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TUT: OKLAHOMA STATK CAPITAL. STINT)AY M0BXTNG, JTTTjY 10. 1904
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REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
For Vice President
CHARLES W.FAIRBANKS
For Delegate to Congress 1
B. S. McGUIRE
DEMOCRATIC platform
dodges every issue
An admission of inability to aftroo, a pica of
coufenion and avoidance, a hopeleitly weak *t*l> at
• lhadow. This is the platform adopted lato Kri-
iaj night by the national demoeratc ron von t ion.
liii dkxt on the money question. This is n re-
sult ti On cardinal differences between the oppos-
ed whig? of the party, each of which stands for
•MflOlfcig opposite to what the other will admit.
Th ■dmiliiiion of covardico in this evasion of
•n lean* fe patent and in effect nullifies the st«l-
ftmit eiaJms of the Bryan wing that silver is tin
■■tradlm of.the world and the saving clause for
the camion people while it adds nothiuK to tin
prhiutphii of the party to indicate that "sanity"
has been daferred.
In file light of other campaigns in which Un-
democratic party may be said to have had an issue
the failure to declare any position upon the money
question is a plea of inability to devise anything
that will appeal to the people or to even a few of
thcra aa hotter than the republican laws on tin
subject. It is an endorsement of the republican
position on the financial question.
No definite position is taken on the labor ques-
tion. There is in the declaration made, however,
• strong indication that tho plank was written by
the capitalistic crowd—that tho Wall street gang,
of whom the nominee of the party is one, have
taken the "sono" position of standing in with thi
capitalists to the detriment of labor and to the
advantage of oppressors of labor. The enemies of
labor are the enemies of the republican party ond
the enemies of the present republican president
The history of tho anthracite strike shows the po-
sition of the present administration on the labor
question and was the inception of the hatred for
Roosevelt that i9 fek. in Wall street and which is
the reason for the democratic monopolist conven-
tion straddling on the question of labor in its re-
lations with capital.
The foreign policy of the present adminiatra
tion is endorsed by the democratic platform in its
material features and important aspects, it is
■musing to observe the declaration for a territorial
government for Porto Rico. It is not so long
since democratic orators were searching their vo-
cabularies for terms sufficiently scathing in which
to conedmn the policy of republicans for their
foreign policies. But Roosevelt has secured Porto
Hico and the island is peaceable. The democrats
will now pocket their prejudices against expansion
and admit of the insular possession being made a
territory.
Another endorsement of the republican party is
in the declaration for statehood for the territories
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The declara-
tion of the convention in favor of making two
statesKif Arizona and New Mexico is hanging onto
the proposition of the democrats that the new stat
will be democratic and tho more of them the better.
In the position of the democrats on the Isthmian
canal proposition is another endorsement of the
greater wisdom of the republican party. They
say that if they be given power they will build
the canal that has been inaugurated as a repub-
lican victory over obstacles that have been for years
gpparentty insurmountable.
As a whole the democratic national platform
is puerile. It is an evasion of issues and an admis-
sion of cowardice from the opening sentence to
the closing paragraph. It has the nsual buneomb
about Jefferson simplicity and makes the same
eiiess as to what some man long dead would do
P. . ... i!_i a v:. ±t
the great commoner
I After a heroic fight against odds that were in-
I supertble \N illian J. Bryan has been deposed from
.hi? position of phophet of .the democratic party
and the wing that was denominated by Cleveland
10.11 nPa'11 control. There was much less of the
•!oo j^terd picturesque spectacle in the fight mado hy
Bryan on the floor of tho convention and in the
i < omniittees. Ho has not lost his power of jug-
JJJ ' gling words and phrases nor is he leas popular
' with his followers.
