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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
THE TRAFFIC IN SOULS.

From the time when the Great
Creator brought the first gigantic
evolution in which this beautiful
world was changed from chaos, the
devil has walked about among men,
He is no different today as he
strolls down our cities streets, or
crosses our widening plains than he
was when he brought hell into the
Garden OF Eden and encompassed
the fall OF the worlds first parents
The same reptile is clad in the raj
ment OF fashion in this year Ammo
Domini 1913 that was hidden in the
serpent's skin in the year B. c. J..
And men and women with the same
weakness for sin are falling before
his wiles as did the two who gazed
upon the forbidden fruit and heark-
ened to the seductive whisperings of
voluptuous pleasure with the first
rising OF Heavens sun.
A few moments of blissful law
violation, a few moments OF drifting
along the golden sea Of indiscretion,
a few moments OF blindness to duty
and a few more souls have been
added to the army OF moralitys dead
and a few more stars have been
wrested from eternity's firmament
II Is only the man whose own being
has become so inoCculated with tho
greed for gain. who mas listened
himself TO the whisperings of the
devil until his conscience is scared
and his own better nature dead, who
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

According to Texas exchanges a
rope which has been used in a dozen
or more legal executions in that
state, has recently been tested and
found to be good for several more
In case that rope should begin to
show signs of wear from continued
use in the Lone Star state, just
send it up to oklahoma and it Will
remain as good as ever for at least
two more years.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

MEETING-The
regular annual meeting Of the
shareholders of the Ardmore
State Bank of Ardmore, Okla, will
be held between the hours OF 10
a. m, and 4 p. n, on Tuesday,
January II, 1913, at its place OF
business in Ardmore, Oklahoma,
for the purpose of electing five
to nine directors to serve for the
ensuing year, and the transaction
of such other business that may
come before the meeting.
HAROLD WALLACE.
Cashier.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

a Denison citizen thinks he has
solved the problem of how to keep
water pipes from freezing in cold
weather. The system he plays is a
simple one and consists in leaving
the faucets open during the cold
snap This may prove alright il!
Denison, but if that man ever eY-
periments with an Ardmore wate!
meter he'll nail the lid down on his
faucets, freeze or no freeze.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

succumbs and "covets his neighbor'i
goods" even though in acquiring
them he carries, with his own de
struction, the destruction OF his
neighbor's peace-the destruction OF
his neighbors soul. II there are
degrees in Hell, and there should be
/ if there are not such man will
certainly win favor in the eyes oi
7 his Internal Majesty and be accord
/ cd a place in the seventh elevation
with all honors which should ac-
company the work of a faithful ser
want as gifts OF him whom he served
And the liquor traffic throughout
the civilized countries OF the earth
today, constitutes and affords TIE
one great means by which he who
covets may acquire his 'neighbor's
goods" Since the beginning of time
more souls have gone to the devil.
more objectionable sins have been
committed, more lives have been
wrecked and more homes have been
ruined through the agency of the
traffic in strong drink than through
any other. Traffickers in intoxicants
are but traffickers in souls. Giving
way to the whisperings of the evil
spirit which tells them TO coyet their
neighbors goods, the men with elias
tic consciences become dealers in
strong drink and traffickers in
uls-traffickers in heart breaks AMI
tears, traffickers in the sobs and
means of widow ed wives and orphaI.-
Cd children-trafiickers in life, in
virtue, in honor, in all that man nr
woman holds near and dear.
And year by year the legislatures
of the states in this most civilized |
country" will enact laws sanctionir5
or condonng this traffic that the
states Golfers may be filled with
goods.
Punishments are provided for and |
meted out TO the poor devils, who
have wrecked their lives and mort
gagged their eternities that they
might buy liquid destruction, for Of
fenses which they may have CON-
mit.ed while under It's deadly influ
ence, but the devils who have sold
to them that they might gain posses
sion of the coveted goods, are per
mitted to walk about the Land, erect
as was the original Master of Evil |
when he explained for the first time
the Toys of dsobedience" to the
laws of health, the laws of universe
and the laws of God.
And just as long as the greed for
gain shall govern the laws of our
country, just as long as the law will,
for an internal revenue" sanction
the TRAFFIC IN SOULS just
that long will our prison cells be
filled and the population of hell in
creased.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
Commercial Club Tomorrow Night.

