The Altus Plaindealer. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1901 Page: 3 of 4
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As loner ago the force of Asia’s hate
Was turned oil Greece because (Ur dared
he free,
So Europe, following the self-same fate.
Shall hurl her combined armies, soon or
late,
My country, upon thee.
The world moves on in cycles. History,
Advancing by some hidden law sublime,
js re-enacted, as the ages tW;
For that which once has been again shall
be.
Though changed to lit the time.
The monarchies behold with startled eyes
Thy growing shadow, casting in eclipse
Their trade and prestige; fear and envy
rise;
And die who asks, hears ominous replies
Fall from the Future's lips.
For Europe, haughty In ancestral pride,
With all her mighty armaments of war,
Till they are used will not be satisfied;
To crush a rival, an tier states allied
Will gather on thy shore.
She will not brook an equal; will not see
The marts of commerce pass from her
control.
She hates thy newness, hates thy liberty;
But most she hates thy threatened mas-
tery,
Thy fleetness to the goal.
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Already growl the war-dogs In their lairs;
Already come the mutterings of storm;
The next decade in silence she prepares;
Then, as the trumpet call for action
blares,
Her columns swiftly form.
Her hosts unnumbered swarm upon thy
shore;
Her navies sprinkle the surrounding
seas,
This is the culmination of all war.
The Armageddon prophesied of yore,
Preceding lasting peace.
And long the contest wages to and fro.
And long the clouds hang heavy over
thee,
My native land; yet, In the ending, know
Thou shalt prevail and over thee shall
glow
The sun of victory.
I
Then, as a tempest on a summer day
Heaves all things purer from its passing
flood.
So shall thy stains, corruption and de-
cay.
Thy tilth of greed and guilt be washed
away
In that baptism of blood.
Then stronger, better, truer than of yore.
The flag of freedom over thee unfurled.
Thou shalt, the people's champion once
more,
March onward through the Future's open
door,
The leader of the world.
Forcing a Decision.
BY JAMES NOEL JOHNSON.
Author “A Romulus of Kentucky," Etc.
^Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
‘‘Come to think of it,” said George
Peterson to Will Garrison, as the two
stood chatting on the highway, *‘I
heard that you said that one of us was
a-goin’ to git a bullet-hole in him
afore long?”
‘‘Well, now,” returned Will thought-
fully, screwing his left eye and digging
at his scalp, “hit comes to me thet I
hed jest about eich talk.”
“You think we ought to shoot over
Tlllie Adams, eh?”
“I don’t see thet we cud shoot over
ennything more important; do you? I
shot ole Jim Stacy over a hog last
summer, an’ by gum, in my estima-
tion, Tillie Adams is wuth a whole
drove o’ hogs.”
‘‘That is all true,” admitted George;
“hogs ain’t to be mentioned in the
same breath with Tillie—no man gits
ahead o’ me in appreciating her worth
—but the question is one o’ policy an’
good jegment—ort we to kill each oth-
er over her?”
"Now, that is a matter to seriously
Spang!
chaw on, I admit. That we both love
the gal more nor an ox team cud pull
ef they had a down bill shoot on it, is
certain. That both wud fling our
lives, as worthless rags, at her feet,
is ekally shore; but as to whether we’d |
be doin' the proper thing to do It is
a matter to chaw on. But the matter
must be settled some way. I believe
the one she loves best orter have her,
but she won t say. I believe I'm the
one.”
‘‘An’ I feel shore I'm the one.”
“An’ this shorenc3s o’ both, ye see,
Is what I’ve thought would bring
trouble. So I Agger it this way: If
both live, an’ one gits her, tother wud
mther bo dead. With one dead, he’s
at everlasting peace, an’ the other is
happy with Tillie. Now, what do you
say?”
'Tm a chawin' on the thing."
“Have you got yor pop with you?”
“No, but I see you’ve got two.”
