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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-03

Notice G. a. X.
To The ladies' OF c.. \. r. you are
requested to be present &C 2:20 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon Nov. 81 al Bur
ford hall BY order Of President
Blanche farmhouse.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-03

II yonr gas stove - out of order
call 25f. lohr's Plumbing shop. ond
have it cleaned and adjusted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

stand-pat members would do. Ihese
reassembled on June Is and when II
became apparent that Douglas held
a majority of the votes there was
another bolt, which included the
whole southern contingent and many
of the northerners. Those who re-
NAMED nominated Douglas.
The second group OF boilers nom
mated John C. Breckenridge OF Ken
tucy, and their action was ratified
bv the first group when all met in
Richmond.
The south had openly threatened
war if a republican president, espec-
tally Lincoln, should be elected
Leaders on both sides of the split
made desperate efforts at reconclila-
ton but the majority of the southern
ers stood firm and would make no
compromise. LluCOlH Was
and at the elections the southern
vote, which could have elected Doug
las. went for Breckenridge and Lin
coin won. Immediately the polite
ians from south of the Mason and
Dixon line began to withdraw from
Washington and to prepare for war
Shortly after Lincoln took his oath OF
office the following spring, the strug-
gle began.
Who knows but the bolt OF the re-
publican malcontents at Chicago may
result in as great a change in the
country as that caused by the aboli-
ton of slavery. Now is the demo-
cratic chance. AS the republicans
won in 1860, against party disor-
ganized by a~few hotheads, so may
the democrats win in 1912 If the COL
onel has his way.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
Donate Prizes for Big Picnic.

The management of the big July
As picnic have decided to award a
number of valuable prizes in the
various contests which will be pulled
off on the big day, The merchants
of Ardmore have responded most
literally.
Among those who have given to
the prize fund are: J. E. Hamilton,
j. b. Spragins, New State Hardware
company, Randol- Ditzler Dry Goods
company Westheimer & Daube, The
Fair, O. l.. DENIES, T. X. kearney,
Clark Furniture company, Madden Il
company, r. f. Grisham, Budd Hoard
& company, Kruger, the Shoe Man,
A. c. Young and Bivens, Corhn Il
Frensley.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
The Last Words.

OF the labor candidate to the dem
ocratio voters of Oklahoma. ! have
farmed most of my lite but am now
working at my trade-platerinS.
The time has come for the working
people to be heard in congress. Shall
they be heard through the democrat
ic party or through some other agen-
cy 1t is up to you, Mr.. Democrat.
d. r. CARPENTER.
We, the democrats of Woods coun-
ty, in convention assembled, in rec
ognition of the sterling qualities of
d. X. Carpenter, and in consideration
OF his long and consistent services
rendered the democrati party, do
hereby endorse his candidacy for
Representative in Congress at large
and further recommend him to the
electorate at large.
2d1w1
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
Personals

Jake lamOn, president OF the a.
d. & l.. railway, returned this morn
ing, TO his home in Lawton.
Prof. A. Michael was in from Pro
vence this morning.
John S. Owens left this morning
for the Bromide quarries.
]. w. Tobin, prominent New York
financier, who has been in the city
for several days upon important
business left for Oklahoma City this
morning. go
Claude Hines has gone to ANA
rillo, Texas. to visit with his brother
Fred.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Ledbetter and
son LETT here today for Eureka, Ark,
where they will spend a month or
more. Their plans are to go from
Eureka to Michigan to spend the lat
ter part OF the summer
Judge w. A. Ledbetter was a busi-
ness visitor here yesterday He is
interested in other matters in this
section of the state that will prob
ably bring him back the latter part
OF the week.
w. B. Frame has a telegram from
Lon Frame, who is at Rochester,
Mimi, which states that Mr.. Frame
rested badly Sunday night but rest
ed better Monday night following his
operation and the chances favor his
recovery.
Uncle Tom Nolen was in the city
today from McAlester. He stated
that he had not been an ardent Will
son man but he acknowledged that
President Wilson would sound pret-
tv good and he believes this good
year of our Lord is democratic year.
w. w. McIntire was in the city
yesterday marketing hay.
Frank Overstreet, a former resi-
dent OF Love county, has moved his
family to this city where he will
reside in future.
personals
]. f. James was in the city this
afternoon from Newport.
o. P Rushing was a business Wis
itor to thi city today from Spring
er
A. H. Stillwell was in the city to-
day from Glenn.
James Alverson, Carter county S
wheat king, was in from Glenn this
morning.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
Hunting Something Good.

