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THE NEWS.
FAY L GROSSETT, Publisher.
DAVIS, : : : : : : I. T.
The new cone on Mount Vesuvius,
formed during the late eruptions, has
been suddenly engulfed into the crater.
The mountain has now assumed its
old appearance.
Dr. Hans Blum. one of the biograph-
ers of Bismarck, has become mentally
deranged, owing to his losses through
the recent failure of the Leipziger
bank, and has been placed in an asy-
lum. He is a son of Robert Blum, who
was executed in Vienna during the
revolution of 1848.
In cold countries, where snow pre-
vails during a long winter, many of
the animals change the hue of their
coats to a white tint. The Arctic bear
and fox are white throughout the year
The northern hare is brown in sum-
mer and white in winter. The weasel
is especially curious; it retains its
brown coat until the first snow ap-
pears. and then whitens in a few
hours.
Forty years ago President Lincoln
appointed John Jap Jackson of Park-
ersburg. W. Va.. judge- of the United
States circuit court and he still holds
the position. During all these years
he has never failed but once to hold
court at the appointed time. That was
when confederate troops under Gen.
Loring were in possesion of Charles-
town. where the sessions were held,
and the session assigned for that date
had to be postponed.
It is announced from Constantinople
that the Sultan has had to be bled.
For some time he has manifested a
somnolent tendency. Recently he slept
continuously for fifteen hours, and af-
( ter awaking for about an hour he went
to sleep again. He was only roused
by his Arab body physician applying
ice to his temples. The physician then
intimated to the Sultan that his condi-
tion indicated excess of blood, and that
bleeding was necessary in order to ob-
viate danger to the brain. After mak-
ing the doctor swear on the Koran
that no injurious results need be ap-
prehended, the Sultan let himself be
bled, and his quick-witted servitors
gathered the blood into tiny phials,
which can be sold to the faithful at
100 piastres each.
An easy road runs smoothly down
To Half-Way Town;
for everything that's but begun,
And everything that's never done,
Just rolls aulde and, one by one.
Goes Into Half-Way Town.
Half-finished walls are tumbling down
In Half-Way Town.
Half-finished streets are always lined
With half-done work of every kind;
And all the world just lags behind
In dreary Half-Way Town.
Keep straight along, and don't look down
Toward Half-Way Town.
They say, if every one should try
To keep on moving, brisk and spry,
We should discover, by and by,
There's be no Half-Way Town.
—Youth's Companion.
Dr. Mollie.
Dr. L. 0. Howard, entomologist of
the department of agriculture, has
just made public some startling state-
ments of the property losses caused by
insects. He believes they aggregate
over $300,000,000 a year. The Rocky
Mountain locust or western grasshop-
per in 1874, ate up $100,000,000 worth
of growing crops. The chinch-bug
alone has eaten $300,000,000 worth of
corn and wheat in the western states
since 1850. As for the mosquito, apart
from the losses believed to be due to
its pernicious activity in the spread of
yellow fever and malaria, it is an im-
mense depreciator of real estate val-
ues. A New Jersey newspaper re-
cently estimated that its extermina-
tion in that one state alone would add
to its real estate valuation not less
than $100,000,000.
The miners of the town of Pas De
Calais have elected Mile. Lea Bourdon
as their queen of the coal carnival.
This young woman is in the coal trade
in the capacity of a sifter, and al-
though her work is so grimy she has
a beautiful complexion, which,
doubt, added to her good character,
gave her the necessary number of
votes, although the competition was
keen, her fellow-candidates being
drawn from the cleaner walks of life.
The car which carried the queen and
her maids of honor was decorated with
flowers, picks, lanterns, etc. Mile.
Bourdon is only 17, and the coronation
in the center of the town made a very
beautiful tableau. To be coal queen
titles her to a small annuity from the
treasury of the town, and with her
French thrift she will save this for her
dot.
