The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1906 Page: 2 of 4
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The Freedom Express.
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‘•’OOYINO WOODLOTB.
Whit Ohio C«p#rirr*nt Station !• Do-
ing to Promoto Forestry.
MADE RIDER A HERO
FLASH SIGNALS.
FREEDOM.
OKI. A
NEW STATE NEWS.
Kingfisher U aufforlas from on
feenuc ul »lli»hlL«jrta.
Rev. IlaptoQ Fitch, wanted At rv1
m oo a foruory charge. »u orreeted
Outlaws robbed the I mo Mountain
itatb ti at OiagAh. I. T, securing
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Work ha* boon romewnood on th*
million dollar power plant la tbe
GruJ river at Muik^**.
Horticulturist* claim that tho Oano
apple* railed In Pottawsu-mlo oounty
tht* year are near perfection. The
apple* arc pracuoally ft*»l««*. »«»■
urtnjt 13 to It Inches In circumfer-
ence, dark, ainooth and glossy.
Ml'. R. Howe, poatmantcr at Aider-
son. haa disappeared. It la aald that
domestic trouble waa tho cauao of hi*
flight. HU wife haa taken charge
of the postnffloo, and Inspector* d*
talk-d to make an examination.
The Ohio ttatlon U planning *om*
Important work rolatue to the wood-
lot* of the »tate. In a recent com-
munication Prof. Thome aay*:
The farm woodlot 1* an important
factor In timber production in Ohio.
Are thr*.- woodlot* held at a profit or
lo**T I'ndoubtrdly there are *otn»
M«ind growth timber tract* where the
,
good enough so that the annual In-
crease in yielding profitable return*
There are many other woodlots where
the stand Is [>oor or the tree* are
of Inferior *pecte* which are not pay-
ing a fair rate of Interest. It l* Im-
portant that everyone who is Inter-
ested In forestry should know to
•
Measurements and calculation* will
disclose at what rate a tract of tim-
ber 1* growing into money, and a
careful study of the condition* will
show It *hould be managed *o as to
make it more profitable. The inves-
tigations referred to have In view
the determination of the kinds of
tree*, or mixture of trees, which nre
yielding the greatest profit*, a* they
•
growth forests. The station has al-
ready found that planted grove# of
catalpa and locust may give return#
exceeding ten dollars per acre an-
nually. While the natural forests
Nsturs Has Provldtd Antelope W th
tea Apparatus.
BALKY .MULE GAVE SOLDIER
FIRST STeP IN CAREER.
Kasterlltshy's Animal Refuted to Re-
treat and Charged the Enemy,
Action Turning Defeat
Into Victory.
- nuaiiy. w nue me natural iure»u
Stigler lay# claim to being the kad- may 'fnli Bhort of thl#. It will doubt
tag cotton market along the Midland —----*“■
Valley road from Muskogee to Fort
Smith. Nearly 4,000 bales have been
shipped this season.
South McAlester will have to do
without a new fail bonnet and econo-
mise 90 as to raise a needed bonua
of $100,000 to get the Indian Central
railroad and Its division shops.
In Kiowa county teachers make an
average of $ 1 -r> per month and board
themselves, while cotton plckors com.
xnand $9<J and room and board.
In the contest that haa boon con-
ducted for a name for the county In
•which South McAlester Is located.
KaMInla leads by a large majority.
The legislature of the now state will
be asked to give the oounty that
name.
The Indian Territory Federation e{
Women’s clubs In annual session at
Tulsa, adopted, by unuanlmoua vote, a
resolution favoring separate schools
for the whites and blacks In the new
state of Oklahoma.
less prove true that they are growing
into value much faster than Is com-
monly supposed. How to make them
still more profitable, especially those
which are In bad condition. Is a prob-
lem which the station Is willing to
try to help the owners to solve, but
at the outset It should be understood
that numerous factors enter In which
may make experimentation necessary.
