Mulhall Enterprise. (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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OLD McKINLEY HOME
IN INDIANA
4* JL
The historic residence erected two
miles northeast of Misha w:\ka, Xnd.
about the year 1S4U by James am!
Mary McKinlcv grandparents* of the
late President William ^VKtnlev h»
been saved from demolition by the
within a few hours of e.
] id joining rooms in the
on th* same day Vug. *0
remains were interr I in
near South Bend, where
were Ions unmarked, tiomo eight
m. *
w s i
J 1
SSffiSb;'-' c- .
Retvl German Thrift
Shown by Krupp
Krupp's great steel factory at Essen,
in Rhenish Prussia, employs over -U.-
000 men. and disburses between $200,-
000 and $250,000 weekly in wages. Yet.
to save $1,000 i year, it manufacturoa
its own pins, and has done *>o ever
since 1876, when it waa discovered that
the firm was paying 1 • •• »0 marks for
ftie same Quality of pins it could pro-
duce itseit fo : 11 >< • u ><> murks
\t ti -f ti'* pin.- w» r* made I• > the
process which is ••*eu i »w generally
in vogue, but a yeai or two back a
novel method was introduced by a
workman The pointed bit of wire is
placed v< ticatly^, and the lower end Is
j (used by a current of electricity, to
just such an extent that a drop of
TAO AUK'S SKI) M ON.
MIRACLE OF THE AX HEAD WHICH
! FLOATED AT ELISHA S COMMAND.
uosa for others For what we borrow See in all this theme how the impossl-
ln the shape »• f protection from good | bilities may be turned into posslbtU-
government
triotic devot
from our pa
when cold,
this ingenious
pins can be
md th«
generosity of a Mishawaka man. He
will have the structure moved to town
and will preserve it. .James and Mary
McKinley, the grandparents of the
late distinguished President, were in
destitute circumstances during their
residence there. They passed away
metal hangs there Thi
forms the pin head. IV
expedient thousand.- (
headed simultaneous^ and the cost <>f
their manufacture has yet again been
materially d» ere i «•« 1.
Much Gold in
Austr-\liar. Mines
Western Australia i one of the rich-
est territories in the world, as man
counts riehes. and its wealth lies in
that which mankind has been strlv
ing after ever since he made it an
article of value gold. There is gold
in abundance in western Australia,
scattered in irregular patches all over
the state. Some of the -e putchea are
100 miles in length, by thirty or forty
in breadth. Today it is said that the
western
Nature'* I.a*
Ik.ii l>ltl *\<
Susjl'uill' I I«I
..-hii . L
>e Dr.
i)f an <
>n. Jan
I lima
iccurren
11#.—in
makes
e In th
Notable
est (In
practical
back in pa-
we borrow
in their good exam-
I work wrought for
from cradle to man-
id for all the ages to
be paying back. The
veil \s ill be returned
must pay
For whs
ties. That ax head wu
muddiest river that cr
The alarmed student <
know where it went »
uuken in the
uld !"• found.
if Elisha may
own and may
F i
Hi.
Ml
iin-
t In
»'Ut
particula
iu th*
The
valley
i had
or twenty year* ago the late President
of the United States came here had \
the resting place of his grandparents I total area ol the gold field^
suitably designated, and an iron fence | Australia is ovei .{24.000 square mile
•reeted. which today is a very con
spicuoua object in the beauttful little
cemetery.
OU OkA A mk 9
l or just one-third of the area ol' the
' colony itself.
Is Both First
a.rvd L»\st House
CIVIL WAR RELIC I
FOUND IN TENNESSEE |
The illustration show.-- the design tourist who gave some interesting ir-
on a ring found in a field eight or ten
miles from Shelbyville, Tenn., being
unearthed from a slight depth below
the surface. During the civil war sol-
diers were encamped in this neighbor-
hood, but the nearest fighting was
about twenty-five miles away, at
Stone's River. The ring was evident-
ly lost by one of the encamped sol-
diers. Within the ring appears the
following legend, engraved In script:
July 4, 183S." From
"One of Xinet**
formation about Greenland. Speaking
of local literature of that country he
substantially said that about twentj
years ago a little n* wspaper began to
be printed at Godthaab on the youth-
west coa>t of Greenland. It appeared
in the Eskimo language and was one
of the most unique productions of the
printing press, it was called the At-
nagliuti (the Headers and at first wa>
issued only once in awhile. as the edi-
tor did not print a new issue until he
The building shown herewith is gen-
erally known as the first and last
house in England It is situated at
Senner, a village at Land's End. Corn-
wall. The swinging sign informs the
tourist walking toward the coast that
the inn is "the last house in England."
