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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-02-04

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IN. Godfrey. Pastor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-02-04
Look Ahead +!
DON'T FAIL TO COME AND SEE
MADAME FRAZIER.
'or North of Texas Blacksmith Shop
NORTH CADDO STREET.

(known as Ed. Hubbard Residence, No 100. Room ,
M|HOSE knowledge is exclusively in the
for by hundreds of calls
whom she has important may
occurred during their entire lives, all which
possesses remarkable ability the highest degree
equal.
Idls the OF MADAME FRAZIER which she
Will unfold entire which
truly wonderful She will disclose the difficulties which have
encountered through the of life and help avoid
h and assist wealth and happiness She exposes
secret through sympathy matter how mysterious
well as court matters inheritance travels sickness specuaons
Her advice is invaluable. Gents 75c., Ladies soc.
la Commencing February my Business be
from 9 a. m. to > p.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-02-04

Executor of last will and testament
OF Fannie +. Flow, deceased.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
PLACE NAMES.
Some Odd and Curious Names of Places
In Massachusetts,.

Some Odd and Curious Names of Places
In Massachusetts.
In the Middlesex fells some good old
colonial names are preserved, like jim
glejerry hill and Shillyshally brook.
Spot pond was named by Governor
Winthrop, who discovered it in the win
ter, because of the many rocks that
showed through the ice and spotted the
surface. Powderhorn hill in Chelsea is
said to have been bought from the In
dams for hornful of powder.
The fact of misfortune to divers un-
known persons-whether trivial or great
does not appear-fnds a record in Bad
Luck brook and swamp in Rehoboth,
Bad Luck mountain in Granville and
Bad Luck pond in Douglas. There may
be some association between Burncoat
brook and pond in Leicester and Spencer
and Burnshirt river, likewise in Woroes-
ter county.
Drinkwater river is felicitous name
for stream of good water. 1t is in
Hanover, and possibly there may have
been family of that name in the neigh
borhood. Strong Water brook in Tewks-
bury has quite different associations.
Sought For pond, in Westford, suggests
long and baffied quest for the spot
through the wilderness in the olden
days. One of the least euphonious Of
names is Skug river in Essex and Mid
dlesex counties. 1t is worthy a. place
among such English names as Worm
wood Scrubs, park in London.
The legend about the names of the
group of islands on the south coast pre-
sents an instance of how fancied resem-
blanoes give rise to stories 1t is related
that these islands once belonged to a
man with four daughters. To Nancy,
the Oldest, the father gave the first
choice, and the fact that "Nan took it,"
is recorded in the name Of Nantucket,
the island she selected. Nantucket, of
course, is i'll reality an Indian name.
Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth
islands went to Martha and Elizabeth,
respectively, while for the fourth daugh-
ter, whose name has been lost to men,
DRY, there was nothing left but the most
remote and undesirable of the group,
which was called No Mans Land, be-
cause its owner was a woman. The
Elizabeth islands, in fact, were named
for Queen Elizabeth by Bartholomew
Gosnold, their discoverer, whose name
has been given to the town that COM
prlses them. Boston Transcript.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
SPEAKING TO THE DEAF.
A Mistake Is Often Made In Trying to
Enunciate Very Plainly.

A Mistake Is Often Made In Trying to
Enunciate Very Plainly.
Many people, and 1 am sorry to say
some teachers of the deaf, fail to realize
in practice at least-that speech is not
as clearly visible to the eye as it is audi
BILE to the ear, and think that by speak
ing slowly, word by word, and opening
their mouths to the widest extent, they
will render the task of the speech reader
easier. AS matter of fact they render
it all the more difficult A child in
school may learn to understand teach
er who mouths his words in this man
ner, but this ability is of no value to
him when he leaves school. Indeed per-
feotly natural, deliberate speech is easier
to understand than the exaggerated
form of articulation which people are
apt to use the moment they know they
are talking to totally deaf person.
People who depend entirely upon
their speech reading for understanding
others have requested me, when intro
duoing them to strangers, not to say
that they were deaf, because they find
it easier to read the lips when the per-
son speaking is not aware that he is be-
ing understood in that way. have in
my acquaintance young man educated
wholly by this method who travels a
great deal and picks up acquaintance
on the steamer or on the train just as
people do who possess all their faculties.
have in mind also a congenitally
deaf girl of IA who is not considered
unusually bright. yet whose speech is
clearly Ineligible to strangers after
the first ten minutes, who is intelligent
on the topics of the day, and whose
larger and more conversational roper
tory is much larger and more entertain
ing than that of many young ladies of
90 and over that I have met in metro
politan society. Dutton Wright
in Century.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.

