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SEPTEMBER PREMIUMS
TTliat They Wcro and to Whom Awarded
Our first distribution of free premiums
wasmadeon the 1st of September lust
l for several weeks following we pub
tute
it
they were received receipts
aiders of lucky numbers To
bmand for space however we
Id to discontinue the publica
Kinal leceipts and herewith
lead a partial list of ttie prc
Jarded with name and post
fress of subscribers receiving
Clair Fort Worth one Ivers
pright piano 8350
C F Merzbacfcer Gaiuesville one W
A Huffman buggy 8150
JUiss Annie Halstll Decatur one set
furniture 8100
James 11 Nelson Grandview one ten
foot Bird windmill 8100
L P Neely Osage one J B Mitchell
wagon 875
Moore Foster Co Llano one Wal
ter A Wood mower G3
J L Mock Caief one Fakes Co
folding bedS70
J B McMurry Birdvilleone higharm
Singtr sewing machine 835
William Wood Omaha one Tackabery
Wild West saddle S50
W II Watson Gordon Dickens Com
plete Works fifteen volumes Holt
morocco 815
Drury Kersey Bolivar Mo Cham
bers Encyclopedia sis volumes half
morocco 30
J G Dennis Thorp Springs Carlisles
Works complete eleven volumes half
calf 55
J W Cellier Bluffdalc Irvings com
pit to works ten volumes half alligator
25 00
C Baker Centre Mills Lord Lyttons
complete works thirteen volumes half
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M Williams Gran ury one half
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me silkliued case and the lot
Estimated to oe worth from 725
addition to these about 200 other
remiums were awarded consisting of
books papers bakingpowder soap to
bacco mineral water etc and ranging
In value from 81 to 825 each
Oar second semiannnal distribution
will be made on April 5 1887 and every
person subscribing or renewing their sud
scription for one year to Tiik Sundvy
Gazkttk or Thk Wkkklv Gazktik be
fore the 31st of March next will receive a
ticket in the April distribution
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subscription trice
Weekly Gazkitk one 81 50
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f
Address all orders with moneyorders
postal note or currency o
Democrat Puiiusiiixg Co
Fort Worth Tex
A cooNTKurKiT 820 silvercertificate
purporting to be of the series of 18S0 is
In circulation It is not a dangerous
counterfeit as the paper is thick and
greasy while taxes on the back is
spelled tares and engraved en
gravod The note is shorter too than
the genuine and there are other ways
of recognizing it which a little care will
notice
Ir the Knight i Labor wiffitjo see
how rapidly warderthatboasts a mitten
tjuld displace Air Powderly and substi
for his conservative methods a rad
leadership It is possible to so gov
rn arufdirect such au order as to make
a menace to law and or er and public
peace and if ever this is done on a na
tional scale as it has been done on local
fields the order will go down before a
popular sentiment which though it may
crystalize slowly at times is always irre
sistible
The tics that bind the great Pan
handle of Texas and Fort Worth
will be strengthened by time and
closer connection From away up
in the vast Northwest comes this greeting
to Fort Worth through the Tascosa Pion
eer Tascosa sends greeting to Fort
Worth Another New Year is likely to
seethe queen cities of their respective
sections joined together by bands of iron
as well as of good fellowship and mutual
interests The day is coming fast when
this Panhandle will be dotted with fair
farms and happy homes with towns and
cities with the white schoolhouse and
the belfryed church then will the grand
domain that now feeds immense herds
for a few Individuals support instead a
multiplicity of smaller interests then
will law order and whitewinged peace
light with their beneficent rays the remot
est quarters and then will the pen be ac
knowledged as m ghtitr than the pistol
To Fort Worth enterprise and to its own
latent natural advantages the Panhandle
will be indebted and for both those
causes this section will acknowledge its
gratitude to the respective sources
Texas seems to he demandhg legisla
tion that will require much more time
than it pays its lawmakers 83 a day for
Economy is a good thing it is necessary
to success but there is economy and
economy The best men in Texas cannot
afford to give up their private business to
attend to that of the public and the re
sult is a demand for a class of work
which the state does not pay for
and which it seldom gets Bi
nially the work is patched because
ue state pays only for patchwork
Texas has no reason to complain
of the legislative work it receives for it
really gets better w rk than It pays for
and the periodical howl that goes up on
the adjournment of each legislature has
its cause in the Kutabagaism which is
dignified with the name of economy The
parsimony of the people in dealing with
their lawmakers enables class interests
to send able representatives to the legis
lature who control and lead and mislead
the representatives of the whole people
simply because brains always rule Such
economy as we have in Texas doesnt se
cure brains to any alarming extent end
class interests which always hire the
best thrive and prosper in proportion to
the economy which governs the people
in their employment of men to frame
laws It would require bix months to
