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THE PROGRESS
0. D. nICKS, Ed. and Prop.
ihreveport, - - - i
rtFlriosG of the proposcd intern. neght
tional yacht race--here's hoping the whom
best boat will win, always provided about
that the best boat flies the colors of 'possu
good old Uncle Sam. two oi
wives
TI'EREi are 1,995 men and sixty-nine their 1
women in the Missouri penitentiary.. of the
There may be more women than men mone}
in heaven, but if it wasn't for the men ter he
the bird cages would hold the crim- ed pe
inals of the country. Later
__ ~ der in
OF the eleven thousand vessels that ed in
passed through the Suez canal in the killed
last three years, just six, or two a negro
year, had the American flag flying. other
This is a humiliating truth, but one alarm
well for Americans to know. he co
to fine
A TREE discovered in Africa yields to be
a grain for bread and a fatty substance At
that is an excellent substitute for but- railrc
ter. The explorer who has seen it is them
a truthful man, and mentions no fruit lRecei
on its branches to serve for jam. car it
__ __ _ _ --_ Fruit
A NEW YORK morning paper, which guish
is somewhat boastful of its specials ment
from the seat of war in China, gives car v
a circumstantial account, with numer- the
ous diagrams, of the naval battle bales
fought off the mouth of the Yalu river '
nearly two months ago. As an effort ing
at historical exposition it is a success. other
As a sample of dispatch in news- boat,
gathering it is not. the r
ance
THE flint-glass workers say they and I
have $50,000 in their treasury, but in- ing c
stead of using it to support strikers fortu
in idleness they propose to turn it in lived
as part of the capital to start a co- ed m
operative factory to give them em- Or
ployment. Whether the enterprise at N
proves successful or otherwise it stops
peans business. The other course ing
would mean premeditated indolence. 'Thor
piste
REPORTS on the success of small cias
fruit farming for jams and jellies, im- lodg
pressed on English farmers by Mr. righ
Gladstone, should be studied in this Wa1
country. Lands in England on which
men could not live as raisers of stock,
grain, hay and roots have been made 111 a
exceedingly profitable by cultivating Ore
strawberries,raspberries,gooseberries, ,ent
red, white and black currants and n'
such like. g35
LIEUTENANT HALPIN Of the United dena
States navy has greatly simplified, if the
not solved, the coast defense problem on f
by inventing a curious little infernal G
machine. He can turn the torpedo at sugI
the rate of twelve knots an hour firm
through the water, attack a ship miles Mis
away and steer the torpedo back to whc
the point whence it started. If this and
marine monster is reliable, fortifica- will
tions are of secondary Id slight im- chu
portance. wat
ABOUT all that can be said of the
Baltimore jeweler who was taken in the
by two crooks in the sale of spurious Fra
'.. ornaments is that he was engaged in t"w
a get-rich-quick flyer that had the and
usual termination. In these days re- for1
liable dealers are not selling any goods slig
atihalf their value. The fact that they fine
_ were offered very cheap should in f
Itself have convinced the purchaser Em
that at least some or them were Rot
spurious. of]
but
THERE has been talk in New York car
of moving canal boats by trolley as cel
soon as the great motors at Niagara
Falls are started up, but this idea has det
been partly anticipated in France by me
the application of storage batteries. De
which send the canal boats along at a a
Sspeed of two and a half miles an hour. bd
SThe trolley is about to be introduced
2, on one French canal, and the current
will be generated by the feed water of We
the different levels. a
A 12-YEAR-OLD boy, Freddie Griffith, th
lies on a sick bed at Montclair, N. J.,
? with 2,000 grafts of skin from other
persons eon his body. To this number pa
8,000 more will have to be added be- 21
< fore his epidermis is in order for the Pa
outer air. When Freddie dies, an in- al
teresting problem will be set to St. 13
Pe ter; a sort of parallel, so to say, of
' the cse of the biblical single wife it
and seven brother-husbands "who all Li
. . i her." Freddie will be covered to
a .' h the hides of persons other than ai
himfself. 'How will his beatitude or
il-damnation be served out-personally ti
or vicariously; tod the grafted or the
'4.grhfters? _ _
: 1: is now announced that a French
i physician has been giving to the Acad
amy of Science in Paris an account of ii
the succegasful application of his sys- It
k.I4'tem of restoring life to people struck c
- ;. appantly dead by electric shocks. d
O ne thing which may be noted in all
SI;hmkea discussions as to reviving the a
~leotrocuted Is that the physicians '
!iWho claim that the system is so ef
fbctive have never expressed their t
tlringness to submit to an electrio
ok lthemselves and have the exper
t tried on them. They want to
i.),iowthe bellows and supply the re
l'tion for some other fellow. They
W the line between scientific enthu- 1
iand altruism.
