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The Progress., 1897-08-07
COTTON.
SHREVEPORT MARK EFT.


Good Ordinary. 6s is 6
Low Middling.. 6 1916 6 ZIG
Good 5i1od'i Mfddiing ! g "a III S6
PROVISIONS.
BacOn-5 5-Sc
Dry Salt Meats-steady at 3-sc
Breakfast Bacon-Sc.
Hams-Choice canvassed sugar cured,
| 10 1-4c.
bbard-compound, &c; pure, 1-2c.
| Bacon plates 1-Sc.
BREADsTUFFS.
Fiour !7B patent, $500; half patent
or straight, $3.50; extra fancy, $4.O5.
Cornmeal-S1.75 per barrel; 3S 1-2
pound sacks, $1.9O.
Crackers,A B G soda crackers are
Rice-New Louisiana, 5 1-2c.
COFFEE AND TEA.
Coffee-Easy; fair. 1Oc; medium grade,
- &c; better, 14@16c.
Tea-Good stock on hand, fair demand.
Fair at 25c; good, 4O@5Oc; fine, 75@S5c;
finest, S1.0o@S1.s5 per pound by the
chest.
SUGAR AND MOLASsEs.
,sugar-Standard granulated,:5 1-sc; st.
Emma n graduated, 4; snow white
prime yellow clarified, 1-4c; seconds.
1-4c.
Molasses-Common, 15c; prime open
Kettle, 1Sc; choice reboiled, 22@2Sc.
TOBACCO.
Chewing-Good Medium, II inch, all
25c; better grades, s5ta5oc; fine quality OF
moking-2O025c.:
EsCULENTs.
Onions-$1.5O bushel
Beans-Navy, 2@2 1-2c per pound.
Irish Potatoes-none,
Cabbage-nOne.
Kraut-$2. S5@$3. 90 barrels.
Seed Potatrss-none.
Clay Peas-$1.75.
Speckled Peas $1.75.
BAGGING AND TIES.
Bagging-2 lb, &c; 1 Sd lb, 61-2c.
Twine-For bailing purposes quoted at
10c per lb by the bale.
Iron Ties-$1.OO.
GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFF.
Corn-Mixed sacked. 42c per bushel.
-, Hay-Cholce prairie (Arkansas), $11.OO, |
oats-White s2c; Rust Proof, s4c.
Rye-9Oc.
Barley-75c.
Bran-SOc.
Chopped Cord-9Oc per 100 pounds.
Millet Seed-S5c per bushel.
Cotton Seed Meal-$1.O5.
CHICKENS AND EGGS.
Chickens, hens, per doz .. 1 IS |
Broilers per doz . 25@1 so |
rs Fryers. large, per doz 49,. 1 1902 90
Eggs per doz. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. and7l
Butter, country, per pound. -. 1902 1-2
Turkeys. Observation-Disclosures. 4OS1 COL
HIDES AND WOOL MARKET.
Dry hides, No I, flint, per ID. 9a1Oc
Dry hldeS, No. z, flint. ......... 7aSc
Badly bug eateu ................ 4a5c |
Dry salted, No. 1.............. Ease
Bull hides. ......... ......... 7aSc |
Green sailed hides. ........... 51-2a6 |
Green salt hides glue and badly
cut. '-''''.. -. 4a4 1-2c
Wool. tub washed choice w 17a2Oc |
Wool, unwashed, clear 12a15c
The herald., 1897-07-29
Andree's Useless Trim

Purposeless, from the practical point
of view, as most polar expeditions ap-
pear to us to be, that upon which Prof.
Andree has just embarked is the least
rational of all. We speak of the value of
any possible results of the desperate
chances that he has taken, as compared
with the cost of the expedition and the
risk of human life. His theory is that
at some time during July or August of
each year, there is period of several
weeks In which the wind blows con-
stantly on the European side towards
the pole. His estimate is that in posi-
bly, six days, but not less than two weeks
at the maximum, properly constructed
balloon would be carried by a wind from
the most northern point available as a
starting place up through the polar zone,
over the polar point itself and down on
the other side far enough to be within
reach of habitable regions once more
Thus, If his suppositions be correct, and
II ne meet with no mishap, he would ex-
pect to start from the point selected, be-
yond SpitZbergen, and land somewhere
in the vicinity of Behring strait, accord
ing to the direction and velocity of the
prevailing winds. That seems to be
about all the purpose there is in the ex-
petition of Andree; concerning which
If his balloon actually enters the polar
region and does not drift about on the
edges until he finally lands somewhere
on the northern coast of Asia, it will be
surprising if any one ever hears again
st. Paul Globe.
The herald., 1897-07-29
ONE KIND OF PROTECTION"

