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TP" OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 22, 1909
THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL
By Th* State Capital Company.
FRANK H, GREER, EDITOR.
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ARE YOU
REPRESENTED"
LATURE?.
BEFORE LEGIS-
DAILY VERSE
Are you acquainted with the fellow who represents
several thousand or several million men?
He is a lobbyist at the legislature now and he's
always on hand at Washington when congress is in
session.
hatever difference there is bet ween him and the
railway lobbist is not in his favor. This for the rea-
son that he joins to a bad cause the crime of false
pretense.
Every now and then some organization is formed 0h! dumb be passion's stormy rage,
and tbn name, of thousands ar, taken as members | hl.
tails back In night.
ICHABOD.
So fallen! so last! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For evermore!
Rcvlle him not, the Tempter hath
A snare for til;
And pitying tears not acorn and wrath,
Herein his fall-
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having advertising to place with the Dally and
et- y Kt>>te Capital In the above terrtlory, please cor
respond with the agont. an atated above.
'erhaps you belong to a few of these organizations.
^ on elect officers. .Maybe you vote and maybe
you sometimes remember the names Off the officials.
You don't always for there are so many organiza-
tions that many out of every ten are of no use and
you merely join to be amiable.
riien you run amuck of a situation where some
fellows is representing so many thousand of you, you
included, and in your name favoring a measure con-
cerning which you may be opposed or about which
you don't care a rap.
Every center of legislative activity is nowadays in"
fested with these "representatives." They may be
paid by somebody else but they presume to represent
you. And at all these centers there are at least a
few legislators who take them seriously.
If you are a member of any such organization
wouldn t it be well to find out if you aren't among
those "represented" just now at Guthrie. And
if you are so represented wouldn't it be well to find
out just how and by whom!
But how many of those who protest against inde
ceney stay away from the show?
•Mexicans now have good reason to believe that
bull fights are safer than nickelodeons.
An Eskimo lad is leading his classes in a New York
kehool. What kind of a peril do you call that ?
. New Jersey churchmen are planning a "model
loon. It is up to someone to construct a model
hell.
■Mr. Taft would he pleased if some one would in-
form him accurately as to the makeup of his Cub-
inct. This suspense is wearing.
Now that Alice is a union brieklaver she might
construct a comfortable house out of the bricks that
have been thrown at her father.
The president might stop off at Japan on his way
home from Africa and just show 'em what kind of
marksmen we have in this country.
Bryan is to coin 2,000,000 silver words into 100,-
0(10 gold dollars, which is at the rate of 5 cents a
*"rd. What a mint that mouth is!
It must be discouraging to the pure whisky enthu-
siasts that after all they have done to denaturize the
liquor traffic. Kentucky Uiinks of putting its distil-
leries out of business.
Poe's literary stock seems to be on the rise. Wil-
liam Dean Howells is authority for the statement
that Poe s stuff would not be accepted by the first-
class magazines of today.
All the good stories are credited to Lincoln Yet
as there were brave men before Agamemnon, or at
•n> rate as Horace assured us to that effect, s„ also
there must have been story-tellers b(
THEY ARE SATISFIED, WHY COMPLAIN?
A favorite mode of attack made by the standpat-
ters upon the tariff commission idea is the contention
that it is in this way proposed to take the j/ower of
legislation away from Congress. The Chicago Inter
Ocean puts it in this way:
Did it ever occur to these stupendous minds
and their associates that if congressmen are too
ignorant to prepare a taxing bill on imports they
are also necessarily too ignorant to prepare ono
on internal taxes? And on agriculture? And
on banking? And so on, and so on?
Something might be said on the affirmative of the
proposition that the Inter Ocean puts forward as
too absurb for thought.
We should not know where to search for wider
or more profound ignorance on the subject of bank-
ng, for example, than in the halls of Congress.
But let that pass.
