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THE WEEKLY OKLAHOMA £T \TE CAPITAL SATUDRAV SEPTEMBER 4. 19^>
THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL
Br Th. State C<p>u< Company.
FRANK H. GREER. EDITOR.
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SPECIAL ADVERTISING AGENTS
The natty and WaeUy Capital are r*pr*««nt*i by th*
following advertising amenta:
Raatem A*ent-'The N. M. 8hemelJ Special Agency.
Tribune Building. New York Ctty.
Central Acenry—The N. M. Shefflold Special A*ency.
TTnlted State* Express Bulldtnjr Chicago, IH
Tor the State of Texas—Godbold Special Agency. Del-
ia*. Tesaa
Tho*f having advertising to place with the Dally and
W—klv state Capital In the above territory. please cor-
re«p< r>d with th* agents a stated above.
D
Crude oil poured on stagnant pond* will kill the
mosquito before the swartns form.
Kake real estate transfers, through the circle
formed by Oklahoma City real estate dealers, do
not represent actual transfers, although they help
swell totals.
THE WAY TO HEALTH
The health authorities o? Massachusetts hare dele-
gated Dr. Annie Hamilton of Boston to take charge
of the work of educating New Englaud people in
the ways of maintaining health and warding off sick-!
nesn. She will carry on the campaign largely byj
means of lectures before all sorts of organizations,
that are willing- to gire the subject a hearing.
It is not likely that she will have any trouble in
securing audiences, for the subject of health is one:
that interests a great variety and number of people
at this time. Large and prosperous religious cults,
recently arisen, have their atrongest attraction in
the health insurance element that accompanies their
faith; old-established churches are winning new con-
verts by engaging in the eure of disease through
ZM psychotherapeutic methods; the subject is agitated
♦■00 in one way and another by physicians and scien-
tists, the burden of their teaching being the secret
of keeping well.
It is a good gospel, this health doctrine. The dan-
ger of the mere "cure" idea is that people will come
to think too much about themselves and their ail-
ments—that they will become too self-conscious and
in consequence suffer imaginary pains and make
' more of trival maladies than they should. But In
so far as the instruction leads people to apply the
lessons they learn; to observe the common sense
rules of hygiene in matters of cleanliness, ventila-
tion, proper food, etc., and so to become healthy, to
that extent all ed m-ation of the kind is a good thing.
When the individual once possesses health he forgets
his physical state. He is unaware, so far as trouble-
some sensations go, that he has any vital organs
Lungs, heart, liver, stomach, are all there, but in a
properly subordinate state, performing their func-
tions without any trouble to their owner and leav-
ing him to other concerns of life.
Life means a good deal more to a man when this
condition of perfect health exists. He can achieve
more in every way; he is happier; the world looks
good to him; he sees more in his fellow creatur s
existence in every way. And good health is every
man's birthright. The education campaign now be-
ir.g carried on tesches how this birthright, which
some have ignorantly and heedlessly allowed to slip
away, may be recovered and proved a reality, and
is therefore a work greatly worth while.
Seems to us that the management of the New
State Tribune made a bad deal with the Oklahoma
City Bunch Might just as \<ell have had fifty thous-
and as twenty.
If the people ever get a chance at the initiative
of prohibition lsws there will be so many changes
made in the present law that Brother Billups will
not know where he is at.
Oklahoma City papers continue advertising crime
after crime and, at the same time, ask that the peo-
ple of the state locate th. state capital where the
grafter can get action easily.
Oklahoma City continues bragging of her postal
receipts. Wonder how much of that increase
be attributed to the "due postage" scheme which
representatives of Oklahoma City firms are work-
ing.
WITH THE MAN
The anxiety of the financial world over the
health of Mr. Harriman calls to mind the fleeting
character of power and also of wealth.
This anxiety is based upon a real and sufficient
reason.
Mr. Harriman is the actual head of railways that
span the continent. Yet he owns, perhaps, not more
than two or three per cent of their actual value.
