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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19
The Great Tobacco War.

Many of our readers know Of the
war existing between the manufact-
urers of plug chewing tobacco, but
few, perhaps, are familiar with the
cause.
For years some manufacturers have
been making enormous profits by
giving consumers small piece of
plug for ten cents. Recently a very
large manufacturer, seeing that the
time had come for better things, has
placed Il new brand called Battle Az
on the market, which gives the con
sumer very large piece of most ex-
cellent quality for the same price.
This has raised great storm among
those who are hurt by il, but il gives
joy TO those who use the goods. In
Battle Ak they get greater quantity
for their money, while the quality +
equal TO the finest of other brands.
This has naturally had the enct of
decreasing the business of those who
have held the old way, and it has
curtailed their enormous
profits. On the other hand Battle
Ak now taxes the resources Of three
large factories, which, bv running
night and day, are stil unable a.
make the goods fast enough To- satisfy
the enthusiastic demand.
The people want a good thing and
the most of it they can get for the
price. The manufacturers who do
the best by them will get their trade.
Their rivals naturally do not like il.
they raise a mighty howl, but the
Ak Will cut them down.
Bring US your job work.
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Bring us your job work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19
Bestty.s Organs and Pianos.

Hon. Daniel F. Beatty, of Washing
ton, New Jersey, the great Organ
and Piano manufacturer, is building
more Organs and Pianos than ever.
In 1870 Mr.. Beatty left home a pen
niless plow boy, and by his indomit-
able will he has worked his way up
so as to sell so far, nearly 1OO,0 900 of
Beatty's Organs and Pianos since
1870. Nothing seems to dishearten
him; obstacles laid in his way, that
would have wrecked an ordinary man
forever, he turns to an advertisement
and comes out of it brighter than
ever. His instruments, as is well
known, are very popular and are to
be found in all parts of the world.
We are informed that during the
next ten years he intends to sell 2OO,-
600 more of his make; that means a
business of s2O, ZOO, 900, if we average
them at S100 each. 1t is already the
largest business of the kind in exist
ence. Write or call upon Daniel f.
Beatty, Washington, New Jersey, for
catalogue.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19
Standard Cotton Belt Attractions.

Through trains twice each dav
from Fort Worth, Llano, Greenville.
Sherman, Whitewright, Wolfe CITY,
Sulphur Springs, Waco, Hillsboro.
Corsicaua, Tyler, Pittsburg and Tex
arkana to Memphis, Tenn, making
close connections AT Memphis for the
Old States, and at Texarkana max
ing close connections for ST. Louis
and the north via st. l.. /. VI. * :.
Ry.
Pullman sleeping coach service
from the above cities for Memphis
via Cotton Belt Route" and for st .
Louis via st. L. 1. NJ. x 5. Ry., from
Texarkana.
Through Pullman sleepers from
San Antonio TO Memphis via Inter
cational y Great Northern railway,
Tyler and Cotton Belt Route -
Close connections TO receive and
deliver passengers in Texas as fol-
lows: Greenviile with the NJ. X. *
T., and Texas Midland railway; PIa-
40 with the II. X T. &. railway: Fort
Worth with the TT. x d. G.: Ft. ".
x K. &; &. {. x :. r; +. x r. rail
Ways, Big Sandy with the +. * +.
railway; Tyler with the l. x G.. y.
~dilway; Corsicana with the IA. * +.
{. railway; Waco with the NJ X. x
1. and ). \. < y. p. railway: Me
Gregor with the G.. G.. * :. f. Rv.
All Rexas railways sell tickets via
the Cotton Belt Route" ask them
and secure the accommodations and
quick time offered by the only line
running solid trains from Texas 10
Memphis. All enquiries answered
by 5. &. WARMER,
q. p. 4. Tyler, Tex.
A A. Gibson,
T. P. A. Fort Worth. Toy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19

The croupiers Of Monte Carlo have .
school Of gambling in which they learn
the ms and outs Of the games, the meth
DDS of defeating trickcry. manual dcN-
terity in clearing the boards and paying
the stakes. readiness in reckoning and in
dealing and shuffling the cards and SO
ON. Most Of them come from Alsace
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19

Venezuela means Little Venice "
The early explorers found the natives
living in houses placed On piles in the
marshes
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19

In 1889 the first patcut for water gas
was taken out in England by Cruick.
shanks.
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For SALE-At bargain, a course
in business college. If you want a
business education this is your op-
portunity. Apply at this office.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19
Bring on Your Wood.

