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HOLDS A
Special Sale
To-morrow, for one week, to
show its superiority in high
grade Dry Goods. The main
features of this the first sale
of the season will be
Whit* Goods,
Wash Goods,
hrlntsd Dross Coods,
Black Silks,
Colored Silks,
Printed Foulards,
Wool Dress Coods,
House Keeping Linens,
Towels,
Crashes,
Napkins,
And Prints,
Calicoes, {Domestics
and Staples.
Calcutta and Indigo Blue Cali-
coes. best brands made, will be 4c
per yard ; cut from 6&c.
Silver Grays and Mourning Prints
will be 4c.
Hamilton Turkey Red Figured
Prints will be 4c.
Memmack Shirting Prints will be
10 yards for 30c.
Yard-wide Bleach Muslin will be
4c per yard.
Still better bleaching, soft finish,
will be 5c per yard.
Lonsdale and Fruit of Loom will
go in this sale only at 6c per yard.
30 inch heavy Percales will be 5c,
only 10 yards So each customer.
Amoskeag Apron Check Ging-
hams will be 5c.
Pepperel 9x4 Bleach Shearing will
be 17c, and the unbleached will be
15c ; only 10 yards to each customer.
For full list of goods advertised
for this sale see Herald of 19th inst.
H D. HIRE
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The Monitor is All Right.
Our neighbor, the Mineola Moni-
tor, is one weekly paper which can-
not be bribed bv an advertisement
to keep quiet when itinerant s
called merchants with bankrupt
stocks and shoddy goods drop into
bis town to fleece the public and
destroy the business of home mer-
chants. The local papers are large-
ly supported by the advertising and
job work of their own merchants,
and the Monitor sets a commenda-
ble example to its exchanges by re-
fusing to lend its columns to boom
the business of all such adventurers.
The following sensible paragraph
was clipped from a recent issue of
this paper:
“We are in favor of making the
taxes of these fake merchants so
high that they can’t stop here. They
come and go with the fall season.
They are of no benefit to the town
and conntry. The goods they bring
are shoddy and very often second
hand, bought from all classes of
people. Our merchants live here
and their interests should be pro-
tected. These fakirs get all the
money they can out of the country
and then goes money, fakir and ail
until the next fall when they come
back and gull the people again.
HOW 18 TEE TIME
To receive a discount of twenty per
cent on three months scholarship in
Mahan’s Night School. Visit the
college at once. 4o-tf.
Looks Bad.
A POKER GAME FOR A LIFE.
It should be placed to the credit
of Mr. Cannon, chairman of the
house committee on appropriations,
that he reported adversely the reso-
lution appropriating $500 for the
erection of % stand for the use of
senators and representatives and
their families on inauguration day,
on the ground that, senators and
representatives should pay for seats,
just as other people do, if they wish
to sit down to view the inaugural
parade. *
A GREAT OONVENIENOE
For the Patrons of John Holden.
John Holden requests the Gazet-
teer to state that he will go after
and return all vehicles that are re-
paired at his shops. He takes pleas-
ure in announcing that he has se-
cured the services of a first-class
buggy painter and trimmer, one of
the best in the state. Mr. Holden
is on Chestnut street, near Austin
avenue.
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A late dispatch to the Scripps- j A Tale of Two American Gamblers in Gna-
McRae league from Washington I temala.
says: Some of the people who are
here in the interests of the five civi-
lized trines complain that congress
is preparing to knock the poor red
man out of the Territory. They
say the Platt l>ill was bad enough,
but the amendment to the Indian
appropriation bill which takes its
place, practically demands, accord-
ing to their views of the situation,
that the Indians be knocked down
with clubs and dealt with afterwards
as congress may dictate. They now
look for nothing short of the taking
away of all tribal rights.
A Successful Enterprise.
Harshaw’s Academy enjoys an
enviable patronage. Students are
pn attendance from all parts of the
city. A good patronage is received
from abroad. This popular institu-
tion has r very practical course of
study andi does thorough work.
Send for catalogue. Address
G. L. Hahshavv, Proprietor,
1431 Main St., Denison, Tex. 44-21
Prom the Kansas City St»r.
