The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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A Chicago liuiulur -■loli* hovoral htin-
tlroil dollar*' worth of Hoap. CloUIM'd
out lho place, iim |t wore.
Now they wiiiit to put the ptoho Into
the rablo truat. This la like really
• 11 \ 1 ii k (loop Into IrtiMt hoorotM.
H.»» Made Numerous Inventions and
Discoveries Aiony Lines of Wire-
less Telegraphy—Is Relative
of Poet Whittier.
Port land. Mo.- Ore#Blo(if Whlttlof
< Pickard, forntorly of Portland hut now
IIvIiik In Atneahury. Mu**.. Iium taken
out :<l foreign mid domestic patent*
! and ha* ?s otliora now ponding, nearly
J all of whloli Iimvo boon in hoiiio way
j Improvements upon the wlrele** teleg.
I ruphy ayatonis In use today. lil*
I frlonda are expecting great thing* of
him, regarding him iik a sort of a
Mccond Kill Mon.
Mr. IMekard rumen from a rare of
people who have devoted their liven to
Lrtudv'nnd literary pursultK. He l« a
I relative of the poet, Whittier, and
I KeeuiH to have ii peculiar aptllitde for
research along the line* of wlrsdeas
i telegraphy.
There are a great many oliMlneloM to
| he overcome In long dltitauce roinnittnl-
I cation without wiron or cahleM. The In*
! terfercnce of signal Motions with one
I another, particularly around Boston,
I has occasioned sclent lata much trouble.
Some of the government expert* have
I gone mi far a* to say that there mu*t
lie some regulation about the use of
wireless telegraph Instruments by atu-
- J ntettrs until the wireless system ha*
Among those jumping all over the been reeled to the point where the
comic supplement I* l’rof. Mrander | W(,rk of nmateurs and others will not
Matthew*, who can gel all the
want* oat of phony spelling.
America lack* poets, say* a French
critic. What do you know' about
that? Why, we're overstocked.
Mr. Pier|tont Morgan ha* 30 *lo Ives
full ol HlhleH, Inti It I* nut believed
that he w ill lie able tu corner 11n sup-
ply.
King Kdward orders that "(loti Save
the King" hi* played la quicker tempo
hereafter. He appear* Impatient for
salvation,
lllitml* woman hasn't taken a drink
of water for 40 years, and Is In ex- J
rollout health. Don't cheer—she I
drink* buttermilk.
fun he K(, seriously handicap the men who are
t <i|»yright Wslilwii Ismi-vU.
William C. Hunt, chief statistician for population of the census soon to
be taken by the government, is considered an expert in this branch of work.
He was an expert special agent in charge of population during the last cen-
sus and has been connected witt the department of labor for several years.
He is 52 years of age.
A Chicago paper has a story of a
spook that ate a biscuit. We fear
some one bus been misleading an in-
nocent and confiding reporter.
Italian newspapers refer to America
as "n nation of snobs." And il we
should retort by calling Italy "a nation
of slobs” we suppose they'd get mad.
Great Britain has just had one more |
fit on the subject of air navigation
and it likes tlx* thrill so much that It
Is thinking of having them regularly.
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"Shall we annex Canada?" naively j
asks the Charleston News and Courier |
That editor knew that he was beyond
shooting distance from the dominion.
There are -113 species of trees
found within the limits of the United
States, the wood of lit of which when
seasoned are so heavy as to sink in
water.
Admiral "Bob" Evans has squelched
a proportion to give him a house in
California. Ills give and take are
confined to the high seas and to time
of battle.
Canon Fleming handed over the
whole of the money he received for
copyright of certain sermons to the
British Hospital for Incurables and the
Gordon Hoys' home.
An eminent geologist has given
warning that the coal supply in the
Pittsburg district will he exhausted in
less than 50 years. It is about time
to develop that substitute fuel.
"In Maine a hunter was shot for a
squirrel, in Wisconsin for a deer, and
in Montana for a bear," says the Phil-
adelphia Inquirer. By and by the
hunter will begin to imagine lie's a
whole zoo.
Now that society is taking up equal
suffrage, it seems a little contradic-
tory to make a stronghold of equal
rights with men in a phase of life
where women arc practically dictators
and autocrats.
The Harvard expedition has re-
turned from Us trip to hunt for Span-
ish gold. All of tlie treasure which
they found has been invested in cas-
tles in Spain, and the hunt for the
nimble, commonplace American dol-
lar will for the present absorb the
1 reasure-hunters' energies.
