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The herald., 1896-09-20
PIECE OF HARD TACK FROM BULL
RUN.

DR.. c. F. Rand of this city treasures a
piece of hard tack which was issued to
him on the morning of the battle of Bull
Run thirty-five years ago, the battle
having been fought July 81, 1861. AS
that battle was impending when DR..
(then private) Rand received his ration,
it occurred to him to mail piece of hard
tack to his mother at home, as a sample
of the food the army was expected to go
into battle on. He gave the package to
a correspondent Of the New York Times,
whose name he has forgotten, to be
mailed
DR.. Rand heard nothing from the piece
Of hard tack, and the incident passed en-
tirely from his memory. In 1880, nineteen
years after Bull Run. DR.. Rand's mother
died. Among her effects was found the
piece of hard tack, wrapped in a paper,
on which she had written the story of
the contents She had preserved it as
carefully as If her boy had died in battle
just after sending it.
Thus the morsel of army bread, three
inches square and about as thick as two
ordinary crackers, reverted back to the
son. A few days ago, while in Chicago,
mento of Bull Run to a New York friend
and at the latter's request broke off a
piece and gave it to him. With this ex-
ception, the hard tack looks just as it
did when issued to the soldier boy, who
was thinking of his mother. 1t shows no
signs of decay or deterioration, and
doubtless will Withstand the effects of
time for many years to come. DR.. Rand
claims to be the possessor Of the Oldest
piece of sound bread in existence
WASHINGTON Post
The herald., 1896-09-20

The chairman Of the executive COM
mittee of the association is Mr.. T. ].
Quinn, whose headquarters are at Train
or's hotel in this city.
A novelette, by Richard Wagner. the
great musical composer, entitled A Pill
grimage to Beethoven, is announced
to begin with No. 40 of The Open Court.
1t is a sketch of great literary power and
depth of thought. full of humor and va
ried artistic interest In his fictitious dis
cussion with Beethoven, Wagner seeks
to support by the great authority of the
master his own new and peculiar theo-
ries of dramatic music, the arguments
for which he has probably presented
here in better form than anywhere else.
The picture of Beethoven. too. is finely
drawn. This novel has never appeared
in English before.
The Academy says that Mr. J. Il. G.
Bodley has been at work for the last six
years on study of France which is in
tended to be for that country what Mr..
Bryces American Commonwealth has
proved for our own, and that the first
volume may be expected the coming au-
tumn. 1t will deal with the revolution
and modern France, the constitution
the legislature and the administrative
and judicial departments
Mr.. David A. Munro who has for so
long been associated with Gen. Lloyd
Bryce in the management of The North
American Review, has now become the
chief owner as well as the editor of that
venerable and valuable periodical. Gen.
Bryce has sold out his interest to a
stock company. of which Mr.. Munro is
the largest shareholder.
AFTER many postponements 1t is said
to be definitely settled that Mr.. Rud-
yard Kiplings new collection of Bar
rack-room Ballads will be published in
October. He is understood to have re-
written most of those which have al
ready appeared. and to have added
others, principally of nautical charac-
ter.
The Century Co. has just issued a new
edition of the pamphlet Cheap Money,
containing the various brief articles
which have appeared in The Century.
giving history of many of the cheap
money. experiments which have been
made In this and other countries.
Mr. Edmund Gosse will have ready by
the autumn the first of the series of his
tories of the Literature of the World
which he is editing for Mr. Heinemann
in England and Messrs. Appleton in
America. This is a really important ven
ture, and one which will be watched
with interest upon both sides of the At
lantic
Mr. du Maurier has done daring
thing in his new novel, The Marian. He
has made his heroine an unseen person,
In fact she is The MartiaE, and, while
she does not appear in the story, she
plays the most important part in it.
The herald., 1896-09-20

Barney Barnato is said to have silk
producing enterprise at the cape under
consideration.
The herald., 1896-09-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I must not think of thee; and, tired yet
strong,
I shun the thought that turks in all de-
light
The thought of .hee-and in the blue
Heavens height.
And the sweetest passage of song.
Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that
throng
This breast. the thought of thee waits,
hidden yet bright;
But it must never, never come in sight;
must stop short of thee the whole day
long.
But when sleep comes to close each diff
cult day,
When night pives pause to the long watch
I keep,
And all my bonds needs must loose apart
Must doff my will as raiment laid away,
With the first dream that comes with the
first sleep
1 run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
Alice Meynell.
Try our port and sherry wines at rs
m ~
The herald., 1896-09-20

Try our port and sherry wines at rs
cents per gallon. T. Vache & Co., Com
mercial and Alameda streets. Tele-
phone 800.
The herald., 1896-09-20
AUGUST BOOK SALES.

