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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

The rarest musical treat of the
season--the Norfleet sisters at the
Broadway Baptist church Thursday
evening, Admission 25 and 80 cents.
1913.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

A rare treat-the Norfleet sisters
at the Broadway Baptist church, on
Thursday evening. Admission, 25 an /.
80 cents. 1913
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

LOST-Two steers necked
together, both red and white
pided, one has no brands or
marks, the other branded
on hip. Liberal reward tor
information. ]. B. Criner,
Ardmore. 9d3w2
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

FOR RENT-Ffveroom house, mod
ern conveniences. close in. $1,000
See John w. Hoffman,. 1913
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

Sick bed perentance heldom lasts
long enough TO pay the doctor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

j. w. Lucy was visitor here TO.
day from Durant.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

The ladies of the East Ardmore
Baptist church will serve ice cream
and cake at the church Thursday
night. Everybody invited. 1913.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

The great failing OF other people is
that they talk too much.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10

PAY YOUR GAS BILL AND SAVE
THE DISCOUNT.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

| to their required sizes and shapes.
| Then underneath the huge keel OF
| the ship itself, and one comes out
upon the little town of shipmakers
| busy with hammers and weird in
| struments putting together the parts
which go to make the Dreadnaught.
Each of the two thousand men
has his particular part to play In
the making of the huge vessel. For
the twelve hours commencing at
1880 O'Clock each morning, the
work goes on increasingly. About
the scaffolding and platforms sur
rounding the growing hulk men in
blue overalls fit hither and thither
From the ground below they appear
to be counting danger at every step
Down toward the stern, mechanics
have put into place the spectacle
frames for the screw propeller shaft
ings, and eighty feet above the slips
the bows head towers. 1t appears
incredible that only three months
ago the first keel plate was laid. The
work has been proceeding at an as
tonishingly rapid rate since that
time, and it is expected that the
Thunderer will be launched at the
end of the present year.
Then she goes down the river to
her berth at Dagenham, but before
this happens every water tight COM
partment will be tested, filled with
water to the depth of forty feet.
and boilers and the major portion of
the armor. will be fitted in. Huge
cranes will lift the gun mountings,
ell complete, on to her decks, and by
March, 1912, she will be ready for
commission.
The transfer of this new Dread
naught. upon which nearly ten mil
lion dollars will have been expended
in its construction, is a very simple
matter. Two small pieces of pa
per, signed respectively by the
admiralty officials and the Thames
Iron Works Company's representa-
tives, will change hands, and an
other will be added to the list of
Britain's ushts.--London
Daily News.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
BUILDING A THUNDERER.
Visit to English Navy Yard Where
the Newest Dreadnaught
Is Making,

Long before one reaches the yard
the deafening and continual noise OF
hundreds of hammers at work on
the huge steel plates direct the Wis
itor to the Slips on which the
Thunderer, the admiraltys new
Dreadnaught, is in making at the
Thames Iron Works and Shipbuild-
ing Company's works at Tidal Basin.
Towering high above the sur
rounding buildings huge forest of
scaffolds, derricks and cranes, from
the tallest of which floats the union
jack, one may see the huge shape
of the ship in construction. The
scene is busy and strange one to
the visitor unaccustomed to the
sight of the building of ships. He
has to carefully pick his way over
stacks of long iron Orders, across
wide spaces of sheets of steel await
ing the mechanics attention, through
a maze of wooden supports as thick
as the trunk of an oak, past WORN
shops and sheds where the engines
are at work cutting like so many
straws the lengths of iron and steel
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
WILD TIMES IN THIS DANCE
Spectators mt the Grand See some.
thing Every Second in Apache
Dance

