The Record-Democrat (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1920 Page: 2 of 12
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LUXEMBURG REPRESENTED
AT WASHINGTON
Luxemburg latest aoiL smallest of
tlic countries of the world to send a
diplomatic representative to the Unit-
ed States hns a ruler with a better
popular title to her throne than per-
haps any oilier reigning monarch
Though the little grand dikhy Is
smaller even than Rhode Island it has
B histmy reaching farther Into the
past than many of the great nations
among which It now takes a place
It 1ms been bufTeted about like a shut-
t'ecock bj the eountnes that hem It
I and rt one time or another during
t e past tlou and jears bus been un-
ii r the conn ol of nearly every one of
the principal nations of the western
- part of the continent
While a pnrt of the Holy Empire
Luxemburg furnished an emperor for
the German throne Count Henry IV
of Luxemburg was elected to that po-
sition in 1308 as Henry VII Luxem-
burg Inter came under the control of
Burgundy and then fell successively
- to Spain Austria and the first French
repuhllc It remained under the sov-
ereignty of the king of the Nether-
lands from 1813 to the accession of
Queen Wilhclmln In 1800 when the
existence of the Salic law— that antl-
femln'st outburst of the old warrior
Franks— brought the grand duke of
Nassau to the throne
Even while the king of the Nether-
lands was sovereign of Luxemburg It
was a member of the German confed-
eration with the city of Luxemburg
garrisoned by Prussian soldiers Re-
tention of this garrison In the city after
the division of old Luxemburg between
Holland and Belgium In 1831 and es-
pecially after the dissolution of the
German confederation In 1806 almost
caused the Franco-I’rtisnian war to
start three years ahead of time The
matter was compromised by an agree-
ment for the withdrawal of the Ger-
man troops and the demollshment of
the fortifications of the city of Luxem-
burg so strong that the fortress was
known as “the Gibraltar of the North"
In addition the grand duchy was set
up as an Independent state with Its
neutrality guaranteed like that of Bel-
gium by the powers This guarantee
was one of the “scraps of paper" of
1914 (
Luring the World war Luxemburg
was practically a prisoner to Germany
but because the Inhabitants did not
resist the Germans treated them with
a certain degree of consideration The
sympathies of the tenple were with
France however end several thousand
Iuxemburglana served with the trl- cinc0 de Myo mh of May) unite
the cathedral stateliest of all the re
color - This popular sympathy for
France and the belief that the reign-
ing Grand Duchess Msrle Adelaide
had pre-German leanings made her un-
jMipular After (he armistice brought
about the retirement of the Germans
a bloodies revolution broke out and
Luxemburg added another te It long
list of sovereignties by belug a repub-
lic for a few brief hour Conserva-
tive clement brought about the abdl
rat'en of the grand duchess In' favor
of her slater Charlotte the present
ruler and by liberalising the constl-tullnii-Marle
Adelaide has entered a
com cut and become a Carmelite nnn
BRUSSELS: CAPITAL CITY
OF THE LAND OF THE
LOOM
Bruisels conspicuous during the
War again became a itii Id- of world
attention with the meeting there of
the International financial congress
Hnixsela’ fame reals partly on pop-
ular misapprehensions
Its name Is linked with a carpet
Unit Is not made llieie and also with
a cathedral wdddi properly speaking
Is nut n cafliedial at all hut a church—
‘ jliat Of St Gudtile
' Hut even after deducting (Ida much
from Hnissei’ ciedlt enough remain
to give It a foremost place among
world capitals Were the romantic
adVciT'iTres ‘ of the city caat Into a
“movie" scenario the title might ae-
curatcly be “From Swamp Dwelling to
I’etlt l’nris" - ii'ww-f " ' '
Tllfi geveuth century village on' the
Seime near the qenter of what now I
Belgium was called Brueaelle liter-
ally “swamp dwelling" with deacrlp-
- 0 Dcouia the ancient curumcwra rc-sue me ( -eat which bung over the source 20
tlve Intent The genius or p pe la jj tba on before the mile away lifted and the river of
for making much of ueagr of y md any political alg-1 'fire stood out la It full glory holding
clrcumnlnncea fully warrant tha nick- ® tlty the wflterf applied lone speechless and ipellbound Leap-
"T art treC nd n'1 Itotbe tU TST g & pail to valley rushing up-
parks boulevard art gsllerlra and a ‘ nu)g wUh trwtuentloug Apen- hill and roaring down the fiery flood
famous university baboM nabei a IUK toot thundered down the mountain ibpo
Buffering wa no new experience furl practically Into tho carrying on Ita bosom rocks 91 big as
8Kt 4i5VSSS’ SB e U-k
ty-flrat Psalm and a llltlo later both
heads were displayed to the assembled
