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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

See those rubber Tire Moon Bros
buggics at Preddy's. They are money
savers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

II you need a good stove for your
store or Office don't fail to see our
Big Cannon stoves They are the
best and cheapest
BINENS CORHN q FRENSLEY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27
WANTED.

Agents wanted to sell Penn Mutual
Life Insurance. 4 company SO years
Old with over 100000. 10000 to pay
policy holders Liberal accounts. See
or write
NJ. l.. ALEXANDER.
General Agent.
Ardmore. |. T.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

The Hungarian Court Orchestra is
the first number Of the Lyceum course.
Don't miss 1t, Tuesday Nov ! at the
up5ra house 23tr
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Come out tonight This invitation
is for you especially,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Just think of a good shotgun -
S4.5O at
BINENS. CORHN a FRENSLEY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Freddy the prlce-maker In harness,
buggies and saddles, will save you
money, See him.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

A special low price on all kinds of
guns until our stock is closed out.
BIVENS, CORHN & FRENSLEY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Riding brides and buggy BRIDES
the best at Preddy's.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27
For Mothers Sake
At Opera House
Saturday, October 20
HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRA, NOV.
COTTON SEED MEAL.

Cotton seed meal ANA hulls for you
cows.
loft ARDMORE OIL MIL.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

If you are going to buy a buggy or
surrey it will pay you to see Pred1y
and get the benefit of that 20 per cent
reduction in full,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Moon Bros. buggies-sold only at
c. Preddy's at closing out prices.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Stoves to SUIT anybody from $1.50
to the finest -nickel-trimmed stove
made-and the price is right.
BlVENS, CORHN & FRENSLEY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27
Attention. Elks.

4 regular meeting of Elk Lodge will
be held Friday night, October 2s A
fun attendance is requested
J. G, ABERNETHl, j.. R.
r. l.. SANDERS, Sec.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

See what the Philadelphia Item says
about the Hungarians. 23.tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Did you know we mad one of the
best washing machines on the mar.
ket? NOBLE BROS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Preddys is the only place to buy
hand made saddles and harness.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27
/,

For candy, go to Kahn's, who al
ways has the best. 26.3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27

Get your season tickets for the Ly-
ceum course. Don't miss it. Tuesday
Nov /, when the Hungarlans will be
here. 23-tf.
Gould you use some cheap money
at a low rate of interest, five years
loan with privilege to pay at any in
terest maturity2"
THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT co,
Oct. 10. Atoka, l. I.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-10-27
MISS COLLINS
COTTON SEED MEAL.

Cotton seed meal and hulls FOR your
cows.
loft ARDMORE OIL MILL
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

The inmate not the room. the plume
OF the falcon. not the bars
That keep him from the spIeadid
stars
I know that the time will come when
not the voice that speaks, not the arms
that gesture, not the brain which ia
only the poor loom on which unseen
fingers weave fabrics OF imperfec.
thought, but the life which shall sur.
vive them all will go out into broader
fields Of effort, into grander cycles Of
time, into worlds before which this
world shall pale as a star pales in the
presence of the morning
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

