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0. \. P. BELMONT DYING
WELL KNOWN FlNANCIER NEAR.
ING THE ENO-HOPE OF RE.
COVERY ABANDONED.

New York, y. Y, June SO. II. L.
Belmont the well known anaucier.
who has been IN. is so low today that
an hope of recovery has been ablu-
duued.
lie had a bad night and grew worse
gradually throughout the day.
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ANNIVERSARY AND NOR.
NAL SOUVENIR EDITION
His Arm Broken.

Bcrv 0, Okla, June S.-llenry
Bcac' farmer had the misfortune
to his arm broken Saturday even
ing while returning home from this
place The team OF young mules,
which he was driving became fright
cn,d while crossing small rayine
and suddenly lurchcd forward, throw
ing MIR. Beach out backward. lyil
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WANTED-Men to learn barber
trade. few weeks completes, GO
chairs constantly busy. licensed in.
structors. tools given, diplomas
granted, wages Saturdays, positions
waiting, wonderful demand for
graduates. Write for catalogue. Mo
Ter Barber College, Dallas, Texas
90
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PICK UPS HERE AND THeRg.I
!; + = = - + - = = =

Cantoloupes have made their ap-
pearance in Ardmoro, the first ship
ments having come In from South
Texas. Following canteloupcs closely
will be watermelons, and then the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-06-08

DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
are prompt and thorough and will in
very short time strengthen the
weakened kidneys. Sold by w. b.
Frame. d&w
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MONEY TO LoAN-On farms and
city property. No delay. OGice Ard
more Loan & Trust Co. j. w.
Kemp. l7-1m
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Zachry & Smith are prepared TO
cleanse and press your clothing on
the me day 1t is received. All
work called for. Phone 4O3. 7tt
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STUDENT FATALLY INJURED.
Dies From Wounds Received in Sham
Battle Last Friday.

Brookings, 5. ID. June S.-k3be.t
Watson, a student OF the South Ia
kota state college, was so seriously
Injured In the sham battle Frilly
that his death has since resulted
lie was captain OF ON, OF the mix.
Nlry companies.
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TWO BATTLESHlPS SAIL.
Maine and Alabama start on Return
VOYAGE TO Pacific.

San Francisco, Cal, June S.-The
hattleships Maine and Alabama saidel
this morning on their return trip 70
the Atlantic by way Of Honolulu Ma
slla and the Suez canal.
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entative Boutel Of Illinois.
Is conceded however, that the
bill Will be taken mp first thing at
ih" short session anI disposed Of.
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FOR RENT-one 7-room and one s.
room house, close in. Apply Null
len G. Mullen. I2-tf
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FOR SALE-A genuine true and tried
Mad Stone. Has cured three mad
dog bites and one rattlesnake bite
that the doctors had given up. 1t
cured spider bite OF long standing
that the doctors said could not be
cured Have received fees as large
as fifty dollars for one application.
For price see S. T. Thompson at
Joe Bastine's store, Ardmore. Okla
24-lm
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Fresh FISH and dressed chicken ev
cry day at the Cold Storage. 70
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Bivens. Corhn & Frensley have a
car OF new barbed wire.
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Statesmen NOTlCE-Well known
concern wants two plain. every day
statesmen for Indian Territory to
sell specially line to publishers and
general stores. No agency, books,
insurance or fake jewelry. State
age, experience. fully. Arthur. 100
Randolph, Chicago.
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FOR SALE-Bankrupt stock of Model
Dry Goods Co. invoicing $4,000 to
highest bidder for cash June l2.
Best corner stand I'm ArdmOre and
offers good opportunity to any per
son desiring to embark in business.
Write or wire for full particulars
TO b. 4. Simpson, trustee, Ardmore,
Okla. rs
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-3-room cottage on north
Washington, Phone 52i or 2i7. ],
NJ. Bibb. 5tf
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08

