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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19

Jay Andrews came up from Apache
this morning.
Will Phelps of the National b ank
is on the sick list.
Go to the Auction Sale Saturday
at Freelin & Son.
HC Bergdorf is i'll at his home
on North Boundary.
Representative J 7 Bell Of Sickles
is in the city to-day.
Ed Johnson of south of town left
this morning for Springfield, Mo.
Miss Glidewell returned yesterday
from visit to the north part of the
county.
David Gish after a weeks stay in
the city went to Greenfield yesterday
evening.
Mrs A A Chambers and mother re
turned this morning from a weeks
stay in Fort Cobb
E. Williamson of Oklahoma City
spent last night in the city, return
ing home this morning.
Mrs Chas Kemp returned yesterda1 2
from two days business trip to Ok
lahoma City and Ell Reno.
Willard Campbell came in yester-
day evening from FL Reno, where he
has been to visit bis father.
Ed G Kell and E Heriff of Apache
passed through the city this morning
enroute to Oklahoma City.
Mrs ] NJ Markins of Weatherford
came in yesterday to stay few days
with her sister Mrs W M King.
Attorney Carl Glitsch of Oklahoma
City was shaking hands with old ac-
quaintances in the city yesterday.
Judge b F Holding and District
Clerk Clyde C Leech, are attending
the G A r reunion at Cement today.
Joe Whitman of the Dinkler drug
store, is attending the fair and visit
ing friends at Comanche this week.
Mrs M c Clifford returned to her
home in Colony this morning after
few days stay at the W M King
home.
Mrs W w Harper and son Tai.
bert. arrived yesterday from Mexico,
Mo-. for a visit with her daughter,
Mrs f Brown.
Misses Mabel and Margaret Diehr
and Josephine Ewing went TO Fort
Corb yesterday evening to spend two
weeks with relatives.
Mrs Emma Mandes, of Logansport,
Ind. left this morning for Hutchin-
son, Kan, She has been visiting
Mr. and Mrs E Norton at the Agen-
cy.
A marriage license was issued TO
A 7 Hallock, age ~ and Miss Mary
Morgan. age 20. both Of Apache.
They will bs married tomorrow even
ing at the brides home.
Why do you pay rs cents to have
your half soles tackled on when you
can go to Ell Wallis, the bootmaker, |
and hsve them sewed on for the same
price while you wait. Half soles for
ladies so cents. sewed or tackled
heels on mems shoes. 80 cents: rub.
ber heels on mems shoes go cents
heels on ladies' shoes 20 cents; rub
ber heels on ladies' shoes. 40 cents.
III diff
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19

A t Boys came in from the east
this morning.
Jno E White is transacting busi-
ness in Fort Cobb today.
James Young of Ponca City is here
visiting his cousin, Harry Brown.
Miss Flora Rudisill, of Carnegie,
returned this m,rniEg to her home.
Archie James returned this morn.
ing from Comanche where he has
heeu playing ball.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19

Mrs E W Sprague of Enid passed
through here yesterday evening en-
route to Fort Cobb where she was
called by che serious illness of her
little niece. Ms SpraRue is we'll
known here having taught at the hiv-
erside schools about four years ago.
Before her marriage she was Miss
Allie Griffith.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19
The Crime of Idleness

ldleness means trouble for any one.
It's the same with lazy liver. II
causes constipation. headache. jaun-
dece, sallow complexion. pimples and
bloches. loss of appetite. neusea.
but DIR. Kings New Life Pills soor
Danish liver troubles and build ~
yonr health. 25c. at Pioneer Drug
Store.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19
But How Few Do.

Horace-Everyone ought to meav
ure himself by his own proper font
and standard.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19
Grades Of Meersehaun,.

To the casual observer all meer-
sehaum looks alike. but there are ~
recognized grades OF this material.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19
How II Happens.

