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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23
A Comedy of Errors.

While two wedding professions
were fighting for the road at one OF
the gates of HankOw, the chairs
holding the brides got mixed, and
each lady was taken to the wrong
bridegroom. The gentlemen. never
having seen their wives before, ac-
cording to the Chinese custom. knew
no mistake. When the next morn
ing the mothers of the two brides
went to present the usual hair oil to
their daughters, each found stran-
ger installed in her place. Neither
mother, moreover, had any means OF
finding out where her daughter had
gone. After very difficult search
of the city the brides were both
found, and then the idea of making
the best of things was blocked by the
fact that one of the brides. who was
rich and intended for a rich hus-
band, had fallen into the hands of q
very poor man. The problem re-
mains unsolVed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23

A most remarkable case of theft
was in Whitfield county, Georgia A
family living in the country left
their home for few months visit.
When the family returned there was
no house, no barn. no stables and no
fences. while large hole had been
dug where the house had formerly
stood. Suspicion pointed to a man
who occupied an adjoining farm, and
after a rigid examination it was
learned that he had first entered the
house and stolen the cook stove.
Then he took some other articles
His next move was to take the bal
snce of the furniture to town and
sell it He then appropriated the
fences, and later the outhouses TO
repair his own fences and buildings
Emboldened by success he tore
down the dwelling-house and sold
the lumber. and. not satisfied with
stealing the furniture aud house. he
began 10 excavate the ground in
order to fill low place upon his OWE
land.-St Louis be-Democrat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23
ssssEs e-D BOY.
kan OF Mischief How he Oatrode the
Cyclone on = Plank.


kuIl OF MIsehlef- How ne Oatrode the
Cyclons on = Plank.
&Jesse's boy was bad When he
was little fellow who could just
toddle he. was bad. Mischief shone
in his eyes. lurked In his broad nose
and grinned openly from his mouth,
says the New York Tribune At 3
years he would come to the store
for biscuit, show his penny. but
when he got the biscuit off went bis
cult, penny and boy, and feet must
be the foot to catch him At a safe
distance he would stand derisively
waving biscuit and penny with
''Don' yo' wish yo' had um?" When
years old he caught his fathers
unbroken colt and scrambled on his
back. The colt gGllOped madly
. down the road. but the boy stuck on
and soon rode proudly back, the colt
conquered. Many a stolen ride he
had after that.
1t became his greatest pleasure to
exhibit his skill. racing up and down
before the store. Meet him in the
road it was: ''Give me a ride. Mr..
Mac" When he tired of hanging on
behind he ran races with the horse,
but TO his chagrin. heet IS he was,
the horse could beat him.
At his badness had increased
with his years, and one day he stole
q chicken and was discovered Now
Jesse was q big. powerful man. and
his blows were hard to stand up uh-
der, so to SAve the beating he knew
l.. off 70 "
aunt who lived some miles away on
Eustis plantation. All that day it
stormed and when night came the
tides rose so high that the house was
surrounded by water, and still on it
came. The occupants turned to fee
+one man was drinking his coffee,
the other called him to come. ''No'
till l done drink" he said. They
left him and the next moment the
house fell.
Jesse's boy got astride a plank
He saw his aunt sink in the water.
Amid wind and rain he hoated out.
an atom ON the angry waters.
At daybreak, miles away. two mel
searching for bodies. heard shrill
little voice say: "Get up, ole
plank" And riding the water 81
.fearlessly as though on his believe.
colts back, came Jesse's boy. Jus
the boy. Wind and rain had stripped
every vestige of clothes from hi
back lashed and beaten him. bu
with his bare body, brimful OF cour
age yet. after a night that wou have
shaken the heart of the strongest
man.
But the little fellow paid dearly
for his terrible night, and for week
the hoy was sick unto death. Now
however. on the road can be seen tht
small piece of black humanity. will
mischief shining in his eyes
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23
THE TRICOLOR.
How France Came to Adopt the Red
White and Bloc.

