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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31
BY OMER X. BENEDICT.)

When Divine Providence smiled on
the world, He laughed outright on
Oklahoma; He laughed out loud on
Tulsa
He has laughed out loud on Tulsa In
the past, now is laughing out loud and
will continue to do so, as long as the
people will. He has laughed out LOUD
many times on other Oklahoma
Gowns. where now, speaking with
compressed smile, He only smiles.
II is manifestly within the power OF
the people of Tulsa whether that out
loud laugh continues to resound or
whether II chases the stars in their
orbit.
Providence is almighty kind-but
human-like, needs and demands,
smile for smile laugh for laugh.
When Mistakes Are Made.
"The time to prepare for war Is In
time of peace" The time to prepare
for adversely is in time of prosperity.
There are more municipal mistakes
made in times of prosperity than In
times of adversely. Cities and com
unities are carried away by prosper
ity. There are. in the growth and de-
yelopment of towns. booms or the
mind and tongue, and booms Of the
ideal and the real and stable charac-
ter. In the first place there must.
of necessity, be a real cause for
booms: or rather. steady, healthful
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31
Pupil Nurses Received

Tulsa has every other advantage
over every other city in the state OF
Oklahoma, The erection OF a ten
story office building or a million dol
lar oil deal or the selling OF a street
car line get but a two-line local on
the want page OF the daily press.
We know that Tulsa is a Thirty
Third degree town. Tulsa Is summed
up in multiples of threes. One never
hears OF 10 per cent increases
20 per cent or 25 per cent-always
the minimum is 33 l-3 per cent. II
bank clearings or postal receipts or
freight receipts or oil production
drops below that figure, the desk man
on the daily papers throws it aside for
something more important.
The same multiples of three apply
to building permits, population, mum
icipal iprovements, etc, and some
times in the police courts.
Just in Swaddling Clothes.
Tulsa has a trade territory equal in
area to Oklahoma City. Tulsa has
an agricultural county surrounding Il
that is unequalled in the southwest;
and while 1t is an old story, Tulsa
has in addition oil and gas coal and
water power, and soon will have the
advantages OI water tTelBnt rates.
Everything is here ready and waiting
for It to become the greatest manu-
featuring center in the great south
west And yet, Tulsa is but in Its
swaddling clothes; Development Of
natural resources is but In its incipi-
ency-floating, not on a wave. but on
an ocean of prosperity. There 10
little doubt but the past will take
care of itself. but the future should
be looked after. What is Il 10 be,
smile or a laugh out loud?
might exhaust my entire hyper
bole OF metaphor, and yet only half
tell Of the magnificent advantages OF
Tulsa at the present time. But eyes
should not be blurred nor ears befud-
died by the grandeur OF prosperity
they zee and the resounding laugh
they hear, but rather should they be
open and keen for the future.
The perpetuity OF present prosper
ity prompts Elasticity.
Tulsa might just as well be Sixty
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31

the present, but good town, ull OF
patriotic builders The mer-
chants there are now running trade
day excursions into the town and Civ
ing band concerts and free theater
tickets TO out-Of-town visitors, and
urging congress TO make an appropri-
alton for deepening the Arkansas
The merchants could Just as well af-
fOrded during Muskogee's prosperous
times, to do these things, but they
never believed the Lords laugh
would be transformed into a smile,
The Vortex Grows Sad.
Ei Reno had the Rock Island rail-
road shops and division headquarters
and the people heard the loud laugh.
The town was hit by a blow OF crop
failures, and the merchants sub
scribed enough money to buy n page
In the Saturday Evening Post that
had the same amount been paid to
It's newspapers, the Lord would have
neglected to reduce his merriment to
a smile. Needless TO say every man
who has attempted to run a newspa-
per there has walked out OF town,
and the people are standing with
their hands crossed behind them,
looking out upon the sad and sol
cnln vortex u Hcbi'Sl'u oPpol lulli-
ties with their ears cooked for q
sound OF the laugh out loud that IL
somewhere glimmering In tho con-
stellation Of prosperous Oklahoma
towns.
Kingfisher wants a railroad from
Oklahoma city on toward the north
west and Is perfectly willing 20 give
bonus therefor. Kingfisher need
ed that railroad years ago, and the
advantages that 1t would now re-
ceive would have been Just as great
when the distance defying funnel
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31

