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Anadarko Daily Democrat
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ANADARKO,
OKLAHOMA.
; Tho Khedive of Egypt rfcontly tent
n present to I'opo I.eo XIII, In the
hnpo of n mummy, dating back to twe
thousand years boforo the Chrlstlar
era.
A movement In on foot tn North
Carolina, prompted by tho tobacco
dealers, to erect a statue of Blr Walten
'Raleigh In Halt-lull. Collection boxes
nro to bo placed In stores whero to
bacco Is sold.
A lino of "observation automobiles"
Is to be run In Washington, I), C, for
Urn benefit of visitors. Ench vehicle)
carries twenty-two passengers and wll(
be accompanied by a lecturer on polntit
of Interest at tho capital. The fuel Is
kerosene and tho motive power steam.
Dr. 8. J. Trexlo of Kutztown, Pa.,
before his denth, provided that every
one who nttended his funeral should
have n freo dinner, and over 1,000
persons availed themselves of his of
fer nt tho two leading hotels, where
nrrnugemcutu had been mado to feed
tho multitude.
A New York newspaper recently
celebrated Its fiftieth birthday by
bringing out a copy of Its first Issue.
That number contained, among many
musty and forgotten things, an nrtl
clo on tho Nlcaruguan canal route, ex
tracts from English papers on tho su
periority of Amcrlcnn yachts, and an
article on tho sympathy of Americans
with the Cubans, oppressed by Spain.
Vorlly, "the thoughts wo are think-1
lug our fathers did think "
An American laundry machine com
pany has recently shipped a comploto
steam laundry plant to Vladivostok,
eastern Siberia. It will bo capable of
hnndllng four thousand pieces of lin
en n day, anil will consist of wash
ers, centrifugal wringers and a large
mangle. This Is said to bo tho llrBt
Introduction of such an equipment In
to that region. If so, It Is doubtless
a case of "Wring out the old; wring
In tho new," slightly to amend Ten
nyson's familiar lines.
Tho "Donau Zcttung,'' u Davarlan
nowspapoi, gives currency to the ru
mor that tho Kaiser has Instructed
the military authorities to remit all
sentences passed on soldiers of the
China 'expeditionary force. His Majes
ty, It Is said, does not wish that .the
men who went voluntarily to China to
light for the Fatherland shnll return
homo to undergo punishment. Quite
a largo number of soldiers of tho Ger
man forces have been sentenced to
more or less heavy punishment foi
offenses ngalnst military discipline
committed In China and -or excesses
ngalnst the person and property of the
Chinese.
When Emma Paul wns called as a
witness In court In Baltimore, Md., In
n suit brought by her father ngalnst
her mother, tho astonishing facts were
disclosed that, although she Is aged
twenty years, she did not understand
tho nature of an oath, had never been
to a church or Sunday bcIiooI, had
never heard of Qod, or heaven, nnd
did not know of the promise of Im
mortality. It was discovered thot tho
young woman had lived In Ilaltlmorc
all her life, and that her homo wns
In tho heart of a densely populated
section. Judge Wlckos allowed her to
testify, saying sho was an extraordin
ary and unsatisfactory witness.
Tho street car companies of Chicago
nro apparently not tn high favor with
the Service committee of the commit
tee on local transportation of tho city
council, for It has formulated a codi
thnt Is likely to reduce tho receipts ol
tho railroad companies considerably
The committee nt a meeting decided
thnt If n passenger la obliged to stand
up In a car and hang on to a strnr
ho has received vnluo for only foui
cents, nnd not flvo. Then tho com
mltteo hns suggebted to tho corpora
tioti counsel to enforce nn ordinance
relative to transfers, making It obll
gntory on tho traction companies ti
furnish transfer alius to any of iti
Intersecting lines.
An Interesting operation has Jus
been performed In tho hospital nttachei
to the University nt Hallo, Germany
A C-yenr-old girl patient vaa suffcrlnf
from partial paralysis and as tho doc
ors In charge considered this coult
only arise from a tumor on tho brain
Prof, von Hramnnn decided to rcmovi
It. With nn electric saw ho cut out I
piece of tho skull a little lnrger that
a half-crown, cut through the Inne
skin, nnd discovered n tumor as largi
'as n walnut. Tho professor skilful!;
removed this tumor, sowed up tho In
nor skin, fitted In again tho rouni
piece of tho skull ho had sawn out
nnd sowed up the outer skin. Tin
operation lasted an hour, and may hi
considered perfectly successful, ns tin
child Is quite well again nnd all symp
Isms of paralysis have disappeared.
