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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-24
The Communication Of kruger

Capetown. Aug. 23-From an excellent
unofficial source OF information It Is as
certained that the substance OF the Trans
walls communication to the British gov
ernment in reply to the latter's demands
is a concession Of a five years (retractice)
franchise. a share In the election OF the
president and an increase IN the represen-
tation OF the gold fields. probably eight
additional seats. and a stipulation that
all other questions are TO be submitted %
arbitration hut not 20 a foreign power
that Great Britain shall mot use tho re-
cent interference as a precedent and that
the Br usA government shall reiinquish
all suzerainty rights.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-24
A DeathIy Knockout.

stockton. Cal, Aug. 2s-Alfred Molina.
college student boxed several friendly
iounds with John Musick last night. After
a shOrt sss 10 Molina quiz. shaking hands
With his opponent. There was no knock
out and no great damage on elther SIDE,
bat shortly after reaching his dressing
room. Molina lapsed into uncOnsciOusnees
DUt Sas revived by a physician. Later
Molina agln became unconscious dying
today without having recovered his r.ghi
aei.sss.
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AlbatTOss Sails.

San Francisco, Aug. 25-The United
states Albatross sailed for the southern
pacific today with party OF scientists
under the direction Of Prof. Agassiz. The
expedition Will make exhaustive re-
searches OF the islands In the southern
Pacific and 10 IS expected that much will
be discovered that is new
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annual Conrention " Q. T.. q seattle. oct
2O.97. 1892.
For the above occasion we will sell
round trip tickets TO Portland Tacoma
and Seattle at one regular Grst class
limited rate; tickets on sale October
IA. Is and 10, 1899. Good TO return up
TO November l6. Stopovers will be
a lowed on going and returning trip
at any point west OF the Missouri river
within limit Of ticket For further
information call on A. j, Corkins, egt.
Santa Fe route
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Washington. Aug. 2.-Assistant sur
geon Heiser. at Naples, today cabled tho
marine hospital bureau that ere IL alb.
solutely no truth In the report thss .hs
plague has appeared at Naples and pa
lermO.
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Robert Hulme. Of Weatherford, who
is with the regulars at Manila and Was
formerly with the Rough Riders IN
Cuba. says he IL having a whole LOT
better time now
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Is the Santa Fe. The average
temperature during the journey
is less than that for the same
period at your home Then the
cars are so comfortable, fatigue
is scarcely noticeable. Pullmah
palace and tourist sleepers and
free chair cars on all California
trains. A. j. CoRKINs, Agent,
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Oklahoma Encampment No. /, /. o. o. F..
meets the second and fourth Friday nights
In e. j E.Onth. u T.. REESE, q. r.
r. F. MERTEN. Scribe
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Guthrie lodge No. !, A. o. u. w NEE
Thursday evening OF each week al 1880
Victor block, corner First and Harrison
Visiting Workmen always welcome
+. B. SARBER, NJ W
C. J. TUOHY. Recorder
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Hartrantt Post 30. 8 @. A. r., meets on
frst and third SATURDAYS 10 each month al
80 p. M. in probate court room visiting
comrades always welcome.
w B HEROD, =. O.
N. L. MOCK, Adjutnant
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SOUTH, FAST AND WEST
Arrive Leave Arrive Arrive
No. Guthrie Guthrie ! * CITY Chicago.
s5 sA0 am sac am 800 pm 9:4S am
S98 lln Pm 4:03pm $50 au 1900 pu
~, 500 am Local Freight
i2t il:ib am Local Freight
SOUTH, SOUTHEAST AND WEST
Arrive Leave Arrive Arrive
No Guthrie Guthrie FtWorth Usives'D
4O7 l:l5 pm l:l5 pm 8:S5 pm O.O5 am
405 l0:47 pm II rs pm sos am 925 pm
1913 90 am Local Freight
Al. CoRKINs. Agent.
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Guthrie Lodge NO. e X OF r. meets every
Monday at pm IN their nall In the VIC
tor block corner First and Harrison. visit
ing knights are always welcome.
G r. CARPH INTER- O. C.
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Guthrie camp No 3, Woodmen Of the
World meets every Monday night in the X
Of = halL Visiting Woodmen are welcom e
I. g. TOWERS, Clerk.
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Railroad Time Tables.

