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Shreveport and Surroundings
From the Shreveport Daily Times.l

From the Shreveport Daily Times.l
Shreveport was incorporated in
1899. In 1880it had population
of 5000; in 1890. the city and its
suburbs had about $4,000.
; Assessed valuation, real estate
and personal property, $4,0OO,O00.
Municipal tax, 81 mills; railroad
donations, limited TO a few years, 5
mills. The Indebtedness is mostly
in judgments, which, under an act
of the Legislature, are about to be
funded By the issuance of bonds
bearing 8 or 6 per cent. per annum,
thus lessening the rate of taxation
to pay these debts and their even
tual extinguishment.
All manufacturing plants are ex-
empt from taxation for ten years;
also $500 worth of household effects,
embodied in the State Constitution.
The bonding of the city's indebted
ness will reduce the city tax to 10
mills for all purposes, except self
imposed taxes by a vote of the tax
payers of 5 mills for railroads or
special purposes, for a limited and
specified period. The city owns
real estate valued at $50, 900; inter-
est in the bridge across Red River,
$25,000.. 1t has fine waterworks,
gas and electric light works, paid
fire department.. Four railroads
enter the city-Texas and Pacific,
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific,
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas, and
the Shreveport and Houston, thus
affording outlets to any part of the
country.
Red River is navigable 48O miles
below Shreveport and 800 miles
above.
The aggregate banking capital,
National and State, is $500, 900.
Amount OF deposits, $1,000, 900.
There are four banks: two National,
one State and one private.
1t has a street railway and an
electric car belt line, extending
about seven miles.
Shreveport is "a progressive aud
live city, with steady growth, and
in region of country rapidly de
veloping. The principal business
is in cotton, cotton seed, products
and lumber. 1t has first class whole
sale houses, furniture, hardware,
provisions, dry goods, produce and
feed, etc; and its jobbing trade is
becoming extensive.
Its improvements are marked, and
an effort is being made to establish
a plant for the manufacture of vitri-
fed brick for paving the streets,
fine sbale clay in abundance being
found here. Other necessary i'm
provements are also projected.
Shrevepor is located in rich,
alluvial section, and is a great cotton
mart. 1t will handle this year about
100000 bales. The climate is salu-
brIous, the soil highly productive
and capable of growing almost any
known vegetable, cereals.
fruits, etc. Altogether, with its
many advantages in location, water
and rail communications, numerous
conveniences, elegant public build
Jugs, aud healthfulness, as shown by
the mortuary reports, Shreveport
affords special inducements for the
investment OF capital, and the
country for settlement by a sturdy
class of immigrants.
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NkrnM &uEe.

ENstrayed before R. C. Stinson. j. p. Ward Q
H Bossier parish, La, and will be sold AZ
Brownlee, La, within the legal hours Of II a
m and 2. m, on Monday, March 3, 1891. one
Brindle Cow, bob tail, smooth crop off right
ear, swallow fork in left ear. Also, one Year
nng, dark, with white spot on right side. under
slit in left ear, split in right. Also. one bIack
Heifer, crop off left ear, swallow fork in rigbt
All appraised at s12.
The owner is requested to come forward
prove property, pay charges, SC.
W.. E. NORRIS, Constable.
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CoTToN.-The Shreveport Times
of yesterday gives the following
cotton quotations: Ordinary and
good ordinary, nominal; low mid
ding : 15-l6c; middIing, SIC; good
mlddliDg, 8 11-16c. The Cotton Ex-
change quotes the market dull
Total receipts since Sept. l, 1887
bales. Total receipts same time last
year, 1883 bales. Total receipts
at all United ports, 5,4O6,OO0 bales.
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Oxford (Gias.l Globe: .eWe hay

