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eat it when park policeman came
running up and said:
IT'S against orders to deface any
thing in the park, and eating is de-
facing
But that wasn't the worst of it. The
hieroglyphics were beginning to run
and were changing their meaning al
ready so Mr.. Smith said: John, clar
your hands on the thing and wish it
back to stone, if possible. l can't at
ford to pay for this obelisk."
John ran up and did as he was bid.
and wished with all his might that the
obslisk would turn back to stone again
and by great luck it did. Then he
licked his fingers on the slay and prom
Used his father then and there he would
never try to exercise his strange gift
again.
Rev. Mr. Smith asked the policeman
not to say a word about the affair, ard
not a word has been said until to-day,
but I think it is too good to keep.
And now, when you hear learned men
say that the action of our climate is
wearing away the stone that stood for
ages in Egypt, you will understand that
John Smith had hand in it-in fact,
a couple of hands in it. And as his
Aunt Penelope would have said, ut
was lickin' good. Brooklyn Daily
Eagle.
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Tobacco.

death From Excessive Smoking-Aun
Peggy Bailey, the oldest maid in tn,
United States, died on Saturday. She wa.
112 years old last March, and had smoked
pipes since she was eight.--Daily Graphic
Tobacco, l have loved the well,
Thy praises oft my tongue would tell
What time in meads of asphodel
With thee / wandered.
At midnight glowed my kindled clay,
My fancy firing; dawning day
Reddened as Ger thine ashes gray,
Pensive / pondered.
Yet had / known the fatal draught
That in thy curling wreaths l quaffed,
More deadly than the poisoned shaft
OF wild barbarianS
Then had / broken clay and briar,
And dashed the fragments in the fire,
FOrswearing thee, destroyer dire
OF centenarians.
For who thy poison can defy?
Thy victims in their thousands die,
Thick as the butcher'd heaps that lie
Countless at Blenheim
Nor Time itself can help provide;
They that a hundred years defied
Fall in their centenarian pride,
Felled by thy venom
Yet happy, spite of all they say,
/ had not broken briar and clay,
Nor quite so lightly thrown away
The joy that fills one,
But fingered on, spite poison slow,
Another sixty years or so:
1t takes a century, you know.
Before il kills one Punch
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az x Street

and carried off the valedictory in that
wear. Every student in college was
acquainted with his personality, FOR
they had all spent many long hours
over the admirable Greek grammar
written by his father. Professor James
Hadley. and therefore took an especial
interest in his son. So convinced We're
the Yale men of the Hadley family
innate knowledge of Greek, that 1t was
more or less implicitly believed among
them that when Arthur Hadley was
born and for the first time laid in his
fathers arms, he raised his hands in
a classical Greek gesture, and eX-
claimed, "Pater erkomai!" (Father, l
am comeD
To which his father replied, IN true
professional tones, Wrong. my son;
not the perfect tense. the second aorist,
Elthon"-u have come. Life.
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MEXICAN PROVERBS.
Trite Sayings From the Land Of
the Cigarette.


There are many fine epigrams and
proverbs in Spanish, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Inquirer" Many OF
them cannot be translated SO as to pre-
serve the terseness and aptness of the
original Many, of course, are the same
as the English proverbs or simply
change the smile. They are used with
all possible variety of application. a
gentleman who was seated near a.
group of young ladies at railway
station busy with their farewell kisses,
stood it as long as he could and then
protested: Don't count your money
in the presence of the poor" Follow
ing are some Of the proverbs not UNI
commonly heard in Mexico
HE who never ventures will never
cross the sea"
There is no. gain without pain"
Files cannot enter a closed mouth"
Behind the cross is the DEVIL
"a cat in gloves will never catch
rats"
ITO the hungry no bread is dry"
"a book that is shut makes no
scholar
1.-The good laundress washes the shirt
first
..No evil will endure hundred
years.
when the river is passed the saint
is forgotten"
HE who has little has little to fear"
IF the pill were not bitter it would
not be gilt
do not trust your money to those
who keep their eyes on the floor and
make an outward sign of piety."
wind and good luck do not last.
Don't take a pawn that must be
fed"
1T is good fishing in troubled wa
ters.''
"A frugal, rich father and spend
thrift son.
mo word is ill-spoken if it is not ILL
understood"
"a tongue may inflict deeper wound
than a sword. -
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Colonel Henderson and Free Seed.

