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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

J. / sands went to cdthfie today
on business.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Harry Thompson Bniinss son Of ars
billings. Of the United States marshais
once. LETT Tuesday for Sail Lake city
accompanied By bic uncle. cS-Uniied
States Marshal Harry Thompson.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Private Socrcutry Ro1ert Carr went
to oklahoma CITY this morning to at,
terd the statehood convention.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Mr aud Mrs Cottingham and aiss
scrupp leave Saturday morning FOR
Portland. oregon. 10 spend several
weeks seeiue the Lewis and Clark cH-
position. -
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Mr.. DUNCAN, wen known in Guthrie
and parpcular friend Of MS frirk
Grcc9 Is with Mrs Greer pow, az the
Battle Greek sanitarium. Mrs. DUNCAN
i've a. Buffalo. n Y.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Mr. and Mrs. n. j.. Williamson went
20 Oklahoma city this morning. Mr'
Williamson VIII sttend fhe convention
and Mrs Williamson VIII speni the 9ay
visiting friends.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

El Reno Globe: w r, weich, or
Guthrie, Grand Recorder Of the A. @. u.
w, and Dr. A. l.. Share. 9. NJ. T.,
Of Klngnsher. will atiend the insta,ia-
tioh OF ofiicers in the city toniIht.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Mrs Hattie 81 orr, Of Parthage, WIS,
WAS ia the cily this nornins.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Geo. I..veadrr is IN the city IRON
wiahta.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

The shakespeare cleb held an inter
csting meeting Tuesday afternoon az the
club rooms Carnegie library The les
son studied was from Richard the bee
.ond
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Beyer are ol;la-
homa City visitors today.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

j. L. oeots camo up from 7kiohona
CITY this mpmhg
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

attorney C. y. Bush, Editor Jim
Biggs ana snerin Mccoy were in th'
city today from ssillwater
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

j. n Martin ana s. G cobb Of Poneo
city were here tcady
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

John c. Coyle is visiting his old friend
and schoolnate r. NJ. McCiacken, at
Enid this week
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-12

George W. Uhler and Proctor 0unt.un
Of Enid are business vistruis ii he
eaiith cay today
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

they could command in hope that he would let them
alone and not roar so much IN their ears The people
knew that they did not know much but nobody
knows much IN such country except the witch DOCTORS
who keep TO themselves all their wonderful knowledge
So the people got along for better for with
the various spirits of the rocks and the woods and
the streams and the snakes, and with the terrible
unknown gods, until thing happened that made them
see that they did not even know what they ought to
in the simplest OF their affairs.
Somewhere about 1917 Yoruba peddler selling
spices the arket-place when he got into quarrel
with man from another Yoruba tribe over spoonful
OF pepper He said the other fellow had not paid the
cowry that the price. The other fellow that
he had paid; the bawled they clinched other
from the tribes nterfered and finally the of
the pepper merchants clan, after hard fight drove
from the town the clan OF him who said he had been
defrauded of his cowry
The man of the cowrv died of his wounds; his whole
tribe declared for revenge the pepper merchant;
and a bloody broke among the tribes of the
confederation. The YOrubans began TO catch and
sell another slaves; the tribes heard that
the confederation had gone to pieces and raided the
country; and the hordes of Dahomey poured
the western border carrying off everything they could
find, from a to a hkely-looking fetish. Even
these attacks did not stop the quarrel about the
pepper and the cowry. The people did know
between the Niger and the Dahomey border had been
robbed and burned; thousands of Yorubas had been
sold to the white men the whole country had become
desert and the fragments of the tribes covered in
the shadows OF thick forests and in the of the
rocks.
In a great plain on the Ogun River are several de-
tached. forest-clad hills which in 1928 1920 grad
ually became the iding-place of the fugtives from
the desoated Yoruba and villages. The highest
Of these hills is topped by of smooth granite
The great rock called in their language ORHd
II was OF course a habitation of spirit, and
the people offered sacrifices to it. hoping that the
spirit of the rock would them against attack
The spirit of the rock was favorable the people;
il never let anyone come upon them unawares from
behind and the people of the different tribes little by
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

