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Feats Of daring, the like Of wh,ch
have never before been prescn;cH on
a motion picture screen, are shown
in Chapter of "The Girl and the
Game" the picture novel of railroad
life screened by the Signal Film Cor.
poration, which is shown at the Thea
torium tomorrow. In this chapter,
Helen Holmes, fearless heroine, per-
forms various feats of daring, without
regard to life or limb.
This episode, like every other chap
ter, is satisfactory in itself. If the
preceding events be recalled, how
ever, Helens faithful admirers, who
will see the big railroad feature,
from the initial flash to the finale,
may remember that their heroine
is now a fatherless girl, forced to
fight her own battles in the world
Not that she appears to be left in
poverty. And certainly, resourceful
Helen is very far from being the help
less, clinging sort of woman. She
has railroad stock and her magnil.
cent home. At last, these are hers
by lawful inheritance.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04
"The Cheat" at Palace Today.

Famed for her talents as come
denne, Miss Fannie Ward will make
her second appearance as a Para
mount star in a production by the
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play company
entitled, "The Cheat" which is shown
at the Palace today. Her first photo
play was "The Marriage of Kitty"
which has been universally popular.
"The Cheat" is a modern drama
Offering Miss Ward splendid oppor-
tunities not only for comedy but also
for drama. II is by Hector Turnbull
and was personally produced by Cecil
b. DeNille Supporting the star are
Jack Dean, Sussue Hayakawa and
James Neil
Miss Ward appears as Edith Hardy,
whose husband is a man of many
business affairs. She is interested
in charity movements and is ambi-
tous socially. Also she is vain on
the subject of clothes. AS treasurer
of a charity fund thousands of dol
lars are in her keeping Tempted to
speculate in stocks to satisfy her de-
sres, she takes the money
Exposure faces her when she seeks
aid of a neighbor, who tries to make
a bargain in return for the loan. The
successful and happy working out of
the complex and thrilling situation
furnishes an exciting photoplay.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04


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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04
Local Man Leads State

Joel G. Crosby of this city who is
district manager for the YeomeU. has
been advised by the state manage"
that he led the district managers of
the state in producing new business
during the month of January, i9li.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04

Special soc rate on lessons in
china painting during February ana
March. Miss Nwoney'a studio, in
gas office. 3-2
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Consultation.

When costive or troubled with con-
stipation, take Chamberlain's Tablets.
They are easy to take and most agree
able in effect. Obtainable everywhere.
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DOOMED BY BIC
ADVERTISER
CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
REFUSES T>ACCEPT ADVERTIS-
ING FOR CIGARETTES - LET
TER TO RICHARDS.

The Curtis Publishing company Of
Philadelphia, publishers Of the La
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04
invIgoratIrg to the Pale and Sickly

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04

O. y. saclmonn, of Shawnee, and
c. B. CaJhc of Oklahoma city, of
Gcials Of the Pioneer Telephone com.
pany, are here ON business.
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CHAMBER Of
COMMERCE. ME- 7
YESTERDAY
DECIDES TO KEEP MAN AT OKLA
HOMA CITY UNTIL FINAL DIS
PosAL OF GROSS PRODUCTION
TAX BILL.

At a called meeting of the Cham
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04

Worlmen began remodeling the
iinkle building on West Main street
this morning. It will be occupied by
the Bass Furniture company
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04

Want AdS-they pay.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04

The examining trial of r. Walling,
charged with burglarizing the store
Of Teal Brothers at Writ, will be
held before Judge Champion this af-
tcrnoon
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-02-04

DR.. c. Mccoy has written from San
Antonio, stating that he is not re
covering as rapidly as he would like
and has decided to move further
south, going from San Antonio to
Port Layaca.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
MASONIC TREASURER DEAD
A. c. Stewart Stricken With Acute In
digestion While En- Route to
Home In ST. Louis,