The station is ready to determine the
prospective increase In value of tracts
of timber, but it may not be able,
In all cases, to unreservedly recom-
mended a course of treatment which
will Insure satisfactory results with
neglected woodlots. So far as moans
will permit, it Is willing to cooperate
In such work, especially in represent
atlve cases. The owner is to provide
land and labor, while the station will
furnish plans, and, In some cases,
trees, In order to put Into operation
and test certain methods which prom
ise good results."
Governor Frantz has appointed Win,
Busby, of McAlester. as an additional
delegate to the Gulf Deep W aterway
convention which meets In St, Louis
November 15 and 18.
CORN CUTTING TO SAVE TIME.
Sixty-Four
Method of
Handling a
Hill Shock.
Dr. ,T. A. Ross, of Oklahoma City,
has been appointed by Governor
Frantz as an additional member of the
territorial board of osteopathy.
Dan Sie. a well known farmer near
Sugden. was arrested last week for
complicity in the assassination of In-
dian Policeman Den Collins. Tills is
the third arrest for the crime.
L. N. Houston of F.nld has assumed
his duties as register of the Guthrie
land office.
A farmer of Bond county, 111., sug-
gests a plan for cutting a 64-hill shock
of corn in such a manner as to mini-
mize steps and carrying. Hts plan
Is Illustrated by the cut. The circles
In the center represent the four hills
over which the shock is to be built.
These are to be bent together if de-
sired, or if a jack is used may be cut
at once. When the foundation for
the shock Is ready the cutter goes
to No. 1 and cuts In the direction of
the numbers until he reaches No. 8.
I After placing his armful in the shock
9 and cuts to
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A list of twenty schools of the
Creek nation have been submitted to
the department of the Interior. The
list contains four new one*.
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The gas company represented by
Dennis Flynn has been granted a
franchise to pipe natural gas into
Shawnee. At the same time the local
company was given exactly the same
franchise.
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Car Accountant IT. E. Coffee, for the
Frisco railroad, of Sprlnsrfield. Mo,
•has been transferred by the road to
Lawton, wh./e he will be given the
territory from Quanah, Texas, to Sa-
pulpa, I. T.
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Diagram of the Plan.
Azent G. W. Morgan, of the Rock
Xsiand. has received the neatest thing
in city advertising that has come Into
Shawnee. It was sent by his son from
New Orleans, and consists of a tag
and nutshell, the tae bearing the
words. "New Orleans In a Nutshell "
while the shell contains a long strip
ct small but perfectly clean picturee
of the notable spots In New Orleans.
No. 16. In other words, he cuts each
hill in the order that it is numbered,
beginning each time at the hill
marked by a circle and ending with
the hill marked with the square. When
he comes to the last hill, which is
No. 60, he has cut the entire 64-hill
shock, and at the least cost of labor.
CABBAGE PULLING DEVICE.
It Will Aid
in Pulling the Crops by
the Roots.
Woodward will bold an election thl*
■month to vote on the question of Is- ------- --------- -- — — ----- -----
suing $150,000 in bondB for a municipal an arrangement such as shown in the
eiit io vorv iioofnl enve Pfirril fiTlfl
Where cabbages are being harvest-
ed to be preserved for some time, it
is necessary to pull them with the
stalks attached. To aid in this work
One of the central figure* in the
riots and battle* between Americas*
and M> xtran min- r* at Cananea *u
Lieut. Col. Kostcriitsky of the Mexican
an •
This daring fighter is not a Mexi-
can. but. a* hi* name Implies, a native
of Poland Coming to the United
Another remarkable detail of the an-
| telopv » anatomy is the white area on
; each buttock Although It *rem* at
first Uke the rest of his spots, a mere
patch of white coat. It Is found to be
specialised for an Important *ervlce.
