Harrison Gazette. (Gotebo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1906 Page: 6 of 12
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HARRISON GAZETTE. SUPREME COURT AND SOCIETY. THE AIR IN THE SOIL.
O j i'EEO,
OKLA.
Justices Form 3 Permanent Aristoc-
racy at the Capital.
Quito equal in social Importance
with the cabinet and diplomatic
corps is the supreme court, which,
with its nine members appointed for
life, constitutes a permanent aristoc-
racy which sees administrations come
and go with an indifference that some-
times is described as dignity and
IvJiiW fcJTATL NEW3
The South McAlester bar has en
dorsed Judge W. H. H. Clayton iov
tHa judgeship of the eastern district
of Oklahoma.
r-ari T~ ~ widower, all the members of the pres-
Ho^^ tV i , Charles ent court are married, thus making
a'ia_qRP* r k° a 6rS 8X111 Dear Ta' nine iml)ortant households to consider
anassee. Both are negroes. The trou- in making up a calendar of official so-
ble arose over the attempted settlo- ciety.
Important Part It Plays in Makin®
Plant Food Available.
There is a soil atmosphere as cer-
tainly as there is an atmosphere above
the surface of the soil. This is not
generally understood. It is imagined
that no air penetrates the soil be-
cause a person could be smothered
in the soil, it is not that there is no
air in the soil that a person smothers,
Wireless Telegraph
Plant Operated by Boys
— 'cd . — a pci ouu s
sometimes as disdain. With the ex- but because that air is not in mo-
option of the chief justice, who is a J tion sufficient to supply the lungs
with the large amount of oxygen re-
quired every minute. The soil of the
earth is full of air as certainly as the
waters of the ocean are full of air;'
ment of a civil suit In which the dead
man was the plaintiff and Locke the
defendant.
Press reports from Guthrie announce
that H. 13. Spaulding of Muskogee and
J. J. McAlester of McAlester have
withdrawn from the race for the dem-
ocratic nomination for governor. This
leaves Lee Cruce of Ardmore, Dr.
Fite of Muskogee. R. L. Williams of
Durant and Dr. M. A. Kelso of Enid.
Supervisor E. f. Morlssey, of the
Wichita Mountain National park, has
received a large consignment of fish
of several varieties from the depart-
ment with which to stock the streams
within the park.
a McAlester dispatch says that H.
S. Cohn has sued Marshal Pritchard
and his deputies and bond3men and
special Indian agents for $78,000 for
trespass, damages and false Imprison-
ment and destruction of property.
The deputies broke into his place and
destroyed a stock of drinks known as
"long horn."
The number of young people in this
particular circle has been considerably
reduced since last season, no less than
which is breathed by the living things
jin the sea by means of appliances es-
pecially adapted to that purpose. The
linsects and worms deep in the ground
In Newport, R. I., are two wirelese
telegraph plants owned and oper-
ated by boys, which are perhaps the
most complete amateur plants In the
country. They belong to Lloyd Man-
uel, who has his plant at his home on
Third street, and Henry Rooney,
whose apparatus is situated on Mt.
Vernon street.
Both boys receive and send mes-
sages, but are particularly busy in re-
ceiving the many messages that are
sent to the wireless station at the
naval torpedo station. At times the
operators at the torpedo station talk
with the boy operators at Newport,
tacle containing acid, to which it is
fastened by means of a screw ad-
justment. Another tunning coil ia
used, similar to the one used in send-
ing, but in this coil there are many
more turns of wire. A sliding con-
tact is employed, and in this manner
any part of the coil can be used.
A receiver, attached to the head,
similar to the ones used by telephone
operators, is used. The sliding con-
tact is then moved up and down un-
til the apparatus responds.
The general aim of all experiment-
ers in the field of wireless telegraphy
at the present time is to discover a
—iicoa iuau vrwiuiO UCC]J 111 U1 ti grUllIlU
four "supreme court" girls having been breathe air and live by so doing.
married sinpo tho no^lv enrln cr TKn EvPrvthln V to full n i_ .1 a „ _i
The Apaches recently received $20-
000 from the sale of cattle by the
military reservation. This is the
firBt big sale of Apache cattle made
in some time, the cattle having been
held on account of the prevailing low
prices.
