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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
MRS. JACKSON FOR
SOUTHERN PENSIONS

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Dec. 21.-
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, widow of
the famous Confederate chieftain,
has affixed her signature to a petit
ton asking that an amendment be
adopted to the Sherwood dollar a
a day. pension bill providing for
pensions for Confederate veterans.
The petition was drawn by members
of Mecklenburg Camp of Veterans
and the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy, and is being signed by scores of
prominent citizens 1t will be sent
to Congressman E. Y. Webb of the
Ninth North Carolina District, who
will probably place it in the hands
of the North Carolina Senators.
The petition recites that the Con-
federates fought for a principle
which they believed to be right, and
since the war have patiently and
cheerfully contributed to pension
the Federal soldiers, and they re-
spectfully submit that, as they help
to pay this general pension, they
should participate in it's benefits
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
Pert Personals.

/ Judging by the pictures of Tsen Chun
Hsuan. the gentleman is no rosebud
Detroit News
DR.. Cook might now prepare new
and more exciting lecture upon his new
and old adventures in Copenhagen
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Abroad j. P. Morgan is always the
honored guest of the most illustrious.
At home it is proposed to give him the
third degree. Washington Star.
We trust John D. will not trace his
ancestry so far back that he will run
up against the fellow who got his name
working On the rock pile. Washington
Post.
We prophesy that during the coming
winter season Mr.. Home Run" Baker
and Christy Mathewson will not col
laborate in vaudeville sketch or run
ming a saloon.-Denver Republican.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
TAFT CAMPAIGN
TO OPEN IN VA.

The first big Taft campaign gun
will boom Saturday, January 6,
when the republican state committee
of Virginia will meet at Roanoke to
call the state convention to select
delegates to the national convention,
says the Washington Star. At that
meeting it will be made plain. says
Representative Slemp, chairman of
the state committee, that Virginia
will send instructed delegates to the
national convention.
Virginia republicans are for
Taft" said Mr.. Slemp today, land at
no stage of the proceedings will
there be any misunderstanding upon
that point All down the line the
delegates to the national convention
will be instructed for Taft. The date
of the state convention has not yet
been decided upon by the committee,
but it will probably be early in the
new year."
The first state convention to act
will be that of the Florida republi-
cans, which will be held February
5. This convention will also in
struct it's delegation for Taft.
Other Southern states will follow,
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
anti-Taft people to create sentiment
favorable to uninstructed delega-
tons.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
LEESBURG FARM
SELLS FOR $4,000

.LEESBURG, Va, Dec. I'll
Robert Mcdonald of Baird, Tex, has
purchased from Mrs. Florence
Bowles Bresee her farm, about two
miles south of Leesburg, for $685.
600. The property contains 202
acres of land, and includes hand
some dwelling. Mr.. Mcdonald will
take possession January l..
A tract of land belonging to the
estate of the late Samuel H. Ball.
containing twenty-seven and hall
acres, and situated on the Edwards
Ferry road, east of Leesburg, has
been purchased by Charles R. Low
enbach for $3,475.
The body of DR.. Joseph V. Milton
who died at his home in Lacy
Springs, Rockingham county, Satur-
day from pneumonia, was in
tered at Hamilton, Loudoun county,
today. Services were held al
the Episcopal Church at II o'clock
DR.. Milton was son of Mrs. Theo-
dore DAVIDSON Milton of Washington,
D. c., and leaves a wife, five sisters
and one brother. He was formerly
physician at Hamilton, and was
thirty-five years of age. Funeral
services were delayed pending
the arrival of the brother Lieut..
Alexander M. Milton, U. S. A., who
is stationed at Bliss, Tex, and who
has been detained by sorms block
aiding the railroads.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
MADAME RAPPO[D AND
HUSBAND ARE PARTED
Spheres of Diva and Physician
Not Compatible, He
Says

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Explain-
ing that his wife's rise as an opera
singer had placed her in sphere
far removed from his own, Dr. J. c..
Rappold, Jr., of Brooklyn admitted
that he and Nine. Marie Rappold of
the Metropolitan Company are living
apart.
Nine. Rappold is now living with
her daughter Lillian, who is 10 years
old on Riverside drive. DR.. Rap
pold is living with his mother and
family in Brooklyn, where he has a
modest, plainly furnished office.
The husband says he has too much
pride to live on Riverside drive on
an income which would compare but
poorly with that of his wife. He al
SO says that he does not understand
her friends. and has little in COM
mon with them, and admits freely
that his wife is in the same predica-
ment when she tries to adapt her.
self to circumstances in their old
home, although she did endure its
cramping Influences for many years.
Nine Rappold, the Elsa and Eliza
beth of Metropolitan fame, got an
unexpected introduction to the
powers of the operate world in
1906. Prior to that time few had
realized her talent, and it remained
for Heinrich Conried to discover"
Nine. Rappold.
The following fall the impresario
sent for the Brooklyn singer; she
Immediately went under the tutelage
of Otto Saenger, and few weeks
later appeared in GOldmark's
"Queen of Sheba." During the re-
mainder of that season she sang
Elsa in ''Lohengrin" and Elizabeth
in "Tannehauser."
sit is the price that has to be paid
for fame" said DR.. Rappold last
night, ''yet if we had it to do all
over again l would not allow myself
to be selfish enough to ask Nine.
Rappold to give up her career
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
sIREs AND SONS.

