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The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
THE BUTT-'EM-OVER PEOPLE.

Amt 1T painful though. to meet EN-
Guess you'll savvy who l mean:
Sort of folks that's always finding
Spots on folks you thought were clean
Here's the sort of jolts they hand you
Sort that gives you lasting hurts:
She's a winning little creature
Amt it awful that she f1irts? ??
You may know some jolly fellow
With a countenance you like
Just about as clean a locker
AS you'd ever chance TO strike.
Comes this hammer-arm' despoiler, -
Always watching out for kinks,
Saying: Bully little fellow
Simply shameful that he drinks!
Or some hard-worked fellow-being
That you've learned to know of late,
Fighting bravely and unai6ed
'Gainst stubborn. frOwning fate;
Just a mention inadvertent
To this tt-em-over pest:
Acts hard up t keep ii quiet
How he's featherin his nest.
Then that other chap. whose handclasp
Oft had saved you from despair
Surely there's no blot or blemish
On his 'scutcheon white and fair
But this human turkey buZzard
Seeking stains on every life,
Sneers: Hes never half so jolly
When you see him with his vile"
Oh, these butt-'em- people.
With their poison pointed darts
Aimed always at fellow beings,
Tearing idols from our hearts!
When our eyes are blind to failings,
God. in mercy. keep them blind
If to see would start us probing
For the frailties We might find.
Baltimore American.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
An Effective Speaker.

An Englishman relates the follow
ing election experience: Il was taking
mart in canvassing a constituency with
out representative. l was announced
as a speaker at mass meeting held in
a large field within shadow distance
of a famous cathedral. One of the other
orators delivered the most impressive
sneech | have ever heard. He spoke of
the struggle of the poor, how they had to
hear their burden. He talked about his
own little home, which he only just
managed to keep together by the sweat
of his brow Who is hep | asked.
WELL replied my friend, the candidate,
he is known in his own town as Pop
shop Dick because he is prosperous
pawnbroker!'
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
TROPICAL Climate.

Rev. Father Grison, of Stanley Falls,
Africa, writes that Europeans have
very inaccurate idea of tropical tenn
peratures. He passed eight years at the
equator on the Pacific coast, he says.
and never saw the mercury above S5
degrees. while at Stanley Falls the max
imum is 80 degrees and the nights are
deliciously cool. On the other hand.
there are frequent tempests of inde-
scribable violence, and Father Grison
has counted sc lightning flashes in one
minute, the thunder being continuous.
and has seen ten thunderbolts strike
within a radius of few hundred meters
in the space of two hours.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
SMALLEST STATE IN EUROPE.
Recently Lost It's Identity Dv heihs
Annexed to BelGium-Had only
l,2OO Inhabitants.

Few people are aware that the
smallest state in Europe has just
ceased to exist, says the Philadelphia
Public Ledger The minute country
in question was neither Monaco, nor
San Marino, nor Andorra, nor yet
Leichtenstein, but Moresnet-a small
scraD of territory between Belgium
and Prussia, not far from AiX-la-Cha-
pelle. The independence Of Moresnet
dates from 1915, and it was only few
days ago that the two ne1ghborlng
states at last arrived at any agree
ment for it's absorption.
Moresnet has now been annexed by
Belgium, while Prussia receives Pc
cuniary indemnity The amount OF
the latter should be large, for neutral
Moresnet contained the most valuable
deposits of zinc in the world. The
decision was fastened by the estab-
lishment of gambling hell there,
which was stopped by the Belgium
government.
The inhabitants, who paid no taxes
and were free from military service,
will he the losers t. their compulsory
INCORPORATION in the Belgian kingdom.
Rut as there are only 1,200 Of them
they could not resist the act of annex
alton. Had they, like San Marino, de-
clined the dangerous gift of casino
thew might have remained neutral and
obscure.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
MADE A GOOD GUESS.
1t Was Easy Enough When Ihey "O'
the Right Kind of n
Suggestion.

