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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
PEANUTS ANo corroN SEED

Cotton seed at $40 a ton reminds
many OF fortunes thrown away on
the southern plantations before the
Civil War. and even since the war.
1t comes comes to pass that man
can snBsist witteut serious incon
veniesice upon de products Of the
once discarded sptton seed So he
can on peanuts 'iThe report is that
agents are now on hand to buy the
entire peanut crops of East Texas,
Louisiana and Oklahoma. 1t is claim
ed that the peanuts Of those sections
contain 20 per cent more oil than
the nuts OF east of the Mississippi
river. The demand for the goober
crop has been marvellous, and efforts
to explain this recent activity have
been made By different persons in
different ways.
One outAoritg claims that it has
been aseertaincd in recent years that
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Jews OF The Press
rotectiue CoIors In War

or TO the individual soldier separated
from his fellows Thus far the khaki
uniform seems to have come the
nearest of all devices to achieving the
desired purpose, and yet this has sew
eral defects to which attention has
been directed by a London expert,
who expresses the fear that the
neglect of certain spectral principles
has cost the lives of many soldiers.
Nothing can be better than the
Khaki coat, he says. for all-round con-
cealment, as its color is a near imi-
tation of the coat worn by so many
wild birds and animals But the
matter OF color is not the only point:
it is also necessary 10 neutralize the
shadows Nature almost invariably
does this, so it happens that nearly
all land birds and lnimals are white
or whitish on their under parts and
darker on the back. The service cap
is the weakest part OF the khaki uni
form. Seen in perspective the fat
top of tie cap forms n bright line and
just beneath it is q broad black line
formed by The shadow of the project
ing crown Ii is claimed that these
two conspicuous horizontal lines are
visible when the rest of the so;dier
mag be merged into t'.o color Of the
background, and it is spege sed that
to neutralize the effect the crown
Of the cap should be considerably
darkened while the under surface
should be snow white
So We see that fo,. HIS hetfer nro-
lection in war man is compelled 70
90 back to natHrc and learn the de-
vices with which the wild birds have
been equipped. Modern military sci
cnce involves an artists scientific
study Of the natural laws Of color
and ehiaroscIro.- Proridencc, r. l.,
Daily journal.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Current Poetry
The Heaving Chest

While in iitney show I sit
And watch the fleeting drama fit,
With wonderment / am possessed
To note the leading lady's chest.
Whatever cards the fates may deal,
It may be woe, or may be veal,
With passionate. dramatic zest
The leading lady heaves her chest.
If it should threaten in the plot
That she must shoot, or else be shot,
With one hand clutching at her
breast
The leading lady heaves her chest.
Or should the rcnt collector call
And grimly camp within the hall,
Milady shows that she's distressed
iiy iabored 4eaTings of the chest.
Or yet again, IL it should chance
The hero falls ard tears his pants,
Ere starting on needle quest
The lady halts and heaves her chest,
.Nnd when her troubles all are past,
W hen true love claims its own at
last
She snuggles to her lovers vest
And pelts Kim with heaving chest.
L'ENVOI
] love the histrionic art,
With nts ungrudingly I part:
Eat, prince, I'm yearning for rest
From constant heaving OF the chestl
w Ace Ao<teeIs.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

the peanut Is the only product that
can be converted into all the articles
OF a first-cass menu. Soup meat,
bread, olive oil, milk tea, butter,
hash and many higbAounding French
articles are all made Of the little
Spanish peanuts whdch grow all over
Oklahoma. Others contend that cot;
ton Seed can be converted into Just
as many different KINDS of diet as
the peanut can, end is even cheaper.
The sudden increase In demaud
for these products may be eSplain'
able al least In part. in another way.
There are millions oflsoldiers to feed
hi Europe. and they are not half
There are millions Of women ,lid
children to save From starvation, M
en- with seed at siopa ton. cpttoa
secl products are very cheap food,
consfderins the n6irshment. tAey
contain. SO Of paanpts considering
tie food value OF peanuts, they liave
always sold low exceut when fetiuled
by the street corner parcher l3oih
these articles OF food keep 4 lo'ig
time without spoiing. The life OF
many war victims viii doubtless be
saved by This years cotton seed and
peanut crops of Texas and Oklahoma
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

