The Cordell Weekly Beacon. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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Youth and Cupid
Oh. nine so bright' Oh. r.nfce so bright:
Oh. none ipo bright a* I!
If Cupid dares within my light.
wftMn mr Nr " *• flr-
, ilnge hi* wing.", and then for spite
Dectars he's lilse to die!
1 only" Isugh l.uigh tit his plight.
And unrelen Jng cry
•It serves jju right: It serves you
right'
And 'tis n use to tlgh.
For though you singe your kings to-
night.
Ardn you'll ventnre r.lgb "
—Florence Gertrude Kuthven.
J?y JTTTifX /JQLSZE15
"It's from Cousin Fred," said Dora
*iih conviction.
"Ye—08." said Amabel. slowly.
"I believe It's a proposal,'' said
Lucy.
And Amabel said nothing
"I knew he'd propose to you' ' Lucy j
continued. "He fell In love with you
straight away. And he's never been
really in love with anybody before, i
she added.
"I can't think what to do!" sighed j
Amabel, gently.
"Aren't you going to accept him?"
gasped both the girls at once.
"It's a little awkward." Amabel be-
gan.
"But he's ever so much nicer than
anybody else!" Lucy interrupted her
"And you have encouraged him.
Amabel." said Dora.
"But there are the other two." said
Amabel, uncertainly.
"What other two?" asked I.ucy.
"The two I'm engaged to already."
"Engaged already!" gasped Lucy.
"To two men!" choked Dora.
"Yes, two of them." said Amabel. I
hopelessly.
You see," she explained, "It was '
like this. I was staying with the Law-
sons for some dances and Charlie Law- I
son proposed to me during the "Blue j
Danube' waltz, and, somehor, I
couldn't say no. Then I went to stay j
with the Gibbses and a Captain Har-
rison proposed to me one day when
we went on a paper chase. We were
simply miles from home, and it would
have been.so awkward to have said
'no' then. And now—oh. dear! what
shall I do, girls?"
"Of course, you are really engaged
to the man who asked you first," said
Lucy.
"You're never going to accept
Cousin Fred as well!"igasped Dora.
"He's much tfce nicest.' Amabel as-
sured her.
"Serlot^ly. Amabel, you are engaged
to the waltzing man," Lucy expostu-
lated.
"Charlie Lawson." said Amabel, with
a resigned xirh.
"And you must write to the other
man sayiqg you have made a mistake,"
Lucy continued, authoritatively.
"I'll write to Captain Harrison at
once." said Amabel, obligingly. "I
never did really like him."
"Of cotVse!" both girls assented, in-
differently.
"And tjis?" Amabel glanced at the
note in her lap.
"Oh. ot'eourse. you must explain to
Cousin Fred." Lucy remarked relent-
lessly.
"Should we csjJl^iu for yqu?" Dora
offered, kindly,,.."It mlirht In awkward
for you. fend wwootrtd JuAt hint"—
"No. tUfenk you." said Amabel. "I'll
do my of^i explaining. You see. they
are my pjpposals."
"We ^flll leave you to write your
letters, tfcen." said Lucy.
"He says he will come for his an-
swer thi^ evening." Amabel sighed.
"Poor, /ilcar man! I'll write him a
little no£e and just slip it into his
door opened and a tall young man
came hopefully into the room. Ama
bel shut her eyes, held her breath and
extended her little white hand and
the note. The hand was eagerly
seized and kissed.
BEAR ROLLED ON BARREL. |
Strenuous Exertions Necessary to I
Save Grizzly's Life.
Bumbo, a performing grizzly bear,
now on exhibition in Luna park, bad |
an awful experience yesterday. As i
soon as he finished his mid-afternoon )
performance. Bumbo left the ring
over the lagoon and started to lum-
ber across the bridge to his cage, un-
derneath the dancing pavilion. When
half way across the bridge Bumbo
looked over the side into the limpid
waters of the lagoon. Then he be-
came dizty and fell overboard.