The true gambler has no longer a
home in the United States. No-
where, except in a few mining com-
munities in the west, are gambling
games permitted. The real gam-
blers left in the city are forced to
conteht themselves with quiet games
The others, of the class
the first opportunity be presented
her with a diamond from his belt,
and proposed that she assist in keep-
ing him alive until his friends comd
come to him.
The governor's wife was a vvo
man of good wit and she liked dia-
monds. She telegraphed to a friend
of Davis in Kansas City, a young
merchant, who related tne Story to
a reporter of “The Star.” The
telegram asked him to get in com-
munication with the little coterie of
comemptuousiy "known //“shoe’ I boyhood friends and classmates in
strings,” “tin horns,” “crap-shoot-
ers,” etc., lead a precarious ex-
istence in the fleecing of boys and
“dinner-pail” workmen. Stakes Of
a nickel are stooped to by these
petty swindlers. The old-time
gambler, who played because his
ing, alert, reticent and the gamest
man that ever looked down a gun
barrel. His end of the walking
beam is away up just now.
Bargains Left Over.
I have many beautiful articles of
goods purchased for the holiday
trade left over. See me for bar-
gains. A. Dorkr, jeweler.
WE DEFY
Any house in Texas to match our
men’s all-wool cassimer pants at
$1.50. We are willing to place
them against any $2.50 goods in
Denison. Madden, Graham & Co.
Uoetly Dogs.
The St. Louis Chronicle says:
A dog that cost over $50 a pound
will be one of the features of the
coming Dog Show. It is “Sport,”
owned by George II. Steinberg of
the Terminal Association. Sport is
a black and tan toy terrier, pur^
chased in New York a few days
ago. “Sport” weighs only 3$
pounds and cost something over
$200.
L. A. Prince, C. A. Pratt’s fa-
mous St. Bernard, will probably be
the highest priced dog at the show,
he being held at $10,000.
MOORE’S 8TUD10.
Y\ e are the leaders in style, qual-
ity, finish and low prices.
Ladies can save a few dollars and
get 1S97 styles lace curtains from
English factory monthly, chenille
curtains and covers, rugs and the
genuine Rogers—“1847 Rogers
Bros.”—silverware, etc., be send-
ing address to G. E. Wood. Deni
son. Texas.
An agricultulal writer claims that
one of the great advantages of a
country life is that, while the farmer
may not accumulate a great deal of
money, he can be at all times se-
cure from absolute want. A man
with a small farm can raise thereon
nearly all the provisions for his
family, can sell enough to buy
clothing and other articles that the
farm does not produce, and bis con-
dition, as far as absolute comfort
is concerned, is far superior to that
ofwhe-tenths of all the people in
our large cities. ~
Go to the Casino for a nice free
lunch and soup; every day from 9
a. m. to 12. 42-4t
Another billion dollar congress.
Although the exact figures cannot
be given until, the last appropri
tion bill has been passed, it is al-
ready known, and admitted by the
republican chairman of the coi
mittees bn appropriations of both
boose and senate, that the total ap-
propriations will not only exceed
one billion dollars, but that they
will go enough beyond that amount
to break the high water record
made by the previous billion dollar
republican congress by an advance
of thirty or forty million dollars.
This, too, in the face of the general
republican bowl about the insuffici-
ency of revenue provided by the
present tariff bill.
In a speech made by Pension
Commissioner Murphy, in answer
to resolutions commending his ad-
ministration of the pension bureau,
presented by a committee from two
Pennsylvania G. A. R. posts, Mr.
Murphy told for the first time in
public, the instructions given him by
President Cleveland when he ap-
pointed him commissioner of pen-
os. Whatever may be one’s
opinion of bis other policies, it is
difficult to see how any man could
have outlined in a few words a
>re just and patriotic pension
policy than President Cleveland did
when he said to Commissioner
Murphy, “Mr. Murphy, I think
you know my ideas of the pension
bureau and pension system. They
are just these: In claims coming
up for the action of the bureau,
where you find the case of a worthy
soldier who served bis country well
in her hour ot danger, you will be
lenient with him and give him the
benefit of a reasonable doubt. In
settling the claims of the widows
and orphans you will act in the
same manner, but waste no sympa-
thy on the unworthy.”
Those diamond photos are still
going. They are the proper style
of photograph for the button.
Moore’s Studio.