How France Came to Adopt the Red,
White and Bloc.
Some seventy or eighty years be
fore France was involved in the
flames of the revolution-that is. at
the epoch of the war of the success
sion, when she was in close alliance
with Spain and Bavaria-it was
thought desirable to distinguish the
allied soldiers by q cockade. which
combined the cOlors of the three na-
t;ons-the white of France, the red
of Spain and the blue of Bavaria
To none of these incidents. how
ever, would it be wise to attribute
the origin Of the historic tricolor.
and cockade adopted by revolutionary
France At the outset there seemed
a likelihood that grecn-which Cam
lille Desmoulins had popularized at
the Palais RoysI-would have be-
come the national color; but men
remembered in time that 1t was that
of the Comte d'Artois. the most un-
unpopular of the Bourbon princes,
and it was thereupon discarded.
A proposition was then made to
assume the colors of the city of Paris
= blue and red. as Dumas reminds US
in his six Ans Apres" To this
was added the white" Of so many
glorious memories. because it had
been selected by the National GuarC
always faithful to the throne anC
its traditions.
Not until some months after the
capture of the Bastile was the tri
color definitely adopted, says All thu
Year Round, when Bailey and Lafay
cite presented it to Louis XVI. in the
great hall of the Hotel de Vile. anC
the convention in which it was de
scribed as consisting of three color:
- '-disposees en- trois bandees egales
de maniere que le bleu soft attach
a la garde du pavilion. le blanc a.
milleu. ct le rouge fottant dams le
airs"-that is. in equal vertical sec
tions with the blue inward, the re'
outward, and the white between.
This is the historic flag which Ma
poleon's legions, in conjunction will
their eagles, bore victoriously from
the Seine to the Elbe. the Tagus. tn
Borodino. and the Danube; whicl
they planted victoriously on the wall
Of almost every European capital.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23
Fi,h as . Fertilizer.

1t was a novel object Lesson on the
effects of stimulants that a New
Yorker so;ourning in Maine last sum-
mer discovered. Beside the house
where he boarded was a field that
had once been cultivated, but now
was as barren as the Sahara What
Is the matter with the land that
nothing will grow on it?" he asked
the fisherman. his host Fish did
it," was the laconic answer "How?"
why, it was manured with fish.
You know farmers near the seash ore
use porgies. dogfish, and other fish
worthless to eat to fertilizo the land
And don't the fish just make the
crops grow for a few seasons! Look
at that patch now. For years it
yielded the finest corn. potatoes and
garden sass you ever heard of. You
see the FISH acts on land just as alco-
hol acts on a man. It stimulates it
and as long as there is any produc-
tive power left in the soil it goes
into the crops. But there came the
time when that field gave out all at
once and all the fish you could heap
on it wouldn't make it bear so much
as weeds or grass The only thing
is to let it lie fallow until the soil
gains strength by rest Farmers
round the seashore have found out
that, though fish fertilizers give
them tempting crops TO start with
they must be hanlled as carefully as
a man ought to handle rum OF
| brandy"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23
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| LADIES. DON'T Be DECEIVED

By into believing that the paste board
of dsscung the best. Prof Works Garment
ting the only practical existence being
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from pocket handkerchief t. the latest fashionable
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23
he Gigantic Coliseum.

According to expert calculations
the Coliseum of Rome seated $1,000
spectators. while $4,000 more could
have found standing room The
external circumferences of the
Coliseum as it. stands to-day is 1,728
feet, it's long diameter 615 feet. it's
short diameter $40 feet. The arena
is 279x296 feet and the height of
the building 156 feet There is still
standing four stories of the original
structure. 1t was in all probability
the largest building of auditorium
arrangement ever known.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-23

Lady-Have you any Turkish
towels?
New Boy-Turkish towelsP
"Yes. Haven't you ever heard Of
Turkish towels?"
1--WE read a good deal about Turks,
ma'am, but never knew they used
towels"
The evening world., 1894-07-16
TIME FOR ACTION.

