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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
LILLY WHITES IN THIS DISTRICT.

IIIII VIII - ~ 'h'S O'S'h 'N''
The Progress Iearus with deep rh.
greet that the whise wing Ct the Re-
,pubIicao party Of he Fourth Con-
gressional District has nominated
Hon. r. p. Hunter, of Rtpidss for
Congress. Sorry becau,e the nomi-
nee has become u Republican At d
time when it seems that all the Dem
ocrats have ciaimed has been adopt
ed into the National platform. aud
we have every reason 10 believs that
Bcyan will be elected.
Our paper doe, NOT lnt"nd to IN
dnlge in seyrra s,rIcture on Mr..
Hunter aud declare him all bad, sim
oily becan~e he has been ncmiuated
by the r .publlc.ns. T. WAS con.
,siderea good man in the lottery
Fl sht and Wa suppose he is as gooi
now ss he WAS the,. Be- iles we
know mSny Republicans, Messrs
Weeks, Bernstein, Eistner, h .o,d,
Garter. G ,stine, Boarman and others
all of our parish-who are as
good, conscientious men and citizens
~ Is he writer or any leader Of the
Democratic party, and the writer is
not in the habit of abusing people
because shey are not willing to 10 oh
trough hia spectacles.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
ACTING AMPHIBIOUS MARvELS,

The Only School Of Performing Seals
and Sea Lions.
Among the mahy performing wild
creatures which will b. seen in the
Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers
Consolidation of Americas Greatest
Menageries, Clreusses and Hippo
d'omes at Shreveport, on Monday,
October 10, Captain Woodward's
school of performing huge sea Ii 'ns
and mlld-e,el seals every where at
tract mirthful admiration, as the
only exhibition Of the kind and QUE
Astounding in the qnaintes', qneerest
and funniest illustrations Of amphib-
ious intelligence ever seen. A por-
poise performing polka At fash
ionable hop would not be- one whit
more surprising III ~ are many Of the
martial, musical, and mimic successes
of these strange scholars. with only
tails and hippers to physically aid
their sag 4city. Their programD Q
incIndes a rarely wonderful mi
lauyhabie combination Of salt water
and ashore limitations and comicaltiee,
which old aud young alike applaud
to the echo and the mere recollection
of whicu evokas peals Of mirth.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Account of the Dallas State Fair
and Exposition, the Texas and Pacific
will sell round trip tickets, commenc-
ing Oct. 9th and continuing until Oct
Oath. Tickets good for return Oct. rs,
at rate OF $5.65 Account of the Fort
Worth Live Stock Exchanae' the Tex
as and Pacific will sell round trip tick.
cts Oct. 18th and 18th limited for re.
turn October 18th. at tate uf one fare
for the roun trip.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
Facts mre stubborn Thing,,

And single one outweighs thousand
claims. It is Il positive fact that the
fresh meate, such as choice cuts Of beef.
pork. mutton and Veal, also weincr,
bologna ana pork sausage at K.
Schwart's market are the best. Try
them and be convinced. Town mar
ket 4D3 Texas street, opposite opera
house Brown stalls, IS and 10, city
mariet
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Aways in season, always to the
trent in anything that will please the
pxblic, Mr.. krank Serwich ~ pre-
pared to furai,h his customers With
thsse tocthsome Bsyou Cook oys-
tars which so tickle the palate and
hare made Serwich's restssrant 80
popular.
He has al 30 The best fish IN season,
salt water fish which he eeceives
daily and will make yon happy if
yog will let him
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

We call the attention Of the public
to the advertisement of the Union
Cotton Seed Oh, Mill of this city
which appears in this Issue of The
Progress. The past business with
this firm and our people has always
been SO satisfactory that 1t is unnec.
esssry for cur com .nent npon its
management
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

The c.. o. D. Wood and Coal
Company, Jordan street and Texas
avenue, will be ready to do business
OF or about October /. We shall
sell the lest quality of wood and
coal at lower figures than ever be-
fore offered to the residents of
Shreveport. Get our prices before
purchasing your wood or coal. A
share OF your patronage is respect
fully solicited. John McAaeny,
manager.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

And still the building of hahasoma
residences in our city goes rEarri!y
and pntertainingsy on. Tuesday
The lRrogress man saw the frame
work for quite large edizice for Mr..
T.. Phelps looming up towards the
clouds, and the design seems % be
well pleasing and convenient too.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
SCHOOL BOARD MEETS.
1t Organizes and Begins its Labors.

