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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02
MhinkY MedlcInc,

The temperance press is emphaz-
ing the danger to the home in the use
OF medicines which are loaded with
whisky or alcohol. In this respect
as we'll as in the remarkable charac-
ter of their cures, DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and Favorite Pre-
scription contain no alcohol, whisky
or other intoxicant, and are equally
free from opium, cocaine and other
narcotics. Every family should have
q copy of the Peoples Common
Sense Medical adviser, sent abso-
lutely free, on receipt of stamps to
pay expense of mailing only. Send
81 one-cent stamps for the book in
paper covers. or 81 stamps for cloth
binding. Address DR.. r. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

The "Colden Medical Discovery has
been said to cure consumption. 1t sure
iy and infallibly cures alt bronchial and
throat troubles. 1t strengthens weak
lungs and cures lingering coughs 1t Is a
healer and builder of tissue. 1t cleanses
and enriches the blood-regulates the
heart action-puts the whole body IN
tune with. nature.
Mrs. Kerr's trouble was probably bron-
chial. 1t was painful-dangerous if let
run-dangerous in the hands of an in
competent doctor. Don't take local
doctors word for everything. Write to
DIR. Pierce. Tell him your symptoms.
For over thirty years he has been chief
consulting physician at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo.
Ny. Consultation with him will cost
you nothing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02
TOLD BY TELEPHONE.
Words Whispered In Our Ear From
Inland Towns In the Territory
Tuesday Afternoon.

wYNNEwooD.
The ball given by the 8. U. N. club
last night was grand success.
e. MI. Bowman of Davis is here on
business.
Several couples from Davis and
Pauls Valley attended the ball.
DoUGHERTY.
John Barnett is quite sick.
Joe N. Barall of Ardmore is here
on busioess.
Chas. Smith from Ardmore is here
on business for j. N Barall.
Mr.. Witherspoon of Gainesville,
was here last night and went out to
Mill Creek today.
BERwYN.
Z Sam Kahn of Gainesville 10 here
extending happy New Year to his
patrons.
w. III. johnson of Norman, Okla,
is here.
HEALDToN.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. w. l..
Brook, o daughter.
LONE GROVE.
Mrs. Alex Winans is quite sick.
Ben Mitchell is here from Collins
vile visiting his brother, A. J. NJ itch
ell.
w. McElroy from Cornish has To-
Gated at this place.
NORTON.
Burt Renfro, from Collin county,
Texas, is here and will probably To-
cate near here.
Mrs. Winnie Lee, who has been
confined to her bed for some time
with slow fever, is improving.
Ed Draper was b re last night from
Linn.
PROVENCE.
The surveyors of the Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Gulf railway are rum
ming their line about 800 yards south
of town.
The stock of goods of Leon Kahn
Is being packed, preparatory to ship
ment to Roff.
Alex Jordan is very low with slow
fever.
MARIETTA.
| d. III. knight has returned from g
family reunion at Jacksonville, Tex
S. Westheimer went to Ardmore
today.
Bailey Butler returned from Fort
! Worth today.
Mr.. Stout OF Burneyville is here
today with cotton
a large amount of shelled corn II
being shipped from here. ~~
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

j. B. Crawford, Admiral Dew
ey's new secretary, is the only COM
missioned officer in the United
States navy who has no commits
sion. The law declares that there
shall be secretary to the admir-
AL" but it provides him with no
credentials except his uniform. 1t
says he shall have the pay and
rank of a lieurenant-not relative,
but actual rank-and the regula-
tions require that this garb shall
be the uniform Of that rank, mcdi-
fed only by IS" on the collar in
stead of the usual anchor. The
Office ceases with the life of the
admiral. Admiral DeSey's secreta-
ry is an official aid. not a clerk. and
is the personal representative Of
the head of the navy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

GERMANY is all agog over the
seizure of the ship, Bundesrath,
by British cruiser and prompt
demands have already been made
by the German government for an
explanation of the action. Ger
many vehemently denies England's
right to search vessels bound for
neutral port, as Delagoa bay has
admittedly been up to the present.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02
Stockholders. Meeting.

