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THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL.WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 190S.
THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL
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EARLIER INCIDENT RECALLED.
In Brooklyn they sometimes call Mirabcau L.
Towns, "the poet-lawyer." He has only liimseli to
blame for that if he doesn't like it; probably he does
like it. Brooklyn's borough president, Bird S. Coler,
has a libel suit on against the "Daily Eagle" news-
paper, and Jlirabeau is of counsel in tbe ease.
lie wanted to call Theodore Roosevelt as a witness
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Mirabeau then applied to the court for the ap-
pointment of a commission to take Theodore Roose-
velt'h deposition.
His motion was denied. "The issuance of a com-:
mission," said Mr. Justice Thomas, "would be a
useless if not an indecorous act, as the president is
the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the
United States.
His refusal to testify in such a proceeding cannot,
and should not be gainsaid."
Evidently this New York jurist thinks there's1
no such thing as forcing an unwilling president into!
the witness box.
The question came up more than a century ago.
In the summer ot* 1807, Thomas Jefferson was'
after the sinokk is dead.
Bright Is the ring of words
When the right iiutn ring* them,
Pah" is the fall of gongs
When the singer sings them.
Still Uiey arf cajoled and said—
On the wings ihey are carried-**
After the singer is dead
And the maker buried.
l.ow a* the singer lies
In the field of heather,
Songa of his fashion bring
The swains together.
And when the West is red
With the sunset embers.
The lover lingers and Kings,
And the maid remembers.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
OPICS
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
FEBRUARY 17
1€21—
17®-
The Plymouth colonists chose
Miles Stand.sh their capUiin.
Six negmes whipped by the En-
glish in Boston for drumming for
the Americana.
1815— Peace between the T'nltod States
and Great Britain announced,
president. Aaron Burr arrested by Jefferson's or : is«7— Alexander Dallas Bache, for
der was on trial at Richmond, Ya. Chiet Justice j ^
John Marshall and Judge Cyrus Griffin were on! t Newport, r. i Born in pwi-
the bench, William Wirt assisted District Attorney ' j„5s _ !'arai''z„^vesI9ieftS'>Montreai
George May in the prosecution. Luther Martin 1STO— Mississippi re-admitted into the
(whom Jefferson described in a private letter as ls 8- Fra.i.ei e. Willard, famous tem-
Make the most of the good times, Lent is drawing
near.
Let's see, think about another ton will carry you
through, eh!
The annual announcement that the backbone of
Winter has been fractured in nearly due.
A New York woman has opened a school where
Bhe will teach scientific smiling. It is to laugh.
In Minnesota one out of every three girls is a wage
earner. We look for a rush of young men up that
way.
Hobson says "war is knocking at our doors." All
right, then, just don't open the door, we are for
peace.
My, but how ,,uiekly the time passes I Here it is
almost time for the youngsters to take sulphur and
molasses again.
The size of a girl's Merry Widow hat is not always
in direct ratio to the amount of housework she helps
her mother to do.
The young fellow who swears he would lay down
his life for a girl, generally shows a yellow streak
when she asks him to "See papa."
Nebraska has killed female suffrage again. The
agitation gives agitators something to do, but the
common sense of the country seems still to prevail.
The malice of the canard that Roosevelt and Taft
are not the same good friends today they were a year
ago today is defeated by its stillness. '"Idiotic" is
the president's word for it. All the stories about his
keeras to be the California of tile Southeast Europe. "WReMions being disregard,i.l or turned down by
I Taft are mere lies. lie isn't making suggestions.
I According to Bome of the long range forecasts in John Lorance writ. ■ from Washington to tIn- Boston
Str-10 is said to be bent on war in the Bnlk ns,
which everybody else is trying to prevent. Sorvia
^eeras to be the California of trie Southeast Europe,
an "unprincipled and impudent federal bulldog")
towered among the counsel for the defense.
Jefferson's name was on the list of witnesses
which they handed up, and the court granted a sub-
poena duces tecum.
Jefferson flatly refused to obey it.
He denied the court's authority to issue it.
"To comply with such calls would leave the na-
tion without an executive branch," he said.
No attempt was made to enforcc the subpoena;
Jefferson did not testify, and he did not have the
satisfaction of seeing Burr eouvicted.
Burr was acquitted.
On learning of Jefferson's refusal to obey the sub-
poena, Chief Justice Marshall said a number of
things and among them this:
"It is apparent that the president's duties as chief
magistrate do not demand his whole time, and are
not unremitting.''