The leading cigar is “Queen
Margurette,” just introduced in this
city. Two for quarter. tf
FREE.
A ioc cake of nice toilet soap.
Call and get our price list of grocer-
ies. F. S. Hull, 429 Main street,
New Cash Grocery.
One of the best small farms in
Grayson county, well improved;
plenty of water in pasture and well;
rents for $200 a year, cash rent;
will sell or trade for good city prop-
erty. Call or write to W. L. Pace,
City Music House.
Masquerade.
Last of the season; Washington’s
Birthday, February 32d. For tick-
eta apply to J. A. Euper.
Notwithstanding the amendments
made to propitiate the opposition,
Senator Sherman, who was in
charge of the arbitration treaty, was
compelled to bow to the inevitable
and agree to postpone further con-
sideration of the treaty until the
next session.
PLUMBEHG.
Chris Waltz is prepared to do
plumbing at the shortest notice.
F. B. Tinkle has charge of Ans-
leys Photo Gallery and will make
you the beat photos you ever bad.
Try him once. 44*4*
Baby buggies at Jones Bros’.
LIST OF PATENTS
Granted to Texas inventors this
week. Reported by C. A. Snow
& Co., solicitors of American and
foreign patents, opposite U. S.
patent office, Washington, D. C.
W. C. Ahrenbeck, Brenham
apparatus for barreling soap stock ;
J. P. Hoff, Comanche, combined
barrel truck and support; W
Mann, Galveston, molding sash
weight!; W. E. McMordie, Gates
ville, combined cradle, swing and
clothes drier; J. R. Miller, Bend,
cotton chopper; F. O. Reeves,
Dallas, whip-holder.
Moore'sStndio.
blood was riotous with chance, and
who often staked 011 the turn of a
card as much money as the stealings
of one of the modern “shoestrings”
amounts to in a year, has left for
other countries. The true gambler
is as scarce as the crapshooters arc
plentiful.
A number of years ago fourteen
boys constituted a class in a school
in Joplin, Mo. Thiee of them had
been born 1n Baxter Springs, Kas.,
in the days wheu that town was the
“front” of the Fort Scott road. It
was a “hot town” in which a dozen
city marshals were phot to death in
a year, where gamblers were an im-
portant part of the population, and
where money was plentiful. These
three boys had the gambling instinct
as truly as the colt of a turf sire has
the faculty to trot. And out of the
class of fourteen, ten boys grew into
gamblers. They were accomplished
in all the niceties of their trade be-
fore they were out of school. There
were plenty of opportunities to learn
in Joplin in those days, and the boys
studied their books by day and their
cards by night.
Of the ten, three became leader*.
Sam Parks was, perhaps, the most
desperate and successful. Jeff
Davis was educated for a priest.
Bob Cummings was a lawyer as well
as a gambler. All three are the
heroes of adventures that would
make a bookful of stirring stories.
•This is the story of how Jeff
Davis assisted in the stirring events
in the Central American country of
Guatemala that resulted in the death,
ot President Barrios in 1885. Bar-
rios and his son were on a visit to
New York. Davis, then a slight,
reticent dark-eyed youth, had gone
there to practice his calling. He
met young Barrios in a little game
in one of the hotels and was intro-
duced to the Central American
president. In Sparish American
states gambling is looked upon
rnTt^Kesl^WSftros^ff, fc *J«
time a great friend of AmeriL'JHWu
Milwaukee Beer ie famous.
Pabst has made it ao.
Ready Made
Fine dress skirts, cheaper than you
can buy the material and make them,
prices ranging from $(.50 to $7.50,
at Madden, Graham & Co.’s.
The Houston Post of February
17th contains a good likeness of our
distinguished townsman, Col. I. M.
Standifer. Tom Casey writes of our
Ike: “Say, Bur., don’t Ik stack up
immense?” Well, we should smile.
Was there ever a public occasion
when Colonel Standifer did not
stack up all right? Ike always oc-
cupies a trout seat.
KEVINS A GARDNER
Are Now Associated For the Transaction of
1 Insurance.
To the Public: J. II. Gardner,
having purchased a one-half interest
in the old, reliable W. S. Nevins
Insurance Agency, the business will
be conducted as heretofore at the
old stand, No. 230 West Main St.,
and the usual prompt payment of
losses and attention to business
given us continued.
