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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-01

Arrival and Departure U. 8. Malls.
South bound nail closes 4:45 p. m.
South bound mail arrives $3.50 pm.
North bound mail closes 11:15 q. m.
North bound mail arrives 1900 m .
Night mails are closed at $3.50 p. m
Money order department is open
Mt 8 O.. M, and closed at p. m.
Office hours from 8 a. M, to pm
Sundays from 8 q. m, to a. m.
MORAN SCOTT, p. M.
EDGAR SANDLIN. Deputy:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-01
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY

UaIted States Court for 1898.
The United States court for thie
district will meet as follows:
Chickasha. Feb. and Oct. 8
Ryan. ...... Feb. 21 and Oct. II
Pauls Valley. =. March 2 and Oct. 81
Purcell. March % and Nov. 2l
Ardmore. April Il and Dec. b
Hosea Townsend u 8. Judge
w. B. Johnson. III s. Attorney
q. NJ. Campbell. ......U. 8. Clerk
John B. Hammer. u. S, Marshal
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-01

WHEN it comes to cotton.
which has become prime ma
val and military necessity, this
country is also. fixed better than
any other nation on the globe.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY's faith
in Providence should not be
shaken because he has been
made the instrument in the en-
forcement of a direct revenue
tax that is going to help to ex-
terminate the policy of protec-
ton.
The herald., 1898-01-09
KNOCKING AT OUR DOOR

Kern county has been regarded as q
part of central California, but geograph-
ically it is as much part of Southern
California as San Bernardino county,
the north boundaries of both counties
being on the same parallel of latitude
The Rand and surrounding mining dis
tricts are already tributary to Los An
geles in a commercial sense, and con-
siderable Los Angeles capital has been
invested therein.
1t is gratifying to note that Bakers
field merchants manifest a strong dis
position to establish closer commercial
relations with this city, and the business
of Los Angeles, wholesale and retail
houses and manufacturers, with Ba-
kersfield and neighboring towns is
steadily increasing. The extension of
the Valley railroad through the TETON
pass to Los Angeles, which will be pros
ecuted vigorously on it's arrival at Ba-
kersfield, will, with the benefit it de-
rived from two competing transconti-
mental railroads, prove an additional
incentive to establish still closer COM
mercial relations between this city and
the northern part of Kern county. Our
business men should make vigorous eff
forts to secure a foothold there now, be-
fore the advent of the San Joaquin VAL
ley railroad makes closer ties with San
Francisco.
Bakersfield has just been incorporated
and is waking up to the possibilities of
commercial and agricultural expansion.
An effort is being made to inaugurate
low rate excursions from Los Angeles,
as mentioned in detail in the Bakers
field correspondence on another page.
whereby eastern tourists will be given
an opportunity to visit the Kern county
metropolis and observe it's wonderful
resources and advantages.
The herald., 1898-01-09

drance to marriage, but that it operated
as a prudent restraint. The homes OF
the operatives, where both husband and
wife worked in the mills, compared very
we'll with those of laborers whose wives
do not go out to work. She found. too.
that large and healthy families are the
usual result of marriages between
working men and women.
Very many women dislike to "do
their own work" Therefore the board
ing house is an active disintegrator of
home life. Miss Campbell says that conf
radeship, the only abiding relationship
between the sexes, is, so far, develop
ment for only the highest souls. ITO the
majority of married pairs it is meaning
less" This is another agency that breaks
up the home. However, it is encourage
ing to know that Miss Campbell believes
that evolution may yet solve the prob
lem, so that the home shall universally
become the house beautiful, wherein
love reignS.
The herald., 1898-01-09
In Southern California

1t is a golden harvest in California. From
Santa Barbara to the Mexican border the
groves are cleaning with their luscious
fruitage. Vast acres In Los Angeles, San
Diego, Orange, Riverside. San BernardinC
and Ventura are yielding tons of wealth.
Travellers northward and southwark ride
all day through gardens as fair as those
of tabled Hesperides. realizing that here is
The land where the lemon trees bloom.
Where the gold orange glows in the deep
thickets gloom.
Where a wind ever soft from the blue
heaven blows.
And the groves are Of laurel and myrtle
and rose.
This is the season when California
boasts herself the superior of every coun-
try on the planet This is the
season when California courts comparison
with "the most favored nations" claiming
"a climate unsurpassed" a capacity OF
production unequaled and possibilities
immeasurable. Midwinter in Southern
California Is a season to inspire poets and
fill the hearts Of artists with enthusiasm
On New Years day in the southern town
of Pasadena they strewed the streets
with roses. they garlanded their carriages
with lilies, and they festooned their dwell
ings with the greenery that in every other
land is scant for the purpose In June.
Everywhere in this land of perpetual sun
shine Is this miracle of nature occurring
from day to day, from month to month
from season to season, from year to year
an endless variety of beauty amid tireless
monotony of summer.-San Francisco
Post.
The herald., 1898-01-09
A Retrospection

