The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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The Guymon Herald.
It B. QUINN. Publisher.
§l'YMO>\ I I OKLAHOMA
Electricity at the Pole.
The north p"le has managed so far to
keep out of the march of progress. but
the plot I* certainly thickening Walter
Weilman la after It—or say* he will be—
with an airship. Balloons have had a
shy at It Somebody will be Making out
«n automobile course. Anthony Flats,
In his story in McClure'#, gives one'4
ideas of life amid Greenland's Icy moun-
tains an incidental jolt as follows 'A
well-tramped trail led over the Ice of
the bay from the ship, and on the wire
Imbedded In the snow that conveyed
the electric current Engineer Haril and
Electrician Vedoe had cut lu three In-
candescent lights. The lights were
mounted on bamboo poles stuck In th>-'
snow about 1,000 feet apart. Another
electric light burued at the gangway of
the ship. On windy days wbtu vision
was obscured by the flying drift of snow,
and at ulght, these lights served as
guides between ship and shore. The
ship's office™ had been busy In the
meantime, und the after part of the ship
was housed in with canvas and an ex
tra partition and door was placed before
the entrance to the forecastle. Tlw
store of ship's provisions was cached on
the ice not far from the ship. An elec-
trically lighted workshop was arranged
between decks, with a stove to keep il
warm. Il was clean and comfortable,
und work was started putting the sledges
together Hnd lashing the Joints with
rawhide, lu the living room of the hut
on shore a long table was erected, and
over the table was hung an arc light,
connected by wire with the ship, over
€,000 feet away. The dynamo uboard
the ship supplied the current for light-
ing the incandescent lights aboard the
ship as well as the arc light ashore.
When the America went under the ice,
however, this luxury of light failed, and
the winter sewing- of sleeping bags and
furs—was done by the feeble Illumina-
tion of four sickly oil lamps."
For Cleaner Currency.
Representative Fowler has Intro-
duced a bill to provide for clean cur-
rency. The measure enables any per-
son or corporation to send worn-out
or mutilated currency to the treasurer
of the United States by registered mail
and to receive In exchange new United
States currency, without postage or
registration charges either way. The
bill also appropriates $100,000, or >i
much as may be necessary, to enable
the secretary of the treasury under his
authority to pay for the transportation
of all worn-out and mutilated currency
from the subtreaaurles and fiscal
agents of the government and the re-
turn to them of new notes In exchange.
Mr. Fowler said recently, In discuss-
ing this bill: "The people have evi-
dently come to a point where they are
goiug to demand clean currency.
Through the redemption of bank notes,
for which the national banks pay, our
bank note currency Is purged and kept
clean. Upon Investigation I find that
from 18C3 to i876 the government by
paying transportation charges upon
worn-out und mutilated money kept It
purged and clean. During this period
of Ui years about 25 per cent, of the
circulation was redeemed annually,
thus virtually renewing the whole vol
time of United States currency every
four years. No appropriations were
made after March 1, 1876, until for the
fiscal year 1882 and 18&I, when 950,000
and $48,183 were respectively appro-
priated. Since 1883, however, the
worn-out and mutilated United Slates
issues sent to the treasury for redemp-
tion have been at the expense of Uie
sender both ways."
Meeting Obligations.
Money obligations are a small pari
of men's Indebtedness to each other
Every day, almost every hour, brings
with it the maturing of some other
obligation, Just as binding as a promis-
sory note, and il is largely a question of
liablt, believes a writer In the Detroit
Free Press, whether we meet such ob-
ligations at the promised time or not.
An employer tells a clerk that he will at-
tend to such-and-such a thing this afte.'-
noou, or a clerk gives his employer a
fclinllur word; a parent promises a child
a tertaln thing at a certain time; a
friend Is going to loan or return a book
on such a day; a pastor will "call on
Tuesday" and so It goes. The word
"promise" Is not often used in such
"trifling" matters; but every one of us
noon becomes known us either chronical-
ly delinquent, or unswervingly "on the
dot" ill meeting these everyday obliga-
tions. Life Is richer, and character la
at l onger, whi'ti we hold ourselves rigidly
to paying such debta on time
TI
I TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
OF LONE WOLF HUNTER
WEIRD EXPERIENCE OF A NEW
YORK WOMAN.
