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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
Insane Prisoner pies Suddenly

Dallas. Tex, May 29.-James
Stone, under a ten year peniten-
tiary sentence for killing Special
Policeman McDuff in 1896, died
suddenly in the Dallas county Jail
tonight. Stone was convicted sew
eral months ago and had been sub
ject to fits of insanity since then.
He was in that condition tonight
when he died.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
Two Mortgages Recorded.

Washington, May 2S.-The
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany placed on record here to-day
two mortgages covering all its
property, rights and franchises.
They cover the largest amount of
money of any transaction ever re-
corded here. The first is a prior
lien mortgage to the Mercantile
Trust Company, of New York, to
secure $75, ,000,00 in bonds. pay
able July /, 1925, with } ID per
cent interest, payable semi-annual-
". The mortgage is to the United
States Trust Company, of New
York. and John A. Stuart. to Sc
cure $3.50, 900, 900 in bonds, pay
able July l, 1913, with I per cent
interest, payable semi-annually.
The first mortgage carries $37, 800
in revenue stamps and the other
$31 800
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30

whats in a name?" The word
'hitter3" does not always indicate
something harsh and disagreeable.
Prickly Ash Bitters is proof of this.
1t cleanses, strengthens and regu-
lates the system thoroughly, yet it
is so pleasant the most delicate
stomach will not object to it. Sold
by w. b. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30

Attorney General VandeYanter, of
the Interior department, in a decision
handed down holds for cancellation
the Wetherspoon- Ford grazing leases
in the Otoe and Ponca reservation
in Oklahoma Territory. Commiss-
ioner Jones will, it is expected, can
eel the leases within the next few
days.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
Territory Pensioners.
Special to the Ardmoreite.

SpeclaI 20 the ArdmOrelte.
Washington, May 28.-The fol-
lowing pensions have been granted
to people of the Territory:
OrigiDal-Bynum Colbert, Wag-
Oner, Sc; Porter Caldwell, Redland,
Sc; Warner Curtis, Davis, $12;
Jesse Smith, Newport, So; John
Lush, Peoria, Sc.
Original widows-Susan Ridge,
Locust Grove, SIS; Nancy Heider,
Hartshorn, SIS.
War with Spain, Original-Ed
Culver, Muskogee, $12.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
The Taste Tells

- REX Brand Hams and Breakfast Bacon
Equal in every way to higher priced goods
offered by competitors. A SWEET, MILD
CURE, that is sure to catch the public favor.
Your grocer has them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
MORE TROOPS ARE NEEDED.

Chicago, May 20. = Captain
Clark of the Seventeenth infantry,
wounded in the Philippines, is
here. He says he fears there are
not enough troops in the Philip
pines to make quick conquest of
the islands. Thirty thousand
troops are there. OF these it is
necessary to keep 10000 to guard
Manila. for thousands in the city
are ready to revolt. and 5000 are
sick, leaving only l., 900 for active
service.
Purify the sewers of the body and
stimulate the digestive organs to
maintain health and strength and
energy. Prickly Ash Bitters is a
tonic for the kidneys, liver, stomach
and bowels. For sale by W. B.
Frame
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SYNDICATES BARRED FROM no.
NOPOLIZING OIL LEASES.
InvestIG atInR Mining StrIkes-LettinR
indian supply COntrscts-GrszInR
Leases will all be Cancelled In the
OtOe and POnca Reservations


