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view among his flowers she has found
time for pertinent remarks in the mat
ter OF her original crrand.
why" says she to grim and grizzly
Dave Moulton, did you want to play
the devil with my life?"
The query does not phase Dave so his
daughter is able to notice It. In his
capacity as the millionaire head of the
Plough Trust. out In Moline. H.. he has
faced tougher questions. Just what he
has done, as a matter OF record. Is TO
send to the Count Feodor de Hohenfels,
Just after hat noble gentleman has pro-
posed in Rome for the hand OF Miss
Marion. n real saucy cablegram on the
subject OF the expected dowry. The ef-
feet has been to put the Cou into a
rage and tho Moulton mother n child
into the next homeward bound steam
hip.
However. after Marion has seen the
gardener, has talked soulrully with him
of his flowers and his philosophers. has
been shipwrecked with him on a desert
island In the something-or-other river
and has BEN to a kiss at a certain part
ing. she begins 10 lose interest In her
Count.
1t Is likely hat everything might hap
pen differently but for the sudden and
unexpected appearance OF Hohenfels at
the Nlulllon uOOr. AFTER TINS event, anu
after Dave and the Count have taken
each others measure. there Is steady
progress toward a stately wedding. The
gardener, who also is a Socialist. Is left
10 his blossoms, his sad thoughts and
the followers who hang on his words at
the open-air meetings.
All this Is in the first part OF George
Cram Cooks The Chasm" frederick
A.. Stokes Company. In the second part
the Countess de Hohenfels and her hus-
band have reached the land OF the
Car. The chapters tell then OF plots
and counterplots, imperial spies and
revolutionary spies, expressions. tor
lures, battles and sudden deaths. Mar
ion lives In the midst not only OF
alarms, but OF rapidly growing doubts
Nobody can be surprised when. In due
season. she leaves the Count-who
thereupon divorces her on false ground:
nor when. in about the same season
: the devoted gardener from Moline ar
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projects htmsclf-a red headed man
with "A certain air and with a positive
weakness. inherited from some an
cestor, which Dorcas discovers when
she puts rum into his iced tea. Repent
ing her unconscious error, Dorcas feels
that she must reclaim Duncan Lanier.
Moreover, another problem has arisen
over thu displacement Of Braith waite,
long treasurer Of Colts I O
make way for Gordon colt. Leonard
son, IN accordance with the very old
dream OF the boys father,
Her problems set heavily on Dorcas.
They give rise TO doubts OF her self
willed and mastorful h~ushand-the man
who has cour,ed tendcrly but rules ab-
So.ltcly. There are grave discussions
and % brief parting. II is likely that
tho patience of more than one reader
VIII be- severely tried before the chap
TER Is reached In which the woman with
a purpose becomes the wife with a
better understanding OF the man she
has married.
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A WOMAN WITH A PURPOSE.
Takes Chances With "a Life of Love
and Luxury.
LIFE Of love and luxury Is Of

LIFE Of love and luxury In Of
"A fered TO Dorcas Sloane even as
she Is about to step outward
across the college threshold.
j would take such good care OF You"
urge Leonard Colt. And he has mill
ions to make good his promise. But
II am not sure that ! wan to bo TAX
en- care of-yet." Dorcas. 1t
seems TO me that / am not altogether
Incapable OF taxing care Of
She might have added myself" but
Leonard completes the Thought for nor
and 30. presently. me matter T. Sis.
How foolish she is,' says the small,
world which knows Of the proposal and
the declination. Yet 10 Dorcas II seems
that she Is only proceeding 10 the !ul-
alment Of her own high ideals.
Put yourself 81 my place" she
urges. "as tar as any man can do. II
married YOU. YOU would give me
everything the world holds, except just
one thing"
"What is that?" Colt breaks ln.
success" she tells him. with dreI
gravity. one only gives That to one!
self"
SO they part, and Off goes D3rca- t,
New York 10 learn her Lesson. Ini,lc'
Anna Chaplin Ray pursucs her iu tuu
story just published Odttlo, Brown q
Coz under the title, The Woman wlt'
a Purpose" There are exactly a hun
bred pages OF that story before Doreas
pale. wearied, hungry, IN, a failure, he
pen idle and useless, suffers hrrsel
like a tired, unhappy little child' L
be gathered into the stronS arms Of tn
suddenly r-eaPpe2r!ns Colt Her hf
takes Itself then along easy lines, On
the reader s. mistaken who imagine
that Dorcas h]ereup9n gives up he
deals.
Colt IS much older than his witch
has, indeed, q son almost as old az sh,
Into the circle al The Terraces
brother OF the earlier Mrs. Colt no
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KILLED BY CLUB,
FRIENDS OF RACE
TRACK MAN CLAIM
Trainer Cornell Demands In
quiry Into Death of Egan
While Prisoner.

