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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
SILVER MINING IS
REVIVED IN MEXICO

CHIHUAHUA CITY. Chihuahua, Mex
SILVER m,nes are being operated N
Mexico at q good profit. II Is said. with
silver selling around 10 cents IN ounce
When silver Is below so cents. mines
In this toontry cannot be worked at 4
profit. us a rule. When silver is
above this figure a small profit hard
ly worth while. AS the usual thing. can
be made, l.ut when It reaches 70 cents
a profit Of around 10 cents an ounce
can be made. NNh silver selling al 20
cents. or thsreabout, consequently
there is big revival in the mining
business OF this country, and especially
in the state o. Chihuahua which pro-
duces the principal part of Mexican
liver yield
Old mines are being rc.worked
thoroughly and prospecting is going on
in almost an unprecedented degree.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
.PAULS VALLEY PREXY
GOES TO ST. LOUIS

PAULs VALLEY, Okla.-The school
board received last week the resignation
OF Prof Verne Robertson a teacher in
the high school during the past two
years, Mr. Robertson was offered u
position IN one Of the 81. Louis schools
at much better salary, and Mrs Rob
ertson, nee Catherine Henderson, had
intended to attend school neSt year
this gives her the opportunity OF attend
ing university at the same time being
al home Both Mr. and Mrs Robert
son have hundreds OF friends in Paul
Valley who though sorry to lose them
from the city will be pleased to know
they have such pleasant arrangements
for the coming year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
Operate ON Cowles.

Deputy Sheriff r. j. Cowles. who n
been suffering from an absess OF u.
leg for some tine was carried to IN
Hardy sanitarium to be operated o
Monday morning. MIR Cowles Wa
slightly injured In the left leg by
stray bullet during the shooting seer
In the county attorneys office som
time ago. Ilo had boen having cor
siderable trouble with the limb bcfo.
The absess Sc. up. An X.ray exam =.
ton Monday showed that an opcic
tion was necessary, attending phys
cans report.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
ELEVEN MEN ARRESTED
FOR GARVlN EL0GGiNG

PAULS VALLEY. Okla.-Dur.ng the
past week II men OF the Antioch com
munlty have been arrested and placed
In the Carv!n county jail IN connection
with the flogging last week Of Mr..
and Mrs. X. d. Lindsey, by the masked
men.
The Lindseys are well known and
prosperous farmers of that section and
they were supposedly taken from the l
beds by the masked men and floggei
severely over feeling arising from
Elndscy's enforcement OF the state herd
law against stray cattle. Mrs. Lindsey
Is especially severely beaten, and grave
results are feared from the flogging
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
Tires are Stolen.

After smashing through the glas.
OF The rear door and picking the loo
from the inside. Thursday night ron
bers gained entrance to The Cash Echol
Tire shop. known as the zoos T.r
Company, and stole a set OF tires an,
inner tubes. As no other merchand
was touched proprietors believe tina
the robber only wanted to III up hi,
cur for summer travelling and did no
have the money.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
UNMASKED MEN GIVE
PRYOR MAN BEATING

PRYOR. Okla.-A crowd OF unmasked
white men kidnapped j. Y, Battenf.eld,
operator Of a restaurant here, took him
10 the country five miles from the city
and administered beating that caused
Battenfield to visit physicians office
for medical attention. There are re-
ports that the men accused Battenfield
VI deneunclng the Ku Klux Klan. Ac'
cording 10 Battenfield. he resisted the
tactics Of his captors and IN trying 10
escape they beat him over the head
with pistols,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21

he does not plan to spend the rest or
his lie seeking vengeance.
II am at peace with the world" says
Tdwell, 81 want to forget the past ana
start life anew"
Gains Education.
An unlettered farm hand at u, when
ne was convicted OF killing his employer
James Brown. an Adair county farm.
q, he Is now at 40 an educated man
with q trade. he learned tailoring in
Atlanta federal prison and plans to fol.
low that trade,
Because the crime occurred in the
then Indian Territory, his trial was in
federal court and the first five years
Of his sentence We're spent IN the Col
umhus (o,) penitentiary,
The last is years he has been at Al
lanta, where Re spent every spare min
ute in the prison library, educating him
SELF and keeping abreast OF develop
nents in the outside world,
Tidwelrs indefatigable efforts TO es
tablish his innocence were rewarded
recently when two sons of the murdered
man, who as small boys identified hin
- the murderer IN 1893. declared h,
was not the man,
Confession Absolves Him.
just after his release AN Olllahom,
woman made deathbed confession tha
Il was her husband who killed Brown
Five persons connected with It'd
wells case have met sudden deaths
Besides the woman who confessed, he
husband dropped dead OF heart disease
The attorney who prosecuted Tic
well met q similar end,
The Judge who sentenced him wa
shot to death in 4 riot and Tidwell'
mother died OF a broken heart.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
SALOONS Stay Dry.

