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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-02-13

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eh banker was the soft impeaeh.
ment made against the Atoka mem
ber BY one of the employees Wheth.
er banker Is supposed 10 be ah
normally wise or whether the youth
had special linanclal seal IN min
dependent sayeih not
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
japanese Scarfs

Now that half the women one knows
are dressing themselves up in the
floating scarf which the women of the
eighteenth century loved, many kinds
of new materials are being brought
into play.
i Chiffon with a tiny fringe of metal
or crystals is still in the lead with it's
rival of black tulle embroidered in
gold. but the new thing is a scarf of
Japanese satin embroidered with flow
ers or in tiny figures. One woman
who has a yellow satin scarf on which
is outlined quaint little men and wom-
en-, with lotus flowers between, wears
1t around the shoulders over a hand
some evening gown.
The Japanese jacket has long had a
place for evening wear, but the Jap
anese scarf is a new addition to this
seasons costumes.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
PROPER CARE OF THE NECK
Woman Tells How to Avoid Double
Chin and Sagging Throat Mus
cles, the Marks Of Age.

GGuoW do keep my back straight
"A and my neck from sagging?"
said the woman who spent hours each
day at typewriter. 81 write with
my chest up and my eyes turned cell
ingward.
Il never allow myself to stoop, sit
ting well back on my chair to make
the erect position possible, and, when
ever do not have to look at my copy
l throw the neck back
When taking dictation it is quite
easy to keep the head up and ar
range my notes on a rack on the
level with my eyes. Naturally, 1 use
the touch system, so the keys need
not be watched.
often, when working in a room by
myself twist my head and take neck
stretching movements while writing
to fight of the double chin and sag
ging throat muscles that are so COM
mon for women who sit at desk or
piano much
"The way 1 happened to think of
combining neck development and
work was by watching my grandmoth-
er. Her throat is as thin and supple
as girls, though she is nearly 80,
and she has none of the sagging lines
that most of us connect with age.
She told me that whenever she got
chance during the day, whenever
she had to plan any Of her work or
wanted minutes rest, she sat with
her eyes turned heavenward, her
chest up and the muscles at the back
Of the neck contracted.
"Often as she sat there she would
massage the throat muscles with the
tips of her fingers or draw the palms
of her hands alternately from the line
of her chin toward her chest. She
usually carried a small tube of cold
cream in her pocket and would put
just enough on her fingers to keep the
skin from getting sore.
How did she manage about her
collar? She never wore one around
the house, but had her morning frocks
made with ma; row surplice neck to
give freedom and air to the throat.
"Grandmothernever went to a beau
ty doctor in her life, but she agrees
with most of them that tight collar
is fatal to beautiful throat. l can
not go collarless in an Office, but
take it off the minute 1 reach home
and always wear a Dutch neck dress
in the evening"
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

before seeding time, we would sug-
gest that possibly as good a way as
any would be either to plow it early,
cultivate it as thoroughly as possible,
remove as many of the roots as possi-
bic, and then sow it to sorghum; or
SOW. it any time to buckwheat after
cultivating as above directed, and then
in June turn the buckwheat under and
sow it to buckwheat again, thus secur-
ing a rank growing crop during the
entire summer. We have known this
last method to be tried with great sue
cess in Minnesota on badly infested
land, though not in sod.
Bear in mind always that there is
but one method of killing quack grass,
that of strangulation or smothering it
out. If it appears in scattered spots
of small area, one of the best ways is
to cover it over in the spring with tar
paper, keeping the paper on all sea-
son. Another method of strangulation
is to keep the plants hoed down, so as
to keep the leaves from having access
to the air. Another method is that
suggested by our correspondent, keep
ing the land covered with a rank grow
ing crop, which is in effect strangu-
lation, or robbing the quack grass
shoots of air and sunshine.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
Loeb's Next Berth a Cause of Worry

