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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

exactly forty times, which is perhaps
record"
Incidentally the inventor referred
to the position of the United States.
Il don't think the United States
should fear any fatal, disastrous in
vasion," he said. Her seas protect
her too well. She IS too mighty a
country in population and force to be
ever conquered. | doubt if, with
reasonable precaution, even her
coasts could be injured or landed
upon. The experience of this war has
shown how easy it is to protect a
coast by submarines, even when the
invader is a neighbor. 1t is a rule
that will work both ways The Uni
| ted States would have vast Difficult
ties in landing forces on foreign ter
ritory, say that of Europe. Neither
England or Germany have been able
to get at each other though relative
| ly close"
AS to the prospects of peace in
Europe Mr.. Marconi said: There
are many people here who believe the
war, that is actual hostilities, will be
over by winter OF course, this will
mean disbanding the armies. Unless
the Germans have managed to fool
the world on the population statistics,
they must give in for lack of men and
food to feed their people.
ITO me the saddest fact about this
used up which might have gone to
better purpose. | fear, too, as must
every thinking man in Europe, that
this may not be England's last great
war during this half century. 1t may
have to be fought all over again with
in another thirty years, unless there
is some way found of preventing fu-
ture wars, of settling disputed inter
ests otherwise.
81 do not think Italy will have any
serious trouble when the war is over.
While she has suffered severely be /
cause of freight rates, she has sur |
prised all of her European neighbors |
with her economic resistance and |
with the products ur her factories. I,
She furnishes Russia with hundreds |
of thousands of rifles and millions I
of cartridges recently. and she is I
sending other war material TO France. /
She is also manufacturing most of her /
own big guns. her heavy cannon, her
guns.
Despite the fact that we occupy I
the soil of ancient Rome, We are a
new country politically and com
and recent events have
proved our mettle. doubt if a
country is better organized from an
engineering and transportation point
Jf view than ours. When the war is
over Italy will go to work to build
arger merchant marine and she will
develop her water power for more
and cheaper electricity"
Concluding. the inventor pointed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
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DR.. Andree of TishominGo was Il
The city yesterday.
Jack Simmons of Oklahoma City
was transactng business here touay
u. E Price of Blackwell was a Lusi
ness visitor yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. C.. E. Long of Gaines
vile left Saturday morning for Tulsa.
They have been guests of Ardm re
friends for a few days.
Mrs. A. M. Gary of Green ;,lle Tex.
are in the city the guest of Dr. and
Mrs Hargravc.
Miss Ruth Terry has returned from
n visit with friends in New York
City.
Mrs. George Terry and daughter.
Helen. have returned from Colorado
Mrs. Mike German and daughter,
Miss Frances. have gone to Sulphur,
where they will spend couple of
weeks at the popular watering place
in Oklahoma
DOW and Worthy Webb left his
morning for eastern Oklahoma and
northeast Texas. where they will visit
friends and relatives for week.
DIR, c. II, ClarRe, who only recently
came homo from Whtesboro, Texas,
has been summoned back there again
on account of illness of his mother.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

out that this is the first great war
in which women have been so gen
orally spared.
an early times we had sometimes
entire countries where men, women
and children were destroyed by fam
ines and epidemics in war time In
our own days the progress of science,
of hygiene, has increased population
and made impossible these old meth
ods of destruction. War still re
mains, as the present conflict proves,
and as more terrible means of de-
struction than in the past. with the
striking difference, however, that it
destroys men and not the women"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The white way question is still in
the atmosphere and the city officials
are wondering what the citizens at
large want to do about it. Some time
ago Mayor Mullen issued a statement
to the public asking for some ex-
preston from the citizens at large
relative to this proposition; up to
date he has received no communities
tion from any source and he is an
Xious to know what the people want.
This question will be discussed at the
next meeting Tuesday night.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
Stay Of Execution Granted.

Oklahoma City. Aug 12.-The Grim
inal court of appeals has granted n
stay Of execution pending appeal In
.4he case of Roswell WestDrook, who
was sentenced TO death last ,pring In
the district court of Latimor county.
The sentence was To have been ex'
ocuted last week. Westbrook was
convicted of the killing of Calvin
Tomlinson Feb. z. last.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
From Old Kentucky.

A letter from Mrs Al NJ Rice from
West Liberty, Ky, states that Supt
c. W. Richards of Ardmore is there
delivering a course of lectures to nor.
nal school pupils. and Mrs. Rice who
is visiting niece in the school is also
attending the course of lectures. She
reports enjoying her visit very much.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
Ardmore His Headquarters.

r. l. Pitts is again with the Berry
Beall Dry Goods company Of Fort
Smith. with whom he worked for
eleven years. After an absence of q
few months he began again on the
Grst Of August Ardmore will be his
headquarters and he and his wife will
reside in this city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

"When will we have those two pro
posed road working days is n ques-
ton that is being fired at the secre-
tary of the chamber of commerce ev-
cry day now, and in reply to this
query he can only state that there
will be no road work done until after
a good rain; when that will be, he
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

Most OF the county officials are
away on their vacation at present, and
the offices are in charge of the clerks.
The county attorneys office is the
busiest spot in the building, they are
getting ready for the opening of the
September term of district and coun-
ty court
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
Returned from Market.

