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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
A Cheerful Liar.

"When 1 was out among the hills Of
northern India" said the major, 81 had
an experience that 1 wonder didn't turn
my hair gray. was camped all alone
on the side of that historic stream and
had occasion to 90 for some water to
boil my beans in. First thing / knew
stepped right into quicksand. l knew
what was up at once and knew that I
was gone. And am willing to admit
that l was frightened.
''In fact, that is how came to es-
cape. AS / stood there with that hcrri-
BILE sand dragging, dragging at me like
some living monster, turned colder
and colder. Do what could my teeth
would keep on chattering. though I
know that every vibration of my jaw
was shaking me farther down into that
ready made grave. And 1 grew colder
and colder. Suddenly 1 noticed that 1
had stopped sinking"
''Struck bottom, eh?"
Certainly not. l had grown so cold
from horror and fear-I may as we'll
admit it-that actually froze the water
in the quicksand frozen the whole bust
ness, sir Pearson Weekly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
PURELY Personal.
Prominent GOcrs and Corners as Caught
on the Wing by the Reporter
for the ArdmOreite.

Major Glenn came up from
Gainesville today.
Buck Paul, Of Pauls Valley,
is in the city today.
w. B. Freeman returned to-
day from a trip to Texas.
Mike Sneed was among the
arrivals III our city today.
Miss Minnie Smith is report
ed quite i'll at herhome on South
Court street.
E. L. Bozarth, who returned
yesterday from Abilene, Texas,
lett today for Wynnewood.
W. Y. Chitwood of Dougher-
ty remembered the ARDMOREITE
with New Years gift fnan-
cially.
Presiding Elder G. f. Roberts
left today for Mannsvjlle. where
he will commune with those of
the NJ. E. faith.
Deputy w. G. Everheart is
in the city on his return from
Sherman, where he has been
spending few days with his
family.
Mrs. l.. G.. Young and little
son left this morning for Liber-
ty, Ark, her old home, to visit
her father AID mother. She
will be absent a month or more.
A. S. Bassett, of Bassett &
Son of the Springdale nursery
near Gainesville, Tex, is in the
city and was a pleasant caller
at the ARDMOREITE office.
Walter Jones, for a long time
in the employ of the Wells
Fargo people, now attending
school at Emporia, Kas. played
hockey" long enough to run
down here and attend the nup-
tials Of his sister, Miss Lena.
Attend the mass meeting to-
morrow night.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
A TRIBUTE TO ART.
The Maid OF NIfesia and the Beautiful
Venus de Medici.

The Maid OF NITesia and the Beautiful
Venus de Medici.
Somewhere in Washington - just
where is not necessary to the main point
at issue in this short article ON the de-
velopment and undevelopment of art in
the national capital-is a mansion pi =
sided over by n woman Of wealth and
refinement. She is most artistic wom-
an, too, and in her house are some un-
usually fine pieces Of painting and stat
uary. There is also Milesisn maid, by
name Maggie, who knows 4 deal more
about houseoleaning than she does about
sculpture, and Maggie has been trying
for long time to cultivate her taste up
to the point of properly appreciating the
painted and carved beauty with which
she daily comes in contact.
Not many days ago the mistress and
the maid were going over the house with
brush and broom, putting it in especial
order for musicale that was to be given
to q few artists and fashionables, and
the mistress observed that the maid on
three several occasions passed by with
cold neglect of cloth and brush beau
tiful figure of the Venus de Medioi."
in an alcove just off the hall.
Here. Maggier' she called. "Why
don't you brush the dust Off this figure:"
(Which m, mem?' inquired Mag
gle with great innocence.
1.-The Venus there in the alcove, of
course. See''-and the lady touched it
with her finger-''you have left dust all
over it. -
"Yis. men," confessed Maggie. but
I do be thinking for long time, mem.
that there aht to be something ON il,
mem.
1t was delightful and logical excuse,
perhaps, but the lady could scarcely az
cept it, and Maggie's brush remove
even the dusty drapery she wished to
leave. Washington Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
rhe Mosaic Age HIgh1y LIterary.