Ao0oOL DUN BALES.
The sales of books in the great easterp
markets have been very small DURING
the late summer. The publishers have
been simply holding on, knowing thai
not even advertising and push could
help them out at present
A few new publications on the finan-
cial question have sold largely. and some
OF the cheaper eoitlonIof o. works. but
outside of these there has Been unusual
dullness. A New York letter has this
to say of the August trade:
1.-THE general excitement and uncer-
tainty in regard to the currency has nat
urally affected trade, particularly in
the west, from which section returning
salesmen report small and unsatisfac-
tory sales, claiming that buyers decline
70 purchase until the matter is definitely
ettled ana positive assurances of steady
business are IN prospect.
The Noticeable decrease In this sea-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

"Man you sent TO fx that range Of
our'n a poet?" asked rural looking
customer of the proprietor Of a down
town plumbing establishment.
"l-I-really. I don't know" re-
sponded the startled proprietor, with a
look of sober inquiry.
= 'Tain't as got anything particular
agin poets," explained the customer
suavely as he took a chair and cleared
his throat, "but I've hearn tell of folks
nIisS:n their vocations-them as ought
to be hoein petaters and huskin corn
gittin into pulpits and lawyers offices,
for instance. Course I amt sayin as I
reelly seen any of your young mans
poetry. / jest sort of s'picioned leetle
that he mought be one of them kind,
'cause that there range won't draw or
bake since he tinkered with il. Poets
may be all right enough in their place,
and | reckon there's hicks in the world
for every sort, but when a cookin range
is cut of gear one wants a plumber. -
New York Sun.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20
PERCENTAGE OF POOR EYES.
Only One Person In Fifteen Has Bot
Eyes In Good Condition.

Only One Person In Fifteen Has Both
Eyes In Good Condition.
Only one person in % has both ewes
in good condition, and in cases ont of
10 one eye, generally the right. is
stronger than the other. 1t is found
that Just as people are right or left
handed so they are right or left sight
ed, and while apparently looking with
both eyes they often really use only one.
Out of 90 persons whose eyes were test
ed ly German doctor two only were
found to be left sighted.
Tire reason of the greater strength
generally possessed by the right eye is
NOT altogether understood, hut probably
the natural tendency to the greater use
Of The right side Of the body has some-
thing to do with il. In using weapons,
for instance, mankind has been taught
to assume for ages attitudes in which
the right hand and side have most exer-
else. and this discipline has undoubted-
ly had its effect on the eye.
Oid sea captains after long use of the
telescope find their right eyes much
stranger than the left-the direct effect
of exercise. This law is confirmed bv
the experience of aurists If a person
who has ears of equal hearing power
has cause to use one ear more than the
other for long period, the ear brought
into requisition is found to be strength
ened and the ear not used loses its hear
ing in a corresponding degree. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20
A SUNBEAM BROKE A BANK.
The Faro Dealer Thought Its End Wmm On
White Check.


THAT piece in your paper bout the
guy that cleaned mp the faro banks out
in Seattle" unused Bettam High, the
Chicago gambler. as he told the waiter
TO bring On three fer a hal, !" "ain't
in it with my personal experience. This
was ont i'll Cripple Greek when the
boom was way up an a good play
agin right bank. see, was with more
To the banker than split in the best
claim you cCuld git if they broke even.
Do you know Eaten Up Jakef That
wasn't his name of course, but the gang
give him the handle cause he could
chew so fast, see? Well, Eaten Up got
hold of a piece of money in Chicago
he win ont a roll off n short money, see,
All he goes off TO Cripple Greek an starts
to dealin. De lay out was in a little
frame, pine board joint bouts big's a
dry goods box. Jake gets good play,
you know-took a minute to settle after
every turn, see: But didn't tell you
bout the knothole. You see, there's a
knothole in a board right back of the
dealer. Jake, he's in the lookout chair.
see: Jake don't have no clock there,
see, SO nobody minds the daylight, only
it makes the dealer a little sleepy, an
Jake. he's kinda dopy.
well, there's "a tin horn from over
in another joint-a 7lugger in the stud
game, see? He blows in an buys two
red checks, waits fer cases, fergits the
copper one play an gets whipsawed.
Eee-loses both bets. Then he buys half
a stack of whites an keeps the seat,
playing mostly cases. He keeps his
ci acks in his hands, AN Jake don't keep
c. ases ON him. Well, he goes broke, but
J. ke doesn't know it.
The jacks a case, see, an the sun
lights coming through the knothole
over the Dealers shoulder, hits the Jack
right in the center, an it looks like
white check. The jack wins. Dealer
pays white check ON the jack Tin
horn pushes the sleeper over between
the queen an the king, an it wins
again, see? An, ON the level, the guy
win and win, IN nothin can stop him.
Five deals afterward he has the check
rack out, an Jack says:
. / can't deal fer you no more. Me
roll is gone
Next day ! stake Jake in the poker
game an tell him how it happened, an
ne says:
Well, watyetink of thatf Wouldn't
that skin you? I've heerd of guys win
ming out de bank roll off n eat money,
but never heard of winning out on a
shadder. '''-Elmira Telegram.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20
IDEAL.

