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NOBLE COUNTY SENTINEL
I'ICERY,
OKLAHOMA AM: 1*111 S I'EIUUTOltK
Ardmore, L 'i has invested $1,500 io
13 rt- ap]jarattre.
Captain Harry Ham***, the g-orernor's
younger son in hack from Manila^
New maps of Oklahoma show many
OKLAHOMA, more towns than the maps of a year
Already Oklahoma is Agitating the
creation of a board of railroad commis-
sioners.
Chickasha has, at last, been granted
the ri/rlit to incorporate as a#city of the
second class.
Trains do not stop at Calvin station
because of quarantine against Cuban
' chicken pox.
Durinjr the recent freshet the people
of Pauls Valley went about in boats
and on horses.
Parties who cracked the safe of
Stone Si Co., of Choctaw City are under
arrest at Kansas City.
There is an epidemic of Cuban chick-
It
GREAT MONEY TRUST.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
TIGHTENING THE COILS
People who get too boozy at Ardmore
are fined 87.10*
Ardmore ladies have to take off their
hats when at the opera.
Indian Territory is the Mecca for
hunters at this time of year.
Purcell, in the Indian territory, is ,
ffoinjf to have street lights.
Sly Dixon announces that he will |
remove from Argonia to Oklahoma.
It is stated that the Denver, Oklaho-
ma and (• ulf railroad will run to (leo. J
The members of the Central Hapttst !
church are contemplating the erection j en p x all along the Choctaw line,
of a stone church <*>t Ardmore. j •tarted at Soutk McAlester,
A. \j. Coekrum's hardware store at I The recent bad weather put a stop to
Orlando. I. T.. has been burglarized to work on the Oklahoma and Eastern
the extent of 8200 worth of goods. j It is now in progress again.
\V. T. Fields has been in Washington j Mr. Seymour, a farmer of Lincoln
in connection with the pasturage con- j county, O. T., has a crop this year from
troversy in the Osage reservation. j twenty-three acrcs of peanuts.
There has been a fight near Colbert, Six business places at Ryan, I. T..
I. T.. between officers and a band of I were burglarized while a show was
moonshiners, one of them being killed. ; tied up there by high water.
The Ilaptist Sunday School and Col- ! In some places in the Indian t«jrre-
portage convention of Indian Territory lory the small pox is disappearing and
held its annual session at Choate. I. T. j quarantines are being raised.
During the late moist spell it rained , The s.ile of lots by the government
continuously for 10'i hours at Mangum, on the abandoned Council (trove mill-
imkI ike town received no mall for five
days.
llansom Payne, late chief of police at
the Osage reservation, is now in Wash-
ington camping on Agent Pollock's
coat tails.
Richard C. Adams of the Delaware
tribe, has lately issued a book under
the title: "A Delaware Indian Le-
gend. *' It is prose and poem.
All the Hutchinson and Southern en-
gines have been run into the Welling-
ton shops for repairs. The Santa Fe
will put them into first class shape be-
fore using them.
Surveyors are ready to begin work on
tarv reservation commences December
6.
It is said that great quantities of
quail were shipped out of the territory
during the month of November marked
"dressed chicken."
It is charged by some that the delin-
quent tax lists in Oklahoma published
on supplement sheets do not meet the
legal requirements.
A mountain goat was killed a few
miles from bristow, (>. T. Its hair was
twelve inches long and its horns meas-
ured about three feet.
Pauls Valley is expected to be the
junction point on the Santa 1-Vs line
the Frisco extension from Sapulpa to j to South Me Alester and the Hock Is-
Dennison. Tex. This insures machine ( land from Chickasha.
shops, passenger dlrision and junction c(m(f regional ,lction providing for
facilities for Sapulpa. allotment will have to be taken before
Ten years ago, on Thanksgiving day the Kiowa and Comanche country can
the original settler of Oklahoma, after |„. opened to settlement.
stepping out doors to see if all con- William Tucker, engineer at Kolian-
testants were still there, wa * thankful ^ Kt„n:lll. was ,„,lphl
that he was still alive. a lind uU}rlcd arouml a scol.c of
At Shawnee, on the same day that times, fatally injuring him.
young llurgess was killed while hunt- ; A grvy „.o]{ cntered tlu, kitchen of n
ing. a man was mortally wonnded by IvM:u„,int a< stroud and when the
an outraged hnsban.l and another was j ,.(K)k attempted to dHve him out th(s
killed in the act of stealing a horse. ; wo]f gnvc thc eook a sovuro ,)Uo on his
The new town of Campbt ll. on the
extension of the Atchison, Topeha & j
Santa Fe railway, is formally opened '
and the sale of town lots commenced,
before the track was completed to the
place.