Mr.. and Mrs. Arch Randol are at
home from the markets where they
purchased their opening stock of la
dies ready to wear and millinery,
which they will open about the first
of September in the building on West
Main street now occupied by Judge
Hal VI. Cannon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The question of whether the board
of county commissioners will call an
election to determine whether the
county shall issue one hundred thou
sand dollars worth of bonds for road
purposes, will probably be decided by
the board of county commissioners
when they meet Monday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The streets of the city outside the
paved district are in "A deplorable con
dition and the commissioner of streets
and alleys is going to be Quizzed as
to why this condition exists, at the
next regular meeting of the board of
city commissioners.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

Zack Miller of the l0l ranch, Bliss
Okla, was in the city yesterday dis
posing of car load of horses. Mr..
Miller stated that his section of the
country was needing rain badly, how
ever, that the corn crop was very
good.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

This coming week will see the work
on all buildings at the fair grounds
under way. The secretary states that
he has hopes OF securing the big
grand stand at Lorena Park, but will
not be able to state definitely until
after another conference with the Ard
more Traction Company owners.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
WE MAKE SPECIAL PRICES ON
PICNIC PARTY BILLS. w. j. LANE.

Camel's hair blankets in tan make
the lightest and warmest blankets for
summer camp use. The Texas blank
ct, made of selected long fiber cot
ton, is also popular.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The board of county commissioners
have been in Dallas for the past three
days negotiating for some road work
ing machinery and other supplies.
They will resume their session Mon
day and complete the business for
the term.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
Here rror, rcoreNillr.

I. O. Majors and J. G. Goodman
were here yesterday from Pooleville.
These men state that the hot weather
has begun to iniuge cotton and they
say the crop will be cut short If
rain does not come within short
time.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
Episcopal Church.

Morning prayer at eleven o'clock.
Service conducted by lay reader
Church L street, southwest, just
south of Central Park.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The continued dry spell is having
a bad effect on the flowers and shrub
berry of the city parks Keepers are
compelled to use the hose literally
in order to keep the plants and trees
from dying.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

VIM. Swartz, of Dallas, has secured
a three wear lease on the Love build
ing on West Main street, formerly oc-
cupied by the Vencedora, and Will
open first class clothing and gents
furnishing establishment
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

Claude Wilkerson of Chickasha and
Carl Wilkerson of Oklahoma City
who came here to attend the funeral
of their father, John w. Wilkerson,
returned to their homes yesterday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The fruit crop in this section OF
the state has been extremely short
this season. Peaches are few and OF
very inferior quality in all orchards
adjacent to this city
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

Several speed manlacs were In the
city court yesterday morning and got
the usual fines assessed against thehl
The city dads are after the speeders
with a vengeance.
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The maximum temperature yester
day was 105 degrees, the hottest da!
of the year
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

The want ads make the best adver
Using medium for the small merchant
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

is unable to state but ample notice
will be given to the public when the
time arrives.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

NOR RENT C room modern, bunga-
low, 4th ave. N. w. west OF Wash
ingion. $50 per month. Guillot 4
Hall. 13-1
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-13

FOR SALE -G.room house l0ll Cad
do street, Sl,i00.
G room. 2story p.astcred house. c
street, N. W, between Sth and 9th
ayes. Modern $2,760
Houses and lots in all parts of city
at bargain prices Terms ar
ranged
115xt40 corner 3rG avenue and X.
MCIish addition. $3.50.
GUlbLOT & HALL
Real Estate. Loans & Insurance.
10
Evening star., 1916-11-26
MAGAZINE SECTION for November 26, 1919

might to that motionless form. The
yellow-haired woman fell into step beside
her. She minced along with nervous
steps, watching Sally furtively. Suddenly
she broke out.
"It's all up to you" she said. "I've
been telling him that it was what you
said, not what he wanted. But he's been
saying you'd do what he asked you. I'll
have to tell you quick, for the other train
goes in fifteen minutes. Joe wants to go
home to his mother, down in Indiana.
Are you going to let him go?"
SALLY stared at her stupidly. "To his
mother?"
ayes, to his mother. You don't think
/ want to go there do you? I've had
trouble enough without wishing myself
on the old lady. Maybe you know the
psalm-singing stuff we'll have? | don't
want it, tell you! But he's talked about
nothing else for weeks. He's crazy for the
green fields and the trees and the sky"
"Well?"
"It's up to you, amt it? We've no
money. If you want to keep us here, you
can do it,"
"It's trick, Sally said She glared at
Violet Gates with an anger that sent a
shiver over the yellow-haired woman.
"You know that his mother will let you
go there, because you're his legal wife
now, and I'm not. And you've got him
wanting to go, SO that you can be with
him without me. You always were tricky,
Violet. That's how you got Joe. And
now you're afraid to let him be with me.
You know that, away down deep, he cares
for me yet more than he ever cared for
you. You know that, and you're trying
to keep us apart.
"It's no trick, said the other woman
Evening star., 1916-11-26