Messrs. Finney and Joiner, the en-
terprising managers of the Airdome,
state that they are endeavoring to
date a good entertainment for the
neople for the coming week. Nothing
but the very best of road shows are
good enough for the Ardmoreites,
according to these young gentlemen
and because they are unable to Sc
cure strictly first class attractions
this week they thought it best tC
stage nothing, rather preferring to
wait until the coming week when
they know they can get something
good.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
.D|SSENS|ONS Do NOT
EQUAL THOSE OF 1850
WHEN CIVIL WAR WAS LARGELY
DUE TO BOLT OF SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS.

The present democratic convention
NAV be, as its leaders claim for 1t,
maxing history, but it will never
equal the results of the democratic
convention of 1860, dissensions on
which brought on the Civil war.
For many years up to 1860 the
democrats had held the balance OF
power. The republican party, then
newly formed, was the offspring OF
the old Whig or "Know-Nothing'
party, then fast losing ground. 1t
was unpopular then suffered an
overwhelming defeat in the election
of 1856. when James Buchanan won.
But the intense feeling throughout
the north against slavery weaned
many of the younger men away from
the old party and the outrages in
Kansas and Missouri, the border
warfare, intensified the feeling IN
favor of abolition which was opposed
by the democrats.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
awakened intense interest and the
hanging of James Brown at Harpers
Ferry in 1859 forced the northern
democrats to abandon their stand
that slavery was constitutional right
and to adopt the plank of popular
sovereignty, or the legality of the
decision of each separate state on
the slavery question. Then, as now,
the South was soidly democratic and
naturally this forced a split. The
Northerners mustered under the
leadership of Stephen A. Douglas, the
Little Giant and the southern fac
ton followed Senator Jefferson Davis
of Mississippi. Y
The chasm in the democratic party
grew wider and wider until the house
of representatives came under the
republican control. The election of
a republican president seemed inev-
liable, but even then, had the demo-
Gratis united, they could have won the
day.
The democratic convention met in
Charleston on April 23, 1860 There
was an immediate disagreement on
the slavery plank, and the northern
states, being in the majority, adopt
ed the Douglas platform. The SOU
therners Immediately bolted and call
ed a convention of their own to be
held at Richmond on June II. In
an endeavor to concliate the boilers
many of the democrats turned against
Douglas, who was candidate for
president, and fifty seven ballots fail1
ed to name candidate. The con-
vention then adjourned to meet at
Baltimore on June IS. The boilers
met on June II, but Immediately ad-
iourned to June 2S, to see what the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
To Finish Tax Levy Today.

The board of city commissioners Will
finish I'D making the tax levy today.
The body worked hard and faithfully
upon the matter the greater part OF
the day yesterday, but failed to get
through.
The board will be called together in
regular monthly business meeting this
afternoon and, after the regular rou-
tine business the tax levy matter will
be taken up and finally disposed of.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
Sustains Broken Arm.

Mrs. w. r. Selvidge, wife of Rev.
w. r Selvidge. and mother of Prof.
G. p. Selvidge of this city, met with
a most painful accident this morn
ing when she sustained a severe
fail at her home in the breaking OF
both bones in her left arm.
A physician was called at once
and reduced the fracture and at last
report the lady was resting as eas
ilv as could be expected.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
Ice Cream Social.

