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The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
Little Things That are Well Worth
Keeping In Memory.

To straighten whalebone soak for a
few minutes in lukewarm water, then
press straight with a slightly warm
hatiron
When cleaning brass add little
methylated spirit to whatever polish
you may be using. II not only helps
to remove stains. but also prevents
the brass from furnishing again so
quickly.
Tortoise shell combs should occa-
sionally be well rubbed with the palm
of the hand TO restore their brightness.
II very dull, just a suspicion of sweet
oil may be used, but as a rule rub
with the palm Of the hand only is
quite sufficient.
To clean feathers. wash in gasoline,
which can be procured at most oil
shops. Shake till dry, and then curl
with a bone or silver knife. But re-
member that gasoline is highly infam-
mable, and should not on any account
be used I'm room IN which there Is a
fire or artificial light Of any kind. Out
of doors is really the best place to use
it.
Starched things should be rather
damp for ironing. If ironed when too
dry the starch is really thrown away
as It does not stiffen at all.
After washing decanters or cruets,
turn them upside down and allow wa
ter from the cold water tap to run
over them In about five minutes
time they will be beautifully dry I'M
side, and If the outside is carefully
wiped and rubbed they will sparkle
beautifully.
A hint for frosty weather: Windows
often need cleaning when 1t is so cold
that II water were used It would at
once freeze on them. Try using parat
fin instead a rag dipped in 1t VIII
clean glass perfectly, and give 1t a
brightness impossible to obtain with
water. Tissue paper makes good pol
Usher, or, in fact, almost any soft pa
per.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
PROPER CARE OF THE SINK.
Precautions That Are Absolutely Nee
essary to Health.


All wood should be removed from a
sink, according to Good Housekeep-
ing. and replaced with a porcelain
sink, back and sides; that being too
expensive, then use slate, zinc or COP
per The material should be absolute
ly impervious to moisture and with
out paint, which only wears off and
leaves an untidy surface. Modern
plumbers use iron instead of lead
pipes almost entirely, and yet, by
care, the old lead ones may continue
to serve. Frequent flushing of the
sink is an absolute necessity for per-
feet freedom from danger 1t should
be done with very hot water, but fol-
lowed by a little cold water, lest the
heat cause a vacuum and draw the
water off the trap, leaving 1t open for
gases to escape through the outlet of
the sink The treatment should be
applied TO every fixture in a house
after the cleansing process
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
To Make Asplo Jelly.

One pint and half of bouillon
(Which can be bought in cans), one
box of gelatin, two eggs. half pint Of
pale cooking sherry, one kitchen cup
of water.
Melt the boulllon, dissolve in 1t the
gelatin and set aside to cool, add a
pinch of salt, mix and whisk together
the whites of two eggs with their
shells, add the water.
Make them all into the stock and
stir until Il boils for quarter of an
hour, then remove from the fire and
pour through a jelly bag, after which
put in the wine.
When cool, pour over the turkey
and set aside to harden.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
How 10 Trim a Fern.

Boston ferns that have grown so
large and luXuriant as to permit di-
viding into smaller plants may have
cuttings taken away from the roots
without damage TO the plant, if care.
fully done. If transplanted to the
right soil and kept under proper con-
ditions the cutting should root well
and develop into a healthy plant.
A fern does not need hot and inces-
SAINT sunshine. Two of the finest Bos-
ton ferns known to the writer spend
the entire winter IN windows where
scarcely a sunbeam falls, though there
is plenty of light. A little sun, how
ever, does them no harm, and a moist
atmosphere is essential.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
Former Didmcni Stars
NoLD Shine in the South
Many ExMaIor Lesguers Can Be
Found on Teams Below Mason
and DiNons Line.