It Was Provided by st. Louis Man For
His wife's Feminine Friends.
A wealthy ST. Louisan living in the
vicinity of Lafayette park provided a
novel form of entertainment for his
wife's guests one evening, says the st.
Louis Republic.
The. hostess was extremely anxious to
provide something original for the edi-
fication of a score of guests whom she
intended to call together for an informal
evening. Her husband promised to pro-
vide such novelty and took boon COM
panion into his confidence to that end.
They had not exchanged ideas 80 con-
secutive seconds before. they hit upon
the device of converting the elegant
parlors into gambling house pro tenn.
A faro bank, roulette wheel and po-
ker and keno lay outs were easily pro-
durable, as the conferees we'll knew,
and that part of the programme was
soon settled. The friend suggested as a
pretty epilogue the introduction of a
pair of bulldogs, guaranteed to reduce
each other to mince meat i'll three
rounds. This rather staggered the ambi-
tious host, but his friend is a ward poll
tieian, and with the eloquence he always
keeps on draft soon convinced the other
that the evening would be failure
without those bulldogs.
The evening arrived, and with it came
the guests. The ladies were prettily
shocked at sight Of the gambling para
phernalia, but became accustomed to it
in an astonishingly short time and shar-
ed in the games with becoming vim. 1t
was when the yellow bulldogs made
their unexpected entrance that the hor-
ror of the fair guests proved genuine.
The beasts yelped and growled and
showed other peculiarly canine symp-
toms Of spelling for a fight. - There
upon the ladies sought refuge on the pi-
ano and card tables and chairs, con-
Quoting their retreat as from a mouse.
Notwithstanding excited feminine
protestations, the friend who had been
consulted as to a novelty in entertain
ment unleashed the dogs. 1t was an ex-
citing climax to an original evening.
The dogs Toasted for five minutes on
choice bits of each others anatomy.
The ladies screamed and the friend who
was consulted exulted in the success of
his novelty. When he was quite con-
vinced-and it took considerable time
to convince him-that the ladies desire
for gore had been fully gratified, he
doused the dogs into a convenient tub
of water and separated them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
KILLING WOLVES.
Some of the Methods Used to Get Rid of
the Pests.

Some of the Methods Used to Get Rid of
the Pests.
Whole families of the animals are
sometimes asphyxiated in their dens.
A wolf of the gray variety generally
makes its home by getting on the side
Of dirt guloh and burrowing straight
inward until safe distance from the
surface is reached. There her young are
born and raised to sturdy cub estate.
When a cowboy locates a den in
which he believes the entire family to
be gathered a composite mass of cotton,
saturated with damp -four sulphur and
other noxious smelling substances, is
thrust into the den and set on fire. The
mouth of the hole is then filled with
clay tamped down solidly, and the i'm
prisoned wolves are speedily suffocated
within. In this way from to 10 and
II wolves, young and old, are wiped
out at one stroke
Another effective method is to bore
four or more holes in a flat piece of
board and plug them up with beef fat
soaked in stryohnine. The odor of the
fat attracts any wolves that may be in
the vicinity, and they lick the fat vora-
oiously until the leavening of poison
does its work upon them and they drop
dead. Very often as many as dozen
wolves are killed off by this process be-
fore the fat in the holes is exhausted
Strychnine inclosed in capsules is also
used. The capsule is thrust into a slit
cut in chunk of beef, and the wolf,
boiling the meat whole, falls an easy
victim. Steel traps, baited with raw
beef, are also tried with fair success. -
Denver Republican.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her book,
Chapters From Life, pays the fol-
lowing tribute to James T. Fields:
Mr.. Fields was man of marked
ohivalry of nature, and, at time when
it was not fashionable to help the move
ments for the elevation of women, his
sympathy was distinct, fearless and
faithful. In few instances, we knew,
and he knew, that this fact deprived
him of the possession of certain public
honors which would otherwise have
been offered to him.
''He advocated the political advance
ment of our sex, coeducation and kim
bred movements without any of that
apologetic murmur so common among
the half hearted or the timid His fas-
tidious and cultivated literary taste was
sensitive to the position of women in
letters. He was incapable of that liter
airy snobbishness which undertakes a
woman's work because it is a woman's.
A certain publishing enterprise which
threatened to treat of eminent men
came to his notice. He quickly said /:
The time has gone by for thatl Men
and womenl Men and womenl' +"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26

A young man who apparently knows
a girl in London came into the Office the
other day and asked whether candy
could be sent abroad through the mails.
So he was taken over to the postoffice
and the state Of affairs was laid before
an official, who instigated an investiga-
ton. After long time he returned and
reported as follows:
II am very glad, said he, "that you
asked that question. Its answer shows
curious state of affairs. In this coun-
try you can send candy up to pounds
as merchandise for / cent for each
ounce. If you want to send candy
abroad you only have to pay cent for
every 2 ounces, but You can only send
IL ounces in each package. If it weighs
more than 10 ounces you have to pay
letter rates, or 10 cents an ounce for the
whole thing.
THAT is to say, you can send 10
ounces to London for cents, but it
would cost you 10 cents to send it to
Brooklyn. So if you are thinking of
sending pound it will cost you 81. CO.
The stamp department is right over
there.
'"Thank you very much" said the
young man. II just happen to remem-
Der that the doctor has forbidden the
girl to eat candy. New York Mail
and Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
THE DOCTORS STORY.
An Experience That Followed q Call at
Night.

