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Oklahoma State
And Her
New Constitution
newest thing In constitiv
THE Is the IiJHtrument adopted
by the lntc constitutional con
vention of the proposed state of
Oklahoma In view of the political
controversy over the question of Its ap
proval by the president It bids fair to
become a much discussed document
The friends of the new constitution
declare It to be the best ever drafted
by the people of any state Its critics
oppose some of Its provisions and In
Kepubllcan quarters the claim has been
made that It -was so drawn as virtually
to nullify important parts of the state
hood enabling act passed by the last
congress It Is also said that In the
division of the state Into legislative
and congressional districts so much
advantage has been given to the Dem
ocrats as to make it impossible for any
other than that party to control the
state But while partisan bias may
in some respects affect the view taken
of the Oklahoma constitution it has
many features which are likely to com
mend themselves to the public without
distinction as to political creed Among
these are the provisions against child
labor those prohibiting the Issuance of
watered stocks and making the books
of quasi public corporations subject at
all times to inspection the employers
liability law the eight hour law for
state county and municipal work and
the provisions for stringent regulation
of railroads and other large corpora
tions
The constitution contains several fea
tures that embody the latest Ideas on
the subject of government by the
whole people namely the Initiative
and referendum and nomination of of
ficers by direct primary instead of
through the old party convention sys
tem In fact It is claimed by friends
of the new instrument that Oklahoma
has profited by the mistakes of the
older states avoided the bad features
of the constitutions of other common
wealths borrowed their good features
and initiated some new methods that
other states long to have but are pre
vented by selfish interests from enjoy
ing
The act admitting Oklahoma to state
hood which the last congress passed
provided that before a state govern-
GOVERNOR FHANK FBANTZ AM AN OKIiA
HOilA MHiIi AND ELEYA50R
ment could be instituted a constitu
tional convention should be held and
the Instrument adopted by It should be
submitted to the president of the Unit
ed States for his approval and to the
people of the new state for ratification
or rejection at the polls The conven
tion thus called for met at Guthrie and
was in session for many -weeks ad
journing in April The draft finally
agreed upon was adopted without a
dissenting vote but -with twenty seven
of the eighty five delegates present not
voting The convention -was composed
of ninety eight Democrats two inde
pendents and twelve Republicans The
constitution will go before the people
of Oklahoma for approval or rejection
and the returns -will be canvassed by
the chief justice and secretary of the
territory of Oklahoma and the senior
judge of the United States court of ap
peals for Indian Territory They will
certify the result of the vote to the
president and if favorable provided
also that he finds nothing in the con
stitution inconsistent with a republican
form of government he will issue a
proclamation declaring the result and
Oklahoma will thereupon be considered
admitted into the sisterhood of states
In the meantime the existing authori
ties in Indian Territory and Oklahoma
will hold their posts including the
governor of Oklahoma Captain Frank
Frantz who was appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt
There are about 45000 words in the
new constitution which is about 30000
-words more than the average This
unusual length Is in part explained by
the fact that about one third of the
document is taken up with fixing coun
ty boundaries another large section is
devoted to defining how the question
of prohibition shall be submitted to
the vote of the people of different lo
calities while still another long section
contains provisions as to putting In
operation the principle of the initiative
and referendum It Is stated to be the
first time that the ideas underlying this
principle haye been so fully -written in
to the constitution of an American com
monwealth
The accompanying engraving shows
mill and elevator plant at Oklahoma
City the largest plant of the kind in
the southwest
Matter of Orthography
Lola I told mamma this morning
that the sun affected my eyes
Grace What did she say
Lola She asked whose son I had ref
erence to Chicago News
THE ILIADS WEAKNESS
Homers Veraion of tho Legend of
Helen of Troy
Why did not the Trojans restore
Helen to Mcneiaus and by so doing
avoid all the fatal consequences of the
siege of Troy This question has
