Chandler Daily Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 91, Ed. 1 Monday, July 18, 1904 Page: 4 of 4
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That Cth^r Si^e of Jordan.
Oh, lh(» other side o’ Jordan may 1><* britfhl an bright kin be.
Hut 1 ain’t a faultin’ this old world; shea bright enough fer me!
You’ve got to be a Hwinime** when you atiike that Juapei bea.
Yonder, on the other aide o’ Jordan.
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I make no doubt the country is a country out o' night
With all them fields o' livin’ green an’ rivers o delight ; 1
ltul I jest ain't in no hurry fer to rise an take my flight
Youdcr, ou the other aide o Joitlau!
1 know Ilia time they're havin’ m the sweet old by an by
Musi wl the stars to darn in' in llie blue hen.I u the aky,
but I'm jest no good .11 (lyin' an' a angel a got to ny
Yonder, on the other side o’ Jordan.
IV.
Oh, no matter what the trouble, an’ no matter where I roam,
’I'liia world to me ia sweeter than 1U sweetest .............
a » ■ 1 m ;* »;ii t lw>v holler, (oiue on home —•
. never ahull resign it till they holler.
Yonder, on the othii side o Jordan.
Atlanta Constitution.
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FROR7J PERIL
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BY ThOnaj H. BRrtINERD.
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UK parly numbered about
A L seven men: Thomas Cady,
* m q the engineer in charge of
( 1 K the surveying of the new
road to tlie Geysers; Shel-
ley, rather loo old for such mountain
work, but careful and reliable in bis
reckonings, Denis, who was chain
bearer, and four or five oilier men who
had been engaged In Cloverdale. Shel-
ley and Denis had worked for many
years with C’ndy, and respected him as
a just though severe man.
Besides those already mentioned
there was Cady's brother, a tall young
fellow, nineteen years old. lie was at
home from Yale on his summer vaca-
tion anil laid chosen to spend it out
with his brother on this surveying
trip.
Me worked or not as lie felt Inclined,
hut working or idling he was the life
and pleasure of the party. He had
merry brown eyes, blond hair and the
gayest laugh that ever woke the echoes
of mountain or vale. Itis upper till
shaved tip bore a fringe of silky hair,
rather softening tlie expression of bis
mouth, which had not yet taken its
final masculine expression.
He was a junior at college and car-
ried with him that undcflnnble air of
knowing everything, which always
ieema so droll to men whose knowledge
is based on experience rather than
hook learning. His name was Charles
(lady, but Shelley called him “The
tad," and the other men lntd adopted
the name for hint.
It was the ,°>d of July and bail been a
Scorching day. The engineer's party
ivaa high up on the mountain staking
hut the road. It wound up In a zIg-
tag, going first easterly on a gentle
iiscent, then westerly, each turn gain-
ing a lilllo on the mountain side. They
had been on the presenc section for
tlioiil two weeks, and were nearing
the divide from which the mail would
Descend iuto the valley of the geysers.
The next day being n holiday, Cady
asked the men to work an extra hour,
to Hill they might finish staking up to
(be ridge. They bad driven the Inst
Stake, and. throwing down their tools,
sal down to rest before going down to
rs mp.
Their way had been tortuous nml
Very difficult, because II bad to be eut
llnough the dense chaparral. When
they looked down from their resting
place it seemed Impossible that they
should have to come so far and yet be
no near camp. The wonderful clear-
ness of (lie atmosphere in that country
Is world famed. They could see far
down the mountain the gang of China-
men tvho were employed In the con-
struction of the lowest section of the
toad, alowly wending their way to
their cauip, their pickaxes and shovels
hanging on the ends of bamboo poles
which they carried across their shoul-
ders: higher up. in a ravine through
which a mountain stream ran, was
their own catnp. They had no tent,
rvery man preferring to spread Ills own
Idaitkels wherever the fancy took him.
“Well, boys, we’ve got through n
tough piece of work to-day.” Cady
r>ald, standing up and stretching Ills
units over Ilia bead. “I ntu glad to-
morrow is a holiday, and t suppose you
nre Just as much so. Here goes for
camp.”