Each succeeding year sees bali play
ers who were former major league
stars drift back into company not so
fast as the National and American
leagues and American association.
Many of the old guard have passed
forever from the diamond arena, and
only few OF the old timers are still
in top notch company old Pop An
son, Gore, Pfefcr. Dalrymplc, william
son, Silver Flint and others who con
stituted the great Chicago team Of
years ago are out Of the running
Dan Brouthers still does some play
ing. Parson White. who did much to
make the old Dctroits famous. has
passed beyond his usefulness on the
ball field; Buck Ewing died recently,
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
Care of Wooden Articles

All wooden articles may be cleaned
thus; When grease spots are found,
cover these thickly with soft soap,
then hold a redhot shovel over the
place, close to the soap, after which
wash with Fuller's earth and water.
and then with clean water, Where
boards have been neglected, use one
pound soft soap boiled down with
one pound Fullers earth, one pound
soda, and two quarts of water. till
.educed 10 half.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06

GOSSIP

Crossball, the reformed game of
basketball, invented by DR.. Dudley A.
Sargent. Harvard's physical director,
has not proved much of a success
among Harvard men. They call 1t too
complicated and say there is not
enough excitement 20 It, Captain
Burnham and acting Captain Amberg
have agreed that IL Is not I'm their
opinion a successful substitute for the
toned to play. They have passed It
over lightly, and have kept at the old
game Only among the women of the
Sargent gymnasium has the game
proved popular, and daily they prac-
tice It I'm the inclosure off Jarvis
street They like 1t better than bas-
ketball, because it is not so rough. A
few weeks ago the game due to the
ingenuity Of DR.. Sargent looked prom.
Using, and I'm it's first few trials a good
sized number OF Harvard men were
anxious to play Then the interest
suddenly semed to die down, until
during the past week the special court
on the old Holmes field is practically
deserted. The only redeeming fea-
ture of the game was, Harvard men
say, that it did away with team work
| and almost with roughness in accord.
ance with the views OF President
Eliot. But the students found consid-
| cradle difficulty in playing It There
were four goals that puzzled the men
VrLA haf ,r 4 I,v
when chasing the ball, and it seemed
almost impossible for the men to keep
inside Of the chalk lines that were re-
! quired. Then too, the scores were all
Of high negative degree because
! every missed try at a goal counted
one off the score DIR. Sargent has not
been in the least disconnected by the
initial lack of success of his sport
| saying that II was only an experiment
at best, and that by its mistakes he
| could work out changes that would
/ improve It. And many Harvard men
! have agreed with him that 1t had the
elementary basis of good game
Thomas Hueston, the new cham
| pion-it he can be called new cham
| pion. he having held the title once be-
! fore-is a comparative newcomer to
the ranks of the first-water experts.
Although he had shown great skill
with the cue, he did little in fast com.
pany until in the st. Louis tourna-
ment of the winter of 1904 he played
Keogh and De ORC tie for first place
and was narrowly beaten in the final
games, the tournament resulting in De
Orc winning, Keogh second and Hues.
ton third. Hueston broke into the
championship company again after DE
Orc won the title back from Keogh
in the sensational game in Buffalo in
the spring of 1905. De ORC, it will be
remembered claimed that the emblem
had become his personal property, ig.
noring the period during which Keogh
held It, and refused to defend It or
give it up to Hueston when chal.
lenged. The billiard company award.
ed the championship to Hueston and
made him a new emblem. HuestOn
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1
a
clothier the choices replace him.
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has been done in this dainty little
music hall.
In the second piece, The Magic
Knight" a burlesque on German opera
in general, and Lohengrin in particu-
lar, Lillian Blauvelt appears, with
but, strange to say, only one song.
Miss Blauyelt has won grand opera
trlumphs abroad, and concert sue
cesses at home; and although her
starring tour in comic opera, The
Rose of the Alhambra,' under f. c.
Whitney's management was not such
an overwhelming success as greeted
those other erstwhile grand opera
singers, FRITZ Schef and Schhmann-
Heink, nevertheless she encountered
a moderate measure of success in
that. However, she is more or less
eclipsed in the new production; al
though since the Weber shows usu-
ally evolve themselves after some
performances into something often
totally different from what the first
night presents, there may possibly be
ere many moons have waXed and
waned
Victor Herberts music Is as facile
as of yore, its tuneful meludiousness
extending even to the arid wastes of
German opera, cen though it be but
burlesque. Just what was the motive
this scribe pretends not to elucidate;
/ HI
that the performance of "Lohengrin"
in German, scheduled for the Satur-
day preceding New Years at the Met
| ropolitan opera house thard on the
heels of the Weber burlesque), was
postponed until further occasion.
A return to the old-time comic
opera is achieved by Henry Savage,
who produces The Student King
/ with chic Lima Abarbanell as the
/ star OF a varied talent is this young
woman. Imported by Conried from
the Berlin Royal opera house for his
/ Irving Place theater, where perform
ances are given in German and in
accordance with the traditions gov
ernng the subsidized theaters of the
! German fatherland, the young SOU
| brette developed a singing voice of
singular sweetness while at the same
time strongly impressng her dramatic
I talent in Eight comedy. Having al
ready the Conried contract, her ap-
pearance at the Metropolitan opera
house was easily arranged; and the
hit that she made as Haensel in Hum
perdlnck's fairy opera, "Haensel and
Gretel,' is one Of the pleasant mem
ories of last season.
in the interval that has passed
since her COnried contract expired
she has learned the English language; !;
and her performance in "The Student
King is all the more piquantly ef-
fective by reason of the slight but
charming accent with which she gives
her lines and lyrics She is all vim
and mirth and laughter, this young
woman; and her appearance as a boy
in velvet knickerbOckers is one of the
best bits that she does
The story, by Stanislaus STANCE, is
the well-worked one of the king who
abdicates his throne for one day, and
the mirth-making freaks and frollcs
of the substitute ruler. With the story
located at the capital of Bohemia and
the time about 800 years ago. it will
at once be seen that there is delight,
ful latitude for the librettist and cos
tuner alike; and due advantage is
taken of this fact. Reginald de Ko-
ven's music is tuneful II not striking
ly original; while the lyrics by the
late Fred Ranken have a swing and q
go to them which the music well
serves to emphasize.
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with Chicago. Wilhelm, until recent!
with the Boston Nationals, pitched il
Birmingham.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06