It Is estimated by the Stillwater
Progress that the cotton crop of
Payne county will bring over a mil-
lion dollars this year, or $50 apiece for
every man, woman and child in the
county. This is more than the per
capita circulation of the United
States.
married since the early spring. The
last of this quartette was Miss Fannie
Fuller, youngest of the chief justice's
seven daughters, who surprised her
friends by a hasty return to town last
July, when her marriage to Dr. Robert
Mason, a young physician of Washing-
ton, took place at the Fuller home, in
F street, without the formality of any
cards of invitation and without the
presence of the bride's distinguished
father. If, as has been hinted, this
last Fuller romance was against the
wish of the chief justice, who finds it
easier to preside over the highest tri-
bunal of the land than to direct a
household of daughters, all has been
forgiven the youthful bride, who is
radiantly hapfry in a modest flat on
Nineteenth street, where she enjoys
complete immunity from the duties as
well as honors that were hers in her
father's home. Dr. Mason is a Virgin-
ian of the Virginians, a grandnephew
of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and extremely
popular in society, but not blessed
with any fortune beyond his profes-
sional income.
EXPERTS IN CULINARY ART.
<Vlves of Cabinet Members Have Se-
cret of Appetizing Dishes.
The Rural Telephone company of
Cherokee has sent an invitation to
all rural phone companies of Woods
county to meet in Carmen to form a
county association. The end sought is
to improve and form a county combi-
nation.
Will Powell, a boy sixteen years
old, was shot and killed at Tahlequah
by John Sharp, city marshal of that
town and an ex-member of the Chero
kee legislature. The slaying of the
lad has caused intense excitement as
it is alleged that Sharp was drunk and
that the murder was unprovoked.
L. F. Rea. district manager of the
Pionee Telephone co. ipanv, with head-
quarters at Shawnee, has resigned, to
take effect tomorrow. His successor
has not yet been named. E. E. Wes-
terveit, vice president and manager,
has agreed that the raise in rates
shall not take place until January L
3907.
Women of the cabinet set are na-
turally proud of their housewifely ac-
complishments, and it is not unusual
for them to send samples of their skill
to Mrs. Roosevelt and others in the
high realms of society. Mrs. Cortel-
you at present holds the record for the
best custard pie, and happy is the host-
ess who can secure one of these un-
buyable creations for her informal'
luncheons. The Cortelyou pies figure
often on the White House board and
frequently the president entice3 his
postmaster general to remain for
luncheon by saying they are going to
have one of Mrs. Cortelyou's pies.
Mrs. Shaw is one of the few women
in the high official set who can make
good bread. Indeed, Mrs. Shaw would
feel that her days of usefulness were
over if bakers' bread were served in
her house. Mrs. Root is a fine house-
keeper and is noted for her practical
knowledge on all subjects, culinary,
economic and sanitary.
Mrs. Taft, as becomes a daughter of
that home-loving city of Cincinnati, is
skillful in domestic lore and is a fine
cook. Should her cook serve her as Sen-
ator Clark's did last year, desert her
at five with a dinner party at eight,
she could descend to the lower regions
and cook a full course banquet her
self.
The ownership of Banitarium stock,
which was one of the chief sources
of scandal in connection with the Cap-
itol National bank failure at Guthrie,
seems also to have involved the Citi-
zens' bank failure at Enid. The bank-
ruptcy case of H. H. Watkins, cash-
ier of that bank, has been appealed
from Judge Mackay, special referee,
to the Garfield county district coflrt.
The chief question involved is wheth-
er the sanitarium stock was the prop-
erty of the bank or or Watkins Indi-
vidually.
Place aux Dames!
in the executive departments in
Washington, where the business of
the governmtent is carried on, there
is no belief in the Osier theory, as
far as the woman clerks are con-
cerned. Several of the most valued
ones working for the secretary of
state passed three-score and ten long,
ago. Mrs. Eliza Gndley, mother of
the man who commanded the Olympia
at the battle of Manila, is almost 80,
yet she holds a most responsible po^
sition in the general land office and
knows more abojtf records and land
law than any six clerks in the depart-
ment. Miss Mason, who is nearing
Everything is full of air down to the
solid rock. It is this soil atmosphere
that supplies nitrogen to the minute
plants on the roots of other plants,
that it may be made over into a kind
of nitrogen that the plants can feed
upon. The amount of air in the soli
Is surprising in its quantity, says the
Farmers' Review. It is not small, as
might be supposed, but very large.