In the house of commons last Tuesday
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for India, in reply to a question
why the East Indian railway, owned BY
the government, had purchased 770S tons
of rails from the Maryland Steel COM
pany of Baltimore, said the lowest Brit
ish bid was $43, 375 higher than the Amer
lean tender.
So, the American bid was $500 a ton
lower than the lowest English bid. The
duty on steel rails under the new tariff
law as it came from the senate is Sc ton,
so the American manufacturers can sell
steel rails abroad at a rate that is very
nearly as much lower than the lowest
English bid, as the duty imposed upon
steel rails imported into this country.
This shows what farce protection is,
as applied to very many branches of in
dustry in this country, and how ILL
founded Is the claim that it is the pro-
lection given American manufactures
that makes the wages of American me-
chanics higher than those of English
mechanics. If American manufacturers
sell their product at price so mucn
lower than their foreign competitors can
make that it nullifies the amount of duty
imposed, surely the duty cuts no figure
in the rate of wages paid.
1t Is a notorious fact that very many
kinds of protected American manufac-
lures are sold abroad at a much lower
rate than they are in this country. Par
ticularly is this true with regard to agri-
cultural implements; and the protec-
tionists have never advanced good rea-
they have enforced against their own
countrymen.
The herald., 1897-07-29
DON'T TELL YOUR TROUBLE

Don't tell your trouble to your friend,
Tho he may patiently attend;
At best he gives but little care
He has, you know, his own to bear.
Your trials dire repeat not Ger,
Would you be voted not a bore;
The most of ears are quite averse
To misery's gloomy, dark rehearse.
Don't wear your heart upon your sleeve,
Expecting all the world to grieve;
Unnumbered lips will sip your wine,
But few you'll find to share the brine.
Complain not, things are we'll enough,
All feet must tread paths some time
rough;
Who seeking pearls within lifes cup
Hath never brought a pebble up?
Think not. indeed, that none doth know
Such sorrow keen, such depth of woe;
From myriad hearts the self-same cry
Doth daily pierce yon dull, gray sky.
Keep present worries out of sight,
OF future ones feel no alright,
Believing, trusting, glad and gay,
In cheerfulness pursue thy way.
New Orleans Pcayune.
The herald., 1897-07-29
A MoURNFUL OCCASION
lnagpies.

The banquet rendered TO Secretary
men of Boston must have been about
az mournful a public event as has taken
place in this country for a long time.
The piece de resistance Of the after
noon, as they say in Boston, was of
course the speech of the honorable sec
rotary. Mr.. Gage assured his hearers
that 1.-The administrative branch of the
government will not sleep nor rest in
active" 1t will not, therefore, walk In
it's sleep. The administration is entitled
to membership in that celebrated police
organization whose motto is 1--WE never
sleep"
Mr.. Gage was evidently not seriously
disappointed over the failure of con-
gress to act on the message of the presi-
dent recommending the formation of a
currency commission. He said: THAT
the bill which passed the house with
promptness failed of recognition in the
senate may be a matter of regret, but
not of encouragement"
True; the country still has the honor
able secretary himself to fall back upon.
Was it not announced a short time ago
that he was formulating a plan for the
reorganization of our currency system
that would land us high and dry on the
shores of prosperity? He will now have
the field entirely to himself.
Perhaps Mr.. Gage sees in the snub
administered to President Mckinley by
the Republican senate the opportunity
of this life. He could rejoice privately,
but he could not publicly light the cave
of gloom.
The herald., 1897-07-29
The Latin Americans

The desire for reciprocity on the part
of the United States has queer way of
manifesting itself that renders any prac-
teal arrangement impossible. Latin
America lies close to our doors. Its
people buy millions of dollars worth of
goods every year. but they will continue
to buy them from Europe, where trade
relations are more advantageous. They
can't buy from us because we shut out
their goods, and ships going from our
country to theirs would have no return
cargoes. The Latin Americans, we hope,
have enjoyed their visit to the United
States but the talk of establishing reci-
procal trade relations, they will tell
their people when they return, was all a
farce.-Nashvill American.
The herald., 1897-07-29
COERCION IN HIGH PLACES