It Is composed of hair graded from
short ts the center to long at the front
edges I'nder the *kin of the part la
’ a circular muscle, by mean* of which
the hair can in a moment be raised
; and spread radically Into two great
blooming twin chrysanthemum*, more
! or less flattened at the center. When
thl* ts done In bright sunlight they
shine like tin pans, giving flashes of
light that can be seen further than the
■^a conspicuous
Identification mark that muse be of
iuUrnatimutl JJrarp
£rgtelatiuu (Certain tu (Cmnr
By DR. H. W. THOMAS,
prcoJ/nt World'* P«*«* JocUty.
State# at 15 years of age. be gained a j tBlma, affordln(t
good knowledge of English and drifted ldenUflcatfon mark th;
into M< xlco. great iervice to the specie*.
There he Joined the Mexican regu- | Am #oon tbenfort „ an an,et0pe
tar army, and now. at 45 year# of age i ^ Mme Grange or thrilling ot»eci
Is known a* one of the most Intrepid j thJ, nju#cl* Mt, an(, th,. rump patch
soldiers the republic has. j* Instantly changed Into a great
It ha* been claimed that Faster- doub,e d„k of whlte ,hat ghln08 afar
lltiky was trained In the l tilted State* I )|k# patch ()f §nwW# and by ,w flo'h-
army, but officer* of the department | |ni£ Bt)rvad, the, aIarm Thu_ lt will be
of Colorado say that he never was in
tho army. Hi* love of personal lib-
erty and hi* ln*tlnct* as a soldier of
fortune was developed here.
Col. Kasterlltzky i* a tall, wiry,
strongly built man. trained in all tho
art of his calling, and one of the boat
shot* In the Mexican army. He la
probably tho best man In that country
to cope with a mob.
The colonel, who Is a Pole of noble
blood, came to the United States at
an early ago and enlisted In the reg-
ular army. While stationed at LI
Paso, so the story goes, he struck an
officer of the army for a fancied in-
sult. Knowing the severe punishment
which would be visited on him he fled
across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
He found it imjHJssible to get a com-
mission in the Mexican army, and. as
the privates in that country are re-
cruited from the criminal classes, he
could hardly enlist.
Knowing all about horses he was
finally attached to the army in tho
capacity of a horseshoer. When on :
campaign in Siona his company uas
attacked by a band of \aqui Indians.
The commanding officer of the Mexi-
cans ordered a masterly retreaL The
horseshoer was mounted on a mule,
which, with true obstinacy, refused to
retreat, but broke into a gallop, head-
ed toward the enemy. Kasterlitzky
could not check his steed, so he drew
a pistol and shouted for the Mexican
soldiers to follow him. They did so,
and the enemy was put to flight. For
this act of Involuntary valor Kaster-
litzky was made an officer and has
steadily advanced until he is now a
colonel.
Once at Magdalena, in the state of
Sonora, where the colonel was in com-
mand of the barracks, he entertained
an American friend. The next morn-
ing. while dressing, the visitor heard
some gun shots. When he met his
host at breakfast he asked the cause
of the firing, and the colonel told him
he had Just had three soldiers shoL
He was asked what they were charged
with, and replied: "Nothing in par-
ticular. We just shot them to keep
up discipline.”—Indianapolis Star.
Seth Got His Store Boots.
An ex-mayor of one of our Massa-
chusetts cities not 1,000 miles from
Chelsea recently related to me an
interesting story of his early days,
says a writer in the Boston Herald.
He was born and spent his boyhood
in York county, Me. It was the cus-
tom in those days to have leather on
hand and employ a local shoemaker
to come to the house and make up
and repair a supply of shoes for the
coming year. Col. Day, the man em-
ployed In that section, was not a very
stylish or finished workman, and as
the country stores had begun to keep
boot6, the future mayor informed him
that he need not make him any boots,
as he should get a pair of store
boots.
Day was angry, and said: ‘‘You are
getting d—d stuck up. 1 want >ou
to know that, better men than you
wear my make of boots. John Ham,
our representative, wore a pair of
my make to Augusta last winter.