Soliciting the further patronage
of the public, we are, respectfully,
Nevins & Gardner
Office? desks
Bros’.
and chairs at Jones
AMUSEMENTS.
Spring Goods Arrived.
A. B. Johnson, the merchant
taylor, has received a full line of
spriug suitings. It is the most ele-
gant display of spring fabrics ever
seen in Denison. If you - want a
nobby spring suit leave your meas-
ure with Johnson, the only strictly
first-class merchant taylor irt Deni-
pop
alive audiences of the season greeted the
beautiful southern drama, “Alabama,”
at-the Dentson opera house, on Tuesday,
February i6th. This delightful pre-
sentation, teeming as it does, with pathos
and sentiment, finds a warm welcome in
the herrts of the refined theater goers,
and as produced by the Banibridge’s com-
pany of artistic players needs no com-
mendation at otir hands. The audience
was delighted, and everyone fortunate
enough to attend felt better tor the even-
ing’s entertainment.
We would suggest to the manager of
the White Crook that Mr. J. E. Johnson,
“descriptive vocalist,” be suppressed.
His voice is broken and rasping, and pos-
sesses about as much melody as the high
notes of a'tora cat in a dark alley sere-
nade. Johnson cannot sing, and it is to
be hoped he won’t bore the audience
again to night.
son.
Vorwaerts Masquerade.
Last of the aeason; Washington’s
birthday, February 22d. For tick-
ets apply to J. A. Euper.
Furniture
Get a bottle.
polish at Jones Bros.
and fostered their immigration to
his country. To Davis he said :
‘‘Events may so shape themselves
that I may give you gambling privil-
eges in my country that will be ex-
ceedingly valuable. At all events,
I shall be glad 10 have you come to
San Jose de Guatemala.”
Davis saw the advantage ne would
have in the favor and protection of
the president. Shortly afterward
he sailed for Guatemala with a
friend named McCune. Barrios
was as good as his word, and Davis
soon had two games running, one at
Champerico, on the coast, in charge
of McCune, and, the other at San
Jose de Guatemala, the capital,
with himself in the “lookout.”
For several months all went well,
and Davis made money like a mint.
The exclusiveness ot his privilege
drove all the chance money to his
tables, and he was soon on the road
to opulence. Then Barrios issued
his famous proclamation of the un-
ion of Central American states, and
and Davis was promised the gam-
bling privileges of the Union. As a
consequence he turned the stream
of his wealth toward the coffers of
Barrios, and his dollars helped to
equip the army. War was declared,
and on March 30 of that year Gen-
eral Barrios marched on the frontier
of Salvador with 16,000 troops to
punish his treacherous friend Zaldi-
var, who had promised to come into
the Union, and at the last moment
declared his enmity. On April
the Guatamalans attacked San Lo-
renzo, and the next day, when the
attack was to be repeated, Barrios
left his tent to assume command of
his army . and was killed by
sharpshooter from a tree. Mean-
while the battle had begun, and in
short time both sides withdrew from
the field, but not until a successful
effort had been made by the Guate
malans, with a loss of twenty-five
lives, to recover the body of Barrios.
General Vanancio Barrios, son of
the president, was also killed on the
field, together with 1 ,cxx> of his
comrades.
Thus was the attempt to unite
Central America brought to noth-
ing. Davis was without friends.
He was known to have made large
sums of money and to have aided
Barrios, and in the confusion that
followed, both,he and McCune were
arrested, tried and condemned to
death.
The property of Davis was confis-
cated and he was thrown into prison.
McCune was promptly hanged out-
side the walls of Champerico, and
his body filled with bullets. Then
began the battle ot wits to save the
life of Davis.
Davis, with the true instinct of a
gambler, had bought unset diamonds
whenever he could. Around his
body under his clothes he wore a
broad belt filled with them. Thi»
he took to prison with him.
His former generosity recom-
mended him to the graces of the
governor of the prison, and he was
introduced to the governor’s wife,
who became interested in the alight,
good looking young American. At
the Joplin school, to raise all the
money possible and send it to San
Jose De Guatemala.