While fooling with an old musket,
(llrant Hurgess. living near Shawnee, a
5 oy 13 years of age, was instantly kill-
ed, and a companion. Fred Friend, re-
ceived a severe wound in the side of
his head.
Tom Ryan, assistant secretary of the
interior, says that as soon as the court
of claims passes on the Chickasaw and
Choctaw claim against the Wichitas,
which will be some time next spring,
the Wichita lands will be thrown o|vn
to settlement.
<J. W. Colbert, one of the oldest mem-
bers of the < hicksaw and Choctaw j
tribe of Indians, died from heart dis- j Creek moved two miles, with the new
case two hours after lie arrived on the „ame of Owassa; itingo and Ramona
train from the Chickasaw nation, ,.omblno at a new point called Hon Ton.
where he had been looking after his u js said that nlling the whole ,in0
When he arrived he was | win bc a ri.In„v.a of 40 tovvns
Deputy Marshal Peckenbaugh was
At Caddo, W. II. Maikham's boy put
nla and vinegar in a two-ounce vial
J and when he shook it the vial exploded
I and a niece of glass struck one eye and
put it out.
! (Jovernment officials aiv directed
i from Washington to commence action
I against cattlemen for bringing herds
I into the Creek country. It will be an
j exciting contest.
I The intermarried citizens of the
Cherokee nation have done more to
break up Indian solidarity and dissa-
pate the Indian territory as a distinc-
tive Indian country than any other
' agency.
The Oklahoma and Southern is fin-
| ished J ) miles south of Hartlesville.
Towns are being moved onto the line.
I Eli moved six miles to Collinsville; Kim
Tliwt Ilavc Already Ma<lc tlio Producing
Cluflsea of the lulled States the Vic-
tims of System of Servitude Worn*
Thun Chattel Slavery. .
The greatest peril to a goverament
by the people outside of Imperialism
are the combinations for a monopoly
of the banking and carrying trade of
the country. All the other trusts, gi-
gantic as may be their proportions,
are small and insignificant when com-
pared with a monopoly of the money
of a country, and a monopoly of the
carriage of goods and passengers. The
haute financiers of the purlieus of Wall
street have been gradually consolidat-
ing the money institutions they con-
trol and have effected a combination of
ail the banks ot Manhattan, in good
standing, into what is known as the
Clearing House association. In addi-
tion to the original objects of this
combination it has enlarged its func-
tions so that they issue a species of
money, known as clearing house cer-
tificates, to evade the rule making it
necessary to keep on hand at lsast 25
per cent of their liabilities. This issue
of clearing house certificates has only,
so far, been attempted in times of
panic, such as in 1893. It is now pro-
posed by the hankers that the law be
extended to allow them to issue bank
currency based on their assets. It is
also proposed to have a national clear-
ing house, and every merchant and all
those who ask credit are to be re-
quired to list with his hanker his
assets, as a basis upon which loans
may be made to him. It has also been
proposed to establish a central bank,
with enormous capital, with branches
In all the principal cities. It is also
proposed to retire the greenbacks, and
if the consent of congress can be ob-
tained, to allow the issue of bank cur-
rency on bank assets, to retire the
present national bank currency based
on United States bonds, and if that
can not be at once attained, to allow
the full face value of the bonds to be
issued, and also to reduce the govern-
ment charges for the same. The banks
will also ask congress to make gold
only the money of contract and ulti-
mate redemption. If these changes in
our currency laws are made by con-
gress, the consolidation of the banking
business will go 011 apace and a money
trust will be a combination of the near
future.
It is well known that the financiers
and bankers of the country are large-
ly interested in stocks and bonds; they
own a great volume, and in making
loans, largely hold them as security.
Railroad stocks and bonds form the
greater part of these, and to keep
track of the market fluctuations a
stock ticker may be found in most of
the rooms of the presidents of these in-
stitutions, or in close proximity there-
to. This has begot a craze for stock
gambling, which pervades all financial
circles, down io the clerks, and it is
said even I he messenger boys of Man-
hattan are infected.
