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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-09-20
BUILDING BOOM.

Highland Park Addition Is having
building boom. Several houses are
in course of construction and others
are soon to be started.
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There p,.n two honor guests at
the regular meeting of the Wood.
men Circle Friday evening Mrs.
NJ G Meadows, supreme deputy,
and Mrs Dave Sherrell. state at.
tendant. of Pauls Valley. There was
a good attendance and the meeting
was an enthusiastic one
Mrs. Meadows talked interesting.
ly of the good of the order and en-.
couraged the members quite bit
concerning their flatterlng prospects
of winning the handsome prizes of
fercd the Circle In the state by
the supreme officers for the great
est increase in membership during
the past month Mrs Shcrrcll was
until recently member of this
grove and has many warm friends
here who are always delighted with
her visits. She also complmented
the order. After the business ses-
sion, a social hour was spent and re-
trcshments were served
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The teachers of the city schools
with members of the educational
board enjoyed trolley ride Friday
afternoon and had lunch at the ter.
minus of the car line. The evening
being cool a great campfire was
built and congenialty and good cheer
reigned supreme for some time.
Those in the party were Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. II. Bruce. Mr.. and Mrs
\. c. Cruce, Mr.. and Mrs. 4. II. Pal.
mer, Profs Evans and Canterbury.
Misses Mathews, Mayhcw, Grace VII.
liams, Leslie Woods. Kate CAT.
Edna Jones Inez stewart Plalle
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New Draw.String Hand Bangs. Mr.
Nixon will put your name on them.
sl00 and 1925
COLEMAN BROS.
2O-3 Druggist-Jewelers
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he wort case in 90 days. and restore
the beauty ot youth Prise 50 cent md
hOo, b, leriiuf drueri-u or mail.
r"ry.
Sold by Hoffman bug Co. Coleman
Bros and other druggists
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Mrs Frank A. Bonner gave card
afternoon on the weekend In honor
Of Miss Ron of Ron, who is a house
guest at the Stewart and Bonner
homes. Roses and autumn leaves
were decorations chosen by the
hostess for her whist rooms
Dutch grctchcns marked the
places and scored the game. and a
dainty luncheon wa served at the
finish The guests were Miss Rob
crts, Miss LoWdcn, Miss Butts Miss
Ella Glenn Gilmcr. Miss Marie
Gilmer. Miss Lila Stansel NJ lss
Olive. Miss Hall Miss Mullins.
Miss lnez Stewart. Miss Avis. Miss
Grace Williams. Miss Ron Of Ron.
aud Miss Comegys of Gainesville,
the guest of Mrs. IL f Foster, aud
the hostess.
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The Hub for shffts.
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Jones, Madge Roberts. Vera olive.
Floy Avis Sadie Gasl.ins. Acheson.
Roberts, ,Smi.h. H'sJon, HJyle;
NJ, ~dames BerKsai.. Washington,
Hcigan, and J.ruu.
The members OF the High School
auxiliary and Mothers club of the
third ward enjoyed quite an inter
esting meeting. 1t was decided that
the club will meet twice month.
The four organizations have pledg-
ed themselves TO raise money
enough this winter to pay for a mum.
Der OF appliances necessary in dem
onstrating work In the higher grades.
The Auxiliary will likely call anoth.
or meeting for neAt Friday; an an.
nouncement will we made later.
Mss Sue Frame was hCsiCsl to
the members OF The Orio Club Fri.
day in their first regular meeting
of the year. Mrs Webb. the clubs
, loyal president, was present, having
Just returned from Colorado out
ing In time to take the chair. The
meeting was largely attended and
everyone entered into the new work
with an enthusiasm that insures a
profitable years york. Longfellow
is the study and roll call was
answered with quotations from his
earliest poems "prometheus' was
read. Mrs. Arthur Adams read an in
teresting paper and was class lead.
cr for the afternoon. Personal poem
responses were My Lost Youth"
The Children Hour" THE Light
Of stars" Two Angels Footsteps
OF Angels" ITO the River Charlese"
The first act of The Winters
Tale was read
The parliamentary drill, the main
, question, was led by Mrs. Adding
ton.
Table -Washiugton-by Mrs
Gross was one of the interesting
numbers of the lesson. She de-.
scribed her trip TO Washington and
told many occurrences during her
stay.