Colonel Henderson has always been
an enthusiastic advocate of the free
distribution of seeds by Congressman,
and his constituents have been highly
favored in this regard. His known fond
ness for joke has made him the sub
ject of considerable banter upon this
line, and he has probably stood more
ridicule upon the free seed fad than
other Congressman. One of Colonel
Henderson's postal cards anent this
topic, in a woman's handwriting, bore
this message:
Johns influence can't be got with 10
cents worth of free seeds, but if you
will send me box of hairpins I will
look after him. His wife,
Another communication read:
why not let up on seeds for a while
and send jackknives? Everybody could
use them, and there would not be SO
much waste. In that case radish seeds
would not come up poor turnips and
the Congressman would be saved much
ridicule which he now often gets. -.
Sterling Morton, in the Conservator.
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War Secretaries Do Not Last.

Apropos of General Ayers retire
ment. it is a curious fact that the
Secretary of War has never held office
as long as Secretaries of other depart
ments have held 1t. Twenty-Five Presi-
dents of the United States have had
fifty-two Secretaries, while the NUM-
Der of Secretaries at the heads of other
departments r has been much less.
Washington had three Secretaries of
War, Knox holding during his first
term. and being followed by Pickering
and McHenry before the second term
was out. John Adams had two Sec
retaries, and Madison had five of them
in his two terms. Monroe got along
with two. John Quincy Adams was
obliged to make two appointments.
Jackson in his two terms had three
Secretaries of War Van Buren,, who
seems to have got along very well with
his Cabinet, had only one Secretary
of War during his term. Tyler con-
ferred with four different Secretaries
for the War Department Taylor. Fill
more, Lincoln and Buchanan each had
two Secretaries of War. Johnson had
three of them. Grant had six during
two terms. Harrison had two - New
York Times.
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James Bryce is making a study of
the government of colonies by repub-
lies, which is to have special applica-
ton to the United States.
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Mr.. Kipling now. has twenty-three
suits in process against as many differ
ent publishers and booksellers through
out the United States.
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1t is estimated that Englands stock
of. coal will last 200 years longer, and
North Americas GOO years.
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Development of a Machine Shop.

Most machine shops are not made,
they grow, and consequently there are
few, if any, in which every detail is
arranged in accordance with the latest
practice-even in those cases where the
proprietors themselves are thoroughly
familiar with the latest developments in
the art of producing modern machine
tools. I know of no machine shop in
which the latest equipments are COM
bined with buildings of the best design.
Having had the opportunity of being
intimately connected with the designing
and equipping Of large machine tool
works, in which it has been the inten-
ton to adopt every modern improvey
ment, 1 have had special occasion TO
consider this problem. and have fol-
lowed the development and realization
of plans which for three years have
called for unremitting application on
the part of those interested, and ara
not yet consummated. The manufac-
turer of machine tools is confronted
with nearly the same problem which
any other manufacturer has to solve
erecting new works Unlike most arti-
Giles of manufacture. however, machin-
cry is never, produced in what can be
calIeO, comparatively speaking, large
quantities 1t follows then that the or
ganiZatiOn necessary to meet the re-
quirements for producing in small
quantities must be different from that
which is possible where operations can
be repeated day after day, the year
round, on parts remaining unchanged in
design, while thousands. or perhaps
hundreds of thousands, of one particu-
lar article are produced-H. F. L. Or.
cult, in The Engineering Magazine.
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Increase of Population.


