The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 38, Ed. 2 Friday, December 15, 1911 Page: 2 of 12
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THE WELEETKA AMERICAN
D. M. FOX. Publisher
WELEETKA. . OKUAHOMA
Oklahoma News Notea
Steps have been taken to incorpor-
ate the town of Stuart.
The Bartlesville schools closed in-
Definitely by order of Dr. O. S. Som-
•rville, health officer, on account ol
the prevalence of diphtheria, there
e tt "core of cases in the city.
MAGNIFICENT CLUB HOUSE FOR ELKS
Novel Scheme Is Started in Lon-
don For Geniuses.
NO "FAKERS" TO BE ALLOWED
Jack Langley, bachelor, 55, living
* on 'lis farm near Alderson, was
found dead in his bed. The dead man
"as supposed to have money and had
een drinking heavily for several
days.
John messing, aged 40 years, was
round dead In his room at Shawnee. I "as neon tried before the main
Death was due to suffocation, Induced object being to bring poor Inventors
by lung trouble n. .. ... Into Jh . ..
Club Is Established Where Men May
Exhibit Their Wares—To Erect
Workshop For Making
Models.
London —Poor Inventors need no
ZT '£"\ """> baro rooms
among the chimney pots of London
ntums. nor. bewail by the pale light
of the moon the tragedies of disap-
pointed hopes. London Is founding an
Inventors' club, which Is to be a per-
manent exhibition of patents. In
rooms at Holborn Bars. It is said to
be a novel scheme, the like of which
never has boon tried before, the main
uri.11?ng trouble' ile was a brother of
William Blessing, a well known Rock
Island engineer.
Arthur G. Cochrane of Muskogee,
boe!I appointed United states
•ommissioner for the Muskogee dis-
trict by Judge Ralph Campbell of the
federal court. Cochrane succeeds
Commissioner C. A. Nichols who died
ft few days ago.
That there are too many "gun tot-
era ' In Carter county, was the com-
plaint made to the county commis-
sioners, and the commissioners re-
voked the licenses of all deputy con-
• tab es and possemen, with the ex-
ception of deputies in two large town-
Bhlps.
Thirty-six hours after Frank Hun-
ter attempted to cash a forged check
-or $300 at the Shawnee National
h^n ^ f,ttemp,e<1 t0 escape amid a
bail of bullets from the bank teller's
tun, he pleaded guilty to forgery in
the second degree, was sentenced to
serve one year In the penitentiary and
was on his way to McAlester
At the last regular monthly meet-
ing of the McAlester school board the
members went on record as being oi>
posed to the roughness in both foot
Dalland basketball games. Football
to the future wjll be prohlbjted ic
matched games with other team,
when called for Friday. Basketball
*U not be permitted to be played
In the high school building and musl I
be played In the open.
, , , "S Ul
Into Close touch with capitalist,
Tho connecting link between the
two classes Is. of course, the patent
market, and In this new club every
kind of patent Is to And house room,
from a hatpin protector to a weird
lever traction patent, the Inventor of
which says he can make R steamship
travel across the Atlantic In two days
Hut no "fakers" are to be allowed in
the exhibition; no sideshows will be
allowed to enter the doors, for every
application for space Is closely scruti-
nized. anil only really serious Inven
tions will be admitted.
Every year a grand prize, gold and
silver medals, and diplomas will be
granted to those exhibitors whose pat-
ents are, In the opinion of a commit-
ee of experts, the best of the year
Workshops for making models are
to be erected, and there are to be
separate British, colonial and foreign
pales departments.
Perhaps the most remarkable inven-
tion at present under the roof of the
market is the patent lever traction
Its modest claim is that it acts as a
real accelerator, and if employed could
rnake battle ships travel twice as
Quickly as they do now. The same
nldto propulsion can be applied to
miling vessels, railway engines, auto-1
mobiles and road vans. By its use
lifeboats cannot capsize and barges
may travel without the aid of horses
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LESSON FOR DECEMBER 17
EZRA TEACHES THE LAW.
