The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1910 Page: 2 of 4
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The/je:&?, STessWOULD SHE RELIC
UNIQUE TELESCOPING BRIDGE AT KANSAS CITY
S E. WALKER, Mgr.
FREEDOM, OKLAHOMA
NEW ETATE NOTES
Tl>* drinM'rttIc iUi» wbbiIM**
• n<t prvss buieau have been toowU
from Guthrie to Oklahoma *’»t>
A ^’ II $ ' • '
Rhorlft G*rrl»<>n of Oklahoma noun-
ty4 «aa banned at Watuoca Friday
moraine.
The Osas*- luind and Iwelapmsut
company of 0»aa»- City a lib a capl
tal stock of H'KJ.OOO, baa been grant-
ed a charter.
James Curley, a white man. was
stabbed to death by an Indian at a
dance near lioidcnvllle. Curley In
turn a hot the Indian, mortally wound'
lug him.
{' C, Smith haa been r-’Dlrncrd at
Sulphur to Ilf- imprisonment for the
nm'.er of hi* coualn. Jam* a Smith
mar Dnvls lad October.
Banking CommlaMoner Young ha*
tnrnf*'! ovdr to th** Hint** tr**ai4iir#T
|g,I4S. the amount of fee* collected
in insiwetons, etc., for tho lari three
months.
The board of county commission-
ers at Wagon-T has passed a resolu*
t on that no more county lhiuor runes
will be tried until the cases already*
appealed arc- decided by the supreme
court.
The contract for the construction
of the state confederate home at
Ardmore has been let to C. F. Fraley
of Ardmore, himself a confederate
soldier. The contract price Is $23,490.
The corner stone to bo laid June 4.
The doctor has joined In the move-
for prompt payment of hills and the
medical dead-beat will have hard
sledding in Canadian county follow-
ing the meeting of the Canadian coun-
ty medical society when resolutions
were passed to exchange lists of slow
paying patients.
Society Starts Movement to Pre-
serve Billopp House.
The Uncle Sam Oil company of,
Atchison, Kan., purpose? to construct
a gigantic pipe line company, chart-
ered under (he laws of Oklahoma, to
convey Its products from some point
near Tulsa to the Gulf where it can
find a shipping market. The line will
be about 450 miles long and will cost
approximately $2,500,000.
George T. Bryan, live stock man
for the board of agriculture, is pre-
paring to Immerse 200,000 cattle in
the next few weeks. The dipping vats
are being put up In the Osage and
Cherokee sections. The federal gov-
ernment has detailed three experts
to assist in the work of exterminat-
ing the cattle tick.
Scans of Only Pasca Conferanea In
America During Revolutionary
War May Become a New
York Institution.
New York For the preservation of
one of the moat notable historical
landmarks In the country, the Billopp
bouae at Tottenvllle, Staten Island,
the roembera of the Philemon Literary
society of the town are actively work-
ing Through their efforta and with
the assistance of Assemblyman Bain,
the representative of that district, a
bill haa been Introduced Into the legis-
lature asking a state appropriation of
$35,000 with which to buy the house
and some ten or a dort-n acres of
ground
"The Old Stone House,” ns the place
Is culled locally. Is associated with
one of the most Interesting events of
the revolution, a situation full of grim
humor so far as the Americans were
concerned, but a source of bitter
humiliation to Ix>rd Howe. After the
failure of Benjamin Franklin's mission
to Knglund as tin- representative of
the colonies Lord Howe was appoint-
ed royal pacificator, and early In 1776
he nulled for America with the boast
that within ten days of hi* arrival
peace would ensue, lie reached New
York In July. 1770. On July 9 the
Declaration of Independence, signed
July 4, was read to the American
troops and to the citizens of New
York. On the evening of that day a
statue of George III., placed at the
foot of Broadway, was torn down.
Lord Howe and the other British offi-
cers saw It would he necessary to de-
feat the American forces In a decisive
battle before an attempt for peace
, could he made.
On August 27, 1776, the battle of
Long Island was fought and won by
the British. At once a proposition for
a peace conference on neutral ground
was proposed. Benjamin Frnnklin,
John Adams and Edward Rutledge
were selected to represent congress
and the Billopp house was decided on
as the place of meeting. In the front
room, overlooking the Kill van Kull,
J,ord Howe and the American repre-
sentatives met.
