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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
A FAMOUS SONG WRITER
Stephen Collins Foster the Most Popu.
lar of American COMPOSERS.

Philadelphia Record: No American
song writer has achieved popularity in
the same degree as Stephens Collins
Foster nor has retained it for so many
years.
1t is more than likely that the com
munity singing which has been started
so auspiciously in Philadelphia will al
ways include many of Fosters melodies
Fosters most popular songs are "Old
Folks at Home" THE Old Kentucky
Home" "Old Black joe"
Foster inherited his musical genius
Tor his father and mother were both
musical and the boy when only seven
years of age could play acceptably on
the flageoet.
His first great success in the song
line was "Oh, Susannah" which is said
10 have swept the country like a cy.
clone. The young composer was a reg
ular attendant at negro camp meetings
and at them studied the negro to good
advantage, as many of his songs both
pathetic and humorous, testify-for
Foster was a master in both.
There are few people of an older gen.
GRAFTON who do not remember the infec.
tious chorus of "Camptown Races"
Il bet my money on the bob-tailed nag,
Somebody bet on the gray"
which became almost a household word.
"Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground"
and Garry Me Back to Old Virginny"
are good examples of the melancholy
strain so manifest in many of Fosters
songs.
1t is related that when he was com.
posing The Old Folks at Home" he
was at a loss for the name of a river
which would be melodious and also fit
the rhythm Of the song.
A brother suggested "Pedee-"Way
down upon the Pedee river"
No said the composer: "Peedee is
not poetical enough"
Various other names were tried. only
to be rejected by the fastldious author.
At length a gazetteer was obtained,
and Foster looked through long lists of
names until he reached Suawanee or
Swanee, as II is usually written.
The suitable name was found, and in
this manner was Immortality bestowed
upon that hitherto almost unknown lii.
tie southern river
Foster wrote The Old Kentucky
Home while on visit to an uncle who
lived in Kentucky
Come Where My Love Lies Dream.
ing" one Of Fosters sentimental songs.
was at one time the delight of the ser.
enading young men in the days when
serenades were still in vogue.
In 1900 a monument was erected TO
Foster in Highland Park, Pittsburgh.
his native city in the form Of a figure
of the composer sitting, with a little
negro boy looking up into his face.
Five bands of music consolidated for
the occasion played Fosters melodies.
and several thousand school children
sang number Of his songs.
The money for the monument was
raised by popular subscription.
Foster is honored in Kentucky quite
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
HE DULY QUALIFIED.

Birmingham Age-Herald: Where did
Fibson get his early training as a war
correspondent
When he was an ordinary newspaper
reporter he used to cover a court OF
domestic relations"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
Now They Dnn,f SnenI,

New Haven Courier-Journal: Maud
Charley is so poetical. When accepted
him he said he felt like an immigrant
entering a new world.
Ethel-Well, there's sense as well as
poetry in that Wasn't he just landed?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
Old Warning.

Boston Transcript: Betty-Jack saws
he will stop drinking if I marry him.
Mrs. Wyse-Well, be careful, dear. It
Is easier for him to begin again than
1t is for you to get unmarried.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
Not Worth FOOIing.

Boston Transcript: Harper-You
can't fool all Of the people all of the
time
Sharper don't want to. Lots Of
people haven't any money.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
Her ReDIy.

Detroit Free Press: Silence is gol.
DEN"
Maybe but I'd like to see anybody
get any money out Of you without talk.
ing for it,"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20

Ardmoreite want ads: the pest ad.
vertising medium.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-20
Wouldn't Wait That Long.

