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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-30
Ex-Gov. Harris a choctaw.

Elk Gov. Harris of the Chicka-
saw nation went before the Dawes
commission, so Mr.. Kemp reports,
to be enrolled as citizen of the
Chickasaw nation. The Dawes
commission took up his genealogy
and discovered that the mother of
Gov. Harris was a Choctaw and
they refused to enroll him as a
Chickasaw citizen. They will en-
roll him as a Choctaw citizen, on
the ruling the commission has es :
tablished of enrolling all citizens
from the mothers side of the
house, the mother being used to
trace the lineage of the Chickasaw
and choctaw people, instead of
the father Gov. Harris is a Chicka-
saw, as it would count ordinarily
taking his fathers side of the
house for the ancestry, his father
being one of the prominent Chicka-
saws of this day, and descended
from long line of prominent men
in the nation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-30
sPors-MIDDL1NG. .

New York. 8 7-16; sales, 65s; tone, quiet.
New Orleans, 47-s; sales, 1900; tone, steady
Liverpool. is; sales, L. .ooe; good busi-
ness; prices favor buyers
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-30

COTTON
The age-herald., 1898-01-19

greatly impressed the river through which she passed. rolling up great waves in her wake which swept ashore to the hysterlc joy of little boys in swimming, who dashed into them under the impression that they were breakers on the Atlantics rockbound coast.
 With the passing of the steamboat goes whole collection of noises, a concord Of sounds peculiar to the steamboat business. Where is there now in earth's wide round a voice like that of the steamboat bell, mingling with the deep eontralto whistle heard around the bend? What engine born of a machine shop can now utter all the various notes of the old high pressure sort that made the big steamboat wheels go round, the groan, the puff, the wheeze, the snort, mingling with the ting-a-ling Of the bells which came from the lungs Of the steamboat when she made landing? Then when the landing had been made and she swung back into the channel and was away, how the engines shook her up, made everything rattle to the roof of the steam CT and caused the glass pendants on the big chandeliers in the ladies' cabin to 1in- gle together in a merry tune.
 And then the steamboat captain or, as the advertisement called him, the master where on this degenerate globe now walks l1is peer, as he stood on the hurri- cane deck by the bell and gracefully took charge of the Mississippi river and its tributaries? We hear cries of anguish in our time about autocrats and plutocrats, but you should have seen the pilot in his high house, with his hand on the wheel and his eye on the rifle. And then the mate, awful yet attractive to the youth ful population on the ,evee, what lyric tenor or basso profundo of modern years has a voice like his as with shrieks whlch died away into low, rolling thunder or curses, drove the roustabouts to their duty?
 It has all gone. The western world did not seem to need the Al fast sailing, hand somely furnished, high pressure passenger steamer any more and she has gone with the Flying Dutchman and Colonel Sellers "Amaranth." They may rig up some steel barges, and whalebacks and slow, stern wheel grain carriers, but the pride of the inland deep has vanished.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
Savinqs Banks.

The proposition for the establishment of the postal savings bank system easily has two sides. It is indeed questionable wheth- CT the south can afford to have the money that is still kept at home gathered in at the postoffices, and bundled off to the treas ury at Washington or to some sub-treas- ury, to be invested in government bonds. Such a scheme would take from the south the small amount of currency it has here tofore been able to retain. Unless bank ing can be made free by the repeal of the 10 per cent tax upon bank circulation, the south can i'll afford to lose the circulation or any part of it that the national banks are not able to control
 And yet this section of the country is dreadfully bare of savings banks. In all the southern country there are but two savings banks-one in West Virginia and one in North Carolina. Now, if you please. don't spring up to get pen and paper with which to set The Age-Herald right, for The Age-Herald speaks advisedly when 1t says there are but two savings banks south of Baltimore and Cincinnati.
 There are, it is true, no commercial banks in the south. including six in this state; but these institutions are conducted to make profits from handling the savings of the poor. They are owned by stockholders, just as other commercial banks are; and they are conducted with an eye single to dividends for those stockholders. They are commercial banks.
 genuine savings bank Is a mutual bank "a bank conducted by and for it's deposit ors. Every cent of it's net earnings goes to it's depositors. There are no stockholders, and consequently no dividends for such people. In Connecticut there are eighty-six such banks; in Massachusetts, 191; in little Rhode Island, 31. In the eleven states ly- ing east of Ohio there are 615 genuine, real, all-wool-and-a-ya -yard-wide savings banks; in the thirteen southern states there are two.
 The south does need more savings institu- tions; and if the 10 per cent tax were re- pealed, so that each state could make pro- vision against it's own needs in the way of circulation, there would be no reason why the south should oppose the establish ment of the postal savings bank system. Under such circumstances, on the other hand this section should favor the system. But until the grip of the national bank system upon legislation is loosened, the to nla would take away the little that it has.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19