Saturday last the olo School Board
met, performed il, las: labors and
passed OFT Of existence, lesvlug he-
hand it footprints which everyone
should, and doubtless does, honor.
The President, Rev. W. Z. D. Dali
ze.!, passed few words Of compll-
nentaru mantiuu on al the members
except himself, declared the old boarI
q cgeation Of the past, and vacated
his seat as President.
Mr.. j l.. Harsrove, the secretary,
then called the new board to order,
.acd enrolled the following names
whose commissions were preseuted:
Or. w. T.. D Dal2ell, Mossrs. S. B.
blcCutcherl, g. S. Steere; Geo. .ood-
ward, G. J. Foster, H +. Doll, S.
Goldstein and II. Il. Hsrsrove.
Nominations being in order, Mr.
H, H. Harsrove placed the name ct
DR.. Dalzell before the Board in
very impression and complimentary
talk and the reverend gentleman Was
ananim ',,aey ,chosen Dr.. Dal.
zelI has ,n,.i- ,uu-t ~ShcienI officer
and 4 faithful member OF the board.
For secretary AID ex-oficio Parish
superintendent, the names If Mr.. h.
l.. Hsrgrove, present incumbent, apd
VIZ j A. Thagpen, were presented,
the latter being elected. %
Mr.. Thi pen is al exemplary
young gentleman, and good law
yer. He expressed his thanks briefly
aud pledged his most earnest Efforts
to the cause. eo- -"e
The Chair-on motion TO that
leff.cted-appolnted the following
standing committees:
On School ouees-M essrs. a. F.
DBL, G. j. Foster aud George Wood
ward.
On Finances B. McCutchen. G
s. Steere, B. Goldstelu.
/ The question then arose concern
lug the building of school honse.
This was brought to present cul.
mination on account of the owners
desiring to see the y. VI. G.. A
building on which the High School
has a lease, and the expressed desire
Of the wonId. be- purchaser to assist
in erecting Few public scho d, so
be could get possession OF the object
If his purchase at once.
| Mir. Goldstein was opposed to
erecting an ordinary building. He
salt. If the Board consented to that
now. when it g ready to build in
earnest, something which would be
imposing and suitable, the friends of
the project would reply when called
on for donations, "wby have given
for public school building oncs and
don't feel disposed to now give
again"
i There is sound logic ic that reas
oning too.
After farther discussion the mat
ter was left to a special committee of
five, Messrs. S. Goldstein, G: j. Eos
ter, Geo. Woodward, S. B. McCutch-
"a and H. f. Doll, the sentiment
prevailing being, that the Board was
/ to be bound for nothing, aud only q
suitable building would b. accepta-
BILE.
+, MIR. McCutchen stated that he had
heard that some parties had been
cutting timber from school lands, and
he moved that the Board request the
district attorney to inquire into the
matter AID collect for the value OF
! same.
i Our street commissioner is not tx
pected to he everything at once, aud
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

The Shreveport Lumber Company
have moved their headquarters from
the old building commonly known as
the old canning factory, to the build
ing partly occupied by the West
End Wood yard, near v, S. h P.
.r0uudhOuse.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
roundhouse

A. Zorn, the popular merchant
tailor, has just received a full line OF
sui.ipgs, pants goods, Id latest ny
to-date samples, and Invites the pub
lie to call and examiLe the same.
Fall aud winter suits at prices Lever
o6ert d before 2O8 Milan street.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Our street commissioner is not tx-
pected to he everything at once, aud
therefore his attention is hereby call
ed t. some hol - in Texas avenue
b. tween Nrrp y and Hopeetreets.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

It is rnmored that the Chicago
Lumber and Coal Company, of Lo-
gansport, La, have reduced their
scale Of wages Is per cent through a
threat to close down their plant until
after the election.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

We all knox who carried Caddo
parish for Foster in 1892, and We
know CaptalnSospe had more to do
with it than any other .one man or
two men. Ask those who supported
McEnery.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Our rounds man noted some stable
improvements and !mbelllshing
touches which Mr.. yGas Kahn is Civ
ing his residence on Texas street.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

The writer knows g. H. West. FL
is the boss dyer. If you want &c be
pleased, try him on cleaning or
dying at e. w. jackson, the up to-
date I ailor 12O Texas st.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

The ,Caddo Lumber Company have
moved their office from tbs old build
ing near the compress to the newly
built Cffice at their planning mill.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Now who would have 'thOught sGy-
one would be "quooel-epough-to
Observation-Disclosures"
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

