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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

The house is old-its windows racked;
Its doors are falling down;
Where once the dainty tintings were
Is now a faded brown.
The steps are rotting; in the porch
Great gaping holes are seen;
The roof-trees broken; with thick mold
The boards are fairly green.
The yard is filled with weeds and trash J.;
The walk is crumbling fast;
The trees and shrubs are broken-all
Their beauty-days are past.
The sagging rails tug at their posts
As though they fain would drop.
Aye, all is drear and desolate
From floor to chimney top.
And yet about the crazy door
And round the tottering stoop
Chambers and clings a tendrled vine
In many n verdant loop:
And on that vine bright blossoms glow
And smile through all the day;
From every dainty fow'r the bees
Sweet burdens bear away.
The broken house-a ruined man
With blightcd life and fame:
Soul windows dimmed a tarnished coat
A more than tarnished name
The clinging vine, a woman's love
Perchance a mem'ry dear
Whose fragrant blossoms bless the world
Through all the changing years.
S. W. Gillian in Los Angeles Herald.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
PALESTINE WAKING UP.
1ary Signs Progress Which Arc Due German Enter
prise.
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According to United States Consular
Agent Harris Palestine has shown un-
mistakable signs of progress during
the past decade, much of which is to
De attributed to German enterprise.
German colonists, merchants ana
horticulturists, says Mr.. Harris, are
awakening that part OF the Levant
from a lethargy of thousand years.
Three years ago "A German bank was
established in Jerusalem, with
branch in Yafa, which exchanged Sl5,-
10000 in 1901. The waters of the
Dead Sea. where no rudder has been
seen for centuries, are now being piled
by German motor boats. A direct lire
of communication has thus been open
ed up between Jerusalem and Kerak,
the ancient capital OF the land Of
Moab, which still commands the cara
van routes leading across the Arabian
desert. There is no doubt that Ger
man enterprise will also exploit the
phosphate fields situated on both sides
Of the Jordan, when transportation
facilities shall have been sufficiently
developed to insure success to the
undertaking.
"For many years Germany has been
looking to Asia Minor and other coun-
tries adjacent to Palestine as suitable
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
HAS A BIG BUFFALO HERD.
Millionaire Half-Breed Keeps 1SO of
Them and Won't Sell One.

Millionaire Half-Breed Keeps $50 of
Them and Won't Sell One.
Roaming in absolute freedom in the
beautiful Flathead valley, on the Flat
head Indian reservation, Montana, is
the largest herd of buffalo on the con-
tinent. The noble animals have prac-
tically all the freedom that was theirs
in the days when they were monarchs
of the plains. The herd is the prop
erty of a half-hreed of mixed Indian
and Mexican blood named Pablo.
whose home is on the reservation, and
who is reported to be worth $780,
900. He does not look it in his suit OF
citizens clothes, broad-brimmed hat
and blanket. but he is as shrewd a
ranchman as is to be found on the
western plains and he has increased
his government allotment of cattle
and lands until he has amassed a vast
fortune. He has two houses, one on
the reservation and the other in the
dreary little shipping town of Selfish.
on the Northern Pacific railroad.
Pablo owns 100000 head of cattle
and takes a justifable pride in them.
but he especially glories in his herd
OF buffalo, which numbers $50. Pablo's
regard for his buffalo is intense. He
is not keeping them for profit, and
will not sell a single specimen. He
loves them because they are a part of
the old free life he loved and loves
still. He has a fellow feeling for
bison because. like his own race, they
have been driven from their old ranges.
So he has gathered together all that
he could get and has placed them on
the magnificent range at the outlet Of
Eiatbead lake.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
When Bob Evans
Was Near Death

Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, al
though he has seen plenty of sharp
fighting and has been often under fire,
once came nearer to losing his life on
board his own ship md when not en-
gagged with the enemy than during any
battle in which he ever had part. He
tells the story in "A Sailors Log"
little before the destruction of Ger
veras fleet he had gone below to his
cabin with Commander Kimball OF the
torpedo fleet, who had brought dis
patches. They were sitting at the
bin table studying the situation.
when startled voice exclaimed,
Look out, captain
/ threw my head to one side, he
writes, to see what | was to look out
for, when there was a tremendous
crash. and | was aware that | was hurt
and more or less dazed My first i'm
preston was that one of the Spanish
gunboats had sneaked up on MS and
put a shell INTO my cabin. | had been
thinking all the afternoon what fine
chance it would be for them that
night But when | was really con-
scious | saw that that was not the
trouble.
My cabin was fun of men. all star
ing at me. their eyes fairly sticking
out of their heads. They thought I
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
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The wild turkey. called by Choctaws
ind Cherokees in differing tongues
he wit of the woods" is supposed
~ old hunters to have Intelligence
above that of other birds. In general
{ has. Yet sometimes ii mods like
HOmer. and sometimes it displays TIE
Indifferent reCklessness OF a cross be
.ween D'Artagnan and dear old Ouida's
hero. Bertie Cecil
c. S. Stribling lives near the lower
part of the San Antonio river. a few
miles above its debouchment into the
Gulf of Mexico. wild turkeys are
plentiful in the region, and he Kills
good many of them.
In winter it is never more than
three miles from his house to roost
When he wants turkey meat he sad
lles his pony before daylight, rides to
within quarter-mile of the roost, dis
mounts. walks stealthily to the bur
lened trees. waits till he can see a
round. black form between him and
the sky. knocks one over and goes
home
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a sportsman in the finer sense of the
term; in fact, he raises cotton as a
means of keeping in debt, but he likes
turkey. especially when it is self-fla-
vored with nuts and wild pepper.
The river runs by his home and is
thirty yards wide. Directly across
from his front yard grows Il solitary
cypress that is probably $50 feet high
One forenoon. while sitting on his
front gallery and enjoying a cob-pipe
he had been blackening for five years
Stribling glanced toward the cypress
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

and saw perched on It's top a wild COB
bier whose FURNISHED feathers shone
in the sun. 1t stood calmly with head
erect enjoying the air and the placid
river beneath
Stribling laid the pipe down care
fully. walked into his bedroom. picked
up his rifle OF "A calibre. and went
back to the gallery. lie knew that
he would be forced to go half-mile
downstream to the nearest ford, cross,
come back upstream. go back down
stream. and come back upstream in or
der to retrieve. but did not purpose
To be insulted.
lie shoots well. lie leaned firmly
against the end post of the gallery
got the tip of the front sight on the
base of the birds black beard which
hung from the gobhlers breast, held
it there for a moment smiled as it
occurred to him that the thing was
too easy and pressed the trigger firm
ly and steadily.
There was the usual sharp crack,
which sounded doubly loud in the still-
ness of morning. but the turkey was
unmoved. il evinced no curiosity
StriGjing tried it again, little more
carefully anG with less confidence;
! same result He said: ", is!Gy 1e get-
ting old and wrinkled in my face, but
| I'll bet the farm and all ii costs me
| that ! can make You move Same
result.
That was all the cartridges he had
He walked to the bank of the river
and yelled at the bird 1t looked down
at him and sailed away.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
The Menace of Intemperance.

The menace of intemperance has be-
come so gigantic that it is rapidly as
suming the proportion Of a worldwide
peril. In Germany. the place where
above all others. drinking has been
proclaimed as harmless, and the nat
ural satisfaction of simple and nor
NAL appetite, urgent voices are rails
ing the cry of alarm, and these from
sources not likely to be easily passed
by as partaking OF temperance fanati-
cism. The hold of the drinking on
university life, to say nothing of the
military and industrial classes, is a
fact so general and appalling that
most earnest efforts are being made by
cool headed and open-eyed lovers of
the Fatherland to avert the danger
which approaches with increasing ra-
pidity. In France similar state of
afIairs is observed. The supposed
harmless habit of wine drinking has
developed appetites for more danger
ous and deadly beverages, until the
manhood of France is being sapped by
the drinking of absinthe and other
native and imported drinks, almost
equally noxious. In England more
open inebriety is more evident on
every hand. The public house is the
foe of England's progress. The poorer
classes make 1t their constant resort,
and the scenes of degradation wit
messed not only in the slum districts
Of London, and other large cities, but
the industrial sections, and even in
residence portions of the city, are
enough to fill the mind of any lover of
humanity with apprehension and dis
tress
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
Famous Captain Tells
of His Marrow Escape
from Fatal Accident.