To combine these two gigantic in-
stitutions—the banks and the rail-
roads—is the dream iff the financiers;
they are now closely allied, and to
complete their power to fleece the peo-
ple, combination is necessary.—Jeffer-
sonian Democrat.
helpless sufferers lay for days with-
out attention and died in filth and
misery by the score, yet all this time
the officers aboard the transport occu-
pied spacious quarters and were pro-
vided with every luxury.
These are the facts which Secretary
Root says the public has no business
with and which he is endeavoricg to
suppress. Yet it is on such facts as
these that the public will have to re-
cord its verdict in the presidential
election.
It is only by a suppression of the
facts that the administration can hope
to win next year. To aid it in this
nefarious purpose the administration
can rely on the great telegraphic press
associations and nearly every great
metropolitan daily of the north. The
sole reliance of the country then is
on the weekly press of the Democratic
party, which alone has been able to
withstand corporate and capitalistic
influences.
Shotting Down Tin-Plate Mills.
St. Louis Post-Dispatcn: In the face
of all that has been proclaimed as to
the prosperous condition of the tin-
nlate trade in the United States the
amazing fact comes to light that of
the thirty-nine plants controlled by
the American Tin-Plate Company 106
■mills are shut down. This is equal to
the total capacity of sixteen plants and
means a loss to labor of nearly $371,-
000 a month, to the trust of $20,000
monthly in interest on unproductive
investment and possible millions in
lost profits. It further means the idle-
ness of over 2,000 men in the rolling
department alone, and thousands more
in other departments.
In the face of these facts no state-
ment that is at all adequate to explain
these astounding conditions can be se-
cured from any quarter. The work-
men simply point to the idle mi:Is and
refer to the wages that they are losing,
and the trust people preserve a sphinx-
like silence, while consumers and for-
eign manufacturers hazard all sorts of
conjectures. Some of these are plausi-
ble, other bear their refutation upon
their face. One fact alone stands out
like the accusing handwriting in the
hall of Belshazzar—the mills are
closed. McKinley special protection to
the contrary notwithstanding, no
wheels are moving in 106 of them.
inter-
well.
The Santa Fa rum throui h sleepers
jver the Oklahoma division and the
CSulf. Colorado and Santa Fe from Ivan-
Has City to San Antonio.
KossC. Preston of Pepree, Wis., has
been appointed a teacher at the Osage
1: .linn school. and Anna Gardner, of
Running Water, S. I)., a teacher at
Fort Sill.
The store of George Cameron at Co-
lumbia. Kingfisher county, has been
burned by incendiaries. The stock
was not fully insured and the loss is
about 81.'-'00.
The mining situation is rapidly com-
injr back to its normal state at Colgate,
1. T., and vicinity and the output of
coal is increasing every day.
A colored man was seriously hurt by
a shot from a passing train on the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas, between Col-
bert's Station. I. T.. aul Sherman.
Texas.
It is said that Congressman Over-
street, brother of the late district at-
torney. will ask that the appointment
of Seothorn to that position be m dc
permanent.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Em-
et. I T., say that the wheat crop in
that portion of tlu- Chickasaw N*i >n
is in line condition, and that if tnc
weather stays warm there will prob-
ably be more wheat sown vet this \. in-
ter.
William Little has purchased the R.
L. liaise 11 ranch m ar Caney. I. T.. and
has bought SIK.(hk) worth of cattle to
block it with. It is a tine ranch in the
shot and killed by a postoftlce robbc/
at Wilburton, I. T. The robber hpd
held up thc post master and the mar-
shal was trying to arrest him.
Chief Engineer Jackson of the Wich-
ita and Southwestern has nearly com-
pleted his survey of thc proposed line
through the Indian and Oklahoma ter-
ritories. A New York railroad journal
states*that the eastern capitalists in-
terested in the line predict that the
rord will be completed and trains run-
ning by December 1900.
At llackersville, I. T.. Tim McDan-
iePH cotton gin has been lost by lire.
Also ten bales of cotton. All machin-
ery was burned except the scales.
Ryan, I. T.. was deprived of mail for
eleven day* during the freshet, and
then only eastern mail arrived there;
southern mail was delayed some days
later.
There is a rumor that a young lady
of Durant, who is teaching school else-
where. has broken out with the small
pox. and her father has gone to her
bedside.
