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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
THE PIXIES"
Elaborate Fairy extravaganza 70 be
Given at Brooks Theater Under
Auspicies Of Public Schools.

On Friday evening, Feb. Z, over
three hundred young people will be
seen in "The Pixies at Brooks the
ater. Il IS given under the auspices
OF the public schools, the profits to
be used for the school library. Daily
rehearsals are being held under the
direction of the author, W. A, Milne
of Chicago It is big comic opera,
deliberately staged and costumed, and
given with all the dash OF a profes-
sional production. An excellent cast
has been chosen, and such enthusiasm
has already been aroused that a brill
liant success Is assured.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
chIIdren EspeeIaIIy LIabIe.

Burns. bruises and cuts are extreme
ly painful and II neglected often re-
suit in blood poisoning. Children are
especially liable to such mishaps be
cause not SO careful. AS a remedy
DeWitts Witch Hazel salve IS un-
equalled Draws out the fire, stops
the pain, soon heals the wound. Be
ware of counterfelts. Sure cure for
piles. "Dewitts Witch Hazel salye
cured my baby of eczema after two
physicians gave her up" writes James
Mock, N. Webster. Ind, The sores
were so bad she soiled two TO fve
dresses a day"
]. NJ Wallace.
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Nature Studies For Old
aDd Young
BY ALLEN WALTON GOULD, A. ~


TSP WAS much puzzled some years ago by
M finding an acorn sticking ia q little hole
u the bark of an oak tree up in Michigan.
E The hole was a close ht for the acorn. so
that it required some little effort TO pull
the nut out and il was just deep enough to let
about quarter of the nut project beyond the
bark. / concluded that the hole must have been
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
Thursday. January 30.
l-Devotional exercises.

;3O-Devotional exercises.
1O:0O-The Sunday school work Of
the association, what to do, how to
do it; talks by c. W. Burnett, J. r.
Eldridge, II. H. Dunnaway and others.
-Consecration service; sub
ject "Here Am /; Send Ne" Led by
the Rev. NJ M. Munger
12:0O-Adjounment
All the brethren are cordially In
vited. Each one on the programme
is earnestly requested to attend Pas
tors, bring your Sunday school work
ers. Let us come praying for a graci-
Gus meeting.
Yours, in the Lords worH,
J. L. Rupard,
Sunday School Missionary
l07 East Noble avenue, Guthrie, Ok
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when winter covers the pond with ice
the food Of the beavers must be under
the ice If they would keep from starry
ing. Their chief winter food consists
Of the tender tips or smaller branches
Of trees, and when autumn comes we
find them busy telling the trees and
cutting them up into pieces short
enough to be handled Each Of the
branches is carried near the house and
stuck into the mud at the bottom of
the water. so that when winter comes
there win be a good stock of food close
at hand and kept s9esh by the water
They seem to know Just when the cold
weather Is coming.
Insects also make provision against
a time of want The honeybees seem
70 know that flowers VIII not always
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Sunday School Missionary
lO7 East Noble avenue, Guthrie, Ok.
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Can't be perfect health without
pure blood. BurdOck Blood Bitters
makes pure blood. Tones and inyig-
crates the whole system.
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illustrates the plans of the plant and
brings its life 10 an end.
Plants living in the water also
seem to foresee the ice OF winter and
contrlve 10 escape it. The pond weed,
as autumn draws near, fills the two or
three upper rows Of leaves with food.
These leaves are at the surface OF the
water. but before the frost comes the
shoot containing them is broken of
and sinks 10 the bottom out of the
reach of ice II stays there asleep till
spring, when il wakes and sends It's
roots down into the earth and its new
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J. N. Wallace

Fortunate is the man who thinks
he has married an angel II She only
turns out to be a good cook instead.
