ai.«
!Superior, on its bouni'.-iry line, ex-
cept harbors and landlocked l> vi
Largely on account of such harlinri
and hays Florida ' • ly out ra i i
Minnesota in water surface, fakirs
(the load for the country. Delaware
|has about th< siiinc water s11•-1 i■ <■ at
(Arizona, although only oiie-flftieth at
ilarge.
' In Texa* there are fifS countlei
which have a greater land urea tInto
(the state of Rhode Island: one oj
ithcrn, Kl Pa-n, i euni-idcrubly lar^ei
(than Massaehusel I -.
People In the east can hardly real-
|l?ie the great distances of tiie fa)
how he WAS REDUCED.
fly ClreniiiMtnnePM llu-r Wliieli lie
iijmi no Control, (lie Drummer
Wan Forced to Drum.
"You must have plaved some great
games of pojeer in your day,"' he said
to the drummer who had been talking j
about luvk at cards, re!a;c> the Chi- |
Pago Daily New:,
"Ves, I have," wa> the reply. "Yes, j
• ir, I have had some great : :.ui -s "
prize but
jti of hei
ties,
st li.
t*r make.
in a
"How large a bet did you
may I ash ."'
"One hundred th <n ind
"You don't mean it!"
"I certainly do. t >, sir; I
frame in Denver once and bet $100,000 I
an my hand, and I had only one puir '
in it at that."
"What an awful bluff! The
.a'rl down their hands, did they ?"
'OJi, no! One of them called
He had a full how > , and of i ;.?■
was beaten.*'
"And- and you lost $100,000!"
"I did. Fur the fraction of a sec
>thert
a feeling
and thin*
then i j'
reached i
faintness stole ove.
looked v i/:\ wa//y.
d myself together
my vest pocket
md
i ic,
but
and
and
handed him the money wiih a sinile."
Oreat Scott! ' sighed the c|ueris>t
n lie mopped hi < brow. "Tliink of
losing thai muoh money on a turn of
the cards! I suppose that is why you
•vere forced to take to the road?"
^c!!. no, 1 he winner said that
SUeh cheek as mine ought to ne re-
warded, and he returned my money.
I'd have been all right only when t
iwest, whjle to the residents of those back to Chicago I put $000,000 with
it and bet the whole pile on a fcor.se
V
lady won the 500.0 -ft;.
had cut off a smi ! j
ticket.
Now the law re^u'ati
terirs is that the t i • t
Fented intact. Shou'd if be in,.-;
in the slightest the si Inner
from receiving the prize until 30jesri
hav niu wr.«i.i
SUMMER eedcl0thing.
Ibtfre Should lie Lighter Article*
1 liut \\ ill stantl Fr«*niieiit
\\ iinIIin^s.
i lie s abject of bedel o I h *s for summer
Is, as a gi n< ral ruli. too lightly consid*
< red. Instead of utilizing one of the
heavy blankets of wintt i for .summer,
it is better to put away these expen-
siva blankets and use onl) ligbt sum*
mer blankets of cotton and wool.
1 •" ■ • ar< easily washi 1, while heavy,
all-wool blankets really require the
•• n- of an «xi n icourt r t< be
thoroughly cleaned. Such heavy blan-
kets should be dried on a frame, whieib
J reNents ihf spiral libers of the wool
1 roin dra wing up and felting, and very
^ HI |' i • ale la n; i! i. - pOS)MSS SUG&
frame I he mi.\; art of cotton in sum*
•11' r '1.■ i •- | revel i > t li ir shrinking
•ud renders them and sasllyj
^ash• (I. in >uiiiiner t here is more per*
splratioii about the lvdcloth< . and
') " 1 aire waihing every masonf
while wi ii ti r blanket s may be used sev-
eral m ;i mis uithout washing if they
are taken care of, says the New York
'J'ribune.
1 h« • ummer counterpane should also
be of light texture, so it can be easily
washed. The folly of using a heavy
Marseilles counterpane in hot weath-
er need not be dwelt upon. A light cov-
erlet of Holt on sheet ing-or of dimity or
any of the simple materials used for
Among the great s
of the century jus; j
one which is seldom
though it is of ren a
it is the demon ' r
that stones and met a
from the sky. I)r. O
reminds us that up h
<~.f the nineteenth
tude of scieniittc
accounts of stones
fallen from the sk;
"one of scorn and
quotes a remark of
) son when told that
and Kingsley had dt
of stone s at Westoi
"It is easier to belie
kee profes or will lie t-h
that stories will fall fi
It was only after a it
lititic Kdvances
• ■(I there is
mentioned, al-
kable interest,
n of the fact
' c masses fall
C. Farrington
> the beginning
ntury the atti-
ii toward the
mete
in 1
ed i •
of S(
t .it
stones at L
il been cat
French act
5 fi .ally 1
things ri i;
trolle:
re
eported to have
was in general
ty." He
President Jeffcr-
i'rofs. Silliman
ke r i1 >ed a s hower
. ('onn., in 1807:
e that two Yan-
believe
roin heaven."
at shower of
ie. in France,
investigat-
!iy that men
1 v i u e e d
occurred.—
'JILE LINE
Overlwnd Wire ^ehlole*
w It li Motive P( -la a Cier-
iiian I own.
