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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24

"Mr. Horace" returned to college
and took up the earnest students life
once more, the days passing quietly by
until that clarion trumpet call re-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24
r obedient servant

KEDEkIIh ", oIfKIING.
As he finished reading this letter,
Horace Hayward raised his eyes, suf-
fused with tears, and dropping on his
knees before his chair thanked God.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24
Bobby's Scheme.

Small Bobby was so much afraid
That Santa would forget TO leave
The many things he'd asked him for,
lie hung no stocking Christmas eve.
because, p" said be, "sll other boys
WIN hang their stockings up, and be.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24

leaned his head upon his hand and
lived over in memory the piteous spec
tacles he had seen that day, his oldest
son, Robert came to him and said;
Father am eighteen years old,
know the daily self remuneration of
your life, and mothers. l know that
from your little means you have given
more than you can spare; let me help
you! | am old enough. let me go out
and earn enough to keep myself and
help you in your generous work-may
|, father?" And the boy bent forward,
looking eagerly into his fathers down
cast face. For some moments he sat
in silent thought, and then drawing
Robert into a seat beside him talked to
him long and earnestly of all he would
have him do, and be. The mother was
called into the council and it was at
last decided that he should go east
to service.
Death thinned out the overcrowded
houses of the poor with ruthless hand.
And amid the congregation who sat
beneath that pale pastors ministra-
tions and wondered why Mrs Hayward
wore the same bonnet for two seasons
and dressed so very plainly, few knew
that the new bonnet had gone in ice
and medicine for the sick, and the
money for the new dress in shrouds and
burial for the dead.
When fall had CO me again, and Rob
ert wrote that he had worked lard sll
summer for but little pay; that ne was
weary and homesick and tired OF strug-
Cling on alone; could he not come
home? he had neither money nor
clothes to begin the winter there; he
was heartsick and discouraged; what
should he do?
For week the parents debated the
subject The mothers fond heart cried
''come;" the fathers clear head said,
RI don't like to see him give up"
But affection prevailed in the and
asd Mr.. Hayward drew his last check
upon his little horde of savings and
- l. lin fallina< hfxn ttHo..-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24

In the flush of his early manhood he
had cast his bread upon the waters,
and it had returned 10 him after many
days. MARY X. MAULE.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-12-24

twinkled in their airy flight and were
caught up by the wind and tossed
hither and thither in boisterous play;
now into the face OF some aged man,
now under the feet of a toddling child.
and again whirling around corner
and down the street as if in mad pur-
suit of some phantom partner in their
spectral dance, Great fires burned
briskly in cheery homes, aud sent out
their ruddy beams upon the snow,
while sleighs full of merry people
passed swiftly by, hurrying on in an
ticipation of the Christmas dinner.
A little lad, thinly clad and shiver-
ing, who shoveled the great piles II
.ooxy from IA - - larye and hand
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
A Mecca Caravan Seized by Arabs.

Hag Ahmetel-Assal, a pilgrim lately
returned from the Mecca pilgrimage,
has been narrating the terrible expe-
riences of his party to the editor of a ma
tive Egyptian paper called The Mokat-
tam. The pilgrim, whose responsibility
is vouched for, we are told, by an Egyp-
t I sheik who is greatly respected in
Cairo, declares that on returning from
Mecca lie ''rafilat.' or detachment Of
the caravan % which he belonged, aud
which was COIN sod Of about 700 cam
els, left Bir-Said ut break and halted
at sunset at the foot CT i mountain, on
the road to Yamboo.
A few minutes after arriving there the
raflat, composed Of men, women and
children, found themselves attacked I J
Bedouins of the desert, who attacked
them with the utmost savagery, Staying
and manning the men of the party. The
hot, dry sand was wet with blood. Some
of the women, after being robbed of their
clothes and valuables, were left to their
fate. The younger and better looking
ones were carried off as Slaves With
great difficulty the narrator of these facts
escaped with his life.
The poor pilgrims so cruelty outraged
had actually paid piasters each and 20
piasters each for their camels to the gov
ernor of Medina to secure his protection
against the Bedouins. The conclusion
drawn by the Egyptian paper is that the
Ottoman government is not really mas
ter of Arabia, but that it leaves the
sheiks absolutely free to rob and plum
der, provided they profess a nominal al
legiance. London News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
A Giddy Old Girl,