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) Natures in the bark Of an oak tree up in Michigan
} MA Thc q he s o
I { nO 10
I he o
Il.
learned the the wood
seee
Pacific
Of oaks and Sometimes the birds will make holes the
his
that when the birds and
dropping hc
naturally supposed squirrels
BUT the Mexico
devised keeping They utilize the dead
II
till the fun where
birds withdraw the the
naturalist these birds eating that had brought thirty
miles be stored the reeds
are in o
o
II a
than bushel will
viii o
wh
rather live little villages something like prairie
with their teeth off order in rocky
i n
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AGENTS WANTED--ccal or trav-
cling agents in Oklahoma or the In.
dian territory can get the best contract
In the way Of earning a living and also
based upon the fact that my business
given them by anybody in the country
will be pleasing, safe and profitable to
the buyer and also will give to the
agent an honorable and lucrative en-
ploymont Men of good character and
standing, mot necessary for them to
have had any insurance experienced
will find * for their interest to com
municate with Henry F. Burt, general
manager of the National Life and
Trust Co., of Des Moines. Iowa, Rooms
10, IS and II, Billingsley bldg Guth
rie, Okla, where all the details will
be explained 70 such applicants, and
II not convenient TO call in person, It
can be done just as intelligently by
mail.
REASONS WHY AN AGENT CAN DO
BETTER FOR HIMSELF REP
REsENTlNG THE NATIONAL
LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY
THAN ANY OTHER EMPLOY
PLoTMENT.
BECAUSE, its endowment bonds and
policies yield the largest possible
returns consistent with safety.
BECAUSE, it is incorporated unde.
the Iowa insurance laws and de
posits the cash value of all bonds
with the auditor of the state, as
by law required.
BECAUSE, it's bonds are exempt from
taxation and execution, as by law
provided.
LEcAUsE, its securities are all first
mortgages on Iowa farms.
BECAUSE, it's officers and directors
are men OF well known ability and
integrity.
BECAUSE, all bonds are payable in
gold at maturity.
BECAUSE, their bonds guarantee to
return the face value of each In
ten years, together with all the
accumulations from lapses in the
reserve and profit fund, and in
terest thereof.
CAPITAL 100000.
Compare our capital stock win the
capital stock of other large companies
All requests for information, either
personal or by letter, will be courte
ously answered either In person oJ
by mail, by addressing,
HENRY =. BURT,
Rooms 10. is and II Billingsley Bldg.
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
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the winter and provide for
the need of having seeds to
cleared they cut down plant
called ant rice to
This seed which they
10 will
they will let from the
shoot that springs is
at $ these seeds
weas weedth plants the
plants to provide
blossom
the opened the
with foliage the
prudent be used in the early
hkened The packs
itsf n a S s0r shortened
The
gathering food for the blossoms and fruit Of the
dseason ii
But when the second spring comes the plant
Its Ishes American
other hand Of work into its food gathering
TO flower only
hundred preparation really spends about tenth as many years
IN blossom When feels 1t
family sends stalk Of feet high in as
man aud then
Other plants planned so wisely that they are practically immortal
its children
packed stalk and has pushed
that VIII
food l stalks that shall
till
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spread out to dry, and there was great COM
petition between the boys who wanted the
spare boards. which were none too plenti-
full, and the children who were more inter-
ested in drying apples. Many time
couple of bushels of nuts were 70 be found
tumbled on the ground after having been
carefully left to dry on the coveted boards.
The value of the nut crop in fattening hogs.
when the limited corn and wheat supply
was needed for bread, was inestimable. and
its continuance through the winter months
made possible the keeping of hogs until
there was good full corn crop with which
to fatten them The meat and lard of
mast-fed pork was too oily to suit the
taste of our fathers. and besides, in warm
weather, the sides of bacon almost melted
as they hung in the darkened smoke
houses.
What would now be termed a nutting
party did not assert itself in those days.
Families sometimes took a team and went
where nuts were abundant. From twenty
five to seventy bushels constituted days
work. depending altogether upon the size
of the family. Whether such a generous
use Of nuts was wholesome l will not pre-
tend to say, but it's a fact that I've often
seen piles Of the broken shells in Indian
apolis front yards equal to twenty BUSH
els, the accumulations of a winters crack
ing before the log fire on the hearth.
TREES ALL GONE.
