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long evenings reading and studying.
SO carefully and perslstently did the
boy pursue his studies that uotwith-
standing the fact that he never went
10 school ten weeks I'm any year. yet
NJ the age OF sixteen he decided that
he could teach a country school
Knowing that the master of his home
would frown upon sucd am ambition,
and that he would use every means
possible to thwart his plans, with
Mrs. Millers approval he stole away
from home one Saturday and walked
twelve miles TO the county seat where
he took the examination for a teach
er's certificate RE had ffty-dve
Cents in his pocket and 10 took fifty
of this TO pay for his examination.
With the other Eve cents he bought
a sandwich, and after eating return
ed to his work while the other anpli-
cants made away with q good dinner
Having finished this examination he
walked The twelve miles home ana
crawled into bed Bright and early
the next morning Mr. Miller who had
discovered thct young Haskell hai
been to the county scat and taken
/ the examination Went ont tO the
barn and with a big hlacksua6e whip
/ in hand. fequested his ambitious
ward to step out and take punish
ment for having run Off and taken
! the examination without his permis-
siD For the first time in Charley
/ Haskells life he gave Illustration of
q characteristic which has been eX.
ampled so often since, viz. that he
cannot be driven to DO anyihmg aud
that he viii fight anything that am
tag0nizes him He cane ont of the
barn. and with the pitchfork in hand
started after Miller. much as he
started after a big doctor from Stig
Ter. Iadian Territory who came q
Guthrie during the session of the Con
stitutional Convention to get his coun
tv cut according TO his notion, and
who got his face smashed for having
suggested that Haskell was a liar
/ Miller dropped his whip and sough
protection at the hands Of his 'wife.
The then youthful aspiraut for
teachers certificate SO elraged Nil
ler that he got on his horse and slip
ped OF 10 the county seal and asko,
one OF the examiners not to give thO
boy a certificate as he wanted q
keep him on the farm to take car
of the hard labor there This. hos
ever. oalY served 10 incense the mem
Der of the board OF examiners. and h
took special pains 10 see that th
ceruHcste ras delivered The youu
man applied for a nelehborne schoo
but Miller was not to be Ouidone AM
sneaking over asked that the selcC
ton of the teacher be deferred amt
an of the schools We're takel, ae
} then ii be given TO another Asai
y this aroused the anger OF the ma
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sv FREDERICK uPHAm ADAMS,

The almost supersiiuous reverence
of constitutions is ar attribute dis
HnctkeIy Ameri.a our yeaerauou
for tho Federal Constitution is equal
ed only by our lack of knowledge Of
rs provisions. We were compelled TO
read it in school, bat have not done
90 since, and most OF rs have it mix
cd il a vague way with the immortal
Decl ration of independence; but all
Of us doff cur hats and swallow our
disappointment when some judge OF
a higher or lower court nailiics our
favorite act OF legislation by scrawh
Ing across it that awesome and omni-
potent word unconstitutional We
do not know just why it is unconsti-
tutional--and possibly the iudge
doesn't but we do know that a thing
cannot he right if IL is unconsutu-
tional and we regard the excommmi-
Gated enactment as a rock on which
our ship of state would have been
wrecked had not the judicial pilot
Tread his chart Alright We also be-
/ lieve--at least most OF us dO-that
constitution making Is a lost art 1t
is the popular belief that our national
! greatness is due to the fact that con
structive statecraft reached It's zenith
in 1889. and that it was decreed that
few men should meet in secret ses
sion and mould a document perfect
/ Is fitted for civilization of which
the most imaginative of the founders
had not the faintest vision we are
fond of believing why / do not
know-that the men of "a century and
a quarter ago knew more OF our
needs than we do ourselves, and that
it is unpatrlotio to hint anything tC
the contrary
This is hardly true of State constl
tutions. have never met a man
who pretended to know anything
about his state constitution, or who
really cared what ID contained As
citizens of state it is sufficient fol
us to know that i'm some remote
period when there were no railroads
electric lights, telephones, trusts
combinations. Chinese immigrant
and other factors and issues which
now interest and disturb us-it IL
enough for as to know that in tha
dim past certain forgotten individual
met In solemn session and promul
gated a set of state rules for us q
follow but whether we do on not j.
! a question | have never heard discus
sed
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Where tic First Legislature VIII Meet

