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AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS.
Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills After
Years of Suffering.
F. A. Rippy, Depot Ave., Gallatin,
Teun., says
"Fifteen years ago kid-
ney disease attacked
me. The pain in my
back was so agoniz-
ing I finally liad to
give up work. Then
came terrible attacks
of gravel with acute
pain and passages of
blood. In all I passed
25 stones, some as
large as a bean.
Nine years of this ran me down to a
state of continual weakness and I
thought I never would be better until
1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
The improvement was rapid, and since
using four boxes 1 am cured and have
never had any return of the trouble."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
LEFT IT TO MRS. BROWN.
THE DAVIS NEWS.
By FAY L. CROSSETT.
DAVIS,
THE FIRST ST. PAUL'S.
Reverend Gentleman Very Willing to
Evade Responsibility.
The trust and dependence which
characterized Rev. Mr. Brown s atti-
tude toward his wife's judgment In all
practical affairs were sometimes
touching, but occasionally they were
amusing.
"I'm sorry you've been troubled with
the toothache," said the family dent-
ist, when Mr. Brown appeared in his
office one day. "I gave you the first
minute I had freo after receiving your
wife's telephone message. Let's see.
which tooth is it that's troubling you?"
"M m. It's not aching just at pres-
ent," said Mr. Brown, after a mo-
ment's hesitation, during which he
made a cautious investigation with his
tongue. "Didn't Mrs. llrowu mention
lo you which tooth it was? I always
rely on her in such matters."—Youth's
Companion.
PRESCRIBED CUTICURA
After Other Treatment Failed—Raw
Eczema on Baby's Face Had
Lasted Three Months—At Last
Doctor Found Cure.
For Better Roads.
Many Americans who live in or near
large cities would be surprised to hear
it stated that the United States has
the poorest roads of any civilized
country in the world. Nevertheless,
the statement is declared by all who
have had opportunity to learn by ex-
perience to be unquestionably true,
when the roads of the whole country
are considered. Lately there has been
much criticism of the automobile as
being destructive of good roads. The
damage is so great that in France the
government has been forced to take
up the matter, and is even now study-
ing preventive plans. In the United
States, however, it may be that the
automobile will yet prove a powerful
influence in better roads. The Ameri-
can Automobile association has re-
cently held a two days' good roads
convention in Buffalo, at which pro-
vision was made for practical demon
stratlons of the best methods of road
building and repairing, and for experi-
ments looking toward the discovery of
a binding material for surfacing roads
which will not be sucked out by tho
pneumatic tires. There are signs, too,
says Youth's Companion, that, the old
policy of throwing upon the towns tho
burden of building the roads and keep-
ing them In repair is to be superseded
by the more sensible plan of having
the state do it. The towns will, of
course, care for their own streets, but
the main highways should be built and
cared for by the state, as they are in
France, Germany and Switzerland
The national government has decided
to send the director of the department
of roads to the international good
roads convention which will open in
France in October, and at which the
problem of the automobile and the
roads will receive especial attention.
"Our baby boy broke out with ec-
zema on his face when one month old.
One place on the side of his face the
size of a nickel was raw like beefsteak
for three months, and he would cry
out when I bathed the parts that were
sore and broken out. I gave him
three months' treatment from a good
doctor, but at the end of that time the
child was no better. Then my doctor
recommended Cuticura. After using
a cake of Cuticura Soap, a third of a
box of Cuticura Ointment, and half a
bottle cf Cuticura Resolvent ho was
well and his face was as smooth as any
baby's. He is now two years and a
half old and no eczema has reappeared.
Mrs. M. L. Harris, Alton, Kan., May
14 and June 12, 1907."
MEMORY.
Begun After London's Great Fire of
1136 and in Ashes After 1666.