As the steamer Sheffield was leaving
the river Scheldt one evening recently
the captain and passengers observed
the unusual phenomenon (in these lati
tudes) of a large waterspout. The
steamer was a few miles off West
Capple, and from a heavy thunder
cloud lying due west of this point, and
computed to be about ten miles dis-
tant, a dense black column was
formed, which appeared to fall by a
sinuous course into the sea. At this
distance the surface of the sea—where
the waterspout touched its surface—
was at once surrounded by a smoke-
like obscurity. Hundreds of tons of
water must have dropped heavily into
the sea. The black line of communi-
cation between the cloud and the sea
fell precipitately at first, then for
some distance appeared to encounter
a fresh current of air and was borne
along laterally, after which it dropped
into the sea. The phenomenon contin-
ued dashing up the surface of the sea
for about four minutes.
Arrangements have been concluded
for the resumption of business in
Prussia of American insurance com
panies, which have been excluded from
the kingdom for the past six yearffe.
The officials of the insurance co*.£jon-
ies have completed exhaust'•Sjy ex-
aminations of the new German law
covering the control of insurance
throughout the empire and find that
it removes the conditions which the
American companies have hitherto
regarded as prohibitory. These re-
strictions consisted in part of a strict
supervision of all accounts
BY JAMES NOEL JOHNSON.
(Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.}
In the town of Emmonsville there
dwelt a young girl who had resolved to
become a physician. Strange to relate,
she was very beautiful; stranger still,
she was not one of those new women
that would have looked so much bet-
ter in masculine togs, and still strang-
er, she was very much in love with a
handsome, lovable, young man, Jer-
ome Boucher, and had already prom-
ised to marry him.
Now this young man was a lawyer
of great promise, but little present
achievement. He was not in a position
to undertake a dual responsibility at
the present, and, during the interim,
Miss Mollie Dalton couldn't soe any
great good sense in being unemployed.
While her Jerome was struggling up
the hill she believed it almost wicked
that she should watch him, hands
fold <d. in the valley of idleness.
But Jerome could not bear the
thought of her being a doctor, and he
told her well of it, as they sat together
on the soft turf, beneath the shade of
a great beech one August afternoon.
'Mollie Darling," said Jerome, his
fine eyes brimming with lovelight,
"how could I bear to hear you called
Dr. Mollie? Oh. I couldn't, and shall
not! Please get that notion out of
that pretty head. Such a notion, long
continued, will disfigure you, dear. If
you keep nourishing that scientific idea
it will drain all the sources of your
beauty. Oh, you look like a doctor—
you little nosegay of feminine sweet-
ness! I tell you, though, you can
transform and disfigure yourself. The
mind can knead the body into most
any shape it sees fit. By their looks
ye know what people are.
"If you persist in your determina-
tion, the dimples of your cheek will
sink, spread and deepen into concavi-
ties. Your golden, glossy hair will
wear off short, and get straight, dry
and pale as wheat stubble in dog days.
Your plump lips, red and warm now,
will get ironed down thin and tucked
in at the corners. Your nose, straight,
fine and Greek, will get a hump on
itself, and sharp and hooked at the
end like a 'hawk-billed' knife. Your ex-
pressive blue eyes will lose their ador-
able softness and luminosity and will
become sharp, penetrating, analytic,
scientific. Oh! how could I bear it!
Mollie's sweet blue eye becomes the
doctor's scientific eye!"
During this disquisition "Mollie Dar-
ling" gazed at him with face sparkling
with smiles, but beneath those smiles,
like a back wall, frowned a stern reso-
lution. Jerome saw this, and looked
discouraged.
"Jerome," she responded in a quiet,
decided voice, "My mind is fully made
up. I'm going to be something and
know something in my own right. I
have got rid of all those false notions
respecting woman's sphere. Woman
was given brain and hands to be used, i
She was not made to sit back in beau- |
tiful, rosy stupidity and idleness. A !
capacity for effort implies a duty t?
us* that capacity. 1 shall study med- J
icine. I'll equip myself for self-de- i
woman, uttered some banter, then
playfully picked up a clod and threw
it at her. She dodged the clod, gayly
cackling, and then playfully lifted the
menacing hoe toward him.
Mollie caught the idylic picture, and,
looking up at Jerome with a meaning
expression, exclaimed:
"Happy young married folk!"
