YOU ALLS DOINS.
MARY L. ISTKVKNS, Proprietor.
LEXINGTON, - OKLAHOMA
Apropos of Frank Moulan s nit for
divorce, the Interesting question
arisen: "Isn't desertion of a comic
opera comedian justifiable?
Minister Wu is not aocr dited to tlie
United Stiites government a a philoso-
pher, but, uncommissioned, he fulfils
the office of a sa;." •. China anil Con-
cord are nearer each other than they
were.
The latest convenien in the New
York apartment i. a private safe, built
into the wall, and so arranged that
only the tenant Is acquainted with the
combination. This makes it possible
for the flat dweller possessing val-
uable silver, jewels, and papers 10
keep them in his apartment Instead of
in the vaults of the saTe deposit of the
bank.
The chemist, who, It is said, first
manufactured sugar-coated pills, died
in Philadelphia the other day, and his
principal achievement is now respect-
fully commended to the attention of
debating societies. It is rather a large
question, when one looks at all sides of
it, whether the man who made it easier
for people to take pills was or was not
a public benefactor.
Government trials of plana for the
destruction of mosquito pests have
led to the recommendation of certain
measures which have proved most ef-
ficient. They are the draining, where-
ever possible, of marshes and pools
of stagnant water; the spreading of
kerosene on all such bodies of water
as cannot be drained, and the intro-
duction of sticklebacks, minnows an 1
other small fish.
In a modest little gray house near
Tunbrldge Wells, England, lives Sar-
ah Grand, author of "The Heavenly
Twins." Her work is done in the sun-
ny bay window of a cozy den. The
room Is handsomely and tastefully
furnished with easy window seats,
bookcases, rugs, and fine paintings.
On her mahogany desk stands an en-
graving of Dudley Hardy's picture of
the destitute poor of London; this,
that she may never forget the suf-
fering in the world.
The London Saturday Review Is
taking comfort in the belief that war
is bound to come between the United
States and Germany over the Monroe
Doctrine, it thinks that our unreas-
onable conduct In refusing either to
steal South America ourselves or to
allow anybody else to steal it would
justify Europe in suppressing us as
a common nuisance. And, really,
when you look at it from that point
of view, our course must seem incom-
prehensible and exasperating.
An interesting discussion has been
begun as to the loss of heat which re-
sults from taking a cold bath. An
elaborate series of tests undertaken in
London showed that a very decided
rise of temperature occurred in the wa
ter of the bath, but that the tempera-
ture did not continue to rise. The av-
erage time of experimentation was.
say, two minutes. In one ttial the ex-
perimenter found that his body heated
the water from 50 degrees Fahrenheit
to 56 degrees in two minutes. The av-
erage result of the observations is that
one gallon of water would be heated
through it.6 degrees in one minute, and
that this corresponds to no less than
two and a half horse power. The ob-
servers determined that the normally
healthy man gives off to the surround-
ing air heat equivalent to the raising
of eight pounds of water 1 degree per
minute.
It would be difficult, to name any
achievement of medical science which
contains more of the picturesque or .ip-
peals more powerfully to the imagina-
tion than the discovery that two of the
commonest species of mosquitoes are
responsible, the one for the spre.. 1 nf
malaria the other for the dissemina-
tion of yellow fever. Here are two
members of a family long known to be
somewhat troublesome and disagree-
able, but usually regarded as nothing
more than a common nuisance, un-
worthy of any very serious attention.
Meantime,however.mysterious and ter-
rible crimes ot?eur. Here a man Is
bound and tortured, there a whole fam-
ilj is murdered, an entire community
wiped out; and the assassins always
Micceed in concealing their identity
and making good their escape. Hut
the patient detectives at work on thu
case pick up one clue here and another
there, until at last the eyes of the > om-
munity are opened, and it sees that ,he
two insignificant and despised crea-
tures who have been coming and going
almost unnoticed arc in reality the
great criminals for whom the whole
world has been searching. When such a
case is made out against human of-
fenders, justice is prompt. Sanitary
science is proceeding with equal ener-
gy against the two guilty members of
the mosquito family.
