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The Southwest World
iMocd Ktmt Saturday at U1 N rth First Strfi-t
Independent In All Things.
lag the { ast several years. The fends the appointment of the new "^/necessity for
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SATURDAY, AUG. 31, 1901
El Keno is figurin' on the cap-
ital. Well, now!
One tiling must be said of
Canada and its census. It offers
inducements for those whodonot
like to he crowded for room.
The Capital's fifteen thousand
circulation story is as truthful as
was that story about the fellow
having a horse sixteen feet high.
The Tammany people have all
the rope they need to hang them-
selves. It would be * pity for
the governor or anyone else to
take any of it away from them.
Bill Allison, of the Chandler
Tribune, does not appear to take
much stock in the harmony
racket. He's opposing the ad-
ministration. But then Bill al-
ways was a "poser."
World is a believer in clean poli- j committee to locate the
tics regardless of the name of the west Normal school before v... i^„niv iw.
mi - , , , ... onlv has the potato suodeniy t>e-
1 he members of the old committee
come a luxury, but other vege-
tables, particularly beans and
cabbage, are now beyond the
party that is in control. The members of the
-.red sown bv McCarver is sure t«> had been asked to resign, gives
grow and spread in this county.
much to weaken our belief that
the governor would not be a party
to Greer's graft in the new coun- purses of Poor
tics. If he hadn't had some sav
in naming 11,, commissioners this i« «H* P"«s of vegetables   due
ilefense would l.ar.llv have ap- to a shortage ,n the .apply or to
At least it the cold storage men in the west
Independent action is the only
salvation of this great territory.
Logan county took the lead in
this direction at the last election
by turning down some profess-
ional office-seekers and electing
in their -stead who had never be-1
fore asked for an office. Logan
county is Republican, but the
dominant party had become so
neglectful and egotistical that a W))rl(, fee]s that lhe Tribune is
large per cent of that party re-
fused to be domineered over by a j
'Whether the exceptional rise
peared in his paper
looks that way to "a fellow up a
tree," who thinks he is pretty
thoroughly acquainted with Ok-
lahoma politicians and their
It is announced that King Ed-
ward may appoint the Duchess
of Marlborough mistress of the
robes. It must be hard lines for
the daughter of a Vanderbilt to
accept a job as property woman
ways.—Chandler Tribune. 1 he
World feels that the Tribi
laboring under a false hallucina-
lat Governor
party to any
, tion. The idea that Governor
ot of cheap screws and proceeded, Jenkins woul(1 be
with good results, to turn the I unscrupulous deals is not
tide atrainst those who felt that'
«klllM tUU^C W UU Itil ! , «• . .
_ believed bv the
a nomination in the Republican . *
' ! do not think
World, and we
   that the Tribune
mvention was equivalent to an jbe].evesit very strong There
is no doubt but that Mr. Greer
would be a party to such a trans-
election in this county. It was a
good beginning, and will be fol-
lowed up in the future if the Re-
publican party refuses to recog-
nize ability and worth within its
own ranks. The day of machine
politics in Logan county has
come to an end.
j action, but his influence along
' this line would not be sufficient
to cause Governor Jenkins tail
from grace and enter the path of
the ungodly.
The Oklahoman has the au-
dacity to say that Delegate Flynn
will make his next campaign on
the theory that lie is the only
person that can secure free homes
for those who have taken land in
the Kiowa country.
A young lady who recently
took a gasoline bath to cure rash,
and who came near burning to
death by getting too close to a
lamp before the gasoline had
time to "soak" in, will take
absent treatment for her rash in
the fuiure. It was a rash trick
to sav the least.
The newspaper boys did the
wise thing when they dropped
that "scrap" on the editorial as-
sociation. To the association is
the place for the El Reno Demo-
crat editor to take hiscase. News-
paper men, as a rule, are fair, and
he need have no fear of submit
ting his case to the boys for ad-
judication.
What's become of Wrightsman,
that man from Pawnee, who
traveled all the way to New
York to urge David Bennett Hill
to accept the Democratic presi-
dential nomination? He's evi-
dently lost his tongue since that
great interview with that great
man—the living possibility for
the Democratic nomination for
president. Wrightsman should
not allow his great interview to
sleep under a peck measure, for
the people would soon forget that
there ever existed such a man as
Wrightsman.
