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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-05
ORGANIZATION
Of DEMOCRATS
|SCOMPLETED
AND READY FOR FIRST SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE WHICH WILL
BE HELD AT NOON TODAY -
McCRoRY SPEAKER.
lFrom The Oklahoman)
House ORGANIZATION.

a. McCrOry, Ringing, speaker.
w. A. Durant, Bryan county, pro
tempore.
Thomas W, Hunter, Hugo, caucus
chairman.
G. c. Childers, Garfield county,
caucus secretary.
II. L. Saddler, Norman, sergeant
ut t-arms.
Sias W. Cope, Seminole county,
first assistant sergeant-at- arms.
John T. Jenkins, Caddo, second
assistant sergeant at arms.
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dence that Englands supremacy Of
the sea is endangered. The capture of
Borjimow. on the road to Warsaw, the
bureau deems highly important stra-
logically.
Turks Expecting Attack
Petrograd, Jan. 5.-Reliable informs-
CONTINUED on PAGE EfGHTJ
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Russians Again Take BOlimOw

PETROGRAD Jan 5-The Russian war Office
claims that the Germans after capturing the town Of
Bolimow have been driven out again.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-05

The foregoing democratic organiza-
tion of the house OF representatives,
which was practically agreed upon
Saturday with the exception of the
sergeant alarms, was perfected by
the majority members of the house
in caucus Monday afternoon
Selections for chief clerk. reading
clerk. secretary to the speaker, com
mittee clerks, stenographers and
other minor positions will be made
at another caucus called for Tuesday
morning at o'clock. This caucus
is expected to last until noon. the
hour fixed for the formal opening
of the session.
The organization program probably
would have been completed Monday
afternoon. or night, but darkness
forced adjournment at o o'clock.
Connections for lights have not yet
been made with the assembly hall
and this prevented a night session,
During the last hour the caucus was
in session Monday afternoon. it work
ed by candle light
Harmony Prevails.
From every viewpoint it was said
TO be the most harmonious caucus
ever held in connection with legis-
latiye assembly in the history of
Oklahoma. Heated contests for i'm
portant positions in the ranks of the
party organizati ton which usually
feature legislative caucuses, were
eliminated, through agreements
reached Saturday on the candidate
for speaker, speaker pro tempore,
and caucus chairman. The doors of
the assembly room were thrown open
and the meeting was attended by
both republican and socialist mem
bers of the body and number of
spectators who occupied seats in the
gallery.
Before the members met in caucus,
known in no uncertain way that his
"cruel economy" program on which
he made his race in both the pri-
mary and general campaign, was not
merely a campaign document. but
was as sacred and binding as though
It were written in the statute books
OF the state.
He was better understood by the
members when he told them that in
the distribution of patronage in the
house they would have to confine ap-
pointments to those positions specif-
ically provided for in the Harris Day
code. He told several members that
he would veto every appropriation
for the payment of salaries for po-
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CONTINUED on PAGE EIGHT
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WEATHER FORECAST

New Orleans, La. Jan. s.
The weather forecast for Ok
lahoma is cloudy tonight and
Wednesday with probably rain
or snow in the eastern por-
ton and colder.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-05

Want ads are ume-savers. Read
them.
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Evening star., 1915-06-13

went home and-met Shakespeare in the
orchard.
Little by little lost interest in art and
became gloomy and taciturn. l took up
science as a substitute, and when Shake
speare got his plumage and began to ven
ture little trills in reply to the voices
floating out of the woodlands selected
a melody and began patiently to teach
him. And this melody?
When the bands play in the parks and
theaters and at great political speakings
inevitably they drift into Southern med
ley that brings ofttimes cheers and some-
times tears, ,-"Suwanee River, my Old
Kentucky Home" "Massa's in the Cold.
Cold Ground and "Dixie, but woven
into these is song that no one in thou
sand can name but nearly all may whistle.
And thissong is "Nettie Moore; the words
deficient as poetry, but the melody sub
lime in its beauty and simplicity. found
it in my mothers music book. And it
was this song selected for Shakespeare:
l love you, Nettie Moore, but my happiness
Is DER.
For you've gone from my little cabin home,
My grandmother laid aside her knitting
49, one day and took me gently in hand.
"Philip,' she said, when you have fin
ished the piece of work you are now en-
gagged on l want you to go out in the
world and meet more young people. 1t
isn't good for a young man to isolate him
self as you are doing. And it is time you
are thinking of marriage and settling
down"
Il shall never marry, l said.
She was silent for long while, and then
came the astounding question, DO you
still love Nettie Moore?"
Twas too honest to be other than dumb
After while she added, al think you
should put aside that childish affair You
know how unhappily situated the two
families are. The enmity is very silly and
foolish, of course; but you can never ex-
pect to bring your grandfather and Major
Witherspoon into friendly relations.
was still silent, the p!ainest kind Of
confession in the circumstances. l rallied
feebly when too late. "Why do you
think have been in love with Nettie,
grandmother?
A little smile trembled round the still
pretty mouth. Her eyes looked off through
the window into the heart of her faraway
youth: then they rested on Featherstone
Il know, Philip, because | was once
young and had sweetheart A woman
knows love affair by instinct. And
Evening star., 1915-06-13

