The Tangier Citizen. (Tangier, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1904 Page: 3 of 8
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IT HURTS.
SUCCESSFUL AS MAYORS. THE CHINAMAN AT EASE. WATER’S GREAT PRESSURE.
Seldom Works—Why are you so
shamed of yer birthday, Eddie?
Effortless Eddie—Hush! I was born
an Labor day!
ON A TRIP TO THE MOON.
fioma of the Odd Things One Might
Come Across During Such
a Voyage.
How would you like to take a trip to
the moon? It would be a long journey,
taking more than six months If you
went with the speed of an express train;
-or if you traveled with theswiftnessof a
ball from a modern cannon, it would
take about as long as a trip across the
Atlantic in a fast steamer, says the au-
thor of “Nature and Science,” in St.
Nicholas. Under average atmospheric
conditions, a large telescope gives up
a view of (he moon as it would be with-
out the' telescope at a distance of 800
miles from us.
The necessary outfit for the journey
must be much more extensive than for
auy trip on the earth, even the trip to
the north pole. There will be no chance
“to live off the country." In addition to
warm clothing and food you must carry
with you all you need to drink, and the
problem of keeping it from freezing or
thawing out if frozen will not be an easy
one to solve. There is practically no air
'on the moon, and you must take along a
supply for breathing. If you expect to
make a fire and cook your dinner you
must take, in addition to fuel, an addi-
tional supply of air to keep your fire go-
ing.
But suppose that in some way you are
landed on the moon with a supply of
things necessary for sustaining life. If
jou are on a part of the moon on which
the sun is shining, you will marvel, per-
haps, first of all, at the dazzling bril-
liance of the sunlight and the intense
blackness of the shadows. Everything
in the shade will be in almost total dark-
ness. as there is no air filled with little
dust particles to scatter the sunlight so
that it may illuminate the places out of
;he direct path of its rays.
And what a sense of desolation will
present itself to your view! The Desert
of Sahara .would look like a luxuriant
park in comparison with the lunar land-
scape. Not a blade of grass, not a tree,
or brook, or lake—nothing but a vast,
stony, silent desert. There are plains,
not quite as level as our western prairies
and great numbers of mountains, moat
of them much steeper than those on the
earth; they are not grouped in long
ranges, as our terrestrial mountains gen-
erally are. but are scattered all over the
.surface, singly and in irregular groups.
Most of them are shaped more or less
like ot r terrestrial volcanoes, and they
probal ly were volcanoes ages ago, be-
fore th<; moon cooled off.
If you happen to land on a part of the
moon where it is early morning you
will have plenty of time for explorations
before night comes on. The sun rises
and sets as It does on earth, but the time
between sunrise and sunset is nearly 15
of our days. Then during the long
lunar night our earth will act like the
moon, and will light up that part of the
moon’s surface which is turned toward
it. Only there will be this curious dif-
ference: it will not rise and set, but will
remain nearly stationary in the same
region of the Bky. From the side of thu
moon which is always turned away from
us the earth, of coarse, can never be
Seen at all
Some Prove So Competent as Munio
ipal Manage™ They Are Called
to Other Cities.
When a German city wishes a
capable, economical and trustworthy
mayor it adopts a plain, business ex-
pedient to get one. It simply looks
around and hires the best official that
can be found, Bays a London paper.
The correct management of munici-
palities has long been a study in Ger-
many and the putting of this knowl-
edge into effect has become a profes-
sion. In reality, therefore, the mayor-
alty is a professional pursuit and those
who devote their energies and abilities
to it grade upward, being called from
city to city.
If a man makes a notable success as
the mayor of one city he is liable at
any time to be called to administer the
affairs of another and a larger. The
honor and emoluments of the office
increase with the importance of the
town. There is every incentive, there-
fore, to the best administrative efforts
on the part of a mayor, especially as
the opportunity for graft ia almost
entirely missing.
This plan of^ having professional
mayors and of promoting them from
city to city has worked well in Ger-
many. It provides a class of men who
make the business of the people a
study and qualify themselves to con-
duct the affairs of municipalities upon
business principles. The element of
politics is cut out for the better policy
of looking to the public good.
