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[WSPAPER POBIISHING CO.1
'•iilding Oklahoma City. Oklahoma.
fey at 217 North Harvey Street, Oklahoma City.
SUBSCRIPTION RATIOS.
$1.00
should be handed to local editors not later than
upon application to business office.
of address, give old as well as new address.
K. ARMSTRONG, Editor.
| CLINGS TO WALL OF CANYON
Government Road in the Yellowstone
Park Is a Triumph of ^En-
gineering Skill,
United States government engineers
have performed feats equal to those
of the ancient Roman engineers In
road building, a recent example of
which may be found In the Yellow-
stone National park, where the govern-
ment is spending millions of dollars
In highway and other improvements.
The illustration shows a road which
on concrete piers hangs to the side
of the Golden Gate canyon as it
)R GORE'S I)I .M( K'KAO
Lay, December 1st. Senator I 1'. (mre ■
nominate Senator I al'iillcttc ami the <lein<icrat-
he trouble tn vote but will jjo lishing with John
Ln day."
the democrat,- nominate ( lark or Wil-on, he
Jjbut if he or Clark are not nominated 1 am for
pint Taft doe> not satisfy, let republicans nom-
jPiisurjfcs like (lOvernor Johnson of C alifornia,
Icsota, or I.aFollette of Wisconsin."
P1a declaration as the above would have brought
®tion from every partisan political hack in < >kla-
P.nv man, however high, to inevitable defeat and
P
'•lot an officeholder, but a rock-ribbed partisan
fie Wilson club recently that he preferred Wil-
fthe nominee of the party, whoever he might be.
"are representative Democrats, but what a dif-
"icy.
?' announces himself for the man, independent
r real Democracy. He places the people and
ish of a meaningless, empty party name. In
- himself a Democratic, Democrat and the kind
independent of party, will continue to honor
.•'either through ignorance or selfish interests,
ft the wheels of progress, wholly disregarding
lasses, solely for his party's success.
)
it the two distinct elements in both the Demo
rties—the Progressive and I'lourbon Democrats
I Stand-pat Republicans. I he former places
l-erty rights. The latter holding the dollar upon
would continue to subject the people to its
rOLITICAL AI.K IXM KNTS.
«er should vote for any candidate who is not
Id hesitate to cross party lines in order to sup-
ta Progressive Democrat a Progressive Repub-
, .urably preferable to a l!ourboii Democrat lo
1 a Progressive Democrat ought to be itnnieas-
tand-pat Republican.
to be one of Republicanism against Democracy,
frogressivism against Toryism. I.very Progres-
his. None should make the mistake of helping
Hid of putting their foes on guard.
"NUINF. DI'..M( M/KACY.
Tkliers, Woodrow Wilson, now appearing as one
If 1 progressive statesmen of hi- time, has come
Ldorsement of the Oregon plan of government,
ti n a long line of accentuated approvals.
month-, from state capitals here and there
have come plaudits for the system ( iregon
I ^ have created. Everywhere the -v-teni ha- been
jfcr copying. Governors of great commonwealths
■(Assembled legislators of great states have eom-
In appeals to these legislators to adopt the plan
Hhese legislators and millions of people have
i was the model b\ which the l^institution of
IV
IJate so phenominall> commended and so tavor
■j there ever a state so widely heralded and so
Iso many men in high station; Was there ever
lily Democratic, so genuincK humane, and so
■Hghest ideals of the world's greatest humanitar-
' never secured these ideal conditions except
Jf people,*and the people, if they will, can rule
le.va as they do in Oregon.
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Concrete Yellowstone Road.
twists and twines Its way in to the
jpark. It is a triumph of engineering
{skill.
The government has entire control
of the park. All new roads opened
and the repairs and maintenance of
<ild roads and trails are entirely de-
pendent upon congressional appropri-
ations. The roads are now In very line
condition, a great deal of work and ex
ipense having recently been put upon
(them, and steel and concrete bridges
|have almost entirely replaced wood-
en ones. Prominent among the im-
provements is the construction of the
fine lava arch entrance at Gardiner,
at a cost of $10,000 ;the new concrete
viaduct at Golden Gate, costing $10,-
000, to replace the old timber trestle;
and the erection of a very fine con-
crete and steel bridge of artistic de-
sign across the Yellowstone river and
rapids, just above the upper fall of the
Yellowstone at the Grand canyon, at
[the expense of $20,000.
J Port Yellowstone, the military post
fa the park at Mammoth Hot
I Springs, llere, also, are the head-
I quarters of the United States engineer
In charge of the park improvements,
and the United States commissioner.
