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a sovereign. The bundesrat declares
that as long as the rightful sovereign
of Brunswick is practically at war with
the King of Prussia he cannot ascend
the throne, and at present the duchy
is ruled as regent by Prince Adolf
Friedrich of Mecklenburg. Adolf Freid-
rich wants to resign and Kaiser Will
helm agrees to Prince Ernst August
ascending Brunswick's throne If he will
formally abandon the claim to Hanover.
The duke refused. So it was agreed
that as long as the duke lives he Will
keep his claim to Hanover, which Is
worth as much as Car Ferdinands g
claim to MeXico and that when he dies
Ernst August viii renounce the claim
and be installed as ruler of Brunswick.
Meantime the prince and his bride will
live at Rathenow, an ugly town in
the Prussian province of Saxony where
is stationed his new regiment the Zie-
then Hussars. They will tenant mer-
chants 12-roomed villa, decorated in
side with oleographs of scenes from the
life of Luther 2
The Cumberland -HohenZollern we'd
ding is a first rate romance. All SEN
timentalsts gush over 1T, and in Ger
many the land of cold reason and the
'Initgift,'' 1t mas brought back into
fashion the outworn sentiment of love
ITenceforth Germans must love and also
lie seen loving. When Ernst August
and Victoria Louise go walking the
prince not only affectionately holds
her hands but ostentatiously intertwines
his bare ungloved fingers with hers and
hclds her hand upward and outward
so that all men may see. and snap
shelters may snapshot. This idyllic
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practice has caught on. Formerly aris-
tocratic fiances walked a foot apart
with cold indifferent gaze and left love
to the vulgar. Now they grip hands
and intertwine fingers and march for
ward with grins as IL they were first
class royalties on the watch for pho
tographers. The Dresden china works
at Meissen has Produced a graceful
pink sta-uette of happy pair holding
hands in the new way, and it is sold
all over Berlin.
Ernst August and Victoria Louise
will be married at Potsdam. Kaiser
Wilhelm wanted them to be married
in Berlin. But cantankerous Duke
George said mo-" He explained that
he had sworn to his dying blind father
that he would never enter Prussia's
capital until he entered 1T as King
ingly go to Potsdam. If he comes to
Berlin he will only come unofficially,
ara his father in paradise, being still
blind, may not notice 1T.
Kaiser Wilhelm is highly pleased
with the marriage and Kaiserin Au-
gusta Victoria Is more pleased still.
The future of Victoria Louise has al
ways been her trouble. She did not
want to be separated from her only
daughter, and she had to find her
husband of high rank, rich and able
TO live near Berlin. No such bride
groom was in sight, as all the. Ger
man soyereigns are already married
and their sons and brothers have no
money. One plan was to marry the
princess to Grand Duke Andrei of Rus
sia. who is thrifty and rich, and to
impose the condition that he should
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rang with corresponding shouts of APP
plause.
A copy of the proceedings of the con-
yention was drawn off and sent by ex-
press to the members of congress from
North Carolina. at that time in session at
Philadelphia.
Capt. James Jack, worthy and in-
tolligent citizen. of Charlotte. was chosen
as bearer Having faithfully performed
the duties of his important trust by de-
livering the resolutions into the hands
of the North Carolina delegation at Phil
adephia (Caswell, Hooper and Hews), he
returned to his home in Charlotte
lie reported that the NbIth Carolina
delegation and several mefrbers of con-
sress manifested their entire apprecia-
ton OF The earnest zeal and patriotism
OF the Mecklsnburg citizens, but deemed
II premature to lay their resolution be-
fore their body. as they still entertained
some hope OF reconciliation with tho
mother country -
Wheeler, Hunter (froin Hunters His
tory Of North Carolina, now out of print,
have gotten much Of my information),
Graham, Chambers and Bancroft, each
accept and prove that the Declaration OF
independence was declared IN Charlotte.
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
thirteen months before the Declaration
of Independence. written by Thomas JEFF
ferSon, was PROGRAMMED 10 the Woriu.
Thomas Jefferson disputed the Meck-
lonburg declaration.
Elson claims the spurious document was
rot published until 1919.
fEx- president Taft said he had never
heard of it when he was invited to at
tend the one hundred and thirty-fourth
anniversary at Charlotte, n. c.
Many have disputed and attempted TO
rob North Carolina of this brightest gem
IN the crown of her early political his
tory and tarnjsh by base and insidious
cavils the fair name and reputation of q
band of revolutionary patriots whose
memories ana heroic deeds the present
generation ana posterity will ever de-
Iipht to honor
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way that the ceremony, not counting
presents dresses and military display,
was to cost only $500 This simple"
wedding will cost, also not counting
dress, presents and military display,
about $4,000. In addition about $500 goes
on the dres of Princess Victoria Louise,
The Hanover 'Kurier' prints In this re-
gard a wonderful yarn of the <aserins
precautions for her daughters health.
The silesian lacemakers who will make
the train are among the least civilized
and hygienic of Germans; so to pro-
vent risk of infection the Kaiserin has
had the seven women engaged on the
work brought to the town of Liegnirz,
where they have been washed, fumigated.
made disease proof, and put under the
control of a stern dostor of deicine.
Berlins decoration firms are indignant
because the floral decorations in the
church, at the Potsdam new palace, and
at the Berlin schloss have been entrusted
to a small firm which does not count.'
The reason is that the small firm which
does not count underbid all the big firms.
Princess Victoria Louise has passion
for violets; and she wanted 10 have the
church mainly decorated with them;
but the decorators pointed out that in
the dim church light She violents would
not be seen. Potsdam and Berlin schloss
will be mainly decorated with violets;
and the violets will be sent to the
"Charite'' on the evening of the we'd
ding
Wilhelm II is determined on plenty
of military display. Thirty thousand
soldiers, which is three-quarters of the
garrison. will turn out to line Potsdam
and Berlin streets when the bridal pair
drivers through On May II the Second
squadron OF the Ziethen Hussars viii
arrive from Rathenow; and, for a week,
asst as the princess bodyguard In
church will appear a deputation of Zie-
then officers, headed by the command
ing colonel, and after the wedding the
squadron will ride in the procession.
Every trooper will be presented by
Prince Ernst August with two and a
half dollars. This is an old custom,
dating from Friedrich the Greats time.
Formerly the officers got the same 'to.
but for the last hundred vars they have
instead a small gold three thaler piece of
ancient design, made as a watch chain
medallion. These gifts are distributed
only when a Prussan Kings daughter
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Cumberland had so far any suspicion.
On second visit to Berlin the prince
audaciously applied for Victoria
Louises hand. He did not get 1t. Kaiser
Wilhelm inquired il he had got his
papa's consent, and blushing Ernest
August said mo" Thereupon said
Kaiser Wilhelm, My daughter is too
young" Ernst August in despair made
for his fairy godmother, Princess Fled
rich Karl, and begged her to inter-
cede. The princess last November went
to Gmunden in Austria and reasoned
with the cranky duke. The duke
wrinkled his brows shrewishly and
saio with acid deliberation: 81 would
sooner see my son dead like his broth
cr.' Princess Friedrich Karl then made
for the Duchess of Cumberland. and
had a tussle with her
Cumberland's duchess, born Princess
Thyra of Denmark hates Prussians
even worse than her husband does. She
is of Indifferent intelligence but OF
kindly heart, and her daily amuse-
ment is inventing romances between
her II chauffeurs and her IL waiting
maids. Before these have noticed the
color of one another's eyes the ro-
mantle duchess tells them they are in
love. gives them her blessing and bids
them make haste to wed. multiply and
inherit the earth. AT the mere notion
OF romance-and a romance aggra-
waited by politics-the duchess prick ed
up her ears. She was won over. She
Joined in the assault on crusty Duke
George. Seven times Duke George said
imperatively, mo-" and seven and
seventy times he wrinkled his shrewish
brows and added: "On the condition
my son becomes King of Hanover"
When he had got tired of saying mo,
nc suddenly relaxed his brow and said
YES and Princess Friedrich Kari
flew to Berlin and spread the joyous
tidings
Duke George tried to bargain out of
Kaiser Wilhelm a settlement of tho
Hanover Brunswick quarrel. The dukes
father was dispossessed of Hanover in
1865 and the duke claims to be right
full king. He also claims~-to be SOW
ereign Duke of Brunswick, which he
Inherited In 1884 when the House of
brunswick Wolferbuttel expired. Han
ever is lost forever, for it is now a
Prussian province, but Brunswick is
stili an Independent state waiting for
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Issued Proclamation