Commercial Club Tomorrow Night.
Business of Importance, in the in
terests of the city of Ardmore and
of Carter county will come up for
discussion and the action of the
members of the Ardmore CONNER
cial Club at it's regular monthly
membership meeting which will be
held in the clubs rooms at the coun-
ty court house tomorrow evening at
1880 o'clock. Judge Felix X. West,
secretary of the club, is addressing
all the members of the club whom
he finds himself able to reach, urg-
ing upon them the necessity of at
tending the meeting.
The matter of the advertisement
of the meeting to be held in Ard
more on January "a, at which time
John Fields,-of the Oklahoma Farm
Journal, and II. NJ. Cottrell of the
agricultural department of the Rock
Island railway, will address the peo-
pie of Carter county and of Ardmore,
will be taken up and arrangements
for the entertainment of these gen.
tlemen while here will be formulat
ed. Also plans looking to the liqui-
dation of any outstanding indebted
ness which the club may be RESPONSE
bic for will be attended to-
Master Ernest Worley. the Carter
county boy who won the prize of a
free trip to Washington, offered by
the Cotton Seed Crushers' Assocla
tion to the boy in Oklahoma produc-
ing the largest yield of cotton per
acre, will be present as the guest OF
honor of the club. Young Worley
will arrive in Ardmore tomorrow
morning and after being entertained
by the club at tomorrow nights
meeting, will go to Oklahoma City
on Tuesday where he will be the
guest Of the Association of Cotton
Seed Crushers until his departure
for Washington City.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

SHAREHOLDERS MEETlNG-The
regular annual meeting OF the
shareholders Of the Ardmore Nat
ional Bank OF Ardmore, Okla, VIII
be held between the hours or 10
a. m, and p. m, on Tuesday,
January IA, 1918, at its place OF
business in Ardmore, Oklahoma,
for the purpose Of electing five
to nine directors to serve for the
ensuing year, and the transaction
OF such other business that may
come before the meeting.
P. D. MAXWELL,
Cashier.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

An eastern farm journal devotes
nearly a column to telling how TO
start a flock of ducks" Eliminating
all technical verbiage we would sug-
ges: that one night use an ordinary
stick-say about one inch in diam
eter ann three feet long. If no stick
be found at hand, use a stone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
LEOBETTER G. WIMBERLY
Real Estate Farm Loans
Fire Insurance Surety Bonds
Haskell Interested in Oil We'll.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. 11.-Former
Governor C. n. Haskell is interested
in the company that is preparing to
drill a test well for oil, seventeen
miles straight east of Chandler, on
the Pete Byrne farm. The material
for the rig was hauled to the site dur
ing the past week. 1t is said, too,
that Haskell is interested in some
drilling operations in this county. He
is now sinking a test well near Oke-
nah, also.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
MAN HAITIAN SHIRTS, BIG RE-
DUCTlON AT MADDEN'S CLEAR
ANCE SALE.
RINGERS
Syrup of White Pine Compound Con-
tains No Opiates.

Syrup of White Pine Compound Con-
tans No Opiates.
This excellent remedy is prepared
from pure barks and drugs here in
our store, we know what it contains
and while we do not say that it is
the best preparation of the kind in
the world, we do maintain that it is
the equal of any similar preparation
IN the market today. 1t contains no
opiates or narcotics and is sure
ire for colds coughs and Group, es-
pecially is it recommended for chill
dren.
1t is not claimed for this prepara
ton that it will reach the seat of
trouble as our "NOX-A.COLD" will
do, but it will relieve that tickling
cough so annoying to one who has
suffered a severe cold. OUR SYRUP
OF WHITE PINE COMPOUND, TAX
en- in connection with our NOXA
COLD. will do all that is possible to
cure a cough or cold, and if taken
1t once all recently contracted colds
will be absolutely cured. Now is the
season of coughs and colds, give
these remedies a trial Prepared and
sold only by RINGER DRUG CO,
the REXALL STORE, Ardmore,
Okla. s-w
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