Ho struck out down the mountain,
not following the trail, but going
straight down, a» tiearlj as possible. In
n direct lino. The rest tumbled after
him after the manner of tired men who
are through their labor. They had
gone some four or five hundred yards,
iwlten Shelley slopped.
“Who has brought the theodolite?’
lie asked.
Cady slopped al once. No one liad it.
Itents remembered to have seen
leaning against some rocks where they
bail been sitting, but 110 one else knew
anything about it.
Some one must go back; that was
certain. Cady hesitated, the men were
■ II so tired.
“That's all rigtli; 1 will get it. Tom,
■aid Charley
He turned hack and began to climb
the mountain again.
“Good lad, good lad!” said Shelley
“he’ll make a fine man one of these
days.”
The men went on, cnelt moment get-
ting into thicker chaparral. They
threw themselves against it with all
their weight, breaking and forcing
their way, finally emerging at n point
ntiout thirty yards from the apot
where All Lung, the Chinese cook, was
beginning to fry bacon for supper.
1 They went tpiirkly forward and
threw themselves under what shade
they could find, to rest until supper
should bo ready. That is, all except
Denis. He bid been the lust to come
out ef the chaparral.
As be Hung himself against the la
thicket 11 piece of brush struck lit
across the face, making a long, ugt.v
eut, from which the blood ran freely.
He was tired and healed and the pain
made him angry. He put Ills baud up
to bis bleeding cheek and looked up
the mountain at the thick purple
tangle lying In the hot sun.
••Blast you!" lie said; “you'll tear me,
will you?”
Taking a match from Ills pocket, lie
struck it 011 the side of his trousers,
and before any one could see or im-
agine wlmt lie was going to do he had
lighted a branch of greasewood 011 the
edge of the thicket. The flame shot
into the air and leaped from branch
to branch ami from tree to tree. Turn-
ing round, with a loud laugh, be called
out to the other men:
“There'* a bit of a bonfire for the
Fourth of July!"
The next Instant bis arm shrank in
a grasp so fierce that tile bone seemed
to break, tic turned bis eyes up to find
Cady towering over him.
Denis’ face grey gray and flabby in
moment and Ids lower jaw dropped.
•Merciful heavens!” be muttered.
•The Lad!"
Charley Cady bad been rather glad
than otherwise lo turn back for the
theodolite.
Under the Influence of the scene
Charley's eyes grew soft amt tender
with emotion. He drew from the inner
pocket of his blazer a letter, which he
read for the hundreth time, then fold-
ing the blossom of yerlm santa up in it,
put It back in bis pocket and gave him-
self up to a deep reverie.
Suddenly lie became aware that the
keynote was changed; it was no longer
soothing murmur, but ail angry roar.
He looked behind him, down the moun-
tain. Black smoke already filled the
valley, shutting out nil view of the
camp and his companions, anil out
from this pall darted red tongues of
flame.
They ran along the tops of the
bushes: they leaped from one to
another of the oily greasewood trees
in a maddening riot. The whole moun-
tain was 011 fire, and he—where should
lie go, what refuge tould be hope to
find?
He looked about for one moment of
fearful hesitation. Hanging over Ills
head, a hundred yards or so from
where he stood, was n huge rock which
looked as if It bad been rent in twain
by some convulsion of nature. Quick
11s lightning lie decided that bis only
chance to escape the horrid death
which was rushing upon him was to
reach the shelter of this cleft. If cleft
it should prove to be.
Already he was climbing, hnmi over
baud; drawing himself up by bran-
ches, tearing his face amt bauds as
lie went; bearing behind him the hiss-
ing of the fire and the crackling of the
burning twigs. Up, up he struggled;
now the smoke almost blinded him;
the tears were in bis eyes, which
nevertheless kept one spot of gray
rock before them.
The breath entue In great sobs from
bis panting lungs when, even ns the
flames licked around the bushes at its
base, he staggered Into the opening In
the rock and threw himself face down-
ward in the darkness within.