LESSON TEXT—Nehomlah S
memory verses"? 5
after the complete
d >"uf
by "he* fea,,thttCTrUmpetr,IThe8herea
October' 4, In 39Mt th'3 mon,h was
n^CE~JerUSa,em-
PERSONS-Nehemiah the governor of
Judea
Ezra, the Scribe, a
Artaxerxes king of
chief priest.
Persia, Including
T ' WesT^^rirrrtr^rNew^or'^'ty" b^T t^116 P " E)1" «
Is the finest club house in America and co« si Jn nL ,ledleate<l- This
t^he^o^er/1helrFwive^and famnle s V.IT' \° " "
the three-story lodge room In cream and STSg/E'oT^Zi"
pleads for divorce
tn win i nns has Starte« "I'll
Moon 1 rT/he Clty of Dartlesvill,
11.000 which he Claims is duo him
inSt ? h " reC8lve<i trom a riilo ball
"at a time w,'en he was pass.
Ing in the rear of a shooting gallery
during the month of August. He be-
Ueves inasmuch as the place was
operating under a permit frdm tha
i'bfe for th6HC'ty S"0Uld be resP°'"
ible for any damage caused thereby.
A''"ltor Leo 'eyer added to
the collection of the State Historical
society recently, by the presentation
was th 103 yCarS 0W' Wlllch once
Th! p™pe,tJ' <" Daniel Boons
The interesting relic, which is of the
old straight-backed, split-hickory type
" fXCeli6nt ■« «• of preserva
t on, and Is as serviceable as the daj
H waB made. It was received by Cus
the soc^t P' Campbell on behalf o.
the society. Tile chair was donated
by Auditor Meyer In the name of nil'
Cross, former secretary of state, now
deceased. It was presented to Cross
Hn ofaPAl'n farriCk an<l Jolin B- 1)00
In of Alva in 1908, when It was jusl
100 years old, A complete history ol
fT lng r""C "a b«n kept
" Rh0 ' that the relio now la
exactly 103 years old.
New Cult Founder Announces Be-
lief In Many Marriages.
CHANGE GOOD FOR EVERYONE
Dr. Sears Says When Two Persons
Pass Their Sphere of Usefulness
to One Another They Should
Separate.
..W: 8 Watson, a farmer near
Muskogee got an agricultural idea
last summer that beats the ordinary
rotation idea by several taps Watson
£zvr,r?gbt a°n' - on
He also hatched out a drove of 200
roung turkeys. When th. turkey,
were large enough to tak# care of
themselves he turned them Into the
cotton field and kept them there. The
turkeys cleaned up every sort of in-
Whena?h made thBlr 0wn living
^ th0 cotton and tlio turkeys
were ready to plck\ Watson found ti,It
hi cotton was better than any of
neighbors He sold 750 worth of cot-
ton and $200 worth of turkeys. The
turkeys had added several hundred
dollars to the value of the cotton cron
of turkeys0"0" "a" ,nal'° '20°
Boston, Mass.—That the United
States should have a higher divorce
record is the theory of Dr. Julia Sea-
ton Sears, founder of the New
1 bought cult, who is in Boston.
She believes In the marriage for
offspring, but she says: "Such mar-
riages should be regulated strictly by
considerations of physical fitness. Tho
higher type of marriage Is that union
which has no thought of offspring,
but through which the muted pair at-
tain to a higher mental and spiritual
development. When any two people
have passed their sphere of useful-
ness to one another there should be
divorce. They need not even wait for
grounds of uncongeniality.
"In our different states of evolution
we are married many times, for mar-
riage is good for people, but there is
but one true marriage. In some one
stage of existence each of us Is bound
___
to And one soul mate. That does not
lessen the value of the other mar-
riage. Each one of them means a
lesson to be learned by close associa-
tion with another human being one
who can give us that lesson.
