The Labor Signal. (Oklahoma City, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1903 Page: 12 of 16
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Nellie Ett Ileen married a China-
man, and Is now on a fair way to own
a North Dakota l'arm by special act of
Congress. The family history of tha
lleens came up in the House of Repre-
sentatives this week, when a bill was
passed granting to Nellie Ett Heen tha
south half of the northwest quarter ol
and lot 4 of section " and lot 1 of sec-
tion 3, In township 154, north of range
101 west, in the State of North Da-
kota. When all of this was transmit-
ted to the House after being read
by the clerk it was found that Nellie
Ett Heen was a white woman who had
married a Chinaman. The Chinaman
had duly taken up a land claim, and
the preliminary papers had passed
muster. After the required number
of years had been spent on the farm
and the necessary improvements
made to "prove up," the land office
discovered that Heen was an Orien-
tal, and also that no Chinaman could
become a citizen of the United States
and that no one not a citizen of the
United States could secure land under
the homestead act.
The appeal was then made to Con-
gress for a special act deeding the
land to Nellie Ett, the Chinaman's
white wife, and when this explanation
was made there was no objection tc
the passage of the bill.—Washington
Star.
PRISONER READ THE BIBLE.
Young Inventors the Rule.
That rare quality of the mind which
enables a man to be a real inventoi
seems to pronounce itself more in
youth than in middle life. Youth is
the time of application, and there are
certain elements in the ordinary make-
up of a young man that may be fos-
tered in his probationary period. To
Marconi's tenacity of purpose the
world will owe much. He is now only
30. It is now five years since he sent
Queen Victoria's memorable message
from ashore by wireless telegraph to
the prince of Wales on his yacht. The
young Italian has never faltered in
his ambition. "Tom" Edison, the king
of all inventors, and the first to con-
gratulate Marconi, was 26 when he
devised the wonderful quadruplex sys-
tem of telegraphy. At 34 he had two
salons of the Paris electrical exhibi-
tion filled with his inventions. The
old-timers, too, with the divine gift ol
invention, were all young men. Elias
Howe, at 20, had invented the sew
ing machine. Sir Henry Bessemer al
25 was on" of the "forty immortals'
of the French academy.
Sing Sing Convict Gave Proof of His
Familiarity With the Scriptures.
One of the institutions of the state
penitentiary at Sing Sing, N. Y., which
seems 111 in keeping with the char-
acter of the Inmates is a Sunday
school, at which all the convicts are
present, perhaps not from choice, but
by invitation of the warden. Yet per-
haps it is a mark of diligence and en-
thusiasm that each and every pupil
invariably insists that he never neg-
lects an educational opportunity.
A few days since the school teacher
(an inmate) delivered a lecture to his
class upon physiological anatomy. He
drew the shape of the heart, the lungs,
the liver, upon the blackboard and de-
scribed tho functions of each, and ho
concluded his lecture with especially
Interesting and instructive information
about the kidneys.
The lecture finished, the teacher, In
dwelling upon another matter, had oc-
casion to refer to the Bible.
Said he:
"I wish to say to you that, outside of
the spiritual benefit to be derived from
the Bible, there is so much of value
to be obtained from it that every man
should be thoroughly conversant with
it. How many of you read the Bible?"
| With the ever-present readiness to
exhibit thirst for knowledge each hand
phot an enthusiastic affirmative quick-
ly into the air. Even the teacher was
astonished, and perhaps somewhat in-
dignant, too, at so many barefaced lies
on such a sacred subject, for he sud-
denly pointed to a bright-eyed Italian
and demanded:
I "You read the Bible, do you? Tell
me, of what does the book of Genesis
treat?"
I With absolutely no show of hesita-
tion tho answer came, loud and
strong:
"The kidneys!"
WRONGS DONE TO CHILDREN.
She With the Violin.
A strain of music 'mid the trees,
Set forth by dimpled hands.
More sweet than all the melody
Of unseen fairy bands
Comes out to me to cliarm my ear;
T hearken, then begin
To know the old familiar tunes
Played on her violin.
I hold my breath to listen:
'Tis faint, but oh. how sweet!
I'd go the world around to hear
And worship at her feet.