Mrs VI. j. Hayes was critic for
the session. The club will meet with
Mrs G. II. Webb next Friday af-
tcrnOon at 2:3O.
Were YOU at Madden's Friday af
| ternoon. and did YOU ride the white
mule Well, If YOU were not. YOU
missed lots OF fun. The children
were all there and they rode. too,
one little girl was very much dis.
appointed. She vowed. the paper
said they would ride around the
store and they didn't 20 but half
way" My, how the yeracity OF the
newspapers Is called in question
by the little ones. Manager c. r.
Buchanan, Charlie Dibbrell. Eddie
Ramsey and Frank Rose were much
in evidence, holding the little tots
on and managing the animal, which
seemed quite docile. though at times
became irate. Pop corn was passed
and each child of school age was
given a pencil with button at.
tached which would fastcn TO the
apron or coat pocket and hold So
cure. Maddcus donkey ride will
long be remembered by the juveniles
of the city.
Mrs. Thomas Gavin Chambers
was notified this week of her ap. I.
pointment as representative from
Oklahoma on the Literature and /.
Library committee of the General /
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Mrs MAY Alden Ward. chairman .
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Hobart Motor Railway.
Guthrie, Okla, Sept. 19.-The Ho.
bart Motor Railway company was
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q six o'clock dinner was served in
courses. which consisted Of all the
delicacies one can imagine. In the
party were Miss Comegys and Mr.
buchanan. Miss Mullins and Mr.. Ey-
ans. Miss Higgins and MIR Cockroft
Miss Hobson and Mr. VIII Foster.
Miss Addington aud Mr. Olin VOL.
vcrtOn. Mr. and Mrs Mark Kirk.
patrick, Mr. and Mrs. H. f.. Fos.
ter.
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Mrs. Thomas Gavin Chambers
was notified this week of her ap-
pointment rs representative from
Oklahoma on the Literature and
Library committee of the General
Federation OF Women's Clubs.
Mrs MAY Alden Ward. chairman
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practitioner, was bound to win In the long
run, it was consolation to feel that the
doctors were there to see that when he
at last did so it should be according to
the rules of civilized warfare. Doctors
have no eight-hour bill introduced on
their behalf, and probably never will
have, but they had certain privileges.
Like kings, their explanation would be
accepted by policeman when they ex-
ceeded the time limit in a motor car
They could fly a yellow flag over
dense centre of population and turn 1t
into a desert, or red cross flag over
a desert and it would turn to a CEN
ter of population, to which. as he had
himself seen, men would crawl on their
hands and knees.
They were perhaps the only class, he
said that daresf to tell the world that
IL the fathers have eaten forbidden fruit
the children's teeth are likely to be
affected He ended by wishing his hear
ers what all men desire-enough work
to do, and strength enough to do that
work.
Speaking on the same day at the OPEN
ing of st. Mary's Medical school at
Paddington, Sir John Broadbent looked
forward to an era when such diseases as
Influenza pneumonia, measles and scarlet
fever would become as extinct as typhus'
plague and cholera had already become in
this country, from the adoption of sani-
tary measures, among which he included
the abolition of chidren's parties and the
habit of indiscriminate kissing.
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ON WINDING YOUR PONTS-By j. H1iden, D. D.

ing OF the Epstle to the Hebrews is an
other case in point. A writer, or a speak
er, who has never learned to mind his
stops" will hardly succeed in reading the
first and second chapters of this epistle
aloud. as the Scripture lesson IN public
worship. without making such blunders
as will seriously interfere with it's proper
enjoyment on the part of the more cul-
tivated people in the congregation. In
deed the reading of such a passage with
out some attention to the punctuation will
not unfrequently make downright nom
sense of what is solemnly sublime.