Another Brooklyn couple have re-
vealed the domestic unhappiness which,
like worm in the bud, preyed upon
their souls. twas Schoolmaster Priddy
and his wife. Of course all their mutual
friends who read their sad story are very,
very sorry that the wicked newspapers
will publish unpleasant stories. Of
counsel
The trouble seems to be that School
master Priddy strove to enforce peda-
gogic methods in the domestic domain,
and it would not work. He considered
himself as much the moral head of Mrs.
Priddy as if she had been one of his pu-
pills. She said he few into RACES and
treated her cruelty, even to the extent
of administering that corporal punish
ment still allowed in moderation in some
public schools. She was of the opinion
that he should pay for thus bestowing
on her his moral admonitions, SO sued
for a separation, alimony and counsel
fees.
Priddy, being brought to book, denied
the cruelty. His wife was vain and
frivolous, he said. She absolutely would
not obey him, which was sad indeed.
Not only she refused to obey him, but
she was Unfortunately fond of dancing
and other amusements outside of her
home-that, too, though she was so years
old. One would think that with such a
delightful companion as Priddy in the
house no well regulated wife would ever
want to set foot outdoors. But women
are queer creatures.
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:. -. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 3, 1898.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

It takes 100000 men to work the
worlds coal mines.
The United States and Australia are
nearly equal in area,
A single trip of an ocean steamer so.
quires $1,000 worth Of coal.
A secret, like an oyster, cannot be kept
too close, for the moment it is opened II
ceases TO exist
The Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication of marriage offers in
the newspapers.
The Mount Vernon association holds
the key of tho Dasdle presentelta Wash
ington by Lafayette,
On the body Of notorious brigand
recently killed in Turkey was found
1000 and notebool; which showed he
had murdered l02 men.
A New York cat whose teeth had
been knocked ont by rufian, had a
false set made for it by dentist and
wears them comfortably.
China is about to establish a postal
system, beginning with the seaports. 1t
is hoped that within 10 years it will be
extended throughout the empire.
The most skilled workman in New
York is an operative whose business it
Is to make the lenses of astronomical
instruments. This man has but one eye.
Drummers are to be attached to the
Paris police. When riots are appre-
hended, the beating of the police drum
will be equivalent to reading the riot act.
The official organ of the Vatican has
denied that the pope owns several mil
lions Of dollars worth of land in Lon
don from which he derives princely in
come.
Queen Victoria now rules popula-
ton of 367, goo, 000-a larger number
than ever acknowledged the sovereignty
ern times.
The "goober" industry of Norfolk is
unique. Here is a little city in Virginia
| that has become the greatest distributing
center of peanuts in the world. A pea
nut is pretty small item, but an an
nual crop of something l6ke 100000
bushels, worth millions of dollars, makes
a pretty big item.
Frank 7. Starr writes to the New
York Sun: Il see great deal in the
newspapers about little Esther Cleve-
land being the first baby ever born in
| the White House. How about James
| Appleton Pierce, son Of Franklin and
Jane Means Appleton Pierce, born in
the White House, Washington, April 10,
1858, died March A, 1852"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

The difference between the Swiss in
itiative and referendum is this: Under au-
thority of the referendum the government
can lay any measure before the whole
people and ask them to vote yes or no on
it. Under the authority of the initiative a
specified number of private citizens can
by petition compel the government to
submit to vote of the whole people any
question the citizens desire to see thus
voted on. 1t is odd enough that the first
application of the initiative was made to
the Jewish way of slaughtering food an
imals. That method, in the petitioners
view, was cruel, and SO the citizens de-
manded that the government should sub
init to the people the question whether
the method should be abolished. The
vote went affirmative by small major
ity. 1t was odd again that the French
Swiss voted to let the Jews go on and
slaughter in the way they liked, while the
German Swiss voted that they should
not, and as the German blood was in the
majority it carried the day.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
One Woman Has Her Say.