SO you're a bill collector, eh?"
Yes, sir"
DO you believe in a hereafter"
l certainly do, but I'm not going
wait until then to collect this bill"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
Child gets SICK
CROSS, FEVERISH
If CONST|PATED
california Syrup of Figs
Can't Harm Tender Stom-
ach or Bowels

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour. ~.
Look at the tongue, mother! II
coated, or your child is listless, cross,
feyerish, breath bad, restless, doesn't
eat heartily, full of cold or has sore
throat or any other children's ailment,
give a teaspoonful of California
Syrup of Figs" then don't worry, be-
cause 1t is perfectly harmless, and in
few hours all this constipation pois-
on, sour bile and fermenting waste
will gently move out Of the bowels,
AMI you have well, playful child
again. A thorough inside cleasning'
is oftimes all that is necessary. 1t
should be the first treatment given in
any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for 50-cent bottle
of California" Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies. children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Look carefully
and see that it is made by the cali.
fornia Fig Syrup Company. ADV.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
SOME FRENCH TOWNS OWE
STILL FOR 1870 WAR DEBT
rBy Associated PressI

PARIS, France.-Discussion of the
proposition for the integral repara
tion of all war damages in France has
developed the fact that some French
cities and villages have not yet fin
ished paying obligations incurred In
order to satisfy acquisitions by the
German armies in 1870.
Two villages Of the old department
of the Haute Marine, four villages oil
the Aisne. one of the Haute Saone,
two of the Solnme, and eight in Meur'
the and Moselle still owe a portion
of the money borrowed to pay the con-
tributions levied upon them. while the
city Of Amiens. fined a million francs
during the short occupation of 1914,
has not yet finished paying the five
millions the Germans levied on the
town in 1870. She still owes three
millions.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
HOLLAND NOW SUPPLIES
SHELLFiSH TO GERMANS

GOES, Netherlands-The latest war
industry in Holland is the boiling and
sailing of mussels for German con-
sumption. 1t is assuming ever larger
proportions here and in neighboring
places. Up to a month or two ago
these humble shellfish which abound
in the shallow waters of the Scheldt
delta were retailed for local consump.
ton, and constituted cheap popular
food. They have now suddenly dis
appeared from the market, and instead
of being eaten are sailed down in
great quantities and bought up for
Germany. Some of the workmen's
families that have taken up the new
occupation are earning about S6 day,
for them princely wage.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
NAN Who PASSED
AS j. 5. OFFICER
in Tolls AGAIN
Examiner Writes He is Held In
Portland; Told People He
Was Navy Attache

Readers of the Star-Bulletin will re
call the case of the rotund stranger,
who, after representing himself to be
secret service man, a deputy L, s.
marshal. an agent of the department
OF justice and practically everything
but tho discOyerer of the North Pole.
was arrested on Kauai on a charge Of
gross cheat and later released, where
upon he left for the coast
This same man has bobbed up in
Portland, Ore. and is behind the bars
in that city awaiting a hearing of his
case by the grand jury, according to
letters received here Thursday by a
treasury, department examiner, who
recently spent several months here.
The examiner. writing to a local
official, says, in part:
They now have him in the county
Jail awaiting the meeting of the fed
eral grand jury. 1t seems that he
has swindled a number Of citizens
with representations of various kinds;
that he is naval officer from Homo
lulu, that he is building railroad at
Honolulu, etc.
AS i Understand II, the SpeClIlC
charge is that he represented that he
was consulting electrical engineer in
the navy, but as there is no such per-
son in the navy, it is doubtful
whether they can convict him as hay-
ing represented himself as naval
officer" .E...
Local federal officials who remem-
Der the Kauai incident believe that
the man now held in Portland is the
same one who made false represen-
tations to the Garden Island people.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
MAYOR APPOINTS
new SECRETARY

To take the place of Edward Wood.
ward, who is to resign as private Sec
rotary, Mayor JohH C. Lane has APP
pointed James L. Holt to fill the va
cancy. Holt started work yesterday,
although the resignation of Woodward
does not take effect until February
Is. Holt was formerly tax assessor
for Oahu.
Woodward has been designated clerk
of the house at the next legislature
and it is to fill the position that he
resigned.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

