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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-06
LIVESTOCK

WILL CARDWELL wants your fat
cows, hogs and calves. See him be-
fore you sell. Phone Blue $50. 4-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-06

IN Amounting to Less Than One
G Cash Accompanies the Ad. Ads
Charged to Any Responsible Person.
FOR SALE
DIRT FOR SALE-About fifty yards
Of good soil. Phone 1151. 3-S
FOR SALE-One solid oak office desk
good as new, at a bargain. 126 n
Washington. Phone 906 5.6t
FOR SALE-Carload of good heavy
river bottom corn. o. d. Thomas,
Berwyn, Okla. Get
FOR SALE-Ear corn. see Chas. A.
Miner at Chickasaw Furniture Co.
14tf
FORD BARGAINS-Sec Secondhand cars
late models-in good shape. VIII
sell cheap. Cooper's Garage. 12-lm
FOR SALE-Good broom house with
large lot. Desirable property and
close in. Easy payments. Phone
Green 291. 2-3
FOR SALE-Screen doors, both new
and secondhand, shelving, tables
and counters, cheap. Brady e
Brady. eff
FOR SALE-One block, 244x26S feet,
north of city, just outside city
limits. Easy terms. See W. A.
Hill. 204 1eth Ave, S. E. 27-lm
FOR SALE-Oak wood and posts, half
mile southeast Wilmington park,
Can deliver. Phone green S72. H.
r. Parker. 1S-1m
FOR SALE-Ford touring car, 1915
model; in good condition. Price
1919, or will trade for Ford road
ster. Homer Burrow, Graham,
Okla. G-3
FOR SALE-Four residence lots G
street and Fourth Ave, S. w. Part
cash, part time. Best residence sec
ton of city. VIM. G. Davisson
over pestofflce. sim
FOR SALE-Five hundred terra Gotta
tile, also 500 square feet Egyptian
blocks and old lumber. George w. |
Stiles Construction Co., New Post |
Office Building. 2S-1m |
FOR SALE - Seven-passeIger Stude-
baker, two tops, limousine and open
Bought Jan. l. Cost $1,100. Will |
take $3.50; $500 cash and balance
$50 per month. Bob Biggs. Phone
blue 135. 29-1m |
FOR SALE-36o acres choice farm
land, with good improvements, dwell
ing, outhouses, cribs, barn, etc,
known as the L. n. Turman estate.
Address L. H. Love, Executor, Ard
more, Oklahoma. slim
LIVESTOCK
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
Ford for Wilson.
(NeW Haven Union.

Henry Ford of Detroit, says: "Our hats off to the president who has kept us out of war. l would not con- sent to run for president against MT. Wilson, He is onto the interests and is not afraid to talk back to them. And he has maintained peace."
 President Wilson's firmness in re- sisting the spectators with big in vestm ents below the Rio Grande the jingoes, and misguided persons, try ing to force upon him policy of in tervention and war, appeals to all people who keep their eyes and their minds open. The ranch owners like Hearst and oil and ore concession owners in Wall street have not pulled the wool over MT. Wilson's eyes. He will not go to war unless it is un- avOidable.
 In this unprecedented period he has kept us out of the great catas trophe of war with Germany. which was threatening. Republicans dare not say they would have gone to war with the Kaiser. they dare not say they would have attacked weak and distracted Mexico. They simply stand and sheer at the president. misrepre- sent him, and think they are using their brains. Instead they are fol- lowing hlndly the lead of the men who have in hand the anything to beat Wilson" campaign and lack is sues or opportunity for constructive criticism
 Mr. Ford sees Wilson's strong fight aeainst predatory interests wanting war. and is not letting republican politicians wanting nothing so much as to get back to the pie counter, fill him with twaddle that is not pertf- ncnt. Republican criticism is empty, and MT. Ford knows it.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
Making Onions Into Straw berries.
 (NOrWiCh Record

