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The advocate., 1896-01-15
SHORT LIVES or PRESIDENTS.
Only Eight Chief MAgistFAteS Have Ex.
Coeded Their Expectations Of Life.

Only Eight Chief Magistrates Have Ex,
Ceeded Their Expectations Of Life.
From some recent life insurance
statistics it appears that the presiden'
tial Office is fatal one.
At Washington's Inauguration hiG
expectation of life, according to the
insurance tables, was sixteen years
but he lived only ten years.
The next seven presidents not only
lived out their expectation of life, but
the two Adamses jefferson, Madison,
Jackson, Van Buren, and Tyler exceed.
ed it.
But Harrison fell nine years short OF
his expectation of life, Polk seventeen,
Taylor eleven, Pierce seven, Lincoln
sixteen, johnson seven, Grant seven,
Hayes three, Garfield twenty-five and
Arthur fifteen. It is true that Lin.
coin and Garfield were assassinated,
but the assassination of president
should always be taken into account
as a possibility.
Our first eight presidents exceeded
their expectation Of life fortY-fye
years in the aggregate, while their
successors fell one hundred and ten
years short This may seem strange
when it is recollected that the length
of human life has steadily increased
during the century. The compiler of
these statistics suggests an explana-
ton. He says:
''The fact seems plain to me that the
presidential Office is becoming too
heavy a burden for any man to assume
without almost certain shortening Of
his life. The responsibility is so
great, the tension so destructive, that
l never again expect to see presi.
dent survive the full period of his nat
ural expectation.
Evidently the presidential Office is
dangerous one, but very few Of our
patriotic statesmen will ever decline
it on that account Atlanta Constitus
tion,
The advocate., 1896-01-15
Prosperity IN New York state.

The New York State tax sale Of 1895,
held under the authority Of State Comp
troller Roberts, was concluded at Albany
December %. There we're q, ,945 parcels
of land advertised for sale for unpaid
taxes. Twenty per cent. was cancelled
by the owners paying the taxes.
This left about II, ,OOOparcels, compris-
ing more than 100000 acres. On these
lands the taxes amounted to about
$l,0O0OO0. All were disposed of, about
one-third going to the State. The largest
tax title bought in was $65OO0 for lot
in Kings county. There were about
100000 acres OF the land bid in by the
State within the boundaries Of the
Adirondack Park. 1t is anticipated that
about 60 per cent. of this land will be
redeemed by the owner, who has one
year from the time Of sale In which to
do SO
The advocate., 1896-01-15

What the West Produces the East Owns.
1t goes to pay interest on bonds and
mortgages.
1t goes to pay freights and fares on
the railroads owned in the East.
1t goes to buy multiplicity of com
modities which could be made at home.
It goes to pay rents on houses, farms
and factories owned by former Eastern
mortgages.
1t goes to pay charges and commits
sions on live stock and other products
and on our purchases Of Eastern man
ufacturers. Even if ordered direct from
the manufacturers, percentage usually
goes to New York iobbers.
The railroads are owned in the East
and mortgages on them to an aggregate
amount greater than they would sell for.
That ls one item. So are nearly all the
81, ,l25, 100000 Of city, county and State
bonds Of the East, West and South, and
the United States bonds. That is
another. The third and largest item is
individual indebtedness on real estate
mortgaged to Fasteners In Kansas
this is not as large as the railroad debt,
and both have been reduced greatly
since the census.
Thus the property valuation Of the
West texcseds that Of the East and South
The advocate., 1896-01-15
WIT AND WISDOM.

Every production of genius must
be the production Of enthusiasm. -
Disraeli.
To overcome evil with good is
good, to resist evil by evil is evil. Mo-
hammed.
To succeed in the world 1t is much
more necessary to possess the penetra-
tion to discover who is fool than TO
discover who is clever man. Cato.
BrigRs-"You say the phrenologist
who examined your head wasn't very
complimentary" Hardly. He told
me was fitted to be a leader In socio-
ty."-Life.
Kate Field tells the girl graduates
that cooking is the alphabet of their
business Many of them never get
any further than let her be. e.--LOwsll
Courier.
The advocate., 1896-01-15
SHERIFF WILKINS FREED.
Years Of Slavery and How He
Escaped.
Talks About His Deliverer Daily in Graft
tude - Gains Fifteen Pounds In
Weight Since His Rescue.

