The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1901 Page: 4 of 10
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OR AO ARARMRSD FARM.
OH IMF
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tuff nf Ilia fortnoa* IF • 0*0 ra**«M
try kt>no.
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lirll •»!»• •» ul mm* « I l*ai«l
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hurrying it* *Im» t*»»»kri'i**tA» «** |*fo
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Murih duitoff F»rt* >k»b Hoi, «|a|lo
to Ihr lUFiiir/. Ik* liMM»Fkr*J*i«|
hi* |*ro«r*| It* h*> Ftfl rt*i»r that! IB
iiiwi. I Hi* I* »mm* W «Im« to ilttt dally
•lag*. though a lottilRriHi. ••'***
r<iutF((inn> for i»i»*rl or fur t*rtujrii*g
uni onr'o frhn<U |t* Ik* farm, it i» »
• apifal rraoiir*-** for pvts-uring •up*
plii’t. We •Ignat it bt a bin* |tlA« aril
•wrung out of I hr window, Rttti il
•top* urd»r «»ur »i»aptr-trrr* by *e*ei»
in the morning. The awiahlr dritrr
take* R prepared IM, ami hr h borl
•gain b»furr noon, bringing, •my.
nt. al from ll»e bnlehrr’*-and nf r*-
reltent quality. lot*. r*rn hy !«*»«
standard* fruit a ml confectionery.
■ new broom anti *otne rollon cloth
for thn H«r«uiit. rn»broldery*l bread
for ll»n mlilrrtt, Hgbi lumber and
nnt of paint for thl* deponent, and
• drum for the son of the hottne. I’or
nuch inlieellaneou* shopping hi* own
charge In nt»out tru frnl*. Thr Ntngf-
driver I* the Mercury, the *peclal
providener, of the dweller* all along
hlfl line. An old woman IWllll to
give him huckleberries to *ell, an
other hands up an old •aueepun to
be Holderrd. The eomplete history
of one of hi* trip* would make an in
atruetive mid nniiming compendium
of rural existence. Besides till* re
source, other butcher*, baker*, fish
men and fruit-men, too, drive by, on
certain day* of the week, jingle their
little bell* at our door, and await
our plcaimrc.
“The servant question iw often nl
Icged as one of the drawbacks to i
country life, but here again, judging
from our experience and observation,
we are obliged to think the drend is
exaggerated. Our own domestic has
followed our fortunes throughout.
“Nora” ha* plenty ot merits, to which
I here gladly pay tribute, but she
cannot be greatly different from her
kind, and yet., so far from being dis-
contented or “lonesome,” she shows
and declares great satisfaction with
the new life and with the respite
from that of the city. She likes to
"compare the. way things are done here
with that of her farin-house home
in Ireland (to the great advantage
of the latter). It is a pleasure to see
Nora cruising down the shrubbery,
popping ripe raspberries into her
mouth, or sitting in the orchard with
her lap full of apples; and if the
kitchen fire were not so hot—though
Ihe next time I am going to try one
of the patent, stoves that go with oil
or gasoline—she would get as much
benefit out of it all us the rest of us.
Thus far an epidemic of good health
has prevailed among ns all, and we
have had no doctor’s bills to pay.
“Our experiment has been an un-
mistakable success; the life is agree-
able, it is healthy, and it is cheap.
You have noticed that the one con-
clusion reached by nearly nil persons
who have passed their summer at the
usual boarding-house, hotel, or hired
cottage, is that they never want to
go to that place again. We do not
say that and we do not think it. We
keep the farm much in mind in the
winter-time, we talk it over with
pleasure, we recall how we used to
watch the birds there, and the fire-
flies, and those larger fireflies, the
•tars, and we are anxious to get back
to it at the earliest moment.
“Such is what one of the improved
methods of transportation has done
for .ns. As they become more'com-
mon, they must influence immensely
the filling up of the farms with sum-
mer residents. Perhaps, indeed, the
next step may he n general sccauible
for these farms, and the call upon
I hose who have not read the signs
than ifcaan ihal fa«* fciiWrfa
IVftMbi
"W* «*«•* «»r MMiniry fan, — la
li, by lb* Iwpb, bat wo
raifar *%peei i« have «• k*»hl II by
l Of ••iNSwblF. aaia** |i be by I be
tr«*l!«y, far already ibj u>k of a
link to vwoaevi I be ism •»«im*«
above and be in a a*. Why will no*,
•wine **ae bring **at a uwdur-enr*
rtage, for loo pet**»»*«. **»>i a third
light war at a pin*;» m*i»eg »o|
ten*!* above *;"•*». and rape<>le uf be>
log *isse4 a*»> in •»**ll quarter*?
back a ronvryntwe »• ie*Mt»d t«» com*
aniRrr uf later, Wh) SOI give II !•
Me teitiri and tint later7**
A VERY WINDY PLACE.
irahaia lave Thai Non tboosood* ml
Mearns and Haas » arias*
feat ores.
