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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-11

Neuralgia of the race, shoulder,
hands, or feet requires a powerful
remedy that will penetrate the flesh.
BALLARD'S SNOW LINlMENT pos
sesses that power Rubbed in where
the pain is felt is all that is necessary
to relieve suffering and restore nor
NAL conditions. Price 25c, SOC and
$1.OO per bottle. Sold by Bomar Drug
Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-11

on hand, so that there is no neces-
sity for extra measures to conserve
the supply in this drastic way. Also,
they assert with the utmost positive.
ness that Berlin suffers not at all
from any undue indulgence in liquor
which would require correction
through restriction of the supply.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-11
ROAD FUND FROM AUTO
TAX COMING NOW

Oklahoma City, oct 11.-This week,
according to the announcement made
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-11

Apparently We are going to have
summer if it takes all winter.
The Washington times., 1915-11-12
Children and Matches .
Cause SIS Damage by Fire

Children playing with matches were
responsible for a blaze which occasios'-
ed damage to the amount Of S75 yester-
day on the third floor OF i0 Warner
street northwest. according to a report
made to the police. The house Is own
ed and occupied by Scott Ackers.
The Washington times., 1915-11-12
Objects to Formation of
Militia Company at GNU.

Militarism VS.. antt-militarism Is the
fssue among George Washington Uni
versity alumni according to Rexford
Holmes. who has taken sharp Issue
with William Bruce King on the for
nation of company OF National
Guard at the institution.
Mr.. King Is chairman Of the military
committee OF the board of trustees.
Mr.. Holmes Is slumnus Of George
washington who objects to the organi-
sation Of the militia company amons
the students.
The Washington times., 1915-11-12

S1.00 To Harper's Ferry, SIPS Mar.
tnsburg. 80 Berkeley Springs and 100
Cumberland and return. Baltimore and
Ohio from Union Station S:5 a. m.
Sunday. November IA. Returning same
day-Adyt
The Washington times., 1915-11-12

Baltimore and Ohio To Baltimore,
$50 Round Trip every Saturday and
Sunday, good returning until Q a. m.
Monday.-Advt
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
HOW A WICKED BARON
WAS BROUGHT TO BOOK

He sank into fathomless depths OF
despair. which seemed 10 hold him
pitilessly like a hog that must needs
end by swallowing him. TIE torture
that his Imagination inflicted upon
him by evok.ng vivid pictures Of the
hideous fate that had perhaps over
taken his well beloved was nigh un-
endurahle. and TO escape from such
intense misery became n Wild longing
What wonder, therefore, that ms
thoughts should have turned to death
again and again during that awfuI
night? Toward morn. ng he found his
way back to his hotel and had long
sleep. not waking until hours later
though curiously with daylight hope
sprang up In his heart again. houtinG
despair." But Old Gattai was quite
cool when he went to square matters
with Baron Grundler.
Tho Baron sat in high backed
Tudor chair behind a splendid desk IN
n vast and dim apartment OF his PIC
cadilIy house. superb portraits by
Gova hung on the walls. The Baron
looked for all the world Tx" an un-
easy gorilla" Gattai, standins be
fore him, was a furrowed and TRAGIC
, figure. He refused to smoke when me
Baron pushed forward a box Of c .gar'''
! This involved a severe exercise or VIII.
The story SAYS: TO so inveterate a
smoker as Gattai It needed no Ittc
/ force OF will to resist the temptation
/ Of taking cigar" lust the same. tho
old Garibaldan said: 81 am not here
| TO smoke with you, for I am come on
! no friendly Grand; and thereup"n
! Giattai adv .sed Baron Grundler to COM
init suicide.
The Baron tried TO excuse his wicked
acts. lie said: You do not take into
( consideration my temperament, MY
imagination has been my curse; it has
led me into temptations which you
certainly cannot conceive, and | had
not the strength to resist them. This
Is the plain truth am stating 10 you
now" Gattai was firm 81 have hot
come TO discuss your temperament
he said. lie also said: II want you
to leave this life. Grundler. and II
must be of your own accord that you
do SO. Do you understand me-
Grunder tried to BLUM. He said "You
are talking like a lunatic and I must
request you to go away now. ! have
plenty OF business to attend to and
you are making me lose my time
only little more was said. The story
says Of the avengers manner oi
speech; "Gattai spoke in a strangely
matter Of fact voice that contrasted
:orcibly with the deadly Significance
of his words" Hc went quietly away
when he had finished. and shortly
afterward the wicked Baron fell to the
floor in an epileptic fit and expired.
This Of course was not suicide. Tho
story describes what it was: "In thu
midst Of his iniquity the hand of God
had fallen upon him, lie had beer
arraigncd before a higher tribuna
than that of man" II Mario had sho,
him there would have been a trial b,
/ jury, There would have been reveal
ton. The manner of his punishment
being what II was, scandal was avoide
When Lilys memory had been recov
cred II was fairly easy To persuade he,
that there was no reason why sh,
should not make Wilfred happy.
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BY w. J. Clarke and Frederick T.
Dawson (Scribner).

