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gracious Caesar low with the wild light
nings Of her flashing eyes now cast
the spell of her maturer charms about
the heart of rugged Antony He fol-
lowed her to Egypt, lived and died Tor
her; and when she found that Augustus
was impervious to her charms she slew
herself, and thus there passed away the
Queen of Egypt. and the eternal type
Of brazen beauty and the love of love.
Before we leave the land of Isis and
Osiris, of mystic Nile and silent. staring
Sphinx, of towering tombs, of memories
Of great men, one other name must hold
us for a word. When Israel was feeble
and unlearned God sent His chosen race
to Egypt that there they might acquire
culture and wisdom, learning where best
they could be learned the arts and crafts
manship which else they had not known.
To that same Egypt came the infant
Christ. when hateful Herod sought His
little life. Upon desert sands He learned
to walk; her whispering rushes heard
His earliest speech
Her gods no longer claim the praise
OF men; the tooth of time wears out her
monuments; Rameses has lost the power
to oppress, as Cleopatra has the skill
to charm: but as the ife-giving Nile
gives hope of harvest for all time to
come. SO long men shall need its lib
erality. so Moses law and Jesus love
combine to cast a deathfess glory upon
the ancient shrine Of MiZraim. and we
scan her history and learn that nations
are but cradles for the infant Truth
Gods man child served, the cradle stands
aside.
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The Growth of Habits.
From the Pittsburgh Press.


A Philadelphia embezzler says that he
can remember the time In his life when
the owing Of S. worried him. But owing
money may. like many other things, be-
come habit and scar the conscience. He
acquired the habit and in late years felt
no uneasiness in borrowing all the money
he could get his hands on, even without
waiting for the owners consent. How
use doth breed a habit in a man, Habit
lies at the basis of all our ordinary action.
Everything that we do repeatly becomes
easy and habitual. David Hume declared
that the habit of seeing the bright side
Of things is worth more than a thousand
pounds a year. Diligence, economy and
perseverance are habits that carry life
as steadily to success as favoring winds
carry a ship at sea. Depravity is not an
inheritance. but a character formed by
persistent habits. And rectitude is only
the confirmed habit Of doing what is
right. The truth is not simply that we
may form habits: We must form habits
We cannot do or say or think or feel
anything without leaving a definite mark
on the nervous organism which more or
less affects all succeeding action or speech
or thought or feeling. Could the young
but realize how soon hey will become
mere walking bundles Of habits they
would take the care to have those habits
helpful instead Of harmful.
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Herodotus tells US that Egypt is the
gift of the Eile.' and this is literally
true. In no other land Is the life OF the
people so completely bound up In a sin
gle source Of existence and prosperity.
NO Nile. no Egypt" Is a safe axiom.
and now that men know the secret of it's
source and the reason for its swell and
overflow in the heated term. the .rever-
ence felt and worship extended toward
this mystical river Is more fully compre-
hended.
The Nile rises in two great lakes. but
recently discovered and with practically
no tributaries. flows for 1000 miles be-
tween a wall OF hills. SO that for hum
dreds of miles at a time IL runs through a
valley not over four or Ave miles in width
and beyond which all Is desert. But that
narrow valley is more fertile than any
annual overflow Of the river. which
rises twenty-three or twenty-four feet.
and deposits a layer of fertilizing mud
over the whole valley.
Egypt early became the grainary Of the
world. and the ships Of Phoenici- laden
with grain and fine linen from the valley
and delta of the Nile. were the world .
first merchantmen. Wealth came with
commerce and manufacture. and culture
came with wealth: religion unfolded It's
benefcent influence. until from q rude
polytheism IL came to be q moral and
spiritual system. Sometimes animals were
worshiped. and the Nile was always the
object OF supplication. but with the better
classes the various gods and animals
were but representatives - the one God
or symbols OF HIS power
with Al this greatness II is not straE &c
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bility. To stand In this world equipped
with agencies for service such as no other
era ever knew, to know the sunlight OF
an unprecedented day Of knowledge and
power to serve the whole world and to
live a life large and outreaching. is
responsibility which should alright all Of
us There is the danger ger that We, we may
Even now. with claimant calls for royal
living appealing from every side. 1t is
still true that Osome persons are going
through the world as II Christ had not
died and as X men were not living in
direst need OF brother help. The lesson
Of Capernaum. Chorazin and Bethsaida is
verify a lesson for the hour.
X X
Better Than a Diploma.
greatest usefulness is paved with diplo-
mas. and surely there are enough of
them to pave several paths!
Here enters the radical word Of Jesus.
saying that the childlike mind can dis
Germ spiritual realities more quickly than
can intellectual sophistication. Il thank
Thee. o Father. Lord of heaven and
from the wise and understanding and
didst reveal them unto babes: yea,
Father. for SO 1t was we'll pleasing In
Thy sight, Faith is highest wisdom.
Inc tEue1ul nc6Tt uuucIStAnOS Ine
lest truth more clearly than the largest
brain OF prideful wisdom. Jesus prob
ably was looking into the eyes Of His
peasant followers as He spoke, men guilt
less Of the training Of the schools. who
were doing more than the wise ones OF
the sanhedrin for the illumination OF
their age. When 1t comes to things OF
the higher life. faith finds a straight path
where skepticism founders in the woods
Wisdom is. after all, OF the believing
spirit.
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The failure Of some preachers Is not a
fact about the preachers. but about the
in which they work. Many
cruel Judgments are rendered upon min
listers of the gospel which rightly belong
upon the heads Of the people whom they
serve.
Up at the northern end Of the Lake OF
Galilee, in the center Of the sphere of the
earthly labors of our Lord. were three
favored cities, whose streets He often
Bethsaida and Cho,
rain. They knew Him and His life and
His teachings and His miracles. Yet tneir
called forth His Woe
unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Beth
saida! for il the mighty works had been
done in Tyre and Sidon which were done
in you, they would have repented long
ago in sackcloth and ashes so at, ne ae
works had been done in Sodom which
were done in thee, it would have remain
ed until this day."
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The Terribleness Of Truth.