URBANA, O.-[Special. This town Is
greatly exercised over the remarkable res
cue Of Sheriff r. p Wilkins from one Of
the worst forms Of slavery known TO man.
He has now fully recovered from the re-
suits OF his experience, and talks freely and
gratefully OF his deliverer. In an inter-
view to-day he said: "[ have been q per-
feet slave to tobacco for over twenty Ave
years; | smoked from twelve to fifteen
cigars day. November 4, last, / bought
my first box OF No-To-Bac from Anderson
& Cramer. had little faith, and to my
great surprise, after using part Of lthe
third box, was completely cured and did
not have the least desire for tobacco. To-
day | feel better, sleep better, think
better, and have gained fifteen pounds In
weight, and there is not a day passes that
do not recommend No-To-Bac to many Of
the tobacco users who know are destroy
ing their lives and vitality by the use Of
the weed"
Further investigation revealed the fact
that there were 500 people living in this
town and the surrounding country who
have been cured by NO-To-Bac.
Anderson & Cramer stated that they
were the first to start the good work here,
as Mr.. Anderson termed 1t. eyes, we In.
troduced No-To-Bac into this town about
three years ago. The demand at the start
was very light, the folks had no faith In 1t,
but we sold to few people, and to our great
astonishment every one reported cure.
Since that time we have sold hundreds Of
boxes, and every one under q guarantee to
cure or refund the money, and strange as It
may seem we have never had call to re-
fund money"
No-To-Bac not only relieves the nervous
irritation aud makes the use OF tobacco en-
tirely unnecessary, but ut the same time
builds up and fortifies the general physical
As o natural invigorator and
we believe there Is no prepara-
lion In America to equal 1t.
"The public should be warned, however,
against the purchase OF any OF the many
on the market, as the success Of
NO-To-Bac has brought forth a host Of
,ounterieiters and imitators. The genuine
is made by the Sterling Remedy
20, Chicago, Montreal and New York,
Ind is sold under guarantee to cure by all
and every tablet has the word
plainly stamped thereon"
The advocate., 1896-01-15

Of offices, and the taxpayers could have
better afforded to pay few more salaries
than to have any hitch occur in the pro
cess Of redemption or the creation of fac
tions in the ranks of the g. o.p.
The Secretary of State was given two
additional clerks and a stenographeF,
and he is now in position to transport
his office force to Illinois and Indiana for
the purpose Of attending boom meetings
and singing the praises Of Kansas. The
Railroad Commissioners were allowed a
stenographer, as was also the Board of
Agriculture. Two janitors were added
to the former number; the Board of
Public Works has clerk, and the num-
Der Of Offices under the present B. A.
1. e., business Rdministration-has been
materially increased.
The statement made by the Governor
that salary Of 81, 900 each year would
have satisfied the kickers is somewhat Of
a surprise. Take, for instance, Webb
McNall, the shining light in the galaxy
Of Sixth district statesmen. Ihad always
supposed that Webb was after bigger
game. And then there is George H.
Case, who wanted to be Warden of the
Penitentiary; but you can't tell what
effect these close times will have on
politicians ambition. And what about
the Rev. B. KellyP Was he not promised
the position Of Railroad Commissioner?
Has he signifed that place at 81 900 a
year would be acceptable? And A, G.
Sherman-has his patriotism cooled down
to that point whore anything of less inn
portance and pay than Grain Inspector
would act as balm to his injured feel
ingsP Is 1t fact that Judge Quinton,
Senator Sterne, Dan Anthony, George
w. Martin, Ed Hoch, Mike Sutton,
Marsh Murdock and host Of others
that might be mentioned are all desig-
mated ce-hunters? If 30, God help
the party.
However, we are willing to accept the
Of the Governor, as he has
been in position to size these men up,
and in justification of his own course he
violates no confidence in giving the facts
to the public. We do not believe that
the Governor need give himself any un-
easiness over the question Of a renomi-
nation, as he remarks he is entitled to it. |
And it would be burning and lasting |
disgrace for his many warm friends to
permit few disappointed office-seekers
10 turn the convention against him in
the vain hope that they would profit by |
his retirement. CASUAL OBSERVER.
What the West Produces the East Owns.
The advocate., 1896-01-15

including Texas; but half Of it is covered
by Eastern liens Our products greatly
exceed theirs, but we work like farmers
who farm on che shares; the East gets a
third Of them,-KanSGS city Gazette
(Rep0.
The advocate., 1896-01-15
WANTED-1OO MORE JOBS.
Not Enough Places to MOlllfy Pie-COunter
Republicans.

