The Carwile Journal. (Carwile, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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Mrs W T COWUILIj
Editor
CAltWILE WOODS CO O T FRIDAY JUNE 29 1000
V01jII NO 45
"Jim” said Mr Perkins to his of-
fice boy "put on some more coal"
"Yes sir"
"And do you hear? Take this pack-
et of papers around to Penn & Ink's
and ask ’em what they mean by send-
ing me such a blotted piece of work”
“Yes sir” said Jim evidently pre-
ferring the snow-freighted air and
slippery Bldewalks of the outer world
to the close little law office darted off
like an arrow out of a bow
Mr Perkins took out a fresh bundle
of quill pens and a quire of legal fools-
cap and began to work In good earn-
est when all of a sudden a tap came
to his office door
"Come in" said Mr Perkins In a
voice that sounded considerably more
like "Clear out” and a young lady
entered dressed In a currant-colored
merino with a little plumed hat and
a neat looking flat satchel on her arm
"I haven’t anything to give” said
Mr Perkins sternly
The young lady sat down uninvited
and then Mr Perkins saw that she was
pretty
“I was not begging sir” she said
"May I ask then what was your
business?" Vald Mr Perkins more
frigidly than ever
- The young lady took a parcel from
her bag
"I don’t want to buy anything” said
Mr Perkins
“I am not selling sir” Bald the
lady
"Please explain your business at
once” he said tartly "1 have no
time to spare”
"Please allow me to do so then”
said the young lady "I was soliciting
subscriptions for — ”
"I don’t want to subscribe” hastily
Interrupted Mr Perkins
"How do you know whether you do
r not ” ImnlMil v“ " ’“A with
soma spirit until you have seen ino
work at least?”
Mr Perkins smiled a little She was
brusque but he didn’t altogether dis-
like that And besides she was de-
cidedly original
“Because there have been at lea3t
three of your craft before you this
morning” said he "all selling ‘Illus-
trated Lives of Great Men’ "
“But mine Is quite different Mine 13
‘Careers of Famous Women’ with
steel plate engravings" persisted the
young ladv
“Your business la overcrowded”
said Mr FerlUns "No you needn’t
take the tXla to Bhow me the book
Why don’t you do something else?”
“Will you tell me what?” said the
young lady despairingly "Will you
help me to get anything whereby 1
may support myself?”
"Can you write a clear and legible
hand?” Mr Perkins asked
The young lady Bat boldly down at a
desk by the chimney-piece
"I’ll show you what I can do” said
she
Mr Perkins looked over her shoul-
der as she wrote in a quaint distinct
style the words:
"jviy name Is Amy Archdale and I
want to earn my own living”
Mr Perkins looked meditatlngly at
her for a second or two
"I should think you might teach”
said he
"I did try It” said Miss Archdals
“I was governess In a private family”
“And why did you give It up ”
"Is this a catechism?” said Miss
Amy smiling "Well I have no objec-
tion to answering Do you want me to
tell you the plain truth?”
"Certainly"
"Well then It was because my lady
employer did not like to have her
grownup son address me with common
politeness Perhaps she thought I was
endeavoring to fascinate him but she
was entirely mistaken”
“0!” said Mr Perkins "Please
write down your address”
“Are you really going to give me
some copying to do?” she asked eag-
erly "I’m going to try you”
And so Miss Amy Archdale walked
oft with a red-iape-tied parcel of pa-
pers under her shawl
"If she does them well and prompt-
ly" said Mr Perkins In a sort of men-
tal soliloquy “there’s no reason I can't
let her have some more work If she
doesn't It won't be the first case of
feminine swindling In New York But
she had a pretty Innocent little face
too — hang it I’ve half a mind to go to
her address on the sly and see U she
really is a deserving object of— charity
I was going to say But It Isn’t She
wants work not alms There’s always
Rnnipbodjr wanting something In this
great chattering Bedlam of a city of
ours” added Mr Perkins Irately as
be drove off two match boys an apple
girl and a vender of pins and shoe-
strings from his doorstep
She brought the folios next day
neat legible and without blot or era-
sure and Mr Perkins gave her &ome
more work
"You needn’t bring It” said he “I
—I have business that way and I’ll
call for it myself”
“We haven’t seen your Uncle Elisha
lately dear” said Mrs Molyneux Mar-
tin to her eldest daughter "Kate
must work a penwiper for him and
you must embroider him a pair of slip-
pers It won't do to let him lose sight
of his nearest relatives"
"Ma” said Miss Katherine "It's a
pity you discharged Miss Archdale so
suddenly because she was so handy at
fancy work”
ja added Edith Rosa-
belle "it really and truly wasn’t her
fault because Walter chose to make
eyes at her!"
