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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-04-02
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair High. - MedaIsn Diploma
Nil. Patter.on'. Mnlnery Opening.


Miss Patterson, the well known and
popular millincr, will hold her annual
spring openiRg Of fine millirery on
April 3 At that time She will show
the choicest line Of spring and summer
hats ever brought 90 the territory.
School straw hats at 10 cents and
Fifth avenue styles at reasonable
prices Miss Patterson is one Of the
best milliners in the west and her ar
tistic tastes and up-to-date styles tend
TO give her the cream Of territorial
trade. Let the ladies remember A pril
and provide themselves with The
latest out IN headwear. 2stf
For Sale-Stock scales and horse
power grist mill. Address T.. II. Perry
at Perry or Guthrie. t3
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For "a short order or good Poe din
ucr oysters and lunch, 90 To the Cozv.
Communication tickets, 81 for Si-E
W sullivan, Proprietor li9a West
Ollahoma
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Vote the Democratic ticket
straight aud vote against the
WatcTWOrkS bonds.


Just received at the millinery par
lors Of Mrs A. l. Sauders the finest
line OF vine millinery 20 be found in
the west Trilby hats are the latest
thing out and il will do you good To
see them. our spring opening will he
held the first week in April, from the
3l 90 the 18th We are making run
ON sailors for school girls at l5c,
worth soc Remember our opening
dates.
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Vote down The NateTWOrk :
bonds.

l0N.I fr au agreeable surprise to
r.r-nu- >uIr.t to 0ttacN, OF h,liou,
coU, to .caru that prompt reiief may
bo bad bv taking Ihambcriain'> collie
Cholera aud p,arrhoca Remedy In
many instance, the attack may be
prevented by taking this rcmcdy as
,o,u a> tho dr,t symptom, OF the dis
vase appcar OBJ aud 800 cent BOTTLES
for sale bv O. o. lii,ie N Go.
Au>Ner ta A. D Tho eigar, tie bill
did not he.ouio "a law
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-04-02
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.

fNN fN'"t I've 'la
Band concert April
$ voIney is here from Ava
q. So. Purcell Of Perry 5. here
Don't miss the concert April b
Barnes hotel is being enlarged
Mayor stone i, down from Perry.
Gland Baker Of Cross is 10 the city
j. J. Lane is over from woodward
D \. Harvey is here from Oklahoma
City
e. w Batchelder Of Cross is at the
Royal
Liverymcn did Il land Office business
Sunday
There are over 100 bicycll,t- "a the
capital city
a refreshing rain visited this sec
tion Sunday
Mrs. T. L. Morri, is quite go with
bowel complaint
Mayor Button Of Oklahoma City is
at the Royal
Gene Morris, Of Oklahoma City spent
Sunday in Guthrie
Allen Carrutbers aud Vol Hoggatt
are down from Perry.
John Hart of Wichita is in the city.
He will open a shoe shop.
The military band will give the last
concert Of the season April 3.
u & Cash has opened the "Giee
Club saloon on South Division
Judge Buckner and Attorney Roy
Hoffman went to Pawnee yesterday
Bob bradford. who was shot by Reg
nald McGinnis, is rapidly improving
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther West gave an
enjoyable post nuptial reception last
night
The Yves, Guthrie revival. being con
Quoted by Revs. Parker and Pritchett,
increases in interest.
Capt g. A. Sexton Of West Va, an
carly Guthrie man, is ia the city and
will remain few days.
GOV Rcnfrow is sattcnding a meeting
OF the board OF regents of the terrific
rial university at Norman
The IRE department eNtinguished a
small blaze sunday night in colored
family'- home on the West Side
~ was reported that case Of small
pos has been discovered in oklahoma
City and that that place has been
quarautncd
- Il huffman, the well knowr
"Almp. OF shooting fame, is in tn,
city representing the Sportsmun's Re
view of Chicago.
The Muskogce, oklahoma aud Yves
tern railway has been chartered with
$1,000, 600 capital H. will run from
Muskugce To- Enid.
At the Daily T. T. Lcmon, Parl,
land, T. Taylor rPcrry H. NJ. Ball
X. G.. II Phcnport, Cross Frank Hut
10 A II Classcn, Edmond A. Parker
Cross.
Fred llirzcl, the Rroceryman, re
ccivcd inc birthday present ycster
day Ia the shape of ten pound boy
I Mother aud child doing well
The jury in the case of the Guthri,
Liqur Co vs.. Marshal NiN hung anC
was discharged. II is alleged that on,
man held out against the other eleven
and thereby hung the jury. The
county attorney is not altogether sat
isded with the actions OF the rccalci
trant juror and will order and invcSti
cation.
lIhlnrn. hrnl.n inn lhr hnrnn II \
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Thieves broke into the home OF )
W Ebhcrson, driver of Ellis n Han
sons ice wagon, corner OF 10th and
Harrison ON Saturday morning and
stole 80 cents worth OF sugar, two
pound, OF coffee and some eggs The
contents OF the house were turned
topsy urvey and an attempt was
made To break into a trunk, but it was
unsuccessful
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NorE for nutse''. AJ.er roJd na.
Rl., aud BlRs,, f.r lh council
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NET WORK OF PHONE LINES


