The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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r THE "CONGRESSES" AT THE PARIS FAIR
SAY. . . wjrea had secured a sightly lookout
A Few Valuable Pointers to Americans Visiting
the Exposition
wires, had secured a sightly lookout
station from which to watch the cattle
as they grazed. The board was often
left there, and In a rain became wet
enough to cause a short circuit of the
wires on which it rested.
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Paris Letter.
There Is nothing like a "mission."
A year ago I met a man of science on
his way to one of the great interna-
tional congresses. "I find them use-
ful," he said.Vith an unscientific wink.
^^^"Alone, what am I? Call me a doctor.
Hotels and railway companies care
nothing for a doctor on his travels;
but when a thousand men of science
meet to discuss the welfare of human-
ity, it means reduced fares, special
rates, half-price accommodations, free
excursions, banquets, official courtesies
Hnd decorations." The ideal, accord-
ing to my scientific acquaintance, is to
have your expenses paid by some home
Institution; but even without this cli-
max capper, congress-attending is
what the frivolous would call a "snap."
Year by year this truth has been
dawning on the thoughtful of all na-
tions until this summer, in innumer-
able congresses of the Exhibition, the
high-water mark of the snob flood-tide
threatens to be reached. If you are
coming to the show there is still time
to join a congress. Try Horticulture,
or Photography, or Hygiene or Hyp-
notism. or Cheap Dwellings, or Deaf
Mutes, or Women's Rights, or Peace,
if you desire to keep within your
depth. These great subjects are oceans
in which a child may swim or an ele-
phant may drown. Or, if you want to
J)ut on style, join the Ornithologists, or
he Economists or the Dermatologists.
t More than 200 of these congresses
will be held during the exhibition. Few
of them are exclusive. To some the
initiation or membership fee is as
cheap as sixty cents, while none ex-
ceed five dollars.
The Congress Palace itself has one
curious distinction. It was planned,
built, decorated and furnished entirely
on co-operative principles. Not a
nail was driven by the order of
capital. Workingmen's syndicates—of
masons, carpenters, plasterers and so
on—bid for the contracts and co-
operated in their completion. It is
true that, in their inexperience, they
forgot all about the exterior decora-
tion of the palace, so that there were
only bare white walls when it rose
perfect from the waters of the Seine.
The little slip, however, was soon
Temedied. They found a lot of plastei
•wreaths and festoons that were not
working, and engaged an artist to de-
sign some allegorical reliefs. They
clapped them to the different facades.
room left for honest folk with sincere
hobbies.
TELEGRAPHONE.
Who
That IlereivM Telephone Me*HUg;«
Attendant Is Absent.
A new phonograph has been perfect-
ed in Denmark by Valdemar Paulson.
Tbe instrument is called the telegra-
phone. The new and important feature
embodied in this phonograph is that
instead of the Edison wax cylinder for
receiving and reproducing speech, Mr.
Paulson substitutes a steel band or
is received, B rings off and the tele-
graphone goes out of action. This can
be repeated a number of times, and
the messages then read by A when he
returns. Such an arrangement has
been introduced at Copenhagen, and is
said to work satisfactorily.
An Fxeltins Run.
The following incident in Lord
Wolseley's military career is recorded
as having taken place when he was in
his twenties, and had been in the
British army three years. He speaks of
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THE PALACE OF CONGRESSES
steel wire. Moreover, this type of
phonograph is intended to be used on-
ly in connection with a telephone. The
steel band referred to passes between
the poles of a small electromagnet, the
coil of which is connected with a tele-
phone. The pulsation of the current
caused by speaking into the telephone
varies the strength of the electromag-
net, which in turn affects the magnet-
I ism of the steel band. The band is
thus variably magnetized at different
portions of its length, corresponding
to the variations of the speech current,
and will keep in this state for a long
period. When again passed between
the poles of the same or similar elec-
tromagnet. it reproduces the initial
variations of current, and the speech
is again heard through the telephone.
In this way the steel band can be used
. tvio mMcaco n errpflt num-
it himself as the most exciting expe-
rience of his life. It was in Burma,
and Wolseley was in charge of a small
detachment. During the advance he
had the bad luck to fall into a deep
hole, and when he crawled out found
himself on the enemy's side. As he
emerged, he was met with such a
shower of bullets that he slid back in
short order. After a few minutes he
came out again, and amid a vigorous
volley, ran for his lire. He was near-
ly two hundred yards from the British
line, and was hit three times before
he reached a place of safety. Youths
Companion.
