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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
IS GENEROUS TO HER OFFENDERS.
uow tho United states Govern
Cares for Its disabled Soldiers.

uow tho United states Government
Cares for Its Disabled Soldiers.
The United States expends $4,000.
BOO annually on its national homes for
disabled volunteer soldiers and S206,-
200 annually on the national home for
disabled regular soldiers. There are
27 900 disabled soldiers in the volun-
teer homes, and ,226 in the home for
regulars. The volunteer homes are all
under one board OF management, and
the home for regulars Is under the
management of n board Of army Of
flceis, with Gen. Miles as president
There are in addition to the national
soldiers homes at Washington,
Hampton, Va; Dayton, o.; Milwaukee.
Wis, Togus. Me. Marion, Ind; Leay-
enworth Kas.; Danville. III; Santa
Monica, Cal. and Johnson City, Tenn.
20 State homes for disabled soldiers.
In all over 10000 soldiers are cared
for by the national and state govern
ments.
At the close of the war there were
272, ,5S3 soldiers on the lists OF
wounded. over 200 900 other soldiers
had been discharged on account OF dis
ability from various diseases. Prob
ably IS per cent Of the latter recovered.
and fully so per cent of the wounded
entered into the activities of civil life.
There were however thousands or
the seriously wounded, and OF those
who came from the hospitals perman-
emily disabled by disease, to be taken
care Of. For a time too many OF the
disabled class drifted into the county
inflrmaries and charitable institutions.
| Then Congress extended the national
home system and the states took up
( the work, until now nearly all OF the
disabled volunteers and regulars VINO
are not cared for in their own homes
or in the homes OF relatives are com
fortably housed and cared for by the
government. 1t Is IA great work, or
which not much is said. but 1t is some
thing to be proud of.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
KIhm "a Player OF Promise.

The retirement of Hoy. the deaf
mute, from baseball brings into prom
inence Kihm, who has signed with In
dianapolis. His handicap in hearing
and speech does not affect his abilities
as a ball tosser. apparently. He Is 8
feet liz inches high and weighs l75
pounds. Active as cat on his feet,
he covers a marvellous amount of ter
ritory round the initial sack. He Ia
good, hard. consistent performer
with the stick. and he uses excellent
judgment on the bases, coupled with
speed that many a sprinter might
envy. He was with Troy in the New
York State League last season and fin
ished first among the first basemen
His batting average was .33l.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
National League na. the start.

The National League has opened its
twenty-seventh successive champion
ship season.
The opening gave the old organiza-
tion five days the advantage over their
rivals, the American League. and may
mean much in the way of start,
should the weather prove favorable.
But once before in the history of
the league has the old organization
started a season without having the
bulk of the star players in their ranks
-1S90-when the Players League held
the top hand in the way of players.
Te;s will be a big handicap to start
off with, and would kill an unknown
organization. but the National League
trade mark means much and will save
the old favorite.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
1hs Eject. Of Whisky.

Timidity. There is one of mans
curses. 1t destroys the promising ca
reer. 1t checks the rising man at the
moment of success.
Whisky is the father of timidity.
Whisky gives the temporary false
courage that is followed by apathy and
timidity
Who is the commonest murderer. the
murderer of whom you read every
day?
He Is the man naturally goodnatur-
ed by character, kind enough when
sober, but rendered combative and
murderously furious by whisky.
What Is the history of the diseased
man who goes in the ambulance to the
public hospital and thence to the pot
ter's field?
1t Is the history OF man born
healthy, naturally able to work and TO
enjoy good health-whose health and
power for work have been destroyed
by whisky or other strong drink
What is the story OF many a broken
hearted mother, and what is the story
of the women who work among the
unfortunates in big cities?
1t is always the same story-good
moral character, good family infiu-
ences destroyed, life and soul wrecked
by drink.-Chicago American.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
Japanese Advancement.

