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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22
WISE SUGGESTION.
The Many Advantages that Would be Real
lied by the Establishment OF a

The Many Advantages that Would be Real.
lied by the establishment OF
Packjng-hcuse at Shreveport.
TO the Editor Of The Progress.
KEAcH1E, La, September W.--Thp
people of North Louisiana seem to
recognize the fact that they must
raise some other crop besides cotton.
They complain that there is no ready
money in anything else because there
is no market convenient.
Hogs can be raised with profit
where there is a packing-house ac-
cesslble and it seems that there
should be packing house at Sbreve-
port; it is accessible both by water
and rail, and seems to want to pros
per itself and help build up the sur
rounding country.
If the packing-house were owned
by Shreveport capitalists it would be
much greater advantage to the city
than il owned by outsiders.
A packing-house at Shreveport
would furnish a steady market for
hogs all the year round and would
be the means Of keeping great deal
of money in the State that now goes
to Northern cities to buy meat.
The packing houses in Northern
cities are source Of profit both to
the laboring classes and those who
have money invested.
4 There are q great many old fields
in this State that have been thrown
away that could be prolitsbly em,
ployed in raising hogs it q good
market could be reached. Consider
able capital would be required to
start an establishment, but it would
, pay good per cent. on the invest
ment when in operation. !.
1 hope that the people OF Shreye-
port and the surrounding country
will see the advantages that would
accrue to them through a packing
house and take enough interest in. Il
TO build one in Shreveport. A..
, Get our prices for job work,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

ment, Mrs. Matte III. Williams.
Floral department, Mrs. p. Youree,
Art department, Miss Elise w.
Tally.
Parish and county exhibits, John
Monkhouse.
Agricultural and horticultural de-
partment, f.. M. Smith.
Educational department, II. IL
Hargrove
Permits, privileges and space, John
J. Horan.
Cotton department L. II, Gosman
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

grabs 4 stick, and, holding it cross,
wise in his mouth, prevents tho snake
swallowing him. Smart snakes out
that way. aud we know it is true, be
cause Sam Lacroix never told a lie.
| Colfax Chronicle.
Oh ycs, Bro. Goodwin! we are sat
istied that that is Il true story.
l'ue Cincinnati Enquirer asserts
nat Senator Cutlery, of Louisiana,
refuses to shake haads with people,
holding that the custom is Il useless
and senseIess one. When the deep
toned Senator was making speeches
in this part Of the State in behalf OF
his distinguished cousin, Murphy )
Foster, VINO wanted to be governor
he had no observable aversion t'
shaking warmly and sqneezlngIy th'
hands of people who were eligible
voters. But tho position Of an tin
Grant stump speaker and that OF
yreut United States Senator are no
at all comparabIe, and so the En
ouirer may be right. Louisiana Ap
peal.
"Oh my soul!' What has Cousin
Douto boast Of, that he should delg1
to refuse to shake hands, we woul
like to know.
How it does swell some people
heads to be numerically elevated.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22
Farmers Uniou Meeting.

The regular quarterly meeting of the
taddo parish Farmers Union will
meet with Castle Springs Union on
Friday, Oct. ,, 1894. Let every lulon
have delegates present.
w. a. IlENnRlCK, President
j. +. HEBRON, NJ. d., Sec'y.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22
CINCINN Att
HEAVY FAILURE!
w.,r, WAl1! UNTIL THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 10Th.

