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FINE MONUMENT ERECTED TO
MEMORY OF VIRGINIA CADETS
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A CHINESE EXECUTION.
Party of Americans Witnesses the Decapitation in the Market
Place of a Batch of Condemned Pirates—Sight
Too Much for Western Nerves.
(Special Correspondence )
It was a beautiful spring morning, tor the continuance of close relations
;kis of which I write, and the wide
larhor of Cheefoo was tilled with the |
between the head and shoulders of his
excellency, the viceroy of Shantung'
province, the result was an over*
'raft of many nations. There, strong j helming victory for the properly con-
ind steady, blew the double cross of sttt„tetl authorities.
With one exception, the condemned
men seemed to bo between thirty and
Nvwmari&t Battle ffofflMWT
The above statue, representin'-’
"Virginia Mourning Her Dead,” wa
recently unveiled at the Virginia Mil
Itary Institute, Lexington, Va It if
erected on the campus of the ground
to the memory of the cadets "ho fell
in the battle of Newmarket, Va„ May
15, 1864. it was executed und pre-
sented by Sir Moses Id/, ok ic 1 ■ uh
SCIENTISTS ALL AT
American sculptor, who was a cadet
iibnself and present at tlio battle.
Young Thomas Jefferson, the Riot
grandson of the author of the declar-
ation of independence, a roommate of
the sculptor, was stricken down and
died in his arms. Many of his oth«*r
classmates fell around him. hut he
and others eanio out of the battle un-
scathed.
FAULT. I STRUGGLE WITH A TELEPHONE.
Unable to Account for Movement of
New Star.
Two years ago a new star biased
out in constellation Perseus. Such
new slnrs are by no means rare, but
this was so great and varied in bril-
liancy so rapidly that it was specially
noteworthy. Soon after the outburst
that made the star so bright li was
found to be surrounded by a nebula,
and this nebula spreud outward
around the nucleus, gradually as seen
by the naked eye, bees use of the
star’s distance, but really with im-
mense speed.
In fact, it has been calculated that
this speed was so great that It- seems
impossible that the spread of the ne-
bula could have been due to the mo-
tion of ordinary matter at all. It. has
been suggested that the apparent mo-
tion was really only a progressive il-
lumination of the nebulous matter by
light from the exploded star. But
Prof. Simon Newcomb calculates that
even this will not account for the mo-
tion, for it was at least Icn times that
of light.
We have thus actually observed a
motion in the heavens that vastly ox
ceeds any other that we have ever
heard of, whether It be of projected
matter or of ether-waves. What it is.
wo cannot at present even conjecture.
— Success.
Secretary Shaw Telia Good Story on
Iowa Clergyman.
Secretary Shaw liar just returned
to his desk in Washington alter a
round of visits to his old friends in
Iowa, bringing with him a story
which he picked up in the llawkeyo
Stale. The secretary visited a col-
lege president, who is also a •'rev-
erend.” and was Invited to stay for
supper with the doctor und his fami-
ly. A telephone had just been added
to tho luxuries of the household and
tho preacher was at tho moment
somewhat wrought up in an effort to
communicate with a near-by town. He I
had sal at tho telephone desk with
the receiver to his ear, held in place
hy resting his elbow on the table, und
ejaculating "Hello” with nearly every
breath, for something llko fifteen
minutes. In the meantime his wife
had been urging him to leave the in
strument and eomo to the supper
table. This he finally did. Ho sat
down and the family composed itself
tor the usual grace. The doctor rest-
ed his elbow on the table, placed his
hands to his head, and. greatly to
the suprlse and horror of tho family,
he ejaculated in a subdued tone,
tone, "Hello!"
1,Tr. Thotnpklns finished reading tho
article In the monthly magazine with
great satisfaction.
“That's what should he done In ev-
ery family," commented Mr. Thump-
kins. “It’s a fine thing.”
“Don't you want to hoar the new
records I bought to-day for the phono-
graph machine?" said Mrs. Thompkins,
scenting trouble.