“Yas, an’ here is a good place. A
nice, thick shade yander under that
beech to die comfoi table under, an’
termorry is Sunday, an' the new
preacher Is to preach at High Point,
an’ the feller that gits his light put out
will have a glorious big funeral!"
“I kin Jlst see Tillie, her bootlful
face, like er dew-wet rose, hanging
over mo right now’”
“Hush! Go ter drawin’ a picter like
that, an’ I’ll commit suicide to git to
be the one to git hung over.”
The two men laughed merrily, while
at the same time they were unjointlng
the “pops,” casting out old hulls and
putting new cartridges into the cyl-
inders.
“How far off had we better get?”
asked George.
“Oh, we-e-11, say—well—one hundred
yards—and step forward ten steps at
each fire.”
“That’s good—say, who’s them corn-
in’ in that buggy?”
“Durned ef I don’t believe it’s Bill
Tom Branner an’ Tillie.”
“That’s Jest who they Is, by gum!”
An old topless buggy, drawn by a
thin, bay horse rattled up. The occu-
pants, coming opposite, inclined their
heads gently, smiled pleasantly and
passed on, a foam of dust rising in
their wake.
“She smiled at me, George.”
“She smiled at me, Bill.”
“Say, Bill,” laughed George. “Would-
n’t it be a good ’un on us if Tillie lov*d
that dog dratted rascal with her bet-
ter than she do either of us?”
“Huh! An’ him with nuthin’ but an’
edication, an’ not a hoss to his name!
That’s ’bout as redickilus as one of
us bein’ loved by a president’s darter.”
“Oh, I wuz jest funning, of co’se, but,
come to think, I’ve hearn o’ things
Jest as onreasonable. Ye see, Tillie
has been down to the Bluegrass goin’
to school for a year or so, an’ thar’s
no tellin’ what sich fool doin's as that
will lead a gal to. They are curious
critters at the best—gals is. Why, I
hearn of a gal once that refused to
marry Jesse Underwood, the best pistol
shot our Kaintuck hills ever had. Well,
suh, she kep on an’ on actin’ the fool
till she finally married some poor
lawyer thet never amounted to nuthin’
ceptin’ sumthin’ like circuit judge, or
some foolishness like that. Tell ye,
gals is curios.”
“Yas, that’s so; but we ain’t no more
time for foolin’. Let’s step off.’
The men stepped out, took places
and confronted each other. They were
to count three in concert, then fire.
“One, two, three!”
‘‘Spang!"
A ball passed through a lock of hair
above Bill's left ear. He hadn't fired,
and for good reason. When he went
to cock his revolver the main spring
had broken. He had pointed the
weapon nevertheless, taking the risk
of being killed rather than to explain
an accident that George might regard
a purposed act to avoid the duel.
“We’ll have to adjourn this case,”
sighed George, “until you kin git yer
own pop.”
“Say, George,” returned Bill, hand-
ing George the crippled weapon. “I’ve
Jest thought we kin settle this matter
more satisfactory. Tillie, as well as
she appears to love both, mout refuse
ter marry the one that kills tother
about her. Then we’d be in a nice
shape—one dead and tother wusser.
Less fine out which one she really
loves best; then let that lucky one give
tother all his property to console him
a little, and take her."
“That’ll be satisfactory to me—if we
kin git a bill o’ discovery, as the law-
yers say, that will wuk.”
"Well, I think I’ve got it. Termorry
at church me an’ you will let on like
we git in a fuss, an' pull our pops.
Everybody will be excited; the wim-
men will yell, an’ pirty Tillie will come
screamin’ out to the one she loves
best, an’ beg him for her sake to put
up his pop.”
“The very thing!” exclaimed George
slapping a cloud of dust from his right,
leg.
• • • • *
A great congregation had gathered
for Rev. Ball, the celebrated revival-
ist of Knott county, was to preach, and I
the report had drawn people as a suck-
hole draws chips from a broad terri-
tory.
