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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-31

One other point should be mentioned
that regarding the number Of prison
ers taken by the cavalry in the last
campaign. The returns of these are
not full, but the report Of the provost
marshal, and those of commanding
officers account for 1900. In the
movement from Columbia to North
Carolina, when Wheeler's command
served with me, three or four thou
sand prisoners were captured, SO that
in the last campaign, beginning on
May 3. "a, more than twice as many
prisoners were taken than there were
men in our whole cavalry corps.
During that fearful, dying struggle
Of our heroic army. Gen. Lee issued
1uany congratrlatory orders to the
cavalry, and after the war, in letter
to myself, he paid compliment to
the cavalry corps, which should COM
pensate every living soldier Of that
arm Of the service forall the sacrifices
made by him. In this letter after
giving what. he thought were the
causes Of the discontinue Of our
troops at Petersburg, he said: 's1f
you had been tthsN with all of our
cavalry, the result. 1t Five Forks would
have been different
So. old comrades Of tho. cavalry, let
us be content that we tried 20 do our
5....Sy, 5....Sy ss1 chat or Immortal nhief
paid 70 us the highest honor that was
in his power in speaking thus Of his
cavalry. Wade HAMPTON.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
A SURE CURE FOR GROUP.
Twenty-Five Years Constant Use With
out Failure.

Twenty-Five Years Constant Use With
out Failure.
The first indication of Group is
hoarseness, and in child subject to
that disease it may be taken as a
sure sign of the approach of an at
tack. Following this hcarseness is a
peculiar rough cough. If Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is given as soon
as the child becomes hoarse. or even
after the croupy cough appears, it
will prevent the attack. 1t is used
in many thousands of homes in this
broad land and never disappoints the
anxious mothers. We have yet to
learn of single instance in which it
has not proved effectual. No other
preparation can show such q record
twenty-five years constant use
without failure. For sale by City
Drug Store and (. j. Ramsey.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
THE BURLINGTON ROUTE
A GOOD RAILROAD.

EAsT-BoUND from the Missouri
River to st. Louis, Chicago. it runs
the finest trains, wide-vestibuled, i,
PIntsch lighted throughout, with the
Burlingron's celebrated free chair
cars, dining cars, Pullman sleepers.
NoRTH-BoUND two daily trains,
perfectly equipped, to Omaha, Sioux
City, st. Paul.
NoRTHwEsT:from fifty to five hun
dred miles saved from the Missouri
River to the Northwest by the great
time saver-the Billings Route.
WEST: from the Missouri River to
Colorado and beyond, two great
trains daily.
1900 miles of standard railroad.
The pioneer in courteous treatment
of travellers.
The main travelled road-every
ticket agent has tickets reading over
the Great burlington Route.
For details, ask your ticket agent
or L. w. WAKELEY,
GenI Pass'r Agent, st. Louis, Mo.
L. J. BRICKER.
Trav. Pass'r Agent, Kansas City, Mo.
HOWARD ELLIOTT,
General Manager st. Joseph, Mo.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
sULF, COLORADO L SANTA FE r. R. co.

Santa Fe Excursion Rates,
Gainesville, Tex, Dec. 6-Good
Roads Convention; rate, one and one
third fares on certificate plan.
W. 8. KEENAN,,
q. P. A.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05

To accommodate my city patrons
/ have put on two new wagonettes,
which meet every train, but do no
hotel business. l have also placed
a checkman on every train who
will look after your baggage and
assist my lady patrons with grips,
etc, when leaving the trains. Re-
member the reliable transfer man.
Phone No. 81.
o26tf T. B. CATHRY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
Dissolution Notice

Notice is here given that the firm
of Ramsey and Hardy. druggists,
composed of F. j. Ramsey and
Reuben Hardy, Ardmore, | T.. is
this day, by mutual consent dis
solved, r. Hardy retiring, T. J.
Ramsey continuing the business
assuming all liabilities and collect
ing all amounts due the old firm
Ardmore, I. T. Nov. Z. 1899.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
SPECIAL
To Holiday Advertisers.

