Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1906 Page: 4 of 12
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EDMOND, . . OKLAHOMA.
NEW STATE BRIEFS
The socialists of Dewey connty will
meet at Taloga April 11th for the pur-
pose of perfecting a thorough organ sta-
tion.
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Elk City has voted waterworks con-
struction bonds to the amiaint of
$L'5,000. The proposition carried by
a vote of 125 to 35.
Pythians are considering the advis-
ability of erecting a $200,000 Pythian
temple and Oklahoma City is bidding
for Its location.
The senate Indian committee has
decided to recommend $185,000 for
schools In the Indian Territory, an In-
crease of $85,000 over the amount
made available by the house.
The cornerstone of the new Greer
county court house was laid last Sat-
urday at Mangum. The ceremonies
of the grand lodge of Masons of Okla-
were conducted under the direction
homa.
The board of missions of the South
Methodist church held a missionary
rally at Holdenville last week. The ;
meeting lasted three days and was
largely attended by members of the
conference, which includes boih terri-
tories.
A Mrs. Winstead, living near
Okeene, was fined $25 and costs In the 1
federal court last week for viola-
tion of the postal laws. She sent to
neighbors whose conduct she did not |
like postal cards containing matter of
a scurrilus nature, which led to her
arrest.
Cheated.
Nevf-r aern such luck at all.
N *w#r dlil, 1 nay.
Mamma tearhod me when I wanted
Anything to pray,
I htiiKcd for a sister girl
, 1 cou'd play wrh me,
F I'd K« t one I'd a been
Happy as could be.
Ho I prayed an' prayed an' prayed
hVery night, and 1
Had a notion I would get
Me one by an' by.
Just last we«*k we moved away
From where we had been
And another family
Moved their flxin's In.
An' lust night the stork brought them
Such a sister wee!
It was me 'at prayed for it,
It was meant for me.
But they're keeping It themselves—
Won't give it to us.
Though I went right over there
An' kicked up a fuss.
—Houston Post.
Monkey and Sugar.
The following anecdote of a tame
monkey, to which was given a corked
bottle with a lump of sugar inside, In-
dicates that the animal, though un-
one of water and the other of a stimu-
lant, two flat biscuits, a small splint,
a roll of bandages, a soft, silk hand-
kerchief and a probing Instrument.
When the soldier is too seriously in-
jured to help himself the collie is
taught to send out a wail of dLstress
to summon help.
Indian Inspector Wright has been
Informed that the bonds Issued in
South McAlester for waterworks and
school purposes have been approved
by the secretary of the interior.
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At Bartlesville the citizens have
donated $1,300 for the support of the
base ball club of that place. One
hundred carpenters have agreed to
donate one day's work on the grand-
stand at the ball park.
The liaptist church at Texola was
burned to the ground recently. Indi-
cations are that the building was set
on fire.
Architects have been employed by
the Masons of Pawhuska to prepare
plans and specifications for their new
temple.
The receipts at the Chickasha post-
office for the quarter ending March
3lBt showed an Increase of ninety-five
per cent over the same quarter last
year. The total receipts were elose
to $20,000.
In the district court at Guthrie last
■week Judge Burford ordered that the
license of Dr. Gulley be revoked and
that he be not alowed to practice
medicine in Oklahoma. It was
charged that the doctor received his
diploma from a "mill" school and the
Judge upheld this contention. The
case will be appealed by the defendant
to the supreme court.
The government reclamation ser-
vice is asking for bids to furnish teams
nnd such implements as are necessary
for the digging of ditches on the ex-
perimental irrigation farm . near
Snyder. The farm comprises two hun-
dred acres and upon it a small plant
■will be established under the personal
supervision of the United States re-
clamation service.
The comptroller of currency has
authorized the Prague National bank-
to begin business with a capital of
125,000.
able to invent, could imitate. A
phrenologist would say that the
monkey had "perception" but not
"causality." How to get at the sugar
was a problem that bade fair to drive
him crazy.