multitude on Iron aplkeo Mor grue-
aom still both head finally wore
boxed and sent to Philip II of Spain
o-l (hot Intter-doy Herod might exult
ot another victory over hi northern
oubJectM ’ ’
Thmiifh Hie Rnimels carpet of mod-(
ern I not made In Belgium
r -iM'a i -a lit a deserved tributo
I la l a! I ’ '’3 ! Hr WS0
ui rtfiii'i'i" il at L’I'O England tho
product wns patterned after the tap
estrles for which Brussels was famous
for centuries
In addition to Its weaving Brussels
gained renown for Its lacemaklng and
Its needle-made laces still find their
way all over the civilized world In
eluding a considerable quantity to the
United States The feminine culture
of feudal times sought to express In
the delicate designs of filmy fabric
what men wrought In the lace-llke
architecture of Its cathedrals
MEXICO CITYt THE ROME
OF THE AMERICAS
“In nil the world one cannot find
a more remarkable capital than Mex-
ico City" says William Joseph Sho-
walter In a communication to the Na'
tional Geographic society
“Situated In a valley whose floor
Is a mile ami a lfclf above the level
of the sea and whose borders are sur-
rounded by towering mountains lo-
cated where the beautiful volcanoes
Popocatepetl and Ixtaocllmatl rear
snow-capped beads above the plain and
Stand eternal guard over It its situ-
ation Is one of rare beauty and grand-
eur Its climate is mild the temper-
ature ranging from 33 to 71) degrees
with a mean of 03 degrees No man
sleeps without a blanket In Mexico
City nor needs an overcoat at midday
“Prior to the conquest the lakes of
the Mexican valley were extensive and
the barges of the Aztecs sailed unin-
terruptedly from the gates of Cbaptil-
tepee to Ixtapalapa A large number
of canals Intersected the ancient me-
tropolis of Tenochtltlan and connect-
ed with the lakes In the suburbs mak-
ing It a sort of new world Venice
“In 1007 the celebrated Portuguese
engineer Martinez undertook to drain
the Valley of Mexico by cutting a
canal through the mountains The
work however was largely a failure
since It drained only oue small lake'
and an unimportant river leaving
lakes Texcoco and Chaleo still perpet-
ual menaces to the city
“In 1879 a huge drainage canal 30
Oilles long was began which was
completed In 1900 at a cost of about
18000000 American gold Its com-'
pletlon removed the danger of Inunda-
tions from Mexico City atid solved the
problem which occupied the thoughts
snd engendered the fears of the
Aztecs ss far back as 1449
“Mexico City Is the most complete
mixture of the undent and the modern
to be found In the new world The
old city might date anywhere from the
tenth century from Its appearance
The new city le ultra modern and you
step from the sixteenth to the twen-
tieth century by welklng across the
street
“The parade ground of Mexico City
la tha Avenlda de San Francisco
This short street extends from the
Mexlcaa White Rouse te the Alameda
and Is only -about 24 feet from curb
ito curb Here at the approach of twi-
light every smart equipage In the cap-
Ital come Down the one side of the
street end op the other tide move the
Iprocessloh at a alow walk while ev-
erybody looke at everybody else
i “A Avenlda de San Francisco unltee
'the old and the new cities so doe tha
llglous edifices on the continent with
the National theater which was
planned to be the moat beautiful of
lall the amusement places In America
The Clnco de Mayo Is the Wall street
of Mexico and the buildings which
lint It are modern In every respect
1 “The Feaeo de la Reform extend-
ing from Cliapultepec to the Avenlda
'de Juarez a almrt avenue connecting
Jthe Pasco with Avenlde de San Fran-
cisco Is one of tha finest driveway
'of the world
! “The “national pawnshop la one of
'the unique Institutions of the capital
It wa founded by Pedro Jos Ro-
mero de Terruros”
HOW GEOGRAPHY SHAPES
ITALY’S DESTINY -
Italy's peculiar geographic position
always has' two one of the chief
sources of the country’s remarkable
Individuality— on Individuality marked
by It political and economic course
since the armistice was signed Ar-
thur Stanley Riggs writing to the Na-
tional Geographic aotlety In this re-
gard says:
“From the beginning Nature act It-
aly apart Every boundary I perfect-
ly clear The historic tea enfolds It
to the south east and west On the
north the terrific Alp sweep around
It In a grout semicircle from Mediter-
ranean to Adriatic doalng the circuit
“To be sure from the time of Au-
gustus the boundary of each aide of
northern Italy ho been Juggled now
to the east now to the west by poli-
tics but the physical boundary la still
definitely there So thoroughly did
the ancient chronicler recognize these
side Indeed It wn p Jnvndln or jcoMtlln It PP father more
rather colonising 6reek who combined 'speed tailing a final ptuhgt over 100-
