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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
WOMEN ARE THE OFFENDERS.
Curious Collection of Articles Lost by
Them in Dry Goods stores.

Curious Collection of Articles Lost by
Them in Dry Goods stores.
All the large retail dry goods
stores in the city maintain depart
ments exclusively for the purpose oi
/ looking after lost articles and one
result is that it would be impossible
to make dry goods man believe
that memory is the strongest part OF
a woman's makeup. In ledger
and it takes a big one-entry is mace
of every valuable article found in the
store and sent to the '.lost" depart
ment The article is kept until
called for, when it is checked off and
restored TO the party proving prop
erty. If no inquiry is made within
week it is advertised for two days
in the city papers.
The number of handker ;hA,fs
brought to the ''lost" desk of big
dry goods store in the course of a
year averages 1000 or more Gloves,
fans, veils and spectacles are met in
abundance in the order named. while
fifty parasols is low average pei.
day. All of this class of goods that
remains uncalled for is distributed
among the various charitable insti-
tutions about Christmas time. The
midsummer "fnds" include brand
new goods which have been cut, paid
for, and left on some counter. usually
in a pile of fabric, like laces, dress
goods and embroidery. The contents
Of these parcel finds cannot be enum-
Grated without giving an inventory
of the notion stock. The largest ar
ticle is an umbrella or box of cor
sets. Other parcels contain thread.
toilet soap, infants caps. bibs,
aprons, ribbon, hosiery, lingerie,
velvet, flannel and wool and
linen goods, brushes, etc. Wraps,
and dress patterns, often of costly
kind, are found. just after special
sale the '.lost" department is stocked
with pocket-bOoks, purses, hand bags
and handkerchiefs with money tied
in the corners. Strange as it may
seem, less than two per cent of even
these last-named articles are ever
called for All articles exceeding
so in value are advertised and then
kept year. All finds" of money
books go to the clerks finding them
at the expiration of the year.
In many big stores from five to
one hundred watches are found in
the course of a year and from one to
a dozen pieces of fine jewelry. Many
rings are found about the wash ba
sins, where they have been removed
for moment
Other articles left-large quanti
ties of them nearly every day in the
week-are lunch baskets. In every
big retail store in the city the cash
boys and packers depend upon re-
ceiving from five to fifty -lnches.
which, when found, are after 2
o'clock turned over to these employees
to be devoured.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
Household Helps.

Clean gilt frames with rain water
in which flowers of sulphur have
been stirred.
Wash marble with a sponge or
chamois wet in warm, soft water,
then rubbing dry.
Dust papered walls with cloth
over broom, sweeping the wall
with regular strokes.
Remove stains from mahogany,
rosewood or walnut by touching the
spots with a feather wet in diluted
nitre
Wash willow furniture with warm
water and CASTLE soap, wiping very
dry with soft cloth, then dry in the
sun or near fire.
An economy Of waste is co throw
the salt water left in the ice-cream
freezer over the weeds on the garden
path and the suds of the wash tut
around the roots of the young trees.
For the men and women upon
whose nervous energy there ara
great demands fish is an invaluable
article of food. Salmon heads the
list in nutritive qualities. 1t is
richer than meat.
In cleaning a badly-soiled carpet
great precaution should be used.
Brussels. tapestries. Wiltons or
velvet carpets may be cleaned with
OK gala pint to pail of water.
Use an ordinary scrubbing brush.
AID afterwards the carpet should be
vigorously rubbed with a coarse
cloth. Fresh water should be ap.
pied
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01

The best time to castrate pigs is
when they are nursing, or when they
are three or four weeks old.
Why not make a hogpen as com
Portable Tor man to do his work in
as other stables are? Would not the
pigs receive better attention?
A pound of flesh repre- ,ents 50 much
money. To deliberately pc Kit it to
be lost is to throw away money.
When the pastures begin to fail,
therefore, give special attention to
the animal so that it may lose moth
ing.
When you are compelled 20 keep
your swine penned up, if you expect
them to thrive as they should, you
must see that they get some green
food daily In winter artichokes.
turnips. and the small potatoes
should take the place of grass and
clover.
Breeding animals should have a
large pasture lot, the larger the bet
ter 1t will tempt them to take
plenty of exercise. A SOW that takes
ne exercise will not farrow as strong
and hearty litter of pigs as the one
that has had her daily exercise as
she roamed over her pasture lot.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01

