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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

A cheap and comfortable way to
travel is the personally conducted
weekly excursion tourist cars to the
Pacific coast. Through from Mem
phis without change via Rock Island
System" Choctaw, Oklahoma G. Gulf
railroad and So Pac Route and I'm
ion Pacific Route 7-5t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

A. G. Cruce came down to the mar
shals Office early this morning and
reported the loss of a fine red Durham
calf Mr. Cruce said some one let the
fence down and took the calf from
the lot Mr.. Cruce had no clue but got
Deputy Hitchins to 10 with hhL up
Deputy Hutchins to go with him up
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

Spend Christmas holidays with kin
folks and friends in the old states.
Only one fare plus So for the round
trip by the "Rock Island System" /"
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf r. r. Tick
cts will be limited to 80 days from
date Of sale.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

Notice 81 First Meeting Of Creditors.
In the United States Court for the
Southern District of the Indian Ter
ritory. In bankruptcy. In the mat
ter of j. T. Hawkins and r. NJ.
Hawkins, partners as Hawkins
Bros, bankrupts. in bankruptcy;
To the creditors of Hawkins Bros.
of Addington and district aforesaid,
bankrupts: Notice is hereby given
that on the Sth day Of December, A.
d. 1902, the said Hawkins Bros. were
duly adjudicated bankrupts and that
the first meeting Of their creditors will
be held at Ryan on the 23d day of
December, A. d. 1902, at o'clock in
the afternoon, at which time the said
creditors may attend, prove their
claims. appoint a trustee examine the
banl,rupts and transact such other
business as may properly come be-
fore said meeting.
Z. HAMILTON.
Referee in Bankruptcy.
u;ret ,,,,b1febod hoo II 1000
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

j. b, Ivy. burglary; arrested at Fox
by Deputy Collins and put in Jail.
Homer Wise, gaming; fined by the
court some time ago and allowed the
money Failing to do so he was re-
arrested and put in Jail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
Notice.

Every member of the Chamber of
Commerce will please send in money
or check for IS, which is the first as
r. w. DICK.
Acting Sec'y Chamber of Commerce
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

You can buy the new Wheeler & WIZ
son sewing machines at e. b. Lukes
Music Store. Call and examine them.
7-Gt
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

That beautiful carving set at Will
liams, Corhn & Co.'s would be the de-
light of any housekeeper. Don't over
look il.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

Santa Claus has established a post
office at the Nickel store. Write your
letters to him and mail them there.
9-5t.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
BURGLARY AT RAVlA.
Depredators Secure Lots Of Groceries
and Effect Eseape-Letter Found.

Special Phone to the Ardmoreite.
Ravia, |. T.. Dec. 12.-Burglars Sc
cured entrance to the grocery store
of w. T. Gillian here last night by
boring a hole in the panel of the door
and working the lock. and took quite
lot of groceries from the building.
A letter was found at the scene of
their work The officers claim It will
lead to their identity and capture
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

w. II. Berry. manager of the Chick
asaw Telephone company, left last
night for points north.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
Iannh and the WorId

Laughs with you. have chills and you
chill alone. Cheatham's Laxative
Chill Tablets cures, gives an appetite
and strength Most convenient chill
tonic on earth. Can carry in the vest
pocket.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
local Holiday EXCURSION Rates

On December "a, 25 and 81 and jan
uary the c. o. & G. railway will sell
round trip tickets for one fare within
200 miles of selling station. Limited
January 2. w. A. DASHIELL.
Agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

Rev. f. p. Flanniken of Weatherford,
Texas, will preach morning and night
at the c. p. church on next Sunday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

e. J. Mitchell is here today from
Marietta
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

The man who stands in the lobby
of theater after the performance is
overhears some very quaint criti-
cisms After one of Charles b. Han
ford's productions of Tanning of the
Shrew" last season square jawed
woman remarked: 1T is all very fine
and plausible; but pity that young
man Petrucio just the same" why"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