Oxford Miss Globe: ''We have
TOO many laws: By the time new
Code is made and the new volumin-
GUS new Constitution is added, it
viii take a span of horses to even
drag it. A book of laws about the
size of blue-back speller would be
more suitable to the plain and matter.
of-fact people of the State The
fewer and palmer the laws, the less
number of lawyers fees the masses
viii have to pay"
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In reference to the recent alleged
outrages in Mississippi, Mr.. B. F,
Ward publishes the following open
letter in the Winona Miss Times
in answer to the bowls of the North
ern press
"The South has resolved to no
longer reason with bigotry nor parley
with presumption, but to follow her
fortunes as best she may, with defer
ence to all and suppliance to none.
Every calumny uttered against her
fair name is triumphantly refuted by
figures that are as plain as the hand
writing upon the wall and indelible
as the blood spots of Macbeth.
Statistics show that in the South
there is only one crime committed to
every ninety of her inhabitants, and
only one to every twenty-five of her
negro population, while in New Eng
land there is one crime to every ten
white inhabitants. The highest test
of the moral standard of any people
on earth is their habitual regard for
the marriage tie. Among the white
people of the entire South there is
not more than one divorce for every
seventy-five marriages; in some of
the New England States there is one
divorce for every nine or ten mar
riages. There are more white boys
aud girls arrested in one year in the
City of Chicago for petty crimes
than are even suspected of like
offences in the whole tier of Southern
States.
I'm the cities OF New York, Boston,
Cincinnati and Chicago there are
more thieves, burglars and paupers,
more disseminators of obscene litera-
ture and counterfeit money; more
infdelity, seduction and prostitution,
and more capital crime with ''malice
aforethought" than can be found in
the combined in the territory of tie
Southern Ststes.
"These distasteful facts are not
thrust at our friends in a spirit of
retaliation, but briefly presented as
the shortest answer to the envenomed
tide of campaign stock that has
swept with ceaseless flow through
Northern dailies for twenty-five
years."
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The Grand Jury of Caddo parish
last week made the following
report:
"We have investigated 100 cases.
We have found 7S true bills, have
ignored 81 cases and left eight not
passed on. By instructions of the
district attorney We have ignored
Is with Investigation. We find the
Charity Hospital in good condition
in every respect. We flnd the Jail
damp and unhealthy, owing to its
location, and white and colored
prisoners mixed together, owing to
inadequate room for the number of
prisoners confined in it, but 10 as
good condition as it could be kept
under existing circumstances.
We fiud the public road in bad
condition generally, and we believe
that the overSeers have not properly
discharged their duties"
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On last Friday j. w. Downs,
Treasurer of Equity Council, No
Sl2, American Legion of Honor,
Shreveport, paid 1000 to Mrs. Kate
B. IIandrum, insurance on the life
of her late husband, Sam. Landrum,
who committed suicide recently.
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There is only one stimulant that
never intoxitates-duty! Duty puts
clear sky over every man, into
which the sky-lark of happiness al
ways sings.-George D. Prentice.
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The Sundry Civil Service bill ap-
propriates $4,000 for public build
Jugs in Alexandria, and 100000 for
Baton Rouge.
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Miss Lizzie Dickson, charged
with threats to kill Capt. Abrams,
bad a preliminary examination in
Shreveport, last Tuesday, aud was
released on 81, 500 bail.
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The U. s. engineering crew, who
are making a survey of the bayou
between Lake Caddo and Jefferson,
have been compelled to stop work
owing to high water.
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The contents of the Magazine Of
American History for February cover
q wide field of subjects, and are live
with fresh Information and sugges-
ton.
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The confectionery of A. A. Help
man, Shreveport, was closed Monday
by an attachment sworn out by cred
itors.
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A census of Charleston, S. c.,
carefully taken and just completed,
makes the population of that city
65,175, against a little over $4,000
by the recent government census.
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The number of new postofices es-
tablished in the United States in the
year ended June 80, 1890, was $3.50,
of which 2,O28, or nearly half, were
in the South. That argues develp-
ment.
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Robert Emory Pattison, Governor
of Pennsylvania, is a native of Mary
land. He is the only Democratic
Governor elected in Pennsylvania
since the success of Republicanism
in 1860.
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Out Of the 3sO,OOO,OOO of silver
dollars coined bs the government
during the past twelve years, not
more than 100000 have ever been
circulation at one time.
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stray Sale.

Nstrayed before O. B. Norman, Up, WsIa
1881, and will be sold at Midway, BcsziH
parish, La, within the legal hours Of ealsi g
Saturday, March z, 1891, small SoTrel hsss
Colt, right hind foot white, and . small sl1E
face. Appraised at S.
The owner is requested TO come fosaasa
provo property, pay charges, &c.
". G. BANKS, Constahis
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BELLEVUE. La,

-Four or Eve mad dogs have been
killed in Homer recently.
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The river at Shreveport Tuesday
last was 25s feet and rising. At
Fulton, 81 feet and falling.
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/" To be employed" said the poet
Gray, sis to he happy" "It is bet
ter to wear out than rust out" said
Bishop Cumberland. "Have we not
all eternity to rest in 7" exclaimed
Aruauld.
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tits said there are 800 newspapers
published in Fleet street, Loadon,
Il of them Gailies.
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Five hundred miles of railway are
now under construction in Alabama.
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New To-Day.
of Goods for Sale and
Lease Of Store fOs. 1891.