TAUGHT F0R41YEABS
REMARKABLE REOORD OF AN EDU
CATOR IN OHIOAQO.
At Kn Instructor of Yoatli ll I'rored
Kmlneiitlj MurcoMfat Many Owe
Ihclr 8ucei In Lif to III Mathod
f Trarhlng,
Dr. James It Dewey of Chicago, who
recently severed his connection with
the educational Interests of that city,
has tho unique experience of having
spent 41 years of continuous work as
an instructor. In 1860 ho took tho
chair of Creek in tho one High school
then In Chicago and continued his ser
vices uninterruptedly until the last
wcok In September when falling eye
sight compelled his retirement. During
his long term ho varied from time to
time the branches which ho taught.
When ho first began ho taught Creek
and I-ntln and In after years this wns
changed for scientific branches. Whllo
engaged In tho work of teaching h'j
studied medicine and about 12 years
ago was graduated. He also lectured
In the Chicago Homeopathic Medical
School.
When ho became Instructor In Chi
cago's first High school tho number
of pupils In that Institution was 200.
Ho lived to see that number Bwolled
to 12,000. There are hunureds of men
living In Chicago and other places who
Dlt. JAMES E. DEWEY,
owe to Dr. Dewey's careful training
tho successes that crowned their latei
careers.
HAS HAULED 4,000,000 PEOPLE.
Tli Itecoril of John McCnrdy, a Hut
ern Kiiglneer.
John McCurdy of Jackson, Mich.,
who has Just resumed his dally trips
between Jackson and Michigan City,
on the Michigan Central railroad, Is
70 years of ugo and claims to be the
oldest locomotive engineer In the
country. For 63 years he has worked
for tho samo company and ho asserts
that he has traveled more miles than
any other man thnt over pulled a lever
In nn englno cab. His run Is 163 miles
long nnd as bo has made In tho neigh
borhood of 20,000 trips the total num
ber of miles he has traveled by rail
Is In the vicinity of 3,000,000. He has
hauled approximately 4,000,000 persons,
has never had a serious accident and
has never lost a cent to tho company.
"Few of the people who ride In
comfortnblo coaches and palatial par
lor cars and sleepers," ho says, "know
whnt It Is for an engineer to give
tnem a safo rtdo and to keep them
warm and comfortable, for the engin
eer of these times must do all of such
things. When I began I had nothing
to do but start and stop tho engine
while on the roll. Now wo must
brako the whole train, heat It anu In
many Instances light It. Then there
Is tho nover relaxing lookout for safe
ty. Sometimes I hnvo had to run the
whole length of my division through
tho heaviest fogs. Tho sno, beating
on tho flro box will render tho outside,
of It cold enough for you to lay your
hand on It. I hnve known Icicles to
form on It, despite tho fact that there
wns n raging nro Inside. All of this
tends to retard stcam-mnklng. nnd In
these days when we haul n string of
14 sleepers nnd keep them all wnrm
wo need every ounce of steam wo can
ninke."
Iiinrn the Center ol Intelligent-.
Westward th-i star of Journalism
takes Its way. Ten years ago Massa
chusetts claimed the highest general
Intelligence of all the states, hecauso
within Its borders wero the greatest
number of newspapers In proportion
to the population. Now comes tho
United States censiiB and shows a
quite remarkable change In the last
decado. Tho center of Intelligence
on the nowspaper basis has moved
beyond tho MlsBltslppl river. Iowa
now holds the plnco that Mnssichusetts
held ton yenrs ago and leads the states
with tho largest number of nowBpa
pors In proportion to the number of
Inhabitants. Tho census gives 23,916
ns tho present number of printing es
tablishments in tho country, a gain of
7,916 slnco 1800. Ex.
Pens of hardened gutta porcha have
ticen repeatedly tried In this country
nnd England, but hnvo not met with
! success
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NEW PAGE IN HI8TORY.
Xnd f the Una of President Whi
Llred la War TlmM.
Mr. McKlnley was probably the last
of the Presidents whom the country
will have who served In tho civil war.
Theodore Roosevelt was only threo
years old tn the early days of the war.
True, he Is younger than any other
Prosldent whom the country has hod.
The chances are, however, that the
chief magistrates hereafter will belong
to a later generation of men than did
thoso who controlled the nation's des
tinies from Lincoln's day onward to
those of McKlnley. All this list of
elected Presidents served In the army
during tho war except Mr. Cleveland.