It was the only pence conference
rrjyli
m *“*
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PAFT or TtiZ ff£W JbftlDGE JZOW/SfG THt ELEVATOR SECTION
mr \NSAS CITY. MO —Work Is progressing rapidly on the great double-deck bridge that is to spanJ*1®'
IT sourl river and the bottoms Irom Third street to the Clny county side The structure will cost $-.000 000
IV and will contain 11,000 tons of steel. The unique feature ot this bridge is to be an Immense elevator In
one ot the spans will hoist the lower deck for the passage of vessels, leaving the upper deck statlonn y.
-The lower deck will be occupied only by two railroad tracks On the upper deck will he two street car trac s.
two asphalt wagon roads, two sidewalks and a speedway, a mile In length,tor automobiles.
Eaenoatirg lbs Hookworm
• \|> *u»pl« loti is,” said Unci* 15ban,
•dal some book worm* k*4* It d,*ir lull
Bssi f'uni d*,- folk* day Is' H ttavlia ^
• Ith/' _
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Electricity in the Stable
Varum suction rotulu aro now in
use lit stables to curry Uorso*. An
electrically driven fan produ* «*a tba
necessary varum.
Liberia's Coffee Production
In Liberia coffer* trees attain a
height of more Iban 20 fed.
Memorial to Women of Confederacy
Nashville. Tenn —The United Con-
federate Veterans' committee In
charge of the movement to erect In
each south* rn state a memorial mon-
ument to the women of tho confed-
eracy, will report at tlm annual to-
union to bo held In Mobile In April
In favor of permitting the veteran*
of each slate to place the monument
at the most advnntaieous pojnt In the
state nrica*! of specifying that tl g’>
Into the capitol building
Common Mlsconcept on
"Bo extravagant man." said Uncle
Ehen, " 1* mo' or less liable to git do
high cost of livin’ mixed up In hit
mind wlf d<- coat of high llvin.'"
Few Have the Knack
It Is on.> of the hnrde*t and most
useful accomplishments In the world
to he annoyed without letting the fact.
| annoy others.
Waterproff Asbestos
According to a German publication
n firm In Munich hat* succeeded In
artificially rendi ring asbestos water-
proof.
Brazil's Leading Export
The nine leading articles of export
front Brazil are coffee, rubber, tobac-
co. sugar, mate, cacao, cotton, hides,
skins.
COIN IS NECESSARY
Retirement of Five-Cent Piece
Would Shock Financiers.
Governor Haskell has refused to
call au election for a vote on the pro-
posvd secession of throe townships of
Caddo county and their annexation
to Grady county until after August
8, when three is to be a court de-
cision Involving the same territory
which is involved in the proposed
county of Cook.
Contracting to furnish tho Schwarz-
child & Sulzberger company with be-
tween 12,000.000 and 15,000,000 brick
for the construction of its packing
plant in Oklahoma City at a cost of
$120,000 a deal has been closed be-
tween the representatives of the pack
ers and the Cleveland Vitrified Brick
company of Oklahoma City.
Plans are now being made for
Enid's new $125,000 high school build-
ing. Bonds were voted for the school
at a recent election.
The convention of the association
for Charities and Corrections will be
held this .fear at Muskogee, the ses-
sion lasting throughout three days,
April 27, 28 and 29.
In the election to determine whe-
ther the city council pass an ordi-
nance preventing the running of pool
aiul billiard halls in Atius, some 540
votes were cast with a majority of
93 against the running of pool halls.
.T. H. Tillotson, member of the
state legislature, and iF. W. Galer
have bought 600 acres that contain
thirty oil producing wells, from the i
Verdigris Oil and Gas company. The
new wells show a .flow above the av-
erage, one of them having a capacity
of fifteen barrels a day.
Secretary o.f State Cross has post- j
poned the hearing on the capital re-
moval matter to April 15. Arguments
will then he heard on the validity
of submission of the amendments to
the constitution allowing the remov-
all proceedings to he taken up this
year.
Historic Billopp House.
attempted on American soil in connec-
tion with the revolutionary war. Its
failure marked the final parting of the
ways between Great Britain and her
American colonies.
