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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-03

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUINN
Tablets. Druggists refund money II
It fails to cure. E. w. GROVES sig
nature is on each box. Csc.
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INTERESTING ROM LANCE.
Recent Wedding Brings Suit-Result
Of Courtship 40 Years Ago.

New York, Feb. 2.-An inquiry in
to the sanity of Mrs, Eleanor Scott
Ongley, the old and wealthy Brook
lyn woman who December 10 last
eloped with Henry II. Ongley, six
teen years her junior, began before
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-03

Ada, Oklahoma.
This certifies l have sold Halls
Texas Wonder for years and l rec
ommend it to be the best kidney, blad-
der and rheumatic medicine 1 have
ever sold. 60 days treatment for
$1.OO. G. NJ. Ramsey Druggist.
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FoiIed.

The bandit bound the woman's feet
with cruel ropes; she gave a flirt
And walked off when his back was turned
She used to wear a hobble skirt.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-03

Kidney trouble preys upon
the mind, discourages and
lessons ambition; beauty,
vigor and Cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kidneys
are out OF order or diseased
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-03

We'll, Jim," said Bingleton, as he
proudly showed off his first-born.
"What do you think of that for a
kid?"
Hes some kid, all right all
right" returned Jim internationally.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-03

er testified, was when checks We're
received by trust companies where
her money was kept.
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MEN
AND
WOMEN