Realizing the benefits to be de-
rived, not only to the reading pub
lie, but especially to holiday
advertisers. Throughout the holi-
days the DAILY ARDMoREITE, be-
ginning with Monday, Nov. 81,
will be enlarged to an eight page
paper and will so continue until
Jan. 1, 1900. Advertisers can
readily see the benefits to be deriv-
ed from the additional space and
will act accordingly. This is your
golden opportunity-one never be-
fore offered Ardmore's business
men to properly bring their goods
and wares before the public eye.
The price OF the paper will remain
the same, thus giving the benefit to
the reading public. Get in your
advertisements early in order 20
obtain best results.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
Santa Fe Holiday Rates.

On Dec. goth, 2lst and 22nd, only
the Santa Fe route will sell round
trip tickets at about one fare for
round trip to points in Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, Mexico, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
good to return thirty days from date
of sale. A. LUCAS, Agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05

Ss.s Crack cemmsnd q usdes
way Fer che Fronk.

way rOT gus FFOoks
cndon. Dec. 4.-In the dead OF
Ie night the flower Of the British
~ rode through the streets OF
..aon to embark for Africa.
r.xeus Of regiments had gone be-
g but still more men are re-
.r;red to overwhelm the fighting
|e.rs. so the war Office has sent
N Enpland's pride, what is known
i. the Household cavalry.
ETbese troops are only called out
4. vhat may be called emergency
.mpaipns. Their foreign service
..ludes Dettingen. the Spanish
,,aiusular, Waterloo, Egypt in
10 their last call abroad being
m Telel- Keblr.
Every visitor to London has
n in busy Whitehall the two
,dking life guard sentry. clad In
1eir glittering breastplates and
Idnets, sitting immovable on their
III black horses in front of tho
Ia government building, now used
barracks. There they have
aeod for many years, representing
Il military power Of England. 1t
4 these men, the queens lawn
uards, that started early this
norning to fight the Beers.
All could not go, so a special
sriment of picked men from the
An and second life guards and
ia royal horse guards was made
d 700 strong, commanded by Col.
Keld. Dukes, earls, barons and
.ven princes fought and pulled
vires to be selected to 60 with the
kgment.
4 contains more blue blood than
~ regiment that ever before left
srland. In the ranks there was
bs same contest among privates
H selection, but only the lightest-
Fighted, hardest and Youngest
we taken.
Long after midnight the troopers
utted out of their respective bar
seks, each Of the three squadrons
eaded by mounted bands, whose
nusie echoed through the deserted
tnets.
The men, clad in khaki, were
Fered with the long blue winter
bat which distinguishes the house
Dd cavalry. The black horses,
lger as the men, reared and
lunged as they dashed ahead for
aterloo station, where a train
ss taken for the steamer at
outhampton. In the business
lt Of the town few hundred
pple gathered to give a parting
beer to the dashing guardsmen.
i many of the officers of this
slnent are picked off by Kru-
s's sharpshooters, half the noble
miles in England will be in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05

In sluggish liver, Herbine, by it's
beneficial action upon the hillary
tracUs, renders the bile more fluid.
and brings the liver into a sound
healthy condition, thereby banishing
the sense of drowsiness, lethargy,
and the general feeling of apathy
which arise from disorders of the
liver. Price so cts at the City Drug
Store and W. B. Frames.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05

Washington, Dec. 4.-The fol-
lowing il the text of Representa-
tive Taylor's resolution for the ap-
pointment of a special committee
to investigate the Roberts case:
Whereas, it is charged that
Brigham FL. Roberts, a repre-
sentative-elect to the ifty;siSsh
congress, from the state of Utah, is
ineligible to a seat in the house of
representatives; and,
Whereas, such a charge is made
through a member of the house on
his responsibility as such. and on
tie basis he asserts of public rec.
ords, affidavits and papers eviden-
cling such ineligibility.
Resolved. That the question of
the prima facie right of Bringham
e.. Roberts to be sworn in as a
representative, De referred TO a
special committee of nine members
of the house. to be appointed by
the speaker, and until such COM
mittee shall report upon and the
house decide such question and
right, the said Bringham II. Rob-
erts not be sworn in or be permit
ted to occupy seat III this house;
and said committee shall have
power to send for persons and pa
pers and examine witnesses on oath
in relation to the subject matter OF
this resolution. ,"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
Old Scrap iron.

We will buy any or all old scrap
iron which may be lying about
your place. Old mowers. plows,
old rubber, brass, copper, bones,
or any old stuff of that nature.
I'D wifi CONWAY & SON.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
A French Martinez.

