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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22
Swift Employees to
Be Granted Bonus

z CHICAGO. Nov. U--Employes who
wost IA The offices and The steady time
men Of Swih q Co. will receive . bonus
ot u percent ei ~ yesfiy sslasy Of
esd q qeoa = he ehecks eaa b made
oul Itle eanouncemeat>w t>was 0a6e 10
|dAy b Ia & Haywsrd, sscrssary. vbe
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22
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passoges Of your head clear .spd you
esn kieathe freely. No urore Aawkiue,
ssuiillng. blowing, hss1aeAa tfynsSs
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22
Tobacco Ratiot1ed'
To British Sfl1okers

ROTTERDAM, Eagiaal, Nov r.
Tobacco users In this town are. beng
registered and sationed and the sche.e
appears 10 be working very we'll. A.
ready i46Ss smokers have been en-
rolled and obtain their supplies with
cut difficulty. They take their NJ
tI6nai registration card to the police a.
flee, are placed on . customeris reg
isser and each receives 4 card vasieh h
taken to the tobacconist, Who accsp.s
the customer ~. c,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

Park DRIVEWAY RebuIit-The driveway
In Wheeler park. from the main road
10 the club houIe, which was badly dam
"~-A - henv rrins short time ago,
has been rebuilt and Ia now in excellent
condition.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22
50 Suits, $685.
Values s55 TO SOS

The smartest plain tailored ssits in 0kla-
homa City made Of velour. triectine and vel
vet beautifully made.
chafsss entered on December account pay
able January Isl.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

Beys Charged with Bursiary-Joe Hole
man and Buster Culhson, arrested yes
terdAy by Detectives Witfen and Con.
ners on burglary charges. were turned
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

Regular as blue serge suits made 10
order. special at $3.50. Bickel n Co,
tallors 2I0h W, Main. over Woolworth.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

city attorney OF Pawhuska are In Okla
homa City today on business before some
Of the state departments.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

u The Pawhuska das and Electric com
psny for permission TO increase rates on
gas at Pawhuska 10 being heard today
before the corporation commission.
paweuss<a Men Hsrs-,Judes T. J.
Leahy. an attorney, and p. l.. Mccain,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

Commission Msstino--A meeting OF the
state capitol building commission 10 be.
ing held today IN the office OF Governor
WIliiams.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

BaIlsy "Day" chalrman--Mayor over
holser has appointed Leonard n. Bailey
chairman OF the Great Britain day cere-
monies He will have full authority TO
dstsrmine the character OF the celebra-
tion, appoint all committees and other
wise manage details.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

Hunting Boats at park--An the pieas-
tre boats at Wheeler park have been
housed for the winter. A few boats Tor
hunting have been left In the river. These
will not DO housed until after the hunt
Ing season closes.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22
50 Suits, s5O.oO

Taken from stock and reduced from rsoa
$3.50 and $500 Lovely models d vslsss.
trieo,ins. duves De Iains plain o. wkh ns6sn
seal eoIlara You ess have ehasesd = D.
eember account payable Jaassy isA
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

Seven Irf,usnra Gases Seven new
cases OF influenza were reported today 20
the board OF health Ono death from
pneumonia is recorded.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-22

psudassN 10 Kansas city-Fred Park
inson, state examiner and inspector, Is
in Kansas City for few days on official
businsss
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
HELP SAVE THE CROPS
Winged Destroyers of Tree and Grain
Insects Should Be Protected Declare
the Audubon Societies.

The National Association of Audu-
bon Societies issued warning against
the indscriminate slaughter of birds
and wild life. declaring perls threaten
the agriculture of the United States
unless action is taken Immediately TO
save the lives of certain animals and
birds.
THE crops will save the nation the
bulletin says, but the birds will help
to save the crops. Therefore, it is nee
essnry that the birds be saved.
'.The fhoughtless and irresponsible
would kill the robins, and thus destroy
the natural enemies of grasshoppers.
beetles and eaterpilars. they would
eXterminate the woodpeckers and thus
execute those traditional watchmen of
our fruit and forest trees which de-
stroy the Larvae of the gypsy moth |,
they would do away with the chicka-
dees, which annually eat myriads of
bugs, canker worms, moth and plant
lice. They would Stay the orchard
oriole, the bulk of the food of which
consists of cabbage worms, grasshop-
pers aud the larvae of all kinds of nox
ious invaders of garden aud farm"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Deafness in Soldiers.

