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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
IEGATE.

Special Correspondence.
Legate, May 3l.-Mrs. p. n. Arm
strong was bitten by a ground rattle
snake early Thursday morning.
4 son of the Widow Hodges was
thrown against a wire fence by n
runaway horse Wednesday and Sc.
riOisly lacerated by the wire.
The government school closes to.
dag The teacher, Miss Arid. has
taught good school.
Rain. nothing but rain and slush
for he past week.
Crop prospects are everything ex.
cept flattering. Should we have few
days of sunshine everything wouit
be changed
Mrs. Aired and Mr.. r Michael Of
this place will attend tn. normal at
Sulphur.
The crop OF grass and cand dat, :
are plentiful.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

-Now, sir" she commanded. "look
me In the face aud deny II you dare
that you married me for money"
He raised his eyts until they were di-
rected TO her countenance and faitered
swell. think earned the cash
don't you. dearr'--London Mail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
Warned.

Minister'S Wife to her husband
WIN you help ne to put the drawinr
room carpet down today, dcarf The
room Is beautifully clean. Minister
(vexatiously)-Ah, well. suppose
will have TO. Wife-And don't forget
John. dear. while you are doing II that
you are Il minister OF the gospel-Lon
don Tit Bits.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

]. A. Mccullough has been loyal to
living by hard labor since he has
been in Carter County. He needs the
benefits OF the Office OF County Clerk.
Vote for Mccullough.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
NEW WSPAPER CHAFF.

Cheer up, cheer up! To sing a song
You have the best of reasons
instead of grumbling something's
wrong
With nature and her seasons;
hltho' you miss the roses gay,
Remember ere you bawl so
That when warm weather comes our
IL way
Mosquitoes then come also.
Remember but year ago
The gnats that used To grieve us
md how the house flies loved us So
l We thought they'd never leave us:
Remember when the chill wind blows
1t makes existence sweeter,
For every frost that nips a rose
Must also nip 'skeeter.
-
Elevator Boy-"Elevator going up"
Deaf Old Lady-"Which way is II
Ioing, bub?"
Elevator Boy (impatlently)-"Up!
Ipp, Up! up"
Deaf Old Lady dndignantly)-"You
hlk to me, bub, as II you thought
was trained dog'-I.ippincott's.
The schoolmaster was trying to eX-
4 lain the meaning OF the word con.
inited," which had occurred in the
burse of the reading lesson NOW
Jpys." he said suppose that | was
Ilways boasting of my learning-that
knew good deal O. Latin, for in
ance, or that my personal appear
nee was-that was very cookbook
IAg. y know-what should you say
| as?'
IN Straightforward Boy-Sure. sir, I'd
i by you was a liar. sir!-Holland }
lagazine.
III "
A well-known harvard professor
as one day travelling by trolley from
ambridge to Boston, where he de.
red 10 call upon friend. He asked
le conductor to transfer him to the
stty car at a certain point.
Soon afterward the car stopped. and
he Harvard man, on looking out OF
e window, was surprised to see the
ery friend he was seeking. He start.
to leave the car. but the conductor
opped him.
You can't change here" he said
hFusquely.
The professor passed him. making
II response
"You can't change here. tell you" ;"
,rsisted the conductor.
By this time the professor was on
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

Miss Nelson, Miss Wilmington
Miss Cox, Miss Gait. Miss McCul.
Tough, Miss Dora Smith.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
Pupils to Lady Blanche.

Miss Hill. Miss Edwards. Miss Led.
better Miss Hunter Miss James.
Miss Smith.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

the rear step. Here, you o'd jay"
exclaimed the conductor, haven't ]
told you that you cant change here?"
At this the good man flushed.
We'll, can change my mind, here.
can't I?"-Lippincott's.
=
THAT was rather sighting" said
Senator Beveridge of a certain speech
1T was like the speech of the old
Adams butler.
when I was boy in Adams coun
ty, Judge Blank was taken very ILL.,.
The doctor called regularly, but the
Judge kept getting worse, and finally
the crisis came.
The morning after the crisis, the
doctor rang the judges bell at sun
rise.
I hope your masters temperature
Is lower than 1t was last evening" he
said to the butler anxiously.
"'Tm not so sure about that the
man answered. lie died. sir. in the
night Exchange
=
As an example of what men in the
railroad business have 70 endure, a
conductor on the Seaboard Air line
relates that while he was passing
through a coach a few days ago, a
woman stopped him and asked how
lar they were from Weldon. He re.
piled that they were about fifty-fiye
miles from Weldon. She then asked.
This side or the other side?-Ar
gonaut.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

j. A. Mccullough Is thoroughly
competent. Vote for him for
County Clerk.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

