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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-11

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-11

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as a rule. be cured by single dose
OF Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-11

Remembsr the Honey Bee Flour
aud Chase Il Sanborn's coffee. the
only coffee that always gives sat
isfaction. Felker. the grocer, sole
agent for both. 12tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-11
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Beautiful cut flowers for sale.
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Arch Campbell. colin
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-11

Don't forget the baby while the
sale is on. Webb's Studio S-4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14

whole case full of prehistoric implements in the corridor ofsthe new museum build ins that are wonderfully interesting spec imens, some with the mud and dirt still in the grooves as whens1hey were dug up. And the interesting part of it is that they are all plaster limitations, but even an expert ethnologfst could not tell it ex- cept by handling them.
 There are alwaysjnew problems coming up in the curious ari of making something out of something else One of the feat ures of the big 5efhnologic collection that IS now being Installed in the hall of the new museum building is a series of groups These include. the various fam lilies of man. There are Patagonians. l3awaiians, Eslximos. ali sorts of Indians. family of Igorrotes and altogether about 20 groups. Each of them is shown en- gagged in some characteristic tribal work. The Eskimos are loading a seal on seldge When 1t came to making snow that looked like real snow, IIandley was faced with a problem ISes said he pug zled over it till he saw the cook doing some laundry work at home and then he saw just how he could get the right surface with hot iron and paraffin. He drew on the domestic economy for the color of the old ice, too, tintng it very faintly with laundry blue, and for the sparkle on the snow he drew on the house, too, for he got it out of a sugar shaker.
 The rearranging of the national collec- tions in tine new museum building entails a lot of work on all the specialists of tss big institution. The hall of religions is a wilderness of Chaldaic inscriptions, Egyp- tian carvings and among other things the big human sacrificial stone 10 feet across From the Temple of efhe Sun in Mexico Nobody would think for a moment that it was not the original stone, but as matter of fact,si it is all plaster, cast in sections, and put together around cir cular wooden framework. It was smore or less clipped and cracked in removal, but Handley has worked it over until the stone is if anything, rather better than new, even to the aged weather marking of the surface.
 If there is anything the museum cannot get in the original, from d rare trilobite 10 Corinthian fresco, it can turn Hand ley loose with the original and he will make an imitation that would fool an ex- pert. It is a curious trade. this legiti- matized faking, and the only reason for not extending the account and telling of some of the other remarkable things that have been done in the venerable institu- tion is to prevent the impression getting abroad that there is nothing genuine on exhibition there. The genuine largely out weigh the imitation antiquities. but there are few antiuuities wanted that cannot be made while you wait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14

consumers of canned fruits and vege-
 tables sodium benzoate and bonzoic
 acid. The story of the conspiracy
 should be told so plainly that no one can have a doubt concerning it. If this be done no one should sheer at the pending investigations, for this one would be a recompense for all the rest, provided it can upset the ben zoate conspiracy against the mass of consumers.
 Congress should act in the matter The best manufacturers do not use benzoate of soda No one who handles sound fruits or vegetables need use it. Let Congress forbid its use alto gether as a preservative in acidulous fruits and vegetables. The health ot the people demand this legislation and Congress should next winter meet In 8 courageous manner this demand coming straight from consumers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
Benzoated Foods

The Remsen board was brought into the public service-without au thority of law other than the will of Theodore Rooseveft-''f the pur- pose," says Secretary Wilson, "of conserving the interests" of those manufacturers who sell benzoated foods. Both Wilson and the Remsen board have worked together to put upon consumers benzoated foods, al- though both know that no manufac- turer of benzoated foodstuffs can be trusted to keep sodium benzoate down to small doses. Both know too, that in fruits and vegetables sodium benzoate readily becomes free ben zoate acid which is poisonous to the human system.
 The pending investigation in the House will serve an extremely use ful purpose if it uncovers the project started by Wilson and promoted by the well-paid highbrows of the Rem sen board to put upon the weaker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
Great state Meeting