But the suggested picture of mutual
help was lost on Jerome at that mo-
ment. He was a typical young south-
erner of the old school—one of those
who contemplate women through chiv-
alric ideals only. A woman, according
to his doctrine, is a genius or inspira-
tion for man, but she, her sacred self,
must not achieve.
"When do you leave?" he asked in
a sad voice.
"Next Monday."
"So do I."
Mollie went to a medical school in
New York. Where Jerome went was
not known. He left none behind
whom he oared to inform.
Mollie graduated and temporarily
hung out her shingle in her native
town, a.i unwise thing to do always.
People who had known her always as
"sweet little Mollie" couldn't speak
of her as "Dr. Mollie" without laugh-
ing.
So she arose and went out to the lib-
I ~ Niagara Sensations of the Past
r
Niagara Falls and the Whirlpool
rapids are just now furnishing more
sensations than at any one time in
their history. The prospect of having
unprecedented crowds to witness
feat, together with the desirability of
loing something which will fit into
the same niche in history with the
Pan-American exposition, has set
ambition ablaze in the breast of every
person who thinks he is able to per-
form any record breaking freakish ac-
ion at America's great wonder.
There is one man, however, who is
eady to undertake a remarkable feat
n the turbulent .bosom of the Whirl-
ool rapids mainly in the interest of
cience—a feat so daring that he has
lot been able to get any expert scien-
ist who would risk his life in order to
issist in the enterprise. So. Mr. P. M.
Nissen, the originator of the idea, will
so it alone. His intention is, on the
first favorable day. to navigate the
whirlpool rapids of Niagara river with
.1 steamboat of his own construction,
and at the same time he will endeavor
to take soundings of the whirlpool and
rapids. a thing many times attempted,
but never successfully accomplished.
NiHHen Stands Alone.
Nissen became famous last summer
by shooting the whirlpool and rapids
in an open boat, the only person who
ever survived such a feat. For various
reasons Mr. Nissen chose to perform
his feat under the nom de plume of
"Mr. Bowser," but some of his friends
in Chicago, where he lives, gave him
3way, and he has preferi\?d since to be
known under his real name. Mr. Nis-
sen is a Dane by birth, a bookkeeper
by occupation, a college graduate and
entitled to write B. S. after his name.
For some, time he and a boat builder
have been at work rebuilding the boat
he used last year, which he called the
"Fool Killer."
It is Mr. Nisscn's intention to launch
from the Canadian side, steam across
slim English girl, who is now doing
swimming feats at the Pan-American
exposition, will, according to her own
announcement, throw herse!f into Nia-
gara river at the head of the whirlpool
rapids, in the firm belief that she will
emerge at the other end alive and well. \
If she succeeds, she will have accom-
plished what was never done before.
Swimming experts declare she cannot
make the trial and live. Capt. Mat-
thew Webb, the greatest swimmer in
the world, was the only man who ever
tried to swim the rapids, and he was
drowned.
Miss Beckwith frankly admits that
she does not intend to risk her life for
glory, but for the money which will
subsequently accrue to her, through
the reputation which she shall have
achieved.
To all the expostulations of friends,
and the warnings of experts, Miss
Beckwith has only one reply:
"I can only die once, and if I must
die it will be quickly over."
red silk petticoat, colored stockings
and ragged shoes. If she cannot af-
ford to have feathers in her hat she
will not buy stupid-looking imitations.
In fact, she is tidy from tip to toe.—
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
TROLLY TO BE DISPLACED.
It Didn't Help Him.
"Yes." he said ."I've quit, and I want
to say that I think these stories of
the way men get ahead in the world
are all fairy tales. I've tried the meth-
ods and know. Only a few days ago
I read about Tom L. Johnson making
his first big hit with the manager of
a street railroad by picking up the
"You are a strange doctor."
eral, welcoming West, and located in
a booming mining town.
Her shingle attracted little attention,
but her beautiful face and figure did
from the first. Before a week passed
she had begun to get patients, and,
what was better, fees were paid in ad-
vance, and usually double the amount
of the charge. Before two weeks went
by she was getting calls hourly. A
novel fact soon began to dawn on her,
however, that was disturbing. She
began to discover that nearly all her
patients were handsome young men,
and that if they were diseased at all
the complaints were so deep as to baf
fie her powers of discovery. Was she
a failure in diagnosis?