wv THIN the memory of men
wv not yet old the military uni
form was a brilliant bit Of
apparel, visualizing in color and
ornamentation the glory that was the
traditional characteristic of the sol
dier's life. The more spectacular its
appeal to the eye the more it was
considered suitable to its purpose.
This practice was generally contin-
ued in Europe for many years after
our own Civil War, in which the b.
of the North and the gray OF G.e
South perhaps marked the first con
spicuous effort to obtain something
like neutrality OF tone in the cloth
ing of troops.
Yet this was probably Influenced
more by the question of relative SER
viceability Of fabrics than the direct
purpose of making the soldier an in
conspicuous object to the enemy. In
later years much scientific study has
been devoted to the problem of de-
vising color schemes calculated to
render the fighting men as nearly in
visible as possible at a distance. The
subject has been studied with par.
ticular interest during the present
war, and many suggestions have hecn
advanced One of the most radical
of these invol1 es a complete revival
OF the plan of brilliant colors. but il
would nullify the whole meaning OF
the word uniform" The proponent
would have the men garbed in differ
ent colors, one in red, the next in
blue. the next in yellow and then one
in bright green, and so on. the con-
tention being that at a short distance
these vividly contrasting hues would
neutraiize one another and achieve
the ideal in inconspicuous tone.
This scheme seems visionary, how
ever and II apparently would prove
fatal to small detaehments Of troops,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Health Talks
The Wei Antiseptic Dressing
BY WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

S IN the operatingroom, so In
~ general surgical practice and
domestic surgery, antiseptics
have very little practical use. II is a
great mistake to keep bathing or ap-
plying TO a wound antiseptic sub
stances in the vague belief that they
hasten healing. On the contrary
most antiseptics tend to delay heal.
ing, because they destroy new tissue
and skin cells even more readily than
they destroy germs
Certainly no antiseptic other than
the first aid iodine swabbing should
be applied to the ordinary clean
wound in household practice. If we
have any excuse at all for the use of
antiseptic substances in the after
care OF wounds it is for the protec-
tion OF others than the patient him
self. II "a wound is infected-dirty,
secreting pus or matter-then the
Use of antiseptic dressings is advis-
able, not because the antiseptics can
appreciably alter the state of infec-
tion within the tissues, but because
the discharges are rendered less dan
gerous TO other individuals, and be.
cause antiseptics tend to prevent un-
pheasant odors.
The wet antiseptic dressing is de.
sefvedly popular in the treatment of
infected wounds and burns. A wet
dressing, for some reason or other,
gives more comfort than dry dress
ing, and besides it is more absorp-
tive, it drains away the septic dis
charges better than a dry dressing
does In dry dressing there is
tendency for the discharges to deg
sicate and scab over obstructing
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Pepper Talks
By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
Step Lively

There is a deal of valuable life
philosophy in the famous phrase of
the Street Car Conductors
Lively, Pleasel" He knows. He is
ION the Job" Schedules must be
met The crowds must be kept
moving. The minutes must be
counted. And so it's
Step Lively.
The life Of each of us is but the
snap of a finger after all There
could be no better motto for any
one than to Step Lively. Step Live
ly. Do your work so well to-day
that the one who follows you to-
morrow may be able to pick it up
where YOU left OF and because of
your good work as creditably to
pass it on to the one who follows
him. Step Lively, though. Life lasts
but little while.
Step Lively ~ d
When an Idea crops out from
your Brain, Step Lively, put il to
some use. or else tomorrow or a
minute later some other Brain will
have hatehed the same Idea. may
hap. II noble, unselfish impulse
stirs you, Step Lively, enact it. Is
your Eye set upon things higher
up2 Do you see the figures outside
your Pay Envelope expanding
Step Lively. Step Lively. The
whole world is fond OF those who
Step Lively. who do not ''falI asleep
at The switch and who do not
block the Crowds, but who move
on. and ever
Step Lively
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
LEADER OF A RACE.