Mammoth Hot Springs Is thus tlie cap-
ital of the park. In recent years this
place has been greatly improved. A
rearrangement of roads, new buildings,
concrete sidewalks, a new waterworks
and an Irrigation system and a con-
sequent carpeting of grass on the old
white plaza in front of the hotel and
officers' quarters, has metamorphosed
the locality. Mammoth Hot Springs Is
the largest and most important place
in the park, llere all authority cen-
ters; it Is the heart from which puls-
ate tho currents of life which pernie-
I ate the park.
OLDER THAN UNITED STATES
Stones Used to Mark Mason and
Dixon's Lino Were Brought
From England.
Pittsburg, Pa.—The name "Mason
and Dixon's Line" has been popu-
larly applied to the whole divisory line
between free and slave soil, but prop
erly it belongs only to the south
boundary of Pennsylvania, surveyed by
I1 M.
oud of mist
, irm of man
-ith a voice
tlty, said:
1 I hear thou
I* Vision
|lj"
ie teachings
• government
it to all,
pone, is un-
Bchold old
ky and all
jin this day
j must be re
I lee, that the
Hlaws of our
1 framed so
n the many
I further, for
I Aumble shall
f jigher given.
arise, and
' ;re you will
little chil-
j many pri-
jey, for they
r from them
I ; thou not
II i hast gatb-
I.' ito the City
of Nod,
I lold a spa-
ulding. like
thy way
find thee to
of Strait,
|r,many more
It Gather of
I «iiid proceed
unto the buildings of which 1 have
told thee, and enter therein.
"In this building thou wilt behold
the children, mostly of affluence and
plenty, who are born of the favored
few. Give unto them the sheckels
thou hast gathered; remembering the
Scriptures say 'From those that have
not, it shall be taken, to those that
have, it shall be given.'"
1 was much troubled and awoke,
but I fell asleep again. In a brilliant
light, another Vision appeared, like
unto the Sage of Montecello. with a
countenance of the Just and Right-
eous; Andrew Jackson on his right,
and William Jennings Bryan on his
left, and he said unto me;
"Oh, Friend, be thou not troubled,
and hear me, for I will speak unto
thee the truth of Wisdom. The One
that has just visited thee is a de-
ceiver of Men, a traitor to Democracy,
and to his Country. 1 say unto thee,
that the doctrines of Kqual Rights to
All, and Special Privileges to None,
shall live forever and ever.
"Gather not one farthing from thoBe
little ones, as thou hast been com-
manded. Stain not thine hands with
such an unspeakable crime.
Condemn all Measures with all the
force thou mayest have thait would,
through Legislative artltices, take
from one portion of the people for
the benefit of the other portion, or,
that would take from one community
for the aggrandisement of another
community.
"The principle of all sharing alike
In the function of government is the
foundation upon which Democracy,
correct and just government must
stand." ,
J. S. MOORE.
Altus, Okla.
m
Marks a Boundary Line.
; Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
1763-67.
j For over 100 years this line was a
I "bone of contention," and England
finally sent Mason and Dixon to the
colonies to make an official survey
which was to be final.
At the end of every fifth mile of this
i line a stone, brought from England,
was placed, engraved on one side with
the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore,
jund on the other with those of the
jl'enns; while the Intermediate miles
[ were marked by smaller stones, 16
j inches square and 18 inches high,
I bearing a large letter M on one side
j mid P on the other. The line is 2S0
I miles long.
Father's Joy Unabated.
Guthrie, Okla.—At sixty-four years
of age, W. W. Elam, a farmer living
living east of Blanchard, Okla., is the
father of his twenty-fourth child,
which made Its appearance at his
.home a few days ago. The mother
of the child is Elam's third wire. Of
his twenty-four children, eighteen are
living. Elam has spent his entire life
on the farm. This places Elam at the
head of his class in Oklahoma.
SCHEME OF MADMAN
It Would Enable One to Prolong
His Life.
By Traveling Rapidly From West to
East He Would Gain a Day Every
Time He Circled the Globe—
Problem Still Untried.
Here is a story of the origin of
Jules Y'erne's famous "Tour of the
World In Eighty Days" and its hero,
Phineas Fogg, which came to us the
other day, says the editor of the Hook-
man, but adds that he will not vouch
for its truth.
According to the tale an American
physician settled in Paris during the
later days of the second empire and
built up an excellent practice among
the English-speaking residents of the
city. He married an English girl and
the couple had two children.