nut in all this evolution OF Whas
X was really a predestined line OF
~ policy. the war with SPAN was
,,,arel,, an incident. 1t is nearly halr d
century since william H. Seward maze
the nrediction that 1.-The Pacific ocean,
i+s chores. its islands and the vast re-
gions bevond, will become the CHIEF
tbeater of events in the worlds great
bereafter" 1t may be that 1t took our
neon,a some time to realize the fun sig
oificance of this prophecy ana that tne
war with Spain greatly helpeo tI zen
o,,1recia tion of it's full meaning. mo.
,1pI,la,. whose interests were conilneu 70
tha resceful development OF commerce
~ +be Far East, and least OF all no
I ~ nne committed to the maintenance OF
KY ;,,teerity of the Chinese empire,
nc oh3ect to the appearance or tne
I IDuta States in the arena OF world
oni.1u IN the Pacific. Great Britain
p oitIaes o frank Pronunciation of all her
In'or,,ed claims on the isthmus which
49, hove been used to obstruct the
ili.iia;,g ~ the Panama canal ana TO
i,sta,.sare with our virtual control or
tho+ Gateway of Pacific commerce. me
saot ;s sometimes forgotten that Great
Pritain already possesses the key 10
a. nas+arn entrance to the Pacific All
the long water route TO the Far Easl -
under british control. Gibraltar, NAL
40 Cvnrus. mark the way to the Suez
canal over which the English holo d
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN

nEPRESENTATIV of the Afro
X, American league and the Forum
AZ engaged in a public debate on
the merits Of Taft and Bryan. We
hope to persuade our readers, and in
duce them to persuade their friends,
that neither the merits of Col. Bryan
nor of Gov. Taft constitute the issues
of this campaign. Principles, not men,
are before the American people. Col.
Bryan will make an excellent presi-
dent, because he is a statesman who is
well versed in the principles of Amerf-
canism and would undoubtedly endeaVor
to give the country an administration
which would be in harmony with its
declarations and precedents. Governor
Taft is a presidential impossibility.
But even If he were elected, If he at
tempted to carry out Rooseveltism, he
would need to be traitor to his party
and to the platform on which he was
nominated. We grant that either can
didate would endeavor to do his duty
according to his lights. The difference
between them is that the lights OF
Taft are dim. Accepting them both as
responsible men, each willing to do
his duty, one in the light and the other
in the twilight of his convictions, it is
manifestly improper to throw personal
aspersions upon either. Let us leave
the personal factor out of the equation.
With that eliminated, there remains
fight between banded interests that
will continue to use, and use, and use
this country until they have used 1t
up; and the advocates of American
ism, who believe in a return to first
principles, and ask the country to give
power and office to a government Whlch
will govern for love of country-which
will be Jealous of the rights of the
weak while it will not impose tyranni-
cal restrictive measures upon the
strong. which will honestly, earnestly,
willingly, cheerfully, devotedly and
persistently try, with heart and soul
and strength, to bring about a social
and economic condition in the United
States which will assure for the great
est number the enjoyment of the great
est good, will restore the child to the
school, the mother to the home pro-
vide work for the workers, good wages
for the wage earners, and enable ev-
erybody to Join conscientiously and I'M
reservedly in the chorus
OUR country, tits of thee,
Sweet land of LIBERTY,
OF thee WE sing"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08

I T WAS toward the close of long and strenuous day
the most strenuous in the history of the world, in
- fact, the Last Day. Preparations were being MADE
poor oblate spherod small fragments
Celestial messengers drilling in the crust OF the
globe huge holes and filling them with dynamite the
angel Gabriel with his trumpet tucked under his ARM
continent continent wading through the
He stopped at the group of work-angels VINO
operating California and said: Have all the
inhabitants Of the earth been accounted for?"
They have been accounted for said of the work
"There human being left the face of the
They all transferred their abodes,
will finish this job and leave vacancy In
system. High time, too for If there was
pack idiots allowed take valuable space and time,
1t this greedy little earth gang"
a curious gurgling noise struck the ear
my trumpet" he said, pleasantly; "if
that wasn't human I'll eat pin feathers. 1
thought you cleared for acton? The
angel a startled look, dropped his drill and be-
gan peer about "A it was" he exclaimed pres
emily. II wouldn't have believed it. your emnence but
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
GOOD ROADS