!, leral Giliifet, recently made
q the French military forces,
non bound sticker for obser-
y q army rules. While on d
] q Inspection at one time he at
ssu dinner given by brother Of
some 5f nearly equal rank
], alia. On preparing to return TO
|p'el he found it was raining
" but one of his hosts. Gen
lheendon, accompanied him
y Umbrella. Arrived at his
The Inspector astoniShed his
officer by saving: General,
q consider Yourself under ar
eight days as 4 punishment
li.lng an umbrella while in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
A Masonic Centenary,

lhe Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
celebrated on Tues
I, October "A. in til" .cY Nh. nic
epple, in Boston, its Tooth anniver-
q The date Of the anniversary
m March of last year, but the
eoratlon was postponed, it is said,
ause of the illness Of the presid-
Eoffcer. Many prominent Masons
lhe United States and Canada
present and to each guest at the
auet was presented a handsome
e medal especially struck to
nemorate the occasion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05

patton leads to liver trouble,
.piu liver to Bright's disease.
Ash Bitters is certain cure
s'sge OF tie disorder. Sold by
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05

aMousness, Herbine, by expell-
lsom the body the excess of bile
&ias, improves the assimilatiye
sees, puriiies the blood, and
ny and strengthens the entire
g. Pribe SO cts at City Drug
III and w. B. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-05
FRISCO LINE.
ST. Louis Qld Son Francisco
Railroad Company

Take the most popular route to st.
Louis and all points East, Kansas
City and all poipcs North and West.
Santa Fe trains make close connec-
tions at Oklahoma City and Wichita
for all points on the Frisco Line.
st. Louis and Kansas City Mail and
Express leaving Oklahoma City $50
a. IN daily. arrives in ST Louis the
following morning at FPS, making
close connections with all trains for
the east. Train No leaving st.
Louis at 900 p. nj. daily, arrives at
Oklahoma City 600 p. m. the follow
ihg evening. Through reclining
chair cars free without charge, also
Pullman palace sleepers from Okla
homa City to st. Louis and Kansas
City, etc.
Further information will be cneer-
fully given by the nearest Agent or
B. f. DUNN, District Pass. Agt.,
Cor. Main st. and Douglas Ave,
Wichita, Kansas.
BRYAN SNYDER, G. P. A,
ct Louis, Mo
The Southern herald., 1899-03-03
MH'1III'
The Shn WOiO SHADE TIE euaai z.

statistics, which has now developed into
one Of the most important branches of
the departments work.
In his report made in January, 1s41,
Commissioner Ellsworth stated that
10000 packages of seeds had been dis
tributed during the year and that ag-
ricultural statistics, as gathered in the
census, were being prepared for publ
cation. In 1S42 these statistics were
published, with a survey of crop con-
ditions and prospects. Progress in ag-
ricultural science was reviewed and
special notice was made of the manu-
facture Of sugar from Indian corn and
the use Of lard oil in place of whale
oil for lighting.
From this time ON to the date of the
organization of an independent depart
ment the work progressed slowly. The
distribution Of seeds and plants was
kept up, as was also the gathering of
agricultural statistics, but inadequate
appropriations by congress prevented
any elaboration of the work of the di-
vision. For long time no clerk was
assigned regularly to the agricultural
division, the work being performed by
such as had the time saved from other
duties. +. G. Skinner Is the first man
whose name appears on the pay roll as
distinctly connected with the division.
This gentleman was the publisher of
the Farmers Almanac at Baltimore,
and he was employed at a salary Of ST.
500 a year as collector OF agricultural
statistics. BY the time an independent
division was formed the pay roll had
grown to $4,000 per annum.
Interest in the birth of the agricul-
tural department as a separate branch
of the government was buried beneath
the absorbing interest in the civil war.
The law authorizing the organization
of such department was approved by
President Lincoln May Is, 1862. This
law authorized the appointment Of a
commissioner of agriculture, but did
not make it an executive office of the
first rank. The commissioner was to
receive salary of $4,000 per annum,
and chief clerk was to receive $1,000
per annum. The chief clerk was TO act
as the commissioner in the absence Of
his chief, and no assistant commission
er was provided for.
Under that law President Lincoln
appointed Hon. Isaac Newton, Of Penn
tylvania, as the first commissioner
Commissioner Newton bad. previous to
this appointment, been serving as chief |
Of the division while Il was connected /
The Southern herald., 1899-03-03