Miss Jessie Ackerman, who has been
travelling in Japan, writes suggestive
ly of the Prohibition Island" in the
japanese group. 1t is said that sever
al years ago the 300 people on the is
land entered into a solemn compact
to drink nc more of their native drinks
and not to allow any other intoXlcants
to be landed on their shores. They
were a drinking people. having con-
sumed in one year $50 casks of "saki." +"
the native drink. Thore were those. Of
course, who were opposed to ths
compact; but, finally, all signed 1t, and
It has been kept. The situation at the
end of the first five years is summed
up in these words: Crime is almost
unknown, poverty thing of the past,
ind general prosperity has been the
reward of an unpopular innovation" J"
The most significant thing about this
account is the statement that this ac-
ticn was taken. where the principles
OF Christianity were unknown, and
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
Tho Latest Insurance.

II is now possible to insure at
Lloyds against the risk of smallpox
breaking out In the house on either
side of you-the idea being, OF course,
to protect the assured against expense
incurred by temporary removal. Tho
rate is a minimum of 10 shillings psr
cent for the year. the risk, Of course.
extending over an indefinite number OF
people. One broker, who was in this
business from the start, has been do
ing hardly anything else for the last
ten days, and many who at first
laughed at the whole thing are now
coming into the market.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
SAYS college Boys Arc oul,ter.

Schreck of Cleveland, who coached
the University of Virginia baseball
club, says that he is through coaching
college boys. I'm many respects they
are all right" says Schreck. but that
bunch of mine were afraid OF the
ball when they went up to bat.
never saw such pulling away from the
plate in my life. | thought ] would
break them of the habit by planting
a few stakes in the ground behind
them. but about every blamed one Of
them would turn backward somer-
sault over those stakes trying to get
away from the ball when it came
over"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
Carnegie and the Man Who Drinks.

No man to-day has the attention Of
the world more than Andrew Carnegie,
People not only wonder at his gifts
they listen when he speaks. He is not
infallible, but his words are extreme
ly apt to be weighted with sagacious
observations and practical wisdom.
GA drinking man." said Mr.. Car,
negie addressing a company of Y. NJ.
C. A. railway men a few days ago,
'"should have no place in a railway
system; indeed. he should have no
place anywhere"
One of the compelling reasons why
Mr.. Carnegie has done and is doing
so much to multiply Libraries all over
the country. is the fact that the free
public library. with the reading habit
which it creates, can be made so pow
erful an offset to the ever-curseful "a.
loon.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
Progress of Temperance Movem


The chronicle of wonders, called the
history of the nineteenth century re-
cords victories OF civilization trans
cending those of the previous fourteen
hundred years taken together, and in
its long list of moral triumphs the
progress of temperance ranks second
only TO the abolition of the slave traf-
fic. A complete success of the prohi-
btion movement would reverse that
sequence of prestige.
The alcohol mania has proved a far
more ruinous delusion than the belief
in the justice Of the custom to enforce
the servitude of uncivilized races. For
one suicide caused by slavery, the
liquor passion has caused a thousand.
The inhumanities perpetrated by the
taskmakers of helpless bondmen are
surpassed by those which millions of
women and children have suffered at
the hands of rum-crazed relatives. The
social degradation of slaves Is more
than equalled by the social, moral.
mental and physical abasement of
drunkards. Bigots of class preroga-
tives never despised the poorest negro
as a slave of the drink vice is despis-
ed by his neighbors and acquaintances,
whose verdict is not even Offset by the
moral resisting power of its victim,
since drunkenness leads to the loss Of
self-respect.
Still, the progress of temperance
during the last hundred years is enor-
nous as compared with that of any
previous century since the days of
Pythagoras, and may even be said to
eclipse the general success of the
struggle against the power of ignor-
ance and delusion.-Union Signal.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
Powerful Arraignmont of whisky.