Now is Your Chance' 10" 'o' MISS IT,
Gar loads of Clothing have been
.h;ooed from the late CINCINNATI
sr.;lnre to Shreveport, La. The de-
n,ossion IN the Wholesale clothing
! ...as has caused a large Cincinnati
..bolesaIe clothing house to make an
assignment for the benefit of It's
!. .vo1,tors with liabilities amounting
. = about $4,000. Their stock
amounting tosd9,ooo has been placed
il the hands of an assignee to be
& d;snosed of in order to wind mp the
.flairs Of the firm,
$4,000 have been disposed OF to
dealers aud $4,000 worth OF Fine
T.;lor-Made Clothing for Men, Boys
and Cbildren's wear has'been shipped
% Shreveport, La, to be sold within
the next 10 days at less than Manu-
facturer's Value at Retail. Posi-
lively no auction. This great as
s;puee's sale will positively close In
Tan DAYS, as the elegant building, No.
6 327 Texas street, Opposite Goldsteln,
Rose & Co.'s grocery store) has been
leased for Ten Days only.
This great as,iguee's sale will be-
Gin Thursday, September 10th, at
O.45am, and ends Saturday, Sep,
,emter 29th, at 10 o'clock at night
Don't fail to attend this Great AS
a;Qnee sale, as such chance comes
only once in lifetime.
Ia order to show what gigantic
b.rQs,us are being offered a few
prices are quoted. Mems Cassimer'
suits in light and dark shades' onl!
1886: Mems Worsted suits worth
yll.75, only $6.3S: Mems Fln'
Dress suits, silk and satin lined
worth $17 so, only $S.SS: Mems Fin
pure wool aud silk mixed suits, wortl
3235O, only 1898: We have 3,OO
different styles and qualities too nr
merous to mention at proportion
,tely low prices: Mems Flu
Worsted suits in Tricots and Cork
screw, worth $500, only Sll 81
Mems Fine Clay Worsted suits
worth $28 90, Sl2.75; Mems lu
bst.d Fine Clay Worsted suits, OF
6xut quality, worth $4,000, on
114.75: Mems Cashmere pant
worth 50 80, only Sl.49: Knee pant
worth So, only 16c: Boys az
CE;ldren's suits $50 aid upwards.
Remember, we have $500 owe
costs Tor Mems, Boys and Children
var, in all grades and patterns, 81
md satin lined, in Chinchillas, FL
Beavers, Irish Fryes, Elysian Chi
ehiIlas, Montauac, aIeltons, kersey
~, in box audi straight cut etc.
psoportionately low prices. Strict
One Price. Positively no one
lowed in the store-room until Thur
day, September goth, at 9:45 am
2. Merchants will find 1t
&sir interest to attend this great
Ggnee's sale, as these goods will
sold at less than Manufacture
eost. Look for the sign Cinc'nna
Heavy Failure, on tho store-roo
Remember that this is NO auctlt
FOODS will be sold at private 81
oaly. Wholesale to merchants W.
needay and Friday, from z 10 4 p
l. Moron, Manager
Mn. WEAVER, president Faimt
6ant) Assignee.
Remember the Number
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22
LONGSTREET SCHOOL.

The closing exercises of this lnst'-
tuition, under the management OF
Prof. y. A. Williams, took place last
Friday evening. They consisted OF
recitat1ons, dialogues, etc. Our IN
formant states that the pupils acqult-
ted themselves handsomely, showing
the careful training given them by
the young aud capable teacher. The
school is located in community OF
prosperous and Independent farmers,
who. it is said, are out OF debt and
make their farms self-sustalning
We understand the school building
will be enlarged this Fall, in order tc
afford accommodation for az Ill
creased number of pupils during TIN
coming year. -Logansport News.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

There is one thug that the people
Of this country will have to thank the
Senate tariff bill for and that is the
fact that il will save to the consumers
over sl4O,OOO,OOO on WOODEN cloths
aud clothing. This is the one great
schedule Of the bill that will benefit
the millions Of toilers in the country
and which they are sure to SO folly
appreciate that they will demand a
further reduction. OF the tariff all
along the line. IN. O. States.
When you want a suit made 70
order got 4. zorn, the populir mer.
st&A Z
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

WHY is the Eastern war like a
clumsy waiter? 1t may result IN the
fall of China. True Democrat.
Or perhaps u demolished psn-Ja-
pan.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22
NINTH ANNUAL

kesislana State Fair and Shreveport Expo
sition.
The following superintendent
1ss been appointed in the different
Portments:
y. + Hamilton, general superin-
(sndent.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Arena, Jane, NJ. Martin.
cattle department, John D. Rndd.
dwine department, W. l.. Foster.
Poultry department, L. +. Bell.
q Vo9 department, j. I. Patton.
4oass and tickets, w. Z. Hamilton.
Police and grounds, John G. Vim
Slosse department, J. r. Herndon.
eheep department, L. $. Frierson.
ochinery, agricultural imple-
- and mechanical department
IL Warren.
eneEal display department, W
eoastian and Ike Barron, super
M children and relic depart
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