1t is one of the anomalies of modern
hotel life that the more you pay the
less you expect in return. In the
huge caravansaries OF the large
American cities, when a man pay
$75 a week for room without board.
he never thinks of asking any
service of the employees without pay
ing literally for it; he Is charged
for a fire, for light after midnight.
for the use of the telephone, for
sending out a message by an office
boy, for taking lunch in his room,
for corkaoe on his own wines and
must tip the walters. In a countr :;
motel, where he pays Sc week with
board. he can have fire in his room
when he wants it, he can trust the
landlord to send letters and mes
sages, he can smoke all over the
house, he can borrow anything from
q gun to pair of trousers. he can
get the lanllady to mend his torn
coat, he can call for breakfast at )
o'clock in the morning and get 1t, he
can get the landlords boy to dig
bait for him, and he has to tip
nobody. New York Sun.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
Flatl-Threshed Grain.

A good deal of grain. especially
that grown by the small farmer, is
yet threshed by the fail. Grain for
seed, we think, ought to be usually
thus threshed. The fail gets it out
slowly and it is not piled in bins in
lerge lots to heat and have its
vitality lessened if not destroyed.
More important advantage than this
is that the fail never threshes quite
clean and what it leaves in the sheaf
is the lighter grain In doing more
perfect threshing, the machine
breaks or cracks the kernels so that
some of them have their germs in
jure6. Cultivator.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
HOSE nl HARD
Khe BIG DOg aEnde ths lEAstn
EnowinR II was A5nsIS


The BlE DOg azndc ths lEtstn
Knowing II was AsmsS
A sample rat-trap yas ia
store In Lewiston, Maine, d ia
ago, waiting for customer.
q new-fangled rat-tfap which,
one had left there for fun or Sd
to be called for
The trap wac set and was
open shop, where it could be seen
About 1890 o'clock q big Cog zane
In with little girl. or vice versa.
although the dog was biggAr than
the girl The little girl sses1ss...sse
something and the pEscrtstor wgS
tying ny she package. w1sie t1S aQ !
went prowlp~ 4rorad afte the
manner of dogs "a. -. Was in q Insmeat
forgot
..Plsase, thlr, 4as you sss any
car
just then "Whoop la! Rip-p-p.
s-s-t-boomah, Ki-yi-yi," out came the
dog with about seven inches Of
tongue protruding. to which dangled
a rat-trap. full size, hanging to the
tongue with fifty light dynamo
grip. In an instant there was fun in
the apothecary shop. You have seen
dog fight with eleven dogs in itp
No? Well. maybe you have seen a
rooster with his head cut offp Mop
Then you haven't any idea the way
this dog did up the drug store. Why,
he fairly owned it. Over the boxes,
in behind the counter, out again.
seven laps around the stove, three
trips into the back shop, kicking up
his heels until the dust few. knock
ing over bottles, opening up cases of
last years almanacs. bowling like q
calliope, clanking like a threshing
machine. For about two minutes
they gave him 5ulI swing. ThSeferI
tried to corne.' him, but it was d
use. WE
''Bothe! Bother cried the little
girl, but Bose didn't know her He
regarded her as an utter stranger
He had a nearer and closer attao
ment than any mere family affair.
had too much business to botl
with little girls. He was too md
''in it" to waste his time in respot
ing to mere friendly calls. Twice
dashed at the door, but it was sh
and the proprietor didn't want
lose his. trap.
He'll run a week" said a
who was climbing into a chair
order to give the dog more room.
''Chloroform him." said the ne
paper man from behind the s,
fountain.
''Give him dose of fly powder
shouted the clerk.
'.Snap" The dog had stoppa
suddenly, had shaken his head ar
the trap had been flung three 90,
away, taking with it dainty mors
of his tongue.
Poor Bothe," said the little girl
as she opened the door, but Bose
never even wagged his tail as with
one despairing look at the interior o
the store SO that he could remeT
Der it next time, he fed like a. wi
whooping demoniac witch on broom
stick down Lisbon street And he
may be going yet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01