C roused Wires.
Grasshoppers have been known to
stop a railroad train, and snakes or
eels have often been drawn into a
water-pipe with disagreeable results
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SCENE IN AN ALGERIAN COFFEE
ROOM
(hewed on Diamond Till Its S>mluet-rj
Wan Destroyed.
Allegheny has produced the cham-
pion dog story of the season, says tho
Pittsburg Press. It is a champion
dog because it chewed the corner of
a diamond stud. Peter Donaldson, a
second ward saloonkeeper, is a little
sore over the loss on his diamond, for
it was damaged so that it had to be
recut, but he can't help feeling proud
of a pug dog with such power in its
jaws. The story is told by August
Lock, a jeweler on Federal street, Al- I
legheny. Donaldson walked into his
store yesterday with a diamond that
he wished reset. Mr. Lock took the
stone and on examining it found it
was cracked. He told Donaldson, who
gave the following explanation: A
few days ago Donaldson left his dia-
mond stud, a beautiful two carat gem,
on the dresser and went into an ad-
joining room. When he caine back
he noticed his pet pug dog chewing
something and saw that his diamond
was missing. Upon investigation he
found the dog had got it and crushed
the mounting out of shape. After
some time he succeeded in taking the
diamond out of the dog's mouth and at
his earliest convenience started to
have it reset. Mr. Lock then examined
more closely and discovered the dog
had bitten a piece from the stone and
damaged it badly. Donaldson was cer-
tain the stone was perfect before the
dog got it in his mouth. He could
scarcely credit the jeweler's statement
until lie saw it through the magnify-
ing glass. Telling of the matter this
morning Mr. Lock said; 1 have been
in the jewelry business for thirty-five
years and it was the first time I ever
heard of such a ease. The diamond
was a beauty and to all appearances as
hard as the ordinary diamond. One
corner, however, about one-fourth of a
oarat, 'had been bitten off by the dog.
'The dog that can bite pieces off a
diamond is a wonder.' The stone had
to be recut and set and that cost a fair
sum. There is a great moral in this
case, too. It demonstrates the fact
that a pug dog has more power in its
jaws than the average person imagines
and the moral is that people should
keep their gems out of their pets'
reach. The news of Donaldson's dog
chewing up a diamond is widespread
in Allegheny and every person wants
to se the dog that has eclipsed all his
canine friends. The case is being talk-
ed about everywhere and all claim that
Allegheny leads the country with the
sensation.
The pillory and whipping post have
proved their efficacy in Delaware in
the cases of petty offenders against
the law. While not an absolute pre-
ventive of petty crimes, their success
is such that few persons who have
once been pilloried and whipped re-
turn to have the penalty repeated.
They either reform or leave the state,
except occasionally a hardened crim-
inal who cannot be either reformed oi
exiled.
While undergoing the punishment of
the pillory the victim is almost per-
fectly motionless, hardly being able to
move his head or hands. In some
instances, however, where the neck
of the prisoner is small, he can move
it enough to keep him from getting
the cramp in it, as is often the case.
There have been cases where a prison-
er has chewed tobacco during the
whole time of his incarceration, which
is never less than one hour, and in
aggravated cases sometimes is two
hours.
After the pillory comes the public
whipping. The prisoner in this case
Is stripped of his shirt and coat and,
with h's back exposed, his hands in
iron cuffs, fastened with spikes, he
leans forward hugging the post as it
were, while the sheriff applies the
lash. The mark of the rawhide is
plainly left on the culprit's back, who
endeavors to bear up under it, but
coming as it does in rapid succession
and almost in the same spot Invariably
he squirms and twists, as If to stave
off tho effects of it. For cases of
homesick. The mother and the babies
are well, she writes. She takes good
care of them; 1 take care of them all.
What more care I? By and by I will
stay ashore." Since the Martina Jo-
hanna sailed from Krlmpln, eight years
ago, she has had nine different crews,
has traveled all over the globe, and
bas visited every important seaport in
the world outside of Europe. Several
times the hark has been almost
wrecked. Of the original crew only
the captain and his mate remain.
LOVE'S ROCKY ROAD.
A (ilrl Imprisoned by Her Father jhi<
Kept from Marrying.