Sometimes, in an impulse of dis-
gust, he would throw the bottle out of
his reach, and then be distracted un-
til it was given back to him. At oth-
er times he would sit with a coun-
tenance of Intense dejection, contem-
plating the bottled sugar, and then
as if pulling himself together for an-
other effort at solution, would sternly
take up the problem afresh and gaze
at the bottle.
He would tilt it one way and try to
drink the sugar out of the neck, and
then suddenly reversing it, try to
catch it as it fell out at the bottom.
Under the impression that he could
capture the sugar by surprise, he kept
rasping his teeth against the glass in
futile bites, and warming to the pur-
suit of the revolving lump, used to
tie himself Into regular knots round
the bottle.
Fits of .the most ludicrous melan-
choly would alternate with spasms of
delight as a new idea seemed to sug-
gest itself, followed by a fresh series
of experiments.
Nothing availed, however, until one
day a light was shed upon the prob-
lem by a jar containing bananas fall-
ing from the table with a crash and
the fruit rolling about in all directions.
His monkeyship contemplated the
catastrophe, and reasoned upon it.
Lifting the bottle high In his paws,
he brought It down upon the floor with
a tremendous noise; smashing the
glass to fragments, after which he
calmly transferred the sugar* to his
mouth, and munched it with much sat-
isfaction.
Plays for Lessons.
In acting little plays, the drudgery
of old lessons is heard of no more.
The French people have been the first
to teach the little French children
their history by dolls, certainly a
much more Interesting way than by
dusty books or lectures. These dolls
or puppets represent the different peri-
ods. They are dressed in the exact
costume of the period they represent
and are made to move through the
great diplomatic and parliamentary
moments-of the country's history. This
is accomplished by means of silken
cords handled above on a miniature
stage. A man named Leo Clarette,
who invented the method with the
consent of the French educators, de-
clares that history taught in this man-
ner, by means of pictures, is im-
pressed indelibly upon the minds of
the children. The method is to be
given a widespread trial in the schools
of France next fall. It is to be hoped
that the method will succeed, and that
it will makfe its way over to America.
History lessons will then be a con-
tinuous performance of going to the
pantomime, a pastime dear to the
hearts of the children all over the
world.
Porteau's city council has granted
a twenty-year electric light franchise
to K. C. Alexander of Abilene, Texas.
A forfeit of $500 has bee:n deposited
that work will be begun in ninety days
and the contract completed within
•even months.
Henry Braun, president of the Her-
man American society of Oklahoma,
has called the annual session of the
society for Thursday. May S, at El
Reno. It is expected that 2,000 mem-
bers front ever the territory will at-
tend.
Mrs. Margaret Gale, of Bartlesville,
■was admitted to the practice of law
before Judge Gill, of the federal court,
at Nowata last week. She is the first
■woman admitted to the bar In Indian
Territory. She Is a graduate of the
law department of Michigan univer-
sity and post-graduate of the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Do You Know This Catch?
Tell your friend you can make him
say, "No, 1 haven't!" Then ask him
this question:
"I was traveling in Africa one very-
hot day and came to a shop where
they sold refreshments. I called for
the most cooling drink they had, and
a waiter brought me three glasses,
containing sherbet, lime-juice and wat-
er, as well as a cup of hot coffee. Now,
which of the four do you think 1
chose?"
Whatever the answer is, you should
exclaim quickly, "Oh, you've heard it
before," and in almost every case your
friend will reply, reassuringly, "No, I
haven't!"
Red Cross Dogs.
Most everyone is familiar with the
sagacity, the quickness of scent of the
St. Bernard dog of the Alps. Now,
there is a college in Rome where dogs
are trained to be Red Cross nurses,
and five hundred collies, it is said,
have been sent out from there to the
Russo-Japanese war.
They are first taivjht to hunt up
wounded soldiers and then to bark at
the man until he has been aroused
and can make use of the aid the collie
carries with him.
In the pockets of a gray blanket
marked v.-ith a red cross and strapped
upon the dog's back are two flasks,
Three Interesting Experiments.
Here is a pretty experiment with
some needles and a piece of cork,
illustrating the principles of expan-
sion by heat and contraction by cool-
ing:
Cut an ordinary cork stopper in half
down the middle, and, leaving the flat
part as the top, scoop a semicircular
piece out of the side, as shown in Fig-
ure 1. Now stick the point of a needle
into one side, A, and let the eye of
the needle rest lightly on top of the
other side of the cork, B.
