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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
NOTES ON SCIENCE.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
Long-L,ved British EnHines-Two Loco
motives Built 4, is45 sti1 In Daily
Use ON v Branch Railroad-The Speed
OF Birds over estimated.
HOME SCIENCE.

HOME StIENtE.
An injury resulting from any vio-
lent wrenching or twisting of joint
without fracture of bone is termed
2 sprain.
The term covers very great va
riety of injuries, as well as very vari-
Gus degrees of injuries. of a Joint.
Thus the ligaments, which stretch
from one bone to another, holding
them together and binding them in
place. may be merely stretched or
actually torn. The bad reputation
which sprain has acquired, and
which is even worse than that of a
broken bone, is due to the fact that
the injury involves these guy ropes
of the anatomy which heal slowly and
often imperfectly.
The lesser degrees of sprain are OF
course the most common, an mad
vertent leap from on upon moving
car being often sufficient to occasion
them. Sprains are sometimes ac-
quired in the course OF outdoor sports,
and often by workmen whose occupa-
tions bring them into intimate con-
tact with heavy moving bodies or ma
chinery. Baseball furnishes many,
perhaps most, of the fnger-sprains in
the United States.
Many of the lesser strains are treat
ed at home without the supervision OF
a physician, as are likewise not a few
OF severer degrees in the woods and
in other places where the services of
] nh tn ha oh
Immediate attention is an impera-
tive necessity in sprains, since in no
injury do swelling and pain more
promptly intervene. The marked and
rapid swelling following o sprai> is
usually occasioned by the exudation
OF fluids, taking place not only around
the injured joint. but also within the
Joint, the latter frequently to SO great
an extent as to force the two srticu-
lating surfaces apart.
Any motion or weight upon the joint
when in this condition is intollerable.
and In every case effort should be
made to check emulation promptly,
relieve the swelling and pain. and re-
lax the tension of the muscles ada
cent.
Nothing meets the emergency better
than hot water-as hot as can be
borne-and this, fortunately. is usual
ly quickly at hand, even In the most
primitive camp The joint and ada
cent limb should be plunged into the
water. which may be kept hot by the
addition of small quantities from an
other vessel kept over the fire. This
treatment must be continued for hours
II necessary. II should continue, at
least, until the swelling and pain have
been reduced. An all-night treatment
not infrequently results in the possi-
bility of using the limb the next day.
although such a procedure is not to
be recommended.
Cold water is nearly as effectual as
hot In checking the symptoms; in
some cases it seems equally as eff
ficacious and even more comforting.
In either case the treatment must be
prolonged and the temperature of the
water faithfully kept at the point Of
greatest efficiency.
Other remedies are also valuable, II
the physician has them at hand but
all are used with the same end in
view. of relaxing muscular tension.
combating the swelling and relieving
pain.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
THE MAHOGANY TREE.

Mahogany hunters in Central and
South America are men requiring ex-
perience, and in some districts the
revenues depend largely upon the sue
cess of their endeavors. Mahogany
trees do not grow in groups. but are
scattered and concealed In thickets.
II takes two men an entire day to
fell a tree. On account OF the thick,
thorny growth about the base of the
tree II is the custom to build a scaf-
fold around 1t. and to cut the trunk
at height of 10 or Is feet from the
ground. By this wasteful method II
is said the best part OF the tree is
lost Freed from branches, the trunk
is hauled by oxen to the nearest river,
where RATS are made.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
LoN~-AAvs... ..saLisn ENGINES