But there will never be another elettrifying ora-
•1 I ''°n ^r°m ^ryan stampede s convention
to him. That angle of his career has passed. It
*°io 118 l)r°kfl^° the wisdom that comes of experi-
ence is in the way of that sublime optjmism that
rnado him an impelling force in the Chicago con
vention that time. The world is not to him as
it was to the young man of ideals of then. Bryan
is older now. He has neither the boyish hopeful-
nePB nor the youthful trustfulness that made his
speech an epoch-making period in the history of
hi.- party.
But Bryan found that his party was not all
like him. And his party has found that Bryan is
not necessarily their prophet.
There was something of pathos in his last speech
before the convention Friday night aa the break
of dawn was coming to merge into the fourth tire-
less day of the great convention. It was the
Waterloo of the great commoner. Ilia time limit
had been extended by unanimous consent and he
was relinquishing to the democrats of the new
school the charge that he had been given to keep.
"I come tonight to this convention to return
the commission and to Bay to you that you may
dispute whether I fought a good fight; you may
dispute whether I finished my course; but you
cannot deny that I have kept the faith."
And the united cheers of thousands broke the
remarks that went on to say that as the candidate
of tho party he had done all that he could do to
bring success and that as a private citizen he is
more interested in democratic success than he was
as a candidate.
It was the passing of Bryan, the moat magnetic
man in the democratic parly, the man who swayed
more men by his personal presence and his magic
words than any other modern politician.
What the result of his downfall is to bo is a mat-
ter that coming events will decide. He may sup-
port the ticket that has been named. But if he
shall and if he shall endorse will all of his fine
enthusiasm the fallacies that are incorporated in
the platform that reverses the position of the Kan-
sas City platform he will have lost his reputation
for doing things in the untrammolod Bryan way.
The nomination had not been made when the
close of the speech came. It was "Give us a pilot
we can trust."
And then tho convention nominated Judge Par-
ker. It was an instance of "the king is dead, long
live the king."
And tho nomination of tho silent man of New
York did not enthuse the convention as had the
relinquishment of tho trust by Bryan.
But will Bryan trust the pilot given him?
if he wero living at this time.
Jn no particular is there auy evidence of decis-
ion in tho platform. It is a hopeless attempt to
Ijc "e&no" snd a fruitless effort to say something
and the graces of the other wing. It neither
repreaentfi what tho reformers are alleged to stand
for nor does it echo the sentiments of the Hearst-
Bryan crowd. It is ft surrender of tho party to the
enemies of the people and a declaration that the
party i not just sure what it is going to do to
meet th# oppova* of Wall street and the wono-
(oHita. ^ A
farm labor is
oklahoma's need
In tho present Oklahoma situation with regard
to the cotton crop is found a parallel to tho usual
Kansas situation with regard to harvest hands.
Only the need of labor in Oklahoma's cotton fields
is really not inspired by rival publicity bureaus as
is the Kansas harvest hand "holler."
Just at this time the number of available labor-
ers for work in the cotton fields of Oklahoma is
less than the demand. The cotton fields that need
chopping out in order to be saved arc too numerous
to admit of any dispute as to tho crying necessity
for more lal>or than is to be found living in Okla
homa. But cotton picking season promises to find
the Oklahoma situation very alarming. The acre-
age of cotton in Oklahoma is so much greater than
over before that the indications are now for tho
need of ten thousand cotton pickers from outsidi
the territory.
This need is, however, being faced. In the
southern counties of the territory the farmers' in-
stitutes and the A. H. T. A., lodges are already
making investigations as to the probable number
of pickers needed in tho various sections and are
establishing communications with farmers' organi-
zations in other sections and with employment bu-
reaus with the intention of meeting the demand
for labor in the fall.
While work has always been plentiful in Okla-
homa and the idle men have boon idle chiefly from
choice, tho time has now come when Oklahoma will
doubtless bo compcled to cry for help each fall as
the time shall arrive to pick the cotton crop.
This indicates something to the eastern man who
reads of tho demand for farm help in Oklahoma.
It will remind him that Oklaiioma is now a land
of real farms—not of potential farms. It will
indicate to the world that Oklahoma is not a coun-
try full of vacant public lands and homesteaders
who have trouble raising what they have to havo
to get necessities, but a country of close farming
and vast acreage under the plow.