the Bantu races All black men are negroes and that
is the end of it.
The English landed on the Sierra Leone sands in
one year negroes from twenty-five different tribes
speaking many languages; all as helpless in the
problem of finding their homes if they had been
carried to China and able to understand what
his neighbOr talking about. 1t was tenfod worse
than the Tower of Babel. The result was that the
freed slaves quarreed furouslv and seemed likely to
eat each other, if English missionaries had APP
Peared upon the scene in 1916 to teach them how
behave themselves.
1t so happened that a number of the freedmen thus
dropped at Sierra Leone belonged Yoruba tribes.
They naturally kept together since they all spoke
language and they attracted attention by being
more quick to learn than the others. After some
twenty years a number of these Yoruba freedmen at
Sierra Leone had become Christians and were indie
pendent business men. Then they learned where
they and decided to go back their father
land, a thousand miles aWaV.
One can imagine the amazement of the people of
Abeokuta when some of these men made their appear
in the city, though risen from the dead and
recognized the stolen in childhood by
slave-hunters. They had great things to tell about
a curious sort of white who dealt kindly with
the black people, who had taught them the secret of
the white mans power and who had given them little
books in the Egba language that had good words
which made strong. The AbeOkutans said with
one voice: THAT is the kind of wanti
Some sent back to Sierra Leone to tell the
missionaries that the Yorubas wanted some of that
kind of people.
The missionaries felt like those that dream never
theess in IS43 Mr. Townsend of the Church Missionary
Society made the long and, then terrible journey
from Sierra Leone to AbeOkuta to if it could be
that Africans wanted be taught by missionaries
Things did not rapidly in those days Although
the Yoruba Christians Sierra Leone marched off to
Abeokuta once it not until the summer of
1916 that missionaries arrived there to live.
With the missionaries the YOrubas black
man, speaking the Egba language perfectly, but
acting like Englishman who knows what he is
about, and all fire to tell the people about certain
Jesus Christ, who, he said, had made something of
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

their group, to be paramount
Chief, and so the old Yoruba
confederation was set up again
under control of one man.
Abeokuta ever since has been a
refuge and place of defense
to which people may flee when
they feel too ignorant to see
anything else to do. There at
least they can be strong in the
strength of union.
After awhile the Yoruba peo-
pie had a vision of another
kind of strength. Between 1897
and 1916 some thousands of
negroes taken by English ships
OF war from slave-ships on the
high seas were put ashore on
little strip of land known as
Sierra Leone, a thousand miles
west of Abeokuta. The we'll
meaning English officers, when
they had landed these poor
people, felt that they had re-
stored them to their native
land, because Sierra Leone is
on the continent of Africa.
They looked at the freed slaves
as we look to this day at the
negroes of the United States
as if they were all alike, be-
cause they are all black. No
one in America thinks of the
differences in capability and
character between those slaves
who were Guinea negroes, Nu-
bian negroes, HOttentots. or of
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

an ana when anyone was killed by order of the King
t was generally rePuted to be disposed Of and prob
voice OF the God of Thunder also made the Yor,bas
"emoIe Him they worshiped with all the devotion
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

ne 1orest-clad slopes little by little cleared and
cultivated and little by little the people of the several
understood that only by standing together ,o-d
ey oeat or the bold and tireess slave-hunters The
cEeIs OF the tribes apDointed Sodele the 1uscst of
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08