AT OTHING can help a community
more quickly and more percept-
~ IDLY than good roads. Nothing
can be more hindering to it than bad
roads. This is an elemental fact, the
force Of which is acknowledged by every
builder and contractor. The marvel
Gus growth of Los Angeles has Illus
trated it, One of the commonest sights
In the city is street well made and
ready for traffic long before 1t is lined
with buildings; sometimes, indeed,
when there are few buildings erected.
But, as soon as the street is graded
prosperity comes. Building is active.
The silent roadway becomes a busy
thoroughfare. Similarly, good roads
attract traffic and stimulate prosperity.
From this point of view alone, and
having only under consideration the
public utility of good roads, the bond
issue should be successful. Realty
dealers, who are quick to perceive con-
ditions which will help their market,
are active In the good roads campaign.
End yet it would be a mistake to call
1t a real estate movement. 1t is a
movement for the benefit of the COM
munity and in this benefit every men,
Der will share.
Conditions will be improved in every
part of the country traversed or
served by good road or good roads.
Civilization depends, In the first place,
upon the existence Of peaceable indus
trial communities, and in the second
place upon rapid and easy ways of
communication. In spite of railroads,
good highways have continued to be
important, and the vast agricultural
and orchard and vineyard product of
the continent is hauled over them be-
fore it reaches the railroad. 1t is safe
to assert that almost every pound of
freight handled on the railroad uses the
public highways and public streets at
some stage of its commercial existence.
Without a thorough and universal sys-
tenn Of good roads the transportation
system of the United States is incom-
plete and internal traffic is hindered.
With the Importance of good roads APP
preciated by our patriotic and wide
awake citizens, there can be no doubt
of the success of the bond issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
WILL FORM ORGANIZATION
FOR HONEST ELECTIONS

LOS ANGELES, July 7.-[Editor
Herald: Citizenship in theory and
citizenship in practice are two differ
ent things, and the time has come
when high ideal of citizenship should
be put into practice.
Laws for purity of elections and hon
est counts are useless unless men are
willing to put themselves to some in
convenience to carry them out.
Los Angeles people know that at
every election practices verging on
penitentiary offenses are performed at
the polls Every man and every party
has the right to have a square deal
on election day. With the view of Sc
curing that necessity of popular gov
commissioned elections-I wish all
citizens in favor of the organization of
an honest election league to send their
names and addresses to me at 248
I.enne building, Los Angeles, and we
will proceed with the formation of such
a body. JOSEPH PHILLIPS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
Southern Pacific Bosses
Menace to Public Health

NHE revelations made by Mr.. Rea
concerning the part played by the
II Southern Pacific political bureau
in the history of the state find fresh
illustration in the insanitary and dan
gerous conditions created at the south
ern end of the bay by the obstruction
of the San Jose outfall sewer and It's
flow. An urban and suburban COM
munity of nearly 100000 people. are
shut off from the sanitary disposal OF
their sewage. The Dumbarton I'M
provement company, secure in the sup
port of Southern Pacific influence Is
permitted to create and maintain
breeding ground for malaria ana W
phoid. .
The city government of San JOSE ser
vile to the same malign influence, pro
fesses little concern about the exist
ence of this dangerous plague Spot, " H.
yes, they know it is there, put II 20
"up to" somebody else. They are
gagged in the agreeable official pastinie
known as passing the buck. 4hasa
The truth is, of course, that ' n,,sT
officials are afraid of getting run oNo or
by the locomotive. They Know, - %
think they know, what will happeTr1h e ~
them if they turn insurgent. e,, +nrs
argue from the past to the l9I9Ie.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
MEN ACT AS THEY MUST ACT,
FOLLOWING THEIR JUDGMENT

