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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24

Large frying chickens and grown
hens at low prices at Ardmore Cash
Grocery, 21O Caddo street. 23-St.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24

New goods and low prices at the
Cash Grocery store on Caddo street.
23-3t.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24
COMING sooN-sUNFLowER.

James Kirkland, a potato dealer OF
Harris, Mimi, IS in the city today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24

You are always pleased with your
weights when you use Laidlaw's wag.
on scales. 21-6t.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24
Lawn Social.

Friday evening, June 26. at 1880.
The string band will furnish music
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24

SUNFLOWER CATCHES THE
EYE, MIND AND HEART OF EVERY
BODY. 24.6
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-06-24

COMING sooN-sUNFLowER
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13

drank a little of the tea and called att tention to it's strange taste. MT. Ward remarked that he could drink 1t all, and suggested that cup of tea would strengthen his wife, who was weak from the effects of the poison of the day before. The asparagus dressing also attracted their attention.
 A few moments after drinking of the tea and eating some asparagus Mrs. Ward was seized with acute pains. The lady tainted and was no sooner taken to a sofa than MT. Ward and the visitor felt the effects of poison.
 Suspicion was fixed on Gladys, al- though MT. and Mrs. Ward were loath to believe that she was Intentionally guilty. The child was questioned and told such deliberate lies that all who heard her were shocked. Gladys would not tell the truth, however, and 1t was determined to take harsh measures. A policeman was summoned and even his threats of Imprisonment could not move the child. Finally the officer placed handcuffs on her wrists and she did not appear to care. When she was taken by the policeman as far as the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
UNITED STATES IN MINIATURE
UMaQue Feature of the St. Louis Ex- position Showing Products or
 the Different States.

Assistant Secretary Brigham, of the department of agriculture, has se- cured the use of a sunny slope of ground of about ten acres near the government building at the St. Louis exposition, and this will be laid off as a miniature reproduction of the United States, says Bradstreet's. The several states and territories will be clearly defined, the boundary lines of each being made up of pathways, so that visitors can walk around each separate commonwealth. The prod ucts of each section will be repre- scented in the various states, and, if the skill of the departments experts can accomplish the desired results, will be growing in the state to which they are native when the exposition is formally opened on May 1, 1904.
 For instance, miniature fields of rice will be growing in Louisiana, Texas and the Carolinas, with the other products of these states; Mis- sissippi, Florida, Alabama and Geor- gia, the Carolinas, and Texas will have fields of snowy cotton, green wheat, and waving corn; Virginia and the golden tobacco belt of North Carolina will show the plant in all It's varieties, while Maryland Arkan- sas, Missouri and other states will afford bird's-eye view of the diversi- fed crope grown within their bor- dexs.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13

gate Gladys told him. In q matter of fact way. that If he would take, her back she would tell
 Then Gladys stated that she had found the poison in the pantry and had put some on the berries Alter ward she put what was left in a pack age of tea. When she noticed the cream from which the asparagus dress ing was made she put some of the poisoned tea in the cream and skinned off the leaves that f1oated to the surface. She knew that the poison was deadly and admitted that she had tried 1t on cats and dogs and wanted to see how 1t affected human beings. Gladys, without sign of re- gret, told Mrs. Ward that she knew poison would kill and that she ex- pected them to die. She had no reason for wishing the death of her benefac- tors other than to see them suffer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
THB WOODEN NUTMEG.

Tn another column will be found number of newspaper extracts con cerning the agitation that the Hart ford Courant has started for the aboli7 tion of the term Wooden Nutmeg State" as applied to Connecticut The general opinion seems to be that while the discussion is interesting, from the academic standing, 1t will accomplish nothing. We are inclined to think that 1t will accomplish a great deal. We believe that 1t will cause the term to be more generally used and accept ed than ever before. If the term ever had the real significance the Courant assigns to 1t, 1t was lost sight of years ago. Men whose devotion to Connec- ticut is unQuestioned have been proud to wear the little nutmeg as an em- blem, at gatherings all over the coun- try. We venture to predict that when the G. A. R. holds it's coming encamp- ment at San Francisco the Connecticut department will have on hand a large supply of wooden nutmegs and these will be most eagerly sought after as souvenirs. We have attended num- ber of large conventions of various kinds, all over the country, and we have noticed that the little nutmegs were always in great demand and most highly prized. As badge 1t is neat, ingenious and distinctive and we can see no good reason why any lover of old Connecticut should waste his time and energy in trying to es, tablish a boycott against it. LAtchfeld Enquirer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
REST CURE FOR CLOTHES.
Rao Constant Wearing Makes W0m ems Garments Look old Before
 Half Worn Out.