I wish that all the winds would cease
And warblers hush their din.
That 1 might feast my soul the while
She plays her violin.
Enchanted by the tuneful spell,
I follow in its train;
I catch one glimpse at' her fair face,
1 hear one glad refrain.
And. as she draws her bow across
The strings beneath her chin,
I long to kiss the lips of her
Who plays the violin.
How a Great Invention Was Born.
The production of the weavei
came from a native of Bury—the in-
vention of the fly shuttle in the yeai
1733.
Before this invent-on for weaving
we were not superior to any other in
the world. The mummy cloths ol
Egypt, the robes of the Queen of
Sheba or of Cleopatra, and the tapes-
tries of Babylon, of the vestments ol
the cavaliers, the garments of Queen
Anne, were all spun and woven by
simple tools differing very little from
one another. The distaff and the
spinster's wheel an 1 rude frames call-
ed looms were the only methods
known to mankind before this great
Invention of Kay of Bury.—Cas3ler'*
Magazine.
Notable Examples of What Might Be
Called Refined Cruelty.
For refined cruelty in the naming of
children it would be hard to b«t the
Rev. Lyulph Plantaganet Tollemache,
a clergyman In the west of England.
Probably infuriated at his own name,
he has named his three youngest
daughters Lyons Decima, Lyonetta
Edith and Lyonella Fredegunda. One
of his sons is Leo Quintus Tollemache
Tollemache do Gremna Tollemache
and another bends under the stagger-
ing "Christian" name of Lyulph
Ydwallo Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa
Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Planta-
genet.
! The man who has the heart to give
to his children such names as these is
cousin to the Earl of Dysart and a
clergyman in good standing—that is,
in good standing with everybody ex-
cept his children, probably, who can-
not help resenting being sent into the
world with such handicaps.
The only parallel to the names of
the children of the Rev. Mr. Tolle-
mache, says the New York Mail and
Express, is found in the name of an
aged negro who some years ago used
to wander about the New England
cities playing for pennies on an accor-
dion. He worried along In the name
of Glorious Valorious George Wash-
ington Peck Hamilton Stout.
The Risk of Ballooning.
Considering the risks which aero-
nauts necessarily take every time they
make an ascent the science or sport
or trade (for it partakes of all three)
is extraordinarily free from fatal acci-
dents. Mr. Charles Green, who made
over 600 trips, died at the age of
eighty-four in 1870. Twenty years lat-
er M. Eugene Godard, who had made
quite 2,000 ascents, died In his bed.
On the other hand, amonjr British bal-
loonists, Capt. Dale was killed before
he had completed 200, and Capt. Whe-
lan also, in 1892, met his death in his
three hundred and fifteenth ascent.
Mr. Percival Spencer, the most noted
living English aeronaut, has probably
beaten all these records, and has in
addition made parachute descents on
all the continents and In most of the
seas surrounding them.
QVAINT AMERICAN VILLAGE
Little Town in Ohio Whose Inhabitants Live in Primitive
Simplicity
There is one village in the United
States where no modern improvement
has ever penetrated, where not the
faintest echo of the rush and over-
work of modern life has ever sounded,
where American newspapers are not
read nor the English language spoken.
This is the little German village of
Glandorf, in Putnam county, Ohio,
where COO frugal and industrious in-
habitants have lived for years in a
contented and idyllic simplicity.
In the building of the town, as in
everything else about it, the people
have held very closely to the customs
of Germany, from where its founders
came. There is but one street, and
that extends for over a mils, generally
north and south. Quaint, durable and
homelike are the houses scattered
along either side, interspersed here
and there by the stores. All the resi-
dences have spacious and well-kept
dooryards. Back and away from the
principal street—yet so near that the
laborers can he seen and heard at
their work in the fields—stretch the
thrifty farms of the German country
folk. It is not an uncommon sight to
see women and girls at work in tho
fields with the men, and the whole
population shows that rugged health
so characteristic of the race.
Among themselves the people con-
verse almost entirely in the German
language, and, indeed, there are a
great many of the community who can
speak no other. They are generous
and clever, and the stranger who goes
among them always finds a hospitable
welcome, and is impressed with their
simple kindness. Nowhere can bo
found a more devoutly religious peo-
ple. They are of the Catholic faith,
and possess on of the finest church
buildings in northwestern Ohio.
