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5Osi 1895

From the table Val be that 145 votes
the 26 counties o the territory two
Taking these basis for determining he just
representation county n the constitutional conyen
on viii seen IN view Of the fact that tie 26 counties
divided into So Convention distriets thai dis
tict should be created evey votes This would
give every county with the exception of Day at least one
delegate within itself and some o then ss many es fou
Il is too early at this time 10 say Nhether not he
board going sharp practices in order 20 give
the party TO which all Of its members belong unfair
advantage selection of delegates TO the constitutional
convention well enough for every citizen TO keep
in mnd the number Of delegates which hs county is
entitled according the it casts aud stand ready to
resent methods Which sometimes resored 70 among
partisans :n depriyins him OF his just dues.
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the latter particularly thriving and
fatening upon tha potatoes.
4Raw pot5toes have been tried, Dut
are not recommended, being found
jndigestb'e." .fFgItlg
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

Americans might consider that the London Punch In
making Princess Alice is only paying of old scores
When the prince Wales in this country Chicago
newsboy yelled at him, Hello waies How'syour ma2"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

Those North Carolina lynchers whose Conviction
postponed on technically not opposed TO
the laws delays as formerly
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

It is undoubtedly igue that surse vaitiug 2r sny
Hearst
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

An energetic statlstician Forward With the in
sormaton that there are 1886 ~ayowedg candidates for
onice in oklahoma
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

People residing in she First congressional district feel
kindly disposed toward Guthrie. There's one exceiton-
OH Nonesuch Isenberg Of the Enid Wave
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q week Defore he threw the bomb
Moral, Che anarchist who tried 70 MUIR
der King Alfonso and his bride, cut
this warning into s tree in Retro
park at Madrid, but no attention was
paid 20 the carving at the time. Il be-
ing thought The 1ork OF some fool
joker
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

They do say that there is political revolution d
East Tennessee that this Russian in the shad
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

The bitter attacks being made Guthrie by the Enid
papers helping Enid. And that fact viii dawn
Enid about the time the trst legislature meets.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

rhe Fairbanks boom to be keeping better than
The others this bot Weather It Is kept oh the Ice
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

The New York papers seem 70 thnI ihat the Geore
nomination o. Jerome and ioTk was & Joke Folk
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

President Roosevelt to receive peace decoration
bat the trusts believe Il signifies anything . henl
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

If you are in doubt what to do with something you
have, save it and put it in the consultation"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

e. Pse vII and use Ior those retuFaed p...ss ~
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08

