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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
KANSAS IS SHORT OF men
LACK OF FARM lABORERS KEEPS
THREsHING OUTFITS IDLE.
Scarcity Now is Taken as an indica.
ton That When Time Comes to
husk Corn Crop viii Have
To Wait.

Topeka, Sept. l.-Reports of a short
age OF men throughout the state
continue to come to Topeka. Men
to work with threshing machines and
to cut corn are In the greatest de.
mand. In the counties which have
produced the largest wheat crop this
year the threshing machine men have
often been obliged to close down their
machines on account of lack of
men. This has delayed the thresh.
ing of the crop several weeks.
Several pitchers. a separator boss,
a water hauler and an engineer, with
n cook for the cooking shack. make
up n threshing crew. All except the
pitchers are steadily employed. This
year 1t has proved difficult to get
pitchers. Many separators are stand
ing idle and the farmers are crying
for assistance.
The difficulty In getting separator
help, 1t Is believed, forecasts like
trouble in securing corn huskers
This contingent in the past has come
mostly from Missouri, but this year
there is no prospect of a supply from
that source, and a large proportion OF
the hig crop probably will stand un-
gathered for a portion of the winter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
for his notion

TOI MS lCIOn-
II is more likely. however, that the
explanation will be offered that the
ships are simply going to test their
endurance and the practicability OF
getting ships over to the Pacific side
in the event that their presence should
be demanded, also that the ships
should be kept in motion anyway and
that II is as well To send them to the
Pacific as anywhere else.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
DEATH OF Prominent CITIZEN
GEORGE W. ADAMS. MERCHANT
OF TlSHoMiNSo PASSES
AWAY.
ArdmoreIte Special.

Ardmorelte Special.
Tishomingo. !. T.. Sept 2.-The re.
mains of George w Adams. who died
Saturday, were inferred here yester-
day afternoon with Masonic honors.
The funeral procession was the larg.
est that has ever attended funeral
in Tishomingo.
Mr.. Adams was one of Tishomin-
gos pioneer citizens and had been en-.
gagged in the drug business here for
several years. lie was a member OF
the Masonic Blue Lodge. Royal Arch
Chapter, Council and Order of Eastern
Star, lie leaves a wife and three
children.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
No Parade in Chicago.

Ardmoreite Special.
Chicago, Sept, 2.-No Labor day pa.
arde was held in Chicago today, the
custom having been voted "antiquat-
ed and ridiculous" by the Federation
OF Laborday hrdloih rd hrd rdlu eta
of Labor, The money heretofore spent
in big Labor day demonstrations will
be put into the defense fund for the
maintaining OF strikers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
DEMOCRATS Will ASK WHY.
Congress May Ascertain Object of Ma
va Cruise,

Washington. SEPT 1T is said to
IT, the intention of the democratic
mrmhrrs OF congress 10 introduce a
resolution in the senate or house as
soon a. the SiNticth congress is or
ganized asking the navy department
or the president the reason for send
Tag the battleship fleet to the Pacific.
A. It Is not probable that the fleet
will sail from Hampton Roads before
December IS. there will be ample
oIution Republicans declare that II
saoh \ resolution is passed the prcsi.
.ot may decline to give any reason
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
A Serious Accident.

Bogie Holland the four year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Holland, who
lives about seven miles west of the
city on the Brown farm met with
quite . serious accident yesterday aft.
ernoon. The little fellow had the mis-.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02

fortune to be kicked in the face by n
horse and the entire one side of the
face was opened
DR. stephens was called In to dress
the wounds. and although the injur-
les are serious no fatal results are
expected
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02

Five cents never bought better
cigar than the Gladstone. IL is away
ahead OF the next best, Sold by +, J..
Ramsey.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02

LOST-Red and white muley COW.
branded l. C on left hip. Notify p.
ID. Maxwell at Ardmore Natl. Bank
2tf.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02

STOLEN-Gray mare with c brand
ed on side of head. weighs about
$50 lbs. Return to Clyde wyatt at
Kendall & Co. Ardmore and get re-
ward. 800
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02
LOST.
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT one iOx6O tent. mostly
used for camp meetings. j. Gold
smith. 1856 East Main street. l.3,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02

WANTED White girl or woman TO
cook and keep house for three, no
children. good pay and good home
for right party. Apply Mrs. Bell at
Partisan Millinery co. 2S.tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-02