was killed, and | suppose they wanted
to see the last Of the "old man."
was soon aware that one of the doe
tors was feeling and twisting my
right arm, and that my right shoul-
der was in pretty bad shape. Through
it all | was sorry for Kimball, who,
thought, was surely killed, and /
was greatly relieved when | heard his
voice, which sounded a mile away.
The men were running in a steel haw-
ser, and it had picked up the steel bat
tie hatch weighing something over
400 pounds. which was lying on deck,
ready to be put on the cabin hatch
when needed. The line had carried 1t
along until it came directly over the
hatch under which ! was sitting, when
it slipped off came down edge first.
and caught me on the shoulder in
stead of the head.
The man who called to me to lCok
out held on to it in his effort to stop
it. and came down with e.
My shoulder was badly mashed and
dislocated but the excellent medical
men soon wiped the blood off. reduc-
ed the disiocation. bandaged my arm
to my side. and turned me in.
II my head had been four inches
further forward | should never have
had the pleasure of writing this book.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

Prof. Hannel, a well-known German
professor of pedagogy, has been maxi
ing some interesting Investigations on
the effect of alcohol on German school
children. His inquiries have extended
over 1888 cases, children between the
ages of six and eleven. Only 2.26 per
cent of the entire number of children
professed to be ignorant OF the taste
of strong drink, and 1874 per cent con-
fessed to having been once or oftencr
drunk. Over II per cent have daily
supplies of drink given to them, and
over 2 per cent drink alcohol in some
form before they leave for school in
the morning. Teachers unanimously
declare that children who habitually
use alcohol are the worst IN the school
and that the children of drunkards are
always a source of trouble. One in
spector of schools in the Rhine prov
nces has eleven children under his
care the offspring of notorious drunk
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
What whisky Drinking Means.


How many men would buy ticket
in a death lottery?
Suppose that some very rich man
should start a lottery in which one
ticket in every hundred meant death.
He could not sell the tickets. He could
not give them away. He could not
get rid of them even If he paid people
to take them, offering them money,
pleasure and excitement.
Every man would say: II will not
have a ticket in such lottery at any
price. | might not be the man in a
hundred destined to die, but, anyhow,
! will not take ticket"
Does not every man who starts out
to drink whisky in a small way really
take a ticket in death lottery?
or hundred young men who begin
drinking whisky at least one is ruined
as matter of fact, the percentage Is
unfortunately much greater.
The punishment of the unfortunate
ones in the lottery of drink is really
greater than if that lottery really
meant immediate death.
Drink, when it masters a man, is
worse than death. Every man worthy
OF the name would rather be dead tha1
slave, and whisky means slavery for
those whom it conquers.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

bidding the sale of intoxicants, opium,
and firearms by American citizens in
any island of the Pacific ocean inhab-
tied by semi-civilized nations. Secre-
tary Hay has asked the British gov
ernment to join ours in submitting to
other commercial powers a universal
treaty to make this provision binding
upon all nations.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

Very soon the number of children
in our country must reach 200OO,OOO
BY the good hand of God upon us, and
largely through the gentle but persist
ent efforts of earnest. prayerful women
a law has been enacted in the state OF
Georgia teaching the scientific truth
regarding the pernicious influence OF
alcohol and narcotics upon the human
system. BY a faithful observance OF
these laws can the millions of the ris-
ing generation be forewarned and fore
armed, and their minds filled with a
wholesome dread of the insatiate and
insidious devourer; while not yet un-
der the fascination Of the fell charm
ers eye, they are duly warned of the
venom of his fangs. We may hope
after half score of years hence we
shall see coming forth on the stage OF
action a generation of men and women
who will bar the door Of the home
against this monster and also quickly
drive him from the land. Jennie Hart
Sibley
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
BLAMED TO KIPLING
BREAT WRITER SAID TO HAVE HOO
DOED FISiIIG FLEET.
Jchooners Described In the Novel,
Captains Courageous" Have Been
Pursued by Ill Luck-Last One of
Them Is Now Out Of business

