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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25
determination.

he man who j. openly ga agaos'
has 1t !east determination. ard that Is
something. Determination is what
you need. and is tie hest capital man
ear have. If its determination rieLt
iaI Il Rev. Sam Jonts.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Diamond FloSsie" was
strangled to death in her r6oms
in New York and her rooms
looted Of contents. Her reput-
eel husband is under arrest for
the crime.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Austin White Lime, II 90 per.
barrel, at Sammon'S Lumber
Yard.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

\ nice line of all kinds of
white Organdies, muslin-dc-
soav dimities, and India linens,
at Mrs. KlOski'S.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Italian volunteers are flock
ing to the assistance of Greece
against the Turks. Young Gar
abaldi, ''his fathers son, "
says, where the cause of COM
mon liberty needs n leader,
there is the place for n Cara
baldi.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Sne Was ;Ae piese well done
Ec- Oh. vc-- The critics u,
r, sckange
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Pure Drugs. New Drugs at
Coleman & Lynn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

An unknown man attempted
to assassinate the president of
Uruguay, by shooting him on
the street. He refuses to dis
close his identity.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Brilliant and all lamp oil as
cheap as the cheapest ut Cole
man & Lynn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Acciriato, Il political fanatic,
who attempted to stab King
Humbert of Italy, says he has
no accomplices. This is the
second attempt on that mon
arch's life.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Miners Fruit Nectar, the hit
of the season, at Ross 4 Bon
nerS's soda fountain, ) cents.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

Full line of artists material
at Coleman q Lynn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25

c. G. McGTNLEY, Pastor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12

wheels around the track, calling upon
their bodies for every ounce of reserve
strength, resisting the demands of ma
ture and setting the mark of ruin upon
the mind itself for the rest of their
lives.
1t is a disgrace to any community
that such contests are welcomed or
even permitted 1t is a shame to eV-
cry spectator who appears there, and
it is a reproach to the authorities who
allow it. The line between legitimate
sport and the old barbaric delight IN
human suffering, the line between ath-
Ietics and brutality needs to be drawn
hard and clear. 1t cannot and ought
not to be done by legislation or ordI-
nance. Surely civilization should have
made sufficient progress among us by
this time for an intelligent or even
decent public opinion to secure the pro-
hibition in future of a species of CON
tests that are as inhuman and as bru-
tai as to put a man under the recelV-
ing glass of an airpump and see how
many seconds he can live, and watch
his expiring agonies as the air is re-
moved.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12

Plat preferred a local government I'M
der Croker, with which he could con-
clude corrupt deals of his own; it was
not merely that he feared in his own
future the consequences of the
success of man like Low
but there was the Still greater
terror of the stimulus which this would
give to the Independent movement ev-
erywhere. That is what Mr.. Mckinley
saw when he sent the secretary of the
interior tc New York city to help
Croker and Tammany to their success.
Men like him, men who are personally
clean, men who believe in good govern
ment as an abstract principle, were
ready to sacrifice it in the concrete to
the possible future security of their
organization.
Many of the darkest prosecutions of
the past have been inspired less by
hatred of the best than by the fear of
what the spread Of the new doctrine
might do with existing organizations.
In all human history the terror lest
the high aspiration of humanity should
travel too fast for the plodding age,
lest iconoclasm Should, in Shifting the
idols. carry with it the useful essen
tial of every day society, has pulled the
reformer back, has nourished abuses
of whose infamy all the World was
convinced.' So nuw I'VE have great
party deliberately sacEfeiA&, municipal,
reform to the fear lest the camp fires
of good government should be set-,blaz-
ing in every city sof the country; and
that men, once freed from the party
rein in their local contests, should as
sert their right of individual fndepend-
ence in the larger field.
The price which this demands is too
heavy to be borne. The The. Independent
movement of the Greater New York
failed but It's failure was grand one.
Out Of it is to come "a 9Rlere impress
sive lesson than its success could have
wrought. The people of this country
see today as they never have seen be-
IOle, anu tIe Cunning SSGSA'7 ar ~ '''N'
new volumes to their information, that
the penalty. of blind u 1 party obedience
in local contests is unlimited corruption
and the final destruction df"free gov
eminent itealf oThe politicians have
checked athe inE9!eRgeRRdepgtt. Nh m}2ovement'
but at a terrible cost. Not long, we
believe. will the people of this country
be willing to exhibit their cities to the
world as models of failure; not long
will they consent to submit their per-
sons and their property 20 tie will of
petty and -IJestial tyraarts, 'fn order that
party government in the larger field
may remain unterlified and secure in
lBFtgf1 % SEss 80 S-'-ss.BE
the Businesses of prejudice and ignor-
ance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
AHERN LOSES HIS STAR.
was Gathering Globe Coupons Wi,h-
out Any Authority,

