The Mountain Park Lance. (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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The Mountain Park Lance
MOUNTAIN PARK, OKLAHOMA.
L. M. Hines of Oklahoma City haa
b< cn appointed a tagger in connection
with the bureau of animal Induatry.
A territorial charter has been issued
to the El Reno Opera House company
with a capital stock of 935,000. The
company will erect and matntain an
opera house in that city.
DACHSHVjfV A GOOD FIGHTETt
A restaurant keeper at Crowder
City was found guilty last week of
wife beating and fined accordingly.
Muskogee newspaper men believe
there is a special Inspector In than
town preparing to look after some
alleged crookedness connected with
the Indian office, but cannot locate the
man.
The city council of Tecumseh has
ordered an election to be held on the
1st of May for voting on tjie proposi-
tion to Issue $60,000 bonds for a sys-
tem of waterworks. The bonds are to
bo five per cent and to run 30 years.
The comptroller of currency has ap-
proved the conversion of the Farmers'
and Merchants’ State bank of Temple,
Okla., Into the Farmers* National bank
of Temple with $25,000 capital.
Governor Frantz has appointed
Frank J. Feger, of Enid, meat inspec-
tor for Garfield county. Feger Is a
civil war veteran, and claims the dis-
tinction of being the first man to
reach the top of Lookout mountain
In the famous battle above the clouds.
Mayor R. W. Dick of Ardmore has
issued his proclamation calling a
special election on April 7, 1906, for
the purpose of voting $150,000 in
bonds for the purpose of extending
tho water mains and sewers and the
erection of public school buildings.
The good-natured, philosophic Oev-
man dachshund has always been re-
garded as more or less of a Joke la
this country. Even in the Fatherland
he Is a staple for Jesting. His elon-
gated body, his crooked legs, his hat-
mated tail, his resemblance to a sau-
sage—who could fall to make some
sort of Joke about a dachshund?
But the dachshund has a very seri-
ous side, and a work la life.
“Dachshund” means “badger-dog.”
Now, the badger Is an animal .that,
generally speaking, needs neither
game laws nor sympathy, because he
is able to take care of himself and
fight his own battles. Naturalists
place him as a link between the bear
family and the weasels. He has about
all the strenuous characteristics of
both, with some of his own in addition.
Badger-baiting was formerly a bar-
barous rustic sport that drew trade to
country inns and taverns. A badger
was placed in a barrel and the man
whose dog could bring him out got a
prize. A single dog seldom did It A
full pack might—sometimes. The
badger is a tremendous borrower, and
the Jolly dachshund of the Jokes has
been trained for centuries la Germany
to go Into his burrows Ilka a ferret
after rats and drive the badger out or
fight him. In some Gorman and Aus-
trian cities there were formerly badg-
er-baiting tourneys in which crack
dachshunds entered a pit with an able-
bodied badger and fought for points.
It Is said that such contests are still
held In Vienna. For spirit, endurance
and agility the dhchahund has no peer
in this work, and a bulldog pitted
against a badger would probably find
himself cutting a poor figure.
So, to make the Jokes about the
dachshund If you will, but give him
credit for his prowess, and for that
gentleness, characteristic also of the
best bulldogs, that makes either an af-
fectionate companion to man and n
loyal playmate to children. Give the
dachshund credit, too, for intelligence.
He has it In large degree. Few dogs
are keener, and probably his acumen
is such that he even sees a good many
of the dachshund Jokes.
The trouble about forgetting an
Jury Is that we keep forgetting we
have forgotten It.
Many Children are Sickly*
Mother Gray's Swest Powders forChUdree,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's
Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Head-
aohe, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis-
orders, Break np Golds and Destroy Worms,
▲t nil Druggists’,90c. Semple mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, La Boy, N. Y.
Nothing you can do pleases the
devil more than your attempt to do
nothing.
SVffLIGHT A a© THE HOVSE
Sunlight Is nature’s most health-
giving scavenger. A house without
sunlight Is unhealthy and unsafe dor
human occupancy and it Is necessary
not only to have some sunlight, but
to have as much of It as possible. It
Is, of course, not feasible to admit
the direct rays of the sun to every
room of a house; the typical plan of
all houses is square or rectangular,
anil at leaat one side of the house la
entirely beyond the reach of the sun.