Not only th.is notable historical
event makes the building of peculiar
interest. It Is picturesque, and many
fascinating traditions hang about the
stone walls, strong enough yet to last
100 years more, but the quaint old
shelving roof of the veranda, upheld
of late by pillars, is practically out of
commission, the roof Is open to the
elements in spots and the plastering
is broken in many places. But the
deep embrasured windows, the curious
cupboards built in the walls, the small
paned sashes and queer door fasten-
ings are still intact. In this house, ns
tradition tells us was the case in
those days, the latch-string does lit-
erally hang out. By the pulling of the
knotted cord the wooden latch is
raised, but at night a strong oaken
beam bars the door effectually against
unwelcome guests.
Big fireplaces are a feature of all
the rooms. The kitchen in the base-
ment boasts of one the entire width
of the house. Here the long crane
of hand-wrought iron, holding two ket-
tles of mammoth dimensions, is still
to be seen. Logs of tree length could
easily have been disposed of within
the capacious depths of this fireplace,
but it would appear that quite as much
cold air must have come in as was
driven out by the blazing logs, since
it was open to the heavens above,
with no obstruction.
Quaintest of all is a really, truly
dungeon of masonry built off from the
cellar beneath the main entrance of
the house. Here persistent tradition
has it that colonial prisoners were
confined and cruelly treated, for the
Billopps were sympathizers with the
crown, and for some time British sol-
diers were quartered in the house,
which was built in 1695.
Nickel Stands for More Fixed Values
Than Any Other Single Denomina-
tion, and More of Them Are
Required by Public.
Washington.—Officials of the treas-
ury department sometimes discuss
the nation's somewhat cumbersome
coinage and make suggestions to one
another that this or that change
might bring relief to the working
lorces of the department. Generally
these discussions do not go beyond
the inner circle where they originate,
no change is made or even suggested
seriously and the work of the mint
goes on as before.
Recently, however, the fact leaked
out that the five-cent piece or uickel
had been under discussion and that
the government might ask congress to
pass a law eliminating it from the na-
tional coinage. Small likelihood ex-
j lsts or ever did exist that such a step
| would be taken, but for a short space
of time considerable anxiety devel-
oped In nil parts of the country lest
the useful and popular "nickel” should
disappear from the circulating me-
dium.
The fact is the government could
afford to dispense with almost any
coin rather than the five-cent piece,
it stands for more stable prices than
any other. It is the price of a loaf of
bread, it pays the cost of the ride in
the street car, with it the German
buys his glass of beer and the Amer-
ican pays for the shining of his shoes.
It is probably not too much to say
that the disappearance of the uickel
would prove a greater shock to the
finances of the nation than almost
anything that could happen.
The five-cent coin for two genera-
tions at least has been the fixed price
of so many things that the people
would he at complete loss how to pro-
ceed without it. True, hundreds of
thousands of five-cent pieces are lost
each year, hut that is due to the
amazing use to which this little coin
Is put. The uses of business require
the coinage of a greater number of
nickels than of any other coin
it has been said that its universal
use as the price of a fare on the street
cars is the cause of its retention, but
that can hardly be so, as it enters
very largely into the price of so many
other things that it could not be dis-
pensed with if the price of the car
care were changed.
Tne nickel is extensively used in
telephone calls. It was formerly more
than now the open sesame of the pop-
ular slot machine, lor which it still
does extensive duty. It is the price
of admission to the fast multiplying
picture shows in all parts of the coun-
[ try. The new fashioned boot shining
I parlor charges a nickel. The saloon
keeper and the baker have for years
gathered their daily harvest of these
little coins. The soda fountain, grow-
ing in popular favor, deals mostly in
uidkels. Ice cream In summer time
goes for five cents, and the charge for
a myriad things in the pharmacy and
the five-cent store requires this coin.
Most smokers would have to quit
were it uot for the nickel, obnoxious
as the domestic cigar is to many of
them. The cigarette would cease to
be the popular smoke it is if the price
were not five cents. Shoe laces would
either become a luxury at a higher
price or require payment in pennies.
Turn which way one will, the five-
cent piece bobs up at every turn as
the most necessary coin of the realm.
Its discontinuance would inevitably in-
crease the cost of a thousand things
of every day life, which no dealer
now has the daring to change because
of riveted custom. There is no likeli-
hood that the government will soon
consider the elimination of this coin,
as such action would result in a howl
of disapproval nationwide.
Highest Form of Beauty
Of all the beauty which can ador
either man or woman, there is no
beauty like that of perfect health, a
fine bearing, and a keen intelect.
