The Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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TUB LEADER, CIUTHRIE. 0KLA„ THTRSPAY. ATT.rST S. 1D12.
A PROGRESSIVE ! THE COUNTRY'S LIVE STOCK.
rbt first roslRiiaiion Hum tile "'■ i A tat«-nient liiued hy the census
I nil mooic Biati' committee chosen i
Kansas <"lty li'ib been recorded.
nays the St Louis Tiniea. Mi' It. 1 i
Andrews in ti"' jt'.-n t icm ju ulio Ac-
quit. mid, iu ilejiuitiiiK iruiu iliu ijud.\
8ub«crl|>tlon: J1.00 the feur,
Wtably In advance.
THI BRITAISH TITANIC REPORT
In the formal JwH?meiit oi Lord
""menu ot the examining author!
tie*. The (tnainca. taken as *h°' .
coincide in most respect. with, lb
eoncluaioni readied by rar ®en®1 P
committee In this country. The di«
MUM. attributed to the unsafe speed
at which the Titanic was running a I ^
the time of "ie accident, 11 ^ L I
found thai the lookout maintained |
waa insufficient. No direct conime.il
ta made upon the Biippiy or Ifeboat"
probably because the deficiency in
thl. re*> t * <1 "UmU
'1'V.fc
Inch id trying tu ke.op ti)'. ark ot
political integrity in the native ajiye.
I c declared himielf.
am a progregalycw* 4
but 1 have handed in m\ resignation
member of the state commit
Lee." Hod la m greeted this announce
nicut- not the vulvar noise of com
mou politicians. but the high rebuk
of the ele« I Nevertheless, Mr. An
drews continued. "You're acting liki
bildren," he shouted. "You doft't
know tiie condition of the colintry
aud your blind position is driving uici
Mr. Andrews does well to declarc
I his manhood and to withdraw from
I the company of children. He is the
I kind of progressive who knows what
the word means. And there is every
| indication that he a< ted from featfnea
convict ion. and not. like Several ot
I the Immortal Seven, through doubt a>
1 o which way the balance of power
-f #Por rlhlr
the number of arrangement of water
tight compartments.
The chief P-'lm of difference be
Ween tho nrltlsh flniUngs and hi
American report Is the eioneratloi
•which the former give to Mr
Bruce Isinay. As n logai propositi™
this acquittal of the managing ti!
rector of the White 8tnr line of til.
charge of misconduct may be jusM
flable ihe ciHee™ but tlio I hlla
delphiu Heconi h,,r ,™rr<>''
In holding th ,l "lereh
cleared wholly from mot... resi .lisi
blllty. Mr. Ismay «' « malting the trit
as the representative of the owner:
and for no other purpose than to ae<
for hlnue" hr •> n w ship acteil
ill nay
.,,t ihe e*
nlcit th,
through kn>
remains ti •
thlp whs f
be did kno
ahead an<
tlon from hun
have been etfei
It may al«o he ri
the thoroughness 01
oulry that the Mersey ji
that the California
tanlc's lights and ho
that I he California saw the
through the ice without sericus rlsl
to Itself could have saved many, i
not all the lives in peril.
One thing at least may be safe!
taken for granted: That Amerlcai
and British investigations will lead ti
mrtinV'^rans-'o^ealTlc'trav^'^as 'sali |hardly afrord to take sides other thai; | ground of insanity, was ke„Mo mat
1, w„ assumed to be before th , ^
Governor Wilson's nomination foi
the presidency has seemingly united
the democrats as they have not beer
united before in twenty years. Not
only do they emerge from a turbu
A LEVEL-HEADED MANIAC
Fragmentary quotations of Harry
Thaw's statement upon receiving
I news of the judgment upon receiving
1 news of the judgment recommitting
him to Matteawan represented him as
| saying that It would have been bet-
If he had been "acquitted lik<
| ("apt. Haines." ('apt. Haines was not
cqultted, and a New York paper ob
Iheaved that here waa proof <>t Thaw's
I insanity. Such an error would not
have proven mental unbalance the
Louisville Courier-Journal holds. Cap:
Haines was soon out of prison and
I anyone might fprget the details ol hi
arrival at liberty. Hut Thaw did not.
| The mil statement shews that he 1
a very level-headed lunatic. It Its ; s
| follows:
"Judge Keough is a very fine man
I We regret that he could not go fur-
ther from the previous opinion ami
take the last step, but as it is his de-
1 clsion is a very big advance for us.