in the death OF Booker r. Wash
ington his race loses a leader VINO
can i'll be spared. His own career
was an Inspiration TO his people, but
no more remarkable than what ne
was able to accomplish for their prog
ress Born in slavery he moved %
West Virginia after emancipation,
and there imbibed the spirit OF sell
dependence that was to make him
what he became. The stcfyof his
early struggles and savings SO ne
could gain an education, his gradual
ton fi'om Hampton Institute In which
he became a teacher. is paralloled IN
the lives OF many famous Americans
OF mis- day, but in his case Il was
against greater odds,
When he found his life work IN
the founding o. Tuskegee Institute ne
began under dispiriting conditions
his first school being in rented
shantv church. Bnt the deteimina-
ton and energy which had enabled
him to realize his own ambitions,
centered on the new won equal sue
cess until today Tuskegce owns 3.-
500 acres and 100 buildings in Ma
bama. valued at half a million dollars
Tact was his most useful character
istic HE won and held the sympa-
thy of his white neighbors in ire
south as well as the SUPPORT OF NE
north. His sincere anxiety p help
his race was unquestioned, and his
plans commended themselves by their
practical character. 1t Will be hop
cd that the work he has been doing
will be continued on the SAME help
ful lines.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Vest Pocket ESSAYS
HE RooTER
BY GEORGE FITCH

THE rooter is sort of human
cataclysm who supplies the
ealiiope effect at our football
games. He is composed of a vast
howl, enclosed in thin rim of face,
and decorated with fringe of wildly
moving arms and legs.
1t is the mission of the rooter to
win games for his college. The team
itself also has small part in the
job, but the big work is done by the
men with the steam-siren lungs. This
is easily proven by the fact that
after a great football game, only
few players are disabled, while up
wards of 11,000 rooters may be un-
able to talk for a week. -
The rooter is quite different from
the baseball fan. The fan goes to
brseball games because he enjoys
them and yells because he feels like
it. But the rooter leaves cozy
room, and goes to a football game in
zero weather, because it is his duty
TO help the team. He stands two
hours, freezes an equal number of
feet, and unravels his throat from
WV SUI W D6tduSe
he were to stop yelling at a critical
point and go home to warm up. the
fullback would falter, the line would
dissolve, the team would lose, and
life would become a ghastly nuisance.
The rooter does not depend on in
diyidual effort, however, to win his
games. He is beautiful example Of
the benefits OF combination. No
rooter would think of working with
out a cheer-leader or yell-master
The yell-master is the mahout of the
college yell. He is a 1.-THE young man
with a number 81 mouth, and revolv-
ing arms and legs. With small
cane decorated with a pennant, he
stands in front of a thousand open
mouths and braids up the sounds
which issue into an harmonious
whole which he directs at the enemy
from the front or rhe rear, as occa-
sion may demand He controls his
yell, as ii he was running it through
a nozzle. He shuts it off, draws it
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

legs until he is only light blue haze
and turns on pandemonium. A good
yeH-master win frequently blow his
team forty yards down the field by
hurting 1000 lung power yell at it
just when it is needed. Big colleges
win in football, not because the arms
and legs which attend them are of
any exclusive patent, but because in
football Providence is on the side of
the college with the most lungs.
Roofing is the most useful feature
of football. While the game itself
may develop a few hundred pairs of
arms and legs, roofing is developing
the lung capacity of $4,000 young
people. One may become a good
rooter by practicing at home Go out
every evening and spend a few min
utes talking with a friend in the
next county. Continue until he asks
you if you think he is deaf Then go
joyously to college and enroll, The
team needs you
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

In 1914 S,325,0O0 bales of cotton
were exported, In the year 1913 the
demand was for 9A50,000 bales. This
year the farmers planted less cotton
and the crop will be less than II .0o0,-
O00 bales. as compared with l6,1S5,000
bales in 1914. The domestic require
ments for cotton are increasing all
the time. China and India are buy
ers OF the raw material, manufactur.
ers OF high explosives are heavy buy
ers. Now why shouldn't the farmers
holding movement win? Why should
not the bears be given The thrasbins
of their liyes9
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