‘Ik' bmti »a»r ul Itaknl* li*% lately
l*ri n acquired by th*1 g»»*rr wnent.
and is to be mail** a •b«*v» place. It wvtl
dr*«rtr* il« list nr. for the log cabin
built otrr its mouth lit* *had to be
fastened to ihr ground by hvavy tim-
bers, and ihr log* mortised and pinned
to prevent the building from bring
raised from its foundation and hurled
skyward by the immense force of thr
wind from within. *ny» Youth’* Com-
panion.
The first explorrr of thr cave discov-
ered I lint when the month wa* closed
by heavy tlmlier* the motion of the
wind censed, and a person inside did
not feci it t-xcepl ul a few particular
point*. It was for this reason that the
cuhin wa* built over the entrance, with
un inner door fitting closely against
the portal* of the cave itself in such a
way that thr air was completely
blocked.
A sightseer who afterward sent an
account of his experience to a news-
paper, came to the door of the little
hut and heard a roaring sound emanat-
ing front the earth, followed by such a
slamming of the door that the building
shook. It wit* nothing but the open
ing of t he inner door to allow the exit
of a guide, but it had a terrible sound.
Within the cabin the visitors saw
nothing but n cupboard, from which
the two guides provided them with can-
dles in tin candlesticks attached to
s trips of wood. The party then formed
in line, as the inner door could only
be opened long enough to admit, one
person at a time. If it were kept open
the wind would tear the building to
pieces.
A guide went first. Seizing the bar
fastening the door, he turned it slowly
to near the end of the clamp that held
it, then giving a quick wrench, darted
through the door as the force within
sent it open. As soon as he was inside
he seized an iron ring, and, adding his
strength to that of the guide who ha«J
remained without, slanuned the door
With one man on the inside and one
out, it was much easier for the guides
to handle the door, and each member
of the party ran through in turn as the
door opened.
The cave itself is a wonderful place
The guides have explored 2,600 rooms
covering a lineal distance of 90 miles
but they say the extent of the cave is
not yet known.
Forty miles north of the entrance is
another and almost equally beautiful
cavern called Crystal cavern. The
guides believe that some day it will be
found that one is a continuation of the
other.
Some parts of Wind Cave are 3.00C
feet, below the surface of theearth. All
kinds of weird and beautiful effect*
are gained by burning lights withir
one or another of the rooms. Stalac
tites cover walls and ceilings in many
of the caverns, and the cave is full
enough of terrors and delights to safe
isfy the most exact ing cave-hunter.
Babble*.
Women urc only children grown, play
ing with hopes as children with bub
bles; we laugh to see them grow a
glisten in myriad rainbow tints, an
wh«J they float away and break w
cry.—Boston Traveler.
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levs •Ntvrvsl I»n»1
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aaiaWislisfi m |
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get ik*u veil
tail a ad lease iWu •• take fare a#
th* »**)««*, I key silll fa lias fa M
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|et*t; aa4 fraeefal efirrts tie tea
pa«ae **e4 *teater% eaaal Ibetr one* way *■***»«'l***i* tkai **a* irmibta with
|m)»>«»* ihr k»n«r«4 HktMiMk ! MOW Ifsplrs* I* •Haply that they are
•p. a*| a* a»rrage uf #!**» a day 1st >»«•
p**Up ab>ar I'-r H>»>» »i*4* belt! ’In* tbifd p*si I *l*h •** r»ak* if
year ik*« aw already ir*iisf ***d« ’ tb*t »ar difference betarea the a*-
aa*l e4L<tiF in>-'i*t« with b«j* | Mill («4itiMi>rt| fsttka* and Ike
ritir. fa flaws** ai..| v.fc.'abt** I i»r J Hr a oitts* f*‘»M» lbs lawn. Yurmer-
matter ul ao*s|tir« i* *s
urn-' a ih*ir b***.b«'*« aau
belly Uiu* di •maned, *#y
York flea
l)|* the Uks b«l»i ihr v**l»|r «*t m USW
form of flow «•* or t«pul)i« wkirh
has merit i* undeniable It •• of
peritoanent *• an *.Jv« rtt*« mmt
| to thr dealer wko iuiiMlurr* it. Ihi*
|» Sft Writ rerugHired that »rry lafRr
•un*» are paid for a Ar»i vrup uf
mpuitani Sy a lawn wa* murk s»sr* diflknti le
i* rua* -n> | • rsate ikan It I* mm* II* tore prople
the >rw | ,*rew flower* la ikrir front yard*, fa-
I iwven the kousr and Iks sirssl,where
ike lawn is now lbs rule. They
tiUrd the * pare will* many peren-
nial* nod *ome annuals and produced
4 charming effect that will always
| U»r in the memory of a flower lover
' who once *aw it. That l*« they did
11*>* with ihr help uf nature. This
• red* whirl* ar«- ,»»M to ru*to*ner» at i plan gave them a grrat many mora
mrrely uuminat price* Thu* a*ftluwre» for rutting than are available
wurh as fl,lo h»* been |*aid fur earl* | now a* a rule, hut it i* a plan ea*ily
followed by anyone who want* lo
try It
“Thn* the uld-fashioned Auwem are
lo br hud now in better varletis* than
formerly and in other re»peets It will
Im- found that il»er« I* not so muck
happen* that the »up|*o*ed novelty I difference between a good old-fash-
turn* out to be Motne old form of iunetl garden and a good mmlern gar-
th*- plant presented under a new! den a* some folk* imagine,
name, which mistake bring* discredit i
upon the dealer. The liability toj WHERE DIVERS ARE BORN,
make •uch blunder* 1* one that lead*
*erd of a novelty, and thy %rrd* have
la turn l*-rn dUpo.rd of to euAtoni-
rr* for two cent* each, a lo»e to the
dealer of 11.4s on each -red. Such ex-
treme* are of eouree rare.
