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Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

Miss Myrtle Speers, of Olathe,
Kan, is visiting her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Wilson.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

Every II buying their school
books Of T.. II. Carter & Co., get a
! waterproof school satchei free.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

Miss Mcdonald, of Covington,
NY, and Miss kirkpatrick, OF Rip
ley, Ohio, who have been the guests
oil Misses Mamie Gamble, Rosalee
Moore and Bessie Davis for several
weeks, returned home to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

A house belonging to Gene Jones
and occupied by a tenent near Cant,
this county, was burned last week.
Insurance $500, loss 81 1900. There
was no insurance on the household
goods.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

A nice waterproof school satchel
free to every one buying school
books of E. H. Carter & Co.. 21-2t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

j. X. Grow, of Farber, was ad-
Judged insane this week and sent TO
the asylum at Fulton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

France NJ. Chandler, General
Passenger Agent of the Wabash K.
r. Co., died in St. Louis Tuesday
morning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

Cant Il Groves shipped one car
load Of cattle to St. Louis from
Thompson Tuesday night, the 21st.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-08-23

Buy your school books Of +. III.
Carter & Co. and get a nice watel
proof satchel free. 21.2t
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
just a 1rifle Mixed.

In a little New England village, not
very many miles from Boston, either,
there is a circulating library whict
generously and Hospitality offers its
privileges to the stranger within its
gates. One such strolled into the
room lately, on its only open day OF
the week, commenting upon the priv
ileges of the towns-people, and ad-
miring the reading instinct which
made the library possible in place
so small. A dignified looking woman.
'.leader" in village society, was
looking over the catalogue, helping a
friend to select a book.
Here is The Autocrat of tho
Breakfast Table, by Holiness" she
said, holding up the book. give
never read this one, but everything
that Mary j. Holmes writes is sure to
be good"
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

what eccentric school teacher NANCY
Elmer Ellsworth Masterman pose,'"
Some of the more sensitive and plously
inclined declare themselves as mex
pressiblv shocked that any human
being, especially one of their own
neigh bors, should have posed 1or 50
sacred subject. Others DEFEND ."e
photographer and his model on the
Ground of art and artistic effect
.Masterman, the subject, has a str'N-
ing personality. He is Tall spare
angular, and awkward in his move
ments. His long, red, shaggy moving
hair and red, unkempt whiskers, beard
and mustache give him a leonlne APP
pearance He is 80 years old, single
and lives upon his fathers farm on tine
outskirts of New London. His father
is a German and his mother an Ohloan'
His brother is cashier of the Gibson
burg bank. During the Worlds Fan
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
1t Was the Pie.

The landlady Of the boarding house
was out in the back yard when the
tramp entered and it disturbed him so
that he came near losing his usual
aplomb.
beg parding, ma'am," he began,
81 came to see if you didn't lose pie
YOU left out here yesterday to git
cool?"
Eyes. I did, and I'm looking for the
person who took it. Was it you?" and
she came at him threateningly.
He lodged and got over to the other
side.
"No'm, it wasn't" he replied, "but
I know who it was"
"Well, you tell me and I'll have him
arrested and punished.
.You don't have to, ma'am," he
sighed; she's dead" and he got out
the best way he could.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
RANK OF ENGLAND pAfEn'
1ts Unique Qualities sad "onuef'u'
Water Marks.

c,oo raner alone is remarkable III
MANY wavs-notably for its unique
wilderness and the peculiar feel OF
crisnness: while it's combined thlnness
and TRANSPARENCY are guards against
two once very popular modes OF 1or-
oerv-the washing out OF the pruning
bv means of turpentine, and erasure
with the knife. The wire mark or
water mark, is another Precautlon
aoainst countcrfeiting, and is produced
in the paper while it is in state OF
min In the old manufacture OF bank
notes this water mark was caused by
on enormous number of wires lover
O0O) stitched and sewed together; now
it is engraved in steel-faced die, when
;s afterward hardened and is then APP
n)ied as punch to stamp the pattern
ont of plates of sheet brass. Inc
shading of the letters of tins water
mark further increases the dltllculty
of imitation. The paper IS maze
entirely from new white linen cut
tings-never from anything that mas
been worn-and the tOughness or II
may be roughly estimated from the
fact that a single bank note will, whe1
unsized, support weight of thlrty-slA
pounds. The paper is produced II
pieces large enough for two notes, eacf
of which exactly measures live nche
bv eight inches, and weighs elghteel
grains before it is sized, and SO care
fully are the notes prepared that ever
the number of dips into the pulp mad
bv each workman is registered on
dial by machinery. Few people ar
aware that Bank of England note
not of the same thickness all through
In point of fact the paper is thicker
: the left-hand corner to enable 1t to II
tain a keener impression of the WIG
nette there, and it is also considerable
thicker in the dark shadows OF tn
! center letters and beneath the figure
ut the ends. Counterfeit notes are II
variablv of one thickness only through
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
VARIOUS RARlTIEs.

