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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

the Pan-American conference was
squarely up against recognition OF
carranza or humiliatiug withdrawal,
leaving the situation just as II was
before. The conferees therefore took
the only course that held any hope OF
progress by recognizing Carranza. He
will now have an opportunity TO show
whether he Is able to establish a re-
sponsible government and suppress
Villa and other disturbers. lie Will
have the assistance that recogniuon
abroad will give 90 him IN the pro-
hibition of munitions for the insnrg-
ents. and the financial support that
can be attained by recognized gov
ernmept. but which was denied him
as mere factional leader
Z To expect that he will Immediately
restore peace and order is TO ask too
much. Iuarez was three years doing
that Even Diaz found itNa tedious
task. Aladeros peace was a pretense
that ended in his assassination. To
compel order BY intervention would
admittedly te work OF years. The
best hope FOR Il Is through the lead
ership Of some strong Mexican. and
rarranza has shown he has strength
OF mind He IS broader than the old
Cientifico regime and less radical
than Villas revolutionary purposes.
In that aspect he is a step toward pro-
gress in Mexico, If he can keep con-
frnI
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

Dear Offaginsky-Ain't having a
heck OF a time? My cabinet has re-
signed and | had to go to the front
instead of staying at home to at
tend a session OF the cabinet-makers'
union, thereby getting away behind
with my workoyitch.
don't see that | need cabinet
very much, anyway. I'm getting
sorto discouraged. thought that
II led the German (this is no dance
stuff, SO don't pull a wheezeovitch
out of leading the German III
thought that If | led the German
army away off into the hills some
where and lost it, those allies on the
western line could do as they
pleased, and come right into Berlin.
But they seem only to have improved
the opportunity TO make their
trenches deeper and get ready for
the winter.
Some of these times Pm going to
turn the army around and start 1t
the other way. / ever should lose
my sense of direction and meet the
enemy face to face instead of back
TO face, who knows but that we might
annoy them like everything?
Yours for the sprinting industry,
Nick RoMANoFF.
Behindabughsky Sent. %.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
Peoples Legal Friend
An Agents Claim
BY E. R. BRANSON

Q. Some difference Of opinion has
arisen as to aChether certain per-
son is the agent Of another. Would
one be justified in relying on the sup
posed agents statements to the effect
that he is an dgentP
A. Not altogether. His mere
statements to this effect will not be
sufficient. The fact of the agency
may be established by showing that
the person for whom he is supposed
to be acting has in fact conferred
such authority upon him. Or 1t may
be established by showing that the
principal so conducted himself as to
lead an ordinarily prudent person,
when dealing with the agent, to be-
lieve that the agency existed. Fur
ther, if the principal approved or
ratified the agents acts, after per-
formance, the principal will be held
liable.
A Job Put or
O. made an agreement 1oith
certain person. He 1odS to perform
some a0ork and aoas to pay hin, a
stipulated price, The agreement
1ons that the a0ork l0dS to be done
a0ithin three months Sic months
hare noio elapsed aud he has failed
to carry out his part OF the under-
taking. Do I haze to aodit on him
dny lonc-r or is he liable n0i0, under
his contract?
A. He is liable now under his
contract.
A Light Obligation
@. II tiro persons form a part
nership and nothing is said as to hoto
long it is to continue, 1ohen may IL
be dissolVed?
A. Under such circumstances, it
may be dissolved at any time at the
pleasure of either partner.
A Calendar Year
Q. hold mans contract, By
achich he promises to pay certain
sum Of money IN one year. Does this
mean calendar year?
A. Yes, unless some other mean
ing is given to the word "year" by
the terms of the contract or the un-
derstanding of the parties.
Private Phone Line
O. Does an individual haze the
right TO oion and operate a telephone
line, or is srch right giUen to cor
pordtions exclusively?
A. An individual has such right.
A Note Undated
Q. Ihold proniSSory note uhich
has no date. Can the note be
coIIectedg
A. Yes. It will be necessary in
such case, to show the date on which
the note was delivered. It will be
operative as note from such time.
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ment Of that aim, are not the acts OF
volatile and irresponsible people
The losses of France have been
more frightful than those of other
countries, but no groan escapes her.
And this spirit animates not her gov
ernors alone, but the unknown men
and women who are France, down
to the least. She is unrecognizabIe
by her portraits. They were
painted by men who had 1870 in
mind, and 1870 is dead; 1870, boast
full, degenerate, vain, and careless. Or
they had 1898 in mind; determined
enough. but passionate, headlong,
empirical, and visionary; Qnf 1898
is dead Long after 1870, they looked
back at the story of the nineteenth
century, with its frequent revolu-
tions and its kaleidoscope of fads,
and predicted the failure of the Third
Republic, because an incurably rest
less, frivolous man, easily tired of
every new fad he has taken up, will
surel, tire of the next one; it is his
character. But nation Is not a
man, and the headlong visionaries
OF 1873 and the diiettante cynics OF
1870. who lived in time when faith
and works were dead, have passed
away. The Third Republic has last
ed nearly half century. and grown
stronger year by year; and under it
there has grown up a great new peo-
pie, for new people can grow up
in an old land The drunken France
OF the nireteenth century is gone
for good. and thers rises where 1t
lived and died
4 people. sane and great,
arged in strong fires, by equal war
made cne.-Net0 York Times,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
Vest Pocket Essays
THE GAS METER
BY GEORGE FITCH