knowledge of the truth creates juds-
ment day. We all of us are condemned
by the truth which We know and yet DO
not. knowledge is desirable only TO the
extent that it can be made useful. TO
Lnou and not to do is to incur the gravest
responsibility. A common delusion Is that
there Is virtue in the mere intellectual
acquisition of information and in the
theoretical and critical exercise of knowi-
edge. This is not so. Truth is to be used
Unpracticed, 1t becomes atrophied. like
any other unemployed faculty. When ex-
ercised 1t leads the way to more truth.
Every duty we omit obscures some truth
we should have known.
The awesomeness of living in a day OF
privilege and opportunity should search
the soul Often we hear about the grand
eur Of living now.
I'VE are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time.
In an age on ages of telling
To be living is sublime"
Yes. but it is also a terrible response
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that Egypt bred great men. and that
early in her history we find the poet and
the philosopher the physician and the as
tronomer. and to defend her liberties the
warrior. Thus by the twentieth century
b. c. Egypt had become the foremost ma
tion OF the earth, and shortly after that
her golden age began
About this time lived Senoferu. the first
OF warrior monarchs to leave a monu-
mental inscription to his deeds. and from
that day for nearly 1900 years every
great nation and every rowing world-con-
Queror has tested. arms with Egypt. To-
day England holds sway. and Egypt i'm
proves with each succeeding year.
AS We wander amCng the monuments or
sail past ruined cities upon the placid
bosom of the Nile the names of many
great and romantic heroes and heroines
, pass before the minds eye : Khufu. or
Cheops, who built the great pyramid
the south: the Theban kings: Thotmes
and his dynasty: Rameses, the Persian
conQueror: Alexander, whose most en-
during act was the founding of the
Egyptian city OF Alexandria; the Ptole-
mics, with their sister Cleopatra: Cae-
sar. Antony. Amrov. the Mohammedan:
Napoleon. Chinese Gordon. Mahomet
All. Arab Pasha. Sir Garnet Wolseley and
Lord Nelson. who won the battle of the
Nile. Where in all history will you find
names whose life interest so stirs the
blood?
To read the history of Egypt. to rest
beside its monuments and revel in its
lore is to enrich both mind and heart.
To see the patient archeologist toll on.
year after year. moving his tiny spade
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Boastst wosoul-si to e
0 a
many-sdedness the wonderful character whom the
spoken of the Teacher there
other the study of todays Sunday school lesson
The ndictng fourishg cities which had ignored
rejected vocng tender appeal the heavy
Contrasting these sides they yet related and
both perfectly consistent with the character of Jesus
discourse hinged the sending of the twelve
studied last week Some communities
reject Capenaum and Bethsada had eec
rejected Him. The responsibility for refusing accept known truth
study social applications and for its reia
ton the personal life.
years ago young minister called from charge
pastoate of important congregation neghborng city
The new field critical condition, and ecclesiastical
acres shook folly of the congregation calling
young had made particular of his previous
field the Of building
unquestionaby the foremost congregation and the
pupn its city The place had affected the The
tteness and and pesssm of his first charge
his powers although the world accorded him the
blame congena atmosphere greater confidence and
readiness part the parshoners the
his
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curtain OF history rises, revealing the settling OF
its earliest stage, Egypt is found possessed of a
culture complete and arts and sciences SO far
advanced that she has always borne the title of
The Mother of Civilization. Today the land is
known and as it has been for thirty centuries, as
Egypt.
Her first inhabitants were Copts, ruddy
race; doubtless a mixture of two strong races,
one Aryan, the other Cushite or Arabian Egypt
was always held to be part of Asia Her Ian
guage and her literature, her arts and religions,
were all Asian and while from time to time her
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the SOUTH and make the principal
and with their nebor the northeast and
Historians differ the dates and of their
all that the of Egypt the wonderful
all the world The avote forms of monumental expression
the Sphinx which literally thousands including
called the Great Sphinx which colossal figure
world the pyramid OF which the famous that Of Cheops
covering thirteen ground and standing $50 feet high and the
obk perhaps the perfect of ALL Limestone and sandstone
Her the materi used
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m the northeast of Africa warmed by tropc cheered
by the blue OF the Mediterranean and cloven twain
by the mother of its fertility the Nile lies the
ancient of Misr Msam early times called
How old civilization but when the
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The Personal Note.