A few years ago there was scheme
afoot to elect Mr.. Loeb as president of
a Washington street railroad company.
He became greatly interested in the
matter, enlisted some financial friends
in New York and bought into the stock
of the road quite heavily. Ambitious
arguments were advanced regarding
what Mr.. Loeb could do for the road
1t has to go before congress. session
after session, for tid-bits of legislation,
which are very essential none the less.
But senators, who have little liking
for the president, intimated that the
man who had served as the PRESIDENT
secretary would have fine old TINA
persuading them to vote for his bills.
Therefore the owners of the street
railroad. began quietly to lay plans for
side-tracking the Loeb presidential
idea, and about year ago another
was chosen to head the street rail-
way.
Since then Secretary Loeb's name
has been mentioned in connection
with a number of good posts by pur-
veyors of capitol gossip, but each
story has been in turn denied
The latest report is that he will be-
come collector of the port of New
York after March 4.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
Nations Capital Is a City of Parks

way, now known as Potomac driveway.
The River park, which reaches from
the capitol to the islands of the Poto-
mac, contains in the aggregate 1900
acres, but does not represent an ANAL
gamated whole as does the Rock Creek
park.
In the northern portion of the city,
about mile eastward from Rock
Creek park and connected Herewith
by the old military road over which
union armies marched in the defense
of Washington, is the Soldier Home
park Commanded by a group of
white marble buildings erected on the
highest point in the city, the park
slopes toward the city over an extent
.of 502 acres. Still another park.
Analostan, in southeast Washington
where the river flats will some day
be one of the flower gardens of the
national capital, contains $40 acre.
The last of the larger parks, also In
north Washington, is Tacoma park,
containing 739 acres.
Other amusement places are the
Henry and Seaton parks of 80 acres:
Garfield park, "a acres; Judiciary
square, where is the pension office. 10
acres, and Howard University park of
II acres. Lafayette square, in front
of the White House on the north. hs
which no trees or bush is duplicated.
contains six acres.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

w WASHINGTON.-That the fascina-
w ton of life at the American capital
tion of life at the American capital
depends much upon the beauty and
gorgeousness of the court costumes Of
the foreign diplomats and the officers
OF our army and navy, who are regu-
larly called into service for social
duty, is not to be controverted, and
when these attractions are combined
with the imposing form and ceremony
attendant upon the city surrounding a
president of the United States and his
cabinet, and the direct representatives
OF foreign powers to this government,
you have brilliant and interesting
phase of life scarcely known in the
western hemisphere outside of Wash
ington.
While the president of the United
States appears at formal entertain
ments in frock coat in the afternoon,
and at evening affairs in the simple,
somber formal habiliments every
American man wears after dark, he is
surrounded by his aids from all
branches of the military and naval
service, who never appear at the
White House or in company with the
president in other than full dress
uniforms and with their swords at
their sides. The same is true Of the
foreign ambassadors and ministers
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

should have been plowed up before
winter set in, and the burrows kinked
as much as possible, thus giving them
the opportunity of drying out and
favoring early pulverization. As it is
now, he can select one of two
methods: He can let the quack grass
grow until it is about ready to head
out. in other words, when it is put
ting forth its supreme effort to pro-
duce seed, and then plow it and sow
1t to buckwheat, or sow it to some
rank growing crop such as sorghum,
which will completely occupy the
ground. Or he can plow it up early
in the spring and sow to a rank grow
ing crop. We do not know anything
about hemp except that it is a very
rank grower and occupies the ground
very fully, but if allowed to go to seed
1t will seed the land and become a
weed; but not such destructive weed
as quack grass.
Inasmuch as the land has not been
plowed this fall, and inasmuch as it
might not be possible to plow it in
case of dry season after the crop of
quack grass has been removed and
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
Bright Scenes When President Entertains

and the, military and naval attaches or
the embassies and legations.
Two great occasions on which the
White House is resplendent with the
gorgeous uniforms Of the diplomats
and our own military and naval men
are the reception of the president on
January 1, when every member of the
corps, with his. wife and daughters.
calls to wish the president happy
New Year, and about ten days later at
the diplomatic reception prescribed by
precedent, which is the first of
series of formal evening receptions
the president gives during the winter.
Upon numerous occasions, and al
ways at the White House, both the
head of the navy and of/the army ap-
pear in their conspicuous full dress
uniforms, which are quite as rich as
those of many of the foreign ambassa-
dors and ministers. Scarcely second
in brilliancy to the reception given by
the president to the diplomats is that
at which he is host for the army and
navy, when hundreds of the higher Of
ficers of both branches of the service
attend in their gala uniforms.
The se0ior aids to the president,
who make all of the presentations to
him at all entertainments and attend
him upon all occasions, practically live
in their official regalia, while the
younger aids are almost daily called
upon to wear their best uniforms.
In fact, there is a splendor about
the official social life of the American
capital which is scarcely second to
that of any court of Europe. and which
sets it apart from all other cities of
the United States.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE
QUACK GRASS PEST
But One Effective Method That Is TO
Smother Il

