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The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10

MFR William ..Gadford will answer
questions ana give advice FREE or
COST ON all subjects pertaining to the
subject NJ building FOR the readers ~ this
pdpcr ON account OF his wide eNpc-
r!ouCC ns Editor. Author and Manufac-
urcr. he Is. without doubt the highest
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enclose wo-cent stamp fnr reply.
The outside appearance Of house
is sometimes deceptive. Here is
design that looks larger than it's ac.
tual size, for. although 1t measures 30
feet 6 inches in width 10y 30 feet In
length, and looks IL, in reality there are
three corners to come out of those
dimensions and YOU don't realize it
when YOU look al the house from the
street or from a distance.
The general plan may be described
MS being full two stories In height.
with large attic and large frost-proof
cellar. Those who build this kind of
house for a summer home. however.
sometimes do not carry the stairway
to the attic, or pay much attention TO
the cellar; but both the attic and the
cellar may receive attention after.
wards, If necessary.
\ good deal depends on the climate
and the requirements Of the family
An attic is good thing to keep a
house cool I'm climate where the sun
beats down hot in summer, and il
often is worth all 1t costs just for that
purpose. Then good attic will help
sell house, and all know that sala-
bility is n very desirable asset in re.
gard TO any property, even though in
tended to keep for home as long as
you live.
\ feature OF this house that will be
appreciated by almost everyone is the
splendid back veranda. which really
is an additional living room in warm
weather. especially il it is protected
by climbing vines, as 1t should be. It
may be still further improved by i'm.
closing it with fly screens for summer
and glass sash for winter.
To get the full benefit of a back
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
The Cook and the Broth.

"The time when | get really discour-
aged" said the young housekeeper
who is learning TO cook. "is when | go
to the public library and look over
the title of the cook books there
When / read Ono Thousand Ways to
Make Soup Four Hundred Kinds of
Bread The Hundred Ways to Cook
Potatoes, Eight Hundred Different
Puddings, and Five Hundred Good
Meat Recipes | feel like giving up.
In comparison with all that ocean of
culinary accomplishment still unex-
plored what signify my choicest
cream tomato soup and puree OF pears,
my hot biscuit and corn mullins, my
scalloped potatoes. my chocolate pud-
ding, and my chops and broiled
steaks? So far that is about the only
variety | have been able to introduce
successfully into my bill-of-fare. When
plain food Of that kind goes on the
table particularly well cooked | feel
rather proud of myself for few min
utes, but before my head gets q
chance TO swell noticeably | remem-
ber those 5000 other recipes that I've
got to master before can claim TO be
a skilled cook, and my conceit takes
wings"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
WAGES AND LIVING COST GROW.
Report Showing Changes in Welfare Of
Workingmen In Year.

Washlngton.-The average wages
per hour In the Industries OF the coun
try were 81 per cent. higher in 1907
than in 1906, while retail prices OF
food were AZ per cent. higher, accord
ing to the July report of the bureau OF
labor. The regular hours of labor per
week were four-tenths OF one per cent
lower, and the number of employees in,
creased one per cent.
The purchasing power OF an hours
wage, as measured by food, was less
in 1907 than in 1906, the decrease be-
ing one-half of one per cent.
The report shows that, as compared
with the average for the ten-yeai
period of 1890 to 1899, the average
wage per hour In 1907 was 2S.8 pei
cent. higher, the number OF employee
44.4 per cent greater, with a decrease
OF five per cent. in the average hour,
OF labor per week. The retail price Of
principal articles OF food was 20.6 per
cent. higher Compared with the aW
erage for the same ten.year period.
the food-purchasing power OF an hours 9
wage in 1907 was 6.s per cent. greatsS
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
THE FIRST ST. PAUL's.
Begun After London's Great Fire OF
1886 and in Ashes After 1865.