Alphonse Chase Stewart, thirty
three degree Mason, and treasurer of
the Missouri grand lodge, who was
stricken with acute Indigestion on
train coming from Kansas City, died
at St Luke's hospital in ST, Louis. He
was son of Lieut.. Gen. Alexander P.
Stewart of the Confederate army, and
as cadet was attached to his faith
er's staff in the war.
Mr.. Stewart was born in Lebanon,
Tenn, August 27, 1S48. In 1871 he
was married to Miss Elizabeth Smith
of Winchester, Tenn. He is survived
by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. George
Williams, and son, Doctor S. Smith
Stewart, who were at his bedside. Mr..
Stewart was counsel of the st. Louis
Union Trust Company; member of
prominent law firm; well known fig
ure in the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, and wealthy. From 1904 to
1908 he was president of the st. Louis
police board.
No one on the train recognized as
Mr.. Stewart the man who suddenly
lurched from his seat and fell uncon-
scious to the floor as the train pulled
out of Hawk Point. Strangely, it was
Patrolman John S. Broyles, who was
appointed to the force in 1909 by Mr..
Stewart, who recognized the attorney
when the train reached the Union Sta
ton. Because of the police rules,
Broyles was compelled to place his
former superior in a city ambulance
and have him sent to the city dispen-
sary. From the dispensary the fam
lily and friends of the stricken man
were notified, a private ambulance
was called and Mr.. Stewart was con-
veyed to st. Luke's hospital.
Fair play., 1916-05-06

interest envelop the remains of King
Hiram's forests with a glamour OF
their own.
Here, in their ancient home, the
residue of those forests which once
darkened the seaward slopes of love-
ly Lebanon still hold their own. aided
by the timely protection granted them
by European sympathizers. At an
altitude OF about $500 feet above the
sea, in sheltered amphitheaters sur
rounded by naked ridges and imposing
crags, nestle the five remaining groups
OF cedars. None of them is more than
fifteen miles from the coast In d.
rect line.
The best known grove. and that
which contains the Oldest trees, Is
situated at the head of the Kadisha
valley, a little TO the south OF the cui-
mnating peak of the Lebanon. 1t Is
a days ride inland from the port or
Tripon In tho neighborhood is a
comparatively new grove which was
started and preserved by local Ma
ronite bishop. These are a standing
proof OF what Gail pS uOuo III bho Noy
of reafforestation. The other three
groups are in the southern Lebanon,
and are more easily approached from
Beirut, or, better still, by way of the
station of Ain Sofa, on the Damascus
railway. These three are all close to-
gether. but are distinguished by the
names OF the villages to which they
belong, namely, Ain Zahalta, Maasir
and Baruk OF these, the Baruk
grove is the best known and most fire.
quently visited; It is also the largest
group of all five. The oldest trees,
though, are to be found in the north
ern, or Bsherreh, grove.
This locality Is known as the Jebel-
el-Arz, or Cedar mountain, the grove
OF cedars being situated close under
a 5000 feet ridge of barren limestone.
Here the solitary 400 are set in life
| less. silent world of rock and scree
where no other vegetation exists,
shown off TO perfection by back
ground of drifted snow and naked
/ bowlder in winter and of utterly bar
rem, bleached flanks in summer Seen
from distance, they appear as a lit
tie black dot In the imposing amphi-
4 theater OF hills; but on closer acquain-
tance they prove to be spread out in
/ to several scattered clumps, covering
the hummocks of an ancient moraine.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
STATE OWES M. U. $4,000
President A. Ross Hill Believes Mis-
souri, Treasury 10 Bankrupt
Salaries Long Past Due.

DR.. A. Ross Hill, president of the
Missouri state university, told re-
porter at st. Louis that the state treas.
ury is bankrupt and the officials at
jefferson City we're trying to conceal
the fact.
I'VE are now about three months
in arrears at the state university In
the payment of salaries Of the facul-
ty," said President Hill. In all, we
are about $4,000 behind in the pay
ment of expenses from the general
revenue fund. X. b. Price of Colum.
bia. treasurer % the university, has
been paying our salary vouchers for
the state and advancing the money on
his own account.
1--WE might as we'll admit the fact.
The state is bankrupt and the Off
cials at jefferson City are trying to
conceal it, despite the statement Of
one of the candidates for governor at
Columbia that the state has sufficient
money to meet its necessary expenses.
Governor Major, some time ago,
asked us to curtail our expenditures
within a minimum fixed by him and
we have done so, but despite this, we
have not been able to get money for
the university when due from the
state The vouchers are not turned
down by the state, but are just held
up, that's all. We are going along the
best we can under the circumstances,
hoping for the best, but we do not
know what the biennial period is going
to show in the way of state finances.
President Hill said the present ar
rangements for paying the expenses
of the university may not continue
and the federal government may cut
off the funds appropriated for the col
lege of agriculture because the state
has not paid its part.
Fair play., 1916-05-06