Patrolman John NJ. Aheru was 0b-
served a block off his beat yesterday
morning clipping coupOns-u0t interest
bearing coupons. otherwise Mr.. AheTn
would have discarded his police uni
form long before Chief Cfoss compelled
him to, but coupons i'm the G o b e's
popular voting contest. Mr. Ahern did
not take the copies Of the G o b e with
felonious intent, but that did not save
him. The mayor asked for his resig-
nation. Mr. Ahern refused To tender
it. Chief GOss thereupOn demanded
Ahern's insignia of Office The club
and star were duly surrendered. and
Mr.. Ahern no longer patrols a beat.
But his salary well, that depends, rs
Mayor Doran said yesterday, upon the
common council.
While Ahern's case excited the pity
of the mayor, his honor explained that
the Otfcnse was an aggravated one that
called for heroic trea tmeut.
Sergeant Ross testified before the
mayor that he saw Ahern take Il copy
OF yesterdays issue of the ST. Paul
q | o b from in front of the jeWelry
store Of Assemblyman ArOsn on East
Seventh street. The sergeant also saw
him take copies of the q / o b from
other doorways. while at still other
places he simply tore out the coupons
and left the papers
Sergeant Ross was detailed TO watch
In this vicinity In consequence Of
numerous complaints Of East Seventh
street merchants, among them ASSEM-
blyman ArOsin. that they had not Te-
ceived their G J o b @ 8 Of late. The po-
lice department has also received COM
plants from citizens during the p'st
six weeks since the Clio J. p votkL
contest was inaugurated, requesting
that the DatTOlmeu cease IuNOViUss
them with solicitations for copies of
the st. Paul G o b e. over month
ago Chief Goss issued an order fUf-
bidding the members Df the force to-
solicit citizens for their G ] % j. $. As
the complaints continued the order
was repeated more than once.
At last Assemblymau Arosin COM
planned that he hadn't seen his G % b q
for week. Mr.. Arosin further declar-
ed that one morning he caught Ahr:n
tearing the coupon from his paper. and
that his G b g disappeared alto
gether. Hence a watch was set ard
Ahern was discovered.
After the mayor had heard all the
testimony Yesterday, Including that of
Assemblyman Arosin. ne informed
Ahern that white he felt sorry for him.
the offense. in view Of the repeated
orders and warnings Aheru had receiv-
ed, was aan aggravated one. ard his
resignation must be asked for.
Ahern was disiuclined to tender IL.
whereupon Chief GOss demanded his
star ard club.
Ahern is one of Assemblyman Rear
don's appOintees. He was member OF
the force during the Wright admins
tration, but was removed by Mayor
Smith for the good of the service.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12

neys at the inquest. Richard A Walsh.
looking after the butchers interest
and J. j. McCafferty representing the
families of the deceased
Each one of the physicians testified
that in their belief Dupre and CapisL
trant died from ptOmaine poisoning
detailing the conditions found at the
post norton examination Dr.. stone
read the report of the analysis con-
Quoted by DR.. Perkins. of the health
department. which is said to have only
partly sustained the ptOmaine theory.
Meat Inspector Jansen testified 10
condemning meat in Wittich's place
within the past two years, but said
that this has been done in the case
of other butchers. Albert Oehme. Wit
tich's clerk testified that he could not
remember having sold sausage to
Dupre and Capistrant Witch de-
scribed the methods of making sausage
and claimed that he used only the
pest ana purest meats. Charles Sigler
makes Wittich's sausage and corrobor-
ated his employers claims to the
purest and most wholesome of meats
used Mrs. Fanny Zimm in answer 20
questions S to whether or not she
had been i'll after partaking of meats
purchased at Wittich's, positively said
she had not. She traded with Wfttfc0
and always got the best quality of
meat, she said. Mrs. Langevfn told
OF the visit her cousin and his COM
panion to a butcher shop in COMPANY
with her son, Arthur, and that they,
returned to her home with two pieces
of bologna sausag e. The boy testified
that it was to Wittichs shop that ne
went With Dupre and Capistraut.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
INDIAN ARIsTocRACY.