EDITOR ADvoCATE:-Go Governor Morril
says he cannot see any reason why th,
Republican party should not give him
denomination. "a denomination for I
second term has been the custom of th'
party in Kansas, and | see no cause fo
departing from it now. In my opinion
the administration and myself are enti
led to Republican Endorsement"
There is no doubt but that the senti
ments expressed by the Governor in the
interview above quoted will meet with 6
hearty response from the rank ard file
of his party throughout the State. In
1894 he was selected as the standard
bearer of his party for the reason that
like Saul, the anointed king, he stood
head and shoulders above the other re-
deemers who were aspirants for the posi-.
tion. During the campaign he was
lauded to the skies as the one man whose
very name was guarantee that, il
elected, we would have a clean business
administration, our credit would be re-
stored, prosperity would smile upon us,
the laws would be enforced, and Kansas
would again assume her former proud
position as one OF the great States in the
glorious union, ETC. AS a Sunday school
superintendent he enlisted the active
support of the preachers, the Y. M. G.
A., the Christian Endeavor societies and
other similar organizations (the jointists
and gamblers were also very friendly dis
posed toward him), and when the smoke
of battle had cleared away and victory
perched on their banner, the shouts Of
delight that went up from the hosts Of
the redeemed fairly shook the earth.
Cannon were fired, the air was filed with
the din and noise Of drums and horns,
the darkness of night was made lurid
with their pyrotechnic displays and pan
demonium reigned supreme They were
intoxicated with JOY and patiently
awaited the day Of Inauguration, when
they expected their cup of blessings to
be filled to overhowing and be COM
manded to enter into the JOY of their
lord, or in other words, be invited to get
their abdomens up to the pie counter.
But when that long .looked-for day ar
rived bitter disappointment was in store
for many OF these heroes who had fought,
bled and almost died in order to redeem
the State. There were not enough
places to go around; the Governor and
his managers had been too profuse in
their ante election promises, and a very
serious question confronted them when
1t came to the selection Of the appointees
out of the thousands of applicants who
presented themselves and demanded rec
ognition.
am Of the opinion that the Governor
showed rare tact and judgment in this
matter, considering the embarrassing po-
sition in which he was placed. OF course
he made some mistakes, but that was to
be expected. He also aroused some an
tagonism in his own ranks, but there
never was an occupant of the position
who has not passed through the same
trying ordeal He says, however, in the
interview: "If had 100 additional jobs
at salary of 81 900 year each to dis
tribute, things would be materially
changed"
The advocate., 1896-01-15
Sunny Slope Farm,
Emporia, Kansas.

We are the largest breeders OF pure. bred hogs
In the world and won more premiums ss
state fairs last year than any other breeder In
the United states. We are breeding this year
200 brood s0ws and have twelve boars In our
herd. At the head OF our herd this year we
have the great prize-winnlng boar, Hadley Jr.
1874, who took ilrse prize as boar and four OF
his get at the Nebraska state fair He Il the
sire OF the two prize.winning pigs, King Had
Icy and SRmbollne, that have won more prizes
than any two six-months-old pigs shown ia
1895. L0ngfellow 1875, who has the best Co
lumbian record OF any Poland China boar west
OF the Mississippi river. J. II. Sanders Jr.
S6O80, Sir ChAs. CorWin 1906, LIS Sensation
1876, Clay Dee 2JS77 (who took FIRST prize aud
sweepstakes 81 the Kansas State Fair, lSg6l
These b0ars are either individual pFize-wln-
ners or from sweepstakes boars. We bred the
great sweepstakes SOW, Faultless Queen Cor
win 97so We now have on hand about 140
bo1rs sired by the above Our prices are as
low a. small breeders. Why not come to the
fountain head and get boars to head herds.
The advocate., 1896-01-15

For ADvOoAFE club terms write this
ofncs.
The advocate., 1896-01-15
We also breed
English Berkshirei

On q separate farm. four miles from sum
slope. One OF the largest breeders OF
Pure-bred Hereford Cattle.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