There is a lesson the people may learn
from Brown university and Prof. Bemis
from Chicago university. 1t is lesson
that must be learned ere our republic
becomes the most hated form of moneyed
monarchy. 1t must be studied we'll and
examined closely, for the future is going
to be made or unmade as we learn our
daily lesson The lesson is simply this,
that the founders of the great universe
ties of today do not want man TO teach
the truth so much as they want man
to teach what they think, whether it is
right or wrong.
1t means that the men of money ex-
pect to control man mentally, morally
and physically. He must think, act and
live as they decree or suffer the conse-
quences. Note the reasons they give for
requesting DR.. Andrews to change his
teachings. The corporation was losing
beouests and endowments that were
rsece ssary to its further development
ard prosperity.
1t was not because DR.. Andrews was
not teaching what was right; it was SIM
ply because he was keeping them from
some money they thought they should
have for further development. Princi-
pies count for naught. but everything
must be sacrificed for this lustful greed
of gold-everythin even the morals Of
a great honest man.
They knew DR.. Andrews was too hon.
est a man to change his opinions, and
knew he would have to resign. DR..
Shaw knew whereof he spoke when he
said the east was under the subtle spell
of money Little did the west think it
was so far under that spell that it would
ask as prominent man as DR.. Andrews
to change his opinions at the whim of
a corporation.
If the followers Of the gold standard
are right, why do they not come out in
the open like men and debate the ques-
ton with fairness and let the people
judge for themselves. Open and fair
discussion is the only salvation OF tnls
republic, and when a great public ques-
ton is forced down the threats of
free people it may not stay down.
Prof. Bemis did not teach what John
D. Rockefeller wanted taught at his
school and was compelled to resign.
DIR. Andrews would not charge his
views at the request of the college cor
pora ton and was retired.
Moral: Learn what the corporations
teach or get off the earth.
The herald., 1897-07-29
TAXES AND PROSPERITY

The Republican party represents a
grand new school of political economy.
The more you tax yourself the richer you
get. Cease your grumbling, you horny
listed son of toll. The higher your taxes
the richer you get. You may not know
it, but it is nevertheless a fact. 1t re-
stores confidence and makes you pros
porous
Lyman Abbot of the Outlook says: A
family with an income of $500 per year
will have to pay S. per year more for
their sugar. Now, any sane man knows
the more he spends the richer he gets; so
cease your grumbling and look pleasant.
Prosperity has been well sweetened with
cent tariff on sugar, and surely you
can take your dose ard look pleasant.
LIE Roi est mort vive lie Roi!
The herald., 1897-07-29
Brooklyn's War on Smoke Nuisance

The Brooklyn health department has
taken the first steps to abate the soft
coal smoke nuisance, which has been
particularly obnoxious of late in. the
City Of Churches. The offending par
ties have been the big trolley companies,
in whose power houses the burning of
soft coal has gone on for months.
The smoke from two or three of these
power houses rises over the city and
a black cloud of it hangs in the skies.
Albert r. Moore, counsel for the board
Of health, will serve summons and
complaint on the Nashville railroad Of
ficals for violating the ordinance re-
garding the maintenance of nuisance.
New York Evening journal.
The herald., 1897-07-29
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Miss Wilcox of the University of Mel
bourne has received the silver medal OF
the Golden club, being the first woman
to win the prize.
Miss Helen Gladstone will undertake
the opening ceremony in connection
with the hotel for women students which
has been erected at Bangor. near Bel
fast, Ireland.
Senator Foraker of Ohio has been APP.
pointed by Governor Bushnell trustee
of the Ohio normal university at Ada
Ex-senator Calvin S. Brice is also a
trustee of that institution.
President C. P. Huntington of the
Southern Pacific railway has presented
the University of California with val
liable collection of old Spanish manu-
scripts dealing with the earliest history
of California.
Rev. William E. Slocum, D. D., who
has just been elected president of ODER
lin college, is native of Massachusetts,
a graduate Of Amherst college and And
over seminary, and is now president Of
Colorado college.
Miss Mary Howe, who sang mos ac-
ceptably in Boston during the past year
will sing at the Church of the Epiphany,
Walrut Hills. during the summer
months She is one of the most talented
of Cincinnati vocalists.
Mrs. Randall of Boston, who died some
time ago, bequeathed $4,000 to the pros
pect union, which is composed of stu
dents and professors OF Harvard; 500, 0OC
to Radcliffe college and $4,000 to the
Foxcraft club of Harvard for a club
house.
Governor G. w. Atkinson of West Vir-
giria ard Governor w. Y. Atkinson of
Georgia are frequently mistaken for
each other. When the West Virginia
man does anything to bring his name
into print, the picture of the Georgia
man is almost invariably published
along with the account of the event.
Ex-senator Felton, of California was
the gentleman whom Senator Hale Of
Maine had particularly in his eye when
he put in his proposition to have ex-
senator's excluded from the floor of the
senate chamber. Mr.. FELTON, represents
the California interests that are OPP
posed to the Hawaiian treaty of annex
alton.
The Munich portrait painter, Franz
Won Lenbach, has finished portrait oil
the distinguished historian of Rome
Theodore Mommsen. The picture is
now on exhibition in the interrationa
exposition ir. Munich. Near it is shown
another new work of Lenbach'S, por-
trait of Bismarck in the cuirrassier uni
form, that was finished last year.
Miss Henrietta Williams of the wo-
mans school Of applied design of New
York city has won prize, after study
ing art but one year there Her draw
ings of animals were exceptionally fine
ard the scholarship will entitle her tc
attend the school free during the next
year. This bright young woman intends
to make speciality of illustra tirg.
The herald., 1897-07-29
NOTES OF THE DAY