The Germans are sensible In that
they prefer to retain public official!
who have proved their value. Th«
argument of rotation in office does not
carry much weight. An illustration ol
this comes from Ingersheim, neat
Strasburg, where the discharge of
mayoralty functions has descended Ip
one family through an unbroken line
for more than two centuries.
The burgomaster of Ingersheim
named Gllet, has just succeeded in the
office held by his ancestors for 224
years. The first of the line was t
French soldier named Dominique Gilet
belonging to Turenne’s army. He wai
grievously wounded in the battle ol
Turckheim, fought on January 5, 1675
was cared for by a peasant of Ingeris
helm, recovered, settled there, pros
pered, married the daughter of his pre
server and in 1680 became burgomas
ter, and the Gilets have been burgo
masters of Ingersheim aver since.
When He Casts Off the Cares of the
World He Becomes a Dig-
nified Being.
, Which One It Was.
“This custom of having two tele-
phones in the office has its disadvan-
tages, too," said the business man
“We’ve got a new office boy, and one oi
his duties is to answer the telephone
The other day he heard the bell ring
and, coming to me, said: ‘You’re want-
ed at the ’phone by a lady.’
“‘Which one?’ I inquired, thinking o
the ’phones, of course.
“ ‘Please, sir,’ stammered the boy,
—I—I think it’s your wife.’ ’’—Portland
Express.
GOOD OLD PA!
With the summer weather the Chinu-
man comes belore us prominent in his
artistic silks and in his native naked-
His temperament also becomes
ness.
a noticeable feature to the observant
foreigner and the manner in which he
takes his pleasure contrasts marvelous-
ly with that of the energetic occidental
human being.
In the early hours of the morning, says
the Shanghai Time*, when the rays of
old Sol are tempered with the dissipat-
ing dews of night, tha wealthy native
as well as the worker of low degree ma>
be eeen carrying the cage containing his
favorite singing bird to the native gar-
dens or other tree-embowered spot and
listening in contemplative ecstasy to
the joyous greeting which his caged
friend pours forth to the coming glory
of the day.
As soon as the golden beams become
oppressive he retires to hb domicile,
whether to labor or sleep’t is hard to tell.
In any case, he Is wise, for has he not
caught the beauty of the grandest part
of a summer’s day, the majeBty of dawn?
Again, when sunset’s glow has fallen
dead in the west, the Chinaman pours
forth to his diversion. To stand for
hours with waving fan on the curb of
our city’s thoroughfares watching the
procession of vehicular and pedestrian
traffic brings him apparently the de-
light which a Londoner can obtain from
a lord mayor’s show, daily repeated
while a volunteer parade brings him
forth in numbers proportionate to the
metropolis’ myriads called out by a royal
pageant.
Thus in dignified, contemplative man-
ner does the Chinaman display his
idiosyncrasy of pleasure-taking. Again,
the native of younger blood, imbued with
a tinge of foreign taste, rushes madly
through the.Btreets on the whirring
wheel or drives, luxuriously reclining
In his smartly appointed carriage be-
hind the fastest tro**»ng pony, steered
by a reckless native, jehu, which his
means are able to procure.
The visitor to the various public re-
sorts of the Chinese in the settlements
will invariably gain an Interesting in-
sight into the Chinaman and his pleas-
ure-taking. and one striking feature can-
not pass unnoticed. Whether coolie,
merchant, office boy or mandarin in pub-
lic, the Chinaman at play 1b invariably
respectable. One hears much of the na
tire immorality, but decorum when in
the public eye, and absolutely moral be-
havior characterizes even the biggest
rake among the Chinamen of our set
tletoents. Drunkenness is a vice which
is usually kept within doors, as are all
other reprehensible practices.
Quarreling is almost an unknown
thing in public resorts. Never does one
witness anything approaching the col-
lege studs-nt of Europeon the rampage,
or ’Arry and ’Ariet on a bank ’oliday
tear. The Chinaman takes his pleasure
as he takes his business, with a calm, cal-
culating philosophy, which constitutes
one of his greatest variations from the
habit of mind of the vivacious Euro-
pean.
Little foary—Ma, shall I get marrlec
when I grow up?
Ma—I expect so, dear.
Little Mary—Shall I marry a man like
pa. ma?
Ma—Yes, my dear, if you’re good.
Little Mary—It’s a rough world foi
us women, ain’t it ma?
Test with a Diving Bell Which Col
lapsed at a Depth of Two
Hundred Feet.
