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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
TO KILL MOSQUITOES.

Some time ago we illustrated In de-
tail the experiments which are being
carried out in the Roman Campagna.
Italy, for the reduction Of the mos
quito plague. 1t has been established
beyond doubt that these insects are
the cause of the dissemination Of ma
larial microbes. and further light has
been thrown upon the subject by Maj.
Ronald Ross, r. A. M. c., who re-
turned to England from West Africa
on September 2. after having con-
Quoted extensive Investigations into
the origin and spread of malarial fever.
At Freetown the investigators en-
ployed workmen to destroy mosquito
larvae and within thirty-four days
they had cleared more than 1000
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
THE BUGI.E.


A little boy stands ali alone in the
hall
And he longs
For the songs
OF the bugle asleep on the wall;
The songs that rang Gear, in the old
days so dear,
When war was a phantom, when
father was here;
How he blew
Strong and true,
Till the morning arose at reveille call,
And the bugle, the bugle awakened us
all.
The bugle that sleeps on the wall.
Then steady the tramp Of a myriad
tread!
Warlike drum
Calling Comet"
And the bugle's bold note at the
head;
The tramp became thunder, 1t shook
all the west,
Loud, loud where red lightning purged
skies from the pest:
Then we knew
That the blue
To the islands a.ar like capopy
spread,
Tho the bug'e, the bugle sobbSd out
for the dead,
T. undying, the glorious dead.
Then home to the boy came the bugle
alone;
And he long
For the songs
In the stirring melodious tone;
But he knows they are there, and
they wait but a breath,
And his trumpeter lives, though the
muteness called Death,
Sitting deep
Is a sleep
For rest till the reveiile bugle Is
blown.
The bugle, the bugle that calls to Its
own,
Awake! for the shadows have
flown"
Susan Whalley Allison in Youths
Companion.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
PnrtnRaI'r King Is pnor.

Regal power and wealth do not al
ways go together. The King of PortU-
gal is probably the poorest sovereign
in Europe. He Ia supposed to receive
$4,000 a year. but 1t Is alleged 1t is
some time since he received anything
at all, because money is uncommon y
tight" in the national exch fqu 7.
Many of the royal dependents L..y
their tradesmen with credit notes,
but no doubt in the futurt when Por-
tugal, by practicng the strictest econ
omy. rights herself, they will be above
par.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
THE SIMPLON TUNNEL
THAT WILL SOON CONNECT TWO
COUNTRIES.
WIN he More Than Twelve Miles In
Length when Completed-w lie
one OF tn. Wonders OF the World
Care of the Men.
(Specinl LntterN

The Simplon tunnel. which was be-
gun In 1898. Is to connect the Swiss
railway station at Blque. in tho
Rhone valley, with the Italian station
at Domo d'Ossola, and will be some
l212 miles in length-passing through
the mountains practically in one
straight line. The total cost Of the
work. which includes the construction
" two single-line tunnels. was esti7
mated at $4,000 600 the contract time
being fixed at 5ls years. At present
only one tunnel is being pierced the
distaRe now achieved being little
over six miles. The contractors are
Iessrs. Brandt Brandau q Co. of Ant
erp and Winterthur. with whom is
.ssociated Colonel Locnar, who built
the Pilatus and other railways. The
starting place at B-ique is on the left
bank Of the Rhone, and the tunnel 1t
self runs at a height of 2254 feet
above sea level, as IL was necessary TO
clear the food level of the river. The
rock piercing machinery used in tho
work is exceedingly ingenious, for the
rock through VIII ch the tunnel is be-
ing driven is exceedingly hard. con-
sisting of granite and gneiss. with
veins Of white quartz, but in conse-
quence OF the adoption of the Brandt
drill, the galleries on the north side
are being advanced daily by a distance
| Of no less than 2l feet 3 inches. an
Unprecedented result, and certainly
four to five times what has usually
been attained N tunnels through SINH
lar material. The drill is three inches
In diameter. slowly rotating, but kept
up to its work by hydraulic pres'
sure OF 1900 pounds to the inch, or OF
10 tons to the cutting points of the
drill, and as all the waste water is
discharged along the axis of the tool
right up to the cutting edge, the tenn
perature of the eel is kept cool, and
the debris washed out of the hole,
The ventilation is excellent; the all
is supplied to the men right at tho
end of the galleries in great volumes.
over 5S 900 cubic feet of air per min.
ute being supplied. Owing so tho
height OF the mountain and tf,. great
superintendent mass over the tunnel
the temperature OF the rock is as high
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26