Not satisfedwith her own rest-curea khe up-to-date woman has taken tN resting her clothes. It works like charm. Nothing induces shabbiness in coats and gowns more than the lines and wrinkles which, show that they have been worn and reworn. Sitting creases and the walking creases make a garment old before it has done hali its duty, says the Cincinnati Enquirer
 Men know this better than women A woman is we'll dressed with a small wardrobe, because eevery week or so he makes a change of clothes, sends the suit he has been wearing to the tailor, and never by any chance al lows wrinkle to become fixed in his garments.
 Not all of women's froclos can go to the tailor, though with the inexpensive tailor service now to be had, she will do well to send her street frocks ire. quently to be brushed and pressed. But she can manage to change her clothes often enough to give them all an entire rest. Many sermons have been preached on this point concern. ing shoes. Everyone knows how nee. essary 1t is to change them frequently and put those not in use away on shoe trees to prevent the formationeoi wrinkles that become permanent more quickly in leather than in dress goods. But 1t is quite as important to treat coats and frocks in the same way.
 The best rest Is given by putting both skirt and bodice in long boxes |. or bureau drawers, where they can lie in light folds. If sleeves and trim mings are filled out with tissue paper, so much the better. Coat and skirt hangers can be had at reasonable prices. They economize room in a clothes press and skirts and foats placed on them lose in few days the lines where they have conformed to the figure. These lines not only spoil the fresh appearance of a frock, but the material wears around them and loses color in streaks.
 Wash frocks should always be put away in trunks, drawers or boxes, whether they have been worn or not, for in hanging they grow stringy are more easily affected by dampness and lose their freshness before they are worn.
 A pretty girl with more taste than money always puts away her ribbons to freshen them, though they are im- proved by 1t, as to have something which is new to her and her friends when she rewears them after their ttrest-cure g
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
A Clever Woman.

Patty Lyle Collins, southern wom- an, is said to be the best chirographical expert in the world. She is employed by the post office department at Wash ington, where she deciphers some of the addresses of letters that would oth- erwise not reach their destination. Out of every 100000 letters received "dead" every year the system of de. livery by her has been so perfect that the majority of them reach their des- tination in an astonishingly short time, and this she does without break ing the seals. Tn her record year she supplied them on ST per cent. of the cases, a fact which in itself bespeaks the enormous work this clever woman does day by day.-Chicago Record Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
DREAM SPOILED HIS TRIP.
His Wife Cried Ont i'm Her Sleep and
 khe Neighbors Thought He \ Was Beating Her.


 "A dream of my wife spoiled my last foreign trip, put an end to some an- cestral and antiquarian researches which I had started, and gave me the reputation of cruel and vicious hus- band among lot of people with whom \ was anxious to stand we'll" observed MT. Van Duser, sadly, relates the New York Times. And the havoc wrought by the dream wasn't in the least due to the fact that any of,the parties con cerned were superstitious. 1t was just a case of hard luck and mutual m1sun- derstanding. .s....'
 Both my wife's people and my own originally came from Holland, and for years we had been intending to look the subject up. So the last time we crossed, having a little time on our hands, we decided to take a run over to Holland. A couple of days later found us in one of those old-fashioned, spotless Dutch hotels. We couldn't understand much of what the people about the hotel said, and they couldn't hold any lengthy conversations with us. But they were cordial and pleas ant, and we looked forward to having a good time, even if we didn't accom- plish much in the line of ancestral re- search.
 ''Of course the surroundings were a little strange, and I suppose that was the cause of the trouble. For about midnight was awakened by a scream from my wife. Then another and a third. It was only case of nightmare, but bad one, and it took some little dime to get her thoroughly awake.
 ''By the time she was awake the proprietor and half the servants of the hotel were at the door. opened it bit and tried to explain matters. My explanation didn't work. Instead the landlord made an indignant remon- strance, which, as it was half Dutch and half German, didn't enlighten me much. Finally things quieted down a bit and I went back to bed. But the next morning, when we came down to breakfast, everybody cast indignant glances at me and equally sympathetic ones at my wife. It wasn't hard to find out what the trouble was. They thought my wife's screams had been due to some brutality of mine, and evil dently looked upon me as burly wife ybeater. My wife tried to explain mat ters, but that didn't help much. Her explanations, in the best German she could muster up, were received with smiles of polite incredulity-of course, wife would stand by her husband, even if he is a brute.
 Tt finally got so uncomfortable for me in the hotel that I left without hav- ing accomplished anything in the way of investigation of our family record. And now" added MT. Van Duser, plain lively, whenever the subject of mari tai troubles Is mentioned, my wife glances at me and laughs, as if it was the best of jokes. Women have aaach queer ideas of humor."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS.
Fire Department Team Won from the
 Elm City Players Saturday.