There will be meeting of the
shareholders of the City National
Baud held at its Office in Ardmore,
Indian Territory, between the hours
of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. on Tuesday
the 9th, day of January, 1900, for
the purpose of electing seven di-
rectors to serve the ensuing year.
Don LACY, CASHIER.
Ardmore, 1. T., Dec. 8. 1899.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

SAYS the Muskogee Phoenix:
The really good price the farmers
received for their cotton this sea-
SON is likely to result in damage
next year. as most of them will be
inclhed to go it strong on cotton
70 the neglect of other crops and
an over-production will result in
small price again." This is doubt
less a correct forecast of next
years agricultural condition. gem
orally speaking. And yet the
really good price received in '99 is
an argument against this very
AN. interesting table of statis-
tues has been compiled by the Dali
las branch of R. G. Dunn & Co..
showing failures for Eve wears.
.enalng January l, in l36 coun-
lles of North Texas and the
sonickasaw and Choctaw nations.
L shows a decrease in the number
ol failures from 319 in 1895. TO
- in 1899. and a decrease in
liabilities frem s., ,923, $50 in 1895.
= So4S, ,6s2 in 1899. When if is
considered that this ;ncl,das 1oc
counties IN Texas. the showing for
sas TWO nations in the Territory in
sluaed in the statement is very
a.a'liylng. Indeed. and viii i'm
p.sss any one with the general
This section. =
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

IT is reported that the London
war Office has received important
adverse news from Mafeking,
though strict secrecy is maintained
as to its purport.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

A system regulator is a medicine
that strengthens and stimulates the
liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels
Prickly Ash Bitters is superior
system regulator. Ii drives out all
unhealthy conditions, promotes ac-
tivity of body and brain, restores
good appetite. sound sleep and
cheerful spirits. Sold by W. b.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02
.ARDMoRE. TUESDAY. JANUARY 2.

LET us build up a better and
more wholesome sentiment Of pub
lie spirit and enterprise in Ard
more during 1900.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

EVERY congressman should have
a little hot-house in which to test
the seeds he intends sending out.
They count this year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

The Delagoa bay transfer seems
to have been called off by Ger
many since England's seizure OF
the Bnndesrath. Perhaps it was
a fake after all and existed only in
the fertile imagination of the edi-
tor of Il Q Lokal AM O ger.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

EVERY effort put forth for the
npbnilding and betterment of Ard
more will return a compound in
.terest on the investmentin increas-
ed business activity and copss-
quently in more extended field of
individual Opportunity.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

TIME TABLE,
.osif. Colorado and santa Fe RslIwsy.
"a J soUfH-BoUND.
aaIveston and Chicago Express s:sa a. m.
Cieburne and Kansas City Express. 5:07 p m.
NoRTE-BOUHD.
galveston and Chicago Express--.l2:5o a. m.
Oleburne and Kansas City Express. IL :3s a.. IN.
A. LUCAS. Ticket Agent.
VS.. KEENAN,. General Passenger Agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

AS you walk to your place of
business this fine weather you
should think how it will be when
it rains again. Build sidewalks.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

If THE Irish regiments said to
be forming in the United States
for service in the Transvaal ever
reach their destination there will
be some lively scrimmages.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

The close of this year should
find Ardmore with a complete sys-
tenn of street lighting.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02

Shot guns and repeating rifles
are in demand this crisp weather.
Get one from Bivens 6 Williams.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02
OvERBRQQy

DIR. Yo1ngspent last night with
his daughter, Mrs. Gates.
G.. G. Gordon of Marsden is here.
Mrs. Luper from Mill Greek is here
today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-01-02
yaS H
1OnSuIIzlpt ptlone

Doctors are often wrong.
The local doctor Is an oyerworked indi-
vidual. He hurries from caSe OF scar
ietina to a case of diabetes and from that
TO the annputation of leg. He must act
quickly-sometimes hurriediy. 1t Is not
strange that he makes an occasional mas,
take. But mistakes are dangerous and
should be avoided.
Mrs. G. e. Kerr, of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
recently had some experience She says;
last spring was taken with severe pains IN
INV chest and was 50 weak could hardly walk
about the house. tried several physic1ans an9
they told me 1 had consumption. Before nao
taken the first bottle of DR.. PierSes Soiae1
Medical Discovery, was very inucn oettsf. I
took Eve bottles Of it and have not yet had any
return Of the trouble"
Was it consumption S6a
Probably not. hIII
MsSS0 Il
M91
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
Children of the sIums.