The Money of the World
OT the world’s stork of money seven
billion dollars is gold, three and one-
half billions silver, and four and one-
third billions uncovered paper.
Engagement Bangle.
London—Notwithstanding the strong
feminist movement in England among
a certain smart set of girls, it is now-
considered the proper thing doubly
to advertise one’s engagement by a
wrist bangle as well as an engagement
ring, and sometimes even an ankle
bracelet is included among the golden
manacles proclaiming engagement
bondage. The stronger minded Eng-
lish women are indignant at this latest
fad on the part of their weaker sis-
ters.
For Health and Vigor
Tho wise use of ten minutes every-
day in active rigorous exercise aimed
at enlivening the vital organs rather
than at mere muscular development,
will go far to induce a healthy body.
Powerful Wireless Apparatus
The wireless apparatus on the Cun-
nrd liner Caronia is tne most power-
ful of any in steamship service, hav-
ing a radius of 1,200 miles.
Character Above Money.
The essential thing is uot money,
but character—Le Conte.
Biology Peril to Grammar
Study of Grasshoppers and Tadpoles
Takes Up Too Much Time of
School Children.
New York—John J. Fox, chairman
of local school board No. 26, borough
of the Bronx, has discovered a peril—
a perfectly new peril. Prominent in it
is the tadpole, abetted by the grass-
hopper and backed up by the cater-
pillar. Mr. Fox finds that our school
children study such tilings too much,
neglecting wjiat is really worth while.
The other night he introduced a
resolution before the board of which
he is chairman asking that it be adopt-
ed and a copy sent to the hoard of
education. The resolution reads:
"Resolved, That w-e, the members of
local school board No. 26, having in
mind the interest of the parents and
the w-elfare of the children, do hereby
record our emphatic disapproval of
that feature of our educational system
which subordinates grammar to grass-
hoppers, reading to caterpillars, spell-
ing to golden rod, arithmetic to bull-
frogs and penmanship to tadpoles.
“Resolved, That we attribute to
these and other equally reprehensible
fads the atrocious English that is
spoken by the school children of this
city, within the very shadow of our
grammar schools, from the lips of
hoys and girls old enough to speak
correctly the language of the country
of their birth.
"Resolved, That the time has come
when the taxpayers and parents
should inaugurate a movement for the
extirpation from our school system of
all the nonsensical fads that have
crept into it during the last few years
and which inure only to the benefit
of those who teach the subjects, write
the text-hooks or profit by their publi-
cation.”
But, alas, today the tadpole is
jubilant; the grasshopper is breaking
all records for running and standing
jumps and the caterpillar wriggles de-
fiantly throughout the land. Local
school board No. 26 killed Mr. Fox’s
resolution.
Old Custom Kept in London
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APPEALS FOR CENSUS TRUTH
Veteran cf Great Industry
An interesting man was Edward
Entwistle, who has just died, at the
great age of 95. He had the honor
of being fireman of the first locomo-
tive ever built. Indeed, he helped in
the construction of Stephenson’s en-
gine, at the age of 16 was chosen
from hundreds of other young me-
chanics as fireman and accompai-ned
Stephenson on the famous “Rocket,”
when it astonished thousands by mak
ing the high speed of 12 miles an
hour. Later on, he emigrated to the
United States, and became one of
the first steamboat engineers on the-
Hudson river.
Six Ponderous Horseshoes, of Ancient
Date, Tendered as Quit Rent
for Smithy.
The Oklahoma City Packing com-
pany received a car load of cattle
from Si>encer and Mallory of Norman
Okia, which averaged 1850 pounds
each. This Is the Danner car load so
far this year.
Organized labor in Oklahoma City
which has a membership of more
than 10,000 persons, and a direct in-
fluence over as many more, has gone
on record as among the boosters of
the location ot the state capital in
Oklahoma City.
Elimination of Sailing Vessel.
The rapid elimination of the sailing
vessel is shown by statistics recently
given by a German paper. In the 20
years between 1888 and 1908 the per-
centage of sailing vessels has de-
clined in the merchant marine of
Great Britain front 44.1 to 12.6; of Ger-
many, from 62.1 to 19.1; of the Uni-
ted States, from $0.7 to 30.a. ut tne
merchant marine of France, however,
but little change has occurred, the re-
spective percentages being 47.9 and
47.2.
