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Worlds Fair Excursions.

The G. HI. & d. will allow stop-overs at
Cincinnati on all tickets reading that
way.
On all regular Worlds Fair tickets
from the South or Southern Ohio and
reading via Cincinnati and the G. N. &
ID. r. r. to Chicago, a stOp-over will be
allowed within the life of the ticket, and
passengers can secure this stOp-over priv
ilege by depositing the ticket with the
Merchants & Manufacturers Association
at Cincinnati.
For Rates, Folders, and full informa-
ton regarding the Worlds Fair trip, in
Guiding special inducements offered by
the citizens of Cincinnati for stop-Over
in the Queen City, address any G. H.
& d. agent, or E. 0. Mccormick, G. p
e T. A, "World's Fair Route, No 200
W. Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-24

which does not represent one half the
number OF tons used in the State, owing
to defect in the present law which
really left it o .otiOnal with the manufac-
turer whether or not he should pay the
tax of % cents.
The tax of 25 cents gave a surplus I'M
der the present law when not one half of
the fertilizer dealers paid the tax and the
department had six inspectors to pay for
them, and yet the law makers wish to
double this tax, or in other words, col
lect from the farmers $4,000 over the
amount wanted to properly run this de-
partment, allowing the officers good
wages.
We went before this fertilizer commit
tee and we hope prevailed on them not
t. increase the present tax but to lower
it if pOSs iole, showing that II tax Of i
cents would pay all the expenses of the
office which should he all that is asked
The idea that the committee has, II
high tax will keep out inferior goods is
great mistake, as the so cents tax is
simply added to the cost of the goods
and the farmer has to pay for it.
Better increase the penalty for goods
not coming up to analysis and pass such
laws as will enable the chemist to secure
samples in a proper manner for analysis
The office of State chemist, with
proper laws, and a proper man at the
head of it, will be great benefit to the
State but if high taxes prevail and the
office should pass into the hands of one
whose submission for gain is more than
his desire to serve the State faithfully it
would become far worse for the people
than no fertilizer law at all.
Every grower should write his repre-
sentative that tax sufficiently large to
cover the expenses of the department is
all that is needed and urge the necessity
Of seeing that his the grower's) interests
are protected.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-24

A FINE OLD PLACE FOR SALE-grand av-
N enue of oaks. 1O6 acres of land with 35
acres in orange groves. Address JAMES CROX-
TON. MicanOpy, Fla, for maps and particulars.
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CHEAP COLU M N.

