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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

London Nov 13-A Bucharest off,
ficial statement today. the first re-
ceived since Saturday last reported
the withdrawal of the Rumanims
from the jul valley but throws little
light on the situation around Gro
via. The Rumanians are reported to
have maintained their position in the
Alt Valley.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23
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Revival interesting.

The revival at the West Side
Methodist church is continuing with
increasing interest and attendance.
Gods power is being manifested in
the conviction, conversion and re-
claiming OF souls The preliminary
services are very interesting being
intersporsed 8ith special songs,
Scripture auotatons etc Or Case,
district superintendent preached last
might You are cordially invited to at
tend these services Pastor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23
Brings Down 22n Aeroplane

Paris, Nov % - Sub-Lieutenant
Guymer. the well known French ayi-
ator has brought down his twenty
second German aeroplane according
to announcements made by the French
war office this afternoon.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23
Post Office to Oper
On Thanksgiving Day.

Postmaster Olsmith will carry out
the usual custom Of the Guthrie post
office by making one city delivery on
Thanksgiving morning and keeping
be genera delivery window open
from $3.50 to 1890 There will be no
ural route mail delivery on that day.
uthrie will probably be the only city
n the state to serve the public on that
lay. All drop mail will be sent out.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

~ million francs d month to J0 mil
lion according to an Amsterdam dis-
patch quoting the Echo Beige 1t is
said that me levy is to pay me cost Of
maintenance Of the German army Of
occupation and German administers
ton of the occupied territory.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

London Nov % The morning
rlpors attach the greatest importance
TO the program just announced Of
addresses to be delivered in the var
ious cities of Great Britain by lead
Ing members Of the cabinet. 1t is
stated that the addresses are intend
ed to gain the spirit of the public for
more vigorous prosecution Of the war,
and thus to combat the entire war
propaganda in industrial centers.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23
HEARING ON SHAFFER
COUNTY CONTINUED
CONTINUED FROM PAGE aNsA

(coNTiFUEo FROM PAGE oNEl
for briefs on three points Of law, viz.
The effect of county seats attempt
ing to extend their corporate limits
In view of the provisions Of law that
limit new counties to certain dis
tances from county seats of othel
counties sufficiency Of the descrrp
ion Of the proposed new county
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

new oil field counties. New counties
are likely to asled about Ringing
and other parts of the southern oil
field.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23
No Wounded on Hospital Ship

London, Nov 28-The British ad
miralty today confirmed the press
advice that there were no wounded
on board the hospital ship Brittanic
when she was sunk Those on the
vessel were her crew and the hospital
staff.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23
OIL and Gas Lease Blanks.

Oil and gas lease blanks for sale
It The Leader office Conform to
Ill late supreme court decisions.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

whether names may be Withdrawn by
slgners Of petition for a new c0un
ty pending hearing before the exec
utlye
Thus the new county question has
taken on a new lease and will become
the subject for more discussion be-
fore the governor and If the procia-
nation shall be issued before the
people Of the territory affected and
possibly before the coming legIsla-
ture.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

German Levy on Belgium Increased
London, Nov g The German levy
on Belgium has been increased from
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

CGYars every rural route = The
'aly Leader
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-11-23

Have The Leader Delivered. 45c mo.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

public accountant, Birsky, I figure that
followed Miss Morgan's advice, Birsky,
the drygoods stores would shut down
around Christmas, and all them sales
ladies would not only take a vacation
in the summer time, but in the winter
time also; and then the question is,
how is them salesladies going to raise
money for their winter vacations?"
Miss Morgan would get up a SUBJ
scription maybe" Birsky suggested.
"And the proceeds after the expenses
of collection were deducted would sup
port twenty-three six ~hundredths of a
saleslady for COOS hours, Birsky,"
Zapp concluded, (which the trouble
with them people that figure out the
averages is that they don't consider
human beings as men and women, but
as fractions ausgereckoned to hun-
dred t~houSandthS yet. Also it's a good
thing to figure out the averages on
the percentages of people that set off
fireworks and don't get burned, and
the percentage of people that it
wouldn't do a bit of harm to if they
bought NICE in a while for somebody a
present, useful or otherwise. In other
words, Birsky, if you're going to reck-
on up the averages on anything, the
best way is to figure how it will affect
one hundred one hundredths of the
people twelve months out of the year,
and then go to work and get up the SO.
ciety for the Prevention of Prevention
Societies and limit the membership to
one hundred million Americans. Most
of us would join it,"
(Copyright.)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

