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The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08

And now we have two full-nedged
Democratic parties in Texaa Amen,
and amen.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08

Populism, purity, peace. plenty and
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08

You need not do like '.dady" did if
he did wrong.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08

II present conditions suit you, vote
the old ticket.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08

The initiative and referendum is
worthy of trial.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08

Courage, brothers courage, the bat
lie must be won.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08
vENO'S GREAT CURES.
Many Dallas People Corsd-His ParIors ~
Grand Windsor Hotel Like Hospital
The Sick Coming from Far and Near
and Nsver In the History Of this
City Has . Physician Performed
Such Extraordinary Cures.
vxNOs CURATIVE SYRUP and vKN0s
xL1CTRIc FLUID, Two Of the Nest
Phsnomsnal Medicines In Existence, Are
Being Sold b. Yearly Every Druggist In

Dallas Timss-Herald. Nov. 2. isss:
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08
Lawyers prosper on the increase of
crime.

Lawyers prosper on the increase OF
crime.
Populism, purity, peace, plenty and
prosperity.
The rule or ruin chaps are in woe
full minority.
You need not do like 'dady" did II
he did wrong.
II present conditions suit you, vote
the old ticket.
Courage, brothers courage, the bat
tie must be won.
The initiative and referendum is
worthy of trial.
A dollar is dollar for all that.
Law makes money.
Nature. unlike the old party leaders,
rever begins contention.
And Gov. Culberson went to Green
vile and said his little piece.
Grover Cleveland and John Sher-
man are on a straight parity.
When will this cruel warfare be
over-between the Democrats?
Policy is all right in politics SO long
IS principles are not sacrificed
There is as much in . correct count
Is in the casting Of the ballots.
Prejudice Is the most cruel and re-
lent|ess master there is, excepting
Jealousy.
Hon. John H. Reagan seems to have
adjourned. 80 far as active politics is
concerned.
And now we have two full-nedged
Democratic parties in Texaa Amen.
and amen.
II you are in earnest about reform,
vote the Populist ticket from president
10 constable.
Now then! What d Democrat?
Which kind are correctly entitled to
wear the name.
You can depend on . change for the
better II the government is turned
over to the Populists.
The old Democratic party, the inn
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03

/ the voyage and is responsible for their
/ safe keeping. Some idea of the ca
pacity of the specie room on board
the Fuerst Bismarck can be cleaned
| from the fact that I'm September, 1893.
she carried $S,500,000 in gold at one
| trip.
The specie and mail rooms on board
the Lucania and Campania of the Gu
nard line are entirely separate. the for
mer being located amidship on the low
er beck under the grand saloon, while
the mail room is in the extreme stern
of the vessel on the same deck. The
writer, by special permission, recently
visited the gold repository aboard the
Lucania, which holds the record for
quick passages at present. The loca-
ton of the entrance was much of a
surprise.
The guide, who was one of the Off
GERS, after procuring the keys from the
captains cabin, led the way-not down
into the bowels of the big hull where
the freight is stored, but into the
grand saloon. with its magnificent fit
tings and it's stained glass sky light
many feet above. Pausing before the
elaborate side board at the head of the
central table, laden with it's sparkling
array of cut glassware, the officer
stopped. and selling the corner Of
costly Persian rug. gave IL tug that
tore IL from its temporary fastenings,
while waiter did the same to the OPP
posite corner. AS the rug was thrown
back the bare deck planking was dis
closed; and there, directly under the
spot where the head waiter dispenses
rich wines during the voyage, was a
trap door about three feet wide and
four long, swung on stout T hinges,
while on the other edge was big ring
sunken into its sockets. Fitting a key
which was no longer than one used on
an ordinary door into the key hole he
threw back the bolt, and with the as
sistance of the waiter. raised the trap.
which was of oak heavily armored
with iron on the inside
We descended by means of a short
ladder and the great treasure house of
one of the finest vessels afloat was dis
closed. 1t was a room about IL by IL
feet. three sides of which were of iron
and one of wood-deal, which in Eng
land corresponds to our pine.
The floor and ceiling were of iron, for
both are decks. There were no brist-
ling safes with massive doors and COM
bination locks-a great disappointment
to one who had expected to behold
specie receptacles as strong as those of
our new clearing house, which are said
to be the finest I'm the world. rap
on the wooden side gave forth a hollow
sound, and IL was very evident that a
boss carpenter would have little trouble |
in getting in with his ordinary kit of |
tools.
1t Is not, however, the construction of |
the specie room on board the Lucania |
that makes 1t secure, but its location, |
which really renders II one of the SAT- |
est imagined. Situated directly under |
the feet of the walters who are in at |
tendance night and day. it would be |
impossible for anyone to enter through |
the trap doors without alarming all on |
board on the other hand. as there is |
a water-tight bulkhead on each side of |
Il and the man holes are always Sc
cured. IL would take a very clever
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03
ORIGIN OF THE HANDICAP.
Insugurated in England More Than 10
Years Ago.

