The Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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BY LESLIE G. NIBLACK.
THE LEADER. GUTHRIE. OKLA,^ THURSDAY^APRIL20, 1905._
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^.tofllce a. Second Class Matter.
Weekly.
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clated Pres. an d ', new, organlw-
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SAVED (1,000 FOR LOGAN COUNTY.
When an otfcer, or a board of offi-
cers. does a good de"d .they should
have the credit for It. Public life has
at best a rather thorny pathway. It
Is not all roses, not all sunshine as
some Imagine, who have never tried
tt. Perhaps the most irritating thing
about it all Is public ingratitude. The
smallest error is often permitted Uj
overshadow the good deeds of a whole
official career. The news of good
deeds travels slower than the news of
evil ones.
The county commissioners of Lopan
county have done a good d««L They
New"^roS7e. Tempi. Court.
Chicago om«.J7W—onj^
■
In the event of uem ■ ,wi8uhI or mutll-
or papers being rolled t«b.n-a or^ ^
ated. •ub^!Staint ™ t™ buslncs office
FARM PROGRESS.
The scientific and systematic study
ot agriculture was one of the last to
be taken up In this country, but it
has made rapid progresi since the sub-
ject was taken up In a thoroughly
methodical manner.^ The Improve
ments and labor-saving devices which
have come into ute show what Ameri-
can ingenuity could do for the farmer
once it had set itself to supply his
It is safe to say that In no other
country In the world can a man farm
so much land with ix> little manual
inh i- But this is only part of what WUHW — - -
a farmer need., and needs badly, j have saved this county $1,000 on two
Muscle and machinery are all right in bridge contrary by their good sense
thoir place but brains, well trained and | „nd zeal for public welfare. It only
pplled with knowledge, stands bach „ne Item, but it ato-ves •> an n<
jt and west instead of north and
jouth. We hope, however, that Pro-
fessor Goode will let the Kocklre
stand until he rearranges the gulf
stream «o that It will Bow up through
l,ake Michigan."
The Institution seems to be attaint-
ed by the kind of n.oney us?d in Its
support.
An Oklahoma professor, who yer-
lahoma City or any other of the sev-
eral more likely aspirants for the cap-
ital. It vis done from the broader
standpoint of statesmanship and state
build-ng- ]
When the proper time comes after
the state government is in running or-
der Guthrie will set its case before the
whole people cf the new state, accord-
ing to all aspirants a like privilege |
QUEEN OF ACTRESSES
PRAISES PE Rl-NA;
THl'RSDAY. APRIL 20. 1905-
THE DIVORCE MILL
AND ITS GRIST.
A very cad commentary on prema-
ture marriage was presented over at
Cordell. Oklahoma, recently.
wero ten divorce cases heard and
granted and all, save one or two, were
under seventeen years of age at the
time of their marriage. Several were
only thlrten when they were married
The cases were ;)inewhat unuoual
and caused the court to hesitate before
granting the requests of the women,
for nearly all of the applicants were
women. Taken In connection with the
fact that large numbers of divorces
grow out of the loveless marriages of
advanced years, it tends to show that
in marriage, as in all other matters,
there la something like a proper time
to marry and that time Is not always
as soon as a girl gets a chance
There are a greit many chanccs
that are too hazardous to take. This
is what those women at Cordell did
not realize. They could hardly be ex-
pected to realize it when they were
only as yet children. The Impulse to
marry is most laudable. It is Inspired
of love and essential to the perpetuity
of nations; but child-love should wait
on judgment, and Judgment rarely de-
velops In any reliable degree until at
least the age of eighteen—at least such
Judgment as Is needed In doing an act
that shapes the whole future course in
life.
perhaps, after all, the real trouble
with the whole divorce business is a
failure on the part of so large an ele-
ment of society in realizing the finality
of the marriage act and relation. The
more divorces the leB8 impressive be-
comes the much needed lesson of
finality. It forever changes the rela-
tion of the contracting parties toward
each other and toward the world and
it is high tragedy to attempt to undo a
final act of such tremendous conse-
quence both to the Individual and so-
ciety and only Justifiable to escape still
higher tragedy.
While the whole legal phaBe of the
matter lies with the courts and the
legislature, the preventative power lies
with parentB who should instruct their
children on the sanctity and duty of the
coming estate tnd not permit haphaz-
ard relations and street companions
to usurp the parents' office, which will
surely be the case unless the parent
takes time to instruct the child.
of it all and turns all energy into real
productiveness.
