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Show ling legs, and Ms marrowless bones, his keen eyesight, and his God-like loyalty fcr hU fellow statesman; the Ohloan by his lem knowledge; the Mlssisslpplan by hls craving for of-flee of-flee and his "magnolia-blossom" oratory; ora-tory; tne Gentian by his "aboot" Instead In-stead of "about;" the New- Yorker by his pronunciation of "Oklahoma" with the "Ok" as in "sock" and "homa" as in "comma;" the Utahn by his use of olive oil; the Nevadan by the Chinese matches which he carries; the Mls-sourian Mls-sourian by his love bf a bar mule and little red apple; the Carolinian by his gentility with ladies and his quickness to fight; the Kansan by the hayseed and whisker; the Californlan by his Stetson hat, and the Coloradoan by his ambition to spend more money than the other fellow xunr what distinguished distin-guished mark can the native Oklaho- ' man be recognized by? IN OKLAHOMA. Muskogee Time-Democrat gives this description of Oklahoma's cosmopolitan cosmopoli-tan population: "The great state of Oklahoma Is filled up with people from the .four quarters of the earth. Her seductive climate, her geographical position, hor laws and constitution appeal to men of all races and all climes. Here may be found the descendants of tho gay cavalier and the austere Puritan, the mercurial bundle of excitability from sunny France, the stolid and thirsty German, the saving and clannish clan-nish Italian, and, in fact, gathered here are men from everywhere and of all ages and conditions. Now that the formative period of the commonwealth common-wealth is about passed she is trottlne down to staid conditions and recognized recog-nized in the great sisterhood." Ihe foregoing causes the Oklahoma Times to ask the question: What manner of man will the native Okla-homan Okla-homan be? And It answers: Nobody is "from" Oklahoma All Oklahomans are "from" some-where, some-where, with the exception of those who were raised in the old Indian Territory side. What manner of man will he be? A native-born we&t-slde Oklahoman will be an Interesting character. But how will ho be distinguished In other states as being an Oklahoman? It will be many jears before any other oth-er state can refer to a man as an Oklahoman, Ok-lahoman, or say "He's from Oklahoma." Oklaho-ma." Everybody is coming here; nobody no-body is leaving. It will probably be several hundred years yet before other states will be organizing "Oklahoma Clubs." The Oklahomans know a good thing and will stay right here. It is easy to recognize a Texan by his soft, quiet voice and his bow-leg. ged swagger; you can tell the men from Arkansas by his "I take," "you-all." "you-all." "a pone of punk in a paper poke," and his quaint old drawl; you can distinguish the Kentucklan by the bulge over his right hip; the Tennes-seean Tennes-seean is dlscernable by his longdang- |