S' CVr -t-1iv years have now 1
Ssince thile opening of the Suez
aU d although at first the skep
with which it was regarded as
rolal venture was so great
,4: e' Lesseps was unable to find
.t for the 200,000 shares
E- haidt reserved for subEcrip
s LOUISIANA ITEMS. A
Condensation5 From all Parts of the AN En
Pelican State. YEF
t In Vernon varish recently t wenty
a. neighbors persuaded a th:rd neighuor sity
ao whom they supposed had money to
ed about his house, to go with them
of 'possum hunting. In the meantime
two other men arranged with their [Fron
wives to put on men's clothing, black Fnee1
no their faces and go and kill the wife Isaac A
,.. of the man who was supposed to have resided
en money while he was out hunting. Af- While
en ter he was gone a peddler was grant- know o
m- ed permission to stay al. night. an illne
Later the peddler heard cries of mur- goneth
der in an adjoining room. He rush- wasna
fat ed in with a pistol in his hand. H heing, ag
he killed both the women disguised as and st
a negro men and they in turn killed the and all
g. other woman. The peddler gave the He fam
)ne alarm and brought in the first persons story:
he could find. They were astonished -1 ke
to find the supposed dead negro men but r3
lds to be two white women. ous sl
ace At New Iberia the sidetracks of the stinii;
ut- railroad are lined with cars, many of weight
t is them laden and awaiting shipment. and it
-uit Recently it was discovered that a flat was in
car loaded with cotton was on fire. tle liar
fruitless efforts were made to extin- to hon
ich guish the flames. The fire depart- busine
als ment was called out, and finally the life to
ves car was pulled into an open space and similaI
ier- the cotton thrown off. About fifty notice.
ttle bales were entirely destroyed. as I hr
ver While Paul Lafournier was stand- Think
fort ing on the wharf at Amesville the CURE
^ss. other evening waiting for a ferry- had t
Ws- boat, he lost his balance and fell in Peoph
the river, and drowned before assist- oughli
ance could reach him. Mrs. Hotard The
hey and her neice, of Gretna. were stand- getbe
in- ing on the wharf at the time the un- fulch
ers fortunate young man fell. Lafournier appeti
in lived in New Orleans with his widow- sotml
co- ed mother. great(
am- On their way home from a theatr e t.
riseat New Orleans recently several lads law p
it stopped at a barroom. While stand- me as
ise ing on the sidewalk one of them, as a
ace. Thomas Walsh, recklessly shot his years
pistol, and the bullet, glancing, :
mall crashed through the window and life is
m- lodgoed in the fleshy portion of the their
Mr. right thigh of one of his companions, stanti
this Walter Otero. Walsh was locked up. case,
hich fited 1
ck Henry Buhler who is believed to be Dr.
nade all round"'skin game"man was be- alldr
oro Judge Aucoin at New Orleansre- Dr.a
trigs, cntly charged with having swindled tady,
and a negro named Henry Lewis out of
t25 at what is known as the shell
game. There wasn't enough evi- On
sited dence to warrant a conviction but two
d, if the court gave Buhler $25 or 30 days eeas(
blem on general principles. on tl
rnal George S. Eastwick, manager of the only
to at sugar refinery and member of the vole(
hour firm of Havemeyer & Eastwick, and her
niles Miss Estelle Stauffer, the young lady soun
k to who was engaged to Samuel J. Tilden musi
this and to whom he. left $100,000 in his indi
ifica- will, were married at the Jesuits whil
t im- church at New Orleans recently. It total
was a great social event.