True Democrat.
The sugar planter, his bounty gone,
can join the cotton planter on the
mourner's bench Democrat
That is almost blasphemy, brother!
Have YOU no more respect for the
great and mighty than to couple the
yocatiohs of the cane and cotton
planter together? Are you not
aware of the fact that the cane
planter, the sugar maker is a supe-
rior individual to that OF any class OF
people in the State' Have you not
realized that for his interest. Democ-
racy may be twisted, turned, con-
torted in any and every way in orderto
make it apply' Have otevery prlncl'
pie, doctrine, to aching, claim OF Demo
cratic principles been violated.
trampled on, ignored by both the
Senators and three Of the Represent
atives of Louisiana simply in order
to protect his INTEREST," Assuredly So
But what about the cotton planter
does some one ask! o, the answer
by inference is, the cotton planter is
a we'll meaning creature, but he i;
but a work animal that is not entitled
to consideration.
A negro died in tho charity hos
pital a few days ago from gun sho
wound which the Picayune said h'
received at Big Cane, Terrebonn'
!, parish. There is no place in thi
parish called Big Cane. We have
BAYOU Cane, but residents interview
ed from that section, state that IL
shooting has taken place on tia
bsyou, nor does hny one reside ther
!, by the uame OF H. Robinson who
Z accused OF doing the shooting
], Houma Courier.
I Now, be gosh! Go for him Pics
0 yune, he has called you q liar tat
) footed and eyes sot.
: Stand your ground, Courier, b
sassed you first.
Glory! What fun it is to ha'
some other "fellers" engaged IN th
''sputin and fussin.
= A stalk Of cane eight. feet long
. quite q specimen for this time OF tn
!. year. The cane we speak Of cam
) Iron Mr.. j. n. Burgu;res' plantation
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

Drunkenness is a crime in Nor
mandy, punishable with fine and i'm
prisonment. Why not here? If SO,
our iails and prisons would be full
constantly, in more senses than one'
True Democrat.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

A stalk Of cane eight. feet long Is
quite q specimen for this time OF the
year. The cane we speak Of came
from Nj. ]. n. Bur0u;res plantation,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

Get our prices for Job work,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-09-22

Alcee Laborde and Paul Dauzat,
while out fishing just below Egg
Band on Red river last Wednesday,
caught a shark measuring = feet Z
inches IN length and 4 feet wide from
tin 10 tin Of side fins, aud II inches
vide across the head New Enter
prise.
~ ~ hn~1 hrothori
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22

compelled to compete wi b the cheap labor OF
South America, Australia, South Africa and
Russia in this market? No answer was gwen
New York Mail and Express.
1t is the sublimity OF politics to separate the
forcrs OF advancement from the forces Oh reac-
ton. The patriot cannot march with the
piundrrer Republicanism must work Win
monarchy for the extirpation of incendiarism
and murder. Then let nature take its COURSE
81. Louis Republic.
When man has accumulated million
dollars in few years Of political life he has
either earned IL or stolen It, And this is true
even when he Is very great man, the boss OF
Tammany Hall and the central power in New
York Cty.-New York World.
The cali OF the Iowa militia TO meet the In
dustrial Army will cost that State not less than
$1,000. The railroad that demanded OF the
Governor this needless expense should volun-
teer TO carry the army to Chicago and thus even
up matters.-Omaha Bee.
Can't the good man who is chaplain OF the
Senate put In word just now about the diff
culty OF serving God and mammon? Surely
some OF our senators went TO Sunday school
when they were boys.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The indications from the elections last No
the bosses that 1t is time for them to retire into
obscurity. The voters have no further use for
them.-New York Tribune.
The pending tariff debate in the Senate Will
be distinguished by The fact that veral OF the
best speeches on the Republican side will be
made by Derocrats.-St. Louis obe-Demo-
craG.
Mr.. Arthur Balfour says that Lord Randolph
Churchill Is the most brilliant conversationalist
OF the present day. Apparently Mr. Arthur
Balfour has never heard Victoria Woodhnll
talk.-Boston Globe.
If Mexico and China will only be so good as
to simplify our silver problem for US no objec-
tions will be raised either in the Eas or West,
and everybody Will be happy.-Pittsburg Dis
PATCH
a few more speeches like Senator HIPS and
there won't be enough of the Wilson bill left 10
make paper wad to shy at the star.eyed god
dess of free trade.-New York Press.
Nobody of prominence has expressed one
word OF sympathy for Congressman Breckln-
ridge. or one word of objection to the finding
OF the jury.-St. Louis Star Sayings.
Late phenomena would indicate that possibly
in her spring housekeeping Nature let the
whole Weather Bureau tumble downstairs
Philadelphia Times.
Visitors in China cannot tell the difference
between funeral and a wedding but that is
the case with many men in our own county,
Chicago Times.
IL is hard TO determine which is the sadder
spectacle, the statesman without job or the
job without The statesman.-GavestOn News.
This Is the season of the year when the avn
ing-maker begins to put The remainder of man
kind In the shade.-Bufalo Courier.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
CREDIT AND GOLD.

