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We have no trouble to get ads. No trouble with subscribers We have the experience, and you the money —pass the bank this way. By F. L. JELTZ. FOR CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST: 1900. Hon. Chas, Curtis, Senator Hoar is a roar. Every woman expects for the train and electric cars to a wait their coming. Our enemies can realize that we don't give a darn. Remember our merchant men they are to be benefited. The noise about some scoundrel against us reveals the fact that we care nothing as a matter of fact. Why do some of our officers jolly the bums, and when they meet a gentleman they take up no time with such(?) Special attention should be given our Emporia subscribers, readers and advertisers. Those white men who don't want this paper can go over in Missouri if they want to we don't give a darn. The dirty bums can continue to fight us they amount to nothing. We do not ask for the endorsement of anything like making us the official paper. What we want is to make us the receiver of the white metal association. We don't do as much boasting as some of our contemporaries but it seems to be whispered around that the Ledger suits the public all right. In response to a tew would be pluggers and critics pertaining to Dr. Sunday and Charley Smith it seems to us that the doctor was in many respects acting on the authority of many learned physicians who lately established quarantine methods, but at first refused. There is a good oeal of complaint coming from the heavy fines it is is said imposed by the new judge. If he has made such errors as claimed, it would be well for the old timers to give the man a pointer, they claim that the city ought not to be made pay for tramps and trivels. It appears to a man on the out side that we have an awful good lot of people to deal with. One fool remarked to us the other day did we ever do any work? He seemed to think that no man is actively engaged at work unless he is driving cows or handling a pick or shovel at digging coal. We are not stuck on any one for County attorney at present. There are many rumors afloat and if there is any truth in their stones all of them will huddle up together. It is an ill will that blows no one good it is said a long lane that has no turn. We are safe in saying that we are here to battle for the good of those members of the race who appreciate our efforts but to those ungratetul demagogues they can continue to loose out and fail to capture our business as they have wistfully tried. some people seem to have a stand in with some one, well any way the joints are still running. Why do people make all this noise about joints not running in Topeka ask your officers and selves are there any joints? And why do they run under every one's nose? At that—bosh, beans—a rest please. The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL E. B GOOD For some time there has been a question arisen from the people who attend police court on summons issued by that court. Many responsible people some time have to omit there business or trade to attend a police court menagriehence they as aforesaid complain of the neglect of this court that they are compelled and threatened by officers and get no witness fee. Hence Mr. E. B. Good, one of the most reliable and honest gentlemen ever in the fee business in this city. While looking after his own interest as usual has been looking after the responsible people who attend court, and with his able Counsel in the person of Hon. W. E. Fagan, The matter came up at various times and hung five when at the recent sitting of the Court of Appeals, the majority of its judicial officers decided in favor of the plaintiffs, this was a victory for both Mr. Good and his attorney Hon. W.E. Fagan, who is the present county auditor and comes from the first class kind of lawyers. Coming as it were on the verge of Mr.Fagan's candidacy for Probate Judge. It is no question without doubt but that he will receive a large support of the voters of this county. "A hureling is worthy of his hire,' and now it looks as though any Police Court witness will be compensated by his or her attendance. Every old soldier wants a job of some kind. Rich men should not run for county attorney. The PERRY MIRROR endorsed our editorial on the killing of Agent Foley at that piace Dec. 21. Topeka is over run with prejudice: some of the damnable skunks class who are against us but little favor do we ask of them we will fight it out on this line just the same. A good many silly teilows think they should subscribe for our paper and we boost them don't do that. We don't own the kind of Plain-dealer to suit some of the literary brain and would be swells but we try to deal plain enough to be understood. Do not listen to the noise and rabbling of the street gamin we are all right and don't you forget it. Charley Curtis is all the go among colored people because if they monkey around and neglect Curtis they are gone harder against it than ever before. The LEDGER says: Remember Curtis and organize clubs. We have no one to write editorials for us and we do not want any one. The reason we could sell no papers. Our paper is all right it suits every one. Judge W, E. Fagan one of the most prominent gentlemen and also County auditor is a candidate for Probate judge, There is a good deal of talk over the present about this and that candidate but when the time grows older we will have you people appreciate who is right and who is wrong. The last issue of our paper was very satisfactory to its many readers. Many letters have been received on account of our outspoken views in our last issue. PROMOTION NEAR. Promotion days for advancement to and from the different grades begins at the High School Jan. 19th. The graded schools Jan. 21st respectively Monday and Friday. BEWARE Of THE DOG Chicken-pox, small-pox, scarlet-fever, and diptheria is awful prevalent in the city We advise our readers to not go to near the dog: beware else you will not be able to pay us that which you owe us in this world and it might be a fighting chance to receive it in the other world. CURTIS MUST WIN "BOYS" We don't see any need of alarm on the part of the Curtis forces they are all active and at work for him. If Curtis don't win out all signs will forever here after fail. The people of this district are very foolish to tolerate the dictates of a man like LeLand, and if you don't serve at his call he will send you to Hades, or juj—bosh DR. SHAFFER Dr. Shaffer, the new minister of St. John's church, is one of the most dignified capable, and other wise competent qualified minister, we have been lucky to receive in this city for many years. He does no waiting, he is a timer and if you are not present when he begins to preach, he does not wait for the crowd he preaches just the same. BACK TO STAY. We will be among you a little more regular this year than last on account of a desire for out-door exercise. Last year we preferred the latter, but your interest will be looked after from now to a finish personally, and otherwise we will have the meekly appointed lambs who seek office in this county that we are going to be quite self ooinonated. They can do as they deem best-We are there. YOUNG AND SKEARCE'S FINE POOL HALL and UP-TO-DATE CAF-E. We call special attention of our many readers from this time on that for a good meal, lunch any and all the delicacies of the season. Remember the place, at Shell Young's, 525 Kansas ave. In front General Skearce assisted by the veter artist, A. D. Defrantz operates the shop. Hence you will not go away without getting nicely served Under Express office-525 Kansas avenue! BLACK CAT IN THE WINDOW. We were not many miles away from our sanctum last Lord's day when we notice many spectators or passersby stopped Sunday evening to spy the maneuvers of a black cat in one of the grocers windows sitting upon all the dried trait in a radius from Topeka to Col. Fred Wellhouse's farm of 1600 acres. The cat was partially asleep or taking cat nap. Every one guyed, passed and laughed. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue. WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE. State Ledger Office, 431 Kansas Ave. (Up Stairs.) Messer's Gaume and Hover of Oraga kans. keep everything kept in a first class market. An Abilene man is heralded as on the road to fortune because he invested ten cents and won five hogs. It will profit him nothing. Look around and see the men who received big damages from the railroad companies, made successful lottery drawings or had any other run of great luck you will find that the money does not do them any good. They cannot keep it. Money caught in that way will use its wings. There is an unwritten law against uneaunde wealth. It is the unearned increment in the financial world. Ex. We like to talk to white men who delight to talk with us on the other hand. If they think we need no consideration let them go thy way; they will soon forget. The action of Dr. C. S, Sunday in threatening to bring Policeman Smith into court for performing his sworn duty in protecting the community against the spread of this epidemic of chicken-pox, is both foolish and senseless. It is the duty of every citizen to protect the community from the spread of contagious diseases, and Dr. Sunday will find that public sentiment and law will uphold Policeman Smith in maintaining a strict quarantine. As a people we we have entirely to much of this suing and threatening to sue, and it is hardly keeping in with the boasted intelligence of our leading men that they set such an example before the masses,—Plain-dealer. A Topeka undertaker whose name has been in the paper before received a well merited rebuke in the district court of Shawnee county. He was guilty of practical body snatching in that he took possession of a body without being authorize to do so. This sort of business is all to common and the rebuke will have a wholesome effect. LAWRENCE WORLD. Knight is his name, and he has been taught a lesson in judicial precedence, and if he ever does anything of the kind again. The general verdict is that he will get an awful send off where as we don't know where to he will land. Mrs. Palmer who spoke at St. John's church Sunday night seems to be proud because she belongs to the Negro race. Her version on never seeing an ugly Negro of the race, does not jibe well with the STATE LEDGER; we have seen some awful mean looking ones. A. T. WAGGONER. DRUGGIST. Rubber Goods Especialty. YOUR TRADE SOLICITED. FOR SALE. 4 room cottage on Chesnut street 1 lot five location, price $400, 50 cash payments: 2 room house nice and neat, 1%, lots, on Lime street 325- $50 cash balance payment. 2 room house nice and neat. 1 price, $150, cash, 25. See us for bargains. Everyday will be Sunday bye and bye. Ex-president Cleveland has forwarded his personal clutch to assist Booker T. Washington's school to the extent of $25000, and Cleveland was a Democrat; Two years in the White House did not cause his head to swell, and for get the Hamites. Often on the streets you will meet woman going down town finally they tie up with some favorite policeman and tell their troubles to them. This is about as far as the greater part of her story goes. Harry Wright, the Bullet proof and up-to-date supposed bum was not hurt at all. The supposed shooting got of somewhere in mystery and came to fight just time enough to give him 20 days on the rock pile, both served alike, MR. T. C. SCOTT. One of the most active supporters for Mr. Curtis in the first district, is Editor Scott, he is making the fur fly for Charley Curtis. A careful canvass of that part of the district reveals the fact that Mr. Scott's newspaper is being felt. Mr. Scott is an active member of the Republican party in good standing and he deserves the respect of all good thinking people of his district. HERESTO OUR ENEMIES. We do not care whether you hunt us up or not, run us down or tell us we are a good fellow. We know just how good we are. We are paired to note sincerely how good a fellow is—in further some candidate right here have found that we don't dance to all their music, hence they have shown us their cloven hoofs and they can continue to do so. We move as we are moved. If it were not that we were for Curtis and McKinley, we would make trouble with some of the bosses on account of the way they have tried to serve us. Some of those who owe us have falsely said thinking the world will stop if they snore. But that time has passed: we are going to be fair, equal portion to all classes if deserving, but we will never forgive some of the would-be-bosses till we have knocked a few plumes from them by the STATE LEDGER K NIGHT GETS BEAT. At the decision rendered by Judge Hazen this week over the disposition of the remains of the late J. F. Crennan, Knight, the Undertaker lost out and was forced by order of court to give the body of the dead man in charge of his friends. It is said that Knight wanted $350 to embalm and prepare the body for shipment. This amount it is claimed he wired Mr. Crennan's relatives but here it was understood he wanted $300. Ex-editor Carr, Postmaster a Valley Falls, is whooping up for Bailey, and, ere long he will get out and begin to take off his coat. It is said that Mr. Carr is a great campaigner and will make things We guarantee the people who advertise, quick returns most reliable newspaper a mo ng all classes. interesting when the time comes. Of course such men as M1. Carr in the Curtis campus will do great good, though if he doesn't get on our band wagon under the present reign of things, and Bauey get left in the shuffle may be rather surprising to the genial Carr there after. We have for some time noticed little mean things thrown as a fire brand against this paper and we did not show our hand, now throw some more and heres to you ou "sword." We don't mind what some cotempory says of us, but it is better never say too much, that is why some people get up against the real thing. DEGGINER'S HOTEL & RESTAURANT—312 Kans. Ave. We publish a neatly prepared card this week of Mr. D gginge's restaurant where he will prepare your meals and make them to you at startling low prices short order in connection—312 Kansas ave Young Gilbert of Atchison, age eleven years, admitted to the bar in 1899, has a father whose title is Judge Gilbert and he is an active organizer and supporter of Charley Curtis. The man who receives only a small income, tries to follow up the characteristics of his able Saxon brother, and in the melen his family is liable to starve to death, while his opposite race brother's wife is living in a paradise. So do not be deceived because rich men make monkies of you. Pop Harris, senator from Kansas, is very easy out done; he recently fired Ex-adjutant General Harris of Lawrence, his private secretary, on the plea that he talked too much. Perhaps the Kansas editors may think the boot is on the other foot. The Rev. Mrs. Palmer, formerly of Lincoln Neb., will open a series of meetings at the St. John church beginning Monday night of this week. Hon. Geo. Findlay has recently returned from Washington, D. C. It is a pleasure to note how the Curtis forces are organizing while on the other hand the opposition is trying to make a still hunt. It is amusing to see them wire in and wire out, an as usual they will continue to leave the people still in doubt. Some people stop the LEDGER because they want you to ask them to continue, or thers stop their paper because you don't belong to a syndicate or combine, and because we don't ran a joint, there are some in favor of patronizing the Joini system. THE ONLY PLACE FOR A GOOD MEAL GOTO DEEGINER'S--HOTEL & RES TAURANT. WE ALSO FURNISH LODGING. 