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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
1mportance of the Omen Door.

Washington, Jan. s.-Secretary Will
son in an interview emphasized the
great commercial significance of the
''open door" concert of the powers re-
speeding China. He said that but for
this action the United States would
have been shut out from trade advan-
tages in any province which other ma
tions might see fit to take possession
of. Anything produced by the United
States will now permanently find its
way into all parts of China. This
means much for the cotton market es-
pecially. A year ago no nation would
have istended to such proposition
but the whole world listens to the
United States now. Our exports from
the Pacific coast had risen to an aggre-
gate of $73,OOo,oOO, year ago. Sec
rotary Hays work will rapidly increase
this trade.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
Mr.. Rhodes Enjoying Himself.

Mr.. Rhodes is delightfully."- English.
Being by far the most seriously threat
'ened resident in Kimberley, besieged
lby implacable foes, and with a price
set on his head, he seems from all ac-
counts to be quite the coolest person
on the ground, and to be rather enjoy
ing himself than otherwise. "Sit tight,
as 1 do" is his cheerful counsel to his
perturbed neighbors. He appears to.
regard the siege chiefly as an excep--
tionally favorable opportunity for the,
exercise Of hospitality, and we can well
understand that the presence in the.
town of a man who can entertain his
friends in the interval of riding out
to see how the fighting is going on is
worth half a regiment to the defend
ers.-The Globe.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
A Princes Prank.

The Prince de Ligne, a Respondent
figure among the brilliant courtiers
and Adventures of the time of Louis
XVI, told many amusing anecdotes in
his Memoirs" one of which shows
him, sword in hand, at duel which
called for gaiety rather than courage.
The Comte de Segur and the Prince de
Ligne were coming out one very rainy
night, after supping with Madame de
Polignac in the Rue de Bourbon. Ne
coach was to be seen, and no person
there to fetch one. Let us pretend
to fight" the prince said to Comte d.
Segur, "and that will bring the watch.
They'll arrest us, and we'll make them
get a carriage to take US to the COM
missary." On which they took their
swords in hand with fearful scuf-
f1e, and cries OF "Ohi All! Are you
dead? Are you wounded?" The watch
passed and repassed quite near them
on the Port Royal, but apparently
frightened, they did not arrest the
;duelists, and they, half-dead with
daughter and the fatigue of the battle,
had to go home on foot in the rain,
after all!
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
GERMANY QUITE INDIGNANT.
Seizure of German Ships has Thor
oughIy Aroused the Emperor.
HIGH HANDED PROCEEDINGS.

Berlin, Jan. 6.-The Imperial mail
steamer General has been detained at
Alden and occupied by British troops,
With the object of searching her cargo,
which is to be discharged. The Gen.
iral is owned by the German East
african line, the owners of the Bundles.
path, previously captured by the Brit
sh cruiser Magicienni, off Delagoa bay.
The seizure of the General has con-
iderably aggravated the situation
lere, and the indignation against
England is intensified.
On absolutely reliable authority the
correspondent of the Associated Press
earns that Emperor William is now
thoroughly aroused by the repeated
eizure of vessels, not one of which,
te has been assured, is guilty of car
ying contraband. He regards the
leizures as high handed proceedings
which England would not have dared
TO undertake if the German navy were
pore powerful than it is.
His majesty is said to be particularly
fncensed, because information had
reached him showing that the seizures
were not due to the laundering OF
British naval officers, but to strict or
iers from headquarters, which the Off
GERS are merely carrying out. He has,
therefore, instructed Count Won Bue-
low, the foreign secretary, to demand
exact and full reparation for the out
rage done to the German flag.
No answer that is considered salts
factory has yet been received from
London. Late news, however, in
auced the German government to send
another and more strongly worded pro-
test to London. Significant of the in
tensity of Germany's indignation
against England in this matter is a
declaration published by the German
Colonial Society, among whose 80, ZOO
members are a number of reigning
German princes.
Indignation meetings have been call
ed by branches of the Colonial society.
The German press, with hardly an ex-
ception, thunders against England.
Even the semi-official Berliner Post
says: SIT cannot be denied that the
Indignation aroused by the wilfullness
of seizures by British commanders is
spreading in wider and w ider circles. y
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
To Accompany Boer Army.