Merry Christmas has departed and mos
everybody's broke;
The uncle" has the overcoat-the watch
has gone to Soak!
'Tis well for us the weather's fine-the eli
mates all we've got,
cause the fat went in the ashes and there's
init" within the pot!
There was feasting-yes, and drinking
there were golden dreams of bliss.
Till your Klondike shrunk to nothing
thought twould never come to this;
There's the clothes we filled to bus ting
now flapping DER our shoes,
And sad faces, like billed lobsters," are
awearng of the "blues."
Then there was the New Years carnage
put the climax on the wreck,
When the last proud. luscious gobbler got
it heavy in the neck;
And those feathers. oft erected in con-
temptuous disdain,
Are a-tra!ling in the gutter and will never
rise again.
Now we've lost that nasty headache thai
we had some time ago.
How they blamed it on the weather, and
we all had cold. you know,
But twill neer again affect us, cause the
"three-star" branded stock
Is no longer in the closet, and the things
are in the "hock.' T. d. 8.
Los Angeles, January 6, 1898.
The herald., 1898-01-09
SUNDAY, JANUARY o. 1898,
LET'S HAVE THE QUESTIONS

The board of library trustees, being in
doubt as to the qualifications of the
attaches of the library has instituted
an examination from which are ex-
empted only the librarian and her
first and second assistants.
The young ladies of the staff (who
have served for terms varying from
two to seven years, and who are now
brought face to face with the PROPOSE
tion as to whether they have been COM
petent all this time) have been wrest-
ling with this examination for the past
week.
Is it too much for The Herald to ask
that after the examinations shall have
been completed, the full list of one hun
dred questions be given to the press
and thus submitted to the public? :?
There is a good deal of popular inter-
est in this list of questions (Which we
are informed was compiled without
any ulterior purpose whatever), and it
would be quite treat to consider them.
One of these questions, which has leaked
through the espionage of the examna-
tion, is this:
"Give a characteristic quotation from
Plato"
9 Now, The Herald would be willing to
offer a prize of whole set of the Rand
& McNally maps of the world to every
one of its readers who will answer this
question within fifteen minutes after
reading this article without consulting
a book of reference. And yet the young
ladies of the library are asked to an
swer this question among others to dem
onstrate whether they have been COM
petent to serve books to the public all
these years!
Oh, fudge!
By all means, gentlemen of the IL
brary board, let the public have the
questions.
The herald., 1898-01-09
CAPITAL CRIME