312 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas 13'00. For Sale--By John L. Howard 415 Kansas 5 houses o. W. 51th St. ranging from $80 10 $200 centrally located at reasonable pr ces on easy payments. Give him a call. THE STATE LEDGER. KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST At Christmas the inmates of the Osawotamie insane asylum consumed 1,800 pounds of turkey. A great many deaths from pneumonia have been recorded all over Kansas during the last few weeks. St. Francis hospital, Wichita, on Christmas eve had a tree for the patients. It was a successful and happy affair. Six store buildings at Westphalia, Anderson county were destroyed as the result of a defective flue; with a loss of $25,000. All trains leading to Topeka on Dec. 26 were crowded with teachers who were on their way to the state teachers meeting. The premier jockeys of the world, Lester and Johnny Reiff, are in Wichita, their old home, visiting their brother, Elmer Reiff. Governor Stanley has issued a pardon for Isaac G. Reed, who was a murder convict. Reed was taken to a hospital, but is hopelessly sick. Five hundred cows are owned by the stockholders of the creamery now being built at Barnard; which ought to give it a big push toward success. T. C. Kirby, proprietor of a hotel at Perry, shot and killed G. A. Foley, and riding to Oskaloosa surrendered to the sheriff. Kirby asserts the dead man had ruined his daughter. The farmers of Kansas are holding their grain. McKenzie, state inspector, says that unless the grain begins to move soon he will have to reduce his force of deputies to half. Representatives of the National Association of Charities and Corrections will visit Topeka to make arrangements for the convention of that order which is to be held in that city in May. George Baum, of Topeka, has been appointed a cadet in the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., by Congressman Curtis. Clarence Richards was reappointed by Congressman Long from the Seventh district. A pipe organ costing $1,675 has been put in the Congregational church at Seneca. They recently built an addition to the church which cost $850, papered the building at a cost of $60, and put down a $100 carpet. "Within five years," says the Olathe Mirror, "every farmer in Johnson county will have his mail delivered at his door and there will be trolley lines connecting every part of the county with Olathe and Kansas City." Progressive farmers here and there over the state are having acetylene gas plants placed in their homes. There are some particularly fine country homes in this state and they are becoming more numerous right along. W. W. Schwinn, a Kansas lawyer who left Wellington some time ago, in search of a location, landed first at Salt Lake City, then at Kansas City, and is now going back to Wellington. He finally "lilt" just where he started. In Shawnee county lives Benjamin Vance who was born a slave in Kentucky 64 years ago. He came to Kansas 17 years ago with a team and 50 cents. He now owns 400 acres clear of debt, several hundred head of stock, a fine residence and other property. His residence is finely furnished and he gave one of his daughters a fine piano on Christmas. Every dollar he has was made by farming, first as a renter, then as an owner. And now the turkey—gold nugget story comes from the Missouri Pacific eating house at Gypsum. It is stated that the place where the turkey picked up the nugget has been located and that a company has been formed to develop the mine. Thirteen months ago a buffalo was killed by the Dold Packing company at Wichita, and the meat has been in cold storage ever since. Some of it was sold for Christmas banquets at the rate of $2 a pound and was found to be very tender and in first class condition. The annual meeting of the Kansas Agricultural society had a larger attendance than usual. The delegates attended the funeral of Mrs. Wellhouse wife of the president of the society. Judge J. E. Halsell, who was at one time district judge of Sumner county, died recently at his home in Fort Worth, Tex., of Bright's disease. He was 73 years of age and was one of the most prominent democratic leaders of the state. At the time of his death he was a candidate for district judge at Ft. Worth. Miss Victoria Tulis is the name of a Kansas girl who is serving as nurse in one of the Manila hospitals. She says she is delighted with Manila; is living in Admiral Montejo's late residence and describes it as magnificent. Rev. C. I. Scofield, who delivered the funeral oration over the late Dwight Moody at East Northfield, Massachusetts, once lived in Atchison. He was at one time United States district at torney for Kansas. Ae now occupies the chair of Bible history in the Moody Northfield Bible school. A five-story brick office building is to be erected in Galena. Two Kansas Swedes are starting an overall factory in Topeka. The Kansas State Teachers' association was organized in 1863. The Crawford Amusement company of Topeka controls 60 theaters. Miss Rebecca Baxter, of Franklin county was thrown from a buggy and killed. Records show an average of 20 carloads of stock shipped out of Onaga every month of 1899. B. B. Smyth has been elected librarian of the Kansas Academy of Science for the sixteenth time. A leading merchant at Geary City, Kansas, is a woman and is generally known as "Aunt Mary." Drs. J. Longbridge and R. F. Bryant, of Lincoln, have been appointed pension examining surgeons. Frank Nobles, a farmer of Johnson county, died last week of hydrophobia. He was bitten a month before he died. It takes eight days for the raw material to be changed into binding twine at the new plant at the state penitentiary. Delegates to the State Horticultural society are agreed that present conditions are favorable to a good crop in 1900. Business men of Burlington may put up a fund for the purpose of sinking a hole in order to find what wealth lies buried down there. The bill for lighting against Leavenworth for September, October and November is $2,498.03, and the city council refuses to pay it. There has been but one death in Smith Centre in the past seven months; and that was the death of a person who went to the town sick. The farmers of Rice, McPherson and Reno counties produced half of the broom corn raised west of the Missouri. Their crop was sold this year for nearly $200,000. Henry Kimmel, of McLouth, shipped two loads of cattle at $5.60. He says if he does as well on the balance he has on hand his corn will bring him 50 cents a bushel. C. F. Ressegue, who has assumed the general superintendency of the Santa Fe, will move his family from Galveston to Topeka as soon as he can find a suitable home. Captain Coulter, head of the G. A. R. in Kansas, says that the order will take steps to prosecute by fine and imprisonment, men in Kansas who are wearing the G. A. R. button without right. The sheep barn at the fairgrounds in Topeka, used by D. W. Kent as a training stable, was completely destroyed by fire and ten horses and several buggies and sulkies were burned. Kent's loss is large. Governor Stanley has appointed Ed. H. Madison, of Dodge City, judge of the Thirty-first judicial district which comprises the counties of Ford, Kiowa, Comanche and Clark, in place of Judge F. C. Price, resigned. The Bell Telephone company, or the Missouri-Kansas company of which John R. Mulvane is president, will set 1,000 miles of poles and string 10,000 miles of wire this year. This is an official announcement made by the management of the company. State Auditor Cole refused to register $40,000 worth of Delaware township, Jefferson county refunding bonds. The bonds provide for an interest rate of 6 per cent which Mr. Cole regards as a suspicious circumstance as the state school fund would take the bonds at $4\frac{1}{2} per cent. His action will allow time for an investigation. New call boxes have been put in place in many offices and business houes in Topeka. The boxes are so arranged that messengers, police, caba or express wagons can be called by simply pushing the indicator to the right place. Sam Triplett, of Labette county has been awarded a medal for gallant action in the Cuban war. He was a sailor on the Marblehead and performed a perilous feat in cutting the cable at Cienfuegos. He is now on the battleship Indiana. Stephen Balch, who has large vineyards in Sedgwick county, has sold three carloads of grape cuttings to a nurseryman of Cowley county. Catholics of Alma dedicated a fine new church last week which takes the place of one burned less than a year ago. The building cost $6,500, and the debt on it amounts to less than $500. Father Kamp is given credit for the major portion of the work which was necessary in getting the building put up so quickly, and in such a satisfactory manner. Edgar Bates, of Smith county, has sold his 80 acre farm for $1,000. He bought it 7 years ago and went in debt for every dollar of it. He had it clear when he sold it. He has bought a larger farm. An organization has been effected known as the Kansas State Stenographers' association. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, E. A. Allen, of Salina; vice president, Arthur Young, of Concordia; secretary and treasurer, Joseph Young, of Oberlin. GOOD NEWS. PROSPECT DURING THE PAST WEEK THE WAGES OF 56,700 OPERATIVES IN FALL RIVER, LOWELL AND NEW BEDFORD HAVE BEEN ADVANCED 10 PER CENT. PICTORAL CONTRASTS DIFFERENT CONDITIONS UNDER TWO ADMINISTRATIONS. Dismal Scenes of Poverty and Suffering Give Place to Gratifying Representation of the Splendid Prosperity Visible on Every Hand. This week's American Economist presents two illustrations which preach a sermon and tell a story of peculiar interest and significance. The first, a photographic reproduction of a scene of actual occurrence, brings into view a condition which existed in January, 1894, less than a year after the inauguration of Grover Cleveland as president of the United States. The administration of President Cleveland was distinctly committed to the policy of free trade, and from the moment the result of the presidential election of November, 1892, became known, the country began to feel the stress and stringency of the changed industrial and economic outlook. A year and a quarter later, the period at which the scene portrayed in the first picture occurred, the wage earners of the United States were brought face to face with the disastrous consequences involved in the triumph of free trade. Out of work, out of money, their wives and children suffering for lack of food and clothing, eagerly thronged the places where relief was dispensed. One among these numerous places was the New York Herald building, corner of Broadway and Ann street, where free clothing was handed out to the needy. It was a charity which honored the generous proprietor of the Herald and which went far toward mitigating the sufferings of the poor in that never-to-be-forgotten free trade winter of 1893-1894. The charity was the worthier on the part of the Herald, because of the element of reparation entering into it. Come we now to the second picture, which appears in the New York Herald of Dec. 5, 1899. Three years and a month have elapsed since the verdict of the people at the presidential election of November, 1896, was made known in favor of a protective tariff. Instead of the dismal scenes of poverty seeking the dole of free soup and free clothing, we have a picture of Uncle Sam, his features expressing supreme gratification, standing by the side of a chimney in whose dense mass of escaping smoke are seen the outlines of the word "PROSPERITY," while a huge placard announces the fact that During the past week the wages of 56,700 operatives in Fall River, Lowell and New Bedford have been advanced 10 per cent. The New York Herald was for many years a strenuous advocate of free trade for the United States. It is not so strenuous now. Otherwise it would hardly have furnished the second picture of a pair which tell so vividly and so convincingly the story of contrasting conditions under two administrations. BARGAIN COUNTER THEORY. Our Products Not Sold Abroad for Less Than at Home. One of the arguments most generally urged against the protective tariff system by its opponents is that American products are frequently sold to foreign consumers for less than they are sold at home. The same objection might be urged against the bargain counter sales of the American merchant. He has a surplus and cannot afford to hold it over until the next season, to be put up in competition with new and fresh goods, even of the same manufacture. The bargain day sales of the merchant do not affect the salaries of his employees, they are of some benefit to those who buy, and although they may not add to the profit side of the merchant's account, they at least save him from loss. The manufacturer cannot exactly estimate the quantity of goods he can sell during the season, but he knows he must have enough, and he furthermore feels that he is in duty bound to furnish his employees full employment, and therefore lets his mills go full time. If he has a surplus and can dispose of it at cost in a foreign country it saves him from loss, helps the purchaser to the extent of reduction in price, and above all, enables him to give his labor full employment. Is there anything wrong in the We know Hogman and Co. Preston Banks and full list orders at our prices transaction? The thinking man will say no. The fact of the matter is, however, that American products are never sold in foreign markets for less than they are at home. That they are sold, however, at less price than the foreign manufacturer can produce them for, is an acknowledged fact. This is the misfortune of the foreigner. The superiority of our skilled labor and improved labor saving machinery enables us to do this, and we do it. Can any one find fault with us for doing so?-St. Louis Star. ness and financial interest of the nation is enacted during the next few years. "The country demands and should have a settled and assured policy in respect to those questions. The Dingle law as a revenue producer has more than satisfied those responsible for its enactment, and has proved gratifying to the people of the country generally. "It has furnished ample revenue to carry on the government from the moment the sugar and wool schedules be gan to operate. I am convinced that the happy results it has produced will FREE TRADE BOSH. The Assertion That President McKinley Leans Toward Cobdenism. The New York Times seems to be taxing its resources to save the Democratic party. It sees that Mr. Bryan and all that he stands for on silver, trusts and expansion can only make that party less popular with the people. It has finally hit upon a scheme by which the party can be reinstated and the country saved from untold disaster, namely, by abandoning its position on silver, trusts and the Philippines, and standing for the simple issue of tariff destruction. Let the party declare for putting all trust products on the free list and make "a determined assault upon the 52 per cent Dingley tarin" and its popularity with the people is assured. It takes the recent remarks by President McKinley and Postmaster-General Charles Emery Smith, favoring foreign commerce, as certain evidence that the administration is rapidly getting in line for free trade, and warns the Democratic party that if it does not hurry up and get upon this anti-tariff platform the Republicans will be ahead of it, and then its chances of success will be gone for another generation. Mr. Bryan may lack political insight in adhering to the 16-to-1 proposition, but in his wildest moments he has never exhibited such mental chaos as is revealed in the notion that President McKinley and his postmaster-general have turned their backs on protection, and that free trade would be a popular issue for 1900. Such a notion can only be entertained on the assumption that the American nation is composed of seventy-five millions of people "mostly fools." Besides this deliverance Mr. Bryan's talk really sounds like statesmanship.