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'RTIV WKKKLKY BT A TE8 M A N , T I IURSD A Y - A U( UTST 27, 1891 PE R 111 Da V Ti E: lie i TS cjo In; eje-: W tin cm' loo- x' Al pr wl ll Al tll pa an lint l.s. wc gatsiiu statesman. BY THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. PEYTON BROWN President and R. J. HII.I. HENRY W. IJKOW.V DiiilT. per year, (by mail) Weekly, jut year. General Manaeer Vice President . Secretary . X IH) 1 W i A rnvv-i.vsrn VI USD. It is ati'iut lime that somcllilii!! lie lrn- in tin; Texas Press association to lUTuir-'c for nil cx curs on from Sa i Antonio next year. We are mire Unit ii trio to our brother rcpublc cxt-t)i-in-t to tin; I'.irilii; coist would be'very B' cpi aide to ciiit" ii iiuiniBTof its members uii1 we lioiu; our olfi crs will n o work with it whim. National Kclorwer. As tho public has probably never heard of the National Reformer, The Statesman will nay that it is a little thumb paper, published in Houston once a week, edited by it wormy little creature., and filled with bile, bitter ness, bigotry, religious; and polit ical intolerance and patent med icine ads. The editor litis an insiino penchant for fret! excursions an 1 free banquets, lie was novel known to miss one when ho could possibly "ring himself in;" was always conspicuous in every Texas delegation to u n itional editorial convention for his bad English, and was ncvei known to put np tit a decent hotel or a ly a kind word for Texas. Ho goes because it costs nothing, i. c., be is an editorial dead heat, and now he howls for another excursion. If such a man, conducting such a paper, can have in lluencu in the Texas Press association or"assissassiation," as this man cals it In hiH vain attempt to talk" English, then it were lime the association reor ganize with newspaper men only for nucmliei s. wi: ha I -; 01 n issisas. Every dog 1ms his dayand it is now tho Month's turn to say to New Kn gland, the law abiding, puritanical New England, "Sweep their own doorstep clean before you call others deliled." That country which litis so Ion hcon pointing at the South as tho homo of tho desperado and tho mur derer, which has been printing tales of unheard of atrocities committed in the South, is just now enjoying a lit tle of tho medicine it litis been ad ministering to tho South in tho shape of free advertising on account of tho miserable, cold blooded murder of a woman in New Hampshire. Tho murder was committed several weeks iitgo and the murderer was not cap tured until a tlay or so tigo. He was found hid in the barn of the fathtr of tho girl ho murdered under twenty feet of hay, armed with six shooters and prepared to sell his li'o dearly. He stood oh? 15(H) people until guaranteed protection from tho mob by tho ollicers of the law, was then handcuffed and marched through a double lfuo of pursuers who wanted to gazo at tho prisoner. If this Mr. Frank Aliny had lived in tho South instead of New England, what a deal we would havo read .iibout "A Characteristic Southern In cident!" What howls would have gone up from that blood drinker, that apostle of a new crusade of hate and vengeance against tho South Elliott F. Sheppard. lint all this did not occur down South. It happened in the Statepf that South hater ami reviler, .Mill Chandler.. This "holy terror" is not a "rough baekwoodsnian," but a fellow who surprised college students by tho extent of his classical knowledge. Vorily, the South has its innings occasionally. The Statesman regrets to learn that Judgo J. M. Duncan and Senator Cone Johnson recently came to actual blows on the streets of Tyler. The senator from Smith, it appears, inti mated rather broadly that tho gen eral attorney of the far famed In ternational and Groat Northern re ceivership, wasnot built in accordance with the G. Washington cherry tree model. The general attorney liled a bill of exception, on the Websterian countenanceof tho senator from Smith and tho plaintiff, who had now be come defendant by virtue of ji counter charge, introduced evidence in re . Initial on the classic lionian nose of the general attorney. At this stage of the proceedings tho court was pre vailed upon to tiike a recess, during which tho cause was submitted to a noaru ot nroitration, which recom mended that it lie withdrawn from tho docket and costs shared equally. Then the war clouds lloated out of sight, tho door of the temple of Janus came to with a bang, Beladonna hung her spear-on tho hat rack and everybody "took suthiu." Thb Statesm an is pleased to learn that William G. Kice, a kindergar ten Boniro of Sand Banks, N. Y. has succeeded in getting himself com fortably married to his Juliet. Willie was 1!), and his own-true-lovo some years younger. Like