| consent TO be my bride life shall he
one long dream of happiness" She viii
recognize in the tender avowaI the food
force of the veal which furnished thu
staple of Alfred's dinner, and the ir.-
pulse generated by her own evening
meal of spring chicken viii cause her
to reply in dulcet accents of undying
affection. This may not be the APPROX
ed modern method of love-making. II
is many years since I had occasion to
make love to any body except my wife
and fashions change with times. Maybe
the proper course to pursue would be
to say, ''Wiil the darling compacted
molecules which constitute your con
seriousness consider the advantage Of
permanent affiliation with the develop
81 protopIasrn which now places Itself
at your dispofal?''
AAA
Accept the doctrine that man is a
machine and there is an end of Con-
science, there is an end of inspiration,
there is an end Of moral accountability
and there ought to be an end of ac-
countabilfty to law for no man ought
to be held responsible for the structure
of his brain or the operation of food
upon it and if he can evade human
consequences, why may he not bur-
glarize a bank, murder his nother-in-
law. hate his neighbor and love his
neighbours wife as he may be impelled
by the operations of his dinner?
AAA
MateriaIistic philosophers may sheer
at the errors and conflicts Of theology.
but their creed of eternal death is a
creed that makes criminals. Belief in
~. ST =
tute a great reserved vfgilant, though
unseen, armed guard which ever lays
arresting hands upon the selfish and
savage impulses of man and which
ever aids to keep society in order. No
thief ever comes away from the con-
fessionaI unimportuned TO make resti-
tuition, and there the scarlet woman
is warned to sin no more and the sor-
rowing are con1forted.
When I have seen IN frontier camps
a Catholic priest riding forth into the
storm and the night TO smooth the
passage of a dying soul-when I have
seen men and women wearing the Sal
walton Army uniform, feeding the hun
CRY. succoring the distressed and fac
ing even the dangerous Los Angeles
policemen, I, who believe not implicit
" in any creed, and who yet believe in
the truth which underlies all creeds. Z
take off rny hat in homage to every I
soldier of Christ.
A A A
Discussion between the orthodox and +
he unorthodox is usually prOhtless, for I
On such a subject men will reason in s
4 circle, and I am not sure that such
idle discussion may not be best ter
minated as it was once ended by an .
Nd Baptist divine There was con-
ference meeting and an infidel farmer
rom an adjoining county rode over to
argue with and disconf1t the preacher.
Placing himself in front Of the man OF
God, he poured forth the arguments
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

| One reason why polemical discussion
| is usually profitless is because it is al
| last the spiritual sense of man that
perceives his spiritual life. 1t is re-
| lated of TyndaIl that with companion
he once passed a night on the summit
of the Alps in order to obtain a view
there of sunrise. When the rays OF
the morning sun lit crystal domes and
pinnacIes with prismatic rays Tyn-
dalfs companion said to him, Now,
Professor. don't you feel that there is
God ?'' Yes" replied the great ma
terialist, eff you don't try to prove
it to me-
Happily the greater part Of mankind
are born with the spiritual sense. Oc-
ton who comes into the world with
cut il. You cannot reach such. You
may instruct in many things one who
is born blind. You may instruct him
in mathematics, in doors. in form, in
taste and in music but you cannot by
any system OF raised letters cause him
to comprehend the difference between
pink and blue The truth of the after
life IS borne in upon each of US by the
testimony of H. own soul and Thought
is witness never suborned.
AAA
For myself, do not, I cannot, viii
not believe that this life ends all. The
body OF the unborn babe was death
until life pricked the inoculating germ
OF immortality into the pulseIess, COL
or1ess mass hurrying on in obedience
to undertaking law into the voiceless,
reachless eteruities. The body Of the
man must be death again before life's
work begins anew. We know that the
body will pass on into the foliage Of
forests and the piash Of streams and
who shall say that the life, freed from
its earthly body may not journey on In
immortal youth-"unhurt amid the
wreck OF matter and the crash Of
worlds ?"
I decline TO believe that am an in
telligence unfit TO survive the death Z
any body. You may accuse me Of being
merely a bundle of molecules developed
out Of a protoplasm and progressing
into a gas but all the same I know with
an intuition that is higher than reason
Il know with consciousness thar
seorns your scaIpel. and defses your
and defies the calculations /
II your pencil that while you may burr |
,r cremate my body you cannot thus
dispose of me for 1 am !
The wearer not the garb,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

he had cribbed from voltaire The
preacher listened scornfuHy but pa
tientIy, and when the infdel paused
he replied: well. my friend, I won't
discuss the matter with you. Your in
fidelity is grounded in you. You can
keep your belief and I will keep mine
You live your life and I will live mine
and bye and bye when we leave this
world I viii go to heaven and you can
go TO hell"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