RATES~Twenty words, name and address one
week, 25 cts; three weeks. SO cts.
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M ANTED-Man and two boys. Steady grove
wv work. |. PAGE. AnburndaIe Fla. II
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NONCH PEAS-Ful directions. Don't fail to
~ plant by 18th June. Is cents per pint. 80 cents
per quart by mail; 81 per peck, freight
press, CT. WALDRON, Welaka, Putnam Co. Fla.
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XXTANTED-One hundred large Satsuma trees,
w sour stock State age, size. when budded.
price, etc. JOHN WILKINS. Grasmere Orange
County, Fla.
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DOINTER PUPS.-Can furnish reasonable
l. terms fine Pointer pups, sired by Col. Ed
gertOn's registered dog, "BrunO." Address DIR.
FISH. GeOrgianA. Indian Piver, Florida
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TASSAVA SEED CANE--1OO feet or more, ST. 90
" per hundred 500 feet or more 80 cents per
hundred, Address, PRENTICE BAILEY, Glen
St. Mary, Fla.
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u OR the best ventilated Fruit and Tomato
l.! Crates, send for sample crates and prices to
the WARNELL LUMBER VENEER CO.,
Warnell, Fla.
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+ Nnn barrels OK water applied with II No.
O,OOV 5"Kingsbury Irrigator" at cost
of sixty cents. A. q. X INGSBUKY. Del and. Fla.
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UTTINGS-W for grating and vines of
~ forty varieties OF foreign grapes. For Cata-
logue address II. Won LUTTICHAU, carleton,
Fla.
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- PECIAL4 DISCOUNT for 30 days Orange,
~ lemon and grape fruit trees. ii. P.WALkER,
AuburndAla. Ella.
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NOR SALE dozen hnfbrrti bite 1t no. n
Il henA-$4 per dozen o. Is. cnr~ ut Anbur
dale. Address Lock Box ID. Anburndhit, Fla.
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WANTED-By an English gardener, years
w in Florida. a situation to take care of
groves. VINEYARD or garden. Married. no family.
Address VIM. NJ. STEELE, Windsor, Alachua
County Fla.
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EOR SALE-5.OOO twO-year old lemons on sour
l stock at 20 cents each. 10000 budded Or
ange trees, 5000 grape fruit trees, dormant buds
or seedlings. LAKE REGION NURSERY Com
pany, Auburndale, Polk County, Fla.
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- EAUTIFUl-, frOAt-prOOf lake front lands foI
~ pineapples. Tomatoes. etc, for mie v"rA
cheap. IRVING PAGE, Auhundhle Ella II
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uOA BLACK MINORCAS-$5 per rio. Eggs
| JOO $3.50 per H. Spring Park POnlt ry Yards.
| Box &c. Springs Park. Flu.
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DELIABLE HAVANA CIGARS CHEROOTS
III Cheap by mail. Post paid Send cents
stamps for postage on samples to KRETCHMA AR
& BROS. BradentOwn. Fla,
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NV ANTED-:}00 Pars.n Brown. B1Onr'H EARLY
w OrMalteAe oval OrAng, trees OnsO rst orkS
Describe. $. G WARMER, PAlntkh Fla
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A NIMAL MEAL-Makes hens lay. young stock
IN strong, wards off disease eggs more fer
tile. Testimonials and prices application
Il. w. AMSDEN. OrmOnd, Fla.
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EOR SALE-3.OOO Villa Franco Lemon Buds
/ Grape Fruit stocks; also 10000 this year
Grape Fruit and Sour Seedlings. Address V. b.
WEBSTER. Seminole Nursery. Fort Meade, Fla.
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ORANGE SIZER-Ayer's Perfected has no
" springs to break get out of order. Ad
dress, ALFRED AVER. Lake Weir. Fla, or
FLORIDA FRUIT EXCHANGE, Jacksonville
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NISTRUS Trfoliatta-1O to 16 incE0 high at
" $500 per 100 Eighteen to "a inches high at
$3.50 per 10O Now ready to bud. Smaller sizes at
less prices. Should like to exchange for Satsuma
buds. G. e. BEMIS. Green Cove Springs Fla.
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TTOR "a I.E-lGntirely new StrnttOn III rrN of
AL material ut fhcthrv cost Guar 'ntted
G. f, VAN DEWATEK
StetAOn Han, University.
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A GENTLEMAN HAVINGA property near
n Tampa worth for practical purposes $4,000
will give an undivided half Interest," to party
supplying capital to develop same on JOLT ac-
count. Address, BONAFIDE, Lock Box f. Tampa,
Fla.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
BIount's Astounding Untruths.

AUGUSTA, Me-, Decem Der 1.-Ex-Minister
to Hawaii Stevens has given out his answer
to Commissioner Blount, the substance of
which is as follows:
1.-The deep sense of the obligation to my
country and a minister's duty to defend an
insult threatened against struggling Amer
lean colony, demand that l shall make an
answer to the astounding misrepresentation
and untruths of Commissioner Blount's re-
port on Hawaiian affairs.
Sent on very peculiar errand amid cur
rents and quicksands unknown to him,
say he has been partly the victim of circum-
stances, having been caught in the meshes
end snares adroitly prepared for him by the
cunning advisors of fallen Lilliuokalani and
by the shrewd, sharp, long experienced Brit
ish diplomatic agent, whose aims and hopes
Mr.. Blount has served so we'll. 1t is clear
enough that Mr.. Blount designed at what
ever cost to repudiate the views and action
of the recently terminated administration,
and that in order to do SO he must impugn
against Minister Stevens and the commander
of the United States ship Boston,
Mr.. Blount says the response to the call of
the committee of safety to land the men of
the Boston does not appear in the files of
the legation. The meaning of this insinua-
ton, says Mr.. Stevens, is obvious. 1t is
rnough to say there never was any such doc
ument. ''Mr. Blount singularly asserts that
promised to aid the committee by force.
This is emphatically and categorically un-
true"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
The bankruptcy Bill.

