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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
Captured Russians Sunda

Captured Russians Sunday.
Berlin, April 12.-An Official state
ment says:
Sunday was comparatively quiet.
The French attacks were repulsed in
Areonne, in Ally forest and in le-
Pretre forest. French prisoners say
that the cathedral Of Notre Dame, the
Lower, and Hotel des lnvalides in
Paris are being used for military pur-
poses, being equipped with machine
guns, sesrchlishts and wireless appa-
ratus.
The German advance to the east OF
Marianpol captured thirteen hundred
Russians.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
TRANSPORTS TO BE SENT
Secretary Bryan Says Navy Trans
ports Will be Used

Washington, ID. c., April 12.-Secre-
tary Bryan asked the navy department
today for transports to bring home
Americans desiring to leave Tampico,
Some three hundred have already re-
quested to come home. Carranza has
said that he cannot agree to neutral
ize Mexico City.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12

Rome. April 12.-The attempted
mass meetings for and against war
caused many arrests throughout Italy
yesterday, while troops guarded the
Austrian and German embassies.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12

London, April 12-The Marquis
Jules Della Chiesa, brother of Pope
Benedict, is dead, according to Reu-
ter's Genoa correspondents ,..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
Firing at Matamoros Today

Brownsville, Texas, April 12.-There
was much firing early today on Mata-
moros, but no casualties have been re-
ported.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
German Attacks RepuIsed.

Paris, April 12.-It is officially an
nounced that the French repuIsed two
violent German counter attacks in the
forest Of laPretre.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
Firinu of SCARBOROUGH.

London, April 12.-Heavy firing was
reported off Scarborough today. There
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
WEATHER FORECAST

New Orleans, La, April 12.-
The weather forecast for Okla
homa for tonight and Tuesday
is fair.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
Good COOKERY
TEACHER COMES
To ARDMORE
WILL CONDUCT SIX BETTER
FOODS BETTER HOMES SES-
SoNS IN Robson OPERA
HOUSE.

Florence NJ. Peet, the
orld famous cookery
teacher and domestic
science exponent, h a 5
been engaged by The
Ardmoreite to conduct a
series of six Better Foods
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12

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The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

Elaine, down in the lit-rary. that she had done nothing yet about the letter from the Women's Guild.
 "I wonder what there is upstairs that l can give them. she thought, @ she re-read the letter. T think I'll sec
 She started up, just as Inez wss leaving
 The adventures in the attic heard Elaine coming and quickly slipped be- hind a door, letting Elaine pass her, without being seen.
 In the attic Elaine started to take down and examine several dresses for the rummage sale, laying them aside one by one.
 An attic is always place that calls up memories of the past, and Elaine soon began to think of things that were suggested by one after another of the discarded dresses. Besides. some of them were scarcely worth sending, anyway. She sat down, ab- sently, in the chair to think it over.
 Suddenly a secret spring released a set of bands that automatically and swiftly clamped over Elaines arms and about her body and neck. holding her in a grip of steel. At the same time a vapor bulb in the back of the chair shot out it's smothering fumes, rendering her unconscious.
 Elaine was caught in trap.
 Inez in silent exultation opened the attic door just trifie. Then her slender hand reached in and took the key from the inside, shut the door and locked it from the outside.
 Stealthily Inez crept downstairs from the attic and into Elaine's room. There, taking care that neither Marie nor Aunt Josephine was about, she opened the closet and took out the dress, coat and hat which Elaine had worn when she was kidnapped by Wu and stuffed them into a suitcase IneZ closed the suitcase quickly, threw on her own hat and coat and left the house unobserved.
 Half an hour later she entered the opium joint on Mott street.
 There were both Wu and Long Sin carefully examining a blonde wig made up as closely as possible to resemble the golden masses that were the crown of Elaine's beauty. Four or five other Chinamen sat and stood about at respectful distance
 Have you the clothes?" asked Wu. greeting Inez.
 Yes" she returned All has been done exactly as you ordered.
 Good" complimented Wu. Then you may prepare yourself immediate ly."
 