It is his strong personality that has forged to the
front.
Today he is the dominant and controlling factor
in the railway world. He is the king bee in the trans-
portation business.
And yet with the personality of Harriman gone
all this built-up power goes to naught. He can't
will it away where it will be effective and continue.
'mUst!He can't hand it over to a son or a relative with any
hope that it will be maintained. In a large measure
it will go to pieces at his d?mise.
Mr. Harriman can leave his millions to his chil-
dren. In that case a few generations will dissipate
it. His power can hardly be transferred. Some
The city health officers' attention is respectfully
failed to the stagnant water hole under the Harri-
son avenue bridge, as well as the pot holes near Is-
land park. Can not it be possible that mosquitoes
find in such places protection during their busy
season '
The New State Tribune in earning that twenty
thousand dollars all right. It now comes out flat-1 other time some other man will come along and
footed, just as we said it would, for a violation of will rise to Mr. Harriman's place. He will likely
the people's agreement with the national govern- do this by sheer ability. Then he will die and only
the material with which he worked will be left. The
structure's he builds will disintegrate.
And such is the bogey-man of power and wealth.
If it doesn't fall of its own weight nature comes
along and does away with it.
And from generation to generation we keep mov-
ing along. The poor of today are the rich and pow-
erful of tomorrow; the rich and powerful of today
are in time forgotten and the substance they have
is usually an endowment for luxury and idleness
that lasts a comparatively brief time.
Harriman's weealth is an important factor in the
financial market. This is because he is at present
the keystone of the railway arch. Harriman out of
it the arch will have to be reshaped and this is an
unsettling situation.
ROMANTIC REMINISCENCE.
A curious touch of romantic reminiscence is lent
to Mr. Harriman's confinement from the fact that he
is in his own forest of Arden. The real forest of
Arden is not, perhaps, the ancient woods of middle
and eastern England, no vestige of which remains,
but that forest of Arden that is made immortal by
Rosalind, the clever foolery of Touehstone and the
poetic philosophy of Jacques, wherein all true lovers
walk and sigh to this very day. The many clouds
that hung over the forest of Arden were happily
dispelled by the genius of Shakespeare—haply med-
ical science may do the same for the forboding that
surrounds Tower Hill in this Arden of the twentieth
NOT ALL LOVELY.
Oklahoma City is having its fun with the asphalt
frost. It appears that ail is not lovely with the
pavement down there, that is if the following edi-
torial paragraph from the Oklahoman means any-
thing:
"Just between frienila, and not necessarily for
publication, isn't it a fact that some of the asphal-
tum paving laid in Oklahoma Cit;. during the la-t
two years looks like sheets of mud with a sanil coat-
ing?"
BAR ASSOCIATION OBJECTS
Membra of the National Bar Association severe-
ly condemned the teaching of law through corre-
spondence schools, but the ground of their criticism
has not been made clear. Some things—mutual
training, dancing and piano playint, for example—
can not well be taught by correspondence methods,
hut it woold seem ihat the study of law. being a
matter of clone reading, logical reasoning and mem-
ory. could in its earlier stages be carried on with
success under intelligent "long distance" direction. crn,ur-v
The system has certainly afforded opportunities t
have enjoyed.
CERTAINLY UNRECONSTRUCTED
G. X. Saussy of Sylvester, Ga., will not offend-
ed if anyone calls him an "unreconstructed rebel.'
A CHANCE TO HELP UNCLE SAM is what he calLs himself in a letter to Gover
Canada has a novel but very just complaint j nor Brown.
Bgaitist the United States for an abuse endured for a The latter appointed him lieutenant colonel em
long time in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls. his staff.