approaehed. aud he sent his son that
very night for Charles Haskell and
telling him chat me expected him to
teach succe ssfully gave him the
scbool
All this took place in his native
couaty Putman, in Ohio, and IL was
then that the now Govcrnorelect Of
Oklahoma drifted into politics. He
YVES a member Of the state legislature,
land olce made whirl-wind cam
uaiep for Governor of his native
state but being defeated, moved to
Indian Territory
When G ~ Haskell came to Musko-
geo he hung ont his sign as a lawyer,
but Immediately began the life of a
promoter and contractor. He built
a railroad or two, fine fourstory Of
ice building and then a big hotel. He
was soon regarded as a town builder.
and enjoys a fun share of the credit
! for he w0nderfu growth his home
town has since made He is a many
sided man I'm business as well as
politics. but has the faculty OF max
lag good a whatever he undertakes.
My first impression of Mr. Haskell
was that ne was a "foIr-flusher,' and
4 ! gained thi5 impression while watch
\ iug the proceedings of the Sequoyah
/ C0nyeution however it is but just
/ 10 say. that two years careful study
of TIE man and his methods, as well
as the work he has done, have great
f. ly Improved my estimate of him. He
/ rs in many respects The most interest
ng man 7 have met in oklahoma
Ihave always believed he organized
the seacoyah Convention for the eX
press purpose of forming poiitiea
ufgl Aviation. with which he coul'
come into the QpAsumtional Conyeu
Zion. and do AS he did-capture tn.
entire organization and use 1t e
malu himself Governor. In this
may DE mistaken Recently / asked
1lr Haskell 90 ten me The story o.
how he came to take a hand in th'
Seouoyah Convention, and ne gave
me the following. / admit it is mos
sane, and looks just like his work
always carefully planned and neatl,
executed:
"The single statehood movemen
was sweeping the state. l believe
it was the road 10 statehood, in fac
saw in IL the practical solution O
the problem, but the Indians We're al
ulking I'm their tents None coul
be induced TO take part, and most q
the men who were doing things i
washington were watching the India
far more than anyone else. me'
that they would refuse to give u
, statehood just as long as the Indian
were not committed. Chiefs McCm
b tain and Rogers about his time iss'
ed a call asking the Mayors of all tn
p towns ia the indian Territory TO ca
E a convention went Immediately {
E Chief Porter aud asked him il >
3 would not join I'm the movement. II
, consented, and saw to it that onl
] men were selected TO the conYentio
!. who We're in sympathy with the move
] ment The Sequoyah Convention wa
4 predominated by Indians, and it dl
d the one thing that / hoped it won
D do-declared in favor of statehood
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THE NEW REGIME
Ccontinued from page onej

is the stocl,man Hc rs also q native
of Texas. but has lived in Oklahoma
since thc carly days lie has served
as sheriff of Woodward County His
grandfather served Ia the Texas war
of Independence and was great
friend of Sam Houston, whilo Love
himself was intimate with Temple
Houston the Texas liberatOr's son
who died I'm Woodward County about
two years ago lie Us the big man Of
.tae corpor lion commission standing
six feet ten Inches in his socks, and
tlrs ,he scnlcs at PAS His heart is
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The Twentieth Century
State Constitution