George Cornell. trainer OF race horses
a. cr,y.sord roco ,r.ck. has eskad .ha,
- ...a..a... ,A
-
Vi one OF ms e"nP'o'ecS "a'''" Hsa" VI
East Eighth street sheepshead Bay
Egan, who had been a prisoner In the
Butler street police station on n charge
~ intoxication. died In Long Island Col
lego Hospital last Tuesday morning Of
n fractured skull.
According TO information in the hands
M NJ cornou ana tho r,taou ~, re-,
- -
=. ~. 90, :, -. %
p'", ~ ~
cnarsou oy Norheh Una hgahs Skull
was fractured Dy a dow from a police
mans club.
Egan left the Gravescnd track Mon
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SAVED BY POLICEMAN
FROM DEATH IN RIVER

Tony Bullo. twenty-five years old, of
No. 2O31 Arthur avenue. the Bronx, was
crossing a ga%ngplank to a scow at One
Hundred N Thirtieth street and the
Harlem River at 4.So o'clock this morn
ing when the plank broke and he fell
into the water.
His cries attracted Policeman Pher-
son OF the East One Hundred and
T~wenty-sixth street station, who stood
on some plling, passed a rope around
the mans waist and dragged him to
the dock. He was taken to Harlem
Hospital suffering from submersion
and shock.
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WIDER GOES TO SING SING.

Erwin J. Wider, the clerk who was
found guilty on two indictments of
stealing S6S0,oo worth of securities
from the Russo-Cainese Bank. started
for Sing Sing to-day 10 serve mis- two
sentences. one of from FIVE years u
nine years and six months. the other
OF nine years. A considerable part Of
the stolen securities has not been az
counted for.
Wider went to prison handcuffed %
william Lambert, a negro. under Ell
tence Of nineteen years for highway
robbery. Another in the consignment
was Thomas Castoras. sentenced yes
tcriay to a term OF from twenty years
a. life for murder. TIT prisoners We're
in charge of Deputy Sherins Reitsa-
bach inc Mclaughlin.
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HENRY LEVY SET FREE.
Tobacco Dealer Was Accused OF
Attcmpting suicide.

Henry Levy. n tobacco merchant at
No. ia Front street. was arraigned to-
day before Magistrate Cornell in Har-
lem Court charged with having at
tempted to kill himself with gas last
Tuesday evening at his home in the
Wellington apartments, No. 1899 Mad
lson avenue.
Lawyer Alfred Linde OF Coldfogle,
Ghen q Linde appeared for him in
court. He produced the family ply
sician as a witness. who said that Mr..
levy's erves were broken down. and
that he was Respondent over business
conditions, which were really favor
able 10 him.
Magistrate Cornell. after Mr.. Levy
assured him that he was quite cured
Of his melancholis. let him go.
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II PRICE OF THE
PRAIRIE.
Phil BarOnet Pays II, hut lie Gets
Marble, Too.