It appears that most all the suicides at Niagara' When Mr. Saussy received the commission he
jump over the falls on the American side but their] scratched out the word "blue" in the regulation
bodies all wash up on the Canadian side. This has requiring the wearing of the blue uniform and sub-
heaped the burden of caring for the corpses upon stituted "gray." On the back of the commission
Canada and this burden is about $jO0 a year. Can
ada wants the American side to take can.- of its
own
It is unlikely there will be any serious interna-
tional complications about this matter, but there is
just * little embarrassment. This latter could !>•
•aved if tho-'- planning suicide would exercise a
little precaution arid go over to the Canadiau side
before taking their death leap.
he wrote:
"I am a Confederate soldier on parole."
Then he returned the paper, and when informed
that he must take the commission straight or not
at all he declined it.
In his letter to the governor he said that he had
never taken the oath of allegiance to the United
States and never intended to. and that he always
wore uniforms of the Confederate gray.
CROPS AND COST OF* LIVING
iri ctiona of cheaper living, baaed
H eCOllld IUpaB muat be taken wUn
fcomc caution. We are not confronted ojr
the problem of £ wheat, which Mr,
In appearance not much different from hun-lre Is
of others who were landing on our shores, this boy tioa «-rv*d its purpose admirably
—we can call him Morris—had a shre.vdness ind
ambition and keenness and energy that were un-
common.
He struck blindly but confidently out into th.i
country, landing in Chicago, with a few cents in his
pocket. What his earliest hgrdiships must have
been ean only be imagined
he had a good working command of English, wasilng in cuicago tor Ms Hum a dollar,
the owner of a souvenir postal card stand, had] food ought to be, ami probably wi-i t-a
, , , . , , c II . ..... -cheeper tliao U iiaa beep late y. But
brought his older sister over from Mungar) to run cotlaB and wool ure t.,,1, nmj textile
it, and had #ti00 in the bank. «•>'■" nu iu.po.moo to rec«u.
—, , , r- \r ' lion at the prices are rising- Struetuial
That represents some achievements, for .norris b), lU pM e kJli| a„ ,Utl (,rlcc 41* up.
was tin-less and shrewd. He sold candy and pap-
ers and post cards, and bought and wild small *r-
ticl* - with a grasp of business principles that woul I
have done credit to a man three times his age.
At sixteen Morris ''ad married his sister off to a
, , ,< . i , i . j „ l I rent, and with the growth of population
rich fellow countryman who had seen her and ; i;a, ,elld, upwiir4- but lh, ext'.. o>e
REPORTERS AND THE NEWS J MAKING OF A NEW AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Did von ever stop to think hoi difficult it is for Here is a little story about the making cf an
reporters to secure news items | American. Not a very pleasant story, but a true
That they are always delving and digging. Uurt!<®«. One not altogether typical, but certainly a
they are not supposed to sleep and that they are' story to make people think.
not thought to be like other people, but must F"or years ago there landed alone at Ellis island
know everything-. a Hungarian-Jewish boy of fourteen—one of the
Let a reporter fail to record the fact thr.t there <1"** which forms so large a part of present day
has been a fence painted away out in the Elbow, :-raniigration. lie came in the steerage.
or that Clara Smith, while going from her home. no* sqeak a word of English.^
east of Highland Park, to the spring in the park
sprained her ankle and has been compelled to re-
main quiet a few days, and see what will happen.
It makes no difference, if none excepting .Clara's
mother knew that she had been injured and the
fact that mother had not told a "single soul" of
the accident—Miss Clara will get up on her dignity
and blame the reporter for not having informed the
world of her injury.
But that is all right, blame the newspaper, the
reporter and all that, but continue to suppress the
news.
The worst person a newspaper has to contend
with is the fellow who would have a newspaper
suppress a news item about himself or a friend even
in the face of the fact that every individual is talk-
ing of the affair.
Generally things talked about are magnified as
they travel from lip to lip and as a consequence
the pe-rsor who would have the story suppressed is
injured more than would be possible through the
truthful report of the affair.