He lay quite still for some time. The
terrible exertions which lie had made
rendered him for the moment uncon-
scious of everything around him-
After a while he raised himself. In-
tending to go further into the opening,
and found that he had fallen iuto some-
thing wet. In a moment he saw that
he was in the entrance of a cave, and
that his hands nml clothes were cov-
ered with fresh blood from the mang-
led remains of a calf, over which he
had stumbled.
The blood was still flowing, and It
was evident that but a few minutes
should have elapsed since the calf bad
been in the fierce claws of the inhab-
itant of the cave.
With a revulsion of sickening horror
lie rushed out toward the open air. but
a wreath of flame that swirled around,
singeing ills hair and eyebrows, drove
him hark.
Creeping close to tile wall, lie shrank
as far as possible from the ghastly re
mains of the calf. He was trembling
now and Icy cold; Itis teeth chattered
and his wild eyes peered into the gloom
from which at every iustant he ex
pected the form of a mountain lion to
leap upon him.
As his eyes hoes me accustomed to the
darkness he found himself looking into
two balls of flame. Low down, they
were, as if the creature were crouch
ing on the ground.
IIow long lie sat there facing those
fiery eyes be did not kuow, but when
ills ears were able to distinguish be-
tween the noises so that he could di-
vide the roar of the Are from tin
throbbing of his own heart, he found
that a soft moaning sound came from
the direction of the watching eyes.
In a few moments his reasoning
facilities resumed their sway. He
recognized this sound; it was fear,
deadly fear. He felt a real sympathy
for the beast, while he cast all anxious
look toward the outer world:
The fire still burned below him, hut
the raging, leaping flames bail passed
and now the wind made a rift I11 the
smoke, aud he gathered all his
strength for one more effort to save
his life. Without one preliminary
movement which might startle the
lion, he sprang to Ills feet and leaped
down tlie mountain.
Below, in the ravine, the group of
horror stricken men bad scarcely
moved. Denis still stood, shrinking
under Cady's vise-like grip. He had
look id once iuto Cady's face, once into
U101 > of the men around him.
ID read his fate and knew that lie
liul nothing to hope for—of mercy
from the one or of assistance fronr the
other. Ills face was ashy, and ills
teeth had bitten through Itis lip. from
which the blood ran into his beard.
Cady leaned forward, straining his
eyes to see through the smoke and
darkness. His breath came hard; the
veins In his forehead were swollen and
almost black.
The smoke lifted for a moment,
showing the blackened mountainside.
Where within an hour had been the
homes of myriads of happy birds and
beasts nothing now remained hut des-
olntion aud death. Cady searched the
ground for anything that should move.
No, there was nothing. He groaned
with 11 sound which was like the snarl
of a wild beast in pain.
Denis heard the click of a revolver
and shut his eyes. At this moment
Shelley laid his baud on Cady’s arm
and pointed upward. Out of the dark-
ness there came a tall figure, leaping,
falling, scrambling up again, and com-
ing down the mountain. ,
Cady's hand involuntarily relaxed
his hold on Denis. The men shouted
and rushed forward, reaching out
their arms, but Denis was the first of
all. He sprang up the hot mountain
side like a monster cat, aud when “The
Lad” fell fainting toward him, he
caught and held him tenderly, and
would not lie assisted hy the others,
hut carried him down, and laid him,
burned and bleeding, hut alive, in his
brother's arms.
Shelley took off Itis hat and stretched
Itis hand toward the sunset sky.
“Thanks io to whom thanks are
due.”
“Amen!" said Cady—New York
News.
A MONKEY'S JOKE.
It Gave Him a Good Dinner* While It
Startled the Cook.
I remember in a description of In-
dia or Ceylon some forty years ago a
story of an Englishman who had a
monkey Looking out of his wondow
one day, he saw his cook getting a
fowl ready for boiling, while tlie mon-
key lay on the ground shamming
death, and a party of crows stood at a
little distance divided between the de-
sire for the kitchen offal and the fear
of the possibly shamming monkey.