weak. When got on board the,
fixed me up, but the next day l had .
high fever (1024 degrees) and wal
feeling rather shaky. One stine
pierced the eyelid and scratched my
eye so that | had trouble with Il. Not
withstanding some 2C0 to go or more
stings. | am now o. X, but slightly
puffed up"
This experience OF these two navy
officers suggests to military author.
ity the adv stability Of training wasps
and hornets and utilizing their pug,
naclous tendencies in martial achieve.
ments He says: I'VE cannot con.
ceive OF soldier thinking OF any
thing. not even the Articles OF War
when half a dozen active wasps are
nihbllng at him. and as for being able
to sight his piece while familiar
hornet is delicately balancing him
self on the end OF his nose, we do not
believe there Is soldier in the
regular army that can do Il. with
wasps and hornets ira ned for battle
purposes we shall see them educated
to distinguish between the uniform
OF the contendlng forces and to re-
serve their stings entirely for the
enemy. Nests can be sealed up, plac
ed inside a mortar and discharged In
such a way as to break and discharge
their buzzing contents upon the un
suspecting enemy"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
NAVAL OFFICERS FIGHT wAsrs.

Lieutenants Irwin v. G.. Gillis and
W. r. Gherardi, both of the United
States steamship Annapolis, stationed
at Iloilo, p. l., doubtless have decided
by this time that they would prefer
to meet an enemy in human shape
rather than to do battle with swarm
Of winged, for both of the young men
are nursing wounds caused by angry
wasps, says the New York Press.
Lieutenant Gillis, VINO is a son of
Commodore Gillis, U. S. N. retired,
in a recent letter wrote of their dis
agreeable and dangerous experience;
II was out duck shooting at the north
end of the small island just south OF
Iloilo on June 20 with some OF our
wn officers and some army officers
The point we were shooting from was
nothing more than a swamp, muddy,
with two or three feet of water in
places. | was standing quietly when
suddenly | heard a wasp, and by the
time he lit on me and had brushed
him off I was surrounded by them,
and in much less time than II takes to
write 1t | was covered with them. |
could not go back the way came, for
they were coming down that path so
tried TO cut across the swamp to
where some of the others were. so
they could help me, as the swamp was
not so deep but that one could walk
around It, | first reached a clump of
bushes out in the swamp where an
officer had been shooting and tried
to cover myself up in them, but 1t
was no use for the vasps were getting
thicker and thicker. ! tried hauling
my sweater up over my head. but 1t
was so covered with them that II only
made matters worse. and when | haul
ed II down again l confined a lot OF
them between the sweater and under
shirt BY this time / was so tired
that was afraid to attempt going on
in the mud, although the others called
to me to come on and get on solid
.round. | tried this, hut was so ex-
hausted and weak that l fell down
several times, and each time It took
me longer to regain my feet, and
when ! got about twenty feet from
solid ground | gave out entirely and
could not get on my feet, but by
crawling on my hands and knees Ga
foot or two only at a time) l reached
solid ground and crawled into, or, |
should say, showed my head into a
thicket. and from that time until /
was brought on board the tug my
ideas are rather dim. was perfectly
happy and contented. and wanted to
go to sleep and be left alone.
when the rest OF the party reach
ed us (for Gherardi was almost as
bad OF as was), they dragged me out
but | could not walk. so the natives
got a hammock and carried ne down
TO the tug. was in bad way. com
pletely exhausted. and my pulse very
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
Is THERE A PLANET BEYOND NEP-
TuNE2

This question was revived before the
Royal Society OF Edinburgh lately by
Prof. George Forbes, who called atten-
tion to the fact that there are seven
comets whose aphelion points, accord
ing to their calculated orbits, corre-
spoHd with the position of a planet re-
volvlng around the sun at distance
100 times greater than that of the
earth. and having a period of about
1000 years. He suggested that the dis
trrhing attraction OF this supposed
planet had altered the elements of she
orbit of the great comet seen in 1864
and 1855 so that II did not come back
when expected in 1S4s. This comet. he
thought. might be identified with the
third comet OF 1874 or the second
comet of 1s43, it's return having been
fastened by the perturbation OF the
planet.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
TO REMOVE HAIR FROM COMB.

