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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-02

Shuler was guest OF Mr.. and Mrs.
w. X. Robs<ts.
w. B. Benning has been d;t-
charged from the service at Camp
Pike, Ark, and has returned to make
Ardmore his home. He is brother
OF Mrs. D. f. Fitzgerald, L Second
avenue northeast.
The Misses Euna Mae and Wilma
Louis Roberts are spending the
weekend in Marietta with Miss
Marie Treece and Miss Geraldine
Bomar.
Miss Louie Fanet OF Paris, Texas
visited in Ardmore during the week
en- route TO her home from Okla
homa City, where she visited Mrs.
Walter Short. Mrs. Short accom-
panied Miss Fanet to Ardmore and
is visiting Mrs. Walter s. Thomp-
son.
Miss Anne Thompson is spending
the weekend with friends in Madill.
Edward Gait has returned from
business trip to Fort Worth.
William Simpson OF Gainesville
is spending today in Ardmore with
his wife, who is visiting her mother,
Mrs. II. II. Sayre.
Mrs. Sale V. Marx, 5l4 | street
northwest has returned from a ten
days business trip to Hazlehurst
and Jackson, Miss. En- route home
she visited her son, Philip \. Marx,
J of the merchant marine, in New
Orleans. His ship was in port IRON
Cuba. Mr. Marx, who was student
in High School enlisted in the ser
vice last year.
Mrs, A. T. West went to Coalgate
today to joi2 Judge West for few
days visit. Judge West went to
Oklahoma City Friday, and is re-
turning home via Coalgate.
Eugene Woerz, senior member OF
the firm OF Woerz Bros, florists, is
in Oklahoma City, Enid and Guth-
rie on two weeks business trip.
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MEANS DEATH OF GRAMMAR
New Rule Which Has Abolished For
NAL and Elaborate English Style
of Former Days.

English as commonly written today
certainly seems to have lost the purity
and strength that it had a century ago,
observes the Spokane Spokesman Re-
view. Then such masters of the lam
Glage as Cobbe, Coleridge, DeQuincey
or Hazlitt were journalists as well as
poets or essayists, and their leading
articles lost nothing of effect on the
public from being literature.
The arrival of the age of steam. cleo
tricity and cheap postage was followed
by a change, not for the better, in the
popular style of speaking and writing.
"Say what you have TO say as briefly
and quickly as possible, and don't
bother about finenesS of expression"
became the general rule and practice.
The new millions of readers demanded
that their reading be expressed in the
language of everyday speech The
obligation of COMPRISING conclusions
about important matters into LOCO
words, or fewer. is death, in the end.
to style. The literary form favored is
in touch with the turned-up-trousers
fashion of wearing ones clothing II
is free and easy and crammed with
linguistic atrocities. Plural subjects
are polygamously welded to singular
verbs. and Lindley Murray turns in his
grave on account of the death Of gram
mar.
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He Is Ignorant of English.

Seeing a peculiar headline in a Bos-
ton paper, the telegraph editor turned
it upside down and read it backwards.
He could get no meaning out of it-
"Four-PIy Slam by McNally Kavo
Blow'-So he set out after enlighten-
ment.
"Cinch." said the sporting editor,
with a whitening glance. 1T means
McNally slammed out "A round trip
and put the game on ice"
"Why MeNally made the circuit and
broke their hearts, Clipped in the pO-
lice court man.
"Yep. He hit her on the nose for
four sacks; good night"-the society
reporter.
I'll tell you, old man." at last spoke
up the city editor patroniZingly. You
have to have it in Kindergarten style.
'Four-ply slam equals. homer Kaye
equals *. o. which equals knockout
Get me?"
"G-r-r-rr" growIed the tel. ed
"Mebhe. Mebbe. But it's probably an
'ad' for new breakfast Brock
ton Enterprise.
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GOOD
ROADS
PROSPERITY IN GOOD ROADS
Future Development Of Country Must
Begin With Improved Highways
to Relieve Congestion.