A novel cure for deafness in sol
diers has been found by British doe
tors, who believe in the power of sug-
geston to accomplish much that their
medical skill cannot Much of the
deafness at the front is hysterical,
born of the soldiers fear of going deaf
from the incessant pounding Of the ex-
plosives about him.
Many times these men cannotl be
cured by direct treatment. and it is
then that the unique system is brought
into play They are given very slight
anesthesa and tiny incision made IN
the skin behind an ear. Then an iron
plate Is hammered violently close To
the ear. In almost every instance
where the deafness Is hytcrical the pa
tients regain their hearing Immediate
", convinced that n serious and there
fore helpful operation has been per-
formed
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
SWore Just Like a Native.

Lieut.-Col. Oliver Dockery, in charge
of training of the 160th Depot brigade.
at Camp Custer, Mich, is from the
South and has something of the char
acteristic Southern accent. The other
day when 1000 negro recruits arrived
from Alabama Colonel Dockery ran
across a negro sergeant who was
marching a group of the new men
along in the rain and reproyed the
sergeant for taking his men out In
such weather and ordered them back
in the barracks. Just as they disap-
peared in the doorway one of the shiy-
ering little negroes from the South
turned around and said, dat sholy
am kind-hearted man. He cusses like
he come from down home. Dat boss
make me so homesick dat | believe |
is goin' TO cry" Boo-hoo. Boo-hooi
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Wffla LiaCOLa W0AE BEARD IS
Emanoipaior Disliked Monotony, Hence
His Frequent Charge Of Wearing
ant Not Wearing Whiskers.

The storm which Is raging around
the Barnard statue of Lincoln. says the
Toledo Blade. has brought out some in
teresting facts about the great enamel
pator, known probably only to his bio
graphers We recite, for example, that:
In 1s53 Lincoln wore beard
In 1851 and 1853 he was beardless.
During the debate with Douglas he
WAS growing a beard.
The day after his first nomination
the beard WAS gone.
Portraits of 1861, 1868 and 1864 show
The full beard. but before 1864 was
ended the Lincoln face was smooth
again. The last portrait, made on
April .. 1863, shows the fair beginning
of beard.
This history indicates change in
the views about whiskers as between
Iineon.s day and ours. The MN
with beard now holds his possession
10 be inyiolate. He would not merely
sue anyone who would lay the seis-
sors To his decorations, but he would
consider it n mortal sin 10 do any
such thing himself. In the matter Of
boards, as III everything else, Lincoln
retained an open mind. lie WIS not
above liking change for its own sake,
monotouy wearying him. That. If
you will study tbem, will be found 10
be one of the trd1ts of all great men.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07

At the beginning of the war the
dental surgeon, so far as the allies
we're concerned, was not officially rec
ognized in army circles, says Popular
Science Monthly. Indeed, IL was not
until the Germans marched into Brus-
sells. with dental post every ten kilo-
meters. that the allies appreciated the
Importance of oral hygiene.
Today there are IL American dental
field ambulances In France alone.
Men who were formerly sent home on
sick leave, whose only trouble was
their molars, are now kept at the
front. Soldiers to the number of a di-
vision and a half have thus been
spared to the army Furthermore, the
surgeons insist that wounded man
with bad teeth makes slow recovery.
And then, too, army rations are hard
to masticate. so that the man with
poor teeth '.bolts" his food and loses
strength and endurance. In our new
National army there will be dentist
for every 500 men.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
ARMY WITH ETERNAL SMILE
English Warriors Display Greatest
Fortitudc Especially During Hours
of Suffering in Hospitals.