Washington, Jan. s.-Captain Can
Reichmann, of the Seventeenth infant
ry and assistant adjutant general OF
volunteers. has been detailed by the
secretary of war to accompany the Boe1
army for the purpose of observing and
reporting upon military operations il
the war in South Africa. His duties
will be similar to those of Captain Slo-
cum, of the Eighth cavalry, who is
with the British army in the Transvaal
Captain Riechmann goes from Manila
to Cape Town.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
LIVELY OLD PEOPLE.
Herbert Spencer Almost so, stu P1iss
an Industrious Pen.

Herbert Spencer Almost so, Stu Piles
/. an Industrious Pen.
London Scraps says that Plutarch
was long past 20 when he began to
learn Latin; Socrates was near the end
of long life when he undertook the
study of music, and Cato was so when
he began to wrestle with Greek roots.
Ludovico Monaldesco waited until he
was lis before he thought of writing
his famous memoirs, and in later years
Dryden was IS when he undertook his
translation of the "Aeneid," while DR..
johnson had passed the allotted span
OF life when he plunged into the In
tricacies Of Dutch gutturals, and Queen
Victoria was studying Hindoo long
after she had passed her 10th year.
Herbert Spencer still plies an in
dustrious pen, although nearing his
S0th year; George Meredith Is
little less Industrious at 20
than when he wrote his first poems In
the year of the great exhibition. Mrs.
Alexander, though she is "a and Grip
pied with rheumatism, sits as bravely
at her desk as she did half century
7o6Ot anu MI. 11CuIy al % SIill WO4 =
be happy" unless he writes his invaria-
BILE three novels year. 1t seems only
yesterday that Sir Harry Verney was
running races when long past 80, and.
at the same age Major Knox-Holmes-
was making world records on his tri-
cycle on the racing path. Sir Algernon
West recalls the time when, as small
boy not yet promoted to the dignity OF
an Elton Jacket, he ran a race against
the duke of Wellington, then over 20:
and Ir. Justice Wills, the most youth
full Of all English judges, makes light
at 20 of a sixteen-mile walk from one
assize town to another, and can still
climb an Alpine peak as we'll as when
he helped to found the Alpine club,
forty years ago. One of the ablest OF
American judges did not begin to study
law until he was nearing his Goth year.
Mr.. Benjamin, @. c., who came from
American to wrest the chief prizes
from the English lawyers, was almost
the same age when he was called to
the English bar, and yet within ave
years he was making three times .
judges income.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

The Supreme Court of Indiana held,
in the case of the City of Valparaiso
VS.. Hagen ct al. that a municipal cor
poration, so long as it acts in con-
formity with the statutes and proceeds
skillfully and without negligence or
malice, and pursues the only natural
and reasonably possible line of drain
age, has a right to discharge its sew
age into a natural water course and
cannot be enjoined from doing so at
the suit of lower riparian proprietors
who suffer injury by reason of the
pollution of the stream; that
one who is injured by the
acts of another done on his
own land, which the latter has a
clear legal right to do, is without any
remedy either at law or in equity; that
the rights of a riparian proprietor in
stream are subject to the privilege of
other proprietor higher up the stream
to exercise their legal rights with re-
gard to it, and that the doing of an
act which the law expressly sanctions
and authorizes cannot be a nuisance
except it become so by reason of the
negligent or improper manner in which
it is done.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
Lawton Fund Big Enough.