Perhaps what | have seen of child
life in the slums has made upon my
heart the deepest scars" writes Mrs.
BallingtOn Booth in The Ladies' Home
Journal. Poor little scraps of hu-
manity, sick. puny and deformed. or,
what was even worse still, vile and
evil in word and disposition before the
baby accents had left their words.
The streets swarmed with them. play
ing, quarreling. fighting amid the jos
Ting crowd and traffic until late into
the night, and the houses were full of
little figures that slept on the floor OF
crOuched in the corners to get away
from the drunken and brutal who de.
light in abusing the weak In summer
deaths angel mOws them down
through the hot season as the scythe
cuts the flowers amid the hay. and II
has often seemed to me that on such a
mission his black robes vanish. and he
is veritable angel of light"
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
Eat Man Wanted a Correction.

"That was fine report you had of
the explosion" puffed the fat man.
who did not know there was an ele-
vator in the building and climbed
three flights Of stairs to the editors of
flee, "a fine report, 1 must say" And
sarcasm fairly rang In his tones. "Did
you know that it was my furnace that
blew up, that stand the loss, that but
for me you wouldn't have the itemY'
''If you are d. ]. Jones, we did"
Il am ID. Jacobus Jones. You didn't
even spell out my middle name You'd
think that my wife and hired girl were
the whole thing the way you wrote it
up"
''The girl was terribly burned, and
your wife was badly hurt while saving
the girl. You don't appear to have had
any hand in the matter"
Didn't, hey? Did you notice how
slowly l sat down when l came in
here? Did you hear me stifle a groan?
I'm sore as a felon from the crown Of
my head to the sole of my foot. That's
what l am. But there's not a word
about that
''Were you in the explosion?"
"NO. Wish l had been. When 1
heard the report, / knew some one
must be hurt. l fell down stairs. l
ran five blocks for a doctor When 1
got home, l was so exhausted that l
had to retire, and this morning l had
to roll out of bed on chair to get up.
1t wasn't my fault that the doctor was
out or that an ambulance was at the
house when l got back. You can say
that 1 showed great presence of mind
and got out and bumped myself or
stop my paper. Good day!'-Detroit
Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsPuR METHODIST EPIscoPAL-Sunday-Pr Preach
ing at lOA and 745 p. NJ. SUNDAY School
P. NJ. Christian Endeavor Prayer Meeting,
645 P. M Prayer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at Z As
Pm. Rev. G. A. Hill, pastor.
ST. PETERS CHURCH. Rev. Henry Thomas Rec
tor.-Sunday-M Morning Prayer and Sermon at
10% A. NJ. Evening Prayer and sermon at "a
Pm. sunday SchoOl-2.l5 P. NJ. Wednesday,
Evening Prayer and Lecture ~ p. M Teach.
ers Meeting Immediately afIerward.
AN.-Sunday-Preaching at 1917 A. M
and ~ P. NJ. Sunday Sehool-1l% A. M. Prayer
Meeting-Wednesdays at IA p M. Rev J. il.
EStlin, pastor
ST. PoLYcARP CATHOLIC CHURCH-Servicese every
other Sunday, by Father WaldIon. Sunday
School Immediately after service.
SMYRNA CIRCUIT-Preaching services, Friend
ship in the morning, SeversOn in the after
noon Jerman's Chapel and Smyrna Land
ing alternate Sunday nights at 7S0. Rev. l..
W. Layfed, pastor
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (ColOred) -
Sunday-Preaching at IL A. NJ. and p. NJ.
Sunday SCHOOL, P. M Rev. j. Z. Cook,
Pastor.
A. NJ. E. CHURCH-SundL J-Preaching at IL a.
m, and p. m. Sunday School at p. m.
Christian EndeavOr 81 p. m. Sunday. Praise
meeting at s o'clock Wednesday evening
Rev. Paris Daker, pastor.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
They Pay the Rent.

"There is" says a traveller "a stock
saying which they have at Queens
town, Ireland. 1t is there the steamers
pick up the mails, which can leave
London II hours later than the boats
do Liverpool and overtake them there
Frequently, however, delays occur, and
then the passengers kill time by going
ashore, and the native is always in
wait to sell them shillalahs and other
things, such as bog oak jewelry, canes,
ETC., which are supposedly Indigenous
to and characteristic of Ireland.
"SOme of the shillalahs are wonder
full and awful to look upon and have
no possible place in real life, their only
object being to take in the unwary
transatlantic traveller. One l saw there
had a head fully six inches in diam
eter. with projecting knobs and roots
thickly covering it. 1t was so heavy
that to lift it was an effort and to car
ry it any distance without using a dray
a physical impossibility. 1t was a
murderous looking weapon, and blow
from it on the head would have done
for any living thing, even darky from
Georgia.
"'Why.' l asked in my surprise,
what on earth do you use this for?
"'ThatY he rejoined. 'Arrah, that's
what we pay the rint with
"Pve got it yet."-New York Trib
une
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
A Perfect Newspaper.