For good results use DR.. kilmer's Swamp
Root the great kidney remedy. At druggists
Sample bottle by mail free. also pamphlet
Ad.. DR.. Kilmer Il Co., Binghamton, n. y.
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children threatened with tuberculosis.
The Loubet dispensary is safe"
At their meetings il is fought ont with
negligent parents. Mutualists constrain
their neighbors. And the kids get A
rational square meal lie around IN
steamer chairs on towery balconies. with
gifts and visits, there are no uuanis.
Against milk aduteration they do not
employ spoilers Instead, at the monthly
meeting of Parents-of- Families Mutually
of the ninth ward, for example, the chair
man says:
The milk-analysis center has been ac-
cepted by the Tram Employees syndicate
around the corner. During this month
every one of us must carry sample OF
our usual milk supply 10 IT. in the steril-
lied bottles which l shall now distribute
Attention. Mutualists. il is for the health
of your little ones,
And what is all this for asks M
Fallieres ITO fight against French dt =
population? Perfect Bring the little
ones up strong and healthy. why
That they may marry comes the
natural answer.
Then start your little girls 10 saving
marriage portions" said the lady or the
Elysee And your boys. also.
So, now, when the word goes down the
line: -
Attention, Mutuahsts! How shall our
children marry" there promises 10 ne
a satisfactory answer-in Paris
STERLING HElLlG.
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arrangement Never lose your pass book.
1t is better to go without new summer
gown than to drop out.'
Or tan shoes?" inquiries a doubtful,
tempted voice.
or tan shoes. or excursion to the sea
shore, or the wooden horses at the fart
Think of the unhappy girl without a dot!
She may be good and lovely, but the
young men dare not marry her. What
would they do in case of sickness, bad
trade loss of position or failure of work? !?
Young people must not marry without
two years living assured in advance
You understand. my dears?"
Long tables loaded with orangeade,
cakes and chocolate are spread beneath
the rose arbors. Five hundred little girls
from six or seven to twelve or thirteen
sprawl the greensward, or in groups
talk mutually, marriage, premiums, state
aid and contributory negligence. Bright
faces light up with a beautiful resolve
and the great lady that is Nine. Fal
Heres beams down on their ranks and
tells them that they ought to persevere.
Ought not boys persevere, too?' cries
an indignant little voice from the Hlacs.
In truth, there are some brothers pres
ent. complacent little tads, who could
not be left behind. or slender, courtly
boys of thirteen. slipped in to escort their
younger sisters, ana WHlle there Is moth
ing of the traditional French fortune
hunter in their attitude, they appear to
need awakening.
Sure every boy should have his dot"
laughed the etat-major Of ladies. Reg
ularly, my dears. young men have their
savings-and demand their future COM
panion to bring an equal sum. Let every
boy present give his name and address"
The baroness questioned poetical
looking young fellow of thirteen in
brown velveteen. cabinet makers and
art-artisans' cloth.
Can you get together $10.4O in a year?
If you save every cent of your spending
money. tips gifts. sums earned, extras?
What do you do with your savings"
Put them in my tire-lire," he answer
ed. negligently. Every French child has
small slit to drop pennies in. When full
it can be broken.
1--WE must see the parents said the
ladies.
I'VE must see the Mutualities," said
Nine. Fallieres.
"I'n start every boy here with a first
years payment on a 500 policy ex-
claimed the baroness. payable at
twenty-five years old, you understand, If
boy? Seven? Your rate Is 81 year, the
same as for girl Of seven, naturally.
There. there. don't be jealous. I'll start
the girls also!
II am started came the little voice
of Indignation from the lilacs.
"And T." And I!' "And I!'
Angel children. come to me. 1 pay
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the Elysee to her little proteges. but
definite movement must justify ii. The
baroness was willing Marriage portions
is their watchWord, and the lapsing pre-
MUM Their enemy.
Which brings us to the famous post
Office tontine
Every girl must have a marriage por
ton Saving cannot do it, Gifts are i'm
possible. Only one trick could work the
miracle, and Nine. Fallieres found it in d
bet. beneficent gamble, vast, well
deserving speculation-in modified
children's tontine. run by the state.
1t existed already. The presidents wife
only pulled the trigger. Long ago, pa
tient geniuseS of the French Postal Saw
ings and State Bank of Deposits and Con-
signations had computed the tables and
started the machinery. 1t was but one
variation OF series of devices TO aid
working people to save money. Nova
days, the brand-new, more advantageous
old age pensions of the government throw
its straight annuities into the shadow AS
a mass, the people never understood the
children's tontine. 1t was not presented
in so many words, and poor families
thought 1t queer to lose all their pay
ments in case of decease Nine. Fal-
reres changed 1t to popularity by a single
phrase
'The child that dies does not need to
marry
But look you first at this post office
service Nearly every ward division has
It's sub connected with the pneumatic tubes
that send your letter, In a little blue
envelope, to any Paris address in half an
hour for cents. There is the telegraph,
the telephone and telephoned letter de-
livered to any address. There is the postal
savings bank, the gratuitous stock and
bond purchase, the straight and mixed
life insurance and annuities of the
depots ct consignations, and. finally.
these insurances in case of living, all
operated at loss, in deposits not exceed
ing 800 and policies not above 81 900, to
aid working people to get on financially.
The ordinary mail service Is cluttered by
the manifold operations.
And these are not the humble specula-
tors who clutter the banks even worse.
They are poor little beginners, whose
problem is rather how to get the 20
cents to make a deposit.
In case of living. AS deferred capital
this tontine has been used by working
men and women to assure them a capital
at fifty-five in case that they are still
alive. and then to buy life-pension with
the proceeds. Thus a young man of
annual premium can at fifty-fve begin
receiving back $40 per year for the re-
mainder OF his days-and he has the right
to take up to ten policies.
OF course, there are two operations. 1t
was the first that struck Nine. F'allieres.
Just the thing for little girls to raise
a dot!'' she said. Listen to the post
office leaflet: This assurance offers to
parents the means to constitute a dota-
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The Quaint Scotch.