probably been asked by every reader
of Homers celebrated epic without
finding a satisfactory answer Why
Indeed should the entire population of
Priam have preferred the destruction
of their city and their lives rather than
by restoring Helen to disturb tho love
pleasures of oue of the many Trojan
princes Such stupidity or recklessness
on the part of the Trojans seems In
credible and It must be supposed that
for some good reason not mentioned by
Homer they could not help acting the
way they did
In fact Herodotus a countryman
of Homers in his version of the Helen
legend which he claims to have receiv
ed from the Egyptians gives a plausi
ble explanation of that obscure point
According to this account Paris after
carrying off Helen from Sparta sailed
with her homeward but on his way
across the iEgcan sea he was driven
by violent winds to the Canopic mouth
of the Nile On that shore stood a
temple dedicated to Hercules which
had the right of sanctuary Some of
the attendants fled to the temple and
with a view to kijure Paris they ac
cused him to the Egyptians narrating
all the circumstances of the outrage of
Helen and the wrong done to Mcne
iaus
As soon as Thonls the warden of
that mouth of the river received the
intelligence he sent a message to Pro
teus in Memphis to this effect A
stranger is arrived from Greece He
Is by race a Teucrlan and has done a
wicked deed In the country from which
he Is come Having beguiled the wife
of the man whose guest he was he
carried her away with him and much
treasure also Are we to let him de
part as he came or shall we seize what
he has brought
Proteus in answer ordered that the
man -who dealt so wickedly -with his
friend should be seized and brought
before him His order was carried
out and Proteus asked Paris who he
was whence he came and how he got
possession of Helen In his reply
Paris became confused and diverged
from the truth whereupon the slaves
Interposed confuted his statements
and told the whole history of the crime
At last Proteus pronounced tbis judg
ment
Did I not regard it as a matter of
the utmost consequence that no stran
ger driven to my country should ever
be put to death I -would have avenged
the Greek by slaying thee Thou bas
est of men after accepting hospitality
to do so wicked a deed Now then as
I want to put no stranger to death I
suffer thee to depart but the woman
and the treasures must stay here till
the Greek stranger comes in person and
takes them back to him For thyself
and thy companions I command thee
to be gone from my land within the
space of three days and I warn thee
that otherwise at the end of that time
you will be treated as enemies
According to this account therefore
the Trojans could not restore Helen
for the simple reason that she was not
in their possession for she was in
Egypt where Menelaus received her
back unharmed It seems thn Homer
too was acquainted with th original
story since he tells that Pris came
with Helen to Sidon in Phoenicia
Iliad vi 291 also that Menelaus be
fore returning to Troy stayed with
Helen in Egypt Odyssey iv 22S 230
Iliad iv 3G1 But Homer probably
thought the Herodotian version less
adapted for epic poetry than the one
he followed New York Tribune
He Struck the Right Chord
A man came to interview Rosenthal
during the pianists stay in New York
The young chap was a total stranger
to the artist It was about 2 p m
and he was ushered into the hotel
dining room where Rosenthal was hav
ing a late lunch The life of a soloist
on tour is a very busy one and on this
day the pianist was to start for Phila
delphia at 4 oclock for his concert
there that evening Consequently time
was precious The interviewpr asked
his preliminary questions and Rosen
thal courteously answered them He
had gone through the ordeal often be
fore and he knew It by heart But
suddenly a new note was struck The
Interviewer had proved to be himself
a pianist and more taan that to have
a very comprehensive knowledge and
a great love of Chopin Immediately
the lunch was abandoned and taking
the young fellow to his apartments
where he had his piano Rosenthal sat
down and played for the entire two
hours for a perfect stranger who nei
ther in years nor in prominence was
entitled to any special consideration
Bohemian
The Art of Lighting a Pipe
Keep pipe and stem as clean as pos
sible and the time to clean them is
immediately after a smoke Fill the
bowl with your favorite brand and
press down firmly but dont strive to
see how solid you can pack it If you
make it as solid as wood it will burn
like wood and make a coal fire about
as hot and ungrateful Dont light the
entire surface Dont pull as though
you had no more matches and feared
t it would go out Light a small spot
directly in the center Smoke slowly
until it works its way gradually down