properi ierform the work which seems
I hfiHindcd of the Twentieth legisla
ture by the people and there are some
measures asked for with which probably
not more than onebalf of the members
are thoroughly qualified to deal
It can hardly be expected that whisky
drinkers would favor any process to elim
inate the drunk from alcohol in its various
euises A New York chemist it is said
has perfected such a process but it
meets with no favor from prohibitionist
or partaker The former readily sees his
occupation gone when liquor becomes
innoxious and as for the latter no one
ever saw that man who drinks because he
likes it The invariable assertion is that
he drinks for the effect and whisky with
out the drune would make one neither
rich nor happy
TnE demand for Panhandle lands
grows with every spadcfull of dirt thrown
up by the Fort Worth and Denver Rail
way in its onward march to the Canadi
an The Ilardeman County News says
Col J W Lanem Son of Austin
sold 20000 acres a few days ago for 830
000 cash The Houston and Texas Cen
tral Railway Company sold 15000 at 82 75
per acre within a week If you want to
buy rich landscheap as an investment or
for a home you had better come this
way sion The settlement of the Pan
handle means good to Fort Worth
APOINTER FOB BUOTIIEB BLAINE
In several Southern states but notably
Alabtnia Arkanas and Mississippi there
are held annual fairs conducted by asso
ciations vi hose members are colored men
negroes t put it pat Tne associa
tions own suitable grounds and oulld
ings award liberal premiums and the
exhibits are always expensive and credit
able everything exhibited being the re
sult of negro industry and ingenuity
These annual exhibitions are heartily en
couraged and attended by the white peo
ple thus assuring the negro of the kindly
interest felt by the dominant race in the
progress and welfare of the weaker The
success of the state fairs under the aus
pices of colored men has paved the way
to a movement for a Colored Peoples
Worlds Fair deigntd to illustrate the
progress and capacity of the racs on the
American continent but open to the ne
groes of every land It is significant that
the movement does not have its origin in
the North where the ni gro has enioyrd
freedom for more than a half century but
in a Southern state where the free negro
of today was chattel property less than
a quarter of a century ago The idea is
to hold the exposition at Birmingham
Ala in the autumn of 1SS7 and the two
senators from that state both of them
white men and Democrats will ask
congress for aid in the 6hape of an ap
propriation or loan as was the case when
the great expositions were held at Phila
delphia and New Orleans Wnen the
matter is brought up it will be seen that
Southern Democrats in congress will be
its most staunch advocates for these men
have ever been the negros truest friends
If there is opposition to the measure it
an crumble to pieces thc wttnAHPC from Republicans of the Blaine
stripe who do not want to admit that the
negro has prospered and advanced in the
Southern states vmfifcr Democratic iue
It will be gall and wormwood forUrother
Blaine filling his sails with wind for looS
the spectacle of the downtrodden ignor
ant negro in the South making prepara
tions to hold a negroes worlds fair
According to politicians of the Blaine
school the Southern negro has not been
able to make any progress and therefore
there isnt anything to illustrate If the
Blaine crowd can prt vent it this under
taking will not get a dollar from congress
at least until the next presidential elec
tion is well over The Gazette hopes
congress will take a liberal view
of the matter and extend aid as
may seem appropriate and needed
There is plenty of idle money
in the national treasury and if a hundred
or two thousand dollars will put the
project on foot let the negroes have it and
welcome The South 3oes not desire to
place any impediment in the way of the
colored man in his ascent to a higher
plane of moral mental and industrial use
fulness On the contrary the representa
tive sentiment of the South rather takes
pride and gratification in every well
ordered ligitimate advance the colored
race is able to make Twentytwo years
of freedom have wrought a great change
in the status of the Southern negro and
all thiugs considered he has made won
derful and creditable progress The pro
posed exposition can be made very inter
esting and helpful Its results will stim
ulate the negro and strengthen the white I
man in his friendliness and respect for the
negros efforts And finally it will show
to the world that the superior race in the
South while determined to preserve its
supremacy because it must do so in self
defence has yet given the negro every ad
vantage cr opportunity he could ask to
work out the problem of selfelevation as
an individual and a citizen
A PUBLIC CALAMITT 4
Secton 50 of article third of the con
stitution of Texas provides that The
legislature shall have no power to make
any grant or authorize the making of any
erant of public money to any individual
association of individuals municipal or
other corporation whatsoevpr proriled
that this shall not be so construed as to
prevent the grant of aid in case of pub
lic calamity The state of Texas should
promptly investigate the truth of the
statements made by law officers of cer