A Houston. Texas. contemporary
states that the postmaster of that
city has enrolled over forty mer
chants in his parcels post school. '
f the fight keeps up between the
Oklahoma City merchants and the
Ohahoman, there will be no need or
the establishment of branch of this
institution in Oklahcma's capital city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
LEGAL NOTICES.
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING - The

MEETING - The
regular annual meeting OF the
shareholders OF the First National
Bank Of Ardmore, Oklahoma, viii
be held between the hours OF ~
a. m. and p. N. on Tuesday,
January IA, 1918, at its place oil
business in ArdmUre, Oklahoma
for the purpose of electing five
TO nine directors 10 serve for the
ensuing year, and the transaction
of such other business that may
come before the meeting.
c. l.. ANDERSON.
Cashiet
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

Sherman. Texas, now ranks as a
modern Gretna Green and a close
second, at the same time to Reno,
Nevada. During the year just passed
there were issued from the marriage
license department at the Texas city
1,077 licenses to wed, while the
courts granted 194 divorces. In the
divorce proceedings sixty per cent
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

John Thomas Jones, Texas ma
ohinist. shot his sweetheart, Miss
Augusta Matula, on Thursday of last
week, but steel corset stay de-
Elected the bullet and saved the
young lady's life. Probably it was
wise woman, after all, who made
the first departure from fig leaf
wearing apparel.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

Washington dispatches state that
democratic leader Underwood viii
favor retaining a tariff of five ~
six per cent on pottery because of
the great competition offered by
European pottery makers" That is
all right, the old fashioned tin buck
ct is good enough for ordinary NOR
tails.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

Up Amskogee way man has been
prosecuted for breaking into 4
church Rumor has stated for quite
a few years that it was hard mat
ter to get into the average church,
but the Muskogee case is the first
instance we have heard OF where i
sledge hammer was required
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

of the applicants for annulment OF
the marriage ties were women in
the matter of the issue OF marriage
licenses the men broke even.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
PROF. CARL NJ. JOHNS

bachelor of Oratory Valparaiso Uni
versity.) nov with Hargrove College
announces the opening of his Express
ion Studio Tuesdays and Saturdays at
1O5 d St, S. w. For rates and infor-
nation phone the College.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
Eastern Star.

Called meeting of Ardmore Chapter
No. 70 Monday evening at 1880, to
install officers.
POCAHONTAS COLEMAN,
Worthy Matron.
LIZZIE DOVE, Secretary
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
Notice..

Mr.. George Wall is now working
for me. Any customers giving him
business or showing him any consid-
sideration will be appreciated by me.
JESSE A. CLARK.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

According to his report submitted
to the senate last week, Governor
Cruce has, during the two years he
has served as chief executive o!
Oklahoma, commuted eleven SEN
tences. OF this number nine were
for capital offenses.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

Mrs. A. r. Tabor, of Crider, Mo-,
had been troubled with sick head
ache for about five years, when
she began taking Chamberlain's Tab
lets. She has taken two bottles Of
them and they have cured her. Sick
headache is caused by a disordered
stomach tor which these tablets are
especially intended. Try them, get
well and stay well. Sold by all
druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

For fresh meats phone 1853. Gra-
ham & Benton, at old Carpenter &
Ratliff stand. 81
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
HAY HAY HAY

By the bale, ton or car load.
Phone -. PORTER STAPLES,
1913 The Red Headed Grocer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

SUPPLY YOURSELF WITH MAN
HAITIAN SHIRTS AT MADDEN'S
CLEARANCE SALE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

BIG CUT IN MANHATTAN
SHIRTS. MADOEN'S CLEARANCE
SALE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

MANHATTAN SHIRTS AT BIG
REDUCTIONS. MADDEN'S CLEAR.
ANCE SALE
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
CLASS|FlEDADS