Tho chief call for farm help comes, too, from
the newest section of tho territory. The throe new
counties that but a short time ago were virgin prai-
rie are now asking for several thousand cotton
pickers to save their crop this fall. It shows tho
rapidity with wlucli the people there have embraced
the opportunity to get busy making money. It
shows the agricultural and commercial greatness
of Oklahoma.
want to prepare
for coming statehood
A mass republican convention has been called to
meet in Muskogee next month at which it is de-
signed tho republicans of the Indian Territory
will take action look'ng to endorsement of the
Hamilton statehood bill and for legislation pro-
viding for a general organization of the Indian
Territory preparatory to statehood.
In passing it may be remarked that this move-
ment on the part of the republicans is in startling
contrast to the position of the democrats of the
Indian Territory who are organizing separate
statehood clubs and otherwise opposing tho forma-
tion of a state from Oklahoma and tho Indian
Territory.
The convention at Muskogee is called for the
purpose of memorializing the senate of the United
States for a speedy passage of the statehood meas-
ure now pending before that boody, upon terms
of absolute equality with Oklahoma territory; and
further, for the retention of the measure therein
provided for the preservation of the right of suf-
frage to the citizens of the proposed new state of
Oklahoma, and for such other measures as will tend
toward the general organization of the territory
preparatory to statehood; and the important work
incident to the organization of the proposed new
state.
It will be observed that it is the desire of the.
republicans of the Indian Territory to havo an or-
ganization of the territory perfected preparatory
to statehood. In this movement is a matter of
deep moment. It is the most logical thing that
has been suggested in connection with the forma-
tion of the singlo state. In the plans of congress
it was probably overlooked that the Indian Terri-
tory has not county governments and that politi-
cal parties thero have had no opportunity for form-
ing close organizations. On the other hand the
people of Oklahoma have county government.
They have their county organizations and their
county policies. In the desire of the Indian Terri-
tory to be admitted to statehood with Oklahoma
upon terms of equality the preliminary organiza-
tion of that territory if of first moment. Other-
wise the organization of the Indian Territory will
be of tho mass convention sort.
It seems probable that the republicans of the
Indian Territory will be able to seure recognition
in their desire to havo an organization into coun
ties preparatory to statehood. By so doing the
people over there will be in better shape for or-
ganizing a 6tato government when the time shall
come. The provisional county organization will
be one of the greatest strides toward the perma-
nent organization by the people of the state. The
congress will bo asked to enact a law covering tho
demands of the people in the Indian Territory
and providing for the formation of county govern
ment along the lines of the Oklahoma organiza-
tion. Then when statehood shall come the change
will unsettle nothing and the people will have
the machinery of county government already pre
pared for them.
market seems to
be kind to hogs
There is a hog feeling in the market. Packers
had a belief that hogs would go as lo was lc, says
the National l'rovisioner. This belief was placed
upon the apparent supply as indicated by the late
May and early June run of hogs and upon the
slaelf demand for pork products abroad. Tho
American demand opened up with the placing of
agricultural farm lines in the cotton belt, where
the high prices of cotton had left more money and
better credit. This course began taking olT the
big fat hogs and lards after May 1 and left the
smaller stock for the other trade. The rune of
hogs fell otf, as tho National Provisioner had pde-
dicted, and prices of products responded to a higher
plane. All cuts but fresh loins moved up. Lard
acted with the general market. Tho abbatoirs now
cjpcct hogs to remain around or well above 5c
for a time. The pig crop is not over plentiful,
and young hogs have not grown off so rapidly
last year because of the adverse season for that
growth. There is a better tone under the hog and
provision market.
end of cotton
that is in sight
The fact that the amount of cotton "brought
into sight" since September 1 is now rapidly ap-
proaching last December's total crop estimate of
tho government—0,789,000 bales having already
come forward, against 0,902,000 in the estimate,
with nine or ton weeks more to bo heard from—
adds great interest to tho question, how much cot-
ton is still loft over from last year's crop? On
this point opinions differ widely. One side founds
its argument on the empty cotton warehouses to
be scon in the towns along the railroads; the other
stands on the prolonged cotton movement of the
year.