BY following the line OF least re-
sistance q good many men get mar.
ried.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19

'Tis he'tc- to have sold at cost thar
r Nvcr w. '~ro ~
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19

Women Brick Workers.
Prussia's brick yards employ nearly
10000 women.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19

Auction at Freelin & Son
Saturday afternoon August %, 1909.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-19
PERSONAL

Jay Andrews came up from Apache
this morning.
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KEEP YOUR IDEALS IN SIGHT
BY DIR. MADISON C. PETERS,

genius is decaying!" What do you mean? %
statue Of Christ replied the great sculp-
tor; lit is the first of my works 1 have
ever felt satisfied with. Until now nv
ideal has always been far beyond what /
could execute, but it is SO no longer. L
shah never have a great ideal again."
Remember that you are something more
than an animal. You are an immortal.
Therefore let your aim be higher than to
paEder to animal appetites and pleasures.
Elihu Burritt became one of the great
est scholars this land has known, yet he
was rdiculed for his determination to
realize his ideal. His master frowned
upon his ambition, but he soon found
that the boy could shoe a horse much
quicker and better for his increased
knowledge. Get all the knowledge you
can; it is never a drug In the market;
there is always a premium upon 1t.
The idealiStS have improved the world.
They have made 1t better. brighter and
happier. The man who aims at the sky
is apt to shoot higher than the man who
singles out tree for a target
The discomfort you feel comes from 90
ing your work in the spirit of drudgery.
It is the spirit in which the work is done
that lends to labor its dignity and honoi.
Life is grand, noble, divine, God-i1ke' II
is mean only to those who make 1t 50.
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BAReEDocKsf7F1o sTBEAUT1FU 5Ec71oT OFAEIo