London.—Six ponderous horseshoes,
more than 500 years old, have been
tendered to the crown by the city of
London corporation by way of quit
rent for a bygone smithy in the
Strand, and at the same time the city
solicitor counted out 61 nails, which
the king's remembrancer pronounced
to be “good number.”
The scene of the ceremony was the
royal courts of justice and among the
crowds of interested onlookers were
the lady mayoress and her two daugh-
ters. The corporation also did feudal
service tor a piece of land in Shrop-
shire.
Originally the crown demanded two
knives by way of quit rent, but when
the corporation bought the land it
substituted for the knives a sharp
hatchet and a dull billhook, and these
were ottered this year. The sharp-
ness of the hatchet and the bluntness
of the billhook were duly attested by
the city solicitor upon a bundle of
twigs.
By a pious fraud the horseshoes ar>d
nails are handed back to the city
every year to be presented afresh, but
the hatchet and billhook are often re-
newed, and this year they were pre-
sented as a souvenir to the lady may-
oress.
Cat Came Back.
Glasboro. N. J.—When theheme of
Postmaster Jacob E. Ware of Sickler-
ville was destroyed by fire last April
; the large tabby cat disappeared and
' did not return until a day or two ago.
Mrs. Ware saw a strange looking ob-
ject bouncing across the yard. In-
vestigating. she found It to be a cat
with its head fast in a tin can Re-
t moving the can with some difficulty,
she found her tabby, which disap-
peared over ten months ago.
United States Census Bureau Urges
Everybody to Tell Truth to
Enumerators.
Chicago.—The United States Cen-
sus bureau has issued an appeal to
clergymen, physicians, school teach-
ers, and employes to aid in the work
of gathering census statistics, which
will begin April 15, by urging all with
| whom they come in contact to an-
| swer the questions of the enumera-
I tors and not to withhold facts.
Many persons, according to the
bulletin issued by the bureau, believe
that information given to the census
men may be used against them in the
way of increasing taxes, involving
them in prosecution or other legal en-
tanglements or in revealing their busi-
ness secrets.
The bulletin points out that all cen-
sus statistics absolutely are confiden-
tial, and that any census employe re-
vealing the secrets confided to
him may he punished by two years'
imprisonment and a fine of $1,000.
"The information sought will be
used only for general statistical pur-
poses,” the bulletin says. “It will
neither be published nor used in any
other way to disclose facts regard-
ing any individual or enterprise."
The bulletin cites the fact that giv-
ing false answers to enumerators, or
refusing to answer their questions, is
punishable by a fine of $100.
Three-Dollar Gold Pieces
Bfegimning with the year 1854. and
ending with the year 1889, there were
539.792 of three-dollar gold coins sent
out from the United States mints, a
total value of $1,619,376. A few were
made ‘in the early years at the mints
at Dahlonega and New Orleans and
quite a number of the San Francisco
mint up to 1860, but the bulk of these
coins were turned out by the mint at
Philadelphia. Tney were never coin-
ed in sufficient numbers, there fig-
ures showr, to become really familiar
to the people outside of banks, and it
is hardly strange that the existence
of the coin should be now' largely
forgotten—Houskeeper Magazine.
Nothing Is so discouraging as uara-
(warded energy.
On the Rocks.
Margaret Deand says that cant
phrases about the hand that rocks
the cradle being unfit or unable to
cast a ballot are as silly as they are
; unconvincing. If the hand is so fool-
ish or so incapable as that, it is more
dangerous to the state to trust a cra-
dle to it than to trust a ballot. No;
her objection is only on the ground
of expediency; all things are law-ful
| —to go back to St. Paul—but all
things are not expedient. If there
could be a qualified suffrage for men
and women, the case might be differ-
ent. But the unqualified men w'on’t
give up what they have got, and the
unqualified women are trying to get
what they don’t deserve—so there
you are!
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
STACK COVERS
Te**ts and Awnings, W»»er Pr?** pAD,iS*‘
■ op anv ‘ i ni ■ f ' a ivh« <»» *• •« Full we ffht Goods*
First class construction. Prices right.
BATES MANUFACTURING CO.
OKLAHOMA CITY
23 Wot California. Otf-baif Black West Santa Fe Depot.
REIS* DEERE IMPLEMENTS
and VELIE VEHICLES »*krour dealer
OR JOHN DEERE PLOW C0„ OKLAHOMA CITY
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