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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02
A Household Remedy.

Mrs. Celia Eibling, R. r. No. 3, Payne,
Ohio, writes:
"I have better health now than have
had for years, and am fleshier than /
have ever been. am so thankful to
you for what you have done for me.
~ cannot praise Peruna enough. ]
keep it in the house. You have my sin
cere thanks for your advice.
"My husband is taking Peruna, now.
He had such cough lie thought he had
consumption, but he is getting bet
ter.
she has taken il only one week and II
has done him good"
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consumers, who mast pay the freight.
There was a railway era, when a
Commodore Vanderbilt cosld make for
himself with four words bad name
that will be lmmutable Today no en-
lightened railway official would for
one moment quote his words approx
ingly. This shows advance in both
sentiment and action. The fact that
the officers of public service corpora
ti0ns have been so slow to realize
that new era is at hand has caused
the vast rpheaval of public sentiment
that is sweeping the country. Every
where new freight rates are demand
ed, new passenger tariffs urged and
more and better equipment
Il is very likely that all this agita.
tion will blow over, but when it does
II will leave pgblic service corpora
tions fully launched on the new era.
The new era Is not to be one OF UNI
profitable corporate investments but
of really Increased business done ON a
fair and square basis Good profits
will be made but they will be profits
based on investments rasher than
diluted issues of stocks and bonds.
The two cent fare has come to stay.
A readjustment of freight rates Is inn
pcrative i6 cent rate 10 Kansas
City and PIN cent rate to Oklahoma
from the southern pineries is impos-
sible. Such discrimination can not
continre The people will not let II
continue The railroads will not ask
that II be continued when they cone
TO realize the full meaning OF the new
era
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

RS a pleasure to tell our readers
about Cough Cure like DR.. Shoop's.
For years DR. Shoop has fought against
the use of Opium, Chloroform. or 9th
er unsafe ingredients commonly found
in Cough remedies. DR.. Shoop, It.
seems. has welcomed the Pure Food
and Drug Law recently enacted. for
he has worked along similar lines
many years For nearly 30 years DR.
Shops Cough Cure containers have
had warning printed on them against
Opium and other narcotic poisons. He
has thus made 4 possible for mothers
to protect their children by simply in
sisting on having DR. Shoop's Cough
Cure Sold by r. b. Lille a. Co.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02
catarrh OF digestive Orsans and
Bowels.

UOWtio.
MFRS. MARY M. MARSHALL. Tip
lN1 ton, Mo-, writes;
~ suffered three years with catarrh
of the digestive organs and bowels.
was unable to find relief, until as last
resort was induced TO try Peruna.
81 began the use of Peruna when
Twas confined to the bed and can say
that 1 experienced benefit from the tirst
dose.
u have taken Ave bottles in all and
believe that I am cured Of my trouble.
al am enjoying rs good health as TN
old lady Of my age could expect. My
age H. n.
81 recommend your medicines TO suf-
ferers whenever meet them, and some
of my friends are using them with great
success.
81 will always feel grateful to you for
your grand medicine and kind ad-
vice and trust that many others may be
as greatly benefited as / have been"
Pe-ruua Fur Bowel Trouble.
Mrs. l.. s. Tinker, s52 Second street,
Macon, Ga, writes:
"Two years ago my grandson suffered
with bemorrhages Of the bowels and ne
was treated by different doctors. but
without cure.
awe quit all other treatment, and be-
gan the use Of Peruns, and after the
nse Of three bottles he seemed TO be
quite well. Ho Is able now to walk six
miles TO school every day.
2eruDa has certainly worked won
ders for him, and shall not hesitate 10
recommend it,"
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That Is cheap political trick that
several Of the opposition papers have
Of always referring to Mr Haskell as
"the Boss They kaow that Mr. Has
kell is only a plain outspokeu dele
gate. That he has influence on ac-
count OF his strong pleas and logical
stands, can not be doubted. But to
call him "a Boss is merely seeking
to stamp honest actions with appro.
brious terms
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"rhen consulted DIR. Hartman, who
ad vised me TO take Peruna and gave me
further instructions. which. / carefully
observed. tQ3f Is sS
al felt better after taking the frst bot
tie. have taken several bottles now
and am feeling so well that can do all
my work.
81 will never be without Peruna again,
and recommend it to ALL"
Catarrii Of the Stomach.
Mrs. Mary Allen, Route 6, Franklin,
Tenn, writes:
az am glad to be able TO tell you that
am we'll OF catarrh OF the stomach, and
am sincerely thankful 10 you for
your advice.
"If Il had not been for Peruna would
never have been well. had three ply
sicians. One OF them told my husband
that he could not cure me.
81 had been SICK about nine months
when friend asked me to try Peruns
TO crafty her; so l commenced taking
it. can eat and walk and work.
Everybody says look as well as
ever diG. Oh, you don't know how
thankful do feel to you'll I have got
several other people to take Peruna.
praiseit to everybody"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Even New York is gloating over the
eXposrre Of the BelmontRyan trick
whereby the franchise tax of the Man
haitian elevated road had been lodged
for years The road came forward
and made good the tax by paying over
10 the city treasurer S3,17O1417l back
tax This company is certainly the
Napoleon OF tax-dodgers
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02
A BEAUTIFUL AND
ToUcAIN0 AppREss