Jefferson did not like the remark a little bit, and
wrote to George llay.
"If he alludes to our annual retirement from the
seat of government during the sickly season, he
should be told that such arrangements are made for
carrying on the public business, at and between the
several stations we take, that it goes on as unremit-
tingly there as if we were at the seat of government.
1 pass more hours in public business at Monticello
than I do here, every day."
We are almost sure he wrote to George Hay, with
a preliminary 'if" or two, that he'd be willing to
make a deposition at the White House, Manifestly
if a court in New York City may require the [ ersor.al
attendance of the president as a witness, so may a
court in El l'aso, or Los Angeles, or Tacoma
Thomas Jefferson said it wouldn't do at all, and
that's as self-evidently true in this era of limited
expresses as it was in the era of the stage coaches.
perance leader, died. Born Sep-
tember 28. isae.
1903— Steamer Olive sunk near Nor-
folk, Va . with loss of eighteen
lives.
19C.">— Panels post treaty with Great
Br tain signed by the United
States.
190 >— Wedding in the White House of
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Repre-
sentative Nicholas Longworth.
190S— Turkish reserves called out and
moved to the Persian frontier.
THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY
JOSEPH HOWELL.
J< seph Howell, representative-at-large
from Utah, was born In Box Elder coun-
ty, Utah, February 17, 1867. After at-
tending the common schools of his na-
tive country studied for three years at
the University of Utah. After leaving
College his tirst employment was
as a clerck ina store at WellbivlUe, Utah
He took a prominent part in the af-
fairs of his adopted city and In he
course of time he was elected mayor. This
served as the beginning of his public
career and led to his election to the
territorial legislature, where he served
three terms. After the admission of
Utah to the Union Mr. Howell served
one term In the state senate. In 1903.
he was the successful candidate on the
republican ticket for representative-at-
large in the national congress, and he
has been three times honored with re-
election
NOT SO BAD BUT BAD ENOUGH.
In the matter of fires, 1SK4) has noi
begun j*> dlscuairagingly as ltt)7 una
l&yi* did. Yea r before last the compu-
tations of the "Journal of Commerce"
made the Janu&iy tire-waste in tnia
country and Canada |24,OG4,OUO; last year
they made it fJW.OiC.uGui this year they
niake it fcj,735,000.
No J1,UJ0,0G0 five broke out in either
country last month The loss by the
worst of the January tires—the one for
which those Boston garages and the
automobiles in them supplied the fuel
—is estimated at UW.uuo. The loss by
the burning of the wholesale grocery
house and adjacent property in New
York city last month is estimated at
$*i.">0.u00. There we e three J&UO.OOO Jan-
uary fires—at North Chelmsford (Mass.),
Toledo and Galveston respectively. The
Irst burned up some worsted milis; the
second, a business block, the third, a
wharf and the cotton thereon.
No abnormal destruction of important
public edifices ?s disclosed by the Jan-
uary reports. St. Timothee (P. Q.) lost
an 186,000 churcn, Klamath Falls (Or )
a 932,000 school building and chapel, Bld-
deford Me.) a $40,000 hospital building,
Andover (III.) and Qoldsboro (N. C.) a
930,000 orphanage apiece, and Atlanta
(Ga.) h f€9,000 theatre.
January was the worst month in tht
twelve for fires ye^r before last, and
last year also- Let us hope that 1«W9
may have the some story to tell. Sup
pose the average monthly fire-waste In
the United States and Canada during
th - rest of this year to be 920,000,600—
9-',735,000 less than the Januay fire-
waste. That would make the total loss
by fire in the two countries this year
924:', 736,000 Or suppose the average
monthly fire-waste during the rest of
the year to b« $16.OOO,0a v—and lucky we'd
be to get off at that. Then the 1909 fire-
waste would he *187,735,000. The 3907
one was 9215,671,260; the 1J0S one was
9338,562,260.
We remind the heedless that the
fires destroy human beings themselves as
well as their possessions. It has been
said—we don't know how authentically
•—that in this country alone 7.000 per-
sons lost their lives in the fires of a
single year. But take the destruction
of property shown In these tabulations;
It Is almost unthinkable that the United
States and Canada are to go on doing
nothing in the face of such enormous
ravages. It is computed that for ten
years past the fires have been costing
them a day—and recollect that
every dollar of the loss is absolute loss.
President Damon put that fact straight
home in hie recent talk, as spokesman of
the fire-underwriters, to the governors
and conservation commissioners. "The
property value destroyed by flrp I" g^ne
beyond recovery," he said. "Insurance
only shlftr the distribution of the loss
An irrecoverable loss it still remains."