From the Horseman.
The system of handicapping-that is, of
adjusting the weight to be carried by
each horse entered in a race in such a
manner that nearly every one of the en-
tries may, as nearly as possible, have an
equal chance-is comparatively modern.
1t came into vogue in England in 1924, the
first important handicap being the Ches-
ter cup of that year. but was at first con-
fined to a few of the principal races. The
early handicappers must have had hap
by time Of it, as the weights they could
assign were not limited, though after
they got as low as Sc pounds they put
feather against the name of any of
the competitors whom they considered
should carry less, this meaning that the
owner might put up the lightest boy he
could obtain.
Only one important race, however, was
ever won by horse thus weighted, Trip
oil taking the Somersetshire stakes in
1912 with feather" up. The next lowest
weighted runner was Red Deer, who in
1874 was awarded the Chester cup when
carrying only 56 pounds. He was ridden
by Kitchener. afterwards a very famous
jockey, whose bodily weight on that day
was only 80 pounds. 1t is tolerably GER
tain, however. that this horse did not
actually win. The race is two and one
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craftsman to gain entrance to II
through the floor or sides without be-
ing detected by the quick ears of the
custodian of the silverware, who is di-
rectly over the trap as he fits about
the buffet in the grand saloon. How
ever. there is no telling what might
have happened If, during that Septem-
Der voyage a little over two years ago,
when SS,500.000 We're in that MODEST
vault, a well-organized mutiny had
been concocted among that vast crew
OF 400 able-bodied men. which. il sue
cessful. would have made every one OF
them Independently rich for life
Some thoughts as these. however,
never seem to enter the heads of the
bankers and gold shippers who are
sending such vast amounts
hack and forth across the Atlantic As
was said i'm the beginning, when large
amount of gold is TO be shipped over
land. the greatest secrecy IS main
tanned until the treasure is safely
housed within the almost impenetrable
wall of the subtreasury. But when a
great amount Of gold is to be shipped
abroad IL is at once reported on change
and in less than an hour IL is I'm every
body's mouth. Even the name of the
steamship Is given and the news is
cabled 10 the other side in ample time
for any bold buccaneer to head off the
vessel on the high seas,
hold her up and wrest from the
hands Of her officers the ric,i prize.
Taken as a whole specie rooms about
liners are not in
strength one-half what they are
cracked up TO be.
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quarter miles. twice around the course
The starters were so 'numerous, there be-
Ing ~ runners, that they had to be drawn
up In double line. Red Deer had probably
gone but once around and was really more
than a mile behind the leaders when he
passed the judge. though to that official
he appeared to be 10 lengths ahead of
them.
Naturally such a wide range OF weights
caused enormous fields to come to the
post, but. though the feather was abol-
ished in iSi5. IL was not till 10 years later
that the lowest weight was fixed at 20
pounds. Shortly after this was raised to
a pounds and about 10 years ago 81
pounds was made the minimum, at which
point IL still remains.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03