f the The bursting of a steam pipe at It
en In the Caffery Central sugar refinery at peac
rious Franklin recently caused the death of but
ed in two men, August Brutte, aged 25, on t
I the and Joseph Castille, aged 20. The tree
's re- former leaves a wife and child. But num
1oods elight damage was done to the re
fthey inery. year
Id in At Alexandria two white boys, yiel
haser Emile, 13 years old, son of Moses
were Rosenthal, and Joseph, aged 12, son
of Mrs. Aurelia Sanchez, were badly A
burnt about the face and head by the and
York careless handling of powder while prol
ley as celebrating Christmas. '-tl
agara William Smooth, colored, was found .oo
a has dead near Donaldsonville the other thel
ie by morning, and Ben Clark, Dobe King, gee
eries, Dennis Williams, Willie N. Jackson, is t
g at a amulattress and Matilda Green have 100
hour. been jailed charged with the crime.
Hrrent Hannah Bailey, colored, went on the A
ter of warpath at New Orleans the other hal
day and attacked Annie Butler, also wh
colored, while the latter stood in ma
front of her own door, cutting her on tis
riffith, the face and arm. In
oth In Shreveport the waterworks com- ma
umber pany gets over $9000, the gas and for
c be- electric light company $6600 and a
r the paid fire department $8000. making in
n {in all over $20,000, hence there is only no
to St. 13900 for streets. pu
ay, of Emma Harris, who accidentally, nil
wife it is claimed, shot and killed Roger we
ho all Labranch, was recently arranged be- esi
overed fore Recorder Michel at New Orleans frc
r than and was placed under $5000 bond. m
ide or In a country store at Laplace sta
sonally tion, just within the limits of St.
r the John the Baptist parish, Mr. Jonas to
Weill was recently shot and killed by It
French * negro plantation hand.
s Acad- The New Orleans grand Jury has
ount of indicted L. W. Brown, city engineer,
is sys for extortion in office in having
struck charged for work done in his line of
shucks. duty as city engineer. to
Sin all At New Orleans, Mr. R. B. Scudder, h
ing the of the Louisana Distilling Company, eI
ysicians was fined $10 the other morning for al- gi
is so ef- lowing refuse matter to be thrown in- m
1 their to the gutter. w
electric There is considerable indignation at
Sexper- in New Orleans over the mistrial olf p
t Councilmen Kane and Thritly. ti
. They The supreme court convened Jan
enthu- uary 2, and the court of appeals on
January 7.
Brenner's store on the levy has
' n0w been closed by. attachment. The
the Suez principal claim against him was Max h
ieskep- Meyers at Shreveport, amounting to I
rded as o500.
eto Anal McNeal, a negress, aged 58
4dares years, was found, dead sitting in a
nde inchair the other morning at 8 o'clock
Strd at New Orleans.
S In a recent difficulty at Arksa;a,
t* :tt eak3a · a mill hand, ws a shs&
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A NOBLE FIGHT. WA
AN EMINENT SOUTHERN LAW,
YER'S LONG CONFLICT SOMI
WITH DISEASE.
0 Twenty-five Years of Prosperity. Adver- The o
r sity and Suffering.-The Great Vic
y tory Won by Science Over a Will
a Stubborn Disease. Chii
e Ists-7
" [From the Atlanta, Ga., Constitution.]