RTRIOTIi?
plC-NiC
BY OwficE fl.BRft.MBLE.wT r' A
-a1
A Ju-dcnite Story for Memorial
"Day.
There was a regular houseful of
Dawsons In the little, low. red house
which stood all by itself on the edge
of the village; there were six children
who called the little house their home,
and six noisier, happier, heartier chil-
dren were never known. There were
the twins, Fred and Frank, who head-
ed the list, and then there were Grace
and Nellie and Harry, and last of all
came Minnie, the baby, the tiniest and
noisiest of them all.
There were great plans afoot today
in the curly heads of the merry crowd.
Tomorrow would be Decoration Day,
and were not the four oldest of the
young Dawsons to march in the long
procession of school children and carry
garlands and bouquets of flowers to
strew on the graves of our soldier
heroes? There were the flowers to
hunt in the .woods, for the Dawson
flower garden showed only two flaming
red and yellow tulips and a few fra-
grant lilacs as its offering to the chil-
dren. But that fact troubled them not
at all; they were only too glad of an
excuse for spending a long, delightful
day in the woods. There would be the
garlands to make and bouquets to ar-
tange and "pieces" to rehearse and a
thousand and one other things to do;
time to spare If they I to r:n.-h
their tasks that night. It was even,
later than they .iad ■ thought, they j
found, when they came to the edge ;
of the woods and saw how low the j
I sun had sunn. So they hurried alonr; j
i as fast as they could. When they came
! to the fallen tree upon which .they had '
: crossed the noisy little creek in the
morning, perhaps they were a little
careless, and when it came Nellie's
turn she slipped, and, with a little
frightened cry, down slv went into tin
water. The creek was high with the
spring rains, and the water was over
Nellie's nead; so it was.no wonder
that it was a frightened, as well as a
shivering little girl that Frank drag-
ged out upon the bank, a moment
later.
"Oh—oh, dear!" she cried; "I am so
wet and cold, and all my flowers are
lost," and she pointed a trembling fin-
ger at the basket which held all her
pretty blossoms and was sailing gaily
away with them to some unknown
port.
"Never mind," said Frank, cheerily,
"I'll get it for you. I can't get any j
wetter than 1 am now," and in he
plunged again, and in a twinkling the
flowers were rescued, and they were
on their way home: but Nellie's wet
clothes were very uncomfortable, and
her teeth fairly chattered before she
had taken many steps.
Suddenly Fred stopped and said:
"Here, sis; why didn't I think be-
fore? You take my coat, and then
Frank and I will take hold of your
hands and run, and we'll be home in
a jiffy. There, that's right—one, two,
three, and away we go."
A few hours later, Nellie and Grace,
who had returned before the others,
were sitting alone, finishing the last of
the garlonds, when Nellie said, sud-
denly:
Oh. Grace, how glad I am that we
diun't run away from the boys this
morning. 1 am sure I would aave
been drowned, if we had." and sne j
shivered again at the thought of her
Waiter ^aker & Go.,
| whose Manufactures of cocoa and
rcET ! chocolate have become familiar in tho
EMI'EROH WASHES THE
OF TWELVE POOR MEN
! mouth as household words, was estab-
i lished oua hundred and twenty-one
I years a^o (17S0) on the Neponsct > :ver
Is .... Annual Ceremony in A...tn — m the 0M town of Dorchester, a suburb
Affair Attended by Many Dignitaries of Boston. From the little wooden
and 11m * corgeoui Aspect—rre«ent. j mill, "by the rude bridge taat arched
to Aged Men.
(Vienna Letter.)
In the presence of the impel ial
family, the diplomatic corps and the
highest officials of Austro-Hungary the
emperor cf Austria knelt In the palace
in Vienna and w.shed the feet of
twelve poor and aged men. This cere-
money, commemorating Christ's wash-
ing the feet of his disciples at the last
supper, has been regularly carried out
at the Austrian court for more than
600 years. It was introduced here
from Spain. The most recent ceremony
was the fifty-third occasion on which
the Emperor Francis Joseph has per-
formed the service, he having ascended
the throne in 1843.