Let me give few verses from the be-
ginning of the first chapter; and, though
you have often read them, let me ask you
to read them again, now and here, as a
study in punctuation:
"God, who at sdndry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, hath in these
last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom He hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also He made the
worlds; who being the brightness of His
glory, and the express image of His per-
son, and unfolding all things by the word
of HIS power, when He had purged our
SINS sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high; being made 50 much
better than the angels, as he hath by
Inheritance obtained a more excellent
name than they"
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proper meaning and expression Of my
composition which is to be read in pub
lie. The young preacher who pronounced
"onesimus" on simus-the thing really
oceurred-did not make blunder in pune
tuation. but his error was scarcely more
ridiculous than are some of the errors
now and then made by public readers
who fail to mind their stops
Let us note an example of the effect
of skill in punctuation:
Few intelligent readers, who have any
ear for rhythm, can fail to note the mag
nifieent opening Of Cicero's second ora
ton against Catiline-one of the most
sonorous passages in the whole range of
Latin literature, prose or verse. Even
the English reader who knows not the
meaning of a single word of Latin, will
be impressed with the grand, rolling
rhythm of such passage as this: Tan
dem aliquando, Quirites, L. Catilinam,
furentem audacia, scelus anhelantem.
pestem patriae neforie molientem, vobis
atque huis urbi ferrum flammamque min
itanten.. ex urbe vel ejecimus, vel ennis
SINUS vel ipsum egredientem verbs pros
eeuti sumus. Abiit, excessit, evasit, erup-
it" We can scarcely conceive of any
change in the punctuation here. Indeed.
the passage furnishes an admirable study
in punctuation.
Note this too, from a very different
source:
The highly ornate and rhetorical open
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This stanza I have heard ascribed to
Thomas Jefferson but am not alto
gether without suspicion that it is much
older than his time.
When the present writer was in the
constitutional and International law
class of Prof. James p Holcombe of the
University of Virginia in 1860 that ae-
complished lecturer gave us an account of
very remarkable viii case I'm England.
The merits of the case turned upon the
question of dash between certain words.
Hero is the story:
A certain nobleman had died and left
a will providing that a certain legatee
should have all the black and white
horses owned by the testator. Now IL
the said 1egatee was meant to inherit
all the black horses and all the white
horses he would inherit a handsome for
tune for the deceased nobleman was a.
famous horsefancier and his stud con-
tanned many very valuable black horses
and many white horses also very val
liable. But il the legatee was intended by
the testator to inherit only the black
and-white q. e., the pied) horses, then
he would get only a few spotted ponies.
1t may be suspected that this legatee
drought that punctuation was impor-
tant.
Here is another ,dote in the
same line:
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QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S BooK-By Lady Henry Somerset
Somerset

An interesting article which was pub
lished in the Secole XIX, of Genoa. In
drawing attention to the population ques-
ton, asks us there strength in num-
bers?'
The writer points out that the decrease
in the birth rate which began in France
and spread tc England, is now being noted
in Germany anu in Spain. where the pop
ulation has for a long time been sta
tonary.
Noting tho fact that both in races
and In classes this decrease seems to
correspond with the increase in the STAN
dard of civilization, and Is evidently not
to be prevented or hindered by legis-
lation, he proceeds to question whether it
is really so great an evil as it appears.
1t is easy to say the world belongs to the
greater number. Perhaps this formula
was more applicable to the ancient world
The complications of our civilization
call for the power both of individuality
and knowledge more than for the strength
of numbers. Nowadays bright idea of
one individual which becomes materialized
in new inventions, is worth more than
the dark power of multitude.
Today the individual dominates more than
he has ever known to have done9'
In conclusion he argues that we should
do our utmost to raise the individual pow
err of the rising generation, as popula-
ton "mediocral In numbers but inGivid-
ually highly developed, will be able to
disperse all the fears that rise against
us from tie statistics of simple figures.
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has NO horns, while the cow"
Lucky y know that" snorted Brandt.
"But we gotta hke-git this camp
cleaned up an beat the bush fer the res
voir. An I don't like that Crazy Jane
not a little bit"
"Well. I'm not in love with her myself
I didn't seek the introduction" I re-
marked.
Meanwhile we were getting our things
picked up, the horses saddled and our
selves aboard as fast as possible.
II don't like her-thats all" Brandt
repeated, meditatively, scanning the bluff
edge with expectant eye before we rode
off. Its quite while sense / come up
with one o. them critters out here. Didn't
know they was one ON tn plains this sea-
son. Did you git her brand? / made it
Two Bar Lazy Z-that don't blong any
where's In this country-'n' IL [ amt
wrong that's what they call the Lazy
Susie-b longs out to Centennial valley;
m If I'm right-that crazy-1azy Susie
Jane was on her way straight to New
York t hunt tenderfeet-one in particaler
when she come up with him here
Sweet of her"
Am he give her TIL marble heart.
