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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-14

Weak, pale and sickly women and
cnhdren made healthy and rosy
checked by using DIR. Simmons Sar-
saprllla. 90 cents and so doses. Man
fractured by A. g. Simmons Jr.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-14

The Surrender Will Practically Close the War
Peace Measures May Be Entertained
No More Troops to be Sent to Cuba or
Porto Rico While Yellow Fever Pre-
vails--No Fatalities from Dis
ease in the Army in Cuba.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-14

Win your battles against disease
by acting promptly. One Minute
Cough Cure produces immediate re-
suits. When early it prevents con-
sumption And in later stages itfur-
nishes prompt relief. City Drug
Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-14

Keep the flies out and get
your screen doors at Biyens &
Williams. LIT
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-14

Washington, July 1s.-All the ne
gotiations for q peaceful surrender
of Santiago de Cuba ended in utter
failure today and the city must fall
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-14

Beggs' Diarrhea Balsam, the most
wonderful medicine ever put on the
market for all stomach troubles. 1t
cures where all others fail. We keep
1T. City Drug Store and T. N. Cole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
TOOK SNAP SHOTS
A Kodak Means a Prison Cell
in Havana.
Two Americans Arrested on
This Charge.
ONE A CLERGYMAN.
No Pictures of Misery Permit
ted by Authorities.
Not Even a Snapshot of the
Wreck of the Maine.
ONE A CLERGYMAN.

Havana, Oct. 21.-One Of the most re-
markable phases of the situation here
at present is the zeal of the Spaniards
entrusted with the task of preserving
public order to prevent the publication,
at this late date, of innocet street scenes
showing the state of squalor in which
the poorer classes here exist.
Yesterday afternoon an American
named King was arrested opposite the
Hotel Inglaterra for taking a kodak
snap shot of a group of children. The
surprise which he felt at his arrest was
increased by the explanation afforded
him, which was to the effect that such
steps were necessary in order to prevent
the publication of pictures which would
be construed in the United States as
examples of the condition of the sub
jects of Spain. Mr.. King, however, ex-
planned matters and protested his in
nocence of any intention to publish the
pictures, with the result that he was
allowed his liberty after his name and
address had been taken.
The day previous an American clergy
man, the Rev. Mr.. Thomas, was arrest
ed by officers on board a patrol boat in
the bay for taking photographs of the
wreck of the Maine. He was taken on
board the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII,
where he remained two hours. The Rev.
Mr.. Thomas was released after being
subjected to a severe CROSSE examination,
during which he proved his ignorance
of the Spanish orders fOrbidding the
photographing of the wreck.
Finally,a couple of days ago an Amer
lean book store was ransacked and its
proprietors were arrested and fined for
selling Cuban papers.
A prominent merchant of this city,
whose name is necessarily withheld. in
an interview on the Cuban situation
said:
1T is whispered around the American
headquarters that General Parade and
Admiral Manterola, of the Spanish COM
mission, recently admitted in private
conversation their dissatisfaction with
the result of the war and expressed the
hope that something would occur be-
fore the final evacuation of the island to
warrant a renewal of hOStilities, as,
they are credited with saying, the Span
ish army and navy could not accept the
humiliation which they have been sub
jected to without an emphatic protest
and an opportunity to reliabilitati them
selves. which the Spaniards claim.
would be best offered by a continuation
of the war. This conversation, it is
further asserted, was repeated later to
Rear Admiral Sampson, who is said to
have replied that two months more of
the war would have suited him ad-
mira blV'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
VIOLINS ARE SEIZED.
Worth Over $4,000, but Owner Had
Valued Them at $55.