Her dearest friend had dropped in for
call and she straightway put out
five-pound box of expensive candy, writes
Elliott Flower, in Brooklyn Eagle,
OH" cried the friend, have you been
suuandering money like that?''
4 didn't squander it," was the reply.
1T was present to me-
"A present" repeated the friend
Lets see! Who's been here lately?
Any of your girlhood friends?"
NO"
sometimes a family friend, passing
through"
Not the case this time"
Mrs. Baxter felt very grateful to you
for"
"She didn't send it."
There was that friend of your husband
that visited here"
1T didn't come from him.
ooh, | know now. You won it on a
bet"
Wrong again"
HAS any old friend disappointed you
at dinner? Sometimes they try to square
things"
No"
well, | give 1t up"
TRY guessing the most unlikely per-
son in the world, considering that it's
five pounds of the most expensive candy
and not little 50-cent box
Your husband?"
Right"
Heavens! He must have been doing
something awful"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
PHOTOS OF FREAKS.
Speciality Has Proved Lucrative TO
Photographer in GOtham-"Ta kes"
Only Living CuriOsities.

Not far from the Cooper Union is
photograph gallery devoted almost en-
tirely to freaks, says tks New York
Times. Sometimes a few pugilists
get in there, but as a general thing
they patronize a shop kept by an ex-
pugilist a little further down the
street.
IN the freaks shop you will find at
almost any hour of the day giants ana
dwarfs. skeletons and fat men, hui
man pincushions and sword swallc W.
ers-in fact anything that is included
in the museum and circus line, on ex-
hibition from ten cents to one dollar.
Nothing in the way Of a Legitimate
freak escapes But once let an out
sider-that is, man whom the
patrons of the show do not consider
genuine freak, like the sole Mar
tinique survivor, at Barnum's-get In
there. and he gets no picture.
The photographer began with PICK
ing up chance freaks in the circus
about ten years ago. He personally
sought out freaks and took commits
sion on the number of photographs
sold in the shows. The freak photog-
rapher doesn't do that now. He
knows that he has a facility for photo
graphing freaks better than anybody
else, Just as others excel In sporting
scenes and some in handsomely
gowned women. Every man, OF any
good, in every profession has his
strong point; and this mans is In
posing freaks to the bsst advantage.
His name is on pictures sold IN
freak shows in New York or any
where else this side of San Francisco
His bank account would compare
favorably with the bank accounts OF
many fashionable photographers.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20

success, and that is the serenity of soul
that sets aside money and success as
little tin toys that eternity may easily
dispense with" The artist breathed in
such thoughts with the air-after reso-
luton ran away He fancied that 1t
was because of the profound peace and
silence that he felt nearer to Heaven
out here upon these green-wrapt hills;
that it was the tall pines and the stars
STOPPING over them that awOke those
mystic yearnings; that it was the
moonlight and the quiet that sent him
off into those long, long reveries
wherein the big things dwindled and
shrank and it seemed good just to live
on in silence at peace with all human
kind. Yea, truly, he thought it was all
a case of atmosphere, the poor artist.
Little dreaming that it would have
been the same in Broadway or Boston
had the incorrigible angel been there.
Like most men he shrank from analyz-
ing his emotions. But, ASpaSi, the in
corrigible angel, analyzed them for
him. All, mais oui! Her eyes danced
when she beheld NJ lie artistic smoking
with his eyes on vacancy, and her lips
quivered with suppressed smiles when
he stammered over the request to be
allowed to chop her kindling.
Alas, he was better fitted to draw
pictures than to chop kindling, lie pau
vre artist, with his long. slim fingers.
AS Aspasi watched MIN she seemed to
see in contrast blue flannel shirt
straining over straight shoulders while
a keen ak flashed up and down with
poetical precision. But who would
have suspected that she saw such vi
sions, the deer-eyed maiden, as she
heaped the chips in her apron with a
shy:
Il tank you, sir"
Helm! 1t is the poets that tell US
| the woods is the place to see visions
and dream dreams VOLTA, Aspasi saw
many visions: of broad shoulders, as we
have said; of fearless black eyes when
she looked at the artists gold-rimmed
| glasses; of swift. strong strides when
| she watched the artists strolllng
steps: of back-f1ung head and laughing
| lips while she responded to the artists
well-bred smile. All, mon ami. beside
the machine-made man she kept seeing
| the man primitive with the beauty OF
sun god and the bravery of dumb
| beast-and she could not comprehend
| culture But, yet; it was fun to have
a man who wore store clothes every
! day for beau 1t made the other girls
81 jaloux.
And then the edge came up to the
: artist, sharp and keen. 1t was letter
! that did it. A cold, typewriter, die
tated ten lines. Helm, that this fugi-
tive from a hustling world center
should have found its way into that
delicious land of dreams and visions!
An offer which if accepted meant
cool thousand or so-and prospects;
but which. If rejected, or even ne
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20