 In the meantime a second trap was
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
REPRODUCTION IS MADE EASY
Perfect Copies of Masterpieces Of Sculpture Secured With the Aid
 of the Camera

4 new optical method for making reproductions of sculptures consists in photographing the object from two or more points of view and then, with the cameras and lines of sight in ex- actly the same relative positions. pro- jecting the images to an intersection on the modelling clay or block of mar ble from which the reproduction is to be made. While somewhat crude in it's present state. this process. says Popular Mechanics, is one that ap- parently has great possibilities for fu- ture development In making the re- production the worker simply cuts away the material at any point until the corresponding points as projected from the different cameras coincide on the surface. As most sculptural ob- 1ects do not have points that are suf- fieiently prominent for their coinci- denee to be determined with precision. It Is proposed to use an additional ap- paratus for projecting a series of fine lines and letters on the object while 1t is being photographed. These lines and letters. of course. appear on the negative made by each of the cameras and are projected with the image. In this way the worker obtains a set of artificial points that are sharp and definite, and the coincidence of these is easily determined
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

taking off the receiver, but not an swering. Instead. she hung up and wedged the telephone bell with 8 piece of paper so that it would not ring at all
 She was about to move away from the desk when Elaine entered the N- brary.
 Didn't hear the telephone bell ring?' she asked.
 my former mistress teIephoned that she is sending my trunk today"
 "Oh. very we'll, smiled Elaine, pass ing on through the library with an encouraging nod to the girl.
 Inez had killed two birds with one stone Not only had she disarmed suspicion about the interrupted call, but she had laid the foundation for the delivery of a trunk which at that moment she knew Wu and Long Sin were preparing and packing.
 It was large trunk, and in it the chair. as well as the phosphorus ma chine
 Once Mistress IneZ induces Elaine to sit in this chais," observed Wu, tap ping it significantly as he closed the trunk, half our work is completed.
 Uptown Inez, always on guard, was watching for the safe arrival of the trunk, when she saw a messenger boy coming up the steps of the house.
 Perhaps, it flashed over her, it was some message from Kennedy. She must get it, whatever it was.
 Without hesitating moment she slipped back into the library while the boy was still at the door and wrote a note of her own at the desk. She had thought out beforehand just what plan she was to adopt and the note read:
 Dear Miss Dodge:
 The ladies of the First Baptist church will send collector for our rummage sale this afternoon. We thank you for whatever you can give him. Yours truly,
 Miss Ella Burns,
 Secretary, Woman's Guild.
 Inez read over the note she had written herself as the messenger boy continued ringing the bell impatiently. Then she hurried into the hall to open the door.
 The boy came in and Inez took the note he had brought, signing Elaine's name for it in his book She had acted not moment too soon, for Elaine had heard the bell and was now coming downstairs herself
 Was it anything for me, Inez?" she asked.
 Inez deftly palmed the letter and substituted the note she had written.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Afraid of Death.

"The pomp of death" said the wise Bacon. "frightens us more than death itself" The king of terrors has no ter TOTS that We have not lent him. And yet who would disagree with the sen- timent of the unhappy Oscar Wilde? Death is the only thing that ever ter rifles me. hate it. One can survive everything nowadays except death.''
 But Wilde did not hate death when it finally came to release his harassed and broken spirit. Reason and con- mon sense bid us neither to hate nor 10 fear death. but simply to ignore it until the hour comes, and then to ac- eept 1t just as We accept life. A Roman stoic philosopher was discoursing one day on life and death.
 They are just the same," he said; there is no difference between them"
 Why don't you die, then, if there is no difference?" one of his disciples asked.
 Because there is no difference" re- turned the losopher.-Boston Globe
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