The British are felicitating them
selves that thcy have discovered
something rsitish superior to Ameri-
can construction. They are hYasSirk
about their locomotives.
The famous mo. I" Great Northern
engine recently completed its four mil
lionth mile. II was built in 1870. 1t
is stll regularly employed on express
passenger work.
The editor of the Locomotive Maga-
zine says: THE British-built engine,
like the Brtish-built bridge and the
British-constructed permanent way, is
designed to stay There are plenty of
engines running today on British rail-
ways-aye, and on continental ones.
too-that were constructed twenty,
thirty. forty and even more years ago,
and which are still perfectly reliable
in every way.
American builders can show moth
ing even remotely akin to this The
life of a Yankee loco fay be as
short as 10 years. II certainly would
be considered aged at Is. And | should
iHldkiHt JueIe are nOl ABOVE sCoIt
OF 20-year-old locomotives in the whole
Of the United States that are regular
ly engaged in the passenger service Of
any OF the first-class lines. The Amer
lean engineer does not even pretend to
build his locomotive to stay"
Further inquiry revealed the fact
that the mo. /" alluded to above is
not the oldest locomotive running
passenger trains in Great Britain. This
honor is claimed for an engine built by
Messrs. Bury Curtis q Kennedy of Liv-
erpool in 1S45, which is still in daily
use on the Waterford e. Tramore rail
way. in the southeast of Ireland.
The railway on which II runs ! al.
most as remarkable in its way as the
engine. 1t is only seven and hall
miles long. and is entirely isolated
from every other railway. its Water
ford terminus being over mile dis
tant from any of the other stations of
Ihat town. There are no intermediate
stations. sidings or passing places, and
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
Gets Are
Her Hobby

Among the "fads" to which English
ladies of wealth. leisure and high So
cial distinction are addicted there are
few yielding the fair devotees more
genuine pleasure and satisfaction than
the business of breeding and rearing
cats, the speciality of Lady Marcus
Beresford. At her home at Bishams-
gate. near Egham, Lady Beresford has
established what she calls her cat
cries" word which Ats the case, per-
haps. as we'll as any other. The es-
tabnshment is absolutely unique In
every feature. Here the happy and
fortunate pussies live, move, and have
their being amid surroundings mt for
queens and princes. One feature OF
the "catery' is a vine-covered cottage
with the rooms decorated ana supplied
with everything supposed TO be need
full for the comfort of the most fasti-
dious OF felines. There is small
kitchen for cooking food, racks to
hold the white enameled bowls and
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20

OF Gods benefceD's Jor was 1t al
ways set upon 1tnysday or Cor any
special season. but the frequent ap-
pointment in gratitude for bountiful
harvests finally made the autumn the
customary time. When the festival OF
Thanks became annual II assumed
many features of the old English
Christmas. In the year 1877 the first
regular Thanksgiving proclamation
was printed Neither chinaware nor
earthenware was plentiful in early
days, although earthenware is men
toned in early inventories. The table
furnishings consisted largely of wood
en- trenchers. The time when America
was settled was the era when pewter
ware and a set of "garnish" OF pew
ter was a source OF great pride 20
every colonial housekeeper A uni
versal table furnishing was the por-
ringer. which was usually Of pewter.
When not in use these were hung by
their handles on the ejge OF the dress
er shelf.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
Seats of
MOnarchS

Great Britain has no distinctive and
exclusive throne. Instead, there are
four-the wooden chair, with the slab
of Scotch stone, in Westminster ABB
hey, which has served as the corona
ton seat of the monarchs of this realm
for seven centuries: the sumptuous
chair of state in the House of Lords,
the chair on which the late queen sat
when holding a drawing room In Buck
ingham palace. and the gilt arm chair
at Windsor, in which the sovereign sits
to receive letters OF credence or recall
from foreign ENJOYS, or accord audi
ence to dusky potentates.
The Czar of Russia Is even more
diversely throned. Each Of dozen
chairs of state are at various times
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
Ills Faith Was shaken.

religious old darky had his faith
badly shaken not long ago. He is sex
ton for white church in Fayette
County, Tennessee, town, and one
afternoon as he was in front sweeping
the pavement strong wind arose,
tearing a piece of the cornice off and
taking a few brick out of the wall.
Realizing that good run was better
than bad stand, the old man sought
shelter in the station-h house on the op-
posite side of the street Several min
utes later a member of the church OF
which Uncle Isham is sexton came by,
and. noticing him in his retreat. re-
marked that he thought the station
house a strange place for a man OF
faith to seek shelter in a storm when
a house OF worship was near. "Dst's
so, but what's a man gwine ter do
when de Lord begins to frow bricks
at imp"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
Fir., Use Of tn. Hot Blast.

