The Sapulpa Light (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 208, Ed. 2 Friday, June 26, 1908 Page: 2 of 12
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE
SON OF ADMIRAL EVANS
FROM SMALL TOWNS'
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS TAKEN ANNUALLY.
LEARNED A LESSON.
One Farmer Finds Out Something
.Through Buying a Mail-Order Stove.
Although Rear Admiral Roblev D. Evans re-
linquished the cflmmand of the battleship fleet
a short time ago, yet there is another member of
the family in the naval service and at present at-
tached to the battleship Louisiana, with the Beet
at San Francisco.
This officer is Lieut. Franck Taylor Evans,
the only son of the former commander-in-chief of
the Atlantic fleet. Resembling his father in
looks, the younger Evans had made a very credit-
able record since his entrance In the navy, 14
years ago.
He was born in Switzerland. while his father
was attached to the European fleet in the 70 s.
September 6, 1894. he was appointed to the naval
academy at large. Completing his four-years
course of instruction at the academy in 1SSS, he
was graduated from that Institution.
In April of that year, and Just before the outbreak of the Spanish war.
he was assiened to the battleship Massachusetts, commanded by Capt. Fran
els J. Higglnson. He served on the Massachusetts through the war. taking
part in the bombardment at Santiago. San Juan and in a number of . n?a?e-
ments in Cuban waters. He remained on the Massachusetts until 1S99. when
he was transferred to the gunboat Nashville. In 1900 he was assigned to the
Brutus on the Asiatic station. .
In 1904 he «as assigned to President Roosevelt's yacht Sylph as her
commanding officer and remained on her until the latter part of 19'Jo. when
he was ordered to Newport News for duty in connection with the fitting out of
the new 16.000-ton battleship Louisiana. When she was commissioned In 190b
he was assigned to duty on her.
He made the trip on the Louisiana, when she took President Roosevelt
to Panama, and also on the cruise from Hampton Roads to San Francisco
He was promoted to the grade of lieutenant on July 1. 1904.
The Wayne (Neb.) Herald recites
the story of a Wayne county farmer
i who was caught by one of the cata-
THROUGH MAIL-ORDER SYSTEM :ogue houses. He learned the lesson
and paid dearly for it. Mr. ramier
had seen the stove picture in the cata-
Viev i of a Banker on the Situation logue and had sent on his good $-9.
adding $2 90 for freight. Then the
stove came to the depot. The farmer
came to town, loaded up the junk and
drove up onto the business street.
Then to some friends, he confided:
"That stove cost me $29 and $2 90
freight, and I II bet It is half sheet I
iron. I have been waiting for it for i
over two months and my wife is near-
ly ci-axv about iL 1 could have done
better by buying of the Wayne hard- (
vare dealers. The catalogue fellows ,
Creosote Si
wuking
GREAT WOOD PRESERVATIVE HA6
/#TERES TING HISTORY
During the Recent Monetary
Stringency Well Worthy of
Consideration.
The president of a bank at Minne-
apolis. during the recent financial
stringency, called attention to one
source of financi^ drain upon the
country towns which should be taken
into consideration, and a remedy ap-
plied.
"In this remarkable situation," he
said, "when everybody is prosperous can g0 to hades in the future."
and there is not enough currency to This is a lesson that people of Ne- ,
go round, it is important that every braska and other states are being j
dollar possible should be kept at home taught every day in the year and it is
until the banking business is again on a pleasure to know that they are get-
a cash basis In the clues this Is be tjng their eye teeth cut in the most
ing done with a good deal of success artistic and approved style. They are |
and the clearing-house certificates and | ordering from the catalogues and in
cashier's checks prevent a serious > retum they are getting a miserable lot
"FIDDLER BOB" TAYLOR
Robert Love Tayler. better known throughout
Tennessee as "Fiddler Bob.'' devoted his maiden
speech in the United States senate recently to an
attack upon the Republican party and the execu-
tive. Some of his similes were very effective, as
when he compared the federal power and the
states to the centripetal and centrifugal forces
that rule the universe, and when he said this of
the railways:
"They are only one string of the harp of a
thousand Firings upon which our modern Orpheus
is playing the triumphal march of federalism.