The lords of creation are so convinced
of their competence to manage all sorts
and conditions Of affairs that it is often
q surprise to them that their woman
kind resent their intervention in matters
domestic. The average husband feels
confident that if he but had his way the
children would be well disciplined, the
servants obedient, the household bills
reduced by half and the whole estab-
lishment worked with clocklike regular
ity. If, however, he is allowed to put
his theories into practice, the result is a
general confusion and irritation which
lasts until the house mother again gath
ers up the reins of power dismisses her
i'll advised assistant to the more appro-
pirate employment of his business or his
sport.
The reasons for the failure of mascu-
line interference are not difficult to dis
cover. A mans mind is quite untitled
for the ever varying minuti9 of house
keeping. He cannot understand that
the routine of an office or barracks is i'm
possible in a family chiefly composed of
women, and that the only way to secure
domestic peace is not TO attempt rigid
discipline, but to exercise tact and for
bearance, adapting general rules to par
ticular cases.-New York Commercial
Advertiser
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
Portable Garbage Furnaces.


In its intervals of whacking the silver
men over the head the Chicago Tribune
gets in some valiant work for smoke pre-
vention aud sanitation in the Windy
City. 1t has lately discovered peram-
bulating garbage crematory, which seems
to fill long felt want. This furnace on
wheels is hauled by two horses from
house to house, receiving at each the
scraps of vegetable and animal refuse
from the kitchen. The mass is then
thrust into a furnace, which consumes
as it travels.
The right way to dispose of garbage,
when mankind are civilized enough, will
be to use it for the enrichment of the
soil. But until that day the best thing
to do with it will certainly be to burn
it, and the perambulating crematory
seems desirable. The machine is divided
into three compartments. In one of
these the refuse is dried; in another it
is baked. The whole receptacle is s
feet long and Al feet wide. The fuel
used is kerosene. One of the savings eff
fected is that of carriage for the refuse.
This amounts to the cost of Is or 90
wagons daily, it is claimed, vehicles
which would otherwise be employed in
gathering the garbage up and hauling ii
out of the city.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
Life With a Purpose.

Mankind are mostly divided into two
classes-those who strive to gain riches
and those who stick where they fall,
like lump of putty, without striving
for anything. But scattered about like
lost lambs among the putty people and
the money grabbers is third class, so
small as not be recognized as a class at
all, and only known as individual
cranks. These are the people who hold
to the fixed purpose of making theworld
better and happier. They have splendid
dreams of perfected race in which all
hall be free, healthy, honest, wise and
beautiful, and there shall be no more
poverty or vice. They believe that no.
body deserves to live unless during his
life he does what he can to bring about
this higher development of the race.
These cranks choose for themselves
some line of work which they make their
own-the one best adapted to their cast
of mind. Never losing sight of this, they
toll toward the one end with might and
main. They have their living to earn,
but outside of that they give the best of
their powers to helping on human prog
ress. They may not be known or hon
ored much at first; they are oftener
laughed at; sometimes mobbed; again,
martyred After they die they are rev.
erenced above all the rest and grow
into perennial fame. Such person was
the late Lucy Stone, who worked all
her life for moral purpose which she
conceived to be one of the most impor-
tant. And so strong, so true and kindly
was her life that at its close, behold! it
suddenly became manifest that she was
one of the famous women of her day,
and even those who thought her pur-
pose mistaken one had good words fol
| Lucy Stone.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
THU
The House of Steel.