"Don’t use such vulgar expressions
my dear” said the mamma "She was
a pert bold faced thing and would
have eloped with your dear brother
if she had remained In the house an-
other week And I told her so pretty
plainly too Who’s that? The post-
man? Give the letter at once Edith
Rosabelle!"
"Somebody has sent us wedding
cards” said the youngest hopeful of
the family of Molyneux Martin "Open
it mamma quick and let U3 see
whom they are from”
Mrs Molyneux Martin tore open the
envelope and giving one glance at its
contents fell backward with a hys-
terical scream
"Elisha rerkins!” she shrieked
"Giri3 it’s your uncle Alas! my poor
disinherited pets!”
For Mrs Molyneux Martin had edu-
cated her daughters In the full belief
that each and every one of them was
to be an heiress in the right of Uncle
Elisha Perkins’ money
"But mamma who’s the bride?
Whom has be married? You don’t tell
U3 the name” persisted Katherine
who was endowed with a goodly spice
of Mother Eve’s bequest
"I don’t know! I don’t care!”
screamed Mrs Molyneux Martin tap-
ping the soles of her slippered feet on
the carpet in a way that threatened a
yet more violent attack of hysterics
"Pick up the cards Kathie and
look" urged Edith Rosabelle
"Amy Archdale!" she read aloud
"Why ma it’s the governess you dis-
charged! It’s our Miss Archdale!”
“The old fool!” shrieked Mrs Moly-
neux Martin "To go and marry a
girl young enough to be his grand-
daughter! Well that caps the cli-
max!” "You forgot ma” said Edith Rosa-
belle “Uncle Elisha’s only two years
older than you are I heard you say
so lots of times"
"Hold your tongue you ungrateful
undutlful daughter” ejaculated Mrs
Molyneux Martin "I’ll never speak
to him again
But she did Sober second thoughts
convinced her that It was better to
submit to the Inevitable — and she was
one of the first to call on Mr and Mrs
Elisha Perkins In the elegant brown
stone house that the lawyer bought
and furnished for his bride
And perhaps one of the most trium-
phant moments of Amy Archdale's life
was that In which she extended a gra-
cious and patronizing greeting to the
woman who had turned net out of
doors scarcely three months before
"Things do balance themsels even-
ly In this world if one only has the
patience to wait!” she said to h- r hus-
band — Cleveland Plain Dealer’
OLD RIVER MAN
Will Float a Flatboat Down tb Treach-
erous Yellowatone V
Livingston (Mont) Correspondence
Chicago Inter Ocean: An attempt is
being made to navlgite the Yellow-
stone River from this ity to the Mis-
souri and thence to Si Louis with a
craft that will carry bout 100 tons
of freight Livingston hay be said to
be at the head of even canoe naviga-
tion on the Yellowstone River and
this is the first attempt la history to
navigate the stream with anything
approaching a boat Many attempts
have been made in the past to float
down the river with skiffs but they
have been uniformly unsuccessful and
each summer adds to the list of vic-
tims claimed by the river from those
who have been foolhardy enough to
make the trial The Yellowstone Joins
the Missouri at Fort Buford about 600
miles northeast of this city and for
about half tha distance flows through
a succession of canyons and at short
Intervals below this city breaks Into
rapids extremely dangerous and diffi-
cult of navigation even for a skiff
An old Mississippi River flatboat-
man named H C Sharpless last wl?