The Government has just proved itself
strong enough to enforce law and order
when the trial really comes In earnest.
The idea prevailed that some formalities
had to be observed and some prelimina-
w steps that circumstances might oh
struct had to be taken before the Fed
eral Government, whose province It Is to
see that the laws of the United States
are enforced and observed. and whose
duty 1t is to compel obedience to the
mandates OF the United States Courts.
would exercise its authority. 1t has now
been settled that the functions and
powers OF the Government are real and
have some meaning.
The Congress OF the United States IL
clothed with the function of making
such laws as are approved and sup
ported by majority. Is this right real
or imaginary? Can n minority OF one
house of Congress defeat legislation IA
vored by a majority OF both houses, and
block the wheels of Government?
For months the minority of the Senate
has delayed action on the Tariff bill
against the will of the majority. Tha,
minority now threatens to continue It's
obstructive and revolutionary work
through the Conference Committee
What will the majority do? VIII 1t con
tinue to be crippled by rules" or will
1t follow the example OF the Fedora
Government, vindicate its power and treat
Dolph and Chandler as the Presiden
treated Debs and Sovereign
The evening world., 1894-07-16
Don't Abolish Any LAWS.

To the Editor
Your correspondent IS. d. Guion'' rightly
diagnoses private ownership Of land the
cause OF widespread distress and wretched-
ness, poverty, misery and degradation" But
what Is he going to do about II! II we recos
nite and admit that certain laws have 4 malig-
nant tendency, and that our form Of government
Is capable OF improvement in certain respects.
dare not sgitate for their reform. We have
the highest authorities for the belief that It
would be treason to hold and advocate such
views Senator PETER knows now that his mild
reform resolution was "Anarchistic' and
+" treasonous" and that laws must be main
taned. not because they are good and necessary.
but because they are laws Mr.. PETER may assist
to make laws. good or bad but don't let him
try to abolish any. That Is treason. and treason
Is crime The theory that whatever Ia. Is
right" may be considered idiotic and its adher-
ents fools. Our Senate in the intervals OF
Sugar operation and investigation rises superior
to public opinion. and goes record In warm
advocacy Of the principle But We cannot safely
criticise that body. 1t might be seditious to do
So II It is " Anarchistic' to agttsts for the re-
peal modification OF bad laws, II II IL Urea
sonous' to point out defects In the Constitution
with q view to their amendment, what do our
Legislatures and Constitutional Conventions come
together forf Is
The evening world., 1894-07-16
IS 1T A NEW SCANDAL !

People are beginning to believe that
United States Senators are as ready to
be seen" as a country legislator or a
New York Alderman. Another scandal
that has very much the look OF bust
Senate Chamber.
Senator Shoup. of Idaho, gave notice
on Saturday OF an amendment to the
Indian Appropriation bill, which II carried
would leave out In the cold the leases of
valuable mineral lands In the Utah and
Colorado reservations held by an as
phalt company and other corporations
Mr.. Shoup says that after he gave this
notice Senator Gordon. OF Georgia went
to his seat told him that II the asphalt
company was not protected the amend
ment would be beaten. and asked him
to meet Mr.. Thornton, OF New York,
whom Mr. Shoup understood to be the
company's agent Mr. Shoup says he de-
clined on the ground that there had al
ready been too much talk about the In
fiuence OF corporations on Senators.
Mr.. Gordon declares that he simply
desired Mr.. Shoup to meet Mr.. Thornton
who represents a Utah enterprise In
which William r. Grace Is interested
and he does not remember that Mr.
Shoup said anything about corporations
nor was there any reason why he should
have made the alleged remark,
1t is probable that the matter will
come up In the Senate to-day. At al
events New Workers will gather from
the incident that ex-Mayor Grace is mo-
so much occupied with the subject OF {
straight" State Democracy ticket fo
city and county Offices this year as t,
neglect other interests
The evening world., 1894-07-16
STOLE BABY RINGS.
One of Two Burglars Caught After
u Hot Chase.

Frank Myland. twenty-eight years
old, of 1926 East Tenth street was held
for trial in the Yorkville Court to-day
charged with burglary.
Myland ana companion, who es-
capped, We're seen running along Second
avenue, near Fifty-sixth street. last
night, followed by "A crowd of people
who were shouting, stop, thief
Policeman Byrnes, OF the East Fifty
first street station, Joined in the chase
and captured Myland after running Il
block.
The burglars entered the grocery store
of John II. often at lllg Second avenue,
and stole $50 worth OF baby rings that
the grocer had for distribution to his
customers as prizes. a tenant of the
mouse saw them come out of the store
by the hall door and hurry out to the
street. SuspeCting that they were bur
glars the tenant gave the alarm, which
was taken up by "A number OF persons
When Myland was searched "A dozen
OF the baby rings were found in his pos.
session He told Justice Meade. wher
arralgned In court. that he was
baker. out Of work. was PENN,
less and had no friends He added that
man. whom he only knew as Charlie
| persuaded him to go with him TO tn,
grocery store. on reaching there h,
said, Charlie opened the store door with
| Il key. "
The evening world., 1894-07-16

Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of beef
extract in one quart Of water. add one
onion whole. one bead OF garlic ditto,
a stick OF cinnamon, twelve cloves. the
seeds of eight cardamoms. a blade Of
mace; as 1t comes to the boil add one
quarter pound of best rice. When the
rice has boiled SOFT remove at once and
strain; take out the onion, garlic and
spice. except the cardamoms. Chop an
onion very small and one bead of gar
lie; fry in two ounces OF butter. add one
tablespoonful Of best mild curry pow
der and half a cup of tomato con-
serve. Now mix your rice we'll with 1t
lightly with fork: rinse out a plain
border mould with water. put your
rice In. let 1t set. and turl out; then
warm It again II you wish. but 1t ts
best eaten cold. Turn out on a dish
paper. sprinkle over the whole some
tinely-chopped parsley. place a few
pickles on the top of the plain border;
a little lightly-cut salad round the base
looks we'll. Fill in the centre cavity
with hard-boiled eggs chopped fine.
The evening world., 1894-07-16
COLORED PEOPLE PROTEST.
Meetings in Aid Of the Efforts Of
Ida B. Wells in England
Her Statements Have Been Disputed
by Southern Newspapers.

In answer to a call issued ten days
ago from this city by Thomas f. For
tune. President of the AfroAmerican
League OF the United States, mass-meet-
ings OF colored people will be held to-
day here and elsewhere to protest
against the efforts of certain Southern
individuals and newspapers to break
down the testimony of Miss Ida b.
Wells before the British public as to the
extent of race prejudice and mob vio-
lence in the South.
Miss Wells Is an educated young col
ored woman. who has taken up the cause
of the rights of her race in the United
States. and has gone abroad to invoke
sympathy. She has aroused considerable
interest and some feeling in England
by her speeches, in which she recounts
the lynchings and other indignities i'm
posed upon the negroes in the Southern
states.
Some interests In the South have been
reused to combat her statements. and II
is to reassert the truth OF her declara-
lions, as they believe them. that the col
ored people have called to-day's assem-
blages.
The meeting in this city will be held
thlS evening at Ilpn CDNrCD, III
Bleecker street. Editor Fortune, the
President of the League and publisher
of the New York Age, will preside.
Among those who will speak are DR.
Derrick, 4. McCants Stewart. Miss
NJ. II. Lyons and Mrs. +. stephens Mat
thews organizer of the Woman's Tenn.
perance Union of London.
, A letter from Frederick Douglass will
be read. Mr.. Douglass writes in part:
! 1T is the misfortune of the coloreG
people OF the United States TO have
! their character aSsailed abroad by q
thousand emssaries from the United
States: and it is well for us that on,
/ voice, and that the voice of a woman
should be our only defense against tn.
! wholesale calumnies there disseminated
against us. She has discharged the du
ties of her mission with signal ability
and with large effect. We should b,
mean and despicable indeed If we die
, not do our best to defeat the effort nov
so Systematically made to destroy he
influence among the people of England
There viii ne simultaneous meeting:
In Brooklyn, Boston. Washington, Baltl
more, Cincinnati and other large cities
The Brooklyn meeting will be held n
the Fleet Street a. NJ. f. Church
Among those t. be present are Reys A
j, Henry, NJ. Coffee, W. F.. II. Chase
w. Macon Webster, w. II. Dickinson
and others
The resolutions adopted at these va
rious meetings will be sent to Mr.. For
tune and by him forwarded to England
for use where they will do the mos
good.
The evening world., 1894-07-16
DRINK DROVE HIM INSANE.
McNair Alarmed His Neighbors
by Yelling lor the Police
Ran Into q Station II ouse ,sand from
There Taken to Bellevue.