There was quite a crowd oi peo-
Pile gathered at Justice Haywood's
court on Saturday, to listen to the
celebrated use of Adams VS..
Eugene Walker. Mr.. Adams keeps
livery stable, and in July last hir-
ed one of his teams to Walker to
drive to New Boston. Mr.. Walker,
so witness testified, had the hack
loaded with eight persons, and
when he passed his house witness
house, he was going so fast he
could not tell whether those in the
hack were grown people or children.
Mr. Walker drove to Boston, how
ever, and on his return home, and
before he reached the citv, one of
the horses laid down in the road
and died. Mr. Adams claimed that
the horse was drove to death, and
Mr.. Walker set up a claim that the
horse was sick when he started on
the journey. Lawyers were en-
ployed in the case and a jury en-
panneled, and the case consumed
the biggest part of the day. The
jury retired and Juggled over the
matter, as to what the horse was
worth, and finally placed his value
at 800, and agreed that Mr.. Walk.
er should pay this amount to Mr..
Adams
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
=, D., are purely vegetable, re-

fectly trained horses will more than
demonstrate the absolute Justice of
this statement. Ringling Bros.
Worlds Greatest Shows are now be-
yond all doubt the largest combined
circus, menagerie and hippodrome
that the world has ever seen; the
arenic features number over hun.
dred high class performers, includ-
ing the wonderful Nelson family of
nine acrobats, the greatest act of
its kind in the world, and a COM
congress of trained animal sensa-
tions; the menagerie embraces
three herds of notwithstanding
and pyramid-for elephants, in
cludinga a troupe of baby elephants;
the only living chimpanzee in the
United States, a monster hippopot-
anus and more other rare wild
beasts than all other shows COM
bined; and the whole is proceeded
by a gorgeous reproduction OF the
Festival of Olympus, the most glo.
rious, resplendent carnival spec
tacle ever presented under canvas.
Reserved seats and admissions on
sale show day at the Smith Drug
Cos. store without any advance in
prices. Reserved numbered seats
only 25cents extra.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

The triple alliance, presided over
by that triangle Of patriots Messrs.
Roach, North and Daily, who are
now paying rent on an Office to
mail out a little yellow back circu-
lar furnished them by the Railway
Age, could be in better business
than trying to make the Populists
vote along side OF negro. We be-
lieve the white men of Bowie coun-
ty will resent at the ballot box
these three political usurpers of
their party management, and vote
as they like. Just think of it,
Green, a railroad president, coming
to the front as a leader of the Pop
ulist party aud, at the same time,
claiming to carry in his vest pocket
the white and black Republicans of
Texas, and placing a lot of Doodle
hunters to use the whip on the
white Populists to whip them in
line. If there is a white Populist
in Bowie county with spark of
manhood in his veins, he will resent
this usurpation and come out and
tell Green and his flunkies that they
will see them - first, before they
will form any such alliance, to vote
against Bryan and Sewall, at their
instigation. Let all Democrats re-
sent this outrage, and, if they have
compromised with themselves in
any way to vote for a Populist Of
fee seeker, ask God to forgive, and
go to the polls and vote against
every one of them.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

The Arkansas Democrat is ex-
treme in its opposition to the fusion
electoral ticket, going so far as
openly to declare that it will not
support it at the polls, and carries
three big black lines where the
names of the candidates should ap
pear at its masthead. 1t has been
only a few years since the Demo-
crat clamored wildly for a fusion
ticket in Pulaski county, fusion
between Democracy and the negro
Republicans. Will the Democrat
explain its consistency in favorlng
one and opposing the other2-Clar-
endon Sun.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
300 Reward, $lOO.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that sci.
ence has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh, Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fra
ternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease, requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting di.
rectly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti'
tuition aud assisting nature in doing
its work The proprietors have SC
much faith in its curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure,
Address
r. ]. CHENEY h Co., Toledo, O,
Sold by druggists, 75c,
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
GLORIES OF OLD ROME.
Ringing Bros Realistic Roproduc.
ton of the Ancient Hippodrome