Two modern trai ; orta:ion devices
have been invented by a P.erlu en-
gineer, who has co; tructed a t: alley
uutomobile line, similar to th: e\.
hibited at the I'ai e\j
Ederswalde, a small city near t))(. Ger-
man capital. In this system the auto-
mobile receives its motive ,
an overhead wire, by niea is ol a i.a.,-
lsy, which is connected with tl,e .iUto«
mobile by a moveable cable. Thi aU
lows the vehicle to turn out, at any
place on the road. The ilne has bet -j
favorably inspected by experts, aim
the system is expected to meet wim
general favor in Germany.
Will .%« %« !• flo I'oftii in r.
They urc now niakliiff cofflnu of ntt.
per, but, snys the ('hicn^n Kei-nrd-ller.
Hid, the Inventor doesn't claim thut
they nre a whit woi ti comforUbit iliuo
the old atyle.
JAPAN IN AMERICA.
QiiaintcNt Hit of OrlontnliMm In Thj,
Country In n !S>w Jerney
Suburb.
Near Mountain Station, New Jer,
Fey, a suburb of Soujh Orange,
perhaps the quaintest bit of orient-
alism to be found on this continent
Fays Youth's Companion. Here ■,%
party of skillful Japanese gardeners
calling themselves the Japanese Hor-
ticultural society, have laid out a
Japanese garden as a permanent ex*
hibit of their native flora. The gar-
den is situated at the base of the
Orange mountain, *i a little clump
of woodland. Its four acres are sur-
rounded by a bamboo fence, inge-
niously built without nails, yet stroui*
us any American fence.
Inside that barrier the visitor finds
till the curiosities he would see In a
tdinilnr garden in Japan it.self. Stone
lions, a pedestal bearing a stone
lantern over two hundred years old,
done by a noted Japanese sculptor
and a statue of Ji/.o, a J'uddhist saint,
regarded as a goddess, arc some of
1he treasures which Japan has
parted with in order that America
may enjoy a few of the privileges
which she herself prizes so highly.
There is an artificial lake iri tho
garden, spanned by three different
kinds of Japanese structures. I?v
the side of this lake, closely caged,
lives a tsuru, or crane. The bird
is about five feet in height. It. i*
Fuid to be an exceedingly rare bird,
few specimen being found out.sido
the royal palace and Imperial Zoolo-
gical gardens.
According to the Japanese, nature
does not give to the tsuru a' red
crown until he ha renehed the age of
one hundred years, and as the years
advance the color deepens. The red-
headed tsuru Is therefore an emblem
of longevity in Japan. This New
Jersey spe imen has a very dark red
topknot, and is supposed to be about
three hundred years old.
In that respect the tsuru is more
than matched by one of the plants
in the garden. This is a chabo-hiba,
one of the old* t on this continent.
Its age is given as seven hundred
years. No wonder it is valued at ten
thousand dollars.
The original trainer of the tree 19
rot definitely known, but is sup-
posed *« ha\e bt t Genho, wl >
was the most famous artist during
the later period of the Kamakura
regency in the twelfth century.
The tree came into the hands of
the family of Suzuki about the mid-
dle of the sixteenth ntury. and ! h
been handed down by them to ♦he
present time. Its trunk N seven
inches in diameter, and its height i*
only four and a half feet. It belongs
to the cedar fami!\, and has foli'ige
resembling sprigs of ferns closely
net together in tin* form of a cone.
Sometimes the unlit l ever questions
of the plant, but such over-
whelming evidene olTered in
support of the Ja; ant e gardener's
| assertion that the objector is si-
lenced.
\ Japanese tea-house, where real
Japanese tea - - . bj> Japanese
g 1'Is in their nat . stume. and
J1 p ■ ' i|*e among tbt
attraction! of ti rden.
fiAL't THE HOI pers FRISKY.
hicltlnn; Hnrp lletv Knnitnrso*
Tliut llnd llecn Doped with
\\ u s L y.
"The most ex« iii lt rare I ever wit-
ness! d was between three kanga-
roo*, said J. L. Sfvenson, of Syd-
ney, Australia, reports the Denver
1W.
"A friend tif mine, Henry Uoberts,
has a huge plantat ion out in the bush
in Quae island* One day be said t<
me: 'St^vey, did you ever see a real
good kangaroo race?* I had seen the
great hoppers playing round the
house, but never a race, lie disap-
peared and I do/t d off to sleep in my
hammock. An hour later I was awak*
ened by the shout of niy host,
'hook! Look!* he ( ried, in great ex-
citement, 'Here they come!' Glan-
cing out over the broad green pas*
hire north of the I ie, 1 hi Id th«
kanrraroos. The three were Hying
o\er the short grass, neck and neck.
"As they drew nearer I
ribb ais v ere stre
necks, lied, white
colors. They nppr
Ing speed, ma him •
Roberts, who held
/
saw that
11 ing from their
.ml blue were the
ached at astonish-
?raight toward
<loft a small bas-
ket fill>d v\:• h not a 1 cgctable* At
last they reached us, n big brown
ka*i' -i'M> wiih t!ie red ribbon slight-
ly in the lead.
Jtoberts emptied the basket before
them, and 1 - m< sugar b^ets f«'ii to
the ••round. 1 agerly the kangaroos
devoured them and an odor of liquor
arose. Roberts had fed them beets
soaked in whisky, had led them to the
edge of the pusture behind the gate
and then retraced his steps to the
house, calling his pets. At. n. sigtinl
one of his men had lowered tile bars,
and the intoxiented kangaroos, greedy
for more of the strange beets, rushed
*fter their master."
# 151
♦ 31
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The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1901, newspaper, November 8, 1901; Stillwater, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116028/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.