Judge McCarver's little side
play is causing some uneasiness
in the ranks of those politicians
in Logan county who hold that
no one outside of their own family ,
have a right to expect anything
from the voters of this county. !
In other words the machine ele-j
ment is much worried over the |
possibility of losing control 01
the political affairs in Logan
county. McCarver, himself, does
not cut much ice, but when it I
comes to the negro voter, as a
factor, the scene changes, for
they are responsible for the elec-
tion of the machine element dur-
Senator Harris has been inter-
viewed at Atchison and declares
again that the Populists and
Democrats will have fusion next
year. One of the strange things
about these rapidly multiplying
interviews with Mr. Harris is
that he seems to have the im-
pression that somewhere some-
body is doubting that there will
be fusion. Of course there will
be fusion! Whatever doubt there
might have been about it was
wholly dispelled when the Pop-
ulist and Democratic leaders com-
menced tu talk about the devo-
tion of these parties to "prin-
ciple." It has been the experi-
ence of Kansas during the past
ten years that when the Demo-
cratic and Populist leaders were
talking the loudest about the in-
vioable nature of their several
doctrines, they were planning
most industriously to sell their
parties out. Senator Harris can
save breath and time by drop-
ping the fore-settled issue of
fusion from his discourse. There
will be fusion not only nextyear,
but also in the forthcoming presi-
dential campaign, when every
Pop politician, including Senator
Harris, will be whooping it up
for David B. Hill or some other
goldbug Democratic candidate.
"Is Republicanism moribund?"
inquires the Atlanta Constitu-
tion. Well, the Republican party
carried the country last Novem-
ber bv nearly 900,000 plur lity
on the popular vote, it has the
presidency, a large majority in
both branches of congress, con-
trols about two-thirds of the
states and it was never more
united on its policy and under its
leaders than it is today. If that
is a "moribund" condition it is a
When the editor was in Guth-
rie just before the opening of the
new country a gentleman, who
pretended to speak from the
books, stated that Frank Greer
would name the county commis-
sioners for the new counties. We
didn't believe it then, and don't
like to believe it now. But the
fact that Greer's paper has
thrown itself into the breach, and
in a double leaded editorial, de-
THE CAPITOL NA-
TIONAL RANK OF
GUTHRIE WANTS
BUSINESS BASED
ON BALANCES AND
RESPONSIBILITY.
very satisfactory one. Twelve or
thirteen years ago the Constitu
tion quoted the question: "When
will the solid Democratic South
break?" and then proceeded to
answer it by saying that the solid
Democratic South would break
up when the Republican party is
dead and buried and not before.
Since then the solid South has
been broken in two presidential
elections and it will probably
never be solid again. There are
five Republican senators from
Southern states and there would
be seven it it were not for the
deadlock in Delaware. And not-
withstanding these facts Repub-
licanism was never in as strong
and healthful condition as it is
today. The Constitution maybe
just as much mistaken now as to
the prospects of the party as it
was twelve or thirteen years ago.
The trusts and combines may be
instrumental in the overthrow of
the Republican party at the next
election. The common people
have a holy horror of these grasp-
ing institutions and may hold the
Republican party responsible for
their existence. It will take
something of this kind to turn
the tide against the party now
in power.
EAT 00RN AND RICE.
The Chicago Record-Herald is
looking about for a substitute for
potatoes, and suggests that corn
and rice should be given a trial.
Among other good qualities in
that diet is that is a brain mak-
ing material. Now if this con-
clusion can be proven, its use
should be adopted by some Okla-
homa politicians without debate.
If there anything in this world
that is needed by the average
politician it is an abundance of
good brain producing food. The
World submits the following ad-
vice from the Record Herald, and
trusts that it will be given due
consideration in future political
conventions:
"With potatoes soaring sky-
ward toward the two-dollar-a-sack
mark the poorer classes, with
whom the nutritious tubers are a
who have bought up the supply
or not is a question that the
wage-earner has no time to con-
sider. He is confronted by a con-
dition. It is a good time for him
to pay attention to the food ex-
perts and dietetic chemits who
have been telling him all along
thai there is more real nutrition
in rice and corn than there is in
potatoes. In tact, there appears
to be nothing outside of a strin-
gency in the vegetable supply
that will direct the attention of
the poorer classes to the wonder-
ful nutritive properties of our
own Indian maize.