Tho church was begun after the
first great FIRE Of 1856. but not finally
completed until t49S. The spire was
considered the handsomest and was
the tallest in Europe. rising to height
OF J2O feet above the pavement. On
the top was a bali supporting a cross
and terminating i'm an eagle. At the
west end of the cdifcc were two mas
sive towers. one of which contained
lookup for ecclesiastical offenders
and was known as the l,ollards tower.
The bishops palace was on the north
side, and behind it was the great
church OF gray friars on the site Of
the choir of which Christ church. New.
gate. now stands. At first old St
Paul.s had no cloistcr, but In 1892 the
garden Of the dean and chapter was
taken for the purpose and the roof
OF the chapter house may be detected
rising ON the western side Of the
south transept. There was also a
school for the choir boys at the east
end
The interior Of the cathedral was
very spacious. but was much blocked
up with monuments. Those TO Sir
Philip sydney i'm the north aisle of
the choir near to Sir Francis Walsing
ham, and one Of enormous size to Sir
Christopher Hatton. i'm the south aisle.
were there in Shalcspoarc's time. An
Older tomb was that of Sir John Beau.
champ. popularly believed TO be that
OF Humphrey, duke OF Gloucester. who
was, however. buried in St Adams.
TO dine with Duke Humphrey" meant
TO wander dinnerless in the cathedral
nave. ST. Paul's was a cathedral OF
what Is known as the old founda.
ton In churches OF this type there
was dean assisted by canons. who
were responsible for daily services
| They were not monks, but ordained
clergymen, each of them endowed
with an estate. Most of these estates
were In the neighborhood of London,
and the canons, their owners, lived on
them as country squires BY degrees
they all leased away their prebends,
and the modern canons are specially
endowed, but without the estates. The
edifice was destroyed in the great fire
OF 1866, when history records that the
lead of its roof and rebuilt spire ran
on like water. Scientific American.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
First Floor Plan

house and in all cases II should be a
protection to the kitchen.
A veranda like this looking to the
south, II well built and the sash prop
erly fitted, should be an early garden
in spring for such flowers as daifodils.
tulips, narcissus. jonquils. snowdrops,
crocuses, etc, as well as nursery for
the more practical plants for the gar
den, such as tomatoes, early cabbage,
and good many other things may be
hurried along a month ahead OF their
usual season, and the work attending
TO it will be pleasure, while ice and
snow still unger on the ground.
Too often the back part of the house
is neglected. II may be wrong to say
that too much attention is given to the
parlor and front hall, because they be.
long to the visitors section of the
house, but certain II Is that good
many people strain point to have the
front OF the house especially fine while
sadly neglecting the kitchen and its
accessories.
This plan as given Is au outline for
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10

tiary ne appealed his case to the court
of appeals While that appeal was
pending he broke Jail at Danville. saw.
ing the bars in two and getting away.
The man who escaped with him was
captured, but Rousey seemed to have
been swallowed up. He was mem
Der OF the Railway Trainmen's union
and carried a card which would pass
him on any railroad in the country.
In this way he was enabled TO make
quick jumps about the country.
Walter Fitzgerald was jailer OF
Boyle county. and he and Tom Helm,
then chief OF police, went after
Rousey. Months passed and the peo-
pie had forgotten that such man as
Rousey existed More than a year
after Rouseys escape he wns arrested
in a small town in southern California.
lie was brought back and when the
court of appeals affirmed his case he
was brought to the penitentiary here.
During the year that passed after
his escape. Helm was on the trail OF
Rousey and twice was within two
hours of him. reaching n town only
that length of time after Rousey had
gone. The chase was from Illinois TO
southern Arkansas and back four
times and then across Texas and New
Mexico into California.
During this time Rousey never had
positive information that anybody was
after him. lie received warnings in
some mysterious way. He says some
thing told him Tom Helm was after
him and would come to the town in
which he happened TO be at that time
As soon as this feeling came upon
him, without questioning It, Rousey
would leave. On the day before he
was arrested. Rousey said, he was sit
ting by the railroad track I'm the yards
where he was employed lie said the
old feeling which said TO him plainly:
tom Helm is coming here after you"
came over him. lie said he went at
once TO the foreman of the yard and
asked for his pay and also for a pass
to Canada. This was on Thursday.
The foreman persuaded Rousey TO
wait until Saturday and work the
week out. The failure TO obey the
warning caused Rousey TO be caught
just at the edge of what would have
been safety, and he went TO the peni-
tentiary, where he has made q good
record.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
Man Tries to Steal II, But Old Time.
piece Raises Objection.