NO ADVERTISEMENTS THIS COLUMN AMOUNTING LEss
DOLLAR ACC ePTED UNLE LEss
,ANlEs THE AMOUNT ONE DOL Ian
WILL . RESP oNsisLE PERSON.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12
ron HtnT

FOR RENT-A three-room house,
224 9th Ave-, n. w. Phone 81.
Elmer Murphy. 93
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
important Link in the Devel- 0pment of the Salt
 River Valley

TX MILES east of Phoenix on the Arizona
 Eastern and one-haIf mile south of the Tempe road, there is located an industry which prom ises to become integral link in the deve- try in question is the manufacture of high ln P11tIa1ad and the ln1.atin nf tlc
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
EVILS OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS

No one has yet suggested the pOsSi- bility of large city getting down to a cash basis Just as individuals re- quire unusual sums of money to meet an occasional emergency, so must the people as q whole experience the same financial necessity. But it is evident that if some kind of settled and unes- capable financial policy were arranged for cities whereby the taxpayers would not be at the mercy of interruptions or incompetent politicians the saving would be very great. When a city elects a succession of mayors, each ambitious to mako stir and leave a monument to himself in the form of municipal purchases of utilities or something of that kind. there is very little protection for the people in the absence of legal restraint. If some plan such as that suggested by the Massa chusetts law could be adopted requir- ing retirement of bonds serially. it would dampen the ardOr of the poli- ticians who are so keen to plunge the people into further debt A settled financial program that would make it impossible for municipal officers to raise salaries beyond a reasonable limit that would insure against the aggre- gation of unnecessary bonded indebted ness. that would bring cities nearer to a cash basis, thereby eliminating the waste in interest-this would be long step toward solving the business prob lem of the average American city Kansas City Journal.
 Hire a little Salesman at The Re publican office. A Want Ad will see rorc customers than vou can
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
STORY OF THE LIBERTY BELL.

| The bell which hung in Independence Hall in the stirring days of the Amer l ican revolution, and was rung to an nOunce the adoption of the Declaration l of Independence, bore the inscription, Proclaim liberty throughout all the 1 land unto all the inhabitants thereof" Concerning these words, cast into the bell long before it was put to it's his tOriC use, there has been considerable controversy, but there will be no more. The mystery has been solved and now we know all about the most famous bell in our history.
 The words were a coincidence, an un- witting prophecy of the use to which the bell would be put and which would render it famous for all time. The bell was first cast in 1751, in England, to be used in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the granting of a char ter to the city of Philadelphia. Letters of Isaac Morris, who was superintend- ent of the old StatehOuse when the bell was ordered, which have been discov- cred by Winfred Jordan, curator of In dependence Hall, have made the story of the famous bell clear.
 These letters show that the bell was first cast in England, on the model of the famous Big Tom of London. by Thomas Lester, whose firm is still de-
 ing business in Whitechapel The in scription was suggested by Isaac Nor ris himself. d profound Biblical stu dent. and it is taken from the tenth verse of the twenty-fifth chapter of LeViticuS.
 A year after the bell arrived In America it cracked, and was reCast by two colonial mechanics Pass and Stow The first recasting impaired the tone of the bell, so that the job was done over with the result that the one was considerably improved.
 Later the bell cracked again, when used upon the occasion of the funeral of Chief Justice John Marshall, July 1, 1885, on the anniversary of the adop- tiOn of the Declaration of Independ- ence It was then hanging in the tower of Independence Hall, where it hung until 1871.
 The clearing away of the mystery surrounding the time of the placing of the words of the inscription in the bell arouses memory of the remarkably prophetic character of those words and how, placed as they were without thought of the great event it was to announce, they were filter than per haps any other that the mind of man could conceiVe.-ChicagO Inter ocean.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
IRON PRODUCTION IN 1913

