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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-03-18

The Home and Foreign Missionary
Society of the First Presbyterian
church meets the first and third Tues
days of each month with some member
OF the society. -
NrRS TOSE CAPR prae
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The b. Y. P. U. OF the First Baptist
church meets every Sunday afternoon
at the church.
MISS DAISY NICHOLS, Pres.
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LITERARY SOCIETIES.

MRS. J. W GoLLEpoE. Pres
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
LAWYERS.
PHYSICIANS.
DR. PHILIP s. CHANCELLOR,
Physician and Surgeon.

Office In Hardy building. Office
phone 1922 Residence. Banks Ho-
tel, phone 17S.
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The Aid Society Of the Central Bap-
tist church meets every Tuesday at 3
o'clock with one of its members.
MRS. BRUCE, Pres.
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DENTISTS.
ENLoE & FANN,
Dentists.

When they have done your dental
work 1t cannot be improved upon.
ONCE in Cruce building, opposite
postofIice Phone l21.
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DIR. J. M. VADEN,
Physician and Surgeon.

Especial attention given to diseases
of women ind children.
ofiee in Noble building. Office
phone 6S. Residence phone II.
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MRS. HEATH Pres.
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C. NJ. CAMPBELL, Clerk.
BY j. w. SPEAKE, Deputy Clerk.
First published March 5 1908.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-22

Plain water never crosses her lips: tbs
water she drinks is Of the aerated order
Unfermented Catawba is also favor'fe
beverage with her A very light luncheon
after the performance at night makes the
third meal
TWO MAIDS LOOK
AFTER HER GOWNS.
Several regular tub baths p day are a
habit from which she never digresSes. She
does not bother about her dresses. stage or
otherwise. Two maids, one an Italian. Be-
atrice, the other Emile. an Alsatian, attend
to all her gowns and sownnS.
They pay for her meals in the diners; they
tip the walters: they do her shopping and
handle the cash. Not much as dollar
or two slip through the Jersey Lily's dainty
hands in week. while she is on tour OF
otherwise.
She believes in hiring persons who can
take all those burdens OFF her fair shoulder.
Her personal correspondence is done b.
her private secretary. Other communica-
lions and all bills are attended to BY her
manager, Harry Award. who knows every
detail of his business.
Members OF her company never talk
shop" to her. A raise in salary to b.
asked, kick" to be registered-it all goes
to Mr.. Award.
Physical economy, mental economy. econ
omy of all the vital forces. Is the LILY S
watchword and the elixir of Ter youth.
In the summer Mrs. Langtry goes to her
estate on the Isle of Jersey. There she
associates with the fisherwomen, walks
barefoot in the wet sand of the downs for
hours at a time bathes in the sea and fol
lows a Kneipp cure of her own. which is
based on the old belief that human fee;
should come in contact frequently with
earth and water.
It is bit strange that this actress and
thorough woman of the world should thus
go back for recreation and rej'Ivnating to
the primitive pleasures and out-of-door life
of her girhood.
MADE HER STAGE DEBUT
AS KATE HARDCASTLE.
While physical care and culture have no
doubt done wonders for Lille Langtry' S
retanment of beauty and youth, 1t does
seem strange that the many sensations
through which she has passed have left
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-22