The American farmer was brainy,
but he was not supplied with much of
the technical knowledge necessary in
the pursuit of his vocation until within
a comparatively recent time. There is
much yet remains in the realm of the
great unknown, but the agricultural
college, the farmers' institute and the
farm Journals, in connection with a
thoroughly aroused spirit of learning
along the lines of their work, hold
great promise for the farmers of this
country.
In Oklahoma the work has been tak-
en up with spirit in the agricultural
college, in farmers' institutes and by
the board of agriculture. The Okla-
homa farmer Is wide awake, too. and
rapidly finding out what is and what
is not adapted to profitable growth on
his farm.
There are before the Oklahoma
fanner not only the problems of ad-
vantageous production, but the equally
pressing necessity of finding the best
market and dodging as best he may
the blows of the grain gamblers.
A good llllustratlon of this is fur-
nished by Secretary Thoburn In his
report and it not only shows the con-
dition of affairs in the one product but
that a similar condition frequently con-
fronts all other products. Mr. Tho-
burn Bays:
"During the past season there was
a concerted and not! altogether unsuc-
cessful effort to depreciate the price
of broom co«rn in Oklahoma and else-
where. Newspaper stories of an un-
precedented acreage and a bumper
crop wore freely circulated and with
disastrous results to many growers.
Some Oklahoma broom corn growers
were Induced to dispose of their crop
early in the season at prices ranging
from *:i0.00 to $35.00 per ton. Some
of the same brush Is worth $75.00 per
ton today. It was known that there
was a reduced acreage In other broom
corn producing sections and that the
yield was light. While the statistician
could readily ascertain the average
yield per acre in Oklahoma, it would
avail nothing so long as the acreage
remained unknown. If, when the
broom corn crop was harvested, it had
been possible for the secretary of the
boardi ot agriculture to have made an
authoritative statement as to the real
acreage of broom corn in Oklahoma it
would have saved thousands of dol-
lars not only to the broom corn pro-
ducers of this territory, but to those
of Kansas, Illinois and elsewhere as
well."
cator of the good things that are being
done by the new board.
Th" countracts for repa ring the
bridge at Coyle and the one north of
Guthrie across the Cimarron river
have been let. About two weeks ago
the board rejected all bids because
they thought that they were too high.
When the bids were opened. It was
found that the highest bid was $5«0
below any former bid. The bids that
were accepted, however, were, as a
whole, $1,000 less than the former bids.
This saves Ixigan county Just that
much money. Hid the board acted
hastily and against the people's inter-
e-ts the county might have been forced
to pay a $1,000 more than was neces-
sary.
The commissioners might have ac-
cepted the lowest bid, after due notice
had been given and no one perhaps
would have been any the wiser, but
the commissioners true to their duty
found that the prices were all of them
too high and so rejected all of the first
lot of bids, thereby saving the county
just $1,000 on these two bridges alone.
Commissioners Burke and Favor,
Democrats, and Swank, Republican,
are all pulling together in such mat-
ters and will by such conduct save to
the taxpayers of the county many
thousands of dollars. They have
earned and should reccive the com-
mendation of the people.
sisted in working off fool notions like and cheerfully «cede to the will of
those Incubated In Chicago, could only the majority. At the present it has
hold his Job until the next board
meeting. The state Institutions gen
erally are quietly but surely taking
up the work of making good, reliable
citizens of ability, learning and moral-
ly and letting the millionaire institu-
tloen handle the flossy fakes.
Of course no general statement will
Justly apply to all the institutions of
any class but a good, healthy growth
of state colleges has been going on
and never so rapidly as In the last
twenty years. This is the result of
the confidence of the whole people in
their ova schools and the best evi-
dence that that confidence is deserved.
the majority.
no desire but to be one in a long
strong, steady pull for immediate
statehood.
AN ORATORIO SOCIETY
FOR OKLAHOMA.
The success attending the perform-
ance of the great oratorio "Messiah"
«t Lindsborg, Kansas, this week sug
gests the possibility and plausibility of
a like work In Oklahoma. Strange
enough Lindsborg is only a small city
and might never have been known out-
side a small circle had It not been for
this famous oratorial society that be-
gan there twenty-three years ago and
now, its development is such, tfcut
people go from all the adjoining states
and even further to hear the grand old
strains of the oratorio.