Towers of ST. Louis to the baths of the
Gallo Roman palace that was already an
Client but still in use by Fredigonde and
Chi'peric in the start of the dark ages.
Across a branch of the river. beside
ancient Notre Dame cathedral, are the
Americans 'pick up venerable swords
and daggers. pieces of doubtful armor.
fint-lock Louis XIV pistols. pixies and
halbards, all delightful relics to those real
worshipers of the past-those new
Americans.
My American editor also promises ito
lol upon the tranquil bridges of the
Seine They are tranquil Also beauti-
full beyond description. From the Bridge
of the Arts you have the long lines of
the Louvre palace, the towers of ST
Louis, Notre Dame and the Sainte-Cha-
pelle. On the other side you have the
bend of the Seine, the fair gardens of
the Cour la Refine and Tuileries, gleam-
ing modern Paris, and the heights of the
Trocadero, on beyond the gilded pylons Of
the Alexander bridge.
Bridges and bridges The Carrousel
bridge is of heavy decorative iron be-
tween light stone piles. The Pont Neuf
is of massive old masonry. SO richly
carved that students copy its designs
from the banks. The Pont Royal is
relic to make Americans dream-bult as
it is. from the stone of the Bastille pr!s-
on. When you are on the Alexander
bridge you imagine yourself to be stroll
ing along a spacious avenue. Triumphal
pylons. cleaning statuary. magnificent
iron work, gardens. marble balustrades,
stone benches under swaying shade
trees make a park vista. far away to
the gilded dome of the Invalides.
Yet beneath it all are being. towed
100000 tons of coal alone.
Through this louisiana that editor
will browse: and some day when / Judge
him strong enough l shall suddenly open
his eyes to the mighty but silent freight
movement of the river of peace and
beauty on whose banks we are wander
ing.
l shall lead him, unsuspecting. to the
wine-Quais of the Bercy bank, beyond
the sleepy Jardin des Plantes to see
10000 barrels of Spanish grape juice be-
ing unloaded into bond as nonchalan,ly
as half-dOZen tourists trunks 1t is a
veritable city of wine. city Of water
freight, inclosed in a corner of mid
Paris. Spanish wines for blending"
come in undreamed-of quantities, for the
experts of Bercy to spread over the
world at Bordeaux and Burgundy. s.
From the north Of Spain the ships
cross the Bay of Biscay, enter Havre
and load on to up-Seine barges From
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the clearing of the upper reaches of the
Elbe: in Austria, the abolition of the iron
gates Of the Danube. In France. it will
he the crowding of simple canal-and
the digging of rival to 1t at the eX-
pense OF S14.O0O,OOO to gain slow freight
two days time toward Paris!
It is the Canal of ST Quentin. the rec
ord canal of the world. whose tonnage
in humble barges has been exceeding that
Of the proud Manchester ship canal! OF
coal alone, from the north of France and
Belgium. 1t has been putting 100000
tons annually in connection with Paris
and the rest Of France. The new work
is the Canal of the North. of which l
shall tell you shortly.
BY a vast network of such canals, COW
ering the whole land, Paris enjoys ultra
cheap freight for all it's heavier furnish
ings; petroleum from the United States
and Russia; timber from Norway; coal
from England. Germany and Belgium;
building stone from Caen: slate, cement
and lime from Dauphiny and Savoy;
grain, -four and feed from the Garden of
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the east and south of Spain the wine
crosses the Mediterranean to Marseille.
BY the canal of the Rhone delta the
barges go to the navigable Rhone which
they mount as far as Lyon. Hence they
follow the Soane and Yonne to a short
canal that brings them to the head
waters of the Seine; and so they float
down to Paris
know business-tired Americans who
nave taken water transportation thus. by
SLOW and winding ways, upon the clean
and handsome barges of the Spanish
freight; and they still tell of golden days
In which they glided through the love-
~ land in peace and silence. 1 have
also known Americans to come out of
the Bercy wine city SO laden with the
crude Spanish product suave bordeaux.
victorious burgundy. sparkling saumur.
strong. straw-colored anjou and rosy
persons through Paris became slower.
more gliding and winding than that of
any barge bound for Cologne or Stras-
burg.
The original Paris was an island in
this river, fortified by Gaulish tribes.
1t is still called the Cite (City), huddled
bunch of masonry rising from the waters.
with Notre Dame cathedral at one point
and the Pont Neuf new BRIDGE of
Henri " and the navigation locks on the
other.
Through the navigation locks OF mid
Paris passes all the heavier traffic. the
Bercy wine. the coal and building mate
rails of east Paris, the barges Of Cologne
and Strasburg via the Marine canal.
These locks mark one of the busiest
spots In Paris: yet such is their decent
silence that the tourist on one of the
Swallows of the Selma" fits past them
without taking special notice. These
Seine passenger boats are another plea
sure of Paris. Thirty years ago they
were christened Swallows because of
their swiftness. and they are not slow
even today. On their decks from Char
enton, up-Seine, to Meudon, down Seine,
our tourists have a passing impression
Of interminable stone quais, twenty feet
below the level Of the river parapets
quais covered with boxed merchandise
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and piles of brick, sand. stone. coal and
lumber; yet they come back. nevertheless.
with the idea of a pleasure river running
through a decorative capital.
To call them docks would seem to insult
them. Out of sight, far below the city
streets on either side. straight. clean. regu-
lar, of massive masonry and banked by
great walls. capped by decorative balus-
trades or solid parapet their traffic comes
and goes in silent carts, drays and auto
trucks, up long, slow inclines to the
street level
Take the unloading of the barges be-
low the Alexander bridge, one of the
beauty spots of Paris. I fancy that few
tourists realize that barges stop there. Or
the building material quais in front of
the Palais d'Orsay. Farther down, below
the Eiffel tower, they cannot fail to no.
tee the barges massed six abreast, in
endless lines. beneath the cranes Of the
Grenelle bank; yet if you ask any return
ed tourist his impression he will tell you
rather of the beautiful bridges. the swift
pleasure boats. the changing profile OF
Paris beautiful, or the quaint wash and
bath houses.
Surely. the washhouses are quaint
Not only a thousand professional laun-
dresses, but humble housekeepers for ten
blocks on each side of the river carry
the weekly wash to them, as their an
cestors did 500 years ago. The wash
houses are gratis, and the work is done
with cold water. soap and wooden pad
dies. They sing sweetly at their labor
the plaintive and humorous ballads of
modern Paris. The Next Morning She
Was Smiling.'' Jenny Has Her Secret'
What a Shame That She Limps Like
That" or Love Deceived Herr Next
door, in the six-cent lighthouses. the de-
cent poor are bathing in sublimate for the
seven-year-itch or taking the plain annual
dip in the Seine that was once a ceremony
incumbent on all good Parisians of no
matter what degree.
In those old days Seine water was con-
sidered particularly good for drinking
Kings carried kegs of it with them on
their journeys: but today, when excep-