An Experience That Followed q Call at
Night.
Four or five physicians were talking
up town the other evening at the home
of one, and the conversation later turned
to shop. One of them had recently
moved his office down town, and there
was some discussion as to the advisable
ity of separating house and Office.
"Well," said the separatist, II can't
see any difference SO long as I am at
my Office during Office hours. -
"Let me tell you story, remarked
the oldest man in the party. "Thirty
years ago, when began practice. I lived
In Virginia, and for year or two I
slept in my Office. Then I married, and
my wife owned nice house, and went
to it to live. 1t sat back from the street
about 80 feet, and we decided that it
would be much nicer if we had my Office
out on the street in the far corner of the
lot. Only so feet away, you will OBJ
serve, but still ii was enough. In order
to see such callers as came during the
night had night bell and speaking
tube connecting the front door of the
office with my bedroom. You see, did
not want patient to escape under any
circumstances.
well, everything went nicely enough
for three years or so, when one night a
ring came to my bell. 1t was then about
O'Clock in the morning, and the ring
was hot one. / asked who it was, and
ho f,o,r, fus~ <oe
to the effect that he was mighty sick
man and wanted to see me at once.
told him to come around to the house
and I>would meet him at the door and
take care of him. Then l got up, and,
putting on my dressing gown and slip
pers, proceeded to the front door. But
there was no one there and no one in
sight on the way between the gate and
the house.
''That was odd, and l went back and
called through the tube to know what
was wrong. received no answer, and,
being quite unable to account for it, l
took my lamp-it was very dark and
still highland started to go out and
investigate. just as / was about to step
off the porch l lowered my lamp to
get better light on the step, and there
at the foot of the porch lay a body. l
turned it over at once, and as the light
fell on the face l saw it was my friend
who had only minute before spoken to
me. He was quite dead And when an
examination was made. it was discovered
that be had died of heart disease, and
SO near to me that / could almost have
touched him. Possibly l could not have
been of any service to him if / had seen
him when he first rang the bell, but the
possibility that I might so affected me
that from that day to this l have had
my office as near my bed as could get
it. Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
The Captain Told Him.

An Englishman, touring through
America, went on board a steamer late
one night and on the following morning,
after walking on deck and looking
around him, he stepped up to the cap
tain and asked, II beg your pardon, but
would you kindly tell me what lake
I'm on?''
''The Lake Huron, replied the cap.
tain and turned away.
The Englishman looked puzzled for q
moment, and then, following the cap.
tain, began again, 81 beg your pardon,
you said''--
"It's the Lake Huron, I" roared the
captain, thinking the man was deaf.
"Yes, know" persisted the passen.
ger, 'but what's the name of the lake
that I'm on?''
The Lake Huronr' shouted the cap.
tain, incensed at what be thought gross
stupidity. and he turned away to relieve
himself by railing at one of the hands.
The Englishman looked more puzzled
than ever.
1.-THE lake you're on is the lake you re
on. Of course it is. The lake I'm on
can't help being the lake I'm on. What
impertineneel Let me look in my guide
book Perhaps that will tell me-.
1t did tell him, and then the humor
of the situation suddenly dawned upon
him. London Tit Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
one rralt Of American oharactsr

There is one trait of our national
character which foreigners can never
comprehend, and that is our unshakable
faith in our ability to "come out all
right in the end. We stand idly and
more or less indifferently by and allow
a country to be pushed to the verge of a
financial or political precipice under
the impulse of some kind of popular
craze or another, entirely confident that
just before it slips over we can take
hold Of it and pull 1t back. We have
done this again and again, and nothing
seems to shake our faith in our ability
to repeat the operation whenever occa-
sion arises. 1t costs us enormously, not
only in reputation, but also in money,
and retards our growth and progress in
a thousand ways, but nothing seems
likely to cure us of the habit, unless it
be great national calamity due to our
failing in some crisis to take alarm
quickly enough. -Century.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
HE LOST A FORTUNE.
Or, 'sThere Are Moments When One Want,
To Re Alma