The other three sides, however, can
receive more or leas direct sunlight
and the problem of the plan la thua
reduced to arranging the various
rooms ao that the amount of sunlight
is adjusted to their uses, and It must
be sunlight, for mere light itself Is
not sufficient; the rays of the sun
lave curative and cleansing proper-
ties that nothing else haa.
It Is generally admitted that a
southern exposure la the best for all
houses and should be obtained when-
ever possible. It Is Immaterial wheth-
er the entrance la placed on this aide
or not, so long as the rooms most In
use open onto the house.
In dwellings of average size the en-
trance front will also be the front on
which any important room opens,
but in large country houses, the old
distinction of a front and buck to a
house has disappeared and Instead we
have the entrance front and the gar-
den front; the service and servants'
quarters, so long regarded as charac-
teristic of the "back” of a house, may
be relegated to a aide end or placed
In a wing that abuts directly on the
entrance front. In such cases it must
be well screened, and Its purpose
thoroughly subordinated.—American
Homes and Gardena.
A Careful Msrrlmao Man.
A prominent business man of Mer-
rtmac, Maas., while attending a horse
trot, waa accosted by a fakir, who
said: "Take a hand.” To this the
Merrimac man replied, “No, sir; I
have only two hands, and I have to
keep one on my pocketbook and the
?ther on my watch.”
Influence of Music.
It was Roger Bacon who wrote:
"Instrumental music and aong brings
power and vigor, stirs up nature and
helps her In all her motions.” and
the man who takes a dally dose of
music will not only live longer, but
better, more satisfactorily to himself
and those about him, than one who
does not—Exchange.
Judicial Raaerve.
It may be doubted whether the Eng-
lish bench la able to maintain the
same reserve which waa one of its
characteristics little more than a cen-
tury ago. We have even heard of
learned Judges being seen Jumping In-
to omnibuses In Oxford street.—Solici-
tors* Journal.
Nothing More Amusing.
There is hardly anything more
amusing than to watch a millionaire
bargaining over a penny. But the
chances are that If he had not bar-
gained he would never have become n
millionaire.—None Frele Pres as, Vi-
Fortune knocks once at every man's
door, but misfortune frequently crawls
in at the windows.
“BOOKS HAH “DOVBLE \SSE
At Tecumseh the jury awarded
damages to Frank Wolf in the sum of
$200. The action was against the city
of Shawnee for damages received by
falling through a bridge. The amount
sued for was $10,000.
Four accidents occurred to residents
of Apache last week in the short space
of two days. James Houston lost a
hand in the machinery at the flouring
mill, Charles HUlary was accidentally
shot while hunting. Ernest Gibbs
had two fingers torn off at the cotton
gin, and Chester Kidd broke his collar
bone by falling Into the school house
basement.
Tom Boyd, a collector for a Eufaula
firm, was found dead in his bod at the
Foley hotel In that city one day last
week. It was rumored that he had
committed soietde and many other
stories were out, but the physician
states that Hoyd was subject to epilep-
tic fits, and died while In one of these
fits.
Peter Brown and Van Brown, cous-
ins. aged eleven years, wero arrested
at Tu1b;i charged with forgery. The
boys were formerly messenger boys of
the Western Union Telegraph com-
pany and signed the company's name
to a check for $30 which they succeed-
ed In getting cashed at a local cloth-
ing store.
Chlckssha Is to hnvc an nmusement
park that will be one of the best in
the southwest. The street car com-
pany which is building there has pur-
chased one hundred acres adjoining
the city and will begin work at once
to convert It Into a park. An artificial
lake will be provided nnd a suitable
base hull park and race course estab-
lished.
The following incident, illustrating;
the rough humor of the late “Luke”
Poland, then a congressman from Ver-
mont, was related to me a number of
years ago by our family physician,
says a writer In an eastern publica-
tion.