James NJ. Swank. in a government
report on iron and eel, says: The
first practical application of the hot
blast to the manufacture of pig iron
in this country was made at the Ok
ford furnace in New Jersey, in 1884.
by William Henry. the manager The
waste heat at the tymp passed over
the surface of nest of small cast iron
pipes, through which the blast was
conveyed to the furnace. The tenn
perature was raised to $50 degrees
Fahrenheit and the product of the fur
mace was increased about 10 per cent.
In 1885 a hot-blast oven, containing
cast iron arched pipes, was placed on
the top OF the stack by Mr.. Henry and
ieated by the flame from the tunnel
head. By this means the temperature
Of the blast was raised to 500 degrees.
The fuel used was charcoal.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
Rearing the Felines One
of the Fads OF Lady
Marcus Beresford.

plates used at feeding time. and a
large book wherein is inscribed the
family history of members of the es-
tablishment. BY mnny men cats are
regarded as a nuisance. II nothing
worse, but by specially fortunate cir
cumstance Lord Beresford is deeply
interested in felines himself. and Is
in thorough sympathy with his wife's
hobby. He is one OF the presidents OF
the London Cat Club, whose annual
exhibitions are popular feature OF
each recurring season ana some OF the
prize-winning cats ut these shows ev-
cry year come from Lady Beresfords
cat farm.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
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Thanksgiving, though commonly re-
garded as being from its earliest be-
ginning a dlstinctively New England
festival and Puritan holiday, was
originally neither. The first New Eng
land Thanksgiving was observed by
the Popham colonists at Monhegan,
In the Thanksgiving service of the
Church of England, Giving God
thanks" for safe arrival and many
other liberal blessings. says Mrs. Earle
in her Customs of OLD New England
Days set apart for thanksgiving
were known in Europe before the Ref
ormation, and were in frequent use
by PrOtestants afterward But the
first New England Thanksgiving was
not day of religious observance. but
a day of recreation. Edward Winslow
writing December IL. 1921 to friend
in England, says: "Our harvest be-
ing gotten in, our governor sent four
men out fowling so that we might,
ate a spe Il ma r, rejo ce togeth er
after we had gathered the fruits OF
our labors. The four killed as much
fowl, as with n little help beside.
served the company about a week. At
which times among our recreations
we exercised our arms, many OF the
Indians coming amongst us. and
among the rest their greatest king,
Massasoyt. with some ninety men.
whom for three days we entertained
and feasted and they went out and
killed five deer which they brought
and bestowed on our governor. and
upon the captains and others" AS
Governor Bradford recorded that dur
ing that autumn beside water fowle
ther was great store OF wild turkies." ="
the Pilgrims Jared better at their
Thanksgiving than their English cous-
ins, for turkeys were not plentiful in
England at that date. The Indian
visitors Joined in the games. These
recreations were doubtless competi-
tions in running, lesp ne, jumping and
perhaps stool-box. Frobf by the wom-
en- OF the colony had little time to
join in the recreations as the four
women, with the help of one servant.
and few young maids, had to pre-
pare and cook food for 120 hungry
men. There is no record of any spec
.ial religious service during this week
of feasting. On February 22, in 1880,
the first public thanksgiving was he'd
in Boston by the Bay State colony in
gratitude for the safe arrival Of ships
bearing food and friends. On Novem-
Der 4, 1881. Thanksgiving day was
kept again in Boston. From that time
till 1854 there were at least 22 public
thanksgiving days appointed in Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut. People do not seem to have
celebrated Thanksgiving in the early
days In Connecticut the festival was
not regularly observed until 17l6.
Thanksgiving was not always appoint
ed in early days for the same token
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
King Edward and Gar
Nicholas Have Several
Royal Chairs.

styled the Russian throne. The two
Ivan the Terrible and the one in
st. Georges Hall of the Winter Palace
at st. Petersburg. The former is OF
turquoises. In the back alone there
are 10000 of these gems. The other
chair is of costly woods. with ivory
and gold, richly jeweled, and embossed
with the imperial eagle the seat Is
of ermine. and the arms are ivory
tusks.
Further east, in Teheran, the Shah
displays himself on white marble
throne. looted from Delhi in 1889. II
is OF ivory. overlaid with gold. and
ablaze with gems. its value being es-
timated at over e1,000,OO0.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
Rlast-Furnace Gas-Motor..