WANTED or select boarders, al.
so have nice furnished upstairs
rooms suitable for single men or
co pies Apply Mrs. Lance. corner
Pm .u and e street. y. W. l-i
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19

FITZPATRICK hesitated. I'm not look
Ing for trouble with any man." he re-
piled guartledly. "tmt since you're dis
posed to be fair about notice It's only
fair to you to say that did know your
word was out"
"Still you took her?"
ut was my orders"
"My word Is out. The boys know II
Is good. don't jump any man with.
out rair warning. know you now.
Fitzpatrick, and the next time see
you, look out" And without more ado
Siclone walked out Of the shop. great
" to the relief Of the barber II not of
FitZ.
Fitzpatrick may have wiped little
sweat from his face, but he said moth.
ing, only walked down to the round.
house and took out the 313 rs usual
for his run.
A week passed before the two men
met again. One night Siclone. with a
crowd of the strikers, ran into half a
dozen Of the new men. Fitzpatrick
among them, and there was riot. II
was Siclone's time to carry ont his in
tention. for Fitzpatrick would have
scorned to try to get away. No tree
ever breasted tornado more sturtlily
than the Irish engineer withstoOd 81.
clone. but when Ed Banks got there
1t, ,k, ni,yl,f
ened things ont Fitzpatrick was picked
up for dead. That night Siclone dis.
apDeared.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19

Recently pair Of we'll finished oxen were mar.
keted at Brighton, Mass, at fancy prices. In
the following article George c. Rice. owner OF
the oxen. tells how they were faftened
l bought the oxen March s, 1905, from
the wood lot where they had been
numbering. They weighed Sl65 pounds.
As soon as they were In the barn they
we're given dish of cob meal OF about 2
quarts. l continued the same until they
were turned to pasture June l. grow
a grea; many early apples, 30 begin to
feed them to the oxen BY the bushel In
September and October. They had two
bushels each per day along with Stowell
Evergreen corn, with some corn on the
stalk. November took them to the
barn, giving them about two quarts cob
meal each. December 10 began to
feed for beef. gave each about six
quarts Of cob meal with one-half bushel
oats to one barrel of corn. This ]
ground twice . day, morning and even
ing. At noon fed about l dozen ears
sweet corn, husks and all.
The oxen enjoyed good pasture and
all the nice hay they would eat. / kept
them ten and one-half months and 10
that time they gained 1900 pounds.
They carted manure and hay, probably
100 tons of hay, Is tons OF rowen, IL
tons of oats and also performed many
other jobs about the farm a. we'll q
helped plow Z acres for spring planting
etc. The day the oxen went to Brighton
they weighed 1885 pounds. George g
Rice in New England Homestead.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
NUMBER 8.

with Blair. talking In n random way.
Then. suddenly wheeling. he waved q
goodby with his heavy Stetson and.
gallCpIng hard. was soon lost to the
north In the ruts Of the Yellow Grass.
When Blair came In he told Neiglhbor
and me about It. Blair had never seen
SIclone Clark and so was no judge as
to his identity. but Neighbor believes
yet that Blair camped that night way
Gown In the Panhandle with no other
than the cowboy engineer.
Once again. that only two years ago.
something came back to us.
Holmes Kay. one Of our stan Of sur
geons, the man. In fact. who took care
Of Fitzpatrick. enlisted In Illinois and
went with the First to Cuba. They
got in front Of Santiago just after the
Lard fighting Of July !, and Holmes
was detailed for hospital work amorg
lioosevelt's men. who had suffered Sc
verely the day before.
One Of the wounded. sergeant, had
sustained gunshot wound In the jaw
and IN the confusion had received
scant attention. Kay took hold Of
him. He was n cowboy, like most Of
the rough riders. and after his jaw
was dressed Kay made some remark
about the hot fire they had been
through, before the blockhouse.
"rd been through n hotter before I
ever saw China" answered the rough
rider nc we'll "a he could through his
h,ndopes The remark directed Kay's
attention TO the condition Of his
breast and neck. which were a mass
of scars.
"Where are you fromY' asked
Holmes
"Everywherep
.Wbere did vou get burned that
wavy
"Out on the plains"
"Howf"
But the poor fellow went OF into O
delirium and to the surgeons amaze
ment began repeating train orders.
Kay was paralyzed ut the way he
talked our llngo-and a cowboy. When
he left the wounded man for the night
he resolved 10 question him more
closely the next day. but the next day
or1or, top,o IN raiojp hja ra1imeut at
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
Building q Sheep Barn.