One crow more adventurous than the
rest came within the magic distance
and was instantly in the clutch of the
monkey. At the same moment the
cook having finished trussing the fowl,
put it in the pot and went away.
The monkey plucked his crow as he
had Just seen the cook pluck the fowl,
took the fowl out of the pot, put the
crow ill and retired with his exchange.
When the eook came back and saw the
fowl left preparing for ills master's
luncheon turned black lie was, as may
he supposed, struck black with terror
at this manifest intervention of the
evil one.—Loudon Spectator.
A New York paper describe# J.
Pierpout Morgan as “the man who
was.” _ jiv-t
Woman can be so sweet, charming
and fascinatingly lovely. Why is she
ever otherwise? asks the Chicago Itec-
ord-Herald.
Loans for Kussia, Japan and Cuba,
nre being floated in the United States.
Financially, we are at peace with the
whole world and prepared to neeouimo-
date all comers.
The markmanship of the American
navy is surprising the world, and it
should he a matter of no small gratlfi
cation at home. Every war on the wa-
ter since the use of Ironclads began
has demonstrated that the man behind
the gun has more to do with the out-
come than the man that designed
either tlie ship or the ordnance.
The friends of the lamented “Bill"
Nye are glud to learn of a movement
recently started for tile people of Ashe,
ville, N. C„ to erect » handsome monu.
nient over tlie grave of the noted hu-
morist. The State press is supporting
the movement aud there is 110 reason
why a large sain should not he Taised.
Nye's grave is near Fletcher, four-
teen miles from Asheville, and is now
marked by a wooden slao at each end.
A graceful shaft should be erected 10
the memory of the man who made so
many lives brighter by his wit. Now
that his work is to he tardily com-
memorated a fund to assist his widow
would not he amiss.
Prof. W. Le Conte Stevens, acting
on the theory that the metric system
can only he made popular in this coun-
try by adopting its decimal plan w hile
changing the present names cf familiar
weights and measures as little as pos-
sible, suggests the following changes,
says the Youth's Companion: Let
tlie yard he made equal to the meter;
let the foot be made the fourth instead
of the third part of a yard, and let it
have ten instead of twelve inches; let
the pound be made equal to half a
kilogram; let the quart equa. the liter;
let the .011 be 1000 kilograms; let tlie
pint, gallon, peek and bushel be de-
fined in terms of the quart. Professor
Stevens points out that in this way tlie
inch would be shortened less than two
per cent., hut he admits that even this
slight change would inconvenience
mechanical engineer, and machine
manufacturers.
To Tell If a Man Share* Himself.
I can tell in a minute simply by
looking at a man whether he shaves
himself or is shaved by a barber,” said
the wlelder of the razi - and brush
No, it isn’t a question of cleanliness,
uor yet a question of harking tlie face.
There is no reason why a man who is
accustomed to shaving himself should
not make as clean a job of it as tlie
average barber. And yet I can spot
him every time. See that little look
of hair that grows down the side of
tlie face just in front of the ear? Well
wlieu a man is shaved hy a barber
those two looks don't vary in length
more than a sixteenth of an Inch. The
1111111 who shaves himself, on the other
hand, is Invariably lopsided. He al-
ways begins to shave higher up on the
left side of the face than on the right
side, as a consequence of which one
side of tlie face looks longer than the
other. No, I don't know that I can
explain this phenomenon. I only know
that the condition exists."—Philadel-
phia Record.
flow Lout llrainpton Cut a Speech.
Lord Brompton, formerly Sir Henry
Hawkins, the English judge, was pre-
siding over a very long, tedious and
uninteresting trial, and was listening,
apparently with absorbed attention
a protracted and wearying speech from
till eminent counsel, learned In law.
Presently Henry made a pencil memor-
andum, folded it and sent it by the
usher to the lawyer ill question. This
gentleman, on unfolding the paper,
found these words written thereon
"Patience competition. Cold medal.
Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable men-
tion, Job.” Counsel's display of oratory
came lo an abrupt end.
Where Horses Are Cheap.