seemed to be her wonted attitude of non- chalance and leisure. This person was afterward shown to be a maniacal laun- dress whose squalor and detestation and hideous grimmaces were all unnoticed by the mock goddess. What vagary bade this reptile turn her servile eyes, full of rapine, on the beautiful maiden, it is hard to say; but suddenly, under pretense of seeing something on the ground, she produced a hiatus in the crowd, and thus obtained precedence of all. Simultaneous with her appearance the van drove past. She then filled the air with gross raillery and began to promulgate anarchism, societys lack of probity, and the general predilection of pol iticians for patronage. Then she besought her audience hear her date on the gla- female franchise, the Pleiades, and her pa- tron saint. She was evidently demented, and the flow of her vocables appeared end- less. Suddenly she raised a pest1e which had been hidden under her shawl and threw 1t directly at the visor on the girls head. Thereupon a fiaccid lthographer who was cutting a swath as a tribune on the follow ing van, grasped a seine and threw it over the gaunt old hag, so that her efforts to escape were futile, and she became as doclle lamb. The pathos of the affair lay in the way the girl bore the ordeal. In court the virago gave an alias instead of her own name. Her defense was that vaccine, whose presence was shown by a scabious arm, together with desuetude in the matter of personal freedom, had produced an ob- session which decreed the irrevooable death of the girl. An inventory of her belongings was made, and she was then sent to an asylum as a victim of acute homicidal ma nia
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
"BARRISTER" AGAIN.
The "Aristocrat Replies to ''Commoner' on
 the Gas Matter, and It Is Gaseous.

To the Editor of The Agc-Herald.
 It is not my habit to take cognizance Of the utterances of those whom I could not recognize under the code duello. Yet, MT. Editor you have seen fit to allow the use of your columns to one who signs himself "A Commoner." It is evident this man of the masses is unworthy of word from me- The man who admits that he has not the ability to earn sufficient to pay $1.65 per thousand feet for gas to illuminate his home, is not entitled to a home. What man her of man is he? What right has he to protest against the charges made for gas in Birmingham? If he had gas in his home he would probably spend his evenings read ing about the free coinage of silver, about the rights of labor as against capital ana other stuff of like character
 Capital must be nurtured and protected in Birmingham. Suppose the company which makes gas here does or should charge more for it than is charged in other cities. It but gives the city a prosperous concern and one prosperous concern draws others here. They give employment to just such people as "A Commoner." This class of people should work draw their salaries, buy food and clothing, and sleep. They should not be permitted to express their views. They have no right to views on public questions of this character. Directly this man "Commoner,' if by any possibil- ity, the price of gas should be reduced to a dollar, will be demanding that the gov- ernment lend him money without interest. People are like horses-there are thorough breds and scrubs. Let the people who are in trade and the laboring classes dictate once, and thereafter the professional peo- pie and capital will have no rights.
 In this connection, MT. Editor, permit me to correct you. I have not now, never have had and never expect to have any connec- tion with any gas company in Birming- ham. But shall always uphold the rights of the best of the people, and in this connec- ton I say keep gas at a high price.
 BARRISTER.
 T1s-
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
JULEs VERNE AT HOME.
The Author of 76 Books of Wild Adventure
 Has Seen Little of the World.

