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1,axes. Taxes,

State and county taxes now due and
payable at the Sheriff's office. If not
paid on or before the last Monday in
this month Is per cent. will be added. >
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Really Nothing New.

In reality Boston's subway is moth
ing new. Boston was a station on the
underground railway at least fifty years
agO-Chicago Tribune
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lakes Taxest

State and county taxes now due and
payable at the SherifI's office. If not
paid on or before the last Monday in
this month ID per cent. will be added. =
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AUCTIONS.
AoL,OAY GOODS

HOLIDAY GOODS
AUCTION SALE OF THE ENTIRE
stock in store, S04 ] street, belonging to
Theo. w. Schwamb deceased. commenc-
ing TUESDAY, Nov. Is, 1897, at 10 o'clock
a. m, and p. m.. three sales day. and
continue each and every day until the
entire stock, which invoices about $1,000.
is sold, counters. show cases tools, etc.
Sales positive. Terms cash
BELL d CO, Auctioneers.
Office 1915 Fourth street.
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Horse and Buggy Gone.

Undertaken George c. McMullen l.s
means the loss of his horse and buggy,
which someone stole from Ninth and
X streets early last evening.
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Things are not always what their
names would imply. A poker chip ism I
necessarily a chip off poker.
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Coronado water. Stockton sarsapa-
riila and iron, champagne cider, ginger
ale. orange cider. j. McMorry, agents
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The George & Laurence Vaudeville
Company, giving fifteen distinct acts
nightly, open a season of variety at the
Clunie Opera house next Sunday night
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THE WEEKLY UNION-THE BEST
weekly on the coast. Only 81 year.
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The wonders of necromaney will be
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ally tasty new goods in Matlasas,
corded damasks, velours, tinsellea
tapestries and Oriental stripes are
here now for your viewing.
oo-lnch wide portieres, heavily
frlnged at top and bottom, in a va
flety of eolorings. at So and So. 80.
See them.
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Little money
never went so
far in Por-
there's as il Will
now at Breu-
ners. Some eX-
c e D [ i D n
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ChIistian3, Aug. 27.
 Travel in Scandinavia has been re- duced Fo a system of easy-gong sim- plicity and commonsense and it is cheap. The express trains trundle along slowly and are seldom on time, but ihe carriages do not sway from side to side fin swinging around curves; ,he passen- gers are not shaken up, and :here is leisure for deliberate enjoyment of scenery. There are customs lines on the frontiers, but baggage can be registered to oneas desu.nation and chalked off there without the lifting of a tray or the turning of a key. A corridor carriage is converted into sleeping-car at night, wish two beds in z Ach compartment. The conductor fetches sheets, blankets and pillows without extra charge. There are regular sleeping-cars on the nighit ltrafns to and from Stoehholm, with additional charges; but the only advant- age of the Swedish Pullman over the or dnary first-class corridor car lies in the exclusive privilege of a compartment washatand. have never made a more comfortable journey than the one from Copenha gen to Gd.henburg. and thence by nigh. train to Chr.stiana, nor kaye l 4<A Scandinavian journey is one of the least expensive continental tours.
 A railway restaurant at meal time Is one of 'the characteristic scenes of Scan- dinavian travel. The train conductor telegraphs an hour in advance the nuTn- ber of passengers who will take lunch
 con or dinner. When the train arrives, soup, fish, joints, entrees and game are smoking and stsaming at a court table, and the incoming passengers, seizng plates, knives, forks and spoons, forage for sIhemselves. There are no waitresses and everybody is expected to find what he wants and to retire to a small table, returning for additional supplies until his appetite is appeased. There is no conversation and little noise, and at the end of half an hour tine passengers are again in the train. A wornan at the cashiers desk is the only railway ser want in the restaurant, and there Is no restriction upon foraging. At Ehe Swed- ish station at Halmstead I saw hungry passenger sample everything on the serving table and feather off a most substantial dinner with plates of sweets, but she paid merely the regular dinner fee ait the desk, and dropped her ticket into the basket outside the door as in- nocently as Though she had consumed a single sandwich. The basket holder was stout man with a large dog in leash, but she passed him without. sign of nervousness. The cooking in Scandi- navia, whether in hcitels or in restar- ants, is wholesome and excellent. The
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about the barn half crazed with a de= sire to get at the man who hit him. Finally he was quilted and went to hls stall alone.
 The strange habits of the horse were discover d first by his driver. One morning the wagon was driven down to the dock at Armour's packing house to unload some poultry. A butchers wagon was standing by. Frank-that is the name of the horse-caught an at tractive odor on the breeze and hunted about in the cart. He found mica steak which he devouIed with d few gulps, and them pulled out long string of bologna sausages and ate it with every show of satisfaction. The fact that it was well seasoned with able bodied garlic did not opsrate to pre- vent the thorough mastication of it.