II aving concluded to quit business offer
II for sale my entire stock of GOODS and
LEASE on the GILMER LANE STORE. in
Bossier parish, for 1891, for cash or good Sc
curlty. G. p. 0'NEILL,
p, o. Box 356, Shreveport, La.
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In proportion to a mans self-re-
speet will he be armed against the
temptation of low induIgences.
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China's solitary railroad is 81 miles
long and cost SO, 900 a mile.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-08
Flowers for tho Pom.

Yesterday "flower day" was observed at
ihs penitentiary with appropriate cere-
monies, and the prisoners enjoyed the
occasion greatly, holding service Of song
in the chapel and listening to an address
by Mrs. Teats, superintendent Of prison
evangelical work for the national w. G.
T. U. At the close Of the service the ap.
pended was drawn up and sent to the
superintendent:
NEW MEXICO PENITENTIARY,
Santa Fe, N. M, June 8, 1917
Col. J. Franco. Chaves, supt. New Mexico Peni
Tertiary:
Sir: We, the inmates Of the New Mex.
leo penitentiary, feeling that some &C
acknowledgement of your kindness in per.
hitting US to decorate the prison chapel
for the national "prison floral day" is
due you, hereby extend to you our sin.
cere thanks for the above mentioned
privilege, and also for the unvarying
kindness and humane consideration with
which you have treated us since your
installation as superintendent OF this
institution. We can appreciate true kind
ness as strongly as those who occupy
more fortunate positions in life, and the
tolerant and kindly spirit which you
manifest in your dealings with US will
ever command our esteem and gratitude.
(Signed)
PRISONERS, New MEXICO PENITENTIARY.
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PERSONAL.

Peter Powers is here on buying trip
from Glorieta.
Hon. T. B. Catron was in the city yes.
terday and returned last night to Socorro.
Legal business.
Edward Henry, ex-mayor Of Las We.
gas, is in the city, stopping at the Palace.
Insurance business.
Solicitor General E. L. Bartlett came
up from Socorro yesterday and returned
again last night. Official business.
Hon. ]. B. Mayo, chairman Of the
board of county commissioners, accom-.
panied by Mrs. Mayo, is in the city on
official business.
Dick Dixson is back from his extended
trip to the old folks at home in Illinois
and he's right glad to get back, too.
Miss Daisy Chase, daughter of Prof
Gilmore Chase, has returned home from
Indianapolis much improved in health
She has been absent year.
Mr.. Piper, who lately returned from w
the narrow gauge, says continued colo
weather prevails in the San Luis valley
and about Antonito there is complain
that little will come of the potato crop.
Mr.. G. H. Howard and family arrived
from Washington yesterday. Mr.. Howard
is an attorney and expects to locate here
They are stopping at the Palace for thu
present.
At the Palace Geo. Hill Howard ane
family, Washington; Edward Henry, La.
Vegas A. H. Dellner, ]. E. Kinds Chi
cago Mortimer s. Borg, New York; A
Walter Durand, M. D., New York D. W
Mills and wife, Mrs. Geo. W. Spofford
DR.. G. P. Caldwell, Miss s. O'Neill, Mrs
Caldwell, Chicago, A. E. Kempfer, New
York, E. Wolf, Chicago.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-08
A LAS VEGAS SCORCH.
The County Jail Wrecked by Fire and
One Crazy Inmate Kills Another.

Word reached the city last night that
at noon yesterday the Las Vegas court
house and Jail had been destroyed by fire,
but later information proves it not to be
quite so disastrous as this. The jail was
destroyed, or at least the frame portion
of it was, also the furniture and jail rec
ords, and an adjoining barn containing a
blooded stallion and some swine were
consumed. The Jail cells Of stone and
iron were practically uninjured and all
the prisoners we Q safely removed and
are now under guard in the court house.
At the time of removal of the prisoners,
or soon after, an insane man, excited by
the ordeal through which he had been,
struck fellow prisoner also insane and
the blow proved fatal. Nothing can be
learned as to the origin Of the fire. The
jail was comparatively new one, erected
about two years ago.
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A City Ticket.
litOr of the New Mexican.