Howard Sc'field accident illy killed
himself near Ingalls. He was a mem-
ber of thc Third Missouri during the
Spanish war.
k. e. Jones of Yexferkena, who hM
been working for three months for
M. N. Hudson on a ranch near Chey-
imxxe, was accidentally killed while
riding home from a literary society
meeting.
Thc Choctaw council recently passed
Tli« Transportation Trust,
The railroad pool is organizing.
When it is complete every rail of
transportation in the country will be
in a dozen names. Already, as the re-
sult of foul railroad extortion, corn ia
burned in Kansas, while folk starve
for want of it in Pennsylvania and
New York. What will be the ballad
when the railroad pool is complete?
Here is the muster-roll of this coming
railroad infamy—the elements which
are to constitute the transportation
trust:
Divided Republican Council,.
Lafayette (Intl.) Journal: If ever
the Republicans had a big job on tbeir
hands they will have it when congress
meets. It is an essential part of their
program that the administration's for-
eign policy be upheld. It will be hope-
less to expect anything for McKinley
in the presidential campaign unless
that can be done. It is well known
that there are strong influences in the
Republican party and a pretty nearly
united strength in the Democratic
party opposed to such an indorsement.
Meantime the Democrats have the
advantage if they can but maintain
the present feeling of harmony in the
party. And if they can reconcile such
minor differences as are known to ex-
ist they will but gain an added ad-
vantage over the enemy. The Demo-
crats are right. The policy of impe-
rialism is wrong. The president de-
serves the defeat that certainly awaits
him. And the thing for all men in the
Democratic party to do is to get to-
gether. There will be contentions in
the other side of the house. Let them
have a monopoly of it.
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
From the National Rural: I want
to make a vigorous protest against hi3
way of stating the condition of our
foreign trade. When at that great
iron center, Jolict, 111., he boastfully
and truthfully said, as reported In one
cf our leading Chicago newspapers:
"For the.first time in our history, wc
sent more American manufactured
products abroad than we buy abroad."
Then he adds: "The balance of trade
is, therefore, in our favor, and it is
paid in gold." I fear this last state-
ment is misleading to many people
who may read it. I have such confi-
dence in the honor of President Mc-
Kinley that doubtless he would admit
that the following statement bearing
on this issue would be a more explicit
one, and at the same time I do not
think he would question one word, as
I quote only from official reports pub-
lished under his own administration.
Let us examine the figures.
During the fiscal year ending June
SO, 1898, the balance of foreign trade
in merchandise. In our favor,was $til5,-
324,791, and for the year 1898-99 it
was $530,088,565. The balance of trade
in our favor, in silver, for 1897-98 was
$24,180,658, while for 1898-99 it was
$25,643,909, thus making for merchan-
dise alone $1,145,413,356, and for sil-
ver, which in this case was nearly all
merchandise, it was $49,834,567, or a
total of $1,195,237,921. The balanse of
gold received in 1897-98 was $104,985,-
283, while for 1898-99 it was $51,432,-
517, making the total amount of gold
received as a balance on our foreign
commerce for these two fiscal years
$156,417,800. Putting these official fig-
ures in round numbers, it can be seen
that the value of the merchandise and
silver we exported for these two fiscal
years exceeded what we imported by
$1,195,000,000, and the entire balance
of gold that reached us, as officially re-
ported, as having been paid us and
brought here, was only $156,417,800.
This would leave a balance due us of
nearly $1,039,000,000. Please note that
a large proportion of this vast sum
represents the products of American
labor sold at decidedly unremunerative
prices. If this vast business had been
closed up at the end of these two won-
derfully active years, this amount
would have to be settled on the' so-
called "existing gold standard."
His statement, "It is paid in gold,"
should be received with more consid-
eration than is generally given to the
question of how we make the settle-
ments of our immense foreign com-
merce. A disposition on the part of
those engaged in the task of securing
the so-called gold standard on this
nation tends to cause them to impress
oa the minds cf our people that we
have enough gold in the world, and
that plenty of it is coming our way, so
that we can dispense with silver as
one of our two agents of valuation,
for full legal debt paying. Please spe-
cially remember all the gold that U
officially reported to have been re-
ceived as our balance, in these two
fiscal years, from foreigners, was the
$156,417,800. The remainder of this
vast sum due us was expended In liq-
uidating the interest due to foreign-
ers, paying foreign debts, lifting our
bonds and mortgages, paying the ex-
penses of our travelers abroad, and
paying foreign ship-owners for carry-
ing our freight and passengers.