k Foremost among the best known lawyers
and farmers of North Carolina stands Col. WA
8 Isaac A. Sugg of Greenville. Mr. Sugg has
e resided in (;reenville twenty-two years. i
1. While nearly every one in Pitt county nlug tl
knows Mr S.'s history. perhaps all do not will f
know of his return to business again after the
an illness of sixteen yealrs. No man has
gone through more than lie and lived. It thous
was a case of the entire breaking down of part
the nervous system. attended by excruci t must
ing, agonizing, unendurable pain. Opiates doub
15 and stimulants only quieted temporarily,
e and all treatments failed him. Only his love I terna
oe f family and friends prevented suicide. be a
He told a reporter the following interesting, natio
•'I kept at my work as long as I could, pleni
, but rature gave way at last and I suc-' at th
cumb.Žd to the inevitable. My entire nerv. nate
ous system had been shattered by the' doub
1e stimulants and opiates I had taken, my,
of blood had actually turned to water, my) been
weight had dropped from 173 pounds to 123 Stat
t. and it seemed to everybody that the end woul
ht was in sight. Why. I could not bear the gen
tie hand of my wife to bathe my limbs with No i
tepil water. Iwas simply living from hour, the
n to hour. I had made my will, settled my e
t- business and waited for the last strand 'f ing
i life to snap.
i"It was at this time that a somewhat thor
similar case as my own was brought to my: man
tS notice. This man had suffered very much Lian
as I had, his life had been despaired of asi
mine had, and yet he had been cured. tion
d- Think what that little word meant to me-' the
he CURED. The report stated that the work lieve
had been accomplished by a medicine
4 known as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo desi
in People. I investigated the report thor- tent
t- oughly and found that it was true in detail.
rd Then I procured some of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills and began taking them and began to
get better. I began to sleep like a health- W
n- ful child, sou.d, calm and peaceful. My tive
er appetite came back and my nerves were to b
soothed and restored to their normal condi
tion and I felt like a new man. But the gov
greatest blessing was the mental improve- Stat
ment. I began to read and digest, to formu- burl
late new plans, to take an interest in my diat
ds law practice, which began to come back to
d- me as soon as my clients realized that I aE
in was again myself. After a lapse of ten higl
years I ride horseback every day without He
1 "That Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved my mar
,nd life is beyond doubt, and I am spreading crat
he their praises far and wide." ant;
Inquiry about the town of Greenvillesub- wise
Os, stantiated the above facts of Col. Sugg's sec
Ip. case, and that many others are being bene
fited by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Ken
be Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are for sale by of t
be- all druggists, or may be had by mail from the
re. Dr. Williams' Medicine company, Schenec
led tady, N. Y., for 50 cents per box, or six ner
boxes for 2.50 nati
of the
tell Nine Fir ect Tones. tir
vi- One's surprise at the fact that no -tha
but two persons voices are perfectly alikei ear
ays ceases when informed by an authority xex
on the subject that, though there are nov
the only nine perfect tones in the human dec
the voice, there are the astounding num- sue
and ber of 17,592,186,044,415 differenti
adg sounds. Of these, fourteen direct
den muscles produce 16,383 and thirty
his indirect muscles produce 173,741,828, at 1
nits while all in co-operation produce the the
It total given above. in 1
An Exploded Idea. the
eat It is the common belief that the
at peach tree is necessarily of short lafe,' fro
a of but there are some very old orchards Mc
25, on the Delaware peninsula, and single tor
The trees have been known to bear a great; w
But number of years. A Sussex county du
re- peach grower has an orchard thirty ex
years old, and in good peach years it aBr
oys, yields abundantly. L
1son Money In It.
adly An English committee of sportsmen
the and naturalists is taking in hand the ne
hile protection of South African mammals fill
S-the giraffs, zebra, eland, gnu, koo
lund soo and other antelopes-against i
ther their threatened extinction. A sug-, sa
ing, gested method of accomplishing this
is to secure an inclosed park of about
have 100,000 acres. b
Ine. Much Married.
the A peculiar case of family mixture se
her happens in England. where a man
also who had been three times a widower
I in married a woman who had been three
r on times a widow. Children were born
in all cases, and the youngsters of the is
com- many parentages are all living com
Sand fortably.together. tc
nd a Heat Holidays.
ng in It is said that heat holidays have ta
only now been established by law in the a
public sechools of Switzerland. Recog- d
tally, nizing the fact that the brain cannot il
woger work properly when the heat is ex- a
i be. cessive, the children are dismisse~ a
leans from their tasks whenever the ther- h
i. mometer goes above a certain point.
esta- Good Scheme.