When Martin Van Huren was elected,
two-thirds of a century ago, tho coun
try realized thnt a new opoch In the
nation's history had been reached. He
was tho first of the presidents who wai
born after the closo of the war of Inde
pendence. All his predecessors, oven
Jackson, tho man who wns In office di
rectly before him, had either partici
pated In tho war or wore old enough
to remembor Its passions and to bo In
fluenced, In somo degree, nt least, by
tho passions which It goncrntcd. Van
Huren was born In the Inst month of
1872, Just after the preliminary treaty
was signed by which George III. recog
nized tho Independence of his la'.o col
onies. In tho present Instance also a new
land mark In the nntlon'B history has
been reached. It Is now over 36 yonrs
slnco Iee's veterans stacked arms for
tho last time. Forty years will have
passed from that date by tho time the
next President Is Inaugurated. Not
many men In the army nt the cloe of
18C3 were below 22 or 23 years of age
Few of them who will bo alive In 1905
will bo under C5 years of aqo, and thnt
mark Is pretty close to tho dead line
In Presidential ambition. Only three
Presidents hnvo been as old as 05 at
the time of their Inauguration Wil
liam Henry Harris n, Taylor and Bu
channn and the Inst named wns the
only one of them who lived through
his term. Tho chances are that the
country has seen In the Presidential
ofllco the Inst of the m n who fought
In tho civil wnr. The present President
belongs to n later generation, nnd It
is llke'y that all of his successors' will.
A new page In tho nation's history has
been turned.
JIM CORBETT BROKE.
Foriur Champion llaa Binanderd T J
Fortune In IS Year.
James J. Corbett, at one time the
cleverest man who ever drew on o
boxing glove, is now without a dollar
and If it wero not for his wlfo, who
has a llttio stored away, like all other
fighters of note he would have to de
pend on his friends for a livelihood.
Corbett has made and squandered
two fortunes, but claims he will start
to make a third. Few men there are
who spend such sums In order to bo
a "good fellow" such as "Gentleman
Jim" has. Nevertheless Corbett says
It pays to be a "good fellow." During
all his life he has made raonoy and be
lieves In spending It liberally with hie
friends. The former champion said
the other day ho would rather have
tho good fellowship of good fellows
than all of the money of Rockefelloi
and Morgan. He believes In having
a good time as he passes down the
roadway.
"When you make plenty of money,"
said Corbett, "why not spend It with
the good people, tho Bohemians, your
friends the world In general? 'Live
and let live,' the old motto, Is my
motto. Give 'em all a chance. Keep
the stuff In circulation. It costs mon
ey, you know, to bo n 'good fellow.'
Tou must have the chink at all times
to keep up your end, and when you
get In with a bunch thnt don't happen
to bo quite no strong financially as
yourself you must keep up their end,
too. You are required at times to make
sacrifices which you would gladly
mako to help out a chap In hard luck.
"It may bo that I am a little soft
on this point, but I can truthfully say
I nover refused a deserving fellow a
dollar and If the truth Is to be told
I must say that I have enough I O U's
In my desk nt home to plaster the side
of n farm barn; nnd these, too, In sums
ranging from Jl to a thousand."
Where the llorott ffm KITeellT.
The boycotting by the United Irish
League of a grazier at Wcstport, coun
ty Mayo, Ireland, led to a curious Inci
dent a few days ago. A steamship for
Liverpool had Just taken on hoard n
flock of sheep belonging to the boy.
cotted grazier, when a large dealer
objected to the sheep being put on
board with his stock. Ho vbb sup
ported by other dealers, who threat
ened to unship their stock, nnd the
captain accordingly put the sheep on
shoro again and they were driven back
to the grazier's farm.
The World' Mull Hag.
Of tho 12,000,000.000 letters annual)
distributed by tho poUofllces of the
world, 8,000,000,000 are addressed In
English, 1,200,000,000 in Ger.i nn and
1,000.000.000 In French. All tho other
lnngunges hnvo less than 2,000,000,000
between them.
IN THE ODD C011NEB.
QUEER AND OURIOUS THINQ8 AND
EVENT8.
Th Btrenaou Stinging Done by Hornet
nnd Wp -Farmer Art 1.1k a Mad
man Wtiea II l'lough Up UoruU
Mai.
A little Joy;
A little strife;
Hope, fear, hate, lovo
And this Is life.
A little pain;
A shortened breath;
Ease, rest, peace, Bleep
And this Is death.
The song, the sigh,
The evening oU
Thus live, thus die,
Thus pats we all.