OtOe and POncs Reservations
Special to the Ardmoreite.
Washington, D. c., May 2s.-Act-
ing upon the decision handed down
by the attorney general for the Inte-
rior Department, Judge Vandevan-
ter, Secretary Hitchcock has an
nounced his intention to approte ap-
plications for oil LEASES in the Chero-
kee nation. The syndicates will be
barred, however, and the only ap-
plications that will be approved will
be those made by the old lessees
whose leases were cancelled when
the Curtis law became opera
tive. These leases, it is un-
derstood, were not numerous and
the secretary believes that the
men who secured leases from the
nation and who operated them in
good faith should be protected by
the department. Upon this view of
the case, the secretary will approve
applications for oil leases in the Cher
okee nation submitted by bona fide
old lessees.
Mr.. Richards of the Choctaw na-
ton. has been in Washington for the
past few days on business relating to
the mine strikes in the nation. Mr..
Richards claims that the whole trouble
originated through the unjustiflable
interference of the negroes and white
people whose object is to prevent
the Indians from working in the
mines. He has laid the matter be-
fore the Secretary of the Interior
and has asked that the promoters
of the trouble be driven out of the
nation under section 2149 of the re-
vised statute of the United States.
He believes that if the Objectionable
parties in question are removed there
will be no more trouble. Secretary
Hitchcock has taken the matter un-
der advisement and will reach a de-
cision In few days.
! Commissioner Jones, of the Indian
office, has returned from his trip to
Chicago, where contracts were let
for Indian supplies for the coming
fiscal year. Mr.. Jones is greatly
pleased with the results. For years
past all bids for Indian supplies have
been received at New York and the
nOodS 5oIiTaraJ ~ tbot noipt s q a
result the government has been put
to large freight expense in carry
ing the goods from the east to the
western agencies. Last year Com
missioner Jones decided upon a
change and Chicago was selected as
the place for receiving the bids and
the delivery of the goods. The west
ern enterprises have taken great in
that more bids were received than
ever before for government con-
tracts. With the exception of iron
wire, such as stoves, cooking uten-
formily lower than ever before, not
withstanding the high prices existing
throughout the country by reason OF
the general prosperity existing. This
will result in a large saving to the
government, as well as to the various.
Indian tribes
-
Attorney General VandeYanter, OF
the Interior department, in decision
handed down holds for cancellation
the Wetherspoon- Ford grazing leases
in the Otoe and POnca reservation
in Oklahoma Territory. Commiss-
ioner Jones will, it is expected, can
eel the leases within the next few
days.
Sour stomach, fullness after eat
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30

Nothing has eYar been produced to
equal or to compare with Tabler's
Buckeye Pile Ointment as a curative
and healing application for Piles,
Fissures, blind and bleeding, exter-
nal or internal, and Itching and
bleeding of the Rectum, The relief
IS immediate and cure infallible.
Price, so cts. in bottle, tubes 75 cts.
City Drug Store, W. B. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-30
The Paris Still Fast .

Coverack, Cornwall. May %
The ninth attempt to float the
American Line Steamer Paris was
made this evening and proved an
utter failure. Her bow is abso-
lutely impaled by the rocks.
Fivet ugs were III the endeavor
to tow her off, three others stand
ing by for an emergency. Her
boilers, excepting those used for
the pumps, were emptied to tighten
the ship.
The effects of the strain of last
week 5 attempts is apparent in the
increase of water in the engine
room. Efforts to pull her off will
now be discontinued; and it is pro-
posed to cOncoct some new plan
for Tightening the vessel.
The pertinacity of the attempts
to tow the liner has caused consid-
cradle surprise among the experts
here, owing to the implement of
the bow, as her removal by towing
must mean, in the opinion of ex-
perts, the tearing off Of the bow.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-17
contact with chemically -dampened pa

contact with acknowledgements pa
per linen, silk, wool or other fabric, and
obtaining good, clear impression of
any desired density. The operation,
says the Philadelphia Record, is as
quick and more simple than letter press
printing and the work resembles in
clearness and delicacy a copperplate or
litilo engraving. Ordinary printers
type blocks, forms, stereotypes and
electrotypes may be used as printing
surface and drawings, etc, requiring
special blocks or electros, photographic
work or copperplate engraving can be
done at Il great saving. Original
sketches. scrolls or fancy lettering can
be made upon the transparency or
traced through from drawn or printed
sketches, the words being typed in their
respective places, and. if printed on
Opaque paper, Photographic replicas
os any size can be made, while engrav-
ings can be reproduced direct from the
artists work. Any class of paper may
be used. the sensitiZing solution is
much cheaper than printing ink. and
the speed of the process is greatly in its
favor.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-17
PROFESSIONAL MEN WORK
Farmer. or Lnl,orcrs who Do Manual
Labor Have an Advantage In
Hours O1 Work.