have been so cffectual in remedying
former abuses as to reduce the insur.
ance rates on cattle shipped abroad
from eight dollars TO one per head.
In 1891 the weather bureau was es.
tablished as part of the agricultural
department by the transfer of the work
from he war department The cost OF
this service for the first year under the
agricultural department was $S61,-
S4O.S3, but the service to the country
could not be estimated I'm dollars and
cents. That amount included the es.
tablishment of large number of new
stations and the general enlargement
of the service rendered.
Hon. ]. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska,
became secretary of agriculture when
President Cleveland was inaugurated
for his second term, in March, 1893. He
added a division of agrostology, which
is doing important work, and several
important publications have already
been issued by it. The work of tine
weather bureau was again greatly en-
larged, several valuable discoveries
were made in the department Of for
estry, and by the introduction of civil
service methods in the administrative
department vast saving made for the
government.
Secretary Morton was succeeded by
the present incumbent, Secretary Will
son, under whom the work OF the de-
partment is still growing.
In historical sketch of the depart
ment, prepared by Charles H. Great
house, of the division of publications,
be says the department has cost the
government since the time of its es-
tablishment as a division of the patent
office TO the present time, $26 26,015,0sS, or
less than s5OO,O0O per year.
Mr.. Greathouse, after giving the ex.
peRse to the people, asks: "In what
manner and to what extent has it made
4 return for this outlay?" Then, after
giving figures TO prove its worth al.
most Il thousandfold, he adds an ex.
tract from Secretary Rusk's last report
as follows:
I'm concluding the work done under
the several divisions Of this department
since the date Of my last annual re-
port, it gives me pleasure to state, and
! say this aasisedly, that each one Of
more than a dozen divisions whose
work have reviewed has returned ii
actual value 10 the country during the
past year far moreithan The entire an.
nuai appropriation accorded to this DC
pertinent. BERNHARD BRISTOL.
The Southern herald., 1899-03-03
YIDDIsH CHILDREN.
The XOnng Isrncliteb Are Loyal Amer
leans and Teachers OF
Their Parents.

1t is fair question, though, wheth-
er the artists of the Ghetto, IL allowed
to develop spontaneously, would pro-
duce any really great works of art.
Unfortunately it is one that can never
be answered. On all sides American
life is pressing in on them;. in every
corner children are coming under the
spell of its outward glamour. 1t is Nor
ris Rosenfeld's badge of fame among
his people that he was discovered by
Harvard professor, and has read his
poems before the leading literary men
Of New York. Even the language he
uses is affected by the outlying idiom.
Mr., w. ID. Howells, who speaks very
highly of the poems, tells me that many
of the words were plain English. A
resident OF the Ghetto, Abraham Ca
han, has written stories of Yiddish
life in New York for American maga-
zines, and has published two success
full books. In describing the influence
of American life, he told me of moth
er who said: II don't speak English,
but / shall soon learn. There point
ing to her son), that is my teacher"
The children mostly go TO the public
schools, and except in their homes
have discarded the Yiddish language.
Il like to talk about the old country"
Yiddish mother said to me one even
ing at the Windsor, 'and some day ]
think will go back; but my children
make fun of me and call me Dutch
man." Here the father chirped in:
"Yes, they say: What hell good the
old country? This here is United
States" He confessed to me that he
preferred Proctor's to the Windsor.
This was during the Spanish war, and
the Windsor was draped with American
flags and banners, some of them
wrought in silk. The orchestra began
with Sousa's "Stars and Stripes" |
found that the Yiddish people were
proud of the fact that they had sent
a larger proportion of soldiers to the
front than any of the other colonies.
For all the mingling OF outlandish jar
gons, the bits of quaint life and eharac-
ter on the stage, the insistcnce of jew
ish customs and religious usages, those
Yiddish sons were right-that was
United States. In generation or two
the native color of Yiddish life will
fade, and the theaters with it.-Har-
per's Magazine.
The Southern herald., 1899-03-03