I Inh si opinion he speaks of an 'im
provement which eleminates any pro-
e>iu shows that the total value or
the live stock in this country on
April K>, JiHu. was $4
v%is an,,Lilt.i'Mase.iu valve during
Uin dwail*, .pt ii.y'o.uotywu, or M,
PW cent vver thai shown by the
preyioug census. The animals that
ire classed as live stock by the
Diireau are cattle, horses, uiules,
wine, *|ieep and goata—'together
A'itU poultry anu bees, 'ibis groat
in reasc in* the value of farm ani-
mals, however, was due to the ln.
reape in value per head, and not to
he increase in numbers. The last
enaus report shows a small de
rease in the number of cattle, swine
uid sheep, .tlid but a slight in-
rease in the number of horses, as
■ompared with the report of the
bureau for 1900.
in the classification by sections
he report shows that in the north
including the New England, Middle
Atlantic, Kast North Central and
West North Central States, the to
lal value of live stock on farms is
$'2,9715,100,000, ill increase of 56.8
per cent during the last decadi
ash this is a greater increase iu the
value of live stock than is shown by
the south and west combined, al-
though the per centage of increase
in the north is lower than in either
the south or west.
In the south, Including the South
Vtlantic, East South Central and
West South "Central states, the ti
tal value of farm live stock is $1
125,Hi,000, an increase in a decade
■>f (13.3 per cent. In the West, in
eluding the mountain and Pacific
states, the total value of farm live
stock is $024.(573,000, the increase in
a decade being 70.1 per cent.
In the country east of the Mis-
sissippi Klver the v.ilue of farm live
stock in April, 1010, was $2,ir<8,955-,-
000 and west of the river it was $2,-
7M.l!T8,nOO, the increase in value
for the decade being G2 per
:tnd 58.
knights, has interviewed the keeper?
of several Germanic museums, who
are known to 'e authorities on
everything relate to armor and
martial outfit The Kastc.'uii of the
famous ,cast' arHnns-J
brucK. hims ;,i .i .... « o . vlli av-
erage size told hlju he had tries on
very suit i)* armor |n qi-:
ti on, and found not oue iar^e 1 iu>ugh
him. lis cxpeiience wail(0
|>or instance, the present express South Carolina hnd not been arest-
charge on a 5 pound package from ed Proba'Uy he will tie. however
Sew York to Atlanta is 71) cents, and more than Itkelj will have to
and from New York to St. i-ouis It serve a term in tne penitentiary
is G." vents. The new rate prescrib- | to the unhappineas and sliajge of the
•
roVoiated by tliat of th? ev^'i JmhI-
custodian of t|ie ca- 1- of vfr'lu/.,
th - capital of the tin. prirt i|iilitv
of Liehtensteln. Witc chara«eris-
tic German thoroughness, our savant
has now examined the prop-rftioufc
of the figures depicted In medieval
miniatures, and finds the:u wo^lully
lacking in girth of wais', tnig:i and
alf. I0ven Durer, in the famous
Paumgartner altar of the old Munich
Pinakotchek, has left on record a
number of sadly attenuated contem-
poraries, as agai'ist whoni the ^ el I
rounded allegorical ngures typify-
ing the triumph of Kmperor Maxl
miiian can carry 110 weight.
Thus perish one by one the tra
ditions with whie.'i romance has in
oculated history. Neither in meas
urement, morals nor manners arethe
men of today degenerate scions of
nobler sires. The worid grows bet-
ter in every respect ai it grows old
er. Development and progress are
immutable laws of nature, nndj Were
it otherwise, had the rh'ldreji
humanity! not added to their herit
age In all the passing centuries
since creation, they would thus
confess themselves to he unworthy
longer to enmber the earth.