The wires were put in operation,
and telegrams flew to all parts of
the country. But the sports were
all “broke.” Cummings sent $2,-
000; the Kansas City man had
$1,500 to spare. That was all.
Sam Parks was in Paris, where, it
was believed, he was running a
profitable game. A telegram was
sent to the governor’s wife telling
her that $3,500 would be sent at
once by express. Back came a
reply :
“Not enough money. Come,
yourself. • Where is Parks?”
Parks, in Paris, was no doubt
astonished to receive two telegrams,
one from Kansas . City, (he other
from Guatemala, demanding his
immediate presence in the Central
American republic with all the
money he could bring. Parks was
game. He could not go back on a
friend in distress. He closed his
game, changed his money into gold,
and took passage on a slow, rolling
steamer to Guatemala.
Meanwhile, Davis was planning
intrigues to keep from being shot.
If h» could hold out for a few weeks
until Parks arrived, he knew that a
golden key would procure his re-
lease. Every delay cost a diamond
or two. He paid a doctor several
diamonds to report to the governor
of the prison that he was too ill to
be removed from his cell. His dia-
monds paid for telegrams, luxuries
and delay.
Parks, on board the tumbling
little steamer, fumed at the delay.
At last, however, he reached the
port of Champerico. The first
thing that met his gaze was the
body of McCune, blowing about in
the dry air from the end of a chain
slung over the city wall. The buz
zards had left his eyeless sockets
staring into nothing. The body
rattled like a dry pod whenever it
rotated against the wall. The hot
winds had dried it like a akin.
Parks tried to have St cut down
and buried. But the soldiers would
not allow it, and having lo-t a day
in persuasion, he hurried on to San
Jose. There he met the wife of
the governor of the prison.
’gtiH1 jjfcrtifr*14ufitogrt fcawiyiM w»i
ransomed a prince, let alone an
Mrs. WADDLES
From PottsBoro, and Her Letter Absnt the
Prayer Meetin’.
Dear Friend:—Agin I. compli-
ment you by writin’. I am milkin’
lots of converts for you around my
way. I was at prayer meetin’ the
other night. Parson Bird, he’s our
parson, he says, Sister Waddles,
lead in prayer. I’m a prayer out
of sight, and I wound up like this
Lord bless the White Front. Lize
said amen. So did I and nearly
everybody ceptin’ -Nancy Hanks.
She got on her high hoss and just
pranced around. She said it’s no
use bringin’ the White Front into
meetin’. The pesky thing got as
mad as a hen. Come to find out,
bless your soul, her uncle’s got a
grocery in Pottsboro. I just told
em after the meetin’ was over—just
like this: I says, sisters and breth-
ren, we have looked after our spir-
itual welfare to-night, I want to
sav something about our innards.
We must .shore eat to live, and the
White Front has made it easy for
us to live, he is our benefactor. Oh,
I’m so sorry you’re a quiltin’. We
all send in our congratulations.
May the Lord help you to get an-
other store. Newt was at prayer
meetin’. You know me an’ him
don’t speak. Lize ia growin’ fast.
She’s mighty proud of that bottle of
snuff you sent. It’s rumored ’round
here that you are kinder sweet on
Lize. You can hardly tell Lize
uses snuff. She don’t have no
stick. She just pulls out her lip and
drops it in there and you can’t tell
it. I believe that we’re going to
have a crop this year. I’m plantin’
potatoes, ant* the Lord willin’, I
will be in soon with a load. Be
shore and come and see us when
you sell out. We got that ribbon
cane sorup. Ain’t it grate?
Please let me know if Newt Simp-
kinf says anything about me. Ev
erybody is just wild about the White
Front goin’ to close. Everybody is
coming next week and get what’a
left in that Balance Sale aa you
call it. Yours truly,
Sally Ann Waddles.
P. S —Lize sends her love.
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STAB STOBB.
I To-Day’s lfs>
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Monday’s Facts
Of all the great clothing selling for the past seasons, nothing
approaches the output here just now of Men’s Suite.
Every Suit was a new Suit this fall. This is the way prices go:
IE1S’ SOUS.
Pretty Cheviot suits, precisely
the qualities that were $18, $16
and $14. Choose at $8.90 suit.
The remarkable sulU oFfancy
Cheviot, and Clay Wonted*,
black and colon in full .up-
ply; $13, $10 and $8 cult., now
■ARHATTIR SHIRTS.
position to please you (letter.
