The Chandler Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1895 Page: 4 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
wm
nnVVR^Al^VT HAXHTQ not borrow a dollar from \ national
IWVJytlNMi^l I5AJm bank on his land. If he needs to bor-
CONVENIENT, PROFITABLE AND
ALWAYS SAFE.
row money he must employ a money
broker to find the money for him. Td
this broker he must pay a commission
of from 2 to 10 per cent and a full legal
It la Plain That the reopie Will Nev«r interest besides. Altogether ho Is pay-
Trust a Private itank — imperative; Ing jso large an Interest that, after he
That Another System lie inango- ' has suffered loss from drought, grass-
rate,!. I hoppers, and storms and pays his ln-
——— I terest, he has not a cent left for im-
It should be plain to the most casual provements.
Observer that it Is folly to spend time With the establishment of the gov-
in discussing what the kind of money rrnin<nt btllk.hl It COlbli to borrow
shall be and the volume of money moncy al 4 Per cent. He saves $300
which is necessary when conditions « -vear- Perhaps. in interest, which in
re such that the people will.hide any ten >'car is *;'-000 That means a new
kind of money which may come into ho,,8e and lhe employment of men in
their hands because they have no safe the fore8t in setting out the timber
public place in which to put it. The the makin* of br,ck- parrying of
result 8t private banking for profit wiTi Btono- ,ho manufacturing of paints.
oils, glass, and hardware; the build-
ing. finishing, and furni fcing of the 1
house; in total number from fifty to 150
men. all engaged In an employment* a
new vocation, that does tiot compete
with anybody else.
This farmer is but one who improves
his condition through the saving of In-
ilwavs be scarcity of money, high in
terest. and general suppression of busi
ness, which means idleness and desti
tutlon to great numbers of people. Un-
less this suspicion against b a nits can
be overcome there can never be per-
manently a sufficiency of money in cir-
culation with which to do busin<•->
Though we should double the amount terest. He Is but j>ne of tens of tliou-
of coinage and treble the amount of sands who will thus give, on farms end-
paper money the failure of a few banks ployment to hundreds of thousands of
In the country will cause the people to workmen. TBls is but an illustration
withdraw the remaining money, from °f the improved condition that will
the bank*and send the same complete-; come to the rural districts through
ly out of circulation. the lowering of interest and the abun-
It Is at such times, when business dant regular circulation of money
shuts down and th working classes through the establishment of the gov-
are out of employment, that the poorer ernment bank. e
people and the middle classes are cofn- ; Rut while the farmers of the coun-
pelled to sell their property because cf try will find benefit the poorer classes
mortgage foreclosure and exorbitant in the cities will experience even
interest at immense sacrifice, while the greater relief from the burden of In*
rich, buying a' their own price, rapid- '*
ly double an l treble their forti
cy&lAND/
HARBISON
.
' V'J tt&on VTc^fonT *
—Denver Road.
THE ENGLISH PLAN. A BLACKMAILING SCHEME.
•terest
No sooner does a bank fail and start
a financial panic than business in gen-
eral shuts down and large numtters of
laboring people are discharged ftito
idleness. T'nable to get employment
in a short time the^ are compelled to
borftw money to supply pressing ne
cer.silies until the time when they ran
Evidently the first work of the United
States congress should b«to tstabllsh
such a system of banking as will in-
spire perfect confidence among. the
people in its safety. Then alt the hid-
ing places into tHe hanks ami the vol
ume of money will be ever ab^julant.
It Is plain that the people will never
* Implicitly trust a bank which Is con-
ducted for private profit unless they
can personally have absolute security
on the money they lend the banks.
Bankers who are conducting business
for private gain do not propose to give
bonds to anybody nor security to their
depositors. Such being the case the
fart is Imperative that another system
cft banking must be inaugurated which
has the confidence of the people. Such
a system Is readily possible, and that,, . . AA,
, ... , ... , Aof battle. I he man out ot work must
loo, with comparatively little exponlo.f
It Is simply that the government shall
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP IN
OPERATION.
Kerlured Kate* for Telegraphy—Greater
Convenience—Increased Service— How
the System la Conducted—We Are
Far Hehind.
A ljite report of the firactl^nl opera-
tion of the telegraph system "in Eng-
land will be read with interest. It
a*ajn have work. This Is a terribly 4 thU.'?.ndfr own?r
trying period for thosg who watch
and often vainly wait for weeks or
months before the opportunity offers
again to earn a subsistence for their
families.