Follow the crowd to Webb's photo
studio for fine Christmas pictures. 7tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

Mrs James will make you low prices
on millinery. ll-2t.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

w. A. Ledbetter and c. l.. Herbert
have returned from the Tishomingo
court.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
NoTIcEl

The price of Ardmore coal will be
1913 per ton after Saturday Decem'
ber %
SIDNEY sUGGS. Manager
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

w. NJ. Brown of Herbert was here
yesterday on business.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
w 90 L E N S

Suitable for Ladies
Tailor Made Suits and
Skirts-the biggest stock
and best assortment ever
in the city, just arrived.
Come in and look through
the stock.
j. j. STOLF
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
NoTIcE!

The price of Ardmore coal will be
$3.75 per ton after Saturday. Decem-
Der 10.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12
E. HAMILTON,

Referee in Bankruptcy.
First published Dec. IL, 1902.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-12-12

SIDNEY sUGGs. Manager.
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earthquakes generally occur, like the rain pulses in India, round the dates of the sun-spot maximum and minimum. More than this, the thirty y-five-year solar period established by Dr. Lock- yer which corresponds approximately with Bruckners meteorological cycle,
 can also be obviously traced, indicating
 that recent seismic phenomena are but
 repetitions of those during the mini-
 South America, Formosa, and Vesuvius
 were among the regions involved; in Thomas. The many announcements of earthquakes in the present year before fresh in everybody's recollection. In the maximum period between 1S71-72, to name only West Indian stations, there were manifestations first at Martinique and then at St. Vincent In the next maximum, in 1883, came Krakatoa. At Tokio, in a country where the most per- feet seismological observatories exist, 1t is notable that at periods near both sun-spot maxfma and minima the greatest number of disturbances have been recorded. "The work of the ln- dian Meteorological department enables us," says Sir Norman, Ito associate the solar changes with pressures in the tropics, and obviously these pressures have to be taken into account and care fully studied"
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4 DOUBT OF DESTINY.

You can hear or read almost anything nowadays For instance, Professor Frederick Starr thinks the English lan- guage has spread as widely as it's going to, and that American commercial eX- pansion is nearing its limit In the fu- ture and not far distant future" he says, Russia and China are the nations which will occupy the leading positions in the world; and if you want third, Germany. They are on the threshold now. The Chinese will be the greatest people, the Russians the greatest white political power, and the Germans the greatest commercial power"
 This is queer talk. Professor Starr must be little American if he hasn't unlimited faith in our Manifest Destiny Is it possible that we are not going to inherit the earth? Hasn't it been said that the meek shall inherit it?
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RIGHT ACTION.

Red devils, white devils, green devils and other devils have been doing so much damage lately that it is evident that their owners and operators will have to be more reasonable in their performances. The Automobile club of America has on several occasions shown commendable understanding of the situation and commendable capacity to deal with it. The board of governors of the club has considered the dreadful accident which happened on Staten lsl- and last Saturday and has resolved that it is unwise to hold speed trials on the public highways and that the governors of the club will not hold or consent to the holding of such contests by the club.
 This is step in the right direction If the owners and operators of auto mobiles want to kill themselves per haps they should be allowed to do 1t, but it is clear that some of them should be more careful of those who don't own or operate them than they have been.
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IM Mi GRITION.