JoHNsTowN. Pa. o. Mayor Joseph
Canffield'a invitation to saloon keep
ers and brewcrs TO sell real boer and
ale" failed to bring flood Of pre.pro
h.t.tlon beverages In Johnstown. ac.
cord.nE 10 reports OF federal prohibition
agents today. ". A. Spragg. agent In
charge Of this district reported he haC
seven men on dG;y "so.ns over the stu
alton" but that no arrcats had beer
made. The Mqu r. h. added would
be continued h1t he Thought the brew
ers and saloon owners were too wise ,t
run afoul OF he federal laws."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
WORK STARTED ON Big
TULSA MASONIC HOME,

TULSA. Okla.-Work on the Masonic
temple here. which will be one Of IN,
t.nest Masonic buildings west Of Ch
cago. has been started, and will b,
completed by the first Of the new year
accord.ng to plans.
The temple. which will be the hon.
Of all local Masonic orders, VIII J.,
three stories high. The building alor.
will cost ss5O,oOO. Although the struc
ture will consist Of only three storic
the ceilings w.ll be Of such height
to give the building the appearance g.
seven stories. The building will be .
reinforced concrete, and will be moder,
throughout, ii was announced.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
LAW WANTED TO PUT
LIMIT ON HAIRDRESSING

LONDoN.-A member OF parliamen;
has proposed legislation TO compel girls
under ls to wear their hair loose, plat.
ed. or hanging down their backs.
English mothers are protesting. They
say the tendency among girls today IS
TO postpone the time for putting up
their hair, and that they have trouble
in persuading their daughters TO dc
this at a reasonable age.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
Klansmen Honor Friend.

Qt'1NTON. oiila.--whiie the funeral
services OF ]. Perry Williams were be-
ing conducted here yesterday evening
seven motor cars carrying men clad In
regal.a Of tho ku klux Khan drove UP
TO the grave. The hlansnicn nl.gh!cd
and forming In single column fled
last the grave. each alansinan dropping
n red carnat.on on the casset. The last
man In the group dcpos.tcd huge
floral piece made In tho form OF a f.ei3'
rross. The kiansmen disappeared as
quietly as they arrived.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
SWEET DREAMS WINS FAVOR EVERY.
WHERE-SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS

boasts n million satisfied users and in
one voice they all say It's fine.
For yolr convenience swoe, Dream,
haa been pluocd In every drug store
everywhere.
Your druggist would appreciate your
phcning your order In.
Liberal bottles. s5c or . bottle. for
800
Sweet nrenms,-thc worlds accented
MOSQUITO remedy. Bomar Drug q
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
MORGANTHAU WOULD
SAVE AUSTRIA'S LIFE
PARIS Henr

PARIS Heny
time 10 receive rl
his proposal TO rescue Austria from n.
nancial ruin which ne announced In
Paris July lS. These the former Ameri.
can ambassador to Turkey doubtless
has found encouraging and helpful. for
ne was cheerful yready today to elab.
ate his project for the formation OF
's'.2rD,pul corporation 10 reorganize
'.-.cH Industry,
'""' among other things upon
the need to the world OF saving the IN.
tellectl.d lie Of Austria and said char.
ity was not the proper means to this
end, but ruther benevolent and intel.
l!sent leadership from the outside;
men who would show Austria how to
help herself.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
KHAN ISSUE UP IN
MEETING OF LEGION

HANNIBAL. Mo.-The fourth annual
convention OF the Missouri department
Of the American Legion went into ses-
s on here this morning. Prospect OF
he injection OF the ku klux klan issue
and other quest .ons into the convention
tomorrow during the resolutions re-
port. presaged warm battle. The
Elan resolution has not been presented.
but is expected to at least condemn
alleged tactics of that organization and
deplore the holding of membership in
I by any legion member.
The cucumber originated some 5000
years ago, probably in India
The Swiss people were the first to date
heir coinage
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
Great Mosquito Remedy Now
Used Over Entire World.