TIME Gas Meter is to mechanism
what Baron Munchausen is to
literature. 1t is inaccuracy
protected by patent. 1t is also the
nearest approach to perpetual mo-
tion yet discovered. Leave a gas
meter absolutely alone in deserted
house for months at time and it
will work quietly but faithfully
without stopping even for meals.
The gas meter is used by gas COM
panies to prove that the consumer
has been burning his lights all night
and has been sending up balloons
from the roof 1t Is a small box
with face and hands like clock.
Here the resemblance stops, how
ever. You cannot turn the meter
back and it does not run down. 1t
does you no good to neglect the gas
meter. 1t keeps on going anyway.
The man who will patent an attach
ment which will enable man to
stop his gas meter by forgetting to
wind 1t will earn the gratitude of all
mankind.
The gas meter brings light to the
home, lightness to the pocket-book
and aviation to the temper Like
the Bible, 1t is always causing
trouble by being read from different
standpoints. The only difference be-
tween theological conference and
the office of gas company on the
first of the month is the fact that
the language used in the conference
is used backward in the gas office.
A man may be able to read Greek,
Latin and Sanskrit at sight, but he
will find for all that that he can't
read as much gas out of his meter
by several hundred feet as the man
in overalls who gets into the house
through the sill-cock on unknown
occasions and reads the dials in the
dark. Only men of romantic and
imaginative dispositions are sue
cesses in the meter reading bust
ness.
Meters are very strongly made
and it is almost impossible to bias
their judgment even with an axe.
The confidence of gas company in
its meters is one of the most touch
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Behindabushsky, Sept. 2s


Parents
Parents are a great responsibility
to their children.
Many a child would have an en-.
tirely unhampered career IL It were
not for the annoyance caused by
having a full set Of parents on its
hands.
The greatest difficulty children
have with their parents is to get
them to conduct the household af-
fairs to suit the children.
/ have known children to labor
In marvellous patience-with the ex-
ception of an occasional outburst--
with the stubbornest of parents, for
years and years, yet attain no notice
able results.
The great trouble in the matter of
children's discipline over parents
Is the fact that the parents are so
old and so set in their ways by the
time the children get at them, that
the task confronting the conscien-
tious child who takes pride in its
parents Is really appalling.
Nobody not possessing the con-
fdent enthusiasm OF youth, whose
bright lexicon shows a deplorable
lack Of that word fail" would even
tackle the job, let alone work at it,
Personally, we never quite gave
UP trying to make something out Of
our parents. They were nice folks,
but never did quite as we would have
chosen for them.
Sometimes we sud beat our
father sorely--poundtng the palm of
his large, strong hand with the seat
Of our trousers, until we were really
sick ofethe job.
But we would find our hope ris-
ing again after few days-phenix.
Ing pertly from the ashes and we
would try again.
Children who wish to avoid heavy
responsibility ought to try to get
along without parents.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
The Lifeline
The Delicate Person
By LAURA KIRKMAN

