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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-29
STATE OFFICIAL KILLS
SELF FEARED BLUNDER
r. M. Starr Died Thinking He Had
Wrongfully Diagnosed Cat
tie Disease.

Brooding over the belief that he had
been mistaken in diagnosing a disease
affecting 800 cattle in Rogers county
and had prescribed a serum which had
resulted in the infection of two men.
State Veterinarian Frank NJ. Starr end
ed his life at o'clock Monday after
noon by shooting himself through the
right temple The tragedy occurred in
IN hotel at Claremore Death came
within three hours.
Previous to the suicidal act. Starr
wrote short note 10 his wife and
babies who are visiting relatives in
Odessa. Mo. Mrs Starr is recovering
from serious illness In the note he
informed his wife that his life must
pay the penalty for his wrong luds
ment
Note to Family.
MY dear wife and babies: How do
hate To leave you, but | must sac
mice my life for the blundcr | have
made How do desire to see Won
ana the bables God bless them
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-29

dergong alterations and repairs at
their home yards, and the armored
cruiser West Virginia, on the west
coast which is being fitted for aero
plane work
Some Crews Reduced.
or the battleShips enumerated as
ready, Admiral Benson said fifteen had
reduced regular crews On three the
crews were fitted out with cadets from
the naval academy. who completed their
summer cruises Monday and nine were
manned in part by civilian volunteers
and naval militia The remainder had
full, regular crews.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-29
Diagnosis Correct.
GREAT BASEBALL
SENSATION!

The momrntous question of why
Casey struck out Is satisfactorily an.
swered for the first time In "Casey at
the Rat" Triangle photoplay based on
~" celebrated baseball poem, today and
wednesday at the Empress Adv.
Storage batteries for any car: re.
pairing and recharging Prun,y Co.,
AT w. Main-Adv
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-29

know how sweet they ARE. hut
can stay with YOU any longer Good
by forever FRANK.
George Vincent ono OF the men IN
tccied by the serum Starr had pre-,
Scrlbed for the cattle, is now in Kan
saS City hospital recovering from the
effects ot blood poison III one arm
thought 10 have been contracted while
administering the serum. Starr. it i,
believed, though, this mans condition
was critical.
Diagnosis Correct.
Frank NJ Gault, president of the
state board of agriculture, declared
last night that he believed STAIRS di.
agnoSls OF the Rogers county cattle
disease was correct and that the state
veterinarian was laboring under mis-.
apprehension
The Starr iamlys home in Oklaho.
ma City is at o0l East Tenth street.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-29
Bells, The Naturalization of The Bell"

School days Not long before the bells will ring Is your little
brood ready Boys? Girls? Both? Bring Kerrs!
preparations have been rounded into completeness Stocks entire
and perfect Departments enlarged The of the
store to the fourth floor cuts More the third
for girls and more the fourth floor for boys Keep mind
Suits and dresses of character and quality Such clothes aid d
reng the idea shoot straight and Really
f effect of sIp*hod clothes upon the minds young
incalculahei
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-29
CASEY AT THE BAT"

Ernest Thaycr's celebrated baseball
poem IN pictures viii be presented today
and "Wednesday al the Empress with ne
Wolf Hopper, famous comedian, In Lead
ing role ADV
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-06
Hen Mothers Brood of Quails.

j. l.. Knots, who lives near Upton,
has Plymouth Rock hen of such
mOtherly instincts that she has adopt
ed a family of quails when she has
only one chick of her own.
The hen was sold to a huckster last
February and when being taken to
market escaped and took up her abode
n a woods near the Knots home She
was found again late in the spring, but
was so wild she could not be caught.
Again in June Mr. Knots was in the
woods, and to his surprise found that
the runaway had one chick and sixteen
young quails. During the summer she
cared for the brood and succeeded in
raising everyone Of them. Going to the
woods at night a short time ago, Mr..
Knots succeeded in catching the hen
and chick by throwing a blanket over
them, but the quails escaped.
The chick is about two-thirds grown
and is becoming domesticated. The
quails are old and large enough to care
for themselves and will live in the
woods. but it will be some time before
they will forget the cluck of their f0s-
ter mother.-Indianapolis News.
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Do you think that Miss Fiske
is in any way connected with
the Drummond Law Ember
Whitaker AFFAIR." If so, in what
manner?
(TO BE CONTINUED1
AIRSHIPS NOW USE WIRELESS
Heretofore Messages Could Not Be Re-
ceived on Account of Noise
Difficulty Overcome.