Senator Taylor got his nickname of Fiddler
Hob from the campaign he waged In 1889, for
election to the I'nited States congress. He had
nothing to aid him but his wits and his fiddle,
but being a mountaineer himself he knew how to
reach the hearts of the people of the hills. He set out for the mountain re-
gions carrying his fiddle and wherever he stopped he brought It ou and a
dance was organized l ight away. The young folks danced to his music while
the older ones were won by his merry chatter. He was elected His next am-
bition was to become United States senator and he made the run. He re-
ceived a telegram that he had been elected by a majority of one, but later ha
received another that one of his supporters had changed his vote and elected
his opponent. Taylor .aid nothing, but he made the run for governor of the
sta'e this time having his own brother for an opponent, which gave to the
co .test the sobriquet of War of the Roses." The ancient fiddle was effective
and Hob was elected He was twice reflected His opportunity to achieve
his final ambition offered itself at last election and he ran for the senate once
more being triumphantly elected this time.
Ser,;*t'jr Tavior was !«>rn In Happy Valley. Tenn In July, 18o0. He gradu-
ated from Pennington college and In 1S78 was admitted to the bar He was
an elector al-large on the Cleveland ticket in 1881 and again In 18?-. After
retiring from the office of chief executive Mr. Taylor entered the lecture field.
He is an attorney by profession, and he Is also editor of Bob Taylors Maga
xlne, a publication that reflects the character and the idiosyncrasies of the
OPPOSES REVOLVING DOORS
Louis Lepine. prefect of police, by Issuing th«
ordinance forbidding the use of revolving doors
in restaurants, hotels and other public buildings
capable of holding more than 100 persons, on the
ground that they are dangerous in case of lire
or panic, has again demonstrated that he is 'he
wielder of the "big stick" in Paris.
The order has aroused the indignation of those
who have installed thess doors at great expetse,
but the prefect is used to grumblings and niut-
terlngs. To use an American expression, he al-
lows their complaints to go "In out ear and out
of the other."
That the edict will stand goes without saying,
for the office of prefect is more important than
that of a cabinet minister. He Is appointed by
the president and is answerable neither to par-
liament nor to Paris.
M Lepine Is supported by a small army in carrying out his edicts. He
controls 50,000 troops. 12,000 police and 8.000 guards. He is a gentleman, a
scholar and brother to a great medical luminary. Prof. Raphael Lepine, of the
faculty of Lyons and editor of the Revue de Medicine. It is a family of what
was called in other days "noblesse de robe." descending from generations of
lawyers, doctors and government functionaries.
M. Lepine was born in Paris In 1846. became a lawyer and entered the ' ad
ministration" In 1877 as subprefect. and has risen through all the grades to
prefect to which he was appointed In 1893. So well has he met the require-
ments of bis strenuous office that every president since that time has re-
appointed him. He was in charge of Paris during the Dreyfus troubles, with
Its rioting and violent possibilities.
NEW PRESIDENT OF PERU
embarrassment. But out in the coun-
try. where there are no clearing
houses. eTery dollar hoarded or son:
away from home counts double.
"At this time the patronage of the
foreign catalogue houses is a factor
that ought to be considered seriously
By their own reports two of these
catalogue houses, which deal in almost
every commodity of use to the home
or farm, do a business of $90.00e.000
a year. This Is $300,000 for each of the
six business days of the week. This
money comes largely out of the coun-
try towns. These catalogue houses do
not sell to people In the cities where
they are located. It is from the fann-
ers and residents of towns of less
than 5,000 population that 95 per cent,
of their business comes and at leas: a
third of it is from the northwest. And
remember, too. that tnere are other
catalogue houses, and that the com-
bined business done by them is at
least $200,000,000 annually
"1 am informed that all through the
state of Minnesota this competition of
the foreign catalogue houses has been
very seriously felt by the merchants
of small towns, to such an extent that
some have been driven out of business
entirely.
"If this has been the case during
the great prosperity of recent years,
when money was circulated freely,
what must the effect be now when the
currency is needed at home? Money
spent with the local merchant is dis-
bursed in the locality, at least the
profits of his business are, but money
sent away is lost from local circula-
tion.
"Without going into the home-trade
question it seems plain to me that
those who buy from a foreign cata-
logue house at this time are directly
injuring themselves, for this question
of keeping money in home circulation
Involves people of all conditions."
Ideas for Market Days.
