The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-08-08
Ardmore, Tuesday, August 8, 1905.

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Ardmore, Tuesday, August 8, 1905.
A Kentuckian has sent twenty-five
turkeys to Portsmouth for the pleni-
potentiaries The plenipotentiaries
had reason TO expect better things of
n Kentuckian.
A Philadelphia preacher told his
congregation that there will be no
graft in heaven. How does he ever
expect to get Philadelphians interest.
ed in heaven by any such talk as that?
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The New York barkeeper who has
been made clerk of the court Is said
TO be discharging his duties salts
factorily. This is explained by the
fact that he was so long familiar with
the bar.
A lady candidate for school com.
missioner in New York asks the vot-
ers to apply to the assessor to raise
their taxes because the schools need
the money. We fear the lady will
never succeed in politics.
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Secretary Wilson says: when
came to Washington | found a lot Of
rolltop desks and some halfstarved
scientists" And the strange part of
it is that n has never occurred to the
grafters to steal the roller-top desks.
Col. Wattorson says that the aris-
trocracy of Europe means lineage and
brains. while that Of America means
bad whisky and Standard Oil The
Colonel doesn't state definitely his
own status. but It is well known that
he is In no way connected with stand
ard Oil.
A Mississippi man who has his COW
pasture on the Louisiana. side of the
line is informed that he cannot 20
over and milk his animals unless he
submits to detention or quarantine
for six days before he returns. He Is
much disturbed by the thought that
the milk would sour during this
weather before he could get It home
and in the churn.
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Senator Mitchell states that he will
make no further explanation to the
senate or the public He will probaD
ly content himself till the supreme
court passes on his case with drawing
his senatorial salary. II will be some
what pleasant to think that though
the world is against him, he is max
ing II pay him a fine sum as one OF
the country's chief lawmakers,
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They have nearly broken mp horse
racing on many of the tracks in the
North. Yet II a visitor goes TO that
part of the country and wants to sec
horses run he can find lot of people
who will turn out just on his account
and give him a race any minute, The
Northern people dearly love 10 accom-
modate visitors and strangers who
happen to carry the dough as they
call it.
Speaking of bad sanitary conditions
ON the Isthmus of Panama, where
this country proposes TO dig a canal
Il will be noted that they are no
quite as bad, when the yellow feyei
is considered, as they are elsewhere
Sun the transcontinental railroads
are so uneasy about the health o.
Americans on the Isthmus that the!
will probably fail to make any com
parisons and give results of same.
II is almost impossible these day
TO put through any important public
improvement without somebody o'
some interest getting rake on
from It. The only way to build NJ
a city and keep 1t in the forefront Il
TO push improvements in every need
ed direction, and catch and punisl
every CRATER within reach. A mum
cipal policy which holds back anC
refuses to accomplish anything be
cause somebody is trying to mak'
money out Of it, or to make more thar
he ought TO, will go into history as I
failure. There are times when admin
istrations, national, state and city
must make good in the line of posi-