is guaranteed by the promise that 'he
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon"
And when the earth is shrouded in
misfortune and tragedy, the metaphor
used is: Lebanon is ashamed and
hewn down"
But the cedar has fallen on bad
days; 1t has not escaped the curse
that has settled on to those fair lands.
The blight of desiccation, the ravages
OF unthinking and unworthy guardians,
the canker of a stagnant government,
have all done their share in the de-
struction of what was once the glory
of an historic land
In the days of yore the cedars we're
not carefully guarded relics, but actu-
ally formed the source of a lucrative
timber business. AS long ago as 2450
B. G. we know that the contractors of
the Babylonian kings brought cedars
from the Amanus Mountains, in north.
ern Syria, to the Euphrates, whence
they floated them down TO their des.
tination. Even as late as 1000 B. c..
they must have been very plentiful,
for Solomon raised a levy of 10000
aliens in the Land OF Israel for the
sole purpose Of hewing timber in Leb-
anon.
The supply, no doubt, gradually de-
creased as the population increased
and the rainfall diminished. The un-
controlled destruction OF the forests
went on without interruption, so that
in the absence of regeneration their
doom was sealed. What is left of the
! former glory of Lebanon is but a few
isolated and comparatively inslgnif.
cant groves. In point of fact, there
are today FIVE distinct groups of ce-
dars, but the most famous of these
does not possess above 400 trees, all
told; and of these there is a very
small proportion of real patriarchs.
The actual geographical distribution
of this cedar is not limited to the
| Lebanon. It also exists on the Amanus
mountains, in northern Syria, and on
| the Taurus range, in Asia Minor;
while Cedrus Libanl is really only q
| local form of a large family which
| thriyes in the Himalaya as the deodar
and in North Africa as the Algerian
cedar. AS a matter of fact, the Leb
| anon cedars do not bear comparison
when brought into contrast with 9th
| ers of their kind; but the romance oil
their environment and their historical
Fair play., 1916-05-06
MOTHERS MEETING
New Officers Elected at State
Congress in Session at
Columbia.
MRS. W. h. JOBE PRESIDENT
Kansas City Woman Unanimously
Chosen to Head Organization
Next Meeting in ST. Louis.

Mrs Walter II. Jobe Of Kansas City
was unanimously elected president of
the Missouri Mothers Congress at Co.
lumbus recently. Mrs. lobe has been
second vice-president of the organiza-
tion for the last two years and presi-
dent of the Kansas City Council of
Mothers Clubs for the last year.
The election of the other officers
was the occasion of much spirited
rivalry between factions, in which St.
Louis and Kansas City women were
the leaders. Other officers elected
were:
First vice-president, Mrs. Norman
Windsor, st. Louis; second vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. S. w. Arnold, Kirksyille;
third vice-president Mrs. A. l.. Ying.
ling, Independence; fourth vice-presi.
dent, Mrs. L. d. Rosenbaugher, Spring,
field; fifth vice-president, Mrs. NJ. j.
Hale Monet; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. George Siemens, Kansas
City; recording secretary, Mrs, B. c.
Hunt, Columbia treasurer, Mrs. e. A.
Mckay, Springfield; auditor, Mrs.
Bertha Blees, Weston; historian, Mrs.
John S. harrington, Springfield.
Mrs. j. B. Mcbride of Springfield,
outgoing president was elected honor
airy president. st. Louis is considered
as the most likely place for next years
meeting
The congress decided that "better
mothers and better babies was far
more important than the question OF
woman's suffrage. Adopting the for
mer as their slogan, they side-tracked
their suffrage question when it was
introduced in the form of a resolution
indorsing it.
Fair play., 1916-05-06