In a scrapyard at PttUburg 11m a
shapeless mass of iron which shows th«
tremendous pressure of water at a great
depth. It was constructed for a diving
bell and was used in the waters of Lake
Michigan, says the New York Herald.
It was a cube about six feet square,
and was made of phosphor bronze five-
eighths of an Inch thick. Each plats
was cast with a flange, and the plates
.were bolted together, the bolts being
placed aa near as was consistent with
strength.
The side plates were further strength-
ened by ribs an Inch thick and two
inches wide, and the entire structure
was strongly braced. The windows, In-
tended to be used as outlooks for th«
divers inside, were three Inches square,
fortified with iron bars and set with
glass plates one inch thick. The entire
weight of the ben was 23,000 pounds.
When completed it was sent to Mil-
waukee and towed out into the lake
about 12 miles, where there was over
200 feet of water, and sent down for tha
test.
The inventor was so confident of its
success that he wsb most anxious to
go down In the bell when the trial waa
made. Fortunately for him he was dis-
suaded.
When it reached a depth of about 200
feet strong timbers which had been at-
tached to it came up splintered into
fragments. Suspecting an accident, tha
bell was hauled up and found to b«
crushed Into a shapeless mass.
The inch-thick plate glass bullseyee
were pulverized and the entire body ot
the bell forced inward till the original
shape was obliterated. On a basis of
200 feet depth, the pressure that crushed
this seemingly invulnerable structure
was 86.6 pounds per square Inch. The
total pressure on the cube was 2,723,-
548 pounds, or 1261.7 tons.
PRINCES IN THE ARMY.
Tha Bussian Borises Compared wit!
Royalties in the German
Military.
Bill Nye’s Cow Ad.
Bill Nye, the humorist, once had a cow
to sell, and advertised her as follows:
“Owing to my ill-health, I will sell at my
residence, In township 19, range 18, ac-
cording to the government’s survey,
one plush raspberry cow, aged eight
years. She is of undoubted courage and
gives milk frequently. To a man who
does not fear death in any form she
would be a great boon.
“She is very much attached to her
present home with a stay chain, but she
will be.sold to anyone who will agree
to treat her right. She is one-fourth
shorthorn and three-fourths hyena. I
will also throw in a double-barrel shot-
gun which goes with her. In May she
usually goes away for a week or two
ind returns with a tall red calf with
wabbly legs. Her name is Rose. I would
rather sell her to a nonresident"—Ne-
braska State Journal.
* Bismarck throughout the Franco-
Prussian war grumbled at “the princes"
who commanded under Prussian leader-
ship.
“The princes have taken all the com-
fortable lodgings," “the princes drink
up the fine wines,” “the caterers for the
princes carry off the best joints from
the butchers and the best vegetables
and fruits from the green grocers,” ‘‘the
princes are a cause of constant friction
and embarrassment.”
Prince Leopold Hohenzollern’s bag-
gage. as described in a French paper,
reminds me, says a writer in Lrnidon
Truth, of Bismarck’s growls. His
royal highness, who is brother-in-law
of the German empress, wanted to take
to the farthest east 500 colls, or trunks,
bales mostly bulky and weighty.
Prince Khilkoff. director of railways, 7
is said to have turned pale on receiving
a letter from Prince Leopold’s secretary.
In his embarrassment he applied to the
czar for guidance, reminding respect-
fully his majesty that Russian officers
could only take a single box and a hand-
bag.
After an exchange of telegrams be-
tween St. Petersburg and Berlin, the em-
peror William decided that his cousin
could do with 50 boxes and bales.
Members of the imperial Japanese
family are on the same footing as othet
officers, and put up with the eternal
rice cake and handful of dried fish.
Island of Black Cats.
On«> of the queerest corners of the
earth is Chatham island, off the coast of
Ecuador. Capt. Relnman. who recently
visited it to inquire into the propel
grounding of a deep sea cable, says it
abounds in cats, every one of which Is
black. These animals live in the crev-
ices of the lava foundation near the
coast, and subsist by catching fish and
crabs instead of rats and mice,—Bostor
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Daniel, Thomas. The Tangier Citizen. (Tangier, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1904, newspaper, December 9, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc825617/m1/3/?q=+date%3A%2A-1905: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.