This edifice has in itself been tha
means of making Glandorf famous, be-
cause of its size and the beauty of its
architecture. Although most of tha
work of construction, the quarrying of
the stone for the foundation and the
hauling of the material, was given
gratis by members of the parish, the
cost outside of all this was over $50,
000. The structure is of brick and is
ornamented with white sandstone.
Back of the church is the convent,
and all of the work of the farm con-
nected with it is looked after by the
sisters.
The people of the parish are very
strict in their church duties.—New
York Herald.
We would all be better if we could
have a chance to try to live up to our
obituary notices.
1 AN IMPROMPTU BAPTIZING 5
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r Old Dafky Recalls Amusing Incident of "Buck'' Duke's
Boyhood Days ^
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"Buck Duke," noted all over the
world as the American tobacco king,
has no religion worth speaking of,
yet a negro barber at Durham, N. C.,
insists that he is a Baptist, created
so in due and regular form. The other
Sunday Mr. Duke was in the town
named, and the next morning he sent
for a negro barber, who is an old
friend of the tobacco king, and who,
besides being an artist in his profes-
sion, possesses oratorical powers in
no mean degree, and frequently fills
the pulpit on Sunday. At this time
the congregation of which he is a
member, is struggling to build a new
church and needs money badly. Mr.
Duke asked the barber if he was
preaching much these days, and was
answered in the affirmative. "Marse
Buck," then inquired if he believed
in sanctification on earth. The barber
said he preached it, and it was neces-
sary to have something of the kind
to stir the emotion of the members of
his flock, otherwise he could not con-
trol them. Then said the barber:
"Marse Buck, is you much of a Bap-
tist these days?"
"Why do you think I am a Baptist?"
asked the other.
"Marse Buck, doan you remember
dat day out here on Eno river when
Dr. Frost was baptizin' dat great mul-
titude when you was a small boy,
and you and one ob de Graham boys
and one ob der Turner boys was a set-
tin' on a big limb ob a water oak out
over de hole where Dr. Frost was
puttin' dem under de water? Right
in de midst of de most 'portant part
ob de ceremony dat limb break, and
all youse boys fall inter de river, and
old doctor he look on with 'stonish-
ment and den lif up his hand toward
heaben and say, 'I baptize dem boys
by de bunch, Amen.' " Then Mr. Duke
laughed until his eyes filled with tears
and said he had not thought of that
occurrence for forty years.
When the barber left the house Mr.
Duke banded him a sealed envelope,
saying he had no change, but there
was a check In the envelope, which ha
could carry to the bank in the morn-
ing. When the cashicr opened the
envelope next morning and saw what
the amount was he asked the barber
if he knew what the check called for.
He said he supposed $10 as a present
from "Marse Buck." The cashier told
him it was for $3,000, and the barber
put the same to the credit, of the fund
with which to complete the church.
The Watch in Hot Weather.
Some men are as prone to take up a
fashion as women. A few years ago it
became a fashion to wear the watch in
the upper outside pocket of the coat,
fastening the bar of the chain in the
buttonhole of the lapel, so that the
chain ornamented that part of the gar-
ment.
Then the fashion disappeared. It
has returned, and during the first
warm days of last week when waist-
coats were discarded the tendency to
transfer the watch to the upper out-
side pecket of the coat was very
marked.
An authority on such matters says
the fashion originated in New York
when negligee wear was more of a
novelty among men than it is now.
The same authority adds that the
watch in the coat pocket is a better
mode of wearing it than in the pocket
of the negligee shirt.
How to Pronounce Boer Names.
Recent discussions as to the proper
pronunciation of certain Boer names
has led a London newspaper to in-
quire how the Boers themselves pro-
nounce the r.ames of De Wet, Delarey,
Botha, Steyn and Leyds. If Boer
usage is to prevail De Wet 3s De Vet,
Delarey has the accent on the last
syllable, just as De la Rue. Botha is
Bota, with the accent on the first
syllable. Steyn and Leyds are "Stain"
and "Laids" respectively.
A lie slips through the telephone
while the truth lingers to get itself
typewritten.
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