The Comanche News. (Comanche, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1906 Page: 7 of 8
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E
CUGCilOld
patters
To Glee Gloss to Linen
If a slosh Is desired on linen add a
teaspoonful of salt to the starch when
making
To Remove Onto Odor
k Hub the hands well with a plcee'of
celery after peeling ojilon to remove
the odor
Make Glass flxlores Clean
Clean brass fixtures with cut lemon
Afterward washing with warm water
If you wish your window panes to be
bright and clear use no soap on them
but sprinkle ammonia in the water
with which they are washed If news-
paper is used for drying a polish will
be obtained
A Salad Coarse
A mixture of sliced and sbredded
oranges seeded white grapes thinly
sliced bananas -and pecan meats
dressed with orange and pineapple
Jnlces and heaped orange shells was
served as a salad course at a luncheon
the other day The orange cups stood
on grape leaves which served in place
of dollies on pretty plates
Cooking Boxes
In Norway much progress has been
made in the use of air-tight cooking
boxes in which food that has been
thoroughly heated continues to simmer
till ltte cooked In Germany progress
Is slow Cooks are proverbially con-
servative and do not seem to under-
stand how the snme feathers and wool
that keep people's bodies warm can
prevent the escape of heat stored In
foor by previous exposure to fire
Oatmeal Brown Bread— Mix a pint
cf rolled oats a pint of rollPd wheat
half a pint of granulated yellow corn-
jueal half a pint of whole wheat flour
and one teaspoonful of salt Dissolve
a teaspoonful of blcarbonnte of soda
In two tablespoonfuls of warm water
Add it to half a pint of New Orleans
molasses stir and add this to a pint
of thick sour milk: mix with the dry
ingredients Tour in a greased brown-
bread mould and boll or steam contin-
uously for four hours — Mrs Rorer
India Relish— Chop fine a small bend
of cabbage six onions twelve green
peppers and two quarts of ‘green to-
matoes Sprinkle over them one cupful
of salt and let them stand twenty-four
hours Drain and put the vegetables
in a porcelain lined kettle Barely
cover with vinegar Add half a cupful
of mustard seed half a cupful of sugar
and a tcaspoonful of celery seed Cook
five minutes remove from the fire and
add one tablespoonful of English mus-
tard A half cupful of sugar may be
added if you prefer tbe pickles sweet
Pack in glass cans or a stone jar
Orange Omelet— Grate the rind of
one orange over two tablespoonfuls of
sugar tben pare and cut two oranges
Into thin slices and sprinkle over them
two tableepoonfuls of sugar Beat to
a still froth the whites of five eggs add
the sugar and orange rind a very little
salt tbe beatenyolks of tbe eggs and
three spoonfuls of orange juice Put
two tablespoonfuls of butter into a
hot omelet pan and pour In tbe mix-
ture When it begins to thicken
spread over the sliced oranges turn out
on to a hot dish place In the oven for
couple of minutes and serve Imme-
diately Graham Bread— Scald a pint of milk
add half a pint of water when luke-
warm add one compressed yeast cake
dissolved In half a cupful of water
add a tablespoonful of molasses a level
teaspoouful of salt and sufficient gra-
ham (not fine whole wheat) flour to
make a batter that will drop from a
spoon beat for five minutes cover and
stand In a warm place (seventy-five
degrees Fahrenheit) for three hours
Add and beat in another pint of gra-
ham flour beat well pour into three
greased square pans cover and let
stand for one hour Bake in a mod-
erate oven for three-quarters of aii
hour— Mrs Rorer
Gluten Bread— Scald a pint of flour
when lukewarm add half a cake of
compressed yenst dissolved In a quar-
ter of a cuprul of cold water add half
a tcaspoonful of salt and the whites of
two eggs well beaten stir in slowly
two cupfuls of gluten (whole wheat)
flour beat thoroughly and stund aside
In a warm place (seveuty-flve degrees
Fahrenheit) for threo hours then add
slowly as much flour as tho dough will
hold and enable you to stir it Tour
tho batter In two square greased pans
cover add stand in some warm place
for one and a half hours then bake
in a moderate oven for three-fourths
hour— Mrs Borer
Turkey In Aspic— Remove tho meat