,. "J'.'® contention of the suffragists
that they will wipe out the social Is
not however, true in the sense In
nrev H,they, A' the ereSent
prevailing low order of existence no
legislation will avail. But what the
fh /I?8'" ari<l a" tlle civilization
that they represent can do, and will
most assuredly do. Is to so elevate the
race by education so as to change the
order of civilization on which vice
thrives.
| 3EGGAR HAD $50,000 IN BANK
Found Dead in a Hovel. Sullivan Had
Bequeathe^ $5,000 to a Sister
In Utica.
San Francisco.—Michael F Sulli-
van, a beggar In San Francisco for the
In 1h« 1,y "Ve years- was found dead
in his hovel with bank books showing
over $60,000 to his credit in several
local financial Institutions
Coroner's deputies who searched
the room found a will, hidden under-
DYING, THINKS
Discovers Old Manuscript.
cBer 'ni;7Pr0r the famous
church historian of Berlin university
has announced the discovery of an old
manuscript „,„.ch )mery (
dents of tho history of Christianity
of A^h professor of the University
Of Athens. Dr. Dlobounlotla. found an
old document of the tenth century Ic
he Meteroron monaster, c 8£or,
time ago ,ie ,ent lt to' p*of sbort
nack. who decides that It was writ-
ten to Orlgen. one of the earnest
church fathers The manuscript It
self dates from the third century, and ued "Wh.
pier x,v. comnllsh ne mnH
neath a mattress, wherein Sullivan be-
queathed $5,000 In cash to hiS sister
Mary A. Sullivan of Utica, N, Y. "be-
cause of her kindness to my mother
the time of her death." The re-
malnder of his fortune shall be placed
n trust the Interest to be delivered
to his sister every six months, accord-
ng to the document. When she dies
the Rim must be divided among other
heirs under the laws of this state.
Sullivan lived by begging fruit. Ten
years ago he was arrested as a
vagrant. Then he possessed $25 000
according to Detective James Mackey'
the arresting officer on that occasion.
Kneel While Praying.
Boston,—"Harvard men should get
down on their knees when they pray "
says President A p. Fitch of Ardover
Theological Seminary In an address
f1? "„H"rvard audience the other
night. The sitting up In prayer time
Is an antiquated custom." he contin-
ued. When you get Harvard men
are ac-
Palestine.
In spite of nil opposition the walls of
Jerusalem had been completed. The
city was sate from her enemies. Tne
character and conduct of the citizens
had been restored, and was equipped
for service. These complete an act in
a great drama of providence, In which
the courage that stands to duty In
fa°® °/ a" ""nger and the faith that
looks to God In prayer had been vindi-
cated.
But these things merely meant Op-
portunity. They did not constitute a
gieat city, nor a true kingdom, nor a
holy nation, nor outward prosperity
nor a people of God. They only ren-
deled these things possible. The
great question now was how to re-
IZZ the ?ati0" t0 lts p,ace in the
kingdom of God, how to build up
pure righteous, noble people, who
should be depositories of the true re
liglon, who should proclaim It bv
their lives and tongues, who should
wo ridUB "le TrUe L'Sht betore ttle
The first means was the instruc-
tlon of the whole people in the Word
of God. After a week's rest from the
severe labors of building the wall, the
civil New Year's day was ushered in
by the blowing of trumpets, and horns
with mouth-pieces of gold; and this
memorial blowing" continued all day
from morning till evening, proclaim-
ing a day of rejoicing, like our Christ-
mas bells. It was to proclaim God s
covenant, to sound victory over Satan
to sound a call to repentance, as it
were a blast to wake men from their
Bleep of sin.
The people gathered themselves to-
gether as one man, including men and
women, and all the children old
Thist 1° iunderstandlng.
SHAKE?
Oxidine is not only
the quickest, safest, and
surest remedyfor Chills
and Fever, but a most
dependable tonic in all
malarial diseases.
A liver tonic—a kid-
ney tonic—a stomach
tonic—a bowel tonic.
If a system-cleansingf
tonic is needed, just try
OXIDINE
a bottle proves.