We stumble across him in the
street car, reading the war news.
We see from his intense expression
that he has followed every step OF
it's swapping up the latest bits Of
news with avidity. what do you
make Of it?" we ask frankly. "I
can't quite get onto things over
there" But the delicate man can't
make it out, either His face adopts
the puzzled expression on our face.
Again, we meet him, and mispro-
noumce word. How do you saw
that, anyway we throw out frank
ly, remembering that we once heard
him pronounce it. But again he
processes ignorance. Steadily, from
choice, he is building up for himself
a reputation as an ignoramus. We
4oonder that he doesn't spend his
life collecting cigar Stumps.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
q eARLATINAI Scarlet ..iash and

k- O1iN1IA llNAt ncdi Et 81 dE@i hfit
scarlet fever are different
names for the same disease
and the disease is always contagious,
no matter what label we apply to it.
Not from the Skin, but from the Sc
cretions. And as long as there is
any sort OF discharge, as from a rum
ming ear, for instance, the child may
spread the scarlet fever contagion, be
IL days or weeks after the rash has
disappeared
Nursing babies are almost im-
mune. Adults are often susceptible.
The disease is somewhat less fatal
than measles, but not SO fatal as
whooping cough.
The specific germ is still uniden-
tified-but 1t is believed to be form
OF streptococcus, one OF the most
virulent germs in surgical cases.
The first symptoms appear in from
twenty-four hours to a week after
exposure, usually two or three days.
The onset is rather sudden-chill
or, in young children. a convulsion
being common. Vomiting is suspi-
cious. Fever appears, accompanied
with sore throat, but no cough as
in measles. The face looks flushed.
The tongue is furred and, after a
day or two, shows peculiar red
papillae, the strawberry tongue"
After a few days 1.-TWO or three)
the rash appears in the form of a
general blush or flush with very fine,
evenly spread red points-first on
neck and chest. The rash looks less
blotehy, less measly than measles.
1t lasts seven or eight days, and is
followed by peeling of the skin. This
peeling or desquamation serves to
identify the disease in the medical
eye weeks after the rash has gone.
There is usually a follicular tom
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
Views, IS, OF The Press
France

T is easy and often misleading TO
personify a nation, to speak Of
it as il it were a man. But a
nation is not man, it is made up
OF many men, all different, and in
one generation the men are not all
mere copies of those in another.
The folly of generalization must
strike those who a few years ago
were talking of light-headed, un-
stable, superficial France. 1t must
strike them as they see the grim,
taciturn. unshakable nation that
goes so imperturbably and almost
silently about its work, "such work
as few ever had laid on head and
heart and hand" They must see it
as they note the transferenee to the
French of the characteristics that in
their generalizations they called
Teutonic. They see a nation going
to war with no parade. with no
noise, with no vainglory or boasting,
but with set and indomitable pur-
pose and a silent unanimity. There
is loyalty in all the warning nations,
but nowhere does a nation move as
one man, nowhere does a Single pur-
pose animate every soul. nowhere
does each act seem the act not of a
nation but of a single colossal in
dividual. as in France.
Its heroism is not the heroism of
individuals. but the heroism of a
nation, and that nation fills the
heart Of every man in it to the ex-
clusion of everything else Its re-
morseless reconstruction of itself,
its cold and steady decapitation Of
every weak OF stupid leader. its sub
ordination of all the things ir life to
enc aim, and the steady ami fateful
way it has gone about the .chieve-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

There was d significant paragraph
in the Presidents speech to the D..
IA. R. when he referred to neutral
rights as affected b,s the war, He
said that the United States was max
ing stand for all neutral nations
and for humanity when il insisted
that international law shall not be
changed from what it was when the
war began. II he means the full sig
nificance OF that utterance, the com
ing note to Great Britain will call for
a radical change in her naval policy
and conduct.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
Current Poetry
Himself