from the turkey enrenss keeping the
dark anil light sepurute uml chop fine-
ly Break the bones nud let them sim-
mer slowly with cold wnter'a hay lent
and a piece of tuace As soon ns the
broth is reduced to l:'lf a pint strain
nud while hot udd a rounding teaspoon-
fill of gelatine which lias been soft-
ened In t little cold water Set aside
until slightly thickened add one cup-
ful of the light meat and another cup-
ful to one cupful of tbe dark meat
Now place the aspic aud light meat
Jn the bottom of a jelly mold and tbe
dark meat and aspic on top When
cold and firm serve with - hot fried
Bweet potatoes
HOW BOGUS GEMS ABE HADE
AN INDUSTRY THAT REQUIRES LARGE
CAPITAL
Skilful Methods ef Turnlag Out Paste DlantondsHcw They
Are Cuttand PollshedCementlnsr Two Small Stones
Into OneRmnufse ture of Imitation Pearls
MO J4 FIE passiou for precious
Jf stones which has relgne-1
O I O iii the mind of men and
X “ It woiueti almost from time
ifOw Immemorial has of course
given rise to much counterfeiting of
tbe more valuable stones says tbe Lon-
don Tit-Bits
All are more or less familiar with the
cheap glass imitations where tbe
worthlessness of tbe article Is so ap-
parent that there Is no suggestion of
fraud Few however realise to what
an extent skilled fraud exists In this
trade more especially on the Conti-
nent where much of tho diamond cut-
ting is done Tbe manufacture of imi-
tation gems of specially prepared glass
Is quite an Important industry
It Is now possible to produce In paste
an imitation of almost every precious
stone which Is capable of deceiving tbe
eyes of all but tbe most expert Not
only Is there a superficial resem-
blance but a skilfully prepared “paste”
stone exhibits the same lustre and
high irnlex of refraction and dispersion
as would a diamond of the first water
The purity of tbe materials employed
is such that an equal degree of clear-
ness and transparency Is given to the
imitation as Is found in the genuine
stone Color 13 imitated also so that
a ruby emerald sapphire or other gem
made of glass Is practically indistin-
guishable from the real jewel which
may have cost hundreds of pounds
The material of which these Imita-
tion stones nr? made Is known us
“s trass” This Is made nccordiug to
different recipes but usually Includes
red lead rock crystal potassium car-
bonate borax and white nrfenlc The
greater the amount of lead used In the
production of the “paste” the greater
will be the brilliancy and play of
prismatic colors in the finished stone
nud at the same time the highest will
be its specific gravity On the other
hand the stone loses in hardness
what it gains in brilliance An old-
time but still serviceable rough nud
ready test for a stone is to see whether
it will scratch or cut wludow glass
which is as a rule harder thau most
Imitation stones'
It must not be imagined that these
close Imitations of the leal diamond
or other stone can be produced cheaply
This’ls far from the case A large cap-
ital is required lu the manufacture
and the high degree of purity necessary
In nil the materials employed necessi-
tates an amount of care and incident-
ally waste which Is exceedingly ex-
pensive Moreover the imitation gems
have to be cut and finished in precisely
the same manner as the real stones
and this Is perhaps the most expens-
ive part of the procedure
Another method of deceiving the un-
wary purchaser of precious stones Is to
palm off on him genuine stones which
have been “faked” In some way to
make them appear more valuable than
they really are A device commonly
practiced is that of - cementing two
stones so that they appear to be one
large one At first sight there does
not seem to be any object in such a
proceeding but diamonds increase very
much in value if they are large For
Instance while £10 would be a very
fair price for a diamond weighing one
carat £150 might be paid for a five-
carat stone of the same water
Eastern jewelers are particularly
skilful In this direction An Indian
dealer will think nothing of selling for
a large sum a beautiful stone which
on examination by an expert proves
to be perhaps only a skilfully pre-
pared piece of bottle glass It Is not
of course claimed that there Is neces-
