The Mountain Park Herald. (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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The Mountain Park Herald
MOUNTAIN PARK, - • OKLA
NEW STATE NEWS.
Sulphur has voted water work*
hoods.
The Oarber carnival will be held on
the 6tb, 7th and 8th of September.
The Farmers’ Union In Oklahoma
now claim a membership of 165,000,
and more lodges are being organis-
ed.
The postofllce at Avoca was discon-
tinued August 15th, and patrons of
that office will be served by the office
at ASher.
There will be a Farmers’ Union
cotton yard at McComb this season,
which will have the patronage of
about six local unions.
Tulsa’s city council has provided
in its street railway franchise for
three cent fares for school children
under 18 years of age.
ThIPIs the week of the annual old
soldiers’ reunion at Aline, Woods
county. Among the speakers are ex-
Governor Ferguson, Dennis Flynn, T.
P. Gore, Wm. Cross, and Kev. Hodge.
The directors of the Kay County
Log Rolling association met at Ponca
City and selected Monday. September
t, as the date of their next annual
log rolling. The big picnic will be
held in Ponca City, and Woodmen are
already arranging for an Interesting
program for that day.
Within a very short time the Fort
Smith A Western railway will be run-
ning through passenger service to El
Reno via the Bt. Louis, El Reno A
Western, the Fort 8mlth having re-
cently acquired a controlling Interest
in the Guthrie to El Reno property.
A young Indian by the name of Coon
was struck by a freight train at Te-
cumseh Junction and so severely In-
jured that he died shortly afterwards.
He was drunk and failed to get off
the track before the train reached
him. On the 4th of July ahother
drunken Indian, Jim Morris, was killed
by a train near the same place and
in the same manner.
Van 8 Abernathy, brother of the
United States marshal, succeeds
Charles Carpenter as federal Jailer at
Guthrie
The Raptist Assembly Association
Is to be Incorporated and have perma-
nent summer encampment headquar-
ters at Sulphur, the Commercial Club
of that place having donated twelve
acres of ground to the B. Y. P. U. for
that purpose.
The Greer County Farmers' Gin
company, of Mangutn, has been chart-
ered with 810.000 capital stock; the
incorporators are George Klrkoff. J.
D. Martin, T. E. Merynian, J. A. Mc-
Waters and Jj'P. Morgan, all of Man-
gum.
A colony of Mennonltes Is to be lo-
cated somewhere In Oklahoma, possi-
bly In Blaine county where there Is
already a large settlement of this
strange religious sect.
Rains of the present week hsvs
caused widespread damage at Purcell
and points below. Many small bridg-
es were washed out and railroad traf-
fic has been Impeded.
Kaw City will have a grand corn
carnival on August 16 and 17th. El-
aborate arrangements are being mads
to entertain the large crowd.
FOOD AND DRINK IN SUMMER.
Do Net Drink Tee Much, Eat Sparing-1
ly of Animal Feed. j
To keep the skin la a proper condi-
tion during the varying seasons of the
year is always a matter of great diffi-
culty—that is to say, as far as a de-
gree of dryness of moistness is con-
cerned. To secure the happy medium
is most people’s ambition. 1 have on
previous occasions discussed the
causes and prevention of excessive
perspiration, but at this time of year,
when all the atmospheric and possible
causes are present for the production
of over-activity of the sweat glands, it
may not be Inappropriate to repeat
wbat 1 have said before. Excessive ac-
tivity of these glands in the hot
weather Is Nature’s method of reduc-
ing the bodily temperature, and,
further, within limits, the secretion of
sweat is to be, if not encouraged, at
least accepted as Inevitable. The only
question, therefore, that need be con-
sidered Is how to restrict the amount
within reasonable points. The most
obvious means of preventing an ex-
cessive secretion of water on the skin
is to restrict the actual intake of fluid
Into the body. In hot weather most
people drink a great deal more than
they do on other occasions, and it Is
quite certain that the more we drink
the greater the thirst, and consequent-
ly there Is a tendency for the amount
to increase in somewhat alarming
ratio.
In hot countries it Is found that the
best way to prevent thirst Is to re-
strict the Intake of fluid to a very con-
siderable degree. This Is certainly a
very disagreeable form cf moral self-
discipline in the first Instance, but af-
ter the Initial discomforts have been
overcome, the reward Is quite com-
mensurate with the trouble taken.