II the Apaches of Paris handle
people as Charles A. Morgan handles
Miss Maud Emery in The Flirting
Princess at the Grand this week,
small wonder that visitors sidestep
their haunts while in the French
Capital. The original Apaches, on
the plains and in the mountains Of
New Mexico, never were more dis
courteous to a lady friend than
this same Morgan is in his treat
ment of Miss Emery Geronimo
himself was model of propriety
in comparison. even during the
last days of his atrocities when he
had people under the porchcs and up
in trees to avoid him. Morgan en-
tiers the ring staggering in a SUIT
of purple corduroy with enough ma
terial in the trousers to make an
overcoat for President Taft.
'Howdy, Sis" he says to Miss
Emery, and, before she can reply,
scizes her familiarly around the
neck. smashes her in the face with d
full blown rose. tears down her
hair as II it belonged to him, strokes
1t and then iolts her about until she
thinks she's on the independence
electric line. He holds her off fol
second, looks at her as If she were
a long lost nickel and then, blup. he
has pulled her against his chin so
swiftly that her breath comes lik.
the noise of an air brake
The spectators, particularly III,
women. begin to show some concern
about this time, and the policemen
and detectives in the back rows stir
uneasily, because it looks to them
like plain case of disturbing the
peace. 1t lasts for eight or ten
minutes, this wild Apache dance
that no real Apache would attempt,
and 1t ends with Miss Emery in a
heap upstage, disheveled, exhausted,
pale, while Morgan, content that he
has done his worst, flips the
wrinkles out of his corduroys, lights
a cigarette, smiles superciliously a,
the unhappy young woman on the |
floor and puffs out his chest, salts
fled
That guy" says one of the plain |
clothes men in the rear, fought to |
be sent to the works, man-handlin'
a skirt like that. kansas City |
Star.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
FOUND IN A SLAVE PIT.
Tablet Inscribed Many Centuries
Ago Produced in South
Africa

DR.. Carl Peters. the German ex.
plorer, WHO has arrived in London
from Berlin, has given to Reuters
representative some interesting de-
tails of his last journey in South
Africa, in the course of discoveries.
Il was fortunate enough to dis
cover tablet" said DR.. Peters,
which. so far as | know. contains
the first actual ancient inscription
found in South Africa.
Formerly discoveries have not
been of proved actual inscriptions.
but of stones bearing marks strong
~ resembling ancient Semitic writ
ings. The tablet in question was
found by one Of my men in slave
pit TO the south of Inyanga. north of
Umtal.
The district contains hundreds
of these pits from 20 feet to 25 feet
deep, in which the ancients kent
their slhves. The tablet was evident
ly made Of cement and had been cut
in two, clearly while it was soft, the
letters on it being in no way dam
aged.
The characters look to me like
Greek letters, but other experts say
they are Graeco-P hoenician. take
ii to be the half of an ancient pass
port. one portion of which was re-
tanned by the master and the other
handed to the messenger.
Il also discovered near Zimbabwe
brass figure of Pan, II inches in
length, very similar to the figures
found at Pompeii, thus proving
Greek influence in South Africa APP
parently at later period than the
tablet | have mentioned.
These and other discoveries are
TO my mind further proof that in
South Africa there has been con-
tinuation of different ancient civili-
cations. 1t has also been shown
that during these periods gold min
ing has been carried on.
Apparently this was begun by
natives of the soil, probably bush
men, and it seems likely that the
first Semitic people who appeared
on the scene were only traders in
the precious metal.-London News.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
CHILDREN AND DIVORCE.
A Kansas City Idea Arouses Inter.
est and Commentator Else
rrlrar,