The most remarkable architectural
revolution and evolution in history have
been progressing in our large cities, not
ably Chicago and New York, in the past
10 years. The revolution involves re-
versal.of nearly all the old ideas of COM
fort and safety in housebuilding.
The sky scraping steel house developed
out of the great need for ground roomin
the two cities named. Chicago began it,
and New York quickly took 1t mp.
Ground was so precious that it had to BIO
made the most of. Since buildings could
hot spread out. they had to push up into
Me air. The 20 story Office building and
hotel was the only structure that would
bay upon land worth $4,000 or more to
the front foot.
A difficulty presented itself in the con-
struction of the sky scraper. If it shot
up 90 stories in the air, there could hard
ly be ground enough got for the neces-
Rary thickness of the walls. But "an OBJ
stacle is something to be overcome"
Why make walls at all? The human
body seems to have suggested an idea
to some brilliant architect. At least we
are told that such was the case. Why
not make skeleton support and cover
it with skim The idea was made to
materialize. The bones of the 20 story
house are of steel.
In sandy or marshy soil a great iron
plate is laid fiat upon the ground, COW
ering all the space that the house is to
occupy. 1t cannot sink or sag one
sided, for the utmost care is taken to
distribute the weight evenly. Into this
plate are fixed, firm as the rock of ages,
a row of steel columns of the height
of the first story. Across these at the
top are riveted steel Orders to support
the flooring. To the first row Of up
right columns is riveted second row of
upright columns for the second story.
Thus, with row upon row of steel post
and girder, the skeleton is built, until it
reaches any height desired. Then the
steel framework is merely filled in and
covered with light wall, sometimes
brick, again of the beautiful terra
Gotta, which can be fashioned into de-
signs of great beauty. The possibilities
of artistic development in the new style
of house are very great.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

The silver bullion which, under the
Sherman law, the government has been
buying annually amounts to within a
small fraction of enough to coin into
10000, 900 silver dollars. For this amount
of silver, purchasing at the market rates,
the government pays at present $50, OOO,-
600 a year. 1t therefore has left, after
paying for the bullion, enough to make
10000, 900 silver dollars more. This left
over bullion is called in coinage parlance
''seigniorage. The compromise on which
the senate majority SO nearly agreed
then provided that all this seign-
forage should be coined and placed in
the United States treasury.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

There are at least two great regions
in which Chinese are wanted and well
coined. They are Central and South
America. A company in San Francisco
has contracted to supply 10000 Chinese
laborers to planters in Central and South
American states. Another contract
made by the same company binds it to
supply 10000 japanese and Chinese as
agricultural laborers in Peru. The lat
ter contract was openly made with the
Peruvian consul general at San Francis
70. Some nations have not our little
prejudice against contract labor.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

chronic erysipelas, etc. Pink Pills give
a healthy glow to pale and sallow conf
plexions, and are a specific for the
troubles peculiar to the female system,
and in men they effect a radical cure in all
cases arising from mental worry, over
work or excuses of whatever nature"
These Pills are manufactured by the
DR.. Williams Medicine Company, Sche-
nectady, N. Y, and Brockville, Ont,
and are sold only in boxes bearing their
trade mark and wrapper, at 90 cents a
box. OF six boxes for so 80, and are never
sold in bulk, OF by the dozen or hundred,
and any dealer who offers substitutes in
this form is trying to defraud you, and
should be avoided.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Four thousand dollars worth of gold
dust apiece is not bad pay for one season
for the II miners who have just returned
to San Francisco from Alaska. They
were merely common miners, with no
machinery and nothing except the ordi-
nary appliances of the digger who works
by hand, yet they got the above named
sum from the Yukon river sands. Next
season doubtless there will be something
of rush to the Yukon diggings. The
difficulty of reaching them is one of the
worst obstacles in the way.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
RaScaIs,