One warning of the presidents mes
sage has been neglected by the press
and public alike. Not ripple of ex-
citement has been caused by the out
cry of the nations executive against
the dangers of an Indian aristocracy
For all the public cares, apparently,
the five nations of the territory are at
liberty to go on and build up a 400 just
as they like Squaws may contract
International marriages with titled gen
tlemen like Bloody Handed Bill and
Texas Tom, and the great American
public takes no heed, Sons of the Gus
ter massacre and daughters of the
rival societies, while civilization joys
along with no premonition of peril. De-
spite all warnings, one of them from
the White house itself, great nation
sleeps in fancied security, never think
ing of what may happen when Little
Hole-in- Mud and Buffalo-With-
Blood-in- Hls-Eye have their army
blankets cut over into swallow-tail
coats and wear their scalping knives on
their watch fobs.
This is all wrong. Something should
be done to arouse the public to a sense
of the gravity of the crisis which it
confronts When it is remembered to
what bloody deeds the harmless Sun
Dance of the innocent aborigine has
led the way, who can say what dire re-
suits will follow when the painted
brave begins to dance the german and
learns the uses of the deadly pink tea?
1t is no time for delay. Capt. Lover
ing should be launched against Indian
aristocracy that he may crush it before
such a step is eternally too late.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12

when reform goes on the war path.
No city has ever permitted longtime
contracts to be entered into by its rep
resentatives without suffering heavy
pecuniary damage. The idea that st.
Paul should give up what has proved
to be it's chief defense against misgov-
eminent, in order that we might en-
terrain supposititious bid from some
body at some future time to build some
kind Of structure for market pur-
poses at some INDICATED spot, is short
sighted and against the public inter
est. Whatever else the charter COM
mission may do or leave undone, we
beseech earnestly, in the interest of
public honor and the public purse, that
it leave untouched the prohibition
against city contracts that run for
more than one year at a time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
FIGURES ON SECOND PAPERS.
Only About 1000 Left to BE Natur-
allied Now.

The Democratic city committee. of
which R. w. Bell is the chairman
furnishes some interesting figures ON
the progress made in the naturaliza-
ton of voters up to date. which shows
that the work is we'll advanced.
Mr.. Bell. however. is of the opinion
that the balance of the work will DE
found more difficult than IT would ap-
pear from the number of the unnat-
uraliZed, as there are left to deal with
that class Of people, who. to some ex-
tent, need good deal of urging i'm or
der to induce them to action Mr.. Bell
thinks that the figures of the uunat-
uraiZed are greater than they appear
from the record and indeed it has
been already proved to be the case as
glance over the naturalization record
shows that a great many people who
appear on the poll list of the city as
fully qualified citizens have. since Oc-
tober last, discovered their error and
have taken out final papers This. of
course, would greatly increase the orig
fnaI figures of the unnatUraIized, prOba-
bly,, to the extent of 1000. The precinct
naturalization commuters i'm the Sec
ond and Eighth wards have been very
active Of late and have caught up with
the work of the other wards, except
that the Eighth is a little behind the
others
The following are the figures to date
bV wards.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12