Whatever view may be taken with re-
gard to the amount of fluid actually
taken, there can be no doubt whatso-
ever thst alcoholic beverages of every
kind have far more potent Influences
on the production of sweat than have
simple teetotsl or non-alcoholic bever-
ages, such as lemonade or diluted lime
Juice.
Food also has a very Important in-
fluence, for by Its combustion within
the body there is a corresponding pro-
duction of heat which has to be dis-
sipated In some way or other. A very
restricted diet should therefore always
be enjoined In hot weather. Vege-
tables and fruit, which consist for the
most part of water and contain but
little combustible material, are ob-
viously adapted to the conditions of
high atmospheric temperatures. Ani-
mal food, eggs, butter, oils, and fats
of all kinds, Inasmuch as their com-
bustion Is effected with the produc-
tion of much heat, should be avoided
as far as possible.
Exercise, although it must be ad-
mitted that it Is temporarily accompa-
nied by the production of free perspi-
ration. Is of all means the best for
producing a subsequent lowering of
the bodily temperature and for limit-
ing the secretion of the sweat glands,
and this Is so for the reason that the
combustible material in the body la
used up in the production of actua
work Instead of being converted di-
rectly Into heat, which must be dissi-
pated by means of the evaporation of
sweat.
In an Eastern Walled City.
The gates of all walled cities—
Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, Tangier,
Malta, Gibraltar and other eastern
cities—are closed at night and not
opened again until sunrise, and In the
Moorish cities of the Interior there
are^lso gates built across the nar-
row streets at frequent Intervals
throughout the city, which are locked
at night, effectually preventing thr
circulation of the people.
The Immortal John.
"Now, Harold,* asked an Evanston
teacher, "can yon tell me who signed
the Declaration of Independence?"
’’Yea, Miss Blankston, John Han-
cock and a lot of other men, hut
0on‘t remember their names"
RAILROAD 19 LOST
SHORT LINE BUILT IN SIBERIA
ENTIRELY DISAPPEARS.
Engineers Explain Incident as Caused
Chiefly by Ties Taking Root and
Spreuting in the
Ground.
Near Irkutsk in Central Siberia is a
series of rapids on the Angtara river.
After many disasters, the river trans-
port companies decided In the early
’70s to build a short railroad for trans-
shipment of freight around the rapids.
The 12-mile road was probably the
first railroad built in Asia outside of
India and certainly the first one built
n northern Asia.
There was no regular service, about
‘.wo trips each way being made a
week, as cargo offered. With the im-
provement of the roads through this
region by the Russian government,
‘.raffle on this part of the river was
gradually abandoned and the railroad
finally fell Into disuse. The locomotive
was acquired by a farmer to be used
ince a year to drive a threshing ma-
chine, the cars were taken off,on
barges and towed away, and the line
abandoned.
Some 15 years later, writes L I-o-
llan In the Electrical Review, the lo-
cating engineers of the Siberian rail-
road, entering this part of Siberia,
heard rumors of a railroad which bad
existed many years previously. This
is a vast region of sierra, forest, tun-
dra, steppe and—here and there—of
rinc (untranslatable—literally “quick
mud”), and presented great difficulties
for railroad construction. News of an
abandoned line which had been suc-
cessfully operated was, therefore, re-
ceived with much Interest and search
was made for the road.
The freight sheds were finally dis-
covered and then the line of the road
marked by the clearing In the forest,
but no trace of the rails or roadbed
could be found. The right of way was
much overgrown with underbrush and
bordered with the dense forest, was
almost as black and cold as a moun-
tain tunnel, the sun being Just visible
lighting up the topmost branches of
the giant trees. The railroad Itself
had completely disappeared. Not a
rail, not a sleeper, only an occasional
suggestion now and then of what had
once been rude cross drainage ditches.
In an effort to find the track, picks
were driven as far as they would go
Into the earth,- only to bare masses of
tangled roots. The railroad was lost.
It could not have been burnt up, be-
cause there had been no fires, nor
stolen and carried off piecemeal, for
the region was totally lacking in popu-
lation. Moreover, the old freight
houses remained with their locks In-
tact and packages of overlooked goods
In good condition within them. It Is
believed to have been a case of grad-
ual subsidence.