-Gunton's Magazine, December, 1899. No Tariff Tinkering. Representative Payne of New York, chairman of the house committee on ways and means, is certain that the present congress will do no tariff tinkering. "The Fifty-sixth congress has important work on its hands," said he in a recent interview. "There will be no tariff legislation during the present session. The condition of the country is today thoroughly prosperous and will continue so unless ill-advised and radical legislation affecting the busi- NEWS. New York Herald, Dec. 5, 1899. ness and financial interest of the nation is enacted during the next few years. "The country demands and should have a settled and assured policy in respect to those questions. The Dingley law as a revenue producer has more than satisfied those responsible for its enactment, and has proved gratifying to the people of the country generally. "It has furnished ample revenue to carry on the government from the moment the sugar and wool schedules began to operate. I am convinced that the happy results it has produced will be permanent." Representative Payne is right. The Dingley law has proved so satisfactory and in all ways beneficial to the country that the people have no desire to interrupt its operations for some time to come. Protection and the Gold Reserve The treasury statement for October 13 shows that the gold reserve in the treasury stands at $257,746,906. The Democratic "endless chain" seems powerless to draw the gold out of the treasury during a Republican administration. When we had free trade, or tariff reform, the Democratic administration sold over $262,000,000 in interest bearing bonds to obtain gold with which to maintain the gold reserve and to pay current expenses of the government. There has been no drain on the gold in the treasury since the Republicans were placed in charge of it, because the people have full confidence in the financial ability of the Republican party. If the Democratic party was placed in power tomorrow our unparalleled prosperity would vanish, our gold reserve would melt away like snow in August, and before six months had passed the "endless chain" would be doing business at the old stand, bonds would be sold to pay expenses and maintain the gold reserve, business would be paralyzed and before a year had passed the country would be swept by a panic, and labor would be thrown out of employment.—Benton (III.) Republican. Historic Phrases A la Atkinson. From the Mobile Register: If the fashion prevails of bewailing our nation's effort to maintain the dignity of its flag in the face of the enemy, we will have to revise the saying of those who once were national heroes and ask our children to study them in the following shape: Give up the ship.-Lawrence. Be sure you are right, then apologize for it.-Davy Crockett. We have met the enemy, and ours are theirs.-Oliver Hazard Perry. Wait until you see the whites of their eyes, boys; then run.-Andrew Jackson. Don't hold the fort; I'm running.-W. T. Sherman. Damn the torpedoes; take a sneak-David Glasgow Farraguat. I propose to get out of this line if it takes all summer.-U. S. Grant. There stands Jackson like a stone wall, but he is a fool to do it.-Gen. Lee. When you are ready, Gridley, you may skedaddle.-Dewey. Doing Very Well. The offer of the treasury department to redeem $25,000,000 worth of government bonds is an unmistakable indication of the flourishing condition of our national finances. The lack of readiness shown by the holders of bonds to take advantage of the offer of the secretary of the treasury is an equally reliable indication of the very satisfactory condition of commercial affairs throughout the country. The Dingley law seems to be doing pretty well, both by the government and by the people generally. Oh, the Sadness of Prosperity! "Everything seems to be lost for the time being in the whirl of money-making—the pursuit of money."—John R. McLean, in Cincinnati Enquirer. This is the pathetic way in which the candidate defeated on a platform of calamity and discontent describes general prosperity. The situation, as Mr. McLean describes it, may seem sordid, but it is all right.—New York Sun. Much More Favorable. No other word than triumph does justice to the results of the Dingley law. No matter where the test is applied its workings are far more favorable than any tariff ever devised by a Democratic congress.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Concessions Are Secured: The usual procedure in securing Chinese concessions is somewhat as follows: There first comes to Peking the advance agent, the typical concession hunter, to look over the ground and find out what China has to give away that can be taken up by a public company and secure the support of the share-buying public abroad. Sometimes he is sent as the representative of a group of capitalists who have a definite idea of what they wish to secure, and in such cases he is furnished with formidable letters of credit, to supply the very necessary sinews of this financial war. Sometimes he comes unsupported, and, having "hooked" some conditional grants posts hot-footed to London or New York to see what can be done with the Occasionally promoters are of a different class entirely; namely, the agents of foreign governments, trying, under the cloak of private enterprise, to advance a political design in some of the empire in which these governments seek a predominating influence says Charles Denby in the Forum. Experience has proved that these advance agents need not be gentlemen of the highest education or refinement, but they need to be endowed with a certain instinct for diplomacy in its lower forms, and they must be, above all shrewd and persistent, of indomitable perseverance, and with a faculty to making friends. Scruples as to methods are with them superfluous, but a willingness and an ability in the application of "palm oil" are indispensable. They must, also, be men of the word toward those who work with them. What they promise to those who aid in the negotiation of their contracts they must faithfully fulfil because while Chinese business integrity does not rise in the Quixote height of refusing to enter into corrupt contracts, it expects scrupulous exactitude in their execution. The promise of the promoter to his China aiders and abettors in social classes becomes a debt of honor, payment of which is, or should be, absolutely sure. On such terms as these have offices in China been secured promotions obtained, enterprises are thorized, for hundreds of years; and the foreign promoter must, as his initial step, give his adherence thereafter. The method of procedure of the advance agent is to make the acquaintance of the mandarins of Pekin; securing here and there an ally and a friend. Then, at some favorable moment, he lays his project before the proper department of the government relying on the support of his friends to secure it favorable consideration. One of the greatest concessions recently signed in China enriched in its negotiations numberless officials. The writer himself saw a promissory note for $35,000 payable to a small office upon formation of a certain company. This was but one palm "greased," and the outlay on this head by the concessionaire must have amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. For the consolation of future promoters it must be added that methods are not much simplified; such liberal "squeezes" being no longer necessary. Priceless Volume. About four years ago a London blacksmith noticed on a second-hand bookstall a very old book price at cents. He bought it, and after a tempting to read it, threw it aside and soon forgot it. One of his lodges happening to see the book recently and, noticing that it was dated 145 asked permission to show it to the British museum authorities. A day two later the blacksmith was requested ed to call, and the secretary, to his surprise, asked him what he would talk for the book. In some slight confusion the man said, "What will you give?" "Will $250 suit you?" was the answer of the secretary. The blacksmith was so dumfounded that the secretary thought he was ridicuilate his offer, and thereupon immediately increased it to $500, which was at one accepted. Sooner than have lost the book, however, which was the first book that Gutenberg ever printed, and therefore almost priceless, the museum authorities would have paid a most any sum that had been asked-Cincinnati Enquirer. A Globe Trotter Customer (Backhampstead, CT.) Wal, I don't know about that calico; think I've seed better. Storekeeper Nancy Jane Bosworth, there ain't a better calico than that on airth! know—for I have traveled! I have been to Springfield, I have been to Hartford, and I have been to New Haven! In fact, Nancy Jane Bosworth, I have traveled this wide wort over! So you can safely take my judgment 'bout that calico!