Whether men speak of the prize
fighter whose courage failed, or of the
financier whose nerves went to pieces
at the critical moment. or of the writ
er whose imagination and will died
out. the story will be the same:
HE took to whisky and that was
the end OF him" Deceit is another
sign of mental decay. The lie in the
man is like the hollow at the center
of the tree-it sounds hollow, 1t tells
of decay.
Whisky is the father of lying. VINO
believes the drunkard's story?
He tells how he happened to drink
too much-the judge does not even lis
ten. No one listens-all know he is
probably lying.
He swears that he WiIl never drink
again. The whisky. is swearing and
lying No one believes him-except
perhaps some poor. confiding woman
whom nothing can discourage.
From drink comes boasting an
other kind of lying
From drink men get lying, disease,
obstinacy-(did you ever see sober
men trying to make drunkard go
home ?)-brutality cruelty-(does any
but the drunken man murder his own
children ?)-and many other vices that
destroy them.
What single good thing comes from
whisky?
Not one.
Artificial strength. Dragging instead
of achieving, lack of will power, weak
ness of purpose, conceit based on an
overstimulated brain, foolish dreams
never to be realized-these things
whisky gives. 1t gives nothing better.
New York Journal.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27

The American league has the advan-
tage of having nearly all the stars of
the diamond under its standard. ana
these are so well distributed that the
race looks to be a close one, so far as
form can be figured on paper in ad
vance. 1t will also have the advantage
OF last years record, which it has only
to sustain to retain the public's favor.
The National on the other hand, will
have a better outlook than last year
in some respects. II has in every team
except one a lot of new material,
which may or may not develop into
anything, but the novelty of the thing
Is sure to attract fans at the start
They are always anxious and ready to
see new performers, and except in the
Pittsburg club the National league
has plenty OF these. Moreover, the
riddling which the old league has suf-
fered adds new elements of chance to
the race, and almost any Of the clubs
has a chance to get into the running.
Everything depends on how the
youngsters turn out. Pittsburg, OF
course. ought to r AXE a runaway
race of it Ii the Pirates try" but a
club which can stay in the first four
will draw patronage If the games are
lively and well contested between
evenly matched teams a lot of fans DO
not care so much about the class" of
the players.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
The Salary Question.

1t would not be a bad idea for the
American league to let the National
have a number of its stars back again
at inflated salaries. rather than keep
them at even greater cost. The old
league figured on the American league
bankrupting itself with too heavy SAL
aries. That was the argument used
last winter by some of the magnates
yet they are threatening to attempt to
lift part of the burden onto their own
shoulders by outbidding the younger
league for the stars. That would soon
empty both cash boxes and would
bring about a reconcil 'ation.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
mathow.on.. Good Work.

Christy Mathewson, the pitching
wonder of last season, whose work in
the box for the ex-Giants in the early
part of the year produced sensation
in baseball circles and caused the
young collegian to be heralded as the
greatest pitcher in the history of the
game is reported as showing up fine
! ly in practice for Freedman's aggrega-
tion. Metropolitan fans are confident
that his work this season will be of
the star order and predict that the
young pitcher will come well nigh
duplicating his marvellous perform
ances of last year.
Mathewson is 22 years old, stands 6
feet | inch in hight, and weighs 1870
pounds. He is native of Scranton,
Pa, and began his baseball career as
the pitcher of the Y. M. C. A. team
OF that city. While student at Buck
nell College he acquired fame on the
gridiron as we'll as the diamond. Wal
ter Camp rated him as the premier
drop kicker of America. In 1900 he
made his debut as professional base
ball player with the Norfolk club. OF
the Virginia league, and won twenty
one of the twenty-three games hs
pitched for that club. New York Sc
cured him in the fall OF 1900, but he
lost the only two National league
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
JAPs DON'T WORRY ABOUT COLD
Almost No Attempt Made In winter to
Keep Warm.