and not at all attractive specimen of
negro When he entered the throne
dressed n long robe OF red velvet
covered with gold embroidery: he ror
star upon his breast. an in
a~iira;ely heavy gold chain
.hoUt his neck. and a gold-lace
gap apon his head. This sub
~--tuce Tor q crown bore the
-Hree gold lizards OF the
Elrubas.
As the Alake. attended by
Ills suite. advanced into the
rrval presence. his emotions so Ie
lrercane him that he had to
sop three times and kneel on L
-Hl floor. He then stood be-
t.re the throne while the formal
--asentation took place. King
--ward : greeting was most
..-lial, his face being lighted
81 genial smiles. The Alake
made q formal address OF hon.
IN the Egba language.
THIS he closed bv remarking
-ra- Queen Victoria had sent
60 his late father in Abeokuta
s. Bible as a symbol Of England's
---arness, and that this book
lad proved a great power =
.-1ng the AOrubas. He evi-
-ertv thought such q reference
-- The Bible a mastery appeal
syupathies in which his i'm
-..-lal master must stand on
.-Iuon ground with himself
4 day or two later this bl1rlv
--ro with the decorative dress
was entertained al tea by the
ord Mayor and Lady Mavoress
London, and al q garden
--cv bv the Archbishop Of Canterb
..-1 gwen a formal reception at the
nary Society House. where he ma,
a--Wledgment Of the benefits Gmpos
t.- men living in London to rea
ay his people through the mission
society
The story Of missions in Abeokuta
deal 10 this African, and Is worth repea
The NoTuba people al the beginning OF
century inhabited a fertile region, cor
-11rlshing towns living between Dahc
Niger River, and behind the coast was
or seventy miles wide inhabited bv tril
-ace and a different language The Y.
tribes formed q sort Of confederation tlnC
leadership Of one chief chosen 10 be XII
q union was the need 10 stand together
hunters. Together these simple tribesme
They had need 10 be; for in those da1
tribe that had an African coast-line coul
a. swords and muskets and ammunition
t-a6lng-ships. With these weapons the
rush the palisades OF people who had NJ
The battle they could carry of the survi
women and children TO the ships OF I
and get Ing pay for the Job. What I
did with The people whom they took II
The Yorubas did not know. Nobod,
people once taken did not come back, a
men come back from the grave. The
federation was IN effect an alliance agai
-a-ed white men who seemed from tn,
1ea- OF kin TO Satan himself.
The YOTubans were rather in advanc,
along the coast IN general knowledge, a
things that they knew was that their no
i1 lie depended on getting answers TO
pounded 10 a certain great spirit known
spirit or god la was one OF their own
The old davs when they lived on the Nile
o- liza were leading men in the Eoruh
and made heavy demands upon the P
uent for obtaining answers from Ifa |
lcuundruns which ignorant and CONN
10 offer
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
Ty Of n 0m-Buildim9
BY HENRY OTIS DWIGHT

,'o,oI' hlHs Edward- The Aake IS a large. solid
ana ho' :. al attractive specimen of the coaItl.l.
negro When he entered the throne-room he ,,as
dressed N a long robe OF red velvet almost c,,ii
covered with god embroidery he wore a large s;I,
star upon his breast an in s'i'e
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

little learned that it was we'll
to be under the protection of
the rock Okuta.
Soon thirty thousand people
We're assembled abe (under)
OkUtd (the rock) which they
worshiped for its protection.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
i III Z
n-HAT

THAT Yoruban Prince
Badebo, Alake or para
mount Chief Of Abeo-
luta, came half around the
world last year 10 get his first
glimpse Of civilization and do
homage TO his sovereign pro-
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

Canterbury He was
at the Church Miss
he made special ac-
impossible. he said.
TO realize received
missionaries Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10

and are made on extremely simple lines
such as call for the best possible talent IN
dresSmaking, IL the truth were known. The
princess style, either plain or with fancy
fillet waist trimmed with medalltons OF
lace or with embroidery the material
and Lace yoke and collar and deep cuffs.
are faVorite modes. They are very smart
and distinctive. White, pale gray. mauve
blue and ivory are the smartest colors. not
forgetting, however. n shade of green that
Is new and most becoming. Velvet ribbon
and lace are the smartest trimmings, but
these must needs be used in such fashion
not to interfere with the original lines.
for these are the hallmark of the fash
ionable, It were.
There Is nothing markedly new or strk-
ingly distinctive about one of the designs
that has found especial favor. This is the
accordion pleated chiffon. chiffon cloth
gown. with the girdle effect In shocking.
and the only relief a round collar and deep
cuffs of lace Red. green or yellow are the
favorite colors. as well as an ivory white.
The lines of this model exquisite in
their unbroken length. for the shocking
done in the same color does not break the
lines. On a slender figure this is a most
fanciful and becoming gown, for it accen
tuates the long slender lines, and on
short figure it gives length to the waist
as well as skirt.
Flounced skirts and overskirts are most
popular in this seasons fashions; but here
again fashion claims that the long lines
are not to be done away with. for by
clever placing the founces are arranged
in lines from the front to the back with
bias line, and the double skirt hangs in
such wise that 1t is suggested rather than
insisted upon, one skirt falling over the
other and the skirt invariably long. If the
truth be told, it requires a genius to make
short skirt look graceful and smart If
there be overskirt or flounced effect.
More than hint of last springs fash
ions is visible in some Of the visiting gowns
both in the light and dark colors. The
model with plated skirt trimmed with
scalloped bands of cloth and the waist with
a ffchu cape effect in cloth was first seen
last spring. The gowns on this idea have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10