To the Editor of the New Mexican
SANTA FE, N. M, June 6.-Dear Sir
Seeing that there is an inclination to
grasp too anxiously, the few offices which
the Incorporated city of Santa Fe will
have, and with an ardent desire, as one
of it's citizens and tireless workers for the
triumph we attained last Tuesday, and
wishing to carry out the pledge that We
uttered so freely the night of the celebra-
ton, namely, to BURY the Ratchet be.
tween both parties, l herewith submit
the following ticket to the voters OF the
city of Santa Fe, which / hope and have
every reason to believe will meet with
hearty approval; provided, that the par
ties named will accept, viz: For mayor,
Geo. w. Knaebel. For aldermen, Major J.
D. Sena, Macelino Garcia, Solomon Spie-
gelberg and F. T. Weber. For marshal,
Martin Quintana. For treasurer, G. F.
A. Fischer. For city attorney, Benjamin
M. Read. For city clerk, Geo. A. John
son. For street commissioner, Capt.
John Gray. Yours for the best interest
of the city of Santa Fe.
A TAX PAYER.
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Death Of a Former Santa Fean.

The Queens County Herald of Long
Island, says in recent issue:
"School Trustee Gustave A. Schmidt,
of the fifth ward, died at his residence,
corner of Walcott and Albert streets,
Steinway, Saturday, in his 46th year.
The funeral took place Monday afternoon
from the Church of the Lady of Mount
Carmel, the interment being in Calvary
cemetary. The school trustees of the city
attended the funeral in body. There
was also present delegations from the
Astori association 1.-THE Steinway railroad
and the Select Knights, A. D. U. W., Of
which deceased was a member. The
schools in the fifth ward were closed on
the day OF the funeral as mark of respect
The deceased came to this country when
he was "a years old. He first resided a,
Santa Fe, N. NJ, where he married Miss
Helen Walsh. He moved to Steinway
about seven years ago. Mr.. Schmidt was
in the employ of the Steinway and Hun
ter's Railroad company as receiver fo
several years. He was held in high es
TEEN by both his employers and fellow EN-
ployes."
The deceased was resident of SAINTS
Fe some eight years ago and was mem
Der of the local A. 0. U. W., Lodge, Gold
en- Lodge Nos. Mrs. Schmidt is sister
of Mrs. Joseph Elster of this city.
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Quoting here new varieties Of cereals,
fruits and vegetables.
Elsewhere appears to-day the advertise
ment OF the Jemez Hot Springs hotel, of
which the we'll known landlord, U. Ia.
mony, is manager. There is no more
delightful summer resort in the land than
the Jemez region and guests may count
on the best sort of treatment at the hands
of Tamony.
Messrs. J. E. Kinds and A. H. DOLL
ner, the former from Chicago and the
latter secretary and treasurer Of the Union
Iron & Foundry company of st. Louis,
are here to-day en- route home from
Grant county, where they and their as
sociates have just purchased from Mrs.
Caldwell the famous "ricolite" quarries.
They brought letters to several promi-
nent citizens.
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ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Finest day OF the season yesterday.
Mighty interesting reading on the New
MExIcAN's first page to-day.
Electric lights will soon be supplied
throughout St. Michaels college.
Germania lodge No. 5, X. of P, meets
tomorrow night. Visiting members in
vited.
The Catron block is being universally
admired. Handsomest block in New
Mexico.
The military reservation here contains
sixteen and one-half acres. 1t should
either be occupied for military purposes
or Sold
For bill heads, statements, note heads,
letter heads and envelopes, call at the
New MEXICAN Printing company. Lar
gest stock, reasonable rates and best work
in New Mexico.
Andrew Kopp and relatives desire to ex-
tend their heartfelt thanks to all those
who SO kindly ministered to their comfort
yesterday when the funeral of Mrs. Kopp
took place.
The county board is to-day in session
again attending to its duties as board OF
equalization. They have EXAMINED the
tax returns from precincts l and 2 and
this afternoon are engaged with returns
from city precinct 8.
The weather all over the earth seems to
have been out of joint this spring, but at
last Santa Fe has struck her old time
climatic gait. Beautiful, isn't it?
Jim Keog and bis Kibosh music box
skipped town on Saturday night. City
incorporation was quite too much for
him. Several creditors mourn his loss in
small amounts.
The Santa Fe Catholic churches and 80
cieties yesterday observed with much
ceremony the long-cherished VOW which
DeVargas made when he captured Santa
Fe centuries ago. The parade was an i'm
posing one.
Messrs. Twitchell, Clancy and Way ran
over to visit the Pecos yesterday and view
the outlook for piscatorial pleasures.
They report the river very high and little
prospects of good trout fishing Tor at least
fifteen or twenty days.
Valentine Herbert brings the NEW
MEXICAN q sample Of Spanish rye grown
in his model orchard and truck-garden
on the east side. He has carried on there
little agricultural experimental station
| of his own for years, and his efforts have
been productive Of great good in intro
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and has five more witnesses, including
the defendant himself; the defense closes
to-day and the prosecution will likely use
up tomorrow for rebuttal. The case will
likely 60 to the jury Wednesday.
Charges are freely made that attempts
have been made to tamper with the jury
and that witnesses for the prosecution have
been maltreated and intimidated. Dis
trict attorney Williams has done excellent
work in procuring testimony for the pro-
secution; in one instance he rode on
horseback $50 miles to see one witness
and secure his testimony. The evidence
against Cantwell is largely circumstantial,
but dove-tails we'll together. The case is
being watched with great interest in So
zorro and Sierra counties.
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The Cantwoll Murder Case.