Among the pupils at one OF the
public schools in Georgia is negro
woman forty-three years old.
$ Coffee is taxed $40 ton in France;
$3.50 in Italy, 5000 in Austria $ls5 in
Portugal, $l2O in Norway, 500 in
Germany and Spain, $75 in Russia. $40
in Great Britain.
The shah of Persia is the owner Of
a Shetland pony, which is only twelve
inches in height, two inches smaller
than the famous miniature equine"
belonging to Baroness Burdett
Coutts.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
DIVORCED THE WRONG WOMAN.
A Lawyers Mistake Places Couple in
Difficult Position.

A good story is now being told at the
expense of a well-known Louisville
LAWYER. 1t runs thus: Two women
applied to the lawyer on the same day.
One wanted to be made femme sole,
the other wanted a divorce. By some
hccus-pocus sort of change the names
of the women We're mixed, and the
woman who wanted to be empowered
to act as single woman was granted
divorce, and vice versa. 1t happened
that the husband of the woman who
wanted to be made femme sole
was a drummer, and, in read
ing the paper from Louisville
while he was in Texas, he saw
where his wife had been granted di-
vorce. She knew nothing of the mat
ter until her husband wrote home and
wanted to know what was the matter,
and what he had done that she had got
| a divorce He said he had transferred
all his property to her and did not
know how to account for her strange
actions. Then she consulted her law.
yer, and the apparent mystery was
made plain. She only wanted to be
made femme sole, whereas she had
been divorced. Rumor has it that the
husband has returned from Texas and
fully understands the circumstances in
the case, but is afraid to visit his owr
house until he and his wife are remar
ried or the Judgment of the court.
Get aside.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

la THE MASTERMAN PlCIUhh
Mesterman had charge OF the water
fowl exhibit and contracted a severe
cold BY the advice of his physician
bo let his short hair and beard grow
In order to avoid pulmonary troubles
Had you any scruples or compunc'
ton in posing for so sacred a ub]ect
as the SAVIOR" Masterman was asked.
No Why should I? What is the
difference between posing for pho
tcgraph and posing for a painting?
The paintings of the great masters
are looked upon with admiration and
pleasure, and no questions are asked
as to who posed. Why should | be SO
criticised and prosecuted because l
chose to pose as Christ in the pictures
which have raised this storm? | felt
perfectly free in doing so, and care
nothing for the criticisms OF men. l
feel that if the act was sacriligious
Christ and the Almighty would not
have led me to such success. l was
urged by Protestants and Catholics to
pose for the subject, but the first sug-
! gestion came from Jew. If it was
such an awful thing to do, | think
that the Almighty would have pre-
vented it" .-......
Mr. Minis was asked if, in the face
Of the sharp criticism to which he had
been subjected. he desired to make a
statement defending himself. Said he;
THE production of the Christ heads
by photography was suggested to me
by three.euarter length picture Of
7 Mr.. Masterman, in which posed him
l for Catalina as he replied to the SEN
tence of Punishment from Rome. The
result to me, more correctly repre-
sented how Chst might have looked
as he declared. 'Ye have made it :
den of thieves This picture l showed
to J. f. Ryder Of Cleveland, who pub
> lished Deacon Jones's Experience.
Calling his operator, he said: If w
had this subject down here, we woul'
pretty near make Christ out of him.
, That determined the matter and an
quite well pleased with the result
The pictures have been highly com
mended by the faculty of instructor
at the Teachers institute. Rev. ]. I
w. Cook of the Baptist church,
writer for several periodicals. has dc
cided to write an article describin
the photograph as a picture OF syn
, pathy and soul"
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
CHIEF OF PxTHlAN SISTERS.
An Ohio Woman Who Has Risen 20
Eminence in the Order.