The house being filled, the grounds
overflowed. Men and boys covered
the turf in front and at the sides, as i
thickly as bees cling at the side of a
gum on a hot morn of July—all ears
eagerly poised. Nothing save the elec-
tric voice of the speaker, fell upon the
vast quiet.
When the preacher began to pitch
his tone to the scale of concluding ex-
hortation, Bill and George, as per pre-
vious arrangement, came into the |
crowd from opposite directions. They
were radiant in their new clothea, and
their new boots announced their
entrance through proud meas- |
ured squeaks. Being the richest
young men of the section, j
their appearance made heads of
revarence silently Incline and a whis- |
per of admiration ripple througn the
wide throng.
Quietly tha young gallants worked
toward each other, and, before the si-
lent company knew they had met, or
kifclw they had occasion for quarrel, a
rapid fire of denunciation began be-
tween them.
"You did step on my foot!” vo-
ciferated George.
“You are a liar” shouted Bill.
‘‘Boys, don’t shoot, for Lord’s sake!"
shouted a score in concert.
The hitherto passive throng, was
now in rolling, surging motion. The
timid fell to the rear, and the bold
tolled madly toward the danger-swirl.
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“Boys, don’t shoot, for God’s sake!”
The windows of the house became
mouths for rapidly expelling wads of
color. The doorway was a choked
channel for the emission of a feminine
flood. Wild shrieks went up, and
benches tumbled down. Dogs yelped,
and white-faced, wild-eyed women
cried: “Oh, where’s my baby?” or “Sal-
lie” or “Tommie," where are you?”
A rolling commotion of voices on the
outside finally killed all distinct ex-
pression.
Bill’s white-faced sister got to him,
and seized him by the arm, but a big,
firm hand pushed her back. The con-
stable wedged his way to George, but
he fell back limply against propping
men, his face gushing blood. The
justice of the peace, who commanded
peace, found the peace of Bill’s paral-
yzing fist. All was in swirling, roar-
ing confusion when the thunderous
voice of the preacher broke above the
crowd with the awelng power:
“Ef ye ain’t got no respect for me,
an’ the day, an’ the Lord, respect yer
neighbors who now leave single life
for the holy ways of matermony. I
now peform a sarimony. Be ye silent
in the face of this awful, sacred in-
ordinance uv heaven’s disposition.
Jine han’s Thomas Benton Brammer
and Matilda Jane Susan Ann Adams!”
Silence fell, and so did the spirits
of Bill Garrison and George Peterson.
They looked up at each other and
though agony loaded their slow-chug-
ging hearts, they smiled through sick,
feeble lips as thought answered
thought: “What fools us fellers be!”
Am»rirt'i First Protestant Chnrcb.
The first Protestant church in Am-
erica was made of the sails of Capt.
John Smith's ship hung between the
trees at Jamestown, Va. The pulpit
was a stump and the congregation sat
upon unhewn logs during the service
until 1611, when a log cabin was erect-
ed under the direction of the governor,
Sir Thomas Dale. In 1638 a brick struc-
ture fifty-six by twenty-eight feet in
dimensions, with a tower through
which it was entered, eighteen feet
square, was built with the most sub-
stantial material, as its endurance tes-
tifies. It was partially destroyed by
fire in 1676, but was restored and occu-
pied until 1723. when the capital was
removed to Williamsburg.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Church Yard* In Had Condition.
Many of the church yards in the
Highlands are reported to be in a
shocking condition. There has been
a scandal in North Harris, where the
sanitary authorities have had to step
in and prevent the people from bury-
ing any more bodies in a small piece
of ground, while the churchyard at
Moraig, another small Highland place,
is so full that it is described as sim-
ply mounds of human beings. The
Highlanders have a great liking for
laying their lost ones with those who
have gone before and this accounts
greatly for the over-crowding. This, of
course, applies only to the old paro-
chial cemeteries, as the newer ones are
under government control, which stops
or is supposed to stop anything like
overcrowding.
