The Byron Republican. (Byron, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1907 Page: 2 of 6
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BYRON REPUBLliJAiJ
J O Howard Editor
BYRON
OKLAHOMA
WHISTLER’S COCK FIGHT YARN
Dlagulaed Eaglo Pitted by Yankee
So i lore Agalnat Britiah Championa
Whistler used to take delight In tell-
ing a story of some American sailors
who were at a cockfight in a seaport
town In England when one of them
remarked to the owner of the cham-
pion: “We've got an American cock' on
board that can whip any bird here”
“Go fetch 'Ira on” said the English-
man “chuck ’lm In and see If e licks
one bird we ’ave plenty more to throw
In that can lick hany blawsted Ha-
merlcan bird you can fetch ’ere”
“All right we’ll bring one” said the
sailors - -
When they got aboard they rigged
np an American eagle After their
own manner they painted trimmed
apltced and reefed fore and afL trans-
forming the eagle to a cock When
ready they went ashore and at the pit
chucked in their new gamecock
whloh overcome by surprise prompt-
ly backed close to the wall
“Now bring on your birds” yelled
the sailors
A strutting cock was thrown Into
the pit and was another surprise to
the poor dismantled eagle He backed
closer and closer to the wall wonder-
ing what would happen next
The cock walked three times majes-
tically around the clrelo cuffing at his
Istrange opponent the eagle pitiably
labashed and bedrabbled crouching
jlower and lower and looking around
jand above him for an explanation of
what It all meant while the crowd
(wore yelling madly for the English
fighter
The eagle made 'himself smaller and
lamaller but at last finding that he
loould get back no further and think-
ing that something wa ' expected of
Ihlm stretched out his long claws as
the cock dashed at him again and took
Ibis opponent by the neck
Here Whistler ended witty an Imita-
tion by motions of what the’ eagle did
He stretched out his arm shaped his
hand like a claw (by this time it
looked like a real one) drew it to his
mouth and with one bite pulled off
the head as he thought an eagle
might do it Then he looked blandly
about the room as the eagle had done
let the astonished crowd and said:
"Now bring on your other birds"—
Century Magazine
' Wood Felled by Gladstone’s Axe
What Mr Gladstone most enjoyed
about the Chateau de Chorone (adds
our correspondent) were the beautiful
walks In the neighborhood Many pho-
tographs were taken of him there but
the one he liked most was a photo-
graph In which he and Lord Rendel
appeared walking arm In arm deep In
political discussion I came across a
loopy of It once In a remote farmhouse
In Montgomeryshire and on the back
lef it was written “To Mr John Jones
fVlchlr with best wishes W E Glad-
stone” John Jones was a farmer h constitu-
ent of Lord Rendel a tremendous ad-
mirer of Mr Gladstone and an ama-
teur woodcarver He had once writ-
ten te the prime minister asking for
son wood felled by the statesman's
'own axe and for some time afterward
he regularly received a supply of
'wood whenever Mr Gladstone brought
’town a new tree
This he worked np into walking
tick handles crosses lockets neck-
laces etc and they were greatly
prized among bis friends — Manches-
ter Guardian
Delicately Put
Stnyvesant Fish was discussing In
Philadelphia the March panic
“That was delicately put” he said
referring to a remark that Indirectly
east the blame for the panic on a cer-
tain source "Whether your remark
Is true or false It was couched deli-
cately It reminds me of the story of
the footman
“A footman called his master np
by telephone and said:
“ 1 regret to Inform you air that
your house Is on fire and fast burning
down’ ’
“’Oh!’ cried the master what a
terrible misfortune! But my wife — la
he safe?’