Like mediaeval days is the sequel to
the sensational threats made by th«
father of Mary McAllister and Joseph
llerry against the life of W. C. Mc-
Namara when he went to the McAl-
lister home at Sioux Falls, Iowa, to
marry Mary as reparation for the scan-
dal In which she figured. The father
has spirited her away, it is believed, to
a convent. In habeas corpus proceed-
ings begun by McNamara to force the
McAllisters to produce their daughter,
Joseph Berry, a rival for the wealthy
girl, reluctantly testified that she was
imprisoned in her home two weeks
ago, and that she has not been per-
mitted to see or receive letters from
' any one. She is 20 years of age, but
her parents have forcibly restrained
her from marrying the man of her
choice.
Some (ireat Floods.
Disregard for proper authority killed
a town called Greenville, on the Mis-
sissippi l iver. The great Mississippi Is
only kept in its bed by gigantic em-
bankments called levees. Nowadays
they are kept up by the state, but at
one time each town along tbe banks
had a section to look after. The peo-
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done.
Snoblsm apart, there are reasons
why Americans may find relief and
comfort in and around the Palais des
Congres. Snobisme, in the modern
Parts jargon, refers to that hunger and
thirst after "correctness" in learning,
literature, art and living, which, in its
eagerness to "get there, adopts and
proclaims principles even before per-
fectly understanding them. It is hard
to imagine a photographic snob, but
there are certainly hygienic snobs.
The Britisher who after an hour's ac-
quaintance brags to you about his
maiming bawtli may be suspected of
,-inobisme. While it goes without saj -
Ing that the snobs of, say, hypnotism,
women's work, anti-slavery, social
science and the history of religions
will find in the Palais des Congres
precious facilities for the blowing of
ttUWr little horns, there will still be
ber of times. When it is desired to
use the telegraphone to receive a new
message, all that is necessary is to
pass the band between the poles of a
strong electromagnet or to send an
electric current through it. Then all
the magnetism of the steel band will
disappear and it will be again ready
for use. It is proposed to use the in-
strument in connection with telephone
central stations, and it Is already thus
used in several places in Denmark. As
an example of this application, the
case will be considered of a telehone
subscriber, A, who leaves his office,
after having adjusted his instrument
to receive messages during his ab-
sence, and also answer any inquiries
concerning the time he will be back.
B, another subscriber, rings him up.
The telegraphone is put into action by
the ringing up, and tells that A Is not
in, but that it will be pleased to re-
ceive the message for him. When this
but what is probably the first story
of a snake's interference with telegra-
phy comes from Country Life. Early
last November there was trouble on
the wires north of London. Tests were
at once made, and the difficulty was
located a few miles north of Peter-
borough. A lineman was sent on his
bicycle, and found a dead snake, four
feet long, which had been thrown up
over the wires by boys. The snake's
body was causing a short circuit, and
interrupting the messages of the
world's metropolis. The trouble was
remedied in half an hour from the
time it was first discovered. Another
story is told of a mysterious interfer-
ence with messages on the wires be-i
tween Kansas City and Denver. The
Interruption was variable. At last
it was discovered that a young cow-
herd on the prairie had driven spikes
Into a telegraph-pole, climbed it. and
placing a piece of board across the
Diamond Costs 875.000.
Only five years ago the large t stone
known to the history of jewels was
found in washing" the "blue ground"
taken from the Jagersfontein mine 111
the Orange Free State, lately visited
by the Brigade of Guards in the line of
their advance. It was blue-white in
color, and weighed in the rough over
900 carats, but It had to lie cut into
two separate stones for the market.
The wonderful processes of nature had
crystallized It Into two oval figures,
connected by a narrow band. As yet,
it is said that no purchaser has been
found for so costly a curiosity. Tho
biggest mounted diamond in the worl I
is the Orloff. set in the scepter of the
czar of Russia. I myself saw it at
the coronation in Moscow. It is shap-
ed like half of a pigeon's egg. It
weighs 194 carats, while the ICoh-l-Nul
of her majesty goes but to 100. One
of the finest diamonds in Asia, that
taken by Abbas Mirza at Khorassan
In 1832, is of 132 carats, and was long
used by a Persian peasant as a flint
with which to strike fire on his tinder
box. The Persian name for the dia-
mond is "almas." Blue, yellow and
black diamonds are fairly common,but
a red stone Is very rare. That of ten
carats in the Russian regalia cost $75,-
000. Don't drop your diamonds, wom-
en, on a hard place simply because
they are called in Greek ' unbreak-
able." They will split with tragic cer-
tainty if struck at the angle of their
natural cleavage. The largest ruby
possessed by any owner is that which
Gustavus of Sweden gave to the em-
press of Russia. It is as big as a ban-
tam's egg. Australia is greatest in the
way of jewels with her opals, today,
outdoing even Hungary and Mexico
in those lovely stones. If you make a
ruby hot it becomes green, but goes
back again presently to its own color.