Earlier in His discourse the Master
had unfolded the parable teaching Of the
responsibility for neglected youth. 1t
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THE medieval stitch, which
is nothing more or less
- than a form completed


than a form completed
with buttonhole stitches,
giving the appearance of Irish
crochet, is among the very latest
creations of up-to-date embroid-
cry Any one familiar with but
tonhole stitches can easily follow
the directions with their diagram.
Starting at a point where two
petals join, bring the needle
through from the under side of
the material and take FIVE darn
ing stitches, one across the base
OF each petal, bringing the needle
up close to the starting point, as
in Figure 1. Next take the but
tonhole stitches over the darn
ing stitch as in Figure 2. Then
take six stitches, adding one at
each end of the preceding row
of four, as in Figure 3. In the
same manner make the next four
with eight stitches in each, then
decrease the number, two at a
time.
To Transfer This Design.
DUT a cake of soap Qaundry
/ will do) in a pint of hot
water, stir vigorously and remove
the soap. Saturate this design
with the soap and water mixture,
then remove the excess moisture
by partially drying the saturated
design or by applying a sheet OF
blotting paper. Place the mate
rial or fabric to which the design
is to be transferred on a hard, FIAT
surface, and lay the design face
down upon the material. Cover
with dry sheet of thick paper or
two folds of newspaper, and with
the bowl of a tablespoon rub.
pressing hard, until the design is
entirely transferred, being careful
to rub from rather than toward
you.
When rubbing you can see II
enough pressure is being applied
by lifting the corner of the design,
to note how we'll it is taking. DO
not wet the material nor rub the
face of the design with damp nm
gers. To remove the design lines
after the article is completed,
wash in warm water with soap.
The entire process is very simple
and with a little care you can
easily make perfect transfers to
any kind of goods.
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seemed as il the lightnngs Of judgment
flashed from His lips as He spoke. Then
the dominant shepherd instinct began 10
manifest Itself. for Jesus never rose
above His yearning for the welfare OF
peasant followers as He spoke, men guilt
tender and personal and solicitous. He
saw these offenders as sheep wandering
without a shepherd. In spite OF all their
sings and failings He wanted to gather
them to Himself.
So We have the matchless appeal.
Come unto me- Others summon men
to a system: Jesus calls them to Him.
self. He in His personality Is the solvenf
OF human troubles. the healer OF human
woes.
A Carpenters "Shop Talk"
The preacher fresh from the schools
fills his sermons with quotations from the
classics and illustrations from the his
tory and mythology Of the ancient world.
When a farmer talks he uses the homely
figures of the everyday life of nature.
The mechanic speaks In terms Of his
trade Jesus. who. be ii ever remem-
bered, was a good journeyman carpenter,
talked about yoke Those hands. out:
stretched in invitation as He spoke, had
often been busy fashioning yokes that
rested easy upon the oxen. and helped
them to do their work and fulfill their
mission with least Of effort and dtscom-
fort. The yoke that Jesus talked about
was not the yoke Of the Roman empire.
which subjugated all its conquered peo-
pie: that is. made them pass under a
yoke. Christ's yoke is an aid to service:
it is a help in burden bearing.
The passage itself cannot be too often
quoted: Come unto me. all ye that
labor and are heavy laden. and i Will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon you
and learn Of me. for I am meek and
lowly In heart and ye shall find rest unto
your souls. For my yoke Is easy and
my burden is light
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t Design Can Transferred by the New Process Without Using @O Tedious lnPa Method
Umo 5loeS of a Urarber.