It is during this time tfcat the chat
tel-mortgage individual gets in hit-
work. The poor have no protection.
They are absolutely at the mercy of
the men who prey upon them as vul-
tures feast*ipon the dead on the field
own and operate the banl£ The j*:
ernment does not need to invest a dol-
lar In the business; it simply opens its
room and invites the people to bring
forward their money, which will be
guaranteed against loss. To hasten
the bringing out from its hiding places
the vast amount of money which ia
now secreted allow 3 per cent on long-
time deposits and the bank Immediate-
ly fills with good money people's
money. Wow easy to get a bank full
of money.
The next step In the line of reform is
to establish the rate of Interest at 4
per cent per annum in all parts of the
country. The cost of pdltage stamps
is the same in all parts of the United
States Why should not the rate of in-
terest be the Qame in all portions of
the union?
The next requisite is to make the
government absolutely secure in the
loaning of money. That it should be j
so the law may Imperatively require
that the security beyond a doubt be
worth twice 'what is borrowed as de-
termined by frequent careful appraise-
ment of propertysoffered as security.
With the government bank estab-
lished under the control of the best
banking talent, under bond and in the
employ off he government, allowing 3
per cent on long-time deposits and
loaning money at 4 per cent; with all
money in the bank and in readiness to
be used, the effect would be as follows:
Jones, wanting $1,000, would go to the
bank with $l!.< oi ^vorth of certified s-
curity, gets fl.ouo, p« < | per cent from
the minute it is borrowed, deposits the
money, takes a checkbook, and goes
his way to pay nil his debts by checks
drawn against his money in the bank,
on which he gets no Interest, as he
is checking it out. '1 en persons bor-
rowing thus, each paying 4 per cent,
would make a 40 per cent interest rev-
enue to the government and in the ag
gregate over fttty ,000 of govern-
ment revenue e>ch jner above nil ei
penscs.
Such would be the result of the gov
eminent doing its own banking.
With the establishment of the gov-
ernment banking on the lines we have
here outined It would give to the conn
try the follow ing finaftcial advantages
1. A bank full of good money.
2. No reduction in the volumo of
money because all money borrowed
would be immediately deposited In the
government bank. •
3. Three per cent on time deposits
would Induce everybody to economize,
save and use the bank.
4. No more annoyance to bankers
from a "run" on their banks.
No more l<^s of sleep to the bank
have money*that his family may li
He must borrow. He has furniture,
nearly new, perhaps, that cost, we will
suppose, $1,000. A government ap-
praiser would mark it worth at forced
sale $600. The government would lend
$300 on that security at 4 per cent per
annum interest But there*il no gov-
ernment bank to turn to. No bank ex-
ists in the United States, certainly no
so-called national bank can be found,
where the borrower can get a dollar on
his property which he wishes to give as
security. The private money loaner
knows this and is ready to take advan-
tage of the situation. After requiring
the borrower lo pay all the oxponflof Of
making out papers he charges the vic-
tim 5 per cent per month—60 per cent
a year.
Under government banking the In-
terest tharge would bo* $12 9 a year;
under the present system the Interest
charge to that man Is $180 a year for
the uee of $300. whieh is teeured by
new furniture that cost $1,000.
Of course it Is but a little while
when the borrower, if he does not get
work, will have all his possessions
eaten tip by interest l mortgage
will be foreclosed and he will fcave
nothing left..
All this is the result of the present
system of banking for private profit
a system !\v whict the bank fails I.
gets the financial panic, hides money,
shuts down business, and drives the
jfbor into idleness, suicide, destitution,
and crime. The clearly evident remedy
is a financial system t*;it givtw to the
people a bank that cannot fail, tfcat has
so completely the coincidence of the
people that it becomes filled with the
people's money, following which the
interest becomes low. business revives,
and general prosperity prevails for all.
THOMAS E. Hll^.
FREE SILVER PARTY.
FopulUU of Minnesota Refuse to .loin
the New Movement.
St. Paul (Minn.) special: The stale
ment wired here from (he east thai lhe
ship the public is served with greater
satisfaction and it isa strong argument
for its adoption in this country. The
improvement in Oervice and increased
convenience in every way is so satis-
factory that the public would be very
reluctant to permitreturn to the old
system. An abbreviated extract from
tho report Is given In the following dis-
patch:
"Washington, D. C.—A sketch show-
ing the great development of the tele-
graph in Great Britain since it passed
under government control in 1870 is
given in a report to the state depart-
ment from Consular Clerk Martin. He
shows that all of the separate com-
panies' lines were taken by the govern-
ment In 1870 for £11,000,000 and that in
the year succceeding the government
built 15,i po miles of wire to connect the
various systems. The reports show-
that while in 1870 the total number of
telegrams handled by all offices was
from 128,000 to 215.000 per week in 1893
(be number exceeded 1,000,000 pefc
U hat a (ircat Democratic Taper hAf
of the Hond Swindle.