The ARDMOREITE viii accept in
payment of subscriptions to the
weekly, 100 cords of stove wood 4,
giving one years subscription for q
good average two horse load of sound
wood. Bring on your wood and get
the best paper in the Indian Terri
tory.
George Frasher at the Cream bak-
cry is head quarters for holiday
goods, high grade confectiOneries
and everything kept in first class
gOody-gOody establishment. 15-lw
A handsome line of holiday goods
just received at the City Drug Store.
Envelopes and letter heads at this
office.
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ADRMORE HEALDTON
Mdil-PdSSenger
Express.

Makes the trip from Ardmore to
Healdton by the way of Lone Grove
and Hewitt, daily. Connection made
at Healdton for Duncan.
Leaves ArdmOre daily at 1880 a. m.
and returning arrives here at p. m.
w. G.. CUMMINGS, Prop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-17

certain Improvements one of his race
was to make in it before long. did not
understand it, Of course-can't under
stand anything with more than q dozen
rogs, and the only "cranks'' I am UP to
arc those that deal with the money ques-
tion-but L appreciated his statement
that it breaks tho fiber, and the attend
ant darby who is not very careful is la
BILE to lose u finger.
Alabama also gives notice that she
can produce good iron at q net cost of
So so per ton and that she has dug up
tho biggest zouglodon on earth and the
biggest lnosasaur on the western cent?
uent. The first, by the way, was lie
original sea serpent, and the second IS
GuppcGed TO have been so feet long
when he roamed his native seas, bat
neither can be seen hero. or at least
could not when I visited the building.
Professor Smith of the university at
Tuscaloosa tells me that the state sus-
tanned an irrcparable loss when the
museum was burned. 1t was at tho close
Of the war In fact, all the fighting
had ceased, when Colonel CrOxton' s
regiment Of Federal cavalry neared the
city. The university cadets turned cut
md skirnished little with the caval-
~, 10 one being killed, and the cnraged
roldiers set ire to the buildings.
Ire geological collection was proba-
bly, the finest in America, as Alabama
was peculiarly rich III remains of the
reptiEan and mammalian ages All
were destroyed, and most cannot now
be replaced. - they We're the aceumu-
laticns of 80 years. In iron, however,
it seems that the state can fulfill her
promises. When Senator PGch said, i'll
1886, that she could make 4 coed profit
and sell iron at So he was pronounced
rash, but they tall now of doing it at
1850.
There is one subject. however, on
shich ali the gulf states join in exulta
ton, and that is their claim that this
year they are self supporting i'll grain
md meat and will probably have sur
! plus. The commission houses declare
/ HAT in five years the imports Of corn
have decreased 70 per cent and of meat
still more, and in the Georgia building
it is claimed that the state is now ex-
porting fat hogs. Some other claims are
rather staggering to the faith. Column
bus, Ga, says her trade has increased
over 400 per cent in ten years. Macon
says hers has doubled. Augusta has in
creased her cotton mills from four to
nine. Savannah reports her commerce
by water i'll 1872 at S72. 35S, 600 and il
1892 at $3.50, 600, coo.
Atlanta. ]. 3. PARKE.
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with the gremt exposition Of 1898, for
that was worlds work and no one
could boast as against another, but here
one secs thas the south is pretty we'll
satisfied with herself and THINKS she has
now reacheda point where she can chal-
lenge the world to q comparison IN many
lines Of progress In the Georgia build
ing, for instance, one soon learns that
this state has increased her taxables 100
per cent il three decades; that her capt.
tai invested in iron works and foundries
has increased $50 per cent III ten years,
and her cotton mills nearly as fast; that
in one year 500, 900 spindles have been
added TO the cotton manufactures Of
the south, and that of the so, 200, coo
Epindles in the entire world the south
row claims 5 per cent. Not far away we
are informed that 8 years ago Georgia
did not know her cotton seed was OF any
great value, while now she has 81 mills
working up $50, 900 tons of it annually.
And finally we are told, and even the
letters seem to have sort Of cOnplacent
swagger as they tell it, that Georgia is
educating more colored children than
all the Christian missions Of the world
and paying $3.50, 900 a year for the pur-
pose. Well on second thoughts, Georgia
and the south have a right to be proud.
In all the buildings we read encour-
aging statements about this state and
her ueighbors. Last year, says one, the
United States worked up 2,319, 388 bales
Of cotton, of which the south got away
with 718, 515 bales, and Georgia was
surpassed only by North and South Caro-
lima. The world s consumption Of cotton
has doubled since 1870. and yet there
are still 600, 600. coo people who use on
an average less than three yards of cloth
each per aunum. SO the natural limit Of
profitable production cannot be set at
less than 5000, coo bales eve give
notice. says the enthusiast who pre-
sents these figures, that in the life Of
men now full grown we shall produce
fve-sixths of that cotton and work up
three-fourths Of our production in the
states where it is grown. -
If there is any difference in degrees
of enthusiasm, the promoters of sea is
land cotton are q little the most ardent.
They present specimens and arguments
to show that ere long they will have
much finer variety than in the boosted
golden ago before the war; that it can
be grown as far inland as 200 miles
from the sea, and, that with tho i'm
provements now ii process it will for
mixed goods go Ear to supersedo silk.
linen and ramie. In fact, the city Of
Valdosta, Ga, $50 miles from the sea,
is already the worlds greatest market
for sea island cotton. On the invitation
cf- the colored man in charge exam
med the machine for ginning and bag
giug this kind Of cotton, finding it radi-
cally different from the ordinary cotton
gin and heard his able explanation OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-17
SENTIMENT AND BL0oMERS.