ward If it undertakes to spread
press it down again with thumb or
finger A half minutes care in start
ing is all that is required Now smoke
slowly The little fire cithrT down
ward delicately roasting the tobacco
on the sides and presently when you
cave this off there will come a revela
tion in soft mellow smoke so cool so
delicious so soothing that you will
never regret having read this
The Man With Fort Ghosts
A popular novelist tallied with re
gret about the old ghost habit of the
past
Famous painters first and famous
writers afterward alike had ghosts
he said These ghosts were pupils
disciples They did the basic work of
the masters picture or novel and the
master polished up put on the finish
ing touches and signed his name to it
Vhis practice indeed still obtains in
architecture It was a practice that
ullowed a popular artist a manifold
Increase of production and consequent
ly of Income Dumas the elder Du
mas had no less than forty ghosts
forty intelligent young men writing
away for him about DArtagnan Por
thos Aramis and the rest But Du
mas was reckless and the existence of
his forty ghosts became known hence
a good deal of scandal At the height
of this scandal Dumas said to a lady
one night
Have j ou read my last book ma
dame
The lady with a mischievous smile
replied
No M Dumas Have you
He Felt Complimented
A man from Philadelphia says a
writer in the Ledger of that city was
visiting in a town of very few inhab
itants One day when he was about to
make a purchase he discovered that he
had exhausted his small change The
shopkeeper could not break the ten
dollar bill offered him and the man
went out in the main street to see how
he might solve the difficulty lie asked
several persons but no one had the
requisite amount for the bill At last
an old white haired seedy negro came
along In sheer desperation the man
said
Uncle can you change a ten dollar
bill for me
Uncle looked dazed for a moment
then his shambling figure straightened
With a doffing of the hat and a bow
worthy of Chesterfield he replied with
dignity
No marse I cant change no ten dol
lar bill but I done predates the com
pliment jes the same sab
Birds That Boat In Their Nests
The mother bird sat on her eggs at
the waters edge and when I ap
proached she pushed off with her foot
as though the nest had been a boat
and away she floated calmly down the
stream
What you saw was a rare specta
cle said the nature student The
bird was a grebe the colymbus minor
She always builds on the waters edge
and her nest is always woven of aquat
ic plants so closely and firmly that it
will float herself and her eggs without
leaking On the approach of danger
the bird pushes off Nor is she at the
currents mercy during her voyage
She uses her foot as a paddle and I
have seen her steer her boat nest with
some little dexterity round a bend
landing in a quiet cove as well say as
the average young lady waterman
Fresh Sheets at Premium
The woman who had just returned
from abroad where she had visited
some country towns was telling of the
comforts and discomforts of the Euro
pean country hotel They have an
aversion to putting fresh sheets on the
beds for every new guest she said
and we always pulled down the bed
clothes the minute we were assigned
our rooms to examine the sheets Ten
chances to one they were wrinkled and
had that slept in appearance and we
invariably insisted on fresh ones
Finally we struck a series of towns
where the hotel proprietors got the
best of us for the sheeting they used
wras a sort of crepy stuff something
like seersucker and for the life of you
you couldnt tell whether theyd been
slept on or not New York Press
Hardened by Sulphuric Acid
Hardening an ordinary drill in sul
phuric acid states the English Me
chanic makes an edge that will cut
tempered steel or facilitate cutting
hard rock The acid should be poured
Into a flat bottomed vessel to a depth
of about one eighth of an inch The
point of the drill is heated to a dull
cherry red and dipped in the acid to
that depth This makes the point ex
tremely hard while the remainder re
mains soft If the point breaks re
harden but with a little less acid in
the vessel
A Dangerous Secret
Upon asking an eminent scientist
how he accounted for enjoying excep
tional and uubroken good health a doc
tor was informed that the cause was
habitual self denial In fact admit
ted the professor I only partake of
one meal each day -Hush exclaim
ed the physician in alarm Pray keep
this to yourself If many people were
to follow your example we medical
men should be ruined Westminster
Gazette
His Little Scheme
You mortified me terribly com
plained Mrs Richley
How demanded her sick husband
Why did you tell the new doctor you
were in the habit of eating corned beef
and cabbage We never have such