Wo presume that the cuckoos who.
against their own convictions, may feel
themselves compelled to defend Mr.
Cleveland's gold bond scheme, will
claim that if the scheme had been in-
dorsed by congress, itVould have re-
sulted in a saving to the people of
$16,000,000 during the next thirty years.
The answer to this is that the whole
scheme, in its intention and concep-
tion, was in the nature of a blackmail-
ing operation in the intorest of the ele-
ment that is growing rich out of the
inqreased purchasing power that the
single gold standard Is conferring on
the ltioney they are hoarding. Tho
representatives of the people refused to
Hermit thefr constituents to be black-
mailed, and that Is the £nd of the mat-
ter so far as this congress is concerued.
The alternative proposed to congress
by Mr. Cleveland may be very simply
stated. In efTect he said: "You gentle-
men seem to be opposed to the single
gftld standard. Very well. If you don't j oent during a
GOLD, SILVER OR PAPER.
Money is value created by law.—
Cernushl.
A legal-tender function is a better
basis for money than a specie basis.
—Benjamin Franklin.
Gold arid silver, constantly varying
in their own value, can never be made
a measure of the value of other things.
—Adam Smith.
The theory of intrinsic, value for
money has been abandoned by the best
writers and thinkers. Coin is not a
safe basis for money—the basg is too
small.—Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A shrinkage in the volume of cur-
rency has caused more misery than
war. famine, and pestilence,* and more
injustice than all the other bad laws
ever enacted.—United States Monetary
Commission.
I wish all money of the nation,
whether gold, silver, copper, or paper,
was issued by the government and
based not on the coin or other money,
but upon the credit and resources of
\he country.—Andrew Jackson.
I find that gold fluctuated 50 per
accept it for at least thirty years,
propose to levy an additional tax of
$16,000,000 on the people that they
would not have to pay if you would ac-
cept gold monometallism for thirty
years."
That was the ultimatum, and if con-
gress had accepted It. that body would
have gone down to history as the most
infamous assembly of representatives
that ever pretended to represent the
people.
To save $16,000,000 In the course of
week and tho number sent annually •
exceeds 70,000,000.- In 1869 the Eng- lllrty yeara- ,he People's representa-
I lish press service was 22,000,000 Srords; | ''ves were aske<i to'lndorse a scheme
i w it amounts t,4 000,000,000 words, thHt would hav0 tled the country 10
gold monometallism. The country has
already lost untold billions by the op-
erations of this system, and while $16,-
000,000 might have been saved by ac-
cepting the, blackmailing conditions
proposed to congress, the people would
have lost billions in the further shrink-
age of values and prifes and in the
general depression of business occa-
sioned by making gold the only unit of
account and measure of value.
The Constitution regrets that theno
was even one Georgia congressman
ready to indorse this scandalous propo-
sition, and, at the same time, thanks
heaven that there was only one. With
the sole exception of Mr. Turner the I Wright.
representatives of the people of Georgia ( .When it was o'hee understood that
in congress stood by the interests of gold and silver are not wealth, but only
, v. * x. their constituents and by the prln- representatives of wealth and tint
o any political party In tho history of cipleB of thplr party Thls „^OWB Jney of no
tills nation i;. simply man clous. No that all the efforts that have been made to circulate its riches, all the old no-
party ever n, a. 1- ..W promises, ever Georgia's ■ resent a, iv.-s to tlons of the supreme importanceof tha
K,|eBtPr opportunities, or made a ltl(,or8e the financial views of .lohn precious metal, fell to the g otrnd -
nore signal fa.lure i nder the leader- Sherman and the republicans have ! Buckley's History of Civilization
ship of Glover Cleveland, who was been futile.- A-tlanta Constitution. •
•orshiped ;is ;i p.irty idol raised to aj | v
thirty-six times more than formerly.
; The present press rate is small com-
pared with tho tariff prior to 1870 and
in place of sending seventy-five words
' per minute one way the wires now
i Carry 500 words a minute, and six mes-
sages are sent simultaneously on one
wire. The service is performed with
j perfect punctuality, the average time
! of transmission of a message being
about sevent. ! nine minutes, against
two or three hours in 1870. The rate
is 12*ce«ts for twelve words, paid by
I stamps."