 The performance of the horse served to quite disgust the driver and the fact was told to MT. Bowers when the horse was driven back to th= house. While they were discussing the odd occurrence they saw the horse bite off the head of chicken that was in a-eoop on the walk. Since that time he has rot besn driven near butchers carts or GOODS of fowls
 Each day since, however the men have fed the horse half dozen heads Of chickens slaughtered at the commits sion house, and he eats them with every evidence of great delight and will fairly prance when the time comes for his feast. As the hOrs= is driven about over the city it is no uncommon sight when the driver steps irto a saloon to quan some of the malt extract that drives out the heat to see him come out with few pieces of bologna sausag-, which he will give the horse. So far as can be learned, Frank Is the only horse nj the city that is regular patron of the lunch.
 The star performance given by ths horse was last May, when he ate up several chickens and three bull pups that were sleeping in the stall next to his. To g=t at them he was obliged to break his halter and break down bar ricade, but he did it all ard would have finished the whole family of puppies had he not been discovered and the oth- CTS rescued. Th+ pups were the prop erty of one of MT. Bowers employees, George Her. who has never been able To forgive the animal as the pups were of a fine fighting family and worth @ lot of money. The horse was just clos ing his feast with the third pup when he was found. Since that time he has been fed with chicken heads ard oth=r pieces of fresh meat to keep his earniV- erous tastes quiet
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every old church a marvel of uglness. When the town Is first seen through the mists of the harbor, with the quaint citadel on an overhanging bluff, it may be transfigured momentarily into pictu- resque beauty by the enchantment of distance, but the Illusion passes quickly when Christiana is revealed close al hand in broad daylight. It is one of the dullest and most commonplace of capi- tals, with an environment of extraor- dinary natural beauty. Seaward there is a marvellous panorama of blue fjerds and wooded islands and shores, and in land there are ranges of hills covered with spruce forest. The sombre beauty of the northern woods with their dark foliage, matches the brilliancy and love liness of the fjords flashing in the sun light.
 If the traveller be tempted to remain in Christiana, it is for the sake of sail ing up and down the beautiful bays and inlets with their sylvan setting of ever green wilderness, or of driving over the hills to catch the fragrant breath of the forest glades and to command the broad est prospect of the harbor. Finer sail ing reaches or more exhilirating drives are not to be had in the north of Europe Nature has done so much for the Nor wegian capital in surrounding it with scenery of incomparable beauty that the town itself has been neglected by it's own people. They have not considered it necessary to increase the attractive power of so picturesque site by dig nifty of architecture or by institutions worthy of the robust virtues of the na- tion. There is a quaint church on an outlying island, and few miles inland there is curiously decorated and really picturesque hotel of distinctively Nor wegian type. When the tourist has seen these two structures he has exhausted the artistic resources of the environs of ment in roaming through the forests or in drifting idly among the fjords.
 Christiana, has, however, two unique figures, Nansen and Ibsen, who com mand the interest of travellers and offer compensation for the unattractive char acter of the town itself Nansen was connected with the university as student and curator before he entered upon his career as an Arctic explorer; and it was in Christiana that he met and married the accomplished musician whose voice is now heard only in his own home. He lives in little hamlet outside the town close to the water where he can go yachting whenever he is weary of his library. It is a modest house, with small rooms unpretentiously furnished, and the door is always open. If one enters it the chances are that he will
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them. He has few companions ard lives quietly, almost like rec.uae.
 Journalists he aiohors with a profound aversion and denounces as calumniat- CTS. He has not yei: forgiven the Eng fish correspondent who spent a week in Chr,stiana and falsely quoted him as de- scribing it as the most immortal town in Eurcpe. He is @ philosopher of. the type of Diogenes, disposed to believe that ii. is a self-seeking, dishonsst world, yet cynrcally indifferent to the bearings of morality so long as he can have his acrid jest and practise his art. He dozs not pretend to be a mora,ist, but talk s pride in calling himself a literary artist who writes dramas of human passion and emotion. So he works quietly at home mornings and evenings, and takes his monday stroll to the hotel to rad the newspapers and to sip his gin or beer, g.ancing up quickly now and thsn when some rude stranger is seeking to stare him out of countenance, and pla- oidly reassuring himself that the tiny ball is still bobbling restlessly at the top of the jet in the ugy fountain.