Food Taken from Table.
Immediately the emperor reached the
end of the table the twelve archdukes
mounted the dais. The lifeguardsmen
marched from their position behind
the table and stationed themselves be-
hind the archdukes, each carrying a
large tray. The archdukes rapidly
took the dishes, which had stood un-
touched and untasted. from the table
the flood," where the enterprise was
first started, there has grown up the
largest industrial establishment of the
kind in the world. It might be said
that while other manufacturers come
and go, Walter Baker &. Co., co on for-
ever.
What Is the secret of their great suc-
cess? It is a very simple one. They
have won and held the confidence of
the great and constantly Inci easing
body of consumers by always main-
taining the highest standard in the
quality of their cocoa and chocolate
preparations, and selling them at the
lowest price for which unadulterated
articles of good quality can be put
upon the market. They welcome hon-
est competition; but they feel justified
in denouncing In the strongest tiros
the fraudulent methods by which in-
ferior preparations are palmed on on
! customers who ask for and suppose
| they are getting the genuine articles.
The best grocers refuse to handle such
! goods, not alone for the reason that,
! in the long run, it doesn't pay to do it,
but because their sense of fair dealing
1 will not permit them to aid in the sale
, ' | of goods that defraud their customers
placed them on the trays ami1 the ^ honest manufacture,3
guardsmen niached out. follow eel b>
no wonder that all the little icy bath.
"Yes, I am glad, too," returned
Grace. "And, Nellie, I was glad all
day. I am sure we had a much nicer
time than we would if we had gone
alone, and we would have felt so mean
if we had taken the boys' lunch away
from them."
"Yes, so we would. And. Grace, do
you know, after this when the boys are
cross, I don't mean to take any notice
and see what effect that will have
upon their tempers."
This plan Grace and Nellie carried
thus take revenge upon them for all
the mean things they had said and
done that morning. Their plan worked
to perfection and they got safely away
without being seen by anyone; but,
so it was
Dawsons were up and flying around as
busy as bees at an exceedingly early
hour. Even the baby was interested.
and toddled around tipping over every-
thing she could and getting into
everyone's way.
So much hustle and bustle made
them a little bit cross, perhaps, and so
it turned out that there was a slight
disagreement between Grace and Nel-
lie and the twins early in the morn-
ing. and as each side added fuel to the
flames, in the shape of sharp words [
and angry frowns, by the time they out and it worked so well mat har-
were ready to start for the woods the j mony has reigned in the little red
quarrel had grown to be something house ever since.
serious. The boys had been very pro- j  
voking. and the girls were so angry Conquerer and Conquered.
with them that they decided to take j Have you noticed how gentle the
the lunch basket and hurry away j man wjj0 wore the conquering blue is
when the boys were not looking, and j wjjen [,e m£.ets th(, one who donned the
| conquered gray? The victor has no
; sneer for the vanquished. The late
war with Spain, which saw the sons of
the brothers who had once been ene-
mies stand shoulder to shoulder in the
face of a common foe. has but cement-
j ed anew the friendship which began in
j 1865, and each successive Decoration
I day will see it closer yet. The man
j who was right can well afford to clasp
! the-hand of the one who acknowledges
j that he as wrong in the past by giving
up his son to fight for the grand old
| flag.
The Good Old War Songs-
j The late war with Spain has aroused
I a fresh fervor of patriotism in ' the
i length and breadth of our country, but
I it has given us no war songs, which
| will take the piece of the old ones.