The Democratic Party"* Failure.
The final and utter collapse of the
democratic party in the presence of the
grandest opportunities that ever camo
single year of the late
war. while the greatest fluctuation of
the 'greenbacks in any one year, as
measured by the same standard, was
only 9V6 per cent.—The Hon. Amasa
WTalker.
There is plenty of evidence to prove
that on incontrovertible legal-tender
paper, if limited in quantity, can re-
tain its full value, but there is abun-
dance of evidence to prove that gold
has undergone extensive changes.
From 1809 to 1849 it rose in value 145
per cent.—Prof. Jevons of Owen's Uni-
versity, England.
The entire amount of coin in the
country, including that in private
hands as well as that in baaking insti-
tutions, was insufficient to supply the
needs of the government for three
months had it been poured into the
treasury. Foreign credit we had none.
-United States Supreme Court Deci-
sion, 12 Wallace, page 540. (This was
a reference to the war period.)
Then, too, I would change the form
of these notes so that instead of being
technically, or in form, a promise they
should have stamped upon them the
denomination, as gold and silver have,
being to all intents and purposes#money
and not a promise to pay in something
no greater legal value. Senator
pedestal higher tli^n his party, the
party has gone down in ignominy and
reproach, so far and so low that even
Its strongest partisans scarcely have
lhe courage to defend it. Cleveland's
second administration has been char-
actered with stupendous incapacity
in every department of governmrtit
• Twenty-seven Cent* a Day. Ho you think that our uevolutlonary
A commission composed of Murray fathers would have gained justice al
Shipley,chairman. Cincinnati chamber hands of King George III. and hif
of commerce; W. J. Akins, for Cleve- "obles if they had sat down and«ffalted.
land chamber of commerce; J. F. Ogle- Instead of agitating and organizing?
vie, for Columbus chamber of com- Ro >'ou think they would have made
merce; W. H. Porter, for Toledo cham- ;lny headway by voting and fighting for
ber of commerce, has been investigat- ,non who believed in kingship? Not
The Fifty-third congress which he ing the condition of the coad miners in ,nuch. It took lots of agitation «,
had on bis hands, and the policy of Hocking Valley (Ohio) district and arouse the sluggards among them, but
_ „ , h0 "I01'1"*1 wi,h mv" 8W'"" In a recent report to Gov. McKlnlev did not take tltenth as much blood
Populist party of Minnesota would join j will, has alfeady gone down In history (teelare that the average wages of these Bl>ed by Itrltlsh hirelings as has al-
the Sibley free-.llver coinage party is , a* the most venal and corrupt that has m|nPra js ... (.ents a dav. ready been shed by monopoly hirelings
vigorously dmftd by Ignatius IVever . s, mblod in our l.iston His M|n,I v,,u,.th,s does not come from i" the I'nlted States of Monopoly. So
nelly, parent of the people s party of cabinet selections were either nobodies ealamitv howlins Populists, but from '"nK men will vote for parties that
Minnesota. Mr. Donnelly said
evening: "The Idea of our party de-
serting the principles laid down in the
Oiiwiia platform and consenting to b<
the tall to an exclusive free-siiver
party is almost too silly to be dis-
cussed. The silver proposition, while
well enough In Its way, is an essen-
tially selfish one so far as the men who
are most prominent in urging It are
concerned. They are largely silver-
mine owners nmi are seeklpg for
or men piastie in his hands, the mem-
bers of which might have been fourth-
class department clerks for all tho In-
fluence they seem to have with the
executive. The picture is not one for
partisan exultation. It is too serious
that. There is a point at which
partisanism ends and patriotism be-
gins. While partisan zeal may prompt
a strong opposition there is naught but
humiliation in tlfe hearts of all true
patriots when they see a party sink so
depositor from fear that ho will lose the market for tAeir product The People s low and prove itself so hopelessly In-
money he has deposited in the bank. party has other^and fully as important -apable as tho democratic party has
>. No more talk about money scat* plans on hand for the amelioration ol shown itself to be in thp two years of
city or a "tight," "close" money mar- the condition of mankind. If the silver lhe present administration. All this
men are In earnest in their move let after thirty-three years of promises!
i. As nearly all business could b - them join our party. We have always All this with an overwhelming ma-
done with checks and nearly all money j favored the free coinage of sih m in ioritv in eongress backed b> an cxeeu-
would i" in th e k no more holding we have other plans in view whi- h wr 'or of th' p rt> choice' All this'ifier
representatives sent out by the cham-
bers of commerce In the leading cities
of Ohio. It is not likely that this com-
mission has reported the condition of
the miners any worse than really ex-
ists and, therefore must conclude that
the report Is true.