The church was begun after the
first great fire of 1136, but not finally
completed until 1498. The spire was
considered the handsomest and was
the tallest in Europe, rising to a height
of 520 feet above tho pavement. On
the top was a ball supporting a cross
and terminating in an eagle. At tho
west end of the edifice were two mas-
sive towers, one of which contained I
lock-up for ecclesiastical offenders |
and was known as the Lollards' tower, j
The bishop's palace was on the north
side, and behind it was the great
church of gray friars, on the site of
the choir of which Christ church, New-
gate. now stands. At first old St.
'aul's had no cloister, but in 1332 tho
garden of the dean and chapter was
taken for the purpose and the roof
of the chapter house may be detected
rising on the western side of tho
south , transept. There was n'so a
school for tho choir boys at the east
end.
The interior of the cathedral was
very spacious, but was much blocked
up with monuments. Those to Sir
Philip Sydney, in the north aisle of
the choir near to Sir Francis Walsing-
hain, and one of enormous size to Sir
Christopher Hatton, in the south ais!c,
were there in Shakespeare's time. An
older tomb was that of Sir John Beau-
My mind lets go a thousand things.
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings,
And yet recalls the very hour—
'Twas noon by yonder village tower,
And on the last blue noon in May—
The wind came briskly up this way.
Crisping the brook beside the road;
Then, pausing here, set down its load
Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly
Two petals from that wild rose tree.
—-Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
A Peg-Leg Ghost
—+.—
By Wellington Vandiver
(Copyright, by 8hortatory Pub. Co.)
I was raised among the plantations
of southern Alabama, had an old black
mammy and was imbued with all the
superstitions of my foster-mother. And
though I've lived to have many of
them knocked out of me. there are
some that have worked in deeper than
the skin. Thero was an old "cunjah"
(conjure) nigger on my father's plan-
tation when I was a lad, and I be-
lieved jus* ps firmly in his miraculous
• , ~i i ,i i . u * .«♦ nevc." a® I now trust iu the efficacy
champ, popularly believed to be that ^
of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, who
was,
"To dine with Duke Humphrey" meant
recently decided case. Why, I've
. v, I . i seen i.im do things that would make
however, burled In St. Alban s ® , .. t
you- hair stand on end, and that no
book of philosophy I've ever read
could account for.
Every darky within ten miles of
that place would have suffered death
before arousing the enmity of that
old "cunjah" doctor, and no young
buck or maid ever began a courting af-
fair without first procuring a lov6
charm from old Cato.
I left the place and grew up to man-
hood, and had almost forgotten all
about conjuring and such trash, when
an incident in the trial of a criminal
to wander dinnerless in the cathedral
nave. St. Paul's was a cathedral of
what is known as "the old founda-
tion." In churches of this type there
was a dean assisted by canons, who
were responsible for dally services.
They were not monks, but ordained
clergymen, each of them endowed
with an estate. Most of these estates
were in the neighborhood of London,
and the canons, their owners, lived on
them as country squires. By degrees )
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ARTESIAN LANDS
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Our subdivision and plan of sale of
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80After awhile he arose, and taking l>">'">K RENT and WORKING
a short, black, thick wand from undei
his blanket, he walked ten steps back
wards, and stooping over, ho began
to draw, upside down, on the ground
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HAD HEARD THEM
That readiness in an emergency
which made the New Englanders the
wonder of the world has not been en-
tirely lost in these latter days. A
Connecticut farmer has recently ex-
hibited it. The man found four boys
stealing his early apples, and gave
chase to them. He was handicapped,
however, by the loss of a leg—he left,
tt on the battlefield at Antietam—and
had to get along with a wooden sub-
stitute. When he was about to reach
out and seize one of the running boys
by the shoulder his wooden leg went
down a hole in the ground and broke
In two. The boys stopped to jeer
bim; but he took a string from his
pocket and spliced the broken leg so
juickly that he was up again and at
them before they realized what had
nappened. He caught the boy he was
«\fter, and the others surrendered.