But Seth got his store shoes just
the same.
Ing spread* the alarm. Tht*. lt will be
«• »-n. is simp!/ a heliograph. Man
flatter# himself that he was the In-
ventor of flash communication, but he
Is wrong; the antelope had It first.
They used It thousands of generations
before man ever dreamed of it.
HE government* of Europe have grown on the line* of war
and have come to give it a special department. Wu over hero
have followed in their atop*. Think of the co*t of war! Our
government i* spending $200,000,000 annually on it* army an l
navy. England i* expending $300,000,000. The other coun-
tries spend altogether $1,500,000,000, and hence the grand total
of annual tribute to the wnr god i* exactly $2,000,000,000.
And we arc at peace, too. This incredibly large sum U
•imply *]K.*nt that the nations may be ready to fight each other
should any cause arise. One battleship costs more than tho
building* of Harvard university, of Hamptom college and of Tu*kegce in-
stitute combined. And the life of the battleship is only 12 years. It may
la- reduced to junk in u moment. Is such a policy as this wisCf Is it right
and is it good sense?
WIT NOT A VALUABLE ASSET.
‘Do not long for wit,” said a society
woman whose opinions are worth lis-
tening to. “A witty tongue is often
very far from being a prize to Its
possessor.
If you knew how much most witty
men and women are hated you would
never envy their gift. Those who pro-
fess to admire them are generally peo-
ple who have somehow escaped the
lash of their criticism. When one of
these is at last made a target for the
.barbed arrow of wit, admiration rap-
idly changes to dislike.
•One of the most brilliant talkers I
ever met—a man full or caustic hu-
mor—has brought on himself a double
Nemesis. Those who have suffered
from his shafts detest him. while oth-
ers, who find themselves dazzled an<r
wearied by his constant scintillations,
are almost unanimous in regarding
him as a bore!”
electric light plant.
cut is very useful, says Farm
Home. Take two pieces of
and
stiff
The Texas University football elev-
en defeated the Oklahoma University
■eleven at Oklahoma City last 1- rlday.
Score 10 to 9.
^ •'Pecans are money this year.” is
i*'4— -
fbe opinion of Joseph Sondhelmer of
Muskogee, who has been buying pe-
cans in Indian Territory, Oklahoma
and Texas for the past thirty years.
He says it Ix-irins to look like he la not djg U1 bold it. and clinch them, secure-
going to get many this year. Ten days Jy Taper ott the point Gf the fork
•more will tell the tale of tho pecan aQ(j rounj 0ff the handle, and you are
crop, and lt does not look good. ready for business. Insert the fork
Cabbage Pulling Device.
board two inches wide, and fasten
them together as shown in the cut,
with one end separated by a wedge.
Drive several nails through the han-
l Sapulpa gets the next meeting of
dhe Indian Territory Federation of
*Women’s clubs.
i ready for business,
under the cabbage head astride of
the stem and lift upward, and it will
come out without the usual back-
breaking strain.
The po6toffice receipts for the Okla-
homa City office for the month of Oc-
tober were $14,231, a gain over^ the
corresponding month of one year* ago
of $4.3<tS. the receipts of that month
being $9,863. Oklahoma City’s postal
receipts now are three times the re-
ceipts of those of 'Muskogee, four and
one-half times the receipts of Guth-
rie and eoual to the combined re-
cepits of the five offices in the new
state next in size to the Oklahoma
City office.
If the cabbage that is not headed
good this fall is buried with the roots
on they will make nice white heads in
the ground. The root must be cov-
ered with earth so it cannot freeze.
—Farm and Home.
Cover the onion sets this fall with a
dressing of well rotted stable manure.
It will keep them from freezing, and
they will need no cultivation in the
spring
Tramps Resemble Apes.
There is a striking resemblance be-
tween tramps and apes, according to
Dr. J. Wilson Rhodes, chairman of
the central committee of poor law
conferences, says the London Ex-
press.