neradicable con-ictiou that he uEder-
stood the innermost workings OK the
mind of girl.
"a clever beggar once knew" he
explained one night to his old intimate,
Yaddon, ''in fact about the cleverest
bcggar ever did know, once said to
me, If you know one thing thorough
1y, you hold the key to everv thing.
It didn't strike me pa ticulariJ at the
time. / had no reason for testing it.
but it's awfully true, Jim, ! can see it
now"
It was in Jim Paddon's rooms in
Gray's Inn that this sententious
remark was uttered. Jim Paddon
was at the moment keenly interested
in wondering whether the cork of a
soda-water bottle would come out
easily, like tooth with gas, or would
require extracting with a wrench.
The gas gained the day.
"Well,'' he said, coAtent now to
daily with trivialities, land what if it
ts?''
well, I'll tell you. Sometimes this
knowledge is very useful to you, and
sometimes-welL it's just amusing. 1
don't think I'm particularly concerned,
but flatter myself that have always
had a knack of understanding girls.
It isn't thing a man cares to talk
about much. In the first place ninety
nine people out of a hundred would
put any one down as fool who said
this-possibly 1 am rather femininely
minded. In any case, L often used to
think l could see things from their
point of view better than most fellows
and argue their eases in their own
way. Now, since | have thoroughly
understood one girl. know l can do
this. And what is the consequence?
Why, they never astonish me now!"
Paddon took his pipe from his
mouth, and attempted to realize an
old ambition and blow second smoke
ring through first.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
pld ttr Keep tI,e cIeris.

Principal have to send you on
very important errand, one deman
ing the greatest secrecy. Say. n
Meier. can | RELY on you? Are
sole to keep secretp
Clerk-Oh certainly. (Whisp
in principals ear): have bee
cretly engaged to your daughte
the last couple of years.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
If 1Ils honor Moui.l ~

"Ten doIlarsr' roared the (
..No money! replied the lpf
Ten days!n cried his honh
II haven't 'em now. I'd
prisoner. ..Bgt il your I'D
wait a fortnight ] shall b
in. Harper's BRzart
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
Building Barns.

IF you are about building a barn,
You can probably combine space and
economy by building it with base
ment. The stalls for stock should be
in the basement, but it should be so
arranged that they are dry, and tina.
the air is pure ami wholesome. Have
an eye TO convenience in the arrange
mont of every detail. If you grow
grain, have 1t so you can put the
straw. when you thresh, right over
the stables. If it is there, so that it
can 6e reached without trouble, you
will be apt to make better use OF it
in feeding than would otherwise be
the case. A large covered shed as
an adjunct to the barn will prove
valuable. In that the stock can get
air and exercise through the winter
without being exposed to wind
storms. Keep the manure in this
shed until you are ready to haul it
out, and the saving of that product
will go far toward repaying the cost
of the shed. -Farmers Home Weekly
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01
stereotxpsd Plates.

Curved stereotyped plates
vented in 1915. but we're little
for half century after that
Since 1865 they have come into
eral employment in every news
office in the country whose edii
printed on a fast steam press
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01

The first almanac was printed in
Hungary in l470 One medical firm
in this country now prints and clrcu-
lates 3, 600, 900 year, and it is esti-
mated that the total number printed
annually in this country does not
fall short OF $50, 900, 900.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-01

moro digestiblo than The same 1000
dried, and that hsy possesses the
same units cf nutfzspent aa grass, but
every Eall-infcrmed sairynan keeps
right on building silos and giving
cows thei- food in as succlllenf form
as possible. even to the suDimes soil-
ing that has oeen referred to, and
this in the face of sciexce Why, il
soft foods are no more nutritious
than the dry2 The fact is that there
is an element of palatability to green
food, and any cow in flow of milk
will turn from the hay to lock of
green grass. and the bundle of dry
fodder to basket Of silage. The
IDEA OF cooking food for stock ltas
pretty much gone by the board,
but there was palatability about it
that was relished by the stock;
but between cooked food and the sue
cIlence of the root pit and the cell
lar silo. there is nothing left for the
labor and the compensation for the
increased danger of fire; and yet the
idea is one of furnishing this food in
the way that the cow likes it best.
DO the COWS ever tire of the food
that has most of its natural juiceA in
it? Who ever saw COW tire of goc6 !
green grass, well put up silage. or
prime sugar beet? Here is a point
in grain feeding: Change the grain
in whole or in part nowand then. 1t
adds relish to the consumption of the
ration and promotes appetite, the
same as change of food is enjoyed by
''humans. Do not drop down the
food elements of the ration, but vary
them enough to excite appetite. and
the dairy viii do better for the slight
effort it occasions. Practical Far
mer.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-03