" i';
c0nW|Jo A£mta and
l°rafes 'juposefiLy th#"com-
mon ar« nrn-to TWi <W'-ct at
once. The commission desires first
to hear from the express companies
and shippers before the new ratw
are enforced, and for this purpose 6
hearing will be given b.ywffce commis-
sion on October jTl^'^jiiil^ or
proof, however, is plawft^n tRf ex-
press companies, which are required
to show cans® why the new sched-
ules shall not go into effect. A
statement baa '>een given out from
Now York by the'express companies
the effect thiat if the rates pre-
scribed by the commission are en
forced they will not produce enough
revenue to cover the cost of busi*
ness. it was of course expected that
the companies would protest, but i"
remains for them to prove their as-
sertions. Evidently their business
has been highly profitable, since
within 00 years, beginning witTI
practically no assets, they have
•cumulated an aggregate stock 0/
over $63,000,000, with undivided
prdttlts of over $59,000,000, after pay
lug annual dividends
• fainUg 'he was
by f ' "
BUCKINGTI
ttiB protect
I assassi-
|strongly
the po.
Hken out
| 1 i t >• and
No
*TIGH
One result of the Kosentn|
ation is the suggestion.
urged in so|e n^rters, thl
licing of New Yoi<lt dty be I
of tlie hands ot;tlif munlcil
placed In t|iose;ot the stJ
doubt the change,- if effectfc. would
make for the better projection
life and property;^nd for tter con-
ditions all areuad than n#1" obtain
in the metrop^is, but it will never
made so loftg as the Tammany
tiger Is alive afid able to hold Its
own. At the very first effort to put
the suggestion into force, the beast
would begin to tight a* it has never
fought before and so fight to the fin-
ish, for It would be flighting for its
very existence. To take the police
department from under municipal
control would be to leave the Tam-
many chieftains and brakes, like
Othello, without an occupation.
EUGENICS
So far as can be concluded from
1 tess reports, nothing of lastihg or
far reaching importance was attained
bv the meeting of the international
cugenics congress In London last
week. There was a large amount of
talk about putting various obstacles
cent in the way of miscellaneous marriage,
>r cent west of the but there was also argument introduc-
rjver> 'ed tending to show that miscellane-
The total value of the horses In ces marriage was best for the world,
the United State8 when tne census | "So long as men love beauty and
was taken exceeded that of any ;v omen love strength the human in-
other animals being $2,«a2,lS .000 stinct will not go far wrong, declar
for 19 833,11:1 head, an incrtv.ise in til Prof, smith of the University
the decade of 1,566,0093 head, and |Minnesota, at one session of the con-
$891)..". 13,000 in vaiue. The total val- SreBS. olw
ue of cattle in the United States Plus dlet m ™rc<>1* be a|v
was *1,4715,20.-1,000 in 1900 and J I,- [iiroved, if It is admitted that
iiiO.r.iiO.OOO in lOlO1. The average
value per head increased from $21.78
in L900 to $UM in 1910. Tberc
w; i s an >otua] de< rease in the de-
cade ol head in the num-
ber of cattlq. Mules increased
number during the decade from
3 i provement is possible under any cir-
cumstances, says the St. Loots Re-
public. For men always have loved
beauty and women strength. More
over, if there really was no danger
st long as this rule obtained there
1 would still be danger, for modern
" wealth has a decided tendency *n
ti hold-
Ihe Ti |
stenmim I
204,016 to 4,200.709, ami in total value iBolaoe natural selection with luxury
from $Hm;,£22.000 to $:.2.>.202.000. iQ,. socja| rank—to abolish the rule.