Strictly speaking, it is now neither j
first, nor last, for the proprietor has j
built a cottage a quarter* of a mile !
nearer the cliffs. Probably at the time
the inn was erected its position justi-
fied the inscription on its signboard.
this legend and from the intaglio
forming the setting of the ring it is
evident that the ring belonged to a
graduate of the Virginia Military In-
stitute, of the year 1v»n. This insti-
tute is located at Lexington. Va.f and
is known as the "West Point of the
South.'* and undoubtedly lias a record
of the nineteen graduates of the year
1858. The ring is in a line state of
preservation.
<• reriiluiKt'h fine N>H»|mprr.
A resident of New York who has re-
turned from a tour in Sweden met a
hI i tig
had sold all the copies of the f .
one,
Lars Moeller is th- nam* of the
lor and publisher of this little Gr
land n »wspaper has mad< i. e pa
per very useful because it has stimu-
lated a desire among the natives to j
learn to read. For some years past the J
paper lias been printed as a monthly!
publication, but it is now appearing
once in every two weeks.
"V
which has eldom aiti
attention; text. IJ Ki
iron did swim
A theological si mim
-if palm- near thi i;
bcconie so popular in th« time of
Elisha. the prophet, that more accom-
modations W i ■ needed for the stu
dents. The classrooms and the dot
mitories must be enlarged or an en-
tirely new building constructcl. hat
will tlie\ <1-» ' Will tluy send up to
Jerusalem and solicit contributions for
this undertaking ' Having raised the
money, will they s< nd foi cedars of
Lebanon and marble from the quar- ,
l'ies where \hab gol the stone for the
pillars and walls of his palace? No;
the students propose to build it them-
selves. All they ask is that Blisha,
their professor and prophet, go along
with them to the woods and boss the
job. They start for the work, Elisha
and his students. Plenty of lumber
in those regions along the Jordan.
The sycamores are attacked by Eli-
sha' students, for they must have
lumber for the new theological sem-
inary. Crash goes one of the trees
and another and another. But some
thing now happens s>> wonderful that
the occurrence will tax the credulity
of the ag<«s, so wonderful that many
still think it never happened at all.
One of the students, not able to own
an ax. had borrowed one. You must
remember that while the ax of the
olden time was much like our modern
ax. it differed in the fact that instead
of the helve or handle being thrust
into a socket in the iron head the head
of the ax was fastened on the handle
by a leathern thong, and so it might
-lip the helve A student of the sem-
inary was swinging his ax against one
of these tre«. . and the ax head and the
handle parted. Being near the river-
side, the ax head dropped into the
river and sank to the muddy bottom.
Great was the student's dismay. If it
had been his own ax. it would have
been bad enough, but the ax did not
belong to him. lie had no means to
buy another for the kind man who
had loaned it to him. but God helps
the helpless, and he generally helps
through some good and sympathetic
soul, and in this case it was Elisha,
who was in the woods and on the riv-
er bank at the time. I! did not se».
the a\ head fly off. and so he asked
the student where it dropped. was
shown the plate where it went down
into the river. Then Blisha broke off
a branch of a tree and threw it into
the water, and the ax head rose from
the depths of the river- and floated t"
the bank, so thai the student ha 1 just
to stoop down and take up the re-
stored property. Now you see the
mean'ng oj" ni) t< xt, •'The iron did
swim."
Suppose a hundred years ago some
one had told people that the time
would mm* wh' n hundreds of thou-
sands of tons of iron would float on
the Atlantic and Pacific iron ships
from New York to Southampton, from
T«ondon to Calcutta, from .San Kran-
| cisco to Canton. The man making
»it li
ere earn-
the kind
c.ition i
•al
t that th
r ow w.i \ Thost
who know what
ind know how to use it.
Those .students iu the valle>
palms by the Jordan had a physi
Mivngth and hardihood that would
help them in their mental and spirit-
ual achievements. We who are toiling
for the world's betterment need brawn
as well as brain, strong bodies as well
as illumined minds and consecrated
souls.
I>'t all those who toil for their edu-
cation remember they are especially
favored, and if things g«» against them
and the ax head should fly the helve
that very hinderinent may some time
turn out advantageously, as the acci-
dent by the river Jordan, which seem-
ed *i> finish the young student's capac-
ity to help build the new seminary,
resulted iu i splendid demonstration
of ihe power of Elisha's God to help
any one who helps himself. No ax that
I was ever wielded has wrought so well
as that ax. the handle and head of
j which parted.