The main point is that a tariff commission is not
advocated by its responsible jromoters as a suosti-
tute for the legislative prerogative of Congress, but
as an educative and investigative body, for which
our Interstate Commerce, Monetary and Forestry
( ommissions afford a parallel that the country has
so far supported without any perceptible gashes in
the fabric of liberty or impairment of the congres-
sional function.
Members of Congress themselves hi^ve served on
these commissions and will constitute a portion of the
tariff commission if one should exist.
Inasmuch as Congress by its own act will create
whatever tariff commission is formed, it would seem
to be a ease of love's labor lost, or at least a work
of supererogation, to oppose the plan out o'f alarm
for the safety of Congress.
Scorn-would the angels laugh to mark
A bright aoul drlvtn.
Fiend -goadeil, down the endless dark.
From hope and heaven!
Let not the land once proud of him
Insult him now,
N'or brand with deeper shame hla dim.
Dishonored brow.
But let its humbled sons, instead.
From sea to Jake.
A long lament, as for the dead.
In sadnesa make.
Of all we loved and honored, naught
Sava power remains.
A fallen angel's pride of thought,
Still strong in chains.
All else is gone: from those great eyes
The soul has tied;
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead.
Then, pay the reverence of old days
in his dead fame;
Walk backward with averted gaze,
And hide the shame.
—John Greenleaf Whlttier
HUMOROUS JiNGlE
OPICS
efore Lincoln.
Arises
ics a man who finds a flaw in Lincoln's English
He objects to "Our fathers brought forth a new na-
tion because, forsooth, it implies "that the male
IS the parturient parent." That a
should be kept.
BULLY FCjR BIERCE!
birthday
King Edward has made a most favorable personal
impression upon the Berliners during his sojourn in
the German capital. Berlin is not Germany, but it
counts, and personal liking plays its part in smooth-
ing out national autipathics.
What is a Democrat? The Buffalo Enquirer set-
ties the mooted question to its own satisfaction only
when its says that a Democrat is not a citizen who
votes the Republican ticket. This is not lucid
enough to warrant the Enquirer being awarded the
prize. It will havo to try again.
A TALK ABOUT THE ORCHARD.
Yes. it surely takes nerve to thin fruit, but it
pays. Some of the finest apples and peaches in the
world come from Idaho, Washington, Michigan and
ork an(' >t 's the general practice to thin the
trees in those states. Here in this state,, where the
winds are worse than they are in any other state in
the Union, it is doubly necessary to thin the trees of
their fruit. In the state of Michigan it is the prac
tice to thin the fruit trees till the fruit does not
It and any closer than four or five inches on the limbs
This is done for several reasons, but the main one
is so that the fruit will be larger when it matures
and relatively more valuable. Then again the trees
ire often so loaded that the branches would be brolt-
m with the weight if they were not thinned. It is
he very poorest policy to allow the trees to bear all
that they can hold and prop up the limbs so tint
they will be able to horld the load without breaki
ANOTHER "MISSOURI IDEA."
i common with a great number of this fellow
citizens who want some kind of satisfaction out
the Roosevelt administration, a farmer from the state
of Missouri has written to the presideut«suggesting
he propriety of giving a pension to every mother
who raises seven sons.
Here's one that is calculated to make even an ar-
dent disciple of race promotion draw a whistle.
But why is the idea not feasible and entirely
proper 1
If patriots and the sons of patriots are entitled to
draw pensions for the service in arms they render to
their country, why are not the mothers who raise the
patriots and sons of patriots eligible to the rich in-
ner vaults of the treasury.
If the boys are to be paid for the service they
have been fit to give, then why are not the mothers
entitled to emolument in the same scale?
Uncle Sam's pension bag is large and apparently
inexhaustible. If there are not men with the proper
credentials and qualifications to use up the abundant
wealth of the nation, there is nothing wrong in giv-
ing the women a chance.
A woman who gives birth to and raises seven boys
as boys go in this age of the world, is a heroine of
the highest type—she measures up to the most ex-
alted standard.