Take a second needle, and stick it
upright into the cork, letting the point
pass through the eye of needle No. 1.
Next to needle No. 2 stick a third one
into the cork in an upright position
also. You are now ready for your ex-
periment, as shown in Figure 2. Light
a candle, and, holding the cork on the
side away from the needles, thrust
perfectly black, but there is a way to
make a figure appear so that it will
look blacker even than black velvet.
Faint the Inside of a pasteboard box
black or cover it with dead black
cloth. In the lid of the box make a
hole, being careful not to make it
larger than one-tenth of the surface
of the lid. If now you hold the box
so that the light will not strike the
hole directly and look through the
hole into the box the hole will appear
intensely black.
Make the hole in the form of a de-
sign or the lid black when you look
through the hole you will see the fig-
ure darker than the dark background.
The black produced by this method
is called "Chevreul's black" after the
Frenchman who invented it.
All three of these experiments are
instructive, and they will also amuse
and entertain your friends.
—I RHEUMATISM CURED
The Disease Yielded Readily to Div
Williams' Pink Pills After Other
Treatment Failed.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure rheuma-
tism because they supply the necessary
elements to the vitiated blood and en-
able nature to cast out the impurities
and effect a cure. Mrs. A. Baker, of No.
119 Fitch street, Syracuse, N. Y., will
furnish living evidence of the truth of
this statement. " There has been rheu-
matism iu my family ever since 1 can re-
member," she says. " My grandmother
was a great sufferer from muscular
rheumatism and my mother also had the
disease iu a mild form. About a year
ago 1 had a hard cold and rheumatism
caught me in my left knee. There wero
sharp pains, confined to the neighbor-
hood of the knee and they seemed to go
right into the bone. The pain I suffered
was intense and I also had dizzy spells.
"The doctors called my trouble
nriatic nnd sciatic rheumatism. Wheu
I didn't get better under their treat-
ment my brother-in-law suggested that I
try Dr. Williams'Pink Pills. I bought
three boxes, nnd, by the time I bad
taken them, the pain and dizziness had
entirely left me. I wanted to make
sure of a cure so I bought three mora
boxes, but I didn't take quite all of them
as I found that I was entirely cured.
" Before I took the pills the pain was
so severe that I had to cry at times and
when 1 was cured I was so thankful and
grateful and I am glad to recommend
them to every oue who suffers with
rheumatism."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured
severe cases of amentia, sciat ica, nervous-
ness, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia
and St. Vitus' dance that have not re-
sponded to other modes of treatment.
All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills or they will bo sent by mail, post-
paid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per
box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
the middle of the horizontal needle
into the flame. The heat will make
the needle expand, throwing the nee-
dle that is stuck through its eye out
of its perpendicular position. As you
remove it from the flame and the nee-
dle cools it will contract, and the sec-
ond needle will return to its original
position.
The third needle is there merely as
a test, to show you how they move
apart and together with the expansion
and contraction, as shown by the two
figures.
Another pretty and quite simple ex-
periment is to have an imitation of a
rain storm in a bottle. Get some
Canada balsam and boil it in a flask
over an alcohol lamp. Clouds of tur-
pentine drops will form in the upper
part of the flask, and if you thrust in
a cold glass rod these drops will con-
dense and fall in the bottle like rain.
A third simple experiment is one on
blackness. You know that no paint or
any other substance in the world is
The Magic Bridge.
Here is a game known as Magic
Bridge. All the children join hands
and form a ring. If there are many
of them, there should be several
bridges, say, four, in the ring, at reg-
ular intervals "from each other.
The bridges are formed by two chil-
dren, who raise their joined hands for
the others to pass under. They are
not formed till the leader gives the
signal.
Some one will kindly play at the pi-
ano—any lively march or dance, to
which the children can keep merry
step, singing as they go. They pass
once, twice or oftener around the cir-
cle; then the leader, who stands in
the center, must give a signal where
the bridges are to be made.