The war, the siege and the Com-
mune came, bringing the American
physician and his family discomfort,
but no serious barm. A few months
after the restoration of peace, how-
ever, the wife and children were kill
ed in a railway accident.
Thoroughly shattered by the blow
the American sold out his practice
and bought a small villa on the out-
skirts of Amiens, where he lived for
many years. He was undoubtedly
queer, the result of his loss, and his
queerness led to eccentricities of de
meanor and strange researches. For
example, he carried the virtue of
punctuality to an extreme, measuring
his day not merely by minutes but
by seconds.
He dabbled in long discredited sci
ences, sought a solution of-the riddles
of the world In astrology, endeavored
to transmute the baser metals into
gold and actually sought the elixir
that was to prolong life at will. One
day he gravely announced that he
had solved the last problem, though
not in the alembic.
His explanation anticipated by
many years the idea that Mr. Kip-
ling was to use in his tale "The Wan-
dering Jew." A man traveling from
west to east would gain a single day
in every circling of the globe. There-
fore all he had to do to live forever
was to keep moving as rapidly as pos-
sible toward the rising sun.
He was actually on the point of put-
ting his discovery into practice when
two kindly appearing and persuasive
fellow physicians called at his villa
one day and soothingly led him to
the carriage that took him away to
the maison de sante, where he soon
afterward died. Whether Jules Verne
himself knew this physician or the
tale was told him by old residents of
Amiens, the story does not say.
Collected Autographs.
"One of the things they do better
in Prance than in New York is the
handling of matinee Idol fever cases,"
said a woman. "I never suffered an
attack of ihat particular illness until
I reached Paris; then it struck me
in its most virulent form; I became
an autograph collector Many of tho
French operatic and dramatic celebri-
ties 1 had heard in New York without
succumbing to their charms, but when
I heard them on their native soil I
thirsted for specimens of their hand
writing. Indefatigably I wrote let-
ters begging for autographs A few
courteously acceded to my request,
but a popular tenor initiated me into
the French way of coping with the,
autograph fiend. A note from hia
secretary informed me that if 1 would
buy from the stationer whose ad
dress he inclosed an actors' auto-
graph form and send it to the tenor
he would be most happy to sign it.
I hastened to the stationer's and
found that printed slips awaiting the
actor's or singer's signature could
be bought for a franc, the money
being applied to the actors' fund.
Except in rare cases that is the only
way a French professional man now
grants mi autograph. Think how
many poor people could be kept in
comfort for the rest of their natural
lives if that plan were followed in
New York."
Not in His Line.
Senator John D. Works of Califor-
nia sat on a street car the other day
next to a youngster who was on his
way home from school, with an
abused-looking arithmetic under his
arm.
"How do you get along in arith-
metic?" inquired the senator of the
boy.
"Oh. fairly well," replied the young
ster. with a half sigh.
"Do you enjoy the study of mathe-
matics?" asked Works.
"What's that?"
"1 say do you enjoy the study of
mathematics arithmetic and such?"
"N'aw," replied the boy with fervor.
"I hate the stuff'"
"Put her there!" said the new
California senator, holding out his
hand "I agree with you most heart-
ily When 1 was your age I hated
it just as much as you do now, and I
hate it yet It's awful stuff, isn't it?"
The senator says he probably would
starve to death if he were obliged to
hold down a Job with a lot of In
tricate figuring in it.
His Latest Love.
"How's your wife, Nippers""
"Pretty well, 1 guess Say, have
you seen my new motor car?"
Eh. What?
"I don't like the speaker lie is
too periphrastical."
1 agree with you. He certainly is
* homely man."
WIFE OF CANADA'S PREMIER
Charming and Gifted Helpmeet of the
Dominion's Distinguished
Prime Minister.
Ottawa. Can.—In Mrs. Robert Laird
Borden. wife of Canada's prime min-
1 ister, the Domin-
I ion has a society
I leader who is
famed not only for
her tact and
charming disposi-
tion, but for her
j intellectual qualii
i ties. Her knowl-
i edge of public af-
fairs would do
credit to a states-
I man and it Is said
1 that her distin-
guished husband
places the utmost
| confidence in her
judgment. She is
ail exceptionally
well-read woman,
being especially
interested in books
which (leal with
the lives of men
who have made
the world's his
Mrs. Borden.
tory. But it is not to l e presumed
because Mrs. Borden's tastes lie along
serious lines that she is in any way
lacking in the ace of manner and
interest, in purely feminine matters
which distinguish the true woman. On
the contrary she takes the keenest
delight in society affairs, having for
years been the central figure in the
winter festivities for which Ottawa
is noted. She has gathered about her
a coterie of distinguished and clever
friends and her entertainments are
considered the most brilliant as well
as the most informal given in the
capital of the Donfinion. Sympathetic,
gracious and thoughtful for the com-
fort of her guests, no woman in Can-
ada's public life is more deserving of
appreciation than the wife of the
prime minister.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Borden
was Miss Laura Bond of Halifax. She
was married in 1889, seven years be-
fore her husband first entered parlia-
ment. She takes a deep interest in
women's work and for years was pres-
ident of the Halifax Women's council.