The unballasted track through the
forest gradually depressed by a few
years’ traffic, naturally became a
drainage conduit for the surface water
of the forest, rendering in time the
subsoil spongy throughout. The sig-
nificance of the fact that the line was
much overgrown lies in the fact that
this undergrowth probably owed much
of Its origin and profusion to the tak-
ing root of the submerged tree length
ties. There was never any ballast and
In some unusually warm summer It Is
probable that the watersoaked tree
sleepers, weighted down by the cum-
brous pig iron rails, sank beneath
‘.he surface and there sprouted.
Discouraging Train Robbers.
The only Instance of a hold-up of
a railway train In Canada resulted In
the arrest and conviction of three
men, who were sentenced to life and
15-year terms in the penitentiary. Of
course, they want to take an appeal,
but that is not a matter of right in
Canada, and they are complaining at
this denial of the ordinary privileges
which criminals enjoy In this country.
They should have thought of this
before plying their Industry In Can
ad* —
HEAD COVERED WITH HUMOR.
Bothered with Itching for a Long Time
—Kentucky Lady New Completely
Well—Cured by Cutieura.
"After using Cutieura Soap, Oint-
ment and Pills, I am very glad to say
I am entirely relieved of that itching
humor of the head and scalp which I
was bothered with quite a length of
time. I did not use the Cutieura
Remedies more than three times be-
fore I began to get better, and now
I am completely well. I suffered with
that humor on my head, and found no
relief until I took the Cutieura Reme-
dies. 1 think I used several cakes of
Cutieura Soap, three boxes of Oint-
ment and two vials of Pills. I am
doing all I can to publish the Cutieura
Remedies, for they have done me
good, and 1 know they will do others
the same. Mrs. Mattie Jackson, Mor-
tonsvllle, Ky., June 12, 1805.”
Foreign Bern Men of Fame.
Of the 300.000 Canadians engaged
In business or following professional
pursuits In the United States many
hold prominent posts. "Who’s Who
in America’’ mentions 245 Canadians.
Allowing one-eighth of those born in
Great Britain but brought up In and
theiefore rightly to be credited to
Canada, the number of Canadians be-
comes 276. or 2.3 for every 10,000
Canadians in the United States. With
this may be compared the British rate
per 10,000 of 2.2, that of 2.1 for the
Dutch, that of .5 for Swedes, and
that of .9 for native Americans (black
and white), or 1.9 for native white
Americans.
Grocer Was Getting Even.
"That was tit for tat with a ven-
geance,” said Walter Christie, the au-
tomobllist, apropos of a quarrel be-
tween two French chauffeurs. "It re-
minds me of a grocer I used to know
In Paint Rock. This grocer went over
to the Jeweler's one day to get a new
crystal put on his watch. The latter
as he fitted and cleaned the crystal
suddenly flushed. He bit his Up and
frowned. His hand trembled so that
he could hardly go on with his task.
Finally, handing the watch to the gro-
cer, the Jeweler said In a restrained
voice: ‘Beg pardon, but didn’t I Just
see you put a couple of rings and A
scarfpln In your pocket?"
‘‘ Sure you did,’ said the grocer,
boldly. ‘When you come to my place
aren't you always putting things la
your mouth?’ ”
A WINNING START.-
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Make*
Nerve Force for the Day.
Everything goes wrong if the break-
fast lies in your stomach like a mud
pie. What you eat does harm if you
can't digest it—it turns to poison.
A bright lady teacher found this to
be true, even of an ordinary light
breakfast of eggs and toast. She
says:
“Two years ago I contracted a very
annoying form of indigestion. My
stomach was in such a condition that
a simple breakfast of fruit, toast and
egg gave me great distress.
“I was slow to believe that trouble
could come from such a simple diet
but finally had to give It up, and
found a great change upon a cup of
hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with
cream, for my morning meal. For
more than a year I have held to this
course and have not suffered except
when Injudiciously varying my diet.
"I have been a teacher for several
years and find that my easily digested
breakfast means a saving of nervous
force for the entire day. My gain of
ten pounds in weight also causes ms
to want to testify to the value of
Grape-Nuts.
“Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our
table.’’
Naue given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich,
“There's a reason." Read the little
book. “The Road to WeUville,” la
phis.
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Noel, C. L. The Mountain Park Herald. (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1906, newspaper, August 16, 1906; Mountain Park, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853696/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.