Some interesting statistics in regard
to the increase of population have just
been compiled by Sir Robert Clifton,
distinguished English expert on this
subject. He shows that England now
has possessions on all five continents,
and that a quarter of the population
of the entire earth is subject to her
suzerainty. The extent of territory
owned by England amounts to 13.0O0,-
000 square miles, and on this immense
tract is a population of 42OOOO.O0o
During the last twenty-seven years the
English realm has increased by 2,So4,-
GOO square miles and within the same
period 1250O0,000 have been added to
the population.
Since 1871 the population of the Unit
ed Kingdom-England, Scotland and
Ireland-has increased from '32OOG.00o
to 4O,O00,0OO. At the beginning of this
century England, Scotland and Ireland
had population of II 100000, ami
France of 26,000,000. yet to-day the
proportion of population in both coun-
tries is almost alike. Russia has in
creased her population by 60OO0,0U0
since 1870, the result being that she
has now a population of 130,0OO,0Uo.
Germany had a population of 2O,0OO,-
600 at the beginning of this century;
now she has between 50OOO,OO0 and
10000, 900, of whom almost a quarter
is the result of the increase of births
over deaths. Germany, too is making
vast strides as a colonial Power, ana
her population in those distant pos
sessions already amounts to a conSid-
cradle number.
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R0! :!!'!!!! =! ss*S.s
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome

phragm the latter will have no swing of
it's own. In order to obtain this COIN
cidence they connect a condenser in
parallel with the receiving apparatus
of the required capacity, only send brief
current impulses into the telephone,
shorter than the duration of the swing
ing period, and by the discharge OF the
condenser into the telephone after the
current is cut off, the current impulse
is heightened considerably, so that the
diaphragm comes to rest without max
ing any extra swing.
The line disturbances are completely
eliminated by connecting an inductance
coil in parallel with the sending ap-
paratus. The dimensions of this coil
are chosen to meet the requirements.
When a current impulse is sent over
the line part of it will go through the
inductance coil. At the moment the
current is interrupted, current in the
same direction is generated in the coil,
which will, however, flow through the
line in the opposite direction to that
of the last impulse, eliminating all dis
turbances which exist in view Of this
property of the circuit.
WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES.
To illustrate the capacity of this sys-
tenn we may cite the following examples:
1t requires only twenty-five minutes to
transmit the contents of a newspaper
containing 10000 words, while an ex-
pert Hughes telegrapher requires at
least thirty hours for the transmission
of this message, and Morse operator
could not do the work in less than five
days and nights.
Thus it will be seen that by the in
PRODUCTION of this system the cost of
telegraphing will be considerably re-
duced by the greater use which can be
made Of existing telegraph lines; in
fact, it would in all probability reform
or even revolutioniZe the entire tele-
graph industry.
The demand for a simple and rapid
system is felt more particularly in large
cities, where the multiplication of tele-
graph wires becomes a more serious
problem every day. The new system
would decrease the number of wires re-
Quired to transact the necessary BUSH
ness of a good-siZed community and
enable messages from a seat of war
or other important point to be trans
mitted without interruption. By en-
ploying a sufficient number Of perforat-
ing machines every possible demand on
line can be met. For these and
many other reasons it is certain that
the entire civilized world will hail the
new discovery with delight.-New York
Herald
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RICH CHENILLE TABLE COVER.
REDUCED TO SI.O8

instea O $2.75 a notable a
pretty
in
semiplan
fully appreciate their
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LADIES' $3.50 WRAPPERS
REDUCED TO S1.38

Made from fine lawn and percale, f,
with back strap and fitted vest 1ini
yoke front and back Of fine white tucl
others have yoke of self. All are ruffied
lar, RULES and yokes are neatly trimmed
braids. Best patterns and delicate colo
lavender, black and white, etc. The PRE-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-11-17
Decision Involving 5000, 900.

Guthrie, Okla, Nov. 16.-Judge B.
7. Haines has rendered a decision
involving $500, COO in taxes in the
United States district court at Paw
nee. The Usage Indian reservation
is attached to Pawnee county for
judicial purposes. Vast herds of
cattle from Texas were driven into
the reservation, and when Pawnee
county officials sought to collect the
taxes on the cattle, in accordance
with law passed by the last legis-
lature, the cattlemen protested. In
its decision the court says the law is
valid, and holds that the cattlemen
must pay the taxes, which aggregate
over $4,000. Equally a, large
amounts are due Noble and Canadian
counties.
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Chinese Exclusion Act

Washington, d. c. Nov. 10
w. S. Chance, the supervising
special agent of the treasury de-
partment, has received a report
saying that of 281 Chinese taken
to the export exposition in Phila
delphia. only forty-nine are left.
The others have sought homes in
other cities of this country and
have thus escaped deportation
The result Of this will be a strong
recommendation by Secretary Gage
that congress shall not again an
thorize concessions to be granted
to expositions for the bringing o.
Chinese into this country. Al
every exposition at which this ha.
been done the Chinese have disap
peared and not one has been de
ported.
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BRITISH FuRcEs MAsslNd.
Relief of Ladysmith Promised Friday
Jouoert's Death Reported.