At sixty Sir William f. Smith. who
began life as ii ropemaker's boy. takes
over Sir Philip Watts job as director
of naval construction for the fleets ct
George v.
Captain Herbert Edward Greenstreet
Of the New Zealand Shipping com
paay recently departed on his eightieth
voyage round the world. Altogether
he has sailed 100000 miles and never
bad a mishap.
Judge Edgar Jay Sherman. states
man. soldier. author and iurist. who
recently resigned from the Aiassachu-
sets superior bench. was admitted to
the bar fifty-three years. ago. He is
now seyenty-Seyen.
DR.. James Curtis Hepburn. the old
est surviving graduate of Princeton.
class of 1882. began his career as a
medical missionary to China in 1910.
On his ninetieth birthday anniversary
he was honored with an imperial dec
grafton from the mikado. He was
born at Milton. Pa, ninety-six years
ago.
F. Dewitt Fisher. clerk in the post
office at Toledo. O.. has received word
from the postofice department that
he has been proclaimed the champion
mail distributor in the United States
postal service. Fishers record in a
test on Aug. 8 was III pieces of mail
in eleven minutes. an average of six
ty-five minute The title had for
merly been held by John B. Francis Of
the Cincinnati postoffice.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
civil appointment in Burmah, which
has an excellent climate.
SOCIALIST FOR 1912

CHICAGO. Dec. 21.-The national
convention of the Socialist party will
be held at Oklahoma City, beginning
May ~, 1912, according to an an
nouncement at the national head
quarters of the party here of the
results of a special referendum vote
taken throughout the country. In
dianaoplis and Cincinnati were Sec
ond and third choices, respectively.
Representation will be on the
basis of one delegate at large for
each State and one delegate for each
400 dues-paying members.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
GOOD SLEIGHING ON MARS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. I'll
A telegram received by John Richie,
Jr, former Harvard astronomer,
from Prof. Percival Lowell, brother
of Harvard's head, states that the
old snow on Mars has disappeared
and new layer has fallen.
AS Mr.. Lowell has said that Mars
is inhabited by race approaching
our own in intelligence, they are
supposed to like sleighing.
The new cap of snow is in lati-
tude 20 degrees.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
Science siitings.

It is impossible to breathe at a
greater height than seven miles from
the earth.
By judiciously combining the vari-
Gus values that have been found for
which is probably within $4,000 miles
of the true-92. 92S. 100.
A German chemist claims to have
melted metals in a vacuum by focus
ing the suns rays upon them without
necessitating the use of container OF
high heat resisting properties.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
Some shakespsare statisslss.

A Shakespearean enthusiast with d
turn for statistics has discovered that
the plays contain 106,O07 lines and
B14,7SO words Hamlet" is the longest
play, with 1890 lines. and the Come
dy of Errors" the shortest, with 1.777
lines. Altogether the plays contain.
1,277 characters, of which 157 are fe-
males. The longest part is that OF
Hamlet. who has 11,61O words to de-
liver The part with the longest word
In it is that of Costard in Loves La
boris Lost" who tells Moth that he ~
mot SO long by the head as h0norih
cabilitudinitatibus."
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
MAN OF MANY CoLoRs DEAD

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Dec. 81.
John Hester, Michigan's imam Of
many colors," died yesterday at the
age of seventy-three. For sixteen
years he had been the subject of
much medical comment, the color of
his skin having changed seven times
during that period.
Once his skin turned red, but it
was nearly black at the time of his
death.
Doctors attributed his condition to
a rare disease.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
Finds Romance After Fighting
In Many Lands
BETROTHED AFTER FIVE
WEEKS ACQUAINTANCE
Captain vett-Carnac is of a
Noted Indian Family Says
Princess Seta Dew