Simplified spelling lias its advocates
in Franco, for the minister of public
instruction lias lately ordered that the
public schools shall teach the spelling
of a number of words in tlie form
recommended by the French academy.
The reforms include the suppression
of the "h" In words like “rhinoceros"
and the substitution ot “i" for "y” in
such words as "analyze.” and of "f”
for "ph" in "phenomene," and similar
terms.
HAS A NOVEL SCHEME
COLORADO MAN PLANS TO
WILD BEASTS.
Will at Once Start Reservation
Which Will be Bred Game of
All Sorts and for All
Purposes.
Mr. Taft, in his address at (lie dedi-
cation of the prison-ship martyrs' mon-
ument in Brooklyn the other day,
dwelt on the heroism of the revolu- j
tionary patriots who endured the suf- i
fering on board the ships anchored in !
New York harbor rather than aban-
don the colonies and obtain comfort
and freedom by enlisting in the Brit-
ish armies. It lias been customary to
dwell on the cruelty of the British in
treating their prisoners inhumanly;
hut Mr. Taft wisely and truly called
attention to the fact that these prison-
ers were dealt with in the way that i
was customary at that time. Prison*
reform is a modern philanthropy.
A new form of insanity imported
from Italy, it is said, has appeared in
the South, due to eating meal from
fermented corn. But the lorm of in- j produce wonderful results and creatt
sanity long known to be produced by , new things, he takes far more interest
GREENLEAF W.P/CM&D
devoting themselves to this great in-
vention.
In the vicinity of Mr. Pickard's house
at the old Poet Whittier place in
Aniesbury, there are a great many
young men whose ambition to learn
something about wireless telegraphy
is so great that most of the hours of
the day they are experimenting with
instruments of their own construction.
After the young experimenters go
to their beds the experiments of the
scientists can he tried, but the inter-
val of freedom is not a long one, for
early in the morning the enthusiasts
are at it again.
Mr. Pickard has been iti communi-
cation from liis wireless station with
Clifton, Ireland, and lias had many
messages from across the water. He,
as well as other wireless experts, lias
found out that the old idea of placing
a wireless station on some high Hill
is not necessary; in fact, it is better,
he says, to locate the station at sea
level.
It. lias also been ascertained that
much better work can he done at night
titan during the day. Just why this is,
no one seems to he able to tell, hut
it is undoubtedly true. Messages can
l>e sent double and treble the distance
after dark than during the daylight
hours and the later at night the work
is done the better success seems to
attend the experiments and efforts.
Mr. Pickard is devoting himself now
to the perfection of several important
inventions in connection with wireless-
telegraphy and docs not use the appa-
ratus connected with his laboratory as
much as formerly and now only fot
purposes of experimenting with his in
vent ions.
Mr. Pickard is devoting himself now
to the perfection of several important
inventions in connection with wireless
telegraphy and does not use the ap-
paratus connected with his laboratory
as much as formerly and now only fot
purposes of experimenting with his in
vein ions.
One of the most practical of his in
vintions from a commercial stand
point is that which conies under tin:
head of electrostatic separation. By
means of this invention several kinds
of ore may be separated from tin
waste rock by a process of electricity
Although he lias patented many
things, Mr. Pickard is not aware ol |
what becomes of all of his inventions
Like most men whose fertile brain.-
Denver, Col.—M. F. Kendrick of
Denver, has established a reservation
on which he will rear wild beasts for
market. Ho plans to sell the animals to
the states that are actively engaged in
the preservation of wild game, but he
does not intend to coniine himself to
this single source of demand. He be-
lieves that even were there no states
interested in producing game the gen-
eral market would warrant the found-
ing of this novel reservation.
It was at the suggestion of Dr. Will-
iam T. Hornaday of the New York
Zoological society, and other noted
naturalists that Mr. Kendrick estab-
lished the preserve, which will be con-
ducted by an association known as the
Kendrick Pheasantrles and Wild
Game association.
For several years the founder of the
new enterprise has maintained a
pheasant exhibit at the city park in
Denver, expending for that purpose
several thousand dollars of his own
money each year. It was his love for
and surpassing knowledge of birds
that inspired him to start the wild
game preserves, on which many thou-
sands of pheasants will be raised each
year for the market.