That the "market day" Idea is be-
coming decidedly popular in the coun-
try Is indicated by the fact that the
merchants of dozens of western towns
have adopted the plan lately. Re-
ports from these places, which have
been giving the "market day" plan a
trial, indicate that it is giving satis-
faction to dealers and to their
patrons. Like any other innovation
the success of the establishment of a
market day depends almost entirely
upon the interest which It evokes and
the sustained energy that is em-
ployed In giving it a distinctive value
to producers. The merchants will get
out of the plan no more nor less than
they put into it. If the arrangements
made afford the assurance that pa-
trons will find improved facilities for
the disposal of their products It is cer,
tain to prove a drawing feature. If
It Is employed simply as a plan for
drawing a crowd of farmers to town
to spend their money, It is equally
certain that the ultimate result will
be unsatisfactory, if not seriously
detrimental to future business rela-
tions. It Is good policy not to go Into
a scheme of this kind until satisfied
that conditions are right for its suc-
cess. and once undertaken, to push it
for ail It Is worth. Make It worth
while for customers to come from a
distance for the day, so that tBey will
be ready to assist in the perpetuation
of the plan. A great deal depends on
"starting right," and, once having pop
ularized the idea to keep up sustained
enthusiasm by providing improved
facilities for caring ftor the increased
trade which it develops.
of junk, paying much higher prices 1
than they would have to pay for first-
ciass goods sold In the home stores, j
The catalogue houses live and grow
fat off just such people as the man at j
Wayne. These men are constantly-
looking for the big end of the bargain.
The catalogue houses are doing the
same thing. It would look as though
It would be "'When Greek meets
Greek," but Its nothing of the kind.
The catalogue concerns have all the
advantage. They have gotten the
money of the individual and then they
seed him out any kind of an old lot of
junk, knowing that he has no recourse.
These catalogue houses have been do-
ing thi3 thing for years and find
; lenty of suckers, for you know there
is something recorded about a sucker
being born every second. Perhaps
they do not get the same sucker a
second time, but they catch some that
came along in the new crop.
HANDLING FARM PRODUCTS.
'? !r.
BJO COKE AND GAS PLXNT*PRODllCE6
COKE AND <?A$ Af/D IWY VALIBBEEBY-
PRODUCT AMONG THfrt CREOSOTE OIL,
BATTERY Of 0A6 KETOR.J-5
EROM BY-PRODUCT OF COAL-TAR
CREOSOTE IS HADE
One of the significant signs of the
times is the awakening of the Amer-
ican people to the dangerous destruc-
tion of their forest wealth, and the
necessity of a wise use of what re-
mains of it. Undoubtedly, in the fu-
ture the nation must utilize its forest
Improved Methods Practiced in Many crop less wastefully, both in the woods
Agricultural Towns. and in the mill, and must make provi-
sion for future crops; but that is not
Every farming community turns the only way to prolong the timber
trade to the town where best prices supply. If the service of the wood
are paid for the minor products which which is used can be lengthened, it
the farmers have to dispose of. The will largely decrease the amount of
prices paid for butter and eggs, quite timber that must be cut.
often, decide the business life of a And this can be done by treating
town. The general practice in many the wood with chemicals which will
places Is for individual merchants to poison the low forms of plant life
take produce In exchange for goods, which attack it and cause it to decay.
The lowest market price is the rule in The growth of timber is slow, and
these towns. Should one merchant when the dearth of it becomes press-
pay a cent a pound more for butter, ing, a new crop cannot be grown
or a cent more a dozen for eggs, the quickly enough to prevent a time of
farmers conclude that the difference severe shortage. Preservative treat-
is made up in the quality of goods or nient of timber has the advantage, as
the quantity they receive in exchange. i a remedy, that it can be applied im-
To overcome the annoyances occa- mediately. Its importance is, there-
sioned through unwholesome competi- , f0re. attracting increasing attention,
tion In the buying of farmers' prod Many chemicals have been used for
ucts, the business men of many agri-! the preservation of timber, among
cultural towns, during the past few them blue vitriol, corrosive sublimate
years, have undertaken the operation and chloride of zinc. The most effec-
of co-operative produce establish- 1 tive preservative is the substance
ments. These establishments general- called "creosote oil," or "creosote."
ly consist of a commodious warehouse qb account of the similarity of the
with cold storage appliances. The names, many people suppose this to
merchants of the town are the stock jje the creosote obtained from wood,
holders in the concern. A manager is sucij a8 can be obtained, refined for
employed on salary and is intrusted medicinal purposes, at the drug stores,
with the buying and marketing of all j3Ut the two are quite different, and
produce. The storekeepers refer all should not be confused. The creo-
BEE mvE COKE 0\^*WA$TETVl
PROCESS, AS AIM BY-PRODUCT-S
ARE LOST
Senor Don Augusto B. Leguia, who re-
cently elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as president
of Peru, is said to be one of the best friends the
United States ever has had in South America.
The richness of Peru Is proverbial, and for years
Senor Leguia has maintained that every effort
should be made to encourage the Investment of
American capital in enterprises intended to de-
velop and exploit the resources of his country.
His liking for American methods Is probably
partly due to the fact that the large part of his
early commercial training was acquired in the
Si anish-Amerlcan department of the New York
Life Insurance Company.