But you needn't to worry-Jane amt one
t mind little thing like that when she
takes a fancy to fella's red necktie.
She'll be back all right. I expect We'll
come home some night n find her settin'
up in bed waitin' fer us-with one o. yer
boots in her hand m tn wash basin on
her horn. Why, likes not she's got
whole bunch o. them Lazy Susies she's
Ieadin' on personally conducted SEEM
New York tour Then again. likes not
they .ain't another one of her nearern
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Centennial or tn Yallistone, where they're
huntin' bears fer pastime But then,
again, mebbe she's a loner-one o. these
here old maid COWS don't know what to do
with herself-round maxim trouble
wherever she goes You mark
what I say-we'll come up with that
Crazy Jane outfit inside "a hours, m y
can't thank yer Uncle Brandt if she don't
fetch a whole bunch m stampede TIL
tent-y'n have t. thank plain old Prov
idence, that's all"
The prospect wasn't alluring; and it
didn't grow any more so as Brandt re-
tailed his experiences of stampedes; one
of his stories. which 1 dont~need to give.
winds up, "Oh, yes, we found collar
button" And everybody has read enough
stories Of where a whole herd-hrst
dozen, then hundred, then thousands
rushing blindly after a leader, roll
laundering wave across the plains, fran
tic hoofs beating to a jelly-to dust
everything i'll their path as the horde
sweeps ty.
had had an experience myself-a mere
taste-and yet it was one of the three
times in roy life when / felt deadly fear.
looked out of my tent one morning and
saw that Muldoon, picketed some dis
lance away, had tangled her rope in the
sage brush, and l went out to free it. 1t
was dawn, but tho cattle were up and 100
or so were grazing in the vicinity. Merely
CHANGING at them, went on my knees
Will, 1 worked the wet rope out of the
knots and snarls in which 1t was twisted.
| was startled by "You-who" close at
hand.
The cattle, scattered moment before,
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What. Do you think
James MeIlheney
Shaves for a penny,
And throws in a drink ?''

Which is the same as saying, "If you
do think SO, you are vastly mistaken"
Few readers of newspapers have any
adequate idea Of the amount of work
the printer has to do in the way of
correcting the punctuation of many
of those writer's who pass for our best.
Few newspaper articles are punctuated
in print as they were in manuscript
Some time ago 1 received a letter from
one of our most distinguished preach ers.
who wrote much; and 1 counted six or
eight errors in punctuation in the add
dress and the dating of the letter. In a
letter from another distinguished ora
tor l counted some five errors in pune
tuation before the first sentence began.
There is an old story to the effect that
a certain college student wrote an essay
without using any punctuation marks
whatever in the body of his composition
and on the bottom of the last page he
put a liberal supply of periods, commas,
seinicolons, colons, etc, and wrote: ITO
be distributed at the professors pleas
ure."
Punctuation has much to do with
emphasis in reading aloud and thus has
a highly important bearing upon the
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CRAZY JANE-By Carter Hamilton

were focusing their attention and their
steps on me. Curiosity urged them to
hurry. One began to trot-all trotted.
One began to gallop-all galloped. They
drew closer together at every step. Before
1 realized what was happening, wall of
living flesh was rolling on me. 1t was
then fear struck me-the fear that
freezes In the pit of your stomach and
makes your whole past look like
panorama. l stood stock still. l should
have kept standing stock still and died
there IL it hadn't been for Muldoon. She
Jumped about and faced them, and thus
brought herself alongside of me. With
less presence of mind than instinct
leaped on her back and "Fhoo-hee-ed!"
at them. The wall divided at Muldoon's
head-bare standing room-almost brush
ing me away as it swept past. No, did
not want to die that way.