A ParIVille, Mo-, news item leads one to believe that the day is at hand
 when the Irish potato and the straw berry will be equally esteemed as 1fu1t' when the cherry and the Cab-
 page will lie side by side in the pre- serve kettle; when the artichOke, the Qulnce, the persim mon and the parS- mp will vie with one another in lus- clousness and food-value and will be displayed without inVidi0us distinC- tion in the. stall of the dealer in fancy fruits as well as in the bins of the green-grOcer And in that day. fur thermore, the desert will blossom like rose, the waste places of the earth shall be made glad, the night ingale shall sing in the wilderness and the sugar beet and the papaw shall lie down together. And all this is promised by Professor Howard Dean, teacher of chemistry at Park college, who has made a revolution ary speech before the Missouri Valley Horticultural society. The professor proclaims that by feeding certain plants on formaldehyde they can be made to develop sugar and starch. His investigations show that plants manufacture compounds that are not normal to them. He has already suc- ceeded in reducing the starch of a potato to sugar by chemical treat ment. And chemists are searching the leaves of plants in an effort to find the agent which converts the carbon diOXide in the air and the moisture into plant products. These chemists may be trembling on the verge of the great discovery. The investigator asserts that when the secret is found the finder will possess an unlimited source of energy. Man can convert the suns power to his own uses. Plants can be grown so that they will taste exactly Is the grower desires them to taSte-pOta- toes may acquire the flavor of can taloupes and carrots will be approxi- mate pom egranates. And it will be possible to fill the desert of Sahara with plant life. so that the nations of the earth will be able to get a menu from soup to nuts and a bottle of wine thrown in, at less than the cost of a ham sandwich. The millennium is coming again-at least for the far sighted investigators who are getting options on acreage in the Sahara.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
Something Lacking.
Bridgeport Telegram.

The Republican party is the con- servative party of America. "Repub- lican" and ''DemOcratic' as party la bels are really not scientific or eN- pressive. It is too bad, but 1t is true, that a party label, like a mans name, is something that cannot be changed. For America needs, for better poli- tics, a division of conservative and radical in it's parties and a clean-cu division of that nature is lacking at present.
 On the whole, the progressive party in most things is the democra- tic party, while the conservatives are entrenched in the G. o. P. Per haps this distinction will become so clearly lodged in the public mind, in the course of time, that it will be the dominant factor in campaigns. As it is now, a great many persons of progressive tendencies are floun- dering around for a party to repre- sent them, simply because they are guided by part ylabers and not by party records.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office.
Men of Military Age.
Providence JOurnal.)

The bureau of the census estimates l that there are twenty-one million male Americans of military age"; that is between eighteen and forty 1 five. That is a maximum estimate of ! the resources in men for the national 1 defence.
 Not even theoretically would such
 a host be available though. While every male not younger than eighteen nor older than forty-four would be liable to duty in time of need, heavy | allowances would have to be made for exempt classes and physical incapac- ity. The universal rule is that ten per cent of an entire population, men,
 women and children, could be en- plOyed in active service, including all nOn-com batant corps. In the an-
 nals of war even that proportion has rarely been drawn in. Historically, only once have a nations resources in fighting men been entirely exhaust ed. Paraguay, at the close of her { war With Brazil Uruguay and Argen- i tina, half a century ago, had hardly
 man left.
 Dsregarding the ten per cent
 method of rough reckoning it is in teresting to reflect that the propor- tion of men of military age in the United States is larger than in most
 countries of the first rank. That is because of heavy immigration, the bulk of 1t young men. But, before calculating the possibility of an ex- haustiOn of mon in the nations now at war, the arbitrary ten per cent.
 should be taken as only the mini-
 mum.
 Germany, for instance, actually had at the outset nearly eleven million
 men of military age, though by the arbitrary rule fewer than seven mill lion Russia had twenty-eight mil lion, Great Britain more than seven
 million, and France more than six
 million, the British and French Colonies providing four million more. It must be borne in mind that more
 come to military age every year than
 rass out, and the aggregate, net, Is
 probably not being seriously reduced
 by the casualties.
 The resources of men possessed by
 the Allies are vastly in excess of those of the Teutonic Powers, of course-
 ffty-two million as against twenty three million, of military age, and thrty-three million as against four teen or fifteen, by the ten per cent rule. But it Is not to be believed that the war will be decided by the ex-
 haustiOn of the Tcutons In men, though they may be overpOwered. Germany has admitted some three million casualties. But, even if the whole mum her were dead or prisoners, that would be a long way from ex- haustiOn
 Rhode Island is credited by the Census Bureau with 129,131 men of p1litarN age-a larger number than NeW Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mex ico, Arizona, Utah or Nevada can show
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
L0st Mines 0f Mexico
 Awalt Fortune Hunters