Kansas City is seriously consider
ing the proposition to have the
judge of the juvenile court preside
at the trials of divorce cases where
the parties to the action have chill
dren. 1t is also proposed that the
children be made parties in the suits
on the ground that they are the
real sufferers in the event of fami-
ly dissolution. Their stake" In
the family life is manifest enough
to one who will use ordinary COM
mon sense, it is urged by the advo-
Gates of the plan and their rights
ought to come first
In brief, the idea is to relieve the
children, SO far as may be, of the
burden of the shortcomings of the,
parents. The judge of the juvenile
court is, or ought to be, by reason
of the character of the cases he is
accustomed to try, familiar with the
needs of the children. Kansas
City's experience has been that a
great many of the delinquent chill
dren hailed before it's tribunal for
youthful offenders are those of di-
vorced persons and that in the main
their wrongdoing can be traced to
neglect or improper training by the
parents to whom, in the granting of
divorce DEGREES, the courts gave them
in custody.
A strong public sentiment has
been aroused, apparently, in favor of
this novel proposal, and if Kansas
City puts it into effect it's working
out will be watched with the keenest
interest by penologists and social
workers throughout the country. 1T
may be that society will some day
take the stand that unless it can
be shown that the offspring of I'M
happily mated couples will not suf-
fer If their parents are given legal
separation under the law divorces
shall not be granted Upon the Of
Ulcers of the court used to such in
vestigations would naturally devolve
the responsibility of determining
which parent, if either, was fit to
have the custody of the children, in
stead of having them allotted to one
parent or the other by the hit-or- !
miss plan at present.-Baltimor
Star
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
THE GROWTH OF CITIES.

| We must not be deluded intt
| thinking that American cities alon,
| are growing rapidly. As matter
of fact, comparing six German cities
with six American cities of the same
class, 1t is found that the growth OF
the former in the last decade has
been greater than the growth of the
latter. There Is worldwide move
ment 10 the towns, This does not
mean necessarily that the number
of producers is greatly lessened,
but II does mean that manufacturing
Interests have developed to a great
extent. II means that the percent
age Of those engaged in agricultural
pursuits Is less than formerly, al
though agricultural production Is
greater than ever before. tits being
due to improved methods of culture
and harvesting. The activities Of
man have broadened, and hroadenea
in sue ha way that city jewellers are
actual producers through the con-
version of raw material into finish
ed products.
Again, the growth of cities has
been rendered possible by the in
sention of the trolley car. When
there was no rapid transit narrow
streets were necessary in order to
prevent the spreading OF the popula-
tion. II was necessary to concen-
trate A city of even hundred
thousand Inhabitants embraced so
large an area that the distance from
residences to business offices was n i
consideration. Now, however, thel
extent OF city makes little differ
ence. Streets can be made as wide
as is desirable, There Is still a |
to concentrate business sec
lions. as Is evidenced bN the con-
struction of skyscrapers, but the in
creased efficiency of the postal ana
telephone services will In time tend |
10 overcome this.
We do not view with any great
the urban mavement.
which Is not 30 pronounced in the
'outh as elsewhere. So long as men
an make better livings as producers
II raw material they Will product
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
SUMMER BOARDERS RETURN.
Each Fall an Appreciative Multitude
Comes Back to the City.

Street car conductors, shop girls
crowding eXcursionists, hurried
shoppers, push and sheer and elbow
crowd and shove and scold to your
hearts content, on and after Labor
Day. Do your worst, your very
worst, and you will still encounter
everywhere the happy smiles of a
contented and adminring audience
Why? The summer boarder will
have returned to our midst.
The city will then be filled with
an appreciative multitude that
wonders how it came last June to
leave running water and common
manners behind in order to visit
pastoral parts. How polite they
are.' thinks the returned holiday
seekers as the conductors call. Step
lively." and the shop girls sniff.
I'VE don't carry goods of this grade. ;"
How polite they are! Why did I
leave Manhattan and its gracious
ways to journey amid suspicion and
contumely? My inner emotions are
black and blue. How soothing the
voice of that policeman as he calls.
move on.'"
The local baggage master of any
remote country town will lose your
baggage if he can, threaten to iail
you for attempted fraud if you urge
that it be found, and then round on
you for criminal negligence in los
ing it when at last it is discovered
under an inadvertent lumber pile. |
The postmaster will want you to|
identify yourself several times over
before he delivers the mail. And i'll
Will hurt him to deliver it even then.
The housekeeper will sell you what
you find In his shop, if you find it
by dint of personal search, but it
will hurt him to part with it even
20. The landlady will gossip about
vou to the hired girl and the hired
sirl will report your concerns to the
fillage. The village will sit in
Judgement and express it's opinions
With conviction. The worst, the
letter. the more impossible the more
kelly. You may at any moment
discover yourself Gallagher or a
'r. Crippen in hiding. BY these
lgns you may know the rural sum
ler resort,
Explain yourself. excuse yourself,
pologize for yourself, but be surel
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