HE judge who sits in robed dignity the bench and
W terror evdoers home the familiar playmate
children There aspects of everybody
Browning says:
God be thanked the meanes his creatu
One to howa whe he low
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-05-12
Mothers Club.

On Yesterday afternoon at the
Carnegie library the Third Ward Mo-
thers' club met.
The lesson topic was Social Cen
tiers"
Mrs. John Whiteman was leader.
Mrs. J. c. Thompson made
splendid talk on the subject and Supt.
Richards made a convincing talk in
which he set the matter clearly he
for the ladies telling of our needs
along this line, and of what splen-
did benefit a social center would be
to the community.
It seemed to him a waste of pub
lie money TO spend 100000 on a high
school and use it only 1S0 days in the
year. and then with only one-tenth
of the pulls of our schools to enjoy
it.
illustrations We're given setting
forth what benefits other communi-
ties We're deriving from their schools
as social center.
The mothers and teachers present
expressed themselves heartily in IA
vOr of making a social center OF our
new high school, and are only wait
ing for its completion before definite
steps are begun.
At the business session it was de-
cided to give the annual treat to the
school children on Monday week, and
serve them with ice cream and cake.
The following officers were elect
ed:
T President--Mrs. Lynn.
Nicn- iHnnt hrc (FIitt tpnnpn
Treasurer-Mrs Sandlin.
The secretary will he elected later.
The club will install their play
ground apparatus the coming week,
consisting of see-saws and vaultin5
poles.
The program was closed with a
lovely violin selection by Miss Oze ia
Pugh.
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Browning Class.