sarily anything fraudulent in the skil-
ful preparation of Imitation stones to
resemble more valuable gems Many
of tbe most reputable jewelers deal lu
these stones charging a price for
which no one would expect to procure
the genuine article So long as the
customer Is taken Into the jeweler's
confidence there Is nothing to object
to lu the bargain
A yellowish red stone called hya-
cinth atid also tbe blue sapphire lose
their color on being heated and may
then be set as diamonds Similarly
various stones may be colored in such
a manner ns to make them resemble
others of a higher value
A favorite method of preparing prec-
ious stones so as to make them ap-
pear more valuable than they really are
Is by means of the “doublet” This
may be done at the request of s cus-
tomer who whites to make a finer show
thnn he or she would otherwise be
able to do or It may be practiced by
an unscrupulous dealer to deceive tbe
unwary It Is said that a great deal
of this work is done on the Continent
A doublet consists of an tipper part
which Is genuine secured to a lower
part of some less valttnhle stone or of
glass The two parts are cemented to-
gether and ground so as to leave no
trnce of the union The tire of the
genuine portion of the stone is seen
through the Imitation which Is itself
made of some paste with a high degree
of brilliancy If the doublet is secured
by ceuiont the two portions will fall
apart on Immersion in hot water
When the base Is composed of gloss
however it Is usually fused to tbe up-
per and genuine half so that the fraud
le very difficult to detect
Another way jo prepare s doublet is
to make tbe upper portion of rock crys-
tal or lomi ilmllr r transparent ma
terial with a high degree of hardness
and the lower portion of ttuted glass
which seems lo Impart Its color to the
whole This fraud may be readily de-
tected by holding tbe stone to the
light but as It is usually employed In
making up Jewelry with closed settings
the purchaser has no opportunity ol
making this test
Finally colored stones are Imitated
In a particularly Ingenious way by
means of rock crystal grouud to resem-
ble tbe usual appearance of the partic-
ular stone to be Imitated but with a
hollow cavity inside which is filled
with colored water The cavity Is
then closed by means of a plate of
rock crystal skilfully fitted In and
there appears perhaps an exquisite
ruby sapphire emerald or amethyst
very difficult to distinguish from 'the
genuine stone
Every one Is familiar with the pretty
Strings of Imitation pearls which can
now be purchased everywhere Those
are usually made of opaline glass
treated carefully with hydrofluoric
acid and it would not occur to any
one to attempt to pass them off as
anything else Very good imitations
of the genuine pearl are made from
mother-of-pearl also This material is
turned to the required shape nml pol-
ished beautifully w hen it 1ms an ‘ap-
pearance very similar tq that of the
genuine article though an expert can
readily distinguish the imitation pearl
from the real one
Ever since the seventeenth century
beautiful beads closely resembling the
finest Indian pearls have been manu-
factured Glass beads of the required
pattern are first made They are theu
coated inside with a material made
front fish scales and having the'lustre
of the geuulne pearl The bends are
I lion filled up with wax These beau-
tiful imitation pearls are by no means
cheap however This is not surprising
when wo lenra that it takes 20000
fishes to yield one pound of the silvery
white material which Is used to pro-
duce the necessary pearl-like lustre
WARTS
Wlist This Ordinarily Trivial Annoyance
Keally Is
An ordinary wart is a local over-
growth or hypertrophy of the papillary
layer of the skin It may be cpvered
on tbe top with the epithelial layer
which gives It a smooth surface or
the epithelium may fall away and
leave the separate strings showing at
the point of the wart like so many
brown or black seeds — whence the
name of seed wart
Warts of this kind occur most com-
monly on the hands of children They
are caused usually by the Irritation ol
the many sorts of dirt into which the
youngsters’ hands are so constantly
plunged It seems probable that wart
are slightly contagious and that they