tain counties and as promptly act
There is warrant for action and if there
is occasion for it action should be taken
These people are not mendicants and
they are not paupers but they are citi
zens and taxpayers A public calamity
has overtaken them as surely a public
calamity as if their fields had
been swept by fire or rent
by earthquake They need help
to live and help tra help themselves A
mere provision cow for the winter with
no means to plant again and again to
reap where they were sowing and reap
TJF
ing when the calamity came upon them
will leave them months hence as help
less as they are now
The Gazette does not urge the au
thorities of Texas to believe news
paper reports nor does it expect the
state to act upon them but The Ga
zette does urge upon the slate authori
ties to promptly investigate in their own
way the truth of the reports given to
newspapers by honored citizens of the
stricken counties and which are borne to
the authorities by accredited representa
tives of the people who are snffering
from a public calamity and if the truth
should demonstrate that the occasion
for action exists let the action be worthy
of a state to rich and so great as Texas
If there is suffering from a public
calamity the state will not only perform
its duty in relieving it but such official
relief will be such official location and
explanation of the calamity that no ex
acgerations will gain public credence to
the detriment of any section of Texas
SUFFEBING IN THE WEST
The Gazette prints today further tes
timony of the actual condition of the
west in the shape of resolutions adopted
in a public meeting at Palo Pinto The
state of Texas and its people 6hould face
the truth of this matter regardless of the
natural resentment at mischievous exag
gerations There is privation and want
in certain counties that demand immedi
ate relief and the truth concerning it
should be told in the interest of suffering
humanity The truth will not only result
in giving bread to those who need it but
it will extract the mischief from any ex
aggeration But for the wholesale false
hood that people in Texas were suffer
ing by the hundreds of thousands those
who were actuated by selfish interests
would not have been able to create the
Impression that no suffering at all ex
isted But the truth is being made mani
fest and just as The Gazette insisted
in the outset there is suffering which
imperatively calls for immediate aid but it
is limited to ceitain counties and in those
counties was due to special conditions
Some time prior to the Albany conven
tion the proceedings of which were
printed in The Gazette Sunday this
paper instituted an inquiry in certain
western counties for the truth regard
less of consequences The resolution
requesting Thk Gazette to print the
Albany resolutions was due to the knowl
edge of the members of the convention
that this paper was seeking the truth the
whole t uth and nothing but the
truth concerning the effects of the
drouih in certain counties The
testimony of the Albany convention has
been so far supplemented in The Ga
zette by reports of Mr B L Ornck
from Stephens county and of Mr G II
Ciozierfrom Young county
Inspired by Tun Gazettes request for
the truth and all the truth Mr Crozier
of Graham investigated the matter and
found that 150 families in his county are
in destitute circumstances witn out means
of support and who can get no employ
ment And Mr Crozie adds The
Gzktte correspondent sas no prejudice
or bias in the affair but until now be
lieved with many others hat the reports
of the condition of the drouth sufferers
in Young county had been greatly ex
aggerated Wjat Mr Crozier 6ays of
himself is true of hundreds of others in
the Tery counties
where the destitution
existed but day by day as
the signs of
the distress became more apparent the
truth forced itself on men and although
perilously late movements were inaugu
rated to ask that aid which the people of
the counties were no longer able to ren
der their destitute neighbors
Yesterday It E Hendry county Udge
of Palo Pinto county and formerly mem
ber of Hhe legislature from Ch < ro
kee county was in Fort Worth
en route to Austin in behalf of the suffer
ers A Gazette representative sought
and obtained an interview with Judge
Hendry that lasted several hours The
Gazette presuming on the personal
friendship that existed asked for the
truth its details and the proofs of it
Judge Hendry freely admitted that he
with very many others did not credit the
first reports of the snffering in his own
county but when he took his place as
county judge the truth came to him in a
way that left no doubt and he was aston
ished at the details of a want whose very
existence he at first doubted And the
recital of those details by the earnest
county judge of Palo Pinto would move
a stone to pity although he made
no effort to excite emotion but sim
ply to answer fully the at times critical
interrogatories put to him Judge Hen
dry was a participant in the Albany con
vention and during its session made brief
notes of statements from each delegate
concerning the situation in his county
Tnese notes the judge was persuaded to
leave with The Gazette and he in
formed us that the statements from each
county were submitted by county judges
and commissioners as the Albany con
vention would entertain none but official