MorJte, TOO.
w yHENEVER Phil Baronet thinks
M OF the broad Kansas plains. he
w thinks OF Marble. lie cannot re-
member the day when ne has o loved
her. These are his confessions at the
beginning of the Jook THE Price of the
Prairie" "a. c. Mcclure & Coz, which,
written by Margaret Hill McCarter, Is
ostensibly Baronet's story of his own
life.
The book tells a part OF the tale OF the
settling OF Kansas 1t begins with pdon-
Ger days. and Phil and Marble are the
children of pioneers. There are, In the
course Of the 4S9 pages. stirring chap
ters OF Indian fighting. together with
Incidents Of the border warfare and a
glance at the war between the States.
But through all runs the a OF the
youth and maid whose names have been
already cited.
The course OF true love does not run
smoothly. lean Pahusca, an outlawed
half breed, interferes and plans twice
the kidnapping of Marble, Lettie Con-
lon. interferes from pure jealousy and
helps spread misunderstanding tales OF
Pills ENHANCEMENT with Rachel Mel
rose. a not-un willing beauty from the
old Massachusetts home. Amos judi
son. an unfaithful trustee. interferes,
having hrs own selfish eye on Marie,
m tries coercion through i~nsinuations
against the honor OF the girls father.
The boy-and-girl post-ofice in the cliff
side. long known only to Phil and Mar
Jie, Is discovered by enemies and rihed
Of its contents. But the jealousies and
plottings. though they do work a brief
period Of arrangement for the lovers.
bring In the end trouble only for those
who promote them.
The story touches upon rzJ history.
bringing in the campaigffsof 1876
against the Cheyennes, In which Custer
Wa . leading ncurs.
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BY

BY CHARLES DARNTON
%VEN though the low-hanslns
weather was in bad spirits,
Riverside Drive looked like the
road to success, and as ! was bent
upon having Miss Ethel Barrymore
discuss this cheerful little topic, per.
haps everything had happened for
the best. At the same time II took
some OF tho Barrie out of me to find
that Kate, OF The Twelve-Pound
Look" who chucks success and her
husband TO 90 out into the world
and earn her own living by playing
business.like tunes on that type
writer, had in reality brought up on
Riverside Drive and was feeling
quite at home. thank YOU.
Though ! had not expected to ind
Miss Barrymore clicking away for dear
life in an agency" ] was hardly pre-
pared for Riverside Drive. But there
she was right In the granite heart OF
success, So after ! had been introduced
to the finest little Colt that eevr shared
a corral with white. woolly dogs. one
OF which was very glad to be alive. !
ventured to remark that Kate seemed
a woman after Miss Barrymore's "
heart.
Barrle's Simplicity.
yes. she is declared Miss Barry
more, turning her back on the dlscon-
certing Drive. 'Thc character appeals
to me tremendously. and I think Barrie
has written n really wonderful little
play. There is so much in II that the
ordinary dramatist would not have been
satisfied TO crowd all the material into
one act-he would have spread 1t out
until It covered II three or four acts.
I. doesn't surprise me that Barrie has
written this play. Nothing that he
might do could surprise me. But II
does seem n bit remarkable that a man
! who has had the greatest success him
self should turn his pen to the purpose
OF showing us how little material sue
cess counts after all. For that matter.
! don't believe Barrie has ever been con-
scious OF his W success. He has done
tnllks, anu fleut 'nihSS' tnt SllIlple
10y of doing them. Success has not
left It's proud mark upon him. The ma
terial side OF life means nothing to
him. and I'm sure he doesn't care a
cent about money. Spending II would
give him no pleasure because there is
nothing he could spend 1t on. He Is
satisfied with his black pipe and a bottle
of Poland water. That's the picture OF
him ] carried away after a week At his
house-a simple little man with simple
tastes. II you didn't know him to be a
success you'd take him TO be a failure
He's Bigger Than Success.
. Miss Barrymore's enthusiasm for the
almost shabby little man." as she called
him In tho mex breath. made me for
give her for living on Riverside Drive.
And then. too, she was in a rainy-day
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times mistaken for success. But really
TO succeed in anything you must satisfy
yourself of our success-you must be
able to do the thing you feel you
should do. N real satisfaction can
come from being told that you have
succeeded. For myself, / only hope
that | may some day be able to ac-
complish what ] started out to do"
Whats that?" ut was no time to
waste words.)
Act
That was doing 1t up n~eatly-eh'
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SKIPPER AND SKIPPED.
CRp'n Sproui Takes Toll of Love
and n Fiery Colonel.
Ii