It U economy to buy Manhat-
tan Shirts. Beautiful linen
white Shirts, new, In every
tixe, at $1, $1.35 and $1.50.
STAR & 6RUNDSTEIH.
craenrtash * Ok.
all size# here, at 10c, 3 for 25c.
BOYS’ SO ITS.
Expect what you may in Boys’
Suit, and you’ll most likely find
them here; at 75c up to $6 a
suit.
MEM’S EMMEL SUES.
See Shoe, other places and
then see here. It’s a sort of a
whim of ours to break the
mice of these new shoes. Ox
Blood Shoe*, Enamel Shoe*
and French Calf Shoes, Cote
toes, and two or three other
kind, of toes. Every pair a £5
quality, for the week, $3.45.
Come and Me us.
STAR & 6RUR05TBR.
Some Other Anarchists.
American gambler. The gover-
nor’s wife outlined a plan for Davis’
escape, and Parks began the invest-
ment of his money.
The guards of the jail tasted
some good cheer that night. It was
the day of some saint or other.
Nearly every day is a saint’s day
in Central America. But this was
the day of the patron saint of the
governor’s wife, wherefore the
guards celebrated in wine and song.
At 9 o’clock that night the gov-
ernor sat down to play poker with
Parks, who passed for an American
merchant. The gambler dealt
clumsy bands; he was bluffed with
infinite ease; the governor thought
he had never met an easier oppo-
nent. Piles of notes crossed over
the table from Parks to the gover-
nor, then pieces of gold, and, at
last, whole stacks of gold pieces.
The governor was drunk with the
lust of the American's yellow
money.
And while they played Davis,
with a trowel and a short iron bar,
was digging, and digging doggedly,
at the stone wall ot his cell. The
drunken guards snored.
The governor was in high good
humor. The keen ears of the Am-
erican gambler bpposite him could
hear the ring of the metal bar on
the stones. The governor’s wife
heard it also, but not the gold-be-
sotted governor.
It was almost daylight. The
governor’s wife signalled to Parks.
Parks bet his last pile of gold ab-
surdly. The governor pulled it
sleepily towards him.
“It is
my last, senor,” said Parks
“Better luck next time,” said the
governor. "Come again to-night,
f sleep.”
Parks, the sleepless, the iron-
willed, arose from the table and
looked significantly at the gover-
nor’s wife.
“He is already on the outside.
Adios.” They shook hands. The
governor’s wife found a roll of gold
in her hand. Parks was gone.
Outside the prison walls he found
Davis in rags, barefoot and emaci-
ated, but dauntless and even jaunty.
“We must make for San Salva-
dor,” be said.
All that day and the next, and
for days following, they made their
way over mountains and through
jungles, until they came to San Lo-
renzo, and shipped from there to
New Orleans. The rescuing ot
Davis cost Parks something like
40,000.
“I’ll pay you back some day,”
said Davis.
“Oh, that’s all right,” answered
Parks.
The fortune of chance carried
both Parks and Davis up and down
like the beat of a walking beam.
Now in Montana, next in Texas,
then in New York and again in
Paris. Adventures were common-
places to these men. Parks is
nowhere and bis name iq^not Parks.
Davis is back in Guatemala, with
the exclusive gambling privileges
of the republic, slight, boyish-look-
calied anarchists. Herr Most and
bis tribe, who are said to be against
any law at all, is one kind, and the
priveliged classes who believe in
law, for somebody else and not for
themselves, are another kind.
The sugar trust has been in oper-
ation for about eleven years. It
was formed in violation of’the laws
of the United States, of common
law, and of state statutes. It has
continued in existence, being every
day and every hour a criminal in
fact and its members being crimi-
nals in fact During these eleven
years spasmodic attempts to smash
the trusts been made, but they have
had little energy behind them, being
perfunctory forms of prosecution for
the most part, aud it is not surpris
ing that the sugar trust has become
to consider itself beyond the law.
Whether this monopoly will be al-
lowed to continue to defy the law
with impunity is to be seen. Cer-
tain it is that with millions of ill-
gotten dollars in its coffers, its con,
trol of legislatures, executive offices-
the National senate, and even the
representative of the president in
the office of the attorney general of
the United States, the trust will be
able to delay the day when the
people’s wrath shall overwhelm it
and its creatures.