The San Quentin incident of last week
closed a case that must take important
historical rank in criminal records
Opinions as to the guilt of the executed
man may differ, as they do regarding all
famous criminals, but it would proba-
bly, be found that d preponderance of
those who believe the person should not
have suffered the extreme penalty of
the law, because convicted upon circum-
stantial evidence, are in fact opposed
to capital punishment for any offense
Upon this question there will. always
be a divergence of opinion between in
dividuals as well as communities. AS
means of deterring criminal indulgence,
restraining the murderous instinct and
protecting society from the exercise of
criminal passion, it has been tried with
varying results in all the eras of civil
ization that have come and gone since
the world began. States Of the Union
have adopted capital punishment for
capital crime, have become dissatis-
fed with the results and repealed the
law, and then again resorted to the
penalty, the shifting sentiment repre-
senting the changing moods and con-
victions of the people who are supposed
to inspire them.
About the only difference between the
PUNISHMENT of murder now and in the
earliest era of which we have any knowl-
a0aeT is that in the olden time it was in
The herald., 1898-01-09
ANGLES haRSiNq ff2a 2'i,;;s:. SHAs ~
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Herbert NJ. Lord, secretary Of the co
mit,ee of ways and means of the house
representatives Of congress. has the r.
utation of being one of the finest ter
singers of the state of Maine.
DR.. Seybold. professor Of Oriental lt
guages at Tuebingen, relates in a rece
article that the late Don Pedro of Bra
was wonderful linguist. and that he hi
self read with him books in Greek,
brew. Arabic and Sanscrit.
Elizabeth Rider Wheaton. the we'll kno'
prison evangelist. has visited every pris
in every important city in the world. s
has become known to most railroad mi
and receives annual passes over all t
large lines in this country.
Professor A. Bauer. his been obliged
account of Ill health to decline the Off
of president of the third international &C
gress for applied chemistry. which Is
be held next year at Vienna, and DR.. r.
Won Perger has been elected In his stead
The Duke of Wellington, Napoleon's co
Queror. was something of poet, accordi
to the United Sertice Magazine. whi
has unearthed the nbretto for a canta
written by the great duke. and product
too. The subject is Pandora and Pi
metheus."
The monument which the members
the iron brigade are to erect to the mel
ory of General John Gibbon in the A
lington cemetery, across the Potomac fre
the national capital. is rapidly neari
completion. A bas relief of General GLIB
appears on the front of the granite, q
the whole Will be the handsomest mon
ment In the cemetery.
Mr.. Gladstone being asked on the e
of his departure for France whether he q
not think his continuous reading and III
rary study might have some undesir
BILE effect on his nerves, and given rise
his neuralgia. MY dear SIR" replied ,
Gladstone. in a tone whose seriousness W
not simulated, can you imagine VIII
would be the condition of my nerves II
were compelled to do nothing"
Mark Twain writes to a Vienna new
paper that the recent Thanksgiving rece
ton at the American legation Of the Ans
lean residents in the Austrian capital "
a great surprise, because 1t disclosed
fact that there were twice as many Anne
cans living in the city as had genera
been supposed. According to Ma
Twain's observations. the men were !
medical students and the women all p
pills of a noted pianoforte teacher.
It is worth recalling that Jeremy Tayl
allowed but three hours out of the twent
four for sleep; Baxter four; Wesley 81
Lord Coke and Sir William Jones sevf
1t is said that Bismarck and Gladstor
now that they have reached an adyanc
age, both sleep eight hours; zola slee
only seven hours. Many great men, SUI
as Goethe, Mlrabeau, Napoleon and Hun
boldt. have given even less time to slef
Kent, who only slept seven hours duri
the greater part of his life, but In old q
was Obliged to increase the amount,
earded the bed as the nest of disease
thus anticipating the discoveries of LAT
physicians. -
The herald., 1898-01-09
AMERICAN DCMESTICITY

Miss Helen Campbell, an authority on
sociological subjects of interest to
women, in the January Arena, asks and
answers the following question: as
American domesticity decreasing, and if
So why?"
The home is the sacred retreat of
domesticity-it is domesticity itself. The
question then comes in this form: How
far have American women, as class
separated themselves from the home as
an institution? The separation was
much less, both as to sphere and as to
numbers some twenty or thirty
years ago, and the principal cause has
been the invasion of the industrial field
by women. Four millions of women, Is
per cent of the entire population, are
now engaged in paid industries, the
number having doubled in twenty years.
For instance, in 1870 there We're only
5000 bookkeepers, accountants, type
writer's, etc, while in 1890 there were
result, one moral, the other economic.
The trend of the times is to demonstrate
work that is honorable and desira BILE for
all women as we'll as men, while the
introduction of machinery has been the
chief economic factor.
No small proportion of the number of
working women are married. In the
state of Illinois the bureau of labor re-
port shows that so per cent of the work
ngmen could not support their families
without the assistance of their wives.
In Massachusetts - per cent of all the
women employed were married. The
employment of women in that state in
creases three times as fast as the female
population, and between 1875 and 1885
the number of housewives decreased
1895, or per cent. In all the states
there is the constantly increasing class
of women, the deserted wives of men
whose courage failed them as the bur-
den grew heavier, and who shifted the
entire responsibility to the shoulders of
the woman.
All these things have tended greatly
" lllc ulSIHleSIdlIOn Ol lne nome. lney
have had another very bad effect-that
of undermining the health and general
physical condition of the children. Out
Of 800 children treated at a New York
hospital, sos We're reported to have been
in good condition at the time of birth,
and only twenty in bad condition. In
very large proportion of the cases the
mothers were compelled TO work away
from their homes. The children did not
receive proper care and nourshmcnt as
babies and We're thus rendered subject
to disease In over 100 of these cases the
entire family income was less than S5
week. In $50 cases it was below $40
week.
Mrs. Fanny Purdy Palmer of Rhode
Island, a factory inspector, found, on
the other hand, that the employment Of
women-in the factories-was not a him
The herald., 1898-01-09
The Los Angeles Herald Annual