raw material. When the manufac-
turing interests, which rest on the
production of raw material, are over
supplied. the raise in price of agri-
cultural products will send many
back 10 the farms, just as has been
proved in the last three or four
years In the south. F'ifteen-cent
cotton Will stay the urban movement
IN thEs section, just as $l.25 wheat
viii stay 1t In the Middle West.
There Is no cause for alarm. The
economic world is simply undergo
ing an evolution News
aud Curier.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
Every Hour of the Day

Curtin Drug Co., the reliable drug
gists OF Waxahachie, Texas, are hay-
ing calls for "HINDIPO," the new
Kidney Cure and Nerve Tonic that
they are selling under positive
guarantee.
It's merits are becoming the talk
OF the town and everybody wants to
try it, and why not? 1t costs moth
ing II 1t don't do you good-not one
cent.
They don't want your money If 1t
does not benefit you, and will cheer
FULLY refund the money. Try it to-
day. MIR
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
A NEW EXPLOSIVE.
Invented by an ohio Man Is Power.
full but Harmless.

| Are you looking for some safe
sane and perfectly harmless occupa
ton? If SO, seek not the SHADOW
OF ladies tailoring establishment
or the peaceful life of the rura
jewellers.
The latest in gunpowder is calico
Hoynes earthquake and safety explo
sive. Its harmlessness and its effect.
iveness were demonstrated yester-
day at the penitentiary quarry II
Joliet
Engineers and contractors fro,l
all over the Middle West ATTENDED
the demonstration and every one OF
them asserted that a millennium in
the manufacture of explosives had
been reached. During the nine
years of experimentation in which
there were over 24,0oo people kill
ed in American mines through pre-
mature explosions. A saving of all
these lives will be effected by the
use of this powder, according to the
testimony of the demonstrators.
At the test in Joliet yesterday q
quantity OF the powder was placed
in paper tubes A rifle ball was
shot into the tube but there was no
explosion. Some of the powder was
lighted witL a match, 1t burned bur
there was no explosion.
The powder test was made in II
holes drilled In the quarry. The
holes were twenty feet deep and six
teen pounds Of powder was placea
in each hole. Charles Tengden, the
quarry engineer, estimated that
500 tons of rock had been displaced.
Not bit of the rock was hurled in
to-the air.
Another feature OF the powder is
that 1t is smokeless. This property
Will minimize explosions from fire.
lamp.
William ]. Hoynes, the inventor
u the explosive. was on hand to
oversee the work Of demonstration.
lie comes from Cleveland, Ohio.
rhe Chicago men who were present
we're contractor l.. b. Jackson and
engineers J. G. McMinn and G. +.
Lines. Chicago Tribune. !
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
ROTTEN POLITICS.

Either the constituents OF Lee
O'Neil Browne believe him TO be
innocent OF the charges OF bribery
In connection with the election o.
Senator Loriner or they glory IN
their shame, for they have nominated
him for reelection to the state
Legislature, in which he has hereto
fore been the minority leader.
A jury has acquitted this Illinois
democratic leader of one of the
charges preferred against him, hut
there Ia another pending at the state
capital. The Cook county verdict
has been assumed to be OF the
guilty. but not proven" variety,
and has not generally been accepted
as conclusive. Browne, however,
win 80 back 10 the legislature I'M
less the Springfield court locks him
up.
Lorimer has, likewise, been sus-
tanned by the denomination OF
practically all the soilcd solons who
were connected with the legislative
Jackpot" and the bribery OF voters
10 secure the e'ect'on Of the dis
credited senator. II appears. how
ever, that this result was brought
about b, The most shaIneicss frauds
on the ballot in the primaries, ii.
which not only We're dead men voted,
but almost unlimited repeating done
II was the first trial in Illinois of
the direct primary law adopted by
the legislature and it appears that
the ballot was not as we'll protected
against fraud there as 1t is in Tex
as and other states, where the sys-
TEN has longer been in vogue ItI
must be so, else how could the bal
lot of prominent citizen have been
cast by some one else without his
or consent, as 1t appears
was done, and his ballot refused
when he appeared to offer it?
A long time ago there was said to
DO something rotten in Denmark
There appears to be a similar condf- |
ton In Illinois, especially In that |
portion of the state embraced with
Ina the boundaries OF Cook county. !
In their crusade against political |
iebauchery, bossism corruption and |
al manner of political wrongdoipg |
The Progressives have not got busy |
any too soon, and the task ahead |
lf them is one that will tax their |
energies and their courage to the |
Utmost.
In the aspiration and in the fight |
or purer politics every good citizen
should join, whether he be con-
or q progressive.-Sa An
ONTO Express.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
DROWNED HIMSELF.
Body of Joseph Simmons "hol
appeared Found in Creek

