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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-27

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-27
PROGRAM FOR
GOOD ROADS DAY
is ALMOST COMPLETE-DEMON.
sTRATloNs AND LECTURES ALL
DURING TIME OF STATE FAIR.

rhe program for Good Roads day
at the State Fair, which will be uu.
der the direction of the department
Of highways, is almos, complete. and
during the entire time of the State
Fair, Engineer Colt will give demon
strations and lectures in the Mines
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Freshman of 81 Years
Denied College Joys

Princeton's ffty-one-year-old fresh
man will be denied many Of the joys
Of student life. He can never make"
the nine or eleven and he will hardly
be available in a class rush. His pride
in wearing the diminutive skull-cap
which custom imposes on freshmen will
be tempered by considerations which
come with mature years.
The student in question having made
a fortune has gone to college for little
culture 1t is regretted that more men
who have not had a college education
do not follow his example. 1t Is a mod
ern notion that universities are strictly
for the young The medieval universi-
ties attracted students of all ages and
It is much to be desired that colleges
should nowadays draw students of an
older growth.
Cato learned Greek at eighty" and
there is no good reason why men who
acquire a taste for scholarship or science
or the fine arts late in life should not
crafty 1t by taking a college course
after the manner of the former bridge
builder who has enrolled at Princeton
to study biology and botany. Most COL
leges have had isolated examples of the
kind. No doubt 1t Is due to a false
sense of the incongruity of age that
more students of adult years do not
seek a college education.-New York
World.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Child Labor Idea Shows
Japan Is Progressing

The Japanese are progressing so
rapidly in gaining "cfvilization" that
they can already boast a system of
child labor that can put even our
august institution to shame, says a
writer in Success Magazine. Accord
ing to DR.. Kuwaad, a member of the
Japanese house of peers, more than
two-fifths of the one million factory
hands are women and children. With
no laws to fear or evade, the mill
owners are employing 10000 children
under the age of fourteen. In the
match and tobacco industries particu-
larly the work is for the most part
done by children, and of these many
are under ten years of age.
In the spinning mills these child
workers are often compelled to con-
tinue at their tasks at night without
receiving extra pay or chance for rest.
For disobedience of shop rules they are
barbarously lashed and fined, this lat
ter imposition usually wiping out their
meager wages.
Most of the girls are recruited from
the poor rural districts by agents who
lure them with fascinating tales of
city life. The ignorant parents, per
suaded that the city will afford their
daught ters greater opportunity for edu-
cation and refinement, offer their chill
dren to an existence from which few
live to return, and these broken in
health and morals.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Receiving Days

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, of 1880 T
street, will receive today and on Sat-
urdays, February II and 25.
=
Mrs. f. T. Male, of the Albemarle,
will not receive today, but will be at
home OH Saturday, February 25.
Mrs. James Milmont Murphy. of 17SS
Lanier place, will not receive this sea-
son, owing TO the recent death Of a
relative.
Mrs. Paul F. Straub, 1872 Sunderland
place, will be at home the second and
third Wednesdays in February.
q
Mrs. ]. Winter Graves, Mrs. N. B.
Graves, and Miss Brewer will receive
informally Thursday, February 8, from
4 TO 6 o'clock.
Mrs. Robert n. Harper. who is chap
eroning a parry of young people to Old
Point Comfort for the weekend, will
not receive Monday, but will be at
home Monday, February Is, for the las!
time this season.
Nine Ali Kuli Khan will be at home
Fridays throughout the remainder Of
the season.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
LOST TFORTUNESLURE
IN MANY COUNTRIES
lnheritances Centuries Old
Await Lawful Claimants
and Disentanglement.

In Rhenish Bavaria two associations
have recently been organized to obtain
a millions -gulden inheritance left in 1876
by the Dutch Field Marshal Baron Won
Ornholm. In Bavaria there is new
effort under way to secure tiye fortunes
now estimated at about 70,000,00O marks,
or $17,5O0,000 the amounts left by fiye
Dutchmen to their German relatives, be-
tween 1886 and 1706, plus the interest
that has accumulated since that time.
Every one of these five fortunes, tine
largest of which was 100000 gulden,
has completely disappeared.
There IS record that the money left
by Johann Joas, an Amsterdam ships
captain, who died in 1901. reached the
representative of his heirs in Augs-
burg in 17S5. In the next year the heirs
were informed that LOO 60 gulden had
been deposited for them In an Augsburg
bank. The heirs of a leather dealer,
Van GratZ, received small payments on
account, one even obtaining $1,000 gulden
about 1871. In 1856 an Augsburg banker
by the name of Won Halde confessed on
his deathbed that the inheritances had
been deposited in his bank, and that by
means Of them he had made his own
fortune.
Since then every effort has been made
to trace the bequests through the mu-
nicipality of Augsburg, the Bavarian
minister of the interior, and the courts
There are endless documents in the
case, but the money has never ap-
peared. Recently the Dresden bank ab-
sorbed the Won Halde bank business,
and the heirs are now of the opinion
that II must account to them for 10000
900 marks and they have engaged dis
time to search for the money. That
there Is material mere for many ro-
mances must be evident to every bud
ding noveltst.-New York Post.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Portugal Must Have
New National Anthem