duly. "What would it matter now? He
amt got long. What difference would it
make?"
"What difference?" She lowered over
Violet "What difference? You little
fool, don't you know the difference?
Don't you know that"
She cenched her hands in rage that
drove Violet Gates to speech.
"Maybe you think | had good time
down there in the desert?" she demanded.
at was hell-plain hell. But | stuck
because l knew that if | didn't you'd
publish it all over the country that was
a quitter. That's why l stayed. And
now do you suppose | want to go down to
dead town in Indiana, with an old wo-
man who'll tell me what devil am? |
should say not! But he's wild to go. Ask
him yourself, if you don't believe met
She paused before the stretcher that the
trainmen had set down on truck beside
the gates. There she stood, insolently in
different, as Sally came beside the place
where Joe Gates lay. But she turned
away as Sally Gates reached over and
pulled down the blankets.
For the cry that Sally had striven to
hold back when she had seen the stretcher
borne along, the cry of her love and her
fidelity, of her hope and her fear of her
sorrow and of her yearning, came from
her lips at last. All the old love and the
new fused into white flame as Joe Gates
the one man whom she had loved through
her stormy life, opened his eyes and smiled
at her with a flicker of the old fondness
lighting his phaStly face Forpetf,l of the
place, of time and change, of the yellow
haired woman, she bent over him.
ooh, joel" was all she said; but into
his name she put all the tenderness of for
giving womankind.
Evening star., 1916-11-26

to gather strength to say something that
eluded his power.
"Ive always had a hunch," he said
slowly, "that sometime you and l were
going to get together again. Somehow.
Violet doesn't count. You've been nv
only real girl, Sally. used to think, out
there on the desert, of the time when we'd
patch it all up, and be happy in the way
we used to be. But they've rung the gong
on me. Sally do you believe in an after
wards?"
"I don't know, Joe.
"I wonder" His eyes, luminous in the
nearness of death, considered her. "That's
why I'm going home," he said. "I want
to get back to the faith had when was
a kid down there. l want to go out be-
leving that there'll be comeback some
day, that there's place where we can't
make all these fool passes. Don't you
understand, Sally? l want to go down
in the wind-up knowing that I'll be wait
ing for you-somewhere. Can't YOU
know it, too?'
"Oh, Joe, Joe!' she sobbed.
But her eyes made promise that through
time and eternity her spirit would wing
its way to his. With her hand in his, he
sank back on his pillow closing his eyes
as if to bar all other vision. The yellow
haired woman, coming back, found them
silent.
They said no good-bys. But, as the
train slid out from the terminal toward
the moonlit fields of Indiana, Sally Gates,
alone on the platform, looked after it with
the gaze of those who descry. beyond the
ropes of earthly limitations that hope of
eternity's reward with which they will
live and die.
Then, with the step of a conqueror, she
faced the citys night.
Evening star., 1916-11-26

From the pillow that was no whittier
than his face he smiled up at her.
I'm glad to see you, Sally" he said
weakly. His eyes travelled over her bright
raiment. "Some clothes" he murmured.
"You always looked all right" He lifted
his hand from beneath the covers and
reached for hers. "How's the world treat
ing you?"
"Fine,7 she said chokingly.
you've been good to me, Sally" he
went on, "and you hadn't much reason
to be. I'd have gone under, but for you"
at wasn't anything"
"And I've wanted to see you. We're
going down to mothers. Violet didn't
want to go, but must go there. Mothers
been waiting for me to come home"
OVER the head of the dying man the
" two women faced each other. For an
instant of time that throbbed into an con,
Sally Gates strove to read the shallow
soul of the yellow-haired woman, seeking
to discover whether Violet were tricking
her out of her desire. Then her eyes fell
upon Joe's drawn face.
"You know always meant to go back
to mother some day, Sally he said.
With the tower of her hopes toppled in
ruin, Sally Gates spoke to Joe's wife.
"You go down and buy the tickets"
she said, thrusting upon her all that was
left of the money she had won from Pat
Mangan. "It's for him, /" she said tiercely.
AS the yellow-haired woman went be-
yond their vision, Joe Gates spoke again:
ave had pretty good time while it
lasted, didn't we, Sally"
"Yes," she said.
"We might have made it last longer. y.
Perhaps"
He watched her wistfully, as if he tried
Evening star., 1916-11-26