Upon his return TO London from
Italy, Guglielmo Marconi, in an inter
view with British journalists, gave the
following information New develop
ments will not only make wireless
communication in this war more eff
cient than ever before, but viii make it
more difficult for the enemy to inter-
cept messages. These improvements
Will apply to instruments in aeroplanes
aid airshipS. Hitherto aeroplaneS have
been st disadvantage with airships
in wireless work, for although they
were able to transmit messages, they
have not been able TO receive them.
This was because the receiving signal
was too faint TO be distinguished, be-
ing drowned by the noise of the aero
plane engine. Now we have been able
to strengthen the receiving signal suffi-
GENTLY to enable messages to be
taken"
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Heal by CoIor's Aid.

ii. Kemp PrOSSer, who designed the
two interiors in the French play La
bergette," thinks persons who wish
to retain their vitality and normality
in war time should avoid certain col
OrS.
Cardinal red" he said, "is the SYM
Dol of murder, hate and cruelty. Sage
green means vileness and brown de-
cay.
Lemon yellow, on the other hand,
suggests to persons who are sensitive
to color influence, light and life. That
is why | suggest this color should
dominate color schemes in hospitals
and homes for wounded soldiers
I'm my rest room at Chelsea for SOL
dierS the symbOlical colors used were
lemon yellow, mauve, sapphire, tur-
quoise and blue. A golden piano was
draped with a lemOn-yellow curtain,
on which were embroidered q dove
bearing the emblem of peace, an
Egyptian symbol expressing the keys
of life and a white rose, emblem of
power and silence. Beautiful lamps
repeated the cOlers blue, mauve and
turquoise. London Correspondent
New York Herald.
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United States Salt Production.

In the production of that indispens-
able continent, salt, the United States
is happily independent of all other
countries. The 1921 ,496 barrels of
salt produced in 1915 by IA states, Por-
to Rico, and Hawaii constituted 90 per
cent of the salt consumed in this cOun-
try, and much more could easily have
been supplied had the demand required
it. Salt occurs naturally in two dis
tinct ways-as rock salt, in beds or
associated with bedded or Sedimentary
deposits, and in natural brines. The
larger part of our salt is obtained by
converting rock salt that lies deep be-
low the earths surface into artificial
brines, which are pumped to the sur
face and there evapOrated. Some idea
Of the quantity Of salt evaporated from
natural brines may be gained from
statistics of the output of Michigan
alone for 1915. That state yielded
6,7OS,261 barrels of evaporated salt
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APlainMan' S
Wife
NQ
~
By FRANK FILSON
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
lConYrisht 1915 by W G. Chairman

Copyright, 1916, by w. G. Chapman)
Listen, George! What do you think
of this? If the sale of a book is any
fair criterion of its merit, then Mrs.
Latham's latest production, The Sen
tinel of Lone Peak of which we I'M
derstand twenty thousand copies have
been sold as first edition, must be of
high order. Isn't that fiattering,
George?"
7 George Latham nodded. He looked
admiringly at his pretty wife, whose
brOws were now contracted with a
SpaSm of indignation.
80, wake up, George she eX-
claimed. Don't be so dreadfully slow.
George, is it impossible for you ever
to get the most rudimentary instinct
for literature?"
Il like your books, my dear" an
swered her husband.
80, yes, because I've pointed out
their qualities to YOU" said Nita
Latham. But if l hadn't would you
have known that they were any bet
ter than the common books one
reads?"
Eyes, dear"
s'You wouldn't, George. And that's
what humiliates me so. People speak
of you now as Mrs Latham's husband.
Why can't you do something, George?"
II made ninety thousand dollars last
year, my DEAR" said George Latham.
his wife, leaving the room.
George Latham knew that to be true.
He had married Nita ten years before,
when she was poor girl, without any
literary ideas, though she always had
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-12-06
Martyrs Tomb in Persia.