then defended against Carney on the
Pacihc coast just previous to the
earthquake in San Francisco, and on
his return to st, Louis lost to John c.
Horgan in a game which he declares
found him playing below his form.
Horgan later defended against Leon
and then forfeited to Keogh. Hues.
ton now gets back the emblem.
Omcials Of the Chicago, Peoria &
ST. Louis railroad are supporting a
movement to organize a baseball
league among towns along their line
In central Illinois The cities asked
to join include Jacksonville, Pelin,
Havana, Peoria, Petersburg, Spring.
field and several others. The road has
agreed TO furnish special trains at
low rates and work up interest in the
contests, The idea has met with con.
siderable favor and meeting will be
held shortly to organize and form a
circuit and agree upon a schedule.
Bob Unglaub, champion Tristate
league batsman, has been traded 70
Washington for former Manager Jake
Stahl Unglaub was the property of
the Boston Americans, where Stahl
goes. Both are first basemen.
Umpire O'Day says "Kid" Gleason
is one of the best men in either
league when 1t comes to touching
base runners at second.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-06
NEW YORK
DRAMATIC LETTER
BY VALERIE BELL.

New York Especial Correspond
ence) In New York theatricals it is
the unexpected that always happens.
In theatricals generally one may take
this as an axiom; but in New York,
so often has the verdict of other
towns and critics been reversed, 1t
has come to be accepted Enthusiastically.
And this season the truth of the
saying has impressed itself upon the
mind of the disinterestod observer as
never before.
In the effort to Offset whatever in
luence this may have on things the
atrical most of the managers in this
year of grace hesitate to give a piece
a metropolitan opening, preferring to
try it out" elsewhere, discover the
weak spots, if any, and strengthen
both the play and the cast ere tempt
ing the verdict of a New York audi
ence
So It is that OF real novelties, as
compared with the rest of the coun-
try, New York gets but few. Chicago,
Boston, Philadelphia, even San Fran
cisco and Kansas City, oftentimes see
a good piece long ere it reaches New
YORK; and the metropolitan verdict is
then a piece of stale news, If not al
most ancient history, to the playgoers
of those towns when it is featured in
the New York news or correspond
ence of their favorite journals.
But Of all the real Simon-pure nov
elites that instituted by Joe Weber,
In his dainty theater-erstwhile II
was but a music hall-on Christmas
week must stand alone. Not only did
he present a new and untried piece
in fact, for that matter, two Of them
but he had the courage to do what
has often been suggested and dis
cussed, but never before attempted,
he gave a trial performance with none
but the accredited dramatic critics
for an audience. Talk of trying II
on the dog!" Weber tried it on the
critics, and reaped a deserved harvest
Of applause and approbation The
theater was lighted fun, the critics,
sole audience, seated In the boxes,
and-mirabile dictu!-the critics ap-
plauded heartily, and even once so far
forgot themselves as to demand an
| encore! Surely reeord-breaking
| performance that.
The first piece, "The Dream City
is an amusing sht upon real estate
operations in boom cities. Joe
Weber, Dutchman as ever is Dingle
bender a retired butcher with q
country place and a daughter, this
latter personated by Cecilia-nC
longer Cissie-Loftus. Otis Harlan
/ long and favorably known as n Hoyt
& Mckee star, is the villain of the
piece, otherwise the specuator who
| devises the boom and intends 70 rear
the profits, Miss LOTUS introduces
her inimitable mimicries, somewhat
interrupting the action. it must be
confessed but so cleverly are they
done that one forgives the sin for the
sake of the sinner The old familiar
limitations are still given; but the on,
that really won the audience was
that of Rose Stahl, in The Choru.
Lady" which simply convulsed tn,
entire house. No better piece o.
work and no cleverer has ever beer
seen on Weber's boards; and some o.
the cleverest work known TO the
stage-that is, to the burlesque stag'
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-14

