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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02

" mpke1d keep atrivinr.F
He'd have hopes 81 arriving
AZ the heavenly gates. lieure Dc
crowds"
But the simple minded ainon
stock athletes, believing that. by
inierouce, Of least. he was compar.
Ing their beloved Switzerland 10
place which o. by no means celes
ual. tell upon the wandering harm.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02

More sattrcsn,0a at The navs Yard
thaa ever before. zee
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02
Josh Wise says.

Tn sour faced
man may DO "a most.
but It's IA fclier with
N smile a. gets IN
best job
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02

lot aud chased him through the
cdol wslns across the border
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02
SMALL RUGS

Sire PISA.
This. too. r. an Administer Rug:
rich patterns. that hArmouiEe In
any room. very useful. SAYS
value
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-10-02

Our famous Reversible Smyrna
gives no end OF wear: heavy
fringe az ends: a good locker.
SlT5 value. special
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
FIRM IN HIS PATRIOTISM.
With Usual Boast American Greeted
Resurrection Day.

When a patriotic young American
made his first trip abroad from Boston
he took I'm Paris of course, and his
friends there in the American colony
and he had mauy-saw that he had
n good time" They showed him all
the sights. took him to the Louvre,
Luxembourg. Eincl tower. ctc., etc,
but nothing could astonish him or ex-
cite more than very moderate ad.
miratlon. His usual comment before
paintings. statuary, ctc was Err, well.
that's pretty good. but Americas
ahead of the world"
This became morotonous at last.
ana his friends resolved to stop &c, Il
possible. They therefore gave him a
dinner, and put a mild soporinc in his
wine and after Il had produced the
| desired effect they got him into a
iiacre and took him TO one of the un-
derground Paris crypts. where the
skeletons and bones have accumulated
for centuries, and are arranged in
inches in the walls: collins are lying
about, some Of them empty. He was
| laid in one Of them; a single candle
was left burning, and his friends con-
cealed themselves TO await results.
In course of time the sleeper awoke,
stretched, and sat up in his coffin, look.
! ing around him in some bowilderment
at first While gazing around he said
at last in meditatiye tone: Hin
Resurrection morning-l'm the first
one up then he leaped from the cof-
fin, and waving his arm shouted
America ahead Of the world!'
His friends thereafter abandoned
him as incurable.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

that part of Russia, Norway and Swed-
en- that is known as Lapland. says Lon
don Answers. IL is quite amusing,
provided you are not too intimately
concerned with it.
In driving a reindeer, a single rope
of reindeer skin is used as rein and
whip, and to cause the animal to in.
crease his pace the rein in swung
smartly against his flank.
This being done, the reindeer may
either consent to move faster or, quite
as likely, he may turn sharp round and
charge at the driver.
Therefore. experienced travellers
use sledges that are mounted on high
runners and when the reindeer raises
protest, the travellers promptly tum-
BILE out into the snow and scramble
into safety underneath their We
hlcle
The reindeer, If "peppery," is not a
really bad-tempered creature, and
after a few prods with it's horns at
the sledge, It starts scraping in the
snow for a mouthful of reindeer moss
Then the travellers emerge; everything
is adjusted, and on they go again until
next time"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

Cowansville, p. "a wild rabbit,
with a head like cat and the rest of
it's body like an ordinary hare, has
been brought in here by Hugh Ford
and is an object of much curiosity.
Ford got the hybrid while running rab-
bits with hound. AS it jumped along
in the ordinary way he noted nothing
peculiar about it until he picked it up.
He then saw that he had a real curl
osity. An examination OF the animals
stomach showed that it had been eat
ing flesh, the remains of bird being
found. Its teeth, like those of cat,
accounted for its peculiar appetite.
AS the hybrid was fat and strong, it
appears to have been able to get all
the food it needed. Probably birds,
mistalnng it for a rabbit, failed to get
out of the way. A cat that can jump
20 feet isn't liable to go hungry, in any
event.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
CATS AND THE MAN
WHY RAWLs OBJECTS TO TAX.
ING SECOND PLACE.
Willing TO Leave to All the World II
He Was Justified In Taking the
Drastic Action Protested
Against.