Did Ruyard Kipling "hoodoo' an en-
tire fleet of fishing schooners by us
ing them as literary material in writ
ing his book. Captains Courageous"
When. a few days ago the Prince
Leboo was sunk. her disastrous end
marked the extinction of the entire
fleet of twenty which iipling men
toned and the peculiarities of some OF
which he so entertainingly described.
The Prince Leboo was not an old
boat. There was not a sounder fishing
schooner on the coast than the Amy
Knight. which was sunk a few weeks
ago. Fishermen expected these boats
to last for years. How did it happen
that disaster befell them all?
Not long after the publication OF
Captains Courageous, the fleet of fish
ing schooners began to diminish
alarmingly. Boats that should have
endured for a lifetime were stricken
down in the bloom of youth. Finally
only three of the boats were left; then
two. At last the Prince Leboo was the
only survivor. And now the Prince
Leboo is gone, too.
The Amy knight figured in Kiplings
book as the Carrie Pitman. She was
the comedian of the fleet, and was de-
scribed as always going adrift on the
Banks. The Carrie Pitman hailed
from West Chatham. She don't do
much 'cep' drift" they said of her.
There amt an anchor made II hold
her"
The Amy Knight sank while on a
trip between Bucksport and Rockland.
She was within a mile of the shore
when she met her fate and there was
not wind enough blowing to enable the
sailors to beach her.
The Martha NJ, another schooner ap-
/ pearing incognito in Kipling's book,
/ was built by the Herreshoffs and was
owned by Captain Hiram Fogg. of
Bucksport
For many years she was beached at
Bucksport. and is now merely very
bad specimen of an old hulk.
! The We're Here, the most famous OF
the Kipling vessels, was commanded
fol" many years by Capt. Noah Lord
and Capt. Wood, of Bucksport.
The old salts at Verona, Orland and
Bucksport love to tell yarns of the
Hope of Prague.
Nick Brady's her skipper" the
We're Here fishermen said of this yes
sci. the meanest man on the Banks"
Then there was the Days Eye. THE
two Jeraulds owned her. She's from
Harwich; fastish, too, an hez good
| luck"
And there were the three Gloucester
vessels-the Margie Smith, the Rose
and the Edith S. Walen.
The others of the fleet were the
East Wind, the Abbie NJ. Deering, the
Lucy Holmes, the Jennie Cushman, the
Mary Chiffon, the King Philip, the
Henry Clay, the Parry Norman, the
San Jose. the Florrie Anderson, the
Harry Randolph. the Gilbert Hope
and the Mamie Douglas
They are only memories now, all OF
them. How do those wise in the lore
of the sea account for the disappear
ance of this stalwart fleet And what
explanation could Rudyard Kipling
maker of many books, give OF it? asks
Bucksport, Me-, correspondent OF
| the New York World
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
TIE Deum Laudamus.

Twenty years ago who would have
dared to predict that in this second
year of the new century all the public
schools of the United States, together
with it's naval and military academies.
would be teaching temperance? If
some optimistic reformer had prophe-
sled that in five times that number of
years temperance education laws
would be mandatory throughout the
length and breadth of the land. he
would doubtless have been dubbed a
visionary. And yet, as the result of
twenty years struggle on the part of
the scientific temperance instruction
department of the white ribbon army.
this splendid achievement is recorded.
The occupation of the scientific tenn
perance department is not gone. The
laws secured must be enforced. Then
there is a worlds as well as a national
department. There are other lands to
conquer, and it's work will not be done
until the school children all around the
world are being taught the truth about
alcohol and narcotics, until the right
kind of temperance laws are not only
enacted, but rigidly enforced.-UnioD
Signal
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
Total Percentag