tails OF the conversations among the
restaurant men concerning the renewal
OF their licenses, and told of the vari-
Gus efforts that were made to secure
some action in their behalf He gave
the dates of the various holdups, and
then continued.
Naturally the other restaurant keepers got
alarmed They feared that they were all going
to be held up. Who did they go to? Did they
go to the commissioners first? No. they got TO-
and il they couldn't 20 90 aaa any better 70 to at
January 2.
MAYOR WAS "AsTONIsHED,
The mayor said when they told him of the
holdup: I'm astonished' But he wasn't as
tonished, If Scott tells the truth. Scott says
that he went to the mayors office time after
time in the inerests of the walters union and
said to the mayor. These fellows are giving MS
trouble You had better hold them all UP. If
you cannot get them In any other way, get
mayor 1n, ,.s said - ,Go carefully, Scott Be care
office twice z week and the mayor said to
MIN; Hold them all up, Tom" Reagan has
testified to this, and I'll demonstrate to you
mat. dnas Reagan told the truth and the mayor
didn't The mayor was in sympathy with the
union and with this Scott, whom he has
since since; taken care OF by putting in the board Of
will point out where Reagan testified that
between January 10 and January Is he had a
.
You ought not to urge me to change my vote.
MI Mayor, because you know those places are
immoral, and you ought not to force me to
stuitify myself before the public This was
not denied.
After Ruef told Schmitz that he had SIS 600
IN his jeans mot Eugene's) everything went all
right Then these restaurant men called on the
mayor. "A fine new years morning, Mr..
Mayor, they said Whom did they meet there
Why, Scott, and Scott said, why, gentlemen,
trouble,
That's the only true thing Scott said on the
witness stand. Then 1t wasn't labor trouble,
was IT! Scott lied like a gentleman for mis-
employer. He tells you that he had no moral
ity. He said that he did not belong to the
purity club, unless 1t was Ruef' s-that Napoleon
Of crime, that Siamese bedfellow Of Schmitz
When did you learn it, Mr. Barrett, that
Ruef was the Napoleon of crime ~ WHY
didn't you believe it In November 1905, when
told You about 1t? Was it because you wanted
to hold your job fire commissioner? l not
only saw 1t, but / said it. / said that I'd send
Abe Ruef to the penitentiary, and God helping
Why did Ruef make his contract with the
restaurants for two years instead of one? Why,
another election was coming on, and q man
who has already paid for protection votes foz
the man he has paid to protect him. / wonder
II that accounts for the large merchant vote
which the defendant got north of Market street
last election?
What did the mayor say to the restaurant
get rid Of this In I've minutes; wen call I
special meeting OF the board."
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m the JOB s@ How low would could've we do do IT. sehmlts
etisns @ were IN tSis town. Ruef 0s and
itz sat down together and said: Here S
Epace to make little title money. m @ Here i are
mission; and between them lies the matter of
licenses. 1t was an easy game, wasn't it?
"BARRETr LIKE ABE RUFF"
Barrett tells you lot Of things that were
not in the record. fear that Barrett is much
He He does not tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.
Ruef knew that Reagan was an honest CHIP.
so he told the mayor to get after Hutton
and tell him to hold up the licenses. Ruef
saw Loupy and told him that the license matter
serious and looked bad, and that he and
the other restaurant men had better get a