The *Royal
ChinooK.
THREATENED EXTER*
MINATION OF PACIFIC
coast salmon.a;a;
It is declared that the royal Chin-
ook, the king of the salmon tribe, is
in danger of being exterminated unless
the supply can be kept up by artificial
propagation. There are a half dozen
or more species of salmon recognized
as food fishes and they are found in
all streams along the Pacific Coast
from the Sacramento river in Cali-
fornia to the northernmost parts of ex-
plored Alaska; but the royal Chinook,
the finest of them all, is taken only in
the Columbia river, and a few minor
streams emptying into the Pacific
along the Oregon coast. Here in the
quaint little city of Astoria, says an
Oregon correspondent of the New York
Sun, is the center of the salmon fish-
ing industry of the coast, and the dis-
appearance of the Chinook is a danger
not lightly viewed. In earlier years
the river teemed with fish. More were
caught than could be handled. With
the adoption of improved appliances
for handling them and with the in-
troduction of frozen salmon into the
markets of Europe, the supply has sel-
dom equalled the demand in late years,
and the river has practically been
fished out. In former days the run in
April, May and June was the best of
the season's pack, both as to quantity
and quality. Now canneries are work-
ing on short time, fishermen are dis-
couraged and the industry seems seri-
ously affected.
A species of the Chinook is found as
far south as the Sacramento, but its
flesh is not so firm, and its flavor not
so dainty as in the salmon that leave
the ocean along th“ Oregon coast. The
latter alone are honored with the pre-
fix “royal.” The Oneorhyuchus ts
hawytscha. the name given the royal
Chinook by ichthyologists, has an aver-
age weight of 22 pounds, but indi-
viduals weighing from 70 to 100 pounds
are occasionally taken. In the spring
the body is silvery, the back dorsal fin
and the caudal fin having more or less
round black spots, and the sides of the
head having a peculiar tin-colored
metallic lustre. Its flesh is of deep
pink color and the oil is extra rich.
It is to the persistent use of fixed ap-
pliances and stationary gear for taking
tne salmon that the present situation
is due. Fish wheels and traps that can
catch tons daily during the heavy runs
have resulted in the threatened extet-
mination. Particularly are the . flfrti
wheels dangerous to the spawning of
the fish. It is well known that salmon
in ascending a stream select the chan-
nels where the swiftest currents are
found. The fish wheel, on the plan of
an ordinary water wheel with a series
of nets, is placed directly In the cur-
rent and as a rule not a fish escapes
while the wheel Is in operation. The
result Is that the salmon eftnnot as-
cend to the spawning grounds and the
natural propagation is defeated. At
the last session of the Oregon legis-
lature several bills were introduced to
prohibit the fixed appliances, but they
failed to pass. A similar condition of
affairs existed on the Sacramento river
In California some years ago and the
wheels were legislated out of the river.
Extensive artificial propagation was
carried on by the state and the result
was seen during the season just over.
The Columbia has been practically
barren of salmon while on the Sacra-
mento more were caught than could be
handled, and hundreds of tons were
shipped to Astoria to be handled by the
cold storage plants and later to be
shipped to European markets as Col-
umbia river Chinooks. The salvation
of the industry apparently lies in arti-
ficial propagation and the states of
Oregon and Washington maintain fish
commissions and appropriate large
sums annually for this purpose. Last
year nearly 30,000.000 Chinook salmon
eggs were taken on the Columbia river
and these fish will be turned out this
fall. In addition millions of the eggs
of inferior varieties were taken at the
hatcheries. Some idea of the extent
of the industry may be gained from
the statement that in 1900 the value of
the salmon packed on the Columbia
river alone was nearly $3,000,000.
Crime In Hot Weather.
The police authorities always look
for an epidemic of crime as soon as
the hot weather sets in. Statistics
prove that the taking of human life,
either by murder or suicide, is nearly
50 per cent higher in summer than in
winter.