One of the abest and most touching
addresses ever delivered in congress-
was deivered Jaugary 20. 1907 in the
House of Representative by Hon. A.
Owsley Stanley. of Tennessee, on the
occasion of the memorial services IN
honor of Senator William 3. Bate. of
Tennessee. The beautiful exposition
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fetal effect upon the internal organs Of
the body that are lined by mucous mem
branes.
For various chronic climatic diseases
Peruna Is reliable remedy.
The testimonials concerning Peruna
are given in the language Of the people.
We do not change or add TO anything
they may say concerning 1t.
The evidence is overwhelming that
Peruna is safe, reliable, invaluable
remedy for the household.
Headache and Backache.
Mrs. Franziska Gaengel, Dominion
|, Old Bridgeport Mines, c. B., Canada,
writes:
81 thank you for the benefit which |
derived from Peruna. There may be
many who are suffering from the same
disease that had, for which they have
not yet been able to find the correct
remedy.
"For the benefit OF such persons wish
to say that 1 suffered with headache
and backache and had severe cough,
was in bed several weeks and could
not do my work. 1 tried many RENE
dies In vain.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Without boasting. just what nation
Is II that Is aching for a turn at our
l3,000o0C fighting men, backed by the
money TO put them in service? Let
su-h a one speak
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Among the late developments is
that OF tin in Alaska Heretofore the
United States bought S25.000.0 900
worth os tin every year This year
II IS believed ALASKA will be nearly il
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Constipation causes headache, nau-
sea, dizziness. languor. heart palpita.
tion. Drastic physics gripe, sicken,
weaken the bowels and don't cure.
Doan's Regulets act gently and cure
constipation. % cents Ask your
druggist
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Three hpndred and forty-two deaths
ss.s>a' scarlet fever at Chicago in three
days with SEA new cases in one day
and a total Of l0.3SO TO date. is moth.
ing short OF an awful scourge.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

American shipping wants subsidy
Perhaps American grocerymen would
Ike one too. How about the American
farmer, wogld he refuse IT.? Who pays
the subsidy? There is tho rub
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

All IS explained The Republican
Press Burean is in charge Of a car.
pet bagger. who knows about as mech
of Oklahoma politics as Wayne Jenk-
ins does Of states rights
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

The way the mineral output Of the
United States is climbing mp, is sim.
ply marvellous. Gold aud silver alone
reach over sl50,0OOpO0 anncally
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

c. ID. Foster the land man has more
and better bargains In city and farm
property than any man in Guthrie.
Better see him quick.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

The Guthrie Wall Paper & Paint
Co. has all the 1907 wal paper de-
signs. Get their prices on paints. oils
and varnishes. E oklahoma Ave.
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~ Bargains in Shoes. A saving Of
so cents to $1.00 on reasonable foot
wear for the whole family at Robin
sons.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Patronize the home industries, the
home merchants and the family at
home. Give the world the surplus.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

lot quite able to meet the demand.
Russia handed US a gem in an iceberg
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Miss Anna Clayton, Ill., wres
You medicine, much good believe
been dead by this time If had used It,
feeling
taken medicine
cheerfully to my
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=. -. - .
beneficial in great many ways. !
cough cold,
took for tonic and
reaso o speak well OF your medicine"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

yearly threefourths Of the Oklaho-
ma people spell II "Muscogeev WHY
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-02