In western Europe, and particularly
in Germany. the employment of mo-
tors utilizing gases from blast-fur-
naces is increasing. II is said that
the use of these gases. which is not
so common in England or the United
States. effects a considerable saving in
the cost OF founding. The motors thus
driven are employed principally for
actuating air compressors and electric
generators.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
FREDERICK ARCHER.
THE WORLD RENOWNED oRGANlsT
WHO DIED RECENTLY.
lie once Gave 1000 Organ RecitaIs
without Repeating Program -
Passed Many Years OF Ills Life In tho
Country,

Frederick Archer, organist OF Car
negie Music Hall. and one of the best
known musicians of the country. died
at his home I'm Pittsburg Pa, after
lingering illness. MIR. Archer had
brilliant career in music. lie was
born at oxford. England. on Jule 16.
1888. I'm 1Si7 he became the chorister
at Margaret Chapel. now All Saints
church, London, and later organist at
st. Clements, oxford and then of Mer-
ton College, holding both appoint
ments. After travelling On the conti-
nent ne was appointed organist OF the
Panopticon. now the Alhambra Thea
ter. London. and in 1862 gave weekly
recitals on the great organ at the
worlds fair in London. In 1868, In as
sociation with Julius Benedict, ne di-
rected the concerts of me Vocal asso-
citation: in 1865 became organist and
choirmaster of Christ Church; then
OF the Church of the Jesuit Fathers
until 1873. when he was appointed to
a similar position at Alexandra Pal
ace, and gave more than 1000 recitals
on the great organ without repeating
a program. In 1877 ne was given the
entire direction OF Alexandra Palace,
and. besides the organ recitals. con-
Quoted the orchestral concerts and the
English opera In the theater. In 1879
he became musiccl examiner in the
University of Glasgow. and in 1880
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20

Electrical Effects of Thunder storms,
+. Larroque, in Comics Rendus.
states that being attracted by the pc
culiar effect thunder storms at dis
tance of many miles often have upon
persons afflicted with certain nervous
diseases long before any instrument
now in use indicates any atmospheric
disturbance, II occurred to him that
Hertzian waves emitted by thunder
storms might possibly be transmitted
over enormous distances through the
middle and higher atmospher by some
means analogous to relays. In order
to test his idea he constructed a re-
cefver made of a horizontal plate OF
zinc 40 en-. in diameter, earthed by a
thin copper wire containing a spark
gap located in dark cellar With
this device, in June, 1901. he made sew
eral series of nocturnal observations.
In one of them the manifestations CO.
incided with the blizzard in the Gram
plans, and in another with the thun-
der storm which on the night Of June
Is was visible over Corsica, the sky
being serene in both cases where the
observations were made. NJ. Larroque
points out the importance of this char
acters of meteorological observation,
but ventures no explanation of the
cause of the transmission of Hertzian
waves over such enormous distances.
philadelphia Times.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
HOW CITIES BURY THEMSELVES


A well has recently been driven in
the Place de lHotel de Vile in Paris.
for the purpose of ascertaining the ma
ture of the subsoil of the Fren n cap
ital. The revelations throw light on
the manner in which great cities, in
the course of centuries. bury the relies
OF their past. First comes a layer of
rubbish, nearly four and a half feet
thick, dating from the sixteenth cen
tury to the nineteenth. A second lay
er, a little over two and half feet
thick, consists of rubbish recognizable
by the character of its fragments as
belonging to the period from the four
teenth to the sixteenth century. This
is separated from the first layer by a
thin deposit of sand. and second
sandy deposit covers the third layer.
which plainly shows relics of the elev-
enth and twelfth centuries. At the
bottom is a clayey deposit filed with
fragments of pottery and bits OF oak
timber belonging to the Gallo and
Gallo Roman periods
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
FREDFRICK ARCHER.