E1re Department Team Won rom the
 Elm City Players Saturday.
 The local fire department base ball team once more showed its superiority on Hotchkiss field Saturday afternoon. Their opponents were the Bay View team of New Haven, considered to pc one of the fastest amateur teams Tn this state. The game was close ana hexciting and although the Bay Views sare fast, snappy, clean lot of players, tn fact the fastest team that has yet played here, they were no match Tor !Our fire laddies and were obliged to re Gurn home defeated. The score was, N. DGsF. D., 4, B. V. A. o. 3.
 The Mohawk A. 0. team defeated the sSt Francis T. A. B. team at Washing 9ton park yesterday afternoon. Strat- ton and Riely were the battery for the Mohawks and Purcell and Walsh Tor rthe T. A. B. Score, Mohawks 10. St Francis T. A. B.S.
 Y Miss Anna Duigan of Scott street i,aeft today for Norfolk, where she will spend the remainder of the summer
 The Naugatuck Malleable Iron Co.'S plant resumed work today The plant has been shut down for the past two weeks for inventory and repairs. Is About six local young men dreamed there was dance in Oxford the other night and hired team It was a dream in reality when they arrived in Oxford. They are now trying to hush the matter up, but they are getting good deal of Jollying over the sleep they lost
 The members of the T. A. B. drum corps are planning an outing at Lake Ouassapaug in the near future. Ar arrangements are being made for athletic events, etc.
 Charles ]. Baxter and family of Rub- Der avenue are so1ourning at Fort { Trumbull Beach.
 st Cecilia's T. A. B. society are to hold lawn fete July IT on the lawn in front of Thomas C1ancy's house on Maple street. The society promise' the sfete will be gorgeous affair.
 The Naugatuck drum corps will meet tonight
 The committee in charge of the grand field day and carnival at Linden park next Saturday have engaged Lallier's orchestra of Waterbury.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
HAS STRANGE MANIA.
Little Girl Tries to Kill People ,ss to
 See Them Suffer-"
Not Satisfied with Futile First Att tempt, She Makes an Almost Suc-
 cessful Effort the Next Day Has Not Repented.

From California correspondent of the Chicago American reports strange story of an infant Lucretia Borgia, Gladys Mallard by name. Gladys, lit tie girl of Il years, attempted to kill MT. and Mrs. Frank F. Ward. who have been her kindly benefactors, and five visitors by putting poison in their food.
 The little degenerate, who seemingly has no conception of right or wrong. is one of family of fifteen children resid- ing in San Diego county Conditions were such in the family life of the Mall lards as to attract the attention of char itable people. Finally, Mrs. Ward be- came conversant with the sad life of the little girl and took her to her home, at Al West Twenty-third street. There Gladys was treated as if she was a daughter, and everything was done to make her happy. She was sent to day school and Sunday school, and both MT. and Mrs. Ward helped her with her les sons at night and secured music teach CT for her.
 The child was singularly blessed by obtaining home and place in the affec- 'IiohS OA S1GA hAI1uly pCOpASs put SAC 0io not realize 1t, and was willing that they should die in order that she could "en- joy seeing them suffer-
 A week ago the Wards entertained i've guests at luncheon. Strawberries were served for dessert, and the peculiar flavor was commented upon. Shortly after eating the berries, the entire party became deathly i'll, and physicians were called to attend them
 While MT. Ward and the ladies were writhing in pain Gladys tripped gayly about the house, singing and in a merry mood. The medical men, after pro- nouncing the victims out of danger con- cluded that there must have been some paris green on the berries.
 The following day the Wards had another lady caller and she was in- vited to dinner. Among other things asparagus was served and tea poured for those at the table. The visitor
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
HIGHEST WIND RECORD.
Held by Storm Signal statton North of Sam Francisco on the
 Pacific Coast.