The prosecution in the Csntwell murder
case, the particulars Of which have already
been given, is still going on at the district
court at socorro. The prosecution, con.
Quoted by Solicitor General Bartlett and
Hon. 7. B. Catron, has examined eight wit
nesses and the defense 30 far eighteen,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-08

The best job work for many hundred
miles done right here at the NEW Mex
rCAN printing Office; brief work, record
work, all kinds of printing, binding, book
work and the like is to be had here at the
lowest possible prices and in frst-class
shape; patronize home industry and do
not send your job work to st. Louis and
Chicago. Keep it here and help yourself
and the town along.
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urrrnililnV ciInnrnu JAS. FENTON,
.'."'""' S~S"j livery barn.
Notice Of Stockholders Meeting.

Notice Of Stockholders Meeting.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Water & Improvement company
will be held at the office of the company
in Santa Fe, N. NJ, Monday, July g.,
1891, at IL M, for the election Of board
of directors and such other business as
may come before them.
EDWIN B. SEWARD, Secretary.
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Notice.

NOtlc6s
In the matter Of
the Application In the District Court,
of the New Mex First Jud. District,
leo Central Rail. Santa Fe County,
road Company New Mexico.
to be dissolved.
Pursuant to an order Of the court made
and entered the 25th day of May, A. D..
1891, in the matter of the application OF
The New Mexico Central Railroad Com
pany to be dissolved, notice is hereby CIV
en- that hearing of the said application
will be had at the court house in open
court on Wednesday, the first day ofJuly,
A. D. 1891, at Santa Fe, Santa Fe county,
New Mexico.
SEAL A. E. WALKER,
Clerk District Court.
Santa Fe, N. M, this 25th day of May,
A. D. 1891.
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A Gard to the Public.
" COMBINATION BUSTED. I"
From June, 1891, we will sell goods
at New York prices. Our stock
is general and complete. Our
Motto Cash.
BLAIN BROS.

Pure artificial ice, manufactured from
double distilled water, clean and whole
some, delivered by the Fischer Brewing
company at the lowest market price.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-08

Vegetables, plants, late and early cab
bage, caulifiower, tomatoes, ETC., so cents
per hundred; also verbenas and cut
flowers for sale by Jos. Elster, Washing
ton avenue, Santa Fe, n. NJ.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-08

First-class, and cheap job printingsand
binding at the New MEXICAN company's
establishment; the largest of the kind.in
New Mexico.
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
WANTS.

VXTANTED-l6O0 900 old magazines to be bound
w at the NEW MExICANs book bindery.
vEIANTED AGENTS-s57 salary and expenses
w paid to bright, active, wide awake young
men teachers and students preferred; employ
ment pleasant, refining and permanent; no
book peddling; our new plan takes like wild
Are" Address, National Library Association,
2l3 wabash Ave, CHI csgo, Ill.
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Wanted.-A good appetite. You can
have it easy enough by taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla. 1t tones the digestion snc
cures sick headaches.
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Notice.

w. A. Mckenzie having kindly made
room for me, my business Office will be at
his store until further notice.
Sol, SPIEaELBERG,