Miss Eva Schelle, 1T N. Quincy ST., Topeka, Kas
writes:
! 81 unhesitatingly recommend Peruna a spfandid
specific for catarrhal affections sufferer with
this trouble off and for mber of years and
fresh cold added TO the difficulty
"Finally began taking Peruna for cold and
glad to note that Kidding OF the catarrh
al continued to use it faithfully the result
complete cure in a very few months"
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washington News Rursau--is4s y. st.,
BE.
New York ofiIce--tso Nassau 81.
Chicago onlee.--NviIlams = johnson,
Marquette building.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Mrs. FiSke'S Play, THE New York
idea,' Both Sermon and Satire,
Brilliantly Written and Exquisitely
Played, Is Really Too Clever to
Be Thoroughly Appreciated.

nour would scarcely have postponed
her wedding from 3 o'clock in. the after
noon till 10 o'clock at night merely on
the impulse for the sake of a lively
afternoon at the races Admitted that
those things are not true to life. None
the less they are Characteristic of the
characters presented, logical in their
very human lack of logic.
As for it's being a farcc.-from one
point Of view il is, From another it
is tract Langdon Mitchell is quoted
as saying:
"The humor of the play is only incl
dental II was such humor as hap
pened to ceme to me. spontaneously
evolved from the situations. and which
the actors by their talents are able 20
get over the fOOtlights. / rad no IN
ten.ion Of writing a funny play. l 40
not consider It a funny play, but. on the
contrary. a very serious one. To be
sure. YOU cannot kill this evil. but YOU
can make people conscious of il; and
there is no surer way OF arousing their
.cogsciousress than by making other peo-
PIE laugh at them. IL IS the same fac
tor that is so potent I'm political cam
paigns. The cartoon is there the great
weapon. and many a wrong has been
righted. many a corrupt boss dethroned
by tke aid Of humorous artists pen
cit Back of every cartoon there is a
serious and grave question"
But tract OF farce. satire or sermon.
or both in one as it really is il is beau
ufully done. And IL is emphatically
Mrs. Fiskc who does it, Mason is
clever, Ar,igs is clever. Harbury is
clever Marion Lea is clev6r-each mem
Der of the company is clever, Each
/ one gives q characterization that for
exquisite finish could scarcely be i'm
proved upon. But II is Mrs. Fiske' 5
artistic spirit that one feels through
! II all. 1t dominates the stage whether
she Is on II CT not; and she not on
/ Il half as much as she might be 1t
/ Is her splendid stage management that
/ makes the company what II IS She
rather effaces herself. but her acting
I is exquisite The suppressed hysteria Of
/ the second act could scarcely be sur
PASSED And the play of emotions IN
! that delicately idyliic fourth act makes
/ it fairly palpitate. Could anything be
more exquisite than the fOrlOrn lOnch-
ness and the pluck OF the little creature
who believes that she has come too
late. and that her husband has married
the mar eating shark" than the com
edy of mutual reminisCcnce few min
utes later. than the strange Staccato
cry. Homer bright thrilling in its -e-
lief with which she greets the news
! that the divorce IS invalid than the
tenderness OF the final scene2
Heigno, There was play, Taking
| IL all In ALL we shall not look upon
its like again At least. To come down
TO earth not for some time.
NJ Med.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Stray Bits of Gossip
About Plays and Players