Among the sights which always at.
tract the interest of travellers through
Persia are Ispahan's minarets of the
twelfth century, the famous shaking
minarets of Guladan," the ruins of the
old fire temple, and the still wonder
fully impressive, massive-domed
mosque of Mesjid Shah. A conscien-
tious guide will perhaps lead the Wis
itor to a long, wide slab bearing the
words ICY git Rudolphe" and relate its
story. This is the tomb of Rudolph
Stadler, matchmaker, who, according
to a famous chronicler, was ''the first
and only European ever publicly exc
cuted in Persia during the reign of
Shah Suti," the barbarous grandson
of Abbas the Great. Stadler had killed
a Persian for supposed intrigue with
his wife. The shah offered him his
life provided he would renounce Chris
tianity and become a Moslen, but he
resolutely refused, whereupOn he was
decapitated.
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DIDN'T HAVE TO STEAL MONEY
Numbering Old Adage, "Honesty
is the Best Policy"

LEFT that money at the office, by
thunder" said Mr.. Lewis aloud to him
self when inquiring jabs at coat and
trouser pockets had proved him wal
letleSS. Must get it-late now-com-
pany for dinner-can't be helped-get-
ting DID," he mumbled as he fastened
back to his office. He found the JAM
tor sweeping. Now this functionary,
Dave by name, had two species of
sweeps, one the cleansing spirit Of
gratitude, the other an ingratiating
sweep of favors TO be asked. 1t de-
pended upon whether Mr.. Lewis had
| been, or was to be asked. for the
never-to-be-repaid loan of dollar
This afternoon Dave swept thank
FULLY. His benefactor had lent" him
tive dollars to help pay the carriage
bill for his late sisters genteel and
Iong-remembered funeral His sister
had ranked high in her C, urch, and
was q dignitary in two societies, there
fore the eXtortionate carriage bill of
$50. 1T sho was a grand funeral, Mr.
Lewis" the bereaved brother had said,
as he pocketed the five and reached
for his broom.
Therefore, when Mr.. Lewis poked his
forgetting head inside of his office door,
Dawes gratitude was expressing itself
in raising dust and moving furniture.
stop sweeping, Dave" he called
thu ough the veil of germs between
them. Forgot something-had to
| come ck-late-company coming. l
left my billfold. Seen it?'
"Yas, sab, hits a settin on de suspi-
dore top oh de hat-rack, ober yonder."
the janitor directed.
Mr.. Lewis .clutched the pocketbook,
started TO the door, then paused.
Dave" he questioned, standing on the
| threshold-"why didn't you take this
yourself, when you had the chance?
You know that carriage bill"
"Yas, sab, l amt forgittin' dat ere
bill, but | amt got ter steal from you,
Mr.. Lewis. You'll len me de money,
| jes any time / axes yer"
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good taste in reading. He had made
money all his life, and he had come to
realize with bitterness how it newt
ably ate into their happiness.
Three years before Nita, tired Of
their friends, had surrounded herself
with literary hangers-On, including a
few embittered women who wrote
upon their wrongs and their sex's
wrongs for the press. Now all their
guests discussed things which he had
q vague idea even q married woman
should know nothing about. And they
talked of literature till his head
ached.
They despised him, the pack of
them, especially since Nita had at
tanned fame with her first novel,
woman or Man?" Ten thousand cop
les had been sold, and the press had
published extensive criticisms about it.
1.-THE Sentinel of Lone Peak" his
wife's latest, was not romance as
the name might imply. The sentinel
was woman and Lone Peak was the
position of the lonely woman (Nita)
too advanced for her age, and misun-
derStood; also bound down by dOmes
tic ties.
George was spoken of as Mrs.
Latham's husband" He was an out
cast in their own home. Long-haired
poets trampled upon him, metaphor
icaIly speaking, and made love to Nita
under guise of sympathy.
There was worse than that. Mia
had grown tired of him, She had
limited at divorce. She said that she
wanted to find her soul.
The quarrel was renewed on success
sive days. 1t was the old story of the
drudging husband and the brilliant
wife. Nita knew that she must take
the step-he never would.
"You ought to leave that man. He's
just dragging you down." said Miss
Tasseler, author of THE Conquering
SeX?' delicate satire which some
had pronounced indicate. "COme
with me to the lecture tonight, by Mil
dred Burns. She has been married
five times, you know, and she says
there's no possibility of a real woman
living happily with a man. 1t will
open your eyes
Nita went. George stayed at home,
smoking, and dreaming of the things
Mia had refused to like. He didn't
want literature in his home he wanted
a pair of childish arms about his neck.
The lecture had been advertised eX-
tensively, and, to the disgust of Miss
TaSSeler, the back seats were filed
with motley crew who had come TO
scott. They were not at the rear, ex-
actIy, but behind the elite, and the
seats about them were filled with the
soulless crowd. who passed audible re-
marks about the lecturer and the COM
pany.
Presently, to her intense indignation,
two fat men in the seat behind began
talking of Nita.
That's the woman, sitting in front
of u.s." said one, in a loud whisper,
which Nita heard perfectly. .She
writes, you know, and leaves her hus-
band to stay home and nurse the ba-
bies''
81 guess there aren't any," said the
other fat man. THAT sort of woman
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lights; the red lamp swung into view
as he glanced, like an obscene and sar-
donic eye. They were, then, making
eaStwards. He wrought only the more
Justify with the oars.
Happily the Fiske motor boat swung
at mooring not great distance from
the shore. Surprisingly soon he had
the small boat alongside Hastily he
disengaged the mooring hook, located
the switch and started the motor. Half
a mile away the red light was slipping
swiftly eastward over Silyered waters
The Trouble leaped out like a live
thing, settling to its course with the