1t has been figured out that Amer
lea could spare for export this year
375000,000 bushels of wheat, 250,-
900. 900 bushels Of corn. 209000,000
bushels OF oats and S330,000000
worth OF meat and dairy products.
Now why shouldn't the American far
mer be prosperous There is a
heavy foreign demand at fancy prize
es. Prosperity has come 10 stay for
a time in this republic and Thanks
giving day should be generally OBJ
served throughout this nation. This
is a generous old land Of ours and
It's people are more prosperous than
the people Of any nation under the
sun.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

drainage and bringing about an in
fiammatory reaction in the wound.
There has been too much popular
ity for the wet bichloride corrosive
sublimate or mercury dressing.
This antiseptic is too poisonous for
domestic use. 1t should never be
kept in the house. AS safe substi-
tute. with equal antiseptic value, we
would suggest a teaspoonful of tine
ture Of iodine to the pint of water for
moistening dressings; or table
spoonful of boric acid to the pint of
water (boiled); or chinosol tablet
in pint Of boiled water.
Wet antiseptic dressings applied
hot and changed every few hours do
all the good poultice can do, yet do
not encourage bacterial activities by
furnishing food as poultices do. The
painful, infected wound responds
promptly to hot wet antiseptic dress
in2s
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Ter son subject to croup.

"My son Edwin Is subject to
Group" writes Mrs. E. o. Irwin New
Kensington. Pa. Il put in many
sleepless hours at night before
learned Of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy. Mothers need not fear this
disease il they keep a bottle Of
Chamberlain Cough Remedy in the
house and use II as directed II al
WAYS gave my boy relief" Obtain
able everywhere
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
That Private Road Question

Q. There is priUdte road across
mn land, some Of my neighborS hdr-
ing the right TO use ii. hare been
told thar it is my duty TO put up
gates. Is this correct?
A. Whether this duty devolves
upon you must depend upon the cir
cumstances. Sometimes this is ex-
pressly provided for; in other cases
the duty arises impliedly; and in
still other instances there is no such
duty at all.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

John d. Rockefeller purchased
100000 tickets to the Cleveland flow
er show for 100000 children Of that
city and this army OF little folk at
tended as the guests of the Oil King.
This is the human side of John D.
A man who loves child
rem has a human side A man who
doesn't love children will pass them
up and speak kindly to dog.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

The longest flagstaff produced in
British Columbia is soon to be sent
to Great Britain as gift from the
provincial government, and il is plan
ned to place it in the Kew botanical
gardens few miles out from d-ond-
on. The tree from which 1t was made
was a perfect specimen of fir pine
and the staff. which is 2i5 feet in
length. is without flaw.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Proving A Published Notice

Q. Where legal notice is pub
1ished in newspaper, aohdt method
is adopted TO prove such pHbHcdtiong
A. The statutes of the different
states frequently provide the mode
of proving publication. Often this
is done by requiring the afIidayit or
certificate of the publisher or one of
his authorized agents, showing that
the statutory provisions have been
duly observed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Pills Versus GalIstones

Mother is taking some pills CON
tanning meRthol, phenolphthdlein,
acid sodium oieate ana sodium
SalicWate. being told they touI dis
solUe gdllstones. Also she takes
vegetable cathdrtic pills and corn
Silk. Sdio palmetto, nritone and
sandal rood in liquid schich Is said
to a0dsh them a0ay She is getting
a'ery ioedk. An X-rag photograph
shotced about tcenty stones present.
AnSwer-She will get weaker be-
fore she realizes that these medicines
will not dissolve or wash away her
twenty gallstones. Then she had bet
ter call in a doctor. 8
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18