The Los Angeles Herald on Jan. I'd is
sued its annual edition for Los Angeles and
Southern California. Under its present
management The Herald has made rapid
strides as metropolitan daily, and the
annual of forty pages is worthy of its en-
terprlsing publishers The resources and
varied attractions of Southern California
are presented in a comprehensive form.
Jas The Herald says. the edition is a
story, in short of the years development
in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.
The special articles contain facts and fig
ures that homeseekers are eager to secure
AS an advertisement of Southern Califor-
MAS advantages The Heralds S annual can
not fail to be of great benefit to its pro-
gressive constituency.-San Francisco
Chronicle,
The herald., 1898-01-09
Last Sundays "Herald"

The Los Angeles Herald of Sunday con-
tanned 40 pages and $50 columns. This has
been the size of The Herald for several
Sundays past This edition contained
much readable matter about the seven
southern counties, which 1t calls "The
Seven Sisters of the Land of Sunshine
A map Is given which shows their size'
with notes of their chief production on
the face of each. The special articles are
written by such we'll informed men as L.
S. Van Dyke, A. H. Naftzger. l.. L. Garn-
sey, and others. Cuts of the Pomona col
lege building and the fine residence OF CITY
Trmstee Elliott Hinman appear in connec-
tion with a very good paper on Pomona
and vicinity, by as we suspect, II. H..
Hewitt of the Beaeon.-Pomona Times.
The herald., 1898-01-09
Decline in Railway Construction

While the railways already in operati
carried more freight and passengers d,
ing the year just closing than in either.
the two years preceding. the business !
vival started too late In the season to
duce capitalists to put any consideral
amount of money in new railway constrl
ton. Low water mark In railway buildi
was reached in 1895, when only 1903 mi
of new track were laid. and the increa
over this record in 1897 was only sixty-o
miles, the new track for the year amour
ing to but 1864 miles. In eleven states a
territories not a mile Of new track W
laid and in five others the new track "
limited to from half a mile to mile
a quarter in each.-Philadelphia Times.
The herald., 1898-01-09

fiicted by the friends OF the person slain
instead of by public officials. We all
know the Mosaic law, for it still'lives.
but in the days of Israel any member of
the family of the person slain could
pursue the murderer and put him to
death. There was but one way to es-
cape this merited and certain retribu-
tion, which was for the criminal to es-
cape to certain cities of refuge, in which,
If the killing was shown to have been
| justifiable, he could secure protection
1t is much the same now, only that the
| technicalities of the law rather than
walled cities shield the evil doers.
Against the oft-heard plea that cap
ital punishment is barbarous and should
have no place in our advanced civiliza-
tion, it may be noted that comparative
ly few crimes are now punishable with
death. Under the Hebraic polity desc
Grafton of the Sabbath, blasphemy, idol
airy, witchcraft, cursing, offering chill
dren to Moloch and disobedience to pa
rents, were among the capital crimes;
whereas, in the United States the only
crimes punishable by death are treason
murder, arson, rape, piracy, robbery of
the mail with jeopardy to the life of the
person in charge of it, rescue of per-
son convicted of a capital crime when
going to execution, burning a vessel of
war and corruptly casting away or de-
stroying vessel belonging to private
owners. In most of the states treason
and murder are capital crimes; in some
also rape, arson and robbery under
certain aggravated circumstances, while
in all countries acting as spy. desertion
to the enemy or secretly communicating
advice or intelligence to him, are pun
ishable with death. Punishment by
hanging is the law in Great Britain,
Austria and the United States; by the
guillotine in France, by the garrote in
Spain, and in most European states by
beheading, while the almost universal
military mode is by shooting.
The Roman laws were singularly flex-
ible inasmuch as immunity could be |
purchased for money consideration, |
though poets and libelers We're executed |
without benefit of clergy. The Salic law |
also prescribed the rate of compensation |
for different crimes, though the injured |
person had always the alternative of |
taking personal satisfaction. In Ger |
many there was an association or VEN
delta, the members of which were sworn
to avenge the death of a comrade.
Punishment of crime to be effective
in restraint of the murderous instinct |
must be certain and swift Such daily
ing with the instrumentalities of justice
as has recently been witnessed in this
state breaks the force of the lesson, de-
stroys the usefulness of the example,
to the all too popular belief
that legal penalties are only for the
poor and forsaken, and that wealth and
influence can buy out the law itself.
The case in point has gone to final re-
view, and little can now be gained by
reviving details of the long -drawn-out
Justice, as defined by the
laws under which we live has at last
been satisfied, and we can only hope,
in common with all good citizens, that
the closing scene of agony at San Quen-
tin will have the effect which the law
of staying the murderous
instinct and restraining the criminal
passion.
The herald., 1898-01-09
Too Much Dashed Language