your not his wife!" He checked himself
abruptly.
"Weweremarriedi in Paris, she fastened
to explain. "But-but we agreed the
marriage was to be only form. He was
to come down here Nith me as COM
panion de voyage. He wished only to
give me the protection of his name, and
that-that was all l wished. 1t was not
until l met you, Peter, that realized
what had done"
at was not until then you realized you
really loved him.
"Not until then," she moaned.
"But, knowing that, you allowed me
to talk as did; to hope"
"Peter-dear Peter!" she broke in. at
was not then. 1t was only after l knew
he had gone out of my life forever that l
allowed that. You see, he has gone. He
has gone to England, and from there he is
going home. You know what he is going
for. He is never coming back. So it is
as if he died, isn't it? l allowed you to
talk because l knew you were telling the
truth. And l did not promise much.
When you asked me never to go from you,
all said was that I'd try You remember
that? And have tried, and I was going
to keep on trying-ever so hard. l had
ruined my own life and his life, and-and
l didn't want to hurt you any more l
wanted to do what could to undo some
of the harm I'd already done. thought
that perhaps if we went on like this long
enough | might forget little of the past
and look forward only to the future.
Some day meant to tell you. You know
that, Peter. You know wouldn't be dis
honest with YOU"
She was talking Historically, anxious
only to relieve the tenseness of his lips.
She was not sure that he heard her. He
was looking at her with curious detach-
ment.
"Peter-say something!" she begged.
"It's extraordinary that I should ever
Evening star., 1916-11-26
The Trihers
By FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT
illustration by George E. Wolfe
illustration by George E. Wolfe

something he knew nothing about.
"Marjory," he said slowly, II think
there is a great deal you have left untold.
She frightened her lips. There was no
further use of evasion. If he pressed her
with his eyes open, he must know the truth.
ayes, Peter" she answered.
81 can't decide" he went on slowly,
whether it has to do with great grief
or great joy
"The two so often come together" she
trembled.
"Yes, he nodded; "I think that is true.
Perhaps they belong together
Il have only just learned that, she said.
"And you've been left with the grief?"
81 can't tell Peter. Sometimes | think
so, and then again l see the justice of it,
and it seems beautiful. All I'm sure of is
that I'm left alone"
"Even with me?"
even with you, Peter
HE passed his hand over his eyes.
"This other--do | know him?" he
asked finally.
"Yes."
"It-it is Covington?"
"Yes."
She spoke almost mechanically.
d should have guessed it before.
Had | been able to see, l should have
known"
THAT is why didn't wish you to see
me-so soon,' Marjory said.
"Covington!' he repeated. "But what
of the other woman?"
She took long breath
"l-Fm the other woman" she
answered.
"Marjory!' he cried. mot she you
told me OFF"
"Yes."
"His wife!"
"No-not that. Merely Mrs. Coving-
ton
II don't understand. You don't mean
Evening star., 1916-11-26

have dared hope you We're for me- he
said.
"You mean you-you don't want me,
Peter?'
"Want your" he cried hoarsely. "Id
go through hell to get you. I'd stay mole
blind the rest of my life to get you! Want
your"
He stepped toward her with his hands
outstretched as if to seize her. In spite
of herself, she shrank away.
"You see, he ran on. What difference
does it make if want you9 You belong
to Covington. You haven't anything to
do with yourself any more. You haven't
yourself to give. You're his
WITH her hand above her eyes as if
to ward off his blows, she gasped:
"You mustn't say such things, Peter
"l'm only telling the truth, and there's
no harm in that. I'm telling you what
you haven't dared tell yourself
"Things l mustn't tell myself!' she
cried. "Things l mustn't hear"
"What don't understand, he said, "is
why Covington didn't tell you all this.
He must have known"
Ile hHeW uotHlLS, sue DrOke III.
was mere incident in his life. We met
in Paris quite by accident when he hap
pened to have an idle week. He was
alone and / was alone, and he saved me
from disagreeable situation. Then, be-
cause he still had nothing in particular to
do and had nothing in particular to do,
he suggested this further arrangement.
We We're each considering nothing but our
own comfort. We wanted nothing more.
1t was to escape just such complications
as this-to escape responsibility, as / told
you-that we've married. He was only
boy, Peter, and knew no better. But |
was woman, and should have known.
And came to know! That was my pun
ishment"
"He came to know, too said Peter.
"He might have come to know" she
corrected breathlessly. "There were mo-
ments when / dared think so. If had
kept myself true-oh Peter, these are
terrible things to say!"
She buried her face in her hands again
"a picture of total and abject misery.