SPIRIT IN ANOTHER WORLD
Welcome* Release from Earthly Ex-
istence. Rut Obeys Doctor's Sum
moas to Return—Teils of
Strange Sights.
\Vw York.- Pronounced dead by
Ave eminent physicians and then
brought b«< k to life through hypnotic
power exerted by Dr. John D. Quack-
en bos, a specialist in therapeutic sug-
gestion—this is the curious and un-
rivaled experience related by a young
choir singer of this city.
At a r <ent meeting of the Enter-
tainment club at the Waldorf Dr.
Quackenbos told of the startliug out-
come of his experiments, but his narra-
tive, as astounding as it ts, fades before
(Ms young woman's graphic descrip-
tion of her own translation to nnother
world ami the feelings of which she
was conscious while her soul trav-
ersed regions entirely foreign to any
known on earth. The young woman is
known only as Adele.
Speaking <>f her Illness of pneu-
monia. she said she was given up for
dead. It was then lhal Dr. Quackenbos
was sent for.
"I had lost all desire to live," she
continued, "but when he called me to
come back to life I responded.
"In those crucial moments when my
spirit hovered on the borderland the
path 1 trod was weird and wonderful.
I seemed to be in the midst of utter
desolation. There were immeasurable
tracts of land spread out before me,
more utterly desolate and barren than
one could possibly imagine There
were trees, but brown and withered
ami with no leaves. The air was tilled
with phantom spirits, clothed appar-
ently. but Indistinct and ethereal.
"I wandered through this vast area
of country filled with the spirits of the
departed, and always 1 seemed to be
searching for one face—that of Dr.
Quackenbos. I didn't know it was his
! Sr«wl Partly Into Den When Ear*.a
Oivm Way Burying Him—R«*
cued After Three Days.
I San Angelo, T«.—Sam Laws>n
came over frQ n Oklahoma Cne day re-
cently to spend a week o;r so wlt^ his
broth r-in-law, Mile B'odgett, up in
De:-.," Smith county, In the Panhandle
Tfle next day he mounted hi* tyirse
and went out after wolves.
He didn't come back that day.,and
next morning they went searching for
him. They found hia horse on the
prairie, saddled, but without n bridle.
Thirty men scoured the country all
day, but could not And the missing
Lawson.
The hunt wai kept up until late in
the afternoon of the next day, and
REACrfHtSS Of CLUBMAN. |THE TOWN jOF Y0RKT0WN.
'a Mirir at a Loss for a Subterfuge Maa Yielded But Little llnee the
in Caae of an Inter- j Orist Battle That Made It
gency. Famous.
s>,t\
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t .1: \l I. I > Ti i r.K O.N THIAf. Foil.M.I
MY MISliKKHS.'
It is reported that Chicago had 4j.1 snl
Miles last year, while Greater New York,
with double the population, had only
full. Which Indicates, carps a Gotham
nellie, that people are even mort
auxious to get away from Chicago than
I hey aro from New York.
The report that un American cornet
player la receiving 91 ,&ih a week In Parli
may bo all right, but it souuds suspi-
ciously like an effort to start an exodus
of cornet players to Paris. There are
aome in (his country who could be
•pared.
until I woke to consciousness when he
called me back to life.
"But I suppose the picture was Im-
pressed upon my subliminal conscious
ncss. and nil the time I looked for it.
but it was ever out of my reach. It
Just evaded me. Sone one ever
stepped out of the blackness to pre-
vent my reaching It.
"Then I se<med to reach a vast
building with long, winding corridors
and spacious rooms, in one of which
(at an august court of six Judges on
a bout b, presided over by one superior
to all present. who looked upon me in
compassion I scented to be on trial,
for all my misdeeds, and every act of
my life was Imprinted on a massive
scroll that was unrolled before my
eyes. Kerry unkind word I had ever
raid, all the sins of omission as well
as those of commission, si nod out be-
fore me, und It seemed to me I never
rould forget. In fuct, that seemed lo
be a part of the punishment that you
never were to forget.
