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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-07

The longdelayed statue of Gen. Will
liam Il. Sherman has at last reached
this country, and is now at the central
pier of the Atlantic docks, in Brooklyn.
This statue, which is an equestrian fig
ure. was ordered eleven years ago by
committee Of the chamber of commerce.
No location for the statue has been pro-
v,led by the city.
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19
A ComRon Snake.

The common snake, which bears the
scientific name Of Tropidonotus natrix,
is one species Of a genus Gropidonotus)
which extends over Europe and North
America and from northern Asia to
north Australia, there being seventeen
or eighteen Indian species alone. Our
common snake may serve as an exam
pie of the largest family into which
serpents are divided-the family colu-
bride-of which there are upward Of
165 species in India alone. The family
contains most of the harmless snakes,
and it is also illustrated by a small
snake, Coronella austraca. which some
years ago was discovered to be an in
habitant Of Dorsetshire and Hamp-
shire. The coronella feeds exclusively
on lizards, slow worms and small
snakes. Though harmless, it will bite.
Quarterly Review.
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Flood damage at Des Moines will ag-
gregate $225,O00.
Five f1remen we're killed by falling
walls at Toronto.
Many deaths from heat occurred at
Pittsburg last week. ~
Many fishing boats were lost off the
Newfoundland coast in recent storms.
A conservative estimate places the
losses from floods in Nebraska at over
S1,O00,OO0.
The village of Bear Creek, Wis, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss is
about 100000.
A cloudburst in Colorado carried
away two iron bridges on the Santa Fee
road and 1900 feet of track.
At Offerman, Ca, five men were
killed and two injured by lightning
while stretching telephone wire.
Heavy rains have caused immense
damage in Nebraska and Iowa. Rail-
road traffic was seriously retarded.
Thirty-five persons we're drowned
and house was destroyed on the, es-
.ate of Claudio Vienna at Las Palmas,
Chile. as a result of the recent burst
ing of reservoir there.
AS the result of a head-on collision
between two cars on the Hudson Val
ley railroad at Caldwell, N. Y, one per-
son was killed and sixteen others were
more or less seriously injured.
The Fall River line steamer Priscilla
was seriously damaged in a collision
with the steamer Powhattan in Nara
gansett bay. One of her crew was
caught in the crash and killed.
Fifteen men we're burned, one fatally
and eight seriously, at the Homestead
pa steel works. A ladle filed with
molten metal was being lowered into
the pit when the drum of the crane
broke and the seething metal was
thrown over the unfortunate men.
One hundred and seventy-flve miners
persisted in an explosion of iredamp
in the Rolling Mill mine of the Cam
bria Steel company at Jamestown, Pa.
Six hundred men were at work in the
colliery at the time Of the disaster
but over 400 escaped through an open
ing five miles from the main shaft.
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19
DENMARK.
COpenhag yen.

Captain BOYLE, the British consul at
this port, has forwarded to Lord Lans-
d0Wne the foreign minister, report
in which he invites British shipping
people to visit Copenhagen in order
to learn the art Of loading and unload
ing vessels 10y means of the latest APP
plianceS. He says: The Danes are
keeping abreast Of the world, while
some much bigger countries lag be-
hind. The dock machinery of COpen
hagen is not surpassed even in the
United States. It's elevators for stOr-
ing grain are up-tO-date models. The
facilities of the port are expanding in
every direction and are immensely fur
thering the prosperity of the city"
a new theater, the SOnderbrO, is
now being erected here by the we'll
known restaurateur, Herr Henriksen,
at cost of 100000 kroner 1t will seat
800 people and will be "continentaI' in
its equipment throughout. 1t is being
built almost entirely of iron and stone,
American fashion, and will be dedicat-
ed to the Muses. at the opening of the
theatrical season. Carl HenrikSen will
be the manager.
A protest against George Brandes,
the leading Danish literary light of
today, was lodged the other day in
Billesbjerg. at a meeting attended by
1000 people. One speaker spoke
against the materialistic trend of the
Brandes school, another criticised the
authors view Of the present public
school system Of Denmark, which has
been characterized as "mediaeval in
stitutiOn."
Mrs. Ingeborg Zinck-Juncker and Mr..
Emil Holm, two Danish singers of
prominence, have scored great sue
cess at their first appearance in Ber-
lin. together with the court operate
company of Stuttgart. The play given
was Orestes, by Weingartncr, in which
the Danish artist enacted the leading
roles,
A new Mormon temple was dedicated
in Copenhagen July Z. The festivities
were attended by a large cOncourse
of people, among them being 300
American AIOrmons, including eX-Sen-
ator Frank J. Cannon and his brother.
The Danes who opposed the sale of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States have referred the question to
the Hague peace tribunal.
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19
MARTINIQUE DISASTER
Weird Experiences of the
Steamship Horace.
CLOUDS CT SAND MET AT SEA.