strength of these receptacles for gold
and the length of time IL would take
professional bank burglar to open one.
1t would consume about five minutes
of "Old Biz Vosburg's time, with his
trusty kit of safe-cracking tools. to
get into the strongest specie room on
board OF our transatlantic steamers;
for in truth. they are but little strong
er than those i'm which the delicacies
in charge of the head steward are
stored.
Until about a year ago all specie
rooms were located within the mail
rooms of ocean steamers. These mail
rooms, almost without exception, were
located well astern, just abaft the
stern hatchway and between the first
and second decks. or just above the
hold. The specie rooms were generally
made OF thin boiled iron, with a door
of the same material secured with two
wrought iron cross bars. which were
padlocked at the ends into sockets The
mail room was. as a usual thing. lined
with sheet iron over timber on three
sides. while the third side was gen
orally the surface Of a bulkhead, or
one of the solid iron partitions which
separate the hulls of all modern steam
ships into water-tight compartments,
for the sake of safety. The Fuerst Bis
marck of the Hamburg line is about
the only vessel. whose specie room is
located within it's mail room that can
make any valid claim to security so
far as this is dependent on steel walls
and bolts and bars The mail room on
this vessel is located abaft of the after
hatchway, pretty well To the stern of
the vessel. under the intermediate sa-
loon. The specie room is OF steel and
the door is well secured. while the mail
room itself is stronger than usual The
heavy steel door of the latter opens d.
rectly into the after hatchway. and the
gold. which is invariably shipped i'm
boxes Is inches long by u inches wide
and 10 inches deep. is lowered by means
of a block and fall. upon the end ef
which is a common sling. which, as il
reaches the door Of the mail room, is
quickly pulled inside and emptied OF its
precious burden: then il returns for an
other box. while the former one is
stored away within the strong room i'm |
ship-shape fashion
Every one of these boxes contains
from SIS. 900 TO $4,000, and is sealed
with lead and wire so that IL connot be
tempered with without detection. Each
box is about as much as one braWny
longshOreman or truckman can carry. I
so there is little or no danger OF any
one mans trying TO run off with one.
The boxes are invariably set up on end |
SO as not to mar the seal. and for the |
same reason a canvas sack is used in
lowering them into the mail rooms. |
The keys Of the mail and specie rooms |
are not in charge Of the purser. as he Z
is only the custodian Of the valuables /
belonging TO the steamship company.
They are delivered TO the captain. who 4
has personal charge Of them during /
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03

rectly in the bicycle industry. On the
third floor from the roof Ii is proposed
to open a restaurant with sides as far
as possible constructed of glass, sc
that people may have a good view all
over the city while eating. 1t is hoped
that some well-known caterer, such as
Delmonico, will be induced to take hold
of the restaurant and provide an eat
ing place that will surpass anything of
its kind in the world at very moderate
charges.
In summer, when there is little or no
need of indoor accommodations for the
members of the bicycling association,
the top floor will be used as a man.
moth summer garden, where the best
vaudeville talent that can be obtained
will be engaged to provide amusement
for the public; and this, 1t is thought,
will mean a large addition to the in
come of the association. Mr.. Gignoux,
in discussing the scope and plans of
the new academy recently. said:
THE Michaux club, which is at pres
ent the leading bicycle club in town,
will disorganize and join the new asso-
citation in a body. At present that club
is limited to a membership of $50. but
there are $50 applications for member
ship on the list and the applicants
have all expressed themselves in favor
of joining the new association. None
or them considered that an initiation
fee of 81 900 excessive because ii was
shown positively that there was every
probability of their getting a good rate
of interest on the money. At first we
thought of building a one-story acad-
envy, something like the Seventh regi-
ment armory in style, and of using it
exclusively as a private bicycle acad-
envy. Such a building would cast at
least 5000, 900, and there would be
constant tax on the purses of the men,
bers to support it; so we finally decided
upon the largest building"
What will the proposed building
cost? ?" he was asked.
AT least $780, 900. perhaps $1,000, 900,
ground and all, but / don't think there
will be any trouble In raising that
amount. Such an academy. think, as
do many others, is an absolute neces-
sity in New York. Why. we are even
behind Japan in the use Of the bicycle.
There they have no academies to speak
of, but every one rides a bike" Let
ter carriers, messenger boys and girls,
policemen. all classes in fact, from the
highest to the lowest, use the wheel In
transacting their business. AS far as
academies are concerned, New York Is
behind every other city of Importance
in either Europe or America. We hope,
however, to spring into the lead with
the new academy" he continued.
Work on the new building. IL is ex-
pected. will be begun not later than
october next.
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voted to the public In general: and es-
pecially adapted to the use of fast rid
ers or ''scorchers." Admittance to this
track may be had by paying a small
fee, but the top floor. as has been stat
ed. will be reserved for the use of the
members exclusively.
In addition there will be Turkish and
Russian baths, some for the exclusive
use of the members of the association,
and other for the public in general.
There will also be a large gymnasium
and a swimming tank for the sole use
of the members; and instructors in
fencing, boxing, swimming and so
forth will be provided.
The rest of the building will be rent
ed. and 1t is expected that the financial
returns will be great enough to support
the association and pay the organizers
fair interest on the thousand dollars
membership fee. The ground floor has
already been spoken for by the agents
of large bicycle factory, who will
have their principal salesrooms there;
and Ii is thought that nearly ali the
available space will be readily rented
to persons engaged directly or indi-
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A Sermon Bv Ruskin.