performances a week times thirteen
weeks equals 1Oi performances, plus two
more. equals 1O5. TO which should be
added five for holidays. TO make the
total Of Ill
This government by injunction habit
has spread TO the stage. a Pittsburg
authoress threatened proceedings to pre-
vent mutilation of her play by star.
and a New York playwright followed
suit with effective results-anOther proof
Of "commercialism of the drama"
And not long ago William A. Brady
said that il Douglas Fairbanks, who has
been playing the leading role in The
Man Of the Hour" at the Savoy Theater.
attempts to carry out his reported in
tentiOn 10 abandon the stage and we'd
Miss Beth Sully, daughter Of Daniel J.
Sully. the cotton speculator, injunction
proceedings will be instituted. Mr.. Brady
says he has a five-year contract with
Fairbanks, and that he will endeavor
to enforce il in the courts if necessary.
, Fairbanks realized that discretion was
the better part of valor. and for the
present at least he remains with the
company. He has. however, become
! associated in a large soap manufactur-
ing industry in New York. headed by
Daniel Sully. the former millionaire cot
ton king. When not busy at the theater
/ Nj Fairbanks is seen attired in Overalls
and jumper in the big manufacturing
plant Of the Sully company in Brooklyn
In consequence of THE Vicar of
/ Wakefield' having tailed TO attract the
public at the Prince of Wales Theater
) n, London. it was Withdrawn last week.
! The opera was by Liza Lehman, with
David Bispham in the principal role.
Follow de wise money while you's
got the chance is said by Henry NJ
Blossom. jr.. the author of Checkers. %
in which the lines appear to be merely
q paraphrase OF the lines in the broth
ersr scene in Julius Caesar There is
q tide I'm the affairs OF men which. taker
al the food leads on TO fortune
Whether Blossom regards himself as
sort Of Shakespeare Up 10 date he doe!
not add.
II is said that Edra May in her lates
play. Nelly Neil" has been eclipseC
again. But she doesn't mind this time
for lis a mere man. Joe COyne, who s.
4 Ear outshines her Anyhow why sliCul,
she mind anything-she can always fal
back on AIr. Lewisohn.
Hap Ward playing Not YET. Eu
soon. has been in Toronto recently an.
seems To have struck some cold weathe
, there. He wrote TO a friend: y hav
rax-cr a,-nat-ianced Sucl, cold Weather
! but 1 ought not 10 kick. as it is doubt
} less responsible for my having save
t myself from considerable pecuniary los
The Washington times., 1907-03-03

company has been up in Vermont re
Gently. where ii met eleven blizzards ~
three weeks Ugh!
Robert Craig. who plays the paretic
general and the laughing rube in. the
first and second acts of Checkers" is
negotiating Tor a character play for
himself for next season His reputa-
ton Tor characterization achieved in
Checkers, Is considerable and three
piaywrishts are competing 20 supply
him with satisfactory character
Thomas Meighan. who plays Billy Bol-
ton in The College Widow" is said TO
be justly proud of his accomplishments
rs 2 lnguist Recently Meighan invited
a few friends to chop suey dinner in
a Chinese restaurant and proceeded 70
give his order in Chinese. The Celestial
locked at him stocially for moment.
and then saying Me no speakee Ing
lis" called another waiter.
George Cohans Spot Light this
week says; NO matter what she says.
YOU cannot MAKE me uelieve he means
it." But unfortunately Robert EdesOn
does say now that he means to marry
Ethel Levey Cohan.
William II. Fowler. treasurer of the
New National Theater. leaves Washing
ton this week to be absent the entire
summer attending TO his duties as man
ager of the Washington baseball club
Mr.. Jacobson. assistant treasurer Will
be in charge of the box office of the
theater during the absence Of Mr.. FOw-
Ter
Wilton Lackaye says he viii back his
property man against any other in
America. when il comes to making out
I a property expense account \ fGv-
/ orite item which appears ON the list
! with the regularity of each succeeding
/ performance o. THE Man and the Law
/ is: "One 5-cent cigar, Is cents.
Rose Stahl. who has just began her
eighth month at the Hacketr Theater
! in The James Forbes comedy, The
/ Chorus Lady. made IN equal success
/ the other day in the role Of Lady
/ Sounutul She sent to her father.
| Col. =. . Stahl of Trenton. certified
check for $4,000 for a new home in
/ Trenton. \. J. Last Wednesday Miss
/ Stahl received the news that the o'd
! homestead was destroyed by fire and
she at once set about replacing IL. The
! sum expended by her represented a
The Washington times., 1907-03-03