]. A. Mccullough lost a fathe- and
brother in the confederat. army;
you may know he is democrat-vote
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

Stone steps may be kept free from
greenness by adding small quantity
sf chloride Of lime to a pail OF water.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02

Our Creole Hair Oil is the most de-
llghtful preparation OF its kind. 1t
makes the dryest, most unruly hair
soft and lustrous. Highly perfumed.
Csc.
2 +. ]. RAMSEY, Druggist.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
THE PLAY.
Dramatis P-rsonae.

The Prince Mr.. Vim. Richard Moore
Cyril, Friend. ...M Mr.. T.. c. McCann
Princess Ida ...... Miss X. b. Gait
Lady Psyche Miss NJ. +. Warren
Lady Blanche .. Miss S. V. Holbrook
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
ANNOUNCE M ENT

OF sale of pianos at ridiculously low
prices is to be regarded with suspi-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-02
GOOD PIANOS

cost a lot OF money to make. The
materials are costly, skilled labor ex.
pensive. We sell honest pianos at
honest prices. Drop in and try them
or better stlll ask your expert friends
to come with you. A plano is too seri.
ols an investment TO be made care.
lessly.
E. B. LUKE
E''abli'Aed 1895 Ardners !. 7
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
sEGRUGATlNe MINERAL Values

SEGREGATlNG MINERAL VALUES.
A precedent of far-reaching import
would be set by embodying in law the
recommendation of the special senate
committee in favor of selling for set
Element only the surface of the 100000
acres of land in Indian territory that
were withdrawn from sale two years
ago, reserving all mineral rights for
the benefit of the Ave civilized tribes,
owners in fee. The principle is not
less applicable to the remainder of
the public domain. and In some re-
resort to it even more necessary.
The withdrawal OF the lands in ques-
ton was caused by the rapid monopo-
lization Of their coal, oil and gas re-
sources under the terms on which alb
solute title could be acquired 1t be-
came apparent that great corporations
would certainly make effective through
those forms conspiracy to secure title
to all the most valuable land for prac-
tically the price of the surface, al
though the coal alone is worth many
times as much. and that the Indians,
thus defrauded in the first instance,
would thereby also be perpetually sub
jected to the exactions of fuel
monopoly. Summary withdrawal from
sale saved the mineral values only
/ temporarily, but the recommended
measure proposes to save them per-
manently, since the profits when real
ICED are to inure to the Indian owners,
the government acting merely as trus-
tee.
Not to speak of other minerals
monopolization of coal and iron has
already reached in this country a point
gravely challenging public attention
the Steel trust having got control OF
far more than half the known work.
able iron deposits. Indeed, there IL
only a relatively small proportion OF
coal and iron lands not now in the griI
of corporations which, by the com.
bination processes lately operating SC
rapidly, might coneeivably establish
absolute monopoly. 1t is therefore high
time 70 consider protection OF public
interest in mineral resources still held
under government title against power
full and grasping corporation monopoly
especially when it is found necessary
to employ this principle on so large |
scale in the case Of Indian tribal lands
The inealculable value Of the stsk,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
PRINCE GOoD-FER-NOTHN'.