Notice, also, how God is superior to
every law that he has made, even the
strongest law <>f nature, the law of
gravitation. What a rebuke to those
who reject miracles on the ground that
they are contrary to nature, as though
i the law were stronger than th» God
who made the law! \gain and again
' in Bible times was that law revoked
dive for it, and perhaps fetch
but can the sunken ax head be
without a hand thrust deep iii
mud at the bottom of the river
that is impossible. I admit,
as human power is 'eoi
impossible, but with God
possible. After the tree
thrown upon the surfai
"the iron did swim."
Some one asks me, "Did you
see iron swim?" Ye
time I saw a soul
nothing could niak
styles of sin had plied that
was petrified as to all fine f<
it up.
lifted
:o the
.' No,
so far
'erned, it is
1 things are
branch was
of Jordan
ever
yes; many a
ardened until
t harder. All
Olll. It
Ing. It
had been hardening for
It had gone into the <1
It had been given up
father had given it up.
the last to do so. hai
But one day in
some prayer j
disfoliaged tree
thrown into th
stream, and the y
ed to its power and rose into
and. to the astonishment
church and the world, "the
thirty years,
eepest depths,
as lost. The
The mother,
1 given it up.
n answer to
branch of
f Calvary
lark and s
en soul res|
the
was
pond-
he light,
of the
iron did
| swim." 1 have seen hundreds of cases
1 like that. When the dying bandit on
| the cross beside Christ's cross Was
converted. When Jerry McAuley. a
: ruffian graduate of Sing Sing prison,
! was changed into a great evangelist,
so useful in reclamation of wandering
men and women that the merchant
princes of New York established for
him the Water Street and Cremorne
I missions and mourned at his burial,
i amid the lamentations of a city.
When Newton, the blaspheming sail-
i or. under the power of the truth was
J brought to Christ and became one of
,... ^ . | the mightiest preachers of the gospel
There ( hrlst stood by hU cllnclplea | that Bng|ftnd ever MW. When
Bunyan. whose curses shocked
John
on the Mount of Olives after his com
iHR out of th. sr,>iilotn-r. No ladders fh(, of thp tIsh market, waa
let. down lor I,is slon. hut Ills fee, s„ in h„art ,if„ tl.at he
lift from the Mil, and he goes up until could wrlte thiU WOnderful dream,
the curtain of cloud drops, and ha li -n„. pjisrim>a Progress," in such «
'T1!' ' IW "f kia\it;'tion aruin w.(y j|f uncounted thousands have
UTiharne.. ed. Knoch, Methu elah .
father, escaping death, went up bodily
and will have no need of resurrection.
So will all the good who shall be still
alive at the end of the world. They
will not need wings. Every one of the
millions of our planet who loved and
served the Lord, if then alive, will "be
caught up." as the Bible says, body as
well as soul, the law of gravitation
paralyzed. God mightier'than any law
he ever created. Oh. ! like the mir-
acles berause they show God independ-
ent of everything.
Notice also the divine power in the
backwoods. Wonderful things were
done at the c ities of Jericho and Jeru-
salem and Babylon and Nineveh, and
the great cities of our time have seen
the divine power, but this miracle of
my text was in the backwoods, far
away from the city, in the lumber dls
tri< • . wh< re the students had gone to
cut timber for 'lie new theological
culinary. And if this sermon j-hall
coui.' a it will come, like my other
sermons for the last thirty years, with-
out mis ing a week, let ni« say to
the •• far away from the hou <• of God
and in the mountain districts that my
text shows the divine power in the
back wood . The Lord by every stream
as h«
found through it tile road from the
"city of destruction" to the "celestial
city." In all these cases i think iron
was made to swim, i worship the God
who can do the impossible.
You have a wayward boy. Only God
knows how you have cried over him.
You have tried everything for his ref
ormation. Where is he now in this
city, iu the country, or has he crossed
the sea?" "Oh," you say, "I do not
know where he Is. He went away in
the sulks and did not say where he
was going." You have about made up
your mind that you will never hear
from him again Pretty hard pay he
gives you for all your kindness and
tiie nights you sat up with him when
he was sick. Perhaps he struck you
one day when you were trying to per-
suade him to do better How different
wa the feeling of that hard list
against your face from his little hand
in infancy patting your cheek! Fa-
ther' .Mother! i h it is an impossible
that I would like to see God take hold
of, of the 'conversion of tnat boy, for
lie will nev« ;• be anything but a boy to
him
his
•d as
you, though you should live to
fifty years of age. Did you
heart is hard? How hard.'
stone? "Yes," you say. "harder than
eitainly was by th'* Jordan, on that. Hard as iron. I hit here is a
• very mountain as surely as he was on ; God who can lift the soul that has
Mount Zion. or. every la lie as in Ti- been deepest down. Here is a God who
berias. ny every rock as by the one can raise a soul out of the black-
whn.-r Wishing waters ►hiked the thirst e.-t i!e|itli« of sin and wretchedness.