 L N F.
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escape an eye like Ibsen's, so keen and searching is it. He spends an hour over a single four-page journal, scrutinizing every column from top 10 bottom, and even making close study of the adver- usements. As a writer of plays and novels he is brought into touch with lhe pulsating life of the times by daily comlnunion with The press. He finds the source of his inspiration there and also Of his pessimism, for it is daily record of the foibles, vanities and evil passions of human-.y. He sees in these prlrted columns the weaknesses of human na- ture as revealed in the criminal nsws and the court trials, and he ealarges upon them in his plays and stories. Con sequently, if practical journalist like myself cannot help but be pleased by observing that a man of genius and a dramatic artist like Ibsen reads the newspapers as thoroughly as the old time Lutherans studded their Bibles, he must also be lunlliated by the evidance that the modern press in this instance promotes philosophic pessimism.
 lbsen IS. however, law un.o himself
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peated for the sake of scientific preei- sion. for it is a matter of prid- with him that his own countrymen may be able to read an exact account of his close approach to the pole. When this edition is fully revised he will still have a great mass of scientific data to work up before h. can be entirely satisfied with the record of the expedition These labors will be Interrupted by his de- parture for America in October to frefll1 his lecture engags ments.
 During the last fortnight Nansen has been entertaining small party of ge- ologists from America. He has taken them on his yacht up and down the fjord and shown to them many of the charac- teristic rock formatiors of the coass. These excursions led them into several coast villages, where Nansen had not been seen since his triumphant return from the north Although he was honored with public receptions and ban quets in every Norwegian town whan he reappeared from his. polar quest these villagers considered 1t necessary and pas
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find the lower rooms empty and be forced to knock at door upstairs be- fore the tall 1.-the athlete can be induced to break away from his work. For Nam ser is man of science. with natural love of study and passion for mathe- nautical accuracy. His expedition ended many months ago, and his book was published last February, but his library and scientific -labors in connection with his cruise and journey are still unfin- ished.
 Nans5n is now at work on the proof sheets of the Norwegian edition of his book, which he considers the best and most accurate account of the expedition. He has revised the text with painstax- ing care ard corrected here and there a slight flaw which probably no. reader has ever noticed. The mathematical calculations have besn laboriously .re-
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BoWERS'S CARNlV0RoUS HORSE.
He Eats Beef Chickens and Puppies, and 0otes
 on Bologna Sausage.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 This is a story of horse owned in Kansas City that has developed a fond ness for fresh meat, and has allowsd that taste to get away so far with his judgment that recently he ate a num- Der of chickens he found In a coop and topped off his feast with litter of bull pups for single meal.
 The hors- is a large roan, years old, owned by Lee Bowers produce commits sion man at 415 Walnut street. The horse Is driven over the city hitehsd to one of MT. Bowers wagons each day. So far as his willingness to work is con- cerned, he is a model, but when his tastes are concerned he is a monster The animal was bought four years ago from Capt. Tough, at the stockyards barn. He was one of a shipment from Brown county Kansas He weighs about 1,500 pounds and is a handsome, sleek fellow, strong of limb and bright eyed.
 He has been driven since coming into MT. Bowers possession by Martin Ack- erman, who says that he can pull more and longer and behave better than any other horse in the city. Thers is one other strange thing about the animal. He will not allow a man to strike him. No matter what he does or who at tempts it, the rnan who his him has to fly for his life. A few days since Ack- erman struck the horsa with a. stick in putting him in the barn. The blow was tap, rot intended for punishment but 1t made the big fellow mad. He turned and came tearing at the man, who bare ly had time to get out of his way. For five minutes the animal kept charging
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prices are exceedingly moderate, being far below the h-tel rates of provinc al Engtand, where the charges fos inferior cook,c,g ard service are perhaps the most extort.onlte in Europe.
 An Uninteresting Capital.
 Lest I may be considered an optimist respecting Scandinavia, I make haste to assert that Chrlstiana is dull, unin- terasting capital, comparing most unfa- vorably with Copenhagen and Stock holm. It is q dingy royal palace, which is occupied for a month in the autumn by either the king or the crown prince. and it has also huge barracks for it's legislators an ihartistic opera house and a university with few meagre scientific collections but otherwise there are no attractions for sightseers in the town itself. The streets are badly paved, the architecture is shabby and
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LADIES' SUITS.