Sir Berkeley Moynihan the represent
alive of Great Britain in the surgeon
generals office in Washington, said re-
Gently that the English army is an
army with smile, that il never wears
off and that where II is most persistent
is In the war hospitals. In his cease
less visits to the bedsides of the
wounded at night he could not but be
touched by the awful loneliness and
solitude and the aching misery of the
early hours of the dry. But never was
there whimper of regret or surren-
der.
Never would he forget one boy who
had bad compound fracture of the
knee joint. which every effort had
been made to save. In spite of the
efforts gangrene had come on and amp
utation was necessary.
BY blood TRANSMISSION, the use Of
which in surgery was due to MAJ
George Grille, the American surgeon,
the boy had been put into something
like fair condition. Though still a
grave surgical risk the boy had had
to have his chance.
Sir Berkeley had seen him several
times during the evening and again
Mt half past eleven. when he had said ::
"Weil. how are you?" The boy turned
his white, weary face to him and said
as loudly as he could, 81 am tip-top,
SIR" and at midnight was dead.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
1917 A YEAR Or DISASTERS
Earth Never Trem5ied So Violently
and So Generally as During the
Past Twelve Months.

An earthquake that destroyed the
city Of Guatemala has added to tie
record Of disasters and horrors That
have marked The past year, quite
apart from the tragedies of the war.
rs one Of the most dreadful Ia modern
annals. karly In the year 1917 an
earthquake occurred in central For
mosa killing 300. Later in the same
month 350 We're killed by an earth
quake on the Island of Bali, on the
Malay archipelago.
In April many were killed in Tus-
eany and Umbria in Italy, by an earth
quake. Shocks occurred in different
parts Of the world throughout the
spring, the most severe being In San
Salvador, where fortunately no lives
were lost, though serious damage was
done. Heavy damage WAS done in
July In the Samoan islands, with losses
OF life. In August an earthquake in
New Zealand caused serious destruc-
ton. In September Colombia felt
series Of shocks lasting for two weeks,
with The destruction of hundreds of
houses and some losses of life. A
disaster of another character, but be-
longing 10 the record of misfortunes Of
The year. oeenrreA in Halifax harbor
on the 9th Of December, when NUM-
tons ship WAS destroyed by collision
with another vessel and over LOO
lives were lost, with a property loss Of
S5o,oo00oo.
Now comes the Guatemala quake.
the full effect of which is not known.
but which has doubtless taken a heavy
toll Of life and has rendered $4,000
people homeless. Rarely has the earth
trembled 50 violently and 50 generally
as during the past year The full toll
of deaths from the shakes will per-
haps never be known, as many of the
disturbances occurred in remote
places.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Scripture and Profanity Mixed.

The Bible and profanity We're
strangely intermingled in the congress
few days ago. Senator Overman
made the statement that President
Wilson "has been criticized in many
instances, for instance. for not taking
senators into his confidence" To Which
Senator Reed remarked: "Oh hell"
Senator Oyerman expressed the hope
that this expression would 20 into the
Record. Subsequently Senator Over
man read into the Record a section OF
the eighteenth chapter OF Exodus. dee
scribing how Aaron and Hur sat by
the side of Moses and held aloft his
hands throughout the day while this
conflict between the army Of Israel and
Che army Of Amalek was In progress.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Better Clothes for Tommy.

A long-standing grievance of the
British soldier is to be remedied. On
discharge he was served out with n
suit of shoddy, described in the trade
as reach me downs" a cheap tweed
cap and muller, the value being fixed
at $40.
A newspaper man who witnessed the
discharge of the men who fought at
Mons described the returning heroes
as looking like charity pensioners.
The press dealt with the complaint
and the war office amended the scheme
by substituting for the muflier a collar
and a tie and suggesting greater care
in the fitting Of individual suits.
Henceforth these men are TO be re-
leased for civilian life wearing suits
of decent quality and cut, represent
ing SO, wholesale value.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Rluht 10 the Point.