her rs buoyant and elastic a woman as
she is.
Langtry is the vogue as much to-day as
she was when the Prince of Wales smiled
upon her in the late seventies. Her debut
on tie stage was made as Kate Hardcastle
in She Stops to Conquer The late i'm
presario. Henry Abbey, secured the new
English star for American tour. Her
private car Lii the Indian name for
"Flift." was a palatial home on wheels.
1t was the first private car eXtant up to
the time 1t burned down, few years ago.
squire Abing;on's devotion to Mrs.
Langtry was undoubted. His companions
were prize-fghters; he was the promoter Of
Peter Slavin. and "Fisticuffiana" was his
favorite realm. The Squire died suddenly
of pneumonia in New Orleans. whittier he
had come from England with Charlie Mitch
ell for the Mitchell fight in the Crescent
City.
After his death it was found that he had
left to Mrs. Langtry his considerable for
tune. This. Joined to her own. made her a
wealthy woman even then.
RETIRED To RANCH
IN CALIFORNIA.
For awhile she retired from the stage to
her California ranch, purchased during the
Gerhard days. for the purpose of obtaining
a divorce from Mr.. Langtry. Shortly after
she had divorced him. Mr. Langtry died.
Several managers controlled the business
destinies of Mrs. Langtry after Mr.. Alb
bey's most successful enterprise.
One OF these was E. G. Gilmore Of Nib
los Garden end the Academy of Music The
other was John B. Stetson. the pioneer man.
ager of Boston. who died few years ago.
A good part of the time Mrs. Langtry man.
aged her own tours with the same astonish-
ing success that characterized the Abbey
itinerary. when N one week she played at
the Baldwin Theater in San Francisco to
$50 900.
Wonderfully prosperous was her race
horse investment Mrs. Langtry owns a
string of thirty-fve racing horses. seventeen
of which are In training under Fred Webb
a former famous jockey. She was the first
to introduce to the English turf the Aus
traian horse.
Before her horse Norman, wonderful
speed machine won the Caesarewich. the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-22

