Miami Record-Herald. (Miami, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1910 Page: 2 of 6
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RECORD-HERALD
Published Every Friday
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Entered as second class mail matter
February 5 lh'il at the pustoflice at
Miami Indian Territory under the Act
of Congress of March 3 1879
Hereafter for publishing all legal
notices the fees must be paid by parties
ordeiing same when proof of publica-
tion is made
M C Falkenbuky
Editor and Publisher
It will soon be time for tall
thermometers and long fish stor-
ies Here’s hoping it will soon be
the same old gay-hearted Paris
again
The silver lining on your neigh-
bor’s clouds is always brighter
than your own
Any Republican who tries to
be his brother’s keeper nowadays
has a hard job
That petticoat court-martial at
Boston is leaving a train of fraz-
zled reputation in its wake
Even the stars are in harmony
with a fast ge “Comet A 1910”
travels forty-one mile3 a second
If it vva3 not for the obituaries
of some men you would never
know that they had ever lived
The President complains that
nobody “drops in” at the White
House But many have dropped
out
It is hoped that the cause for
the high cost of living may be
found out before it dies of old
age
They say that Uncle Joe Can-
non’s fate is “on the the knees
of the gods” The gods must
feel queer
If only Mr Roosevelt were as
easy to quash as his libel suits
some of his ancient enimies
might cheer up!
Writers inclined to protest
that “Paris will arise phenix-
like” and so forth should re-
strain themselves
Meat boycotters will hardly be
violating the rules however if
they invest in a supply of the
average market spareribs
If as has been alleged the
ultimate consumer is a myth
what does the beef trust care
about boycotts and things
The house of representatives
at Washington is gradually awak-
ening to a realization of the fact
that it can bos3 itself if it wish“3
Politics is a game which is
played by men but the women
have the satisfaction of knowing
that they were the original boss
“The legislature has been ask-
ed to enact a law to punish per-
sons who go out of the state and
make misrepresentations for the
purpose of selling lots in town-
sites” says a Guthrie dispatch
As a friend of Oklahoma City we
desire to register an earnest pro-
test against any such legislation
“The Live Wire” is to be the
name of Coons’ new paper at the
mines He will issue his first
paper in a week or two He pro-
poses to hew to the line let the
chips go where they may and
go after some of the boys with a
manure spreader Possibly he
will print his sheet on asbestos
paper
The Diamond Dick and Buffalo
Bill literature which is being
read and digested by the youth of
this country and which leads to
all sorts of crime in the emula-
tion of the scenes depicted be-
tween the yellow covers of this
class of fiction should have no
place on the shelves or in the
show windows of any reputable
dealer Nine-tenths of the
crime committed in the ranks of
juvenile offenders we will be
6afe in saying is directly trace-
able to the reading and storing
the mind of the young with such
trash giving the readers false
ideas of life and its responsibili-
ties You read in nearly every
daily accounts of youthful bandits
who are organized for depreda-
tion and not infrequent cases bf
murder and Buicide are recorded
The best way to stop the habit is
to keep this trash away from the
boys— and girls too And a
good plan is to cultivate a love
for good literature by parents
securing it for their children
Halley’s Comet
The Celestial Visiter Will Appear
At Its Best la May
The comet which made its
first appearance ia the western
heavens a few evenings ago took
the astronomers as well as other
mortals by surprise It is being
closely observed and there doubt-
less will be something very inter-
esting to say about it very soon
It has been called Drake’s comet
in honor of its observer
The most important astronom-
ical event of the present centu-
ry is the finding of the celebrat-
ed Halley’s comet Professor
Max Wolf of Heidelberg Ger-
many found it on a photographic
plate that was taken September
11 1909 As soon as the discov-
ery was made known a hundred
telescopes were turned in the di-
rection of the illustrious visitor
Since its last appearance in
1835 Halley’s comet has traveled
millions of miles beyond the orbit
of Neptnne in the icy cold of
space Now it is coming our
way
It is impossible to see the com-
et at the present time with the
naked eye but with a good six-
inch telescope or even as three-
inch glass its position can be
traced from night to night
Those who are not fortunate
enough to possess a glass will
have to wait until some time in
April before getting a naked eye
view of this comet It will ap-
pear before the sun and will rap-
idly increase in brightness
At the present the comet is
moving toward the west in a di-
rection opposite the motions of
all the planets around the sun
On April 19th it will be nearest
the sun and will move with its
greatest speed on its orbit
Five days later it will be head-
ed in the direction of the earth
but we shall pass by unharmed
At this time April 24th its mo-
tion will be toward the east and
so it will continue to move On
the evening of May 18th our vis-
itor will be within 14000000
miles of the earth after which
for a few days it will move
among the stars at a rate of fif-
teen degrees per day equal to
one-sixth of the distance from
the zenith to the horizon
On May 19th the comet may
be seen as a magnificent object
appearing shortly after sunset