at first the Tel el-Amarna tablets
were declared to be fOrgeries, and Renan
gave expression to the Critical skep-
ticism on the subject in his annual ad-
dress on oriental discovery. Very soon,
however, the most stout hearted cham
pion of the illiteracy of the ancient east
was obliged to yield, and the ''critics"
were forced to admit that ON this point,
at all events, they had been in the
wrong. But it was with n bad grace
that the ADHESION was made, for 1t did
not require much penetration to see that
the discovery deprived them Of what
may term their base of operations. just
as VOLTS skepticism in regard to the
age and authorship of Homer rested en-
his belief in the late date of the use of
writing for literary purposes in Greece,
so the really strong argument of the
'critics" against the Mosaic age AID
authorship of the Pentateuch was that
neither Moses nor his contemporaries
could read or write. The Tel el-Amarna
tablets have come to upset this supposed
fact and to show that the Mosaic age
was highly literary one. 1t is amusing
to watch the undisguised reluctance
with which the 'critics" have swallow
ed the unpalatable fact that, after all,
Moses could have written the Israelitish
law. w.-Contemporary Review.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
A Household NeceaaitY.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the
most wonderful medical discovery
of the age, pleasant and refreshing
to the taste, act gently and posi-
lively on kidneys, liver and bow
els, cleansing the entire system
dispel colds, cure headache, fever,
habitual constipation and bilious
ness. Please buy and try a box
of c. c. c. today; 10, %. 80 cents.
Sold and guaranteed to cure by all
druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
JUST A BOY.
Laurence Hutt0n's "Reminiscences OF His
Juvenile Life In New York.

Laurence Hutton's "Reminiscences OF His
Juvenile Life In New York.
He was not very good boy or a very
bad boy or very bright boy "a an un-
usual boy in any way. He was just q
boy, and very often he forgets that he
is not boy now. Whatever there may
be about the boy that is commendable
he owes to his father and to his mother,
and he feels that he should not be held
responsible for it.
His mother was the most generous
and the most unseliish of human beings.
She was always thinking Of somebody
else-always doing for others. To her
it was blessed to give, and il was not
very pleasant to receive. When she
bought anything, the boys stereotyped
query was, "Who is to have it?'' When
anything was bought for her, her own
invariable remark was, "What on earth
shall 1 do with it?" When the boy came
to her one summer morning, she looked
upon him as a gift from heaven, and
when she was told that it was a boy,
and not bad looking or a bad condi-
toned boy, her first words were, What
ON earth shall do with it?'
She found plenty 'to do with it, be-
fore she got through with it, more than
40 years afterward, and the boy has ev.
cry reason 10 believe that she never re-
gretted the gift. Indeed, she once told
him, late in her life, that he had never
made her cry. What better bened' zion
can a boy have than that?
The boy was redheaded and long
nosed even from the beginning-a shy,
dreaming, self conscious title boy,
made peculiarly familiar Win his per-
sonal defects by the constant remarks to
the effect that his hair was red aud that
his nose was long. At school for years
he was known familiarly as Rufus, F"
"Redhead, Carrot Top" or "Nosy. "
His mother, married at 10, was the
eldest of family of nine children, and
many of the boys aunts and uncles were
| but few years his senior and were his
daily and liliar companions. he was
the only member Of his own generation
for long time, and there was a con-
stant fear upon the part of the elders
| that he was likely to be spoiled, and
consequently he was never praised nor
petted nor coddled. He was always fall
ing down or dropping things. He was al
ways gettiI into the way, and he could
not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher
at all. He was never in his mother s
way, however, and no was never made
to feel so.
But nobody except the boy knows OF
the agony which the rest Of the family,
unconsciously and with no thought OF
hurting his feelings, caused him by
the fun they poked at his nose, at his
fiery locks and at his unhandiness. lie
fancied that passersby pitied him as hc
walked or played in the streets, and he
sincerely pitied himself as youth des-
tined to grow up into ON awkward, tact
less. stupid man, at whom the world
would laugh so long as his life lasted.
"A Boy l Knew" by Laurence Hut
ton, in st. Nicholas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
NOTICE.