Electric cab service ii
proved very unprofitable.
Paris has
It is said
that the loss ho far represents $900,000.
Steepest Street irv United States
Chester. 111., boasts the steepest
highway in the state, if not in the
country. It runs up the face of the
hill on which the town is situated, a
climb of 350 feet in a quarter of a
mile, and is so nearly perpendicular
that the people of the town built a
tlifiht of steps that pedestrians might
reach the top.
Chester is the capital of Randolph
county, and is on the Mississippi river.
iness is in shifting people from the
railroads to the river. Both railroads
and the few mills of the place are oil
the lower level. The hill people, how-
ever, had sufficient pull to *ret the
postoffice placed on the summit, and
so when the inhabitants of the lower
town want their mail they have to
climb up a hilly road, a steep side-
walk, and 239 steps to get it. The
sairway is remarkable, being built
Forty feet or so
st&ge of the wate.
of the town the
Chester. There ai
old i
e the
the average
the first level
ettlement of
ruins of old
stone stores and buildings of a cen-
tury ago.
The new town was built on the hill-
top, 350 feet above the old. The
court house was put there, and the
mostly of stone, and part of the way
cut from living rock.
The feelings of the man who climbs
the hill for his mail, expecting a
check, and is told that the mail bag
has been stolen—an experience that
befell one recently—can better im-
agined than described. Easier but
slower access to the summit Is had by
banks are there. Cheater's chief bus- | a curving roadway a mile in length.
The incident shows how the English
landlord takes advantage of any and
every situation to advertise his inn.
As interesting as any romance would
be the story of the names of England's
famous taverns.
1 «m»iImoitip Ar.irti* Iti Kpitiu.
In reference to the excellent and nut-
like flavor of the acorns of the ilex,
which the men of the Golden Age were
supposed to have lived upon, and
which have none «»f the bitterness of
the common oak's fruit, the writer is
informed by one who has a wide
knowledge of old Spain and especially
of Don Quixote's country. that there is
an oak there producing acorns two and
one half inches long of most admirable
flavor. These are the acorns which
Sam ho Panza's wife sent to the duch-
ess, as a specimen of the "natural
commodities" of her neighborhood. It
is on these acorns that the pigs are
fattened which supply the celebrated
Spanish hams, said to be the very best
produce of the pig in any shape or
country. We always wonder why Eng-
lishmen so seldom seem to settle in
Spain, a country full of fine scenery,
with most interesting possibilities in
the way of growing cattle, swine and
sheep, and absolutely the finest sport-
ing country in Europe, except the Car-
pathian side of Hungary. Perhaps now
that it is becoming the fashion for
tourists to go there some may stay to
settle, and Anglicise a portion of the
peninsula. London Exchange.
<ir«»;it \-K;iv Machine.
Dr. u. t White of Allegheny has
just had constructed the la.gest X-ray
machine in the world. It has twenty-
six revolving plates 30 inches in diam-
eter, and is driven by a two-horse
power motor. The voltage is 1.000,000
and the spark is a solid 22V£ inch in
length. The next largest machine is
In Bellevuc hospital, New York, which
has 16 plates with diameters of 2tJ
inches. The cost of the entire plant
was about $5,000. Dr. White expects
to reduce photographic exposures from
a half hour to three or four minutes,
and will make original researches in
skin diseases and cancerous affections.
—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
such a prophecy i
to an asylum or
incompetent to g<
in our day seen
loulri have been sent
v a r ♦ fully watched as
• alone. We have all
iron swim. Now, if
man can make hundreds of tons of
metal Mo::t, I am disposed to think
that the Almighty could make an ax
bead float.
"What," says some on* "would be
the use of an h a miracle?" Of vast,
of infinite, of eternal importance.
Those students were preparing for the
ministry. They had joined th*' thcolog
ical seminary to get all it* advantages.
They needed to have their faith
strengthened; they uceded to be per
sua led that God can do everything;
they needed to learn that God takes
notice of little things; that there is no
emergency of life where he is not will-
ing to help.
I hear from different sources that
there is a great deal of infidelity in
some of the theological seminaries of
our day. We think that most of the
so-called miracles of the Old and the
New Testaments were wrought by nat
ural causes. When those infidel grad-
uate from the theological seminary
and take the pulpits of America as
expounders of the Holy Scriptures,
what advocates they will be of that
gospel for the truth of which the mar-
tyrs died! Would to God that some
great revival of religion might sweep
through all the theological seminaries
of this land, confirming the faith of
the coming expounders oI sin entire
Bible!