I'm the Saturday Evening Posa.)
q state Document as Long ae Novel
Hence it is that for year past VIC
have watched the attempt OF the peo-
pc 0f Oklahoma 20 draft a constitu-
ton, and our feelings have been n
mingling of incredibly, surprise and
indignation. 1t now seems as out of
place to write a constitution as it
would TO plan a new crusade We Of
the older states, who are blessed
with constitutions written by men
who never saw open plumbing or
lodged an automobile, instinctiyely
feel that we would have no more
respect for brandnew constitution
than we would have for a new rail-
way timetable and we resent the
nsolence Of the people of Oklahoma
u drafting one They have not onlX
done this, but they have absolutely
ignored most of the conventions ad-
hered to jpn the moJldy documents
ridden i'm oar various state archives.
/ Seventeen years ago there was no
Oklahoma Now the state of that
name boasts a population of 100000
land constitution about the length
Of borelar novel and fully as in
teresting
u was about a year ago that OKLA
homa was so sure af statehood that
the delegates elected to draft consti-
tuition began to gather in Guthrie. lt
wss originally planned that Guthrie
should be the capital and metropolis
of the c5ming state but it is beyond
lthe power of mon to designate metro
polises. end forty miles to the south
lies the wonderful City of Oklahoma,
far I'm the lead with her $4,000 popu-
llatim. and confident that a few years
viii place her I'm the piOud list or
cities above the huudred-thousand
mark. However, the city hall of Guth-
rie will be known for all time as the
birthplace of the Oklahoma constitu-
ton. and We can look forward TO
day when grandchildren ten genera
lions remote viii stand with uncover
ed heads and gaze about the cr1mh-
ling interior of the room IN which
their inspired lorelathers penned the
Immortal document which hequeathed
them an of their wonderful prosper.
Inv. Doubtless there viii be handed
down TO them tales of the ridicule
land obloqgy which were heaped on
these pioleers who dared build q
shin of state with turbiae engines in-
stead OF nasts ana sails, and doubue'
they win believe that all of wisdom
fCoutin,.ed ON Page 3D.
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NJ Y. Trapp. Stale Audia0r, Is the
or(y Logan county repre- sentative on
the state ticket ed was born in
Kansas in 1877 and lived in Kansas
and Nebraska with his parents until
1889. His father came to Oklahoma
in the opening and the two sons
drove overland from Nebraska. a few
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as big as his body and he is a very
iovial palitician.
a. p Watson tie third man of the
commission is also confederate vet
aran ana enlisted in Georgia his ma
tive state He has lived in oklahoma
for many years and has been especial
ly wei klown ss successful potato
grower. He is a prominent worker of
the Farmers Union aad Is a strong
labor man.
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CHEF NINE iNsPEc-

TOR HANkNIN
Peter Hanraty chief Mine lnspec-
tor Is native Of Scotland but came
to this country at an early age, and
has spent his whole tie in the coal
mining business. He was formglly
district president OF the United Mine
Workers for the district which in
GUIDES Arkansas and the Indian Terri
tory and has served az president Of
the Twin Territories Federation OF
Labor. re was delegate to the con
stitutiona convention and was cleo
te as it's vicepresident and was made
chairman of the committee on labor
sand arbitration
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suPREME couRT JUSTICE.

Three of the Eve Judges of the
oklahoma Supreme Court r l..
Williams, Sam Hayes and NJ J. Kane
served as members OF the constitu-
tiunal convention. Jesse j. Dunn of
the Fifth district was chairman Of
the Democratic Committee when the
constitutional convention members
were elected and managed very
successful campaign
TURNER or THE FIRST.
i b. Turner Of the First district Is
Ia native OF Illinois and has always
been prominent In legal work in the
northeastern part OF t1a new state
WILLIAMS or TRE SECOND.
r. L. Williams oi the Second dis
trlct was born on a farm in Ala
bama on December %, 1865. By
working ON a farm and Clerking in 9
store he saved enough money tC
comp tie his education az the South
era University OF Alabama
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cHAni7Y coMMls

aN0iNEn 1FNfNlHfHf -
Miss Kate Bernard. Commissioner
of Charities and Corrections. is d
native of Nebraska and has had wide
experience in charitable work in her
position as matron of the Provident
Association in Oklahoma city and as
deputy factory inspector in ST. Louis
and Chicago.
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When he came west he spent two
years I'm Texas and has beel practic-
ing law I'm the Indian Territory for
twenty-five years lie was Demoerl-
tic committee eman from tho indian
Territory for several years and was
prominent member Of the consttu-
jonal convention being chairman of
the committee of public service cor
.poraiions and was Che a1thor OF
most of the corporation provisions IN
tha constitution
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for several years lieutenant colonel
OF the first Infantry OF the Oklahoma
National Guard He made his cam
paign on an antrailroad antitrust
platform and has already commenced
proceedings against an alleged coal
trust
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ATTORNEY GENERAL WEST.