dandruff and other matter which clog
up the teeth after the comb is In use
a short time. the machine being es-
pecially useful in barber shops and
hairdressing parlors. where the combs
are in constant use and it is necessary
to have them always clean. The ar
rangement consists of box with a
removable top in which is mounted a
rotary brush of wire or stiff bristles
with a crank at one end by which 1t
Is revolved. In the bottom of the box
is a row of curved fingers, which serve
to remove from the bristles whatever
the latter dislodge from the comb. 1t
being small task to remove the mat
ter from the bottom of the box at in
tervals as it accumulates. To operate
the cleaner the comb is placed on the
slanting end of the box underneath
the thumb rest, being adjusted in re-
lation to the brush, when few turns
of the latter will force the bristles be-
tween the teeth and dislodge the hairs,
etc.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
THE CONDUCTOR SCORED.

One OF the best stories General Ar
chic Williams ever drew from his
vast repertory is told on himself. says
the Kansas City Journal. Many years
ago, when Attorney General of Kan
sas, Mr.. Williams had occasion to
make a trip to the east. He had no
railway passes east OF the Missouri
river, so he borrowed an annual over
the Illinois road from his old friend
Jake" Smith. II happened during
the first stretch through Illinois that
the conductor OF the train on which
the Kansas man rode was former
schoolmate of his. The conductor rec
ognized Williams, but Williams did
not recognize the conductor, and
about this fact the fun OF the story
hangs.
"Who, Williams? Attorney gener-
al? Well, I'll be blowedl calculated
the conductor. What kind of a peo-
pie are they out there to elect a
chucklehead like that for attorney
general? Why, sir, / used to know
Williams back here in nlinois-grew
up with him. you might say-and of
all the bundle -pated, slab-siIed, step
n-himself-and-fall- fellers you
ever saw, Williams was the worst
That man attorney general? Why, II
you will believe me, Mr.. Smith. he
didn't know law enough to wad shot
gun. He was run out OF here be-
cause" "Stop It! Stop it," yelled
Williams, springing to his feet
There is your blankety blank Smith
pass. take 1t up and collect fare II you
want to, but you can't abuse me any
longer. r."-Exchange.
We cannot always oDlige, but we car
znaaL nhIio iofp
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
ENTRANCE TO TUNNEL.


as SO deg ees Fahrenheit, and special
arrangements are made by the en-
ployment OF spray and ice for cooling
the air. The total quantity of water
flowing from the tunnel, inclusive of
both north and south entrances, Is
rather under 5000 gallons per minute.
and is carried In efficient side drains
cut in the rock.
The greatest care is taken for the
welfare Of the men; they change
shifts every eight hours, and are
brought out in tra.n loads. They are
not allowed TO encounter the cold AL
pine air when emerging from the tun-
mel in their wet clothes, but are land
ed in a covered building or station,
fitted with hot and cold douche baths.
They take off their mining clothes,
which are at once hung up in heated
rooms to dry, ready for their next
days work, Adjacent is a restaurant
at which they can get their meals,
of excellent quality and at very low
price. Breakfast dinner and supper
are proys.ed at charge OF twenty-five
| cents per day, and beds are provided
in rooms furnished with electric
light for a further charge Of four cents
per night. Everything is kept in an
excellent state OF order and cleanli-
ness. and the organization throughout
is quite without precedent. The tun-
mel. It is expected, will be open for
traffic in 1894
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SOUND.

During the firing of minute-guns by
the English fleet at Spithead, on the
occasion of Queen Victoria's funeral,
the sounds were heard at surprising
distances inland. and the English sci
entific journals have since published
many interesting facts about these
phenomena. 1t seems to be established
that not only the direction of the wind,
but its relative velocity at different
elevations from the ground, affected
the direction of the soundwaves. In
some cases. contrary winds refracted
the sound over the heads of observers
between 10 and 40 miles from the
ships, so that they did not hear the
guns, but the same waves were after
ward brought to the ground by favor
able upper currents, rendering the
sounds audible at so miles, and even
as far as 140 miles, while at 81 miles
they we're so loud that laborers in the
fields put down their spades and lis
tened to them.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
Making Light from Smoke.