In answer to q query from Connee.
ticut man to the Country Gentleman az
to building q sheep barn with hillside
entrances, Dr.. C. D. Smead replied:
All can give Is few generalities on
building sheep barn. The first Is that
unless the barn can be built in the hill
side so that 1t has an eastern frontage,
| would not build 1t In the hillside.
Again, IL the hillside were 80 steep that
l could even then have windows on the
north and south, I would not build 1t on
that site. Sunlight and pure air must
be got into practically every bit Of space
used for the penning of sheep, or the
building will become unhealthful. This
can't be done we'll with Q western front
age or q northern; With southern, and
the western slope, 80 that windows can
be placed also in the east end Of the
basement, fairly good one can be built,
providing the location Is where the
south wind does not blow much. As
general rule, sheep barns wholly above
ground, with doors to drive through,
are the best and most convenient, when
built on comparatively level ground.
The needed sheep yards can be made on
either side, and the sheep in small flocks
can be let out into them. They can be
more easily entered with the manure
wagon, and when but so feet wide, every
part of the space can be SO arranged as
to allow some sunlight to enter at some
time in the day.
If winter lamb raising is to be engaged
10, the barn must be so constructed as
to close tightly. II the proposition Is to
have the lambs dropped after the
weather becomes quite warm, the closed
doors will not be needed. The feeding
racks when possible should be construct
ed in the center, or 80 that the flock will
no, crowd, as they will when the racks
are round the outside. Arrangements
should also be made so that hay can be
got into them without carrying it over
the backs of the sheep; in short, got to
the rack in such way that the sheep
cannot get on to it, and the racks SO
made that neither sheep nor the little
lambs get into them and soil the hay.
Again, they should be 90 constructed
that the flock can get the hay without
having to more than put their noses be-
tween the Stats in the rack.
In conclusion, I may say that con.
struction of tho barn Is not 80 importan,
as the arrangement Of the space In !!
after it has been built; 20 that the food
and water can be got to the flock con
veniently and in the best possible con
dition.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
many SUDDEN DEATHS
FROM POISONOUS
RHEUMATISn
The Disease Has Its Dangers
Should Be Taken
In Time.

Rheumatism has long been regarded
IS q trouble which, while 1t might be
painful, was not necessarily dangerous.
Very few persons, it was thought, ever
died from Rheumatism. Pick up pa
per to-day. and you will sec that the
majority Of sudden deaths are due to
some form Of neglected Rheumatism.
Rheumatism of the heart, neuralgia
Of the heart, paralysis and poisonous
Rheumatic acid are among the most
dangerous forms of the disease. II
Rheumatic acid poison Is allowed to
stay In the system, sudden death can
scarcely bs avsrted. There il but one
cure for Rheumatism, and that n
Smiths Specific Uric-O. No other
Rheumatic remedy can possibly do a.
much for the disease. Uric-O IL posi-
tlve cure for Lumbago, Muscular and
Articular Rheumatism. Il will cure
Sciatica and Rheumatic Kidney trouble
In the most pleasing manner. Uric-O
costs 81 90 per bottle, and oan b sup
piled by your Druggist, Samples and
circulsrs will be chserfully forwarded
by the SMITH DRUG COMPANY,
SYRACUSE. N. Y.
Uric-O 10 sold and recommended u
south Paris and West Paris BY r. A
Shurtls6 & Co.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
Receiver 5 Sale.
Water Power, Mill,
Machinery and Real
Estate.