courtship, eggship, and fellowship? Quite
by accident found one of the little ad-
venturers His yellow mouth moved with
in my vision, opening in a circle almost
large enough to admit himself, and
plaintively expressing his discomfort. He
was on gray fence rail, and had but
to stretch forth hand to lift him. Both
parents witnessed the act; both parents
came with excitement, whirling, darting,
rising, and dipping about me, mixing
protest with pleading. 1t seemed for
time that might lose both sight and hear
ing, so loud the clamor, so fierce the at
tack. | lost only my patience.
When | entered the orchard, scene
of the tragedy, had no thought of
crime, nor of experiment in the interest
of science (the motive is everything). l
was thinking of the song of a distant mock
ingbird, and wondering if, since he wove
into it the notes of all the woodland tribes,
his ancestors had bequeathed to him the
voice notes of species now extinct. Did
he indeed "sum the world in song" the
world of Sappho as well as Of Shakespeare; ;
of Solomon as well as of Lanier? Is
bird song transmissible by heredity? Are
the gray bards of the pinelands and the
orchards bards in the proper sense, pass
ing the loves and the love notes, the ro-
nance, the madrigals from fathers to sons,
from sons to grandsons? Was the pro-
longed and varied song of the artist of the
woods recital of brave deeds, or the plant
of some lovelorn lady bird of long ago.
Lochnvar or Dido?
What chance to test theory!
thought. Why not teach one of these
great musicians a world song? Would he
or she, as the case might be, teach it to the
birds to come? Oh, the ecstasy of the mo-
ment when, opening the cage, | might
press my lips against his gray breast. bid
him Godspeed, and hurl him into the blue
of heaven, Il song from my own heart to
someone who could understand. Science?
| know now | made prisoner of that
feathered youth of the orchard for SUI
preme reason,-to teach him to sing some
thing from my own life and give him back
to freedom.
SO took the abandoned nest from the
haw tree and stuffed it with down from
the breast of panic-stricken goose and
hung the cage behind the kitchen stove at
Evening star., 1915-06-13

Netfie to his side and point
ed to,Uard the door. had
no difficulty in gathering
his meaning: he wanted
me to pass Out"
for Nettie walked with me, giving me
books and lunch basket to carry; and,
when the stones in the Two Mile Branch
were submerged, letting me carry her
also.
1t was sad summer day for me when l
finished at the academy and Nettie re-
cited "The Mill Will Never Grind Again
with the Water that Has Passed" in the
presence of our frigid and hostile fore
bears.
We were to see each other again before
l left for college, and we did. She was
then fourteen and-but words to describe
Nettie Moore have not yet been coined.
Size was the life of all things beautiful
THE fatal last meeting that summer oc-
cuIIeu near tIle ldhe tIldl cuTNeu TOuuu
our front and narrowed into Feather
stone.
One afternoon Nettie chose to wander
down and leaning where the fence entered
the lake, lost herself in contemplation of
the sunset that arched above our end As
luck would have it. we had visitors that
day at Ilexhurst. and had taken one of
them up the lake. And l had felt in the
dignity of my young manhood that my
position as assistant host required me to
kiss a very tempting pair of lips that
smiled challenge. Then l saw Nettie
Moore twenty feet away. She had been
seeing me all the way up the lake.
Nettie Moore added herself to the feud.
The window that looked toward Ilexhurst
ceased to look. 1t closed it's eyes behind
green blinds. l hung the white flag of
peace from mine, and it stayed there three
days. When the washwoman came for
the towels she took it away. 1t was just
as WELL went off to college with my
chin in air But the three years that fol-
lowed class as the Dark Ages" of my
personal history.
WHEN came home to Ilexhurst again
good luck had blessed me. l was
done with college, had travelled, and had
found my mission in life. | became de-
signer of stained-glass windows. and my
first design was accepted.
Happy the man whose first work sue
ceeds!
came home and set up my studio
there But before did this hung white
flag from my window. Nettie did not
reply and for good reason. She was in
Mont De Sales Convent, over in the city.
When saw her name in the list of gradu-
ates | went in. had never been in the
convent hall, and it seemed to me that |
was due. sat near the front and faced
Nettie when, robed in white, she came
forward and sang THE Last Rose of Sum-
mer. had sent her roses; but she wore
none of them The one she tore to pieces
and scattered looked like one of mine.
AS for me. was suddenly unhappy and
oppressed. Once only her eyes encoun-
tered mine. They held no recognition.
Evening star., 1915-06-13