Up on the West side there Is
man named Rawls. who wants to or.
ganize a Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Human Beings. Rawls says
such society is urgently needed.
lie says there are plenty of con.
demned fools in the world who are
wandering about the world shedding
crocodile tears over the woes of spav.
ined cab horses, sWmptailed dogs
and loud-mouthed cats; but when a
plain, ordinary human being raises
his voice i'm distress and cries aloud
for relief the Good Samaritans pass
to the other side Of the street
Il was cats that were the cause OF
all RawIs troubles. lie had just
moved into new quarters and had an
elegant bedroom, into which came an
abundance OF air and light from the
air shaft on which 1t was situated
He felt immensely pleased with his
new place. and retired to rest the
first night with a feeling of comfort
and quiet.
But II was not for long. Hardly
had his thoughts begun to shape
themselves into fantastic dreams
when a longdrawn-out caterwaul rose
from the bottom of the air shaft. This
was answered from the back yard,
which was connected with the air
shaft by an alleyway.
With a muttered curse, Rawls
bounded from his bed and threw up
a window, letting in a blast of raw
air that made his toes curl. Scat,
you devils!" he shouted.
But a half dozen pair of green eyes
merely glanced up at him in casual
fashion, and then their owners faced
each other again and resumed their
cursing. Closing the window in impo.
tent rage, Rawls was creeping back
to bed, when a second alteration
broke out below. Hastily grabbing
up an old shoe, he slammed the win,
dow up again and hurled the shoe
down into the mass of moving fur
1t fell with a clatter and the enemy
fed.
Chuckling gleefully to himself
Rawls once more sought his bed
There was a dense silence for a time
but within an hour the walls below
were as bad as ever, only this time
they were around in the alley, where
he could not reach them with mis-
Bile. 1t seemed to him the meowlings
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
FALLS UNCONSCIOUS cLUTcHINo
THROAT OF DEAD BEAST AT.
TER DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
CRIES OF YOUTH UNHEEDED
Parents Think He Is Joking Until
His Limp Form Is Found-Un-
conscious Victor Is Car
ried Home.

Evanston. lll.-Facing huge foam
shot maddened dog a'ono in the dark.
ness. Johnnie Bruchos. IL years old,
fought the fight of child gladiator
the other night, and when his parents
found him hours afterward he was
lying torn and unconscious, upon the
body Of the animal which he had
strangled to death with his small
hands
The child won the death battle with
the beast, but, It is feared at the ex.
pense of his own life. The little fel-
low was rushed on fast train to the
Pasteur institute In Chicago. His
wounds were cauterized and every cf-
fort known TO medical science was
exerted by the physicians to save him
from hydrophobia. The result Will
not be known for several days.
The struggle of the boy and the mad
dog lasted for many minutes. His
screams were heard by those living
in the neighborhood But those who
heard paid no attention. They thought
the boy was joking.
Il was literal repetition Of the
old fable of the boy who cried
Wolff" with a possible reversal of
the sequel. Even the members Of
the Bruchos family heard the cries Of
their son, and members Of the family
started up. But one OF them said,
"Oh. 70; Johnnie is only Joking SO
they sat down again. while the child
carried on his grim death struggle in
| the darkness.
The mad dog was amost as big and
heavy as the child. He is believed to
have entered the yard where Johnnie
was playing and to have sunk his
teeth into the boys left arm.
Then it was that Johnnie screamed
for help. 1t was after six o'clock at
night and darkness had fallen. John
ME could only feel his antagonist. lie
fought with his freed small fist and
kicked with his feet as he called
"Papal Mamma! Come come. come!
The beast loosened it's grip on the
childs wrist and buried its fangs II
the forearm higher up, as the tori
flesh shows. Then It was that the in
stinct of selfpreseryation led the lac
to adopt the tactics so stirringly des
cribed in the stories of the old Roman
Coliseum and the battles of man anC
beast in Nero's arena.
With his free right hand the boy
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

