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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-22

Hughey Jennings Tigers last season
averaged over four runs to the game.
Yet he had only one pitcher able 10 win
over eighteen games despite this back
Ing
Tho answer ls fairly simple. Outside
ot Covelcekic. the next Tiger regular
ranked thirty seventh In effectiveness
Nmong the leading thirty.sis pitchers OF
the league Detroit had one
Most surprising development, NJ tho
Winter League season Is Mathew-on. con
iiuu ] popularity In Cincinnati lie II
80 popunr that some Of tho fans call him
Won Mnthewron
When interviewed In his Fifth avenue
office by n New York reporter yesterday.
Fighting Jim" Gilmore. head OF the Fed .
ernl league, was nonchnlnntly Indifferent,
to tho proposed strike OF PLAYERS. "It
won't affect th. Feds any he said.
Said fair young thing In Toronto.
When asked for Mss II don't want to
Hut quit playing hockey,
And put on the khaki,
And you'U get sweet klsa pronto'"
Texas for immediate.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-22
W0RKMEN LEAVE
STATE CAPITOL
Work Is Delayed on Account
of Cold Spell,

On account Of the cold weather. the
state capitol building has practically
been abandoned by workmen, although
!, is the plan to have the Legislature
meet there in less than two weeks.
The cold is so severe in the building
the workmen could not stand it, il is
said.
a temporary heating plant is being in
stalled and will be ready for use within
a lew DAYS, II was stated The hea, will
be turned on just az soon as the plant Is
ready in the hope OF having the build
ing comfortable by the time the session
tonvenes on January ,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-22
What 10 Cour,ueT

You have written. observes non
g. nnoWut many times about courage
Put What, after nll. Is courage
Courage of the right sort ~ a blend
3. is the patience to develop skin. NJ
- ~ 10 go oN against Nhatc',r odds. ,ho
To fight an through and
'he power Inst comes from knowing our
night be- beaten but not broken And
this In only a starter
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-22

What chance has Ty Cobb 10 last
twenty seasons IN the bis lclguc7" qucr-
'cs mn exchange Al the end ot twelve
Years Tv Is batting NJ. two points
above his grond average Tor tlc full
distance Figure the rest c,t for your
ssW
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09
ORIGIN OF THE cossAcks.
lBS Heinz k. HeilandN

Originally the CosSacks are of the Slsvonic race. with no doubt plentiful infusion of ASiatie blood. Their name in the Tartar language means free booters. and they settled down in what is called Little Russia.
 In the fourteenth century subjects of the car, who had not been satis- fed with the treatment they had re- eeived at the hands of Russia, left their homes, wandered toward the south and settled in the S,eppes or plains near the rivers Don and Dnie- per. The settlers had much to endure from the Tartar horsemen. who claim ed to be the rulers of that particular part of the country. Through the con tinuous fighting with the Tartar hordes Of settlers combined togeth- CT and formed themselves into clans and called themselves cossacks.
 Up 10 the end of the fourteenth cen tury the emigration into the south was So great that many settlements were established. calling themselves the Cossacks Of the Don, G7eben, Wolgs and Jaik- Those of the Don who were very numerous. were the most feared on account cr their cour- age and fearless robberies, and so drew the attention of the Car of Rus sis toward them. The car granted them privileges, and by degrees they came Of their own free will and en- tered the Russian army.
 When serfdom was established in Russia everyone who could escape en- rolled himself with the Cossacks. At the time Of the thirty-year war they left he plains to join the different army leaders The Cossaek hordeS grew more and more, The plains were not big enough 10 hold them all, and they wandered over the Ural noun tains and swarmed over part of Si- beris, where the Russian army of to- day recruits its Cossack regiments. These fearless riders at one time in vaded China and made war on their own account
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09
JUNEAU PIONEER GOES
 ALONG THE LAST TRAIL