formed an English onc-3 company.
which gave performanc, rc chief
cities of England. He VI. tS9
United States in 1881. played in /. ~
OF the principal cities, and after a shop
visit to London became organist of the
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, and sub
sequently of the Church OF the Incar-
nation, New York, during which he
gave series of ninety concerts in
Chickering Hall. In 1885 he founded
the Keynote at Boston. He was the
author OF THE Organ" theoretical
treatise, and THE Collegiate Organ
Tutor" and had composed much music
of high grade.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20

Hattie: 81 wish | knew some way
to make lots of money" Uncle George:
Easiest thing in the world, Hattie.
Go upon the stage. and when you re-
tire after twenty-five or thirty years
you can write your "reminiscences for
the next half century and get good
money for them. don't know why; l
only know you would. Boston Tran
script
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
PHI n IN 1NAh

(English built engine still running OIL
French road.)
as the platforms at the two terminal
stations are both on the west side OF
the railway. the carriages are provided
Win doors on only the one side.
Another Brltish-built engine which
dates from 1s45 is still running on the
Chemin de Fer du Mort of France. 1t
vas built by Messrs Robert Stephen
son & Co. and was fitted with coupled
driving wheels. This is the engine
shown herewith.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
THE SPEED OF BIRDS.

Mr.. c. A. Witchell, an English nat
uralist, says the speed of flight of
birds is often greatly overrated. Tho
swift, for instance. has been credited
with a speed of $50 miles per hour.
md the popular imagination compares
the fight of a sparrow-hawk with that
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20

More than 400 guides have been in
sured free against accidents by the
Swiss Alpine Cluh at an annual cost
OF over $1,000 francs.
Ones life toll teaches us to prize
life's treasures.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20

Pleasant is the company OF these
who encourage us to talk of ourselves.
oliver Stevens of Boston has been
the county district attorney for TWEEN.
ty-seven consecutive Years. He is a
Democrat. but has been twice re-elect.
ed by the Republicans.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20

cannon DALI
OF a cannon-balll Independent of aid
from the wind, Mr. Witchell thinks. 40
miles an hour Is about the full speed
Of good pigeon flying long dis
tance. The homing pigeon can be re-
lied on. under fairly easy conditions.
10 make 60 miles an hour. or consid-
erably more. On a short course a spar
row-hawk can outfiy homer. But the
hawk frequently fails u catch
smaller birds that form Its prey.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-20
He Was Folled.

81 will follow you 10 the uttermost
ends of the EARTH" Kissed the villain.
"No, you won't" remarked the he
roine. calmly. why won't n" queried
the villain. aghast at her GOODNESS.
Because I'm not going there" she re-
piled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-04

hall can be thrown into one. Each school
is built upon the mill construction plan,
that is, with all of the interior partitions
so constructed as to carry from fCunda-
tion to roof with iron bearing plates,
caps, plinths and pintees over all the
supporting wood columns, thereby MAX
ing the entire structure exceedingly
strong and substantial in every part-
cular.
The recitation rOorls are provided With
b'ackboards on the side walls in all
afalable space, each having also sepa-
rate coat and hat rooms. There is also
a superintendent room ana general Il
brary in each school. The North Dur
ham school has also an additional room to
be devoted to special recitations. The
basement in each school is divided into
two departments, Que for the bows nd
the other FOR The girls, with lavatcl les
complete in, all departments. The hall
ways on the first and second floors are
exceptionally wide. The main hallway
leads into a cross hallway, running
through the entile width OF the building
and at the end of which oil the first and
second floors are placed drinking foun-
tains. The building is heated and ven
tilated throughout with a natural forced
draught heating and ventilating system.
The architect. Mr.. H. j. Blauvelt, of
Winston Salem, has created g design
pleasing and unique, both as to exterior
and interior, and on we'll proportional
lines which are reproductions OF the
drawings. showing TIE correct appear
ance of the buildings when they are COM
pleted. The buildings are now in pro-
gress of constructor unde~ the direct
supervision of Col. W. J. Hicks. Mr.. II.
Abrams, of Knoxville, Tenn, is the con-
Tractor. With these two gentlemen in
charge of the construction of the Laid
ings. the architects plans will be faith
fully carried out.