"Not now, my dear," replied her j
ilege. "My, my, what a fine idea That !
is. Wli.v don't ail families iutro- j
duce it? Then there would he none of j
the terrible holocausts we hear about I
so much.”
“Goodness,” said Mrs. Thompkins,
suddenly. "We promised to go over
and call on the Smiths to-night. We'll
have to hurry.”
But Mr. Thompkins was not to be di-
verted. “Tills magazine, Mrs. Thomp-
ldns, presents an article which to the
ordinary mind would be a mere piece
of pleasant summer reading, but to tho
mind trained to think and pondor deep-
ly it is full of fruitful and practicable
lessons."
"Did you match that ribtiou I gave
ycm this morning?” asked Mrs. Thomp-
kins.
“Ah,” pursued Mr. Thompkins, “it
would take me too long, my dear, to
tell you all that there is in this ar-
ticle, but briefly it is this: . It relates
how ships guard themselves against
fire panics by requiring their crews
to drill frequently and to go through
Just the same maneuvers that they
would wore an actual conflagration
I raging on the vessel. Now, Mrs.
Thompkins, suppose flat dwellers
"Tbe first lesson is to keef
sternly,
cool."
“Thompkins’ flat is on fire,” some
one was shouting outside the door.
"Send for the fire department; kick
in 1 tie door; rescue lie' women."
"Come in this way,” some one was
bawling in tho rear. "Smash in the
windows.”
The cook came charging down the
hall with a big cut-glass punch bowl
She tumbled over Thompkins, and he
and the cook and the punch bowl i
mixed in a fierce scuffie on the fl’jor j
Mrs. Thompkins, rushing wildly in to |
quiet the disturbance, fell over the j
cook and Mr. Thompkins and the |
punch bowl, and added to the merri I
ment. The maid was still screaming
wildly in the parlor and the hubbub
outside increased. The front door
gave way with a crash and the janitor
and half a dozen neighbors came pour-
ing in. Two of the men seized the
maid and rescued her in the most ap-
proved style. Unfortunately, tkoy
slipped on the top landing and Uie
three rolled down the stairway with
many pleasing crashes that added to
the shrieks and cries that were now
resounding through the building as
tho frightened flatters hurried out or
rushed back and forth, carrying down
their belongings.
Some of the invaders thoughtfully 1
saved vases and clocks by hurling 1
them through the windows, while two
others fought with the piano and
finally succeeded in getting it wedged
in the hall outside and cutting off the
escape of four women from the fiat
above, who sat down on the floor and
;he English standard; here flapped the
mucy tricolor of France; close at
hand China's royal dragon rose and
fell in undulating folds. Almost with-
in speaking distance the Stars and
Stripes floated over one of Uncle
Sam’s own majestic battleships, and
Trom the flagstaff of tho little Nippon-
Maru that has brought us to this port
Japan’s full sun shono forth from its
background of snowy white.
Upon our arrival in Cheefoo the day
before, we had called at the Aincrlcau
consulate and had been told that upon
forty years of age. This exception was
a lad of not more than seventeen, and
while his comrades were going to their
fate with a stolid resignation, and
even a sort of rude dignity, this boy
had evidently worked himself up Into
a species of hysteria, and was alter-
nately shouting, laughing and singing
at the top of his voice. No one tried
to silence him. nor seemed to pay the
slightest attention to him, for it was
too patent that he was making a last
should be so instructed. Then when a screamed shrilly that they were being
fire came they would fail into their
stations at the tap of tho gong and
there would be no panic and likely no
destruction of property. I should like
to incorporate the system used on
board ships in this flat building, and
the first step will require me to in-
struct my own immediate household.”
Mrs. Thompkins sighed and prepared
her mind for the ordeal, while Thomp-
kins stepped briskly about and took in
the situation.
He summoned the cook from the
kitchen and had her and the maid
come into the library.
Mary,” said Mr. Thompkins. "I
CHILD VIOLINIST IS LIKED.
Kun Arpad, the Hungarian Virtuoso,
Plays Sweetly and Simply.
Run Arpad, the new child violin vir
tuoso, is making a decided success in
New York, largely because of tho
great difference between his playing
and that of other virtuosos of the
Hungarian school who have been lure
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roasted alive.