xxi owns more timberland than
II any other man In the country.
lie hires more men than any
one else, lie amt never been downcd
Ia a trade or a fight yet. He's got
double teeth, upper and lower, all the
way round, drinks kairosene in the win
ter cause us more warmln' than rum,
midland -
whats thnt got to do" asks Cap'n
Aaron Sproul. with his runnin' toll on
this Bridge
Cap'n Aaron is nfty-eight, hale and
hearty, despite touches OF rheumatism.
and has retired from the sea service
with $4,000 and some misgivlngs to sue
coed his lately deceased uncle as Keeper
Of the bridge. He is the strenuous hero
NJ Holman Days new book OF New
England characters. The Skipper and
the skipped CHarpor a Bros), ant
the Arst enemy ne suDdues Is that sam,
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Dr.. Thomas A. Clay. a prominent
physician of No. 80 Sheridan avenue,
Paterson, N. j.. narrowly escaped death
yesterday when a Totowa trolley car
jumped the tracks on Hamburger ave-
nue. hill and crushed into the rear OF
his automobile. He was hurled TO the
sidewalk n badly hurt.
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SWORD IN HE UUNTAINS
Champ and Deiorn just Love On
While u Flashes.

IRON the day that Champ Seacrest
stag IN his seat durins recess
because Delora Clean is kept in
these two are Lovers. so a romance
springs up In the Cumberland Noun
tains in Tennessee which Alice Mac
Gowan has written out, along with much
stirring detail OF the civil-war battles
of Chickanauga, Lookout Mountain. &C..
in her book The Sword In the Noun
ta1ns' (Putnams). The two principals
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THE CHASM.
Russian Count Falls In; the Gar
dener Wins Out.

n Kiss MARION MoULTON comes
MI hurriedly home to fay her'of-
AVA Tending father, and remains to
nirt with an assistant gardener. Yet
before Walt Bradneld dawns on her
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Not a Matter Of Money.

What about the woman who drives
her husband on 10 success"
But it doesn't necessarily follow
that his success Is II matter of money
commended Miss Barrymore. she may
be anxious for him to achieve 1t along
big lines. and not care about his maxi
ms an awful lot of money. Perhaps
she wants to be proud of him as a man
In his own particular field. not purse
proud OF him as a man who has made
A material success. The woman who
marries for money. of course. Is In a
class by herself. It's n great pity, but
money is her life, Puck and Judge.
But a lot of women can be perfectly
happy without a lot of money. Their
success is In just being happy"
And your success?' I ventured.
"Oh,' she laughed-and there was a
blush or two into the ba~rgaln-"it's an
unknown quantity. Popularity is some
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+ NOVELS OF THE DAY TOLD IN A NUTSHELL f.
4~-+

rlves to put his head in peril where his
heart has been engaged.
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The Woman Who Mar
ries for Money Is in a
Class by HerseH-T rue
Pride Is Beyond Purse
and Is Only in Mans
Achievement in His
Field.
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Blood, Muscle. Bone and SincW

contains the maximum nutritive eie~
ments for making blood and building
bone and sinew. 1t keeps those who
drink it hale. hearty and vigorous, and
extends the working period and efficiency
Of life.
On Draught and In BOTTLES.
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VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS.