40 to four or Ave hundred dollars an
are. But the eastern farmer is more or
less dispirited, aud consequently sceptical,
and this development OF values. though
sure, may not be realized for some time.
Nevertheless. the ifrigable area is limited,
and the land will. before long, fetch what
1t will pay handsome interest on. There
Is, therefore, no better investment that
can possibly be made. In the last seven
years IA, m lands In the vicinity OF Yaki-
ma have risen in value over 200 per cent.
Judging from the ratio Of increase during
the latter part Of this period. and the
large amount OF capital now for the first
time being invested in bitches and canals,
this rise should he largely exceeded In the
next five years.
II the survival OF the fittest lie the Law
Of nature, and II capital goes where the
greatest safety and the largest returns are
to be had, then the future Of the Yakima
valley is AZ bright as rs climate - lFm.
Ker in Fed X. Reeds Yakima County.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-03

4 brigade Of Missourians under Colonel
Cockerell and one OF North Caroiinians and
Texans under General Young climbed the
steep activity Of the west ridge to storh
the main fort, and General Sears Mississip-
plans marched squsrely around the pass 70
the north and destroyed the railroad and
telegraph, so as to Isolate the garrison COM
pletely. That done, French summoned
Corse to surrender In order to save need
less effusion Of blood" allowing 1--WE min
utes for elaboration. Corss replied ut once
that be was prepared for the needless effu-
sion OF blood wheneverit was agreeable" TO
General French. He told his men to pre-
pare for the worst. The ditch outside the
main fort was filled with rifemen, and three
companies Of the Nincty-third Illinois were
posted In n trench overlooking the store
house in the cut, with orders to keep the
enemy's torchmen away from IL Mt all haz-
ards The moment the saucy reply Of the
garrison commander reached French he
gave the signal for an assault all along the
line Emerging from the woods on the west
ridge and threading the tangled abatis and
felled timber, Cockerell's Missourians and
Young's Texans dashed forward, their
lines swept by the fire from the pfts and
the fort. The Thirty-ninth Iowa and ths
Seventh illinois bore the brunt OF the first
attack. Two companies of Iowans were far
to the front diminishing, three companies
were posted In observation on knoll out
side the works, and three companies lay in
tho trenches French'sli lines overlappcd the
defenders, and the Iowa skirmishers with
their supports were driven back on tan
gent. Colonel Redfeid and four lieuten.
ants were killed. scores OF men were killed
and wounded. and a few survivors got back
tothe main fort. The three companies lying
In the rifle pits were overrun bya heavy
massed column Of Confederates. and all but
nine were killed, wounded or captured. The
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-03

Portland, Ogn., telegram: lrrig ,tion's
success has surpassed the hopes of its
most saDguine advocates. What has
been done in the previous ten years will
be duplicated and eclipsed by the prog
ress OF the next ten. Ii is the salvation
OF much OF the west.
There are estimated to be 542. 600, 900
acres in the United States that can be-
protitably reclaimed from the barren des-
ert. Already 1854 ,2Sl acres of arid land
are no longer waste. IL cost $z9, 1911 :
OO0 to reclaim them, and they are now
worth S94 ,5ll 900. This is profit in
value Of nearly s65,0OJ,000, which far
outshines the records OF any farm lands
not under cultivation. The value per
acre reaches from $Sl to 500, and the
product of the artihcialiy watered soil
varies between 1925 and $40. Hardly a
week passes in which some irrigation
scheme is not launched on the world Of
Investments. History simply repeats
itself. In ancient times those nations
possessed the greatest riches and popula-
ton, the largest cities and most extensive
agrarian productiveness, shich had re-
duced irrigation to a science and an alb
soluie necessity.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-03

