The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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Libraries
Workers
Public Libraries
Aid (lie Indus-
trial Workers
A) l)H. HORACE Ci. HAIHJN,
librarian, hmlun 9*uhlit library.
III) public library provide* for the iiidii*trial worker the hook*
1 dial can help him to hitter work mid highe r pnv. Il provide*
opportunities in thi* direction never before often, not yet fully
utied• mid only partly appreciated. Nevertheless, niunv, \oiing
men et|MH'iiilly, are u*iiig them to their own profit, and ill-
timatcly to the licnelii of the community. Other* will follow
their example, a* the iidtmitngc* become more clear!v seen.
It in unfortunately true that many persons have been
drawn into our industries without much preparation. They
have, m> to speak, drifted into them, [inkmiI by the necessity
of earning a living, without training in an industrial school, and, under
the conditions of the modern faetory system, even without sueh training
as the old appp utiee system provided. Their knowledge is limited to what
they ran pick up in the place into which they drift. They usual I v become
mere cogs in a maelune, without individual initiative, doing one of a
few things well, hut without ho|>c of advancing to the higher positions,
which require a foundation of technical knowledge onlv to he obtuinci
from hooka.
11 goes without saving that the more a man knows tin* more usefu
he hemmes, and the knowledge and experience of the past is ervstulIizi*
in hooks. The men who have advanced in the modern world, which is
distinctively a world of industry, are those who have supplemented native
talent and keen observation of men and things by wide reading. Formerly
looks were laird to obtain. The boy Lincoln reading at night the eovetci
volumes by the light of the log tire, the printer’s apprentice Franklin, go-
ing without bread that he might possess books, these are types of the ban
(Oiiditions under which, in the old days, the intliicncc of the printed hook
operated to enlarge the individual life.
Hut to-day the public library, practically everywhere, supplies freely
all those indispensable aids. Its attendants are ready to counsel and ad-
vise those who need help in selecting the best books. No one need hesitate
to ask for sueh help. The modern library is. above all things, a democratic
institution, and welcomes those who come to it with a serious purpose.
Resides the hooks of gene ral information, useful to every industria
worker, the library supplies the special hooks relating to the various indus-
tries. books on building, on metal working, on the textile processes, on
agriculture, on industrial chemistry, on the new developments in electrici-
ty, and many others. These enable a workman to obtain a broad general
view of his trade, or of the sciences which iilfcct it, a view hr seldom gets
in the simp or faetory. There are also books on design, and on elementary
mechanics, adapted to the comprehension of the ordinary workingman
or woman, not written in terms that presuppose a college education. Mam-
books, especially those treating of the fine art side of industry, are so ex-
pensive that the wage earner cannot himself buy them, even if disposed to
do so. These the well-equipped public library supplies, and it so displays
and advertises its resources that those who would benefit by them may
know where and how they can be used.
I lie larger libraries in industrial towns also do useful work by means
of exhibitions and lectures on industrial subjects, intended to improve the
taste and raise the standard of skill among artisans. Sueh, for example,
are the three lectures on printing, arranged in co-operation with the Bos-
ton society of printers, and given in the free lecture course this winter at
the Boston public library.
Kvcntually. as the important plans for enlarging the opportunities for
industrial education in Massachusetts are carried into effect, public li-
l rarics will lx* found important adjuncts in supplying the essential liter-
ary material required, just as they al-
ready eo-operate with the existing
public schools.
PRIVILEGE CANTED T. M. DAVIS
BY EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT.
"CRADLE" OF ANTHRACITE COAL.
Centtnnlal of First Burning of tho
Fuel Being Celebrated.
Wllkesharro. Pa —This city la eele-
bratliiK the centennial of tho flret
hurnliiK of anthracite coal In n it rate,
' the experiment hating been tried hero
from which grew the mammoth coal
Only American Allowed to Make Ex bualnoaa of to-day, which employs
cavatlone In Quest of Royal 1*0.000 ...... and boys, produce* Ho,-
H-sting Places—Interesting <M’0*000 of foal every year and
Thinga Rsvealed. ,S20*00(,*<M)0 ,M ,he w#»llh of
country.