A Wright county ua) farmer writes
as follows:
The quarter section south of me
is badly infested with quack grass,
and on my 20 adjoining there are
some fifty patches, each averaging
square rod in area. This 1 have seed
ed down and turned into pasture, but
there is half acre of my land next
to the road which is solid mass of
quack grass, worse than anything my
neighbor has. 1 want to get rid of
this, first, to benefit my own land,
and second, as an object lesson to the
community. They say here it is i'm
possible to get rid of quack grass, and
l have been advised to plow up this
half acre in the spring, being careful
not to take away any of the roots, and
seed it heavily to hemp, the idea be-
ing that the rank growth of the hemp
would choke out the quack grass.
What do you think of this idea?"
Another farmer in Minnesota with
a similar trouble writes:
Il have bought farm in southern
Minnesota on which there is more or
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
Plan to Pension Cleveland's Widow

drawn a pension of $4,000 a year from
the government, and no money that
comes from the treasury is more
cheerfully paid. The first time a PEN
sion was ever suggested for the widow
of an ex-president. was in the case of
William Henry Harrison, who died one
month after his inauguration.
The death of Harrison appealed
peculiarly to the nation, and the sum
of $4,000 outright was voted her. She
lived to enjoy its proceeds for a period
of % years. The second, Mrs. Tyler.
drew pension of $1,000 per annum
for II years. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
was given $4,000 and an additional
pension of $1,000 per annum. Grants
widow also received $1,000 a year. al
did the widow of President Mckinley.
Most of the ex-presidents of the
United States died in advance of their
wives, although there are notable ex-
ceptions. Thomas Jefferson outlived
his wife A years. Martin Van Buren
43 years.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

IL XCLUSIVE of the capitol and con-
II gressional library grounds, the
union depot plaza and the botanical
gardens, the city of Washington
boasts more than 5000 acres in parks,
excluding nearly $50 triangles and cir
cles at street intersections and miles
upon miles of shaded asphalt streets
equal to the boulevards of many other
cities. The largest of all these parks
is Rock Creek park. This beauty spot
covers 1,605 acres Immediately adjoin-
ing the Geological park, which con-
tains III acres, and it's natural COM
binations of rocks and streams, hills
and dales, trees and meadows go to
make perhaps the finest groundwork
of a public park in any city in the
country.
1t will be probably hundred years
before the possibilities of this park are
realized to the full, including the
building of a boulevard down Rock
creek into the city of Washington,
connecting with the Riverside drive
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

G ECRETARY WILLIAM LOEB, JR.,
~ who has been serving the president
and the country at the White House
offices for several years, is causing his
immediate friends more political anxi-
ETY. than any other prominent Repub-
lican of the hour. There is a time
honored tradition that a retiring presi-
dent of the United States must take
good care of his secretary, mad it has
therefore been incumbent upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt to see Mr. Loeb well
placed before he starts for the dark
contineT :.
But plans for placing Loeb have a
habit of falling through, just why no
one seems able to tell. For, while he
has not gained the fame as secretary
to the president that Mr. Cortelyou,
his predecessor, gained, there is no
denying that he has been very eff
cient
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
When Climbing Stairs.

l have heard girls complain because
they have to climb so many flights of
stairs in order to reach their rooms.
Now, with a little practice they will be
able to go up the stairs without feel
ing the climb at all. Hold the head
erect, the chest up, breathe slowly and
deeply and put the ball of the foot
firmly on each step.
If you follow this method you will
soon form the habit of making the
climbing task less tiresome.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
ODOR SHOULD BE ELUSIVE
Just a Suggestion Of Perfume Is
All the Really Dainty Girl
Will Allow Herself.