“If.” he said, “you walk with an
unemployed procession for about half
a mile and study the tramps you will
see that a great many of them are of
the degenerate type.
-They have a peculiar walk with
them, and it is like that of an an-
thropoid ape.
• I have watched • the tramps In
England, on the continent, and in
America, and all the world over there
is a great similarity between them.
-\Ve must discourage the growth
of the class of* men who more nearly
resemble apes year after year."
Site for Charlemagne.
Charlemagne, though interred at
Aix-la-Chapelle, and regarded as an
ancestor by the German emperor, is
nevertheless claimed as a Frenchman
by the majority of modern Gauls.
Their interest in the great emperor,
however, does not extend to the point
of providing a definite site for his
monument, which for 20 years
has occupied a temporary wooden
pedestal on the banks of the Seine,
within the precincts of Notre Dame.
A movement is now on foot to have
an appropriate pedestal set up for
the statue, which is covered with
waterproof canvas
Least It Seldom Wins Popularity
for Its Potsessor.
I predict that the next meeting of the international pence tribunal nfc
The Hague will develop into a “world’s legislature” by which a general
agreement upon disarmament will be reached.
Then it may be only a few years before we will have a permanent in-
ternational legislature whose enactments will be binding upon all tho
signatory countries. It will be a supreme court of the earth. It will be
the center of authority and its legislation will l>e accepted by the nations
represented in it just as we accept the action of our own congress. Let us
say now that the hope of general peace is therefore in sight.
Seal (Cmtiutum
nf titliiitrii Him
By MAJ. H. L. BAILEY,
Rec-uitintf Officer. U. S. A.
The necessary addition
by enlistment to the army
of the United States is
made difficult by the high
standards, physical, men-
tal and moral, to which
applicants must conform.
The recruiting officer
must select.only those ap-
plicants who for all prac-
tical purposes are physically perfect, and for every one that he passes
he rejects eight or nine.
Work of Real Charity.
A circle of young women in one
of the large manufacturing cities has
carried on for several years most
excellent work. They take care of
the children of poor sick women,
thus relieving them of the obstacle
to a stay in the hospital. Many ten-
ement house mothers struggle on to
death itself rather than leave their
little helpless ones until forced to.
The young settlement workers, for
such is really the principle of their
scheme, have rented a house, and as
many as possible of the temporary
motherless children are received. The
girls serve in turn as residents, stay-
ing three weeks at a time and be-
ing relieved by a system which pre-
vents an entire change at one time
of the self-constituted guardians. In
the event of the death of the mother
the children are further looked after
until some permanent arrangement
can be made for them.
A Long-Legged Deer.
A huge, finely mounted antlered
head hung just above the sideboard
in the dining-room. This trophy of
some huntsman’s skill was fastened
so firmly to the wall that the glisten-
ing neck seemed to be coming right
out through the plaster. Robert, who
was seeing this decoration for the
first time, eyed it with lively curiosity
apd very evident uneasiness. It looked
almost too lifelike for comfort.
Finally the j3oy, asking to he ex-
cused, slipped from his chair, tip-
toed into the next room, and then,
flushing with embarrassment, re-
turned to his place at the table.
“What's the trouble, Robert?” asked
his host.
"I wanted to see,” explained candid
Robert, "if that animal's legs were
-eally as long as that of if he were
standing on something in another
room.”
The complaints that are made by those who leave the military •'"rv;“-
of the United States, whether officers or men, are such as one naturally
makes as an excuse for his discontinuance in any employment for which
he was not fitted. He tells of the disagreeable features of that employ-
ment, the unhappy conditions under which he labored, and it is not
difficult for him to find sympathy among those to whom he recounts his.
alleged experiences.