Thompkins gained his feet as the
firemen, who had now arrived, broke
in the rear windows and led a hose
into the building.
“Get out, you fools!" roared Thomp-
kins. "A man’s house is his castle;
get out or I’ll have you arrested.”
He's nutty,” yelled some kind-
hearted neighbor. “Seize him, men,
and then put out the fire.”
Thompkins stood at bay with a
chair, but a fireman ran in under his
guard and toppled him over, and he
was hustled down the back stairs,
Mandarin With Attendants.
the following morning, which was now frenzied effort to go
here, there would be executed in the
public marset place the second batch
of pirates, who, a little time before,
bad been taken prisoners in “flagrante
delicto,’’ and to whom but short shrift
had been shown.
These pirates were part of a band
that had for several years infested the
lower reaches of the Yellow river,
doing a great deal of damage to mer-
chant vessels, and occasionally, in the
absence of victims better worth their
while, swooping down upon the towns
and villages that lie along the banks
of that great stream.
At last, grown bold with long im-
punity, they attacked a fleet of boats
which, under convoy of a Chinese ship-
of-the-line, was carrying supplies to
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recently. Arpad plays very simply
and sweetly and ignores the fantastic
flourishes and feats in which Kubelic
delightF. Nevertheless IBs technique
is perfect and he himself, though
aged only 8 years and -v protege of
Emperor Francis Joseph, iu unaffect-
ed and unassuming.
Bishop Clark Reaches Age of 92.
Dr. Thomas March Clark, who has
been the Protestant Episcopal bishop
of Rhode Island since 1851, and is the
presiding bishop of that church in the
United States, is coming near in
lenghtli of years to the record of Leo
XIII. Bishop Clark entered his nine
ty-second year last Saturday, and dur-
ing his day'.'ght hours he sat on ihe
veranda of his cottage anil there re-
ceived congratulatory letters and tel-
egrams. He was spared the fatigue
of any formal observance of the an
niversary. Age has not robbed him
of mental power or of the wit and
gracious kindliness which have made
him beloved, albeit the care of his
diocese has been passed to a co-ad-
J!*»jr.
Hatched in Peculiar Way.
A suburban Philadelphia banker
tells this story to illustrate his hens'
prowess in egg-laying; “Some timo
ago.” he Bays, "an egg was left for a
nest ogg in tho place where my liens
lay. This nest egg, the oilier day.
hatched, and 1 have now one lonely
little chick, which several dozen
mothers care for. Here is the ex-
planation of the miracle: My liens
are such steady layers that one would
no sooner get off the nost egg. having
deposited a ftv h e;,g beside it. than
another would flip on, and in her turn
lay. Thus by dozens of different
mothers the solitary egg was hatched.
Though uo one hen ’sat’ on it. never-
theless it wftB kept always warm, and
in due time there stepped forth from ;
it a lonely but vigorous little chick."'
Interesting Golden Wedding.
Interesting services wore held the
other afternoon in old St. Paul's
chnreh. Broadway, New York, in con-
nection with .the golden wedding an-
ulversay of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wil-
helm Berg, 78 and 73 years old re-
spectively. Arm in arm they walked
up the entitle aisle that they traversed
half a century before, four children
and live grandchildren acting as es-
cort. The services consisted of pray-
ers. music ami the reading of pass-
ages appropriate to tbe occasion. Rela-
tives and friends of the old couple
filled the church. Mr. Berg is a well-
known composer of church music, and
several of the pieces played were of
his composition.
Our Savior’s Trial.
Interesting ami unusual as an even
ing service was the one recently held
at the Bethany Presbyterian church
of New York, when Walter M. Chand-
ler of tho New York bar delivered his
lecture on "The Trial of Jesus from
a Lawyer's Standpoint.” This lecture,
while reverent and devout in its char-
acter, is a strong presentation of the
totally Illegal nature of that trial. Mr.