Think of it! Twenty-seven cents a
day! The magnificent sum of $1.62 a
♦reek! A princely income of $84.24 a
year! Support a family on this! Think
of the luxuries a family can indulge on
an income of such magnitude!
Seriously, friends, what do you think
of this? Is it not astounding to think
of such conditions being imposed upon
workingmen In free America? We
say imposed, for it is the avarice and
greed of the coal operators that force
protect monopolies by law, so long will
the distress and horrors now prevail-
ing continue. There can be no other
result. Every vote cast for the old
parties is a vote to place the officers,
militia, army and navy at the disposal
of corporations to ehoot down Ameri-
can workers who have been starved
into violence. To support the old
parties has just the same effect as the
support the torles gave King George III.
Are you, a workingman, wise to sup-
port those who live in kingly splendor
off your toil?—Ceming Nation.
up of the after-dark pedestrian, the^ cannot abandon Had th
4oT
stiver men the most withering rebuke ever ad-
the republicans in 1892! What can the
rank and file in the democratic party
expect in the futuro by remaining in it? '
stage coach, or tli< rnliroed train. No • stood by our party in«th< last election ministered to any party was given
more burglary or murder for money. | we would have carried Colorado, v >>
8. As no further possibility existed tana. Washington, Idaho Wyoming
of theft for money, taxation to k.-ep tip and, perhaps, other state. Instead oi
a large police fftre cotid soon be re j doing this they said that the repub-
duced more than one-half. j jjcan party In those states was In fa-
9. No more losses to the people from vor of free coinage of silver and that
bank failures. therefore, it was fcood enough for them
10. No more financial panics, shut- J if that is so I do not
Itotli Tell the Truth.
"Scratch a democratic office holder
and you scratch a monopoly tool;
why the same scratch a republican office holder and I con'"tlons possible.
i, . , .. | Diaiuan nose nail
masses on the other are making such ,ts Products three times as much as he | called the attention of the nolieemnn
conditions possible. borrowed. I'nder such conditions the ; on duty to the fact. The policeman
ting down business, throwing people I party is not good enough for them •vou wretch a monopoly pimp. The Oh,why w ill not laboring men arouse Power to purchase grows less and less, reported to his brigadier, who reported
out of work, and bringing destitution still." people argue of the "merits" of the from their lethargy and shake off this w heels , of Industry are stopped. 10 th® commissary of the quarter, who
All for Creditor* and landholder*.
The money question Is the great
question under the present financial
system of o lr government. The con-
these men to work for worse than star- traction of the currency brought with
vation wages. 't, by a law as inflexible aa gravlta-
If this woe an isolated case some ''on, falling prices. Low prices is an-
excuse might be found for It, but labor °ther name for dear mot'*v. Debts
all over this country is gradually be- contracted when wheat was $1.50 have
Ing pressed to that point. The cupid- 10 when wheat brings only
ity of the capitalistic classes on the cents—that is. the debtor, in addi- „ r,nocot. h„ , *
one hand and the stupidity of the ,lon to.,h^ infrest, pays in labor and the statue's nose had como"]* 'ffe
:ts three times as much as he I called the attention of the pollcen !
borrowed. I nder such condition** th I on diitv tn ih« foot The policeman
BY A NEW METHOD
VIAK1NG GAS IS WONDERFULLY
SIMPLIFIED.
hardly a statue In France and In
varre with its nose on. In July he wag
decorated for special services Som*.
body else took up the report. Betweenv
January and December, 1894. it had
got Into parliament. On Feb. 25
1895, the house sat upon it, and mm!
Jaures and Carnaud got off some vlrul
lent attacks upon tho government for
its want of public spirit. The next day
the same passer-by who had reported
the abscnce of the nose happened to
pass again. He discovered that the nose
had not been replaced. He reported
to the policeman on duty, who, etc.
The nose of Puget is in for another
round.
IN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN,
t From a Lady Traveler's Inter'
••HtliiK Letter.
