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The Progress., 1893-09-23
Fair and Exposition.

We called at the Fair and Exposition
Office this week and found Secretary
Koran and his fair assistant just a.
busy as they could be mailing posters
and other matter pertaining to the Fair.
Secretary HOran is now receiving nu-
merous letters from all sections of the
country, from those who have already
received catalogues.
He has letter from a lady in Albu-
querque, n. NJ, who has made great
number of entries in the ladies depart
ment. This Should stimulate our ladies
to the greatest effort, when persons
from so great distance take 50 much
interest.
He read US letters from Illinois Ohio
Tennessee and other States making
earnest inquiries about space and par
ticulars generally. These letters in
dicate an earnestness that show they
will be here with their exhibits.
What are our merchants and people
doing towards taking space in our ex-
hibition hall? Don't you know you
ought to De selecting space and making
preparation for our coming Fair. In
justice to yourselves and to the asso-
citation. you ought not to delay one mo-
ment in this important matter. Don't
wait for some one to make the start.
but go right ahead and select your
space. Secretary HOran is anxious
that you should Do not let it be said
by our visiting exhibitors that Shreve-
port merchants and the people take no
interest in making the Fair a success. !
1t will be a great source of pride to |
our own people to see home well repre- /
sented in exhibition hall. If exhibit /
ton hall is we'll fitted up with exhibi- /
tors, we guarantee every other depart
ment will be no doubt about the Fair |
being a great success. There will he
many thing here this year that have
never been seen before. Look out for
the Midway plaisance and the wonders
TO be seen there. We are always right
when we say the Fair and Exposition
IS a success.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
YOm kippur.

Beginning at 6 o'clock Tuesday and
continuing for n hours was the Yom
Kippur or Day Of Atonement with our
Jewish population.
This is a sacred season with the
Israelites everywhere. This period is
generally spent in fasting and serious
meditation. added to services of a doc
trinal nature which teaches an atone
ment for all sins committed during the
past twelve mOnths.and receiving fresh
strength and divine power TO with
stand the trials and temptations of
another year
All hail to our Jewish friends for we
have many and to their race, and may
We all continue to dwell together in
that peace and unity which marks the
true citizenship displayed by all the
races Of our community. jew or Cen
tile. we should be brothers Of a com
mon cause, and that 10 aid, support and
uphold good government and incul-
cate manly principles in the public
masses.
Again We say. all hail TO our Jewish
citizens.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

Our old friend Mr.. w. Lee Wilson,
of DeSoto parish, paid US an appreci-
ated call last week.
The venerable Mr.. Peachy r. Gil
ner, of Vanceville, dropped in to see
us Tuesday. This gentleman has
been an octogsnarian for more than
three years, but does not use specta-
cles, having discarded them thirteen
years ago.
Mr.. r. G. Jones, of Danville, called
in to see US last week and left, a sub
scriber to The PROGRESS.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
Our Farmers.

This year has been one that farm
ers will not soon forget during the
remainder of their lives. Previous to
this year matters had been going on
after the old style, that of depending
largely on the merchant to supply
them with necessaries of life until a
crop could be made and gathered,
but 1893 caused almost an entire rev.
olution in things. The low price of
cotton and scarcity of money had
been steadily bringing things
to change. 1t seemed a
hardship that ali kinds of hog pro-
ducts should be advanced to so high
price that it was impossible for
merchants to think of furnishing any,
body, and he was left to shift for him
self. Many poor farmer felt that
the ground was sinking from under
him. What was he to do. He did as
al men do who have nerve and self
reliance, recognized that he must de-
dend upon his own exertions, the farm
er shaped up different course of con-
Quoting his business, and found he
could get along on much less than he
thought he could, determined he
would pay more attention to that
maxim that every farmer should
have framed and hung up in his
home ''buy nothing that can be raised
on the farm" and the result of the
matter is that the farmers of North
Louisiana are to day better off than
ever before. If they have not raised
as bountiful crop as they expected,
they owe the merchants less than
they ever did. Farmers of Louisiana
do not forget this lesson but follow
it up with more Intensity than You
ever have and you will soon be of all
men the most independent.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
The Price List Can BE Relied On.