The number' of swine in ISOif was 1 por instance, the American heiress
62,868,000, valued at $231,978,000. but ^j,0 accepts the slim European dandy
in 19.10 the number had decreased to|xv|loge 0hief attraction is an easy
$."*SJ«8t .000,"Svliile the value had In- lability to sneer at common blood by
creased to $399,338,000. The num. kjrtue of an inherited title, tannot
pr of sheep decreased from 01,504,- reasonably be considered as loving
it In 1900 to 52,448.000 in 1910. .ind 1 strength to any appreciable Hegree.
their valu#MIncreased from $170.203.-jXor can that man be a devoted fol
On to $232.842,0<H). In 1900 there lower of beauty who is willing to put
were 1.870,00m goats, valued at $3,- the lid on his dream ol what he
24J. ,Oi>, and in 1910 there was an in- would like in the way of a wife in
crease in number to 2.91t5,000, valued
at $6,176,000.
Titanic went down with some seven
teen hundred souls. In that even
they will have more than Justified
themselves.
VEAL PASSING; SHOES GOING Uf
When beef reached $M 8:> a hundrei
at the Chicago stock yards Friday
with a prediction that $10 beef woult
be reached this week says the SI
l/>uis Republic, President Charles ?
Jones and other officials of the Chi
csgo live stock exchange were auff
ciently aroused to sound a public not-
of warning. Something must be done
to protect the cattle-raising industr
in order to prevent a continued rais
in the price of beef, they declare.
The reasons given for the unprt
cedented meat prices include: In
creasing population, due to inimigrn
ment; abandoning of cattle-raising h
corn-growing states, and selling
calves for slaughter by dairymen.
Of these reasons It appears tint
the only one that might be itumedlat
ly remedied is the slaughter of calx-
It is proposed to auk congress to pas
a law which will, iu effect, make fresl
veal a thiug of the past. A Joplh
dealer fit TiTdea recently declared sucl
a measure would help uiuah aud must
be resorted to in the near future i
beef prlc6'ri are to be kept within
reach of the average man.
Mention of the hide business alsi
Serves as a reminder that the hi^b
price of beef, caused by scanty sup
ply. does not act alone against on
appetites, because cattle are scarce
the price pf hides i* going up, and be
cause hides are going up, shoes als<
will be more expensive. It is suit*
that shoe >dcalera have already bee
notified of at least a 20 per cent in
crease for next year.
"When we are forced to go wit lion 1
beef two meals out of three, to n<
-without whI altogether and to pay a
dollar a pair more for our shoes i
is probable we will agree with the
•: * ••>,.. Chicago live stock exchange that
> f' 'something should be done.
It.! lObabl hov.ever, that a bU
com; )> *'h M help some
especially if > corn drop*-
a great wall ill ao up but it" v
a good thins for the nation. W.unae
farmers wjU
through its general news columns. It J leawati only six weeks and that John
llannigan was sent to the Hudson
River State Hospital when acquitted
in the same way.
it is evident from this, as indeed
it was apparent all along, that the de-
liberate intention of the defense wa
order to lead to the altar homely
Miss Muchmone.v.
l^ven Prof. Smith, however, is will-
ing to believe the state should pre-
vent the feeble-minded women from
11 arrying. But he does not believe
if marriage were made more difficult
for tlie unfit as a whole that the race
OHIO AND GOOD ROADS.
Among the many amendments 1<
tin* constitution of Ohio proposed
the recent Constitutional Conventioi
4 nthat State to be submitted foi
|i*.ifi££ oj to a popular vote at
sjwial election to In- held Sect ' '
urn .anthon,ma the • legislature
' cattle and hogs In place of selWtrf
to oaah Ti.. *. ivill become produc
«nstt 'r■ beef
| now disgruntled at the delay, but still
confident that sooner or later he will
get out of Matteawan. And it is prob
able that he will. The statement
I shows very clearly how great an er-
| ror is the admission of the testimony
•r alienists in murder trials. It it is
I ever made impossible to introduce
I these bargain counter experts in mak-
ing an alibi for the moral responsi-
bility of a murder jurors will not
| fail so notoriously to send the guilty
unishment.
WORK FOR BOY SCOUTS.
The Hoy Scouts of America have
added still another timely purpose
to their wholesome cause.
in many parts of the country they
will devote themselves to a protec-
tion of the trees and to a crusade
against crop destroying insects.
Woodcraft hag been one of the
distinguished features of this pic-
turesque organization Its follow
ers are taught everything that can
be learned of the forest—the names
and uses of the different trees, their
part in the great economy of nature
and the importance of preserving
them.