There are today some 2,500,000 miles
Of rural roads In the United States. OF
this amount perhaps II per cent could
about one-fourth of one per cent can
be said to be suitable for the carriage
Of heavy-duty motortrucks. And in the
face Of this condition it can be said
without chance of contradiction that
the future development of the United
States rests upon the roads.
| The past few years have witnessed
ton from the railway to the highway,
says Roy d. Chaplin, former chairman
of the highways transport committee
of the council of national defense.
The congestion which prevailed during
the war made necessary the CONNER
cial utilization of the highway to an
extent thought impossible scant few
years ago.
The motortruck, little known be-
fore the war. sprang into prominence
as a commercially practical form of
transportation, and while the fighting
has ceased the need for the motor
truck remains with US, more insistent
than ever before.
Within certain limitations the
freight car of the highway is more
efficient than the rail carrier, and be-
cause of it 1t may be taken as a per-
manent form of transportation and one
destined to have a large influence on
the movements of trade In the future.
The hour has struck when the fast
moving efficient motor vehicle of COM
merce must replace the horse and the
costly terminal charges which prevail
upon the short-haul branches of the
rail lines. Already the motortruck
has become "feeder' to the railroad
shortly 1t is destined to aid enormous
" to the profitable long hauls, while
entirely or very nearly so eliminating
the improbable spurs.
Railroad men generally recognize
the new movement and welcome it. |
Street railway men. not so keenly |
alert to its possibilities as a feeder to |
their lines, have yet to take the full
EST advantage of the opportunities
which 1t presents.
But back of the motortruck rests
he road. While the highway as such
5 of little interest to those outside of
he engineering field, as means for
it becomes of vital i'm
,Ortance to every citizen of the United
States, whether he be in profession or
rade, minister, a merchant, a doc
or. High and low, rich and poor, the
Dad comes into contact with all of us
nd upon its relative efficiency de-
ends to a greater extent than most of
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Safe-for a Time-on the
Deck of the Namur.

Synopsis - Geoffry Carlyle,
master of sailing ships at twen-
ty-six, is sentenced to 20 years
servitude in the American col
onies for participation in the
Monmouth rebellion in England.
Among the passengers on board
the ship on which he Is sent
across are Roger Fairfax,
wealthy Maryland planter; his
niece, Dorothy Fairfax, and Lieu
tenant Sanchez, a Spaniard, who
became acquainted with the Fair
faxes in London. Carlyle meets
Dorothy, who informs him her
uncle has bought his services.
Sanchez shows himself an enemy
of Carlyle. The Fairfax party,
now on its own sloop In the
Chesapeake bay, encounters a
mysterious bark, the Namur of
Rotterdam. Carlyle discovers
that Sanchez is "Black Sanchez"
planning to steal the Fairfax
gold and abduct Dorothy He
fights Sanchez and leaves him
for dead. In battle with
Sanchez followers, however, he
is overpowered and thrown into
the bay. In a desperate effort
to save Dorothy, Carlyle decides
to swim to the Namur.
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CHAPTER XII.
The Return of the Boat.


The crew hurried over to the port
rail. Beyond doubt most of those
aboard realized that this had been an
expedition of some Importance, the cul-
mination of their long wait on the
coast, part of some scheme of their
chief, in the spoils Of which they ex-
pected to share. Moreover this boat
approaching through the darkness was
bringing back their leader. and how
ever else they might feel toward him,
the reckless daring, and audacious re-
sourcefulness Of Sanchez meant sue
cess.
1 was made to comprehend all this
by the low. muttered utterances Of
those crowding near me. spoken In
nearly every language of the world.
Much could not translate, yet enough
reached my ears to convince me of
the temper Of the crew-their feverish
eagerness to be again at sea, under
command of a captain whom they both
hated and feared-a cruel, cold-blood-
ed monster, yet genius in crime. and
a natural leader of such men as these.
Black Sanchez / listened to their
comments, their expectations, with
swiftly beating heart. 1 alone knew
what that boat was bringing. What
would be the result when the dead
body of their leader came up over the
rail?
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Mctortruck Used to Haul Farm
Produce to Market.