Late in November, a few years ago,
I took a stageo ride into one of the
mountain-locked valleys of California,
As we followed the winding grade thai
led over the summit, I observed
weather-w'orn shakes nailed on the
j trees, far above our heads. Every few
rods they Uppeared, and, disliking tq
express my ignorance to the driver,
that facetious terror to inquisitive
travelers, I studied the problem foj
some time In silence. I was compelled,
however, to fall back upon®the driver,
who proved to be gracious, and in-
formed me that they served to marK
the routs, not In summer, since tho
road itself was sufficient, but in winter
time, when the road was buried ia
snow.
"They look high, don't they?" said
he, "but come along two months from
now and you can sit down on them."
An<! so I found it when I returned;
for, in a few days, storms rendered the
summit impassable, and .when, at the
end of two months, the stage took me
out of the mountains, we glided across
| the frozen surface high up among tho
ice-encrusted and suow-laden branches
of the pines, and I saw those f*imo
shakes just far enough above the snow
to form a good seat. Moisture falls in
those high altitudes In the form ol!
I snow. In the earlier and later parts of
; 'he rainy* season, the mountain-locked
| valleys are refreshed by copious show-
ers, while at the top they are whitened
with snow. The heaviest fall of snow
i occurs on the ridges or "divides,"
which separate* the leading water-
courses, and across which communlca-
I tion is maintained for long periods
onlj'by messengers on snowshoes, who
CxpermenU Wltn Acetylene and Their
Kesolt*—A Clan That Everyone C n
Generate on Their Own 1'remiBea at
Little Expense.
The astonishing announcement was
aiade at a recent meeting of the Society
it Chemical Industry that a powerful
Illuminating gas could be manufac-
tured by a newly discovered method
at a reduction of nearly one-thifd of
the present cost of gas. Should the
discovery prove as practical as claimed
it will revolutionize the manufacture
of gas. Factories are being erected,
and it is expected that gas made by the
aew process will be on sale in the near
future. The new illuminant is called
acetylene. It has been known to the
chemists for years, but the difficulty
of its manufacture prevented them
from utilizing it. It is the lowest gas
in the series of hydrocarbons, and is
usually manufactured by passing a
stream of hydrogen through a globe in
which the electric air is produced be-
tween two carbon points. But by this
method the gas is made in minute
quantities only, and serves merely for
experimental purposes In the labora-
tory and lecture room. It remained
for T. L. Wilson to discover a means
by which the gas could be produced
in sufficient quantities for practical
purposes. Mr. Wilson discovered the
method by mere accident. He was
working in his laboratory with an elec-
tric furnace, endeavoring to form an
alloy of calcium from some of its com-
pounds, when he noticed that a mixture
of powdered lime and anthracite, under
the influence of the electrical current,
fused down to heavy semi-metallic
mass. This substance was found not
to be the one sought, and it was thrown
into a bucket of water. The strange
results which followed Its contact with
the water immediately attracted Mr.
Wilson s attenti&n. A gas was given
off whose chief characteristics seemed
to be its irnetraUng and disagreeable
odor. On applying a light Mr. Wilson
found that the gas burned freely, with
a smoky but luminous flame. Here
Mr. Wilson became interested and im-
mediately began his investigations. „ ., . . .
He repeated the experiment, and found I ™Ty mal s a,"" B'"'h
that the mixture he had cast into the "gPB aa h" ^Portei in s.ch a
bucket was a substance called calcic m!>nner' The#nowshoes Is the moun-
carbide, containing forty parts by ;
weight of carbon. At this point Prof.
Venable, of the University of North I . . , . . .
Carolina, took up lhe matter, and It 8l"fV° ^ * \fd thr°Ufh thC T.u'
was there that experiments looking to ,whIch' 88 8tage llnes afe few and tho
the utilization of acetylene as an Ulu-
manner.
talneer's friend. It is the onlj means
by whic^i pedestrians can go from
place to place, unless they wait for the
minant were first carried out. Experi-
ments soon proved that a pound of this
calcic carbide would yield 5.3 cubic feet
of fecetylene gas, which immediately
gave it commercial value, amf a com-
pany was formed to manufacture the
gas on a large scale. From an econom-
ic point f>f fciew this gas is of great
snow everywhere, would amount prac-
tically to a suspension o^all travel on
foot for weeks at a time. Climbing the
hills is not an "easy matter, yet it is
rapidly don by an experienced skater.
Snowshoeing is an art, anv~ *o become
an expert in the use of these imple-
ments requires considerable practice.
Like skating, it requires natural
value, for It has been found that it can "l dexlfto bec°mc ™
adept. All through the mountains are
to be found men. and women, too,
whose skill in using the Norwegian
shoe or skate—called "skae" in Nor-
way—is little less than marvelous.