When the special session of congress adj
journed the bankruptcy bill was under con-
sideration in the house. Mr.. Oates will en-
deavor to get this out of the way as speedily
as possible and thinks vote can be reached
in ten days.
The ways and means committee are anx-
ious to get the tariff bill up as soon as possible
and expect to do so before the holiday re-
cess. All other measures will then retire In
the house and give the tariff the right Of
way.
Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, who now contests
with Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, the right to
be called the oldest member of the house,
will endeavor to bring up the silver question
at the earliest day. A majority of the COM
mittee on coinage, weights and measures, of
which he is chairman, is IN favor of free
coinage and will report favorably bill to re-
enact the coinage laws of 1887. But the sill
yer question cannot come up in the house
until the tariff bill is disposed of.
At some time during the session, and as
early as possible, Mr.. Wheeler, of Alabama,
chairman of the house committee on terri
tories will ask the house to consider the sd-
visibility of admitting into the union as
states Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Paving OFF Debts With Surplus.

New YORK, December Ar. G. Dun d
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
1t cannot be said that business is growing
better or worse. Money is everywhere abun-
dant with rates comparatively lower and the
commercial demand remarkably smaller.
While the demand for speculative uses ap-
pears to be increasing. the volume of bust
ness has been small.
The railroad earnings for the last week of
November show a larger decrease than for
either of the preceding weeks, but in freight
traffic alone the business was about the same
as for the first half of the month. Wheat is
slightly stronger, western receipts being
considerably smaller than in recent weeks.
Corn is unchanged in price, with heavy west
ern receipts and large exports, and pork, hog
products and oil are practically unchanged.
Cotton is a shade lower, as receipts from
plantations continue to exceed those of last
year, in spite of the very positive estimates
of a short yield and the average guesses of
the operators IN the New Orleans exchange
IS over 100000 bales greater than the govern
ment estimate.
The iron industry shows no gain on the
whole, with bessemer little lower at Pitts
burg, with no sales of rails at combination
prices, and with slightly lower prices fer
some finished products and a rather scanty
demand for any.
The cotton manufacturer enjoys decided
improvement in goods, but there is hardly
any quotable change in prices.
Apparently the country is paying off with
its surplus the products of loans amounting
to many millions, which were effected in
Europe to avert great disasters last summer.
Hence it is that the condition of the treasury
commands the attention with its total cash
reserve down to $4,000, 900 and its available
gold only $50, 100000.
The failures during the week were 278
against 236 last year. Only four were of liza
bilities exceeding 100000. The increase in
all sections of heavy and aggregate liabilities
is nearly double that of the preceding one.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
asya,orem Arguments.

WAsH1seroS, D. c., December 6.-Ans
democratic majority of the ways and Hieans
committee have prepared an extensive argu.
ment, in the form of circular, setting fortn
the reasons for substituting ad valorem FOR
specific tariff duties.
It saws: The effect Of the specific duties
is almost completely to stop the importation
of the lower grades of goods which are usea
in by far greater quantities; thus much OF
the revenue is lost and the cost to the masses
is unduly increased; this effect is seen under
all goods on which specific duties are lesled'
AID valorem duties levied on the value OF I'M
ported goods are the fairest and most equl-
table kind of duty. The rate is absolutely
the same on all grades of goods OF the same
kind, but the disadvantage of such duties y
that they offer great temptation TO the nm
porters to undervalue their goods on enter
ing them in our ports. Most OF the obJec-
tions are removed by the new administering
act prepared by the democrats, and the on1-
cial report accompanying the bill Will con-
tain exhaustive arguments to sustain the
changes made in the bill.
The circular concludes with fair state
ment of the dangers of the ad volorem sys-
tenn, by saying: 1.-THE danger which threat
ems the business interests of the country Is
not from reduction in the existing rates
of duty, but from the confusion which will
ensue provided lower rates of duty are
avoided by differentiation, thus causing at
one blow falling off in the revenue and
ruin to the honest importer"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
The New Tariff.

