The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 310, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1896 Page: 4 of 4
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G
CHINESE. CONJURERS.
People Supposedly Cat to Pieces ud Tees
nt Together Aala.
The court jugglers Sn the time of Ku-
blai Kuan made it appear to those who
looked on a it dune from the table
actually flow through the air. One of
the travelers who visited tho regious of
. which Marco gives us some account
ays "And jugglers cause caps of gold
to fly thronsh the air and offer them-
selves to all who list to drink." And
Ibn Batata a Moor who visited Cathay
a century after gives this account of
similar incident:
That same night a juggler who was
one of the khan's slaves made his ap-
pearance and the emir said to bini
t'Come and show ns some of your mar-
vels." Upon this he took a wooden
ball with several holes in it throngb.
which long thongs were passed and
laying hold of one of these slung it in-
to the air. It went so high that we lost
sight of it altogether. It was the hot-
test season of the year and we were
outside in the middle of the palace
court. There now remained only a little
of the end of a thong in the conjurer's
band and he desired one of the boys
who assisted him to lay hold of it and
mount He did so climbing by the
thong and we lost eight of him also.
The conjurer then called to him three
times but getting no answer. he snatch-
ed up a knife as if in a great rage laid
hold of the thong and disappeared also.
By and by he threw down one of the
boy's hands then a foot then the other
hand and then the other foot then the
trunk and last of all the head. Then
he came down himself all puffing and
panting and with his clothes all bloody
kissed the ground before the emir and
Raid something to him in Chinese. The
emir gave some order in reply and
our friend then took the lad's limbo
laid them together in their places and
gave a kick when presto! there was
the boy who got up and stood before
us. All this astonished me beyond meas-
- ore and I had an attack of palpitation
like that which overcame me once be-
fore in the presence of the sultan of In-
dia when he showed me something of
the same kind. The Kazi Afkharuddiu
was next to me and quoth he : " Wal-
lah Mis my opinion there has been nei-
ther going up nor coming down nei-
ther marring or mending. 'Tis all ho-
cus pocus." Noah Brooks in St. Nicholas.
MODERN PRISONS.
Their Very Improvements Are What Drive
English Convict Mad.
The official belief is that there is lit-
tle or no prison made insanity. Prison
doctors are kceirfy alive to the posRibil-
Jtyor sliamnjiug and they hesitate to
aannFthat there U any flaw in the sys
tem for the administration of which
they are so largely responsible. Still
the fact remains that the ratio of insan-
ity in prisons has exactly doubled since
1877.
The admitted general increase of in-
sanity is not sufficient to account for
this startling fact Prison discipline is
. now meue ' mechanical and therefore
more depressing. Its very improvements
in this respect "take the heart out of a
man." It is probable that prisoners
were far happier is the old nnrefornud
-erisons when they herded together and
k- a coniPniio..sbip of a kind.
An expert witness who had passed
four and twenty years in jail told the
- prison committee some startling things
irom rne convict's point of view. The
rules he said are too minute for human
observance and some minds are totally
unable to bear tbe strain of them.
man may be reported for knocking
something over in his cell though it
may be by pure accident. The name
for this offense is "unnecessary noise.
As the poor wretches walk their weary
ruuuu in me exercise yard one may fall
out 01 step ana thus throw the others
out. The first offender or the last any
one in fact on whom the warder's eye
happens to fall is liable to punishment
i or mis mischance.
In this way the convict gradually ac
quires an expression that never leaves
him the round the corner elance of
being who dreads a tyrant on the pounce.
tyb want a new Howard 11 the system
is only half as bad as it is said to "be by
those who have best reason to know.
London Newc
Ho Bread Tad.
.DO you know asked a noliceman.
"what that crowd ot young society peo-
yio u uoiug at tne DaKery over there?
it was just before midnight in the
west end and a group of youno folk had
gone chatting merrily into the door of
a large bakery.