A. i. 4 5. +,
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WEST

q. O. & q. trains connect al South McAlcs-
ter with the NJ. X. & n for the north and
south and at Wister with Frisco trains
For any further Information address
J. +. HOLDEN Tranic Mgr,
South McAlester, J. a
Capitol Lodge No /. Royal Tribe OF Joseph,
meets the fist and third Saturdays In each
month, IN ODD Fellows hall. wishing mem
bers will be made welcome,
c. T.. BARNETT, W. Z.
EFFIE LOWELL, Scribe.
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Guthrie Lodge No x, A. r. q A. NJ Reg
ular meeting third Wednesday evening ln
each month al o'clock. All brethren cOrdi
ally fnyited 10 Attend
wur,s II ARl-yAs Sec.
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A q, HAI4UWINI NJ OF y auu 4. OF X >
Guthrie Lodge No. q, J. D. o. +. meets
Monday night Of eaCn week al 7 80, Visiting
odd Fellows always welcome
w S COOPER, NC
G W BRUCE. Secretary
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room and looks at the surroundings. Con-
spicuous among the decorations are eight
marriage certificates beautifully decorated
with orange blossoms, clasped hands and
intertwined hearts. Two Of them are filled
out, but the remaining six have only the
names OF the old maids and question marks
where the names Of the husbands should be
written. These certificates seem out OF
place in room OF the Old Maids league,
but several OF the members say that they
teach themselves to despise matrlmony by
contemplating the certificates, as the old
monk taught himself to scorn death by look-
ing at skull. Several pictures of the i'm
pressionst school painted by sister Of one
of the members have been loaned to the
league for the decoration of the club rooms.
Posters, illustrations from Gid Bias. draw
ings from Figaro and caricatures from LIE
Petit Journal cover a. black cloth in the
northwest corner. This Is known as the
black hole of Calcutta.
A small trap door in the middle Of the
room fornfs the cover to receptacle for the
league treasures In this are concealed the
records Of the club, photographs of men to
be avoided, faded flowers and the ashes of
former love letters.
All the old maids are delighted at the
prospect Of having a room in which they
can meet during the coming winter, and
they are working hard to make snug the
little hooks that they have selected for
themselves. Sofa pillows, little shawls,
foot warmers and teapots have all been pre-
pared,
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cestors have been thus perpetuated and
comparatively few were transferred by oul
Pilgrim fathers across the Atlantic. Fol
instance, in the good old days, 1t was the
custom in many towns and even villages
in England to own house where poor
couples, after they had been welded in
church, could entertain their friends at
small cost, the only outlay indeed being
entailed by the purchase OF such provisions
as they chose to bring with them.
In Hertfordshire there was such house
which had a large kitchen with a cauldron
large epits and a dripping pan; also large
room for rnerriment and furnished BOULDER
Dishes, table linen and bed linen were
amongst its possessions.
In Essex there was house very much
like this, which was used by the poorer
folks for dining in after they had returned
from church.
In some of the old English histories one
may read that in 1456 Roger Thornton
granted to the mayor and community OF
Newcastle -upon-Tyne the use OF the hall
and kitchen belonging to Thorntons hos
pital for the use of young couples when
they were married to make their wedding
dinner in, and receive the offerings and
gifts of their friends"
Ing, which is known as the wedding house.
1T was erected during the second decade OF
the seventeenth century
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RETREAT OF OLD MAIDS.
Mover Club Room Filled Up an
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Novel Club Room Filled Up ana
Adorned by Wisconsin Girls.
Tho Old Maids league of Kencsha, Wis,
has at" last secured a permanent habitat
Hitherto it's meetings have been desultory,
sometimes in the houses of members, some
times In the swimming pool by CallSins pier,
and very occasionally around a soda foun-
tain. Now the members have fitted up a
club room and in future will hold all the
meetings amid artistic surroundings.
When the club was formed it contained
eight members. These were sworn to op-
pose matrlmory and to further the higher
development OF woman. When two of them
married. believing evidently that their
higher development lay in matrimony, the
remaining members resolved to enforce ON
one another stricter observance OF the
principles on which the league had been
founded
room was therefore sought and found
Over the kitchen of the house of the presi-
dent was an ideal room for club purposes
AS rooms go that room was somewhat low
In the scale. But when six girls with artistic
tastes set themselves to improve and de-
velop anything they are sure of success. To-
day that room Is model os artistic lowell
Dess.
Tho approach to it is through the kitchen
For approaches to club rooms kitchens are
not CONNIE II faut," the member just
back from Paris said. Some change, there
fore, was necessary. Screens have been
placed around the stove, Chinese lanterns
hang from the ceiling and photographs of
famous cooks adorn the walls. From the
kitchen to the room above is a narrow stair
way with an arched entrance, over which is
placed the familiar line, abandon hope all
ye who enter here"
1t is in the decorations that the league
has shown its true artistic tendency An
effort has been made to reproduce stu
dents room In the Latin quarter, aad Miss
Balm, who has lived several years Ia Paris
says that she can easily imagine herself
back In the old quarter when she sits in this
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down and take your chances of being worked
in, should one of our old patrons drop out
though l ought to tell you that there are
twenty-five names ahead of yours"
The would-be customer refused the daz-
zling offer, but she found the milliners and
tailors no less difficult to deal with, and
their devices for barring out what they
consider useless custom are strongly sug-
gestive There Is a millner of restricted
but potent reputation who will not sell a
hat to a woman who lives outside the limits
of New York City, while to an undesirable
patron the smart tailor won't promise to
deliver a garment under six or eight weeks,
or he refused to take an order under limit
of 500.
Now by no means does this signify that
there are not a multitude of able, amiable
and moderate priced makers of good clothes
in New York. which only goes to prove
what any woman can discover for herself,
that it Is not much more difficult to get
into what is popularly known as smart So
citey than it is to patronze the establish
ments where smart society pays abnormal
prices for the beautiful, exclusive fashions
of every season
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1T was also said at the meeting that when
there was a squabble about some point of
order 1t was caused by the little women
talking to make themselves manifest.
Though barely out of her teens and an
heiress to $10.000,00O, Miss Josephine DreXel
may take the veil and give her fortune
to the church Her aunt, now Mother
Catherine, has almost persuaded her to
this decision, several years as a nun having
led the aunt to seek her niece as a convert.
Miss Drexel is beautiful girl, tall and
fair with n marked resemblance to Mrs.
Grover Cleveland. She has two sisters,
each of whom married a son of Admiral
DahlGren.
A woman who is making good income
in growing daffodils, Mrs. Roy Wandesforde
Kersey of California. does not recommend
the business as one any woman who has
not learned to work can take up. She de-
voted eight years to the study of the sub
ject, and makes a speciality of only the one
flower. She has her blossoms on the market
ket early in the season, and when the flow
ers become common she devotes herself to
the bulbs. which form the chief part of her
business.
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FrilIs of Fashion.