The Price List Can BE Relied On.
We wish to impress upon our read
ers that the price list of school books
given in last weeks issue of The
PRoGREss is absolutely correct and
can be relied on. Should there be
any overcharge anywhere, refuse to
pay and send to US, where directions
will be given 10 stores who will re-
spect their obligations and adhere to
these prices.
1t is onr aim to assist our friends
and protect them in every care of i'm
position. Let every one be sure to
take the number of copper cents nee
essary to make change, and if the
dealer refuses to respect the prices
quoted we will see to it they can be
directed to dealer who will.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
With Open Doors.

The next meeting of the Farmers
Union will be held with open doors
That is to say that after the regular
business has been transacted, the pub.
lie will be invited to enter and hear
the speech of Assistant Lecturer
Bruce aud take part in the exercises.
This is progressive move on the
part of the Farmers Union and was
inaugurated at the suggestion of
President Pickett.
This will arouse new interest among
the farmers themselves and will en-
title their cause to more respect and
consideration by the people generally.
When it has become fully known that
their teachings and principles ars
open to discussion, their doctrines
will win the peace in public affairs it
deserves to have.
A free invitation is extended to all.
This meeting will be held at We'll
come Union.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

Monday, the 18th, our public
schools opened. This means a great
deal when we come to think over it.
1t means the putting in motion of 1
great intellectual fac Ory as it were
Monday morning everywhere we look
ed sweet, bright faced children could
be seen with satchel and basket OF
their way to the various schools. How
many recOllections of long ago this
recalled; and we, who have passed
many mile stones on the Journey OF
life, almost felt as the poet when he
sang, Turn backward oh time in
your flight, make NE a child again,
etc. For who does not recall the days
when we-like these dear sweet chill
in innocent and childish glee-
gathered the first day Of school to
store our minds with 1seful knowl-
edge. Our teachers, God bless them.
take up the line OF duty and; for
eight months, will by earnest and
faithful works, strive to plant the
seeds in the fertile brain and train
them for useful citizens.
The schools have all opened with
well filled rooms in the different
grades. All of the teachers at their
post, except Misses Furman and
Dalzell whose health prevented them.
but we are pleased to say, that it is
only of a temporary character and
nothing of serious nature.
Superintendent Hargrove has been
more than busy receiving teachers
who go to the various country schools
A large pecentage of the teachers are
Normal graduates. This of itself
speaks well for the public schools of
Caddo. Everything augurs a prof
table year in the way of school work.
People OF Shreveport you have been
faithful in the support of our public
Let that interest be contin-
ually increased by standing faith
fully by superintendent and teachers
and your pride will 50 increase that
by another year we will see one or
more magnificent school houses rise
up in Shreveport.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

The regular quarterly meeting of
the Farmers Union of Caddo parish
will be held on Friday, 9th day of Oc-
tober at Welcome Union. A full at
tendance is requested.
As Brother q. W. Bruce, assistant
State lecturer, will meet us and de-
liver lecture for our benefit, every
member of the Alliance is expected
to meet with us and him.
And in compliance with President
Pickett's suggestion entitled For
the Good of the Order" the doors
will be thrown open to the public
after the regular business has been
disposed of, AMI all will be invited to
enter and hear the lecture and mix
and miDgle in social intercourse with
us, and participate generally in this
meeting.
w. A. HENDRICK, President.
+. j. HEBRON, Nj. d., Secretary.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
We ARE READY.
Our Fine Fall DiSDlGV Is Here,

Uul IlHG / Oil DlDpldI ID nGlG.
Few merchants of this city have
ever presen ed to public gaze such an
array of Fall goods as we now have
in stock.
Everything is new, fresh and at
tractive and of the latest design and
style.
Our stock is veritably medley en-
bracing fancy dress goods, brilliant
notions, elegant hosiery and cozy
ladies' shoes. Besides there is a su-
perb line of carpets and rugs soft to
the tread and ornamental to the eye
Our store is panorama of femin-
inc attractions in the way of wearing
apparel of all kinds. while the men
folks have been given thoughtful con-
sideration, and they too can be ac-
commodated at our establishment.
Bear in mind that our firm is ever
in the van of all movements for pub
lie benefit, and on this occasion we
have simply excelled ourselves.
Remember it takes little money to
go long ways with
HENRY DREYFUss & Son.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
HAVE YOUR cIsTERNs CLEANED AND
PURIFIED.