Chandler tells In brief and pointed
fashion just what was the Jewish
law about such trials and shows that
almost every step taken at that time
was a violation of the law. From the
have called you in here to-”
“Sure, I don't care if you do,”
quoth Mary. “I was going to quit to-
morry, anyhow. Sure, how anybody
can live wfld an old crank like you
I cud nlver see.”
“Mary, Mary,” expostulated Mr.
Thompkins, gently, “you are quite
wrong. I did not intend to discharge
you. I merely wish to give you a les-
son in what may some day be of great
value. You will stand here by tho
door. Julio, you will go into the par-
lor and take your station by the center
table, and, Mrs. Thompkins, be so
good as to proceed to tli9 dining-room
and wait there until I give you the
word.” The dazed domestics obeyed,
and Mrs. Thompkins sadly moved
down the hall to the dining-room.
“The first thing to remember,” said
Mr. Thompkins, standing in the hall
nnd speaking loud, so that all of his
pupils should hear him, “is that you
must keep cool under all circum-
stances. Then proceed at once to the
spot from which tho alarm is given
and investigate as to its character.
Now, then, you are ready. Very well,
the bedroom bnck of the library is all
ablaze; it is burning fiercely—ha, lire,
Are-”
“Murther!” shrieked the cook, as
she bounced down the hall, knocking
Mr. Thompkins over. “Fire, lire, tire!”
The maid was jumping up and down
by tho side of the center tablo in the
parlor shrieking "Fire!” at the top of
her lungs.
"Stop!” commanded Mr. Thompkins,
LAST WORDS OF GOETHE.
where the Janitor and a fat man sat . . ,
on him and told him to be calm, that ! Belting f°r the use of g
the firemen had arrived, and that the ; Dragon mmself.
building would he saved and that Mrs.
Thompkins had not been injured.
The firemen and a big crowd of
neighbors came hurrying down in a
moment to say they couldn’t find the
fire and to ask who had given the
alarm. Thompkins tried to tell h*.w
he had merely planned to give his
Told by One Whc Was at the Great
Poet's Bedside.
The recent death of the widow of
Gen. Genie Kretzmann in Montre re-
calls the following interesting circum-
stance in relation to Goethe, told hy
her mother. Baroness Guschtadt,
her mother, born Pappenheim, a close
friend of Prince August, and on terms
of familiarity with Goethe and liis
family, used to visit the great poet
frequently in the last ydars of his life.
Tho memoirs of the baroness were
published some timo ago by her grand-
child. Lily Braun, in the twelfth vol-
ume of tho “Goethe Year Book.” Tiie
baroness happened to be present at
the death of Goethe.
"In the last hours of his life,” she
relates, "he stood at the door of hi*
chamber, stretched to his full height,
and he looked unusually tall. It is
possible that he uttered the famous
phrase, ‘More light!’ but the only
words we heard him say distinctly
were the following;
" ‘Now has come the time of great
changes and incarnations!’
“ ‘He died peacefully and without
pain,' said those who were present.
__ but tho wife of Goethe threw herself
Roman standpoint the arraignment weeping upon my ehoulders and said
before Herod and Pilate eo.rid not be through her tears. And his the peo-
ple call an easy death!
designated as trials at all.
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household a tire drill, when Mrs.
Thompkins asked the fat man to make
her husband stop talking, as the ex- i
citement had upset him. Tho fat man j
put a large, greasy hand as big as a |
ham over Thompkins’ mouth, and then j
Mrs. Thompkins said that her maid
had become hysterical at seeing a |
mouse running about the room and,
bad begun to shriek “Fire!” This had j
been heard on the outside and bad '
caused all the excitement The neigh- i
bors commenced carrying their beloag- |
ings back to their flats, and Mrs. ]
Thompkins led her liege hack to their
wrecked apartments.
“Why didn’t you let me tell them the
simple truth?” demanded Mr. Thomp-
kins.
’’Eecause," replied Mrs. Thompkins,
“after the neighbors pick up their
most valued furniture and bric-a-brac,
which they throw out of tho windows
in their excitement, they would come
in hero and hang you to the chande-
lier.”