OF what value to the community is a
carping inidel seeking ever to belIttte
and deride the religions of the world
Possibly Bulwer may have been right
in saying that "all religions are equal
~ incredible to the philosophers and
equally useful to the statesman" but
with it should have been coupled an
other saying to the effect that call ma
teriaIistic philosophers are equally in
credible to the scholar and equally
dangerous TO society" Anaxa goras
said. THE first thing is to seem honest
and the next is TO be so.'' Yet unless
there is value in being honest there
can be no value in seeming" so. The
pseudo scientist who asserts that faith
in Divine Justice and Divine Mercy is
a folly, that belief in an after life is
a delusion. that there is no God, and
who denounces religion and proposes 10
elevate tawdry and bedizened Goddess
of Reason upon her desecrated affairs
are enga ged in a miSchievous work.
Every advocate of this false philosophy
IS a moral iunatic standing upon the
brink of a whirlpool, and occupied in a
malign effort to drive the property,
the homes, the freedom and the happi-
ness Of a people into the vortex of
anarchy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

What would be thought of him who
should visit a Hot Springs resort and
make it his business to knock the
clutches from under every rheumatic
cripple who was limping his way to
the healing waters? If you make a Tew
believe that the Pentateuch is a collec-
ton of fables, that Moses was
an inefficient guide. that the ten mes
sages of the thunder We're never voiced
from Sinai, and that the teachings IF
Leviticus ought not to control his rate
Of fnterest-will he prove a better citi-
zen FOR his non-belief?
-1u make the Christian believe
tha. he faith OF the fathers is but a
delusive dream of Savior who died in
vain; that the story of the Virgin
Mother is but sweet unsubstantial
fancy; that the pennons which ffoac
from the masts of ships thar carry the
grain of charity to lift the pulsing Grim
son once more to the white lips Of
famine. fiutter no signals to watching
angels TO tell that benevoIence still
dwells in the breast of man; if you tell
the Christian all this and prove it 70
him by the logic of some professor who
has examined a bug under a micro
scope and with the result assumes -
overturn the literature and the tradi-
tons of nineteen hundred years. will
you have made of him a better citizen.
a better neighbor. or better man?
AAA
Those who preach the creed of etc.
nal death are engaged in a harmful
task Remove from the man of today
the stays of belief in an after life ard
accountability there for deeds done n
the body and you have deprived him Of
the props without which he is not
strong enough to walk erect and tie
selfish and savage instincts of the
primeval human Will assert themselves.
Destroy religion and put it's priests
and preachers out of commission, and
the invisible police will be disbandad
and chaos win come again.
A Al
According to materialism there IS no
such thing as inspiration and thought
S only a secretion of the brain, even IS
bile is a secretion Of the liver. Ac-
eording to nateriaIisul mans brain Is |
only thought producing machine ara |
'ood is the fuel that generates the mo- |
i've power You place food in the |
mechanism of a Shakespeare ana |
produce great dramatist. you place It |
n Webster and produce great |
itatesinan, you place It in a Grant and |
produce a great general, you place it |
n Captain Kidd and produce a great
pirate We are Mrs Jarley's wax
works, all Of US, and a mutton chop is
he crank that winds US up.
The next step Will probably be the
development of science of Gietatic
bought The actor will ear raw beef
Fhen he is to play Richard the Third
nd waffles before attempting Claude
and the statesman Will eat
PC cream before voting on harbor ap-
ropriations. beet sugar before discus
ing reciprocity with Cuba. and stuffed
eppers before he approaches the sub
act OF a Panama Canal
The lover will say TO his adored one,
Matilda Ann, I love thee. If thou wilt
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