Now is the time to have your cis-
terms cleaned and purified. Remem-
ber that Mr.. Charles Stoer has pur-
chased the patent whereby this can
be done without losing the water.
Not only does he clean the cistern
out, but he likewise purifes the wa
ter. 1t will cost but a nominal sum
and is very necessary and whole
some measure. Telephone Mr.. Chas.
Stoer, or call on him at his store on
Texas avenue, and have this work
done at once.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
5et our prices for job work.


We note with pleasure the improved
appearance of the brick buildings oc-
cupied by Mr.. John l.. Hodges, cor
ner Texas and Marshall streets, and
the several adjoining ones. These
have been Crnamented by nice iron
frontals which make them quite an
attractive sight to behold. This work
was performed by that accomplished
mechanic, Mr.. Frank Denham, who Is
truly an artist in his line.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

The Comrade, the foremost Popu-
lists newspaper in the State, and one
that is always abreast of the times
can be had from now till January
1895, for 81. This is the oldest and best
established reform paper in the State
and the people should hasten to take
an advantage of this remarkable offer
and keep thoroughly posted. lou
should subscribe and then get your
neighbor to subscribe at once.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
For Sale Cheac.

A fine Knabe piano, which has been
but little used.
One upright Pleyel piano.
A pair of platform scales.
A fine patent churn, holding about
four or six gallons.
These can be bought cheap. 'Inquire
at The PRoGREss office.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
BIGART & co.
This Popular and Energetic Firm Are
Always the First to Receive
New Goods.

And this season they have excelled
all others with the latest novelties III
dress goods, trimmings, silks, carpets,
rugs. mating, house furnishing
goods, etc
We have mail order department,
and take special pains in filling all
orders. Write for samples and we will
convince you both of the cheapness
and quality Of our goods.
BIGART * Co.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
Carpets CARPETS !. CARPETS :! !

We have opened room especially
fitted up to show our extensive line
of carpets, mating, rugs, oil cloths,
curtains. etc, and will be pleased to
have you see them, both in regards
to styles ard prices.
BIGART & Co.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
Oysters

Any style at Star Oyster Saloon,
opposite City Hotel. Shell oysters,
40 cents per dozen: bulk, two dozen
for 25 cents; can oysters, 80 cents per
can. These oysters are received every
morning from New Orleans.
GuNDOLPI IL RACCICH.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
FOR RENT.

n desirable dwelling on Hope street
d Cclt Lie. containing six rooms.
Plenty of fresh, wholesome water on
premises. Apply to
G. d. Hicks, 205 Milam street.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

There will be class meeting at the
First Methodist church every Sunday
evening at 4 o'clock. All are cordi-
ally invited to attend.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

The PROGREss acknowledges with
appreciated pleasure the receipt of
Senator George q. Vests speech on
the silver question.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

DIR. Chas. G.. McCloud fills teeth
without pain. The latest improved
methods in the practice of dentistry
employed. Old ways must give way
to new ones.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
COLUMBIAN TRUNKS,

We are sole agents for the Palicas
Common Sense Trunks. The Kahn
Dry Goods Company, Limited.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

Ayers Sarsaparilla does what no
other blood medicine in existence can
do. 1t searches ont all the impuri-
ties in the system and expels them
harmlessly through the proper chan
nels This isswhy Ayers Sarsaparilla
is so pre-eminently effective as a
remedy for rheumatism.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
THE MUSIC OF THE GIN saw is
ABROAD
And the Busy Hum Of Industry is an
Every DaV Sound.