for the best-dressed woman In England. The
prize consisted Of a magnificent set Of fur
niture- Mrs. Langtry won the prize and
the furniture IL the one seen In the first and
second acts Of The CrossysayH" Mrs..
I.angtry's play. which closed At the Olym-
pic last night.
After her debut on the stage Al Kate
Hardcastle in she Stops to Conquer.
which she played to best advantage on her
first tour in America the Jersey LILY played
Lady Macbeth. Charles Coghlan. now dead.
and Joseph Wheelock supported her in that
production. in which she outshone By far
her society rival on this side. Mrs. James
Brown Potter. who was then appearing In
Cleopatra with Kyrle Bellew.
When she presented 1.-The Degenerates
three years ago Hillary Bell. New York
critic, described her as follows. In the part
of Mrs. Trevelyan:
Mrs. Langtry's back il epic drama: her
front Is ! pastoral play: her face Il a traGedy:
her neck is old comedy: ner hair II modern
work OF art her arms emotional pieces: her
voice Is Greek chorus: her gowns are marvels
OF scenic display: her shoulder straps are SEN
sations: her corsage is a climax. and her his
tory Is a plot surprising that OF authors In
vention. No dramatist has ever written better
play than The Deans Daughter. or The
Strange Adventures Of Lille sometimes known
Mr.. Jersey"
AIRS. Langtry is again persona grata with
British royalty. and her only daughter. the
fruit of her blissfully ignorant happiness
with Mr.. Langtry. was presented to the
nobility of the British realm under the
chaperonage of an English Duchess. and
with the gracious appreciation of Queen
Alexandra.
Hugo De Bath. a young and handsome
English nobleman. who afterwards fought
in the Boer War. made her his wife some
time ago.
In private life Mrs. Langtry is now Mrs.
De Bath but in the eyes Of two continents.
and likely in a third before long. Australia.
where she has never been. she will always
be THE Jersey Lily
Since Sir Frederick Leighton immortalZs1
her on canvas. that name has chung to her
as the most becoming to her beauty and
style. as well as her birth place Of that
name.
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There was nothing to indicate WEAKNESS.
| save the tender blush shadows under the
| eyes. that might settle beneath the closed
| eyelids of tired child. Any other wom-
an after such an attack would have shown
brownish-green rings down to the cheek
bone.
The Langtry figure. straight and slender,
Is straight and slender still. The waist
is larger for. as Mrs. Langtry said, as she
! glanced at her photograph as Kate Hard
castle her first stage attempt:
mo woman of to-day will ever pinch her
waist as We did then"
Even her low speaking voice, full of ear
nest notes, is melodious as that of young
girl.
There is so little difference between the
| Lily of the early eighties and the Lily of
| to-day that one begins to wonder how she
arrested times disfiguring finger. that be-
| gins TO dabble with woman's looks after
the thirtieth year.
| OBTAINS NEEDED QUIET
| AT ANY COST.
Mrs. Langtry's recipe is ease" not in
dolence.'' Ease in everything mental.
| physical and material. Sleep. that best OF
! all beauty doctors, is courted eight hours
| every day.
On the trip from Terre Haute to st. Louis
Mrs. Langtrys private car was taken clear
J out to the woods. near Pennington, ILL.,,
that the Lily might WOO quiet. uninterrup-
| ted sleep. This is but sample OF her IN
| genuity in obtaining the needed quiet at any
| cost.
| Mrs. Iangtry's diet is not OF the alb
| stemious, but of the moderate kind.
| A light breakfast at II o'clock is her first
| meal. 1t consists of fresh fruit, such as
| pine apple, oranges, grapes. whenever they
| can be obtained. or baked apples. Very lit
| tie coffee toasted bread always. and n
| small cup of coffee. or English breakfast
/! tea comprise that meal.
! Then comes her walk rain or shine. Her
| dinner at o'clock is the one heavy meal
| a day. of which she partakes. Broied
chicken, rare roast beef, juicy steak. and
] Southdown or Canadian mutton are the
| meats she eats small glass of Burgundy,
| usually Ponnmard or a tumber of that
\ wine diluted with aerated water. is her
beverage.
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old creamy whiteness remaining that made
her so wondrous fair.
Her violet eyes have not lost their luster.
Not silvery thread is in her hair. which
she wears in the same old fashion, the
Langtry coil. for which she set the vogue on
her first stage appearance, twenty years
ago.
There is no better test of woman's con-
tinued youthtulness than her ability to re-
tain the couture of her girlhood. Her lips
have the old natural carmine, the cheeks
their rounded contour, and there is not a
trace of double chin or the deem and
heavy furrow between throat and chin that
almost invariably marks the woman of 49,
NOW REHEARSING MILE MARS"
A NEW PLAY.
Mrs. Langtry has had strenuous time
since coming to st. Louis, rehears.ng every
day her new play, Mile. Mars Napole-
onic drama by Paul Kester. with which she
is to open her Philadelphia engagement.
On Tuesday night. shortly before she
granted this interview to a Sunday Repub-
lie reporter, she had tainted at the stage
door of the OLYMPIC
In spite of this attack of exhaustion. she
walked erect and with light and sprinsin..
step into the Planters Hotel.
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most noted race of England an Australian
horse was almost unknown there Norman
was Mrs. Langtrys own Importation. He
was entered. and long odds were laid
against him. Mrs. Langtry backed him of
the books besides winning the enormous
stake. The Jersey Lily was given an ova-
ton. in which the Prince of Wales Joined.
conducting her personally to the clubhouse.
Now half the horses in England are Aus
tralians.
WEALTHY IN
HER OWN NAME.
Mrs. Langtry is one of the wealthiest. if
not the wealthiest women on the stage to-
day.
She owns a large estate on the Isle of Jer-
sey. her birthplace; town house in Lon
don, 4 shooting box in Scotland. two coun-
try places in Surrey. ranch OF several
thousand acres in California. near San
Francisco. all clear and title free; good busi-
ness property in Salt Lake City, and a mag
nificently appointed steam yacht.
Another private car, more elegant than her
former one, is now being built for her, and
she will make her next tour in 1t.
One of her principal possessions fs the
Imperial Theater in London 1t Is lordly
playhouse. and the name Imperial well
fits its magnificence. Real marble ana
green and amber tapestries are used in the
interior finish of the house.
new system OF lighting has been in
stalled. sending down amber-tinted shafts
from a translucent ceiling. The seats are OF
yellow satin.
The Langtry vogue has outrun twenty
years MilliIers and dressmakers still cling
to the Langtry name for their most ex-
auisite creations. A town in Texas is named
after her. 1t was at this place that Mrs.
Langtry met the Texas cowboys. who wor-
SHIPPED her.
She entertained them on her private car.
and they retaliated by naming their small
settlement after her. 1t is now quite a
town.
settlement near Los Angeles was christ
ened Langtry after the Jersey Lily had be-
come known in that region.
WON PRIZE AS BEST
DRESSED WOMAN IN ENGLAND.
A year ago prize was offered in London
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of wisdom by his dupes. The fellow was
densely ignorant. 1 told my congregation to
let him alone.
He threatened to call down witches of
destruction on me. Some of my members
became alarmed for my safety, and begged
me not to expose myself to his wrath I
met him in a crowd one day and in the
hopes of convincing our people that he was
a humbug. defied him and all his witches at
the same time haunting him with his in
ability to produce them.
But he was too adroit. He said he
would give me little while to repent, and
IL i refused TO do SO, I would be struck
dead-next year some time.
THE listeners believed he could have
killed me with bolt of lightning right
then and there il he wanted to. but re-
Trained out of the generosity OF his heart
and respect for their feelings. The incident
strengthened his sway.
The lady with whom 1 boarded-a Mrs.
Hopkins-was intensely religious, but, alas.
believed in the 'conjure-man.' She was un-
lsttered and unlucky.
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.'Eer pet calf died without apparent all
ment. One of her children met with SER
ious accident on the railroad, and heavy
windstorm upended her barn. At the end
Of a train of disasters like these the con-
jure-man'-tall, pompous and all powerful
came to town. Mrs. Hopkins flew to h'=,
and for thirty hard earned dollars procured
a charm warranted not only to ward of
i'll luck. but to bring good fortunes of which
she had not dreamed.
''She came home delighted with her har-
gain. She showed 1t to me, and said she
would not take 500 for 1t. Fact is, be-
lieve she wouldn't have been satisfied with
$500 in exchange for the wonderful talisman
OF course had talked to her abou. the
quack and she listened respectfully enough
but l saw she regarded me as a mere man.
and unable to appreciate one in touch with
the spirits.
she was suddenly called out of the room
In her haste she left her treasure on TIC
table. The idea occurred that here was an
opportunity to destroy her faith In the
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Around these chapters, comprising the
most interesting turns in the life OF Lille
Langtry. might be written an extraordinary
story of elevation. degradation. paliation
and restoration not of the greatest but of
the cIeverest and winsomest actress that
ever came out OF England to reap golden
harvest in the United States
Neither Ellen Terry, Mrs. Kendall nor Mrs
Patrick Campbell is quite as captivating
quite as unforg etable. to all that excites
human interest in men and women alike as
the Jersey Lily.
Nearing the fiftieth milestone Mrs Lang
try is still very beautiful and youthful
woman.
In a clinging carriage gown of soft white
cloth, long loose coat of white. with mar
row fur bands OF dark shade, a white ha t
on her chestnut-brown hair and white
veil over her face. from which every vestige
OF grease paint had been carefully re-
moved. Mrs Langtry could have defied
any one to declare her more than 50 years
old.
Her complexion is still delight, bit
less OF the rose In It than formerly, but the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-22