Forever fresh i  the hearts of us all
j will remain "Marching Through Geor-
j gia." We will sing it a long time
! after "A Hot Time" has been relegated
| to the lumber room of the mind. That
! song has made its mark upon our land.
| The heroes of the sixties marched
| through the valley of death into Geor
gig, but they marched also into the
undying love of their countrymen;
surely that was a worthy compensation
for it all!
j- W:
SxV S J.. —
"ALL MY FLOWERS ARE LOST." ;
someway, they did not look very
happy in their • triumph, as they
truuged silently along. They walked
quite slowly as soon as they once were
out of sight of the hotlse, instead of
skipping gaily along, as they always
did upon such happy occasions. At
last Grace stopped suddenly and said:
"Nellie, 1 don't feel good one bit. I
gin ss we'd better go back. 1 don't
( are if the boys were mean, we ought
not to be mean, too, and 'tis awful
mean to run away like this. The :
lunch is aa much theirs as ours, and
it's most as bad as stealing for us to
take it all. Come on. I'm going back." |
And away she went on a run, with
Nellie following as fast as she could at
her heels.
The boys had not missed them yet,
and so they knew nothing of the girls'
intended treachery. They seemed to
have recovered their usual good-
humor; and it was a very merry little
party that started a few moments later
for the woods. What good times they
did have that day! What treasures of
woodland wealth they found! How
good the lunch did taste, and what fun
it was to eat it out there under the
green trees all alone. Yes, it was a
long, glad, beautiful day. They en-
joyed every moment of it, and stayed
just as long as they dared. But at last
they decided that they must start for j
home, for there were the flowers to ar- |
range yet, and there would be but little
Thousands of \ZnKnotvn Dead.
One of the largest national cemeter-
ies in this country is located at Salis-
bury, N. C. There are 11,000 unknown
dead in the cemetery, which is kept in
splendid repair by the government.
Indian Girl Knm Magazine.
Way off in the Indian Territory, a
pretty little Cherokee girl, Ora V. Ed-
dleman, publishes for the people of
that territory and Oklahoma, a maga-
zine, "The Twin Territories." It is
a thirty-two page illustrated publica-
tion, and its home now is Fort Gibson
though it was started two years ago
in Muskogee. Everything in it
written for and by the people of the
two territories. Ora is only one-six-
teenth Cherokee, but, like all the in-
habitants of the territories, who are
really more white than red, she calls
herself an Indian, and is proud of it.
i-he is 20 years old, was educated in
cne of tho territorial colleges, and al-
ways led her class. Among these peo-
ple of mixed blood who are glad to
call themselves Indians arc many
good writers of prose and poetry, and
there is no lack of acceptable contri-
butors to the magazine.-—New York
Pr'isa.
Every package of the goods made by
the Walter Baker Company bears the
' well-known trade mark ' La Rplle
Chocolatiere," and their place of manu-
facture "Dorchester, Mass.' House-
keepers are advised to examine their
! purchases, and make sure that other
1 goods haye not been substituted,
i An attractive little book of "Choice
! Recipes" will be mailed free to any
housekeeper who sends her name and
address to Walter Baker & Co., ijtd.,
138 State S'reet, Boston, Mar.c.
Astronomy Calms Human rmslons.
At a meeting of the Astronomical
Society of France, the well-known as-
troncmer, M. Flammarion. said that by
calming the human passions, the study
of astronomy seemed to have a very
beneficial influence. At any rate the
the two officers with drawn swords, as
well as by the somewhat disturbed and
wondering looks of some of the old
men. before whom such unwonted deli-
cacies had been so graciously placed
and summarily removed. The arch-
dukes then returned to tliefr former
position. Once more the guardsmen
marched in and stood behind the table
and the procession of food-carrying
seminarians headed by the officers
with drawn swords again appeared.
The emperor repeated his act of serv-
ing and the imperial archdukes again
removed the dishes. In all four
courses were served and removed in
less than a quarter of an hour.
Viands Not Eaten Publicly.