The Philadelphia Record combats the
assertion so often maze that 90 per cent of
the worlds business is done on credit
What is called credit, the Record says,
sis nothing more nor less than The evidence
of actual existent things Of value" If
we deduct such evidences of existent things
of value as bills of exchange and lading
warehouse receipts and other agencies of
transfer and delivery, there remains bonds,
national. municipal and corporation, pay
able in gold, to the amount of perhaps
twenty times the amount of gold money in
the world. Ordinarily the gold is not
called for, but when for any cause little
more than usual Is wanted the financial
centers Of the world are shaken. 1t is not
long since the Bank of England saved it.
self from suspension by borrowing few
millions of gold which at the time the
Bank of France had no Immediate use for.
In this country the policy of making all
issues of bonds and notes payable in gold
has made our treasury with 500, 600, 600
or so of gold responsible for currency to
the amount of S1,1O0,0OO,000. The people
are content with the currency. but the
banks. for purposes of their own. are liza
BILE at any time to gather UP few millions
and demand the gold for them. A system
of finance which relies upon serene skies
all the tine is apt to come to grief.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
SEVEN SHQENTORES.

Being the Largest Stock of Shoes ever
thrown on the market at one time.
AS TO PRICES, we can sell Shoes
Cheaper than other retail stores can pur-
chase them, as we have a wholesale house
and factory Of our own. In fact, there
are lots of this vast stock we will sell at 30
cents on the dollar.
1t will paw any family to buy years
supply of Shoes at this sale.
All goods guaranteed; II not as repre-
sented return them at our expense and
money will be refunded.
Our prices will paralyze the shoe trade
during this sale. We can't help it; we
have the stock on hand and must sell it.
A chance is now offered to any one de-
string to enter the shoe business. We vii
sell the fixtures, furniture. lease, good will.
ETC.. and any part OF the stock of any of
our Branch Stores located in Oakland, Sac
ramento, Fresno. San Jose and Portland,
Or.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
WILL THE GRAND JURY ACT?

An evening paper which has had some
experience with grand juries thinks it is
of no use to urge the one now in session
to depart from the beaten track The
nineteen grand jurors, it says, Will each be
ready to reform eighteen abuses, but each
will have pet abuse it does not want re-
formed. The usual result is that they
make report which only hints in a vague
way at a condition of things it cannot
quite approve. While there is something
in what our contemporary says, il may
still be possible to induce the Grand Jury
TO do two things well which much need Co
be done. Now that Chief Crowley is con-
WINGED that certain officers he has had i'm
plicit faith in are dishonest it should be
possible to weed out the police force and
establish an order of things that will hold
out q little indueement to be honest. Un-
der recent conditions. with the opportu-
mites offered to sell police favors, officers
who acted upon a high sense of duty were
Jumped in general estimation with those
who made the most of their opportunities.
The Home Savings Bank is another mat
ter that the Grand Jury cannot afford to
pass with q casual glance. A savings
bank should be as sacred as a home or
church. Men who break in and rob it
should be exposed and punished. The
power exists and is in the Grand Jury's
hand to probe the management of this
bank to the bottom. If this Grand Jury
teaches free and easy fnanciers that they
must keep thsir hands off savings banks
it will earn for itself an exceptional place
In the list of grand juries.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
A BRITISH VIEW of HAWAII.