New York.-An antique clock. worth
nothing whatsoever as a timepiece,
but having value of perhaps $50
from an antiquarian's point of view,
stood silent on the mantelpiece of the
drawing-room on the first floor of No.
z West Twenty-slXth street. The old
clock had stood there many years
with its hands always pointing at
2:2S o'clock. 1t stopped at that hour
about 25 years ago, and had declined
to go ever since.
About 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon
Frank Williams, aged 2S, found the
door OF No. Z West Twenty-sixth
street aiar. Prompted by curiosity
possibly, he walked in and tiptoed into
the drawing-room. There was no one
there. Williams espied the ancient
clock on the mantel. 1t looked pawn
able, and he gently lifted II off the
mantelpiece and started out with 1t.
He got as far as the hall when the
clock suddenly awoke from its Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep and with rattle
and buzz and bang and changing OF
bells screamed for help in its horo'
logical way. 1t was a French clock,
and it screamed in the musical ac-
cents OF France. Williams quickened
his pace. but had not more than
reached the front door when William
Ling, the caretaker of the house,
came bounding up the stairs from the
basement to see what had broken
loose,
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
sNoRED AND WAS ELECTED.
Hotelkeeper Enforces House Rule
Against Guest.

Springfield. Mass.-Joe Abs was
elected from his boarding place at 26
Liberty street because he snored and
said things in his sleep. Stephen
Hello, the landlord. was the man who
created considerable diversion for the
neighbors by throwing the star board
er and his effects into the street.
Abs slept on a cot in the kitchen,
and before daylight in the morning he
began to play symphony on his nasal
organ. He ran the scale so loud that
he aroused all the sleepers in the
house and they entered a protest.
Hello made up his mind that the best
way to stop the snorer was 10 throw
him out. so an attempt was made TO
GUST Abs.
In the process tables were over
turned and chairs hurled across the
room. Finally Hello and Abs clinched
in the street in front of the house, and
the former exhibited red marks on his
throat where he said the elected board.
er clutched him. Things quieted down
before ~ o'clock, when Abs sought
another boarding place.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
SUDDEN BATH DANCE FEATURE
Master Of Ceremonies Hurled Into Pool
by Alfred C. Vanderbilt.

New York.s-Ever since Alfred G.
Vanderbilt's dance at Oakland Farms,
Newport, those society people who
were not present have been learning
from their more fortunate friends
what they missed. 1t was only the
other day, however, that the secret got
out.
II fashion follows the leed set by
Mr.. Vanderbilt at his first dance fol-
lowing his divorce, 1t will hereafter
insist that the master OF ceremonies
be chucked into swimming pool,
evening clothes and all, and made to
swim for his life.
That was what happened to Worth
ington Whitehouse, who led the cotil,
Ion at the Vanderbilt dance, and the
host was the one that put him there
No, there wasn't any hard feeling
about it. That is to say. there wasn't
any as far as is known. While Mr..
Whitehouse struck out boldly for the
shore in his new evening garments
the other guests, men and women, TO
the number OF nearly hundred,
cheered uproariously.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
WANTS HIS WIFE tanned.
Gong-suffering Husband Appeals for
Federal Aid.

Washington.-In an imposing docu.
ment, covering AZ solid typewritten
pages and teeming with reports of
fistic encounters and contact with
stove lids and other domestic weapons,
a South Boston man appealed to the
department of justice for assistance
in triumphing over the temper and
strength of an amazonian wife.
The harassed one, whose name is
not divulged, depicts all the vlcissi-
tudes of an unusually strenuous mar
ried life, including four arrests ION
trumped-up charges" conviction of
perjury, heart-throbbing pen picture of
his period in Jail, stories of flying fiat
irons, disobedient son who assaults
him and q pleasure-loving daughter.
The correspondent declares that, al
though the Boston police have slight
ingly declared him insane, two alien
lists have examined him and swear 1t
isn't so. However, he says. he really
ought to be after such - Of life
with such - of a wife"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
Made Trouble for Jones.