Decks Covered With Volcanic Dust
and Lights Had to Be Lit-Strange
Phenomena at Night-St. Lucia Is
1anders Regard St. Pierre Horror
as a Judgment of God.
Weird and interesting were the ex-
periences of the crew Of the British
steamship Horace of the Lamport &
Holt line, which reached New York
from St. Lucia the other morning, says
the New York Herald. The Horace is
commanded by Captain Byrnes.
She touched at Barbados and had
decidedly interesting time in the vicin-
ity of Martinique on Friday, May 9,
when, despite the fact that she was
125 miles from Mont PeIee, the ships
decks were covered with lava dust to
the depth of several inches. It WI
only through what seemed DroViueUtiCl
accident that the Steamers engines
were saved from disastrous injury as Il
result of tie storm of lava dust which
covered them. The Horace brings the
information that the visitation Of st.
Pierre is looked upon by the superst-
tious islanders is Judgment Of God.
while in st. Lucia,' said an officer
of the vessel, Il heard several Of the
residents telling one another that they
believed the destruction of St. Pierre
was a terrible punishment Sent by the
Almighty on account of the wickedness
of the city. l don't know about the
divine retribution, but do know that
ST. Pierre was pretty bad place.
I'VE had cleared from Barbados"
said Second Engineer Anderson, and
were making our way to ST. Lucia.
where we were to complete our cargo
take on a little more coal and then
clear for New York.
ION the afternoon of May s Thurs
day. we noticed a peculiar haze in the
ed heavy and oppressive. The weather
conditions were not at all unlike those
which precede the great West Indian
hurricanes; but, knowing it was not
the season Of the year for them, we all
remarked in the engine room that there
must be a heavy storm approaching.
$50 unusually peculiar were the
weather conditions that we talked Of
nothing else during the evening. That
night in the direction Of Martinique
there was very black sky, an unusual
thing at this season Of the year. and
STERN was apparently brewing in di-
rectic9 from which storms do not come
a. th:s season. AS I'll" night wore on
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19

~ SunocateO by It, out was easily re
vived. Just about this time it became
so dark we found it necessary to starr
up the electric lights. and it was not
| until after we got clear from the fog
| that we turned the current off. In the
meantime they had burned from 8
o'clock In thu morning until after 2 in
/ the afternoon
'"Then there was another anxious mo-
ment shortly after 8 o'clock. Third
Engineer Rennie had been running the
donkey engine when suddenly it chok-
ed, and when he finally got it clear
from the, sand or ashes he found the
valves were all cut out, and then it
was we discovered that it was not
sand, hut some sort of a composition
that seemed to cut steel like emery.
"Then came the danger that it would
get into, the valves Of the engine and
cut them out, and for several moments
all hands scuIried about and helped
make the engine room tight, and even
then the ash drifted in and kept all the
engine room force Wiping the engines
clear of it. Toward 8 o'clock in the
afternoon of Friday we were practi-
cally clear of the sand, but at II o'clock
that night we ran into a second bank
of it, though not as bad as the first.
'That night there were more OF the
same electric phenomena toward Mar
Unique, but it was not until we got into
St. Lucia. where we saw the Roddam,
that we learned of the terrible disaster
at st. Pierre, and then we knew that
our sand was lava dust
The volcanic ash which fell on the
decks Of the Horace was ground as fine
as rife powder and was much finer
than thai which covered the decks OF
the Etona, which reached port a few
horrs i>at~-n
The military authorities in France
are beginning to realize that much re-
mains to be done in the matter of pro-
viding men serving under the colors
with healthy recreation, says the Paris
Messenger. AS a matter of fact in al
most every regiment at the present
time soldiers have little choice to make
as to how to spend their spare time.
They can either stay in barracks and
be called upon for extra fatigue duties
or so out to wander aimlessly about the
streets of the garrison town or spend
three or four hours in the taverns.
General Andre, minister of war, has
now sent a circular letter to the gener-
ais commanding the twenty army corps
asking them to consider the question
Of the organization of recreation and
reading rooms in barracks in order to
provide the men with ''moralizing at
mosphere." Private initiative had al.
ready taken a step in this direction and
had provided a certain number Of
gaines Of draughts, chess, ETC., together
with outdoor games. for the use OF SOL
diers in barracks, and in one or two
tow MS soldiers clubs have been opened.
Now that the authorities are taking the
matter in hand much good may be eff.
fected in this direction. .z~..>s. .--,.,
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19