But you ask where are those trees that
bore the nuts?" Mr.. Fletcher went on to
say. Gone; all of 'em, and the places that
knew them will never know anything like
them again. Why, a whole history could
be written about those grand old Indiana
nut trees. How did they go? In the clear
ing of land for the pillow. in wood for the
family fireplace and the bakers oven, for
the axe helves, the OK bows. the wagon
tongues and, last of all, for the rims and
spokes Of every kind of vehicle that the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-26
WITTY PAT.

You can't catch an Irishman asleep
young or old, rich or poor. educated or un-
educated" said citizen who is proud
OF the Irish strain I'm his blood. Not long
ago / went back to my little home town
to see about the removal of some family
graves from an old neglected cemetery to
new one. At the old cemetery L found
the same old sexton-'Pat-good old Pat
who had been there ever since / was a
boy. 1 used to be a Roman Catholic, but
as l married an Episcopalian girl. In due
time found myself feeling better satisfied
TO attend church with her. Old Pat, 1t seems.
had heard of my detection and felt called
upon to reprimand me for the same. He
began by asking IL I had a son named
Patrick
"'Oh, yes 1 answered. You know the
name Patrick is entailed In our family
every male member of our family takes a
VOW 10 name a son Patrick, after an old
ancestor Patrick. way back in old Ireland
That's good said the old sexton, but
we've thrown over yer shoulder a better
thing than tn name o. Pat
What's that?' I asked.
TIL Roman Catholic Church. said Pat
"'Oh. Pat, I replied. that's not so. Be-
sides. the Episcopal Church now, in some
phases, resembles the old church
Mana answered old Pat emphatical-
ly: there's a hape o. differ twixt tn sacra-
mint blessed by God an tn sacramint
blessed be old Henry tn Eight
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When this is done they can couple 1t to the
wrecking train and bring it in. The car
that brings up the rear of the train is the
derrick car. 1t is built exceptionally strong
and carries a large derrick, which is used
for the purpose of raising parts of cars and
engines. This derrick is constructed upon
a ratchet turntable. so that the object
raised from the track can be laid to one
side. Take the wrecking train as a whole.
1t is built much stronger and more dura-
bic than the ordinary train. 1t has no un-
necessary trappings about it, for everything
is so arranged that nothing will hamper IL
in making all of the speed possible.
The wrecking train stands on a side track
in the yards, which gives 1t easy access to
the main track The rule of the company
is that this siding shall never under any
circumstances be blocked by another train.
the reason for this being that if a wreck
does occur there will be no delay in getting
the train on the main line. In the round
house there is always engine for wreck
duty. kept fired and carrying a full amount
of steam. The number of this engine is
posted on the blackboard, for each day a
different one is used. The instant the
whistle blows the hostler OF the roundhouse
runs to the board and sees what engine is
to go. He then backs IL out on the turn
table. turns 1t around and runs 1t to the
water tank, where he gets a full supply of
water. While he has been doing this the
wrecking crew has been gathering, and a
yard engine has pulled the train out on the
main track. The engine that is to pull il is
then backed down and coupled on; by this
time an engineer and fireman are found to
run it. and in the next few minutes the
wrecking train is speeding over the road as
fast as steam can haul ii.
EVERY MAN KNOWS HIS PART.
1t seems as though all of these prelim-
mary arrangements would take consider
able time, but every man who helps get
the train started knows his part so well
and works with such promptness that ev-
erything Is executed in very short time.
Recently the whistle blew. the men all
hurried to the train as usual, the engine
was coupled and run as far as the Belt
Railroad. when it stopped. The crew
then for the first time learned that IL
was being tested by the general superin-
tendent. who wished to determine just
how long IL took them to get out on the
road. He was greatly pleased when he
found that from the time the whistle
blew until the train was upon its way
YVES just seven minutes. OF course, at
night 1t takes little longer, for the men
have to come from their homes. but even
then some of the time that they make
is considered by railroad officials as re-
markable.