NHRS RONALD II. BARLOW, the golf
lvl champion, was talking at the Cape
Nav Golf Club about the worlds various
links.
1.-The Scotch links are the best" she
said "of course. The Scotch links are as
good as the Scotch officials are quaint.
'Once, at North Berwick. a stranger
desired to make arrangements for PLAY
ing. He sought out the proper Official
and this official took out a notebook and
said:
what name?
DE Crespigny, replied the stranger
Mon said the official, with look Of
disgust we Gamma bother oursel's With
names like that at North Berwick. Yen
start in the mornin at 1915 to the name
Of Fairrgusson.
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Grams who remain apparently accept the
change as indicative of the spirit of
change in political affairs.
:;
Clarence w Watson joined the demo-
cratic majority in Congress only last
March. Two weeks ago he startled other
members with the announcement that
the people wanted Congress to finish It's
work and go home, and that he proposed
to call the Senate's attention to the tact
whenever he had chance. And there
was none to punish him for his youthful
activity.
James A. Reed of Missouri, a democrat,
came into the Senate last March with
the influx of new members. Three months
later, when Vice President Sherman cast
the deciding vote In favor Oh the bllStoN
amendment to the Observation-Disclosures
tors resolution, Senator Reed arose with
a mighty protest against the Vice Presi-
dents power to vote in such case.
with all due respect" said Senator
Reed, 81 think there is very serious
doubt about the right of the President 10
cast the deciding vote in matter OF TINS
kind"
And what happened? A few years ago
Mr.. Reed would have been taken out into
the cloakroom by his own veteran col
lea cues and soundly thrashed. Now
there answered him only the mild voice
of DR. Gallinger of New Hampshire, next
to Frye now sick. and Cullom, the vet
eran because of his twenty years serV-
ice.
II think when the senator from Mis-
souri, does examine the matter he VII
be satisfied that the chair acted Within
his constitutional right"
The Gore resolution of a snort tlne
ago instructng the finance committee
to pass on the democratic wool tarifr Dll
and report it back to the Senate WITHIN
a given time aroused a storm OF pro-
test Here was a clear violation OF all
the precedents, and Of that more I'M
nortant bugbear senatorial courtesy
II have never known propositloI
of that kind to be offered in the Senate,
said Senator Gallinger in shocked tone
.'It would be a departure from all oul
custom in matters of this kind
Farmer Jim MARITIME, newly arrived
from New Jersey. declared that the
doctrine of courtesy to which the senator
from New Hampshire alludes, it seems tc
me is carried a little too far.
"You talk about senatorial courtesy,
said Senator Reed You say 1t is re-
Election on the committee for the Senate
TO instruct it to report back at GER
tain time l say that kind of senatorial
courtesy is dead and buried. 1t Will be
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tion for the establishment of their chill
dren.' The tables are all made out, from
three years up
Thus the girl tot of six who prudently
looks forward to marriage gets an ad-
vantage. Paying an annual premium of
$3.50. the French post Office permits her
to draw out 500 at the age Of twenty
five years.
If she waits till she is sixteen she pays
SIS year, which makes the total pay
ments considerably greater
You see?" says the presidents wife.
You cannot begin too youngr'
Under the three-century- old trees which
Nine. dc Pompadour and her brother
Marigny stole from the people of Paris
Nine. Fallieres explains II to the hopeful
brides-to-be, from five years up to four
teen, fifteen, sixteen, even, laughing, chat
tering, conscious of their Importance and
liShment
Why should not little girl be prudent
In her little tontine pass book she can
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add up how near she has paid her an
nual premium-premium on a successful
life, on womans natural role, on happi-
ness! The pass books are Uttered up
with postage stamps. whole pages. 1t
is permitted, yes. encouraged. When the
girl child gets cent she buys postage