A young man would come in com-
plaining of heart trouble. He would
lie down on a sofa and a long examin-
ation with stethoscope would ensue.
The heart pulsations, except for a little
nervous excitement, which the patient
rather than she could have accounted
for, was all she would find. Cases ef
monotonous similarity were*multiply-
ing and her profesional pride and dig-
nity were suffering. Some young gen-
tlemen would insist on a second exam
ination, and when she would sternly
assure them that there was only func-
tional excitement at most they would
not be satisfied.
All these experiences set her
thinking, and quietly investigating.
She soon learned that in nearly every
instance her would-be heart patients
were single men! Her landlady still
further enlightened her one day by re-
marking: "You pirty little thing, you!
Jest as long as you remain as pirty as
you are now, heart trouble is goin'
to be owful in these parts! It'll take
the form of jealous heartaches among
all the gals!"
Poor little doctor!
She felt so shamed and humiliated
she didn't know what to do. To have
her noble profession turned into a'sub-
ject of mockery and burlesque and
she herself made ridiculous she could
not bear much longer. Only her need
CYCLIST FARREL CROSSING THE NIAGARA RIVER.
Storage Battery Will he Model P
of Tronsportatlou.
The scientific test of a new storage
battery of Thomas A. Edison warrants
the belief that there is but a short step
left in the direction of a practical so-
lution of the most important of the
unsolved problems of electricity. The
field of usefulness of ihe storage bat
teryis wider than once claimed for the
locomotive; since, in addition to its
service in connection with transporta-
tion. it will have innumerable uses in
the arts and in domestic economy
is claimed for Mr. Edison's new inven
tion that by the jise of a novel com
pound of iron fOr the positive pole,
combined with the same amount
graphite, and a negative pole of finely
divided nickel and graphite, the weight
of the storage battery has been reduced
to less than one-third, the time for re-
charging reduced to one-half and the
rapid deterioration now incident to the
use of lead cells practically done away
with. The new battery, it is claimed,
will drive a car or automobile a hun-
dred miles with but a single charge,
instead of thirty miles, as do those
now in use. It,will soon make electric
motors much cheaper than horses tor
all mnnner of hauling. Mr. Edison
promises that its cheapness will make
it popular and within reach of all.
That practical man of science, Prof.
Garrett P. Serviss. who has made an
intimate study of the new storage bat-
tery, indorses the opinion of the in-
ventor that it will take the place of
the trolley, the locomotive and ihe
horse.,—Succcss.
fense. I shall not lean helplessly to do something for her daily bread
against you as a pillar of strength. her from tearing that sign from
The pillar might get broken. I shall the door and flying back East.
qualify myself to be a physician; then
if good fortune will fix it that I'll not
ear/ V
All the railroads, with four excep-
tions. centering in Chicago, have ac-
cepted the proposed terms of a move-
ment to build a $40,000,000 union rail-
road station. It is to combine both
pasenger and freight facilities, and
will be equipped to make it the finest
structure of its kind in the world.
There has always been a great desire
among railroad men of Chicago to
bring the Eastern and Western roada
together in the same structure, and
this union station will accomplish the
object.
One day she was sitting in her office
sadly ruminating when her door
opened and a tall, fine looking, bearded
man entered.
"Is this Dr. Dalton's office?" he
asked with an embarrassed hitch in
his voice.
"I presume you saw the sign," she
replied, hardly looking up.
"Ah-hem! Well, I want to get my
eyes examined."
She cast a reluctant professional
g'ance at his eyes, and replied:
"There's nothing the matter with
your eyes, sir."
He stared at her dumbfounded.
"Well, I must say you are a strange
kind of doctor!"
"A kind probably that you won't
care to patronize," returned the doc-
tor. not deigning a look.
"Say, Dr. Dalton, I've got plenty of
money, and you hold yourself out as
a doctor. I insist that you look into
my eyes, and see what it is that's got
ia 'em. You surely don't pvetend to
thoroughly examine eyes merely glan-
cing toward 'em."
She forced herself up and came
slowly toward his chair.