people who work with their hands,
especially farmers, are apt to think
that professional men have an easy
time of it" said a lawyer of this city, re-
ports the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat. TITS an amusing mistake. The
farmer stops at shutdown and the la
borer works ten hours at the outside.
The average professional man works
from IL to IA hours day in and day out,
all the year around. Often, at pinch,
he will work from Is to 20 hours for
several days in succession, and he will
work when he is sick or suffering Sc
we're physical pain, something the man
ual toiler wouldn't dream of. OF course
he takes short intervals of rest, like
everybody else. The human engine isn't
capable of absolutely sustained en-
deavor for over an hour at stretch.
Watch day laborer, who seems to be
plodding along like a machine, and
you'll find that he really rests more
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-17
NICELY TAKEN IN.
He Knew the Ways of the
World But Got Caught
Mapping.

The man in question used to say he knew
the way of the world as cat knows its
own kittens, and laugh at the wiles OF those
who live on their wits.
He had been economizing at every turn
for a, long time. saving all that ne could,
for the holidays were near at hand he
left his station the other night in the teeth
of blizzard. The buses had stopped run
ming, and he buttoned his coat collar about
his neck with a determination to walk
home rather than squander the price OF
cab.
man, as he tapped our friend on the Shout
der. Get into my carriage there; III be
with you in minute" and he dashed into
the station after his bag: 1t was too good
an offer to be refused, and the travelling
man put in most of his time in thanking
his benefactor, who politely insisted that
the pleasure was all his
: "Just tell him where to drive to- he said,
later; 81 get out here. No, don't mention
it, Glad of the opportunity,
Now, it was horrible night, and he was
using another mans carriage, SO he could
not do less than to treat the driver and
give him cigar to keep his nose warm. AT
and he shouted a CHEEKY, good night" as
started for the house:
Here, cried the driver, you've forgot
ten something"
back
"Nine shillings"
"What?" as the narrowing conviction
seized him. "Why, the other man."
''That other man be blowed. don't know
him from crow You took the cab"
Then our man drowned the voice of the
storm while he was settling, and, going in,
swore his wife to secrecy. That's the way
it cot out-Pearson's Weekly.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-17