issued proclamation
On August l3 Governor Martin issued
proclamation complaining that meet
ings of the people had been held with
out legal authority of the King and par
lament He advised the people to for
bear attending any such meetings and
ordered the Kings officers Mo oppose
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that architectural wonder the new
Pennsylvania Station, east and west
ont Of the city. After they have
reached the trains they are dropped
still further underground in order
t"at they may pass beneath the bot
tom OF the Hudson and East Rivers.
'Io get out of New York City by
means of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad it is necessary
to make use of that other architectu-
raj wonder, the Grand Central Sta
tion, and again travellers drop down
into the bowels of the earth before
they may start.
"ln the great hotels of New Yoric
the mechanical departments are all
far beneath the street surface. These
departments are well worth visiting.
and in most cases the hotel propri-
etors are only too glad to permit their
kitchens, bakeshcps, furnace rooms,
engine rooms, and laundries to be in
spected. These places ordinarily are
the cleanest in the entire hotel.
Many of New York's great depart.
mcnt stores are connected directly
with the subways, as are also some of
its newer theaters Last February u
family of three from San Francisco,
visiting in New York lived for a fort
night in one of the most fashionable
and most expensive hotels in the
city, spent most of their time shop
ping, sight seeing and theateb- going,
and only once during the entire four
teen days passed into the open air os
the outside world From their rooms
in the hotel they were dropped by ele-
vator to the level of the subway.
Through the subway they went to de-
partment stores, theaters, restaurants,
museums and even to church. When
they started for home they went by
subway from their hotel to the Grand
Central Station and did not get out
into the sunlight until their train had
well started on its long journey. And
this was not on a bet, either"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
'Possurn Travels in Bananas