humbug doctor. I slyly ripped open the
sack. tiny scrap of brentwood and a
slice of raw Irish potato were the magical
properties for which my landlady had put
up $50. put them in my pocket, and filed
the sack with little sticks of wood ;.=:d
pieces of paper and reserved the sack She
had been cautioned on penalty of destroying
the potency of the charm 10 never open it.
Mrs Hopkins was supremeiy happy for
three days. Nobody had been sick; the
chickens and stock thrived: nothing had
gone wrong. / thought would wait until
the week was up. and then tell her her
charm had been removed. at the same time
pulling it out and showing it to her. But
the day before the old COW got caught in
cattle guard and the lightning express
did the rest.
"Fearfully Mrs. Hopkins went tn the
'conjure man. I accompanied her. Adjust
ing his goggles the old charlatan reached
for the sack and solemnly examined it
Shore yer bin wearin' dat on de lef
side?'
Indeed she had
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EYER ddn' let de debbil see hit?'
"She declared the devil hadn't been with
in Gunshot range of the house since her
husband died
"'Hits mighty strange he unused. He
then took his knife and ripped open the
sack. The alarming discovery Of the sub
stituted contents was made. No wonder the
old COW got killed. In severe language he
told Mrs Hopkins she had played him
false.
'.The poor soul protested she had not
opened the sack. 1 shouldered the blame
and was raked on both sides as a conse-
quence He said in that sack was a pow
erful herb that had been gathered from
dead mans island. in some ocean, in the
Eclipse of de sum- told him 1t was slice
of potato stolen from some white mans
house in the dark of the moon.
81 saw my visit was of no avail My rep
uta.ion with the landlady would have been
better had 1 stayed at home. When the
doctor agreed to replenish the sack with
good luck fruit for $5-a IS cut, because
the loss of the contents was not her fault
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am . years old and my hair is turning gray
rapidly that before l % 1t will be gray sill
over. think 1t is hereditary. as my father was
gray-haired before he was %. do not mind it so
much. l rather like gray hair on young face.
but my husband does. and he is constantly be-
wailing it. Now. my hair is brown. without
bi. Of gold in it. and il Is certainly unbecomirg
II 1t were light brown 1t would make q world
of difference in locks. SO going 70 ask
how l tighten 1t without using peroxide Of
hydrogen. Anything but that. II Is too percept
ibe. 1 should Ike In have 1t just an even shade
of light brown. Sincerely N. T.
OF course. there are many ways by which
you might change the color Of your ha:-.
but it would not be advisable to you 20
resort to any OF them. In fact. gray hair
is very becoming TO a young lady and 1t
would be ridiculous for you to try to
change natures smiling course.
Z. G-There is nothing that win take the
place Of the electric needle.
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Veteran "HoOdO Man"
Who Was HoOdooed.
An instance of Negro Superstition in
the South.