msnrpfh reiepHone -foff 2 '"pt-J 20
fne OtasoIred by wntau Easf ~ o..
tatn.sh. Bosf ~ ihs -iIsres ~ sfafE
asb.rriH-d Ttsh share of -f"ea
fr Torf5 fonpsns fhr fiaf tP
Isa Bnfif Ihia Bs DsFs
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-04-02

April comes but once q year
All fools are not dead for one l- here
BY Arthu- >.i'e.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-04-02

The jury in the case of the Guthrie
Liqur Co VS.. Marshal Nix hung and
was discharged 1t is alleged that one
man held out against the other eleven
and thereby hung the jury. The
county attorney is not altogether sat
isdcd with the actions OF the recalci-
trant juror and will order and invcsti
uutipn
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
Taxes and Debt Exemptions.

Small as is an assessment Of only
$3.50, coo, 600 for the personal property
of q city like New York, it is surpris.
ingly large in view of the law under
which debts can be sworn in as an off
set to personal property assessment.
Under that law well known Office
holders, and others who live luxuri-
cusly, apparently in the enjoyment OF
all that wealth can give, wholly escape
personal property taxes, as do all who
can make it convenient to be sufi.
GENTLY in debt when assessment time
ZONES round.
The law discriminates against prop
erty owners who are too careful to be
in debt and too honest to pretend to
he. IT discriminates still more against
the much larger class vino have no real
estate or other sufficient security to
enable them to take advantage of the
credit system Of business.
Where the law does not encourage
fraud it puts a premium on unthrift.
1t discriminates against the entire
community in favor of the compare
lively few who know how to get into
debt to good advantage. It is a bad
law from any standpoint, and it ought
10 be repeatedly. Y. World.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
pendinp on it-not that care a hang

pending on it-not that care a hang
about that"
"Oh, so you are engaged:' she said,
with animations and to an ingenue Of
seventeen. How charming! can ses
you together-fances oWt ct d fairy
tale-kissing among the roses in the
back garden. congratulate YOU"
She beamed sunnily and from that mo-
mentlife possessed new zest for her. In
ordinary course he would have ceased
to interest her in Z day or two, SHE
soon tired of her piavthings. But for
hidden fruit had ever been a tempta=
ton to her, hence his subjugaticn be-
came a necessity of her existence. OF
course, his fate was sealed; it was
merely q question of time.
The path wound like ribbon through
the dense underground of the upland
forest. Now and then a flock of black
winged ~canaries chartered shrilly
among the leaves, or a humming
bird darted into the glare Of sunlight,
its tiny body lustron, in green and pur-
| pie and gold. Above the treetops.
yelled here and there with fl,ny cloud,
the Devils peak pierced the deep blue
of the South African sky. Mrs. Boy
verie would have appreciated the
scenery more had she not been lost.
The solitude of nature has drawbacks
when one has a particular destination
and knows not if 1t be north, south,
| east or west. She had reached a BIZ
secting path, and was hesitating as to
the next step, when a girl appeared
carrying a fancy straw basket. She
was very young, a lovely child, with a
peach-like face and auburn locks,
stmight-limbed, serious-eyed infin-
itely picturesque in her cotton gown.
The artistic soul of Mrs. Bouverie in
stantly responded to the girls aspect,
and she begged with the ~friendliest
smile in the world to be directed to the
famed Fern glen. 1t happened that
the girl was bound for the same place.
So they strolled together and filled
the basket with spoils gathered by the
way. Presently they rested side by
side on a fallen tree and the shvness
of the child soon disappeared under
the fascination Of the woman who in
variably took as much trouble to at
tract her WI sex as she did to attract
men. From platitudes the converse
ton gradually became personal
young girls are easily induced by SYM
pathy to talk about themselves. And
the romantic environment allured to
condolences. The steam gurgled owe
its rocky bed, and a warm breeze, red
client of narcissus, stirred maiden
hair fronds and lily heads.
1t was a pathetic story she was tell
ing, common, may be, yet it must have
interested the author of The Blue
Sunflower," who sat quiet and still.
II was happy till she came. And now'
How could she steal his love from me
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05