Or, There Are Moments When One Wants
to Be Alone"
A middle sized man, with a gray
mustache and red tie hitched up on
his collar, walked through the restau-
rant, nodding to acquaintance here and
there. AS he stopped at the cashiers
desk man who was seated at a table
noticed him, and, leaning across to bis
vis-a-vis, said, Captain s., United
States postal inspector and grand official
catcher of green goods men.
"Yes?' with interest from the man
across the table.
Sure. l have always regarded him
with peculiar affection. He came very
near making me rich man once-in
fact, almost made wealthy citizen of
me--so well to do that l would never
have had to work again"
How was that?" with a shade of
incredulity.
''This way: About year ago the
captain superintendent a grand haul of
green goods men. The firm which he
raided was the largest, perhaps. in the
country and had unlimited capital
They had packages of good money to
catch suckers with, and this money,
amounting to over $4,000, was cap
tured and placed in big satchel by the
captain. l called on him for details of
the story that afternoon. He was alone
in the Office. There were three Of us
the captain, myself and the satchel. He
opened the satchel and showed me
wealth beyond my widest dreams. 1
hated to leave the beautiful vision. y
And the narrator sighed deeply.
"Well, said his friend, 81 don't see
how that was anything like making you
rich man.
"You don't? Well. let me tell you
this: If the captain had turned his back
for just six seconds would have been
a rich man Immediately. But he never
turned, and l had to go away again as
poor as when came.
And with another bitter, heartrending
sigh he watched the inspector stroll out
into the street. Chicago News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
THE DEAcoN's DONATION.
And why 1t Was Not Accepted by the
Town Committee.

ana why Ib was Not Accepted Dy the
Town Committee.
1t had been decided at public meet
ing of the citizens they that would have
combination library, reading room and
social club in Hampton. The commit
tee, made up of substantial members of
the community authorized to act upon
their own Judgment, was in session at
Deacon Closes, he having site that he
wanted to sell for the proposed building.
81 regard this movement as deserving
of popular approval and aid, p" said the
minister. sit aims to secure a wider
intelligence and better tone Of morali-
ty among our people Every one should
give according to his means. "
After the editor, the doctor and the
banker had talked in the same vein, the
lawyer proposed that they get down to
business. deacon Close" he oontin-
ued. "has desirable lot for which he
asks 50, 900. 1t strikes me as a pretty
stiff price, but have no doubt that he
will make us donation of $500 and
make deed of the site for 81, 800"
There was applause, in which the
deacon did not participate, but rising
reluctantly he delivered himself as fol-
lows: 81 must say that l agree with
what has been said In praise of this en-
terprise. Our town needs it and there
is no place for it more desirable than
the lot have offered. OF course want
to bear my full share of the expense.
"Since offered you this lot, the
deacon went on, there has been great
improvement in times. Money is easier,
prices are better and realty gets an en-
HANGED value because Of the general
prosperity. will let you have the lot
for $4,000 and throw off $500 as a do
nation"
The minister muttered something he
was glad the rest did not hear. The
doctor laughed, the banker scowled and
the lawyer moved to adjourn in a voice
that told the deacon he would have to
seek some other market for the lot that
had taken such long and sudden jump
in value. Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-26
ONE OF NELSON'S CAPTAINS.
\ New Yorker Commanded British Ship
In the Battle of the Nile.

\ New Yorker Commanded British Ship
In the Battle of the Nile.
The fifth ship was the Theseus, Cap
tain Ralph Willett Miller. This gentle
man, whom after his premature death
Nelson styled ''the only truly virtuous
man / ever knew, was by birth New
Yorker, whose family had been loyalists
during the American Revolution. A let
ter from him to his wife gives an ac-
count of the fight which is at once
among the most vivid and from the
professional standpoint the most salts
factory Of those which have been trans
mitted to us. Of the Theseus entrance
into the battle he says:
In running along the enemy's line
in the wake of the Jealous and Goliath,
I observed they shot sweep just over us.
And knowing well that at such a mo-
ment Frenchmen would not have cool
ness enough to change their elevation,
I closed them suddenly, and, running
under the arch of their shot, reserved
my fire, every gun being loaded with
two and some with three round shot,
until had the Guerrier's masts in a
line and her jibboom about six feet clear
of our rigging. We then opened with
such effect that second breath could
not be drawn before her main and miz-
zen masts were also gone. This was pre-
cisely at sunset, or AZ minutes past 6.
Then passing between her and the Zeal
GUS and as close as possible round the
off side of the Goliath, we anchored by
the stern exactly in line with her and
abreast the Spartiate We had not been
many minutes in action with the Spar
tiate when we observed one of our ships
(and soon after knew her to be the Van
guard, place herself SO directly opposite
to us on the outside Of her that desist-
ed firing on her, that I might not do
mischief to our friends, and directed ev-
cry gun before the mainmast on the
Aquilon Fourth French) and all abaft
it on the Conquerant, giving up my
proper bird to the admiral. ''-"Nelson
In the Battle Of the Nile," by Captain
Mahan, in Century.