In order to miss q train, all one
has to do is 10 ask a hotel clerk and
not look up the time-card or tele-
phone the depot.
This method win get you to the
station o very few minutes after
the train has henced
When YOU find the train has
gone. try TO act as il you didn't
care,
The people who linger about the
depot win guess your guilty secret
with the accuracy OF busy
Bertha. at-f thf
And you hate them for it.
What business had they hanging
around a station, anyway, after the
train has. gomez
They did 1t just on the off chance
of enjoying some fools discomfit-
ure.
Why don't they believe that you
had rushed into the station, bear
ing two suit-cases, just to weigh
Yourself on the depot slot machine9
The ticket agent and the baggage
man, Of whom you finally bring
yourself to ask some more ques-
tions, after having scolded them
for your mistake, answer you with
a gentle patience which is the most
Insulting thing they could use on
you.
Finally, after reluctantly admit
ting 10 yourself that you were
wrong, and that nobody on earth
was to blame except your fool self,
you gather up your stuff, make
what arrangements you can to re-
trieve your bonehead-play, and dis
appear.
And never tell anybody the real
truth about it afterward.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

The decision to continue the Cim-
arron Valley Fair, without regard to
the free fair proposition, means much
to the county. With cooperation on
the part OF business man and farmer
the fair can be made financial sue
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

Now the Austrian embassy is ac-
cused of aiding passport misuse. The
editor Of the Providence Journal
makes the accusation. The editor OF
the Providence Journal is brilliant
and aggressive Englishman who has
been In America a few years Per-
haps he IL given to exaggeration,
Some nentrals are
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
ReasonabIe creatures


We go to our tailor who has to
have business in order to live and
say:
81 want something that will
hold its color and shape"
Il have it."
81 want something that won't
bag at the knees"
II have II"
81 want something that won't
show dirt or gather dust"
Got 1t, sir"
And he measures us for suit
that win fade a little, stretch lot
at the coat-poekets, bag at the
knees a great deal. gather all the
dust that comes its way.
Because the tailor is liar?
Nah, because we are a fool to
ask for something common-sense
ought To tell us doesn't exist.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

out, feeds it up with college songs,
changes records, pulls out new pat
ent ear-buster when the team falters,
and finally at critical point yanks
his machine to its feet, pulls out
every stop, revolyes his arms and
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
Conventional Interest

Q. VIII non kindly caliGhten me
as to tbe meda,irtg Of the term "c0R-
penti0ndl dntereSff
A. 1t is the rate Of interest agreed
upon between the PARTIES to a con
tract Sometimes there is an express
agreement, and sometimes the
amount is impliedly agreed upon.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

The school land commission reject
ed bid for oil leases in Kay coun-
ty because they were presented by
H. w lMarland In so doing, lost
$4,000. What's the answer
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

1t would be odd, if after the war,
Europe should insist on keeping on
at tae building OF armaments be-
cause Of the new military policy OF
the United States"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18
DeIivery Not LegalIy Necessala.

G. When one person sclls goods or
personal articles to another. is he a1i.
der a team obligation to send Them
or take them TO the parchdSerg
A. No, as a general rule. He may
of course so obligate himself by an
agreement TO. that effect
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

An up to date North Carolina dairy
farm put its milk on the market
mainly in the form Of ice cream.
-Four men milk SIS COWS with electric
mixers run by power produced on
the farm. Artificial ice is also made
on the place for transforming the
milk into ice cream.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

You may have to urge girl to
take the nickel you wish to give her.
But a boy elongates the tendons OF
his arm reaching for it.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

FIetcherize, if you care to, but keep
1t in mind that the general public is
little interested in the number or
times you chew each mouthful OF
food.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

The Russian government plans the
longest railroad tunnel in the world,
with a length of Is miles to save an
S15-mile detour
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

Diet hint: If hot biscuits hurt
your stomach, that is sign you
haven't much of a stomach.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

The British war department now
recognizes women to the extent of
giving them rank as non-commission-
ed officers in the army.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

Generally speaking, the line OF
demarcation between youth and mid
die age is marked by an exchange OF
fancy hose for black ones.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-18

The German press seems as pleas.
ed over that note to London as the
British press over those notes to Ber-
lin