and for . couple OF months was al
lowed to watch the doings Of the Ger
man armies at a safe distance in the
rear. where he could obtain no infor-
nation about operations and could
only see what had been done after II
was all over. He records his i'm
pressions rather verbosely in Elm
Volk In Waffen" Of. A. Brockhaus,
Leipzig. handsome and beautifully
illustrated volume, which the German
press agents would do we'll to have
translated into English with some con-
densation. and which he dedicates to
the German army. The book presents
the German side adequately from a
strongly partisan point of view.
Equally strong prejudice on the op-
posite side marks the story OF expert
ences at the front contained in "A
Surgeon in Belgium" by II. S. Sout,ar
edward Arnold; Longmans. Green
and Company. The author rushed to
Belgium with a British ambulance
corps and served in tho field for
three months. He was pushed back
from Antwerp to Ypres and his ex-
periences are interesting. He frankly
detests the enemy and sees things
through British eyes; his notes on
what he saw. especially in a profess
sional way. are interesting and valua-
BILE; his lamentations over the ravages
Of war and his opinions on what is
happening and about tho future must
he taken with some allowance. The
book Is illustrated.
side OF the war that Is treated
more fully by the press of the United
States than by that of Europe. the
effect on China and Japan. is handled
exclusively by Thomas +. Willard. who
has devoted much attention to Chinese
matters In a pamphlet entitled The
Great War in the Far East" IThe
Mercantile Printing Company. Shang-
had. This Is made up OF the edi-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
Books Received.

The Sew international Year Book
tgltr Edited by Frank Moore Colby
tpodd. Mead and Company
The Progressive Movement" BENJAMIN
Parke he WITT. Mac milldnrp
The Little Man ana other Satires"
John Galswor,hy. Charles scribner's
Sons.l
war and the Ideal OF Peace" Henry
Rutgers Marshall tDufA.ld and Com
panS.I
camp Craft" Warren H Miller
Charles Scrihners Sonsl
Famous Days and Deeds IN Holland
ana BclEluW.' Charles Morris. ~. Il
Iippiucott company
The Nutrition Of Household Edwin
Tenucy Brewster and Lillian Brewster
IHouEhton Mifnn Company
"A . OF housekeeping" Christine
Torhure Herri,k, Harp"rsJ
The Limitation of Orspring" william
i Robinson, VI. II. tThe critic and Guide
COMPANY, New York;
"Marvcls OF our BODILY Dwelling" Mrs.
MARY wood Allen, VI. II tVir Publishing
Company, Philadelphia
His English Wife, Rudolph strait:
translated hy 4. q. curtis. Edward Ar
mold, LougiuIns, Green and Company
war aud world Government" Frank
crane, y u. John Lane Company
Hewlett. 'pufheld and Company
Tho Rock Of the serpent" Kstharins
Howard. sherman. French and Com
piny, Boston,
''DoodleS.' Emma g. pcwd (Houghton
Mifhiu Company
The Emerald story Book" Ada NJ
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01