A Belgian engineer, Tobiansky, has
invented an apparatus for producing
light from smoke. 1t appears that the
origin OF the smoke Is matter OF in
difference. II Is simply forced into a
receiver. where II is saturated with hy-
drocarburet, and can then be buYLrd.
giving a brilliant illumination.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE
VETERANS.

The Experience OF Two Lieutenants Of
the United states steamship Annapo-
lis-wbiIe out Duck shooting They
Were Covered with Angry wasps.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
RAPID CoMB-CLEANER.

The invention shown below has been
designed for cleaning combs of hair.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26
NOTES ON SCIENCE.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.

Eight Immense MonoIiths-They Are to
BE Used as Columns In the Cathedral
of st. John the Divine Being Erected
In New York.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26

We cannot always oDllge. but we car
always speak obligingly
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-26

A little boy stands ali alone in the
hall
, 1901-09-24
WILL BE BUILT.
Private Enterprise to Construct the
Pacific Cable.

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 24.-The Com
mercial Pacific Gable company. with a
capital stock of 500. 900, was incor-
porated here by the following gentle
men: John w. Mackay, Clarence H.
Mackay, Edward c. Platte. Albert
Beck, George G. Ward, Albert B.
Chandler and VIM. Cook.
Respecting purposes and prospects
of the new company, Mackay said %
day the Commercial Pacific Gable COM
pany had been organized for the pur-
pose of laying a submarine cable from
California to the Philippine stands by
the way of Honolulu. in the Hawaiian
islands. The length of the cable will
be about $500 miles, the part to be
laid first being from California to the
Hawaiian islands. This portion Mac
kay expects to be in operation within
nine months. Mackay believes the
whole cable will be completed within
two years from this date.
The new company does not ask any
subsidy or any guarantee, which is
Mackay's reason for believing there
will be no trouble in agreeing with
the government on terms and condi.
tions upon which the cable may be
landed.
, 1901-09-24
STAGE RosBER CAUGHT
BY SHERIFF NELSON

United States Marshal Frank Had
sell and Assistant United State At
torney Clark left Cheyenne this morn.
ing for Sheridan in response to a tele-
gram received yesterday afternoon
which conveyed the intelligence that
one Neil Lipscott was III custody there
charged with having held up and rob
bed a stage carrying United States
mail.
The crime was committed in the vi
cinity of Big Horn postofice. Sheridan
county. Lipscott did the job single
handed. He escaped but was captured
by ]. A. Nelson. sheriff of Sheridan
county, while heading for Nebraska.
Lipscott will be given a hearing and
brought to Cheyenne for trial in the
United States court.
, 1901-09-24
OUTLAWS BENT ON
ROBBING CARBON BANK.

The suspician is entertained that a
gang of determined outlaws are bent
upon robbing the Carbon State bank
at Carbon, Carbon county. Sometime
ago an attempt to rob the bank vas
made by several mounted and heavily
armed men, but they We're driven away
before obtaining entrance. Last week
burglars entered the butcher shop of
Wagner & Meyers, which adjoins bank.
Entrance from the shop to the bank
could have been easily effected, but
the burglars were frightened away be,
fore any damage had been done. They
escaped after a running gun fight with
the town marshal. The only damage
done in the melee was to a dog, which
was shot in the back.-Cheyenne Tri-
bune.
, 1901-09-24
SAMPSON TO RETIRE.
Age Limit Lets Him Out on February
9Th, 1902.

Washington, Sept. 24.-Rear Admir-
al Mortimer L. Johnson, commander of
the Port Royal Naval station, will as
sumo command at the Boston yard Oc-
tober l.
Admiral Sampson will retire by the
age limit Feb. 9, 1902. He could retire
before that if he wished, under the SO
years service clause, On his own re-
quest, or he could apply for retirement
to take effect Immediately on account
of poor health. However, as naval
officers generally take pride in serving
out their full term, it is probable that
additional leave of abTence will keep
Admiral Sampson on the active list
until Feb. 9.
, 1901-09-24
BITS OF FEMININlTY.