From six dollars to ten dollars
head is the ruling price for bronchos in
New Mexico. It costs about ten dol-
lars per head additional to round them
up and to have them halter broke.
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(WHIRLS mb boys:
A DIVING HUMPTY-DUMPTY
The instrument used for measuring
the density of water or other liquids
Is called a hydromoter, and It is a very
simple affair, consisting of a glass or
metal float with a stem projecting out
of tlie water. The hydrometer sinks
deeper in light liquids than in heavy
ones, and as the stem is graduated or
marked off by lines like a thermome-
ter the mark to which it sinks gives
us the density of the liquid. The prin-
cipal of tlie instrument is easy to
understand. A floating body is held up
or kept from sinking hy the weight of
the displaced liquid; that is, hy the
can test the truth of the statement
that water is heaviest at thirty-nine
degrees.
The device is merely a blownou,t egg
shell, with tlie holes ill its ends stopped
with wax, and weighted with a bit of
wire or a coin or two. You have a ves-
sel—preferably a tall glass jar—filled
with water which you can bring to the
temperature of thirty-nine degrees or
thereabouts by adding a hit of ioe,
then a dash of warm water, and so on
till you get it right, testing it all the
time with a thermometer. Then adjust
the weight on your egg so that it just
Pfc- ^11
Porfirio Diaz will have been Presi-
dent of Mexico twenty-eight years on
November dO. And everybody expects
him to he elected for another term.
During all his long period of public
service he has been working to estab-
lish a stable government, and to train
his countrymen in the arts of self-rule.
The task lias been difficult, for in his
youth revolutions were as common in
Mexico as they now are in the petty
republics farther south. Whenever he
lias spoken of retiring there has arisen
such a bitter dispute among the aspir-
ants for his place that he has each
time concluded his work was not yet
done. It is evident that he still thinks
it would not take much to stir up
trouble, for at his suggestion the con-
stitution has recently been amended,
extending the president’s term to six
years, and providing for a vice-presi-
dent. Now he can select a candidate
for the second place, a man after his
own heart, aud train him to the duties
of the presidency, so that whatever
may happen to him—he is nearly sev-
enty-four years old and in feeble
health—a peaceable future for his
country will he assured for six years
more.
weight of a quantity of liquid equal in
bulk to the submerged part of the body.
No matter in what liquid the body is
placed, the weight of the displaced
liquid must be the same, equal to the
weight of the body itself, if the latter
is to float at all. Hence it will sink
deeper in a light liquid than in a
heavy one, because it must displace a
greater bulk to make up the required
weight. Of course, if the liquid is too
light the body will be entirely covered
and will then sink to the bottom.
This brings us to a very pretty and
simple device by which, without using
a regular graduated hydrometer, you
floats with a little bit of the shell peep
ing out of the water. Now add crackei
ice to cool the water. Very soon yoi
will 1 ?e the egg sink to the bottom oi
the ' ir.
1 > next thing to do, supposing that
you nre experimenting in a warm room,
is to do nothing. The water gradually
warms. When it reaches thirty-mm
degrees again up bobs the egg, but ii
a little while, as the water contiuuei
to grow warmer, it sinks once more
By adding more cracked ice you can re
peat the experiment as often as you
like.
THE LAND OF LAY-ME-DOWN-TO-
8LEEP.
In the Land of Lay Me-Down-to Sleep
The lotus flowers blow.
And poppies prim, with scarlet rim,
Are swaying to and fro.
While at their feet a little stream
Sings sleepily along.
They clap their tiny fronds and throw
Their petals for his song.
In the Land of Lav-Me-Down-to-Sleep
A thorn tree wild doth grow,
And covers up his cruel stings
With blossoms white as snow'.
I pray thee, pluck not any one,
Nor linger near it, lest
Beneath tlie blossom lurks the thorn
Whose name is—Wakefulness.
—Cally Ryland, in the New York Herald.