MANY girls who are decked for con-
IVA quest unconsciously make them
selves a nuisance to every one who
comes near them by their choice of
perfumes. If they would but learn
that heavy scent is vulgar life would
be more comfortable for those who
come their way.
The girl who restrains her love of
onions for the sake of her fellow man,
who would be Mortified at the thought
of an odor from perspiration, will sat
urate herself with cologne or sachets
and think she has added the finishing
touch of elegance.
There are some persons who are
made i'll by even suggestion of per-
unconscious from the smell of heavy
scent in a close room, while still 9TH
ers are made to sneeze violently by
breathing satchet powder.
No refined girl would want to make
herself a nuisance to her neighbors.
Leaving the question of lack of refine
ment out of it, perfumes should not
tartan standpoint. We should refrain
from any practice that may make 9TH
ers uncomfortable.
A girl once wondered at her lack
of popularity. She was a charming
girl, but slipped up on many an invi-
tation that went to less attractive
friends. Her amazement was great
when a candid older woman told her
that her lack of invitations was due to
her love of tuberoses, which she con-
stantly wore.
A heavy odor of perfumery also
gives rise to unpleasant suggestions
that it is necessary to deaden un-
cleanly odors, that it is substitute
for personal daintiness.
An odor to be permissible should be
so elusive as to be almost imper-
ceptible. Delicate sachets may be
placed among ones clothes. The new
American Beauty pad makes every
thing fragrant. So do the slips of per-
fumed pasteboard. Toilet waters used
after the bath, or in it, rarely are OBJ
jectionable, as they have a fresh,
clean smell. Heavy perfumes such as
musk, altar of roses, tuberoses or pat
chouli, should be tabooed. A drop
may make the wearer nuisance.
If one cannot refraiN from the per-
fume habit, and this habit is as COM
mon to certain type of man as to
women, at least a scent should not be
used when one is going into a public
assemblage. No one has right for a
personal qualification to make others
miserable.
The doctor who goes to church
smelling of iodoform or the germ-fear-
ful woman who attends a theater
reeking of asafoetida may be no
more of a nuisance than the girl who
has poured the perfume flask over her
self as finishing touch to her toilet.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

less quack grass. There is only one
small patch on the farm l bought, con-
s1sting of about a fourth of an acre.
What is your opinion of quack grass,
and do you think it is impossible to
get rid of it? What do you think of
southern Minnesota as a corn coun-
try?"
This opens up the quack grass
question, which is becoming a burn
ing question not only in Minnesota
and Wisconsin, but in Iowa. espe-
cially in northern and central Iowa.
The 'quack grass problem is no prob
lem at all in the semi-arid section,
for the reason that it is one of the
grasses which stand drouth; and hav-
ing very good feeding value, it be-
comes blessing instead of the curse
it is in the humid section
1t would be well, therefore, to ex-
anime pasture fields early in the
spring and ascertain the extent to
which they are infested with quack
grass. Quack grass comes in just as
it did in our correspondents field, in
spots, but speedily spreads over the
entire acreage.
Now, as to methods of dealing with
it, the Wallace's Farmer suggests that
the half acre. of the Iowa farmer
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

Fashionable fur stoles are long and
are extremely wide.
Lace yokes and sleeves continue
popular in spite of their long use.
The lace coat figures as a part Of
many of the dressy frocks of the sea-
son.
White furs are worn as toques,
stoles and muffs, not to mention trim
mings.
CaShmere de sole and dull henrietta
are the most approved mourning ma
terials.
A new shade of dark green, very
popular with young girls, is called At
lantic.
The walking stick, after a period of
retirement, is now highly fashionable
for men.
An immense automobile muff has
constructed in it special pocket for
carrying pet dog.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

