SWAMPS
FROZEN
LUKE McLUKE SAYS.
j The real Optimist is the man who
expect3 his children to be a Great
Help to him when they grow up.
A Kansas editor has quit boosting
Prohibition. His boy was ill and the
doctor prescribed alcohol. And then
  .the editor discovered that there was
WHICH WILL ENABLE RUSSIANS nowhere in Kansas that he could leg-
A\|) GERMANS UTILIZE ALL a],y Bet the a'«>ho1
HEARTRENDING SCENE WITNESSED
WHEN RUSSIANS SANK IN MARSH
A GREATER SOUL TH AN OURS.
Chinese Of-
By the United Press.
VIENNA. (By mail to New York)
—Lieutenant Franz Koaleski, recov-
ering in a local hospital from a bullet
FREEZING
TO DEATH
THEIR TROOPS.
RUSSIANS IN CONTROL
Of all Bukowina and Their Advance
Guard Invaded Transylvania; Aus-
trians Hurriedly Concentrating.
Everybody does too much bluffing.
But some of us are luckier than oth-
ers and do not get called as often.
The man who whines that he is
driven to drink means that a team of
horses couldn't drag him away from
the stuff.
From "The Letters of
flcial."
To feel and, in order to frel, to ex-
press or at least to understand the
writhing humanity, as if by a sud- i expression of #11 that is lovely in Na-
den inspiration of salvation, as from 1 ture, of all that is poignant and sensi-
some inner subtle intuition that(tive in man, is to us in itself a suffi-
  urged the distinction of the body's cient end. A rose in a moonlit garden,
wound through his right lung, has weight over the greatest surface pos the shadow of trees on the turf, al-
given a wonderfully vivid and grip- sible or even that urged the tearing mond bloom, scent of pine, the wine-
ping account of one more horror of of the uper portion from that lower cup and the guitar; these and the
the present great European war—' portion already imbedded, threw their , ,,athos of life and death, the long
the horror of the Galician marshes. | bodies forward at full length on the t.n,brace, the hand stretched out in
These marshes extend for almost deceiving grass before them. But al-jvain> the I110lnent that glides forever
Ji thrniiL.l, crrpat stretch- ready d°omed, served only to lens- aWay, with its freight of music and,
£££.. !wi "'<   w" -
ARE TURKS FOR INATTENTION
IN CAUSASUS WHERE THEY
WERE DEFEATED.
o stun ( <5 nt liallCl n. lneir aum'sv lamwi" ... .v
As soon as aboyt three-quarters of les mires arc the accumulation of ' Cne3' shneks' gr0a"'' '!**'• the haunted past, nil that we have, all
. . . _ I.*. I - , i  an(j prayers and invocations some nigh,! pIuHpq a hird on the wine, a
I the people begin to get a lot of fun I centuri€8 0f decayed vegetable and prayers ana invoc.uc.ns   «.jtb.t eludes us, a bird on the wing,
  'out of any particular sport, the ether |animal matter. From them "there 80lne 'ns^tent, some supplicating ; |;crfume escapcd on the gale—to all
By the United Press. 'quarter sends a lobby to the Legisla- |arises constanly malaria and other a,ld Rome desperate, increased ever thin({g we arc tramed to
PETROGEAD, Jan. 9.—Heavily re- __ j j „ i«n< *%*./\V*iV ?4inoM •  it. ..v..in4;nno
inforced Germans are making a
attempt to take Warsaw.
GERMANS ARE BLAMED
'or Turkish War and Invasion of
Caucasus—Terrible Weather Condi-
tions Stop Operations.
U i=c~T eV^ally as ^ ever as
final the sport. . . . deadly as the treacherous and which
ever j
before j gp0rMj) an(j the response is wh. t we
death | oa|j literature
iuempt i-u  •« | mere are naws in cvci j mm*
If defeated this time, they must re- But if the girl he marrjea isn't Per-
e sport. deadly as the treacherous ana wnicn - tan iiieraiu.e
There are flaws in everything else. a mnk Krowth of grass conceals. Once ^at evcr>' moment made itse som j Thig wo have; tMg you cannot k,ive
. .... v P„r. , u nflv- closer and closer apparent. I . ... so takc
tire to the frontier
The swamps are frozen solid
feet a man wants a divorce.
  . Another reason why there are so
aiding both sides to utilize all of their many battles in married lite is be-
f orces. I cause lovers do not tell enough truth
In the meantime the Russians are before they get married and tell too
endeavoring to smash a path into mucj, truth after they are married.