.The next meeting of the Alabama Good Roads association, which will meet in Selma on October 25 to 27, promises to be the greatest state gathering that has been held in the last 15 years" sad a good roads enthusiast. This organi- zation has been the pioneer in every good roads movement that has been start ed in Alabama. It inaugurated the move ment for the state to appropriate money to build roads. It conducted the cam paign that secured the amendment to the constitution, which permits the coll vict fund to be appropriated for road building It conducted and secured the proper legislation establishing the staie highway commission. It has aided in o.- ganizing good roads associations in over half of the counties in Alabama. It has promoted bond issues and aid for roads in many counties in the state. It has
 lent it's influence in establishing and blazing the Tennessee-to-the-g gulf high way.
 "At the coming meeting in Selma the next great question that will be agitated bv this association will be the 's50O00,00 bond issue for good roads Secretary j.. A. Rountree states that already great deal of enthusiasm has been aroused in regard to this movement. He says many are in favor of this bond issue. tic money to be equally divided among the s7 counties in the state. The people
 of Alabama have been educated and now demand good roads. The sentiment bc has been made by the state of Alabama or can expect to be put upon good roads
 for the next 20 years. In order that we may have good roads. it becomes neces- sary that the state shall issue bonds to build them. The burden of interest will
 then fall upon the whole state and a system of great highways from the north to the south, and from the east to tfe west, through the state, can be built and lateral roads constructed to connect with these great thoroughfares.
 "The state of Alabama issued bonds to help build railroads. why not issue bonds to build good roads? Large pro- ductions by farmers are useless with out easy and cheap means of trans portation. and since railroads cannot te built within easy reach of every farmer, good roads should be built to reach the homes of every one of them. Roads ore essential to the farmers prosperity, and bis prosperity is essential to the pros- pertty of the state of Alabama.
 .'It is believed that the discussion of | this S5AOOO,000 bond issue at the coming meeting of the Alabama Good Roads as l sociation will attract state wide attention and that there will be. large delega ton in attendance to take part in thil
 discussion and give an impetus to tn' movement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
MAKING FAKES FOR UNCLE SAM
Washington Correspondence Chicago IT
 ter Ocean.

Washington Correspondence Chicago In-
 ter Ocean
 LNAKES made while you wait. The
 government ought to be ashamed of A itself. but instead of that it retains a man especially to perpetrate them. 1t is no near-faking, either The govern- rent work is exacting, and when the duplicate specimens are completed there is no telling which is the original and which is the imitation.
 The National museum has dug up a son of Wizard Jack Handey. who in his day was the premier imjtation man of the United States, and they now keep young Will Handley busy all the time making something look like something else. 1t seems to be a peculiar gift, and is valu- able in a museum. He works chiefly in plaster, making casts of anything and ooloring them so they look like the orig inals, and he seems able to reproduce a counterfeit of anything from raw oyster to a stone idol There are a good many tricks in the trade that have been hand- ed down from father to son. such as re- producing the bloom of peach or scrap ing an apple to get the vegetable wax that will make the surface of a plaster apple look like the original fruit
 But there is a personal equation in the work also that could hardly be acquired that is, the color sense that will see reds.. browns and greens in an old piece of weather-beaten wood where the ordinary observer would see nothing but gray. It Is fact, too, that young Handley's mem- ory for color is almost uncanny. He seems to carry color scheme in his head as most people would remember a tune. One incident of this sort will illustrate. Some time ago he was in St. Louis, There was a private collector there who, among his stone implements, had a stone ax of which he was very proud. The museum wanted a duplicate and a cast would do es well as an original. Handley made a mold from which he could make a plaster cast, but the collector would not allow the stone ax to go out of his posses sion. So Handley carried the mold back to Washington made couple of casts
 and colored them, giving them the stone surface of the original- This was about a fortnight after he had seen the ax. One of the casts was added to the museum co- lection, and the other he sent back as a compliment to the St. Louis collector. The latter wrote that when he put the imitation and the original together he could not tell which was which, except for the weight.
 The way in which the surface of the Llaster casts can be worked up to resem- ble sandstone, quartz, flint, jade and vol canic glass Is remarkable. There is one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
Salaries for COmmoners
statute.

By vote of 256 to 159 the house of commons adopted a resolution to pay its members $2000 annually for their services. AS this is a money kill 1t does not need the indorsement of the house of lords. AS soon as it is signed by the King it becomes law.
 Never have the legislators of Great Britain been paid salaries, although no other country calls for gratuitous services. The unionists opposed the bill presented by David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer. They prefer caste rule and they are un- willing to encourage the election of laborites. Heretofore labor members have been supplied with funds by their friends, but hereafter labor member will be able to live on his salary. The change will be far-reach- ing and there is little probability it will ever be repealed. Government by the rich only is breaking down, even in Great Britain, and the plac- ing of the members of the house of commons on salaries is a democratic otep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
Crnns and Politics