those on watch noticed what appeared
to be great flashes Of lightning in The
direction of Martinique. 1t seemed az
| though the ordinary conditions were
reversed, and even the forecastte
, prophets were unable to offer explana-
tons.
occasionally over the pounding OF
the engines and the rush of water we
thought we could hear long, deep roars
! not unlike the ending Of n deep peal Of
| thunder. Several times we heard the
rumble or roar, but at the time we
were not certain as to exactly what it
was or even whether we really heard
it.
'"There would suddenly cone great
flashes Of light from the dark bank
toward Martinique. Some of them
seemed to spread over great area,
| while others seemed to spout skyward,
funnel shaped. All night this contjn-
ued, and it was: not until day cane
that the flashes disappeared The dark
bank that covered the horizon toward
Martinique, however, did not fade.
away with the breaking, of day, and
at in the morning Of the 9th (Friday>
the whole section of the sky in that d.
rectien; seemed DARK add troubled.
about 9 0'clock Friday morning I
was sitting on one of the matches aft
with some Of the other engineers and
officers Of the ship, discussing the Pc
culfar weather phenomena. / noticed d
SORT Of grit that got into my mouth
from the end Of the cigar was sm0k-
ing
Then [ noticed that grit was getting
ON my clothes, and finally some one
suggested that we go forward Of the
tunnels, SO we would not get the dirt
on us. As. we went forward we met
one or, two of the sailors from the
ferecastle who wanted to know about
the dust that WAS falling on the ship
Then we found that the grayish look
ing ash was Sitting all over the ship
both foreward and aft.
Every nome Mt the ashes rained
down all over the ship and at the same
time grew thicker. A few moments
later the lookout called down that we
were running into a fog bank dead
ahead. Fog banks in that section are
unheard Of at 8 o'clock in the morning
at this season, add we were more than
a hundred miles from land, and what
could fog and So nd be doing there?
Before we knew it we were in the
fog which proved to be big dense
bank OF the sane sand, and it rained
down on US from every side. Venti-
Iators were quickly brought 70 their
places. and later even the matches were
battened dowD. At first we thought
that the sand must have been blown
from shore Then we decided that if
the captains figures were right we
wouldn't be Gear enough to shore 20
have sand blow on US. and as we had
tust cleared Barbados we knew thar
fhe captains figures had to be right.
Just as the storm Of sand was at its
height Forth Engineer Wild was near (
Morris tribune., 1902-07-19
NORWAY.
Christiania.

A national disaster threatens Nor
way from the Arctic ocean, says The
Morgenbladet The great fisheries Of
Nordland are being invaded by multi
tudes of seal, which consume great
masses of fish, and drive the remainder
into deep water. The marauders do not
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-05
To Save Tempers and Collars.

"You button your collar the wrong
way" said the salesman as he was
selling neckwear to customer.
"How is that?"
"You have buttoned the right side
last. Now, when you go to take 1t of
you will have to tug at the end OF the
collar and crumple 1t, because you
can't get a proper hold OF it, but II you
had the left end on top you could get
it OF easily, then loosen the collar be-
hind, and the right end could be easily
detached. That's why men have so
much trouble taking off well laundered
collars. Remember to fasten the right
side first and then the left, and you
will save your collars and your tenn
per"
81 never supposed there was n right
and a wrong way Of putting on col
lars"
TRY both ways and you will see."-
New York Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-05