! Sydney, Australia, can now boast the
largest town hall and the largest organ
| in the world.
A man who refused to buy drink in
a free concert hall at Coney Island
was arrested and fined So
The original manuscript of Sir Walter
SCOTS Lady of the Lake" was old re-
Gently in London for $3.50.
A smart woman of Boston had her
sanity examined into and vouched for
the other day before she made her will.
! An umbrella insurance company has
| just been organized in London. 1t will
insure canes as well as umbrellas.
AT the dance of the Brooklyn Country
club at Bridgeport, Conn, the other even
ing, the men danced in their golf suits.
| 1t is estimated that the lumber out Of
the Miramichi and tributaries, Canada.
will this season amount to 112 900 feet.
Frogs have been raining down in thick
showers in Bizerta, in Tunis. The largest
were the size of mans thumb.
! Antwerp is going to have great cele-
bration on the three hundreth ami
versary of Sir Anthony Van Dyck's birth,
March %, 1899.
| A real sea lion is loose in the Merrimac
| river between Lowell and Lawrence 1t
! belonged to a menagerie at Glen Forest,
and made its escape that day
The largest order for carpets ever given
! for a single hotel, it is said, has been
given for the new Aston hotel, New York.
adjoining the Waldorf. 1t has 1000 rooms.
Common salt that is used daily in our
food is needed in the body 1t aids di-
gestion and the assimilation of the food
and helps in the composition of many of
the tissues.
An eighteenth century pillow was dug
up in an eastern state the other day.
The farmers stood around it in wonder
and agreed that the world is growing
smarter if not better.
American iron and steel selling in Eng
land, American tin plate in Wales and
now American butter in Australia!
Truly coal may yet be carried to New
castle and sold at profit.
1t is estimated that the daily supply
of needles for the entire world amounts
to 100000 of varying shapes and sizes,
while the United States alone calls for
a yearly supply of SoOOOO,000.
A Cambridge, Mass, woman during
the recent very hot days hired small
boy with sponge to stand at g. watering
trough near her home and wet the heads
of all horses as they came up to drink.
When man loses an ear, by paying
| from 500 to $125 he can procure another
made of specially prepared rubber that
can be crumpled without injury and is
carefully painted to resemble the nat
ural organ.
There is an old philosopher, prophet
and poet in California who claims that
he has solved the problem of living for
ever. He lives hermit's life, eats only
three times a week and never expects
to die.
The herald., 1897-07-29
THURSDAY, JULY 40, 1897
MAKING GOOD ROADS

Now that it seems certain we are to
have a boulevard between this city and
Pasadena and that means of course its
ultimate extension to Santa Monica, the
question of road building comes to the
front. The Americans are VIGOROUSLY
the worst road builders of all civilized
peoples; yet even the Americans are
learning that good roads pay. The BIZ
cycle habit has been a great agency in
bringing about this desirable result.
Still we are beginning to consider the
business economy side of the question.
There are good roads almost every
where in modern Europe, but let us con-
slider those of Germany, as a recent
writer in the New York Evening Post
has presented lengthy article regard
ing them.
There is in Prussia and in the other
states a corps of educated, highly
trained state employees who have made
roads their profession, and they know
their business. Constant repair is one
main reason for the condition of the
German roads Comprehensive and
minute regulations are strictly enforced.
In some provinces the village mayor is
held strictly responsible for the good
condition of all the roads in his district
except the state roads. The work of
repair is constant and the labor is con-
stantly supervised.
Another main reason why the build
ing of roads is carried out honestly is
the virtual absence of temptation to do
otherwise. The laws are very strict and
violations are severely punished by fine
and Imprisonment.
There are three kinds of highways
the provincial, the Kries and the Gemein
de Wege. The former two are those
whose building and maintenance rests
on the shoulders of the provincial or
district representative bodies. All the
rest are communal or private roads and
the same strict regulations apply to them
as to the provincial roads.
In Prussia alone 81, 00O, 900 per annum
is paid out of the public funds for the
maintenance of roads, and this does not
include the moneys expended by indi-
vidual communes and by private COM
panies and individuals.
On the highest grade of public roads
it is forbidden to use them for vehicles
with protruding wheel nails, screws,
spokes or otherwise Objectionable gear.
The horseshoes must be of particular
kind Heavy loads may not pass over
the roads without special permission.
The tolls exacted on the German roads
though at one time generally imposed,
are now small and infrequent. AS the
maintenance of the roads is fixed by
specific laws and regulations, so too are
the conditions of constructing new roads.
This article does not tell us how to
build a boulevard to Pasadena, but it
shows how far behind Germany we are
in the matter of good roads and road
laws and affords an insight into the
methods in vogue there. 1t does not fol-
low. by any means, that the same meth
The herald., 1897-07-29
TWO OR POSSIBLY NONE

