The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 12, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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May Sell.
It is learned from the Osage
nation that a proposition is to be
again submitted to the Osage
tribe of Indias in which the}' are
to be allowed to allot their entire
reservation among- themselves
and sell all but their homesteads.
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A Close Call.
Earl Cook came near being
killed last Tuesday. He was on
a step ladder helping to wire the
AVilkie building on North Second
street, when the ladder toppled
overthrowing him upon the floor.
It was a close call, but we are
glad to state that no serious con-
sequences are looked for.
Corner Stone Laid.
The corner stone of the new
Zion M. E. church, at the corner
of Oak and Vilas, was laid last
i Sunday with impressive cere-
/ monies by the colored Masons of
Guthrie, Perry, Oklahoma City
and Langston. The members of
that church are to be congratu-
lated upon the erection of so im-
posing an edifice.
lVhy, One Book Agent Qolt.
Several senators were discussing in
the cloakroom their experiences in get-
ting rid of objectionable visitors. The
talk recalled an episode in the life of
the late Justice Field of the Supreme
Court, whose temper was of the most
irascible kind. He had given instruc
tions to his servant on a certain morn-
ing that he was not to be disturbed
Presently there came a ring at the door
bell and an aggressive book agent ap-
peared.
"I want to see Justice Field," he
, said.
* "You can not see him," was the re
ply.
"1 must see him."
"Impossible."
The conversation grew more em-
phatic, until finally the persistent book
agent's demands echoed through the
house. At that moment Justice Field,
who had been attracted by the alter
cation, appeared at the head of the
stairs.
"William," he said, in a fiercely an
gry tone, "show the brazen, interna!
scoundred up to me; if you cannot
handle him, I will."
The book agent made no further ef
fort to break into the justice's pres
ence.
Oltleftt Town in Illinois.
The assertion is made by Pekin,
Jacksonville, and other papers that,
since Kaskaskia vanished from the
map, the oldest town in Illinois is
Mackinaw, in Tazewell county, which
was founded in 1823, and contained a
courthouse as early as 1825. Lewis
town, although that city's papers have
not made denial of the Mackinaw
story, is one year older than the for-
mer Tazewell county capital, if writers
of Fulton county history have not err
ed, and the first courthouse there was
built in 1823. Mackinaw must wait
until Lewistown has followed Kaskas
kia to oblivion before claiming jiosi
tion on the top shelf in the state cab
inet of antiquities.—Canton, 111., Keg
lster.
Newspapers In Fln'^na.
There will soon be no newspaper*
left in Finland if the Russian govern
ment continues its crusade. Two dai-
lies, Phojalainen and Wiborgliladet,
have been suppressed, and the publi-
cation of four other papers has. been
suspended for periods of from fifteen
days to four months.
American flops.
The American hop fields emploj
about 240,000 men, women and chil
dren as pickers alone, for thi e ar
72,000.000 hop vines to be stripp i!. an
the crop in a good season i.- .. •
$16,000,000.
A Docile Metal Ii Got.I
The quality which makes gold the
most valuable of the metals is its do-
cility. The cunning hammer of th<
smith can "teach" it almost anything
The more stubborn metals crumble af-
ter they have been reduced to a cer-
tain point of finesess, but gold can be
hammered into a sheet so infinitely
fine that 282,000 of them piled one
upon the other would not be an inch
thick! And a flake of gold tiny as a
pinhead can be drawn out, in a tiner
thread than ever was spun in a spider
thread, to a length of 500 feet.—St
Nicholas.
KILL ALL MOSVUITOKf- POLYGAMY DYING OH
ARE ACTIVE AGENTS FOR PROPAGA
TION OF YELLOW FEVER.
nvefttlgutlcn Carried on in Havana Prov*
the Truth of Thin Statement—Spr«a
of Malaria Alao Traced to Thl
rernicious Insect.
Some curious and even amazing in
formation comes from Havana as i>
the disappearance of yellow f* v ■
through the eradication of the mos :u
to. The average number of deaths an
nually in Havana has, through a 1 >
series of years, ranged around
In the year that followed the begin
ning of the war on mosquitoes then
were but five. The idea that the
"terrors of the night" are the soli
carriers of the yellow scourge is no;
new. It was put forth definitely '■
Dr. Finlay twenty years ago. Kv
now it is doubtful if it would hav<
received any attention from medical
men or the health boards if it were
not for similar results in another field
The work of Major Ronald Ross, of
the distinguished Dr. Koeh, and-es
pecially of an untiring band of Italian
bacteriologists, has conclusively dem-
onstrated that the mosquito is the
infecting agent in malaria, intermit-
tent fever and all its varied forms.
A year ago the army authorities at
Havana threw aside the usual (and
useless) precautions against yellow
fever and began a merciless cam-
paign for the extermination of the
mosquito there, with a view of test-
ing Dr. Finlay's theory as to yellow
fever. Every yellow fever victim was
isolated from possible contact by
means of netting, the house thor-
oughly fumigated, and the insects, so
far as possible, killed off. Bogs and
stagnant pools were filled up. Kero-
sene was employed extensively, where
filling was too expensive. Ponds
were stocked with surface-feeding
fish, which ate up the larvae as soon
as laid. The result is indicated above.
In another year yellow fever will
be as little known in Cuba, and, we
hope, in all the rest of the world, as
smallpox in well-bred places now. Con-
currently with the disappearance of
the chief scourge of the tropics will
go the second—malaria. The variety
of mosquito which carries the one
disease does not carry the other. But
the two may breed in the same pool.
The only safe way Is to kill all uao -
quitoes.—Harper's Weekly.
RREAD and butter state.
New Name G;dntd for Minnesota by It.