Oklahoma City, Okla, Aug. IL
An animal believed tc be what nat e.
uralists call Merian's opossum was
found in a bunch of bananas ship
ped to a dealer at Yukon, a few
miles west of here, from Panama.
The opossum was a female meas
uring thirteen and one quarter inch
es from nose tip to tail tip, over
half Of the measurement being tail.
a young one was clinging to its
mothers back with its tail so tight
ly wrapped around the latter's leg
that it could not be loosened until
after death The feet of the ami
mails were like those of a small
monkey. Ed Crabb of Yukon, taxi
dermist, who mounted many of the
specimen gracing the walls and cases
of the state game and fish depart
mert, placed the animals in captivity,
hut they died in a few days. They
will be mounted and exhibited at
the state fair next month.
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Personals

Miss Margaret Lawson of Beau
mont Texas is spending her vacation
with her parents in this city.
Mayor Roberts who has been visit
ing in Texas for a few days is eX
rected home today
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Cole left Sun
day to visit with relatives at Pine
Bluff and Little Rock, Ark. On their
return they will stop eff at Hugo to
visit with the family of r. j. Wages.
W. II. Erwin of Fort Worth is in
the city investigating the oil situa-
tion.
W. c. Plummer of Newton, Kan
sas who owns lands in the new oil
fields, is an ArdmOre visitor.
Mrs. Gertie Burger and children
of Dallas are in the city the guest of
Mrs Burgers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Yes Davenport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moss Brady are in
Dallas on a business trip.
Nrs poros ord ,rrs por
Brady Of Pooleyille are in the city
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Brady.
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toniob+ from, Toocr. Toxos 70 visit
VIII. ho. ,onont. ,rr ond ,trs rR
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
SHOE YOUR CHILDREN FOR 81.
THREE DAYS ONLY. kRUEGER'S.
A LIGHT RAIN
FOLLOWS HOT DAY