move He knew THAT Loupy would run,
over to the neighboring restaurant men and
before the complaint against Tortonfs was
fled. This complaint was filed on Noyem-
Ruef spent every night at the Pup. his
political headquarters seeing Loupy every day
and every I'VE night Sf the gear where ad
coming and that he would have to hire Ruef
and put up money! Why. Ruef had his own
private table at Loupy's, his own private table,
where people came TO see him.
SLIPPED CUT ON REAGAN
l will show that they slipped the cut on
800 others Why now was that done? By The
clerk of the board who was completely under
their power.
On December Is the Pup license passed
through and they say the others were held ~
because Of union Poor labor 1t has ia
stand for great deal: for the crimes of men
who call themselves labor leaders, and YET
never did stroke OF work in their lives.
II / mistake single word of this testf.
mony beg you to call to stop; I know
what's in that evidence / will state it, and
when / have finished there won't be 1oophole
as large as the eve of a needle for this
Campbell to crawl through.
Why did they select Reagan for this pur-
pose? Because Reagan hadn't yet learned how
blacklrearted this man was who appointed him
to Office because Reagan had some principle
because Reagan went to Schmitz as to his
father confessor. twice week, to tell him
that Hutton wanted to mold up the licenses
and TO ask him what he thought about it.
and reported that he had found them all right
REAGAN HAD PRINCIPLE
So Schnitz and Ruef found that they could
use him, though they could not se him hy
making him do something Illegal or wrong. AZ
Scott says "You had to show him." Reagan
could be used as long moral principle
was violated.
The mayor says, When appoint 4 man,
appoint him to do what 1 want him to do. y
Reagan did take orders because he did aoi
have sacrifice his manhood stulfify 'lis
principle to do So Reagan followed the
mayors instructions and voted for Poheim foz
chairman.
Heney went at length into the de-
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sS (CHMITZ is nobodys fool, and here's point
you may haze ooerIooked. He said, IfI sign
atremoOa order before get my hands on that French
restaurant money may neuer get it, Note this, that
Schitz got his share of the money the same day that
he signed the order for Huttons removal On January
Is, the dag he signed that order and made it possible
TOR the restaurant keepers to get the renewals of their
permits, he got his share of the spois From Heneys
closing argument
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Campbell he issued the following defiant statement, MAX
ing bitter attack on Judge Dunle
mo matter the decision of the jury, which was
obtained under adverse circumstances for myself
still maintain and affirm that am absolutely innocent
of the crime charged. will fight the the last
resort
"As said before my trial, did not expect did
receive fair decent treatment at the hands of Judge
Dunno Realizing his prejudice made. every effort
81 do take this defeat and the decision makes
ali the determined to seek and justice in
another court"
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-14

6TX/E agree tDith Mr. Barrett of the defense that
w Ruef toas the Napoleon Of crime -Ruet the
bcdfelIow and SiaHese tl0in Of Schnitz Why didn't
you believe it in NoDember 1905, Mr.. Barrett, lOhen
told you about H9 Was it because you Oanted to
hold your job as fire commissioner not only saW it,
but said it, said that I'd send Abe Ruef to the pen
itentidry, and, God helping me, I'll do H.''-From
Heney's closing argument.