Under the pines by the river,
Up on the bluffs 50 high; t'-
Away from the strife an the motion OF life.
Watchin' the boats go by. ed. :.
Down on the sand by the river,
Where the wavelets lap on the shore,
Lynn there fishin' an dreamin' an wlshin'i
Glad to be lazy though poor.
High on some moss-covered boulder,
On Natures own couches to lie,
Hummin sweet tunes to the softest OF
watchin1 the cloudlets fly.
Down by the brook in the meader.
Deep In a tangle OF grass,
Lynn there snorin', creation ignorin',
Waiten' fer trouble TO pass.
Out on the rocks by the ocean.
Watchln' the dash OF the spray.
Settin there blinkin' too lazy fer tninKin',
Waitin' fer care to g way.
In the crowded parks OF the city
He has no inclination to stop,
For he has palipitstion at the slightest
That sounds like the tread Of cop.
So deep in the forest a-hidin'.
Away from the restless throng
Not stewin' ner frettin'. but simply fer
waitln' fer toll 70 8 long.
on the friendly rocks by the rivey.
Issy fS1ns his PSSF body A. la s,
grown colder! = ~ II fI-F
And the Angel of3psath had passed.
So under the SOD in the gTayeysrd.
With never a headstone at ali, u
His toes to ~ tsS daisies in that efthodo'
Omaha, January, 1901. -B. N. =.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
SECRETARY RooTS VISIT.

II Secretary Root can in his visit to
Canada duplicate or approximate the
success of his South American tour
notable practical results for both coun-
tries will follow certainly though per-
haps not Immediately. For no one is
blind to the fact that this visit, though
it is one of courtesy. is directed by far
deeper motives. Unquestionably gem
eral feeling In Canada towards the
United States is far from cordial, not
ment of most important questions here
tofore the former got the worst of 1t,
but also because Irritating disputes
have been permitted to drag along for
generations and are still unsettled. 1t
is the disposition of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration In general and of the State
department in particular, under Elihu
Root conclusively to dispose of such
matters.
One grave dificulty in adjusting re-
lations with Canada has always been
that they could not be directly dealt
with, but everything had to be done
through London. The Canadians thus
have naturally felt that their substan-
tial interests have been sacrificed by
the British government through desire
to conciliate Americans even though
the fact might be the reverse. 1t would
be a plausible explanation, If there
were not many known proofs, that the
secretary's visit will enable him better
to ascertain directly though infor-
mally just what the Canadians want in
the important negotiations soon to be
carried on through the regular diplo-
matte channels, including an effort fol-
reciprocal tariff concessions.
The last has indeed been considered
as well-nigh hopeless, because the
Canadians are committed to the policy
of holding their market for their OWE
manufactures, while free or freer ex
change of agricultural commodities
would not be reciprocally advantage
Gus, the Americans having the only
large market therefor But Secretary
Roots diplomacy is the only way tC
results, If any be possible, and 1t a.
least promises to promote cordially
and good will and thus to prevent the
more intense tariff strife that has beer
threatened.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
ROCKEFELLER's RAKE-oFF.
PROFIT on the Union Pacific Loan Not
Unusual.
New York Evening Post.

UnusunI.
New York Evening Post.
The very interesting disclosures at the
Interstate Commerce commission hearing
respecting the 100000 loan made by Will
liam Rockefeller to the Union Pacific In
1908 have excited varied comment. He ad-
vanced 100000 in cash and agreed to pay
81, $4,000 fourteen months later for 100000
shares Of Southern Pacific stock which the
Union Pacific management apparently
wanted to get rid Of temporarily 30 as to
enable II to deny In court that It exer-
cised a controlling interest in the Southern
Pacific property. Six months before the
date set for the company to buy back the
stock Mr. Rockefeller offered to reduce
the commission agreed upon to five-eighths
OF 1 per cent, or $1,000" II the Hartman
interest took up the loan then This they
did, and the transaction was closed, Mr.
Rockefeller receiving his 50. 900 back with
per cent Interest, besides the commission
The question which more particularly in
terested the banking community was the
rate OF the commission originally agreed
upon and what other conditions, II any
governed the extraordinary contract
There are, perhaps. not more than twenty
or thirty men in the United states able to
make a IS. 900 600 loan at short notice. None
even of these. Is apt to have that amount
OF cash. but they possess the sort OF col
lateral that bank always accepts without
question. During the money stringeney Of
1908, the very date OF the Rockefeller loan.
the virginia-carolina Chemical company
was forced TO pay something like IS per
cent for a 100000 loan. At that time the
sum was advanced by half a dozen banking
interests who professed to think they were
doing the company a favor by taking the
loan on even these terms.
When Russell Sage was in active busi-
ness he was usually the first man appealed
70 for large loans on the "double-quiok"
basis This venerable expert often re-
ceived such propositions cordially, for the
collateral was usually ample and the rate
most profitable. He would have taken less
than t1S7.000.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
SUNDAY CLOSING OFF rosroFrIcns.
senator Burkett's Proposition Pro-
vOkeH Gentle Sarcasm.
Cincinnati Commercial tribune.