Pyramis and Thisbe, they sighed their young souls ouiioeacn oiner inrougn a crack in the garden wall while tho old man and the bull dog stood guard at tho front gate. Finally they succeeded in dodging Towser and papa, and a minister who marries for money, re gardless of age or previous condition, welded these two fond hearts into one and the Eastern press corre spondent hit the Texas dailies with a solid slug half a column long. What this country needs is a few reporters who are able to recouizo a news item when they meet it on tho street. The Associated Press is becoming almost ' as great a journalistic fako as the vot ing contest. At last, after infinite sparring for an opening and much wind jamming and bluster, President Bahnaceda and bis hatful of troops have mixed with the Junta de-something-or-other, and tho air is full of powder smoke, slugs of metal and Spanish expletives. At this writing nobody knows which party will fall on top, and noliody cares, devolution is the nwrmal state of tho hctcroscian, and the party that gets tho best of this one will probably get the worst of the next. A coititKSi'o.vuENT who claims to have sat on the barbed wire fence that surrounds tho ranch where tho rain makers are located and watched their operations says the attempt to com pel the clouds to give down is a com plete failure. Uncle Jerry Itusk should grab his hammer and nail this campaign lio before it has time to swing round and knock the gas out of his presidential boom. Instead of a total yield of r,2.ym, !)()() bushels, as estimated by tho De partment of Agriculture before har vest, the wheat crop will reach nearly or quite .(iOO,000,OOU, and give more than 2(10,000,000 bushels for export. There is a foreign need for every bushel of it at a fair price and if it is not crowded on tho market too rapidly present prices will probably bo maintatainod. The crop was uni formly good all over tho country, and tho money received for it will be widely distributed, thus conferring, the greatest possible benefit on the entire country. The Waco News says that Texas is called tho mother of tho Alliance and wants to know "who is suspected as the other condition necessary to its conception." Well or since its en dorsement of tho sub-treasury scheme, alien hind law, etc., nearly every jackass in the state has been growing bowlegged under tho ban of sus picion. THAT LAND LOAN SCHEME. As a companion, picture to tho Aus tin Iconoclast's logical disembowel ment of tho subtreasury fallacy, which appears elsewhere in this issue, The Statesman reproduces from the Farm and Fireside the following pertinent remarks anent tho land loan scheme, political demagogues and financial ex perimentalists: Tho malicious lying done by politi cal demagogues and calamity prophets about mortgages lias been exposed by tho census returns. Instead of 9,000, 000 mortgages on land, with tho en cumbrances amounting to moro than its value, as repeatedly asserted by these enemies of the people, tho re turns show that there aro about 2,250,- 000 homes and farms occupied by own ers encumbered bv mortgages. As there are about 12,.r00,000 families, less than one-fourth live in encumbered homes. Two billion five hundred and sixty five milion dollars is tho total amount of tho mortagaged indebtedness on homes and farms, estimated to be about ono-third tho value of property encumbered. Tho census returns also show that about two-thirds of tho total mort gage indebtedness represents pur chase money. The lying will still go on, however. It is extremely popular with a class of people who aro looking forward to a time when they can, undercover of finance laws passed with the intent in view, "repudiate their honest debts. It might be well to call the atten tion of the land-loan advocates who tiro rallying against railroads to the f ict that under tho land-loan bill in troduced in congress, railroads and nil other corporations owning land could borrow money from the government at two per cent as easy as tho farm owner. Not only that, but there are provisions deftly concealed in tho bill that would enable land-owning corpo rations to get the lion's sharoofthe benefits. Tho fact that the Alliances so generally approve of tho Stanford bill, shows how little they really know about it. hen it costs Dei ween 3 and 4 per cent for tho government to disburse tho pension fund, how is it possible for the government to loan money on "real estate and other ample securi ty" at 2 per cent? Easy enough. By raising enough to mako up tho de ficiency by extra taxation? No. Sim ply by printing enough fiat money to pay all tho expenses. With fiat money, there is no use of the government collecting any rev enues at all. Taxation can be abol