"One of liie strnngest feelings that I
experienced was the sensation of being
close, as It were, 'twlxt heaven and
earth. The earth was far below, as 1
could fee quite plainly, and there was
that trentr nitons feeling of diatance
which was quite overpowering In Its
effect.
"As I looked Into the heavena I
seemed to b; among the stars. Bach
one looked like a huge hall of Are,
but there was one directly overhead
that seemed bigger and brighter than
all the rest As I looked It came to
me that this particular star in some
way invented my destiny, and. as I
wati hed, It shot from the hcavems a-
a falling alar, aud struck me directly
on the forehead.
"I can feel now the shock I had
when the contact came. It was a
sensation such as I never experienced
before and hope never to again I
have never been able to state whether
that «a« the exact psychological mo-
ment when Dr. Quackenbos called to
me or not. but 1 believe it was "
Same Old Sleeve.
Fair Traveler I've only Just re-
turned from Central Africa, you know
Nov tell me about everything What'a
the favorite sort of sleeve now, and
how s it worn?
Fair Mtay-at Home- Oh, Just the
Mini as usual.
Fair Traveler What's that?
Fair Ptay a.-Monte Man's coat
•leett, round th# waist, of courae!
TIIKY FOt'ND HIM HAI.F HCK1KD IN
A WOLF DEN.
then one of the party came upon the
feet and legs of a man sticking out of
a hole in the ground. The feet and
legs were Lawson's. The hole in the
ground was a wolf den, and Lawson's
body was covered three feet deep with
dirt and stones.
His face, however, was not burled.
He was alive, and was quickly rescued
from his living grave, bo much neerer
dead than alive that it was not until
he was carried home and cared for
thai he could give any account of how
he got into the situation In which he
was found.
He had trailed a wolf to its den and
discovered that the hole contained a
number of wolf pups. In order lo get
to thent he had dug down on a slant,
as if he were making an entrance tu
a dugout. In the trench thus made he
lay down to reach In after a pup.
He got It, dragged It out and kilied
it, and threw It back from the trench.
His horse was lied a bunch of bear
grass near the hole, and the dead wolf
pup fell directly under his nose. That
scared the horse and he began to
plunge about. «•>
His plunges caved in the bank upon
Ijiwson where he lay. The falling
earth and rocks buried him complete-
ly, aud with his arms stretched out in
front of him so that it was with great
difficulty that he could move.
By a frantic effort he maaaged to
work with his hands enough dirt down
into the hole under him so tuat he un-
covered a breathing space, although
he was almost smothered beforfe he
accomplished the task. The weight on
him was so great he could not move a
muscle further than that, and succor
had not arrived a moment too soon.
l.awson had lain there helpless,
without food or drink, two nights and
nearly three days.
ARE MARRIED IN AN AUTO.
Justice Called Out to Sidewalk at
Los Angeles, Cal., to Perform
Unique Ceremony.
Los Angeles, Cal.—In compliance
with the wishes of the bride-to-be,
William L. Hale, a ranchman from Ful-
lert.m, and Miss Joan E. Nichols, of
Modesto, were married in a touring
car.
The bride admits 33 years. She
has been a school-teacher. Sometime
ago she went to Modesto, where she
met Hale, and It was a rase of love
at first right, despite the fuct that
Hale was a widower w!th two chil-
dren.
The (ouple came to l/is Angeles ac-
companied by some relatives, drove
their auto to the front of the court-
house, had Justice Pierce come out
and perform the ceremoay In the ma-
chine. Although no Invitations were
Issued, the leremony had more than
loo spectator*.
The judge's work was quickly per-
formed. The bridegroom put the ring
on the bride's finger, and with a kiss
the ceremony was ended. The Jus-
tice, who Is newly married himself,
was Invited to kiss the bride, but he
declined. Their honeymoon will be
taken In the machine.
Blinds Himself Rather Than Work.