The houseful that we were then. YOU
could count us by the dozens,
The wonder was that sometimes
the old walls wouldn't burst 4
Herself (the Lord be good to her).
the cunts and RATS Of cousins,
Tie young folk and th5 children
but Himself came est.
Master Of the House he, was, and
We'll for them that knew it:
His cheeks like winter apples ard
his head like snow:
Eyes as blue as water when the sun
Of March shines through 1t,
And stoppin' like aNldaer with
his stick held 70.
Faith. but he could tell tale would
serve a man for wages,
Sing a song would put the Joy of
dancin' in two sticks;
But saints between themselves and
harm that IN him In his
RACES,
Blazin and oratin' over chess and
politics. 4
Master of the House he was, and that
beyond all Sayln',
Eth, the times I've heard him ex.
hortin' from his chair
The like of any Bishop, yet snappin'
off his prayin' M rs4
To put the curse on, Phelan's dog
for howlin' in tbs prayer.
The times I've seen him waikin' out
like Solomon in glory.
Salutin' with great elegance the
gentry he might meet;
An eye for every pretty girl, an ear
for every story,
And takin' as his just deserts the
middle Of the street.
Master OF the House-with much to
love and be forgiven.
Yet, thinkin' of Himself to-day
HIMSELF see him 90
With the old light step of his, across
the Courts of Heaven,
His hat a little sideways and his
stick held so.
-Theodosia Garrison, IN acc7Ere'a
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

New York's constitutional conyen-
tion cost over $450,00O. strong rea-
son for adopting it, Adoption would
stave off another such orgy of ex-
pense for 20 years. whereas defeat of
the constitution may mean another
convention in a year or two. Poll
tics is immensely expensive in New
York 1t costs as much to run that
state one year as Oklahoma for 10
or "a Nears
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

We all know him. That's his busi-
ness-making himself known to us.
He spends three-fourths of the day
that way. What I'm going to do"
is the song he sings. Some of us
like him. but we don't respect him.
Our liking for him is basedeon the
Irresistible charm of his audacity.
We are arrested by his fiourishes.
just as we stand agape at a sudden,
unexpected blare of trumpets
That's it: We haven't regard for
him; we have only attention for him.
He's satisfied 1cith skinned mflc
tohen there's cream on his table.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

question, but he will endeavor to
place it in the home of some other
family which is going to Europe,
More than one gas magnate has had
serious doubts about the truthfulness
of George Washington, but he never
doubts meter until it fails to reg
lister anything. Then it is brought
in to be repaired.
Gas meters have much influence
on American families. They have
made more people go to bed early
than all the teachers of all the ages.
They have broken up more court
ships than any other one thing.
They also exercise a discriminating
influence over literature. 1t takes
a good story indeed to hold mans
attention late at night while in the
cellar below the gas meter is stead
lily clicking its. way towards rec
ord-breaking gas bill.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

The percentage is all In favor OF
the Indiana clergyman who would
rather see his sister married to a
drunkard than to soldier or a
sailor. There are more drunkards
than there are soldiers and sailors,
----------.z@----..s --z--
In a newspaper office the "hell
box" is receptacle into which
everything deemed to be of no fur
ther use is thrown. In the average
home, Mothers room is the hell
box"
As we understand the Bible, Eve
not only tempted Adam, but she
committed a serious breach of sar-
torial etiquette by wearing d party
gown in the forenoon.
The G. A. r. post will have a
special meeting tonight, called for
the purpose Of permitting its mem.
bers to snort in unison over the So
called war in Mexico.
After a good locker reaches the
age at which he ceases to tie in de-
mand as an usher at weddings, he
falls easily into thA role of pail
bearer at funerals.
II you are called crouch take it !
as a compliment. The bubbly, open- |
faced man nearly always is bore. |
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
rhE ExpERtMgNr m MEXICO