10 publish ALL THE NEWS PROMPTLY
and succintly and in the most readable
form, without elision or partisan bias,
to discuss its significance with frankness:
to keep an Open Eye for Public Abuses,
to give besides complete record of cur
rent thought, fancies aud discoveries in
al departments of human activity in its
Daily Editions of from 10 to IA Pages.
and to provide the whole for its patrons
at the nominal price of ONE CENT-that
was from the outset, and will continue to
be the ann of THE RECORD"
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
SECRET SOCIETIES.

MORNING STAR LODGE, No. 6, l. o. o F-Meets
every Friday evening, at 500 o'clock.
MCDONNELL ENCAMPMENT, No 81 q. o. .F-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month at 500 O'Clock.
HARMONY LODGE, No. l3, A. F. A. M.-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each month,
at 500 o'clock.
SMYRNA LODGE, No. 5, |. o. G. T-Meets every
Wednesday evening, at 90 o'clock.
SMYRNA COECLAvE, No. As. ORDER OF HEPTAsoPHs
meets first and third Tuesday of each month
al 5000 CLOCK, at the Odd Fellows Hall.
UNION CASTLE No II, X. G. E.-Meets every Mon
day evening in their hall in the Cooper Build
ing, at % o'clock.
MIsPAH LODGE, No. I6, A. O. U. W.-Meets every
Monday evening at 500 o'clock in Odd Fell
lows Hall.
MIzPAH CoNcLAvE, No. 1914 ADHESIVE MoGUL-
LIANs.-Meets the last Monday evening of each
month, at 90 O'Clock, in odd Fellows Hall
GENERAL WINFIELD ;. HANCOCK POsT, No. %
A. R.-Meets every Thursday night in the
Hall of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. ThOs
Davis, Commander.
STARS AND STRIPES COUNCIL No. 26, JR. o. U. A.
M-Meets at SOD p. m. every Thursday In
Odd Fellows Hall.
FRANCES f. WILLARD Temple, 40. s. X of 6. E.
Meets every Tuesday evening at s O'clock at
the Golden Eagle Hall.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
Test For a Weak Mind.

Two men in cafe We're discussing a
gift by a noted millionaire of a large
sum of money to found college chair
of psychology.
"What is psychology. anyway ask
ed one.
Its the study of the mind. of the
SOUL" said the other.
"Whats the good of that?" asked the
skeptic.
"a great deal of USE" answered his
companion. II have studied it to some
extent myself and can detect a weak
minded man from a strong minded one
by very simple test. For instance. if
l can make you say fourteen against
your will you lack will power. Will
you let me try it on you? believe
can make you say it,"
MAKE me say fourteen against my
will? You can't do it. Fire away
And this is the way the test worked:
Allow much are six and four?
B.-Ten.
Allow much are eight and three?
B.-Eleven.
Allow much are nine and seven?
B.-Sixteen.
A. (triumphantlyl-Aha There, you
said it. | knew you would.
b. Qndignantlyl-Said what?
A.-SiXteen.
B.-But fourteen" was the word we
chose for the test.
A. (cOolly)-Well. you've said it now
anyway.-New York Tribune
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
ANTS ACT AS STRATEGlsTS.
Colonies of the Insects Transact
Business With Military Precision.

Colonies of the Insects Transact
Business With Military Precision.
From military standpoint the meth
DDS employed by ants 10 provide food
for an ant colony are almost perfect.
Their fOraging parties are faultless,
both in planning and execution, and
are almost uniformly successful. A
resident of this city who visited South
Africa gives this description of foray
of an army of ants.
The army. which he estimates to
have numbered about $4,000 ants.
started from its home in the mud
walls of hut and marched in the di-
rectiOn of a small mound of fresh
earth but a few yards distant. The
head of the column halted on reaching
the foot of the mound and waited for
the rest of the force to arrive at the
place of operations. which evidently
was to be the mound of fresh earth.
When the remainder had arrived and
halted so that the entire army was as
sembled. a number of ants detached
themselves from the main body and
began to ascend to the top of the
mound, while the others began moving
so as to encircle the base of the mound
Soon a number from the detachment
which had assembled the mound. evil
IDENTIFY the attacking party. entered the
loose earth and speedily returned. each
bearing cricket or young grass
hopper, dead. which he deposited upon
the ground and then returned for a
fresh load. Those who had remained
on the outside of the mound took up
the crickets and grasshoppers as they
were brought out and bore them down
to the base of the hill. returning for "
fresh load. Soon the contents of til,
mound seemed to be exhausted. and
then the whole force returned home.
each carrying his burden of food for
| the community.
Here. then, was the regular foray,
| planned and executed with military
precision, the country surveyed, the
depot of provisions known accurately
before the march was made and at the
mound prudential division of labor and
care taken that none of the victims
should escape.-New York Herald.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
The...
Philadelphia
Record