MCtOIITuCk OSco 10 hdul attn
Produce to Market.
us dream the ultimate cost of all that
we eat, wear, have.
mo one knows how much the coun-
try pays for, carriage" said William c.
Redfield, secretary of commerce, re-
Gently, "but anyone who looks into
the question is pretty sure to find out
that the figures are larger than he
thought it could be.
Yet carriage is but one phase of road
costs. Poor roads mean Isolation,
which in turn mean fewer POSSIBLE
tiles for education, fewer opportuni-
ties for wealth, lower real estate val
uations as we'll as Increased costs of
supplies. Every sound. fundamental
economic reason speaks out for the
durnble road, just as it protests against
the poor, inadequately constructed
highway.
Despite these facts, which will be
verified by all who have studied the
question, despite the fact that the Off
cial government figures placed the
hauling over the highways at 2,OUO,-
100000 ton-miles in 1917, our roads are
today all that they should not be.
They are inefficient, Inadequate, anti
Quated.
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"Whar did yer cum frum?" he
growled, and as instantly recognized
Bill Haines. "Been sojerin', have yer?
Well, now, lay to an pull"
Before / could attempt an answer
a tall figure doomed up before us, the
same high-pitched voice had noticed
previously calling out sharply:
''There, that's enough, men! Now
make fast. We can head the old girl
out from here in jIffy. If 1t really be-
gins to blow. Jose, you stand by at
the wheel, in case you're needed; some
of the rest ship the capstan bars, and
remain near for a CALL"
what are We swingin' the yards
fur, anyhow. LeVere?" asked Haihes
insolently. "Just fer exerciseY
Because am sailor, Haines," he
replied angrily. Anyhow it is none
of your business; was left in COM
mand here. Those clouds don't look
good to me; there Is going to be a
blow before morning"
Haines growled something and Lee
We're wheeled sharply about to go for
ward. This movement placed him
face to face with me-.
what are you gloafing here fer?
Who are your"
"Joe Gates. sir" I answered quickly,
mounting the first name which came
to my lips.
"Gates-Joe Gates?" peering saw
agely into my face but unable to dis
the features. 81 never heard |
of anybody on board by that name. |
Who is the fellow, Haines?"
The. Englishman gripped me by the
sleeve to whirl me about, but as his
fingers touched the soaked cloth of my
Jacket he burst forth with an oath.
Hes wet enough to be the same lad
you chucked overheard an hour ago.
believe he is. Say, mate, are you
he gay buck we hauled aboard drunk,
nd dumped into the for'cassel?"
81 dunno, sir" 1 answered dumbly,
it best not to remember too
much. Il couldn't even tell yer whut
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He Can't Now

Some years ago some genius intro
duced a bill compelling everybody to
qualify physically and mentally for
marriage. Unfortunately. it was lost
through. The necessity of it was dis
closed in a Main street car last eve
ming when seven or nine of us heard
prospective bridegroom cpyly con-
fess he was indeed "about to become
q benedictne. Buffalo News.
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what Are You Loafinq Here For7'
ship this is, ner how I signed on. Last
1 seem ter remember I wus ashore
frum the schooner Caroline; but this
yere is a bark"
Haines laughed, already convinced
Of my identity, and considering 1t a
good joke. Then he proceeded to tell
me all about 1T.
LeVere broke in with savage snarl.
whats all that? Do you mean,
Haines, that this is the same id
scamp who tried to stick me?"
mo doubt Of 1t. But he never knew
what he was doin'--he WIS crazy as
loon. There's nuthin' fer yer ter fuss
over now Tell us about 1t, Gates
1 watched LeVere. but he remained
motionless, mere shadow.
81 suppose it must have been that,
sir" 1 confessed respectfully. III
things happened as you say they did.
/ haven't any memory o. tryin' ter
slash nobody. Leastwise seemed
ter know whut l wus about when
cum up. I don't remember how got
Their; furst l knew / wus slushin'
round in the water. tryin' ter keep
afloat. 1t wus so blame dark cudn't
see nuthin', but sumhow got grip on
a hawser. an hung on till got back
'nough strength ter cline on board l
knew this want my ship, so I just
lay quiet awhile, figurin' out whar
wus"
Yer English r
Born in Bristol. sir, but wus
workin' on the Caroline-she's . Col
ony schooner, In the fish trade. At sea
since wus twelve. What's this yere
bark-Dutch. amt she7"
"Once upon = time; just now 10 are
dying whatever nag comes handy. We
ain't got no prejudice II dags-~
II thet gum forrard. covered with
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-07-11
Buds Expression of Sympathy.