One-half of a cubic foot of soil is air
space. The soil particles in a foot of
earth of average texture have a sur-
face of over three acres. We see,
then, how it is that the soil warms up
quickly if it is well drained. The air
in the soil readily transmits the heat
rays. That air should be In the soil
is very necessary, and its presence
should be encouraged by draining the
soil so as to keep out water. The
presence of water in the soil is the
greatest detriment to the presence of
air, as the amount of air in water is
very small compared with the propor-
tion of air in the soil, in which the
only water is the film water surround-
ing the soil particles. Most plants,
that are useful on the farm cannot
grow with as little air as they can get
out of water, but there are some that
can. Such, however, are the marsh
grasses and forms of vegetation that
we call semi-aquatic. Even the aquatic
grasses use air, but only in small
quantities, which they are prepared
to draw from the water. We under-
stand but little as yet about the use
of air plants and what plants require
more and what less air, or what
plants are adapted to get their air
from the water and what from the
land. We merely say that this plant
or that plant is injured by the wet. If
a man is devoting his farm to the
growing of plants that need much air
in their feeding operations, he must
see to it that the soil is so free from
water that the roots of the plants can
find free air and can take their water
only In the form of the film that sur-
rounds the soil particles. This con-
sideration should lead to much more
perfect drainage than we now have on
most farms. If the drainage is only
fair the water will remain about the
roots of the growing plants for days,
and during that time the growth of
the plants will be at a standstill. Too
much water will therefore sometimes
extend the growing season of the corn
plant till it Is caught by the frost, be-
cause the plant has lost time and had
to stand still for days in its develop-
ment.
The House Used
HANGING SEED CORN.
A Good Place Is on Nails in Joists
of Barn.
Here is a method of hanging seed
corn to the joists in the barn. Nails
are driven into the Joists at a distance
of three or four inches apart. Each
ear is hung to a nail either by a string
attached to a nail driven into the end
— *• ut-aring
Theodore Gulick, secretary of the the 8ame a®e- 18 a P,Ilar of strength to
nsUncroA >i..l « _ « cppl/prc fnr information U * i. ^ m
Muskogee Commercial club, has left
for Washington, where he will at-
tend the rivers and harbors' conven-
tion and see that Muskogee is not
overlooked.
REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS.
seekers for Information in the library
of war records. She is the daughter
of a former minister to France. In
the department of justice are women
j nearing 70, some of them wives and,
daughters of former judges, who work
| faithfully and intelligently and who
! are prized more highly than the friv-
I olous younger women who compose
I the greater working mass in the de-
j partments.
and the navy men, both enlisted men
and officers, are much interested in
the work of the amateurs.
Last winter Charles Fielding, a mes-
senger boy employed by the Postal
telegraph company, constructed a
wireless station and sent and received
messages. So interested did Com-
mander Albert Gleaves of the torpedo
station become in the apparatus and
work of the messenger boy that he
visited the improvised station at
Fielding's home, with the result that
Filding was enlisted in the navy,
though two years under the age limit.'
This last act was waived, as the navy
was anxious to have the services of
the young expert. Commander
Gleaves made a full report of Field-
ing's apparatus to the navy depart-
ment. Fielding is now an electrician
in the navy, and is stationed at the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Manuel and Rooney spend prac-
tically all their spare time working
and experimenting with their outfits,
and have made several improvements
and additions to their first rather
crude apparatus.
In the part of the apparatus which
is used for sending messages, a con-
denser and a tunning coil are used.
This is a brass wire connected with
the aerial and to the instrument itself
by means of leads or chips, which are
adjustable. The length of the wave
is regulated with this apparatus by
moving the chips in either an upward
or downward direction. After ascer-
taining precisely the right position for
a certain station, it is an easy matter
to keep this in mind, and no further
trouble is experienced. Though other
stations than the one they are call-
ing may receive the message, it is
heard most distinctly by the station
to which the apparatus Is adjusted.