The Duke in George Vanes story
OF The Snare" John Lane Company
was on tho boulevard in Paris after
the theatre when he encountered the
girl in mans overcoat who had lost
her memory. II was awkward bust
ness taking young woman so att!red
to restaurant for supper. a refresh
ment that she greatly needed difficult
also. without exciting a too emharrass-
ing curiosity, TO get her across tn"
English Channel TO Brighton and there
TO establish her safely in respectable
female hands. The generous adven-
ture had its risks. The overcoat was
costly garment lined with black
sables, The sort OF thing a successful
tenor might wear" II was so beauti-
| full and so distinguished that the mat
ter Of a girls wearing it was not so
extraordinary as the case would have
been IL II had been a cheap overcoat.
| still there was risk. People eyed Lily
! Hope and her coat, and 1t Is plain that
| great interest attaches to the per-
plexities and fears OF the Duke, who
was n married man.
What past lay hidden behind the
veil OF IIly's clouded mind? What
would the Duke say If his rich Ameri-
can wife should come TO ask oues-
| tons? The first chapter will very
much incline the reader TO hnd out.
H will be a little surprised to read at
page $40 about the detention OF Lily i
uncle in Albany. This gentleman was
a Canadian who had v"nturously
crossed the border into the United
| states. The story says: Ills long
silence was now explained. lie had
gone on business 10 Albany In the
beginning Of the summer; very early
winter weather had set in and he soon
found himself a prisoner there, un-
able to leave until the snow was deep
and the ice thick enough 70 permit
| travelling. Consequently he d.dn
get back TO Ottawa until after Christ
mas, when he found mothers cable
and letters waiting for him" II Is a
little further along that We find Iily's
brother, Mario, wondering that he had
not killed Baron Grundler, the in
famous German millionaire.
Mario had bought pistol and had
gone to the Baron's magnificent house
in Piccadilly, but as he was about to
ring the doorbell he had been diverted
from his purpose by Gattai the vener-
able Italian patriot, who had the harm
less eccentricity OF allowing his finger
nails to grow to an inordinate length
! iiattai had his own plan for the pun
ishment of the Baron, and Mario, who
was a mere boy, was obliged to give
way to the elder avenger. But IT was
hand for Mario to believe, az he went
home in taxicab, that he had not
shot the Baron. In the words of the
story: Little had he thought wher
he went out that morning in his high
strung mood that he would come back
an hour later with hands unstainet
with blood"
Tho Dukes brother. Wilfr"d. wh'
loved Lily. was of calmer nature
than Mario, but he too had strong
emotions at times. The story says
"Wilfred went through hell fire tina
night. He wandered about the streets
of Paris In a state OF cerebral excite
meut that b0rdersd on actual insanity
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01

skinner and Eleanor l.. Skinner. tDuf-
Jimmy kirkland" Hugh q. Fullerton.
The John c. Winston Company. Fhiiadel-
"campa!sn. Of tn. l.s,h R.s,m.n. New
"The Defence OF Paris" captain Allan
Grant George II. Doran Company
hi, Vas Vas Little Bow How Mf. RsSSi,
Lost his TAN Mr.. Rabbits Big Dinner
Mr.. possum's Great Balloon Trip Making
IN With Mr., DOG How Mr.. Dog cot
Even vols Albert Bigelow Paine.
Elements OF Government" Arnd, NJ.
Stckles. american BOOK COMPANY
r w. Mcfarland. Pm. u. (charles Serb
* second Cours. In Hom.makans
Mabel Hyde Ki',rsdse. tThe Century
".Vorvaer,. Paul Valentine Bacon
"peutsch fuer Anfsenger" W. d. Zin-
necker. PHI u. %. C. Heath and Com
Plays o: the Pioneers" Constance
p'Arcy Mackay harPersl
Love In Danger" Mrs Havelock Ellis.
"a Fiorcntins cycle, Gertrude Hun
tins,on McGirert. &c. p Pu,nams sons
'Poems." Brian Hooker. (Yale Uni.
verslty Press. New Hav~nD
Tides Of Commerce" william Cary
Sanger, Jr. Country Life Press; O. Il.
The weii.conNd-r.d Garden" Mrs.
f"HS, J SSIrSnsr w SGns
The Lakeside Press. Harbor Springs,
Handbook on American zach, RACING
Macdonough and Frederick O. Spedden
90. 7. Putnsm's sons
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
HISTORY-BIOGRAPHY.