gradually gagged the beast. Locked
in a death grip the two sank to the
ground. The boys limp form lay over
the body of the animal.
In this position they were found
lt was with difficulty that the muscle
gripped arm of the lad was pried
from about the neck OF the animal
Small Johnnie. unconscious victor,
was carried into the house and doc,
tor hurriedly summoned After a
while the child was revived.
"He will recover If he does not suf-
fer. from the Madness" the physician
told the lads parents, and then had
him hurried to the Pasteur institute
for treatment.
The boy regained consciousness for
few minutes after the arrival OF the
physician. He told about the attack
as follows:
After the dog had bitten me the
first time | tried to choke him, but
that only made il worse and he came
after me again. | put my arm about
his neck as tightly as | could and
went to sleep"
The dog was a large black animal
weighing more than 20 pounds.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

continued all night, and the next
morning he could not remember hav-
ing slept any.
It was the same story for the sew.
eral nights succeeding, and Rawls was
getting wan and pale on account of
lack of sleep.
Finally in his desperation he added
a 20 Flobert rifle to his arsenal, and
that night, when the first green-eyed
marauJer appeared in the airshaft,
he shot him dead. He also took sew.
eral other shots at long range and re-
duced the noise that night to a consid.
cradle extent.
He continued his warfare for sew.
eral nights and was beginning to con.
gratulate himself on being a benefac.
tor of mankind, when early one morn.
ing, as he was dressing, there came
a knock at his door and he was con.
fronted by a lOw-brOwed individual
who stated that several of the neigh.
bors had complained that Se (Rawls)
was shooting their pet cats and that
he must warn him to desist, else in
his capacity as agent for the s. p c..
A. he would feel called upon to prose
cute him for cruelty to animals!
Cruelty to animals!' shrieked
Rawls, why, man alive"-then he
realized that it would be useless TO
argue with this low-browed person.
He contented himself with saying he
hadn't thought Of 1t and closed the
door, whereupon, IT is said by his
friends. that he Immediately collapsed.
Rawls has moved again, and once
more has recovered his accustomed
geniality of temper. but there is no
one of his friends who any longer
dares to mention that magic combina.
ton of letters: IS. p. c. Anew
York Press.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
FREAK RODENT MEETS DEATH.
Two Headed Rat Killed While Trying
to Run Into Two Holes.

Port Jervis N. Y.-An unusual
curiosity and freak of nature in the
shape of a two headed rat was killed
in the Victoria hotel, Sussex street.
The proprietor of the hotel, Henry
Richardson, heard the rat squeal in
the bottom of the dummy waiter shaft
He sent one of his men to kill it and
remove it. The rodent was slain
with a club, when the discovery was
made that it had two heads attached
to one body. Both heads were per-
fectly formed and the two necks hold
ing the heads Joined the body at the
shoulders, which were abnormally
broad 1t is unfortunate that the rat
was not captured alive. as it would
have proved great curiosity.
1t was at first supposed that the
rodent squeezed its body through a
hole at the bottom of the elevator and
could not get back. Examination of
the shaft led to the discovery of two
rat holes close together, and il was
found that each head of the rat took
a separate hole to escape, its one
body, of course, preventing it.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

a child has actually been picked up
and carried by an eagle.
The child, with others, was playing
in a field on its fathers farm, near
Jackson Ferry, on Verdigris river,
eight miles northeast of Coweta,
when the eagle swooped down upon
him, catching the childs clothing
with its talons and starting off. The
screams of the other children APP
parently frightened the eagle, and,
finding that it could not make much
progress with the child, it dropped
him 80 yards from the place where
he was picked up.
The child weighs go pounds, and at
no time did the eagle succeed in get
ting more than eight or ten feet
above the ground with him. The child
was not injured save for a few
bruises and scratches when his par
ents found him. The eagle made no
attempt to strike its talons into the
child nor beat him with its wings
II has been known for some time
that there were two gray eagles nest
ing on the Verdigris river not far
from Jackson's Ferry. About ten
days ago a farmer named Kirkbride,
who lives near the ferry. killed one
of the eagles with a rifle. They
were very cunning, and 1t was impos.
sible to get close enough to kill them
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
Women In an lev Plunne.