may be spread through a schoolful
of children by direct contact
Sometimes warts are quite broad
and flat of a smooth surface and yel-
lowish In color Such occur frequently
about the face aud occasionally alsc
on the bands
Another form of flat wart may com
on the back In the aged It Is broad
Irregular in outline with unever
“seedy” surface and sometimes cov-
ered with greasy scales
Warts vary a good deal In color
Some are Indistinguishable in coloi
from the surrounding skin while oth
ers are pinkish yellowish brown o
even quite black The dark color maj
be due to the deposit of pigment in the
body of the wart but It Is more often
especially in children simply dirt
which has been worked down between
the “seeds Soaking them In warm
soapsuds and scrubbing with the nail-
brush will usually restore the natural
pinkish color Some warts are how-
ever deeply pigmented constituting
true moles These are more common
on tbe sklu of the chest abdomen and
back
A wart Is usually a trivial thing
but Us removal is nevertheless advis-
able Its prominence above the sur-
face exposes It constantly to slight in-
juries which may keep It In s painful
condition It is never an ornament
and’ may be most unsightly and final-
ly In persons getting along lu years
It may take on ucw growth and develop
Into a tuuior
In children warts come and go with-
out apparent reason and treatment is
often unnecessary but if they persist
for a long time or when they come on
the adulr skin It Is better to get rid
of them Homctiuie son king in warm
sea-water for ten minutes two-or three
times a day will cause the wurts to
disappear This can be tried first and
If it fulls and application of salicylic
acid ip collodion or touchlug the wurt
with a drop of glacial nceiie acid on
the end of a match will sullk'c-
Youth's Companion
Willing
A bashful suburban couple sought a
city minister says the Boston Herald
and asked bis aid in getting married
"Very well" said Iho clergyman
“Will you be married with a ring?”
‘Why yes” said the groom hesitat-
ingly “ye-es— If— If you have one handy
I guess wo will”
In most of tbe Japaneao cities there
are young women who earn a living ai
profaaalona! entertainera
NOT QUITE THE USUAL STORY
Wanderer Had Not -Returned to En-
rich Native Town
It waa Old Home week and the re-
turned sons and grandsons bad been
telling with more or lew pride of
the changes time had wrought for
them At last Edward Jameson
spok?:
“I went away from here twenty
years ago a poor young man with
only one solitary dollar In my pocket
I walked the four miles from - my
father’s farm to the station and
there I begged a ride to Boston on a
freight car Last night I drove Into
town behind a spirited pair of horseB
and my purse — guess how much my
purse holds In money to-day besides
a large check” and Mr Jameson look-
ed about him with a brilliant smile
“Fifty dollars!”
“Seventy-five!”
“A hundred!” shouted the botfs
filled with admiration
“No” said Mr JameBon drawing
a large flat purse from his pocket
when the clamor bad subsided “none
of you have gqessed right When I
had paid the twenty-five cents to
Ozzy Boggs for my refreshing drive
in the coach I had besides my trunk
check (which' I retained for financial
reasons) exactly four cents I have
come back my friends to stay Any
little jobs of sawing and splitting will
be gratefully received’’— Youth’s
Companion
Willie’s Dream of Papa
Willie (very seriously) — "Papa I
had a strange dream this morning”
Papa — "Indeed! What was It?”
Willie — "I dreamed papa that I
died and went to heaven and wherf
St Peter met me at the gate instead
of showing nte tho way to the golden
street as I expected he took me out
Into a large field and in the middle
of the field there was s ladder reach-
ing away up Into the sky and out of
sight Then St Peter told me that
heaven was at the top and that In
order to gel there I must take the big
piece of chalk he gave me and slowlj
climb tho ladder wjltlng on each rung
some sin I had committed”
Papa (laying down his newspaper)
— “And did you finally reach heaven
my son?”
Willie — “No papa for just as I was
trying to think of something to' write
on the second rung I looked up and
saw you coming down”
Papa — “And what was I coming
down for?”