' j Hot water is said to be good medi-
| cine. Maybe that's the reason why
than single
man bv chance steps in this,he nev- c'°ser and closer apparert. I . ^t this you may so easily take .
man > I "Our soldiers, whose humanity1 . > it Germans, they forced the invasion,
er corner forth again. And into one of ' . , , , ,, away, rt.md the roar of the loom* it •
never for an instant deserted them' , „„„„t h.  n in When the crushing disaster that
East Prussia and flank the Germans ^
in Poland.
married men live longer
By the United Press. men.
PARIS, Jan. 9.—The Petrograd i Some preachers argue against
correspondent of the Matin wires that working on the Sabbath. And then
the Russians control all the Bukowina. they will labor through a sermon on
The advanced Russian guard has Sunday. | . their cry nf
invaded Transylvania. I When a wealthy man dies it often | ^ awgy they went
The Austrians are hurriedly con- happens that his body is almost coia , „ , t
By The United Press.
PETROGRAD, Jan.
Turkisn officers blame
for Caucasus defeat.
Despite the protestations
8.—The older
the Germans
of the
these Lieutenant Koaleski saw
    saw a never for an instant deserted them be heard; u cannot fae seen in
whole regiment of Russian soldiers e%en in t ,e fa(-c " ' ' ^'/ ' the smoke of factories; it is killed by
sink, sink, sink until the sickening - tfthe ! the wear and whir, of your Western
siCKeninj; • , .
, _ . * j of their rifles to the men whom but a
death-dealing moment before they had hoped to
last feeble gurgle of its struggling ^ ^
victims. |ju^ WEs a Krasp that was utterly
'"Forward! Charge, to the as- futjle Nq pQwer on eftrth could snve
sault!'" was the cry that rang down them^ and wjth an „About Face  the
our ranks,'• said Lieut. Koaleski. i Austrian offl(.e]
"The Russians saw us coming and a)ready terrified, white
for a moment stood still, as it too con- iinjrt and marched them
I J i     TKon .... i
1 Austrian officers, turned their men,
the wear and whirl of your Western
life. And when 1 look at your business
men, the men whom you most admire;
when I see them toilin:-:, hour after
hour, day after day, year after year,
in the mill of their forced and unde
lighted labors; when I see them im-
fused, too perplexed
to move. Then
About face"
their men, —  -
and tremb-' porting the anxieties of the day into
away with ! their scant and grudging leisure, and
has overtaken the Turks in Caucasus
reaches Constantinople, an anti-wai"
demonstration of great magnitude
will be the result.
Hundreds of the wounded Turks
have frozen to death for inattention.
The terrible weath conditions are
halting operations in Poland, Galicia
and the Carpathians.
v entrting to defend Hungary.
HOW COMPLAINT WAS
SIGNED IS REPORTED
, "But it was only for an instant. For
, before the relatives start scrapping I ^ ^ somcthin(f stranfje
over the wll. . , and unusual happened. From what
| The man who makes the first half j _ M ^ „
of his life a three ring circus doesn t
As there seems to be some
expressed as to whether the notice re
produced from the Daily
in Wednesday's Constittuion, repre-
senting that City Commissioner R. A.
Jones had signed a complaint against
the Comanche Light & Power com-
pany and that it had been filed with
the State Corporation commission,
have much of a show during the lat-
ter half.
I It hurts you a whole lot more to
doubt stay up late because you want to than
it does to say up late because you
Oklahoman ^ a man does his duty as he
sees it, his wife begins bawling him
out because he doesn't consult an oc-
ulist.
I When Father is told to go to a cer-
n'ever"a look* backward's at"the horror | weanng themselves out less by toil By the United Press.
that lay behind." - j than by cracking and illiberal cares, BERLIN, Jan. 8.—Ten Russian air-
  i I reflect, 1 confess, with satisfaction j men who became too daring were
COUNTY ATTORNEY ORR. |on the simple routine of our ancient ||,r0U(,ht down by the German aerial
  industry; and I prize, about all your guns ;n Lodz-Lowiz district.
County Attorney Orr received a let- jnew and dangerous routes, the beaten j An admission is made by the Ger-
couia be asceriaineu ai mc ter yesterday from the secretary of trju;k 80 fatniUar to our accustomed [man war 0fflca that the Austrian#
Russians who had been the first to Oklahoma Bar Association, notif> ing ^ that we have leisure even while j,ave been driven back in Bukowina
turn and run, had stopped suddenly, him of his appointment as vice-presi-(wg ^ turn our jraze to the region by overwhelming Russian for-
Perhaps it was for the purpose of re- dent for this judicial district and  1" 'etcrnai stars.
organizing, perhaps for the purpose of so for him to appoint two others..    
 i County Attorney Orr was also on the i
° 'Yet so burning were the Aus- program of the association meeting HITS FROM SHARI h.
trians wiWi the lust of th. eh.,, th.t ~„,tl, h.ld in T«l„, hut he I Atte, . men h« h.d . bride end ..