ished. Simply let the federal govern ment print enough fiat money to pay the salaries of its oillce holders, and all other expenses. THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. BEAUTIES OF A TKIP ON. THE LAWRENCE EIVER. SI. From Niagara Falls to Alexandria Bay a Veritable Kaleidascope of Beauty Inter esting lecount of an Interesting Tour An Interesting letter. Ai.exaxdkia I Jay to W asiuxoton, August 17, 1801. Boarding the train at Xiagura, in tho early morn, our steam pony trav els with gallant speed past the Whirl pool Rapids, where the white foam tosses and the mad torrent roars like an angry giant past tho Whirlpool, over whose swirling bosom only one navigator hits ever been known to steer. Past Qtieenston on tho Canada side, from whose rocky height looms straight against the sky tho lofty monument erected by the British government; in memory of Sir Isaac! Brocke, who commanded the army at ! tho battle of (Jueenston Heights, on I tho 13th day of October, 1812, and yielded Ins hie in tlio struggle. 1 he shaft is of freestone, rising seventy - live feet from a base thirty feet; it is surmounted by a corinthian capital, on which stands a statue of tho noted officer. The view from this point is exceptionally fine, if ono will tako the time to drive down tho Canada side. After a run of seven miles Lewiston is reached, and here the custom's officer begins his rounds as you establish yourself on tho spacious steamer, boundfor Toronto. His investigations were very limited so far as personal experience goes, for, placing his band upon my satchel ho said in sweet, per suasive tone: "There is nothing but personal apparel and toilet articles?" "Nothing," I answered, and his chalk crossmark was forthwith placed jupon it without further parley. Some were not quite so fortunate, for one poor lady with her threo-declcedtiunk was compelled to stand by and see the contents most unceremniously dealt with, even to tho unrolling oi a little paper package which contained two or three crackers. Here the river is calm and beautiful lis our own Potomac, and ono cannot roalizo that only a few miles back such terrible upheaval and down pour of tho torrent is going on day in, day out through all tho agos. A mile or so on, we cross to the other shoro and touch tho wharf of Niagara-on-the-lake (tho Canadiau Chatauqua) whero more excursionists join our boat for tho cruise across tho lake. Ssven miles from Lewiston, wo pass between Fort Massasauga, on the Canada, and Fort Niagara on the American shore, and reach tho broad bosom of tho blue Ontario. We leave land and sail on tho wide waste of wa ters where earth and sky meet; the crested billows dash , high and one wants no better taste of the ocean than this stiil affords. Far away the white caps rear their heads; seagulls spread their pinions, and lave their breasts in tho tossing spray, and a feel ing of solitude steals over one as tho vast expanse of water stretches away, away beyond1 all bound. Three and a half hoars brings you to the beautiful bay on which is situated Toronto, the capital of the Province ol Ontario, and termed the queen city ot Canada. Hero close connection is made with tho outgoing palace steamer Spartan for Alexandria Bay, Montreal and Quebec. The appoint ments of this steamer are fine and its purser and captain delightful English gentlemen. The afternoon wears quickly away. Darlington, a large trading place for flour and grain, is called; then wo steam on for more than sixty miles, reaching Port Hope toward sundown; stiil on another six miles and the beautiful harbor o' Coburg is reached; but now the gong is sounding and tho bountiful table in tho great dining cabin invites the hungry traveler to enter and enjoy. Sons of England and Ireland are tin waiters and perfoim their duties well and ono article of the menu is especi ally remembered the white fish o' the lake, doliciously delicate in flavor. In the gloaming our party ensconce themselves in tho stern and listen to tho music of the waves, watch the stars as their kindling tires gleam on tho brow of night, and while away the hours with snatches of hymn or "song until Sonnies waves his wand, and staterooms aro sought with eager haste. The crowd was great and those not having secured staterooms in ad ranco were obliged to seek comfort in the saloon on the folding couches. One dear old lady hail tho couch opened and spread, then seeming to grow oblivions or tho surroundings, she quietly donned her night-cap, un loosened her drops front to give ease inbreathing and laid her gray head down upon tho pillow with tho free dom of a chihl, and tho passengers1 only smiled to see how thoroughly tit homo the dear old saint could niakc herself. In tho glow of tho