1t must be confessed that swearing
altogether too common both inSiction d
on the stage, AS It grows less comm
among well-bred and civilizedN men
seems to thrive on the lips of the hero
and villains Of novels and plays. 1t tai
an artist, and great artist, to use pl
family, or even slang, and the more spi
ingly he uses 1t the better will be the
feet. There is so-called realism viii
is merely repulsive..-New York Sun.
The herald., 1898-01-09
Gaining a Place Quietly

If the country goes along peaceIuiiy
about its business. maintaining nrH po-
sition in defense of its rights everywhere,
hut foregoing the luxury of hunting for
trouble, either in Difference to the desires
of fiery senators. congressman, the gen
tlemen who conduct wars on paper. or
any other sanguinary individuals, 1t would
not take Il long to attean Industrial ana
commercial supremacy, and, having at
tained it, to exert greater power IN IN
Hmenc,nr the affairs of the world than 1t
ever could hope to acquire by force
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
The herald., 1898-01-09
Stand UP for California

Stand up for California,
Her mountains and her plains,
Her men of ample fortune
And her men of ample brains;
Her groves of juicy oranges,
Her commerce and her air
Stand up and tell her merits
And her progress everywhere;
For in the mighty, onward move
Our nation now Is making
This noble state will daily prove
What she Is undertaking.
Stand up for California,
And let the people see
There's something more than atmos
phere-
Trade and fertility.
Stand up for sunshine, moonshine,
And the glitter of the coin;
Stand up for gold mines, good wine,
And the climate we purloin;
And let the world behold out here
Beside the ocean wave,
The herald., 1898-01-09
LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION


State Of California. County Of Los Ange-
ies.jss.
L. M. Holt. superintendent Of circulation
Of the Los Angeles Daily Herald. being
Arst duly sworn. deposes and says: That
for the five months from February /. 1897.
to June 30. 1897 Qnclusive). the total circu-
lation Of the said Daily Herald was ,2s0 635
copies, being an average daily circula-
ton of S6O4.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,071,567. being n daily
average of S3O6 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 21s. .059. being an average
for each Sunday of 1O,431.
L. NJ. HOLT,
Superintendent of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day Of July. 1897.
FRANK J. COOPER.
Notary Public in and for the County OF
!, Los Angeles State Of California
The herald., 1898-01-09

A member Of the Cuban junta Is au-
thority for the statement that the Span
ish residents of Havana are intriguing
for an American protedtorate of the
island, conditioned upon the complete
withdrawal Of Spanish authority. The
talk will at least furnish food for spec
ulation along comparatively new
lines.
The herald., 1898-01-09
Snecial Publications.

The fourteenth annual issue of the Chi
cago Daily News Almanac and Political
Register for 1898 is at hand. 1t would prob
ably be a sufficient commentator on this
valuable annual to say that Its we'll estab-
lished reputation for comprehensiveness
accuracy and variety is fully sustained in
the present issue. But each year this al
manac has made a positive advance and
the present volume is no exception to this
invariable rule. Several timely and i'm
portant articles. of an encyclopaedia
character have been added.
The herald., 1898-01-09

The clearings of Los Angeles banks
for the first week in the new year show
a handsome increase over the same Pc
riod in 1897, being nearly 90 per cent.