Ttinls. Distaste for work hns led
Jean Delbaaae, a soldier In the H'rench
disciplinary battalion stationed here,
to i desperate expedient. In order to
escaiie the task of roadmaklng, he
asked a uutirale named Pape lo ren-
der him blind In one eye. lie sat In
a ch.ill' and never flinched while I'ine
thrust a red-hot knitting nee lie Into
his eye. He told his commanding of
fleer that he had lost his eye acci-
dent illy, but the true cause was dis-
covered, und he was sent hack to work
with a reprimand. Determined to
avoid work at any cost, Delbnsse act-
ually persuaded Pupe to blind the
other eye, which was done In the
same manner. After being treated la
the hospital, the Iron-nerved, but lax/
soldier was dismissed from the nrmy,
while his accomplice was sentenced lu
eight years hard labor.
Some men, said John D. Rockefel-
ler, Jr.. in an address In New York, use
the law to do harm with, Instead of io
do good. They resemble a member of
one of our well-known cluba.
This man sat in the club dining-
room at luncheon when a bill collector
haviug somehow eluded the attendants
in the hall, walked up to him and laid {
on the table his overdue account.
"The clubman glared at the account, '
his fork suspended in the air. Tbeu, •
solemnly and indignantly, be banded the
paper back to the collector.
" How dare you,' he said, Infringe
upon the niles of my club in this man-
ler? Don't you know a man's
It Is cmewhat singular that tbt
average leader knows but little of the
peninsula of Yirglnia, that historic
tongue of land lying between the
, York an 1 James rivers. Years ago.
j says a writer in Four-Tra* k News, It
became the storm center of stirring
events, anu to-day, aside from Its pic-
J turer.queuei<s and Its fish and oysters,
j it is dear to every American. Up
1 and down this narrow strip of ter-
! ritoi v, especially between Yorktown
| and Williamsburg, marched the
: ragged continentals" in their 'ast
glorious caigpaigu fo. freedom. . .
The qua'.iitness of Yorktown has yl«ld-
j ed l ul little since the one event that
WILL BE LABOR LEADER IN NEW BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
:*m.
CONVENIENT SMOKE-HOUSE
One Which Can Be Ruilt at Small
Expense and Which Will Do
Good Work.
A smokehouse like (he one shown Is
a good thing to have on every farm.
Build of matched boards with shingle
roof. Six feet square Is a good size.
Build close lo a side hill to that a
small furnace, A, may be made of clay,
bricks or sheet Iron or a large tile
may be used. This should be con-
nectei with the smokehouse by ten feet
TUB SMOKE HOl'SE.
of eight-inch tile, B. A piece of stove-
pipe should lead out through the roof,
having a damper at D that can be
worked from the outside of the house.
Han^ meat in the house, explains the
Farm and Home, build a fire at the
furnace of green birch chips, turn the
damper so as to let the draft out
through the stovepipe till the lire gets
go in 4 well, then shut the damper and
cover draft In furnace and the smoke-
house will do business for six hours
at least.
A GRAIN BIN.
James Heir Hardie. who was first elected to parliament in 189:'. now finds
himself at the head of a numerous following as the result of the recent
elections.
club is like his home? Don't you
know I can have you forcibly
•Jected for coming in here with-
out a card of membership or an in-
troduction? The rules of this club re-
quire that, if you have business with n
member, you wait In the hall while an
attendant brings in your name. Now, 1
demand that you go out into the hail
immediately, taking this bill with you.
and that you send in your card-to mc in
the proper way."
"The collector, red in the face but
hopeful on the whole, complied. He re-
tired to the hall and sent In his card
with all formality. '
"The clubamn, eating steadily, re-
ceived the card on a silver tray. He
studied It gravely. Then he said to the
waller:
" 'Not In.'"
rendered it famous for all time. It
was once. a but that was more than
a century ago, the rival of Williams-
burg, then Virginia'? capital, and It
had ^opes of unlimited greatness, but
to-d-jy it Is a straggling village of 150
souls, though honored far and near,
in this connection it Is told of an
EngiUii officer who recently visited
Yorktown, that, after inspecting the
scene of the capitulation, he re-
marked that he didn't blame Corn-
wallls for surrendering "the blarsted
place."
The Bold Trout.