The greatest improvement over the
earlier instrument is In the wave de-
tector. Two pieceB of carbon, with an
ordinary needle placed across them,
was the way in which the first de^
tector was made. Now the boys use
an electro-lytic receiver. This con-
Wireless Experiments.
selective system of transmitting me
sages. This is a system whereby it
will be possible to transmit messages
from one point to another without
outside stations being able to inter-
fere or "butt in."
This latter is now the greatest de-
fect in wireless telegraphing, as other
stations than the one intended get the
message. Of course, these may not
understand the message If it Is sent in
a code, but they are able to bother the
sender and receiver to a greater or
less extent.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
L
Mother—Now, can you tell me Id
which of his battles Gen. Wolfe was
killed?
Son and Heir—In his last, wasn't it'
—Scraps.
bedtime.
Whetiveec7yhiP"P00r"Wl11 beglns his pIain-
And the sky^ 8hade" are draWn acros*
Then will children soon be sleeping
Tifp°r irtU8o ^ the 8tars come PePPelng
The old Sandman goes a-creeplng by. '
His Oversight.
The husband and father was look-
^ over the wallpaper hanger's bill
Joha," exclaimed his wife, "you
Siren r* SUCh language before th
sists of a hair like platinum" wire I "Seld^hl Mar,a'" he said,
which is partly contained In a recep! I -Chicago Tribune. ^ °f *** r°°m "
Senatorial Committee Will Favor It In
Report to Congress.
WASHINGTON: Senator Clark
chairman of the Indian Territory In- I New Britiah Amha.. .
™Vrans,er 01
British minister at Tangier, to the
they would recommend that restric-
tions be removed from Indian lands.
He regards the testimony taken as
conclusive that Joint laws and regu-
lations would be embarrassing to com-
panies in the new state. He fkvors
allowing the sale of Choctaw and
Chickasha agrlcultuial and mining
post of ambassador at Washington.
will be eminently satisfactory to all'
who remember the gentleman when
he was secretary of the embassy un-
der Lord Pauncefote and his suc-
cessor. Objection is made in England
- . to the appointment because Lowther , . , - - —.
lands, but says the committee is not I is married to an American formerlv , CTOp't T®88 of thls Dlant fo°d will be
• uite decided*whether the tw0 should > Miss Alice Blight, of Ph'iladelnhia. fe<>uIrf^ when there is a large propor-
be sold together or separately. I But we recently had as Spanish am- ' th* *°l"
bassador. the Dude de Arcos, likewise-
wedded to an American woman. In-'
deed, the British ambassador who pre-'
ceded Sir Mortimer Durand had a
similar matrimonial tie
Hanging Seed Corn in the Barn.
Df the ear or by one or two husks. „
placed where there is plenty of venti-
, lation, says Prairie Farmer, this
method of drying corn is reported to
he very satisfactory where the corn is
selected early and given a chance to
dry out during fall weather.
I As to 8oil.
There must be certain amounts of
I potash, nitrogen and phosphoric acid
in a soil before It can yield a fair
crop. Less of this plant food will be
be sold together or separately.
He thinks the maximum value of
these lands is $1 aa acre upon tho
probability that the government would
purchase the lands.
"The Fruit-tree Leaf-roller" is the
name of Bulletin No. 71, issued by the
Missouri Experiment Station, Colum-
\ bia. Mo. Write there for a copy
CANNON BALL.
s
The Cannon and Targets.
Measuring the velocity or a cannon
ball may seem to be a difficult matter
but It is really one of the simplest of
scientific problems. The accompany-
ing diagram shows the whole thins
plainly.
Somewhere in the path of the pro-
jectile are placed two wire screens
marked C and D, each formed of a
simple frame, across which a wire
runs back and forth, forming part of
an electric battery circuit in which an
accurate timepiece, T, Is also inter-
posed.
As the projectile, on being fired
from the gun. passes through the
screen C, the circuit of which It is
a part is broken and the clockwork is
started, the index originally pointing
to zero. On passing through the other
screen, D. the projectile Interrupts the
second circuit, with the effect of in-
stantly bringing the clock mechanism
to a stop.
Knowing, then, the exact distance
between the two screens, usually sev-
eral hundred feet. It follows that by di-
viding it by the number of seconds o?
fractions of a second marked on the
clock dial, representing the time tha*
has elapsed during the passage of the
projectile from screen C to screen D
we obtain the number of feet per sec-
ond that the projectile was traveling
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