The specific for Malaria, Chill.
«nd Fever and all disease,
aue to disordered kid-
neys, liver, stomach
and bowels.
60c. At Your DruggUti
raa BBBHBNS DBPO OO..
Wsco. Texas.
NATIVES
Little^ lot Pipe Organist
Fearing They Might Be Accused of
Poisoning Him, Missionary Ab-
solves Them in Diary.
InvUnh nCG ®cotf,bmen have issued an
Invitation to persons of Scotch d«
"8a Scotch9 8t'"e l° b8 "'elr Bl,cst"
dance to ^io ZT,
25, Bobble Burns' birthday. Two "pip
« -I" be secured to furu^ 2
W. L. Knight and Jack Proeser
Tulsa, Who together have Inverted
more labor and time-saving devicos
for use in the oil Industry than any
other men In the world, have Intro!
duoed another invention which they
on weTi ,rte" the "me «rn""S
oil well, and revolutionize the oil
business. Mr. Knight Is In the east
with the models, plans and descrlp-
tlons of the contrivance and will ba
caUg " T1"'sa B00n- The Invention
calls for the use of steel cables for
drilling purposes Instead of the clum
By ropes now used.
London.—The details of the death
of Klder Davis, an American Seventh
Day Adventist missionary, reported to
have been poisoned by tho natives on
the Brazilian frontier, have been re-
ceived here, and. according to them,
the missionary died a natural death
after a heroic struggle against fever.
The truth of the late of the mis-
sionary was learned by an expedition
dispatched for that purpose by g.
Dluklago, a gold prospector. The par-
ty reported that Elder Davis was
stricken with fever during the course
of a difficult journey which he had un-
dertaken through the hinterland. The
party brought back the deceased s be
longings. Including a diary which he
had kept until he was too weak to
bold the pen any longer.
The diary tells a thrilling and pa-
thetic story. According to the diary,
his missionary tour began under the
most favoraole auspices, the Indians
receiving him with such cordiality
that he soon succeeded In founding
three mission settlements.
In the midst ol his success he was
stricken with fever. The last entry
In the diary was dated July 23, and
ho died July 30. Evidently realizing
that the end was approaching. Mr
Davis, on the 23d of July, dictated to
a companion words to the effect that
his death was due to fever, and thnt
there was no shadow or trace or
"kenatiua" or "palman" work during
his whole Journey, thus clearing the
natives of all suspicion of having
brought on his death.
"Not . Bit Nervous," Says Girl of Ten
as She Plays for Choir—Takes
H«r Tutor'® Place.
New Haven, -Conn —Angelina Spln-
e lo. ten years old, Is the youngest
church organist In America. If not
In the world. Her appointment to the
position in St. Michael's Catholic
church already Is In effect, and little
Miss Spinello presides at the big
church organ, and will preside there
every Sunday In the future. She said
in talking over her experience:
"I wasn't a bit nervous I have play
ed 011 the organ before often, and
know it as well as I know any toy I
play with at home. 1 had not practiced
with I he choir, but they told tne after
the services were over that we got
along first rate. I wus very proud to
become organist of the church."
Tlio little girl has been a pupil of
the puhJic schools, but is now study-
ing music and other branches with
the sisters in the convent here. It
Is no novelty for her to appear In pub-
lic, for she made her first appearance
In a musical concert as a pianist when
she was seven years old. On that oc-
casion she played the difficult selec-
tion. "The WarWerer." In tho last con-
cert In which she appeared she played
Mozart's Sixth Sonata.
Her Instructor has been Professor
Conselottl of New York, v.ho came to
New Haven two days a week, and
who has been organist at St. Michael's
h,B p08,t,0n ®s organist to lit-
tle Miss Spinello.
t,.U" won<'erful promise has at-
of th. ""I"''"" "f People
of the city, who will assist her In
every way In her musical career
AIDED COUPLE; IS~PABQLED
Utah Convict to Be Released Owing to
Activity Of Man He Be-
friended.
