The Sledge Hammer. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1913 Page: 3 of 12
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OKEMAH, OKLA., SLEDGE HAMMER
CAPTAINS OF BIG FOOTBALL ELEVENS GIRL 0F SEVEN CLIMBS FUJI
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Here are the captains of five of the big college football teams of this
season. Above, from left to right, are Munns of Cornell, who knows the
game from Alpha to Omega; "Hobby" Baker of Princeton, a skillful and un-
tiring worker, and R. N. Hogsett of Dartmouth. Below are R. T. P. Storer,
teader of Harvard's eleven, and G. C. Paterson, who captains the husky boys
of the University of Michigan.
MISSIONARIES IN OLD JAPAN
Karnlzawa Is a Resort Where Ameri-
can and Other Religious Workers
Gather for Pleasure.
Karnlzawa, Japan.—All work and no
play tends to make any task grow irk-
some, is the cry on which is based the
establishment of the summer resort of
the missionaries to Japan, located at
Karnlzawa, a mountain resort. Here
the American workers find relaxation
from their arduous task of conversion
in the English tongue, after a year of
talking with converts in foreign lan-
guages. To see this playground re-
minds one of a typical summer resort,
with baseball grounds, tennis courts
and croquet inclosures. The women
can serve tea on the lawn or veranda.
On Sunday all attend services in a
body, the preacher being drawn in
turn from the various denominations
assembled.
GHOSTS DROVE HER TO DEATH
Missionaries' Summer Resort.
and take on new strength with which
to further the conquest. Here sectar-
ianism is forgotten and all unite in
having a good time
Perhaps the greatest treat for them
Miss Beard Fleeing From Imagined
Specters When Struck by
Railroad Train.
Frederick, Md.—Fear of ghosts, a
delusion of her illness, was responsi-
ble for the death of Miss Kathleen
Beard daughter of Rev. M L. Beard,
whose mangled body was found near
the tracks of the Western Maryland
railroad.
Miss Beard had been suffering from
a severe nervous attack and Imagined
that ghosts were after her. At night,
shortly before ten o'clock, her sister
and the nurse went out for a short
walk and a servant was left In
charge. Miss Beard asked the serv-
ant to go downstairs, and during the
servant's absence Miss Beard hurried-
ly dressed and left the house by a
hack door. Her absence was almost
immediately noticed, and a search be-
gan.
At 2:30 o'clock In the morning the
searching party came upon the body
about 100 yards from a railroad
crossing. One arm and one leg were
severed from the body, but the face
was unscarred. From the position of
the body it is believed that she was
fleeing from the creations of her dis-
ordered mind and tried to dash across
the track In front of the train, when
she was struck.
At One Time Women Were Forbidden
to Ascend Japan's Sacred
Mountain.
Tokio.—Mount Fuji, a dead volcanic
mountain nearly fifteen thousand feet
high, famous around the world for Its
graceful contour, has been climbed
this summer by a Japanese girl, seven
years old, who made the trip unaid-
ed by her elders. Considering the
youthfulness of the climber, this is a
record.
Another ascension will be made be-
fore the summer is over, for if all
goes well with him, Sajuro Ota, eighty-
nine years old. will accomplish his one
hundredth ascension. With the close
of last summer his record was eighty-
three. August saw him complete his
ninety-fourth trip to the summit.
From time immemorial, Fuji, the
highest mountain in Japan, has been
considered a sacred peak, and until
about forty years ago women were not
allowed to make the ascent. Even now
much religious sentiment is attached
to the mountain, and group after group
of pilgrims from all over the country
visit the little shrines on the snowclad
summit, murmuring in their ascent up
the long slopes "Rokkon Shojo," mean-
ing "May our six senses be clean
and undefiled."
Aside from these pilgrims, all i
classes of people, Including some of j
the "new women" of Japan, climb up
the mountain. Recently a prize climb-
ing contest was held, and a student I
of the Waseda university made a rec- j
ord ascent by reaching the summit In j
two hours and a half.
Prince Hirohito, crown prince of
Japan, thirteen years old, often ex-
presses his earnest desire to climb
Fuji. This year he hopes to do so
with Prince Yi, former crown prince
of Korea, who Is now studying In
Japan.
Fuji is coy in summer, and rarely
discloses itself to the view of visitors
who try to see it from points of van-
tage. This is due to the prevailing
mist and clouds.