Willie — “That's what I asked you
and you told me you were coming for
more chalk” — Judge's Magazine of
Fun 1
Frostbound
When winter’s pulse seems dead beneath
the snow
And has no throb to give
Warm your cold heart at mine beloved
and so
Shall your heart live
For mine Is fire a furnace strong and
red:
Look up Into my eyes:
There shall you see a llame to make the
dead
Take life and rise
My eyes are brown and yours are still
and gray
Still as the frostbound lake
Whose depths are Bleeping In the icy
sway
And will not wake
Soundless they are below the leaden sky
Hound with that silent chain
Tet chains may (all and those that fet-
tered He
May live again
Yes turn away gray eyes you dare not
face
In mine the flame of life
Where frost meets fire 'tla but a little
space
That ends the strife
Then comes the thaw when breaking
from their bands
The swirling floods run free
And you beloved shall stretch your
drowning hands
And ding to me
—Violet Jacob In London Outlook
A Hard Struggle
“Men who wear glasses are not at-
tractive to women’ said the comedian-Joseph
Coyne In a Washington
club “Fat men too rarely please
womankind
“The former fact was forcibly
brought home to me on a railway
Journey recently
“The drawing-room of the car I was
riding In was occupied by a bride and
groom— she very pretty he ugly and-weak-eyed
but a millionaire
“From where I sat It was possible
to overhear a good deal that went
on in the drawing-room This Is one
of the things I overheard:
” ‘Oh George why do you make
faces at me like that?
"‘I can't help It darling My
glasses are falling off - and I don’t
want to let go of your hands
A Billvltle 8moke Incident
“Thar's a cigarette law In this
town” said the Blllvllle marshal "an’
you're violatin' of It”
“I bog your pardon” Bald the drum-
mer but — you don't Want to deprive
a free-born American citizen of his
liberty do you?”
“No” replied the marshal “only of
hts cigarettes You can't smoke ’em
on this depot platform”
“Well will you direct me to where
I may sntoke In peace?”
“Yes” replied the marshal "I'm
pretty certain from 'the looks o’ yon
that you'll smoke hereafter but I
won’t guarantee the peace when the
smoke rises!” — Atlanta Constitution
AH He Knew
“What do you think of this talk
about' evolution?” some oue asked
Brother Dickey
“Eva who?”
'Evolution!’
“Whar do ho live at?”
When the thing was explained to
hli Brother Dickey said:
“I dunno nuttln' ’tall ’bout him Do
oaJy thing In de roun worl' dst I
knows fer ssrtln' Is— heaven Is high
n hell la Hot!”— Atlanta Constltn-tto
QVEEH ABODES
Waldemar Jochelson the Russian
scientist who has recently returned to
the United States fretn Siberia where
he spent two years as head of the
Jesup expedition tells many Interest-
ing things of the maritime Koryaks
living in scattered villages along the
shores south cf the Behring and Okh-
otsk seas A striking and characteris-
tlce phase of Koryak life according
to Mr Jochelson Is their peculiar
hour-glass-llke bouses These are re-
markable subterranean habitations
having a fetid atmosphere almost un-
bearable to the white traveler From
a distance one of the houses has the
appearance of some huge Invert-
ed funnel arising out of a snow-
bank The craterlike top besides
forming a roof Is used as a
general storing place for food and
all sorts of articles It slopes down-
ward to an aperture In v the center
which serves as a smoke hole venti-
lator and passageway below A num-
ber of logs arranged In a circuit sup-
port the framework of the roof the
lower end of which rests on a second-
ary pile of timbers forming the slant-
ing walls of the Interior
For nearly nine months the whole
house is banked and covered up al