If times changed if have ougrown the simplicity OF our
earv national life with the growth of abnormal enterprises ana
solicitation cour-
ubornated and ii our social ana
business life we can signs that divide our people
classes should be watchu Ii with
toward more general COL
eo education we regard another unavorabe
if learning be made only ornamental accom-
piabe ostentaton OF riches and
pride.
the of patriotic citizen that American edit
degraded that always remain true to us
all untoward cond1tons that hgher
accessible and widespread may REINFORCE
fness foundations they made TO pear the
Of heahful development and that
democracy people be gathered together
ner the sanction enlightened and American citizenship
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
An Incorrigible
Angel -
Copyright, 1908. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
By F. II. LANCASTER

Elm, the artist, dropped MS DOOk
n and strobe to the window, there to
stand and stare out upon the green
slope that slipped Shimmering and 81
lent TO the valley below. Green-gold
where the sun shot down to it; green
black where the pine shadows fell
upon it; but always green, glad and
beautiful. A thing to hold any artis-
tic eye. All, but this artist was blind
to it. That unlucky line of Ruskin's
1t had walked afresh all the heartburn
ger he had hoped to soothe into ever
lasting rest with the lullaby of labor
An incorrigible angel" What mat
tered it that Ruskin was writing OF
eighth century Irish art? At the words
had sprung before the artists mental
vision that tantalizing embodiment OF
beauty and mischief. If the great critic
had coined the phrase for the express
benefit of monsieur's. mis- hosts, slip
of q daughter, it could not have come
more pat to the purpose. So while he
stared ac the slope and its wonderful
play of high light and shadow the
artist saw only dark eyes beneath
thick. curling lashes. dimples dancing
in roseleaf cheeks and tempting lips
parting over pearly teeth.
How wonderfully lovely the child
is he unused, while smile lifted the
tips of his mustache. Little tease. In
corrigible angel suits ner to dot
And he smiled again, finding these for
bidden fruits very sweet indeed.
For all thought Of the lovely child
was forbidden fruit to the artist. Being
young and ambitious, and acknowledge
ing frankly that matrimOny was too
heavy a handicap for his career, he had
planned to eschew woman and the
thought of her.
''Ill never marry for anything but
love. Ergo, ii | don't fall in love
won't marry" he explained to his pipe,
md pleased with his philosophy and
its penetration ne had pursued his ap-
pointed path disconnected and happy,
or contented and unhappy, as is the
way with artists, be the A big or little.
Now, VOLTA That path had brought
him abruptly vis-a-vis with an lncor-
=rigible angel Comment done? 1t was
TIME for his resolution to assert itself
-fF to turn tail and run. AS for the
artist, he wished the resolution to
stand pat On general principles men
like to believe that they are made OF
sterner stuff than a rope Of sand. Ger
tainment! A week ago he had burned
his sketches of rounded cheek and
beauteous brow and said to his heart:
Enough, enough" Said it sternly all
in the dead vast and middle OF the
night" Eh Dein, but he kept on star
ing down the slope until he spied q
white speck at the bottom Of it.
"Aspasis befrilled sun-bonnet."
He seized his nat and slammed his
door. Resolution had turned tail. Quel
escl<rdc,. quel esclandre!
xpr ~ealment. 1t is SO out there on
th,s. green hills under the pleasant
sunshIre-among the simple lives OF
peaceful 'Cajan land. The heart of am
bition grows ashamed " its clamor-
of it's everlasting "Give. give" There
us a bigger thing than either money OF
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
IT Is the Largest.

The most extensive wine cellar in ths
world is owned by the Roumanian gov
ernment. A railway tunnel $500 feet
long between GaIatz and Barboshi could
not be used for railway purposes because
of inferior construction. 1t was leased td
a wine dealer, who has turned it into an
immense wine cellar.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20

.sI sell these snakes as pets for Ia
dies" explained recently London nat
uralist who regularly contracts for
supply of harmless commQn grasa
snakes to be so disposed OF
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
1t DeDends.