Oklahoma is only yet making be-
ginnings, laying foundations of the
great things to be and why not lay the
foundation for a great musical festival
such as that at Lindsborg? It could
be done if only the right leader would
take the beautiful young voices in
Guthrie and vicinity and mould them
with the master's hand into an instru-
ment to do his bidding.
There would be no difficult financial
problem involved. The proceeds of
such concerts would pay all expenses
but whatever incidental expense might
be incurred prior to the performance
would be easily secured.
The beautiful arts are not all for the
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S PLEA.
Every boy of spirit and ambition
wants to be great. It Is a laudable
feeling planted in the human breast
for a purpose. Without "it the world
of intellect would be one dead waste
a kind of Intellectual lava bed. The
fires of lite breathed into mankind by
the Mightie-t would smoulder, sink
in ashes and die but for the desire for
distinction, eminence, greatness, each
man in his own way and in his own
line.
There comes, however, with great
prominence a burden. To be In the
limelight may be pleasant, but to be
always in the limelight becomes in
time a burden.
This was most noticeable in Presi- ^ ^
dent Roosevelt on his recent^ hun^ j lmmeuSely wealthy. No more grevious
trip. *""" m
MISS JULIA MARLOWE
* The Peruna Medi-, tion for the ner«^
THE DEMOCRATIC AXIOM.
The doctrine of Thomas Jefferson,
the founder of the Democratic patty,
was "equal rights for all, special privi-
leges for none."
The sentence is short, axiomatic and
often and justly quoted. It never
grows old because truth, justice and
human rights never grow old. The
saying sounds familiar now. limes
have changed a great deal since then.
When It was announced, It was a
strange thought to the old Fedeialiet
party, out of which grew the present
Republican patty. To them the pro-
tection of special privileges was one
of the purposes of government. The
present Republican party has given up
some of its old tenets and it is only
fair to say that it is drifting toward
the high Democratic standard, marked
out by Jefferson's axiom, but it still
retains many of the marks and ten
dencies of its origin.
The creation, maintenance and pro-
tection of special privileges continues
It is really pitiful to hear him
plead as he did for a little rest, for
just a little season of seclusion from
(he public gaze and the cares Incum-
bent on the highest officer of the great-
est of nations.
His wishes were known in advance
and carefully observed, be it said to
of Oklahoma
error than that can be made. The
thousand'sweet voices of this city,
capable of joining in such an oratorio
society, were not given to grow old and
die without ever being developed or
any effort whatever made to organize
them.
Perhaps two hundred or even one
In a recent letter to i no r« . .■ ---- -- fllrni,he these
cine Co., Miss Julia Marlowe of New- ^"ith vitality which leads to strong,
York City, has the following to say of life with vita; y
Peruna:
••I am glad to write my endorse-
ment of the great remedy, Peruna,
as a nerve tonic. I do so most
heartily."—Julia Marlowe.
Nervousness is very common among
women. This condition is due to anemic deceived
nerve centers. The nerve centers are the United States are being
the reservoirs of nervous vitality. These j every ycar. Such unsolicited evidence
centers become bloodless for want of
steady nerves, and thu. nourishes life.
Peruna Is in great favor among wo-
men, especially those who have voca-
tions that are trying to the nervoussy
tetn. Peruna furnishes the lasting in
vigoration for the nerves that such peo-
pie so much need. Thousands of testi-
monial. from women in all i of
the credit of Oklahoma and most j j,un<jretj 0f them would do to start the
courteously acknowledged by the | K,.ea[ work It ruch a movement were
president. While at Colorado Springs i lnaugurate(j it should be planned dtir-
he made the following really pitiful
plea:
••Now I am going to make a request
of the people of Colorado. 1 am off
on a hunt. One thing you can not
do on a hunt, and that is to carry a
brass band. You can not combine
hunting bears with a Fourth of July
celebration. Seriously. 1 am going to
beg the people of Colorado to treat me
this hunt Just as well as the peo-
ple of Texas and Oklahoma tieated
me on the wolf hunt. If a lot of news-
paper men start to come in after me
will have to come home; that is all
there is to it. The things they can
RELIEVING OVERFLOWS,
The necessity for some general
scheme of improving the flood situa-
tion on the Deep Fork is again ap-
TEN TOUGHS TO LANSING. parent. It is reported to be again over-
With ten of their number on the flowing its banks. The river is large
road to Lansing the toughs ought to enough to carry its waters at all
1 ave a short season in the
spring. It then overflows and becomes
great river. The same is true of
proper nutrition. This is espocially true
In the spring season. Every spring a
host of invalids are produced as the di-
rect result of weak nerves.