Though 800 years have elapsed since
the death Of Tycho Brahe, it appears
that we are in many lines almost as
far from the ultimate goal as when he
began the great work of exploring the
skies before the days of kepler, when
all Europe was slumbering in intellec'
tual darkness. The science Of the stars
indeed has been refined and perfected
in an unparalleled degree and infinitely
extended in all directions, but with the
bounds OF darkness pushed back step
by step the goal is not and never will
be in sight An infnlty Of objects and
causes and an endless variety OF phe-
nomena are yet to be explored, and the
work Of the mind is rather a process
OF development TO the perfect under
standing Of the universe than the solu-
ton Of a simple mathematical problem
Atlantic Monthly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-05
HAVE WOMEN INrUITIoNf
one writer says They Have Never
shown IL In LIterutsre.

Literature Is the dnal expression OF
human thought II women can lay
claim to a special faculty ot intuition.
why DO they not manifest Il In their
writings Intuition. IL u means any
thing means the faculty that gets
down TO the germ Of actions aud char.
acteristics and focuses external traits
into a central verify recognizable TO
the general public. Now. there are
more female writers than male. No
woman poet has ever written an IN.
evitable line. line that flashes spon.
taneously out Of the unknown and casts
an Illuminating light upon the abyss.
Woman has added practically nothing
20 our stock o. familiar quotations.
Take down your Bartlett or your an.
thology. and you may be surprised to
find that from Mrs. Browning to Mrs.
I Meynell women have never coined a
phrase which has passed into the com.
mon currency OF speech. Mrs. Brown.
ing has indeed written 6ne lines. but
nothing Of hers can be said TO have be-
come household word.
Nor has any woman novelist created
any character that Is generally recog-
nized as typical. George Eliot has
come closest with her Tito Melema
and Mrs. Poyser. You would appeal
only to the educated few II you de-
scribed a person as n Tito or a Poyser.
But call a man a Don Quixote, a
Mlcawber, n Dogberry. q Falstaff. a
Colonel Newcome, a Bllfii. n Parson
I Adams or Bob Acres, call a woman a
Mrs. Malaprop. a Becky Sharp, a Bea.
trlce, II Diana Vernon. Meg Merrilies,
and even the illiterate will mentally
classify the individual as you wish him
or her to be classified.
"Ah, but" you say, ''in real life wo'
! men are the true intultions. They size
| up n man or woman at a glance
/ they are never mistaken when they
trust TO their instincts"
can only testify to my own expert
ence. have not found that women's
snap judgments of character are i'm
bued with any special verify. They
form likes or dlslkes quicker than Q
man does because they are quicker OF
the trigger OF conjecture. They car
only be one Of two things, right ol
wrong. II time proves that they ar,
right, as they must be In 80 per cent o.
cases, the right guess is remembered
and treasured up by the slower minded
man as an extraordinary instance o
intuition. The wrong guess is forgot
ten.-Willlam S. Walsh in Era.
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Notice in Bankruptcy.

In the matter of R. NJ. Cox, bankrupt;
in bankruptcy;
To the Hon. Hosea Townsend, judge
of the District Court of the United
States, for the Southern District Of
the Indian Territory:
r. NJ. Cox, in said district, respect
fully represents that on the 18th day
of January last past he was duly
adjudged bankrupt under the acts of
congress relating to bankruptcy; that
he has duly surrendered s!l his prop
erty and rights of property, and has
fully complied with all the require
ments of said acts and of the orders
Of the court touching his bankruptcy.
Wherefore, he prays that he may be
decreed by the court to have a full
discharge from all debts provable
against his estate under said bankrupt
acts, except such debts as are eX-
Cepted by law from such discharge.
Dated this, the 21st day of April
A. d. 1902.
R. NJ. cox,
]. p. WOOD, Bankrupt.
Attorney.
Southern District of Indian Terri.
tory. SIS:
On this 21st day Of April, A. D. 1902,
on reading the foregoing petition.
It is
Ordered by the court that a hear
ing be had upon the same on the 10th
day of May, A. d. 1902, before said
court, at Ardmore, in said district, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon; and that
notice thereof be published in the
Ardmoreite, a newspaper printed in
said district, and that all known cred.
itors and other persons in interest
may appear at the said time and place
and show cause, if any they have
why the prayer Of the said petitioner
should not be granted.
And it is further ordered by the
court that the clerk shall send by mail
to all known creditors copies of said
petition and this order addressed Ia
them at their places of residence, as
stated.
Witness. the Hon. Hosea Townsend,
Judge of said court. and seal there.
of, at Ardmore, in said district. on the
2lst day of April, A. d. 1902.
HOSEA TOWNSEND.
Judge.
(First published April 90, 1902
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-05
ROOSEVELT AT ANNAPOLIS.
In Address, Says Navies Of Nations
WIN Decide Future Wars.