There will he an ice cream social
On the lawn of the East Ardmore
Presbyterian church tonight. Every
one cordially initved.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Josh Billings once said that every
man had the right to toot his own
horn" Virgil Johnson, who is max
ing his first political campaign. says
that he has learned this early in the
race that if fellow fails to take ad-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Don't buy screen doors and refrig-
orators and lawn mowers until you see
me. Will sell them cheaper.
sO-6 X. KEARNEY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Jim Cruce has just received new
threshing machine and will soon put
same in operation on his farm just
north of the city limits.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

1t IS understood that DR.. Sliillern
will appear before the city commls-
sioners this afternoon and submit,
for their consideration, another prop
osition upon the sale to the city OF
the product of the Skillern gas wells,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

vantage OF the privilege accorueu MIN
by Josh, his political horn will come
up as did the horn described by Sir
Walter Scott in the first four lines
of his Lady of the Lake" that is 1t
will hang long on the stump the po-
litical witch elm tree that shades the
pathway to office. And that the dust
and moss of many ages Will mutfie
il.
w. O. Lane has moved to Ardmore
from Corsicana, Texas, and has leased
one of the store buildings on the low
er floor of the opera house. He is
putting in a stock of bicycles, bicycle
repair goods and supplies, and will
rent, sell and repair bicycles.
MIR. and Mrs. Cecil Williams OF
Kingston have new 11-pound girl.
Mr. Williams has already had the
young lady elected assistant cashier
of the bank and says she is perform
ing in n manner TO the delight Of
both parents.
Prof. Robert Michael left for his
home today after a stay of one week
in the Hardy Sanitarium. His health
was sufficiently recovered for him to
make the trip home He was great
ly pleased with the sanitarium and
says the lArdmore women are the
best on earth. They kept flowers in
his room and he says gave him
enough good things to eat for dozen
sick men. He is well pleased with
the service at the sanitarium.
Clerk George II. Leeman Of the
county court issued marriage licenses
today to Charley Copeland, aged 2S,
of Brock and Miss Nettie Pruitt, aged
20, of Provence. Also to Eugene f..
Forbes, aged 81, of Marsden, and Miss
Carrie Glider, aged %, of the state of
Mississippi.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Telephone reports from Cornish
stated yesterday evening that the rain
which had been general across the
state from north to south had fallen
in very limited quantities in hat
vicinity. Our informant said, how
ever. that there was a sufficiency to
be of great benefit to the growing
crops.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

A large and healthy crack seemed
to be in the lid somewhere yester-
day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02


day.
Jim Cruce has just received new
threshing machine and will soon put
same in operation on his farm just
north of the city limits.
II IS understood that DR.. Skillern
will appear before the city commls-
sioners this afternoon and submit,
for their consideration, another prop
osition upon the sale to the city OF
the product of the Skillern gas wells.
Seliste Shoemaker, a young Indian
girl, seventeen years bf age dled
Yesterday morning at the home OF
ner parents near Durwood. She will
be buried this afternoon.
The commercial CLUBS secretary
states that ne is daily in receipt OF
letters from farmers in other states
seeking information about This sec
tion.
Walter Colbert, who was in from
his farm just west of the city yes
terday, stated that he had finished
threshing his oat crop and said that
the yield was well up to the average
running over sixty bushels 20 the
acre.
Advices from the Woodfo"d neigh
bornoot state that wheat, which is
now being threshed will make an
average yield of thirty bushels 10 the
acre.
Between the chopping out of cot
ton, the baling of the second and third
cutting of alfalfa, the threshing OF
his wheat and oats and listening
to the song of the candidates, the life
of the Carter county farmer is a
strenuous one.
The ArdmOrc Scratch Cats will go
to Marietta tomorrow to play dou-
ble-header game with the Marietta
| Boomers. The Scratch Cats have
beer swipng all the games from the
Boomers this season and will leave
here confident of bringing home two
more victories.
Architect White is busy upon the
plans for the Christian church to be
erected this fall upon the Niblack
property. corner Broadway and A
street.
The driveway and concrete paving
in the yard OF the Ardmore Oil Mill
adds greatly TO the improved appear
ance of the grounds.
Merchants are responding most lib
erallv to the call of the ARRANGEMENTS
committee for the big picnic.
There vii; be given an old fashion
ed basket picnic at the Downard
Mines on July 10.
A four-horse load of flour and a
number of new buggies were taken
out today by the Pooleville mer-
chants.
Three negroes were up before the
municipal Judge yesterday, charged
with stealing a ride on the inbound
Santa Fc. They were fined ten dol
lars each and will handle number
two shovel until the debt is paid.
Judge Winfrey, who had his arm
and shoulder badly crushed by being
thrown from buggy some two weeks
ago, is recovering rapidly.
"A local wholesale dealer and con-
tractor-Yho is also a great baseball
fan, says that he wants things settled
in the democratic convention today
SO that folks can get some baseball
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02
Will Visit Old Home.