lea is decorating graves on the thir-
tieth of May"
still, in a way, IT'S a good thing thai
Christmas is more or less a thing of
the past" Zapp said, because when
you tried to collect a bill from m
body around Christmas time, it didn't
make no difference if he was retired
from business except for a 10 per cent
interest in a bathing suit factory, he
would want you to wait till his Christ
mas rush was owe Also people didn't
give no orders because it was around
Christmas, Birsky, and just because it
was near Christmas and they claimed
they could use all the money they
could get, your creditors wanted you to
pay bills which you hardly knew you
owed on account of not receiving the
second monthly statement yet. Fur
thermore if you owned a tenement
house, you'd got difficulty collecting
the November rem because the ten
ants said it was SO near Christmas, and
that's the way it went, Birsky. People
treated Christmas hot as a holiday, but
as an excuse The wonder is it amt
died out altogether"
"The wholesaler wouldn't miss it if
it did," Birsky commented. Believe
me, Zapp, for every child that lays
awake the night before Christmas
thinking what his parents are going
to hand him the next morning, there is
fifty manufacturers counting sheep
jumping over fences, trying not to
think what some of their customers in
the retail drygoods trade is going to
hand them after the second of Janu-
airy. 1t don't require much water to
drown a shaky drygoods retailer. He
can sink like a stone in two days rain
during the week before Christmas"
Don't 1 know it," Zapp said. "If
the Christmas presents that the whole
salers give by mistake to shaky retail
drygoods men was put on trees the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

Of July, all the fr%ankfurter factories
and trolley companies go quick me-
chullah."
"Aber, what's that got to do with
Christmas?" Birsky asked.
"Tm coming to that" Zapp said.
"PeOple are commencing to figure aver
ages on Christmas also. Take Miss J.
2. Morgan, and she figures that out of
every million Christmas presents dis
played in stores a certain percentage
of people buys something which they
couldn't afford and gives it to a GER
tain percentage of people which amt
got 10 use for it at all. So she goes
to work and gets up a Society for the
Prevention of Useless Giving, and con-
sequently a certain percentage of dry
goods stores loses a certain percentage
Of customers which formerly had a
rotten bank account and a good dis
position, and has now got a good bank
account and a rotten disposition
"But Miss Morgan done this for a lot
of salesladies which used to spend
their money so foolishly at Christmas,
Zapp, that they had nothing left to
take a vacation with in the summer
time"
THAT RAY be so, Birsky," Zapq said,
'and while l amt exactly a certified
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16
What to Give for Christmas.

Gifts for men: Tobacco jars, ink
wells, shaving mugs, ash trays, match
boxes, combs, hat marks, handker-
chiefs, watch chains, fobs, coat hang
ers, hat brushes, clothes brushes, bath
robes, smoking jackets, pocketbooks,
bill files, cuff buttons, books, or sub
scriptions to magazines and farm pa
pers.
For women: Rings, chains, laval
Heres, bracelets, hat pins, sleeve but
tons, manicure sets, jewel boxes, gilt
clocks, card cases, hat brushes,
combs, toilet sets, toilet articles and
perfumery, fountain pens, silk or EN-
broidered waists, birthstone rings,
hand bags, pictures, mirrors, Or bank
books and bank deposit.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