Cne- third Of an inch OF rainfall was
registered in Ardmore Sunday after
noon. The cloud formed almost over
the city, the wind blew from the north
and was cooling and pleasant follow
ing maximum temperature of 103,
The rain did not cover the entire
today from Glenn says only a light
sprinkle fell there and the rain did
than Caddo creek, 5 miles from Ard
more. Persons here today from
Hewitt report that fair rain fell
there, more probably than fell in
Ardmore. The telephone people re-
lort a good rain at Fox and at Gra-
ham. Light showers that were not
worth anything fell at Berwym
Dougherty, Davis and Wynnewood.
tCrsCns from Provence report rain
at that place. Charley Thomas and
V. A. Niblack, from HoXbar, south
east of Ardmore report a good rain
there. w. F. Whitson says the rain
extended as far as Downward mines,
three or four miles to the southwest
and at his place a mile further south
only light sprinkle fell Rain is re-
ported to have fallen from Cheek to
Simon on further southwest. No
rain fell at Marietta.
The rain fell in the afternoon and
the ground was shaded for fourteen.
hours following it, for that reason
it will be worth much more to cotton
and other crops than if the sun had
shine earlier. The cotton pods will
quit opening prematurely if rains
fall now, the fruit already ON the
stalk will develop and it is not too
late by any means for a top crop
to be made. A quarter of a bale of
cotton will probably be made in this
county but if good rains cover the
county now the yield can double that
figure. The forecast is for clear
weather but the clouds indicate that
more rain will fall.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
/. u - 81 I" q u :: :: :: - u 81 :,
!: UNDERGROUND LIFE IN 8:
!; GREAT CITIES. q:
u u u - m u u 81 w - u 81 u :

From million and half to a
million and three quarters of the res
idents of New York City spend at
least portion of each day under
ground, ami many thousands come to
the surface so rarely that the light
of day blinds them when they reach
it, says Leo L. Redding in a pro-
fusoly illustrated article in the Sep
tember Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Discussing this phase OF modern city
life, Mr.. Redd ng adds:
80 accustomed has New York be
come to the idea of living under
ground that only a few days ago a
public celebration was held when a
new underground passageway was
opened. The newest tunnel, costing
many thousands of dollars, was dug
20 give the people VINO live near the
Hudson river and in the ncighborhood
of lSlst Street an opportunity to pass
beneath the hills from their homes to
the subway, by which means they
travel to the lower end of Manhattan
Island, to Brooklyn, and, by means
of a transfer to New Jersey Until
this underground cut off was opened
the same citizens had to walk about
! 900 feet up and down hill breathing
the good outdoor air. Now they will
make the same trip underground
through a damp, dngy passageway,
and because they save a few hundred
feet and a bit of exertion consider
themselves fortunate.
according to the best obtainable
statistics about 10000 persons in New
York City spend their entire working
hours beneath the surface of the
earth. These figures include $500
employees on the two systems of sub
ways now in operation. They include
1000 men who are employed digging
the new subways. This force will be
more than doubled in the near future,
Also included are the 1900 men, most
OF whom are working sevral hundred
feet below the street surface, driving
that wonderful aqueduct which is to
carry throughout the Island of Man
haitian and over into Long Island the
waters that are being brought down
by siphon from the Catskill noun
tains Then there are more than 10,-
600 men and women who are employ
ed in more private enterprises that
take them constantly below the street
surface.
con quite ordinary days 100000
persons are accommodated in the
New York subways, and the crowds
are multiplying week by week.
Men go below the surface to reach
the trains that are to take them from
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
Pelkey viii Fight Negro.

San Diego, Cal, Aug. 17.-Tommy
Burns, manager Of Arthur Pelkey, the
present holder of the heavyweight
championship, announced Saturday
that his protege will box Jack John
son in Paris within the next three
months. Burns received a cable from
Jim" Pratt, the Partisan promoter,
as follows:
"Will you permit Pelkey to fight
Johnson in Paris. Public here anX-
ious for the match"
Burns filed the following reply:
"Peikey will fight Johnson if terms
are satisfactory. If I were not alb
solutely certain that Pelkey can de-
feat Johnson ] would never make the
match feel that Johnson has led
a fast life since winning the title
and the first good man the negro
meets will defeat him. Wire terms
and date"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
cHlLDREN'S PUMPS 81. VALUES
TO So. ALL SIZES 8 TO 2.
KRUEGER'S.
Celebrates eeth Birthday

G.. r. West is celebrating his S9th
birthday today with his family and
children on West Main street.
Mr.. West is a native of Tennessee
and although long since passed the
span of three score years and ten al
lotted to man, is hale and hearty
in full possession of all his faculties.
He takes a keep interest in the polt-
ical affairs of the state and nation,
has been a lifelong democrat. cast
his first vote for James K. Polk for
presidet of the United States in 1915
and his last for Woodrow Wilson
last November.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
oSAGE PRAiRlES ARLAZE.
First Time in Many Years Fires Sweep
Indian Country.