There ore several morals to this tale,
but the most obvious one is that men
with wooden legs ought always to
carry string in their pockets to be
provided against accidents.
they all leased away their prebends,
and the modern canons are specially
endowed, but without the estates. The
edifice was destroyed in the great fire
of 1666, when history records that the
lead of its roof and rebuilt spire "ran
off like water."—Scientific American.
Made Trouble for Jones.
A bunch of young fellows in To-
peka have a poker club. Once a week
they get together and play a little
penny game, at which none can either
lose or win very much. For convenience,
ono of the number will be called Jones,
which is not his label in the directory.
Jonos' wife didn't want him to go, but
ho finally pacified her by telling her
that he would give her all his win-
nings of that evening's play, and
would also be home by 11 o'clock. Ho
played four hours and won $1.85. Just
as soon as he got home he handed
i o^er his winnings.
About 15 minutes later the rest of
I case recalled it all again very vividly
I was called on to defend a splendid
specimen of the; negro race for killing
his wife. He was a Hercules in
bronze, and had lived happily with a
quadroon wife until ho had the mis-
| fortune to lose his leg in falling from
the roof of a house—he being a car-
penter by trade. After this his wife
seemed to have lost affection for him;
I she allowed the attentions of other
men, and worked him into a frenzy
with her flirtations. He remonstrated,
she continued; he threatened, she re-
plied with counter threats; and one
day. when fully convinced of her in-
fidelity to him, he came to town, pur-
chased a pistol, announced his inten-
tion to kill her. hobbled a mile with
the loaded pistol openly In his hand,
and reaching home, followed by a curi-
ous crowd, he deliberately walked up
to his wife, put the pistol against her
bosom, and shot her five times; then
the familiar diagram that the children
used to use in playing the old outdoor
game, "hop-scotch."
The fact is, 1 had never thought ot
what geometric figures there wero in
that old hop-scotch game. First, you
know, there is a parallelogram, then,
on top of that a square, then on this
follow four right-angled triangles, and
lastly, an arch.
In each corner of this diagram he
placed small dolls made of the resin
of the pine tree, figures fashioned
rudely like a woman, and stooping
over them he blew his breath on them
and all at once each of those puppets
broke out into flame as quickly as a
skyrocket and continued burning as
long as we stayed.
Around all this he drew a large clr
cle, still walking backward, and mum'
bling in an undertone in a way to
make your flesh crawl; the fact Is, he
reminded me of old "Horse-Leg" Jones
at a backwoods prayer meeting, ex
cept that old "Horse-Leg" had a differ
ent way of breathing through his nose.
Well, I got so Interested that 1
couldn't stay away from near the olo
sorcerer, and inadvertently I stepped
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world. 700 lots on 8%'e. chit l*rma. Alio ••rm
and garden lands. Write for descriptive Hum*
the crowd wandered home by Jones' 1 stumped away, leaving her dead, with
Judge—Do you understand the na-
ture of an oath?
She—I'm a telephone girl, judge.
Sometimes Hard to Tell.
George Eliot says that the exprcs-
Bion on a woman's face when she is
sewing tells the story of the woman s
heart. If she is happy and contented,
or possibly slovenly and indifferent,
she may smile and look the happi-
ness she either feels or is incapable
of feeling. If she has many things to
worry her and is possibly planning
how to make ten cents do a dollav s
worth of good, or if she is naturally a
vixen, it will show in her face, so aft-
er all it is not safe to predicate at to
what her sewing face reveals.
Light In the Dark Continent.
There is a new ray of light for
Africa. Belgium has decided to take
under national control the region of
the Congo. Not since tho days when
Great Britain was aroused to a white
heat by Armenian massacres has there
been so much international indigna-
tion as in recent years over reported
atrocities in the valley of the Congo.
To be sure, there have been pro and
con, and the controversy has been
general, says the Boston Herald, that
the exploitation f! the resources of
the Congo has given much more atten-
tion to the size of the product than to
the life and happiness of the natives.