follow, Former times if a retail dry
goods concern didn't got half their
salesladies faint on 'em every night
for two weeks before Christmas, their
creditors would come down on them
and ask them to discount their bills.
Nowadays if a cash girl gets a head
ache, that's big already"
Birsky nodded sadly.
"Christmas is dying out" he de-
clared. 'The people is getting too
wise, Zapp. 1t used to be that if you
wanted to push your stickers,-wheth-
er it was handkerchiefs, socks, neck
ties, oder gloves, all you had to do
was to wait till the first of December,
mark 'em up 80 per cent over the regu-
lar retail price for fresh goods, put
'em in red paper boxes, understand,
and your customers practically used
blackjacks on each other to get at the
counter where the goods was dis
played. Christmas silver articles was
also good sales. 1 seen butter dishes
go like hot cakes, which the salesladies
was warned not to dust them off nit
feathers ever on account it might
scratch the silver plate and show the
brass underneath. But that's a thing
of the past now, And who done it,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16
1881
1881 1916
Atlantic City National
Bank
ATLANTIC CITY, n. ]

AAb]AANA liz I'LL L IN. d.
capital 50,60s
Surplus and Profits. ........ 10000
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENE
IN BURGLAR-PROOF VAULTS
Officers. r
CHARLES EVANS ...... President
j. HAINES LIPPINCOTT
First Vice-Preatdent
DAVID FITZSIMONS
Second Vice-PresIdent
ELWOOD S. BARTLETT. Cashier
Directors.
Charles Evans David Fitzsimona
George Allen Edward s. Lee
J. Haines Lippincott VIM. H. Bartlett
Geo. T. Lippincott John C. Shape
c. B. Deacon
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

way other Christmas presents are, they
would cover all the redwood groves in
California. But it amt the retailers
fault, Birsky. Sometimes the Teller is
playing in hard luck like a merchant
like l used to sell goods to by the name
Felix Immerglick out in Cincinnati,
which a couple of years ago last
Christmas he specialized on sleighs,
skates and cheap furs, ard from De
cember Is on they got such a warm
spell in Cincinnati that the hotel keep
ers figured should they or should they
not open the roof gardens again. So
the following year Immerglick cut out
the sleighs and skates and laid in
bicycles, children'S books and a cry
attractive line of umbrellas, and I'M
merglick says that it's a wonder with
his luck he didn't also buy stock in
a chain of artificial ice factories. be-
cause on the day he received the goods
in November the thermometer goes
down to zero on him and stays that
way till Il week after his next spring
millinery opening. Can you blame such
a Teller that he settles with his cred
itors 30 cents on the dollar?'
Listen, Zapp," Birsky said, 50 30
cent-on-the-dollar Teller could always
pin his bust-up on either a warn
Christmas, n cold Easter CT an invalid
wife, whereas the figures show that
the average of real cold Christinases
amt 10 more than the average of real
sick wives"
'Sure I Know, Birsky, but figuring
out the average is what has done the
most barn to poker, pinochle, the
Fourth of July, Christmas and all them
things that former time people enjoyed
running chances GA. Take, for in
stance, the Fourth of July. and a lot
cf people which consider wen safety
matches gefahrlieh goes to work and
figures thar out Of every million people
that shoots off ~frecrackers, one and
seven hundred and ffty-twO one thou
sandtl.s people gets burned, so they
Put the fireworks manufacturers out
CT business. and now instead of setting
off fireworks people goes to the shore
"r trolley parks on the Fourth and as
sOon rs it gets figured out that of ey-
cry million people that goes to trolley
parks and Coney Island, six and nine
ty-seven three-thousandths gets Ma
geLsaure from eating f%rankfurters ard
run I've by trolley ears Oh the Fourth
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

