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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
GREAT BATTLE IS
NOW BEING FOUGHT
BERLIN REPORT STATES
GERMANS ARE ADVANC-
ING IN EAST AND NORTH
BULLETIN.

Paris, Oct. 22.-Hurlng great army
to the assistance of Serbia the Allies
today have turned what looked IKE
crushing defeat of the Serbian forces
and possible annhiIation, into great
victory. Bulgarian army repuIsed
and Austrians held at bay" is the text
of an official dispatch received this
afternoon. The English and French
troops arrived from SaIoniki just in
time.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
NEW INDUSTRY IS
KNOCKING AT OUR DOORS

The Industrial Committee of the
chamber of commerce is in confer
enee this afternoon with an eastern
manufacturing concern considering a
very important proposition for the
location of new industry in this
city which IS secured will lie a very
important addition to Guthries man.
usacturing industries and do much to
put the city in the lime light in one
of the big commercial lines Of the
country during the next few years.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
CHAPPELLE TAKES OIL
COMPANY Case FROM JURY
COUNTY COURT GRINDING ON
CRIMINAL CASES; PROBATE
MATTERS UP

In the case of DIR. G. ID. Gully
against the Arkansas River Beds Oil
Company for commissions on stock
sold, on trial Yesterday in county
court, Judge Chappelle took the case
from the jury and decided in favor
Of the defendants. 1t was proven
that the contract to sell stock for the
oil company was made with Gully by
B. ]. Waugh, and not by authority OF
the officers of the company.
The fate of King Wells, Meridian
negro, charged with violating the pro-
hibitory law is in the hands of a
II. wn.-- !.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22

The estate represents an invest
ment Of more than $1,000 600.
On the main floor of the mouse Is
great social hall, measuring 75xSj
feet with "a impressive stairway
twenty-five feet wide at the base, as
cendng to the mezzanine floor ano
branching into a promenade galleri
surrounding an open court.
The great estate was offered the
president at absolutely no expense
whatever except that attendant upon
the maintenance of his own house
hold.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
PARCEL POST SYSTEM IS
PERMANENT SUCCESS
FIGURES SHOW
WONDERFUL INCREASE IN
BUSINESS AT LOCAL OFFICE

That the parcel post department
OF the post office system is steadily
growing in favor with the merchants
and the general public, has been dom
onstrated by the count of parcels re-
ceiyed and dispatched, conducted al
the local office during the first is
days of this month.
Figures compiled by Postmaster
Olsmith and clerks of the parcel
post division shew that there we've
CONTINUED on Page Eight.)
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22

London, Oct. ga dispatch from
Nish says that official announcement
has been made at the Serbian capitol
that the losses of the Austro-German
army invasion has reached sixty thou
sand dead, wounded and prisoners.
The Serbians said they have repulsed
the invaders.
1t is stated that among the Austrian
German prisoners are many Officers
The dispatch denies that Bulgarians
occupied Rinya, Velassa or Knjazevac
but confirms the report that they cap
tured Istip and Kotchna.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
PRISON SENTENCE COMMITTED
(By associated Press.)

Washington, Oct. z2.-President
Wilson today commuted to expire i'm
mediately, the sentence of Oscar
Houston, found guilty Of breaking in
to the Enid post office. Houston's s
sentence would expire next January.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
ADDITIONAL TROOPS Or
DERED TO TEXAS BORDER
CBy Associated Press.)

Washington, oct. 4 The twenty
eighth regiment of U. s .antry was
today ordered from Galveston to Har.
hagen, Texas, by the war depart
ri.at, the result of bandit raids on the
Te1as border.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
WOULD EXPORT
MILLION IN HIDES

FL Paso. Tex, Oct. 21.-Beef and
hides products of confiscated cattle,
valued at $1,OO0,O0O are awaiting ex-
portation in Juarez, according to re-
ports received by American customs
officials here.
Pending advices from Washington
upon the question of closing the port
inspectors are permitting examina-
tons of all hides for American brands
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22
BAND coNcERr TONIGHT.