"They will wait there" continued
the Dluecoat "until the first batch of
bread is taken out of the oven which
occurs &bout 12 o'clock. Hot bread
lunches seem to be getting all the rage
among tne swell set for every night
about this time I see group after group
go np to the door of the bakery and pro-
cure the freshly baked bread so hot
that it scorches the paper. They take it
to their houses and there it is eaten
with plentiful spreading of butter and
preserves. To be thoroughly enjoyed it
must not be cut biA pulled apart with
the fingers. " Washington Times.
Wslltng-toa oa the Defeat at Ugnj.
Next morning Wellington was con-
versing with General Bowles when a j
staff officer drew np his horse flecked I
-with foam and whispered the news of
Ligny. Without a change of counte-
nance the commander eaid to his com-
panion? "Old Blncher has had a
good licking and gone back to Wavre
18 mileaj As he has gone back we
must go too.. I suppose in England they
will say we have been licked. I can't
help it; as they have gone back we
must go too.." William AI. tiloane in
Century.
. Aa Ianoeent.
She Am I tho first girl
kitted?
you evet
He (surprised) Why no! I have
tar sisters. Somerville Journil
THE SARATOGA HOP.
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS DESCRIBES THE
GAY FUNCTION.
It Vaa Flaasaat Eaoog-h Far the tMmf
Itonrere bat the Chaperoa Withered
Away Artonf Mold-wins Mother Kaas
tione ef the Yoaag aad the Hot Yeeaa;.
Mr. -W. D. Howells novelette "An
Open Eye i Conspiracy in The Cen-
tury contains the following description
of that important social function a
Saratoga hop:
She and the evening were equally fit-
ted for the event to which they seemed
equally dedicated. The dancing was to
be ont of doors on a vast planking or
platform set up in the heart of that
bosky court which the hotel incloses.
Around this platform drooped the slim
tall Saratogan trees and over it hung
the Saratogan sky of a nocturnal bine
very rare in our latitude with the stars
faint in its depths and by and by a
white moon that permitted itself a
modest competition with the electric
light effulgent everywhere. There was
a great crowd of people in the portico
the vestibule and tbe inner piazzas and
on the lawn around the platform where
"the trodden weed" sent np tbe sweet
scent of bruised grass in the cool night
air. My foolish old heart bounded with
a pulse of youth at the thought of all
the gay and tender possibilities of such
a scene.
But the young people under my care
6ccnied in no haste to mingle in it We
oldsters are always fancying youth im-
patient but tliera is no time of life
which has so moth patience. It behaves
as if it had eternity before it an eter-
nity of youth instead of a few days
and years and then tho frosty pow. We
who are young no longer think we
would do so and so if we were young
as women think they would do so and
so if they were men but if we were
really yonng again we should not do at
all what we think.
We should not hurry to experience
onr emotions; we should not press for-
ward to
discharge our duties or repair
onr mistakes; we should not seize tbe
occasion to make a friend or reconcile
an enemy; we should let weeks and
months go by in the realization of a
pnssion and trust all sorts ef contingen-
cies and accidents to help ns out with
its confession. The thoughts of youth
are very long and its conclusions ar
deliberate and delayed and often with-
held altogether. It is age which is trem-
ulously eaper in these matters and can-
not wait with the fine patience of na
ture in her growing mood.
As soon even as I was in the hotel I
was impatient to press through to tbe
place where the dancing was and
where I already heard the band play
lug. i xnew very wen that when we
got there. I should have to sit down
somewhere on the edge of the platform
with the other frumps and fogies and
hegin takiiig cold in my dress coat and
want to doze off without being able to.
while my young people were waltzing
rogetner or else promenading np and
down ignoring mo or recognizing me by
tne oner or a fan and the question
whether I was not simply melting. I
have seen how the poor chaperon fates
at such tiling. But they secure of their
fun. were by no means desirous to have
it over or even to have it begin. They
dawdled through the thronged hotel
office whero other irresponsible pairs
were coming and going under the ad
miring eyes of the hotel loungers and
they wandered up and down the waste
punors ana sat on tet-a-tetes just to
try them apparently and Miss Gage
vcrinra in the mirrors the beauty which
was reflected in all eyes. They amused
themselves with the extei. . of the richly
carpeted . and upholstered desolation
around them where only a few lonely
and aging women lurked about on sofas
and ottomans and they fell to playing
with their compassion for the plebeian
spectators at the long veranda windows
trying to penetrate with their forbidden
eyes to the hop going on in the court
iar beyond the intermediary desert of
the parlors.