report
In Palo Pinto county there was raised
300 bales of cot on and 1500 bushels of
corn last year no wheat and oats at all
being harvested The granaries groan
ing with the accumulations of the past
were rapidly exhausted by the demands
of a failure so general throughout the
county and tlnse who were able to help
their less fortunate neighbors are no
longer able to do so The surplus in the
barns melted away under the needs
created by a drouth of from twelve to
eighteen months duration and those citi
zens of Palo Pinto especially who were
paying annually for homes or living on
rented lands are in sore need of imme
diate aid the few who usually could
provide farm wbrk are powerless
to do so as the continued dronth
prevents farm work and the situation daily
grows more serious 250 families in that
county being now unable to provide for
themselves or remove to localities where
work might be procured
T ± iJi MEEKLY GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS FftDlAY JANUARY 7
Gazette puts the number of destitute
families as follows Callahan 50 Parker
100 Taylor 200 Palo Pinto 250 Cole
man 150 Jack 300 Stephens 350 Run
nels 2C0 Jones 225 Shackelford 150
Haskell 30 Young 150 Brown 400
Eastland 500 j Comanche 4C0 to 500 No
an 50 Fisher 75 to 100 Eratb 150
Martin 10 Hardeman 150
To place the proper construction upon
the appeal for aid and to comprehend why
such appeal is made beyond county
boundaries an acquaintance with the
various counties is necessary In long
settled and thickly populated sections an
appeal for aid beyond county Imits would
be regarded as discreditable but even
rich and densely populated counties
would find the burdens of a drouth con
tinuous for twelve or eighteen months
rather onerous and such misfortune falls
witf crushing effect on sections newly
settled and populated in the main by poor
people who sought in the outermost coun
ties to do what men have been
doing for fifty years in Texas viz mak
ing homes and contributing to the devel
opment and growth and greatness of the
state
It was very unfortunate for the suffer
ing people that exaggerations on the one
hand prcvoked exaggerations on the
ether it was equally unlortunate that in
some instances local committees scting
without concert or method were imposed
on Now however those who are able
and willing to aid the destitute can do so
in the confidence that theii generosity
will not be in danger of misplacement
for the Albany convention of county
judges systematically arranged for the
deposition of all contributions
Texis is able to aid these peopie and
Texas should do it and do it prompt
ly These people are not in need
because of any act of theirs but be
cause of a calamity which no human
effort could avert The long continued
drouth has emptied the granaries of
some of these counties as clean as
though the land had been desolated by
fire or earthquake There is need and
there is suffering and in some of the
counties it is urgent for In some locali
ties men look upon wives and children
without food save that which is
stintedly given by neighbors d
themselves look to the future with
serious alarm Strong men tvho would
go away to other localities in search of
work dread to leave wives and babies in
the little homes wittout bread Men who
have homes paid lor grow desperate and
consider whether they shell carry their
helpless families to the county site and
lave them as paupers to be cared for
while they seek work and money and
brefd wherever among other communi
ties it may be found AH these counties
are not suffering in the same degree and
to the same extent but there is general
need and in some a privation so intense
that without aid without some recogni
tion of a common humanity there miy go
out to the world a story of more bitter
shame end ercater hurt to the state than
auy lie which has exaggerated in the past
the tale of snffering in West Texas from
the drouth
Congress and the Surplus
Ihllidclpbla Record
The vote in the house on the proposi
tion to consider revenue measures shows
tint there is a vtry narrow majority who
are not prepared to consider any bill for
revising the tariff at this session The
129 Republicans aud twentyfive nominal
Democrats but actual Republicans who
voted agftiat Mr Morrisouj motion can
hardly afford to lit the matter stand
where thir action cf Saturday
places it It is admitted on all sides
and by all parties that the reduction of
taxation is neiesary The surplus which
will accumulate in the nrxt fiscal year
will be < qual to the ordiniiy i xpense of
the government Alter pr vidmg for
faxed charges growing out < f the war debt
etc 82 is taken fiom the pockets of the
people wnere ouiy 81 is needed If this
money shall be allowed to accumulate in
the treasury it will bring about a ruinous
contraction of the currencj aud derange
all buines except the bu iness of specu
lators who fefd upon the mistakes and
misfortunes of their fellowmen Cer
tainly the responsible majority of
the house who ore not willing to
discuss the moderate tariff bill of
Mr Morrisonare bound to present some
other feasible measure of tax reduc
tion apon which hey may agree The
proper method undoubtedly would have
been to take up the Morrison Dili and so
amend it as to meet the views of the ma
jority Failing to do that Mr Randall