Jouoert's Death Reported.
London. Nov. 16.-It was officially
announced yesterday afternoon that
the troopship Hawarden Castle,
with the Second battalion of the
Royal Irish Fusileers. has arrived at
Durham, bringing the number of re-
endorsements that have landed there
up to 5,227. Five other troopships
are now en- route from Cape Town TO
Durham. The total reenforcements
that have rrrived in South Africa
since Friday are 10, 900 men, chiefly
infantry, nearly $4,000 horses and
mules, three batteries of field artil-
lery and a number of quick-firing
Maxim guns. The fact that the
Britannia proceeded from East Lon
don is taken to mean that General
Butler is satisfied that the troops
which have already landed or are
now on the way to Durham will be
sufficient to carry out his plans for
the relief of Ladysmith.
MASsING AT ESTCOURT.
Estcourt, Nov. 16.-The advance
forces of the British reinforcements
are beginning to arrive, tle West
Yorkshire regiment having arrived.
0 her regiments will follow quickly,
and by November IS it is believed
hat an army viii be ready to march
to tn, relief of Ladysmith.
The Boer forces have begun a
closer investment of Ladysmith and
seem determined to force the sur
render of General White before re-
lief can reach him.
The Transvaal has undertaken to
establish civil government in north
ern Natal, where the Beers now have
undisputed possession.
A RUMOR THAT JoUBERT Is DEAD.
Durham, Nov. 16.-A message de-
aged in transmission from the Times
Of Natal in extra edition today pub
fishes dispatch from Lorenzo Mar
quez, saying General Joubert, COM
mander in chief of the Boer forces,
was killed in a skirmish at Lady
smith Nov. 10. The report is uncon-
armed. The town is full of all sorts
OF rumors.
COL. BLAKE IS WOUNDED.
Durham, Nov. 16-The Pretoria
Volkstem announces that Blake, the
American colonel of the Irish Boer
brigade, and vanden commandant OF
the Johannesburg police, has been
wounded. The Blake mentioned is
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Michigan for Bryan.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 16-The dem
ocratic state central committee, after
= meeting today, announced its in
tention OF endorsing w. j. Bryan as
the next democratic presidential can
didate. They also declared in favor
OF n campaign conducted on antrim
perialism and antitrust lines, ut the
same time reaflirming their allegi-
ance to the Chicago platform and its
free silver plank.
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Wise Chickasaws.

The Chickasaws are much differ
ent from their brothers in Red.
While the Choctaws, Cherokees and
Creeks are fuseing with Uucle Sam
and his representatives in their
country, the Chickasaws are saving
wood, and instead of cutting off their
noses to spite their faces, they are
getting together goodly lot of old
fashioned republican argument"
and have secured the cooperation OF
such noted republicans as j. r. Bur
ton and t. P. Foley of Kansas. These
gentlemen know their business, and
good argument ike that which
was used in Ohio the day before the
election, is something to conjure
with. The Chickasaws have these
gentlemen on their staff, and they
will intercede in behalf of the Chick
asaws and zee that things go favor
ably to the Indians. The Chick
asaws show themselves to be practi-
cal politicians and thoroughly able
to get into the United States as citi-
zens and hold winning hand with
the best of them. No wonder the
Chickasaws expect that incompetent
fund bill to be approved by the
observation-disclosures Sayings.
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:, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER il, 1899.
A nore Favorable View.