While on Wall street and som
 other places there has been talk O dull business for some months past
 the blast furnaces of the United
 States have been active and hay,
 been turning out more iron than cvel before. The bureau of statistics o1 the American Iron and Steel Institute reports that in the first half of 1915
 the pig iron production reached q
 total of 16,48S,6O2 long tons, which
 was an increase of 5.3 per cent. over
 the make for the second half of 1912 and I'll per cent. over the first half It was by far the largest quantity ever reported for a similar period Moreover. this production. added to that for the second half of 1912, makes total of 32,143,265 tons, which exceeds by 2,391.4O2 tons the heaviest make ever recorded in twelve con secutive months. To go back to the most recent year of iron-trade de pression the half years production was greater than that of the entire year 1908 by 552.5S4 tons.
 This great production appears to have been pretty well absorbed, since there have been no complaints any where of the existence of large sur plus stocks such as were accumulated in 1909 and 1910. Early in the year, in fact there was scarcity of some
 kinds of iron. so great as to occasion an abnormal movement in prices, so that for two months or more No. , foundry sold at higher quotations than Bessemer iron. This was an unusual condition, but quickly cor rected itself. It is true that prices fell during the half-year and closed at a low point. from which there has since been a slight recovery Thus Ressemer pig at Pittsburg declined from $1S.15 in January to $1711 in June, and basic iron from $1T.31 to $154O: No. foundry at Philadelphia fell from $1S.50 tO $1619, and No. , Southern from $13.70 to $1O.SO at Birmingham. These are serious de clincs but were not sufficient to check the output to any considerable extent
 While all the important classes of iron showed an increase during the year, the most notable point was the large gain in basic pig, which con stitutcd 39.5 per cent. of the total make. considerably exceeding the Bes- scmer output It is not generally un- derstood, perhaps, that more than half the pig iron-53 per cent. exact ly-made in 1913 was not cast in any form, but was delivered in molten condition to mixers, cOnVcrtcrs and open hearth furnaces. Less than half. therefore. was remelted,
 The great production of pig iron points to an equally large output of steel The total make of inEots must have been nearer 17.Oo0.000 than 16,- poo OOO tons for the half year-a pro iuction which certainly does not in licate a period of depressiOn.-En | gineering and Mining Journal
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
BOth Imports and Exports 0n HaCrease
 
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country. the exports to Canada from the north Pacific and north Atlantic ports having aggregatei 8 nilIioR dollars.
 The gain in exports through the gulf ports occurs chiefly in trade with Europe, South America. and the West Indies. Increasing quantities of cot ton, lumber and breadstuffs pass out of the gulf ports, chiefly for Europe. while those ports also show a dis tinCt increase in the movement of manufactures to Latin America. Of the imports through the gulf ports. about one third are from Brazil chiefly coffee: about One-f fourth from Cuba, chiefly tobacco; the remainder
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21

chiefly from Europe and from Mexico, Central America. and the West LHdiee
 The Pacific and Atlantic ports are more distinctly cosmopolitan in their trade than those of the northern bor- der or even the gulf About one half of the exports from the Pacific coast ports go to the Orient. the remainder being distributed to Can ada. Europe and Latin America, in the order named About two-thirds of the trade with the Orient stik passes through Atlantic ports.
 The figures of imports and ex- rorts through the six great groups of ports-Atlantic. gulf. Mexican Dor der, Pacific coast, northern border, and interior~are as follows:
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
-T.,n.sE 70 U 5 z
 aENr FOR RENT.

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Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
AS IT IS DONE IN KANSAS CITY

The Kansas City Star says that now that the police have silenced the cut-out fiend on the Benton Boulevard hill the campaign is to be extended to other parts of the city,
 Chief of Police Hammil of Kansas City says at least two motorcycle policemen will be assigned 10 the work every night.
 And they will keep at it." says the chief of police, until all the motorists have learned to run their cars with their muffIers closed. with out smoke and at reasonable speed"
 That is the way to stop the cutting out of the muffler and excessive speeding and the only way.-Littlo Rock Gazette
Arizona republican., 1913-08-21
Report of the Condition of THE PHOENIX SAVINGS BANK e
 TRUST COMPANY

At Phoenix, in the State of Arizona, at the close of business. August y1h,