James Vim. one of the first resi- 1. dents Of Juneau. and & genial pioneer of Alaska. known famIlIarly to his friends aH6 aoQuaintAnees as Slim Ilr- died at the family residence this morning at o'clock from . compli. | cation of diseases
 ! NIT. Vim was fe years Of age, hay. ing been born st Cornwall, England, | in 1S40. He came to the United States when still young man He has been an invalid for the past three years the last year he being completely par. alyzed
 In 1879. James Vim went 10 the CaSsiar country by way of Wransell and Telegraph Creek He had claims on Dish Creek He arrived in Juneau l in 1882 snd was the first white man 70 ever cross the ChIIkoo; Pass He wss accompanied on that trip by John Mckenzie He vas also the first white man to ever run the Five Finger rap ids and the other rapids Of the upper Yukon river.
 During his residence in Juneau, he has been engaged ia mining and pros pecting. He has made his home here continuously. with the exception of . trip to the interior in 1885. at which time he vent straight down the Yukon and returned by way of the outside. catching s trading beat south from the mouth Of the Yukon. He vas in- terested in much real estate and min. ing property in Juneau and vicinity.
 Nr Vim is survived by Mrs James Vim. s brother ia Wisconsin. and sister in Illinois He wss the uncle of Milton Grover. John and Burdette Vim. sll os Juneau
 James Vim is the third member of the family 10 die in Juneau. Issac Vim. & brother having died here about four years ago. and Col William Vim. having died here two years ago.
 James Vim leaves host Of friends in Juneau and all parts Of Alaska. He was one Of the type of pioneers of this country who made their homes in Al. asks and helped 10 develop the coun- try He was known as 6 man Of ster. ling character and vas generous 10 q fault
 II has frequently been said Of James Vim. that he always had his hand ia his pocket to give something to someone He vas always ready to answer g call of distress. whether it required money or physical e6ort.
 He did his duty to his fellow man ia fitting epitaph for James Vim
 The funeral services vill be held from Odd Fellows Hall tomorrow af. ternoon at 2 o'clock under the auspices ot the Pioneers et Alaska John B. Stevens will conduct the services and the interment will be in Pioneers Plot Of Evergreen cenetery.-Juneau Empire.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09

SOTICE-The Progressiye-M Miner is for sale by the Ryus and Walker Drug Stores and ?. J. Hunt.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09
KBrcHIKAN CIVIC aw

HeG@ ev&Y Ass< ana aAd To@- day Kr@Ag sA P H, as @n oNw- el CaaASSA Al wmAm knAuwuN ed Ia &ss weAa<e q SR GE m@ eordaa1w invited ts sesxoA-SeG H P. DfAknean, k- D.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09

Walker Drug Co. sells Red Feather Toilet Articles (adv.)
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09
ELECTRICITY TO DIssIPATE FOG

The Smithsonian Institution an nounces that il has made an approp- ristion to further experiments in the dissipation of tog by electricity, and that the investigations will be carried out under the general direction of Dr. F. G. Cotrell, who has already done much toward the practical precipita- tion of dust, smoke and chemical fumes in large industrial establish ments.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-08-09
A NEW INVENTION.

It has come at last-the hat that will not blow of. At least, that is the claim of its inventor. New York man in his recent application for a patent Results are achieved by eQuipping the hat with series Of protuberances on a line with the sweatband, which grip the head of the wearer, defying any thing but direct pressure 70 remove the cheapeau
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
STOP AIR REPRIsALs.