Paris Letter to the London Telegraph.
 M. Jules Verne, the popular novelist, the magieian-like evoker of strange scenes by sea, sky and land, has been seen in his re- treat at Amiens, where he has lived for years, disdaining the hustle and turmoil of Paris. The author of Michel Strogon" lives in a fine house in the Rue Charles Dubois and is highly respected in Amens. The author of so many thrilling narratives will soon be 70, but is full of health and spirits, living chiefly on eggs and herbs. He is a municipal councillor, and he and his wife occupy themselves a good deal with works of charity, amusing their leis- ure by going to the theater. They have not the least desire to revisit Paris, and prefer the more salubrious air of Amiens. The novelist does not resemble any of his heroes, and looks like a government flnan- cial official of rank. After luncheon the novelist related how when a student in Brittany, he wrote half a dozen tragedies, and then started for Paris, where he was befriended by the elder Dumas. He wrote a play with Dumas. Els, composed "Un Drame dans le Airs" GA Drama in the Air), which was remarked, but burst into fame with his "Cinq Semaines en Ballon" (Five Weeks in Balloon). He was intoxicated by success, and wanted to bloom forth as a new Balzac, but the elder Hetzel, his publisher, advised him paternally to work the mysterious and adventurous vein. Then followed the volumes which have obtained a worldwide reputation for their author. The last is the seventy-sxth in number, and is entitled ''Le Sphinx des Glaces'' (The Sphinx of the North) Jules Vernes habits are most regular. He rises at dawn, and writes until Il o'clock. After luncheon he goes to reading room and peruses all the newspapers, except on the days when he has to attend the municipal council In the evening he rests like real provincial, or goes to the theater. He works care- fully and fastdiously. An advertisement of Cooks agency suggested the -Four du Monde en Quatre-vingt Jours" (Around the World in Eighty Days"), just as incidents related in the papers also give him ideas, plots and incidents. His hardest work is in reading up about the countries which he describes. It was George Sand who in- duced him to write 'tVingt Mile Lieues sous les Mers" (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) and expressed herself as fascinated and enthralled by his narratives. Many of his books have been translated into Arabic and Japanese, and he shows the transations with some pride Strange ly enough the author has travelled little. He once had a yacht, and sailed the chan nel of the Mediterranean, but never saw, as he said, the cannibalS nor the Chinese, nor has he made the tour of the globe. He neither hunts, shoots nor fishes, although he once tried to bring down a few birds, but having lodged some buckshot in gendarmes cooked hat, he became disgust ed with the sport. In conclusion, it may be added that Jules Verne hopes to write many a thrilling volume before his time comes to enter the land of real and awful mystery.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
Quartz Mir ing in CIet urne.