Il is a curious thing that a play like
'''The New York Idea" which is distinct
" not in the dramatic heavyweight
class. though for sheer cleverness it has
certainly not been excelled i'm rec9nt
years. should yet unQUestionably have
been over the heads of so many people
whom one is in the habit Of regarding
as OF almost human intelligence. o.
coprse it is not play to appeal to "the
gallery y'-nCt even to that portion of il
than can afford 10 pay for boXes-but
one would have thought it would have
appealed irresistibly to the orchestra.
and-well. to the balcony.
They went 10 it all right But they
didn't understand It, one saw night
after night scattered through the au-
diences at the Belasco puzzled,
able in the CONSCIOUSNESS that they were
not in IT, They didn't understand Il.
For the life of them they couldn't get
the point of view. It's brilliant whim-
sicality was past their fathOming. They
called it tom foolishness" Poor things!
poor things, they are the sort Of people
who can't see anything IN "Alice in
Wonderiard' and Through the Look
ing Glass" for instance, but the maun-
derings of incipient idiOcy. Think how
much they miss. and be sorry for themi
one such sat near me at one perform
ance. q enjoyed it enough to 90 three
times. and three times i'm a week is
''goiug some.'O He Is a man high in
official life, a man thoroughly edu-
Gated. so far as mere books go. a
successful man so far as mere worldly
achievement goes. "A man undoubtedly
of considerable executive capacity but
in certain directions unbeiievably OBJ
tuse. absolutely prosaic and liberal
minded-a Philip Phinimon sort OF
man, on the wrong side the footlights.
He endured II as long as he could in
silence, and finally burst out in eXas-
peration. "Why-but-wel. this is a
foolish sort Of play,'
Then there were others who regarded
IL merely as a roaring farce. 1t is-Or
would have been, in the hands OF any
other company Admitted at once. Ad-
mitted that some of the situations were
impossible. admitted that the English
man was drawn on rather broadly car
looming lines. that the Clergyman,-ar
Episcopal clergyman.-would certainly
not have preached the sermon he out
lines in the first act. i'm this day and
generation when his church is seriously
agitated by the divorce evil, wher
the performing a marriage cere-
mony involving "a divorced person
would get him into trouble Will
his bishop, admitted that Cynthia
KaraIake, who in the last act
was seriously worried as 10 what peo
ME vvould saw IL they saw her leavinG
her eX-husbands home at an unseemll
The Washington times., 1907-03-03

certain one of DeWoh Hopper's
''Happyland" girls was relieved of her
watch the other afternoon, and in her
pndeavors to recover it inserted an ad-
vertisement in one of the ST Paul pa
pers. Offering a liberal reward for its
return. She gave the young man at the
advertising window the necessary de-
tails
What kind Of a watch was it?''
80 lady's watch. Of course"
''ESold?'
", , (answered with looI)
plain or chased?'
CHASED"
And this is how the card read the next
day: "Lost-A chased lady's watch;
gold Ten dollars reward for its re-
turn 70 X Y. T.. Academy of Music" ."
Since then the young lady has been
known to her friends behind the stage
as the chased lady.
Theatrical people all over the country
are interested I'm the Actors Fund Fair
To be held at the Metropolitan. in New
York early next Nav. 1t is for the
Actors Fund Of America. yet the Man
and Superman' company. composed
chiefly Of English players, is one of the
first organizations to offer practical aid
10 the Actors Fund Fair at the Metro
politan Opera House. New York Miss
Lois =. Claik expects TO realize several
hundred dollars from the rattle of her
valuable Angora cat. Robert Lorraine
viii autograph books Of the play, to b.
sold by Drina De Wolf and Nellie
Thorpe
Hans Robert. the clever young Wash
ington actor who has been playing tn,
title role in Henry NJ. Blossoms popu
lar racing comedy. Checkers for th'
past two seasons, has signed contracts
to appear in this charming and fascin
ating play again next season.
Robert MantelTs repertory for Wash
ington will. in all probability. be mad,
Alp as follows: Monday. "The Merchan
of Venice" Tuesday. Macbeth Wed
nesday afternoon. 'Richelieu" Wed
nesday night. "Othello" (Mr Manten al
Othello). Thursday. Hamlet Friday
Richard III" Saturday afternoon an,
Saturday night Julius Caesar" Thi
Is subject TO change later.
It's wise playwright who recognize
his own play after the manager. stag
manager and star have taken fan ou
Of it,
Managerial arithmetic is curiou
thing. The 200th performance of 9Th
Partisan Model'' at the Broadway Thea
ter. New York. is announced for Fet
nary q. The play opened at thi
house on November II. 1906. and wi
have run for thirteen weeks and tw
days By Wednesday of next week. Eigh