Bombs from aircraft, as experience
has abundantly shown, are chiefly eff
rective as a means of numbering civil
ians and destroying innocent prop
erty, says the New Republic. After
over eighteen months of war not a
single instance of important military
ends secured through aerial lombard
ments stands established, while the
killing and manning of inoffensive
persons, mainly women and children,
has been a uniform result. Practically
the Only defense either belligerent has
to offer for such barbarities is the
right of reprisal One of the great
-@eds of international law is the rigid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
THE MEDICAL CORPS IN WAR

If war must be, let us have as little
unnecessary suffering as possible,
writes Alton G. GrinneIl in an article
entitled Preparedness of the Army
Medical Department" in the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews for March.
The medical department of an army
of today has two distinct functions
prevention and cure. Previous to the
present world conflict we had seen
but one great war waged with the
weapons of science against the in
visible host. More insidious than shot
and shell, their name is legion They
have always been upon the battle
front awaiting all corners and show
ing a special disposition to fraternize
with the unseasoned citizen-soldier,
but until a few years ago we knew
them not. The medical student, BAG
teriologist and entomologist have Gull
tivated their acquaintance that you
and I may not have to be introduced.
Sometimes this has been accomplished
with impunity. Not seldom they have
gotten the better of one or two of the
investigators and these silent heroes
have departed this world without be-
holding the fruition of their work.
They truly have died that we might
live. But in doing so they have left to
mankind a definite knowledge which
has made it possible for their CO.
workers to expurgate the foe. Thanks
to the tenacity of will which has en-
abled such men to pursue a cherished
purpose through a quarter of century,
we now haves these parasites on the
defensive. Their life habits have been
catalogued and cross-referenced. So
complete is this system of microscopic
Identification that most of them have
already been rounded up. So many
expert rio-criminologists are on
the lookout for the balance that this
sphere is no longer a really safe place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

People rarely accept an explanation
as the truth.
Pedigree has nothing to do with a
dogs manners
A man can be very scholarly and
still not have much sense.
Some church members seem to mis-
take the word praying for preying.
To the man who has nothing to
ship no subject is duller than freight
rates.
Every woman thinks a man should
be more prompt about stopping a dog
fight.
Women sometimes take advantage
Of the rule that no gent should strike
q lady.
Those who regard ragtime as music
are numerous enough to poll quite a
heavy vote.
A good deal of the interest in a
sixteen-year-o girl is lost when she
begins talking.
The biggest joke in country town
is a man who thinks SO well of him.
self that he snubs people.
1t is natural to ask more than YOU
expect to get, and then kick because
you don't get it all
Probably the best way of enforcing
discipline is to make reasonable con-
cession now and then.
A colored- man is apt to take his
superstftions more seriously than he
does his regular occupation.
A noble woman is the one who is as
patient with her aged mother as that
mother used to be with her.
There are always those willing to
sing the praises of mother and let her
do most of the house work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06

for any life-loving bacteria Our own
army medical corps has furnished to
the world what is probably the most
striking example in the history of pre-
ventive medicine of the conquest of
a great scourge by the extirpation of
yellow fever through the discoveries
of Reed, Carroll and their colleagues,
and the practical application of these
discoveries by General Gorgas. While
the beautiful dream of "a truly sani-
tary army in which the bacteriologist
marches on the skirmish line, and the
exhausted soldier waits by the we'll
curb for laboratory reports" is inn
possible from the scientific as we'll as
the military point of view, the sani-
tary competence of the modern army
anese went into the Russian cam
paign prepared as fully against bacilli
as against bullets-and at the end of
that war their percentage of deaths
from disease was the lowest ever
known in any great campaign. Ac-
cording to reliable reports, the fatal
istic Turk, whose liability to disease
was in exact ratio to his former disre-
gard of sanitary precautions, now en-
Joys a hsaIth rate which compares
favorably with that of any other army
in Europe thanks to the introduction
of modern sanitary methods by the
Germans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06

Neutrals cannot admit that if the mill
tary authorities of one country sully
their honor by ordering wanton muir
der, the military authorities of an
other country have a sufficient ex-
cuse for issuing similar order with
out soiling their own honor. There
must be a vast though inchoate body
of opinion in Germany opposed to
Zeppelin raids, as there is certainly
large body of opinion in France and
England opposed to bomb dropping
from aeroplanes. Here would appear
to be an opportunity for neutral opin-
ion, properly organized, to make rep
reservations with a view to the elm
nation of this most futile of the afro
cities of war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
Jayhawker Jots