Sold b. al, Druggists, s5e.
Ttks iIaFs famiiy Pnls foF constipa-
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come when 1 needed a profession b In
sisted that I learn dancing. 1 hated IL.
MANY a time I have put the book I was
reading on the table at my side and de-
voured IL while l kept my toes going so that
the noise could be heard upstairs where my
mother was sitting. As Don as the sound
stopped l would hear her calling out Try the
sailors hornpipe,' or Begin on the High
land fling and there I was turning aroun
like a corkscrew, reading and dancing at
the same time for hours at a stretch.
One day, down in the country, my
mother was having a house party. / was
Just out Of school and was still in short
frocks and had my hair down my back In
long b5aids;
edge on the part of others / had commenced
to amusc myself by giving limitations of
the music hall artists I met in the few 90
aston my mother allowed mo to 60 to
the vaudeville. On the afternoon of which
I speak I went into the house and sat down
at the piano.
After playing q little I commenced to
sing some songs that were being done at
that time by a vaudeville artist. Bessie
Wainwright, ! think the name was, who
had a decided oockney accent and a spe-
cialty Of American ooon songs. You can
see how that combination would naturally
appeal to me.
AIn the garden was a well known vaude-
vile manager. Hugh Didoott. and suddenly
he said to my mother: why. I didn't know
you had Bessie Wainwright down with
you Mind you, he knew every infection
Of every voice in the vaudeville world.
"To make q long story short. they all
crept into the house n heard me give one
imitation after another. hat I would never
have dared give IL I had known they were
there and listening.
soon after I got permission, IN spite Of
my mothers wishes, to 20 on a. an extra
turn one Saturday afternoon at the Oxford
Music Hall. These extra turns arc the
untried talent and il is tho custom for tho
managers Of tho different houses to 60
from one to another on this matinee day
to see what they can find.
"Ihad had no rehearsal for the music, and
half an hour before 1t wal time for mo
to go one they were taking q deep hem
in an old pink cotton frook Of my mothers
to make it At me. I had my hair down and
/ didn't fit the dress at all and I was fright
ened stir, as / always am, but that night I
received offers for engagements from five
managers, so I suppose that l may be said
to have begun my career then.
"Do people like to be initiated! Most Of
them do. When l first commenced I was
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walls il sends for fourth class men, and put
ting them on oath asks them, among other
questions, il they have been run or hazed.
or if they know OF anybody that has been.
When the youngsters. or third class men.
returned here in the latter part Of Septem-
Der they began, or some Of them did, as Of
old, to educate the plebes. They had devised
a scheme that promised immunity from
detection.
A judge under the honor code" that b,
a ~youngster, would go 10 the closed door offs
plebe's room and give the order: Attention.
Face to the WALL" This order being obeyed
the judge walked into the room and gave
the sentence he desired: stand on your
head, sir!" or, Sing n song, sir!"
The plebe meekly did as he was ordered.
Under the code the plebe must not look
at his tormentor nor disobey orders.
For several days this sort of thing went
on. Then the youngsters found that the
grand jury of the Naval Academy would
soon be in session and. as if by magic, the
performance ceased. Some sporadic cases
have occurred since, but the hazing has
been lone with extreme care and eau
ton and only things that of practical
jokes were employed TO teach the plebe
his place. All the former vigor of the third
class in hazing has disappeared.
One scheme was to summon a squad
of plebes to quarters, with an audience
of youngsters. One youngster would give
an order like this: mo. /, recite an adj
dress in French and Nos. ? and 3, applaud
Order second from the youngster: mo.
2, recite a speech in French. Nos. 1 and
8, applaud" Third order: mo. 8. recite
an Grafton in French. Nos. 1 and 2, ap-
plaud the orator" This being accom-
plished the performance ended.
One of the local poets discloses another
kind of hazing:
Walk into my cutter. " said the youngster to
the plebe;
1T dances on the wave like the freely DER
the glebe."
The plebian took the cue. and landed In the
boat,
And worked a round Of stunts while on the
bay anoat.
But the penalty for even mild hazinR Is
severe. A youngster asked a plebe his
name and was told it was Godfrey Che
Waller.
Hereafter" replied the y~oungster,
your name will be God Foraker Cheva-
Her"
Having been overheard by a first class
the authorities and the hazer received
200 dement's, in year when PSI will cause
his dismissal.
The authorities agree that the discipline
OF the Naval Academy has been very greatly
improved.
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whispers a friend ~reassuringly. They'll