The following taken for the Emporia Gazette deals
with the reporter and is well worth attention by
those who continually knock-the reporter and the
newspaper:
" 'Your reporters are no good,' said a citizen
this momin: , with /irtuous indignation; my
Aunt Henrietta and her two daughters, Gladys
and Imogene, have been visiting at my house for
several days, and there hasn t been a word in
the Gazette about it.
"A good many similar kicks are heard in the
course of a long summer day, and although the
management of the Gazette has taken a good
many reporters into the basement and shot
them down in cold blood for neglect of duty,
there is still room for criticism.
"The Gazette has long been looking for the
ideal reporter, and when he is found expense
will not be considered if he can be signed up
for regular service.
"The ideal reporter, to begin with, should be
a mind reader. Most every man in town knows
something that would be interesting if he would
tell it; and when he meets a reporter he al-
ways forgets it, anu says that he uoesu't know
a thing. Then in the evening he says that there
isn't a jimdasted thing worth reading in the
paper, and he rolls it into a wad, and throws
it at the cat, and holds an indignation meeting.
An expert mind reader could get a lot of in-
formation from such a man.
"The ideal reporter should be triplets. It is
absolutely necessary, at all hours of the day,
that he should be in three places at once; he
should be at the depot, taking notes of all ar-
rivals and departures, and he should also be at
the hotels, copying bughouse signatures from
the register, and he should be simultaneously,
at the meetingcf the Ministerial Association,
for a great deaiof hot stuff has its origin there.
"The ideal reporter will have his private aer-
oplane, so that he can soar, at great speed, over
the town in e*<4y direction, making notes of all
the doings in the various backyards, and put-
ting down accurate descriptions of the family
washings which may be hung on the clothes-
lines. This machine will also enable him to
look into second story twindows and see '
whether people keep their bedrooms in respect-
able order.
"The ideal reporter will be a clairvoyant, and
capable of going into a trance at any moment,
during which trance he will read the future,
and thus will be able to be on the spot when-
ever anything important happens.
"He will also be a prize fighter and a doctor
of laws; and he will iave a thorough knowledge
of the millinery business, so that he can write
up receptions; he should be a practicing phy-
sician and a private detective and a good cook,
and he should have a pair of seven league boots
Anv young man answering the requirements
can have a steady joo on the Gazette, and he
can name his own salary.
stead of snipping wneat Into LI'UMXJ and
breakiig Ihw May market—the surl of
thing that has broken nearly every pre-
decessor of Mr. l'atten In "bill" opera-
tions—the tarmers held onto tlielr wheat
and waited for the 12 quotation. The
harre.i began loss than a mouth after
the May cpuca cloaetl j.nd <j now luie
every ...arauce ll«at the wheat crop
But within two years win ei-«*<i joo,«*>,ooo bushels and may
' reach (3i.0wu.VJU bushela. Wheat Is eell-
atae. Is not a commodity that the aver-
age ciilseu purcliaaea, but he Is afT*---t-1
Hides are on the free list, but shoe aton a
and factories are stocked up with g"oda
purchased before the r-fn! of the bide
duty aud prices are not yet coming down.
The most Important item of eipense Is
mired her. but who was te>o timid to press his suit.
Morris, with an eye to business, quickly brought
them together. Then looking for new worlds to con-
quer, he sold out his sti nd. bought a new suit-
American cut—and started for San Francisco.
The western trip didn't pan out so well except
that it broadened Morris*' mind aud opened up new
avenues of enjoyment. It was a bad year, and tli
location he had set up in wasn't well chosen. Still
he had broken even financially when he got back to
(."hicago a year ago.
But now. wearing good clothes and having lost
some of the alertness of speech which had character-
ized him at first. Morris wasn t content to settle
down in the grind of eighteen-hour-a-day plugging,
of matching his wits for pennies, of painstaking pro-
gress. He felt the lure of big stakes aud easier ex-
istence.
He went to New York after a month, lie came
baek to Chicago again a month ago. Ho had lost
and unwieldy ..
his savings—or spent them rather. He had learned and destroyed ti., serapw. and counte .