The defenseless citizen who falls into
the hands of some of the western land
boomers needs the help of heaven. A
colony of honest western settlers in Cali
fornia has recently been irrevocably
ruined by buying land on the represen-
tations of a company of swindling land
agents, who feeced them and laughed at
them. This colony lost all it possessed
through being bitten in the purchase of
alkali land. OF all the worthless lands
in the west, this alkali soil is the most
deceptious. In California it is heavy and
black, like the richest loan in the prairie
states.
The land agents have it plowed up to
show how rich and black it is. AT the
same time they exhibit bewildering
array of fruits, grains and vegetables
brought from some other place, as the
product of the alkali ground. The home
buyer sees them. He sees also the
black soil that looks SO fat. He buys
and is ruined. The alkali soil will in
time produce great crops, it is true, but
first millions of dollars will be required
to pay for the gypsum land plaster and
the drainage necessary to reclaim it.
The irresponsible land agents are a
serious detriment to many parts of the
west. The settler is sure to be swindled
unless he has the word of some person
ON whom he can rely positively, and that
one is rarely found among the land
boomers. As long as one cannot tell
the honest ones from the dishonest, and
as long as they themselves take no par.
| ticular pains to distinguish between tic
two classes, it behooves settler to look
out for them all.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
A Possibility.

Girls are so much more clever as clerks
than men that the male clerk is doomed
to extinction like the dodo. The results
men.
Every observer in cities must see that
nearly all classes of clerical work are
passing rapidly into the hands of young
women. These young women enter the
offices with skillful fingers, winning
manners, industrious ways and general
aptness to write letters, keep books. count
cash and discharge the multitudinous du-
ties attaching to business life. They do
their work satisfactorily and well.
Taken altogether they are heater, bet
ter behaved and quicker than young men.
The result is that these bright young fell
lows, capable of doing excellent work,
ere forced to toll for long hours, often
at night. for the munifcent salary of SIS
month. After two or three years of
hard and faI.-sal service promotion to
the S25 a month c,@ss is possible, while
s35 TO $50 is the outside figure to which
clerk may aspire if he q its special
qualifications and sustained detotion to
his task
II the next 90 years witness the same
relative increase in thenumber of work
ing girls and women as has taken place
since 1870 in this country and the United
States, we shall see young men doing
the homework and their sisters and
mothers carrying ON half the business of
the Land -l 'anaiiln Mamariue
The late Dr. Philip Schaff was a Swiss
by birth. Believing the Christian theol-
ogy with all his soul. he was at the same
time one of the most learned men of his
generation and easily the foremost Bib
lical scholar of the world.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

An innocent, confding woman on Long
Island was lately swindled out of $13,-
900 by pair of rascals by means of the
ancient and fishy gold dust fraud. Why
don't people read the newspapers9 For
goodness sake, why don't they read the
newspapers?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Even the fires have been something
unprecedented in this record breaking
year of 1898. During its first nine
months losses by fire were $26, $40 900
greater than for the same time in 1892.
In some cases payments on fire losses
lave broken up insurance companies.
Not less than IL of these companies will
30 out Of business at the beginning of
1894, because of bad luck in 1898.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Cloture in our American house of lords
Is said to be impossible, because there is
DO precedent for it. One good thing at
least has come of the long and tremen-
dous discussion of the silver question in
the senate-that is, that information in
regard to it has been spread among the
people in way that could never other
wise have happened.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Ii the planters Of the south would
raise less cotton and more peanuts, there
would not now be the threats made of
burning cotton gins The demand for
peanuts has doubled within the last five
years, and there are not enough raised.
even with 100000 bushels, to supply
the call.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Mexico is one ahead of even the Unit
ID States in the transmission of long dis
lance electric lighting. An electric plant
pn the Rio Grande river sends light to
Guadalaiara, II miles away.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
sFor Years."

Says CARRIE E. SToCKwELL, of Chester
field, N. H., az was afflicted with an
extremely severe pain in the lower part OF
the chest. The feeling was as if a ton
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

weight was laid
on a spot the size
of my hand. Dur
ing the attacks, the
perspiration would
stand in drops on
my face, and it was
agony for me to
make SUM- lent
effort even to whis.
per. They am g
suddenly, at any
hour of the day or
night, lasting from
thirty minutes to