He visits with this corporation for years, and
when he resigned his place, in 1889. he had
worked lilt ay up from a clerkship to the man-
agement of all the Interests of the New York Life in Peru Since retiring
from the insurance business Senor Leguia has been the managing director of i he
British Sugar Estates. Limited, which has several million dollars Invested
in sugar estates in different parts of Peru, and he is also the largest stockhold
er in six other important Industrial and commercial enterprises.
Senor Leguia entered political life in 190:1 as minister of finance in Presl
dent Candamo's government. of which the present president of Peru. Dr. .lose
Pardo. was prime minister. President Candamo lived only six months afier
taking office, and when the vacancy caused by his death was filled by the
election of President Pardo, Senor Leguia was made prime minister and In
• •usted with the forming of a new cabinet He retired from this office only
a few months ago, in accordance with a custom which requires a candidate
lor an elective public office to resign before opening a campaign.
Senor Leguia is 45 years old. laving been born at Lambayeque, in the
north of Peru, on February 19, 1463.
Manners.
Manners are not like clothes. It's
a bad thing to have two suits of them
—one for best and one for everyday.
Wear your best manners all the time
They suffer more by being put away
than by constant use. If you keep your
best manners for company they will
fit you III. and your visitor will suspect
they were put on for him. Second best
clothes may be worn at home, but
not second best manners. To whom
is it worth while to be courteous If not
to the people you love Ust?—Home
Chat
farmers who have produce for sale to
the produce house and the highest
market price is paid and due bills
given which are payable in goods at
the stores in the town.
This method has proved highly fit
isfactory everywhere it has been tried.
Not alone have the merchants found
it advantageous, but the farmers as
well. Another feature worth consid- i
eration is the fact that farmers are
net compelled to trade at any particu-
lar store, but can make their pur-
chases in any store in the town. Then
again much trade is saved to the com-
munity that might go to the mail-or-
der houses of the larger cities.
Immense Food Receptacles.
At a recent municipal celebration In
Covina. Cal„ in which a barbecue was
given to mark the advent of an elec-
tric railway, coffee was served from
an urn holding 250 gallons, or 5,000 |
cups; beans were cooked In a pot j
holding 200 gallons.
Heavy Itrports of Foodstuffs.
In 1906 the lm|>orts of wheat and
whrat flour Into the I'nited Kingdom
were 7S per ceut. of the total supply.
In 1*05 the imports were 35 per cent,
and in France three per cent. In the
L'nitud Kingdom in 1906 the imported
I u(i|'lles of meat were 47 per cent
During the Summer Months.
The summer time is the time the re-
tail merchant must keep things mov-
ing at a lively pace in his store. Gen-
erally the warm weather season is
dull with retailers and the period from
June to September Is generally regard-
ed as a time when there is little doing
Here is where the retail merchant
must not allow himself to take a
wrong view of things. The fact that
this stretch of three months has been
generally regarded as a period of in-
activity is just the very reason why he
cannot afford to ailow it to be one.
There can be no periods of Inactivity
for the merchant of to-day. He must
keep a full head of steam up all the
time, and it is even more Important
that he should do this on the up grade,
when he Is working against the forces
of gravitation than on the level, when
the business rushes almost of Its own
momentum.
The live merchant will make up bla
mind that there will be no periods of
inactivity in his store. He keeps
things moving all the time; there is
something doing every day and he
doesn't give people a chance to forget
for a single day that he is selling tho
best merchandise at the lowest pos-
sible prices.
it Is these periods of inactivity on
the parts of retail merchants which
have given the retail mail order
houses tlielr opportunity to make In-
roads on their trade. With the mall
order houses there are no periods of
Inactivity, and during the summer
months they will hustle harder than
ever for trade, because they "need the
money." The retail merchant must
prepare to meet aggressive competi-
tion on the part of the catalogue mer
chants and It is up to him to hustle
and see well to his local advertising.
sote used In wood preservation is ob-
tained from coal, by a most interest-
ing process.
Nearly every city now uses gas for
light and fuel, and many people know-
that this illuminating gas is often
made from coal. But the many things
besides gas which are obtained in
this process are not so well known. It
is one of these other products from
which is obtained the creosote oil used
for wood preservation.