bOuVeTle. tne tdlentfu autnOreSS OF
THE Blue S~unflower," was to arrive in
the Drummond Castle. Ostensibly a
desire to acquire local color" for her
next book was the object of her visit
to the Cape-an object hat furnished
an admirable excuse for refusing the
proffered hospitality of her colonial
admirers.
you would spoil me and make me
see everything couleur de rose, and l
want to know the seamy as well an the
sunny side of South African life" she
said, with a gracious smile which for
babe ofepse. So she abode at a
hotel a few miles from town, where
the air was scented with pines, and
vistas of purple grapes showed through
the gaps In the cactus hedges.
In reality, perhaps, restlessness and
love of change as much as anything
else induced her to spend Christmas
far from home; blu t she hated living at
other folks house S; it reminded her Of
the days before she married Mr.. Bou-
verie, before she became a widow and
discovered she had a temperament,
when she was a girl at Miss Vests
academy and could eat boiled mutton
md rice pudding at n o'clock. Need.
less to say, this woman Of moods and
lenses was cratic as English weather.
Ere the voyage was half over she had
asked herself seriously why she had
embarked. Eighteen days Of inter-
mittent mal-de-mer and amateur the
H~tricals, and an inconvenienty hot cli-
mate at the end of 1t. She might just
MS we'll have located her novel in Lon
don or in Paris. In view of the Scot
fish villages, Italian sunsets and In
dian palms that had flooded the liter
airy market Of late, commonplace life
in a commonplace city known of every
body would have been quite refreshing.
But this bitterness had been largely the
result of ~perturbed motion on the part
of the Drummond Castle. In optimis-
tic moments-when the terrors of the
Bay of Biscay were over and the decks
level-she had congratulated herself
on her enterprise, and resigned herself
cheerfuliy to a tolerable week, an n
the cause of art.
"At any rate | have my return tick
et," she thought, finding comfort
thereby. 81 wonder if l am going to
be very dull?"
She was asking herself the same
question when seven o'clock on the
evening OF the day of her arrival found
her the cynosure of all eyes at the
table-d'hote of the austen berg Resi-
dental hotel, locally known as Van
Rhyn's.
Perhaps 1t was with the intention of
securing herself as much as possible
against such an undesirable condition
that she by and by recognized the
presence, abashed and dazzled, of her
right-hnnd neighbor, Mr.. Jack Folliot.
Masculine twenty-five failed to de-
light her rs a rule, but all the other
boarders ct Van Rhyn's were merely
impossible. At any rate he could listen
sntelligently-the capacity appealed
favorably to a wonan who protested
to gain ideas from hearing herself
talk. And Jack was really a nice boy;
delightfully."- ingenious and big--she
liked big men-and handsome. With
her wonted GOODNESS she told him so
ere their acquaintance had extended
over twenty-four hours. He blushed
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
Personal Taxes In Nee York:

We see il, several Of DIR New York
contemporaries an account Of an amus7
Ing incident before the Official whose
business it is in that city to near the
protests of citizens against the amount
of personal tax for which they have
been assessed. The incident was the
appearance of a man before the official
for the purpose of having his tax in.
creased. lie had he said sworn off for
several years past. but having pros
pered of late he felt conscience sts 'ck.
encd and wished to do the right thing
by having the assessment against him
raised. The moral IF the incident does
not appear to be dwelt urea by any ut
the papers which describe il.
What that moral is, however, is not
likely to pass unnoticed by men who
think as well as read. The point made
evident is hat the taxation of personal
property, to which New York ;dheres,
and which Brooklyn has abandoned,
except as it affects a few corporations,
falls in the main upon honest men,
and is escaped to q considerable extent
by every rogue in the community. II
is not in the wit of any Legislature to
devise a system Of personal taxation
which will lot have precisely this con
sequence. Personal property can al
ways be to a large extent hidden or off
set by so-called debts. 1t is not a vis!'
BILE and uncomfortable tlsing the value
of which can be determined by gencr-
al standards. Who is to appraise with
any approach to accuracy the stocks IN
trade OF rival merchants? The thing
can not be done, and if it were done.
the principle of exemption in propol-
ton to the amount OF debt due would
still intervene to vit:ate the process.
If there is to be just taxation there
must obviously be a system resorted to
far different from anything covered by
such personal taxation laws as are
used by the city of New York for the
raising cf Il considerable part of it's
revenues.-Brooklyn Citizen.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
Why Not Tax These Special Privileges.

1t is not through inferiority that the
common people have fallen behind.
Some of them undoubtedly have lost
ground because they were not fitted
for the struggle which modern indus
trialism enforces. But with the ma
jority 1t is because natural resources
have been forestalled. 1t is because
special privilege has been vested with
the taxing power in this form or that.
1t is because monopoly has fastened its
grip upon opportunity and wrings
from labor the last penny in tribute.
1t is because the Rockefe Hers and the
Vanderbilts and the barons of high and
low degree have been fattening upon
their toll; and Prof. Laughlin insults
them and outrages his calling when he
ascribes to their ignorance and their
inferior character the ~disparities in
wealth and comfort that mark them off
from the plutocrats who rob them with
one hand while Offering them aims in
the shape of endowed universities with
the ther.-Johnstown Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
Don't Worry.

More people die from worry than
from work.
Suppose you do " somebody.
And suppose you can't pay it.
Worrying won't help the matter any.
Let the other fellow worry.
Pay him if you can of course; even
make every effort in your power to
meet the obligation. That is work.
Work counts, if it is properly directed,
but worry never did anything but
harm.-Good Roads.
The above is no doubt excellent ad-
vice but we doubt it's efficacy in the
matter of taxes"
In order to meet the demands of the
tax" collector you will probably have
to both work and worry. Unless you
want to do a large amount of work for
the tax gatherer, it would be wise not
to paint or repair your house, you:
barn, your fences, etc.-EDIToH.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
Money Redeemed by Taxes.

Government could issue absolute pa
per money-not merely paper promises
to pay gold on demand, which is part
Of the gold basis bunko game-this
paper money to be a full legal tender
and receivable by the government in
payment of its hundreds Of millions o.
taxes. 'Bottomed on taxes" as JET.
ferson phrased it. This would be IRE
deeming" at a many times faster rate
than paper money has ever been ''re.
deemed" on the specie basis. Money,
anyway, is redeemed" every time it is
paid out for anything, it being only g
means of transfer. If q man wanted
to buy gold to make a trinket or send
to Europe, he could go into the marke.
and buy it same as cotton or wheat,
and there would be all the more of IL
to be had because none would be locked
up. -Caucasian.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
Il WAS HAPPY TILL SHE CAME

with delight, and the same evening he
announced In the smoking-room that
she was the wittiest, cleverest, most
fascinating woman he had ever met.
Still he evinced ar BILE ten
dency to fight shy of the charming
Blanche-to shirk the tete-a-tetes for
which many a man-about-town would
have given his ears. 1t almost seemed
rs though he were afraid of her. At
first she disbelieved the evidence of
her own senses, but doubt was dis
PEELED one afternoon when she asked
him to escort her on a mountain ram
BILE.
i should be delighted-fattered, he
stammered. flushing; "but the fact is /
have promised to take tea with nv
cousin Joyce. We've are engaged.
you know. It Is q sort of family ar
rangement projected when we were
both youngsters. She's only seventeen
SOW There's fenpo pssstlg money do.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
LOVE IN TOWN.