Arthur J. Bvrdlck.
NTRKNUOUS HTINORKS.
"I rend In ono of the -ngazlncs re
cently something nbout tho sting of the
bees," Bald a citizen to tho Now Or
leans Democrnt, "nnd I wnB reminded
of an experlcence I had with a friend
Borne tlmo ngo whllo In tho country
Ho was ploughing over behind n Bmall
clump of hills, nnd they wero well
wooded almost down to the fence line.
It Is n section which Is noted for mak
ing wildcat whisky, and this fact throw
me oft tho track, uh will appear hero
after. I was approaching my friend
from tho hillside. I wns riding. Sud
denly I thought he glanced nt me, nnd
nt tho tlmo he rushed around hurriedly
to tho singletree, unhooked the trace
chains, throw them across tho horse's
back, and tho animal struck out on a
dead run down the turning row which
split tho ravine. My friend followed,
and it was a raco for who laid the roll
ns they say In tho country. I could see
through It all In u minute. My friend
had been making moonshine whisky,
nnd he thought I was a United States
marshal. I split my sides laughing
over the thought of the thing, and
then I struck out down the ravine- after
him. I traveled some distance before
catching sight of my friend and his
horse. Finally I found them close to
a branch, and my friend was stooping
down occasionally, picking up some
thing and smearing It on his hands,
face and neck. 'Hello, Dill,' I said,
smilingly, 'I guess you thought I was a
United States marshal.' 'United States
h 1' ho said, almost uncivilly; 'I
ploughed up a hornets' nest.' And sure
enough he had, and both the man and
tho horse wero as knotty as a hickory
limb as tho result of It all. The bee
may be a good tlnger, but the hornet
Is the fleetest thing on wings whon It
comes to using tho stinger with swift
ness and effect. That reminds mi
of the curious methods of bees and
things of that sort in stinging," the
narrator continued. "Take the honey
bee, for Instnnce. Now, the honey bee
1b what you might call a lazy, clumsy,
docllo sort of stinger. Really, tho bee
Is awkward when compared with other
Insects. Tho bumble bee Is a trifle
more vigorous, and thero Is n deal
more of what one may call action In Its
movements. It Is a striking sort of
sting, and I have seen children almost
knocked down by these heavier mem
bers of the bee family. It Is a mean
vtlng to handle, too, and does not yield
so quickly to trotament. Tho hornet
and the yellow Jacket sting on the
wing, ns It wero. They do their work
quickly, but thoroughly, and they gen
erally lonve a lecord behind them that
they would have no cause to feci
ashamed of If they had this element
In their makeup. But there Is my old
friend, the wasp. I want to speak of
him. He Is the prince of stingers, You
nay not forget him so quickly when
he stings you. Ho leaves n sort of
waspy taste In your mouth, and It le
anything but pleasant, and It Is a taste
vou will remember even after tho years
have gono by. Tho wasp Is a lingering
sort of fellow. He lovingly and ca
ressingly stings, perches for a while
on one's neck, I may say, and then
hums about his business. Dut really,
while the wasp lingers longer than
other Insects whllo stinging, ho also
shows more nnger, and Is probably the
most spiteful member In tho list of
stinging Insects."
WAYS TO CATCH TUKTI.RH.