The following characteristic bit OF
British humor appeared in the London
Saturday ReUietu of March 80:
The news OF Monday was diversified by the
intelligence that President Cleveland had be-
come weary OF well-dong in the matter OF
Hawaii and that Admiral Walker was about
to sail for Honolulu to establish naval
station" and perhaps protectorate. We
ought to have something to say to this, though
we very likely shall not. Yet it will be trouble
some taking the Sandwich Islands from the
United States when we are next at war with
them, as we shall have TO do for the safety OF
the North Pacific.
That Hawaii in the hands of America
would jeopardize British possessions in
North America and the North Pacific
trade is quite probable. But it might be-
come question as to which should take
the whole stake or sign quitclaim 10 any
part of it. Hawaii is a link in the British
chain which binds Canada and Aus tralia,
and il there should ever be a war Hawaii
and British Columbia would be holly con-
tested points. One does not need to take
a long view into the future to see the part
the Nicaragua canal would play in such
war. The canal would practically double
the naval power Of the nation controlling
it. Forty odd years ago a little firmness
on the part of the American Government
would have secured British Columbia,
and thus cut the line of connection be-
tween Canada and Australia.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
HILLS PLATITUDES.

In his recent speech in the Senate Mr..
Hill uttered the following platitudes:
have yet 10 learn that poverty is a cardinal
virtue, and that wealth is an aDOminable crime.
All classes have their rights, and one class
must not be permitted to eneroach upon the
other.
No one has ever intimated that wealth
In itself is crime. No one has intimated
that poverty in itself is a virtue. But
there are ways of accommodating wealth
which are criminal, and a poverty which
is the result of a Discrimination to resort to
criminal ways of getting money is virtue.
There are instances which show that the
people who declaim against the enormous
fortunes amassed by colossal frauds do
not hesitate to pay the highest tributes to
the character Of men who had become rich
without taking from others what belonged
to them. The late George William Childs
was one. Whoever denounced Childs for
being rich? There is somewhat general
disposition among rich men to assume that
the condemnation we hear of the Infamous
practices by which certain men have be-
come rich is directed against wealth rather
than the methods by which wealth has
been acquired. 1t serves the purpose OF
the fraudulently rich to make it appear
that men who have not succeeded in get
ting rich are envious of those who have.
The fact which makes dlscrimi in alton in
this matter difficult is that but few of the
very large fortunes were acquired by ire
prOachable me hodS
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
THE STATE AS HEIRs-AT-LAWs.

Under this heading an Eastern paper
debates whether a person has a natural
right 60 control property after death. The
immediate occasion for the discussion was
the strange will Of a Mrs. Coster, who
tried to provide that her entire estate,
amounting to 100000, should be ex-
pended in erecting family mausoleum, in
which she proposed to have gathered the
remains of relatives who had preceded
her to the unknown land as we'll as her
own. The will is TO be contested, not that
there are relatives who have claim upon
the estate, but on the ground that the State
is the natural heir-at-,aw in the absence of
natural heirs. On this point the Eastern
paper says:
There is growing sentiment that the pos
sessions OF persons dying and leaving no imme-
diae heirs should revert to the Slate under
whose laws and rejection their possessions
were acquired, just as do the possessions OF a
person leaving no heirs whatever. The advO-
Gates of such state reveTslon of the wealth Of
heirless persons hold that the State has prior
and a clearer right OF succession than any
vested In persons indt ectly related or OF re-
mote consanguInity TO The deceased
The legal recognition of the right of dis
position of property by will produces
some queer results. 1t often happens that
somebody gets the property who had no
more claim to 1t in equity than any other
member of the body polite. Why, then.