—Puck. A. Slight Mistake. Actor (just aroused from his stuppe while being hauled to the police station in a wheelbarrow)—What! Has my admirers again unhitched in horses—Meggendrion Flaetter. "An Empty Sack Cannot Stand Upright. Neither can poor, weak, thin blood nourish and sustain the physical system. For strength of nerves and muscles they must be pure, rich, vigorous blood Hood's Sarsaparilla is established as the standard preparation for the blood by the many remarkable cures. Hood's Sarsaparilla Never Disappoints During the civil war the law school at Cambridge was presided over by Profs. Parsons, Parker and Washburn. They were divided in their political views, and each did his best to maintain his opinion. Prof. Parker was asked one day: "How do you get along on politics at the law school?" "Nicely," he answered. "We are equally divided." "But how can that be?" continued the inquirer. "There are three of you?" "Easy enough," replied the professor. "Parsons writes on one side and I on the other, and Washburn—he speaks on one side and votes on the other." The Health and Pleasure Resorts of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and California are quickly and comfortably reached via the Southern Pacific Company's Sunset Route. Daily through service from New Orleans to San Francisco via Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Los Angeles. Special semi-weekly service, Sunset Limited from New Orleans Mondays and Thursdays, composed of Buffet Smoking Car, containing Bath Room and Barber Shop, Drawing Room Compartment Car, regular Pullman Sleepers, and Dining Car (meals a la carte), all of the latest design and most luxuriously appointed. Direct connections made at New Orleans from all points North and East. Detailed information cheerfully furnished by W. G. Neimyer, G. W. A., So. Pac. Co., 228 Clark St., Chicago; W. H. Connor, Coml' Agt., Chamber Commerce Bldg., Cincinnati, O. W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass, Agt., 220 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. If you will return this coupon and three one cent stamps to the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass., you will receive in return a copy of the 20th Century Year Book. This is not an ordinary almanac, but a handsome book, copiously illustrated, and sold for 5 cents on all news-stands. (We simply allow you the two cents you spend in postage for sending.) Great men have written for the Year Book. In it is summed up the progress of the 19th century. In each important line of work and thought the greatest living specialist has recounted the events and advances of the past century and has prophesied what we may expect of the next. Among the most noted of our contributors are : Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, on Agriculture; Senator Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics; Russell Sage, on Finance; Thomas Edison, on Electricity; Dr. Madison Peters, on Religion; General Merritt, on Land Warfare; Admiral Hichborn, on Naval Warfare; "Al" Smith, on Sports, etc.; making a complete review of the whole field of human endeavor and progress. Each article is beautifully and appropriately illustrated, and the whole makes an invaluable book of reference, unequaled anywhere for the money. Address J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. A SUBSTANTIAL PROFIT will be made by every buyer of La Porte property. First general sale in February to be the future greatest sapport of the Gulf of Mexico. Every farmer, merchant and manufacturer of the United States will be interested in La Porte. A small investment will return handsome profits. Write for FREE Folder, Maps and Art Book to AMERICAN LAND COMPANY, 188 Madison St., CHICAGO. NO ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE MILLIONS of acres of choice agricultural in LANDS now open in Western Canada in Western Canada. He is grown the celebrated NO. 1 HARD HEAT, which brings the highest market of the world; thousands of cattle are adverted for market without being fed grain and covered a day's shelter. Send for information and write the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, or address the underigned, who will mail pamphlets, pamphs etc., of cost. J. S. Knoxford, 214 West Ninth St. Kansas City, Mo. 1,000 NEWSPAPERS Are now using our International Type-High Plates Sawed to LABOR-SAVING LENGTHS. They will save time in your composing room as they can be handled even quicker than type. No extra charge is made for sawing plates short lengths. Send a trial order to this office and be invited. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, WICHITA, KANSAS. Afflicted with: Thompson's Eye Water eyes, use ALREADY PASSED THE SENATE The Pension Bill Which is Likely to Become Law. MEETS G. A. R. COMPLAINTS. Washington. Jan. 5.—Following is the text of the bill which has already passed the senate and is now in the house. Grand Army committees were freely consulted in the formulation of the bill, and it is said to meet their full approval. An act creating a commission to revise and codify the pension laws of the United States. Be it enacted by the senate and the house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled. That the president, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a non-partisan commission of five members, at least one of whom shall belong to the organization known as the Grand Army of the Republic, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, to revise and codify the pension laws of the United States. Section 2.—That they shall proceed with their work as rapidly as may be consistent with thoroughness, and report the result of their labors to the secretary of the interior at the earliest practicable day, to be by him laid before congress. They shall also make such other reports during the progress of their work as they shall see fit, to the secretary of the interior, to be laid before congress at his discretion. Section 3.—That their report shall be so made as to indicate any proposed change in the substance of existing law, and shall be accompanied by notes, which shall briefly and clearly state the reasons for such proposed change. The Roberts Polygamy Case. Washington, Jan. 2.—Representative Tayler of Ohio, chairman of the special committee which is investigating the case of Brigham H. Roberts, says that the case will not come up for action in the house before the middle of January. The arguments will begin January 4. When they are finished the committee will form its conclusions. Then the report must be written. As it will be exhaustive, the greatest care will be required in its preparation, and although it is the intention of the committee to proceed as rapidly as possible, Mr. Tayler does not think that the case will reach the house before the middle of the month. Implement Dealers' Convention. Kansas City, Jan. 4.—Kansas City will be the Mecca for the vehicle and implement dealers of the entire West during the week of January 15, when the annual convention of the Western Retail Implement and Vehicle Dealers' Association will meet in this city for a session of three days. The territory covered by this association includes most of Missouri, all of Kansas, Nebraska, Indian territory and Oklahoma. Preparations are being made for the entertainment of 1,500 delegates, traveling men and wholesale men. Agent W. J. Pollock. Washington, Jan. 5.—It is understood that the recent investigation of W. J. Pollock, agent at the Osage agency, in Oklahoma, will not lead to his removal, as has been generally surmised. No incriminating evidence was developed. The conclusions are said to point to the agent's lack of qualifications for the place rather than to any violation of law. The matter is in the hands of Secretary Hitchcock, who is understood to regard the case as not sufficiently serious to justify Pollock's removal. Important Documents. Manila. Jan. 3.—The capture of bombs and arms in Manila involved the seizure of documents inculpating a thousand Filipinos who intended to rise against the Americans. Papers were also found showing a careful assignment of leaders and followers. The precautions taken by the Americans on Saturday, it is now evident, alone prevented an uprising. The provost marshal has requested that two more regiments be detailed for the protection of Manila. Three thousand troops are now actually in the c.ty. Ice Harvest in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 3.