Just the proper thing for early fal ravetdg, etc. :: Ladies' all-wool navy and black talor-made Suits
 yours for .$4.48 Something extra nice in Chevot Serge, ladies'
 tailor Suits, for $5.5O; should be S8. 50,
 but that's the way 10 reduce stock Ladies' Separate Skirts, figured black mohair,
 half price, here. 93c Silky black figured Brliantne Skirts. worth dou-
 ble, they go for. or....................... $1.49
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HOw'S THIS.

We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 r. !. CHENEY & CO. Props,
 Toledo, O. We. the undersigned, have known F. believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm.
 West 6 Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To- ledo, O.
 druggists, Toledo, O.
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testi- monials free,
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UNDERWEAR.

Hundreds of customers have bought drives in Underwear Sale. Have youp If not, the golden op- porunity will vanish in all probability with the closing { of this week. All values these:
 Union Suits for ladies, in all sizes ......... 39c Chdren's A-Wool Garments, both Drawers
 anu FColo. .hN'h 6cN uP Ladies' Vests and Drawers, in wool all szes..
 .............. ............. from 5oc up Mems Double Shield and Back Shirts and Dou-
 ble Seated Drawers. should bs sI.ss each -. 79c Ladies fine Union Suits "Oneita' knit to ht,
 worth double the money. ........... from SSc up Boys Drawers and Shirts in aeayy cotton and
 wool each garment for. or............ 39c to 59c
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GOODS FOR EARLY FALL.

Hobby new Flannelettes and Twill Selges, now
 per yard. Sc and lOc New Outings, light and dark. they go per yard. 5c Ladies light weight Woolen Capes for. ....... 98c Good quality Skirting Flannel for .......... 19c [" C All-Woo Red Flannel for. ......... 23c
 :" [" " l" " Twilled. .... 27c
 |" White 35c Flannel for. ........ 22c Silk Warp white Sr.a5 Flannel for. ......... S9o Embroidery Flannes from 4oc per yard up.
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He is lonely, unsociable man, who doe: not enjoy talking with his fellow-cresit
 pres nor-havfay intimate relatipns witi
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DRESS GOODS.

3 No other place in Alabama offers such strong n-
 ducements to buy we offer for early fall sAll-Wool Mixtures, AZ inches wide ......... 47c Black An-Wool Serge, per yard, now. ZIG sAll-wool AZ and A inch Henrietta and Satin Berbers, valued zsc and ssc, for. r.......... 39c
 54-inch Dress Flannes, all wool. ............ 39c 54-inch Broad Cloth, value ST. 50, for. ... 9Sc Fancy all black Mixtures, value ST oo. for .. 59c
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Ladies' and Chldren's Sweaters.
Ladies' allwool Sweaters formerly sa. 20. for &J 2a
BLANKETS, ETC.
FOR YOUR PICKING TOMORROW

FOH TOlIUhROW.
 White Blankets, per pair, ,at............... at. 63c Gray Blankets, per pair. at. t................. 75c Oak-Ian Blankets per par at........9 at 98c Red ankes. all wool, per pair, at. .$3.29 White Blankess pretty borders per pair, at. @2.98 Comforts go tomorrow for or................... 59c Comforts go tomorrow for. for...............:.. S9c Comforts, value ST. .so go tomorrow for. $l 10
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CHRISTIANANA AS VIEWED BY A TRAVELLER
A CITY UNWORTHY OF ITS SETTING AND
 VERY UNINTERESTINCI.