New York, Oct. 21.-More than $4,000
worth of violins, which arrived on the
American line steamship Southwark re-
gently, were seized by Special Agent
Chas. Traituir, of the local branch of
the treasury department, for alleged
differentiation and violation of the
custom laws.
The vioIins were brought from Europe
by Prof. Frank Vandeveken, a noted
Belgian violin solOist, who claimed in
worth only $50 Treasury agents in
vestigated the matter, and, it is said,
secured from Vandeveken an admission
that one one of the instruments is worth
SIS. OOO and the others about $500 each.
The entire lot of violins was seized
and shipped to Philadelphia, where they
are to be locked up in the seizure room
of the United States appraisers stores
to await the result of an examination
by experts from Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
ssUNCLE TOMS CABIN
The Alleged Home of the Hero OF
Mrs Stoves Famous Story,
to Be Sold.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-Unless claimed and re-
moved by its owners within short time,
the old Uncle Toms cabin, the home at
one time of Harriet Beecher Stoves I'M
mortal hero, which has been standing at
the north end of Libby prison grounds
since the World fair, will be sold to the
highest bidder, or otherwise disposed Of
The whole Libby prison site Is, IN fact,
likely to be utilized as the location of
great auditorium or coliseum building,
after the order of the Madison Square
Garden in New York. Negotiations to
this erect have been in progress for three
or four weeks and the prospects OF carry
ing the project through are said to be de-
ridedlv promising A leading banker and
several capitalist of this city are said to
be behind the project.
The cabin was brought here at the time
of the fair from the lower Red River
country in Texas. 1t did not prove great
attraction, but its owners made no at
tempt to take it away at the conclusion of
the fair.
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WoMAN's WIT,
Mrs. barley Was wise and used Her
Wisdom Well.

Wisdom Well.
Crank. dear, said Mrs. barley, "NIrs.
Fosdick was talking about you the other
day, and she said she thought you didn't
look well. Do you know, I'm getting to
be quite anxious about yOu9''
''What are you anxious about, I'd like
to know? Don't eat and sleep well?''
''Well, you sleep fairly we'll, and your
appetite is not SO bad, butt
"But what? Am I bent and stoop shout
dered and bald, or what is it you mean?"
''Why, dear, I thought that possibly you
ought to get your life insured. You know
we have very little saved up, and If you
were to go off and die it would leave me
in very poor circumstances financially. If,
for instance, you went into a rapid de-
cline''-
MARY Jane, what on earth are you
talking abOut2 To listen to you one might
think that come from consumptive
family and was in the last stages OF
galloping consumption, with my death
warrant written all over my face, and that
you were getting ready to be an interest
ing widow and go off and have good
time on the returns from my life tnsur
ance policy. I'm not going tostake out
policy, and l am as healthy and strong as
I ever was in my life, and I don't want
you to intimate that there is any sort of
hard work which cannot dol"
ooh, I'm SO glad to hear that, Frank y
And Mrs barley gave a little gasp of
Joy and threw her arms around her hus-
bands neck. I'm SO glad to hear you
say you are we'll and strong, because the
lawn needs moving so badly, and was
dreadfully afraid that you were too i'll to
run the lawn mower
Whereupon Mr.. barley went out and
shaved the grass in front of the house.
Up to Date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
BLOW TO INDIAN CORN.
French Peasants Replacing It as Diet
With the Chestnut

Washington, Oct. 21.-The consuls in
France report that Indian corn as an
article of diet among the French peas
ants is being replaced by the chestnut
A report from Limoges, received at the
state department today, says:
THE poor people, during the fall and
winter. often make two meals daily
from chestnuts. The ordinary way of
cooking them is to remove the outside
shell, blanch them, then wet cloth is
placed in an earthen pot, which is al
most filed with raw chestnuts; they are
covered 1VfeFisa second wet cloth and put
on the fire TO steam; they are eaten
withssalt or milk. Hot steamed chest
nuts.are carried around the city streets
in baskets or pals; the majority OF the
working people, who usually have no
fire early in the morning, eat them for
their first breakfast, with or without
milk Physicians state that, as an ar
ticle of food, chesnuts are wholesome,
hearty, nutritious and fattening. These
nuts are often used as a vegetable and
are exceedingly popular, being found
on the table of the well-to-do and
wealthy. They are served not only boil
ed, but roasted, steamed, pureed, and
as dressing for poultry and meats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
ORGANIZING A MONOPOLY.
Negotiations Tending for the Pur-
chase of Mexican Guano Deposits.