Washington, Jan. 4.-General Corbin
announces that the subscriptions to
the Lawton fund received amounted to
500, 1868. 35, which did not include all
the subscriptions made to the independ-
ent agents in various outside cities.
General Corbin also announced that
the amount subscribed already exceed
ed the amount hoped for when the
movement was organized, and was
amply sufficient for the purposes of the
fund, which was to raise the mortgage
on the Lawton homestead at Redlands,
Cal, and to provide for the education
of the children.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Florence Nightingale, now close upon
80 years of age, wrote letter to sur
vivors of Balaklava as greeting for
their recent union. The fragrance of
her philanthropic work in the Crimean
war is still a sweet SAVIOR after nearly
half century. What she did was a
revelation to the world how a great
purpose can carry one through labors
almost measureless, amid surroundings
fitted to try the stouuest heart. Those
who saw the charge of the Light Bri-
gade, and also witnessed her heroic
labors, might well have reckoned her
chances of survival far less than those
of the men who faced the guns. Was
not hers case of losing life yet saving
it? She was martyr in will, if not
in deed, but was spared for further
service and permitted to be a pattern
in noble works.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
An Imnrnvement.

From Judge: Drummer Tin Dinkey-
ville)-Your village band seems to be-
better than it was when heard it last.
Tavern Landlard-Yes; there amt So
many Of 'em now.
Of a family of nine children in
Worcester, Mass, eight are now i'll
with scarlet fever. Fortunately, it is
not of a very virulent type, and it is
thought that all will recover.
"Now, Harold, j want you to prom
Use me that you will act like a little
gentleman while you are at the tab BILE. y
Harold will, ma. il you'll let me-
off the rest of the timc.-Life.
Ten years ago 100000 punches OF
bananas would satisfy the American
demand for the fruit, but last year the
twenty or more importers of bananas
sold as many as 10000 n00 lunches
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
Guam,s Active Governor.

Manila, Jan. Ga naval officer who
has arrived here from Guam brings a
proclamation issued by Captain Leary,
naval governor of that island, decree
ing the absolute prohibition and total
abolition of slavery or peonage, the
order taking effect February %. The
prologue of the proclamation declares
that the Spanish system of peonage,
amounting to slavery, is a menace to
popular liberty and a violation of the
privileges guaranteed by the American
constitution.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

A few centuries ago the bitterest foes
in the world, probably, were the Span
ish and the Dutch. Spain oppressed
the Netherlands with unparalleled
cruelties; the Dutch withstood the enc
my and finally conquered them with
unsurpassed heroism. Today the Span
iards are sending friendly congratula-
Itions to the Dutch in South Africa on
their stubborn defense of their indie
pendence-the independence which the
Spaniards themselves in the days of
Alva so furiously denied. The whirli-
gig of time has shown us few more
striking changes of attitude than this.
Spain once the great oppressor is now
a friend of liberty. England once the
Gibraltar of liberty is fighting that
which made her great.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

"Citizen Sunday has become fixed
Institution in London, and this year on
that date the clergymen in more than
300 churches of that city preached upon
the duties of the citizen to the state.
That is an institution which might
well be adopted in this country. A man
may be a good citizen without being
religious; but at any rate every man
who is truly religious should be good
citizen, and all the better citizen be-
cause he is religious.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
Montana Transvaal Recruits.

Butte, Mont, Jan. 6.-Two hundred
and sixty men have signed an agree
ment here to go to South Africa and
serve in the Boer army. They are
Irish-Americans, COMMUNICATIONS
and French-Americans. Only men
between 20 and 40 and without any
one depending on them were enlisted.
They will leave as soon as an agent Oh
the Transvaal, now on his way, arrives
here
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
American Raila to Eurone.

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. s.-The Brit
ish steamer, Ping Suey, has left this
port for Rotterdam, carrying thou
sand tons of steel trolley rails each As
feet long and weighing 1900 pounds.
The rails are to be used in equipping
an electric railroad to be built in Hol-
land on the American plan
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
Saving SPACE.