It is. or used to be. the hearts desire
of nearly every Scottish parent that
one son of the family should be a min
lister. or. as they say. 'wag his pow in
a pulpit" Perhaps it was owing To
some such feeling as this that Mr.. Rus
kin's father and mother were most
anxious he should enter the church.
Years afterward. when the son had
grown famous as a writer on art. his
father declared he would have been a
bishop by that time had he taken holy
orders. When Ruskin was a child.
however-and there may have been
talk at home of what he was to be
when a mamie did preach at least
one homily. The little boy got a red
cushion and then, standing up and
humping it. he delivered this sermon:
People be good"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03
GludneS Comes

With better UNDERSTANDING of the
w transient natue of the many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper eff
forts-gentle effort-pleasant efforts
rightly directed. here is comfort in
the knowledge tina SO many forms of.
sickness are not du to any actual dis
ease, but simply toa constipated condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That why it Is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemd so highly by all
who value good heath. Its beneficial
effects are due to tn, fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness, withou facilitating the
organs on which it ats. tbs therefore
all important, in orier to get its bene-
fetal effects, to Dte when you pur-
chase, that you havethe genuine article,
which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co. only, md sold by all rep
utable druggists.
If N the enjcs-- ert of good health,
and the system If 'syular, then laxa-
tives or other 5me lbs are not needed.
If afflicted with any a,tual disease, one
may be commended to the most slxillful
physicians, but If in need of a laxative,
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informedev everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03

Frm Corsica to ST. Helena.
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pense. One of the best that / have
ever heard is the incident that Mike
Tarpey, the politician, relates when
ever the good bishops name Is men
toned.
Although am Catholic" said he
and the bishop an Episcopalian, we al
ways thought a good deal of each
other. There was nothing that would
not do for the bishop. 50 that accounts
for the fact that / was driving him
from Phoebe TO Dry Valley to help him
raise money with which to build a new
Episcopal church. One of the most
peculiar characters in that neighbor-
hood was a man who was generally
known by the sobriquet of Billy-be-
Damn. He earned IL by reason of the
surprising eloquence Of his profanity.
He could outswear any man in Nevada
and in those days IL took better than a
raw hand at cussing to do that Billy
was bald headed and he was firmly
convinced that the custom of imprIson-
ing the hair in a hat was responsible
for its loss. For that reason he usually
wore a hat with the crown curt out of
Vt, or no hat at all. As the bishop and
/ were driving along he suddenly seized
me by the arm, exclaimlng:
Stop Hold on a minute!
II pulled up the horse and saw Billy
be- Damn turning a windlass just be-
low the road. AS usual, he had no
crown on his That. and the hot July sun
was beating down on his shiny plate in
a way that threatened sunstroke at
least
my good man., said the bishop,
don't You know that his hot sun beat
ing down on your unprotected head
will bake your brain?
"You id fool do you suppose if I
had any brain I'd be turning this wind
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03
MlD-OCEAN HOLD-UP
A Seemingly Unthought-Of Risk Con-
nected With Shipments of Gold.
THEY LACKED PRECAUTlON
What a Gang OF Bold Adventures
Might Accompllsh-M Millions Be-
meath the Head Walters Feet
Might Be "Cracked,"

