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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-08
spaniards Observe Fiesta.

Ardmoreite Special.
City of Mexico, Sept 7.-Spaniards
of Mexico City today began cele'
bration of the anniversary OF the
battle OF Covadonga, which was
fought about 1000 years ago be-
tween Christian Spaniards and Moors
in that part OF Spain known as As
turias. The engagement was the
first of the series of victories which
resulted in the fall OF Granada.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-08

Love laughs at locksmiths In fact
Iocksmiths won't even keep the woli
from the door.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-08

not entirely satisfied. Tints-White, Flesh.
Pink. Brunette. By leading druggists or mail
Psss's ~ NATIONAL JORtJ CO.. PsrIs. Tenn
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ORoWN L DRIDoMAN
PuNeral olreetoes and lSeeNsod
embalmsfs.
Target line Of Funeral oeods In
Iadlaa Territory.
MARVIN WOlvERTON
Notary Public.

Have me write you deeds, and mort.
cages and make your abstracts. Work
correctly and promptly done. Phone
81.
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The lamb in the stock market is
usually served with Mint sauce.
Kodol for Indigestion and Dyspep'
sla, combination of natural diges
tants and vegetable acids, digests
the food itself and gives strength
and health TO the stomach. Pleasant
to take. Sold by the Hoffman Drug
Company.
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Some straight laced men have
gone crooked.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-08
Nadine Face Powder
Produces q Beautiful Complexion.

Soft and velvety.
Remains until washed
off. Purified by a
newly discovered pro-
cess. Harmless as
water. Prevents re-
turn of discolorations.
In green boxes only.)
Buy one soc. pack
age and money will be
refunded il you are
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When man has occasion to de-
fend his actions he admits his weak
ness.
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Miss Moorm an.

Miss Jearldine Norman OF Ala
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-07-06
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Bulletin.
p41ELADELPHIA'S GREAT WEEK.

July IS to a. Vhcu the EIs hold their Annual
Reunion III Philadelphia, will be glorious week III the
Quake City. Not oryears have such elaborate pepartons
been made honor the Clys guests those which are no"
being made welcome members OF the Order and to
terrain thousands who expected to visit the city dur
ing the week
a grand Court of Honor in Broad Street, the most
magnificent structure of the kind erected in America
and costing $4,000, will be great feature OF the OCCASION
Every night during the week this Court Of Honor together
with the City Hail. will be illuminated by myriads OF cleo
trio lights of various colors
On Wednesday, July ~ nassed band parade OF over
musicians will take place
On Thursday, July rs, the Grand Parade OF all visiting
Eks will Over 5000 from all sections OF the
country will participate Each Lodge will have its own band
and will distinct uniform. Each uniform will typy
the city represented by the lodge Many of the uni
forms will be historical ant. picturesque.
On Saturday, July 20 there will be grand excursion
the seashoc Atlantic City, Cape May, Wildwood, Ocean
C Asbury Park and other popular resorts within easy
reach OF Philadelphia by the fast express trains OF the Penn
svlvania Railroad.
Excursion tickets to Philadelphia sale at all
Ticket Stations
For exact consult nearest Pennsylvania Railroad
Ticket Agent,
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Mercerized Dotted Swiss

Only pieces lett to-day Regain
$50, now zoe.
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June ! 2iii
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04