Rain water" said the teacher, ''is al
ways soft, is it not?''
"Not always" replied the bright
scholar: sometimes it's soft, but very
often it comes down hard."-Philadel
nhia Press.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
1T depends.

..Is a cord of wood much, pop?"
well, my son, it all depends on
whether you are burning it or chop
ming it."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
The Mission Of Education
8v HON. GROVER CLEVELANI
Ex.President of the United States.

The free public schools of the early, simple days,
open to all, were appreciated by ALL and IN an atmo-
sphere of patriotism they taught all to become good
citizens. They created and fosered the democracy OF
American education in its broadest and best meaning,
because their lessons and influence enforced the truth
that the highest purpose of education the prepar
alton of free men to do the work OF free and nde-
pendent citizens and that in preparation we'll as in
work there should be patriotic equality and brother
hood.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
What Did She Mean:

He-How low shall | turn down the
gas?
She-Low enough so that you can
feel your way around.-Town Topics
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
Increase i'm Suicide Rate.

The suicide rate in the United States
has increased in ten years from Il to II
per 100000 population.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20
PINS of Ancfent Make.

Pins have been found among the
Egyptian mummies and in the prehis-
toric caves of Switzerland.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-11-20

Change of location will not change
your nature.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-03
THREE TIMES BURIED
THIS WOMAN STILL LIVES
More Comedy Than Tragedy 10 Story Of Mile Marie
Just Rescued From Tomb

the vault, heard strange noises. His
fright would not permit him to inves-
tigate this time. He ran away at top
speed, shouting that Mile. Marie had
come to life agair
The stoutest hearted in the village
went to the vault to investigate When
The coffin lid was raised there was
the smiling girl alive. and wanting to
be released.
BY this time the villagers had begun
to shake their heads. Coming TO life
once was not so bad. In fact. It was
good hing and they we're glad she
did it. Down in their hearts they were
glad she had done It again even II It
did look queer.
Mile. Marie did not recover her
health this time She was an invalid
and languished from that time until
Dec. ~ Of last year. Then she peace
fully expired a third time
This death had not been sudden. It
had been expected for years and there
was no reason for her friends 20 doubt
that this time her body would remain
in the coffin.
For a third time they gathered at
her funeral service and mourned for
her. The coffin was put in the hearse
and the procession was started for the
vault wherein she had been laid twice
before
On the road the mournets were
thrown into a panic by hearing Mile.
Marie calling quite plainly from the
coffin and asking to be released.
AT that ali. but the immediate mem
bers Of her family left the funeral pro
cession in disgust The burying OF
Marie mad become a farce and they
refused to have anything further to dc
with such ceremonials.
In sadness the invalid was taker
home again There was no rejoicing
She hes come to life once too often
The villagers began to "cut" her ac
quaintance They refused to speak te
a girl who will trihe with funerals.
II they believed that her deaths hai
been genuine in all cases they nigh
be more lenient, but since the physi
! clans have declared their opinion tha
she feigns death because she love-
the sensations or because she like
the notoriety attending her comlng
back, they are severe.
J IN the natural course Of events Mile
Marie must die at least once more
+ will be hard for her to convince th'
; villagers Of Tasdon that she really i
} dead even if she should De beyond re
call.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-03

selected Weatherford as the site for
the normal When the members Of
the commission presented their claims
for expenses they were rot honored.
by the auditor In addition to the
opinion from the attorney general the
auditor had a personal request from
Governor Jenkins that his commission
should be paid and chat the other com
mission should be turned down.
The normal case was taken TO the
courts and the supreme court finally
held that Weatherford should have the
school Granite gave up the fight, and
it is now up to the auditor to settle
the matter of expense in locating.
The expenses of the members Of the
Barnes commission amount to some
thing like $500. but this amount has
never been PAID.
Just what the method of procedure
In this case will be in order to secure
payment from the auditor is not
known. but unless some point radical
ly different from those already found
by the attorney general turns up the
auditor will be called upon to make
good the amount turned over to the
jenkins commission
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-03