love 10 near about that, / am sure"
would you love TO hear about the lie /
told once?' asks the plaintive victim Of
the interview, and the interviewer mods
with an imitation of delight.
I'D love to. but it must be a real lie
not an imitation"
Animated with the fear of being misun-
derstood, Miss LOTUS goes on h%urriedly:
"Of course it was a real lie, all Of mine
are, but this was long ago at the owen
and 1 didn't admit to myself that it was.
/ just said that l was a genius and the other
girls we're merely commonplace and that l
had Imagination and they had none.
MY mother, you know. Marie LOTUS,
is on the vaudeville stage and there was a
rumor in the convent that ! was connected
with the theatre-a terrible thing there,
so terrible that the girls only spoke of it
In whispers, but they we're deadly curious
about il and l was really the centre of great
interest, so much 80 that l, who had never
been inside the theatre, used to speak OF
the celebrities as personal friends.
when things were pretty hull / always
had a little anecdote about Irving or Terry
or some one else whom pretended to know
and of course had never seen. One day
we had to sell some articles that had been
made by one of the teachers to get some
money for the church and the mother supe-
rior suggested that l send one to my friend
Miss Ellen Terry and ask her to help US.
was the most miserable little girl you
ever saw. l really had stage fright for the
first time, but l sat down and composed a
note asking her to help and saying if she
didn't l would have to a k the value of the
article out of my own pocket money.
what do you think she did? Sent me
two g~uineas with a letter beginning My
dear little Friend'-jus as she would have
lone If she had been the friend l claimed
she was.
Il was really as proud as a peacock, but
l acted as if that was just what | had ex-
pected all along.
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it wa but it does not create friendships,
Is formerly.
so far as hazing is concerned, 4" he added,
Il am glad that | went through 1t, and yet
l would not a anybody else to endure il.
l believe hat the code was a good part Of
the educational system Of the Academy. II
helped to make the new men understand
that they were to obey their superiors, and
this was taught them soone under the code
than without it. The rates that were al
lowed under the code gave great spirit to
the first class men,"
Midshipman r. H. Davis, president OF the
third class, said:
The present system has the tendency to
keep the third and fourth classes from be-
coming acquainted with each other and
making friends, unless they were friends
before they entered the Academy. By the
old system many friends were made. A
man now dare not speak to a plebe lest it
be taken for hazing.
The fourth class as a body seem to be
disposed to do what is right. under the
rates and customs. but there is no one to
teach them. There is now absolutely no
hazing OF running. / believe most Of the
m%idshipmen liked the old code. There is q
great difference in the conduct Of midship-
men toward each other especially notices
BILE In h conduct Of the fourth class toward
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pense; that the trained seals are as nothing
in comparison with the intelligence dis
played, and that diamond dog collars,
Christmas sto ckings<-'
1t won't do and the press agent nearly
weeps. ITS the idea OF publicity that
hurts. What is the good of being ~retioent
all these years IL in a moment you undo
all your work."
Miss LOTUS, who is hidden in one fur
coat and behind another, looks happy as
she witnesses the brave fight made by the
press agent.
She admits that rehearsal hours only
keep her at the theatre from 7 O'Clock in
the morning until ? Of the following after
noon every other day, and by performing
a mental problem and a physical two step
the interviewer and the artist manage to
find her at the Croisio later on in the after
noon, when she comes home to feed the
canary to the Angora cat and TO change
the sixty photographs OF masculine
adorners who look at her reproachfully
from the top of the piano, various shelves
and the bookcases.
The second time Miss LOTUS tries to
evade the interview she is hampered by
lack OF assistance and lack OF space, for
having edged stealthily from door to centre
right and from that to the window seat
she turns at bay in a cosey corner, realizing
that to be five stories from the ground on a
winter day is rather a handicap on an at
tempt to escape.
Miss LOTUS is not only a great mimic.
but a shy one as we'll. She Is so shy that
she hates TO talk about her shyness.
Stage fright" she whispers in a tiny
tone that sounds the way opera glasses
look when you turn them the wrong way.
Il always have 1t. l ven have it at re-
hearsals and at interviews. My hands
and feet get like ice"
Tell them about the lie you told once
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the upper classmen, there being less respect
than nnn1n. H. Lii .nAo n..nA...