It will get higher and higher up
in the western sky each succeed-
ing day
It will probably travel across
the face of the sun but there is
no danger of its striking either
the earth or the sun We shall
probably pass through its tail
but the only serious consequence
will be a metoric shower which
may in itself be a glorious sight
to behold However we can not
positively say that the shower
will occur
Halley’s comet gives great
promise of being a most remark-
able one In May it will be a
gorgeous spectacle in the sky a
brilliant object with a long flow-
ing tail thirty degrees in length
stretching one-third of the dis-
tance from the horizon to the
zenith
In the summer of 1682 Halley’s
comet was very extensively ob-
served by two Englishmen Hal-
ley and Flamsteed and by Cas-
sini at Paris and by many others
Some years after Halley under-
took the labor of calculating the
elements of all the comets which
had been sufficiently calculated
to enable him to do so A com-
parison of the elements of all
the comets thus computed by
Halley showed that those which
appeared in the years 1521 1607
and 1682 were moving in orbits
very similar to each other Hence
he was led to believe that they
were successive appearances of
the same comet revolving around
the sun in periods of about seventy-five
or seventy-six years and
he was more confirmed in this
belief by the fact that a remark-
able comet was recorded in 1457
which was seventy-five years be-
fore 1531 He concluded by con-
fidently predicting that it would
appear in the year 1758 It did
so appear being first seen on
Christmas Day by a Saxon farm-
er and an amatuer named Palit-
zch near Dresden Subsequent
calculations have been made to
identify Halley’s comet with
comet3 seen at many intervals of
seventy-six years before 1456
the fartherest being so far back
as twelve years before Christ in
the reign of Emperor Augustus
and the second in A D 60
When Halley’s prediction was
fulfilled (sixteen years after his
death) by the reappearance of
the comet of 1682 and 1758 it
was called after his name and
has ever since borne the designa-
tion of Halley’s comet It ap
peared again in 1835 and during
this year of 1910 it will be visible
to us— Dr Ephriam Miller pro-
fessor of mathematics and as-
tronomy KansasUniversify
Of Interest' to Farmer Boys
The State Board of Agriculture
has authorized the distribution
of one bushel of choice seed corn
in each county of the state' The
distribution to be made through
the Secretary of the County
Farmers’ Institute Mr Hugh
Wind Miami Okla Route 1
It is i arnestly desired that the
teachers of the county co-operate
with the Farmers’ Institute in
awakening an interest among
the boys in corn culture and im-
provement With this end in
view it is recommended that the
teachers organize Boys’ Corn
Clubs for the purpose of taking
up two lines of work: First
that each boy grow a plot of
com with the view of making an
exhibit at the Farmers’ Institute
meeting to be held in our county
some time before the State Fair
the corn may also be exhibited at
the State Fair and at the A & M
College during the next Fanners’
Short Course Second that each
club through some member
conduct a comparative test of the
various strains grown by the
boys’ fathers
One of the most urgent needs
in corn growing one that is vital
to the progress of the industry
is the determination of ' the va-
rieties best adapted to each com-
munity The way to determine
this is to grow the various kinds
in comparison For this work
have each club designate some
member whose father will furn-
ish a uniform plot of ground large
enough for two rows about
twenty rods long for each mem-
ber of the club and two for each
of the three varieties w’hich will
be furnished by the A & M
College Each boy should fur-
nish seed for the two rows from
the seed to be used by his father
The plot will need no extra work
except to be thinned so that each-
row will contain the same num-
ber of stalks and after the corn
is matured to husk and weigh
each row separately and make a
comparison of the results This
could be done by the members
of the club and might be made
the occasion for a neighborhood
gathering in which the girls
might make an exhibit of their
work in the line of domestic art
or any other work which might
seem appropriate
If you should fail to secure
enough boys to organize a club
then send me the names and ad-
dress of any who will undertake
the work or any portion of the
work as outlined above stating
what work each agrees to do
and I will give the names to the
Secretary of the Farmers’ Insti-
tute and place their names with
the State Agricultural School
also the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture so they
may receive bulletins from both
places -
I am informed that the bushel
of corn to be distributed will be
divided equally among fourteen
boys How it shall be determin-
ed who these fourteen boys will
be I am not informed but infor-
mation along this line may be
had by addressing the secretary
of the Farmers’ Institute
At the Farmers’ Institute many
prizes will be offered on farm
products and the boys may com-
pete for these prizes The terms
conditions etc of the awards
will be announced by the Farm-
ers’ Institute at some future date
Hoping that an interest will be
aroused in this movement and
that I may soon secure the
names and postoffice address of
all who wish to enter this contest
I remain i
Very respectfully yours
J T DAVIS
County Superintendent
Presently the subject will be
charged from the -Jiigh cost of
sirloin to the high cost of the
Easter bonnets So what’s the
difference?