And Mr. Thompkins concluded that j
his wife was really a practical sort of j
a woman. He also decided to give up |
the matter of Are discipline drill, for |
the time being, at’ieast.
QUITE AN INTERESTING SPOT.
Pleasant Associations Connected Witfii
Pleasant Valley.
Edward W. Townsend, the creator
of Chiinmie Fadden, says that when
he lived In the West as a young man
he was the editor of two weekly pa-
pers—one In Arizona and one In Cal-
ifornia. Each was in a little town,
and between the two towns lay tho
ridge of the Sierras, which was the
boundary of the two states. Every
week it was necessary for the editor
to go by stage from or.e town to tho
other. “Being very young then,” says
Mr. Townsend, "I was very chesty and
very proud of being the editor of two
papers. I always took the box seat on
the stage as a sort of testimonial tc
my own importance, and upon one
such trip 1 found seated beside me the
most prominent citizen of one of the
towns—tbe proprietor of its most pros-
perous faro game. On tbe way I was
very talkative, and he was very si-
lent He was one of those men whose
silence is eloquent. As we drove along
I remarked a pretty little valley and
called my neighbor’s attention to it,
as I had done to everything on tho
road. ‘What a lovely spot,’ I said.
"’That thar valley?’ said my neigh-
bor; •yes, it’s a very pretty valley.
That thar valley is where we shut tho
last editor.' "—New York Times.
Not only did those
I audacious sea rovers attack these
1 boats, with their rich treasure of
j merchandise and food, but they cap-
I tui'ed them every one. incidentally
j wiping oft the face of the waters the
! guardian vessel and its crew.
Naturally this was felt to be carry-
i ing matters too far, and the governor
of Shantung was notified by the im-
perial government that if he could not
' prevent such unpleasant occurrences,
! it. would he considered tantamount to
a confession that his head was of no
further use in its present place, and it
would ho promptly removed.
to his death as
a brave pirate should, and his dread-
ful mirth did not cease until the ex-
ecutioner stood before him. For the
space of a breath there was a terrible
pause, while the man and the hoy
looked into each other’s eyes, then the
signal was given, the hapless creature
was jerked to his knees, his head was
pulled forward, the broad sword cut
heavily through the air, and another
headless body dropped prone upon the
ground.
This is the method usually followed
at public executions of this sort. The
men who are to be decapitated are
placed in a line at sufficient inter-
vals from ore another so that tho
sweep of the executioner’s arm will
not be interfered with. As the time
of each one comes, an assistant
pushes the man to his knees, another,
who stands in front, pulls the head
of tho unhappy wretch forward by
bis cue, so that the neck will be well
Btretehed and present an easy mark
to the descending sword, one stroke
of which usually completes the grim
tragedy.
The seventeen-year-old boy was the
third to die, and as the assistant
threw the bleeding head to the ground
the nerve and stomachs of our little
group failed utterly, and turning, we
pushed our dizzy way out of the
crowd, away from tho dreadful spot
where the sickening fumes of freshly-
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. Of course the governor wished to
avoid such a catastrophe, as Irrepar-
able as disagreeable, so a fleet of de-
shed blood rose up to pollute tho
sweet morning air.
One dreadful peculiarity was no-
coy merchant vessels was at once fit- ticed in connection with the dccapi-
ted out and sent up the Yellow river,
and when the pirates bore down upon
it, instead of the valuable and harm-
less goods they had a right to assume
would he stored in the hold of these
innocent and apparently defenseless
boats, they found them to be filled
with Chinese soldiers as courageous
as the marauders.
The battle that followed, when the
pirateB discovered their fatal mistake,
was a fearful one, but fortunately for
the peace of the Yellow river, for
the safety of Chinese commerce, and
tated bodies, and that was that the
instant a head was struck off, the bod”
itself, that had been inclined forward
to receive the blow, recoiled into an
unright position, and for a brief mo-
dest continued to kneel erect,
bloody and motionless before the shud-
dering spectators. This was later ex-
plained to us as the recoil from the
extreme nervous and physical tension
that had preceded the moment of
death, both mind and body being
sternly braced to meet and suutain thl
fatal blow.
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