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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17
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Free to farmers who bring their cot
ton to Ardmore, brand new stand
ard Farm Wagon every Saturday.
Every farmer who brings his cotton
to Ardmore will receive free a ticket
for each bale of cotton weighed by
the County Weigher and TO the
holder Of one of these tickets
brand new wagon will be given away
each Saturday for at least five weeks.
The drawing which will determine
the lucky ticket will be done in a
manner so fair that it will be satis-
factory TO all. 1t will pay you to
bring your cotton so miles the
Ardmore marke The tickets are
now ready and on Saturday, October
the first wagon will be given away.
Bring your cotton TO Ardmore this
week and ride home in the new wagon
Ardmore pays the highest price
for cotton, ii ere is greater competi
tion amo < the buyers, there is
greater competition among the mer-
chants, the largest stock of goods
are in Ardmore, you can buy dry
goods, groceries, hardware, farm sup
plies and anything you need here
cheaper than in any other town. The
banks are better able and more viii
ling TO accommodatey you here. Come
on with your cotton and let's make
Ardmore greater cotton market
than il has ever been before.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17
DRAMATIC FEATURE
MINE DEMONSTRATION
ACTUAL REPRODUCTION OF AN
EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE
SAFETY DEMONSTRATION.

Washington Oct 1.-THE actual
reproduction of an explosion in a coal
mine promises 10 be the really dra-
matte feature Of the two days pro-
gram of the National Mine Safety
Demonstration, October 80 and 81, a;
Pittsburg, Pa
The demonstration, which is under
the auspices of the Bureau of Mines,
the American Red Cross and the
Pittsburg Coal Operators Association
has for its purpose friendly meet
ing of the mine owners, superintend
ent and the miners from all over the
country to witness and talk over
the dangers of the mines and the
remedies for certain of the dangers
as advocated. by the Bureau of Mines,
The bureau has long been of the
opinion that coal dust in mine was
more Of menace to miners than
gas and has frequently demonstrated
this in an experimental steel tube,
at its station, Fortieth and Batter
streets, Pittsburg.
These experiments, showing how
easily the coal dust becomes ignlted
and causes an explosion, have been
taken as conclusive By the great ma
iority of mine owners and superin'
tendents and now great precautions
are being taken to keep down the
coal dust in mines. The question
has however arisen not only in this
country. but also in European coal
producing countries, whether the re-
suits obtained in the experimental
tube are the sane as would be found
in a mine under working conditions.
In order to settle this problem, and
to make still more conclusive the but
reaus contention that coal dust Is
the real danger Of the mines, the
bureaus engineers started the digging
OF a mine at Bruceton, Pa, twelve
miles of Pittsburg. The mine. which
was planned to resemble many cop'-
mercially operated mines in Pennsyl-
vania and other states. is now ready
for the experiments. The bad prac-
tices found in mines where the
lives of the men are risked, will al!
be contained in the experimental
mine, and black powder. the most
dangerous explosives in dangerous
mines will be used
Most mine explosions are caused
by what the miners term 'blown-out
shots That is, the explosive, instead
of breaking the coal, blows out
through the hole drilled in the coal
to contain it, sending stream of
flame into the mine This flame gen
orally ignites the gas or coal dust.
The engineers will reproduce the
"blown-out" shot. They will make GER
tain that it will be a 'blown-out'
shot and then will watch for re,
suits.
These experiments vii. take place
the afternoon of October so. The
next morning, ut Forbes field, the
baseball park, there will be f!iendly
contests between first-aid teams OF
miners from nearly one hundred
mines President Taft will witness
this part Of the program. Already
more than 10000 miners have declar.
ed their intention of witnessing the
experiments. Miners Of the Pittsburg
district have been granted holiday
for the 31st and the railroads have
agreed upon a two cent a mile rate
within $50 miles of Pittsburg. The
Central Passenger Association has
also granted excursion rates through
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17

j. ". Copeland, of Dayton. Ohio.
purchased q bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy foc his boy who had
a cold, and before the bottle was ali
used the boys cold was gone. Is that
not hotter than to pay five dollar
doctors bill. For sale by all dealers
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17
joyed q holiday.