Now Bumbo cannot swim, and when
at last be was fished out he was al-
most dead. An ambulance from the
Coney Island Emergency hospital was
summoned, and when the doctor came
he attended to Bumbo just as if he
were a human being instead of a
grizzly. After being rolled over bar-
rels. and after the doctor had
breathed his own breath Into poor old
Bumbo's nostrils, the grizzly came
back to life.—New York T'mes.
POULTRY
"Ye-«s, all the important ones."
"Darling!'' whispered a very glad
young man; and the little paper fell
unheeded to the floor.
Outside, at no great distance away,
Dora and Lucy waited with hearts full
of sympathy for poor Cousin Fred.
TLc sympathy became a trifle uneasy
as time went on, and no heavy, heart-
broken tread was heard to descend the
stairs and seek the front door.
Pwsenily ihey ventured a little
nearer within.
"Why, what is this little white
thing on the floor." said Cousin Fred's
voice in a curiously muffled tone.
"Oh. it's mine." said Amabel's voice.
"I wrote it for you; it's a confe|pion—
please read it."
"Confession, you dear baby! What
an idea! Stick it in the fire. I don't
want to know all your little sla3, you
precious silly!"
"Oh, but I have been really very
bad." said Amabel, in an ashamed
voice. "Ever so bad; you've no idea;
and you ought to know, really."
"Give me the terrible list, then,"
?aid Cousin Fred, severely. Df/a and
Lucy grasped each other's hands.
Poor Cousin Fred!
Are tf(py all here?" he continued
"Ye—es, that is. all the Important
ones," Amabel answered. Then the
sleepy fire flickered upon suddenly, In
Joy of having something to burn.
"What a darling you are!" Cousin
Fred began, but the rest of the re-
mark. if thore was any, was too smoth-
ered to reach any further than Ama
bel's little pink ears.
That evening Amabel wrote to Char-
lie Lawson.—The Bystander
Amazon Region No Good.
United States Consul Ayme at Para.
Brazil, sounds a note of warning for
the benefit of those who think there
is a golden field for exploitation in
the Amazon region of South America.
"I despair." says Mr. Ayme. "of find-
ing language strong enough to ex-
press the utter and absolute hopeless-
ness of success that awaits any of
those unhappy enough to attempt to
make even a bare living on the banks
of the mighty Amazon. I do not 6ay
that the acquisition of a fortune or a
competence is difficult. doubtful or
in'possible; 1 say that such a mis-
erable existence as would disgust a
Digger Indian would be hardly ob-
tainable by one man In 10,000 of such
as arc thinking of coming here. It
may be that there are places in Bra-
zil where colonists might do well, jier-
haps. but I do not know of any such
places." The rubber trees. Mr. Ayme
says, aro widely separated and they
can only be reached by forcing one's
way through a thick-matted, almost
impenetrable swamp forest which pro-
duce? very little food for human
beings.
Csmpanari Is Democratic.
Campanari. the singer. Is thorough-
ly democratic. He tells with great
amusement of one of the severest
tests his democracy ever got.
"I had just arrived in a New Eng-
land town." said the. "and was going
to sing at a concert to be given that
very evening, when word from a fel-
low-countryman was brought me at
my hotel. It was an Invitation to
drive that afternoon. I sent down a
pleased acceptance.
At 4:30 o'clock my host was an-
nounced, and when I wenfc'to hten I
found him on his banana Art. which
was nicely stacked with a load of the
fruit, each banana looking as though
it had been scrubbed and polished.
"It was a staggerer, but I did it,
and had a delightful time, too. To ba
sure. I had a tussle trying to under-
stand the patois hurled at me by my
new friend, but for all that I learned
a lot about bananas.
"Oh, one can always learn." added
the singer, laughing. "It is weil not
to be too exclusive."—Kansas City
Journal.
Yferding Fowls.