Every engine that is detailed for wreck
duty is capable of running from forty
five 10 sixty miles an hour. The wreck
train. of course. when disaster occurs
that blocks the main line. is given the right
of way over all other trains and often the
time that is made would equal that of the
flyers. The reason why the wrecking crew
must work with such quickness Is TO get
the main line cleared. In a passenger
wreck where . number Of people are In
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culation, but IL was admirably edited and
filed its own field better than almost any
other publication in the country some
years ago Mr.. jenkins published history
of the city of Philadelphia, which was con-
coded to be an admirable piece OF work, IN
fact the best summary that has ever been
written II will not be forgotten that Mr..
Jenkins's name was left off the title page
and a distinguished journalist. now DE-
ceased. who appeared as editor, was sup
posed TO be author also. This led TO some
lively correspondence, which was mace
public and created a mild sensation MI.
Jenkins was an essentially modest man, out
he did not like himself nor his denomina-
1t is certain that the society in question
will sustain heavy loss which will be sim
cerely mourned Mr.. Jenkins had country
seat at Gwynedd. and Ii seemed almost an
anachronism to behold that cultured, pol
ished well-dressed scholar sitting at the
head of the meeting beside some MEMBER
of the old school still wearing broad-orim
hat and shad-belly coat. Great as was the
contrast, Mr. Jenkins was the most valiant
champion of the Friends, the man VINO
knew better than perhaps any other what
the society was what ii had been and what
must be done for its future.
Otherwise, the city has lost a good. wise
man, who had helped in many movements
for the betterment OF the race and whose
place it will be hard to fill. He was less
known than his merits In many directions
deserved
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say that every time they go to wreck
they learn something new, for there are no
two alike. The main thing to know is
how to start TO clear away the debris, for
1T must be handled as quickly as possible,
and the salvage must also be gotten out.
The amount of time that 1T takes to clear
away a wreck, of course, depends wholly
on the size of the disaster and how badly
the cars and engines are smashed up The
wrecking crew never quits work no mat
ter how many hours ii takes, until every
thing is restored to order. Only a few
years ago a freight wreck occurred near a
little town called Bushrod on the I.
V. An engine was hauling long train of
coal cars when 1t jumped the track, drag
ging number of cars with it. and the
front part was buried in an embankment
several feet deep. When the wrecking
train arrived 1t took the crew thirty-six
hours to get the track cleared enough so
that traffic could again be resumed. An
other wreck that required a long time to
pick up, as clearing away wrecks is tech
nically called occurred at East Haven
a small town just this side of Richmond
Two freight engines, both running at a
high rate of speed, came together with
such force hhat it took considerably over
day TO get them apart and get the track
put back in order, for the force of the COL
lison had torn the rails up for some dis
lance. In bad weather, especially in the
winter when sleet or snow is falling, or
everything is covered with ice. the work
around wreck is extremely hard and dan
gerous. What these men suffer during
such time can only be appreciated by
themselves
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living thought. The sole desire of the
Arabic journalist seems to be to write in
the lofty tones and stilted style of the
Koran about the coming and going of the
various "effendis,'' about different city
events, such as robberies, riots and the CIV
ing of charity. There are editorials. but
they cannot truly be called opinions They
who enter the editorial sanctum to write
leave all ideas behind.
Editors are all smiles and all expectation
for subscriptions. Occasionally some one is
criticised; but, on the whole. there is more
praise than blame dealt out to the public.
1t is known that the Syrians are friendly
people All newspapers come under the
stringent Turkish censure. but, the off,
Gals in charge are naturally very indolent.
they leave things largely to the editors,
who responsible to them for their pa
pers. But the more timorous editors are in
such fear of the censors that their papers
often come out with many columns of
blank space and hardly any reading matter
at all, as if 1.-The best things had been
eliminated by dozens of scrutinizing OFF,
Gals. The censors are mostly Turkish off,
Gals, who know but little Arabic, and
hence the many curiosities so often encoun-
tered For instance. the censor Of Beirut
would not pass the word ''murod," meaning
Ito visit" because Murad has been incar-
cerated by the Sultan.