widow of a Spaniard, de Rodriques- lapored Tor years saving nuggets ol gold until she had a treasure which required caravan of forty mules to convey the fur tons of precious metal to Mexico City. It was a long and ar dues journey, and the widow was constantly in fear of being robbed. When she finally reached the capital she would not rest content until the fortune had been placed in the safe keeping of the Spanish ViCeroy. \ few days later the widow herself disap-S peared and the vast store of gold was appropriated by the government treasury and that treasury's custodian
 An equally pathetic story is told of the Planchas de Plata (Silver Plates) mine which, according to Jesuit accounts, was discovered by Yaqui Indian during the first half of the eighteenth century. From a ceep canyon the Jesuits are said to have taken great globules of silver ore, weighing from twenty to fifty pounds One mammoth nugget of pure silver weighing a quarter of a ton, was dis covered and proved tho undoing 0t both the priests and the Indians. This treasure rock was with great ditfl- culty loaded between two pack mules and taken to the capital where it was seized for the crown. After years Of litigation the authorities decided that not only this nugget but all other ore from the canyon belonged to the state. Whereupon Jesuits aod Tn. dians conspired successfully to lose the mine
 Just thirty-nine miles south of the Arizona line and midway between the border towns of Nogales and Naco, is Cananea. the center of one of the richest copper regions in the world, while to the south is Magdalena sta- tion, east of which is the Santo Do- mingo canyon with it's placer gold de- posits, which are said to have fur- nished the cargo for many of Spain's treasure galleons.
 Tn addition to copper, gold and sil- yer, the mines of Sonora produce lecd, coal, antimony mercury, iron, zinc, salt and tellurium. The graphite de& posits of the state are said to be the finest in the world, producing an even better grade than the famous mines of Siberia and Japan"
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
High Cost of Peace.
(New Haven Times-Leader).


 It is proposed to appropriate $32S,- 0O0O 900 to pay the cost of maintain ing our new army and $70O, ,000,0 ,000 for defense, and this country is still at peace with all the world:
 More than half million dollars has been spent in moving the troops already on the border or on the way. The average charge for transport ing a guardsman from Connecticut to the border is estimated at $50, one horse Or mule SIP and each trans port wagon or field piece SIP.
 On this basis to move a field ar tillery regiment it costs $69,1S1; a regiment of cavalry $7S,244 and a regiment of infantry $94,145.
 To meet these new and enormous expenses it is proposed to raise $500, 900, ,OO0 year in new taxes, and the Ways and Means Committee of the house proposes to do it in ways which have been fully indicated in advance. The income tax is to be doubled. There is to be an inheritance tax, in addition to state inheritance taxes. Manufacturers of munitions of war are to pay heavy tax on their gross profits.
 It is proposed to make accumulated wealth pay the costs of preparedness a fact which may lessen consider ably the demand of the very rich that tho preparation for war be as com- plete as money can make it.
 Militarism costs enOrmOuslv-we shall all realize that fact very soOe if we do not realize it fully now.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
Why a Change"
(BOstOn PoSt.)