mycrats fought against tn tariff; tn
Republicans fought FIR 1t. No mat
ther which side won tn tariff wint on
tarttlng. / was thinkin' tn other day
about readin' up some old pa -apcrs an
hndin' out how tn ad yaloriam jooty
on ostrich feathers boosted me gas bill
whin Jawnny McKenna. a black Ray
publican, come in. Well says !, 7
suppose ye're still In favor Nv crushin'
our infant Industries undher an In
afther he comes to this country says
/, fr it all came back to me like u
flesh. oh. tn diyvle take tn tariff
says Jawnny McKenna. I'm free
arc all good Republicans. only he
says. we don't know how to do 1t an
we cuddent thrust tn likes Nv We, he
says We'll, what on earth ar-re you
an me goin' to fight about next year?
says I. Here ar-re tn lictions comm
on says /, an Amt able to think Nv
anything ~ naytional charackter
that Wud make me want to break ye'er
gettln' nervous. We can't fight about
silver this year Ye've agreed with
me that we need more money, an I've
agreed with ye that we We're led
hsay our esssbess ifaae INCOME %ns
tax? I can't go to tn nure with ye.
on that. f'r It's wan " tn things that
yere, prepared. to lay down ye'er life f'r
stands In tn way Nv 1t is tn Supreme
Coort; hut whins ], as a pimmycrat,
start Off to desthroy tn Supreme Coort
I'meet thin holdln UP their skirts and
tearln' down tn sthreet pursued be
Tiddy Rosenfelt an ye'ersilf. Dye ray
how ye stood up again me an
in favor Nv cnrp'rate wealth? Amt We
ashamed Nv ye'ersilf now? thought
I had chance to- rid mesllf iv ye'er
comp'ny whin our peer
less leader, Willum jennings Bryan,
come home an spoke out In thrumpet
governmint grabbin TIL railroads an
runnin' thin. THERE'S something we
can fight about." gays ]. "Jawnny Nc
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ling up money. They are investing
their surplus In real estate, and it is
this that has done much to swell ali
Egyptians, Notwithstanding the gov.
eminent Of the English and the influx
Of ( an the oo fooreigners. It has now about
900 are either Arabs or descendants
Of the original Egyptians The most
Io.f them are Mohammedans, although
there are. all told, something like 600,-
600 Copts. The .Copts are the decend-
Rave rude kind Of Christianity, and
are. as a body. better educated and
wealthier than the Mohammedans
ants and are also fine workmen In
gold and silver and in other such
trades. They are money makers and
many. Of them. especially in upper
Egypt. are now making fortunes. The
pure Mohammedans do not as q rule
e! 20 into banking Or money-lendng.
Invest most Of their savings in lands
Foreigners in Egypt.
The, foreign POPULATION Of Egypt is
less than 100000. The greater part of
Cairo. and in the other towns Of the
Nile Valley, as we'll as in Suez and
Port Said There are more Greeks
than any other. The Greeks have
been exploiting the Egyptians and the
Nile Valley for more than 1000 years,
and they are to-day the sharpest,
shrewdest and most interruptions busi-
ness men in it. They do much of the
banking and money-lending. and until
the government established banks of
Its own and brought down the rate Of
interest. they demanded an enormous
usury from the Egyptian peasants
They loaned money on lands and crops
and their interest rate Is said to have
averaged $50 per cent per annum.
This was changed about six years
ago by the establishment Of the Agri-
cultural Bank on the*part of the gov
eminent, that bank lending money to
the farmers at 8 per cent. to within
% per cent. of the value Of their farms.
can get money at 8 per cent. and the
Greeks have had to come down on
their rates. TIL ere are now over 49,
900 Greeks in Egypt. and they oper-
ate as far north as the Soudan.
The Italians number about 25,000,.
and the French somewhere between
$4,000 and 10000. There are many Ital-
ian shops here in Alexandria, and there
are hundreds Of Italians doing bust
ness In Cairo. They also furnish some
of the best mechanics. Many Of them
are masons. tand the greaterp part of
the Assouanfdam and other works of
a similar nature have been constructed
by them.
and Russians, together With a few few.
Americans and Belgnns. The Ger
mans are largely In evidence as clerks;
and they carry on mercantile busl-
nesses in many of the cities.
The British community amounts to
about 10000, but "a large number Of
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and freight, and they are gradually
capturing the{ bulk OF the Medite.ra-
mean commerce.
Alexandria has one of the best har-
bors on the Mediterranean. The port
has been improved within the past
few years until it's arrangements for
leading and unloading goods are I'M
SURPASSED. 1t has "A breakwater Of two
niles. and the biggest ocean steam
ers can come right up to the quay.
There are $500 acres Of water in
winch ships can have q safe anchor
age, and many vessels come here to
coal The most of the coal is brought
from England, and left until the ships
need It, Something like $4,000, 900 tons
were thus handled last year. Many OF
the steamers on their way into and
cut from the suez Canal stop at Alex-
andrin for fuel.
do not know how much the lar-6
Dor has cost, save that it runs high
irto the millions OF dollars: When
Mehamet All made Alexandria hig
capital the place was only village
with no connection with the Nile He
aug canal fifty miles long to
that great waterway. and there is now
stream OF vessels going up and down
that canal carrying goods into the
valley and bringing the cotton, sugar
grain and other products out to the
sea. The canal was constructed by
forced labor. ss Z,
me fellchecn, to the number OF a
quarter OF a million. scooped the sand
out with their hands and carried it
away IN baskets. It took them a#year
% dig the fifty-milc ditch, and tiley
were SO overworked that 10000 died
on the job. Mehamet All also spent an
enormous amount on the harbor. and
1smail Pasha laid out more than gS12:-,
100000 IN the Same way. Since the
English took hold they have been stead
ily making other improvements. and
they have works now under way witch
will cost millions more The commerce.
or the port is increasing enormously
and the city promises to become even
greater than it has been in the past,
Egypt In 1907.
The conditions at Alexandria are
typical OF the new Egypt Old
Mother Nile has drawn on the seven
league boots of modern progress. and
she Is growing In wealth like Unison.
weed IN an asparagus bed. When
III st visited her quarter Of century
ago, her country was land OF the
dead. with the obelsks and the pyra-
mids as its chief landmarks. Then it's
most interesting characters were the
munlmitied kings OF 2,00)-odd' years
ago, and her chief visitors were an
tiHuity hunters and one-lunged tourists
after warm winter climate These
same characters are hera to-day. biz in
addition have come the capitalist. the
syndicate and the ardent dollar chaser.
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as Boston, and when it WIS taken by
the Arabs, along about 641 A.. D., II
places OF amusement ana 1900 gar ar
fdens. When Alexander the Great
founded it he brought ina colony Of
Jews, and at the time the Mohamme-
10000. -
1t was at Alexandria that st. Mark
first preached Christianity to the
Egyptians and later on the city be-
came came one Of the Christian centres O
t the world 1t was. there that Hypatias
lived, and 1T was there that the Chris
tan monks, led by PeterSthe Reader,
tore her from her chariot. as she was
about to go into a heather temple to
yrpr s,,5 { al and massacred / her. They
oyster shells. and then tore her limb
from limb. ~ 81
It was hero in Alexandria that Cleo
p 'atr. corrupted Caesar and later on
grave. There are carvings Of Cleo
natra still to be seen, on some of the
Egyptian temples far up the Nile, and
still In good preservation in the Tenn
pie Of Denderah. It's features are
Greek g.. rather than Egyptian and she
than 1y ser rathsr
Nile. She was not noted for her
beauty, but she had such a wonderful
ichar!n or manner, sweetness OF voice
ana brilltancy of intellect that she was
able to firt with and captivate the
greatest men Of her time. 90
Came to Caesar In n BcdticIz
a Cleopatra's first Roman love was
julius Caesar who had come to Alex
andria to settle the claims of herself
and brother to the throne of Egypt. Her
father. who was one of the Ptolamies.#
mad left his throne, at his death, to
herself and younger brother, anu ac-
cording to custom the two were to
marry and reign together. One Of the
brothers guardians, however, had de-
throned Cleopatra; he had Banisher her.
and she was not in Egypt when Caesar
came. It is not known whether it. was
story goes that she made her way back
secretly to Alexandria,. and was carr
ried inside a bedtick on the back Of
q servant to Caesars apartments anu
thus presented to the mighty Roman
She so delighted him that he put her
back upon the throne, and when he
left for Rome some time later he took
her along and kept her there for q
year or so. When Caesar was mur-6
dered, Cleopatra. who had returned to
EGYPT, made conquest Of Marc An.
tony. and she remained his svsetheare
from that time up to the day when he
committed suicide upon the report that
she had killed herself This was after
Antony had hG1n conquered by Octa-
Vianus, his Observation-Disclosures; and it ia
said that Cleopatra tried to capture the
heart of Octavianus, before she herself
suicide by putting tn q. pois-
onous asp to her breast rs %sf
Copyright, 1907. by Frank g. Carpen.
. * IN, \ u . (
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04