f St. Rubber heels are to be attached n
Jonas to the shoes worn by French soldiers. p
led by It is claimed that they decrease the c
fatigue of marching.
v has c
ineer, Preelous Milk. t
neiog It is said the Empress Catherine, t
noticing that the beautiful Mile. Po
tocka, who had lately come to court,
uddcr, had no pearls, immediately command- I
ipany. ed a fancy dress ball, to which the
foral- girl was bidden to come as a milk
w ' in- maid. Then, while Mile. Potocka
was dancing, the empress slipped a
:nation superb necklace of pearls into the
riial of pail she carried, and, at her exclama
tion of wonder, said: "It is only the
an- milk, which has curodled." This was
an straining a point to maike beautiful
as on the milk of human kindness.
y has warn HI Brotnher.
The A noise in his bedroom aroused
a. Max Michael Dixon, of Pequonnooh, Conn.
ing to In a few moments he was struggling
with the intruder in the dark, and
58 soon vanquished him. The supposed
ed 8 burglar turned out to -be MichaePsl
'clk brother, whom he had not seen for
lear.
rrk na, 'ses o 'n taWsut*o.
WASHINGTON NEWS. WA
-- ative
SOME DIPLOMATIC SPECULA- Press
TION INDULGED IN. the I
the fi
The Question is Whether General Foster "the
Will Figure in the Settlement Between chan
China and Japan-German Protection- bank
payil
Ists-New Years Day. limit
s ) stanC
WASIINGTON, Jan. 2. -Speculation mans
in diplomatic circles is active regard- capa
v ing the capacity in which Gen. Foster mans
't will figure in the negotiations between sidin
r the two belligerent nations. It is kind
t thought uniikcly that he will take prac
i part in the conference, as to do so he pose
must be appointed by China, and note.
doubt is expressed whether under in- Unit
" ternational usages a foreigner could cons
be appointed a conferree for either or et
nation. It not commissioned as P of 30
i, plenipotentiary, he might be present plied
c-ý at the negotiations in the subordi- raise
nate capacity of secretary, but it is upor
doubted whether a diplomat who has reac
y been secretary of state and United circa
. States minister to foreign nations a fir
Ld would care to play an inferior part. and
h' No information has been received at reali
ir the Chinese legation regarding the of ti
emperor's reported action in depriv- guar
ing Li Hung Chang of military au- asse
at thority and superseding him in com- liabi
'Y: mand by Liu Yun Yi, viceroy of the
ah Liang Kiang. Mr. Chung of the lega- of tl
tion says he thinks it possible that tie
- the emperor has for the present re- by a
rk lieved the viceroy of his civil duties, cout
lo desiring him to devote his whole at- whi'
r- tention to miiitary operations. may
il. --- asse
ik Carlisle for President. hold
o WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The posi- circ
ly tive declaration of Secretary Carlisle ent
re to be considered as a candidate for safe
he governor of Kentucky or United 000
re- States senator to succeed Mr. Black- dra'
iu- burn is not a surprise to the imme- thai
ny diate friends of the secretary in erec
to Washington. Mr. Carlisle looks and
en higher than either of these offices. curi
Ut He has been promised the support of con
many important an influential Demo- new
ig crats the presidential nomination. To der
antagonize Blackburn would be un- ban
b- wise. It would aaray against the van
secretary the Blackburn influence in it"
Kentucky, which is potent in all parts
by of the state. With Carlisle out of
um the race Joe Blackburn is a sure win- P
ner and his own successor. He will ion
naturally exert himself in behalf of the
the secretary's presidential aspira- in
tions, and there is no reason to doubt pril
no 'that Kentucky will send a solid and ilit
ike: earnest Carlisle delegation to the ern
'ity next Democratic convention. Just It i
are, now President Cleveland regards with ser
ian decided favor the prospect of being no,
im- succeeded by Secretary Carlisle. era
ent -__ -- - - co_
ec German Protectionist. ed
rt WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-It is asserted fro
28, at the agricultural department that be
the the Agricultural, or Agraria'n party. It
in the German empire, brought about pe
the prohibition of the importation to ter
Germany of live e'a'i , dressed beef, mc
the canned beef an:l oc: ~r meat products inj
afe, from the Unite. States. Secretary ca
Morton says that the landed proprie- no
gl tor in Germany are protectionists yel
at; who teach McKinleyism in "high tei
inty duties.' They desire, he says, to pe
rty exclude all competition which may or
arise from the fertile lands of the on
United States. mi
i's
No More Back Salary. la
men WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The threeth
the new senators who will be elected to t
nal fill the vacancies in the states of
koo- Wyoming. Washington and Montana
inst will probably not be paid the back
aug- salaries which have heretofore been er
ti paid to senators elected or appointed
to fill vacancies. They were cut out
by an express provision in the legis
lative appropriation bill of the last
session, which, it is believed, will put r
tu an end to this practice for the future.