. All persons are hereby notifie
that letters of administration upon
the estate OF ID. ID. Flow, deceased,
have been granted to the undersign-
ed, by the United States court for
the Southern District ut Ardmore,
and all persons holding claims or
debts against the said estate are
warned and notified to present all
such claims and debts to me, properly
authenticated within one year from
the date hereof, or they may be pre-
cluded from any benefit in said
estate, and if such claims be not
exhibited within two years from the
date hereof, they shall be forever
barred and precluded from any bene-
fit from such estate. Witness my
hand this Dec. 10, 1896
FANNIE T.. FLOW,
Administrative of estate of ID. ID.
Flow, deceased. dec 16-tfeb /
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
M'CCuLLAGGH IS DEAD,
Editorial Head of the St. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat Meets
Tragic End.
FELL FROM A WINDOW
And Crushed Ills Head on the Pave
mcnt-Iias Been n Sufferer from
Asthma for a Long Time.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 31.-Mr.
Joseph B. McCullagh, editor of
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat
anl one of the best known
newspaper men in the country,
is dead as the result of a fall of
twenty-five feet from Il second
story window of his apartments
at the residence Of his sister-in-
law, Mrs. Kate Manion, at 1881
West Pine boulevard.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Will Pay Up.

Messrs. l.. Wilson, S. NJ. Gill
bra and G. Bruno, trustees of
the colored NJ. E. church of
Ardmore, Announce that they
will settle in full the claim sued
for by Mr.. c. l.. Byrnes due
that gentleman, and that the
suit has been withdrawn. This
account contracted by former
attache of the church, since re-
moved, beng a debt of honor.
will not be repudiated by our
congregation.
Respectfully,
l.. WILSON,
S. NJ. GILBRA,
G.. Bruno.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
There Is Nothing so Good.

There is nothing just as coed IS
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, so de-
maDd it and do not permit the dealer
to sell you some substitute. He will
not claim there is anything better,
but in order to make mole profit he
may claim something else to be just
as good. You want DIR. Kings New
Discovery because you know it to be
safe and reliable, and guaranteed TO
do good or money refunded. For
Coughs, Colds, Consumption and for
all affections of Throat, Chest and
Lungs, there is nothing so good as is
DR.. Kings New Discovery. Trial
bottle free ut Frame, Green * Co.'S
Drug Store. Regular size sc cents
and slOO.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
His Grandmother.

A gentleman once asked Uncle Daniel,
a droll character in a New England viii
lage, if he could remember his grant,
mother. 81 guess 1 can" said Uncle
Daniel. but only as / saw her once.
Father had been away all day, and
when he came home he found had failed
to do something he expected of me. he
caught up a rough apple tree limb and
walked up to me with it. Grandmother
appeared on the doorstep with a small.
straight stick in her hand, and instantly
handed il to my father Here, Joe,
said she, lick Daniel with q smooth
stick And he did. Who wouldn't { re-
member such a grandmother as that?"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Jail Notes.

William Howell was released
on bond. He is charged with
larceny of cattle.
Gillian Keith, who was ar
rested near Keller by Deputy
Booker, charged with theft of
$S4 cash, is now behind the bars.
He Rthinks he is very badly
treated, for he says he is not
guilty. Some other authority,
however, will have a say in the
matter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Saw Through It

Package. sir, said the agent as Mr.
Sharp came to the door. There is o.
express charges on il. -
BE kind enough to wait a moment. -
said Mr.. Sharp as he disappeared in
doors. Presently he returned. "Just a..
low me to throw this X ray on that pack
age, please.
The telltale light revealed three
bricks carefully done up in raw cotton,
and, unopened. they were returned
the would be joker marked Refused. =
Washington Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Cheerful People.