“ ’Quite safe sir She got out among
the first’
“ ‘And my daughters — are they all
right?” j
“’All tight air They're with their
mother
“There was a pause Then:
“ “That sir said the footman saure-
ly ’was what I wished to speak to you
about air particular Your mother-in-law
Is lyin’ asleep In the third story
'back and knowtn' your regard for har
comfort sir I wasn’t sure whether I
ngbt to disturb her or not sir’”
Suiting Muslo te the Work
- The mistress of the house Is a culti-
vated Bostonian of much musical
taste and the whistling of the foot
man who believed himself alone In
the house fretted her artistic soul
“Joseph” she called at tasL from
the head of the back atalrs “please
don’t whistle those vulgar ragtime
things!”
“Yes- mem” returned Joseph meek-
Et “I know mem” be continued with
nexpected spirit “but you cannot ex-
pact a rhapsody of Llast with cleaning
the knives That will com later when
Yn polishing the silver” — Youth’s
Companion
HERE’S A NEW DEFINITION
And Many There Are Will 8ay Senator
Platt Was RlghL
A rather cynical joke has been re
cently credited to Senator PlatL
The senator on his last visit to the
Manhattan Beach hotel allowed s
pretty little girl a western million
aire's daughter to be presented to
him
The little girl in the course of on
of her many chats with the aged
statesman said:
“Tell me won’t you senator what
political economy is?”
“Political economy my dear child’'
Senator Platt is Bald to have replied
“is the art of never buying mors
votes than you actually need”
Carefully Compromised
“Father Is In a perfectly lovely
mood” remarked Clarice “Don't you
think you had better ask him thlr
evening?”
"Suppose you ask him?” suggested
Clarence
“Oh I can’t” protested ’ the girl
“I’m too shy”
“You ask him just this one time”
nleaded Clarence “I promise yon
that In the future I’ll ask him no mat-
ter how shy I am” — Judge
Want to Know
’ Not long ago a Boston municipal of-
ficial who la a stickler for the use of
good English had occasion to consult
a physician new to the community
After the examination the doctor
said: “All you need sir Is a tonic In
the shape of fresh air”
“Would you mind telling me” said
the purist sarcastically “what Is the
ahape of fresh air?"
TO PRETENDERS
I
A Wholesome Word for Guidance
i - - - t
Just a word to you “Collier's” and
other - glaring examples of Modern
Yellow Journalism and Cigarettes
Environment gives you a view-point
from which it Is difficult to under-
stand that some people even nowa-
days act from motives of old fashion-
ed honesty
There are honest makers of foods
and healthful beverages and there are
honest people who use them
Perhaps you are trained to believe
there la no honesty In this world
There Is although you may not be
of a kind to understand 1L
Some of you have been trained In a
sorry class of pretenders but your
training does not taint the old fashion-
ed person trained without knowledge
of pretense and deceit -These
letters came to us absolutely
without solicitation We have a great
many thousand from people who have
been helped or entirely healed by fol-
lowing the suggestions to quit the
food or drink which may be causing
the physical complaints - and change
to Postum Coffee or Grape-Nuts food
You are not Intelligent enough to
know the technical reasons why the
change makes a change In the cells
of thq bodyT Your knowledge or lack
of knowledge makes not the slightest
difference In the facts
You can print from old and worn
plates all the cheap books- your
presses will produce and sell them as
best you can- but such- acts and your
"learned" editorials are hut commer-
cial and seek only “dollars” and much
by pretence
When you branch out Into food
values you become only ridiculous
Stick to what you know The field
may be small but it Is safe
This first letter Is from the Presi-
dent of the "Christian Nation” a
worthy Christian paper of New York
New York Oct 2 1907
Postum Cereal Co Ltd
Battle Creek Mlclv
Dear Sirs:
I am this morning in receipt of the
enclosed mighty good letter from one
of my subscribers which I forward to
you and which I am sure ypu will be
glad to use I am personally acquaint-
ed with this lady and know that she
has no object In writing other than
to do good
- Cordially
John W Pritchard Pres
Brooklyn N Y OcL 1 1907
Dear Mr Pritchard:
Noticing Postum Food Coffee adver-
tised each week in your reliable pa-
per I concluded to try It and feeling
it a duty towards thore who may have
suffered as I have from Indigestion
desire to state what wonderful bene-
fit I have received from Postum al-
though using only a short time and
not do I alone realize and appreciate
Its good effects but friends remark
“How much I have Improved and how
well I look” and I tell the facts about
Postum every time for since using
It I have pot had one attack of indi-
gestion It Is invigorating healthful
does not affect the nerves as ordinary
coffee and If properly made a most
delicious drink Although I have not
had much faith In general advertls
lng yet finding Postum has done so
much better for me than I expected I
am more Inclined to “Prove all things
hold fast that which Is good” I atn
so thankful for good health that 1
want ’it known what a blessing Pos-
tum has been to me You may use
these few lines as an ad if you so de-
sire and my name also
Very truly yours
Anna S Reeves
275 McDonough St Brooklyn
Coffee hurt her she quit and used
Postum She didn’t attempt to an
nlyze but she enloyed thn results Un-
derneath It all “There’s a Reason”
POSTUM CEREAL CO LTD
THE BALLOON RACE
1 s
As Viewed Every Day
FINE FOR SANTA FE
The Road Found Guilty on 66
Counts and Penalty Assessed
I $330000 -
FOR ORANTI16 REBATES
Judge Wellborn of Los Angeles Im-
posed the Sentence Which He
Denominated An “Intermediate
Penalty”— Will Appeal
Los Angeles Cal Nov 8 — Judge
Olln Wellborn In the United States
district court Thursday fined the
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road company $330000 for rebating
The fine was what the court denomi-
nated “An Intermediate penalty” the
maximum which might have been as-
sessed being 81320000 and the mini-
mum 866000
The court reviewed the case In writ-
ten opinion of some length In' which '
It stated that there were sufficient
doubtful and extenuating circum-
stances to preclude the possibility of
a maximum sentence and yet silfll-
cleht Intention of wrong-doing shown '
to make Impossible a minimum pen-
alty The Santa Fe company was convict-
ed on October 11 last by a jury In the
federal court of granting rebates to
the Grand Canyon Lime and Cement
company of Arizona It 'was found-
guilty on all of the 68 counts charged
iu the indictment after but an hour's
deliberation The rotates ' which
were glen on shipments of lime and '
cement from Nelson Arizona to Lus
Angles ragged In amounts from 35
cents to 815- The company claimed
that these amounts were not rebates
on the regular freight rate hut were
in the form of damages to goods
shipped which were allowed after
such claims had been regularly pre-
sented and proved In each instance
The court does not take that view
of the case however and stated that
It “was not convinced by any means
that these amounts represented bonl-
fide settlements of claims”
“It la hard to believe" the court ’
oontlnued in Its opinion “that the
aeents of the corporation did not
know luat they were violating the
law In any event such Ignorance of
the law Is almost equivalent to a
criminal knowledge of It”
Solicitor W E Camp for the com-
pany Immediately moved a stay of
judgment which was required be said '
by the time necessitated In prepar-
ing the defendant's bill of exceptions
Counsel Indicated that January 1
would suit them for a limit on the
stay United States District Attor-
ney Lawler objected to so long a time
and Judge Wellborn fixed the stay at
30 days with the privilege of an ex-
tension if a sufficient showing should
be made to the court at that time
Mind Gave Way in CourL
Columbus O S' v — O 'to- " Ham-
ilton Phelps prominent attorney of
Findlay O and former law partner
of Prosecuting Attorney David of
Hancock - county and who prepared
much of the ' evidence in the cases
against the Standard Oil company
created a scene In tbe supreme court
Thursday when his mind suddenly
way while arguing the case of the
Amity OH company against E: V
Wyssrod and others He was later
taken to Findlay It Is said that Mr
Phelps’ mind ' has - been affected by
overwork '
Capt Tygard to Prison
Kansas City Nov 8 — Capt F Jf
Tygard former president of tho
Bates National bank at Butler Mo
was sentenced to five years In the
United States penitentiary at Fort 1