She has also been president of the
Aberdeen association, vice-president
of the Canadian Women's Work ex-
change and corresponding secretary
of the Associated Charities of the
United States.
KANSAS TAR PARTY JAIL
Where Several Members of the Crowd
Who Mistreated Miss Chamber-
lain Now Reside.
Lincoln Center, Kan.—The jail on
the court house common at Lincoln
Center, Kan., had been without a
single prisoner and the county au-
thorities were about to convert it in-
to an engineroom when the now fa-
mous "tar party" at Shady Bend oc-
curred.
Ed Ricord, the decoy, who rode with
Miss Mary Chamberlain to the ren-
dezvous for the tarring, and several
others of the party now occupy the
building. The front widow seen in
the picture lights the cell where Ric-
ord now reads law.
The stone of which the jail and the
court house of Lincoln county wero
built is native to the county. It was
quarried for the two buildings from
the hillsides near Lincoln Center.
Miss Chamberlain intended to bring
suits for damages against all the par-
ticipants in the tarring, but proceed-
PHYSICIAN SAYS MOTHERS
LET THEIR BABIES DIE
I "Twenty-five per cent of the chil-
dren born to the rich of New York
city die before
the age of 5 be-
cause their moth-
ers did not at-
tend properly to
their nourish-
ment when they
were infants. The
children needed
their mothers'
milk and did not
get it. Physi-
cians, anxious to
please the moth-
ers, told them
they need not stay away from bridge
parties and matinees to nurse their
babies, because cow's milk, properly
prepared, would do as well.
"Fifty per cent of the children in ■
the tenements die In infancy because
they are born into conditions of dls- j
ease, malnutrition and neglect."
Such is the astounding presentation
of conditions now existing In New I
York city, according to Dr. Abraham J
Jacob!, a physician of prominence In j
the metropolis. Continuing, he says: i
"Our hospitals, Insane asylums and
penitentiaries are filled with the re-
sult of children brought into the
world to swell families already too
large for their means of support; or
where their homes were too small;
or where disease resulted from lack
of ventilation and general unclean 11
ness, or the mother was either too
busy, too careless of too ignorant to
give the proper care to the child
Hence, in many cases there was no
education. A puny. Ill-nourished body
went hand in hand with a puny, ill-
nourished brain. Exit the subject
Into crime, disease and insanity
"And this sorry stream emanates
not alone from the poor, hut from the
rich as well; only the rich, because
they are rich, are allowed to walk the
streets.
"The state sees that people who
commit crime are attended to so that
the public good will be protected. The j
state takes charge of the people's
mail. Why should It not take charge
of the health of those same people?
"Fifty years ago. statistics showed,
out of every 100 children born in the
tenements 46 died before tlie age of
5. Now the mortality Is 29 to every
100. That's a big improvement, but
it has been slow making.
"We are endeavoring to take care
of the babies. The various societies
send nurses into the tenements to
teach the mothers there how to keep
the place clean and w holesome. ^ They
try to show the women that sewing
the baby's clothes on for the winter
is not wholesome. They educate
them in the proper sterilization of
milk bottles, how to warm the milk
and dilute it with barley water and a i
bit of salt, perhaps.
"It is likely that in every hundred
tenement dwellers there are several
,consumptives. They cough and ex-
pectorate and spread infection about
,them. Whatever one coughs into the
jair remains there five or six hours
ibefore it sinks. Then it settles in
.the dust and is just as deadly. That
is another evil which the puny baby
(must combat."
OLDEST TELEGRAPHER NOW
RETIRES FROM SERVICE
The oldest employe in the point of
service of the Western Union Tele- :
graph company
Jail at Lincoln Center, Kan.
iugs were started for a compromise
and it is said that $25,000 is the least
her attorneys would agree to accept
in settlement.