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Captain
Herbert Rollo Leclerg Howard
Rivett-Carnac, lately wounded by a
piece of wire in the Mexican revolu-
ton, and previously in service, as
he has told, in India, where the
name of Rivett-Carnac is highly re-
spected, and after that seeing SER
vice, he relates, under Couonel Hart
in the Transvaal, is about to make a
romantic marriage.
His betrothal to Miss Kenott-Butt
is announced by the girls mother,
the Princess Seta Dew of India.
Princess Seta Dew, of India, is
the snake charmer who gave a SER
pent dance at the Amsterdam Thea
tire and at Edmund Russells studio
lately.
"You see," said the Princess yes
terday, referring to the snake, "this
boa is not poisonous even though he
will bite on occasions, and also con-
strict The other day he got around
Mr.. RuSSell'S neck-Mr. Russell has
grown fond of him-and l had to go
to the rescue. This species of snake
cannot really squeeze one to death
unless it has it's tail wound about
something-your ankle. or the trunk
of a tree. AS it had it's tail free l
just unwound it from Mr.. Russells
neck
What do you know of Captain
Rivett-Carnac?" she was asked.
Great Name in india
"Only that Rivett-Carnac is a
great name in India. He heard that
l was to be at an entertainment at
Mr. Russell's studio and he tele-
phoned that he would like to be
present. That was five weeks ago
or SO.
Eyes, that's where he first met
my daughter. She's twenty-one,
blonde-haired and-no, not blue,
but green-eyed, and he's black
eyed and rather dark. l don't know
where he lives.
my daughter left India when she
was seven years old to be educated
in England. She is anxious to see
Carnac is to take her there after the
wedding in February. l shall go
with them. Meantime he is to go to
Mexico to look after some mines he
is interested in there"
According to the Princess, who is
living at the ladies' residence con-
nected with the Convent at No. 225
West Fourteenth street, one uncle of
the Captain was Governor of Bonn
bay and another, Lord Claude, is
now political agent and guardian of
the King of Siam.
Princess a Rajah's Daughter
She herself is Indian-dark and
delicately fashioned, as most East
Indian women are-though her
daughter is blonde. The Princess
Seta Dew was early apprenticed to
be dancing girl in Temple of
Vishnu, herself rajah's daughter,
and was rescued by missionaries and
educated in England.
"My daughters father" she said
yesterday, twas the descendent of
Isaac Butt, the first man to intro
duce a bill for home rule for Ire
land in the British Parliament"
In Burke's Peerage and Baronet-
age, with it's lists of the Rivett-Car-
macs, there is no mention of Herbert
Rollo Leclerg Howard Rivett-Carnac.
But the Princess Seta Dew insist
ed that Captain Rivett-Carnac had
nevertheless received a promise of
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-12-22
With the Coming of Middle Age

There is letting down in the
ing and painful kidney and bladder
ailments and urinary irregularities.
Foley Kidney Pills are a splendid
regulating and strengthening medi-
cine at such a time. Try them.
For sale by all druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

Murray county declare there is nc
provision of law which makes this
move possible, while those in favor
o. reduction in taxes and the prac.
tical elimination of the regretable
fight, declare the governor will be
compelled to call an election if the
petition definitely sets out the strip of
land to be given to the adjoining
county. This dissolution, however,
they argue, is to provide for taking
care of an equitable proportion of the
bonded Indebtedness, etc. A way can
he found to divide up the county and
give each OF the adjoining counties a
share. il is maintained.
Arburklc zinc miners and large tax
payers in that region are not inaiavor
OF a total dissolution OF the pisrny
county. but reports from there today
are to the effect that even the miners
will align themselves up with any
that will promise a stop TO
the deplorable deht over the "pie
counter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09
SHE CAVE Up
ALL HOPE
Physicians Failed To Help Mrs.
Green, But She Finally Found
Relief in Cardui.

Mcctze. Ya-Mrs J. c. Green OF this
place. says Il suffered with womanly
troubles so that | could hardly sit up.
Two Of the best doctors in our town
treated mo, and tried different medi-
cires. until gave up all hope OF ever
getting well.
One day, decided to try some Car
dui. II did 50 much for me that |
ordered some more. and It cured me,
Today. feel as well as ever did In
my life.
The pains and the trouble are all
gone. feel like another person in
every wav. wish every sufferer could
know what Cardui will do for sick
women
A few doses OF Cardui AZ the right
time, will save many a big doctor bill,
by preventing serious sickness.
II tones IN the nervous system, and
helps make pale cheeks fresh and ROSY.
Thousands OF weak women have been
restored 10 health and happiness hy
using Cardui. Suppose You try II.
1t may be Just the medicine YOU need.
M Wit, n: tsiie<' Advisory Dts'.. CL.us-
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i1sfrtioftons. and o. rSEe hcos. Hone Ifesimeat
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

Timely advice given 1Ir} G. vii.
louShby. OF Marengo, Wis. (R No. ~
prevented a dreadful tragedy and
saved two lives. Doctors had said her
fr.Shtlul cough was consumption"
cough and could do liJde to help her.
After many remedies failed, her
aunt urged her 10 take DR.. Kings
New Discovery. II have been using
il for some time" she wrote "apd
the awful cough has almost gone.
It also saved my little boy when
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

charge are satisfied it will be- foi
their best interests.
Beiorn payments are made 70 any
heirs of deceased persons proof mus.
be produced of death and heirship.
No arrangements shall be made Of
allowed for the furtherance OF the
Interests OF eny merchant. trader or
other creditor of the Indians, ana
no creditors or their collectors or
representatives shall be allowed in
the office where payments are being
made. Powers Of attorney will not be
recognized nor will any order given
BY an Indian To anothr- person for
his share OF the distribution oc hon.
ored
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09
OCTOBER.