The Herald is in receipt of commu-
nication (Which it does not pubhsh>
limiting at a lack of good faith on the
part of some members of the boulevard
committee towards the promoters OF the
Arroyo Seco project. The writer inti-
mates that, with slight provocation,
the East Side organization will declare
open war on the adobe road boulevard.
and then it will simply be question
Of devil take the hindmost." We sug-
gest to gentlemen on both sides of the
fence that the present Is a very mop
perfume time to throw rocks and that.
The herald., 1897-07-29

If they once get started at that enticins
game, there will not be enough left to
erect milestones along either thorough
fare-possibly no thoroughfare to call
for milestones.
The boulevard committee. by official
action, pledged its good will to the Ar
royo Seco route. Better consider that
action in good faith, make it good faith,
and let it go at that.
1t will be greatly to the advantage of
either route to have a first class boule-
ward built on the other. In short, we
consider that with one built the other
is certain. With the advocates of each
trying to defeat the other, both are
likely to succeed. 1t will be repetition
of that pathetic tale Of the two little
magpies.
The herald., 1897-07-29

The announcement that Mr.. A. W
Francisco has been appointed collector
prise anybody, since this has been con-
sidered foregone conclusion for SOM
time. But The Herald wishes to OBJ
serve that a more acceptable appoint
ment could not have been made by the
administration. Mr.. Francisco has a
host of friends among Democrats and
Republicans alike, and no enemies 80
est and fair minded and leveI-headed,
and he ought to make an efficient col
lector.
The herald., 1897-07-29

DDS could be successfully applied here.
toms and temperament differ widely.
Nobody will deny that if we are to
have good roads we must build good
roads to begin with, and then keep them
boulevard between this city and Pasa
dena. Like begets like and one good
road will produce another and another.
The herald., 1897-07-29
Reform That Doesn't Reform

We have an anti-expectoration or
dinince here and a big hula aloo &C.
CURED when it was projected about the
great sanitary good it would do. Yet
everybody continues to spit on the side
walks as usual, and not an arrest has
ever been made here for violating the
law. What's the matter?-Oakland En-
quirer
The herald., 1897-07-29
The County's Poor

The cost of aintaining the county's
poor under the prevailing system in Cal
ifornia is steadily increasing and is be-
coming a serious question by reason
or the enormous expense entailed. The
granting of individual allowances to
needy persons, the amount to be expend-
ed by them according to their judgmen.
makes this method of caring for the
poor the most expensive one possible
Bakersfield Californian.
The herald., 1897-07-29
PROTECTION WHICH PROTECTS

A dispatch from the City Of Mexico
price of silver bullion has this signifi-
cant remark:
Money orders for goods abroad have
been Cancelled, merchants desiring to
see how the exchange is going. It is
generally believed that the sudden fall
in silver is due to the unloading by large
bullion holders. coupled with new gold
discoveries and the continued small de-
mand in India for silver"
Our Republican friends are earnest
ucts. Why will they not open their
eyes to the best kind of protection. Sill
yer men for years have been trying to
point out to them the efficient protec-
ton resulting from the use of silver
currency and have instanced Mexico as
an object lesson. In this dispatch we
have the same thing brought to mind
again. The cost of exchange simply can
cells orders for foreign goods and their
place must be supplied by homemade
articles. This Is sort of protection
that cannot be enacted. 1t is based on
the natural results of trade relations.
not on artificial legislation. Foreign
manufacturers cannot rush in goods
while a new law is framing. This law
was made when the foundations of ma
ture were laid, and double discounts
other ancient nations in its unchange-
ablenesS