The Portuguese will have to seek
new national anthem. says the Lon
don Chronicle. for the one hitherto T.,
use is by no means suited to q repub-
lie. 1t was composed by an Emperor,
Dom Pedro, of Brazil, and, like the
British anthem. is an invocation on
behalf of the sovereign. Possibly the
new anthem will be shorter than the
old one. which drags somewhat to-
ward the end. The length of most
national anthems is in inverse ratio
to the size of their proprietary coun-
tries. There are only sixteen bars in
the Russian anthem, twenty-eight in
Hail Columbia" But in the Siamese
anthem there are seyenty-six bars,
and the inhabitants of San Marino re-
quire ninety-seven bars to express
their patriotic fervor.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Tarred Road Dust Is
Injurious to Eyes

Several doctors have recently stated
that the dust which rises from tarred
roads has bad effect on the eyes, and
a professor at the French Academy of
Science has stated that unless tar is
given up every one will in order to
save his eyesight, have to wear protec-
tive goggles.
But the use of tar is rapidly increas-
ing. Wallace Richie, secretary of the
Roads Improvement Association. stated
yesterday that there are today roughly
10000 miles of tarred roads in Great
Britain, as compared with 1000 miles in
1908. The practice is extending very
considerably he said. especially in
the southern half of England.
81 have heard something of this COM
plant before, but only in the way of
conversational remarks by surveyors
who are constantly passing up and
down tarred roads. They say that the
dust from these roads seems to worry
the eyes more than does the dust from
untreated roads. London Daily Mail
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Telephone Eavesdropper
Betrayed By Baby's Cry

The telephone, be it affirmed unanl-
mously, is a great institution 1t be-
comes a greater institution when the
wires are crossed and mans wife
hears him talking to that blondined
old cat" The possibilities of the tele-
phone become more complicated when
party line is used.
With these choice bits of Information,
the story in point can now proceed.
Mrs. Blank has party line. She and
Mrs. Dash were talking and their con-
yersation was not intended for other
ears. There was nothing compromising,
it may be parenthetically said, but as
women on rare occasions do, they were
gossiping about other women.
In the midst of the conversation the
cry of a baby was conveyed simulta-
neously to the ears of Mrs. Blank and
Mrs Dash.
why 1 didn't know you have one,
said Mrs. Dash.
Il haven't"
Neither have l."
"I seev' said Mrs. Blank, as a great
light dawned Mrs. Skeezwee is on the
same line 1 have, and she has a. baby.
But I'm sure she is not low down enough
to eavesdrop."
Tho soft clink of a telephone receiver
being hung up as If with great care was
II know that nosey old hag has been
listening to u.s." appended Mrs. Blank,
"hut 7 guess that shot will hold her for
awhile. louisville Times.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
What Advertising Does
For Men of Professions

Does the successful writer, who be-
lieves he is living on the fruits of his
own genius alone, realize that IL it
were not for the money brought in by
the advertising pages Of the magazine
and newspaper there would be no mar
ket at all for his intellectual wares?
Soap men and breakfast food makers
and the mail-order businesses are the
best patrons OF the short story writer.
Would any doctor or lawyer be able to
charge the enormous fees that the spe-
cialist can command If his professional
achievements had not been recorded in
the columns OF the daily press? Could
the scientist or reformer get an oppor-
tunity for airing his pet theories were
the magazines deprived Of their adver-
tising income? Is there any society
man, however exclusive, who does not
find pleasure at seeing himself in print
Why, the very men who treat the paid
for advertisement with scorn owe their
proud distinction to the free and gratui-
tious notice of the Ubiquitous reporter
Los Angeles Herald.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Confederate Benefit Play
Draws Fashionable Crowd.