really good while before the silk begins
to crock
Even with a walking costume the silk
petticoat Is now most elaborate in design
while for house frock or ball gown the
pettlcoat Is but an inch or so shorter than
the dress and frequently 1t altogether sur
passes the gown itself In workmanship and
effectiveness. Among the newest models
striped silks and brocades abound. With
striped silk. as black and white or pink
and white. the fiounce may be of all white
taffeta, but trimmed so as to correspond
In coloring with the upper part of the pet
ticoat. For example, on an underskirt of
black and white striped silk there was
,, added at the knees deep very wide Span
tsh fiounce of white tareta. trimmed all
the way down with alternate rows Of mar
row and wide black velvet ribbon. sepa-
rated by insertions of inch-wide black VAL
enciennes lace. Beneath this iounce was
another of plain white taffeta edged with
a full three-inch gathered ruffie About
/, the hips this petticoat fitted without a
wrinkle, but with 1t there was no danger
of the gown clinging II, about the knees
and feet-than which effect nothing is
uglier.
Most attractive this year are the silk pet
ticoats designed for evening wear. or such
fascinating silks are they fashioned and SO
charmingly are the countless yards OF lace
trimming arranged that 1t is well nigh i'm
possible to resist the temptation of pur-
chasing many petticoats of the same de-
sign, differing perhaps only in colorings.
When only one skirt can be had. that Is,
apart from the all white silk petticoat,
which 10 obligatory in every trousseau.
probably the best Investment will prove to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10

dress itself. With a walking skirt espe-
sially so much depends upon the fit and
hang of the lining or petticoat that 1t pays
% have the unierskirt of stiffest silk and
Of most expensive quality. AS plated
be attached to the cloth or silk at the belt
or equally we'll it may be altogether sep
arate. Even in the most elaborate house
gown many models are now sold without
skirt lining, SO that the purchaser may
suit herself the more easily in regard to
the width Of the flounce and the length of
the petticoat.
No underskirt should be made all In one
piece. with simply one full founce added
perhaps at the knees. Unless the lower
half of the skirt Is unusually full and con-
sists OF numberless yards Of material the
desired flare cannot possibly be obtained
Therefore flounce OF some kind can alone
satisfy Dame Fashion at the present time
The Spanish f1ounce Is always capital
style for a petticoat and lends itself espe-
cially we'll to the fashion Of the moment.
sheath-like> fitted top to the petticoat
and wide bias fiounce give the required
close fit around the hips and an exagger-
ated flare. Nor Is one founce SUFFICIENT,
for II the material be OF light silk and
must be lining to the outer fiounce quite
as full as the flounce itself, while also there
10 q narrow rufile at the edge of the inner
houuce and lining. There Is real economy
In this double flounce skirt. for In walking
a single deep rune cuts through In q DIS
tressingiy short while. For simple style
OF underskirt percaline or some such ma
tertal may be used under tho dounce. and
In this way the skirt viii be found 70 last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10