^OXBL1
JFOW0JEK
Thousands of millions
of cans of Royal Bakin
Powder have been use
in making bread, biscuit
and cake in this country,
and every housekeeper
using it has rested in perfect confi-
dence that her food would be light,
sweet, and perfectly wholesome. Royal is a safe-
guard against thecneap alum powders which are
the greatest menacers to health of the present day
ROYAL IS THE ONLY BAKING POWDrlR
MADE FROM ROYAL GRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR
J
[he almanacs, February still has a few disagreeable
jiurprises in the shape of snow blizzards, etc., tip its
jileeve.
Indiana is talking of changing it«i railway commis-
sion into a public utility commission, and taking Hie
tower of fixing rates entirely out of the hands of
lunicipalities. Oj position comes from those afraid to
rust sucb enormous powers, dealing with millions of
laj.italired wealth, into the hands of three or four
'ien. Oklahoma can listen.
f 60 per cent goes, of course, to protect those Ainer-
'tii laborers whose lives are given to stringing
B rU.
It is rather depressing to be told that t
),8.ri2 suicides in the United States last
COUNTRY LIFE AND
COUNTRY TOWN
The country life commission strongly
recommends extension of co-operation
among farmers. It likewise recom-
mends establishment of the parcels
poet.
These two things can mean only one
result: the decadence of the country
town. The parcels post means that or-
ders may be sent to the city and filled,
cheaply, conveniently, satisfactorily,
extension of co-operation means
the co-opeiative societies will ev-
d I everywhere be doing what they are now
' doing; in a few places — emancipating
) exactions of the
limited market of the country town;
from the 'grain buyers' ring," which
every country town used to know, from
I the agreement among the little group
'of "general -tores" at the county seat
town, from the limitations of the ta eager
' market in which they were compelled
! to turn In their "butter and eggs and
chickens," and take out a poor equiva-
lent "In trade." It means putting the
j farmers' business o na new basis, and
I bringing him to the the greater market
s and his purchases,
an end to much of the
bill requiring miners to have at least two years' ox-j lmi*>rt nce, . omnurci ii> ami socially,
1 i \ ■ n i . -l *1 l- "f tho country town. Add to thl« the
bemorc being allowed to imperil the lives lmpr„v ro,„t „r thr country schools, by
omrades, is an illuminating exhibition of an proccss of consolidation, gradin*. and
! r,.,, transportation of pupils to and from
udeavor to save profits at the expense o! human ,Pln the vtiingr ui find its ei-
j , use for existence largely gone
j The Teal question, then. Is whether
rs | th- country town Is worth saying;
whether the business it does costs too
much In the doing: whether It Is a mere
middle factor, a consumer of more than
it produces, Thii view of the country
town has ions been held, nnd It is cer-
tain thai the most enlightened thought
tends toward methods that mean Its
destruction.
The changes, of course, would not
come Immediately; they would not even
lie Mrlk.ng In their approach. The
Advertiser that the president hasn't said a word to that
Taft about appointments—cabinet or oth
isn't going to. lie's going to Africa. "It may bejthema
stated," adds Lorance, "that tbe attitude of Mr.
Roosevelt toward the next administration will be of
friendly and proud interest. He recalls that no out-
going and incoming presidents have been so close
personally to each other since the days of Jackson
and A'au Buren."
Strange News Stories
The Dill family, living near Princeton,
Ind.. If remarkable In that 14 brothers
and sisters, all of the same parents, are
living and well, and none was born later
than June 14. 1865, the combined ages be-
ing 1010 years. Originally there were 1-
chlldren, three dying when young.
E. R. Edwards, an evangelist at El-
wood. Ind. In order to arouse interest in
meetlnes for men, has had constructed
on a huge platform in the rear of the
church and over the altar proper a 24-
foot ring, such as Is used at a prize
fight, and Invites two men from the
audience to enter it and gn through the
form of two pugl'ists In action, while
he uses their mot ona as an lllustnt'on
In his subject. "The Fight to a Finish "
lie shows a familiarity with prize fight-
ing.
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HUMOROUS JiNGLE
I am sorry, my friend; I am full of
regret
That 1 happened to tread on your toes;
But they stayed where my foot I con-
cluded to 6et,
They were right in the place that I
chose.
It was painfui to you. You have reason
to grumble,
But your toes, my fear sir, -nearly
caused me to stumble.