Now, here is anarchy in its very
woist form. While the followers of
Herr Most are, as a rule, ignorant
people swayed by their prejudices
and fears, these other individuals,
who boldly and successfully defy
specific laws relating to the business
in which they are engaged, are sup-
posed to be the first and best citi-
zens of the land.
President Cleveland, although
outspoken on numerous occasions in
condemnation of these trusts, has
proved unequal to the task of sup-
pressing them and enforcing the
law. Wnat will President McKin-
ley do? He and bis administration
must face the issue involved in the
Vkm the KMItlw Grow*.
Mistletoe far centuries has been ooe
of the most important factors in Yule-
tide decorations, its use dating back aa
far aatbedaysof tbeDruids. The hang
ing of tbe mistletoe on Christmas eve,
between 11 and 13 o’clock, in many
borne* ia tbe beginning of tbe season’s
merrymaking. Tbe bough is bong in a
place where there will be no obstacle to
passing under it, and tbe penalty for
being caught beneath its branches all
know.
Tbe mistletoe of tbe Druids is Viseum
album. It ia a true parasite, exisitng on
tbe sap of other trees, and never at any
time is it in contact with tbe soil. U
grows freely on apple, pear and plum
trees, on poplars, thorns, maples and
basswood, and rarely on tbe oak. It is
said that tbe only sacred mistletoe of
tbe Druids was that found upon tbe oak
The propagation is by tbe seeds. The -•*
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99
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by birds, which in trying to rid their
beaks of tbe sticky seeds rub them on
tbe bark. Tbe seeds which are deposit-
ed on tbe east or north side of the tree
grow mare rapidly than tboae to tbe
aonth or west.
Some idea of tbe quantity of mistle-
toe that is used annually in London may
be bad when it ia known that from tbe
two counties of Worcester and Hereford
alone mare than 100 tons are shipped
each season. Much also finds its way
from Normandy and from France to tbe
London market. Large quantities are
imported yearly to New York, Boston
and Philadelphia, and muon reaches
Chicago
Tbe mistletoe generally seen in the
market here is a cousin to tbe European
specie, and ia known as Phoradendron
flaveaoens. It is smaller, both in berries
and leaf. It is found in great quantities
in New Jersey and southward through
the Carolina*, New Mexico and Indian
Territory.—Chicago Record.
ing tbe lasting qualities of sm
was recently made by Professor Mi
neuve, which showed that a dead 1
ia almost as dangerous as a live
Tbe professor took an unusually
specimen of tbe common riper of a
ern Franc*, which for more than MO
yean had been exhibited ia Mm soolog-
ical museum at Angers, Fn
served in alcohol. Tbe first«
with one of tbe poisonous fangs of this
snake seemed to show that the
cod tact with tbe alcohol bad rubbed the
poison of its viralenee, for a sparrow
wounded with one of its teeth did not
develop any symptoms of being poisoned.
Tbe cause of tbe nonaction of tbe poison
at first was speedily found, however, in
tbe thickening of tbe poison at tbe en-
trance of the canal into tbe too
prevented the poison f
flnen^^anSltjjec^T minium yw
tion of it into tbe marrow, tbe latter
showed all tbe symptoms of patenting
inside at half an hour, which gradually
increased until it died in ccnvulsiaoa in
3 X boars after tbe injection of tbe poi-
son. As it was heretofore believed that
snake poison loses its dangerous and
virulent qualities with tbe death of tbe
reptile, great care in handling dead
‘v *> 111
precaution.
demand of the people for the proper
respect for the law. Will he prove
equal to the occasion? We shall
see.—Houston Post.
TOTTERING
On tbe Brink—The Last Blast
of the Bugle.
The Balance Sale of the White
Front will soon be over. The store
is almost depleted. Everything must
go in the next few days. It is un-
necessary to quote prices. Make
your dollars count. Laat chance,
fair warning.
Balance Sale, White Front Gro-
cery.
P. S.—We will deliver goods for
a few days.
Hi. Matter Would Do.