and parapets. The valor Of the assailants
was sublime. The colonel Of the Forty.
sixth Mississippi, w. ii. Clark, leading the
advance with the battlehag In his hands,
fell dead on the brink Of the ditch. Behind
the Mississippians followed the Twenty
ninth North Carolina, the flag far In al
vance In the hands of Color Sergeant RicIf.
Come on, boysli he shouted, waving the
flag In front OF them, and went down So
verely wounded. The nearest comrade,
Lieutenant Il. D. Alexander, grasped the
standard, echoed the sergeant's CRY. Come
on, boysl' and Immediately fell dead. Ser
geant Parker next took the colors and bore
them across the ditch to the parapet, where
he held them until be was blinded by q
wound in the face.
The defenders. not to be outdone in valor,
boldly exposed themselves above the para.
pet-the officers setting the example-and
fell in scores. There were six commissioned
officers killed and 20 wounded on the west
ridge. The Twelfth Illinois lost Sc killed
and wounded, "a OF the number being com
missioned and noncommissioned officers.
Corse was hit in the face and stunned dur
ing the height of the assault. He came to
Just as the cry was going around. Cease
flringT His soldiers thought the case was
to avoid annihilation. The artillery ammu-
milton was all used up and the cannon ST.
lent. Some brave fellow whose name has
not been recorded. hearing Corse's appeal
to go on with the fight, volunteered TO steal
out of the fort, cross the fire swept cut and
bring ammunition from the chests in the
east fort. He succeeded and brought in an
armfui of canister and case shot. He was
just in time, too, for the Confederates were
massing a new storning column under
shelter of some buildings $50 yards away
The case shot was hurled into their ranks
with terrible effect, and the riflemen In the
trenches took heart agsin. mounted the
parapets, and by a continuous and CALLING
fire of bullets broke and dispersed the col
umn for good. 1t was then nearly p. M
The fight had lasted over six hours For
an hour longer IL ragged fitfully, and the
Copfederates at last abandoned the field,
leaving their dead and wounded lying as
they fell The cavalry advance Of Sherman
was rapidly gallcping to the rescue from
the south.
Colonel Tourtellotte and bis Minnesota
boys had defended the east fort and by good
long range shooting helped to break up She
Confederate columns marching against
Corse from the north. sa
Corse's loss in defending both ridges was
about 500 killed and wounded. Confeder-
ate reports admit loss OF ga Corse bur
led s3i Of the enemy, and General Young.
who was wounded and captured, estimated
the loss among bis people at 2,000
General Corse magnanimously attributed
TO 1.-The extraordinary valor'' OF The officers
and men Of the Thirty-ninth Iowa and the
Seventh Illinois the salvation of Aliatoona
Pass History declares that oorse played
great part In ID, and the mzn who answered
Sher1nan's ordsr TO bold the fort with the
II am short cheek bone and an
car. but am sblc 20 lick ell h--i yet. must
always be thu popular hero nf Allztoona
GEORGE Il KzLsnER.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-03

Through an arrangement entered into
between the proprietors OF the leading
shows OF the uttry, the Sells K Rem
frow's enormous railroad shows, which
will appear in North Yakima Thursday,
Aug. 10, will I've the only tented exhibit
ton Of any Importance that will visit
this section OF country this year. Al.
ready the circus loving portion OF this
community is on the tip-toe of expect
ancy over the coming OF the oil reliable
Sells & Renfrow aggregation and il can
be set down as certainty that it will
attract tremendous crowds. The proprie-
tors Of this well known establishment,
who are the acknow lodged leaders OF the
show business in America, are said TO
have outdone all previous efforts in this
line, both in the novelty of the entertain
ment and in the wonderful features
exhibited. The securing of the largest
elephant on earth, at cost OF over s25,
000, and the enormous outlay OF cash is
evidence that the managers OF this great
show are bound 10 exhibit to it's patrons
something new and worthy the great
name and reputation it already has. The
street parade will be the grandest ever
seen here. After the parade grand free
show will be given on the circus grounds,
which is said to be the best ever given.
We confidently predict enormous crowds
on Thursday, August To-
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-08-03
HaW'S THISs

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cnre.,
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorab in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any transaction made by their firm.
WEST q TRuAx. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo. ..
WALDISG, KINSAN i MARVIN. Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls CatHrrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
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per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Tes-
tmonials free,