For t Ho first few years only animals
that inhabit North America will be
raised, but in time lions, tigers and
even elephants will be supplied for
the market. At present t.he farm will
he stocked with deer, elk, antelope,
buffalo, mountain goats, bears, etc.
The association has bought 1.G00
acres of land nine miles south of Den-
ver. A lake 50 acres in area will sup-
ply the water, as will also the Platte
river, which flow’s through Skeleton
farm, as a part of the tract purchased
is known.
An electric line now runs near by,
and it is expected that the reserva-
tion will become as much of a re-
sort for 'sightseers as is the famous
ostrich farm near Los Angeles.
"It requires no more feed to pro-
duce one pound of buffalo or elk than
tlie same of cattle and sheep," said
Mr. Kendrick, “while the care and pro-
tection in Jiousing are less, and the
prices are high either on the foot or
the‘butcher's block. Buffalo meat re-
tails at from 50 cents to $1 a pound;
elk meat brings nearly as much, and
venison sells at about, halt' these
prices. The association will not lack
a good market at good prices, even if
ail its product be not. taken by zoo-
logical parks or game preserves.”
Mr. Kendrick has been invited by
the United States government to send
to the national chemist the body of
any bird or animal that has died of a
disease with which he is not familiar,
and the government agrees to send
Him without cost a full description of
the disease and its cure.
REAR | operation to substitute the finger for
the man’s nose in the Paterson general
hospital.
The flesh about the remainder of
the nose was scraped and laid open.
The nail was taken from the third fin-
ger of the patient's left, hand and the
skin and flesh hack of the finger cut.
and laid open. The finger was
doubled at the middle joint and laid
in the nasal opening and securely fas-
tened.
The entire upper part of the pa-
tient's body and head were then in-
cased in plaster casts and bandages to
assure the utmost rigidity and to
guard against disturbing the sutured
parts.
When this is assured the finger will
bo amputated at the middle joint, and
when the wounds are healed it is ex-
pected that Snyder will leave the hos-
pital with a nose as nearly perfect sis
the one he originally had.
GAVE HORSE PEACEFUL END.
Kind-Hearted Man Bought Animal
End Its Sufferings.
Philadelphia.—Albert H. Krouss of
St. Peter's, Chester county, came to
Philadelphia to buy a horse. He found
one for $8.50, and started to drive into
the country late in the afternoon.
Krouss got as far as Thirty-sixth and
Chestnut streets when he discovered
that the equine w’as quite lame and to
drive it further was cruel. A crow’d
returning from the Army and Navy
game came to the same conclusion
and gathered about the indignant
horseman from St. Peter’s to tell him
so. Krouss was both embarrassed and
angry.
“How much did you give for that
horse?” asked William R. Ureen, a
manufacturer, who was in the crowd.
"Eight dollars and fifty cents," ad-
mitted Krouss, somewhat abethed.
“Will you take that amount for
him?” asked Mr. Green.
“Glad to get it," responded the Ches-
ter county man. The sale was con-
cluded, when Agent Lepper of the
Pennsylvania S. P. C. A., who had wit-
nessed the transaction, made himself
known to Mr. Green.
“What are you going to do with-the
horse?” asked Agent Lepper.
“Turn him over to you so that he
may he disposed of kindly,” said Mr.
Green.
Agent Lepper led the horse away to
a peaceful end.
CO-EDS IN “CUT-UP”
FAIR STUDENTS LEARN SOME-
THING ABOUT BUTCHERING.
College ’ Courie, a Little Out of the
Ordinary, Proved Faecinatmg to
the Young Ladtee at Brown
University.
Providence, It. I.— Thirty fair to*
eii* of Pembroke hull, the Women *
college of Brown university, have ju*l
participated in the biggest collegiate
"CUt up," a big, beefy cow being
carved into aleak*. ion*i*, chop* and
other meat*, while the girl* stood
eagerly nrotind to learn all about meat-
cutting,
Not «>rie of the girl* flinched, but
nil stayed through till the cow was re-
duccd to sllre* and roll* of meat. The
girl* were keenly lnlorc*ted In the
whole prnccsH and gained mueh Infor-
mation about the way to order meat
and to tell one kind of steak from an-
other. One «if the girl* Hummed up
Hie> general opinion ut the e’Ieise* when
she said:
"Well, I goes* we all know now
why I* u cow."
Tile girl* are taking the college
couihc In eiithenlc*. which include*
the biological nclence* and household
economics. The eln** Is In charge of
Ml** Alice Wilson Wilcox, Instructor
In physiology and household eco-
nomic*.