poured golden grain into Kingfisher
elevators; but had a "cinch" on
trade territory for n hundred miles
west, but when that fact was men,
toned when | WAS n boy around
there some twenty odd years ago,
kingfisher's ears were dulled by
Providence's loud laugh
] say again that oil these towns
are good towns. The object is that
they could have maintained the pros
perity they once had had they pre-
pared for war I'm time of peace
prepared for adversely in time of
prosperity.
just Thought Food.
And far be IL from me to take a
pessimistic view of Tulsa. The OBJ
Iect Of this is merely food for
thought for what II is worth.
True, the Lords laugh is heard
outlined in prosperous Tulsa. from
lhe time the morning sun rises over
Tulsa's myriad OF oil derricks until
I sinks behind our ever-changing
ky line of ten-story buildings and
oil refineries.
Don't encourage the Lord to smile,
let Him continue-help Him to
laugh out loud and once In ewnile--
Ask Him TO shout.
The last United States census shows
that there are 307, 7,706 women farmers
in this country. The numbers has
gained since the census was taken an "a
promises to increase. Many women
have homesteaded claims in all of the
western states and have made sue
cesses OF farming.
Even hot weather isn't so bad
when you can get plenty Of good fresh
buttermilk,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31

Even hot weather isn't so bad
when you can get plenty Of good fresh
buttermilk.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31

Address Miss H.
G. G.. Ziegeler,
Superintendent,
Phone 10, 752
West Fifth Street
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
DESTROY GRAVE OF TRAITOR
Marked Protest Made Against Burial
of Austrian Spy in consecrated
Ground. !

Vienna.-As a result of the reYela-
tons of espionage connected with the
death of Col Redl, the spy, who COM
mitted suicide, the police are engaged
in a very active search for Russian
spies and agents in Austria-Hungary.
Reports from the Schronbrunn pal
ace indicate that the Emperor Francis
Joseph has been deeply affected by
the cases of treason in the army, and
that he has expressed his plan to va
rious persons of his encourage, saying
that nothing so disgracefuI has oc-
CURED since the beginning of his long
reign, for, whatever misfortune the
country had undergone, the military
had always been faithful and true
Everyone feels great sympathy with
the aged emperor in his sorrow and
disappointment, and the Viennese
share the feeling Of the monarch.
A number of persons whose rela-
tiyes are buried in the Central GENE
terry, where Col RedI lies, have made
a protest against the traitor being per
mitted to lie in consecrated ground
near their kin. On the authorities
refusing to listen to their, complaint,
they made a demonstration recently.
destroying the mound raised above the
grave to show their contempt for the
dead spy.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
STAR OF BETHLEHEM COMET
American Woman In London ReViVes
Theory That Magi Followed
Wanderer.

London.-A theory Of what the Star
Of Bethlehem really was, was ad-
vanced by Mrs John HARNESS Belle
Harpster Hartness), a prominent mem
Der Of the American circle in Lon
don and representative at large Of the
League of American Pen Women at
Washington, at q lecture delivered by
her recently at the University Of Lon
don.
Taking the scripturaI narrative as
substantially correct, Mrs HARNESS
dealt with the theories already pHt
forward, and showed they all fell
short of the facts as recorded. Basing
her theory on the story of St Andrew.
Mrs. Hardness showed that the Mag1
had been expecting a star to appear.
that this particular star followed a
prescribed course, that it shone for a
long time, the lecturer argued that
it must have been a comet which the
wise men of the east saw and fol-
lowed.
A comet is the only celestial, body
which fulflls every particular as re-
corded. When this theory was sub
mitted to Professor Bickerton, a we'll
known New Zealand astronomer, he
said that If his own theory of a new
star were disproved he would accept
the theory Of a comet.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16