It takes a good deal of courage not
to pretend you have it.
Profanity as a Curative.
The theory Is now being advanced
by a continental doctor that the fact
! that ladles are not allowed to swpar
j Is responsible for a vast majority of
; the attacks of nerves from which the
gentle sex suffers, and It is suggested
• that expletives should be taught at
I every girls' school.
GOOD HUNTING.
MKyefn*.'.
LOTS OF CHORUS SINGERS.
"I started in as a chorus singer at
|15 a week, ten years ago. Now I
know some fin operas and ran sing In
live languages, and I am still getting
$U • week So It l« wlih hII of us.''
That Is the pathetic plaint of on of
llerr Conned's striking chorus sinner*.
The most obvious moral of this com-
plaint is that the thousands of young
people who Jolo the choruses ft r a
livelihood had beuer stay at home.
help their mothers and get matrled.
There doesn't seem to be much hope
for nine-tenths of them In the oi er-
allc business - Boston Herald.
A Duke's "Descent."
The Duke of Teck, who was ediw
rated ill Wellington. Is descended from
u charcoal burner and has in hia
armorial bearings a coal burner's band
holding some silver,
Plan of One Which Will Economlzi
Space, and Be Easy of
Access.
A grain bin somewhat similar to that
shown in the cut was recently seen
by the writer, and
its economy of
space struck him
favorably.
Its thickness
i from the wall out
> ■ is not more than
one foot, yet because it reaches to the
floor ^nd can be carried up four feet
from the floor, its capacity is large.
One-half of the iront Is hinged so
that all the contents can be easily
reached, even when the grain Is near-
ly u:i(d up. For limited quarters,
says the Farm Journal, such bins
woull certainly prove very uaefuL
SUGGESTIONS.
Buy seed corn on the ear, when It
can be obtained in that way.
See that the seed corn Is all germ-
lnable.
While the mows are full of hay, it
Is a good time to flx the pulleys in
the roof of the barn for using the
horse fork next year. Not bo much
danger of falling and getting Injured.
When It gets so that we can dig
t bit of horseradish with the pick or
crowbar, it is a sure sign that spring
Is coming. Keep up your spirits;
horseradish is the sure forerunner of
spring— Farm Journal.
The chief enemies of wheat are the
Hessian fly, chinch-bug and grain-
plant louse. The chinch-bug Is cred-
ited with annual ravages to the total
of $20,000,000, which is probably a low
estimate.
Msn Is Master of the Land.
There are no soil conditions that
cannot be overcome by man if those
conditions are such that they inter-
fere with the growing of crops. What
seems Impossible now will be possible
later, when the value of land has risen
to the point where great operations
will pay. The sandy, leachy soils can
be covered with a layer of clay and
the heavy lands can be sanded. The
swamp land can be drained and the
arid lands watered. The time will
come when man will put Into use
every foot of land not closed up by
the eternal ice around the poles
JSven in the far north, glass gardens
will yet become numerous and beat
back the frost line.
Alfalfa Pointers.
Alfalfa Is a deep rooted plant, hance
requires soils In which the subsoil Is
of such a nature that the roots can
readily penetrate It. It must be well
drained to a depth of at least two feet
or the alfalfa will not pj;osper.
Any Held likely to be under water
for more than ,1G hours at a time Is
quite unsuitable for alfalfa. The same
Is true of a flefd with hardpan subsoil
within two feet of the surface.
To get a stand of alfalfa sow suffi
dent good seed which you know will'
germinate. Have the land well pre
pared ami In a good atate of fertil-
ity, and be sure that the land Is well
drained.
ItrMHaerf
A man must use fertilisers lutein
gently or he will throw away a great
deal of money upon them. It la ab-
surd for a farmer to purchaae a fer-
tiliser Just because It Is a valuable
fertilizer and put It upon land that
ho does not know needs fertilisers. A
man should not expend a dollar In
fertilisers till he knows what kinds he
needs. If his land is rich In a cer«
tain element he will but throw money
away If he buya fertilizers to put on
hia land. Wasting money In thla way
!• one of the uenaltles of not knowtnf.
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