Miss Slimdiet-"Here's an advertise
ment o: "a literary man who wants.
board. Does he say he's a literary
man to SHOW he's person of refine
ment and cuiture?" Mrs. Slimdiet-
mo; it's to show that he can't pay
much."-New York Weekly.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

General Miles has been interviewed
on the war in South Africa. ''The
struggle between the British and the
Boers,' he says, sis very serious war
There have been some severe losses,
and l believe there will be serious en-
counters before it is ended AS to the
probable results, I, of course, cannot
predict. If the British are defeated,
is it likely to involve Europe in seri-
GUS complications? 1t might and it
might not In the language of the
sapient Jack Bunsby, the significance
of this observation seems to lie in the
application on it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

! A Washington man who recently
married, has asked his license fee back.
He claims the investment was not
profitable. Probably the lady has the
same opinion. i.4..,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

1.-The Unexpectedness of Poe" is the
title of recent essay by Hamilton
Mabie. 1t is likewise the cause of
Princeton's recent victory over Yale's
football team. Unexpected triumphs,
nevertheless, as in the cases of both
young Arthur Poe and his predecessor,
Edgar Allan Poe are usually the result
of interchangeable preparation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

: Speaker Henderson is said to be hot
tempered. He will have ample oppor-
tunity to demonstrate it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

The man who sows seeds of courtesy
and kindness will reap an abundant
harvest
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Recent advices proclaimed that the
chase after Aguinaldo had been given
up. Now for another capital!
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Many man who is unable to write
manages to make his mark in the
world.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Lords Roberts and Kitchener, who are
to do the business for England in
Africa, are both Irishmen. 1t is little
wonder that John Bull insists on hold
ing Ireland.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Always tell the truth-and you'll
probably pose as the defendant in a
suit for damages.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

for a fight seldom comes to the
scratch.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Beggars want handouts and robbers
demand hands up.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

whats yours?" is a question that
usually provokes a smile.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

1t is sad case for the reading public
when a journalist goes from bad to
verse.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

Sometimes wife can read her hus
band like a blankbook
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

When busy man has leisure he al
ways does some other kind of work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

A man who is tied to his wife's
apron string is well connected.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22
Scientific Sewing.

Mrs. L. D. Mason will open a
private school on school needle
work at her home, one block west
from Dunlap college. The course
includes everything from threading
a needle to scientific dress making
the making up of all articles Of
undergarments. darning and mend
ing. Patterns drafted without
models. The course begins the
lst Of November and continues
once q week until the LIST of July.
Just think, SO lessons for $5.0O..
Mothers shculd not miss this OPP
portunity. Call ON no Saturday,
Oct. "a, to get o fun outline OF che
'ourse. 22-I2tl
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22
Off for Conference.

Rev. G. F. Roberts, presiding
elder Of the Ardmore district of
the M. E. church, Rev. J. M.
Gross and family and Rev. T. E..
Mckenzie left today for Vinita to
attend the annual conference of
the church for the Territory,
which opens there Wednesday.
These three gentlemen have
done excellent service during their
ministry here and their many
friends in Ardmore and the sur
rounding country are hopeful that
the conference will see fit to return
them to their respective charges for
another year at least.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22
rHE PASSING THaONG.
An the WORLDS a Stage ana Hacs
one plays Part

D. ]. Cannon was here today
from Brock.
T. N. Sharrock Of Marsden is in
the city today.
Ed Coopman of Gainesville is in
the city teday.
Jack Scanlon of Marietta spent
yesterday in the city.
E.O. Keyes spent yesterday with
frieads in Wynnewood.
DIR. a. j. Yarbrough of Spring
er was in the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Guitlot
spent Sunday in Gainesville.
Mike Sneed left on the noon
train today for points mp the road.
Rey. I. F. Stanford was here to-
day from Marsden marketing cot.
ton.
r. E. Cofer came up from
Gainesville on the noon train to-
day.
w. D. Potter and wife returned
on the noon train today from
Gainesville.
Judge A. II. Law of Woodfort
was here today shaking hand
with his many friends.
Edgar Pozarth of okIahom
City was here yesterday en- rout
home from a business trip TO Dal
las.
Mrs. w. W. Uttz, who has bee,
in the city for some time visitin
her brother, w. r. Bleakmore
and. family, left today for Wash
ington, D. G.
| Normal 81. Murphy and E. N
Field came up this morning fror
Fort Worth and will reside in ARD
more, having accepted position
with the firm of Sig Simon & Bro
| Walter Garrett, who has bee
Santa Fe yardmaster here for th
last three years, leaves tonight fc
Oklahoma City. where he has az
cepted a position with the Chocta
Oklahoma and Gulf road.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22