This could be easily obviated by the
nse of Peruna. Peruna strikes at the
root of the difficulty by correcting the
surely proves that Peruna is without an
equal as a nerve tonic and a vital in-
vigorator.
Buy a bottle of Peruna today.
If you do not receive all the bene
fits from Peruna that you ex-
pected, write to Dr. ftartman, Co-
lumbus, Ohio.
ing the summer and after vacation, in
the fall the actual work of training
begun for the festivr.1 to be held next
spring.
Should any of the music lovers of
this city think favorably of such a
work for next year, the Leader has
only this to say that it would be de-
lighted to do all it could in bringing
the matter to the attention of the peo-
ple and fostering the creation of a
grand oratorio society.
EXIT THE "BIG THREE."
The people of this city were and are
in favor of a new deal and a square
digestion. Digestion furnishes nutri- - -■—- nrimn/ll
$10,000 forfeit if we cannot produce ^/ie or/^a/
letter and signature of above testimonial which well
demonstrates its full genuineness.
that will please me best is to let dea, They sai,i so at the polls. They
do
me be on that hunt alone and pay no
earthly attention to me or any of my
party while 1 am off in the mountains.
I want to ask the newspaper men, and
especially the newspaper men of this
great state of yours, a fair show and
not to try to follow me up. If they do
to be the prevailing tendenCy | u probably will mean that I shall have
to give up the hunt.
take the hint and pass this county up times save a
when looking for a place to locate.
Their residence here has been shown
to be of a very precarious and unten-
able kind. The news comes as a real
source of relief to the law-abiding citi-
zen who wished to tend to his own
business without being subject to mid-
night Interviews. Four of the ten
went up for burglary.
Every man's house iB his castle and
there are few more disqueting crimes
than that of forcibly entering the
house of a peaceable citizen in the
night time. When a man is awake
there is some chance to defend him-
self. but when he Is asleep he is com-
pletely helpless to defend even his
own castle. The trip to Lansing will
be greatly enjoyed by the law-abiding
citizenB who remain at home.
Horse stealing, assault and embez-
zlement are each represented In the
departing delegation whose residence
abroad will afford a degree of satis-
faction in return for the expense of
maintaining them.
the North Fork of the Canadian and
many other streams.
V/arious plans for correcting this
evil which causes the loss of thous-
ands of dollars every year have been
proposed. While perhaps none of them
will completely correct the condition
yet the damaging floods might be
greatly alleviated.
This matter came before the last
legislative assembly, which took the
initial step toward relief of the situ-
ation by requiring that all streams be
cleared of timber and drifts and kept
clear of the same.
IUIb provided in section one cf the
chapter on streams of the session laws
of 1905 "That the proprietors of land
abutting on, or extending over, any
stream of water subject to overflow
i>hall keep such stream cleared of all
logs, brush, drift and other obstructions
of every kind and character, and shall
remove and keep removed from such
Republican party. This is ev
in that all-pervading network of a high
protective tariff which compels the
great number of consumers to pay a
constant heavy tribute to the few great
manufacturers and other select few,
who are the bcneficiaries of its
schedules.
The creation of an under class such
as is held in the person sof the 12,-
000,000 human beings now in the
Philippine islands is quite within the
scope and purposes of those who op-
pose the high principle of Democracy
expressed in the words of Jefferson
just quoted.
When one reviews the last eight
yer.rs of Republican rule and the
enormous extension of special privi-
leges by trusts, tariff beneticiaries and
specially privileged combines and
monopolies, of which the Standard Oil
and meat trust ire only samples it
is not difficult to realize the tendency
and destiny of those who stand in op-
position to the Democratic party and
the axiom of its founder.
The whole thought of the centrali-
zation of wealth in the hands of the
few and the concentration of vast and
increasing powers in the federal gov-
ernment is subversive of the idea of
free government existing for the bene-
fit of all the people.