DWer Tariff War Coming. T
r WASHINGTON, Dec, 31.-Signs mul
thtiply showing tha't the United States ti
is on the verge of a great tariff war
with all Europe. France now appears
to be following Germany in placing b
restrictions in the way of the impor
have tation of American food products and c'
the as in the case of Germany there is a
ecog- development of the agrarian policy
anndt intended to help the French farmer, G
s ex- although ost~esibly put torward as a te
lissed measure in the Siterest of public u
ther- health, t b
>oint. c
New Years Day.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Probably in
ached no other city of the country does that
diers. peculiarly American custom of ex
B the changing new year's calls continue to
flourish with the same vigor as in the
capital of the nation. Although in
the other cities the custom has come
ineto be regarded in the breach than in
r Po, the observance, in Washington every
court, body in official life either received or 1
mand- paid calls.
h the American Canned Beef.
milk
tocka W"SHINGTON, Dec. 28.--Informa- I
ed a tion has reached the department of
o the agriculture through the department
lama- of state, in a dispatch dated Dec. 3,
ly the from Ambassador Runyon at Berlin,
is was that the local authorities at Hibren,
autiful Wurtemburg, Germany, have re
moved the prohibition placed on the
sale of American' canned beef.
roused WAsHloTO., Dec. 27.-Among the
rew members of the house who were
Con. at the capitol yesterday the prevail
ggling ing opinion seemed to be that the Re
cand publicans had it in their power to
po pass or defeat the currency bilL The
ha d'Democratio vote, it is thought, will
o be about ovenly divided for and
pgiusti the measure. The Republi
eazs are expected tovote agaTis -the
Currency Plan Explaina. BE
WAsHINGTON. Dec. 29.-Represent
ative Springer gave to the Associated it,
Press reporter the following summary what
of the currency bili as modified by fred
the late Carlisle amendments: "In onizli
the first place." said Mr. Springer,
",the Carlisle bill proposes a radical
change in the manner of securing the
bank note circulation. The rapid
payment of the public debt, the
limited number of bonds now out
standing and the further fact that
many of them are held in trust
capacities in this country, and as per
r manent investments by persons re
f siding abroad, have rendered the
kind of security now required im
practicable. The Carlisle bill pro- 4
poses for security of the circulating rla.
notes of national banks, instead of tools
United States bonds, a guarantee fund bh e1
consisting of legal tender notes to h:
r or currency certificates to the amount took
of 30 per cent of the circulation ap- aolla
plied for; also a safety fund to be r."
raised by a tax of k of 1 per cent Well
upon the circulating notes until it
9 reaches 3 per centum of the whole
1 circulation, and as a further security
a first lien upon all assets of the bank
t and upon the amount which may be We p
t realized by the double liability feature
of the national banking law. The
- guarantee fund of 30 per cent, the
assets of the bank and the personal
' liability of stockholders can only go to
f the payment of the circulating notes
' of the bank which issues them, but
t thle 5 per cent guarantee fund raised
by a tax upon all the circulation of the
, country, is a common fund out of
t- which notes of any failed bank
may be paid, if the guarantee fund,
assets and personal liabilities of stock
holders are not sufficient. Thus on a
c- irculation of $200,000,000, the pres
e ent national bank circulation, the
'r safety fund would amount to $10,000,
d 000 and this whole fund could be
- drawn upon to paynotes of any bank
e- that failed. This security is consid
in ered ample by the safest financiers
S and bankers of the country. The
*. currency bill, as amended, does not
of compel national banks to enter the
" new system. They may continue un
Co der the old law, but it is thought
n- banking oficials will soon see the ad
ie vantages of the new plan and adQpt
n it.'"