V7HEN crossed the orchard the
NJ nest was empty Where We're
wv they, the youngsters whose
w careers | had watched through
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sergeant.
Ten minutes later Childe, his mon
ey gone, with a receipt in his pocket
as sole security for it, was pacing his
narrow cell gloomily. However, he
felt sure that on the following day he
would be able to explain to the court
and be acquitted. He cursed Monte
Carlo with all his heart.
The next morning lawyer came
to see him-an American. Childe's
heart leaped up. Immediately he be-
gan to iexpound the situation. How
ever, the lawyer took a gloomy view
of the case.
1--WE have no preliminary process
here" he told him. "Your case will
come up at the next sessions, in
months time. 1t is difficult to per-
suade a native court, you know, in
case of assault, and unfortunately,
the fellow in falling struck the base
of his skull and received a conclusion
which brought about death within a
few minutes. If were you 1 would
ask to see Signor MARITIME"
''Who in thunder is that?" asked
Childe.
"Our consul. Italian gentleman,
but very faithful, and he'll do all he
can to have your case brought before
the state department"
"All right" said Childe.
That afternoon Signor Martina,
very bland, unctuous and affabIe, ap-
peared. He listened to Childe's story
with profound regret Of course he
would do his best, but
The but" meant a month of wait
ing. The only consolation which the
prisoner found was that his counsel
felt sure he would be acquitted. And,
in fact, when the day of the trial ar
rived, Childe felt more than recon-
pensed for his journey in the thought |
that the following day would see him
safe aboard Mediterranean steam |
shin with his money in his pocket.
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man"
The gendarmes led him under a
covered way into the courtroom, It
was little place, dingier than the
station house, and the judge upon the
bench appeared an untrustworthy
person, in Childe's view. He was ap-
parently chewing garlic, and he heard
the prosecutor, gaunt man looking
like a bandit, with unpleasant nod
dings of the head.
The witnesses, consisting of the
second ruffian, and the wife and
child (female) of the dead man, who
screamed for justice, did not add to
Childe's comfort Worse still, his
consul, Signor MARITIME, put in an ap-
pearance only when the case for the
defense began.
The proceedings lasted two hour.
The Judge, without summing up, pro-
nounced a verdict Of guilty. Childe
was sentenced to be guillotined the
following month.
81 can do no more for you, my
friend" explained his consul with a
shrug. But will come and talk with
you LOnlSnL,
That night Childe. pacing his cell
like a maniac, received visit from
the consul A movement was on foot,
he said, to have the sentence COM
muted to penal servitude for life.
81 suppose you scoundrels want my
money!" snarled Childe.
Monsieur Childe," replied the con-
sui, when you have offered an apol.
ogy, through the jailer, ! will return
to you"
Five days later he came again.
Childe had apologized.
Good luck, my friend" he cried.
''You see, your sentence is arousing
difficulties. The cost of importing a
guillotine would be prohibitiVe, and
the law does not permit us to seques-
trate your money. Would you be
willing to escape across the border
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-29
EASTMAN ORDERS WEATHER
Declares it Cannot Rain Tuesday,
June 90, So Commercial Club
Outing is Csrded.
WILL BE HELD AT FIELD CLUB