Although the Japanese winter Is
most trying on account of the con
tinued dampness, the Japanese are
content to remain cold. They make
almost no effort to overcome 1t. The
old chivalrous idea of the "samurai
(knights) was that II was effeminate TO
feel cold, and such is their severe
training that they do not really feel
It as we do. The wearing OF some
extra ''kimonos" and the use OF a
"hibachi" or brazier in which are a
few tiny sticks OF lighted charcoal are
the only concessions to winter
weather. With the "hibachi" they
never pretend to heat more than their
finger tips, which they hold over the
Goals. 1t is used when the house Is
entirely open. The houses, are every
one knows, are built Of thin, light
wood, and the sliding panels which
serve for doors and windows have pa
per panes. They are as apt to be open
as closed during the day.
The coolies wear thin blue cotton
clothes and are always padding
through the mud. The storekeepers
sit out in their open booths and the
women go bareheaded about the
streets. In the houses of the rich the
still cold behind the closed panels Is
often more intense than that outside
in the sunshine. where the air Is stir
ring.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
Those Wounds Tint WIN Not nenI.

AhOAt WOUNDS InAt VIII mol hehl
In every heart are secret wounds
The face does not reveal;
That rankle, ever. night and day
Those wounds that will not heal.
Some cold neglect from those we love.
Who scorn the pain we feel
Dtt leave the heart oppressed and sore
With wounds that viii not heal.
When from dear lips we Oft have pressed
Fall words that pierce like steel
uhey rend the heart with gaping wounds
Which Time may never heal.
some buried hope, some cofiined form,
The clods of earth conceal
May doom the heart fore'er to bleed
From wounds that will not heal.
oh. sad the tears that flow unseen,
That pillows moist conceal.
That flow from wounds so deep, so sore,
No balm but Heaven may heal.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
prunsenne.. ana PauperI.m.

The board of guardians of Stockholm
has been conducting an investigation
to discover the cause of pauperism. It
finds that drunkenness is responsible
for fifty-two per cent. In thirty-nlne
per cent only the father was a drunk
ard, and in seven per cent only the
motber. and In six per cent both par
ents. The children of such parents
must be supported by charity.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27

Next fall will see an army Of last
young players, and by the season OF
1903 the salary OF ball players will be
about two-thirds Of what 1t is at pres
ent. The old players who are working
the managers for all in sight will so
out of the game in car loads next fall,
but so complete has been the raid OF
the American League that the teams
Will be pretty well matched
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27

games he officiated in during 1900
one to st. Louis and the other to
Brooklyn. His last seasons record
was twenty games won and seventeen
lost. He performed the greatest pitch
ing feat of the year. when on July 15
he retired st. Louis without hit or
run.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
A Pitcher for the White Stockings
Who is Likely to do Much Toward
Winning Another Pennant.

Callahan said recently. 81 don't be-
lieve he can. He must have speed and
control to start with, and he must
have a baseball head to be successful
in fast company. Speed comes natur-
ally. Control can be acquired only In
part. knowledge of the game can be
acquired, but do not think the base
ball instinct. or the something which
makes some players great and leaves
others only mediocre, can be learned" "
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27
rEF1R|flEz F1E #:

where moral sentiment was consid-
cred to be far below par"-Ram' 5
Horn,
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-27

An addition is not necessarily al
increase.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-29
nring Your own Ability.

If one brings the ability, the world
will provide the opportunity. Sooner
or later, if we go the right way about
it, the world gives us fair rate of ex-
change for ourselves. But, of course,
much depends on how we place our
goods on the market. Gifts in them
selves are not enough. We must know
how to manage our gifts. More than
half of success lies in the proper man
agement of our gifts. The gifts are
hardly more important. Of course,
there are people who expect success,
without gifts, or work, or anything;
idle malcontents, who seem to think
the world is in debt to them for hon
oring it with their presence, thriftless
camp followers in the battle of life;
strange race of men and women, at
whom one can only look with curious
wonder.-Success.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-29
POSTMASTER GENERAL PAYNE.