Kenna viii niver stand f'r that" l
read our peerless leaders, speech. II
tn etarnal principle " governmlnt
ownership must go on f'river. can
see In me minds eye gr-reat miles iv
|goyernmint railways, with sojers goin'
At this mnyit a gintleman with a
SLOUGH hat an long raven hair rose,
an says he: II wud visit to ask be-
fure l shoot whether on these here
says Willum Jennings Bryan, "if that's
tn way ye feel about It. let tn mat
ther dhrop., We shud not let amy etar-
ellis ~ tn party. ] merely offered 1t
fr discussion, an th' noes have 1t al
mosl unanimously. ! viii make 1t
unanimous" he says.
so says ! to Jawn, that ended
suppose we'l have to put in TIL next
year in peace wondhrin as usual where
tn, rint money is comm from. FIR
ye'er too good a friend iv mine Fl me
date, I'm against principles. not men.
ye'er, friend Fairbanks or TAFT or
rnnaise or k =, lis Il hlled with a
thry some wicked principle that looks
good to him befure I'll lay Yilent hands
on We, III bet We good seegar that
II We asked annYWan ~ thin to tell
lay In drink all iliction day to give
him a job, he'd blush. Tn fact is
Jawn, there ar-re no political issues
that are worth pickin' up these days
pose We'll have to be frinds, bitterly
as,I hate it,"
An what did Jawnny Mckenna
say? asked Mr. Hennessey.
"Jawnny McKenna said" replied Mr..
Dooley,- that II we didn't fight FIR pFln-
Gipies We'd fight f'r fun. He said that's
what he always fought f'r,annyhow,
an II Wasn't so livery day wud be
iliction day."
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Copyright, 1907, by H. H. Mcclure & Coz