It ia true that whereas, only a few months ago,
the ginneries and eompreses at every town you
passed through were bulging out with the fluffy
edges of the bales, today daylight gleams through
them everywhere, they are stark empty. On the
other hand, it is noted that the movement of cot-
ton, though not excessive at the large centcrs, is
more marked than usual at this time of the year
in tho smaller towns. liven at New Orleans, dur-
ing the opening days of June, though, there was
loss cotton received by 4,000 bales than during
the same three days of 1903, but 13,000 more bales'
than during the same days of 1902, and 10,000
moro than in the same time in 1901. At Yazoo
City, at the time of the recent fire, there wero
70,000 bales piled up on the river bank—an un-
usually large stock for the last week in May.
Happily, it was not touched by the flames. On
June 7 thero was a stock of 93,102 bales held in
thirteen leading interior towns of Georgia, Tenn-
essee, Arkansas and Louisiana, as reported to
the New York Orleans Cotton Exchange. This
was noted as a largo stock, butsince in previous
years this interior movtynent had not been regarded
as important enough to be put on record after
May 1, no comparison with corresponding past
periods could bo made.
The assumption that those supplies are so nearly
exhausted throughout the country that there re-
mains only the margin betweon tlVo deliveries up
to date and tho government's estimate is hardly
creditible to those who havo watched the prolonged
struggle to sustain values during the past sLx
month*-
a novel suicide
of an electrician
The history of suicides furnishes many unique
methods of taking one's life, but none that shows
more careful and deliberate planning than that
employed by Charles Kailer of Naperville, who
"electrocuted" himself on Saturday.
The temporary fit of insanity under which most
suicides labor at the time the act of self-destruction
is committed generally loads them to adopt the
most painful and irrational method. The mental
aberration which impels the deed generally pre-
cludes all possibility of intelligent selection of a
scientific or pleasant means of ending existence.
That self-destruction is attempted at the moment
when the mind is unbalanced is shown by the large
number of suicides that choose the carbolic ac:id
route. Carbolic acid taken into the stomach pro-
duces oxcrutiating pain. Unless very prompt re-
lief is afforded the victim dies in great agony. It
is not convuivablo that a person of sound mind
would select this method of torture to end an ex-
istence that had become burdensome.
Kailer of Naperville was an expert electrical
engineer, a graduate of Purdue University. He
was employed on the work of installing a new trac-
tion plant near Crawfordsville, Ind. Having de-
termined to take his life, he made the most care-
ful plans for his electrocution and carried them
out with deliberation and scicntific precision.
Having stretched himself at full length on a largo
timber saw, ho tied a feed wire about his wrist
and then completed the circuit by seizing a second
feed .wire with steel nippers.
This, so far as we know, is the first case on rec-
ord where a man carefully planned and accomplish-
ed his own elect;ocution.
growing intelligence
conducive to christianity
"With all reverence it may be said," says the
New York Churchman (P. E.), "that a new and
a profounder conception of God's omnipotence is
becoming part of the common intellectual atmos-
phere; and this has been one of the results of scien-
tific teaching, though the church has not always
been willing to confess it. It is certain that the
best Christian philosophy of the past, represented
by those who carried into their profession of the
faith the achievements of Greek thought, is in
no way opposed to the point of view of modern
scientific culture.