Ktarly Ten MiMlun MHCRJlnn u
The circulation of the Ladies' Hon,
Journal for 18!)1> reached the enornaoj
atftfrcgnte of !>,315,8.?0 copies, an aVg
age of 817,'JSfi copies for each of tliS
twelve issues of the year. It has becnM
shown l>y a comprehensive postal can®
vass that each Journal is read by eigj
persons; consequently these figures rt
veal the astonishing fact that each ij
sue is read by about one person jJ
every eig-ht or ten in the United Statei
who can read and write English.
Teddy a Political Hough Rider,
From the Atlanta Constitution: As
a spellbinder Teddy Roosevelt seems
to be responsible for some curious re-
sults. He was called into Maryland by
the Republicans to arouse the patriotic
enthusiasm of the masses, and there
can be no doubt that the campaign
he made will be long remembered by
the Republican leaders. He went into
the mining regions and displayed his
fervid eloquence. In coflscquence, ap-
parently, there was a landslide tg the
Democratic party. He went into Wash-
ington county and forthwith Washing-
ton county became Democratic. He
•
Gross
Net
Roads.
Capitol.
^ Ponds.
Mileage
Earnings
Earnings
New York Central ..
$ To, 377,333
2,394.s4
I41.SS6.042
$12,237,S96
Omaha
34,060,12*5
24,811,127
1,492.23
*,652. V! i3
2.915,346
Uoston & Albany ...
• 1
7,185,00 1
3SS.68
7,022.058
2.456.549
Lake Shore
60,000,000
48,247,500
1.493. i'l
20,297,722
6,755,231
Michigan Central ...
18.73S.OOO
19,026,000
1,657.59
13,697.239
3.477,720
West Shore
10,000,000
5 >,< ■ .' 00
1,072.21
Merged into N.Y.C.
North-Western
€8,784,821
181 887,5 0
5,03<'.7S
30,977.243
11,038,412
('henapenke in Ohio .
65.5ill.400
6T>, 046,0
1,275.09
1 708,188
8,121,411
Hi* Four
38,410,882
55.1S3.SS0
l.^vll
13,117,111
3.262,446
I "nlon Pacific
l3 ;.(H o,njrt
95,000,000
2,851.97
16,411,892
6,601.513
Nickel 1 Mate
16,000,000
19,425,< 00
522.52
5,815,217
998,808
Delaware & Hudson
85,000,000
5,000,00 •
708.93
7,067,380
1,336,674
].ackawanna
26,200,000
8,067,
900.08
43.975,398
7,316,539
Jersey Central
£>4117.000
66,679,000
6S3.59
13,212,772
6,742,140
TI IK < 'ASS ATT GHOt'P.
Pennsylvania
303,700
87,943,910
2,271.00
tit, 223,113
20,965,486
Panhandle
47.771,101
17,234. 1 •
1.151.01
15,144,485
4,S59,550
THE J. P. MORGAN GROUP.
Erie
$171,0K0,800
137,044,100
2,271.00
88,740,861
8,302,522
Heading
140, .,MI"
185,0
2,159.00
46,000,000
9.4S0.736
Knllimoi«■ & <)hio ..
105.1KU.000
141,000,10 1
2,047.00
13,152,222
4,304,613
Southern .Hallway ..
174,800,000
80,660,5i ••
4.S06.78
19,079,500
5,816,644
TI IK JAM KS J
HILL G
U)UP.
Northern Paclllo ...
$155."00.000
16 ,'.;M!,500
4.543.68
14.941,818
6,366, f 65
Great Northern
75,000,000
97.6ss.454
;:.suo.i4
14.1194,541
6.S2U.651
T i IE
11ARK1 MAN-R< >C1\ Kl-'KI,LER GROl'P.
i Milt ngo Alton
$ 22.230,KM
8.92S.850
513.53
6,6T3,606
2.510,928
N. V.. N H. AL- H.
47,612,200
4.500.000
1,4M.21
29,623,333
7,032,332
Chicago Ter. Transfer 30,<XMt,000
11,044,000
100.69
924,407
622,721
Illinois Central
52.500,0 K>
ill 158,925
3,130.21
22,110,937
6,876,052
Mo.. Kan. & Tex is..