The geltlemen who are now begin hing to busy themselves with the job of electing MT. Hughes declare that the country wants 9 change What evidence is there of any such desire
 The country wants a, change only when things are in a bad way. It is then eager to change on the theory that things couldn't be worse and might be bettered by the change. How about it today?
 The country never was moro pros porous and contented than it is now. Its foreign relations have been made satisfac ctory by the vigorous diplomacy of President Wilson. The Mexican problem seems on the way to sensi- ble, honorable and peaceful settle ment.
 What is this "change" that is sup posed to be wanted? What has MT. Hughes to offer that the country does not already possess?
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
Then And Now.
(BOStOn Hera1dD

When the Germans first employed a | deadly gas against their foes there was an outcry from all civilized na- l tions. Now the statement that a de- stroying gas is at times used by the | British excites little comment. The 1 world is accustomed to horrors. The ! slaughter of thousands is no more 1 than the report that thousands have l been drowned by a tidal wave in the l Far East.
 1 In the reign of Louis XIV. French 1 chemist named Dupre invented a fire
 90 rapid and consuming that it could | not be evadcd or Quenched. Expert ments amply proved this. When h
 was seen that with this fire a man
 could burn a fleet or destroy a town l without successful resistance, Louis forbade that the invention should be made public He was then at war with England; it was important that l Fnglands fleet should he destroyed, but he refused the aid of Dupre's in-
 vention and thought for the general 1 interests it should be suppressed. Dupre died, carrying the secret with him. Yet Louis KY. was by no
 means an ideal ruler and he Is pill | loried for his gross immortality and ] ! suffering people.
 The Goncourt brothers kept 2 cu-
 rious journal which has been pub l lished in nine volumes. Jules died; Edmond continued it. This journal
 which will probably survive the 1 novels, biographica1 and sociological
 works of the brothers, includes curi- ! ously personal an6' aneCdotical account 1 of the siege of Paris. There is an l entry in which an aged nOn-com bat
 ant, longing to serve his country in | some manner, expressed his helpless | ness. "One feels som chow as if one must escape from the human shell
 and, soaring into unknown places, in
 vent something or other to h3nfound the enemy. One longs fc. | some | means of flying, in order to $ Hk out 1 and discover the foe; for somS new
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
VICTIMS ENGAGED TO WED.
Woman Killed in PIainffeId Was Miss
 Anna Cushing.

Plafnfield, July 18.-The woman killed at @ grade crossing yesterday, when an engine struck the automobile in which she and Arthur F. Parks of Fall River were riding, was Miss Anna Cushing, 26, of 26 Grove street. Providence, R. I. Miss Cushing had boarded at that address with Mrs. George J. Williams about five years and Mrs. Williams stated last night that she was engaged to Parks and they had intended to be married this month.
 The couple left Providence Satur- day to visit friends in New England and were on their way back when the accident occurred. Miss Cushing had been married, it was stated, but WAS divorced. She went to Providencat from, Middleboro, where she leaves a brother and sister, Caleb Cushing and Mrs. Clara Wood.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18

law of 1913 an obstacle to the carry ing out of thei plan to make a clean sweep of all democrats in office. Their plan was to remove the obstacle by repeating the statute of 1913. That plan was embodied in a bill, which was drafted and prepared for the con- eideratiOn of the general assembly. The effect of the proposed repeal would be to legislate out of office the three gentlemen who constituted the commission who were In charge ot the administration of the law of 1913, and who were too sympathetic with it's principle to suit the plans of the politicians. The bill was drastic but it was effective. In republican cir cles 1t was declared a perfect bill and it's unopposed enactment was conf dently predicted. But unfortunately for the sOundness of the declaration, and the accuracy of the prediction, it had to meet the approval of the chief executive before it attained it's full development as a law. It failed to sc- cure that and the present law is the compromise.
 The statue of 1915 is somewhat troublesome to the politicians, but that's all. It has enabled them to fe-GStaDllSn the SDOllS system in the service of the state and they are satisfied. The American is right when 1t intimates that the present law vii! become objectionable to the republicans only when the demo- crats are in power. If, as seems now likely, the democrats will be in control of the state government for two years from the first week in January, 1917, we may expect the republicans, in their solicitude for the official heads of these who have benefited by the 1915 Amendment" to come forward with a proposition to furnish the original law of 1913 With a fresh set of teeth. It will be amusing to sec the republican politicians showing a friendly interest in the principle of the test system tn the civil service of the state.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
Pointed Paragraphs.
(From the Chicago News.)