Christians of today, therefore, not only need
to understand science, but above all they need to go
back with discrimination to the best sources of
Cnristian teaching. The problems of today arise
from no moro repetition of past experience. In-
dependence of thought alone will reconcile the op-
posing camps. The scientist is not appealed to
by mere precedents,, but Christians and scientists,
so long as they are mutually loyal to the truth,
can never be long estranged. As Father Waggctt
observed in the admirable little volume which wt
reviewed last week, 'the undying enemy of reli-
gion and hope presents himself today not in the
respectable for mof rationalistic doubt or of nat-
ural ictic common sense, but in the wavering out-
line of an extravagant eclecticism.'"
ton and Tuskegee institutes can be found in idle-
ness. Statistics were also presented from fifteen
negro colleges and schools showing that only two
out of all their graduates were ever sent to prison.
Moreover, the records of the south show that 90
per Cent of the negn>os in prison are without knowl-
edge of a trade and 61 per ccnt are classed as "illit-
erate."
Most men in middle life who have had oppor-
tunities for studying the racial charactorictics of
t^e negro will require no statistics -to convince
them that industrial education, such as is given
at Tuskegee and Hampton, presents the most prac-
tical solution of the negro problem. It not only
teaches the negro the beauty end dignity of work
and the disgrace of idleness, but it tends to make
of him an independent, self respecting, law-abiding
citizen.
On this question Booker T. Washington speaks
as an expert and not as a theorist. His conclusion^
are supported-hv an abundant experience ami b]
an intimate knowledge of the negro,race. i>?r
this reason thousands hear him gladly.
Tho difference between the position of the dem-
ocrats and the republicans in congress on tho
statehood question is in tho fact that the republi-
cans are for statehood for the territories as
matter of justice, while the democrats are in favor
of it because it may mean more democratic sena-
tors in the upper house of congrcss. But the leg
islation will be by the republican majority, and it
will be the republican party that will make of Ok-
lahoma a state. 4
Martin W. Littleton is a former citizen of the
short grass region of Texas. Wlijle he lived on
the plains he alternately worked with cattle for the
ranchers and practiced law. He is at present
president of the borough of Brooklyn and scored
a victory over the Tammany wing of tho party.
Now that tho democrats have declared for sin-
gle statehood for tho territories tho republicans
in congress will go right on and pass their bill al-
ready so far under way as to remove the possibility
of its defeat and render a declaration for it objec-
tionable as surplusage.
In adopting the republican position on state-
hood for Oklahoma and the Indian Territory the
democratic party have admitted that they see the
futility of further opposition to tho wishes of tho
people. But thov havo placed the house minority
leaders in a bad fix.,
It is observed that there is one definite di-clar-
ation in the democratic platform. They want the
"pork" restored. There is something doing when
the river and harbor bill mmes up. It is.a source
of revenue to the minority voter.
Now if Colonel C. Porter Johnson had boon a
citizen of New York instead of a citizen of Okla-
homa tho convention record might havo contained
some eloquent remarks by hira instead of by
Littleton.
"On behalf of the unbought and unpurchasablc
delegates of Iowa," said Mr. Wright in beginning
a speech to second the nomination of Parker.
Then -the mob hit him.
No, Elsie, it was not what one would term
harmonious," but then it was a mild sideshow com-
pared to what the Oklahoma democratic conven-
tion is going to be.
And after all, absence of initiative is obsnrod
by the tacit admission of error which points out
imaginary microscopic defects in tho finished work
of the rival.
Oklahoma.
Where the soft breeze murnn:,* and
sigh*.
Tht j.-How corn taasles fretting;
Far In the south a fair land lies.
A jewel In an emerald setting.
Ulysses. in all his wanderings.
In ull his dreams of bliss.
Ne'er saw such rosy-lingered dawns
In such a lurid as this.
Such stream-kissed vales nor wooded
hills,
Nor grassy plains saw he.
To lure him from Penelope
Across the Aegean sen.
These dales once knew a dusky rsoe.
Hut painted forma and crafty feet
Thi* many a year havo given place.
And w«-llnlgh passed, as 'twus mo&fc
Little 1 hey km-w of the soil s rich worth.
What rocked they of a city's mart?
The hunt, the scalp, the torture stake
Wert- tho dreams that stirred the sjit-
age heart.