The general situation in Poland is
unchanged. Minor sapping and mining
operations are going on.
xom to go u, - to the rankg of the Russians, a„d
tain place to get a certain food for the, ^ an more thgy were 8„
Baby, Father goes to any old drug _ ^    
investigated with the following
Roy F. Champlin informed a rep-
resentative of the Constitution this
i orning, that he had taken the com-
plaint to City Commissioner R. A.
Jones, who readily signed it, and had
automobile for awhile he begins to
take an interest in other models.—
Cincinnati Inquirer.
Every kiss one woman gives an-
NEEDS CARE. other woman is an irretrievable loss.
Someone has said that people with Not always is it the black sheep
Chronic Liver Complaint shouU! be;that fleeces the other members of the
was that they perceived shut up away tnr family. Toledo Blade.
uiaiio wini *—  -
they barely perceived this strange (absent in Tennessee.
fact. They perceived only that they
were constantly and rapidly aP- THE LIVER REGULATES THE
proaching with every leap and bound BODV A SLUGGISH LIVER
the State corporation cuium  v.., Baby( Father goes to any old arug ^ ^ thpm
was authorized, the matter has been ^ because he knows that one food ■ 11 R ^ ^ lhey perceived ghut up away from humanity,
investigated with the following result. ig as K00d as another. But when Fath- (^ the Rugiang who had s0 suddenly they are pessimists and see through a
er runs out uf smoking tobacco he has ; stQpped thmgeWeg stil, kcpt their .Kiass darkly." Why? Because mental
to walk five squares to a certain p a(^jbackg turned to the pursuing enemy, states deend upon physical states,
because he knows that his bran is ^ ^ .ngtant it aroused sudden Biliousness, Headaches, Dizziness and
the only good tobacco. | f.ugpiciongi perhaps they intended to Constipation disappear after using
J   When a man refuses to bet on a defen(J themgeiveS) as they remained r)r- King's New Life Pills. 25c.
also discussed it with him. Also, that sure thing it isn't because he is too st(,adfastj upright, as though your Druggist.
Mr. Jones informed Mr. Champlin honest to take advantage of some oth- ;m ,ed !   
that there had been several com- er man. It is because he knows that ^ nearest files alone, one woul«i -i
plaints made to him about the charges aUre things often lose. j hay(? might sudenly have ar-
and service of the Comanche Light & , Hai-mony in the Home often mea,lS jrjve<j at the edge of a precipice so
Power company. that Father is too much of a sharp was their stop. They formed
As Mr. Champlin started to leave man to strike a woman and that; ... . . ■  j -ti.u .
Mr. Jones, with the expressed inten- Mother would be arrested for man-
family.
If ignorance is really bliss, we know
some people who must be supremely
happy.—Commercial Appeal.
Let the pessimist alone with his il-
lusions. He imagines he is keeping the
at'world from turning
Blade.
Now comes a story from Chicago
that the head of the great Sears-Roe-
buck company has been indicted for
evading taxes. The Sears-Roebuck
company has fattened off of the un-
suspecting farmer by the mail order
route to such an extent that they
ought at least be willing to pay their
proper tax—Muskogee Times-Demo-
crat.
The suppositions that father is
turtle.—Tole-'i j happy when the children are happy
I was invented by mother.
tion of getting City Commissioner slaughter if I-ather ever tried to.
Warren to also sign the complaint, j   
Mr. Jones requested that Champlin SNAP SHOTS,
not present it to Warren.
It was also expected to present the
complaint to Commissioner W. D.
Turner, but he was out of the city.
solid cordon of men toward which the
Austrians hurled themselves as to-
wards a wall of stone. But even as the
| first of the Austrians all but reached
| the solid rank of Russians they be-
came stupified to see the latter still
she would remaining unmoved, their backs still
without one
Mrs. Peavish says that —  (
be almost willing for Mr. Peavish to turned, and apparently
     the kind of lawyer that chases the thought of making the least defense.
Mr. Champlin says that there is no ambulance if she thought it might! '"What is it?' the Austrians de-
l t . !•> mottpf but. < i L'_
personal feeling in the matter, but gome tjme (,ark over him.
! manded of themselves. Was
— ■ some nine ....... .
simply a desire to get first-class ser-, p<j ^ t|me w-n n€yer come| other of those tncks of
_ _ j of q reasonable .... .  n. some terrible mine anou
war?
vice and electricity at
price
THE AGGIES WON
GAME FROM APACHE
• •„ . 'j,. some terrible mine about to explode
when great nien wil not cons'der 'J : beneath their feet? Were the Rus-
extremely important to be <1°8e^ I sians merely waiting unmoved to see
with each other, whether they are , pursuers suddenly wiped from
j great or not. |the face of the earth?'