Boston. The problem of a wealthy " ■" Ju"* 100 yeMra nK° ,h«“
business man of how to occupy his J****H«* Kol> ""crossfully burned ntiihra
time after retlrltiK has been happily
solved by Theodore M. Pavla df New
York and Newport.
Mr I la vis has spent Ilia wlntera for
the past five years In conducting exca-
vations among the tombs of the kings
neur Thebes, In Kk>|>i. HIm summers
are npi-iii at his villa In Newport, the
Iteef.
Here nu Interviewer found hint not
long ago. lie was then preparing for
Ills annual trip to Egypt. to which he
Is now in route, to begin his sixth sea-
son of research.
In a drawing room cabinet In Mr.
cite, or atone coal, us It was then
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Grate In Taproom of Fell Tavern at
Wtlkesbarre, Pa.
City
or
Country—
Which?
By PATRICIA PEMBLETON.
There seems to be a general impression
than city life is enervating alike to physical
health and to morals, that for real bodilv
vigor and the uncontaminated virtues you
must go to the country.
There is a shop-worn saying about the
necessity of returning to the soil every third
generation. It is argued that, like the fa-
bled Antaeus, the human race must be re-
newed and rejuvenated by actual contact
with mother earth. Isn't this really one of
the pretty fictions that pass current because
__no one ever took the trouble to contradict
them ?
A great deal is said about the dreadful nervous strain of life in a
city, and quite as much about the healthy wholesomeness of country life.
The natural way of settling the question of superiority would be bv com-
parison of the product of the two environments.
Take a score of business and professional men. (10 years of age. and
compare them with farmers of the same number of years. The city men
are more erect, more vigorous, more alert mentally and physically. They
look five years younger than the farmers. Compare their wives, and the
same conclusion is inevitable. Despite the “dreadful nervous strain” the
city people arc younger in thought and feeling, not to mention looks,
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Granted that the eoimtn life is the life of tranquillity and repose,
trouble with it. It lacks mental stimulus. It is a life of
dull quietude, spent in a round of ever-recurring tasks centered on a few
acres and Unking outside stimulation or change. There is little of the
friction of mind upon mind that produces flashes' of intellectual bril-
liancy or arm:-. - enti • thi introduction of new ideas.
The principal thing the farmer gets out of his occupation is fresh air.
In. dentally he gets rheumatisfn and lumbago and stiff joints. Hvgieai-
caliy. he is supposed to live under the most favorable conditions. People
go to the country for health. Those who live there seem to somehow man-
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blessing best patrons of the patent modi-*
? tonics? Whose wives and
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for the man whose business abilities
land. The successful farmer.
Davis' house wan nil exquisite Egyptian J called, for the first time In un open
relic, an alabaster head of one of the grate. 'The experiment was In the
undent quoens of Kgypt, which formed big taproom of the old Fell tavern,
purl of his treasure trove last season anil this room and (lie grate are still
Before sailing for Kurope, on his preserved, although tho oid tavern has
way (o Kgypt, Mr. Davis sent this long slnee disappeared. The room
treasure to the Metropolitan museum was kept Intact and the present build-
of art In New York, where It Is now on 1 lug. n hotel, was erected around It.
exhibition.
Tha head Is that of Queen Thy. and
Is one of the four that were found in
her tomb. It represents the art of
Kgypt 3,700 years ago, anil Is One of
the rarest specimens of Its kind ever
found. The heads formed the orna-
mentation ol four canople jars found
in the tomb. Although the tomb of
Queen Thy contained no jewelry, the
finding of these four heads was con-
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Coal had been discovered many
years before Judge Fell's experiment,
but had not been put to practical use
except by a few blacksmiths, who hud
burned It In their forges, where, under
a strong draft, it had Ignited and
made a hot fire. No one thought of
using It for household purposes, how-
ever, until Judge Fell began to think
that if a fire such as he had seen in
some forges could be produced from
it, it would be of exceedingly great
value in the household. He set to
work, and although scoffed at by
many friends he had built into the
old fireplace in the big taproom two
side wails of brick, and at the bot
tom and front of the open box he
formed in the center he pul flat strips
of iron, forming grate bars.