A good deal of experimenting will
have to be done before the question of
yarding fowls is settled. With the
small flock on the farm the problem
is not a large one, but with the large
flock the problems increase both in
size and number. If a man have sev-
eral hundred hens shall he let them
all have the run of the farm; shall
he confine them in one yard; or in
several? The man with a good many
fowls will hardly care to let them
have the run of the farm. With a
small flock it is different; and he will
need to keep them confined only while
the plants are getting a start In the
spring. After the garden has Eot to and are b ppy.
growing well the birds may be turned —
in with no possibility of harm except
to lettuce and to tomatoes when they
begin to get ripe. As to other vegeta-
bles the birds will only prove a help
by picking off the bugs. Also in tho
fall of the year when the grain has
been harvested the birds will do the
farmer much good In his grain fields
by picking up the seeds that have
dropped from the heads In time of har-
vesting. Incidental arrangements and
circumstances also affect the problem
A lady told the writer that she had 200
Brown Leghorn hens. She said her
husband was a thresher and much
grain was hvj'.ed to his farm and
threshed there. This gave a consid-
erable amount of lost grain which
supported her 200 fowls with little
other feed. This was a happy arrange-
ment that seldom exists.
All things being equal, it will be
better to keep large flocks yarded
most of the time. If there are more
than one flock they may be turned out
after the grain harvest, one flock one
day and another another. But It Is
far easier to keep the flocks shut up
and establish a regular system r>f
yarding and feeding them. In ti£a
country of cheap land there seems lit
tie reason In depriving fowls of room.
The more room the less the retired
height of the fence. Yards on farms
should be large enough so that they
can be divided into two or three
parts. Green stuff, like rape and oats
may be sown In one part, and after it
has obtained a good growth the fowls
may be turned in and another part of
the yard seeded. It is not possible to
grow an^ crop while the fowls are
in the yard as they will feed ofT the
developing crop to the roots.
If a man have heavy fowls the
fences need be not more than three
feet high. The birds will not gen-
erally try to fly over. This does not
Include the Plymouth Rocks, which
are both quite heavy and good flyers.
We have found that with a good-sized
yard a four-foot wire fence will stop
even the Leghorns if there is no board
at the top of the fcnce. They will
not make the attempt to 0y over un-
less they can have a board to light
on. On the other hand. In crampcd
quarters we have seen Leghorns be-
come very expert in getting over a
Growtti 6f European Population.
Few perions have any idea of the
extraordinary manner in which the
population of Europe has increased
during the last century. According
to statisticians this population has
more than doubled Itself from 1880
to 1900. To this increase the I*tin
nations of the west and southwest
contributed the least and the greatest
growth was lu the* east, where the
people have not yet become thorough-
ly saturated with the ideas of mod-
ern civilization.
Babies Carried in Boots.
Gypsies carry their babies In old
shawls slung over their shoulders and
tied about the waist. North Ameri-
can Indians carry their babies on the
backs of squaws—cradle and all. But
the Eskimo women of Labrador carry
their babies in their boots. These
boots come up to the knee and are
wide at the top. with a flap ia front
In these the little brown babies live
A friend of tho homo—
A foe of th* Trust
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Compiles with the Pure Food Laws
of all States.
Laughter a Health-Tonic.
There Is nothing better established
among physicians than that cheerful-
ness prolongs life, and also enriches
and enlarges it. Whole-souled, joy-
ous laughter Is a powerful health.,
tonic.
Mutt Purchase Their Wives.
The Bakalai of equatorial Africa arc
excellent hunters, and as soon as they
have gathered enough elephants' tusks
they exchange them for European
merchandise, with which to buy wives.
The price of a wife among the Fans
of Africa is high and a young man
must work a long time in order to ao
cumulate the necessary sum.
Many Uses for Rhubarb.
Many uses for rhubarb are known,
but champagne rhubarb, mentioned it
a report of an English lawsuit. Is n?w
to most people. The case grew irom
a charge that a Devonshire firm used
rhubarb for the making of cider. This
was denied, but a witness volunteerel
information that the fruit was used for
various wines and cordials.
Left-Handed Compliment.