had come to his good name through the
discrepancy in his accounts for which
he could find no explanation, than be-
cause he had never cherished dream
of presiding@soverEthe great library in
its magnificent housing
Now comes a statement that will be
received with pleasure by all who know
or know of the man who for thirty
one years was the librarian of con-
gress. In the removal from the old
to the new quarters and in the exam
ination and Encouragement it brought
about thereahave been found in one
place or another quantities of postal
money orders which have never been
presented for payment. In the post
office department were found notices of
orders issued payable to the librarian.
The postoffice authorities had notified
Mr.. Spofford occasionally of the pres
ence of these, notices and requested
him to present the orders. But the
man of books had no time to be col
lecting money, so he tucked the orders
away wherever it happened to be con-
venient, and there they have been ever
since, while the shortage caused by
their Hiding was growing larger and
larger year by year. One of the orders
found was issued twenty-five years ago,
and many of them have become invalid
by expiration of the time limited for
presentation, but so far in the search
enough Of these unpaid orders have
been found to nearly equal the def
cheney in the accounts of the librarian.
And What a pathetic picture it is.
The man among his books, they his
world, all the rest mere dross; master
of keeping books, but with no head
for bookkeeping, needless of money ex-
cept as it bought books, trying to keep
order among his volumes and finding
that almost too great a task; getting
remittances for copyrights and such
books as might be sold, charged by law
with accounting for it all, but, heed
less as a child Of accounts, thrusting
the money orders out of sight to be
utterly forgotten; to be posted a de-
faulter because of this negligence, and,
finally, after all the anguish Of soul
he must have felt, to have others clear
his name with their discoveries Of the
missing money, and all the doubt, the
mystery that bothered his friends and
cloudeds his days removed. But what
could be more .ggotesque than putting
upon this impractical bookworm the
work of cashier and bookkeeper,
man to whom bookkeeping had no far
ther. significance than making cata
logues, indices and putting away books
en- shelves. However, AIS we'll that
ends we'll"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
ROMANCE or DBUMMER.
Chicago Newspaper story That
Makes Interesting Reading. but

The following story from the Chicago
Chronicle of Thursday makes interesting
reading but so far as can be learned in ST.
Paul. lacks all the elements OF fact:
The wedding Of Tom Neathers, a drummer
for New York house. and Miss Andrews.
OF st. Paul, has just been announced. Be
hind this announcement is a romance which
Is as strange as it is true. 80 begin az the
beginning of the story, year ago WealherS
became engaged TO Miss Andrews. As
Weathers was leaving Immediately for Vow
York 10 answer an urgent business call. the
understanding was that he would forward
the engagement ring from there. Upon his
return, and much to his establishment. he
found that the ring had not preceded him.
and, furthermore, a dilligent search By thu
express authorities failed to discover its
whereabouts. Because OF this il appears
tween Miss Andrews and Weathers. which
finally resulted in serious lovers quarrel
and a severance of their phghtsd- trOth -
few days ago, by chance. Weathers drCplSJI
into the rooms OF an express company where
auction was going on. He bid on u small
package that seemed so damaged and inSig-
nificant that II was knocked down TO hlm
for q quarter What wos his RstOniShment
upon receiving It to find Il addressed TO Miss
Andrews. but by some mistake her resi-
dence number was efnnitted With hope beat
ing high I'm his heart, Weathsra who Is
nothirfgs II notIcrClaIrspsct turned the pack
age over to, the express company again with
carsfpl INSTITUTIONS "a 10 It's delivery 4
few hours iSser no received q panltelt note
from Miss ArdroNgA. telling him the long
lost diamond ring had just come te her.
The rest goes without saylag.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
THE CLEARANCE OF spoFFoRD.