Tbe Duke of Sutherland prompted a
park to ooe of tbe pottery town*. Tbe
opening waa a big event, and tbe Prince
of Wale* waa asked to perform tbe core-
mony. A deputation waited on tbe
prince accordingly, a Wealthy and
worthy magistrate being spokesman.
Honest old John was noted less for
oourtlike demeanor than for being large
hearted, rough and ready and real Staf-
fordshire. Unfortunately hia royal high-
ness waa unable to comply.
“I should have been most happy, ”
said be, “bad I known sooner. ”
‘‘Ganna tha spare half a day just to
show thy face?” said the worthy fellow.
“We shall look fttlea when we get
back. ” But tbe prince waa inexorable.
Much disoanoerted, tbe deputation
seemed at a loss bow to proceed. Sud-
denly an idea struck their resourceful
leader, and, turning to tbe heir appar-
ent, be said:
“Well, if tha canna come, send thy
mother. ”—Strand Magazine.
It was only the other night, in tbs
grammar school on Ringold street, that
an aged oolored woman, weary and
comprehended tor tbe first time ha tea
life that tbe figure 4 meant tour eingie
unite combined. So happy was abe at
tbe dawning light of knowledge, rudi-
mentary though it waa, that when abe
aw in a store on the following day tha
sign, “Tacks, 4 cents; hammers, 4
cents,” abe could not resist tbe teapta-
tion to count out two little piles of tour
make the purchase. She did net
ther, bet, with
she waited out of tbe
antly as would a busii
just made a real estate deal which
ted him thousands of
Herald.
One of tbe moat
pbyaioiaaa, tbe late Dujardin-I
urged tor years baton bis &
at light or feeble
should not eat raw oysters, I
contain a chemical which
mentation as soon *sit comes in 1
with the gastric juice. B«
carrier of germs, too, tbe oyster 1
municatos very readily any
microbe which it may contain to the te-
ll canal, and trouble begins at
once. Recent investigations corroborate
the opinion of the French scientist and
may lead to the banishment of tbe hith-
erto oetomned raw oyster from the list
We positively guarantee the beat
work and lowest prices at Ansley’a
Photo Gallery, 521 Main St. 44 jt
Gasoline stoves that won’t ex
plode will soon be in at Jones Bros.
Beyond all question, it ia tbe unal-
terable constitution of nature that there
ia efficacy—divine, unspeakable efficacy
—in love. Tbe exhibition of kindness
baa tbe power to bring even tbe irra-
tional animal into subjection. Show
kindness to a dog, and be will remem'
ber it. be will be grateful, he will in
fallibly return love for love. Show kind'
ueM to a lion, and yon can lead him by
the mane, you can thrust your bead into
hia mouth, you can melt tbe untamed
ferocity of hia heart into an affection
stronger than death. And if this blessed
influence should extend itself over tbe
earth, a moral garden of Eden would
exist in every land. Instead of tbe thorn
and brier would spring up tbs fir tree
and tbe myrtle; tbe deeert would blos-
som and tbe solitary plaoe be made
glad.—New York Ledger.
Tte Setoattee Mlad.
At tbe Vagabonds’ dinner Sir John
Robinson said he remembered in 1870;
when tbe air waa full of war and tbe
news intelligence thrilling, be met a
man of science who asked, “My dear
fellow, when are you going to give ua
something of interest in tbe papen
something about tun spots?” This was
not a scientific joke, Sir John assured
his audience, but an actual symptom of
that man’s mental condition.—West-
minster Gazette.
Bird cages at Jones Bros’.
of convalescent dainties. It is already
an established tact that its nutritive
qualities have been
New York Post
It will probably be news to i
pie to bear that rudimentary
a third eye exist among all
in lading man. In tbe human race this
third aye forma part of the pineal gland
a small mass about tbe Mae of a pea
in almost tbe very center of the bruin.
Possibly, therefore, there waa more ac-
tual truth in th* well known express ion,
the mind’s eye,” than its
ever dreamed of.
Tbe Arabic used in the Koran 1
as much from tbe A ratio used in
dinary conversation and
tbe east aa tbe Latin differ*
Italian. Tbe Koran Arateo ia that of the
that ot tbs 1
Tbe verbena is iz&teative of
ity. This plant ia said by aome
rallate to display almost animals 1
to ehooateg. ite habitat.
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