early dawn we entered that enchanting region Thousand Islands, and each boat length in our ownward movement re vealed new beauties. Alexandria bav was reached about 7:30 o'clock, from whence we took tho Iittlo steam ferry for our hotel Central Park, which was reached in ten minutes, and breakfast was soon being discussed. This hotel is beautifully located, and the rooms, fresh, clean and nicely ap pointedespecially must I mention tho good bed, with its dainty dress ings. Now, as you stand on the shoro where the waters touch with musical plash tho very edge of the lawn, and look over tho silver stream, each island seems like an emerald dot upon its broad bosom. Hugo boulders start up from tho ciystal depths covered with fragrant piios and trailing vines and mosses, or gaunt, as though defying all tender loving touch of nature. The New Island Wanderer, an ex cursion steamer made expressly for this route, and fitted with opera chairs on its broad decks, makes daily trips of fifty miles thoughout tho island, winding in and out among tho silver water paths like a child playing hide-and-sok. This gives theopportunity ot seeing every inhabited island, touching at the principal ones, and is the most satisfactory way of making tho tour, which costs only 50 cents tho round trip. Tho purser, Mr. John O'Loary, who is also principal of the graded school at Alexandria Bay, is most accommodating and courteous, giving constant explanations, tolling bits of history and pointing out every spot in a distinct and careful manner. ; which udds greatly to tho interest of . city, but time and space forbid. Court- the trip. No description of this en-j esy and kindness were met on every chanted land will convey an v proper hand, and information gladly im ! idea of its exquisite bcauiv. The parted. The banks and other public very names of the islands lul one with langorous delight. Uon nio Castle, the home of Mrs. I. G. Holland, is considered, and is a charming spot. Indeed it would seem invidious to make distinction, for tho stylo of architecture varies, and thero is beauty, elegance, simplic ity, cosiness, everywhere. One of the handsomest homes is called "Castle iiest," on Pullman's Island, owned by Mi. George M. Pullman of Chi - cago. It is built of ere v stone, wit h turrets and towers, and in its lovely shaded walks and terraced heights one can well imagine- tho true fa in land has been found. Hero President Grant was entertained during his sec- j onil term in the white house, though 1 tl,R present elegant mansion hail not then been called into form. ''Lin lithgow isfand" Is another beautiful retreat, literally perched upon a rock in the middle of tho channel, ".-t. Elmo," the residence of Mr. Nathaniel Hunt of Brooklyn is a stately pile, and "Isle Imperial" is a perfect syl van retreat. I might multiply names, for the list reaches into tho sixties but must confine myself to mention of the other prominent hotels The Westminister on Wells Island, The Thousand Island, an immense build ing, and the Hotel Fontenac on ixound Island theso splendidly appointed and afford every facility for enjoyment and recreation. Alexandria Bay is a quaint little fishing town perched upon a rock, where the dwellers sit among tlioir vine-wreathed cottages and the In dians weave their pretty workinth" wigwams set up here and there, all seeming to havo found a place of rest, an anchorage so quiet and serene is tho whole atmosphere of tho place. Here the 'Crossman" and "Thousand Island House" aro the popular places, being quite at tho river's brink, and tho tho wharf is gay with yachts, all prettily dressed and full of lively, fun loving excursionists off for a day's outing in this lake of the isles. When cruising in tho "Lost Channel" steam is cut off, so swift is tho current, unu tho boat is borne on tho power of the fast sweeping stream. "Fiddler's Elbow" is a sharp curve made be fore entering tho "Channel," and about this spot legendary lore fixes the old man with his lithfle, and the plaintive notes being wafted away on the breeze; but I duro not begin this subject, for my spaco in The States man would bo more than filled. Returning to Toronto, the steamer en route from Montreal touches Alex andria Bay at 10:30 o'clock a. in., which has the advantage of present ing that part of tho trip passed at night on tho down passage, by day light returning. Wo get aboard, find our slate room, and proceed to find a pleasant spot aft where wo gaze upon the bcundles! beauty on every hand until our eye are weary. Kingston, Canada," is touched at 1 p. in., and quickly con sulting tho captain, as to time, wt call a cab and drive away to inspect this quaint and thoroughly English town. We have happened upon a gala