The morning of the 3oth dawned,
The paymaster was due at the post at
ten o'clock. Shortly before guard
mount Sergt. O'Brien took the morn.
ing report-book to Capt. Gresham's
quarters for him to sign, as was his
daily custom.
''Those rolls are done, sergeant?"
''Yis, sir, all except one or two
changes to be made" answered the
sergeant.
"Well, I'm going on officer of the
day, and I'll come over after guard.
mount to sign them. After the pay.
master comes, you can take that guard
off and put Schuyler on duty again"
Guard-mount came, Capt. GreshsE
reported to the commanding officer as
new officer of the day, and started fol
the orderly-room. The sentry was
pacing to and fro in front of the door.
and, as the captain approached, faced
out and came to present saber," which
the captain acknowledged by slight
motion of the hand toward his helmet
Sergt. O'Brien approached at the same
time and followed the captain into the
room.
A strange sight met their eyes
Stretched upon the floor, near the desk.
and with the chair lying partly under
him, was the inanimate form of Private
Schuyler. His face, neck and hands
were covered with bright, reddish
fluid.
'My God! Sergeant, what's this:
Has the man cut his throat? He seems
to be dead" exclaimed the captain.
Blood apparently covered everything
The precious muster-rolls were lying
upon the desk, 'drenched and dripping
in apparent gore, and on the floor was
large red pool. The captain went tc
Schuyler, felt his pulse and listened for
the beating of his heart. "He's alive,''
he said, in relieved tone, "but what's
all this red stuff? 1t isn't blood" Just
at this moment he got Whit of breath
from Schuyler, whose mouth was open.
whisky, by thunder! or something
very like it. Sentry!"
Sir came through the open door.
elias this man had anything to
drink?"
mo, sir. He was writing there not
half an hour ago." answered the sentry.
''Well, this beats me. Sergeant, what
do you make of it,"
Sergt. O'Brien had been pursuing his
Investigations, and his first discovery
was that quart bottle of red ink,
which he had drawn that morning for
office use, was lying upon it's side on
the desk, except for some rivulets of red
which still flowed over the muster
rolls.
"Well, sir, it's this way. That man
there is drunk, and he got drunk on
red ink. Red ink you know, sir, is
about three-quarters alcohol; he prob
ably knew it and drunk it up" and the
sergeant picked up the bottle and con-
temptuously poured the little remain
ing red ink upon the PROSTATE form.
This explains why the paymaster did
not pay off en- troop that day. There
were no muster-rolls to pay off with.
1t also explains why the general court
martial, which tried Private Schuyler
some time afterward, sentenced him to
Il year at Fort Leavenworth military
prison, for violation of the sixty-sec-
ond article of war."-San Francisco
Argonaut.
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than half the time. He looks at some
well-dressed doctor, lawyer, broker, or
man of affairs and says to himself: 20,
you doggoned lazy rascal! If you only
had TO work like mel The truth is
that the chap he envies is putting an
amount of concentration and contin-
ued energy into his daily toll that
would kill the man who works with his
hands alone in less than a week. I
don't mean this as any reflection on
the laborer, who is also no doubt do
ing his level best. I simply mean that
the demands on brain production are
third again as severe as the demands
on muscle production. For sheer stay
ing qualities there, is nothing in the
world that equals the nervous, high
strung, frail-looking modern profess
sional man.
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A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Alice-'sWhat makes you think Mr..
Perkins means business?" Bertha
"He Just asked me why didn't attend
cooking school ~ Criterion.
Marie (reading letter)-' To please
you 1 would traverse oceans Oh, the
brave fellow! p. 81 am coming to
see you tomorrow if it doesn't rain.'
Philadelphia Inquirer.
''What was it that Tommy asked that
you scolded him so for?" why, the
little ninny wanted to know it they
planted bird seed to raise Sparrow
grass. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
"How did you enjoy the banquet?'
"Great," answered the young man with
the red tie and yellow vest. got away
with three spoons, a salt shaker and a
sugar bowl" indianapolis Journal.
II would rather fight than, eat!" ex-
claimed the soldier, with glistening
eyes. "Silence!" roared the sergeant.
mo more sneering at the rations will be
tolerated. Not another word!'-De-
troit Journal.
Uncomplimentary to the Girls.-Al-
fred-''Uncle Bachelor, why did girls
first wear rings in their noses?" Uncle
B.-"Well, they used their noses less
and their hands more in those days. p
jewelers. Weekly.
"Spiffins has quit writing poetry" re-
marked Mr.. Gaswell to Mr.. Dukane.
"What stopped him." Somebody told
him that his poetic license required a
stamp under the war revenue law
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Was my sermon long this morning?"
asked a preacher who had been taken
to task for running overtime, and who
had carefully kept within half hour.
''No, dear DOCTOR" was the reply of the
parishioner; lit wasn't long-it only
seemed so,''-Boston Watchman.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-17

love of study and art will make bright,
glad face, but, contrary to this, man
may have face that does not please
anybody, because of love of self to the
exclusion of others, notwithstanding
his learning and worldly shrewdness.
Soldiers get a hard, severe look; over
worked laborers constantly look tired;
reporters look inquisitive; judges be-
come grave, even when off the bench;
the man who has had domestic trouble
looks all broken up.
IAN example of the ludicrous side of
this subject is to see third-class law
yer stalking around a police court look
ing as wise as an owl. The business
makes the face, l say. There's the
merchants face, the ministerial face,
the lawyers face, the doctors face, the
hoodlum's face, all so distant each from
the other and singly, and seldom fail
to recognize those callings shining
through the faces. And what city-bred
boy cannot recognize a genuine farmer
the moment he sees him on the street 2"
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THE PUPIL AND THE MASTER.