In a case involving the manage-
L-.ent c' an English insane asylum sev
eral former inmates were called as
witnesses and the king's counsel, who
called them, remarked that they were
as sane as any one In the court. The
judge on the bench showed no en-
thusiasm at the announcement.
Cats With Knotted Tails.
There is a breed of cats in Malacca
which has this peculiarity. At first,
travelers are under the impression
that some cruel person has tied
knot in pussy's tail "for fun." but this
is not so. The kittens are born with
this peculiarity, and it contiauci
throughout their life.
Slovenly Russian Servants.
The slovenliness of women servants
in Russia is a fact often commentc'd
upon by Americans. A maid when
waiting upon the table is often
dressed in a short print skirt and loose
blouse. Is shoeless and stoeklngless.
find has a colored handkerchief tied
over her hair.
Made His Church Attractive.
Wishing to brighten the outlook of
his Church, the vicar of St. Martin's,
Soldiers' Time of Suffering.
Capt. Curtis, who has written a pop-
ular story of Indian fighting, says in
response to a boy's inquiry that he
never was captured, but on one occa-
sion, when besieged by redskins in a
fort, he realized what he had read
about wives having asked their hus-
bands not to let them fall into the
hands of savages. "In that siege," he
says, "when it was exceedingly doubt-
ful that we should survive and all
depended upon the swift arrival of a
rescuing party, Mrs. Curtis Asked me
to make such a promise—to save one
bullet for her should we be captured.
Relief did not come for forty-eight
hours and during that awful time I
suffered indescribable distress In try-
ing to contrive some way of conceal-
ing wife and child from a relentless
and merciless foe."
wire fence even without a top boar'! Dover, with member® of bis congreg.t
It Is a mistake to suppose that tion. has, by six weeks' hard work
with spade and pick, laid out the ex
tensive adjoining grounds in a pictur
fowls having the run of the farm lay
more than birds yarded. Carefully
conducted experiments have failed to
show any advantage of this kind,
popular Impressions to the contrary
notwithstanding. The man that yards
his fowls must simply supply them
with the green and animal food they
would get on their foraging expedi
tions.
The Narragansett Turkey.
The Narragansetts are next in size
to the Bronze. The ground color of
their plumage Is black, each feather
ending with a band of steel gray
edged with blafk. This gives a gray
Isb color to the surface plumage.
o^que garden.
"I Relieve it's a proposal."
hand wfen he comes, and then run
away. «hd he can read it, and go
home quietly afterwat^."
So Amabel wr ote two- 1st t< • rsj* n d
posted one f them Tfce otliel^b'as
tightly screwed up in Amabel's hand
when tfce front door bell rang In an
agitated manner just after 6 o'clock.
It was very nearly dank, but there
«as a pleasing flicker of firelight. The
St. Paul Man Is Industrious.
Assistant Postmaster Patrick
O'Brien of SI. Paul Is a man after
Uncle Russell Sage's own heart. He
baa been employed in the St. Paul
poetofflce for thirty-one years and has
just started on . his first vacation.
1 hough urged every year to take a
rest, he has always refused. He was
finally forced Into it through a con-
spiracy on the part of Postmaster Mc-
Gill and some of his coworkers. They
told Mr. O'Brien he must take two
weeks off and he started on a fishing
trip on Tuesday. "It wouldn't sur-
prise me to see him back at his desk
before the end of the week." said the
postmaster, "but we have the key to
his desk and he can't get it until the
two weeks are up."
Old Saying Rounded Out.
Senator Thomas C. Piatt was ap-
proached some time agq by s frienfl
who had lost a position in the federal
service through the appointment of
a new supervisor. The friend wanted
the senator to intercede for him. He
admitted that he had been discharged
for an infraction of the rules, but he
insisted that the matter was trivial
and would have been, overlooked by
the H «ia|i'i predecessor.
rJl'lied Senator Piatt, you
vhotii'f Jiave been careful. You tyow
flfat a new broom sweeps clean."