Perhaps the fittest and most hopeful
comment is the fact that Belgium It-
self has taken this African dependen-
I cy from the personal control of the
sovereign, King Leopold, and has
made national the government and
house. One of them stopped under
the Joneses' bedroom window.
"I'll bet," he said, plenty loud
enough for Mrs. Jones to hear, "I'll
just bet that old dog Jones gave his
wife about $1.35, and said he won
that, and then stacked the other $45
that he cleaned us fellows for."
Jones is still trying to convince his
wife that he only won $1.85, but she
is holding out for that $45. The thing
stands In statu quo with the rest of
the poker club grinning out loud.—
Kansas City Journal.
Man and Beast Alike.
Only those who have suffered the
agony of eye afflictions can appreciate the responsibility therefor.
the blessing to humanity in Dr. Mitch-
cU'8 famous Eye Salve. Introduced in | ^re foreign-born American citizens
this region as far back as 1849 it is more .)atrjo(jc than the native-born?
found to-day in all well regulated ex-mayor of Detroit thinks that
homes hereabouts. Not alone the eyes , An r . . on(4ak
of man but those of the dumb animals some of them, at least, are. In speaK
have enjoyed its comforts. Mitchell's ing 0f the matter to a friend recently,
Eye Salve. Sold everywhere. Price 25c. J he recalled a visit from a delegation
of Poles a few days before December
The Cook and the Broth.
"The time when I get really discour-
aged," said the young housekeeper
who is learning to cook, "is when I go
to the public library and look over
the title of the cook books there.
When I read 'One Thousand Ways to
Make Soup,' 'Four Hundred Kinds of
Bread,' 'The Hundred Ways to Cook
Potatoes,' 'Eight Hundred Different
Puddings,' and Five Hundred Good
Meat Recipes,' I feel like giving up.
In comparison with all that ocean of
culinary accomplishments still unex-
plored what signify my choicest
cream tomato soup and puree of pears,
my hot biscuit and corn muffins, my
scalloped potatoes, my chocolate pud-
ding, and my chops and broiled
steaks? So far that is about the only
variety I have been able to Introduce
successfully into my bill-of-fare. When
plain food of that kind goes on the
table particularly well cooked I feel
rather proud of myself for a few min-
utes, but before my head gets a
chance to swell noticeably I remem-
ber those 3,000 other recipes that I've
got to master before I can claim to be
a skilled cook, and my conceit takes
wings."
Debts of the Rich and Poor.
Debts, as a general rule, are hardei
to be collected from the rich man
than from the slave of toll, for the
former builds upon his position in so-
ciety to excuse him from his obliga-
tions, while the latter often makes
the attempt to discharge his contracts
to preserve his standing in the com-
munity.
We Reiterate
That for more than fifteen years
Hunt's Cure has been working on the
afflicted. Its mission is to cure skin
troubles, particularly thope of an itch-
ing character. Its success is not on
account of advertising, but because it
surely does the work. One box guar-
anteed to cure any case.
Character Told by Thumb.
If the thumb be supple jointed the
individual is easy-going, spendthrift,
careless of time, money, energy, op-
portunity and all things. If It be firm
jointed he is cautious, watchful, keen,
diplomatic, tireless in planning, con-
fident and sure of success, self-poised
and self-controlling. t
Important to Mothers-
Examine carefully every bottle or
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature ofupui> „ _
In Use For Over J JO Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
The Intelligent Witness.
"What was he doing when you saw
him?" asked the judge of the witness.
"Well, sir, yer honor, ef I don't dls-
remember, he wuz a-raisin* of the
devil an' a-doin' of nothin'!"—Atlanta
Constitution.
14, 1899. They asked what program
the city had arranged for the day. The
mayor told them that he had heard of
none, and asked why they supposed
there would be any. "Why," said the
spokesman, "have you forgotten that
it is the centennial of the death of
Washington?" The mayor had for-
gotten, but he attended tho meeting
which the Poles themselves held, and
listened to an Intelligent and deeply
reverential address on the life of
Washington.