.... it of Scarborough off the coast of Scotland
In 177<\ down to the time when Schlty
bui.difig •^rations a 1 over the country
may k-ep abreast of the demand.—Phil-
adelphia Record.
AMERICAN SEA FIGHTERS
European papers are engag* d in **
lively discussion ov«-r the remtivo
strength of the navies of the world. The
French pai*-rs are contending that tho
American navy is equal, If not superior,
to that of Germany. Magazine ♦•xpmd
ieie have demorstrated to ttielr own
satisfaction that the United States navy
Is wholly worthless; that In a battle with
any modern fH-et the vessels which we
sent to cruise around the world wouUl
go d as If they were made of pap r.
80 we are, or ought to be. duly Krateful
to ti e Trench writers for proving t at
we stand • oud to Great Britain in se^
p-'irer.
So o3y on this side of th* ean Is
serious:y anticipating war with any
oth*T nation, but, « n the other hand, few
Ameri ans trembl- at the word * war.
In a 1 naval conflicts In which this coun-
try has be n engaged, from the time
when John Pau' Jones, In the old rotten,
ton Homme Richard, met
destroyed the Spanish fl-et in Santiago
harbor, the American navy never met
with a disastrous defeat. It occasional,y
lost individual ships, as, for example, the
Che^apeak. ir. its light with the gliannon,
or th* Ksspx. while contending with the
Phoibe ar.d chrr h in the harbor at
where the
TO THE POINT
a little steamboat
How hoarse
whistle-
One way not to have a good time if
to spend most of your tune looking lor
GREAT DAY FOR COLORADO
September 23 will be a great day for Colorado
in general and Montrose county and the Uncom-
pahgre Valley in particular, for that is the uate set
for President Taft to open the gates of the great
Gunnison tunnel.
Four and one-half years have been spent in build^ several railroads,
ing this tube through which and the main and dis-
tributing canals the waters of the Gunnison River
w ill flow and irrigate 150.000 acres of land.
The tunnel is six miles long and 11 by 13 feet in-
side measurement.
The main eanal is 33 feet wide at the bottom and
83 feet wide at the top and the average depth ol
water is 10 feet.
The total cost will be over $5,000,000. Settlers
will be allowed to bay perpetual water rights at
approximately $35 per acre of* land benehtted.
Ten years will be given for payment and th-re will
be no interest charged. The water after leaving
the tunnel will have 372 feet fall, and can lie used
to generate electric power sufficient to light every
house in the vdley and enough to spare for in-
dustrial purposes.
As the land to be irrigated will be suitable for
froit crowing and the rai? ing of all kinds of farm
crops, the UncompahgTe Valley promises to be a
good ploce to live in.
'Ia t the PeoDle Rule." Oh, you governor.
The state school land office is still being run un-
checked and unaudited, at the .-ate of $10,000
monthly expenses, and no effort is being made to
stop the unauthorized and illegal extravagance.
State whiskey dispensaries are daily being re-
opened over the state, although the people voted
decisively against the system last fall, and the
bootleggers are working successfully and in many
places unmolested.
Governor Haskell and the man who is endeavor
ing to be assistant Secretary of State, are ' damn-
ing'' overtaxed merchants because they have nerve
enough left to protest.
Taxes for the current year are two and one-half
times greater than last season.
The taxpayers are working day and night, try-
ing to save enough money with which to meet tax-
ation pay day.
burns.-'
The governor and the man who is endeavoring to
be Secretary of State seem t / be having some trouble.
Y.'onder what "can" the matter b^.
Are you taml'iar
known as Okra? Eve
liked it?
with a v*gctabl«?
know anyone w io
to drink, to smoke cirrarette* and play the races. He
spoke with an eastern drawl.
"N'Yoike's the only burg." he told his frends,
contemptuously, as he languidly relied a cigarette.