(From the Chicago News.)
 Better dinner without meat than a domestic brOil.
 Sometimes the price of liberty is the fee of a smart lawyer.
 One Observant woman may be a whole public opinion in herself
 Every time a mans wife buys him tie his vanity gets it in the neck.
 Be good to everybody and every- body will try to make a doormat of you.
 Anyway. an ounce of prevention costs much less than a pound of cure.
 Bashful men are slaves. Women claim them by right of personal con- quest.
 It's wonderful how smart a woman can make a man think she thinks he is.
 People who travel on the down. ward path seldom provide themselves with a return ticket
 An elaborate tombstone and a con- tested will is the only rotoriety wealth brings to some men.
 For man to make a woman happy during courtship Is much easier than it is for him to make good after mar riage.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
How the Movies Are Breaking the
 Nickel Banks.

In the Family's Money Depart ment of the July American magazine a writer says:
 Since the opening of the nickel movies, the little banks which form erly held the small savings of the younger members of families have dwindled until they are a thing of the past. Sunday school teachers say that the movies have much to do with decreases in Sunday school treasuries.
 The temptation to indulge the child when it asks for a nickel is too great for some parents. The money is given freely-henCe the child comes to regard a nickel of small consequence. All of the money which the child earns or which is given to 1t. is spent for shows. ire quently without the parents know ledge. careful watch on three chill dren, mem bers of a family in moder-
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
The Boom In Silver.
Cincinnati Times Starr

The price of silver is higher now than at any time since 1893. By the mere processes of supply and demand it has come to bear a ratio of 27 to to gold The war caused the hoard ing of gold, and silver therefore has been in great demand for COining pur- poses among the belligerent nations. Meanwhile, the output in MeXic o has decreased Silver has benefited more by war than it ever did by "COin's' spacious arguments or Dy MT. Bryan's perfervid eloquence,
 Only twenty years have passed since the nation was in an uproar over the cause of silver. We passed through a period of evasion before the issue was joined in 1896, and then one of the most exciting and picturesque presidential campaigns of our history occurred. Today no man raises his voice in behalf of silver. UnhOnored and unsung, it nevertheless is doing well, thank you.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-18

Washington, D. C., July 17.-"If America's National Guard sees foreign service in it's patrol duty along the northern Sonora border the boys in khaki will be in a Mexican state where fact and fable are fascinating ly interWoven in the accounts of it's vast mineral wealth." says today's war geography bulletin issued from Washington by the National Geo. graphic society.
 Even the name Sonora is said by some historians to be derived from a peculiarly musical, and 'sOnorous' quality possessed by certain marbles Quarried in the state.
 Within a decade after Cortez land ed on MeXical soil and conquered the followers of Montezuma the Spaniards had launched expeditions by sea and started exploration parties over the mountains to find that region which two centuries before, according to tradition, had supplied the Aztecs with great stores of gold and silver when they passed through the land in their tribal migration to the vale of Anahuac. By 1530 Almindez ChirnOS had proceeded up the coast as far as the mouth of the Yaqui river, and he was followed by de Vaca who brought back a report that gold and silver could be plucked from the ground in unbelievable quantities. One of de Vaca's followers was Sebastian mulatto who had remarkable gifts of imagination. Among the places he saw were the Seven Cities of CibOla, ruled by King Tatarax, whose wonder ful, bejeweled robes dazzled the eye as he worshipped each morning in his magnificent palace before a golden cross. Mermaids also figured in Se- bastian's narrative as alluring mar vels of the Sonora coast.
 Among the Sonora mines about which romance and reality are strangely mingled is that of Senor Armada of Quintera. The owner Is said to have celebrated the marriage of his favorte daughter by paneling the bridal chamber with plates of sill yer, and paving the road from his home to the church with bars ot the precious metal.
 '"The legend concerning the DOna Maria mine is that it's owner, the