common food as that
Well I want him to fix his charges
on a corned beef and cabbage basis
The Usual Cause
Ma Sis is just home from the hair
dressers and shes in a tearing rage
Whats wrecked her temper
Im not sure but I rather think it
was a head on collision caused by a
misplaced switch Baltimore Ameri
can
Point of Resemblance
Stella Does her auto match her
gown
Bella Ye5 y are neither of them
paid for Tork Sun
Tabloid Tales
About a Few
People of Note
III
EUGENE E SCIIMITZ
woo intnnrlo1 Vliinf r
iy as a ieinc to at
tract attention from
the main assault to
be made by the
army but the sea
men were so much
carried away by
the possibility of
capturing the fort
by themselves that
they charged it like
Ik
if
JfflSriA
HEAR AD3IIPAL
COGIILAN
AYOR EUGENE
E SCIIMITZ
of San Fran
cisco who has been
convicted of ex
torting money from
the keepers of
French restaurants
In his city has had
a very spectacular
career It has been
said of him that he
went up like a rock
et and came down
like the stick He is the first labor
union major of San Francisco and
also the first executive of the city to
be convicted of malfeasance in office
He is known as the fiddling mayor
and when he ran for oliice it was pre
dicted that If San Francisco were to
burn down he would be found like
Nero fiddling while the flames were at
their height But when the city by the
Golden Gate did burn down after the
awful earthquake shock the mayor
rose to the emergency and even his
enemies credited him with acting with
creditable energy and efficiency in the
terrible crisis When the orisis was
past however according to the testi
mony of those who went on the stand
at his trial he yielded to the tempta
tion to use his official power to get
money illegitimately and hence his
downfall
There have been many ups and
downs in his career As a young man
he started to study medicine but gave
it up because of failing health and took
up athletics which enabled him to
build up the magnificent physique he
possesses He has been violinist or
chestra leader Klondike miner gas
engine maker and executive of a great
city and now at forty three has the
prospect of spending a term of years
behind the bars of a criminals cell
Rear Admiral Robley D Evans has
had few sadder duties than fell to him
in announcing the death of the six
officers and five seamen of the battle
ship Minnesota who were drowned in
Hampton Roads He has to go back
to the days of the civil war to recall
so long a death roll among men he has
commanded or with whom he has
fought It was during the civil war
that Evans commanded one of the de
tachments of sea
men landed by Rear
Admiral Porter to
attack Fort Fisher
on the sea front It
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ROBLEY D EVANS
crazy men as soon as they were ashore
The bluejackets although they reached
the foot of the parapet suffered severe
ly in killed and wounded They did
not retreat however but huddled
along the outer edge of the glacis
where the Confederates could not fire
at them without rising high enough to
expose themselves Among those who
fell at this point was Bob Evans one
leg being so shattered at the knee that
it was believed impossible that it could
be saved
There we lay said Evans after
ward the Johnnies taking pot shots
at us whenever they dared and our
men watching the parapet to fire at
every head that came up for that was
our only protection against annihila
tion Not until the army took them In
the rear and swept them from one
traverse after another did we feel
there was any hope to escape We
were so close that we could sass each
other back and forth and it certainly
had a discouraging influence upon the
fellows behind the parapets to hear
themselves damned unanimously by a
line of men who apparently had cuss
words enough to represent a whole
army corps
The United States navy has had few
more picturesque figures than Rear
Admiral Joseph B Coghlan who re
tired from active duty a short time ago
after a lengthy service distinguished
by several episodes which gave him a
good share of public attention He is
a native of Kentucky and was ap
pointed to the navy from Illinois in
1SG0 becoming an ensign after three
years at the Naval academy in 1SG3
He rose through
the various grades
until in 1S9S he
was a captain and
in command of the
cruiser Raleigh on
yi the Asiatic station
Cj At the battle of
Manila Bay his he
roic conduct won
him praise second
only to that ac
corded Dewey and
on his return to
American shores
some months later
he was one of the
lions of the hour
But the admiral
though brave has always been excep
tionally free and blunt of speech and
this trait has got him into embar
rassing situations more than once A
number of years before the Spanish
war he was put back several places