I When a swelled head can not find a j uncanny fear ran down the
crown large enough of course it mustj^neg of the ent;re Austrian force at
get along with a tall hat. | the spectacle, an uncanny fear that
' | The idea that the landowner pays , the next instant crystalized as there
•From Saturday's Daily. ! to the t of the govern- af?ain rang out from the officers the
The Cameron College Basket Ball ^ ^ ^ for ownint; ,and|cry „f . HAIjT! HALT- IIALT!
team, went up to Apache rea(Jg like a Kr;m j0ke to the owner of 1 "The officers, not an instant too
evening, where they P'^ei1 ^ a cjt lot three miles from town. soon, had solved the mystery and
Apache high schol team the game ^ ^ ^ about KOtten so that silence 'then it was that there was unfolded
resulted in a spore of 18 to Jo in i a ^ .mpressive of all means 0f a scene that made our blood run cold,
cir of the Cameron boys. . )VJ expression. "Terrifying, frightful cries rose
The following is the 0 | Thc luxuries of yesterday look pret- from those masses of Russian sold-
wart^DrnX" eenferT Tom and ty cheap alongside the necessities of iers as with a supreme effort they
Marie Strineer guards; Wilcoxson, tomorrow.
Merle airinger, ^ As i «?eneral thins, when a man
the game. /
  .them.
, Qimpi v THFIR 1 Probably it is all right for a mar-
' ' OWN ELECTRICITY, ried man to have a train of thought,
  : as long as he doesn't sass the conduc-
FORT SMITH, Ark., Jan. 11.—Be- tor.
turned their heads towards us and
stretched !out supplicating hands.
Then it was, that even a stranger fact
dawned upon our appalled senses.
The Russians were rapidly growing
smaller and smaller. Their legs, little
oy little, went disappearing down
through the rank grass; nvinK 1 e
impression as though all had sudden-
the movement has met with The quotations don't matter If you: ly ^ that all
such hearty support the merchants have no ing man thinks had freed themselves of their rifles,
who began forming a co-operati\e | e reas because that .had thrown them away, and with con-
electric company here a few weeks his taxes are too high is because , ^ ^ ag though with one
ago have decided to increase the cap- is what ey _a . finai collective spasm they stretched,
ital of the proposed company from. Another point in^ favor oi luug
$10,000 to $50,000 for the purpose of that when it ,s coo!fing ab.
supplying power and light to others, it doesn t invade the house like
At first it was intended to supply base. .
only business houses located within a Furthermore leaving0
three-block zone on Garrison Avenue, the sands of time shows tha. >
but the demands for service from the were not a sitfast. ,nntpntion
company have been so heavy that it Moreover, our personal conten
has now been decided to take in the is that when chorus girls come ou
entire business district. Active work pajamas their mothers ought to
on the Droiect is now under way and them to bed.
it is expected the plant will be com- j Also we know some men whose
plete and ready for operation by trains of thought haul dirt m°stly-
* Mrs. Peavish says that she is so
Hay 1 sorry for the Belgians that if they
REAL ESTATE TRANSFER. ' were cannibals she would give them
   ! Mr. Peavish.
Geo T. Putty and wife, of Marlow, j — ~ "
to F A Parkinson, this city, lot 9,1 White Parker, of Cache, Okla., is In
block 4, Beal addition, and lots 6 and the city today transacting business,
7, in block- 6, Butler addition to Law- and while here made this office
ton, for $1,000.00.
I pleasant call.
not out, but up, up, up their suppli-
cating hands. I
"Not one of us fired against the
enemy.
"At first only perplexed, we be-
came suddenly terrorized, when final-
ly we grasped that which was happen-
ing before our eyes—the treacherous
mire, under which was hidden the
fathomless marshes, had opened to
swallow them up.
•'All the efforts, persistent, desper-
ate, which each made to liberate him-
self from the clammy element only
engulfed him the deeper. If some
poor soldier, after a thousand efforts,
succeeded at last in extricating a leg,
he found only the other more hope-
lessly than ever imbedded.
''First one, then another, then an-
other, and finally all of that mass of
Money for You
in Poultry
|NE lady bought the Family Gro-
ceries all summer, and the day
before Thanksgiving sold $210 worth.
Another lady marketed $186 worth
the same day.
Safety Hatch Incubators & brood-
ers enabled them to do this. \ ou can
do the same if you start right by buy-
ing the right kind of an incubator 01
brooder. We have a complete line,
all sizes.
Also a full line of steel coops, wa-
ter fonts, etc.
When you are in town, call in and
let us explain these to you.
Block-Miller Hdw. Co.
319 D Avenue
Telephone 696