In literature that beyond any
other abounds in memoirs those Of the
Due de Saint Simon have held a very
high place ever since they were made
public. though they are regarded
neither "a models OF French style nor
as repositories OF French wit. Their
author had the opportunity TO see the
French court. often from behind tho
scenes, during the last years of Louis
XIV. the Regency and the first years
Of Louis Nv. and took occasion TO put
down what he thought OF men and
actions frankly and in no kindly
spirit The memoirs are a treasure
house of fairly trustworthy informa-
ton about many matters OF import
ance regarding history and manners.
and much less important but far
more interesting Information about
persons. They are we'll worth reading
II any memoirs are, and Francis Ark
wright has now translated them again
into English, with certain amount Of
condensation by the omission OF the
drier portions Two volumes have
come tu Us from Brcntnnos. the first.
called Gossip and Glory OF Versailles"
covers the years from 1892 TO 1901 the
second. The Silver Age OF Louis
NV the years 1702-O7. Each has
four photographers. Other volumes
will follow.
With an amusingly British short
ness OF vision regarding other nations
w. J. Gordon in a book entitled Flags
OF the World" (FrederiCk Warne and
Company, New York; devotes $50 out
Of 2i0 pages TO Great Britain, which
enables him 10 be fairly complete
within that limited area. He includes
regimental colors, yachting flags and
naval signals. Another thirty pages
go TO America, treating chiefly OF the
/ United States. once British colonies.
: This leaves little room for the rest of
: the world or for the great F.uropes n
States: even with that limitation Il Is
probably duo to present conditions
/ that one page should be assigned to
the German Free Cities and only the
/ last half page to the German Empire.
Tho book IS illustrated with many
| colored plates OF flags. II gives a
very satisfactory history Of the flags
| Of Great Britain and her colonies; tho
rest IL elementary.
In narrating tho life Of Captain
/ John Smith" IN n series Of True
stories Of Great Americans" MAS.
m.lansb. Rossiter Johnson has had
the good sense to discard the icono-
elastic hypercriticisin Of modern his
torians and TO present tho John
Smith we all have known. often
using his own words. Where
Smiths account seem improb-
/ ahlc youth will percpiye the fact
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
ROBERT FROST Avrsoc Of
"NORTt OF BOSTON
NofSJ

follow tho sound traditions of French
versiflcation.
one deplorable consequence OF the
war has been to develop hysterical
alarm in n number of well meaning
persons who fear for the fate of the
United States. Some content them
selves with Cassandralike warnings.
rs Prof Edward :. Van Z!le does in
The Game OF Empires tMoffat, Yard
and Company, to which Mr.. Roose-
welt contributes vague Delphic
preface. The author gathers many
historical instances OF calamity to
demonstrate that America should be
prepared" More terrifying and more
definitely calling for immediate arma-
| ment is Hudson Maxim In Defence
less America" CHearst's International
Library Company, New York;. That
books OF this character should make
any impression on sensible people Is a
result OF the natural dlstruS OF
Chautauquan methods in important
departments OF the Government.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
FICTION AND MORE
SERIOUS WORK OF
THE LATE SPRING
A Mysterious Tale That Carries Us Into Egypt
A Capable Young Woman and Her Family.
A Story Set In the Last Century's Thirtes Mild
Story by Relative Of David Harum'
Three Stories Of Mystery-South American Travel,
American Horticulture. and Other Subjects

Eldrid Reynolds's story OF Whisper
ing Dust frederick A. Stokes Com
pany) is impressionistic and mystical.
Its beginning is characteristics. 1t Is
perplexing to read: you first Began
first merged into my brain-at Mar
settles in the sad, vague dust of Notre
Dame de la Garde. why You should
not have Been before l cannot say:
why You did not Begin at Gibraltar,
or when first / sighted foreign land
Portugal. suppose II was; l remem-
Der how I was moved. But You Be
gan at Marseilles. You didn't come
suddenly like an inspiration; I can't
pretend tina. the thng was wonderful
though sometimes II has seemed so
since. No, / created You. an Idea
created You with difficulty" We then
read that the writer of this mysterious
address is not young and not romantic.
that she Is a curate's orphan and a
curatc's niece, that for moro than
thirty years she lived among Crime
and turnip fields, and that during that
time she was no dreamer.
We are carried on to Egypt, where
there is graceful and sensitive descrip-
ton of the envii onment, including the
whispering dust" There are charac-
tiers in the story, and several OF them
are plsyfully treated. but they come
and go WIN strange abruptness. and
we have gathered almost no idea of
their meaning or of what they are
about. As we have read we have been
bewildered and we have felt ourselves
thWarted
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
SOME RECENT FICTION.