Joseph Coffelt, who has been All
Ardmoreite for many yeas, left over
the Rock Island today for summer S
cisit to hi sold home, Jefferson CITY,
Missouri.
Mr.. Coffelt will spend most of the
time with his father, who lives near
the old Missouri capital. The elder
Mr.. Coffelt is far advanced in life
and is one of the oldest native horn
Misourians now living in his native
state.
You and your friends are cordially
invited to spend the 4th and 9Th Of
July in Ardmore. Mammoth celebra-
ton, gorgeous display of fireworks.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Seliste Shoemaker, a young Indian
girl, seventeen years bf age died
yesterday morning at the home OF
ner parents near Durwood She will
be buried this afternoon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

The commercial cluD's secretary
states that ne is daily in receipt Of
letters from farmers in other states
seeking information about this sec
ton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Walter Colbert, who was in from
his farm just west of the city yes
terday, stated that he had finished
threshing his oat crop and said that
the yield was well up to the average
running over sixty bushels 20 the
acre.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

Advices from the WoOdfo"d neigh
bornoot state that wheat, which is
now being threshed will make an
average yield of thirty bushels 10 the
acre.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-02

"A local wholesale dealer and con-
tractor-Yho is also a great baseball,
fan, SAYS that he wants things settled
in the democratic convention today
SO that folks can get some baseball
news over the wires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-17

whose house had been plundered by some
people in the pay of King Donall O Neill
(9S6-3SO ADJ, hit upon an ingenious de-
vice to bring his complaint before the
king himself. Dressed in his poets garb,
and accompanied by his twenty-five fol-
lowers and disciples, he went to the court
Of the king and offered to recite a tale.
The king demanded list of the stories
he could recite. Thereupon Urard men-
toned the titles one after another, of
several hundred tales, but in every in
stance received the answer that the king
already knew the story.
At last he mentioned a tale unknown to
the king, who demanded to hear 1t. The
poet then told him of the pillage OF his
own house. and with his recital so moved
the king that he promised vengeance and
compensation The poet, before the re-
cital, had said: Shall tell you the tales
of Ireland? Would you hear tale of
courtship and love, of elopement. Of jeal-
ousy, treachery and death? Or would
YOU rather hear of dreams and appari-
tons? Or if you prefer, / will tell you
OF feasts and banquets. of cattle spoiis,
sieges, battles and conquests. or of ad-
ventures. voyages and exile"
II there is one trait which distinguishes
this early literature from that of other
nations in similar stage of development
it Is the type Of womanhood revealed in
it.
says Eleanor Hull, Ito impose upon the
mind of Europe a new type and ideal Of
womanhood. the type of Iseult and
Elaine. of Guinevere and Enid. SO 1t be-
longed to Ireland to create some Of the
earliest love tales of western Europe, of
The love tales of Ireland are not only
among the most ancient in western Eu-
rope. they have also a purity, tender
ness and charm hardly to be found else
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-17