In the grand Roman hippodrome,
which forms an important feature
of Ringing Bros. Worlds Greatest
Shows, which exhibit in Texarkana
Saturday, October "a, a strikingly
successful effort has been made to
embody all that was most charac-
teric of the thrilling racing
contests of old Rome when Julius
Caesar was at the pinnacle of his
power. The great hippodrome
course, the solidly carved and high
ly ornate golden chariots; the mad
ly daShing, gorgeously caparisoned
horses, themselves partaking of the
excitement and intensity of the
hotly contested and perilous strug-
gle; the seemingly reckless and vet
infinitely skillful chariot drivers,
with tunics flying, and whip and
voice urging the straining b, rises
to greater exertions; the pictur-
esque standing races, alike remark
able in man and beast; the Graco
Roman contests, by Herculean glad
iators, mounted on horseback; the
gaily colored costumes, the waving
banners, the picture-like kdleido
scopic colors indispensable to a
scene transported from the days of
Roman imperial splendor into the
prosaic nineteenth century-all
combine to constitute a scene of
grandeur that can never be forgot
ten, The hippodrome features are
not, however, confined to the con-
tests of the Roman era, The best
| features of the modern turf have
bee combined with the reproduc.
ton of the once famed MaXimus,
These embrace elephant races, la
dies and gentleueu's fiat and hur.
die races, pony races for the pleas.
ure of the younger element, in
which trained monkeys are utilized
rs riders comcal clown races; con
tests in which aeet-footed men out
run the swiftest horses; curlously
exciting races between whippet
hounds, and many other interesting
contests Of this kind never before
introduced on a hippodrome track
A striking feature Of all these
races, and that which commends It.
self TO every lover of high class
stock, Is the character Of the horses,
In this essential Ringling Brothers
have also outdistanced all compet
tors, and the racing stock, selected
lrom the best OF the 400 magnificent
horses owned and used by the show
has no peer In this country, An In.
spectIon Of these finely bred, per-
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
Cough

and nothing seemed to do her any good.
happened to read about Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and had her give it trial. From the
very first dose she began to get better.
After taking few bottles she was COM
pletely cured and her health has been the
best ever since" MRS. ADDIE PICK,
12 Railroad Place, Amsterdam, N. Y.
al will say that my mother has not
stated my case in as strong words as
would have done. Hoods Sarsaparilla
has truly cured me and l am now well. )"
CORA PECK, Amsterdam, n. Y.
Be sure to get Hoods, because
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

The Pine Bluff Press Eagle and
Helena World are the only two pa
pers in Arkansas that have gon,
over to the assistant Republicans,
the former openly aud the latter
covertly They will hud the party in
Arkansas can do without their sup.
port better that they can dispeus,
with the support of the party
Hone GAzette.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
THAT JOYFUL FEELING

With the exhilerating sense of re-
newed health and strength and in
ternal cleanliness, which follows the
use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to
the few who have not progressed
beyond the old time medicines and
the cheap substitutes sometimes Of
fered, but never accepted by the
well informed.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

Goldbugs are constantly saying
that "the government should get
out of the banking business " With
all other free silver men, we say the
banks should get out of the govern
ing business, and that speedily and
If they refuse to do so should be put
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

In the thirty states where fusion
has been IF 'cted bv Democrats an
populists the Democrats have 20
electors and the Populists 81, I'm
less a landslide occurs for Brva
and free silver, the election of Vic
President will IL thrown into III
Senate, In which event Sewall W
get it, as a majority Of that body II
for free silver
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

Notwithstanding the cry of hard
times seventeen new banks have
been established in Arkansas this
year, with capital stock ranging
from $25, 900 to $1,000 each.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

Chauncey |, Filley, the big Re-
publican boss of Missouri, failed to
register and therefore cannot vote
Tor Mckinley, He saw the hand
writing on the wall and gave up the
ghost some time ago
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19

Postmaster Mitchell, Cleveland's
orgn grinder, draws the hue a,
"Popocrat, aud mourns the fusior
Of Democrats and Popuhsts In Ar.
kansas The political band wagon
OF today glides too swiftly, and
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
Florida will hold no more October

Florida will hold no more October
elections, Last week her people
adopted an amendment to the con-
stitution which changes her date of
election from October to November.
Now let the coming legislature OF
Arkansas make a similar change
Fort Smith Elevator,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-19
M others

Anxiously watch declining health OF
their daughters So many are cut of
by consumption in early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. In
the early stages. when not beyond
the reach OF medicine, Hoods Sarsa.
parilla will restore the quality and
quantity OF the blood and thus give
good health. Read the following letter;
at is but just to write about my
daughter Cora, aged 10. She was COM
pletely run down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would not
live over three months. She had q bad