Thou doth not know the sweet influence thy
presence brings.
Ne thinks words from thy lips are like when
an angel sings;
I almost see your soul linger In your beauti-
full eyes
As IL it were trying to escape and break the
golden ties
That bind IL still so close to this mundane
sphere.
Sometimes 1 fear you are unconsiously
breaking the chain
That binds my heart, SO your image there
can reign;
Only with mighty effort exert my strength
for / mustn't love,
Only God must worship that is enthroned
hight above
For to worship a mortal would bring only
despair.
My soul prompts me to think that some
where have a spirit mate,
That all through eternity can love and
never hate,
That our souls will be knit together as
through heaven welny
Listening TO the music of the spheres and
viewing the beauties on high;
Oh will ever meet her during the journey
of this life7
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20
EFFECTS OF LOW POSTAL
RATES.

There is most important fca-
ture directly connected with the
reduction of letter postage which
thus far has not received the at
tention which its Importance war
rants. This is the effect which
one cent letter postage per half
ounce would have III stimulating
new business.
Newspaper publishers appreciate
the stimulus which cheaper facili-
ties furnish III suggesting new ideas
and plans for the development of
business. This is also well known
to the wide awake merchant, but
it is perhaps not so clear to pro-
fessional men and to those who are
not aggressive in extending their
business but when official statis-
ties are referred to. it will be seen
that in 1884 when letter postage
was reduced 33 13 per cent, the
reduction in the revenue for that
|. year amounted to only four per
cent, while six years later the
revenue had grown 33 1-3 per
cent. larger than during the last
year under the higher rate. This
illustrates the remarkably enter
prising propensity of the American
people to promptly increase their
use of facilities when the cost is
cheapened. In the light of past
experience, it is safe to predict that
in very short time, the revenue
from one cent letter postage per
half ounce will exceed the present
revenue at the existing rate; but
il you want one cent letter postage,
the only way to get it is to write
to your congressman and senators,
also to Hon. Thos. B. Reed,
speaker of the house, urging them
to promptly pass the one cent let
ter postage bill now before con-
press
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

j. l.. Toole wat once entertained by n
party of Edinburgh gentlemen at din
ner. After the cloth was removed a lit
tie sociability was indulged in, and Mr..
TOole was asked to give a recitation.
This the veteran comedian sternly de-
clined to do. A worthy baillie, whose
knowledge of things theatrical was
somewhat primitive. approached Toole,
patted him on the back and said in a
fatherly way: Come AVA, my man /;
dinna be bashfu'. We're 70 i'll to
please. ''-Household Words.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20
IMPATIENcE does not hurry ,

IMPATIENCE does not hurry up
matters congressional, but we
would certainly breathe easier if
our national law makers would
condescend to do their do with the
Dawes bill. If it is to become the
law the people need it now and if
it is to be indefinitely sidetracked
they have a right to know it with
out DELAY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

THE address of Hon. Henry NJ.
Furman to the senate judiciary
committee which appeared in the
ARDMOREITE yesterday is an able
exposition of the rights of the peo-
pie of the Indian territory. Its
logic is convincing Its deductions a
fair statement of the situation and
its arguments unanswerable.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

What nasty smell burned powder
has!'' said Johnny.
"Powder:" exclaimed his elder sis
ter. Miss Maud. looking up. why, it
hasn't any srn-oh, yon mean gunpow-
der ="
And she turned n lovely, creamy
shade Of vermilion and became ab.
sOrbed in her fashion magazine again.
Tribune.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