Hero Joy und Health do meet and klat
Like a pair of happy lovers.
Here Cert* in her mantle green
The earth with bounty covers.
The hud of noon looks down and smiles,
From out a cloudless sky,
On kneeling forms in cotton fields,
With baskets piling high
Over the hills at evening tide
The oat tie come trailing home.
There's a musical murmur in farmyard
sounds *
Tp the our that is atune.
Oh, Land, in near futurity's ."pace
For thee a glorious stur shall rise.
E'en now I si-e through rifted clouds
A gleam from out the eastern 4IU01
Gutluie, Okla.
Helen Campbell.
My Dream Lover.
I dreamed of a lover of manly grace
Last night as 1 lay ualeep,
And he held m<- closo in a warm embrace
When he stepped from the shadows
deep;
He whispered, dear one. I have waited
long,
And searched thee far and wide.
At length 1 heard thy echoing song
And swift came to thy yearning nida.
Oh. whero does he dwell? On an island
far?
O'er tho Southern sea's dark wave,
Or does he Inhabit some pure bright star.
Or some see-glrt coral cave.
Maybe some day when my dream cornea
true
I shall meet him, and then shall know.
As I {faze again in his eyes of blue
his love tones low.
the drt-unt ship paaa
nightly go;
iT
Or fist
Tho delectable isles
In the world where '
- — - . ulasT
turn when wo wake, below;
on. glad night come, let my tired lids fall.
A,vrl In oblivion sleep,
my io.ver tall,
of Sleep.
8t. Francis Reaves aloora.
And dull 1
And haply I'll
Once more in tho Lai
215 South !
Ther .
In this mixed'up wo"rTd of*o«.
And th<- paths we wander over
Arc not always filled with iiowera;
hill' .••nmo days are bright and sunn#
1, '" "re others black and blue,—
nd tho day that brings the troubls
When tho bills come due!
hen the bills come due,
Anmi nil the debts accrue,
O, it - all anothor story,
\N hen the bills come duel
'o blow In without a falter
l or most every thing in sight,
lorn tho dawn of Monday morning
1 111 tho dark of Sunday night;
Ant! we dinner on tho dainties,
Kobe in gurba of gorgeous hue,
story
But it
Whe
O, w.
On j
'"X
1 tho hill.-;
chaeo tho
ounds of travel,
what we purchase
buy tho more;
the clouds 1
Bo
When the bills come d
When tho Mils com
AY tor ull the debts 1
o. It's all unothcr
When tho bills com*
Stillwater. ~K
down with dark*
Summer Girl,
summer girl with chcei.s of tan,
ilessings on the^, little man!
Little woman, I should say—
Blasslon ,
With thy merry whistled"'hire /
And thy turned up pompadour.
And thy form divinely tail
thy last year's parasol.
And they, oh, th. same old atoryl
Why this lengthy Inventory?
Jenny-on-the-spot again
You are on the bounding main.
Llko an imitation peach.
Like a landmark on the beach. ' «
inkle, twinkle, little star! 4
, I know Just what you are.
You're a mile beyond the hour
Your a blushing chestnut llower.
vainly pining to acquire
Anything in male attire.
With your brain surcharged with danoa^
Clothes and chewing gum romances.
With your silly little walk
And your line of Flossie talk.
(Pray excuse these lines of mlna,
Like a comic valentine.)
But I hope with right good reason.
This will be your final season.
That some seaside lover true
Will show up and marry ytiu
He Is welcome, 11 he can
Blessings on him. little man!
Wallace Irwin, in N«-w York Qloba.
Good-bye, Dear Heart.
I.
Good-bye. Dear Heart! I go my own sad
and Life Is agony;
Stripped of its verbiage the democratic plat-
form seems to say: "Everything that we have op-
posed, the republicans have proven to be good. We
will trail."
EDUCATION SAVES
THE NEGRO FROM CRIME
To those who have a thirst for concrete facts
in education the address of Booker T. Washington
was easily the event of the meeting of tho National
Educational Association, just closed at St. Louis.