They had no ~partings in the wood.
No meetings IN the lonely lane;
beside the sea they never stood,
Nor watched the sunset after rain.
Their pathway was the busy street,
Their trysting place the office stair,
And yet, 1 know, JOY more complete
Did never visit mortal pair.
And why should rustic love alone
Be decked with all poetic art:
These dull, gray city walks have known
The beating OF n nations heart
The weary workers come and go.
The secret OF each soul Is dumb;
Yet, still. at times, a radiant glow
Across their wayworn lives may como.
And these, my happy lovers, knew
Hard toll, small wage, and humble fare;
The skies they saw were never blue.
But love made gladness everywhere.
Els step upon the office floor
Was sweet to her as robins song:
Her face. that passed the open door.
For him made sunshine all day long
Truth.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
TAX REFORM STUDIES
FpIrEb rY ScLfoS HA11.
An Open Field.

II any one has an impression chat
communications to these "Studics"
will not be published unless they echo
the editors ideas he is mistaken.
Articles on any aspect Of taxation
will always be welcome, if they ara
decent. we'll written, within reason-
able limits and to the point, except
that we do not discuss the tariff.
Land owners especially should be
Interested, as the principal benefit Of
any improvement or social advance
goes to them in the increase of value
given to land. Address this office, or
10 Lock street, Buffalo, N. 7
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
rhay Often Make Mistakes.

Mrs Brownstone-I should think
you would feel afraid, living way off
here in the country, with SO many
tramps about. Mrs. Meadow-WelI, I
SIN sometimes. Is'pose you don't have
tramps in the city. Mrs. Brownstone
mo. indeed. We have nothing to
sear hst the poliee..-N. Y. Weekly.
And ssp Ia sp,seatar. ~~zaitor,
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
why Not Tax Foot Passengers, Too, for
the Use Of Sidewalks:

Why Not Tax Foot Passengers. Too, for
the Use Of Sidewalks:
The board Of supervisors Of San
Francisco. Cal, has been considering
thesfeasibility of taxing bicycles.
Many of the members are in favor OF
Ito measure, but dare not say SO open
ly because the wheelmen are a power
Pull voting faction. One who is most
oHtsroksE il tie ndsoearS gives the
following novel reason for his posi-
ton: 1.-The fact Of the matter is
| said he; that the bicycle is suppressed
ing the horse to SUCH an extent that q
number of industries which have here
tofore supported thousands Of people
are practically ruined. These are liv'
cry stables, hay and feed farms and
their agents; the blacksmith, the
horse-shoer and the carriage aid *ss'
on maker. | am told that fifteen thou
sand men and women in San Francisco
are riding wheels. Now, the effect OF
this is to destroy many thousand dol
lars worth of taxable property, and
should say that the wheeln1"n ought
to have TO scruple against paying a
fair license for the use Of the streets.
Of course. / am not prepared to say
whether the license should lie one Of
two dollars, Or ven a greater sum-, per
year. Coon ROADS"
What do we pay road taxes for, any
how? 1t can't be for the use OF the
streets if we should pay for that again,
Ed.
You pay them for to benefit of the
land owner, who gets more rent on ac-
count Of your good toads-and OH ac-
count Of your bicycles; too.
FRANK TANKER
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05

The income tax is dead and buried
and the people are sitting on the gravs
counting out thsic money 20 pay their
own and the m!ssienaire's taxes,-Fss
sesss' Voices
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
An important Difference.

To make it apparent to thousands, VIII
think themselves i'll, that they are not at
fected with auy disease, but that the system
| home to their hearts. as q 9ostive conditicl
is easily cured by using Syrupof Figs. Man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Go.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05

An inquiry Into the rracticabiIity Justice
and Effects OF a Scientific and Natural
Method OF Taxation by Thomas G. Shear
man-"G. p. Putnam's Sons n. Y. Ci,y-A
, Book for All Students Of Iaxation.-Ed-
ifOr."
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
A NJ
BY ESTHER MILLER.

II E news was
o IN municated
by "Our Special
Correspondent
in London. It
figured, an inn
p6rtant e m,
In t h e Cape
Times. Blanche
The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
WILL TRY IT.

Sunderland Demands the Fewer to 1ns
Land Values.
On May IS, the Sunderland town
council resolved by twenty-four votes
to ten, to petition parliament l.: ia
vor of legislation enabling local au'
thorities to levy rates upon land values
whether the land be- used Or not