False pompadours, false puffs, false
curls, false rolls-verily the twentieth
century woman may be said to carry
her share of the white mans burden
on her head.
The new coat of thick lace, which Is
one of the seasons whims, is collar
less, and demands that the blouse,
which it entirely covers, except for an
inch or so 1t the waist, shall be col
larless also.
A new way of wearing a lace veil
has appeared. The veil is pleated and
hung straight from the hat brim.
which. of course, must not be too
large. The effect is generally pretty
and becoming.
Modistes hope to introduce old
fashioned brocades. or at least such
effects in silk, this winter. Taffeta,
chiffon and louisine are now favored
silks, the new taffeta chiffon combining
the qualities OF both these fabrics.
, 1901-09-24
HELD FOR TRIAL ON
CHARGE OF eLAckMAIL

Doc" Harris. the Lewiston, Ere
mont county. man who forcibly took
from the herder INT held for damages
5000 head of sheep belonging to the
Barrass outfit. has been captured and
given a hearing ON a charge of Grim,
inal blackmail. says the Cheyenne Tri
bune. Evidence was introduced to
show that his property could not have
been damaged by the sheep for the
simple reason that there was not a
spear of grass growing upon it. He
admitted the point. He was bound
over to the district court under $500
bonds. which were furnished. The
hearing occurred at Lander.
, 1901-09-24
SHAFFER TELLS
Why There Was a Failure of the Great
Steel Strike.

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 24.-President
Shaffer of the Amalgamated associa-
ton has prepared an exhaustive state
ment reviewing the incidents of the
late strike of the steel workers. An
interesting feature of the statement is
the leaders evere criticism of other
labor organizations for their failure
to come to the aid of the Amalgamated
men. He says:
I'VE were in fairly good condition to
win without help, but looked for aid
from labor bodies, some of which were
pledged, and to the general public. but
especially replied upon the American
Federation of Labor, with which body
We had been affiliated ever since its in
ception, and toward whose support we
never failed to contribute.
Our strike advanced and we were
confident of winning until the news
papers deliberately and maliciously
published statements which were re-
plete with lies. Our people began to
doubt and upbraid; some who had been
officials deserted us, and afterwards,
like J. d. Hickey of Milwaukee, ac-
cepted the terms of the trust and
scabbed. Hundreds who dared not
sleep at home went to other places. and
ir nearly every mill the trust tried to
run were many Amalgamated associa-
ton men from striking mills. We
knew our to be lost. but pro-
ceeded, feeling sure we could win If
support could be secured for faithful
strikers.
THE American Federation gave us
not one cent. The report that financial
help came from the National Lodge of
Mine Workers was absolutely false.
Perceiving that lack of money, loss of
public approval. desertion by hundreds
of our people and neglect by other or
CARNATIONS would render it impossi-
bic to gain a decisive victory, we en-
deavored to save what We could. | ar
ranged for Mr.. Gompers of the Ameri-
a Federation of Labor to meet Mr..
Morgan to effect a settlement. Mr..
Morgan gave up his vacation, went to
New York and waited for Mr.. Comp
ers who failed to appear nor has he
since explained why he neglected our
interests"
, 1901-09-24

every assurance that the prisoner will
have a fair and impartial trial. and
that during the progress of the trial he
VIII receive such treatment as the law
demands in any criminal case"
The work of securing jurors was
then undertaken, with a celebrity that
was amazing. Before the day was
over the panel had been sworn, the
jurors had listened to the description
of the Temple of Music, where the
crime occurred. had see photographs
of the interior of that structure, and
had been told by three surgeons what
caused the death of the president and
the effect of the assassin's shot upon
the various organs of the body. They
had also learned why the fatal bullet
had not been located.
DR.. Harvey II. Galord attributed the
cause of death to the gunshot wound,
but. fundamentally. he said it was due
to changes back of the stomach. in the
pancreas. caused by breaking down
of the material of the pancreas as e. re-
suit Of the passage of the bullet.
DR.. Herman Mynter's testimony was
OF importance. in as much as it
brought out the reason why the fatal
bullet had not been located at the au-
topsy was because of the unwilling
ness of the presidents relatives to
have the body further mutilated by
their instruments.
DR.. Myntcr and DR.. Mann. who fol,
lowed him. both testified that the pri
NAL cause of death was a gunshot
wound in the stomach. One effect of
this wound was. they said. to cause
gangrene to form in the pancreas. and
the spot of poisoned tissue was as
large as a silver dollar.
Czolgosz. during the morning evinc-
ed no interest whatever in the proceed
ings. but as the testimony was intro
duccd he paid more attention to what
was said and looked at various wit
Eesses closely.
The probable duration of the trial. it
IS said, can be placed at two full days.