The senator defended his stand on
public questions taken during the las.
session OF congress and told of the
advancing wave Of public opinion fav-
Crable to the initiative, referendum
and recall He did not discuss the spe-
cial session of the Legislature.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17

The great trouble with saving mon
ey IS people begin to economic not
while they have it, but after it is
gone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17

Keep your feet dry by having new
soles put on at Electric Shoe Shop.
opposite postoffice. 2S-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17

Take your shoe repairing TO Cross
Electric Shoe Shop. opposite post
office. 2S-lm
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-17

MRS. G.. L.. HAMILTON, graduate
nurse. Corner Broadway and A street,
y. W. Phone iJ2 white. 9-lm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

boys who play it. and you mite as well go out and discuss it with a cast iron billykin so far the good you will do toward regulating it or making it enny differint frum the way they want it to be. If football is to be stopped leerned discussions won't do 1t, appeels to reesun won't do it; 1t will take a club 1t will in fact take several clubs.
 Just exactly why the average Amer- can youth yeerns to grow mane that would make Nardyman blush and get out and do battle on the "grid-iron'' with a lot of husky fellers. l don't know but they do We newer could see much cents In football, and we have newer known the wild and savage joy of chew ing on what we supposed to be one of the enemies eers. and aftur we had bit if off and swallowed it. experyensing the bitter disappointment of learning Il was only a nose-gard, but we air told that it is very fascinating. We have newer experryensed the exillerating pleasure of clutching the elusive "Pig-skin' under our arm and flying down the feeld to- ward the uther feller's gole, only to have our trotters jerked rum under us and our classick lectures shuved Into the gravvels. and twenty one 19s pound bone sheds shove there iron spiked heels into our slats and pile up like q stack of poker chips on our system. but we know 1t must be grand and should almost equal fhe joy of being run over by switch engine. The boys enjoy the savvagery Of the game and the argurmnts in support of 1t air that it makes them contagious, and inspires them with confidense if they live thru it. Morrus says, "Trully he who has nevur witnessed football crowd at grate college game has missed seeing his feller-cTeetures In as near ap- proach as possibly to an elimintal type of civilization. The transfurmasion is as startling as sudden. Men of sober and grave type and dignyfied dispositions air
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

TT was MT. Andrew Carnegie who dis
 covered that the way to arise in The A morning with soul attuned to the harmones of the universe is to De called to breakfast by a pipe organ.
 However, there are few of us who can afford to be awakened to our toast and coffee by having pipe organ in the house. Nor could we afford, if we lad the organ, to have some one play it for us.
 Mayor Seidel of Milwaukee has more reasonable suggestion. He says:
 T believe it would be good plan if the photograph were to take the place of the alarm clock. We could start the day in better spirit if we were awakened by some inspiring march or song. We ought to have music before breakfast"
 No doubt about that.
 Because your days success or failure largely depends upon the mood with which you begin your day.
 Helene Renouard, whose Laughter cure" is the fad in Paris, says:
 You might begin each day with laughter. Begin as soon as you open your eyes in the morning. There's magic In it. Renouard is right. A good laugh in the morning not only messages the liver, but drives the cobwebs from the brain and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
DOCTOR THOMAS E. CIR


of the members and supporters of the churches in the little town are ihe same men who keep the creamery, the eleva eor, the two banks the hardware store, the grocery store, and all the other business forces of the town going It is quite cer- tain that none of these commercial un- dertakings could live on the 2700 prosper ous'' citizens. The two weekly newspapers no doubt circulate in the surrounding dis trict as well as in the town hence in all fairness the population of the district should be added to that of the town if tho necessity for banks, papers, stores, or churches is to be estimated
 It is this evident unfairness that .iistin- guishes Dr. Greens paper and vita.as his really useful argument.
 Another example of the same unfair ness Is supplied by his description of the comforts of the foreign missionary as oontrasted with the poverty-stricllen grind of the average home pastor. He says that such missionary has a calary of $500 in land where necessities are far cheaper than at home-a fact which nultiplies the salary almost three times;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

and crime are the deformed offspring of progress and poverty. At the end of your hair-splitting arguments this fact will obtrude, whether you be repubi- can, democrat, socialist laborite, dyna- mitard, or what not. And so in the building of this greater Birmingham we will come face to face with some of the problems that vex the greater cities. To the degree that we keep our city clean and wholesome, and provide proper material and spiritual food for those who lack--to that degree may we con- graduate ourselves on a quarter million population What is the good of having city if there Is not more happiness than distress in the streets and homes of that city? l am not only for making her main thoroughfares and parks loom larger and statelier than other cities; l am also for cleansing and beautifying her network of suburbs. The meanest communities of foreigners or negroes, those outlying diseased nerves and veins. need the healing prophylactics of civic pride as much as the throbbing heart of the town-more, perhaps. for back to the vigorous heart the poisoned and diseased blood returns. | put 1t to YOU
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
BILL VINES ON FOOTBALL