Prisdint, an judgin' firm past ex-
peeryence we must, I'd rather see Fair
banks get it thin amy other man. He
might be tn last.
Anyhow no matther who gets It.,
It won't be NANNY months now befure
tn air iv peace that hangs over polly
ticks outside " Indyanny will disap-
pear an We'll be callin' each other
tn kind iv names tn lawyers in
tn Haywood thrile used as argymints
to convince TIL Jury. 1t don't seem so
now with tn glo,ryous sun y /, beatin' down w
again me FIR lookin somethin' like it..
At this minyit f'r two dollars I'd agree
niyer to vote again. But know that
in a few months time III be battl!n'
had something to do with tn retail
liquor business. I'd stand on tn side
walk hoarscly cheern' while We march
by In a blue oil-cloth cape an settin'
smokin' f'r human rights I'll argye
ontil arly in tn mornln' with Larltin
about some immortal principles that
have been dead f'r four years. an Ill
fight me frind tn letter carryer as TIL
Yen y TINES fS Ya aone aqmn ren
times I've charged what Hogan calls
TIL battlemints " oppression, Often,
sometimes twice, vieathr yL has pereheYda
marched to victhry or defeat, whether
tn Dimmycratlc candidate or some
other Raypublican was illicteG Prisi-
dint, whin tn smoke Nv battle an tn
candydates' cigars died away, I always
found mesilf In the same place. with
bad headache, TIL rent overdue an We
goln'i by to ye'er wurruk With ye'er
hair singed.
"An' i'll do IT.. again. In short
time thu parties will engage In wan Nv
their gr,reat battles. but TIN question
is, What tn divvle will they fight
about? lS'l, u good mannysyears we cud
always get up good hard fight about
th' tariff. Mention tn wurrud tariff to
me al. I'D take oft me coat. TIL Dim-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04