A large and fashionable audience filed
the Columbia Theater yesterday after
noon for the play, The House That
Jack Built" which was given for the
benefit of the Confederate Memorial
Home.
Mrs. c. D. Merwin. district president
L. d. c., entertained Mrs. w. A. Mayne,
president of Beauregard Chapter. L. D.
c.; Mrs. Virginia Faulkner McSherry,
of Martinsburg, W. Va. and the presi-
dents Of the Stonewall Jackson, the
Robert +. Lee, the Southern Cross, the
Albert Sidney Johnston, and the Dixie
Chapters of the District.
Miss Mamie Randolph Heth, president
of the Southern Relief Society, enter
tained a party in her box.
Mrs. Matthew r. Scott, president gen.
eral, D. A. R., had a party in her box.
Mrs A. e. wall and the Misses Wall,
of Salt Lake City, entertained a box
party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Reside were
among those entertaining box parties.
Miss Mary Wilcox also had a party in
her box.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Entitled to Journey
Because of the Cost

Two men-an Englishman and
scotch man-were travelling from Aber-
deem to London in the train. They
reached Carlisle without exchanging
a word, and during the stoppage there
the Englishman got out and had some
refreshment. When he got back to
his compartment he found the Scotch
man sitting where he had left him
and looking more sour and solemn than
ever.
It's a long. wearisome journey"
said the Englishman when the train
started, by way of making conversa-
tion.
The Scotchman looked at him with
an angry frown.
so it ought to be- he replied,
frigidly. 1T cost fifty-nine and nine
pence"-IOndon Globe.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Bicycle Without Crank
Invented By Austrian

An Austrian inventor has perfected
a crankless bicycle by means of
which he claims. there is saving of
so per cent in foot power. The rider
operates two long levers which move
up and down. forcing the chain at
tachment over several pulleys. The
vertical movement of the feet and the
peculiar arrangement of the levers
effect the saving in power and are
less firing to the rider.
This estimation of the inventor has
been proved by practical demonstra-
tions, according to the Scientific
American. The feet rest upon pedals
fitted at the end of a pair of j.
arms. A single chain connects the
two arms, running first up over two
puIleys, and then to the rear over two
sprocket wheels fastened to the. hub.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
People of Presen tDay
Eat, But Do Not Stuff

A glance back at the last few days,
and a conviction is settled. We eat
but we no longer stuff. The gr,
suffers of the past are dead. What
of that seventeenth century kentfsh
man, Nicholas Wood, for example,
who would eat a whole hog at a sit
ting and follow it up the next day
with thirty dozen pigeons? Withal.
this posscssor of a "Kentish stomach"
was sportsman. AS proof of this,
there is that record of his challenge
to Taylor the water poet to "eat at
one time as much black pudding as
would reach across the Thames at
any place to be fixed by Taylor him
self between London and Richmond"
Well might old Fuller moralize over
that appetite of Woods: Let US raise
our gratitude" he said. Ito the q"
ness of God, especially when he CIV
eth us appetite enough for our meat.
and yet meat too much for our ap-
petite. London Chronicle.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
JAIL IS CONDUCTED
AS A. PENAL HOTEL
Sheriff's Practical Efforts at
Reform Are Un-
usual.

A jail where prisoners are encouraged
to go forth without guards and earn
money for themselves. and where they
are not only allowed to attend circuses
and other entertainments, but also oc-
casionally given tickets by the sheriff,
is the unique institution of Montpelier,
VT, in which Sheriff Frank II. Tracy,
of Washington county, is practicing his
theory of correction and encourage
ment instead of punishment"
Gave Prisoners Circus Tickets.
The very latest example of Sheriff
Tracy's application of this theory was
on circus day. in Montpelier, when he
gave circus tickets to eleven OF 'the
boys" as he calls his guests, and told
them to go and enjoy themselves, but
to be sure and be back in time for sup
per. There was to be a particularly
good supper that night, and besides the
rest Of the boys" were away working
and wanted to hear all about the big
show. These others could have gone,
but they were busy haying for the
farmers near the city and wanted the
money.
This instance of the circus is only an
example of the spirit of the Washington
county jail. Also 1t Is proof OF what
Sheriff Tracy has predicted ever since
the passing by the Vermont State Legis-
lature Of the prison labor law.
Law Permits Outside Work.
This law permits the working of pris-
oners outside the jails on the stipula-
ton thar all that a man makes over
a dollar a day is his own.
The dollar is abstracted to go to the
prison board as payment for the cloth
ing, shoes, dinner pals, car fare, and
similar things furnished to the men.
The men receive this, as we'll as their
food and lodging, free, and so II is that
today there are many prisoners at
Montpelier saving SO to $40 a week. This
is more than a majority of them could
save II they were not in Jail, and their
enthusiasm and added interest in hard
work and economy bears out Sherih
Tracy's belief that reformation Is OBJ
tained by this system rather than by
keeping the men locked up at indoor
tasks without remUneration--Balti
American.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Colonel Thompson
Host at Musicale.