convurted by one simple play into howl ing dervishers. Wimmen-shreek them selves into a condision of absolute frenz- zy and reel hysteria." We can truly simpathze with Morrus. we have seen them that way at the Umpire. But if we go at the boys with the proposition that football must be toned down, moor on the Alfonso and Gastun style will it be effective? It will not. so long as we go to see football as it is. The Colleges air not responsibul for football as it is played today. 1t Is the publck that pays its mummy to see 1t. and makes heroes of the Star players. Gents the time of Adam, men have always been redy to risk there lives to say nuthing of their limbs, for pubick applaws, and the Coin of the Relm. We are inclined to condem our Mexican cuzzens for there Bull-fites, and with virtuous pride we consol our selves that we air not as they and we would not allow such brutel sport in this country, But will turn out moor people in one afternoon to witness auto mobile rases in which invarabuly sev- veral air Killed and uthers injured per- miniently than go to all the Bull ftes in Mexico in a munth, and yet these rases air nuthing but a form of sport in which there air moor peepul killed than there air bulls in Mexico.
 There is sumthing fin us that gives us pleasure to see dangerus and Skillful sport. The moor dangorus and skillful the grater pleasure. and we air willing to coff up the long green to see it. We worship the performers. We make Lyons of them, and they air our heros, and as long as it is thus with us, it will continue to thunder against football and automo- piles and flying machines, but they mite us we'll be trying to dam the Mississippi with toothpicks for all the good they yill do. Yours truly,
 BILL VINES,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist Methodist, Dis ciple, United Brethren, Adventist, Friends, Christian Science, Spiritualistic, Episco- palian. Why this order? I do not know. Apparently it does not indicate ihe rela- tive strength of the congregations. Eleven of them have their own buildings. The ministers of the strongest receive Sa00, l$1500, 800 and on, the weakest giving , their pastor S200. These 13 are samples of 142 different organized denominations in this country. They receive for salary purposes from their members and other citizens SS10o, and for other expenses $500, a total of $10.400; their buildings cost from 5000 to $15,000 apiece, and their Il min sters divide the competition for the sup port of the unchurched citizens.
 Now this is evidently a biased and in complete account of things. It takes no notice of the acknowledged fact that the surrounding district is 'one of the most fertile farming regions in the Middle Vest that the county joins that rich
 Rock River valley of northern Illinois, whose farms bring $50 an acre, that many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

Brmingham's growth; for there is very certain decay in the growth of all cities, paradoxical as it may seem.
 Let us not too much need opulence
 increased population. leisure if they bring forgetfulness of hygienics None more than the writer wishes Birmfng- ham to be the wealthiest and most pop uous city in the south, yet if her de- cay should outstrip her growth he would not be so glad for the opulence and growth. And I mean by decay for getting of her civic integrlty-a failure to look after her starved and unkempt thoroughfares-a failure to mother her hungry children. For self preservation she must do this if not through pure motherliness and tenderness. The cruel est travesty that exists today on human enlightenment is that progress and pow erty are nurtured in the same cradle. From Adam Smith to Henry George students of economies have contributed their guesses in explanation of this social phenomenon. Whether we take Smith s or Marks explanation as satisfactory, or whether we investigate in free lance fashion the conditions of the strata low CT down, we must conclude that disease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
HEART TO HEART TALKS-Bv Ed

General George Washington was often defeated. but he was never whipped Joe Wheeler was as good a fighter m the Cuban war as in 63, when he was 35 years younger. Stand up and take your mauling.
 When hit don't squeal. Smile and get under the foes guard. And force the hghtingl Fate itself gets tired of always facing a determined man.
 When they called on John Paul Jones to surrender his ship was in splinters, hut he howled back through his trumpet that he had not yet begun to fight.
 Fight on. If your sword is broken. then fight with broken sword. If you fight with a gun, shoot or give up the gun And if you run out of ammunition use the gunstoel as a club.
 Be game.
 Vim and vigor and victory all begin with the same letter
 While travelling on a southern line of railway I was puzzled to know the mean ing of a sign by the track side. It flashed across the car window again and lagain. This was the legend:
 shut Your Ash Pan.'
 On inquiring I learned that it was a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