II is very capable young woman
that takes charge of things in st. John
q. Ervine's Alice and Family" Mac
millans), as enjoyable a blend Of fun
ar | hard sense as we have met in
long while. She is own sister to Dick
Swiveller's Marchioness without being
in any way car!cature; sharp
witted. sensible child of the London
streets. who sees the right thing TO do
in every emergency, and can meet not
only the ordinary cares of life but like
wise the efforts of the uplifters to turn
people from their natural course. She
looks after a family that has lost its
director. the mother, while the father
has been thrown out of the work he
knows by an accident. The author
knows these people and makes us
know them too. with their amazing
language and twist of mind. The man
T. rough. dltl and prejudiced, but he is
kind hearted; his son is bright in his
way and ambitious without knowinS
It: the smaller children are amusing:
the girl manages them all and makes
them do what she decides is best for
them. II is a lower level of life than
Dickens explored, that Of the London
laboring man; it is handled as sympa-
thetically ard as vividly as Dickens
might have and with no trace Of the
false sentimentality that afflicted him
at times. The author hits good
naturally a: socialistic philanthropists
now and then. but his Cambridge
graduate working in the slums and his
socialist carman are likable. while
Alice. who is the whole story, is a child
to be loved and admired and not TO be
forgotten soon. it il a capital story
and a fine piece of work.
The wide awake, resourceful young
person. the idealization OF what Amer
lean help used to be, who is the
heroine OF Grace Livingston H'll
Lutzs Miranda" q. Il. Lippincotr
Company, played a conspicuous part
in previous story by the author
which is referred to much too often
In this tale she is eminently satisfac-
tory whenever she is given a chance;
the portions relating to the children
and to her own earlier experiences
and ttose in which she and her lover
are allowed TO express their feelings
are enjoyable The author, unfortu'
nately has chosen to put her story IL
the thirties and forties OF the pas
century and has cndeavored 10 put il
a historic background; she gives VI
far too much OF Morse telegraph and
the railroads and Whitman struggle
FOR Oregon The information she ha!
gathered has not been well diSesteC
and It checks the flow Of the story II
which the reader is interested,
II is too bad that the publishers o
Frank y. Westcott's "Hepsey Burke
(The II. *. Fly Company should in
vte comparison with his brother,
David Harum." This is a pleasant
mild story of the trials OF younl
minister in rural community. H.
and his wife are helped by sensible
farmers widow who is accustomed L
running things and who utters mucl
homely common sense in dialect. TIL
incidents are generally simple an
natural, but artistcally We cannot bu
regret the excess Of iniquity IN tn
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-01
OTHER BOOKS.

II the reader will first examine tho
map on which Prof. Edward Alsworth
Ross travels In South America are
marked, and note the many points at
which he merely touched and the few
instances N which he penetrated into
the country in his decentralization Of
the continent. he may feel ready to
discount somewhat his sweeping state
ments about many things, notably the
character OF the people in South OF
Panama" tThe Century Company.
The professor is a sociologist and he
looked on what he saw with SOCIOLOGICAL
eyes. He reports some things OF value
and importance and some that must be
taken with caution. II the commerce
OF the United States Is to be extended
TO foreign lands It will be necessary
10 drop the provincial habit Of
measuring other peoples by our own
standards, and instead to do as other
successful commercial nations have
done. namely. study the actual ways
OF the natives and try to And a com
mon meeting ground by adapting our
selves to them.
\ standard manual Of the game.
va bllN'll y N.ilNNS fiduuDOOk,
which has held the field for two-thirds
OF century. appears in a new edition,
revised and augmented, by f. II. Ber-
mingham &C. Bell and Sons; Macmil-
'',.sl. The book now includes Staun-
toms Chess Praxis" and much that
has developed since his time.
Four academic addresses delivered
by the Lord High Chancellor OF Eng
land are included In little volume
ertitled The conduct OF Life" CE. =
Dutton and Company. The one de-
iiNercd before the American Bar Asso-
citation at Montreal two years ago
will be Of most interes, in this coun-
try; the others are ethical and edu-
Cational and were delivered before the
universities OF Edinburgh London and
Bristol.