The ARDMOREITE like Mr.. Fur
man. believes the courts of the In
dian territory are capable of exer-
cising full jurisdiction or else they
are incapable of any part of il. In
other words give US all or none.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

Sss AndL
BEN F. GARRISON, NJ. d.
ONCE: over Ramsey & Ross
Drug Store. ONCE hours from to
10 a. m, and from to4p m.
Residence on West Main street,
Ardmore, 1. T.
r. II. ALvIS, NJ. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Diseases of Women, Genito-
Urinary and Rectal Surgery.
Oflce: Over Frensley Building,
rooms and 8, corner Mill and Main
street. Leave calls at Office or at
Ramsey & Ross Drug Store.
\. J. woiverton- Jerome c. MeNees-
DRs. woLvERToN & McNEEs,
Ardmore, I. T.
oHice-Up stairs in Hardy Build
ing.
J. W. SMITH, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office over City Drug Store, Ard
more, I. T.
LEDBETTER s BLEDsoE,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
oFFIcK:--In Ledbetter a Bledsoe
Building, Main Street, Opposite
Post ONCE.
DICK & BROWN,
ATToRNEYs-AT-LAw.
ofice-Masonic building, over First
National Bank, Ardmore, I. T.
n. c. POTTERY. WE. BOWMAN.
PoTTERF & BOWMAN,
ATToRNEY-AT-LAw.
Notary in ofiice. wnlpractice
in all Federal and State courts.
ohice-Up stairs in the Hardy
building, Ardmore Ind. Ter.
GEO. 4. CURTIS, R.H. KELLEY,
CURTIS & KELLEY,
ATToRSEYs-AT-LAw.
Will practice in all courts in the
Indian Territory and elsewhere.
once in Herbert & Lewis building.
Ardmore, /. It.
Herr N. Furman. CT Herbert.
FURMAN & HERBERT,
ATToRNEYs-AT-LAw.
ofice-Herbert & Lewis building
Ardmore, I. T.
r. u. BARRY,
ATToRNEY-AT-LAw.
Ohice-In the Ledbetter a. Bledsoe
building, Ardmore, /. T.
MORAN SCOTT,
ATTORN NEY-AT-LAW
Practices in all the courts OF the
Indian Tearitory.
Office: In Frensley building, cor
ner Main and Mill street, Ardmore,
Ind. Ter.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-03-20

Finest fishing tackle in Aadmore,
Al. nj. YRrbrough IL Co. 1S1wk
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-06-18
A SUGGESTION.

An excellent plan, worthy of imita-
tion In our Wilmington Library. is
that pursued by young lady in charge
OF the newspaper files in public
library In the West. Feeling that
much valuable information was lost
when every month these files were
destroyed, she began clipping from
them every item that had more thnn
transient interest, marked upon il the
name OF the paper from which it was
taken and the date of it's appearance.
She then classified these clippings &C;
cording to their subjects and placed
them in large book shaped, cardboard
envelopes, marking them alphabetically
on the back and ranged them on
shelves. This idea is capable of In
definite expansion. The ordinary reader
often fails TO note the beginning of
what may prove important news For
instance, an apparently unimportant
controversy between two countries
ripens at last into war. or rumor of
war about which every one is talking,
but Of which not one in hundred can
tell Just what was the origin. BY
turning, for example, TO Armenia the
reader might learn the causes which
led to the outragos there and the
opinions of the world at large upon
them, for each paper culled from, has
also gathered OF the best and pithiest
from journals all over tho world, and
from every point of view.
There is an interest, too, in reading
the report given of an event when it
happened, by the light of subsequent
knowledge. The best of the fugitive
poems might be collected without MAX
ing an overwhelming amount, as the
number of these that have real value.
and have not been already published
in book form by their authors, is com
paratively small These might be placed
with the prose articles ON the same
subjects, to enliven them.
Much discretion would be needed by
the person making these selections. in
order to judge what was of real value,
but the collection could easily be
weeded from time to time The work
would give liberal education to the
one undertaking it and form store
house of information to those who
made use of it. An assortment of the
brightest newspaper jokes might be a
boon to the diner-out, or of puzzles,
| games. &C., to one contelnr lating an
evening entertainment. The children
could be remembered in suggestive
descriptions of Halloween games oil
Easter or Christmas festivities. The
envelopes might have leaves like an
ACCORDION file, to contain subdivisions
of subject. Under Biography
would come biographical sketches,
anecdotes and notices of eminent men,
whose names have not yet crystalized
into history, and therefore cannot be
found in any encyclopedia. These
might be mounted, and when possible,
as it usually is, the sketch be headed
by portrait
The Western library or department
similar to this is found useful by tbs
local editors, when death, or some Other
occurrence suddenly brings these men
before the public, and nowhere else
can SO quickly be found material for a
sketch, accompanied by cut.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-06-18
Holiness Cnmpmeeting.