She pushed up the left lid with pro-
fessional deftness, and instantly
dropped it. saying:
"I see nothing in your eyes, sir."
"Nothing at all?" he asked eagerly.
"Nothing, I say."
"Look at me doctor, and tell me,
didn't you see a great deal of love in
"When do you leave?"
need to practice, very good; but if mis-
fortune comes, I'll be ready to meet it
with skilled weapos."
"I can't listen to you patiently,
dear," cried Jerome. "You have prom-
ised to be mine. I forbid your going
to a medical school."
"But I'm not yours yet, understand!"
returned Mollie. a good deal of empfca- I them—Say. Mollie Darling?
sis In look and voice. i And this strong, scientific woman be-
Jerome suddenly drew In his firr.i gan to cry, and he began to laugh, and
lips and faint lightning played in his ( a moment later her ear was at his
eye?'1 . I great chest, but not to listen for irreg-
I had no idea, Mollie, he spoke in a | ular heart beats. An hour later when
surprised tone, 'that you could be so ; he called her "doctor" she slapped him
unreasonable and perverse."
"You mean you didn't know I could '
be so sensible and farseeing," she re- \ Million# in Potatoes
turned, with a defiant sinile. ' 11 is estimated that one county on
Jerome rose to his feet. He ran his ,he eastern shore of Virginia, contain-
long fingers through his soft chestnut j in« a Population of about 13,000, sold
hair, then pulled his hat down hard ! this year 550,000 barrels of Irish po-
on his head. He gazed absently toward ! tatoes at a profit of $1,000,000, which
a cornfield a hundred yards away, in | means that every man. woman and
which a man was plowing, and a fine, child in the county would be entitled
buxom young worn in was cutting to receive, if the money were distrlb-
weeds from the corn rows after him. i "ted pro rata, something more than
The man halted, turned toward the $75 from one crop alone.
and start on his trip from the Ameri-
can side. When he reaches the rapids
he will turn the Fool Killer's head up
stream and make a sounding through
the pipe. Then he will let her dr'ft
down, stern first, start up again, make
a sounding at a point abreast of the
previous one, sound and repeat the
performance until he has sounded
clear across the river. Then he will
drift farther down and make another
line of soundings, and so on until he
has sounded the rapids all over. Pho-
tographers he has previously placed at
regular distances along the shore will
take snapshots as the whistle blows,
and this will show the location of the
boat, this to be determined exactly by
surveying instruments afterward. Mr.
Nissen will make these surveys per-
sonally. The results he will keep to
himself unless the governments on
either side are willing to purchase
them.
Over Falls on Bike.
A man poising himself on a bicycle
with grooved wheels and scorching on
cable over the whirling gorge and
through the mist that rises from the
angry river far below is the sight that
may be witnessed at Niagara mostly
any day. The man that says he has
every preparation made to make the
trip is George H. Farrell of Chicago,
who has proved himself an expert
scrap iron he found lying around.
'You're the kind of a careful man I
want,' said the manager, and he pro-
moted him right away. That was
enough for me, so. I began picking up
things whenever the boss was near.
'What are you doing?' he demanded
yesterday. 'There's no use letting these
things go to waste, sir,' I answered,
for that's what Tom Johnson said. 'Of
course not.' he said, 'and we hire men
for a dollar a day to do just that class
of work. But We can't afford to have
clerks wasting their time over it.
Hump yourself back into the office,
now, or I'll have you on the pay roll
as a day laborer.' So I quit. Somehow
things don't seem to happen in real life
the way they do in print."
MISS BECKWITH.
fancy trick rider, and believes his
nerve will take him scathless even
over the Niagara river. If successful
it will be the first trip of its kind. A
man named Jenkins rode over the
river some years ago on a three-
wheeled machine, but Farrell's ven-
ture is quite another matter. Farrell
made arrangements with the veteran
manager of such enterprise. William
Leary of Buffalo, to take the affair in
hand. He cannot say precisely the
day on which he will make the at-
tempt.
Carlisle Graham, who recently went
through the whirlpool rapids in a bar-
rel, is arranging for a trip in company
with Maud Willard of Canton. O. Miss
Willard will go through the rapids in
Graham's barrel. If she is swept out of
the whirlpool Graham will leap into
the river, protected by a life preserver,
and swim with the barrel to Lewiston.