time, for the Orangemen are having their celebration, which has not been held here for years. Princes. street is a bower of green from end tc end, and the royal banner is Hung tc ho breezo on every side. It is lone some to see no stars and stripes; after all thero is no flag so beautiful as oui ijwn "red, white and blue." In driv ing through the town, I was especially struck with the evident leve of llowers for they flourished alike among the lofty and lowly. Here was mo granu m. .Mary s ca thedral, before whose lofty altar place restea the prostrated iigure, carved in ivorine of the blessed Savior, jns after his removal from tho cross. Tut holy mother, in garb of heaven's own hue, bent over him. supporting hiir in her arms, whilo tho depth of an guish portrayed in her features be spoke tho awful grief of her soul. Upon the face of tho crucified one. the death palor rested, and tho touch of infinite pathos in that lonely cry: "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" seemed still to linger on the lips. So life-like was tho sceno that I turned away, almost feeling that I was in the divine presence. Tho churches, public buildings, etc., were all of stone, and many magnifi cent in proportions, while tho resi dences aro grand old English homes. The boat pushed olFat :j o'clock and soon after left tho lako (a detour which is made only on the upward trip) and failed away into the beautiful bay of Ginn'to, the love liest sheet of water I've ever seen. Tho picnic at sunset will ever live in memory. When the great golden orb sank into a bank ot purple cloud, in which there was a crimson rift, from whence sprang two columns of ruby light that shot down on tho gleaming bosom of the bay, whoso smooth surface was a sheet of emerald dimpled with crystal and pearl; here the columns rested their glowing length, then gently pierced j the wawr mr, lar oown in its shining bosom; it was like a glimpse of heaveif. "Her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 'j'iie cjty was pure gold like unto clear glass. And tho foundations of the wall of tho city were garnished with all manner of precious stones jasper; the second sapphire; the third chalcedony; tho fourth an emerald." If this grand old earth contain such enchanting views, and wo remember, "Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered the heart of man to conceive the glor3' prepared for him," we may well be lost m wonder, love and praise to the great Creator whoinhabiteth eternity. Passing from tho bay into that splen did achievement Murray canal we reached Trenton about 9 o'clock, and as the town clock pealed its sweet notes over the water, a party of young folks stood on the dock to hail the boat and sang as she steamed away, "Good-bye, Lady, I'm Going to Leave You Now." Morning dawns, and by 7 o'clock we aro at Toronto. A whirl over tho paved streets in a hansom cab re vealed points of interest at every turn. The magnificent parliament buildings in Queen's park constitute tho crown ing feature in the surrounding mag nificence. I should like to take my readers a day's tramp through this splendid buildings aro line, substantial spools mens of architecture; the residences, in many instances palatial and an air of solidity and strength, seemed to mark art, nature and human nature. Aboard the Chicora, and over the lake whose waters are as rough as the ocean, we hio toward Niagara, taking a good night's rest there, and on to Buffalo, the beautiful, to Rochester where a visit is made to that niagnili- 1 cent domain, Power's Art Gallery, the i like of which is not known in this country. Here l must check my pen, for a world of beauty opens up with every step. Regretfully I turn my j face southwiT.I, and glide along in the iron chariot through lovely glades and amid towering mountains until llar- risburg is reached. Now I touch our own Pennsylvania road once more, whose service and equipments is unequalled, and I begin to enjoy again tho comfort of riding on a rail. ' For general information, let me sum upthe figures of this excursion trip: Homul ticket from Vnliincton to Mii-iani. with a stop ovit at Watkius, Hiitralo uiul UnchtisU.T 'ii" 00 Uoim 1 trip to Toronto, ticket pun-lmsi il o-i train 1 Round trip to Alexiimiriu Hiiy via Luke Ontario. inclinliUK stiitu-rooin uiul minis H ro Trip on lslanil Wamluror. "iC Traveliiif; oxpiMisi! total Add to this hotel fare, which one can make as expensive, or as mod erate as they please, and you have a grand tour for a comparatively small sum. This excursion to Niagara, offered three times during the season by tho Pennsylvania railroad, limits tho ticket to ten days, but by mipping out your routo you can reach the full length of tho trip Outlined in these