ATTORNEY GENERAL WEST.
Chas j. West Attorney General Is
native Oh Georgia and located in
Enid several Years ago where he has
been engaged in the law business He
served with distinction during the
Spanish American War and has been
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months lat D. He Taught school for
several years ln Logan and Oklahoma
counties. and was working out OF
here as travelling salesman when he
was elected as county Jerk OF Logan
County IN 1909 He was married
November 2, 1907 to Miss Lou strang
Of this city.
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srAr coRPoRATtoN

WI W % u" . n y
ration Commission is re.
ni the Varl0ls business
ae state including a bank
and a potato king J. ,.
lic banker and coal opera
the town OF McAles
eloped ~ FIRST coal
s a native Of Arkansas
ad ta MISTER in me c0nieder iie
IA MAS of age
better known ~ Jack
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KANE OF THE THIRD.

A. j. Kane OF The Third district
was born ion New York and graduated
from Georgetown University law
school ia 1857 He entered the prac-
tco Of law al Wichita Kansas but
Immediately came 90 Oklahoma al the
opening in 1859 and established him
lf at Kingasher where he has been
.IIne
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HASKELL

tcontInuod from page oae)
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tContinaed on Page 30
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DUNN or THE FIFTH.

Jesse j. Damn of ne Fifth dis
uict. is a native of nlihois who has
lived in Kansas and Mississippi be-
fore coming 20 Oklahdma He grada-
ated from the KaGsas University
Raw school Ga 1899 and entered the
practice of law th0 same year in Alya,
where he still nges Dunn Is among
the best known Democrats in the
state
CLERK or SUPREME COURT
W u H. CAmpboll Clerk OF ihe su'
preme go1 rs also o Texan, and
has be- fpfaeilcing attorney az
Ada i0hEaaErai years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29
HOKE SMITH VS.. STEVE CLAY

It seems to be accepted as fact
in Atlanta that Hoke Smith will
make the race to succeed Steve
Clay in the Senate.
The friends of both Smith End
Clay are already said to be active
Iy at work in their interest.
It would be a decided loss to
Georgia to have Steve Clay retired
from the Senate.
There has been no harder work
er for Georgia at Washington in
many years.
Clay is not brilliant talker
He does not pose as scholar and
expounder of the Constitution.
But he is a worker, an earnest,
determined, indefatigable worker,
always looking out for the inter
ests of Georgians, never forg ting
or neglecting any commission that
is entrusted to him.
He is the kind of man that is
needed at Washington and should
be kept there. Georgia, in these
days, needs a worker at the ma
tjOnal capital, one who is moi
afraid or ashamed to look out fol
the interests of his humblest con
stitaent, one who is always easily
approached, one who will hustle
night and day to aid Georgian.
Such d man is Steve Clay. Every
one who has had any business witt
Washington knows that.
Georgia does not want or neeC
two great speech makers in thu
United States Senate. 1t doe
want a hustler and worker
Steve Clay fills that bill. 1t wouIC
be decided loss If he were no
returned for another term.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29
Marx 1-waIn's Ant.

mark Twain in one of his amusing
books Of travel attacks the ant said
a nature student. HE ridicules the
idea that the ant is industrious and
wise. He devotes three or four pages
to an account of an ant making its
way homeward with a burden. He
shows the ant climbing grass stems
instead of going round them, doing a
hundred silly things, taking in every
case the long and foolish instead OF the
short and sensible way home. And
hence, naturally enough, he concludes
that the ants wise industry is over
rated-naturally enough, l say, Mark
Twain's ignorance being granted, for
he was unaware when he wrote that
long and interesting passage that aany
kinds of ants are blind. He did not,
for all his close observation, take up
his little ant subject, look for its eye
sockets and find them absent. 1t was
a blind ant Mark Twain studied, and
he didn't know 1t"-Cincinnati En-
ouirer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29

The travelled girl was explaining the
strange looking locket she had about
her neck on a thin gold chain.
ut is a Buddhist charm" she said,
"to keep off bad luck. a swarthy lit
tie woman in Tibet gave it to me. She
took a great fancy to me. 1t is hand
some if the back is of tin. The face is
of turquoise. They make them like
that in Tibet The little woman's hus-
bands came up to her one by one, beg
ging her to go home with them, but
she wouldn't till she had finished talk
/ ing to me- 1 felt very much f1attered
Oh, yes, she had three husbands. The
women are very scarce, you know, in
Tibet. 1t was lovely to see them
dancing attendance on her. Tall fell
lows there we're, too, and handsome.
She asked me how many husbands l
had 1t was very humiliating to have
to acknowledge to her that I hadn't
any" she sighed.-New York Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29
CITY MARSHAL SALES
GEoRGIA--SUMrER COUNTY