—The ice harvest has begun and ice twelve inches thick is being taken from the lakes and rivers of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin in the vicinity of Chicago. This work gives employment to over seven thousand men. The annual harvest is not as early in arriving as last year, but it is so far fully up to all expectations on the score of quality ank abundance. Training Shlp to Go to Sea. San Francisco, Jan. 4.—Information has been received here from Washington that the United States training ship Adams will be ordered to sea at the close of the week. Captain Goodwin will be in command and he will carry in addition to a regular crew, 150 apprentices. The cruise is to extend to the Hawaiian islands and possibly beyond. The Adams has just come out of the docks at Mare island, having been thoroughly refitted and overhauled. A NEW CATTLE RECORD. Cattle Business at Kansas City Stock Yards in 1899. Kansas City, Jan. 4.—The cattle industry of the southwest has established a new record and has made a remarkable showing during the past year. Cattle receipts at Kansas City for the year 1899, including cows, will aggregate 2,017,000 head, or close to 200,000 head above the receipts of 1898. The average value of cattle receipts at the Kansas City yards during the year was $30 per head, or a total of $63,510,000. Of the cattle received here, 600,000 head were shipped back to the country as stockers and feeders, the largest number of stock cattle ever sent from here in one year. The receipts of hogs for the year were 2,950,000 head or a decrease of 687,000, and the receipts of sheep 951,100 head, a decrease of 26,340 as compared with 1898. STEPHENS' PENSION BILL. To Sift Out The Pension List—Leaving The Poor. Washington, Jan. 3.—A bill introduced by Representative Stephens proposes that veterans, or others now pensionable, who shall possess $1,000 worth of property, or who receive a salary from the government, or from any state, county, municipality, or corporation in excess of the amount of pension to which they are entitled, shall be no longer pensionable, and that no pensions shall be paid to persons residing abroad who are not citizens of the United States. It also provides that the commissioner of pensions shall have the authority to summon pensioners before the examining boards with a view of ascertaining if their disabilities cannot be lessened or curbed by treatment, and if so, to ascertain why the pensioner has not employed such treatment. On failure to comply with the recommendations to employ proper treatment the pensioner is to be liable to be dropped from the rolls. Pensions to heirs of any person except for military service are prohibited and the existing pensions repealed, except where the recipients show that they have become improverished since the granting of the pension. Lawton Fund Big Enough. Washington, Jan. 4. General Corbiz announces that the subscriptions to the Lawton fund received amounted to $39,263.35, which did not include all the subscriptions made to the independent ent agents in various outside cities General Corbin also announced that the amount subscribed already exceeded the amount hoped for when the movement was organized, and was amply sufficient for the purposes of the fund, which was to raise the mortgage on the Lawton homestead at Redlands, Cal., and to provide for the education of the children. A Stockman Robbed. Walsenburg, Col., Jan. 1.—W. J. Milsap, a prominent stockman, was seized by two men when about to enter the Klein hotel, and was robbed of $12,000. The money was mostly in his coat and vest pockets and these garments were torn from him. No trace of the criminals has been found. Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico to buy cattle. Cripple Creek Gold for the Year Cripple Creek Gold for the Year. Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan 2.—The Gazette gives the production of gold from the Cripple Creek district for the present year as 422,805 tons of ore, with a bullion value of $19,743,100. The output for the month of December surpasses all previous records and added $2,610,218 in gold to the world's wealth. The Mexican Clerical Party. City of Mexico, Jan. 3.—El País, the Catholic daily, attacks the American missionaries, charging them with misrepresenting Mexico in their home organs and asks why they do not publish more articles showing the great progress made here, but concludes that if they did not make the American people believe Mexico to be steeped in paganism and barbarism they could not secure funds to maintain their missions. The religious question is at the bottom of the clerical party opposition here to all things American. Gold and Silver Output for 1899. Washington Jan. 2.—The preliminary estimate of the production of gold and silver in the United States during the calendar year 1899, made by Mr. Robert, the director of the mint, shows a total production of $71,694,170, an increase over the production of last year of $7,-231,170. The production of silver during the year is estimated at $74,424,696, an increase during the year of $4,040,-211. Senator Blackburn nominated Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 4. After four years of retirement, Joseph C. S. Blackburn was chosen by the joint caucus of the Democratic members of the legislature as the successor of William Lindsay in the United States senate. Notwithstanding Blackburn's nomination was a foregone conclusion and his election morally certain, the proceedings of the caucus were enacted in the presence of a galaxy of Kentucky beauty and a dense throng of Blackburn admirers. Follow Candles Medicine. In France the peasantry still stick to medicines calculated to turn the average doctor's hair gray with horror. Wine is an ingredient of every prescription. In fever cases it always is the predominant one. The French peasant's faith in fermented grape juice is truly beautiful. If his children are stricken with the measles he gives them wine, well sweetened with honey and highly spiced with pepper. For a severe cold he administers a quart of red wine and a melted tallow candle mixed. For scarlet or brain fever he gives eggs, white wine and soot well beaten together. Mormonism Is a blot upon our land—a symptom of governmental ill-health. The right laws would act upon it as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters does upon constipation, or dyspepsia. They would quickly restore healthy purity; and this is just what the Bitters does for the human constitution. It makes the stomach strong by curing indigestion and biliousness. In the alphabet of egotism there is but one letter. Read the Advertisements You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get in the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable and send what they advertise. When a woman gives her reason, a man might as well cease to argue. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE's TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 50c. The picture dealer should always be in an excellent frame of mind. Baker's Breakfast Cocoa is delicious. Costs less than one cent a cup. Made only by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. Credit is to a man what virtue is to a woman. Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved me large doctor bills.—C. L. Baker, 4223 Regent Sq., Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 8, '95. Silent neighbors make a desirable neighborhood. THE GRIP CURE THAT DOES CURE. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces La Gripe. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. The man with the pull is miltier than the man who gets pulled. WANTED—Two travelling salesmen in each southern state. Permanent position, salary and expenses; Experience not absolutely necessary. Address; Pocahontas Tobacco Works Co., Bedford City, Va. As soon as the moon gets three-quarters it proceeds to get full. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, relieves rammation, aids pain, improves wind cools. So a bottle. A good mirror always tells the truth, no matter on whom it may reflect. There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be treated with a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease that requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is a local disease that requires a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send one hundred dollars to F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Every time an angler loses a fish he is entitled to a re-bait. Reliable Help Wanted (Either sex.) The Humanitarian Home and Sanitarium for Invalids and Health Seekers, incorporated. Send stalks for full information. Address J. H. Tellebam, Treasurer, East Lakes, N. M. The victim of the bent pin knows when it is time to get up. AMERICA SAYS SO. The Entire Country is on the Move. Cascarets Candy Cathartic Did It, and Record a Phenomenon of the Million Loses, Sold Last Year. From every part of America comes the news that sufferers from, constipation and diarrhea can benefit from thartic, the wonderful modern scientific laxative and intestinal tonic. Cascarets are a common body's mouth. Thousands have tried Cascarets with the most pleasant and effective results, and voluntarily testify to their benefits. A few extracts from some of the letters: “I have been using Cascarets for headache and constipation and have received great benefit from them.” Mrs. M. Gabler, 512 Larrabee St., Chicago. “I have been taking Cascarets for over a month and find them just the thing for constipation.” Albert B. Burt, 70 Main St., Andover, Mass. “I am using Cascarets and have never found anything so satisfactory.” Mrs. C. W. Durrant, 57 Emerson St., Buffalo, N.Y. "I have taken Cascarets and cheerfully recommend them to all my friends." Mrs. G. Gradwell and I are for business and malaria and are so pleasant to take." Mrs. Mary Cummings, Maud, Oklahoma. "I use Cascarets in my family and find them all you recommend them to be." E. L. Cor. Mead and Railroad, Meadville, Pa. "You can safely add appendicitis to the list of diseases that Cascarets will benefit here." Eunice J. Smith, Rich Valley, Ohio. "I have used Cascarets; there is nothing better for constipation" Benj. Passage, Knightstown, ind. "I have used right. They have cured me of constipation, and I never expected anything would." Charles H. Nye, Lock Box 205, Cincinnati, Ohio. "I am so thankful for your Cascarets. They have saved me from the ever used," Mrs. M. Rew, Lacelle, Iowa. "I do not hesitate to say that Cascarets is the very best medicine ever placed before the people." Andrew Woodruff, Duxbury. "Cascarets are the best cathartic I ever used." Tom Holt, Wellwood, Manitoba. "I have tried your Cascarets and I want to tell you they are just splendid." John Wheatley, Duxbury. We could fill the whole paper with expressions like the above. Thousands of similar recognitions of the merits of Cascarets have been volunteered and prove that this delightful blend of taste, so mild and yet effective, has secured a firmly established place in the hearts of the people. Go buy and try Cascarets yourself today, drugstrips $25, boxed book and sample address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. This is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters "C C C." Look at the tablet you buy, and be aware of frauds, imitations, and substitutes. CCC Thought of past unhappiness prevent some people from enjoying present happiness. the progress of the construction work at La Porte, Texas, the future great deep-water shipping point at the head of navigation on Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, is progressing favorably. The wharves and switching tracks are nearing completion and the work on the streets and on the sewerage and water systems is now under way. Mr. I. R. Holmes the general manager of the La Porte Improvement Company and the La Porte Wharf and Channel Company, is personally superintending the improvements. Mr. Holmes makes his headquarters at the Sylvan Hotel and visitors to La Porte during the next six weeks and before the time of the first general La Porte sale, which will be held in February, 1900. should introduce themselves to Mr. Holmes and allow him to extend to them facilities for getting a thorough understanding of the conditions surrounding the La Porte enterprises. If a woman is pious enough, she can find sin in everything. The constantly increasing business of the B. & O. R. R. has necessitated very material additions to the telegraph service. During the past year nearly 2,000 miles of copper wire, 166 pounds to the mile, have been strung. New lines have been placed in service between Baltimore and Pittsburg, Baltimore and Parkersburg, Newark, O. to Chicago, Philadelphia to Newark, Philadelphia to Cumberland and Cumberland to Grafton. During the summer several of these wires were quadruplexed between Baltimore and Cumberland and duplexed west. Some men try so hard to be witty that every one pities their wives. CAS For Infant The King Alw Bears Signat of constipa- arrhoea overish- LEEP. of INIS PER. (showing small stars prin- oe," J. T.," "Good Lu- Natural Leaf Tin Tags mentioned below, and and child can find some e to have, and can have 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS (CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Purple of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Aloe Sweet Berkshire Salt Amino Sweet Poppy Seed Di Carbene Salt Wing Seed Cypress Sugar Whitgreen Plum. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Char. H. Flitchner. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DROPS - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Flitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. "Stat" tin tags (showing small stars printed on under side of tag), "Horse Shoe," "J. T.," "Good Luck," "Cross Bow," and "Drummond" Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in securing presents mentioned below, and may be assorted. Every man, woman and child can find something on the list that they would like to have, and can have FREE! TAGS. steel.....25 25 eter. Barom 24 Gun case, le 25 Revolver, au 25 Tool Set, not 26 Tool Set, not tools fine English.....50 plate, best.....50 28 Remington I 29 Watch, steril 20 Dress Suit C 29 and durable two blades.....75 Kutter," 8-in.....75 28 Inch.....75 Picks, silver.....80 best quail.....100 150 aspoons, best.....150 nd and set.....200 buckhorn.....200 Table Spoons.....250 Clock, 8-day 33 Clock, 8-day 24 Gun case, le 25 Revolver, au 26 Tool Set, not tools 27 Toilet Set, not 28 Remington I 29 Watch, steril 31 Sewing Mach 32 all attachment 33 Revolver, Co steel..... 34 Rifle, Colt's, 35 Guitar (Was laid..... 36 Mandolin, ve 37 Remington, mer Shot Go 38 Bicycle, star gents Special Notice! Plain "Star" Tn Tags (that is), Sär tin tags with no smi stars printed on under side of tag, are not tags for pre-entres, but will be paid for in CA on the basis of twenty cents per hundred, if received by mail on the 1st of January. La Porte, Texas. Syrup of TIGS ACTS GENTLY ON THE KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS CLEANSES THE SYSTEM DISPELS THE EFFECTUALLY COLDS THE HEADACHES OVERCOMES THE FEVERS HABITUAL CONSTIPATION TO GET ITS BENEFICIAL EFFECTS. BUY THE GENUINE - MAN'F'D BY CALFERNIA FIG SYRVPC LOUISVILLE NY. SAN FRANCISCO CAY NEW YORK NY. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS, PRICE $0.01 PER DUTIL. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Flitchur. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. AR TIN TAGS All stars printed on under side "Good Luck," "Cross Bow." If Tin Tags are of equal value in below, and may be assorted. An find something on the list and can have TAGS. 33 Clock, 8-day, Calendar, Thermometer, Barometer...500 34 Gun case, leather, no better made. 500 35 Revolver, automatic, double action. 600 36 83 or 86 caliber...600 37 Triton Set, not playthings, but real tools...650 37 Tollet Set, decorated porcelain...800 38 Remington Rifle No.4, 23 or 82 cal. 860 39 Watch, sterling silver, full jeweld 1000 30 Dress Suit Case, leather, handsome and durable...1000 31 Sewing machine, first class, with all attachments...1500 32 Revolver, Colt's, 28 caliber, blued steel...1500 33 Rifle, Colt's, 16-shot, 25 caliber...1500 34 Guitar (Washburn), rosewood, inland...2000 35 Mandolin, very handsome...2000 36 Winchester Repeating Shot Gun, 12 gauge...2000 37 Remington, double-barrel, hammer Shot Gun, 10 or 12 gauge...2000 38 Bicycle, standard make, ladies or gents...2500