As Homer Hoch of the Marion Rec
ord points out: The man who has
time to nurse a grudge needs addition
al employment
There is this to be said in favor of
the woodpecker, thinks the Peabody
Gazette-Herald. He does most of his
knocking on dead trees.
Look pleasant, please, urges the s.
c. L. of the Phillips County Post, the
assessor wishes to take photo of your
observation-disclosures speaking.
Two classes of people poke fun at
the Fords, says the Americas Greeting:
Those who can afford better cars and
those who can't afford any.
Carl Brown tells this tory: John
n.y. asked the school teacher, where
was the Declaration of Independence
signed?" ''At the bottom" he
blurted.
Old Nat Nippers is quoted by the
Florence Bulletin as remarking: THAT
oldest boy of mine is the kind oe chap
who will lie intentionally in order to
be agreeable"
Honors are even with the automo
bile editor and the domestic science
editor of the Agra Sentinel. The one
reports that the engine of a Ford kick
ed back while a man was cranking it
and put his good right arm out of
commission. The other reports that
the engine of washing machine pull
ed off. the same stunt while woman
was cranking it with equally disas-
trous result to her good right arm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06

Beginning with that first al1-night
game of tag, Filter and Slippy had
many a jolly game together. Every
evening when the safe darkness COW
cred the forest and swamp, Filter
would slip out from his home and
Slippy would come from his and they
would meet for their play.
Why did they play only at night,
do you ask?
Dear me, hadn't you guessed that?
They had to play at night Little
woods creatures, such as they were,
would not be safe in the broad day
light OF course they sometimes went
out in the daytime. Slippy White
mouse was more apt to be out by day
than Filter Flying-sq But
those daytime trips were very little
fun. For the owl and the hawk have
keen, keen eyes, and tiny mouse is
never safe. But at night the dangers
are much less and even mouse may
take some chances and play in the
shadows of the trees.
After Filter and Slippy had played
till they were breathless one evening.
they sat down under the curve of a
log for a rest.
ct like to play with you" an
nounced Slippy, when he could speak.
Then why didn't you come up and
find me before?" demanded Filter.
You say you used to live near here"
when 1 lived here, l wasn't run
ming around hunting playmates,"
laughed Slippy. Il lived near here
away last spring and neither you nor
I were old enough to play them"
Where did you live? asked Fit
ter curiously.
Come, and I'll show you,'' replied
Slippy and away they ran, past trees
and stumps, over leaves and sticks
till they came to a big spready grape
vine-a wild grape vine that SPRAYED
itself all over a dead tree.
There's where 1 lived said Slippy,
and he proudly waved his hand TO-
wards the vine.
But where?" demanded Filter. Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the chicago News

[From the Chicago News.
And a miss may be better than a
male.
teaches him something.
It's a poor brand of charity that
sticks to the fingers.
More failures are due to lack of will
than to lack of strength
A woman will pardon lack of sense
quicker than lack of manners.
There is more style about some
boarding houses than there is grub.
If you would be paid according to
your ideas of your worth, get busy.
The man who owes money usually
worries less than the man to whom he
owes it.
A man may select his own compan-
ions. but his relations are always
thrust upon him.
Following in the footsteps of an idle
man is about the most expensive trav-
cling imaginable.
An Ohio husband calls his wife
Birdie" because she is always asso-
ciated in his mind with a bill
What a noiseless world this would
be if women were as quiet all the time
as they are when it comes to telling
their age.
A wise girl never lets the young
man she has spotted for her own see
her with her hair in curl papers until
after the parson has said his fatal
words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
PEACE is ONLY ROAD TO LAW.