To Architects and Manufacturers OF
Heating systems for Public
Buildings.
Once of the Board Of Trustees Of
the Logan County High School.
Guthrie, Okla. May 10, 1903
The Board Of Trustees q the Logan
County High School hereby request
architects to submit plans for a high
school building to be built near the
City of Guthrie, O. T.. together with
estimated cost OF building and price
expected for plans in case the board
accepts the same. Said building to
cost from $4,000 to $4,000. Esti-
mates to be arranged as to provide
for either OF the following heating
systems. hot air fan system, blast
steam, direct steam. or hot water. The
building to be two stories above
basement each story including base
ment to be IA feet in height The
said building should contain: 10 to
y class rooms; library and reading
room; ! physical laboratory room; /
chemical laboratory room with dark
room attached. principals cyice with
private room adjoining. / board OF
trustee 8 Office, / museum room, 2
small private rooms for teachers use
on each floor, 2 toilet rooms in base
ment with flushing OF dry closets,
ljanitor's room in basement, ! manual
training room in basement or attic.
l assembly room on second floor to
seat 600 to 700. with stage IS It wide
and dressing room at each end Of
stage. Gallery around assembly
room Wide Railways longitudinal
and aDsverse, wide stairways
At the same time BOARD will accept
bids for heating said building. Manu-
facturers Of different systems OF heat
ing and ventilation are invited to sub
init bids. The Board of Trustees will
on June 9th 1908, at their offices in
the City Of Guthrie. at y. M, on said
day open said bids and inspect said
plans ind If any are found satlsfac-
tory why be ready to contract for said
plans Of building or heating.
The board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
For further information address the
secretary Joe H. Norris. Guthrie,
o. t.
Done by order of the Bos I'd OF Trus-
tees this 18th day Of May. 1909.
Joe n. Morris,
Secretary
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-03
(Flrst published in the Daily Leade

(First published in the Daily Leader
May 10, 19O3)
Application tor Liquor License.
Territory Of Oklahoma. County @
Logan, IS.
Notice is hereby given that
Ohio Miller
has this day filed in the office OF tn,
County Clerk, in and for said County
his petition, asking that license be
granted him to sell at retail, malt
spirituous and yinous liquors on
Lot nine in block twelve, Second
ward Mulhall, in said County and
Territory.
II no protest be filed on OF before
June 3, 1908,
the petition will be granted ant
license issued.
Witness my hand and the seal q
said County hereto affixed this
18th day OF May. 1908.
N. J. c. johnson,
County Clerk
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-03

(First published in the Daily Leader
May %, 19O3.)
Application for Liquor License.
Territory of Oklahoma, Logan Coun-
ty. ss.
Notice is hereby given that
w. ]. Black
has this day filed in the Office Of the
County Clerk, in and for said County.
his petition, asking that license be
granted him to sell at wholesale, m.it
liquors On
Lots 1, ?. 8. 4, 5. G. in block 90 in
Fifth ward Guthrie, in said County
and Territory
II no protest be filed on or before
June 6, 1908,
his petition viii be granted and
license issued.
Witness my hand and the seal OF
said County hereto affixed this
% day Of May. 1908.
(SEAL.)
N. :. c. johnson,
County Clerk.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-03
500
Is Territorial Auditor Per-
SOnaIly Liable for This
Amount

1t is now almost certain that in the
opinion being prepated by Attorney
General Robbcrts at the request OF
Auditor Baxter, upon the question OF
the payment Of the two commissions
to locate the Southwestern normal
school, will hold that the ouditor Is
personally liable for the money paid
To the Jenkins commission, which
amounts to some.hing over 500. I'm
less lew elections are brought forth TO
do away with tho Arguments of the
attorney general in the opinion now in
state Of preparaticn. ne viii hold as
above stated
Il Will be remembered that prior to
tho time Governor Barnes ceased to
be- the chief executive Of Oklahoma,
he appointed commission Of men
acting under new law, 70 locate a
site for southwestern normal school
soon aftor Governor Jenkins was IN
Quoted into office he appointed a com
mission to locate the school The
/ Barnes commission had never resign
cd and the time for appointing a ncv
commission had passed when Jenkinl
named the msn. The jenkins com
mission took a trip over the south
western pary Of the territory and Sc
Iected size for the normal at Granite
Auditor Baxter secured an opinion
from the attorney general, who wa
then Judge strang, who held tha
the Jenkins commission had the rieh
10 locate the school and also that "a
auditor should honor warrants 70
actual expenses incurred IN seiectin
the site.
The Barnes commission later OF