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 The pivotal element in business and financial circles just now is the har- vest. Wednesdays government report was somewhat of a disappointment, in- | asmuch as it indicated wheat crop of 30,0OO.0O0 bushels less than year ago and a corn crop of 500 ,o0Go00 bushels below last year. This is prob ably the worst than can happen, and | there Is good reason to accept this estimate with reserve. Since these re turns were made there has been con- siderable improvement in the crop sit- uation, and while 1t would be foolish to now anticipate as good wheat and corn crops as last year. still the situ- alton is by no means serious and the harvest of these two important crops Is quite likely to reach the average.
 Upon general business the present crop situation can have no harmful effect Of course, large yield of corn. wheat and oats would have been very beneficial and was much desired !; yet the fact that we are now almost sure of average crops at good prices assures fair business conditions during the next few months. The most serious interference with business at present Is the disturbed condition of politics. Industry has been much depressed by continued fruitless tariff agitation and Congressional investigations of indus trial corporations. There is no pros pect of any genuine tariff action being taken this summer. The sooner Con gress adjourns. therefore, and stops talking the better for itself and the people of the United States. Congress Is getting upon the business man s nerves by it's often incorporate deal ing with business matters, which it doesn't or can't fully understand The country needs a rest from useless and in furious agitation. investigations, which serve no purpose except to bring ambitious Congressmen into notoriety, have done much to retard recovery in business which was certainly due. and really promised to develop It is perfectly true that some of our big corporations are deservedly suffering from misdeeds of the past, but that | is no excuse TOT the tnrtdleheu o'tocnS
 which are being made upon all forms
 of business organizations. Stock market conditions were some- what improved technically by the re- cent decline of to 15 points in the
 active shares. Considerable liquidation
 has taken place and stocks, 1t should
 be remembered, will now gradually get into stronger hands. Money continues
 easy and although the crop moving
 season is close at hand, there are no Indications of stringency. The export
 movement, particularly of cotton, will
 soon begin and this will improve our position in the foreign money mar ketS"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
City Highway Needs Attention

T am not a chronic knocker but l do wish to enter a complaint against the city for not giving LIS a good road between Beverly station and The Elms-Col L. w Johns home,' said a large taxpayer.
 '"rhe county roads are good 100 per cent better than they were two years ago, and the city has some fine streets, but the stretch of abominable road inside of Birmingham l com plain of would be disgrace to an impoverished village. It extends about three blocks and it would not cost much to put 1t in reasonably fair con- dition. And while I am complaining, why does the city not hurry the work bit on the two blocks of the avenue running through Elyton? l travel through that part of the city ofen and for weeks and weeks l have been forced to detour because of the slow work on a small piece of roadbed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
Another Rumored Merger

If the Frisco and the Atlanta, Bir- mingham and Atlantic railroads are to be merged after the manner of the Illinois Central and the Central of Georgia, Birmingham will soon be-
 come the focal point of good share of Georgia's trade and transporta- tion. Today the main line of the Gen. tral of Georgia extends from Bir- nnngham to Savannah ,and Atlanta is on stub line. The St. Louis and San Francisco is one of the great systems of the country. Its ramifications ex- tend to nearly every part of the south west, and through the Santa Fe rail- road it has become a trans-continental line. That is to say, it will become trans-continental if it secures an out let to an Atlantic port. The Yoakum- Hawley combination is full of rail road ambition and foresight, and rail- road experts see many advantages 0 both roads in the proposed merger. All railroads are getting ready. for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
Campaign Publicity Bill

The publicity measure as agreed upon by the conferees applies alike to primaries and to elections. The original House bill did not apply to primaries. 1t relates to contests for senators and representatives only. Expenditures are not to exceed, in the case of a candidate for senator, S10,- GOO, or in the case of candidate for representative S5000. Within a stip- ulated time before election an item ized statement of campaign expenses is to be filed by each candidate with the clerk of the House or secretary of the Senate.
 Valuable as this bill is it would have no effect on a Lorimer con- test, for the candidate in that case did not handle the big fund raised to put him over. It is difficult to see how certain cases would be controlled by statute to the point of decency, unless indeed the Senate turns the beneficiaries out of the seats they fill.
 The bill is, however, some guaran- tee that campaign expenses will be kept within decent limits. It is bet ter than no bill, and it may have a good effect outside of Illinois. The bad smelling case in that state seems to be beyond the reach of all safe guards. Congress has, however passed an excellent bill, and it vii no doubt become law.
 The greater, deeper and more i'm portant problems relating to presi dential campaign funds go untouche, in the pending bill. If the truth coul be told concerning republican nationa campaign funds from and inchdin, that of 1896 to the present day tn country would simply be shocked. Tn sources of those funds would give tn, people another shock. Some day sucl funds, too, will be regulated b, statute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14

the changes the Panama canal will in- augurate. The rumored merger of the
 Frisco and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic does not, however, re- late so much to the canal as it does to an Atlantic outlet for the Frisco system. Los Angeles and Jackson vile would in that way be linked to- gether and the winter harvest could then go from the one to the other without change of cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
cHINa,s TRAFFIC IN DRIED EGGS