One is always refreshed by the pres
ence of cheerful people. The thought
ought to teach US a salutary lesson to
be always cheerful ourselves. The
CHEEKY person, who has a pleasant smile
for all, a genial word for every ac-
quaintance, happy expression for the
world, is the person whose companion
ship is sought, whose presence is indis-
pensable at party or dinner and whose
absence is always noted
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Dropping the III

The fine old English custom Of dis
carding the initial ''h' is said to be go
ing out of use. Some writers are in
dulging in "reminiscences of men to
whose conversation it gave picturesque
ness.
At the celebrated election in 1855, at
which Mr.. Gladstone lost his seat for
Oxford university, his opponent was
Mr.. Hardy. The practice then-and,
for aught to the contrary, it may be so
still at a contested election-was for
each elector to record his vote by word
of mouth before tellers for each party
sitting in the convocation house or some
other suitable place Of meeting. The
late Professor Henry Smith was acting
as teller for Mr.. Gladstone. when an
uncouth country parson entered, and to
the usual question for whom he wished
to record his vote replied in confusion,
81 vote for Mr.. Glad-I mean for
'Ardy." 81 claim that vote," quietly
put in Pre- fessor Henry Smith. "No,
no, protested the old clergyman, 81 did
not finish the name. " "You didn't even
begin the other" was the professor s
dry retort-
A story is told of an eminent legal
practitioner who was afflicted with a
similar difficulty in pronouncing his
aspirates many years ago. He had a
particular dislike to late learned lord
chancellor who had published a book
upon hymns. Upon seeing his rival en-
ter the court on one occasion he was
heard to mutter, "Ere e comes, 'um-
ming ms 'ymns; 'oly old 'umbug, 'ow
/ do ate 'imp'-New York Journal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Stockholders, Meeting.

The annual meeting of the
-tockholders of the City Ma
;ional Bank of Ardmore, Ind.
Ter, for the purpose of elect
ing seven directors to serve the
ensuing year, will be held in
their office in Ardmore on Tues
day, January l., 1897, between
the hours of 10 o'clock II. IN.
and I p. m.
DON LACY, Cashier.
Ardmore, /. T., Dee. II, 1896.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

JOE MCCULLAGH, tue veteran
editor of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, is dead. This tele-
gram flashed over the wires will
bring sorrow to thousands of
American newspaper readers,
who, whether agreeing with the
Globe-Democrat in politics OF
not, must acknowledge the bril-
liancy of the mind which has
controlled the editorial page of
that great paper for so many
years. Among Americas really
great editors McCullagh had no
superior.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Respectfully,
r. l.. BOYD.
Attorney General, &. n.
$4,000 Boud.

Bail was granted John G..
.Wadsworth today in the sum of
5000. 1t will be remembered
hat he is the man who shot and
killed one negro, fatally wound
ing a white man and seriously
wounded two negroes near
Emit about two weeks since. He
VAS arrested and brought in by
Deputy McLamore.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

1t would be Il difficult matter
TO give the reader an idea of the
beauty and force of Mr.. Clark's
address, for he is man who
must be heard to be fully appre-
ciated.-Canton (Mo.) Press.
Will lecture at Gallia Opera
House, Gainesville, Tuesday,
Jan. D.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
One Letter Missing,

In an advertisement of a railway
company requesting the owners of un-
claimed goods 20 remove their merchan.
disc the letter app was dropped from
the word lawful in the notice, which
ended thus: Come forward and pay
the awful charges on the same. Pitts
burg Chronicle.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

The name Agag, mentioned in jew
ish history rs that of an Amalekite
king, was used III common by all SOW
ereigns of that country.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
Mass meeting tomorrow night
THE CHICKASAWS
Propose that the Game Law Passed
H. During Last Session of the LeRls-
~ Iature Be Upheld.
superior.