—London Telegraph.
APPLYING THE LASH.
minor larceny the sentence of the
court is not over 10 or IB lashes, oc-
casionally however, when an old of-
fender is arraigned before the court,
he gets 20 or sometimes 30. The high-
est number ever given in Delaware
was 60 lashes.
There is an agitation in Delaware
at the present time for the abolish-
ment of the pillory and the whipping j
post, but it is not likely that it will
be successful.
Illiteracy in North I'arolliui.
Illiteracy in North Carolina is in-
creasing, particularly among the
whites. By the census of 1870 there
were 38,111 illiterate white voters in
North Carolina; in 1880, 44,420; in
1890, 49.570—an average increase of
S00 illiterate voters a year, and a total
of 21 per cent of the entire white vot-
ing population.
Motor Car for Warfare.
A patent was issue recently for a
"motor driven car for use in war-
fare." It is nothing more than a bat-
tleship on wheels, or an armored au-
tomobile full of guns and other terri-
fying weapons, and also adapted to be
so charged with electricity that rash
storming parties attempting to board
It will Instantly be electrocuted.
NEVER SAW HIS TWINS.
Klgtit Yours Old, and Horn After the
Father Nailed.
Loving wives who pout and mope
and think themselves neglected when
their husbands are kept away from
home for a week on business should
take example from good Vrou Van der
Laag, wife of the captain of tho Dutch
bark Johanna of Krimpen. Capt. \ an
der Laag, whose ship is now in New
York city taking on a cargo of oil for
Adelaide, N. S. W., has not been home
for eight years, and it will probably
be two years more before he sees his
wife and twin daughters. In fact, this
roving mariner has never seen the
twins. They were born a week after
the Martina Johanna last set sail from
her home port in 1892. He has not
known the happiness of watching those
thin buds blossom nor of pacing the
floor at night, one on each arm, nor of
feeding paragoric to them. Perhaps
when at la3t he does go home and first
embraces his wife the twins will be
greatly shocked that mamma lets a
strange man kiss her. Hut his wife
does not complain. She writes to him
in soft, mellifluous Dutch: "I await
thee, my husband, for me the only
man." And the captain is patient, too.
Said he a few days ago: "It's all in a
day's work. When a man takes to the
sea he had better get seasick than
pie of Greenville proved callously care-
less. They allowed the strong current
to eat deep into the bank without re-
placing the soil. The result was that
one April night the river came down
in flood, tore a yawning gap in the
worn levee, and swept Greenville and
most of its people from the face of the
earth. Johnstown, the Pennsylvania
town wiped out by the bursting of tho
Conemaugh dam on May 31, 1889,
owed this shocking disaster and the
loss of 6,000 lives directly to the in-
credible carelessness of its authorities,'
who were warned the dam was inse-
cure, but refused to move in the mat-
ter.
Illddled with Bulletfl.
While riding in a street car at Au-
gusta, Ga., Alexander Whitney, a so-
cial leader, was shot and instantly
killed by William Willis, a negro.
Whitney had some trouble with u
friend of the negro's about a seat in
the car, and when he slapped him.
Willis pulled a revolver and shot
Whitney. The murderer was arrested,
and while being taken to the jail a
crowd took the negro from a train and
hurried him into the woods. Gov.
Candler ordered out the militia, but
before the soldiers arrived an attempt
was made to hang him. When the rope
broke he was instantly riddled with
bullets.
Kloped Five Time*.
For the fifth time since taking the
marriage vows Mrs. James Duffy of
Shamokin, Pa., has eloped with Wal-
lace Hummel and deserted her husband
and three children. For years she
has been friendly with Hummel, and
on five different times they ran away
together, but each time the woman
returned and was forgiven by her pa-
tient husband, and now Mm. Duffy is
anxious to return to the bosom of her
family,
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1900, newspaper, June 22, 1900; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117179/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.