On the other hand, it sometime* j
dealer* to look with *u*pieiou on of-
fer* of novelties. Another cause for
doubt is the fact that many novel-
tie* on- developed to n satisfactory
degree only when they have the ideal
condition* which only a professional
gardener or an amateur with uncom-
mon resource* can supply. The fail-
ure of the uveruge customer to ob-
tain tlie expected result* make* him
riifitrust the statements of the deal-
er in future. So dealer* wishing to
retain the confidence of customers
are becoming morn and more con-
servative in regard to offering nov-
elties.
An interesting development caused
by the failure of novelties in flowers
to grow as predicted is the increas-
ing attention which has been given
of late to what is known as the old-
fashioned garden. People who have
not been able to succeed with tlie
gorgeous flowers offered by seeds-
men have remembered the simpler
blooms they have seen in country
gardens. They have imagined that
they would do better in cultivating
the poppies, the morning-glories, the
phloxes, the sweet williams of tfieir
grandmothers, than in trying to grow
the improved strains to be had to-
jay. On this point a florist said:
“There are three points to be re-
membered about the old-fashioned
garden. The first is that the flowers
3t to-day are pretty much the same
is those of 50 years ago. It is true
that many new ones have been in-
:rodut?ed from foreign eounti-ies; but.
vhe main reliance of the gardener is
what it was, only these flowers have
oeen so improved by cultivation and
iross-breeding that they would hard-
iy be recognized in some cases as be-
ing the same varieties. But the best
and most meritorious of these are
as easily grown as the old strains.
That disposes of one common error
regarding old-fashioned gardens.
“To my mind an important reason
why old gardens often seem more at-
tractive than those we see nowadaj’s
freshly laid out is that more taste
was used in planning them. You some-
times come across an old garden in
which every clump of shrubbery,
every flower bed, every plant Seems
to have been placed just where it
would have the best effect. Art seems
to have ruled the selection of the
flowers. In spite of effects which are
sometimes rather stiff and prim and
formal, there is a great deal of fas-
cination about gardens begun 50 years
ago, just as there is about the
housea built in the early part of the
last century.
“Even more important than the
task of laying them out is the part
which nature has played since. If
RmI P.H*li*ki*FN ttbn Kollo** Thai
t ntllMR ( nmr front a Rlaale
Village.
The village of Leigh, at the mouth
of the Thame* river, supplies more
marine diver* than all the rest of lit*
I’nitcd Kingdom combined. The oc-
cupation seems to “run in the fam-
ilies’’ living there, for it has been fol-
lowed by generation after generation
for hundreds of years, says the Chi*
cogo Chronicle.
Although Leigh has but 2,100 in*
habitants, it has 900 of its sons en-
gaged in working beneuth the sea,
scattered all over the world. Being
brought up from early youth, from
father to son, to the business of div-
ing, the men of Leigh have remark-
ably developed lungs and ear drums,
which have so adapted themselves to
submarine conditions that they do
not suffer, even at the beginning of
their career, from the painful sensa-
tions which assail other men when
they first go down in diving suits.
The heart action and everything else
seems to be adjusted to diving pur-
poses with this race of people.
The world pays to the men of
Leigh every year the sum of $700,000
for diving and there is scarcely a
country bordering on the sea where
a man from the village cannot be
found engaged in his hereditary la-
bor. It is claimed that n Leigh man
can stand 60 per cent, more of this
trying work than other men because
of his peculiarly developed physique.
After a man of Leigh has made a lit-
tle competence he returns to his na-
tive village to settle down and die.
The divers’ families intermarry and
so the breed of submarine workers is
kept up. The Leigh people claim that
they control the wages for diving all
over the world and that the village
furnishes eight-tenths of the divers
of the world.
The amount which tlie world pays
Leigh for its divers, however, cannot
compare with the amount of tribute
levied by Cornwall by means of its
miners. At the last account .there
were. 17,000 miners from Cornwall
working in foreign mines and draw-
ing an estimated wage bill from the
nations of the earth of $15,000,000 a
j’ear. Nearly all these 17,000 miner*
came from the two parishes of Bed-
ruth and Bodmin, little places with
a small population of Htay-at-homes. .
There are 4,000 of these Cornish min-
ers in the United States.
North and South Shields, on the
River Tyne, not large places, have
between them 11,000 marine engineer*
at sea. rolling over the waters la
ship* of every nation under the sun.
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Street, A. L. H. The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1901, newspaper, October 18, 1901; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405709/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.