Things ell seem to be awry,
Babies for their mothers cry,
Lovers for their sweethcarts sigh,
Angrily the fatherS fret and anne.
NaEght is as it csed to be,
Ev' rywhere we changes see,
Woman wants to be moro free,
All because the blooming boomers bloom
Many maidens out at night
Make most unseemly sight,
Give the horses all 4 fright
Is they quickly Oh the vision loom.
Out we wander bright and gay,
IN the gladstone light e day,
But we turn our head-eSway
vllen we see those blooming boomers bloom.
Out they stretch from side to side
TIL it cannot be denied
They appear full four feet wide,
Vet are scanty, one must tearfully assume.
Sad indeed the beauty's fate,
Quick her reign must terminate,
Hearts she cannot subjusate
When men see those blooming boomers
bloom.
Cupid s fairly crowded out,
Pushed aside beyond doubt
At his wilcs all lovers fout.
he himself must surely see his doom.
Sentiment IS going fast,
Grace belongs to times long past,
How can love 4 minute last
'Nhen one sees the blooming boomers b1oo-n2
Chicago Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-17

Now, when the weather is too cool for
lemonade, circus is coming to Saiina.
Charlie Lobdell has been buying some
voung cattle IN Iowa fer his ra1ch in
Lgne county.
An artist has opened up a studio in
Arkansas Citv. In Winfield this would
be- called an ateiier.
Tho Lawrence papers say the h. [.
football team has So far not played SO
much football as bawI baby
Cy Leland has not bsen heard from
for SO loag there is reason TO believe he
has even quit "cussing" Dawes.
Haskell county has had a $1,000 Jail
for ten years, which has had bat q. single
occupant over night, and he escaped.
This is the time of year when society
young people in Kansas towns &c, up
dancing clubs with restaurant French
names.
Commissioner Saxon of Pottawatomie
county has just returned from Scotland,
whore he sold d consig nment of horses at
gcOd prices.
1t is expected that when ". Y. Morgan
gets fairly settled on the Hutchinson
News tina, its nane will no longer be
misleading.
The first flock of wild geese this sea-
son passed over Wamego Sunday goiag
south. They probably hadn'i learned the
fight wasn't going TO be a. Dallas.
Some Of the bays at Douglass refuse t.
go to school at all. When they grow up
into untutored men they will coma to Tc-
peka and get on the board Of health.
Four of the candidates on the Frank
lin county Republican ticket are Meth
o3isIs, aud all are church mem bers. If
they age not eiecled they will be!ieve
there is no God.
Wichita Eagle: The young Eaglish-
men who were brought 10 Wichita TO
! locate. claim they have been deceived.
/ Among the other utensils they hrous at
along with them were several bear traps.
i Several Leoti town lots, which formed
/ q portion OF the assets OF Z Gefunct mort
gage company, were receafly sold at an
assiEnes's Fale, the proceeds to apply on
! final dividend. The lois brought thirty
! seven cents each, or three for 4l.l0-
Manhattan Nationalist: San.e have
charged thai il - race prejudice which
keeps President Cleveland iron taking Z
more active interest in the fate of the 60
cred prisoner. John Waller. The people
who make this charge forget the active
interest which Mr.. Cleveland took in tAe
fate of the colored LADY from Honolulu
In a letter from Lansing to the Doug
lass Tribune, it is said, that when war
dea Lynch transferred prisoners K
Hutchinson he took thirty five TO the
depot. and On the cars, without putting
them in irons or locking the car doors
H. told them that he had confidence il
them, and he would see how much they
had in him. Not one of them tried Il
escape. He allowed them to talk anC
have good time but not to leave thei
seats without permission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-17