bunch OF young fellows in To.
peka have poker club. Once week
they get together and play a little
penny game, at which none can either
lose or win very much. For convenience,
one OF the number will be called Jones,
which is not his label in the directory.
Jones wife didn't want him to go. but
he finally pacified her by telling her
that he would give her all his win.
nings of that evenings play, and
would also be home by II o'clock. He
played four hours and won $1.S5. just
as soon as he got home he handed
over his winnings.
About Is minutes later the rest OF
the crowd wandered home by Jones'
house. One Of them stopped under
the Joneses' bedroom window.
'I'll bet" he said, plenty loud
enough for Mrs. Jones TO hear. "I'll
just bet that old dog Jones gave his
wife about Sl.35, and said he won
that, and then stacked the other Si5
that he cleaned us fellows for"
Jones Is still trying to convince his
wife that he only won $lS5, but she
is holding out for that $45 The thing
stands in statu quo with the rest of
the poker club grinning out loud
Kansas City Journal.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10

veranda built in this way the details
of construction should be- carefully
planned at time of building 1t is just
as easy to set the veranda posts the
right distance apart and to put them
up plumb with square corners so the
sash will fit in between as 1t is to put
the framework together in the usual
hap-hazard manner Carpenters are
prone to slight the rear end of a
house They seem to consider it of
very little importance, when the fact
is a well built back veranda may be
made the most comfortable part of the
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
SIXTH SENSE WARNS.

ing of one Mastin. The killing was
a neighborhood feud and both men
were using revolvers when the fatal
shot was fred. Rousey comes OF a
noted family. His grandfather had
seven sons. OF the seven only one
met a natural death, the others being
sent into eternity by bullet or knife
wounds. All of the seven are dead,
the last. Micajah Rousey, having been
killed at Junction City by the marshal
VIII Rousey is a nephew of Micajah
Rousey. lie has another cousin in the
prison here who was convicted OF kill.
ing an old man named Kiser in the
courthouse at Danville.
After VIII Rousey had been con
victed and sentenced to the peniten-
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10

lege, Philadelphia, have put in their
vacation hunting rattlesnakes and cop.
perheads in the mountains near En-.
mitsburg. They captured a number
of large reptiles, from which they OBJ.
tanned about 81 500 worth OF venom,
which will be shipped to the Patholog-
ical institute in Paris.
They enjoyed their outing in the
mountains. A number of times they
had exciting adventures but man.
aged to escape mlshap. They carried
an antidote for rattlesnake bites, but
did not have occasion to use IT,
In catching the snakes they used
two sticks of moderate thickness One
had Y fork end. while the other had
silk line running through guides.
ending in loop. The snake was usu.
ally found In coil ready to strike, but
before striking the silk loop was
dropped over its head and tightened.
The reptile was then lifted into a bag.
At the end OF each days hunt the ven.
ON was extracted.
In doing this small platinum spoon
was used. The operator, with his
hands incased in protective glove, re.
moved the snakes from the bag by
looping them with the stick contain
Ing the silk thread. After grasping the
reptile firmly well up to the neck, the
nose was removed and the serpent's
jaws were forced open by a squeeze.
The spoon was then inserted In It's
mouth and pressed against the fangs
in the upper jaw, causing them to
press on the poison duct, forcing the
venom through the hollow fang into
the bowl Of the spoon. 1t was seldom
that more than two or three drops OF
venom was secured from the largest
rattler. After its venom was taken
the snake was killed. The poison was
bottled for shipment in small phials
and securely sealed.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
Teach Children 70 press.

The wise motner should remember
that children must be taught the first
lessons in dressing themselves, and
then allowed to exercise their own
judgment, gradually being given more
and more responsibility in the matter,
until as women they have acquired the
fine art of being we'll dressed And
very soon a girl should be trusted with
the money to buy her own clothes and
be required to dress within the
amount.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10

in instruments this plan has many ad-
vantages. am not advising any man
To do this way. II is difficult TO ad-
wise anyone at time of building in ro-
gard to the way they should proceed.
because circumstances differ in almost
every case, but have seen the frame
work OF good large houses put up five
or ten years before being really fin
ished and the rent money applied to
their completion.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10

splendid house and II may be built
for "A modest sum, as the plan shows.
Afterwards il will bear considerable
Improvement. \ good many young
men build houses I'm this way They
put up good-sized frame. finish few
rooms for immediate use. and the next
ycar. or in two or three years time.
when they have more money. go ahead
and finish the house in detail as H.
should be finished
When necessity requires that a per.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
Dreadful Thouaht.