When thty signified at last that they
were reaoy ior me to lead them on to
the dance I would so much rather have
gone to bed that there are no words for
the comparison. Then when we got to
the place which I should never have
been able to reach in the world if it had
not been for the yonng energy and in-
spiration of Kendricks and they bad
put mo in a certain seat with Miss
Gage's wraps beside me where thev
could find me they went off and danced
for hours and hours. For hours and
hours? For aes and ages while I with
ered away amid moldering mothers and
saw my charges through the dreadful
half dreams of such a state whirling in
me waitz. hopping in the polka sliding
in the galop and then endlessly walk-
ing up and down between tbe danoea
and eating and drinking the chill re
freshments that it made my teeth chat
ter to think of.
I suppose they decent lv came to me
from time to time though they seemed
to ne always dancing for I could after-
ward it-member Miss Gage taking a
wrap from me now and then andauick-
ly coming back to shed it upon my lap
again. I got so chilled that if they had
not been unmistakably women's wraps
I should have bundled theui all about
my shoulders which I could almost
hear creak with rheumatism. I mnt
have fallen into a sort of drowse at last
for I was having a dispute with some
sort of anthority which turned ont to
be Mrs. March and upbraiding her with
the fact that there were no women's
wraps which would also do for a man
when the yeung people stood arm in
rni before me and Miss Gage said that
she was tired to death now and they
were going.
XHffereatlatetf.
"Ostriches swallow rocks to be!p
grind their food. "
"Yet aad poor downtrodden man
rrindf bit own food aud gives the rocks
!:aiad." Detroit I'm ires.
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A CARD.
Nothing- pays better than
a good advert' cement in
a good paper.
Th! Ardmoreite
Sllag a daily circulation of
550 and reaching- nine-
tenths of the homes in
Ardmore. An ad placed
in the Ardmoreite will
convince yon that it pays.
OFFERS THE PUBLIC TBI
HKST PASSENGER SERVICE
BETWEEN
TEXAS
The East
and Southeast.
"Cannon Ball Train
Sborteded one boor la time. Leaves Van
wortb. 7:0 a. m.; Daliea. s.-6 a. ai
Limited Eiening Express
Hll beea nnlk...H . h . .
aad the eaai. boar to Memphis. Oae
hour to New Orleans. w
ONLY TWO DAYS
BETWEEN
Texas and New York.
Pallmaa Baffet SleeHor Cars to
at. Louis. Chlcsro. New Urlesas
ol PmclUe Cus.c.
Tb roach dsy Coaches meh ii
betweea Port Wortb sad Meaiphla.
n0-ileki".' ' "d '"rlBformauoa
call oaor address jour aeareat ticket aceau
L. S. THORNE.
Third Vice-Pres. a Oea'l Mgr.
GASTON MESLIER.
Oea. Paaa. Tkt. Agt
W. A. DASUIELL
Tra. P.m. act. DaJUa. Texas
BOTllPDAtin Airrtmn
Hie nlr first clasn
1X00 a day vhous
in town . I . .
A.LMOOimpro.
WYNNEWOn
Good triple
Room.
Ll?ery Stable
In Connection.
- IUD. TT.R
v aerU" yC 1
aM ."" VV'yT
ARDMOREITE
STEM PRINTING HOUSE
Fine Commercial Book and Job Printing.
Publishers of the Daily and Weekly Artfmoreite.
lawvkr' sniEra.
We make a'specialty of printli.s: Lawyers Briefs in this
size type as cheap per patre as any other printing house.
WILSON & DOUGLAS Proprietors.
GRITTY
GRIND1NGS
GROW
GRUESOME
TO THE
BICYCLE
RIDER.
Thei Kansas
(Entablwhd 1854.)