Dr mi Hicks now has a dangerous
rival In the line o' weather proguostica-
ton That rival Is O. r Eastman. chair
man or the entertainment committee OF
the Commercial club While ia tman
never has made good on = prosnost' alton
thus far he says that Is no discrcdit to
HE standing as a weather prophet, for all
Of them miss their calculations occasion
suy--cven Hicks
But &c Eastman makes good for to-
day on his order for fair weather FOR
tho Commercial club outing At the Field
club he will have one score to his e.cdlt,
and will then so IL Is understood, begin
&C. issue almanacs for the future
or course when rain spoiled the day
last week when tho outing was sshed-
lied. Eastman assumed no responsibility,
for he never claimed to he exactly sure
about that day. This time he has u
worked out that q never rains on June
20 when that day comes on Tuesday.
Everything Is 10 start at the Field club
al o'clock In the afternoon Colt con
tests In foursomcs are 20 te played all
afternoon Tennis and other outdoor
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-29
FUNERAL OF JOHN EPPLEN
TO BE TUESDAY AFTERNOON

The funeral Of John Epplen, a resident
Of Omaha for almost thirty years. and
the leader of the recent movement that
placed the Schiller monument IN River
view park, died Saturday at Clarkson
Memorial hospital, after a lingering ILL
ness, will be held today at 2:SO, from
the residence, with Rev. w Schaeffer in
icharge. Burial will be in Forest Lawn
ioemetery He was one OF Omaha's most
prominent and active citizens Of German
Ahescent, came here when 80 years OF age
Md for twenty-three years was brew
master for Metz Bros.
The Epplen home is OF 25ls South Tenth
street Surviving him are his wife, three
sons, DR.. Frederick OF Spokane. Walter
c., of Greeley. Colo, and Carl E., of
Lincoln; also a niece, Mrs. Louisa
Munger. Mr. Epplen was born in Wurten-
burg, and came TO America five years
before he chose Omaha as his permanent
location.
Pallbearers will be: Louis Metz, John
Buck, John Lundgraff, Fred Drews,
Charles Schartow. Jacob Schoessler,
Henry Schultz and John r, Brandt
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-29
WEATHER STATION
OPENS SEPTEMBER 1
Rapid Progress is Being Made on
Central Weather Plant on the
Drexel Farm,
ONE NEW BUILDING NEEDED

Work at the new government aero
logical station, four miles northeast
of Elkhorn. is progressing rapidly.
and IL will be in condition for active
observations by September /, says
Local Forecaster Welsh. The fine
farm buildings on the Drexel farm
will be utilized and only one add
tlonal building will be needed This
is to house the Keeling apparatus
used in sending up and drawing down
the big box kites.
often the box kites are sent to a
height Of four miles" said Colonel Welsh,
and that means that ten miles OF piano
wire is out. They exert strong pull
often equal TO 200 pounds. so it is neces-
sary to have electric motors to pull the
kites down
One reason for locating the station
some distance from the city is that the
kites sometimes break loose. in which
event the falling Of the piano wire over
live wires would constitute a source of
great danger
The government balloons used in OBJ
servatlon work are bought from Russia,
which is the only country where they
have the secret Of making balloon
that will go sufficiently high for our
purpose without bursting. There are
records Of these balloons reaching a height
Of twenty-four miles. At that height,
owing to the rarity Of the atmosphere.
they must expand to tremendous proper
lions.
Each balloon is equipped with a
meteorograph which records atmospheric
pressure, wind velocity. humidity and
temperature. In the balloons this is
fastened to a parachute and when the
balloon finally reaches a height 80 great
that It bursts the meteorcgraph is waited
safely to terra firma on the parachute
A notice is on the instrument telling the
finder where to send II and II is already
franked for transmission through the
mails. A small reward is given to each
finder None of these metoerographs has
ever been lost"
Some confusion has resulted because
mail to the new station goes via tho
little town of Washington, Neb. Mai
clerks seeing the weather bureau en-.
Velope and getting a glimpse of wash
ington" have sent number Of these let
ters into the east-bound mail bags.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-29
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Electric fans, $3.50. Burgsss-Grandsn.
Rave Root Print IS--Now Beacon Press
Mayor 20 Ride in Circus Parade
Mayor Dahlnan Will ride with Colonel
w. r. Cody in a wild west parade to be
held here July $.
"Today's Complete Movie Program"
classified section TO-DAY. and appears IN
The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what
the various moving picture theaters offer
Council Defsru Charter Action-Ths
city council deferred for thirty days
consideration Of a letter from the Bcono-
mic league suggesting that a home rule
charter be adopted.
Coleman Fined-John Coleman. 1881
Center street, arrested for conducting a
dlsorderly house. was fined SIS and costs
In police court. Three inmates were also
taken from the place.
New Members Of Commercial Club
Epes Corey, Il. X. Katskee and +. +
Thomas were voted in as members of the
Commercial club at the last meeting Of
the executive committee.
wants Cars to stop on Near sids-The
Omaha Automobile club has written to
the city council urging that an ordinance
ne passed requiring Jnat street cars be
stopped on near sides OF intersections.
Committees Adjourn This week-only
one more meeting Of the executive and
other standing committee of the Com
mercisl club is to be held before ad-
journment for the summer. Tho eXecu-
tive committee is to hold its last meeting
for the summer Tuesday of this week.
south Omaha Wants improvement
The fret public improvement petitions
received by the city council from South
Omaha have been filed by the city clerk.
These petitioners ask for grading on
Eighteenth street, G to II streets; also
along alleys, @ TO II streets. Eighteenth
to Twentieth
John Loomis 20 Study Law-General
Solicitor LOOMS Of the Union Pacific is
back from Hanover, where he went TO he
present when his son, John, was given
his degree at Dartmouth last week. The
young man has decided upon law as
profession and will enter Columbia uni-
versity, going there this summer TO do
some special work.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-29
HOldups and Sneak
Thieves Ply Their
Trade With Success