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 29.-The
bill, so far as completed, relates to the Gus
toms schedules only. 1t places all the lead
ing articles in the class known as raw mate
rials on the free list and reduces the present
tariff. calculating upon the basis of no change
in imports, from about $173,000,OO0 to about
$115,0Q0,O00.
The bill kills che principle of reciprocity
with the other republics of North and South
America, and will cause the necessity of new
treaties with them.
In a general way the committee announces
that to make up the deficiency it proposed
to rely In the main upon an income tax, but
that it had not concluded consideration of
the internal revenue figures of taxation and
would submit the perfected measure to their
colleagues at an early date. 1t is certain.
however, that no increase will be made in
the tax on beer, and it Is not likely that the
tax on whisky will be increased. An increase
in the latter tax of 10 cents would yield but
about $10.000.000 of revenue to the govern
ment and an infinitely larger tribute to dis
filters who have their product in bond.
The bill changes most of the tariff from
specific to ad valorem duties.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
They Are All There.

Delegates from the twenty-one counties of
Oklahoma, regularly elected in convention,
and to total of nearly 800, assembled at
Kingisher, o. T., for the purpose of taking
steps toward securing statehood for the ter
ritOry.
1t is thoroughly representative body. and
different from all previous assemblies in
that its mem berShip comes from the people
instead of being self-appointed. Each of
the five civilized tribes are represented by
from twenty to fifty delegates.
At the opening of the convention it was
UNANIMOUSLY decided that no partisan dis
cussion should be INDUCED in. A committee
will be appointed to draft statehood bill
and to spend the winter in Washington with
q view to its passage
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Vote for District LndpcS.

The Kansas state canvassing board met at
the time appointed by statute and canvassed
the votes cast for judges IN the thirteen
judicial districts in which there were cleo
tons this year.
Tenth district-John T. Burris, DEM, elected
by 1,763 plurality.
Fifteenth district.-Cyrus Heren, pop. elected
by 37S plurality.
Sixteenth district. - Samuel W. Vandivert,
rep, elected by "a plurality.
elected by $40 plurality.
Nineteenth district. A. Brunette, rep.
elected by 81 majority.
Twentieth district.-Ansel r. Clark, rep,
elected by 800 majority.
Twenty-irst district.-Robert B. Spillman,
rep, by 1,2S4 plurality.
fhirtieth district.-R. F. Thompson, rep,
elected by 46S plurality.
Thirty-tirst distrct.-F. c. Price, rep, elected
by 2Si majority
Thirty-second district.-William E. Hutchin-
son, rep elected by 130 plurality. For the short
term Hutchinson received 80 plurality over the
democratic candidate.
Thirty-third district.-James E. Andrews,
pop, elected by 90 majority.
Thirty-fourth district.-C. W. Smith, rep,
elected by 80 plurality.
Thirty-fifth distTiCt-William Thompson rep,
elected by 547 majority.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Adj VaIorem versus Specific.

CLEVELAND, O., November Ex-Governor
Mckinley in talking of a new tariff bill
said:
The Objectionable feature of the bill was
the substitution of ad valorem for specific
duties. That alone ought TO defeat the en-
tire measure. The ad valoren system, he
said, rests upon the foreign valuation,
which is hard to determine and it puts a
premium upon under-valuation frauds.
All the leading nations of the world, he de-
clared, had abandoned the ad valorem sys-
tenn of levying tariff duties, for the reason
that valuation is made thousands of miles
from the port of entry and can never be
depended upon. He quoted the late Secre-
tary Manning as having said that false in
voices, under valuation and like dishosesty
are inherent in the ad valorem system, and
he was certain that such FRAUDS would be-
come more prevalent under it. He also
quoted Clay as saying if he could fix the
value, he did not care what the ad valorem
duty was.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
The Booth system a Success.