nedys powerful drama, The Servant In the House." Surrounded by wealth and ease the vicar is blinded by time-serving by too much ambition in directions that make for forgetfulness of his church's needs. Scandals and bickerings ensue. God is forgotten. Even the drain under meath the church becomes a foul cesspool, breeding nauseous odors that ascend even to the place of worship. All is chaos and blindness until Manson appears-un- til the preacher of human brotherhood appears. Then comes the drain-man. going deep into the filth and stench of the drain, cleansing and purifying following him, the vicar, back from his selfish dreams now-back from his mis- taken skyfaring now-one of the servants, making restitution for his long forgetful- ness.
 Yes. let us have a quarter million follc calling Birmingham "home:" let us have the Greek theater: let us have splendid tabernaeles for the preachment of right living and right serving. Let us have Gipsy Smith, Creatore-all of the spiritual and musical entertainers possibe-and let us also look after the drains"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

Life is a fight. | If sometimes the battle goes against | you, do not whine. Are you made of
 fiber or of pulp? If of pulp, you will slump down into innocuous desuetude; if
 of fiber, you will grit your teeth and pitch | in.
 | Do not go down at the first hard thump. | Stand up like man and take yolr lun- lshment without bawling. If diversity
 draws a little blood on you or bla cks yoIr eye, that is no reason why you should threw up the sponge.
 Grin and bear it. A swelled lip or the loss of a tooth does
 not constitute knockout. If the wound hurts, smile. And stand and fight as
 long as your legs will hold you mp. Play the man. The world, the flesh and the devil are trying your mettle. Be game. Develop your muscles and, make or break, fight the fight. You cannot always win out. And sometimes you will get A solar
 pexus blow a left handler on the point of your chin But Do not take the count. While there is an ounce of fight in you
 do not lie sprawling, but get up and go at it again.
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Not satisfied with this society, which greets and cares for the ignorant immf- grants from Italy, Miss Moore turned her attention toward making these aliens, into good citizens.
 During the building of the New York aqueduct. the great artificial water ,say by which the city gets it's water thos- sands of Italian laborers have been enl- ployed.
 These gangs live in camps such as ,ne sees when railroads are being buir.
 Manners and men in the rough
 In these crude camps Miss Moore opened camp schools for the education Of the Italians Repeatedly told by the water commissioners and the contractors that schools would not be permitted, Miss Moore persisted, and succeeded.
 Moreover
 It is told of her that in writing the iit- tie primer which she printed for lhe use of the worllmen she learned the words which the men needed 10 know by sitting on the bank of an excavation and listening to the orders given.
 Stricken with paralysis. Miss Moore con- tinued to the time of her death .o inspire the young women teachers who were CT helpers.
 Hers was a patriotic mission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

In 1858 he died of yellow fever in Mobile at the age of 62. Naturally endowed with the highest gifts and most varied talents. he gave to these substantial expression in the conspicuous ability which he dis played in the exalted stations which he occupied uninterruptedly for more than 35 years. Arthur P. Bagby adorned with signal ability every position to which he was called, and throughout maintained with happy blend and even balance a most courtly dignity and a charming companionableness which put the plainest citizen in his presence at perfect ease. Those who knew him best found 1t diff- cult to determine which more to admire, his superior native dignity or his unaf- fected cordiality so undefinable was tie charm which invested this gifted gentle man. No chafe or worry of stress in public strain impaired the affableness of his intercourse with others. and while he was honored by his fellow citizens they were amply repaid in the splendid service which he rendered the state and tho nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

and drove German and his out Of ths Senate.
 But he came back, with clipped wings. however. Though it was gall and worm wood. the Maryland boss had to accept 1sidor Rayner the ablest and most bril- liant man Maryland has had since Henry Winter Davis, for colleague in the Sen ate. Soon thereafter German died. but the machine lives, headed by his son and John Walter Smith, a democrat in the in- voice, but republican asset. He was one of Aldrich's leutenants in 1909, and helped to make the outrageous lumber schedule that enables the lumber trust to levy tribute on every household in the union. He gave strange reason, but practical. and it was this-he had vast timber inter ests himself. And he a successor of Will ham Pinl<ney and Reverdy Johnsonl
 The issue in Maryland is this: Is the German Smith machine strong enough to pitchfork Isidor Rayner out of the unite1 States Senate? Over Gods forbid let it bel