Brandt, at the moment. echoed my
thought. Don't knows I've got any choice
selected way O. dyin-ones bouts bad's
another when y gotta go-but droppin'
down In front of a stampede-that m
rattlesnakes in the grass-don't seem like
mans death. No, street, don't. A
bear, an catamount, an mule, they
know what they're dom an they mean it
those critters dont-they JUS do It
same S hailstones-'n' don't know no more
about it. An when one o. them old maids
begins t. eat tents as a change o. food
from wire fences Oh, my aunt in
Omahal If there amt Janep'
And there she wasl
We had ridden up little hi''rck and
caught her unawares. At theS moment
she was handing out the glad horn to
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or course, the punctuation here Is 10
be credited to King James translators:
for the original Greek was written before
punctuation was invented.
As an OLD teacher of "Homiletics.9 let
me close my observations with some prac-=
teal suggestions to my younger brethren
in the ministry:
Whoever breaches from a text IN the
Epistle to the Hebrews, ought, Il pos
sible. first to study his text in the orig
inal; then study the whole connection
in the original; then, If the text con-
tains any allusion to the Old Testament
Economy, las it frequently WILD let him
seek out the passage in the Old Tesla
ment containing the matter referred to,
and study that carefully; then let him
in the English version, including at least
as much as he means to read to the con-
gregation; and, in this reading, let him
be careful to mind his stops; and after
he has done all this, if he sees good
reason to adhere to his resolution ID
preach from the text, he may at least be
saved from preaching nonsense.
The points here made, as especially ap-
plicable to preaching ON texts in He
brews'. are with slight notifications, gen
orally applicable to sermonizing from
other parts of scripture. The truth Is.
that whatever you engage in, 1t is ex-
tremely important to mind your points,
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brain in those two seconds as 1 watched
mot my past sins. but the most nsig-
niicant things-and one stood suddenly
clear before me, like a picture; it was
the story of Rebecca the drummer, amt
how she and girl companion took an old
drum and fife, and hid behind the sand
dunes while the British were landing
soldiers at Sctuate Harbor and how these
two played Yankee Doodle and frightened
those soldiers away. But what l particu-
larly remembered-and it seemed so int
portant at the moment 1 couldn't tear
my mind off twas how our teacher,
Miss Belts, had us act it; and 1 was Sc
lected to play the fife behind the door
with Chrissie Ferguson, who did Rebecca.
beating a sand-tray with a ruler. / say
saw it all in a single fash-and in that
very same flash, or the end of it, my eye
lit on our big coffee pot and frying pan
right at my feet. 1t wasn't the work of
a second to snatch them up and leap
behiud the tent.
"Whang, = bang - clang = bangity
bang, bang, bang!" went the pot on
the pan and yelled--yelled and
yelled and yelled. 1t wasn't Yankee
Doodle, either. think it was blue
murder but Brandt says it wasn't fit
to print. Anyway l whanged and
yelled with such effect that the Crazy
Jane outfit stopped short
Then they began to ask at once,
What in thunder is that?" and nudge
each other and say, You go see." No.
you go see." Jane took time to ask You
-who?" in a mild voice, but nobody
answered her; and Brandt took time
to Gull a cake of soap and the wash
basin from our bench" and send them
hurling-not that Jane would stay her
hand for such as those.
Now. / was invisible where I stood.
to AN but one cow-a nice white cow,
with no brains and mild and gentle
disposition. She looked at me with
tender trusting eyes.
"Whang" and as / brought the pot
down 1 flung myself in her direction
and uttered a yell that would have
disturbed the calm heart of saint.
The nice white COW gave one look.
tossed her brainless head, wheeled
where she stood, threw her heart In
her heels and travelled for her life.
The COW next--her bosom friend--didni
even wait to see; she took the nice
cows word for it and boarded her
train for San Francisco and the west.
Inc COW next neT ulsCOFtTeu pdSoioitdio
yearnings in her breast for the dear
departed and sought happy land. far,
far away. The COW next her-but why
enumerate? AS fast as they could
turn and get their legs under them
they raced away. 1t was the same as
all party organization-the brainless
one became the leader in the flight.
Crazy Jane was left alone. Her
surprise, Brandt says. was pitiful to
see-only he didn't stop to see-he
jumped for the rifle.
Then Jane got hornets
She gave one sad inquiring below,
answered by hornet and whang.
Then she, too. boarded her train for
the far, far west We never saw her
again.
1t was a close call--even Brandt
admits that, though his habit is to
treat such trifles as all in the days
workout somehow I've always felt
little sorry for Jane--it did seem 20
mean of the rest of them