Hence a good Hoy Scout is pretty
ell equipped to join in this vital
field of conservation. He can not
only render practical service in his
particular community but. together
with his fellows, he can do much to
quicken and enlighten public sent!
ment in this respect.
The Boy Scouts of the countr>
district can likewise aid a great ileal
in the essential work of checking the
mroidtt of destructive pests. It is
through such enterprises that the
Scouts are proving their usefulness
and their claim to hearty etn-our
agement.
CANADIAN EXPERIMENTS.
Whv wouldu't it be a good thing
lor .people in summer to rise . wilh
the aim said have the long day light
limits of llio evening for recreation ?
to be among the few
NO GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS.
Every few years some society with
antiquarian tastes and nothing bet
ter to do, sets apart days or weeks ^
lis the , ase may be for discussion of ^itUl" be improved' Why militate
the causes which have brought .,pajnst t|jP feeble-minded young worn-
about physical degeneration among yn an(1 not tj1R feeble-minded young
the civilized races since the age ,pan9
when knighthood was in flower. It ( j)r ^arab X. Merrick, widely known
is an invariable feature of such oc- fCr jier research work at Harvard, he-
casions that only after interminable j«eves the federal government should
iddresses have been dedicated to conduct a marriage aid bureau, and
the assumed fact is any investiga. that part of the work would be to
tion set on foot to determine wheth- nake a physical examination of both
er it be such. The learned speakers j rospective bride and groom. She
simply take It for granted that our declares, as hav
ancestors
LOOKING FOR GOOO QUAblTl
Joplin (llobe:« Because he consld
ers her the best housewife in Mem
phis and the only woman he evi *
saw who 'minds her own business.
Dr. R. H. M'Olntyre recently pre-
sented his wife with a gold medal
and sent her for a three months'1
vacation in Canada.
dt seems that the doctor has been
suspicious of his wife's good quali-
ties for some time and finally de
cided to make sure. Accordingly he
bought a memoranda book and ev-
ery evening jotted down his wife's
conduct for the day. grading her
from a standird of 100-point perfec-
tion. Here are a few of the things
his record book recently showed:
Mrs. Mclntyre is industrious, will-
ing to work, and never tiring.
She is punctual, his breakfast al-
ways being ready for him.
She is patient and willing to over
look his cross spells.
She is studious, intellectual, and
interested in the serious things of
life.
iShe Is modest, homo loving and
cares little for "bumming."
She does not wear kimonos and
always appears neat in the fore,
noons.
After finding these specific vir
tues, Dr. Mclntyre generalizes thus:
Above all, <1 have found her to be
in sympathy with my ambitions, my
desires, and to possess a willingness
to forward our common interests in
the manner of income and expend!
tures. In short, she is a combina
tion of all the womanly virtues pres-
ent in the early stock of American
housewives /but woefully lacking in
this generation and time."
The fact that Dr. Mclntyre is an
I unusual man may be admitted with-
out argument. Men who depart so
far from ordinary practice as to act-
ually look for good qualities in their
wives themselves deserve gold med-
als. We see what we look for, and
looking for good qualities in our
wives or husband is about the best
way in Che world to slam the divorce
evil.
NEWS TO TAFT.
Yesterday Senator Elihu ^ltoot told
Wwsident Taft that the Chfcago con-
Mmtion h-id honored himjjwith a
rendtnination for the higt rst office
in file land. Newspapers [of the
country had mentioned |omething
about this heretofore and is hard-
WHERE'S THE -PROTECTION"
While the privileged beneficiaries
of inordinate Protection are insisting
that the existing high tariff duties
are absolutely essential to the protec-
tion of the American workingman
against "pauper labor" from abroad,
these pampered and petted recipients
of government bounty are importing
many others before J this self-same "pauper-labor" to dis-
five or six centuries l.tr, that children in many cases are -qace native-born workmen in Arneri
to
Mi-
probable it was news
Taft. ||i *
Rut Mr. Hoot "Your title to
the nomination Is as cleafl and un-
impeachable as the title of any can-
didate since political convention be.
gan."