When the grand champion steer,
California Fayorite, sold at $175 a
pound as he stood in the ring. it
meant a new record for the cost of
high living" nearly 81 pound for
the best cuts Of this Christmas baby
beef. Many cities Did, but Detroit
will eat the beef. a. -.
Never before did a beef steer
bring such a price, $3.50 a pound be-
ing the nearest approach to IT, Boy
victors of Iowa's baby beef contests
stood open-eyed while the bidding,
starting at cents a pound. jumped
UP and up. The sale was made for
the University of California by Clay,
Robinson & Co. in just nine minutes.
Chicago packers bid high. but Nose
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

Small black bone buttons outline
the godet points at, the waist line Of
blue serge suits and coats.
A cerise batiste chemisette viii
liven up blue serge frock more than
you could believe possible. @
BY soaking oatmeal over night it
can be cooked in Is minutes and have
the flavor Of cooking many hours.
Celery can be kept fresh for several
days by wrapping the stalks in a wet
towel and keeping them in a cold eel
lar -
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

Greenwald for Detroit house added
his defiant nickle after nickle by a
nod until "$1.I5 pound, soid," shout
ed the auctioneer. Wires went to the
automobile city to prepare to parade
the grand champion bought at price
of 1880. For Christmast rib roasts
that is fabulous figure. .....~, -.
Not kernel of corn had been fe6
to this California champion-no other
grain than barley. In breeding IL
was Hereford sire by a Shorthorn
dam, stall fed by an Aberdonian
herdsman, Alex Mcdonald The best
calf ever shown on the continent, .
was the claim by the head of the VIC
torious college after paying tribute 10
Mcdonald. .E.r
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
BEACH WALK IMPROVEMENT
CLUB TO MEET MONDAY

Beach Walk Improvement Club will
hold meeting Monday night at 1880
at the home of Jack Milton. Discus
sion of the paving now in progress
and of sewer prospects will come up.
The club will also discuss action to
get uniform sidewalk heights in the
district. .... -. Q.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
ARMY ORDERS

On account of qualities which rem
der their retention in the service un-
desirable, Pvt. Malcolm Lumsford,
Company D, 25th Infantry, and Pvt.
Trezeyant T. Timmens. Company G.,
LIST Infantry, will be ordered hack to
the mainland for discharge.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
DAILY REMINDERS
Expert chiropodist, rm. 4. Elite b

Expert chiropodist rm. 4, Elite bldg
ADV.
Make some Of today's want ad.
serve YOU-by answering q few d
them.
Wanted-Two more passengers te
make up motor party around island
$4.o0 each. Lewis Garage, phone 2141
ADV.
For Distilled Water, Hires Rect
Beer and al other Popular Drinks
try the Con. Soda Water Works Co
ADV.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

At o'clock this afternoon the
American-Hawaiian freighter Mime.
sotan, Capt. j. B. Hall, will leave for
Port Allen and Hilo. With good wealth.
er she should be able to steam from
Hilo for San Francisco direct with
$500 tons of sugar about next Wednes.
day, February Z. Capt. Hall says he
can steam from Hilo to San Francisco
in z days.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

The disagreeable smell of onions
which clings to pots and pans so stub
bornly can quickly be removed by
washing and drying the pans, securing
with common salt, and, placing on the
stove until the salt is brown. Shake
often, then wash the pan as usual.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

II there is no maid to serve the
dinner, put tray cloth on the wheeled
tray and stand it beside you at the
table. Dessert and side wishes can
be easily served from this tray.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

European scientists have invented
a simple process for converting the
abundant kaing grass of Burma into
pulp for paper .:.-...... -. I'LL.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

The U. S. public health services
quarantine station on Sand Island
cared for four patients suffering from
infectious disease in January All
have recovered or are on the road to
recovery. Ten contacts" or persons
who might have caught the disease
from the patients were also detained.
None came down with sickness, how
ever. 49,. ... -.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

German tests have shown a scarcity
Of good cattle fodder does not de-
crease the fat content. but only the
quantity of milk produced.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

this by placing flannel or anything
soft beneath the hooks.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

Sea Island, Ne, Is miles off yinal-
haven, Me-, is said to possess a
devils den, which opens passageway
underground across the island.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

The U. s., quarantine launch Oahu
was put in commission again Tuesday
morning, She is now. powered with a
four-cylinder. 81 horsepower Eastern
Standard gas motor. A new deck and
new upper works were put on. The
Oahu was formerly steam launch.
She had been out of commission for
years. =. - - p.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02
0lNMD GFVTlAl
The EIks meet tonight.