XXTHEN Christmas comes, I never
wv mind the cold.
l like to get up prompt an go
to school,
An do my sums,
An clean the walks 'thout waitin' to be
told
Though I like sleddin' better. as a rule.
Or buildin' forts But nothin' amt so
bad
When Christmas comes.
When Christmas comes, I'd just as lief
give half
Ny cooky to the baby, In a care
About the crumbs.
It's fun to make the little fellow laugh.
An 1 don't mind his taggin' everywhere.
He can't help bein' little! I'm not mad
When Christmas comes.
When Christmas comes, I don't forget to
give
My shoes a wipe, an scrub my ears a
lot
Till my head huns.
An mother says, That's boys too good
to livei"
But I'm not 'fraid of dyin', cause I'm
not
No different from always-only glad
When Christmas comes!
Abigail Williams Burton. in December
st. Nicholas.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

Zapp? 1t was the Teller that invented
the saying: DO your Christmas shop
ping early"
"Who did invent it," zapp asked.
81 should know who invented it J"
Birsky exclaimed. But whoever he
was, Zapp, he put a bigger crimp in
the cheap handkerchief business than
the Teller who invented rhinitis tablets,
because if you are doing your Christ
mas shopping arount the first of Octo-
Der when all them poor fellers that
runs summer hotels and bathing pa
vilions is saying to themselves: Now
it gets warm Zapp, handkerchiefs for
colds are the furthest from your
thoughts. Also children whose moth
ers do their Christmas shopping in
September is apt to get school supplies
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

The Pleasantville Press a whole
year for only One Dollar. Can you
beat it?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16
BY GLASS

amt
what it used to
be-" Barnett Zapp
remarked, as he
sat opposite Louie
Birsky in Wasser-
bauer'S restau-
rant.
"Sure l know"
Birsky# S a / d,
spreading a slice
of rye bread with
mustard as he
waited for an or
der of kreploch
soup, with ge-
futile tebeches to
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16

81 told my boy that Santa Claus is
only a myth"
"HOw did he take it?'
"He didn't seem much impressed. He
merely remarked that every great and
good man has to be subjected to some
kind of u%nfavorable comment"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16
Dont's for Parents.

Christmas week don'ts for pa
te~rfa1ilias: Don't open bureau
drawers. Don't look into clos
cts. When the collar button
rolls under the chiffonier or the
bed, don't pursue it; it is better
to let thy collar go loose than
to risk the premature revelation
of the Christmas socks, Leckties
or lace curtains. Be blind, be
blind-and again, be Blind
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-12-16
Thinking What His Parents Are Co
ing to Hand Him Next Morning."

instead of sleighs, because Il shopper
ain't got no imagination, Zapp. She
buys what's in season, and if she was
doing her Christmas shopping as early
as the Fourth of July, understand,
she would come home with fireworks. -
Say" zapp said, Tipping the fingers
of his right hand at Birsky. ~'stGrekeep,
ers amt allowed to sell no more fire
works around the Fourth of July. It's
against the law"
"I know it," Birsky continued, "and
if people couldn't shoot off f|irecrackers
around the Fourth Ct July ard coulGn't
shop around Christmas, all if needs is
tAat it should be Il suspended sentence
or eating turkey On Thanksgiving, and
he only pleasure we got left in Amer
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-26
Steps to Happiness
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Most of US spend our lives in pur-
suit of happiness. But she is COM
plctely elusive, and when we think we
have gained her, we always find that
she lies somewhere beyond.
We all want superlative happiness
and happiness is only comparative
We are happy as we give JOY to 9TH
ers, fulfill our daily tasks, and work
toward a goal Of achievement.
Real happiness lies in amounting
to something" in this world. And
amounting to something means doing
our honest best with our own posi-
bilities and helping other people real
ize theirs.
An old-time philosopher has sug-
gested steps to happiness. Here
they are: Accept Your Limitations.
Seize Your Opportunity. Enjoy the
Good OF the Hour. Improve the Bad,
and if You Can't Let it Drop.
Let us examine these suggestions.
Accept Your Limitations" means be
sane and logical about your posi-
bilities. Don't exaggerate your tai
ents and insist on flying when it is
hard for you to do anything more
than walk. In other words, take stock
of yourself and make the best OF
what you are and have it in you to
be. But don't refuse to sing well in
the chorus just because you aren't
able to be the prima donna.
Seize Your Opportunity" That, of
rnarcn ,,,a,,p ka a,.,Ata orJ atart a..
whatever chance offers you and make
the most of the tiniest opening
through which it is possible to force
your way to success.
Enjoy the Good of the Hour" Be
happy over the little, things and don't
worry because they are not eternal.
No sunset was ever less beautiful be-
cause it was foredoomed to fade and
Joy and beauty have almost an added
charm because they are not perma-
nent. Learn to find JOY in little mo-
mentary blessings. So you get "a
happy tendency, frame of mind that
makes for cheer.
Improve the Bad--and ifyou Can't
Let it Drop" Don't sit idly by with
folded hands and accept unpleasant
circumstances. Do your best to over
come them--your honest best. But
if you find that faith will not quite
move mountains but only show you
the way to toll over them, try to sur
mount them.
If footsore and weary you have to
give up and retrace your path, be
cheerful about that, too: Failure
brately accepted is sort of success.
After all these signposts to happi-
ness only lead you on the path to
peace. Peace of mind is the greatest
happiness mortals can grasp and pos
sess. 1t comes from the knowledge
of duty we'll done, of work honestly
performed and of kindness and love
given to others.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-26