65,460,000
70,528,000
2,197.Si
11,478,815
3,533,794
« ' . M AS! P
75,077,500
137,762.000
6,152.56
30.486.76S
12,072, "51
K C . P. U
20,925.000
19,706,000
815.67
1,869,263
625,848
St. L., Peoria Northern.. 5.UOO.UUO
2.322,000
165.61
766,502
10S.540
THE GOULD GROt
P.
Missouri Pacltlc
$ 47.442.375
62,138,000
4,938.02
24,805.451
7,851,819
St. I«OuU Southwest!
•rn 36,500,000
28,000,000
1,223.00
4,743,646
887,668
1 ron Mountain . —
47,518,000
1.773.77
11,820,268
4,142,822
Texas Pacltlc
3S,7io,900
53.TM.510
1,480.00
7,588,649
2,174,540
Iowa Central
14,026,801
( 880 188
608.98
1,564,205
400,661
Wabash
52.04Hi.000
81,584,000
1,936.02
11.526.7S7
3,547,628
Lehigh Vatie> Main
40,441,100
80.775,100
1,315.70
1,955,167
6,145,806
western part of the Cher..!,,.,■ country. ' > impropriation for SP>,o:mi, to lu
and in thc midst «if a tiur • ir, co.m- 'll cradieat iti-j s'uallp >v from t.ic
trv, , Choctaw nation.
What l Ncwilfd.
Secretary Root is surrounding the
war department with as much secrecy
as though the nation were at war with
a formidable foreign power. This se-
crecy, however, is solely directed at
keeping facts of disgraceful manage-
ment from the public. The latest ex-
ample la the suppression of a stinging
report relative to the bringing home of
several hundred sick anil wounded sol-
diers on the hospital transport ship
Tartar. The transport was fearfully
overcrowded, the medical stuff both in-
sufficient and incompetent. Tlieie
went to Frederick and a Republican
majority of 1,000 disappears and is re-
placed by a Democratic majority.
Then, as a climax to his tour, he
went to Baltimore and stirred up the
enthusiasm of the patriots to such an
extent that the city elects twenty
Democrats to the general assembly and
gives an old-fashioned majority to the
stat* and local ticket.
Such is the r< suit of political rough-
r.ding. \V e think the Democrats next
year could well afford to employ Teddy
Io rough-ride it over the country mak-
ig political speeches.
A Notable Pictorial Weekly.
The list of artists and writers repl
rented in thc issue of Collier's Weekl
for November 2."i is t >table, amony]
them being Mayo W. Hazeltine, Gil.
bert Parker, Colonel Frank W. KobertJ
formerly U. S. consul at Cape Tow
Lieutenant W. Nephew King1, A. ft.
Wenzel, E. Hering, A. S. HartrickJ
Clinton Scollard, Edgar Faweett, Fran-L
cis Trevelyan, besides the regular stalfcj
correspondents, Camp, Dumay, I5arrp
wind others. There are some remarka-w ]
ble snap shot pictures of football games■
iby Hare.
Gru. King's New Novel.
IJrig. Gen. Charles King, the auth<
of the best novels ever written
American Army life, begins his latest
story, "Ten Years' Trial," in Ainslee'a
for December. ' Ten Years' Trial"
opens briskly and well, with a picture
of garrison life in the Far West. The
hero's career starts in gloom, for in the 1
first chapter wc witness his dismissal I
from the service for dishonoring his I
debts. We like him. nevertheless. per-B
haps because we cannot help ourselves, M
perhaps because wo feel that he will 1
come out all right in the end. At any J|
rate, wc hope so. Other contributions A
to Ainslee's for ^December are: Zang- m
will's latest short story; Eugene Woods' flj
"Christmas in Minuca Centre," a rare
bit of Christmas writing; "Oom Paul yi
Krneper," by Allen Sangree, who intt
viewed thc President of the Boers onlf m
a few months ago: "The Home of tlieM
Duchess of Marlborough," "Life on the M
"Great Lakes,"' "Th? Balloon Club of 9
Paris," "Irving Behind the Scenes." R
and several pretty Christmas stories. I
Street & Smith, Publishers, New York.) J
In thc December number of the \
American Monthly Review of Reviews
there is an editorial summary of the
results of the elections, with a discus-
sion of their import as an indorsement §
if the administration's policy. The ed*
tor also describes the progress of the ,
Philippine campaign, the war in South
Africa and many other matters of inter* I
national interest.
The I'rolit and Loss in McKinley Policy,
1 he treasury statement of receipts
and expenditures of government for
October, 1899, and the four months of
the current fiscal year shows that the
people of the United States are paying
at the rate of $123,000,000 a year for
keeping up a foreign establishment.