San Diego. Cal, Oct. 21.-A movement
is on foot which is likely to result in a
monopoly of the fertilizer business of
this entire region. Mr.. Arundal, who al
ready owns the vast deposits of phOs-
phate rock on the Clipperton Island, has
entered into a. contract to purchase of
J. w. Kishler all his concessions from
the Mexican government covering the
great guano deposits along the Gulf of
Mexico This will give Arundal prac-
tically a corner on the fertilizing trade
in this section.
Up to the present time all the fer
tilizer guano and phosphate taken in
that portion of the earth has been ship
ped through San Diego and San Pedro
for use in south6rn California. but
Arundal has found a better market, he
thinks in Hawaii, and viii put on a line
of schooners to transport his products
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
WOMAN STRIKERS PARADE
Members of the Ladies' Tailors'
Union" Complain of Low Wages.

New York. Oct. 21--Anxious to gain
the sympathy of women who wear the
handsOmest and most expensive gowns,
about 400 women'S tailOrs employed by
the most exclusive caterers to wealth
paraded through the district around
Fifth avenue headed by a brass band.
All in line were members of the Ladies'
Tailors' union, against which the "boss-
es'' have been waging bitter warfare.
thrown out OF employment and these
expected to make the parade, but a
general sympa thetic strike ordered
swelled the ranks to unexpected pro-
portions.
So that all might know the cause of
the demonstration a large placard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
WAR RELICS FOUND.
Discovered in the Tennessee River
Where They Were Lost in 1856.

Decatur Ala, Oct. 21.-While repair
ing the Southern railroad bridge today
a workman dropped one of his tools in
16 feet of water. He descended and
dived to recover his tool. He came up
with a sword and scabbard. Diving a
second time he came to the surface with
a 32-pound bomb with a portion of the
fuse still attached. The workman said
there were several large square iron
boxes and what felt like a cannon where
he found the bomb. Both sword and
scabbard were in a fair state of preser-
walton.
An old resident of Decatur said the
articles were relics of the federal army,
which crossed the Tennessee on pom
ICONS in 1895, and he remembered when
the cannon and a caiSSOn fell over
board Steps are being taken to raise
the cannon and place them in the town
hall as relics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
AN AWFUL ARRAY.


Al E9BG EeFt0Em3DcS8 Counted THIS
Team Was q winner.
The Harvale university football eleven
is now complete. A recent conversation
with Mr.. Pete MoMussel, the gentleman
~ trainer of the team, elected the follow
ing interesting facts:
Eyes. said Mr.. McMussel, in reply to
a Query from your correspondent, ''our
team is full and in tiptop shape. You see,
the war ended just in time to let US out.
All our boys are back again and practic-
ing team work, and they are all doing
splendidly."
''Tell me something about them" sug-
gested your correspondent.
''Wen,'' replied the affable trainer,
''there's Jigsby at center. He's the best
all round center we have had in a hatful
of years. Say, he killed five Spapiards
single handed at HualmacftoI HeN do,
won't he? At right guard is Bagstock.
Perhaps you remember that Bagstock held
back II insurgents who were trying to
steal General Wheeler valise at Jaraquito.
He's as strong as an of OK. At left guard
is Climlner. Climmer was in the Wonty-
wonth, and when the 800 pound bass drum
mer rolled down the hill at Pajama it was
Climn or who caught him on the seventh
bound and held him fast. Our tackles
are the Pilger twins They selected and
broke in all the horses for Snoozefelt's
Tough Trotters. They used to catch and
throw the untaned brOnchoS DarehanQeQ-
They are very bad pair. Our ends are
Noxon and Mingo. Noxon kept himself
in practice by stopping solid shot from the
old fashioned Spanish guns, and Mingo
hardened himself by letting the boys
throw fruit cans at him. Our quarter back
is little Ton plin, the boy hero of Hooh-
lahhoolah. He is the lad who ran into the
Spanish trenches with 900 yards of barbed
wire clinging to him. The half backs are
Pugsley and Cuttlef1sh. PuRsley was cap
tured by seven Spaniards and trotted
back into the American camp with the
whole seven clinging to him. Cuttlefish
killed two dons by cracking their heads
together and then, entirely unaided,
turned Toral's wing and paralyzed his
center. At full back is HOrnsby. Say,
he's wonderl At Saragossamer he made
a field kick with a Spanish cannon ball,
driving it squarely back into the gun it
was fired from. While the regiment was
in camp at Sizzle Point he pulled 10 foot
alligator from the lagoon with one hand
his own hand-and at Camp Whykoff he
became so expert at jumping that he could
clear ten horses and the canteen shed in
one spring-and no fall When Hornsby
gets started, brick walls can't stop him,
and, as for kickiDg-well, one of the east
ern war museums is preserving among its
most priceless treasures hole that Horns
by kicked in San Juan blockhouse. oh,
you can bet your last 80 cents it's great
team l''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