and his Republican following are respon
sible to the country for some adequate
provision for the flscxl emergency in
which the government finds itself V the
short session shall be ullowed to
come to an end without definite action
for the relief of the treasury it may be
necessary to call the new congress to
gether for the purpose of reducing taxa
tion
Well Adnp eil to Bobbery v
Detroit Xewe
When the duty of 73 cents per ton was
put on soft coal it was said to be neces
sary because miners wages are higher in
this country than Canada or Europe The
mine owners asked for the duty in order
that they might pay higher wages to the
miners The deep Interest of the pro
tected mine owners in the welfare of the
miners is shown by the fact that the
miners only received 50 cents per ton for
mining while tne duty is 73 cents per
ton After forcing wages down be
low the point at which the Amer
ican miner coud live Hungarians
and Poles were imported to take their
places anc force wages still lower The
coal combination has just advanced the
price of coal 40 cents per ton nut the
protected mine owners refused to give
the miners an advance of 5 cents per ton
With a protective tariff to keep out for
eign coal the coal ring pnt up the price
of coal and with free trade in miners
they keep wages dovvn to the point at
which the most povertystricken foreigner
will work It is a tine arrangement for
the coal monopolists cheap labor and
dear coal The tariff enables the coal
combinations to rob the consumers with
one hand and the laborers with the other
Profits of Ironlien
Pertinent to the present discussionSQf
the ji x
tariff duty of 75 cents
ore the New York rening
colloquy that took place in the ways and
means committee between Mr Abram S
Hewitt and a witness brought in by Hlje
iron mine owners to swear down the
> t proflts of iron mining Mr Hewitt had
iot to amplify this pitiful story the Lsked tbe witntsg lf the profltg on iron
best information as yet attainable by The J mining in the Lake Superior district were
not ss much as much as 75 cents per ton
Witness thought not but could not say
positively Were thev not as much
as 81 per ton Witness felt
very sure that they were not
Were they not as much as 8125
or 8150 or 175 or 2 per ton At the
last figure the witness struck bottom atid
was ready to swear that they were not 82
per ton Well said Mr Hewitt I
am a director in a Lake Superior iron
mine and I tell you that we never sold a
ton of irdn ore on which we did not leal
ize a net profit of at least S2 When
this came out It was classed in the gen
eral category of Mr Hewitts misrepre
sentations but nobody ever called for
the production of the books of the com
pany
WILL EESEFIT THE SOUTH
Interstate Agricultural Convention ntrnke
tiliarlre
Gov McEaery of Louisiana has issued
a call for an interstate convention in the
interest of stockraising dairying fruit
growing and general agriculture to be
held at Lake Charles La on the 22d
23d and 24h of February 1SS7
The convention will De formally opened
on Wednesday morning after tne close of
Mardi Gras
One of the most noteworthy indica
tions of the great industrial progress of
the Gu7f States is the marked attention
of their public men to agriculture and
the efforts they are making to bring the
theory and the methods of agriculture in
those states into harmony with the teach
ings of science and the highest demands
of a progressive civilization Nature has
been prodigal of her gifts to the state of
Louisiana For fertility of soil salu
brious climate and for great variety of
products Louisiana ranks among the
most favored countries of the globe
Gov McEnery has shown commendable
wi dom in thut giving the weight of his
official influence to call a convention
wliich cannot ftil tz be of inestimable
value to the farm interest of that state
and the country generally We trust it
may be widely noticed by the press ard
that the results may be all the people an
ticipate
This convention is so called that excur
sionists can remain in NewOrleans till
the close of Mardi Gras andtaKe the train
for Like Charles on Tuesday evening
Full mfoi mation in regard to the con
vention and the low rates of transporta
tion can be obtaind by addressing the
secretary S A Knait
Like Charles La
A huge derrickpole fell and severely
injured ths foot of mechanical engineer
V R Hoyt at tliS JV Orleans Exposi
tion and after osljT e applications of
St Jacobs Oil ajtna sjvelling and pain
disappeared jjjr
Tttafion and Ditons Line
The Chicago ilall
To tub Editor How and where did
the term Mason aud Dixons Line or
iginate and where did it extend from
A SuuscRinui
It originated in a dispute b tween Lord
Baltimore and William Ptnn regari ing
the boundary line of Peuns additional
grant from the crown In 1082 Pent
came to America himself to assist his
agents in establishing his claim Lord
Baltimore dbputtd the line and an arbi
tration was agreed upon Cnarles Mason
and James Dixon mathematicians and
survejors of London wire mutually
agreed upon by tne descendants of the orig
mal patentee They begin their work in
17C4 and Unlbhed it in 1707 It was sub
stantially the line that separates Mary
land the Baltimore grant from Pennsjl
vania the Penn grant The lnr ran
Hiong the parallel of latitude 39 43 2G 3
It settled the dissensions that had pre
vailed fur eighty years The line was