ter announced his intention of con-
structing a flatboat loading it with
bones petrified wood and other fhr
western curiosities and with the first
sign of high water In the spring float-
ing down the river He had had his
craft ready for the trip at her dock
at the foot of Lewis street with a par-
tial cargo amounting to perhaps 50
tons for the last ten day3 waiting for
the snows In the mountains to make
their presence known in the river'
The looked-for flood having arrived
the Saragossa as he calls his vessel
weighed anchor to-day and started on
its 3000 miles Journey to St Louis
where Capt Sharpless expects to dis-
pose ot his cargo of bones etc If the
craft meets vith no mishap It Is ex-
pected to arrive in St Louis some time
this fall
A Queer 8trlke
Labor day seems to be t time for
general resort to the strike rs a means
There are strikes and striles— striaes
for cause strikes without cause and
strikes because But the nost unique
strike on record occurred ia Brooklyn
last week Joseph Brecht had worked
In the Haveraeyer sugar refinery for
sixteen years at $1250 a veek He was
promoted to be superintendent at an
advanced salary and he struck He
positively declined promoiion He was
given a week to consider the matter
but still held out Another week was
given him hut as he remained obdur-
ate he was informed j that the firm
needed him as superinlendent and un-
less he accepted the position he would
bo discharged Thqeupon Brecht
committed suicide He preferred
death to promotion Perhaps this is
not the only instance of a strike being
suicidal but the case of Brecht points
a moral It is said that Brecht was
tho only man among me thousands
employed In the establishment who
was competent to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the former su-
perintendent He did no’ want the
position Th position sought him be-
cause he had made himself necessary
to the firm H was the one man In
a thousand whose attention to duty
had qualified him for the superintend-
ency The offer was a simple matter
of business There was no sentiment
In It The firm needed Brecht In that
particular position It was to their
interest to have him there It was
also to his interest to te there but he
objected The moral of this Is that
many men seek places or advancement
who are Incompetent and they think
the times are out of joint when they
do not get either When the place
seeks the man It Is because he has de-
voted his time to something beside
just earning his wages — Pennsylva-
nia Grit
The MhUtllnit Tree
The musical or whistling tree is a
native of the West Indies Nubia and
the Sudan It possesses a peculiar-
shaped leaf and pod3 with a split or
broken edge The wind passing
through these causes the sound which
gives to the tree the name of "whist-
ler” In Barbados there is a valley
filled with trees of this chiracter and
when the trade winda blow across the
islands a constant moaning deep-toned
whistle is heard from it A species of
acacia which grows very abundantly
in the Sudan is also called the whist-
ling tree by the natives
The Black Death
DEADLY INVASIONS OP TllC
BUBONIC PLAGUE
Owing to the prevalence of the
dreaded bubonic plague in Honolulu
and its reported visitation to San
Francisco a few statistics relative to
this most deadly of diseases will be of
current Interest It is found in Its
worst stages in lands like India and
China where the natives live in squa-
lor and filth and the meanest of habi-
tations In those countries the people
are unclean in their personal habits
the very soil becoming saturated with
filth and the utter lack of sanitation of
even the crudest kind Invites the dead-
ly plague It Is amid the poor that
the disease thrives where the people's
bodies weakened and emaciated by
lack of proper food present an easy
target for this fatal black death
Under the conditions obtaining In
the orient the bubonic plague Is the
most virulent and deadly of diseases
The symptoms manifest themselves In
from twelve hours to twelve days after
the system absorbs the disease The
crisis Is reached In from two to eight
days generally In forty-eight hours If
life can be prolonged for five or six
days the chances of successful treat-
ment are greatly Increased As a rule
however little can be done to save the
victims A few of the well-nourished
ones escape of the rest death claims
an average of from 50 to 100 per cent
of the total number of cases This
fearful mortality is best shown In the
following figures furnished by Surgeon-General
Wyman of the 'United
States army: Bombay cases 220907
deaths 164083 Hongkong cases 1600
deaths 1541 Formosa cases 2468
deaths 1866 Strangely enough this
death rate varies greatly according to
nationalities From statlctics obtained
during the prevalence of the plague In
Hongkong the following official show-
ing Is made the percentage being based
on the total number of cases reported:
Chinese 93 deaths out of every 100
persons attacked with the disease
East Indns 77 out of every 100 Jap-
anese 60 Eurasians 100 Europeans
18 This small relative percentage of
mortality among Europeans Is attrib-
uted to better blood and stamina and
to the success of treatment in the early
stages of the disease the intelligence of
the European leading him to call In a
physician at the first sign of trouble
while the ignorance and prejudice of
the orientals prompt them to conceal
themselves and reject medical aid
Medical scientists have determined
that bubonic plague may be contracted
in three ways — by inoculation through
an external wound or abrasion by
respiration (breathing air laden with
the plague germs and by introduction
into the stomach of food or water that
has become infected Contrary to the
general belief the disease is not Infec-
tious or contagious In the ordinary
manner A person might even sleep in
a bed occupied by a plague victim or
wear clothing taken from his body and
yet escape infection provided there
were no wounds or abrasions on the
skin In which the disease germs could
get lodgment Even the breath of a
patient Is not necessarily poisonous
the greatest source of danger being in
the discharges from the swellings All
this being granted the question will
naturally arise Why then should the
disease rage so among the orientals?