If Miss Graham is rescued in the pool
Graham will make the trip from the
whirlpool outlet to Lewiston alone, the
distance being four miles through
frightfully rough waters. If Miss Wil-
lard goes to Lewiston she will be the
first woman to go clear through the
waters of the gorge.
To Hwltu the Rapids.
One of the most dangerous and
thrilling feats ever attempted by a
human being is scheduled to occur on
8«pt. 25 next, when Cora Beckwith, a
Greatest Lobs of Life at Sea.
The shipwreck in which the greatest
number of lives was lost was that of
the Royal George (108 guns), off Ports-
mouth, on the 29th of August. 1782,
when nearly 1,000 lives were lost. In
the case of the wreck of the Queen
Charlotte, a first-rate ship of the line,
which was destroyed by fire on the
17th of March. 1800, off the harbor of
Leghorn, 703 lives out of a total of
850 were lost. The St. George (98
guns), Defence (74 guns) and the Hero
were on the 24th' day of December,
1811, stranded on the coast of Jutland,
and about 2,000 lives were lost, only
eighteen of the seamen being saved,
In the case of the wreck of the Prin-
cess Alice, which was run into by the
Bywell Castle in the Thames, near
Woolwich, and sunk on the 3d of Sep-
tember, 1878, between 600 and 700
lives were lost. On the wreck of the
White Star company's steamer At-
lantic, which struck on the Meagher
rock, about 560 lives were lost, while
442, including the captain, were saved.
—Tit-Bits.
LAUGH AND LIVE LONG.
World Full of People Who Are Glad to
See . I's.
Thackeray truly remarked that the
world is for each of us much as we
show ourselves to the world. If we face
it with a cheery acceptance we find the
world fairly full of cheerful people,
glad to see us. If we snarl at it and
abuse it we may be sure of abuse in
return. The discontented worries of a
morose person may very likely shorten
his days, and the general justice of
nature's arrangement provides that
his early departure should entail no
long regrets. On the other hand, a
man who can laugh keeps his health,
a nd his friends are glad to see him. To
the perfectly healthy laughter comes
often. Too commonly though, as child-
hood is left behind the habit fails, and
a half-smile is the best that visits the
thought-lined mouth of. the modern
man or woman. People become more
and mere burdened, with the accumula-
tions of knowledge and with the weigh-
ing responsibilities of life, but they
should still spare time to laugh. Let
them never forget, moreover, and let
it be a medical man's practice to re-
mind them that "a smile sits ever upon
the face of Wisdom."—London Lancet.
Original Obltunr .
Oak Mills, in Atchison county, Kan-
sas, has a poet who has contributed to
the Globe one of the finest obituary
poems ever read in those parts. Not
to harrow up the feelings of our
readers we give a verse:
The birds that rest in the forest
Are saying in their cheep, cheep;
"Mary. Mary, Mary,"
But Mary has fallen asleep;
This frail lark has journeyed
But fifty furlongs on life's highway,
And yet husband is waiting to wtl-
come,
"Why, there comes Mary!" he'll say.
Warned by a Boy.
President McKinley was warned on
May 22 last to be very cautious of as-
sassins during the month of Septem-
ber. This warning was sent to him
while he was in San Francisco by
Gustav Meyer, a mere boy, of 101
Washington street, Hoboken, N. J. At
the time President McKinley was
watching over the bedside of Mrs.
McKinley. whose life was despaired of
by the physicians for -several days.
Young Meyer had predicted the elec-
tion of President McKinley, and when
he was elected he remembered the pre-
diction and wrote his thanks.
Hound to Otteulute.
,Jt is not often that a young couple
will expose themselves to the ridicule
of people for the pleasure of a kiss,
but such is the case with a young man
and a young woman who part a few
moments before 7 o'clock each morn-
ing at a Philadelphia corner. The
young man Is a tall, btymsome fel-
low. who seems to think there is no
prize in the world half so fine as the
little woman who clings affectionately
to his side. They invariably stop at
the corner for a few moments' chat
before parting, and the sad look on
both their faces is affecting.