Many of the inhabitants of this great glorious and free country think it is l becoming too popular with outsiders | It is estimated that SS,500 immigrant S arrived in May, as against S2S37 in May of last year, 69 AGA in May, 1900, and 53, ,954 in May, 1899. For five years there has been an almost continuous increase, the total immigration of 1901 being more than double that of 1897. AL together about 5,00O000 immigrants or one-ffteenth of the total population of the country, have entered the United States since 1890. Within recent years this increase has been accompanied by marked change in the character of the immigration, large and constant ly growing proportion coming from countries where the percentage of il- literacy is high.
 Of course it is not easy to say what ought to be done about restricting im- migration, if anything ought to be done. The amendments which have been add ed to the bill now before congress pro pose to establish an educational test by which the alien who can neither read nor write in any language shall be debarred from entrance. This restric- tion as to illiterates has been vigorous ly opposed on the ground that inability to read and write is no real test of character and that the descendants of illiterates, as has been shown in the case of many inhabitants of foreign ex- traction, often make citizens of an ad- mlrable kind. This is true, and yet it may be that an educational test is as good as any that can be devised Good healthy immigrants that can read and write are certainly more desirable than good healthy ones who can't
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| Golden Opportunity.-Cho Cholly-Oh, do tell me, Miss Ethel. I'm just dying to | know!
 Natural Question. n.-Muggsy--Me aunt died yesterday. Swipsey--Wot wuz de score?-Ohio State Journal .. Reason Enough Teacher-NoW then, Willie, why do we celebrate Decoration day? Willie-'Cause they ain't no school.-- Philadelphia Press. Not a Worthless Character-"H Her husband is absolutely worthless. How can you say that? He isn't at all well, and his lifes insured for $5, 900. 00."--Philadelphia Bulletin.
 Advocate printer-What's the matter now?
 Ditto editor--Why, in my story I de- scribed the heroine as an artful miss, and the typesetter set 1t up lawful mess" ."-Harvard Lampoon.
 A Surprise.--'What made you seem so upset the day we became engaged? You knew Twas going to propose, didn't you?"
 ''Oh, dear me, yes! But l had no idea l was going to accept you, Brooklyn Life.
 And so you have a little baby at you house. Is it boy or a girl?" asked a neighbor.
 Mamma thinks it's a boy, but I be- !ieve it'll turn out girl. It's always crying about nothing,' answered the little boy.-Tit-Bits.
 Ethel-Then I'll never tell you.-Chi- cago Daily News.
 Kept Her Word. .-Dolly--I promised mother that l wouldn't become an ac- tress.
 Hamlet-Well, you kept your word all risht.-Detroit Free Press.
 Why, there are physicians in Ger many who charge only two cents for a consultation and four cents for a visit" said the mean man.
 Well, if they always get that much they beat me" said the doctor.--Yon- kers Statesman.
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Iiiayvatha's PiDg-Ponging'

| Hiawatha hurried homeward ] Galloped homeward ,from the city, 1 Hurried homeward with package, A neat package that he carried, | And at last. before his tepee, l Yelled: 'Oh, Minnehaha, l Come and see what papa's brought you Brought to you back from the city, l From the gay haunts of the paefaee.' | Out came smiling Minnehaha, | Wearing an old pair of slippers | That shes found upon scrap heap, | Also wearing red bathrobe | That some fat man had discarded. | Hiawatha with his jackknife | Cut the string and ripped the paper And took out the little paddles And some balls that lightly bounded And d little net and told her Of the splendid game of ping pong, Told her how the proud white people, The gay people in the city,
 Played it till their clothes got soggy,, Till their backs ached and their muscles Got knotted up and tangled, Minnebaha poked fun at him As he fitted up an old barn door On two stumps behind the tepee. This, she said, may do for children, But shall noble Hiawatha, Shall my tall and handsome warrior Monkey with these'little paddles! Shall the buck who stays the, panther
 