LOS ANGELES, July 6.-TEditor
Herald: When reading Mr.. stones re-
view of Robert Blatchford's book, now
running In your columns, 1 imagined
somebody would try to take a fall out
of its logic, and / see that Mr.. E, Graf
has rushed into the breach.
Mr.. Blatchford is really expounding
In popular form the great Individual
istic truth that Herbert Spencer took
such infinite pains to amplify. That
truth-which every one of us who will
examine his own daily life can easily
confirm-is that we are so constituted
that, a thousand times a day, we are
called on to decide which of two
courses we shall pursue, and that we
decide on the one that seems to us
at the moment the best. We have to-
we cannot do otherwise; the mind, by
its very construction, yields to the ar
gument that appears to it the strong
est.
Like all great truths this is far
reaching. 1t means that the spirit of
revenge, with which the criminal law
is saturated, is utterly wrong, 1t
means also that the penitence, the
tears and regrets, with which the or
binary mans religion is saturated, are
foolish. In short, thanks to our UNI
scientific habits of thought, about 40
per cent of the energy of the human
race today is wasted in the business
of stupidity whacking our fellow man,
and about 30 per cent in crying over
spilled milk.
Jones acted like a thoroughbred sim
ply because he was one. Smith acted
like a cur because he was born that
way, or because the circumstances
that nodded his life had made him
one. That is all there is about 1t. Re-
venge, blame, regret, are all mis-
placed.
The thing to be done is to change
the circumstances; to make the sinner
capable of being a saint.
r. F. VALIANT
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
CHILD SLAVERY

As THE HERALD predicted, child
IN slavery was a topic before the
IA Democratic convention at an
early stage of the proceedings. All the
measures of tariff reform and other re-
forms proposed by the Democratic
party are means to an end. The DEM
ocratic party realizes that the people
of the United States are the possess
ors of certain rights which are specif-
ica.lly guaranteed to them, and in the
enjoyment of which they are supposed
to be protected. The final aim Of all
legislation, no matter how diverse 1t
may be in its form, is to affirm and
confirm perpetually the unalienable
rights Of the American people to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
1t Is impossible to state these rights
without including theoretically the
entire economic and social problem,
because It is manifestly absurd to
make on paper stipulation that Amer
leans shall be secured in the undis-
turbed possession of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness and then In
practice foster conditions which inter-
fere with life, abridge liberty and
make the pursuit Of happiness merely a
hooking phrase. Either Americanism
is, either this country MEANS IT.
SELF or all is vanity; and if Ameri-
canism is and this country MEANS
ITSELF, then it should express itself
in terms of its meaning and should not
allow It's amiable intentions to be used
by schemers who desire only their
own aggrandizement and think no
more of their neighbor perishing in
his poverty than DIVES did of Laza-
rus. who lay suffering and neglected
on the front step while within sat old
Dives, clothed in fine raiment, slipping
sack and clipping coupons.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
VAL STONE GETS BACK AT MAN
WHO PUNs ON HIS NAME

LOS ANGELES, July T.-[Editor
Herald: Your Fenner correspondent
has indeed pretty wit, even though 1t
be of the order which DR.. Johnson
characterized somewhat unkindly; but
his sense of fair play can hardly be
called we'll developed-he puns upon my
name while concealing his own. But
his evasion shall not avail him. We
will "get even" Have at him! If we
may not hoist him with the petard Of
his own pestilent puns, we will rake
him and riddle him and rout him with
rhyme; we will eviscerate him with
vile versel Have at theel
Thou canine-hating man OF Fenner.
OF paralyzing puns the pennerl
Listen--and wilt-while to the weird
strains of the parlor organ (Which is
only eleven notes shy In It's four and a
half octaves) we scar thy shriveled
soul with searching song:
man who'd a rabid aversion
To dogs. volunteered the assertion
Each "purp," without pity
He d hound from the city.
Dogmatic? He'd scorn the aspersion-
He argued-this man from the wild
Since dog had once chewed up a child.
All dogs are accurst.
From the last to the f1rst
RAW logic that ought to be billed"
He'd claim that our civilization
And progress is Deaths Desolation;"
Since travel. I fear.
Kills its thousands each year
Abolish it! Back to stagnationl
There's peril in eating and drinking;
In ships that are apt TO go sinking;
There's murder in trains
That crush out peoples brains
Those autos are stealthy and sinking.
Quit speech; 1t so oft leads to lying.
Those deadly old beds that we die in
Abolish the lot:
They're a bane and a blot
Whose danger it's useless denying
And since people oft kill each other
| "a mailman might murder his mother)
WE'LL CUT OUT MANKIND
If you wouldn't much mind
The germ Of the mischief to smother.
| Should the foregoing serve to bring
your Fenner correspondents logic into
due perspective you and your readers
may perhaps forgive me the rest.
VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
Believe Two Great Powers
Must Rule Pacific Commerce