I have smas-hed them beneath my big
heel, do you say?
Then please keep them away!
I am sorry, of course, if my elbow \
struck,
With a gr< at deal of force In your
side,
But yon stood In my way, which was
surely ill luck.
And the mild kind of methods I've
tried.
In the rear I'm not willing to mildew
or molder,
I must pu h to the front with both el-
bow and shoulder
If your ribs have been' fractured for-
give me. I prny.
But keep out of my way.
I am sorrv. my friend, if I've given of-
fense.
As T garber I have by* your frown.
But you blocked on my passage com-
pletely ami hence
T could not avoid knocking you down.
T was justified, too, as you can't help
admitting,
Whon I cot im ahead to my place by
hard hitting.
It's the motto of every good hustler to-
day:
"He'-! Keep out of my way!"
(mbber
CUTS AND SLASHES
Mrs
\v Black
ar
The sight of twenty large coal operators rushin
to Indianapolis to prevent the legislature [tissing a j '°An^thi hmean
I The value of a string seems to have been detor-
lined by the wise men of the customs service. There pcrien
i a duty of 10 eents on pearls and of 60 per cents on i,,f
earl necklaces. So they bore holes in the pearls
broad and try them on strings. If they suit, thcn||jV(.s. ]f one 0f these operators should be c<
le strings are removed, the necklaces become mere i to provide pensions for the families of min
earls and the duty is 10 per cent. The difference|kiilpd in mim.s explosions, there would he less rush-
ill mines ex pi.
ing to Indianapolis to prevent the passage of a bi
denying them the right to employ incompetent me
to handle the explosives used in digging coal.
ere It has come to be a custom to write of the Great
asI New York Central system as the "Vanderbilt
'■ roads." How long will Mr. llarriman stand for this
, , , vor l,fr cent, 6iii- ,];|n(j 0f misnomer, now that he ia director of the New
des increased 100 per cent. Business depression jy,,rk (Vnlral
as the most general cause of these self-inflicted
'Hths. Domestic infieiliti
ipulation increased a little ov<
would
Its people
to
ould go
the Lake Shore and as many
j links of the chain as he desires? We tfiiess only so
, , , and disappointment in |)011K as hc thinks the name of Vanderbilt is worth
ve, supposed to be prolific causes of suicide, figured
less than la per cent of the cases. With tbe re-
rn of business prosperity, giving the people a more
tithe
dltl"
ipeless enviroment, the proportions of suicides to
■pulation is expected to show a marked decrease.
In Los Angeles, the other day it was discovered
pt a Russian who had for many months been sell-
* csndy to school children, was in an advanced
ite of leprosy. The diser.se is so repulsive that
?ry mother and father in Los Angeles in watching
or her child with*dread that some day some trace
the disease may be observed. Leprosy, however,
decidedly rare, and the chances are vary much
linst even one of th' children being stricken. If
lerculosis of tbe lungs was as repulsive, not a sin-
consiimptive would be allowed to walk the streets
fcectorating disease breeding spittle; yet consuni|>
ii kills its tens of thousands where leprosy kills its
|more than the name of llarrinian. llis next st :p, r
|is said will be dumping Chiuieey M. Depew out o
c chairmanship of the board of the New York ('•■11
eg and to the farms. They
dapt themselves to the new con-
as those conditions developed. If
,.nd the general welfare were pro-
..t.d by the dvange, It ought to be
ad'1 Certainly, for the sake of the
luntrv town's future, there ought to
► no benighted opposition to change*
antfeatly for the good of the great
iral population of the nation.
tral. If the properity ean stand that strain, it wil',
probably endure whatever may be coming to it.
of Valley Station
Ky., is the widow of three <
veterans, and Is getting evidence to
support her claim for a third pension.
After eatln" three r-'v-es of mince
pie. Albert Allen, of Ch ago, went tn
sleep, and dr \ rg that a man he
was gambling v\ 'i was rhea ting, he
got his revolver Intending • shoot the
gamble- but Instead f.red a bullet Into
his wife's head.
—o—
By a vote of thirty-seven to twenty-
one the Orccon legislature recently re-
fused to abolish the whipping post for
wlfe-beaters.
RELEASED FEBRUARY 17.
Bert Peterson, president of the El
Reyo and other large gold mining com-
panies in the Santa Barbara district,
state of Chihuahua. Mexico, died at the
Cal fornla hospital, T.os Angeles, of ty-
phoid fever. The body will be taken to
Phlla 'e'phla.