Let us by all means hear from Mr. Roosevelt as
to the suggestion of the Missouri farmer.
raised a question that cannot be passed over lightly
by the i resident in order to maintain his consistency
in regard to race suicide.
STILL RUNNING BEHIND
Aside from the postal receipts (which were need-
ed, as usual, for the postal expenses), file United
States treasury took in $3,167,834 last Saturday, the
import, duties supplying $1,328,198 of this sum ind
the internal taxes $1,614,366.' The United States
treasury paid out $3,800,000 last Saturday, by far
the largest item being $1,500,000 pension money.
The day's deficit was a little more than $632,000.
The United St-ates treasury has "run behind" $4,-
ng. 1404,541 since February began, and $84,308,984 since
he fw.it ti,for ,everal years and 11he current fiscal year. We notice that in the first
lithium! y P t°f th"!\year is inferior "tuff fortnight of February the pensioners cost the eoui,
J though great in quantity. This sort of treatment I try nearly as much a. the army and navy put™
gether cost it. The government's income was largei
by about $2,000,000 than in the corresponding two
weeks of last year, but the expenditures were largei
(Chicago Inter Ocean.)
"In the history of American litera
ture," says a candid publishers adver-
tisement In a current literary magazine,
"no uiore important announcement has
been made tlian this; 'The Collected
Works oi Ambrose Buerce,' collected,
edited and arranged by hmself, will be
published in ten volumes, the first ot
which will be ready in January, thd
others to follow rapidly."
With curiosity excited by this unre-
served exaltation of Mr. Ambrose Blerce'
whom many will remember as a back-
page protege of the Maecenas of refined
letters. Mr. William Randolph Hearst,
the reader of the advertisement, hurries
on to intorrn himself of the nature and
quality of these remarkable productions.
The advertisement continues:
The beauty and magnitude of the
work, tht fact that the man who wrote
the books has betn his own editor and
judge; the variety of Bierce's work, in
form and attitude and treatment; the
perfection of the mechanical makeup of
the volumes—all these things combine to
make this announcement of great inter-
est and historical significance. Each
volume will corna.n, approximately, 100
000 words; it will be about six by nine
inches in size, and nearly two inches
thitk; it will be printed on paper of high
grade, in large type leaded; the binding
will he full morocco, both sides and back
decorated, bound by hand throughout,
with head-bands, and with lining of
moire silk, with gold edges all round—a
sumptuous and durable edition, in dignity
and beauty worthy the grrat writer
whose live work It will present to the
world.
The volumes six by nine of lOO.OflO
words each! High grade paper and
sumptuous binding!
The average reader, dazzled by th«
thought of 1,000,000 words, neatly divid-
ed in blocks of 100.000 each, and artisl-
cally Imprinted and bound, will almost
forget that he ever looks for any thing
further In his search for the world'*
bent literature. But, recovering himself,
he may read on:
This splendid edition is limited to 250
setH. numbered and authographed by Mr
Bierce. The price is $100 a set. payable
$10 for «*ach volume upon the delivery of
the volume to the subscribers. The
publishers reserve the right to close the
rale at any time and to advance th<
rrioe of unsold sets. Such is the quail
ty of the material and workmanship
that In selling these books at $100
set the edition Is sold at little more
than the actual enst of production
"Such Is the quality of the material
and workmanship that In selling these
books at >100 a set the edition Is sold
.it little more than the actual cost of
production!" That means of course,
that Mr. Bierce's million words and any
incidental labor, or even possible thought
that Mr. Bierce may have expended in
choosing them. ar#. regarded as hardly
worth mentioning In this bill of particu-
lars. Just whv, we don't know. Not
knowing Mr. Bierce we don't know. Yet
there is the fact—the fine coveri, the
clear print, the beautiful paper, these
nre what count with Mr. Bierce's pub-
lisher and what he charges for.