DIR. Ralph Graham, inspector in
charge of the United States hog chol-
era station at Sedalia, has found that
in a number of cases where hogs had
died suddenly death was the result of
cockleburr poison. Dr. Graham says
the first two oblong leaves of the
cockleburr are poisonous at this time
of the year, when vegetation is young
and tender, and that hogs will eat a
sufficient quantity of these leaves to
cause death. Usually death occurs
from this poisoning in a very short
time. The hogs generally die squeal-
ing.
Fair play., 1916-05-06

The northernmost ostrich farm in
the world is in a suburb of Stockholm.
The birds were taken there last year.
They spent the winter mostly in the
open, in perfect health, and toward
the end of May the females laid their
eggs, just as If they had been in South
Africa. 1t takes six weeks to hatch an
ostrich egg.
The total coal supply of the world
has been estimated at 1897 533, ,O00, 900
tons, of which nearly 100000, 900, 900
tons are bituminous. Asia having the
largest quantity of any continent
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Saline County Capitalist Dead.

Chastain G. Page, banker and capt.
talist, is dead at Marshall. He was
born in Madison county, Virginia, in
1885, but had lived in Marshall al
most continuously since 1856. He was
chairman of the board of directors of
the Wood e Huston Bank, founder
of the Rea & Page Milling Company
and an extensive Saline county land.
holder.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
CONVERSATIONS

The tallest man in the world is not
above criticism.
Seaweed offers a prolific source OF
fuel oil when present supplies are ex-
hausted, according to an English
scientist, who has obtained seven gal
Ions from a ton of vegetable matter.
Physicians have decided that several
forms of nervous diseases. sometimes
dangerously severe, can be caused by
persons standing up and holding straps
while riding in street cars
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Bolt Of Calico From sky.

In the recent storm at Hume hail
stones feasuring six inches in circum-
ference were picked up and bolt Of
calico fell in James Harris chicken
lot in the north part of the city, 1t
was quite a lucky call for Mrs. Harris
when the price of calico is considered
1t is supposed that the calico was tax.
en- up in the clouds in the path of the
tornado south of there.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
CoupIe Wed go Years,

Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Davis, two Of
the oldest residents of Grundy county,
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
their wedding at their home in Brim-
son recently. About one hundred and
fifty neighbors gathered at their home
for dinner.
Fair play., 1916-05-06

AS a part of the program of Clean
up week" which was observed in Tren-
ton April 1922, the students of the
high school joined in a "dandelion
day" The entire student body was
dismissed early and set to work dig
ging the pests from the campus.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Calls Missouri Charter Meeting.

The chamber of commerce has been
advised by Walter Williams, dean of
the Missouri School of Journalism,
that he has called meeting of the
committees and persons interested in
the movement for new constitution
for Missouri, to be held in Sedalia Sat
urday, May 13.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
plans Community House.

Carrollton is considering the erec.
tion of community house this year.
Architects plans are being made for
it. The building would house a gym
nasium, reading rooms and farm
bureau. and would have a convention
hall seating 1000.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Goes Back to M. U. as Professor.

Announcement was made recently
that Prof. Charles w. Leaphart of the
University of Montana has been ap-
pointed acting professor of law in the
Missouri university for the session of
1867. Professor Leaphart is a grad.
uate Of the Missouri university.
Fair play., 1916-05-06