The efficiency Of Sweet Dreams m q
mosquito remedy has become quickly
recognized over the entire world.
Though only olsht years old, Sweet
Dreams Is now used In - countries.
They sas. I'm Africa. Il works like a
charm
And Il HONEYWELL, Sweet Dreams
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
Birth Announcement.

Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Bryant, sos +
street, southeast, announce the birth Of
IAN pound son, August 10. to whom
they have have given the name Harold
Barthlemew. Mrs. Bryant was form
erly Miss Lillian Buchanan.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21

when the husband is overheated
and excited. do not expose him 10 violet
colored blossoms. but rather lead him
into a conservatory where palms and
ferns Of cooling green will soothe him."
Miss Hayes has many customers who
come to her regularly and have her dis
patch their floral correspondence.
She also does more pretentious things,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21

The government then demanded ihn,
its Indian dcpos.tors be given priority
over other claims on the state guaranty
iund but withheld amp action pending
,hs conference between Attorney Gen.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
Birth Announcement,

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar W. Deveny an
nounce the birth OF son, Sunday
August 20. to whom they have given
the name Jack Bats.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
INNOCENT MAN
SERVED ALONG
time ON Charge
Adair County Man Educates
Self While in Leavens-
worth Penitentiary for
% Long Years.

MUSKOGEE, Okla.-"Never give up''
, Charner Tdwell mentally hung that
motto on the wall of his prison cell
when he entered It in 1899
Today he is free, having served nearly
4 2S years Of life sentence for muir
der he did not commit
No hate is in his heart. Like Monte
Cristo he spent his prison years in edu-
eating himself. but unlike Monte Cristo
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21

The Womans Union OF the First
Christian church win meet in regular
business session at the church Tuesday
afternoon AT o'clock. The division
having the largest number present will
receive the blue ribbon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

AGENTS WANTED-we can use q few
high class Health and Accident Agents
who are willing 10 hustle and can mako
surety company bond. All new policy
IN Life Insurance last year and want TO
do the same In Health and Accident
business Strictly commission contract
with biz renewals which build repeat.
Ing income for YOU. II you mean bust
ness and want contract direct from
the Home Office address Edwin STAR
key. vice president Mid Continent Life
Insurance Company. 200 North Robinson.
Oklahoma fty. AL
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21

as decorating churches for weddings.
and dinner and luncheon tables 10
match the temperament OF hostess ari
guest.
Recently she went to Paris to get
the latest styles in flowers but she
found while Paris may lead the styles
in frocks, it is way behind us In the
use OF flowers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-21

MODERN apartment for rent. All built
In features. close In. Apply Fonyille
Brick Apartments. 2i2 Second Ave, N.
W. Phone lgt s-tf
FOR SAl.E--Duroc Pigs for sale. ]. +.
Buchanon, 3 w. Main st. Phone 1854
or 4S2. 2l-j
THREE room furnished apartment for
rent Also coolest bedroom In city.
Call es5 after 9. 2i-2
WAHTED-Two real automobile sales.
men; must be first class In every re.
speci and not afraid to work Best line
u cars In town. Commisslon or sAiAry
Write Bon 35. Ardmors. Okla
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