BOston.-Two Boston women took
a dip in the surf the other day. The
mercury stood many degrees below
freezing. Soon after noon they
walked down to the Winthrop beach
in bathing suits and bath robes.
watched by a score or more attracted
by their evident intention. Casting
of their robes the women walked into
the surf and waded, plunged, froiicked
and swan in the freezing water for
some minutes. I'VE don't care about
notoriety' declared one of them. We
like these ocean swims because Of
the novelty of It and because they are
beneficial
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
LYNX GNAWS OFF
LEG OF HER CUB.

ticularly tenderhearted. but Tate
never raised his rife when the old
lynx slowly moved off with her limp
ing cub. He let them 20 and then APP
preached the trap. Here it was evi.
dent that the old lynx had exhausted
every means known to her before she
decided to cut off the foot of her OFF
spring. She had torn at the chain.
bitten the tree to which it was at
tached and lacerated her own jaws
gnawlng the sharp teeth of the trap.
81 never knew a lynx to rescue her
young in that way" said Tate, after
telling of the incident; but | once
knew a whole family of barn owls to
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
MOTHER ADOPTS HEROIC MEAS.
UREs TO SAVE TRAPPED
OFFSPRING.
FOOT IS CAUGHT IN A TRAP
Hunter Sees the Operation and
Out Of Compassion He Spares
Lives OF the Little
Beasts.

Chambord Junction, Que.-Henry
Tate, trapper, got track of a silver
gray fox a few weeks ago and used
his utmost skill to catch the valuable
animal He set several traps, and
was sure that the fox sprung one OF
them. Thinking that the steel jaws
were not heavy enough to hold so
clever prisoner, he finally set a wolf
trap near an old log and then baited it
with a live chicken.
For three days he fed the chicken
without even getting sight of the fox
but on the fourth he heard sounds
as he neared the spots. The sounds
were evidently made by two animals.
but not foxes, and he approached eau
tiously. Peering through the bushes
he saw an old bay lynx and an eight
month-old cub directly over the trap
The young one was crying out with
pain, while the old one now and then
snarled and grunted.
Tate thought that he had both ami
mails in the trap, but he soon saw he
was mistaken, for the old lynx jumped
away q itN AftAt nnllAtu III hduEtl
signs and then returned to her Off
spring. which had been securely
nipped by a foreleg. She seemed to
be exceedingly busy, and the trapper,
always on the lookout for some new
phase of animal life, determined to
fathom the mystery before he shot
the animals.
Working around to a better point of
vantage, he observed that the mother
lynx was liberating the cub by cutting
off its leg with her sharp teeth. AS
she gnawed the cub squealed, but the
parent paid little attention to his out
cries. Evidently he hadn't the nerve
to do the job himself so she had
taken matters into her own hands.
She worked carefully, but with deter
mination, and at the end of a few
minutes the lynx was free.
A trapper is not supposed to be par
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

IN a hurry call to the police station.
A patrol wagon dashed up and Dowd
was placed under arrest. AT the sta
tion Dowd said:
81 am great believer in this sort
Of business. | don't know how TO ac-
count for 1t. but ever since | can
remember | have done just this same
sort OF thing. Here I've been out in
the cold weather and snow for over
an hour, and I'm just as warm as
you are II doesn't feaze me.
II served my time in the navy, and
frequently on wagers | have gone in
an open boat, with nothing on but a
pair of canvas trousers and a pea
jacket and rowed for two hours, with
the waves dashing over me and the
thermometer near zero. never had
cold in all my life, and 1 have
never been sick a day"
Dowd is an iron worker, and a fine
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
BOY BATTLES WITH
MAD DOG in DARK.

felt in the darkness for the throat OF
the dog.
Foam nocks on his coat sleeve tell
the mute story of how the lad care
fully sought the animals windpipe
Once found. johnnie threw all the
strength of his small physique into
that throttlins grasp
The struggle that followed carried
boy and beast over the ground In a
wresue Of madness ON one side. dcs-
pcration on the other How long it
lasted is not known. hut Il did come
to an end, as the grip OF the child
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

sit about an imprisoned one until II
died. The owl had been caught in
bones lying about l am sure that it's
comrades brought It food until death
came from exposure. How long 1t
was "a prisoner | don't know, but |
am sure it was more than two weeks,
as | passed near the spot now and
then, and remember seeing the owls
circling about. 1t was a month later
that l stumbled over the trap which
had been set by another hunter who
forgot it."
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
Twins 81 Years Of Ace.