being prepared for Kennedy. The note of warning regarding Elaine was merely first step in the entangle ment.
 We were in the laboratory and Craig was at work testing some chem icals, about to pour a liquid from a beaker into a test tube. He paused posing both in his hands, listening Outside we could hear what sounded like a scratching at the door.
 ''3e quiet just minute, Walter" ," whispered Craig, moving on tiptoe toward the door.
 The fact was that a young China man had crept up cautiously and was crouching there in a position like that of a runner about to start in race. Actually he was merely wait ing for Kennedy to open the door, but it looked as though he were listen ing.
 As Craig threw open the door he started off like a racer, apparently dropping piece of paper in his hurry.
 I darted out after him, while Craig stopped and picked up the paper, then stood gazing after us.
 Down the hall the young Chinaman dashed until he came to the back en- trance to the laboratory. There he turned and crouched again in the darkness.
 A moment later I came after him. As l passed the door he seemed to rise up unexpectedly and l stumbled headlong over him, almost stunned as l hit the floor He rose again and criss-erossed around the corner of the building before l could pick my self up. It was of no use now to chase him further, and limped back into the laboratory
 He got away in spite of me managed to blurt out as 1 rejoined Kennedy in the hall. Whats that? ?"
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Feats of Cider Drinkino.

Will cider-which was drunk in Eng land even in the days of the Rsnans increase in popularity as a result of escaping the new taxation? A cen- tury or so ago enormous quantities were consumed. more particularly in the cider districts. where the drink is still popular. In his Cambridge remin- iscenees Henry Cunning says that In 17SS when he vas a tutor in Hereford shire he witnessed some extraordinary feats in cider drinking. Farm labor CTS were allo yec to drink as much as they liked. and it was not unusual for man to Iut his lips to wooden bottle containing four quarts and not remove them until he had emptied 1t. Exchange.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

arm tight to his side, still with ms wrist pressing on the rope.
 His heart fairly leaped. It "orked
 The cuff link which he had deyisea as a cigarette lighter as joke on mo was burning the rope.
 Then he pulled at the weakened ropes as he had before in his futile struggles.
 They broke.
 Just on the other side of the door ne could hear the low buzz of the arga- ment as Long Sin urged Wu to allow him to kill Kennedy.
 Very well, then" Wu at last agreed, looking at his watch and nod ding to Long Sin and the others who sprang forward.
 Free from his bonds, Kennedy had been standing a second wondering how to escape from the room. Just
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

Yes. ma'am, she replied, handing Elaine the faked note
 Elaine read it. T didn't know about the rummage sale before" she com mented, as she went into the library, but guess I'll have to give them something"
 She sat down for a moment to look over new fashion magazine Out side in the hallway Inez was reading the note which the messenger boy had brought, with the warning post script written by Kennedy under heath. She knew. as she destroyed it, that it was only part of Wu's subtle plan to alarm Kennedy and start him on false scent.
 It was not many minutes later that the bell rang again, and this time Jennings answered the door, disclos- ing the congressman with a heavy trunk
 "Oh, guess that's my trunk" Inez exclaimed. May have it taken up to the attic. out of the way"
 The men carried the big trunk up stairs into the attic. large room full of trunks, some old furniture and great many old dresses hanging up. As they set it down she signed the receipt for it, and the expressmen clumped downstairs.
 For moment she leaned over the railing and looked after them to make sure that she was alone. then hastily locked the door and ran back to the trunk to unlock it.
 First she took out the chair which Wu had devised and placed it near the clothes hanging up Next she re- moved the phosphorus mechanism and placed it in the shadow back Of the chair, piling up some excelsior and other dry stuff over and around it.
 Inez had scarcely completed her arrangements when it occurred to
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Making a Concrete Buoy.

Re-enforced concrete during the last few years has been invading many fields which hitherto have been con- sidered as belonging exclusively to Iron and steel. One of the interesting illustrations of this fact is the con structton of a concrete buoy at King ston. Jamaica.
 It is stated that the cost is only about 50 per cent of the cost of a similar buoy made of steel.
 To prevent the mooring chain from ln1uring the bottom of the buoy the latter is made concave. The manhole cover was grouted into it's place after the buoy was afioat. Leakage is han died by means of a pump-nole.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

SYNOPSIS.