He Read it, Though.
It was noted the other day that the
La Crosse (Kan.) Chieftain was suing
a man for the price of ten years' sub-
scription. Judgment was given in the
justice court for the amount claimed
and the man appealed to the district
court. He says he is fighting the case
on principle; that it is true the pa-
per came to him ten years, but that
he neither ordered it nor wanted it.
However, the law says that when a
man takes a newspaper out of the
postofflce he Is responsible for the
subscription price. regardless of
whether he wanted It or ordered it.
Doing Well.
Not long ago a certain village club
arranged "a grand cricket match, ad-
mission 1 penny," for the benefit of
John, the old man who looked after
the ground. There were nc* tickets
printed, and John stood at, the gate of
the cricket field and collected the pen-
nies himself. It was a very hot day.
there was a public-house just across
the road, and John's thirst—always
troublesome—was simply unquench-
able. Some time after the luncheon
interval a gentleman who takes a keen
interest in the club approached the
gate and addressed the old guardsman:
Well, John, you appear to be doing
well. There's quite a big gate, I see."
Weel," replied John, deliberately, "it
ain't a bad 'un, I must say. 'Owsum-
ever, I managed to sup (drink) the
gate money so far, an' 1 could do wi' a
trainload o' folks yet!"—London Spare
Moments.
Tidy from Tip to Toe.
Perhaps no women in tho world
show as much taste and good sense
in the matter of dress as French wom-
en. It is even safe to say that they
are perfectly dressed. Thrift, not ex-
travagance. is the foundation of char-
acter In rich and poor alike, and the
French woman is educated to It. She
devotes more -attention to and has
more pride for what is not visible—
her underwear, such as petticoats, cor-
sets, hose, etc.—and sees to it that
these things are selected according to
her occupation and station in life.
One costly thing is not purchased at
the expense of another. A servant, for
instance, will not make herself ridicu-
lous—as they constantly do In Amer-
ica—by appearing on the street in a
Greatest of Human Cargoes.
The Kildonan castle, when first fit
ted out as a transport for South Af-
rica, carried 2,700 rank and file, 110
officers in the first class, 80 in the sec-
ond class and about 300 of a crew, be-
ing 3,190 in all. In addition, twelve
horses were carried, and the mere fit-
ting of the necessary accommodation
occupied 3,000 men for eighteen days.
The Celtic, when full in its ordinary
trade, slightly exceeds this, the pas
senger accommodation comprising
room for 374 first-class, 160 second-
class and 2.352 third—a total of 2,886.
In addition the deck crew numbers 64,
the engine room and stokehold require
92 men, and the steward's department
has 170 335 in all—making the grand
total 3,221 souls.—Pearson's Weekly.
'Why, gentlemen." loudly continued
the professor, as he gave the signul
and his conft*derate walked down the
sidewalk, "there's a gentleman to
whom I sold two bottle of my hair re-
storer. Did that remedy help you?"
"It did," answered the confederate,
who had it in for the professor and
had decided to quit. "It helped me
wonderfully. I always thought that
when I died I would have to leave my
vast wealth to some orphan, but,
thanks to you and your wonderful
remedy, professor, I now have two
heirs.' From the Indianapolis Sun.
( Knew (ho IHft'ereuce.
•Wen you're a veterinary surgeon
what do you know about a horse9"
asked a browbeating attorney.
"1 don't pretend to be a horse doc-
tor. replied the witness, "but 1 know
good deal of the nature of the ani-
mal.
"That means to say you know a
horse from a jackass when you see
them. ' continued the lawyer.
''Oh yes, JuBt so," drawled out the
Intended victim, gazing Intently at his
legal tormentor. "For instance I
should never take you for a horse"
From the Tit-Bits.
Jeseh?sacltyh0 1<>Ve8 h'S h0me alE°
Wild Flowers In Danger.