the upper classmen, there being less respect
than under the old code system"
Another member of the third class said:
THE first, second and third classes all
preferred the old system to the new. When,
in the old days, a mar had been hazed he
thought he had got into the navy and de-
served something. The breaches between
the classes are greater than ever
Some members of the fourth class prefer
the old system, some the new. One of the
latter explained his sentiments thus:
Under the old code good men were
turned out. The old system rooted out the
meaner element from the classes. The pres
ent system has removed the fourth class far
from the touch Of the other classes and
there is no such thing as friendship between
IL and the other classes"
Some Of the youngsters, the third class
men, who were themselves last year plebes,
have tried to run the new midshipmen,
but the loyalty OF the first class to the au-
thorities prevented the continuation Of the
system for the present year. and the stand
hat the second class has taken in support
ing the first class promises well for the
future.
In the last case Of running the first class
men were 40 indignant that they wanted
the offender dilmissed.
The 1rst class has also debated In class
meeting whether they should tell the plebes
TO resist hazins physically. This the class
finally decided not to DE-.
One device that has helped to bring about
the present situation was the invention
Of Admiral Sands. He keeps In continual
being . sort Of naval grand jury. IL Is COM
posed Of several officers and at inter-
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in good faith and. in the main. with good in
tentions, we, the class OF 1907.
Resolve to abolish. at the United states
Naval Academy, alb Eolutely AMI without
reservation, hazing, class fighting. running,
Tagging and all similar practices.
What has been effected by the change?
How do the midshipmen regard It? The
answer made to the questions by Midship-
man Churchill Humphrey, president of the
first class, was:
THE old customs rave departed. The
change is infinitely better than the old
system. The midshipmen now are far
happier
This view Is taken by many OF the corps.
Yet there Ia some dissent. A member OF
the first class said:
-The present system is not rs favorably
received as the old code. The classes are
now wider apart than they used to be-
Another member Of the same class, OF
athletic standing, said that It could not
be doubted that the present policy had i'm
proved the discipline of the academy,
though IL had not increased the friendship
between the several classes. Under the
former system an upper class man had
certain privileges; FOR instance, when late
at formation he was not reported. Now
everything to the utmost limit is reported.
and of course no friendships can be formed
such as were once created by the con-
sideration shown % upper class men In
such matters by their superiors.
Midshipman Archibald II. Douglass,
president of the second class, said:
THE present system has not drawn
the Glasses closer together. While / would
not say how IL Is as to the third and fourth
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classes, certainly the fourth class is further
away from the first and second classes.
"Tber g are few troubles now: the place
is too big and too many are here and the
midshipmen DO not come together SO much
under the present system as they used TO
under the old. Fourth class men seem to
have lost the respect they used to have
for the first and upper class men. Those
old customs made friends.
-When | was a plebo / had for six weeks
on a stretch to wake up an upper class man.
I hated the very thought Of IL when1 went
TO bed; but after il was over and I was a
y~oungster we became good friends
A member Of the second class said that
the present system had widened the breach
between tho four classes. Formerly when
a midshipnan hazed an under class man
they got to know each other. and when
the class below was promoted the ha2er
and the hazed became friends. Now they
do not come together.
A leader in scholarship in the second
class said that il showed that the old system
had some merit in it when a number of the
rates that the system had in~augurated had
been made regulations of the Naval Acad-
envy. He believed that the old code had
originated from wise oonside rations. II
had, however, got into the hands Of ex-
tremists and had been overdone.
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she played like that she would leave the
stage. She has not left it. When I met her
she looked me all over and said:
so you are the little girl who makes
fun Of meY'
Any one who has ever heard the small
voice Of Cissie LOTUS OF the stage is more
surprised at her stage effects in initiating
voices than In any other direction. 1t
has been described as -artlessly pathetic"
a plaintive little instrument 1t hardly
carries across her little salon and when she
sings it il with a child's range.
Once l went to Blanche Marchesi when
1 was in Paris she goes on. Il wanted
to know II IL would be possible for me to
learn to sing a little properly, as l had only
used my voice for my limitations according
to my own ideas.
~She did not know who l was and when 1
had sun a couple Of little songs the great
Marchesi looked at me with a very tolerant
face, as il she would like to say, Why have
you bothered me with this exhibition Of
mediocre ability She did say that 1
had a fairly good parlor voice, that l might
perhaps develop to some extent.
Il got ready to go and then became sud-
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than she gave me. She begged me 20
give up everything else andbecome an opera
singer.
Il don't know what it is in hiding behind
another persons personality that gives
me courage but it is a fact that is does
/ could not have Jung with my own voice
that way, but l could as soon as I felt I
was somebody else. Perhaps it is like
wearing a mask and ~domino-one becomes
very reckless, very courageous.
Il shall try the legitimate again after,
my season with Weber's. 1 have already
accepted a play of Mrs. Burnett's and I
should like to play Peter Pan ono more.
The public has been kind and apprecia-
tive 70 me in whatever 1 have undertaken,
but it is hard to get away from the role OF
imitator. Managers allure with big salaries
and easy hours and there is always the
difficulty of finding a good part"
Miss LOTUS has given many hours Of
mirth to the theatregoing public, but she
il modest in her triumphs.
Fl wish l had something amusing TO tell
you" she says with deep regret as the in
terview comes TO a close, but nothing
funny ever happens to me-nothing ever
has"
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ANNAPOLIS WITHOUT HAZING.
DISCIPLINE IMPROVED UNDER
THE NEW SYSTEM.
The Glasses Said 10 he Further Apart,
Though. Since the Honor Code" Was
A~bOIished-A Few Attempts at Hazing
This Year Penalties for Hazers.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 29.-"An that's
done away with now" exclaimed a mid
shipman when the subject Of hazing n
running the plebes at the United States
Naval Academy was brought up in the course
Of conversation.
The statement is practically correct.
The so-called Honor Code" under which
the hazing was carried on has been abol-
ished. A new code regulates the relations
of the plebes and the upper class men.
This is a result of the Northumberland
court-martial and the various investiga-
lions accompanying it. 1t is due largely
TO the midshipmen themselves. They
were. in a measure, forced to act.
With few exceptions all the upper class
men had been guilty Of hazing, and IL Con-
gress ant the Navy Department had pur-
sued their Investigations to the bitter end
half the first, second and third classes
would have been dismissed from the navy.
As it was, when the dozen dismissals by
court-martial were made and matters had
quieted down to nearly a normal state
more than 200 midshipmen besides those
dismissed were punished more or less
severely for having been active hazers of
the plebes.
n year udb cthprcu hAOo WIG hBhb "HASA
ended in the death Of one Of the partici-
pants and revealed to the country the con-
ditions existing at h Naval Academy.
The new dispensation has had a trial. Plebes
are no longer annoyed, maltreated or mo-
Tested. They are at liberty TO turn corners
squarely, sit as they please at mess and
do many things once forbidden.
The first step toward this end was taken
by the first class, the class Of 1905, then
about to graduate. The president OF the
class, Roman c.. Grady, on January Q, 1905,
wrote a letter to the superintendent sug-
costing in substance that the midshipmen
would stop hszing II the authorities would
stop dismissing those midshipmen who
had been engaged in hazing. Admiral
James II. Sands, superintendent, refused
TO take such a proposition into considera-
ton at all.
The class Of 1900 was graduated and left
matters unchanged. Then the class Of
1907 passed a resolution on February 10,
1900. IL should be said the senior class al
ways dictates the laws, customs and usages
that govern the midshipmen in their con-
duct toward one another. This Is the reso-
luton:
In Difference to the wish OF Congress and
the will OF the people Of the United states, and
with the belief that our action Will minister
10 good discipline, law and order. but without
apology for a system that has been supported