OVTDOOH STOUTS Iff EJfGLAJfB
Oxford and Cambridge football Is
never afire with the flaming spirit of
sacrifice and daring which our college
game Inspires In Its champions writes
Ralph D Paine In the Century Foot-
ball In the English student life Is
simply one feature of outdoor play
which draws its thousands also to( the
cricket fields and river The Ameri-
can youth prefers liU kind of football
just as he would scorn the notion of
substituting the placid and tedious
rivalry- of cricket for the swift crisis
compressed with nine sharp Innings
of baseball From his standpoint
something vital is mlssiug from sport
wbero players can find cheerfulness
In defeat and where onlookers arouse
to no more enthusiasm than at a mat-
inee When an American crew is
training for a Henley Invasion or a
track team dares try conclusions with
tho flower of Oxford and Cambridge
it would be rank disloyalty not to-
strain every effort at whatever sacri-
fice to be as fit as possible
On tbe other hand English athletes
have allowed the visitors to beat them
MIffE OF HA
The collecting of rainbow wood is a
comparatively new Industry In Maine
Though the dwellers along the sea-
board have known for years that drift-
wood picked up from the salt water
gave out Iridescent tints when burned
In open grates they attached no value
to the coloring of tbe flames until the
summer visitors came down east and
changed the picking of driftwood from
an occupation akin to Idleness Into a
profitable calling
For five years the whole coast line
of Penobscot bay has been scoured In
quest of wood and when the supply
grew scarce and the prices advanced
from $10 to $25 a cord a Boston chem-
ist grew rich by Inventing a powder
which when burned with dry wood
yielded colors nearly as bright as the
genuine wood from the sea
This fall Emery Bowden a farmer
who sold considerable driftwood in
former years went to the salt mea-
dows at the foot of his field and began
to dig a supply of muck When he
had excavated a hole about ten feet
deep he came to a flooring of great
TAKJffG A CHIffESE OATH
In the Straits Times of Singapore
appears a description of the way Chi-
namen took an oath before giving tes-
timony In a lawsuit “At 2 o'clock”
t says "all the parties were on the
ground behind the courthouse with a
large company of spectators In attend-
ance It had lain with the plaintiff to
provide the fowls and he certainly
had not followed the old scriptural
behest that the sacrificial lamb should
be the sweetest of the flock or the
dove the whitest and plumpest In the
brood Two meager cockerels whose
original color may have been white
but was now a drab gray floundered
on the ground with their legs tied and
beside them lay Joss sticks and little
candles and a murderous-looking
chopper The Interpreter having gone
through the preliminaries one of the
Chlnanten fixed the joss slicks In the
ground and set them afire Then In a
businesslike way he took up the chop-
per and one of the birds and was pre-
paring to cut off Its head upon a loose
brick But the owner of the weapon
ELEGy OF CITy BACKyAHB
th no apologies to anybody except
the CMtt
cm few tolls the midnight from the
tower:
he nlr stirs softly from Its breath-
ing sleep ’
n sinks sguin to rest the mystic
f silence hath the world within Its
keep
a thnt from yonder whitewashed
picket fence
he Tomcat noth unto the moon com-
rhul'hVa whole wild soul In one Im-
Blcep sentle sleep! tired nature's sweet
toll heaven! I —
How shall I woo thee charm thee to
mine eyes?
b that a cut? I think tlieie must be
seven
Or eight with lunqs ot most unusual
slse I
Bleep sentle (blank and biases!! —
where's my gun?
My pantaloons? Where did I by my
socks?