Weather permitting the Booster
band will give free outdoor con
cert tAis evening in front of the fed
eral building, beginning at 1880 p.
m.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22

Old papers for sale at The Leaoer
office.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-22

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The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
EFFICIENCY DESTROYERS,
BY ORIsON SWEET MARDEN

The French have a very significant
phrase-"H s'excuse. s'accuse" The who
excuses. accuses himself.
As president of the school board in
my town I have to send to Albany
monthly reports of the attendance of the
school children. Every month for years
I have found all sorts of foolish excuses
for absences and hardness. such as:
Couldn't find one of my Shoes. Lost
a lot of time hunting for my coat"
Didn't get up in time Clock slow"
Stopped to play on the way Didn't
think 1t was time to go to school" For
got all about school till too late" etc.
The pupils who make such excuses GER
tainly accuse themselves of lsziness. In
difference and lack Of ambition. II is
no wonder that they are invariably be-
hind in their studies and rank lowest in
their classes. To many these flimsy.
senseless excuses of school children may
seem little things. Of no Importance. but
in reality they are like letters cut in
the bark of young sapling which en-
large and become great ugly scars in the
mature tree. The excuse habit in the
child becomes an efficiency destroyer In
the man or the woman. The lack of
system and order. the. want of training
In promptness. in regularity, in exacti-
tude mar the whole career.
I know OF no one thing so fatal to ef-
ficiency and success in life as the early
formed habit Of half doing things. Of
sighting ones work. and then making
weak excuses TO try to cover UP its de-
fciencies.
Multitudes Of men and women have
been kept down by the habit formed in
their youth Of doing things in q care
less. Indifferent way. They probably
never expected to hear from these
skipped problems in school. the sighted
tasks. the postponed work. but later in
life they became invisible retarders
which kept them from doing the larger
things they were otherwise capable of
doing.
Many q man who Is wondering why he
does not get along faster. who feels that
some intangible obstruction bars his ad-
vance. In really the victim Of an early
formed habit Of csrelessness. Of not put
ting enthusiasm and energy into his
tasks
Many men Of genius have written
worse scrawis than do" said . boy at
Rugby when his teacher demonstrated
with him for his bad penmanship: II Is
not worth while to worry about so trivial
Q fault" Ten years later, when he had
become an onlcer in the Crimea, his IL
legible copy Of an order caused the loss
Of many brave men.
Many people think that advancement
consists In doing some big thing. but
they ind that when they attempt q big
thing they have incapocitated Them
selves from doing Il supsrbiy by the
habit Of doing seemingly small things
indinerently or In . slipshod manner.
How often We hear young people say.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

"Oh. that is good enough: what is the
Use of spending so nhIch time on little
thing like that" "Oh. that's good
enough" has spoiled many a career be-
cause IL was the first step toward de-
terioration.
know men who have rever learned to
saw a board straight. to drive a nail
true who tumble everything they touch.
who are always laundering. because they
did not think 1t worth while to learn TO
do things carefully and correctly. Yet
these men wonder why they are not sue
cessful
teacher in the highest grade of the
grammar schools in New York tells US
that 30 per cent of the pupils who come
to him from the lower grades do not
end their sentences with periods, or be-
gin them with capitals.
The papers of students taking the en-
trance examinations to even the best
colleges Of this country show incredible
plumbers in spelling. grammar and other
elementary branches. The name Cyrus,
for instance. was spelled in more tina :,
twenty different ways by students COM
peting for entrance to Harvard in one
year. For all such youths: who form an
inveterate habit of half doing things.
every day in after life Is a test-day. and
every hour during scores of years is An
examination hour.
We cannot erase the effects of early
training. Half-done chores. half-made
toys. the sIpshod habits of youth will
never leave you. They will come up in
after life at the most critical and uneN-
pected moment to embarrass you. to mar
your achievement You cannot get rid
of a half-done thing. botched job. OF
half-hnished work. no matter when or
where It was done.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