tional drouths force them to turn Seine
water into the mains. the municipality
puts out warning notices to boil your
drinking water!
with a population of over 100000, has
only two deaths per thousand from ty-
phoid, where Philadelphia, with not half
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as many inhabitants. has twelve deaths,
and Pittsburg has twenty-five.
For a quarter of a century past the
drinking water of Paris has come in aque-
ducts from four great spring regions
whose distance corresponds to the Croton
supply of New York. This permits vast
quantity of Seine water to be used for
flushing the streets.
All of which is by the way. The i'm
portant fact is that the American national
waterways commission has spent great
deal of time in Germany. The German
system of canals and river openings, be
ing very modern, has impressed them
strongly There is feared. in France. to
be a risk that they may pay less atten-
ton to the older French system, which
for over a century has made the agricul-
tural riches Of the land by cheap trans
portation.
Not to lose credit in the matter. the
French government is arranging to. take
the American commissioners on extended
and novel trips in a new petroleum yacht.
at once spacious and narrow enough to
thread the canals.
The Seine inside Of Paris will thus
transform itself to the favored American
visitors. Where the ordinary tourist sees
a pleasure river they will be pointed out
see tugs that use no screaming whistles.
They will see a vast movement Of barges
by the twilight of morning and evening.
They will see how thousands of barges
are brought into the capital without
meeting or overtaking each other. They
will see them entering a dozen canals.
upstream and down. They will perceive
Paris surrounded by belt of unsupported
canals, continually crowded in order that
the river itself may be kept as free as
possible of afternoons!
Outside Paris the petroleum yacht will
carry the American commissioners
through devious ways along the coal
route to the north, along the wine route
to the south. I have already mentioned
the canal of st. Quentin and its record
tonnage. 1t was dug under Napoleon l
with the gratuitous labor of Spanish pris-
oners, and along it's length are villages
Astounding in Spanish names and types to
this day.
You know these canals are Of two kinds.
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France. and wine from the south. Vast
merchandise pours into the little rive
Seine from every direction.
X
Thanks TO it's communicating canals
the little river Seine makes Paris-capita
far inland-the greatest port of France
Yet the Seine remains beautiful in Paris
Flowing through the center of the city
it has been kept decorative, banked by
flowers and foliage, long lines of graceful
masonry and pleasure promenades. whose
fountains. statues and white balustrades
seem the home of cultured leisure and
peace.
An American editor writes nae that he
is soon coming Ito dream along the
bookstalls of the quais. that sleepy para
disc OF bygone learning, where the lap
ping waters of the Seine will lull the
tired American: and he is perfectly
right 1t will matter nothing that the
greatest tonnage. perhaps, of any inland
city will be gliding unperceived beneath
his nose. The American. to whom bust
ness means noise, will not see it. Such
an association of freight handling and
the peace that passeth understanding is
secret of Paris; and it is difficult to
explain how they do it-eXcept that the
tugboats do not blow whistles.
The famous book quais. for example.
are shaded by long rows of beautiful
trees. They have been a hundred years
growing. The waist-high parapets were
not built during the memory of living
man. They are covered for blocks with
wooden boxes packed with secondhand
volumes. and philosophical old men, de-
lightful to talk with, allow you to handle
their ancient stock whole afternoon
without suggestion to buy
Il
Secondhand books Hundredth hand,
rather. From learned private libraries,
from collections of dispersed families,
from sheriffs' sales and rent distraints.
from servants thefts, ignorance. poverty
and a hundred accidents, books of all
ages and values find their way to the
Seine quais. And in spite Of the fact that
most of the stock comes from the great
dealers who have tried to sort out all
valuables for their shops. real finds" are
continually slipping through their hands,
to become the prize Of the knowing.
Beyond the square tower of the Con-
ciergerie, the book-quais become flower
quais, spreading into the flower market
behind the prefecture of police. 1t is a
corner much frequented by tourists-en-
trance to the Latin quarter, old-wOrld,
romantic. full of bits of ancient build
ings. from the thirteenth century Round
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and never stopped until he occupied 1t as
the greatest master of English literature.
These sturdy Scotch youngsters had
ambition. they had ideals; but. just like
you, they did not know of what they
were capable until they tried.
Poverty, instead of drawback, is often
an advantase-a stimulus to action, an
incentive to effort, spur to advance
ment All around us, we see Notifications
of this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Vanderbilt
began life as a ferryman; John Jacob
Aston as dealer in skins: Giuseppe
Sarto, PEASANTS son. rules the Catholic
world as Pope Plus x.
There is always room at the top.
Everything is crowded downstairs
Do not envy the merits of another, but
respect them and try to so higher your
self. Try TO be first. Never rest satisfied.
Those who are never quite satisfied are
the doors. the men who accomplish some
thing and benefit both themselves and
their kind.
Aspire. Look up. Hitch your wagon
to star" To aim low is a crime Be-
lief In the heroic makes heroes. Keeping
high ideal in sight strengthens the
mind. wdenS the thought clears the
vision and enargeS the manhood.
Nhen all your expectations are full
filled You have crossed the dead line.
Thorwaldsen exclaimed to visitor: My
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tomobiles. They're deeply panied to dis
cover that the packing-house product of
Chicago has got the roast beef of Old
England looking like underdone leather
findings. 1t inks them to observe that We
Yankees have a maddening way of pro-
nOuncing their language something like
it's spelt. Our whole system is wrong.
Our frogs are of an inferior quality and
don't last: our clothes sometimes fit us,
and we take Ice in our drinking water in
stead Of exhibiting it in a museum as
rare curiosity, the same as English ice
Our colored population, instead Of wearing
spiketailed coats and Dockstader collars
and saying, oh CORY, massa, like the
genuine darby blackapoors one sees in
the minstrel sing-songs at the 'als at
'ome. are mainly engaged in the pursuit
of politics and pork chops. We'd rather
have cantaloupe for breakfast than COB
of marmalade that stays on the back side
of the front teeth until it's taken up by
absorption, and instead of talking fire.
quently about our morning tub We just
go and take it and don't mention the
matter afterward. So it's no wonder that
the English visitor goes back to Stoke
Pottleton-on-the-w Stoke Pottleton
-is-on, and bastes all our institutions from
sky scrapers to lynching bees until We
are exuding drip gravy from every pore
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Bravery It's Own Reward.