One day Mary, the charwoman. re-
ported for service with a black eye,
why, Mary" said her sympathitic
mistress, what bad eye you have!"
"Yes'm."
well. there's one consolation, It
might have been worse"
"Yes'm."
You might have had both OF them
hurt"
"Yesm. Or wors'n that; | might
not ha' been married at all.'-EVery-
body's Magazine.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
Even the Hash.

Embarrassed in the fashionable res
taurant by the menu written In
French, the Wall street man OF bust.
ness exclaimed
Hang these froids, entrements and
hors d'oeuvres-bring me a plate OF
good plain hash. If you've got such a
thing on the premises.
You mean an ola podrida. SIR
said the waiter, in a tone OF dignified
reproach. And afterwaTdf"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
A RUMPUS IS MADE BY CLOCK.

Down the front steps went Williams,
hugging the frightened old clock un.
der his coat and sprlnted toward
Broadway, At the corner Ling caught
him and turned him over to a police.
man.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
STRANGE INTUITION HELPED FU.
GITIVE EVADE LAW.
Escaped Convict Successfully Eluded
Detective Twice, But Failed to
Heed Third "Hunch" and Was
Captured.

Frankfort, Ky-The man with the
sixth sense, who knows from intuition
that he is being chased is to be re.
leased from the penitentiary on pa.
cole. His name is William Rousey
and he is serving a sentence OF 21
gears having been convicted in Boyle
county of manslaughter for the shoot
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-10
STUDENTS CATCH RATTLERs.
Spent Their Vacation Collecting Snake
Venom-Profits OF an Outing.

For the last three months two stu
dents of the Medico. Chirurgical col.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20
Fleet Welcomed at Valparaiso.

The American battleship feet, having
safely nsvigated Magellan straits, passed
Valparaiso, Chilli, Sunday. No stop was
made at the port, but the fleet, led by a
Chilian cruiser and five torpedo boat des-
troyers, circled about the harbor close to
shore, exchanging salutes and receiving
the salutations of many thousand enthus-
iastic spectators on the wharves and the
hills back of the city. President Montt
reviewed the feet as il passed from on
board ship in the harbor, presidential
salute greeting him. The American
jackies were lined up on the ships sides
in their white uniforms, while the
bands played patriotic airs. Later, there
was banquet to the American officers,
given by the presidential party on its
ship. The city was en- fete. The battle
ships swept on to the nortbward, their
next port being Caliao, Peru, which they
will reach today, and where they viii
stop until Feb. 90. The torpedo boats
are far behind the big vessels, but safely
through Magellan.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20
Corn Syrup is the Correct Name.

Washington, Feb. 14.-An important
question in The administration of the
pure food law was settled today in deci-
sion made public by Secretaries Wilson,
Cortelyou and Straus. 1t bears upon the
labelling of syrup. The decision follows:
.sWe have given careful consideration to
the labelling of the thick viscous syrup
obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of
the starch of corn and composed essen
tally of dextrose, maitose and extrine.
In our opinion it is lawful to label this
syrup as corn syrup. and if to the corn
syrup there is added small percentage
of refner's syrup, the mixture, in our
judgment, is not misbranded if labelled
corn syrup with cane flavor
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20
Morse Held in the Tolls.

Charles w. Morse, fnancier and pro-
moter, who made quick trip to Europe
and return, was arrested in his stateroom
before he had left the Etruria on his ar
rival at New York Saturday and on being
taken into court gave bail in the sum of
$50, 900 on the two charges against him
for grand larceny of 100000. third
indictment for perjury has also been
found against him. He says he went to
Europe on business and for rest, and was
surprised that anyone thought he was
trying to run away. He declares he will
show his innocence o. criminality, and
will establish himself financially.