OF SAVAGES
most to the protecting roof with ton
of snow chinked In with frozen earth
and debris This brings the Inmates
at all times about ten feet below tbe
surface Undoubtedly the most as-
tonishing and spectacular feature of
iho Koryak house Is the means of en-
trance The roof Is attained by scal-
ing a narrow spilt log extending down
from the top having boles cut in it
for the feet and hands The Interior
Is reached by descending another per-
pendicular hewn stairway covered
with a’slippery coating of grease and
soot which none but a native can suc-
cessfully accomplish The lnclostire
has a ground floor and is barren of
anything In the shape of furniture
Large copper vessels for cooking
seal and blubber and a kettle used
for melting snow are the chief house-
hold utensl's The diet Is limited al-
most exclusively to fish half-cooked
seal and whale flesh with Russ'an
brick tea as an occasional luxury
Some thirty to forty of both sexes
usually relations Inhabit one dwelling
Small skin sleeping booths some six
feet high by five In width heated by
a lamp In the center are arranged
around the walls Invariably thick
fumes of smoke and soot fill the room
time and again In such events as
hammer-throwing sbotputtlng hurd-
ling and sprinting because these are
specialties demanding carA'ul and In-
telligent -training for first-class
achievement Therefore the young
Briton thinks they are not worth
learning to do very well because the
work Is not worth the cost and there
is po fun in It Of football it is espe-
cially true that the Englishman would
see no sport in a style of game In
jihleh winning form Is to be gained
only by prodigious exertion and a very
martyrdom of training In the ordeal
c I American football are bred splen-
did qualities for manhood and a dis-
cipline which none will decry That
six feet of mighty youth should sob
hi heart out after defeat Is not to
bis discredit and he will ’fight life’s
battles tho better for It He takes hts
sport as he does his business far
more seriously than the Briton and
with a fair field he excels him In both
Yet he can learn front his oousin
across the water that play should not
be all work and that snort can Eoitr-i-:h
tin marred by eligibility squabbles
Iff BOV 7 WOOD
pine trees which had been Imbedded
in the peat for ages
The limbs had rotted away and the
bark and sapwood had gone but the
dry heart of the trees was as sound as
in life Kindling a fire about a Jog of
this wood Bowden found that it gave
out very brilliant hues of indigo and
green
No sooner had he made this discov-
ery than he stopped digging muck and
went to mining rainbow wood He
loaded a schooner with cut wood and
sent It to his Boston patrons tyho
paid him $22 a cord for the cargo
asked for more
Since then Bowden has hired all the
men who are willing to work and is
digging out the trunks In his buried
forest antT selling them at fancy fig-
ures The deposit of pine trees lies
between the clay subsoil and the over-
growth of peat and Is fully six feet in
depth
As the muck bed Is more than a
mile in area Bowden believes he can
sell a half a million cords of wood—
New York Sun
was not going to risk the edge of his
chopper and he fetched a plank of
wood upon which to have the opera-
tion performed
“Then the executioner came down
with a mighty whack upon the poor
complaining cock and Its career was
ended And so with the next one
Then the headless bodies began a
ghastly dance upon the place of their
execution until the muscles stiffened
and they became stark The Chinese
will not eat a fowl which has been
used for the purposes of this oath but
a grinning Indian watchman took pos-
session of the bodies — heads and all
— and no doubt reveled In unwonted
abundance of curried fowl that night
“It was rather Interesting to notice
the haste with which the parties who
had taken the oath cleared off after-
ward If as the Chinese believe the
gods are very touchy upon the sa-
credness of the ceremonial and quick
to pitnlBh Its infractors the men
seemed determined not to run any
chance of summary visitation on the
spot”
tt-lnd h-lud shall greet the rising moor
And phantom walla affright tho crow-
ing vis-ks !
Peace Imae dtsturlier! wouhlst thou rest
III peace?
Horrors! — crescendo doth my prayer
evn'tr'
Now look you Thomas If you do not
cease
Yll semi you stiulghtwuy to the sau-
sage folk!
He steady atm! be true my trusty!—
Hang! ! !
The serenade hath ceased tho frac-
tured air
Reknits Its Butures peace again doth
hang
Her laurels on the fence and pin them
there
EPITAPH
Here reals hts head upon tho backyard
pave —
A ('at to all the neigh tans known too
Well
lined was he — but ho sang! No power
may aava
IIm speeded spirit from tho pits of—
the place where singing eats owl
other nocturnal musicians go wlwk
they get shot
fisbortus Love in Loo Aogeleo Thaos
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Copeland, J. F. The Comanche News. (Comanche, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1906, newspaper, March 16, 1906; Comanche, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1921832/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.