An Ohio Woman Who Has Risen to
Eminence in the Order.
At its Cincinnati session in 1888 the
supreme lodge Knights of Pythias
granted permission to the wives
mothers, daughters, sisters ana
widows of knights to form sister
hood. Under tits permission the first
temple of Pythian sisters was instl'
tuted at Warsaw, Ind, in 1888. The
order has since then spread with
gratifying rapidly and is now repre-
sented in nearly every state in the
union. Mrs. Hattie A. Robinson OF
Dayton is at present supreme chief OF
order, having been the first woman IN
Ohio to sign an application for a
charter. At the organization OF the
grand temple in Sept, 1889, she was
elected to the Office of grand Chief,
and at the organization OF the supreme
temple at Indianapolis in October fol-
lowing she was elected to the office OF
supreme senior, the second office Of
that body. As an executive officer she
possesses excellent ability and orna'
ments whatever station she serves
In other orders Mrs. Robinson has at
tanned high rank She became
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
Only a Deadhead.

Box Office Clerk-That sugary no.
tice by. Mr.. Blank, the critic of the
Daily Civilizer, has brought us in a
big crowd to night.
Theatrical Manager-Yes, there's
5000 in the house if there is a cent.
Later-Rich Patron, pointing to
Blank-Who is that intelligent-look-
ing gentleman? Do you know him?
Theatrical Manager-Yes; he is one
of those newspaper deadheads. Texas
Siftings.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
JACK NAPOLEON.
Murphy's Famous Bulldog Is Quite
Sporting Character.

Murphy's Famous Bulldog Is Quite =
Sporting Character.
An interesting spectator at many OF
the great bicycle meets nowadays is
Jack Napoleon, the remarkably clever
bulldog owned by William F. Murphy,
the famous Brooklyn racing man.
Jack wears stovepipe hat as jauntily
and airily as Fifth avenue New
York; swell, and, as he is doubtless
somewhat near.sighted, he is COM
PEELED to resort to the use OF eye
glasses when he examines the entries
on the program or when he eagerly
scans the riders as they come sprinting
to the tape on the last lap. Jack is
very fond of "dry smoke" for when
ever he walks along the street or at
tends bicycle meet he invariably has
very Eng1ish-looking brierwood pipe
in his mouth. If the sport moves
him to utter banks OF joy as his owner
wins a race, of growls OF rage il
Murphy isn't in it at the finish, the
fact that he has a pipe in his mouth
doesn't bother Jack Napoleon at all
He banks or growls, as the case may
be, regardless Of consequences and thu
pipe, but he never fails to cling to tn
pipe. When Jack was young and ag
gressive, he was considerable OF
fighter, and is the hero Of many a hare
fought battle in the pit, but he ha
long since retired from the arena, AM
earns five good meals day as masco
| for his master and a well-known blcycl
race team. His potency as mascot
in no way interfered with by the fae
that he is just 10 years old. jim Co'
bett :.nce offered Murphy $500 &c
Jack, stovepipe hat, glasses and pip
but the Brooklyn wheelman scorne
the offer, Jacks chum on the team Is
monkey named McGinty, who sits Q
Jacks neck and rides through u
streets as proud as Simisn king.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

HERE is a compliment from an Eng
lish source which Americans may be
slow to reciprocate. 'Take them as
WHOLE" says the London Spectator,
.the Americans are the kindliest race
on the face OF the earth. In spite of
theif eagerness, their push, their de.
sire to be in the front rank at all
times and all seasons, the true Ameri-
cln seldom fails in kindness.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
SINCE writer's on hygiene have con-

SINCE writer's on hygiene have con-
WINGED the intelligent readers of this
country thai nuts have a much higher
value. when their nutritive qualities
ARE considered than have the apple,
peach and pear, and the attention of
agricultural authorities has been
drawn to the subject, it has been
found that Americas demand for nuts
is largely supplied by foreign growers,
that the great bulk of nuts consumed
here are imported, when nearly every
variety could be grown with profit by
the American farmer.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