No man in this country, who. for the
past thirty years has kept at all in
touch with books, has rot heard of
Ainsworth L. Spofford. No one of them
who, While in Washington, threaded his
way through the maze of shelved books
and the piles of them for which there
were no selves, which formed the con
gressional library before it moved into
its present palace, failed to marvel at
the gray-haired old man who knew this
confused mass of literature as wife,
knows her kitchen, and could tell anv
inquirer where anything, book, pam
phlet or manuscript was in what looked
to any visitor less like a great library
than the dumping room of a cargo of
books delivered by Indifferent dray-
men. He knew books and loved them.
a supplemented, studious man, trying
TO carry the great burden of this i'm
mense accumulation of books, with the
constant torrent of new ones flowing in
upon him, catalogueing, classifying and
getting what order was possible in
quarters where order was impossible
So when, a year or so ago, there
came out of Washington a statement
that this old man of books was short,
In his accounts to the government,
defaulter in some $4,000 of moneys re-
ceiYed by him as librarian, those who
knew him were shocked b1It cOIIId NOT
believe that he had taken dollar with
dishonest purpose. 1t was explained
that the shortage probably arose from
his negligence IN keeping account of
the money fer copyrights and sales of
books. Nc dishonesty was charged or
suspected, but the shortage was there
and unexplained. Later it was said
that Mr.. Spofford had made good the
deficiency to the extent of his means.
and. so firmly established was his rep
utation for integrity, he was continued
as librarian. while surmise busted it
self IN accounting for the funds. When
the new library building was complet-
ed man who had made himself use
ful in the campaign was made librar-
IAN but the old man was retained as
assistant. preferring it, he said to the
president; more, we may believe, be-
cause of his sense OF the stigma that,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
TnnAY,S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Dec 11.-F7recast for sur
DAY: Minnesota-PartIy cOudy weather. prob
ably light local showers warmer in southern
portion; southerly winds.
Wisconsin-Partly cloudy weather. probably
light local SHOWS; warmer in southern poF-
tlon:, southerly winds.
North Dakota-Light local SHOWS, with part
" cloudy weather; warmer in. eastern. por-
ton; southerly winds shifting to westerly.
South Dakota and Nebraska-PTobabiy fafr
Sunday: warmer; southerly WINDS
Iowa-Cloudy weather: followed by fair;
warmer; southerly winds.
Montana-Partiy cloudy weather: probably
local SHOWS in northern portion colder sun
day night; westerly winds shifting to mortimer
Nv
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
THE COMING CONFLICT.

of the naval debate in the German
reichstag is worthy the attentions OF
the commercial nations of the world.
The argument turned upon the neces-
sity of guarding the interests of the
Kaiser abroad and the need of more
ships to protect the commerce OF the
Fatherland, if Germany was not to be
distanced in the race to reach new
fields OF commercial activity. From
these who supported the proposition
there were the usual stock phrases,
the appeals to national pride and pre-
5udice and the growing might OF the
Anglo Saxon nations, held up as
warming. spectre. When all of this had
been said. the high sounding argument
was brushed aside with single SEN
tence. Guns" said a delegate of the
Peoples party, from South Germany,
cannot open new markets
The great struggle of the future be
You'd all question is to be commercial
to do with zollvereins and customs
unions rather than with defensive and
offensive alliances for war. Long after
the general European conflict, so long
predicted and confidently expected, has
been fought, if that dread reality ever
comes. the question of commercial SUI
premacy will remain to be fought out.
It's campaigns will be planned by gen
erals of trade It's fleets will be great
liners and not armored men-ot-War.
Pluck, skill, science and energy will
win the victory, but they will be APP
piled to the uses of commerce and not
of conflict Guns will rust, useless and
idle upon their carriages, While new
markets are opened by the batteries OF
competitions
1t is for this struggle, which all states
men forsee, that the nations of the
world should be preparing. 1t may be
that great wars are still to be won and
lest and this exigency may be kept
i'll mind, but beyond this lies a struggle,
for existence that will be more keela
and bitter than any armed conflict that
the world has ever seen. Already its
forces are arraying. The zollverein
idea of Joseph Chamberlain is the first
step toward the mobilization of the
forces of England and her colonies. The
development of a pan-American policy,
vague as yet in it's details, shows that
the nations of the new world have a
distinct idea of what is coming. Under
all the turmoil and buster of Europe,
with it's talk of naval programmes and
military congratulations, the growing
Importance of this great trade strife,
which will end with the survival of
the fittest, is clearly recognized and is
a factor in diplomatic plans and pro
jects. The mighty monsters from the
works of Krupp and Armstrong may.
yet play part in the worlds history
but in the final struggle, which will
determine the supremacy of nations
they will lie silent, inert, useless metal
masses, for guns do not open markets,
and markets will be the reward of vic
tory.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-12
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer. 3O16: mean temperature %;
relative humidity, So wind at p m, west;
weather. cloudy; maximum temperature, ~
minimum temperature. %; daily range, a.
amount of precipitation in last twenty-four
hours. 81.
aud elevation. p. F. Lyons, Observer.