and were a profitable possession OF
Hiram. the Phoenician king, are only
a sad reminder of a glory that has de-
parted.
The cedars have lost their claim to
be the pride Of Lebanon; barren gran
deur and beauty Of color are in these
days the leading characteristics OF
these delightful mountains, for naked
rock and sterile scree now reign
where once dark forests thrived. Yet
sufficient remains to show what Leb-
anon must have been in the old days;
a mockery, no doubt, Of their ancient
splendor, but on the other hand an
interesting relic and valuable heri-
tage. Living trees such as these,
which their most sanguine admirers
claira to have been contemporary with
Solomon, must be reckoned as one OF
the historic treasures of the world.
Not only does their fame rest upon
traditional grounds; their beauty OF
form and power of growth have been
extolled in psalm and verse by the
bards of many lands, while their shad-
owy groves in still earlier days were
the object of veneration.
The primitive nature worshippers
could not have chosen q finer ideal
than this giant tree-perfect In every
moment of it's existence, an emblem OF
beauty, strength and vitality,
1t is easy to understand the admira-
In hnt
native land. To the inhabitants Of the
otherwise barren Lebanon, to the wan
derers in the deserts beyond. and even
to tho dwellers in the hill country OF
Palestine, these trees must have been
miracles Of creation. These people
only knew the delicate palm, the
gnarled olive and stunted scrub oak;
compared with these the gigantic
boIes and spreading arms of the lordly
cedar were indeed a mystery. In any
land 1t is a tree that attracts atten-
ton; but in such a naked, treeless
country as Syria and Palestine 1t is
especially appreciated. Small wonder
that 1t became the tree of the Lord"
and q symbol OF power The eastern
mind could find no better smile for
expressing greatness, grandeur, ex-
cellence of character or loftiness of
purpose. The might Of the Assyrtan
empire was likened to the cedar in
words too wonderful to be left un-
quoted:
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar
in Lebanon with fair branches, and
with a shadowing shroud, and OF an
high stature; and his top was among
the thick boughs.
THE waters made him great =.
therefore his height was exalted above
all the trees of the field, and his
boughs were multiplied, and his
branches became long because Of the
multitude of waters, when he shot
forth.
"All the fowls of heaven made their
nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field
bring forth their young, and under his
shadow dwelt all great nations.
Thus was he fair in his greatness,
in the length of his branches: for his
root was by great waters.
THE cedars in the garden of God
could not hide him: the fir trees were
not like his boughs, and the chestnut
trees were not like his branches, nor
any tree in the garden of God was like
him in his beauty,
II have made him fair by the multi
tude of his branches: so that all the
trees of Eden, that were in the garden
of God, envied him"
Again: the success of the good man
Fair play., 1916-05-06
William Jewell Wins In oratory.

Seven institutions were represented
in the annual state peace oratorical
contest. The judges, Editor r. X.
Maiden, Ben Todd of Kansas City and
Prof. l. B. Morgan of Kansas City,
Kas., gave first place to G. V. Price
of William Jewell college.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Miller County Voted Road Bonds.

Miller county recently voted 100000
in bonds in aid of the cross state high
way. Practically every voter in Lin
coin and Greene townships turned out
to vote and the good roads proposal
carried by a gooI margin.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Married a Half Century.

Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Koechner cele.
brated their golden wedding anniver.
sary at Upton. Mr.. Koechner is rs
years old and Mrs. Koechner is GO,
They have eight children. Mr.. Koech,
ner is q veteran of the Civil war.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
handlcapplna Sally.

Jane, don't you want our Sally to
git married?"
ITO be sure do, Hiraml"
Then why do you keep tellin' every
body that she's the very pictur' o. what
you was when you was her agef'-
Browning's Magazine.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
St. Joseph Traction Head Dead.

o. L. Bocock, who had been super
intendent of the st, Joseph Street
Railway lines twelve years, is dead
in sanltarium there. He was 3G
years old.
Fair play., 1916-05-06

Daniel X. Wenrich, former postmas-
ter of Joplin, is dead in Battle Greek,
Mich, according to kilograms received
at Joplin. He was the father Of Percy
Wenrich, the composer.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
A s25, 900 Fire Near Moberly.

Fire recently destroyed A. l.. Ben
nett's drug store, G. A. Bakers gro
Gerry and j. L. Polson's mill at Cairo
seven miles north of Moberly. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Falling Derrick Injuries Five.

Five men were injured. two prob
ably fatally, when a hopper and der
rick at the Imperial mine near Jop-
lin collapsed recently, They were
working in the mill and were caught
by falling debris.
Fair play., 1916-05-06
Killed in Neosho Yards.

]. p. Fully of st. Paul. Mimi, was
killed and Asbury Phillips and Jack
f. Phillips of Shady Point, Ok, were
injured by switch engine at Neosho
the other day.