NJ IaminerSteln $ VIII be Harry
Kelly in "DoinG Him Good" Elita
Proctor Otis in Mrs. Burners Beau"
Al Halson and Ellis and McKenna in
Wanted, a Tenor" Mr.. and Mrs.
Mark Murphy and others.
Among others at the Manhattan Opera
House will be Eva Tanguay, Howard
and North. Stepp. Mehlinger and King,
Nichol Sisters, George Il. Reno and \.
o. Duncan.
Vesta Victoria will head the bill a,
the American Music Hall. Others will
be May Fillmore. the Florenz Family.
the Hawaiian Four, Edith Leroy and
the Four Amaranths.
The Plaza Music Hall will offer George
EASTWOOD. Clark and Hamilton. Walter
Perclval. Mile. Give. Bob Ford. Orpheus.
Augustin and Hartley. Pendleton Sis
,ers and Kaiser's Terriers.
The bill at the Fifth Avenue Theatre
Will include Gus Edwards's Song Revue.
Valerie Bergere in Judgment" Isabelle
Diamond, Edgar BiXley and Henry
Give.
At the Colonial will be Andrew Mack.
Amelia Stone. Nina Minar in THE
Darling Of Paris" Fanny Rice, Little
Billy. Ruby Raymond and her Boys,
and others.
Among the features at the Alhambra
will be "Circumstantial E,idence.' John
G.. Hymer in Tom Walker on Mars.
| Al. Jolson, Gordon and Marx, and Stepp.
Mehlinger and King.
At the Bronx Theatre will be Nc
Intyre and Heath. Billy Van and the
beaumont Sisters in props" Kelly and
Kent in Fun in a Theatrical Agency
Leon Royce. Brown and Blyler. and
others.
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YANKEE DOODLE BALL.


tain
Tho Yankee Doodle Boys. one OF tho
O popular organizations on the west
side. will entertain then many friends
az their fourth annual mask and civil
hall. to be he'd Tonight at Lyric Hail.
~Forty-second street and Sixth avenue
Many valuable prizes will be given for
most original costumes.
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THE GREENROOM MIRROR.
Frank ]. WiIstach.

Frank J.. Wilstach.
Deadheads shotid not look 0Ut
seats in the springs.
A bad play is, like a cigar-it
requires j%udicious putting.
A bottle Of peroxide outside a
,cindou means a soubrette inside.
In the ocean of the drama the
actor must be in the sutm to get
across.
A play Is Ike a hen: An elabor-
ate setting does not Improve u foul
play.
Most actors could prefer TO star
and starve rather than support and
sup.
when an actor gets 10 be a big
gun he expects to hear reports abous
himself.
In China the drama is Ike a game
OF billiards, the player dlwdys hos
his cue.
The actor likes to play in the city
for tho ghost does not dltcavs
,calk In the Hamlet.
First nights Of PLAYS are dicdys
interesting, for then ire see The
press agent dressed as a matter.
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J. M. Barrels "TUeIUe-
Pound Look" Appeals
to Actress Because Its
Beautiful Woman Is
Not Measured by Face
or Figure and Is Prize
of Man Who Doesn't
"Cet On"
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Marrying off Daughters
Problem of Coming Play
Charles Cherry to Be The Star
of "Seven Sisters New
Circus Bill at Hippodrome.