Down in New Jersey, where every-
body is r. 1 expert from lifelong ex
perience, they have adopted a method
of annihilating the mosquito which
seems beautifully simple and effective,
says the Boston Transcript. Land in
which the insect is known to breed is
gone over with a ditching machine
and cut in furrows six inch, . wide nud
two feet deep. The result has been
that the pools which swarmed with
“wrigglers" have all disappeared
wherever this was done. The town
of Shrewsbury, which prosecuted the
ditching experiment vigorously last
year, is reported entirely free of mos-
quitoes this season; in til- Hackensack
and Passaic meadows those portions
that have been ditched show no sigus
of “wrigglers,” while the rest is full
of them; and altogether the State en-
tomologist has found rueh satisfactory
results from this simple method that
the State is expected to make liberal
appropriations for its wider applica-
tion. Nearly every town has a ditch
ing machine for its road work, and
New Jersey's experience suggests that
it may be profitably tried as a nios-
qiilto-klller when it isn't doing any-
thing better.
THE INK AQUARIUM.
Present a glass full of ink to the view
of the spectators, then prove that it is
ink by dipping a visiting card in it and
showing the card. Now announce that
there are live fish in the tumbler that
just thrive on ink, and you will prove
they are there by changing the ink to
water so that the onlookers may see
them.
Throw a handkerchief over the glass
so as to entirely envelop it, repeat an
incantation and then suddenly whisk
the handkerchief away.
The audience will Vie very much as-
tonished to find the glass tilled with
water, clear ns crystal, with several
fish swimming about in it.
The trick is performed in this way.
Get a piece of thin black rubber cloth
and line the Inside of the glass with it;
then tie a black thread to the upper
edge of the cloth. Attach a little but-
ton or bit of cork to the end of tlie
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thread
THE TRICK EXPLAINED.
tumbler,
overhanging the
shown in the drawing.
Fill the glass with clear water nml
introduce several fish, live ones if you
can possibly secure them, but if not,
toy fish will serve, though the trick
will hardly be so effective.
The ink test with the visiting card
is accomplished hy means of a con-
federate, who is in the audience, and
who hands you a card which is marked
with ink on one side. As you dip the
card into the tumbler you contrive to
turn it around, and the audience then
sees the black side, thinking naturally
that it has just been immersed in the
ink. The startling change from ink to
water is effected hy pulling out the
rubber cloth by means of the attached
thread and button when the handker-
chief is whisked away. Some practice
is needed first in order to do this with-
out spilling the water In the glass.—
Mail aud Express. -/
- “T!
A KNOWING LITTLE BIRD.
Have you ever thought that the little
holt's you often see in trees are sap
buckets? That is just what they are.
and they are as carefully looked after
by the pretty bay bodied sap sucker
that you have seen winging across the
country, as are the big sap pails by
the sugar maker. This beautiful bird
with a taste for sugar, is said to kuow
good sap weather as well as the ex-
perienced sugar maker. On cold aud
cloudy days you would watch in vain
to see him fly around to tils tiny buck-
ets. He seems to realize that sun-
shine and warmth are needed to make
the sap run, and if you search for him
on such a day you would he almost
sure to find him clinging to a tree that
he has tapped, and having good drink
of the sweet sap. If you should notice
that ills head is tipped to one side, you
may notice that he has got into that
position in order that the sap may run
hack into the cornel- of ids mouth, ln»
stead of falling down his chin.
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COLORED INKS OLD.
The use of colored inks is almost as
ancient as writing itself, since we find
in the oldest manuscripts black, red.
green, violet aud yellow inks, usually
applied only ns ornaments, except the
old “stand hys,” black and red; and
consequently we are not surprised that
inkstands with two or more wells were
known to the most ancient peoples—
and probably, therefore, those old
writers often knew the irritation that
comes of having put tlie pen iuto tlie
wrong inkwell.—From Tudor Jenks’
About Old Inkstands, in St. Nicholas
Kerosene to Clean Clocks.
A few drops of kerosene oil will do
much toward starting particles of dust
from machinery. If a clock is to be
cleaned, it can he done effectively hy
placing in tlie lower part a soft cloth
saturated with kerosene. The bits of
dirt and particles of dust will be loos-
ened hy tlie vapors and will drop down
aud can be removed.
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