"Boiled rice and boiled pota-
toes are similar in their ingredi-
ents, possessing about the same
percentages of starch,albuminous
matter and water. With riee at
ten cents a pound there is no
reason why the poor should suffer
for nutritious food.
The dietetic chemists and food
aualysis*s show even a more
marked advantage for Indian
corn. Corn contains more phos-
phates and protein, for muscle
and brain, than potatoes. More-
over, the palatable dishes that
may be prepared from it far ex-
ceed in number the dishes that
may be prepared from potatoes.
With corn at *>5 cents a bushel
the food possibilities for the poor
in this king of American native
products are almost incalculable.
"It would be a blessing to
wage-earning humanity if cir-
cumstances would conspire to
take it off a potato diet for awhile
and acquaint it with the muscle-
making and brain-building ele-
ments of rice and corn. With
these cereals within their reach
a vegetable famine should have
no terrors for the poor."
MUST DO THEIR WORK WELL.
Incompetent D«*ntlntt Llftbl* to l>kmi|M
for Tlielr Ilangllng.
The courts are taking cognizance ot
the competency or incompetency of
professional men. A short time ago
a New York tribunal held that a phy-
sician was liable for unskillful or neg-
ligent treatment of a patient and now
the court of appeals of that state hati^*
rendered a decision holding a car-
poration liable for unskillful dental
work. This corporation, according to
the complaint, represented that it car-
ried on the practice of dentistry in con-
nection with its other departments.
The plaintiff, a woman, having under-
gone treatment, sued for alleged re-
sultant injury and received a verdict.
Apparently the defence of the corpora-
tion was that the dental business J ,
not, in fact, carried on by it, but was
owned by the dentist. But the court
held that the company having held it-
self out as carrying on a dental de-
partment and the plaintiff having been
ignorant of the fact that the company
was not the real owner of the dentaU
department, the corporation waj
estopped from making such a denial.
For, under the circumstances, the court
said that the plaintiff had a right to
rely not only on the presumption that
the company would employ a skillful
dentist as its servant, but also on the
fact that if that servant, the dentist,
whether skillful or not. was guilty
of any malpractice, she had a respon-
sible partv to answer therefor in dam-
ages,—Chicago Chronicle.
Now is the time
Southwest World.
to read the
USE MOUSE WHISKERS.
Bears' Eyebrow# Among New Thlnfa
U*e<t l>y Flnhermen.
The business done in mouse whisk-
• rs is considerable this year, for they
are used in the making of the won-
derful new fly for fishermen—the "new
gray gnat." And they are expensive—
nearly 2 cents per whisker. Trout rise
very much better at mouse whisker
flies than at the same "gnat" dressed
in jungle-cock hackles, which look
very much like them. The trade of
artificial fly making is the lightest-
fingered business in the world, and it
is not one man or woman out of five
thousand who can learn to tie flies.
These tyers are remarkable for the
beauty and delicacy of their hands,
and only the cleverest of fingers can
deal with the "niggling" work of knot
ting hairs that can hardly be seen. In
making a fly the earth has to be ran-
sacked for precisely the correct feath
ers and hairs, and one hair wrong will
make all the difference. It takes an
expert tyer only 15 minutes to turn
out a fly, which consists of a tiny
hook, with wings of Egyptian dove
feather, legs of fox hair, and a body
of mouse fur, wound round with
thread of yellow silk. A carelessly
made fly will have neither legs nor
"feelers," but the true expert adds the
legs, and puts on a pair of long "feel
ers" of cat hair, white at the tips
All these tiny details will be exactly
in their places, and so finely tied to the
hook that the fly will take half a dozen
strong fish and be none the worse.
Bears' eyebrows, bei- g stiff, and exact-
ly the right shade, are used in a new-
ly invented fly that is killing quanti-
ties of salmon ths year; and these
eyebrows come from the Himalayan
brown bear, and cost about $1.50 per
 et.
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