Frank T. Bullen In his new book,
"A Sack of Shakings," introduces his
readers to the remora, or "sucker," a
species of shark that never exceeded a
dozen pounds In weight. He says: "On
tho top of Its head Is a flat, oval con
trivance which is an adhesive attach
ment of such strength thnt, when by
this means the fish Is holding on to a
plane surface. It is impossible to drag
the body away, except bj almost tear
ing tho fish In half. Yet by the floxlng
of some simple muscles tho fish can re
lease Its body Instantly or ns tnatnntly
reattneh Itself. Tho tomora does not
hy any means limit Its company to
ships. It Is exceedingly fond of attach
ing Itself to tho body of n whole, nnd
also to some of the larger sharks. In
deed, It goes a step fart r thnn mere
putward attachment In tne latter cage,
because well-authenticated Instance
am recorded where several Buckors
hnve been found clinging to a hugo
shark's palate. This Is another stage
on the way to perfect parasitism, be
cause under such circumstances theso
daring lodgers needed not to detach
themselves any more. They had only
to Intercept sufficient food for their
wants on Its way from the front door
to the Interior apartments. I have also
seen them clinging to the Jnw of a
sperm whnle, but that Jaw wa. not In
working order. It was bent outward
at right nngles to the body and afford
ed hirbprage to a most comprchenslvo
collection of parasites, oarnacles cspe-"
clallr giving the front elevation of that
whaw nn appearance utterly unlike
nnytning with life." But the Chinaman
has uutwttted the superlatively lnzy
remorM. By a way ono must regard
as n triumph of Ingenuity ho has suc
ceeded in converting tho very means
whereby this born-tired fish usually
escnpes nil necessity for energy Into an
Instrument for obtaining gain for oth
er people. Tho mode Is ns follows:
"First cntch your remo.-a. No diffi
culty hero. A hook and line of the
simplest, a bait of almost anything
that looks eatable lowvd hy tho side
of n Bhlp, nnd If there a sucker hid
den there he will be after the lure In
stantly. The only skill necessary Is to
haul him up swiftly when he bites, be
cause It he be allowed to get hold of
the ship again you may pull the hook
out of his Jaws, but you will not suc
ceed In detaching him. Having caught
a remurn, the flahcrmnn fastens n brass
ring closely around Its body. Just nt
Its smallest part before the spread of
the tall. To this he attaches a ling,
fine and strong line. He then departs
for the turtle grounds with his prison
er. Arriving thero he confines him
self to keeping the remora away from
tho bottom of his boat by means of a
bamboo. Of course tho captive get
very tired, and no turtle can pass with
in rango of him without hi- hanging
on to thnt turtle for a rest. The mo
ment he does so the turtle's fate li
sealed. Struggle how he may, he can
not shako loose the tenacious grip ol
tho sucker, and the stolid yellow man
In the sampan has only to haul In up
on the line to bring that unwilling tur
tle within range of his hands and lift
hlra Into the boat," Chlcugo News.
fOI.Ii ICK AND WARM ICK.
The college professor asked the rest
of us whether Ice was colder In wlntei
thnn It was in summer. Now, to th
rest of us. Ice was Ice, and therefon
we could not see now It could remaia
Ice and be either colder or warmer
Then the professor explained the thing
In this fashion: "If a thcimomcter li
burled In tee In summer It will Indi
cate 32 degrees. If you throw a plec
of Ice Into boiling water, and leave It
theio until It Is almost gone, what li
left will be still at 32 degrees. Ici
can never bo gotten above that tem
perature. But while Ice can never bt
warmed above 32 degrees, It will gc
as much below that as the weathei
does. An Iceman delivering ice one
zero day in January was asked whethei
his ico was any colder than In July
Ho thought not. But, as a matter ol
fact, a piece of summer Ice, If he had
had It, would have been something ol
a foot warmer for him, as it would
have been 10 degrees warmer than th
air of tho bottom of his wagon. Mix
ing salt with Ice makes It much cooler
The Ice in a wine cooler goes down tc
about zero. This Is why the point zerc
on our common thermometers was fix
ed where It Is. It was supposed to b
tho lowest point which could be reach
ed by artificial mcann. Since then w
have recah"d nbout 383 degrees below
zero by chemical processes. Ice will
cool down with everything else on e
cold night to zrro or below. What
should prevent It? On a day when II
Is Just freezing a block of Iron, a block
nf Ice, outdoors, will stay at 32 de
grees. If the weather grows warmer
tho Iron will warm up with tho weath
er, but the lee will stay at 32 degrees
and melt away. But If tho weathei
grows colder tho iron and Ice will cool
off, and one Just as much as the other
As the Ice grows colder it gets harder
nnd moro brittle. There can be nc
hickory bend on a skating lond on a
zero dny, for Ice Is then too brittle.
Silvers of Ico dipped In liquid air bo
come so hard that thoy will cut glass.
Water thrown on Ico In tho Arctic re
gions will shiver It like pouring boiling
water upon cold glass. Thla Is because
the ico Is so much colder than tho wa
ter." Beverages.
Digging Deep for flold.
A scientific problom of much Interest
will confront the engineers of the
Transvaal gold mtnes when th war
between the English and the Boers Is
over, and that Is the depth to which
shafts will be sunk in search of gold
bearing veins. Some of. the shafts al
ready opened will descend 4,000 to
6,000 feat, but It Is thought by eomo of
tho engineers that a depth of 12,000 feet
will be reached in other cases. The
temperature at thut depth will be
about 100 degrees, the warmest, per
hnps, nt which men can work, but Miu
suggestion has been made that a itlll
greater depth may be found pmctlcablo
If means be devised for cooling tho
air Utlca Globe.