Col. Robert NJ. Thompson was host at
a brilliant musicale preceded by a din
ner party last night at his residence on
Sheridan circle Mrs. West Roosevelt
received the guests for Colonel Thomp-
son. At the dinner were the Assistant
Secretary of War and Mrs. Robert Shaw
Oliver, the Assistant Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Raymond p.
Rodgers, y: S. N: Capt: and Mrs;
John H. Gibbons, u. S. N; Col. and
Mrs. Spencer Cosby, L. S. A; Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Miss Hege-
man, Miss Mary Carlisle, Miss Julia
Wood, Lieut.. Adolphus Andrews, L. S.
N; Benjamin S. Gable. Assistant Sec
Tetary of Commerce and Labor, and
William Hit.
Additional guests to the number of
about $50 came in later for the musical
program. The artists of the occasion
were Nine. Alma Gluck, soprano, ac-
companied by Kurt SCHNEIDER and Boris
Hamburg, 'cellist, accompanied by Max
NJ. Herzberg, all members of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Dentists There.

Choate, at a dinner, "often depends on
the ability to meet every objection
readily.
"A clergyman, however, once carried
this ability little too far. He was ad-
dressing a prayer meeting and In his
description of the doom of the wicked
he said:
And there shall be weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth. Aye,
gnashing of teeth
"A very old woman spoke up in
quavering voice and senile voice:
But 1 amt got no teeth, pastor
Then. madam, they will be pro-
vided, was the answer. Chicago Tn
bune.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Art Treasures in Mexico.

The wonderfully beautiful old Tala-
vera porcelains, the matchlessly carved
Spanish furniture and the intricately
inlaid usually with ivory secretaries,
as well as the bits of Spanish lace, filmy
handmade mantillas, fine old fans
sacerdotal vestments, embroidered
shawls, altar pieces. and myriad desir-
able souvenirs are never-ceasing at
fractions to the tourist familiar with the
hackneyed, oftenttmes tawdry and al
most obviously authentic antiques Of
fered at high prices in Europe and else
where.-MeXican Herald.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Miss Pauline Hedian
To Be Hostess at Tea

Miss Pauline Hedian will entertain at
noon, at O'Clock, in compliment to her
house guest. Miss Constance Higgins,
OF New York.
The house will be prettiIy decorated
with red carnations and ferns, with a
the tea table.
Presiding in the dining room will be
Miss Aline johnson, of Baltimore; Miss
Marie Louise Howser and Miss Marie
higgins.
Miss Hedian will be among the de-
butantes next winter.
+
Secretary Norton announced yesterday
that the number already invited TO the
Congressional reception, Tuesday even
ing: has attained such proportions that
il has become necessary to close the
lists. No more invitations will be is
sued
Miss Gladys Mum will be maid OF
honor at the marriage of her sister.
Miss Carrie Louise Mum, daughter OF
Mrs. Charles A. Mum. to Reginald
Boardman. of Manchester. Mass, on
Saturday. February Is. The Rev. Ro-
land Cotton Smith will officiate.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Miss JOS
arhine Osborn, of New York; Miss
Edith Wayne, of Philadelphia. and Miss
Cecilia May, of Washington, will be
the bridesmaids Eugene van Renssa-
laer Thayer, of Boston. will be the best
man, and the uShers will be John
Ames, Arthur Adams. James Jackson,
and Richard Boardman, all of Boston
Richard S. Laurence ard Peter Goelet
Gerry. of New York; Donald Hillen, OF
Baltimore, and Gurnee Mum, brother
Of the bride.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
illustrates Too Open
Tactics on Gridiron

II. C. Thayer, Pop Thayer, of Penn
svIvania football fame, was talking at
the Rittenhouse Club about the new
football rules.
"Thev proved less fitted to tactics and
generaisfiip than the old rules" he said,
3Thev made the play so open that any
attempt at straegy was like-well, like
the Swiss waiter.
"Once on a walking tour IN the Ber-
nese OberIand ] reproached the waiter
at a little inn for bringing me the
Here. you've brought me Chateau
Moulin Rothschild,' said when l or
dered Pontet Canet.
s'The waiter retired, and through the
glass partition / saw him take his nap
kin and quietly wipe the still wet label
off the bottle Then he called.
Hans, another label, Pontet Canet,
ouickv "-Philadelphia Record.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
BRET HARTE POEM
THR|YES ON ERROR
Packs" Instead of Jacks, .
Does ''neathen Chinee"
Little Harm.