| EGYPT Is now land or banks and
STOCK exchanges. It throngs with civil
engineers, irrigation experts and men
interested In the development Of the
country by electricity and steam The
delta. or the great fan Of land which.
begins at Cairo and stretches out to
the Mediterranean, Is gridironed with
Iron tracks and railroad trains now
carry one almost to the heart Of Cen
tral Africa When was last here,
about sixteen years ago, Egypt was
importing goods to the amount of
twenty-five or thirty million dollars.
She Is now buying more than 500. OOO.-
ooos worth every twelve months and her
exports are more than twice what they
were at that time. They now amount
TO SllO,o0O,O00 a year, and are increas-
ing right along
In other letters shall describe. the
wonderful banking development that
mas gone on here and the extraordi-
nary increase in land values through
out the whole valley Of the Nile I am
told that in the lower delta farm lands
are selling from $500 to $1,000 an
acre, and that especially good tracts
bring even more. All the way up the
Nile from Cairo to Assout, fora dis
lance OF about 900 miles, you cannot
Ibuy an acre of cultIvable land for
less than 5000. and many asSfarmer
would refuse to sell his little tract for
$500 per. Rents OF lands have gone
UP in the same proportion, u and I
knowEgof farms which are bringing
from $40 to $50 an acre per year.
The same conditions obtain as Ito
the real estate OF the cities Both
Cairo and Alexandria are initiating
their values and land Is so high in
Cairo itself that suburban develop
ment has begun, and in the culture
the poorer of the foreigners will prob
ably have their homes outside the
city.
Western Civilization and Vices Com
ing In.
/ find Egypt changing in character.
The Mohammedans are being corrupt
ell by the Christians, and the simple
living taught by the Koran, whereby
the believer abstains from strong
drink and other vices. has become
infected with the gay and giddy pleas
ures OF the French. Cairo, the city
Of the Arabian Nights, is fast becom-
ing city of Partisan nights, and the
Mchammedan call to prayer Is now
mingled with the bacchanalian songs
OF the cafe chantants. In many cases
the system of the harem is being ex-
changed for something worse. The
average Mohnmmedan has but one
Wife. but in many cases he has a
sweetheart in a house around the COR
ner.
The ghouls Of modern science are
robbing the graves of those who made
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the pramIds. A telephone line has
been stretched out of Cairo almost to
the ear of the Sphinx, and there is a
hotel at the base of the Pyramid OF
Cheops, where English men and wo.
men drink brandy and soda between
their games Of tennis and golf.
The Egypt of to-day Is a land of
mighty hotels and multitudinous tour
lists. Our consul-gensral estimates
that Americans alone spend almost
s4.O00000 here every winter, and the
English, French and Germans spend
almost as much. He estimates that
there are 10000 Americans who visit
the Nile Valley every season and that
1t costs each one Of them something
like $40 per day for an average stay
of two months.
Cabs, Trans and Automobiles.
When5I first visited this country tho
donkey was the chief means Of trans
port, and men, women and children
went about on long-eared aeas.s with,
Aso'1 boys in blue gowns following be-
hinS and urging the animals along by
poking sharp sticks Into patches of
bare flesh, as big as dollar, which
had been denuded of skin for the pur-i
pose. The donkey and the donkey boy
are here still, but can get a street
car in Alexandria that will take me
to any part Of the town, and I have
ito jump now and then to get out
Of the way of an automobile. There
are cabs everywhere, and Alexandria.
and Cairo have thousands Of them.
The now hotels areRextravagant be-
yond description. In This, where /
am now writing, the rates are from
80 to 100 ptastres per DAY. and inside
the hotel walls I am as far from the
old Egypt as I would be in the Wal
dorf at New York. The servants are
French speaking Swiss in swallow.
tall coats. and their palms itch for
fees Just as do those of their class
In our big hotels. In my bedroom there
Is an electric bell, and / can go out
into the hall and talk over the tele-.
phone to the consul general at Cairo.
The hotel is packed with guests. and
on Its register l see counts by the
come to dinner in steel pen coats and
the women in silks with low necks and
short sleeves. There is babel Of
English. French and German going on
In the drawing-room while the guests
drink coffee there after dinner and the
Of the Pharaohs is the tall minarets
which here and there reach above til e
other buildings of the city, and the
voices Of the mueZZins as they stand
upon them and call out to the Moham-
medans to come to prayer.
The Mohnn,mcdnns Growing Rich.
The changes which have described
are by no means confined to the Chris
tians. The natives are growing rich.
and the Mohammedan are for the
first time In the history Of Egypt. pill
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SERIOUS thing for me, this vineyard
war" deplores the wine doctor.
Some people call him a wine forger.
and treat him according" In Mar
bonne. at this moment. his life would
not be worth Il bunch of sour grapes.
But prefer to regard him as an en-
tertaining juggler, who does surpris-
Ing feats with magic bottle.
His apparatus. arranged on q mar
row shelf, consists Of dozen or so
of small glass-stoppered bottles Of
various colored liquids, big jar OF
caramel. and another Of silent" spirit.
There are other things, such as an
aerated water plant, but it is openly
displayed downstairs. For the aera-
ton of table waters is the wine doc
tors ostensible calling.
Fact is. there's too much wine
made already" he says. "Real wine,
] mean. It's not wanted. It keeps down
the price. Besides, it's wasting good
land to plant 1t with grapes Just
to keep UP the old myth that they're
necessary for wine making. don't
wonder at the disturbance in France,
and l wouldn't mind betting that the
regiments that have mutnled were
driven to 1t by swallowing too much
OF the wine Of the country"
he draws my attention to his row
Of bottles with comprehensive wave
of the hand.
See those? Wine In embryo. Tons
of 1t! Give me good water"-he indi-
Gates an innocent-looking tap In the
corner-"and I'll turn you out bottle
Of anything you like to name-while
You waltz"
That is what I have come for. I
ought. perhaps, to explain that I
originally met Tho doctor in distant
colony. where men talk more openly
than they do here, and-well, he
knows that what I may set down in
print about him will convey no clew
to his identity.
"Mind you" he goes on, II don't
object to real wine in moderation. My
own best qualities have base of
sound sherry or Burgundy But when
glut like the present disturbs
whole French district, and tie papers
begin writing things about adultera-
ton that excite the suspicious of
the drinking public. / can't help be-
Ing veXed"
express sympathy. He cheers up,
and grows CONFIDENTIAL.
Take claret. for instance. Why
yend to Bordeaux when. with gill OF
Australian Burgundy or Spanish
Rioja, water-watch while I do it.
y few drops Of French vinegar, and
TWENTY-FIVE per cent. of potato spirit,
that's colorless and odorless and only
costs few pence per gallon, can