The New York police are mystihed by a series of murders and other crimes. The principal clue to the criminal is the warn ing letter which is sent the victims signed with .teIutehing hand. The latest vic tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Dodge. the insurance president. His daughter Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy. the famous scientific detective. to try to unravei the mystery What Kennedy ac- complishes Is told by his friend Jameson, q newspaper man.
 After many fruitless attempts to put Elaine and Craig Kennedy out of the way the Clutching Hand is at last found to be none other than Perry Bennett Elaine's lawyer and the man she is engaged to marry. Bennett fees to the den of one of his Chinese criminals The Chinaman forces from Bennett the secret of the whereabouts of S70o0000 Then he gives the lawyer a potion which will suspend animation for months Kennedy reaches Bennett's side just after he has lost con sciousneSs
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
NOTED FOR SMALL THINGS
Great Men Not Always Held In Mem. ory on Account of Deeds of
 Consequence.

It is said that the duke of Yelling. ton once "chaffed" Lord Brougham as man who at one time bade fair to go down to future ages as a famous advocate of law reform and popular education. but who, after all would owe his renown in the name of the vehicle which had received his name.
 Rrougham retorted by saying to the duke that his name, which promised to descend to after-times as the hero of q hundred battles and the liEerator of Europe. was to survive as the ap- pellation of certain kind of boots The story is a good one. whether true or mythical, and suggests to us some of the strange ways in which men be. come famous.
 One person acquires celebrity by his giant intellect, as Webster or Cal. houn; another. by his dwarf stature as Count BorowalsN or Tom Thumb
 There are great men who are known to fame hardly less by their physical or moral eccentricities than by their intellectual might Such was the case with Lord Brougham, who was long associated in mems minds with the queer twist of his nose, on which Punch hung so many conceits; and Lord Peterborough, who, walking from the market with fowl under one arm and a cabbage under the other quite threw into the shade Lord Pc terborough, the hero of Almanza.
 The same was the case with the great dn of Marlborough, whose hagglngs with the Bath chairmen and acts of petty ayarice were talked of long after the conqueror at Blenheim and Malplaquet was forgotten
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Really a Serious Matter

Two neighbors had long litigation about small spring. which they both claimed. The judge. wearied out with the case. at last said: What is the use or making so much fuss about a little water?" Your honor will see the serious nature of the case" re- piled one of the lawyers. when I in-' form you that the parties are both milkmen."
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

carry not only malaria, but yellow fever, dengue fever and elephantiasis. Glossina morsitans is the carrying agent of the tropical disease known as magma. while tsetse flies are the cause of sleeping sickness.
 The spirachetes of tick fever are borne by ticks and mild fever is conveyed by sand flies. Plague is due to the flea, which carries the par asites in the salivary glands and leaves them in the flesh of whomso- ever 1t bites Mediterranean fever is carried principally by the milk of in-
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

then he heard footsteps outside. Quickly he replaced the ropes about him so that they looked as if he were still bound by them.
 The door opened, and Wu and Long Sin entered, each with knife while behind them were three other China men.
 Wu advanced Slowly he raised his knife to strike
 The white girl is slowly being burned to death he hissed, brandish- ishing the knife. The allotted time s spent"
 As he poised the knife in ffendish glee Kennedy leaped forward from his loosened bonds and knocked him to the floor
 So unexpected was the assault that before he knew it Long Sin was also sprawling beside his master
 Craig seized the only weapon at hand taboret, and brought it down with smashing blows on the heads of the other astounded and un- nerved Chinamen
 Once on the street. even in China town, he was safe.
 But it was not his own safety now that had nerved up his strength to escape from the unacceptable.
 Was he in time2
 