Tishomingo, I. T., Dec. 80, '96
To the Sheriff or Constable of the
Chickasaw Nation:
You are hereby commanded
20 arrest any and all citizens of
5he Chickasaw Nation found
violating the game law passed
oy the legislature of the Chicka-
saw Nation, September 26, 1896,
iound within your respective
jurisdiction. and carry them
before the proper courts for
rial. And any citizen of the
United States found violating
5he same you will report to the
governor of the Chickasaw
Nation.
RaGDnotfulIU
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

Chronic constipation Is a painful,
disagreeable and life-shortening diff
ficulty. 1t deranges the system,
causes sick headache, bad breath,
and poisons the blood. IL can be
readily overcome by DeWitt's Little
Early Risers. These little pills are
grea regulators.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

Ladies' vests, wool and cot
ton; children's union suits, wool
and cotton; ladies' union suits,
wool and cotton just received
at ID. Head & Son.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
MARKET LETTER
Furnished the ArdmoreIte Daily BY ID.
B. Beer of New Orleans-An Inter
estIne cotton Statement.
Wednesday, Dec. 80, '96.

edneSday, Dec. 81, 30.
Dear Sir-Early Liverpool
cables were better than expect
ed, but later on prices eased off
and caused our market to open
3 points lower. The large semi
weekly interior movement and
heavy port receipts ran prices
down , points additional shortly
after. This easiness, however,
was of short duration, because
outside buying orders came in
about that time, and prices were
advanced 4 points from the bot
tom, reducing the net loss on
the day to > points.
The semi-weekly movement
at the thirteen leading interior
towns, as compared to the
same time last year and the
year before, was as follows:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

If the ammunition used in
Ardmore last night had been
concentrated and shipped to
Cuba for use by Gomez and his
ilk, the belligerency of that
tight little isle'' would be a
matter OF recognized history
this New Years day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

We wish our patrons a happy
New Year, an increase IN trade
and prosperous business re-
turns.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

EIGHTEEN hundred and nine
'ty-seven was welcomed i'll at
Ardmore with ringing of bells,
shrleks of locomotive whistles
and promiscuous shooting of
fire arms, giant fire crackers,
etc.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
ARDMORE, FRIDAY, JAN. /.
WRITE it 1897.
New YEARS DAY.
To all a happy New Year.

THE year 1896 can not com
plain of being frozen out.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

From New York to Alexandria, via
London, requires 15 days travel.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
A CARD -

letter, eczema and all similar skin
troubles are cured by the use of De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. 1t soothes
at once, and restores the tissues to
their natural condition, and never
fails to cure piles.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

The trade Is waiting until af-
ter the New Year holidays to
ascertain whether there will be
a marked falling off in receipts
before entering into new en-
gagements, and prices, there
fore, will of course be ruled ell
tirely by the spot demand and
receipts.
Wishing you a prosperous
and happy New Year, we are,
Yours very truly,
Ii. q B. BEER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01

Arrival snd Departure U. s. Mails.
South bound mail closes 4:45 p. m.
South bound mail arrives $50 ?. m.
North bound mail closes 11:15 a. NJ.
North bound mail arrives 1900 m.
Night mails are closed q $50 p. m.
Money order department is open
at a. M, ard closed at 5 p. m.
Office hours from s a. M, to . pm
Sundays from a. M, to a. M.
MORAN SCOTT, P. Nj.
EDGAR SANDLrN. Deputy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-01
TIMETABLE.

j Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
SOUTH BOUND.
s3alvastoa aud Chicago Express 4:l0 a. m
ztieharne and Kansas City Express $50 D. No.
NORTH BOUND
sia. weston and Chicago Express 1926 a. m
aJleburne and Kansas City Express n:4o am
IR MASON, Ticket Agt.
W s. KEENAN,. Gen. Pass. Agt.