" Yes." assented the other, gloom-
ily. "but did you ever consider that it
wag devilish hard on the carpet?"—
Ni w York Times.
To-Day.
Waste not, dear Love, the swift, glad
hours.
But passionate kisses take and give;
To-day enfolds u —W is oura.
To-morrow, Love, wo may not live-
To-morrow life may sle^p in dust.
Or wridden like a mateles* dove;
?r< cloud no pleasure of to-day.
To-morrow. Love, no plga ure knows:
Love bloKsomi in a flower-Ilk" way.
Go. pluck it, as one plucks the rose.
All worthless unto us the yearn—
The yi-ars that pause not on the wins;
They will not dry regretful tears.
The ruined past they cannot bring.
But e'er, d'ar Love, all virgin-white,
To-day yet fronts us breast to breast;
And If. day-wl*" love fad<* In night
Come. kiss, and luave to fate the rest
—Charles Lusted.
Coral on the Moon.
In the astronomical periodical Sir
lus. Dr. H. Voight expresses the opin
ion that the so-called craters in the
moon are nothing but coral struc-
tures. If the sea were dry. the earth,
be declares, would present a similar
appearance.
Formic Acid for Fatigue.
In formic acid Dr. Clement of the
French academy of medicine claims
to have discovered a wonderful rem-
edy lor muscular fatigue. He com-
bines It with bicarbonate of soda to
save the stomach from distress.
Doubled Up on Work.
The late Wilhelm Jordan used to
claim that his ability to write as easi-
ly with the left hand as the right was
one of the reasons why he was able
I to do such a vast amount of literary
| ?nd journalistic work
Old Fashion Best.
A Massachusetts man was fined the
other day for kicking a cat. This
would make It appear that the old
bootjack is still the best weapon with
which to get even with a feline of-
fend sr.
Condensing Is Hard Work.
Champ Clark said that before he
began to write hla notification speech
he counted the words In Speaker
Cannon's speech notifying President
Roosevelt. Cannon's speech contained
1 f.86 words. "I concluded that Ij
would not be as long-winded as Uncle
Joe." said Clark, "so I wrote 1.486
words, and. honestly. It was *he hard-1
est work I ever did In my life. A
correspondent of the Ixmdon Times
once sent to that paper a letter five
cowman long and a note to the editor,
sajing: 'I send you a long letter to-
day because I did not have time to
write a short one.' I now understand
the note of the Times' correspond
ent."
Bonus for Coolies.
The Chinese government is to re
cetve £300 a thousand for all the Chi-
nese coolies tL'.pped to the South Af-
rican mines.
Narragansett Turkey (Male).
They are beautiful In form and feathet
and breed true to shape and color
The female Is lighter in her markings
than the male. The weight of the
males runs from 20 to 30 pounds and
of the females 13 to 18 pounds.
An Incubation Experiment.
In the Incubation experiments, 9,tT>
eggs from various sources have bee*
set In the incubators. Of these, 7.20 ,
or 83 per cent., were fertile. Thre*
thousand three hundred and forty
eight, or 4G per cent., of the fertile
eggs were batched. This was 38.6 per
cent of the total number. The
efficiency of hatching under various
conditions ranged from 0 per cent to
84 per cent. These experiments were
planned In the direction of testing the
efficiency of the machines and the In
fluence of moisture and room tempera
ture upon the hatch.—Rhode Island
Station.
It pays to candle eggs unless th<
date of their being laid Is certslnly
known.
Tricyclist of Eighty-Two.
Dr. Harris, who Is 82 years old, has
undertaken to ride a tricycle from
Ixindbn to Edinburgh and back, re-
fraining from meat,tobacco and spir<
ituous liquors during the journey.
Undertaker's Thank Offering.
The bishop of London has received
a subscription of $20 from an under-
taker who described the sift as a
thank offering "because trade has
been so brisk of late."
Many Alcoholic Beverages.
Powerful alcoholic beverages can bo
distilled from bananas, tho milk of
cocoanut. rice and peaa.
Rich Find on English Coast.