one Of the judges OF the county
court vas called upon AZ his club re-
Gently. muses. a New York correspond
ont 10 make speech In favor Of the
appointment Of well-known lawyer
and member Of the club, who was gun
ming for a political job. The Judge
touched on the patriotic issue, various
questions Of civil virtue and the value
of keeping good men on the bench. At
this polnt one ef the members of the
club. noted for his argumentative and
Violently demonstrniive support Of any
nolni he took, arose. The remainder
of the audience mentally got on tip
too Here Is where the fireworks
started. Judge" began the question
or. "there's one thing that has always
bothered me. and hope you can settle
n for me SO that the other members
If this club will see that | am right.
This IL II: Does or does not n
straight flush beat four of kind I'M
der any and all circumstances"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
FAV0RlTE sTo6lE IS DOOMED
Long, Slim Smoke, Popular With Many
Men, Soon VIII Be No More, Ac-
eordln1 to Tobacco Dealer.

\ Cleveland tobacco dealer Is au-
thorlty for the statement that stogies
soon vii be no more. The var has
knocked the sfuliiag out of them. or
rather, II has taken the sfogies' stuff
Ing away u I'll cigars OF more afisto-
critic shape. Profit Is all but gone.
Prices climb. but 50 also do Tire objee-
lions increase against paying the high
zer rate. Taken altogether the chances
Tor The stpgie ara Is slim rs Itself.
SAYS tie Toledo Blade
Is virtually all cubans can roll
cigars 50 vas 1t once possible for
many Americans besides professional
eigarmakers t. manufacture their
own smokes. HospIiable folk Of the
rural districts thought II tie fine thing
q offer their guests cigars which had
been made IN The house. The stogie
WIS the last Of Is kind which could
be said to hive al unprofesslonal orr
Gin. many thousands being rolled By
WOMEN Al their homes in periods Of the
dag when household duties were light.
II nov The segie i II disappear,
eiean8akIng in this country VII cease
II hive even the slightest Of the ama-
tenr touch.
This vanishing IS t. he regretted.
mo- simply because the stogIe was a
cheap smoke. bur also because Il was
picturesque L fitted n certain type
Of American face. II went with long
ehins long legs. bodies without super.
fluous flesh. TIE man whose pockets
were stuffed with singies seemed To
b. armed against consequences and
the power Of anyone To turn him
down. smokers Of timld spirit never
affected stsgies
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Duty That Lies Near.

II only it could be impressed upon
each and every one of us that we must
do our duty, whatever that duty may
be and wherever it may be. just as
well as we possibly can, what tre-
mendous thing it would be.
1t has been said that if the American
people would save just 10 per cent Of
sevhat they have formerly spent the war
would be won and victory would be
assured. The girl in the home can do
II tremendous part in the winning OF
this war-she can save in many ways.
she can work in many ways and she
does not have to have any special tai
ent for it either.
Character and industry, these are
the things that count, these are what
make life really worth the living.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Has WON RESPECT Or ALL
British Working Man, making Good"
a. Soldier, VIII Never Again Be
But of testers.

What the poor citizen wants Is not
charity, or even sympathy, still iess
regulation it is respect, which IS the
social soil Of self-respect. That is why
he is sometimes happier as a soldier,
in spite Of all the siekening horrors OF
soldierins; because humanity always
has respected, and always will respect,
IA soldier.
Thus, Gilbert K. Chesterton, writ
ing in the Illustrated London News.
sums up an argument which, among
its premises, contains the following:
after all. it will be well to remem-
Der that nearly every battalion is a
labor battalion. The commonest type
IN the trenches. the object of such
wide and well-deseryed praise in the
press and the public speeches, is, after
all, identical with another type-a
common object of the streets and the
comic papers. The British soldier is
generally orr ed friend the British
working man.
''He has lived by trades that are
too often treated as merely grimy or
grotesque; and in the ease of new and
almost crude eonseript armies, Ike
those we have lately raised, he has gem
orally quite recently dropped those
tools and left those trades. 1t is the
plumber who is charged with potter
ing about for days before he stops
small leak in Il pipe, who has often in
a few minutes stopped with his body
the breach in the last dyke of ciyiliza-
ton, lest it should let in a sea of saw
agery; and there may even be fewer
jokes about his soldering, now they
can be answered by pun about his
soldering. 1t is the cabman, who was
supposed TO grumble unduly at very
different sort of fare, and especially at
at the sort We call warfare"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Always In.