-ts
of Counterfeiting Forelns Stamps. £
n- WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The opin
ill ion of the solicitor of the treasury to
of the effeot that it is unlaw'.al to have
"a- in possession or use plates for the R
bt printing of postage stamps in the sim- ,"
nd ilitude of those used by foreign gov
he ernments will be acted upon at once. ptil
ist It is stated by the chief of the secret eve
ith service that so-called stamp albums :'
ng now on hand by publishers and deal- sue
ers containing these prints will not be
confiscated, but no more will be allow- is
ed to be printed. The cuts. plates,eto., m
fed from which they are printed will ire
iat be seized if not surrendered.
ty. It is an astonishing fact that the
)ut penalty imposed by law for the coun- E
to terfeating of foreign stamps is much
ef, more severe than for the counterfeit
cts ing of United States stamps. In the
cry case of foreign stamps the penalty is R
ie- not less than two nor more than ten
sts years' imprisonment, while the coun
igh terfeiting of United States stamps m
to penalty is a fine of not more than #500
3ay or not more than five years' impris
the onment or both. Thus the court
might impose a fine of $1 or one days' N
imprisonment for violation of our own
law and come within the law, while
ree the minimum penalty as to foreign
to stamps is two years' imprisonment.
a Spain and Tariff.
ack WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The gov
ernment of Spain, desiring to avert
the tarit! warfare between the United
t States and Cuba, has under favorable
consideration the cession to Cuba of
st the privilege of arranging her own
revenue budget, including tariffs with
pu the United States. This budget is to
re. be subject to the approval of Spain.
The negotiations now progressing at
nul- Madrid are partly on these lines, but
ate. the state department is proceeding g
war with its retaliatory plans, as it is not -
ears believed that Spain's concessions to
cing Cuba can be carried out and made 1
por- beneficial to us for some months to
and come.
is a The Export Tax.
icy WASHINGTON, Dec. 29..--Attorney
mer, General Olney in an opinion sent yea
as a terday to the secretary of the treas
ablic ury holds that the export tax imposed
by a foreign go ernment upon mer
chandise subject here to ad valorem
Srate duty or to duty based upon or
Sn regulated in any manner by the value
that of the merchandise is not to be re
ex- garded as one of "costs, charges and
ie to expenses" referred to in section 10 of
Sthe the customs administrative act of
1 in June 10, 1890.
some
a in Oklahoma Must Wait.
very- WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The agita
d or tion for the admission of Oklahoma,
as a state is kept up by individuals,
but it does not meet with favor in the
minds of congressmen, and there is
rma- no prospect of any such legislation by
t of this congress. The settled opinion of
ment congress is averse to making Okla
e. 3, homa a state at present. Political
erlin, considerations may make that terri
bren, tory a state in the next congress, just
re- as politics brought into the union
1 the some years ago more than one terri
tory not qualified to statehood.
g the Congressional Situation.
were WASHINGTON, Dec. $1. - Both
evail- houses of congress will resume on
e Be- Thursday next sabd it is expected that
rer to there will be a more determined elort
The to press the work of the session for
t will the next two months than has char
and aMterized the proceeding during the
publi- month ,which has already eaPed.
s thOe The ecessary work o the seso s
A*0 tea pUea~ o dt~ea~iouiI.
pSw13iIerrE p t5
Pains in the Back
"I had been afflicted for several years with
what the doctors called Diabetes, and suf
tered terribly. The pain in my back was ag
onizing in the extreme. Hood's Sarsaparila
and Hood's Pill
cured me. Nov,
I can go to thurcl.