Camel's hair cloth, very soft and leecy.
Is one of the dress materials very much
liked for morning wear.
A coat back with basque effect and a
bolero front forms one of the new bodces
on an imported gown.
One of the fads of youthful women this
winter will be that of wearing a very long
huge directoire muff to match.
Silver fox boas with two feet and the
pointed head of the animal at one end, and
two feet and the bushy tail at the other
are decidedly the fashion, for young women
especially.
Birds of all kinds are well represented
In millinery, but the pigeon and seagull are
with chinchilla, which forms many pretty
winter hat.
Some of the most attractive of the new
long cloaks are those made of dove-gray
women's cloth, fur-lined and trimmed out
side with standing collar and hood-revers
of chinchilla fur.
The latest novelty in fur jackets is a
jaunty little affair of broad tail finished
around the edges with stitched bands of
velvet velvet revers and a high flaring
collar of chinchilla.
The new toques are considerably larger
than former shapes. They are wider and
are therefore becoming to women with
slender. faces, when the trimmings are not
arranged too straight and high.
-, Pink in every tint and tone will be used
matelasse, repped silk, taffeta,. plain satin
duchesse, Liberty satin, under various
beautiful transparent textiles also of this
lovely color; and for handsome garnitures
on dress toques and bonnets, facings for
velvet round hats and Innings for velvet or
cream white cloth capes for opera or
theater wear.
Swan sdown, thibet and collars of white
polar bear pelts are in fas hion as a decora-
ton for evening wraps of white, pink, or
Parma violet CLOTH scarlet lSersey or satin
matelasse in a mixture of pale, soft pastel
tints on n cream or tea-rose pink ground.
These soft, white fur trimmings are far
than the opaque pearl white of the ermine.
1t is quite the thing this season to have
the underskirt of a costume made of lighter
instead of darker fabric than the long
is of ladies' cloth, camel s-hair, or vicuna !;
again 1t is of velvet, bayadere corduroy,
plain French broadcloth, bordered with
narrow. bands of mink, Persian lamb or
Astrakhan fur.
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riage that sent him away from home ten
years ago and brought him to this country.
Mrs. Hawler has no knowledge of when he
first went into the navy. In fact, she knows
but little of any of his movements from the
time he left her until just after he sailed
into Manila with Dewey year ago last May
He wac a good boy" she says, but he
always had will of his own and there was
no use going against it. When he left home
knew there was no use hunting for him
and l made no attempt to. / was confident
/ would hear from him in good time, and
sure enough the news did come from his
own hand
Through all these years waited for him.
He went round and round the world without
ever getting near enough to his old mother
to come and say word to her. How was
to know but what he was dead? felt sure
he wasn't, and that he would come back to
me in time, and prayed for the day when 1
could set my eyes on the boy once more.
That's the way it was until a little more
than a year ago. Then comes letter to me-
1t had gone many round before it reached
me. | had moved several times, and how
was Johnny to know where / was? But |
got 1t all right, and such letter as it was.
1t came straight frcm Manila and 1t told
me all about the great battle. What did |
care before that about the Spaniards or the
Yankees? There was just a little talk In
our neighborhood about there being war
and that was all | ever knew about it until
the letter came from my Johnny. 1t was
all different after that. Johnny himself was
there in the thick of the fight, and when i
found out what eide he was fighting with l
was with the Yankees every minute until the
whole thing was over.
Johnny didn't tell me how he came to
get into 1t. All / know is that he fought
with Dewey, and he says the admirars a
great jmans So here / am, thousands of
miles from home, ready to see my Johnny
onee more, tand tell the admiral what
think of him.
1T was this way: When Johnny wrote
home to me he had little to say except
about this Admiral Dewey OF his. 1t was
hot morning they had that big fight Johnny
tells ms he was working at one OF the big
guns ON the admiral's own ship, the Olym-
pia. lie didn't get hurt or anything like
that, but right in the hot OF II the weather
was too much for him. 1t seems he was
overcome by the heat and another man had
to relieve him at his post, He was carried
out on deck and laid down under the shade
or one OF the boats, he says. There was
long time when he had no idea OF what
wasS going on. Then there was a Iet-up
In the firing and the next thing he knows
the great admiral himself was bending over
my Johnny and Offering him drink of
water just TO help him out. Here's how
Johnny tells it: t sir - !
Whats the matter, my boy? says the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26
3 BosToN's LONE FIsHERwOMAN.
She Fishes Day After Day, Not fOl
Pleasure, but for Fish.