Everyone who knows American poetry
is familiar with Bret Hartes Heather
Chinee," written in the early seventies;
at the time when the feeling on the
Pacific coast ran high against the mild
eyed celestial, and, voIcing that feeling
by portraying the hero, if such a term
may be applied to An Sin, as a crafty,
card-cheating villain, who outwits the
sharps OF the California mining camps.
The poem was written while Bret
Harte was, employed on a San Francisco
daily, and, to him, was merely a part
OF the days work. 1t tells of a Chinee,
All Sin, who with a smile that was
childlike and bland" sat in a game of
euchre with Truthful James and Bill
Nye.
The Evidence.
At a crucial point o. the game the
artless Chinese plays the winning card,
which," says Truthful James. the mar
rator of the catastrophe, "the same Nye
had dealt unto me" Whereupon Truth
full and Nye proceeded to ''go for that
heather Chinee." The damaging evil
dence disclosed by their rough and
searching investigation is told as fol-
lows In the poem as IT was printed-and
has been printed ever since the initial
publication:
I'm his sleeves, which were long, there
were twenty-four packs;
Which Is coming 1t strong, yet l state
but the facts
In this form the busy Bret Harte let
the proofs go down to the printer and
II was not until some timeflater that he
recalled having overlooked an error in
IT. He hurried down to the press, but
already several hundred copies had been
struck off, and were being distributed
"A ahOIf the rifV IN the
ers. Bret Harte, attaching no import
ance TO the fugitive verses, which had
merely Oozed from his pen the after
noon previous, made no effort at correc-
tion then. When, however, the Eastern
press enthusiastically copied 1t and pub
fishers and illustrators rang all manner
of comic changes on It, he tried to SUBJ
stitute the correct phrase, but without
avail, and The Heather Chinee" has
persisted in its original form through
numberless editions ever since.
What Bret wrote was:
What the Error Was
In his sleeves. which were long, he had
twenty-four jacks"
Now. in the game OF eucher, as all
card players know, the jacks are of
great value. and the stuffing of num-
berless jacks up his flowing sleeves, as
the poet intended to sing. showed great
astuteness on the part of All Sin. Ihe
uncorrected error Of the cOmpositor who
set up packs" instead of "jacks,H still
left enough of sense to pass muster
when embodied between the contexts.
The poet, after years of fruitless en-
deavor, finally gave up all hope and re-
signed himself to the butchered reading.
And today every copy of Bret Harte's
poems sold for Christmas gift, in gor-
geous de luxe editions contains that
error of the inky compositor made years
ago.-Boston Herald.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson
Entertained at Tea.

Mrs. William Payne Meredith is enter
tanning at <ca this afternoon in honor
of Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the
Senator of Virginia. Mrs. Elisha
Meredith will receive with the hostess
and the guest of honor.
Assisting will be Mrs. L. L. Jordan
ard Mrs. James +. Mitchell, who will
preside al the tea table. and Miss Hill
dreth GatewOod and Miss Elsa POrtner,
al the punch howl.
Tho mouse will be effectively decorated
for the occasion with pink roses, carHa-
tiCns and potted aZaleas and ferns.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Italians Lead.

Argentina had on December 81, 1860,
Z, ,220. 500 foreign-born inhabitants. the
Italians leading with 1,039,02a, followed
by 664,602 Spaniards. In order as named,
the other nationalities were: French,
Russians, Syriahs, Austrians, English,
Brazilians, Germans, Swiss, Portuguese,
Hungarians, Belgians, and Americans.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Mrs. Wood Entertains
For Mrs. Vanderbilt

Mrs. Leonard Wood, wife of General
Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army, en-
tertsfned at beautiful luncheon today
at Fort Myer. complimentary TO Mrs.
Frederick Vanderbilt, of New York, who
returned to hcr home this afternoon
after a few days visit to Miss Mabel
Boardman.
The Washington times., 1911-02-04
Had to Tell Them.

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Didy you think of
me while I was away in the country.
John?
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-I certainly did.
dear I wore that necktie you bought
me for my birthday. and everybody
asked where on earth 1 got 1t and l
had to tell them.-Yonkers States