Casuais unless properly introduced
They own and control everything in
Hawaii and form u singular aristoc-
racy In American territory which
has more sense of its obligations
than the plutocracies OF our large
mainland cities
These people teJl; to their hearts
Jack and Charmina London more
than dozen years ago. and il is OF
them she writes her vivid. enthusi-
astir narrative. She loves them all
intensely because they love her and
because they are so sweet natured
full Of fun and yet truly good. She
has returned again and again to
their bosoms and found them always
tender and remembering. Jack Lon
than for any other group OF people.
and during the last years of his life.
when the current was slowing, spent
many months among them. He
wrote much to attest his feelings
toward them and his widows book.
first published during his lifetime, is
to large degree his and her tribute
to the friends who made their sea-
sons in Hawaii swift in passing by
their forethought and constant at
tenuon
Oldtimers In Hawaii delight in the
book. but for tourists. actual or con-
templative. II is q guide to persons.
families and places, written with
an enthusiasm possible only to a
Chairman London. She began "Our
Hawaii" as a diary when she and
her sailor husband arrived in Homo
zulu on their yacht Shark in 1907.
They were celebrities. London's
fame as writer. the tortuous build
ing Of the Shark and the planned
voyage of the pair around the world
had made them at that time two of
the best known Americans who had
ever landed there. Civic bodies and
domestic circles, business interests
and tourist agencies welt omed them
with a warmth only felt for their
sort. They were young hearty.
merry. well to do. off on the maddest
lark In all the seas: and ready to
Eat. swim. dance. gamble. tour or
talk with asy one worth while.
While the Shark was being repaired
and a new crew signed on the Lon
dons found a wondrous place to live
I'm. Jack wrote his everyday thou
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

WIN Situllaf scope. An Iactp Il fdiBe
part OF the book Is concerned with
tho consideration of these two eie-
Inents from different points Of view.
The study OF general form. Mr Lub-
book begins with an examination Of
Tolstoy's WAR and Peace" remark
ing af the same time that II is Idle
TO look for proportion and design
IN a book that contains 4 world He
thinks II may well be that effective
composition on such a scale is i'm
possible. but more specifically 1t is
Il confusion of two designs. Youth
and age as well as peace and war.
which. although masked more OF less
by Tolstoy's impeturbable ease Of
manner. is revealed by the look Of his
novel as a whole at has no center,
and Tolstoy is so clearly unconcerned
by the lack that one must conclude
he never perceived it,"
The effect Of time Is ono Of the
elements interesting TO Mr. Lubbock
and in "War and Peace" he finds II
belongs TO the heart Of the subject
The subject is not given at all un
less the movement of the wheel oil
time Is made perceptible. / suppose
there is nothing that Is more difficult
TO insure In q novel Merely &c
lengthen the series of stages and de-
velopments in the action will not in
sure IL. there is no help in the
simple ranging of fact beside fact tc
suggest the lapse of certain stretch
of time. novelist may as well fal
back on the row of stars and the
unsupported announcement that
years have fed"
AS an example OF a book IN which
the subject is absolutely fixed and
determined. so that It may be pos
sible to consider the manner Of Its
treatment with undivided attention
Mr.. Lubbock selects Madame Bo.
vary" This book he calls the move
of all novels which the criticism o.
fiction cannot overlook. Through
all the torment which il cost hin
there was no hour when it presented
new or uncertain look to him.
In Madame Bovary," accordingly
the methods of the art are thrown
into clear relief. The difficult ques
| ton of the center of vision is takeI
up as the most obvious point O
method, the question as to will
which OF the characters the writer
is to identify himself.
"ID Flaubert's Madame Bovary
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
The Hawaii of the Jack Londons

I sand words of f1ction--in about flf-
teen years, at this rate. he published
forty or fifty volumes-and his wife
looked after his weilbcing. When not
thus busted both played hard in
Honolulu. or were personally con.
Quoted about the several islands OF
Hawaii by influential acquaintances
whom they soon made warm friends
They were interchangeable sightseers
adventurous to the furthest danger
point: they swan roaring surfs
galioped over precipices, rounded up
mountain cattle. camped on the lip of
a menacing crater, played poker or
danced all night. visited the leper set
tlement and did all the wild things Of
a honeymoon couple who had no fear
of life or death. but monotony. Then
they sailed out from Hawaii on their
desperate voyage to the South Seas,
which ended in disaster.
A half dozen years later they re-
turned to Honolulu. and again and
again. While they developed their
huge estate in California; wrote
Mystic Isles OF the South Seas on its
fifteen hundred acres-they STEPPED
themselves in association with their
friends in Hawaii. in pranks and
rambles about the Territory and in
the history and legends Of ancient
times. Jack wrote many stories the
scenes of which are laid there. and
he lectured and attended scores OF
dinners and iuau, at which he became
notable feature as guest of honor
or speaker.
All Of these happenings are set
down in detail in "Our Hawaii" and
Chairman being a woman, there is a
good deal about housekeeping, food
and dress; just the things the aver
age woman would like to know about.
The fruits-queer and delicious-are
described; the flowers and trees. the
birds and insects. the curios and man
ners, the songs and music. There Is
nothing heavy; the very foam of life
is portrayed. The pleasure without
the pain.
Hawaii Is not as exquisite as Tahiti
or Samoa or the Marquesas, the parts
of Polynesia further south. but yet it
is SO beautiful, so enhancing, that IL
one had not seen those other more
poignant islands one would defend
the perfection of Hawaii. Mark
Twain wrote his first romantic story
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
By FREDERICK o'BRIEN.