wlth the aborigine to form the pop- 'foot cliff at a terrific rate and look-
ulatlon that Mocked tho peninsula In for 11 tho world like fiery Ml-
Taken In nmatler wny geographical l!lr- A the red-hot lav cam In
Ito or position exercised no less dlo- contact with the water great columna
tluct an effect upon eom of the fore-1 of ateam and gat like huge water
most Italian cities) and In ahapln
thalr affairs and men It also Influenced
the entire world
“After forming thla baolo—northern
Italy— the Apennines awaep aouthward
mines the whole Internal geography
of the country as definitely as the
Alps do Its outline northward
“In central Italy west of the moun-
tains the valleys of the Arno and the
Tiber — the only streams Of Importance
—give the keynote to any geographic
study of the region Over on the east-
ern coast no rivers of Importance can
exist because the mountains there ap-
proach too close to the sea though the
tortuous mostly dry bed of the ‘tor-
renti’ scar every height
“In thla connection It Is Interesting
to note that nowhere Is the peninsula
more than 130 miles wide and gener-
ally not more than 100 white down
In Calabria the width dwindles In two
places to 33 and 20 miles respectively
One of the most “Inspiring views In
the whole length of the country also
displays this narrowness strikingly
when on a clear day from the Gran
Sasso the highest point in the bleak
Abruzzl range eeutrnl Italy at near-
ly 10000 feet one may look not only
eastward over the Adriatic to far Dal-
matia's rocky shores but also west-
ward over the mountain and moor city
i and sandy coast to the dim and misty
blue of the Tyrrhenian sea In vol-
canic southern Ituly likewise barren
of nny great waterways the Apen-
nines break up Into groups of hills and
peaks not usually so lofty as farther
northward -
“As In the case of Japan the sur-
rounding sen makes a vast difference
io the Italian climate Judged by Its
position alone the peninsula should be
about the hottest part of Europe— It
la only 90 miles from the southern
shore of Sicily to Africa But the twin
seas and the ever Snow-capped moun-
tains temper the hert and tha region-
al peculiarities are such that we find
Turin for Instance colder In winter
than Copenhagen and Milan as warm
In summer as Naples”
A VOLCANIC BARNUM AND
BAILEY
Toung America will drop anything
to run to a fire In aom part of the
world— Hawaii for example— one also
drop everything to run to volcano
eruption unless be already la too close
for comfort Then Me runs from It
Have you ever wondered what a vol-
cano In action looks like? Here la a
description not by a scientist but by
a young Washington woman who went
to Hawaii to live just before Mauna
Lot’s terrific eruption last year
“It seems as If Hawaii though small
must hav Just so much attention and
so ever so often ahe explosively project
herself Into tho arena of the world’
happenings” wrote Mr Shirley Foo-
ter Allen “Not content with her abera
in the 'Big Show In Europet nhe de-
cided to stag a first-class aldo show
all her own— and the two volcano
Manna Loa and Kllnuea hive certain-
ly don their beet t make It the ’big-
gest show on earth' j
“Just -a word about the geography
of the place In the first place ao
many people seem to think the word
'Honolulu' embrace all them la to the
Islands and In the second place tha
general conception seem to be that
the volcano I located In Honolulu’
back yard an It were and that
w Honolulans taka our dally
exercise by ruanlng up to the
prater every morning before break-
fast Honolulu I located on the
Island of Oahu third Island In nine
la the group while the volcano or
rather volcanoes are located on Ha-
waii the largeat and youngeet Island
with aa area of more than 4000 square
miles which lie nearly 200 mile
southeast of Oahn
“The Brat Indication of volcanic ac-
tivity wa tha presence of a peculiar
cauliflower-shaped cfend hanging over
the mountain Three day later oa
September 29 the whet heavens were
lit up with an apricot gtasr when from
a huge vent in the mountain's aide a
flood of molten lava we belched forth
Spreading sot Into a great shallow
stream It came rsariag dowa tha
mouatain step burning foreata car-
rying huge tree and laamens bould-
ers on It earface— sweeping every-
thing before It With a speed varying
from one te twenty tulle an hour ac-
cording I the country R was passing
over It broadened out antll ir we
nearly a mil In width After wiping
out the government belt road raalng
telephone pole ami thwiroylng a vrst
amount of property the red-hot lava
tumbled over a high precipice end
plunged hissing Into the eea
“A number of excursion were made
(ln October from Honolulu end In np
preacblag the flow from the sea In the
'early evening the glow from the lava
I was visible for many miles before
'Alika was reached
“Drifting within 200 yards of the