except great prosperity for the United States. No
one expects that this prosperity will be continued
at as great rate after the war ceases. But how it
can be argued that such prosperity is source Of
loss we cannot bring ourselves to understand
After the war too, have time and again
shown there must be an immense foreign demand
addressed to country for replenishment and
reconstruction work in Europe. And even then
when Europe sets to work to do business again.
as usual she must labor under the disadvantages
Of an imitation of her circulating medium, brought
on by the war, which must make her cost produc-
ton high and hurt her as competitor of our own
country. We believe it will be many years before
Europe will find herself in the same position as a
competitor of the United States that she be-
fore the war broke out. The great under
taken by Louis XIV under the impulse OF cease
less ambition to extend the territories Of his
try and to make her dominant power in Europe
dealt France a blow from which she did not re-
cover for a century; and the expulsion from
France OF the Huguenots, the best industrial
workers in the country which that monarch di-
rected, may be likened to the destruction of the
industrial workers OF Europe in the present con-
test
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
HISTORY BUILDERS.
The Experiences of Magazine Editors.
Written Expressly for The Washington Herald
BY DIR. f.. }. EDWARDS.

When ! was associated with George
William Curtis in the editorship OF Put
MANS Magazine. in the mid-deCade of the
past century, both Curtis and | were al
ways suspicious OF manuscripts in
woman's handwriting upon dainty paper.
the sheets being often fastened together
by "A little ribbon with occasionally some
hint of perfume. Sometimes the stories
We're good. and that made us all the more
suspicious. for even in those days there
were persons INSCRIPTIONS enough to get
hold of short stories written so long be
fore that il was presumed they had been
forgotten or else to ind their supply
among short stories written for French
periodicals." said tht late Parke Goodwin
to me at time when he was speaking
of the dramatic disclosure of the per-
sonality of the successful author to
whose manuscripts was appended the
name "Charles Egbert Craddock.' Th-
editors who accepted these stories never
doubted that the writer was man until
one day there appeared in the editorial
office in Boston modest. gentle. shy
Young woman, who announced herself as
the author of the stories to which man $
name had been siGned-Miss Murfrce.
when James Russell Lowell was the
editor of the magazine In which Miss
Murfree's stories a good many years later
appeared. ne, 100. was SUSPICIOUS OF man
ucripts. especially those in woman's hand
writing. if the story was an exceptionally
clever one. He knew the tricks of the
trade and he had fairly we'll fortified
himself with Information respecting al
most all American short stories. Many
times he identified stories submitted to
him as original stories which he had
read or which he knew had been pub
lished years before in some forgotten
American ma Cazinc newspaper.
Lowell was anxious to get one or two
good short stories for his magazine. so as
to relieve its heavy character. This
magazine was published chiefly at first
as medium for essays. One day he
received in girlish handwriting the man
uscr.pI of a story which was so good
that. in view of the childike handwrit-
ing. he became at once suspicious. In
method and some Of its other character
istics it suggested to Mr.. Lowell that il
might originally have been a French
short story and that some young woman
had venturcd to translate and copy IL
with intent to palm it off upon him az
original.
His first temptation was to throw the
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

- VEN the little that had been gained
in King Williams War had now
r. to be gained all over again.
- Sir William Phips had taken
Port ROYAL very handily at the outset Of
that war Q6y0). and Acadia with II, ana
there had been no difficulty in holding
the conquered province until the war
ended: but the treaty Of Ryswick had
handed back to the French everything
tho English had taken. the statesmen Of
England hardly needing America at all
in the terms they agreed to-and so a
beginning was once more to be made.
The war began. as every one knew 1t
nust with forays on the border: the In
dams we're the first afoot. and were
more TO be feared than tho French.
The first movement of the English was
made at the south, where. before the
first wear Q7O2) Of the war was out. the
Carolinas struck at the power of Spain
in Florida They sent little force
against St Augustine. and easily swept
the town itself. but stood daunted be-
fore the walls Of the castle. lacking
cannon TO reduce IT,. and came hastily
away at sight Of two Spanish ships
standing into the hprbor, leaving their
very stores and ammunition behind them
in their panic.
They had saddled the colony with a
debt Of 5000 pounds and gained nothing.
But they at least kept their own bor-
ders safe against the Indians and their
own little capital at Charleston safe
against reprisals by the Spaniards.
The Apalachees. who served the Span
iards on the border. they swept from
their forest country in 1903. and made
their border quiet by fire and sword.
driving hundreds of the tribesmen they
did not kill to new seats beyond the Sa-
vannah.
Three years went by before they we're
I'm their turn attacked by force out of
Florida Upon day in August. lIo6,
while the little capital lay stricken with
yellow fever, a feet Of five French ves-
sells appeared off the bar at their har-
Dor mouth, bringing Spanish troops from
Havana and ST. augustine.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