after career of over twenty years of un-
interrupted growth is justified in claim
ing that the standard first established by
its founders is the one true test of
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
LncI.Y Hesitation.

81 never was glad for this impedi-
ment in my speech but once" said the
man from Dearborn. who was in to see
the town.
"When was thatY'
"Fe-fe-fellow asked me h-h-how
much would take for a-a horse, and
while Ill was t-trying to tell him
s-sixty dollars, he offered me a hun
dred. Woman's Journal.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
Cont In Hons

Gout has been produced in hens by a
Breslau doctor who fed them with
meat. He gave the hens nothing but
horsefesh without fat and as much
water as they liked. with deplOrable
results to the unfortunate fowls. Hav-
ing instilled the disease. he then un-
dertook to drive out the uric acid by
administering eggshell, which relieved
the hens to a certain degree.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
THE PAST.

said: "The past it is dead.
will bury it deep and still,
With tablet over its head
of the dead one may speak no ill.,"
dug deep down in the loan,
] sealed up the grave with prayer,
But the past was the first one home
And waited to greet me there.
Jeanette Bliss Gillespy in Columbia Literary
Monthly
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
ExceIIea Am the Otber nov..

Is there anything in which you ex-
relied when you went to schoolT ask
ed Miss Cayenne.
"Yes," answered Willie Washington.
II made more blunders than any other
boy in the class" Star.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11

A bell sounding the curfew signal to
go home smacks as much of ring rule
as new married man not being allow
ed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11

One never realizes how little he real
ly knows until he has read a page or
two of the dictionary.
Smyrna times., 1900-04-11
SMYRNA DIRECTORY.

TOWN OFFICIALS.
President of Council-James C. Robinson.
Secretary of fCouncil-Henry S. Anthony.
Town Treasuser-Ezekisl V. Cooper.
Clerk of Council-Ssmuel ]. Reynolds.
Alderman-Wiliam B. Collins.
Chief of Police-Joseph H. Garner.
Councimen: 1st ward, DR.. T. C. Moore; 2nd
Ward. Samuel J. Reynolds: 3rd Ward, Edward G
Walls; 4th Ward, ]. Wesley Denney: 9TH Ward,
Z. Marriott Fowler; 9th Ward, James C. Robinson
and Henry S. Anthony.
Council meets the second and oJrth Friday Us
in each month.
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
American Baseball League.

Cleveland, O., December 5.-President Ban Johnson and Charles Somers of the American Baseball League Circuit Commit tee were in conference today perfecG2g plans to obtain grounds in Washington and Baltimore upon which they hold op- tions.
 Charles Strobex of Toledo who is the chief promoter of the proposed Western League embracing Minneapolis, St. Paul, Wayne, Evansville, and an American leag- ue city, waited upon MT. Johnson today and asked him if he would take the presi- dency of the new organization. President Johnson said that he was too busy to even consider the matter at present.
The age-herald., 1900-12-06
BIG GAME PLENTIFUL IN CHINA.

Washington Star Correspondence.
 The abundance of game in China is not peculiar to any part of the Empire In the mountains, both north and south, are found great numbers of bears, both black and brown, and, strange as it may seem, they are most numerous in the province of Shantung which is one of the most thickly populated and the oldest province of the Chinese Empire. Tigers and leop- ards are also found in all the mountainous parts of China, the royal tiger of India is found in the range of mountains which parallel the coast from Canton north to the Yang-tse, while in the mountains of the north is found the great Siberian or Mon- golian tiger, which is the most magnif- cent specimen of the-t:ger family. In ad- dition to these wild boars, wild sheep and goats, antelope, and, what is considered by the Chinese one of their greatest delica- cies, the wild onager, are common.