Copyright 1896 by Bachelor. johnson &
Bacheller)
Billions of dollars in gold are annu-
ally shipped across the Atlantic. Ii is
known to everybody, no attempt Is
ever made to conceal either the fact or
the names of the ships which carry the
precious burden.
on the contrary, whenever a large
shipment of gold is o be sent to our
English cousins, every paper in our
principal cities ascertains the exact
amount day or two In advance and
publishes the news to the world. When
a large amount OF gold is to be shipped
from San Francisco to New York the
greatest secrecy is maintained until IL
has reached its destination. No such
sums are ever brought overland al one
time as are sent across the seas, and
yet men risk their own lives and de-
liberately sacrifice those OF others in
holding up trains supposed to carry
this golden treasure; ana there is not
a treasure train running in the coun-
try that is not more carefully fitted up
with a view to disappointing train rob-
bers than the fastest Atlantic liner
afloat.
In fact. to anyone who has paid
visit to the specie rooms of any of our
modern ocean greyhounds and seen the
Insecurity of the same, IL seems almost
surprising that there has not come out
of the West some enterprisng gentle
man OF the Captain Kidd type who. in
stead of holding up express trains for
comparatively paltry sums, would
equip a steam yacht with Maxim and
other rapid firing guns and make
business of holding up transatlantic
liners. After breaking open the specie
room a few times, he might regale
himself with enough American gold to
allow him to pose as a second Count of
Monte Cristo for the remainder of his
life. But this, in the whole history of
steam navigation, has never been done;
strange as IL may seem, not a single
gold coin or brick has ever been lost
from a specie room on a steamship in
transit between the eastern and west
ern hemispheres. except by wreck or
collision.
There are in reality but few steam
ships afloat to-day which are provided
with specie rooms that so much as de-
serve the name of strong rooms" to
say nothing of vaults, and among the
most lamentable farces INDUCED in to-
day are the stories that have been
printed of late of the extraordinary
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-03
SOMETHING LIKE AN OYSTER
IL Weigh EIghty-rwo Pounds and Gave
Meal to Eight IIunsry Men.

IL Weigh q Elghty-Two Pounds and Gave
Meal to Eight hungry Men.
From the Springfield Union.
An extraordinary oyster shell is
owned by Portland man. Ii is al
most two feet in length and one and
one-half feet i'm width. The shell is
very rough on the outside, and white
and smooth and beautiful on the in
side. IL is at least three inches thick
in the central portion and is very mas
sive and heavy. 1t tips the scales at
81 pounds. OF course. the two halves
Of the shells would weigh at least
twice that. or "a pounds. These huge
oyster shells We're brought 20 Portland
in the five-masted schooner Governor
Ames on the occasion Of her last visit
here, some years ago.
The oyster was secured alive in ia
pan. and made a stew that was more
than enough for eight men. The whole
oyster. when alive. weighed 10 pounds
Leaving out the "a pounds for the shell
and there are eight pounds that the
oyster itself must have weighed.
F'FSm Corsica TO ST. Helena
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NO BRAINS WE'RE NEEDED.

Bishop whittakeI's eitude for the
"orsins mae vs. Unaec ssary.
From the San Francisco Post
one of the most popular men tlat
ever lived in the state OF Nevada was
Bishop Whitaker Of the Episcopal
church, who is now in Pennsylvania.
and many stories are told at his ex-