He's only seven. But he has fund
of sympathy even if he lacks words
to express his feelings.
One of the neighbors had been
called away by the death of her moth
er. In some way the boy heard OF
her great sorrow Meeting her upon
the street few days after her return,
he said, very solemnly:
Mrs. B, did your mother die"
"Yes, Buddy" replied the neighbor.
"Ain't that the devil of it :" was his
sympathetic but startling comment.
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Their Prospects.

''Propinquity is what brings about
marriages" declared the father of
three single daughters, in didactic
mood.
"Yes?" murmured his wife
at works thisway. From among the
men who call most frequently at "a
house the daughters of the house nat
urally select husbands"
"In that case said the mother sad
ly, 81 fear our girls are doomed to mar
ry bill collectors"
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With dangers threatening
from every hand, Carlyle faces
4 problem. Shall he save him
seif while there 10 yet time, or
shall he face the danger, kill
and perhaps be killed. Shall he
take the one desperate chance
OF aiding the girl who Hils his
thoughts or shall he play the
craven coWard7
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CHAPTER x-continued.

Him? Oh, Jose an me carried him
inter the for'cassel, an showed him
inter berth ter sleep off his liquor.
Tibet wus the last 1 ever see er hear
O. him fer bout six hours, when this
yere Teller must woke up In the for
cassel sum crazy. He cum a chargin
out on deck, whoopin' like an Indian,
wavin' a knife in his hand, intendin'
fer ter raise hi. Well, it happened
tibet the fu'st Teller he run up against
wus LeVere, who wus cumin' forrard
fer sumthin', an fer about minute
thar was one HI ov fight. 1t was
so dark 1 couldn't tell whut did hap
pen, but it wus fists mostly. till the
mate drove the poor devil. cussin' like
mad, over agin the rail, an then
heaved him out inter the water long
side. I heerd the Teller splash when
he struck, but he never let out no
yell"
-'What did Levere do?'
s'Him? He didn't do nuthin'. Just
stared down over the rail BIT. an
then cum back, rubin his hands.
Never even asked who the Teller wus.
Thar amt nuthin' kin skeer that black
brute"
! "He amt got no human in him. It's
HI when English sailormen hes got
Ger take orders from a ID niger,
an be knocked round if they don't
jump when he barks. He's goin' ter
get knife in his ribs sum day."
Maybe he is; but yer. better hold
yer tongue, Tom. Sanchez don't stand |
fer tibet talk, an he's back o. LeVere. |
Let's go in; them gaskets will hold all |
right now-cum long"
could now perceive now clearly the
character / was destined to assume |
when once safely aboard the Namur.
Such an assumption would involve but
slight danger of discovery. 1t was as
though a miracle had opened the way,
revealed to me by the unconscious lips
of these two half-drunken, gossiping
sailors. The story told fitted my ne
cessities exactly. Had / planned the
circumstances myself nothing could
have been better prearranged. No one
on board had seen the missing man by
sunk without struggle. Yet no one
knew positively that this was so, be-
cause no one cared. The death Of the
lad had simply been taken for granted
when LeVere had failed to see his
body rise again to the surface. Yet it |
was quite within the realm of posi-
bility for the fellow to come up once ]
more in that darkness, beyond Lee
vere's range of vision, and even to {
have remained af1oat, buoyed up by
clinging to the, anchor hawser, until
strong enough to return on board. At 4, s
least there was no one aboard the Ma
muir able to deny that this had been {
done.
Satisfied by this reasoning Of being
able to pass myself of as the dead q
man, began slowly and cautiously to s
drag myself up the taut hawser.
had chosen q fortunate moment for my :
effort; no one needed the little noise
| made, and, when / finally topped the /
rail and was able to look fnbOard 1t '
was to discover = deserted fore dnrk.
With the watch all engaged at some
ask amidships. crcpt down the fore '
.astle ladder and worked my way AFT Q
beneath the black shadow Of the port
all, until able thus to drift unnOticed
ITO I erOup failing 60 nainsaiI
.a.,ard. The fellow - -. With
1t resaasiie his o1i1 ~ - head
~ stirred - vtfh dlDcesnlng ~
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SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES.

Aliens Foot=Eas the antiseptic powder.
to be shaken into the shoes and sprinlled
zen, smarting feet and takes the sting out
of corns and bunions. Aliens Foot=Ease
is a certain relief for sweating, caIlous,
tired. aching feet and makes walking q
delight Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Creatures of Circumstances.