If they won't do
it I will agree that if anything of any
earthly interest happens I will have
the news sent out."
the extent of their ability.
| . I ,1,1, city is an object lesson to Mils-
things now and "the big three, though ^ merchants. Within a radius of
somewhat disfigured, may stay in the e(>.ty ls a trade territory legltl-
ring or perhaps more properly wrap D,ately belonging to this city which,
themselves in the habiliments of the Bl,GUld be visited as Muskogee was visl-
ileceased. At any rate it is .1 one
the people. I ualns go0,l5 ran be shipped uot of this
' city every day, to prosperous, growing.
Great accomplishments never come t0Kns whlch with the ptoper encourage-
excelit from those who think great nlcnt would look to Muskogee us a
a tra(je brigade or-
ganized and sent out over the M. K. &
T. to Vlntla, Pryor Creek, Wagoner.
Cnecotah and smaller stations, over the
The only unhappy part of the whole | stream an brush and timber growing
affair is that the fact that these men wlthln the bed of such stream below
whose misconduct brought upon them-; |he uppeli une 0j the outer banks
selves loss of liberty, likewise brought | thereo|; or be subject to the penalties
upon the unoffending taxpayer a fine
for their support. It Is sincerely to
be hoped that with the advent of state-
hood a way may be found to so utilize
the labor of these offenders against the
law, so that ihey shall as nearly as
possible be compelled to support them-
selves.
and liable to the taxes hereinafter pro-
vided."
The act proceeds at some length
GROWTH OF STATE COLLEGES.
The state institutions of learning
seem to be gaining more rapidly both
in numbers and educational worth
than any other class of colleges. Those
of Oklahoma are making especially
rapid strides.
The colleges, founded by the million-
aires, either from good motives or to
hide evil deeds, appear to carry with
them less of the pure, free, healthful
Why not have an oratorio society at
Guthrie such as that at Lindsborg?
This city has a thousand sweet voices
waiting for the master's hand.
Is there anything more Inspiring than
the swelling tones of the grand ora-
torio? The music has been WTitten; It
only awaits the interpreting voices.
to prescribe the duties of township atmosphere of American in.tilutl<mr
trustees If generally carried out it Somehow they either taint with the
will not doubt have an alleviating ef- j aristocratic air or get the fad idea
feet upon the overflows and in time j and put to sea with it.
perhaps cause several of the streams There has perhaps been no In.tltu-
to wash (Sit for themselves larger Hon either state or endowment that
channels and will secure more rapid has served as an incubator of so man j
currents, both of which will aid in fads as has Chicago university, father-
correcting the matter of overflows. ; ed by the Rockefeller million.. Scarce-
A general system <?f water storage in ly a day goes by but that Bome one o
connection with irrigation will make its sensational faculty breaks Into prln
in overflowing streams. | with some hot spark from a diseased
overheated imag nation. They
"Mr. Rockefeller carries his religion
into his business affairs," Bays one of
his biographers. Out in Kansas they
understand that Mr. Rockefeller opens
every day with the devout expression,
••Let us prey."—New York American.
some difference
Nearly all the streams subject to over-,
flow are tortuous in their courses, of-! seen, to think that a college must ad-
ten making horseshoe bends, in which vortise even If It has to resort to the
case a, little ditching would change and humbug of the circus.
shorten the channel and tend, greatly 1 The Chicago Record-Herald takes a
to increase the speed of the current, i jab at one of them like this:
A little Inexpensive directing and "Professor J. Paul Goode of the Unl-
Improvement of water courses would ! Terstty of Chicago, thinks this country
prevent much of the damage annually would be three times as productive a*
accruing from the overflow of streams | It Is if the Rocky Mountains extended
A SQUARE DEAL AND
NO SIDE TRICKS.
There seems to be a persistent ef-
fort on the part of the morning paper
at Oklahoma City, which lately suc-
ceeded in driving that city into the
Republican column, to divert the at-
tention of its readers from the pro-
posed combined pull for single state-
hood and raise instead a lot of side
issues and among them the old capital
fight between Guthrie and Oklahoma
City.
Happily, It has few or no followers
in this even in Oklahoma City. But
there are always people who find some
side issue to kick about and raise dis-
sention just when the long steady pull
for some great enterprise is consuming
all the energy of the people.
it is not the capital question that the
people of Oklahoma are anxious about,
it is statehood and they have the right
to demand that first and all local
squabbles afterward. They may give
Oklahoma City's troubles the proper
attention after the main question is
settled and statehood attained.