It was a wintry night when Judge
Fell filled up the grate with wood, got
it well ablaze upon a foundation of
red hot embers, and then placed the
coal upon it. While the interested
and scoffing crowd of town notables
watched, they saw that without any
aid in the form of an artificial draft
the coal soon ignited, and in a little
while was soon red hot and giving
forth a steady, lasting heat they never
obtained from wood.
In this manner the real usefulness
of anthracite coal was established.
The business grew very slowly, how-
ever, and it was not until eight years
later that shipments of hard coal
reached 1,000 tons.
At the National Capital
Gossip of People and Event*
Gathered in Washington
Senator Delivers Gift to Chinaman
Uf ASHINOTON. — Senator W. J
fv Stone the other day Journeyed
nut to the Providence hospital, near
here, where, after long sparoh. he lo-
cated the cot of a Chinaman to whom
the senator presented u packet Mrs.
Stone had brought from Manila. The
('hluumuu Is L. Ah Maw, valet to Ad-
miral Dewey, and the packet was a
remembrance to Mrs. Maw from u
brother. The gift was Intrusted to
Mrs. Stone at Manila, who promised
that It should reach the proper hands
lu Washington.
Senator and Mrs. Stone were In Mu-
niiu last fall. During their stay the
Chinaman served as their particular
attendant and was so zealoiiR In his ef-
forts to please that the Missouri sen-
ator and his wife came to like him
very much. When the American party
started upon their return to the United
States their Chinaman confided the
fact that he had a brother in Wash-
ington. and wished, as the greatest
favor possible to bestow that A gift be
taken to him.
Ah Mnw In probably the best known
Chinaman In Washington. He Is |>er-
mitted to reside In this country by spe-
cial act of congress. He entered the
service of Admiral Dewey when, as
commodore, l>ewcy commanded tho
American licet In the Orient. Ah
Mnw was on hoard when the United
Blates squadron raptured Manila. As
n mark of respect to Admiral Dewey
congress passed a law excepting Ah
Maw from the exclusion laws.
Senator Stnno first undertook, last
New Year’s day, to fulfill hla mission
of presenting the r«*nn*tnbrance from
the brother In Manila. Upon that day
the Mlgsourlun thought to pay u call
of respect upon the admiral and trans-
mit the packet, also. Upon reaching
the Dewey residence he found all in
confusion. The heavy lace curtaina
In the parlor had caught fire, threat-
ening the destruction of the house and
menacing the safety of women guests
who were present. Ah Maw rushed
into tho parlor, tore down the cur-
tains, extinguished the fire, saved tho
house and possibly saved lives. But
he was badly, dangerously burned. Ho
was taken to the hospital, and the
commission intrusted to Senator Stone
could not be carried out until a few
days ago.
God to Be Restored to Nation’s Coins
PURDY TO BECOME A JUDGE.
‘Chief Trust Buster” to Retire from
Department of Justice.
Washington.—Milton D. Purdy, as-
sistant to the attorney general, “chief
trust buster" and originator of the re-
ceivership innovation in trust prosecu-
tion, will shortly retire from the de-
partment of justice.
It is understood Purdy's resignation
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cine men ? W
ho hut's the pain-ki'h rs ami
daughters (LI
up the
insane asylums?
The farm
is an t
wivllent refuge for tl
are below par:
: he c an
make a living off th<
who a- a rule
makes
his money in lines .
make more m
onev an
id do it quicker and
The apost
-
■ '.!•**lie life.” who
of country life
•. art* g!
a«; • n*»ugh to hustle
of it- madder
ling nu
•notony and routint
posi nv cl\ neci smiry t<
• have “something d<
sidered sufficient reward for an entire
winter's search.
Mr. Davis is the only American en-
joying the privilege of excavating for
the tombs of Egyptian royalty. The
government of Egypt gives him ex-
clusive right to work in the Valley of
the Kings near Thebes.
In return for his expenditure of time
and money in this fascinating pursuit
Mr. Davis finds ample compensation in
the pleasure of bringing to light price-
less relics of the early Egyptian dynas-
ties and of recording for circulation
among Egyptologists the character of
his findings.