AS humanity has left behind the
cave dweIler, the fisherman in his
dugout canoe, and the warrior who
made a drinking cup of his enemy's
skulI-as 1t has come to the use of
wheeled vehicles and cefled houses
as it has harnessed the elements to
do its bidding, and has called into be-
ing slaves with fingers of steel and
lungs of steam-as it has climbed out
of the swamps upward and upward
into the radiant sunshine of the up
lands, there has stepped out of the
wayside shadows a gloomy Presence
which has croaked to Humanity.
There is no God. There IS no Flu
ture. Yesterday you We're not, today
Won are; eat, drink and be merry
for tomorrow you die
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

impresses upon the members OF his
congregation the duties of honesty
truthfulness, sobrie1y and obedience 70
law. The Catholic priest never ceases
TO enjoin upon his folk the necessity
of righteousness OF life. He says TO the
clerk: Keep your fingers out OF the
employers gill." He says to the hus-
band. Keep your feet out Of the dead
fall" He says TO the youth, Keep
your presence out of the bagnio-'
Every clergyman of whatever denonli-
nation is repeat q persistent indus
trious, potential influence for right hx-
ing and right thinking. He saves the
merchant from loss through the dis
honesty of clerks. He closes the door of
the home in the face OF the Decorating
Iibertine. He reduces the cost 10 the
taxpayer Of prisons and hospitals. His
life, his example, his precepts are as
much an element OF material advantage
to the community in which he lives as
a new water supply or a new trolley
line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Tourist sleenlnn Cars.

T ndced Pullman tourist sleeping car stading under the Union passenger station shed. attached to an outgoing train ir the west tonight" said rail- road m.
 'Thf car was evidently being dead heade, through, as l did not see any passegers in It. It is not very often touris sleeping cars are seen in this sectio of the country. In Texas and the wst they are used extensively, how ever. Although the cars have all of the modei conveniences they are very plain in dsign. The rich carved mahogany and te fine tapestry of the Pullman pal ace sr are conspicous by their absence. 1nst,d of plush covered seats, there are caneor split rattan seats in the cars Som of the cars are not vestibuled and instad of being named the tourist sleep CTS re all numbered.
 ''h the, tourist sleepers to California ansMexico hot water is provided the pas serers in order that they can make cone, and in fact do light housekeeping enroute. The rates on the turist cars ar much cheaper than the palace car res
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02

the bench, who sentenced the grafters to two years Imprisonment and fines Of s1O,000 each-all that the law per mitted
 The cases are to be carried to an appellate court, but the known fair ness and capacity of Judge Pritchard renders the success of the appeals i'm probable. It is generally believed that the sentences will stand, and that a great victory has been achieved over all grafters and eyil-doers. The yer diets render easier the task of purging the public service.
 It is regrettable that verdict against rich or influential man is not considered at all conclusive, whereas verdicts against the poor and friend less are known to be final Machen, Lorenz and the two Groffs have all been released on bail, and they are contemplating reversals of the verdict obtained in Judge Pritchard's court. This is regrettable, and in England no appeals can be taken in felony cases. In this country tho rich and influential are given opportunities that are not open to the poor and friendless. The former begin in earnest their battle for liberty when verdict is rendered against them; the latter have nothing to do but to go to prison even if they feel that the verdict of the jury-box Is unjust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Chain Gang Negroes.

T have been annoyed several times re- gently by negroes on the street gang ac- costing me for money or tobacco, said a citizen. Nearly all the chaingang ne- groes make a practice of begging when they are working close to the curbing or when taking a rest at night. They con- trive to make their requests in such low voice that the officers seldom hear them talking.
 Tn the first place negro prisoners should not be allowed to stand on the street corners when not at work It Is of fensive and annoying to a lady to have to pass through such group and no man likes it either, A night or two ago about twelve negro convicts were assembled on one of the busiest corners in town where men. women and children were constantly passing. I do not know what they were doing there. unless they were waiting to be carried back to the jail. but they were begging from men passing by and making themselves very objectionable. Such peti- kioners should meet with little sympathy tor it is very certain that deserving pow frty is not usually found on q city street rang"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Niqht Hackmen.