Leavenworth Wednesday afternoon
by Judge McPherson In the federal ‘
court He had pleaded guilty to the
charge of having misapplied the funds
of the baik but because of his condi-
tion be waB given toe minimum pen-
alty j
by Mr Houeeholder
TO RECOMMEND FREE PAPER
The President Will Ask Congress to
- Take off the Tariff -
A Committee of Newspaper Publish-
ers’ Association ' Asked That '
8uch Action Be Taken
Washington Nov 8 — President
Roosevelt Thursday Indicated to
members of the committee on paper
of the American Newspaper Publish-
ers association that he will recom-
mend to cc-ngre8s the abolition of the
tariff on press paper wood pulp and
the wood that goes Into the manufac-
ture of paper also that he will make
a recommendation to the department
of justice that It take Immediate steps
to ascertain whether the anti-trust
laws are being disobeyed by the man-
ufacturers: of paper
The president’s promise was ob-
tained after he bad listened to the
committee and to a petition from the
national organization of printers
stereotypers pressmen and etchers
setting forth the evidence of -a com-
bination of paper manufacturers for
the purpose of controlling the output'
Increasing the rrlce and otherwise
making hlndersome regulations gov-
erning supply and delivery of paper
' The call upon the president was
made m pursuance of resolutions
adorted by the American Newspaper
Publishers' association Instructing the
committee: "First that the authority
of existing statutes for repression of
trade combination may be Invoked
second that the defiance of recent Ju-
dicial action prohibiting participation
In such combination bv certain west-
ern mills may be punished third that
the president may be put Into posses-
sion of Information which shall equip
blm to advise congress of the abuse
of tariff favors by papermakers”
The resolutions also declared that
the duty on erintlng raner wood nnln
and all material entering tbe manufac-
ture of printing paper should be Im-
mediately repealed
The committee which called on the
president by appointment Thursday
Include! John Norris of the New
York Times Medlll McCormick of
the Chicago ’’’rlbi-ne: George Tbomp
son of the St Paul Dispatch Dela-
vln Smith 01 tbe Indianapolis News:
John Eastman of the Chicago Jour-
nal Walter Page of Worlds Work
Dr Albert Shaw of the Review of Re-
views E J Ridgeway and the presi-
dents of the national organizations of
the Allied Printing Trades
The history and facts were present-
ed by Mr McCormick An Investi-
gation of the so-called paper trust has
been In progress for some time by the
department of Justice and tbe presi-
dent will call for the faets ascertained
to the present tlrae
8-nached Record Again
New Yoric Nov 8— With 810000000
in gold In her strong box and a new
trans-Atlantic 'record written in her
log the Cunard Turblner Lusitania
passed Sandy Hook at 1:40 o’clock
Thursday morning In one grand per-
formance the great vessel broke her
own world’s record and brought to
tbe relief of the money market here
810000000 in gold in unprecedented
time The west-bound trip was made
approximately In 4 days 1 hours and
10 minutes Tbe exact time can only
be known from the official recording
Her hourly average was a little better
than 24 knots an hour
A Missouri Pcstofflce Burns
St Louis Mo Nov 10 — Postoffice
Inspector R M Pulton received a
telegram Friday from Postmaster Mc-
Innls of Leasburg Mo 80 miles from
St Louis stating that the postoffice
at that plnces was totally destroyed
by fire Friday It Is thought the
building was set on fire bv robbers
8unday Closing at 8pokans
Spokane Wash Nov 8— Warrants
were Issued by Justice Hinkle Thurs-
day for the arrest of 187 saloon men
of Spokane charged with keeping
open on Sunday In violation of the
local Suariay closing ordinance
Mexico’s Indian Women
The beauty of Indian women Is on
of the charms of Mexico In the cap-'
ital where the Indian has degen-
erated through poverty and menial
service it le less to be remarked than
In the smaller towns and In the coun-
try But the beautiful faces one takes
In memory away from Mexico -are
those of Indian women ' Fine eyes
are universal and what one hardly ex-
pects the features according to Cau-
casian standards — broad - brows
straight ndses well-formed mouths