One subject which almost above all others is reverted to complain-
inglv is that of the pay of an enlisted man. To state that the pay of
the soldier for his first year of home service is only $13 a month is to
produce the impression that the defender of his country is ungenerously
treated. But this impression is not so strong when it is understood that
the soldier receives everything that he needs—food, shelter, medical at-
tendance when ill, and a pension if he becomes disabled—and at the end
of every month has a sure surplus of $13.
j low many thousand of civilians, who enjoy incomes much in excess
of that of the American soldier, find themselves at the end of the year,
after a more or less annoying struggle, with nothing like the more than
$150 that the poorest paid soldier may put in the bank without depriving
himself of any comfort that he will seriously miss?
Yet the feeling is so general, in and out of the army, that the sum
of $13 a month at least looks niggardly, that there is a movement on
foot to endeavor to have congress authorize the remuneration of the sol-
diers in a different way, so that the actual payment will cover all thoso
necessaries that he now receives directly, hut for which the cost will be
extracted under the proposed system from the increased sum with which
he will be credited.
After all, whatever may be said of the system of enlistment by which
the government obtains soldiers for its army, and of the number of de-
sertions that take place, the critic, for answer, may be directed to the
splendid record which the American
soldier, after regular training and XZ? J’jr
discipline, has made for himself in
every war in which his country has CS • f S v
bam engaged. _
The Size of America.
Colonel Abraham Gruber is the mas-
ter of more Irish jokes than any other
man in Cyrus, Minn.
“Micky Finnigan, who had been an
American citizen for about a year
and had traveled about this continent
considerably, returned home to Hi-
bernia for a visit. This is the way
he described his new country to one
of his relatives:
"Phwy, Amer-r-ica is so big, be-
gorra, that if you were to dr-ag En-
gland thr-u three states you would'n
lave a mar-k in the dir-rt, an' you
could lose Oirland in one o’ thim
gr-reat inland oceans we have, phwat
we dill lakes. An' if you had Scot-
land to get rid of, there are a thou-
sand corners you could hide her in.
an' nobody could tell where you had
put her except, begorra, for the bad
smell o’ the whisky.”
ESmi’t (Sim4 lip
Athlrtirs
It is preposterous to
assume that nature haa
intended any animal,
when in its prime, to ab-
jure hard work. Can it
be denied that an old
wolf is stronger and more
enduring than a young
wolf? Then why should
not man be more capable
physically at 35, which is not old. than he is at 25? We know that the
By G. ELLIOT ELINT.
His Shrewd Judgment.
An old sea captain was turning over
the leaves of a friend's album, when,
coming to the photograph of a young
lady of whose acquaintance the family
were rather proud, he asked what he
thought of her.
"Aweel,” was the old salt’s reply.
’ if I were goin’ to mak' a rare stroke
o’ business. I d buy that girl for what
, she's worth, an' sell her for what she
i thinks she’s worth!”
brain is subjected to more severe and constant use than is any other organ,
vet the brain lasts longest. If we accept the conclusion that no man should
do hard physical work after he is 35, then we should urge that after that
age he make no severe mental effort.
Such a doctrine is subversive to progress. The body one day, despite
all our efforts, becomes incapable; let us not, therefore, hasten our uneom-
ing helplessness by refusing to do while we are yet able. Structures can*
go on performing their functions only so long as the functions are regular-
ly demanded of them. Let the demand diminish, and first the function
and.then the structure will diminish. If one remains in bed for but ona
month his power of locomotion is nearly lost, and the structures neees-
sarv for locomotion, the legs, greatly diminish. It is only when the func-
tion is again demanded by his making repeated efforts to walk that the
function redevelops the structure sufficiently to enable him once more to
do so.
In my belief no exercise or sport should Ik? given up at any particular
time of life; but the exercise in its intensity and amount should lie dimin-
ished as one's feelings prompt. Thus, an old man may row. though not so
hard as a younger man. He may play baseball or cricket or lawn tennis
until he tires. He may swim easily, walk, ride a bicycle or run slowly.
But that he must eschew all active games simply because he is past 35 is
blatant nonsense.
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