stamp instead of hSky -poky, gums it in
her pass book, and is that much nearer
matrimony. 1t counts like a cash de-
posit. 1t being all post office business.
She has all the year to make the sum up.
Yes. but If you die you lose all you
have paid" l said to an eleven-year-old
little beauty of particularly buxom fresh
ness.
1T will help the other girls to get on"
she replied with admirable gravity, being
much more likely herself to profit by the
deaths and lapses of others.
But there must be no lapses.
''It is wickedness to let your assurance
run down. inculcates Nine. FallieIes.
THE post Office gives you credit; you can
pay up even after two or three years by
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body seriously asked, among themselves.
whether the strenuous eX-President would
be able to keep still for couple of years
while he was becoming acclimatized.
La Toilette when he broke into the sa :
cred precincts. in 1862 encountered a si-
lence and chill of greeting that gained
him widespread attention, if not SYM
pathy The new members, if they We're
so lacking in manners as to speak during
their early days in the Senate, talked to
empty benches. Their rising was the
signal for an exodus from the chamber.
Today the new men are listened to with
respect, the Senate accords them posi-
ton without question, and the few vet
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their remarks: and so much courtesy
shown them. at any period in the Senate S
history at at present. 1t is not all cour-
tesy either. The old men are gone; the
present leaders are to marked extent
men young in service, and the new mem-
bers bring in a spirit of modern progress
and timely suggestion which commands
attention and to which the leaders dare
not be utterly oblivious.
1t used to be the recognized procedure
for man to keep silent during the first
two years of his term. When Roosevelt S
term as President was drawing to close
and there was a suggestion that he might
come into the Senate, habitues of that
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the bill as quickly as possible, get
through and go home.
The Senate listened in shocked silence,
Here was a new member. scarce old
enough in service to know his way
around the Senate without a guide. TAX
ing it upon himself to lecture the Senate
upon its methods of procedure The old
timers looked at one another askance.
Party lines We're obliterated; the honor
of the Senate was assailed.
Finally Senator Money, a veteran OF
the old democratic school, whose years
of service had marked him as the typical
survival of the southern gentleman,
arose to administer the rebuke.
'.NIr President" he said. in measured
tones I'VE do not want any lectures In
our business here. 1t does not become a
man, however important he may consider
himself or whatever position the world
may have given him. to come into the
chamber of his peers and tell us that we
cannot talk, or that We ought to talk, or
that we ought to do business in this or
that way, which may happen to be ap-
proved by his Judgment, or his taste. or
habits, or his opinion, or anything else
that concerns him.
MY distinguished friend from New
York" continued Senator Money. has
delivered the Senate lecture on how
it should conduct It's business and no"
individual senator's should conduct them
selves When he has got fairly warm In
his seat and has learned little more
about the Senate he will not indulge him
self in any lectures on this subject for
two reasons First. because they are
utterly Intellectual curtain lectures, and
they are generally the outcome OF a
brand-neW member: and in the next
place they are utterly unnecessary
''He will understand also that the
most unfortunate thing that has hap
pened to the Senate is having d new
senator come in here 10 do things on
business methods We want a man,
when he comes here. to drop his business
methods at the door and to adopt the
legislative and senatorial methods as the
best way for transacting public busi-
ness
This was the pronouncement of real
supporter Of ''old-time precedent only
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SENATOR WATSON, w. Va
He TOLD THE SENATE IT OUGHT To
ADJOURN AND Go HOtIE