vOLeH Gentle Sarcasm.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
IL Senator Burkett OF Nebraska is in deep
and deadly earnest I'm desiring TO bring
about blue law observance of Sunday by
closing the postoffices on that day, he 10
not going far enough. HIS proposed bill
has that one object in view-the prevention
Of mail delivery on Sunday-and. OF course.
he is also moved to the deepest depths by
the additional labor placed on the clerks
in attendance at the windows. SO far as
the additional labor is an element, II is not
observable that clerks are threatening to
resign because OF an hours work on Sun
day.
But that is another and minor consid-
GRAFTON of the senator from Nebraska. lie
objects on high moral principle to ket ping
a postoffice open on Sunday.
But why not prevent mail coaches being
hauled on Sunday from, point, in one
state to point in another? Why net, In
fact incorporate in his bill a provision
stopping the running OF all trains on Sun
day? why not stop passenger or mail
traffic between Washington. in the District
of Columbia and Alexandria, In the state
OF Vlrglnla7 These things are as innately
wicked as opening a postoffice on Sunday
for brief hour for the convenience Of the
public, and he would be very much more
consistent In his war on wickedness on the
Sabbath II is not probable the congress-
will enact his bill into law but he ought to
play the lmit-if gentleman so austere
as the senator from Nebraska knows the
meaning of the term. r
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18

is forcibly shown by the desperate
methods resorted to for monopoly seiz-
ure of the peoples heritage, the elsbo-
rate frauds perjuries and other crimes
under the land laws lately exposed
centering in this purpose. II is pre-
posterous that land worth hundreds
and even thousands of dollars an acre
should be exposed to the grasp Of
monopoly at the pittance fixed by law
for the surface soil. which often no
one would take even as a gift for cul-
tivation The mineral value no less
than the soil value is the property Of
the people, and at least as to those
fundamental minerals selected for
monopoly exploitation should be
equally guarded.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound
personal NOTES.

II is interesting to imagine the disturb
Rnce they could create II the 800 widows
of the shah of Persia were to take It into
their heads to make II unpleasant for his
successor.
William Bach, ST., of Bloomington, Ill
is the last survivor OF the union guard
that stood watch over President Jefferson
Davis when he was confined at Fortress
Monroe at the close Of the civil war.
The venerable John w. Hutchinson, the
bard of High Rock" the only survivor
OF the famous Hutchinson quartet, which
by its patriotic songs stirred the hearts of
departing regiments during the civil war,
has just celebrated his eighty-sixth birth
day anniversary at Lynn, Mass.
Ramon Pima, the new Spanish minister to
the United States, is A years old, and has
been in the Spanish diplomatic service since
he was p years old. 1t is under stood that
his appointment to Washington is a re-
ward for his services to the government as
secretary to the Algeciras conference.
In the Brooklyn public library there is a
young woman in charge of the department
for the blind who has been sightless since
her fifth year. Her name is Beryl H. Clark
Out of about 1000 sightless persons in her
city nearly 100 Of these are members of her
department One OF Miss Clark's pupils is
go years old.
Hudson Maxim. the inventor. has con-
oluded experiments from which he asserts
that the range of naval torpedoes will be
doubled and naval warfare revolutionized.
The invention is a self-propelled torpedo,
which is driven by steam generated In the
burning by explosives carried within the
torpedo in concentrated form.
DR.. Thomas Adds Emmett of New York,
now almost 30 years Of age. a Granddaughter
Of the Irish patriot, Robert Emmett, and who
has been made count OF the Order OF
st. Gregory by the pope, is an authority
on questions of Irish history ard has dis
tinguished himself during a long and hon
orable life in the field OF literature and his
torical research
Rev. oliver Dyer, the first person TO mas
ter stenography in the United States, an as
sociate editor with Robert Bonner in pub
fishing the New York Ledger and an init
mate Of many prominent statesmen. and a
we'll known author has just died in Boston
at the age of 70. He learned stenography in
England personally from Isaac Pitman and
was the first stenOgrapher in the United
States senate. His protege, Murphy. for
merly his ONCE boy, became the fastest
stenographer In the world
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18
A DELIGHTFUL CAsUIsr.
California View of Tramc Manager
stubbs as a witness.