Nansen the Great Explorer in His Modest Home, Now Too Small For Hm-Ibsen, the Journalist Who Exhibits Himself While al His Worlx--Some
 Convenences and Inconveniences.1
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-01
CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED.

We observe in a contemporary the
news item:
William Waldorf Astor has renowned his
allegiance to the United States and become
naturalized British citizen. 1t is under
stood that he has given orders to dispose of
ms New York real estate rapidly as pos
sible without sacrificing it. and thus about
500 ,OO0,O 900 Of American wealth will be trans
ferred across the water.
We would be much interested to
learn by what method the wealth" of
Mr.. Aston is to be transferred across
the Atlantic ocean. Are the houses
that he owns to be taken apart. their
bricks and stones and steel beams
placed on board a steamer. carried
across the water and set up on British
soil? Then, when it comes to the real
estate it is a still more perplexing
problem. That portion of Mr.. Astor's
wealth extends over the area included
in his title deeds down to the center
Of the earth. Are they going to dig
holes where the Astor property now lies
and take all the dirt over to the tight
little island?"
Of course, one has but to give a sec
ond thought to the form Of express
sion Of our esteemed contemporary to
see the absurdity of it's statement. 1t
happens to be still in the thrall Of the
ancient notion that money alone is
wealth. Whatever cash there may be
in the Aston strong boxes in New York
city can be shipped to England. and
this will represent a transfer of so
much wealth as this money will ex-
change for. But the real wealth Of Mr.
Astor, and pretty much the whole of
it, is as immovably fixed in the United
States as are the Rocky mountains
The AstOr estate consists principally
cupy them. Those tangible evidences
Of wealth will remain here In whose
name they stand is a trif1ing matter.
They are used for productive purposes
and are thus a part of the general
capital of the country, and their addi-
ton to it's output is a part Of the ma
TONS wealth. When Mr.. Astor sells
his possessions, if he does so, some
body else must buy them. If they are
purchased in the United States and
the price Of them is RENTED to Mr.
Aston in England, it will subtract so
much from our working capital But
the wealth which his estate represents
cannot be transferred from one country
to another or moved from its location
by any process with which we are
familiar
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-01
THE YEAR ABROAD

The year opened with the Jameson
ride over the border into the Transvaal.
causing a disturbance that conferred at
tention on the little Boer republic and
strained the relations between two Eu-
ropean powers. Out cf it there has
doomed up among statesmen and din
lomats, into worldwide prominence.
the unprepossessing figure of loom
Paul." the sturdy president of the
Transvaal republic, who showed
through all the trouble quail
tiles that commanded the ad-
miration Of the world AS Kruger
rose Rhodes fell, and with him the
South African company will undoubted-
ly disappear. If the raid failed to ex
cite war there the martial spirit has
found ample play in other quarters.
Spanish oppression has caused another
revolt of the natives in the Philippines;
Matabeleland was the scene Of an eff
fort of the natives to drive out the
English cOlonists; the Turks appetite
for blood was stated in the Armenian
massacres, while England enlarged her
hold upon Egypt by crowding the Der
wish hordes back into the Soudan be-
yond Dongola. The Italian imitation
Of the Anglo-Saxon spirit and methods
Of colonization brought her into disas-
trOus conflict with Menelik, and ended
sinia and in the downfall of the long
reign Of Premier Crispi. The partition
of Siam by the French and English
has gone on. the latter promptly stamp
ing out an attempted revolt While
war seems to have been exiled to I'M
civilized lands and Europe is "arming
to preserve peace" the imperturbabIe
Turk sits serenely at the Bosphorus,
promising reforms he never intends to
execute, secure in immunity from pun
ishment in the mutual distrust of the
powers that would have his estate. and
craftily playing them off one against
the other. The striking development OF
the year has been the substitution Of
Russia for England as the attendant
physician upon Europe's sick man, and
the practical attainment by Russia by
diplomacy Of that for which she has
waged Intellectual wars. Important for
the future is the entente Russia has
established with China, the results Of
which will develop when the former
shall have completed her Siberian
railway and established quick commu-
nicationS with the Pacific coast