JOE'S new HOUSE
Stone the Builders Rejected Be-
came the Foundation of Struc-
ture of Comfort.
BY FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDER-
SON

by FEOnENCE LILLIAN HENDE n
SON.
There were two loyal hearts to
smile encouragingly after Walter Rose
and wish him an earnest God-speed
when he left Rfverdale. Mercy Oar
row babe him adieu through swimming
eyes, but she had given him words Of
bhssful cheer and comfort Little Joe
Dockrill, cripple as he was, lifted him
self on his cTutches and waved en-
couragingly and hopefully.
You know what is best, dear" Wal
ter's 1ancee had told him. If you
think the prospects in the city are en-
couraging, you should go there"
TT is only for year, sweetheart"
said Walter. You and your parents
are practically dependent on your mar
ried sister. All I have Is the lot and
the old house, ready to fall down any
day. 1 could not think of taking you
there"
1T would be home with you, any
where, dear" declared Mercy bravely.
Yes, but the old folks have a COM
Portable home. 1 stuck to father from
q sense of duty. because he was at
tached to the old place. If l can get
enough ahead to put up even a small
cottage I can always earn a comfort
able living. Look after little Joe, won't
you, Mercy?' added the stalwart, hon
est-faced fellow, with a fond glance at
the little cripple.
Don't you fear!" chirped in Joe
himself valiantIy. I'll look after my
self. Why, you've fitted me out like a
prince, Uncle Walter, and I'm going to
make you proud OF me. I'll help get
that house up you want SO bad. I've
got an idea and I'm going to carry it
out"
Pretty patient Mercy went home
rather mournfully. Little Joe returned
home, the honest tear drops in his
eyes, but whistIing cheerily. for he had
some very hopeful ideas under that
bright, curly pate of his.
Walter Rose was not Uncle Walter"
at all, although the little fellow called
him that. Joe was a waif, an orphan
city lad turned out of charitable in
situations when he had outgrown the
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money in the bank and the farm PRO-
duces four times as much feed as for
merly.. Ny friend says it is all due
to keeping records, and 1 believe it is
true, for the neighbors who were
much ahead ten years ago, and VINO
have not used their pencils, are away
behind today. Keeping accounts in
the dairy led to keeping accounts OF
other farm operations. There is moth
ing so enlightening as cold mathema-
teal facts, and when they show a
loss, the losing factor is usually cut
out.
Another example of what testing
will do is that Of Harry Burger Of
Seneca, Kansas. Mr.. Burger began
keeping records about three years
ago. At that time he had eighteen
COWS. Before the end Of the first year
seven OF the COWS were found to be
so poor that they were disposed Of,
and the eleven that remained pro-
duced an average of 200 pounds OF
butter each. Some of these were sold,
a few grade Holstein COWS and a pure
bred sire were bought. Daughters of
some of the best COWS have come
IutO u11h anu uuIAuS lHe past SSoA
800 pounds of butter were sold from
the herd of II COWS. This butter was
sold in Seneca at 80 cents a pound,
bringing a total of $3.50. The skim
milk and buttermilk was worth $3.50
for feeding, so that the actual annual
returns per COW were almost S120.
Mr.. Burger is not content with this,
but is starting a herd of registered
Holsteins, has plans out for an up-to-
date dairy barn, and is getting in line
for an era of prosperity, such as is
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16

around to see Mercy. She had no time
to visit him, for she had to slave hard
to please her narrow-minded, com-
planning sister. Joe was so CHEEKY and
courageous that he Frightened up her
spirits considerably, despite the fact
that her lover did not write the most
hopeful letters in the world.
With the end of the year Walter
Rose wrote that he had not done as
well in the city as he had anticipated.
He was homesick, however, and was
coming back to Riverdale, to be
among friends, even if he had to work
a little harder and wait little longer
for that new house.
Walter was puzzled at the gaiety and
suppressed excitement OF little Joe
as the latter met him at the depot with
old Dobbin and the wagon. The ami
NAL looked well kept, the vehicle was
freshly painted. Walter sighed as they
came In sight of the old house. 1t was
a dtscouraging Homecoming.
Il had hoped when I came back
here" he told his companion, that 1
would surely have earned and saved
enough to provide a neat home nest
for Mercy and the old folks. Instead
of that l have less than $500, a mere
beginning. Why. what's that?"
Well might Walter starei The old
place looked like lumber yard. Piled
up symetricalIy were old boards, laths,
shingles, rubble stone and dimension
stone sufficient to lay a pretentious
foundation, and heap after heap of
bricks.
It's the result of my grand ideal"
cried Joe proudly. You know they
are doing a lot of tearing down and re-
building in the new factory town Of
Blairsville, eight miles away. What
you see yonder is waste stuff thrown
away-nails that they let drop to the
ground, stone, brick and lumber that
the wrecking crews bury or burn up
I've picked up over two hundred loads
that they were glad to give me to get
rid of, and, say, Uncle Walter! there's
enough bricks-Tve counted them-to
build as fine a house as was ever put
up in RiverdaleI"
You blessed little fellow" said
Mercy, when an hour later she knew
that the new house was a certainty,
and tears Of Joy fell upon the bright
golden head as she kissed Joe CRATE
fully.
And, To- the stone that the builders
had rejected had become the founda-
ton of a structure of comfort, love
and happiness!
Copyright. 1913. by w. G. Chapman)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
MOVING SIMPuFIED IN BURMA
No Rents, No Landlords and No Vans
Are at All Necessary In This
Country.