My myl how the Jinmies a'd
squeal. "A pig wedsed 'in feaee
Amt in it, with them.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

This week we will offer some good
things in suits f,am sis to SIS. lheV
are built to fit you. Southern na1lor-
ing Company, opera house,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

AN. orders left with the 'tp-to-date
Tailor E. w. Jackson Is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction in BOTH
quality and tit.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

We solicit trial ORDERS frOa fat me n
and Others hard to fit II we Gon't
please you it don't cost you. Sousi ern
TailoringfC Company, opera hease.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Jim Sr. to Jim DR. from Ear.
-tOur side is not votiag to-day"
o, you naughty men Yea done
hurt tbe--foellng - mp'ps's
u ly-lo.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
WEEKLY.

The Progress Intends to work
earnestly for the best interest OF our
city and parish.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

See our prices on business suits. NO
nse buying hand-me-doNn, aeatlstac
ton guaranteed. Southern Tailoring
Company, opera1house.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

The Uaede delegation mas been
under real firer4oo oftea, to be COW
frightened by pop-guns hsed frof'a
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

It's all fuss aud festners boys =!
and a mighty small sQaantity OF
feathers at that.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

Bl.ating like a wem'edealf Wn"t
a spectacle tee Wanted .atmm'es are
making Of themselves.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
BY W. B WEAVER.
ROOF PAINTER AND REPAIRER

do you pay big price to have your
leaky roofs fixed? w. B. Weaver is
still here and is still the reliable roof
painter and repairer. He will guar
antee that both old and new shingles,
iron and tin roofs will not leaf If he
paints and repairs them. Remem-
her be guarantees all work done by
him.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
FRESH OYSTERS.

| receive and have on sale TIE
pest quality Of fresh oysters ev-
day at
10 CENTS PER D. ZEN.
80 EMS Pr HVNDHRr.
supply Aiw " "n - M -~~-
GEORGE Es-EREE,
S3S tXaS avenue.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10

The up-to-date Merchant Tailor
l2O Texas st. e. w. jackson.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-10-10
Fresh Oysters and Gene

manager
The morning times., 1896-06-07

and England, with their giant eyepicces
aud object glasses. ana Iron the West, with
the great Lick, the greater Chicago and
the Greater New YORK telescopes, VIII not
make any progress iii discoveries as To Mars.
Why do we say so? Because the neon, with
It's broad cheese face has hecn jeerinE at
these gentlemen ever SinCe Galileo III
vented the telescope.
o.
We undertake to demonstrate and throw
on the canvas facts, single and III groups,
built for two, tandem, four-in hand, or
SeXtette which will not he Obtainahle
at the night sessions of the astronomers
at the stations OF observation in Mexico
on the 18th of the present month. We
have already made our observations, and
publish them now for the first time in
any journal The illustrations represent
the people OF Mars enga gcd in their every
day and every night occupations.
We assert that there is a fixed ratio Of
represented by %, 6S, 81, 145, els,
300, etc, representing in millions OF
miles from the sun, Mercury, Venus,
the Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune. Itis evident from the nebular
hypothesis, which is even clearer than
decisions of the United States Supreme
Court, that the most distant planet, Nep-
tune, was created first, and that the dates
OF creation were in exact ratio to the
distances from the sun. If then according
10 Moses who was inspired the earth was
created 5000 years ago and is 81 200, 900
miles from the sun, Mars. who is 49,
900, 900 miles from the sun, is 610 as
The morning times., 1896-06-07
Social Condition on Mars AS Revealed by the
Newly Invented TelepathOScOpe.
Nartian Man Is Agating Male Suffrage and Demanding
Certain Liberties of Dress and Rights
of Representation.