POISONS GET IN FOOD
RE8TAURANT KEEPERS SOME-
TIMES GIVEN SCARES.
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00WIE $100,000 HOME GONE
Former Michigan Judge Forecloses on
a $12,000 Debt at White
Lake, Mich.
Whitehall, Mich.—Judge Charles 0.
Soule, Grand Haven, Mich., foreclosed
a mortgage of $12,000 on the magnif-
icent summer home of John Alexan-
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Blunders Which Prove Costly to Pro-
| ducers of Eatables and Serious
to Customers, Sometimes Re-
sulting in Death.
If the proprietor of a restaurant
ever has a nightmare, It is to the effect
that some poisonous Ingredient haB
accidentally found its way into a dish
and that the papers are full of blood-
curdling accounts of the sufferings and
death of his clients.
About five years ago nearly a score
of people were badly poisoned after
dining In the restaurant of a well
known West Central hotel in London,
and although the source of the poison
was never accurately traced—all that
was discovered being that it was some
form of ptomaine poisoning—yet to
this day that restaurant has hardly
recovered Its former popularity.
More recently a blunder was made
in a London fried fish shop. Engine
oil was, in some extraordinary fash-
ion, substituted for the cottonseed
oil which is commonly used for frying
fish. This mistake proved absolutely
fatal to the business, and after a time
the proprietor was forced to close his
doors. ,
Oddly enough, a very similar inci-
dent has just come to light in another
large town. On the morning of March
7 last a baker made the alarming dis-
covery that the vegetable oil which he
had used in making his fancy bread
and pastry overnight had been deliv-
ered to him in a barrel which had
been previously used for storing kero-
sene.
The moment he heard of the blun-
der he rushed off and engaged the
services of six doctors and a dozen
carts. The carts were sent round the
town to retrieve the bad bake, while
the doctors gave their services free
to any customers who had already
partaken of the poisoned food.
Most readers will remember the
arsenic-in-beer epidemic of 1902. This
was the most extensive poisoning on
record in England. It was four months
before the uathoritles realized what
the matter was, and by that time
there were over a thousand cases in
five counties, and 51 deaths had taken
place.
The source of all the trouble was a
minute quantity of arsenic in the beer
supplied by a Manchester brewer. It
was no fault of the firm, for analysis
of the liquor showed that the arsenic
originally came from glucose which
had been made with impure sulphuric
acid. It was the acid which contained
the arsenic.
In the year following the great
arsenic poisoning came the oyster
scare. There were outbreaks of ty-
phoid fever at Winchester and at
Portsmouth. The fever was traced to
oysters, and the result was that for
some time oysters were almoBt un-
salable. One big oyster firm which
had been paying $750 a week in wages
dropped to $75 a week, and it Is reck-
oned that the oyster merchants
throughout the country must have lost
at least $500,000.
Mrs. Alexander Dowle.
der Dowle on White lake. The man-
sion, together with golf links on a
portion of the estate, is valued at
$100,000.
is lo bt able to carry on conversation , off the coast.
Yacht Owner's Dying Request Granted.
Portland. Me.—According to the
wish of James F Bush, wealthy pa-
per manufacturer, who died recently,
t?!s body was cremated, the ashes
placed in the cabin of his yacht Lydia,
which was scuttled and sunk ten miles
Dying Man Makes Unusual Request.
Tniontown, Pa.—Angus Tubbs,
forty-one, who is dying of tuberculosis,
asked Rev P. H. Thompson, pastor of
a Methodist church, to preach hla
funeral sermon while he was alive, ex-
plaining that he wanted to hear what
the minister had to say about him.
Tubb's request was refused.
A Gentle Hint.
"I was speaking with your father,
last night," said the young man.
"Oh, were you?" answered the sweet
young thing, lowering her eyes. "What
were you talking about?"
"About the likelihood of war with
Mexico. Your father said if there was
a war he hoped It would be short."
"Oh, yes; I know papa is very much
opposed to long engagements."
Co-Operatlon Among Animals.
Co-operation is almost universal In
the animal world. Wolves often hunt
In relays or In couples. When at-
tacked, .cattle and horses form a cir-
cle. Beavers always work In com-
panies when building their dams.
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Jones, J. Fleming. The Sledge Hammer. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1913, newspaper, October 30, 1913; Okemah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc151994/m1/3/?q=%26quot%26C%20T%20Bolt%26quot: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.