fleet precision of an arrow truly loosed
Probably no more severe critic of his
own chivalric foolishness ever set him
self to succor a damsel in distress
Withal he entertained not the shadow
of thought of drawing back. AS long
as the other boat remained in sight: as
long as the gasoline and his strength
held out; as long as the Trouble held
together and he retained the Wit to
guide her-sG long Whitaker deter
mined to stick to the wake of the kid
naperS.
a little more than halfway between
their starting point and the head of the
bay, the leading boat swung sharply in
toward the Shore, then shot into the
mouth of narrow indentation. For
two or three minutes he could see moth
ing of the other. Then he emerged
from tortuous and CONSTRUCTED chan
mel into a deep cut, perhaps fifty feet
in width and spanned by a drawbridge
and a railroad trestle. At the farther
end of this tidegate canal connecting
the Great West bay with the Great
Peconic. the leading power boat was
visible. heading out at full speed me
half-mile lead fully re-estaplished.
Empty of all other craft, weird and
deSolate in moonlight, the Little Pc
comic waters widened and then mar
rowed about the flying vessels. Shore
lights watched them, now dim and far,
now bright and near at hand. Shelter
Island sound received them, slapped
their TANKS encouragingly with its rae
ing waves, sped them with an ebbing
tide that tore Stewards between con-
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itself In the low earth bank on Whit
aker's right. Needless, he pelted on.
The shot seemed to signal the end of
the other struggle at the landing stage.
Scarcely had it rung out ere Whitaker
saw the man lift a fist and dash it
brUtally into the woman's face. With
out a sound audible at that distance
she reeled and fell away; while the
man turned. ran swiftly out to the end
of the dock, cast off the headwarp and
jumped aboard the boat.
She began to sheer off as Whitaker
set foot upon the stage. She was TWEEN
ty feet distant when he found himself
both at its end and at the end Of his
resource. Frantic with despair, he
thrashed the air with impotent arms ;
fair mark, his white garments shining
bright against the dark background of
the land Aboard the moving boat an
automatic f1uttered, splitting ten shots
in as many seconds. The thud and
splash of bullets all round him brought
him to his senses. Choking with rage,
he stumbled back to the land.
On the narrow beach, near the dock,
n small fiat-bottOmed rowboat lay, its
stern aflOat, it's bows agrOund-aS it
had been left by the women surprised
in the act of launching it. Jumping
down, Whitaker put his shoulder to the
stem
AS he did so, the other woman
reused, got unsteadily to her feet,
screamed, then catching sight of him
staggered to his side. 1t was-as he had
assumed-the maid, Elise
''M'sieur! ~ she shriektd, thrusting a
tragic face with bruised and blood
stained mouth close to his. An,
observation-disclosures canailles-la-?'
Eyes, l know" he said brusquely.
Get out of the way-don't hinder
met"
The boat was now all a1oat. He
jumped in, dropped upon the middle
thwart, and fitted the oars in the row.
locks.
But, m'sieur what mean you to
do?"
Don't know yet" he painted -''fol-
low-leep them in sight"
The blades dipped; he bent his back
to Them the rOWbOat shot away.
A glance over his shoulder showed
him the boat of the marauderS already
well away. She now wore running
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won't raise 'em. Say, that husband OF
hers is miles too good for her, any,
way"
Nita wanted to turn round and glare,
but an Unsuitable curiosity held her
silent and motionless.
She's just a fake" said the fat
man. do you know what her hus-
band does? Buys all her books, by
heck! Pays for their publication, has
an enormous edition brought out, and
hires the critics to write puffs about
them"
Lord, I'd send her to the dishes
with flea in her earl" said the other
fat man. How do you know?"
Her publisher told me. Anyway,
it's an open secret Banks said he hest
tated to bring out her latest book, The
Sentinel of Lone Peak Said it was the
worst rubbish he had ever read, and
that to publish it meant the literary
disgrace of his firm. He matfe George
Latham come across stiffly, l hear.
Made him put up the price Of twenty
thousand copies"
Lord, amt he a fool - muttered the
other. whats that woman saying
about influencing men? The only way
to influence men is to feed the
brutes."
Nita sat Mortified in her seat. She
glanced at Miss Tasseler, but that lady
was leaning forward, intent upon Mil
dred Burns speech, and had not heard
a word of the dialogue behind them.
Nita felt a sense of disgust thrill
her. So that was what the covert sar-
casm of the criticism had meant.
George had put up the money, and the
publishing world was laughing at her !!
George, staying at home, had effaced
himself, to become the husband of a
celebrity whom he himself had made !!
The tears came into her eyes; and
at that moment the real soul of Ntta
Latham was born.
She slipped out Of her seat. "Tm
going home" she whispered. II don't
feel we'll"
"She certainly is OverpOwering," an
swered Miss Tasseler.
the apartment house she realized with
a deeper pang, that she had never
made George Il home. This was not
the sort of home she had contemplated
when she walked out of the church
beside him.
She opened the door and ran sobbing
into the living room. She kneeled' be-
side her husband and put her arms
round his neck. George, my dear,
I've found it all out" she whispered.
about your publishing the books"
George looked sheepish. eff l found
out who told you I'd wiring his neck"
he muttered your Stuff's too good
for 'em, my dear, that's the trouble"
mo, George, it's about as rotten as
as I am" answered Nita, penitently.
cts you who are too good for me.
Forgive me, my husband, and let me
be good wife to you"
"Why, Nita-" he protested.
well go away; We'll have our owp
real home, and"
And George saw his dream suddenly
show promise of realization.
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Thoughtful Wife.