The residents of a town in Massa-
chusetts whose water has been bad
were stunned by the knowledge im-
parted to them of the reason thereof
by the state board of health. They
were informed that the cause was due
to "Aphanizomenon, one of the cyano-
phyceae." To this was added the
simple advice: "Get rid of them."
Such water as that is certainly
enough to drive any brain not under
the direct intellectual influence of
Roston to drink.
London Pretty Gay.
There Is no sort of doubt that Lon-
don is a much gayer and more attrac-
tive capital than it used to be. We
borrowed our idea of living at restaur-
ants from Paris, and now we seem to
have gone one better, for we can
boast quite a bewildering number of
gay places to dine and sup at.
Americans have discovered this, also
that our London season is longer and
decidedly more brilliant than that of
Paris. Here, too, Americans have of
late years been most warmly wel-
comed in social circles, far more so
than they are in the best French so-
ciety.
The consequence is that rich Ameri-
cans swarm over in the season, and on
the "cutlet for cutlet" principle do as
much for London society as London
society does for them. It looks Indeed
as if London were ousting Paris from
her clothing burning.
Well, he sent for me to come to the
jail and arrange about his defense.
When 1 reached his cell ho related
about what 1 have told you, and 1
frankly told him 1 saw but little chance
to prevent his being hanged. Not a
single minute did that darky wait be-
fore breaking out in a loud horse-
laugh.
"O, Lawd, colonel," said he, "dar
ain't a bit o' danger o' dat. I've got a
cunjah charm on me, made by old
Cato Feels, that's a sartin 'ventive o'
death; you just go 'long and make
your poratlon an' your 'jections, an 111
come out all right."
It was no use talking to the fellow,
and so I prepared the best defense I
could under the circumstances. Great-
ly to my astonishment, the jury after
being out four days sentenced him to
the state farm for six years!
But I haven't got to the strangest
part of the story yet. The negro gave
me a deed to ills little home, a milo
from the town, as a fee; there were
about two acres of land, a fine well of
water, and a comfortable cabin on It.
I tried to rent the cabin, but couldn't
get a darky to occupy it for love nor
money—they all said it was haunted.
In the meantime, Harry went to the
state penitentiary, and, after arriving
there he wrote me that I'd have to get
some conjure doctor to "obeah" that
is, remove the spell from the house,
or no negro would stay on the place.
Finally I got mad and had the cabin
torn down, and every vestige of the
timber burnt up, and I built two new
and modern cottages about 100 yards
west of the former location, and quite
near a public street. But all my ten-
ants In the new houses remained but a
few days, and "folded up their tents
like the Arab."
Well, I was at my wits' end. About
this time I received another letter
from my client in the penitentiary,
asking if the place had been "obeaed,
and urging that I employ old Cato
Feels to fix it so the ghosts wouldn't
That came like an in
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Ten-acre tract next surrounding five-
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Working People, Clerks, and Renters
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Into the ring old Cato had drawn; im
mediately I felt a hot streak run down
my leg, heard the horse-laugh of m>
client Harry break out exactly as it
had in the Jail, and old Cato fell to
the ground as if lightning-struck.
We poured cold water on the old
fellow, and when he got so that he
could talk, he bitterly upbraided me
for breaking the charm, saying that
the spell would now work backwards
And I'm willing to be branded as a
monumental Ananias all over America*
if every night you can't hear at that
spot the familiar hobble of the fel-
low that I know to be safe in tho pen!
tentiary walls; you can hear his laugh,
and you can see a track of rings as
round as a dollar, that no rain will
erase, and punctuated with the dot
and carry, the dent of the wooden leg
and the flat foot of Harry, running
around that spot.
It may rain floods, but the next day
thero Is the same old peg-leg track,
and every night from the street can
be heard that same horse-laugh, that
I'd swear to among a thousand voices.