II was the shopping period, and Miss
Smith thought she would drop In" on
Mrs Jones and ask her II she would
assist her In the noble art Of present
hunting.
"Is your mistress in?' she asked the
young maid.
ayes miss" was the prompt reply.
She was shown into the drawing
room. But an hour passed and no
Mrs. Jones appeared. Al last the lady
GOT m and called to the maid;
"Dla you tell yonr mistress | was
hereg' she asked.
.Oh. no. miss" replied the girl
quickly: "she hasn't returned from
shopping yet
"Not returned" exclaimed the as
tonlshed visitor.
"No, miss. You see the mistress told
me she was always home to you! !"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
HAS KEPT TOUCH WITH PAST
to Become Part of Modern
Hustle and Bu5tie.

Safely aloof from the rush and
scramble which typifies Long Island
today lies Tarrytown on the Hudson.
The solidarity and leisurely prosperity
of Tarrytown have kept it from being
swept along with the stream of world
~ progress. 1t has tarried.
1t has kept its legends and traditions,
its landmarks and historic buildings.
1t still likes TO look at the monument
marking the spot where Andre, the spy,
was captured. 1t likes to recall with
thrills of local pride 1.-THE Legend Of
Sleepy Hollow" until it sees again the
headless horseman pursuing the luck
less Ichabod.
There are other specters of which
the locality can boast, notably that Of
Andre also on horseback, who can be
heard at night riding at high speed up
the road on which he was captured. At
the fatal spot the sound of hoofs
ceases, naturally enough, leaving the
chance nearer to seuttle home with
unseemly haste.
Night is an excellent time to go sight
seeing in Tarrytown. There is the
Sleepy Hollow graveyard, which no yis-
itor would wish to miss, and which has
an additional charm when viewed by
moonlight. There is always the posi-
bility that some illustrious resident Of
the place may come forth to take the
air and wander once again to his old
home or To the market place.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
Volumes Couldn't Saw More.

curious sldelight on German
standards of probity is found in re-
port of the case of Lieutenant Spin
dler, who commanded the German
ship Libau, which landed Easement in
Ireland and was captured. says the
Outlook. Spindler gave up four
pounds when taken prisoner, saying it
was all he had. when his captor
asked. ON your honorg Spindlel re-
piled, No, no more" A search re-
vealed 81 five-pound notes concealed
in his clothing. The attorney general
asked him: DO you think in the cir
cumstances you were entitled to give
an untruthful answer" Lieutenant
Spindler replied: "There may be diff
ferent points of view-the point of
view of an English officer and the
point of view of a German officer"
Volumes could speak no more.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-06-07
ANYBODY CAN MAKE MISTAKES
Everybody Able to 6lunder, But Few
Are Willing 10 Frankly Admit
They Have Made an Error.

Mistakes are things anybody can
make successfully.
haze known people. writes strick-
land Gillian. IL Faru Life. eho seemed
60 fall Of every other kind Of manu-
featuring who could make a. splendid
specimens Of mistakes as one could
Wlea - see.
Is. and IL Il easy
have made mistakes.
Yep. have
| used 10 think made none.
Soa I LIST tint think as one 81 the
biggest mistakes | ever made or knew
about.
These days find myself wondering
n | an not the fellow who invented
them
Sometimes fellow takes n miss
that notasfY else would take. and aft
erWard and- ont II was n mistake.
Anybody under twenty never admits
that be las made a mistake.
And b. + usually honest about II.
n anything goes wrong. blame II
onto someone else.
After twenty-five he begins to think
of feW 10 made when he was eleven.
b the time be i forfy.fiye he will
forget the mistakes be made In early
youth because. In looking back over
the trail. the little ones Of childhood
are completely bid by the whoppers
ne has made since be was ihlrtysiiye.
don't know Why people have to
make mistakes.
Bnt fhey are built That way.
believe never made the same mis-
take twice.
This encourages me.
For as | look haek aver mistake
dotted career believe have reached
the point al which ! cannot make any
mistakes without repeating.
But that may be mistake.