A man condemned to be hanged was
visited the day preceding his execution
by his wife Can ignorant woman), who,
as the sequel will show, intended to
have no hitch in the carrying out of
the sentence. After the anxious In
quirieS about his health had been made
two parcels, and asked what was In
them.
Wife-This one contains change of
linen for you.
Husband-And the other one?
Wife-Oh, that is the clothesline. 1
brought it, as | did not know whether
they found the rope or we had to
provide one"
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of Course He Wouldn't Ask.

Oliver had been taught that II was
naughty to ask anyone for pennies.
His mother noticed he had come home
several times with a penny, SO one
day she asked: "Oliver, where did you
get your pennyW
Oliver Immediately replied: "From
the sweeper man" (meaning the street
sweeper).
Did you ask the sweeper man for a
penny"
mo, mamma, just &c up to the
sweeper man and say, 4 am looking
for a penny today and he gives me
one"
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Awful Wobbles.

Lewis, a minister's son, listened
gravely one evening while the minis
ter expressed his views regarding tight
skirts to his wife.
The next Sunday morning Lewis
tried, by waving his hand and point
ing, to attract his fathers attention
toward two ladies entering the church.
His efforts seemed to be in vain, and
at last he called:
"Look quick, father, there's two aw-
full wObbleS in the aisle"
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Pretty Often, Too.

During Bible lesson n teacher was
trying to explain the parable of the
tareS.
Can anyone tell me any person who
Is like the evil one who Sowed the
tares?"
A hand instantly shot up from the
foot of the class.
"Well, David, what person do you
say"
Please, ma'am, my mother"
"Why?" asked the teacher In aston
ishment.
Because" answered he, eying
his patched trousers, "she sews tears"