General Payne before leaving this
city recently: "This department is
seriously embarrassed for want of Of
flee room. We have rented buildings,
but cannot go on renting car after
yea-. The only businesslike thing to
do is to provide further regular ac-
commodations for the post office de-
nartment. 1t seems to me that the
government ought to condemn IT,. en-
tire square south of the department
building and erect thereon a substan-
Gal annex"
With the purpose of making ample
and permanent provision for the post
Office department, the congress caused
to be erected on Pennsylvania avenue
a nine-story granite building covering
an entire block of ground, and the de-
partment was moved into that build
ing in September, 1899, less than three
years ago. Just think of It'll In that
brief space of time the department
has grown ~ that now five divisions
of the department are in rented quar-
ters at an annual rental of more than
$2S, 200. There IL constant growth
Of the work Of the department and q
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-29
CHAPTER vi.

Col. Keever was tremendously
wrought up. He was pacing the re-
stricted limits of his office and toss
ing his arms and talking to himself,
so wrathfully Obvious of his sur
roundings that he did not notice the
,entrace of Guy and Sampson for sew
eral moments.
Occasionally the Colonel would
halt, glover at copy hook fastened
to the wall, shake his fist at it and
address it by such terms as "infer-
nal scoundrel," contemplate cur"
and, so on. Finally he jerked the
hook from the wall, cast it on the
floor and set his heel on the sheets
that were strung upon it.
"Great guns, Colonel" cried Samp-
son, you're spoilin' about dozens
stickfuls of copy
ooh, is it you, sampson?" said the
Colonel, whirling "Mr. Herbert, I
want word with you, SIR" He
picked up the hook with its attached
elects and handed ii TO the printer.
eco out and get TO work on that"
ae said, shortly. Sampson vanished
into the workroom forthwith. GLOW
long have you been in this office,
Mr.. Herbert?" asked the Colonel.
''About two minutes" replied Guy.
"Then you witnessed my ebullition
of wrath. sir. and | beg your par
don. All, but / have devil of tenn
per! l would fight at the drop of
hat--possibly, sir, I would jar the
hand that held the hat. It's my
southern breeding, I suppose; mr.
southern breeding, backed by long
years of slaughter in our late war.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-29

der and ball and l shall give him a
heartfelt token of my esteem at the
distance specified. Herbert, I want
you for my second"
Guy shook his head. The cane
stopped swinging with jerk and a
hard, hard look came into the
Coloneps eyes.
"Do 1 understand you to say, sir,
that you will not accommodate me?"
81 don't believe in duels, Colonel. Ma
ture has endowed every gentleman
with pair of fists. If these weapons
are powerless to protect his honor, his
honor is hardly worth bothering
about"
The pith of this remark escaped the
Colonel entirely.
81 am not only protecting my own
honor, Herbert" he said coldly, 'but
the honor Of. our town rs well. Your
1900 lots share in the general igno-
miny, and it is your duty to stand by
me in this little affair. Do l still un-
derstand you to say that you won't?"
"You do. want a fair and square
HSnU IOT llc county SedC anu uOu
approve of any coarse or gratuitous
filings like that of the weathervane.
Claptrap of that kind merely intensi-
fies the hostile feeling which is already
too bitter and vengeful. 1t is only a
step from our present situation to
warfare and bloodsked. twas in grave
peril, last night"
AT J. l., I, A. /, !,
broke in the Colonel, curiosity for the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-29

corresponding increase in the number
of clerks. The rural free delivery oc-
cupies two floors CT large office
building opposite the department.
proper; the division of post office
supplies is half mile from headquar-
tiers; the railway mail service is more
than quarter of mile away; and
the mailbag repair shop is also sep
arated from the department. proper.
All of these divisions are connected
by the departmental telephone, but OF
course business cannot always be
transacted satisfactorily in that
manner.
There are now upwards of 10000
post offices, 4,47O of them being presi.
dental, the remainder being fourth
class; all of them, however, are doing
a gradually increased business, which
must be supervised in this capital