resurveyed in 1849 and found to be nearly
correct Ma > on and Dixon surveyed
westward 244 miles At each fifth mile a
stone was erected engraved with the
Baltimore arms on one side and those of
Penn on the other Smiiler stones were
placed at each mle
There is a popular belit f that the Mason
and Dixon Hue was the dividing line be
tween the free and the slave states This
is not the case Delaware was a slave
stale and it lies both tast and north of
the liue The corapromie slave line was
agreed on in 1820 and fixed the northern
limit of such Mave states as should be ad
mitted into the Union Iu the original
federation the free and slave line was at
latitude 361 30
The peculiar projec ioa of Virginia
now Cf West Virginia kno n as the
Panhandle was caused by the Mason
and Dixon survey The separatirg line
betwei n the Muve and free states became
known as Mason and Dxons line be
cause of contiguity to thcotiginal survey
Tho blrcst thnj out 1 Salvation Oil
klll all pln en cost nU 25 cents a bottle
It
A botie of Dr liuliytJo gh syrap will often
save large doctor bills Price 2D cmts
a
GreriH ountj Lands
Itclton Journal
John M Swisher and others give no
lice in an Autin paper that application
will be made to the legislature for the
passaee of an act to validate the itle to
all lands in Gre r county whlcn have been
locaed or patented by virtue of veteran
certificates for land issued under the act
ot March 15 1881 To do this the legis
lature would virtually have to repeal the
act of February 28 1870 which appropri
ated the public domain in Greer county
to the public schools and to pay the pub
lic drbt Tnese veteran certificates are
understood to have passed into the hands
of the land speculators who went into
Greer county and located on land that
they knew will enouiih had been set aside
for other purposes It is trua that Mr
Walsh land commissioner gave them his
indorsement but it is aNo t ue th t Mr
Walsh was dtfeated for renomination
by the last Democratic state conven
tion and it wa3 this vcrv thing that
brought about his defeat The attorney
gen ral and district Judge Walker flold
that the patents on these lands are ille
gal and we belirvc tint the l > g siature
will so hold and tnat John M SvHher
and o hers will have praye 1 iu vain In
the meantime it is not yet determined
whether Gr er county belongs to Texas
or to the United States If Tfsas should
validat these claims of Mr SwNher and
others and if Greer county should event
uallv pass to the United State3 then we
suppose a claim would come up against
tne state for lo s sustained on the basis
that it should make good its own trans
actions Viewing thi matter from all
standpoint and taking into consideration
all the interests involved we are forced
to the conclusion that the legislature can
not in jus ice to the whole people grant
the petition of Mr Swisher and others in
any particular wnatever
j
j
Safcvpenr > anent and complete are the
cnresvofKMlious and intermittent dis
ease sae by Prickly Ash Bitters Dys
pepsfiy genera 1 debility habitual consti
tlonriiveri
i > n < complaints are
per ton tts ixop Wdifr eracjicated frim the yftern ijt
Post recalls a < jisinfMtsr cleanses nd jelfminate ajj
inalarfi HKolth faritV viijior are iSfalnett
more apidly ndjierfiiahentiy hjptheustf
oftiis great natural antidote than by any
other remedy heretofore knotvn As a
blood purifier and tonic it brings health
renewed energy and vitality to a worn
1 and diseased bodyv
THE ERA OF CHEAPNESS
A Dollar Will Now Bar More Goods i
Stores thau Ever Before
Chicago Herald
This is indeed tne era of cheapness
said a State street merchant to a reporter
for the Herald there neve was a time
when so much in goods and so much in
real value could be got for a dollar as
now Even people not in trade must havs
observed this Aud they have certainly
noticed alo that the variety of useful
articles made and sold at these low prices
is so great that it could not have been
dreamed of ten years ago even by the
most prophetic Ic seemtd a year ago
that the limit had been reachtd
but we are now carrying in our
housefurnishing department at least 1000
more articles than we had at this time
last year Next December 1 suppose we
will nave a thousand more than we are
now carrying The cheapness of most < f
these goods considering their quality is
really amazing Right here at my hand I
happen to have a circular sent out by an
Eastern jobbing house giving prices on
all these goods I want to show you the
vast varietv and quantity of stuff as small
a sum as 8G0 willbuy nowadays Why
with that amount of money one coubi
start a respectable notion store in a small
city Just glance your eyes over this
list and remember thnt tne whole lot
may be purchased for 8C0
cents
dozen thermometers 7lnch iapnanned rc
labe Si
1 dozen bread knives warranted T >
1 dozen nickel tablespoons good for years KJ
1
oozen stieutR No 3 pidUtii d blades t td
1 cozen iatt aus break their back 5
1 dozen glass caps and saucers nlco for chil
dren V
1 doien cblna toothpick stands
x
1 itojeug od strong Jackknives Kff
1 d z nwoudpl cs bentsemrabbermouth
Pl ce S4
1 dozen ladles handkerchief colored bor
der 75
1 d zenbottlss liquid pine S3
I dozen haibrnshes Rood stick 74
1 dozen mustra cups 75
I dozen colored gl ss salt shakers 11
1 rioti n Ulchtcr ha uionlcas 10key biaes