letters and feel that you have looked at a good big patch on the sur face of the United States when you have gazed upon Watkins' Glen, Niagara and Thousand Islands of the fct. Lawrence. Le Dean. What Shakespeare Might Have Said. To tako or not to take: that is tho iu'stiou. Whether 'tis better for a man to sillier I'nnu's ami torments of iniliKention, Or something lake, and, in its taking, end them. ShakespeHi-o didn't say that, but very likely he would have said some thing similar, if ho were living in this nineteenth century, when so many sufler untold agonies from indigestion. Of course ho would havo gone onto say that a man must bo a fool not to take the "something" which would put an end to the "pangs and tor ments" spoken of, if ho could get it. Now it is a fact that weakened, im poverished blood brings on indiges tion, which is tho cause of dyspepsia, constipation a poisoned condition ol the whole system and it is a fact, also, that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will so purify the blood and enrich it that all tho weakened organs are revitalized and strengthened. It U guaranteed to do this. If it don't, your money will be refunded to you. Unconstitutionality of Alien Land laws. Rural New Yorker Several of the states, mainly under pressure from the Agricultural ele ments, havo already passed alien land laws providing that no person not a citizen of tho United States shall ac quire title or own any interest in lands within their borders, and and some of tho laws further provide that aliens who already hold land by purchase, devise or descent shall close out their interests in them within a specified period usually six years Several states aro contemplating the enactment of similar laws. Of course tho clear meaning of such language is not only that no aliens shall acquire hereafter title to any lauds within the confiues of the several states, but also that no alien, not even those who had already bought or inherited lands in such states, shall i'owu" such property after the period specified for disposing of it. fejueh aliens, however, hold deeds of tho property either to "themselves and their heirs forever or to their heirs and assignees for ever," and it is held by many high authorities that any legislation in validating such deed is unconstitu tional, because it is directly violative of tho obligations of one of the few contracts considered so sacred that a formal acknowledgment and seal are required to bind it, while the Federal constitution expressly lor bids all legislation violative of tho obligation ofcontracts. On this ground alono is it maintained that the courts must de clare all laws of the kind un constitutional. Again, it is asserted that the right of aliens to acouiro and hold property in the United States is a matter within tho exclusive juris diction of the Federal government as the only treaty-making power with other nations. Indeed, the first treaty with England provides that English men had tho right "to tako and ac quire, hold and dispose of real and personal property of every descrip tion, and to transmit a title to land in all respects as natural born subjects of tho United States." In the case of Chivac vs. Chivao the sum-erne court of the United States held that a treafy . mi riaiice giving her citizens the , right to "purchase and hold lands ! in the United States removed tho in j capacity of alienage and placed them precisely uie same position as if they were citizens of this countrv I The same doctrine has been reaffirmed by tlio court in a number of other cases, while provisions giving aliens the right to acquire and hold real property in this country are, wo are assured, embodied in a score of trea- A Minister s Cure A Minister and his Little boy cvitBD'oif OBSTINATE SKIS DISEASES BY THE OTTICORa 'Remedies. I'haises tiie.m in tub pim.pit home and in the stiieet. Cured by Cuticura. For about thirteen years I have been trnublcii with eczema or some other cutaneous d'sea w h.t h all remedies f.iiled to cure. Hearinifot the Ci TK i KA Remedies, I resolved to (flve them a trial. I to' lowed -the diicetlons oirefii ly. and it iillbrds me niiieh pleasure touy ihni before nsiii); two boxes of the Cuticura, f0Ilr mkes of Ci tktiia 8oai anil one boit'lo of l.'i riri iiA Resolvent, 1 was entirely cured. In udditloii to rny own ease, my b.iby bov, then about five nionihs old, was sntlerim? with whut I snpiiosul to be the same disease iw mine u sneh au extent thai his head was routed over with a solid seal) from wh.eh there, wag a ton s antllow of Dug whieh was siekeniriR to look upon, besides two lurK'e tuinor-l.ko kernels on the baek of his head. Thanks to vour wonder Inl Ct Tin i!A Kemkdies. his sealp is Terfectlv wi 11, ami the kernels have bi en scattered so that there is only one liitle plaee by his left car and that Is healinK nicely. Instead of n eoatii ol sealis he has a line eout of hn r, much betlc" than that which was destroyed bv tho disease, 1 would Hurt the whole world of sufferers from skin mid blood dii-eases knew the value of your Ci tii I 'i!.v ifKMKDiKs as I lio. They arc worth ten times the price lit w hich they are sold, j have never used any oilier toilet soap hi m? Inn se since I boll(.'ht the first cake of vour Ci th i iia Siiai'. 