LOndon--Life Is simple in Burma
In country that is underpopulated
and that contains vast areas of unOc-
cupied land ut for cultivation, the eeo-
pie need not submit to oppression, as
many Oriental nations must Migra-
ton is always a possible means OF re-
lief
Every man is his own carpenter
He puts together his house Of BAN
boo and planks cut by his own hands
He knows how TO take it down He
has no need to send for contractors
or furniture vans There are the
carts and the pillow cattle in his sheds.
He has talked things over with his
wife, who is a capable, and sensible
woman
One morning they get up, and in
stead of going to his fields or his fish
ing or whatever If may be. he takes
his tools. and before sunset. the wife
helping, the house is down, and to-
gether with the simple household
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age limit, wandered to Riverdale and
run down by an automobile and Grip
pied for life. For two months the
homeless little fellow was kept in the
hospital. Then he was again turned
adrift, his sole assets a pair of
crutches.
1t was tender-hearted Mercy, true to
name and nature, who took him in.
but her sister resented the intrusion.
Then Mercy spoke to Walter about
the friendless outcast. Walter took
him to the old house. His father was
very old and feeble. He needed con-
slant attention, and took a great fancy
to the bright, jolly little stranger
Joe was so CHEEKY, so accommodate
ing. SO handy, despite his crippled con-
dition, that within a month Walter felt
that he had secured a treasure. Little
Joe made the long evenings lively. He
was faithful attendant upon aged
Mr. Rose, and nearly the last smile
upon the lips of the old man was for
the lad who had so frightened his
final hours on earth.
! Joe had taken a great interest in
the plans Walter had drawn for the
new house. When the latter decided
to go to the city, he wanted to ar
range for the care of his little charge
with a neighbor
| No, Uncle Walter; no, positively"
asserted Joe. I've planned IL all out
Let me stay here, only leave old Dob
bin and the wagon. I can't do much
real work, but l can drive, and I'll pick
| IN oh 0ad inhc oh -,
me comfortably and sometimes to put
aside for that famous new house you're
going to build. See if I DON'T"
Walter agreed to this, but with some
reluctancy and misgivings as he looked
at the thin, wistful face and crippled
| condition of his charge. And now Joe
was the only occupant of the lonely old
| house that shook dangerously when
| the wind blew hard, and only a portion
OF which was at all habitabIe
I'm going to set up light house
keeping in the dining room and move
my cot there" planned Joe. Just as
soon as I get it fixed just as I want it
| then for the plans of the new house
Daytimes after Joe drove down tc
| the depot and waited around for a
Iise or package in the old wagon. He
had to have help with the heavier
freight, but then his charges were
light. At the end of a month Joe had
enough ready cash to provide for his
limited living needs. Then he started
in on what he called his grand idea!'
He spent several evenings going
over the plans for the new house. He
measured and calculated. With the
aid of builders book he had picked
up, Joe was able to figure out just
what kind and how much OF lumber
brick, stone and the like was needed
He even got so far as to actually es
innate the number of nails in the an
ticipated construction!
Every week he wrote to Walter in
the city. Three times week he drove
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
SOME QUESTIONS IN FARM MANAGEMENT
by c. Johnson Institutes U. S CT