controlling hand. At the mouth Of the
Red sea they keep guard at Aden,
Perrin and on the Sornali coast. They
are supreme on the Indian ocean; the
Indian peninsula is an integral part of
the British empire; through the straits
of MaIacca they possess the outlet to
the western Pacific; and there they
own more territory than any other
country save China. But Great Britain
is. equally with ourselves, fully COM
n1itted to the principle of equality OF
commercial opportunity in the Neutral
markets of Eastern Asia. Both powers
have a vital interest in preserving
neace In the countries bordering on the
pacific. where dwell more than half of
the human family, and neither has the
sliShtest desire to add a rood of ground
to the territory within the Pacific area
where its authority is already para
mount. Thus, even If it be true that
there are forces stirring within tho
bosom of Asia that will affect citiliza-
tion and shake the earth, it must be
held to be of flood augury for human
progress that the two great Pacific
bowers should be the two great free
dom loving nations of the world.-New
York Journal OF Commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08

They have seen the politics of Califor-
mia run by the Southern Pacific for
thirty years. They have not forgotten
how the Sacramento Union was
wrecked for daring to tell the truth
about the railroad. They recall how
the intrepid Newton Booth was hound
ed and prosecuted for his independence.
They have seen Railroad Commissioner
Rea 1mpeached by an obedient legis-
lature because he refused to take or
ders. These things and countless 9TH
ers Of like significance happened years
ago, and the result has been the COM
plete subjugation of California and the
undisputed rule of the Southern Pa
cific. There is no such thing as popu-
lar government in California today. Mr..
Herrin rules.
1t is this servile condition of which
the evidences are seen in every nook
and corner of the state that the Lin
coln-Roseyelt league is organized to
fight and destroy. 1t Is fight for the
perpetuation, or rather, the restoration
of republican institutions, which have
been superseded by the rule of cor
pora ton. The conflict will be neither
a picnic nor a promenade, but will win
because we have right and justice on
our sidej.-San Francisco Call.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
WAGES AND PRICES

A PARTIAL explanation of the fact
IA that people during the past few
- years have found it harder to
make ends meet than ever before is
given In the bulletin OF the bureau of
labor. department Of commerce and la
Dor, on wholesale prices. which shows
that these prices in 1907 reached a
higher level than at any time during
eighteen years. The year of lowest
prices in the eighteen year period was
1897, when the Republicans came into
power. The greatest increase was in
the price of the necessaries. The cost
of living was increased so per cent,
food, clothing, fuel and lighting. If
the wage scale had been advanced in
conformity with the increase in the
cost of living there would not have
been room for comment. Such state
of affairs would not have illustrated a
high order of intelligence, because
when the purchasing power of salary
or wage is decreased by an increase
in the cost of living a so-called period
of high wages is illusionary. The
wage Garner is not really making any
more in exchange for his toll than If
he were receiving smaller wages and
paying correspondingly smaller prices
for food, clothing and shelter. But the
state of affairs produced by Republi-
can prosperity is far less sane than
this, There is nothing reasonable about
it. Wages were decreased, or were
suspended altogether through lack of
employment, and yet the worker, with
his smaller wage, continued to pay the
higher prices arbitrarily imposed to
foster the fallacy that Republican
prosperity was in the land. The re-
ductlo ad absurdum of prosperity is
piracy. and certainly the last state of
the worker under Republican pros
perity," increased prices for the
necessaries and diminished prices for
his product, his labor, illustrates a
condition something like piracy. But
perhaps that is too harsh word. Let
us rather agree that wholesaler and
wage Garner are victims Of circum-
stances.