Immediately the eight children who
receive the signal raise their joined
hands—two for each bridge, four
bridges altogether; and all the other
children pass under the bridges, danc-
ing or marching to the music.
Then the leader gives the signal for .
the bridges to be demolished. The
circle forms again as at first. Then
new bridges are signaled for, to be
formed by different sets of children;
the rest pass under these new bridges.
And so it goes as long as the chil-
dren enjoy it. Very pretty game.
Sleeping Place for Cats.
For cats as well as dogs, the neatest
sleeping place is a strong, closely
woven wicker basket. Favorite pets
have a basket with a curving canopy
top, decked out with a big satin bow
and carpeted with a rug of white
goat's hair. Simpler baskets are
round and flat and show a deep open-
ing at the side. A soft blanket should
always be laid in the bottom of these
and made fresh and clean at leas;
once a week, says the Philadelphia
Record. A pet cat is so very tidy
about her own appearance that she re-
quires less attention than a canary or
a dog. As a kitten, a dish of milk
should be placed where she can al
ways take a drink. An older cat al-
ways likes a bowl of milk kept filled
for her in the kitchen, while the
scraps from the table comprise the
remainder of her nourishment.
Scarcely any meat should be given in |
a cat's diet during winter.
Insects as Food.
The natives of Mexico and the white
colonists both regard the honey-ant of
that country as a choice b!t of food J
In the wonderful economy of the ants '
there are some set aside as food for
the winter months, and these hang i
themselves up to the roof of the cells 1
while the others feed them.
West Indian negroes and sometimes
the white settlers eat the grub of a ;
big weevil which is found in palm j
trees. It is perfectly raw when eaten.
There is a butterfly to be found on
the Mediterranean which lives entire- !
ly upon fish. It is covered with a mere
apology for a shell, and sailors on the
Mediterranean are very fond of it.
Why Deaf-Mutes Cannot Talk.
It is said that deaf-mutes owe their
inability to talk, not to any imperfec-
tion in the organs of speech, but en-
tirely to their deafness. Having ni ver
heard their own voices, or the voices
of others, they are not able fo appre-
ciate sounds or to adjust the organs
properly for their articulation.
One Peculiarity.
One peculiarity about the feminine
sex seems to be the impossibility of
discussing it with moderation; critics
are either violently antagonistic or
falsely complimentary.—Lady Violet
Greville in the London Graphic.
Life Always Worth While.
Don't nurse the idea that life isn't
worth while. Life is all right; you
! have allowed the idealist merely to
j boom it a little too strong for you.—
John A. Howland.
Moon a Slow Traveler.
The moon is the sluggard of the so-
lar system, its 2,273 miles per hour
in its journeying round the earth com-
paring badly with the earth's 66,579
miles per hour.
Never Fails.
There is one remedy, and only one
I have ever found, tc cure without
fail such troubles in my family as
Eczema, Ringworm and all others of
an itching character. That remedy is
Hunt's Cure. We always use it and it
never fails.
W. M. Christian,
Rutherford, Tenn.
Crime Still W nt On.
A French writer, in illustrating the
advantages of a representative sys-
tem of government, says: "Such is
the respect of the English for their
parliament (hat, when it is sitting,
crimes are exceedingly rare, but as
soon as it rises the papers are filled
with accounts of the most horrible
atrocities." He did not know that
when parliament was sitting, the
newspapers had no room for much
of anything but its reports.
Mr. Gladstone's Cigarette
"I never knew him to smoke but
once, and that on the occasion of the
prince of Wales dining with him in
Downing street," says Sir Algernon
West of Mr. Gladstone in an article in
the Cornhill Magazine. "With an old-
fashioned courtliness, wishing to place
his royal guest at his ease, he smoked
a cigarette, which gave him more
pain than pleasure; indeed, he hated
the smell of tobacco."
by
for
I have seen many embittered
critisism, and others enfeebled
the lack of kind encouragement, but
I do not come across any who have
been spoiled by deserved praise.—Ian
Maclaren.
Gratitude is a strange thing—you
never find it where it should be found,
but in cases where there is seemingly
little or nothing to be grateful for
abounds.
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