The Edwardsville Standard-News gives much space to review of the copper and gold mines of Cleburne county, and enc of its correspondents express the connection that the building of the Chattanooga and Montgomery road would attract worldwide attention to the mineral wealth of the county. Without the railroad mentioned, he anticipates very considerable influx of people next spring.
 The metal-bearing rocks of the county are by no means unexplored, and shafts have been sunk in about twenty mines. There are stamp mills at work and actual mining operations are progressing. Shafts have been sunk from forty to ninety feet in many places to the veins of ore. At one mine shaft 1855 feet deep is used. The Pinetucky mine has a twenty-stamp mill, and all useful modern improvements. The correspondent of the Standard-News vis- ited no less than sixteen mines that are seeking gold in the ledges of the district, in the rocks. Some of the outcroppings show hundreds of tons of ore.
 How good the ore of the district Is will soon be known, for some of the com panies will soon become producers of gold The district is about twenty y-five mile long, extending from Fruithurst through the Turkey Heaven mountains. and along Dyne creek to the Tallapoosa river. Besides gold, this district contains considerable humber of moonshiners. Red and gold seem to go together.
 There may be no great finds" in the dis trict, but in these days of improvements in the reduction of low grade ores, it will doubtless be proven that much of Gle burne's dirt and rocks will yield some profit If so, Cleburne will indeed become the banner county of the state, as the cor respondent of the Standard-News predicts. Just let it become established that its rocks and placer mines do yield a profit even though it be small, and the county will be flooded with people. In the early
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
THE STATE CONVENTION.
MT. Blackburn, a Former Delegate, Speaks in
 Behalf of Birmingham.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 In determining where the next convention shall be held, the executive committee should take into consideration not only rail- road facilities, hotel accommodations, etc., but also the actual comfort of the delegates while in convention assembled.
 The last convention was held at the cap- tol in the house of representatives, and any member of the committee who was present on that occasion knows how crowded and cramped the delegates were. There was barely room enough the floor to place one little old straight-back chair for each delegate, and it was out of the question for a delegate to leave his seat with any hope of getting it back. It was also with much difficulty that all the delegates of each district obtained seats in body, a matter which becomes of considerable importance and convenience to the delegates.
 I am not disposed to underrate the efforts and hospitality of Montgomery-I know she did the best she could, but any unbiased delegate to the last convention will bear me out in what have said.
 Birmingham offers her auditorium, which will seat convention three times as large as the last state convention, besides the galleries for spectators.
 T. E. BLACKBURN,
 Delegate to Last Convention. Birmingham, Jan IS.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19

Mir. Aranguren was born in the city of Ha vana twenty-three years ago, and is the youngest general in the insurgent army. He is the son of Vanito Aranguren and Ma tilda Martinez, both members of very re- spectable and once wealthy Cuban families.
 When the war first broke out Gen. Gomez noticing he young mans military disposition and dashing spirit, assigned him to the command of a squadron operating near Havana. Gen. Auguirre, commanding the Cuban forces in this section, at once select ed young Aranguren as leader of the forces detailed to harass the Spaniards at the very gates of Havana.
 Among the young cavalry leaders achievements are the raiding of the city Guanabacoa, across the bay from Havana and the capture of the entire train near that town.
 Gen. Aranguren has been wounded five times since the war began, but his incess- ant activity shows no abatement.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
Egiience of Returning Prosperity.

The condition of business in 1897 is per- haps in no direction better illustrated than in the locomotive and car building of the year. Twelve hundred and fifty-one loco- motives were built in the contracting shops of this country last year, as against 1,175 in 1896, 1101 in 1895, and 695 in 1894, the low water year. The average number built year before the panic of 1893 was 2,100. The figures of locomotive building are, how ever, not quite so clear an index of the general business of the country as they once were, for the number of locomotives built for export is constantly increasing. Of the 1,251 built in 1897 no less than 3S6 were built for export-about 30 per cent. The construction of freight cars is, how ever, sure and definite indication of the state of general business, as very few of those are exported. In 1897 the number of freight cars built by the thirty-flve con tracting companies was 43,5SS; in 1894 only 1S,0OO were constructed But in 1890, the high water year, the number rose to 103,OOO, and in 1891 and 1892 nearly equal numbers were built. These figures show that busi- ness is slowly moving up to pre-panic pro- portions. On account of the constructions in railroad shops accurate figures cannot, however, be given; but increases of orders in the contracting shops are very signifi- cant, for they show demand that the rail- road companies cannot themselves supply. One contracting company built last year 7,5O0 cars, and three others each built over 5000.
 These contracting companies also built last year 4s4 passenger cars-twenty more than they built in 1896, and sixty-four more than the 1895 output Before the panic the same shops turned out from 1,5O0 to 2,200 passenger cars year.
 These figures indubitably show that the movement, though slow, is upwards, and they also show that there is still a wide gap between business now and business in the first years of the decade.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
A PRONUNCIATION PUZZLE.
Test Yourself by Reading This Little Story
 Aloud.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 The following "episode" will prove very clever puzzle as test of the ability of people to pronounce readily and correctly many common words of their native tongue. The list, which contains no words of dis puted pronunciation, is as follows:
 An interesting inquiry took place in the court of oyer and terminer some time ago. Indisputable evidence was given toward proving that heinous incident had taken place during a public pageant. It seems that pretty girl, rather juvenile in appear ance, having an extraordinary head of hair like an Albino, represented Thalia and sat on pedestal erected on one of the floats. The procession was directing its course down the Mall, when the attention of the on-lookers was drawn to the excited con- duct of one of the spectators, who had fixed her eyes upon the tiara, set with jew els in the form of a carat, which Thalia wore upon her head as she sat in what
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
It will soon.be dollar gas in fact.
THE PASSING oF THE STEAMBOAT.