be of delicate brocade. Pale green
yellow and mauve, all family discernible
but one more marked than another
makes good color combination, and in
the lace hounces may appear bow knots of
different colored ribbon, carrying out tho
design in the silk.
No matter how full a lawn petticoat may
be, despite the width Of the lace hounces or
the number of ruffies in their composition
an underfiounce Of silk is always necessary
There IS not sufficient body to lace and
fine lawn, and the flounCe must be OF a good
stin taffeta TO be of service. The fashion
introduced some time ago Of the detachable
silk fiounce still holds good, and the idea
is maintained well in the skirt made it
self of silk. but finished with deep lace and
handkerchief linen bias or gathered
fiounces. These hounces may either be
fastened on by tiny buttons and loop hid
den beneath flap OF lace. else may be
attached by means of a double row of lace
beading through which narrow ribbon IS
run-One row OF the iounce, the other on
the skirt itself.
Many women prefer to wear white petit
coats. even with a heavy cloth suit, but for
the city silk skirts are becoming more and
more of necessity. for, said above
upon the petticoat depends. to "A great ex-
tent, the hang. and therefore the style. OF
the cloth skirt. With a short skirt the
petticoat should be scarcely. If any. short
er than the outside skirt, unless there is
a heavy silk lining; but with long dress
the train of the petticoat should be at any
rate short enough to be held up without
difficulty. There is no limit to the width
no exaggeration to state that. even with
unusually stiff silk. petticoats are now
made up measuring a good nine yards
about the hem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
Embroideries Shoes and
Booties for the Little Ones

Babies slippers and booties are among
the most fascinating things in the infant
wardrobe, and nothing is a more satisfac-
tory gift to baby's mother than some of
these attractive little trifes of foot cover
ing made by hand and decorated with en-
broldery.
one hears of baby's shoes being made Of
English eyelet embroidery in this season
or amending madness over this fabric, but
the truth Is that for infants wear the en-
proidery does not seem so appropriate as
many less distinguished materials Tho
embroidery is almost too obvious and not
sulnclently dainty and soft to be suited to
the tiny pieces of baby finery. Prettier are
the little shoes made with Valenciennes
motifs. and -prettier still those of plain
pique or silk with tiny bit of hand en-
course, all be handwork, and the little
shoes must be made of the finest softest
materials and most carefully put together
The plain white pique shoes tied with
pale pink and pale blue wash ribbons are
easily made. and, as they wash well, are
quite sufficiently pretty for the baby who
wasn't born with a golden spoon in his
mouth. That means, of course, that they
are quite as pretty as any others. although
when time or money Is no object mothers,
aunts and cousins cannot be deferred from
spending either or both in making elabo-
rate shoes for the baby.
One exquisite little pair of these trifies
Of foot gear which carried out this sea-
sons passion for handwork was of white
silk tafreta. lined with q pale yellow silk.
The shoes were made in several sections
shaped to the baby's foot, ana the sections
were put together with herringbone.
Daisies embroidered in white and yellow
silk were scattered not too profusely over
the little shoes. which were tied with
white ribbon.
Another pair OF slippers. made Of white
pique was embroidered in white linen
thread around the top Of the shoe. The
beneath that little vine. all in white
Crocheted shoes and the booties which
are worn in cooler weather and by some
babies all the year are decorated with en-
low and white. The flowers are embroid.
cred In rows running up the shoes from
the toes to the top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
Need of Fresh Air.

Air is life preserver. 1t is the particular
friend of man. and he who barrcades tie
doors and windows against this ffe-saving
ing friend gives a cordial invitation to dis
ease and death to enter.
Open the doors and windows and let the
sunshine in and let wdnd blow through the
rooms every morning. for they are disln-
fectants performing labor of a sanitary
nature.
Breathe long and deep. Fill the lungs to
their utmost capacity with pure air several
times each day and keep the home well
ventilated night and day and remember
that when night comes on all the air you
have in or out of the house till the next
morning is might air. ard you cannot bot
tie day air enough within the sleeping room
to last through the night, so by all means
let the air circulate through the room and
thus keep a fresh supply of this life-giviny
element constantly with you.
More fresh air Is required during sleep
than when awake. for Increased quantities
of po.sonius products are given or from
the lungs and skin at this time, SO each
respiration renders the air In an unventi-
lated room more unfit to be breathed again.
Keep the windows sufficiently open SO the
fresh might air. can come In from one
side and the impure air can so out through
the other.
The upper sash should be down one inch
and the lower sash up one inch for each
person sleeping In the room.