If Walter Wellman gets no
further across the Atlantic in
his balloon than he did toward
the North Pole he will need a
life preserver
The higher the price of steak
goes the more generous the
butcher seems to be about in-
cluding large sections of bone
along with the cuts
The congressman who whines
that he “can not live comfort-
ably on $7500 a year” can make
a great hit by giving some one
else a chance to try it
The food situation is not alto-
gether novel or new however
Every fellow 6eems to be hearti-
ly in favor of reducing the price
of the other fellow’s commodity
Tammany doubtless hopes that
any plans for the advancement
of Judge Gaynor into national
politics may be speedily consum-
mated Usually the statesman who
complains that all the trusts are
fighting him is offering a strong
bid to be loved for the enimies
he has made
When Senator Elkins denoun-
ces Senator Aldrich and declares
himself to be a near-insurgent
the gallery wakes up and real-
izes that something is doing
“Kansas owes all of its wisdom
to its women” says Mr Justice
Brewer His honor should item-
ize that account in order that
we may understand just what he
means
The New York Herald is boom-
ing Gaynor for president There
is room for this boom to grow
and evidently the Herald is of
the opinion that it should have
plenty of time
And now a writer says “Geor-
ge Washington was one of the
most henpecked husbands the
world evfer knew” Still George
seems to have been one husband
who could afford to be
“A financier and an archbishop
say that women are responsible
for the high cost of living”
notes the New York Herald Ah
well but how much nearer the
answer does that get us
Senator Aldrich has just re-
turned from visiting a number
of Florida winter resorts No
doubt the gentle keepers thereof
handed Mr Aldrich a large dose
of his increased cost of living
medicine
Mr Taft has decided what is
whiskey and Dr Wiley is trying
to decide what is an egg Let
some chemical sharp - now tell us
what is sugar and one vexed
question may be regarded as set-
tled anyway
If the bill introduced in the
Oklahoma senate last week be-
comes a law the mayor and com-
mon council in any city will have
the right to declare street im-
provements necessary and to
provide for such improvements
This is as it should be— Durant
News
The Chicago Tribune recently
sent out two sets of questions to
the republican and independent
editors of the middle west and
which shows in their answers
that the editorial fraternity is
unalterably opposed to Speaker
Joe Cannon and the Aldrich
tariff bill by a big majority
On the 13th of this month a
high wind blew down the re-
maining walls of what was local-
ly known in Denver as “Fagen-
bush’s Folly”- The theater
was erected by Charles Fagen-
bush a soldier of fortune who
struck it rich in California mines
Desiring to startle Denver with
his wealth he had the theater
built on the lines of a Spanish
castle with the most flamboyant
and grotesque decorations Its
building caused much comment
and amusement and it became
Eopularly known as “Fagen-
ush’s Folly” The climax of
the theater’s popularity was
reached when Patti was billed to
'sing “Martha” It was impos-
sible properly to heat the build-
ing and the prima donna appear-
ed in furs Soon afterwards the
interior was destroyed by- fire
and the walls passed to the much-
litigated estate of H A W
Tabor
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Grocery man has returned from a busi-
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ful manaoement af-
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P LaRUE President
W L McWILLIAMS Vice-President ’ -
M R TIDWELL Cashier
C A BECK Assistant Cashier
Pence & Myers
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Falkenbury, M. C. Miami Record-Herald. (Miami, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1910, newspaper, February 18, 1910; Miami, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1748410/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.