The closing meeting Of the Brown
ing class took place Saturday after
noon in the assembly hall OF the court
house.
Mrs. Barry gave her usual prelimi-
nary lecture, after which she read in
most Illuminating manner, Andrea
del Larto, and The Bishop Orders
His Tomb.
The class evidenced their apprecia-
ton of their gifted and accomplished
leader, by giving her a unanimous
call to return for another session, at
the end of holidays
1t is possible that the organization
may change its form and become a
club, and perhaps grow into one OF
the important literary activities Of
Ardmore.
Certain ii is that if ii continues eN-
istence under it's present leadership it
will not live up to its possibilities
If it fails to make its mark.
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plated ware in the kitchen in a bas-
ket where the cat sleeps.
Mrs. Dexter hid all her Naluables
the day after the attempted burglary
but was so excited that she has for
gotten where she put them.
Byron Drew keeps his trousers
locked in a bureau drawer at night.
But he has pinned a paper on the
paror window soliciting the account
of the burglar for the Ardmore State
bank.
Lamont Byars has his trousers at.
tached to an electric button at the
head of his bed The burglar snatch
es his trousers and presto, the room
is flooded with light. Mr.. Byars has
the bed convenient to window so
he can make hasty exit in case the
burglar stops for an introduction.
Will Potter has been sleeping IN
the storm cellar ever since the spring
rains set in. He intends TO rely sole
ly on his argumentive powers if the
burglar finds his roosting place. He
intends 10 try to argue him out OF 1t.
Arthur Straehley and his entire
family have been sleeping in the at
tic since the first alarm was sound
ed Mr. Straehley keeps his trousers
in the Globe,Wernicke book case be
hind his law books Ii is rather a
good sized morning sprint to get them
in time for breakfast, but an ounce
of prevention
Morris Sass leaves his trousers in
the most prominent place in the room,
In the pocket he has placed his busi-
ness card, soliciting the privilege of
loaning him money.
Shelby Downard is doing his best
to get house in the neighborhOod.
All her life, Mrs. Downard has longed
ito tell her friends Of burglar scare.
Mr.. Downward feels that it is worth
pair OF trousers to get 10 crafty
her.
The burglar discovered that Mr.
G. l.. Byrne ran newspaper He
didn't even stop. There's nothing to
it,
If you want to he in real high class
society you must move out on G
Street, S. W, and get in the line of
the burglar
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Miss Garbutt enc of her interesting
readings
Each member brought her favorite
dish and the invitation TO the dining
room spread before them such a feast
as is seldom enjoyed in clubs or so.
cial gatherings.
The table for centerpiece held
bowl of fragrant roses and the feast
of good things about it proved that
club women can cook as well as study
Miss Garbutt offered a bright and
charming toast to Miss Daisy Nichols
whom the club has found an incom-
parable leader.
Mrs. r. L. Pugh toasted Miss Gar
butt in a clever talk, expressing the
clubs sorrow in losing her as a mem
ber.
Miss Dixon, the hostess, was also
thanked for the hospitality of her
home.
The club this year, the members
claim, has surpassed all other years
in several respects.
One of the most notable is that
club enthusism has run SO high that
no question ever lags for lack of dis
cussion.
Members have thrown off all re
strain and express themselves fully
in class.
Miss Nichols, the president, has de-
veloped club spirit among the mem
bers that will be reflected TO their
great benefit in the coming years
program.
At this last meeting the club men,
bers looked back with qualification
to a year Well spent and with the
full belief that the coming year vii!
even surpass the one just closing.
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Bridue Club.

The Bridge club played on Satur-
day afternoon with Mrs. Joe S. Berk-
shire.
Mrs. c. o. Bum and Mrs. A. C..
Cruce of Oklahoma City We're honor
guests.
After an interesting series OF games
a delicious luncheon was served the
club members and few guests who
substituted for absent members.
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self Culture Club.

The Self Culture club meets on
Monday, May Is with Mrs. Milton
Jones with the following program;
Suhject-Ambition.
Leader-Mrs. Miles Williams.
Response to roll call-Emulative
character.
Aspiration-Mrs. Aldrich.
Emulation-Mrs. Weeks.
PurpOse-Mrs. Wayland.
Parliamentary drill - Subsidiary
mOtion-AIrs. Lee Tyer.
Critic-Mrs. Charles Smith.
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Helps a Judge in Bad Fix.

Justice Eli Cherry, of ellis Mills,
Tenn. was plainly worried. A bad
Sore on his leg baffled several doc
tors and long resisted all remedies.
II thought it was a cancer" he
wrote. AT last / used Bucklen
Arnica Salve, and was completely
cured" Cures burns, Ooils, ulcers,
cuts bruises and piles. % cents at
Ringer Drug Co.
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Bible Study Class.

The bible study class met the past
week with Mrs. S. A. Apple with
Mrs. j. A. Madden as leader
Mrs. +. B. McElroy gave synop'
sis, concise and interesting, of the
book of Genesis.
Mrs. Dan Conway gave similar
review of Exodus.
The lesson discussion centered
around Moses and his call.
This weeks meeting will be with
Mrs. Apple with the 4, and 9Th
chapters of Exodus as lesson study.
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4. .WoMAN'S APPEAL

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er muscular or of the joints sciatica, lumbagos.
bsckache, pains in the kidneys or neuralgia
pains, to write to her for home treatment
which has repeatedly cured all of these tortures.
She feels 1t her duty TO send 1t to all sufferers
FREE. You cure yourself at home AZ thousands
Will testify-no change 0f climate being neces-
sary. This simple discovery banishes uric acid
from the blood loosens the stnened joints. pur-
iies the blood and brghtens the eyes, giving
elasticity aud tone TO the whole system. " the
above interests you, for proof address
Mrs. Al. Summers, Box X. South Bend, Ind.