He-Doubtless you have often been pro-
posed to.
She-Why! What makes you think that?
He-Moths will SINCE themselves in the
fame.
She-Do you fatter yourself that that is
original?
Ho-Oh, DO. It's merely quotation.
She-Sosnewhat trite.
He-Admitted. But, to start again at
the beginning.
She-Where else would you start?
Hc-I have kno7vn girls to start at tho
end OF a book. But, for q fresh start, did
it ever oseur to you what an excellent
place dinner table is for proposal?
She-No. Why?
He-Becausa it's impossible for the fair
one to fly. She must sit still and listen.
She-But the doctors prescribe light and
amusing conversation at meals.
He-Isn't it possible for q declaration of
love to fulfill the condition? I'm sure the
bonds of modern matrimony are often airy
enough.
Sho-After ell, it depends upon the peo-
pie, l suppose. Still, it must be difficult
to play at making love With the soup, and
Love himself must freeze il swallow Cd with
the ice.
Hc-Supposo VIC try.
She-Oh, 10, indeed, or really must ex-
cuso myself.
He-And leave me stranded, like the
last bit OF cake on the dish.
She-Don't you datter yourself in tie
sweet smile:
Ho-No We can imagine that it is an
uninvitipg bit perhaps q tri1c bitter.
She--And Stale and hard
Ho-No. Still soft enough to be nodded
into any form by beautiful fingers.
Shc-Mino would form it into pellet.
He (cagorly)-So you sould swallow it
mere easily?
She-No, indeed So it could roll away
and be lost more easily-Life.
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Banished From Roam.

"Hello!' called tho crossroads specter
IS a sheeted form went skurrying by.
The chest from the castle stopped and
clanked his chain.
ITS al up" he walled bitterly. Eve
quit
"Quitq" the crossroads specter ex-
claimed "What for? Anything wrong?"
"Wrong?" echoed the ghost from the
castle in a high key. what do you think
Of putting burglar alarms on every door
and window? 1 can't step Oh q rug or
brush against al iron bed without setting
40 bells TO ringing! What Kind Of a way
is that to DO? I'm sick of it, 1 tell you,
and I'm off
well, the crossroa.'s spocter said
thoughtfully, I'm join You.
''You?" the ghost from tho castle re-
turned in surprise. Il thought you had a
perfectly soft snap?"
SO 1 had" the spcctcr made reply,
"buU they surveyed an electric road through
here today and are going to run Ii every
night under broad glare. What sort of a
soft snap do you call that? I'm with you.
Wither thou ghost l will GO
So, joining hands, they struck out for a
new country, whilo over in the farmyard
the corkscrew Justify New York Re-
cOrGcr.
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THE SOUTH EXULTS.
Proud of the Material Prosperity
Shown at Atlanta.
EXPOSITION TEENS WITH EVIDENCES

OGSouthern Eascrprise and Progress.
Georgia Is Esp ciAliy in Evidence
Hoyv the Finished Fair Loo2s.
The Cotton States and International
exposition is in fairly good shape at last
and can be reviewed as q whole, criti-
cised in details and contrasted with
Chicago's marvellous exhibit Many of
the delays were hurtful to the exposi-
ton, as whole, and some of them We're
quite inezcpsable, proving that, despite
Atlanta's get up and push, she is still
not entirely freed from the old southern
habit Of putting things off till the fifty
ninth minute Of the eleventh hour.
First of all, it is to be noted that the
heat outdid anything ever known here
in September. Veterans of Chickamauga
tell NE they We're not half so hot in tie
battle as during the exhausting cere-
monies Of the dedication. Scores Of
people were Frustrated there, and few
here, and 1t is reported that there have
been few deaths. The oldest fact in
this line is that the Dahomeyans com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-17