Recognition Of Carranza by the
Pan-Ameriean conference does not. Of
course assure peace IN Mexico. 1t IS
doubtful after failure OF the Pan
American proposition for a peace
conference between the factions. IL
any course could have been adopted
that would. Carranza refused to 90
into that because he believed villa
cannot be trusted Villas threat
now to continte the fight on Carran-
"a, whether recognized by the United
States or not is just what was to be
expected from him and goes far to
confirm Carranza's estimate.
The peace proposal having failed,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

Hugh Fullerton. the famous base
ball expert. made predictions on the
worlds series forty-eight hours ahead
OF each game. His predictions were
printed daily in the philadelphia Led
ger Fullerton not only correctly
doped out the runs, hits and errors,
but his prophecies reached to the
batteries to be chosen He made
two poor guesses and these were on
hits and errors Several hundred
fans who worship at the Fullerton
shrine played his predictions and
won thousands One fan cashed in
"a STqFtA -
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

To a man up tree It appears as
If Frank Gault, live stock official. Is
trying to lnnoculate the balance OF
the state administration with the
germs OF anthrax.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

Oklahoma City is making a determ-
ined effort to steal Gnthrie's Masonic
consistory but the effort will prove
abortiye. The supreme council has
the records OF the work performed IN
Guthrie In the past years and some
thing more than whim will have to
be produced to prompt change of
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

Wen bet bottle of fried mush
that you never knew that If a groom
gave a bride her wedding outfit OF
clothing, 1t wouldn't be a trousseau.
The Standard Dictionary tells us it is
brides outfit of clothing, prepared
at her own or her family's expense"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

The fight against preparedness has
failed. America is to have an ade-
qnate navy. America does not want
big standing army, but 1t does want
and must have the best navy in the
wnrld
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

There are six nominees for Cover
nor in Massachusetts, which votes
this fall on woman suffrage, and all
six have declared for the women's
cause. The party platforms are more
cautious, Democratic and Republican
ignoring the issue. But votes for
women" are surely coming every
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

When the Boston Globe speaks
mushfully OF the President and his
fiancee at ball game receiving pub
lie plaudita ais THE nations lovers,
isn't II oyerplaying the sentimental
medal considerably?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

The meat packers tell us that
eventually" meat viii be cheaper in
the United States. Those OF us who
expect to live until eventually Will
rejoice at the information.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

The delegates to the Methodist
conference in session at Tulsa indi-
cate that the best hospitality in the
state Is to be found at Guthrie.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

ing examples OF perfect faith in the
world. If gas meter reports the
use Of 1900 feet of gas while the
family has been in Europe, the pres
ident of the gas company will not
only accept its statement without
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

President Wilson says the silence
treatment should be given to dis
loyal hyphenates. But silence is
something they know nothing about.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

The failure of several county fairs
Ia Oklahoma this year indicates moth
ing save that providence was not
willing"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
A Street Car Accident
Whose Fault?

Q. II a street car Is operated at q
high rate Of speed, and some one on
the street is injured, aoiH not such
fact make the company Hdblef
A. Liability viii not grow out Of
such fact alone. If the car Is oper-
ated at an excessive rate of speed:
and such fact is the proximate cause
of the injury-that is, If 1t can be
shown that the injury would not
have ensued If the car had been
operated at an ordinary rate-there
will be liability.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16
His Unpopularity

why is Bilkins so unpopular"
Because he always has his hair
cut on Saturday nights"
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Irlnnlgin FiIosofy

TIL way ay tn thransgressor is
hard. That's why they use jail
birds t macadamize tn roL is.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

DIR. Leeper, the Osteopath. 100 -
West Oklahoma Avenue.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

"With us the case is a different one.
Though we're optimistic, 1t isn't fun.
We're never whipped (here we rap
on wood
Or even beaten, unless we're good!"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

Weeks seems to take in Oklahoma.
He is a shrewd. masterful man.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-16

Il is announced IN London that
nearly $2.5O0.000 capital has been
promised for the proposed British ma.
tional dyestuff industry, by means Of
which it is planned to supply the
place OF former importations from
Germany.