The three men, E. C. Clark, Jay
Fitzwater and Watson Scranton, w ho
[pleaded guilty, and John Schmidt,
(who was convicted, are worth in tho
aggregate more than $100,000, Clark
alone being rated in excess of $50,
000. Their pleas of guilty and tho
conviction of Schmidt leave them ex*
posed for damages, and, it is said,
that upon the advice of their attor-
neys they would compromise rather
than to go into court where they
might be stripped clean.
in America,
Frank IT. McMul-
lan, of Green-
ville, Ala., tho
man who, during
the Civil war,
E/ transmitted the
I last orders be-
tween Gen. Dan
Taylor and Gen
James H. Clan-
ton, recently re-
tired from active
service. For 5.r>
years he has been an operator and
has worked for one company 42
years. 30 years in the Western Union
office at Greenville and was never
given a day's vacation in all that
time. He started as a bare-footed
messenger boy and worked his way
up to the position of manager, and
knows all about the progress of tire
telegraph in more than a half century
At the time that Mr. McMullan seiH
the last orders between General Tay-
lor and General Clanton, Clanton
was at Brewton, Ala , with hi*
brigade and badly in need of aid when
he ordered Taylor to join him.
K
eystone
lothiers
131 Main Street
ns ALL
On Men's
and Young
Men's
SUITS
Keystone
lothiers
131 Main Street
$1,000 Bill as Lighter.
San Francisco—Slguard liartlg, a
real estate dealer formerly of Cincin-
liati, accidentally lighted a cigarette
■with a $1,000 bill here. He intended
to burn only the end of a bit of yel-
low paper protruding from the edge of
the bill for the edification of his
friends. Samuel Mailer, another friend,
joined the group just as Hartig lit the
cigarette .
"Give me a light," said ltaller, seiz-
ing the bill. Before Hart wig could re-
cover the "yellow back" it was in
flames. The two men quarreled and
were separated by a city detective,
iwho reported the incident to th po-
lice.
A small corner of the bill and a few
ashes were recovered and will be sent
to tho treasury department at Wash-
ington by Hartig in an attempt to have
the loss made good.
INDIVIDUALITIES.
Miss Margaret Hevan, aRed 18. wr?j
has arrived In this country from
Wales. Is a preacher of the gospel In
the Baptist church, and is visiting
the I'nited States for the second
time In a ministerial capacity. She
conies to America at the Invitation of
the Baptists, and under the direction
of Dr. J. T Lloyd of Youngstown,
Ohio, she will make an extended tour
Waldemar Lindgren, appointed
chief geologist of the I'nited Stai.es
geological survey, is a native of Swed
en. and has beeii in the survey since
1884 as assistant. He is a graduate
of Freiburg School of Mines, and for
a time was professor of mining and
metallurgy at Stanford university As
a technical writer he has gained
fame.
M. Peru, the uist surviving pupil of
Chopin, recently gave Ills farewell
concert In I'arls. He is over 80 years
of age. but remarkably vigorous, and
plays with all the delicacy which tra-
dition associates with the art of thi
great Polish pianist.
SPECIAL
S_AJLE_[
We have five
Coal Ranges
BEST GRADE
Will sell them at
Actual Cost!
You will have to hurry !
J. T. Spivey
& Sons
California and Harver, Oklahoma City
Well, good bye, old 1911, you've
been a hot, dry old year, but you did
pretty good in your declining days.
The rains you have given us will help
1912 to make a reputation.
The Muskogee County Medical so-
ciety elected the following officers:
Dr. H. B. Ballantine, Muskogee, presi-
dent; Dr. ti. A. McBride of Fort Gib-
son, vice president; Dr. O. C. Klass,
Muskogee, secretary-treasurer. Dr.
A. B. Montgomery was elected a set
ond year delegate to the state con-
vention and Dr. J. T. Nichols, a third
year delegate. Other delegates were
Dr. I. B. Oldham, first year; Dr. M. K.
Thompson, third year. Several new-
members were admitted to the organ-
ization. The state meeting is to be
held in Shawnee In May.
That wheat prospects are better
than for years, that Oklahoma farmers
have planted an acreage of upward of
2,000,000 acres, and that a 30,000,000
bushel crop of wheat is a possibility
for 1!U2, has been stated by C. V. Top-
ping, secretary of the Oklahoma Mill-
ing association and secretary and
manager of the Oklahoma Export
company, who has resigned his posi-
tion at a meeting of the Oklahoma
j Milling association to accept the po-
I sit ion of secretary and manager of the
' Kansas Millers' association with head-
I quarters at Wichita.
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