Robert A. Taft, son of President-ele t
William H. Taft, has been elected to
memhershin in the Yale Chapter of the
Phi Beta Kappa of New Haven. Twen-
tv-nlne other juniors were honored simi-
larly.
Among the Lincoln relics In Tacoma,
Wash., is a valise carried by Lincoln
more than 50 years ngn on his debating
tour In Illinois with Stephen A. Doug-
las. "It Is a plain box split In two and
eov red with black cowhide leather, with
thin Iron iiands thi«*kly studded with
larire-Vea'led taeks like buttons. The
valise was given to the Reman family,
then living across the street from the
Llneolns In Springfield, bv Mrs. Lincoln
when Lincoln left for Washington to
assume the presidency
Yeast—"Isn't a storm at sea jua\
grand?" Crlmsonbeak—"Say; I guesi
you never stayed in the smoking-rooia
till it closed and then found your wif«
waiting up for you In your cabin?"
—o—
"Think of the glories of ancient
Rome." "I've seen 'em," answered Sen-
ator Sorghum. "It's terrible to me tc
consider the graft they must have con-
tended wilh in putting up all those Im-
provements!"
The Vanishing Horse Thief —The Con-
stable—"Now, gen l inen, we've traced
these here olooa—the fut-prlnts o' thf
ho'se an' the fut-prlnts o' the man tc
this stump: from here on thar's onlj
the fut-prints o' the hoss. Now, th«
question Is, wot's become o' the man?"
—o—
"You refuse me because I have a
title," said the count bitterly, "but I will
relinquish It. I -will become a plain citi-
zen." "How noble of you," responded
the American heiress. "I. too, feo!
called upon to make a sacrifice. I will
relinquish my fortune, and then—Why,
he's gone!"
Lady Dorothy—"I wonder if you'd b«
good-natured enough to come down tc
us for the we k-end on Friday. We shall
be shooting the coverts." Young blood
—"Ah. yes I know 'em. Cooks only,
I presume.' Well, to he quite frank with
you, Lady Dorothy, It ain't go.xJ
enough." Lady Dorothy-"Then perhapi
you wouldn't mind coming later i n foi
a few days' hunting?" Young blood-
"Sorry. Never hunt out of I^eicester-
shire." Lady Dorothy—"Well, thank
you for listening to me, anyhow; It's aw-
fully good of you."
POINTED PARAGRAPHS j
The noiseless gun seems to he a suc-
cess, but what is most needed is a gun
Vbicb will b* li.tr m I ess when not )0 <d-
od.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
What a lo
night be a
trouble and 7-cent niealf
3d if people would onlj
t of Jails —Chicago Rec-
The Jersey City pastor who go bitterly
condemns kissing must he a total ab-
atalner.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
When children are told what a smarl
man their father is they look at theii
mother as If asking her If they are to
believe it.—Atchison Globe.
Senator Perkins was not put into the
Ananias class, but may cons.der him-
self mildly undesirable—Pittsburg Ga-
xette-Times.
THE NATIONAL WASTE
(Copyright, 1909.)
There is n newspaper -published in the English
language, of eourse—at Bangalore, in Hritish Indm.ljf
and it sheds this light on the Panama question: uj'
"Panama is one of the nine statea iu the District ofi'1
Columbia, which is the seat of the United States gov-j „
eminent provided by the state of Maryland." Thus
do tli' j«r«|. Ur ' h Halms pi-rfec! themselves hi re-
spect of our institutions and increase their already
astonishing knowledge of political geography.—Now
York Sun.
Sure 1
u
OLITICAL POINTS
Wish they would use Maxim's noiseless revolv*
{ur stujje shootings.
nlng to llstrn to the upr<>ar
5U« a or to be smitten by the
« panic that has swept parts
state. Mr. Glllett stands firmly
ty and decency," aaya the Cleve-
nd Plain Dealer «lnd. Dem ). com-
lending California's governor for hl
lgitlon In regard to the anti-Japanese
ovement.
The extent to which the prison scan-
da' at Jackson Is to be considered a
logical outcome of the operation of the
■noils «ystem In Michigan seems to hav*
impressed no small part of the state
rr^B!. "The d 'pr sslng Armstrong er
sods K of em rs. lamentable but if (•
shsl give the final and needed lmr*ett'
to the Institution of a better cystett
It will not be wholly regrettable " re
marks the Detroit Free Presa (Ind.)
O'iMAUGHHtssy*
Th Incmilng u ti Mitd.e, Thr« .ilfni the DeHrucllon f tin Toreiti
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