Furthermore, in that scene of th
of the marching Israelites.
Do not fe. l lonely because your near-
est neighbor may be miles away, be-
cause the width of the continent may
separate you from the place where
your cradle was rocked and your fath-
er's grave was dug. Take your Bible
out under the trees, if the weather
will permit., and after you have lis-
tened to the solo of a bird in the tree-
tops or the long meter psalm of the
thunder, icad those words of the Bible,
which must have been written out of
doors; "The trees t»f the Lord are full
<>f sap, the cedars of Lebanon which
he hath planted, where the birds make
their nests; as for the stork, the fir
tree* are her house. The high hills are
a refuge for the wild goats and the
rocks for th*' conies. Thou makest
darkness, and i« is night, wherein all
th*' beasts of the forest do creep forth.
The young lions roar after their prey
and seek their meat from God. The
nun ariseth, they gather themselves to-
gether and lay them down in their
dens. Man goeth forth unto his work
and to his labor until the evening. O
Lord, how manifold are thy works! In
wisdom hast thou made them all The
earth is full of thy riches." How do
you like that sublime pastoral?
My subject also reminds us of the
importance of keeping our chi f im-
plement for work in good order. I
think that young theological student
on the banks of Jordan was to blame
for not examining the ax before he
lifted it that day against a tree. He
could in a moment have found out
whether the helve and the head were
firmly fastened. The simple fact was
Here is a God who «
i,witn, the God of Elish;
the young student that
may on 'he banks of th"
an
make iron
the God of
stood in dis-
lordan at the
text God sanctions borrowing and sets ! the ax was not in good order or the glv
time of the lost ax head Lay hold of
the Lord in a prayer that will take no
denial.
STORY ABOUT THE WILLOW.
|lur<ll«*Nl Tr«6 Known. aieS lli« I'.uslrst
to liroiv.
If you ask me to mention a tree
most likely to live when planted by un-
skilled hands, says a writer in the
Chautauquan Magazine, I would say a
willow. I mean the most common kind
to be found in the northern states—
the kind that stands beside and over-
shadows the roadside watering trough.
If you have driven or wheeled over
country roads a picture of such a com-
I bination will readily come to your
mind. The chances are that there is
a local tradition connected with the
! origin of that tree. I have heard it in
j many different localities, with but
! slight variation.
1 The story usually runs something
! like this: "John Dee. one of the early
' settlers, was riding horseback along
this road, then but a bridle path, and
stopped at this spring to water his
horse. He stuck his riding whip info
the mud, It took root like a cutting,
and the present patriarchal willow
has been the outcome." The impres-
' slon is common that willows will
j thrive only in wet places.
It Is true a willow is very comfort-
| able in places where many other trees
| will suffer from chilblains, yet it will
ood results elsewhere.
forth the importance of returning.
There are times when we have not
only a right to borrow, hut it is a duty
to borrow. There are times when w •
ought to lend, for Christ in his sermon
on the mount declared, "From him
that would borrow of tb.ee turn not
thou away." It is right that one bor-
row the means of getting an education,
as the young student of my text bor-
rowed the ax. It is right to borrow
means for the forwarding of commer-
cial ends.
We borrow time; we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrowing
implies a return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, in im-
provement of ourselves and helpful-
it longest stroke that sent the edge
into the hard sycamore would not
have left the implement headless. So
God has given every one of us an ax
with which to hew. Let us keep it in
good order, having been sharpened by
engthened by
a pen or a type
icales or a tongue
hall or business
iss or pulpit is to
Bible study and
prayer.
Your ax may be
or a yardstick or a
which ill legislative
circles or Sabbath cj
speak for God and righteousness, but
the ax will not be worth much until
it has been sharpened on the grind-
stone of affliction.
But T have come to the foot of the
Alps, which we must climb before we
can see the wide reach of my subject.
U II Hobby.
n his bodily and
devotes himsell
- Bodily he will
i)by; mentuily In-
st his power will di-
s grasp on practical
relaxed: his ccpabil-
e ied and in the end
Kvery Ono N
No man can re
mental health If
exclusively to bt,>
become Inert and
ert and dull. Firs
minlsh; then h
problems will hi
Ity will be wca
his capacity it-c'f di
best results are found
ests. A hobby of sonn
sary. It has been th
many.
It la always better '
when you can get any bod. to under-
stand your understand:r.s of It.
sappr
rs. The
i varied inter*
sort is neccs-
salvation of
tell the truth
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Woosley, Tom B. Mulhall Enterprise. (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1902, newspaper, January 24, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc286301/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.