Twins are common enough, but It
is rare indeed that the pair of them
attain the age OF 81 years. But in the
case OF Messrs. David and Jonathan
Condor they have reached this age
without severing their partnership.
They were born in Devonport, Eng.
land, in 1919, and until they reached
middle age It was a matter OF con
siderable difficulty TO tell them apart ;
While even now, at the advanced age
of 81. 1t is not easy to detect which is
which, so great is the resemblance.
They are both active, and have known
but little illness.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
Dead Ennlneer Runa rraln-

Toronto, Can.-With the engineer
dead at his post and his hand on the
throttle the Canadian Pacific railway
Hamilton express, tore through Park.
dale station the other afternoon. The
fireman, alarmed at the increased
speed went to the engineers box and
found the man dead He applied the
emergency brakes and the train came
to a standstill. The engineer was
John Paul. 1t is supposed he was
struck by a semaphore.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
DIES IN ANoTHER's COFFIN.
Strange Fate Befalls Man Who Goes
to Get casket for Dead Neighbor.

10 Get Casket Tor Dead Neighbor.
Chardon, O.--Arthur Carrier, who
was on his way home from Hearts
Grove with a coffin which was to be
used at the funeral of a neighbor,
was found dead inside the coffin when
his team drove into the yard 9t his
home. Some think he was murdered.
although no marks or evidences of his
having been injured were found about
his body.
Carrier started out the other night
TO get the coffin. II is only a ten-mile
drive and he was expected back be-
fore midnight. When he did not re-
turn It was learned by telephone that
he had started on the trip back and
fearing he had met with harm some
of his neighbors started to search for
him.
While the searching party was out
early in the morning Carriers team
walked into the yard at his home and
headed for the barn. Carrier was not
on the seat An examination of tho
rig disclosed Carriers body lying in
the coffin. He was cold in death.
II is thought while seated in the
wagon he was seized with heart dis.
ease and tumbled back into the coffin.
Some OF his friends believe he was
murdered and the authorities are in.
vestigating.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

with shotgun. When this eagle
was shot it was devouring a pig
which it had killed. Since the child
was attacked by the eagle another
one has been killed, and it is believed
that these two are the only ones
on the river that are large and fierce
enough to cause trouble Each of the
two killed measured over seven feet
from tip to tip of wings.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

ing the patronage Of the children Of
the more densely populated portions OF
the large cities The idea proved 10
be a happy one I'm every respect. The
delights of a merry-go-round expert
ence were enjoyed for a penny by hun
dreds of children who had never seen
such a device before and who never
had five cents to spend on such a dis
sipation, even if they had the oppor-
tunity.
A similar innovation has been re-
Gently devised in a Ferris Wheel which
Is portable in the same manner as the
merry-goround referred TO above. The
big wheel, supplied with ~ seats, is
mounted on a low truck 1t is partial
ly inclosed and has door at the side
through which the little patrons pass
in and out Having been loaded with
its passengers the wheel is revolved
by a pedal under the foot of the opsr-
atOr, who is seated in front.
Since last year the coal companies
of India have advanced prices nearly
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
MAN WALKS BAREFOOT
IN SNOW TO WIN DRINK
Travels Bareheaded and shoeless for
Half a Mile-Taken for a
Lunatic.

TOLEDO, O.-Without any covering
on his feet or head and clad only
in a pair of overalls and a thin gauze
shirt. w. f. Dowd walked half a
mile through ice and snow to win
wager of a glass of wine.
During his tramp hundreds of peo-
pie stopped to stare at him and final
ly somebody, thinking him crazy. sent
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
Between Nelahbors.

Those trains do make an awfuI
noise when they go laundering by,
don't they?"
Yes, it's awful, isn't it?"
We'll, IL used TO seem so, but L
rather like the noise now; we can't,
hear your phonograph when the trains.
are passing !"-Yonkers Statesman.