Cleburne, Texas, Sept. W
lowing the search for joseph
mons, aged sixty-five, who a'
peared from his home near
Thursday, his body was foulai
Buffalo Creek. He was sullu
from a mental alteration anu
thought he drowned hlmseh !
in that condition.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Mr., Yoakum Is a great man, but
II he permits the passage OF the L.
q g. N. bill to interfere with the
building OF railroad extensions in
Texas he will confess himself to be
on the verge of decline.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

The fine for writing on the edges
OF newspapers and such matter,
sending it at less than letter post
age rates, Is now $100 instead Of
$40. This goes to show how the cost
of living has gone up lately.-Mc-
Kinney Courier-Gazette.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

With the bible and Shakespeare
barred In New York 1t now is in or
der for the schools of that state to
take up he Aaupassant as a stand,
ard for study
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Governor colqnitt at the beginning
of his administration will have to fill
many Important places at the pie
counter" but there are always pien-
~ OF pie hunters" III Texas.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Ms. Jacob NilmN,t, Lincoln, ILL.,,
found her way back to perfect
health. She writec: Il suffered
with kidney trouble and backache
ard my appetite was very poor at
times. A few weeks ago l got
Folcy's Kidney Pills and gave them
fair trial They gave ne great lc-
lief. so continued till now / am IN
perfect health" B. w. Ferris. d
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Suggestive. only. The Forth Worth
Record says: up in Cleveland they
are arresting sidewalk spittors. In h
resting people for building sidewalks
so the whiting brigade can have a
nice, clean place to spit" And the
splitter does not fail to use the clean
pfanes
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

II, when the average man Is i'll. ii
could be rightly determined whether
his liver or his conscience was the
seat Of trouble, doctors could more
surely effect a speedy cure.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

that the eye of suspicion is upoa
YOU. What are you but someone
queer and a source of income? Who
are you but a summer boarder.-NeW
York Evening Sun.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

The Mckinney Courier-Gazette
makes this good suggestion. "You
wouldn't move into a store so small
that you couldn't display half your
stock so don't try to advertise In
half-enough space either"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Dallas. having more than doubled
her population In the past ten years.
has an all sufficient right to feel
proud of her self. But the same spirit
III push" that has made our big
neighbor what she IN will have even
more wondrous results for tho fu-
tsare 10 count.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

At least the late evenings and ear
ly mornings have enough fall IL
them TO permit fellow To draw {
long breath,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Waxahaehie Is good town but /
Is In the power of the people to max
1t a great deal better one.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19
WHEN MERIT WINS.

When the medicine you laAs
your disease, tones up your y
and makes you feel better ', N
and more vigorous than NJ; vi
That is what Foley's Kidney -
for you, in all cases OF pae.s
nervousness, loss of appe.lle,. I
lessness and general weakness =.
is caused by any disorder OF ~ -.
neys and bladder. B. W. fei''1
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Governor Campbell has put an end
10 speculation by signing the recent-
~ enacted penitentiary bill
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

Come trotting with your cotton
There is something doing in tn,
Waxahachie market.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-19

That rumored Ballinger resigna-
tion reminds us of the tariff revision
promise made By the republican par
~