Mr. ]. c. Stubs, the able trafic director
Of the Hartman system, is always inter
esting. II 1t were only for the humorous
ingenuity with which the contrives to
obscure a subject and baffie inquiry which
he deems impertinent. Whether II be a
reporter putting inconvenlent questions or
an interstate commerce commissions
making uncomfortable inquiries about law
breaking traffic managers Mr.. Stubs
pursues his easy way of talking about
something else No man has ever yet nailed
S,ubbs to the cross.
Competition among railroads! Why
bless your soul. Mr. Commissioner, the
Southern Pacific beats the band as an all
round competitor for everything In sight
Such was the general tenor OF his evidences
before the Interstate Commerce commits
sion In Chicago on Wednesday. or course
II was quite evident that Mr. Stubs was
talking OF one thing and the commissioner
OF another. although they both used the
same name for two distinct and separate
ideas. When Mr. Stubs speaks OF com
petition he confines the word to service
The commissioners were talking about com
petition in rates.
Mr.. HILL" said the witness. is prob
ably the leading railroad man in this eoun
Try, ana ne cannot III ne would, destroy
competition between the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific. He must employ
vice presidents and general managers
These men have their regulations TO uphold
or 20 construct They will work TO- thei
own lines against the other line and com
petition Is inevitable. II Hill should TAX
that spirit out OF his men he might as wei
hand their management over 10 a SO
clerk"
All that IL very pretty, but II any OF thes
skillful and able railroad men under Hi
should presume 10 make an open cut II
rates he would be incontinently dismissed
Indeed. Mr. stubbs in moment OF unex
pected oandor, admitted as much when h
said he dared not change rates withou
consultation with his Competitors"
This form Of competition he justifss a
one OF the penalties Of civilization
"A railroad" he explains. ''s just as ia
dependent as any member OF society can bs
Every man in the community IL compelle
10 fOreEo a portion Of his natural right
for the good q the whole. see no dit
ference in this case"
l. IL not that admirable casuistry? A raj
road H. compelled TO break the law BY wa
Of paying the debt II owes 70 society," NJ
Stubs is quite as entertaining as the I'm
moral monster Of Punch and JUDY show
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-18

How the Dominion Proposes to Deal
with Labor Disputes.
PittsburR Dispatch


The Canadian Minister Of Labor has in
troduced into the Dominion Parliament a
compulsory arbitration BILL supported by
the labor organizations, which, II enacted,
will furnish an interesting experiment In
labor legislation. PTFi'Hr So r" Ta
Boards OF investigation and Cancellation
are to be appointed, consisting of one repre-
sentative chosen by each side and the
third by those two or by the minister of
labor. The bill will make It an ofrense for
any person to incite others to declare or
continue a strike or lockout prior to or
pending a reference of the dispute to a
board of Cancellation or investigation. The
finding of the board may be accepted or
rejected, so that the bill really provides for
compulsory investigation only. But ex-
perience has been that where an attempt
has been made to have fair discussion OF
trade disputes settlement has usually fol-
lowed. In obstinate cases the investigation
and the publication of the commission
finding would do much to force a settle
ment by the pressure of public opinion. A
notable point is the authority conferred
upon the board of investigation to summon
witnesses, place them under oath and CON-
pei them to produce documents or to CON-
NIT them for contempt
AS the labor organizations are supporting
the bill, its chances of passage are excel
lent. Its provisions are fair and It avoids
the difficulties and defects of most other
compulsory arbitration bills It's effect will
be watched with interest in this country.