From the Throne and Country.
The Lady Ito hero who has risked his
life to save her little dog from a watery
grave. and looks for some rewardp-Poor
fellow; how wet and cold you are. You
must be soaked through to the skin!
Here-Pll give you some quinine pills:
take a couple now, and two more in en-
hours time.
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That goes for the summer In the win
ter the favored transient gets bedroom
that has death chill on its pallid walls
and bottomless pit of a feather bed,
where he sinks to slumber and dreams of
smothering TO death in an avalanche of
hens He also has the exclusive use of
drum stove about as big around as a
pocket inkstand. with capacity of one
heaping teaspoonful of coal dust every
five minutes. a faculty for getting as red
in the face as d tuba player and a desire
to draw itself up the f1ue. But If the
customary dose is ever neglected. rigor
mortis sets i'm almost instantly. and that
stove becomes the coolest thing around
the works. with the exception OF the place
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But when they put the American hotel
system on the pan they touch me in my
most tender emotions. Larry. l certainly
do object to a mere foreigner asrogatin,
to himself the right to speak so severely
OF our hotels, jus. though he was 4
travelling salesman for novelty jeweIry
firm in Grand Rapids, or the leading man
in wcek-stand repertoire company Any
how. we've got enough varieties of hote. s
in this fair land of ours to satisfy the
most fastidious.
Now you take the kind you strike in
one of those mail order towns out In the
interior, where b 'anch road stops from
total exhaustion. Here's where they have
hotel named the Oriental House or the
Palace, or SOM modest name, that looks
like livery stable. only i. has fewer
windows. All the flies i'm the country
make their headquarters there in the sum-
mer, and when the landlord plans a boiled
dinner as warm-weather treat for his
patrons there's certain subtle invigorat-
ing atmosphere that fills the establish
NEXT and gives promise to all that the
reat old vintage cabbage is going to he
served. and not some feeble deodorized
substitute
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HE American ma
tional waterways
commission, headed
by Senator Theo-
dOre Burton of
Ohio, is due to be-
gin it's investiga-
tons in France. In
each country its
members have been
impressed by GER
tain striking works.
In Germany, 1t was