I had been 111 a number of days with
tonsllitls, and had reached ihe rest-
less stage of convalescence, when the
doctor called one morning and found
me propped against the pillows and
deeply Interested In a paper-covered
volume of the yellow variety. My
mother attempted to apologize for the
cheap character of my literature, but
was interrupted by the doctor, who
laughingly exclaimed: “Oh. let him
read anything ho wants to, If it will
only keep him quiet.”
“And. do you know,” he continued.
'T read some pretty cheap looking
Rome funny stories get mixed up
with the pathetic ones In the annals
of the charity workers of the city of
New York. Dr. H. 8. Oppenhelmer,
chairman of the Gramercy district
committee of the charity organisation,
tells one of a family which applied for
relief in bis district. It was an Ar-
menian family, with a father CO
years old, broken in health, unable to
find work, or to do much If he got it.
The mother was also incapable of
earning much. Two boys under work-
ing age had been practically support-
ing the family, but the truant officer
had sent them back to school. An
Armenian boarder was giving up his
entire wages to keep the family from
starvation when they applied for re-
lief.
Hut in Its Investigations tho commit-
tee unexpectedly came across an older
stuff myself, especially on a train. I
hardly ever come home from a trip
that I don’t bring a cheap novel with
me, and sometimes I am so ashame<
of the blood and thunder atories that
I tear off the covers before taking the
books into the house. .
“I remember once when going from
Rutland to Burlington, Vt., I notlcec
Congressman Luke Poland sitting s
few seats in front of me with a nove
he had purchased of the train boy. Ai
the next stop I left my sent, and, stop-
ping beside him, said: “Good morning,
Mr. Poland. I see you have my bad
habit of reading cheap literature on
the train.'
"'Yes,' he replied, 'I confess I do
read some worthless trash on the
train, but It passes the time, you
know, nnd. besides, some d- fool
doesn’t come and talk to you.’ ”
son, a good, steady boy, earning $10 a
week. His wages, with the boarder’s,
would have supported the family, but
he had a fixed passion to become a
musician, and was boarding with an-
other family because they had a pi-
ano and would let him practice on it.
Ho was perfectly tractable on all
other points, but give up his music he
would not. What! resign his ambi-
tion and ruin his life? No. The com-
mittee cast about and secured from
an interested person the use of a
piano. The boy was told that he
could have this In h|j home free of
charge, provided he would turn his
wages Into the family exchequer. He
consented.
“And now," says Dr. Oppenhelmer,
“there la nothing the matter with the
family except that they don’t get
enough sleep, ns the boy practices at
the most unseemly hours.”
GRAND TO LIVE.
And the Last Laugh Is Always ths
Best.
"Six months ago I would have
laughed at the Idea that there could
be anything better for a table bever-
age than coffee,” writes an Ohio wom-
an—“now I laugh to know there is.”
“Since childhood 1 drank coffee as
freely as any other member of the
family. The result was a puny, sick-
ly girl, and as I grew Into womanhood
I did not gain In health, bat was af-
flicted with heart trouble, a weak and
disordered stomach, wrecked nerves
and a general breaking down, till last
winter, at the age of S8 I seemed to
be on the verge of consumption. My
friends greeted me with ’How bad you
look I What s terrible color!’ and this
was not very comforting.
“The doctors and patent medicines
did me absolutely no good. I was
thoroughly discouraged.
“Then I gave up coffee and com-
menced Postum Food Coffee. At first
I didn’t like It, but after a few trials
and following the directions exactly. It
was grand. It was refreshing and
satisfying. In a couple of weeks I
noticed a great change. I became
stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was
not troubled with forgetfulness as In
coffee times, my power of endurance
wee more than doubled. The heart
trouble and Indigestion disappeared
and my nerves became steady and
strong.
“I began to taka an Interest In
things about me. Housework and
home-making became a pleasure. My
friends have marveled at the change
and when they inquire what brought
It about, I answer ‘Postum Food Cof-
fee, nnd nothing else In the world.' "•
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason. Read ths Uttlt
book. “Ths Road to Wellvllle,” It
pkga.
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Everton, H. G. The Mountain Park Lance. (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1906, newspaper, March 22, 1906; Mountain Park, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853318/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.