The next Washington monument
will be reared on the site of the
house in which the father OF his coun-
try was born at Wakefield, Westmore-
land county, Va. Fifteen years ago
congress began the slow process Of
laying the foundation for the appro-
priation. Now, after wharf has
beer built to give approach to the
site, the government finds itself with
$4,000 available for the monument.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

ANOTHER rumor of another new
magazine is in the air, to be published
In New York. The Critic aptly says:
TO make new magazine successful
Sia these days, it must have an excuse
for being. It can no longer follow in
the wake of others, it must make a
wake of its own. And If it can reverse
this order of nature and send its wake
flashing path in front OF it, so much
the BETTER
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

BANK burglaries are growing less
freouent and train robberies more fire.
quent than they were formerly. 1t is
reasonable tosuppose that the same
precautions and mechanical devices
which have proved effective in the
former case may yet be found useful
in the latter. A good railway express
safe with time-lock would seem to
have its advantages.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

EXTENSIVE frosts along the Atlantic
seaboard are said by the marine hos
pital corps to end any danger OF visit
from cholera, yellow fever or any
epidemic this year. Hal it been a
matter of choice the country would
have preferred the frosts to the cpl
denies. but the victims OF the former
will kick Just the same.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

CANALS are among the best state in
vestments of New York, the revenue
derived from them, paid into the state
treasury, exceeding both cost and
maintenance by $15,71O,0oo. Had the
earnings of the Erie and Champlain
not been held down by side canals the
figures would be close on $29, OoO,00o.
New York is blessed in owning water
ways as well as railways.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
She EXPLAINED 1t,

A little girl recently gave a forcible
though unconscious illustration OF
what foreigners find perplexing Pc
culiarity of our language. Her
younger brother inquired:
"Do cows give beef and ham,"
"Of course they DON'T" was the
scornful reply. "You ought to know
better than that. Cows lay milk
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

THE Paris edition of the New York
Herald announces the arrival of '.the
well-known American authoress,
Louise Chandler Moulton, whose
nom-de-guerre is 'Amelie Rives
Wonder what her name would be in
Paris if she wasn't so we'll known
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
gone.

ApAck1NG house run on Chicago
methods in Liverpool is the latest idea
of the meat kings, Swift and Morris
who propose to ship cattle, etcs' from
the states in their own ships and XIII
in England ..
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

ANTIQUARIAN Josiah w. Leeds, who
has been investigating the subject, re-
ports that William Penn paid above
thirty thousand pounds more than he
got" for Pennsylvania, But the par
ties who acquired title to it through
him found it fairly good investment,
at least, they are not inclined to sell
at ANYTHING like first cost.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

THE Montclair, N. j., women have
our sympathy. They have been pull
inc down patent medicine sign fences
in their vicinity, relieving their land
scape from some horrible eyesores.
In Just what light a police justice will
regard this "art movement" remains
70 no caan
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

as THOUGH to rectify the prevailing
tendency toward concentration OF
wealth and population in cities, the
remains of "boom towns" in Okla
shoma and Western Kansas are being
irarted out on the prairies and used t.
ornament the farms and ranches.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
The Family Dis1r aced.

"Fwat," asked Mr.. Hooghlighan, "is
the matty wild your head?"
mickey Dolan knocked me down
wifi a half brick, y responded his SON
"Yez hov disgraced tn family. 1t
Is the foorst tonne thot Hooghlighan
was iver knocked down wild less than
= whole wan"
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

IT is all right, perhaps, for the pure
food reformers to throw dlScreolt on
the potato, but the potato was mere a.
long time before the reformeFs anu ~
will be here a long time after they are
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

THE japanese national flower IS the
,hrvsanthemum, but the Japanese ma
t;onal character, as expressed in the
Chinese war, would be better repre-
scented by the daisy.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

SOME men are much like the Arl-
IONA bull which has just made a rec.
ord by bucking Santa fe engine OH
the track. The bull was killed.. but
the record stands. "a
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

THESE are the days the mother
thinks Of the son whose hair is a sight,
and wonders ever in her heart:
Where is my quarter back tonight"
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10
POSED AS THE SAVIOR
ANTI NOW HE'S BEING SEVERE
LY CONDEMNED.
New London, Ohio, Has Recently h'o"
Startled by the Work of an Extraor
binary Crank-The Mas'ern'"n