Guthrie is the temporary capital, the
people of the territory are satisfied
with it and satisfied that it should re-
main so until the new state govern-
ment can be put in running order and
they can not be expected to have
much patience with town-boosters, who
wish to maintain inflated values by
trying to inject side issues into the
statehood bill and other delay tactics
Judging from the success attending its
efforts in the local election down
there, it might be a good th.ng for
Guthrie to have some opposition from
this source.
There is no mistaking the altitude
of the whole people of Oklahoma on
this subject and their temper Is such
that they will visit vengeance on sel-
fish or local interests that stand up
and howl and attempt to create diver-
sions and dissentions, which can have
but one effect on the paramount issue
of immediate single statehood.
The provision, giving the new Btate
a chance to get organized and estab-
lish a Btate government and code of
laws, boforo pulling off any capital
fight or any other kind of fight, was
recognized by the committee in con
grees and inserted in the bill to head
off Just such unseemly diversions as
the one referred to. It was not
done to favor Guthrie or to oppose Ok-
poke by an overwhelming majority.
They were tired of politics interpreted
by the old gang and they said so. They
wanted a mayor, city council and
school board that would look after the
best interest of the city and they said
that too.
Failing to realize this, the morning
organ keepfi up the same old political
howl, trying in vain to undo what it
had so strong a hand in doing. There
is no doubt that it had a kick coming
and the indications were, when the
votes were counted, that the people
had carefully and scientifically admin-
istered it according to the Japanese
rules of jiu jitsu. It should be good
now and do as it promised next day
after election, help Mayor Duke and
the city council and the county com-
missioners and school board, what lit- j
tie it can, to boost the city. A little
arnica and court plaster would per-
haps help its sore spots, but really it
ought to quit blubbering now.
Of course everyone knows the atti-
tude ot Dr. Duke and the Leader to-
ward the colored man, for it has al-
ways been expressed sincerely, openly
and above board. There is no political
thunder in this to make and none that
can be stolen. It is quite likely true
that a number of the colored property
The city council is getting along very j M K & ,r lo 0sage, xui&a. coweta,
nicely. Councilmen Blackman an,l Kioken Arrow, Porter and way stations,.
Moorman know the desires of their Jover the Frisco from Fayettevllle, Tah-
constltuents, they heard their verdict]"on'the"wee.;
at the polls and they mean to go, - c'- i*••
straight about their duties regardless
of any amount of howling.
The people of this city and county
are not such fools as to be led astray
by any amount of drivel regarding the
Leader's position on negro officialism.
However, the Leader believes in jus-
tice to the colored school children,
hence its position and action.
SUNDAY CLOSING LAWS.
r the Midland Valley from Ft. Smith,
L'okoshe, Stigler and Porum, to Haskell
r,11d Bixby, and over the M„ O. & G. to
Vtidark, Correta, and the Iron Moun-
tain connections, would bring splendid
results-, and start new channels of trado
ivVIch wltn the development of the coun-
try, will deepen and broaden Into a
nighty stream of commerce.
j.;d—This is applicable to the situation,
in Guthrie.
had months of torture
owners and taxpayers were
tired of
the old gang and its grafts and disre-
garded its political whip and voted
for Dr. Duke. They were independent
and had a perfect right to do so, if
they saw, as did a great majority of
the white voters, that it was to the
best interest of the city to do so. Per-
haps "the big three" and others of
"the boys" are sore about it, but the
only temedy now would seem to be
"back to arnica and court plaster."
"The simple life" might prove
hygienic.
The old gang's lash fell lightly on
the colored schools for as soon as the
matter came before the Democratic
board of county commissioners Chair-
man Burke and the other members at
once ordered the schools re-opened and
the cash was provided to finish the
term. This was only simple justice
to the colored children who under the
law governing colored schools must
be accorded as good treatment as is
accorded white children. That the pop
of the old political whip was without
its accustomed power, may have been
due to the reduced condition of "the
big three" and others.
A decent respect for the opinions of
mankind should induce these political
corpses to lie still or if they must walk
abroad and air their grievances not to
attempt to use big whips or throw
stones.
The voters of this city have said
that they wanted a city government for
economy and substantal progress and
they mean to have It regardless of
old gangs or party politics. It's the
big twenty thousand that is running j
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: There
I." a law in St. J^ouis which lctjutres
bidoon men to close their saloons at 1-
c'clock Saturday night until 1- o'oelock
Sunday night. People in most pliiei s
have pone to the trouble to make just
tuch a law but heretofore this h.is been
considered a joke. Governor Folk, how-
ever, has the foolish idea that laws
hltould be enforced until the people re-
Ectnd them. Holding to this antiquated
idea, the governor ordered the proper
offkeia to elosi- and ke€p closed,
piiloon in Sr. Loins over eaeh and
Sunday.