In former tines the food was actu-
ally eaten at the table, but this made
the ceremony so long that it was de- | French Aatronoraical Society, com-
eided instead to give each man his por- , . . mrnho'-s nos-
tion to take home. In those days. too. Posed of abov.t 2.500 ®e^13' "b
the ceremony v.«s rendered more at- sessed one member of 10a years ot_age,
tractive by the performance of a simi- a d°zen over nine >, a i <
,ar service by the empress for twelve number who had already seen
aged women. At the conclusion of eightieth year.
this part of the cerfmony the officials
remove 1 the tabic and spread a long
roll of white linen over the knees of
£
EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH,
the old men. 'lhen the emperor, as-
sisted by two ecclesiastics in purple
vestments, b^gan the footwashing part
of the service. The first prelate car-
ried a golden ewer of water, and kneel-
ing poured a litt'.e on the right foot of
the first of the twelve. The emperor,
also kneeling, rubbed the water over
the foot and dried it on a napkin.
The emperor and his companions pro-
ceeded along the dais on their knees,
rising only at the conclusion of the
service. Then, for the last time, he
walked down the line and hung on the
neck of each man a silken purse con-
taining thirty silver crowns. The im-
perial party then left the hall. The
ceremony was conducted in a silence
broken only by the solemn chanting of
the gospel by the archbishop during
the footwashing.
Aged Mon Made Happy.
Outside of the hall were twelve long
pine boxes in which were placed the
meats; delicacies and fruit served at
the ceremony, together with wine,
dishes, plates and drinking cups, the
latter of quaint design and bearing the
emperor's monogram and date of the
ceremony. Each box was placed on
the top of a court carriage and the old
men were driven to their homes.
It would appear that the trade of
tailor is conducive to long life in Aus-
tria, since no less than six of the
twelve men had been engaged in that
work.
Pilots Are Not Worrying.
Owners of Atlantic liners trading to
New York are moving for the repeal
of the compulsory pilotage bill. They
claim that with the East river channel
1,000 feet wide and forty feet deep they
should not be compelled to engage pi-
lots. It costs $250 to bring the giant
Oceanic in and take her to sea again.
The pilots are not worrying over the
matter. They say that a single acci-
dent to one of the big ships would bo
so costly as to stop all such attempts.
Like Thole In Amcrlca.
The slot machine has been adapted
In England to the directory. This use-
ful volume is held fast in a closed po-
sition by the arms of the machine un-
til you drop a penny into the slot: then
the arms relax and you can consult
the directory. The book is kept open
as long as required by 1 dding one
cover, but as soon as this resistance
Is withdrawn the directory closes au-
tomatically.
London'd Breathing: Place*.
The city Of London has in all 5,665
acres of public parks, gardens and
recreation grounds. Much of this has
been added by the county council, the
governing body of the metropolis.
Ever since its creation, in 1889, it has
been steadily adding to the open spaces
of the metropolis, and for this, if for
no othe'r reason, it is entitled to much
commendation.
\
Awful Slaughter of nritisti.
From the latest official reports in the
British war office it is ascertained that
the total killed, wounded and missing
among the army during actions in
South Africa up to March 31 was 1,993
officers and 27,952 noncommissioned
officers and men. In addition 711 offi-
cers and 16,981 noncommissioned of-
ficers and men have died ol wounds or
disease, making the tota' casualties
foot up to the enormous total of -17,037,
U«e4 of the Infra* cope.
The infrascope is a sighting device
for rifles an cannon. It consists of
a metal tu'oe about a foot long and an
inch square, with a small reflector, in-
clined at an angle of 45 legre>s at
each end. The soldier, instead of aim-
ing by the rifle sight, looks in:o the
lower mirror of the lr.frascope, which
reproduces the reflection of the upper
mirror and shows also the si^ht line
of the rifle.
Duke «>f Argyll's Memoir*.
The memoirs of the late Duke of
Argyle will probably be published next
winter, edited by the dowager duchess,
to whom all her husband's papers were
bequeathed. The Duke had been wri-
ting his memoirs for several years be-
fore his death and he left the work,
nearly finished, and careful directions
and ample materials for its comple«
tion.
Slenkiewicx Llkon the Chase*
The Polish novelist, Sienkiowie:',, i=
very fond of the chase, especially boar
hunting, and the walls of his Iioitk
in Warsaw are decorated with liij
(.ronhies. some of thaw from Africa.