After these rich and thrilling details.
iich, it will be observed, omit any
reference to he matters that have been
fortunate as to be- considered by th«.-
purveyo*" of a million words, it would
bo uncivil to Insist on further Inform-
ix the reader be content with
lie has | ,he n"wv,rnnr* Mr Bierce's work
t* qnlet full of form and nttltndc and
treatment. Let him buy the volumes—
the ten volumes each six by nine, and
containing a hundred thousand careful-
ly golfrted word* making a million In all
—f.>r the number ef those words and
the pnrgeous magnificence of their sett-
ing
A million carefully selected words giv
en nwav with t#>n sumptuous volume*
wh'ch already have been marked down
to cost! A million words that havo
"form, attitude and treatment." and
yet to be had free hv him who will buy
ten sumptuous volumes at manufactur-
er's prices, f o. b. the mill!
What have the best sellers to offer to
be.it It
Bully for Bierce!
THE GUILLOTINE IN OREGON.
An illJinlnative incident is in progress
Just now in Oregon which amusingly
bodies forth the often forgotten fact
that laws and rules are after all but
the Instrument of human ambitions jyid
desires. We are all for the majesty of
the law wnen It is on o«| side, but very
impatient of its woralhgs when they
*em to us Iniquitous.
The Oregon situation would not bo
nearly so amusing were it not for the
fact that we of Oklahoma can appreci-
ate the situation because our constitu-
tion. the best ever, also has the initia-
tive and referendum clause.
But back to Oregon—
II so happens that the Oregon politi-
cians who are new In the saddle and
rurring things with an iron hand
through the direct primary, the "State-
ment No. 1,'' the initiative and referen- i
dum and the recall are anxious to lr.- 1
crease the salaries of the judges on the
state supreme bench A legislature in
conservative hands refused to ir.act this
Increase and recourse was had to the
popular vote. Among the mass of popu- I
listic measures put into law under the |
Initiative and referendum, the all-con-
Tomorrow is another day.
It doesn't pay
To feel dismay.
To let a gloomy face display
Your morbid apprehension.
It well may be that money's tight,
But is it rlgfct
To let that blight
Ytfur hopes when that tomorrow might
Perhaps relieve the tension?
Tomorrow is another day.
It will not stay
For* long this way.
A yea may soon succeed to nay.
Concession to denial.
A girl is apt to change her mind.
You'll always find;
So be resigned.
When she determines to he kind
You'll soon forget this trial.
Tomorrow Is another day.
You «an't bo gay
Or glad, you say?
But tlm€ brings solace, so yt
In time forget your sorrow
It's better far to look ahead.
The past Is dead,
What's done Is sped.
Don't cast the backward elance; Instead
Look forward to tomorrow.
may
Strange News Stories
Miss K. M SToat of New York la ask- I got it."
Have you a fire less cook in your
ouse?" "Um-m-m, well, something lik*
lat, were all afraid ao discharge her."
"Uf course he's kind of a bore, but he's
nl! right, In his way." "On the contrary,
he's always right In somebody^ else'0
way."
—o —
Mrs. Bascon—"Doesn't your husband
waste words?" Mrs. Egbert—"I should
say so. Why, he told me that story I
just told you today, and asked me not to
repeat it."
"I see you hand a brand new joke in
the last issue." It can't be helped," re-
sponded the magazine publisher. "Un-
scrupulous contributors palm them off oa
us sometimes."
"There was a strange man here to sea
you today, papa," said 'lttle Ethel, as
fho ran to meet her father In the hall.
"Did he have a bill?" "No papa, he had
just a plain nose."
"Did you get my valentine?" he asked
tjpi'vuloufciy. "No." she replied, "got
nothing but comics.'' "But mine con-
tained a proposal of marriage," he went
on eagerly. "Oh, that was yours? Yes,
ap£Ttin ttfuSZerTT. ! S*
ceeded In defeating one. that one being j
this increase of Judicial salaries.