That is, so much money in excess of
the amount required to maintain the
legitimate government of the United
States. Whose loss and whose gain is
this burden? The people are taxed
millions to support an establishment
absolutely foreign to our system of
government and totally unconnected
with our national existence. But that
is not all. When we have been taxed
into poverty in such a •'business en-
terprise," who will be benefited by it?
Not the people who pay the taxes, for
taxes are never reimbursed. The truth
is, we are throwing away hundreds of
millions of dollars yearly for every
purpose except the legitimate welfare
of the people of the United States, and
the government is speculating with the
people's money.
Origin of the Word News. j
It ia popular to say that the word *
"news" is derived from the initial let-
ters of the four points of the compass,
arranged in a device In tlio form of a
cross, and placed at the top of some
of the earliest news sheets to indicate
that their contents were derived from 4
all quarters, hut it i3 easy to show that j
this is purely fanciful. The earliest
English newspaper dates from 1662,
yet we find the word "news" exactly 1
in its modern sense in Shakespeare,
who died fifty years earlier- namely,
in 161G. Thus we hsvo in "Macbeth,"
"How now? What news'.'" In "Win-
ter's Tale," "But let time's news be
brought." In "King John," "Even at
that news he dies." This list, which
might be much prolonged, effectually
disposes of the popular theory.
Ilunl holt.
An extremely modest Mississippi ed-
itor is credited with the authorship
of the following: "We have hanging
up in our sanctum a plain black band
of generous dimensions, which appearJ
too small for a belt and too large for
a sleeveholder. The article was found
0:1 the street, and In case the owner
comes in and proves property, the saraa
will be turned over without the custo-
mary charge for advertising. It U' no!
a dog collar.—Arizona RepubK an.
"Pocket Monkey."
A pet so tiny that it can be carried
In a woman's muff Is tbe "pocket
monkey." This little creature has a
face the size of'a 10-cent piece, with
small, even teeth, which he displays
when uttering the soft, bird-like sound
! called forth by excitement or fear. lllJ
body is only a few inches long, but ills
plumy tail is long, and he curls it
around his nock when sleeping.
WI10 Would .Mourn for llaniiii?
From the Philadelphia Ledger: The
downfall of Mr. Hanna would not be
an event to cause national sorrow, and
if any movement be made to unseat
him by the friends of purer political
methods it Is to he heartily fostered
and added in every manner possible.
But his enforced retirement is a mat-
ter not easily accomplished. Abso-
lutely indifferent to public opinion and
holding much of the political machin-
ery of the Republican party in his
hands, he may be expected to hold on
as long as he can.
Crlea nil Cull Note, of Wild Hird,.
In an interesting work just pub-
lished Mr. Witchell gives a popular de-
scription of the notes employed by the
commoner birds in their songs and
calls, those of a good many being ex-
pressed In musical notation, of course
no two persons would express the
more difficult notes in exactly the same
way, but a close approximation is al-
ways possible, and the beginner is no
longer compelled by his own unaided
efforts to learn for himself the lan-
guage of the birds, which, to a nat-
uralist, is 110 less essential than tho
study of their plumage, eggs, food,
nests and migrations.
Tka bachelor who nwi on his owt
buttons understands the meaning ot
the single tax.
The Diamond hm Trutup««
Quinn—"You seemed enraptured
with the French soubrette. Did she '
capture your heart?" DeFonte (feel-
ing ills "bosom) —"No; but I hellevi
•he's captured my diamond"
will
IWHken (Steel Llk« l'utiy.
A chemical compound that
make steel and kindred metals as soft
as putty has been discovered by a Ger-
man scientist. Upon exposure to the
air the metals assume their original
hardness.
Coke for Itatlron'i Fad*
The experiment of using coke for
fuel in locomotives on the Boston &
Maine railroad is s-ild to have proved
very successful. It is cleaner than
coal, Is smokeless and dustless. and
free from the sparks and cinders
which frequently Ignite dry wood nnil
"cgetation along railroad tracks.
Tim World'* i: ll uy«.
For something like fifteen years tin
railways cf the world havi been In-
creasing at the rate of 14,000 miles'
prr year. The grand aggregate is now
put at 443,100 miles.
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Whorton, Lon. Noble County Sentinel. (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1899, newspaper, December 7, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc162353/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.