Ml** Emma Morgan, Mis* Madge
Lee and over two dozen others are
taking the course. When It was sug-
gested that they go to one of the local
market* and see steaks carved from
the "original package," so to speak,
the Idea was enthusiastically adopted.
Arrangements were made with the
Algonquin market on Hope street for
this demonstration in beef. Henry L
Read and William Hamilton, of the
market, were the demonstrators. Mr.
Read did the cutting and Mr. Hamil-
ton explained. Mr. Wilson also talked
to the girls, telling why some portions
of tilt) "critter" were preferable to
others.
For over an hour the girls saw the
row gradually dwindle down to mar-
ketable proportions. Mr. Hamilton
showed them why sirloin costs more
than rump or round, saying;
"You know, young ladies, that the
part least used is the tenderest,
though perhaps not the most juicy.
Because it is tender you pay more'
for It.”
He then told them why top of the
round sells at 22 cents, while bottom
round brings only 18 and vein only
16 cents. He explained to the fair co-
eds the relative values of the thin
rib, the sticking piece, the thick plate
on first and second cut, chuck roast,
tip sirloin, porterhouse and so on.
Some of the girls knew a thing or
two about the "beef critter” also. One
wanted to see the fifth rib cut. An-
other called for a three-rib roast.
When the poor cow was all "cut
up,” the girls departed for Rhode Is-
land hall to attend Miss Wilson’s lec-
ture on “Economy, Tenderness and
Food Value.”
Several of the market’s regular cus-
tomers also witnessed the carving
demonstration and were highly inter-
ested from a practical standpoint.
One of these housekeepers remarked
at tiie close:
“Those college girls are lucky to
have this taught to them when I had
to pick up all my knowledge of meats
from daily observation and from learn-
ing by my own mistakes.
“It’s a splendid idea. It will make
those girls good housekeepers. I wish
all girls could learn as much. There
might be fewer divorces.”
Predict Di*m*l Day* foe HovMwif*
America I* not uluttn in h**r dutiv.,
<iv< r n decreasing supply in domestic
labor Whll* gaining I.OSO.OOO hou»«
hold* German? ha* l<>*t 37.mm in her
total number of servant* Dl*t*»te for
what old«fa*hiontd New Englander*
rail "hou*o work” itrowa atoadily it*
rluxx ** from which *uch labor g**n
orally ronio* Wo *wm to *oc n ill*
taut lime w hen. In the jbt*'ttw of to*
chi aery rnochnnlrally relieving her
the average hniiNcwife will have to
he her own 'girl.”
Important English Railroad Decision
A passenger in a full railway car
ring'd |n England ha* a perfect legal
right to pu*h away anyone site who
trio* to got into It Till* decision
given ut Murylohouo police court
when n man complained that ho waa
|iii*Hod out of u carriage ut Bishop'*
Knud Million by another passenger
who mm Id the car wa* full “It la tin*
duty of conductors," said the court,
“to koo that the train* atv not over
crowded. They are jierfectly entitled
to use reasonable force to prawn*
anyone from hoarding car* when they
are full If they fall to uvall them
. dves of this right the passengers urn
entitled to act for themselves.''
Properties of Lead
l.'-ad. when reduced to u very low
temperature in liquid air, 1* said t >
net much as steel at ordinary tem-
perature*. It will serve a* a helical
spring, for example. Just ua iron I*
soft and Inelastic, at a high red col
or. so load 1* dull and soft at ordl
nary temperatures, for It I* then al-
ready well on its way to ho melted.
Montana Sapphires
Montana during 1907 produced sap-
phires worth $229,800.
The "Eternal Feminine"
Among some African tribes, when
a man professes his love for a woman
and arks her in marriage, she invari-
ably refuses him at first lest it should
appear that she had been thinking of
him and was eager to become hi*
wife! By so doing she maintains the
modesty of her sex. as well as tests
the lovo and abases tlie pride of her
lover.—London Wide World Magazine,
Cat Can Eat Hatpins.
Reading, Pa.—At the most unusual
meeting of the Schuylkill Valley Vet-
erinary association here Dr. John W.
Adams of the University of Pennsyl-
vania gave an interesting account of
a cat which swallowed hatpins and a
dog that had made a meal on poker
chips and glass. He said that the
chips alone in the dog would not have
hurt him. Dr. Hoskins, secretary of
the state veterinary board, told of a
cat that consumed patent black thread
and needles.