Hair/ l'rodoct# and Flour.
Minnesota has heretofore been
known as the Gopher State. Now it is
beginning to be called the Bread and
Butter States. The reason of the
change becomes clear whe it is satd
that last year its mills turned out 26,-
630,000 barrels of flour and there were
churned in the state 50,000,000 pounds
of butter.
In the produce of spring wheat, Min-
nesota stands at the head of the states
of the country and its Hour mills are
noted not only throughout the North-
west, but in foreign countries as well
The extensive development of its dairy
interests is comparatively recent.
The combination of wheat and flour
with milk and butter is more clearly
marked in Minnesota than in any other
state. New York and Illinois are im-
portant dairy states, but the value of
the wheat crop in New York is less
than one-third the value of its oat
crop, and less than one-eighth the
value of the hay crop, wheat being now
one of the minor agricultural products
of New York, once the chief wheat
state.
Illinois raiser, a fair amount of wheat
but the corn crop, which is of very
much more importance, yields in a
year ?8 to every dollar received from
the product of wheat.
TURKISH WOMEN COPYING THEIR
EUROPEAN SISTERS.
Rich Wife Now Demands a Home ot
Her Own, and the Cn*t I. Too Great
for the Followers of Mahomet—In-
novations in Costume* *
"Polygamy is fast dying out anions
the Turks, and not on account of any
change In moral standards but because
in the attitude ol the women them
selves. Formerly a man's four or five
wives dwelt amicably under one roof,
but now every wife? demands a home
of her own, and the impossibility o:'
supporting so many homes is compel-
ling the average Turk to limit his
harem to one wife."
This new proof of the civilizing in
Iluence of woman was given by Mis?
Florence A. Fensham. dean of the
American College for Girls at Con
stantinople, in a talk before th
1 liiuue for Political Education in New
York on "The Outlook for the \yoman
of the Orient."
Another statement that seemed novel
to many In the audience was: "The
Turks as a race are of fair complexion,
with blue .eyes, and are delightful peo-
ple to know. They are truthful, hon-
est, and hospitable in a high degree.
In those raspects the mass of the
Turks those ofthe uppermiddle class
—differs greatly from the government;
but a nation must be judged, not by its
highest nor its lowest but by the great
el iss between.
"There is a general impression
abroad that Turkish women are shut
up behind the lattice windows of the
h >r : i and have little freedom to go
:ibout. This is far from correct. The
Do phoniB steamers are crowded with
them; they jostle you on every hand
in the narrow streets of Constanti-
noph Veiled they must be, but veiled
t y go about with a freedom greater
i .in that assured any European wom-
an. for to molest a Moslem woman
means death to a Turk and serious
eon. equences to a fo-eigner.
"It is an acknowledged fact that the
women of Turkey control most of the
;o\i nment appointments. To quote
from a work recently published by one
long resident of the country, 'The
wf.:uen hold ultimate sway over the
conduct of the men. The tangled in-
trigues for place and power which
center in the harem form the key to
many vicissitudes of Turkish his-
tory.' "
Even the dress of the women of the
harem, said MiBS Fensham, shows
their growing independence. A few
years ago every woman wrapped her-
lf before going out In an upper gar-
ment that completely enshrouded her
head and was not to he removed until
;;he was again in the house. Now all
tin younger women have adopted a
looser head covering, that they drop
al will when on the Bosporus steam-
is for a pleasure trip or resting else-
where. Several edicts were issued by
(Ik sultan against the innovation, but
after a few months of obedience the
■ omen would quietly resume their new
headdress until another edict banished
it for a time. At last he became
wearied of the struggle and the mod-
ern fashion has become a settled
thing.
In Memory of Anneke Jans.
A tablet to the memory of Anneke
Jans, "wife of Rev. Everardus Bogar-
dus, and the most famous woman in
New Amsterdam, 1639," has been sunk
into the wall of No. 23 Whitehall
street, New York city, a tremendous
red brick building, which occupies tin
site of lier humble home and its sur-
rounding gardens. This is the pious
work of the Knickerbocker chapter ol
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion. As for Anneke, her later fame
conies from the fact that the heirs ol
her body have been turning up evei
the nineteenth century was
to get a slice of the property ol
• >£ig 10 get a si
infinity cliurch.
Churches of Australia.
Australia 'has proportionately mort
churches than any other country, the
number being 6,013, or 210 to every
100,000 people. England has 144
churches to every 100,000 people, Rus-
sia only fifty-five to the saiu number.
Three State* Out of Debt*
There are three states which have
do debt—Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois.
There are three states which have al-
most no debt—California, Montana
ind Nevada.
What woman says to her fond lover
ihould be written on air or the swift
tfater.
A newly married couple always
magine they are living on love until
ihe first butcher's bill is handed In.
Their Consolation.
They wero tossing about on th«
wild and restless ocean in a small,
open boat, at least 100 feet from the
beach. He was struggling manfully
to iattle with the surging waves and
to plill for the shore; she was sitting
in a heap in the stern of the frail
harque, holding on like grim death,
anil mentally vowing that she would
never again be tempted by her lover's
daring spirit to venture so far from
land.
"I know we shall go over," she
shrieked, as the boat gave another
lurch. "Oh, George, try and manage
it!"
"I will," replied he, firmly. "I could
get along splendidly if the waves did
not make it go all ways at once. Don't
be afraid, Sarah. We're getting near
er, aren't we?'
"A little. Oh, George, what shall
we do if the boat is lost?"
"Don't you worry yourself about
t'.iat in , dear," said George, soothing-
ly. "You mustn't worry yourself
about other people's uusiness. It isn't
our boat."
Anil he continued his fight with the
cruel, remorseless wares.
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