Point Reyes, an important United States weather bureau and storm sig nal station, located on the California coast some 35 miles north of San Fran cisco, holds the worlds record for high, continuous winds
 Last year Point Reyes captured this honor from the weather stations of the earth, and again the month of May has gone several notches higher on the meteorological scale, says Scientific American.
 On May IS, 1902, the wind at Point Reyes attained velocity of 102 miles an hour, and, for several minutes, was rushing along at the furious rate of 120 miles per hour.
 A fearful gale lasted for three whole days, and at one time the winds in a playful mood ripped the cups from the anemometer. The number of miles recorded during the 72 consecutive hours was 4,7o1, which would be equiv alent to nearly one-ffth the distance around the earth in three days.
 This year on May IA the winds conn menced to blow again with the great est velocity. For four days the veloc- lty registered averaged more than so miles an hour. For nine days the average velocity was 52 miles an hour. The total number of miles recorded on the anemometer was 11,223 miles.
 This is the highest velocity of wind for the time on record in the world.
 These automatically marked records will be photographed by Prof. McAdie, who is in charge of the main weather bureau office in San Francisco, and sent to Washington.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
OAKyILLE HAPPENINGS
The oakville Team Won By Just One
 Run.

The baseball game of Saturday pc. tween the Oakyille nine and tnat ol Woodbury was followed with much interest and excitement by the large crowd that had gathered to witness it. The Woodbury team had a new pitcher, a Yale boy, and were conn- dent of winning. And indeed 1t was a very close game, fortunately in favor of the Oakville boys. Following is fhA score:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
Miss Gladys of Waterbury

Miss Gladys of Waterbury is.spena ing a little vacation at the home of R. S. Painter on Newton Heights.
 John Mclean of Watertowna an em- ploye of the local pin factory, has moved his family into the house oppo site the station recently vacated by Emmet Evans.
 Miss Swan of Hartford is the guest of MT and Mrs Q. M. Gazley.
 Mir and Mrs Burton Warner have re- turned from their honeymoon trip to Block Island and will keep house in the tenement of c. l. Warmers house recently vacated by Mir Fletcher
 Mrs Emmet Evans will no longer keep boarders of any kind owing to the lack of convenient room in her new home.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
HAMMURAB1 OF BABYLON.
A xxing Who ReIxned Over twenty Two Hundred Years Before
 the Days of Christ.