Making Butter in Siberia.-A Unit
ted States consular report states that
Danish enterprise has established
creameries in central Siberia, on or
near the Trans-Siberian railway. 1t
took some time to overcome the stol'
idity of the Russian peasant, but the
creameries and is adding to their
number as rapidly as new villages are
found where the peasants will agree
to deliver milk.
The railroad runs two fast freight
trains weekly, of 20 refrigerator cars
loaded with butter From a small be-
ginning the business has grown to
over $6,OO0,000. Milk is received from
1900 peasants, who keep from four
to six cows each. 1t takes five or six
Russian sows to furnish as much but
ter fat as one Danish cow. The
whole milk is delivered direct to the
creamery.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

A SUGGESTION that the widow and
"A children of former President
Grover Cleveland be given a pension
is being discussed informally by con-
gressmen. Many have declared them
selves in favor of granting her one
If Mrs. Cleveland is willing to ac-
cept, there is no question but that con-
gress would be ready to vote it to her.
Although there is now no surviving
ex-president of the United States, three
widows of former presidents still live
Mrs. James A. Garfield, Mrs. Benja-
min Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland.
The first-named has now survived
her husband more than twenty-seven
years. During all that time She has
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

Poor Mangers.-If horses could
speak there would be a general out
cry against the hangers in use. Most
of them are set too high and are too
deep, besides being tight on the bot
tom instead of Slated to let the dust
and hayseed through. Dust is one of
the horses worst enemies, declares
Farm Journal, and often Injuries his
breathing apparatus, causing him mis-
cry for life. Every manger should
have hay rack in~front of it and this
should have Slated bottom The
horse that gets his hay in this man
ner, pulling it through rack level
with the manger. will not breathe
dust and will not have dust in his
stall.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24
Flowers of Silver.

On large hat of soft black beaver
the trimming is formed by leafess
garland of large marguerites made of
silver tissue. The contour of each
petal is outlined with a narrow band of
black, fleecy beaver, in marked con-
trast with the delicate texture of the
metallic goods.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

bookshelf
Nv There
winter evenings with bright flames and good mention
friend sitting the opposite side hearth help
friendly relations with each other The chimney
above this shelf little glass wall things
win
ing Herald
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

Tank (b) is connected with sewer by
waste pipe I'D. The plug (e) con-
sists of a piece of gas pipe threaded
into the end of the waste pipe and
therefore answers the purposes of plug
and overflow.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

In the accompanying plan two gal
vanized iron tanks two feet by five
feet are connected by pipe (c) so
that tank (b) is supplied with water
from tank (a), which in turn is sup
piled from the hydrant as shown.
Barbour County index., 1909-02-24

Give Them Dust 6ath.-Dry soil or
road dusts help the hens to keep clear
from lice.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-10
TRIBuTE TO JUDGE prrcHroRD.
Former Walhalla Citizen Praised by
Oklahoma Paper.

(Claremore, Okla, Progress, Feb. 27)
The February term of the District
Court closed yesterday, and Judge
John III. Pitchford returns to Table
quah to begin the term of court of
Cherokee county on Monday, March
1. Judge Pitchford has made emil
nently good while presiding in Glare
mores He is man who is well quail
iiied for the position of judge by
reason of his learning in the law, his
strength Of character, demonstrated
by his every act and word. and withal
his kindness and fairness which tenn
per his everS ruling and decree with
mercy.
The closing term of the District
Court has been long and arduous
one. The docket was crowded and
the county Jail was full of prisoners
when the term began. There remain
cases on the docekt now, but every
mans case which was awaiting trial
has been disposed of in some man.
ner, and nearly all have been given
a trial.
The term closes with no man in
jail awaiting trial. During the four
weeks that Judge Pitchford has
been with us we have all learned to-
love him, which love increased with
the time he was here. He takes
back with him to the district which
elected him the kindest remem-
brances Of the bar the litigants, the
jurymen and all others who had the
pleasure of meeting him and observ-
ing him in the performance Of his
duties as Judge in his sojourn in
Rogers county.
The people Of Rogers county are
indebted to Judge Pitchford for the
valuable services rendered to them
in his capacity as Judge. His atti-
tude on the bench is the same to all,
whether they be "oung men without
experience in tryi. 8 cases or whether
they be the recognized sages Of the
bar of this part of the State. He Is
firm and impartial in his rulings and
by his power in the important posi-
tion which he holds, is a great fac
tor in maintaining and creating re-
spect for the law and the courts.