Persons Interested in wild flowers
are endeavoring to create—and to or-
ganize—a sentiment for the protection
ot our native plants, especially near
large cities. sayB the Youth's Com-
panion. The pond lily, trailing ar-
butus, native orchids, fringed gentian
and many of the evergreens have been
gathered in Massachusetts for sale In
such quantities and so steadily sought
by frequenters of suburban woods, that
their extinction Is threatened. The
remedy suggested Is that care be used
to cut rather than pull the flowers,
so that the roots need not be disturbed!
and that those who gather rare plants
for market should be discouraged by
lack of patrorage.
the
Colilliiliit. mill HI. Salary.
In the building known a
"I^onja," at Seville, Spain, are pre-
served the archives of the Indies—the
early Spanish colonies In America—
from the time of their discovery until
a few years ago. It contains the ac-
count of the payment of the crews of
the caravels of Columbus upon his first
voyage. The minister of finance in
his report shows that there were 82
men under pay. Columbus himself,
with the title of admiral, received a
salary of $320 a year. The captains
of the three ships received, respect-
ively, $10, 18 and $19 a month. The
sailors received from $2 to $3.40 a
month, including their subslstance and
two suits of clothes a year.
N' T;' Sep' Informa-
tion has been received regarding the won-
fcrti euratlve powers of the Garfield
?r. ,?°wder;: people everywhere
•re using (hem and writing the manufac-
turerfc of the good results obtained.
A girl cannot go away and have a
good time without writing about it
but a boy can.
All the state adopted School Books.
A complete stock of School and Office
Supplies. Percy E. Ginn, Wholesale
Dealer, Dallas, Texas.
When some people are unable to do
n thing they boast of it.
Why Don't You Km Jtiue?
If you do not eat rice yon ought to.
It is an ideal food, easily digested
nutritious and cheap. Send ten cents
in stamps to S. F. B. Morse, Passenger
Traffic Manager, Houston and Texas
Central R. R.. Houston. Texas, for copy
of Southern Pacific Rice Cook Book,
containing two hundred receipts for
preparing rice.
Then He Fled.
tramp called at a farmhouse on
the Yorkshire wolds tho other day and
asked for some refreshments. A a the
lady of the house refused to give him
any, and the man would not go away,
she told him she would call her hus-
band.
"Oh, no, you won't," replied the
tramp, "because he ain't in."
"How do you know?" asked the lady.
"Because," answered the tramp, as
he sidled dow'n the garden path, "a
man who married a woman with a face
like that Is only home at meal time®."
—London Answers.
Brevity may be1 either the soul of
wit or the poverty thereof.
female weakness cured.
I was troubled with severe female
weakness for over six months. I was
treated by six very prominent physi-
cians without any marked benefit. My
last doctor was a skilled specialist,
and he told me the only hope lay in
an operation. I heard of Smith's Sure
Kidney Cure, and after using it for one
month I find myself cured, and even
the doctor who last treatei me now
pronounces me well.
Mrs. J. R. FAVER. Atlanta, Qa.
Price 50 cents. For sale by all drug-
gists.
A genial person is one the whole
world envies.
A remote period Is the one due at
the end of a woman's remarks.
Mm. Wtnfliotr'M Soothing: Nyrup.
ren |*e,hlnf •"ftens the gumi, reduret in-
flammation, allay h pain, cures wind colic. 2T>c a bottle.
All have their day and some have
not a few nights, too.
FITS Permanently Cured. NoHtnor iiervoufcneM*ft*i'
flrnt day'it uie of |ir. Kline's lireat Nerve Kentorer
FKER M2.00 trial bottle and tr-atlne.
ch St., Philadelphia, P*.
Better do a few things well than at-
tempt too much.
Sweat or fruit acids will not discolor
goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES. Sold by druggists, 10c, package.
Bankrupts are broken, ' but Idiots
are only cracked.
^11 A hi Kir ti for the Dalian Fair.
Don't forget that the Houston and
Texas Central will sell low rate tick-
ets from all line points to the great
Dalian Fair. Special dates and special
ratea constitute special attractions
The Fair of 1901 will excel all past
celebrations both in the character of Its
exhibits and the magnificence of its
various events. Ask your local agent
for whatever information you desire
and then pack your grip for the great-
est festival of the year. M. L. Kohhins.
O. P. T, A.; S. F. a Morse, P. T. Mgr.,
Houston, Texas.
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