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 While the western world is trying to solve the all-iihportant problem of egg preservation by cold storage and other methods, China goes ahead with her so-
 ution of making the egg dry.
 The eggs are first of all closely ex- amined by being held near a strong cleo tric light, which will disclose the least defect Those passing the test are next handled by boys. who break them and divide the yolk from the white. By suc- ton pump each yolk is drawn into ma- chine, where 1t is dried in 15 seconds. Passing thence into large receptacle the dried yolks appear as flakes, which look clean have a good color and possess a fresh odor. The flakes are next reduced to powder, when they are ready for ship ment. In cool, dry place this yolk powder may be kept indefinitely. The whites of the eggs meanwhile are put into trays about foot square and placed on shelves in a room having tempera- ture of 40 or 50 degrees centigrade. They dry in sheets, which may be shipped in Eroken bits or else pulyerlzed and made to appear like granulated sugar. To produce 2 pounds of dried yolks 150o eggs are re- ouired The whites of 1000 eggs will yield five and one-half pounds of albumen.
 Possibly the Chinese process is bet ter than the American mode of desic- cetion which has caused so much agita- tion in pure food circles. What with desig- cation and cold storage and 'rots and spots' 1t has come to pass in the United States that about the only way to be as- sured of getting a fresh egg is to follow | Dr. Wileys advice and watch the hen. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN's AFFINITY

Sidney George Fisher. "The True Ben
 jamin Franklin
 Mme Helvetius, a still more intimate friend, was very different sort of wom- an She was th% widow of literary man of some celebrity, and she and Franklin were always carrying on an ab surd sort of Irritation. They hugged and kissed each other in public. and exchanged extravagant notes which were sometimes mock proposals of marriage, although some have supposed them to have been real ones. He wrote a sort of essay ad dressed to her. in which he imagines him. self in the other world. where he meets her husband, and, after the exchange of many clever remarks with him about madame, remarks that Hevetius Is mar ried to his own deceased wife, Mrs. Franklin, who declares herself rather bet ter pleased with him than she had been with the Philadelphia printer.
 Indignant at this refusal of my Eury- dice, I immediately resolved to quit those ungrateful shades, and return to this good world again to behold the sun and ycu! Here am I; let us avenge our selves"
 Such sport over deceased wives and husband would not be in good taste in America or England, but 1t was cor rect enough in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
LIFE OF 4 DREAMER

From the Cincinnati .Times-Star.
 Almost every stranger who ever walked or Broadway at night has peered through Mike" MurplIy's telescope at the heavens from Murphys stand on Madison square. has been as much a part of that square as the benches. o. Henry was inspired to a story by him. Richard Harding Davis and every other writer of Manhattan fiction has used him for material Some of the great men of the past, who lived al the old Fifth Avenue-now replaced by gigantic structure-and the old Hoff- man, now closed up, were old Mikes warm friends. And now the old man is about to say goodnight to the town of which for two decades he has been . part
 "I have my book to finish" said Mur- phy. Anyhow, I am lonesome now. knew Garfield and Platt and Grant and Cleveland and Roosevelt and Lord Dun raven and Sir Thomas Lipton and Fisko and Tweed and Jay Gould, and a thou sand more of the big men of a day that is passed Men and women of intelligence rarely get this far down town at night nowadays, the character of the district has changed, and I don't care for some of the gigglers who patronize me today. might move uptown. suppose-but am getting old and I want to finish my book" .544st#sF
 Murphy isn't the name by which he graduated from the University of Illinois. His father was rich and the boy be- came interested in astronomy. Then his father died, his own lack of business methods led him into foolish investments and he had to go to work to live.
 T wasn't good employee" he admits. 'I was a dreamer. And so I used the last money had to buy this telescope and took up my stand on Madison square by night. l have made enough money to re- tire on-I have filled my mind by study during these years-and believe my book will be read. Maybe I haven't been suc- cessful, exactly. but since lost my money. I've at least been happy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-14
BACK AT THE BARBER n the Washington Star.

tTOIIl luc. W soohiah e~fAs eS~'-A.
 Governor Dix told this one recently: f "A man entered an eating house and ordered a steak and friend potatoes.
 '-sYes. sir; steak and potatoes. slr,' said the waiter. And you will have chops and peas along with it?'
 {" No, thank you
 "iHoast beef, then. perhaps, sir? The roast beers very fine today,
 "'No. just steak and potatoes
 ".how about a nice lobster or a brace of crabs, sir, with the steakY
 Nor
 "'shad-roe and succotash. perhaps, sir? :" No, I tell your A nice mes sof friend catfish and wal But at this point the proprietor sum money the waiter to him. What do you mean, you scroundrel,' he said, by tormenting that patron In such an outrageous manner? " Oh. l wasn't tormenting him. sir, said the waiter. I was just trying to make him feel at home He's . bar ber.'"