rmers' In stitutes, U. S. a. CT
in selling and buying; if not, why
not? Are you investing your money
in expensive equipment that stands
idle the greater portion Of the year?
Could not you and your neighbor own
some equipment together? After de-
Quoting from the income 6 per cent
on the capital invested in your farm
and equipment, what do you have left
for your LAHORE Are you taking some
time for rest for yourself, for your
wife, for your men and for your
horses in the busy season, so that
health, your greatest asset, will not
.be lost?
These are some of the big ques-
tiOns relating TO farm management,
and there are many others. Think
them over. If you conclude some OF
your practices are wrong, correct
them. If they are right, know why,
and stick to them. If you do not know
whether they are wrong or right, talk
it over with your neighbors and with
your county agent-if your county is
fortunate enough to have one. Your
farmers institute will discuss manage
ment problems this year. Why not
come to the meetings with your ques-
tions and ideas? Thought in manage
ment should be the slogan. Let US
think and then act.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
IN BIG POWDER MILL TO DIE
DIsconsoIate Husbznd Prays for Ex-
plosion, but Is Very Sorry When
IL Comes.

Paterson, N jim a suit for d.
yorce on the ground Of desertion. Pc
ter K. Hicks has gone on record in
chancery here is a most dolefuI hus-
vand- He testified that the alleged de-
sertion Of his wife made him so dis
consulate that he got job in pow
der factory, in the hope that the plant
would blow up. His prayer was almost
answered a few months later, when
he was sent to the hospital with five
others injured in an explosion By the
time he recovered he ceased to grisve
oFer his domestic troubles, and dectd-
ID that life was worth living after all
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
In the Same Boat

William is small. but shrewd and
quick-witted- A little lazy, however,
he has been slow to learn to read The
other day his grandfather, whom he
loves dearly, thought to prick the lit
tie lads pride. Pretending to have
mislaid his glasses. he handed viii
lam the menu of the restaurant,
where, as a favorite treat, he ha6
taken his grandson to luncheon. p
can't read without my glasses, sonf
he explained. You read the ice
cream list to me" Said William
swiftly and solemnly: Il can't read
without glasses, either"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-08-16
TRUTH ABOUT PATRIARCHS
Scientific Analysis Has Reduced the
Number of Their Years on Earth
to = Reasonable Point.

How old was Methuselah? Nine
hundred and sixty-one years is the age
which, from our earliest youth, We
have been accustomed to assign the
patriarch. Scientific research abroad,
however, has reduced these imposing
figures to 1874 years!
The experts point out that there
has always existed a certain amount
of doubt, even among orthodox be-
levers, in the literal truth of the Bible
concerning the great age to which the
patriarchs attained. Many theories
have been evolved to reduce the bibli-
cal records of this kind to something
near the allotted span of man.
1t has been surmised that, in the
earliest times, the montheT-the Pc
riod Of a moon cycle-was called a
year. Thus, Adams $50 years of life,
calculating year at 2915 days, the
length of a lunar month, works out to
75H years. After the month year
there would appear to have come a
ive-month year, the limit of five be-
ing derived from the fingers on one
hand. it being remembered that prim-
tive peoples always used the fingers
for purposes of calculation Then
came the 12-month year.
Ground for this Encouragement is
alleged to be given in the psalmist's
limit of life of three-score and ten
years. Furthermore, it is maintained
!, that, between the times of Noah and
OF David, no such extraordinary
change could have taken place as to
reduce the life of man by eleven
twelfths. On the f1ve-month-year ba-
sis Abraham's 175 years shrink to ~
and Isaac's 100 to "A.
1t may be, it is also pointed out,
that there interviewed a six-month year,
discovered by Jacob while watching
Laban's focks. Thus Jacobs 147
years work out at about 70. The 12-
month year began with the Egyptians,
who saw that a complete period was
made up of the two years in one of
which the days were longer than the
nights, and in the other of which the
nights were longer than the days.
1t is a curious fact that the Chris
tians and the Jewish years will not
forever be separated, for, in due
course of time, Rosh Hashona will fall
at Christmas time and then catch up
the Christian year. This, however,
will not occur for 10000 years.
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