The Dawes commission is domiciled
in what was Bill Springer's ice cream
parlor last summer, and some Of the
persons applying for enrolment find
the place still too frigid for their
taste. The commission has been at
work two days and has enrolled thir-
ty-five so far, and "killed" about
twice that number. All sorts of white
people from Texas and Arkansas
have applied for enrolment, some
who have only lived in the territory
thirty days and never pretended
even to have been on the rolls before.
One woman after having been asked
the usual questions and from her an
swers being denied enrolment, re-
marked that "she knowed the would
not get on nohow, as everyone was
being thrown off, but she could ap-
peal" These people forget when
they talk of appealing" that it is
to the secretary of the interior under
whose rules the Dawes commission
is working, that they appeal.
Ones mans evidence was q history
of going from Texas to Arkansas and
back and stopping few months ID
the territory going and coming, and
finally last spring locating in the ter
ritory. Neither of his parents lad
ever been enrolled nor had he. He
had not resided in ths territory ac-
cording to the ruling of the Curtis
law, yet he expected 10 get on the
rolls. That's it. They think "injun
he got heap much land divide up
give white folks some too"
After the commission has Finished
at Nc Alester the work of enrolling
will be IrIcticall, over. AS we stood
watching the placid countenance OF
Mr.. McKennon and listening to the
never varying politenesz of tone, no
M ter how great the impostor g
was questioning, we thought what
infinite patience it has taken all these
weary months registering the In
dians, and We wondered If old Job
had had Mr.. Kenron's job il he
wouldn't have forfeited his world
renowned repu alton, for even
''boils" are not q circumstance to
making up the rolls in the nation.
The commission has done a good
work. 1t has been a very difficult
task and hard position to fill, but
it is one time whore the right men
are in the right place.
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CoHtaiRS a Warning.

Washington, Nov. 16-The presi-
dent is making efforts to secure the
protection of the Spanish prisoners
with the insurgents in the Philip
pines. A cable message has been
sent to General etis and by him tc
Macarthur with instructions to gel
it to Aguinaldo, If possible, relating
to this subject. The president re
quests the kindly and humane treat
ment of the Spanish prisoners and
the message also contains an init
nation that any of the insurgents re-
sponslble for i'll treatment of such
prisoners will be held to strict &C
count whea they are taken by the
United State forces operating in the
islands.
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Strayec.

Strayed from my lot in Ardmore
one dark bay horse, blind in right
eye. Is 1,2 hands high, rope
around neck, branded l. III on left
shoulder, shod, short mane- Finder
will bc rewarded by returning
same to Cathey's livery stable.
15-tf w. /. KIKckDE.
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Infant mortality is something
frightful. Nearly one-quarter die be-
fore they reach one year, one-third
before they are five, and one-half be-
fore they are fifteenl The timely use
of Whites Cream Vermifuge would
save a majority of these precious
lives. Price 25 cents at City Drug
Store and W. u. Frame.
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Guard your Kidneys; tie health of
the body depends en- those small but
important organs. They extract uric
aid from the blood, which If allow
ei to remain in the system would
cause dropsy and Bright's Dis
ease. Prickiy Ash Bitters Is a sue
cessful kidney tonic, it stimulates
the stomrch and digestion. cleapses
the bowels, II will prevent or cure
Bright's ;ul1ease. Sold by w. b.
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Thousands of men and women suf-
fer from piles, especially y women with
female weakness have this suffering
to contend with in addition to their
other pains. Tabler's Buckeye Pile
Ointment will quickly effect cure.
Price SO cents in bottle, tubes rs cts.
at City Drug Store and w. b. Frame.
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THE PATRIA IS SAFE.

Dover, Eng, Nov. 10 Report
reaches here that the steamer Patria
which caught fire, and whose hun
dred and fifty passengers were safely
landed through the heroic work of
the crew, is in tow and does not
need further assistance.
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The Guarantee Loan and Banking Co. Of Dallas, Tex.
The Pioneer Company Of the Indian Territory

Curtis
7.
being
able
its don't go agent another
interested building and loan local
Exchange bank building
w. p. CARRIER,
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For burns, cuts, bruises, lacerations
or injuries OF fny description, Bal
lard's Snow Liniment is a sovereign
remedy. 1t never fails to do good,
and 80 promptly that its wonderful
surprise. Price 25 and so cents at
CITY Drug Store and W. b. Frances