Meanwhile, the radicals have gained
/ontrol of the legislature and forthwith
proceed to pass an act* increasing th.^
salaries, but shrewdly leave off their
favorite referendum clause. knowing
that the people would defeat it again at
the polls and incorporate In its stead an
emergency clause putting the increase of
salaries into Immediate effect. The rago
of the conservative anti-referendum
forces at thig palpable give-away of the
radical "principles" can readily be im-
agined. Thus speaks their unwearying
exponent, the Portland Oregonian:
"Why is the emergency clause added
I ^'8 an ^mer'can. 2# years of Scribbles—"I understand young Hhymef
ace. 5 feet S£ inches tall and weighs 168 's doln^ much better than formerly In
pounds. the poetry line " Dribblefrt."\Vhy, he
—o— told me he hadn't written a line for si*
At the celebration of the seventy- months." Seribblesn"Yes, he told me
eighth birthday of J. B. Davenport at the same thing."
WIT AND HUMOR
— — , Inches In cir-
to the bill to increase tht supreme court1 cumfW-renee. The he# is an ordinary
Judges? Does an emergency exist? Is fowl, with a mixed ancestry
thete any acute crisis in out judicial —o—
affairs that justifies all this haste'; At the Pennsylvania Hospital, Phila-
There is not. of course. The "crisis" delnhla. Dr. F\ T. Stewart, opened the
and the "emergency" are the people chest of Albert Johnson, colored, aged
of Oregon, who voted down this same 3fi. Injured in a fight, and took five
scheme last June, and will do it again stlches in the man's heart. It was said
if thev get the opportunity—vot^d It last night that Johnson's condition was
down by the overwhelming totals of favorsble. About three vears ago Dr.
to 30.243. But they are not to have Str-wart performed a similar operation
the opportunity. ■ on a negro, and the man is living.
The bill Is being rushed through to the —o—
governor on rretense that there Is an Two thucs. after holding up David
imperative necessity for relief. Bosh. T^ber. a butcher, at York. Pa. gauged
The scheme is to cut off the right of the him with mud and robbed him of $50.
people to kill off this fine job through ——w
referendum. Do he people rule?
would be a poor judge of human
tp who should suppose that this
complaint will have any effect upon the
tubilant radical faction so overwhelming-
ly In power or abate Its determination
to get this money for the judges out of
th, treasury. They who have been lone
the "outs" In Oregon are now the "Ins"
and they propose to exact the last pound , . .
flesh to which their victory entitle* 1 was ^orn
North Caldwell, N. J., In a house 111
years old. after dinner John B. Baldwin,
aged 78. and J. A. Bogart. aged 80. danc-
ed several llgs. The music was fast.
but the aged dancers kept up the jig for
nearly 20 minutes. Bogart was the last
one to quit, and he seemed fresh enough
to continue.
—o~ "What are the names of that young
A hen owned by Mrs. A. L. Wilson of coVPie ncxt do°r?"
Oceannort. N. J., laid an egg 9 Inches
from end to end and
"We won't be able to find out for sev-
eral weeks. They've Just been married,
and he rails her Birdie and she calls him
Pettie."*—Cleveland Leader.
Beporter-Do you think this long-dis-
tance T.-alking benefits you?
Mr. Economy—"Sure! I save five cents
every tr«p.—St. Louis Times.
times
CUTS AND SLASHES
I Jose Guadalupe. Aleade of Jalositlan.
State of Jalisco. Mexico, Is said to be
the oldest man In the world. The rec-
ord If his birth in the archives of the
them
It is better, however, for all of us to
nderstand always that human nature
ery much the same on both sides of the
ht In politics or anywhere else. The«"
Oregon politicians can doubtless per-
suade themselves that they are for this
or that measure because "tUe peop'e"
demand It; whereas, they are for It be-
cause thev want It. because thev want
to win; because thev want to see their
antagonists unhorsed: because, in short,
nower is as dear to them as to anyone
else.
Oregon, under the direct nrlmary and
the referendum, Is an Instructive paral-
lel 'o France under the revolution. Pow-
er Ion* enloved and ruthlessly adminis-
tered builds UP revolt whh'h will exhaust
itself in excesses before it can be check-
ed. In politics also, little is new under
the sun.