Specimens of pure Uipmx have been
found In Cornwall among the rock*
on the seashore.
English the Superior Language.
There are four times as -iany words
In the Kngllsh language ss there are
In the French.
Midnight Sun.
"I'se mighty glad," said the old col-
ored inhabitant, "dat de wori" only
turns 'roun' once in a day. Kase ef
ever hit turned In de nlghttlm* lilt
would er kotched me at many a ben.
oos'."—Atlanta Constitution.
Result of Fool Wager.
English newspapers tell of a laborer
named Samuel Wellington who at-
tempted for a wager to kiss his toe.
In doing so he broke his thigh and
had to be conveyed to a hospital.
Annoying to the Judges.
An English magistrate remarked on
the bench: "I have known some
Judges, when they have formed a the-
ory in a case too early, to be very
much annoyed when the evidence h%*
not fitted with it."
Man and Wife.
Buxton. N. Dak.. Sept. 12 (Special).
^Mr. B. L. Skrlvscth of this place
has been added to the steadily grow-
ing following that Dodd's Kidney
Pills have in this part of the country.
Mr. Skrivseth gives two reasons
for his faith in the Great American
Kidney Cure. The first is that they
cured his wife and the second Is that
they cured himself. ;
"I must w." says Mr. Skrivseth,
"that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the
best remedy for Kidney Trouble I
ever knew. My wife had Kidney Dis-
ease for years and she tried all kinds
of mndictnc from doctors but it did
not help her any. An advertisement
led her to try Dodd's Kidney Pills.
The first box helped her so much
that she took eight boxes more and
now she Is cured.
"1 also took three boxes myself
and they made me feel better and
stronger in every way."
Dodd's Kidney Pills have never yet
failed to cure any kidney disease
from Backache to Rheumatism, Dia
betes or Bright's Disease.
Pronibits Sorcery.
fn the Rhodefian Government Ga-
zette Is published a proclamation pro-
hibiting the practice of sorcery
throughout the territory, Including the
throwing of bones, the use cf charms,
juy mauner of conjuration and trial
by ordeal.
Malta's Chief Industry.
Lacemaking gives employment to
about two-fifths of the population of
Malta. Silk is the chief material used,
but of late years cotton has been much
in demand. The art Is banded dows
from family to family.
Death From Slight AccidenL
While carrying a keg of beer in-
tended for a ricnic In Reading. Pa.
Elmer Kerchoff stumbled over a wire.
The keg slipped so suddenly that the
jar dislocated his neck.
Chinese Name for Port Arthur.
The Chinese name for Port Arthur
was Lushunkow; the town had. twen-
ty years ago. only a few thousand In-
habitants. and was used as a place for
the deportation of srlmlnals.
Pigeon's Long Flight.
One sf a number of homing pigeons
«ent up from Nantes. France, boarded
a ship 1,000 niles at sea.
England's Rural Post.
I^ural postmen ia Bnsland hereafter
will handle parcelr. not exceeding elev-
en pounds in weight
Japan's Population Increases.
The population of Japan increase J
from 33.110.793 In 1872 to 46.304.999 in
189J, and la Increasing rapidly.
WHAT'S THE USE .
To Keep a "Coffee Complexion."
A lady says: "Postum has helped
my complexion so much that my
ft lends say I am growing young again.
My complexion used to be coffee col-
ored, muddy and yellow but It Is now
clear and rosy as when I was a girl,
i was induced to try Postum by a
friend who bad suffered just as I had
suffered from terrible indigestion, pal-
p'tatlon of the heart and Binking
Spells.
"After I had used Postum a week
I was so much better that I was
afraid it would not last. But now
two years h«ve passed and I am a
weil woman I owe It all to leaving
off coffee and drinking Postum in Its
place.
"I had drsnk coffee all my life. I
suspected that It was the cause of my
trouble, but It was not until I actusliy
quit coffee snd started to try Postum
that 1 became certain; then all my
troubles ceased and I am now well
and strong again." Name furnished
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich
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