• MAGGIE M. KEQpH.
be generated In a house as It Is needed
by a very simple apparatus. This
would undoubtedly be a boon to fami
lies living in tha country. Perhaps the
most remarkable quality of the gas is
the fact that it, can be liquified by pres-
sure, and put in cans that can be tapped
when the gas Is needed. A very simple
device has been arranged by which the* Curtoiu
pressure of the gas will be regulated [
while changing from liquified con- Many instances are recorded to es-
dition, and then pass into the various tablish the fact that sudden alarm or
pipes. Acetylene is a most powerful i grea* (liBtress will, as Sir Walter Scott
Illuminant. It is liazzling in the has a,ltly sal<'' "blanch at once tha
brightness and steadfastness of its The J" black locks of Oscar
flame, and when compared with the or- I - ° Vic,ma in 1887'
dinary coal gas* its superiority is won-
BLANCHINC OF THE HAIR.
InHtanc.H or Till. rhenom-
derful, the latter appearing dim and
flickering. There is no dark center to
the flame, as is the case with the or-
dinary gas. The illuminant is some-
what peculiar, viewing it from a popu-
lar point of view, In that it gives only
one-half the heating power of the or-
dinary gas. It is also impossible to use
were suddenly changed to pure white
through fright at falling into a deep
well. Dr. Herbert tells of a woman,
a witness in the celebrated trial of
Lovell, whose hair blanched to pure
white in a sinele night . Casseii's
"World of Welders" cites several
prominent cases of this kind, one being
King Ludwig of Bavaria, whose "hair
became almost suddenly white," says
the Octroi^ l-'ree Press, upon learning
it in the ordinary burners, for they are j that a person whom he had put to
too large, but thl« apparent fault has1 death was innocent of the crime
been easily overcome by constructing 'barged. The beard and hair of the
burners which admit a smaller amount great r)llkc ot Brunswick whitened
of gas. It has Been propose,! by pro •£'lth,'?, ',0,1lr" "I1011 'earn-
. f .. . , . Ing that his father had been mortally
moters of the enterprise to do away wounded in battle.
with gas piping through the streets, The hair of both Mary Queen of Scots
for they say that lamps ran be made and Marie Antoinette whitened within
containing the necessary chemicals by a 'ew hours of the time of their exe-
which the gas can be generated and | cutlon- .
consumed on the spot. This method
may be a solution to the car-lighting
problem, to which the elevated and sur-
face railroad authorities kavej, devoted
considerable attention of late. The
cost of the gas is dependent upon the
cost of the carbide, rt Is said by the
company which is abou^tq place the
carbide on the market that if the sub-
stance Is sold at |^Dt a ton the gas can
be furnished at'50 cents per 1,000 feet.
which will give light equal in amount
to that given by the ordinary Illumi-
nating gas. Of course this would not
represent the actual cost of thf acety-
lene, which has not as yet been°de-
cided4 but the cost Is sure to be only a
small proportion of the cost of the or-
dinary gas. It has been found that
THE WOODS BYNICHT.
Bound* and Sight* Among lhe Tree* nn<]
Binhn.
"Sit still In the woods at night, and
look and llBten," said an old time at-
ttraltst to me one day, and you will
«ee r hear strange things, not to bo
seen or heard, save by rarest chance,
In the busy hours of the day." I
thought of the remark as I sat per-
fectly still, resting on a stump In* a
small opening of the Adirondack woods*
at the close of one day last summer.
It was twilight, and out of the dim, un-
certain light loomed the outlines of
the trees in tho valley, and of Am-
persand mountain in the distance.
when the gas is passed through a tube flgure'w'hlT'-Sh!",0W °' " m°Vln8
heated to redness that benzol, the sub-
stance which is the foundation of the
aniline colors, is produced. Even this
feature alone would gerve to make the
discovery one of great value.
TYRANNY OF RED TAPE.
It la as Powerful In France at It Ever
„ ... . Wm m England.
British red tapeism is bad to beat,
but the record Just now is with Paris
There the front of the Ecole des Beau
madeout to b© that of a
fox. How stealthily the sly fellow
«rept along! He made no noise, not a
twig broke beneath his cat-like tread.