When the maple-tree is moltnC cy-
cry day, and We see it's leaves a-danc-
Ing on the way; and its luscious stores
OF sap trickling softly through the tap.
sweet and gay; when the golden sphinx
and thistle gin to sphinx, and the hazF
shoyes the freshman DER the brink.
and the dinlile waXeth drab as a bust.
ed taXicab on the blink: when in" alp.
Fles turn 10 russet on the trees. and
the rose grows rather chillsome tC
the bees; and the prospect waxeth
pert as an old red.flannel shirt on the
breeze; when the robin opens wide
his little mouth for worm or two TO
ease the coming drouth, that will feed
him on his fight TO the land of sheer
delight in the south; when the COW IL
grooming softly on the void. and COM
Plaineth that her cud Is getting cold,
and the cricket with his chirp browns
the barking of the purp. blithe and
bold; when the cranberry lis sprouting
fat and lush with such beauty that II
cannot help but blush. and the gobblcr
full OF scorn sobbles mp his daily corn
with a rush, when the pumpkin !
waxeth mellow meath the sky lying |
dreaming of it's future in the PIE and |
the chestnut full of glee thinks of din /
ners that will be by and by: when the |
huskin' bet begins its buz2in' sound. !
and the red ear don't object TO being /
found, and the usual comes 10 pass
for the yokel and his lass, all around;
when the football player skates upon
his nose, with n dozen huskies hang
ing TO his toes, while the pigskin full
Of soul goes a-plungiDg through the
goal of his foes; when Jack Frost doth
nip us softly on the lobe as he clam
bers here and yonder round the globe,
cen the zanies and the jays know
we've reached the chilly days OF Octo.
oe-dear Octobe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

Ardmorc has the best iyceum
course ever offered in the southwest.
There ara two splendid concerts. two
o. thu best OF lectures. Il monologuc
BY the best artist in the United
Safes and tho Eteat Theobaldi, the
greatest yiolinist IN the world, and ali
for the sum of So. Thcobaldi will
De hero Thanksgiving night and will
attract hearers from all the surround
ing towns. The price for Theobaldi
alone will be 81, the same "a for the
whole course. Buy now and get the
benefit of all. There is not a poor
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superiority OF this great course. Theo-
baldi has played before the crowned
heads of Europe and has been shower
ed with the greatest OF honoN. He
once made a partial tour of the Unit
ed States under the management Of
Henderson at $500 per night, visit.
ing only the large cities. Now you
have the opportunity to hear him It
home at low cost He plays on
Ole Bulls famous $4,000 violin which
has been loaned to him as the worthy
successor Of that famous master You
VII have a lasting cause for regret
il you do not hear this whole course.
The Y. NJ. G. A.. does not expect to
make money out of the course but
do want tho people of Ardmore to
appreciate the risk that they run in
trying TO furnish this class OF high
at so nominal a cost.
S.3t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re.
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can not he cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known
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Walding. Kinnan & Marvin.
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrn cure Is taken inter
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and mucous surfaces OF the system.
Testimonials sent free. Prices rs
cents.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
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times, ana Sald that ought lo nave an
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09
STILL TALKING
COUNTY DISSOLUTION
PETITION ASKING THAT SULPHUR
BE LOCATED IN CORNERS OF
FOUR COUNTIES.

Davis, Okla. OCT. 7.-PetitionS are
being quietly circulated in Sulphur.
with numerous signers among the
conservative business men OF both
east and west Sulphur, asking tha.
our beautiful hc"lth and pleasure re-
sort be placed directly IN the corner
OF four counties. Much secrecy is
maintained. il is reported. in order 70
e,ade any further unpleasantness or
friction. Even socialists, the more
conservative members on the west
side. are signing the petition.
Those opposed to the dissolution Of
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

When you have a bad cold you
want the best medicine obtainable so
rs TO cure it with as little delay as
possible. Here is druggists opiu.
ion: II have sold CAamberlain's
Cough Remedy for fifteen years"
says Enos Lollar OF Saratoga. Ind,
"and consider it the best on the mar.
ket" For sale by all dealers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-09

If yol have voung children you
have perhaps noticed tAa: disorders
of the stomach are their most com.
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Liver Tablets excellent. They are
easy anl pleasant 20 take, and mild
and gentle in effect. For sale by
all dealers.