/ lie ElkS meet tonight p -.
Lodge lie Progress, F. & A NJ. meets
this evening.
Polynesia Encampment, I. o. o. F..
meets tonight.
The regular meeting OF Mystic
Lodge. Knights OF Pythias. will be.
held tonight.
Circuit Judge Ashford's trial jurors
will not be wanted in court until 81
O'Clock next Monday morning /
A son was born Thursday to Mr..
and Mrs William E. Devereux, 465
South Beretania street, at the Mater
nifty home.
Bunker coal to the amount of 600.
tons is at the navy pier for the u.
S. S. st. Louis to take aboard when.
she finishes target practise.
| A capacity passenger list, between.
| 120 and 1870 persons, will leave tomor-=
row afternoon at O'Clock on the.
Mauna kca for Hilo. taking tourists.
and Honolulans to see the volcano
Manager John H. Drew of Castle &
Cookies shipping department left.
Thursday afternoon on the Matsonia.
| for Hilo to see the volcano and look
after Matson business in the Second.
| City. :.
A Spanish and Porto Rican inter
prefer was lectured by Federal Judge
! Vaughan on allegations by a juryman
| that the interpreter has made re-
marks detrimental to a defendant who
was on trial.
The following cases have been taken
| to circuit court on appeal Louis
Pun. needless driving; John Laaupa,
assault; j. Yosfi, assault; Mary
Freitas, assault; Charles Silva, carry
ing weapon.
Hundreds OF local Koreans gathered
at Kapiolani park Thursday and en-
and speeches. Special Rapid Transit
cars conveyed the Koreans to and
from the park. \
An important meeting of the Me. i
Kinley high school alumni association
will be held at 7:30 O'Clock this even 1
ing in the assembly hall of the school, |
Victoria street. Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
p Hustace will be in charge of the
entertainment after the meeting
The funeral of Mrs. Leila Kea Kea-
wepooole Publ, one of the oldest res
idents of Pauoa valley. who died
Thursday afternoon, will be this aft
ernoon from Silva's undertaking par
lors. She was born in Kipahulu 80 /
years ago. 4
The U. s., quarantine launch Oahu
was put in commission again Tuesday
morning, She is now powered with a /
four-cylinder. 81 horsepower Eastern
Standard gas motor. A new deck and
new upper works were put on. Thel
Oahu was formerly a steam launch.
She had been out of commission for
years. +. r. -..-... =. i
The U. S. public health services
quarantine station on Sand Island
cared for four patients suffering from
infectious disease liz January. All
have recovered or are on the road to |
recovery. Ten contacts" or persons
who might have caught the disease
from the patients were also detained |
None came down with sickness, how
ever. H. .... ....
At 5 o'clock this afternoon the
American-Hawaiian freighter Mime
sotan, Capt. j. B. Hall, will leave for
Port Allen and Hilo. With good wealth |
er she should be able to steam from |
Hilo for San Francisco direct with |
$500 tons of sugar about next Wednes.
day, February Z. Capt. Hall says he |
can steam from Hilo to San Francisco |
in days. 49,.
this by placing flannel or anything |
soft beneath the hooks.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-02

The funeral of Mrs. Leila Kea Kea.
wepooole Publ, one of the oldest res.
idents of Pauoa valley. who died
Thursday afternoon, will be this aft
ernoon from Silva's undertaking par
lors. She was born in Kipahulu 80
years ago. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-15
SandhOgS Have Their Place in
the Roosevelt Ranks