In a brlet address 20 the graduating
class at Annapolis academy. Friday
President Roosevelt. ia presenting the
diplomas. said
'In receiving these diplomas you
become the men who above almost
any others of the entire union are 90
carry henceforth the eyerpresent
Sense Of responsibility which must
come with the knowledge that on
some tremendous day IL may depend
Hpon your courage. your prepared
ness. your keen intelligence and
knowledge of your profession wheth.
cr or not the nation is again 20 write
her name on the worlds roll Of honor.
or 70 know the black shame Of de-
feat We. all OF u.s. earnestly hope
that the occasion for war may never
conc. but II IL has 10 come then this
nation must win. and, the prime fac
tor in securing victory over any for
eign foe must of necessity be the
Uuted States navy. II the navy fails
ms. then we are doomed 10 defeat. no
matter what may be our material
wealth or the high average Of cur
eitizenship
1t should therefore be an object
ef prime importance for every patri-
stic American 10 see that the navy Is
constantly built up. and. above all.
that il is kept TO the highest point Of
efficiency. both in material and per
snuuei
~It can not be too often repeated
that In modern war. and especially in
modern naval war the chief factor In
achieving triumph is what has been
done In the way OF thorough prepar
rttnu and training before the begin.
Aius Of the war It Is what has been
done before the outbreak of the wal
that Is aII-important. After the out
break. all that can be done Is 10 use
the best advantage the great war en-
gines aud the seamanship. marksman
ship and general practical efficiency
Witch already have been provided 10y
the fTethought Of the national legis
lature and by the administrative abil
itg. through the course Of years, o
Che navy department"
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Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There. is only one way to cure deaf.
ness. and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness Is caused by an
iudamed condition of the mucous lin
tng Of the Eustachian tube. When this
tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing. and when
n is entirely closed deafness is the
result and unless the Inflammation
ran be taken out and this tube re
stored to its normal condition. hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine cases
cut of ten are caused by catarrh
which is nothing but an inilamed con
inion of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
saturrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure Send for circu
lars. free
i. f. Cheney & Co. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists. 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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out of Place.

Grocer-What have you been doing IN
the cellar so longI
Grocer's Apprenuce-l have been
cleaning out the slrup measure. 1t was
so choked up that II didn't hold more'n
half a quart.
Grocer-Oh, that's what you've been
doing? Well, you take your hat aud 60
home and tell your father to put you
into the tract distributing business.
You amt fitted fo- the grocery trade
London Answers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-05

Mrs. smith, reckon our Jane has
got first rate husband.
Mrs. Brown-Well, you ought TO be
thankful.
Mrs. smith, hope am, Gusty. OF
course he isn't much to look at, and be
amt oversmart, but there's one thing
and that is he's saving. Why. the
very first day after the marriage he
told Jane she'd better let him take the
engagement ring back and get the mon
ey returned. He said there was no
longer any use for her TO wear it now
that she was married.-Boston Tran.
script
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Sale OF Bankrupt Stock.

On Thursday. the Sth day of May,
1902. between the hours of 10 o'clock
a. IN. and o'clock p. m, in the town
of Wynnewood, |. T., the undersign-
ed trustee Of the estate of j. f. Gar
rett, bankrupt, will sell at public auc.
tion to the highest bidder, for cash
all the stock of general merchandise
invoiced at s7,SSS.32, and fixtures at
S2SO.35. The stock consists of a well
selected line Of dry goods notions
boots, shoes, hats. etc.
All persons interested will be given
a fun opportunity to inspect the same
by calling on the undersigned.
This 2d of May, 1902.
j. f. HARGIS,
Trustee of j. +. Garrett Bankrupt
Wynnewood |. T. AT