Author of "White Shadows in the
South Seas"
OUR HAWAI- BY CHAIRMAN Kitt-
redge London The Macmillan Com
pany
AWAIT is one OF two bits of
III Polynesia owned by America
the other being in Samoa.
Hawaii Is but 1000 miles from San
Francisco. an excursion voyage now
made every few days by many fast
steamships. and Is the most notable
and most frequented tourist resort
In the Pacific Ocean Its hotels and
boarding houses are filled with
Americans looking for health OF
novelty In the subtropics. The ocean
in front of a line of hotels Is splashed
In by thousands OF tourists daily,
and the good roads are travelled by
hundreds Of automobiles holding ad-
miring Americans and often Aus
tralasians. Cafes In Honolulu. the
capital of Hawaii, have jazz hands
and wiggly or toddly dancing orgies.
Nothing is lacking TO give Americans
what they demand at home Every
thing Is nicely capitalized and man.
iged from the inviting surf to the
raging volcano. comfort is supreme.
and on a thousand verandas visitors
rejoice in their good fortune in being
in Hawaii. or residents count divi
dends earned by entertaining them .
Besides this show life, tropical
Coney Island though with few merry
go rounds or slides for life because
the patrons are middle aged. there Is
the home, church and business life
OF the whites who make their livings
in Hawaii and of "A small remnant OF
Hawaiians and part Hawaiians
These latter who survive socialiv do
so entirely by their relations TO poll
tics or to non TIawaiians who have
money making abilities All these
people In comfortable circumstances
are delightful to know They are
remarkably hospitable. generous in
entertainment and lovabie In man
ner The average tourist does not
meet these permanent residents
often. They are exclusive largely
occupied with their own circles and
affairs, and rather suspicion, Of
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
Concerning the Craft of Fiction

THD CRAFT Or FiCTiUN. by
Percy Lubbock Charles Scrioners
Soma
I'm "The Craft Of Fiction" Percy
Lubbock. as reader OF novels.
- expresses amazement At the
chaos in which the art Is still pur-
sued In all the talk of novels. IN.
stead OF any discussion of technique.
he finds only such Iucubrations as
that Jane Austen was an acute OBJ
server. Dickens a great humorist.
George Eliot had u deep knowledge
of provincial character. and SO on
1T is their books. as well as then
talents and attainments that we
aspire to see. their books which We
must recreate for ourselves II We
are ever to behold them And III
order to recreate them durably there
craft. to follow the process. to read
constructvely. The practice Of this
method appears TO me at this time of
day. confess, the only interest in
the criticism of fiction. 1t seems
vain to expect that discourse upon
novelists will contain anything new
for us until we have really and
clearly and accurately seen theii
books"
The dramatic incident. the scene.
is ranked as the element of first i'm
portance Here narrative ceases and
i direct light falls on the characters
and their doings. This Is the sharp
est effect within the novelist's range
If it is wasted it loses force, and If
II is weakened the climax has no
better resource to turn TO instead
For its length II is expensive In the
matter OF time and space: an oblique
narrative will give the effect Of
further distances and longer periods
with much greater economy. The
scene must be reserved for climax
Then II will act swiftly and sharply
1t is a mistake for the novelist TO
be always breaking into dialogue.
into dramatic presentation The
fully wrought and unified scene
amply drawn out and placed where
it gathers many issues together, all
| active and advancing the story. is
characteristic, the author finds, OF
Madame Bovary," in which the dra-
matte scenes mark and affirm the
structural lines OF the story.
Picture. or panorama, is treated