Judee-What is fair compensa-
tion for the receiver and his attorney
i'll this case?
Attorney should say. your honor,
81 900 for the attorney and $500 for
the receiver would be a very meager
allowance, considering the great
amount of actual work performed.
Judge-The amount in the hands of
the receiver is how much? H
Attorney-Fifteen hundred dollars.
Wise Is the man who closes his face
hofor.a he, co VIC ton much
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IMPROVE TO SAVE HAULING


The test Of wagon road ID the
amount Of work that can be dpnA On
1t without injury thereto, that is THE
time and labor required In hauling OYER
1t. Any improvement, whether in hand
ening Its surface, easing Its grade, Dr.
shortening the distance, reduces the
time and effort OF getting to market
and brings tie farm nearer to town.
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(TO BE CoNTINUED.)


Can, but Dent
German experimsnters have found
that explosions can b caused IN -
works By sparks from telephones. IL
though nothing Of The kind has 100
tmOWn - oecuE.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-09

manager of the ball club and the
treasurer like sum Of money That
Is fine, but the amounts paid tho
two were the same. When this was
'old on the street the day following
many good baseball fans became in
dignant and swore in their wrath
Even members of the committee WIN
did not favor the proposition did the
same The vote on the question was
live to four consequently it passed
out there was also some Influential,
members Of the committee absent
The cry of the fans is that the
treasurer should not be paid as much
as the playing manager. As a mat
Ter OF fact the playing manager
should have been voted even more
than was given him and If the am
cunt had been doubled il would not
have been too much. 1t is also per-
fectly proper TO pay the secretary
and treasurer because he had worked
hard and done well, but the playing
manager is entitled to more pay than
he, There has been many men who
nave donated the use Of their auto
mobile and time this summer on MANY
occasions and they were given a vote
of thanks. That surely shows splen-
did courtesy, but thanks" don't buy
gasoline and oil to run automobiles,
or pay a man to work in your place
while you go out and help the base
ball team.
Well fans, under any circumstance
es' we will be behind the Sports COM
mittee. The report says that they
will now back the A. C. and b. Y.
football teams. What about the Lo-
gan High School?
Let the people rule!
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JAMES REED
OF MISSOURI REPLIES
TO WILSON SPEECH
ES
CONTINUED from Page one)
Let the people rule!

He accepts gifts. degrees and tit
les from foreign princes and poten-
tates. He brags of his revolutionary
ancestry while in America and of his
English ancestry while in England.
HE talks Of his instructions from
the people as a peace delegate, when
! he was self appointed. self in
I structed representative.
He denouncs secret treaties when
every clause of his sacred covenant
is founded upon and ratifies and can
firms these iniquities,
He breaches open covenants OPP
emily arrived at and yet goes into Sc
cret conclave and takes over the
cable lines to perfect his plans.
"He refuses to answer concerning
his vote OF racial equality on the plea
that disclosing these secrets would
cause international embarrassment
when the facts are he voted for ia
pan on racial equality.
"If having stopped the onrushinG
Germans at the Marine, broken their
attack at Chateau Thierry, routed
them back at the Argonne and forced
their representatives to surrender at
Paris.
'Tf with our armies we rescued
our allies;
'If with our food we fed them and
II with our money we maintained
them; II TO accomplish this work we
left $4,000 dead in France and sent
staggering over our land another
10000 brave men, blinc, crippice
diseased;
"If having accumulated deft or
$40. 900, 900. 900;
"If, having disarmed Germany and
dismembered Austria;
"If we now say that the time has
arrived to bring our soldiers home
and to begin looking after the wants
of our own people we are contempu-
BILE cutters"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-09
DESPONDENCY

Sufferers from indigestion are APT
to become discouraged and feel that
complete recovery is not to be hoped
for. No one could make a greater
mistake. Hundreds have been per
manently cured by taking Chamber
lain's Tablets and can now eat any
thing that they crave, These tablets
strengthen the stomach and enable II
to perform its functions naturally, II
you have not tried them do so al
once.
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Must Have Been Movina Rapidly.

One day ! sent Ralph 30 a store sew
eral blocks away In the meantime
It ralned, and Immediately at the close
Of the shower he returned and | asked
him anxlOusly: "Why, Ralph, where
we're you when it rained?' He re-
oiled: ~ wasn't anywhere was run.
ming. Chicago American.