In the hop-scotch ring there has
grown up a red flower, strange in
these parts, but which the florists pro-
nounce an African tiger lily, and by
which the sharp outline of the ring
is as well preserved as if a gardener
had carefully planted them.
Recently I had a letter from the
warden of the penitentiary, saying
Prepared
We have two pecks of coal;
That's going some.
We have a ham near whole,
Let winter come!
"She vowed she'd sacrifice almost
everything to marry him."
"Well?"
"She changed her mind when she
found she'd have to sacrifice almost
everything."
Pear shaped balloons are the fash
ion in Belgium. The point is upward,
the base of the balloon is spherical. It
is claimed that the balloons of this
shape pierce the air vertically ttlth
far greater speed than the ordinary
spherical balloon. Consequently they
are steadier. Also the upper pointed
end prevents the accumulation of
moisture or snow on the surface,
which frequently weighs a balloon
down and destroys its power to ri *
Safe Route for Australia
A manager of one of the lines trad-
ing to Australasia has given a Jour-
nal of Commerce representative irte
reasons which have actuated shipping
companies to adopt "lane" routes for
their vessels. The primary one is to
prevent captains taking their steam-
ers too far south, thereby risking an
encounter with the ice. The secon-
dary object is to insure that any
steamer requiring it shall have assist-
ance in the shortest time possible.
Any "lame duck" keeping the track
is bound to be picked up in a few
days by a vessel of one or other or
the lines, and in a case of fire of
other casualty where passengers
might posibly have to taKc to the
boats the risk of lives being lost
would be greatly minimized.
*hat -ery evening just at sundown
with a horse and buggy to fetch the
old rascal. He arrived three days
later—but he wouldn't put foot on the
place until midnight on the first night
the moon began to wane.
I went there with him on the night
selected, and the mayor, two drum-
mers, and a Unlvcrsallst preacher ac-
companied me.
You see. the Universailst was just
ono of those fellows who was always
looking Into the curious, and came
along anyhow.
The house hail been situated on top
of a little plateau about 75 yards
cans.—The Gentlewoman.
What good news! An alarm bell for
motors which rings automatically
when speed is raised beyond the law-
ful limit, has been invented. But stay!
won't the noise crusaders object to
this Increase of nerve-tearing sounds?
N'early every automobile will then go
ringing, as well as whizzing.
Airship Invention may make audi-
'lent progress in this country to make
t a matter of Indifference to Capt.
Hobson whether there Ib an old-fash
ioned fleet In the Pacific or not.
the position of Mecca to the Ameri- square> nnd the soil there was a slaty
white clay mixed with sand, was dead
level, and clean of grass and rubbish.
The old darky had on a red wool
blanket, which he wore Mexican-Pon-
cho fashion, a queer kettle-looking iron
hat, and was bare-footed and ban-
legged. He made us all stand at
least ten yards away from him, anil
Harry dropped Into a cataleptic sleep,
from which no power could awaken
him until the next day at dawn.
People may sneer at conjuring as
much as they like. I know the facts,
and I know that night after night
Harry's old home is haunted by a live
ghost.
"I called up to my wife It was just
12 when I came in last night, and
just then the cuckoo clock sounded
three.''
"And you cuckooed nine times to
make good. I know that old Joke.''
"So does my wife. Therefore I
dodged out and went to a hotel."
Literary Aspirations
It is announced that George Ade is
to run for congress from Indiana, saya
an exchange. Ople Read, from Chica-
go, is spoken of as an aspirant for
sheriff of Cook county. Augustus.
Thomas recently won political ap-
plause in making a nominating speech
at Denver. It is declared t'nat Mr.
Hryan would be delighted if the dem-
rats should nominate Mr. Thomas
for governor of New York. "Pete*
Dunne would not get angry, so hia
friends aBsert, if his dear friend, Mr.
Roosevelt, should nominate him for a
high place in the diplomatic corps.