NO Protest Agalnst the Ardm0re
Plat Was Ever Authorized.

NO Protest Against the Ardm0re
Plat Was Ever Authorized.
There has been considerable dis
cussion pro and con since Ard
more's plat was returned relative
to the alleged action of the city
council in fling a protest with the
secretary of the interior against
the approval of the plat
In conversation today with Al.
derman Burch the reporter was
informed that no such action was
ever taken by the council. but that
on August % a resolution passed
the council authorizing the mayor
to appoint a committee to cores
pond with the secretary OF the
interior with a view to securing
his recognition Of orchards and
nurseries as valuable improve
ments.
MIR. Burch says this action was
taken for the protection of Messrs.
Taylor and Mccullough, whose
nursery in South Ardmore repre-
sents much labor and money and
who would suffer heavy loss under
the ruling of the department. The
resolution also provided that the
committee should endeavor to pro-
cure, through the secretary OF the
interior, tract of land for park
purposes under the provisions OF
the Curtis law.
No protest against the approval
of the plat was ever passed or au
thorized by the council, but II
seems that after the resolution was
adopted some one did get up 6
protest, which was numerously
lsigned, and attached to it a copy
of this resolution of the council
thus giving it the appearance O.
being endorsed by the council
when no such action was in fac
authorized by that body.
This explanation was made b.
Mr.. Burch in view of the misun
derstanding which seems to eIs
in some quarters as to the actor
of the council on that matter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
The Grain, Produce, Live Stock and
Cotton Quotations.
FURNISHED by Ardmore Cotton Exchangel
COTTON.


New York, Oct. 22.-Cotton-Oon-
siderable interest was manifest this
morning as to the probable effect on
cotton market of the cold wave
following Saturday nights rain. A
bHllish sentiment has been dominant
for several days, occasioned by the
recent slump and the anticipation of
the appearance of Jack Frost. West
erly winds had tendency to confine
the mercury in the forties and it is
generally accepted that no frost oc-
CURED.
Liverpool opened steady in the
earlier positions, with an advance of
from one to two points from January
to May. The second cables did not
materially change the situation.
New York opened at a decline of
four from Saturdays close, occa-
stoned by the closing of some long
Interests, which covering may have
induced some further selling and at
noon the market declined some
seven points farther. The closing
of Liverpool being two points lower,
influenced the New York market to
q further decline, closing with loss
for the day of about eleven points.
Liverpool spots were quoted at
1872, a decline of 1872. Saturdays
sales were 5000 bales. 1t is signifi-
cant to note that the Liverpool spin
ners are expected to increase their
soon and that in the face of
the decline of futures and spots.
Yarns and cloth are Arm. The fol-
lowing is the markets for the day:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22

Business opened briskiy in Judge
Bradfords court this week. The
first case called was that of Frank
Cooney. charged with embezzle-
ment, and at>the conclusion Of the
testimony and argument the de-
fendant was discharged.
I. NJ. High. charged with dis
posing of mortgaged property,
was next given a hearing and was
bound over to await the action of
the grand jury.
J. r. Kelley, charged with cut
ting and destroying fence, was
given a hearing this afternoon,
which had not been concluded al
press hour.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-22
MOrtuarV.

Lucy May, the Syear- old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Martin.
died this morning at 2:3O at the
family home on North Washington
street. The funeral took place
this afternoon at 4 o'clock. fol-
lowed by interment in South GEM
etery.