The annual campmeeting of the Holt
ness Christian Association will be held
at Twin Oaks, Delaware county, Pa,
on the b. & o. railroad, commencing
juno oath and closing July 9th. The
following preachers will be presents
Tho Revs. +. L. Hyde, q. W. Ruth, II.
j. ID. Pepper, Andrew Dolbow, j. Rcd
graves, b. w. Fow, j. +. Meredith.
George Powell and others, Good board
and lodging win bv provided at reason
able terms. Tho B. & o. Railroad Co.
will sell return tickets, good for the
entire season. Between 40 and 80
canvas family tents will be erected,
besides the big tabernacle and tho
restaurant. Everybody is cordially in
vited tu attend. The Rev. Harry
Peters Of this city will participate in
the exercises.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-06-18
AfThR CARs AND RoArs.
Park Superintendent Leiseu Has Dlstir
ruished Gncst Ernm SnnIh Americn.


Park Superintendent Leiseu Has DIstin-
guished Guest From souih America.
Francisco Javier Cisneros, civil engi-
neer, owner of two railroads In South
America, prominent participant in
the last Cuban war. and cousin of Cis-
neros Betaucourt, who is the president
of tho Cuban republic, was in Will,
mington for about two hours Wednes-
day afternoon. He is interested in a
scheme to float a popular loan for
Cuba. He was in Wilmington in re-
gard to cars for his South American
railroads, as we'll as boats and other
materials. His railroads are in Colon
ba. In company with Theodore Leisen,
park engineer. who was in Colombia
from 1888 to 1890, where he laid out a
railroad for Cisneros, the visitor called
at the works of the jackson & Sharp
Go. and the Pusey & Jones Go.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-06-18
A DELISHrfUL TRLp.
An Enioyabie Tiae on til" River Given

An Enjoyabie Ride on tha River Given by
Col. and SIrs. "A. q. McCsusinnd.
An altogether successful barge and
bicycle party was given by Col. and
Mrs. A. g. MeCaus!and to Delaware
CITY Thursday. The party, which
included about 200 people, left this
city in two sections, the bicyclistB
making the run on their wheels, and
the remainder of the crowd going on
the barge Recreation and tug Laura L.
The start was made from this city after
o'clock and New Castle was reached
by both sections of the crowd an hour
or 30 later Tho heyclists were waiting
on the wharf when the Laura u. arrived
and greetings were exchanged between
the land and water detachments.
After stop of several minutes during
which the wheelmen and wheelwomen
were refreshed with ice water from the
barge, the parties again separated to
meet again at their destination. On
the barge the trip was enlivened with
dancing and the everready humor of
Col. Enoch Moore and William Lawton.
The bicyclists made the run from New
| Castle to Delaware City at an easy
pace and arrived at the canal town
without many mishaps. The women of
the party did themselves proud and
| finished in good trim. The hargites
reached Delaware City first and landed
| to await the coming of the wheelites.
| William Lawton assumed command of
an ancient vehicle on the wharf and
carried some members of the party up
| the main street.
After wait of some 20 minutes or
SO the first arrivals from the bicycle
| party appeared in the persons of Will
| liam S. Hilles and Howard i. Pyle on
tandem. The popular and gallant
| Mr.. Hillns was summery figure IN his
white duck trousers, light coat and
white cap These two members of the
Wilmington Opera Club were greeted
with loud cheers as they sped down
House, They had left the others far
behind. After another wait an occa-
sional rider appeared, and finally the
remainder of the crowd, about 80 in
all, rode into town in a body. 1t was
very enlivening sight. Without much
delay bargites and wheelites all boarded
the boats and, as one crowd, returned
up the Delaware. Supper was served
soon after leaving Delaware City. and
sandwiches. coffee, cake and ice cream
disappeared with a speed that spoke oi
good appetites. Dancing was again
begun after supper, and continued with
intermissions. Members of the Opera
Club sang selections from Patience
TO the pleasure of the party. The Laura
b. steamed up the river AS far as Clay
mont and thence returned to the King
street wharf, whore the party, after Civ
ing three cheers for Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Causland. landed about 10. 30 O'clock