Turkey is in terrible fear of all things
that happen in Europe. There are constant
misgivings lest public events in other coun-
tries should stir up it's devoted subjects
and make them interested In their own
conditions. In 1894. when President Carnot
was assassinated, the Syrian. papers pre-
scented the news of the calamity which
they had taken from the European jour-
mails. On the second day the censor sent
for all the editors of the Beirut papers
and requested them to announce that
President Carnot died a natural death.
The editors apologized to their readers
for the GORGEOUS error made. and told
how the President of the French Republic
died in his bed suddenly. but las peace
fully as a child.
The newspapers must not mention the
words telephone and telegraph" be-
cause they are considered TO be devilish
devices which circulate throughout the
world the news of all things that occur in
bravery and loyalty of the Turkish off,
Gals. of the glory and grandeur of the
army and government are looked upon
with benign favor. During the Russo
and again announced that the Car and
his army had been captured and that only
through the magnanimity Of the Sultan
were there lives saved. To the Moham-
medans such items of news were quite
logical. for they see things through their
conception of the Sultan. who takes the
place of the holy Mohammed. According
to their conception the whole world be-
longs TO the Sultan. and IL there are other
kingdoms and kings they rule with his
permission. for he Is sovereign OF the
world. The great fear which the news
paper publishers have for the Turkish off,
Gals, who call themselves assistants OF
the Sultan" is not unfounded. IL these
lofty personages are not obeyed Il means
that the paper is not to be continued.
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jured they are generally rescued before
the crew gets there. unless some unfor-
tunate is burier under the cars. In the
wrecking train there Is no provision made
for the injured, and they are always cared
for on a special train. In clearing the
main line when it is blocked the means that
are sometimes employed are very unique.
AS, for instance, not long ago two en-
gtnes ran together and so completely
embedded themselves In each other that II
was impossible to move them. The wreck
master ordered them lacked up high enough
so that the rails could be gotten from un-
der them. After this had been done
track was built around the wreck with the
rails that had been taken from under the
engines and traffic was at once resumed.
The wreck trains of the Pennsylvania
lines all have separate divisions over which
they run. The one that is located here COW
ers all of the territory between this city
within few miles of Logansport and CO.
lumbus, where other wreck crews are 10
Gated. None of the runs that II makes
is very long. unless the crew is called upon
to help another. The object Is not to have
the division overly large. for then 1t would
take the train too long to reach the various
points.
THE wRECKMASTER.
The wreckmaster for this division Is
David Koogle. He has been here but two
years, though prior to his coming he was
assistant master of the Columbus crew, so
that in all he has had much experience in
picking up wrecks. To have charge of the
crew is considered very responsible place
by railroad men, for the reason that 1t
takes quite a little engineering to get a
wreck cleared away properly. The man
who has been in the wrecking crew the
longest is William Lang. the assistant
master. He has been a member for the last
eleven years. When Koogle is absent Lang
takes his place. Men who are in the crew
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HOWARD M. JENKINS.
Tribute to n Distinguished Friend,
Lately Deceased.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
In the tragic death of Howard NJ. Jenk-
ins Philadelphia loses one of its worthy
citizens, a man of rare abilities and broad
culture, who has been a powerful but not
widely known force for good in the COM
munity Although the Friends are not pro-
portionally the power they formerly were
in point of numbers, they are still potent
in many ways and Mr.. Jenkins as editor of
the Friends Intelligencer has exercised a
wide influence. Himself leading member
Of the society. he has always been its de-
voted champion. A few years ago when DR..
Weir Mitchell published Hugh wynne.
Free Quaker" Mr.. Jenkins took up his
cudgels in behalf of the society, which he
believed had been misrepresented by the
eminent author. and published a scathing
article which caused widespread comment.
DIR. Mitchell had not the slightest inten-
ton OF making the Free Quaker the repre-
sentative of the sect nor OF rejecting on any
other portion of IL. He was using the H.
cense of fiction To make a good story with
historical atmosphere. but Mr.. Jenkins had
no confidence In any such sort OF literature
and said so In unmistakable terms.
His newspaper never enjoyed q large cir