This was news.
tie of a
con vjhit
J
CLUD WOMEN TO
' PROTECT" THg, "BOYS."
The Suggestive Dres es Worn By
Society Women Condemned.
Omaha. Neb., Aug. 5,—fhe young
nien of Omaha are to be. protected
from the alleged suggestive dresses
now worn by pp-to date women. 'I lie
Oamha Woman's club has entered the
lists as a masculine protector and is
going to make an effort so to crcate
public sentiment as to effect a change
in the styles. The campaign against
modern tight dress will n<M begin un-
til September and in thA meantime
when the Omaha men go put on the
street they will be expected to cover
their, faces or wear blinders.
The regular fall sessions of the
Woman's club do not begin until next
month, but last week several promi-
nent members of the efflb decided
that things had gone about, far enough
and a change must be bnAight about.
"Not so much for the ftod of the
women themselves, as fif the sake
of the men." said one of th members,
to • another one' who way not sure
that the men needed protection of
that sort. ^
The "antis" won the day, however,
and the campaign is all mapped out.
All the dressmakers in town will be
visited by a committee and will be
iisked to discourage the making of
ertain dresses. The merchants will
be implored not fo purchase women's
lothing which is objectionable to the
lub. And evert the women them-
selves, when seen In streets wearing
clothes that attract the attention of
every man within a block will be
asked to go home and change to more
modest attair.
ago were giants in stature cOmpar
ed With their de adeut successors,
and thereupon the explanations why
it should be so, and how the pro
•esseg of deterioration may be halt
•d, consume the time and exhibit the
"xtreme differences of opinion which
mark the proceedings of a modern
national convention
Away
scientific assembly in I^ondon tool>
can mills and factories.
There is no branch of American
manufacturing which enjoys a great
er measure of tariff protection than
victims of unwise marriage
In the meantime, a father in -Mas-
sachusetts has put a practical abdi-
cation to all suggestions by demand- .
hig that the girl who was about to;(,ocs the textile industry. Yet inves
narrv his son obtain a physician's.t.gation following the recent strike at
certificate assuring him that she did h awrence, Massachusetts, disclosed
i.ot have any constitutional weakness, that the great bulk of the employees
Why wouldn't the simplest but ade-hti the woolen and cotton mills in
, • , vt„toH„n nr.. i'l'iateilv effective application of eu- that locality was made up of illiterate
, °«r„ .SnL I'-nlt* obtained, if every father f„reIB„e,s. scarcely able to mal.
(demanded of the young man who'themselves understood in Knglish and
up this subject with all the
which the
, ^ (starts keeping company with hiahjving, in most instances, under con
average human being dis. ,|aUKhter a physician's certificate? No Lotions of poverty and squalor
ays in exploiting an ancestry su-, , ounK Inan fit for marriage, would Surpassed in the slums or ghettos ot
perior to himself. Through rna,nv jirtsi-late to furnish It, and young men|any 0f the great European capitals,
sessions in the old Crystal Palace ,vj1G (jj,j hesitate should be put on the qhe average wage of these employee?
doctors of all the 'ologies contended Ilist." Such a course would be L |,en the mills were running full
for this or that confiding reason J j?, jj. tQ hoth [parties and would be wise, time, Mr. Charles p. Neill. tjie Cnit
why the inches and brawn of the i^alse modesty has cost the world L.d States commissioner of labor, find;
Hilton of that day were less than jmuch already; it should not he allow-L0 have been $8.76 a week.
, IWV Kt.utor .«■ f 111,,,,.!! t.
bonds of the Ftnte to the amount «>' J! |<|lmv (Hh,
. 1T.0 n00 nt ! sued not to wno al • . . . .
best part ot the d «y is a half Hour
.' dpoin
ul help.
WHAT T'
(Me xic ti
last pinch
provoke Amer
have succeed* d
foreign residents .
their stronghold anu
dreds of them pellnu
border, indeed, our .