The anxious look SO apparent on
the faces of our people, some two OF
three weeks ago, has faded away and
has been supplantsd by the pleasant
smile of hope.
This change has been due to the
opening and marketing of cotton
which is bringing very reasonable
price, SIC and upwards, and when it
gets to 10c our people will be still
more happy. But to return. On
every side the busy hum of industry
is audible, gins are running, the cot
ton fields are becoming thicker and
thicker with the gatherers of the
staple and as soon as il has become
fuller and more is brought to market
good times Will be here. And in the
meantime we want
The Progress., 1893-09-23
THE PROGRESS
Neat Work and
Close Figures.
LOCAL C0LU N.


Mr.. Geo. Z. Hadley is our author
lied agent at Logansport, La, to So
licit subscriptions, job work, etc.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
PRIVILEGES.
Louisiana State Fair and Shreveport Expo
sition, October 80 to November 4,
Inclusive. 1898.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the Office of the secretary, 524 Spring
street, for all privileges, until Satur-
day, October Z, at II M. Bids will
also be received for rent of the asso-
cations dining hall. For further in
formation address the secretary, John
j. Horan, Shreveport, La.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
Excelsior Steam :,
= Laundry.
Phoenix Like 1t has Risen from
the Ashes New and Complete
with the Latest and Most I'm
proved machinery in all its De-
partments.
A Full Guarantee as to Good Work
and Prices.

Cleanliness is said to be next TO godli-
ness, yet the heather Chinee paws little
or no attention to either.p
why will you continue to have the
nltny neathen rub your collars and cuffs
IN the same filthy suds that a hundred
Others, perhaps. have been already wash .
ed IN! The ChinaInan has to buy hIs
water and charges cents for collar.
while the Excelsior Steam Laundry has
plenty OF clear. soft spring water aud
only charges 213 cents per collar. or 30
cents per dozen, and guarantees better
work. Thus you keep your money at
home, while the dirty heathen sinks YOUR
money through the earth to China. and
you know it will be long time befure il
gets back TO America TO help you and
your children, perhaps never.
A. SIMPSON, Manager.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
ALL TO KNOW

that we have the finest lot of engines,
boilers, gins, cane mills, general ma
chinery and hardware that any one
ever saw in North Louisiana, which
we bought to sell again and we will
give close figures sn all our stock.
The SOUTHERN HARDWARE COMPANY.
The Progress., 1893-09-23
CONSTABLE SALE.

BILE SALE.
No. 3959-Walter Lee vs. Grandson M,
BY virtue of awrit of neri iacIas "a
sued TO me in the above entitieoa a;sEs.
numbered suit by the Hon. I. "; ". pld Ward
Justice of the Peace in and Tor 4sn l'.d sna
of Caddo Parish, La, have sezess ze s,ont
will sell at public auction at .no o.,,esf.
door OF the courthouse, Oh IeAas, hosrs
Shreveport. La, between the teai
for sales, on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER IA. lo'''
the following described property, IN sl
Lot 4 of Cieveland's subdivision. ~"
buildings and improvements ihefeo sp-
Terms of sale-Casb, suDJec' "
praIsement. ..a,le.
G. w. KELLY. Cons'a''~
The Progress, September Q, is9''
The Progress., 1893-09-23

For neat job work at close figures
call at The PRoGREss office.
The Progress., 1893-09-23

Get our prices for job work.
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-15

taste and design, are anything but
praiseworthy. This in itself demon
strates that our manufactures bear
large and remunerative field for ex-
ports there, if they will but avail
themselves of the opportunities offered
them. ~
Upstairs, in the liberal arts depart
ment, adjoining the German section on
the north, there is an interesting dis
play. This includes collection of the
complete fauna and fora of Mexico
sent BY great society which operates
with state aid, and which Is highly in
structive; just to mention one item
there are over 1000 distinct specimens
of birds of song or plumage (stuffed,
of counsel, all natives of Mexico, and
there are wonderful specimens of the
iguana, the tapir, the mountain sheep,
gazelle and chamois, the puma, bears
and monkeys of her forests, all master
pieces of the taxidermist. Then there
are extensive exhibits sent from Next
co.'s higher educational industries,
such as those of fine art medicine,
law, engineering, mining, architec-
ture, botany. This whole department,
of course, was sent by the government
and is in charge Of orainy, well-in-
formed men.
In horticulture and wine-growing
Mexico makes a fine display, demon
strating very clearly that her agri
culturists, among whom she has thou
sands of expert colonists frozn Europe,
especially from France and Italy,
know how to wiring choice products
from her fertile soil The wines
and brandies she shows have a fine
favor, although not greatly appre-
ciated by the northern palate. In the
leather line, too, she displays greet
variety of products saddles and har-
ness, shoes and boots, leather sandals
and leggings, slippers and curtains, Of
great variety and design, and often
very ingenious in make. AS to mining,
of course, Mexico makes an enormous
showing, the inexhaustible resources
of her mines of gold and silver, cop
per and tin, sulphur and all sorts of
stone and minerals, onyx, etc, being
pretty well known the world over.
In her section at Manufactures build
ing there are many articles sent by
Mexican women, enbroideries, small
paintings and the like, but these are
nearly all of secondary value. It is
different in the Woman's building
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-15
CAUGHT By ELECTRICITY.
A Worlds Fair Device for Trapping Dis
honest Visitors.