The Shirt Sleeve Foundation
We are all familiar with the saying;
“It takes only three generations from
shirtsleeve to shirtsleeve.” If, then,
the average American family has to
go back to the shirtsleeve for a new
start every few generations, let ns ac-
knowledge that he best energies of
the people have come from the shirt-
sleeve fendation, aiuj frankly say
that it is the best, if not the only,
place to start in life. Then, through
the medium of the schools, let us give
all the youth of the land the advan-
tage and value of a thorough and
practical training in working with
their hands, in connection with tha-
academic school work that is now
given them.—The Craftsman.
SOLVING THE UNEMPLOYED-WOMEN PROBLEM
“corn juice'
discovery.
is by no means
The bank "check has tak< n
hold as yet upon the eiiizeus of Mexi-
co. especially when amounts of less
than $1,000 are concerned. They con-
sider it much easier to pay spot cash
than to give a check for amounts of
$50 and $100.
’ " ' ’I "■!. I'tjiIII of hit -I i t(’:>I..
does in their commercial development.
He lias so many ideas which he is try
ing to work out. many of which are
now to far advanced that iheir perfec-
tion does not seem far away, that he
. time to waste upon trivial
affairs, liis laboratory at Ames bury
ia a moat interesting place to visit.
FINGER MADE INTO NOSE.
Unique Surgical Operation Performed
on New Jersey Man.
Paterson, N. J.—Cornelius Snyder of
132 Goffle road, Hawthorne, will soon
lie going about wearing a finger cut
off one of his own hands in place of
his nose, provided one of the most in-
teresting and unique surgical opera-
tions ever performed in this city be
successful, and at the present time
there is every indication that it will
•
Snyder was a sufferer from cancer of
the nose for several years, and a year
ago an operation was performed in
Foghorn Cost Vast Sum
There has just been erected on th
Pass Rock, the precipitous island of
the Firth of Forth, off th« Hadding-
tonshire coast, a new foghorn which
has cost $200,000. It will he interest-
ing to note the effect of the hooter
on the nerves of tire sea birds, of
which thousands of one kind and an
other are to be found on this desolate
spot. At dusk the captains of the pas-
senger steamers in passing generally
sound their whistle or siren for thv
amusement of their passengers, and
it is a sight not easily forgoten to
watch myriads of sleepy birds fly a
short distance and then return, after
uttering their protest after the man-
ner of the ow] in Gray's “Elegy." The-
new foghorn will give three blasts
every two minutes.
Mrs.
A Lace Museum
James W. Pinchot of Wash-
ington has a beautiful collection of
laces which is to make the nucleus
of a collection at the National mu-
seum, in which several women are in-
teresting themselves, among them
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. James S.
Harlan. Mrs. Roosevelt has loaned a
rare piece of lace. Mrs. Harlan has
sent some beautiful embroideries.
Mrs. Pinchot's fans are of the Louis
XVI. and first empire and George II
time, while others have a dainty
Spanish sticks, and a carved fan is
probably of Chinese make. The mu-
seum officials say that this loan col-
lection shows a wide-spread civic-
pride In the c.'ty of Washington, o
a sort that has given to New York
its Metropolitan Museum of Art and
its galleries.
Oklahoma Directory
N othing
Equals
BEEBE IMPLEMENTS
and VELI C. VEHICLES ask your dealer
or JOHN DEERE PLOW CO., OKLAHOMA CITY
! which the larger portion of his nose
Paris
is attempting to solve the problem of the unemployed women
T" r ""ir to r- i SL&syri'
ly take away the cancerous growth.
Dr. John C. McCoy performed the
erecting notice boards on which are placed, free of cost, announcements of
catered for in this way by
the municipality, and the board is an institution that promises to be of'the
greatest value.
WANTED
For the L. S. Navy, active, intelligent. American
citizens of good character and temperate habit*;
must be between the ages of I 7 and 35, and able tea
read and write. Communicate with the
NAVY RECRUITING OFFICE.
220 W. Grand Av.. Oklahoma City, Olda.. for circulars*
One of the best paid of all trades.
Plumber* are in demand everywhere
at good wages. They have short hour*.
B> our method of instruction we make
you a skilled, practical olum^e- in a few
month*, so that you will be able to fill a
good position or conduct a business of
your own. Address Gklafccma Sch .sl o?
Pitchny. 7!S N. Broadway. Oklahoma CiV.
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