Special Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic
Macon. Mo-. March 2O.-"The greatest
'con5ure-man that ever practiced among the
negroes Of Mississippi, Louisiana and
! Alabama was Doctor George Jones'" re-
marked the Reverend A. F. jenkins, pastor
OF the African NJ q Church. at Keota
mining camp. mo man was better known
by the race in those States. or more ad-
mfred by some. Doctor Jones's greatest
strength was with the ignorant but pious
old peopie. was in charge of church at
yicksburg when i met him. He was be-
tween Is and 50. and had a smattering of
b,~ words that were accepted a. evidence
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she gladly consented. I offered her the
stuff l had taken out of the sack. but she
spurned 1t as adding ridicule to injury. She
left thoroughly happy and protesting graf
itude to the Sinking humbug.
Hers was an abiding faith"
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
IN regard y PHYSICAL CULTURE.
BY MARION MARTINEAU.

Ny Dear Miss Martineau: 1 cannot begin to
tell you how very much have enjoyed your arti-
Giles in The Republic. They have been much
help to me that 1 am going to impose on your
good nature and ask for the aid you have 30
kindly offered to troubled women.
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E. G.-There is nothing that win take the
place Of the electric needle
The Springfield herald., 1903-07-31
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ARRESTS CAUSE
PANIC AT PANAMA

Panama, Colombia. July 26.-Not
since the days of the last revolution,
when an attack upon the city by the
Liberals was feared. has there been
such panic in Panama as occurred
last night Shortly after O'Clock the
office of Ell Lapiz. the organ of the Lib
eral party on the isuhums, was visited
by officers of the general staff OF the
army, who destroyed yesterdays edl-
ton of the newspaper. One of the dl-
rector was slightly wounded, but
managed to escape.
The news spread rapidly. In the San
ia Anas neighborhood, where most of
the Liberals reside, sentiment rose to
high pitch and few of the proml-
nent people counselled retaliation.
They took no action. however.
The next event came like a bomb
shell. A company of soldiers. appar-
emily under the orders of General
Vasquez Cobos, commander of the ma
tional forces, surrounded the residence
of Governor Nuts, but the governor
and his wife, who is an American wom-
an, having been warned few min
utes before the arrival of the troops,
succeeded in escaping.
General Huertas. commander of the
battalion of Colombia. when he learned
of the Ell Lapiz incident, repaired to
headquarters, where he found General
Cobos According to current reports,
the latter ordered General Huertas to
remain in quarters.
Exactly what has taken place is un-
known, but it is said that DIR. Aristides
Arizona secretary of the government,
Fernandino Arrange. chief of police, and
Etram Navin. a member of the depart
ment superior tribunal of justice. are
under arrest, the last named for trying
to argue with General Cobos on the le-
gality of his action.