Will be sold before the court house door
IN the city of Ameficus, Sumter County
Georgia, on the first tuesday n july next
between the legal hours of sale, the follow.
ing described proper ty, towit;
One vacant lot on the west side of Elm
Avenue, iron ing on Elm Avenue IS 7 fifty
feet more or less bounded as follows; North
by other property of Mrs H. Kimbroup h.
said Elm Ave and west by vacant property of
Hooper and Sheff1eld Levied on as the pro-
perty or mrs, ID: hlmbrough to satisfy I3l
three city tax fl fas for the years 1904. 1905
1908 Tenant in possession notified in terms
of the law ---'
Also at the same time and place will be
sold one vac ant lot on the west side of Elm
avenue l.Ol htty feet front on, lid Elm
ia ] one hu dred and forty feet, bound, d
on tee north, south and west by other nro
p rty OF Mrs. E. r. Holt and east by Elm
Holt gent for @rs Ella R. Holt to satisfy
~ TWO city tax II. fas. against P. L. Holt
agent d2 IN MIS-; Ella r. Hot, for the years
" ana 1906. said property pointed ont by
Holt. TenanI in possession notified In
terms of the law.
Al o at the same time AMI place win he
SOLD one vacant lot in the city of Americas.
sumter county Georgia, corner Church and
KEGS streets, frontiugion church street QIN
one hundred and eleven feet and runn1ng
north along Rees street (2O0) two hundred
feet more or less. bounded north by the Dro-
perty of Mrs j. ". L Dariel south by
Church street cassidy Rees street and west
by property of yrs, M. L Jones. Levied oG
as the property OF Mrs. ". P Hume and Mrs.
Gertrude w Hollinsworth, 10 satisfy n,
three city tax fas for the years 1904. 10 +.
and 1876 and also one ffa for curbtng in front
of said lot.
Also at the same time place, will he
sold one house and lot 1871 Fielder Street
fronting en- Fielder Street (9n ninety one
feet more or less, and bounded on the north
by Fielder street south by property OF Sea-
board Air Line Ratlwav east bV an alley and
west by property of j. Fl. Norman. Levied
n as the properly ofthe estate of Mrs Mary
ti1nu, TO satisfg ~ II rec CITY tax fl fas for
session Notified in terms of the law.
Americas Ga, this 81 day of May 1907
w, H. FEAGIN. CT y Marshal,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29

Some years ago the selectmen of the
town of Hanover, N. H, decided, in
their wisdom, to collect poll tax from
every Dartmouth student of legal age.
The boys said nothing to this, but
quietly decided that If they paid taxes
they would also vote. So they turned
out in full force at the annual meeting.
Having strength enough to secure con-
troll, in less than five minutes they had
elected students to the positions Of
moderator and clerk. Thirty minutes
from the time the meeting was called
to order the town of Hanover had gone
on record as having voted to build a
brick schoolhouse 500 feet long, ten
feet high and two feet wide and to
build plank walk from Reed Hall in
Hanover to Lebanon, in which town
was female seminary. The tax col
lector did not trouble Dartmouth stu
dents for many years after that.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29
The Universal Language of Clothes.

The top hat represents the universal
language of attire. 1t walls and weeps
against the walls Of Jerusalem, and it
turns up in the solitudes of the desert.
Even the loneliest mountain peaks are
not safe from its democratic simple
ity. Once 1 met a silk hat, probably
rescued from some benevolent dust bin,
milking a COW in a London park. The
hat nearly caused riot. Each and
every passerby turned and stared in
dignantly The eccentric cowboy In
the top hat flushed his allotted task,
and in company of his COW and the
milk pail he ambled placidly out Of
sight. Still one can't help asking in
the interest of personal liberty, Why
shouldn't a silk hat be permitted to
milk a COW? The COW doesn't mind,
so why should we?-Fortnightly Re
view,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-29

The Albany Herald says it
doesn't matter where the owner
ship of the Central lies so long as
the owners are in sympathy with
the great things which Georgia has
in view and in the attainment OF
which she needs the full and
hearty cooperation of her great
railway system. This is a thor
oughly sensible statement of the
true situation, but you can't make
a politician after a job or promo
ton look at it that way.