Salt Lake CIt7, i«ah.-Bread. In
the shape of a $100 loan and a gift
of two theater tickets, cast upon the
waters In San Francisco two years
ago. has returned to Albert D. Walk
serving two years in a Utah prison
for obtaining money under false pre-
tenses, in the shape of a pardon.
Walk met B. H. Bralnerd. formerly an
Illinois sheriff, on a train en route to
San PranclBco two years ago. Braln-
erd s first business venture failed and
he found himself without money and
greatly discouraged. Walk accidental-
y learned of Bralnerd's misfortunes
lent him $100 and sent Bralnerd and
his wife to the theater to cheer them
up.
When Bralnerd, who had prospered
In the Insurance business, heard last
September that Walk was serving a
sentence In Utah, he appeared before
the l.tah board of pardons and made
an earnest plea for his former bene-
factor. He promised to give him em-
church here. His metropolitan en-J ployment "It a good snl„rv
gagemonts compelled him to retire The ho-.rrt >,
from his New Haven work, and the he will be ret™ * Wa'k """
church official, were unanimous In | Bralnerd. CU"od)r of
m, • i . uiuciHiunaii]
This Is the true Ideal of the church
al the congregation in the Bible
school; all the Bible school in the
congregation; and everybody In the
whole community in both. And no
church, and 110 body of churches, in
any town should be satistled with
less. There should be a frequent and
accurate census by a federation of
the churches, for this end.
Ezra the Scribe and Teacher sud-
denly appears at this time. Where he
had been during the 13 years between
his reforms and the coming of Ne-
bemiah to rebuild the wall is un-
known. It seems most probable that
he returned to Babylon, and continued
his studies of the Law of Moses, and
when he learned of Nehemiah s great
work he also returned to Jerusalem,
and was prepared to forward the re-
ligious training or the people, as soon
as Nehemiah's work for their material
salety was completed.
It was the people themselves that
requested Ezra to read the law to
them, the law of Moses. This testi-
fies to a general knowledge of the
existence of a book the contents of
which, so far as they are known
agreed substantially with our Penta-
teuch. Ezra did not originate this
law. 1 he books of the law, and the
history of Israel had been scattered in
separate books In various places dur-
ing the distracted times ol Israel i
later history. Ezra codified, edited
brought together, the law of Moses'
and Its unfolding during their history
very much as centuries later the scat-
tered writings of the apostles were
united into our New Testament. Hut
It was the law of Moses, which the
1-ord had commanded to Israel a real
word of God.
This was the beginning of a new era
of Bible study. Very few of the peo-
ple could have Bibles, for they were
rare and expensive. Pew could read
even If they had books. The leading
and the teaching were chlelly by the
priests. Now came the time of the
People. Synagogues began to be es-
tablished for teaching the law In every
town and village. The people must
hear ior themselves, and all of them
he taught and trained In the Scrip-
tures.
The greatest need of our times is
more and deeper religious life. He
liglon Is, after all, the principal thing;
that a mere readjustment of ethical
formularies is not enough; that a
deeper note than this must be struck
It we hope to restore the lost har-
mony to the human soul and the so
clal order. There must be something
to worship, something that kindles
our purest love and marshals our
highest loyalties. Nothing less than
this will meet the social need of the
time, which is a call for a radical
change In ruling Ideas, for a might;
reconstruction of Ideals.
reference*
SABEL
LO CIS VILLI.
ns'e. FURS
Kitablifhod 186B,
FOR ALL
SORE EYES
HIS VOCATION.
suppose you'll be an agricultur-
1st when you grow up?"
1 m Jest goln' to work
this farm, that's all."
By Way of Excuse.
Youngleigh has some singular
Ideas.
"What, for Instance?"
"Well, he says lt Is mean to profit
by other people's experience after
they ve been at all the trouble and
expense of collecting It"
Our Idea of nothing to beat Is th
fellow who brags that he begin*
where we leave off!
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