The latest hobby of the Kaiser is
Norwegian furniture and domestic dec-
oration. He has ordered furnishings In
this style for the hall of one of his
palac.es, and from a celebrated Norweg-
ian °-Ttlst has had plans for furnishing
the new palace at Poseu which is near-
Ing completion and is intended as a vis-
ible sign of Oer in domination In the
eastern provinces > f Prussia.
In 1770. so that he Is now 139 years old.
His physical condition Is good.
Since January 29 It Is estimated that
l.ooo.noo people have attended the revival
meetings In Boston, Tremont Temple,
which seats 4000, Is crowded three times
a day.
Prof. \\ illlam Mathews, aged 90 years,
who was the oldest llvlna: graduate of
Colby College, and probably the oldest
graduate of the Harvard T'nlverslty Law
School, died yesterday at his home In
Boston.
Dr. William T. Bull, the famous phy- 1
sician who is now in Savanah fighting
for his life asranst cancer, is so im-
proved that he is able to take long auto-
mobile rides Dr. John T. Walker, his
phvsican, returned t0 New York yester-
day.
A locomotive on a swich is now being
used to heat the station at Nescopcck
Pa. while the heating plant at the sta-
tion is being replaced.
Although a lot of cut glass and silver-
ware was in sight, burglars who brok
into the house of John Peterson of Bay-
onre, j*;. j f stole only two boxes uf
cigars.
Helen—Why. he yawned t
while t was talking to him.
Myrtle Perhaps he wasn't yawning.
He may have been trying to soy some-
thing—Puck.
"Where j* ri Dorado?"
"In the back of the magazines. When
11 read of the money to be made In Bel-
gian hares and squabs I grow supercil-
ious with wealth."—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Club Doctor (with view to diagnosis—
and now, my man. what do you drink?
Pntient (chefjr^ ily —Oh!—er—well,
Dor-tor. I'll leave that to you—The Bv-
stander.
—n—.
Fond Mother—Oh. Beginald' Rrgi-
nald! ^ tl)pueht j tolci you not to play
with vonr soldiers on Sunday.
Beginald—But T call them the Siha-
tlon Army on Sunday.—Bohemian.
Old Ootrox-My daughter, sir. Is not at
quite the rleht age for marriage.
Youne Goldhunt (confidentinl|vWVery
tn:e sir: but every will make It
.vorse, y0u know.—Chi- ago News.
Miss Foot—When I ma
a bravo hero who fears
• Mr. Koot—I'm sure it
shall be
I. Louis
POINTED PARAGRAPHS^
Talk about Nevada bringing about
international war. A jirize light is I
full size.—Memphis Scimitar.
It'« all off if r.
to Japan.—St. Lo
e Nation ever gf
Post Dispatch.
It takes a Jen'ous woman to ree things
that are invisible.—Chicago News
Another luxury some peopie are be"
gh.ing to enjoy Is daylight for break
fast.—Indianapolis News.
Trees so treated do not recovt
-tment try iiinrlv
a sure to blight the tree for several years to follow.
n the summer when the orehardist has to go out and
ake off three of every four of his fruit, he feels that
t is a great hardship, but in the fall when he is re-
viving twice the ^iee that he would for the small
!ruit, he sings another tune.
alRo—nearly $3,500,000 larger.
Uncle Sam's available cash
night was 1^143,457,255.68.
balance Saturday
PERSONS AND PLACES
The training of a came] is no easy
matter, as it takes about three years
to each It to bend ks knees. In order
to be loaded and unloaded.
—O —
Derge Iraclt of the Bornu province,
Nigeria, ire covered with gum-yleldlng
spec'.eg of acacia, aiid considerable quan
titles of gum are Collected, sold to the
trading firms and exported, mostly to
En island.
HE SATISFIED, OR
(Copyright, 1909.)
Uo tha Plums Tempt Hlmf
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Greer, Frank H. The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 282, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1909, newspaper, February 23, 1909; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc127016/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.