To understand how all these things
are produced, it is necessary to know
something which the chemists can tell
us. Coal, they say. is composed part-
ly of the substance called carbon, part-
ly of compounds of this carbon with the
gas hydrogen, which they have named
"hydrocarbons." When the coal Is
heated sufficiently, away from air, the
hydrocarbons are driven off in the
form of gas. Illuminating gas is made
by subjecting coal of the proper kind
to this process, which is known as
"dry distillation." The coal is put
into a lonf. fire-clay oven, or "retort,"
shaped much like a giant model of the
little cakes which the bakers call
"lady fingers," the retorts being
about 13 feet long, two feet wide and
16 inches deep. A number of these
retorts are built side by side, in three
rows, one above the other, the ends of
the retorts being supported in a
brick wall which also extends around
the ends of the rows and over the top,
and thus entirely incloses the re-
torts. Fire, from furnaces below, is
carried by flues into this inclosure, so
that the retorts are enHrely enveloped
In flame and can be heated to a very-
high temperature.
The retorts are partly filled with
coal, after which they are sealed, so
that no air can get into them. They
are then heated to a temperature of
about 2.100 degrees Fahrenheit. Un-
der this intense heat almost all the
hydrocarbons of the coal pass off, leav-
ing behind only the "fixed" carbon,
which comes out of the retort as coke.
Many of the lighter compounds dis-
tilled off by the beat will remain in
the form of gas when they are cooled
to ordinary temperatures, and It Is
Bome of these which make the gas
finally used for lighting and fuel. But
as it comes from the retorts, the gas
Is like a thick, yellowish-green smoke
and could not be used at all for such
purposes. This gas escapes from the
reWfts into a series of large and cost
ly machines where the lighting gas
is cleansed from its impurities, and
the different by-products are separated
from each other. First are great
"condensers," in which the gases are
cooled. The cooling condenses the
heavier compounds into thick liquids,
which are then left behind.
One of the substances later re-
moved from the gas is ammonia, ar.d
from this product is made the am-
monia water which Is used in every
household.
The heavy, strong smelling, black
liquid which is collected in the cooling
of the gas is what we know as coal
tar. This is an exceedingly complex
mixture of substances. From it are
obtained not only creosote oil, but
most of the dyes which are used now-a-
days, perfumes, and even flavoring
extracts.
Gas, coal tar and coke are also made
in what is known as the by-product
coke oven, which Is adapted to differ-
ent objects, but is operated on the
same principle. Its coal tar Is equally
as good as the gas works tar for mak-
ing creosote oil. In recent years a
great amount of gas has been made in
the United States by another process,
and is known as water gas. This proc-
ess also produces a tar, which looks
much like coal tar and is often difficult
to tell from it. But this tar is really
derived from petroleum, and does not
make a good oil for preserving wood
from decay. Wood creosote, with
which so many people are familiar, Is
likewise obtained from a wood tar
which Is produced by distilling wood.
But like water gas tar creosote, wood
creosote is not so good for wood
preservation as is the coal tar creo-
sote. When creosote is bought for that
purpose, therefore, it should be cer-
tain that it is coal tar creosote.
To obtain creosote oil from coal tar
the tar is, In its turn, distilled. But
this distillation is like that used for
other liquids instead of that employed
for the coal. The still is heated, and
as the heat increases the "light oils"
first pass over. Among these is the
familiar carbolic acid. This Is a pow-
erful antiseptic, but It is not deBlrable
in a wood preservative, for It evapo-
rates so readily that it soon becomes
lost from the wood. When a tempera-
ture of about 400 degrees has been
reached, the distillate is turned into
another receiver, and from thlB point
on to COO or 700 degrees creosote
oil Is produced. One of the substances
which Is contained in thli mixture Is
"napthalene," from which common
moth balls are made. Coal tnr creo-
sote, thus produced, Is the great wood
preservative.
The residue remaining In the still
after the dlstlllallon is "pitch," which
is chiefly used together with coal tar
saturated felt In the preparation of
gravel or slag roofing, in America
roofing pitch Is the chief end for which
ta.- Is distilled. In Europe this is
not so true. Now pitch lor roofing
must be rather soft. Therefore tar
distillation is not carried so far In this
country as It Is in Europe. For creo-
sote oil it would be better If It were
carried farther, since the substances
which distill at the higher tempera-
tures in most cases neither evaporate
in the air nor dissolve in water as
readily as those which distill more
easily. Consequently they stay in the
wood for a longer time, and protect it
correspondingly from decay.
Much study Is being devoted by the
United States forest service to creo-
sote oil, to determine what its compo-
sition should be to give the best re-
sults In preserving timber, under dif-
ferent conditions, and how the most
desirable creosotes may be obtained.
The reports of these studies, together
with detailed description of the moro
economical processes of applying tha
preservatives to wood, have b?en
worked Into circulars which the gov-
ernment has placed at ihe disposal of
all users of timber and which will be
furnished to all who make the request
of the forester at Washington.
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