Other educators discussed theories—many of them
interesting and instructive—but this remarkable
man marshaled an impressive and convincing as-
semblage of data to support his contention that
negro is worth educating and that industrial
training is his salvation.
After appealing to his audience not to judge
the negro bv tho worst specimens of the race, he
gave statistics to show the remarkable decrease
in illiteracy among the negroes, and drew an in-
|teresting comparison between them and some of
the races of Europe. In Spain 48 per cent are
ignorant. In Russia the percentage if illiteracy
is still higher, being 70 per cent. With only forty
years of freedom from slavery, only 44 per cent of
the negroes of the United States are illiterate.
Tn combating tho statement often made that
education retards the negro's moral and industrial
development, Mr. Washington showed that not 10
^>er ccnt of the men and women trained at Hamp-
But after all, it is a Hill victory. And Dave
Hill has proven that he is a democrat lie will
not have to wear a tag any more. He runs the
machine.
And imperialism and militarvism are not 60
portentious in the eyes of the reformed democracy
as they were in the estimation of the Bryan crowd.
The big question now is will Parker be able
to collect his voice so as to respond to the com-
mittee who will tell him of his victory?
Bryan was tho greatest man ill the democratic
national convention despite the fact that Wall
street had captured the show.
To be sure there might havo bf^n something
doing if Mr. Cleveland had not waited so long.
It was a sad but glorious day for Colonel Wil-
liam J. Bryan. For he had an audience.
Now that it is all over, the Oklahoma situation
will become more interesting.
What, has become of tho immortal cause of
"siekstocn to one?" •
What has become of the Chicago and Kansas
City platforms?
Why was tho financial plank eliminated?
What has become of the God-^ivcn. ratio?
And you *0 y
And yet I must .. mv
In splto of all your absence means
II.
Though distance part, though aky and eea
detaining
Eft
llvide,
To you I must not reach
hands;
Tho years are many and the world Is w!da
And Love's fair roses bloom in many
lands.
ni.
With ^nll ^ the Joys and all the wlahsa
My soul sonde after you, we can't re-
gret;
The raptures wait us in the sweet Be-
ond,
we sJ
forget.
IV.
We mr« t no more! The hand-clasp and
embrace,
Tho hot, mad kiss, the crush of Ilna
to lips,
Tho rriolt of eye and tender flush of fact
These nil for us have passed to
e slips 0.
V.
So, good-bye, Dear! Good-bye for ever-
more!
Adown the years our halting feet shall
press,
Our lone hearts wander, till the quest
is o'er,
And Love shall lead ua back to hapi-
Freeman B. Miller, Stillwater, Okla.
If Oriental War Should Come.
If war on mall Japan big Russia shall
boRin
And China's jilgtalled clan steps up and
What.nwful tilings must men in countries
If they would keep informed, essay to
read ouch dav.
With war ships named Chin Yen, Petrop-
. avlosk. Mlkesn.
Sevastopol, Iwate. Rossvn, Shllclshlma.
A mix up on tho sea might make a word
like this:
"I- Wnto - to-Se-Tu- Ross -an-Pet-Mike
w Chin - Y11 - KIs."
War scribes may wrlteskl tales of Smash-
Japanskl's deeds.
How mInceskl meat he's made of all
Mongolskl breeds;
hu-l'p-Rus-Rla's way of settling
Doth
How '
k hru
ikee osareo squeal; Bl«?gunskl
ie to smash.
int ('Arneoffnvltch to Wing Lea
muched a schema.
But Wln>r Lee with Wun I.ung came off-
ovitch supremo;
Russian fame to save, Goodsholvkl
nade
try
But failed; the i-naaon plain-because he
shot To Hal.
Rctwe. n such things as these and mapa
Chines^ovlteh
To pusalo New World brains, there'll be
no rhanceorltch
To solve that riddle now beyond the ken
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