The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-01
"FEW TH0RNs AND MANY ROSES"

FEW THoRNS AND MANY ROSES
trIIE ARDMOREITE has been called "a newspaper WlVn
soul" That the highest compliment ever p"lo ''
newspaper according to way of thinking we nave u'
covered another newspaper with soul 1t the DAILY Enter
prise published from Cebue Texas The first copy OF h
paper we ever saw lies upon desk The editorial page
carries six brief editorials Each Of them soulful uplifting
helpful to the spirit. Here follows one of them;
In the busy rush Of Christmas the Enterprise editor
failed to make any notice OF the sudden DEAN oI ms
longtime friend, James Hays Quarles. QuarleS was
of the best-knoWn newspaper men IN Texas re
advertised his business by his peculiar dress and his
Inannerisms He worked upon many leXas papers
and he knew all the great and the neargreat IN Teas
At time it the pleasure OF the manager OF
the paper to do Quares 4 kindness, when ne was
taken sick Clebume, and he never forgot the little
consideration given him, though it was not much. He
had kind heart, hated sham and deceit and beheVed
implicitly in the power of publicity He did his little
part in the game of life, played the game faT and
square, and he will be missed among those with whom
he associated Behind him he will leave few thorns
and many
Now that is what call obituary notice worth while
And it highly deserved by the spirit of good old Jim Quaes
who has several relatives in Ardmore and longtime
friend of the editor of this newspaper he of the editor
the Ceburne Enterprise We knew Jim Quares Intimately
though met him personally but few times Our first
meeting in a newspaper office at Houston where Quares
introduced himself the best newspaper man in Texas We
accepted the introduction the way intended. The
second day thereafter met agann Galveston in what
left of Galveston after the tremendous hurricane of the
Sth of September 1900 when approximately six thousand ct
zens were drowned killed otherwise and the city itself
wellnigh swept off its island site.
The editor of this newspaper and jim Quarles worked to-
eher in that stricken city newspaper correspondents for
unforgetabe week. man knows when he works
with him under such conditions confronted at Galveston
We know jim Quares that week. and to love him for
the kind heart which the Enterprise editor also discovered in
him. "He had kind heart says the Enterprise "and
he hated sham and deceit All of which true according
to knowledge of James Hays Quares.
That had kind heart and hated sham and deceit
what better obituary notice could be written?
Quarles had his mannersms, stated. He indi-
viduastc person. He simply himself however, and was
not putting on Some persons who strive to cut themselves
r the pattern who hew to the line of least resistance
who make fetch of the conventional who afraid to be
simply themselves but seek always ape the
Of those persons laughed at jim Quare the ndheared the
openmnded the despser Of sham and deceit because he
what they termed eccentric"
Our notion that this old world would be off if it
possessed considerably larger number Of who dared be
themselves to live their lives to cut loose from the
onal chain and be simple human individuals God intends
each man to be.
There was a never-to-beforgoen night in Galveston, a
few days after the hurricane With Jim Quars the writer
went to police headquarters to get certain facts for publication
There told the story policeman who the night
the Storm forth from his aid rescuing per-
who being swept away. Hours and hours in the
darkness and the bowling hurricane the wild horror of the
da-wave that overwhelmed the city that policeman worked
saving human lives Then he wentwe were going to say he
went home the place where his home had stood
IT had been swept away utterly, and with ii his wife and
children
When this story told to there in the dim-lt police
station Jim Quarles wept like baby He had been nearly
week working amid the ruins he dirty his clothes were
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