they left notes. CLOSES and commen-
taries.
The richest of the manuscripts that
Zeuss studied was the ''Leber Sancti Co.
brosiana at Milan. out of which Latin
psalter he secured over 5000 old Irish
CLOSES. In 1853 he published the IA
nous "Grammatica Celtica."
Among the distinguished Celtic poets
and writer's must be included Clarence
Mangan. Thomas Moore. Sir Samuel
ferguson. Thomas Davis, r. d. and P.
w joyce, Douglas Hyde, Standish Hayes
OGrady, DIR. Sigerson. Eleanor Hull,
Lady Gregory, George Russell, w. b.
Yeats, MORA O'Neill. Neill Munro, Fiona
Macleod and many others.
In the United States the most dis
tinguished Celtic scholars are Mgr. Sha-
han. rector of the Catholic University
ana president of the Gaelic Society of
washington: DR.. Joseph Dunn, who oc-
cuples the chair of Celtic at the uni
verslty James Mooney. the ethnologist
ana former president of the Gaelic So
clety, Is another Washington Celtic scho-
lar and student of Irish folk lore, as is
also A. Mcneil, vice president Of the So
ciety. Among the students Of its litera-
ture and lecturers in the courses of the
society are number Of the profess ors
In the universities.
Dividing Irish literature into two main
groups. the prose tale and lyrical poetry,
Dr. kuno Meyer maintains that there still
exists In manuscript of various ages about
800 tales. OF which only about 80 have
been printed and translated, while q
manuscript catalogue in the library of
the Royal Irish Academy enumerates the
initial lines of nearly 1900 poems still
preserved to us. To give an idea of the
variety of the themes of these tales the
following episode may be quoted:
A poet. by name Urard Mac Coise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-17

Rasng of knowledge and Satan so busy to blind
Raving Of glory-like me-for the garland to
Garlands of song are but gathered and strewn
in the wind.
His greatest poems are the familiar
MY Dark Rosaleen'' and "O'Hussey $
Ode to the Mcguire, both grandly ORA
matte. He translated a number of poems
from the Irish. The Gaelic revival de-
rives from Ferguson a return to the
primitive or medieval monuments OF
Celtic imagination, and from Mangan an
adoption of what is transferable In the
Gaelic style and technique.
In his essay on Irish music and poetry
Thomas Davis said:
mo enemy speaks slightingly OF Irish
music, and no friend need fear to boast
of it. 1t is without rival. It's antique
war tunes stream and crash upon the
ear like the warriors of hundred glens
meeting, and you are borne with them to
struggle amid cries and battle-axes and
singing arrows. Did ever a wall make
mans marrow CULVER and fill his nostrils
with the breath Of the grave like the
"Ululu of the North or the ''Wirras-
thrue of Munster" Stately are their
slow and recklessly splendid their quick
marches. The Irish dancing tunes are
not only the greatest for that purpose,
but the finest quick marches in the
world
Irish folk music ranges over the whole
gamut of human emotion from the
cradle to the battlefield, and is unsur-
passed in poetical and artistic charm.
OF late years the publication of numer-
GUS collections and Of the huge mass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-17

holding that it would prove a quarry
from which to hew the material of poet
ry. Conary,'' the first of his poems is
masterpiece of narration and of terse
and measured periods. He also trans
lated many poems from the original.
1888 are as follows:
They tell me the stranger has given command
That crommeal and cOoun shall cease In the land;
Ihat all our youths tresses of yellow be shorn,
And bonnets instead Of q new fashion worn.
That the echoes of music must sleep in their caves
That the slave must forget his own tongue for q
slaves.
That the sound Of our lips must be strange in
ears,
And our bleeding hands toll in the dew of our
tears.
ence Mangan. 1t was his special achieve
ment to reproduce in English the spirit
of lyrical poetry which took shape in
Ireland after the Norman invasion-the
music of the wind which is heard
throughout the Gaelic poems. In one OF
his finest poems nine quatrain stanzas
are composed on single terminal, the
refrain, 1T is gone on the wind" Three
of them are as follows:
Say, what is pleasure? A phantom, q mask
scienee2 An almond, whereof we can pierce but
Honor and aiiuence? FIrmans that Fortune hath
Only e glitter and pass on the wings of the
Solomon: Where is thy throne? 1t is gone in
the wind.
Babylon. Where is thy mishta 1t is gone in
Happy in death are they only whose hearts have
All earths directions and lousinss ana cares to
the wind.
Pity, thou. reader! the madness Of poor human
kind.