She Fishes Day After Day. Not fOl
Pleasure, but for Fish.
Boston has a lone fsherwoman. Th'
many hundreds of pa assengers on the ferre!
for the last few days, reports the BostoI
Herald, haev seen her sitting, man fashion
on the end of an East Boston wharf holding
fishing line eXpectantly in her hand ant
with her eyes fixed on the water directly
beneath her. She scarcely ever looks III
and seems Indifferent to the stares of the
people on the passing boats,
She enjoys the distinction OF being the
cnly woman among the many fishermen Wht
fringe the edges of Boston's wharves from
sunrise until sunset She comes to the
wharf almost daily at an. early hour with
small basket. She does not go home Ec
dinner, but eats light luncheon, which She
brings with her. Fishing Is by no means
simply a pleasure with her. To a reporter
she said her fishing partly supported her
self and her two little children.
II am not ashamed of my occupation" she
went on to say. s'tAll kinds OF weather
finds me on the wharf In the morning
take care of the house and send the chill
dret to school and hen ! come down on
the wharf and fish. l never suffer any an
noyance. The men who cast their lines
from the wharf treat me with the greatest
respect.
''How much do ! get for my fish? We'll
that depends Sometimes get as high as
cents apiece for goods!zed founders. My
neighbors arc my best customers.
The conversation was interrupted by
slight shiyering of the line. quick jerk,
a series of hand over hand motions and
presently big founder was thrown upon
the wharf. With much skill the Usher
woman pulled the hook from the gills OF the
founder and threw the fish into THE partly
filled basket.
Business is pretty good today" she said
with smile. Everything, you know, de-
pehds upon luck In. this business. ! have
sat here some days for hours without getting
as much as a nibble, while those sitting be-
side me pulled in plenty of fish.
Wet weather does not frighten me in the
least. In fact, 4 enjoy Il, for the fish bite
better.
II would advise very poor persons to take
TO fishing. with a bent hook and cents
worth OF line one can get enough Ash for
food, Boston harbor is filled with several
kinds OF fish and they are good eating. Fish
bite at all hours. SO one need not be afraid
Of the store closing, Nobody owns the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26