CITIZENS OF TWO
jvjvREpublicsaa:
Cherokee Indians Who
Run a Government X
Within a Government,
In the recess of the North Carolina ; ual capacity, and it is frequently the
mountains there is a highly civilized I case that he adjusts disputes and set-
band of Indians who form a nation j ties controversies between his people
separate and distinct from the state j in order to save them the expenses of
government and based upon the theo- j litigation.
ries of democracy. The people who The Cherokees are very proud of
compose the community are Cherokee their presidents and it is claimed that
Indians of pure blood, although many i they have not elected a bad or inferior
degrees removed from the savagery of man to office for the past fifty years,
their ancestors, and their scheme of They are perhaps the only people who
are citizens of two distinct and sepa-
rate republics. Under the treaty of
1 SI 7 they were made citizens of the
United States, for the purpose of vot-
ing for federal officers, and this priv-
ilege was confirmed and provision
made for counting their vote as a part
of that of North Carolina.
government, while adhering to many
of the traditions of their tribe, is far
in advance of any existing among
other of the original natives of the
soil.
The chief or president of the repub-
lic, is elected by a plurality vote by
the qualified electors of the country.
He must be at least thirty years of
age and a native of the republic. He
hold* office for four years and receives r°r Fru,t Preservation,
a compensation of $500 a year. How- i Extensive investigations are about
ever, should he be authorized by his 1 to be made by the agricultural depart-
congress to leave the country on pub- ment of the whole question of fruit
lie business his compensation is fixed j harvesting and marketing, including
at $4 a day and mileage. He is not the application of refrigeration to fruit
only the chief executive of the nation, ! storage, both in the warehouse and in
but is its first citizen, and he is always transit, so as to help the people of all
regarded as the personal friend and | the states in putting their fruits upon
adviser of his people in their individ- ' foreign markets.
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MICE AS
PETS.
King's Ten Mirn.
The King of England has ten maces,
which are kept tn the Tower of Lon*
don. They are all of different degrees
and all will be used at the coronation.
The lords have their own mace and will
not allow the house of commons’ mace
to enter their house. It accompanies
the commons to the door of their lord-
ships' house, but it is always left out-
side.
Those of you girls who scream every
1 time that a cute and cunning little
j mouse happens to stray across your
. path will have to get over such con-
! duct. As was stated in a dispatch
from Washington recently the societj
I women of the capital have adopted the i
mouse as their favorite pet. just be- '
fause it is so cute and performs such I
cunning tricks. Now the New York 1
society women have taken up the fad.
and the auimal dealers are scarcely
able tc supply the demand for mice. !
Any old kind of mouse will do. The !
ones that use the trap, baited wuh
cheese on the cellar steps, are. in fact,
said to be preferable. Of course, white
mice are prettier, but it is said that
they do not learn to perform tricks so i
readily. There are plenty of mice,
without consulting the animal dealers
Just set an old-fashioned trap and j
get one out of the cellar. Then staT to
train it. It will take its instructions ]
kindly, and before long you will have
a most agreeable pet. according to the |
reports that are in circulation. The 1
motise fad promises t# become unlver- 1
sal. it accomplishes a number of pur-
poses. First, it rids the cellar of one
thief; second, it provides a source of
amusement to miladi, and third, it will
apeustom her to the little pest so that
she will not jump to the seat ef a
chair and scream every time she sees
one. Blessed be the man who intro-
duced the mouse as a household JVet.
Prohibit* Css of Phonplioron*.
Holland announces the prohibition of
phosphorus in match-making, and
after January next the importation or
storage of phosphorus in quantities
over 100 grammes. The offense of
manufacturing with phosphorus will
lie punished by six months’ imprison-
ment. The punishment for othef of-
fenses will be three months or £25.
The transport of phosphorus through
the country is permitted.
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Kmowd. ,
“This is a haul of fame.” said the
proud and lucky fisherman as he ex-
hibited a record-breaking string of
fish. •■** ■*
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