He is not permitted to keep the
relics found, the Egyptian government
lays claim to them all and places them
in the museum at Cairo, except in
such instances as that of the finding
of four heads of Queen Thy, when Mr.
Davis was permitted to bring one to
America and give it to the Metropoli-
tan museum.
As soon as a tomb is discovered the
Egyptian government takes possession
of it, posting guards to prevent the
workmen carrying away any of its con-
tents. This is a necessary precaution,
as otherwise the men would carry off
much of value.
Mr. Davis employes about 150 men.
under a competent superintendent and
several bosses. All are natives.
The process of finding a tomb is
something like mining. It is necessary
to prospect for them. Knowledge of
tHe configuration of the land and of
the habits of the ancient Egyptians
are necessary at the start. The find-
ing of one tomb often leads to the dis-
covery of another near it.
“The only way to find a tomb is to
dig for it." said Mr. Davis. “Like the
miner, one must take his chance of
finding anything. Thus far I have been [
fortunate in uncovering a tomb each |
year: still, one might dig an entire
season and find nothing to reward him i
for his work.
“Thus far 1 have discovered the j
tombs of Thotmes IV.. Uaa and Tuaa, j
the parents of Queen Thy. Siphan. and j
last, that of Queen Thy. The latter
name is spelled in almost any manner
that happens to suit the convenience Good at Guessin
ofotho writer, as Teye. Tela Til and Mlke was roniing to America on an
' Prefer the latter spelling, with (U.0;in Bteamer, with a bag on his back
the ‘h hard, the sound being ty-o. made of a bandanna handkerchief, in
These tombs are cut in solid rock, which were all of his belongings,
on Dill sides, and tho sands pf ages There were two Englishmen aboard
have drifted firmly over them. They the poat with him. When they land-
are the resting places of monarchs e<t in Philadelphia they thought they
who reigned in Egypt when Thebes' would have some fun with Mike,
was the capital, in the eighteenth. one said: “How far is it to Balti-
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, more. Mike?"
and ending about 1.000 years before "How did you guess my name?" said
Christ." Mike.
Associated with Mr. Davis in some, "O, I just guessed it." said
^ J%zr<w
Dmzyr
was accepted with reluctance, to take
effect within 60 days.
Purdy is said to be slated for a cir-
cuit judgeship in the Eighth circuit,
as he is a Minneapolis man and is
known to have an ambition to sit in
that court in his home state.
Purdy served under Knox, Moody
and Bonaparte, pushed to success the
suit against the paper trust and pre-
pared the papers asking for the disso-
lution of the powder. Standard Oil
; and tobacco trusts and anthracite coal
roads.
TMIE motto “In God We Trust” will
1 be restored to the gold coins from
which it was removed by President
Roosevelt’s orders. The house com-
mittee on coinage, weights and meas-
ures lias reported a bill providing for
restoration of the motto and its per-
manent retention. Indications are that
it will pass both houses. President
Roosevelt will not veto any measure
of this kind, and has so told several
of his callers.
Representative James, who intro-
duced one of the bills to restore the
motto, said hundreds of letters were
still coming in protesting against the
abolishment of the motto.
Immediately after the new gold
pieces of the Saint Gaudens design
were received from the Philadelphia
mint early in November last year, the
discovery was made that the motto
“In God We Trust" had been omitted.
The responsibility for the omission
was placed at the door of President
Roosevelt, for only through an execu-
tive order can a change be made in
designs for coins. This responsibility
the president readily assumed, hut,
when adverse criticism began to come
from all quarters of the country and
religious and patriotic societies took
up the matter, he decided to issue a
statement setting forth his reasons
for the action.
In this statement the president said
there was no warrant of law for the
inscription. Also he said that his own
feeling in the matter was due to his
“very firm conviction that to put such
a motto on coins, or to use it in any
kindred manner, not only does no
good, but does positive harm, and is in
effect irreverence which comes dan-
gerously close to sacrilege.”
The president was firm that he
would not order the motto to be re-
placed unless directed to do so by
congress.