A Worlds Fair Device for Trapping Dis.
honest Visitors.
Electrical thief catchers are in oper.
alton in some of the worlds fair sec
lions. Their operation is rs follows:
Ross & Co., of London, have an exhibit
in the British section of the Manufac-
lures building. For some time they
have been missing valuable lenses.
Finally the case reached such proper
lions that it was decided to lay a trap
for the thief.
Several lenses were temptingly dis
played within seemingly easy reach,
but underneath each lay one end of an
electric wire, to the other end Of which
was attached bell. The mechanism
was so arranged that, as soon as one OF
these lenses was touched, an electric
bell would ring out like telephone.
The guards in that section of the gal
lery were told of the trap and in
structed what action to take when the
alarm sounded.
Just before the Manufactures build
ing was closed recently an elderly man,
eminently respectable In appearance
and neatly dressed, passed along the
aisle and soon the gong was heard.
The guards rushed in and there on the
floor lay the lenses whose theft the old
gentleman had undertaken. He was
arrested.
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-15
AZTEC IDOL IN MEXICAN SECTION

1,50o in the Woman's building; 1000 in
the Fine Arts palace; 1000 in the struc-
ture devoted to anthropology; 1000 IN
the Shoe and Leather building; 800 IN
the viticulture department; altogether
81, 800 square feet distributed in eleven
different departments of the great expo
sition. This is no mean show for a
country which, after all, has less than
12,ooo, 600 of population, upon whom
Americans have always looked as semi
barbarians. 1t is a greater showing than
we ourselves have made at any Euro
oean exposition so far held, and it
must be put down, in large measure, to
the desire of Mexico to cement the mu-
tual friendship existing between the
United States and her, and to make
the commercial relations between the
two countries even more intimate and
profitable than they are at present.
In this connection it will do no harm
to point to the fact that 81 per cent. OF
the entire Mexican import trade at
present is with this country, it having
increased 900 per cent. within short
space Of time.
To speak generally, then, and i'm
partially of the Mexican exhibit, ! may
saw that it is weakest in industrial prod
ucts, and strongest in agricultural
ones. This is in strict accordance with
her actual conditions, for industry in
Mexico is carried on on small scale,
mostly by half-breeds, and its charac-
ter, therefore, is that OF a domestic
industry, produced by half-educated
men and women, whose skill is not
aided by directions and hints received
from superior minds. Thus we ind
the numerous samples of Mexican hand
icraft exhibited in her section in Manu-
features building inferior in design
in taste and in workmanship, except
ing those few which were made by her
European artisans and mechanics. Her
pottery, her copper and iron and bronze
ware, her tinware and household uten-
sils, her paper and stationery exhibit,
her perfumery and soaps and chemicals
and candles, her toilet articles, all dem
onstrate this fact. The only articles
worthy of some praise are those pecul-
lar to the country, where the pure
Aztec art spirit has remained uninflu-
enced by European taste, such as clay
and coarse terra Gotta statuettes and
vases, and those manufactures purely
the work of her European, i. e., immi-
grant artisans, such as fine inlad wood
furniture, canes, silk hats, etc. But
the bulk of these exhibits, being q
mixture of ingenious and European