point whert the liquid rock was rush-
I ling Into the sea the scene stretching be-
fore one was awe-inspiring Slowly
' tha smoky haze from the burning for-
II
iponti were forced hundred of feet
Into the air Hug boulders hnrled
Into space exploded with thunderous
iwporta Into aural of red and green
lights whll flashes of what looked
' BARBADOS: ISLAND OF
VAST RESOURCES
Barbados Is one of the most Inter-
esting and least known of tha pos-
sessions ofGreat Britain
Pear-shaped bolitary farthest oast
of the West Indies Barbados general-
ly Is accounted the most healthful of
the group even though It la the most
populous country In the world per
square mile except China and George
Washington carried to his grave the
marks of smallpox contracted on a
visit there t
The Island— there Is but one despite
the misleading plural name— Is but an
eighth the size of our Rhode Island
but lias twice as many Inhabitants
per square mile ns our smallest and
most densely populated state ‘
Seldom does a volcano become an
asset hut volcanic eruptions have con-
tributed lnrgoly to the fertility of Bar-
bados When the sun was obscured
throughout one day In May 1912 the
Barbadnns were panic stricken but
when the gentle rnln of black dust
subsided the deposit was found to
be ashes from nn eruption of St Vln-
'Cent Soufrlers nenrly 10O miles to the
west which enriched the soli’
Long before that time though Bar-
bados was productive Oldest of Brit-
'ish colonial possessions except New-
foundland It also wns the first place
in the British empire where sugar
cane was planted Its average crop
of this now high-priced commodity le
60000 tons It g Iso has 2000 sere
planted In aea-laland or long-staple
cotton raises 40000 bunches yearty of
the Chinese banana and export mo-
lasses '
One phenomenon of Bsrbadoe has
not been accounted for For year
the so-called “Barbados Coffin 8tory"
furnished mystery which would In-
terest present-day psychic investiga-
tors In the yard of a church niu
6uilnfs Two Is a churchyard burial
vault hewn from rock and arched with
cemented stone A woman was buried
there In a lead coffin according te'
Barbadan custom Several years later
'when -the vault was opened again t
receive another body the coffin had
been removed from Its original po-
sition Upon' the second occasion spe-
cial precautions were taken te seal
the vault Several times thereafter
though seals were unbroken and them
seemed no other mode of entering
the aolld rock and masonry the cof-
fins were displaced Finally the mouth
of the vault was cemented snd when
It was time to receive another body
officials of the Island and an lm-'
mense crowd gathered for tha cere-
mony Once more all the leaden cask-
ets were found t have been disturbed
and the family had tbelr dead removed
to another burying ground Me wtla-
factory solution of these strange oc-
currences has been offered w
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u tSjts mo
otx6b of inun roa tax bibb
The State of Oklahoma Greeting:
To Morrii Bongo owner of the North
east J50 acres of the Northwest 1012
acres of Lot 10 of Section T Township
1? North Rsnge 17 East Wstoner Coun-
ty Oklahoma
Tou snd each of you are hereby noti-
fied that at s public isle of real proper-
ty for delinquent taxes for the year of
191t held on the Ith day of November
1S17 the Northeast X( acres of the
Northwest 1021 acres of Lot 10 of
Section T Townahlp 17 North Ranse 17
East Wagoner County Oklahoma waa
sold by the County Treasurer of Wag-
oner county Oklahom for delinquent
taxes for tha year 1011 for 77 cents
to the County of Wagoner State of
Oklahoma and tax sale certificate No
f21 was duly Issued therefor: That on
April 10th 1020 said tax sals certifi-
cate was duly assigned by the County
Treasurer of Wagoner County Oklaho-
ma to R W Sutcliff in the wanner and
for tha consideration provided bv
statute and that the R W Sutcliff la
now the owner of said tax sale certifi-
cate Tou ere hereby further notified that
unless redemption la made within sixty
-davs from tne service of this notice
beinx the date of the first publication
to-wlt: November 11th 1020 a tax deed
will be demanded and will be Issued on
said land nnder said eertlflcata aa pro-
vided by statute
Dated at Wagoner Oklahoma thla 10th
day of November1020 8tmLfpr
Holder and owner of the above de- J
cribed tax axle certificate
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11 IS 25 Dec S 12
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CONTACT
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will apply to the District Xourt of Wag-
oner County Oklahoma for decros
dissolving said corporation in accord-
ance with tha resolution of tha stock-
holders and directors at the meeting
called for that purpose on January It
1120
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