Mahatma detective, but when it came to
finding lost astral bodies he was corker.
There are only two hypothesis about this
discovery of lererrier He either got %
tip. and worked il on space rates
Neptune being 164 100000 miles from
the sun-or he proceeded on the theory:
There are others This phrase, by the
way, which was once the very fluorescenCe
of Astronomical technique, has in these
degenerate days become the slang of Tie
royal purple lamp-shade ariStocracy OF
Massachusetts and Connecticut avenues.
We do not incline To the tip theory. II
is non-scicntliiC. in the first place, and
i'll the second place, which is worse, il
sounds like Mr. Verne. Mr. V. has gen
orally been very inapt in his thcoTies-sgCh
as manuscripts found iD old copper kettles,
comets taking off slices of the earth OH
excursions through space, and other equally
heterogeneous ana irrelevant absurdi-
ties.
lis fairly well understood in all literary
circles that we are about to be approached
on 4 very important mission by the planet
Mars We do not like To 20 out of cur milky
way To hill the Missionaries withthe telescopes
and siderral clocks, bat il is due TO Mars
to say that we are not indebted to the
astronomers for our knowlcdge-our init
mate, Seyentecnth-page knowledgc-ot this
brilliant strawberry blonde OF the stellar
smart set.
Mars was well known long before tile
deluge. He was red. full grown. fiery
scOrcher-notc that term-when the Black
Snake was doing his great double turn IN
tie Garden OF Eden.
In a few days the astronomers of the
world VIII have turned on him several thou
sand telescopes. polariScopeS- microSC opes.
loEa EarithmoScopes, fantUscopes, shadow
scopes. cquatorals, aZimuths. reflectorS re-
tractors. and forty y-siX-inch prevarcatOrs.
II is expected that the most CCurate results
Will be obtained from the last-named and
ne west instrument. Some idea of its value
may be had from the fact that when the
forty-SiX-inch refracting prcvaricator makes
a blue print of Mars. il Will take the multi
plication table / 90 years to catch up with
its inaccuracies and conjcctures in their
progress around the world.
In our observations we have used only
the camera, Leverrier'S Handbook of Com
mon Sense and the telepathOscope. With
the tclepathoscope ii is an elementary prob
lem to discover the circulation. right ascen-
SION, declination, eclipse of any Star.
Ngoes withoutSa wing. as the astronomical
joke is about the Sdcrc clock. that the
Magi of the East, from France, Germany
The morning times., 1896-06-07

old as the earth, which makes il To have
been doing business $500 years and q
few months.
II is therefore exceedingly plain that So
ross and WinOdaughSis of Mars have had
Jump OF nearly 4.G00 years on their sister
societies OF this juvenile planet. a casnal
glance ut the Illustrations will cinch this
argument against all heavyweight scien-
tifi1 NranglerS.
second, the presence of an atmosphere on
Mars is irrcfutahly demonstrated by tile con-
dition of the crowns OF the male heads in
Mars IL viii be observed thai the men-ar-
TO n E.aI. hald-headed. This indicates the
presence of atmospheric hut in such rare
form that the pressure is always upward.
THE hair goes with the northern trend of the
vacuum. 1t is not so w1th the women, for
a reason we shall explain presently.
II Is also well known 10 all amateur as
tronC u.ers that the wise men of that science
have cOntended that there are canals on
Mars, and yet they are making new instru-
ments G determine, for Sooth, whether there
is or is not any water on that planet. II.
occurs TO us, in an offhand way, that
canal without water would he invisible to
a telescope, and yet they all agree that they
see canals. The truth is, that what the dS-
trOnou erS conceived 20 be canals are really
not canals. They are broad asphated bOule
wards on raised embanHmcDtS, on which
the 90 time is made by the cyclerS OF the
land where there iSnO hereafter. There are
canals, hut they are In the ravInes, between
these embankmentS, and have always been
invisible TO the naked eye of the telescope.
Again; if Mars is not inhabited, where
did the people in these pictures come from?
For what purpose are asphalt tracks and
trolley cars, with trolley defenders, water,
rain air, gas, ,andelectrieit eity,andmilkwagon
if not for a redeemed and regenerated race
vltfl
FlammarOD adjusts his eye-pieCe. NJ. Flam-
marion knows that it would be reductio
The morning times., 1896-06-07
Astronomv Is short.sighted.