While New York City Is emitting of
real pain about taxation without representation be
the taxation imposed upon it by the State
legislature is interesting to note that OF the
most prominent names attached to the campaign
III the national House OF Representatives 10 force
upon the taxpayers OF Washington the entire bur
den Tor tho urkeep OF the National Capital was
Henry George. jr., until last March Represent
alive in Congress from New York City district.
New lorks complaint is that ii has not majority
representation in the State legislature. The tax
payers of the District OF Columbia have not even
representative with the privilege OF addressing
either branch of the Congress that expends up
wards OF $4,000. 900 OF their money annually.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

There was a quick rally to meet them.
Colonial militia went to face their land
ing parties: gallant Col. Rhett manned
a little fiotilla to check them on the
water; and they were driven on, leav.
ing go prisoners anr a captured ship be-
hind them. The Southern coast could
take care of itself.
Nothing had been done meanwhile In
the North.
The first year of the war Q709 had
seen Boston robbed of 800 of her inhabi.
tants by the scourge Of smallpox, and
New York stricken with a fatal fever
brought out Of the West Indies from
which no man could rally. That dismal
year fingered for many a day in the
memory Of the men of the middle col.
onies as the time Of the great sickness"
The northernmost border had been
harried from Wells to Casco by the
French Indians Q1o0; Deerf1eld. far
away in the wilderness by the Connec-
ticut. had been fearfully dealt with at
dead of night. in the midwinter Of l104.
by a combined force Of French and In
dams: in 1905 the French in Acadia had
brought temporary ruin upon the Eng
fish trading posts in Newfoundland; and
French privateer had insolently come
in open day into the bay at New York.
as II to show the English there how de-
fenceless their great harbor was. with
all the coast about it Q706).
And yet there had been no counter
stroke by the English-except that Col.
Church. Of Massachusetts,, had spent the
summer of 1904 in destroying as he could
the smaller and less defended French and
Indian villages upon the coasts which
lay about the Penobscot and the Bay OF
Fundy.
In l707 a serious attempt was made to
take Port Royal Col. March took 1000
men against the place. In twenty-three
transports. conveyed by a man-of-war,
and regularly laid siege to 1t: but lacked
knowledge of the business he had under
taken and failed utterly.
Tou,opvow-Acadin Becomes Nova
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
.n<55zM%&

manuscript in the waste basket Upon
second thought he decided to make in
vestigation, and il was fortunate both
for him and for the writer of the story
that he did So He learned that 1t was
an absolutely original story written by
young woman hardly out of her teens.
who lived in Newburyport, Mass. 1t was
entitled In the Cellar and when 1t
was published it made hit and the
reputation of the young woman, whose
name was Harriet Prescott-afterward
known as Harriet Prescott Spofford-and
one of the best OF the American women
writer's who in the past century advanc-
ed our literature
UCoryrisht 1915 by T. J. Edwards All rights re
Servcdl
Tomorrow DIR. Edwards will tell oil
Going to Jail for a Primo =.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
WANT CLARA BARTON HONORED
society of Founders Ask that she
he Given Memorial.

\ request that suitable memorial to
Miss Clara Barton. the organizer OF the
American Red Cross. be placed in the
building which will honor the women of
the civil war. has been forwarded to the
White House by the National Society
of Founders and Patriots of America. The
resolution was passed at their recent
gathering at the Raleigh Hotel last
Thursday upon the motion of Mrs. Cora
Burton Foster. national councillor.
Mrs. John j. Myers was hostess to the
gathering at luncheon following their
meeting, at which reports were given by
the VARIOUS officials and representatives
of State chapters. The organization Is
now entering its eighteenth year.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