Under the above caption, the San
Francisco Chronicle printed recently
a mighty sensible editorial on the
present crisis that confronts the IA
ton, as follows:
There must be millions of Ameri-
cans, in the parts of the country dis
tant by a few hundred miles from
the northeast seaboard and out of
touch with the war industries who
believe that it is the presidents duty
to keep the United States out of war,
whether or not he is able, in doing 50,
to maintain that "fine fabric of in
ternational law which seems such a
tangible object to him. In the present
state of the world the expediency of
keeping out of war is of far more i'm
portance and of far greater moral
value than the particular principle
of international law which happens to
be at stake.
Only on the supposition that war
will be a normal state for years to
come would the president be clearly
justified in going to the length of
declaring war rather than yield a
point at law. But it is impossible
that the present holocaust should last
many years longer or that it should
be followed by others as gigantic.
There is not material in the world to
furnish such another war in this gem
Grafton, and there are signs that the
next generation, being forced to
choose between doing without war or
doing without civilization, will put an
end to war. We are at the very
height of a world crisis which will not
be repeated and which must be met
with a practical solution, not with
legal or abstract one
If this view is correct it would be
better to let international law be
ripped to tatters than to throw aside
law altogether and go to war We
deceive ourselves if we think that a
war with Germany would be no more
than a cool argument in favor of the
right Of American travellers to sail on
belligerent vessels. So far as we could
get at Germany the war would be an
attempt on the part of individual
Americans to kill, mutilate or starve
individual Germans. 1t would destroy
law, not create it.
President Wilson might let it be
known without officially suggesting il,
that American citizens can aid him
by keeping off beIligerent merchant
vessels. He might also, IL he thought
best. protest against the sinking of
passenger carrying vessels, and give
warning of his intention to break off
relations if American lives were lost as
result of the submarine warfare.
These steps would neither humiliate
his countrymen nor involve them in
war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
Euening Chat
Half Truths or None.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


There are few things less kind and
more futile to my mind than the faint
praise given by the person who is
trying to steer a middle course be-
tween telling a lie and saying out
right that he doesn't like your new
hat or other new appurtenance.
When anyone tries to compromise
between being unkind and telling an
untruth, he Cor she, more likely
usually succeeds only in being I'M
kind and telling a half-truth which
is by intention an untruth.
For instance, you have a new gown
You put it on for inspection. 1t IS a
blue gown. Your inspector looks you
over and says, "Yes, it's real pretty"
this in ha1f-hearted tones. A moment
the brown dress you used to wear, and
says with fervor, 81 do like you in
brown"
Have you any doubt what she
thinks of your new dress, which IS not
brown? Not the slightest.
Or you display your new evening
gown. Not a word about becoming
ness or style says the audience, but
Isn't that a lovely piece of lace ?"
OF course you are glad to have your
well that she doesn't like the rest of
the gown. She has saved her soul
alive by telling only the truth, and
she has given you that sick, miserable
feeling which any woman has when
she finds that the new gown she has
lotted on SO much is not becoming,
especially when she knows that she
cannot have another for many moons
Again, you appear in your new
hat and wait in breathless hopes and
fears for the verdict
Couldn't you tip it a little more to
one side"" inquiries the jury. There,
that's betteri" with an accent on the
better" that says all too plainly that
it is so only by comparison with a
very feeble good.
they have been tactful in saying
nothing unkind, and truthful in that
they said nothing but the truth.
AS for the tactfulness, did they
never hear of damning with faint
praise?
AS for truthfulness, isn't it their
intention to make the possessor think
they liked the gown or hat? And what
is a lie but IAN intention to deceive ?'
What would 1 have them do?
I would not want to advise in so
delicate matter, but if you want my
own method of procedure, here it is:
If the thing is something which can
be changed, like a method of hair
dressing or a garment sent on ap-
proval, or a sutton being weighed in
the balance, and don't like it, I say
SO frankly.
But if it is something irrevocable,
say I like it, not so enthusiastically
perhaps as I do when I'm really
pleased. but warmly enough not to
give my hearer a chill.
One thing I'm careful to do.
don't repudiate my judgment by I'd
uniting afterwards when the dress is
thrown aside that I never liked it.
Doubtless st. Peter will think
much less of me than If I merely lied
by inference. And yeti wonder p
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