discovered that there are men on this
floor who may he young and inexperienc-
ed, but who have had sufficient experience
to understand what that kind of method
leads to-
Hale. loafng in Maine: Aldrich. sum
mering in the north. Money. resting on
his Mississippi plantation: Frye i'll IN
his Maine home, and Culon. almost the
only "old man of the Senate left must
have shivered with apprehension when.
they read such words.
1t is little short of remarkable that so
much latitude is given John Sharp WI
liams, the new senator from Mississippi,
in the Senate debates. II is true that ne
oomes with big reputation behind him
as leader OF the democracy in the House
of Representatives. II is admitted that
he is an expert in debate, a wonder al
repartee. almost unaSSailable in logic and
with deep and easily tapped fund OF
democratic history tariff fact, and politi-
cal precedent at his command
But il is significant of the changed
order of things in the Senate that VIII
liamS is allowed to show his caliber and
to monopolize so much of the debate. thus
early in his career. Aside from Bailey
he has been the democrat most promi-
nently on the floor IN this session. few
years ago il would have been impossible
for him TO enter prominently into
legislative discussion until he was sea
soned 10 the Senate. He would have
talked to empty benches. or would have
been rebulled in his own ranks. in such
terms as greeted Senator Root.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebra Ska Sem
ator Gronna Of North Dakota Senator
Townsend Of Michigan. all former mem
bers of the House and all brand-new I'm
the Senate, have stepped forward into the
debates with a vigor that would have
been sharply reouked at former stage
of the Senate's progress.
Just when the change came upon the
Senate, just when the bulwarks OF pre-
cedent and courtesy began to give way
before the rush of modern methods and
new political activity. Il Is difficult to
from the cabinet to the Senate undoubted
ly had great deal to do with 1t; the
growth of the insurgent force in the
Senate. and great strength OF Dolliyer.
Cummins. La Toilette Borah and the
others in debate had more, and the pas
sage from the senatorial precincts Of such
men as Aldrich, Hale, Allison, Money.
Pettus and the like removed the great
berrier Of personal influence against
new tricks. As an old dog. IL finds them
difficult; but il has many trainers and
ii is learning to jump quickly.
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their second years for little girls already
started" cooed the generous baroness
while Nine Fallieres and her secretaries
were busy filling up application t.s,fa, oiahks'
Work for ex-presidents. Nnen NJ;
Fallieres goes out in two years he ana
his wife will join NJ and Nine. Loupet
in great work for French children. OF
which these marriage portions VIII De
the crown and diadem.
What can ex-presidents do? The re-
public does not wish them 10 go INTO
politics, law or business. AS the only
one extant. ex-President Loubet might
have lived on the honors and emolu-
ments of his Craftsmanship of the rail-
road rates commission. which annually
fixes freight and passenger rates, but he
desired to be more useful. SO he started
working for children.
Casirnir- Perier had been the real origi-
nator Of the idea. He thought that ex-
presidents might protect the little chill
dren of their land CasimirPerier gave
great wealth and the latter years of his
life to the Abatement Maternel Chat
poor mothers may nurse their babies in
person), the League Against Food Adul-
terations, the anti-tuberculosis associa-
tions and a general hygienic association
had no cohesion: all the elements pulled
different ways, and Casimir-Perier died
baffled in the work he sought to do for
French childhood.
NJ Loubet discovered an organization
already existing. 1t already covered half
the French population and was able and
ready to draw the laws of hygiene round
every ward and canton. 1t was the Mu-
Qualities already referred to-the French
equivalent Of our fraternal orders.
This Mutuality is everywhere-in north
ern coal mines. among the grocery clerks
of Paris, the stonemasons guild. etc, etc,
and Nine. FalliereS-aS was Mime. Loubet
before her-is working presidente of the
National Schoolchildren Mutually, in
which every tot possesses passbook,
recording pennies paid for very cheap in
surance against Group, enteritis, typhoid
and what not. All this explains the hos
tility of many workingmen to enforced
old age insurance of the government.
NJ Loubet had only TO unite the Ma
tional Union of Presidents of Mutualities
to the great Medical and Pharmaceutical
Union to start a vast yet minute cam
paign against adulteration, bad air, ig-
norance and want.
The principle is that Of passing word
down the line.
Take the Mutualists Anti-Tuberculosis
Dispensary Foundation Emile Loubet of
the thirteenth ward of Paris, where they
send all their children threatened with
the dread malady of civilization. Why do
they send them? They refused to send
them to hospitals. Why? Because word
went down the line: Round up your
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No Calves.

DEMBROkE JONES, at a luncheon n
I Newport. told a story about a very
slender English tourist.
..He went bathing me other morning,
said Mr.. Jones, 'and, as he advanced
toward the sea in his bathing suit, lac
glanced down at MS thin white legs and
said:
DO you know. I'm positively ashamed
of these calves of mine.
" oh, said pretty Boston girl, you've
nothing to be ashamed Of
Evening star., 1911-07-30

ME. FALLIERES
is a majestic wom-
an. given to wear
ing velvet. She is
a typical great
lady of the French
republic, her hus-
band being one of
the ( g " living
statesmen " n o
have been mixed
up with ali its
Vit2 events.