ADepublican Paper.
frl I hi r Vn o
The campa.fn of 1896 promises to be themot excit-
ing one binoe 18C0. The Kansas Citt Jocbnal pnnts
the news. It is the only Republican newspaper of the
Missouri Valley. For 42 year it La fought the battlea
of the peoplf. :: :: s. .
REDUCED SUBSCRI
Daily ami Sunday three months
Daily and Sunday one year . .
.......j .uuiuiii auu ifricuHutisi one year.
Send in your name to the Journal.
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AHEV FAST TRAIN
DAILY ANDUCHICAGO
SUNDAYSTOOriST.LOUIS
AHDPHIHCIrttLPOIinSIH
THE NORTH AND EAST
ALSO TO TEXAS AND
THE SOUTHWEST.
VIA
HI )r
ill
WITH THE GLOSSY TEMPERED
BEARINGS OF THE
Ta
KEATING
ami the finely fitt?U
parts such annoy-
ances are aa un-
known aa the sub-
stance of a dream.
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KEATING WHEEL CO.
HOLYOKE. MAHS.
City
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Bear soctmsa.
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ralar aseevlac. aslsrdsr.oa or Before every
faU avooe. a4 S . as. la Mseoete Teaite.
earner atala as4 pnnf etr cs. Vluusf
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an.Uassea aeeoad aad foartfe Tlirbiiy
laeaek ssoata at a. av. la atseoata Ta;
coraer MsJa aad Sprlacar streets Tl.n.a
aretkrea are eiiea4e4 a cordial welcoave.
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Mynle Lodre 4.T ". r. Meets er.ry
Taaradsy si t.U B. at. la la.tr ls.it HsiL
atsta street. oipo.lle ike Boatoac. All
'iiiilif bretkrea are larlieol.
1. C Taapa. C. r.
w. a. craiiea a. of a. sad a.
Ardavor Lodre Ha. a. I. O. O. r. St eeta
very atoadsy at S p. as. la ik.lr ksit. a
prtsrer etreeC VUlUaa Braiarea aiaaye
a.leoaie.
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lasaoa Ik aeeuad aad f-.rt prtdsys la
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Vl.ltl.f fcretkrea larliad
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Kalgkts of tke M.ccak.a. Ardmore Tea
ii.t-MHIMlnl aad Ikird Umsiii la
each saoaik at Jadre Robbr'a uSre oa Msla
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HEItJUT OF THE ttXIUTIOX
City Xotiohul Dank
AT ABOMOBB. 1 5 D. TEL. AT THE CLOSE
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BdeaBptloa faad vttk V. B. Trau-
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Total.
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aariHii rea4 . .
tadi.tded pmata. leaa'aspeaaea
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bee to otker KaUosai auks
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Total . SttrtS
ladlaa Territory. Coaaiy of PVck.as aa.
1 ttae f . . . . . L.. n . . . - . .
k. do eoieassly saear tkst Ike akove
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edsa ssd belt. I. Dos Uscv. Caskter.
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IMS day of Octoeee isaa.
IsbaaJ W. A Whiutii
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Correct Alleet 1
A. J. Wevvaavaa.
h. r. rm
H. C IVrrsaa.
Lew Ba'ca far tke W.ef.
Tba Tataa & Pacific Kailtrsr Co.
will acll hom aeaktrs' cxctlraloa
tickets on Its Uaea from Alexandria
and Taiarkaaato Weatborftrd la-
closlva to all points bat wee a Abllroe
and i'eo4) City InclasiT and to all
points oa the Pecos Valley Railway
al lbs rata of on far for tfca roaad
trip on Sept. 16tb th aad Oct. tk
aoa som UckeU limited to S3 days
from data of sale stoo ortn oa
either tba rolni; or retsra trio al-
lowets at any point west ot Weather-
ford. Tska adyantsr of this oroor-
tnnlty to rlslt the cheap lands of
Western Texas. For any farther In-
formation apply to or arret ticket
a-tot or - (jArro M nun.
O. P. & T. A.. DaJJaa. Tea.
Sa war.
Fee srie.t aad aaaTlMla. a k.v.
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lae roiiowlar brutn H a. wit a ear aa.
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asssrwa. f.rxu. eod tic.f furssis-
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