A burglar met a policeman as he left a
house he had robbed.
What have you been up to?'' asked the
COPPER.
''Just speaking to a man., answered
Sykes, a little taken aback.
The constable then took him the other
way up and shook him, so that dozen
silver spoons fell from his pockets on to
the ground.
CHOW I know that speech is really sill
vern,' said the copper.
''And silence is golden said Sykes,
slipping a couple of sovereigns into the
hands of his captor, and the copper alb
sorbed both the silver and the goId.-Pick
Me Up.
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Her Excuse.

She was telling one of her sisters all
about it, and this is what her father over
heard:
And when the little girl that sits be-
tween US leans forward the little boy on
the other side of her catches hold of one of
her braids and 1 catch hold of the other,
and we yank her head back Oh, it's more
fun
$50 that's the way you act in school, is
it?'' interrupted che father
"Oh, WE'LL" returned the 6year-old
frankly, I'VE don do that III the regular
school, you knOw-only in the Sunday
school. "-Chicago Post.
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M Consolation.

"The study of evolution teaches us,
said the professor, ''that when an organ
becomes useless it gradually fades away.
Witness the eyeless fish in the Mammoth
cave. In like manner it is probable that
the appendix vermiformis, which anato-
mists think is but the reminiscence, 50 to
speak, of an organ once useful in the hui
man internal mechanism, but now appar-
emily worse than useless, will ultimately
shrink away and disappear utterly
''By that time. though" grumbled a
calamity bowler in the class, "science will
have made all grapes seedless. Chicago
Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
ALLEGED FUN.
From the Chicago Record.1
STILL A NOVICE.

fFrom the Chicago Record
STILL A NOVICE.
In childhood days we played together;
I kept a store, she came to buy;
Sometimes I was her little husband
And she would cook and make mud pie.
All, that was long ago and many
A country have I wandered through
Today she's married to another
And settled down, and happy, too.
Last night they had me in to dinner
ate a piece of pie she made
She knows no more about pie-making
Than she did when we, as children,
PLAYED,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

"What can you offer my daughter that
equals or excels what she has now?'' de-
manded the old man.
well, - replied the young man after
minute or two of thought, 81 think the
name of Martindale is an improvement
upon that of SBraggs.''
Those who heard of it afterward decided
it was clincher, and, anyway, he got the
Rirl.-Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

bearing the following was carried in the
line:
made the coats and gowns of the richest
ladies of the country without be ng able
to earn enough to keep ourselves and
families from starvation. We are there
fore locked out for the twenty-second
week for refusing to sign a document
showing we are not members of any I'M
ion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

George, - said Mrs. Ferguson, ST want
SO this morning"
"That will be enough. will it, Laura?"
asked Mr. Ferguson.
''Well, while you are about it you may
as well make it $15.''
"No more, dear love, for at touch yie1di
Ask me morel'
quoted George, handing out the bills and
hastily replacing the purse in his pocket
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

Cholly-For one whole week during my
summer vacation I was the only man
among 25 women.
Dukes-Of course, under the circum-
stances, the dear girls told you that
Philadelphia North American.
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nae Americnn Climnte.

Visitor-Do you get out of school at 1
o'clock9
Little Girl-Yes, ma'am. We have only
one session at our school.
"Indeedl 1 thought they had two ses-
sions therep''
mo, ma'am. We always have one ses-
sion, except when the weather is pleas
ant. New York Weekly.
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Unshaken Confidence.

cts always pretty safe to judge a man
by the company he keeps"
"Oh, I don't know. There are excep-
tions. My Uncle Johns business makes
it necessary for him to associate with
aldermen good deal, and still I'd trust
him with every dollar I've got in the
world. Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
An Accommodating Pa.