llned v ftf
1 doien < nlf buttons lever gold plate stono
settings
1 doztn watch chains
1 dozen opaVb rd btfi pare transparent 1i
1 dozen Imiamlng musical topn r7
1 dozen pints hose fancy
1 dozen ladleshose solid colors f Gi
1 dozen suspenders mens blze JStebhss
1 elatie 78
1 dozn Tnkcyrec hamikfrchlefa 49
1 dozen Mwcls II en 15x35 SS
1 dozen shoe Iimehej One soft stock S7
1 do en glaz eis brushes wltn brLtlcs is
1 dozen rptctaclcsassorted numbers 73
1 dozen pencil holders 70
1 doicn gravy stralmrs 7D
1 dozen piece pans for puddings 70
1 do en rou d combs fane toi 67
1 dozen rocoashaped dippers 70
liozcnmat hs < es nlctlefprlngcover 0
1 do < en lamp burners btst quality 7a
ldo7capa Ing card eWtrtc guod 70
I dozen blank books6i b 7J bi
1 dozen c inmciclal note paper 00
1 dZn letterpdp 8b 10 foity sheets 78
1 dozenmir or bottle pifuni i
1 Uizen cake fin toilet soap 72
1 d < zcn t o ftot ruler jointed with bras 72
I dozen bovrl strainers large and usef al 77
1 doztli Eoxgles 78
1 3oz nfrjingp ri8 SJ
1 deen hindomcly bound scrap books SS
1 dozen rubber line c mbs CO
1 dozen rubber dreslng comb Inch 15
1 i ozen shovels iOlnch hoi ov handle 75
1 dozen wire p it cleaners 7 >
I doz n spring balances weigh to 24 lbs SO
1 doen footcrapersoiien pattern 75
1 dozen lmchrta wood handle 72
1 dozen carpenter hamm re full size bronze
h ad S3
1 dozen eirg beater turn trlth crank CJ
1 dozrn turry combs SI
1 uoen she f bmdcu 46 7S
1 dozen trays hljrhlv Japanned 12Inch 12
1 barr 1 of glasuwar co tatnlng 20 dozen
fancy tumblers butcrdlstusmtlk pitchers
oblo g dltdics etc 2 donn to each s lie
per dozen 33
20dozn cmller articles I dozen each ot
snail oucls Tuikey red naplln nickel
teaspoons shcirs hammers screw drivers
pans etc aveia Ing per dozen CJ
Here are sixtythree dozen of
articles usually sold at re
tail in Chicago for from 3 to 12
cents each and forty dozm articlet
uually sold here for from I to G cents
each There are in all more than 1200
articles so that the avtrage wholesale
cost for the whole list is less thm 3 cents
per article I speak whereof I know
when I say that ten years tgo these 1200
article s could not have beeu puichased at
reail fur lcs than 830Or and possibly
8350 would hard been nti rer th actual
cost even in Ciicago JSow S90 or 93
will buy the whole lot at retail in any of
the arger stores in ihis city tuongn in
the counry the same assortment would
probably bring twice as much
The point I make is that people do
not appreciate the cheapness of many
thousands of articles of necrsslty and
convenience They do not seem to rtal
ize what modern ingenuity and skill in
the prfiction of laoorsaxinn devices
have done for them How is it do you
suppose that manufacturers of theomom
eters are able o make their ares ami
sell them at a figure which enables the
j ibber to list them t 84 cents a d jpv
7 cents a piece Only a few yeaT
ago you could not buy any sort
of a thermometer for leas tnarKJjk
or 40 cents Think of glass hautt
lamps nine inches high patent tiirnfes >
burn for twelve hours wick and u1j Com <
plete at 1G cents apiece or of ftChrys
lalized water ewer and basin a reilly
beautiful ware elegantly decorated in
high colors on a crystalized background
for 72 c nts Glassware is amazin lv
cheap Torty cents will boy a prettj col
eired glass water set haif gallon pitcher
and six goblets to mach Ten year ago
soblets like the e would have been worth
20 cents apiece and the pucker 75 You
can buy a good clock for 95 cents a re
liable watch for 2 24 and a warranted
firstclass 22 caliber rickvl plated re
volver rifled oarr 1 sevenshooter for
GO cents Think of spectacles just sucn
as are worn by thousandsof peotile at
44 cents a dozen pair In a ctiilcry es
tablishment on Madison street I was
shown a knife raaiked S2 w dch I can
buy in the trade at 84 20 a d zn
Perhaps tbe cheapest thiDg to be found
along all State street is a blown glass
colored polkadot s It sinker with a
genuine silver tripleplated top so close
a facsime of a shaker which Tiffany
selb in his New York sore at 82 each
that I dont believe Tifftny hims If could
tell the difference the State street price
bving ten cent and even at that there is
a fair profit left the wholesale price be
ing only eiubty cents a dozen Tiffany
must be thriving
IIAIU ON 1UK1IERS
The Fertilizers Propose to Inflict Grevlong
ISurriens on Georgian
Atlanta Ga Dec 31 Lively times
ere in store for the farmers of Georgia
who are about to be placed under the ban
by the Fertilizers exchange of Baltimore
Sir Brady introduced a bill in the house
to provide for pleading and proving
failure of consideration of any promis
sory note or other instrument
in writing given for commercial
fertilizers guanos or manures It was
read the first time and then laid over un
til the summer session Three huudred
copies were ordered printed for the ne
of tbe house One of these copies fell
into the hands of a guano dealer and was
sejrt by him to Mr Robert Ober presi
cTeht of the Baltimore Fertilizers ex
change The bill provides
That any purchaser of commercial fer
tilizers guanos or manures who shall
give a promissory note or any other in
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1 dozn pickages bird seed JlUf
1 dozen rchool utge seamless 12 Inch i
1 dozen kid purses French kid ball cas JSja
1 cozen whlskbroom holders leaijiu covij