on the naval list on account of too
ree expressions of opinion It was In
iSGO at c hat his story of the
trouble botweon Admiral Dewey and
Admiral Von LHcdrlchs at Manila to
gether with his now historic Hoch
der Kaiser song nearly led to Inter
national complications for tho Ger
mans were much offended by the re
marks of the gallant but indiscreet
American olllccr
Despite his blunthess of speech and
th roubles caused thereby Coghlan
reached the rear admirals grade and
has retained the popular affection his
courageous sea duty has inspired He
Is very fond of good stories and once
told one to illustrate his distaste for
being the last speaker
Having the last word the rear ad
miral said reminds me of a story I
heard not long ago A certain man
died and a clergyman was engaged to
offer a eulogy The worthy minister
prepared a sermon of exceeding length
and strength but just before he en
tered the parlor to deliver It he thought
that It might le advisable to learn
what the dead mans last words had
been So he turned to one of the weep
ing younger sons and asked
My boy can you tell me your fa
thers last words
He didnt have none the boy an
swered ma was with him to the
end
Mrs William K Yanderbilt Jr who
lost a 15000 gem box a few months
ago and recently recovered it was an
heiress when she married young Mr
Aanderbilt so that money has been
plentiful with her from girlhood up
She was Miss Virginia Fair daughter
of the late Senator
Fair and is a beau
ty of tile brunette
type small but
well built and
graceful and very
vivacious The gem
box or vanity
box was stolen
at Sherrys one
evening after the
opera It was set
with HOO diamonds
and seventy rubies
Detectives recover
ed the box from a
waiter who tried to
pawn it Mrs Vanderbilt was asked
if there were any marks by which she
could identify it
Yes she replied after a few mo
ments thought there are some tele
phone numbers on a celluloid card In
side of the box
Can you remember what they are
asked the detective
Mrs Vanderbilt knitted her brows
and then her face cleared She repeat
ed three or four numbers on the card
and the detective smiled
Its yours without question he
said as he drew forth from his pocket
the gold and jewel studded case
There was an exclamation of delight
from the leader in society as she
eagerly clasped the box and held it to
the light
Yes its mine she said
Mrs Vanderbilt refused to appear In
court against the thief and delegated
the task to her husband
VmM
MKsW K VANDER
BILT Jit
Representative Theodore E Burton
of Ohio who has been prominent as a
supporter of Secretary Taft for the
Republican presidential nomination
has attained many of his ambitions
but has never won
a wife His friends
are having consid
erable fun at his
expense on account
JglililigEl of an incident in
connection with his
invitation to speak
at Mechanlcsburg
O on the glorious
Fourth In an-
TIIEODOKEEnURTONnouncinf the eJ
pected visit from the congressman the
editor of the Mechanicsburg Weekly
Telegram said
Hon Theodore Burton of Cleveland will
deliver the Fourth of July address in Me
chanlcsburg It Is also understood that
the ladies of this community have ten
dered Mrs Burton an Invitation to spend
Independence day in Mechanicsburg and
it is more than likely that she will be our
guest on the Fourth She is a most at
tractive woman and her appearance here
will be a great event in social circles
The congressmans friends now py
it Is up to him to produce a Mrs Bur
ton for the occasion of the nations in
dependence anniversary
Brand Whitlock who criticises the
prevalent penal practices of this coun
try in an article in a leading magazine
succeeded the late Sam Jones as Gold
en Rule mayor of Toledo lie com
bines reform politics with literature
and makes his success in the one con
tribute to his success In the other It
was his political
novel The Thir
teenth District
that gave him his
greatest fame and
for years he has
worked for the pro
motion of his re
form ideas both in
the field of litera
ture and in that of
practical politics in
that respect resem
bling Winston
Churchill of New
Hampshire There
is this difference bba nuwuitlock
between the two men Mr Whitlofk
got a chance to carry out some of his
ideas of reform through being elected
to office while Mr Churchill was not
chosen to the position to which he as
pired that of governor of the Granite
State Mayor Whitlock in his recent
article on the penal system in vogue
in this country scores the treatment of
criminals under it and says that soci
ety makes and perpetuates the cny
criminal class by refusirv - forgive
a first offender or to irust ai x convict
and by making the conditions of im
prisonment of rl3iTiaIs in most in
stances wholly di cwuraging brutaliz
ing and degrading
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