WASHINGTON, D. c., December AIN his
departmental report Secretary Hoke Smith
discusses at length the opening of the Cher
okee outlet. He says the hardships incurred
by applicants were unavoidable results when
SO large crowd. far more than the land to
be obtained. was prepared to rush madly
upon it. No care of the department could
have lessened the intense heat and prevented
the sitting dust. The scarcity of water, due to
the extended drouth, which had dried up many
of the usual sources of water supply, and when
10000 persons gathered in the neighborhood
of single booth, it was impossible to place
all booths at locations suited for entry
and also to find sufficient water supply. It
is believed that aside from those hardships,
the plan adopted was carried out to sue
cessful conclusion, and prevented, to large
extent, wrongful occupancy of land by peo-
pie who were not entitled to settle thereon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Open Up the Fight on a New Line.

TOPEKA, December 5.-The arrest of the
agent of Kansas City liquor house, who
was taking orders in this city, brings up an
other phase of the prohibitory law and viii
result in many more prosecutions over the
state.
The law provides that "any person who
shall take or receive any order for intoxicat-
ing liquors from any person in this state not
authorized to sell the same, or any person
who shall directly or indirectly contract for
the sale of Intoxicating liquors with any per-
son in this state other than q person author
lied to sell the same shall be guilty of a mis-.
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished as provided in the act for sell
ing intoxicating liquors."
John A. Murray. the law officer of the state
temperance union. says this section covers
the sale &c liquors through soliciting agents
and that all such agents can be prosecuted
wherever they are found taking orders.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
SUGAR.
A Change in Avowed Policy Of
the Committee.
Raw Sugar to Remain Free of Tax; Refined
Sugar With Lessened Tax; BOunties
to Gradually Diminish and
Stop in Eight Years.

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 29.-Prior
to the last conference of the democratic men,
bers of the ways and means committee it
had been practically decided to place an ad
Salorem duty of Is per cent. on sugar. The
protests from the north and northwest against
any increase in the tax on sugar were so
forcible that at the last moment the COM
mittee changed front.
The new bill as promulgated shows the
following changes in the sugar schedule:
The duty on refined sugar is reduced from
4 to \ cent pound. Raw sugars remain
free of tax. The Mckinley bounty is re-
pealed progressively, that is. one eighth each
year, so that at the end of eight years it is to
cease entirely.
The Mex inley bill gave a uniform bounty
on home grown sugar for fourteen years, to
July /, 1905: this bill closes bounty giving
in 1902, after gradually reducing it for eight
UearS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
A Warm and Dry Month.

TOPEKA, December 2.-Sergeant Jennings
summary of the weather for November is
as follows:
Mean temperature. 1875; highest tempera-
ture &c. on the LIST; lowest temperature, Is,
on the oath; greatest daily range of temper
allure, Al, on the 18th; least daily range of
temperature, 8, on the 26th; mean tempera-
ture for this month for seven years, 4O.5;
total excess in temperature during the month
81; prevailing direction of wind, south ;
total precipitation, 1.3 inches; number of
days on which .01 inch or more of precipita
ton fell, 6: total precipitation of this month,
l.3 inches; average precipitation for this
month for seven years, LAB; total deficiency
in precipitation during the month, Is.
Number of clear days, Is; partly cloudy
days. II; cloudy days, 4. Dates of frost,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Pension Examiner Bounced.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. November 30.-It was
given out at the pension office that DR.. John
Morgan, member of the pension board in
Coffey county, Kan, had been removed for
the reason he had attempted to use his Office
to force collections from old soldiers whom
he claimed owed him certain amounts.
The doctor was appointed some weeks ago
and appears to have been very rough in his
work, and for this reason he was removed.
There are number of applicants for the
vacancy created by the ousting OF Morgan,
and the matter has been left to Colonel Ba-
con, of Chanute, for making a selection, all
names of applicants being sent him by the
department.