1 would be inhuman, aswcP as uncial' fill, should I full to speak of and iccominc ml tlieni to every sufferer. I have spoken of tin in, and shall eon iiiue to speuk of ti.ein from the pulpit, in the hemes and in thi slice;., l'uiyiiitf that you may live loui; and do otheis the same amount i f noo.l you hiivedoni; mo and inv child, I remain yours gratofiillv (licv.) C. M. MAXNJNO. llox '.'a. iSewonh,'6;i. Cuticura litmedies rtiv in truth the trr atcst skin cures, b'ood puri fiers and humor remedies of modern t.ines Sold everywhere, l'rice, Ccticcua, Bee.; Boat" Si:; Kesih.vent, Si. Prepared by the Tottii Diti'o and Chemical Coiti'uiiATioN. lioslon. f.'Scnil for "How to Cure Skin Disease," (i. piiK' s, .n illustrations, ami 11)0 teslinionial& fliMl'I.KS. blackheads, red, ronph, chapped, rllTI and oily skins prevented oy tnjTK.'DRA OLD FOLKS' PAINS. l-'ull of comfort for all Tains, Inflnm matioii and Weakness of the Ac.ed lis the fulicura Aiiti-l'ain I'lustcr, the first and only puiii-kill.nir streimthcniiip plaster. New; instantaneous and infallible. ties between tho United States ami other nations. So it has boon held by tho United .States Supremo court that "every treaty made by the au thority of the United States is supe rior to tho laws and constitution of any individual State. If tho law of a State is contrary to a treaty, it is void." Hence it is strenuously claimed thit all alien land laws are void ab initio. Indeed the national platforms of various parties have .frequently con tained planks appealing to congress for tho regulation of this and other questions relating to alienage. 15otb t lie St. Louis and Ocala platforms of tho Farmers' Alliance contained planks of this kind, while Democratic statesmen, fiTim Calhoun to (ieorgo,a well as Kepublicans from Webster to Edmunds, have been emphatic in their opinions on the paramount authority of Federal jurisdiction as against state legislation in matters affecting oiu treaties with other countries. The Politics of the Thing. from the Dallas News. "I want to amend my remarks i tho News this morning," said Mr. V. R. Lamb to a reporter for this paper. "I want to say now that I beliovo the '1 bird party will carry tho state next year. Tho people want the relief and are going to havo it. They aro going to take tho quickest way to get it. Party fealty fades when it comes to a question of meat and bread ad the women and children." "Youcunwrito it down," said an Alliance man known all overthestate who was standing near "that tho peo ple are tired of promises. They elec ted Hogg on promises to relievo them and ho has only disgusted every Alliance man who voted for him by his administration. I know what I am talking about when I say that there are not half a dozen men in this hall who would vote for Hogg to-morrow. If the politicians who are behind him force him on tho people next year you can bet that tho people, as far as the Alliance is the people, will repudiate him utterly. The politicians can't use this body any moro like they did last year. Wo havo got tho wool off our eyes now and see things straight Every man elected to ollico in Texas hereafter. Democrat, lieuublican. Green backer or Third party man, has got to stand squarely on the Ocala plat form to get tho Alliance vote. While the order has not yet passed, a resolu tion to that effect, every man here is de termined on tho point. Wo aro going to make the fight on every body from United States senator down. We havo been hoodwinked too long al ready, and aro now going to show the politicians that the farmers are a power in this country when they once get it into their heads to do anything. We will sweep all parties out of ex istence, create a new one but what our demands shall bo granted and our wants relieved. Wo say this in sober ness for our resolve is taken and we aro going to keep on fighting till wo win. You can say tho members of tho Farmers Alliance of Texas are squarely on the Ocala platform and wo aro going to mako them tho quali fication to political success." A reporter for tho News talked to a dozen of the delegates and they were all of tho same turn of mind. 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