State bss'again found o a lon to
admonish President Msdero that
•American lives- and interests must
^It^'ftof^o is «nferred, however
$T 0 OOP nt '. sued not
exceU in any on«
ont y« 11 g and improv-
ing f cr county wagon
roads s of the amend
ment b«. be adopted it i
(probable . gislature will au-
thorize the it e of only $,'.,<ion.uon
of bonds a yea impleting the whole
y {issue in ten years. Ohio is a ven
v Iwealthy state, with a taxable proper-
>f ty valuation of over $t;,onn,OUft,000
u.m. hiuI taxes have been notably reduc-
ross the 'ed hut the pro| osititn to create n
tary of ,bonded debt of $."><),unu,nop, while it i to work at 7 and S o'clock. thqm;Ji
M U1 doubtless give many a voter work at 5 or > o'clock it wilLwa 11%
pause, indicuteg a recoKuition of theh(e or t o'clock and they win have
tremeiidoiiti imjnntance and advant several long hours of qayliglt in
&£e Ml a thorough system of good which to get out door exerciaa. aaU
open-air rest
before and an hour after sunrise.
1A belief that this would be a
good idea is the basis for an experi-
ment being made in several Cana
dian towns this year. Despairing of
getting people to arise at 1 or
o'clock of their own accord they
h • ve conceived the notion- or rath
er. borrowed it from Kngland- or
setting their clocks ahead by city
ordinance.
By this plan people will still go
roads to a state.
those of his forbears in the brave
days of old. Luxury of habit and of
diet, lack of martial exercises, the
enervating effects of civilization, all
were adverted to as contributory to
a lamentable falling off which none
disputed. A week of dissertation
disputation was about to expire when
ned to a hard-headed Welch
man. who had so far contributed
nothing to the debate, to take ad-
vantage of a momentary lull in the
flood or oratory and interject the
simple question—Is it so?
There was common-sense enough
In the gathering to recognize the
aptness of the inquiry, and before
the meeting adjourned over Sunday
a committee was appointed to in.
ostigate and report whether indeed
the present generation was smaller
in frame , nd less capable of feats or
strength and endurance than its ti
lUsttious predecessors.
The result' was to nullify all thr
established theories. The Tower
was ransacked for the a'rmor worn
and the weapons wielded by Knglish
WiLi'iiui'* ul iiiuoxvu lu ages past, nil'!
when a detail w.s taken at random
from the soldiers quartered in
' otidon it was found that neither of
them was small enough to get int >
the coat of mail once worn by the
Black Prince, and yet he was re
puted as of immense bulk among his
conteinp.u aries. Similar experi-
ments led to the same conclusion,
and for quite a period one favorite
topic of the liquid nuncs was set at
rest
Recently, however, the subject has
been resurrected on the Continent,
wml +•+ *re 4fo1«l bv ihe Evening
-Post -that -"luaennan fcayitnt. nothing
daunted hyatfu- faHjleH ^> e of the
• ' ^ '
Vd'Cd!"foil's p'stojs "61 iue(T
c«i to continue to reap its deadly
harvest.
WORSE THAN THAT.
The National Packing company
nd the National Car Line company,
under which names the Armour.
Swift and Morris people have been
operating for years, have been dis-
solved "Will it not be," asks the
v York Journal of Commerce,
'an easy matter for the three great
concerns which have been so long
associated together to have an un-
derstanding .ind an active comniun-
of interest arrangement where
things will go on much as be-
\ so far as producers and con-
sumers are concerned?"
If the t-ofisumefs get off even that
Well, we Ahall be agreealbly sur-
prised. Certainly there is nothing
111 the results which have followed
the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
dissolutions to indicate that they
EXPRESS COMPANY RATES.
The order of the Interstate com-
mence comm ission I ires* ribimg
new schedule of rates for the ex-
press companies of the Cnited States
(proposes a sweeping Reduction in
the rates, especially 011 packages un-
der 100 pounds in weight. In order
to meet the liiluiy complaints against
the express companies from all parts
of the country, the commission af-
ter a long investigation, has divided
the country into t*r>n /.ones or
PJm-|vs, eaich approximately
miles square, and rates are propos-
ed between each of these zones,
treating all cities or towns within
each • Aone as common points* Arr
oording tq ,this plan the new rates
,ed waulfi Ue gicatly reduced
7 alT3 ♦^-poumi packages
To ask the American workingman
to believe that ho is protected by a
tariff system under which conditions
such a.; these obtain Is to insult his
intelligence. He gets no (protection
against "pauper labor." nor does he
Leed anj. and If he did, it would be
protection against such labor itseir
home, not against its products
turned out abroad.