times people cease to borrow money at
current rates because they see no oppor-
tunity of using it profitably. and the de
mands of those who borrow from neces-
sity. although larger than during an era
of prosperity, do not equal the supply,
and rates come down.
Every man who has passed through
periods of high interest rates and low in
terest rates, knows that there has al
ways been more business, more work,
better prices aud more general prosperi-
t. when interest rates were high than
when they were low. A man can better
afford to pay 12 per cen: for money for a
profitable Investment thau6 per cent for
money TO De used in questionable one,
and here is no other kind during an era
of falling prices such as The gold stand
ard has brought upon the country.
Interest rates ia England are lower
than elsewhere because there is more
money thsro for which there is no de-
.nand. Rates have fallen ia this country
because the gold standard has SO par
alEzed industries that there ia no field
open for profitable investment. From a
standpoint OF profitable returns interest
rates are higher ROW than waeu borrow
crs paid from / TO per cent per moath.
/ \ 4 certain sense Mr.. Aldredge's asser-
tion hat the gold standard has reduced
interest rates, is true, bus not in the vay
that he intended to be understood.
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INTEREST RATES.


The address delivered by George n.
Aldredge before the American Bankers
associa alton at Atlanta doubtless sounded
all right 10 lis audience, com posed large-
ly OF eastern bankers who know nothing
outside Of the routine OF their business,
but if it had been delivered in a Kansas
school house. before an audience of Kan
sas farmers and workingmen, he would
have been laughed at
The proposition that this government
should coin silver for the world in IN
limited amount at double its market value
is so repuqnant to the common sonss OF
mankind" said Mr.. Aldredge, that it
ought to be unnecessary TO discuss it,
And would be but for the fact that por-
ton of our people have been misled By
appeals to their prejudice and by tho
spacious reasoning of sophists."
OF course Mr.. Aldrdge knows that it is
not proposed to coin silver at double its
market value, but rather TO raise the
market value up to the coinage value.
Then again the appeals on behalf ef sill
yer have not been made 10 the prejudices
of the people, but instead they have
been made by their empty pockatbooks.
No silver standard country uses any
gold whatever, he says. Since the silver
standard countries are today the most
prosperous in the world, this is encour-
aging to those vino are hesitating in their
support oil free coinage on account of Il
fear that The Uaited States may so 10 =
silver standard.
If there is anything banker ought to
up1erstand it 5 the question OF in.erast,
go the manner in which BIr- Aldredge
treats that matter can be explained in 10
other way, except on the ground Of in
sincerity. lie said:
"Interes' has declined since 1912 in my
part of the country from Per cent per
month to and per cent per anaum.
There il no denying the fact that the
gcldbu-s did that The south and west
have saved more on the decline of inter
est han they have lost in the decline in
wheat aud cottoa."
"Interest is always low under an hon
est standard, among an honest people,
where money is plentiful. It ia lower in
London than in any other spot on the
globe, because her standard is stable and
her commercial integrity has been the
care of her statesmen and her people foi
ages past"
Now it is we'll known to bankers and
every body else who has been at the
pains to give the matter any considcra
ton, that rates of interest do not depend
to any great extent on any of the causes
alluded to above. Rates of interest ara
high or low, in accordance with the op
portunities for profitable investment
Those who own and control the surplus
money Of the country make the rates
Just about what the people can for II
pay, or a little above. In prosperou;
times rates advance because people Dor
row money at current rates, believing
that they can use it proftably. In dull
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DOES anybody suppose that the pun
ishment Of Wes;fau at this late date will
fend 70 prevent Others FROM following in
his footsteps: VIII it make Westfali
any better man than he is? Does any
body believe that he would have bsen
more likely TO do i, again if he'had not
gone 20 the peni:eniiary than he will be
when he comes Gu: Assuming that all
these queries are answered IN the Mega
tive, taen what IS IL fo-?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-17

Conversation between two charming hi
cyclists on Plymouth avenue last evening:
A-audc-I cau't get him TO propose.
Amy-Havo you tried everything?
Maudc-I think SO.
Amy-Hava you let him see you fall of
your bicycle: That's usually q cIinchcr.
AIaudo-Thanks! I'll Try it.-Union
and Advertiser.
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Marketable, Possibly.

Hopsekeeper-Warta any old newspapers?
Junknan-No. Newspa pcrs all made
O. rags any more. Made O. wood pulp
Housekeeper-Isn't wood pulp no use?
Junkman-Guess not, but dump 'cl@
on. If they happen to be made o maple
wood. maybe / can sell ON at & maple
strip factory Now York Weekly.