"Chi's a dead one."
ii w„s «c0 t.. w-orfe bv now—four years
after he had landed, lie liked to wear good clothes, J m ^£*hiTt woo._
and his eyes were fast fixed on the elusive tomorrow washington Post.
when fortune—through tLe races or gambling-
should elaim him for her own.
He got some money from his rich brother-in-law.
But he had to do some work. He looked for an
easy job. He found it—as an usher in a moving
picture show. That's what he is doing now.
The hours aren't bed. He can wear good clothes.
He can meet his friends after hours. He can play
the races with all the money he can earn or coaxj
from his sister's" husband.
Morris is looking flashy, almost tough. After
his taste of pleasure, will he ever be content to set-
tle down to the course of life where steady, honor-
able money is earnedt Can he make a new start?
It is a question. It is also a tragedy.
Morris has lived in four years the history of
three generations—the generation of work, the gen-
eration of prosperity, the generation of decay.
WILL KEEP THEM BUSY.
The anti-administration Daily Oklahoman is out
in defense of the administration and the democratic
party. The following from an Oklahoma Exchange
may prove of value to the Oklahoman—
It indicates some of the things which no news-
paper can satisfactorily explain to the taxpayers ot
the state.
When the Oklahoman has explained the following
twelve charges against the administration, there
will be produced a great gross more.
The state house democracy is an extremely busy
bunch at the present time.
Governor C. N. Haskell is fighting Uncle Sam's
indictments against him for Muskogee townlct
frauds.
Lieutenant-Governor Bellamy, who is drawing
two salaries .from the state, has been absent from
the state several months, paying no attention to any
of his offices.
Attorney General West, instead of going after the
alleged coal trust has gone to Colorado to see il
he can't get Bellamy to quit drawing one oi his two
salaries.
W. L. Chapman still holds his job as corporation
commission secretary although in the employ of
•What." the women folks a!! say when
father scolds, "is he grumbling about
Which gives you t;ie greater enjoy-
ment: To hear your friends praised or
your enemies roasted?
—o
The man who always tries to lug in a
rhcerfui word, wnen he meets you, finally
gets on your nerves.
Country husbands are better tramed
than town husbands. Ever see a town
husband carry a baby on the street?
Make the statement In the pr%sen.'«
of women that a woman ever chased
a man. and you have a row on your
hands at once.
—o—
You always get a chance at the man
you hate; if nothing else offers, you
can refuse to buy a chance when h«
raffles his shotgun.
Human lialr ig said to be worth about
$30 a pound, but it depends largely on
whether you are buying It. or mer«ly
trying to keep what you have.
When a man returns from a visit to
his folks, his wife looks at him as much
as to say, "What have they beep doirg
to poison your mind against me now?"
Don't say women nev<r learn from
experience An Atchison woman's first
husband ran off. and the second time
she married it was to a man with both
legs cut off.
The great food specialists *ay tt 19
wrong to eat meat, particularly dftrlne
hot weather. At noon today, we went
into a restaurant, and every one of the
twenty-three guests were eating meat;
usually roast beef, with gravy.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
The only time th^re seems to be any
room in a flat Is after a sleeping car
trip.—New York Press.
Mr Well man might turn hla future at-
tention to th Equator. It is easier to
locate than the N*orth Pole.—Washington
Herald. ♦
—— O- ■
Pon Jaime Is described by a Pari* cor-
respondent as a near-king. this a
tactful euphemism for ••knave?"—I^ouls-
vttle Courier-Journal.
Flying machines will not be th* only
atrial attractions next year. Mr Hal-
!ey> Justly celebrated comet is coming
to fill a date—Chicago News.
Th# ITIndoo student who assassinated
rvjlonel WyHe in London wag hnn«rod just
«lx we^ks after the murder Aren't
there any alienist* or hypothetical que*,
tlor.s In England?—Philadelphia North
American.
—-o—
If T>e« n Ling keeps on being discovered
in many more places he will soon smas*
John D. Rockefeller's record established
a chort time before tho Standard oil In-
ve^flration two years ago— Philadelphia
Telegraph.
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