The business of running a hack in Bir- mingham at night seems 70 be rather a slow proposition" said telegraph opera ball or some affair of that kind on foot the negro drivers spend most of their time standing about one or two favorite cor ners and talking. Negro nackmen, as a rule, are jovial spirits and some of them are quite witty It Is at night after 12 o'clock when everything Is quiet that they are at their best and 1t is entertaining to listen to them exchanging sailies After midnight calls are few and about the only fares a hackman can pick up are from gay young ladies who stay out until they become bewiidered in the fog and desire the services of first class. seagoing hack.
 During winter it is a hard life these regroes lead. Standing about corners dur ing the cold gray hours of the morning with a chilling wind blowing their ragged overcoats about and the frost settling on their faces. It is no pleasant job, can as- sure you.
 q have often wondered If the negro haehhieh III oiiHiinshdH iedNe tne1r horses out in the cold all day and all night. too. I have seen the poor brutes standing along the curbing half dozing at all hours of the day and night and 1t is reasonable to suppose that Is all the rest and sleep they receive. If this Is the case some steps should be taken to stop such cruelty. It Is almost as bad for a horse to stand for four or five hours in a freez- ing wind as 1t is for a man and none of the animals lave any adequate protec- ton from the cold"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Takes Second Place.

By putting exports and imports to- gether we get at the total amount of a ports foreign trade. In lists pre- pared on that basis Boston has long held second place, but full returns for the calender year 1903 show that Bos- ton has lost second place to New Or leans. The figures for the four lead ing ports are, as follows: New York. sl,114S31, ,346; New Orleans. $179, ,697.- soc; Boston, s16s, 1s2,S16, and Calves ton. sl469O5,61
 New Orleans has never before dis lodged Boston from second place, and the Boston merchants say the change is due to the high price of cotton, but a close analysis of the figures does not offer much encouragement to Boston so far as second place is concerned. Boston did increase her trade last year about sS,00O000. while the in- crease in New Orleans trade was $22,- 100000 Boston will not be apt to re. gain the place she has lost.
 But the strength of the gulf ports at present is no criterion of what their strength will be hereafter when the Panama canal is completed. The fact that foreign trade is turning to the gulf ports at present Is but evidence of what Is coming when these ports are the gateway to the Pacific, on which lives the greater portion of the world Every gulf port has greatness waiting for it, even our own Mobile, when the Warrior Is opened and the isthmian canal dug, both of which are in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Construction of Trunk Sewer.

The entire community reioiees over the announcement that the trunk sew CTS for Jones valley are to be built speedily. The bonds of the county have been sold at par, and we will soon see the system completed.
 1 Every day of delay in the construc- tion of the two trunk sewers along Valley and Village creeks is neces- sarily hurtful. A string of towns from Ensley to East Lake cannot be drained at all until the Village creek sewer Is constructed and this, fortunately, is in plain sight. This will increase the prosperity of every suburb on Village creek, and whatever helps those towns helps Birmingham itself.
 When the two trunk sewers are com peted the entire valley will be put In thorough sanitary condition, ready to defy any epidemic that comes along. There will not then besa> valley in any state better drained than Jones valley "a valley twenty miles long and from two to four miles wide. It is a splen- did task, and the commissioners will soon have every part of the immense sewers in course of construction Each community on the line of either sewer should begin at once to do its local work, for the speedy building of the two trunk sewers is now assured.
 The placing of 41a per cent bonds at par in these times was an achieve. ment that demonstrates anew the high credit of Jefferson county. This great county contains fully 100000 people, and no man can say how many more it will hold when the next national census Is taken. Iron may be low priced now, but construction work goes on unchecked. The valley will soon be full of people, and the two trunk sewers will then be not only a con venience, but an absolute necessity. Let the sewer commission press on the work with all possible vigor.