Nearer home the call found response
beneath the surface Of Broadway, under
the East River and wherever else it is
in the five borOughs that the sandhog
works. Now, it is not generally known
that skilled tunnel workers are massed
to-day in New York City to a greater
extent than this class of men have ever
before been assembled in any place in
the world. In this army of $4,000 men
are workers who have driven tunnels.
erected docks and built roads in all
parts of the globe. Better hard rock
men the world does not know than the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-15

Others. more modest, bowed to the YER
dict of their years, but offered to serve
in capacities less strenuous.
Some who wrote were boys on the
farm who had never seen a big city.
Others were city and university bred.
Still others were proud to say that they
had served in the regular army, or in
the worlds premier fighting force, the
United States Marine Corps. Some, too,
had served in the armies of Europe, in
Africa and in China. A few had fought
for Dom Paul as long as it was possible
to fight for the Boer Republic. Some
had served in Central American revo-
lutions, little wars in which they had
been captains, colonies, even generals.
Under r. r. they were willing to serve
as privates.
"Only to be in it." was the sole re-
quest.
That likewise was the plea of others,
who stood on the divine right of former
companions in arms to join their old
commander whenever he started any
thing. These were the men of the First
United States Volunteer Cavalry-the
old Rough Riders. If any fighting was
to be done by their old commander, they
proposed to be in it, and some Of them
proposed to bring their own crowd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-15
"OnIy To Be In IT," Was the
Sole Request

In it all sorts and classes Of men were
represented. A few-a very few-sug-
gested that provision be made for their
families. A few more asked for COM
missions. The majority, however,
merely asked for a chance to fight. Some
were from men who had done their bit
in the war between the states, Yanks
and Johnnie Rebs alike insisting that
they were still able to do full days
work on the hike or in the trenches,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-15
roaldYon Knowof What
Subtitle Roosevelt DiviS-
inn Is Made? And Why
# Can Be assembled in
Cbort Order? Here Are
RsbHes TO Both Questions
~ JOHN j. LEARY, Jr.


TTOW." asks the man from
III M Missouri +] "can Colonel
Roosevelt raise a force for
,,ice in France in sixty days when
4. War Department says it cannot
md men there fit for duty inside a
yssr?"
eBe does not have to raise it in sixty
dsvs.' says the man who has kept in
,o,,b with the ColoneIs military affairs,
~. raised now"
This does not mean that the Colonel
q, more skilful than the experts of the
Var Department. 1t does mean that
he has practised what he preached
,rsraredness-and nearly a year ago
bean planning the division he on Tues
DAY asked permission of President Will
rn to recruit.
Literally, what the Colonel has offered
he President is a cross section of Amer
ran life. the most representative fight
rgtorce ever assembled in America. In
ns 2OO 900 all walks of life, all classes of
r1srs and those who do not have to toll
az represented, the farmer and the
txncier, the college boy and the man
mwn who would not know Euclid if he
iould arise and hit him, the man who
g miner or subway builder digs in the
lves of the earth, the aviator who
9rks in the air, the ranchman of the
akotas or the alkali plains of the
outhwest, cotton planters from the
0uth, granite cutters from Maine,
shermen from Gloucester, Gamers
rom Seattle. )
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-15

This mail from officers and their tele
grams was but as a drop in a bucket
compared to the flood of correspondence
that poured into Oyster Bay once the
news reached the outer world that
"Teddy is raising another command"
From the four points of the compass
mail poured in, until the overworked
clerks of Postmaster O'Keefe gave left
handed blessings to the day they sought
easy employment in Uncle Sans SER
vice. 1t was taken to Sycamore Hill IN
bags. and when the secretaries found 1t
impossible to make Roadway against the
tide Regis II. Post, Ex-Governor of Porto
Rico, opened offices in New York to
handle the correspondence.