As he turned, for the first time he
; noticed nje. He looked at me, and I
looked at him. Then Reynard rpvealed
the cunning of his kinrl. Still keepiag
his eye on me. he sidled away until
j he reached the dark shades and re-
I cesses, when he disappeared In an ln-
I stant. 1 knew Reynard was out on his
Arts Is adorned with a statue of Puget, j nl*htly foraging expedition. Perhaps
« ««!en?^' *four y®ars ago ( he waa looking for a wild rabbit or a
fat partridge; or. perhaps he intended
to the working classes. i
11. Interest reduced to one-half the Tru„ M Go#p<l|>
prevailing rate throughout the United Charles Dicfc-ns speaking
culminating horrors of the
12. \n o'portanU> to al* ys readily revolution, says o "There is not
borrow money If the Individual has the France with all its rich variety of soil
necessary security. an(j climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a
13. A revenue of over $300,000,000 sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow
dollars per year to the government to maturity under conditions more cer-
from doing its ov n banking, which tain than those that have produced thir
revenue, expended In the Impiuvement horror. Crush humanity out of shape
of roads and the providing of Irriga once more under similar hammers auu
tion, would give hundreds of thousands It will twist Itself Into the same tor-
of wen employment while carrying for- tured forms. Bow the seeds of rapac-
ward great internal improvements. ity, license, and oppression ever again
The condition of the western farmer and It will surely yield the same fruit
illustrates the situation today. He can- according to its kind."
two factions when the republicans de
nounce the democrats as liars and
of the thieves and when democrats denounce
French ! the republicans as thieves and liars—
and both sides telling the truth!"—
Free Trader.
Thafs right brother, and there is no
motes there, either.- Nothing but great
incubus of capitalism? Why be slaves
when they ran so easily Be freemen?
Why do millions drink the bitter dregs
of poverty, misery, sorrow, and woe
when they only to be men—brave,
courageous men to throw it all off?
wrong voting and in no other way
to rob some farmer of his choicest
fowls. The fox is a night traveler; ho
makes his Journey nfter dark, finds his
dinner, and retlivs always before the
break of day. I,ater, that night 1 was
really startled by a sudden, barking
cry, so loud, so hoarse, so strange, that
I jumped to my feet \,o see Vhat man-
of the ' hZ7"u I ""-0' h'r" °r hwm hn,i """"I It
big beams that stick out so plain that they be removed except by right vot-
"the way-faring man. though a fool lug. So long as laboring men vote for
may not err therein. *^"he two old par- candidates and measures suggested by
ties are hotbeds of cor. Tiion an l e\ r< ; pitalists so long will labor !>•' || tln>
vote for them helps to warm the hotbed | toils, as now.
and propagate more corruption. We have been voted Into these anom-
— alous conditions and the ballot is the
The courts, backed by the military, only peaceful remedy to lead the peo-
sre threatening our liberties. j pu out.
Manufacturers have no market for reI)orte<l to the Prefecture of Police.
their goods. And men raise the cry ?]he Pr°f®ct re of Police decided that
of overproduction, when there are mil- ?°!le , (,r°PPe<l °ff the statue.
Hons of people In sure want of the very off fhe mllleTthe^iT* kn°Ck<"1
articlesthese manufacturers would like the Prefecture of the $ZT"u
JP '° Be"- 'u,t which they (the producers « was then August. 1891 jn October ' ^'8 Ppo,,"ar was repeated, and
Such conditions are the results of ^ tbe c0"ntr>) have no money to buy. a committee of three was appointed M?™, ' ,1U«hed ""trigl.t at my mo-
When the factories close then the to decide which department had to' mntary *™re. I recognized it as the
wages of the workmen stop and their Put lhe not* on aRain. The committee i vo,ce of tl,e yellow-breasted chat. This
purchasing power comes to an end ln8Pectfd the statue in January, 1892. I,lr(t has unusual ventrlloqulal Dowers
also. But the bondholders of tho were'unablrVren^"111" 'hat th<>y I "°nEH ha" h'"n ^"'''ibed as tones
world collect their Interest (8, 10, 20, - -lna le t0 r"10r' 1
30 per cent), and when the Interest is
not paid they take the property for
the debt—The Age.
As long as banks have control of thf
money we will have panics.
In February. 1893. this report reached : 'h" i"""1*"1* of >< ">* P P-
the department of public works The i P " °r t'ltteral sounds
head of a room found it In June and I term,na,lnl! 'n something like the mew-
made the lives of his subordinates so lng of * ca| —Our Animal Friends.
many burdetiB to them with It Some- ^
how or other It got Into print that, but I Women act as .tatt„n
for this zealous offlclal, there would be J tom. of th« Austria,,^ ™i"w«y" °n
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
French, W. H. The Chandler Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1895, newspaper, April 12, 1895; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc147180/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.