! and attend other
meetings with
pleasure, I al.
t ways keep flood's
t Pills by me. In
my whole life I
never met any
e - thing that did me"
so much good as
Mr. John Branston Hood's Sarsapa
rilla. 'Experience teaches a dear school, but V
fools will learn by no other.' I was once fool.
d a enough to listen to a druggist who claimed
s to have something superior to hIood's, and
it took another medicine. If I had thrown my
Sollar in the street I would have been a gain.
o er." Jons BnAxSTON care of John Greetham,
Wellington, Ohio. Get HooD's because
Hoo d's- Cures
oHod's P I I p cure Constipation by restoring
the peristalticaction of the alimentary canal.
Cole's New Domestic
Coffee Berry,
Raise you own coffee at less than one cenIt *
- pound. Le hih tariff Store cofese go, The.
a
V-urea north or south in our months. Plant any
ik
one prses it. Has pro
ot
ver 0 bushels per acre. Some prefer I to
be
he Raise your own coeeffee. Producat les thanwo crops a year ont
Sampound. Let high tarige store costpaidee o, Th
r man'00 pots ofend and rich man's delht Mgo
)- ures north or south in four months. slant any
time up to the 20th o June; 20,000 farmersnd tesup
6. pliedand every one praises it. Has produced
ret over 60 bushels per acre. Some prefer it to
tore coles from. Produces tallo crops a ear on
mame land. Large packet postpaid 20cts; or
al- enough to plant 100 hills, 60 cts or stamps. Will
make 200 pots of most delicious cofee, good
enough esor a king. Is supeding store coffee
Tw- ' fast as its merits become known, Large
catalogue of 50 new varieties of seedsend testi
3** Inonials from patrons all over the Union sent
ill tree with each order by
C. s.Oi. C. ***5*"*
ad. Bauner. mo.
the
ýh Ely's Cream Bal
At- Cleanses the Nasal
Fis Restores the Senses of
ten Taste and Smell.
Heals the Sores.
Appl Balm into oeach nostril,
nps n Baos.,M Warnnstr, N.
DROP US A POSTAL CON
nit U TAININO YOUR NAME AND
rt K ADDRESS AND WE WILL
iiumng rnir SEND YOU FREE OUR
ilNURSERIES EW CATALOGUE
gelling how to have fruit and plenty of it
snt. Lany part of the country.
E. W. KIRKPATRICK, McKlnney. Texas
emuma' ~ ---- P , .=on -
nert
ited . Wo e'lL ost
able
lof y __Lo -
with
sto
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anearB *TIUge Por toanks Merehants, lte.
RUBBERn STM1 (Catalogue tme. Dallas St,
sad Prtnttin Co., Maln fastret, Dallas.
rne ATTORIEYAT-IAW J* W., " oMo i'
las. Vsoronast0te toatobuasi -.-_ es
OB. BENITLSTRYV BD at1s IsBon 4yp, m.,
,-nnItev aut* has Mte enty I9rAlats metho -
osed em earth for 51Itag samdtraoMgteeth.l l ,El's t
SPIANOS "BAU"185e O,*
BlO a4~1on Yacoman cor MAClUIISTS.
Posla sad slal lasohlaw .
,e lprl, etO.,ta short 0 otes. t Market stro*e.
land ennB Pollock £
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ttrougks. Write for eatelogue. Harry lies., Dallas.
ma FIDERS AND MACHINISTS ,G ,, on.
nalina Ioe Plat , iotrie Lightus, et.or
thWrstasse aus oshr rg ora, Dells.
n by EMERSOii,TALCOTT& CO. s e. e *
n of Standard Cultivators,' Wt--iW -
k PLANTERS, MOWERS, , Reeo
tical DallasII - -- Texas. Plows.
* /* METROPOLITAN
union BUSINESS COLLEeE.
terr . Boonekli ,horahamndT.Trp.
wrlaing and Peamanshtp. Write for estaloslueot
trmts. GILBUPI A HILL. Props., Dallas, t e.
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Both Lero _ tO l rquor. Coeine and Toheee
P M leomuaoestioao s strletly eonfldenaL,
a O g.H.UI, state M's'r;A. P. STIWART, IL.,
Sth State M ei ax., Dallas. Tx. Thb Kley treat
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