Now, the saloon men, 1,300 out of -.300
iti the city, met u.nd resolved to ob«-y
the law to the very letter. They voted
to employ lawyers to help enforce the
Itti
this would have been to the credit
of the saloon men if they had acted
this part in the proper hpirit. It would
be good sense for the saloon men in
this day to desire to have, the laws en-
forced. Nothing else will prevent uni-
versal prohibition. It is said that re-
rerictive laws create a desire to br«'ak
them. The same ImpuNe in men con-
strains them to smash a business which
it fuses to comply with the regulations
imposed when a license is secured.
If these St. Ix uis saloon men had
frankly said "Our places of business
shall oe closed in accordance with law
Cucitle From Father, Sisten, Girl.
Friends and Many Men Grafted
Upon His Burns, But He Died.
CoAshohocken, Pa., April 19.—A suf-
ferer whobe case has been of worldwide
human interest has Just died here.
Notwithstanding over li 0 skin-grafts
were made upon his h*gs. young Bald-
ridge Vaughan has succumbed after a
heioic struggle coveiing more than IS
n.onths.
The skin-grafts finally failed to "take"
vpon a se* 'ion between the right knee
and ankle, where the ligaments had been
entirely burned cut by hot iron, and ho-
expired after undergoing the utmost
torture, though numerous friends had
given portions of their own skin to heal
over, if possible, the frightful wounds.
Yet is vas a fascinating case, rich,
in promise for a time, and Dr. G. N.
i Highley for months
| hope that the patient's
; healed. *
Vaughan, while at work in the Long
irtad Iron mills, on October 19, 1903, was
pushing from 'he skelp to the tube de-
part mint a buggy of hot metal when
420 pounds thereof toppled over upon
him. In six minutes he was frightfully
burned, nls legs being seared to a srlsp.
Skin-grafting was munifeetly the only
remedy, and his father was first to give
Then Elder-
•ntertalned the
burns could be
De ,TV forcing others i ! cuticle In hi- behalf. Then Elder-
tnev would have iOKCs sisters. May and Hisle, submitted
t„ do the same.'' they _ "ou^ c |, ,UI.n the „ralpal th t lifted quarter-
n.ade many friends. Insteau or acinus „ ..u. iaXrA
ipirit they propose to invoke
Jr, that
the law in ev*ry case where its c.«-
tenement would annoy the people In
hopes of calling forth such a protest
as will Induce the officers to allow
the saloons to run every hour In the
This step, if there be any truth in
the popular belief that men are so
contrary they will not stand for a
•■Thou shall not, ' will more fully con-
vlnce the people that the laws mush
: enforced.
Aside from this controversy, the wiser
saloon men fa or Sunday closing law
...id all other reasonable reguluJious.
Ti.ey know that the only thing which
will prevent prohibition or state dispen-
*--irles is to convlncc the people that
saloon men ore 'willing to obey the
Ifcws. Every intelligent saloon man
Knows this and would be pleased to
Obey the law if his competitors were
compelled to do the oame.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
I ich sections from their skin, to take
root anew upon the raw legs of the-
young man. Then Mary McOuigan, a
neighbor, and Ethel Baker, of Phila-
delphia; Helen Cooke, s cousin from
Colorado Springs, and nearly 60 mascu-
line friends took their turn at the trans-
muted torture, ar.d the doctor and pat-
ient took heart. But Lt was ai' no use
at last, for those burned ligaments were
gone.
Th young man's father Instituted suit
for $25,000 damages agninst th«' Ix>ng-
inead Iron company, alleging that the
fatal truck was faulty.
MThe>KxisitPh^nthe Springfield club to . borne Defender, ls being issued.
MRS NATION SELLS
her topeka property
Mrs. Carrie Nation, ot smashing fume,
was a visitor to Topekn yesterday. Mrs.
Nation arrived' Froday night and left
yesterday aftcioon for Chicago after
■ losing the sale of her property at
•iwelftb and Kansas avunue for which
she received the purchi se price. 1.000.
From Topeka Mrs Nation went direct to
Chicago, where her publication.
Th«
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