THE PASSING CF THE STEAMBOAT. From the Kansas City Star.
 The failure of the Anchor Line of steam CTS plying between St. Louis and New Or leans added to long line of similar fail ures, reminds one that the passing of the Mississippi river steamboat, the only gen uine steamboat on the only real steamboat river in the United States is at hand. Of course, there is still talk of water transportation being cheaper than land traffic, and veteran boatman appears in the Globe-Demo- crat to advocate the building of stern-wheel steamboats drawing not over two feet at the bow and three feet at the stern to carry grain, and reminding the faint-hearted that the Chicago drainage canal will throw more water into the river and that the Missis- sppi river commission talks of cutting out the sandbars, and that in Gods own good time system of dredging the river will be adopted, yet nevertheless, the Mississippi river steamboat, the Al fast-sailing packet, Walk-in-the- Water" is a fowl that by flight partly aquatic and parly aerial, has gone out of sight.
 Whatever remains, or whatever is to be come, will be sort of freight boat, some slow contrivance for creeping through the water with a burden. This may last while. People are talking about canals, which are sort of ready-made rivers laid out in the interest of their owners, but everybody knows the dull canal, bound with locks and chains, and what canal boat is, and there is no relation between these and the big river steamboat which has gone and comes no more
 With the passing of the steamboat of our younger days has gone from river and shore really majestic object. She was great in all her dimensions, especially in heighth above the water. In this she ex- celled most water craft, excepting, possi- bly,, Noah's ark. Moving up or down the river, she was wonderful mass of white lead paint and gliding. Her tall chim- neys belched out blackness like Kansas City smokestacks, leaving two trails and cloud behind At night she passed like the moving pallar of fire in Israel's story. She
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
rHE EARLY PRIMRosE.

Henry Ksrlxe White in Kansas City Stan Mid offspring of a dark and sullen sirel Whose modest form, So delicately fine, Was nursed in waTfr1ing storm, And cradled in the winds Thee, when young Spring first questioned
 Winters sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to fight-4 Thee, on this bank lhe threw To mark his victory. In the low vale, the promise of the year. Serene, thou openest to the nipping gale, Unnoticed and alone, Thy tender elegance. So Virtue blooms, brought forth amid ths
 storms Of chln adversity-in some lone walk Of life she rears her head, Obscure and unobserved;- While every bleaching breeze that on her
 blows, Chastens her spotless purity of breast, And hardens her to bear Serene, the ills of life.
The age-herald., 1898-01-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 The only tales that dead men tell are ghost stories.
 The still-house worm destroys more corn than the cut-worm does.
 A good head prevents a wise man and pin from going too far.
 It's wise child that bears resemblance to its wealthy relative.
 The richest man in the world was born without a cent in his pocket.
 It is said that cigarettes are included in the up-to-date widows weeds
 Girls admire a dropping mustache, es- pecially when it droops their way.
 Some people get tired doing nothing that they are never able to do anything else.
 Rome was not built in a day But there was no hustling real estate boomers in the days of old.
 It is said that woman, owing to the pecu- liar construction of her form, is unable to jump-except at an offer of marriage.