Vienna Now the Capital of the World
of Fashion.

Vienna Now the Capital of the World
of Fashion.
Paris is conquered by the capital of Aus
tria and great is the jubilation in Vienna.
The ladies' tailors in Vienna state that
Viennese fashions have obtained great vic
tory-an unhoped-for one-and the greater
as the vanquished are the all-prevailing
Partisan fashions Astonishing revelations
were made at the last committee meeting
Of the Vienna Fashion club the other day.
The court tailor, who is one of the leading
toilet artists in Vienna. said that those
Vienna ladies' tailors who this year went
to Paris in the season to buy patterns for
mantes and jackets could not find anything
new, as at last there has happened that
which for years has been strven for and
| expected in Vienna-namely, that the Paris
tailors follow the lead Of the Vienna ones.
Recently it has been observed that Paris
ladies' tailors come to Vienna to buy gar
ments as patterns after which to have
others made in Paris. A glover confirmed
this statement and said that Paris agents
had been to him and placed large orders
for specialties; these gloves are then imi-
tated in Paris and sent to Vienna as
"Parisian."
The funeral Grafton of Paris fashions has
already been made, as in almost all fashions
Vienna now takes the lead. Karl Fenzi re-
ported on the conditions of labor in Paris
and remarked that most Paris tailors have
Austrian journeymen; that the Paris fash
ions are made by Austrian male and
female workers. No doubt there is much
truth in all this. The Vienna fashions for
ladies have been distinguished by much art,
and particularly by taetefuness. Viennese
ladies' fashions have already conquered
considerable part of the world, but the mo-
mentary victory seems to have got into the
heads of the Vienna toilet artists that they
really imagine themselves masters of the
entire earth
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admiral, as kind as you could ask. You
haven't been burt have you?'
No, no. says Johnny, nothing as bad
as that But my head is splitting with the
pain and heat
And then the admiral bends over him
and wetting his handkerchief with water
from a cup puts it on Johnny's forehead.
L got better right after that, says
Johnny, and when we started in firing at
the spania ds again l was right there at my
gun. 1t was the best treatment l ever got
in all my life and I'll never forget it. The
admirars fine man. so he is -
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Talk About Women.

A woman. Mrs. Mary P, Slosson, Is the
regular chaplain of the Wyoming state
penitentiary
Miss Ruth Underhll, this years golf
champion, is a granddaughter of the late
Charles A Dana.
Mrs. jefferson Davis is a good Greek
scholar and her favorite reading is among
the classics of that language, a volume of
which she has always at hand.
Miss Garriock, superintendent of the
English army nursing service, and her
seven sisters, who were also trained
nurses, were the first regular nurses to
arrive at the seat of war in South Africa.
The Boston women who shook hands
with Admiral Dewey during his recent
visit to that city have made a fad of deli
cately framing the glove they wore upon
that occasion.
The Daughters of the Confederacy is
raising money in aid of Mrs. "Stonewall
Jackson, who is very poor, in illhealth
and almost blind at her home in Charlotte
N. c. She is said to be suffering from an
incurable disease
They said at the Denver State Federation
that It was the little women who did all
the talking. They made the ticktack and
the big women made the wheels go around.