and chins full but not gross or heavy
The expression la very generally Intel-
ligent and often one la struck both In
Indian men and women' with tbe no-
bility and refinement of the coun-
tenance One frequently sees types
among ‘the peons that seem to belong
to some highly civilized ancient caste
— an Egyptian priest of royal blood a
Roman centurlan an Aztec emperor
The women are gently lovely where
they are beautiful and the men at
their beat In carriage In manners and
In countenance are strikingly like the
very advanced product of civilization
— Modem Mexico
Prizes for Inventions
With n view to encouraging officials
and workmen on the Imperial German
railways the government have es-
tablished a fund from which awards
are made to men who Invent any ap-
pliance which may be useful In rail-
way practice $3750 was paid to em-
ployes last year from the fund
With n smooth' Iron and Defiance
Starch you can launder your aliiii-
walst just as well at home as the
steam laundry can It will have the
proper stiffness and finish there will
be less wear and tear of the goods
and It will be n positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
Iron
Hie Opinion
Pendally — Now candidly what do
you think of my book?
Grlmsbaw— Well I always did ad-
mire the courage of a man who' with-
out knowing how to write writes on a
subject of which he knows nothing —
Smart Set
STOP WOMAN
AND CONSIDER
First thatalmostevery operation
In our hospitals performed upon
women becomes necessary because
of neglect of such symptoms as
Backache Irregularities Displace-
ments Pain in the Bide Dragging
Sensations Dizziness and Sleepless-
nese Second that Lydia E Pinkham’a
Vegetable Compound made ' from
native roots ana herbs has eured
more cases of female Ills than any
other one medicine known It reg-
ulates strengthens and restores women’s health and la Invaluable la
preparing women for child-birth and during the period of Change
Third the great volume of unsolicited and grateful testimonials M
file at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn Mass many of which are from
time to time being published by special permission give absolute evi-
dence of the value of Lydia E Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs
Pink ham's advioe -
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
For more than 80 years haa been earing Female Complaints aueh aa
Dragging Sensations Weak Back Falling and Displacements In-
flammation and Ulceration and Organio Diseases and it dissolves
and expels Tumors at an early stage
Mrs Pinkham Standing Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to
write Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass for advice She is the Mrs Pinkham who
has been advising sick women free of charge for more than twenty
years and before that she assisted her mother-in-law Lydia E Pink-
ham in advising Thus she is especially well qualified to guide siok
women back to health Write today don’t wait until too late
Cauliflower $800 ait Agip
This Is What Is Being Done on South
Texas Land
Dr Chas F Simmons Has Cut Up His Ranch of 95000 Acres and t
Selling Truck and Fruit Farms of From 10 Acres to 640 Acres
(Including Two Town Lots) For $210 Payable
$10 a Month Without Interest
The TTon Joseph Daily of Chillicothe 111 who owns thousands of
in the Illinois Corn Belt says:
"I trn one of the heaviest taxpayers on farm lands in Mason and Taro-
well Counties Illinois and I have been familiar with the conditions around
San Antonia for 12 years Any thrifty farmer can get rich and make more
money off of this cheap land acre for acre than any Iona in ths State of
Illinois that sella from 8150 to $225 per acre"
Investigate this before the land le ell sold For full particulars end beautlfu)
views of the ranch write
DR CHAS F SIMMONS
215 Alamo Plaza S N ANTONIO TEXAS
NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER
THE SCIENTIFIC AND MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT
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EXTRACT OF THE CAYENNE
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DON'T WAIT TILL THE PAIN
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Habitual v :
Constipation
May be permanently overcome Wpnpw
personal efforts it)t llje assistance
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