o tits sad old world, my master
This world that we are living in
Made up of sorrow and disaster.
And toll and suffering and sin. =
Y Why, at the dawning of creation,
Could not the Lord have wiled it then
That virtue and not degrade ion
Should be attractive unto men?
Why was not wrong made to repel?
Why was not right arrayed in beauty?
Why must we labor to do well?
Why is it sweet to flee from duty?
All, tell me why the gems that glitter
Are hidden in the deepest caves,
While countless worthless pebbles litter
The shores Tapped by the restless waves
Why men must dig for golden treasures,
While barren rocks bestrew the ground;
Why people turn from common pleasures
That always, everywhere abourd?-
All. tell me, master, tell me, pray,
Why vices visage is SO pleasant?
Why virtue hides herself away,
While shameless sin is ever present?
Behold the grace of yonder mountain!
Look on the fields that stretch below!
Hark to the music of the fountain,
And see the shadows come and go!
You say that all earth's choicest treasures
Lie hidden from the sight of men,
That vice affords our sweetest pleasures,
But go and love and tell men, then,
II you would have things otherwise
Go forth and do your simple duty;
'Tis only unto righteous eyes
That virtue ever shows her beauty.
The pupil stole away COMPOUNDED,
For he had sinned and day and night
BY shadows of his sins was bounded
And beauty fled before his sight!
He left his sinful way and pleasures
Erst hidden from him came to please;
He found his pathway strewn with treas
ures,
And joy was in each passing breeze!
He sought his master out and cried:
How fair the world! how full of glad
ness
There's loneliness on every side,
And not note is one of sadness!'
IS. E kiser. in Chicago Times Herald.
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RIGHT CHOICE OF PICTURE.
Proper Selection and Hanging IL an
Indication Of the House.
keepers Culture.

Perhaps nothing so indicates the cul-
ture and refinement of a home as the
collection of pictures that furnish the
dwelling. The hanging and arrange
ment of pictures is one of those i'm
portant little details which mean so
much in the general effect of room,
and yet, in too many instances, they
are treated in most haphazard fash
ion, and either hung high close to the
frieze or so low that they almost form
the dado. 1t is impossible to give strict
directions as TO their arrangement, as
so much depends upon the room, it's
size and position. They should, how
ever, always be hung at a medium
height on line with the eye, not too
close together and perfectly straight.
Then again oil paintings should not
be placed next to engravings, nor yet
water coiors, as the effect of the one
is destroyed by the other. When hung
close together not only do the colors
clash, but the different designs of the
frames produce discordant impress
sion. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that a picture never shows to advantage
when placed directly opposite to a win
dow, as the light falls upon it flat and
hard. Small pictures and prints should
be fastened to the wall, not hung by
a cord or wire, nor allowed to tilt for
ward at an angle. The latter arrange
ment throws the frames out of the line
of the wall.
When large pictures are hung by
chains from the frieze molding or from
a rod under the cornice the chains
should invariably be of iron. painted
the exact tone of the wall paper and
rendered as little conspicuous as pos
sible. The brass chains generally en-
ployed detract from the picture, and
are by no means an improvement to the
walls.
When pictures can be treated as part
OF the decoration, as panels sunk in the
wall, in a setting of carved wood or
stucco molding, after the fashion which
prevailed in rooms of Importance dur
ing the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turtles, they are shown to their very
best advantage, but the ordinary room
must content itself with frames of gilt
and wood, which should be character
lied by simplicity with most delicate
detail. The one thing necessary in the
framing of pictures is to consult con-
gruity and to attend to the rule that
all bases should range at one level
Chicago Chronicle.
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ENGLAND's WOMEN.
The Difficulty They Experience in
Obtaining Means Of Earn
ing n Living.

One fact which stood prominently
out in the statements made at the an.
nual meeting in London Of the Society
for Promoting the Employment O.,
Women, because, perhaps, of the EN-.
phasis given it by the chairman, Sit
Owen Roberts, was that there were
100000 more women in this country
than men, says the London News. OBJ.
viously, therefore, the difficulty of OBJ
tanning work for such Of them as had
of necessity to earn their own living
was greater even than when males had
Ia be dealt with. And this was increased
by the comparative difficulty hitherto
experienced in providing the necessary
technical training for them. On this
point, however, Sir Owen Robert point
ed hopefully to the effort now being
made by the county council in estab-
fishing schools of domestic economy.
The chairman also pleaded for special
consideration for gentlewomen who
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-17

had reached middle life without having
acquired skill in work of definite
kind, these being the saddest cases
that come under the notice of the
society. Lady Knightley, OF Fawsley,
who moved the adoption of the report
which dealt with the work of the for
tieth year of the society, pointed out
that the market for women shorthand
writer's and typewriters was over
stocked, and suggested that women
should turn their attention to dairying
and the direction of laundries.