Hammurabi reigned in Babylon about 2250 B. c. We know nothing of Babylon before his time, writes Dr. William Hayes Ward, in Century. There were other local capitals: UT, Erech, Nippur and Lagash to the south, and Agane and Sippara to the north, each the seat of temple of some one of the gods. At Sippara the local divinity was shamash, the sun god. We know the form under which 6hamash was worshiped, for Mir. Ras- sam, in his excavations at Sippara, khe modern Abu-habba, dug up, from D great depth, the sacred image of tho god, bas relief on large slab, ac- ,eompanied by memorial inscription of King Nabu-abal-idin, or Nebo-gives- Arson. The sun god sits on his throne under canopy, and the king is pre- scented to him by two divine attend ants. Before the god, resting on table, is the symbol of the sun, with salternate rays and streams; and above are two figures who direct the course of the sun in his daily journey, much as a Persian artist would place the disk of the sun in a, chariot to be drawn by his horses, or as a Greek artist would give him charioteer. There are smaller symbols of the sum-. the moon and Venus, and the cunei- form inscription explains the meaning of the composition. When this stone was found by the Arab workmen, they came running to MT. Rassam and told him they had found Noah with his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth; and Mir. RRssam was so pleased that he killed an OK and made them a great feast. In this city. of sippara and before the sun gods temple Hammurabi set up one of the great stone columns on which were inscribed the laws. It re- mained there 300 years or more, until in feebler succession, the kings from She mountains of Elam invaded and conquered again the rich plains of Babylonia. We know not what costly spoil of gold and embroidered vestures they carried away; but much more inn portant for us was their loot of the historical stone monuments of Baby lonia, and most fortunate of all was Sheir choice of the stele of Ham murabi. He had first brought the heavy stone, perhaps, from the noun tains of Arabia, it may be by boat from the western side of9the Arabian peninsula, some think even from the Sinaitis quarries at the north end of the Red sea. That would have taken a years travel. The Elamite conqueror put this stone and considerable mum Der of smaller stone records of land grants (1ike the one pictured on page { 459), called kudurus, into boats, and, following the main canals, reached the Tigris river (for Sippara is near the Euphrates), and then passed down to the Persian gulf, and thence up the Karun or Eulaeus river, or quite as likely through some of the intersect- ing canals, and by this long journey they were brought to grace his tri- umph at Susa
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
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The First Attempt.
 The Portuguese attempted to es- tablish cattle farming in Newfound- land in 1858, but all traces of the ami mals they imported have been lost.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
WATERFOWL JOTTINGS
Seymour Team Defeated by the Local
 Ball Players Saturday.

Seymour Team Defeated by the Local
 Ball Players Saturday.
 The local base ball team won fast and interesting game from the Seymour team at the latter place Saturday. Wallace of the locals had the Seymour team completely at his mercy until the ninth, when a bunch of hits scored their only runs. Bellery, F. Keilty and O'Donnell played fast ball from start to finish. The score:
 Watertown 70 o o o 3 o o 0-3 l Seymour ... o 900 o 0 co 2-2 5 ?
 Batteries-Wallace and Dillon; Gail and Conroy.
 Robert Hotchkiss, who for many years has been employed at the Rail- road hotel, has severed his connection and taken position with James Boyce of Woodbury.
 I. 0. Hotchkiss spent Sunday visit ing with friends in Winsted. \ Edward sheehan, who has been spending some time in Boston, returned home yesterday.
 Herbert T. Dayton's horse, which was recovered at Harwinton by snerlH Rigney last week, was returned to MT Dayton yesterday.
 Michael Planning and James Collins will leave in the near future for an ex- tended visit to the Adirondack noun tains. a,A. !
 A large number from here attended the base ball game at Oakville Satur- day between Oakville and Woodbury.
 The regular meeting of the Golden Cross society will take place this even ing.
 Lawrence Kennedy is suffering from mercury poisoning.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
one peath fiesunt. F5rom colli.lon.

NEW YORK, July 13.-The excursion steamer Clifton, running around Man haitian Island, was in collision with the Fulton ferryboat New York. Dur ing panic which ensued on the Clifton two deck hands jumped overheard, one being drowned. No passengers were injured, and both boats escaped with srihing damage.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-13
Totals .3s 8 s 24 8
Totals .26 4 4 27 10 8

Sunmary-Struck out, by Nelson lS by Allen z; bases on balls. off Nelson 1, off Allen 3; hit by pitched ball, by Nelson i, by Allen 3: two-basc hit Buckingham; umpire, Hancock.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-06

Long Prairie Leader: Mr.. and Mrs
Vim. Lee left yesterday for their Eu.
ropean trip. They go direct to New
York and will sail Februsry 4th. They
will be accompanied by Miss Harriet
Dewart Of st. Paul. The trip is take1
aboard the neutrality-suspicious. line
Steamer Moltke and will embrace Wis
it's to the Madeira Islands, Spa in
Italy, Egypt. Greece. and Palestine
Theywill be gone about three monthe
This will be a we'll earned rest for Mr.
Lee who has been in the harness for &
long time and it will be- the 6rst real
vacation he has hadsince he began bus
mess 10 Long Prairie nearly twenty
years ago.