Astronomy is short-sighted.
We do not make this statement with ref
erence 10 the ineffiCicncy of the great mod
Crn telescopes. hut rather to the failure CT
the stan gaZers to group their facts, and
present satisfactory CONGRATULATIONS and
concrete results Hence the necessity OF
building our own observatory.
Yet. we are scientifically orthodox We
have he highest regard for La Place, New
ten and Miss Caroline Herschet We regard
FlammaTion as the seuSation-monger of ;he
solar system. In our category he stands
al the head OF the RomanticC-A Astronomic
school and jules Verne has been very
clever student of this great master Of sky
sCrapiIsg fiction. To use an enumeration
which CN e1 most GuIla' VIII understand. we
wolld say that the percentage column i'll
maduherated fiction would stand about
like this.
MnnChauSen 1893
ElaHInlarlOn 80. SSS
Jules verne S.SIS
Max ftahua S.o.S
joe Manley o.. -. =. e.. .. e. E. =. S.S7S
There are two games 10 be played off be
tween Manlcy and Hanna.
our ideal astronomers are La Place, kep-
pier. CopernicuS and Levcrrier, and esp
Cially Leverrier- one night Leverrier sent
q letter To a gentleman named DR. Gale.
who lived in Berlin. Leyerner didn't have
q telescope. but Gale did Levcrriers
nosc siIaply was. Turn your telescope To
Gsuch and such al point i'm the heavens and
there lou VIII see Neptune" DR.. Gale
thought this was a re.IaSh Of the Joke then
circulating in Europe that Queen Isabella
told Columbus To Sail on, and that he would
find America. Dr. Gale, however, humor-
Ell the great Frenchman, turned his two
inch biinker TO the spot Indicated, and 10!
and behold! there in that very spot gilt
1ered the new planet in the glare OF our
own Washington sun.
TIE point we make iS this. That tele
scope il 4 real embarrassment when one is
making ASTRONOMICAL discoveries. Lever
Tier proved tuat InConteStably. Leverrier
had the dead wood Oh the planet Nep-
tune without 4 telescope, and when DR..
Gale turned the instrument un him Nep-
tune threw up his hands and sad pathet-
ically: Yes, I'm Neptune. What wouldSt
thou with me?' Leyerrier was not i
The morning times., 1896-06-07

ad alIsurdum to admit the existence OF an
asphal: boulevard and deny the bike or
underground trolley munOpOlies. Does NJ
FlanmaTiou deny in the teeth OF the woman
in the blue stockings coasting down the
emhahkment of Mars, and who viii pass
the police al a gallOp, that thai illustrated
fact does not Imply ii civilization that was
old before Adam was born?
VIII the head star-pecper at the Wash
ngton Observatory deny that the trolley
defender of Mars. as We have il in black
and white, is So secure u protection against
the Inangled and mangling public, that it
shows an advance nearly up to the present
terrestrial plan of making the great pub
lie move on or be damned? We trow out
Hence to use q stellar term, there
Is ample reason for the faith in these
sketches which is in them. Itmay, perhaps
he asked by some skCptic how did these peo-
pie get OH Mars: or. to use another of those
Northwest flowers of speech, how did you
get on TO the people onto Mars?''
That's easy. God said let there be light
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-15
THE STAGE r

Not until the present time has q Lon
don theater been named after Shake
speare.
William G. Willis, the dramatist, died
nearly six years ago, and his grave in
Brompton cemetery is still unmarked.
4 mortgage has forecloscd on the
Baptist church at Du Bots, Pa, and is
rcmodeling the building into atheater.
Jules Lemaitre. of the French acad-
envy, has resigned the place of dramatic
critic to the Journal des Debats, where
he made his reputation, in order to give
all his time to writing plays.
Constant Coquelin has been complete
ly beaten in his lawsuit with the Com
edie Franchise in the French courts, the
fines imposed being such that he prob
ably must yield and no longer act in
Paris.
Henry Irving carries with him on'his
tours his own tea-a fine Chinese va
riety that comes in silk sacks. He has
his own teakettle, and, after ordering
hot water, sugar and rolls, he attends
70 the making of the tea himself. Ellen
Terry is very fond of COCOA
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-15
THE WORLDS RAILS.

3urmah's whole system of state rail-
roads, LOCO miles in length, has been
bought up by a syndicate for $50, 900, 900.
1t is o noteworthy fact that the loco
motive engines which drew the tsar
and the imperial party to Moscow Tor
the coronation were of American man
ufacture.
One OF the English roads that run be
tween London and Edinburg advertises
magnificent new corridor trains"
which are about on q par with the aver
age American ordinary passenger car,
with the aisles down the center.
Tashkend will be connected with
Orenburg by rail as soon as possible,
tie Russian government having at last
selected the Orenburg route as the one
that shall connect the Siberia railroad
with the Trans-Caspian and Samarkand
line.
There were o 1920, 1862 passengers car
RED on the railways of the United
States during the year covered by the
report of the interstate commerce COM
mission just issued. That equals about
eve railroad rides for every man,
woman and child in the whole country.
The Pennsylvania railroad is the
highest taxpayer in the city of Phila-
delphia. The taxes for that company's
property in that city for 1896 are $751;
925.43. This represents a valuation of
about 500, 1000, 000 on the real estate in
that city owned b. the company.