cred if < fcT S5
1 dozen Ghook hat rtck perlcctlf mado 5
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nailed Pon < nxtrtict Ointment
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pecUlsH lthoTfttyinjifit Qgrid hllnsclf la
three iponQwHrid since then n wlreds of oth
crsj ull particulars senton application
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CHICHESTERS ENGLISH
The Qtiginnjl nd Only Tienufne
P fe aadftlTirfcfU HxiBwrer wotthllizdtt4 n
lndUrcu > be to Lrt iES AL r l > rurillV tor
C Iche tcri nXIHa Vt M i t or mua I e
sjmmprttfrui for pintculsr tx1a yptturn mall
NAMEPAPEIC IhlchMtMChfmlriiCo
jr LS J Uudlnn rviuarr Ililnidu la
f orcrywherr Ait frr Clilcilt
XeuMfrojnl PHI Jak no om r
strument In writing 1 rta taiut jinay
p ead and prove when sued in iny court
iu this state a failure ot coiisidentlcn
of said instrumpnt when said fertilizer
guanos or manures have pr ven worth
less or of no practical value That no
waiver of warranty or any niher walVer
promise agnement condition or under
taking expressed in any promissory note
or other instrument in writiug given for
commercial fertilizer guanos or ma
nures shall defeat the tight of the maker
thereof to plead and prove a failure of
the consideration of the same Thatno
aasfer of any promisoy note or oihtr in
strument in writing given for commer
cial fertilizers guanos or manures to
any person claiming to be an innocent
purchaser without or holding the same
under aay contract or agreement shkll
defeat the right of the maker thereof to
plead or prove a failure of the considera
tion oftbe 6ame
t
When Mr Ober read the bill he at once
ct me to Georgia and called on Gov Gor
don and urged him nol to sisn the bill
should the general assembly pass it
Gov Gordon refused to commit nimself
in advance of the nctiph of the general
assembly Within the last few days it
has developed that dealers in guano
iu all parts of tne state and out of it arj
bitterly opposed to the bill TTfej rjj
ciare that it will simply sffjrd a oophol
by which V3hone t putcht ers rnay es
cape piiDg for whatever fertilizers t hef
may buy They insist that the fertilizer
sold by them are not worthle s bnt shoul
a purchaser swear to the contrary theri
would bo little or no means of establish4
i g their worth Mr ober says that if tAi
bill becomes a law oil deal rs in gua nj
will be driven out tf the ate He ss5l
further that they will rtfdaG to sell
anybody except for cash It is wellj
known that as a rule farmers buy fertil
izers on credit Tne majority of them
rt unable to do otherwle It they are
compelled to pay cash they either cannot
bay or will be forced to reduce the quan
tity used In any event they will suffer
serious inconvenience It is likely that
another complication will result It isj
intimted that dialers inguino will noS
wait to see whether the general assembly
will pas it but they will taite no riksi
ad will refuse to sell next spring UDjflt
for cash If the dtah rs should pursue
this course there will be a wondeifal
revolution in the methods of Georgia
farmers
A L
Itjp Voltaic Bolt Vof iKarshnll Bitch
Will send their celebrated Yoltaic Belt
aud Electric Appliances onf Shirty days
trial tb any nn yomig or < jriiddle Ecdj
l03sittf
afflicted KitjuervorjL debiW
trOlt Iiipkpfnerv rqoifiti v5g f a
otlfer diseases Thpfeatest remedii
agent ever dlcovrrcfji Write to the
for Illustrated pamphlet fr qi No risk
incurred as thirty diys trial tfl allowed
JA disorderert livpr s tri l n6 Bf life
JteKe Morriii Cariarmejji i restore lis
condition
alfr
J8u
Why Girls Dont Marry
Boston Herald
A prominent woman phyniclan of Bos
ton has freely expressed her conviction
that the great superiority la culture of so
many of the young girls o today over
tnat of the average men who go early
Into business exerts one TeryjJa < I
effect namely that these young girli do
no want to marry snch men TheB is
no doubt a greet deal of truth in tne
statement In fact in other deprK
ments it has always been noticedthat ine
of the standing ill effcc of > thevculttie t
sayof flowershas been to make its votir
prefer a tea rose to a head of cabbage
of music to prefer a harmonious orcheS
tra to a discordant street band or of rJ
liglon to prtfer piety lo profanity
Now there is no reason why the ruli
should not wcrk equal y in tbe ca eof marl
riage The maximum that any husband
is better thau no husband bad once al
great deal of trnth in it fur the condition
of the unmarried woman was in byaoncj
days a forlorn one She cquld no monf
help growing sour than milk ia a thunder
storm Any and every woman with thel
most insignificant sprig of a husband
could turn np her nosejat her and ern
oody a weight of publie opinion in her I
contemptuous attitude that few single
unfortunates could have the di nfty and
self respect to stand up against Today
however the scales tip the other way
with a vengeance
Dr DromgcwIes rEnglish Female
Bitters is not a bprtae but a powerful
uterine tonic anair ulator adafAjd to
the complaints ami troubles to whi h the
ladies of the SojEn are sMJi
To bn Senator trutu
Carson JTev Jan 5
legislative caucus yesterdi1
William M Stewart as no
United State senator The b
senator will take place Tuesd
as the legislature is
Stewarts election is assure
ua
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