 Fool with such q game us this isT" "Never mind,' said Hlawatha; Take your paddle and get ready" Then he swiftly served a twlster, On the nose and make 1t jingle. Here" she hollered, 'try It over. And I'll knock 1t through the treetops, l will send 1t through the rushes, And across the soughinB sedges, SO blamed far vOu' n npynr fnl if r Hiawatha served 1t swiftly, And the gentle Minnehaha Tipped upon her old red bathrobe, Stepped upon trailing corner, In her eagerness, her hurry, Tipped and turned and airy fiphap, Rose up in the clrcumambent Atmosphere and lost q slipper Rose and yelled for Hiawatha To be kind enough to stop her. Rose, and with her red robe waving Like a frightful danger slgnal Turned time or two on nothing, And then landed in a puddle Where the tadpoles loved to frolic. Hiawatha the tall warrior, Rushed around and bent above her, Crying: Here, my Minnehaha,
 ers He sbe 9Ds rose nS e2ps e1 sbs to node{ neP {ou' Saying things to him in InJuu That, alas, cannot be printed; And she grabbed the net and tore it Into more than sixty pieces; She knocked down the door and smashed 1t And then grabbed q ping-pong paddle And went after Hiawatha. Here and there he hurried lodging Things she grabbed up and threw at him, And she called him names and told him That she'd make him when she caught him Curse the man who had invented The internal game of pingpong.
 The Chicago Record Herald.
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"A Generous Peace v

l To the Editor of the Journal and Courier | Such is the phrase by which you de- l scribe the terms of peace accorded by the British to the Boers. Where the | generosity comes in, it will be rather difficult for the most to discern. Eng land has extinguished two nationalities, and does not require those extinct na- tionalities to pay her for the expense | of the job--for the very good reason that the Boers, having suffered the loss | of all things, could not pay, even if they were required to do so. No startling generosity in that. The English agree to let the Boers have some kind of self government when the English choose to think it safe to let them have 1t. Mean time the Boers are to be held down by a military heel. Wonderful generos- ity!
 But let us illustrate the case by a
 parallel. In 1870 Germany was attack ed by France for no cause that could
 be made to seem plausible. Germany
 in self-defense resist ed the attack. The
 Boers attacked the British for the sim
 pie reason that it was perfectly obvious
 that England was bound to make war
 on them. But not to insist on this ob-
 vious difference in favor of the Boers,
 let the two cases be regarded as paral-
 Tel, in that the attacking party was de-
 feated by the other But suppose now
 that Germany, when the French armies
 were defeated and captured, and Paris
 had capitulated had announced as her
 ultimatum, that France must uncond-
 tionally submit and retain mot a
 shred of independence Suppose then,
 further, that the Germans had devas
 tated the country, burning up all the
 farm houses and buildings, had hud-
 died the women and children and old
 men into concentration camps, thus
 killing them off at the rate of thousands
 every month, had declared every one in
 arms an outlaw, and in short had re- lentlessly pursued the policy of exter
 imitation (alias ''attrition'), until final- ly the French consented to become sub jects of the German Emperor, to sur render their arms and munitions of war to hold arms only by special per- mission of the conqueror, and to re- main under military rule as long as the Germans should deem it polite to make them submit to it. Now I ask whether, if the Germans had imposed such terms on the French, you or any, one else would have called them gen erous." No; Europe would not only not
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04
SOLAR AND SEISMIC ACTIVITY.

The eminent English astronomer, Sir Norman Lockyer, has something inter- esting to say concerning the close con- nection between solar and seismic ac- tivity He says that he has used the most recently compiled tables, complete for the last seventy years and has con- sidered seismic disturbances within that period He finds that the most disastrous volcanic eruptions and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04
SLOW DEVELOPM ENT.

There has been some progress made in telegraphy lately, but not as much as there ought to have been. The Elec- trical Review calls attention to the fact that the development of telegraphy has been much slower than that of other
 branches of electrical engineering. Tsa
 perfected systems of rapid telegraphy and more than one method of making
 better use of wires. None of these, however, has been adopted and in con- sequence the telegraph is employed by a limited number of persons, the aver age being one message a year for every inhabit ant of the United States. This average would be increased by the low ering of rates made possible by treb- ling or quadruping the capacity of the wires without adding materially to op- erating expenses. The telegraph affords quick and reliable means of communi- cation, but under present conditions the public does not use 1t except in cases of necessity. Telephone rates have been lowered and the service has been i'm proved; telegraph tolls have been main tained, and there has been no particu- far change in the general plan of opera ton.
 There seems to be an opportunity in the telegraph business to do some of the wonders that have lately been done in other businesses. Probably this op- portunity will not be long neglected.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04