Inc ABOVE drink duties include the
taxation of home made drink and the
customs duties on imported drink
The current criminal statistics for
England record a material increase In
the prosecutions for drunkenness per
100000 of population during recent
years-namely:
1SS7-1891 e. ..619I 19I1S97-1S99 :. .647
1S92-1S96 E. .5SiI1s9s only .... .675
Although the above figures cannot
be regarded as absolutely proving
that drunkenness is on the increase
says writer in the Fortnightly Re-
view, for the reason that the increase
in the number of prosecution may pos
sibly be due to greater stringency on
the part of the police, yet when they
are looked at side by side with the
wholly independent results already
stated as regards the increased con-
sumption of drink per head of popu-
lation one result appears to confirm
the other and an unsatisfactory con-
clusion is reached.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

Here are Kipling's views on temper
ance: Il used to take glass regular
ly," he says, until one day, going
along the streets of Manchester saw
two 15-year-old girls reel out of a pub
lie house, stagger across the pavement
and fall into the gutter. From that
time have been total abstainer. SO
are all my household"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

Lord Miner, British high commits
sioner in South Africa, in a recent ad-
dress declared that the complete en-
forcement of the prohibitory liquor
laws had revolutionized the condition
Of the Kaffirs, who had before been
ruined in body and estate by this trade,
and had labored almost exclusively for
the advantage of the liquor-seller.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

territories in which to develop Ger
man markets. The Bagdad railroad.
which will lead through Anatolia, in
tersecting the aeadwaters of the Tigrs
and EuphratcX, to the shores OF the
Persian gulf, Il an enterprise of vast
Importance. nc; only to Germany, as
the promoter, and the Turkish en-
piie, but to the world at large. II IS
the greatest commercial and ciyilizing
factor that could be introduced into
this region and will tap the rich tAsri-
tories which composed ancient Meso-
potamia. Apart from new avenues OF
commerce, land will be opened up to
students and tourists which, owing 10
expense and unsafe methods OF travel.
has thus far been practically inacces-
sible.
THE commerce of Palestine to-day
is not unimportant. The products OF
the country are wheat, barley, or
anges, oil. wine. nuts figs, apples.
peaches. pears. pomegranates apricots
citrons almonds, cucumber3 lettuce.
onions. wild artichokes and aspara-
gus. trufles, tobacco, sesame and silk.
while potatoes and other European
and American vegetables are being
introduced by German and French
colouists."
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
Good Reading That Should Be of Service in
the Cause of Reform.

ards They have to be treated sep
arately as weak minded II is quite
frequent occurrence to find children
in Thuringia, Baden and other parts
of Germany whose parents give them
a "schnapps in the morning instead Of
the ordinary school bread and butter
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30
An Estsemed Contemporary.

A one-horse Republican contempo-
rary run by one-jackass power men
tai dynamo says that the only silver
ties now in Nevada are ofiice-seekers.
We are willing to bet his head against
a pumpkin tthe most even odds VIC
can think 81 that II there is any non
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

silverites in TonOpah he is the one.
And If good writing means good
thinking he really doesn't know what
he is; the idea that two and two makes
four being yet in progress Of filtration
through the sium deposit he foncly
imegines to be a brain.-Virglnia
New Chronicle.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-30

The Importance of drink duties to
national revenue is shown by the fol-
lowing statement, which relates to the
financial year 1S99-l900:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-08-22
ROOSEVELT SH WED HIM HOW.
An old western Guide Profits BY .
Lesson From President RoOse-
welt in killing Grizzlies.

Rifle, Col, Aug. 19.-W. f. Tribble
is the hero of desperate hand-to-
hand encounter with two bears, and
that he escaped with his life was due
in part to the visit of President
Roosevelt to this part of the coun-
try two years ago. Mr.. Roosevelt
showed the old guide just how to
give the coup de grace to bear with
the knife. Tribble, while in the
mountains, was surprised with
a grizzly, and succeeded in dispatch
ing him la Roosevelt. When con-
fronted by another big bear he dis
patched it in like manner. Tribble
was covered with wounds, but man
aged to crawl to his horse and ride
to camp, where he lost conscious
ness.