The assertion that the plague is not
usually infectious or contagious in the
ordinary way applies only to peoples
who are ordinarily cleanly In their
habits To those acquainted with the
oriental no further explanation is
necessary Once the plague gets a
foothold among East Indians or Chin-
ese coolies it is almost Impossible to
check it except with the extermina-
tion of the population affected Rus-
sia has adopted heroic methods in
dealing with the plague in Its Chinese
colonies All those affected are taken
out and shot ’’It saves trouble and
other people's lives” the Russian grim-
ly remarks The conditions of envir-
onment favoring the plague are sim-
ilar to those that encourage typhus
fever mainly density of population
bad ventilation and drainage Impure
water and Inattention to sanitary re-
quirements The most notable visitations of the
nlague of which there are records are
these: The plague prevailed In Athens
In 432-429 B C and reappeared 19
months after it was thought to hare
been stamped out In the third cen-
tury B C the plague swept away
countless numbers In Egypt Livy
records a great plague that destroyed
millions in various parts of Africa la
the third century B C In 1842 A Di
the plague spread over Egypt and
reached Constantinople where 10000
died In a day In the same century It
ravaged Italy and Northern Africa In
the seventh century the plague Invaded
England and claimed scores of vic-
tims In 1270 It appeared In Cairo and
Constantinople spread and became
epedemlc In the fourteenth centurj
the pestilence came from Arabia and
Awept Egypt Armenia Asia Minor
Northern Africa and nearly all
Europe Hecter the historian esti-
mates that It claimed 25000000 vic-
tims In Europe during the century In
1466 40000 died from the plague In
Western Europe In 1572 pestilence
swept away 50000 people In and near
Lyons and in 1576 more than 70000
died In and around Venice In 1646
the plague depopulated Naples claim-
ing 300000 victims in fire months In
1654-55 London suffered ravages by the
pestilence and 100000 died In 1720
one-third' of the people of Marseilles
died and the following year 88000
died in Toulon and the whole of prov-
ince In 1743 nearly 50000 died in
Messina In 1771 the plague de-
stroyed 50000 lives In Moscow In
1835 Cairo again was visited by the
plague and one-fifth of the people died
The bubonic plague Dr Wyman as-
serts is the same old plague that for
centuries past has made its appearance
at Intervals In various countries and
which has been known in turn as the
Levantine Oriental black plague and
black death Of late years with the
advance of civilization and the adop-
tion of Intelligent systems of hygiens
sanitation quarantine and medical
treatment the field of the plague has
been narrowed year by year until now
it is almost exclusively confined tc
countries like India and China where
the conditions are always inviting foi
an epidemic
Invalid Diet
The housekeeper who can make
meals attractive at all times and the
act of sitting down to them a pleas-
ure to be anticipated as well as real-
ized has reached a high stage of ex-
cellence and if she can go further than
this and make an Invalid's diet as
tempting as it may be nutritious she
has won one of the finest diplomas It
is an unfortunate fact that Invalid diet
is usually plain to monotony patients
complain that everything which is
worth eating Is denied to them and
often there is much truth in their as-
sertion Milk and beef tea gain a
reputation that is by no means credit-
able because they form the staple re-
sources on which the nurse relies and
for weeks together appear with pain-
ful regularity Too often both nurse
and housekeeper forget that the two
essential elements of invalid diet nec-
essary to insure the food itself fulfill-
ing its share of the treatment speci-
fied are surprise and daintiness If
these elements are left out or over-
looked there is small chance for the
food to be of much benefit whatever
its own Intrinsic worth may be
Einbarnutalng
When the new minister a handsome
and unmarried man made his hrst
pastoral call at the Fosdicks he took
little Anna up In his arms and tried
to kiss her But the child refused to
be kissed she struggled loose and ran
off Into the next room where her
mother was putting a few finishing
touches to her adornment before go-
ing into the parlor to greet the clergy-
man "Mamma” the little girl whis-
pered "the man In the parlor wanted
me to kiss him” “Well" replied
mamma “why didn't you let him? I
would If I were you Thereupon Anna
ran back Into the parlor und the min-
ister asked: “Well little lady won':
you kiss me now?" "No I won’t”
replied Anna promptly "but mamma
aays she will”— Harper’s Bazar
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Cowgill, Mrs. W. T. The Carwile Journal. (Carwile, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1900, newspaper, June 29, 1900; Carwile, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1841391/m1/1/?q=%22United+States%22: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.