Guthrie, Okla, Aug. 17.-For the
first time in the history of the old
est inhabitants of the Usage Indian
o"untry, prairie grass is dry enough
tc burn, and fires have been sweep
ing over the big Usage ranches and
southern cattle pasture lands during
the rast week. doing great damage
The grass is parched by the heat
until the flames travel as rapidly
as the wind A large portion Of the
country has been burned over.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
Quick Action on Horse Thief.

Tulsa, Okla. Aug. IA record for
procedure in this state is held by
Rogers county, where a man was Civ
en- preliminary examination, tried
IN the district court and sentenced
all within the space of two hours. w
j. Coats, charged with horse stealing,
was the man. He was arrested at
Holton, kas. He was returned to
Ciaremore, the county seat, where
his examination and trial were held.
He was given five years in the Nc
Alester penitentiary.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18

SUCCESSORS FOR DUNN.
Judge Brown Seems to Lead For Seat
on Supreme Bench.

Interest in the appointment Of a
successor to Judge Jesse ]. Dunn on
the supreme court bench now CEN
tors on four candidates, according to
information obtained Saturday night
from those in close touch with the
situation. They are Assistant AttOr-
ney General Charles J.. Moore, Judge
Brown of Mangum, Judge Robert F..
Loufborrow of Beaver, and Judge
Curran of Enid From these four
applicants, it is believed, the sue
cessor 10 Judge Dunn will be chosen.
Judge Brown with the enthusiast
tic Endorsement and backing of Sen
ator J. l.. Carpenter of Mangum, is
considered to have the best Of the
going. Senator Carpenter was the
administration leader in the upper
branch of the legislature and fought
there for the governor on every
proposition that concerned the ad-
mnistration.. He is close personal
friend and adviser of the governor
and is believed to have great influ-
ence on gubernatorial appointments.
1t is said that Senator Carpenter
probably would have been an appli-
cant for the appointment himself but
Judge Brown entered the race first
and he abandoned the idea
The other three candidates have
strong backing and are considered
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
schurman Quits Diplomatic Service

Washington, Aug. 1S.-The resigna-
ton of Jacob Could Schurman, United
States minister to Greece, became ef
fective today. Mr. Schurman states
that President Taft appointed him to
the diplomatic service to fill in his
vacation time, and as his leave of
absence has expired he quits Ath-
ems to resume his duties as presi-
dent of Cornell University at Ithaca,
n. Y.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18

b. r. McDuffy, who is holding a
meeting near the viaduct across the
Rock Island tracks in the northeast
ern portion of the city, states that
so much interest is being manifested
in the meeting that he cancelled a
date he had to hold meeting in Ok
lahoma City and will remain here.
Since he has been preaching in Ard
more twelve persons have been con-
verted in his meetings and there
has been one reclamation.
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The farmers son came home look
ing as II he had been through a tor
nado His father inquired the cause.
The son replied: "It's that durn corre-
spondence school again. got letter
from the sophomores telling me to
haze myself"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18
FraternaI Aid.

A call meeting OF the Fraternal Aid
association will be held Tuesday even
ing at the X. OF P. hall. Officers
from the general office will be pres
1nt and a full attendance is urged
MRS BULARD, Pres.
MRS. ELLA HOLLAND, Sec. 1872
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18

w. W. Holt, d. n. Ferguson and
L. r. Comstock are at home from
Muskogee, where they attended the
State Council of Carpenters. They
report this council the best attended
of any ever held in the state and
some very useful legislation was en-
acted. Mr. Holt was reelected sec
retary-treasurer of the council. He
did his work so we'll last year that
they urged him to serve another term
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18

We take this method to thank our
patrons for their liberal acquiescence
to our C. o. d. method of deliver
ing their laundry. Mr.. Wright, Of
cur dry cleaning department has
charge of Route No. One and any
courtesies shown him will be appre-
ciated
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18

The new Pictorial Review patterns
and Fashion Sheets are in. Get
them at Randol's.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-18

Knights and Ladies of Security.
Regular meeting. All members are
requested to be present, business Of
Importance. Refreshments will be
served.