The Receivers sale of all the propert!
of The Linen Manufacturing Company
notice of which was published in th'
issues of the Oxford Democrat of Octo
Der 10, 23 and 80, A. D. 1905, has by or
der of the court been postponed Il
March IL (eleven), at IL (twelve) O'Clock
noon, A. D. 1907, and unless otherwise
ordered by the court shall sell at thu
mill of said The Linen Manufacturing
Company at Shows Falls in Paris in th'
County Of Oxford on said eleventh da!
of March, A. D. 1907, at twelve o'clock
noon, to the highest bidder, under th'
conditions hereinafter stated and subjec
to the approval of the court, all th'
property and interests Of said The Liner
Manufacturing Company, which arr
fully and particularly described in sale
notice of sale published in said issues o.
the Oxford Democrat. The conditions
OF said sale are that all said property
except certain personal property herein
after specially mentioned will be sole
together, and no bid less than two thou
sand five hundred dollars (s250O) for the
same will be received. The bidder tG
whom said property is awarded at said
sale must, at the time Of said sale, de-
posit with said Receiver certified check
for five hundred dollars (s5OU, payable
to said Receiver, which sum shall be held
by said Receiver pending the approval OF
said sale by said court. If said sale ID
not approved by the court, then said
sum of five hundred dollars (S500) will
be returned to the person so depositine
the same. If the sale is approved said
sum of five hundred dollars (s5OO) shall,
upon payment of the balance Of the
purchase price of said property, be ap'
piled to complete the payment Of said
purchase price. If said bidder, to whom
said property is awarded, shall after
approval of said sale by said court, fail
to pay the balance of said purchase price
in accordance with the order Of said
court upon approval Of said sale, then
said five hundred dollars (s500) shall
be applied as said court may direct, to
the payment of all cost and expense OF
said sale and the services of said Receiver
on account thereof. And said bidder
shall be compelled to pay the balance OF
said purchase price or said property
may be awarded to the next highest bid.
der, or sold again as the court may di'
rect.
shall also sell at the same time and
place, to the highest bidder, the follow
ing described property of said The Linen
Manufacturing Company:
Two horses, subject to q lien for keep.
ing, the amount of which lien will be
fully stated at the time of said sale.
One double team.
One sleigh.
One double traverse pung.
One pair of driving harnesses.
Dated at Portland, Maine, January 20,
1907.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19


kept The ,plole bunch of me-"
do He looked kind Of queer, but I
never thought anything. picked up a
jack bar and started up the track.
"rhe first fellow l tackled looked
lazy, but he started full quick when I
hit him. Then he turned around to In
spect me, and I noticed his horns were
Of the broad gauge variety. While l
whacked another the first one put his
head down and began to snort and
paw the ties. Then they all began to
below at once. It looked smoky. l
dropped the jack bar and started for
the engine. and about fifty Of them
started for me.
81 never had an Idea steers could run
40. You could have played checkers on
my heels all the way back. II Siclone
hadn't come out and jollled them, I'd
never got back In the world. just
jumped the pilot and went clear over
against the boiler head. Siclone claim.
ed I tried to climb the smokestack, but
he was excited. Anyway, he stood out
there with 4 shovel and kept the whole
bunch of me. I thought they would
kill him. But I never tried to chase
range steers ON foot again.
'ln the spring we got the rains-not
Nike you get now. but cloudbursts. Tie
section men were good fellows. only
ro,nctimes we would get into a storm
miles from n section gang and strike q
place where we couldn't see thing.
Then Siclone would stop the train.
take q bar and get down ahead and
| sound the roadbed. Many and many q
washout he struck that way which
| would have wrecked our train and
| wound up our ball Of yarn In minute
Often and often Siclone would 30 iHto
his division without a dry thread on
him.
~Thoss were different days" unused
the erixsled striker. "The old boys arc
scattered now all over this broad land
The strike did 1t. and you fellows have
the snap. But what l wonder often
mud often is whether Siclone is really
ialive or not"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19