The president’s statement failed to
stem the tide of adverse criticism, and
when congress convened numerous
bills and resolutions were introduced
and proposed to make it unlawful to
issue coins without the inscription.
Tom and Tabby Hit by Cruel Cat Law
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n EST-DISTURBING feline music of
IV the midnight back fence variety
will be unknown in Washington, says
District Commissioner MacFarland,
when congress enacts into law a bill
he has had prepared.
Mr. MacFarland is president of the
board of commissioners of the dis-
trict and is preparing to submit to
his two colleagues his bill for their
approval. It exercises the taxing
power to exterminate the cats of the
national capital. The midnight Thomas
eats are to be taxed $5 per year and
the anti-race-suicide tabby cats are to
be taxed $10. Cats to escape the
clutches of the pondmaster must
wear tags, and it is distinctly provided
in the bill that the payment of tax
does not permit any cat to go upon
private property other than that oc-
cupied by its owner. If the author and
friends of the bill have devised a
means of collecting non-taxpaving cats
it is kept secret. It is rumored that a
fence-scaling brigade, armed with lad-
ders and butterfly nets, will be turned
loose to gather in the taxdodgers.
The crusade against cats is being
led by Mr. MacFarland because of the
disturbed state of mind caused him
while en route home at nights by
thoughtless, indiscriminating cats.
It is not thought that serious protest
will be entered against the proposed
law on constitutional grounds that
it is class legislation and is aimed at
the poor cats of the backyard variety,
while the cats of the well-to-do fami-
lies will be safe from prosecution, be-
cause of the protection of a home.
Congressman Has Plan to Help Farmers
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, EPRESEXTATIYE SCOTT of Kan-
utside pure agriculture, could | of his work last season, as a friend other.
more easily in town,
prate about the peace and calm
*ai k to the city after a month
They get where it becomes
ing.”
and a student of Egyptian art. was Ji
soph Linden Smith, the Boston artist.
Oil Gives More Heat.
Ninety-three per cent, of the theo-
retical heat of coal is wasted, and only
bO per cent of that of oil is wasted.
committee on agriculture, has con-
ceived a novel plan which, he believes,
would enable the farmers of the coun-
try to produce better and far larger
crops than heretofore.
Mr. Scott's proposition involves the
establishment of 100 experimental
farms, of one acre each, in every
county in a group of four western ag-
ricultural states for the purpose of
giving the farmers a practical demon-
stration of the best methods of grow-
ing different crops. It is proposed that
the lands for this purpose shall be
provided by the farmers themselves
and that they shall do the work of eul-
I tivation under the direction of the
the experts of the department of agri-
culture. No additional appropriation
Well," said Mike, “if you can guess , front congress will be required to test
government documents to carry out his
idea. He says that much valuable in-
formation has been given by the ex-
perts in these publications, but their
contents are so little understood by
the farmers that they do not derive
the knowledge from them which they
should obtain as to the best methods
of growing corn, wheat, hay and other
crops.
my name, guess how far it is to BaJ
timore.”
Mr. Scott s plan, it is explained, as the
agricultural department has the requi-
Berries a Trap for Game.
Black hawberries are now furnish-
ing delicious meals for hunters in the
mountains. They are also being de-
touied by hears, and they afe being
picked off the branches by coons and
opposums. Indeed the black liawber-
rv is one of the real food products of
the woods, and there is no danger
of a lost person starving. You can-
not convince a mountaineer that the
haw is not a food. The only trouble
about it is that it takes a great many
berries to make a banquet. It is the
thick, mealy flesh surrounding the
seed that is eaten, and in some sec-
tions housewives make them into a
sort of jelly. Experienced hunters
make it a practice to look for bears
In most large cities the death rate I Mr. Scott asserts that enough money
in winter is much greater than ia . is being wasted by the department in
summer. j sending out farm bulletins and other
and grouse in the vicinity of a clump
site number of experts to carrv it out. | finding*' ^ severally succeed
J Ul ia finding the game there.
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The ber-
ries gmw in large clusters like eldej*-
berries, anil a quart can be picked in a
few minutes.—Minneapolis Tribune.
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