Mr.. Slimpurse-Wha what did your pa
say when you told him we were engaged
to be married?
Miss Beauty-He was real kind. He
said if you would call for him tomorrow
with carriaRe-I think he said your car
riage-he would go with you to look at
any brownstone fronts you think of buy
ing for me to live in.-New York Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
She Saw Too mich.

She (after marriage)-You told me that
I was your first love, but 1 have found
whole trunkful of letters from all sorts
of girls, just bursting with tenderness.
Hell said you were the first I ever
loved. didn't say you were the only one
who ever loved me. See?-New York
Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21
DIPLOMATIC Puss.

came you to be talking to young man
on the pier last night?
Ethel-Oh-er-he wanted to know
your name and where you lived, and
wouldn' t tell him.
Maiden Aunt thought he seemed a
superior youth.-Ally SIoper.
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just Like a Woman,

Helen-Didn't you get your shoes, to-
day?
Hortense-No.
''What was the matter? Didn't they
have any your size?''
''Oh, yes, but they weren't small
enough. ''-Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

"H'm!' snapped the chambermaid to
the nursegirl. What common bawls you
Attend"
''IndeedH' was the disGainful reply.
''Well, they re better than cheap sheet
and pillowcase party like you. '-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-21

Mrs PressIey-''Nfrs. Bingle- says her
n morning ana evsTg evening during the
fourteen years of their married life"
what gave him that expression of settled
melancholy
BETTER THAN A SCANDAL.
would like to go on the stage. would you?
you ever had a divorce?"
but I have been asked to christen a boat,
and ] think can stir up quite fight
over the question of using wine or water"
HE DESERVED IT
thought the world was becoming less. love
ly- every day. Did you really mean that?,
Wouldn't have said it,
She-''YOu needn't come next sunday
evening. I remember now that I have
he had lost a girl whose father was worth
millions.
THE INGONSTANT SUBURBANITE.
My sweetheart, hand in hand" he said,
wen &c through life together,
And you burdens, dear, will BEAR
In fair and stormy weather.
That was a year ago today:
WIND An6 biekSI al what I pity 5a,- If
Tie bundles from the city.
TO HER ADVANTAGE.
''Well,' said the corporals wife, Il sup
pose the boys did surfer a good deal on
scarcity Of food, but for my part IN glad
of it."
ooh. Mrs. Whitestripes." her neighbor
exclaimed, how can you say such a
Maybe it is. but my husband hasn't had
a complaint to make about my cooking
since he got home
By Otto Kuehne & Co. Gypsy Queen
is made,
A Topeka product of the highest
grade,
In homes of rich, and poor alike, tits
SEEM
"Gipsy Queen"
A Spasm
OF delight, Eagles Silver Statue Cigars.
s25 to Chicago today via Santa Fe.
No change Of cars.
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A Golden welding.

She-So Mr. Sapper has just celebrated
his golden wedding.
He-Golden weddingl Why, he's only
just got married.
She-Yes, but the girl has 500, oOO.-
New York Herald.
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A Reelection on His Manners.

''I guess said Rubherneok Bill in his
most rasping tones when the waiter hand
ed him a napkin, Il guess got manners
enough not to wipe my hands on your
durn tablecloth without your handin me
that thing. indianapolis Journal.
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Then 1t Is Easy.

Algy-Well, old boy, have just touched
Reggy for another temper.
Chappie-Whati And got it? How on
earth do you do it?
Algy-Oh, it's very easy. 1 just casual
~ mention his resemblance to the Prince
of Metropolitan.
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Feminine Charity.

He-That St. Louis heiress seems to
have made quite social hit.
She-Indeedl
He-Yes; understand she has a dozen
prominent society men at her feet.
She-Well, she is fortunate in having
room there for them. Chicago News.
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"She wanted to prove his love and de-
votion, so she told him she had lost all
her money"
"Well?'
''Well, she'll know enough not to do
that next time. Washington Star.
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" Bridget, you've broken as much china
this month as your wages amount to-
Now, how can we prevent this occurring
again?'
81 don't know, mum, unless yez raise
me wages. What to Eat