The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-01-17
Ardmore, Tuesday, JarIAy II, 1905.
BRYAN ON IMMORTALITY.


In delivering an eulogy on the death
Vf "A friend, Hon. W. j. Bryan gave ex.
preston to the following beautiful
though concerning the immortality of
the soul: III the Father deigns 10
touch with divine power the cold and
pulseless heart of the buried acorn AMI
make IL burst forth from its prison
walls. will he leave negligent the soul
or man who was made in the image or
his Creator? II he stoops TO give 20
the rOsebush, whose withered bios.
SONS float upon the autumn breeze
the sweet assurance of another spring.
time, will he withhold the words OF
hope from the souls OF men when the
frosts of winter come? II matter,
mute and inanimate, is changed by
the force Of nature into multitude
OF forms that can never die, will the
spirit OF man suffer annihilation after
IL has paid visit like royal guest
10 this tenement of clay? Rather let
us believe that he who in his appar
ent prodigality wastes not tho rain
drop, the blade of grass or the even
ing's sighing zephyr, but makes them
all to carry out his eternal plans. has
given Immortality to the mortal and
gathered to himself the generous spirit
Of our friends" Athens Review
Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky
Scmos out a hero with the romance ON
him Tlc disguised himself as com
mon laborcr, raked his hair down over
his forehead, looked tough through his
eyebrows, turned his br,rches wrong
side out, smoked pipe with the holo
down. escaped from Port Arthur in
a fog, and astoundcd the Cheofoo hood
huns by throwing of his mark and
disguise and dramatically declaring
himself Prince. The Prince who can
disguise himself as a peasant and get
away from the enemy is still great
somebody In Russia
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President Taylor of the Glnners'
Association Is authority for the charge
that this association has proof pos
idvo that the Governments bureau
report is per cent more that it should
be, and that the cotton crop will be-
fully a million bales under the Govern.
ment estimate" That is serious ac-
cusatlon, and If It is true the cotton
raisers have "a right TO know It.
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Hon W. A. Ledbetters address de.
llvered at the recent Bar Association
meeting at Shawnee has been so wide,
ly printed and commented upon by tho
newspapers Of the two territories that
that honorable gentleman certainly has
cause to feel sratined and wei lrcpaid
for the thought and labor ne expended
on the very able presentation OF the
statehood question Muskogec Demo
srat
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Il would not astonish many to find
that Admiral Togos stay in Toxic Is
a blind to obscure the fact that vice
Admiral Kriu has gone down to wei.
come Admiral Rojestvensky. Even the
whereabouts OF vive Admiral Kama I
mura arc unknown
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D., Dabney points out that "in the /
city OF Chicago during the year 1908 /
there were LOG murders and homicides. /
exclusive Of suicides and those acci. 1
dentauy killed" and that there was
only one hanging.
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II all the surplus cotton or even 20 !
per cent OF same we're devoted To the /
erection Of factories hard by the fields,
the result would be- liberty for the
cotton raiser and prosperity through.
cut the South.
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man wastes more time during /
ak months courtship than he does in 4.
waiting for street cars an the rest Of n