HE GOOD. BAD
and indih'erent peo-
pie of New Lon
don, Ohio, are alike
greatly exercised
over a display of a
series of "Christ S
Head" photograph
lust made by Pho
tographer H. W.
Minis of that city,
for which a some
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

TWO men held up an operator d.
Tracy and secured three cents. i ln fnp
ore lines of industry which are safer
and pay fully as well.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-10

MRs HATrIE A. ROBINSON.
daughter of Rebekah in 1880, in tenn
ple lodge No So and soon thereafter
passed the. chairs. .al-gs. zss
The morning call., 1894-08-20
OAKLAND A PORT OF ENTRY,

The Oakland Tribune congratulates that
city on its emancipation from commercial
dependence upon San Francisco. 1t seems
to perceive, however. but dimly that emau-
cipatlon from commercial dependence on
San Francisco is but partial emancipation.
A city whose water front is claimed and
held by private parties is hardly in posi-
ton to strike out for itself. Concerning
this the Tribune says:
The municipal policy of Oakland must here
after be largely directed toward the utility Of
the water front and the development OF a
foreign commerce. Direct trade can now be
had with any foreign port, and tile city's
strength should be concentrated toward Its
accommodation and development. But we
must take extraordinary measures toward ac-
commodating It all along the water front, If
we would hope tO,succeed. Meanwhile, every.
thing should be done to facilitate a settlement
OF the suits involving the water front Iltle-one
that Will furnish a permanent solution OF all
The problems affecting 1t.
Facilitating the settlement of suits in
volving the water front title is very well
II the suits are Sc titled in the right way.
But II facilitation means a surrender of
the city's claim to run its own water front,
the less facilitation the better. II may be
urged that any settlement which permits
permanent Improvements to be made is
better than prolonged legal contest. But
a blight will settle upon the city when it
is known that the Southern Pacific Com
pany has made good its claim to the Oak
land water front. AS that corporation
charges farmers all their product will
bear. so will it tax the ocean trade of our
ambitious sister city.
The morning call., 1894-08-20
TIE LABOR ITEMS.

An Eastern statistician has taken the
trouble to show that over 60 per cent of
the railway expenses of the country are
for labor. OF ten OF the largest CON-
panies whose expenses were analyzed, the
lowest per cent oil labor expense was
Erie. a 1886; the highest, Philadelphia
and Reading, at 1892 per cent. The con-
fusing~ factor in these calculations is the
uncertainty as TO what is included in the
labor account The hewers of wood and
drawers of water certainly are, but no
one knows if the high-salaried officials
and the legal lights who steer corporations
through the delicate process of law break
log are'also included. In the ordinary ex-
pense oil running trains nearly everything
is. labor except interest on the capital in
vested. The cost of the roadbed, engines,
cars and equipment constitutes an outlay
upon which interest may properly be
charged. According to the calculations
referred TO it takes nearly 40 per cent of
the entire railroad revenues to pay in
terest on capital An expert statistician
Of a practical turn OF mind might do the
public a-servce by compiling a roll show
Ing what proportion true capital bears to
j: fictitious capital. That is a point upon
which railroad experts seem little inclined
m dwell
The morning call., 1894-08-20

invited Chinese to come and British Co
lumbia only insists that g per capita tax
shall be paid.
Chinese laborers drift into the United
States by the operation of natural law.
just as water seeks a level so do men
seek to 90 where their capacity has the
highest value. The Chinese are great
workers, but with all their industry and
endurance their working capacity has
small value In their own country. In the
United States they fnd the other extreme.
Labor is better paid in this country than
in any other country in the world. Is 1t
reasonable to suppose that the poorly
paid Chinese labOrer will not gravltate to
country where his working capacity has
a tenfOld value compared with It's nome
valuation? 1t happens also that there are no
considerable natural obstacles in the way.
The passage from China to San Francisco
or Vancouver can be made In twenty-five
days at cost of less than dollar day.
At one side of the line a Chinaman can
hardly earn $50 a year over the lowest
cost OF living, and at the other he can
easily lay by $500 Under these con-
ditions it would he folly to suppose that
Chinese immigration is a dead issue.
No American need fall into this error.
The treaty just ratified reopens the whole
question. We had it, in the way OF settle
ment, but the bars we had put up with
so much difficulty have been taken down.
Except that public opinion is enlightened
the work of exclusion has to be COM
menced over again.