Frank Donaldson. SIS North Seventeenth
street. vas assaulted and robbed OF a
ring and watch valued a. s2lo by two
men who held him up in front Il hts
home early Yesterday morning
{. r. Benson 2iS North Twenty fourth
street. reports to the police burglars
gained entrance to his home and carried
away 1ewelry valued at SIS.
j l.. Jones OF the Schiitz hotel missed
a very valuable Swiss watch after emery.
ing from a crowd Sunday evening, He
offers liberal reward for It's recovery
r. @. Paxton. 1901 South Tenth street,
asterts that the rear door Of his store
was forced Sunday night and meichau-
disc 20 the value Of $50 carried away by
the thieves
Everett Burrows. 800 North Twenty
sixth street was held up and robbed near
Lis home OF s. by a trio OF men
Tom Murphy. 1880 South Eleventh siree<.
lost a suit ~ clothes and gold watch
when snesk thieves proNled his room
Sunday evening,
Rothy Lazarus, Thirty-third and Q
streets, South Omaha came home % find
HE roommate. George Million. gone also
S1so in sash.
d. L. Ellingwood. A64 Brandeis theater
building, has notified the police that a
vacant house at 1873 California was en-
ts7ed by marRuders who stole tools 10
the value OF 81.
Pat Mercer and Robert Forbes, arrested
hv Special Officers Finn and Tagal for
the theft of merchandise from locs; tR-
partment stores, forfeited cash bonds by
their failure to appear in court yesterday
morning
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-29
EXPERT SAYS GREEK INSANE
Dr. Coulter Says PsppsndOpu'Os is
Suffering from ParanOia, a
Mental Disease.
MAGNEY ARGUES OTHER WAY

Georse Paprondopulos on trial In
Judge EnRlsh's district court for shoot
ing his sister Mrs Ellen Arhsnllis. IS
insane. Or. F. r.. Coulter alicnist tes-
titled Or Coulter was the last witness.
his testimony being followed nv arsu-
ments OF attorneys.
Dr. Coulter declared under oath that IN
his opinion Pappandopulcs is suffering
from psranoia form Of insanity but
that no has not reached the stage Of de
all subjects
Hts opinion. the physician said. was
based upon the following dats--the man $
past history. Information secured dur
ing two personal examinations and Pap
pandopulos testimony on the witness
stand.
''Predisposition 10 psronois and some
other forms OF insanity Is hereditary
DR.. Coulter testified. The fact that the
mans father Is insane has bearing
in considering his case"
Mental Disease.
Paronoia Is n mental disease induced by
brooding over questions OF sex, said the
alienist. and dreams and visions and
imaginary conversations with spirits arc
symptoms Of it. The subject imagines
that he is inspired by higher power to
commit acts of violence. PRppandopulos
declared that a dream which lasted
twelve nights sent him to omaha 30 pur-
ify his sisters soul after she had left
her husband and children FOR another
man.
During an examination OF him Pan
pandopulos told me that when ne went
to Greece ten years ago he went TO
straighten up a wrong done to his sister
by a man.
HE said that on board tho ship he
talked with spirits who told him not to
join the army lie described one ~ the
spirits as All old man with sharp eyes
ami a cloth over his BODY"
County Attorney Magney In his argu,
ment TO the Jury asserted that Pappan-
dopuos was not insane. That defense
is usually made when there Is no other
defense he declared