engineers. He was one of the black.
listed strikers and runs an engine now
down Oh the Santa Fe. But at long
intervals Duck gets back to revisit the
scenes Of his early triumphs. The men
who surrounded him were once al
deadly odds with Duck and his chums,
though now the ancient enmities seem
forgotten. and Duck, the once ferocious
Duck. sits occasionally among the new
men and gosslps about early days on
the West End.
"Do you remember Slclone, Reed 2
asked Duck. calling to me In the pri.
vate Office.
Remember himr' I echoed. "Did
anybody who ever knew Slclone forget
him?"
81 fired passenger for Siclone twen-
ty years ago." resumed Duck. "He
walked just like that fellow. only he
was quicker. reckon you fellows
don't know what snap you have here
now," he continued. addressing the
men around him. Track fenced. nine
ty pound rails, steel bridges, stone cul-
verts. Stag ballast. skyscrapers-no
wonder you get chances to haul such
nobs as LiliuOkalani and Schley and
Dewey and cut ninety miles an hour
on tangents.
when I was firing for Siclone the
roadbed was just Off the scrapers. the
dumps were soft, pile bridges, paper
culvert5. ifty-six pound rails. not q
fence west Of Buffalo gap and the
plains black with Texas steers. We
never closed our cylinder cocks. The
hiss Of the steam frightened the cattle
worse than the whistle. and we never
knew when we were going to find a
bunch Of critters ON the track.
1.-THE first winter I came out was
great for snow, and was tenderfoot.
The cuts made good windbreaks. and
whenever there was nOrther they
were chuck full Of cattle. Every time
a train plowed through the snow 1t
made path OH the track. Whenever
the steers wanted to move they would
take the middle Of the track single file
and string out mile after mile. Talk
about fast schedules and ninety miles
an hour. You had to poke along with
your cylinders splitting and just whistle
and yell-sort Of blow them off into the
snOwdrifts
"One day Siclone and were going
west OIL 50. and we were late. For that
matter. we were always late. Simpson.
coming against us on 20. had caught a
bunch of cattle IN the rock cut just
west of the Sappie and killed couple.
When We got there; there must have
been q thousand head Of steers NOUS
Ing around the dead ones. Siclone-he
used to be cowboy. you know-Si-
clone said they were holding a wake.
At any rate. they were still coming
from every direction and as far as you
could see.
"'Hold OH. Siclone. and I'll chase
them out l said.
"That's the stuff. Duck says he.
Get after them and see what you can
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
The Ostrich's Mistake.

A trained ostrich recently dscon-
certed It's exhibitor ut music hall
by continually endeavoring to break
away from all restraint and to climb
over the footlights into the orchestra.
The widely advertised act came to
sudden end. and the professor emers-
ell from behind the curtain and apollo
gized for the actions of his pet In
about these words:
"Lydies and Gentiemen-Hi ham
very sorry to disappoint you this hcv-
ening. We are compelled to cease our
hengagement until tie management
hengages Il new horc!pStrn lra,,er.
"The one 1T present hrmployed ere
as no air on top Of ~ 'eal and my
bird takes II for n hess. tit Bits.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
Tr;..t.a of f,.c TYnen.

A laughable error occurred In one Of
the large publishing houses a number
OF years ago. \ poet had sent In II
manuscript In which was the line. "See
the pale martyr In n sheet Of fire. The
reputation OF the writer was nearly
ruined when the work came out with
the line, "See the pale martyr with his
shirt on fire."
When a favorite speaker rose and
was greeted with thunderous applause
his party paper came out and said,
"rhe vast concourse rent the air with
their snouts."
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-19
Wanted-Boys and Trees.

The alarm occasiOned by Vermonts
big spruce timber cut Of nearly one
hundred and twelve million feet is
groundless. It is like the question that
arose In . Vermont city on the question
of water. The city council was cutting
off meter here, motor there, q sprink-
ling house somewhere else, and devoting
all It's time to restricting the consump.
ton Of the liquid life. A plain man got
up and said: "Gentlemen, we don't
want more meters; we want more
water" And so It Is In Vermont. We
don't want to restrict the spruce cut;
we want more spruces. And Intelligent
forestry, q start for which was made
by the recent legislature, will do 1t.
There are too many landowners who
look askance at the re-fOresting propo-
sition and ask suspiciously:
"What'm l going to get out OF 1t?
Won't never live to SEQ them spruces
big enough to cut, ner them seedlings
big enough to count"
This is true. There must be some
thing approaching public spirit in the
owners attitude toward this question.
He must do something with no immedi-
ate return In view. He will probably
never sell q foot of the timber he sets
out in seedlings.
But his boys may get the benefit.
His land will be constantly increasing
in value.
The greatest needs of this state to-day
are more boys and more trees. Let us
raise the boys and trees together.
For every boy that is born to the for
tunate Vermont farmer let his father
set out a thousand or two seedlings In
some waste land or Improbable pasture.
Let him renew them year by year--the
cost is small, and by the time those boys
are grown to manhood and ready to 90
into forestry on their own account. they
will have little property that will re-
pay the thoughtful labor.
Shouldn't the meanest, most hand-to-
mouth, back-lot farmer in the state
take enough pride in his heirs to do as
much as this for them? He wouldn't
get the benefit himself, perhaps, but 1t
would be all in the family.
Certainly the renewal of this enor-
nous draft on our state forests, repre-
sented by 111,854,0O0 feet of timber
cut last year must be replaced by some
means. Aud the small landowner can
do his share and benefit his kin at the
same time.-Montpelier (Vt.) Journal.