yelop the agricultural resources Of the
country, and Commissioner Capron was
selected as the principal adviser for this
commission, TO accept which be re-
signed on June q, 1871.
President Grant appointed Judge
Frederick Watts, of Pennsylvania, 10
fill the vacancy caused by resignation
of Commissioner Capron. The new
commissioners title of judge came
from his having been on the bench in
the district court in Pennsylvania, but
he had quit the practice of law for
what he considered the more congenial
occupation of farming in 1858. The new
commissioner was especially Interested
in the timber interest Of the country,
and through his efforts the division Of
forestry was established several years
later. As a step in this direction he lad
prepared and on exhibition sections of
the most valuable trees IL the country.
1t was during the administration of
Commissioner Watts that the grass
hopper ravages in the west caused such
destruction, and the department sent
out 100000 worth of seeds to the farm
ers in the devastated districts. 1t was
under his administration that the di-
vision Of microscopy was organize d, ,
now one of the most valuable of all the
divisions Of the department.
Hon. William G. lie Due was the next
commissioner, being appointed by
President Hayes July /, 1877. During
his entire term an investigation of ami
NAL diseases was kept up which re-
suited in much good to the entire agri-
cultural interests Of the country. The
production of sugar from both sorghum
and beets was given much attention,
and many satisfactory experiments
were mede. lie was firm believer in
the successful cultivation of tea, cof-
fee, olive and date palms, and distribut-
ed many seeds and cuttings of these to
southern farmers.
President Garfield appointed DR..
George B. Loring, Of Massachusetts,,
commissioner of agriculture in 1881.
During his administration the bureau
of animal Industry was established.
and congress appropriated $15O,O0O to
prosecute the crusade against pleuro-
pneumonia and other diseases. The
control Of quarantine against diseased
animals was transferred from the
treasury 70 the agricultural depart-
meni; the United States chronological
commission was Transferred from the
interior 10 the agricnitsral depart
1e1t, and the publication Of trarspor-
The Southern herald., 1899-03-03
LEE pACIFIc ABAL0fE.
Hany Uscs OF the Humble URivafvsa
Strange Find IN q
shell.

The humble univalye abalone. while
1t does not supply quite 50 many
wants as the buffalo once did fer the
Indians Of the plains. nevertheless
proves Itself, for It's size. 10 be very
useful animal. Hundreds of Chinese
along the Pacific coast make their liss
ing and lay aside enough money tocarry
them back 10 China BY gathering the
abaione from the rocks along the coast
and off the small islands lying near
the shore. The abalone attaches the
open side Of its she'll to the rocks b.
sort Of hinge, opens the aperture lit
tie way when on the watch for food,
and at the FIRST sign Of danger closes il
again and hugs the rock as tightly as il
ii had grown fast. The shells kaveto
be pried loose with iron bars. One was
prled from the rocks on the coast near
Monterey some years ago and within il
was found the skeleton of ehild'S foot.
Nobody knew what tragedy there
might have been Of lost child with 3
foot caught between the rock ard the
she'll and screaming for help for long
hours while the abalone pressed
against the little ankle so closely and
cruelty that at last the foot was sew
cred. But evidently something Of the
sort had happened,
The meat Of the abalone is in great
favor with the Chinese population and
is eaten by them in great quantities.
They also can it and send il back to
China. But nobody else win try TO eat
II, at least second time. The few
Americans with palates sufficiently adj
venturous to try the abalone say II is q
little less palatable than the soles of old
boots. The American population is
quite willing to turn the meat OF the alb
alone over to the Chinese while Il
siezes the shells.
The curio dealers all along the coas.
do a brisk trade with tourists n the
polished shells, which are very teauti.
full and show beautiful uliridsscentsiad
Of pink, red, green and brown. As the
shells can be easily worked, thgy are
turned into very handsome brooches,
buttons, shirt waist sets, knife handles.
and dozens Of other small articles. AL
project has been set on foot by New
Jersey button manufacturer to make
buttons and dress ornapents Of them
In commercial quantities.
In some Of the islands off the coast
Of southern California the abaloLe Sc.
cretes pearls Of lower grade which are
hunted for by goodly number of Chi
nese and few Americans. Sometimes
they find a pearl Of considerable value
A few days ago one Of these Cinnamon
just returned from Geronimo brought
back pearl which jeweler declared
TO be worth at least $3.50. The China.
man, having no idea Of its value, had
offered to sell it for $40. IN. Y. Sun.