While anti-German sentiment, aroused by the
Lusitania atrocity, is congratuating the country
upon the promised withdrawal OF Dr. Dcrnbcrg,
and cxcoriatng his propaganda OF pro-German
publicity it is interesting to recall somewhat
similar case involving American Prof Henry
G. Emery, OF Yale, former member OF the tariff
board in a recent letter the New York Sun. calls
attention to placards posted in Manchester Eng
land, apropos of the addresses there OF Henry
Ward Beecher in defense OF the OF the North
in civil war. what reception you give
this wretch" read poster, Save unmitigated
disgust and contempt? His impudence in coming
here is only equaled by his cruelty and impiety.
Should he, however. venture to appear it behooves
all right minded to render futile as the
first this second attempt to get up public demon
straton in favor of the North, which is now
waging war against the South with vindictivc and
revengeful cruelty unparalleled in the history of
any Christian la :"
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

The sullibility OF the general public is amazing.
The Crid;ron Club OF Washington. u. G.. has
found il necessary to Issue statement warning
the public against a widespread scheme to sell as
socatc memberships in tho organization promi-
public in various sections of the country.
However. the people who subscribe such propo-
srtIor> without investigation entitled to
Iroiound sympathy
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

What interests me most in this kind OF thinking,
however is the unconscious assumption that the
poor are the only people who make others
unfoundcd demands. If VIC will only stop and
look about we shall find that such is not the fact
On the contrary the poor constantly preyed
on by the wcll-to-do, and even by the rich. Every
dav tho poor arc taken advantage Of and mads
to paw dearly for their poverty.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
Wrinsing he ColenePs Heart.

Next to getting mulcted for $4,000 damages in
the Barnes suit for libel we know of nothing that
has happened or may happen so we'll calculated to
wiring the Colonefs heart as Miss Jane Adams
daily eulogy of President Wilson. II Hull House
goes Democratic the Progressive party will not be
in touch with anything resembling uplift unless
it be Bill Finn. Of Pittsburgh-New York World.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
PEACE SUNDAY IS OBSERVED.
Sunday schools Celebrate Annirer-
.ory Of The Hague Conference.

Sunday schools throughout the city OBJ
served Yesterday as Peace Sunday in
commemoration of the first Teace confer
crces held at The Hague. May Is ls<.
Literature on the subject was sent 10
eocb school by the peace and arbitra-
,,on deuartment of the W. q. 7. L.
In addition to instruction from the
p,atform on tho horrors of war. the pro-
gram in most sunday schools provided
also for the rccitinS of peace odes.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
Wicked and Good Alliance,

fact not lost upon observers is that when
announcing as wicked all alliances between Re-
pubcans and Democrats Mr.. Roosevelt skillfully
maintained silence concerning that alliance be-
tween the Bull Moose and the Jaekass that gave
the Democratic party its victory in IoI2-New
York Herald.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

they feel so little gratitude
It's only the exceptional per-
sons who show any graft.
tudc whatever. And the
more you give some OF
them the more they expect,
II you stop giving they will
feel hurt or indignant. It's
as if all you'd done gave
them a kind of claim OH
YOU
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
Morning Smiles.


Mrs. Brown ito Mrs. Jones. who has
beep TO see son off in a troop-shfp,-
Well, I'm sure they'll be starting soon.
for both tunnels are smoking: and. you
see. NV dear. they couldn't want both
tunnels lust for lunch.-Punch
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
THE QUEST.

The QUEST.
Look for good and you will find,
But if evils to your mind
Look for that. and woe and care
You will find them everywhere;
And upon the whole It's we'll
Seeking evil for a spell
If when found you do your best
Just to knock it galley-wcst.
Copyright. I9l5J
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
War Knows No Law.

Rulmored that in event OF commanders Of
German vessels tied up in ports would blow
I'D their ships But not if they inform themselves
as to the provisions of the penal code-Wa
Street Journal.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17

Country schools in Washington State arc
specializing in warm lunches. The teachers arc
trained in household arts and the school lunch is
used not only to better the physical condition of
the pupils but 10 teach domestic science And
Nhv not;
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
No Birthday Celebration.

On account of the war there will be celebra-
ton Of King Georges birthday; and, besides, even
a King may lose his enthusiasm for birthday cele-
brations by the time he reaches his fftcth.-In-
dianapolis News
The Washington herald., 1915-05-17
Needs No Assistance.

II it is true, Frank Walsh claims that
Rockefeller is trying to destroy him, Mr.. Rookie
Teller is going to unnecessary trouble Walsh is
attending to that little job himself-Kansas City
Journal