The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-10

Dear Mr., Spaulding: | have beer
on the move from place to place
since / last wrote you TO change my
address OF the good old Ardmoreite
| but it now appears that / will b,
able 10 get the paper from this ad
dress for a while at least, and ! vii
ask you TO change it now to Mer
cedes, Texas, care OF Army y. NJ
| {. A.
| am now almost as far south in
the II. S. \. as a man can go with
ont taking TO the brush and Mexican
cattle trails and pushing on a few
leagues further, ! went out to the
Evergreen Farm yesterday and
went through the orange and grape
fruit orchard and | will say that |
never saw trees so heavily loaded
with oranges and grape fruit in my
life Ii these men do not make a
fortune here in this business do
not know what else a man could en-
gage in. counted eight grape fruit
on a small limb here that was not
more than a quarter OF an inch in
diameter and the limbs on nearly all
the trees are lying on the ground,
the weight Is SO great and they VIII
let them remain on the trees until
Christmas, and after, to get the best
that there is in them. Where the
grape gruit ripcns here on the trees
YOU do not need to use sugar in eat
ing il at all, so YOU see we can con-
serve sugar here without violating
our taste whatever.
A lady here gave me four large
POndcrosa lemons today that are
twelve inches in circumference. We
are eating gccn snap beans out of
the fields here today radiShcs, let
tucc. onions, nealy all kinds. toma-
toes by the wagon load. Well, | will
not attempt to tell you all about this
county, you might think / was boost
ing it. Its a fine place TO a man to live
if he likes 90 per cent Mexican
There is plenty of McXic-
an labor here, but l think one white
man is worth ten McXicans, they
never expect to be anything in life,
and they take good care of them
selves just like 4 wise old mule when
he is pulling at a load.
Spirit of Our Soldiers.
| have been associated with thou
sands OF soldiers here on the border
this autumn and they all wanted to
20 to France and are disappointed
because they could not get to go
over. It's a treat to hear these fel-
lows talk and express their regrets
for not getting to go over. If the
kaiser had known that there was
such a spirit to go over and crush
his military machine as there is here,
he would have weakened in his eff
forts long before he did, No man
can associate with our soldiers with
out loving them, they are as kind
hearted as a woman and as brave as
lions.
The other day a sergeant in the
10th cavalry was out in his wagon
and driving near the river in sight
IF the Mexican side, he saw sitting
oy the roadside an old Mexican
,ouple, man and wife, the man to-
ally blind and she was leading him
lround. They were so poor they
lad no place to go, no place to eat,
md they had gotten stalk of rib
,on cane out OF the nearby fields
nd were sitting by the roadside eat
ng it. The sergeant saw at once the
destitute condition and stopped
hose large L. S. mules and asked |
hem if they did not have anything |
o eat and they said no. He opened a
,ox of well cooked food that he was
iauling out for the soldiers on guard |
nd gave them some well cooked |
ender beef and some real white
read, the kind we ate before the |
var days at home. And lot of other
.Ood sweet hot food and they took .
/ and the old blind man grabbed just
piece OF the plain light bread and
egan to eat it like he had never
ad any good bread like~1hat be-
ore in his life, and the old Mexican
.oman with her head all tied up
18th a black shawl, as they will all
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