John McNatr, Assistant Manager of
pressed Yeast Company, on Lexington
avenue, between Forty-trst and Forty
second streets. was taken from the
East Fifty-nrst street police station to
Bellevue Hospital insane this morning.
He is a widower. forty-tive years Old,
and for the last six months has been
LIVING in boarding house at S6l LeXing-
ton avenue, with his two children.
During the last two weeks he has been
drinking heavily and had been under
II doctors care since last Wednesday
Yesterday he joined an excursion gons
to Glen Island and returned home about
o'clock In the evening
lie went to his room, ana nothing
more was seen or heard of him unit
Midnight when the household wac
startled by cries Of Murder Police
coming tIum MC\dir's room.
All efforts t. quiet him were un
awaiting. and n essengrI was about I,
start Tor the police station when Ne
N1ir rushed out 81 his room into IN
street, yelling at the top OF his voice.
lie ran straight into the station hous'
and told the Sergeant at the desk tina
a man and woman had tried to throttle
and rob him in his board ng house
The sergeant saw that the mans min,
was unbalanced, and had him locked nj
In a cell,
lie became so violent that an ambu
lance was SUMMONED from Bellevu
| Hospital, where he was taken in
McNair had been warned some tim
ago by Or. Davis, who lives in tn
same house with him. that unless h.
quit drinking he would eventually 80 In
The evening world., 1894-07-16
OVERCOME BY GAS.
Unknown servant Girl in = Critical
Condition from AsphyxiRtion.

servant girl in the family OF Louis
Samuels. at East Ninety second street,
was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital,
at o'clock this morning. overcome by
gas. She is in critical condition
The girl has been employed by the
family but few weeks, and Is known
only as Lizzie. She is German and has
beein in this city but a short time
At II o'clock last night another servant
In the house, noticing the odor Of gas
awakened Mr., Samuels, Lizzie was found
unconscious in the bathroom, which was
filled with the gas that came from a
burner half turned on.
A physician was called, but failed to
restore the girl to consciousness, and she
Mas ent to the Hospital.
There was no evidence OF an attempt
to commit suicide. and II is believ ed
that Lizzie fell asleep N the room, after
accidentally turning on the gas
The evening world., 1894-07-16
Women In Art Schools.

Women who pose accuse women who
RENT OF brutal and unjust treatment
In the life class,s wnere women study
there Is difficulty In getting good female
models Only hard necessity compels
them TO pose before their own sex. Poses
are decided by ballot, and the women
stand accused OF selecting the most diff
cult. particularly II the beauty of the
model Is sufficient to arouse jealousy
The men, on the other hand, are sat
lsfied with the simplest pose When the
model puts en- the drapery 1t is arrange
by the pupils. In this delicate operation
the artistic 81 has the power of deal!n.
her victim blows that wound deep nna
bleed inside, Observations are prohih
lied In class. but cutting glances
sneers and speechless comments are ca
changed that express more than tn
most caustic criticism. To quotk On,
The evening world., 1894-07-16
TIE STRIKE is OVER.

The strike is apparently over. but Debs
is not The business of the roads is
being resumed and railroad employees
art going back to work. But Debs says:
Every road In the West is tied up.
The strike is on in the West and It can
not be broken"
The railroad managers insist that all
trouble Is at an end. But freight is GER
tainly not being moved with It's accus-
toned regularity and celebrity. and proba-
bly, will not until the roads get back their
full complement OF employees, either by
restoring their old hands or hiring new
ne',. Passenger traffic is, however, be-
ginning 20 recover from it's interruption
although the freight business is still i'm.
peded.
What remainp Of the trouble is mainl,
me 70 the stubborn refusal OF the rail,
Z mnrnneff n epteFtsAn. The proposa
The evening world., 1894-07-16
The Won anly ArN

Sewing is most womanly art. A
woman is never more feminine than
when she has a needle and thread in her
hand. 1t Is the right OF every little girl
to be taught to sew neatly. even II 1t
costs the mother some self-sacrifice.
Very few women are wholly exempt
from the needle. On the contrary, almost
every woman must take more or less
care Of her own wardrobe. even II she
has no family responsibility. Machines
cannot sew up rips In gloves, re-
place buttons or mend. Some stitches
must be taken, and how to sew
neatly Is an accomplishment quite
as necessary. II not more SO.
to the happiness Of a majority of women
than any other. II little girl be taught
early how to use her needle, sewing will
soon become a sort of second nature to
her