(GN EVEN SISTERS" n Hungarian
~farce-comedy adapted by Mrs.
~ Edith Ellis. viii come to the
Lyceum Theatre on Monday night as
a starring vehicle for Charles Cherry.
Tho play concerns itself viii the Of
forts Of a widowed mother to marry
off her numerous daughters. Four "
the listers have reached the marriage.
able age, but the most attractive one,
the fourth girl. had been sent away
from her native village to a convent,
and because Of her ~escapades dismissed
that a young man has paid her fare
home and, feeling the disgrace of her
dismissal and apprehension for her
presence at home. compels her TO
change her dress for that OF a more
youthful age. shortly after. the young
man, an aristocrat of the n%eishbor-
hood, Lieut.. Horkoy, Is brought to hcr
home. and here he Is amazed at seeing
the young lady whom he had met In
such childish. attire. He learns from
her what the condition of the family
Is, and makes a bargain with her that
for three kisses he will marry off her
three elder sisters. Among others In
the cast will be Laurette Taylor. Alice
Sohn. Car,otta Doty. Eva Mcdonald.
Mrs. Clara r. Bracy. Shelley Hull,
CASTOR Bell and John b. Hollis.
Victor Moore will be seen at the Cri-
terion Theatre beginning Monday night
IN The Happlest Night in His Life"
by unie McCree and sydney Rosen-
field, with music by Albert Won Tilzer.
The particular nocturnal period empha-
sized in the title OF the piece Is a GER
tain nisht on which a musty old book
lover Is induced to forsake his tones
and the domestic hearth for an Innocent
romp among the bright lights of which
he has often read but never seen. Mr..
Moore's new role IS that OF Dick Bren-
nan, who is the sightseeing on Of
the story. In MIR. Noore's support viii
be JUNE McCrec. Jack Henderson. Phil
Rylcy. Annabelle Whitford, MAJ Phelps.
Emma Littlefield, Sallie Stembler ana
others.
\ change OF circus programme will
be made at the Ilippodrome on Monday
afternoon. The new features will in
cludc the Great Albas Ia a wire act,
Armando's comedy animal speciality,
the Three Donalds IN a gymnastlc act.
the Coloni'ls IN an exhibition of physi-
cal culture, and the Rlunenfeld Sisters,
equestr!ennes. Powers's elephants will
remain.
Chauncey Olcott In Barry of Bally-
more comes to the Grand opera House.
The Aborn Opera Company begins a
season of grand opera IN English at the
Majestic Theatre on Monday night
with Madam butterfly" as the bill.
The company includes Dora De Philippe,
Lois Ewell, Ethel Du Ere Houston,
Henry Taylor and Ottley Cranston.
The Jolly Bachelors will be the at
traction at the West End Theatre.
The stock company at the Academy
Of Music will present Camille
The Trocadero B~urlesquers" will be
seen at the Columbia.
The Murray Hin Theatre will offer
the Behnan SHOW.
THE Midnight Maidens'' comes 20
| Hurtig & Seamon's.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-01
Bruce to Oklahoma City.

The Vanzant-Bruce Drug Co., of
Oklahoma City, of which we made
mention in Saturdays paper, will
take from Pauls Valley three OF
her best and most wide-awake citi-
zens: C. p. Bruce. u S. Allender
and L w. Wetterwark. As stated
this will be the biggest concern of
its kind in the state, and probably
in the southeast. The capital stock
is 100000, of which 100000 has
already been paid in. c. P. Bruce will
be the treasurer, l.. w. Wetterwark
head bookkeeper and Z. S. Allender
will have charge of the laboratory
Thus do the big cities draw upon
the smaller ones for brains anl
energy.-Pauls Valley Free Lance.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-01
MILL CREEK.

Mill Creek. Okla, Jan. 81. w
Draughon has moved the Mill Creek
hardware stock, of the II. c. Draugh'
on & Sons Co., to Davis.
A. A. Veatch who has been sick
for the past few weeks, is able to be
down town again.
The new livery barn of J. X Cobb
is nearing completion.
The bazaar given by the teachers
OF the public school Saturday night
was a great success. About thirty
dollars net was secured for the pur'
pose of buying suits for the basket
ball team.
Judge ]. T. Walter has sold out his
business here and will remove shortly
to Oklahoma City, where he has form
ed a partnership in the law practice
there. He will be succeeded in bust
ness here by Deayer and Frost a new
Arm recently organized.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-01
Ground Hog Day Tomorrow.

With cloudy and unsettled wealth
er forecasted, that great portion of
the population of Oklahoma who
are not superstitious,, but who do
believe in signs" is anXiously hop
ing that the cloudy weather will
continue for at least another day.
The reason for this hope is that
Thursday, February 2, is the date
on which these sign believers as
certain the class of weather that will
be handed out from now on by the
weather bureau of the department
of agriculture. And the whole thing
hinges on the little woodchuck,
more commonly known as the ground
hog.
If when this animal comes out OF
his winter hole on February 2, as
he Invariably does" the sun Is shin
ing. and he sees his shadow" he
will at once run back, and wintry
weather will continue for a period
OF six weeks. But if he does not
see his shadow, that is, If there
are no shadows on that day fol