A LONG LOOK€D-
FOR HAPPENING
Something that ha8 long seemed
a possibility has occurred. A man
being initiated into a fraternal or-
der in South Carolina drew a re-
volver and shot the leader of the
team in charger of the initiation.
The shooting took place last J^riday.
'Monday the man died.
Men who have joined fraternal
orders will not be greatly surprised,
remarks the St. Louis Republic
Most Initiations are deemed swece^
ful or non.successrul, nocorflina- to
the degree or excitement crtjamu i'V
the candidate. If be is -wije'.,hnd
remains cool, it "dldu'b amount to
much." but If lie loses his head and
his temper and his self-control and
does things of which he will be
shamed for months, it was "certain-
ly great."
It is a matter for congratulation
that the tendency toward roughness
in initiations is gradually giving
place to a desire to make the "work"
impressive and to teach a real
moral lesson. At least two of the
greatest secret orders in the world
have 110 place in their initiation
program for silliness. The effort to
re-establish the "goat" in the Elks
lodge was unsuccessful at the last
national convention and the lodge
Is Wte> off.
At la=t tpecftftiTs 'The .-^noter in
LAD KILLED IN A
FALL FROM TRAIN
Renfrow, Ok-la., Aug. 2.—tWlth
bones broken, battered and bruised.
dead body of W. L. Nichols of
Wichita. Kan., was found beside the
Rock Island railroad track, a few
rods from the station, early this
morning.
The discovery of the body was
made by the postmaster early in
the morning while making his regu-
lar trip to the station to get the
mail. It was evident from the na-
ture of the injuries, the position of
the body mid the marks upon the
ground that Nichols had met his
death by falling from a rapidly mov-
ing train. Whether it was the fast
express or a through freight is not
known, for neither fctcfp at this place.
Identfafhcation was exerted by a
pawn ticket found in' tils mlothes.
This was matte <viit by a Hutchinson
•firm, which gavo the information
that Nichols was from Wichita His
parents were located and notified,
and the father, W. H. Nichols, reach-
ed Renfro today to take the foody
nek to Wichita for burial. The
fither said his son had left homs
the first part of the week to searcn
for employment but had not told any
one where he was going.
Though only 2>1 years of age he
has a wife living in Wichita.
INSULTED WOMAN; IS SHOT
•Duncan. Okla.. Auff. 5.—Claim-
ing that his wife had been insulted.
W. H. Streetman. a farmer living
ten miles northeast of Duncan,
shot and probably fatally wounded
Lee Witt, a neighbor farmer, near
the streetman home last night. Af.
ter his arrest he said his wife told
arrest streetman gatd his wife told
him that Witt nad just been to their
uome and had insulted her, also that
WMt bad insulted h^f ,on! three for-
iner oikihMons^pVaJ
Streetuiab ;uh| Witt jflil quarrel-
er l!a'1 - '< ri thep' AiHf telicex
but had settled vtheir ^pfTedences.
When they met agnfn at night.
Streetman fired twice at Witt with a
double arrded shotgun, the first
load taking effect in the abdomen
ami the second in the right forearm.
Witt was leading a saddle horse,
and Streetman. after shooting him.
offered to help him mount, but #e
refused aid and went to a neighbor's
house where medical aid was se-
cured. He is not expected to live.
Sheriff Cates was notified of the
shooting and went to the district,
finding streetman asleep, at a neigh-
bor's house with tlie shotgum besVde
the bed. He is held in the county
jail pending the outcome of Witt's
wounds.
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Niblack, Leslie G. The Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1912, newspaper, August 8, 1912; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc162864/m1/4/: accessed July 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.