Now comes news from Maine that
John Kendrick Bangs has flung hi®
castor into the political ring. George
W. Peck once was governor of Wis-
consin; Nye was a Justice of tho
peace in Wyoming; Booth Tarklng-
ton was permitted to make Impress
on the lawmaking power of Indiana,
while Robert Barr, formerly of De
troit, but now of London, is waiting
to be knighted by the King ot Eng-
land.
Superior Skill.
"Why Is It that American youth is
so lacking in reverence for mature
people?"
"Perhaps," answered MIbs Cayenne,
"It's because mature people permit
themselves to be lured Into trying charged us particularly not to come
these new games which youngsterB , c)OBe to Mm while the cbarra was
play so much better."
A Clear Conscience.
"Did you ever take advantage of
anybody in a bargain?"
"Not of recent years," answered Mr.
Cumrox. "You ace, we've been livtn'
bo much in the great capitals of Eu-
rope that I've gotten aort of sccue
tomed to boln' the feller that pajr up
without asklu' questions."
working.
He squatted down on tho ground.
and for about 15 minutes he chanted
or crooned the moet outlandish gib
berish I ever heard. It seemed to be
a sort of crude poetry, with the re-
frain of:
Halum, ukalum zaglum llllnh,
Polllon Uulllon Ipnum kllllah.
Where In thunder he got this dog „
i.atin. or what It means, 1 can't an-1 ding clothes.
Against the Law.
"In Switzerland this summer," said
a Phlladelphlan, '"I heard Charle-
magne Tower describe the stringent
police regulations of Berlin.
"Mr. Tower, by way of illustration,
concluded with a little story.
"Schmidt and Krauss met one morn-
ing in the park.
" Have you heard.' says Schmidt,
the sad news about Muller?'
" 'No,' says Krauss. 'What is It?'
" Well, poor Muller went boating on
the river yesterday. The boat cap
sized and he was drowned. Tho water
was ten feet deep.'
" 'But, couldn't he swim?'
" 'Swim? Don't you know that all
persons are Btrictly forbidden by the
police to swim in the river?'"'
A Word to the Wise.
"That lady told me that she is very
much Interested In my work."
"What, that widow?"
"Yes."
"You might as well order your wed
A government bill has been Intro-
duced In the Mexican congress provid-
ing for subsidies to the extent of $25,-
000,000 (Mexican dollar—cents)
to Irrigation enterprises to be paid
from special yearly appropriations. An-
other government blii Is for a conces-
sion for a new bank which will allow
farmers to secure long-term mort-
gage loans; the total amount of the
bonds which may be Issued by the
banking company, the principal and
Interest of which will be guaranteed
by the government, is not to exessd
$60,000,000.
A Slight Jolt.
"I want you to undersland.
said the pompous party, "that I
self-made man." , ,.
"No doubt about It," rejoined the
sarcastic individual. "But It looks to
me as if you had spent too much
time on your feet and not enough on
your head."—Chicago Dally News.
Of Courss.
-If the president dies who gets the
Job?"
"The vice-president.
"No; the undertaker."—Judgs.
sir,"
am a
Gen. Dabney H. Maury tells In hla
"Recollections of a Virginian" of an
old lady In Fredericksburg who was
reduced to taking In boardera In ordes
to make both ends meet. On one o
caston of stress the larder was so
empty that the good woman took t«
her bed and summoned her servant
"Nancy," she Bald, "there's nothing to
the house for my boarders to eat ex
cept mush. But give them that. Ik
they are Christians they will accept II
In resignation and thankfulness. And
if they are not Christians, It is a deal
too good for them."
No Personal Damage.
"Did you have a pleasant trip?" they
asked him.
"Yea." Bald the returned aeronaut,
"until we landed. Wo came down In
a farmer'B pasture, where there was a
big red bull. We got away safely, but
the—er—balloon Is there yet."—Chi-
cago Tribune.
Appropriate End.
"What do you think the fashion
critics ought to do about the shentk
skirt?"
"Knife It."—Baltimore American.
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