 T think had better go back to the laboratory and wait for Craig" l said at last to Aunt Josephine after wait ing for a time that seemed like hours Please let me know the moment you hear from Elaine.
 | was about to turn from the foot of the steps to the Dodge house. when taXicab came dashing up almost on the sidewalk urged on by some maniac inside. Imagine my surprise to see Craig, wild and dishevelled, leap out.
 Is Elaine here-safe?" he demand ed
 She isn't home" I managed to reply
 Are you sure?' he repeated. Did you search 9"
 He uttered sudden cry. pointing up at the roof.
 'Look!' he gasped mortified.
 stared in blank amazement. Smoke was pouring out of the attic windows in dense black columns, lighted by an angry flame
 "Fire!" shouted Kennedy, dashing instantly into the house.
 As We mounted the stairs now we could hear mufIied screams from the attic
 Smoke was pouring out from under the door and even through the key hole. Jennings had heard Kennedys caq and was now dashing up after us with fire extinguisher. Back of him came Aunt Josephine and Elaines maid, Marie. screaming for help.
 Like a human battering ram we went through that door A sheet of flame shot out at us with the draft. But Kennedy stopped for nothing.
 There was Elaine in a chair which the deyilish mind of Wu Fang had devised to imprison her while the flames licked out her beauty and life. Instantly Craig understood and acted.
 Carry her out" he cried, gasping for breath himself.
 Together We seized the chair and it's precious burden. Not moment too soon we set the chair down out side in the hall, ourselves scorehed and blistered
 It was as though Craig had accept ed the challenge of the fiery monster. He seized the extinguisher from Jen- nings and attacked the flames
 By this time Jennings, Marie and Aunt Josephine had succeeded in un. fastening Elaine. as our sudden on slaught with chemicals and force brought the fire demon under control.
 Are you-all right?" gasped Craig. stopping over Elaine as she leaned back half-fainting in his arms.
 Are you?" she murmured heroieal- ly, forgetting her own hurts in her fear for him.
 cTo BE CONTINUED9
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
STERILIzED THE SACRED FEZ
American Hospital Attendants Little Knew the Great Risk That They
 Were Taking.

John T. Oakman. an architect, who drove one of the ambulances of the American hospital in northern France for several months last winter, lec- tured on his experiences and the work of the hospital for the benefit of the American hospital. says the New York .Evening Post. One of the incidents he
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

his clothing, soaked with mud and blood, and put him in hospital wrap per, while his uniform was sent to be cleaned. After the Turco had been placed in his bed and the clothing was out of the way, the interpreter, an old African soldier, rushed up to the sur geon in charge.
 For the love of heaven, bring him back his green fez before he wakes up.' gasped the interpreter.
 Why?' returned the surgeon. Its dirty enough
 Yes. yes. but he wears 1t to show
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Campaign for Safety.

The American Museum of Safety has inaugurated new campaign for industrial safety and has opened quar. ters in the heart of New York eitv,s manufacturing district. Improvement of working conditions in industrial lines. both as to safety and hygiene. is the object.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

described proves that even in the hospitals in which the wounded sol diers are nursed back to life, a touch Of the ridiculous sometimes lightens the work.
 The nurse of this ward said Mir. Oakman, "a pretty and distinguished looking lady, in a wide-winged coif, was at some pains to show us her pet patient, a, very big, very black. and very contented Turco in a green fez. She told us that when he was first brought in, he was quite badly wound ed and unconscious. They removed
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Diseases Carried by Insects.

Sir Donald Ross. who discovered how the anopheles or mottled winged mosquito carries malaria, gave in a lecture at Charing Cross hospital an account Of other diseases that are carried by insects or bugs. Mosquitoes
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and he has undoubtedly never had it of since. If he discovers it has been sterilized, there will be more slaughter in this ward than in the trench he has just come out of
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
CTO BE CoNTINrEDA

fected goats Leprosy has been attrib. uted to bedbugs, and some are even beginning to think that measles is due to fleas.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05
Giant ostriches of the Past.

In alluvial deposits of Madagascar there have heen found skeletons of os-t .fiehes which, when alive, were four teen to fifteen feet in height.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-05

Helpless, tied to the post. Kennedy had not ceased struggling to free him. self, though without avail
 Suddenly an idea occurred to him. He gazed down at his hands and wrists. Suppose they were not free? Was there no way to use them?
 Slowly he turned his arm around until the outside of his wrist pressed on rope. Then he drew his upper