Sharpe-I wonder if beef will ever be reduced.
 Whealton--It is reduced now in some places.
 Sharpe-What places?
 Whealton-Boarding houses. I only get half as much as formerly.-Phil delphia Record.
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have so regarded the matter but would have united in preventing the execu- tion of such brutal scheme. But the Boers were weak and few. The Eng fish might in time have killed them all And it is therefore "generous' in them to let any of them live at all! If this is generosity, what would severity be?
 c. M. MEAD.
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Archibald dear" his wife said arousing him in the dead of night, q wish you would walk with baby little while. He's going to wake up"
 How can I do that, >Lucinda?" eX- postulated the sleepy husband. You know, I've got the ping pong ankle"
 Then put him in his cradle and rock him a while.
 T can't do that, either. I've got the golf shoulder. Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04

It doesn't take much to make some people happy. Eight years ago, says the Horton (Kansas) Headlight, Mrs. Salome Halderman secured divorce from Dan Halderman. Soon afterWard she married Mir Sanners, who died after she had lived with him some years And last week she was remar- ried to MT. Haderman, from whom she had parted eight years before.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04

In the course of an address to the high school at Abilene Kansas, Thomas McNeal thus showed that the world is getting better: Noah, he said, was a power of righteousness, the best of his time; but if Noah were alive to-day he would either have to take the Keeley cure or be run in by the police. Do you think that he could get call to any pastorate in Abilene to-day? Why, it would be a tight squeeze for him to get in the Elks, to say nothing of the church, Jacob seemed to have a fairly good standing with the Almighty, bet ter, at any rate than his neighbors, and yet he swindled his brother, lied to his old blind father and did up his father- in-law in a cattle deal. Samson had no traits of character that we in this day could admire. He was essentially coarse in his tastes and careless about his associates About the only thing that can be said to his credit was that he was the most successful after-din- ner speaker the world has ever known. After the Philistines had been leasting and drinking Samson made few re- marks and he had not said a dozen words before he brought down the house.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04

The Charleston exposition, which closed it's gates on Saturday, didn't pay in money, but it was profitable in some other ways
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each Tn. sertioa. Five Cents Word for full week tseven timesj-
 Display advertisements. per inch. one In. Eertion, S1. 20: each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, S3.20: one month. $1o; cue year, $4u .
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. ID cents per line. Notices of Births Marri- ages. Deaths, and Funerals, 60 cents each' Local Notices, 15 per line.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 15 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, s3 FOR SIX MONTHS, SC YEAR. THE SAME TERMS DY MAIL.
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Kansas is still rich, but not entirely happy. It suffered from failure of the corn crop last year, and this year 1t is experiencing a failure of the wheat crop. According to the state secretary of the board of agriculture, 34.5 per cent. of the acreage sown to wheat has been abandoned, IS per cent. of it hav- ing been plowed in during the past month. The condition of the remaining acreage is only 576, as against "A on April 1.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-04

The most important branch of the button industry in the United States is said to be the making of pearl but tons, the material being obtained from shells gathered along the Mississippi river The industry has practically grown up within the last ten years, and it's introduction is due entirely to J. F. Boepple of Muscatine, Iowa, na- tive of Germany, who learned the trade abroad. He saw that millions of dol lars were going to waste in the shells known as ''nigger-heads, of which tons were piled on the banks of the river. Thousands of people are now employed in turning these shells into buttons, the little plants being found all the way from Minnesota to Missouri. Musca- tine is still the great headquarters of the industry It has forty factories The value of the shells has risen from fifty cents to $50 hundred weight