Facts for Curious

The royal arsenal at Woolwich, Englaa
has more than fifty miles of internal ra .
ways.
Austria is the only empire in the worll
which has never had any colonies or over
sea possessions.
The most elaborate almanac in the world
is that which has been issued for centuries
by the Chinese government.
Boys are stronger than girls from birth
to the eleventh year. then girls become supe-
rior physically to the seventeenth year.
So large is the great Spanish palace of
the Escurial that it would take several days
to go through all its rooms and apartment.
The three founders of the modern German
empire were possessed Of extraordinary long
evity. William l was 81, Moltke was also
81. and Bismarck was SO.
Winnipeg has twenty-one public play
grounds and the system has developed to
such an extent that the average daily at
tendance during the summer months is 1861
children.
The largest railway scale I'D has
recently been completed at West Albany.
NJ Y 1t is capable of accommodating a
load of l,650,OO0 pounds. 1t consists of six
weighing instruments each having a capacity
of 275, 900 pounds. 1t is designed for weigh
ing locomotives and other heavy rolling
stock.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-26
Advace TO Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

O. s.--your letter is too lengthy to permit
reproduction, hut Il shows that you have
allowed yourself to become morbid in con-
temptation of q situation you cannot con-
troll Reason should tell you tho young man
was unworthy Of the love you gave him; It
is. Of course. n great wrench to you, but
You must conquer this hopeless feeling. 1t
WIN be far better for you to go among your
friends and acqyaintances with smile on
your face, and fake full part in all their
pleasures, and III time you will realize the
Joy Of life and the blessing you have in
escaping from man whose interest in you
was, based on the property he expected you
to inherit His shabby action In getting you
to return the ring by subterfuss is proof
Of his capacity for deception. Do not
waste any more time mourning for him. but
rejoice at your easy deliverance.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-26
How to Judge a
Woman by Her Hair

There are always the well-known
and semi-humorous methods, such as
saying brunettes are quick-tempered.
But there is real common sense in
just noticing whether the hair is we'll
kept to Judge woman's neatness.
If you are one of the few who try
to make the most of your hair, re-
member that it is not advisable to
wash the hair with any cleanser made
for all purposes, but always use some
good preparation made expressly for
shampooing. You can enjoy the very
best by getting some canthrox from
your druggist and dissolving tea
spoonful in a cup of hot water when
your shampoo is all ready. After its
use the hair dries rapidly with uni
form color. Dandruff, excess oil and
dirt are dissolved and entirely disap-
pear. Your hair will be so fluffy that
it will look much heavier than it is.
Its lustre and softness will also de-
light you, which the stimulated scalp
gains the health which insures hair
Observation-Disclosures.